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Show Less Tails More Guns! Our Army's Need THE LITERARY DIGEST for .January .3th commences ilie year 1918 (the twenty-eighth year of its existence) overflowing with vital news articles of immediate interest. In fact, there are several I topics so important that in enumerating them it is difficult to say which shuiild come first. I WHY WE WENT TO WAR WITHOUT GUNS covers from every angle the congressMmal investigation in-vestigation of the War Department. It presents the criticisms leveled at the administration and also the evidence adduced in its favor, with comments from the press of the United States, j UNCLE SAM TAKES OVER THE RAILROADS Js this the first step toward Governmentown- j ; oi-ship? Will the situation continue after the war 1 To get an answer to such questions THE DIGEST I iE telegraphed to leading editors throughout the country asking for an expression of opinion upon this hit- ii est and most radical war-measure, and this article gives illuminating replies from them. s I CENTRAL POWERS ANXIOUS TO QUIT deals with a subject of vital human interest, being a I I resume of public opinion upon Germany's latest peace proposal. ! i THE TRUTH AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SUGAR BARREL concludes the story in last week's j I DIGEST of the investigation of Mr. Hoover and the Food Administration. Other interesting and instructive topics in this number of THE DIGEST (dated January 5th) are: j I Short-lived Victory at Cembrai How Quebec Takes Her Defeat I Prussian "Democratic" Franchise Saving Food and Winning the War To Win the War With American Coal ' (Prepared by the U. S. Food Administration.) 1 I The Fuel Value of Wood The slow Agony of Reims I Keeping die Workers Well The Cradle Morg Fatal Jhan Trench Saving Wheat by Saving Meat 1 New York School Housecleaning Art and the Life of Today A Catholic Admonishes Catholics Rifling the Tomb of the Savior 1 News of Finance and Industry Defending the Red Cross A STRIKING COLLECTION OF ILLUSTRATIONS. THE DIGEST the Busy Man's Bible, the Doubting Man's Dictionary I Those of us who arc busv, and which of us is not in trouble. It derives its resume of the news not merely from these superstrenuous times, frequently sigh over the arid a single paper, which would be to retain the Mter's g ooj ., , . . . ,, .. .... , viewpoint, but irom a weekly gleaning ot all the f 1 wilderness of irrelevant mtormatiou through which we have W0I.tjlwhi,e publications of the world, recording the re- 1 Ito struggle in our daily papers m order to obtain those dia- sult wjthout comment or partiality, adhering to no viewpoint, a monds in a dust heap the items of vital news for which; we but reporting all. ' The facts of the day, focused from all : are seeking. THE LITERARY DIGEST saves you all this points, are yours in "The Digest." ... 1 January 5th Homber on Sale Today All News-dealers 10 Cents . 1 FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY (Publishers of the Famous NEW Standard Dictionary) , NEW YORK j - I iTrruwwigf'HUf 1 " ') 1,111 ffiB'ftMIMiSMPJWffi1 ?H33?lEGi253EE? fj Let the LA LirS Buyer 3 J Beware! 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