PERSHING vs. PERRITT.

With the War and the World Series going on simultaneously, the American public is somewhat confused; it doesn't know which interests it more. To look or not to look at the sporting page, that is the question. The people of this nation have long been accustomed to make the week of the World Series an informal holiday when business, family, and other conventionalities become matters of secondary importance.

It is only natural that this custom has not changed. We are a sport-loving people and need entertainment. We have already had a year of war with, unfortunately, visions of more to come. Yet we can only have one World Series each year. It is not unnatural, then, that the injury to McCarthy's arm has caused more sorrow in New York than the partial success of the Germans on the Baltic front, whereas Felsch's home-run has cheered Chicago more than any English victory in Flanders. To a foreigner this may seem to be a dreadful and unpatriotic state of affairs, but we know better. We are living in a period of universal sadness and a tonic like the World Series is a good thing. It is indeed a case of "making merry, for tomorrow we die."