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Vhat Does Germany Expect? Germany certainly does not believe that the Allies will treat her as if she were some headfctrong child guilty of an insignificant infraction of a household rule. Her leaders and people assuredly do not entertain the delusion that her bloody crimes against civilization will be condoned and overlooked. ' Her own treatment of the peoples she conquered is a strong argument against soft mercy and easy terms. She not only assessed heavy fines against conquered towns and districts, but also looted the palaces of the rich and the cottages of the poor. Frightful brutalities were visited upon the residents of the conquered districts for petty offenses against the military regime or for fancied resentment against the German invasion. 7 ' In reply to every protest of the nations from the violation of the Belgian treaty to the sacking and burning of French and Belgian cities in the . present retreat, Germany has had one answer, "military necessity." She condoned her aerial bombardments of London and Paris, her torpedoing of hospital ships, and her shelling of plainly marked Red Cross hospitals with the same excuse. It is interesting to note, however, that she asked for the cessation of aerial bombardments just as soon as allied aviators began to shower bombs cn the Rhine district cities. One taste of her own medicine was all she could stand. And now, when her whole military establishment is going to pieces, and the occupation of German territory is imminent, she is making an eleventh hour deathbed effort to stave off the inevitable consequences of her moral delinquencies. She reminds one of a knave and rascal who, after cheating, browbeating and assaulting people all his life, asks for cessation of punishment when, his former victims finally catch him. Germany cannot expect England, France and Belgium to forget and forgive the frightful

Germany DefeatedMilitary Surrender Question of Time

By IIILAIRE BELLOC Author of "Elements of the Great War" and Britain's Most Distinguished Military Critic ,

Copyright, 1918, New IT IS characteristic of all siege operations that their course is monotonous save for a few crisises, that seem Interminable and suddenly there comes to issue things which surprise the principal actors in the drama, let alone the spectator. It is another characteristic In such operations that the conclusion, when it does come, Is tremendous on the military side. The end of the siege nearly always brings either triumph of the garrison expressed In raising the siege, or in favorable terms of compromise, or It means the complete elimination of the garrison as a fighting force. This great war has been essentially one long siege. It has consisted in a continuous defense of special works and alternate advances by besiegers. Above all, it has the supreme char-1 aeteristic of the siege of a war of at trition. The campaign depended upon the moment when it was turned into a siege during the autumn of 1914, upon the calculation of numbers. The enemy had allowed himself to be contained when he lost the battle of the Marne, and when subsequently he failed to get out by the gap against the channel. Once so contained, the issue was a question of numbers, the number of trained men available and Ihe material number. For two years he steadily was worn down, although he had started with great numerical superiority. The attack on Verdun a vastly extensive onefalled him, and the great batle cf the Sorame exhaustrd hi:? strength relatively to the Allies, when in December, 191G, he asked for peace. Ho wa3 not yet beaten, but the future seemed hopeless. He was anxious in the extreme. He progosed, qis as the besieged always propose at a certain stage of exhaustion, to parley. Ills proposal was rejected. In this crisis his fortunes turned, and he shared luck almost unparalleled in the history of sieges, large or small. One-half of the beleaguering ring around him collapsed from within the Russian army, which broke up through the break up of the Russian state. The capture of the capital by a gang of international adventurers and the rapid disollution of all authority put Russia out of the war. Tho situation had entirely changed. The numbers were and always would remain in favor of the beseiged, who was now but partly contained upon ! the west, for the eastern restriction I had disappeared.

Advantage was taken of this new j polled to a general retreat, which ex-; superiority in numbers to withdrav j tended from the sector in front ofj great numbers from tho fronts, to give Doual right down to the Argonne. j them special training and create a Where that retreat is to end neither; new tactical instrument which should,1 we nor tho enemy can tell. He can-i 1 reck perilously tho western snanot retire indefinitely for this reason: j anu mo wail in iLc twt'oro th3At a very fow miles behind his pres-i

of nobility, down never stop until the same sort of

generosity and nobleness on every tissue of the body and every faculty of the mind. Every nerve, every atom in your body will take on the character and the quality of the thought,- motive or mood which set it in motion.

York Tribune Inc. arrival of ments. the American reinforceWe know how nearly successful this new phase of the besieged one due ultimately to his new superiority in numbers proved. The now instrument first came into play against the Italian sector at Caporetto. It came within an ace of breaking that front altogether and raising the siege. The great sortie only just failed to accomplish its purpose. It was checked at last upon the uncertain lines of the Piave. The next use of the new instrument was even more formidable. It struck on March 21, of this year, between Arras and St. Quentin against the British army with the object of separating it from the French and breaking the siege wall here for good. unce more it all but succeeded. On March 22 there was a clear Break inrougn ana a rapid retirement, involving the loss of over 100,000 prisoners, 1,000 guns and the destruction of the whole army to the left of the gap between the French and British, which was closed only at the very last moment by the arrival of fresh reserves, and on April 4, the action in which the Germans failed showed that their line had rejoined. This- was by far the most critical moment of the war. . . When the full breakdown of the last German attack came on July 15, and Foch's counter attack cn July 13, the face of the war numbers changed, but they "are not yet equal in the west. But the Americans are arriving with extraordinary and quite unexpected rapidity, and the tide will turn briefly. What remained to be seen was whether the allied armies, when this superiority of numbers should be theirs once more, would be ! able to do what the enemy had tried while he had the advantage and failed to do. He had never quite broken the siege wall in his great sorties, not even on March 22. Would the allied armies in the west prove more capable and succeed in effecting the break in his works? That was the problem of this late summer and autumn. It has been solved. The bfeach wa3 made Tuesday, Oct. 8, by the British armies with the American contingents between Cambrai and St. Quentin, and rather nearer the former than the latter town. The effort took two clays. It was complete ly successful by the evening of the second day, Wednesday, and by Thursday the magnitude of the event appeared. The whole German line was com-!

atrocities that have been visited upon these countries. The Allies all along have asserted that they were not fighting merely for the destruction of Germany but for the eradication of the false principle upon which the German state rests, and that they look upon themselves as agencies for the vindication of justice and the establishment of righteousness. The Allies, without arrogating to themselves power which is not theirs, constitute, a tribunal which will administer justice for Germany's crimes. - Germany has been hard and relentless in her punishment of the nations that crossed her path. She has been vindictive and cruel. Never has she exhibited mercy and loving kindness. Always have force and retribution been the principles of her conduct. She has set these up as standards of conduct. Let us examine some of her own statements. Fichte says: "To compel men to a state of

right to put them under the yoke of right by force, is not only the right but the sacred duty of every man who has the knowledge of power." Karl A. Kuhn asserts : "The might of the conqueror is the highest l,aw before which the conquered must bow." , K. F. Wolff argues: "Conquest in particular is always a function of the dominant race. The principal thing for the ;conqueror is the outspoken will to rule." ! " These are only a "few citations from "Conquest and Kultur," but they indicate plainly that the Germans believe in the right of the victor to impose conditions that will safeguard his interests. If this is the belief and theory of the Germans, why should they complain if the Allies remove forever the danger of militarism, barbarism, and the Hohenzollern house, factors that are inimical not only to the peace of Europe but to the safety of civilization?

Character Formed by Thought From "Love's Way," by Orison Swett Marden (Thomas Y. Crowell Company) EVERY bit of passion', every Excited state of mind, every discouraged or despondent thought, all vibrations of anger, hatred, revenge, Jealousy, avarice.

or any sort of meanness, will be recorded with scientific

accuracy not only in the warp and woof of our character, hut also in the fiber o'f our physical being. Similarly, if you send a current of hope, of love, of joy, of generosity.

through the nervous system it will it has set every cell in your body into vibration, stamping hope and joy and ent positions twelve miles behind his first posts is Solemes, and twenty miles from his advanced posts on his left front in front of Dan-sur-Meuse runs his great lateial railway communication system, linking Metz and Lille byway of Sedan, Mezieres and Valonciennes. If he were to retire beyond that line, or rather, beyond the line which fully covers it from fire, he would have his armies separated into two groups, with the left hand or southern group dependent upon Lorraine and right hand or northern group dependent on Belgium. His center, in front of the Ardennes, would be deprived of supplies, for the Ardennes country is such that no considerable supplies can come across it. But if the German armies were thus divided in two they would be easy prey for an attack which had behind it a whole network of good communications, which could move men from left to right and from right to left at will in numbers far greater and increasingly greater than those of the defense, and which would have the power of striking either half of an isolated portion of the defence at will, concentrating upon whichever fraction was the most vulnerable. While we watch this situation with its rapid development in our favor we should do well to appreciate its immediate causes, for it is only thus that we can appreciate the possible future. The first great cause of the (deplorable situation in which the Ger man armies now find themselves is exhaustion and on that exhaustion ultimately depends their policy during the great offensive of the spring and i early summer. The enemy gambled upon obtaining a decision before American aid could become efficacious. He spent men like water from March 21 to July 15, and, what is more, even after he had lost clearly on July IS, he hesitated, probably from political reasons, to retire. Ho lost multi tudes more in trying to stand on the two great salients of Amiens and the Marne and in trvintr to hold tlm fnro. field,, as he calls it, of the Hindenburg j une, ana, anove all, in strenuously clinging to the great hill pivot of St. Gobain. It is not always appreciated that his total casualties Eince the beginning of the year amount to approximately 2,000,000 men, and of this enormous total a good deal more than 1,000,000 are what is called "definite losses," that is, losses that never return, dead, mutilated and prisoners. It was upon this situation of already far advanced exhaustion that the counter offensive fell on July 18, when the attack was delivered by the French and Americans "between Chateau Thierry and Soissons. There was not onlv nn ?ri. on the Allied side, but also the acute problem of recruitment. The enemy had for recruiting the enormous gaps in his effectives only two sources left, one the returns from the hospitals and the young class of 1920. t Now, this young class of 1920 I3 a poor standby. Let us explain its weakness. - The class of 1920 means boys who attain their eighteenth year In the course of the present year. Not all of them therefore, are even eighteen years of age, and though on pa"Over There" SERVICE PINS Wear one la honor of your boy JENKINS & CO. Jewelers

per the full quota, excluding those who will have to be put back on account of Immaturity, is 450,000 "men," yet in practice the amount one . can draft into the combatant units Is very much less. The experience of all the other belligerents in this regard is most significant. Great Britain at one critical moment was sending out boys rather over eighteen and one-half years old. It was thought a -doubtful expedient and was discontinued the moment the worst crisis had passed. No one thought of sending out boyB younger than eighteen., The further total fit for service is not large. France has always refused to send any one into the field under nineteen. Her corresponding class of 1920 is nowhere near active service yet. There is another extremely important point in this connection. When yo"ur youngest classes are drafted in in small amounts they are, so to speak, digested by the mass of the army. But when you send bad material of this kind in on a great scale it works the other way round. It is not they who are digested, but they who lower the

value of the whole. The classical instance is that of Napoleon in 1814-'15. Napoleon was also defeated by exhaustion in recruitment, and the poor material on which he had to fall back poured in in such numbers that the whole texture of the army suffered. - Now, supposing this German class of 1920 should count in effectives not mora than 400,000, that Is more than a third of the infantry actually fighting on the western front and is quite a quarter of the total forces in the western war zone of the Germans. The proportions are far too high. You cannot use such material on such a scale, and it is this penury in recruitment, this absolutely inexorable condition,' that is dominating the whole near future of the war, which is compelling Germany to surrender. These words will be printed, perhaps, after the political decisions have been taten, at any rate, many days after they are written. But there may stiil be time for one out of so many ephemeral writers upon this war to point out the extreme gravity attaching to any misjudgment of the situation. Prussia has brought herself to a condition where she must inevitably suffer total defeat unless there is a political blunder on the part of the allies. It is absolutely inevitable, short of such a blunder, that the Prussian military machine, the curse of Europe and the world, will be destroyed, not weakened, but destroyed, put out of action altogether. The only cause that could possibly lead to its salvation would be a misunderstanding of the complete breakdown which the machine has already suffered. j Only too great dependence upon the memory of the immediate past and consequent exaggeration of Prussia's present power could make any civilian politician so foolish as to advise a compromise. For such a compromise there is no military ground whatsoever. The defeat is absolute already in substance and it will appear even to the most superficial in a very brief time. Make Wasladay a PleasureNo more blue Mondays by using MAGIC MARVEL i For sale by Conkey Drug Co. D. W. Walters. 107 S. 9th St., y Mfgr. Ask your srocer.

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St. Paul's Lutheran 401 South Seventh street. Rev, F. W. Rohlflng, D, D., pastor. Since there will be no services Sunday, the members are kindly asked to study the Sunday school lesson. Genesis 22:1-14, and .to read the Epistle Ephesians 6:10-17 and the Gospel John 4:46-54 for the Sunday .after Trinity. Very appropdiate hymi are "Stand Up, Stand Up, for Jesus," 531, and, "Onward Christian Soldier," 541. An appropriate evening lesson would be the 14th chapter of St. John. "Lead, Kindly Light,'!. 392 and "We Are But Strangers Here," 591, would be appropriate hymns. "Worship the Lord inthe Beauty of Holiness; Fear Before Him All the Earth." Th members of St. Paul's Episcopal church are asked to observe Sunday as directed by, and expressed in, the Book of Common Prayer. The laity may use the Offices of Morning and Evening Prayer, and it is further suggested that these be read at the regular hours cf srvice, 10:20 a. m. and 4:30 p. m.: Morning prayer Psalter for the 20th day; collect for 21st Sunday after Trinity; First lesson 31st chapter of the BookNof Proverbs, beginning with verse 10; Second lesson chapters 1 and 2 of the Second Epistle to the Thessalonians. 'Suggested 1 sermon-r-rhe Gospel according to St. Matthew, chapters 5, 6 and 7. Evening prayer Psalter and collect as above. First lesson 33rd chanter of thn Book j of the prophet Issiah; second lesson 7th chapter of the Gospel according to St. Luke, beginning with verse 3G. Suggested sermon reading All of October Parish leaflet. The Rector will be glad to add any further suggestions that may be necessary. Books may be borrowed from the church. As long as the closing order remains in effect, of course no services or meetings in connection with our church work will be held. As soon as the order is lifted regular services will be resumed. In the meantime let the members not neglect the reading, of the Bible and worship at the family alter. "All things work together for good to them that love God." C. RAYMOND IS LEY, Pastor, Second English Lutheran Church, N. W. Third and Pearl. First Presbyterian Services will be resumed on Sunday, October 27, with public worship both borniug and afternon. For this Sunday let us each worshio as we make opportunity, not forgetting sincerest thanksgiving for the nation's success 'and the prowess of its soldiers and sailors. Across a river in Peru is a bridge more than "200 feet long that is suspended by thirty-twd ropes made of cactus fibers. COrGIIED SO 1112 C'OILDXT SLfeEP. Bronchial cougrhs, tickling in throat and asthmatic spasms break one's rest and weaken one so that the system is run down and serious sickness may result. Enos Halbert, Paoli. Jnd.. writes: "I had a severe cold this fall and couerhed continually at niprht could hardly sleep. Th first bottle of Foley's Honey and Tar relieved me, entirely curing my cough." it covers irritated membranes with a healing and soothing coatinsf. loosens phleirm and clears air 'passages. For sale by A. G. Luken & Co. Adv.

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