GLORY AND
FRENCH FiOHTING
The statement of Lord Lansdowne
which apparently passed unchallenged
In Parliament—that the British have
only 440,000 men in the theatre of war
is most amazing. It awakens wonder
that the Germans, with their over
whelming numbers and vastly superior
equipment, have not long ago broken
through that part of the battle line in
Flanders held mainly by British forces.
But more than this, it awakens in the
reflective mind new admiration for the
magnificent defense of their native land
offered by the gallant French, without
bluster, without self-laudation, and We
•4 fear, without adequate recognition by
tile civilized world, which gets its war
news f.ar too much through British
sources.
More Frenchmen lie dead nr in the
hospitals than Kngland has yet sent
men to the war.
The length of the battle line from
the Channel to the A Isa re - Lorraine
frontier is roughly estimated at 440
miles. Of this the British have de
fended at times from thirty-two to
forty miles—a rather small proportion
for the amount of glory claimed for
i their share in the general defense.
Tet even for this short line it would
appear that the British nation has been
lukewarm in supplying defenders. Mil
itary authorities put the number of
men needed to hold a mile of trenches
at 15,000. That would require 480,000
men for the British section of thirty
^ two miles. But what of the needed
reserves, and what of the tens of thou
sands put out of action?
Moreover Lord Lansdowne spoke not
of the forces in Flanders alone, but of
British troops "in the theatre of war.”
That, of course, includes the Dardan
elles, where the British have assumed
the lead and where is it reasonable to
assume that they had at least SO.,000
men in action.
It is difficult to believe that Lord
* Lansdowne has been correctly reported.
If he was, it is easy enough to under
stand why there has been no effective
British drive in the western theatre of
war. It ts harder to understand why
tlie Germans have not swept so in
sufficient a force out of their path That
they have not justifies the conclusion
tiiat the British have made up in g„l
lantrv what they lack in numbers.
The world does not know just what
tlie French-—a whole nation in arms,
fighting with one mind, doggedly, sil
ently and unconquerably in defense of
their native land—think of an ally who
balks at conscription, who wastes in
A-'vwwy
catarrh:
and
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Relieved
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Between Segerstrom & Hagen and R. B
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1 "labor disputes" energies that should
be devoted unremittingly to the manu
facture of munitions, who quarrels in
! l-’arliament and in the War Office and
the Admiralty, and who sends an in
| sufficient force to hold a mere fraction
of tile allied battle line. But, perhaps,
tile world can guess.
That volatile, hysterical, talkative and
unstable Frenchman at whom Rnglist
novelists have loved to sneer ever since
Waterloo has disappeared. The French
silently till the trenches: the British
monopolize the news columns and the
magazine pages.—New York \rnerlcan.
U. S. MAKES
I COINS FDR OTHER
“Made in the United States” might
in all truth be stamped on the coins
of nearly a dozen of the countries of
Latin America in which a shopper
would try in vain to buy merchandise
bearing that slogan. For though the
United States does n^t ship great
amounts of goods to the countries be
tween the Itio Grande river and Cape
Horn, it does supply them with a
large part of their money; and this, in
spite of the Spanish phrases and for
eign emblems that it bears, is the pro
duct of Uncle Sam's own mints.
The United Slates government, un
known to many of its citizens, who can
hardly he expected to know all of its
slatutes by heart, was authorized bv
law more than forty years ago to en
gage in the business of minting money
for foreign countires. Under this au
thorization the government has lurried
out millions of foreign coins in ils big
money-making establishments.
Just now, according to Robert W.
W'ootey, director of the mint, the bulk
of the work being done in the mints
is either under the contract for one of
our neighbors to the south, or for the
Philippines, our foster guvernmen.
across the Pacific. Aside front the mere
matter of the demand of these coun
tries for minting services, the concen
tration on foreign work at this time
arises from the fact- however strange
it may appear to the average man or
woman—that we now have more money
than we need in circulation in the
United States. This is indicated by the
fact that there are on deposit in the
treasuries and subtreasuries approxi
mately ?2G,000,000 in subsidiary silver
coins, pieces of less value than one
dollar. Such coins tire minted solely
for use in circulation, and are not or
dinarily held as stocks, like silver dol
lars, against which paper certificates
are issued.
The minting work for foreign coun
tries now under way in the United
States is being done at Philadelphia
for Cuba, Salvador, Ecuador and Costa
Rica, The San Francisco mint Is at
work chiefly on Philippine coinage
Only at the Denver mint is domestic
work solely under way, nnd there only
nickels and 1-cent pieces are beinp
turned nut.
Since the authorization to coin money
for foreign countries was given to the
mints by congress in January', 1874
more than 100,000,000 pieces of gold
silver nnd baser metals have beer
minted for countries in North, South
and Central America and the West In
dies, and for Hawaii before its annext
tion.—Washington, D, C., Star.
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Our New 1915.
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MAS PROBLEMS
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Russias abrupt excision of vodka anil
alcoholic beverages from general use
! bus changed the national life to an
| appreciable degree and brought a train
of perplexing problems in the neces
sary readjustments For one thing, the
use of poisonous substitutes lias raised
the rate of mortality from alcoholism.
In one recent month sixty-six people
died from delirium tremens In Retro
grad alone The government Is taking
extreme measures against Illicit manu
facture and sale, and In time this dan
ger will he disposed of
The government, however. finds a
more serious problem In the effect of
prohibition in the psychology of the
masses. Vodka was an Important ele
ment In the social life, and Its absence
has caused the people to seek new di
versions. some of them exceedingly
j harmful. It is recognized that the gov
ernment must find some Interesting
and Instructing method of employing
the leisure of the masses to keep them
from gambling and other harmful di
versions.
The use ef vodka was a means em
ployed to divert attention from the un
happv conditions of life—a temporary
stop-gap for misery—and Its want
gives the people sober leisure without
occupation for their minds. It Is this
need that the government must set
itself ahout to supply. Once the leisure
| of the race is wholesomely occupied,
the problem will he largely solved, and
Russia will he a sober nation In fact as
well as law. Rut this Is likely to he
of slow development.—P. I.
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