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The loss of wealth is fois of dirt,
As sages In all times assert:
The happy man's uHthout a shurt.
John Jlcyirood.
THE MAYOR VERSUS THE CITY
Deliberately nml solemnly the livening
Ledger warns citizens gcnernlly that there Is
a plan afoot to client tliem nut of the kind
of rapid transit they haio ultliln their
grasp. Evening Ledger of November 1,
IBIS.
The position of Director Twining, who
confessedly lias no Intention of performing
functions heretofore considered eentlal to
the occupation of the offlcc. Is untenable.
The chief trnnslt ohstriirtlnnlst Is Mayor
Smith.
"OECOMING Mayor. Mr. Smith nnnouncccl
'-'that, although Director Tnjlor hntl been
a most efficient public servant, ho would not
be retained In office.
After somo delay he appointed a successor,
William S. Twining, but not until there was
a distinct understanding obtained from Mr.
Twining1 to the effect that ho would not con
cern himself with operating agreements, but
would devote himself exclusively to the en
gineering features of tho work. This meant
that Mr. Twining enteicd office shorn of es
sential powers, and that tho people were left
without any recognized officer to protect their
Interests and champion their cause. A Tran
sit Director who does not direct transit as a
whole, in its economic as well as Its engi
neering features, Is no Transit Director at nil.
He is merely a construction engineer, and his
holding office under another name Is In ef
fect a fraud on the people, in that it leads
them to believe that they have a servant
working In their Interest when In fact they
are without representation.
Having thus brought the Department of City
Transit directly under his thumb, the Mayor
proceeded to get busy along other lines. .Al
though he had no authoritativo professional
opinion to back him, although the contract
for the work had already been let at a price
most advantageous to the city, and although
he himself. In public, had declared that the'
work on Broad street would be pushed to a
speedy conclusion In accordance with the
Taylor plans, he Issued orders to Director
Twining that the City Hall station should be
abandoned.
Mr. Twining, who a. d been the consulting
engineer of the department and In that ca
pacity had approved arid sanctioned tho City
Hall station, mildly protested, but acquiesced
and declared himself ready to obey orders.
But he found himself In a quandary, for as
an engineer he knew that a four-track sub
way could not get by City Hall unless by
going under It, owing to the deep bank vaults
at Broad and Chestnut streets. Finally, how
ever, after consideration, the scheme of split
ting the four-track subway at Ridge avenue
suggested Itself. It seemed a way out, al
though at best a makeshift.
Accordingly, again under orders, Director
Twining announced the new plan to tho pub
lic. In view of the tremendous popular pro
test, the Mayor then declared that the Twi
ning plan was not necessarily his plan; that
the report wa3 merely preliminary, and that
the people should decide after the full Twi
ning report was made public. The people, of
course, had already decided, but tho Mayor
Insists on Ignoring that fact, and persists In
acting and talking as if transit were some
new and mysterious subject of which the com
munity was In deep Ignorance.
The full Twining report was then made pub
He and discovered to be essentially the same
as the preliminary report, except that, instead
of being a brief In favor of transit, it was
Impregnated with pessimism and spent pages
In looking for arguments why the city should
not have transit. It dwelt on the feasibility of
raising fares, Instead of lowering them, and
contained a number of proposals calculated to
delay construction and confuse the situation.
This report, very naturally, also fell flat,
whereupon yesterday the Mayor, who seems to
be about the only person In Philadelphia who
does not know that Philadelphia has already
decided on the kind of rapid transit it intends
to have, announced with great gusto the, ap
pointment of a commission. This commis
sion, we presume, is to consider whether or
not the people'knew their qwn mind when
thjjy voted for the TUyloajfoian. But it will
bt noted, that there is pcflntlniatlori of the
appointment to the commission of any man
versed in the, Taylor plan and an advocate of
It. Ir Taylor, for instance, who knows more,
about the situation than any man In Phlla
j&iiipfalH. la not to tw a member. He probably
spujtt wA be If the Mayor appointed him,
fer y siWukl he f tw all his work, take part
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WlsvlMM Ptaf Bu $ f a
EVENING
commission, with some great names altacned
to It, to do what?
Why, to give tho Mayor some oxcuse for
holding matters up; to find, if possible, some
reason to palliate tho extraordinary conduct of
tho city admlnlstiatlon, somo chance to justify
this monstrous prevention of tho people's de
sires. Thero Is no' ovldcnce to prove that tho
Mayor, before election, entered Into an under
standing not to rctnln In offlco A. Merrltt Tay
lor, but tho Mayor, having determined In Its
essentials what his course would bo, did delay
appointing a Dhoctor of City Transit until' ho
was nssuicd that tho appointee would obey
orders and not Interfere with his (tho Mayor's)
design to rip tho Taylor plan wldo open.
As a result, there Is not In tho city adminis
tration or In tho Dcpaitment of City Tianslt
any lesponslblo officer who is protecting tho
Interests of tho people or has any enthusiasm
for so doing. Tho eentlmcnt Is antl-tmnsit and
obstructlonary.
Tho piesent status was foretold In tho
LIvenino LEDGER of November 1, tho day
before election, when tho peoplo of Philadel
phia were solemnly warned of tho Intentions
of Mr. Smith.
Mr. Twining Is nmong tho most eminent
cnglnecis In tho country. Ho has, however,
entered offlco under nn ngi cement not to per
form somo of tho functions herctoforo con
sidered essential to tho occupation of tho posi
tion. Ho has been trapped beyond hopo of
extrication. Ho should bo tho people's cham
pion; ho Is content to bo metely nn engineer.
It Is an unfortunate situation for him to
occupy, unfortunate alike for himself and for
tho city, and oven, wo believe, untenablo.
But tho high priest of the obstructionists Is
actually the Mayor of Philadelphia.
Somo peoplo arc popular,
tent meicly to be efficient.
others are con-
Watch Philadelphia tlo a rope round tho
neck of the Twlno-lng plan!
What we favor is a military Instruction
camp for Congress, and tho longer It lasted
the better It would be.
Tho spring foolishness about unklssed col
lege men having now beon experienced, we aro
icady for tho good little Joico nbout tho Easter
hat.
Tho case is reported of a schoolboy who
receives $2000 a jcar spending money. The
education of uselebs citizens continues
merrily.
It costs one State alone moro than
53.000,000 annually to take cato of tho alien
In&ane. Theio Is a real Immigration pioblem,
but a literacy est will not solve It,
Cntdinal Mercler Is naturally a thorn In the
Teutonic flesh. Were It not for his activities
tho Geimans might get away with their pic
tute "t Belgium as tho happy German king
dom. According to a news story a pastor preached
a sermon on the text, "Can Ye Not Discern tho
Signs of the Times?" In the receiver of a tele
phone as far back as 187S. Tho Joke about
blowing out tho gas is a little older, but wasn't
ono of the signs, "speak with mouth held close
to tianhtnltter"?
It Is Just as well to point out that the
Dcpaitment of City Ttnnstt Is financed by the
citizens' money and Is maintained for the
benefit of the people. It performed that func
tion under Director Taylor, but under piesent
direction It appears that It Is tin organiza
tion for tho protection and glorification of the
P. R. T. and the nurturing of pessimism and
obstructionism. Mr. Twining's enthusiasm for
rapid transit would fteezo alcohol In tho
Congo.
The tuition fee at the University goes up
next year to $220 a year. To a number of
students the Increase will be a haidship, but
it has proved necessary and they will meet
this obligation as they meet tho many others
of college life. Tho startling thing about this
is tho fact that $150 should ever have beon
considered enough. The University, in com
mon with most other collegiato Institutions,
loses on each student and Is woefully depend
ent upon philanthropy and State aid. Yet
It puts an absurdly low prlco upon Its services.
Frnnkfuit-am-Maln Is not the one place in
the world we should choose for launching
a presidential boom, but If "Aus Grosser
Welt," published In that city, desires to nomi
nate ex-Governor Pennypacker, wo have no
objection. But If "Aus Grosser Welt" and Its
readers and Germany In general think that a
man can be nominated for the Presidency of
the United States because of pro-German
views, that impudent fallacy can bo easily
overcome. Let them watch the struggle which
their candidate Is compelled to go through for
reflection as head of tho Historical Society.
As long as the Carranzlstas and the VIHIs
tas meet in battle and Are shots at each other
thero Is some giound for believing that all Is
not as bad a3 It might be down In Mexico.
The mischievous report that the President
Is purposely delaying activity In the bandit
hunt for political reasons is of a piece with
wild rumors of Carranza'a activity against the
United States. It Is a slander on the Presi
dent, who Is a pollt("al leader, unfortunately,
as well as a nation's head. But It is also a
wanton outrage agalnst General Pershing and
against the United States Army units under
his command.
David Lloyd-George Is not only one of the
most capable men In England, but seems
also to be ope of the few who takes Eng.
llsh and allied protestations of a "fight for
liberty" at all seriously. The abominable
proposal was recently made for eternal ven
geance against Germany, and English repre
sentatives at u trade conference desired to
paw a resolution that trade relations with
Germany should never more be as they have
been. Perhaps Mr. Lloyd-George had his mind
on other wars, on pther eternal enmities of the
past. Perhaps he thought of Russia and
Japan, And, possibly, lie thought of England
and all she has said against America, all the
high-sounding 'words about her desire to
crush the military oligarchy of Germany, to
restore democracy. Whatever his thoughts,
he brought up the English delegates sharply
with these words: "we must not subordinate
human liberty and honor, self-respect and the
civilization of mankind to any trade policy.
When we consider trade, the first thing; to be
done is to obliterate any feelings of revenge!1'
Mr. Lloyd-George knows full well that a' nation,
progressively victorious is not vengeful.
LEDGER PHILADELPHIA .T&IttAY, MAEQH 3k EQXfc
Tom Daly's Column
McAronl Ballads
LVIl
SO Ot, AD FOR BPREENCf.
Ecf som'body com' today
To decs fruita-stan' an' say:
"Watt Banana, two for fl'
Eccms to me dafs vcrra hlght"
I would look up cen da sky
Where da sun ccs shine so oright,
An' da clouds so sof an' while,
Sail like boats J ttsc to see
Ucen da bay at Xapoll;
An' so softa theeng I am
I would ndtla care a dam
XTc da customer should be
Sly enough for taka three.
Ucf like dat you com' today
Mcbbe so I Justa say:
"Sec da Tony McAronl;
He est vcrra lazy thing.
Wat da deuce he care for moncilT
Here ces com' da spreengl"
Ecf today I had a tiHfe ,
Av' she say: "My lovel My Life!
I mus' have fl'-dollar note
For da new sprccngi hat an' coat"'
Thccnk 1 gona grab her throat;
Hani) her head apalns' da aallf
JJhP To day t O! not at nil
She Mould look so prctta dcrc
It'ccfh da sunlight on her hair,
An' upon her check da rose
Vat dees ttormci brccza blows,
I icould look at her an' den
1 would tal her: "Taka tcnl"
l'.cf 1 had a wife to-day
I am sine dat 1 would say:
"All right, Mrs. McAronl,
J am vcrra softa thecng.
Wat da dctice I care for money?
Here res com' da sprccngi"
D
EAR SIR Thoso musical triolets you've
been printing worried mo. I don't know
anything about French forms, but I 1dow
what I can write and I thought I ought to bo
able to do one. So over at the concert t'other
night I looked about and In tho progtnm and
found n name then a lhyme. Tho
rest wotked Itself out. I understand It's a
libel on an excellent musician, nnd, lenlly, I
didn't hear his composition with the Orches
tra, but tell mo honest, could you leslst that
rhyme? AVcll, here goes, nnd may he for
give me:
Musical Triolets
(Most of them Knock-turns.)
VIII
For old Camillo Zcckwcr
I don't givo n darn!
A ropo Is tho neckwear
For old Camillo Zcckwcr!
His "Sketches," by heck! were
By no means grand slarn!
For old Camllle Zeckwer
I don't gio a darn. L. B.
Of course there Is no such word ns "slarn," but I
had to lncnt It because. ou see. "ulam" the word
1 wanted to ue won't rhyme with "darn "
The Anagram Contest
THE contributions will have to buck up. We
believe wo can bay, without fear of suc
cessful contradiction, that tho winner Is not
among these:
RICH PEACH ALL IN.
M. Simons.
AS VICTOR SEES HIM.
Mrs. J. W. F.. Jr.
THIS SHAM TOM B.
No. Sig.
Tho answers to yesterday's follow:
Easter Sunday.
Long Lle the U. S. of A
Theodore Roosevelt.
And If you're not very strong for anagrams
you might tackle this and tell us how Doyle
got his feet on the platter, bearing In mind
that the bo-score gives no hit to Kauff nnd
no errors to tho opposing outfield:
The second run went over In the sixth on
a pass to Doyle, Lobert's sacrifice, Kault's
long fly to right field and Jlerkle's sacrifice
fly. They got this one without n hit.
N. Y Sun.
SURE. N. Y. MAKKS TVS OF ANYTHING FROM
rillLA.
Speaking of New York, over there they took
a play called "Her Price," which had played
two weeks In Philadelphia as a tiagedy, and
now they call It "Pay Day," a satire on the
movies, an uproarious farce. Now, whatdyo
make of that? Or Is discretion the b. p. of v.?
W. L.
QUITE SOI QUITE SOt
A woman's aim is bad, 'tis said;
Thus, when she's indiscreet
And throws herself at some man's head
She lands right at his feet.
The Impossible Lover
"T HAVE been married more years than I'd
-L care to acknowledge over my real name,"
writes Nan, "hut sometimes I like to sit and
think of the beaux I had. I call them up to
pass In review before me, so that I may pin
the zero on the most Impossible one of tho lot.
Here's mine: His name was George. He used
to sit In our parlor and look out the window,
while I made talk. Occasionally, during a lull,
a trolley-car would clang by the house and
he would say: 'There goes another car, Nan,'
Boyond an infrequent 'Yes' or 'No,' I'm sure he
never said anything else. One night when he
came to call I gradually shut off my flow of
Idle chatter. In the light of the street-lamp,
his face at the window grew ghastly. Sweat
began to gem his brow. He fidgeted, he
squirmed, he gulped, he mopped his brow.
Finally he said: 'Feel kinder sick; guess I'll
go home.' Then I remembered the trolley
men were on strike and no cars had passed
the house for hours I So I lost him."
Classifying Your Countrymen
Every little while I go
Where "It makes down rain or snow"
And then I realize I'm treading
The well-paved streets of Reading.
Will Lou.
IT NEVER COULD HAPPEN.
Samuel Johnson, colored, who had been a suf.
ferer from Insomnia
Part of a news note.
"XTvV," writes John Luther Long, with one
Xl foot in the trap, "how, I repeat" strug
gling futllely "how do you manage to get so
many people"--here follows a violently yallanj
but vain final struggle "to work for you for
nothing. Including even me? My old friend,
John Budd, trench digger (tor gas pipe) once
told the parish priest, who asked him tq dig
for the church, since he couldn't pay for the
church, that he wouldn't. He said he hated to
woik for money, let alone for nothing."
Yet we happen to know. Intuitively, that this
same J. L. L. has got more Joy out of things
he has written for nothing or next to nothing
than from the plethprjc royalties of bis
"Madame PutUrny." His "Felice- is the finest
and the most colorful bit that any artist ever
pulled out of Philadelphia's Little Italy.
Signer maestro, io ml tscappello! '
SPEAIOm 01 "CRACKED FOtJKDAinONSw
M,i Mm ' fw- G M "
TYPOGRAPHICAL
ANDSO FORTH
A Discourse on Errors, With All Pos
sible Avoidance of Personalities. .
The Editor and Compositor
Defended
D'
EAIt Reader, you may have noticed
errors on this page. Do not think, how
ever, that thoy aro tho fault of tho editors.
Far from It. At least as far as the composing
room. All errors arc typogtaphlcal. How
could It be otherwise, now that handwritten
copy Is not permitted In any well-regulated
newspaper establishment? By "typographi
cal" wo do not refer to typewriters, but to
linotype machines. "Typographical" moans
somobody else. It Is a very convenient word.
It Is a nice, satisfactory word, burnished by
much use. We aro defining It as diplo
matically as possible, ns we must send this
manuscript through tho composing room to
bo subjected to tho tender mercies of tho
same. Indeed, wo intend to present both sides
of tho case beforo wo finish. We linvo no
grudgo against the composing room. Tho
grudge seems to bo the other way around.
For instance wo wroto an article tho other
day nbout health Insurance. And what hap
pened? Tho next day we found ourselves
referring In cold typo to "this kind of
nuisance" Wo didn't mean that at all. Tho
composing room Informed us that tho phrase
was written Into tho copy with a pencil. Wo
don't remember about that. Perhaps It's
Just as well. Llko as not tho composing
room will have us saying it's just as swell.
Wjo are trying to put It on Its metal. Ha! Ha!
How's that? What will the Intelligent com
positor do to that? Ha, ha, again.
Veritable Vngnriousness
It's very funny the way the composing
room nets.. Give it somothlng hard and It
pulls through with flying colors. Glvo It a
gentle little grounder and It fumbles. AVhon
the Bulgarians demonstrate their skill by
crossing the Dbrubjaescxczs, the compositor
follows without tho loss of a single consonant
You can seo now for yourself. You don't
miss anything, do you? No, Well, that's the
way It goes. You take an ordinary battlo
and put It up to tho nforementloned intelli
gent compositor and tho product Is like this:
"The men fell in tanks and marched In pan
tnloons to their final account."
The erudite writer speaks of the hale-and-heartiness
of the old doge of Venice, and you
read, "thero was something likable In the
old dogs," The audience of the young
preacher becomes "attractive" Instead ot
"attentive." All kinds of complications aie
possible. The toastmaster, seeking to pay
tribute to the "green old age" of the guest
of honor, congratulates him on his "grim old
age." Sometimes the perversities of the conv
posing room are of considerable value. They
Improve tho copy. An editorial writer, dis
cussing "the demonstrative joy" .of a politi
cal convention, was corrected to the great
advantage of Force and Clearness, if not of
Elegance. His "Joy" and that of tho con
vention was turned into a "Jag," He let It
stay that way through all editions. Wise
man. As Shakespeare says, "Sweet are the
uses of perversity, which like the toad wears
yet a precious Jewel in his head."
Tricks of Type
All the foregoing examples are really harm
less tricks of type. "Tricks of type," do we
i say? Yes, we ought to leave personalities out
of the case. You wouldn't find the Intelligent
compositor describing a social function, at
which the guests were regaled with dainty ices,
In such language as this: "The party's pants
were repainted with dirty Ink." Certainly
not. We even suspect that undecipherable
chirography had something to do with that.
But the example rises out of the ranks of the
harmless and shows us what awful crimes
may be committed in the name of misprints.
"And when a muslo critic, much taken with the
fover-llke Impetuosity of his singer, Is forced
to subscribe next day to tle highest praise of
"Hver-llke Impetuosity," we doubt not he flpds
the ailment contagious. He is more helpless
than that Western statesman ot whom the
headline writer wrpte that he "takes obliga
tion," but of whom the types asseverated that
lie ''tends alligators." He, It may be sup
posed, canceled his subscription to the paper.
We were speaking, of. a mulc critic. There
was once another and he wanted to tell the
public about a meritorious rendition of Me
phlstopheles. It was in the days of hand
written copy who says tlja art ot handwrit
ing has gone out? It wasn't in, quite a while
ago. This critic of whom we speak described
in print a "murderous rendition of Mr. Stroph
elea." That wasn't sacrilegious, however.
The dear old Puauo Ledoer knew some years
aso ot the congressional resolution looking
toward the insertion of the name of the deity
(tt the Federal Constitution. You might hava
doubted It. ntt'ertheless, li yo4 had ajij
tho proposition to pay the same hlg"h honor to
Mr. Deltz.
Not oven tho Bible Is safe from typograph
ical errors. Anyway, thero wcto centuries
during which they crept, climbed and Intruded
Into tho fold. In tho "Placomnkers' Bible"
tho ninth verso of tho fifth chapter of
Matthew reads as follows: "Blessed aro tho
placcmakcrs, for they shall bo called tho chil
dren of God." Tho "Unrighteous Blblo" ex
claims, ''Know yo not that tho unrighteous
shall Inherit tho Kingdom of God?" Thero
were typographical errors In thoso days, and
David posthumously and pathetically com
plained that "the printers (princes) have per
secuted mo without a cause." It should havo
been Job.
Wo have drifted far from newspaperdom In
this digression on tho Bible, but have teturncd
to It with tho loferenc'o to Job," And didn't
wo promise, somo paragraphs ago, to defend
tho composing room? For truly, as regards
youisolf, gentlo reader, composing room and
editorial department aro In tho samo boat (or
building, If you want to bo precise). In con
clusion wo therefore quote a little dissertation
from tho Toronto Republican:
Other Than Typographical
"Every week tho paper this paper or any
other paper has typographical errors; and
thero Is always some ono ready to laugh mirth
lessly over it nnd hold tho paper up to scorn
and say a blacksmith could do a bettor Job
with both hands tlod, and proceed to bawl out
the editor publicly. And tho editor, being meek
In spirit and lowly, grins a sun-grin as If he
liked It, because he knows tho utter futility
of explaining. Then ho goes back to the shop
and bites a nail in two or eats a wooly worm
to jollevo his feelings; and finally wonders
how his tormentors would feel should ho turn
critic nnd point out tho typographical errors.
so to speak. In tho make-up of tho hilarious
ones, Furrinstance: Hon, Jehu Junkins shaves
himself, nnd last Sunday appeared at church
with a patch of unshaven whiskers under the
angle of his Jaw tho size of a grown man's
thumb! Sis Stlggins had her hat on crooked
and the shoestring on nor switch showed
through what little real hair sho has left. Tho
underskirt of tho Bello of the Village hung
on ono side a full Inch below the bottom of
her dress; Amrl Toots, one of our best known
city gents, walked down the alslo with a long
tavellng hanging In his coat tall; old Ebeuezer
Stone had blacked the front compartment of
his shoos until ho could see his reflection In
them, while his shoe heels had not had a
treatment since he bought them last summer,
and they bore traces and the odor of tho
barnyard. Billy B. Damm, who ordinarily
doesn't give threo whoops for anything and
doesn't care who knows It, blushed a tosy red
when, walking with his best girl, he produced
a washing from hl3 pocket Instead of his
handkerchief; Miss Peacy Peacherlno, who is
rlsin' 35 and near-sighted, wafted a kiss to a
traveling man getting on tho train under, the
impression that it was her brother, who de
parted from our midst on the same common
carrier. As the poet remarked, we are all
poor critters and prone to errors of make-up
oven as the sparks fly upward; and all good
and true editors, Instead of Impaling the kit
and bundle on his harpoon to get good and
even once for all. will again next week smile
his feeble sun-grin when he Is publicly roasted
and let It go at that. An editor hasn't much
sense, anyway. That's why he Is an editor."
THE DILEMMA
If the country should become Involved In war
and a hostile fleet should approach American
shores, the Panama Canal or any part of the
New World, there would not be any board, coin
mission or grand staff to make plans for meet
ing the -attack.
There Is a general staff of the army, but
there is no army;
There Is a navy, but there Is no naval gen
eral staff. Washington Post.
GENIUS ALWAYS BUSY
The man who knows what to do, when to do,
how to do and has the grit to do is never seen
presiding over a Besalon of the Sons of Rest.
Houston Post.
NATIONAL POINT OF VIEW
There never was a time when the argument
for a tariff commission, and a real one, with
real powers, at that, was so complete and over
whelming as It Is now Washington Times.
Both In reference to the army and the navy
the American people are thoroughly In earnest.
Something more substantial than half measures
of preparedness are needed. Cleveland plain
pealer.
In times of plenty prepare for scarcity and
then scarcity will not come. Remember that
extravagance Is the sign of a weak character.
One cart better give away everything than buy
everything; Ohio State Journal.
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There are numerous indications that knowl
edge of this country's weakness in military arid
naval power has caused other nations to vlolato
our rights and to be regardless of the rights of
our cUlzens.--Ciac(nnati Enquirer.
Silver is coming Into Its own again, for there
are a thousand millions of people that now
have no gold currency, and who do not care
for paper currency, and -who. will be glad to
get the white metal m do bvtintss with.-
Cincinnati Enquirer.
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AT CITY HALL-,
What Do You Know?
Queries of general interest will be anrwerti ,
in this column. Ten questions, the aniwtn
to which every well-informed person tlwtli
know, aro asked dally.
QUIZ
1. lVhy Is rennsrlrnnlo, called the "Kejilojs
fitnte"?
2. IThnt l ft "Utopian scheme"?
3. 'Woo Mother Ooose n real pernon or in Ira-
nclnnrj chnrncter? t
4. IVhnt win the origin of the word "Moj.
wtimii"?
5. About whrro l Mnnn nnd Dlxon'i liner
(I. Where li the Vnttcun?
7. Whnt In the If o run?
8. Is there nn Attstrlnn Ambassador to the $
United Mates? ,
0, What member. If nny, of the President's 5'
Cabinet M n bachelor? '
10. What IlUhop was a Confederate central
In tlm CUD War?
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Answers to Yesterday's Quiz .
1. April IB, 1740, when the Ungllsh Arm d(. ,
fealed the adherents of the "Vouni Vtf '
tender," Charles Ftuart. j
2. About 8100,000,000,000, "- J
3. A composition of sacred music. The works j
of Haydn nnd llnendel nre famous In this 1
resnect. 3
4. Archimedes, celebrated mechanician of' so
tlqutty.
n. Washington Monument, Washington, I). 0,
0. The ancient emperors ot India were is
called,
7. Oenernl rernhlne.
8. No.
0. New Mexico. I
10. Whlttler. ,i
Crews and Forts
Erffor of "What Do You Know" WouIdroU fj
kindly state In your dally column ot by re- J
turn mall the following: (l) wnat are ine averajs t.
crews ot ine moaeru American uicuuuuu j
battle and scout cruisers, destroers, gunboats,-
torpedoboats, submarines ana transports num
bered nt, nlso the number ot forts east of the
Appalachian Mountains and the value of our
Atlantic defenses romr.
1. In tho highest typo of battleship, the dread- I
nought, the crew ranges from S00 to 10(10 men. j
with from SO to Co olllcera. The armored !,
cruiser of the highest type carries as manr
as S25 men and 40 officers First class cruisers
about 35 officers and 000 men, with about lOOylen $
men and a proportional decrease ot olBcers for i
the second class and the samo for the third
class A destroyer carries from 70 to 100 roea J
and officers, a torpedoboat from 16 to (12 officers
, ... , .!, .. tiiillt hAttrn 1
ana men, a nuuiiKiiiiiu ui wic ij,,ta ,.,. v. ..--.. :,
1001 and 1909 from 7 to 15 officers and mea J
TV,,, tutto fnaaMct urn not mi standardized. ( 'r
Counting the forts and their Important subposti J
In the general district east ot the Appalachians tt
I.- . .. A.- .... mt.' mill HA- I-
tnere are oa. js io ine .uue u. um v--- -
fenses that depends upon tho power of the at
tack, doesn't it? Military experts and militant
politicians, have violently disagreed as to tne
value of our coast defenses against modern naval
gunnery Almost every day you will find some
-l.tn, lr ll.c nnnaru rrt- tliA mnc-nzlneS COnCemlnl
1 their goodness and badness, We cannot ventur
an authoritative opinion ortnanu
Earliest Wild Flower
K-.llln.- nt HWhnt Tin Villi KlIOUl" ThO Wri.W
of nn editorial on spring In Saturday's paper
Bpoke of hepatlca and bloodroot as uw ""
wild flowers. How about skunk cabbage? XV.
It does have Its mediocre blossom earler' ,but
haidly comes up to one's Idea of a wild floer.
Penn's First Provost
Editor of "What Pa You Know" 1) Who wM
the first provost of the University of PennsiV
vanla? (.') Who were the Immediate praj
sors of the present provost? (3) What was ; UKJT
occupation previously? 1M-
(1) Dr. William Smith. 12) William PePP" ana
Charles Custla Harrison. (3) Physician, manor
facturer.
r.lontlfultKr n Trpn
. eauor o, Wi?l . r. Sfr!H
botanicauy minaeu reuue. i - - - k
a tree which Is noticeable on account of U W
peeling? (2) Is this dire to ravages oMncr
(1) Plane tree, or sycamore- la naturtl
V.tlH.t Cnnrr nf ITiM Innfl
Bdi.or of "What Do You Know" I uwt ,j
r";:.i ....., .. h. tiational anthem ot tin j
Netherlands. Can you nnd It for me?
SUUIH OB.1H j
We print U with "pleasure. Here K ws .,
r..f him in whom old Dutch blood flow Hi
Untainted, free and strong; -,avM
Whose heart for Prince and country flows.
Now Join us in our os.
Let hlra with us lift up his voice.
And sing In patriot band.
The song'at which all hearts rejoice,
For Prince and Fatherland.
We brothers, true unto a man.
Will sing the ow sons yi
Away with hlra who ever can
His Prince or land forget!
A human heart glowed In him neer-
We turn from him our nana
Who callous hears the song and prar-
For Prince and Fatherland.
Preserve, O God, the dear old ground
Thou to our fathers gave;
The, land where we a crad.19 funJ'
And wherer we'll find a grave!
Wo ca. Q I"1- t0 T&M on rZ'
As near death's door we stand,
Oh! safety, blessing, Is our cry.
For Prince, and Fatherland.
Iud ring thro' all MjoUMW '"
Our prayr, O Xcrd, to Theel
Preserve our Prince, bl House.
To Holland, great and free'
Frn youth. thr' life V "tfch i our "
Till near to death we Uiia;
Q God, preserve our W '" ,0B
For rrinca and Fat&eriaw-
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