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RI ALL DEPENDS ON WHO RUNS THE
RAILROADS!

lizard conditions have forced the Gov
- \ ernment in Washington to abandon its
demagogic attitude of recent years on the
subject of railroad rates and to consider
Il on it's merits
With a single sweeping movement of the
sponge, Mr.. McAdoo has wiped out the old
two-cent-a-mile theory and the Middle
West-Populist teachings, that the railroads
must carry freight and passengers at a
low rate regardless of the cost of the serr-
ice. This has happened in less than five
months after the Government began its
attempt to operate the railroads
The Government discovered that the
roads could not be maintained and operated
under the conditions by which they were
hampered under private management. The
expenditure of a billion dollars for new
equipment and repairs this year was its
FIRST radical act. The railroads had been
demanding for several years such an in
crease of rates would make it possible
to raise the money to make the needed
repairs. But the Interstate Commerce
Commission, cowed by the political attacks
on the railroads, refused to consent to the
increase.
raises the rates for freight % per cent and
hxes the minimum passenger rate at three
cents a mile instead of two. This will in
crease the revenues nearly ss5O,0OOOOO
year OF this sum $500, ,OO0O 900 will be
needed TO pay an increase in wages granted
10 the employees. About $3.50 900 900 will
be needed to pay the coal bills, which have
Increased that amount over the sum re-
quired in 1915. The remainder will be re-
quired to pay the increased cost Of other
supplies.
The danger in the present crisis is that
Mr.. McAdoo, confronted by the necessity
Of reinvigorating the railroads that have
been starved for years. will overfeed them
and penalize the users of them by increas-
ing the rates too much. We are so eager
10 win the war that we will submit to
abuses which we would not tolerate in
time of peace. But we have right to
expect that Mr. 'McAdoo will correct abuses
~ fast as they are pointed out to him.
And. incidentally, we also have a right to
expect that he will correct the abuses in
rates that have grown up through the dis.
regard of the railroads for the rights of
the different Atlantic coast cities, most of
which have suffered through the anxiety of
the railroads 70 favor the port of New York.
We need look no further than Philadelphia
to get clear case of such discrimination.
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THOSE WHO ARE MISSED

CCRELY the world cherishes a great and
Ssecret affection for those who help it to
6orGst its conventional troubles Anna
Aeld, who is dying in New York, never
added anything to wisdom or science. She
4lecovered no new country and founded
% PHILOSOPHERS. And yet flowers are
showering in on her from the four corners
~ the country, sent by men and women
whose names she doesn't even know. Tele-
grams of sympathy arrive in a constant
nood. She helped people to laugh occasion
ally That was ALL
Economists without number explorers,
historians, scholars and the like, die and
the great populace Is not moved to sorrow
Science is concerned with projects to make
lie happier, and better in the future.
Those who happen along to make life hap
pier in the immediate present are richly
rewarded when they live and mourned
when they die. And that is about as it
should be-
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THE DRIVE

At THE outset of what some observers
"A believe to be the eliminating action Of
the war, Germany is menaCed at the rear
as we'll upon the front. The Germans
have devastated merely the soil of France
and Belgium. But the desolation visited
by the French and the British, America
and Italy, in various ways. upon the
common enemy, has gone deeper than the
earth. The spirit of Germany has been
given to fire and tears. The Kaiser and
his keepers rule sick land land weak
ened by fear and hunger and sorrows un-
speakable. Despair has crowded into every
home. The soaring horrors of disillusion-
ment shadow the lives Of all the people
Reinsurance Of some sort is essential to
keep Germany in equilibrium under this
burden of afiiction. The people have long
perceived in the Potsdam element nothing
more than a clique of ridiculous liars
Governmental brag no longer serves as a
means of stimulus for the disheartened
Hun. A military victory is imperative
And the victory must look impressive in
print
This may explain the renewal Of the
drive in the general direction of Paris
Such an advance might fairly be plotted for
moral effect rather than for any immediate
military advantage. No advance in the
south could possibly bring about a decisive
victory. Paris might fall and yet the great
menace of the Allied armies, in positions
as strong those they hold at present
would remain. An advance carried far in
the north, however, where the British are
holding, would actually involve huge bepe-
4.
may be developing in connection with the
extensive blow on the Rheims scissors line
in the south.
An army such as Marshal Haig com.
mands in the north of France requires
great deal of free ground in it's rear for
purposes of transport and maneuver, for
the disposition and maintenance of re-
serves. A glance at any map will show
that the British have about fifty miles of
lapd intervening between them and the
sea on the line running from Ypres south
TO Amiens They need every mile of that
ground. forced retirement. any action
that might crowd them back for any con-
siderable distance, would endanger their
entire system OF transport and place the
line and reserve armies in danger of rout
The movements of troops necessary in bat
ties so vast as they must fight would no
longer be easily possible or sure. There
fore. Il seems logical 20 expect that the
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THE CANTEEN
By Phoebe Hoffman

THE road to France is long, long road
Over mountains and sea and plains.
But whether they're passing north OF
south,
"To France" sing the painting trains.
o pilgrims to the battlefelds,
Crusaders for our cause,
We can but give you food and drink
AS the snortng engines pause
We joke and pass out cigarettes
And shake your eager hands,
And wish you all "the best o luck
Out there" in foreign lands.
We can but give you food and drink
And shake your eager hands,
But we are with you night and day
"Out there" in foreign lands.
The road to France is long, long road
Over mountains and sea and plains,
But whether they're passing North or
south
We're there for the painting trains.
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a POOR EXCUSE IS WORSE THAN NONE

UYHEN Senator Gerry, 81 Rhode Island,
~ seconded by Senator Salisbury, of
Delaware, urged the passage of a bill
making bribery at the election of Senators
and members of the House of Representa-.
lives crime. Senators HardwicaI and
<7ronna objected to the consideration of
the measure.
They said the bill did not go far enough
md also that the task of drafting an ade-
mate corrupt practices act was so compli-
14<ed that no one had yet succeeded in
@eipE II. These gentleman may be right.
~ uaay be impossible to draft an ideal
16aenre. But the Gerry bill, favorably
j. 3e1rorted by the Committee on Privileges
16 Elections, is so simple and direct that
4 &ccomplishes what is intended, namely
(he classification of bribery at a Federal
>. clection as q crime and the fixing of its
Deualty
Hribsry is unpunished in both Delaware
&nt Rhode Island. according to the Sena-
<cE4 from those States. There is no Federal
HH under which It can be punished and
~ STATE courts refuse to enforce the
>f> }avs.
no cscuse OF Hardwick and Gronna for
>>1ins the Gerry bill is so poor that
~ might better have offered none The
eosht TO be passed for the protection
tlsc{ion this year. Then when the
- have succeeded In drafting a
can bs SUPERSEDED.
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Stamps and War

Liberty Bonds and taxation are to be the
methods by which the Government Is to
raise money to promote the war, but there
is no doubt 1t can depend much upon thrift
stamps, for by this means everybody If he
Is anybody. gives something, and that little
massed together will go great way toward
paying the expense of the war. Don't have
It said back in the dark closets of your own
conscience that you have not bought thrift
stamp II is so easy to show ones devotion
to the Republic that nobody can have the
slightest reason for not owning several
stamps Buy them, keep on buying them, for
II is really the best way to supply the
bows at the front. II we were going to
question a person to sound his patriotism,
we would ask, have you a thrift or war
savings stamp?-Ohio State Journal
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queer
Ring for the Pulmotor

Hindy called England's first expedition
airy force a contemplate little army; per-
haps he thinks typhoid is only a contempti-
BILE little fever
First Hindy had special kind of Iron
Cross soldered on to him; then he was
dead; now he has typhoid. Is it possible
that a hot dry climate doesn't agree with
him?
Germany is always prepared. Now she
Is getting ready every possible excuse in
advance for the failure of the new drive
We are expecting every day to hear that
Tirpitz has hydrophobia, which will ex-
plain the reluctance of the German fleet
to get wet.
Perhaps they're refittinE those German
dreadnoughts to operate on land as super
tanks. They don't seem to be much use
on sea.
At least the Kaiser's fleet will never get
barnacled from too long voyaging on salt
water.
But to return to Hindy: Perhaps his
trouble is Pershingitis. The symptoms are
annoying olive drab spots dancing across
the retina. The sad feature Of Pershingitis
is that it gets steadily more severe.
Or perhaps Hindy's ailment is akin to
the Ksisers. The Kaiser has a withered
arm; Hindy withered army.
SOCRATES.
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The Historic Reconciliation

THE following verbatim report Of an af-
L fectine scene enacted at the Blackstone
Hotel. Chicago, last Sunday has been re-
ceived in this office. The language is some
what surprisingly phrased. but the prin
cipals in the episode seem to have acted
in character and the veraCious flavor Of
the sentiments expressed inspires the re
fection that our correspondent has scored
a beat on lot of other reporters Here
is his stenographic record
R-t-You have done that you should be
sorry for. Was that done like Tt?
T-t-1 denied you not.
R-t--YOu did
T-t-I did not. He was but a fool that
brought my answer back. R--t hath rived
my heart. friend should bear friends
intrmites
R--t-Be angry when you will DO what
you will Tt. you yoked with a
lamb that carries anger as the flint bears FIRE
who much enforced shows a hasty spark and
straight Is cold again.
T-t-Hsth Tt lived to be but mirth and
laughter to his R-t, when grief and blood
ill-tempered vexeth him?
R-t-When I spoke that I ill-tem-
pered, too.
T-t---Do you confess so much? Give me
R-t-And my heart too. A bowl Of wine
TIL did not think you could have been
so angry.
RIO Tt, am sick of many grefs.
Give me a bowl of wine. In this bury all
unkndness. Tt,
T--t-My heart is weary for that noble
pledge. Fill till the wine oerfows the cup.
| cannot drink too deep of R--t's love.
R-t-Our cause Is ripe. There is a tide
into the affairs of men which taken at the
flood leads on to fortune omitted. all the
voyage of their life is bound in shadows and
in miseries. On such a fun as now
afoat and we must take the current when it
serves or lose our ventures.
T-t-Then with your will, go on.
R-t-The deep of night Is crept upon our
talk There is no more to say?
T-t-No more. Goodnight.
R-t-Nohle noble Tt, goodnight, and
good repose.
ITO my dear brother. Never come
such division between our souls. Let 1t
not. R-t.
R-t-Everythng is well.
T-t-Good- might, my lord
R-t-Good- might, good brother!
Our correspondent insists that the fore
going conversation Is accurately chron-
icled and he explains the occasional thea
tricism of the language with the observa-
tion-which he claims is original-that
all the worlds a stage" He adds, also,
that he has written good thirty-seven plays
"A statement hard to credit, in view Of
the fact that none OF the managers seems
anxious for them.
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full force Of the German thrust will ulti-
mateiy be delivered north Of Amiens. Near
iy every military man who has studied the
problem Of the British has agreed that an
extensive forced retirement II once begun.
would be swiftly continued until the Allied
armies were re-established on the line OF
the Somme River, from the sea to Amiens.
Such a retirement would give the Germans
the Channel ports, Calais and Boulogne,
and would permit them to realize their
ancient dream OF a bombardment of Eng
land.
HindenburS or Ludendorff, or whoever is
directing the German strategy, doubtless
would be willing to sacrifice men with the
utmost ruthlessness to such an end The
situation is clearly understood by Allied
commanders. The British have commented
upon It with consistent nonChalance. The
prediction of awful fghtins made recently
by the various generals seems to have
been based upon knowledge OF German
difficulties at home. The German army
must win and win quickly or dig in to
await slow annhilation under the tramping
feet Of vastly superior forces in the days
when America has her mighty armies
ready.
Meanwhile. the people at home in Ger.
many mutter in pain and die OF slow
starvation. They will never revolt unless
the army turns against the Government.
And the army is not likely to turn against
the Government so long as it is we'll fed
and thoroughly deceived. unless severely
defeated. The drive may fail Of effect and
leave only a more acute social crisis to
brew in Germany. or the Allies may suf-
fer another setback, re-estahish themselves
further south and stil wait for the moment
Of the inevitable German defeat.
The Allies may retire. But they cannot
lose.
Germany may advance, but she cannot
win.
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mad tried 10 swallow the whale.
There is a very comfortable analogy be-
tween Jonah and Prussan miltarism.
Jonah was told by the Lord to go and re-
buke Nineveh for its wickedness. He didn't
relish the assignment and fed on ship
board for Tarshish. Tarshish is supposed
to have been somewhere In Spain: 80 go
to Tarshsh' was perhaps a slang phrase
of that day meaning to indulge in pleasant
dreams. like our building castles in Spain"
Tarshish was a distant land Of blue sky
and orange groves land where ones am.
bitions would be amply fulfilled.
The Tarshish Of the Prusslan miitarists
was the vision Of world domination. It
included a fourtrack. heavily halasted
esenbahn to Bagdad, and Texas presided
over by Carranza, and England ruled by
Sir Roger Easement The German mill
tarists, like Jonah, fed from the presence
OF the Lord. That was on July ;. 1914.
when the Kaiser held his great council at
Fotsdam. The war was cut and dried in
advance from that date: or 50 they thought,
Germany took ship for Tarshish.
'''' 's''' Wv d - ea' VIM '"'o
in the sea, so that the ship was like to be
broker"
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MOTHER GOOSE ON WINGS

CING a song of airships, Ia
~ Like birds up in the sky; .
Taking mail to Washington;
See them soar SO high!
was in the garden
Watching a sweet rose,
Heard the engine humming,
/ called out There he goes!"
And kiss sent him.
A man ! never knew,
And prayed that God would keep him
Until mis- journeys through.
s. CONSTANCE BOEHM.
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"ElseUhere the Night Was Quiet"
By LIEUTENANT LEON ARCHIBALD
British Royal Engineers

to make Fritz look for an assault in an
altogether different locality from the one
we have selected. Curiously enough an
instant later there streams through the air
above our heads and from our own para
pet a thin thread of fire, which bursts
above the foe trench into dazzling ball
of light and where had appeared the blind
ing flash in the entanglement Of wire i'm
medately in front, there now lies open a
cleany cut path ten feet in width, leading
right through to the parapet Of the trench.
QUICKLY and still silently a rushing
Vbody of Killed and blackened-faCed men
swarm up this path and with a roar are
"over the bags" and into the enemy trench.
Here the body splits into two parties again,
each surging and fighting It's way in oppo-
site directions along the trench, Each man
has an appointed task to perform, all ex-
cepting one, who merely comes as spec
tator and with the intention of annexing a
souvenir or two He is the engineer officer
whose duties ended with the sudden appear
ance of that neatly cut path through the
tanglefoot
Ssignal, and although the watches indi
cate seven minutes past two, 1t seems that
but a minute before we were scramblins
in through the gap. Down the trench from
both directions come painting men in kits
Their faces are blackened and they wear
no badges. bur from the pockets of their
tunics have disappeared those peculiarly
shaped bulges. Some of them limp. others
have to be entirely supported, while others
of them urge along In no uncertain fashion
frightened and battered looking creatures
in gray uniforms. Back they go across No
Mans Land to their own trenches. Tonight
we are more fortunate than usual, for we
have beaten the Boche gunners home by
several seconds. Sometimes we don't.
INTO THE eager hands Of battalion head
L quarters go, on this occasion, six pris.
oners; while back to the first aid" post
there slowly moves the procession Of our
own wastage. Tonight there are but eight
casualties and no missing" Some of the
wounds are slight, others are more serious
one of the officers is minus an arm. But
sometimes the record is different. Yet G..
II. O. announces next morning that Last
night on the Arras front there was pro-
nounced activity from the enemys artillery,
elsewhere the night was quiet"
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A Business Proposition

Vers Iibre from the Little Rock Gazette:
Oscar says
That since the daylight-saving plan
Went into effect
He has saved
About fifteen hours.
Which he would like to trade
For a ham or something.
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The Germans have put one over on Luther
Burbank, for they handed the Russians q
perfectly good olive branch bearing full
grown lemons.--Hickory On. c. Record.
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Theory and Reality

It is strange that our soap box orators
don't go TO Russia, where everything Is so
lovely under Socialism and where things only
cost ive times much as they do here
New Haven Union.
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No Wonder

One of the American boys in Pershing's
army writes home that he has survived six
gas attacks. His marvellous endurance is
accounted for by the fact that he halls from
Lincoln, Neb.-Rochester Post Express.
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What Do You KnO,v?
QUIZ

QUIZ.
l. Identify ''the SAGE of Kinderhook."
e. What Is a geyser9
g. Name the author of "Pendennis."
l. What Is the distinction between sarcasm and
irony?
s. Where IL Riga?
o. Who i CSloneI General Conrad Won HOet-
I. Who was Mereuryf
g. What Il the normal and present value Of %
, German mark?
o. What IL a spiritual?
TO- Who 10 Herr EmminEer?
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Answers to Yesterdays Quiz
l. Yale University Is located at New Haven,
Conn.
2. Charles Dickens wrote "a Tale Of Two
Cities"
Indians Ground"
4, The following three Presidents died on In
- dependenee Day: John Adams, Thomae
Jefferson, In 1870. and James Monroe In
1881.
aETarian rehabilitation Of ireland, He
y was chairman Of the recent homo rule
convention.
a. "Y NJ n. A. is the familiar appsilation
for the Young Mems Hebrew Association.
l. Vermont was tine first State admitted into
the union Of the thirteen original states.
g. A concerto Is o IarEe musical form, written
for Q solo Instrument With fun orches-
tral accompaniment. q
o. The Mormons settled Utah.
10. "Giye them little more grape, Captain
Bragg," said By General Zaghary Taylor
81 NJ, battle Of Bssna Vista. February
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In Austria they are
But II Was Lined exhuming coffins to
with Asbestos rip out tn" zinc IN
ings for military uses.
How. about tho ca.afaloun Of the late Fran
cis Joseph? That ought 70 make deadly
projeCtile indeed.
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The prussian Way

Germany's idea of self-deter1nination Is to
send efficient butchers to those countries
which the gnominlous Bolsheviki forced into
political MISUNDERSTANDING News
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THE ELECTRIC CHAIR
Billet Doux
a NCAdoo

McAdoo
DELIENE ME, if those communicating
- young charms
Which have raised fares to three cents
a mile,
Should compel us commuters to walk from
our farms
We still will have courage and smile;
the roads,
Your tariffs go hitch to a star
We commuters will carry the heaviest
loads
If you'll just keep our Bonds above par.
While MIR. MCAdoo is ommandeering all
public utilities suppose he should take it
into his head to federalize the Electric
Chair? Would he pay US three cents a
smile?
Prescribing for Hndy
When Hindenburg feels sickly
His case is hard to chart:
this
like
tenn
His
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Then and Now

The main difference between a modern
Bolshevist and an ancient French Terrorist
is that the latter took a chance.-Washing-
ton Post
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The kind of an Independence Day cele-
bration that the world is looking for will be
staged in Germany when the peace treaty Is
signed freeing the oppressed people from
military junkerism-
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Germany has again
Only Germany's express ID warm
Enemies Are safe friendship for Russia.
And simultaneously
the official newspaper or the Bolsheviki has
said that Russia should accept military aid
from the Allies The Boshcvii are learning.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-28

Mexico's chief kick seems to be that full
enjoyment of her chronic crises Is hampered
nv Cuban respect for orderly COVER nment
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The Mayor says he smelled rat in the
latest garbage bid Is that new term for
= contract juggler?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-28

Tudge Bonuwell demands State chair
man sympathetic with his ambitions. How
would Neil Bonner do
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Hndenburg is dying peacefully of ty-
phoid. The Kaiser wishes, doubtless, that he
could get out of it 50 easily.
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Bernstorff is said to be behind the Ger
man plot in Ireland, but he seems to have
been too far behind to do much with 1t.