Treat every I. W. W. member as a dangerous menace to the public welfare.

I will not say that I have no hope that these precautions against trouble will be taken; or that regarding this whole matter I am absolutely certain that the great American Sleeper will sleep on until his roof is blown off, and his bed is blown from under him by the dangerous and criminal elements in our country. But there is danger unless WE WAKE UP!!

The Opportunity of American Teachers.- Out of the welter of carelessness, somnolence, blundering and treachery in which this nation now is wallowing like a nation struggling through a swamp, certain facts shine before us like fixed stars of hope.

The American free school system now is a vast and powerful machine for good or for evil.

We know that so far as the teaching of pure patriotism and good citizenship is concerned, not more than fifty per cent, of its capacity for the development of Americanism has been developed. Due to a wellnigh universal lack of foresight on the part of boards of education, the teachers of America never have been mobilized for this campaign. Consequently, for fifty years the teachers of America have been sleeping on their opportunities, and in this field of endeavor much of their power is latent.

Next to the press of America, the teachers of America are the greatest Power in our land for the creation of new Americanism by the teaching of high-grade appreciation of America, patriotism, loyalty, opposition to the deadly follies of socialism and I. W. W.ism, a belief in fighting for national honor, and a belief in

service to our country, military and naval as well as civil.

Is there in any American school even one text book which categorically teaches these principles of Americanism? If there is, show it to me.

Give any authority a chance to impose upon the teachers of America a line of Americanism teaching, and in ten years they will give this nation twenty million young men who will stand like 20,000,000 rocks in its defense against foes without and traitors within.

CHAPTER XV

Spots on the Sun

It is not true that "every cloud has a silver lining." No. Some have not even a nickel-plated lining. There are many clouds that are nothing but solid gloom and darkness, until they roll away.

A certain percentage of humanity loves optimism, and joyously hates the truth-telling pessimist. The man who bravely tries to look into a gloomy future is classed as a "croaker" and a "calamity-howler" two names that sensitive men shy at.

For all that, however, the future of our country now contains so many doubts and dangers that we would be fatuous cowards not to face them squarely, and dig in " to the best of our ability. In times like these we may indeed, with Patrick Henry, judge the Future by the Past.

The Present Trouble is the greatest that this Nation has faced since Valley Forge. Our civil war was child's play in comparison with what this one with the Huns is now, and will be before it is finished. And after peace is declared,-what?

The President and the Awake People of the United States now realize, fully, that this is really another crusade for human liberty and the rights of man. It is not merely a punitive expedition against a lot of rabid wolves and wolverines. This is the world's

The logical result of Russian Socialism and German Treachery. Sid Green in the N. Y. "Evening Telegram."

greatest contest between brutal Might and eternal Right.

It is futile to try to guess when it will end; but since the Russian slump and the Italian retirement in northern Italy we know, to a fair certainty, that it will hardly end before midsummer in 1919, at the very earliest. Had we been ready on April 6, 1917, this war would have ended by the defeat of Germany on land and sea by July 1, 1918! But alas! for Sleepy America! And alas! for her Allies!

We know that about 51 per cent. of the burden of winning is now upon us. As Americans, we "guess that we can carry it!

We know that at the very least 2,500,000 men will be called for from America, and that we have got to furnish them.

No one knows the extent, or the thoroughness, with which alien socialism is going to disorganize organized labor in the United States and in England during the next two years, and hamper our war efforts. We are in greater danger from foes within, which Col. Roosevelt so aptly calls " The Foes of Our Own Household," than from foes without, than

At this moment the alien Rand School of Socialism, with excellent terminal facilities in New York, is hard at work, day and night, capitalizing the spirit of greed and unrest that springs eternal in the breasts of those who wish to get rich quick, and roll in luxury at some other fellow's expense, They have loads of printed matter, plenty of postage, plenty of clerical help, and at the first nibble of interest in any crossroad hamlet, or village or town outside of New York, the nibbler is urged to "start a branch organization,"