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SUNDAY St ATE JOURNAL, SUNDAY, JULY 29, 1917. A 5 mother over the loss or even the ceril of WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND By BRIGGS Trap Gun and Rod CAPTAIN TOM MARSHALL and more humane example of this confusion of feeling could not possibly be found than that which has found expression in Will Crooks" comments on Wednesday's frightful scenes. After describing with the simple but overpowering vividness of an eyewitness the awful spectacle outside the school In which ten little boys and girls had been killed and fifty others Injured the weeping of mothers, the sobbing of surviving children, the deep and passionate emotion of men Will Crooks said: "It Is when I think of the women and (heir courage that I say I can't Join in the demand for reprisals on German towns. Bomb the Zeppelin bases by all means. Wherever there Is a nest of these murderers from the air exterminate them.

Exhaust all the resources of science and courage in ridding the earth of them. But if we bomb Berlin or Cologne, we shall have to kill tome of their women or children. I couldn't consent to the harming of anybody's child, not even a German's." The first thing to be said about touching and beautiful words like these Is that they come out of a good and tender heart; the next is that they come out of a heart that has not been trained to look Into itself and to know exactly what Its emotions are and whence they spring. Because English mothers weep In the streets of London for the children they have lost by a cruel outrago, a good-hearted Eng 1 her German child. She does not.

What ever her feeling In days of peace may be, in this time of war she thinks it right to safeguard the welfare of one German child at the cost, If need be, of the Uvea of ten thousand English children. At moments of great emotional excitation hu manity la capable of criminal Illusion. and war has brought one such criminal Illusion to the German mother. Borne of us have known of it since the early day of the war, and if at this moment any tenoer-nearted person of our own race ha a doubt of its baneful power, let him spend a shilling on Mr. Archer's demon) a anthology, called "Gems of German Thought," There he will find, among other manifestations of a moral lunacy such aa the history of the human mind cannot parallel, the most appalling proof mat to tne heart of the German woman and man alike any acts whatever are Justifiable which are directed toward punishing the English people and forcing them into subjection, When, therefore, Mr.

Crooks, out of the tenderness and purity of his humanity, sets hi face against our doing to the Oerman mother as 'she has done (or al lowed ner men to do) to the English mother, he Is confusing his heart on two issues: first, that the suffering of the lierman mother in the loss of her child would be the same In Innocence a the suffering of the English mother In a similar event; and next, that the motive of the English mother In seeking reprisal would be the same In spirit as that of the German mother In making the attack. In neither case could It be the same. iNoi one or tne multitude of English mother who, since I began to write on this subject, have sent letter saying "God bless you!" has betrayed any desire to kill German children. Tbey have only been trembling for the safety of their own. The Oerman mother who sends German airmen to bomb London, with th certainty that they must thereby take the lives of English children, 1 committing wilful murder for the protection of the welfare (at the utmost, never th life), of her German child.

Whereas the English mother who. In reprisal for such outrages, would send English airman to bomb Berlin would, at the worst, be killing German children (aa th law kill th murderer, and Inflict suffering on his dependents) solely and only that her English child might not be killed. Whether retaliation In kind would be effectual as a deterrent la a different aspect of th question. I may, perhaps, be permitted to say that Lord Robert Cecil, In writing to me, urge that point aa the crux of th problem, and that Ian Macpherson (with his thought centered on the welfare of the British prisoner In Germany) la of opinion that tho the whole question of the result of retaliation turns on the psychology of th two races, while my friend. Sir Edward Russell, take th view that practical utility 1 the test of war morality, and that it can never be necessary to oom-mlt a futile atrocity.

To all these objections I answer that Total latlon is of th essence of war, and therefore If it Is not certain or at least probable that reprisal upon the part of the German mother for such Crimea aa ah ha committed (or allowed to be committed) upon th heart of the English mother will deter her from committing them (or allowing them to be oommltted) again, neither is It certain or probable that reprisals on the battlefield will be effectual In ending th sickening conflict in which brave lives are every day being dashed to destruction, and hence had better call back our armies at onoe and have done for aver with th wicked and useless work of war. But If must light with th blood of our men. for heaven' sake let US fight with our brains also. strikingly Tree. "This," said the man of th house, as he mournfully surveyed three carpets and ten rugs hanging on th clothes line, "this la a combination bard to beat." Christian Register.

A Proepeoflve Mortgage. we aeny ourieivee muw, i am saving to build a house." "Is your wife cheerful about it?" "Oh. yes. She think we're saving for an automobile." Th Lamb, I 0 II lishman says he could not see German mothers weep for their children In the streets of Berlin. That feeling would be true and right If it concerned suftorlng which either jraoe of mothers had In sny way inflicted, or cauaod to be inflicted, or approved of being inflicted, upon the other if, for example, It had been tho suffering that comes of a desolating earthquake, eruption, tidal wave, or sim ilar act of nature in her terrible ana in scrutable wrath.

Then the true-hearted man, knowing that motherhood has the same divine love of It offspring In all races, almost In all species, could Indeed say In the deep sincerity of his soul, "God save all mothers everywhere from such sorrow and suffering aa I have witnessed today." But the present Is no such case of nat ural calamity shared In a common con science. Let us clear our hearts of con fusion, and our tongue of oant, and say plainly, what Is plainly true, that the air raid of Wednesday was an atrocity deliberately Inflicted by the mothers of Germany on the mothers of Knglsnd. Can any reasonable mind doubt that if the Oerman woman had from the first condemned the bombing of London as an out rage on the Instincts of motherhood, Lon don would never have been bombed? Even admitting that the German woman, notwithstanding her education and enlight enment. It not, and never has been, a free woman in the sense and in the measure in which the English woman, the Ameri can woman or the French woman is free, can It be thought- that If she had vehe mently opposed a' form of warfare which made the destruction of child-Ufa In the country of th enemy a probable and even an. Inevitable consequence, the most arbi trary government in the world would have dared to practice It? Such a supposition is lmnosslule of acceptance.

Motherhood la a force which ploughs too deep Into national welfare to be defied by any kalserlsm or any military despotism whatsoever, We have no need, however, to speak In negative terms In this Instance, for Dosttlve ones are only too plainly applica ble. The German mother has not only not discouraged air raids on London, she has rejoiced In them. Just as she held jubilee In tin streets and homes of Ber lin over the sinking of the Lusitanla, which caused the drowning of one hun dred helpless little children, and brought no military advantage to the arms of her country, so (In the nope or having assisted in frightening England Into sub' mission) she will find Joy In Wednesday's bombing of London, knowing full well that It did nothing more helpful to Germany than to send ten little English boys and girls to the grave and fifty others to the hospital. These are hard words, but for God's sake let us strip our minds of the delusion that the Gorman woman thinks the suffering of the English mother over the loss of her English child Is to be put Into the same sategory of human calamity with the suffering of the German nn bee. The thought finally occurred to me that he was not hungry, but I was getting him petulant and peevish.

My last cast waa unusually accurate. The weed-less buck-tall struck the water within a few Inches of that prim little mouth by which bass are distinguished. This In1 vaslon of his territory waa too much. The fight was on. I was out on a log so far I was really pullljig a tightrope performance.

The log was not of sufficient sise for me to turn, with safety, unless it had been with the assistance of the bass, and he seemed to have an urgent engagement "somewhere In the lily leaves." Help Comes Too Lata, "Help! help!" I called back to Bob Henderson, who was my companion on this occasion. After I had executed In a very unsatisfactory manner a Dervish dance, I fell off the log Into the take and headed for the shore. The bass darted to the surface and again headed for the lilies. My line was light, No. li green top, which I had confidence, but I waa fearful that the fish might have some trick up his sleeve, that I was not wise to, I reeled him up to the bank and he pretended to sulk.

That Is always a prelude to a real caper. Bob attempted to slip a dlpnet under him, which waa the signal for some grand tumbling. He vaulted Into the air, shaking himself like a dog. When he hit the water, I had a taut line, which prevented the shaking of the hook from his mouth. Then I headod him for the bank, while Boble waa on the reception committee with the net.

He was landed, not a victim of hunger, but put out of business by his bad, disposition. had beaten both Tale and Harvard In former days. (Copyright, 1917, by The Press Publishing Co. The New York Evening world.) DON'T EXPECT ANGELS. Lady Exposes Foible of Mankind, ana Demands Jnatlee.

(London Answers.) Had he belonged to me I would gently but firmly have handed him more in two minutes than he had heard In a lifetime; as It was I gave him a look of unutterable contempt and left the restaurant. He red headed and wearing glasses, a peaky looking bird at beat was complaining over the lunch table that, al-tho his wife could cook an excellent din ner, was wonderfully clever at making her own clothes, saved money by teach' lng the children music, yet could not sing a good song! All these other qualities seemed small against the enormous fact that his wife failed him at this point "What a pity!" said his companion, "And you're a fellow who ia so fond of music! Doesn't she sing at all?" "Oh, yes, she sings in a style, but It annoys me fearfully! I positively writhe at times!" "How unfortunate!" sighed his friend. "Now, Millie" referring to his own wife "can sing beautifully and a better housekeeper could not be found, but she Akes no interest in gardening." "H'm!" grunted the first sufferer and nodded sympathetically. "There's always something!" "She's pleased enough to see the flowers," went on the complainant, "but she takes no Interest in their growth and I have to do it all myself. Only the other night when I got home I found the dog had mauled one of the flower beds.

Millie didn't seem to see the importance of It!" I could stand It no longer and left the table, only to run Into a newly wed friend who makes her life and that of her neigh bors miserable in her endeavors to learn the piano "all for his dear sake." Nothing on earth will make her a musician but she plaintively says that Bob's one disappointment In her Is that she does not play, and to remedy this defect she gives every spare minute to five finger exercises. What on earth do men expect In their wives? They leave a woman at home all day. She attends to the household, looks after the children, does all the hundred-and-one petty, monotonous duties that have to be done day after day, cooks the din ner, probably serves It up and clears away afterwards and then at the end they expect her to stand up and recite! And should she fail to do this one turn the other virtues In the program are for- her Imperfection. jb BSA198U13HJ oj qSjs Xetr) pun aauoi uoes it ever occur to you men now you fall us at far more points than ever we do you? And yet we never mention It to other people, at any if you can't sing, dance or be musical, we Just think to ourselves of the many other things you can do to please us and we swallow the bad with the good. The last thing we should think of doing would be to walk round lamenting your deficiencies.

If you have a partner who can cook a good meal, spend your money wisely, see after your household well, bring up your children in the way they should go, and present a smiling face to the world, be very thankful and count your self a lucky individual. His Eye and Tonga, "1 don't know when he is most terrify ing," a nervous young officer once com plained of Lord Kitchener, "when he looks and says nothing at all, or when he doesn't seem to notice, and you think everything's going off all right, and then all of a sudden he whips out his tongue and runs you through with It I Both the eye and tongue of Kitchener of Khartum, England's fcreat soldier so tragically lost with the Haimpshlre, were Indeed terrible weapons when directed at either the inefficient or the self-Bufficient. Around a personality so striking as that qf of so many stories gather that it is difficult to distinguish fact from fable; but indeed fable Is often scarcely less illustrative of the fundamental truth than fact. The ruthlessncss of Kitchener's sarcasm has probably been exaggerated; its effectiveness has not. It is not certain, although It is widely believed, that during the Boer war he "squelched" the self-importance of an Ineffective leader of a column after the following manner.

The officer had several slight engagements with the enemy, and after each wired optimistically to his chief, that "during the action a number of Boers were seen to fall from their sad' dies." Kitchener became annoyed, and eight live ones way. In the skirmish under REPRISALS IN KIND. Retaliation Pointed Oat As the E. seaee of War. (Hall Calne In London Chronicle.) In two articles published a few weeks ago in the Dally Chronicle I made an ef fort to show that a confuslan of thought existed In the publio mind on the object and aim of reprisal, and I have since had the satisfaction of receiving from many Influential persons the most helpful letters of support for this view one of the latest being from Lord Buckmaater, who thinks the government's failure in definition waa the chief cause of the confusion in the aebate in the house of tarda In the painful light of Wednesday's air raid on London, I wish now to call atten tion to another form of confusion on the subject of reprisal confusion of feeling in tne puwic heart.

A clearer and at the same time a fairer PISHING BY TOM MARSHALL. Oh. you black basal You scale-covered fighting machine, loaded with dynamic force, which Is set in motion at the eight of a buck-tail lure, a nice frog or ahlner. A Skinner ipoon with a properly placed piece of bacon rind attached also has been the downfall of many a fine bass. Hunger is not the only reason bass attack the lure.

They are Impregnated with the true lighting spirit. On one occasion I was fishing In Hall's lake, located between the Iowa and Mississippi river near their confluence. The water was clear and fish could be seen swimming at a considerable depth. Standing on an old log which extended out Into the lake, I was casting along the border of the pond lily beds. Near the point where my lure struck the water lay a large black bass in the shadow of the lily leaf.

My next caut landed what seemed to be a most attrsctive lure, within about a foot of where my prospective victim was riRnnlnr. Whan thA huplr tnll atmlnlr thft water the bass made a sharp circle; returning to his favorite sleeping point, determined not to be disturbed. Bast Gets Peevish. Again and again I whipped the lure near his abode. He was certainly a beauty and I computed his weight at seven pounds.

This would have been my story and I would have stuck to it were it not 'for the fact that I finally landed the beauty and weighed him on tested scales. He recorded five pounds and two ounces. As my buck-tail bait would strike the water he would essay, a little attack, snapping as will a bear at a troublesome ATHLETES HAVE WAR SPIRIT BUNGLING OF FOREIGN ELEMENTS HAS NOT INTERFERED. American Sports Have Developed a Hardy Lot of Men la Colleges Who Are Up and Ready. By Robert Edgren.

The war spirit is strong in Americans. Those who thought it had died out because of the mingling of foreign elements were entirely mistaken. The amazing response of college men all over the country to the war call has broken the records even of civil war times. Our big colleges and many of tho smaller ones have been nearly emptied by the rush to arms. Athletic sports have developed a hardy lot of men in the high schools and the colleges.

A strong Indication of the war ulue of athletics is the way in which our most celebrated college athletes have volunteered for the most dangerous branches of the service. At Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, Princeton, Cornell, Syracuse, Fordham, Am-herst. Pennsylvania, Pittsburg, Michigan Wisconsin. Chicago, Lincoln, Oregon, California and Stanford universities the football teams have volunteered practically to the last man. Football Is a fighting sport a sport that develops courage and aggressiveness.

The football men have tried to get into line for real fighting. The spirit of adventure is strong. The same can be said for the crew men In all the colleges. Trained for endurance in a sport that takes the last ounce of strength and the most unflinching determination, these boys have rushed to get the positions of honor any where on the firing line. Champions Go In for Aviation.

With the Yaio aviation unit that trained all winter in Florda and is now training at Huntington is Cord Meyer, a former Yale crew captain. Seth Low 2d, captain-elect this year at Yale, Is in the same flying squad. Both can Qualify a experts when sent into active service. Training for over three months In the ame Yale unit is a Princeton man, George M. Church, the great tennis player.

Church was Princeton captain and Intercollegiate champion in 1914. Very tall, slim and wiry, he lands close to the net, and at the net game has no superior. He should be equally effective with a Lewis gun. Ted Meredith, the famous Pennsylvania middle distance runner and Olympic champion, holder of several world's records, Is also in the aviation squad Early in the war it was supposed that the drivers or submarine, chasers would have a great deal of dangerous work to do. This caused a heavy enlistment of college athletes in the coast defense and naval reserve.

Some of them have been sent across the sea, and are now busy chasing the subs in English waters. Phil Carter, the famous golfer, is In the aviation service. Carter won the north and south championship twice, and the Junior championship three times before he reached the age limit in that class nineteen. Homer Baker, the N. Y.

A. C. runner, is working to become an aviator. Willie Ritchie, former lightweight champion of the world, is a volunteer flyer on the Paciiic coast, training to go to Prance. Among the famous tennis players who have volunteered is R.

Norris Williams, who Is now at Plattsburg and has been recommended for a captain's commission. He is likely to see service soon. Jim Duncan, the discus thrower and holder of two world's discus records, is a volunteer In 'the engineers. He enlisted early. I met Jim shortly after war was declared and asked him if he was train lug with the discus and if he felt like breaking any more records.

"I'd look fine out on the field in an athletic suit tossing a "platter" when there's a war going on," said Jim. "No for me. I'm Just the kind of a husky fellow the country needs and I'm for the khaki." Hundreds of college men have enlisted for the ambulance service. College men have been going to France to drive am' bulances ever since the big war started in Europe. One bunch of thirty many from Princeton went over before we en tered the war and volunteered as ambul ance drivers.

A French general told them that the ambulance service wasn't in great need of men Just then, but that competent drivers were needed for an even more dangerous task driving am munition trucks. The thirty men enlisted in a body. They found excitement enough it- driving ammunition trucks up within range of the German guns. Dangers of Ambulance Work. Every prominent college In America has its ambulance unit In training.

Grad uates give the necessary funds and stu dents enlist for the work: It Isn't a soft snap, this ambulance driving. The En ropean military statistics show that the medical branch of the service is the most dangerous has more fatalities than any ether. The Infantry mortality ranks next, then the artillery and then aviation. A few of the college star athletes went in for aviation before the United States entered the war. Among these were sev era! Yale men, including the son of Mr.

Pavisson, the financier, who trained at Manhassct bay under the direction of David McCullough. Hobey Baker entered the aviation corps when he graduated from Princeton. Baker was one of the greatest ail around athletes In America, a great football and baseball player, cap tain of Princeton teams, a wonderful run' -ner and the best hockey player In the country. He flew from New York to see the Yale-Princeton game at Princeton, and sailed over the field where his runs received no mora similar messages after he had politely telegraphed: "I hope when the Boers fell they did not hurt themselves." But there Is little doubt. In view of his Intolerance of "pull" and favoritism, that he really sent another and more neatly sarcastlo telegram.

A nobleman, whose son was serving In the yoemanry, desired the youth's presence at home, for a wedding, ball or some other Important festal event. Counting on his rank and social importance, he ventured to telegraph the commander; "Please allow my son return at onoe; urgent family reasons." Kitchener replied promptly: "Son cannot return at all: urgent mili tary reasons." In another Instance popularly narrated, the snub was administered to the pre sumptuous noble by word of mouth. A subaltern of exalted family had been sent out to join his staff in Africa, and made the mistake of remembering his social and forgetting his military rank. He made the amazing error of addressing his chief as "Kitchener." The other officers were aghast, and looked for a quick and stern reproof. Instead.

of drawled nonchalantly: "Oh, why be so beastly formal with me? Why don't you call me Herbert?" The xoutn'a Companion. Slok Unto Death. (Buffalo Evening News) "Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. Germany Is heart sick. The people have been fed on a diet of lies.

They have ben buoyed up by false hopes built on distorted facts. The kaiser and his satellites have been playing with the feelings of the people, They nave been gambling with their nerves. Germany has been placed upon the operating table and subjected to starvation diet and the knife of autocracy. Like a patient suffering from a dls ease, buncoed by a quack, the people of uermany nave Deen assured that the fear ful privations they are suffering were but incidents In the process that would bring robust health. But Uermany seems to be arriving at that state of mind similar to that at' tained by a patient who at last realizes his weakness and the Incompetence of his medico.

The ultimate victory Is still afar off. The U-boat has not brought Britain to her knees. The xeppelin has not brought the nations to Berlin begging for peace. instead the world Is armed against Germany. The United States has brought her vast resources and energy into play.

Germany's hosts are being battered- their lines are being pressed back and broken. Internal dissensions are rife. There are recalcitrants in the relchstag. The Junk er quacks are being Indicted. The question is, will those quacks In consultation with the kaiser be able to una in tneir pnarmacopaeia of lies a further stimulant for sick Germany? Or will Germany awake to the fact that she is suffering from, the cancerous growth of autocracy and take heroic measures to rid herself of It? Or will she delay until the post mortem Is conducted by the allies? Got His.

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The team showed no marked superior ity over at least four other teams during the first heat of the race. Good pitching alone kept the team at the top. At the wire, the Boosters were losing ground. And had the race cone another week. there might have been a different leader.

There's bound to be a relapse or two at the close of a pennant race even tho another race starts two days later. Lin coln and Des Moines were under a strain right up to the finish. With the first half of the season ended, there was sure to be a sign of stateness for few days. On the other hand, the teams that finished well down the ladder, were Just as certain to enjoy a re-action at the commencement of the second wing of the chase for the rag. The nice getaway of the Hutchinson and teams should be pleasing to the majority of' fans over the circuit and should mean many extra dollars at the gate.

The unfortunate melee at Joplln that cost a forfeiture and a suspension to say nothing of a stiff floe, puts the Ducklings In the hole at the jump. The team, how ever, was in the hole all the way during the first lap and even at that, gave the Boosters a mighty race for honors. It we were to select an appropriate time for the old jinx to put In his licks, that time would be the start of the race. Cor talnly the team needs another high grade pitcher. Halla, Gregory and East can't carry the burden with double headers looming up now and then.

Up to date, Meyers has showed little promise of helping out the star trio. There is every reason to hope that some team, other than Des Moines, will win the final lap. There Is little reason to believe that the Boosters Will repeat, While admitting that the two-edged race Is sure to produce "I told you so's" and also admitting that business sagacity should encourage the possibility of post-season series, those things really don't happen. Baseball Is sometimes too square for Its own financial good. Or rather financial benefit since nothing can be good athletically speaking, that Is fixed.

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