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in rest billets. The next day our cap tain asked for volunteers for bombers' school. I gave my name and was ac- cepted. I had joined the Suicide club, and my troubles commenced. Thirty two men of the battalion, including my self, were sent to L., where we went through a course in bombing. Here we were instructed in the uses, methods of throwing and manufacture Of various kinds of hand grenades. from the old liam tin," now obsolete. of the British army.
 It all depends where you are as to what you are called. In France they call you a "bomber'' and give you med als, while in neutral countries they call you an anarchist and give you "life'
 From the very start the Germans were well equipped with effective bombs and trained bomb throwerS, but The English army was as little pre- pared in this important department Of lighting as in many others. At bomb ng school an old sergeant of the Gren- adier guards, whom I had the good fortune to meet, told me of the discour- ,gements this branch of the service suffered before they could meet the Germans on an equal footing. (Paci- 1sts and small army people in the J. $. please read with care.) The first English expeditionary forces had no Iombs at all, but had clicked lot of ;asualties from those thrown by the 3oches. One bright morning someone ligher up had an idea and issued an ,rder detailing two men from each 'latoon to go to bombing school to earn the duties of a bomber and how o manufacture bombs. NoncommiS- toned officers were generally selected or this course. After about two weeks at school they returned to their lnits in rest billets or in the fire rench, as the case might be, and got ,usy teaching their platOons how to nake "jam tins"
 Previously an order had been issued : or all ranks to save empty jam tins { or the manufacture of bombs. A pro- essor of bombing would sit on the re step in the front trench with the emainder of his section crowding round to see him work.
 On his left would be a pile of empty nd rusty jam tins,, while beside him n the fire step would be a miscella- -eouS assortment of material used in he manufacture of the liam tins"
 Tommy would stoop down, get an mpty 'jam tin," take a handful of layey mud from the parapet. and line he inside of the tin with this sub- tance. Then he would reach over. ick up his detonator and explosive. nd insert them in the tin, fuse pro ruding. On the fire step would be ile of fragments of shell, shrapnel al1s, bits of iron, nails, etc.-anything hat was hard enough to send over to Fritz; he would scoop up handful of his junk and put it in the bomb. Per laps one of the platoon would ask him vhat he. did this for, and he would Xplain that when the bomb exploded hese bits would fly about and kill or wound any German hit by same; the iuestfoner would immediately pull a ,utton off his tunfc and hand 1t to he bomb maker with, "Well, blame ne, send this over as a souvenir" or mother Tommy would volunteer En i'd rusty and broken jackknife; both would be accepted and inserted.
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CHAPTER x.
"The Day's Work.n

was fast learning that there is, regular routine about the work of the trenches, although it is badly upset at times by the Germans. $ >
 The real work. in the fire trench commences at sundown. Tommy is Ike 8 burglar, he works at night.
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days bliss !

seven days bliss!
 2 At about five minutes to five he started to fidget with his rifle, and then suddenly springing up on the fire step with muttered, 'T'll send over a couple of souvenirs to Fritz so that he'll miss me when leave" he stuck his rife over the top and fired two shots when "cracE" went bullet and ne
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CHAPTER XII.
Rohblnn.

Bombing. ,...
 t. The boys in the section welcomed me back, but there were many strange faces. Several of our men had gone
 West in that charge, and were lying somewhere in Frsnce' with a little wooden cross at their heads. We were
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CAMPBELL l

Senator Hugh E. Campbell should be sent back to the Senate for the good he has done The won- en voters should be especially interested to know that he championed shorter hours and higher wages Tor them. ,> x<4a,+g - . e< ..~,,, 4~ .. a.
 Every one interested in schools knows that he worked for better schools in Coconino County, and largely through his efforts that sufficient ap propriation was secured to make the needed improve nnents for the Northern Arizona Normal school.
 The small rancher has complained of his treatment, and they rest assured that he will protect their interests only who is familiar with the ways of the law making body do.
 He makes apology for NOT Signing the three petitions to all restrictions from the Lease Law of the state, and if returned the Senate he will his best efforts that the lease law is restricted rather than that all restrictions removed.
 Vote for Hugh E. Campbell
New-York tribune., 1918-01-04

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In your issue Of December 20 appears
letter from gentleman Of Little Falls,
N. Y, in which he refers to the views Of Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle regarding the future life
as set forth in an editorial in The Sunday
Tribune. While he dsagrees with Sir Ar
thurs conclusions, yet he commends the at
tempt to reach the truth by personal in
vestigation and, while granting that he may
have been deceived, asks if "his mistake is
to be compared with the indescrbabe folly
Of the absent treatment any other treat
ment Of the Christian Scientist?"
If the writer of this letter will follow the
course which he approves in Sir Arthur Of
making personal investigation, without
prejudice and with an open mind. to deter
mine the facts, he can prove for himself be-
yond the shadow Of doubt not only that
Christian Science treatment is not an Gin
describable folly" but that it is a very Ell
fective therapeutic agent which has healed
vast number Of persons Of all the various
types of disease that mortal mind has ever
conceived. For to-day, as in Jesus tme the
sick are healed, the blind made to see, the
drunkard reclaimed, the sinner regenerated,
the sorrowing comforted by purely spiritual
means. visit to the Wednesday evening
meeting of any Christian Science church
will enable him to hear testimonies Of heal
ing from sincere, earnest people who CRATE
fully attest their recovery from physical dis
orders and their spiritual regeneration be-
cause Of the coming into their lives of the
Christ, Truth
What the Christian Scientist has come to
know about God and man, the man of Gods
creating, His image and likeness, spiritual
and perfect, incapable of sickness and SIM
constitutes the understanding which destroys
in the human consciousness whatever illu-
sions have found Judgement there. And, since
it is God that heals, His beneficent po.ser is
as available in one place as another; that
is to say, infinite mind knows neither time
nor space. Jesus healed the centurion's SER
want when absent from him; in precisely the
same manner almost innumerabe cases Of
healing through absent treatment have been
accomplished by Christian Scientists "Science
can heal the sick who are absent from their
heaers, as we'll those present, since space
is no obstacle to Mind" ("Scence and
HEALTH" p. 179). ALBERT GILMORE
New York Ian 1919
New-York tribune., 1918-01-04

unable to accept it, or to undertake to
force it upon helpless Russia, To be de-
ceived by it is to permit Germany to win
the war, and to win more than any Ger
man expected to win at any time between
the Marno and the hour when Russia fell
into chaos. We have, all Of us, tho West
ern nations pledged ourselves to fight for
tho liberation Of the subject nations; for
us to listen to the present German pro-
posals would be to bctray 100000 Of
Savs, to turn them over to the German
and the Austrian, to their present and our
future ruin.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-04
"A Question Of Pride
Noble Service vs.. the Protest of q
Self-Styled Democrat

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In the letter which appears in your
issue of days date, under the above
heading, Mr. William Grant Webster, with
the most incffable na1vete and comp!acency,
puts bomb under the cornerstone Of
democracy and blows it sky high.
The discussion to whether it is ethically,
morally, physically or democratically right
or wrong for q soldier to act as servant to
his superior officer would not be possible
anywhere, one would have thought and
hoped, except in the pages Of a broadly comic
book designed to hold certain type of self
styled democrat up to everlasting ridiculc.
1t is true, rs Mr. Webster says, with
Chadbandian horror, that the British SOL
der is proud to do any service for his officer,
especially to put splendid shine on his
boots. 1t is equally and splendidly true Of
the soldiers Of every we'll disciplined army,
the sailors of every efficient navy, the priest
hood of every church, the members of every
atfectonate household, and Of all proper
men of every class the world over, who do
not define pride as being inordinate self
esteem, an unreasonably high opinion of
ones superiority which manifests itself in
lofty airs and often in contempt of others,
but noble self-csteem, springing from
the consciousness Of worth and as the ines
Unable gift of being able voluntarily to
serve another act the minister, even
Christ served and acted.
COSMO HAMILTON.
New York, Jan. ., 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-04
Russia s Failure

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Kindly permit ME to express emphatic
dissent from your view of a Russian peace.
In order to see the full enormity of Russia's
conduct IN seeking, even craving, separate
peace let US ask what would your country es-
recially, and the world in general think Of
Great Britain if she concluded a separate
peace on the best terms obtainable and leav-
ing France and Belgium to their fate? You
would say she richly deserved the fate that
would shortly be hers. What is to be gained
by seeming friendship for a nation whose
government is undoubtedly even now in
league with the German enemy, just as much
as Ferdinand of Bulgaria was two years ago !?
There are doubtless good men and patriots
in Russia, but as race Kpling took their
measure thirty years ago. They have the
faults of the German without his virtues, and
are a bunch of cotton-tail cutters
JOHN KERR
Franklin. Manitoba. Dec. 26. 1917.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-04
Christian Science and Spiritism

New York, Jan. ., 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-04
U-Boats Still Active

A warning in advance prepared us for
the heavy weekly return of British losses
at sea- The list is upon the whole the
most disquieting of the last four months,
for the traffic, as shown in the report of
arrivals and snilings, is decidedly below
the average Very rarely in the last year
have the submarines had so few targets,
and only once since the first week Of Au-
gust has the weekly bag in large ships
been greater.
The only consolation is to be found in
an unofficial report "that there has been
marked increase in the number of u
boats sunk. We do not know, however,
how many U-boats are at work, and hence
it is impossible to determine how the ac-
count stands at present. The most COM
forting assurance ever given out by the
First Lord of the Admiralty was that the
attack on trade was "held'; he never pre-
tended, however, that it was defeated.
Whether it was even held during the last
week we cannot tell, nor is there any
possibility of determining whether the
marked increase" in the destruction of
submarines was sufficient to equal the
current output.
Accurate balancing Of the account is
clearly out of the question, but we do
know for a certainty that until lately
merchant ships were not building as fast
as the Germans were sinking them
Moreover, according to information in the
hands of the British Admiralty, the Ger
mans were t1rninp ont submarines MORO
rapidly than they were losing them. 1t
is now alleged that the number destroyed
last month exceeded the number built,
but upon what evidence this opinion is
founded it is difficult to say, and until we
are assured that it is justified it will be
impossible to feel that the anti-submarine
methods now in use are adequate
The disquietiNg fact we have to face
is this, that at best we are barely able to
hold our own against relatively small
number OF submarines AS warrant of
the great effort now making to clear the
seas of these pests it is pointed out in a
dispatch from London that thousands of
small craft are at work and that the num-
bcrs are constantly increasing When it
is considered, however, that the Germans
have probably never had more than fiftv
submarines at sea at any given time it
VIII be seen what an enormous effort has
to be made by the combined naves even
to neutralize their destructive work
What would have happened had the Ger
mans opened the war with a fleet of two or
three hundred instead of some thrty-odd?
New-York tribune., 1918-01-04
War Service by the High Schools
Could Be Modified To Centres of Community Influence
1eric Waller, of the Boys High School, Brooklyn.

dwell overmuch on this developing tragedy
nor should we ignore it. Let US, rather,
realize its inevitableness and It's meaning,
and prepare resoutely to meet it.
Let all right believing teachers in the high
schools of New York City then ask ques-
tions of themselves and seek diligently the
answers.
Where We Have Failed
Is it Fact that, while France and England
through many years of expectation were pre-.
pared psychologically for the war, we IN
America possess even to-day TO unconscious,
real, dependable sentiments to see it through
to the end? Is it true that while France has
from the first used the scfoohouses for in
structing and influencing the people, thus
working out and correlating community rea-
tionships, in America there are no such init
mate local groups of neighbors cooperating
with the government through the schools? :?
Why were the educational features of the
national food admin; ;stration largely aban-
noned? Why has there been no educational
follow-up through organized local groups
of the food saving campaign so admirably
begun by house-to-house visitation? Why
is there in our country--in the wide agri-
cultural districts of the West, in great East
ern cities, in the halls of Congress an ap-
preciable lack of deep. spiritually grounded
will to win the war? Robert Collier director
of the Training School fer Community Work
ers, recently suggested these questions to
the schoolmasters of New York at their re-
cent thrtieth anniversary meeting in this
city.
DR.. John H. Finley believes that every
schoohouse should be an energized centre Of
national as we'll community influence
that the nation expects the educational Off
Gals of the state to encourage the teachers
to render this service. AS in America the
dark war curtain falls, the men and women
who hold in their keeping the high schools
of New lork can do DO better than TO follow
the path of the faithful teacher in little
schoolhouse in France, not far from the
front. with scrupulous fidelity writes
Dr. Finley, che planned each days lesson in
advance, taught his children when they came,
and when they were absent in the fields
raised vegetables in the school yard finding
occasion meanwhile to move among the peo-
pie IN the village, instructing them for the
government how to give their savings TO the
national war loan" Imbued with this spirit
the high schools of New York City can per-
form constructive work that Will inspire the
nation and exert a strong influence in de-
veloping a war will among the people.
CLAUDE FREDERIC WALKER.
New York, Dec. 81, 1877
New-York tribune., 1918-01-04
A Slavish People

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The opinion which Hene the German
lyric poet, had of his fellow countrymen is
Of some interest at the present time. 1t was
this. "The German" he declares, "is like
the slave who obeys his masters word or
glance even, though he is not in fetters nor
threatened with a whip. Slavery is in his
very soul; worse than slavery of the body is
slavery of the soul. The Germans have to
be freed from within: nothing from without
will help" Again. in a poem which first
tells of how France and England disposed o.
their autocrats, he prophesies German rev.
olution in these ironical words: The Ger
man will ever treat royalty with respect. "
is in carriage OF state, drawn by six horses,
with sable plumes and trappings, on the box
a weeping coachman with Grape bound whip,
that the German monarch Will be driven TO
the place of execution and there most sub
missively guillotined."
curious section Of the Mosaic law stated
that ii slave who had been freed declined
to go out from the house of bondage he was
to be nailed by the ear to the gate OF his
masters house, and after being thus pub
licly exposed he was to be condemned to
lifelong slavery. "Oh Noses" wrote Hene'
exalted foe of all slavishness, give me ham.
mer and nails that l may nail to the gate OF
Brandenburg our complacent, long earee
slaves"
Heine died in 1856, but there is evl-
dence that the German people are any less
servile to their Prussan masters to-day than
they were sixty years ago. Therefore tnei
Prussan masters, who are menace to the
world, must be overthrown by the Allies
The German people will never have enough
of the spirit Of freemen to do it themselves $
A. HARE FORSTER.
Toronto, Canada, Jan. l, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-04

tary Baker does not go as far as the Brit
But it aims at divorcing the business side
Of the ordnance departments work from
the technical side. Contracts for ordnance
and munitions will be now put in charge Of
men trained in civil life, not hampered by
War Department traditions. They will
speed up production. They will inspect
arms and munitions and distribute them.
Thus the experts who decide on specif}ca-
tions and quantities will be freed from re-
sponsibility for actual production and de-
livery.
This division Of functions is a long step
In the right direction. It may be intended
to forcstall demand in Congress for the
creation Of Department Of Munitions,
with Cabinet head. British experience
might seem to Justify segregation of GER
tain powers now exercised by the Secre-
tary Of War. But the public here is inter-
ested in results rather than changes In
forms of administration. 1t will welcome
an invigoraton of the work Of the ord
nance department, whether it is secured
under Secretary of War or under a Sec
retary Of Munitions. The main thing is to
repair the blunders of the past. Secretary
Bakers action shows that he recognizes
the need of a more businesslike handling
of the ordnance and munitions problem.
Practically everybody else recognizes that
need. If we get more rifles, more machine
guns, more field guns and more ammuni-
ton, and get them at rate which will cut
rapidly into present and prospective de-
fciencies (no matter just how we get
them), the country will be satisfied.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-04
Ordnance Reorganization

General Crozier's testimony before the
Senate Military Affairs Committee made a
reorganization of the ordnance department
inevitable. The old organization was in
elastic, smothered in red tape, incapable
of responding to emergencies. 1t fitted in
perfectly with the scheme of q toy army,
such as we had at the time of the Spanish
war and after, and such as we had even
under the Hay reorganization of 1916.
1t was evident from General Crozier's
testimony that the ordnance department
was caught unprepared when Congress de-
clared war-more unprepared than it
should have been, in view of the deticien-
cies in ordnance which were disclosed by
the 1916 mobilization on the Mexican bor-
der. The army had always lived from hand
to mouth, so far as ordnance and muni
tons supplies are concerned. After war
came the country had to pay the usual
penalty for having tolerated hand-to-
mouth methods.
All the blame for shortages in rifles, ma
chine guns and light and heavy artillery
cannot be shifted to the shoulders of the
chief Of ordnance. Congress was at fault.
So was the Administration. SO was the
public. Under the circumstances, there
was no hope Of equipping the new armies
as fast as they could be raised. But it is
difficult to draw any other conclusion from
General Crozier's testimony before the
Senate committee than that he aggravated
delays in securing rifles and machine guns
(there was never any chance of getting
lndecislon in determining types of weapons
and lack of energy in speeding up manu-
facture.
General Crozier had too much to do. His
habits were moulded by long tenure of
office at the head of the ordnance depart
ment. He was deeply interested in the
technical intricacies Of the departments IS
work and more interested, no doubt, in
producing a perfect weapon than in get
ting a less perfect but still workable
weapon for early delivery. He under
valued the element Of economy in time
and, apparently, failed to make the best
possible use Of facilities in the wav of
ordnance manufacture created here to
meet the demands of the Entente Allies.
Great Britain had the same experience
with her technical staff as we have had
with ours. The production of munitions
on vast scale swamped the military bu-
reaus, and the British government was
forced to take control of that produc-
ton away from the ordnance experts and
to put it into the hands of civilian Cabi-
net minister. Lloyd George was made Min
lister of Munitions because he was the most
promising man in sight to direct what was
seen to be in its essence an industrial
rather than a military undertaking.
The reorganization announced by Secre-
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BECOMES tRKSoME AT TIMES Ns Matter What the Nature of one's Occupation, Its Routine Will oe"
 casionalIy Weary.

Are there times when your work be" comes intOlerably irkSome? Yes? Well, don't jump at the conclusion that you are in the wrong place when this hap pens once ia awhile. That Will be true whatever work you choose. No matter how we'll adapted you are to your oecu- patton, there will come times when your thoughts will wander, and tho routine will weary you, and you will feel that any other work would be preferable to that which you have chosen. One of the best-known woman writers of the last generation wrote an impasSloned warning to literary Ns- pirants, telling them to do any work, even scrubblng floors, in preference to taking up literary career. Undoubt' edIy she wrote at time when her chosen work seemed unspeakably irk- some, but # she had been cornered, she would probably have acknowledged that the profession of authorship haR considerable to commend 1t when com pared with scrubbing floors.
 This occasional impatience with our vocation Is inevitable. No matter how congenial 1t is, there are times when it will seem a burden. The people who change their occupation every time 1t begins to bore them, are the tramPs ot the business world.