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I'lllLAUKLI'lllA. TUESDAY. FEUHUAIIV V, 1918.
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By Its Products Shall It Be Known
"PHILADELPHIA can best advertise Its
JTproducts by letting its products advertise
Philadelphia.
Publicity Is the most powerful weapon
known to modern trade. Inertia cannot stand
before it. It Is a Juggernaut to stand-stlll-lsm.
But of what us Is a 42-contlmetcr gun
If the right kind of ammunition Is not put
Into It? The aim must be right, the shell of
the proper calibre, if a target is to be hit.
The average man la Interested In knowing
that Philadelphia is one of the greatest man
ufacturing centres of the world; ho is more
Interested In knowing that soma particular
firm n Philadelphia manufactures the article
he wants, and manufactures It bettor than
anybody else. The world does not como to
see n. collection of manufacturing plants; It
conies In myriad groups of buyers, each ono
of which has a specific factory as Its goal.
The worth-whllo publicity that a city gets
Is the aggregate of the publicity given Us
unit products. The name of a Arm becomes
a household word throughout the nation, and
the name of the city in which it thrives goes
With It. There are cities of 60,000 or more
population In tho United States which are
scarcely known outside of their own States,
but there Is not ono city of even lO.Ootf inhabi
tants In the United States that Is not known
all over the Union If there Is even one Arm
In It that advertises generally.
The prosperity of the factories -which it
already has aro the magnets which attract
to any city other factories. The success of
a great automobile company brings to tho
vicinity other automobile factories which
wish to share that prosperity. And the
measure of bigness" Js prosperity. 'To have
the largest population In tho world Is not half
so Important as to have the best-housed and
highest-earning population.
The manufacturers of Philadelphia must
nationalise their trade names, and by so
dolnrr they will confer the greatest publicity
possible on the city. Their own Increase In
business will bo reflected in the progress of
the community. They make Philadelphia
known by making themselves Ttno'wn,
The ""World's-Greatest-Workshop" gathering
tonight Is evidence of a comprehensive pur
pose. Its keynote is publicity, and that means
publicity of the right kind. Information
' keeps business moving.
The Governor Firm for Good Homing
DOCTOR BRUMBAUGH meant what he
said when he declared for decent housing-
in his Inaugural address.
A correspondent of the Evening Ledger
yesterday asked him this question;
Governor, do you favor housing legislation
that would require a window In evtry room,
that would g-lve each peraon plenty of air
and light, clean homes and the facilities of
sCwerugo and running water In every house
and flat to keep It clean, and that would
prohibit the garbage piles and the commu
nity hydrants and outhouaes in the alums?
"t do," answered the Governor.
If this does' not mean a veto of any bill In
tended to take the teeth out of the present
bousing law, then words have acquired a
new signification, and black Is white, filth
to cleanliness and decency is indecency.
The families condemned by poverty to live
In cheap quarters are looking with hope
toward Harrisburg that they may not be
condemned also to disease and death.
Lone Heroism of the Explorer
IT TOOK more sheer courage for Sir Ernest
Shackleton to set out on his South Polar
expedition than It did for his fellow Engtlsh
men to cross the Channel to fight the Ger
mans. Tho lone heroism of the explorer Is
one of the most splendid manifestations of
tho human spirit. Over the trackless and
- frigid wastes he tol3 his way, beset on every
, hand by Death. When he moves. Death
follows, and when he camps. Death pitches
his own tent on the same spot. And he fights
single-handed, knowing that although the
chances favor the escape of the aoldler, they
are nearly all against his own victory over
the forces that would bear him dawn.
If any Englishman In this gre-it war braves
. tithe of the dangers which Shackleton will
confront he will receive all the distinguished
service orders that have been established,
twin qeaerye wiern, 100.
Heal Jim Crow Laws for tho Odorous
" "NTBW ENGLAND Is living- up to Its repu-
J, 1 tatjon. as the leader In moral reforms, for
-th Great and. General Court of Massachu
setts, la now seriously considering a bill which
itrtftibita smoking la waiting rooms. Darks
'' swi4 playgrounds, jn the public rooms pf hotels
tpa upon ths parts of all vehicles open, to the
twmmon one of all travelers. It Is proposed
to subject the person guilty of a third offense
t n fine of not leas' than 125 and to Impris
onment for 10 4ays.
Sueh a punishment fits the crime. But the
Msstmehusetta Legislature should not stop
h ti& refutation of smoking in its effort
praiwt tfte puuup against annoyance, or
m o wjiam trie rrosTance. of a good
gf delightful vgll feel tht they are the
of uHj4t ciawtminaLson. Onions on
t fik f (ether are, mush more, ejfsn-
t Jjy tbaa the amen et to-
few W A ft musk is naussatler
VMlUeMes: ttt sm, whlctr lve
no mmt- PmcMx w tk banda for an hour
ur t, teiw teem knin to take away tke
, ,.tn! aerwl1 e '4in ift.i to lc at
,, . if jjsftst !t.3a iib tJfeoexi wbt fc4
i:.4r4.,ti ?J!d t coSat
strictly to compartments act apart for their
Users, ahd' progressive New England 1st ex
peeled to show the South how to puss real
Jim Crow laws, Arranging for special parka
for users of musU and caters" of onions, and
special cars on the trains for men who wash
with perfumed aoaps, and so on down the
Hat. And, to complete the good work, they
should also arrange for separate accommo
dations for the good pooplo who never use
a bathtub. Hut It Is well to pause before pur
suing the subject further.
Make Your Councilman Fight
D
O NOT pormlt yourself and your city to
be betrayed.
When the transit ordinances are brought
to a vote, few Councilmen, however subservi
ent to secret masters, wltl dare vote against
them.
The fight, therefore, is to get the ordinances
reported. They are pigeon-holed 'In the Fi
nance Committee.
The chairman of that committee Is John P.
Connelly. But a chairman never yet domi
nated a committee that refused to bo dom
inated. Put It up to your representative on that
committee. Pledge him to demand that tho
ordinances be reported at the next meeting
or Councils. Pledgo him to exert to tho utter
most his efforts to forco a vote. Demand that
he desert the chairman It tho chairman de
serts the city. Put it up to him. Let him
know that ho must take a stand, that he can
not be neutral. Tho way to be for transit Is
to be for It.
Thero Is a man on the Finance Committee
who says "The Evening Ledger thinks it's
got something on me." A newspaper usually
"has something" on any man who deals in
treason, and It Is tho generally accepted view
In Philadelphia that men who viciously and
greedily hold up tho transit program are
traitors. They will be treated as traitors
usually are treated. They will be driven out
of-public life and held up to tho scorn and
contempt of the community unless they back
track quickly, get in line with public opinion
and quit sorving special Interests.
Find out why your Councilman is not fight
ing heartily for rapid transit. Find out why
your representative on Finance Committee Is
letting himself be led by the noso among the
buxzards and made a co-partner in the vil
lainous Infamy that has been nnd Is afoot.
Playing Politics With Child Lahor Bills
PUBLIC sentiment here is demanding an
adequate child labor law. The people in
control In HarrlBburg are apparently plan
ning to pass only such a law ns will please
the exploiters of child labor. They have the
votes and they have the audacity to disre
gard the demand of the humane people of
the Commonwealth. But they ought to un
derstand, even If considerations of humanity
will not move them, that It Is bad politics to
leave the children at the mercy of those un
scrupulous men who wish to take advantage
of the poverty of their parents and put tho
young at work when they should be at play.
Progressive legislation on this subject Is cer
tain and the political party which holds back
will suffer the consequences of its folly.
Haven for Progressive Polygamists
PHILADELPHIA Is rapidly assuming the
place once held by Reno as a resort for
those seeking a divorce, unless reports to
that effect are exaggerated. The lax laws of
the Commonwealth certainly make It about
as easy to dissolve the marriage tie here as
In Nevada. Residence for only ono year Is
required and divorce is granted for personal
abuse or for conduct rendering life burden
some, as well as for desertion extending over
a period of two years. The trials are held
before a referee or a master, in the privacy
of a lawyer's office, and when tho decree 1
granted by the court It can be done so quietly
that no one will ever discover It unless he Is
on the watch.
All the circumstances conspire to make this
city a happy haven for those who wish to
practice polygamy progressively, or to ex
periment with trial marriages, or to play
fast and loose with the affections of others.
And Pennsylvania Is not a frontier State,
with loose moral standards and an Imper
fectly organized society. It Is one of the
oldest Commonwealths in the Union, and was
rounded by men of the strictest Integrity and
the nicest sense of social honor.
There Is no justification In expedience or
in necessity for a continuance of the lax di
vorce laws on the statute books. Before the
matter assumes the proportions of a national
scandal the General Assembly Bhould under
take the revision of the laws so as to accord
with the high standards of the people of the
Commonwealth.
Mr. "Wilson Needs a Rest
IT IS more Important that the President
should be In San Francisco ihan In Wash
ington next 'March. He is needed at the
Panama-Pacific fair. If the slide In the Pan
ama Canal is not removed In time for him
to make the trip by water and bless the great
ditch with his presence, all the States be
tween the Atlantlo and the Pacific through
which he must pass to reach the Golden Gate
will be delighted to see htm. And the time la
about ripe, anyway, for him to round the
circle as a preliminary to 1919.
Waahlpgton can very well spare him in
March, and it can spare Congress, too. That
body has been in session almost continuously
for the last two years and the country is
looking for a little relief. But If the new
Congress Is called together early in the spring
to complete the work which the present Con
gress will leave undone, the prospect for re
lief will go glimmering. Mr, Wilson and the
country both need a rest, and the country
will be mightily pleased if Mr. Wilson will
take what he needs.
Of course, every friend of the Administra
tion Insists that It Is the war which makes
th bread line so long.
Now la the time for those who insist that
the flag; ahall never be hauled down to de
mand that the Lusitanla become an Ameri
can ship-
These tattooing- tools at the Unverslty Mu
seum will some In handy when it is nesessary
to mark (be Councilmen for idenUDeatJen to
prevent the pupislmiit of the innocent with
the guilty.
In the last month for wfaleh the jSule vital
statistics hkve been compiled, there were
l,VA moi hrtui tky death, an luUUaiwn
tktt tho tuttjw are uttlt loyal to r't f U
jBotin or t
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SEEING ROME WITH
MR. BERNARD SHAW
Humanizing Antiquity ns tho British
Ploy wright Docs It in"Audroclcs and
tho Lion" Humor and Inspiration
Instead of Romance.
nr KENNETH MACGOWAN
ONE of these days a playwright Is going to
astonish Us with a realistic King Arthur,
with Launcelot and Guinevere dono in the
terms of a modern problem play. There will
be bravery, courage, high daring, love, all-
effacing passion. But thero will bo the touch
of reality In It, too. There will bo n host of
the interesting commonplaces of that life!
tho people of the play will havo tho every
day Interests of their time. And against all
that, tho power and beauty of tho story will
stand out all tho sharper.
When playwrights do this with every scene
In tho Old World from Ramcses to the Revo
lution, and from Attlo Greece to attic Grub
street, then Wo shall rovlvlfy romance as well
as antiquity.
Tho very obvious reason why wo havo nl
ways written of our ancestors in the tedious
old vein of stiff phrases' and crushed rose
leaves Is because thoy never taught us better.
Not that they didn't write comedies about
the things of tho day, but they wroto of the
public things, not the everyday things. Arls
tophanos lampooned Socrates nnd tho philos
ophers, Joshed the lawyers, sneered nt tho
politicians and tho militarists, and Moliero
lampooned the "learned" professions that
knew nothing. But those wore all transitory
things that pass with tho passing of time and
como ngaln In now garb today. Thoy were
too ephemeral and not ephemeral enough.
When tho elder men wroto of tho Individual
llfo of their people they wrote only of fervid
moments of great love and great faith and
great trial. We have never written of the
true, everyday life of tho Old World, because
the Old World Itself never wroto of It for us.
And In the faco of the grubbing scientific
trend of today wo have tired of their ro
mance and heroics.
Seeing Antiquity With Shaw
Just when tho costume piece, the historical
drama and classic play havo gone absolutely
dead, so far as the publla Is concerned, the
scientists of the museums have reawakened
antiquity for us by giving up a little time
from tho official affairs of the Queen of Sheba
for the furbelows of her handmaidens. And
now a playwright who would like to call him
self a scientist, too, Is discovered doing the
same thing for tho theatre In a very delight
ful and irresponsible way. It Is not John
Masefleld, though that poet has experimented
most nobly with It In his prose piny of Roman
politics, "Pompey, the Great." It Is that
most popular of English playwrights, who
has four plays on view in Philadelphia this
week "Pygmalion," "The Dark Lady of the
Sonnets," "The Admirable Bashvltlo" and
"The Doctor's Dilemma" while a fifth, "An
drocles and the Lion," furnishes New York
with the text upon which this homily Is
based.
Shaw has always been rather fond of lay
ing hands on the romantic past and subduing
it to the imago of what it may have been.
"The Dark Lady" shows Shakespeare pick
ing up llttlo phrases here and thero. "The
Devil's Disciple" furnishes a prosaic Revolu
tionist of '76. "Caesar and Cleopatra" gives
tho Roman general the mental Infirmities to
ward baldness and such that Momrasen nar
rates. All this, of course, with a mixture of
levity nnd tho greatly grave which reality
very likely contained and which Aristophanes
delighted to fling, all a-leap. Into his Attic
comedies.
"Androcles" goes farther into the Arlsto
phanlc, as well the antiquarian, than any
thing Shaw has done. Into the familiar story
of the man who pulled a thorn from a lion's
paw In the forest and was saved from death
In the Coliseum by the fortunate fact that
the same lion had been delegated to eat him,
the playwright has flung the gravest reflec
tions on God and tho most amusing of de
tails concerning tho everyday life "behind
tho scenes" at the Coliseum.
"Behind the Scenes" at the Colueum
It Is surely possible, oven absurdly likely,
that the "Editor," or custodian of the gladia
tors, animals and martyrs, had a "call boy"
to announce what "act." as we should say, was
next on the program. And It Is equally prob
ablo that If he entered quondam "greenroom"
to announce, "No. G, Retarlus versus Sccu
tor," those gentlemen would primp up In
mirrors fixed for that purpose Just Inside the
doors. No doubt these "professionals" quar
reled among themselves and had their pri
vate Jealousies for the centre of the stage.
And If Lavlnla, a Christian, who was also a
Patrician, talked with the Editor and othei
prospective martyrs about the Intimate de
tails of the "profession," the scene might
have run something very like this:
LavlnlaWlll they really kill one another?
Splntho Yes, If the people turn down their
thumbs.
The Editor You know nothing about It.
The people Indeed! Do jou suppose we would
kill a man worth perhaps 50 talents to pleasa
the riffraff? I should like to catch any of
my men at It.
Lavlnla Then Is nobody ever killed except
us poor Christians?
The Editor-It the Vestal Virgins turn
down their thumbs, that's another matter.
They're ladles of rank.
Lavlnla Does the Emperor ever Interfere?
The Editor Oh, yes; he turns his thumb
up fast enough If the Vestal Virgins want
to have one of his pet fighting men killed.
Androcles But don't they ever Just only
pretend to kill one another? Why shouldn't
you pretend to die, and get dragged out as It
you were dead; then get up and go home,
like an actor?
The Editor Bee here. )OU want to know too
much. There will be no pretending about
the new lion; let that be enough for you.
He's hungry.
The harsh reality of being a Christian when
all the world was Pagan had its humors.
Such religious forerunners were the laughing
stock of the average people then Just as
much as any political forerunner today. An
drocles' wife, Megaera, looked on bis Chris
tianity as quite as disreputable as we once
thought the political program of populism
which ao many States have not accepted.
When Shaw has finished with the lion In
the forest and Androcles has performed his
historic piece of chiropody, they both repair
to a square in Rome, where some soldiers
are marshaling martyrs that they have
brought up from the provinces. Here, in the
shadow of the Coliseum, the patrician cap
tain has some advice for the men in regard
to their bearing toward th very cheerful
Christians, who have enlivened their march
with those qualities of hearty humanity
which the early Church commended.
The Captain (speaking stlfTly and cru
cially) You will remind your men. Centu
rion, that we are now enuring Home. You
will Instruct them one Inside th gates of
Ituroe tney are n tee presence of the Em
peror Xou will msue them understand that
ike Lax dt!p!Lne of th march cannot tie)
perMUted here You wilt instruct them to
"FOR
Impress on tlicm particularly that there must
be ntt end to the profnnlty and blasphemy
of singing Christian hymns on the march. I
havo to reprimand you. Centurion, for not
only allowing this, but actually doing It
yourself.
Tho Centurion (apologetic) The men march
better, captain.
Captain No doubt. For that reason an
exception Is mnde in the case of the march
cnlled "Onward, Christian Soldiers." This
may be suns, except when marching through
the forum or within hearing of the Emperor's
palace; but the words must be altered to
"Throw Them to the Lions."
(The Christians burst Into shrieks of un
controllable laughter, to the great scandal
of the Centurion.)
Centurion Sllpncel Sllen - n - n - n - nee!
TVhere'n your behavior? Is that the way to
listen to an ofllcer? (To the Captain.) That's
what we have to put up with from these
Christians every day, sir. They're always
laughing- and Joking- something scandalous.
They'e no religion; that's how It Is.
Shaw's "Muscular Christian"
Hot upon tho heels of such plausible fool
ing follows the scene In the Coliseum. There
we see the Christians waiting their end, and
there wo meet the terror of the giant Fer
rovlus, who quails beforo' tho warlike trum
pet calling to combat. Ho is a "muscular
Christian"; he tries to "fear God more than
man." But he really fears himself.
Tho proving of Fcrrovlus' fears makes a
climax almost as important ns tho recog
nition of Androcles by the lion. For out in
the arena he feels his blood surge to battle,
ho "sees red" and slays his six armed as
sailants. A flguro of warring Europe, he
cries in agony: "In my youth I worshiped
Mars, the god of war. I turned from him
to serve the Christian God; but today the
Christian God forsook me; and Mars over
came me and took back his own. The Chris
tian God Is not yet. He will come when Mars
nnd I are dust; but meanwhile I must servo
tho gods' that ure, not tho God that will be.
Until then I nccept service In the Guard,
Caesar."
An Inspiring Christianity
Theologians may doubt tho Christianity of
much of "Androcles." But thoy must admit
the nobility of the faith of Lavlnla, even as
they decry its modernity, Its Identity with
tho rather mystic belief of Shaw himself In a
Godhead that man will some day achieve. It
Is thus that the Captain will again argue with
the Christian girl after she has been set free
by the emperor as a reward for the bravery
of Ferrovlus:
The Captain You have nothing left now
but your faith In this craze of yours, this
Christianity. Are your Christian fairy sto
ries any truer than our stories about Jupiter
nnd Diana, In which, I may tell you, I be
lieve no more than the Emperor does, or
any educated man In Rome?
Lavinla Captain, all that seems nothing
to me now. I'll not Bay that death Is a ter
rible thing; but I will say that It Is so real
a thing that when It comes close, all the
Imaginary things all the stories, as you call
them fade Into mere dreams beside that
Inexorable reality. I know now that I am
not dying for stories or dreams.
The Captain Are you then going to die for
nothing?
Lavlnla Yes, that is the wonderful thing.
It Is since all the stories and dreams have
gone that I have now no doubt at all that
I must die for something greater than
dreams or stories.
The Captain But for what?
Lavlnla I don't know. If it were for any
thing small enough to know, It would be too
small to die for, I think I'm going to die for
God, Nothing else Is real enough to die for.
The Uaptalu-What Is God?
Lavlnla When wa-know that, Captain, we
shall be gods ourselves.
All this "fable play" of Shaw's may not be
true to its age, though every weekr the scien
tists in the museums give us mere and more
hints of just this sort of prosalo quality in
the old life. With its pantomime lion oh, a
wonderful Uonl-rlt may be a hodge-podge of
tragedy and burlesque. But it is all bound
lessly plausible, human and inspiriting-, As
Granville Barker's able companyoct the play
at Wallack's, with no waits and the action
brought right down to the audience upon an
apron stage, it is the best entertainment or
the theatrical season.
They Kill, But Not in Hatred
From the New York Times.
Much has been heard and read of late about
th hate, bitter or malignant, according to the
point Of View, held by one nation, usually Ger
many, against another, usually England. And
manifestation or expressions of this feeling
have, of court, been by no means infrequent.
One notices, however, that most. If not all, of
them com from others than the officers and
men who are in the field, where they have a
chance to learn in the most convincing way
that courage in pattte, readiness to eaerine life
and to endure tortures well plvh Intolerable,
and disciplined devotion tp military duty as
formulated la military order, are th exclusive
possession of no one people, but are qualities
displayed In about equal measure, by them all.
Heform nt Priioa
From Hi
LculavUls Courier Journal.
Prison refoiea is 4 o4 toutg. but penmiai
reform ia keen out of prison ve44 hard-
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WHAT WE ARE ABOUT TO RECEIVE
ROMANCE OF FAMOUS FOREIGN LEGION
Ou the Battlefields of France This
and Adventurers of
Fresh Glory to
liy EDGAR MELS.
A soldier of the Lesion
Lay dylnc in Algiers.
THE poem has It. Tho Legion
oo
O d'l
d'Etrangcrs, that hodge-podge of inter
national castoffs, most of whom left their na
tive lands becauso they had to that con
glomeration of humans whoso hops of social
reinstatement has died, and who seek glory
on tho field of battle to square accounts with
tho civilization they offended that 9S00 is
back in the fray nnd on French soil!
Composed of Alsatians, French, Germans,
Eurasians, Levantines, Russians, Greeks,
Swiss, Austrlans nnd yes, Americans
minus perhaps tho Germans and Austrlans, It
Is battling for Its adopted land, France. And
such superb soldiers as theso drifters, these
outcasts, make! Even as the Mohammedan
seeks Paradise through death on tho field of
battle; as. the Japanese seeks the Samurai
heaven; ns tho Norsemen nnd A'iklngs sought
Valhalla, so the legionnaire asks death in
tho hell of shot and shell, In the roar of guns
and the screeching of whortllng bombs.
And if thoy die thus, they will simply up
hold the traditions of their corps. They will
fall even as their comrades in arms fell be
fore them, for a more honorable military rec
ord than that of the Legion It would be dim
cult to resurrect from the musty pages of his
tory. Elghty-four years ago last Thursday
the Foreign Legion popularly so called was
organized by France. Since then its mem
bers have won enough glory, havo shed
enough blood, have suffered enough to re
deem any and all pasts thoy may have
sought to forget and live down.
One French general after another was sent
to Algiers to subdue Abd-el-Kadcr. One after
another returned to La Bello France In dis
grace. At last camo Bugcaud. Making the
Foreign Legion a nucleus, ho collected a con
siderable army for those days, and after sev
eral campaigns crushed Kader, captured him
and sent him to exile in Smyrna, where he
died In 1883.
But it is not only in the years nay, gen
erations of struggles with tho Arabs, that the
legionnaires most distinguished themselves.
Wherever they fought, there glory was theirs.
Queen Isabella rented tho Legion to help
subdue the Carllst revolt in Spain, where it
lent tremendous aid to the hard-pressed-Marshal
O'Donnel. In the Crimea, its members
fought and bled. In tho days of the Ill-fated
Maximilian in Mexico they upheld the honor
of France.
At SIdl-bel-Abbes. In the hinterland of
Oran, are tlje barracks of the Legion, baked
in the heat of tho desert sun, cooled by the
evening-breezes, redolent with spice and laden
with the perfume of date palm groves often
overwhelmed by terrific sandstorms from be
yond tho oases. There live the main forces of
the legionnaires. There they "heel-ball" their
black belts; there they clean their accoutre
ments. And when leave of absence comes
they drift into Oran, into the gambling hells
and resorts which abound there, seeking for
getfulness of the past.
For among them are men of many sorts
professors, physicians, bankers, writers, aye,
even princes. Carefree they are so far as re
sponsibilities are concerned, although their
pay is only 17 centimes (3H cents) a day.
The Legion Marches Forth
And when the call comes they march forth,
arrayed in loose red trousers, blue blouses,
double-breasted black tunics -with 'red fac
ings, -wearing red-fringed green epaulettes,
with a blue woolen cummerbund around the
waist. On their heads rests red kepis on
which flare the seven-flatned trrenade, the'
honored badge of the Legion. Carbines, short'
words and vlcipus knives aro tfieJr arma
inent. They carry their accoutrement, their
small tents, thatr cooking utensils on their
backs.
The terms of enlistment are not surrounded
by red tape. No questions are asked. Real
names are seldom furnished they are lost In
the past, rhyalcal conditions beinff up to
the standard, they aro muttered In, and tho
Legion has gained new recruits. It is all ao
simple, this entering the) Legion of Lost
Hopes and Undying Memories, this effacing
one's self from civilization.
In time of peace the Ufe qf the legionnaire
of today is not onerous. He Is fairly welt
fed, fairly well treated But It was different
In tho. days eon by He was an abjwt
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sKvt t Ms oor. treated wore than tat
prove a -ii.(Mi. euKto, overworked
a
Fighting Agglomeration of OutcatS
Many Nationalities Is Adding
Its Brilliant Record.
His life was of no value to himself or te Ei
superior, and was sacrificed with lavish f$?
com.
A German enlisted In the Foreign W
glon In the carlv fifties of the lui t$
tury. Ho had run away from tho Unlveiill
of Berlin, In which ho had been an umrilEtf
student, and which in subsequent years US
stowed a degree of doctor of philosophr cjj
him. His treatment as a private, as reltWF
to the writer, was brutal In the extruMl
Menial tasks, short rations, curses and Won
were his portion. But he endured, as eniurf
ho had to, until one day he was advanctdu
Cnmnral nnd thn tn av.trAiT. '-
Onn ilnv rnmn Iha aivIai. n tv, jai
recruits, culled from the four corners of tft
globe, most of whom had never har) a funis'
their hands, ncrosfl n. nO-mllft atretah r
desert, to Oran. The sergant and a corponT !
of Swiss past were placed In charge of thsu
yet unformed regiment. At daybreak tbtf'
stared for their destination, each man lades
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1S
A Struggle in the Desert r
Through tho torrid sands they marcW
and ns tho sun rose in the heavens one sw
after another dropped in his tracks. Iffl
desert was taking Its toll. Knowinr tiff
marauding Kabyles were in the vicinity
word to this effect having come from thil
Sahels, a ridge of hills between SldMtJJ
Abbes and Oran, the sergeant did his utaatl
to keep the stragglers within sight of ttjjf
main body. f
At noon they rested, worn and P!
Drowsy from the heat, exhausted from tM,
march, weary In spirit and discouraged Wj
the unusual exertions, the men dropped r
the hot sand and slept. Pickets were post
and the regimental cooks prepared the fflHl
That eaten, the march was resumed. f
Far In tho undulating distance, thWV
the great heat waves that rolled upward li
the sun that caused them, arose a duitclsrf
tiny, scarcely visible. Slowly It grew
first; then -with Increasing rapidity. The ,
perlenced eye of the sergeant saw it. A
nfrlafo n .. A At. m... -. 4....1 (rttA I
w.uv.d UIIU HID 1MT2I1 .VCLC7 IVIiUCU " j.
Bauare. bmrcairein the rnnlrf. the serfl'V
and the corporal at the two corners fac.fi
the oncoming: sand cloud the Kabyles.
Soon the tribesman were upon the IW
band. Flourishing: their ancient rifles, xUiU4
like mad at the legionnaires, shoutlnj tnijL
.v.- ..,, K.O 1IUO. Ul ..U.OC...W. vr'a
ward
What happened within the next few !;
utes no pen can relate. Hoarse crlti, 7jjL
of anger shrieks of dying and woundedg
terrlfio hand-to-hand struggles superbuBUi
efforts to stem the tide of battle-then;
broken front a retreat for a few ydtj
re-tormation of the decimated square ano-
When the sergeant recovered conscloua
it -was In the military hospital at Oran, tf;
days later. He and the corporal were tHj
only ones found alive by a rescuing part' a;
French ravalm unl mie ubn sounds i'
battle reached Oran. With consclouioi
came a captain's commission, and sutgg
quently, the secretaryship to Marshal P
sier, commanaer-in-cbier of the jrrencn wj2tm
a r-6K- da.
. MESSAGE FKOM nOJJE
With travel-stained feet
Stands the Jonescm youth
One hour long
In the library booth,
Bending, homesick.
All the while
Over a blessed
Newspaper file.
Homely, old paper,
Lookis to me;
Banal and trite,
It seems to be;
But watch Ms eyes scan it.
Up and down,
Blessed old paper
From the blessed home town.
Type Is shabby.
And ink s poor,
Has 'a colored supplement
For a lure;
Gives advice to girls
And hints on dress.
Steers new married couples
To happiness;
Yet In the trite sheet
A vista lies
Of the Somewhere Els
To those homesick eyes.
Of the Somewhere Else
WiUJ its mmoriin t
TO Uie lOAMOM youtn ,
Win tke travl-tira -a
jf. St. Harttiwta tii Nv x-"