KAMERAD!

Already the war has taken on in innumerable engagements a ferocious character that no man, trusting to the humanity of this modern age, could have believed. Times uncounted it has been reported that German troops have held up their hands in surrender, pleading piteously, "Kamerad!" with that stirring appeal to brotherhood which awakens kindliness in any man. And then, when the attackers had spared them and passed, they have turned and fired uncomrade-like volleys at those who had granted, them life.

It has been recorded in an old saying that all is fair in war. But such tricks are of the fairness of the red Indian, to whom treachery was often synonomous with honor. Conflict seems to be losing even that poor show of mercy which has been practised in other less bitter wars. "War to the knife, and the knife to the hilt --"

The world is swinging backward in a cycle of brutality.