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Moment in the Life of an Aviator That
Makes Up for Much He
Has Endured.
When you have been on patrol a long
way behind the enemy lines, shooting
tip towns and camps and railway
'trains like a pack of aerial cowboys;
when, on yotir Way home, you have de
liberately disobeyed orders and loafed
a long way behind the other members
of your group in order to watch the
pretty sunset; and as a punishment
for rids esthetic indulgence have boon
overtaken by darkness and compelled
to land in strange country, only to
'have your machine immediately sur
rounded by German soldiers; then,
having taken the desperate resolve
that they shall not have possession of
jour old battle-scarred avion as well
ills of your person, when you are about
to touch a match to it, if the light
glistens on a long French bayonet and
you learn that the German soldiers
il.t.vo been prisoners since the battle
of the Somme, and have Just finished j
their day's work at harvesting beets
to be used in making sugar for French
Toilus all, isn't it a grand and glo
rious feeling?
To which I would reply. "Muis oui,
• moil vieux ! Mals oui!”—James N.
Hall, in July Atlantic.
The Talkative Pest.
Hokns- Here comes Talkalot.
Pokus—I)o you know him to speak
To?
Hokns—No, merely to listen to.—
Town Topics. t
Good Reason.
He—“and—er—why do you want to
get a divorce?” She—“Because I’m
•married, of course.”
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SEES ONE OR TWO MORE YEARS OF WAR
Military Expert Points Out That the Kaiser Has Several Dang
erous Weapons (Other Than Bayonets and Guns) In His
Hands, and Armies Capable of Strikina Terrific Blows, Al
though Those Forces Have Been Right Soundly Mauled.
By Frank H. Simonds.
(Copyright, 1918, New York Tribune.)
Germany has lost the campaign of
1918, and with this loss has been joined
the inevitable extinction of the last
chance to win a military victory, pro
vided only that the great nations now
In arms against the German and his
minor allies remain as firmly united as
they have been in the past. Germany
escaped a defeat which was plainly
indicated after the close of the cam
paign of 1916, despite her Rumanian
victories of that year, solely because
Russia abandoned the struggle and
thus freed German hands. In 1917 the
Russian debacle enabled Germany to
defeat British and French offensives,
and in 1918 to undertake her own great
offensive which has just been wrecked
at the Marne.
If one could conceive that, following
the Russian precedent, Germany could
hereafter eliminate Britain, France, the
United States or Italy from the war.
she might be able to undertake a new
offensive to win a military decision In
the west with a reasonable prospect
of victory, but apart from such a suc
cess she has no longer the numbers
or the resources necessary for the task.
We have had in this war three
phases which have been exactly alike
and have led to the same results. In
August and September, 1914, Germany
undertook to eliminate France from the
war by her great offensive. Her
strategy was based upon the theory
that before Russia could intervene ef
fectively either in East Prussia or
against Austria the German army
could dispose of France and thereafter
turn its attention to the reduction of
Russia. The failure of the Marne en
tailed the decisive defeat of this strat
egy. The German army proved in
adequate for its mighty task and
French military power endured.
Again, at Verdun, having beaten
Russia down and while Britain was
still unready. Germany endeavored to
dispose of Frame. The problem was
the same, the issues identical, and in
this case It was Britain who played the
role of Russia in 1914 and at the gimme
began an offensive which deprived
Germany of all chanoe of realizing her
Verdun purposes. For a second time
the western line held and Germany
was thrown hack upon the defensive.
We are just seeing the last phgise of
the third German effort. .The revolu
tion in Russia, carefully guided by
German agencies, hud at last disposed
of Russia in 1917. The United States
could not effectively intervene in the
first half of the campaign of 1918.
Uudendorff had nearly six months
ahead of him. as he calculated, more
than six months as it then seemed, in
which to dispose of Britain and France
before Pershing's army could turn the
scales. And as in 1914. in the Marne
campaign, and in 1916, before Verdun,
the Germans have come within an ace
of success and have failed, only after
brilliant preliminary triumphs.
But again there has been a repetition
of the Waterloo circumstances. The
German Napoleon has sought three
times to overwhelm the allied Welling
tons, Joffre. Petain and Foch in turn,
but each time Blucher has arrived in
time—the Russians in 1914, the British
in 1916 and ourselves in 1918. As a
result each grandiose attempt has
failed at the moment when the German
people and the German soldiers have
not too rashly believed that victory
was within plain sight.
miw, going nut k iu cue toiniei occa
sions, we see that the failure in the
Marne campaign was followed by a
transfer of German effort for nearly a
year and a half to the east front. Ger
many could not fight offensive cam
paigns on both sides, so she abandoned
the west to settle matters in the east.
When she came -back to the west, in the
Verdun campaign, she was too late.
Britain Was almost ready and France
able to hold until Britain could begin.
After the Verdun failure it was neces
sary to go east and south again, Rus
sia having once more become danger
ous and Rumania a fresh foe.
But Russia definitely destroyed for
military purposes. Rumania disposed
of, the east at her feet. Germany came
west again this spring. America was
as unready, far more unready titan
Britain in the Verdun time. The
chance to dispose of the older enemies
before the new one was on the field in
troublesome numbers was unmistak
able. The battles of Picardy, Flanders
and the Aisne seemed to promise the
ultimate victory just as Morhange.
Charleroi and Motts seemed to promise
it in 1914. The most optimistic allied
observer could not deny that Germany
had a fresh opportunity to gain a deci
sion on the continental battlefield the
moment it was disclosed that the Ger
mans had devised a system ytf battle
tactics which abolished the Value of
trench systems, as their heavy guns
had abolished the value of forts nearly
four years before. The parallel was
again striking, hut fortunately the end
was the same.
Now. it is one thing to say that Ger
many has lost the chance to win a
military decision in this war, and an
other to say she has lost the war. Still
a third statement is the declaration
that we. the nations whicli are allied
against Germany, have won the strug
gle. This last is emphatically not the
case. Nor is it true that Germany has
lost the war. She has lost the chagce
of winning it on the battlefield; she
has other methods, and they are hound
to bs used now to the uttermost.
Germany was beaten In 1916 at the
close of the campaign of that year, and
she knew it. Accordingly the kaiser
proposed peace, not because he desired
peace, not because his proposal >vas
intended to lie the basis of a settlement
on an honorable and possible lasis,
but because he reegoned that a pro
posal of peace might disarm his foes
and accomplish what his armies had
failed to bring about, namely, a real
German victory. His calculations were
amazingly correct. His peace propo
sals threw his foes into confusion, ulti
mately led to Russia's collapse, tempo
rarily brought Italy to the point of
seeming impotence and enabled the
German army to enter the campaign
of 1918 .with a now chance to acquire
a military decision.
Beyond all doubt the kaiser will now
repeal his strategy of 1916 and we
shall have a new proposal of peuce
within a brief time, probably the mo
ment that some considerable hut rela
tively unimportant German success,
such as still remains possible, tends to
give a temporary lie to the facts in the
German military situalion in the west.
There will then be a frank declaration,
such a declaration as Kuehhnann made,
the other day, that no military decision :
is possible. Both sides have made Ihei
try; both sides have made at least !
three tremendous failures; therefore, j
Ihe Hermans will reason, a military!
decision is impossible and peace by |
negotiation is the only way out' of a,
situation which js bringing about the |
bankruptcy of civilization.
When this situation develops it is J
essential for every allied observer to
remember that Farit; is on e more in i
i
danger, for the German will be seeking
by the most ingenious and sustained
effort to win the French nation Into
making a separate peace, a peace which
will be as attractive, in German propa
ganda, as that "peace without indem
nities er annexations" which lured
Kussia to ruin at Brest-Litovsk. Not
less appealing bait will be held out to
Italy, like France invaded and far more
than France exposed to internal dan -
gers of a disruptive sort.
Germany means to win the war by
her peace offensive, now that her war
offensive lias failed. The element of
time is just as much against her in
the new operation as in tlie old. Turkey
and Bulgaria are becoming restive;
Austria is on the edge of revolution—
to be sure, like at.donk.ey on a moun
tain trail, Austrian statesman seem al
ways to select the outer'and danger
ous edge, but the present situation is
more critical than any that has pre
ceded. if German peace operations
were delayed over a long period. Tur
key and Bulgaria might escape the
German leading strings and make sep
arate peace with the enemy. Even
Austria might break under the strain.
We shall have next winter, therefore,
to repel the peace offensive designed
to enable Germany to keep a respect
able, a large share of the provinces
she has conquered. We shall have the
peace offensive supplemented by much
military' threatening. Unquestionably
the promise to devastate all of France
still in German hands, as well us Bel
gium, In the fashion Picardy was de
vastated in the Hindenburg retreat,
will be one gentle German hint to
France as to the advisability of com
ing to an arrangement. And until that
peace offensive is defeated we must
face the fact that we may still lose
the war.
But if the peace offensive falls, as
the war offensive has unmistakably
failed, there is still ahead of us at least
one year more of terrific and costly
fighting before we can begin to hope
to win the war in the only way that it
can be won—namely, upon the battle
field. And in that time each temporary
reverse, each check, each delay, will
serve the Germans as a new basis for
their peace offensive and a new foun
dation for their argument that no mili
tary decision is possible. Of the three
stages that have to be covered before
we come to the point wheye real peace
is possible, we have hut , passed the
first, or ire just coming to the end
of it. It has been in a sense the most
critical of all. but it has also been
tlie simplest, because in the face of a
peril which no man could misunder
stand all effort and ail energy were
concentrated naturally upon the task
of stopping the enemy. It will be less
easy to get the same concentration in
the other two stages.
We shall have to be on our guard,
therefore, both in the matter of pessi
mism and optimism. At the present,
moment there Is a dangerous degree of
optimism afloat. The reaction from
the depression of recent months is nat
ural and proper, but it should not lead
to exaggerated hopes. We have blocked
the enemy and we have defated him in
the crucial battle of this campaign,
the enemy and we have defeated him in
this year was to prevent the Germans
from winning the European phase of
the war on the battlefield; it will take
one or two more years for us to win it
by Our own efforts. The second Marne
was like the first, a great and success
ful battle of arrest; but nations are not
conquered by battles of arrest—such
battles merely save the nation or na
tions attacked. There remains the larg
er task of beating the enemy, and he
remains, despite his recent reverse, still
unbeaten in the larger sens!?.
A World of Oil.
From the Omaha World-Herald.
A professor lecturing to his lass In
'chemistry recently remarked that the
whole world was soaked in oil. it was not
only in the earth, but was found In a
large portion of the vegetable kingdom.
He must have been reading some of the
consular reports on the production of
I vegetable oil in Hull, England, which
seems to he the greatest producer of vege
table oil in the world, the production
coming from imported material. Hun
dreds of thousands of tons of oil are pro
duced there. While the larger part comes
from cotton seed there are a score or
more sources of supply.
Other seeds from which oil is extracted
are flax, castor beans, soy beans, rape
seed and sunflower. Many different kinds
of nuts contain large amounts of oil. Oil
coining from that source Is very costly,
yet considerable Is extracted for certain
purposes. Besides the pure oil, an im
mense business is done in oil meals for
cattle feeding purposes. Lately some of
these meals have been used for human
food. There being no discriminative tax
on oleomargarine in England like there Is
In this country, large amounts of these
vegetable oils enter into that product. The
best grades sell in England at less than
half price of butter and many of the
people say that they like It better. Re
cently, in reply to a question in the house
of commons, it was stated that the weekly
United Kingdom output of margarine
reached 5.03H tons in Feb? uary, 1918. The
food controller fixed the price of best
margarine at 24 cents a pound.
Gallantry.
From the Chicago Daily News.
An amusing little incident occurred a
few days ago in a crowded tram car qp the
Dublin to Blackrook line. A lady, wishing
a seat, looked smllit i*l y round. A portly, I
handsome old gentleman Immediately
stood up and politely offered the lady his
place. "Oh, you're a jewel, sir," said the
lady, as she bowed her acknowledgment*
for the courtesy. "Not at all. madam,"
replied the gentleman, with an engaging
smile Tm a Jeweler; r have Just set the
Jewel." Could anything he mure gallant
than that ?
Killing Place*.
A Frenchman was waiting at a railroad
station In Ireland when a couple of na
tives sat down beside him.
Said one: "Sure, Pat. It's down to Kil
marv I've been, and I'm on me way back
to Kilpatrick.”
"Y* don't say so," said the other. "It's
meslf that's just after bein' down to Ktl
kenney. and I stop bore a bit before I
go to Kllmor.”
“What assassins!'' exclaimed the
Frenchman. "Would that I were safely
back In France!”
A New Excuse.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
"Did you mall that letter 1 gave you
yesterday?"
•(N-no. my dear. I whistled to the man
in the postal airplane, hut he wouldn't
come down after It."
Insane.
From the Stars and Stripes. France.
Corporal—Say. Sarge, In wnat state
would a man he if he fell into the river
Seine?
Sergeant—A "wet" state, 1 guess
Corporal—No, insane.
(Corporal now a private!.
The Branch House Man
i
This is one of the Swift & Company
Branch House Men.
They are all pretty much alike in the
way they feel toward their work—and that
is what this ad is about.
They know that most people couldn’t
I get such good meat promptly and in good
condition if it weren’t for the branch houses
of which they are in charge.
They know that the branch house is
one of the most important links in the chain
of preparing and distributing meat for a
nation.
They know that Swift & Company must
have its branch houses run at the highest
notch of usefulness; that even a Swift &
Company branch house won’t run itself, and
that it is up to the branch house man to
run it properly.
Any branch house man who doesn’t
see his work in this light is transferred to
some other place with Swift & Company to
which he is better adapted. | ;
They are picked men, these branch
house men. Every time you sit down to a
steak or chop, or cut of roast, you can give a
grateful thought to the whole crew of them.
And remember, in a general way, that
everything that makes life smoother and
more convenient for you, is the result of the
thoughtfulness and effort of a lot of people
of whom you have never heard.
Surgical Operation by Telegraph.
The life of u nmn was saved in Aus
tralia by means of an operation wllh
nut proper instruments under the direc
tion of a surgeon 1,800 miles away.
The subject fell from Ills horse at Hails
Creek, in northern Australia, and suf
fered serious injuries. An operation
waft urgently necessary, and there was
no doctor within 1,000 miles. The con
dition of the patient was described by
telegraph to a doctor in Perth, and lie
sent back, by the same means. Instruc
tions under which the postmaster at
HuHs Creek, with such surgical instru
ments as lie could gel, the chief of
which was a razor, carried out the op- ,
oration successfully.
WHY WOMEN DREAD
OLD AGE
Don't worry about old age. Don't worry !
about being in other people’s way when ,
you are getting on in %e»r*. Keep your
body in good condition and you can be as
hate and hearty in your old days as you
were when a kid, and every one will be
glad to see you.
The kidneys and bladder are the causes
of senile afflictions. Keep them clean and
in proper working condition. Drive the
poisonous wastes from the system and
avoid uric acid accumulations. Take GOLD
MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules periodical
ly and you will tind that the system will
always be in perfect working order. Your
spirits will be enlivened, your muscles
made strong and your face have once
more the look of youth and health.
New life, flesh strength and health will
come as you continue this treatment. When
your first, vigor has been restored continue
for awhile taking a capsule or two each
day. They will keep you in condition and
prevent a return of your troubles.
There is only one guaranteed brand of
Haarlem Oil Papsules. GOLD MEDAL.
There are many fakes on the market. He
sure you get the Original GOLD MEDAL
Imported Haarlem Oil Capsules. They are
the only reliable. For sale by all first-class
druggists.— Adv.
Superior Attitude.
“Is Gllbwitz a mini of large ideas?”
“in one sense.”
“How is that ?”
"Anyone who disagrees wilh his
Ideas looks extremely sijmll to him.”
LIQUID BLUE?
No, Mr. Grocer, that's mostly water.
Since the war started it’s more nearly
all water than ever. Give me Red
Cross Hall Blue, that’s a two-ounce
package of real goodness. You should
see my clothes. I just can’t keep
from smiling out loud.—Adr.
His State.
"Your friend Is in n grave revery.”
“Tlinl comes from his being buried
in thought.”
Human laws change, but science Is
eternal.
p=—r "7
Wasted Brain Work.
"Isn’t it a grand and glorious feel
ing to write a long-winded editorial
on Hie town’s needs and (lien have
half,the business men tell you lliey
didn't read It?” demands the Blllinin
Globe.
This question moves the Arrow
Kook Statesman to philosophize a bit:
"My dear brother, It is astonishing
and you will he surprised, after you
have been in the business a little
longer, 1o find how few of the people
really do read.
“Many, even In these war times,
never look at a paper. A few sketch
the city dailies and read a piece here
and there, a few others glance at the
headlines on the first page, over some
neighbor's shoulder, and many others
merely sit around and catch the drift
of the news from the conversation of
others and are then fully posted and
, ready to argue with a Kentucky law
yer."—St. Louis Republic.
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In I his way the output of comment
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Instead of using S.IKMi.ikhi barrels of
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——
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Costly Capitulation.
"Win- is mighty t-xperndyc business."'
‘‘Yes. the presents I have to mnke
my wife iiffer we quarrel nlnmst h:\uk
rupts me.”—Boston Transcript.
Funny Language.
Buteher (to customer),-^-Yes, 1 Just
killed p hog, and now I’m going to
cure it.
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