It seems to me that in discussing the sinews of war the Free Economic Association has not considered fully the psychology of the masses. And yet this psychology has a decisive influence upon the war, and is bound to be unfavorable to the war, if the masses of the people feel that the financial burdens of the war are to be placed upon the weakest shoulders. Considering that at the present moment our supreme duty is to repel the German invasion at all costs, I think that this duty will be better performed by putting the economic burden of the war upon the shoulders of the well-to-do classes, for we have to reckon not only with the taxpaying capacity of the mass of the people, but also with their psychology. I regard it as a great mistake that the important problem of the most economical methods of spending money raised by taxation has not been considered. P. MASLOV. THE WOMAN'S PART. By MAZIE V. CARUTHERS. Beside my ruined cottage, desolate, The children cowering 'round me, mute from fright, With tearless eyes and brooding heart, I wait, Watching through all the long, the weary night. God of the homeless, look from Heaven and see! Out of the deeps, a woman calls on Thee! My little ones, they cry all day for bread, And, 'neath the shelter of my meagre breast, Stirs one unborn, who must e'er long be fed-- Another babe to hunger with the rest. Madonna Mary, hear a mother's moan! Pity the travail I must bear alone! The tasseled corn would plenteous harvest yield, But all the crops are rotting in the sun. Where are the reapers? On some battlefield They fight for nought and die there, one by one! God's comfort be upon them where they lie, Sheep to war's shambles driven--who knows why? Death and destruction walk by day, by night, Men's blood is spilt and sacrificed in vain, While women wait for tidings of the fight Who may not even sepulchre their slain! They say "God's in His Heaven"--but, instead, 'Twould seem He is asleep--or, maybe, dead! A PHOTOGRAPHIC REVIEW OF THE WAR _CONSISTING OF A CAREFULLY SELECTED SERIES OF THE BEST PICTURES OF THE WAR PRINTED IN ROTOGRAVURE_ [Illustration: decoration] [Illustration: Shell Opens the Wall Surrounding the Convent of the Little Sisters of the Poor at Nieuport, Belgium, Exposing But Not Damaging the Shrine (C) (_Photo, International News Service._)] [Illustration: Middle-Aged and Elderly Men in Response to the Last Call Leaving Berlin for the Front. (_Photo_ (C) _International News Service._)] [Illustration: Louvain Peasant in Flight, Conveying His Sleeping Child and His Possessions on a Wheelbarrow. (_Photo_ (C) _Underwood & Underwood._)] [Illustration: "Bridge of the Arches" Over the Meuse at Liege, Blown Up by the Belgians to Hamper the Enemy. (_Photo by Boon, Holland._)]