Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-31

clergymen is largely due to the fact that
only in times like these can a clergyman tell
people to go to hell with propriety. There
Is also the pathetic desire to show that a
minister of the Gospel can see red with the
worst of us.
TT HAS not yet been determined whether
L the military critics know more about the
strategy of the Hindenburg line than Gen.
eral Foch does. What is certain is that the
field marshals and write
ever so much better than the war correspond
ents and perhaps we might throw in edi-
torial writer's. Take Pershing's general order
to the Americans who fought on the Marine:
In conjunction with our allies. you counter
attacked. The Allies gained a brilliant vic.
tory that marks the turning point Of the
war. You did more than to give to the Allies
the support to which, as a nation, our faith
was pledged. You proved that our altruism.
our pacific spirit, and our sense of justice
have not blunted our virility or our courage"
or course, it Is just possible that some
former newspaperman now on Pershing's
staff is the author but just possible. Some
body in the scribbling line must be the real
author of Lafayette, nous VOLTA - one of the
poor spotlight phrases of the war wished
upon Pershing, and by him. not denied be-
cause otherwise engaged in making cruel and
pertinent remarks about the fuselage on the
De Haviland 4.
INCIDENTALLY, what does Pershing mean
i by referring to "our allies when he
knows that they are not our allies? We are
only lending them food and money and Dor
rowing from them aeroplanes and guns we
are only fighting by their side, and we are
only going to make peace together; but they
are not our allies, Pershing should have
said, In conjunction with the nations of the
Entente, whose commander-in-chief is our
commander-in-chief," and sternly depressed
any attempt to wink on the part of his adju-
tant-stenographer.
A UTHORS Of the new school of auto
n biographical fiction can easily save the
Is per cent of white paper required under
the new regulations by beginning their story
four years after the hero's birth instead of
seven years before.
ssYTNHE chemical works north of Roeux are
i again in our possession" wrote Field
Marshal Haig last Monday. Without doubt
the most tragic chemical works in the whole
history of chemistry; a ciucible of flame and
blood and flesh stewing in an atmosphere Of
poison gas ard smoke cloud. during the bit
ter months of last autumn at the tip of the
Hindenburg line and now again. There are
war industries and war industries, The bulk
of them are anywhere from SO to 5000 miles
behind the battleline only to a few has fallen
the marvellous advertising advantages of
meeting the war face to face. There are
the chemical works at Roeux. There is the
famous licorice factory at Kut-el-Amara,
whose fall probably meant the fall of the
Turkish rule in Mesopotamia. There was a
certain fatal brewery in Flanders, at Cav
relle, / think, around which flowed a more
ominous compound than malt and hops.
There was a certain brickyard. near Notre
Dame de Lorette, II I remember correctly.
And there was the ferryman's house on the
User, whose only rival in history will be
| the ferryman of the Styx.
PROHIBITION has been postponed till
u July I. 1919, in order to save $500, 900, o0C
In liquor taxes required by the forthcoming
revenue bill. ThIssks common sense. making
the devil disgorn }pre shooting him. Only
a fool woyll demon that lays the