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Justice and Fair Play for
The Soldiers and Sailors
O YOU favor six months’ pay for dis-
D charged soldiers and sailors?
Do YOU think it would be only
fair and just that these boys, who left their
homes, their friends and their good jobs un
complainingly, to go forth to fight for their
country, maybe to die for their country, and
to continue in the service for they knew not
how long, be given a man’s chance NOW to
get back into the walks of everyday life?
And if 80, don’t YOU think six months’
pay, to help them while they are looking for
new jobs and readjusting themselves to
things, would be no more than their DES
ERTS?
If you DO_ sign the petition in today’s
Georgian asking six months’ pay for the dis
charged soldiers and sailors, get your friends
to sign it and send it in to The Georgian.
Mark this prediction, friends of the sol
diers and sailors: A BILL, PROVIDING
FOR SIX MONTHS’ PAY IS GOING TO
BE ENACTED.
Already the petitions eirculated by The
Georgian and the other Hearst papers carry
more than one million names, and Congress
is sitting up and taking notice,
A BIG CONCERTED DRIVE FOR AN
OTHER MILLION NAMES WILL PUT THE
MATTER OVER.
Lend a hand!
Have a share in this big fight, about to be
WON for justice, for right and the soldier
and sailor boys.
Another thing-—-
It would be, as a soldier who missed his
ehance to go abroad suggests, a good idea
if President Wilson, the Seecretary of War
and the Seeretary of the Navy would wear
on their coat sleeves the silver chevron indi
eating the man that did not cross the ocean
and fight.
The man who did eross and did his full
It Is Time to Get Down to Earth
And Do Some Rather Hard Thinking
Having with great eloquence and fireless
energy urged the other Powers to join with
the United States in the ereation of a League
of Nations and been met with a measure of
response which becomes more enthusiastic as
the land-looting Powers discover that they
are to be confirmed in control of the chdicer
morsels, President Wilson is now confronted
by an embarrassing dilemma.
He 1s asked to say how far this nation will
go in ““earrying the white man’s burden.”’
More specifically, he is asked to say
whether he can give assurance that if the
League of Nations is formed as outlined, the
U'nited States will consent to take on the irk
some and the ecostly burden of doing the
police work which will be required in those
quarrelsome and backward corners of the
world where there is little hope of profit and
from which, theréfore, the other Powers are
eager to be relieved.
The dilemma has been cleverly phrased by
the Round Table, the foremost British quar
terly on world politics:
There are no problems more calculated to
promote jealousies in peace between allies who
have held together in war than those presented
by these territories. . . . It will come to be
seen how largely they can be solved If once
America will make herself answerable for
peace, order and good government in some or
all of them,
Her very detachment renders her an ideal
custodian of the Dardanelles. For exactly simi
lar reasons her task in preserving the auton
omy of Armenia, Arabia and Persia will be
easier than if it were to rest in our hands. Her
vast Jewish population pre-eminently fits her
# to protect Palestine. Her position between
India and Europe removes all our objections to
the railway developments which these regions
require. Above all she has the capital for these
works, while we, with less than half her popu
lation, will be hard put to it to find enough for
the vast territories we already control,
Let us recognize at once that the burden
borne by the British commonwealth is now
overwhelming. It is answerable for the govern
. ment of 373,000,000, or nearly one-third of the
races who can not as yet govern themselves.
The brain power and energy by which these
vast multitudes are controlled has all to be
drained from the British Isles, to the great
detriment of their own internal efficiency. And
those islands have now lost at least a million
of their most promising youth. It is not in her
own interest, at any rate, for England to as
sume, as a result of this war, additional bur
dens which any other Power is equally capable
of discharging.
Is it too much to ask that in this crisis of
human destiny America shall forget to think
of herself and think rather of t?won wider in
terests, to vindicate which she has sent two
million Americans to Europe, and in so doing
has saved freedom for mankind? Maving put
her hand to the plough, can she look back?
It will be observed that we here have the
appeal keyed to precisely the note to which
traditional America has always responded -
namely, the foreign missionary note.
We are asked to do the thankless job
from which the other Powers, sated with
rich gains, shrink; but we are asked to do
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TRUTH, JUSTICE
In the World Ye Shall Have Tribulation: But B> of Good Chaer; I Have Overcome the Worla.—St. John 16:3 3
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duty is entitled to honor and gratitude. The
man who was ready 14 go, willing and ANX
10US to fight for his country, but who could
go only if the order came, and who was not
sent abroad, is also entitled to honor and re
spect. It is not his fault or wish that kept
him from fighting, but the decision of his
SUperiors,
An unpleasant incident happened in Wash
ington 'when a man, ill advised spoke of the
silver ehevron on a soldier’s coat as ‘‘the
white feather.”” He was promptly knocked
flat on his back by the wearer of the silver
chevron, who turned out to be the better
man. .
There should be no display of such feel
ing, and the public should realize that the
gold chevron are alike worn by men who
obeyed the country’s order, went abroad if
they were told to go, stayed here if they
were kept here,
The man who went abroad was SENT
abroad. The man who stayed at home was
KEPT at home. Both were willing to go and
WANTED to go. What makes the young
men so bitterly discontented in camp now is
the knowledge that their chance to fight for
their country has gone by.
For all men, whether the Government sent
them to France or kept them here, there
should be prompt dismissal from the army.
WITH SIX MONTHS' FULL PAY TO
KEEP THEM WHILE THEY LOOK FOR
WORK. :
That will be only the most scaiit justice to
the soldiers, and it will enable them to find
work gradually, without seeking to crowd
out other men or drastically eutting wages
by glutting the labor market.
With the six months’ pay the Government
should give to each soldier a service badge,
an appropriate button or some other insig
nia to show, when his uniform is off, that he
was one of the nation’s great army.
it a 8 a response to duty: not as release of
them to fatten on their loot.
No wonder President Wilson is embar
rassed.
If, having placed himself in the position
of chief propagandist for a Lieague of Nations
to exercise trusteeship over peoples not yet
self-governing, he spurns his own handiwork
by refusing to pledge help, he emerges dis
credited.
If, joekeyed into having to pledge the kind
of help which the astute diplomatists of the
old World are seeking to exact from him.
that is to say, the undertaking of the hard
and costly and thankless work from which
they desire to be relieved, he gives the pledge
and is not upheld ip it by the folk at home,
the United States is humiliated and made to
look like a welcher. :
Cannily, he is doing neither,
He is deferring the pledge until he can
come home to test the temper of the people,
but that, also, is embarrassing to him, for it
reveals that his evangelism of world-wide
peace is advisory merely and that all his fine
words are of no avail until vised by a
majority of his hard-headed, practical-mind
ed tsllow gonntrymen,
That it will be a momentous decision, a
decision the most erucial that our Republie
has ever been called upon to make, is obvi
ous at a glance, ;
The money and the lives which must be
adventured upon this decision are AMERI
CAN money and AMERICAN lives, and it,
therefore, is fitting that our rules of think.
ing should be squared to the- interests of
AMERICA FIRST.
Not what will it profit the gorged imperial
ists of some other nation to have us send our
boys into feverish jungles or parched desevts
to enforce a regime of order in the grateful
shadows of which these gluttons may digest
unvexed the spoils of their past rapacity; but
WHAT WILL WE GET OUT OF IT and
WHAT WILL IT COST should be our fore
most inquiries,
We do not recognize in them the authorita
tive sourees of information as to what coun
stitutes our duty. .
If there is a duty which beckons us to an
undertaking so full of peril, so different, so
wearisome and so likely to prove thankless,
let us be sure that it 18 a duty peculiar to
Americans, incapable of adequate perform
ance by others and resting upon us so un
mistakably that no normal American con
seience can be deceived,
Duty may eall for more and still more in
a procession of sacrifices down an immeasur
able vista of the coming vears, and if it shall,
and the call is CLEAR, INDISPUTABLE
and COMPELLING, it may safely be assumed
that the character of America will be found
adequate.
But LET US BE SURE.
And in any event let us not ‘drop the bone
in our mouth for flh'\ deeeptive reflection in
the stream. " ..
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" One Post War Worker
HE'S gone, bless her heart, and
good luck and good spirits
and good friends and good |
work and a light and cheerful heart
go with her. e
Across the H ;
wide continent x ‘i;\,~ Yls
alone —and then PR ¥
across the rol- Wfl L é
ling sea. Twen- 9
ty-eight years § Yy ; ’s}
old l,unn) and L - At i
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of foat and 0w £
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head—kind and | 40 ,;“’
patient and wit- |76 39 TEEEEE. 0
ty and generous R,, % |
a little quick- “ P
tempered not BRE
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always as char- - 1
itable toward those not so inde
pendent and so sensible as she— ‘
not very eareful of her money, I'm
afraid—and there's one dreadful
thing about her--she never can
keep her-little, foolish, low shoes
tied-—never, never, never! But
there's this to be said, she never
trips on the strings I don't see
why she doesn’'t, but she doesn't,
that's all. And once | saw her with
one of her cuffs not on quite
straight—and 1 don't believe she
ever oarried a vanity box in her
life~she's got one now, though, and
she's promised us all to look into
the mirror ten minutes a day-—come
tain or shine, come work or lefsure
she's going to de it €0 she'll look
pretty to the sick boys, because she
tl'rks a pretty nurse wiil e able
to make them obeyv orders better,
buat we want her to do it for her
own sweet self, and maybe J she
gets into the habit-—-who knows!
Twenty-eight and never had a
real headache in her life, or gave
aryone a heart ache if she could
help it There's -a young fellow
next door that has never looked
quite the same since she told him
she was going tpo be an old maid,
and a certain frank, outspoken man
of business we all know is trying
his best to think he can be happy
without her, but all that isn't her
fault,
THE GIRL FROM HOME.
Bhe wouldn't hurt a fly, and she'd
brave a lion in his den for anyone
she loves, or go out alone and meet
a boa constrictor an battle with
Yim, if she thought someone who is
helpless and weak were in danger
Laugh? \She loves to laugh, and
we 0% to hear her Sing? Not
muech of a voice, but, oh, what a lot
there is of it, and it'"® sort of ele
mental, some way, iike thea waves
breaking on the shore or the wind
Friday, February 14, 1919
sighing in the tall eucalyptus at the
door. And-—men?
She likes them, and they like her
for one thing—she doesn't think
every man who does her a willing
courtesy is dead in love with her,
and for another, she's frank and
honest and good to look at and
true-hearted, and there's some
thing about Her that makes you
think of a slice of homemade bread
with plenty of homemade butler, or
of a bowl of bread and milk, or of a
field of red and white clover all in
bloom, and of a dozen other things
.that are fresh and wholesome and
fine and natural and beautiful, and
generally to he admired.
Marry? She'l_marry some day,
as sure as she lives, but she isn't
going to marry for a home or for
the privilege of putting “Mrs.” on
her visitipg card. She'll marry
when she meets the right man, and
rot till then.
And in the meantime she's busy
living and laughing and working
and helping people over the rough
places in the road-—and just now
she's on the way to France, with
other girls a good deal lik» her,
Women—that's what chey want
over there now, and they're get
ting them-—just as fast as the boats
can sail.
American girls—the reai thing—
not the haughty young person on
the magazine covers-——not the little
flufty-ruffles on the calendars, or
the big-eyed nobodies on the post
caras—real girls, real women, with
U. 8. A, written deep in their hearts
and shining out of their frank, hon
est, courageous eyes,
American beauties, every one of
them-—with the regular American
beauty type of fresh, vigorous, un
affected womanhood. How good
they will look to the boys over
there!
HERE'S™TO THEM ALL.
Oh, yes, they like the French
women, our boys de. Who could
help liking them, the dainty, charm
ing, wonderful, brave daughters of
the womderful nation of France?
But, after all, and with all, there ls
rothing like your own “home folks"
and our girls look like home and
act like home and are--from home,
And they understand our boys as
no French or English or Belgian or
any other Kind of woman on earth
could understand them,
We're all bursting, with pride of
our boys. Hurrah! Let's be proud
of our splendid girls, too, ®
Here's to 'em, every mother's
danghter of them, and may we who
stay at home try our best to live up
to the standards our brave boys
and our splendid iirbvhave set and
are setting —over theére,
THE KEYSTONE
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AT A house,
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WHERE | was a guest.
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FOR TWO or three days
ey
THERE WAS a woman.
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AND THEY called her Auntie,
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AND THEY all liked her.
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AND | liked her.
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IN SPITE of the fact.
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THAT IN three days.
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THERE WERE many times.
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WHEN | wanted to slap her.
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OR THROW a book at her.
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OR PUT her outside.
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BUT | couldn't do it.
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BECAUSE I'D just met her.
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AND DIDN'T know her very well
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AND | was a guest.
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AND YOU’LL understand.
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WHEN 1| tell you.
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THAT THE first morning.
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WHEN | came downstairs,
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AFTER SLEEPING poorly.
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IN A strange bed.
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AND IF I'd been home.
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I'D HAVE had a grouch.
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SHE W.ABV th.ore.
IN A %ining reom window,
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IN A rocking chair.
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AND SHE .suld good morning,
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AND | replied.
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AND SAT down at the table,
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AND THE maid came in.
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AND WHILE 1 ate.
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| LOOKED at Auntie. o
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AND SP:E Jvas sitting there,
.
IN HER rocking chair.
PUBLIC SERYICE
SORT OF all humped up.
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WITH HER stomach in.
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AND HER shoulders up.
teor »
AND HER eyes sticking out.
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AND LOOKING at nothing,
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AND | didn't mind that.
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BUT ALL the time.
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SHE KEPT picking away.
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AT THE point of her chin.
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AND SHE had it all red.
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AND FOR three days,
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IT RAINED outside.
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AND WE all stayed in,
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AND F?R.three days.
AUNTIE SAT around.
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WHEREVER WE were.
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AND PI‘CK‘ED at her chin.
AND WHAT with the rain.
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AND THE rot;ten weather .
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AND STAYING indoors.
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SHE GOT me so nervous.
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I'D JUST sit there,
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AND STARE at her,
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AND | couldn't help it.
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AND BEFORE I left.
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| ASKED her niece. .
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WHY AUNTIE did it.
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AND HER niece said,
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THAT FOR thirty years,
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SHE'D BEEN picking hairs,
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FROM OUT of her chin.
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AND HER niece’s boy said,
“IF SHE hadn't did it. .
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“SHE’'D BEEN a bearded lady.”
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AND AUNTIE‘ heard them.
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AND LAU(EHED a little,
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AND W.EN.T right on picking.
| THANK you
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Timely Topics
/
of Today
By Arthur Bfis“ne.
ERIOUS disagreement’ has aris=
S en at the peace conference,
and threats to move the conw
ference from Paris to some neutral
place or perhaps to London.
This seems to be the heart of the
trouble. Countries other than
France want Germany to start up
her industries, get to work, earn
money and be able to pay billions
that the Allies claim, She cant
pay, of course, unless she gets food
and raw material for her workmen.
Frahce is less~ interested in
money than in freedom from future
attagk. She can not keep her mib
lions of soldiers locked .p in camp
much longer. They are not as pa
tient as the Americans and would
not tolerata it.”
She does not dare demobilize un
til she is certain that the Germans
are cut down in a military way so
as to prevent -any possible menaca,
The French idea is to continue the
German blockade against food and
raw material until Germany shall
have cut her army down to almost
nothing, making impossible for her
to begin the war over again.
The age of billions is surely here,
especially for the United States,
Secretary Glass wants permission
to issue TEN BILLIONS more in
bonds, and TEN BILLIONS in
notes. What a war it must have
been. It is over, and the spring
financing amounts to TWENTY
THOUSAND MILLION dollars, en
top of all the other billions, and
with no end in sight.
Pity Carter Glass, the new Sec
retary of the Treasury, who must
find billions without war excitement
to help him.
It is to be hoped that he will man
age his difficult financing somehow,
without making the new bonds ex
empt from surplus tax. ¥For such
freedom would free the men that
own hundreds of millions from tax
ation during the period of heaviest
taxes, and put the load in the eold
way on small men, business men,
and even salaried clerks.
All the way across the ocean The
New York World cables a British
joke which it says “Goes big over
here.”
This is the joke, and there is
light in it: .
After the German fleet had sur
rendered in deepest humiliation,
“one big, round-headed German”
expressed his disgust. He spat
into the otean three times, once for
the “damned British fleet,” once for
Admiral Beatty and once for the
British nation, saying, “that’'s what
I think of you all.”
Then a noble British tar hitches
his pants and says: “Look here,
Fritz. You can say what you please
about the English fleet and nation
and Beatty, but you be ga.mned well
careful WHOSE AN you go
spitting into.”
The British really think the
ocean is THEIRS and resent any
other claim to it. No wonder, aftw
er the wonders they have perw
formed, lheir statesmen reaching
out from the little island in all di=
rections over the world, subjecting,
colonizing and controlling hundreds
of millions of outside human beings
and keeping them in order with a
few ships.
Look at the map of the worlds
see the tiny British island group
tucked away in a foggy northwest
corner of kKurope; search for the
spot in London where the House of
Commons and the Government of
fices stand. Then look over the rest
of the world map and see what
British statesmen have done and
got. India, with her hundreds of
millions; New Zealand, Austra:h
Canada, Egypt, South Africa
all the other lands anu polpula.tionu
are tied to Great Britain by
STATESMANSHIP, not by force
In the war just ended all these
countries showed eagerness to
fight for England, the ruler. Nao
wonder the British enjoy the Brite
ish sailor’s warning to the German
sailor, “Be damne careful whose
ocean you go spitting into,”
Prince Henry, of Prussia, being
questioned, said that the way to re=-
store happiness and prosperity to
Germany is to restore the Hohen
zollern and Pruu{;m control, plus
the old “legitimized dynasties of
the individual states.”
Prince Henry is said to be a good
sailor. He is a slow learner.
There is one thing about heredi
tary Divine right rulers and their
families most fortunate for ordinary
people. The divine-righters art not
compelled to think or understand
their people. As soon as they are
old enough to understand, they are
told that they are wonderful, per
fect, all-knowing. 'They soon be
lieve it and in a few generations, as
Prince Henry shows, they complete
ly lose the thinking faculty, as
fishes in the waters of dark caves
lose their eyes,
For instance, it is alleged that
Trotzky, temporarily ruling Russia,
is planning to make himsgelf Em
peror. He must have some sense
of humor and probably it isn't troe.
But if it were true, you would have
the first Emperor Trotzky thinki
planning, understanding the pcoa
and their weaknesses, as Napol
the self-made Emperor, did. In
few generations you would hl‘a
tle Trotzkys “by the grace of
knowing nothing at all, and sopse
body would wipe them out, b §