THE SPIRIT OF THE UNITED STATES. (To ran Ennuis or
ran "Ser.crima."1 P ia,—The enclosed extract from a letter written by a keen Scots- man who has lived in New York for twenty-five years may interest New York, June 8th, 1917.
" What tremendous times we are living in. For a people such as this, who on every possible occasion show their feelings e xuberantly with as much noise as possible, the perfect quiet and calm of the first day of registration under compulsion was an eye- opener and source of amazement even to the people themselves. There is a quiet grimness about everything, as if every one fully realized what a tremendous step they have taken; and yet it
D eems hardly possible that the Germans realise the effect of the entry of the United States into the war. That they have forced the United States into a European war surely means a great change in the relations of all the nations concerned hereafter. It is curious also to think that the very weapon by which the Germans have finally hoped to win the war is going to prove their Mush, so far as this country is concerned, for the simple reason that no other agency than their use of the submarine could possibly have brought home to the peoples of both Americas the seal meaning of the spirit of Germany."
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