IN MAKING AN ESTIMATE of the comparative suc- 
cesses of the forces in the field in Europe it must be 
remembered that one of the nations was thoroughly pre- 
pared. The entire nation had been drilled and armed; 
they were ready for the fray. When the civil war was 
keing fought the North constantly met defeat in the early 
part of the war. How much had the North gained at the 
end of the first year? ‘The first year has nothing to tell 
ts concerning the final issues of the war. Now, Kitchener 
has a million men in reserve and in training, but it will be 
spring before they are worth anything in the line of battle. 
There is no end in sight and there is nothing upon which 
a reliable decision can be made. It is evident, however, 
that there was skill and ability back of the forces that 
vere gathered so rapidly as to be able to keep the invading 
army out of Paris. 
Tre United STATES government has a dignity unto 
itself to maintain. The nation is large enough and power- 
ful enough to consider its own ends and ways in the 
interests of peace. War is an evil and a sinister influence 
from which a nation rarely is able to recover. The people 
of the United States do not wish war and will not tolerate 
war. Germany may wish to try the patience of our gov- 
ernment, 1f it will. America, in the interests of peace, can 
close the incident by declining to pay and to argue 
fitither. 
MAKING a thorough canvass of the 
many days they will be able to 
There are many 
THE WOMEN ARE 
North Shore and before 
tell just where the voters’ interests are 
men who believe in woman suffrage, but there are very 
few men who are enthusiastic about it. The women have a 
hard campaign to fight, but they are working hard and 
may. win. 
THE SCURRILOUS NEWSPAPERS that are already fight- 
ing battles, on paper, with Germany, do not realize “the 
penalties and terrors of war. No one who has ever 
known what war means can ally himself with the perni- 
cious militaristic forces that would involve America. War 
is the last resort of a nation whose destined place in the 
society of nations is to teach the gospel of peace among 
men. 
THE PROTECTION of the embassies within the limits 
oi our country is an obligation that must be sacredly kept. 
It would be a national dishonor for any representative of 
to come to harm here at the hands of 
a foreign power 
America has a 
a crank or a maliciously intent individual. 
task to perform and it will do it. 
Mr. WALSH DOES No? seem to be able to make up his 
The time is short for his 
guess that the charms of the 
mind to run for Governor. 
ectsion. We venture a 
il] allure. 
Witson has proven his patience. He is 
certain that our people want peace and he is using every 
legitimate power he can assert to gain it. 
his skill be devoted to the great 
THE MILITARY scHoor, to be held this summer at 
Plattsburg for college men has already on its lists of stu- 
dents more names than could have been hoped. Pre- 
paredness should be a national policy, but to it this country 
must not be committed as a main issue of national life. 
There is a difference between military preparedness and 
nalitarism. Militarism breeds trouble. It loves war and 
all its panoply of arms and munitions. Preparedness may 
be the determination of a peaceful people to avoid the 
dangers of war incident to a surprise attack. America 
cannot yield to the temptation to become militaristic, but 
that is no reason why in the interests of peace the nation 
cannot be prepared, not for, but against the war that may 
come. 
THE EuropEAN WAR will inevitably develop Ameri- 
can business. ‘The terrible struggle has ruined many of 
the manufacturing enterprises of the old world. To 
America Europe must look for a period of years for the 
skill and capital to develop old world industries. It 1s 
lamentable that prosperity should come in such a way, 
but it is inevitable. To what country will the old look for 
sticcor ? 
BRYAN HAS SUGGESTED that all editorials should be 
signed by the writer in order that their merits may be 
jadged upon the knowledge which one has of the individ- 
ete personality. As it is now, all. editorials are the 
product of the paper, not the individual. There is muci 
to be said on both sides of this question and there are 
merits in both methods. The American writers and 
papers are used to the present method and there is no greit 
harm wrought by it. 
Joun Hays HammMonp, JR., is intensely interested 
in the art of preparedness for war. If he, in the interests of 
peace, can devise a mechanism that will prevent war 
altogether, he will have gained a place in the history of the 
cevelopment of science that has never been gained. May 
cause of international 
peace! 
THE OPERATION of an automobile teaches the art >f 
concentration better than any sport that man has ever 
devised. Every instant the mind must be on the opera- 
tion. Because of this very necessity it is a marvelous 
agent for resting weary nerves. It grips the mind and 
the mind then throws off the grip that business or care 
may have gained. 
SOME CRANKS have made threatening remarks con- 
cerning two of the embassies to this country, but America 
will not permit any violation of ther soil if it can be helped. 
Consequently our government will do everything within 
its power to afford these representatives protection. 
Tur Norru Suore has been the mecca of thousands 
of tourists this year. Every shore resort in New England 
has felt the result of the embargo that the war has put 
upon foreign travel, 
