v COMPENSATIONS OF A WAR. There are some compensations for war. A distinguished man who has recently visited some of the cantonments where the men had been drilled for some months under the intensive training which is applied everywhere, remarked that it seemed almost miraculous how the dregs of the pool room, dragged specimens from the tenement districts, had been transformed into real men who would never go back to their former condition. Now they are "men," which is something they never were before. They are assets as-sets to society and not liabilities. He called to mind that the young men who had been taken from desks to fight in the civil war never went back to them. They started out and built the new west, and he thought that same class of men who are going into this war would becofne - leaders in the industries and business world of the future. Those who escape the hazards of war will find an open field for their energies in the reconstruction of the world, both physically and politically. All thinkers recognize that we are going into a new world when peace is declared. ,