Life — September 12, 1918 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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“While there is L Publish LIFE PUBLISH A. Mitre, Se 17 West Thirty-first English Offices, Rolls House, nd W* are tainly an obedient peo- ple. City streets and SEPTEMBER 12, 1918 cer- parkways and country roads bare of motor cars on Sep- tember Ist—a_ bright Sunday—gave remarkable evidence of that. There was no law forbidding use gasoline on Sunday people to merely no- tice of the necd to save it for the war, and an expression by the fuel \dminis- trator of the government's wish that pleasure-riding on Sunday should be discontinued for the present. Forth- with the usual stre, of cars dried up No German Verboten have been more effectual than rfield’s appeal to pu in the highways. could Dr. € and patriotism. It is nota small matter to give up Sunday motor-rides, which lic sense have come to be for many people in summer the chi N papers report. ¢ hereabouts motor-traffic fell of ninety recreation of the week. vertheless the per cent. If there is anyone left who doubts that the United States is inte ested in the war, he will please take notice, But there cannot he anyone leit in this country, or any country of the Allies, who harbors any such dou and even in Germany they must be ¢ rs fib the mans are worried :ethose who are ting scarce. Unless our pa G best info: For papers fib the Allied troops Western front ed being most worried unless 01 on the what they go after in spite of any re- monstrance the Germans are able to put ‘annot go to Berlin yet, but any reasonab up. Of course they acquisition that Marshal Foch develops a craving for, tfe there's Hope"* ed by NG COMPANY "y and Treas. Street, New Yo Breams Bldgs.. I ao And he de- velops a new craving every day, and sometimes the French go after the ob- he seems able to obtain. ject of it, sometimes the British, some- times our good lads; and none of them takes no for an answer. It is very encouraging to us at home to read of these daily course we wonder how acquisitions, and of far it can go, and of course we are warned not to let our expectations get too large, and faithfully we tue them in over night, but next morning's papers swell them all out again, and that has gone on until now some of the experts admit that there is a possibility of something like a decision this fall A MiOSUMMER (a Nicur’s on 94) wire KAISER BILe AS “BOTTOM: (maruaacey ND there may be something like a decision this fall; and yet a real decision that would yield a satisiactory peace does not yet seem likely to come this year. Try to get someone to bet that the war will end this year. You will have to give very long odds. it is still a big job to lick Germany sutii- ciently to get a good peace out of her, and probably it will take more than the three months and a half that are left But the Reichstag meets November, and then put your car to the ground When the war goes well for Germans the Reichs of this year and listen, tag isn't: much—just an organization that votes money and does what it must. But if the war goes ill enough for Germany, it mouthpiece of the Ge: become the nan people. But may the war is going ill for Germany now. Watch out, then, if it keeps on going so, for what the emboldened yg may find to say a couple of months from now to the people who got Germany into the war. It won't be decisive: Reichstag talk is never decisive; but it is likely to be inter- esting for the Gerraans who hate Prus- sia, but were willing to share the swa with her if she won the war. She is losing the war hand over fist, and they have lost not only the war, and the and their children their nd their trade, but their charac swag and mongy ters. Prussia has ruined them body and soul, What will they say to her? TREASON MURDER For OBBERY been d= VIRTUE VANDALISM, T" never been to other than G 2 German Crown Prince has rman eyes a very exalted personage. As a warrior he is one of the best assets of the Allies, Besides that, he is one of the most egregious and contemptible German thiev He is not personally worth any special punishment at t hands of the Allies, though there are Germans who may care to settle with him if they get a chance, but what is to become of all his loot? He is a col lector of pictures and objects of art from c French churches and. chateaus One reads about what has been packed up by his orders and sent home. His stealings don’t matter vitally. Things don’t matter vitally in this war, even though they are cathedrals What matters is ideas; the ideas that must die in the war, and those that will be born of it and will survive it. It is that that is important. But the Crown Prince is useful in keeping in people's minds that the necessary peace with Germar y must be of the sort th: will make it possible fc justice to go through th search ministers of country with warrants and recover stolen property. The job is going to be a hig piece of police work: the roundi up of thieves and recovery of stolen goods of every description, from slices of Russia to church pictures by Ru- bens, and then a sentence to hard labor Ul the Germans have p: they did in Belgi id for what nd France. comicbooks.com