"Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord" but Heaven has heard the shrieks of drowning women-has seen the tiny hands of children stretched out in dumb entreaty from the bottom of the sea-and, in answer to both, another voice exclaims above the din of the tempest and the roar of battle, "Smite the Philistine hip and thigh!"

If we equivocate we are lost. Freedom in the United States requires not only the destruction of autocracy in Germany but the total annihilation of militarism and the military spirit. If any power is left intact in Germany to make treaty with any other power, we are lost. If all government in Germany be not blotted out even as the Southern Confederacy in America was blotted out, we are lost. We have fought in vain, and all our sacrifices in blood and treasure will go for naught if we make not clean and sure work of it. We must smite the Philistine hip and thigh.

DEFEAT PRUSSIANISM.

By Hon. Wm. Howard Taft. The war aims of the United States and of her Allies have been sufficiently stated. Further elaboration or restatement is likely to produce inconsistencies and differing points of view which are confusing to the Allied peoples. Indeed, the messages of the President already delivered, considered as a whole, are not wholly free from this fault. We cannot win the war by talk. We cannot sever Austria from the German alliance, especially after the Russian debacle, pipe we ever so sweetly. The arguments that will tell with the German and Austrian peoples are Allied victories on the

western front from the North Sea to the Adriatic and nothing else. Let us address our whole energies to achieving these.

What we must steel ourselves against in this country is the organization of an inconclusive peace party. As the losses of life and the burdens of taxes and contributions and the occasional and inevitable discouragements crowd upon us in the progress of the war, the insidious pessimists, the unreasonable, weak-kneed, the pacifists, the selfish and unpatriotic will gravitate together and will seize upon peace discussions, if continued between the Potsdam cabal and the President, as evidence that peace is only a question of specific terms and of mutual concessions. The fact is far from this. The President made this clear in his early messages. We cannot and must not retreat from the position that the defeat of Prussian militarism in battle and the consequent ending of German plans for world domination by force is our aim in this war, and we shall be satisfied with nothing else. Any doubt cast upon this as our purpose weak

ens our cause.

MUST FIGHT IT OUT.
From Leslie's Weekly.

Every pacifist is an enemy. Every one who stands for a negotiated peace is giving aid and comfort to our foes.

A peace that would leave unsettled the vital issues of the war would be only an armistice.

Within two decades the world would be plunged into a still bloodier war, and our children would be

driven to finish the struggle for freeIdom which, in our cowardice, we left incomplete.

Woe to England, France and America if they leave such a legacy to the next generation!

Already we have talked too much about peace. The frequency of our peace definitions, Berlin and Vienna interpret as signs of weakness.

Among the armies at the front there are no illusions. Soldiers know but one way to win. The Allied armies in France know they can make Germany taste the bitterness of defeat.

If Presidents and Premiers had less to say about peace the end would sooner be in sight.

The more we talk about peace, the more we play their game. Famine and economic ruin stare the Central Powers in the face. Their armies may still be fed, but even a Hindenburg cannot maintain indefinitely a strong fighting army with a home background of underfed or starving wives and children.

If we quit now "all the dead," as former Attorney General James M. Beck says, "will have died in vain." A negotiated peace will mean the end of all a liberal civilization holds dear.

"Nothing we may have to endure now," says Rudyard Kipling, "will weigh one featherweight compared with what we shall most certainly have to suffer, if for any cause we fail of victory."

The most dangerous feature of the war situation is not submarine ruthlessness or the lack of tonnage,

but the persistent discussion of peace.

We must end the war by fighting, not by peace addresses. Thus only can we secure a peace worthy of the name.

HOW CAN MAN DIE BETTER?

From the Boston Herald. Love clings to its own, and not all the philosophies of all the sages can remove the shadows that the lengthening list of casualties among our boys over there is spreading among American hearts and homes. But it is well with those who have given their lives in a just cause. It is not merely the expression of fatalism, not merely the exaltation of patriotic fervor, to say that it is sweet to die for one's country. It was a recognition of something very fine in human experience, something very big in human destiny, that led Macaulay, in telling how Horatius kept the bridge in the brave days of old, to write:

"To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late;
And how can man die better

Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers

And the temples of his gods?" The ashes of their fathers that our boys are dying for on the western front in France are the proud heritage of free peoples and the temples are dedicated to the high ideals of justice and righteousness. In the bravest of the brave days of old there was never opportunity to die more gloriously than these days offer in France. Happy those who

glimpse the vision as they answer the

call-and call and happy those of us, who forced reluctantly to remain behind,

see the sublimity and the significance of the sacrifice and find in it a compensation for the loss and an inspiration for the work that we must keep on doing.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS

February 26. The Senate agreed to the conference report on the bill to house shipyard employes.

February 27. The House passed by 344 to 21 the alien slacker bill.

February 28. The House passed by 337 to 6 the Administration railroad bill. As agreed to by the Conference Committee the right to fix rates is vested in the President subject to review by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The limit of Government control was placed at twentyone months instead of the twentyfour months voted by the House and the eighteen voted by the Senate. State power to tax the railroads was left undisturbed.

March 3. The House held memorial service in honor of the late Representative E. J. Hill of Connecticut.

March 7. The Senate passed by 74 to 3 the war finance corporation bill, Senators Harding, Ohio; Sherman, Illinois, and Hardwick, Georgia, voting no. An amendment provides that the President shall appoint the directors, not more than three of whom may be members of the same political party, and designate two to serve for two years and two others to serve for four years. The fifth member will be the Secretary of the Treasury.

March 8. On motion of Senator Curtis of Kansas, the Senate amended its rules to prevent conferes on disputed amendments from inserting new provisions in bills, or eliminating others not in dispute.

March 12. The Senate passed the urgent deficiency appropriation bill, carrying $1,800,000,000. It carried riders authorizing the sale of all enemy property in the United States and the purchase by the Government of the German owned wharves at Hoboken, N. J. The principal appropriations in the bill, as increased by the Senate, include:

kota; Johnson, California; Kenyon, Iowa; Norris, Nebraska, and Townsend, Michigan, Republicans, and Gore, of Oklahoma, Democrat. Elimination of the tax provision resulted from initial use of the new Senate rule prohibiting conferees from writing new matter into a bill.

March 14. The House accepted the revised conference report on the railroad bill.

March 15. The House passed the daylight saving bill.

DAYLIGHT SAVING.

March 16. The Senate concurred in the amendment made by the House, extending the period of daylight saving to seven months each year, while the bill as it originally passed the Senate provided that the annual period should extend for five months. Under the provisions of the bill, the clocks of the country will be set forward an hour, beginning at 2 A. M. on March 31, and ending the last Sunday in October. At 2 A. M. of that day clocks will be set back an hour, and the nation will return to the time schedule as now in effect. On April I the clocks of the United States will be an hour ahead of sun time as now standardized. The man accustomed to go to work at 8 A. M. will find himself starting at the same hour, as indicated by the clock, but actually he will be an hour ahead by the present standardized time. The plan was adopted last year in many European countries, the argument being that it will save fuel and benefit wage earners in that they will have more time for recreation during daylight hours. March 17. The annual naval ap

propriating bill, carrying more than $1,300,000,000 and authorizing a war-time increase in the navy's enlisted strength from 87,000 to 180,ooo men, was reported to the House. The bill is larger by over $800,000,ooo than any prior naval bill, carrying, roundly, $1,227,600,000. This sum, together with last year's bill and the appropriations carried in the two deficiency bills of the preceding session, make almost $3,000,000,000 provided for the navy in a little more than twelve months, while the total expenditures of the navy from 1794 to 1916, inclusive, a period of 122 years, only exceeded this sum by three hundred and sixty-odd million dollars. Almost $200,000,000 is provided for aviation. The bill provides the money necessary to carry forward the three-year program of dreadnoughts, battle cruisers and other types of ships already authorized. It provides another emergency fund of $100,000,000, which may be used in the construction of destroyers and other small craft, which are the present most pressing need in the fight against the submarine menace.

A joint resolution is pending in the Senate so that May 7 be set apart by the people of the United States of America as a day of remembrance and appreciaion of those who served and sacrificed in the war for worldwide democracy. It also provides that the Secretary of State be and is hereby, instructed to invite the Governments allied with us in this war to join with the people of the United States in making May 7 an international memorial day.