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Young men and young women find here a homelike atinosphere, thorough and efficient training in every department of a broad culture, a loyal and helpful school spirit. Liberal endowment permits liberal terms, $325-$400 per year. Special Course in Domestic Science.

For catalogue and information address ARTHUR W. PEIRCE, Litt. D., Principal

WALNUT HILL SCHOOL

23 Highland St., Natick, Mass.

A College Preparatory School for Girls. 17 miles from Boston.
Miss Conant, Miss Bigelow, Principals.
THE MISSES ALLEN SCHOOL
Life in the open. Athletics. Household Arts. College and
general courses.
Each girl's personality observed and developed. Write for
booklet.
WEST NEWTON, MASS.

NEW YORK

HOOSICK

HOOSAC SCHOOL New York

A Church School For Boys Healthfully located in the upper Hoosac Valley among the Berkshire Hills. 13 miles from Williamstown, Mass., 30 miles from Albany, N. Y. Prepares for college and business life. Individual care given to each boy. Athletics, Football, Hockey, Baseball. Daily Drill in Military Exercises. Address RECTOR, REV. E. D. TIBBITS, D.D., L.H.D., Hoosick, N. Y. HEAD MASTER, MR. E. E. WENTWORTH, M.A., Harvard. School year begins September 25, 1918. VISITOR, THE RT. REV. R. H. NELSON, D.D., Albany, N. Y.

THE OSSINING HOSPITAL situated at 210 Spring St., Ossining, New York MAINTAINS A TRAINING SCHOOL for NURSES The length of the course is 2 years and the school is registered by the New York State Education Department, Albany, New York. Being affiliated with Bellevue Hospital, the student spends six months of the 2 years at one of the nursing schools of that institution in New York City.

No allowance is given during the probationary period of two months, but after the student is accepted she is given $10 per month during the first year and $12 per month for the remainder of the time.

Candidates should be from 19 to 31 years of age and should he able to present educational credentials covering at least one year's high school work or its equivalent.

There are several vacancies to be filled, and those desiring to enter the September class should apply at once to the Superintendent.

St. John's Riverside Hospital Training School for Nurses

YONKERS, NEW YORK

Registered in New York State, offers a 3 years' course-a general training to refined, educated women. Requirements one year high school or its equivalent. Apply to the Directress of Nurses, Yonkers, New York.

NEW YORK CITY

THE SCUDDER SCHOOL. Day and Boarding

A practical finishing school for girls and mature young women. Superb central location at Riverside Drive overlooking the Hudson.

Domestic science up to date. Mary Lee Swann, Director. High class secretarial training a specialty-high class positions a result. Of interest to high school and college graduates and mature young women NOT high school graduates. College preparation. Spanish; French. Native teachers. Health supervision; Professional physical director. Girls from 25 States, Canada and elsewhere. 14 colleges represented last year. MR. O. L. SCUDDER, Registrar, 316 W. 72d St., N. Y.

UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Broadway at 120th Street

New York City

The charter requires that " Equal privileges of admission and instruction, with all the advantages of the Institu tion, shall be allowed to Students of every denomination of Christians." Eighty-third year begins September 25, 1918. For Catalogue, address THE DEAN OF STUDENTS.

"Chugless Sunday

War Action that Will Help Us Win..... The Senate Votes Dry...

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America's War Ambassador to Great Britain 41
The Old-Time New England Shipyards.. 42
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WAR ACTION THAT WILL HELP US WIN

"Out to Win" is the title of Coningsby Dawson's new book. It is the motive and motto of radical and thoroughgoing measures just put into activity by Congress, the Administration, and the people.

"We solemnly purpose a decisive victory," says President Wilson in his admirable proclamation of the new Man Power Bill, signed by him on August 31. The calmness and cheerfulness with which the measure has been received, almost as a matter of course, fully bears out the President when he adds: "By the men of the older group now called on the opportunity now opened to them will be accepted with the calm resolution of those who realize to the full the deep and solemn significance of what they do. . . . They know how surely this is the Nation's war, how imperatively it demands the mobilization and massing of all our resources of every kind. They will regard this call as the supreme call of their day, and will answer it accordingly." It is believed that the extension of the age limit to the period long ago traditionally established as that for military servicethat is, to include all men between the ages of eighteen and forty-five-will produce a new registry of about twelve and a half millions, to be added to the first registry of nine and a half million men between twenty-one and thirty-one. New York City alone is expected to register a million men. All must register, but by no means all are to fight. The unfit, the alien, the man who has pressing responsibilities to family or the public, and, above all, as the President says, "those who cannot be spared from the civil and industrial tasks at home upon which the success of our armies depends as much as upon the fighting at the front"-these classes will be withheld from the fighting front. All others of the ages indicated must register on Thursday, September 12. This starts the machinery which will assuredly array an army of 4,000,000 Americans against the Hun next summer. And it can be doubled thereafter, if need be.

The draft bill passed with slight change from its original form. The "work or fight" amendment failed, not because it was wrong in principle, but partly because other former legislation gave power to prod industrial slackers, partly because members thought that "anti-strike" industrial legislation did not belong in a draft bill. The educational provision is

worded as follows:

The Secretary of War is authorized to assign to educational institutions for special and technical training soldiers who enter the military service under the provisions of this act in such numbers and under such regulations as he may prescribe; and is authorized to contract with such educational institutions for the subsistence, quarters, and military and academic instruction of such soldiers.

We give the exact Government statement as to its plans in this direction on another page.

THE SENATE VOTES DRY

Another indication of the Nation's fixed purpose to win was seen when the Senate passed the "Bone Dry Amendment' with practically no opposition. War prohibition is a war measure, based not on theory but solely for war efficiency. The only regrettable thing about the law is that it goes into effect on the first day of next July instead of next January. An excellent and practical provision, however, allows the President to establish dry zones about industrial plants, coal mines, and other districts, in his discretion. Like other war legislation, the operation of this Act will extend beyond the war during demobilization, the date to be fixed by the President.

Technically, the "bone dry" situation is this: the measure

just passed by the Senate is an amendment to a Food Production Act which has been passed by both branches of Congress, but with a different prohibition amendment in the lower house. It is predicted that the House conferees will accept the Senate amendment in place of its own.

It is an astonishingly hard time for King Booze just now! Apart from the war measure, it is apropos to note that fourteen States have ratified the Federal Prohibition Amendment, and that there are twenty States already dry which are yet to be heard from. Assuming that these will ratify, only two more are needed to swing the Constitution into the prohibition line.

THE WAR AND CHILD LABOR

A proposed war measure (avowedly so, and maintainable only as such) is the Keating Child Labor Bill, now before the House. It would directly prohibit the labor of children under the age of fourteen years at any time and of children between the ages of fourteen and sixteen for more than eight hours a day or at night in mills, factories, canneries, and manufacturing establishments, and of children under sixteen years of age in mines and quarries. These are the standards of the Federal Child Labor Law recently declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. The new bill seeks to restore and maintain these standards during the war by direct prohibition under the war power of Congress. There is no question of the authority of Congress to meet the present emergency in this way. The law would remain in force for the duration of the war and six months thereafter.

By this means time would be given to draw up a new Federal Child Labor Bill which will meet the test of constitutionality.

The immediate need for a National law is very strongly felt by those who are in close touch with the conditions affecting children. From all over the country reports come in of greatly increased numbers of work permits issued to children during the last few months, of an increase in juvenile delinquency in certain cities, and of illegal employment of children.

"CHUGLESS SUNDAY"

The American people on their first "chugless Sunday " voluntarily and with an astonishing approach to unanimity accepted the request of the Fuel Administrator to refrain from using in pleasure riding the gasoline so much needed for our motor trucks, tanks, and airplanes in France. It was a real sacrifice on the part of those who can use their cars for pleasure only on Sunday, but it was made cheerfully and even gleefully. The few who disregarded the request proved a shining mark for the jeers of the carless populace. Statistics as to increased church attendance are lacking. Rough estimates of the gasoline saved on that one day range from seven to ten million gallons— enough to move a sizable army in France.

The only dissent from this gasoline-saving plan comes from those who desire to make it more rigid by means of gasoline cards issued in accordance with the use made of the cars and limiting the amount to be used in all pleasure travel to fit each case. It is argued that this would work more fairly as between the man of moderate means and the rich man than the Sunday plan, for the man of moderate means often has no leisure to take his family out except on Sunday.

Now let Dr. Garfield take courage from this response of the people and shut down rigorously the use of coal and resulting light for display and non-essentials. The people are not afraid of restriction; they are afraid of unequal distribution, of a repetition of last year's suffering of the poor for lack of fuel, of deficiency in the coal for ships, munitions, and things necessary in civil life. There are too many "ifs" in the coal programme

if we don't have too cold weather, and if every one will burn a third less coal, and so on. Meanwhile some dealers have no coal, others seem to have plenty; some consumers are supplied, others who hopefully obeyed Dr. Garfield's "early bird" injunctions last April continue to wonder when the "worm" will appear.

A WEEK OF VICTORIES

The completeness of the Allies' victory on the western front was doubly assured in the week ending September 3 by a long and almost startling list of towns and positions captured or occupied. One by one in quick succession fell, following the pivotal success at Bapaume, Roye, Chaulnes, Combles, Noyon, Bullecourt, Péronne, and literally scores of less well known places. And the success was not only on the Somme front, but both to the north and the south of it. When we remember with what anxiety and depression we all read the news months ago of the capture of Mont Kemmel by the Germans, we can measure the corresponding elation with which its recapture by the British was welcomed last week. The gateway of the road leading toward Calais on the line stretching between Locre and Ypres had been valiantly held despite the German occupation of Mont Kemmel. Now, as one may say, the gate is shut and locked and guarded. Somewhat surprisingly, a division of Americans (Washington authorities think that it is the Twentyseventh Division) is reported as working with the British in Belgium, and to it is attributed the capture of the town of Voormezeele. This, added to the capture in the southern part of the line by Americans of the town of Juvigny, insures a full share of the honors of the week to American soldiers.

News of the crowning victory of the week came on September 3. Lens, the fortified city which stood like a rock before the old German line and was in vain attacked by the British over and over again last year, has fallen into British hands.

There remains now of the territory occupied by the Germans in their great offensives which started on March 21 only an arid, devastated, worthless stretch of what is practically an exaggerated No Man's Land. Much of this ground has been fought over four times. With the exception of the fortress of Ham, there is not a spot in it that is capable of prolonged defense or that is worth defending by the Germans...

More than that; the British have broken through the famous Drocourt-Quéant line. This is a real penetration into the enemy's old line of defense, and if the hole is extended and Allied armies push through, a serious outflanking of the famous Hindenburg line may result, with the not improbable result of another large-scale retiral by the Germans. Our readers will recall that this noted "switch-line" was a sort of patch put on the northern part of the Hindenburg line when that section of the proposed line of defense running from Arras southeast to Bullecourt was broken through by the British who followed up the Germans so rapidly in the great German withdrawal on the Somme front. Thus the Drocourt-Quéant loop became an integral part of the Hindenburg line, as strong and as firmly. held as any other part. The British are now astride of the Arras-Cambrai highway, and this section of the great conflict offers tempting possibilities.

What of the future? It is almost inconceivable that the Germans should plan and execute another great offensive this year. It is far more probable that General Foch will strike on a large scale. Recent and new methods of wire-cutting, of attack by tanks, and of artillery fire have made the defense of trenches and fortified lines less secure than before. The splendid work done by the whippets or light tanks is an illustration of this. More than ever before in this war, it is now army against army and generalship against generalship.

It is difficult at this time to form an accurate idea of the losses either by the enemy or the Allies, but there is good evidence that the Allies' losses have been slight as compared with the enormous extent of the operations carried on. As to the German losses, an indication is given by an official report issued in Paris on September 2 which states that 128,302 men had been captured by the Allies since July 15, together with 2,069 guns and nearly 14,000 machine guns.

One indication that the German power is tottering is seen in the seizure by Spain of one or more German ships as reprisal

for the destruction of Spanish ships by submarines. H is threatening to take the same course. It is always able that these long-suffering neutrals who have most outrages to resent show increasing firmness against G tyranny whenever the military star of the Allies is ascendant.

It is futile and childish for German writers to atte minimize the extent of their great defeat. From the Kaise they bragged too loudly and too positively about their win by one tremendous assault or series of assaults this su As one writer says, "Their whole campaign of 1918 t stands out by their retreat as a confessed one hundred pe failure." They have lost the initiative; they have suffere out of proportion to the losses of their enemies; they have on their reserves in a most extensive way. Thus, while the may look forward to a continuous and steady incre reserves during the coming months, the Germans must re ize their shattered units, fill up their reserves with boy untrained men, and make what seems now to be an hopeless attempt to match the brain power of their stra with that of the great leader of the Allies, General Foch

WILL RUSSIA BE A THORN IN GERMANY'S SIDE?

The rule of the Bolsheviki is endangered from many tions. In Moscow itself the Social Revolutionists are ad the Nihilistic methods they formerly used against the in their effort to overthrow the Bolsheviki. A more co answer could not be had to the mistaken impression s prevalent in this country that the Bolsheviki represented cal democracy. The Social Revolutionists are certainly r enough to make absurd the idea that the enemies of the eviki are chiefly reactionaries and imperialists.

It was at the hands of Social Revolutionists that the Ge Ambassador in Moscow and the German Governor i Ukraine met their deaths. Now comes the news that a w Social Revolutionist, Dora Kaplan, has tried to assas Lenine, the head of the Bolshevik government. It is not k positively as we write whether Lenine is living or dead, seems certain that he was seriously wounded. Lenine maj sibly not have been a German spy, but he could not have more to help Germany if he had been its paid tool. Hi name is said to have been Vladimir Ulianoff. Before the Lenine wrote much on Social Democracy, and he has a declared that the western nations were really fighting ag world democracy and for capitalism. The rule establishe Lenine and Trotsky was based on no theory either of demo or Socialism. It corresponded rather with the teachings o I. W. W., in that it would exclude not only capitalists intellectuals, but all who were not hand workers, from any of the government. This is pure class autocracy, and development Lenine and Trotsky extended it to mean that those who supported them should be regarded as belongi the proletariat. Thus they expelled the only represent body Russia has had since the beginning of the war-the stituent Assembly. It is interesting to note that ree there has been an attempt to restore the power of the Constit Assembly elected last fall by gathering together some members at Samara, which is under the protection of Czechoslovaks.

The military movements of the Allies, intended to forces of the Czechoslovaks now separated by a stretch o Siberian Railway, are gaining in strength. The Bolsheviki been attacked by the Japanese on the Ussuri River front. apparently with success. General Semenoff in another secti advancing almost without opposition. It will not be long be the armies of the Allies and of General Semenoff and of Czechoslovaks will form a continuous line along the rail from Irkutsk eastward to the Pacific. It recently became n sary for the Allies to put an end to the attempt of Gen Horvath to assume a dictatorship at Vladivostok which was in harmony with the Allied effort. This was done with 1 disturbance, and was absolutely necessary to carry on the eral object of safeguarding Siberia.

Instead of drawing reserves from among the Russian jects, as had been Germany's announced intention, it now se

more probable every day that Russia must either be left to itself by Germany, in which case the fall of the Bolsheviki will occur almost automatically, or that Germany must make such a military effort in Russia that in a certain sense a new Russian war front will be created.

LABOR DAY

The celebration of Labor Day on Monday of last week was the most significant and patriotic keeping of this holiday since it was established in 1887. The parades in the various cities of the country this year were not merely industrial and largely indicative of "class consciousness," as they often have been in the past, but were National, loyal, and military in their character. American workingmen took the occasion to demonstrate that they were first of all for American liberty and after that for the rights of the wage-worker. This is the position of the best-known and most influential leader that labor has ever had in this country, Mr. Samuel Gompers. Mr. Gompers is now in England with a commission of labor men, genuine hand workers and not mere sentimentalists, to interpret to British labor the attitude of American workmen in the war. Mr. Gompers and his associates are telling British labor that no workingman can have his rights until the despotic and autocratic doctrine which permeates and actuates Germany to-day is thoroughly rooted out of the world.

The holiday was taken as an appropriate time for the launching of some of our new ships. In the Philadelphia region two ships were launched aggregating 10,000 tons. At a Massachusetts shipyard a 13,000-ton steamship was launched. A Government mine-sweeper was launched at the Brooklyn shipyard. And at Newburgh, New York, sixty miles up the Hudson and ten miles above West Point, the seat of the National Military Academy, a 9,000-ton vessel was successfully launched, the first of a series which are being built in that Hudson River city. Mr. Roosevelt was the speaker of the day at Newburgh, and was greeted by an enthusiastic audience of several thousand people. There is a romantic historical association with the launching of this steamship, which takes its name, " Newburgh," from the city where it was built. Although sixty miles from the ocean, there is water enough in the river, which has some tidal flow and ebb, to float vessels of the largest draught. Newburgh Bay is broad and deep enough to hold a large fleet of our big gest naval vessels. It was protected from the ships of the hostile British navy during the years of the American Revolution by a huge hand-forged chain which was stretched across the river from the precipitous shores at West Point to the equally rocky bank on the east side of the river. Links of this chain may be seen to-day in the museum at the admirably preserved Washington Headquarters in the city of Newburgh. Not even a "big Bertha" could bomb the Newburgh shipyard from the coast. No one now supposes that Germany will ever be able to attack New York, but the fact that a shipyard sixty miles from the sea is beginning to turn out once a month 9,000-ton vessels is a striking illustration of the hopelessness of Germany's endeavor to conquer the world by her murderous and barbaric submarine policy.

SOME STATE PRIMARIES

Of the State primaries just held, those in Michigan are of National significance because Mr. Henry Ford was a candidate for both the Republican and Democratic nomination for United States Senator. Mr. Ford, who was supported personally by the President of the United States, won his nomination in the Democratic party, but was defeated in the Republican primary by Mr. Truman Handy Newberry. Mr. Ford has generally been considered a Republican, although he has never taken an active interest in politics, and is reported to have said that, although he has been a voter for thirty-one years, in all that time he has voted only six times, and then merely because his wife made him vote. He is a pronounced and professed pacifist. The Democrats doubtless selected him as their candidate partly because of the President's support and partly because of his deserved prominence as an industrial genius. The fact that his name is a household word wherever automobiles are mentioned

gives him the somewhat uncertain advantage as a political candidate which notoriety always gives. The Republicans doubtless rejected him because of his extreme pacifism. Mr. Newberry, the choice of the Republicans, is in military matters quite the opposite type of man from Mr. Ford. He served as an enlisted man during the Spanish War on the U. S. S. Yosemite, was Assistant Secretary of the Navy from 1905 to 1908, and Secretary of the Navy in the Roosevelt Cabinet for a brief period until the Roosevelt Administration was succeeded by Mr. Taft's. He is an expert who has always taken a deep and active interest in the progress of the United States Navy. Michigan is naturally a Republican State. The country will watch with interest to see whether Mr. Ford's unique personality outside of the field of politics can overcome the natural tendency of Republicans to support the man who has been an active and faithful servant both of their party and the country.

President Wilson not only let it be known what his sympathies were in Michigan but also in South Carolina, where he publicly opposed the nomination of Coleman L. Blease for United States Senator. In that State a primary nomination is equivalent to an election. Mr. Blease, an ex-Governor of the State, was defeated by an unusually large majority by his opponent, Mr. Dial. Mr. Blease, who has been criticised in the past, not only at home but throughout the country, for his grotesque speeches and actions as a public official, and whose attitude on the war is offensive both to the Administration and to patriots throughout the country, has now been almost contemptuously rejected by his own constituents. His defeat is a healthful thing both for the State and for the country.

In Montana Miss Jeannette Rankin has been decisively rejected in the Republican primaries as a candidate for the United States Senate. In the Democratic primaries Senator Thomas James Walsh is unopposed for re-election. Miss Rankin, the first woman to be elected to the House of Representatives, has not made a favorable impression upon the country, and apparently her constituents share the country's opinion. She voted both against the declaration of war upon Germany and against the Conscription Act on the ground of extreme theoretical and sentimental pacifism. In this respect she is like Mr. Ford. She is probably permanently retired from politics, and deservedly so.

In California there was a curious contest in the primaries for the Governorship. The Republicans nominated the present incumbent, Governor William D. Stephens, who was LieutenantGovernor under Hiram Johnson and became Governor when Mr. Johnson resigned that office to accept a United States Senatorship. Governor Stephens's closest opponent was James Rolph, Jr., who has been Mayor of San Francisco for two terms. Mr. Rolph was a candidate for nomination in the primaries of both the Republican and Democratic parties. In the Democratic primary his opponent was Francis J. Heney, who was very prominent in the reform movement in San Francisco a few years ago, and proceeded against the political criminals and corruptionists of that city even at the risk of his life. Although Mr. Rolph pressed Mr. Heney very closely, and at this writing appears to have received the most votes in the Democratic primary, he cannot have the Democratic nomination, because, having lost the nomination of his own party, he is prohibited by the primary law of California from becoming the Democratic candidate.

AMERICA'S WAR AMBASSADOR TO
GREAT BRITAIN

When a man whose excellent reputation among his fellowcitizens has been achieved as writer, editor, and publisher becomes Ambassador to a friendly Power in time of profound peace, his country naturally expects from him only a placid diplomatic career; that he will be urbane and tactful; that he will avoid blunders; and that he will quietly and with dignity maintain and strengthen the amicable relations of the two countries and efficiently manage the business committed to his care-this is all that is requisite.

But hardly had Walter H. Page, with such a record and an experience, been Ambassador to the Court of St. James's a year, when the world seemed to fall to piog about his ears. The