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Show t THE CITIZEN 14 ed chairman of a campaign to secure American aid for the 60,000 little war orphans whose names were ou the lists of the organization as unadopted before the signing of the armis- WAR ORPHANS DYING The children of France have not yet emerged from the shadow of the war. With peace assured, and a happier future opening before them, it becomes increasingly evident that the child life of France has suffered a shock from which it is difficult to rally; while the birth rate has dropped to 8 to each 1,000 population. The Fatherless Children of France, an American organization with a similar one in Paris of which Marshal J off re is the head, reports that of the children receiving American aid to the extent of 10 cents a day under its plan of securing Amlittle erican godmothers for the French war waifs, its records show an average of 700 childrens' deaths per month since the armistice. The help of the American .godmothers camtoo late to save these underlittle ones. nourished nerve-shocke- tice. Ten cents will care for a child for an entire day; $3 for a month; while for $36.50 a year the donor may select a child from the lists at the organizations headquarters and be placed in correspondence with it To adopt a child or make a donation Write for information to Mrs. Walter S. Brewster, Room 634, 410 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago. t INTERMEDIATE. While some Scottish regiments were disembarking in France, some French officers were watching them. One observed. They cant be women, for they have mustaches; but they cant be men, for they wear skirts. I have it, said another. Theyre that famous Middlesex regiment from London. The Truth Seeker. d Brewster of Chiof the Fatherless cago, Children of France, has been appoint Mrs. Walter vice-chairma- S. n United States Navy Of The Pacific CARTHAGE is destroyed; long Perhaps that was the cry of many a good Roman citizen the day news was brought across the Mediterranean that the chief rival of the Republic of Rome was no more. The other day an American Armada set forth from Old Point Comfort, Virginia, to begin watch and ward over the ocean of the future the Pacific. Its sailing was symbolic and prophetic. Across the Pacific lies the new Carthage Japan. So seriously did the rivalry of Carthage affect the Romans that they dea vised a shibboleth for daily use. De-lend- est Carthago, they said to themselves and to one another for many long years. It voiced a national purpose for the distant future. The only remedy for the commercial rivalry of Jtir Candies (J W F. P. Gallagher other across the Pacific, would s engage in the same duel which occupied Rome and Carthage for centuries, a duel over commerce for supremacy, fought with better weapons, on a wider sea. . The weakness of uninspired prophecy is its rule of judging the future by the past and founding its prophecies on the maxim that history repeats itself. But history never repeats itself Sometimes it imitates itself and leaa&r the human race to believe that in time it will repeat itself, but just as it is about to complete the circle it flies off at a tangent. Consequently those who seek to forecast the future by the past are wise if they point out in advance that, history being their guide, they are simply imagining what s4 Pastries TTTT T? 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Here and there, perhaps, a philosopher uttered a soul cry of yearning for the days when wars would be no more, but the practical Romans, when they tried to visualize the future, cquld see only the terrific struggle and then a either the corpse of Rome or of Carthage. It was one or the other either Carthage or Rome the survicorpse vor. A may happen up to the point where history refuses to repeat itself. : j-- v SO close was the parallel of and Great Britain with Rome and Carthage a few years ago that the Germans adopted the Roman cry est Carthago, and drank to the day when the British empire should have become a memory like Carthage. Socialists are fond of saying that the rivalry of nations has been simply an economic struggle, but it is per-3I .haps truer to say that .the strugg ' l. has been as much intellectual as Rome feared Carthage and wanted to kill her. It was not entirely that Rome feared her own commerDe-lon- da ma--teria- CONVENTIONAL prophet, trying to play safe, would say that the United States and Japan, fronting each cial death and wanted the potential |