Life — July 19, 1917 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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re ol- ke n't C5 ill id BIRDS OF A FEATHER “LET ME EXTEND TO YOU THE FREEDOM OF FRANCE” but for our part we have the faith, and Pershing’s troops actually in France are a substantial buttress of it. UR favorite news in these times is of a political crisis in Germany. There ought to be one. If the Ger- mans had proper sense and audacity they would have one at once, and have it thoroughly. The papers say there is one brewing. The German imperial government will wish, of course, to take it by the hand and conduct it by safe paths to a destination that the government is able under all existing circumstances to approve. A crisis so handled will not do Germany the necessary amount of good, but it may do for a beginning. The kind of a crisis that is necessary to meet the situation is one that will make the German people effectual judges of their interests in the war, leaving them to determine whether to end it or go on, and on what terms to end it, and with what intentions to keep it up. That is the sort of crisis that Russia had, and nothing less penetrating will do for Germany. But it will not come till the time is ripe, and our errand 99 anent it is to ripen the time by every means we can. Meanwhile some of the news that we get of present movements in Ger- many is very interesting, particularly the reports of conferences between Bavarian Catholics and German demo- crats and the Austrian Emperor. That suggests possibilities of a serious rift in the Prussian lute, possibilities that seem to be seriously estimated by the Kaiser. A MiDSumme, mragne MER (9TS) wT KAISER Bice AS “BOTTOM: 'O ripen the times is also Russia's present errand, and she seems again to be pursuing it to some pur- pose. The reports about her that we are getting now are very encourag- ing. Kerensky, who is the present War Minister, seems to be a potent statesman, confidence in whom holds together very many Russians of very different schools of political opinion. He believes in fighting Germany, and has been able to impart that idea to the Russian soldiers, who have re- sumed their old-time pastime of muss- ing up the Austrians. Russia is visibly gaining headway, and that ineans more work for Germans, and is doubtless one thing that inclines the Kaiser to enlarge the firm of him and “Gott” by letting in the German people, and so form a trinity. 'HREE billion bushels of corn in prospect is the government's crop report, and sounds cheering. That is an estimated increase of more than half a billion bushels over last year's crop. We shall have, with good luck, a billion bushels more of grain than we had last year, and about two hun- dred million bushels of potatoes more than last year. These are crops for the most part not yet harvested, and with labor as scarce as it is, it may be a scramble to get them in. But we shall do it. - comicbooks.com