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2Lngcl aimed MONDAY JMORNIXG. SEPEMBEIi 30, II. Putting It Over. ADVICE TO ALLIES ABOUT SIBERIA. PEN POINTS.

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A Russian General Must bo Appointed to Take Commaptl of Purely Russian Force Quick Action and a Powerful Campaign Must be Undertaken. at II Graves ought to bury the hopes of the Germans in Siberia. No porch climber was ever more loyal to his swsg than the Bolshe-vlkl to the Russian treasury. Many a man thinks himself holy and righteous, when as a matter of fact he is only lasy and tired. BY GEN.

GOCRKO. The following article by the ex- The straightening out of the German front means that the Allies have It In a steel pair of stays. We strive to please. The Allies are organizing an escort to accompany the Germans back to Berlin. Judging from the reports of the capture of some ot the Bulgarian bases, tha American ball players must be over there.

Blueberry Jam in large quantities will be sent to the American soldiers in France. And yet we read of the hardships of the service. EVtKY MORNING IN THE TEAR. Pailr and Sender Tlmee and Illutreted MarutiM by carrier: Yearly. (10.30; Monthly, Cent.

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LOS ANGELES (Loce Ahng-hayl-aii) Entered a aeroad elaaa matter, December 4, 1881, at tha PoKtoffice at Im under I he Act of March U'8. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Tha Anorialed Pre la exclusively entitled to tha for republication of all am credited to it or ant othrrwiee credited In thla paper and al lite local new publiehed herein. The question whether the tomato is a fruit or a vegetable is again going the rounds. Whatever it Is, it properly prepared, ii is delicious.

With the coming of the chilly weather, we may expect to see the ladles lay away their furs until next summer. Great are the demands of fashion. OX THE TRIGGER. Every now and then we are offered startling proof that papa's pistol is not the finest thing; in the world for baby to jilay with. The young idea shoots too quick.

Word is continually coming to Los Angeles of the death of this or that brave soldier. It is the sacrifice of the lives ot these that builds this greaf republic. THINGS THE WAR IS DOING. "One thing thenar is teaching, and the lesson will be learned by the time the last shot Is fired. That thing is this: that tha man who Is worth $2,000,000 is not necessarily twice as smart as the man with $1,000,000." We are quoting a well-known Los Angeles capitalist who insisted that he should not be quoted.

The talk was of the position of capital after, and as a result of the war. He went on: "There will be less dollar worship. We will have come to see how relatively unimportant a dollar is, and how easily it may be diverted into other channels under the stress of national emergency." The average man of wealth is not worrying. He is accepting the situation without struggle, and almost without shock. There is one captain of industry in this city who admits that if he comes out of the conflict without any earnings for the period of the war, and with only 50 per cent of the principal he had when the fighting started, he will consider it a good bargain, and account his 'leavings" of more intrinsic value than the whole was when all our thought centered upon accumulation, rather than disbursement.

Just as soon as a man of wealth learns that the esteem in which he is held by his follow citizens is not based upon the number of dollars he possesses, just so Boon is be going to wonder, "what's the use so long as I have enough for my family and myself?" We are learning to rely more upon the other fellow, working In harmony rather than opposition, for common ends. We are finding out what many wonderful things may be accomplished in the mass. The value of efficiency, will, to a great extent, take the place vacated by the volume of the pile. What can you do, and how well can you do it, rather than how much have you got, and can you get any more? Another thing that the war is doing Is to teach the value of work. There will be no bums, no loafers when the battle flags are furled.

This is not socialism, for socialism is selfish and lazy. The difference between the American system of raising a large percentage of the war funds by direct taxation and the English system of raising the money by bond Issues and arranging for the payment later Is one of expression. In this country we nra now taking over the property of the rich, that is the surplus over and above every reasonable requirement and applying It to financing the war; In England plans are being made to do this thing after the war. The man of millions will still have millions, but not so many millions; the man of thousands will still have enough thousands. It is a well-known rule of physics that two holes of the same size, side by side In a pipe, will not carry off twice as much water as one hole; and with billions to raise by taxation and other billions by direct sale of bonds the pressure may be reduced, for no matter how perfect the pipe, It will only bold as much as it will hold and It is also true that the man with $100,000 is only worth $62,500 by comparison with pre-war conditions.

These things must all be taken into consideration by the loan committees, and proper allowances be made. Just the same, and notwithstanding, capital with its great resources and the man and woman with a modest salary are facing the new call upon them with an equanimity bordering on optimism, evidently remembering that the "Lord loveth a cheerful giver," even while they may not forget that In time of stress and national peril, and for the common good "from him that hath not shall (may) be taken away oven that which he hath," and the very next verse, ye who remember your Gospel according to St Matthew: "Cast ye the unprofitable servant Into outer darkness." PROBABLY NOT. A jury of twelve women convicted a saloonkeeper of selling whisky to an Indian who killed three of his tribesmen while under the happy Influence of the fire water. It Is probable that the convicted man does not believe In women Juries! A lot of new-fangled things are being concocted for the American soldiers In France, but we have failed to notice anything about car rot marmalade. ft tmm The demands on the railroads are so insistent, that it will soon be necessary to start a new slogan, something like "Stay at home and win the war." HEN'S TABLE.

Apparently the government has fixed the profits of the feed man so that there should be no excessive profiteering, but the Barred Rock hen has to be shown. She may still think that two profits of an average of 15 per cent, each standing between her and the producer are likely to Inter fere with the generosity of her table. The Hun newspapers claim that the American army is without rifles and artillery. In that case they must be choking the Germans to death with their fists. problem of obtaining warm clothing for the winter.

These they might steal from the inhabitants, a proceeding which would inevitably antagonize the trans-3aikalian Cossacks immediately, most ot whom are already extremely hostile to anything Bolshevik. The trans-Balks-Han Cossacks will not only not Join the Austro-Germans, but in the event of their being Ill-treated will certainly take up arms against them. It is probable that the male population of these districts is small, most of the men having Joined Col. Semenoff's force. The fact that Semenoff, with about 7000 men, hai been able successfully to fight and sometimes defeat an allied force ot 150,000 Austro-Germans effectually disposes of the chimera as to their being such a large number.

I cannot see that the Austro-Garman force Is to give much trouble to the Allies. They cannot operate any distance from the railway line, and, although in the beginning they may offer a certain resistance when the strength ot the Allied expedition is revealed to them, they will probably enter into pourparlers with a view to surrender. That is why it Is imperatively necessary that a strong blow should be struck immediately. It will not be possible to do anything in the depth ot winter. AMERICANIZED BOLSHEVIKISM, Or the Single Tax.

The single-tax menace, like the Ghost of Banquo, will not down. Also, like Banquo's Ghost, it Is the product of crime. The crime being covetousness, with the intent of stealing all lands from the present owners by taxation (Americanized Bolsheviklsm) destroying all stable government and producing a chaotic condition with the hope that the unscrupulous anarchist individual may possess without labor that which he never earned. The old man or the old woman, also the young widow with her little family of children too young to work tho land, are left without any income from their little farm homes, none being able to do the hard work of "The Man With the Hoe;" but the taxes must be paid or the old man, the old woman, the widow with the little children will have to give up for taxes their homes and lands that they have their all invested in. For the single-taxer says all rental value of land shall be taken for taxes, the object of the single tax being to tax all lands so high that none can pay the taxes, so that all lands may bo taken for taxes, in this way creating a state Socialism (Americanized Bolshevikiam.) The banker, merchant, bondholder or any person having their investments in anything except land may say, "Why should I worry? I will not have any taxes to pay if the land has to pay all taxes." Listen to this: Land is the basic principle of all wealth.

Destroy the value of land and you have destroyed the credit of the state. The single-taxer tells us that a few individuals hold large tracts ot land in this State that ought to be subdivided and sold into small acreage for homes; very true, and it is being done now. But please stop and think before you accept this as an argument in favor of single tax. I know something of some of the individuals that have large land holdings in this State, and so far as I know they are alt very wealthy men, Yes, but most of their wealth Is in investments that would be exempt from tiixes if only lands Vere taxed. And if tbey desired to pay on land after all the value had been taxed out of it they could still pay a tax that a farmer who was farming the land for the income and making his living in that way could not pay tor the reason that all other wealth would be exempt from taxation.

But, tell me, why should any sane man or woman want to buy land In small acreage to make homes after all the value had been, taxed out of the land? The blngle-taxer tells us that any value that has been added to the value of the land, by the labor of man, shall not be taxed. I want to say that I rode from San Jose to San Bernardino in the old-time stage coach, more than fifty years ago, and that the lands that I saw had but little value then; but since that time most of the land has been made valuable by the labor of man; and without the added value to the land of the labor of man the taxes would scarcely be worth sending a man around to the ranchers to collect I believe that the single-taxer, either knowingly or unknowingly. Is a traitor to the government of the. State of California and should be classed and treated as such. S.

G. HUFF, M.D. Huntington Beach, Sept. 27. Subtract one pound of sugar from three and divide by thirty and you have your new daily sugar ration one and one-fifth ounces, or six and two-fifths level teaspoons.

Don't throw away the tractions. PERHAPS. One would surmise from a reading of the roster of the new Executive Committee of the Republican State Central Committee that the Republican party of Los Angeles county is composed of Eddie Dickson, Har-ley Brundige and Meyer Llssner. Well, perhaps it is. Perhaps they have votes enough.

But one wonders why Guy Eddie was left off the list. John Dillon, the home-rule leader, successor to John Redmond, says the question of home rule ojght to be left with President Wilsof But the problems of Ireland, in order to remain settled, must be worked out by the parties who have a direct in- terest. final brand of infamy put upon them by the latest crimes of their Bolshevik allies. To be plain about Kaiser Wilhelm, Emperor Charles and Czar Ferdinand, but especially the first of the three as their leader, rendered themselves direct accessories to the murder of Nicholas and his helpless EAST SAILING. Talk about your spendthrifts and the use of money in politics; here is Congressman Osborne who squandered $58 in the primary election and garnered the nominations of three different political parties.

The Heney folks poured out about $25,000 and all they got was a little violent exercise. In a primary election that is the difference between when they want a man and when they don't family, Just as they have been accessory to Sailors in the new American navy have started a movement to get rid of the pet name "Jacky," The action r' is but natural. A he-man does not care to be petted like infanta, poodles or prize-fighters. They resent anything that suggests toothing nipples, dolls and mush. patched back to the manufacturers via the American Red Cross.

But not only must we save used paper, we must be niggardly and parsimonious with new paper. Take the little matter of paper bags. A paper bag saved Is a paper bag made. It every shopper used a paper bag a second and third time, it would mean a saving of 20,000,000 bags a dayl Twenty million bags produced and not a single tree cut down, not a single pound of coal used, not a single ounce ot precious chemical consumed, an endless chain of labor and freight space saved. Save the bags, save the wrapping papers, save the cords, conserve paper in any form that It comes within your ken, and you are helping the Allies on to victory.

Chief of the Russian General Staff will be of great interest in view ot events about to happen in the Far East Gen. Gourko is intimately acquainted with Manchuria, having commanded a cavalry brigade there during the Russo-Japanese War. In the appointment of Gen. OtanI, a Japanese soldier, to the command of the different Allies' contingents about to operate along the line ot the Trans-Siberian Railway, one can see that unity ot command is now a principle fully believed in by the Allies. So immediate an appointment is explainable by he fact that to establish a precedent takes time.

To adopt it generally, once the experiment has proved successful, is not so difficult. If at the head of the Allied ex-peditionary force had been placed, say, Marshal Joffre or Gen. Pau, now in Australia, both of whom are exceedingly well known and liked among the intelligentsia ot Russia, the choice of a Russian general would not become so important a question. The name of Gen. Otani is, of course, well known in Japan; it is not known at all in Russia.

For different reasons the choice of a man like Gen. Horvat will not solve the problem. First, although he is a general, he has not commanded fighting troops for nearly thirty years. During most of that time he has been engaged as a director of the Trans-Siberian Railway, extending its commercial possibilities. Secondly, although his name is exceedingly well known in Eastern Siberia, it is hardly known at all by Russian people.

The man chosen -should be one well and favorably known to the Russian people, a representative military man whose name would be a guarantee of competency for the difficult task in hand. It would be advisable that the appointment should tall to a soldier who has fought right through the revolution and who afterwards worked for the re-establishment of law and order against the Bolshevik government. As such people are not for the moment in touch with Eastern Siberia no appointment can be made at present. Everything possible should be done to establish relationship with Western Siberia, whero the nucleus of the Allied force at present fighting in Russia, the Czechoslovaks, is established. To this West Siberian force must Join the' scattered commands operating in the Murman district, East Siberia, etc.

With time it Bhould, be. possible for the Allied Expeditionary Force to Join hands with the western forces, although at the present the Bolshevik! hold part of the Trans-Siberian Railway east from Irkutsk. Before long it will be necessary for the commander-in-chief to issue proclamations to the inhabitants of Siberia. If Gen. Otani's name shall not be countersigned with that of a Russian known as a man who has worked for the destruction Bolshevism, the effect of the proclamations on the people will be appreciably diminished.

Nor will such a proclamation be greatly valued by the Russian people, i Latest figures give the number of Austro-GermanB In possession of this 600 miles of wild country as about 150,000. I am quite certain these numbers are grossly exaggerated. Towards the end of 1916, when I was one ot the General Staff, most of the prisoners left in Siberia were German officers, professional soldiers who had been captured in the early days of the war. The majority of these officers were scattered over Western Siberia, mostly to the west of Irkutsk, for the simple reason that between Irkutsk and Manchuria there is only one town of nny. importance, Chita, which has a population of 11,500.

Except the officers there were left only sick prisoners, useless for labor purposes, most of them afflicted with chronic ailments, so that there is little doubt that they would prove useless for fighting now. Thjre are, it is true, a few physically-fit prisoners left In Siberia for working purposes, but they are very much in the minority, the greater number having long ago been sent west, owing to the scarcity of working hands during the time of war. Why Germany was not anxious to repatriate the men from Siberia lies In two causes. First, with but few exceptions, men who have been taken prisoners are not in a moral condition to fight again? Such man ore Imbued with the idea that they have alrendy done their share of the fighting and are to be returned to civil life in their own country, certainly not to take their place in the ranks again. Such a sentiment Is only natural after two years and more of captivity.

The German military authorities, well understanding the moral effect of placing repatriated prisoners among their troops, were not anxious to re-enlist men whose undoubted effect would be demoralizing. The other reason, and a very significant one for Germa.ny. that a great many of the prisoners must have become connected with Bolahevlk principles, and their return to army life could only be pc-mltted after the strictest examination, and in very small numbers, where they could be diluted among the other troops with little fear ot the consequences. There are a exeat many other difficulties this Austro-Garman force will have to face. Thoy cannot be provided with tents or movable huts.

The stars must be their canopy. In all probability they will have to separate into small scattered detachments along the Trans-Siberian Railway far distant from each other, and in addition are confronted with the It is gossiped about that Andrew Carnegie is in no danger of dying disgracefully rich, and that he ha recently borrowed money from one of his old "boys" now Immensely wealthy to pay his taxes. It is said that he has outlived the calculations he bad made, and that his liquid resources are now limited. Yes, that is what they THE START. Los Angeles city and county made a phenomenal start the first day of the Fourth liberty Loan campaign in subscribing $3,000,000, or very near that amount.

Now it's a matter of only $50,215,751 and we'll be over the top and the Germans will receive a new inspiration to "get out and get over the Rhine." Of course if we can raise $3,000,000 every day during the campaign we will como out away over the top and who dares prophesy that we won't do It? The young men of military age who have been assigned to clerical work In Washington will be sent to the front and their places taken by men between 40 and 45 selected under revised age limit orders. It will be a distinct loss to that city, for their uniforms have outshone the bronze atop the dome of the Cap-irni Thpv will march and shoot ui. t. the Inhuman slaughter of the Armenian by the Turks, and Just as they have directly participated in all the crimes committed by their armies and navies. In claiming to be the Lord's anointed, the Kaiser could not but claim the same honor for the Czar.

$hen King Constantino was deposed from the throne of Greece, the Kaiser expressed the utmost indignation, declared that no man could by right deprive lilm of his throne. But Constantino's title to the Grecian throne was based solely upon the election of his father by the Greek people, so that he had not even the sanction of long possession of the office by his ancestors to sustain claims of divine rights. By the same system of logic, or lack of logic, by which the Kaiser asserts his own divine right to rulo, Czar Nicholas has as good or even better claim, yet Wilhelm entered into the conspiracy to dethrone him, then openly allied himself with those who had not only dethroned but also Imprisoned Nicholas and his family and who were from the start threatening to murder them. There have been monarchs before Wll-holm whose ambition led them to start universal war and to spread, misery everywhere among the common people of the earth, but practically all of them have been animated by some sense of loyalty to their own class. Their ideals have been perverted but still they had ideals.

In failing to speak a word to his allies In behalf of bis relative and brother monarch Kaiser Wilhelm stands convicted of what royalty and Us followers may Justly consider the unpardonable sin. Well may the other monarchs of Europe abandon him to the fury ot the people when they rise against him. When 4he war is over well may they Join with the common people in refusing hlra recognition, in refusing to receivp him, to touch his bloody hand. It Is hard to see Just how they can regard him as other than a traitor to them and to their cause. The quarrel between Turkey and i it-- 1.

tha air. xJUigana iiiuitBieB mat ing no chances on the fickle future, 'if'- DOG-GONE IT, ANYHOW. The Councilmen were right when they said that they would stir up another war If they had the hardihood to pass an ordinance banishing dogs from Los Angeles. The request came from a local attorney who urged the slaughter of the pups as a conservation or war measure. It would be a war measure, you may be sure, and the first shot would have been fired by the owner of some flea-bitten terrier who would insist that lawyers were nonessential and might be taken but and shot as a matter of public economy or else should be sent overseas to try and stop the Kaiser by wrjt of injunction.

The world Is full of folks who want to fix measures of conservation and regulation on other people, while in most cases they are neither necessary nor Justifiable. There is no warrant or excuse in anybody starving to death in this country, but there are a lot of amateur regulators and busybodies who are furnishing aid and comfort to the enemy by their bols-terous efforts to convince themselves and the world of the danger thereof. When a dog becomes a nuisance to a neighborhood or a community he can be reached and removed without the use of a general enactment. It isn't so easy to do this with a man, or else some of our cockiest reformers would bo reported mlsslnf, A DIRTY LETTER. The Times has received a vicious letter from one Andrew W.

who says he Is the minister of a church in Long Beach, assailing this Journal because of Us indorsement of the Romlnger bill, framed by a Long Beach legislator and gentleman, and accusing The Times of disloyalty on that account Shamel proves that his education has been neglected by failure to read The Times regularly; for he offensively declares that The Times "does not dare" express its opinion of "bone dry" laws. Now Sf Shamel will read this great religious daily seven days a week he will see that The Times dares to express Its opinions as to "bone dry" laws and all other topics, Including Shamel. What Shamel evidently needs, as does every Bolshevik or near-Bolshevik, is a re-birth and a bath. and each is trying to get as mucn possible of the booty of lands apd of people that temporarily He at their mercy. The question upon which the two governments hava split is the age-old one ot the control of the Black Sea.

Russia, that formerly dominated it, and Ru-, mania, which formerly was a factor, have been for the moment eliminated and there is an illuminating' scramble for the scraps ot power. A TOAST. Many sing of tha poppy of hlllsida and plain, TEGATTVE CHARACTERS. I A Nonpartisan League organizer, who California's fail, golden queen Here's a toast to the bright little RIPPLING RHYMES. THE SACRED SEVEN.

KAISER WILHELM AN ACCESSORY TO MURDER OP CZAR AND FAMILY. The brutal murder after a mock trial of Nicholas Romanoff, former Czar of Russia, by the Bolshevik 1 allies of the Kaiser, puts that monarch and his royal allies, the Austrian Emperor and the Czar of Bulgaria, in the worst possible light before the world. The latest reports are that their Russian anarchist allies headed by Lenine and Trotzky have committed a still more shocking crime in the burning alive of the former Empress and her three daughters. Against these crimes the Kaiser and his allies have uttered no word of protest. They have their ambassadors at the Bolshevik capital and these have looked on In utter indlffereuce while the miserable cabinets of anarchists and criminals have held the former Czar and his helpless family prisoners.

Not a word have they spoken In their defense. The former Czar was a cousin of the Kaiser; the former Empress was a German princess, Alice of Hesse-Darmstadt, but despite this relationship they were simply abandoned to the tender mercies of the band of assassins whose pockets were lined with German gold and who had attained their power by the deliberate aid of the Kaiser. Nicholas was not a bad man. Compared with the Kaiser, as we now know him, Nicholas appears In an excellent light The Empress is believed to have been an extreme reactionary in politics; but this was the direct ssd logical result of her German birth and teaching. As a woman she stood well, was a good wife and a good mother.

In view of her shocking death all her fault! will be forgotten. As to her young daughters who are said to have suffered the same terrible death as their mother, they were in no way implicated In any of the political offenses charged against their parents. With Lenine and Trotzky in his pay and owing their power to him, it should not have been difficult for the Kaiser to have acted for the protection of his cousin and his family, to have demanded that the Bol-shevikl deliver them 'to German custody. That Lenine and Trotzky would have dared to refuse is doubtful, but if they had, or if they had agreed to deliver Nicholas and his family to the Germans and had failed to do so, either through treachery or Inability to carry out their bargain, the Kaiser and his royal allies would then at least have had clean hands In this mutter If In nothing else. Subsequently, when a German ambassador arrived at Moscow, had he taken steps to negotiate for the custody of the former Czar the honor of the Kaiser and of the German nation would have escaped this Topples that grew Cu the license-plates of your ma- To the popples that grew Beneath hammer and rcrew, In the gay year nineteen seventeen! ONE DAY AT OUR FARM.

Hogs got under wire fence into neighbor's grain; goats climbed over rail fence Into our own corn; water got shut off because pipe broke in hills; cow fell in old well and strained her milk; calf foundered itself on chick feed; hawk got a white pul-net; baby lilted top off beehive and then danced on front stoop of same hive; when rescued stingers stuck out all over its body like pin-feathers; meanwhile Jelly boiled over, boy kicked hornet's nest, thinking it was natural football, but soon discovered his mistake; editor nearly broke his own back weeding, then went hunting for fence hole where hogs Bt through, found the hole and met up with skunk, but not fac. to face; came home feeling strong and singing, "This Is the end of a perfect day." (Oregon Voter. The copper cent is coming into favor as a result of the war. Prices will not always work out In fives or multiples thereof, and it is necessary to use the meek and lowly coin. The one-cent piece, Instead Of being a nuisance, is a convenience.

Jhas been Jailed in Idaho for seditious utter-fences, admits that he believes in the Bolshevik doctrine. These Nonpartisan Leaguers seem to be first cousins to the Internationalists. As a rule the man who pretends to love all countries Is really incapable of caring very deeply for any country. The nonpartisan is usually such a negative character that he would be either a disgrace to or a nonentity in any particular party. It is usually a good idea to beware of people whose principles are too indefinite and abstract.

We are not living in an abstract universe but in a concrete world, where everything, every Idea and every principle, has its definite position and must sustain its integrity by its response and relationship to environment He who sets himself no special goal to reach is not likely to reach any goal. The man whose so-called idealism includes all things and all thoughts is hardly to be trusted because, like N'etzsche, he is "beyond good and evil," means ihat he accepts no responisl-tility; to him life is only a cold, gray, misty nothingness and be considers all the colors and varieties of existence as merely illu-bion. The story is recalled of the man who pretended to be co broad in his religious vew that he accepted all religions and all ceeds. "Why." he declared to a friend, "I could preach any pulpit. Christian or FrotcaUnt or Catholic." "Yes," re-j-iied his friend wits a smile, "you might preach in any pulpit once but never again ta the ssrne auoee." The Germans die in every style that's been Invented up to date; they lie around in rick and pile, they're borne away in box and crate.

Tbey fall before the roaring guns and, planted, lack an epitaph; the while the Kaiser and his sons are posing for a photograph. In herds and swarms, in droves and flocks, the Germans upward turn their toes; they perish while the landscape rocks beneath the marching of their foes. At Wilhelm's word the gray-clad ones march forth to face the deadly storms; the while the Kaleer and his sons are putting on new nnifoims. Some guns now used are wetrd and strange, for countless leagues their missiles whoop; but no gun has so great a range that It can hit that sacred group. Though deatu may riot 'mid the Huns, nnd for the last survivor search, the Kaiser and hla stall-fed sons will bo concealed behind a church.

The Huns march forth and few escape the raging blast that lays men low; 'most Prussian homes are bung with, crape and echo with the sounds of woe. At Pdtsdam, though, King Dath has won no victims for his well-known grave; the Kaiser, with each beery son, is hiding ia the cyclon WALT MASON. QCRAl OF PAPER. This whole discommoding war was cuused because some rather particular "scraps of paper" were held in contempt by the enemy. And today we can help the Allies on to victory by a wholesome respect, not only for rather particular scraps of paper, but for any scraps ot paper; for that once abundant and humble commodity, so cheap, so recklessly wasted, has risen to the distinction of a valuable asset Some scraps of paper are more precious than other scraps of paper, bur.

there is no longer such a thing as "waste" paper. Every pound of paper means two or three pounds of precious coal, and uses up essential chemicals needed tor munitions and gasses. Everything that goes to the making ot paper is needed urgently for tho defeat ot the Hun, tor the equipment of our army and navy. The greedy and reckless use of this precious commodity is therefore directly unpatriotic, and a bonflrt of it Is almost an act of treason. Every tiny tcrap of paper, and wood has a definite intrinsic Valuo today, for it all goes to make the pulp for more paper.

Avoid the Incinerator like the plague and treasure up paper in every form, that it may be dis Clean the toad drew away, In the morn's misty gray, 1 Frowned the fog o'er the hills roll-, ing green; Not a poppy In sight, every one closed up tight Save your little companions' gold popples that grew Beneath hammer and screw, In the perfume of good gasoline! On our roster of years' gladsome Journeys appenrs At the summit, nineteen seventeen, While the poppy's bright face was the symbol of spaeo Afcd of all the good times that have been1 Toast the popples that grew Beneath hammer Btid screw. Happy symbol of pleasures serene! FRANCES M. Fl'RDY. No. 2S27 La Salle avenue, Lot An- le.

Why Is it that when there Is talk of Congress fixing the price of cotton 'there are immediate ambulance calls from Southern members of Congress? Are they afraid that their constituents will be shot In their personal pocket-books?.