Show Expect No More Fighting B BY GRANTING the tile Ottoman government more time in which to decide whether or not to yield to their terms the Balkan states have given evidence that they expect the Turks to come to acceptable conditions without further fighting If it were believed be be- he- he lic ed that the sultans sultan's advisers would not make tIme tho concession concessions demanded the allies would certainly force the issue at once If war is to be the choice they have everything to gain gaul by immediate action and amI nothing to hope from delay dclay At the time beginning of the the- present conflict the they were T etter better prepared than the Turkish government They were able ahle t to get gel a larger part of their total military strength th into action at once Their anni armies s were more mobile in a more advanced state of readiness for a hard campaign Their territory was all close to the scone scene of the fighting They rimey had hal no such I problem as s the Turks confronted in bringing forces from distant provinces pro to the points of a along long battle tIe front Time plays plas the tho game of the slower larger larg less highly organized power in the present conflict as asit asit asit it always does un under er like circumstances The argument argument ment for the immediate resumption of hostilities if the time war is to go on is so 50 cogent that the continued delay in forcing the issue issue is abundant evidence that the allies allie believe the Turks will yield in the end without firing another shot in front of Constanti Constanti- nople Ra l PS rs t tA Pa fJ PaA A St. St Louis doctor declares that motorists are b becoming footed flat because they ther do ho not nol walk enough Evidently he lie has bas his machine trained so that it wont won't refuse to work when it gets him bun Vent t twenty miles from home IE it j SSI i mi tIit SJ v Lieutenant Becker is studying law in Sing Sing Nevertheless Ne he wont won't find anything in the time books to justify the assas assassination of Il squealers Ra l r Pa Pa i President Taft has put a good one over o on the suffragists He has ordered out cavalry to protect them during their parade in Washington I i te rs ra i And the exasperating part of it is that the Washington Washington Wash- Wash ington shopkeepers and hotel landlords deprived of the he inauguration ball cant can't get even at the polls a Pa pa paA A western preacher says that baseball should be played in heaven But how can it be bc arranged so that the thc home club will ah always ays win IQ Jn Chinese wo women en h have ve w m wearing trousers X Yet r- r China claims to be pr progressive gressi J Y J. r |