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able to defeat the Shipping Bill at one session and to weaken 
it at the next. 
The two Departments that control specifically the army 
and tlie navy have borne much criticism, especially the navy 
department. As a matter of fact Mr. Daniels has been attacked 
much more on account of his social and political ideas and 
manners, which are those of Mr. Bryan, than for any failure 
in efficiency, as to which his record is on the whole good. Mr. 
leaker, before accepting the War Department, had been a 
successful mayor ol the big city of Cleveland. He is quick, 
modern, and efficient. The attacks made on him are 
exclusively political. With the co-operation that will be fur- 
nished to him, in his immensely increased work, he will emerge. 
I am convinced, with an admirable war record. 
President Wilson's efficiency, in short, has been in peace 
times of a kind to promise efficiency in war times. He has 
mainly selected men of superior and fit ability; he has led them 
to work together, and he has trodden unknown paths with 
more positive results than any other President since the Civil 
War. It seems impossible that there should be any such un- 
pleasant surprises as the United States met in the war with 
Spain, when we had a President who had been for many 
years a political leader, who was the favourite of (the business 
interests, who had no enemies, and whom nobody ever called 
academic. In the Presidential campaign of last summer and 
autumn, with the world in upheaval, it was most difficult to 
centre the attention of the voters on administrative efficiency. 
They re-elected Wilson, as far as they were aware of their 
motives, because they thought him levelheaded on the war 
question, because Mr. Hughes wobbled, and because the 
country was prosperous. Unconsciously, however, they were 
influenced by an established general confidence in the man. 
This confidence was built up during several years in which the 
public observed that his plans were laid carefully and wisely, 
and carried out with force and efficiency. 
Of course our administrative machinery will not run with 
perfect smoothness. Early in the war what country exce])t 
Germany was there in which it did run smoothly ? I think, 
however, that there is no reasonable doubt of our satisfying 
reasonable expectations, in finance, agriculture, transport, and 
fighting. We are somewhat better organised in a business 
way, and indefinitely better organized and better led in a 
poUtical way, than when we went to war with Spain. What- 
ever the difficulties, the work on the whole will be done well. 
Columbia Galls 
A very effective recruiting poster which has been 
widely used throughout the United States. 
CARLSBAD 
MARIENBAD 
BADEN-BADEN 
German Spas Crossed off the Map 
Doctors now Prescribe Kruschen Salts 
ONE of the results of the Great War has 
been the discovery that the habit of 
going to foreign watering-places to 
seek for health has been a piece of 
sheer superstition — since a far more simple and 
efficient remedy for rheumatic and gouty ail- 
ments has lain all the time at home. The 
German spas have therefore ceased to exist, 
not only for the duration of the war, but for all 
time. The " spa " habit has given way to the 
" Kruschen " habit. 
The greatest need of the moment is that 
every man and woman in the Empire should 
keep tit, strong and well. People who have 
been in the habit of taking Kruschen Salts have 
never needed to go to German spas for their 
health ; and now that these spas are closed 
once and for always, everyone will be free to 
look nearer home. What will they find ? 
Something better, something cheaper, some- 
thing that is sure and certain, something that 
is reliable — Kruschen Salts, the standard 
British remedy for rheumatism, gout, and all 
kindred ailments. 
The " Kruschen " habit has the virtue of 
combining its known efficacy with the simplicity 
i\at is the hall-mark of all really great things. 
Simple, that is, from the patient's point of 
view — -he merely takes a half-teaspoonful of 
Kruschen Salts every morning for a few weeks 
in a tumbler of hot water, and feels each day 
how his aches and pains are leaving him and 
being replaced by the vivacity and vigour of 
good health. Not so simple from the manufac- 
turers' standpoint— they had generations of 
experiments to undertake, long years of ex- 
perience to gain, and endless scientific investiga- 
tions to make in the production of their 
" simple " remedy. Simple again from the 
doctor's point of view, who, when he says " Save 
time, save money, and save your health by 
taking the ' Kruschen ' course in your own home 
amidst your customary surroundings," leaves 
you in possession of a remedy which he knows 
has brought relief to thousands of sufferers all 
over the world. 
It was a wholly wrong idea of what the body 
really needs that used to lead so many seekers 
after health to go abroad in search of it The 
body needs cleansing regularly of impurities, 
and in this the organs of elimination often need 
assistance. Kruschen Salts acts gently but 
efficiently upon the liver and kidneys, and 
stimulates them to perform their functions in 
a normal way. There is nothing violent or 
unnatural in this : the organs are assisted to 
do their ordinary work properly — nothing more. 
The result is a return to the health that Nature 
intended everyone lo enjoy. 
Hut Kruschen Salts is more than a mere 
aperient and diuretic. It also possesses tome 
properties that render it pre-eminent above 
all other depuratives, the effect of which is 
generally negatived by failure to maintain the 
tone of the organs during the cleansing process. 
Lassitude is tlie inevitable result of such one- 
side procedure, and it is open to tjuestion whether 
the net result is even a slight improvement in 
the concUtion it was purposed to correct. Witli 
the " Kruschen " course there is no period 01 
being " worse before you are better " — no 
pain, no discomfort, no temporary indisposition 
Kalher your mental and physical state begins ai_ 
once to improve, and continues so to do as you' 
continue to use this truly beneficent remedy. 
Kru^ch' n Salts, which is an entirely British 
product, may be obtained the world over — of 
all chemists, is. 6d. per bottle, or post free ol 
!•;. Griffiths Hughes (Kruschen), Ltd., 68 
Deansgate Arcade, .Manchester. It is also 
obtainable at all British Expeditionary Force 
canteens at the above price. 
