Carranza well knows that this country, so far as its aspirations have official and responsible expression, does not desire a single foot of Mexican soil as well as well knows the President is sympathetic to real popular government for Mexico. Well knows that when disorder has been quelled and assurance given of the security of American life and property from Mexican attack, the troops now across the Rio Grande will be withdrawn. It will do no harm to restate this position; it may even do good. Patriotic and intelligent Mexicans should be informed—if there are any such in existence and they require to be informed—that no selfish ambition dictates or affects America's Mexican policy. For the rest, of it. First Chief Carranza will have to possess his soul in patience. If he is wise and considers either his own ambitions or the good of his distracted country, he will cooperate with President Wilson in the restoration of happiness, security and peace.

The New York Friars are with President Wilson. Well, so are most of the other brothers.

Shacklet on Will Not Re Daunted

In all probability, it will be only another record of hardship, suffering and endurance that Sir Ernest Shackleton will write into the history of Antarctic exploration. Nevertheless, the whole civilized world, including that part of it at war with his own country, will rejoice in the news of his safety, after a silence lasting since November, 1914. It is a coincidence that the dispatch telling of his arrival at the Falkland Islands was received on the heels of an announcement by the English Premier that the first steps had been taken toward a relief expedition. 