Evening public ledger. (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, June 30, 1916, Night Extra, Page 14, Image 14

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EVENING LEDQER-PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1910
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Br carrier, tljt tenia r wev, ny mall.
MMaafd outside, of Philadelphia, eeept where
jerettii poatara la required, one month, .twenty
? nl on War, three dollars. All mall
ffvmcriinioni payaoie m aaranca.
work know the situation. Every one, who
knows has testified to tho bonoht ths
"Country Week" does In congested dis
tricts. Thofo Is something worse than
a hungry child, and, that Is a child who
docs not gal hungry became tho tedium
of ltd surroundings dulls appetlto and
destroys health.
WHY STOP?
Tom Daly's Column
TUB MADMAN
Loyalty l sentiment, net a law. tt rest
InVA. trtt r.m.fll. Ths iflvirnm.nt o
reland by. England rent on .rettAnt, not on
on lore,, not on restraint. The rovernmem
Ireland bv TCnllJ.ti.1 rent fcn restraint, not
law, and sines u demands ho love. It can evoke
no loyalty. sir noger casement.
Kwnoe Subscribers wishing- addraaa ebanc:
Wiuet (tva old aa well aa nw addraaa.
BCIX, tMO VALNUT
KEYSTONE, MAW I0(X)
Of Addrttt oh eommiinfcatlone to nvnlno
Ltigrr, Independent SQuarn, rKUadtlphla.
. Mttaaio it tnn t-nttADcLFnii roswrytcs is
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TUB AVEIXACJB, r(ET PIt 1A,LT Cm-
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ron KAY WAS 1M.011
Phllid.lptU, Friday, Jon JO, 1,1$.
Devotion watte thm mind above,
Mat heaven itself descends in lav.
Byron.
Tho Phillies ought o thank the ad
men for having diverted our attention.
If wo had been dopondlij? upon our base
ball teams for entertainment this last
Week- 1
A man spent all day yesterday about
tho busness of getting- his son enlisted.
"I didn't ralao my- boy to bo undisci
plined," he sa.d. "Tho army's tho best
school I can think of."
War and love always were good pals,
and a war wedding Is properly as popular
as a brass band. If wo'.ro to call our war
"police work," It won't affoct the facts,
but It Will reduce tho number of hasty
weddings.
British Blasting the .German Lino
for 100 Miles Headline.!
"Blast" Is a moderate English way
Of expressing a moderate English feeling
ef displeasure. They, will have to do more
than swear if they are to get anywhere
In France.
The Russian mujlks, being denied
tha dangerous pleasure of the poor, which
is drinking vodka, have turned to tho
dangerous pleasure of the rich, which
Is drinking cologne. Apparently tho war
has not changed human nature to the
extent of .being "born again."
The water pageant on the Schuyl
kill last night revealed new possibilities
in the use of tho river and should serve
to remind Phlladelphlans of the splendid
opportunities we havo for outdoor demon
strations. The size of the crowds which
turned out to see it surprised every one.
If it had been known that from 300,000
to C00.000 persons would rush to the Park,
beginning an hour or more before dinner
time, a longer stretch of the river could
have been used, so that all could have
Been what was going on. The managers
will know better next time. They are
now confirmed in their belief that it pays
to advertise.
For tho first time In the history of
the world an extemporaneous speech, de
livered in the open, was reported for a
newspaper yesterday by dictograph. In
pursuance of Its usual policy of Initiative
and speed, the Evenino Ledger, so soon
as it learned 'that the President had not
prepared his speech In advance, deter
mined to procure it with tho utmost speed
as welt aa accuracy. A dictograph tyas
therefore, brought into use. Every word
tho President uttered was reproduced in
stantly in the Evenino Ixoacn office,
where expert stenographers Immediately
transcribed it and shot the copy to the
linotypes, Three minutes after the Presi
dent finished speaking his address was
In typo. Thus in Philadelphia yesterday
was begun a new method of reporting, a
method beyond comparison both for speed
and accuracy.
The President's speech delivered
in Independence Square was a pleas
ant and courteous response to the in
vitation of tho advertising men to ad
dress them. It was characterized by the
felicity of phrase for which Mr. Wilson
is distinguished, and it set forth in an
admirable way tho principles of integrity
and fairness which every one believes
should guide in both politics and busl
neae, In short, it was a delightful dis
sertation on things out of the realm of
itopute. An effort was evidently made
to avoid any political declaration and to
refrain from discussing any of the ques
tions of governmental pol&y about which
tho nation is most curlpus. The country,
which watt waiting on ths President's
words to learn something about the Mex
ican crisis, will have to wait till another
-ttncanlnn before it la satisfied.
NOW that It's "alt over," now that "tho
tumult and the shouting dies, tho
captains and tho kings depart," why stop?
Tha fine thing about holiday time is
tht it Is different from other times. If
every day in the year were a holiday
thoro would bo no holidays. But this
time of accelerated vitality and vvaclous
Interest, this wtck of fresh realization
that "tho world Is bo full of n numbor
of things, I'm sure we should all bo aa
happy as kings" this has not been a holi
day at all. It lias been a week of most
serious work, and It Is necessary, In after
math, to rewrite tho old adago In a new
way. Wo should no longer say, "All
work and no play makes Jack a dull
boy." Wo should say, rather, that "All
work without play makes Jack a dull
boy." For that work which Is worth doing
at all is worth doing with Joy.
Tho Joy of work that Is the first and
firmest lesson of tho convention of tho
publicity men. To a "good many pcoplo
tho word "advertising" has meant noth
ing more or loss than money-grubbing.
But money-grubbers nro tho saddest of
mortals. No ono Is moro miserable than
tho miser. But tho 10,000 who have been
with us seemed primarily to onjoy the
business of living and working with n
zest that had nothing to do with monoy,
for very few of thorn were rich men
tho great bulk of them woro men of
modest Income. Then, If tho money
grubbing theory must fall through, In
what lay the reason for this pleasure In
business which other businesses too rarely
emulate? Astronomers do not parade
clad In dark purplo garments, spangled
with tinsel moons and stars. Botanists
do not with music and with song walk
Chestnut Btreet with frpnds nloft and vine
leaves In their hair. What Ib the secret
of this fun? Is it that publicity work is
easy?
No; tho secret Is that publicity work
is tho hardest kind of work; it is the
fiercest of competitions. Its reverses are
cruel and devastating and Its con
science must have the keonnesa of a
blade. Ono who "plays" with publicity is
playing with fire, as every ono knows who
looks at the wreckage of political careers
that marks the track of the men who
seek to fool all of tho pcoplo all of the
time. It Is bocause publicity Is a-hard
and earnest fight that it Is so Jovial a
fight. It is the mean and unfair fights
that are no fun. Publicity Is work that is
so closely allied to the battlo of life Itself
that none but thoso who havo a stomach
for that battle can go Into It.
Tho city .has shown that It can enjoy
work-play and play-work as well as lt3
10,000 visitors. It was able to do so with
a clean conscience because It had Just
emerged from a two years' battle In which
the very thing the publicity men stand
for was victorious. Tho people fought to
make tho city public instead of private.
They won. So why Btop? Everything
Is not "done, though the groundwork is
splendidly laid, with tho program of city
Improvements equipped and In the saddle.
There are a thousand details the desire to
master which must pormeato tho spirit of
every working man and working woman
in Philadelphia to keep the level of life
here up to our own Improvements. The
stately piles of marble wo have willed
must rise in a city uniformly appreciative.
For a higher level of life Is not a level at
all If all aro not on that lovel. Nay,
every Improvement that is accomplished
but brings to the foro a scoro of other
Improvements. If you win better streets
you must also win cleaner streets; if you
win cleaner streets you must win safer
streets; if you win good conditions for
BChool children and working children you
must win better parents,, better homes, In
dustries adjusted to giving tho rewards
of labor to thoso whose hard work merits
them. The thing mounts up. Buccess
adds burdens; only the downward path Is
easy.
Take a thing that seems superficial as
a reform to make Philadelphia "first," let
us say, as the city where tho police are
most courteous, best set-up and efficient In
America. Suppose you have taken the
first stops to make this truo. Imme
diately you have Btlrred up a hornets' nest
of new problems, Into which you must
leap with dashing vigor for a harder fray.
For the police would never keep on being
polite If their masters in City Hall were
to keep on being only politicians. You
will find, then, that the only way to keep
men who are merely politicians out of
City Hall is for every man' to be a poli
tician; for it is only when everybody is
in politics that the rule of the politicians
Is ended. It Is the same way in every
line of thought every good that Is ac
complished cries for another good; every
evil that la cast off reveals another evil.
The motive power of the desire for this
endless chain of Improvement is publloity.
The only kind of publicity the city
wants is that which makes more publlo
what is in its nature public, and no indus
try or clvlo movement can giye us good
publicity that does not put publlo gain
above private gain, Just aa patriotism
lis never sound unless a man has learned
tq fee it for his own city, so it Is with
publicity. Publicity must begjn at home,
Out o time't womb iftoli come a day,
When dear-bought peace aj!J "stir up
ocntld ruth,"
And Englishmen thall mute on thts and
sag: "Hero surely teas a wiadmnn speaking
truthl"
In the lobby of the Adelphla Hotel yes
terday n notice calling upon the New York
delegation of the A, A, G. of W. to attend
tho big meeting In Independence Bquaro
conoluded!
ritKSlDRNT WILSON WILL
TALK BY OnDKIt Of
irAttnY TirrEn
THAT second stanza which all you
folks assembled in Independence
Square yesterday fell down upon goes like
this:
My native country, thee.
Land of tho noble, free,
Thy nnmo I love;
.1 love thy rocks and rllK
Thy woods and templed hills
My heart with rupture thrills
Like that above.
The best thing said nt tho ad convention,
perhaps, was this kernel of wisdom, put
forth by Vlco President N. C. Kingsbury, of
tho Amorlcan Telcphono and Telegraph
Company: "Advertising Is a school In which
It Is ensy to matriculate and Impossible to
gradunte," And many scholars only man
age to succeed by grace of being constantly
"kept In."
THERE wore flvo young men lined up
In front of tho ofllcorwho hnd chargo of
tho recruiting station at Broad and Chest
nut streets. Tho crowd outside could seo
thorn through the window. As they lifted
their right hands nnd ropeatcd tho oath
of alleglanco many admiring remarks
woro passed upon them. Tho lad on tho
right of tho lino got tho lion's share nnd
ho deserved all ho got Indeed, ho was
mich a splendid looking fellow and seemed
so terribly In earnest that for an Ignoble
moment wo entertained the suspicion that
ho was a decoy. In a few minutes tho
ceremony was over und tho flvo disap
peared. It was a good thing for tho
crowd to havo seen.
BUT tho shame of It all, the nettling
thought that this wnr that threatens
Isn't worth tho loss of even ono of the
U. S. A.'s fino youngstors, almost per
suaded us to give spaco to a long bit of
verso sent in by A. M. J., of which this
Is tho last stanza:
God bless the men at Washington
For trying every way
To savo our boys from cruel hands
That torture but for play.
For If they go, tho bravest ones
May fill nn unmarked tomb,
And for what purpose?" Who can say?
So keep tho boys at home.
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GEORGE B. MALLON. now of Every
body's Magazine, but for many years
city editor Of the Sun, was admiring tho
sunburned countenance of Lafe Young.
"Golf," said Young; "why don't you tako
It up?" "I'd like to play tho game," said
Mallon, "but the trouble Is, I wouldn't
havo tho time to talk about It."
Songs of Mount Grcflia
. PARADE
Parade, and the trass band playing;
Parade, not a step delaying;
Parade, with the crowds hoaraylng;
Parade I
Marching down the dusty road,
11 ay foot, strawjoot, stamping;
Thro' the grass and hot, red sand.
Thro' the meadows tramping.
Eyes of loved ones looking on.
Eyes bcdlmmcd u-lth crying,
Vlslonlng tho sodden field
Btrewn with dead and dying.
Blara of cornets, roll of drums;
Orders, but no praises;
Sounds at length the last retreat;
Hot? As hot as blazes I
Balute with our colors flying;
Salute, to our cause undying;
Salute, from each camp replying;
To the flagl
CASA WAPPY.
"GOD HIMSELF NEEDS BELLS"
Lamartine's Epigram Applied to Advertising Lack of Publicity
Handicapped De Lesseps and the Right Kind of It Persuaded
Us to Build the Panama Canal
Years after Mrs. Browning sent forth
her poignant lyric appeal for tha child
workers, end thereby aided eo, powerfully
fa lifting tasks , too hard from 'over
. burtisned little shoulders, another move--jtfcttit
started, which, for all )t forty years
f hard endeavor, has not horns fruit
fgough. Tho Children's Country Weefc
Association finds Itself again handicapped
by lack of funds, and largely by a factor
M rJf kable irony. Many persons, rsad
; recently that the lata Mr. Charles W.
All had left $100,000 for h work of
rinar poor children vacations, imagined
at Uiis sum would immediately fill to
thafoaferg bf Uta association.
M ua will not bo at its disposal
Hst year mwimer season, and
," wtit h twt that will b
itM th 8MaL, Further, the
t miil aot rcw V!" tho customary
IV" Hr. JCVb this summer,
t MUnr of tat, to grmttt nad
a. tnau uMii. MKtnw moro
. f th fern wwer n thta
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A CASE FOR MERCY
EVEN with the precedent of folly plied
on folly in the execution of Irish
rebels, there is some little cause to believe
that Sif Roger Casement will escape the
sentence of death pronounced upon him.
There are two sufficient reasons why exe
cution should be first postponed and then
commuted entirely. The first is the over
Whelming feeling1 against the first Irish
executions, England's only defense then
was that she did not dare to appear afraid
before Ireland. Her legal right, though
established, wa? certainly secondary io
what she mistakenly considered her moral
neceasittM. Those nocasUUs no longer
exist and, tha grave danger? of a split in
the Cabinet, already visible, would only
be intensified by immediate execution of
Sir fiosttfa sentence. Tie other reason
U one wnlcH can oaly be urged with diffll
M in Uj fas af n war atrocities,
yt whloik yum m urged, It Is that
tivtilmmm wis mt to mm tw xmh
tte weeM a mi, U!raU wunjw.
Young Idea Shoots
(Culled by a Public School Teacher)
CARMINE is a little one on wheels that
is fill with coal and pulled by a mule.
An Insulator Is llko this: I call you n
liar, which Is an Insul, and therefore I am
an Insulator.
A farmer buys a piece of land and puts
stockings on It and it is then a stock
farm.
Lincoln said you can fool the people all
the time because thero is a succor born
overy minute.
Limber is a sort of machinist who
makes wooden legs.
KID2
KOWONDfnJl
SKOOL
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Kids' Korspondena Slcool
'TT1AKE It from me, kids; this here is tho
J. time to git ready for what's comln' to
youse In the fall. We are on'y chargin'
five pins per les
son, an here's a
sample: Supposln'
yer Sund'y school
teacherasts youse
to tell who's the
four E-vangclists.
Two o' them. Is
hard, because-the'
ain't no players
named Markson
or Lukeson in
any o the
leagues; but
here's the way
we learn youse to
keep 'em in ver
neaa:
Matthewsoni, Markson, Lukeson. John
" . . PICKLES.
i
AT ABOUT 3 o'clock yesterday morning
XX an Individual who was leaning heav
ily against a tree (n Rlttenhouse Square
called tq a passerby, so the policeman re
ports: "Friend, is this Broad street or
Thursday And the other endeavoring
to moisten a Varched lip with an equally
parched tpngue, replied: "Probably."
U. 8. TROOPS ATTACKED
PEACE AND PROSPERITY
Ueaglls la Usaua CUtiiiM-,jlea.
Jn view ef the fact that this in from
Ow Uwue of May ii, it sound almost
IjMUod or saitthlng.
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THERE are many wonderful facts con
nected with the building of tho Pan
ama Canal, but probably tho two most
wonderful facts are closely connected
with advertising.
When De Lesseps had completed his
nchlovcmont of opening tho Suez Cannl,
tho Panama Canal Company secured his
services as engineer for the Panama
operations. Tho vPanama Canal Com
pany was really a private corpora
tion and It proposed to securo Its capital
from public subscription. It propnred to
issue the customary ndvortlsoments call
ing for tho purchnso of shores, but Do
Lesseps refused to assent.
"No!" he said. "All Franco knows that
I built tho Suez Cannl. Why advertise?
Why plead for subscriptions? Just tell
them that Do Lcssops has undertaken
to build tho Panama Canal and thoy will
flock to purchase shares. Besides, it is
not dignified to advertise!"
As a consequence tho subscriptions
woro disappointing, and from that point
thore began a series of events which
ended In tho failure of tho company and
tho dlsgrnco of Do Lesseps.
"Why!" exclaims Bunau-Varllla, who
recounts tho Incident, "didn't Lamartlno
say that ovon God Himself needs bells!"
Thero Is, Incidentally, a special appli
cation In the latter remark for those who
think that church advertising is a modorn
Idea.
But tho Becond incident was odder
still, and It has to do with tho very
Bunau-Varllla referred to.
Ho was In Washington, representing
tho interests of tho Panama Canal Com
pany which wished tho United States to
purchase tho Panama Canal Company
rights nnd properties rather tljan con
struct a canal by tho Nlcarnguan route.
But Congress had about made up Its mind
that tho Nlcaraguan route should be
chosen, and tho final vote was dolayecT
becauso of some prolonged debato con
cerning whether or not thoro were vol
canoes on the Nlcarnguan routo..
Tho opponents of tho latter route In
sisted that thero wero volcanoes, making
It dangerous for tho United States to
spend monoy on that routo.
Somewhat discouraged nt tho outlook,
Bunau-Varllla left tho Capitol and walked
up Pennsylvania avenue puzzling his
brains to think of a way to prove to tho
members of Congress that there really
wero volcanoes on tho Nlcarnguan routo.
Suddenly his eye caught a display In a
storo window, and ho stopped astonished.
Then ho rushed Into tho storo and pur
chased ovcry one of the articles shown
In tho window, and learned from the
proprietor where similar articles could
bo procured In Washington.
"That night," says Bunau-Varllla, "I
sat up until I could mall ono of tho ar
ticles to ovcry Congressman to reach him
by tho first mail beforo Congress con
vened, nnd when tho members of Congress
held In their hands what I had mailed
to each they had Indubitable testimony
to the effect that thero wero volcanoes In
Nlcarngua."
Tho "testimony" was In tho sliapo of
a postage stamp of Nicaragua lssuo hav
ing an engraving of a Nlcaraguan vol
cano. So you seo It a great Frenchman had
not thought newspaper advertising un
dignified France would today have tho
honor of operating the Panama Canal,
and tho profit from It; and If Bunau
Varllla, another great French engineer,
had not belloved In mall-order advertising,
ho could not havo sold tho Panama Canal
Company rights to tho United States.
J. McC.
What Do You Know?
Quertea of central (ntcrait toll! t answrei
in Ifila column. Ten QUMHtme. the antviert to
whtoh tctru wclMftormtcl person should know,
aro asked dallu.
THE VOICE OP
THE PEOPL
Why One Man Did Not Enlist in
the National Guard Other
Matters
TM Department te frtf ,to all Madera who
rnfihto eipreee their opfnloaa o iWli j
rvrrent Vlere.l. It tt an open omm, and the
Svcnlnv Ltdatr oeeumea.no reeone(iIMu for
the vtewa o ?te correejiondente.
WHY HE DIDNT ENLIST.
To the Editor of Evenino Ledgrr:
Sir I have heard that a cartajn gentle
man In Philadelphia (no doubt a very pa
triotlo gentleman) made the remark .last
weok that Pennsylvania had been disgraced
in the present crisis by the small number of
volunteers who enlisted In the National
Guard. As one of the class held responsible
for this disgrace. I wish to offer a word In
our defense. Those of us who did not enlist
In the N. O. P. had our reasons, which did
not necessarily include cowardice or lack
of patriotism. I will give my own reasons
which I know will answer for a large num.
tnr of other young men.
In the first place, the status of the Na
tional Ouard, as related to the National
Government, has not, I believe, been defi
nitely established. Tn make my Point clear
I cannot do better than cite an example
that came to my own notlc. Several young
men of my acquaintance who did tnlUt In
the N. O. P. did so becauaa they frankly
believed that the laws would not permit of
sending the Guard beyond the borders of
the country, and thus thoy would be sub
ject to less dangerous duties than If they
waited and answered a general call for vol
unteers. With such actions before our
eyes do you wonder that others of us hesi
tated T
Uy other reason has to do with tha mat
ter of training. The N. Q. P- U not com
posed of highly trained soldiers, but they
are trained to some extent, and ar capabje
of being far more efficient than totally' un
trained men. To mix" trl4 sad un
trained men in service cannot but Impair
the efficiency of the trained meo. Eo
great many of the young men of Pennsyl
vania, and, no doubt, of other States also,
coastdtr that they cji do their duty to
better advantage by awaiting th almost
inevitable cn for veluatwM. aflat auawer
laj irm tUy cab hi jyi law tuuts
composed entirely of untrained men, go
i-mjgh the usual courao of training, and
'jr active service In a position to be use-
to the country at large With all due
j.ipect to the gentleman first mentioned, I
cannot help charging him with speaking
prematurely.
When the call for volunteers does come",
as come It must, we young men of Penn
sylvania will answer it In such a manner
that no one will think of repeating that
charge. With the honor of "Old Olory" at
stake, we will not hesitate to do our duty.
The men of Pennsylvania have not caused
her fair name to ba clouded with dishonor
In past wars, nor will they'do eo now. Im
pulsiveness In word or action Is not wise at
any time. O would recommend that last
statement as a motto to the gentleman who
Inspired this letter).
RALPH It BIUNER.
Qlenslda, Pa., June 29.
PHOTOGRAPHS OP THE SOLDIERS
To the Editor of Evening Ledger?
Sir t cannot express how much I appre
ciate your kindness In sending me tha photo
graph of my two sons, whose picture was in
the group of the 1st Regiment. N. O. P.
boys you took at Armory on Thursday, the
22d, and printed In the Evbninu Leoobb
It certainly was a good picture for so many
faces. Both boya have belonged to 1st Regi
ment, Company E. for more than two years
MRS. H IIERSEY,
Philadelphia, June 28.
' MAKE TWO NIGHTS OP IT
To the Editor of Evening Ledger;
Sir The greatest thing that Philadelphia
was prlvllBd to behold In the last 60 years
waa that pagean as tha ad man passed
under review. The displays were truly mar
velous. Yet there is a point I have in mind
that might possibly be of future use to. the
ad men. It la to divide the parade Into
two parta one part on review on a separate
night
In that way tha parade, which was a
great one, would not be so hard on the curb
slanders to view-, would take, two hours at
a time. Instead of four, as was tha case
Monday night, and would be of greater bene
fit to tha chosen city. Allow the business
men of th lucky city to occupy the Jime
light the urst night, thereby working up
some ad vert Ulna spirit on some who can
not as IU UneflU, and let the incoming
delegates of tha many other cMm hva full
away tha seevnd sight At that rate aMain
covud Judge batter themerita at dia?ftt
arueus.
QUIZ
1. Where la Kamenin?
2. What waa the Jnrsernaut?
S. Ulmt Ii n MnlinrnJuh?
4. About whnt U the Indian population of the
United State?
5. How innn- cuns nre fired In a presidential
enlute? .
0. Where In the vicinity at Philadelphia were
the Windmill Island?
7. tVlio wrote "Kenllworth"?
8. About what Ii the welilit of a callon ot
wuter?
0. Explain the word "rorllrlstna."
10. What coins of less raluo than a nickel hare
been minted In tills country?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. "To bivouac." for troops to remain In tem
porary encampment without tents.
S. The Duke of t'nnnnught Is Governor Gen
eral of Canada.
3. Mackenile Is the Canadian district east ot
the Yukon. It Is 10 times larcer than
Pennsylvania.
4. Havana I farther north than Mexico City.
5. Constellations, the Great Hear, or Dipper, the
1'lelade and Orion.
0. Ixnrrr house of State Legislature, the Gen-
erul Aesembly.
7 Qunrrels of "sown and town" were between
the students of Kngllth universities and
munlclpnl authorities.
0. James Morsun, author of n book which he
declared dlvulted Masonic secrets. The
antl-Musonlc party was the result at bis
mysterious disappearance.
S. O. llrmard Shaw wrote "Caesar and Cleo
patra." 10. fast tense of "dive" Is "dived."
"Du Bist Wie Eine Blumo"
Editor of "What Do You Know" Pleaso
give an English translation of tho German
poem, "Du Blat Wie Elne Blume."
W. A. M.
Even as a lovely flower '
So fair, so pare thou art;
I enze on thee, and sadness
Comes stealing o'er my heart.
My hands I fain have folded
Upon thy soft brown hair,
rraylne that God may keep thee
So lovely, pure and fair,
When the Century Began
editor of "What Do You Know" Could
you tell me the exact day on which the
20th century began? Have you any au
thority on hand for such answer, or It la
your own opinion? A. S.
Opinions vary as to whether the cen
tury can be said to have started January
1. 1000, or January 1, 1001. As the exact
date of Christ's birth Is uncertain, some
saying It occurred In 5 B. C. (according to
our reckoning), others In 7 B. C, nothing
Is to be gttinad from arguing about the be
ginning of the Christian era. In a book or
Hllalre Belloo's, "The Path to Rome," the
author remarks that the Pope said the
century should be considered as beginning
with the first of the year 1000. Many
argue that the first of the year 1901 should
be so considered, on the principle that the
first year ot any century should be called
the year 1 and the last 100. As for au
thorlty, the discussion Is neither of moral
nor of solentlflo Importance, and does not
call for authorities, '
Panics In America,
B. C. a.-.Economlo crises have occurred
In this country In 18H, 1818-9, 18S7. 1SS7
1873, 1883, 1007, ' ' '"''
When Was Ice Cream Invented 7
Editor of "What Do You Know" When
was Ice cream Invented and .who Invented
,tT H. L. B.
Works of reference dp not give the In
formation. Possibly one of our readers
will be able to supply it r "aaer3
Bamboo, Lightnfns;, .Etc.
Editor of "What Do You Knou''il) To
what height does bamboo row? (!) if n
flash of lightning Is but . second, what
makes the thunder roll or last so much
longer? (8) I notice that engineers Vrall
road locomotives Invariably blow their whii.
ties one way, that la,- two long blows and
two short ones In succession. Are they o
directed! r (O Why are the Joists of a K
so named? p, W. M.
1) Some species ot bamboo attain n
height of 70 to 100 feet. 12) Tha, iin.S .
lightning sets sound wavaa in motion in thej
air and tho reverberation of ttuj. wav I
continues until they gradually die out
(3) "Two long blowa and two short ona" i
the standard railway warning algnai aoVla
the one most JreQUently used, There ar
other signal, however, for Instance, throe
ort blow which the brakeman or m!
t Hor wunda to notify the, engmtman to
op the train, and to let the brakeman
know that ha has heard and will op!Ua
angtaeman rplia with three blows!
CO Jouts, the parallel ttabtrs ttchd on
vld from wall to wall for flow board i
tsr-r xzzn nr. " t.
w "t32? f,l,S? " wf irwn "gaalr," to lu, thai T a
ABB 1URY KRM. Jglat,- wal tfetj, yM. That W dail.aS
it fw tie Laua "Jao. t o. w4
frees, tie XJ.ua '-jar," w ii.
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SOMEPOT.TTTnAr.
EPHEMERIDA 1
Third Parties Which Starf'tflll,
"uti aim men Die.
Progressives Follow
the Kest
milERE Is Marge ?iaM oi bu .
J. tho entomologists call eph.mertl'k
cause they live only a short tbsj itr"
complete their vital epan in a ttn W
and others in n, day, nnd stilt otht Z
aim tn an.tiir. '. .man
or throa days. It
takes two or three
years, however,
for a few varie
ties to devolop
from tho egg Into
tho fully matured
Insect, Amor
lcan history la
rich in tho record
of tho appearance
ot parties which
aro tha enhome-
rlda ot politics. William wmt
Tho Progressive party, which died
Chicago last Monday and la m .
Ing a decent Interment, Is the latest ef v-'-
w..o iuiijj ncrics wuiuii mo political, en- -tomologlata
havo boon called upon to''
classify. It would bo unkind to say that ' '
thoso parties aro lntorcstlner to ln.o.t '-:
gists, but ovcry ono of them has slMted
with what the lrroverent would call lom
kind, ot a "bug," nnd ovcry ono has ben
yeuro in incuuaunn;.
Thero was tho anti-Masonic party o
1882, which was composed of opponinU
of tho Domocracy who seized upon tha '.'
disappearance ot William or James Mor- .
gan ho Is called by both names a shift.- j
less mechanic who wroto what purported'"
to bo nn exposuro of Masonry, Ths ,
Masons wero charged with making away '
with him. IIo disappeared in 1823. Tha '
issue wnji used with somo effect in. State -
uieeuons soon niter, anu in 1BJU a con
vention of tho anti-Masons was .held In
this city. Arrangements were mads at It
for a second convention in Baltimore to,
nomlnato a nntlonal ticket Delegates'
wero presont nt this second convontlon ,
from the Now England and Mtddlo Bt&tes.
and Ohio and Indiana.
Dragging the Courts Into Politics .
They intended to nominate Justice '
McLean, of tho Supremo Court, and he '
wn willing to accept tho honor. He had
served as Postmaster Goncral under Mon
roe and Adams, but had decllnod to be a
party to tho distribution of the spoils , ,'
which Jackson inaugurated. Jackson
thereupon put him on the bench, and ha
Immediately jolnod tho opposition. Justice
McLean withdrew whon it became known
that influential National Republicans,
whoso party wns planning to nominate
Henry Clay, would not support him. tel
tho convention wanted tho moral support.
of thevSupremo Court, and tho delegates -,i,!-
invuca unlet justice jonn luuranaii, wpoi, "
was In tho city, to bo present during theu"u ';
deliberations. He accepted and smiled, On -5 '
them from his place, without any thought , i, .
of degrading tho bench. The convention (:
finally nominated William Wirt, of Mary., i
land, who had been Attorney General ,,'.
under Monroe and Adams. Jn his speechfJ;
of acceptance -Wirt confessed ,tbatnMi$g,
had been a Mson and did not see anrtSss
Harm in it until mo anu-iviasonic pariy;
was formed. Ho offered to withdraw-If '-
tho convention did not llko him; but the.
delegates insisted that ho run. He polled
a small vote, but ho carried Vermonl'and
rec'elved its seven olqctoral votes.
No other third party nominee received
any electoral votes until the election of
1856, whon Millard Fillmore, as the can
didate of the Americans against Fre
mont, Republican, and Buchanan, Dem-y
ocrat. carried Maryland. Fillmore -was
nominated in Philadelphia by a conven-?;
tlon mado up of delegates wlu had Inher.
Ited the hostility of tho Know Nothtncs
and Native Americans to persons of for--
elgn birth and tho Roman Catholic f"n;-,y.J
The Party of "Flat" . Money , ,
The Civil War put a quietus to political
. " ... J ,1. ..... ... ..will'
vagaries ior a wniie, nnu i m uu. u..w m
1870 that the third party reappeared witn ,
the nomination of Peter Cooper for the
presidency on tho Greenback ticket. The v
great ureenoaciter 01 inai ume, u'"i
was Solon Chaso. of Maine, who drove
about the country with a yoke of oxen.
He made speeches from the tall of hls.ox- S
cart, telling the people mat uncie wu
was great onough to tako a piece of
pape,r nnd print on it "This is One Dollar
nnd compel the worid to accept it at IU
face value. The economists called this
fiat money, but the ignorant, whose eye- .
sight was not very good, usually reaa it w
"flat" money, and argued that that was
the correct title, "because a paper dollar
Is flat, Isn't It?"
The Greenback party survived through
three presidential campaigns, and' (is 1J
candidate was that Massachusetts political
hiineaneer. Beniamin F. Butler, The P
pie's party, which enter.ed the national
field In 1882, inherited Its financial hire
vies and nominated James B. Waver.
who had been the Greenback candidate.
in 1880. Weaver was the first third-party,
man since Fillmore to get any eieaww
votes. He carried Kansas, Nevada Md
Idaho, and. received one of the four VoU
r,t rtrcann nnd nna nf tha three 01 VU."
Dakota, making a total of 23, or IB nttf:
than Mr. Taft received in $913.
Roosevelt holds the record of polling
the largest thlrd-party vote In the hltT
of the country. Eighty-eight electorf
voted for him, and Ws popular veto tm
mora than 4,000,000. or more than W
successful candidate for the presidency
received UP t? 18T. ,.,
The Prohlblftonlsts, who have n
chosen a single elector, have Per
longer than any other "third party." Tbf
first candidate was named In 7. wpW
they called themselves the. Temperance
party. In 1870 they changed the twn
to Prohibitionists. They poll ab0"
quarter ot a million votes, and are mwwf
-t
Va
Ai
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m
no gains.
d. W. D,
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TJIB CRIME OP OABRAtfZA
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to a man of Carrania's W &$
he has interrupted some of the .tA
fishing Michigan has ever known Crw
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