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Hindenburg’s Plans Upset
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and His Supposedly Great
Strategy Outwitted
As a stand-up-and-Knock-down fighter, where sheer brute force and the
lavish expenditure of human lives are the factors that win, Von Hindenburg
is probably the greatest general that this world-war has produced. f
But when it comes to real, man-saving strategy and outwitting the ene- i
my, neither Von Hindenburg nor any other German leader seems to be bril
liant or particularly effective,
Germany went into this war with a carefully prepared set of plans which
——according to German forethought—could not fail of the ultimate achieve
ment of success.
But the battle of the Marne threw those plans out of kilter and they
"hawe been running off schedule ever since.
The war, which was to have been successfully concluded in ninety days, |
Germany finds dragging into its fourth year with prospects of victory re- !
moter than ever, and with starvation and discontent at home. |
Without for one moment claiming that the recent brilliant British and
French victory on the west front spells the collapse of Germany, let us con- |
sidler it in sober earnest and see what it portends. ' l
At the very outset it shows that German strategy was outwitted. The
great Von Hindenburg, feeling that winter had advanced so far that his
west front was safe from further attack, removed all available men to take
part in the drive against Italy.
‘ It was a brilliant scheme, the success of which meant renewed popu
larity for the militarists at home and a gain of food supplies, which now are
so badly needed in both Germany and Austria.
But it took an army of millions across the Alps at a period of the year
when the return trip is well-nigh impossible—certainly it can not be made
with any degree of speed.
The Italians, we grant, were surprised and met defeat so pronounced
that it at first seemed the Teuton objective would be attained. But the
Allies came to Italy’s rescue, the retreating armies stiffened and the Teu
tons now have been held long enough for a defense to be established.
. And if the Germans and Austrians fail to accomplish their full object
of smothering all of Italy, the success of the entire operation will be nil. |
That it has met failure now seems certain. ‘
: And at the very time that reinforcements for his west front could not be
obtained, Von Hindenburg found himself the victini of a British surprise at
tack which ripped open his vaunted ‘‘invulnerable line'’ and scored the
greatest allied victory since trench warfare came into vogue. With the bulk
of his forces over the Alps in Italy, this caught him unprepared and he has |
gone scurrying home from the Italian front to try to stem the tide which |
is rolling in against him. '
The German general has been literally outwitted and the temporary
Italian reverse may prove to have been but a small price to pay for the great !
successes which the French and British have achieved on the western front. '
| German calculation all through this war has been most defective. At }
“first they thought Belgium would not fight when they invaded that nation |
to catch France on tie flank. l
Then they fignred England would not enter the war, or would amount
to-nothing if she did,
. Later they pinned their faith to the ruthless submarine warfare and
believed America would not openly resent the high-handed withdrawal of
all of Uncle Bam's rights and privileges at sea. ‘‘ America was a commercial I
~ nation,”’ they said, ‘‘and would amount to nothing in a military way,”” but a
; million and a half of men under arms and nine millions more ready to go to
~ the colors has answered them and proved their reasoning false. |
Now comes this new mistake—which is one in tactics merely, but which i
may have more widespread effect than any of the others on the immediate
results of the war. |
LET US ALL DO EVERYTHING WE CAN DO TO HELP THE
ALLIES, FOR NOW IS WHEN OUR HELP MAY COUNT THE MOST. j
And when the Reichstag again convenes in Berlin, Von Hindenburg will
have things to explain which may be so difficult of extenuation that his head
will go into the basket along with those of Von Tirpits, Bethmann-Hollweg
and perhaps, that of the Kaiser also.
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HAVE YOU A SOFTER VOICE THAN A CROW?
: How would you like to be turned down and out of the position you are seeking
and think you have almost obtained, and all because you possess such & raucous
voice? i ;
, Never heard that word raucous?
Ever hear the hoarse voice of a crow?
Nothing fexible about that, is there
Chances are that the man with the raucous voice is “sot” in his ways, and not
open to suggestion.
Count one‘against him. 1‘
If the key is high pitched and rasping, it is the voice (? a person who is keyed
high and is taut to the breaking point. \
+ There is always a chance thatl such a person will brea#{ loose without much
provocation.
Also the nervous state prevents the quality of impresgfonability from coming to
the surface when it should.. Have to be a pretty keen ahd quick mind to take in
more than a surface idea of what you wish with a voice §ike that.
Attention to the matter of the tones of the voice and ¥hat they indicate if prac
ticed and cultivated have been actually known to influende character. \
Let Love Be Without Dissimulation. Abhor That Which Is Evil; Cleave to That Which Is Gooa.—RoMANS, Xll, 9
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Batting for Montague
LAY me aside in some quiet place
(Only be sure it’s a quiet place!)
File me away on some old hill
Where the world, and all, is still.
Put me away where I won’t hear
Rattling checks or shuffling shoes—
Put this marker over my bier:
“Sometimes win, and sometimes lose!”
What does that doctor say of me?
Five to ome he’'s wrong!
DlGme a grave that’s pretty deep :
(Only be sure that it’s pretty deep!)
Long and wide, with lots of room—
Not much light nor too much gloom.
Life s a gambling game, at best,
And faSes like a stack of blues—
Put this over the place I rest:
“Sometimes win, and sometimes lose!™
What does the nurse say of my pulse?
Five to ome X ain't!
LAY me away with a kindly word :
(Only be sure it’s a kindly word!)
Say what's kindly and only fair,
And maybe say I was square.
Say what you can of the best in me,
And the rest of it excuse.
Life is a gambling game, you see—
“ Sometimes win, and sometimes lose!”
"~ What price Igo out to-night?
Five to ane I don’t!
A Booche's Lament.
| Just when a fellow gets nicely loocated
| I a comfortable dugout, with the our
| talneg and plotures up—BYNG! TFive
| miles’
‘ = A Seasonable Gift.
General Allenby's troops are certainly
| bringing home the Turkey in plenty of
' time for Thanksgiving.
Thursday, November 29, 1917
The Gambler’s Requiem
An Hour Is Generally the Limit.
They’re calling Kaledines “the man of
the hour” in Russia. Poor Kal! That's
what they called Kerensky.
Why Stir It Up Again?
Relchstag to Discuss the Polish Prob
lem.—Headline. Thought that was all
settled when the bootblack trust raised
the price to ten ceats.
LAY me away without much noise
(Gently, gently, without much noise).
Lay me away with kindly care,
And maybe a bit of a prayer.
Lay me away where I won’t hear
The roar and the race track news—
Write my epitaph big and clear:
“Sometimes win, and sometimes lose!” :
What does that doctor say of-me now?
Five, to one hg’s wrong!
LAY me away where no ghosts will haunt
(Oh, be sure no ghosts will haunt!)
Life is only a wheel, at best,
But a man must have his rest.
“Ro-ly! 80-ly! "Round she goes!”
The dealer cries and takes his dues—
“ Where the littie ball stops at nobody knows!”
“Sometimes win, and sometimes lose!”
What is she saying now of my pulse?
Five to one she’s wrong! .
LAY me away in a decent way
(Oh, be sure it’s a decent way!)
Let’s pass over what’s occurred,
And a preacher might say a word.
Maybe a woman might sing a song—
An old church hymn I’d choose.
Life is a matter of right or wrong—
“ Sometimes win, and sometimes lose!”
What price I go out to-night?
Twenty to one I do!
When the Mour Stems Darkest.
The trail that leads on to Berlin
» 18 paved with mistaokes,
But these véry dreaks
Just dloze it: Hope om! We will win.
And Some Thousands Mave Crossed It.
It's a safe bet the Teutons are begin
ning to think it s the Styx instead of the
Plave.
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By Damon Runyon |
PUBLIC SERVICE ¢
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'lf War Gardens Fail|
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By Garrett P. Serviss.
O doubt many of the thousands
and tens of thousands of good
citizens who, in response to the
President’s request, last spring sacri-
ficed lawns or
used waste pieces
of ground to
make gardens
were considerably
disappointed this
autumn when they
started to gather
in their crops.
In eome cases
the soil refused to
lend of its riches
—or had none to
lend — in other
cases the great
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weevils, which seemed to rise'myste
riously out of the ground, or to de
scend silently from the sky, devoured
most of the products of the new
fledged gardener’s labor. Cabbages
were sieves; potatoes were of the size
of boys’ marbles, or else only one or
two could be found in a hill; pump
kins put out beautiful yellow blos-,
soms, as if intending to compete at a
flower show, but no yellow pumpkins
appeared afterward; some kinds of
seeds did not even sprout, and oth
ers pushed up a few weak, pale green
sprays that were quickly frizzled by
the sun.
It would be a great pity if experi
ences of this kind should discourage
anybody from trying again. The like
lihood is that next year there will be
at least as great a need for supple
menting the regular agricultural pro
duction of this country by amateur
farming as there was this vear. And
there is every reason to believe that,
another time, almost complete suc
cess will reward those who partially
failed the first time.
Not to try again would be to throw
away all the work done and all the
lessons of experience already ac
quired.
I feel' sure that the young ladies
whom I have seen-during the past six
months handling hoes and rakes and
gaining health, beauty, strength and
knowledge form their novel occupa
tion will not desert the new army of
organized national industry when the
drill has just commenced.
CALL WAS SUDDEN.
The call last spring was sudden and
there was no opportunity for prepar
atory study. “Agriculture and that
branch of agriculture called garden
ing are @ science and an art. It is a
great mistake to think that all sorts
of things will grow in that regardless
way, like weeds, which have bheen
hardened to that kind of life by the
persecution to which they have been
subjected, and from which they have
derived all the advantages of the mer
ciless discipline of “the survival of the
fittest.”
The weed that, in spite of all your
efforts to eradicate it, leaves a frag
ment of root in the ground from which
in a short time a lineal successor
pushes up its impudent nose is a
practical demonstrator of the doctrine
of evolution. What you need to do is
to impart something of the iron-clad
vitality that nature has given, through
a long process of selection, to her
weeds, which she loves because they
never fail her, and can stand all sorts
of hard knocks.
Through the coming winter reflect
upon the causes of the failures in your
impoverished garden. Drop some of
the idle books that you have been
wasting your time with, under the
mistaken impression that mental re
freshment means mental relaxation
(the mind never tires of action, it
tires only of monotony), and take up
books about plants, and about the sci
ences and the art of making them
grow. You will be amazed to find
how interesting a subject that of fef
tilizer is.
WORLD OF BACTERIA.
As you pursue it your mind will be
Yransported to some of the strangest
and most picturesque parts of the
earth., You will read with delight
how, with the magic .powers of elec
tricity and chemistry, materials can
now be taken from the air over our
heads to stimulate the growth of veg
etables in our gardens. You will be
introduced into .the marvelous world
of bacteria, and nothing that any Ori
ental story-teller ever invented can
equal the strange facts that will be
laid before you concerning what goes
on in the soil and among the roots
of plants.
Study entomology, too, in readiness
for meeting the inseets next spring
end summer. ‘Get some of the won
derful books of the French entomol
ogist, Fabre, and get others frcm the
Department of Agriculture in Wash
ington. From that source you can
have, at a nominal cost, pamphlets
on almost every subject that interests
the cultivator of the soil, from which
you may learn how to avoid the mis
takes that led to your first failures.
Concerning potatoes, there is some
astonishing news from Mr. R. E. Hen
dricks, of Kansas City; who avers (and
the Department of Agriculture appar
ently backs him up) that not only has
he raised 42 bushels of potatoes on a
piece of ground eight feet square, but
that anybody can perform the same
feat by growing the potatoes in lay
ers of soil contained in a pen with
holes in the sides. Ask the depart
ment or Mr. Hendricks about it, and
try it next spring.
IL Fear of the Law
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By Winifred Black.
AS the age-long belief in a hell
H of fire and brimstone really
been as useful as people hayve
thought it?” asked a writer not long
ago.
" Haven’t you
often wondered
too, if fear was
such a powerful
weapon, really, as
it is supposed to
be?
Of course, the
little sting of
mother’s switch
seems many a
time to be the
only way to draw
the baby’s atten
tior to the fault
committed. And
the switch of the
law, when rightly
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adm(nistered,v géts the respectful
notice of the grown-up culprits, too.
But is fear of something that is to
be, or may be, the power that holdsg
those of us to our task who go faith
fully on, day by day, doing the
earnest, thoughtful, painstaking work
of the world? Is fear the great gravi
tation that holds us to right?
I don’t believe so. It seems to me
that we keep as close to right as
ever we can because we glory in it.
Haven’'t you seen the look on the
face of the athlete when he proves
that the muscles of his arms and back
have done his bidding so long and
so falthfully that he can lift the great
weights without any show of exer
tion? He’s enjoying himself! He's
having a lot more pleasure than the
puny chap; all togged out, I saw
sneaking to the stage door this after
noon,
I suspect that the gravitation that
holds us to right, or somewhere near
there, in spite of \all the drags of
cther forces, is the very joy of it.
But I must confess these are con
fusing days we’ve fallen' upon. So
many things I struggled hard to
learn when I was young, I'm having
to try to unlearn now.
It seems Saul of Tarsus may not
have written the Epistle to the
Hebrews. A gifted woman says she
sees evidénce in the Epistle of a
feminine mind. And when you read
it you can see it, too, if you're a wo
man.
A while ago some one told me of
a book on the Ten Commandments—
a modern and up-to-date jnterpteta
tion it was to be, as I remember—but
I didn’t try to read it. I don’t want
to be any more confused than I am,
WHAT MANDY SAID.
\ All this tearing down and building
up again may be\a sign of progress
in the building trades, but the litter
of it all in the mind is—oh, well,
perhaps I'm old-fashioned, I think I'll
stick to my Ten Commandments as
they are.
One time I was staying at a winter
resort, way down South, where the
real coon songs grew, and you could
pick them fresh from the magnolia
trees every morning.
The cook in this particular resort
was very religious. She led the meet
ing and sang in church—and how
she could “expoun” the Scripture!
One Sunday morning I sat on the
veranda and listened to the singing
in the little church down the road.
The door of Mandy’'s cabin sud
denly popped open a.‘d out she walk
ed, all dressed in pure white from
head to foot and carrying a Bible, a
hymn book and a palm leaf fan.
“Why, Mandy,” 1 said, “aren’t you
going to be late?”
She smiled her own particulag
heart-warming smile and answered
me.
“Law, ye-es, I is mighty late, but
I ain’t a-worrying’ ’bout dat. De
Lord done see me start.”
After that Mandy and I were
friends and one night I followed her
to prayer meeting. I slipped in and
sat down in the back of the church
and I listened to Mandy singing
“Steal Away” and “Swing Low, Sweet
Chariot” until I didn’t believe there
was any such thing as sin or sorrow
or strifs or misery left in the World:
Then the exhorting begap. This
one read the Scripture, and that one
preached from the Word. This one
would interpret a passage in his own
way and that one would rise and
laugh him gustily t§ scorn. In the
midst of all the argument and dis
cussion. Mandy rose.
“What's all dis argufying ’bout?”
said she. “What's it all fer? We
don’t need no interpretation of de
Scripture. We don’ have to read de
Comman’ments. We knows well
enough what's in dem. We knows it
if we ain’'t never heard of it.
“De thing is—does we do it? Dat's
all-—does we do It 7”
1 wonder what the preacher of that
little sermon would say to a whole
book about the Commandments?
WHAT WE NEED.
How easy it is to learn the Com
mandments by heart. Fow simple a
matter to moralize about them. I
don’t believe it would be so very hard
to write a volume about each and
every one of them.
But, oh, how hard, how cruel it is
sometimes to keep them, every one,
and to keep them in the spirit as
well as in the letter.
We've grown so fast and gone so
far in the last few centuries, or think
we have, but what have we ever given
to the human race as great as those
ten simple laws of simple human
de‘fj"?
Gredt because, ax Mandy said, we
know them without reading them—
they're blg human principles.
Don’t bother to write hooks about
what is in the Commandments, dea'r
learned men-—but, oh I wish you'd
write us a volume aplece on how 16
learn the joy of keeping them!