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O THOSE who would have every statement of Allied war aims and peace conditions declare or imply that Germany must be crushed to a point where she will have to accept whatever government or constitution the Allies dictate, Lloyd George's apeech to the British Trade Union Conference must have been disap- pointing. ” His re-insistence upon the restoration of Belgium, Serbia, Monte- negro and the occupied parts of France, Italy and Roumania, “with reparation for injustice done”; his forceful reassertion of Great Mritain’s resolve that Alsace-lorraine shall be given back to France; his demand that on the territorial side the right of self-determination ehall be extended even to the German colonies; his requirement that “there shall be reparation for the injuries done in violation of inter- national law” and that there shall be a guarantee of future peace “in «ome international. organization to limit the burden of armament all these familiar decJarations of Allied purpose will appear to’ some minds weakened by the British Premier’s failure to express himself forcibly and definitely at least as to the kind of government of Ger- many tho Allies will NOT tolerate. “Qur point of view,” says Lloyd George, “1s that the adoption ef a really democratic constitution by Germany would be the most convincing evidence that ber old spirit of military dom! nation has, indeed, died in this war and would make ft much easier for ua to conclude a broad democratio peace with her. But. after all, that is @ question for the German people to decide.” 4s compared with a blunt demand for the removal of the Hohen- | sollerns, this may sound weak. | On the other hand there are considerations which at this moment make it seem wise. | Evidence multiplies that*between the German people and their! present rulers all is not well. But that is a long way from saying that the German people are ready to accept dictation from without as to the kind of political reconstruction they are to effect within. Or that any threat of such dictation docs not react upon them in a way favorable to the rulers who have so long hypnotized them. After Verdun, when it began to dawn on the Prussian war lords that their colossal plans of conquest—the expansion of Kultur, it reads in the Prussian lexicon—could never be realized, when they Vegan to fear that pledges to the German people could never he ful- filled in dazzling victories, they changed their tone and solemnly, warned Germans that they must fight for their national existence. From that time on the militaristic power in Germany has sought | to impress it upon the people that Germany's enemies are bent upon Germany’s ruin and that denunciation of the present imperial dynasty covers a determination to dismember the present German Empire. A moment when signs in increasing number strengthen the hope that under the terrible and exhausting pressure of war the German mind in various quarters begins to act for itself, is no time to spoil] the effect of repeated appeals to the German people by demands which can be made to seem to them a menace to their independence and a denial of their own right of self-determination, British statesmanship has grasped the full force of the idea em phasized by President Wilson that, whatever their attitude toward the! present German Government; the Allies can consistently and con-| stantly appeal in the name of democracy to the German people. | It was furthermore natural that, in speaking before the represen- | tatives of organized British labor, Lloyd George, even in referring to} the need of changes in the German constitution, should nevertheless | recognize the growing feeling among all nations that the hoped-for! peace must be in truth a peace of peoples, wherein statecraft shall | have no power to dictate a constitution or impose a form of govern-| ment calculated either to violate the rights and instincts of millions who live under it or to foment misunderstanding and conflict between| Ross, was an active and intelll- them and millions of others with whom they might otherwise live in| gent woman, who looked human brotherhood. | multiform . + 2 scrupulous care. From such a peace the German people, save by their own choice,|of flowers, and, despite her exacting duties, had the place surrounded by | need not be exclfided, Lloyd George apparently believes with the President of the) United States that iteration of this point with a view to driving it! deeper and deeper into the German mind is sound Allied policy. What may seem lack of positiveness in the British Premier's way of putting it comes doubtless from deliberate intent to deprive the Prussian circle of a’chance to distort the appeal into an apparent inenace to German liberties. Tf the Allied message to the German pe is sent often enough in its simplest terms it may yet go through, Letters From the People Please Umit communications to 159 words, Patriotic, but do not think the com- Mon people are being considered 1 “Bottled milk increased one cent &| the present crisis ws wart. at is the greeting of the| Give the No ° Mew Year for the people. But the pro- | 70 ue kat Dee hath Shanee ducer does not receive the one cent., I often wonder why it is that with Can you inform the common people | the urgent demand for help of every what good the Food Administration | deseription (whic has accomplished? Whenever there |! reaching 4 Al stage) It 1s still is disagreement as to prices the |insisted generally that the applicant various high-priced commissions “in-|be @ college graduate or have had vestigate,” with the net result that |Practical experience when the job 1s 4 Uttle more money is squeezed out | of a technical nature of the people. For what? ‘Phe pro-' Unlike myself I am certain that ducers do not receive all of it, And|thousands of your readers, although the various commissions “bave done | Mot graduates, have acquired their the best they could,” to quote them- | Somenioas Ka by lode at college or ual: sel. Now comes “Tag Day," | sl aiso may lack practica evel of coal a day when it ts |eupervision, will soon emerge thor ext to impossible to obtain thatj|oughly competent and fill a want unt? which obviously becomes more press: bave aw sonsldages wyself ing, q& Evenino World Daily Magazine — Not vet! business ability. Tle was very in- dulgent and fond wees Ses What My Parents Camp Comedies Wanted Me to Be No, 12.-LUTHER BURBANK Love of Nature, Developed in Boyhood on His Father's Farm, | Gave Burbank Impetus for His Horticultural Achievements. 1918, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) Y father, Samuel Walton Bur-| pair my health, and it was thought bank, was a man of sterling t for me to leave the shop for a while at least. Soon after I began the study of} medicine with the intention of be-"| coming a doctor, I studied for a year, but owing to the death of my father, the family moved to Groton and IT became more interested in growing things. | It was perh 4 jnevitable that I should have come ultimately to take up the line of work which would bring me hourly in contact with nature, because. fr chief delight had & study of nature and in the compan- jonship of flowers, and even while employed in the turning | spent every spare moment In wander= ing about the country. om infaney my en found in the wry I But it was not until my twenty- first year that I entered specifically on the work, although of course I had been trained in all the various tas! farmer, gardenc: ; rower on. iny father's. farm from | and when we blew in this morning and my uncle told my mother that I | they told us to look around in case of | was made of military stuff and would earliest childhood. By Alma Woodward LIGHTNING PROMOTION Copyright, 1018, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). SCENE—Kitchen at Upton, TIM E—Morning, (Lwo boya whose every move gives evidence of the inflated head and dark brown taste of the “morning after” are peeling potatoes with a reck= lessness that leaves moat of the potato on the peel. Sitting nearby ts @ silent, dejected creature, pallid, twide-e yed, shifting—who is peeling with the precision of a akilled barber.) (SOURLY beheading a potato)—| fire and choose the nearest exit tc the A I'd rather be in the guardhouse| kitchen, ‘That's all. And I'm not than doing kitchen police! | Sorry except when that Jazz band gets B (grimly peeling)—So would I. Going in the top of my head. It was C (tremblingly eager)—I—I wouldn't, | that last ginger pop, coming down on A (looking him over)—What're you| the train, that finished me Al. in for? | A (ersistently)—Come on brother, 1b (cuttingly)—-Yeh—what're you in| y lu haven't told us yet what the other ‘ellow did to get you in here, Spill it. for? Gee, you don't look like you've got the nerve to do anything that'd) C (whispering)—It wasn’t another get you the kitchen police, \ fellow—it was my mother! C (brokenly)—I—I didn’t, Someone} (A and B look at each other and tap else did. | their foreheads significantly.) A (emphatically)—Now here, you—| © (wistfully)—I'm terrible fond of |don’t go trying to squirm out of my mother—she's so sweet andsimple |things—that doesn't go, see? Take|—never got the New York brass at|¥ your medicine for what it's worth. | all—an’ believes everything any one C (timidly)—What are you and|tells her, That's how it began, your friend in for? A (indulgsntly)—Ou!—oul—go on! B (briefly)—We overstayed our © (hoarsely)—The night before I twenty-four-hour New Year's leave, left home they gave me a blowout recelve lightning promotion, I have always felt sionate love of flowers and my | herent love of nature was perhaps In- herited from She used oft will leave the wi live in for your to say: “I hope you a better place to + located about here 1 was born, remy childhood road to Harvard. March 7, 1849, « poyhood days were pass and boyhood I ee perous farmer very large family, he | transform the pottery He employed of men and my 4 large number hb to ali appearances oxen with loads of brick to nearby When the time came for me to take a definite occupation always having bad th when a I attended a in easy, and I always hac one look these mental manufactory But the clouds of dust that the oak lumber besan Join | . ee, . | & u (Ay | c t h (c} Wai t Yr e S S Paes you asked mo to By Bide Dudley Sopyright, 1018, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) SSDAY is meatless day in @nginew., What you goin’ to eat?’ ‘ 6 u this food fac said Lue B (with suspicion)—Is this an tell you. My name's Turner. I'd only | been here a week when I got a letter from my mother addressed to Corpl. The next day the Corporal mo extra sentry duty, A few “Well, air, be shuts up like a clam- | days after I got letter from her ad- bake. A rv a interlude of Gressed to Lieut. Turner. The Liew. cilo the Waitress as tb®/ ance he says to bring him some fish. pr 7 Friendly Patron took his seat at the|T do, Out I go, feeling like that vic. | ‘C49t reprimanded me severely and “What are they? Le asked “You know--a lot of bright re- cow's on a Vi along all her roasts and steaks, ‘I don't get you,’ he s, ‘What about the cow? ‘No roasts can be picked from the bovine to-day,’ I tell him, ‘iow about some flounder” Sounds fishy to me,’ he rejoin- wuy 6 you got to here w “‘Aw I suspected,’ I tell him, ‘Only them with brains is unhappy. Next (ime you got & old joke to hand out musical show aud tel tt to the and it always brings out a| | lot of rinktum-tinktums.* arks by the humidors what eat here. | Last Tuesday one fellow climbs onto a stool, and when J ask him what he'd like to mess up he calls for roast beef. “‘*Nothin’ doin’ I says, ‘The old ution to-day and took w you know and T know ts ludricrous Nke that;Oh, but it was a knockout. He just phim. Us girls ain't! goes to ¢ vombasted with side- So J just give almjdo you know about that ‘fishy’ joke? potatoes and dives behind a pile of little soul, ain't toria and the spol thing, mo being ™&de me clean all the quarters, the victoria, of co and him the A (curiously)—What was the little spoils, Pretty soon I'm back with | joke? the fish, and by that time my victim’ G (gaqiyy— ; haa recovered his equiliborum. Once | ©, (sadly)—~My mother believed again he's fecling rather fly-by-night. Wat my uncle sald, got a printed list “'Ah, ha!’ he says. ‘Here comes of officers’ titles and promoted me my fish, How did you ketch him? once a week—she has such faith in { wrote him,’ I tell my client, | me 1 can't bear to tell her—it'd break “Wrote him? "Yes, says. ‘Dropped him a her heart, line? B (interrupting)—-So they put you “It was an old one, but I thought in here? it fitted In the prospective y ps ety ae good. But it makes him sarcastic (plaintively)—No—not then, ‘The “Gee, what a old wheeze!’ he tells S4Y before New Year's I got one ad- me. I can seo he's gettin’ even, but dressed to Capt, Turner-so they took I'm thinkin’, nally I get what I away my twenty-four-hour leave and wines,’ I says. ‘f read it ia the S8¥@ me kitchen police, I'm in an paper.’ “ *"° awtul hole—I can’t tell my mother, “What paper?’ ts his questionaire, and I can’t tell the officers, and—~ “ ‘Writing paper!’ comes from me. 2¢ (from outside)—Turner! Ture atin’ and hangs off me for | 2°"! Mall! tho rest of his siesta with us. What (Private Turner drops the pan of Anybody would use th ain't right, take it from r “By the way," said the Friendly Patron, “what do you think of the word wood.) A (severely)—Say, what's the mat- ter with you? What're you doing d that for? report that the Government is to op-| © (shrilly fram behind the wood- crate the railroads, pile)=-Bhe may have me a General by "Huh!" came from Lucile, "Sounds this time—and—and they'll take me fishy to me!" ,oul and shoot mel | le after him to has had a dozen people a ] |puy hia little place In the country.” | !4°8 qn you and you will not let me black diamonds to keep tho fires y . ect and if one bucket tsn't sidy two dollars and when I gave! Sayings of Mrs. Solomon by The Frew | (The New York Erening We — By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1918, by the Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World), M Y Son, how long,wilit thou continue to importune me, saying: ‘How shail a man charm a woman? For lo, they are as diff cult to see through as stained glass, and harder to understand than George Meredith or a second-hand motor car. Yea, they are as a patent lock, no two of which are alike! “How, then, shall a Mere Man know all thelr whimg, and the workings thereof?” Verily, verily, my Son, I say unto thee, he that seek eth to “understand” women is as foolish as one that taketh his watch apart to discover the source of the “tick.” But if thou wouldst vie with the women-charm- ers, and girl-tamers, I charge thee follow my instru@ ¢ tions, even as a bride followeth a cook-book, blindly, ‘VIELEN tomas Lo, there be Seven Rules for Heartbreakers, And the first of these is, Forget thine own Vanity! Fora little modesty winneth where great gall faileth; and a Caliban, who playeth *he devoted, and “starreth” a damsel in the love-comedy hath more chanées than an | Apollo, that seeketh always the CENTRE of the stage, | I charge thee, let thy raiment be simple, and seek not to fascinate any woman with silk bindings and noisy cravats. Fey so that a man’s face be | well-shaven, and his hair and his clothes well cut, a damsel can pay his garments no higher compliment than to say of them, “I did not OBSERVE them!" 1 charge thee, stint not thy flattery, but let tt fall bountifully upon the fair and the unfair alike; for faint praise no'er won fair lady. Praise the brunette for her fairness and the fluffy thing for hor “character, praise the elephantine damsel for her figure, and the kangaloo for her ‘grace,” the petite woman, call “queenly,” and the giraffe “c\te.” Talk to the | doodlewit of “mental companionship,” and to the highbrow in baby-talic, | Chum with the flirt, and flirt with the chummy; and thereby shalt thou | sive unto each woman a NEW thrill, and she shall call thee “blessed. i \ I charge thee, be not OVER bold, neither “mushy” nor too froward. | Nay, seek not to “RUSH” any damsel, For a woman's faver is not as a re volving door, where thou canst blow in and blow out again at will. Lo, freshness shall always be put down, and a PERT man, who can bear him? For his obviousness 1s us the Christmas turkey upon the fourth day, ex ceeding distasteful and tiresome. Forget not, my Son, the lesson of Sir Walter Raleigh. For an act of chivalry crowneth a man with a halo, and impersonal DEVOTION to Woman covereth him with glory in her eyes. Verily, a “protecting” manner {s more } fascinating than perfect shoulders, and great courtesy than a Grecian nose. | Seek not to dazzle a woman with thy constant flow of wit and brilllancy, For perpetual scintillation wearieth the soul and causeth brain-fa; 3; and | after the first half-hour a little “Humorist” {s a deadly thing! But a good “Listener” 1s a joy forever, Neither seek to charm her with assumed INDIFFERENCE. For by | that stunt fall the egotists; and only an Adonis can pose upon a pedestal ‘and still be popular among women. Behold, I have watched the Heartbreakers at thelr work, and 1y MODES was their watchword! Verily, verily, if thou wilt but follow these Rules, my Son, even as @ green garment-cutter followeth a pattern, a!l women shall be unto thee as | one woman—and that one PLASTE Selah. “The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell copyright, 1918, by the Prese Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), ied Ie landlord of these apart-| "Two dollars?” cried Mrs, Jarr-im ments let us freeze during|alarm, “f will NOT! You've wed the cold spell, because he) your spending money this week, whet | claimed he was running short of coal, | did you do with it?” lana told us we were lucky to have as| “I had two dollars left, and 8 Qe | much heat as we had—when we had|it to Cassidy, at the office.” |no heat, and it has been difficult to! “Why did you lend HIM méneg?¥ | get sugar, still we should be thankful |asked Mrs, Jarr. | we do not live in the suburbs.” “His wife was mad at bim @fi@| Mrs. Jarre paused after these|Wouldn’t let him have any of ' | delphic remarks, Mr. Jarr looked in-|™oney back, He foolishly gave tently at her, and asked her what had |@ll his salary”—— 2 put life in the suburbs in her mind, i ‘oolishiy?” asked Mrs, Jarn * “My new mink furs.” said Mrs. Jarr. Well, he gave it to her and There is a sale of furs adverti in they had words because he had the paper here, and that reminded me BEDe 1Ree and the next morning of my new mink set, because the last Wouldn't give him any money { time I saw Mrs. Jenkins she was tell- h€ only had carfaro to the ing me she was dying to get a beauti- |S Bive me two bucks, please,” ful set like mine, and the Jenkinses; “Vo you think I am going to ging live in East Malaria, Poor dears!" | You two dollars to give to every } “pon't you ‘poor dear’ them,” sata |PICk and Marry?” asked Mra Jari’ Mr, Jarr. “Jenkins has been in high| "You see how wealth has made yo | feather since the cold snap. Says ho penurious,” remarked Mr, Jarr sadly, | T have just bestowed a million dole‘ “Well, it is a nice place,” remarked have hwo to see me through the day," Mrs, Jarr. “But it is a pity it 1s so BAL, haven't given me @ milion near to that ugly coal yard that spolls bss lars, and you know it, so don’t tall the view.” oolish!" said Mrs, Jarr, “Here'g titty Spoils the view, nothing?” sald Sehes Saye Angle for you. I sups Mr, Jarr, “Being that near a coal)/ ois io) ene that to your mew ard these days is what makes Jen~|/ 000% (00 you need any more kins's property so valuable, He should | 1 Siar te on Sompanton, Cassidy, worry. If the worst comes to the| 4°), | prliidd pardon and get two worst he can slip out with a coal b her and pay you back hat he owes you!” back with |” bucket after dark and come back w! “But you see, my dear, I owed Casa! enough he can make several trips. ne bee amount I was only paying, Why, the wealthtest residents of East | Nh (0K Malaria envy Jenkins in the splendid] | 1 Well Porrow from him again,” location of his home--right up against |@!d Mrs, Jarr, “Or borrow it from ” Jenkins, seeing he 1s so fortunate that real coal yard! eee ihe lives next to @ ool son nae “yell, coal yard or no coal yard, ‘ 4 A wouldn't live in the suburbs this pes fie sales iy uy stealing coat on weather for a million dollars!” Mra.| ‘inion T wouldn't let for sien Jarr geclared gwith an alr of finality. it right and left, Here's id squander uz read tn tho papers that during the | ivi conta 1 sald you ead he wonky 6 dertakers’ men went | Vo cents J sald you could b ae ee Mayers r de- | E Want you to bring me back elght or on strike, and al : ten three-cent stamps to-night, I've layed, 1 like the country well oh some letters to write, one to Mra, in summer time, but in winter tt 19) yoniins at her Hast Malaria coal yard too lonely and there is no social en- mansion , joyments in rural life worth the bare: ship. No, I wouldn't live in the| aeuarbe for two million dollars!" — | > THe UNOER boa. “If you had that much money it O BORA EAE BA urally travel wouldn't make you happy in town or the line of likes; that is, the country, that 1s, the money itself things wo feel in ourselves, wouldn't. Happiness 1s from the|W® feel In others, We applaud the heart out, wealth ia only from the| Under Dog, because we eo often cketbook in.” have been the Under Dog. We lke bai to lift the other fellow up when he “rd be happy {¢ I was wealthy,|is down berauso we ulso have heen persisted Mrs, Jarr, ‘Try me and) gown, sympathy starts at home one | or else it isn't sympathy. Your perte “AN right," said Mrs. Jarr, "Sup-|odic moods of failure and disape pose I had a million dollars and gave! pointments are your Under Dogs, im it to you and you could afford to ive the opinion of George Matthew in an elevator apartment that was Adams, a writer for Good House« warm in winter, iu the city; or a| keeping. suburban villa, right near to a coal So instead of wall yard, in winter and an {ce factory) Under Dogs of yours and custing no in summer, All right, let us suppose | 8¥mpathy their way pause to give them —_— ng past these {t, You have twenty dollars I gave Yoult Heart and your hope. and goom you, Let us say it is a million, Be- | Over Dogs a I be your your victories and your fore you go downtown and spend |genuine achievements, At, let mo have two dollars of tt for! ,Courageously cheer = the | Under j ’ é ane g' your experiences and gta) carfare and luncheon to-day, old proudly by them until thelr fight bee doar, comes a factor of your kingship. ‘ ;