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Apply to the Directress of Nurses, Yonkers, New York. 1918 This is the Most Complete Single Map of the Western Front When after a long peace, it incurs much It is 28x36 inches in size, but folds into a convenient cover DEMOCRACY IN WAR Alexis de Tocqueville, that famous French traveler, historian, and philosopher, in his “ Democracy in America,” has the following to say regarding the probable result when democracy goes to war: * I am therefore of the opinion that, when engages more risk of defeat than any other nation ; 5%2x7% inches in size, just right to be carried conveniently in the but it ought not easily to be cast down by pocket for frequent, consultation. frequent, consultation. It is printed on excellent paper, its reverses, for the chances of success for and can be had mounted on cloth if desired at slight extra cost. Most such an army are increased by the duration of the war. When a war has at length, existing maps of the Western Front are valueless because they are not by its long continuance, roused the whole indexed, or because they do not contain the smaller places. Neither and ruined their minor undertakings, the objection applies to this new map, just published, so complete that it same passions which made them attach so enables one to read the newspapers understandingly. much importance to the maintenance of peace will be turned to arms. War, after it has destroyed all modes of speculation, becomes itself the great and sole speculation, to which all the ardent and ambitious desires which equality engenders are exclusively directed. Hence it is that the selfsame democratic nations which are reluctant to engage in hostilities sometimes perform prodigious achievements when once they have taken the field. ... “ Thus, while the interests and tastes of the members of a democratic community divert them from war, their habits of mind fit them for carrying on war well; they soon make good soldiers, when they are aroused from their business and their enjoyments. "If peace is peculiarly hurtful to democratic armies, war secures them advantages which no other armies ever possess, and these advantages, however little felt at first, cannot fail in the end to give them the victory. An aristocratic nation, which in a contest with a democratic people does not succeed in ruining the latter at the outset of the war, always runs a great risk of being conquered by it." Now de Tocqueville was a close observer of the tendencies in men and governments ; he perhaps saw more of the This photograph is not the map itself, but is only a miniature reproduction made to show the vast number of cities, towns, villages and hamlets which appear on this new map. latent possibilities in democracy than most The State of Ilinois contains about the same number of square miles as shown on this map, other men of his time. He saw that free and in Ilinois there are less than 1,700 places of 100 or more inhabitants. On this new map in a peoples were filled with almost boundless territory as said above, about the same size as Illinois, there are shown more than 7,000 energy and enthusiasm. He places. This fact alone serves to give some idea of the completeness of this wonderful new map. further saw, and The Map necessity. The smaller towns are the ones usually mentioned in the news dispatches. They are not itself in the pursuit of commerce and the includes practically every village, town and to be found on ordinary maps, and the locaaccumulation of wealth would when turned hamlet in the territory shown. tions of most of them were and still are, utterly to the prosecution of a long war acquire in In addition to this vast number of places, it unknown to the general public, but unless their gives all woods, fortresses, fortified towns, locations are known their strategical time an almost irresistible momentum. De naval arsenals, forts, redoubts, batteries, importance cannot be grasped. Nothing is mocracy in its present struggle with autoc aircraft depots, wireless stations and rail. more unsatisfactory than searching all over a map for racy has not yet reached, perhaps, the moways. a small place that may or may not appear upon it. The forests and woods are indicated in green, However, this loss of time and patience is mentum stage, but it is certainly approach giving the map an attractive appearance, and now at an end, for the Index which accoming it. The Prussian host did not ruin its adding a strategical feature of importance. panies this map makes it vastly more democratic opponents in the summer and The scale of the map is 10 miles to the incb. useful and valuable. The index contains fall of 1914, and that gave democracy its It extends west to Ashford, England ; north to over 7,000 names. An idea of the imchance. Antwerp, Belgium; east to Frankfort, Germany, portance of this statement may be gained and south to Orleans, France. from the fact that 90 per cent of De Toequeville quaintly remarks in the It shows for comparison the battle line of the war maps available to-day 1914, when the Germans were almost at the contain less than 500 names. preface to his volume that men will seldom gates of Paris. The ground regained by This index is bound in with the accept the truth at the hands of their the Allies, therefore, may be plainly seen. map and enables one to locate NELSON enemies . The Potsdam gang, accordingly, It is without exception the most satisfactory map instantly any one of the DOUBLEDAY would probably not accept at its face value of the Western Front which has been engraved. It 7,000 places mentioned. Dept. 11 the philosophy of war as quoted above. ments as they occur. It may be examined with NELSON But to us it rings true, for history, has Oyster Bay, N. Y. for the type is bold and clean cut. DOUBLEDAY proved it. Anyhow, it would seem as if all Please send me the Large Scale War Map of the Westthose faint-hearted ones who to-day take Dept. 11 ern Front on approval. If it alarm at the present seeming success of the Oyster Bay, suits me, within five days I will send you $1.0). Otherwise I will N. Y, , Nanoč.. Nante....... Address .. Constant If you want the map mounted on cloth, greatly increasing its durability, at the special price of $2.00, Annapolis, Maryland. During the Coming Months if it suite you, write “ Yes" here: ease, return it. pher-historian, who saw with the vision of Every Real American will have |