None of these additional agencies
was established, and yet the war was
won. America received a large share
of the credit for ending fighting that
was costing millions of lives. Ameri
can casualties were relatively few.
The management of all the depart
ments that put and maintained 4,
000,000 men in the army and the
navy was incomparably better than
any other in history. Not only the
people of the United States, but those
of all the other countries in the war
more particularly Germany know
that.
Finally, after unproductive en
deavors to hamper the President in
conducting the war, Republican lead
ers in Congress began to hamper him
in concluding peace. They opposed
a League of Nations and gave aid
and comfort to those belligerents
which favored the old system of us
ing victory as a means of spoliation.
But the people of Europe and the
people of the United States have com
pelled acceptance of President Wil
son's plan here and abroad.
Now that responsibility for 1 che
lation in a critical period of the cou.-,
try's history is placed on their own
shoulders, Republicans in Congress
will find that it is easier to carp than
to construct. They have made many
fair promises to business to labor, to
the farmer and to the soldiers.- They
may perform as fully as they have
promised, but it is a poor augury to
see them now, on the eve of a new
Congress, quarreling over the few
crumbs of patronage and control and
not giving a thought, seemingly, to
great problems which the country
must solve at the outset of a new
era.
Why is love like a potato? Be
cause it becomes less by paring (pair
ing) What part of speech is kissing?
It is a conjunction.
