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TRUTH, JUSTICE
Let Us Not Sacritice Il'ven One
More American Life in Russia
great revulsion of feeling in America
coneerning the attitude of our Govern
ment and of the Allies toward Russia
is beginning to manifest itself in Congress.
First Senator Johnson, of California, that
stalwart progressive Republican; then Sena
tor La Follette, of Wisconsin, no less fear
less: then Senators Borah and Kenyon and
Hollis, and an inereasing number of other
independent Senators, to whom American
rhrinciplel are not mere cateh phrases, and
e ]Srotestations of demoecracy and the right
of self-determination are not traps for fools,
all challenge the Government to tell the truth
about Russia and to cease hiding behind the
maze of falsehood appearing daily about that
great people.
It is a noteworthy cireumstance that it has
been left to the progressive Republicans to
take the lead in demanding the truth about
Russia and in demanding that our 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 muech professing and such an utter
failure of action in the only case in whick
action has been immediately pessible.
The Russian people have sacrificed in the
war against Cermany TWICE AS MANY
MEN IN KILLED AND WOUNDED AS
ANY OTHER NATION AMONG THE AL
LIES.
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
to 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. He reached Mos
cow. The Russians could not oppose his
matchless military genius and his splendidly
trained and equipped army on the battlefield,
but they retreated before him, harassing his
flanks, cutting off his foraging parties, cut
ting off his stragglers, worrying him, attack
ing, retreating, attacking again and retreat
ing again until that great army was worn
out. Neither military skill nor military
equipment could oppose these taeties,
Then nature, always on the side of Rus
sians in Russia, joined the natives in
the defense of their homes, and the cavalry
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. Tt was neither the
British nor the German nor the Austrian
army that beat Napoleon. MK 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 diseriminating, able his
torian, speaking of thé*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 closing up behind it.”’
Yet the French Minister, Pichon, says there
is to be a further intervention in Russia. Are
we to join in this project 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 foree 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 original judgment was right that
we never ought to have gone in, and that
every American wife who has been widowed
by the death of an American soldier in Russia
must bear her grief without the consolation
that the death gs 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 cold at Archangel, whge the Americans
and British are fighting, that the oil freezes
in the machine guns. Such cold as that is not
known anywhere in Ameriea, for gun oil is
made not to freeze even in arctic countries.
Our Secretary of War, in an attempt to allay
the anxiety of the fathers, mothers and sis
ters ot she Americans fighting in Russia,
wired the American commander for reassur.
ance, and he cables 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 campaign ealls the condition
of his troops ““PRIMITIVE."
The French ggoplo have long ago notified
it F
the French 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 France 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 fierceness of the Russian elimate
and by the equally fierce and brave Russian
peasant defending his home. Consequently,
Mre. Gertrudey Atherton suggests that since
Americans have lost the least blood in the
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
begun 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 certain 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? Has the
American officialdom forgotten how the
wealthy classes of Ameriea took sides with
the British, fought against our patriots, fled
with the British army to Nova Seotia and
then came down with the British and Cana
dians and savage Indians from Canada, mur
dering, scalping, 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? Have we forgotten that
Washington called 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 forced
them to sail away never to return?
Have the French officials forgotten how the
French nobility, leaving their country during
the Revolution, went to the foreign kings and
soljeited the aid of foreign armies for the in
vasion of their country and the destruction
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 radical
leaders and proceeded to execute every Tory
they could find in Franee 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 Russian Tories we are now shedding
the blood of our young soldiers to proteet are
the perfeet modern prototypes of the Ameri
can and French Tories of the American and
French 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
arder 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 exist exeept inside of Russia, Prussia and
Austria. G
Now, we 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 are
welecome to do so. We should oppose any at
tempt to aid the Russian people against them,
as we are now opposing any attempt to aid
them against the finuian 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 saerifice the life of even one more
American boy in that far-off land, where his
sacrifice will not be for his country, for
great human prineiple, but in violation of lfi
his country’s professions and in violation of
the rights of 180 million Russians.”
In Thy Light Shall We See Ligh!!—Psalm; 35:9
(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.
HE just doesn't want to live an
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- ?
dying gusts, and ‘ T ,'
she’d like to b LR
wander out in it LN N q
and be lost, and i |
never come back | o P #fi;
again— never, &;fl |
And when they L oy ERR
found her dead |TESEN S, SSEH|
body lying in | 58 gl
the qgifts, with | LN J
her arms cross- | . :-»,_n:i g 1
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ed wupon her “i"."*"" v ‘
peaceful breast, e S
nn«? a sweet ~"\;-j.:\.v -
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 fun, and if something doesn't
change pretty soon they themselves
will--and it's all because they went
to a dance the other aiight 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 have to go together, and
sit and watch the other girls hav-
Ing a good time, and what is it
that's wrong with them and why
doesn't anybody like them-—and ob,
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 thankfu! 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
thankful, too, when you come to
think of it.
Yes, you ought, little Miss Des
perate, vou and your friend, Sister
Dolorine,
There are thousands of girls s
the world, hundreds and hundreds
of thousands of men, who haven't
quite enough to eat or enough to
wear, and who work like slaves for
next to nothing-—for what? For a
chance 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 inw vyour
head and it may help a little,
Now as to the party and the
partners,
I don't know why nobody asked
you to dance. (an you dance, or
do you just stumble? That's a
good thing to nnd 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 Jdon'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 gir! is she, any
how, this chum who helps you to
bé so desperate? Is she a natural
born wall flower, and is she just
dragging yow along for company?
What sort of men are there at
these dances?” Do you really like
them? If you do, and if you u}
young and light-hearted and no
too occupied in thinking about
yourself, they can't help liking you
The fist 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 ear at the eleventh hour of the
eleventh day when the century
R::nt is in bloom. but this is your
cky day, so I'lll tell you the se
cret right now-—talk to the man not
Bbout the meon, 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
noticed in his volce, or what you
heard about him. or what you
guessed--anything at all, so it's
about him-——and wi'd horses can*
drag him from your sile,
Seeing his devotion, the others
will follow suit. keep up the same
tacties and before you know it
you'll he a helle.
See if you aren't. and fn the
meantime don't worry: your hour
is coming fast enough.
BUSY
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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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| 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.
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WITH TWO service stripes,
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AND A stripe 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 A
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HAD ENTWINED his neck
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BUT HE said 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 junction 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 'I:HE car ahead,
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AND THE soldier man.
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WAS ASLEEP in his seat.
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AND WHOEV‘!R it was.
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THE MO‘TF‘C!.I or child.
THAT 0.RA.10.1D him first,
"L NI.VI.R snow.
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 NOTHING 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 tr:\ln pulled out,
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WAS THE yelling boy.
JUMP C‘LE.AR. of the Ford.
AND INTO the arms,
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OF THE soldier man.
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I THANK vou.
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~ Timely Topics
! of Today
,':fi
By Arthur Brisbane.
HIS column will hold about
T nine hundred 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 Pngland 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 {t is not all peaceful In
Massachusetts strikers fight with
the police and firearms are used.
Soldigrs 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 realize 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 Zgitung,
has started a divorce syit against
his wife. And the former Emperor
ot Austria has started a divorce
suit against his wife.
While royaltiles are still royalties,
they try to keep out of the divorce
courts. Certain appearances must
be kept up, and the dear petople
must be made to think tkat 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 worst. 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
heroes, 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 Pacific
islands, and wants them now.
Doesn’t this zentlemen know that
the Democratic party has teen dp
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 SLDIERS WILL
BE SENT TO DO POLICE WORK
IN TURKEY, tor the present, any
how.
What a relief! Men conscripted
to fight Germany are not to police
Turkey, where the mournful muez
zin frequently reminds thd faithful
that Allah’s only prophet is Mo
r;:nmed, Who recently got a black
But how does it happen that
American soldiers are not going to
do police duty in Turkey? Surely
somebody must want them there.
If anyb~<« wants them, why don’t
they go. Next to taking ecanay
from a cr “ed child the easlest
task in the werld seems to he tak
ing a few billion dollars or a few
conscripled Americans from the
5‘2;:2 Steges to use any how you
The latest anno
very cheerful, is th:tniemm:r'l‘;'an:lz
the army in Europe will be semt
home if they can prove that some
body in the family is sick or dis
tressed. That is nice. But why
couldn’t they be sent home any
how? Are we still at war? 1f se,
with whom? If 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 locomotives
have been taken. Anarchy keeps
Germany, Austria and Russia busy.
Certainly the Allies from now e
might take care of their frontiers
without the American army to act
as a 4 managing police force,
There will be troubie and un
pleasant agitation saved in this
country if the Government will
realize NOW that, while the Ameri
myh docile, uh!m Northcliffe
his dm""-.m a limit even to