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By mall, postpaid BBliyae Philadelphia, except where forelrn pontaaa Jjwtwjd, cms month, twentr-tlra cnta; on .year, wjnjtffoilarm. All zaall subscriptions parable In JE subscribers wishing1 address chanted mutt' tlfn aid. aa well a hew address. a.t. mo "wAtmrt " ketstose. maim mm tM.rt all rornmunlcattonj to Evening Ixigrr, tnOependenc Square, Philadelphia, ' ' " " ' ' - . t A ma rniiiDnrniA roiTomca it vcomd- WfeABa MAIX. UATTES. TKM AVfiHAOn NET PAID DAILY CUICUXJU I0N OF TUH EVENINO LEDQKB FOR MARCH WAB 110.711. PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY. AMIL 21, Ulf. The tfommonivcalth of Venice tn their arm ory have- this inscription: "llappv Is that city tofc)i tn-fttne of peace thinks of war," Rob ert MMon. BETTER A "PANIC" 1 A near-panla In needed In tin. United Bto,?A T,l eonntry is facing a break, a possible war, with Germany, too calmly. It Is not courage, but frlrollty and lgno ranee of Hie true state of our defenses. W know what war Is and we know that It threatens, bat no preparntton Is made to meet It. Congress should hare acted after tha I.usltaula was sank. Preparation for Immediate defense must be made. Uut the lesson of unpreparedness mast b learned forever. A RESPECTABLE enso in court could bo XX mado out against tho Atlantic Ocean. ( This very day tho people of tho United States are facing; a national calamity, and tho mero fact .that tho Atlantic Ocean Ilea between them and Europo keeps them not only from panic but actually from any sober realization of tho danger coming upon them. Brave men and dead men know no fear. Before wo begin to congratulate ourselves on the, calm with which tho President's last word to Germany was received. It would bo well for us to discover whether this country la bravo or is dead to the menace which a break with Germany implies. "When war was declared In Europo French and Germans went to battle with stern, unfaltering courage. Thoy knew the condition of their countries, know that a hard struggle awaited them, but they were not afraid. Tills country Is not going to war, may not go to war for many years. But tho frivolity and Indifference with which wo face our dark prospect Is more terrible than, Hysteria. In many ways it would be a better thing for this nation If panic terror struck us to the heart. If we were only decently scared It would be possible to explain tho criminal delays of our past and the vital necessities of our Ira mediate future The year of President Wil son's waiting has been called n year of cow ardice and treachery to American ideals. Whatever it was, we have suffered It because so Jong as we waited the decision for or against war rested with us. That decision rests now with Germany, a nation so steeped in blood that tho addition or subtraction of one enemy may mean nothing. The President, It Is clear, still hopes to avert a break with Ger many; the country, if war does come, expects a miracle, a bloodless war. It may be that Germany may have something to say about that. For more than a year and a half we have known what modern warfare means. We know; that millions of men are needed In the trenches, that monstrous ordnance. Incalculable quantities of munitions, intricate systems of communication py land; and sea and air, sub marines, building1 materials, commissariat, all beyond our power to extemporize or to supply, are needed. Wo have seen England recruit an army and keep it in training twelve months when men were desperately needed at the front because untrained men are worse than useless. We know that officers ore the great Mt want of a modern army. We know every, thing. We do nothing. UNTIL, the Lusltanla was sunk there could have been some excuse. But from the day President. Wilson threatened to hold Germany U "trie! accountability" we were bound by nlasun lf rations to the honor of the country aad to IM safety and security of Its citizens to provide adequate means for making good our threat Without such provision our threat either nuant nnthing or it meant a crime rater than the crime of the Lusltanla. That is the crime of sending untrained men to be attot wn bjf the greatest military efficient in tn world. If is true that time after time Germany has over our difficulties. It is sbame- tnM that once, with every guarantee of tisaT honor, she yielded to the demands bis ma-yf But before those guarantees baH srvn this country had confronted war and had dona nothing to prepare for it W cannot forget that after Congress had met tost Dcember, after the President bad re tract td every flattering phrase concerning our iayufesrabUity, after ho had urged with 6wery tWrb ar-rumnt in hU power that some few meas 'pftf be taken for national defense, ft was mm nary for him to appeal in person to th velars of this country In order to per ts4 . stubborn and wilfully blinded Congress tfesA th country would stand for a program ,pf Kfjif-U. 4etetui9. j. -j"feijBc that time we have been compelled to oa, pittfully inadeauate into .W1tfcetsi)atllirtfcysM?.! I, kM ---zt j"MHatfsai llbS COatta! blllty ot entirely amicable settlement. Nothing has been done. Whatever the basis of Mr. Roosevelt's attacks may be, he Is perfectly and lamentably right when he says that "we aro not now stronger by a man or a rifle or a boat or a gun" than we were when the first note to Germany was sent The army has been ordered raised to war strength war weakness wa should call it but the acces sions hare been taken up by Mexico. Tho naval and military programs still are fighting their way In the halls and committee rooms of Congress. AN hour after the President Issued his call for " a Joint session of Congress Tuesday nltht . the Senate passed a large army bill. It was originally Intonded to meet the House bill pro vldlngfor; 140,000 regulars with a bill for 220,000. In the stress of emotions tho num ber was raised to 260,000, and Federal vol unteers and a Federalized militia were planned. Tho army bill now goes Into commlttoo, but even were It to become effective today tho result would be negligible. The pony has been stolon from tho stable and Congress Is making a great noise slipping the bolts. Tho army now under discussion In Congress may becomo ef fective In 1910. At that tlmo our navy, even according to tho most sanguine programs, will bo only beginning. For tho crying, desperate needs of today there is no provision. There cannot bo. Had we foreseen today on the 14th of May, 1915, wo might have prepared. But Congress, looking toward tho madness of blood In Europo, saw only tho Atlantic and fancied that whatever hand reached across that sea would bo cleansed of blood by Its waters. rjIHE Atlantic was onco our greatest blessing. It Is a curso. Wo havo grown bo used to It as a defense that we do not understand what dofenses we must build against It Tho Secre tary of the Navy estimates that slnco tho war broke out England has built 16 new dread noughts. What Germany has dono no one can guess, but wo may assume that she now has nearly 200 submarines In service, and guarded reports Indlcato that her shipyards have nover been busier, while every private yard has been commandeered Into government service. Japan recently began work on her new public pro gram, while tho work on her secret program continues unceasingly. Our own contribution to this activity Is tho prospect that when tho navy yards are made ready for such work, construction of a few dreadnoughts may begin. Thirteen ycara ago a naval program, adequate for defense as we then understood naval warfaro, was published. It called for 48 capital ships in 1019. Had that program been followed wo should, in 1916, havo a dependable navy. It was not followed. Mr. Franklin D. Roosevelt Is authority for tho statement that our navy Is now fourth In size. It was second. That Is the result of our building programs. If necessity drives us to war this year we must man what ships wo havo and recruit a volunteor army. It is too late for anything else. But It is not too late to learn tho lesson of our criminal negllgonco In tho past. It is not too late for us to bo shaken from the cor rupting comfort which prosperity and a fatal sense of security have given to us, A thou sand times better an orgy of preparation now than a slaughter tomorrow! Preparedness Is a dead Issue. Tho live Issue In Immediate preparedness. Colonel Roosevelt naturally thinks that he cou.d have dono It better. If the Republicans In the rest of the country are not concerned over the factional fights In Pennsylvania, they ought to be. One way to break tho military deadlock in Russia Is to break the deadlock In France. A hundred thousand Russians nt Verdun would bo worth twice or three times thnt number In Russia, where there are no Verduns. A. Mitchell Palmer's paper insists that Con gressman Liebel should be 'defeated as Demo cratic national committeeman because ho Is not a friend of the President, as though the naUonal committeemen were expected to rep resent the President instead of the Democrats of the State, No 150,000 Invested for advertising this city was ever put to a better uso than that In which the sum that the Poor Richard Club Is raising will be employed. The Associated Advertising Clubs of the World, which meet here in June, will attract 10,000 delegates. Divided among this number the sum asked for is only J5 a head for showing the most alert advertising men In the country what sort of a commercial metropolis this Is. A pretty Inexpensive way to do It, is It not? The effects of co-operation are manifesting themselves in Increased wages for the employes of the Rapid Transit Company, A system of co-operation and profit-sharing was intro duced five years ago under which 22 per cent, of all the fares collected was set aside as a fund from which to pay to benefits of one kind or another to the men, including Increases In wages. The maximum pay Is now 80 cents an hour, but after May 1 it is to be 31 cents, and an increase ot a cent an hour is to be made aU down the line, The average num ber of discharges or resignations was 369 a month for Ave years before this lan was put Into effect. Since 1)11 it! has been only 82 a month. It Is too soon to say that Mr, Bryan is polit ically dead, but the news from Nebraska is not cheering to those who have regarded him as a powerful leader. Four delegates-at-large to the St Louis convention have been elected. There were seven candidates, Mr, Bryan ran sixth. If he sits in the convention, it w(U have to be as proxy for some other delegate. Even as a pacifist, Nebraska likes Henry Ford bet ter than Mr. Bryan, for the indications are that the Republicans have preferred the De troit manufacturer to all other presidential candidates. Since the peerless orator made a fiasco In tha State- Department his decline in popular esteem, not only in his own State but in the country at large, has been rapid. He stUI has a handful of loyal followers in the House of Representatives, however, and we shall soon see bow much Influence they have, acting wider his Inspiration, in deciding the course which, the cation i Uf follow in the present crisis. Tom Daly's Column a Wtnlfr trttitLtxS' &lfy the itonmxa box X think it's nicer in our house Than almost anv other one And I believe the reason is Because tee have the morning sun .For houses not eaststdc like ours Then do not get the sun so soon And sunlight Is much staler if It don't get round till afternoon. Out here it shines right on mv bed Before I am atcakc at oil And I get up so spry and quick That mother never has to call. And then down stairs at breakfast time It dances on the plates and things And everybody looks so bright And O houi the canary sings. And then I think It is not strange That men who live In Jails are bad T7ic ualls arc made so high and gray It Is enough to make themd. And don't think in all the i?5rW Would be a naughty child not one Or grow up into wicked men , then could have the morning sun. The Annjjram Contest THIS Is tho Judgment of Wllllnm It. Murphy, of tho Evknino Ledoeh staff, to whom wo put up tho Job of awarding thnt hat, and tho order for tho Stetson Is nlrcady In tho winner's hands: 't? n, nUzzlcr who never made an nnngram In his life, possibly I am as good a JudRo In your competition as any one. At any rate, I havo held membership tn the Eastern ruz7lers' I,caguc for a scoro of years and know an authentic anagram from a mere mutation of letters as well as I know a hawk from a hcrnshaw (or handsaw, for the matter of that). The Rtand.trd set by your anngranimatiBts wan high: very few were simply literal transpositions. The output em phatically dlsprmcs the statement made In the now edition of the Hncycloppdla Hrl tannlca that "no anngrams have been made for centuries" I think the following aro excellent specimens, Judging nn tho criteria of patness of original phrase and apposite nesg of nnagrammatlzed phrase: CLAIMS ONE WOULD EMPntE Em peror William Second By W. L. Sacrey. HERD LOVE DOTH CALL, "OIVE FUR THEIV The Lord Loveth a Cheerful Giver Ily Yelscw. AS VICTOR SEES HIM His Master's Voice IJy Mrs. J. W. V Jr. My verdict would be, "Put tho prize lid on Mr. Sacrey's dome." And this, which blew In Just as the poll3 were closing, Is certainly timely nnd clover: WILSON DARES: TRUE MEN HISS U BOAT. Muslcus. Tho answer Is- LAST WORD ON THE SUB MARINE ISSUE Sir Your Anagram Contest prompts me to recall this, which George Herbert composed Just about 300 years ago: Am a Army 1 Bram i low well her nnmo an nrmy doth present In whom the lord of honta did pitch his tentl Lambeth. TO KATIIARIXC ITJ3.VArEDr I'Playlnr the Youns Blind Olrl In Jlaelerllnck'a "Th Blind") Out of the dark the voices of the blind Came wearily across the void to me, ., And now and then the moaning of the sea. Tlie rustling ofiitMlcavcs, swept by the wind; As tho in somc-faPcavc the dead should wake And, sitting patient in thclarkncss, wait The further guidance of a careless Fate; When, suddenly, .clear-toned, the young girl spake. Then lurged thru me a great unreasoning Fear That one 1 loved far more than my own life Was dead; whose quiet eyes no more would fall Before my ga:c, whose presence no more near Would be. But thru the tumult and the strife, Out of the dark, I still should hear her call. OASA WAFFT. The Little Theatre. "BEHOLD Tim WOMAN!" By T. Everett Ilarre. May Justly bo said to surpass In vividness, realty and human appeal any novel of recent years. Publisher's ad. In "The Dial." Of course, slush or mud might be described as realty, if It's all one has. r Health Hint To those who become hollow-ejed worrying about the styles, politics, millionaires and other nones sentials. When nil the world stands on its head, When all things go awry. Is It not best to seek ono'a bed And nap till clouds pass by? G. "C, General T. Coleman du Pont, formerly a member of the powder-making family of Delaware. Kvenlnc Contemporary. Well, powder explosions may effectively sep arate ono from one's family. Over Night, a Rose That over night a rose could come I one tlmo did bellee, For when tho fulrles live with one They wilfully deceive. But now I know this perfect thing Under the frozen sod In cold and Btorm grew patiently uucuieiu io uoa. My wonder grows, since knowledge came Old fancies to dismiss; And courage comes. Was not the rose A winter doing this? Nor did it know, the weary while. What color and perfume With this completed loveliness Lay In that earthly tomb. So maybe 1,'who cannot seo What Ood wills not to show, May some day bear a rose for Him It took my life to grow. CAROLINE OILTINAN, W1IAT-YO0.JHGIIT-CA1.I, A UTTLE DUDOY "This, noticed In a window on North 22d street," says T, M. D., "sure is a -sign of spring: ROACH HARNE8S MAKER SUE FLOATS; MV LADY FLOATS "I lie back and laugh and let tho green-white water, the wn flawed beryl water, flow over me." Amy Lowell. Entubbed, the poet Joys to bask, A-wash from foot to crown. A pretty thought. But, may we oak wnai noma uiu Amy dpwn? B, U. 1-, la Chicago Trlbuns. Perhaps 'tis thus that ,ws would' greet This Impudent young man) -She twists her cute poetlo feet Around the pipes of Pan. TOJ TUB LOVE O' MIKE I The New York Board of Fire Underwriters Bureau of Surreys has Issued a slip about cor recting defects in a building on West 4th street, la which th following reoonjmendatlpn is tnadsj "PUo gas heated golfer op thres-lnca hollow metal 'stand and connect by an iron nips." r-ConunarcuU Advertlssr, G$6, ISN'T MAN-MACHINE WINS OVER MACHINE-MEN The Lesson of 60 Days at Verdun. Not a Triumph for Half-way-Preparedness Breaking a Nation's Will WHO Is going to eclcbrato "Verdun Day" In thcycars tocomo7 WlHFrancoorGurinnny "point with prldo" to tho great battle which is now in its ninth week, with the bnlanco still held? Franco has, of couis.c, another day for celebration, which Is tho nth of September. "Marno Day" was celebrated In 11)15, tho first annlvertary of tho day In which tho Gormnn legions broko on tho French reblstanco and backed fiom Paris. Hut in cither caso, If German Hans or Gallic Gaston is made to re member Verdun, what day will ho fasten In his mind? Tho days alicndy passed aro CO, and no man knows how much longer tho agony will continue. Thcro may even bo n "Verdun year" to celebrate Tho same military experts who claim that Germany lost the war nt tho Marno are as serting that they havo failed at Verdun. To tho lay mind It seems as If the Germans havo put up a fairly respectablo light slnco Septem ber 5, 1914. Tho lay mind will wait until Verdun la captured or tho attempt against It ceases before declaring a winner. But special ists and laymen ngreo that nt Vculun tho German ,nrmy mnchino came against n now power, which It has so far been unablo to dislodge. Varieties of Warfare If you dlvldo tho war not by periods but by the kind of operations Uhcd, you will And out why Verdun Is so astounding, so Important. First there wn3 tho sweep of a great army, shattering opposition, through Belgium, into France, to tho Marno nnd back to tho Alsne. The samo tnctlcs took tho German army head long Into Russia last May-September. That was the kind ot war tho correspondents lovo to wrlto about, becauso Americans, with the Civil War In mind, can understand it. The next stylo of wa fare was tho trench-deadlock. At certain points tn tho lino tho deadlock has not been broken slnco last October. At others the deadlock has given way to a third style of battle: the short dash, as that of the Brjtlsh at venvn chanclls. in March, a yenr ago. In this case the trenches of the Germans wero broken, but there was no follow-through. In Russia the Germans toro through every de fense, and In thirty-five days had advanced 100 miles on a wido front, had captured and ro captured fortresses and had given rise to the now old Htory of a peparato peace ror nussia. Compare tho situation at Verdun. There the same machine it 1b even rumored that Hln denburg first directed It has been at work for eight weeks, nnd the total result Is that the Germans are on an average three miles closer to tho city on a front of at the roost 25 miles. What has happened? The Military Factors Of the two factors which account for tho difference, the military factor Is the more obvious, but actually the less Important. At Verdun the first charge, which bagged the fort of Douaumont in six days, corresponded to the British charge at Neuve Chapelle. Unlike that charge, the operation did not stop. The attempt was intended to parallel the advance Into Russia. Unlike that advance the opera, tlon did not succeed. The first onslaught alone was characterized by the old uermnn tactics, of hurling a tremendous compact body, un shakable In discipline, against a barrier. After that tho whole system changed, and an elaborate method of saving Uvea was Insti tuted. Every foot of ground which was to be occupied was first torn by shells. Tons and tons of ammunition were expended in plow ing the fields, which fait away from every hill on which a French "centre or resistance" was placed. The purpose was to clear the ground of esemles, so that the German troops would only have to occupy the abandoned spots. Later the mass formation was abandoned. The whole Blege of Verdun has to be carried on in the open. At Douaumont tlia Germans attacked in o great body up an un protected slope, and the losses were appalling. After that the attacks were by long strung out lines. The energies of tho attacking forces have been spent again and again, but with a perversity which cannot be explained they have always returned. The problem of the defenders has been com paratively simple. At first the French official report has It, no great effort was made at Verdun because tha General Staff was deter mined not to bo drawn into a fierce engage ment with heavy reserves until they knew that Verdun was not a feint, Intended to cover another attack elsewhere on the line. That, they say, accounts for Douaumont When JpfTro went to Farts to attend the conference of the 1 t)faaai$!tii&s)i IT ABOUT TIME TO WAKE UP? r" Allies ho had disposed every unit of his nrmy to provide ngnlnst n surprise attack cither at Verdun or elsewhere. What icmalncd was to ndapt defenso to attack, to mnko It ns costly us posslblo tor tho German to gnln a foot of ground. If It Is true that tho Crown Prlnco lost 10,000 men in taking n fow trenches Mon day, thcro can bo no question that this prob lem has been solved. The Legend of Verdun A man who spent a year and a half at tho front has confessed, icccntly, that tho war has no meaning there. Tho meaning you havo to worry out for yourself. Thero has grown tip a legond about Verdun, oven In this short time, nnd tho essence of It Is that tho German machine has broken down under the attacks of tho French Individual. It Isn't exactly so. Tho Geimnn mnchlne-man has broken down under tho nttacks of the French man-machine. Tho machine-man puts tho emphasis on tho product tho machine. Tho man-machlno puts Its emphasis on tho material tho man. Tho Frankf utter Zeltung, which Is In no humor to dole out pralso without wnrrnnt, comments almost with mnprl.se on tho fact that "tho Individual Frenchman, Indeed, fights brilliantly." Tho nstonlshlng thing is that In a dofenso which woiks llko machinery. Indi vidual brilliance should still bo noticeable. Tho German machlno Is composed of men who might bo ns brave, who certainly aro as sclf Eacrlflclng, as tho French. But tho German system, so wonderfully successful heretofore, depends too much on tho machlno itself. If. it cannot win by system. It cannot win. That Is part of tho meaning of Verdun, but n moio significant part Is In tho now doctrlno which Germany has evolved about tho strug Kle there. Simultaneously n number of papcis began to ptlnt articles of tho samo general tone. Tho Cologno Gazette, when tho battlo was a month old, wrote that "tho business is not merely to destroy dead works," but to overcomo a very llvo spirit. "Tho decision do pends upon whether tho enemy's will Is broken or not." Tho article goes on: Wo havo already Insisted that the battles which are now taking place before Verdun arose from the fnct that our Supremo Com mand chose Its own placo and time nnd compelled the enemy to fight when) It wanted Since then nnn r.i.-. i, tlons has linked on to another according to' our scheme, nnd tho pauses havo not been dictated to us by the. enemy, but proceed from our Intentions and the direction of our will. We do not mean to say that tho enemy a will did not como Into question at all, for such a view would not bo In accord ance with the nature of war. which Is a to sided and not a one-sided activity. Tho de cisive point Is that we stick firmly to our purpose In order ultimately to attain It. That Is why Verdun is important. It is tho conflict of two great wills, and tho only ques tion Is. which can remain steadfast until tho end. Because one or tho other must break under the dtendful strain. CRUCIFIXION (As told to Pontius Pllnto by Longlnus. the centurion. In the paved court of the Roman citadel In Jerusalem.) ai r. . . ,u ,Vre nalled Hlm 'here Aloft, between tho thieves. In the bright air The rabble and the readers mocked with oaths The hangman's squad wero dicing for Hl4 clothes. The two thieves Jeered at Him. Then It grew dark, Till the noon sun was dwindled to a spark, And one by one the mocking mouths fell still. We were alono on the accursed hill And we were still, not even the dlco clicked wjuy uiu ueuvy oioou gouts dropped and ticked Onto tho stone; the hill is all bald stone. And now and then tho hangers gave a groan. Up In tho dark, three shapes with arms out spread. The blood drops spat to show how slow they bled, They rose up black against the ghastly sky. Ood, Lord, It Is a slow way to make die A Man. a strong Man, who can beget men! Then there would come another groan, and then Ono of those thieves (tough cameleers thoso two) Would curse tho Teacher from lips bitten through And tho other bid him let the Teacher bo. I have stood much, but this thing daunted me Tho dark, the livid light, and long, long groans, fine on another, coming from their bones. And it got darker and a glare began. Like the sky burning up above tha Man. Tho hanrman's squad stood easy on their spears And the nlr moaned, and women were In tears While still between His groans the robber cursed. The sky was grim; It seemed about to burst. Hours had parsed; they seemed like awful days. Then Tfto tbwera bent like moss Under the fiery figures from the sky. Horses were in tho air, there came a cry. Jesus was calling God; It struck us dumb. One said "He Is calling God. Walt, will God come? Walt." And we listened In the glare. Oh, sir, He was Ood's Son. that Man, that Minister, For as Hs called, fire tore the Bky in two. The slek earth shook and tossed tha cross askew The earthquake ran like thunder, the earm's bonec Broke, the graves opened, there were falling stones. Jesus cried Once mora and drooped, I saw that He had died. Lord, in the earthquake God had come for Him. Tha thought of it shakes me sick, my eyes are dim. t-John Masefleld, , L What Do You Know? Queries of general interest will bo answered in this column. Ten questions, tho answers to which every well-informed person should know, arc asked dally. QUIZ 1. What Is meant by "ex ofllcln"? 2. Whnt Is sliriilfled by the expression "a l'nrthlnn shot"? 3. Wlint Is the nntlonnl flower nf England? 1. Whut wns the doctrine of nullification? fl. At lint Is the difference between' a repnbUo nnd a democracy? 0. At hut Invasion of Kngland was on the larg est scale nnd it hen wns It undertaken? 7. Of whut metals Is brass composed? 8. What Is n howitzer? 0. It ho wrote "Pride and Prejudice"? 10. fns Washington, 11. C. a Mayor? II ow ia It eorerned? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz An nttlmntum In International law Is a final stntement of terms, rejection of which may lend tn rupture of friendly relations. Ono unit of horso-power Is the amount of work required to lift 33,000 pounds one foot In u minute. An i-v po-t facto law Is one made after the commission of the offense it is intended to punish. Tn repent ono's lines listlessly nnd In nn In I. different manner. 5. Louisiana was named for Louis XXV. 0. Tho unsullied nnmo of Benjamin Franklin In his nlmnnno of thnt name. 7. Plclmlclc Paper. S. Mefidn commanded the Union, Lee the Con- federnto forces. 0. Treliliond Is nn the Illack Sea coast of Asia Minor. 000 miles east of Constantinople. 10. Dukes, Marquises, Hurls, Viscounts, Ilaroni, la the order named. Dryden on the Militia Vdltor of "What Do You Know" Can you find out for mo who wrote the line, "And raw in fields tho rude mllltla swarms," and what the rest of tho quotation is? A. G. Tho lino Is Drydon's. Tho complete quota tion Is: And raw In fields tho rude mllltla swarms, Mouths without hands; maintained at ast ex pense, In peaco a charge, in war a weak defense; Stout onco a month they march, a blustering band, And ever but In times of need at hand. Epigrams on the Tariff ril(or of "What Do You Know" Was It Dis raeli or Cleveland who said, "Free trado Is not a principle, It Is an expedient"? READER, It was Disraeli. In a speech on Import duties, delivered April 25, 1813. You aro probably thinking of Cleveland's reference to the tariff In his message of 1887: "It Is a condition which confronts us, not a theory." Crossing the Rubicon Editor of "What Do You Know" Please let mo know what the significance of tho phrase, "to cross tho Rubicon," Is and what was Its origin. J. K. ROBB. "To pass the Rubicon" Is to ndopt some meas ure from which it Is not posslblo to recede. Tho Rubicon was a small river In Italy beyond which returning conquerors were not allowed to bring their armies on tho way to Rome. When Julius Caebar crossed this river hs became vir tually an Invader. When, In I860, the Italians passed the Adigo that constituted a declaration of war against Austria. The Size of Dinosaurs F.ditor of "What Do You Know" Can you tell roo about what was the size of the dino saurs? Is anything known of their habits and Intelligence? T. R. T. Tho dinosaur was able to raise its head about 30 feet above the ground by using- its very strong tall and hind limbs as a tripod on whloh to support the body. These giant lizards varied greatly In size, nnd the weight of the largest Is estimated at between 20 and 25 tons. They were terrestrial and often amphibious, and the structure of the tall In some generally Indicates its use as a swimming organ. The head was disproportionately small and the brain always of very Bmall sizo and low degree ot convolu tion. Indicating a low degree of Intelligence, the prime cause of their disappearance. Old Age Pensions ' Editor of "What Do You Know" Can you tell mo what the general terms ot the British old age pensions act of 1908 are? REYNOLDS. By Its terms every person more than 70 years of age, who Is and has been for 20 years a British subject, resident In the United Kingdom and whoso yearly means do not exceed 31 pounds 10 shillings ($163). Is entlUed to a pen sion, provided he had not received poor relief since January 1, 1908; has not, through habitual Idleness, failed to maintain himself am) his de pendents, is not a lunatic In an asylum and has not been a convict in a prison during the pre vious 10 years. The weekly sum paid as a pension la 5 shilling, If the yearly means of the pensioner dq not exceed 21 pounds i shillings. Tha pension Is graded down if the income Is greater. When a man and wife are both eli gible the pension for the two Is slightly Iu than two separate pensions. Ancient Name of Trebizond Ior of "What Do You KnowWUl you tell rae what the ancient name of Trebizond, In Asia Minor, was? Was there a Philadelphia in Asia Minor or was that name invented by Penn? " DUBIOUS, Tha name of Trebizond was Trapeius, Phila delphia was In the western part of Asia Minor, near Smyrna. It is referred to in Revelations, L 11, and lit, 7, ii 'j h .1!
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