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*i,.ii can piirrha«e mer« handi»e sd-.er11««-> feel that when he goes there

rlt and a different attitudei our own country in the

Bntli n OfficeV« . what foreign minister in British his-

has been so frequently wrong, withsuch > untt-ytnen

that international rivalries wouldhatred for

¦i and rietertnination to destroy theEmpire brought Britain unpre¬

pared Little¦ grand-

moth« -and unman «

ar back a« the time of the t'onfer-.-

kan War, '-. ». r¦ -.. d theBalk;. n hope of pre-

tria and Germai Iward persuadedRussia to Iabanri aniancompromise denied Serbia s srind«jw ontlie Kea, inaurad th« '¡ulkan Warand thereafter Armageddon. In all thishe honestly, cr.theca friendship

erviee could ha\e been more fatal?a little more than a year

»as \ British journals t« ilus. w*ho forbade Serbia to stuck Bulgaria,

«. hen Bulgarian mobiling and the ruin of Se1 ian Moa srere

And when Serbia fell, in cons«base it on the same authority, sur

; by French, that it required aof .loffre to [/-.ndon to persuade the 1isb government to reconsider its pur

I to abandon martyred Serbia and "from the Near Kh»'

To-dar it i.« British journalsthat the failure in ("rrece, the

, that seem« to expiai-* thiquinconce of Barrail'i nrmy,Rumania, is due to the refusalGrey to COnsOTil to thi of n prîn the mat'- bich Wi

r. intolerable situation in theway in which it can le aholi-hc¡n the removal of Constantine.

Asquith. (¡rev. Churchill.the.r faili¡seem to the American onlooker be)-as il. If Chore 'i the I

f the war and in th« last day» ofwere considérai le, hisrp (which rermani

t, to hold muchr;i Prance and nearly resulted

:he destruction of the Belgian nrmy Ipoli, wl

rrible cone«square the account ^

-ey, withChun-

went, raft«

tion M-Irish Ministry that

gan tlfall it was nbli son miracle, to j;

its oppoi surrender thand share in» to take o

a share of the responsibility with vi.' the power and thus leave Hr.;

without an Opposition nr.d without alitical remedy. The result has been wlone would expect; it has been left topress and the people to create» a new Oprition. which in the parliamentary wo

.^aiitioti destroyed.We see the British people becoming i

patient at the failure of their poli:ileaden. It is difficult, if not impossible,this distance to decide how much of t!inrpatier.ee is real, how much manufatired. Yet the failures are real; we ithem, and they seem to up, in fact, not tfailure of the British people, but the faore of the elected representatives of tBritish people to keep pace with thielectors. The people will to win the wa?hey are making every effort and evesacrifice to win tbe war; they are dorwhat their German foes asserted thnever would do, and, so it. seems to Amecans, they find their best efforts partialspoiled by the conduct of their menhigh places.

In all this welter the figure of Llo;stands alone. He has many qua

hich appeal to ui as Americans. I-«présents the people in our own demcratic sense; he understands the peoj-with something of the same flair thBriand reveals. He could carry anyour districts by the manner and mctho<which have made him the first polit ici-

Ireat Britain. We feel c>f Aaquith thas been unable to learn aii'l of Grt

that he has been unable to forget we peceive that Lloyd George haa learned mu<and forgotten more, notably in the matt«of conscription. He has been publicright almost as often as his ashave been publicly wrong.

It is unmistakable that the successirof Lloyd George to Mr. Asquith would 1hailed in this country and among marof the best friends of the Allies as a steforward. Yet the English criticisms <Lloyd George have reached this countr;We understand some of those criticisms tmean that Lloyd George is a politiciabefi.ro nil else, and that he has an unrsailed record in the improvisation of lif«long convictions. The Englishman of on

has told us that Lloyd George lack"character"; but in explaining the mearing of this he has demonstrated that hdoes not mean by character anything likwhat w«> Americans mean.possibly hmeans no more than that Lloyd Georgea Welshman.

In sum, this new crisis in Bri'am seemto mean one thing before all else. ThHnti.»h people are determined to .war, but are far from convinced that thwar can be won while the present eresmans the British ship. The question 0the army has passed out of the debatíIt is agreed by all thnt Robertson if ¦'bman." The question of the navy is lesplain. Jellicoe has gone to the Admirait;

Beatty bas succeeded to the GramBut what of Balfour? His name

it would seem, has also become a litt!'wearisome to Britons, who could forgivihis calmness were it displayed in t!ence of accomplished success rather thatin the presen«'«- of growing submarin«:peri!.

If you talk with the people of Englandtr political reporter feels the pulse o1

a "close State,*1 you get a curb1st and dissatisfaction, exprtsuch phrase as this: "When the mer

at the front get back.then there will b«a change," or, "We need a differ« .of people to run John Bull's business and

II have them, after the wir."Americans would make listakf

com«

1' is not be-of what they have done to tight the

war, but because of what they seem toailed to do, that the British Coalition

Itry is in danger. If Lloyd Georgeof the stage at this hour.

it is hevu'i » to have done moreany other public man to help win the

ssar, and iy to do still more.Time and again, too, British writers tothis newspaper have »aid: "Critic.our public men is to l>e expect«»d. but why

,i criticism f.f them blind you to.what the British people have done andare do |The prote particularly

¦.' our own re!>itish pe»

[bo looking for a new man or new men

duct their difflIgS the price they are pa

forexped >ry, but the- are jrowiiimpel snlappnre-1 v pe pie wi nue tothe prici ' * ¦"' ''decisive results Mr. Asquith andcount Grey may survive thi« storm,

ir may romani . Old «V

¡.harm ' ". admiralty for some mongland ihn*al that l il

the e:ind pol

that reduce Iillifig

The Governor's Food Boardv.

sons for the high cosl of living ;-remedial He has I

fortunate, too, in the p«commission he has selected Miwho has Hide business experience andns head of Mayor Mitch«!'-tee has already given muiproblem; Senator Wicks, chairman,Mr. Ward, counsel of a legislative ctnittee which ha1» del the coi

f fanners in the st.-i'« Mr. LouSUite ('«range.

Sims, manager of one of th«» state'srailroads, These men will br

to their work ¡ited experience on the various anf

.«i thii troublesome question which iqualify them as experl aesur«

-. intelligent nnd brominded B discussion of the problem ¡ispublic can expect to get from any Blbody.

Despite it« great agricultural intere:New York St-at« is by no means self-sirient in production of foodstuffs,brings in vast quantities of fruits, vetables, meat«, eggs, dairy prodfrom other states, and therefore will

to reorganize the distribution stern to cut costs except SI -¦' vstem ocerns the foodstuffs originating withinstate or foodatuifl after they reach Istate. But in that field there is ampleportunity for r< bringproducers and consumers closer togetheito eliminate some of the present intme«diaries whose profit« add to the ulmate cost of food, to wipe out somothe speculation which advances "the m¡ket" and punches holes in the timc-h<ored law of supply and demand. Tshare of the consumer's dollar which tproducer receives is too smnl! compaiwith what goes to others. What the .-rsumer receives for his dollar is ridiculoiin view of the crops and the prices ffanners get for them.No state agency now exist,« which h

adequate power to remedy this evil. TState Department of Foods and Marke

deavored to bring down pricesvarious commodities by acting as nriddlman for groups of farmers in selling tinproduce at auciion. But this, howevcommendable in purpose, has been onsmall a scale that it has not affected maket prices to any appreciable extent, aiif it has benefited anybody has !..retail dealers rather than consumers. Atmachinery recommended for loweritprices by the Governor's commission muhave mere power and a wider scopeaction than the presenl DepartmentFood.» and Markets and a wider plan arvision behitid it, too. It rrrust makeworth the farmers' while pence. In five year:the government will give you a pound for I*I/ess than **4 has become $5. Of course, thiworker cannot make an investment of 1i

'shillings and *> pence at one time. So hijoins an association in his school, factory

or club, and subscribes his penny orpence each -se associations are likiour fraternal organization«. They appeal t4

"cial sense of the group. There anforms of war saving, such as exchequei

l, but this system of certificate il th«popular way. It is cooperative investment

If th« individual doe«, not belong to an ason, he receives a war savings card

with thirt) I on it, each for a tj-'penny stamp. He buys the stamps at thepostoffice as often as he can. When the cardis full he hand« it in and receives a certifi¬cate worth IS »hillings and 6 pence, and goodfor a pound at th« end of se years.

The secret of *he «ucees« which has attend--, evangelistic campaign is the personal

appeal, friend speaking to friend. And themotive for giving is rendered in the headlinesof the pamphlets and posters "Save for Kng-latid." "Save for Your Country."

In North Nibley, one of the »mallest vil¬lages in Gloucestershire, the inhabitantssuh«rribed |M in a fortnight.W igstan Magna, in Leicestershire, is in the

centre of the hosiery' and boot making dis¬trict One of the factories has between threehundred end four hundred operatives. Thatfactory purchased two hundred certificates

j in one week.Yarmouth has fifty associations and four

thousand member», and has subscribed $10,-ono. Thi.« city lies on the east coast, wherethe Zeppelins have stimulated the civilian(consciousness.

It was out from Grimsby where the fishingtrawlers have been lost by mines and sub-marine. The answer of Grimsby was m«d«by seventy-three war savings associations.In one week four thousand six hundred cer¬tificates were purchased.At an Boat End factory in London one

hundred and twenty-three girls joined thesavings crusade in a single week. Only twogirls are not members. In three months thegirls saved over |_40. They did it by chip¬ping in their 3-penny and 6-penny bit eachweek.Norwich paid into the postofflce $76,000 in,

'e'» affair.¦s a den menai

ill over the place. The¡s full ".' " every on«'

If you d' « tnat you no:choosing to make ownown life, and just now out on tee warpathchase some trespassers off from thiDoubtless, if the cr.tics ssere |formance, they would give i mnrepolished proceeding. Hut no groi.r,are running this war. The people airt. So. instead of losing strength «sure increases, they gather force and mometum with each mistake. They teach theiSolve« by failure. The will of the gil it '."man general nt.aff ran be snapped by defeibecause the ¡«taff is a handful of mei

.' 16,000,000 people cannot be brokicare it i« the will of these schoolboys arworking girls, of domestic servant« and mnition workers, of ¦ democracy whose senof pity and justice has been touched. Tlmistake in estimating the English effort ismeasure it at. any given time, because it iscontinually growing sfforl I» ti like a gatering of waters 'rom mountain streams arthe drift of hills »nd from inexhaustibrains. The confluence kc" Ag ar

deepening from a thousand tributar,'-pool can be emptied, and soon it is not onfilled again, but la larger than before.

»»enttmenlAl Nations

The English are a "sentimental nationquote a distinguished English officer whensay that, Captain Basil Williams, It ;« truThey are as sentimental a« Americans. Aappeal to cold reason, to personal aggrand"«ment, to n rainy day or a ihadowj futur«docs not move them in the slightest. Husomething tiiaf concerns the welfareless children, or of persons whom they lovereleases all that is best in the Eng'I know this, because T worked In a Red I resLondon office in the early weeks of the WStand I found that the smallest appeal to th'English public for help ¡n clothing Belgian»brought in a large response a response, ilfact, so overwhelming that it stuffed the officirooms with supplies. Personally, I hav,never dealt with a public that is sogenerous. When the full facts of Belgian relief are made public it will be found that ilis the English who have fed them and sheltered them, raised the greater part of themoney, widened and adjusted their own horn«life in order to absorb an army of refugeesand steadily continued to provide funds with«out spurts and without fatigue.No better proof of this racial sentiment and

kindliness can be had than by studying a fes»of the 54 million posters and leaflets of re¬cruiting and the hundreds of thousands ofpublications for war saving. The appeal Israrely to self-interest. The appeal is to theheart, to the great objects of th«? war, theideal of liberty, the cause of freedom. This na¬tional saving is not being done by obscure,hard-vorking Knglish men and women tomake their own old age cosey. It is being don-to free Belgium and strengthen democracy.If the evangelists who have gone about Brit¬ain preaching war savings had spoken to scommercial motive they would have whistledin vain for the sixpences of workers.

THE CITYS LICENSES

The Board of Aldermen Should Check theCommisiioncr

To the Editor of The Tribune.Sir: I learn that the Welfare Committee

of the Board of Aldermen is considering theadvisability of having members of their body,together with the License Commissioner, de¬ride who should be the proper holders of the

city's licenses, instead of permitting the Li¬cense Commissioner to be the sole judge ofthe qualifications of the applicants for li¬censes.A short time ago, a', a dinner given in an

uptown hotel, License Commissioner George.II. Bell admitted that too much power wasvested in him. He admitted that he couldissue licenses to friends of hia and revoke

'all license* held by others. He said thatthe Commissioner, under the law as it st«nds,could do anything he chose with the city'slicenses.The writer believes that the system which

the Commissioner complain» of, whereby hebecome» a law unto himself, is just the thingsought to be remedied by the Board of Alder--men. The License Commissioner cannot nowwith good grace «ay that all his power isLeng taken away from him.

!.«>. the Board of Aldermen be a check on.mmniioncr. It is the easiest thing

in the world now for a Commissioner tohuild up a persona! machine to be an au¬tocrat through whose hands about one hun¬dred thousand licences are issued. The Boardif A'.dermen, truly representative of thepeople, are making a move in the right direc¬tion when tl take away »ome of theLicense Commi»sioner's power, which the Li¬cense Commissioner himself says shouldnever h»ve been vested in him.

IRWIN ira RACIOFT.New York. Nov. 2**. 1916.

Who Are the Desiccated Puritans?To the Editor of The Tr.bune.

I «m curious, «eriously curiou», toknow who these Salem-minded »oui» «re whowould eloaa the "movies" on Sund«y».Are they org«ni:elength again»t the »trap hangers' on!y hope»N«w York, Dee. 2, 191«. G. R ».