Life — October 3, 1918 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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OCTOBER 3. 1918 “While there is Life there's Hope hed by LIFE PUBLISHI tz West T English Offices, irty-first gixc E the experts have Kg oe) written up the St. Mihiel exploit, it seems bigger and better than ever. Our Allied friends seem very much pleased with it, as evidence of competence and skill in the staff of the American army. There, if anywhere, the Americans were expected to fall down, and that their job at St. Mihiel was not only skilfully and completely anned, but carried through with such celerity and precision, has brought in- creased confidence to all Allied observers who want to get through with the war. At this writing everything still goes well, except, perhaps, the weather. It is moist and muddy on the Lorraine front. On other fronts more activity has been possible, The Servians, with assistance, have got the Bulgarians on the run in Macedonia, and the British have routed the Turks in Palestine, and there are new maps to be exam: ined and names of new places to be The Rumanians are stirring People who have had to accept ake the first It seems to extinction. learned. again a German peace seem to chance to escape from it be the next worst thing to Meanwhile, as usual, there is some- thing for us to do at home. Mr. Hoover says there is enough food to go around and keep the armies fed, if we are careful, but that we ought to abate our present consumption of bread, meat and fats by about half a pound a week. And since, as things now go, and hecause food prices are so high, a great many people are get- ting no more food than they need, he expects the rest of us to save con- siderably more than half a pound a NG COMPANY A. Mutter, Sec’ 'y and Treas. Street, New York Rolls House, Breams Bldgs., London, F so that the average will be right. If we do, he says we can finish the war next year and save a million lives. Anything Mr. Hoover says go The first thing to do is to find out how much a pound of food is. No ordinary eater knows that, but he can find out by weighing bread and bacon on a let- ter scale, and then save it HE President remarks that the German-bought Bolsheviki have passed the limit of toleration in mur- dering people in Russia, and asks all the nations to “register their abhor- rence of such barbarism.” To register nd Trotzky and a rather feeble abhorrence of Lenine mass terrorism seems. form of opposition to such goings-on as we read of in Russia. But if the President thinks it will do good he doubtless has reason to think so. It will not strengthen the Bolsheviki to have their doings called “barbarism” by the chief spokesman of the United States, and to denounce mass murder by a political party is perhaps a useful first step to measures to abate it. Our government has been very chary of taking any steps that could be con- strued as opposition to the wishes of the Russian people, and Mr, Wilson's denunciation of the Terror betokens confidence that the Russian people are not behind it, and can be rallied to stop it. Presumably it has pretty well run its course, and things are shaping for or- ganization of a true democratic gov- ernment in Russia with which our country and others that are not under control of the German General Stafi can co-operate, N° much is known to the Amec ican public about Mr. John W Davis, our new ambassador to Great Britain. He has been Solicitor Gen- eral in the Department of Justice, the office next in importance to that of the Attorney General and one more conducive to hard work than to ad- vertisement. He comes from Wes: Virginia, is a graduate of Washingtor and Lee University, and is forty-fiv At present he is in Berne Switzerland, on the of th American-German Prisoners’ Conier ence. He is the head of the America: delegation to the conference. It used to be desired to send to the Court of St. James some very well known man, possessed of grace, wis- dom and distinction, qualified to charm as many layers as possible of British society, and of a sufficient private for- tune to finance the place. But this year all these qualifications are of sec- ondary importance, except as they bear upon the primary need, which is, to have in our Embassy in London the man who can best help win the war. The British ambassador to this coun try is of quite a different type from any that ever came here before. If Mr. Davis is a different kind of man from what we have been used to send to London, years old. business it is nothing against the appointment. It seems he is an able man, an excellent lawyer, agreeable in company and active in business. It may be taken for granted that he does not eat with his knife nor chew tobacco in public, His social and scholarly ac- complishments are certified by his con- nection with the Phi Beta Kappa, the Phi Kappa Psi, the Masons and the Elks, and unless his picture in the pa- per is untruthful, he is extra good- he is a close friend looking. They say of Mr. Lansing, and of course he is acceptable to Mr. Wilson, which is the main thing, for our leading represen- comicbooks.com