Show I Menaces Germany erm any I s I-s Now t s He Is Defeated t Bill was the bully that started the show i Bill ill was the bucko that struck the first blowIS blow ii IS I'S I Pat was the lad S lil Who was wac slow tp get mad I By dad clad I 1 They They hammered and arid pounded all over the place placeS place'S S 1 S Till iII neither had hardly the sign of a face With every clout S S That Bill BUt landed hed he'd shout S 5 Take that one you sucker now youre you're down and out Pat kept his tongue S S S Si i He He just countered and swung l And used every organ he had but his lung S S I At last both were groggy and fed to their thel fill then spoke up Bill I With his voice coming shrill S k Well Paddy youre you're licked but Ill I'll quit if you will S Not ono word from Pat But by this and by that V He found one more punch in his system system and and spat There was Bill on the floor and the winner winn was Pat L f It was close confessed Pat I felt near to my death But Ive I've won all my battles by saving my breath orge ge Randolph Chester and Lillian Chester Feb 28 Roses Roses grow In the f France In the shelter I g en cn hills where summer she can once more morO moreK K fary fa ry carpet over the world Rth w with th bright colors the gay uE uster r against garden walls L I ver Ir quaint trellises and andery ande e ery wayside ds down along the sea seaf f nong the cliffs and up white chateaux red roofed proofed roofed amid their oddly I Ims and pines Along the I st st. of horses drawing the J nd d tallest of carts comes iii its bells tinkling l r a wide cheeked checked fellow v ri his mouth and a pep pep- Cripe across the end of his n drowsy content the e eyed ed old woman steps b ng gf her market basket on peasant girl with a aa aa a o oY y racing with a dog 1 11 tn ement to give glye lIfo life to toI I panorama e deep blue water held the arm of a green sloped fand nd spreading beyond to in nl y The waves tumble on the be beach ch sparkling and andie the ie sunlight and tossing caps of pearl on the sand extravagance Us ride fat breasted on the ping bin like corks a few others Tin the air ane and above all over gulls and sea and beach and windIng winding wind wind- ing road cart carl old woman girl and boy boy and dog roses and green clad hills and white chateaux there ther bends a serene blue E sky y deep fathomless with only here and there a fleck of uie fleecy ey cy cloud I to make the blue more vivid Oh It is a be beautiful world beautiful And to think that all this glorious glorious' j I Paradise was given to man to be ho Its j I lord and master given gi to hiL that he might enjoy its boundless wealth and live In peace and plenty plent But what Is that n nv v movement on the tho road among the 1 I. I a 9 a Something gray passes there a big covered pred wagon another another a along along along long procession of or them I Ambulances for lor up In the hills there are vast hospitals for tor convalescent j W wounded i fd War The whole dream the Vision of peace and plenty the thought of ot thanksgiving fO for the gift of ot all this I beauty of ot sea and sky and shifting I II I breathing life Ufe fades away War Var There is a war in the world I a war so colossal so that no human being even in the most se sequestered sequestered sequestered se- se I spot of of this terrestrial universe universe uni uni- verse can b be by free from its deadening touch A sudden rage fills the heart Why should there be war war this this war any war Why where all nature is de devoted to the business of living and blossoming into beauty should human kind have suddenly fallen upon itself to maim malm and J mangle and destroy j I Vh Why should humanity have hav risen In in I one mighty appalling madness to kill Itself S Why should It have bent all all its s en energy energy en- en ergy erin and nd all aU Its mind and and till all ill i'll the resources of the teeming earth to the theone theone theone one one grisly business of ot death There is no sane mind but that st stops ps startled to ask this una unanswerable question no properly constituted soul which does not cry out In an ag agony ny of passionate protest against this awful awful aw aw- ful condition We must stop stol It There must be no nomore nomore more war Wo We rail for Cor a time until there comes the chilling tho thought of the impotence I of ot our fury What hat can we do clo that wo ve ve are not already doing I There succeeds a feeling of utter helplessness a feeling that this ruthless ruthless rutht ruth ruth- t less cataclysm of carnage Is supernatural ural In its immensity and there is a a. f faint moment n when one seeming pitifully pitifully piti piti- fully Cully small email and weak before a monster monster monster mon mon- I ster so gigantic recoils from the struggle struggle struggle gle and would like lIko to creep away into a ah ahole ahole h hole le somewhere and numbly exist Until unI until un un- til the storm has bas p passed It is necessary to still that panic of I the mind for It Is little less les's than a panic a recoil and a quailing of self against a disaster r so universal that no human creature may feel safe from its Imminence An atom cannot stop the rushing of ofa ofa ofa a flood says Fear To the aid of the individual Reason Heason must come as It has come to this nation nation na na- na tion of Franco France through her individuals Enduring rocks are made of atoms which cling together The rage against war the passionate passion passion- ate protest against the very possibility of war is here from the highest to the lowest for these are human people and cruelty is abhorrent to them but ex exactly exactly ex- ex because the rage against this war and all war is In them they have fought and are fighting at the side of their staunch allies with a sublime courage which has never wavered from the first and will never waver to the thelast thelast last for that is the only wa way In which war is to be stamped out There is no rage so terrific as that which holds Itself calm aIm and that Is the secret t of the Frenchmans Frenchman's n never ver changing attitude toward this colossal conflict and it is his greatest strength The German loudly proclaims him him- self Let him win a slight advantage and he boasts to the tho world that he is already alread victorious Even as he docs does so he di discovers covers that the French entirely undisturbed d dby by the reverse so far as their plans are dro re concerned are steadily treading to the front are steadily marshaling their re resources resources re- re sources are steadily facing the line of living flame Let the French obtain a slight ad advantage advantage ad- ad vantage antage and the German boasts to the world that lie he has laid a strategic trap I and that he is already victorious If we have correctly read the psychology psychology pay pay- of events It worries the German German German Ger Ger- man that calmness of the French It is apparently a reversal of racial characteristics that the German should be nervous and the Frenchman I But there is a reason Tho rho Germans sta started this thi horrible saturnalia of murder as a game and they are playing it as a gme In which the they hope to win all they can can- and keep all they get or losing was a later thought give gl up the least pos pos- sible S There can be but one end to a conflict conflict con con- between the cold trickery ot of greed and the passionate consecration to high purpose for on that day when honest men determine to be no more under the domination of a murderous i bully the da days s 's of that bully are num nUm- i This one knows it H. When the German proclaims his be be be- I lief ilef in an ultimate victory shifting hl his gauge of ot the extent of that victo victory with the shifting occurrences of the da day according to his warped Judgment Judgment Judg Judg- ment of how hoi the occurrences of the day may affect other peoples ho he lies and he lie knows that he lies The handwriting Is on the wall for and that fact may best be known by the size of the scarecrow scarecrow scarecrow scare scare- crow which the German attempts to flaunt before the world for tor the louder he shouts the more he ho is scared His only hope is now before his next re reverse reverse re- re verse shall come to so frighten the world by his brazen that re-I re he can finish his game with as much muchas as possible on the tho winning side The same German blindness I IThe The same German deafness and anti dumbness If the French were playing playing play play- I ing a political and an economic game as Germany Is Is if they we were trying to pretend as Germany Germani is that they hold holda a royal flush in place of ot only a pair of deuces then they might be frightened out by a f stack of blue chips s sor or or a shoulder shaking chuckle chuckie of pretended confidence but the they are not playing a game S The French are pouring out their hearts' hearts blood because they are re filled I through and ancI through with a rage Fage I against war var and they arc are determined that there shall be no more of It Let Russia Let Russia collapse and let th G German Ocr Ger r- r man loudly loudl proclaim that now the war warIs waris waris is over since there is no need to wait walt for America and let him loudly call that now his beaten foes may come to the peace counter arid d haggle for such scraps of peace as us may still be bought No answer from the French except that th their lr original purpose is un un- un- un changed They will fight on until France is saved and until the world is safe for humanity They rhey are filled with a rage against war Let the German assiduously circulate circulate circulate late blood curdling reports about the great which before America can get into the war is to be conducted conducted con con- ducted with the troops relea released d from Russia Hussla and the answer is the same The French will meet the offensive and they will fight on for t they tiey ey are filled with a rage against war and they are determined to end It once and for all Let Italy Itah meet a terrific reverse rever and there is but one answer to the blatant crowing of Germany German anxious to make makepeace makepeace makepeace peace before America can get In In to quit while the quitting is good Only one answer the French will fight on on for there is in them a passionate rage against war and war must go out of a world inhabited by civilization since th there re Is ia not room for both |