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Capfs/ii Brace ffatrnsfaflicr Tke Bysraatfer, leadM

ENTANGLEMENTS“Come on, Bert; it's safer in the trenches.*’

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More and moresinister since our "break with Ger-

many have grown thekaiser’s moves. In viewof actual facts the refer-

ence by Chancellor vonBethmann-Hollwcg to thetraditional friendshipcherished by Germany as“an heirloom from Freder-ick the Great” seems like a hollow mockery.While at the present writing no “overt act”has actually been committed, it has rvi-dently been Germany's policy to try thepatience of the United States to the limit.Probably before these words appear in print,the policy of armed neutrality decided on byPresident Wilson as defense against openpiracy will have developed into somethingmore nearly approaching real warfare.The kaiser’s firm adherence to his sub-

marine program, the unwarranted deten-tion of Ambassador Gerard and theAmerican consuls, the holding as prisonersof war of the Americans on the “Yarrow-

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Waiting for Ordcri

dale,” the attempts on the part of Germanskippers to scuttle their ships interned in

.American ports, the outbreak of a revolution

in Cuba, Carranza's absurd peace proclama-tion, proposing an embargo on the bellig-erent nations—such incidents form any-thing but an attractive chapter.These, however, were but petty annoy-

ances compared with the cowardly attack onthe Cunarder “Laconia,” the destruction ofthat vessel without warning, and the murderof three Americans, whose lives yet may beavenged.

Then, to cap the climax, came the revela-tion f)f the German conspiracy, a plot

clumsy enough in itsexecution, but ugly in de-

sign, to combine Japanand Mexico against us.Typically German wasthe scheme whereby Mex-ico was to invade Americaand regain the “lostprovinces” of New Mex-ico. Arizona, and Texas,and to use the hewhiskeredFirst Chief as a cat’s-

paw. The Germanambassador, Count vonBernstorff, who is ap-parently cast in the samemold as the late lamentedDuPiba. naturally had afinger in the pie, a fact

known to President Wil-son when he gave the con-spirator safe conduct to

Berlin.

.Mso. with such facts in

his possession. President

Wilson was opposed bycongress in his plans to

deal fully with the situa-

tion. He had to contendwith such patriots asKitchin, Mann, andCooper in the house'

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^gilized by Coogle

Stone, LaFollette, andothers in the senate, while

on the side lines William

J. Bryan was doing hisbest to deliver up the

country to the hands of

Wilhelm II. The inter-cepted note from DoctorZimmerman, the Germanforeign minister, to vonEckhardt, the kaiser’sminister in Mexico City,however, galvanized con-

gress into action, and thepresident, while he has

not been given blanket

authority, has found him-

self less hampered as aresult. The arming of ourmerchant liners will atleast be an assertion ofour rights to the free use of the high ,scas.

and will place this country in a more digni-fied attitude than when our entire fleet wasconfined to home ports, fearful of ventur-ing forth because of submarines.

That Germany virtually declared war onus by trying to involve Mexico and Japanas armed foes of the United States is con-ceded emphatically by the London press.The unmasking of the kaiser naturallycreated a sensation in the British Isles, andnewspaper comment was extensive.Perhaps next to the effect of the news

in America, the attitude of Japan excitedthe public mind most. Kowhere, however,did the idea prevail for a moment thatJapan could be detached from the ententealliance. Altogether, while the greatest

confidence is felt that such an intrigue couldonly recoil on its authors, the British public

is watching with greatest interest furtherdetails and developments.The London Daily News, in an editorial,

says:

“The German proposals were doubtlessmarked by a certain superficial astuteness,

SummoDlof the Neutral*

hut only Germany could believe that solici-tation by such a state as Mexico wouldsuffice to detach Japan from the entente.Credulity which could contemplate such anintrigue springs from mental infirmity.'*The News assumes that the moment

chosen to divulge the plot was selected inorder to clear the president’s path in con-

gress, and it considers that even the pro-Germans will be swung into line with themajority of Americans, for, it adds, “theywould be as reluctant as Roosevelt himselfto find themselves the subjects of Japan orMexico.”

The Daily Telegraph declares that butfor Senator Swanson’s statement regard-ing the authenticity of the German revela-tions it could hardly have been broughtto believe in the existence of “such a com-pound of knavery and idiocy,” which it alsodescribes as “the supreme deed of the war.only equaled in dastardly character by itsridiculous aspect.”

The Telegraph expects Japan will meetthe incident with a declaration “which willonce for all convince the American people

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lOUIS R4EMJIEKERS In Und and Water, London

HUMANITY TORPEDOED"Seems to be a neutral—send him down."

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FRITS OARBIS In Ole Muskefe, Vltnnt

The U-Maidens at Dover

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A Birthday Toast

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At Your Service,Sire

that they have

as little cause

to fear theJapanese asthe British do-

minions in the

Pacific have.”

The Tele-graph regards

the matter as

tantamount to

an act of war,and concludes”We are glad that the revelations

were made at this juncture, becausethey will convey to the other neutralsfurther proof of the importance to be

attached to Germany’s asseverations

of friendship.”

The Daily Chronicle thinks Ger-many’s attempt with Mexico on a parwith her other activities, but. adds the

paper, ”it is not often that such a

completely damning document isbrought to light at such a dramatic

moment.””The disclosure,” the paper con-

tinues. ”ought to clear the air. Itreveals the chancellor’s recent speech

in the reichstag as a Brst-class piece

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of hypocrisy and should show everycongressman in whose mind the interestsof the United States ranl| first that thoseinterests are in real peril and that thesituation is much too serious to be trifledwith.

“War seems to have been made in-evitable. and the problem is no longerhow to evade it, but how to surmount it.”The Express says: "President Wilson

still clings to the discredited policy of‘wait and see.' He has, indeed, seenmuch, but still waits.”

That the revelations of the Germanplot were even too much for the

German-language press in theUnited States is indicated

from the tone of thefollowing editorial in

the Illinois Staats-

Zeitung.

"Germany isfighting for hernational existence

and may think itwise and properto drag theUnited Statesinto the war; orwise and proper toadopt any course

MUINZOLLLRNS.

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HELSOH In SI. PtuI Pionttr Pnss

"We’re coining. Father Abraham, one hundred million strong."

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BERKAKD FARTRIDGE in Punch, C LondonTHE ROAD TO VICTORY

Germany: "Are we nearly there. All Highest?"All Highest: "Yes, we’re getting near the end now."

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the United States contained inthe alleged *Zimmerinann* noteof Jan. 19, 1917, to Mexico.”Says the Chicago Evening

Post;

"There now stands before thepeople of the United States offi-cial proof that the Germanimperial government has bothinspired and officially proposeda plot to dismember the UnitedStates, to bring about the armedinvasion of the United States, tostir to combined war against ustwo nations now at peace withthe United States."The note from Foreign

Minister Zimmermann to Am-bassador von Eckhardt in Mex-ico 'proves motive.*

"That is its importance. Itremoves forever all the cobwebof pretense with which the Ger-man government and the Ger-man ambassador have so ablyconcealed their intentions since

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whatsoever that will injure her

enemies. But that will not be

sufficient to persuade Ameri-

cans that Germany is justifiedin proposing an alliance with

Mexico to the injury of theUnited States or for the vio-

lation of the Monroe Doctrine.“If the published version of

a note signed 'Zimmermann* isactually the correct copy of anauthentic communicationsigned by the minister offoreign affairs of Germany,then Germany has committedan act of unfriendliness toward

our country.

“It would be very regret-table that Germany should, atany time, propose an 'offen-sive alliance* to Mexico, andthe fact that German peopleare hungry will not be con-sidered a good enough excusefor overlooking the affront to

KIKBY Im Ktm York World

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Nobcxly But Himiclf to BUmc

DURLIHO in New York Tribunt

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C455fl / Htw Ywk twnhg WottiWithout Warningt

But the American flag itill waves.

decision was made to embark upon 'ruthlesssubmarine warfare’—to quote the exactwords of Mr. Zimmermann.“Events puzzling and contradictory in

themselves must now fall easily into theirproper place in the scheme of things. Thepurpose back of them is made clear. Wecan now see that the late German ambassa-dor served not the goddess of truth but thedirect material interests of his imperialmaster. We can stfc why the interned Ger-man ships were disabled by their crews.We can see why Gerard was held hostageand the Yarrowdale prisoners not released.We can see the fundamental insincerity ofthe German chancellor’s declaration of hisbewilderment at our ‘brusque’* break-offof relations.

“From the raising of this veil this news-paper at least seeks to stir no more venge-ful hatred against the power that has de-ceived and wronged us for so many months.We believe that our people, like all the warpeoples, have passed through a baptism ofthat hatred. It may come back if sub-

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HAtDIlVG ia Bro^klya E»git

Fashion Hint from Berlin

NASO/NC ia Sraoklfs £»gle

The Goat

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So That’s the Animal We’ve Been Tnnng to Keep Peace With!

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marines and Zeppelins bring death to ourown soil, but today the Zimmermann notemust render us far more important service.

**It must carry forward one step fartherthe admirable spirit of unity with which thecountry as a whole has met this tong drawnout and in many ways obscure crisis.’*The program mapped out for Carranza,

in the opinion of the New York Times, wassufficiently grotesque, *'but not less so than

the role assigned to Japan.” The Times pro-ceeds:

”It is an extraordinary story, but it showsthat we acted none too soon in severingour relations with Germany and in sendinghome the ambassador who was her instru-ment in the effort to raise up enemiesagainst us.”

The American, as well as the French andBritish press, regards the sinking of the

“Laconia” with the loss of American lives

as the overt act for which President Wilson

has been waiting.

QtSUHE la Mem York ttealog FotlThe Lifeboat

.\fr». Hoy and her daughter, of Chicago, were washedoverboard from a ‘’Laconia*’ lifeboat.

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The principal dangerto America in thepresent crisis is from

within. . More dangerouseven than the Germanagents, the paid spies, andthe professional hyphen-

ates, are those misguided

rabbits, the pacifists. Liv-

ing in a Utopia of theirown creation, they, likethe Nikko monkeys, can see no evil, hear no the hands of their Gulliver. In congress

evil, talk no evil. They are self-centered. they oppose universal military training.They constitute their own little solar sys- They block the plans for an increase in theterns around which they revolve. They general staff of the army. This "war withdemand peace at any price. They care Germany," they say, is a plot hatched bynothing for the rights of the United States the newspapers and the ammunition inter-

or its citizens. They would as readily take ests.a slap on one check as on the other, pref- Wc have the spectacle of William J.erably on both. Trying, as they suppose. Bryan, the ardent Chautauquan, wigwaggingto steer the country out of the war shoals, the kaiser, and trying to tip off President

they merely interfere with the pilot. Their Wilson’s hand. In conspiracy with Dr.

course, if pursued, will lead more directly George Barthelmc, the Washington corres-

into war than the course charted by Presi- pondeiit of the Cologne Gazette, and Dr.

dent Wilson. Instead of standing behind Gcf»rge Kirchwey, the former dean of the

the president, they drape themselves around law school of Columbia University, the

his feet. Like Lilliputians, they try to bind Great Commoner interprets for Germanears the chief executive's

message to congress. Ac-cording to Bryan, Mr. Wil-son is all bark and nobite. He doesn't meanwhat he says. He, too,is a pacifist.

We have the spectacleof Jane Addams, the headof Hull House, a womanwhose influence amongthe foreign population ofChicago is considerable,going down to Washing-ton to try to get the presi-

dent to call off his dogs.

Had she been in the payof the German govern-ment she couldn't betterhave served the kaiser's

ends.

\Ve have Stone and LaFollette in the senate:

Kitchin, Mann. Cooper,London, and others in thehouse, playing Germany’sgame for all they're worth,hampering the presidentat every opportunity, and

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the country faces today.

Of all the group of so-called pacifists, HenryFord alone has provedhimself a man. He, too,had dreams of worldpeace, but he is no longera visionary. In placing

his entire resources at the

disposal of the governmentwithout profit, he has

'proved himself a patriotof the first water.

The average Americancitizen who was broughtup on “My Country, *Tisof Thee,” and “The StarSpangled Banner,” andGeorge Washington, andto whom the Stars andStripes appear as red, white and blue, in-stead of red, yellow, and blue, must haveblushed for shame at the sight of theseanti-war (and anti-American) demonstra-tions of German-inspired peace leagues thathave been held recently.

Opposed to these cowards and shirkers,these ostriches and bunny rabbits, are theAmericans of German parentage or descent,who, regardless of their love for Germany,will stand by the United States first andlast. The rush of aliens for naturalizationpapers—one of the first results of the breakwith Germany—doesn't necessarily indicateloyalty on the part of this element of ourpopulation. Loyalty lies deeper. With manyof these aliens it was a “safety first” mea-sure, a measure taken to insure jobs or toavert suspicion. This class is not includedamong the real German-.Americans, forwhom strong words of encouragement andpraise are due.

President Henry A, Weismann of theGerman - American Alliance undoubtedlyspeaks for thousands when he says:

“I don’t think that any sensible man feelsthat the German government is right. My

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friends and 1 do not see how the presidentcould have acted otherwise than he did. Westand behind him.”

The Baltimore German Correspondentwas one of the first of the German-Ameri-can newspaper^ to point the way to its Teu-tonic readers with .simple directness andgood faith:“We came here to become citizens of the

United States of our own free will. We cutloose from the land where our cradle stood,took the oath of allegiance to the land of

our selection. In this case our duties comefirst, no matter how much our hearts maybleed.

“Whoever now renounces the oath ofallegiance which he took brings only dis-grace to the land for which his heart bleeds.Therefore, remember that the United Statesis the land of the birth of our children andtheir children, while Germany is the landof our fathers. Here in the United Stateslies our future. Let the past he a memoryonly.”

If Germany needs any help, let her notseek it from the German-.Americans, butrather from those patriots in congress who

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have sought to embarrass the United

States and give aid and comfort to

our adversary. Is it any wonderthat Germany has piled insults uponus, encouraged by (he pacifist voice

in our councils? As the New YorkEvening Sun puts it:“Germany has one easy way of dis-

posing of the American peril. It

takes hardly more than a stroke ofthe pen. By returning to standardsof law and humanity in her subma-rine campaign and by acting with

ordinary decency toward Americans

in Germany she can relax the presenttension in an hour. Why does shenot do it? Until she does, whyshould American congressmen, menchosen to represent the American

people, fight her battles, defend her

misconduct and blacken those whoare trying to hold her in check?

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“Above all, why should men,sworn to serve the interests ofthe United States above allthings, play the game of herrivals and her enemies, presentand prospective, by seeking toimpede and hinder naval andmilitary preparation necessaryto her protection and defense,not only against Germany butagainst England, Japan, Tur-key, any and all other powers?Can they not see that if the

country is to upholdits i n dependen c e ,maintain its rights andits station in the fam-ily of nations, it musthave the physicalmeans of doing so?"Under the caption

The Pacifists andTheir Folly," theCleveland PlainDealer prints astirring editorial. It

says in part:

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American MunitionMaker: “It meantnothing to me."

“Americans nowurffing theirgovernment to ac-cept disgracefulconditions as the

price of peace arcfalse to their na-

tion. false tothemselves and kikby infalse to the cause

they advocate.

“By insistingthat peace is more important thanprinciple these ultrapacihsts, well-

meaning for the most part hut sadlymisdirected, are making peace themore difficult to maintain. By de-manding that the United States shallkeep out of war, even at the cost ofnational honor and at the sacrificeof rights sacred for generations, thesepacifists are daily bringing the nationnearer to the verge of war.

“The best friend of peace today isthe American who stands unflinchinglybehind the president of the UnitedStates, who would rather fight thansee his country’s flag dragged downin shame, who is in no mood to swal-low insult and in no temper to ac-quiesce in the impudent and humil-

iating demands of any foreign power.“Pacifists now besieging the presi-

dent to modify his stand against Ger-man aggressions—like their ridiculousbrethren who ask congress to decreetliat no war shall be declared withouta nation-wide referendum—are merelyplaying Germany’s own game. Theyare doing precisely what the kaiserwould have them do. They arc makingthemselves agents of a propagandawith which .America is already toefamiliar—a propaganda calculated tcdivide American allegiance, to dis-rupt .American counsels and to cripple

the nation in such a way that. action in a crisis

vould be extremely dif-ficult.”

We read furtherin the WashingtonStar:

“Pacifism do e snot aid at a crisislike this. Thepresident of theUnited. States isprobably as stancha pacifist in the bestsense as there is to-

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•lay in llie Unilcil States. He was reelectedto his office largely on the sentiment ‘hekept us out of war.’ It is known that irthis crisis he is moving with the greatestcare and caution to avoid precipitating aconflict with Germany, and is desirous thaif a break should come it shall be on theinitiative of the other power.

"Hut the United States cannot now withdraw from its established position withoua complete loss of prestige as a world powcand without a deep sense of humiliation ahome. No number of mass meetings ii.the name of pacifism can justify a lesseningof the demand that Germany respect implic-illy the principles of humanity and interna-tional law which have been laid down inthe American notes to her, and on theterms of the last of which diplomaticrelations have now been severed becauseof Germany’s violation of pledge.”“Seeking peace,” to quote the New York

Times, “the pacifists are but inviting war.”We read: .“We have no doubt that the chief dan-

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ger of war with Germany at the presentmoment arises from the activities and thepropaganda of the pacifists. We know theeffect of their propaganda abroad. It im>mcnscly strengthens the hands of the partyof ruthlessness in Germany, it weakens theGerman chancellor's and the German gov-ernment's power of resistance to the ex-tremists, throughout Germany it createsthe belief that the Americans arc divided,that the president cannot command the sup*port of congress for the defense of our

commerce, that we will not fight. Dis-patches from Vienna show how attentivelythe peace propaganda here is watched andfollowed in Teutonic circles; in particular,

the hopes they are building upon the paci-^fist temper which they suppose controlscongress."

The people of the United States, accord-ing to the Providence Journal, a paper

which has done more to expose Germanplots than any other in the country, W'ill notbe deceived by the German conspirators intheir new, insidious role of peacemakers.

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Well, the Fairy folks was all there— What?Yes. there was little Forget*me-not,

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Well, the Sandwiches wasn't much bigger *n crumbs,'W the pickles the size of a dollie's thumbs;*N then, there was hard-boiled humming birds’ eggs,*W lemonade what the^ made in kegsOf walnut shells, *n I had to laughWhen a sort of bluebell phonographSqueaked out the funniest little tune-"-*'// ijn7 a punkin—it's only the moon.”—

Xhen, all of a sudden, a lot of antsCrep' up, 'n the Fairies give one glance

At the devastatin' host, 'n, well.They skreeked, *n all run honte pell-mell.

W HILE interest inthe war has beencentered mainly on

Germany's ruthless U*boat campaign, the armies

on the European battle*helds have not been idle.News reaches us from theBalkans of a drive byMackensen. From theeastern front we haveheard little. Many of the foreign car*toons still send their shafts of satire at the

“liberation" of Poland, while the Germanscontinue to make merry over the discom-fiture of the allies in Greece and Rnumania.

From the Somme front, however, comesimportant news telling of the steady retire-

ment of the German lines. Coupled withthis is the story of how British pluck hasrevenged the capture of General Town-shend’s forces in the Tigris town of Kut-

el-Amara, by taking possession of this

stronghold and driving the Turks into the

interior of Asia Minor.

The British successes in the west seem toforecast a vigorous spring drive which maybe expected with the arrival of goodweather. The Germans, in extenuation oftheir retreat, announce that they havemerely dropped back to occupy better for-

tified positions, to save men, and tostraighten their line. There may he sometruth in these statements, especially as the

characteristic resistance seems to have beenlacking. Analyzing the recent movementson the Ancre, the Montreal Star says:

“It is always possible that the Germansthink that they have discovered the answer,

in the form of improvedtrenches, to our gun supe-riority, and that they haveapplied this new theoryto entrenchments c o n-structed behind those theyW'ere holding. That is,they could not construct

novelties under our dev-

astating hre and in con-stant fear of an attack.

So they constructed themfarther back and then re-tired to them. Or it maybe that these positionsthey abandoned weresimply too costly to de-

fend, thus showing that atlast they value men morethan terrain. Or they maybe preparing to straighten

and shorten their front,

which would indicate thatthis retirement is but oneof a series. That the re-

tirement reaches nearly

to the apex of their Gom-mecourt salient, points tothis latter theory. How-ever. w’c shall soon know.What we know already isthat they now put morevalue on men than they

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formerly did, and that wehave won a larf^e sectionof territory without pay-ing the usual price.'*

The German abandon-ment of six square milesor more of trenches alongthe Ancre and the Somme,the Cleveland PlainDealer, points out, gives

the entente the greatest

territorial gain on thewestern front since thebattle of the Marne. ThePlain Dealer proceeds:

"It renders inevitable,

London believes, theevacuation of Bapaume,the key to the German de-fensive line in that sector,

and may well prove bulthe prelude to a general

retirement. The real ob-jective of the French and British is St.Quentin, to the south and east of Peronne,and the fall of Bapaume is expected to openthe road to both those cities. The Frenchhave already assailed Peronne from threesides, and the British gains to the north ofthem may bring quick results."Such territorial gains will be hailed with

rejoicing in Paris and London and Petro-grad, but the breaching of the German wallseems but little nearer than before. TheGerman retirement is cheering to the allies.It signifies nothing decisive."Says the Brooklyn Eagle:"The sudden evacuation of Serre, Mirau-

mont and other positions in the Sommesector by the Germans dramatically fore-shadows the beginning of operations on alarge scale on the western front. While itwas supposed that the renewal of activityonly waited upon the weather, it was ex-pected that the struggle would be startedwith the usual overture of big guns, fol-lowed by drives on both sides. Instead,

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it is quite probable that before desperatelighting of the kind witnessed at Verdunand on the Somme gets under way againthere will be many changes brought about,as was the recent retirement, without beingheralded.

"The Anglo-French offensive on theSomme led to the conviction that the Ger-man line would be broken when the 6ght-ing was resumed, and that this in turnwould cause the invaders to fall back overa wide front to prepared positions manymiles behind the positions held since thestruggle settled down to trench warfare.To force such a retirement was the firsttask of the allies in the new spring effort.It is too early yet to say that the allies

are to be anticipated by the Germans fall-ing back without serious resistance untilnew positions are reached, but somethingof the kind is suggested by the giving upof such strongholds as those at Serre, whichsuccessfully withstood the fiercest attacks

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This is the lirst time since 1914, the NewYork Times observes, that the Germanshave had to withdraw in order to shortentheir lines or for other reasons. We readfurther:

"They have retreated because the posi-tion they held on the Ancre is no longertenable, and have taken up a position whichthey hope to hold. This is the result ofseveral weeks’ steady pushing by the British.

Never before have the Germans volun-tarily retreated since the present lines werefirst formed. They were forced back manytimes last year, but they evacuated no posi-tions. What is the bearing of this new de-velopment on the drive that is soon tobegin?”

The Times,basing its opinion

on General Haig'sfall report, be-

lieves that theGermans have notas yet had timeto repair thelosses they havesuffered.

"The respite,”it continues, **was

undoubtedly usedto the utmost ex-tent; the springdrive has not be-

gun; but alreadythe Germans findthemselves u n -

able to resist the

British advanceand give way.Their power ofresistance, i m -paired last fall,

remains impaired.

It is a good au-gury for the suc-cess of the allies,

and it is themeaning of theGerman wit h -drawal.”

Discussing Kutand the Sommeoffensive, thePhiladelphia Pub-lic Ledger o b -serves:

"The rejoicing in England over the suc-ce.ss of the offensive operations on the lowerTigris, by which Kut-el-Amara has beenretaken by the British forces under GeneralMaude, is coupled with what looks like aconsiderable advance north of the Sommein France. If the Somme advance indi-cates also a withdrawal of the Germans tothe Arras-Cambrai line, it is easy to under-.stand how this initial success at this earlyday, even if only a few miles are gained,heartens the men in the trenches. Be theseesaw in the west what it may before thereal spring drive begins, the success at Kutis the most important event in a year inthe way of the larger strategy of a war thatcovers the seven seas and the continents of

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Europe and Asia in its appalling: scope.“For not only docs the recapture of Kut

wipe out the disgrace of the surrender ofGeneral Townshcnd last April, but, sincethis time the advance up the Tigris iscarried on with careful calculations and withcommunications intact, even though Bag«dad, the objective, be a hundred miles away,its gradual investment is surely forecast,

and, above all, the dream of Germany of anopen Berlin-tO’Hagdad roadway and sweeptoward India 'is over. Moreover, the recentmarch of another detachment of Britishtroops thousands of miles to the relief of

British and Russian authority in central

Persia is another part of the same prob-lem for England, which is to hold as muchof Asia Minor as is necessary until theRussian advance in Armenia will enable ajuncture with the British troops on theTigris—a not impossible event now or inthe fairly near future in view of the factthat the Turkish troops are slowly falling

back, ‘strategically/ perhaps, but still fall-

ing back, and have given up their of-fensive. •

"As for the western front, if there is anyevidence of withdrawal of the Germans toprepared lines to the north, it ought notto be long before whatever menace there

is in the newBritish offensive,

which has takenover a muchlarger area of theregion north ofthe Somme thanwas the case lastyear, will makeitself felt, even ifhaste is madeslowly.”

As for the ac-tivities in the Bal-kans, further suc-cesses by vonFalkenhaynagainst Sarrail's

long line in Mace-donia, and espe-cially the attacksupon the Serbsand Italians onthe allied left nearMonastir, i n d i -cate that the Ger-mans are holdingtheir own in thistheater. Regard-ing this c a m-paign the Cleve-land Plain Dealersays:

"The Balkans,in the minds ofthe allies, growhourly in impor-tance. They donot hope that oneastern or west-ern front the Ger-

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, A NEW SCRAP OF PAPERKaiser: “I will guarantee you your liberty. I will sign the bond in the blood of

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man line will bend, and crack, and break tolet through raiding cavalry, and marchinginfantry and held artillery to a battle in theopen. They must be content with nibbling.In the Balkans there has been no pitchedbattle for many months. London and Parisand Rome have waited long for an assaultwhich held the promise of the crushing ofBulgaria and the severing of German com-inunications with the Turks. Now, when allseemed ready, when Sarrail had poundedhis half-dozen nationalities into an effectiveforce, the Germans strike first.

“Initial successes on their part may wellmean months more of weary waiting. TheVerdun drive postponed the great push onthe western front. The conquest of Rou>mania has made a great offensive on thecast unlikely. Is the war in the Balkans totake a similar turn? If it does, if there is

stalemate there as on the other fronts, Ger*man prescience will have scored again. Per-ennially the allies make ready to attack.And the Germans, it would appear, antici-pate that attack, and nullify its effects bystriking first."

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IKNOW a certain captain of industryw)io looks forward eagerly to Sundaymorning. He has instructed the

newsboy to leave copies of every Sun-

day paper at his door. He is up earlyand until noon is buried under a hugepile of comic supplements containing the

polychromatic adventures of Hans undFritz and the scores of other impossible

characters who are setting, for better orworse, their stamp on pictorial art and

humor in America.The comic strip is essentially an

American institution, and each series,like a baseball team, has its coterie of

followers. Its appeal is universal, cos-

mopolitan. The Wall Street capitalistand the little shop girl have a commoninterest in these crude, hastily drawnpictures.

You know yourself how disappointedyou feel if your favorite character fails

to appear; how pleased you are when hecoins a new slang phrase like “Oh, boyl"Perhaps you like him because he isessentially so true to life; because, de-

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bats and barrel staves, he reflects thefoibles and failings of humanity.Did you ever wonder how the artists

themselves regarded their characters,

what they thought of them, how theyoriginated them? These little pen-and-ink people are as constantly in the

thoughts of their creators as wheat in thethoughts of a board-of-trade man. Likegood little devils, or genii, they workhard for their masters and earn for themtheir advertised salaries. Do the com-ickers love them or hate them, and, asthe arithmetics say, how much?

Well, take “Jerry on the Job,” and“Abie the Agent,” created respectivelyby Hoban and Hershfleld for the NewYork Journal. Abie, according to thelatter, is adored by every Jew in theUnited States. About the time “Tad”discovered that “Ish kabibble” was Yid-dish for “I should worry,” Arthur Bris-bane, the editor, realized that as every

third person in New York was a Hebrew,the race was entitled to a comic char-acter of its own, provided it was drawnby a Jewish artist with Jewish sympa-

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thies. So Hershfield discontinued "Des-perate Desmond” and introduced AbieKabibble. "Abie, the Agent,” he was called,

because he was the local sales agent of a

"tin lizzie” concern, known as the ComplexAuto Co. And from the day he walked outto size up his audience, make his bow, andsee what he could get away with, Abie hasenjoyed wide popularity. His are the morelikable, but none the less characteristic,

Jewish traits. His greatest rival is Spark-

baum, who sells the collapsible car, andtheir business competition is intense.

Hershfield looks upon Abie as a friend

whom he has introduced to the individualreader. Occasionally Abie is obliged tostep out of his strip and review the newshows in his own original way, "y*know."He considers himself rather a good critic,but possibly that is because Hershheld con*siders Abie a good actor. For while avaudeville performer has twenty minutes inwhich to put his act across, Abie is givenonly about thirty seconds, and if he fails toget a hand, the laugh will go to the nextstrip. Abie’s associates are not real, but

their names are, so you'd better be carefulhow you hang around a cartoonist.

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Hoban came from Philadelphia to drawsport cartoons for the Journal. The paperwanted a new comic strip, however, and“Jerry on the Job’* was the result Jerry isa Horatio Alger kind of boy, full of ambi*tion, and with a tendency to put his fingerinto more pie than he can eat. He startedhis career as office boy for Mr. Flipp, and inthis capacity tried to get gay with “Pinkie,”the bookkeeper, and Myrtle, the stenog>rapher, whose clothes were like a fashionplate. Hoban predicted at the time that sogood a character was bound to rise in life.Now he is station master on a one-horse

railroad which runs between New Moniaand Jerry’s nameless town.

“It may not be as tong a line as someothers,” Hoban explains, “but U*s just aswide.”

Of course Jerry’s advancement was notmercurial; it was slow, but sure. Fromoffice boy he became salesman for a haber*dashery concern. He was employed onceas a messenger. He worked in departmentstores, was candy butcher on an accommo-dation train, and later almost got a job asan actor, but he was always “Jerry on the

Job.”

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Jerry has now been with the railroad fora year, and according to Hoban’s hie, hassold six one-way tickets to New Monia.Round-trip tickets are not popular, because

who's foolish enough to go to New Moniawhen he wants to come back? It's twice ascheap to stay in town. To Hoban, Jerry issomething like a kid brother. He tries tokeep him out of scrapes, and altogetherkeeps a paternal eye on him.To Bud Fisher, “Mutt and Jeff" are hu-

man beings. They’re with him constantly,play tag on his pillow, sit beside him at histable, and hitch behind on his automobile.Mutt was born in San Francisco, and madehis debut in the Chronicle. He was a fol-lower of the sport of kings, and lost oodles ofmoney guessing the speed of the bangtails.Some time later Fisher was burlesquing afamous criminal trial, and of forty-seven

characters introduced, little Jeff, originally

a judge, became permanent. He survived,unfortunately for him, to become Mutt’spal. and here they are.

Fisher will tell you that when he's draw-ing he imagines himself in the place of hischaracters, but I happen to know for whomhe'd rather substitute— Jeff, curiouslyenough, little Jeff, who usually gets a bowlof soup or a brickbat in the final picture.Mutt and Jeff have made the fortune of theiroriginator. They are in the movies, ofcourse, and are known all around the world.This season Fisher had six companies onthe road presenting “Mutt and Jeff" musicalcomedies.

Herriman, while sport cartoonist for aLos Angeles paper, used to draw a funnycat in the corner of his daily masterpiece.One day an associate approached him and

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The origin of "Us Boys" dates back sev>eral years and takes us to Denver. Thesporting editor of the paper McNamaraworked for was appointed president of asmall baseball league. So, just as a joke,

"Mac" wrote a story about a youngsternamed Puggy Mullane who had beenelected president of the Sand Lot League.Other stories of a similar nature followed,

telling of the league's new grounds, andfinally announcing the opening game.When the great day arrived "Mac" was keptbusy apologizing to his readers, hundreds of

whom had gone out to the "sand lot," fornot pulling off a game. He rememberedPuggy when he came to New York after aseason in vaudeville. Most of "Us Boys"are taken bodily from life, but ShrimpFlynn is the kid McNamara himself wouldlike to have been.

When the Thaw trial began, Dorgan("Tad’s" Sunday name) originated "Bunk,"

a dog supposed to impersonate the de>fendant at the trial. "A Sausage MurderCase" was the title of a burlesque on theproceedings. Bunk and other dogs, the pro-totypes of "Silk Hat Harry," were much inevidence until Judge Rumhauser made hisentrance. "Rummy," who, to quote "Tad,"

is as near like a magistrate as anybody, soonbecame so popular that he alone survived."Tad" likes to drive a car, and while he

is careful not to exceed C^tham's speedlimit of three hundred miles an hour, he hasoccasionally been arrested and hned. So berevenges himself on judges by makingRumhauser cartoons.Rudolph Dirks, the father of the Katzen-

jammer Kids, has been identified with Hansund Fritz for more than twenty years.Like Peter Pan they never grow old. Whenhe began making them for the New YorkJournal, there were four kids and a mamma.Then came Uncle Heine and the elimina-tion of two of the children. Heinie tookthe family to visit his ship one day, andthey met the Captain who proved himselfindispensable to Dirks.

Possibly you have noted in connectionwith the Katzenjammer family that mammahasn’t changed her style of dress for twentyyears. When she was born "balloon"sleeves were in vogue, but unlike the ordi-nary comic character, Mrs. Katzenjammerhas ignored the styles. Dirks doesn't think

about Hans und Fritz any more. They'vegrown to be a part of him just as your noseis a part of your face.

CoiiTngbt. llir, loUrMUooal B«rrtea

A "Judge Rumhauser" Cartoon by "Tad**

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Wc Asked the yoong Udy acroM the way iflongevity ran in her family and she said her fatherwas getting a little stout but her mother kept herfigure very well.

We asked the young lady across the way if shebelieved in capital punishment and she said she sup-posed it was necessary in some cases but it ought notto be too severe.

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Richard and Inna in the Street, or. Perhaps, Richard, Jr., and the Nurse in the HouseAn Illustration for "O, Happy Dayl’*

OF course (officially at least) nobodycares about original nationalities here

in America, but. when one has takenhis fortieth opponent in an argument to thedictionary and proven that the accent is onthe second syllable and not on the hrst in

the words illustrale and iilusirator, one issurprised to find that the great grandfather

of these words is the Latin verb iilustrare,

to make bright. If you ask any magazinewriter to tell you what an illustration is hewill insist that it should be an affair in paint

or chalk or something that must so exactlyrepeat what he has said in words that it cando nothing but make dull The second tell-ing of a talc may flatter the first teller, butit hardly makes the tale more brilliant.There is no record of Oscar Wilde’s hav-

ing put powdered glass into Aubrey Beards-ley’s chicken a la King because the remark-able Aubrey drew his Salome having herhair done by a Pierrot and with Baudelaireand Zola on her Chinese-Sheraton dressingtable; but let your modern illustrator drawtwo inverted chevrons instead of three onthe arm of an obscure personage who is

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once or twice addressed as “Sergeant” andsee what happens! The author leaps witha howl of rage from his Morris chair andruns all the way from his lodgings in Gra-mercy Park to the office of the magazinewaving a copy of the April number. Hedashes past the charming girl at the Who-doyouwishtosee desk into the art editor’soffice and flings the magazine at that gen-tleman’s head. “Ycu and that artist haveconspired to ruin my story!” he roars.Xothing is right! Did the artist even readthe story? That wasn’t at all the type ofgirl he had in mind! Why has he put ob-long regimental badges on the collar of thehero when the author has been at suchpains to state that the hero belonged to theKing’s Own Yorkshires whose badges arerather roundish, as any idiot knows?By this time, the entire staff of the maga-

zine is standing about and a conference isheld. The artist is called on the telephone,but is not at his studio. In a sanitariumover the hill the freshest entry in the rec-ord book reads, “J^ck Robinson, illustrator.Went mad trying to divine what a certain

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magazine writers sweetheart looked like so

that he could catch the *typc the author

had in mind/ ”

More than a few of Cartoons' readers willguess the only possible

remedy for all this.

Since no author has ever

been satisfied with the

illustrations to his story,

the editorial staffs should

oblige the authors to

make their stories satis*factory to the illustra-

tors. It would be prac-

tically impossible for any

illustrator, using no mat-

ter what style, to gowrong on a story thatran, for example, like

this:

O, HAPPY DAY!

Irma Hammersmithwas a female womanwho always wore, duringthe daytime, and amongstother things, a skirt.

Sometimes she washappy and sometimesshe was sad, and younever could tell when orunder what circum-stances she was goingto be the one or theother. Her whole ap-pearance was likely tochange at any time.One day when she was

walking down a street infront of a perfectly

blank wall, she met aman. The man wasmale and he wore a suitof clothes. Perhaps theysmiled; and perhaps theydid not. It may havebeen that they did noteven look at each other and maybe they didand they loved as they did or did not.They were so fearfully well-behaved that

perhaps you might not have noticed thatthey loved on the surface."How do you do," remarked the man

quite calmly as he managed to keep hisarm out of any strange positions as he

tipped his hat. He was a perfect gentleman."I do not think I know you, sir," said

Miss Hammersmith rather haughtily. "Youlook like most anybody to me."

‘T am," answered the

man, "anybody you

choose to make me. 1have the average man’s

character—subject tochange under the influ-

ence of contact with

other characters. Decent

people find me decent.Vicious people find mevicious.

"I also have a name.

It is Richard Smith.

Some people think itsuits me to a T; othersdon’t. I am a JuniorLieutenant in the Navy,

but I particularly dislike

uniforms and never wear

mine. As I am certainthat you cannot tell bythe expression in myeyes that I love you I

shall take the liberty of

telling you so, pop-out.

like that. Let us marry."

"Done," said Irma.

"Do you think wemight kiss?" askedRichard.

"Never,” cried Irma,

who could set up anawful outcry without

having it show on her inthe least degree. "Never

will we kiss. Rememberthat kissing has already

been suggested to any-

one who might be listen-ing to us and he is there-fore now dwelling onhis own past experiencesin kissing and is enjoy-ing it far more than he

would if he should see us with our facestogether in an indistinguishable mass ofnoses and lips."And so they were married.

A year later we find Richard and Irma intheir little home in Japan. In the daintyliving room, furnished in the Japanese man-

The Doctor, or Richard or Richard, Jr.,if you prefer

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ner with not a stick of furniture, Richard

is waiting with splendid calm that mighty

news that many year>old husbands wait for.Presently the door to Irma’s room is

opened and a calm, male man walks up toRichard.

“1 am the doctor,” announces the man.“You may and may not very well be,

judging from your appearance,” says

Richard. “How are things going?”“It is a strapping boy,” the doctor

answers.

The door opens again and a nurse (fe-

male) enters dressed in a uniform that shehas evidently designed herself without par-ticular heed to the usual thing in nurses'costumes. At least it is not a Red Crossuniform, nor exactly that of a sweet-faced

sister of charity. It is rather a combinationof a mozella and a balmoral, or perhaps ofa camisole and a domino. She carries inher arms the new-born babe.We are somewhat startled and surprised

to find Richard Junior a full-grown andfully developed male man with whiskersand dressed in a suit of clothes.

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SHORTLY before leaving Paris for the bed-side of the gravely wounded Gabrieled’Annuncio, the Italian poet, Ida Rubin-

stein, the most picturesque and original of Rus-sian dancers, appeared in a new creation. Sheenacted the story of Helen of Troy as describedin the poem of the Belgian author, Emile Ver-haeren.

She did this in a series of dances and posesof great beauty and vividness, and each scenein the life of the famous Trojan beauty thussymbolized by Mile. Rubinstein was sketchedfrom life by Georges Tribout, the Parisianartist. His every line has in it the imprint oftragedy. M. Tribout has pictured the soul of

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pftheTrojan Helenlilyslraliol Ida MnsleMs blesf Dmcssthe woman for whom heroes went to war. In her im>personation of this character Mile. Rubinstein has gone

behind mere appearances and entered the realm of real

passion. She has thrown herself into the personalityof the Trojan heroine. She suffers with her, and finally,

in sheer despair and hopelessness, bows her head todestiny.

Wooed by many. Mile. Rubinstein has turned againto her old love, the poet d’.Annuncio, who, having usedall his influence to draw Italy into the war, has devotedhimself heart and soul to the conflict. For some timeprior to her change of heart the dancer maintaineda private hospital for wounded soldiers in Paris. Itwas endowed by a wealthy banker, one of the Italianpoet's many rivals.

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Euter Sunday

TWO WATER COLOR SKETCHES MADE FOR

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On Monday Mornings Mrs. Mulligan Was a MotorQueen

George chisel was the hard-luckman of the town of East Wallop. Al-ways starting a chicken farm, or trying

to raise Belgian hares, mushrooms or an-other get-rich-quick scheme, he never madea "go” of anything. What more naturalthan for George to insert an advertisement

in the Busy Days Monthly, offering to ex-

change one diamond ring, value $25; set

of Dickens’ complete works. Little Dandycamera, double-barreled shotgun, pyrog-

raphy outfit, phonograph with 43 records,

Buffalo robe, stamp collection, a scroll saw,

and a little money to boot for a secondhandautomobile.

George broke into print pleasantly when

the East Wallop Echo chronicled his ac-quisition of a Gazook car and was invited

by the editor to toot his horn in front of

the pflice some fine afternoon. Yes, George

Chisel had swapped his household gauds

for a secondhand, semilunged little old

Gazook. Gone were the pleasant evenings

with the phonograph and nolonger does a small but puie stonesparkle on the finger of Mrs. Chisel'sleft hand.

VV'hcn George’s new motor car firstwheezed through the main street evenrude little boys couldn't keep a sym-pathetic note out of their jeers of

"looka-thc sewing machine," or *‘what-do-call that, a cookstove? Fry me aegg. Cieorge?”

Ed. George’s prosperous brother,came over to w'ash his hands of this

latest piece of foolishness. "You needa autermobeel about as much as I need

a flying machine to plow with,” scolded Ed."You must think you are a NelsonHollister!”

"Only extremes like me and Nelson Hol-lister can afford ’em,” explained Georgecheerfully. “The rich and those heavy indebt.”

“Even if it would go, it looks like a junkheap,” criticized Ed.

"Oh, I'm going to fix it up myself-—asnifty as the nift,” said George. "That littleboat will be a pippin when I get throughtinkerin’ and giving it a classy coat of redpaint. You wait!”"Where are you going to keep it?” de-

manded Ed. “That cluttered up yard ofyours won’t hold any more relics.”

"I'm drawing plans now for a swellgarage,’’ exclaimed George."You can keep it in my barn till you trade

it for a blind kitten or some other usefulobject,” volunteered Ed.

"Thanks, Ed. I’ll take you up on that'till I build," accepted George. Every timethereafter that George and Ed fell outGeorge drew a new set of garage plans.Somehow, nothing ever seemed to get

out of kilter with that little old Gazook. It

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was on the chug from an early hour in the

morning (for the Chisel family) until it wasscandalously late in East Wallop.

George boasted that if every part of the

Gazook’s mechanism was removed, or felloff, it's wheels would keep on revolving

from force of habit and sheer good nature.

Often when Nelson Hollister had to walk

down to the bank because his big G. L. B.car was laid up for repairs, George would

come churning along and graciously invitethe great man to ride.“You miss half the fun of motoring, Mr.

Hollister," George would say, patronizittly,

“by not driving your car yourself. I

wouldn’t let one of those experts monkeywith MY carl"“You are puffed up with beginner's luck,

George," Mr. Hollister would chuckle. “Itcan’t last. Some day when you have expireda thousand miles from nowhere, I’ll come

along and tow home what’s left of yourgrand old ruin."And, yet one balmy afternoon, while

George, Mrs. George and the little Georg*ettes and Georginas were bowling along,and the engine of the Gazook was runningas sweetly and melodiously as a boiler fac*tory, a turn of the road revealed the bigHollister car in a hospitable ditch.

“Can I do anything for you?" inquiredGeorge offensively.“Oh, it’s you, is it?" growled Nelson Hol-

lister, the rich man of East Wallop.“What seems to be the trouble?" per-

sisted George, the poor man of East Wallop.Patrick, the old coachman of the Hol-

listers’ was a careful driver, but he couldn’tfind motor trouble. He knew how to cure ahorse of a shoe boil but he couldn’t clean

a spark plug if he’d known where to lookfor it.

Nelson Hollister, the Rich Man of East Wallop

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George Chisel Was the Hard-Luck Man of the Town of East Wallop

George's was not a large nature. Hedidn’t sneak down the back streets to savethe Hollister pride. Had Main Street beenthe eye of the traditional needle, Georgewould have dragged that rich man, his fam-ily, his chauffeur and his car through it, andthrown in the camel for good measure.Trouble threatened the Chisel family be-

cause the Gazook car ran too smoothly.The "Back Soon" sign was now displayedcontinuously on the door of George’s little

shop (where he mended clocks, watches,and wash boilers) and not a cent coming in.The butcher and the grocer couldn’t beput off forever and the children needed

everything that children always need.Things were crisising when the Gazook

got Mrs. Mulligan’s literal and figurative

goat. The literal goat was near-sighted andmistook the motor car for one of its fa-vorite haunts where grew the delicious to-mato can and rusty bolt. The figurativegoat was an even more serious matter^involving as it did a long-standing account

for services rendered.

"Your car got my goat. Mister Chisel,"stormed Mrs. Mulligan, "and I could put

the law on you. But the money they'dmake you pay me for the goat belongs tome now for the washings I’ve done for thetribe of you this long time past. I can’t

make up my mind whether 1 want to getmy pay for me goat or me washes—itamountin’ to the same."

*T11 make good for both as soon as Ican get around to it," promised George."Then I’ll never see either, while you go

riding around in wan of them autymubblcs,”said Mrs. Mulligan, bitterly. "I’ve neveryet stepped foot in one of them contriv-ances—’’ eyeing the car wistfully."Get in,” invited George."Do you think it’s safe for a mother of

nine children?"

"Surest thing you know," said George,cranking the engine.

An hour later, when they returned, Mrs.Mulligan was at the steering wheel. "I’ma poor woman, Mister Chisel." she saidshrewdly, "and I can’t afford to go pleasuredriving, but if you was to allow me to usethe little divil wagon to bring and take mywashes every week on a Monday and Fri-day I could do your own wash and callthe goat and the old bill square, as I’d notget my money, anyhow."Thereafter on Monday mornings and Fri-

day afternoons Mrs. Mulligan was a motorqueen. •

Fortunately, Butcher Bopp’s horse Nelliedied. It was almost like losing one of thefamily, she’d been with them for so long.

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It was a testimonial to Nellie’s many goodqualities that each of the family mournedher for a different reason.

^'Remember how she’d eat apples rightout your hand?’* reminisced little RubyBopps.

”1 always felt so safe about you John,when—when—*' Mrs. Bopps lowered hervoice so that the children wouldn't hear.

”I always knew Nellie would bring youhome all right.”

"I don’t see how I’m going to cover myroute,” groaned Butcher Bopps. “I can'tafford to get another horse, just now. Thatnote's due again, and—hello, there's GeorgeChisel and that confounded old horsefrightener of his.”

‘‘Hear you’ve lost your horse Nellie,”

greeted George.

“Yes. Say Chisel, about that bill—

”

“How about using my car on your meatroute?” interrupted Chisel.

The owner of the late Nellie bargainedwith George to cover his meat route bymotor for the old bill and the usual week’ssupply of the cheaper cuts.Again, fortunately, Grocer Grout’s deliv-

ery system came down with measles. TheGazook was quickly pressed into service and

proved much more reliable, and quickerthan johnny Stackpole and bicycle.

“That little car of mine is getting to beone of the chief industries of East Wallop,”said George, proudly.

When it became known that the Gazookwas in the commercial held the demandsupon it were many. It seemed to be fool-proof, even when the town's engagedcouple rented it of an evening. On electionday the car made enough to pay George’staxes by carrying aged, decrepit, and indif-ferent voters to the polls.

George and his family still motored totheir heart's content, for by sleeping allday, while the car was out earning their liv-ing they could ride all night. That is per-haps why the faithful Gazook never receivedits promised coat of red paint. Nor was itnecessary to build a garage, or to imposelonger upon the hospitality of Ed's barn.

''What'll you take for the car?” asked Edone day, and that was the crowning triumphof George’s career as a car owner.

“Not all the money you’ve got, Ed,” de-clared George, “but Til take you over toHigginsville tomorrow in exchange for abushel of potatoes.”

Ed, George’s Prosperous Brother, Came over to Wash His Hands of This Latest Pieceof Foolishness

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GEROA WEGEHER In Fanitslo. C Farit

A Spring Song

Spring Ii Here!

H. GERBUULT In Fairtasio, O Paris

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IN the apartment building near the Arcde Triomphe, where 1 live, there is aschool for girls. Its pupils mostly

come from the well-to-do bourgeoisie. Descend-ing the stairway to the street, one has almost tohght his way through a rather boisterous rosegarden of girls. I well remember, before thehistoric month of August, 1914, how (to change

the metaphor) as I steered a difficult coursethrough this clamorous maelstrom, cries of **Ja,Fraulein," "Guten Tag/' and other German phrases,assailed my ear from every side. The girls were

French, but fashion had dictated that they shouldhave German teachers.One of our fiction writers, who is also something ofmoralist. Marcel Provost, has protested energetically

against the snobbishness which prescribes foreigngovernesses for the children of the rich or tolerably

well circumstanced. According to his way of thinking,child should be at least seven years old, and fully able

to speak French, before being taught a word of anyforeign language. Otherwise, he contends, its brain will

be nothing more than a storehouse for jumbled wordsand ideas, and a long time will be required in after lifeto reestablish in the child the national spirit.

Several years ago M. Provost wrote a book, "TheGuardian Angels," in which a German governess wasmade to play the part of a spy in the home of a higharmy officer by whom she had imprudently been em-ployed. The l)ook made quite a sensation at the time.One of the most curious instances of mental blind-

ness on the part of an entire people was the credulitywith which the French family permitted itself to beinundated by an ever rising tide of German governessesand domestics. The plausible intent was, of course,to give the young people the benefit of instruction ina foreign language. Thus the homes of army officersin particular—though they should have been more ontheir guard—had German "bonnes" for their sons; forwas not a perfect command of the German language anindispensable part of a military education? Why mis-trust a young girl, always humble, submissive, and bash-ful, with such frank, blue eyes, especis^lly when she lovedFrance SO much?On occasion, seating herself at the piano, she would

sing the Marseillaise in German. Excellent workers.

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willing to do anything, these blue-eyed

madchens easily won the hearts of theiremployers.

The Frenchwoman, it must be admitted,is not a compliant servant. Her spirit of“egalite'* unbends with difficulty. Besides,

she is inclined to limit her sphere of activity;

as a teacher she would not undertake thework of a governess, nor as the latter, wouldshe do a chambermaid’s duties. Fraulein, onthe other hand, does anything, from giving

piano lessons to cleaning the children's

shoes. There is in German a sort of "petitebourgeoisie"— well educated indeed— thatwillingly enters domestic service, and such

a class has no existence in France.The German girls who entered service in

our country were by no means isolated.

They had their "Verein” where they wenton Sundays to ei>^oy their coffee and pastry,

and above all, to gossip. Their gossip, how-ever, did not fall upon deaf ears, for these"Vereinc" were actually subsidized by the

German consulate or embassy, or by someother cultural or commercial society of the

fatherland.

I know, among others, a certain "home"for German teachers near I'Etoile, in Ruede Villejuste, ostensibly maintained to give

these Gretchens an opportunity to perfect

themselves in the French language, but

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in reality nothing but a school for spies!

These Gretchens who invaded France,especially during the years immediately pre-

ceding the grand coup of 1914, were actually

the scouts of the “Avant-Gucrre,” that

Avant-Guerre which Leon Daudet in hisprophetic book of that title unveiled in 1912

to a blind and deaf France. It was he whoshowed up the German machinations on oursoil. It was he who told us how the Bochesbuilt piers at our seaports, how theirengineers invaded our mines, how they es-tablished factories at strategical points

along our railroad system, how they erected

SCNAUEit Momuor if If 89lomt»t, Paris

THE REWARD OF MERIT**Now, children, if you do your sums well, 1 will show you a picture of the kaiser.^

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LEOHHEC in U Bilanndtt, ParisFRAULEIN’S GEOGRAPHY CLASS

“We now come to the great nations of Europe—Rrat of all, Germany.”

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concrete farmhouses at important cross-

roads, how they covered walls, fences, andchimneys with cabalistic signs to informand guide an army of invasion. A sinisterenough preparation, which, when revealedby Daudet, was regarded by our amiablepacifists as a poetic fancy!

How often afterward did not our soldierson the Marne and on the Somme discoverinnocent-looking villas capable of supporting

40-centimeter guns on their terraces, theircellars stored with untold supplies of gaso-

line!

One of my war **godsons” tells me thaton the Belgian coast his company de-molished a house, the concrete court ofwhich was so laid as to support heavy artil-lery for the bombardment of Dunkerque!In these activities the women were the mostvaluable agents.

Germany gave our city officials, our mer-chants, and others, wives whose dowrieswere paid from German secret-service funds.She provided adventuresses who insinuatedthemselves among our politicians and armyofficers and gained entrance into familiesas governesses or teachers. All homes, of

course, do not hold military secrets, but onecan always glean valuable information inregard to their sentiments, their wealth,

their commercial connections. Sojourns inthe country or at the seaside served to

collect minutious topographical details.

Thus France was thunderstruck to find atthe invasion of the Germans, how w’ell theenemy knew even the plans of private resi-dences and the relationships of the families.They made a bee-line for the cellars; theyknew exactly the number of bottles and thekind of wine they would discover; theyknew to a penny how much each individualcould safely be taxed.

The same tragicomedy' had been enactedin 1870, but evidently we had forgotten it,and this time the system had been perfectedand carried out on a much more elaboratescale.

It was the German governesses whohelped most in blinding us by their Goetheand Schiller and their "Liedcr.” They pre-tended. like the estimable Uriah Heep, to1)0 so “humble." They were so gentle, socontent to live in “la belle France!" As amatter of fact, every true Frenchman in his

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The Governess: “Remember Uiis, my dear; maternity is by no means a duty, but itsomething to be avoided. You will understand that better a little later.**

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innermost heart felt contempt for these

docile and submissive German girls; butthat served Germany's purpose and the

better concealed the darker side of Germancharacter—the cruel arrogance on attainingthe upper hand.

A time came when a part of young France—that part which had been undressed andput to bed by Elsa or Minna or Dorthe inits childhood—believed a political recon-ciliation with Germany possible. The "So-zial-Demokratische” idea had blinded them

to the facts of pan-Germanism and Prus-

sian militarism, and it was on the denational-ization of this part that Germany wronglycounted.

I know personally one of those French-men, an ardent socialist, who in March,1914, declared that rather than countenance

the monstrous crime of a European war, weshould obstruct by strikes, or even anarchy,

a mobilization of French manhood andFrench resources. Last month this samesocialist found a hero’s death on the Sornme.

and in his farewell message to his wife,

written just before he went to the attack,

he said that so much blood should not bespilled, so many misfortunes undergone, invain, but rather that