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LIFT OFF CORNS!
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Drop Freezone on a touchy
corn, then lift that corn
off with fingers
Doesn't hurt a bit! Drop a little
Freezone on an aching corn, instantly
that corn stops hurting, then you lift
it right out. Yes, magic! No humbug!
A tiny bottle of Freezone costs but a
Stew cents at any drug store, but is suf
ficient to remove every hard corn, soft
corn, or corn between the toes, and the
calluses, without soreness or irritation.
Freezone is the sensational discov
ery of a Cincinnati genius. It is won*
derf til.—Adv.
LITTLE MAIDEN HAD IT RIGHT
Probably Best Definition of “Wife,"
But One Will Wonder How She
Got to Know It.
'The pretty schoolteacher had asked
1ier class for tlie best original definition
■of “wife," and the boy in the corner
promptlyTesponded. “A rib!”
She looked at him reproachfully and
nodded to the hoy with dreamy eyes,
who seemed anxious to say something.
“Man’s guiding star and guardian
angel!” he said, in response to the nod.
“A helpmeet!” put in a little tlaxen
'haired girl.
“One who soothes man in adversity,”
suggested a demure little girl.
“And spends his money when he’s
flush.” added tlie incorrigible boy in
Ihe corner.
There was a lull, and the pretty,
•dark-haired girl said slowly, “A wife
Is the envy of spinsters.”
“One who makes a man hustle," was
the next suggestion.
“And keeps hint from making a fool
•of himself," put in another girl.
“Some one for a man to find fault
•with when tiling* go wrong,” said a
•sorrowful lit lie maiden.
“Stop there." said tlie schoolteacher;
•“that’s t lie best definition."—Pittsburgh
•Chronicle Telegraph.
Policeman's Happy Lot.
A little Indianapolis miss whose
-mother is dead lives with her little
brothers and sisters at the home of
iter grandmother. Her father, who is
a physician, has his office and home in
another part of the city.
Surrounded by everything that brings
’ happiness to 1 lie heart of a child, the
little girl's thoughts often wandered to
poor daddy, who was nil alone.
One day she surprised Iter grand
mother with the startling remark:
“tirandma, I wish daddy was a police
man.”
“A policeman, dear! Why? Daddy
is a physician, and that is a very good
profession, you know.”
“Yes. grandma," persisted tlie child,
•■“but if daddy was n policeman he
wouldn’t be so londsome.”
When you see a man trying to hold
•tip a lamppost It shows that he sympa
thizes with anything that Is tight.
A scholar lias no ennui.
as between POSTUM
and other table
beverages
is in favor of the
Wholesome,
Healthful
drink.
P05TUM
is all this and more.
It’s most delicious.
Besides there's no
waste, and these
are days when one
should Save. Try
INSTANT
POSTUM I
PAN GERMANS HAVE
COUNTRY IN GRASP
Annexationist Press Openly De
lighted Over Ouster of
Von Kuehlmann.
I.ondon, July 11.—The fall of Foreign
Secretary von Kuehlmann is regarded
in Germany as the introduction of an
open Pan-German regime under the
control of the military leaders, special
dispatches from Holland say. The
Pan-German newspapers do not hide
their delight.
Reports of the appointment of Ad
miral von Hintze as foreign secretary
are accepted as final by the Pan-Ger
man papers, which contend this in
volves no change of policy.
In the Reichstag Tuesday the social
ists informed the president they were
not prepared to vote the war credit
until they knew what foreign policy
Von Hintze was going to pursue. It
was agreed as a way out of a threat
ening situation that the House would
go into committee for a confidential
discussion.
The result was that the semiofficial
announcement of Von Hintze’s ap
pointment' took a tentative from say
ing merely that he had bepn "named"
as Von Kuelilmann's successor.
QUENTIN ROOSEVELT
DOWNS FIRST ENEMY
Son of Ex-President Scores
Victory In Fight With
Three Hun Planes.
With the American forces on the
Marne, July 10.—Lieut. Quentin Roose
velt, the youngest son of ex-President
Roosevelt, brought down his first Ger
man airplane thii afternoon in a fight
north of Chauteau-Thlerry.
Lieutenant Roosevelt, with three
other pilots, was flying at a height of
5.000 yards eight miles inside of the
German lines when the machines be
came separated. Soon after Roose
velt saw three planes which he thought
were his companions and started to
join them. He was closely approach
ing the machines from the rear when
he saw his mistake, for the planes were
German. Roosevelt immediately' op
ened fire and after 50 shots tracers
penetrated the fusilage of the nearest
German machine and it went into a
spinning nose divdf falling through the
clouds 2,000 yards below.
The lieutenant is certain the ma
chine was crushed, for no pilot volun
tarily goes into a 2,000 yard spinning
nose dive. The two remaining Ger
man airplanes attacked Roosevelt, but
he managed to make good his escape
and returned to the field, himself and
his mechanic unscratched.
NEWTURKISHSULTAN
MAY PROVE PRO-ALLY
Personal Acquaintance of the
Young Ruler Says He Is
German Hater.
New York. July 11.—The oninion that
(lie new sultan of Turkey, Mohammed
VI, is pro-ally in sympathy and dis
' posed to an understanding with repre
sentatives of tlie allies, was expressed
here today by Salih Bey Bourdji, for
mer president of the Ottoman Tele
graphic agency, now a voluntary exile
from Turkey'. lie said that in 1914 he
kenw the present sultan personally,
when lie was Prince Vahid Eddhine,
brother of the dead ruler.
“i cannot be sure that his ideas have
not changed since 1914,” said Mr.
Gourdji, "but I am sure he will not
follow blindly the orders of the com
mittee of union and progress as his
predecessor did. He is not a figure
head. I am also convinced that he is
today the most anti-German Turk in
the Turkish empire."_
WILL ADVANCE FUNDS
TO CANNING_FACTORIES
Washington, D. C., July 11.—Efforts
are being made through the federal re
serve system to Increase credits avail
able to the canning industry, according
to a bulletin issued today by the reserve
board. Governor Harding has sug
gested that the cooperation of large
banking institutions be ordered to
furnish capital for the establishments
located in centers where local banks
cannot advance the funds. Food Ad
ministrator Hoover has estimated that
$50,000,000 In excess of their usual
capital requirements would be needed
by canners during the season. The
Increased cost lie reported, was due to
higher charges for labor and materials,
ELKS PUT BAN ON USE
OF ALIEN LANGUAGES
Atlantic City, N. J., July 11.—Enemy
alien languages are barred from use in
the clubhouses of the Elks in a resolu
tion unanimously adopted by the
grand lodge in annual session here.
The convention listened to a patri
otic speech by Samuel Gompers and
renewed its pledge to stand behind the
government In its war alms and to
lend every aid possible In the recon
struction period.
The big brother movement will -be
amplified throughout the nation by a
systematic campaign. A junior police
system will be used to find homes and
employment for wayward boys.
YOUNG EDISON ENLISTS
IN U. S. TANK DIVISION
Morristown, N. J., July 11.—William
I,. Edison, son of Thomas A. Edison,
the inventor, enlisted today In a tank
division of the United States army.
—-►-o—
TROTSKY IN FAVOR OF
RAISING GREAT ARMY
Paris, Julv 11.—Speaking at the
opening today of the general congress
of Russian soviets Leon Trotzky, bol
shevist minister of war, according to a
dispatch received here from Basel this
morning, said:
‘‘Russia is on the eve of a general
military service eons-ription."
Trotzky also emphasized the ne
cessity of Russia having a powerful
army.
GREATEST DANGER FROM GERMANY NOT FOUND ON BATTLE FIEIJS.
With American Army In Europe In 1919 As Large As That of the French Has Ever Been, and
Bigger Than the British at Its Strongest, Teutons Cannot Hope to Win By Arms—Prob
ably Will Launch Another Peace Offensive, In Expectation of Realizing Their Desires
Through Negotiations Around the Green Table.
BY FRANK H. SIMONDS.
(Copyright, 1918, Now York Tribune.)
Certain phrases of the recent speech
of the German foreign secretary, Kuehl
nann, have been widely accepted as
the first hint of a coming German
peace offensive, always to be foreseen
If Germany did not gain a decisive vic
tory In the military campaign of the
present year. To be sure, the words of
the German minister were not them
selves very explicit; they contained
nothing more than the suggestion that
however complete a military triumph
were won by invincible German arms,
the war is so vast and spread over so
enormous an expanse that "military
alone cannot lead to victory"—there
will have to be negotiations around a
green tablo after the fighting has
ended.
Thereupon there burst forth from the
Junker and Pan-German elements the
same clamor that followed the tempo
rary assertion by the reichstag last
year of the Russian doctrine of "peace
without indemnities and without an
nexations.” Looking backward a year,
the similarity between the two Inci
dents at the least arouses suspicion.
Looking to the future, it is not difficult
to see that in certain contingencies it
may be valuable to Kuehlmann to be
able to point to junker rage when he
seeks to impress the enemy world with
his moderation—or, if he goes, the rec
ord may be useful to his successor.
Must Win Now.
In any event there are certain facts
as unmistakable as anything can be. If
Germany does not win the decision she
seeks in the campaign of 1918 she can
not win the war and she cannot longer
believe that victory is possible. The
best she can hope for is to keep a por
tion of her conquests, and she can only
hope to do this if she gets peace before
American troops begin their share in
the campaign of 1919, when we shall
have an army in France numerically as
strong in first line units as the French
army has ever been and stronger than
tlie British army in France has ever
been.
Germany began the present cam
paign not only witli great advantages,
but with advantages which were un
suspected by her foes. She brought
from Russia more troops than all but a
few of the military men had suspected,
and, in addition, she brought generals
and methods which, applied to western
warfare, produced something approxi
mating a revolution In our ideas and
something uncomfortably close to a
disaster of the first magnitude to her
enemies' armies.
But if Germany could surprise us all
by her numbers t nd methods in the
opening of the present campaign she
could not disguise from us or from her
own subjects the conditions of the last
great gamble. One of her big enemies
had collapsed; In place of millions of
Russian troops there were in March
only prospective millions and scant
thousands of Americans. Germany
could expect to come on to the decisive
field bringing superior man and gun
power, she might hope to increase the
not overwhelming advantage of num
bers by exploiting the advantages of
position and capitalizing the mistakes
of her foes and the miscalculations of
her opponents. But she could not do
more than this.
Such differences in immediate re
sources as there were between Ger
many fully mobilized, with her troops
drawn from Russia in line, and the
! armies of her western opponents were
certain to disappear once America be
gan in earnest to send her troops over.
Even before that time Britain could do
much by repairing her own blunders.
Napoleon in the Waterloo campaign
might hope to defeat the British and
Prussians before the Russians and
Austrians could get armies to western
Europe, but if he failed to dispose of
two enemies before two more arrived
he was done. As it was. of course, the
first two sufficed to dispose of him.
A Bad Guest.
The Germans underestimated our
ability to send men and therefore over
estimated the period of time in which
they would be decisively superior in
numbers. This was like their mistake
in the Marne campaign in 1914. They
also overestimated the immediate suc
cess they could win by their first blow.
What has happened in the way of
sending Americans to Kurope has sur
prised our enemy even more than our
allies, we may be sure of that. But
the German saw at all times that if we
meant business he would have to ac
complish what ho had to accomplish
tn 1918 on the battlefield, or thereafter,
and in a smaller measure, around the
green tjible.
His military leaders declared that
they could take Paris and crush the
British army In the campaigning season
of 1918. They also told him that even
if they were unable to do either of
these things they coftd win sufficient
successes to enable German diplomats
in tbe peace negotiations which would
come at the end of the fighting season
to save for the kaiser a substantial
portion of his conquests. Now, the
first part of tlV contract is obviously
getting beyond German resources to
perform. The chances of a decisive
victory in the field are dally lessening;
the nejt smash must bring victory, or
at the least open the road to it, or the
game is up, so far as Paris or the
channel is concerned.
On the other hand, the next time the
German attacks ho will probably make
considerable gains, he may win Impres
sive local successes. He may even gain
ground in two or three attacks, always
recognizing that it ts utterly improb
able that the ground won will get him
to Calais or to Paris, But. if the cam
paign ends without an allied counter
offensive, which Is likely, and with the
German army still patiently holding
considerable areas of France won In
the fifth campaign of the war, then the
army can rest in Its trenches for the
winter season and let German diplo
macy have Its chance.
Past experience indicates pretty
clearly the direction which German
diplomacy will take. Its double pur
pose will be to divide the allies, by of
fering one of the nations united with
us against the Hun substantial profits,
say Alsacc-I.orratne to France, and at
the same time seeking to capitalize the
war weariness of the French people,
the agony due to the new wounds and
the new devastation. Austria may
again be deputized to carry the mes
sage.
Playing to Gallery.
Or there may he a convenient fight
between the "moderates” of Germany,
like that of last summer, which served
to distract and disrupt allied prepara
tions and allied opinion, while German
agents were al work In Russia pre
paring the way for the great collapse
which had its fruition at Brest-Lltovsk.
We shall certainly have an irresistible
push of "liberalism” in Germany just
as soon as the ruling elements deeide
to let it loose again.
Ir. the last analysis, however. Ger
man diplomacy Is bound to seek to
achieve a German peace by transform
ling any negotiation into a bargain
counter and making sacrifices, and
conceivably real sacrifices, in the west
to Insure the preservation of what has
been conquered in the east.
There is nothing novel about this
scheme. Every one has seen from the
beginning that at the precise moment
when Germany saw she could not
crush the western nations she would
strive to buy them off by such con
cessions, in the way of restoring to
them their own, as would leave her still
supreme on the road from Berlin to
Constantinople and beyond, and also
in the disintegrating Russian empire.
If Germany can preserve her cor
ridor from the Baltic to the Bosphorus
she may hope, ultimately, to resume
the advance upon Cairo and upon In
dia. If she can hold the Black sea
and the Transcaucasian provinces she
has still another and more secure route
to the Indian frontier. If she can pre
serve the chaos in Russia, the Jumble
of disorganized and disjointed states
Bhe has created from the Arctic to the
Plnsk marshes, she can look forward
to Immediate economic supremacy in
what was once the Russian empire and
an enduring insurance against a re
union of the fragments of that empire
into a state which can bar her road to
the Pacific.
What Germany has to fear is that
her enemies will continue the war until
they are victorious in the field and can,
in their turn, erect, not ehadow states,
but real states out of the subject and
suppressed nationalities along her own
boundaries or within Austrian and Bal
kan limits. A real Poland, with 26,000,
000 people, with a gateway upon the
Baltic at Danzig, with German Poles
united to Austrian and Russian, would
close the way to Russia, would be a
sentinel on Germany’s eustern marches
like that which Europe again and again
erected in the Low countries against
Prance in other centuries.
Block the Paths,
A restored Poland, a unified Ru
mania, a southern Slav state on the
Danube, an international control of
Constantinople and the straits—these
things would mean the end of nil of
Germany’s ambitions and the destruc
tion of all her hopes. If, in addition,
Austria could be reaolved into its com
ponent parts, or transformed into a
real federation of states based upon
race, the work would be complete, but
this last is perhaps beyond the power
of the most victorious alliance Europe
has ever seen.
What is possible Is to bar the sev
eral roads of the Germans into lands
inhabited by the weak and the defense
less, whether the anarchic Russians or
the hapless Turks, by the creation of
states which have all the necessary
elements out of which to construct or
reconstruct national life. And it is this
order of constructive statesmanship on
the part of her enemies which Germany
will seek to block at all hazards. She
cannot escape it if she loses the war on
the battle field, and she is determined
not to make Napoleon’s mistake and
hold on too long. She remembers the
chances he had to save the Rhine fron
tier in 1814, and she will not, like Na
pOleon, rely too long on arms alone.
Yet it must be transparent to every
thoughtful man that the real issues to
be settled are not those issues which,
because of their western character, are
most familiar to the allied publics. Cer
tainly Belgium must be liberated and
restored, France must have Alsace
Lorraine and Italy her Irredenta, but
Germany could pay all these prices out
of her collected resources and still win
the war. She might resign to Britain
the title to all her own lost colonies,
from Samoa to Togoland, and not feel
the cost, if she were permitted to hold
on in the Baltic provinces, In Poland,
in the Ukraine, in the Crimea and in
Asiatic Turkey.
The real danger to the world lies in
that opportunity which Germany may
win in this war to organize the mil
lions of Slavonic and Latin peoples
along her frontiers and along Austrian
frontiers. The best hope of permanent
defeat of German purposes to rule the
world, to restore the domination of the
Russian empire, must be found in the
creation along the pathways of German
expansion of strong states capable of
developing into still stronger states
and effectively barring the road for
ever. Such states are Poland. Rumania
and Serbia; while it is exactly as im
portant that German rule should be
abolished at Constantinople and the
Osmanli empire resolved into its na
tural elements.
The greatest danger for the future
does not lie in the German threat to
Paris or Calais; we may lose both and
win the war, and it is hardly conceiv
able that we shall lose either. The
greatest danger does not, in my
judgment, lie on the military side,
grave as are the dangers ahead and
heavy as German military blows are
bound to be between now and the
fourth anniversary of the battle of
the Marne, which should see the climax
of the present campaign. What we
have to fear most now is that German
military power, without winning the
war outright, will make sufficient prog
gress on the map to persuade a war
weary world to make peace, ignorant
ly or because of approximate exhaus
tion disregarding the greater issues
which were in all minds at the out
set of the struggle and continue to
hypnotize most observers.
Crushed Army Necessary.
We shall have no permament peace
with Germany until the German array
is beaten In the field. It can hardly
be decisively beaten lh:n year, and ll
wilt be the business of German diplo
macy. once the campaign is over, to
remove all chance of such defeat by
negotiating a profitable peace, a peace
which shall leave Germany the ‘‘.I imp
ing off” places for n-'xt time. Just us
the Napoleonic legend was Invincible
until Napoleon had fought SVaterloo, so
the legend of the German army's Invin
cibility will survive anything but a
defeat which cannot be explained
away. And while the German army
maintains its supremacy of the. German
empire it will continue to plan new at
tacks upou the world.
The Europe which existed before
August. 1914, has been swept away;
Russia is in an upheaval which no man
can measure, but there Is a Poland to
be made with almost as great ease as
Italy was made in the last century. Po
land is the natural Slav sentinel along
the Vistula and for long centuries sho
maintained that role heroically and
successfully. Serbia is the natural sen
tinel of the Balkans agaifist invasion
coming out of Europe from the north
or out of Asia from the south. Ru
mania and Serbia together can hold
the Danube barrier if only the Ru
manian and Serbian races are united
within their own natural and racial
frontiers.
It seems to me that the great dan
ger will come when the campaign of
1918 is over and German diplomacy
undertakes to avoid the threat which
our own enormous army, for It will be
enormous by the campaign of 1919, will
have for the German army. And Ger
many's diplomacy will seek to turn to
account the war weariness of the whole
world, It will beyond all else drive at
French weariness and turn to Instant
account any new outburst of senti
mental and purblind British pacifism.
But beyond all else Germany will seek
to capitalize American Ignorance of
what have become the real issues of
the war, by seeking to make conces
sions In questions once vital, still im
portant, but no longer of first import
ance.
And I believe It will in a consider
able measure depend upon America's
attitude whether the German peace of
fensive falls, as the defeat of the Ger
man war offensive depended in some
part on the speed with which we got
our new armies to France. We must
expect and reckon with the war weari
ness of the masses of our allies; we
must be on our guard against weakness
that comes from wounds suffered- in
brave resistance and in resistance
maintained almost beyond human en
durance. Our leadership, not perhaps in
ideas, but certainly In spirit, may be
the decisive factor In repulsing the
German peace offensive, and the Ger
man peace offensive must be repulsed
It the war is to end in making the
world safe for democracy or secure
against the German thing, however one
may characterize it.
If only the American public could be
brought to see the questions of Poland
and Serbia, of Rumania and of the
Bosporus as clearly as they see the
questions of Belgium, Alsace-Lorraine
and the Italian Irredenta, the failure
of the German peace offensive would be
assured. If only the fact could be made
clear that Germany and Austria could
afford to evacuate Brussels and
Trieste, Strassburg and Metz; if they
could hold Belgrade and Constantino
ple. Warsaw and Riga; that Germany
could well afford to lower her flag for
ever In South and Central Africa If
she coukl hold open the roads to Asia,
north and south—then the voice of
American public opinion would warn
American diplomacy against German
endeavors.
No man understands the Russian
problem, and there is a manifest readi
ness on the part of the European na
tions which have suffered most by rea
son of Russia’s desertion to abandon
the Russians to German fate with little
sympathy. The temptation is natural,
but the costs of such a course would
be enormous. On the other hand, no
man can suggest a way In which to
Insure Russian regeneration, no matter
what help be furnished. By contrast
the reconstitution of Poland is not only
possible, but carries with it the hope
that behind the Polish barrier Russia
may regain her natioi.i,' health with
out fear of German domination.
As it stands 76,000,000 Germans and
10,000,000 Magyars dominate popula
tions of other races as numerous or
even more numerous, and unless those
races are now freed the slavery may
be perpetual, and out of these enslaved
races Germany will construct new
armies, and in duo course of time make
new attacks upon Europe. This is the
story of Prussia, this is the history of
the Ilohenzollerns; and as long as the
way Is open and the human material is
at hand the Germans are bound to
keep on in their determination to re
store the Roman world under Germun
control.
We are winning the war on the bat
tlefield. Despite the dangers In the
Immediate future, there Is clear water
not too far ahead, so far as the military
problems are concerned. But we are
just entering the danger zone, so far
as the peace offensive Is concerned.
The German Is preparing his new line
of attack and his new methods of com
bat. We shall have every artifice in
his whole Btock employed for the pre
cise purpose of blinding us to the real
Issues at stake and keeping open the
roads to new expansions and the hopes
of new conquests. If we permit our
eyes'to be blinded, our wounds to weary
us, our mistaken" conceptions of Ger
mans or of German ideas to deceive us,
we shall have it all to do over again
and the German will win the war.
It is the duty of the United States to
fight until Belgium is freed and France
and Italy regain their lost and rightful
citizens and frontiers. But this is not
a measure of our duty. Coming latest
into the war and having suffered least.
It Is our duty to see most clearly and
keep most constantly In mind what the
larger Issues are. Germany has dyna
mited the Russian edifice, but it would
be fatal to leave her In possession of
the ruins. Permanent Austro-German
control In Serb lands would mean that
the peace that follows this strugglo
would be a truce, a breathing spell
only. I
There has been a good deal of non- |
sense talked first Riid last about free
ing enslaved peoples. They should be
free; we ought to do all that we can to
aid In liberating them, but we ought to
recognize that in freeing them we are
n6t engaged upon a quixotic mission,
but In erecting barriers against our
common enemy. For 300 years and
more the Serbs fought the Turk along
the Danube and broke the weight of his
thrust and thus contributed greatly to
the salvation of Europe. Poland like
wise saved Europe against Turk and
Teuton. Both races have a new mis
sion in I lie new order that is to come.
but It is essential that ttie American
people should understand that the mis
sion is one of vital importance to them,
that it is a necessary part of the in
surance we are going to take out
against a repetition of the great
tragedy of the world war.
Not Talking Time.
We have got a new German offensive
to meet and break nnd it is idle to talk
about peace terms and peace negotia
tions while the German is less than 50
miles from Paris and gathering his
legions for a new thrust toward the
Seine or the channel. We are not out
of the area of military dangers yet,
and to discuss peace terms is to fall
into a German Iran, as we have fallen
before. But It is ;;e'ting close to the
time when the German will have to win
his military decision or go hack to Ills
second line, and his second line is di
plomacy. And we have got to be ready
for him there, for wo can lose the war
there Just as easily as on the battle
field, and it will be harder to win back,
once we have lost it in this fashon.
In the German mind a peace cam
paign Is a war measure, and as his
fighting chances diminish lie turns
more and more eagerly to the second
arm. When wo talk about peace, we
allies, it is witli the thought of ending
the conflict, but with the German it is
merely the effort to use a desire for
peace among his enemies as a means
! of winning something lie has not won
1 by tiie sword or perceives he cannot
| hold by the sword if the battle goes to
Its logical conclusion.
Unless all signs fall, the German Is
getting ready for a new peace offen
sive. It will be tho most dangerous of
all. because with everything at stake
he will make it so. If It fails, like his
present military offensive, then he will
lose the war. if it succeeds he will win
I the war. even If he never gets anomer
mile nearer to Paris and ultimately
surrenders Meta and Strassburg.
No German peace proposal will be d
real peace proposal, a proffer oNpeaos
on reasonable or possible terms, while
the German army Is unconquered, be
cause all peace proposals will be con
trolled by those who control the Gey
man army. Therefore all proposals
must bs met as attacks by the enemJV
not as anything else. The way to peace
remains through military victory, and
before we can hope for victory we must
repulse first the German military at
tack, which la now going forward, and
next the German peace offensive, which
is preparing.
The German military offensive must
be beaten in the west. Ludendorff has
temporarily made "westerners’’ of us
all, but the peace offensive will be Itt
the east, and when it opens there wet
too, must become "easterners," for the
decision of the war will be based on
permanent subjugation or complete
liberation of eastern lands and races
from the German yoke. Victory on the
Marne, the Seine and the Somme must
be turned to account on the Vistula,
the Danube and the Golden Horn.
These are the Issues of the war. the
tests of real victory or of actual failure
on our part and on the part of our al
lies.
CHINESE REFUGEES
WORK FOR THE ALLIES
San Antonio, Tex.—Natives of China,
refugees from Mexico and interned
prisoners of the United States, 45#
Chinese at Fort Sam Houston and
Camp Travis are doing their part to
help the allies of their country win tho
war.
When General Pershing abandoned
hla pursuit of Francisco Villa In tho
mountains and deserts of western Chi
huahua. Mexico, and started back to
the border, the Chinese colony In that
section packed their belongings onto
wagons, carts and burros and trailed
out behind the American expeditionary
force. They feared Villa and his ban
dits would carry out their threat* to
kill all Chinese In Mexico and General
Pershing gave them permission to pro
ceed to the border with hla column.
Arriving at Columbus, N. M„ tho
Chinese were placed In an internment
camp until arrangements were mado
between representatives of the United
States Immigration department, tho
Chinese government and the tongs to
which the Chinese belong for their
transfer to San Antonio. Here they
were allotted to the army camps and
posts where they do all classes of work
for the army and do It well.
Many of these Chinese are wealthy,
having owned stores and ranches In
Mexico. They have endowed a bed in
the American hospital at Neullly.
France, gave what was characterized
as the largest chop suey party ever
held In Texas as a. Red Croes benefit,
subscribed to Red Cross funds, and
manv have bought Liberty bonds and
Thrift stamps. Many of the Chinese
have applied for permission to enlist
In the United States army.
RUSH PRODUCTION OF
BOATS TO CONTINUE
Detroit, Mich.—The rate of produc
tion of Ford Eagle boats, or submarln*
•'killers,” will not be decreased now
that the first boats have taken the
water, according to a statement by
Henry Ford, the manufacturer.
"Do you think you can produce the
boats as rapidly after the first onele
launched?” Mr. Ford was asked before
the completed craft was placed in th«
water.
“I don't think so; I know so,” was the
reply.
Supeculation as to the rate of pro
duction after the first launching, which
had been set for July 1. varied greatly
and Mr. Ford, with his statement, put
an end to gossip that there might be
a slackening.
The same efficiency plan employed
In the big automobile plant to produce
cars with a minimum of lost motion
Is to be followed in the Eagle ship
building plant. Raw material Is en
tered at one end of the big plant and
the finished product takes the water
at the other end. Training of thous
ands of workmen, each for certain
duties in building the Eagles, has kept
pace with the task of constructing the
production plant.
MEXICAN GIRLS ARE
6000 house SERVANTS
El Paso, Tex.—Mexican girls hav®
solved the servant problem for house
wives in American border cities such
as El Paso.
Mexican servants are both plentiful
and reasonable In their charges. For
$3 per week a good nurse maid may b®
secured from the Mexican quarter here.
Four dollars provides a maid of all
work, while 35 and f6 are the rates
charged by the Mexicans for cooking,
laundry work and living on the prem
ises. The wage scale Is not the prob
lem with this class of household serv
ants and the Mexican Is practically
the only available servant on the bor
der, the negroes and Chinese being few
and always retained in the same homes
from year to year.
The Mexican servant girl, within her
limitations, is a hard working, faithful
and fairly efficient worker. Even tha
poorest peon girls who know nothing
of gas stoves, running water or elec
tric appliances develop into satisfac
tory servants if patience and perserver
ance Is shown. They work hard, rarely
complain and accept their place in the
home without protest. They are es
pecially desirable nurse maids. They
like children, having had experienc®
with children In their own families and
are gentle with little ones.
BUT LITTLE GRAIN FOR
GERMANS IN UKRAINE
Vologda, April, (by mail).—Informa
tion has reached the American embuasy
here that the peasants In the Ukrain®
district, whence Germany expected to
obtain the largest part of her new grain
supply, are sowing only enough grain
for their own needs.
Fearing that their land will be con
fiscated or divided or their grain taken
away from them, they are putting in
very little seed. In faot, in many cases
the seed itself has been confiscated,
either by Germans, various factionary
armies or roving bands of soldiers.
In some of the villages which the
Germans occupied, they selz«-<? al! grain
excepting four poods (144 pounds) pel
inhabitant, which must last the people
until the late fall harvest.
Conditions throughout the Russia*
wheat fields, according to reports to tha
embassy, are similar to those of tha
Ukraine. Land troubles, wherein vil
lage fights village for the land, and
absence of workers from the fields,
have contributed, as well as fear of
seizure, to the faiiyre to sow more than
30 or 40 per cent of the fields.
As conditions of actual starvation
have prevailed in many Russian com
munities for several months, actual
famine is fatting millions of Russian*
next winter.
