PEACE SUGGESTION
Ernest P. Bicknell, national director of the American Red Cross, said on his return from Belgium to a Washington reporter:
“If peace is to come, each side must do its share. Advances must be made like the girl, you know.
“A young millionaire said to a beautiful girl on a moonlit beach between two dances:
“‘Don’t you like that Shakespearean quotation:
“‘“The friends thou hast and their adoption tried, Grapple them to they soul with hoops of steel”?’
“The girl sighed.
“‘Beautiful,’ she said. ‘Beautiful. But wouldn’t hoops of gold be better?’”