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scholars. Returning to Macedonia,
Philip turned his whole people into one
vast fighting machine. HIS unit was
the Macedonian phalanx. First came
twenty-four men with short spears.
, then came second twenty-four with
spears of six feet, then third twenty
four with spears'of eight feet In length.
The last tier OF men In the company
had spears twenty feet long, resting
upon the shoulders Of the men i'm the
front rank. Those bristling spears were
invincible. The terror Of the Macedo.
nian phalanX went out into all the
earth. Demosthenes was the one man
who had vision He called the Athe.
mans together upon the public square.
assembled them In the great theater
He mounted the roStrum upon Mars
hill and warned Athens. He pointed
out that between Athens on the south
and Macedonia on the north were three
buffer states. AS the Macedonian army
moved southward these states organ
lied their army and went forth In de
fcnSe of their homes and their fire
sides. But DcmoSthcnes insisted that
these buffer states were not only fight
ing their own battles, but the battles OF
Athens. If they were to fall, If their
armies were TO be defeated, then Ath
ems single handed must meet the entire
force OF the victorious host But Ath
ems delayed. The greatest man of his
time, DemOsthenes, and one of the no.
blest orations ever propounded were of
no avail. Philip crossed the frontier
The flames OF the burning towns at
mil fYf,r li,yIt tl,
ribc warning. Those who could do so
fled and hcnceforth were eXiles and
wanderers upon the face OF the earth
The populations that remained IN the
towns were annihilated to the last
child. Thirty-two towns that had -four
iShcd as commercial communities van
ishcd from the face OF the earth. The
whole state OF Chalcidcce answering
to our modern Belgium. became a des
ert. although the mines were Still work
cd Tcrr"riZcd into submission. the
Greeks threw down their arms and
opened the gates OF their cities to Phil
ipS soldiers, who brought with them
women and children in fetters that the
spirit Of Athens might, be utterly bro.
ken. Now tell lnc is there any parallel
in history quite SO striking us that be-
tween the organized militarism OF
Macedonia and the subsequent ruin Of
Athens and the present organized mill
tariSm of Germany, now attempting
| the ruin OF Belgium. France and Eng
land? Listen to Professor Won Stengel,
the German authority on international
law: "Thcre will he no conference Mt
The Hague when this war Is over The
nf s.tA
| for the natives Is submission to our
| CGermany'S) supreme direction. Under
| our ovcrlordship all international law
would become supcrfiuous. for we OF
ourselves and instinctivcly give to each
one his rights"
Franco Is Fighting For Her Land.
One of the goals for which France is
| fighting is to recover her lands. Moth
| ing witnesses the terror of this war
like the fact that Frances very fields
have been destroyed. Forty-two cent?
meter shells have buried the rich black
| earth at the top and flung over 1t great
masses Of subsol, sour, untitled for
| wheat or rye. Nor can the PEASANTS
| horse travel over the upheavcd stones,
| the twisted rusty wire. the shell frag-
ments, the uneXploded bombs. Great
| trenches, ten to twenty feet, cash the
| soil. No tree is left. Gone are oil the
vineyards, ruined the orchards. Where
| the little farmhOuses stood there re-
| mains only the stray line of brick
foundation, overgrown with weeds and
thorns. The very railways have be-
| come mere streaks of iron rust.
France Is Fighting Slavery For Her
Women.
The desperation OF Frances fight is
! inspired by her rcvulslon from the spec
| taClc OF Belgians enSlavcd and the hor-
rors wrought upon French women and
| girls. America is far removed now
from the battle front, but men like Mr.
Hoover, like Brand Whitlock and our
Red Cross physicians, who have re-
turned from Belgium, have spread out
the whole story. The spectacle Of
100000 Belgians driven in slave gangs
across the line into German territory
WAS calculated to terroriZe the peas
ants of France. Little wonder that
they were stirred to fury and are fight
ing unto death. If each had thou
sand lives he would gladly give them
! all to hold back the foe. The report Of
: Ambassador Bryce nerved the French
! to higher courage. Not since the re-
port of the committee that investigated
the KonGo atrocities has there been
published II document more terrible
7 than that signed by Ambassador Bryce.
+ No American can question the fairness
/ and business of the author OF "The
B American Commonwealth" During
his long career in this country this dis
, tinGuiShcd author and statesman has
given abundant proofs of his simple
ity, impartiality and love OF fair play.
. What caution and what restraint In
, his conclusions as to our own institu-
tons. And in his report on the atrOci-
ties wrought on Belgian women and
girls. on dcfcnccless priests and uni
versity professors, the sacking OF fac
/ tories OpI tbp loptinu of tho lilro rina