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WEAKNESS OP WILSON
lr became rresldeni through an ae
eldent and h wabbled on great Issues.
Where' ha has kept a sternly course II
line been toward ilia dettrurilon -of
American industry by tariff fir rate
nua only, '
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Speak gently! 'tie a little thing
Dropped in .the heart's deep wellt
The good, the joy that it may bring
' Eternity shall tell.
G. W. Longford.
At any rato, Indiana seems to stand
ft good chance of furnishing the next Vlco
President.
Reading what Messrs. Hughes and
Jtoosevclt havo to say about htm, wo trust
Mr. Wilson Is not thin-skinned or sen-sltlve.
Mr. Bryan's sort of pacifism seems
to bo popular with tho Democracy. It is
qulto a different sort of an r.rtlclo from
Mr. Hughes' Americanism.
Tho ad men's convention Is to be
entertained by a sham battle, but there
Is no sham In the battlo that is on between
tho Republicans and Democrats.
Mass-meetings in Athens denounced
tho attitude of the Entente Allies toward
tho President of tho United Statbs. Tho
sympathy of marfs-moctlngs in Athens
should bo very valuable to Mr. "Wilson In
his coming campaign.
Twenty-two girls who studied
salesmanship at tho 'William Penn High
School were all engaged Immediately
after graduation by two stores. Their
progress ought to be noted In a book, for
they represent a now spirit and a now
force In education and In business.
It is not precisely America's affair
who get3 tho Ministry of "War in the
British Cabinet, but Americans have rec
ognized certain qualities in Lloyd-George,
and should ho bo tho choice they will
Trntch him with lntorest Ho, is an
"organizer of victory," or there is none
in England. It is unfortunate that he
should bo tho pretext under which the
Nbrthcllffo press operates against the
present Ministry. That Ministry Mr.
Lloyd-George has never failed; he has
even rescued it from dlsastor. If ho
should go .into tho "War Department
one inference at least could bo made:
that England's major problem Is no
longer in her own hands. For
Lloyd-George is not a soldier and
could never bo In command of troops,
even as little as kitchener was. The
command unquestionably rests now with
Joffre, with subsidiary considerations left
to Sir Douglas Hals. Tho work of
preparation, consummated it seems by
Kitchener, needs only to be kept up and
consolidated, and for that work Lloyd
Qeorgo is eminently fitted.
If thoro is ono department of the
city administration which can face a
deficit with indifference, almost with
pride, that is the Board of Education.
Tho deficit should never result from
reckless expenditure nor from misguided
enthusiasm, to bo sure. There Is no rea
son why tho affairs of the board should
not be subject to business methods. But
tho Board of Education is one upon
which demands never cease, The num.
ber of students Is continually growing,
their housing is ever more spacious,
their instruction more versatile as year
follows year. The standards of educa
tion risa faster than the tax rate, and
the deals of housing, of the proper pro
portion of teachers to pupils, of the oppor
tunities which should be offered in the
public curriculum exceed by far the
Imaginations of those who merely pay.
Bo it is natural that the board now la
'mot with a deficit of $ 100,000. Before the
year Is out -that amount will Itself seem,
trivial. So far no evidence has been
.dduced that the, money appropriated was
ill spent. If that record is kept up the
members of the board need not fear the
censure of the intelligent
There can bo no excuse for delay
in acting upon the hew traffic regulations
proposed for the city, The necessary time
to enact thosa measures will probably be
. ..lull Ql demonstrations, of accidents and
murders on tho highway, to show that the
present methods- are Insufficient. The
difficulty In the proposed regulation of
pedestrian traffio Is that It Is well-nigh
Impossible to keep little children from
crossing tho street wherever and when-
w their wilful fancy dictates. It is for
their safety that tho driver, must look
snd must be willing to account. It seems
thai the law ta necessary as a threat, but
It ! unavailing as a safeguard. Most
jjiutoriijta know that the 15-m!lo limit is
not Btdctly regarded, Most of them
fjrfull admit that they vary their
SM In Accordance with the closeness
if tHl traffic, Tim law? ars frequently
'. ifctiY0 as the,- signs In Falrmount
Jviwrk farWddinff tramo ats, greater speed
4 Mk eight "mili,, presumably ion JToot or
. MMriwfik. The total effect of thosa newly
j-MflpMtsa tvJ!l a. feater facftlty of
rJqHBc. t9 maho them effidsnt In Ufe-
SaSinjfay ! mM bav tho cojnplt$ co-
fefdWMWWa of PYW5? motorist In the city.
m aMMat, teiw JhM'e net U-in bl to.
sMi, pt tttrn m m rmm to b- f tho,
list! wmt, f kjl te them.
THE ronominatlon of Mr. "Wilson has
boon a foregone conclustdjri since elec
tion day, 1913. Any other Democratic
President would havo boon renominated,
In sptto of tho hlstorlo Democratlo opposi
tion to two terms. Tho Republican ct
torn has been to glvo Its Presidents two
terms. This custom Is so binding that It
enabled Mr. Harrison to seoure a second
nomination In spite of tho prevailing
belief that ho would bo dofcated, and
under tho satrio circumstances It secured
renomlnatlon for Mr. Toft.
Tho Democrats, howovcr, turn their
backs on all their professions and tie
thomaolvcs up to a man who they think
can win. Theylld this In tho enso of
Clovolftnd, who was Burchordod Into, tho
presidency In lSS. Mr. Cleveland pledged
himself to a slnglo term, but his party
nominated htm again in 1888. Tho coun
try, which had tired of Its tasto of Domo
emtio rulo, elected Harrison. In 1892 tho
Democracy again put Cleveland In tlio
field, and ho was elected this tlmo becauso
of tho political lnoptltudo of Harrison.
Tho Indiana statesman had altonated tho
leaders of his party and tho election went
to Cleveland really by default Thoro was
no vigorous opposition. Then Bryan and
free) sliver took possession of tho party
and, notwithstanding his overwhelming
defeat in 1898, ho was nblo to hypnotlzo
all opposition and carry away another
nomination In 1900. Tho party tried Par
ker in 1904 and returned to Bryan again
In 1908, and thoro were many Democrats
who wanted to try him again In 1912, Ho
was not nominated, but he nominated
Wilson.
Mr. "Wilson's election was not a triumph
for tho Democracy, ovon though ho had
an overwhelming electoral majority. Tho
Republicans wero so busily engaged In
cleaning house that Mr. Wilson slipped In
while the opposition was looking tho othor
way.
He Is not going to slip in this year.
There is to bo a square fight between the
two great parties. Tho Democracy will
bo on the dofenslve. It cannot resort to
its usual practice of offering a sop to
every disgruntled group of citizens In
the hope of winning votes. It must stand
or fall by what It has done and not by
Its promise of future performance. It
has been on trial as an Instrument of gov
ernment It cannot blame Its failures on
a hostllo Congress or a hostile President
It has been in control and has worked
its will, or It has wabbled where it had
neither will nor knowledge to guldo It
It is boastlngthat it has dono more con
structive work in its three and a half
years than has been dono In tho whole
previous history of tho country. But, of
course, this Is a mere idlo boast There
aro no facts to justify it.
Thero are facts, however, to Justify tho
charge that it has been unequal to tho
responsibility put upon It, unequal both
in the Whlto House and in the Capitol.
Its Mexican policy has beon a muddle
from tho beginning. Tho President began
by trying to decide for tho Mexicans what
kind of a man they should havo for a
President, using all tho pressure at his
command, short of armed force, to oust
Huerta. When Huerta had been ousted
Mr. Wilson turned right about face and
announced that he would not allow any
one to Interfere with tho Mexicans In tho
settlement of their own disputes. His
latest position verges on a return to
his first
When all the forward-looking men wero
urging an Increase In tho size of the navy
and an enlargement of tho army in order
that we might bo In a position to enforca
our rights in tho emergencies arising
from tho world war, Mr. Wilson Insisted
that there was no need for adding a sol.
dler to tho army or a ship to tho navy,
but when the Imminence of war was upon
him he. rushed from Washington in a
panic to stir the people to demand those
preparations which the Informed men had
told him from tho beginning wero neces
sary. Then, under his dlreotlons, Congress
passed a tariff bill which made tho duties
as low as It dared, arranged to put sugar
on tho freo ltst and nctually put a lot of
other articles thero and thereby created a
deficit in the. revenues; When ho signed
the bill he said that the thing had at last
been accomplished for which he had been
longing all Iris life.
But his Congress has. had to reverse
Itself and continue the sugar duties, and
it has been compelled to levy a lot of spe
cial taxes to savo tho Treasury from bank
ruptcy. The defenders of the Administra
tion insist that these special taxes have
had to be levied becauso of the war, but
that does not defend It If thera had
been no war thero would havo been a
deficit just the same and American Indus
try, which has been protected by tho
'withdrawal of men from industry abroad,
would havo suffered from the flood of
foreign goods that would havo entered
the country under the tariff law passed
avowedly for the purpose of opening the
door to foreign competition in tho .domes
tlo market
If Mr. Wilson and his party had made
no other blunders their passage of an
un-American tariff law and their pro
fessed purpose to make It still more un
American by disregarding the necessity
of protection are enough to condemn them
to overwhelming defeat.
Tom Daly's Column
AS ORDERED
A Tasto of Monogamy
Bhe came into mv Ufa
One dai) in falrmount Fark.
Bhe teas trim,
WUH a pert, tetf'Otiured air
(Debonatr, one might call it),
And tier Hue drett and silk waist
Burned themselves into mv memotv.
Ages passed.
And Ufa moved to and fro
Round alout u.
But ahcals
Tho same woman .
Bat opposite ts
Looking into mv cues
Eternally . . . .
Ages passed,
And I grew tired of her, .
Tired of her white face
With a dab of powder showing,
Tired of the restless fluttering , of her
hands,
Tired of her unruly curls of hair,
Tired of her babv-biuo eyes
That stared unceasingly Into mine.
1 wondered what to do;
Whether to rise and strangle her,
Or to oo on
With the same woman
Bitting opposite,
Looking at and in and thru me
Forever ....
Finally,
The car stopped at Market street,
And she pot off. WILL. LOU.
MA.RK SULLIVAN, tho young and
handsomo odttor of Collier's Week
ly, Is to orato on July 4 at West Grove,
Pa., his old but not so terribly old at
that home. "And," complained Mark,
blttorly, "ono of the county papers In
breaking tho news to Its rcadors re
marked that I would bo 'remembered only
by the oldest Inhabitants.'"
'What's Your Sword of Damocles?
Mlno is that the
Convention of .ho
Associated Advertis
ing Clubs of the
World next week
will put tho nil In
Philadelphia.
HOTELKEEPHR.
Hey! 1139, Pin This on Your Chest
Door Tom X saw Conduotor 1139, albeit
his car was crowded, step down oft the
platform nt 13th to lift aboard two toddling
kiddles who wore. escorted by a mother with
another baby in her arms. Is it worth
honornblo mention? D. B. S.
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THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
The Secretary of the William Penn Highway Association Appeals
for Help Italian Opinion of President Wilson.
Other Matters
Sir I wonder if It would Interest you
to hoar that Hugh O. Normls, of this town,
stands about 5 foot-six on his tippy-toes
and walghB not more than 180 pounds.
Canton, Ohio. DRUMMER.
A "Whale of a Wail
love the motion-picture of tho frowsy
mountain-sprite
Who finally weds the city youth of
looks and affluence;
I dote upon tho tale of the aphaslatto
wight
Who takes a knock upon the head
before reclaiming sense.
But If you'd see a soul react to beat the
trodden hen
And Jump upon a lectern crying,
"Orant, O grant, surceasot"
Just watch me lamp the picture. In the
paper, of a wren
Of forty romping loosely In the scanty
garb of Greece.
L. W. H.
OUR dear pupil, A. A., who hasn't been
favoring us with his confidences of
late, breaks his long silence to ask what
sort of heaven we suppose Henry McCon
noll had in mind when he wroto this, the
last stanza of his poem, "The Comrade
of the Trail," In Outer, a sporting maga
zine: And when wa hit our last long trail,
And to our packs our backs we bend,
God grant that we (a woodman's prayer)
May And a campflra at the end.
Wo were wondering what had become of
a sign we saw many years ago and now
cornea A. D. M. to tell ua that It's up at
11th and Glrard:
BOOTS AND SHOES
. HHINEU INSIDE
STRATEGY OF BIcCOIUIICK
THE purpose of the selection of
Vance McCormlck as chairman of the
Democratlo National Committee Is ob
viously to attract the Progressive vote.
When McCormlck ran for Governor here
In 1914 the Progressive nominee withdrew
in his favor, so there is supposed to be
a bond of sympathy between him and
the followers of Roosevelt. Tho political
strategists who have mada. wba they re
gard as a shrewd move will discover on
electtoo day that there Js a wide dlffer
enca between tho withdrawal of a Pro
gressiva ia favor of a Democrat In a Btato
campaign and the support of a Democrat
by Progressives, In a national campaign.
The Progressives are Republicans on the
great national Issues that divide the two
parties. Thty will be, found voting for
Hughes rather than, for Wilson in spite
McCormlck baifc throwa out to
And can any one tell what has become
of the other Rogers Brother? Wo haven't
heard of, him since tho other one died
several years ago.
Dear Tom The Camden (N, J.) Dally
Courier, observes in a two column head line:
"Whltesboro, New Jersey, Most Unique Set
tlement in Country Exclusively for Colored
Folk." Not only, let me add. Is it a "most
unique settlement," but a most unique name.
But Isn't the proper form of the past Im
perative tense or unique now unlquer?
BEN.
We rather think so; but oven If you
were wrong your Iniquity's untqutty
would entitle It to mention in this col
yum. TEIE London periodical John Bull
runs a little trifling colyum, too. But
the readers don't have to work as hard
as ours do. Here's the way John Bull
types the laughs so that you may not
miss any of them:
"DATLY NEWS":
"Mr. ' .... was yesterday oor-
aiauy tnanKea upon his retirement from the
chairmanship of the Law and Parliamentary
Committee, which he has held for 27 years,"
"GLASGOW C1TJZEN"
"Tha calculation has been" made that
beginning the Industrial day an hour ear
lier, and ending with an hour Utter, a vtry
considerable saving will be effected In the
matter of coat" '
"DAILY MAIL" (Continental Edition)-
"Although he threw his rifle, field slasaea
and everything movable pverboard, the
balloon went still higher,"
This Department Is Ire to all rarfr teno
tolah to. express their opinions on subifcrs 0
current Interest. It is an open forum, and the
Evening Ledger assumes no responsibility for
the views of its correspondents,
WILLIAM PENN HIGHWAY
To the Editor of Evening Ledger:
Sir Tho William Penn Highway Asso
ciation needs tho co-operation of the news
papers In the central tier of Pennsylvania
counties; and the work of thls-assoclatlon
In promoting tho permanontlzatlon ot the
old Pltteburgh-Phlladolphla turnpike will
result In Immenso benefits to the 14 coun
ties through which the road passes.
Tho William Penn Highway starts at
Penn Square, Philadelphia, and continues
to William Penn Place In Pittsburgh. It
Is the Pennsylvania link In the Pike's Peak
ocean-to-ocean routo. It will pass through
Allegheny, Westmoreland, Indiana, Cam
bria. Blair. Huntingdon, Mifflin. Juniata,
Perry, Dauphin, Lebanon, Berks and Mont
gomery Counties to Philadelphia. Already
the highway has been permanently Im
proved over n great distance.
As you have frequently said In the edi
torial columns ot your newspaper, good
roads benefit everybody. This association
will work for good roads in general and
the William Penn Highway In particular.
It villi first seek the completion of per
manent work, at the same time doing every
thing possible to increase travel. The
association asks your co-operation In this
work. M. H. JAMES,
Seoretary William Penn Highway Associa
tion. Harrlsburg, Pa., June 14.
Cecil Montnguo's, who becomes Indignant
at the mere sight of a book which tells
him unfortunately the truth that in this
country thero were many people. If not a
majority, from 1764 to 1783 who were loyal
to tho King of England.
I beltevo that a man can be as good an
American who knows that the American
Revolution started 12 yews before tho out
break In open warfare; that It was charac
terized by many acts of mob violence In
which the patriots, as distinguished from
the loyalists, wero tho aggressors; that the
actual hostilities starting in 177S wero sue
cessful from tho American standpoint prin
cipally on account of tho amazing Incom
petence of the British generals; that ns
far as atrocities wero concerned both sides
wero guilty, and thero was little to choose
between them In this regard, and that tho
treatment of the Loyalists after the war
was a very grave mistake, and Is now
universally acknowledged to be such by
every one who has studied tho subject; and,
finally, that no one can read the history of
the American Revolution without feeling
that American success was due to the pres
ence of one very great man Washington
nnd an astounding amount of good fortune,
which may not attend us In our next war.
If Americans knew the truth ot Ameri
can history, thero would be less silly hatred
of England and n more earnest desire to
guide our present military policies away
from tho mistakes of the past.
JOSEPH SHIELDS.,
Philadelphia, June 13.
What Do You Know?
Queries of general interest ioitt be anatoered
in this column. 2'en questions, the answers to
which everv well-informed person should Unow,
are asked dally,
QUIZ
1. To what country does Icelnnd belonc?
J. Viho Is Vance C. McCormlck?
3. What are credentials?
4. Who line nutliorltr to disbar lawyers
rennsylranlnr
5. Itr wlmt title Is the wlfo of an earl known?
6. Who was "Old Hickory"?
7. About when did the poet Shelley lire?
8. In what country wns the first emperor of
the present German Kmplre proclaimed?
0. What Is a mandarin?
10. Of what phase of life was Ilacchus consid
ered tho sod?
In
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THE LESSON OP HISTORY
To the Editor of Evening Ledger:
Sir I have read with Interest In today's
Eveninq LEDonn a letter from Cecil Mon
tague on what he calls hyphenated Ameri
canism; and apparently the Free Library
of Philadelphia Is guilty of this crime be
cause In the history section It contains
some volumes on the "Loyalists of Amer
ica." Now, any reader of American history
knows that the Loyalists of America were
a very real fact and factor in the days of
the Revolution and the stormy decade pre
ceding, and therefore volumes on their his
tory are not out of place In any library
dealing with American history Just as
Nero, Caligula, Attlla and Tontlus PUata
on the one hand and Caesar, Alexander,
Alfred the Great and Washington on the
other, all have their place In the history of
the world, whatever our private opinion
of them may be.
Cecil Montague's letter Is chiefly inter
esting, however, In this, that It touches a
very general weakness In the Information
of the average American, to wit his sur
prising misinformation relative to Amer-'
lean history, and particularly the history
of the American Revolution. This Is due
In part to the fact that the histories used
as textbooks In our schools are not at all
accurate they suppress Important facts and
glvo undue Importance to trifles. Add to
this our spread-eagle oratory and our twist
ing of the lion's tall what has" beoome, by
the way, of the old-fashioned orator who
used to tell ua on Fourth of Julys that
America could "lick the world"? add hi.
kind of oratory and we get opinions like Rome, May 34.
ITALIAN CRITICS OF WILSON
o the Editor of Evening Lcdaer:
Sir I am writing this on the anniversary
of Italy entering Into the war a year ago.
How admirably tho nation Is comporting
Itself. I know Italians of all sorts nowa
days nnd everywhere I find the same ad
mirable spirit. It has been worth coming
to Itnly to see once more how a great
Idea can transform a people,
After my comparatively long stay In
Italy I nm In the way of meeting nnd talk
ing freely with all sorts of people, official
and unofficial, and the comments one hears
are enough to set a blister on the presi
dential brow, were It of brass. Is it?
One wonders. Nobody one meets Is taken
In by the President's sophism. Does he
Imagine the whole world Is an Immense
Buncombe County? One fears that it still
Includes a large proportion of the free and
intelligent voters of the United States, and
perhaps these speeches are only Intended to
help along his re-election. If that Is the
reason could you not spare our sensitive
souls and undrugged intelligence by a rigid
censorship that would keep these things for
home consumption?
One thinks of Hamlet's advice, "Let him
play the fool in his own house,"
You see, my long residence and Intimate
friendships In the United States have pre
disposed me to the most favorable hypothe
sis and eo I strive to think of Mr. Wilson
aB a "seagreep Incorruptible" (you remem
ber Carlyle's phraso for Robesplerrs7), Im
posed on the country by God's Inscrutable
providence and Colonel House, If my
hypothesis Is erroneous I withdraw the
word "fool." J, C. B.
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
Nominations for presidential electors In
Pennsylvania nre made by the nominees
for Tresldent.
Norway, Sweden nnd Denmark nre the Scan
dinavian countries.
The Kiel Canal permits the Oermnn nary
or me name.
to concentrate either In the North Hea
Iiialhnn some nronnblr extinct sen mon
ster fiej
ter xlf.
ster desirlurd In the Hook of Job, chap-
Sir If you are contemplating vacation
ing at shore or mount this summer and
a trunk goes along, beware Lewis C Reck
less, baggagemaster, who lives at 4511
North Uber street B. K. R.
ONE of our contrlbs, epme weeks ago,
called our attention, to tho fact that
T. R, was the 'guy who put tha "ex" In
exit; and now Mose, writing to us from
Columbia, asks us to inform you that T.
R. Is now the Ex-IT.
Ar OMINOUS BOUND,
-My I but thera must be somethln' awful
the matter with the Minus," said the
chambermaid, "consumption, mayhap,
"Why do ye say thatt" demanded ifa
.coofc.
" just heard the doctor telling her that
hef iung$ u 'normal? Don't that sound
turrWet
HE WHOM A DREAM HATH
POSSESSED
Ha whom a dream hath possessed knoweth
no more ot doubting,
For mist and the blowing of winds and
the mouthing of words he scorns;
Not the sinuous speech ot Bchools he
hears, but a knlgh'tly shouting.
And never comes darkness down, yet ha
greeteth a million morns.
He whom a dream hath possessed knoweth
no more of roaming;
- All the roads and the flowing of waves
and the speediest flight he knows.
But wherever his feet are set, his soul Is
foreyer homing,
And going, he comes, and coming ha
heareth a call and goes.
He whom a dream hath possessed knoweth
no more of sorrow,
At death and the dropping of leaves and
the fading of suns he smiles.
For a dream remembers no past and scorns
the desire of a morrow,
And a dream In aeea of doom sets surely
tha ultimate Isles.
He wbCro a dream hath possessed treads
the impalpable marshes.
From- the dust of the day's Jong road he
leaps to a laughing star.
And the ruin of worlds that fall he views
from eternal.arches.
And rides God's battlefield In a flashing
and golden car. -
Shearaas Q'SheaL
A DECENT CAMPAIGN
President Wilson is expected to make a
vigorous campaign, but wo, imagine he will
get through without making a single: refer
tnco to Mr. Hughts whiskers, Ohio. State
Journal.
THE HARRISON ACT
The decision of the Supreme Court, af
firming tha ruling of the western Pennsyl
vania Circuit Court Id the Harrison drug
act case, indicates a serious defect in the
law, ' Under this Interpretation the law
can reach-only those who deal in opium,
not, as the prosecution contended, any per
son having the drug In his possession, Jus
tice Holmes In delivering the majority opin
ion,. JMstioes Hughes and Pitney dissenting,
said It would not do to strain the powers
of the United States almost, If not entirely,
to the breaking point by making It a crim
inal offense for any person to have opium
in his possession, unless tha wording of
the statute made any other Interpretation
untenable. The law, as It stands, Is di
rected against any person dealing In the
drug who Is not registered, There was no
allegation. In the Indictment In this case
that the drug was to be dealt In and the
majority of the court held that tha act
was so worded as to Include only those
who failed to register as dealers. Pitts
burgh Dispatch.
HAS BEEN
Jess. WHlard yearns for his ranch and
would foresske publicity. This might b
'easily arranged.--Dayton Journal.
HUGHES GENERALITIES
Justlca Hughes in his telegram accepting
the Republican nomination reveals the judi
cial rather than the political temperament
His generalities are. broader than they ara
deep. Most of them are acceptable to the
average cltlien,
Bui It will aH be long before he will "have
to abandon generalities and say whateb
BaasjiHoUstoJ3aUy Post
(1804-1810) orsnnlzrd to Intimidate the
nem-ors.
0. "Ilnlann days" n time of happiness and
prosperity.
T. narrnrolr a sons sum by Venetian bnrca
roll ns they row their rondolas.
8. Aztecs n people of Mexico and other Ameri
can countries.
0. Nicholas Murray Butler president of Co
lumbia University.
10. CrescenUllle In the 43d nnd SSth Wards,
Presidential Electors
.Editor of "What Do Tou Know" Will
you please publish tho text of that section
of the State lawprovldlng for the naming of
presidential electors? o. 1". D.
Section 18. The nominee for each political
party for the office of President of the
United States shall, within 30 days after his
nomination by the national convention, nom
inate as many persons to be the candidates
of his party for the office of presidential
elector as the State Is then entitled to. If
for any reason the nominee of any political
party for the office of President of the
United States falls or 'Is unable to make the
said nominations within the time herein pro
vided, then the nominee for such party for
tha office of Vice President of the United
States shall as soon as possible after the
expiration of the said 30 days make the
nominations.
The names of such nominees, with their
postofflce addresses, shall be certified Imme
diately to the Secretary of tha Common
wealth by the nominee for the office of
President or Vice President, as the case
may be, making the nominations.
Salaries of Legislators -
Editor of "What Do You Know" What
are the salaries and-terms. of office of tho
legislators in the various States? D. S.
Alabama, $4 a day, Senators four years.
Representatives four years; Arizona, J7 a
day, Senators two years, Representatives,
two years; Arkansas, JC a day, four and two
years; California, J1000 a term, four and
two; Colorado, J1000 a term, four and two;
Connecticut, $300 a year, two and two;
Delaware, J 6 a day, 'four and two; Florida,
it a day, four and two; Georgia, (4.60 a
day, two and two; Idaho, $5 a day, two and
two; Illinois, :000 a year, four and two;
Indiana, $6 a day, four nnd two: Iowa,
11000 .a session, .four .and two; Kansas. $3
a day, four and two; Kentucky, $10 a day,
four .and two;- Louisiana, J5. a day, four
and four; Maine, J300 a year, two and two;
Maryland, J5-a day, four and two; Massa
chusetts, 11000 a year, ono and one; Michi
gan, J800 a year, two and two; Bllnnesota,
J 1000 a year, four and two; Mississippi.
J500 a session, four and four; Missouri, 13
a day, four and two; Montana, J 10 a day,
four and twojiNebraska. $600 a year, two
and two; Nevada, 10 a day, four' and two:
New Hampshire. J2Q0 a year, two and two:
New Jersey, 600 a year, three and ona
New Mexico, ?S a day, four and two: New
York, $1600 a year, two and one; North
Carolina. $4 a dar. two ami two. xt.i.
Dakota, $5 a day, four and two; Ohio, $1000
'"" sum iwu, uKianoma, $e a day.
four and two; Oregon. $3 a day, four and
two; Pennsylvania, $1600 a session, four
nd two; Rhode Island, $5 a day. two and
two; South Carolina. $200 a year? four and
two; South Dakota. $5 a dav. two ,! ,..
Tennessee, $4 a day, two and two; Texas.'
ft n ffasr m am.4 A si. .
, . ,, iui uuu vwo; uian. 14 a dav.
four and two; Vermont. 34 a dav , .i
two; Virginia $600 ajession, four and two;
Washington $5 a day? four and two; West
X"'1.' " B day' tflr arul two; Wiscon-
mi, vv a. year, mo ana two; Wyomlmr
$3 a day, four and two. wyora,nS'
LL.D. WHQ DIDN;
GO TO COLT,Ttoft:J
Samuel Ilea's Education TaJ
Care of Itself Ed Ia n.r??f1
by His Motner-Dr .
Twain's" Schoolinfe
A COLLEGE degree of Unqucsllnii-ill
weight for attainment. : 2&ll
purely academic, that is, nonproS i Mi
can bo acquired In ahm.i .I. 1ob4aI
Four years yields tho lifl,. - .?!
of Arts: a Mhcxg2&
year, Master of
Arts, and It usual
ly takes about two
years more to get
tho Ph. r. Doc
tor of Philosophy
which Is the
highest honor the
avorago col logo
graduate can hope
to gain. This rep
r e a o n t s soven
years of arduous
schooling, and
even at tho end of
that ordeal thoiMlr
faculties of col- SAMurci, nu'4X
legos aro not Inclined to bestow th,a. i
greo without a close scrutiny of tk "' "'
schnlnrnliln thnt ! it. - . .'
r ,.. ubw ll0 luvvara, Itu
thoreforo, all tho moro striking a parads ' x
...,.,. mo uvea nigner degree ot LL, rj,
m ua 1S gjvon to so mast.";
men who havo novnr boon n.. .' '! i
a - ------ -wsa up UI1Ck&-U
eomo who havo nover been to school '
Within tho Inst few days, Samuel .
president of tho Pennsylvania Rallroil
tins added two to his growing list of'fi.1;
grecs. Ho Is now Doctor of' Scttnct,
Pennsylvania and Princeton, and a Dorter? ''
of Laws, Lafayotto. Yet all accountif :s
agrco that "he had very Uttlo schoolln" i.
Ho loft school, In fact at the ac ef?V
fifteen. But at that he did better tats J
Mr. Edlann. wlinsn rnnnrd In "W!.... .' -J
.... .. ... ,, nar .
is thus set forth! . , !
Ldlson, Thomas Alva, electrlelwt ,1 1
born at Milan, O., February 11, lHJt
son of Samuel and Nancy E. recetrrt'' 4 4
somo Instruction from his mother!' .W'J
honorary Ph. D., Union College, 1ji JJ-4
D. Sc, Princeton University, 1915. "" ,1
-, ' . - it-.ii
iiocotvoa oomo instruction from h!W
motherl And then, from that tha m.'
jump to uoctor or nwosophy. Bat w
all know how the gap In this remarkiul
education wna filled. Mr. Edison wu..
nfter all, intended to teach the collereiV
rather than to bo taught by them, in a't"t"'
len3t ono course he Should be glvlng'sf?'-
occasional college a degree, Instead of r.' ,''
celvlng ono occasionally from a collet's. " :
In his case, at any rate, the wild gUtt '
ment of Mr. G. K. Chesterton seems ta'4' i
havo boen fulfilled that af tera man hii"
been taught by his mother there Is iota- i
Ing of much Importance left for anyboi
elso to teach him.
Keeping Up With the Sclf-tanght ,'J.
The colleges, of course, aro constantly -
striving to keep up with the barefoot--
lads whom they have nothing to. teach, u
New courses nro added; research, irerk :
constantly widens Its scope so that
facilities for dcvelopIngN-lnvenlori are,
provided. When Mr. Rca, In 1871, at
sixteen, took up his first work for Uw
Pennsylvania Railroad, as chalnman'anf
rodman on the Morrison's Cove, tVffiiVJ
iamsburg and Bloomfield branches, in '
was starting in a better school ol
engineering than any he could have founl
nt flint tlmn Pni. at ttiflt natft t1,A Yi! nn.M "
l.nrl nr.i VtnA ranlltn pnllraaa frtf TflnPS-.
i.uu ..w.. ...... "'" u-.v- .-. --
than six years and, In view of the n-Mi
nl.nr.n In Mllmnil BfllanMa 41.flt 1VrA fs
take placo during Mr. Rea's youth .til
early manhood, was at that time not'ta?.,'
no comparea witn tne greav uycu-m
school of practical, endeavor Into whlcS
ho had matriculated asa laborer. EU
advance was so rapid that, at an !'
when many young men are leaving eV .;
lece twenty-four ho was in charge '' i
surveys and of the reconstruction of Un.-f
Western Pennsylvania, under the tote J. e
N. Du Barry, who was nfterward vlee, ,-
nresldent of the Pennsylvania RallroaO, ,. .i
;';'
"Busybodles"
.. IT .? U 7" Principle of the "busy,
bodies" you refer to is an arrangement of
two or three mirrors arranged at such
angles that by looking out the window at
the device, which la attached to the outer
part of the sill, one can see a person on
the. doorstep below or coming down the
street There are stll a few lrt this city
but la America as a rule hy ara no
longer used. They art still very populari
hwsvtr, ia w, oumtwr el fowiga ciutj
The cnier weakness ot mo ""w
college education has always been thstafi
man who got his training In the scnow
of life was usually compelled by fore of-;
ctrcurostartces to become a specialist IsJ
developing the knowledge of detail necef-
onrv in hltnlnpa nlinnentl ha WOUld flPSrl
lect tho larger view, the study of retatoi
subjects. But Mr. Hea did not fall Jstfk.
this error. He became a student of flnn-. J
cial questions generally, of railroad j
counts and, reports and their analysts, ""ji,-
this, coupled with his aaamonai yir-at
rlnnon In thn oreanlzatlon-of corporation ,-
and his familiarity with laws, rshi MMb :
as an authority. He was ior w -!MA
n momhar nf n hnnklnff Arm. IB 'i
lltfirnture of engineering he is the author
of "Tho Railways' Terminating in Ltt"fj
don." a work evidencing much auay-wj!
Inhnrlm'ia narannnl Investigation of f'ljpf.
physical and financial condition ofiS
English railway systems, n " --""''m
.ui tv. .... "success" iSMse
... , . j, a5
liu it) iiujiuicu. -
"Doctor Twain's" Scholarship .-
rriia tmmn.ei-MAil OnilCllLIUU " - ,
Missouri frontier town in the 40s Is fl
generally considered the best of P'j'i
tlons for the taking of a higher "PTCj
irom one oi mo e"' T m-skf
versltles. But this was all Mark TF;.j
had to recommend hlra. Of coura";
made tha whole worid' laugh; and WWI?!
have no courses which teach, a man i .
.-tt. Vnnka nnrf moVo TiAOnlS ISUS") & 'V?
never will have. The giving of de -"I
to Twain should absolve the '"Llf
from that hackneyed charge that w ,-fjij
often foolishly made against weiu
they have no sense of humort
DEMOOflAOTT -fB
In the centre of the eoneenvw m,-.
her foes the Invincible went w"""" MJ
flag flying, her guns roaring, r
cheering. She Jought until she TjS
under by the weight of the metal MJJgJrV
on hsr by hostile guns. Then they m.
under the wave, proud monster , .,
. . .. u.t.iMn an
iIlaH "
aristocrat omcer ana ineui" j,sri.
glneraan. finding equality In ttl9ltSfk
IT
or aeatn. Ano a wo wu "ir",i -mi
his seat oa a saddled horse a'n:tJS
ships and suen men aa w -
Brooklyn Times.
UAH MAD1U J
We don't Know wnemr jh -,ih- &kmm
whiskers have 'anything to do Vrfkm
silence, but we'd be willing to sea ;
try the style. MUwauKee ,iw
t i
WHERE f WHERE!
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