Life — September 5, 1918 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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THE CRYSTAL GAZER Fortune-of-War, LOOK INTO THE CRYSTAL AND SEE YOUR FINISH. Kaiser: ER—YOU MEAN MY FUTURE, DON’T YOU? Fortune-of-War: 11's THE SAME THING, burg said to a regiment of guards: “We lately have happened to have a set-back. It is a fortune of war with which we must reckon.” Berliner Tageblatt says German general opinion looks forward now to two or three years more of war till five million Americans have come to Europe, and then to a peace negotiated with Ger- man Liberals. We can all see the fault of the arithmetic that figures out a need of two or three years to fetch five million Americans across the seas, but passing that by, it is a significant change when Tageblatt allows two or three years more for a war which so lately in Germany was advertised to end this fall in a German triumph. Without being in the confidence of Marshal Foch, one may remark that he shows no signs of waiting for so many Americans to be present at the Hohenzollern obsequies. The report that the German Crown Prince is to have six months’ vacation is bad news far as it goes, but it is pretty late to lay the Crown Prince off. Perhaps his rustication, if true, is re- lated to the accumulation of Ameri- n troops on the Lorraine border, from which may be inferred a disposi- tion—possibly a purpose—to intrude at that point or thereabouts upon the soil of Germany, which is nearer the French front down there than anywhere else. The Americans secm to be rated as first-class shock troops, and when Mar- shal Foch gets ready to cross the German border, they will be likely to attend the exercises. nevamo! a) /i3 A/ARDAMAN'S rejection at the pri maries in Mississippi, insuring his retirement from the Senate, is one of those occasional triumphs, or good be- haviors, of democracy which keep up people’s hopes that when it becomes universally prevalent it will really do the world some good. It is charged inst democracy that it is apt not to bring the best people to the top, and is much too apt to provide government by undesirables. That happens often enough, and keeps on happening, and doubtless always will happen. But it is also noticeable how regularly, in de- mocracies, dangerous and objection- able leaders work out what is in them, and consummate their own political destruction. Democracy’s faculty of selection may be nothing to brag about, but at least its cleansing facilities are pretty good. Malignants and rascals need to live in dark corners; their qualities cannot long stand advertise- ment. They may do lots of mischief if they keep out of sight, but it is hard for them to keep in office. Texas, the other day, impeached and cast out Fer- guson, her rascal governor ; Mississippi has now thrown down South Carolina ha chance to show Cole Blease to the back seat, and possi- bly Georgia will get rid of Hardwick. The war seems to be doing the South a great deal of good. Its states are making money out of it, which is good for them. They have been sub- jected to a greater invasion of North- erners than they had sixty years ago, and have liked it. Their men have gone to the war with the rest, and are getting their share of experience of the new life, and will doubtless come back much the better for it. They seem nowadays to go in heartily for the war, and since their statesmen are running the government, they probably feel increased obligation to sift the bad eggs out of the delegations they send to Washington. It is time they did, and all the other states too. We need good men in the next Congress. The administration is doing its best to get them, and this instance of bouncing Vardaman it did not try in vain, American Citizen: UNCLE SAM, YOU'RE WELCOME TO EVERY CENT AND EVERY STITCH 1 PO BUT KEEP THIS FEL LOW OUT OF MY POCKETS.