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rillLADELrllU, MONDAY. MAY 17. 191B.
The impulse to do well frequently loses its
force when you stop to think it over.
Rapid Transit Squarely Up to the
Organization
RAPID transit Is now In tho hands of tho
Organization.
It controls Councils absolutely. Tho pcoplo
In tho special election havo authorized n loan
of $8,000,000, a sulllclcnt sum with which to
begin work on both tho Broad street and
tho I'rankford projects. Work will be begun
unless Councils stands still and refuses to
enact tho ordinances necessary to mnko tho
loan effective. Councils will not do that un
less under specific orders from tho Organ
ization. It Is well for tho people to understand
absolutely that tho track has been cleared
and tho lssuo put squnroly up to the Organ
ization. If thero la further delay In the be
ginning of work, no excuses from tho Or
ganization need bo listened to In November.
It will cither iet tho city have rapid
transit or It will not. Any Impediment to
provent the achievement of tho project will
bo a worked-up Impediment, devised by tho
Organization for no other purpose than to
deprive Philadelphia of this Improvement.
Thursday will tell tho story. Tho tlmo Is
short and the enabling ordinances must be
considered this week. They must provide
for tho beginning of work on tho Frankford
elevated as welt as on tho Broad street
subway. It will bo well, too, for the people
of Frankford to keep their eyes wide open.
Thero Is moro than a suspicion of plans
under way to sidetrack that particular
undertaking.
Tho Organization Is for transit or It Is
against it. Its position will bo disclosed by
the action of Councils next Thursday.
The Transylvania Got There
A LI, moral probabilities ver In favor of
- tho safe arrival of tho Transylvania on
tho other sldo of the Atlantic.
Tho officers had been warned of danger
by tho barbarous assault upon tho Lusltanla
and were on their guard even to the extent
of sailing to tho north instead of to the south
.of Ireland. And tho Germans, condemned
tho world over for their Lusltanla feat, wero
not anxious to repeat It, even if tho oppor
tunity had offered.
Tho Transylvania nrrlved safely in a Scot
tish port yesterday, instead of going on to
pelting
K Liverpool.
An Adequate .wavy
THE platform on which tho Democracy
appealed to tho nation in 1912 declared for
''an adequate navy." Secretary Daniels, In
his speech In Now York Saturday night, said
that tho Administration Is "thoroughly com
mitted to tho policy of taking leavo to bo
strong upon tho seas."
It is no secret, of course, that the mobiliza
tion of tho fleet for review in Now York was
decided on by tho Administration when at
tacks on the present direction of the navy
had become so caustic and general that a
dramatlo answer of some sort was" Impera
tive. Thero is nothing moro Impressive than
a great battleship, unless it bo many of them,
and ordinary citizens, who are not experts
in naval matters, will consider tho New
Tork parade a demonstration of great power
qn tho rfeas. Yet Secretary Daniels himself
warns tho nation against placing too much
confidence "on this visiblo and outward dis
play of our strength." Ho says that tho
aL navy is gopd, but not good enough; strong,
but not strong enough.
We havo no patience with chronic pes
simists' who distrust tho fighting strength
of the ships wo do have. Thera Is no better
naval school in tho world than Annapolis,
and no men who rank higher in tho knowl
edge of their profession than its graduates.
Qur designers and butlderB can invite com-
lfr parison with any others. Ship by ship, class
fpr class, every American can be proud of
tho fleet. It represents no money thrown
jftway. but is a magnificent asset, worth
Very penny spent on It. Nor has the morale
degenerated to the extent soma people sud-
JV Ppse. It is not in tho power of any Secre
tary of tho Navy to ruin so tfplendld an
establishment, even if that wero his pur
pose. Secretary Daniels' weaknesses are
jjWinff, but therein ho has had many rivals
Among- nis predecessors.
.Tho review will emphasize tho lesson
.taught by tho present conflict in Europe,
that the destiny of nations, commercial and
otherwise. Is on tho oceans, and that this
country, above all others, must write Its in.
surance Jn Neptune's company. This means
the adoption by Congress of a comprehen
sive building program, the enlargement of
tho entire establishment, and a definition in
dollars and cents of that vague and hitherto
tmdly abused expression, "an adequate
fcavy."
"Public Convenience" and the Jitneys
fF THR lawyers hired by the would-be
,, monopolists of transportation can find
yhere in the statutes a provision un-
5r which the right of a man who owns
h .automobile to carry passengers for hire
Ufjjj be attacked, they will surely do it and
t the jitneys m every court that will
insider their argument. The Public Berv
He rvtjwnisfiop has already been asked to
ao ! the prime of a man who Is operat
ic tw.7 jtcneyg without first having received
fjwn tb oemmisutlm a. ywtiflcato setting
forth that tha publld convenience will be
served by tho new transportation line.
Although it is ns foolish to attempt lo pre
dict what tho commission will do as to try
to foretell tho verdict of a Jury, It is not
likely that a group of intelligent and disin
terested men familiar with tjio freedom al
lowed to owners of public hacks and taxi
cabs, which run In all citiea on alt sorts of
Irregular routes at tho call of the people,
will conclude that a five-cent taxlcab run
ning on a regular routo must bo controlled
In a radically different way. It is possible
for tho Public Service Commission to settle
tho Jltnoy regulation lssuo by a broad
minded rule, cither dismissing tho petition
entirely or by declaring that every roputablo
Jitney owner may recelvo a certificate of
public necessity for tho operation of his car
by simply writing to Harrlsburg for it.
Let the Chamber of Commerce Get Behind
the Convention Hall Project
A REQUISITE for a Convention Hall is
accessibility. It would bo worth little
If situated so far from tho centre of tho city
as to deprfvo it, and thcrcforo tho city, of
tho advantages inherent In adoquato hotel
facilities closo at hand.
When Philadelphia bids for a convention
It must bo ablo to show not only that It has
a convention hall, but that It also has con
venient hotel accommodations. Tho two
facilities' must supplement each other.
It Is community stupidity, however, to
wranglo about it site and deter tho begin
ning of construction work. But a year re
mains beforo tho Republican National Con
vention assembles, Philadelphia wants that
convention. Such a dedication of tho struc
ture would stamp It with historic Interest
Immediately. Tho hall, wherever it is built,
must bo built by next Juno.
Hero Is a splendid opportunity for tho
Chamber of Commorce by a spectacular and
worth-whllo achievement to fix for all tlmo
Its status ns a servant of tho community.
Let It throw Its great lnfluonco to tho sup
port of a dcfinlto slto and a defintto tlmo for
tho completion of tho building. It can voice
authoritatively tho sentiment of tho city. It
can bring order out of tho chaos now exist
ing and nssuro results.
Philadelphia wants tho Convention Hall
and tho Republican National Convention. It
will not get the latter unless It first gets
tho former.
United Italy
THE outcomo of tho Italian Cabinet crisis
is the demonstration that all Italy Is
united and determined to resort even to war
If need bo to attain the ends sought. Former
Premier GlollttI, who has been tho leader of
tho neutral group, precipitated tho resigna
tion of Premier Salandra by his- arrival In
Rome. Tho attempt to And a successor
luiicd, GlollttI Issued a statement, In which
he declared that, while ho was In favor of
nrmed neutrality, ho was not opposed to
war as a last resort. Salandra consulted his
personal friends, and tho King, and appar
ently concluded that ho and GlollttI wero
agreed on tho essentials. Ho then consented
to remain at the head of the Government.
Tho Irresponsible war party may demand
war at once, but the Ministry, which must
conduct tho operations and flnanco tho cam
paigns, Is no moro eager for war than tho
leader of tho neutrals himself. Tho longer
war Is delayed the bettor prepared the coun
try will be to wngo It. Tho Government be
gan preparations Immediately after tho out
break of hostilities. It has been accumulat
ing arms and ammunition for moro than
nine months, and It has been calling tho re
serves to the colors and organizing Its
armies for work. This, of course, was tho
part of prudence Whatever disagreement
has nrisen nmong tho politicians has heon
over the conditions under which tho coun
try should throw its weight Into tho balance
with the Allies. Tho Government has been
deliberately seeking to extend tho frontiers.
Alt Italians aro committed to tho policy of
including within the kingdom nil the ndja
cent territory Inhabited by Italians. If this
can be brought about without war overy one
will bo satisfied. But If a display of force Is
necessary, It is apparent that oven tho ad
vocates of armed neutrality will not hold
back.
Dolly Madison Day
IT IS not likely that tho colebratlon by
tho Democratic women of tho anniversary
of tho birth of Dolly Madison, wlfo of tho
fourth President, will over rival tho celebra
tion by tho Democratic men of tho birth of
Thomas Jefferson, yot tho first political cele
bration of this1 distinguished woman's birth
day next Thursday is likely to be the fore
runner of a long series of observances.
Dolly Madison was ono of thefew women
who impressed herself upon tho history of
tho country while presiding In tho Presi
dent's mansion. Traditions of her graclous
ness and diplomatic skill still survive. Sho
was the typo of woman who would have
risen high If there had been equal suffrage
In her time, for sho had all tho attributes
of a successful politician.
New York mermaids are not in the swim
with those of this city.
What difference does It make on whoso
accord Doctor Dernburg goes, so long as he
goes?
Some newspapers have begun to express
their opinion of the Kaiser by spelling it with
a small "k."
A kingdom and mora of it or no kingdom
at all seems to be the alternative offered the
King of Italy.
Mr, Taft becomes the guest of former Sen
ator Crane without being afraid that be will
be accused of hobnobbing with the bosses.
It is not a question of whether the Rlggs
National Bank or Comptroller of the Cur
rency Williams is right, but of which is leas
wrong than the other.
Yet these Portuguese anarchists insist on
calling the thing they bring into being a
republic, A few more dictionaries and a
few less guns would do that country a lot
of good.
Consent to a compromise housing bill did
not contemplate a betrayal of the agreed
upon measure In the Senate. The Governor
was not blind the first time and he is not
likely to be now.
Local option is winning In Ohio, where the
Legislature has passed a bill making the
liquor licensing officials elective instead Of
appointive. An officer chosen on a, no-license
ticket will refuse license, and that la what
the people wast.
STkEET TALKERS
AMERICANS ALL
The War in Front of tho Bulletin
Bonrds Patriotism nnd Cosmo
politanism In America A Re
birth of Nationalities.
By FRANCIS WARREN
SPORT Is not forgotten, but tho crowds aro
reading tho war bulletins, I paused ono
afternoon and listened to tho wisdom of tho
shifting groups, I think it was earnest
young Socialists who set thofashlon for theeo
street-corner symposiums of democracy's
own theorists for tho Socialist missionaries
aro unlike somo others In Inviting criticism
nnd In trying to meot It, and In tho course
of tho spontaneous debates which spring up
at their open-nlr seances the Man In tho
Street wears off his shynens; oven learns
not to be nfrald of his own volco in public
nmong folks to whom ho was novor so much
ne Introduced! ,
On tho afternoon I nm thinking of thero
was somo ono lecturing on tho economics of
that war somo one whoBo unrehearsed nd
drcos may havo drifted later on Into social
ism, for all I know, but began with tho
assertion that tho Russian sotdlor Is tho
lowest paid of any In Europo, nnd Is treated
like a. dog. The speaker had tho war bud
gets of all tho combatant nations nt his fin
gers' end, or else
"That feller's all wrong, but ho certainly
has the dope, all right, all right!" as somo
body remarked.
Curbstone Explanations
Somo ono clso was explaining tho differ
ence between tho true German nnd tho Prus
nlnn. "Tho aermnn," this populnr lecturer
explained, "Is a dreamy sort of person, in
dustrious nil tho samo. Ho writes tho muslo
they play at tho Metropolitan Opera House.
He's a sentlmentnl bccr-drlnkeri wo nil
know Germans wo llko. Tho Prussian ain't
German so much as he's Slav. He's less
human than tho Russian; less civilized (ex
cept In gottlng ready for a big war) than
tho dirty Serbs, William Hohenzollcrn
Mlncsolf nnd Gotl' Is a crnckerjack Prus
sian, but a bum sort of Gorman." Perhaps
tho speaker had ro.ul Dr. Charles Snrolea's
"Angfo-Germnn Problem"; then ngaln, per
haps he hadn't. Somo of tho crowd ngroert
with him; somo of It very vociferously did
not.
Another amateur of oratory, belittling tho
tragedies of Termondo, Rhelms and Louvnln,
reminded his hearers that tho British wero
burning Washington only a hundred years
ago.
"They're overy bit as bad as tho Germans,
tho John Bulls are," was his sentiment.
"Worse!" shouted tho volco of a stout
Teuton. "There's over a million Germans In
Now York city alone, counting Brooklyn. '
"Don't bellovo It!" yelled a younger man,
but tho Teuton came back with,
"Then look It up In tho new 'World Al
manac' at tho Public Library."
And though thero Is no Immediate connec
tion, perhaps, between tho superior vlrtuo
of tho German peoplo nnd the German pop
ulation of Gi cater New York, there Is as you
reflect a sort of logic In tho citing of thoso
figures. Doubtless It was the German's hazy
notion that our having nil these neighbors,
fruit of the Fatherland, and getting on with
them famously, docs somehow show that
Germans nro not the complete barbarians
that editorial writers sometimes depict them.
It Is a tlssuo of so many peoples In this
country. In times of peace, one la only half
conscious of It. The "peoplo ono knows" aro
for the most part peoplo very much llko
oneself. The fact that ono's boots nre pol
ished by a Greek, ono's onions grown by a
Pole, one's dinner cooked by a Frenchman,
ono's fruit sold by a "dago," one's boots
mended by a German, ono's clothes mado
by a Jow, ono's coal mined by a Slav all
these Httlo circumstances count for llttlo bo
yond their plcturesquencss. It even gives
ono a sentiment of national or personal
Importance: Lo, nil tho nations cross tho
sea to do our chores. But tho war comes
tho reservists sail off tho streets aro filled
with nnxlous wntchers of the bulletins: ono
suddenly realizes fns never one realized It In
rending the statistics) what a. hodgo-podgo
wo nre, wo who nro nil In one boat; how
Httlo digested nro the foreign Importations.
War Is ever a tragedy, but let us not for
get that for America to be dragged Into tho
present war, of all wars thinkable, would bo
a tragedy of tragedies. Moro than over ono
Is grateful at this hour for tho Man In tho
White House; tho grave President who is
not a citizen of his parish only, but In tho
finest sense Citizen of tho World,
Nationalities Reborn in America
For If thero Is over to bo a cosmopolitan
Ism, If over patriotism Is to bo merged into
a love of society that will bo constructive,
nnd not, llko modern patriotism, something
that pulls down oven moro than It builds up,
that cosmopolitanism must be preceded by
the rebirth of tho nationalities as Americans.
We aro not Pan-Americans in tho sense that
somo Germans havo been Pan-Germans wo
have no wish ovor to dominate tho earth and
tho fruits thereof; no desire to Impress all
peoples with tho stamp of our own commer
cialism. But Pan-America Is, In another
sense, the movement of tha future: that
Pan-America which means tho forgetting of
old hatreds and old Jealousies in the insist
ence upon wider opportunities for all, with
self set below the folk, tho lesser tradition
humbled below tho greater: tha Pan
Americanism which Is founded upon the
Divine Right of Man. We would havo tha
newcomers proud of their country of origin
and its best heritage, but prouder yet of a
country where they have attained to a fuller
freedom and a wider prosperity and a richer
service; wo would havo in their America a
beacon for tho older world, a shining exam
ple of tho possibility that there is for men
and women to live and to prosper without
bearing tho yoko of militarism, without wor
shiping at tho altar of hate. In Ireland,
last summer, men and women greeted me
with friendship when I told them I came
from tho United States and this was not
only thoso who had a hope that they might
sell me something.
"America is a grand country," was their
word. "'Tls a grand country surely, for
there is a place in it for all." That is what
we would have America and that Is why
this war must not be permitted to bring us
too to hate.
America has a higher mission on the earth
than hating even hating In a good cause.
BACK FROM BARBARISM
From the Clnclnnttt Enquirer.
Deliberate, neutral, impartial, our country
can and should adopt and follow a cours that
will command the respect of all nations, that
Will enable us to recall the belligerents from
ways of barbarism to thoso of civilization,
bringing them back to the recognition of the
right of humanity and to obedience to the
lew tbty once acknowledged and promUed ta
support. While resolutely doing this, we can
most effectively acert the Republic's deter
mination to protect our own rights upon vntty
sea. nd ta every lutd.
BEST THOUGHT IN AMERICA
DIGEST OF THE MAGAZINES
(1) Cosmopolitan "Punches."
(2) Puck "Grlnlgrams."
(3) Atlantic Monthly "Tho Mechanics of
Rovlvallsm."
(4) Outlook "Tho Spcctntor Sees 'Billy'
Sunday."
REVIVALISM
STANDARDS of vlco and vlrtuo chango from
one generation to tho next, but tho princi
ple of tho struggle between "good" and "bad"
persists through tho centuries. With tho evo
lution of tho race, our notions of good and
evil are radically altered, but the principle of
tho two opposing forces between which wo
must choose stands out as ono of mnn's most
permanent Instincts.
For some centuries religion hns had estab
lished headquarters for moral struggles nnd
questionings In tho churches, and has sought
to strengthen the standards of good and bad
with doctrinal teachings and laws. Tho su
premacy of tho church as an authority has
been threntened In recent yenrs, however, by
tho growth of Institutional churches, settle
ments and numerous ethical cults. Tho old
line, orthodox religion has found nn nrdent do
fonder In "Billy" Sunday, and tho contrast
between the strict old-fnshloned supernatural
Ism of tho evangelist ("hell-flro-theology" It
Is called) and the newer nnd moro liberal
Interpretations have given nn almost dra
matic Interest to his career.
"Billy" Sunday signs his name to some epi
grammatic "Punches" In the Cosmopolitan
(I):
All Bins havo blue eyes nnd dimples when
they nro young.
A man with good gray matter under bis hnt
can learn moro bv stubbing his too In the dark
than a fool can learn by going to college.
Tho right kind of a man never loaes more
thnn one linger by fooling with a buzz naw.
The young man who 1b willing to go through
life snwlng on tho second fiddle will never
lead tho band.
When tho devil wants to run his claws clear
through a man and clinch them on the other
sldo. he makes him believe that fooling with
booze won't hurt him.
The devil hates a happv home ns bail ns a
Baloonkeeper hates a prohibition preacher.
Tho man Is headed straight for the pit who
Is living as the devil wnnts him to, whether
ho Is a gambler or a pillar In the church.
Nobody Bpends much time looking nt wax
figures In store windows, but a live man there
who Is doing something always draws a crowd.
The higher you lift a llttlo man tho moro ho
shrinks.
The woman who marries a man to reform
him hns moro faith In human nature than St.
Paul had.
Puck suggests a list of titles for hymns,
which perhaps might have struck us as Ir
reverent, beforo wo became accustomed to
"Billy" Sunday's vernacular. Puck (2) writes:
Certain ministers not only defend "Billy"
Sunday, but glory In him. They mildly classlry
as slang the evangelist's rough-neck vocabu
lary, and refuse to be shocked at the means
ho employs, when the "results" ho obtains
are so Inspiring. But why confine slang to
sermono7 Are not the hymnbooks suffering from
"dry-rot" ns well as the pulpit discourses? Tha
words of somo hymns are beautiful, but what
Is beauty compared with punch? Let hymnals
be revised to suit the times, as:
Abide With Muh.
Onward. Sawdust Trailers!
Come Ye Disconsolate Ginks.
Get Hep, My Soull
My Days Are Beating It Swiftly By.
Sacrilege? Undoubtedly, according to old
"dry-rot" standard?, but no more sacrilegious
than the average "Billy" Sunday sermon. The
punch, gentlemen, by all means.
Taking a Revival to Pieces
An Interesting analysis of "The Mechanics
of Revivalism" appears In the Atlantlo
Monthly (3). Ita author, Joseph H. Odell, Is
well fitted to write on tho subject. For 12
years ho waa pastor of a prosperous Presby
terian church in Scranton, Pa. He left tho
ministry to go into literary work, and as edi
torial writer on tho Evening. Ledoeh had a
first-hand opportunity of watching "Billy"
Sunday's work in Philadelphia and other
towns. He writes;
Gospel 'hymns play a tremendous part In
modern revivalism. Some of them have a
hypnotjo Influence when used by a skilled di
rector. "Just As I Am, Without One Plea"
and "I Am Coming Home," sung with a di
minishing cadence, have a lure that few emo
tional people can withstand. Such pieces are
Invariably used softly, appeallngly, tenderly, at
the time when the revivalist is seeking his
results. Unfortunately there is a mercenary
side to this use of music Hardly any of tha
great standard hymns of the Christian Church
are copyrighted, But nearly all of the ef
fective ones of the present-day revelations ara
copyrighted and Jealously guarded. Not be
cause they are valuable as rnusto or as poetry,
but for the simple reason that they ara a
lucrative side line of profit for the evangelist
or bis musical director.
'Billy" Sunday is not a scholar, not a
thinker, not a sophist, not an actor, but a
healthy, frank, fearless and Irrepressible man,
who offers no apology for doing the one thing
that ha feels his God has told hint to do. He
Is easily the most compelling personality In
America. Judged by a pragmatical standard,
tha results are rather confused, bad and good.
The first thing noticeable is a tone pf ap
parent irreverence In the churches, An-c-tber
difficulty ilea In the artificial conacUac
"JUST GROW, OLD BOYI
"" r- - ja
Hint Is created. In tho stress of tho enm
nalgn, many converts, particularly youths,
pledgo thomBOlves against nil worldly amuse
ments ns deadly forms of Bin, "lending plumb
to hell," In tho rovlvallst'o pungent words.
Hut In numberless cases tho vows nro broken
before many months pass, nnd dancing, card
playing nnd theatrcgolng nro resumed. This
tampering with tho conscience leads to n lower
regard of nil tho sanctions nnd sanctities, nnd
ministers havo serious trouble In bringing their
young pcoplo back to a healthy ethical tone.
Unitarians, Universalis, Christian Scien
tists and all who differ from tho medloval
theology of tho evangelist havo been so ridi
culed, denounced nnd consigned repeatedly to
hell, that It Is extremely difficult for any ono
to be tolerant or charitable. And with this
teaching thero has been so much pre-mlllen-narlanlsm
nnd prophccy-mongcrlng taught,
that tho BIblo has become a fetish, which only
thoso who havo cryptic keys enn understand
or Interpret nrlgbt. Even thoso who aro cnger
to concede everything that Is good In modern
revivalism, ns represented by '"Billy" Sunday,
havo much to rcgrot and condemn.
But that positive good does come from
It hnrdly nny one closo to tho facts will deny.
Employers of labor have asserted that they
could afford to pay Sunday very liberally out
of tho funds of their corporations for tho In
creased olliclency that comes to tholr plants
In the reduction of nccldents nnd enlarged pro
ductivity caused by the men's cutting out In
toxicating liquor.
Putting' It Together Again
A simpler and moro undlscrlmlnatlngly ap
preciative point of view toward revivalism Is
revealed by tho Spectator writing In a re
cent Outlook (4):
Not Savonarola nor Peter tho Hermit, nor
Wesley nor Whitefleld, nor nny man In the
world's history has preached to such vnst
nnd continued audiences ns "Billy" Sunday
docs today In a tlmo when religion Is said
to bo declining. Tho Spectntor has heard many
great orators, but not ono who got ns close
to his nudlence ob this dynamic, torrential,
yet curiously wlnsomo speaker. Mother wit
and common sense make the wholo world kin.
and "Billy" has them both raised to tho nth
power and "soaked In prayer," na his ox
presslvo phrase goes. His Illustrations aro un
forgettable. r
"Can't I be a Christian without Joining nny
church? Why, yes; you don't havo to take ony
ship to go to Europo; the swimming's good."
Ho la eloquent, but always In the vernacular,
bo that hla most uneducated hearer Is ablo to
follow hla most ardent flights. The GO.000
whom he talks to dally hang on his words,
nnd undcrstnnd every ono of them. His slang,
though tho nowspapers play It up, is only oc
cnBional after nil. Ills baseball gestures and
absolutely Infectious laugh nro part of his per
sonality, nnd his vast audience cordially ap
prove them. He Is truly "personality plus,"
tho mighty plus of spiritual power.
IN A SUBMARINE
What It la Like to Voyage in "the Bogey
of tho Seas."
Oliver Madox Iluetter, In Harper's Weekly,
It Is very easy for the landsman to realize
for himself exactly what It feela like to voyage
In that bogey of tha seas, the submarine. He
has only to pay his nickel nnd adventure In
that moro dangerous contraption, the Now
York subway. In tho submarine, It Is true,
you are less crowded, but you have tho same
unpleasant sensation of being shut in. Impris
oned, so that you cannot get out except by
the ability of certain men who you aro In
clined to think know little more about It than
you do yourself. In both you have the sensa
tion of being surrounded by all kinds of intri
cate maohlnery you do not understand and
which Is all the more alarmlrg that you can
see very little of It, In both you havo the
feeling of lack of air and an omnipresence of
smells unfamiliar.
Thera the submarine has tha advantage, for
the smell Is Innoxious, more or less that of
plain lubricating oil with a faint suggestion of
ammonia; at least you are spared that of hu
manity dirty humanity, for in a submarine, I
cara not of what navy, every one Is scrupu
lously clean and In tho subway everv ona Ir
not. very far from It. Also you have plenty
of fresh air In the Z-142. even granted that It
came out of a bottle, many bottles. On the
other hand you havo no rails. Vour subway
driver may know little of where ha Is going
at least the rails will take him and you there.
To me, quite the most poignant disability of
tho Z-I43, on the occasion that very much
against my will-thank goodness my pride held
fast I formed part of her complement was
that no ono had any very particular knowledge
of where they were going-or so It seemed to
me. It is true that with tha fascinating oock
Bureness of tho very young naval officer youth
and submarines seem to go together, In tha
British navy at any rate the Haroun al Ras.
chid of tha moment would not admit it. Ha
would not admit any defect In his periscope
either, To use a periscope is rather ilka sur
veying the world through a hollowed-out stick
of asparagus.
THE ANCIENT MJSITANIANS
From the Sprlnrfleld Republican.
To tha suggestion of tho American Agricul.
turlst that the word "lusltanlan" be adopted
nto all languages to denote tho "acme of
human atrocity," the New York Herald replies
that this would be "rather unfair to ancient
Lusltanla, the territory of which is now com
prised in tha new republic of. Portugal " If
tha Herald had gone further into history it
would have found a parallel in the past that
glyea a certain kind of support to tha freakish,
but well-meant, suggestion, in tha Bncyclo.
pedla Britannic, under the name Servlus Sul,
plcius Oaiba. one reads that this Roman gen
eral and orator, who served as praetor In far
ther Spain in Ul P. O , "mads himself infamous
by tha treacherous murder of a number of
Lusltanlans with their wivo and children"
For hla misdeed he mi hmn.ht .- ....,.
U, but escan4 puaUhmtnt by holding up b
own children before tho pcoplo to gain their!
sympathy. Tho I-usltnnlans woro subdue! b1
P. B. Crnasus when ho was Governor of Spahu
CneL jfl
somo CO years later. Evontunlly, under Auiui'ffl
tus or Tiberius, when tho Government of Bplni
was reorganized. I.nnltntiln wnn .at . .' iS
province. It was known as a fertlln ntvi r,.....Pffl
fill country, and It did lncludo that territory JS !
which In tho Middle Ages becamo tho klni'Mi
dom of Portugal, though It Is said that thta
lnlinmt.'intn nf I'nmifrnl nm nn. lartnHj.j .
tho nnclent Lusltanlans. All the Cunard steira.ia
ships havo been named after nrovlnren nr a. S
trlcts of tho old Roman Empire, nnd melodlou,"jH
iitu-suuuuinK jjuun names incy nave MtafsiJ
ending, ns tho public Is well aware, In "la." ,Jm
A YEAR WITHOUT A SUMMER M
From tho St. Louis rost-Dlspntch. tM
Tho year 1S16 was known throughout thiW
unuca amies ns mo yenr witnout a summirJ
jnnuary or mat year was so mild that meit
pcoplo would havo let their furnaces so out
had thoy had nny, nnd Tcbruary was only oe-1
caslonally colder. March nnd April coaxed the
buds and flowcis out, and May was a winter'
mnntli ivlth inn nrytl anmir Tl, If.. AnJ a. l,.'
........... ...... .ww u..i. a..u... ij w,u Vliu Ul DllJ jm
AUam'llllnl. nnrlehnltln t.n.1 I....... I.llt.,1 L. .... iS
, j ....... bii.nuuiu .it.u uetii miicu vy ins
toiu, imu tuo yuung leaves una Decn Stripped
from tho trees. Juno was as cold aa sia"
Both snow and Ico wero common throughout the
month nil over the corn belt, nnd nfter havlnj;
i'iuiiivh uuni mu ur mice nines ino larmeu
tnrew up their hands. Snow fell 10 Inches deep
In Vermont. Tho following winter was the'
hardest tho pcoplo of tho United States hayi
ever known. One had to havo a stockadi
around ono's smokohouso.
This scorns to bo without any probable relation"
to tho cold winds which whistled through thi'
sirceis or at. .ouis yesterday, out there wm
ono possibly alarming coincidence tho Demo-'
crats wero also In powor In 1S16. Jefferson's ollrf
tart, Madison, had atlll a year to serve.
AN OLD MOTTO REVISED
From tho New York Independent.
Tho twentieth century version of Cromwell'!
motto Is "Trust In God and keep your armr
dry."
HUNGER
Tho starving men they walk tho dusk,
With hunger In their eyes;
To them a lighted house is like
A lamp of Paradise.
It Is tha window In tho dusk
That marks tho drifter's coast;
ft Is the thought of love and light
That mocks the drifter most.
Now I havo been a starving man
And walked tho winter dusk,
And I havo known how life may be
A nAOritn r -i 1 n VkibIi-
m
Tho fainting hands, they pulled my slews, ,
And bado me ourso tho light.
But I had seen a rich man's faco
That looked Into tho night
A hungry face, a brother face.
That stared Into the gloom,
And starved for light and starved for love
Within a llcrhtrri rnnml
Dana Eurnet, In Harper's Mintlo iW
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