Show The Weeks Week's Wash By Martin Green Copyright 1910 by the Press Publish Publish- In ing Co The Now York Evening World orld Looks like Ilko peace in Europe suggested suggested suggested sug sug- the head polisher You never can tell replied the laundry laundr man Nobody outside of the tho inside circles knew know that the thc war was coming Probably a great majority of the tile people on this planet thought war was a thing thinS of the tho past Before they recovered from their surprise over Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's Ger Ger- many's proposition to fight tight Germany was knocking at the door of Belgium Russia was rushing her armies to the Austrian and German Gennan frontiers and a aI great many man timid residents of Paris I were beginning to 0 o fi figure ure on studying the German language Peace ma may come the tho same wa way A Afew Afew few ew who c proclaimed In tho early part of 1914 that Germany was bent on war were regarded as ossified under tho the hat Shall we so regard those who now proclaim that Germany Is bent benton on peace However there are man many angles to the tho peace situation In the tho first place Germany hasn't mado made a p peace ace aco proposal All Germany has done is to put out a feeler and according to tho the latest dl dis dispatches patches one of or Germanys Germany's tentative I propositions is a limitation of arma arma- ment It IK is also stated but hut without official authority that Germany Is willing to relinquish what part of Belgium northern northera northern north north- ern era ern Fiance Franco and find other territory she has acquired in consideration of or the tue return of ot her foreign colonies Such an agreement would simply mean a restoration of or conditions as the thc they existed before the war It would appear that Germany now proposes to put certain que questions of or Importance to her before The Hague tribunal for discussion dis dis- dis- dis If It that be the case th then n what was wan tho the excuse for the war var We Yo are aro asked to believe on the tho taco face of or the peace proposals that Germany Gel Ger many after alter drenching Europe with blood wants to arbitrate One must be a a. hard boiled optimist to anticipate that such arbitration would amount to anything One would have to be an understudy of or the tho well known Christian Christian Christian Chris Chris- tian mart martyrs rs to Imagine that France Franco will give up without Alsace and Lorraine Lor- Lor name raine while whilo a 11 Frenchman remains alive on the soil of or Franc FranceS France As for England John null Bull seems to have awal awakened to the fact that I somebody has hns been pastIng pasting past past- Ing him on tho the blooming blooming- Russia has by the thc million and natural resources Japan is a 3 re reserve reserve re- re serve force that must bo lie counted on on- on unless indeed it would servo the purposes purposes purposes pur pur- poses of Japan to suddenly drop out of the entente alliance Well ell there you are arc sa saying ing nothing at all bout about Ital Italy which went vent into this tIlls war with a definite dennite purpose that has been partially accomplished Still a a. world that produced tho the greatest and most destructive war in history almost without notice ma may produce a a. great and rehabilitating peace In tho the same wa way What are aro wo we O going to read about when this war Is over How are aro we wo going goin to readjust our news values In Inthe inthe the light lIht of ot such events as the tho sinking sink sink- In big ing of or the Lusitania tho the activity of German submarines the battle of the tho Marne of ot Verdun of the Somme the theair theair theair air raids on England In the tho meantime let us not for forget et that a year ear ago this time tithe HenT Henry Fords Ford's squirrel ship was on the way to Europe Europe Europe Eu Eu- rope to get r-et tho boys out of the tho trenches b by Christmas Since then of our boys havo have seen military experience experience ence on Oil the Mexican border and it looks as though a famous poem startIng starting start start- In Ing It ft was waR Christmas in McAllen and the soldiers still there might mig become a matter of historic record The Tho Billy Sunda Sunday revival remarked tho the head polisher ou ought ht to mark a anew anew anew new era em in iii that of work worl since it has been incorporated An Incorporated religious movement move move- ment mont said tho the laundr laundry laundr man is a natural development of business business system system tem tern founded on tho tim lines of the Standard Standard Standard Stan Stan- dard Oil company compan I note that John D. D Rockefeller Jr Is one of or the si signers sign sign- ners n- n ers era of or the tho articles of ot incorporation to together together together to- to gether with residents of Upper Montclair Mont Mont- clair Orange Paterson and X N J J. J and Dobbs FerT Ferry N. N Y But Mr Mn Ir Rockefeller Is so en engrossed engrossed engrossed en- en grossed In his hu business affairs that ho he will be bo unable to act as a director lie lieIs lieis Is hi going to let lot his mone money work for him him He lIe was too engrossed eng in his business affairs to re register lster anti and vote last No Xo- vember I see ce said the h head polisher that there wa was no bourbon whisky served at atthe atthe atthe the dinner of ot the Southern society But you Ou must bear in mind an answered answered an- an the laundry laundr man that tho tile distinguished dis dis- Southerners present were paying for tho the dinner themselves To G IG New Rochelle and many man others The Tho Case children arc are self clr supporting |