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VOL. XV 
March 23, 1917. No. 12 
YOUR FLAG AND MY FLAG 
WILBUR D. NESBIT 
Your flag and my flag, 
And how it flies today 
In your land and my land 
And half a world away! 
Rose-red and blood-red 
The stripes forever gleam; 
Snow-white and soul-white 
The good forefathers’ dream; 
Sky-blue and true-blue, with stars to gleam aright— 
The gloried guidon of the day; a shelter through 
the night. 
Your flag and my flag! 
And, oh, how much it holds— 
Your land and my land— 
Secure within its folds! 
Your heart and my heart 
Beat quicker at the siaht; 
Sun-kissed and wind-tossed— 
Red and blue and white. 
The one flag—the qreat flag—the flag for me and 
you— 
Glorified all else beside—the red and white and blue! 
THere Arg Ways oF PrAck that are pleasant withal 
and desirable. but there are times when a nation must 
maintain its place as an independent government in the 
world and assert its imperial—no, republican—will for 
justice, honor, righteousness and civilization. War is not 
the moving ambition of the American people. So long 
has the nation been free from war and its perils that the 
nation has been criticized severlv for timidity and cow- 
ardice. Be that as it may. When once aroused the 
American people, because of their ideals for freedom. 
righteousness, honor and truth will be all the more vigor- 
ous in their defensive activities——if they do not delay tco 
long. 
GENERAL LroNnARD Woop has been speaking up in 
meeting and has criticized quite trenchantly the molly- 
coddling spirit of laissez faire that waits for the attacks 
of an enemy before preparing. There is a marked differ- 
ence between the militant aggressiveness of Prussianism 
and the defensive policy of being prepared to oust an 
enemy and to defend one’s hearthstone. 
Tur ROMANS IN THE ANCIENT republic learned to 
beware the “ides of March.”” April seems to be the month 
of war beginnings for the American republic; but March 
has been the fateful determining month. 
Monsieur NicnoiAs RoMANorFY of Petrograd is tak- 
ing an extended tour to his personal estates at Lividia, 
Crimea, and is not expected to return to Petrograd—for 
the present. 
March 23, 1917. 
Revotutions ARE “CATCHING” and the successful 
way in which the Russian people “cashiered” their sover- 
eign augurs ill for the cause of autocracy, monarchy and 
unrepresentative government in Europe. What would 
one say if the socialist and radical parties in the Central 
Powers were able to execute a coup d’etat! It does nor 
.seem that the Prussian people will long endure the oppres- 
sions imposed by the military policy of that portion of the 
empire. Can anyone read the future of the German. gov- 
ernment? If the Allies are successful will they be will- 
ing to recognize the ruling authorities in the Central 
Powers? If they insist that the negotiations be carried 
on with the German people the overthrow of monarchial 
sovereignty in Germany will have been accomplished. 
The rebellion in America was fought in order to preserve 
the Union, but the negroes were freed. The Allied 
powers are fighting for democracy, for self-preservation 
—national and social and political—but it may follow 
that their activities will also mean the salvation of the 
very powers that are opposing. Strange stories are com- 
ing over seas of the fraternal spirit existing among sol- 
diers on both sides of no man’s land, and the mingling 
of troops from all the ends of the earth, despite the hor- 
ror of war, means an education of the great masses of 
men who have been drawn like magic from their homes 
isolated from all the rest of the world and where they 
might have lived and died so isolated. Now the ordin- 
ary soldier is thinking out world problems, and the think- 
ing of the masses when it is completed will prevail. There 
are surprises in view for the whole world. There is, as 
Matthew Arnold well says, an “unseen power at work 
in the world which makes for righteousness.” Righteous- 
ness must and will eventually prevail. Truth crushed to 
earth will rise again. The allied cause will be won event- 
ually. If they are defeated in this war there will be 
other wars to follow until right -has prevailed and might 
crushed by a might that recognizes the ideal impulse in 
man—right. 
A New Law Has Been Proposed which will cost 
the state one-half a million dollars and require all motor- 
ists to present themselves for examination. While there 
is no question but what there are many motorists who 
would never be able to pass severe examination, it is also 
certain that many men who could successfully pass exam- 
inations are a menace on the road. There are factors 
that make persons who operate motor vehicles dangerous 
to other motorists and pedestrians, that would not appear 
in examinations such as are proposed. The law proposed 
is an honorable attempt of well meaning persons to place 
restrictions upon the promiscuous granting of operating 
licenses to persons who are not to be trusted with such 
responsibility. The intent is honorable and altogether 
proper, but it does not appear that the law proposed will 
achieve the ends desired. If it would, all motorists would 
eladly respond and the expense would be worth all it cost, 
but it will not. 
ONE OF THE BLESSINGS certain to arise from the 
world conflict now being waged will be the forcing of the 
future diplomatic policies of all governments into the 
open. The German government has not been in diplo- 
matic relations with America for a month and when the 
relations are begun again new terms of relationship will 
have been established. 
THE ORGANIZATION PLANS of the Boston & Maine 
Railroad are announced and if carried to their completion 
should help unravel the difficulties which are embarras- 
sing to the management and a burden to the unfortunate 
owners of the stock of the company. 
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