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Two Storm-Centers
A group of five thousand persons on a sloping lawn falling away from a stately country house to a dainty artificial lake. Two bands playing at opposite ends of the ample grounds. A white canopy, and under it hundreds of people listening to a lively vaudeville troupe. Another larger tent, and here tea and sandwiches for the famishing, as the afternoon wears along. Halfway down the spacious lawn, a rectangle is marked out with ropes. The pistol cracks, and a tug-of-war is on. God is on the side of the heaviest contestants this day. Then as the afternoon light shoots long rays across the contented people, and the shadow of a short man becomes titanic and menacing, the call is to the platform, and all the chattering host masses itself in front of the speaker's table.
A little man with gray hair and gray mustache, worn face, harassed lines between the eyes, and kindliness in the eyes, stands up squarely, and speaks emphatically. He is listened to rapturously, applauded mightily. That is Lloyd George, of England, at a Liberal fête.
This commonplace-looking man has torn the social structure of England into shreds. He has given the law-making power to elected persons instead of to hereditary lords. He is doing away with one rich man having a half dozen votes. He is breaking up the vast landed estates, held idle for the rearing of partridges, pheasant, and deer. He has insured a nation, and given pensions to the aged.
The two storm centers of the English- speaking world are Theodore Roosevelt and David Lloyd George. They are both born, bred, and perfected fighters. They have a jutting out of the lower lip and a smashing gesture of the arm and hand, which come from beating back opposition. They fire up into repartee and energy when the going is hard. They are at their fighting best under a rain of missiles and abuse. They came into a tame, sure world hoping to find
it a scene of action and a continuing adven- ture.
Their lives have been a series of out- breaks. Most good men are like a firecracker. They have one loud noise in them, and then they disintegrate into silence. But these
men carry explosive force which can repeat its violent performances. As quickly as their vitality is quenched at one point, it breaks loose with flame and speed at another point, and the end is not yet. They each contain a grain or two of spiritual radium, a demonic force which manifests itself again and again without exhausting its energy. They are vastly popular because they are tonic. They prove to us that things can be changed, that there is a lot in life besides routine and monotony.--"Popular Magazine."
Paris Women Adopt Wounded Soldiers
Society Maids And Matrons Who Are Not Caring For At Least One Men Are Outcasts
London, November 2.-Paris has hit upon a new greeting. When one woman meets another in the street she does not ask any of the inane questions that heretofore had such a great vogue. She straightaway "Have gets down to business and asks: you adopted a wounded soldier?" If the reply is in the affirmative the women feel themselves social and moral equals. But if it should happen to be in the negative then the poor neglectful culprit is an outcast of the worst kind.
Seriously speaking this habit of "adopt- ing" wounded soldiers has become widespread among wealthy society women here. Much of it is done through the Military Hospital of Val de Grace. After securing the necessary permit from the military authorities, these women pay a visit to the great wards where hundreds of the wounded soldiers lie mending.
They chat and laugh with the men until they come upon one whose personality is especially pleasing or whose circumstances are especially appealing. Arrangements are soon made by which the soldier is transferred to the care and responsibility of the interested
woman.
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O'CONNELL'S, January 30, 1915
Japan has begun installation of large exhibits in the Palaces of Food Products. Education and Liberal Arts at the Panama- Pacific International Exposition. These are, in addition to the three quarters of an acre of manufactured products, booths for which are nearly complete in the Palace of Manufac- tures. More than 600 tons of additional exhibits from Japan are due to arrive on the Tenyo Maru early in December.
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In the Rear of the Allied Armies
By a Danish War Correspondent› After repeated visits of those regions in Northern France which have been chas. tised hardest by the fury of the war. I feel compelled to contradict some of the current ideas respecting combatants and non-com- batants on the side of the Allies. The spirit of the corps of officers is undoubtedly good. And if it had only depended on them, many things would have been omitted which are now remembered against the French and English. But the spirit of the troops is so much worse, and their officers have to suffer more from that spirit than they dare confess. It is the spirit of the people which any un- biased observer must condemn. He who cares may claim attenuating circumstances for the people. It has become the victim of "an unbridled press which is guided by criminal instincts." This press must be considered the intellectual cause of all the atrocities committed on French soil, not only against German wounded and prisoners, but also against Frenchmen as well and which have been committed against these latter in far greater number than is generally known. A
government order of August 1st too carelessly opened the prisons. Human material was wanted. Whoever cared to become a soldier was welcome, no matter how much there was against him. I remem- ber that even in pro-French Italian papers
I was in Nice at the time that order made the most unfavorable impression. No one more than the officers deplores the perfectly unlimited admission of criminal elements to the army service. At Air on the Lys I saw a colonel in complete despair. He had, that morning, condemned to death four men of his artillery regiment for "cowardice" before the enemy and the plundering of their fallen comrades. In the afternoon further cases of criminal actions were reported to him from a section in an advanced post. I heard that the majority of the troops of this regiment were from the South of France. men, who in the North are not considered good material. The Italian inhabitants of Southern France have been accused of being no heroes. But I believe that Paris supplies
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far worse elements. I base these remarks upon the statements of numerous officers
who criticized the measures of their War Office in the severest manner and without
reserve.
In France a scape-goat must always be found for any fault. As soon as the army fares ill. Monsieur Millerand will be the scape-goat. But the evil itself can not be eradicated any more. For necessity compels to put, without regard to physical and moral qualifications for the purpose, all and every one into the ranks who can possibly be used. In that way the righteous and unrighteous are mixed together; of course the spirit of the army deteriorates thereby.
The
You will surely have read in your home papers, how in France the fear of spies has become epidemic. That explains itself in great measure by the existence of the men- tioned bad elements in the army. single man may be as brave, as capable of enthusiasm as possible. But when he believes that he must demonstrate to the comrade beside him. who, beofre the outbreak of the war, was either sitting behind prison bars, or allowed himself to be put into the uniform from complete lack of work. feelings of con- tempt or of suspicion, such a state of mind cannot contribute to an increase of eager- ness or gladness. In the last three weeks "the cases of desertion, especially on the left wing, have increased greatly." In Noyon I met a cavalry picket riding after two dozen deserters. They asked me about the road. We talked a while and I learnt several things which are characteristic for the feelings of the piou-piou. "Really it is a pity to waste the time with catching these fellows," the leader explained. "It is done only for authority's and discipline's sake. It would have been much better not to give us such comrades." The pursuit of the deserters meets with the greatest obstacles, I was told further. They enter the first destroyed or deserted house they find, procure civilian clothes "and then hush, they are gone! "That would not be the worst. But in civilians' clothes they can rob, plunder, burn and assassinate" and commit all sorts of highway robbery. There is no more protection in the lone and deserted villages. The gendarmerie is else-
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where, and so greatly occupied that for the criminals the golden harvest time has come. Believe me. Sir." the picket leader told me, many a one from that confounded Paris where all this gang comes from, would never have thought of becoming a defender of his country, if he had not reasoned: This is an opportunity which will never return. to make hay. As long as we are in barracks in the open field, we are safe. But as soon as we come to a larger village with some ruined houses, we can be sure that we lose again several of the fellows who in civil life are not honest men. Rarely one alone deserts. Always entire gangs conspire to desert. Sometimes I almost believe that they did not make away in the beginning of the war 'with all the Apaches in Paris' and that we are afflicted with that plague which has become alike the terror of the army and the peaceable citizen, just as they were the terror of the Parisians."
Of the work of the hyenas of the battle- field and the looters one can convince himself in every deserted village. Since it is out of the question that German or French armies break into houses whose owners have Hed before the arrival of the troops, it can only be supposed that criminals do their wicked work, taking advantage of the situation. If by accident gendarmes come upon the scene, the burglars pretend, as I have been told repeatedly, to be the owners of the house themselves. If the gendarmes happen to know the owner of the house, they either submit to their fate. or pretend they have been sent by the owner to fetch one or the other object. Frequently they set undamaged houses. after having looted them, afire. In this manner many a solitary chateau, many a country-place, which had been spared by friend and foe alike. has found its end in dreadful devastation. The French government "should keep a better eye on its criminals." But in order to keep the house-breakers and incendiaries under inspection, a much larger contingent of police and constabulary is necessary than France has, today, at its disposal. On our way back from Compiegne to Paris we have been stopped (Continued on page 141
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