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This or Chaosi irst the President said us to the

railroads that, there were three courses

among which to choose, namelj", (1) a

return to former conditions, (£) gov¬ernment ownership, or (S) private own¬

ership and control under a new theoryof government regulation. He added:

"The or.c conclusion that I am readyto state with' confidence is that it wouldbe a disservice alike to the country and

tho owners of the railroads to re¬

turn to the old conditions unmodified.Those are conditions of restraint with¬out development."That was in his message to Congress.Ten days later Mr. McAdoo, the re¬

tiring Director General of Railroads,Baid:

"We are now confronted with thenecessity either of legislating intelli¬gently about the railroad problem at thissession of Congress or of promptly re¬

turning the railroads to their owners."Mr. McAdoo's necessity arose from

three assumptions, which were: First,that it would be impossible to legislateintelligently about the railroads in thefhort time remaining to the DemocraticCongress; second, that it would becatastrophic to return the railroads outof hand, and, tldrd, that the governmentcould not successfully operate the roadswith everybody on notice that the ex¬

periment would end two months afterthe declaration of peace.. Therefore Mr.McAdoo concluded thai the expiringCongress, in the brief time yet avail¬able lor the exercise of its Democraticwisdom, should extend the time of gov¬ernment operation to tho symmetricaland convincing period of five wholeyears. In that time, according to Mr.McAdoo, the railroad machine could bemuch improved and enlarged and partlyrebuilt, with government credit, and atthe same time the merits of Federaloperation could be adequately tested.Now comes the Assistant Director

General of Railroads, Mr. Hines, warm¬

ly supporting Mr. McAdoo's points andlidding some of his own. He asks us

to think of the grave questions and is¬sues that have to be answered and de¬cided. Shall there continue to be statecontrol in conflict with Federal control?Are the railroads overcapitalized? IfEo, how shall the crime be expiated? Iscompetition too wasteful? How can thefacilities of the railroads be pooled for

/»greater efficiency? What shall be doneto reconcile rational railroad operationV?ith the anti-trust laws?

Obviously, be argues, owing to con¬ditions unnamed, these things cannot besettled now.at least, not right away.¦hence, it is imperative that Congress¦shall decree five years of governmentoperation.

But why?Mr. Hines has apparently misunder-

etood the Director General. Accordingto Mr. McAdoo, government control ofthe railroads for five years would proveconclusively whether Federal operationcould produce on the whole better resultsthan private operation. If a five-year¡demonstration should prove the case forgovernment ownership, such questions asnow are raised by Mr. Hines would be im-material. If the demonstration shouldprove the case against government own-

ership, then the consideration of Mr.ilines's questions would merely havebeen postponed for five years; because,t'f course, nobody is going to bother towork out a scheme of compromise be¬tween private ownership and govern¬ment regulation while it has yet to bedecided whether the railroads are ever

going to be restored to their owners/Mr. McAdoo did not make a good

dialectical case in favor of continuinggovernment operation for five year:;. Mr.Hines does Mr. McAdoo's case moreharm than good. ¡

There is no valid reason why Con-gress .should not attack the railroadproblem now.at once. What had notbeen finished by March 4 could be re*-iumed immediately in special session.

There is no valid reason why tho Di-rector General of Railways should not»ununon representatives of all the par-ties at interest and evolve alternativeplans to be laid before Congress.He says the railroad;* cannot continué

to be operated efficiently under the lawby which they were soheu, yet he doc¿not suggest how that law should beamended.

*£*. t*y« li would b« « c*t*ttfoy>Aft to

i-emedi&l législation» yot he does not sug¬gest what that legislation Bhould be.He Hays there isn't timo to legislate

intelligently, wherefore he threatens tocast the railroads hack, let the conse¬

quences be what the« will, it' Congressdoes not voto for five years of govcrn-m«ftnt¿ operation.What an amazing situation!Tho government cannot afford to keep

tint railroads as conditions arc, thoughthe conditions are entirely of its own

making.The owners cannot afford 10 take

them bad«.The President has no plan.The Director General has no plan.Tho Assistant Director Gênerai has

no plan.The Interstate Commente Commission

hasn't oven been thought of.Unless a Democratic Congress can

work out a plan in a few weeks therailroads will be turned back to 'theowners, and chaos be damned.The only alternative is for the ex¬

piring Congress to adopt the retiringDirector General's suggestion and de-croc five years of federal operation.

That, as we deeply believe, wouldmean government ownership at last.This absurd and silly impasse is the

strongest possible argument against gov-ernment ownership or operation of any¬thing.

News from ParisOn sailing for France Wednesday,

Stephaue Lausanne, of the Officiai Bu¬reau of French Information, sent a letterto The Tribune expressing his astonish¬ment at the following paragraph fromThe Associated Press correspondent's re¬

port on the disclosed phases of Americancerebration at Paris:

"It is not necessary to assume, accord-ir.g to the view of American official cir-clep, that the French people would go tothe point, of taking issue with their own

government, if it were necessary, to sup- iport President Wilson, for it is the be-lief of the American representatives thatno issue of that hind can arise."

If he had Waited for the next day's re- jport M. Lauzanne might have been more

astonished and yet somewhat comforted,by this:

"These advisers say that the President,in explaining his definition of 'the free¬dom of the seas,' will ^-cassure PremierLloyd George that he has no intention ofdemanding a reduction of the British navyto a point involving the unsafcty of theempire, but will emphasise his feelingthat the plan of a league will strengthenthe empire." IThe thought is fairly complete except

that one has the impulse to add: "Eng-lish papers please copy."They do.These, mark you, are authorized re-

flections of the American mind actingabroad. We are not so sure they areauthentic. Nobody can be sure of that,except possibly Mr. Croel, who is a prismthrough which wisdom in its refractionsis subject to many kinds of phenomena.We beg thoso who, like M. Lauzanne,

become hastily exercised not to be tooserious in their reading of Paris dis¬patches, or at least to balance againstsuch as the two paragraphs quoted thefollowing authorized inanity:

"It is recalled that diplomatic historyshows that such a conference probably jnever accomplishes precisely down to thelast detail what is expected of it, but italways accomplishes something."This, therefore, is open diplomacy,

journalistically reported against Mr.Creel's historical background.

For Such as BelieveThe voice of Frank A. Vanderlip is

clear, strong and optimistic. It articu¬lates a doctrine of prosperity, partner¬ship and progress.We can be prosperous if we will be.Our power over material things is un¬

limited; therefore, we can do with oppor¬tunity as we will, provided only we be¬lieve in ourselves and act upon thatfaith.

Unemployment is a silly bugbear in acountry whose chronic problem is howto find enough labor to perform its own jwork and to meet its own wants, andwhose raw materials and manufactures,besides, are in request by the wholeworld.Some people talk about the necessity

of liquidating wages and others aboutthe necessity of not liquidating wages,and they all mean the same thing with-out knowing it. When a producer sayswages must come down he refers to fan- Itastic wages, which have demoralisedlabor afc much as industry and cannotrationally be defended. When Mr.Gompers says wages shall not be reducedhe means basic or standard wages, which 1nobody proposes to reduce, least of all,we think, the intelligent producers.

That is Mr. Vànderlip's opinion.He takes the case of shipping. Tho

labor cost of working a ship under ourlaws is four times that of our lowestcompetitor, which is Japan, and twice ";

that of our largest competitor, whichis Great Britain.

Therefore, shall we sulk or abandonthe carrying trade to our rivals? Not so.

Mr. Vanderlip thinks that by takingthought of our special advantages andcalling into play our traditional inge¬nuity \i"c ./nail be able to compete suc¬

cessfully in shipping.-as in every thingelse to which we have really turned ourminds- with the highest paid labor in theworld. The highest paid is not neces-sarily the dearest.

Such is'Mr. Vanderlip's doctrine.bi¡?and fine and thrilling. Moreover, it willpay. It is the- kind of seeing that has imade us the richest and mo«>t resourcefulnation on earth.and it liai* always paid.But that ::. not all. Mr. Vanderlip

¿ays: «

"ISo sniiiU .,-..-i of tho :..*)ii'oie ¿.".evweer.6«p«it*l »na Ufe«.,-, in my opinig-r., li*i in j

Hol altogether to bo marvelled at. Mononjíugod in activo buiJinesa :.t«u*i« o.

Uavo their minds tvomenilouals absorbedwith tho day's How. Their doy'u worl; hmontai day's work, which excludes themfrom tho leisure ordinarily neccBsary tothink on problems that do not appelai' tobo immediately noceaaary for them to at¬tempt to solve, Tho laboring man hasinoro timo to think of such problems, andho in thinking sounder and deeper, as arule, on many of them than is the businesscommunity. So 1 believe that we have allgot to recognizo that this Is the .founda¬tion of our templo, and it dooa not do anyüood to build tho structure unless wo

square uy> tho foundation, and it is up tous to do some thinking on that lino."That might be the obsequies of "»Bol¬

shevism.

Not MannIf there is one fact in which <>vo¡"y Re-

publican may take just pride it is thathis party'.-; record in the war was cleanand clear. It was 100 per cent Ameri-can. In that record James It. Mann, rep¬resentative of a German district in Chi-cago, has no rightful share. He opposedour entry into the war. He had previ-ously advocated an embargo on muni-.lions lo tho Allies. He did everything inhis power ¿o make his party in Congresspusillanimous and cowardly. As he hadno place beside its patriots, so now hehas no rights in its present success, iliscandidacy for the Speakership is offen-sive. He has shown himself in past daysutterly unfit for the position of floor jleader. For the Speakership he is doublydisqualified. The same sure good sense jwhich refused the chairmanship to anyone with any taint of pro-German sym-pathies will see to it that Mr. James R.Mann is not named Speaker.,

Why Sink Them?In one column of the newspaper we

read that the American delegates at thepeace conference have resolved to ad-vocate the sinking of the surrenderedGerman ships. In another column Weread Secretary Daniels on the imperative Inecessity of building our navy up tomatch the biggest of all nations'.if forno other reason than that we, as therichest people, ought to contribute as

many units of sea power as any oneelse to the force that shall hereafter sup¬port justice in the world.

It seems incongruous for us to advo¬cate the destruction of the German shipsand at the same time to proceed witha huge building programme. And if thereason for proposing to sink the Germanships is merely the difficulty of dividingthem up, thejr. we think it would be anabsurd and immoral waste of humanlabor to do it.

The Secretary of the Navy, whosebusiness it isn't, takes part in the dis¬cussion of government ownership of rail¬roads, with that oddly transparent air ofopenmindedness which is the unconsciouscamouflage. In this color he says: "Idonot care a rap for the argument that gov¬ernment ownership is dangerous or that jprivate ownership is dangerous. All Iam concerned about is, which system willgive us the cheaper transportation?"But in his true mind he says: "Are we tohesitate now in the measures of peace totake direct and unusual routes to thegoal of the common welfare? We havemade transportation and communicationfor the period of the war a governmentmonopoly. It was necessary, and its wis¬dom luis been established." Riddle:guess whether Mr. Daniels is for oragainst government ownership.

Joseph French Johnson, a professorof economics at New York University,would make a bonfire of Liberty bondsto save people from the pain and botherof having to pay them off. So wouldevery intelligent Bolshevist, and for apeculiar reason. The fear of the radicalis not that the poor will be made poorerand the rich richer by means of Libertybonds, but that Liberty bonds, havingbeen so widely distributed among thewholo people, will create a new respectfor property.

Twelve Senators voted against a puni-five tax of 10 per cent, on the productsof child labor in interstate commerce.Their reasons for doing so were, as theythemselves believed, impersonal and con¬stitutional. They would suppose it to bemerely a geographical coincidence thateleven of their number were from South-ern states. They would, perhaps, see nopoint in the fact that the twelfth wasfrom Colorado. How little we knowabout the origin of convictions.

The UnsurprisedMayorTo the Editor of The Tribune.

Sir: Several days ago 1 forwarded acartoon to the Mayor that was on your edi-torial page representing a soldier refusing iro be welcomed by William Randolph Hearst,and inclosed letter is the reply, which, ifyou desire1»to use for any purpose, yon havemy permission. Your«; very truly,

S. !.. ASCHE.:" 'v Vork, üvC. is, 191_.

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[THE LETTER]ITY OP NEW YORKOffice of the Mayor

December 12, It« 18.Mr. -. '- Asche, GIG Eastern Parkway,

Brooklyn, N. Y.Dear Sir: Your letter and Tribune clippingreceived. 1 am sorry that there sre peopleresiding in New York with such venomous jspirit. However, '.:' you read The Tribune

i am no! surprised. Very truly yours,JOHN ;¦'. IIVLAN, Mayor.

«\ Reply Revisedi*<.' J .-.--¦ .,

She: Am Í the lîrst g'irl you ever kissed? j£_a; Gosh, nsd V*.'ain't Ï in Frac,;* tha¿ij &c «saiitice _*«< »ifa*«*? [

SHOES & SHIPS &SEALING WAX

ISN'T IT THE TRUTH?Find: A cuto nnd cunning clipperBeing olappod with mother's allppar.Second: Grown too t.il) to ulap her:She blooms forth a flippant flapper.

Third: If f)ad has ducat.;, ¡nebbcSho "cornea out" a dashing dc-bbie.

Fourth: I;' one man fills her t'ai:«-yShe !s dubbed "the fair fiancée."

Fifth: Ti:o' böiuu: feel suicidalOn th.o mornirtj? of her bridal.

Sixth: Grown Mcklens, hard and horsey,Sho Incomes a gay divorcee.

Sovonth: Too old for love-nick bleating^Journey's end in Héd Croas meetings.

GEÓRGICA P. GHEfciSMAM.t

Thi government luis a- war inventionthat will estublis'n the exact position ofwarships by sound, and untold millionslie before the person who will adopt itfor use against alley Odie, instalmentcollectors and book agents.

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Speaking of the- verse at the head ofthis column, as we do but seldom, whoremembers that work of art, "The Agescf Man," or some such title, that usedto hang in the rarely opened parlor?

Picture and verse were combined inpleasing harmony, and the rise and fallof man from the cradle to the grave Wasthe theme. Most of the pictures westill recollect, but of the verses only two:

"With bull-like BtrtnKth to emit« hlú îceiiAt thirty to the field he ßoea."

and:"At. forty, nauftht Vim courage Quails,lie ¡ion-lihe, by torce, prevails."

This masterpiece of art and literaturewas our chief admiration in those days.We wish we remembered it better, butwe were let into the parlor so seldom!

America has a plan for sinking theGerman -warships. The British* Ivad a

perfect one four years.* * *

Arms and the GobF. F. V.: "The corrugated paper

man" mentioned in your column thismorning is not nearly so interesting asthe "men without arms" who will marchdown Broadway in the Naval Parade,as described in the sixth column of yourfront page.

This will truly be a graphic exhibitof the sacrifice made by our heroes inthe navy. A. R. FkULE.

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Telephone rates are to be cut in two,which, taken in conjunction with thepresent service, leaves us only aboutthree times as badly off as before thewar.

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We Know What's Coming By.."Aw, there ain't no Santy Claws!""I'm trying to remember what she

gave me last year!""Ma, kin I help with the dishes?""No, I'm making no presents this year

.just sending cards.""My dear, I have to! He always sends

me something!""Dick, can you let me have next

week's housekeeping money?"

Let's enlighten the world as to themost useless Christmas gift, folks.We'll say it is the Yulctide fancy ashreceiver. F. F. V.

AftersightSew York TribunoForeign Press Bureau

CARL SCHURZ in hia autobiographygives highly interesting details ofa conversation which he had with

Bismarck during his first visit to Germanylifter the establishment of the empire madeit possible for him to return to his oldhome. "With a hearty laugh, in whichIhete seemed to be a ¡suggestion of assent,"writes Schurz, "he received my remark thai Jthe American people would hardly havebecome the self-reliant, energetic peoyiethey were had there been a privy counselloror a police captain standing at every mudpuddle "in America to keep them fromstepping into it. And he seemed to bemuch struck when I brought out the ap¬parent paradox that in a democracy withlittle government things might go hadly indetail but well upon the whole, while in amonarchy with much and omnipresent gov¬ernment things might go very pleasantly indetail but poorly on the whole."7he line political insight of this is now

confirmed by a high German authority, sofar an the old bureaucratic German systemis concerned. In an article in the "Frank-fürter Zeitung'*' Professur Más "vTeber, thewell known political economist of Heide!-burg University, pointa out that one of ithe chief effects of that system was tomake the individual feel secure, to feelthat he was under the protection of the jauthorities; hence, anything like bold inno- !rations were opposed with timid apprehen-sions. The resuit was a "cowardly will to iremain impotent."Then Weber goes on, in words which al- i

most seem to have been written to verifythe truth of Carl Schurz's remarks: "Pre¬cisely the technical excellence of our ad¬ministration, the fact that things in amaterial sense went well in it upon thewhole, caused large masses of the people. ,. . to fool at home 'in that politicalstructure and so smothered that pride ofcitizenship without which even the freestinstitutions are but shadow.;."

The Cares of a Hausfrau(Fro«» Tin Philadelphia Inquirer)

Discovery of the ex-Kaiser's wardrobecontaining 59S uniforma "leads to the pre¬sumption that Mrs. Hoheniollern musthava had the dicken» of a timo kaepiag&4 Hi fit a» «*£ *.a¿ tb* 'MitteNft «Me» i

Wilson and VenizelosBy Frank H. Símonds

(Copyright, 191 S,' New York Tribune Inc.)1"lHE meeting between President

Wilson and Veni'/.clos, the GreekPremier, is of more than passing

¡ interest to the American world. Vcni-Kelos is the one really great statesmanmodern Greece has produced; his ser-

vices, alikif to the Balkans, to his own

country and to the Allied nations, can

hardly be exaggerated; but for himGreece would have füllen a prey to Ger¬man designs, and the recent deliveranceof the Balkans, through the victory over

Bulgaria, would have been impossible.To the peace congress Greece comes

asking justice, denied to the Hellenes forcenturies. Some of the Greek claim"?will seem fantastic to the Western World,but not a few deserve the indorsementof the American delegates. As for Veni-zelos, no honor and no reward can betoo great, measured alike by his personalservices to the causo of freedom and tothe nobility and ability which all recog-nize in him.

Of the Greek claims the following isperhaps a fair statement: Greece ask«-?that her possession of Northern Epirus,recognized by the Allies at one stage ofthe war and then abolished throughItalian intervention, be restored; thatItaly surrender to her the Greek islandsof the archipelago and Rhodes. She asksthat BÎ18 be permitted to annex the Greekfchores of the «¿Egean and the Sea ofMarmora, including the region aboutConstantinople, with that city; the coastof Bulgaria, as fixed after the BalkanWars, together with Smyrna and theHellenic areas of Western Asia Minor.

Of the Greek claim to Epirus, it mustbe said at once that it is incontestable,resting alike upon {die will of the peopleand upon the solid basis of language andreligion. Here the obstacle rises fromthe Italian desire to hold a wide hinter¬land behind Valona, which they mean totransform into a great naval base, guard¬ing the entrance to the Adriatic Sea.Certain restrictions as to military ques¬tions Italy might logically demand, butEpirus is Greek, not Albanian; was in¬cluded in the ridiculous state of Albaniaonly at Italy's urgings, and belongs with¬in the Greek monarchy, since it has beenthe cradle of Greek spirit in past cen¬turies.

Exactly the same thing is to be saidwith even greater emphasis as to theislands. They have always been Hellenicsince the very dawn of history, by lan¬guage, sympathy and race. They fell toItaly as a result of her successful warwith Turkey in 1912, but it was agreedin the Treaty of Lausanne, which closedthat struggle, that they should be evacu¬ated when Turkey complied with certainrequirements as to Tripoli. The "Alliescan compel such compliance now, andItaly can well afford to imitate thecourse of Great Britain in the last

Books for SoldiersTo the Editor of Th.e Tribune.

Sir: We have had many inquiries, both atthe main library and at our branches, as tothe need for more books for our soldiers,sailors and marines. The fact that more

than 8,000,000 books were given the LibraryWar Service oí' the American Library Asso¬ciation, in the first campaign for gift book;*,and the further i'act that nearly a milliontechnical books were purchased by the asso-elation, causes the query, What becomes ofthem and why are more books needed?Library War Service is to-day asking for

more grift books because a large proportionöf thé books, already in the service havebeen worn out by constant use. Also, bookswere carried into the front trenches andlost. The result is that while at no timewas there an over-supply of books, to-day,notwithstanding the great number of men

being demobilized, the demand for books isbeyond the ability of the American LibraryAssociation to meet it. More than $1,000,000Will be spent by the association for refer¬ence books, but there is a great demanu forlight literature.That ía the reason the association is

asking people to comb their libraries and3end to the New York Public Library, or anyof its branches, as many good novels andother books as they can spare. Netv forkCity should provide a million volumes forthis service, and certainly would do so ifour citizens knew the value of these booksto men in the service. Just now the needfor books in army and navy hospitals isurgent and immediate.

This is the first time in the history of theworld that an attempt has been made tosupply men in armies and navies with some¬thing to read in their leisure hours. Theservice for the American soldiers, sailorsand marines has been handled entirely byLibrary War Service of the AmericanLibrary Association, which is ofiicially recog¬nized by the "united States government. Allbooks for the Red Cross, Y. M. C. A., Y. W.C. A., Knights of Columbus, Salvation Army,War Camp Community Service and Jewish.Welfare Board are provided by Library WarService. Libraries are maintained whereverthere are soldiers, sailors or mar.net-, amito-day Library War Service is operating onGerman soil.The supplying of books to our lighting

men is a much greater undertaking thanany of us anticipated when the service wasstarted, and its continued success dependslargely upon the answer we receive to thisappeal for gift books.

E. H. ANDERSON,Director, New York Public Library.New York, Dec. 17, 1918.

Het Name in the Paper{From The Xtchúa:\ Globe)

Mrs. Short Jenks came to this office yes¬terday and handed in a little item. «'Maywe use your name with this item?" a re¬porter .isked. "Don't you dare use myname, but if you do, will you vlew savetwittty-Êv« copies £or me,» re_licd M

century in surrendering to Greece theIonian Islands, not more clearly Greek.For a nation which has nobly and steadilyvindicated Italian rights to Trieste andtna Trentino. no other course is conceiv¬able with respect of the Greek Irre¬denta.

The.question of the Greek shores ofthe ./Egean and the Sea of Marmora, in¬cluding Constantinople, ¡s a differentone. We think of Greece invariablywith classical memories in mind. Athens,and not Constantinople, is for the Westthe true Greek capital. But the Greekremembers the Byzantine period quite as

vividly as he.recalls the classical age. Itwas in this time that Greece was politi¬cally great, a real world power. More¬over, with all its vicissitudes, Constanti¬nople has retained a large Greek popu¬lation, far greater than that of Athens,and u real Greek sympathy.By contrast, the possession of the

straits involves so many considerationsthat it may well be that the Greeks willbe persuaded to accept international con¬trol of Constantinople, once the rightsand liberties of the ConstantinopleGreeks are assured. Greece is still a

small country and Constantinople is a

tremendous burden. As to the Bulgariancoast from the old Greek frontier to theMaritza, a majority of its population iscertainly Greek, but in 1913 Venizelos

j wisely agreed to concede it to Bulgaria,recognizmg that to deny Bulgaria thewaterfront of its territories would be tolay up trouble for the future. The sameconsiderations will probably be control¬ling again.

There remains the question of Smyrnaand the Hellenic settlements on thecoast of Asia Minor. These have alwaysbeen Greek in sympathy. The PersianWars began because Greece, Athens,chose to defend these colonies againstthe Persian attack. Smyrna is a Greekcity and there are very large areas alongthe coast as Hellenic as Attica. Betweenone and two millions of Greeks live inthese districts. Their desire after ages ofagony and persecution is to becomeGreek again, and this desire, based uponprinciples which are recognized as con¬

trolling in modern history, should berealized.A new Greece of eight or ten millions

of people should rise out of the new set¬tlement of the Eastern question. Failureto satisfy the just claims of the Greekswill merely leave fresh cause for troubleand perpetuate old abuses out of whichgrew the World War. In VenizelosGreece has an able and a reasonable ad¬vocate; in the American President sheshould find a sympathetic friend. No partof America's rôle at Versailles can bemore becoming than that of championof the small nations in their just de¬mands for liberation and unity.

To the Editor of The Tribune.Sir: I am sure that many of your readers

would like details of the contribution madeby India in men to the war, especially as ahandful of weak-kneed, disloyal natives inthis country endeavor at times to convey totheir ignorant associates the impressionthat that country is not loyal to GreatBritain.The official memorandum state?:A*, the outbreak «rf the wer il.:« strength of tl.e Bri-.úh

army In India was:British. 70,933 ¡ Indian. £39,531The nurober of Lidian ranks leoruited during tho v.j.r,from August., 1314, to September 3i>, 1918, was 1,161,789.The n'jmbdr of officers and men sent en service ororaegaiTY.n Ir.dia to Sepifuiber 30, 191S, was:

British. Indian.To France . 18.924 131,406To East Africa. ;.,40a <Ü,93i)To Mesopotamia .167,551 588,717To Egypt . 19,166 116,159To üi^üvoll . (jo 4.4CS--To Salónica . CJ 4,988To Aden . T.ShO 20,343To the Persian Gulf. 9S8 2:},4:7

Tctala .219,534 953,374=1,172,908Ei'ltU!) raiika scut 1'roni India to England.42,430The total war casualties of Great Britain,

a« stated officially in London on November27, 1918, carrying the figures up to Novem¬ber 10, but not including 19,000 deaths fromvarious causes among troops not actuallyforming part of the expeditionary force.-?,were as follows:Army, Including Dominions and ï:id:a.D.049,991R.'.val navy . 39.76SMercantile marino . 17.95C

Total .3,107,713I feel sure the foregoing figures will beruid with interest. q% \New York, Dec. 16, 1918.

Arriving With Scorched Ailerons(From The Fort Worth Star-Telegram)Even the most prudish in language willhardly find fault with the following gemfrom one of Billy .Sunday's Providence ser¬mon.--: "The Kaiser has sunk so low thathe will have to take an aeroplane to get toHade.-."

As the Colors Begin to FadeHARK to the death bell!.how it ¿lowlyringsThe knell of all war's finery and state;Colonels find cookr, and cutter crews and

kingsHave played their part and go to meet

their fate.

"Soon shall the new-made captain lose hisbars

And spurs no longer-jingle on his feet.The world will lose its interest in starr,And admiráis pasa unnoticed en the

street.

Strike the last name from oft" the musterrolls,

Furl the gay flags.until perhaps againMars summons forth the once civilian soulsOf dashing, handsome, military men.

"ROBERT C. RAND.

Before theEruptionBy Wilbur Forrest

(Copyright, 1918, Sow rort .Tribun«

GRAND HOTEL PRÄS'ELI'., LUXEK-BURG ''Grand Duchy of LuxemburgNov. 25 (Bjr mail). A few days a;'-.

American troop;? marched over the fair fieldof this little European country from f'.war-torn battlefields of France. A fainouregiment paraded through the spotl«streets of Luxemburg city before ti.

\t pretty Grand Duche«.-:; and General Penh«.! ing, who stood together on the balcony othe National Palace. To-day the Amer i-can troops are restinrr their arms along th-Moselle River, which forin-s Luxemburgboundary with that of Prussia. Within afew days they will enter Pros, ia, and tl

! peaceful occupation of the Prussian-Mosell«vineyards will mark the first step in th<historic occupation of a defeated Germanyafter four years of the greatest worldcataclysm.The above now is history.But there is more history in the read-

ing room of this small LuxemburgeoÍ3 ho-tel, and that history is contained in a pileof much thumbed and torn British ar.«iFrench illustrated magazines of varie«!

j dates between August, 1912, and June, 1914,before the world dreamed of facing fo.years of horrible warfare just ended.

\ There are ten magazines in ail. They ha-.«.-lain on the small table in the reading roor.i

from six to four years, and they look it.« German officers, during the German occu-

pation of Luxemburg, from August. 191 '.,until a few days ago, have thumbed andtorn them. To-day French and Americanofficers who live here are thumbing them.I thumbed them, too, to-day, and no otbe'rthing has ever impressed so vividly a3these ten illustrated books:

Before the WarHow the world before the war was slow¬

ly working up to this giant nightmare justending.How a restless globe of different creeds

I and beliefs was gradually sliding towardthe deep abyss of the worid's most colossalcombat.How big European nations were walking

| about with commercial and mi.iitary "chips"on the shoulders.

i How the world was sitting by, picturingand chronicling all these things without a

single dream that within a comparativelyj brief space of time great European nationswould be locked in mortal combat, eventu-a!y drawing most every nation of the worldinto the maelstrom of war.

I picked out three of these magazines.which were probably as representative ofthe entire ten, and the ten were the miss-ing copies which had failed to reach the

I reading room table during the weeks of1912 and 1914. Here are the note3 I jotteddown on the margin line of a German new;-

paper that was handy:Picture of "Germany's war Kaiser

watching the manoeuvres of his mightyi army." (Here the Kaiser, with bristlingmustaches and wearing the proverbialwar lord helmet, was posing for the cameraas his Feldgrauen marched past in review.)

The Coming AeroplanesArticle commenting on French army us¬

ing 150 aeroplanes for reconno.ssance dur-ing annual manoeuvres.

General Nogi, hero of Port Arthur, com¬mits hari-kari at the bier of the Emperorof Japan, thus upholding the ancient war

tradition of his race. (Photo of GeneralNogi.)Czar Ferdinand of Bulgaria. "King who

has ruled Bulgaria for twenty-five year?.first as prince and latterly as czar. Heis taking an active part in the presen*Balkan troubles, and a Serbian-Bulgarianalliance has just been concluded." (Fullpaere photo of Ferdinand).

"Italy's inexhaustible enthusiasm for thewar. Crowds in Rome cheering an Askar:regiment on return from Tripoli, wherewar has now entered its tenth month."(Full page drawing of Roman crowdsthrowing flowers to the Askaris.)Kaiser visiting Krupps' gun works, at

Essen.Warships of all nations standing guar«i

at Shanghai, or saving China from hersel*.(Full page drawing.)Colonel I. N. Lewis, of the America?!

army, tiring a Lewis machine gun in Eng-land to demonstrate its use against hostileaeroplanes in warfare.Home rule trouble in Ulster.English army man.uvres, showing Cold-

stream-Guards sleeping on the ground"After a Hard Day's Work.''"Hayti Finding Difficulty Governing It-

self." President's palace destroyed by tneinsurgents.

British torpedo bo.-.t destroyers of thelatest oil-burning type lying idle becauseof the troubles about the oil fields InMexico, which had caused .-iiortage of fueloil.English steam hammer employed in mak-

ing of cannon at Krupp.-', Essen. Kaiseragain inspecting Krupps'.

The Marine StrugglePicture of Whiu* Star liner Olympic,

45,000 tons, as compared with Hamburg-Amerika line's Imperator, 50,000 ton¿, be-ing constructed at Hamburg.

Picture of French Alpine troops atmanoeuvres over the Maritime Alps.

Illustrations of the Austrian army atman.uvres.A "Vision of the Next Great Europea'.

! War." Title of painting by David Maxweilbeing exhibited at Royal Academy, London,showing giant British battleships returningto port after battle.

Full page photographs of great gunsmounted on a new French battle-cruiser.Photographs of the funeral of the Gov¬

ernor of Durazzo. killed by insurrectionistsduring the Albanian trouble.Photograph of German military commis¬

sion en route to Paraguay to reform tl it-

country's army after the German plan.These ttere some of the things in three

magazines of various dates during 1912,1913 and 1914 lying here on the reading-room table in 191S. The remaining sevenalso contain pictures, illustrations and a'titles that turned no thought to the gre_;war just finished, but which perused today show in no plainer way how the worldlike a smoking volcano, was boiling inst¬and, given time, would break forth ancdrench the valley of-the peoples with molten lava. The eruption came in August

\ 1914, and if ended November, 1918-,