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riilLAilEI.PMA, MONDAY, APltIL 10. 1916.
To lead an unlnatructc.il people to war is to
throw them away. Confucius.
If Paneho Villa was strictly up-to-date, he'd
get out of his present muddle by a disavowal
el that Columbus raid.
The Colonel, with memories of one of Presi
dent Wilson's phrases, will liardly thank
Georgo von li. Meyer for calling him tho
"psychological candidate."
Thrco hundred New York newspaper men,
who think thut tho only way to get to the
front In time of war 13 In a uniform, are learn
ing how to bo soldiers.
A postotfico building, "round llko a fort," Is
nsked of Congress ns a preparedness measure.
Ilatlior antiquated Idea of modern fortifica
tion, Isn't It? And a rather falso Idea of what
preparedness against pork signifies.
Tho Entente Allies aro planning an eco
nomic war to follow tho war of armies, but
Germany Is not the only nation which should
bo Interested In a zollvereln of tho Allies. It
Is about tlmo Congress begun to think of trade
conditions of the future.
Four hundred and eight of tho 083 delegates
to tho Republican national convention have
been selected and 285 of them are unln
structcd. Fairbanks has 43; Cummins, 2-1; La
Follettc, 20, and Ford, 30, but nobody expects
any of these men to be nominated.
Every girl should know what, to eat, how
to cat, and how to cook, says Senator Smoot.
Every young man who has taken a girl to a
lestaurant knows that sho Is well equipped
in tho first two essentials. It is not till nfter
marrlago that the eIiTs ignorance of the third
Is discovered.
Nicaragua has ratified the treaty giving to
the United States tho exclusive right over tho
tilnul route through Lake Nicaragua, and now
:lt that wo need to control all tho Isthmian
routes Is to persuado Colombia to givo us a
monopoly over tho waterway through tho
Atrato River.
Tho circle Is almost complete. In the Sussex
case. First she was a transport and was
legitimate prey for submarines; then slfo
wasn't attacked by a German submarine, for
Germany says so. The third stage is that she
wasn't attacked In tho first place. Germany
ought to know that tho Joke Is a little stale.
The re-election of Frederick C. Tanner as
chairman of the New York Republican State
Commltteo was a circus act with three rings.
According to political observers It was a blow
to Root, Roosevelt and Barnes all at once.
This man Hughes, who wasn't hurt at all,
seems to be something of a politician.
Secretary Baker has denied the rumors that
tho expedition sent after Villa is to be with
drawn before It has accomplished what It was
sent to do. If tho expedition to Vera Cruz
had not come back without persuading Huerta
to saluto the flag there would be greater, faith
In the determination of the Administration to
see this thing through.
Senator Harding, who Is to be temporary
chairman of the Republican National Conven
tion, has told the Hamilton Club in Chicago
that the tariff will be tho paramount Issue In
4ho campaign that Is, adequate protection for
America and American industries and that
military preparedness will be urged as part of
the general policy of protection. There are
hundreds of thousands of hard-headed Repub
licans In tho country who will agree with the
Senator.
A man sent to the workhouse for failure to
support his family Is suing the County Com
missioners of Schuylkill County to compel
them to do what he would not do. The situa
tion Is almost humorous, but it points to a
grave defect In our laws. Pitifully little ac
count Is taken In the workings of our system
of Justice of thpse who are dependent upon
convicted criminals. Obviously In such a case
ns the ono now before the Supreme Court the
fate of the wife who sues for nonsupport Is
bettered In no degree by a legal victory. The
misfortune of having married a criminal or of
having been fathered by one should not be
Intensified by the very means society takes
for correction. It is not difficult to argue that
since 'the convict works a fair share of his
earnings ought to go to those who are regret
tably bound to him.
Although there are about 2000 women stu
dents in. the University of Pennsylvania it Is
not a coeducational institution. The women are
not admitted to all courses and all departments
on the same conditions as men. They are admitted-
to the graduate school, the school of
education, the dental school and to the
courses in biology, music, pedagogy and medi
cine and hygiene. Neither the young women
In the University nor those who have pursued
courses there are satisfied with their status.
They say that they are tolerated and not wel
comed, and that the provisions for their ac
commodation are inadequate. Borne of them
1'cva gone w far as to cliargo that the accom
modations are purposely inadequate. This
Marco fall to the ground, however, when
one nsflbj how limited are the financial re
Hjureeai at the institution. Colonel Bennett's
vequ.st i not large enough to endow a
, ,m,.'s olu-4 ui a wojnauSj ilepaitmtat ir.
te,v (.'aive.fciti 1 - e" i iUt o ., a o imt '
grist SWWirB t . c'Jl s i - .a q UiQ
EVENING
woman's building:' which is to stand at the
corner of Walnut and 34th streets. No one
will question the good faith of the Provost
when ho sayts that the University Is doing
everything possible, for the women within tho
limitations which hamper It,
THE PROBLEM OF POWER
riasnllne nt present prior, I, not an acci
dent. It Is n fatality, was bound In come. The
problem nf gasoline Is the problem of power,
tn supply n cheap fuel for n cheap engine.
It cannot he done by legislation. It ran lie
done, It Is being done today, by American
Ingenuity nml lmentlte genius.
01
N TUB day when tho motor buses Of Lon
don were transported across tho Channel
nnd transformed Into motor transports, the
gasoline problem was sublimated Into the
problem of power. On that day every taxtcab
In Paris was commandeered and every pri
vate motor-driven vehicle In Berlin wns In tho
Government service. Two weeks later the
motor truck, tho lorries and vans, wcro de
livering ammunition and food, wcro trans
ferring olllcers and men, were In every sense
tho ni (cries of each nrmy In the Held.
The war Is now being waged on a basis of
motor power nnd. ns a result, motor power
Is now being consldeied on tho basis of tho
war. Nothing could bo less Intelligent than
to fancy that tho prlco of gasoline can be
arbitrarily 1 educed, that thoto Is a conspiracy
against the small automobile, or that tin em
bargo will settle tho question. All of theso
things have somo bearing on tho matter, but
they nil err in regarding the prlco of gasoline
art an Isolated phenomenon. It Is, In fnot,
only a part of tho entire problem of powor
of ''power that propels.
The extraordinary development of tho In
ternal explosion engine, known popularly In
the motor car, Is obviously tho beginning of
tho gasoline dllllculty. It Is within mortal
memory that gasoline was 11 by-product of tho
mnuufactuio of petroleum nnd that It sotd for
flvo or six cents a gallon. Today -lO-ccut
gnsollno figures In tho headlines ns a possi
bility. Tho significant thing In this Increaso
Is not that a few exploiters aro making a
great deal of money, but that nn nlmost In
calculable number of consumers aro become
dependent upon motor traction. The problem
of power Is to reconcllo the prlco of material
to tho prlco of the engine using It. A motor
car selling at $300 which demands a fuel
selling nt 40 cents a gallon Is an Intolerable
Incongruity.
Moro ways than ono have been suggested
for such nn adjustment. Tho restriction of
monopoly is nn obvious way and Is moro, in
keeping with American political tradltIons
than tho proposed embargo on gasoline. But
tho great American tradition, overshadowing
all political expedients, Is Its Implicit and
justifiable belief in Invention. If ever there
wns n "manifest destiny" for America It was
framed In terms of human ingenuity. It Is
only a question now of the profitable nrea of
action In which this Ingenuity may exert It
self. Tho Secretary of the Interior has pointed
out that the present prices of gasoline bear n
definite, relation to tho demand, hut seem to
bo only slightly concerned with tho price or
production of crude oil. Tho .-eason for this
is two-fold and bears out what has been said
of American Inventiveness. Ten years ago
only 10 per cent, or so of gasoline, was ex
tracted from Pennsylvania crudes, the highest
type of petroleum. Today the yield Is twice
as great, not because of superior processes,
but because tho designers of carburetors and
Internal combustion engines have Improved
their work, so that now a gasoline of higher
specific gravity can bo utilized In them. The
other reason Is the other side of the .shield.
Tho gross yield, in nny specific gravity, is
enormously Increased by tho perfection of
"cracking" processes tho method of taking
the gasollno from the crudes. The Burton proc
ess, patented and owned and sacred to tho
Standard Oil Companies, produced 3,000,000
barrels per annum. In February, 1915, tho
Bureau of Mines brought out the Rlttman
cracking process, which Is at tho disposal of
all producers and enables them to double
their output of gasoline, using In tho manu
facture all low grades of distillate from petro
leum, Including kerosene or crude oil.
Tho value of such patents is, however,
measurable, while the possibilities of Inven
tion are Infinite. New processes will lead ex
ploiters to petroleum fields now considered
unavailable. When the Cushlng pool. In Okla
homa, went down from 300.000 to 100,000 bar
rels a day, gasoline swooped upward and no
Increaso in production will prevent such
changes, simply because the natural resources
are limited. Itittman will counteract Cushlng,
but a fall In Pennsylvania will counteract Rltt
man in time. Even the fact that 2.345,000.000
barrels of petroleum are lying In the soil of
California can hardly be comforting to one
who notes tho Irresistible Increase in the use
of motors and gasollno engines,
Mr. Lemuel Gulliver saw, In his travels, tho
work of a scientist who was extracting power
from cucumbers and In that vision he intended
to be Ironic. But tho Irony is nil the other
way. The sun and the waves and tho tides
have all been searched for power, and even
tually they will be forced to give up their
secrets. At the same time "synthetic gaso
line" is nnnounced from Germany naturally
from Germany, which trusts not to nature
fqr her goods. The solution of the problem
of power will be found In every attempt made
by man to win something from nature which
she does not readily surrender to his demand.
It will not bo found permanently In economy,
nor In legislation, nor In any capacity of the
human being except his capacity for circum
venting even the forces of nature when they
stand in his way.
BALTIMORE'S EXPERIMENT
WITH an orchestra of our own thunder
ing Jn the halls of New York's emple
of music, it would seem that Phlladelphlans
have little or nothing to learn from such an
experiment as is now being made in Balti
more. There Mayor Preston calmly an
nounced the beginning of a municipal or
chestra and there a munlpipal orchestra was
founded and flourishes. The rub is that if it
continues to flourish it will run into debt.
The municipal appropriation Is Insufficient to
cover expenses at the present rate of admis
sion. Such is the paradox of American patron
age of the arts.
It is to be noted that the scale of prices in
Baltimore is much lower than that prevailing-'
in this city, for orchestra seats sell' at fifty
cents. Cossibly because the price is low, pos
sibly because Baltimore has been music-hungry
these many years, the concerts have been
selling out weeks ahead. The patrons have
been of all classes of society; a discriminating
reporter sends word that street clothes were
predominant at the first two concerts and are
expected for the third- Low prices, popular
conditions, lank of the baleful "social" status,
alt Indicate that Baltimore is actually bringing
1 .usi.- tu the people by the simple process of
euuguis its pe&pie to music
-LEDGER P Lit LADE
Tom Daly's Column
McAroni Ballads
hVlll
Till: TItAXaPhAXTED 1108E.
Utacomo Ferrari
It&s pon' paita inarru,
An' he's lookln' queer aroun' ila eyes
Vcrc cea aom'thcenp rfcrd
Look as ccf he's scare'
An' baysldcs a lectia bit su'prisc'.
Oiacomo Ferrari he ccs heie
Mrbhc so ft', sccxa, seven tenr.
An' he nevva care for pirls tit nil
Atla time he sneer te'en som' nan call
'Mcrleann plrls da best for style,
.In' to say dry're pictta mak' heem smile,
"Once", he say, "I know a pictta girl;
Xcvva yov wccll find ccn all da icorV
SooWirr steccla Jlosa Ilka she
I am leave bayhind ccn Xapoll.
Ahl erf you could sec her wave da hand
Wen my sheep ccs sella from da lamll
Sooehn jlna shapa, sooeha uracc,
Soochu prctta look upon da facet
Xft'va tccll I die 1 xocell forgat;
J can close my eye an' sec her vat,"
So like dat, drcs alae, he always speak,
S'o I'm no su'prisc' v'en lasta week
Jle ccs com' to dcesa place an' say:
"llnsa's sheep ccs comln' cen todayl"
"Watt" 1 say, "she's com far be your telfet"
"Surcl" he say, "an' now, you bat my life,
Kef you com' weeth me you see a girl
Dai's da sweetest' thrcnp cen all da worl',".
So we go: an' prctta soon she com',
I nm how-yau-calUccl? "strucka dumb!"
Otac, he too res looka verra queer,
An' he justa kress Iter on da car;
Den' he tak' an' Icadln' hrr away.
Xcxtu day hi com' to me an' say:
"Dccsa climate here ves rcrta strange,
Ect ccs mak' som' prctta thecngs look
change'
Thecngs dat arc so prctta as can be
Wen dey arc at home cen Xapoll."
"Sure!" I say, "da climate here ccs tough,"
"Sure! an' jus' so soon I mak' enough,
After we are marry," say decs fttac,
"1 nm gona taka my Jlosa back."
(tlacoma Fcrraii
Jlc's pan' gattit marry,
An' he's lookln' queer aroun' da eyes:
Here ccs som'thceng dcrc
Look as ccf he's scare'
An' bajjsldcs a tcclla bit su'prisc'.
International Puns
1. Somewhere In France.
THE day wns clear. Tho sun wus approach
ing Its zenith In a cloudless sky, Tho cottn
trysido wns green with tho coming of spring.
Along the winding road an automobile stood,
whilo a stout man puffed and pumped vigor
ously nt ono of the tires. Another enr up
pioaehed. "Bon Jour!" shouted tho passing motorist.
"Niiw, punk-Jour!" burst from tho tired
lips. WILL LOU.
"How's this?" asks C. It. "Superintendent nf
NantlcoKo illne. Susquehanna Coal Company, Is
FRANCIS If. KOHLURAKEft."
The Anagram Contest
THIS contribution from D. C. Ver is so un
usual and so clever that wo propose, not
withstanding our embargo upon all references
to tho conductor of this Stalactlto of Sterility
to give up tho whole stage to It today! Wo
call it nn nnagrammatlcul double, acrostic:
Con T D Mamus' Ally
Con we eacli day your section comIC
Observing In Its olio
Newest of Jests nnd chestnuts oldeN"
T.D. receives nt his depoT
Dago and Irish humor mlnglel)
MOMUS' art their mcdluM
Only a passing glance or sO
.Makes gleo replace life's tedlu.M
Unstinted pralso Is due to yoU
Such pleasure have we had a vouS
ALLY of Taylor nnd F. P. A
I-aughlng wo Daly dally cnlL
Let's Join In wishing, one and nlL
Yuu stay to hear, whilo hero to staY
As to Phila. Orchestra
Rip. slam and bang! Fldcllc-de-dee,
Plenty of noise, but no liannouee;
Each one plays In a different key.
From the first violin to the tympanee;
Oh, yes, I admit, they havo It on me
Who say they enjoy a Strauss syinphonee.
A FIREMAN.
IlKRK ARK NK1V.S rilOH ALICE V. O.
Rumor has It that several of our older couples
Intend embarking again on the matrimonial
sea.
Spring vegetation is rapidly pushing ahead.
Wheat and grass look well.
Farmers are pushing the' plows with all avail
able force.
Correspondent Mt. Pleasant Journal.
Yes, for the Nonce
HOW dear to our hearts are the fads of last
season
When fond recollection presents them to
view;
The cloth-tops, the white spats, all without
a reason,
And nil the designs that Luclle's fancy
knew;
The wide-spreading skirt has now replaced
the hobble
And people no longer look slender and tall;
Now high shoes, high-heeled, caused ladles to
wabble
Rue this is the dearest-departed of all:
CHORUS
The old Gothic collar.
The p'renthesis collar,
The bow-legged collar that hung round our
necks.
P. Villain.
(Is one stanza sufficient for the nonce?)
THE menu cards for the annual dinner of The
Wanderers' Club were folded to stand up like
an A tent. The menu was printed on one out
side face and a ship's compass on the other.
Instead of N E S W on the compass the por
traits of Peary, Dewey, Sliackletou and Roose
velt appeared. The inner sides of the card
tent were Intended to be blank, but when the
secretary corrected the proofs It occurred to
him that a key to the portraits should be given.
He therefore wrote on the back of the com
pass side of the card the four names in the
positions occupied by the portraits. To make
bure that the printer would use the exact type
desired, he cut a line (without reading it) from
a type sample book and pasted it on the proof
with the written words "thlsstyle."
When the nnisnea cards arrived the key read
us: l-
thus:
X
Peary
E
Dewey
lloosevelt
a
ahackleton
Fortunately none were hurt, but all tcere
scared JMJ3fi7.
FOLLOWING TIIE P. K. K.
Pteale sali. we sot a new room In our housr
sab., jas an'.., an' hj 1vj c tall jut de restat'rau
room an' bits right wiiar da dlnia'-ruoin uie
be: sa. sab- RAiTUS.
LP1I TA. MONDAY, APRIL 10 191G.
WHAT THE KAISER
SAID JUNE 29, 1914
The Remarkable Story of the Pact of
Konopisht Wilhelm and the
Archduke of Austria Who
Killed Francis Ferdinand?
TMHL Week! Tin- week of lho glory of
XV. tho new Germany on tho Sra, and tho
Kaiser Is there. A message. Is brought to him.
Ho read it nnd exclaimed:
"Now I must begin all over ngaln!"
Tho message told of tho assassination,
Juno 28, 1014, of tho Arohduko Francis
Ferdinand, hclr-prcsumptlvo to tho throne of
Austria-Hungary, and of his consort, tho
Duchess of llohcuberg. "Now I must begin
all over again," cried tho Kaiser. What had
ho begun lit tho first place?
Tho world docs not know, nnd If tho House
of Hapsburg retains, after tho wnr, tho stern
rigidity of its facade, tho world will never
know. Hut thero aro speculations. What
wcro tho relations of the Kulsor and the
hapless Francis Ferdinand? What wns said
when tho Kaiser, Grand Admiral -un Tlr-
pltz and tho Archduke met In the rose gardens
of Konopisht, ostensibly to show tho Kalsor
what lovely blooms his host, tin enthusiastic
gardener, could display? Was Austria really
at the bottom of tho crime of Sarajevo?
The Famous Spark ,
For moro than 20 months writers havo
been referring to this crlmo ns "the spark I
that fired tho magazino of Eutopo!" Yet llttlo
has been written of tho spark, how It was
struck, In whoso hands were Hint nnd steel.
In a recent lssuo of. that eminently sane
English magazine, tho Nineteenth Century,
there appears an nrticlo written by Henry
Wickhum Steed, who was for 11 years
Vienna correspondent for tho Loudon Times.
Ho poses some of tho questions mentioned
above nnd fur answer he reprints a letter
"from (i correspondent whoso position nnd
antecedents entitle his statements to careful
examination." (Note tho conservative ex
pression.) Ho elaborates this letter with
criticism, nnd this is tho extraordinary story:
It wns in ISar, that tho death of tho Aroh
duko Chatlcs Louis, eldest surviving brother
of the Emperor of Austria, mado Francis
Ferdinand tho helr-appuront. Four yeius
later ho married tho Countess Sophio Cliotok.
Thero aro mnny Americans to whom a
countess in tho family would ho blessing
enough, but the Pragmatic .Sanction, In force
slnco 1722-23, regulating tho succession to
the throne of Hungary, recognizes as legiti
mate only tho children of Archdukes and
Archduchesses. Violent opposition was there
fore made to the marrlago of Francis Ferdi
nand. Tho fact that ho was supposed to ho
courting an archduchess nnd actually fell
In lovo with her mother's lady-lu-waltlng did
not help much. Headstrong untl tempera
mental, and apparently much in love, the
Archduke refused to give up tho throne,
and finally persuaded tho Emperor to recognize
the murriuge, but with fatal restrictions, Tho
heir-apparent by official net gavo tin eter
nally the rights of his children to tho thronu I
which ho himself was to accept, ills mar
rlago was not "eligible." Sophie was to be a
consort, but never the mother of emperors.
It was right enough when there were no
children, only possibilities. But children did
como and the parents grew less and less
pleased at tho prospect of their disinheritance.
Meanwhile, the court of the Hap.sburgs, a
family of somo SO archdukes nnd nrch
duchesses, treated tho interloping Sophie with
contempt, and no official honors, no "Serene
Highness" attached to her person, could
legitimatize her marriage, nor could It
restoro her to the graces of the family which
she had disgraced. Unpleasant scenes, 'moro
suited to the society of a small town than
to the imperial salons of Vienna, took place,
and finally tho helr-presumptlvo withdrew
from the court entirely.
Kaiaer and Archduke
He did not go right into the arms of tho
Kaiser, but after a tlmo a friendship be
tween the two sprang up. Tho consort was
received with much honor and courtesy at
Potsdam. She went to England to establish
cordial relations there. Then a new vision
was opened before her and before the dis
tracted father of two sons. They were to be
rulers, after all. The succession was to be
maintained for Francis Ferdinand. The Kaiser
had arranged it.
The method was really childishly simple
in spite of all its audacity. The ancient
kingdom of Poland (Russian and German)
was to be reconstituted with Lithuania and
the Ukraine to the limits of the Poland of
the Jagellons from the Baltic to the Black
Sea. At the same time a new kingdom,
formed from Hungary, Bohemia, Serbia and
lands on tho coast of the Adriatic, with
Salonlca, was to come into existence. Tho
Archduke was to take the throne of the first
and be succeeded by Ills elder son; the
second was to fall to tho younger. Mean
v. 'id pi of all this, the German part
uf Aiti i under the Archduke Charles
' Fiaricia Joseph, was to beqome another state
SHllCE IT LOOSE
In tho great Germanic Federation; Germany
was to havo her coveted outlet on tho
Adriatic, and lho three kingdoms would com
bine in a gicat alliance of peace and pros
poilty. Tho story Is so magnificent In conception
that It ought to bo truo even If It Is not. It
docs credit to tho wldo-scoing statesmanship
of Wllliohn tho Ilnhonznllcrii. It Involved a.
war with Russia, on account of tho Ralknn
situation, nnd that involved a wnr with
Franco. England was considered safe. But
wars can bo won; Imperial successions can
not. Tho great obstnelo In tho way of this
plan was tho fixed rulo of tho Arch-Hotiso '
of tho Hnpshurgs. And right hero Is tho
last, ovciwholmlng "punch" of this extra
ordinary story.
Austrian Intrigues
The Austrian Emperor was not pleased with
tho Intimacy of Kalsor nnd Archduke. Im
mediately after Wilhelm and Von Tlrpltz
left Konopisht, tho Austro-IIuugailnu Minister
of Foreign Affairs. Count Herchtold, arrived
theio. The moment tho Atchduko was as
sassinated tho Government sol.cd nil his
papers and took those which were found on
hl.s dead body. Why? Tho nnswer Is not
given in plain words, but tho implied renson
is this: To prevent tho Archduko from
changing the sucted nnd inviolable laws of the
Ilnpsliurg succession tho dominating forces
j of tho Auslro-lluniiailan Government fo-
! inentcd the Serbian plot for the assassination
i o the Aichdukc and trcrc icsponslblc for his
I death.
Now there Is no law compelling any ono to
believe this story. Tho man who wroto It
and tho correspondent who sent details to
him obviously buliovo it Is true. And Dr. Karl
Llcbknccht, Socialist, cried out In tho Reichs
tag not many weeks ago that the school
children of Germany should bo taught the
truth nbout Francis Ferdinand. Tho truth
ho gavo In detail: "That thero were certain
wido circles In which tho nssasslnation of
tho Atchduko was hailed as a gift from tho
gods."
At nny rate, tho Kaiser had an agonized
moment when ho heard tho dreadful news.
At any rate, ho recovered very fast, for
(again according to British critics) within
two weeks ho wns hand In glovo with
Austria, wns forcing tho war on Serbia, had
determined thut if hu was not to win a new
province from Austria by gullo, ho would
win It by force. Since tho war began tho
military nnd political attitude of Austria has
been considered by both enemies and neutrals
ns decidedly that of a Teutonic vm-sal lather
than that of an ally. Although, to bo sure.
Doctor Dumlia was sent homo without any
rebuke to tho lords of Wilhelmstrasse.
Tho mysteries of diplomacy aro fascinating
to Americans who go along In tho quaint
belief that their government Is free from n
Intrigue and who wonder whether tho Unite"
States has nny "International spies." Tho
story of the pact of Konopisht nnd Its fatal
consequences will bo haidly calculated to Im
press them with the superior qualities of n
monarchical government. But tho story, as
has been said before, is a fine web of specula
tion. For tho .good of humaultv ono wishes
tlmt H Ilml llever hecn told.
AFTER THE WAR WHAT?
Almost ns fapclnatliig n question as who will
win the war seems to bo tho question, What will
the world look like after the war? Wlmt will
bo tho relations between the State and the Indi
vidual? What will happen to Industry nfter
the present enforced expeiiment In socialism?
What will happen to manhood of the nations In
tho matter of physical deterioration through the
slaughter of the most fit? Will Intellectual
pi ogress suffer through the slaying of tens of
thousands of youths of talent nnd genius? And
so the questions broaden to the ultimate one of
what will happen to the soul of man after tho
present uprooting of beliefs and visions. In tho
midst of such speculations It Is In n way com
forting to have one English automobile specialist
raise the question of what will be the tiro policy
of Uiltish manufacturers after the war? Will
they cling to the heavy tire or tho lightweight
tiro In competition with American cats? In
Uermany they nro concerned with tho problem
of an adequate fertilizer supply after tha war.
j with workmen's cottages, with tho ostahllrtiment
ot a uerman oaiiK in woutli Ulilna. Apparently,
the world after the war will bo fairly recog
nizable, and to the extent that it changes. Us
now aspect will be largely shaped by tho great
masses of men who In the midst of the catas
trophes are attending to business as usuftl.
New York Evening Post.
NATIONAL POINT OF VIEW
And, Incidentally, Mr. I'ord would bo right
there on the upkeep of a presidential campaign.
Indianapolis News.
The Colonel would not pussyfoot on any Issue
that he has raised, he declares. But would he
run ainuok? Some, and they are not all molly
coddles, would like to know. Sprluefleld Repub
lican. If the Republicans uccept Roosevelt as a can
didate it will be because they fear him, not pri
marily because they mpect or truM him. It
will be a surrender on their part the leVa
that, regardless of all other contlder&tlons, the
thing to be done this year In to dffeat the vrcs
eut Administration. Cleveland 1'iala Dealer,
With freedom of the seas and the neutral
markets both denied the United States and Itx
people today, it is the time of all times for ad- J
minisiranoB ot our uoernmenr 10 o in control ;
of thoe firm and strong and decisive In mou
I tenance uf Amerltc.ii righu Cincinnati Ka-qutrer.
I I I m . I 1 .... I ... II
What Do You Know?
Qitcrle of general Interest will bo answered
in this column. Ten questions, the ansxeers
to which every cell-informed person should
know, arc asked dally.
QUIZ
1. I'or whom I, tbo Onrrlck Theatre nnmed?
About when tllil he lho'.'
2. In wlmt year wns the city consolidated Willi
tho outlying tun lis nml districts of Plilln-
ilclpblii County?
.1. What wns tho purpose In the formation of
the l'enlnn Brotherhood?
. What Is "Tho City of the flrent King"?
u. The King nml (lueen nf it country were killed
nn June It, 11)01!. What wcro their unities
nml wlmt wns their country?
li. Vt hut nro tile nlrkiimiics of tho Slates of
New York, Now Jrrxpy nnd Ilelnwnrc?
7. Wbero Is the Atrntn Ithcr nnd what Is the
Inhrrest nf the United Slntes In It?
S. What Is men n I by "I'yrrlilo ilrtury"?
!t. What city was once l.cnmn ns llyrnntlilin?
10. Hid President Wilson rrcelio n majority of
the iiopulnr into In 1U13?
Answers to Saturday's Questions
1. C'uptiilns In the Nnvjr receive $1000 n year.
2. l'oriiiul.itor of tbo modern workshop clllcl-
ency system.
.1. It huh erected between 1720 nnd 1734.
1. .loniitbiiii Hlft wroto "fiulllver's Trnvels"
It mis written us n nuclnl and political
Mitlrc.
.". Tho J.rnmlds nf i:gypt.
(I. Tbo Itultlniiire mid Ohio. It wns begun In
IH2H.
T. Itiisslan. Dccornllie pnlntlng nnd costume
designing.
8. The White House.
U. Agricultural pursuits, 12,(i.19,203 workers)
muiiufiirtiirliig and inecbniilcnl Indus
tries. 10,(I.-,H,8H1.
10. a,22.",OIIO licensed automobiles. In 1010,
nbout 100,000.
Germany's Conquered Colonics
7;or o "It'Mt Do You Know" What Ger
man colonies have been captured by the ene
mies of the Kaiier? Can you tell mo about
what the area offthe lost ground Is? J. E. J.
Tho British Cfililnet's iccent statement of tho
conquests of German colonics was as follows:
Southwest Africa. .122,150 squaro miles; Came.
l-oons, SO'O.OOO; Togolaud, 33,700; Samoa, BOO;
L'polu, 310; ItlFiiiaick Archipelago, 22,610;
Kaiser Wlllielni'a Land nnd Pacific Islnnds,
70,000; Caroline, Pclew, Marianne and Marshall
Islands, 1000; Klau-Chau, 200.
A Poem by Ellen Gates
JCtlltor of "What Do You Know" Who wrote
tho poem beginning "Sleep sweet within this
quiet room, O thou, whoe'er thou art"? Will
jou please glvo the other lines? ALICE G.
Tho poem was written by Ellen M. If. Gates.
Tho three stanzas are ns follows:
Sleep sweet within this quid room,
O thou whoe'er thou art.
And let no mournful yestetdnys
Disturb thy quiet heart.
Nor let tomorrow score thy rest
With dreams of coming 111;
Thy Maker is thy changeless friend;
His lovo surrounds thco still.
Forget thyself and all tho world;
Put out each feverish light;
The stars are watching overhead;
Sleep sweet, good-night! good-night!
Ancient Gossip About Kaiser's Mother
Editor of "What Do Yon Know" Referring
to question No. 10 in the Evk.nino LKDana of
April C, the grandmother of the Kaiser was not
Queen Victoria. Sho was a descendant of Ad
miral do Collgny, to whom Prince Albert was
married before ho met A'Ictorla. This child,
uuborp at the (lino of tho marrlago of Victoria,
and Albeit, was by previous contract reared as
tho daughter of Victoria, while the real daugh
ter of Victoria was put asldo and was supported
Uurlng her lifetime by remittances from John
Hi own. immediately after the death of Vic.
toria tho Kaiser sent to Franco for full details
of the birthplace of de Collgny, "his ancestor."
J. E. HENDERSON,
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Gasoline Production
,'dftor of "HVint Do You Know" Can you
givo mo soma figures ns to the amount of gaso.
line produced in this country tn some recent
years to givo an Idea of tho growtli of this pro
dootlon? IC J. DAWSON.
In 109r tho production was C.CSO.OOO barrels;
!n ISOI. C,'j:0,000; in 1909, 12,900,000; In 1914,
34,015,000; in 1913. 41.000.000.
State Commission of Health
RaIIa- nt Whn Tin Van Kuoii" -ptensii Ij.tl
I me the officers who compose the State Commis
sion of Health. MEDICO,
Tho Governor, the Attorney General, the Com.
mlo-lontr of Health and the chiefs of his bu
reaus. Professor Crct's Career
Editor of "What Do You Knots." In the
Evknino LEDOEn of April 4 I saw an account
5f Paul Cret's activities In the European war.
Can you tell me where I might obtain a
biography of Professor Crct?
HARVEY R. VANDERSLICE.
No comprehensive biography has been writ
ten of Paul Phlllppo Cret. There follow some
of tho leading facts In his career. He waa
born at Lyons, France, October 23, 187S, the
on of Paul Adolphe and Anna Caroline Curar-d
Cret. He was educated at tho Lycee of Houig.
Ecolo des Beaux Arts, Lyons; Ecole dei Beaux
Aits, Paris, and Is 'architects diploma dn
pouvernement francala." He married Marci
rile Lahalle, of Orleans, Francs, August, 1S06.
ife has beers profexior of design. University of
Pem.tylvanla. lncc October, J90?. Rtceivad
Pari prize, 1S98; Roucevm pilzs. uoi, ai.d
crand medal of emulation, Ecolo dta Beaux Arts,
1901: second pr'.ie, Concours Chjnaverd. 1S0j:
void tr.eda). Salon dea Champ Elyteex, P.iiir,.
1S03. Architect of Pan-American Ualeo. Wlv.i
ington, vaney rc-n
FcrBO memor.al arch, aad othr
hum Ha tii a tusmner ot the T-square i , b.
phr.jjelpnia, and of Um A:r.ttiC4u Initltute o
ATC&itecU.