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Let Us Not Sacritice Even One
More American Life in Russia
great revulgion of feeling in America
coneapming the attitude of our Govern
: nent and of the Allies toward Russia
s‘~ v g to manifest itself in Congress.
First Segator Johnson, of California, that
lalwart progressive Republican; then Sena
tor La‘Follette, of Wisconsin, no less fear
less; b en Senators Borah and Kenyon and
Hollis, and an increasing number of other
~lngepend gnt Senators, to whom American
- ppneciples are not mere catch phrases, and
Mhe protestations of democracy and the right
of self-determination are not traps for fools,
‘all ehallenge the Government to tell the truth
“abont Russia and to cease hiding behind the
- maze of falsehood appearing daily about that
great people.
- Itis a noteworthy circumstance that it has
‘been left to the progressive Republicans to
take the lead in demanding the truth about
Russia and in demanding that onr troops be
brought home from Russia, and that the Rus
_sians may be permitted to exercise the right
of self-determination about which there has
been so much professing and such an utter
failure of action in the only case in which
action has been immediately possible.
The Russian people have sacrificed in the
war against Germany TWICE AS MANY
MEN IN KILLED AND WOUNDED AS
ANY OTHER NATION AMONG THE Al
~ Shall we shed the blood of our American
‘boys in order to destroy more Russians sim
ply because a few members of the Russian
privileged class and of the Czar’s old regime
want a kind of government that the majority
-of the Russian people do not want?
~ Why are American soldiers fighting in Rus
sia now? "What is the intention of our Gov
ernment and the Government of the Allies in
future concerning Russia? Do they propose
1o send more troops to Russia? Do they in
tend to do what Napoleon failed to do and
“what the Germans knew better than to at
tempt to do?
It will be noticed that the Germans never
ventured beyond the civilized and industrial
“ized part of Russia. They were careful not to
- repeat the history of Napoleon by penetrating
into the immense regions of vast Russia, with
out railroads, without roads, with impenetra
ble lakes and swamps and forests and still
“more impenetrable snows.
~ Napoleon was the greatest general of mod
_erns times, and he led into Russia the greatest
army the world had known. e reached Mos-®
‘¢ow. The Russians could not oppose his
matehless military genius and his splendidly
trained and equipped army on the battlefield,
but they retreated before him, harassing his
‘f.fikhcutting off his foraging parties, eut
ting off his stragglers, worrying him, attack
_ing, retreating, attacking again and retreat.
ing again until that great army was worn
~out. Neither militßy skill nor military
;flment could . oppose these tacties.
. nature, always on the side of Rus
‘sians in Russia, joined the natives in
the defense of their homes, and the eavairy
of the winds and the infantry of the snow be
gan to attack Napoleon's mighty army in a
way that baffled all his skill, all their disei
pline and all their great equipment. He had
to retreat. The story of his retreat is the
story of his downfall. It was neither the
British nor the Germaun nor the Austrian
army that beat Napoleon. 1t was the Russian
winds and snows and the Russian peasants
fighting a guerrilla warfare. That army was
_absolutely swallowed in the vastness of the
Russian Empire.
_ James Morgan, a discriminating, able his
torian, speaking of the folly of a military in
tervention in Russia, says that ‘‘it would be
like the passing of a ship through the seas
with the waters elosing up behind it.”
Yet the French Minister, Pichon, says there
is to be a further intervention in Russia. Are
we to join in this projeet as we did before?
There was the excuse before of military ne
cessity. We know that the President resisted
to the last moment the demand of the Allies
that we should send an armed force into Rus
sia, When he did yield it was with many mis
givings. But the war is over, Why do we
stay there?! It must be apparent that the
President’s orviginal judgment was right that
we never ought to have gone in, and that
every American wife who has heen widowed
by the death of an American soldier in Russia
must béar her grief without the consolation
that the death of her husband did a particle
of good for the country, and so must the child
who was made fatherless and the mother who
has lost her son.
The Manchester Guardian, one of the great
est of the British newspapers, says that it is
80 eold at Archangel, where the Americans
‘and British are fighting, that the oil freezes
inthe machine guns. Such cold as that is not
known anywhere in America, for gun oil is
made not to freeze even in arctie countries.
Our Seeretary of War, in an attempt to allay
the anxiety of the fathers, mothers and sis
ters ot she Amerieans fighting in Russia,
wired the American commander for reassur
anee, and he eables back that the conditions
are fair, though “PRIMITIVE.” It needs no
great streteh of the imagination to realize
what conditions are like when an American
‘commander on a campeign’calls the condition
of his troops ““ PRIMITIVE ™
% The Prench p(:opl:{{uw long ago notified
TRUTH, JUSTICE
the Frenech Government that they will not tol
erate the shedding of any more French blood
in Russia, so Pichon, the Foreign Minister, in
a statement to the French Legislature naive
ly says that Franee has lost blood enough and
that she will contribute to this intervention in
Russia only tacticians and technicians, while
the nations which have lost less blood must
contribute the troops. The English people,
and especially English labor, have raised an
outery against sending the British troops into
Russia to flounder amidst. the snows and to
perish by the fiereeness of the Russian elimate
and by the equally fierce and brave Russian
peasant defending his home. Consequently,
Mrs. Gertrude Atherton suggests that since
Americans have lost the least blood in thb
war and ‘‘are as strong as backwoodsmen.”’
THEY OUGHT TO TAKE THE BURDEN
OF THIS INTERVENTION IN RUSSIA, and
also, of course, the shame of violating all their
professions in behalf of democracy and the
right of self-determination by all peoples.
Even the dull ears of the Government offi
cials in Paris, London and Washington have
hegun to hear the rising storm of protest
against this war in Russia. When asked why
the Allied troops are remaining in Russia
when the fight is over and after the war has
ceased to exist they say that they are remain
ing there in order to protect certaini classes
of Russian people against the Bolsheviki.
We wonder why so many people as soon as
they get into office, forget the history of their
country. Is the Revolutionary war of such
little consequence to our Government officials
in Washington that they have forgotten
about it? Don’t they remember that there
was a little event called the American Revo
lution which gave them their political exist
ence? What has happened to the French
officials? Have they, too, forgotten their
revolution? Have we forgotten our Tories?
Have the gentlemen in the French Govern
ment forgotten their Emigres! IHas the
American officialdom forgotten how the
wealthy eclasses of America took sides with
the British, fought against our patriots, fled
with the British army to Nova Scotia and
then came down with the British and Cana
dians and savage Indians from Canada, mur
dering, secalping, burning helpless women
and children .while our men were away in
the army fighting the British mercenaries?
Have we forgotten how we confiscated
their property? IHave we forgotten that
Washington ecalled them ‘‘execrable parri
cides?”” Have we forgotten that Ben Frank
lin disowned his son, who had become a
Tory, and refused to see him again in this
world, and expressed the hope that he would
never meet him in the next? Have we forgot
ten that when a fleetload of these Tories came
back after the Revolution, expecting that
they would be forgiven and that their prop
erty would be restored, our forefathers met
them on the beach with tar and feathers,
chased them back to their ships and foreed
them to sail away never to return?
Have the Freneh officials forgotten how the
Freneh nobility, leaving their country during’
the Revolution, went to the foreign kings and
solicited the aid of foreign armies for the in
vasion of their country and the destruetion
of their countrymen? Have they forgotten
how these French Tories came back with
these foreign armies of Great Britain, Ger
many and Austria, and how the French peo
ple rose in a mass against them, put at the
head of their Government the most radieal
leaders and proceeded to execute every Tory
they could find in France upon the assump
tion that he was a potential traitor, until they
had executed 55,000 of them in the reign of
terror? Have they forgotten how, having
suppressed the danger from within, this
wonderful French people, given a marvelous
power by their sudden freedom, defeated the
British, swept back the Austrians and Ger
mans and extended their frontiers more
widely than ever before}
These Russiun Tories we are now shedding
the blood of our young soldiers to protect are
the perfeet modern prototypes of the Ameri
can and French Tories of the American and
Freneh revolutions. They are fighting for
their pocketbooks, and they are willing to
bring the foreign soldier into their country
to shed the blood of their fellow citizens in
order that they may repossess themselves of
their lost property and position, just as the
Polish Tories brought in the Austrians, Prus
sians and Russians until poor Poland ceased
to extst except inside of Russia, Prussia and
Austria,
Now, wo don't care whether these people
get their property in Russia or not. If they
can get their property back by their own
strength, physical, moral or mental, they ave
welcome to do so. We should oppose any at
tempt to aid the Russian people against them,
a 8 we are now opposing any attempt to aid
them against the Russian people.
We are entirely content that in Rnssia |
They may take who have the power
And they may keep who can.
Let us withdraw our troops from Russia.
Let us not sacrifice the life of even one more
American boy in that far-off land, where his
saerifice will not be for his country, for a
great human principle, but in violation of all
his conntry's professions and in violation of
the rights of 180 million Russians,
In Thy Light Shall We Sece Light!—Psalms 36:9
(Text for today was selected for The Georgian by Rev. W, 0. Young, Pastor Oakland City Baptist Church, Atlanta).
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The “‘Persian Charm”’
By Winifred Black. l
N HE just doesn’'t want to live an- I
other day-—nor another hour, |
She wishes there'd be a ter
rible storm, with the wind howling
and the snow
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whirling in ed- H ?
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she'd ' like to 2 R
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and be lost, and ' !
never come back || i Ngi !
again—never, | SRR |
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found her dead JFESEC i A 3 ;,J
body lying In | SEMal®s
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the drifts, with | RN .
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peaceful breast, (s / )
and a sweet SuethIETIrgTNET
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smile on her .
white lips—then they'd be sorry
they hadn't asked her to dance, or
called her up on the telephone, or
even stopped a minute in the street
to talk with her,
And her chum feels just the same
way.
They both think the world is a
terrible place, and they don't see
how people can laugh and have so
much fan, and if something doesn’t
change pretty soon they themselves
will--and it's all because they went
to a dance the other night and no
body asked them to dance,
They were wall flowers, and now
there's going to be another dance,
and nobody has invited them ex
cept the hostess, and if they go at
all they'll hatve to go together, and
Bit and wateh the other girls hav
ing a good time, and what i¥ it
that's wrong with them and why I
doesn’'t anybody like them-—and oh,
and oh!
And so they've written to tell
me about It, and 1 suppose their
mothers look at them every day
and think how happy they are, and |
how thankful they ought to be to
have such good homes and go to so
many parties, and wear such sweet
frocks
And they really ought to be i
thankrful, too, when you come to l
think of it.
Yes, you ought, little Miss Desg
perate, you and your friend, Sister
Dolorine.
There are thousands of girls Ix
the world, hundreds and hundreds
of thoudands of men, who haven't
quite enough to eat or enough to
wear, and who work like slaves for
next to nothing—for swhat? For a
rhnn‘ve to help put bread in the
mouths of younger children or old
people who are dependent upon
them.
MAKE YOURSELF
YOUR PRETTIEST,
Any one of those girls would
think herself a perfect queen if she
had half what you and Sister Dolo~
rine have.
She would, indeed!
The only reason you worry so
over nothing, Miss Desperate, is
that there's nothing real for you
to fret about. Get that into your
head and it may help a little.
Now as to the party and the
partners.
1 don't know why nobody asked
you to dance. Can you dance, or
do you just stumble? That's 4
good thing to Hnd out. Take a few
lessons, practice, get so absorbed
in the music that you forget your
self and sway with it as a flower
sways in the breeze.
Wear your prettiest frock, do
your hair becomingly, go to the
party with your chum, but don't sit
off in a corner with her and look
glum,
Laugh, be gay, smile when any
one smiles at you.
What kind of a girl is she, any
how, this ehum who helps you to
be so desperate? Is she a natural-.
born wall flower, and is she just
dragging you along for company?
. What sort of men are there at
these dances? Do you really like
them? 1f you do, and if you are
ypung and light-hearted and not
too occupied in thinking about
yourself, they can't help liking you.
The first man you meet at one
of the dances—hush, now, I'm go
ing to tell you a great secret: it's
the Persian charm, handed down
from generation to generation, and
only to, be whispered from mouth
to edr at the eleventh hour of the
eleventh day when the century
plant i in bloom. but this is your
Tucky day, so I'll tell you the se
eret right now—talk to the man not
about the moon, not about he flow
ers, not about the last play or the
newest book or the oldest ona
gither, for that matter.
TALK ABOUT HIM,
Not even about wourself—fasci
nating though that subject may be
~—but about him. What ahont him?
Oh, anything, so it's about him=—
his eves, or the way he does his
hair, or his walk, or something you
notieed in his voice, or what you
heard about him, or what you
guesséd-—anything at all, so it's
about him-—and wild horses can't
drag him from vour side.
Seeing his devotion, the others
will follow™ suit, keep up the same
tactics and before you know it
you'll he a helle.
See if you aren't. and in the
meantime don’t worry. your hour
i# coming fast enough.
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EN ROUTE WEST, Feb. 1
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YOU WILL recall.
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THAT YESTERDAY morning.
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I TOLD you the story
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OF THE soldier man.
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WITH THE golden hair.
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AND THE soft pink skin.
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AND THE little wee girl,
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OF THREE years old.
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AND I'LL tell you now.
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THAT WHEN morning came.
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AND THE soldier arose.
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AND PUT on his coat.
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THAT HE was a captain,
WITH TWO service stripes.
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AND A strige for a wound.
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AND HE didn’t know.
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THAT THE wee little girl.
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HAD BEEN in his berth.
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OR HER fat little arm,
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HAD ENTWINED his neck
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BUT HE sald he had dreamed.
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OF HIS own little girl.
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AND AN hour ago.
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AT A juretion place.
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A WOMAN got on.
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WITH A little girl,
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AND CAME in our car.
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FROM THE car ahead.
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AND THE soldier man.
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WAS ASLEEP in his seat
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AND WI:IO£V.ER it was,
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THE MOTHE? or child.
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THAT GRABBED him first.
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I'LL NEVER know.
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AND I'LL never know.
PUBLIC SERVICE
WHICH ONE of the two.
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YELLED “DADDY!"” first
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BUT WHOEVER it was.
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HE OPENED his eyes.
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AND TOOK one look.
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AND OPENED his arms.
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AND THEY both dropped in.
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AND NOBODY cared.
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THAT HE held them tight.
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AND KISSED them both.
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A SCORE of times.
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AND NOBODY cared.
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THAT THE mother cried.
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AND THAT the big round tears
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CAME OUT of the eyes
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OF THE soldier' man.
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AND THE little girl laughed
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AND WIPED them away
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AND PATTED his cheek. .
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AND THERE they sat.
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TILL A moment ago.
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WHEN WE came to a stop
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AT A station house.
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AND NOTHIN}G beyond
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BUT THE rolling plains.
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AND THEY got out there.
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AND FROM down the road.
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CAME A hurrying Ford.
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AND A yelling boy.
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AND THE last we saw. ;
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AS THE train pulled out,
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WAS THE yelling boy.
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JUMP CLEAR of the Ford,
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AND INTO the arms.
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OF THE soldier maun.
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| THANK vou.
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Tlmel_¥ Topics
of Today
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By Arthur Brisbane.
HIS column will hold about
I nine nundred words of aver
age length. You could fill
the column with names of places
where men are fighting.
Americans fight Russians “By the
light of the Aurora Borealis,” so
the dispatch tells you. And those
men don't know why they ARE
fighting Russians.
The German army, what there is
left, is divided. Part is fighting Po
land. Part commanded by so-calied
“moderate Socialists” in Bremen.
The latter are setting up machine
gun nests and will ight to the end.
In England workers on strike,
having exhausted the extraordinary
patience of the cautious British
Government, are told that the army
will shoot if they don’t obey the
law.
They reply, “Very well, we shall
fight the army to the limit.” They
speak of British soldiers as “armed
Government tyrants.”
And England’'s strike difficulties
are spreading. They have reached
London and tied up four subway
tubes.
Here it is not all peaceful. In
Massachusetts strikers fight with
the police and firearms are used.
Scldiers anxious to go home and get
to work are in a mental condition
that would interest President Wil
son and Secretary Baker if they
could know about it.
The usual thing is going on in
Russia. Four more Grand Dukes
shot to death. The poor Russian
moujik is still trying to realizf his
dream of brotherhood and love by
murder,
And, what is more, dearly be
loved, the former Crown Prince
Frederick William Hohenzollern,
according to The Munich Zeitung,
has started a divorce suit against
his wife. And the former Emperor
ot Austria has started a divorce
suit against hig wife.
While royalties are still royalties,
they try to keep out of the divorce
courts, Certa_ln appearances must
be kept up, and the dear people
must be made to think that there
is something sacred, sweet and holy
about royal families. Occasionally
vou have a wholesale exception like
Henry VIII, or a retail exception
like Napoleon Bonaparte.
That isn’t the wqrs‘t. The fight
ing has actually reached the peace
conference., Mr. Hughes, Premier
of Australia, is using his entire line
of fine Australian sarcasm at the
expense of Woodrow Wilson. Mr.
Hughes wants it understood that
the United States came into the war
too late and should sit listening to
lwroos,’ not attempting to dictate.
He is afraid the United States will
get control, dictatorship or “domi
nation” of some savages that used
to live in German colonies, He says
Australia’ wants certain Pacifie
islands, and wants them now,
Doesn’t this gentlemen know that
the Democratic party has teen do
ing its best to get rid of the Philip
pine Islands? Doesn’t he realize
that Americans would give him a
solid silver loving cup as tall as a
full-grown kangaroo If he could
persuade the American Government
to come home soon, attend to prob
lems waiting here, and’ let Mr,
Hughes or any other genius watch
the old cat die out in Europe?
There is just one bright spot,
please give three cheers,
NO AMERICAN %;DIERS W’ILLa
BE SENT TO DO LICE WORK
IN TURKEY, for the present, any
how,
What a relief! Men conscripted
to fight Germany are not to police
Turkey, where the mournful muez
zin frequently reminds the faithful
that Allah's only prophet §s Mo
hammed, who recently got a black
eye, A
But how dees it happen | that
American soldiers are not goithg to
do police duty in Turkey?: ely
somebody must want them re,
If @nybody wants them, why n't
they go? Next to taking eanay
from a crippled child the
task in the world seems to he -
ing a few billion dollars or a
conscripted Americans from
Urited States to use amy how
ck cose, ¥,
The latest announcement, als
very cheerful, is that Americans
the army in Europe will be @ ‘
home if they can prove that
body in the family is sick er
tressed. That is nice. But o
couldn't they be sent home anys=
how? Are we still at war? If se
with whom? llf we are not at war,
why are the men kept in Europe?
Do the Allies fear that war may
break out again? Germany's ships,
guns, freight cars and locomm&
have been taken. Anarchy keaps
Germany, Austria and Russia busy, |
Certainly the Allies from now on
might take care of their front 4
without the American army to
as 4 managing police force, J
There will be troubie and 4n
pleasant agitation saved ip this
country if the Government Will
realize NOW that, while the o
can Is docile, as Lord Nerpclifie
truly says, there is a limit ¢®n (o
his doeility. a .