"A New Richmond in the Field"
TJLEVATION of General Petain, hero of Verdun, to the office of chief of staff of the French army, probably indicates a more vigorous offensive, than has yet been conducted, for Petain, those who know him say, is that sort of a general and that sort of a man. It may indicate also less civilian interference with the progress of the war, for Petain refused the command now held by General Nivellc because he was not to be allowed an absolutely free hand. War in the field ought to be directed by soldiers, with success as the sole consideration and the sole justification of continuance in power.

Hounding Up the Vagrants
THERE is a well-defined movement on the part of city authorities throughout the country to round up vagrants and apply the law to them. The law against vagrancy is sufficiently comprehensive to clothe officials with ample authority to put every person without visible means of support to work, and its rigid enforcement will have the effect of inflicting a large amount of productive manpower in nearly every community.

There are few municipalities in which there are not some of these voluntary leeches feeding upon substance toward whose production they have contributed nothing. These wasters of the common substance should be arrested, tried, and made to toil in fields where their labor will count in supplying.  The needs of the country's population
When the selective draft plan is in full
spying, we know some monuments we'll like
to nominate for the melting pot. 