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THE STTXDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, DECE3IBER 2, 1917, II The Rebuilding- of Europe, by David Jayne him. si.ou. The Century Co., New York City. Amid reading about marching: of armies, sailings of navies, sackings of cities and other events which are summed up in describing the present v.-ar in Europe, it is profitable to think of the reconstruction of nations whose future is now in peril. In the nature of things, there must be a rebuilding process. Our author, a former university pro fessor and one of the most experienced American diplomatists, writes out of the fullness of Intimate study of the political ideals of Europe. He has served as Minister to republican Swits erland and democratic Netherlands and as Ambassador to the German empire. He traces the development among European races of divergent philoso phical ideals of government and their relation to the present world confla gration. It is at once a. scholarly presentation of past faiths and a fore cast of the internationalism which may come after the war. Mr. Hill points out also the gradual transference of sovereignty from state to people, and its effect upon the peo ple's relation to the war. "Not since the Crusaders battled for the Christian faith has there been waged a war so 1 undamentally abstract in its goal. Two conflicting philosophic principles im perialism and democracy are engaged in a life and death struggle." With brilliant reasoning and a wealth of philosophic authority. Mr. Hill analyzes the strength and weakness of both causes. The point Is emphasized .generally that "the world Is passing through the birth pangs of a new historic period. "Europe, because it controls the des tiny of the greater part of the earth, the first to feel these convulsions, but the transformation taking place is essentially a world movement. What has been most completely overlooked Is the fact that the great war was not in its beginning, and is not now, so much a struggle between different forms of government as it is a ques tion regarding the purpose and spirit of all governments. The truth is: The igreat war is a revolution against the alleged rights of arbitrary force, ren dered necessary by the failure to reach the goal of a secure international or ganization by an evolutionary process. "Great powers, appealing to the In famous dogma of unlimited right on the part of the state, have placed their wicked 'necessities' above all law, above all morality, above all humanity, and have plunged Europe and a great part of the world into a yawning gulf of death and devastation. It is the making of a new world; but there can be no new world until there is a new Europe in which the dogma that the state is a licensed dogma is smitten dead. "It is the purpose of this volume to fhow that this dogma, and not any particular form of mere state organi zation, is the real enemy that must be destroyed. The incidents of the great war are well known and require no mention here. It is to the deeper prob lems that attention should be directed. Nor is it the intention, of this little book to add to the array of purely sub jective solutions of these problems for the true solution can be found only by the united efforts of a preponder ance of the great powers but rather to point out what are the really funda mental issues Involved in the great war. and to take account of the forces end conditions which may aid or hin der the solution. "Six of the chapters contained in this volume were, in substance, first pre sented to the public last March in the form of lectures on the Schouler foun dation at the Johns Hopkins Univer sity; five of them were in part printed ln the Century Magazine for May, June, July, ocpirni uci m-iiu uviuuvr 01 wie present year." All the eight chapters In the hook are thoughtful, but the most significant of thom nil la A movlrtn'a Tntarct t tt.a I New EuroDe." The Major, by Ralph Connor. Illustrated. Jfl 40. George A. Conn Co., New York City. Ralph Connor is the nom-de-plume n f n Ptltl9fin Tl-.rKlTt.pi. minis.,. jriamed Rev. Charles W. Gordon. He is now an officer chaplain in the Forty- ers of Canada, and is a well-known. active and esteemed figure, especially in uanaaian war front trenches. Our author has written numerous stories, among them being: "The Sky Pilot." "The Man From Glengarry." ''Corporal Cameron," etc. The present novel under review, "The Major," consists of an able series of Canadian character sketches, in which "Canada as a nation" a component part of the British empire is por- jtrayed. After one reads 100 pages or so, one of the characters, Jack Ro- 'xnayne, a young veteran of the Boer nar, voices his opinion that Germany, bent on universal dominion, is about to attack the British empire. Gradu ally war sentiment grows. I The hero is Larry or Lawrence Gwynne. a young Irish Canadian. We first meet Larry, the son of a Quaker mother, playing "hookey" from school. i-ie is cnauengea to fight by one of his schoolmates, and he refuses. Not until he hears his mother also called a coward does his fighting blood boil at battle heat. Ha takes, lessons In boxing ana nas tne satisfaction of defeating Sthe bully who had insulted him. Another badly-drawn character, Ern est Swjtzer. a young German, comes out 'with assertions that Germany is the ne savior of all other nations that are iicpelessly inefficient. Switzer hints that the "German day" is about to dawn. Love Interests brighten up the re cital. Just as the reader wonders who is The Major." we come toward the end of the story, and discover that it is Larry Gwynne. who has been commis sioned a Major in .the Canadian army, which la about to prc.eed to France, ( My German Correspondence, by Professor Douglas V. Johnson, no cents. George H." ' oran Co., New York City. A curious, thoughtful book showing the differences between the two diverse ' ways of thinking German and Ameri l can with reference to the question: jwiio started the present big European war? 1 We have here two letters. One let- ) ter is from a German professor name .unknown who gives the German view The other letter is from Professor Johnson, of Columbia University, who gives the American view. It seems that before August, 1914 Professor Johnson had frequent corre' spondenee with different German edu ! cat-ors and friends in Germany, and that alter that date he began to re celve letters from them in "which the 1 so-called righteousness of Germany's cause and the iniquity of her enemies conduct were vigorously asserted. These letters stated that the American peo ple were "drowned in English lies" and the American press "bought with English gold. The German professor's letter re ferred to, boldly avows the doctrine that the people serve the state, that ) might is all in all, etc. Our author ishows that the state exists for the i (dividual, and that "Germans who have ,left here to go to fight for the Father land, admitted to me in private con : versati,on. that they - knew Germany By-Joseph Macoueen. "WE MUST LOOK UPON THINGS AS THEY ARE, -AND NOT AS WE WOULD WISH THEM TO BE; f '. -': t V - ' '. - '' . 1 - s M i: - , . t v. ' ? -.!. i ) ,;r y " i i r - - v ' - - -v. ' . v I j ' ' i . - Jt - - - t S. i y v T ..Vwi'. .,v;":.i'(Vi;.i '- '1'" ; .-: .i lb 5 forced the war. and that the Kaiser and the military party were alone to blame." The two diverse positions are calmly and dispassionately presented. Ninety seveni pages. Fifteen Thonsand Vseful Phrases, by Gren ville Kleiner. J1.H0. Funk &. Wagnalle Co., New York City. Mr. Kleiser is an acknowledged au thority on proprieties of speech. He is one of the best public readers Canada has thus far produced, and he was late ly instructor in public speaking in Yale Iivinity School, Yale University. He has relatives in this city. As an author on speech construc tion, public debate and kindred topics. Mr. Kleiser's work is much esteemed. The present volume is a valued helper to those who work in words. It ia a practical handbook of felicitous' phrases, striking similes, and literary.! commercial and conversational terms for the embellishment, of speech and writing. Mr. Kleiser has- designed the book for the convenient use of business mem public speakers, writers. lawyers, clergymen, teachers, students and all persons who wish to write and speak the English language with facility and power. Iru gathering the material for this book, Mr. Kleiser has drawn freely from the great master of English, in cluding Shakespeare, Milton, Scott, Goldsmith, Lamb, Macaulsy, Browning. Carlyle, DeQuincy, Newman, Ruskin, Pater. Stevenson. Tennyson, Arnold. Kingsley, Bulwer-Lytton, George Eliot, Dickens, Thackeray, Hawthorne, Emer son, Irving, Longfellow, Lowell. Mabie and others. There is an Interesting In troduction, by Frank H. Vizetelly, Litt. D., LL. IX, and a practical plan of study by the author. The publication will fill a distinct and valuable need. It will be a useful supplement to the dictionary and reg ular book of synonyms,. Fighting for Peace, by Henry Van Dyke. 1.:5. Chang Scribner s Sons, New York City. Henry Van ryke"s distinction as an author and diplomatist speaks for his book a respectful hearing, amid dozens of other books whose text is practi cally the same subject. He is eminently qualified to write about the origin, condition andj conclusions of the big war in Europe, for he was Minister of the United States to Holland, for the first three years of the war. - Mr. Van Dyke produces evidence that early in the Summer of 1914, Germany prepared for war and made war. with deliberation. It need scarcely be added that our author is with the entente allies. The Story of Sugar, by Sara Ware Bassett. Illustrated by C. P. Gray. T5 cents. Fenn Publishing Co.. Philadelphia. Although this book is in th form of a story, with questions and answers; it tells the wonderful story of sugar. TWo boys. Bob Carleton and; Van Blake, are at Colversham. a boys' boarding school located in New Eng land Their fathers, who are both rivals in the sugar business, had been frienda in boyhood, but had stopped speaking or writing to each other when business differences arose. The two boys are shown through a sugar refinery, a candy factory, etc., and the amount of sugar-knowledge imparted in the story is surprising. The Emerald of the Ineas, by Charles Nor. mand. fJ. Illustrated. DuIIleld Co., New York City. Here we have a romantic, engrossing story of the Peruvian Siarras- The book is clearly printed and the story is a translation, from the French by S. A. B. Harvey. Illustrations are by I H. Smith and S. B. Kite. A smart holiday gift-book for young pejople. The Cambridge History of AmeHcmo Liter ature, edited by proressor Trent and others. $3.00. Q. P. Putnam's Son. New York City. Our editors are "William Peterfeld Trent, professor of English in Colum bia University: John Erskine, professor of English in Columbia University Stuart P. Sherman, professor of Eng lish in the University of Illinois, and Car! Van Doren. headmaster of the Brearly School. The book is part 1 of three volumes, and takes as its special message "Colo nial and Revolutionary Literature and Early National Literature." The entire presentation is exact and authoritative and begins with "The Historians, 1607- 1783." Other admirable tutetcnea review: The historians. Puritan divines, Ed wards the Mystic, Benjamin Franklin, Colonial newspapers and magazines, early American political writing." be ginning of our verse, early nature poets, patriotic poems, .travelers and observers, early drama, Bryant and the minor poets, fiction, Emerson, and bibliographies. The index is exhaust ive and also conveniently arranged. Other parts of the series will be awaited with much interest. Main Street and Other Verse, by Joyce Kil mer. l. t;-org 11. Ooran Company, New York City. Twenty-eight poems, reflecting love of one's kind, humanity, and ways of pleasantness. This is the third volume of our young author's poems. Well done. Verses of Idle Hoars., by O. Chester Brod hay. 1. Frederick C. Browne, Chicago. Nearly 80 poems, of superior merit, calm, quiet, restful. Mr. Brodhay. it is stated, is a busy man. who has written these poems in his "idle hours," taken from his more active duties in the busi ness world. Consequently, the title he has chosen might have been more com- RESTORATION OF CZAR HELD TO BE OBJECT OF GERMANY Professor Drucker, of University of Oregon, Believes That With Proper Handling Russia May Still Be Saved to Allies. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene. Dec. 1. (Special.) Extreme care in handling the Russian situation is advised by Professor A. P. R. Druck er, dean of the School of Commerce of the University of Oregon, himself Rus sian born. "The Russian game." said Professor Drucker. "is a delicate one. and the Kaiser is really playing it with stacked cards. He, however, has not yet won. by any means, and we still have a chance to beat him at his game, pro vided we are carefuL We can beat him if we force him to lay his cards on the table ao that the Bolshevik!, his pres ent co-operators and tools, will see his real purpose ana leave aim in tne lurch." Dean Drucker keeps In close touch with affairs in Petrograd through pri vate correspondence, and he has been studying the present situation closely. He is greatly concerned over the recent move of the United States in cutting off exports to Russia. "We should stay with Russia no mat ter what she does now," he declared emphatically. "Her moves at this time are under the direction of the Kaiser, and it will be to his interest to have the allies sever diplomatic relations with Russia. We will hurt ourselves now and ruin Russia for all time if we do not move carefully in this most deli cate situation. "This, in fact, is what the Kaiser is now striving to attain. He wants the allies to break with Russia since he could not get Russia to break with the allies. Kalser'a Control Noted. "It is evident that events in Russia are now under the control of the Kai ser." Mr. Drucker explained. "This nsan Lenine, leader of the Maximalists or Bolsheviki. was a refugee in Switzer land and wai allowed to pass through Germany free of all expense to head the party in Russia. Kerensky would not consent o a separate peace, so Keren sky must go. and the Bolsheviki were set up in power in order to carry out the plans of the Germans. "The Kaiser has three main designs on Russia: "In the first place, under the Kaiser's plan. Russia gradually must break with the allies and make a separate peace with Germany. "Secondly, as soon as Russia should sign a separate peace with Germany the Bolsheviki government, which the autocratic Kaiser despises, must be overturned and the Romanoffs returned to the throne. (The Kaiser is not so much interested in the Czar personally as in the Romanoff family.) "Thirdly, the new Russian ment must put Russia under dustrial control of Germany. Officers Are Imported. govern the in- "These plans have been worked out carefully and with the usual German thoroughneca In the first place. Lenine and TrolzKy were selected to carry out prehensive. Two notable poems of sterling excellence are " 'Thanatopsis' Transposed" and "The Invisible Army." None of thes poems reflects the war spirit. The Soldier's Service Dictionary, edited by Frank H. Vlxete'.ly. LL. E. 1. Funk 4 Wasnalls Co., New Y'ork City. Here we have a short cut to French and also Belgian in a little book that ought to be mastered or one like it by all American soldiers going to France, and may there be enough of them to bring us and our allies vic tory! The book la designed specially for instant use Jn the United States serv ice, and containing about 10.000 mili tary, naval, aeronautical, aviation and conversational terms used in Belgian, British or French armies. Illustra tions axe given with topographical symbols used in official charts. Faulkner's Folly, by Carolyn Welle, tl.25. Oeorse H. Dran Co.. New York OKy. Eric Stannard. portrait painter and flirt, is stabbed to death with an etch ing point or needle, apparently. His murderer is unknown. His house is that expensive house of mystery and waste of money known as Faulkner's Folly. Out of these and other materials our author has evolved a firstrdass detec tive story of nearly breathless ap peal. The interest is kept up skill fully. As for th murderess who Tould have thought it was she? Berret Bread, by F. Tennyson Jess, f 1 B0. Geo. 11. Koran Company, ivew York City. This strong novel of realism In Eng land is not for babes, but for mature men and women. Some portions of the family life detailed in the story are unpleasant, frankly, bnt most of the novel is decidedly worth reading. "Se cret Bread," it appears, was and is r big seiiiag success, in England. ( Speiicr Fieke. l- Illustrated. The Stratford Co., otun. Here we have a email, elegantly ap pearing volume of dignified poetry, re flecting the spirit of Shakespeare, and his town, SJtratf ord-Upon-Avon, Eng land. The illustrations are those of famous actors and actresses, 'who have won renown in interpreting .charactere created by -Shakespeare. A charming gift book for Christmas. .Green Fancy, by George Bair McCutcheon. $1.S0. Uotld. Jtfead ec Co.. New Y'ork City. Told In Mr. McCutcheon's roost ro mantic, persuasive atyle. The novel is more than exciting i enthralls, and ms a plot connected with interna tional conspiracy, starting -in New England. OS course, a royal bouse is Inv&ilved, JSJSW BOOKS RECEIVED.. Temporary Heroes, by Cecil "Sommers, 11 lustrattans by the author, attractive and gay leruire written by British eoltiiere at the war ront, to the folks at home ,(Lane Co . X. YV- The Next of Kin. or Those Who Walt and Wonder, by Nellie L. McClung. Sl..l. 16 chapters, splendidly and eloquently written, depleting paL-lic sentiment and feeling In typical towns: and .rommunl'.lM of Canada. In the present war-time (Houghton. Mirtlln & Co.. Boston). Early Days ou.' the Western Range, -by C. C. Walsh. (1.25. njoyable and racy verse of cowboy-days. In Uie old -Southwest .ISh-ai-man-Frencn. A Ccw Boston). The Shadow of the fctone. by Marguerite Bryant, tl.3.1. an .English novel, depicting rural England, a'so' Londqn and an island on the Baltic decidedly worth reaulug tDuffleld & Co.. N. Y. ). Nixie Bunny la Faraiway-JLands. by Joeeph C. Slndelar, 45 cents. .'Iluetrated : and. The Teenle-Weanles. by WO llam lionahey -and EXfle E. Baker. Illustrated two amusing, entertaining children's books tBeckley Cardy Co., Chicago). The Boys' Book of Scon ts. by Percy K. Fitzhugh. Il.SS. Interesting sketches of famous American scouts David Crockett, Bamuel Houston. Kit Carson, lintel Boone, Joseph, the Nes Perce, etc. . tCrowell Co., ST. Y.). At the (Sign of the Oldest Horve. by .Juliet Wilbur Tompkins. 1.5(. illustR-itad. deli clously done as a charming work, of fiction sure to be appreciated by yc-t'iuc Slrla (Bobbs-MerrlU. Indianapolis). The Arctic Stowaways, by Dillon -Wallaee, 1.-J.. illustrated. a splendid srxxry for healthy-minded boys McClurg A C-a-. Cbl caBo). Old Mother Coos, pictured by M.v K Donovan. 54 pages, a great treat for siTtall children (Penn Pub. Co.. Phlla.K The Toyland Mother Goose., edited y Patten Beard. 1.S0. 140 of the best MotV Gonee rhymes, carefully selected a splenuHi Christmas gift-book for small children (iA A. Stokee Co.. N. Y.). this first plan to make a separate peace because they have no power of their own, depending rather on what is lent them by the German influence in Rus sia. That their followers, a rabble com posed mainly of men and women with- out military training, should be able to annihilate Kerensky's Cossacks at Tsarskoe-Selo proves at once that these men were led by well-trained, veteran officers, of whom there is now a short age in Russia. "Whence e&me these officers? They were not Germans. They were the old officers of the Russian armies captured in the opening months of the war. in 191.4. These officers were taken over to Finland during the month of October to fight for the Czar, On that condition Germany released them to go home and do the bidding of the former Emperor. In Finland, however, they were in formed by an emissary of the Black Hundred, now co-operating with the Kaiser, that these officers must first lead the Bolsheviki hosts against Ke rensky and co-operate with Lenine until a separate peace should be declared. This they are now doing." Separation Xezt 3Ive. The next phase of the German game is to separate Russia from the allies. Dean Drucker believes. "This will be accomplished." he said, "if the allies act in accordance with the hope of the Kaiser, becoming disgusted with Bolsheviki. , "Germany intends." he continued, "to bring this about flrst by having Lenine and Trotzky send a suggestion for an armistice. If the allies refuse to an swer the note, or decline to accept the suggestion, another Bolsheviki note will be issued, setting forth that if the al lies are not tired of bloodshed. Russia is a threat of a separate armistice. "If the allies still refuse a conference, then the Bolsheviki will put forth a claim that it Is the capitalists who con trot the allied governments and to this will attribute their deafness to the call for peace. "Meanwhile Germany will hoodwink them in various ways, seeking to con vince them she is ready to open nego tiations for an armistice with whoever wants it. Thus an armistice would slowly be declared between Russia and Germany. The Russian armv would be demobilized and Russia taken out of the fighting line for good. Re-Establistunent of Csar Aim. "It will be then that the old-guard officers will turn against Lenine and Trotzky, who have no real personal fol lowing in Russia, and re-establish the Czar on the throne. "Is there any way In which the allies can, check this conspiracy?" Professor Drucker was askedi. "Yes," he answered, thoughtfully. "We must continue our good relations with Russia and the Bolsheviki lead ers. But we must open their eyes to the use the Kaiser is making of their services. "ilow; .can wa convince them," be ATHLETE, RAILROAD MAN, EDITOR, MUSICIAN HAVE SPECIAL WAR WORK ASSIGNED .TO THEM Major Kendall Banning Is in Charge of Distribution of Official American War News Photographs Colonel J. S. Dennis Tours United States to Stimulate British Recruiting. WlJppeefaJVIJAtltM .Wilt ' VJUWWVJ!',-''T'' WJ Zsisk-ssfiyp JrTiTn v.-. x A i s n Gf v a li B S i. -v j ( ( . v-'f . j j wt-tUi.V?te.'Y- im if .is, il--," i - - 'x- 1 -jggagsa r 1DEXWOOJ. Co. T S. Je7r7js. COLONEL. J. S. DENNIS was assist ant to the president of the Cana dian Pacific Railway when the war broke out, but resigned bla position to enlist. He is one of the organisers of the Canadian Red Cross and has been in the X'nited States with til kilties to stimulate recruiting. Ex-Premier .Georges Clemenceau was chosen .by President Poincaire to form a new cabinet for France. He said that he needed only 48 hours for the task of getting together a new group of min isters with himself as Premier. Pre mier Clemenceau initiated the cam palgn against German propagandists, the issue on which the Pain lev e cabinet fell. Despite his 70 year he is still vigorous and exhibits many of the characteristics that earned him, the title of rthe "tiger." ' a Major Kendall Banning, Signal Corps, U. S. JR., is In charge of the distribu tion of .the official American news photographs, which will be released through the committee on public in formation, Washington, in which he was asked, 'that they are working for the Kaiser instead of for peace, as they appear to believe?" "By Instating." he replied -"that the allies &.Uk -want an armistice, and that they are entirely willing to grant it juat aa o,on as the centra powers re tire to their own borders. The Bol tVtevlkl will see the justice of this; and if not all of them, at least a great nuin beV Pf them will agree with the justice of t.hl demand. If made by the Bol shevli. this demand will at once show the l aiser'a real cards and spoil his plans. - "In sV ort," the professor summed up. "The Rii'sian situation is in the hands of the Ka iser. One false move now by the allies'- and they are lost, with re spect to Rilss'a! and If the Germans get complete control of Russia she is lost for all time.'" Football to Be Encouraged. PARTS. Nov. 10. 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Address all orders to Room ISO The American Swedenborg Printing & Publishing Society 3 West SUUt Street, Kew York. wawasHBBsasBBSSSSSKSBjesBBNassssMSSBisaMSHBasBMt I ' . . v: . a t t " A , 5 it lSrtjr two. tnents will have Jn their official equip ment hereafter a football. This an nouncement, made by the War Office, shows the popularity in the French Army of the game of occr. While 20 The M exican Problem By C. W. Barron Author of "THE AUDACIOUS WAR" In 1914. Mr. Barron went to Europe soon after the breaking out of the war to find its causes and probable duration. His book. "The Audacious War." was the first to clearly set forth the Hohen zollern ambitions and the world peace that must ultimately result from their defeat. When the allies' fuel oil base In Mexico seemed endangered, Mr. Barron went to Tampico to investigate the oil situation. He found a larjrer problem and devoted himself to a eludv of the ques tion of what would redeem Mexico. The result in his book, "The Mexican Problem." Don't miss the strong; peers, the clear forevrora sad the lllnminatlaa latrodajctlea ef Dr. Tsleott Wlllisms. Krom these yeu will Irani hlstery and the causes ef all ware as yen sever found them set forth elsewhere. Edwin Markham, the poet, writes the author as follows: 7 have read rilh interest your volume, 'The Mexican Problem.' It gives a large vicn of the struggles, the needs and the possibilities of this sister-land. It is an immense cosmic enter prise this amalgamating into one nation a people of so many races and tongues, a people that has never got into step with mod ern progress, a people with no security of life, labor or liberty. You have thrown light upon some of the dark problems to be Worked out by destiny! and you have given an exhilarating vision of rvhat Mexico could be, if rightly ordered, protected and educated she took her true place in the sun. Y agree with you that her salvation must be through the redemption of 'the man with the hoe' and in the practice of the brotherhood of man. You will agree with me, I know, that life is now left loo much to the direction of chance and chaos. Out of the earth comes all our sustenance, and each one should have acccM fa the bounty of this our common heritage. Be the medium the gi?ld, the wheat, the oil, still they are in the ground and labor must Ltrn the product into human use. And when men finally organise: a, providence in human industry as they have in war, we will discover the Colden Rule as the working principle of life, and Cod will then have a working form on earth. "Yon hX)e done a distinguished piece of work in giving us this view of Mexico lose up.' I wish with you thai these United States vighl be to Mexico as France once was to us, an arm to lean upoxt and a heart to trust. Our brother-love, belter than our bayonets, can help to guide Mexico toward the march ,o civilization, "Again my nrn for your writings." EDWIN MARKHAM With Map ami Illustrations $1.00 net At all Booksellers Houghton Mifflin Co. Publishers Send crders to THE BOSTON NEWS BUKEAU, 30 Kilby St., Boston ? - Georges 'CSexrrerrce&iz. JZz'ezzZ. Col. C J. Jfarisnssx was formerly director of the division of pictures. Major Banning was for merly associate editor of System Maga zine. Lieutenant Richard Norris Williams, tennis champion, is only one of the great number of athletes who have joined the colors. They are in every oranch of the service. Lee y. Hammer has been delegsted by the Government to systematise the music of the Army camps so that the same airs and the same words will be used in all of them. Then a soldier who has been trained in the West meeting in France a soldier of a train ing camp in the East will be able to lilt up his voice with him In song. The helpfulness of song in war was illus trated to us in the Spanish-American War. when "A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight" became popular as a marching tune. e e Lieutenant-Colonel Carl F. Hartman is in charge of recruiting for the Army Signal Corps in the Department of the East. lie has established a training camp at Monmouth Tark. N. J where there are S81 acres of land available. It is intended to recruit 6000 men for the Signal Corps for the first Army. years ago football' was hardly known in France, there i hardly a town to day which does not possess one or more elevens, and the game is played all vr the front.
