Moscow has done nobly in caring for the sick during the influenza epidemic and the results of this splendid cooperative work is apparent. Pullman, with a much smaller population, has had 11 deaths from influenza. Moscow has had no sacrifice. Belgium is preparing an itemized bill which Germany must pay when the war is over. The bill has now reached a total of more than two billion dollars and the Belgium government has only itemized its damages up to 1915. More than three more years of suffering, despoliation and robbery of Belgium will be added to the bill, probably bringing it eight billion dollars, or 33 percent more than the fourth Liberty loan.
American soldiers are demanding the war be not ended until German is invaded. In this they voice the sentiment of the soldiers of all nations war with Germany. That country must be invaded and a large strip of her richest territory taken to pay for the damage she has done to Belgium. France, Serbia, and the world at large.
COMMERCE COMMISSION CLAIMS NEW AUTHORITY
WASHINGTON.—The Interstate Commerce Commission asserted authority to alter railroad freight rates initiated by Director General McAdoo even without the affirmative showing that they are wrong and announced that the assumption that such rates are presumed to be right and just is incorrect.
PAL TO TOMMY ATKINS
A little wiry, P reach terrier. 