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Germany protests against tlio Idea
ot a really freo Polnnri. Sho promised It,
but sho was only fooling.
As a gentleman lately returned
from the front at Ilnrrisburg remarked,
It takes a skunk to find a skunk.
Coroner Knight says It la tlmo tho
police got busy suppressing tho dopo
traffic. Who disagrees with lilmV
The people of Pennsylvania aro
longing for a great leader what they
get Is a Vare or a Penrose.
Senator Sheppard nominates tho
President for tho Nobel peaco prize. Mr.
Wilson Is certainly making a heroic effort
to deserve it.
The Record suggests that If tho
Governor is not careful' tho Senator will
get him while his trousers aro out being
pressed. He might In that case borrow
Tom Thumb's.
Now that the resolution Increasing
the pay of the firemen Is before Councils,
It Is up to the friends of that measure
to convince tho Councilmen that public
sentiment demands Its passage.
I expect nt somo stage of the com
mission's progress to appear before tho
body myself and to answer any and all
questions that may be addressed to me
concerning the matters contemplated in
the resolution Senator Penrose.
An encyclopedia politlclana!
Cards, cafes and champagne consti
tute the new trio of destruction, as dis
covered by Warden McKenty. As they
have none of these things in the peni
tentiary, what safer place could there bo
for our children?
Just as an Ohio man had suc
ceeded in proving that ho could live on
three cents a day he died. Tho Irishman's
cow, on which a similarly successful
experiment was made, did not submit
from choice, showing the difference be
tween bipeds and quadrupeds.
There seems to be a general dis
position to regard the Governor's ex
pense account as a Joko. Yet It is very
clear that the wa his leg has been
pulled his breeches must have needed
pressing, and his leg would not have been
pulled If lie had not been Governor. Look
ing at tho thing in a big, broad way, wo
are convinced that the charge was a
legitimate one.
There aro other Interests In the
world than war and politics. The Uni
versity Museum Is about to send Doctor
Bishop to China to collect specimens of
Chinese art in order to complete the his
torical exhibit, and he will devote himself
for three years to the peaceful study of
glaze and crackle and decoration of the
various dynasties. Many men In the
trenches doubtless envy him.
All the people have ever wanted,
expected or been willing to accept from
the P R, T. was a fair and square deal.
It Is not In the publlo interest for the
P. R. T. to be decrepit financially. The
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therefore extremely gratifying. We re
gard with little concern the request of
the company that It ba allowed to make
come additional charges In the event that
a fair trial of the new complete system
shows a temporary charge for transfers
to be necessary. We do not bellee, in
the first place, that the additional charge
ever will be necessary; In the second place,
If It is, the public will still be far better
off than if Is under the present arrange
ment. The management of the P. R. T.
apparently has far more faith than the
calamity howlers In the future of Phila
delphia, to say nothing of a more accurate
knowledge of Its unprecedented rate of
growth.
The right of the Entente Allies, to
nominate the Duke of Aosta to the throne
of Greece, subject to confirmation by the
Greeks .themselves, cannot be doubted.
When Greece secured its independence in
lfSff It was declared a kingdom under the
protectorate of Great Britain, France and
Russia, For years these Powers made
Man annual grant ot money to supplement
,. ' tfc turn allowed for the royal family by
jttj Greek Faruaraeat. Great Britain.
, its-urn b4 Russia have a legal aa weil
grBmi rkiht W demand that Greece
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shall be on their side In tho war. Tho
attempt of Constantino to help the- Ger
mans by keeping Greece neutral or by
aligning It with the Contral Empiros Is
an example of tho basest political in
gratitude. ANNOUNCEMENT
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ginning Monday, January 29, will bo
two conts the copy.
Tho increased cost of prlht paper, Ink,
chemicals and virtually all other mate
rials used In tho publishing business has
mado It Imposslblo any longer to Issuo a
high-class newspaper for ono cent. 'Wo
would not, in any circumstances, lower
tho standards of publication to which
wo have adhered. Tho one-cent news
paper, oven ltl ordinary times, was sold at
far less than cost of production. It costs
considerably inoro than two cents a copy
to produco this newspaper, It will con
tinue to bo sold, therefore, at less limn
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The standards of journalism wo havo
set for ourselves wo will contlnuo to fol
low. There shall bo no cheapening of tho
service which wo offer to the public
Tho constant offort of the editors ia to
Improvo and strengthen all departments
of this newspaper. Knjoylnp;, as It does,
a franchise of public approval and good
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pectations of its readors and tho com
munities which It serves.
HELOVED VAGAIIONDS
" TIM" MeNlCIIOL has a charming per
J sonallty. Ills followers are devotod
to him. They don't bellevo half that's
said nbout him, "Hd" Varo Is a good
fellow. He hands out $3 bills to needy
workers without making a show of his
generosity or rubbing It In, and ho has
the nerve to tell a man, "You've been
drunk and ynu don't get any money from
mo," which gains hint respect.
You can't beat the Organization until
you havo beaten poverty.
Is It hopeless? Is the Organization tho
permanent Kmorgenoy Aid Committee
which Is doing our neglected charity for
us? AVo lose national political prostlgo
by giving too ltttlo to the Relgians. Vo
wo also lose chlr political prestige be
cause wo leave our Philadelphia poor to
tho mercies of those two Christiana who
happen to bo our leading politicians? Tho
kindness which McNiehol nnd A'nro show
to their followers Is not to bo mocked.
AVho shall say that it Is inslncrro? One
man goes Into business nnd does well
by treating his employes as well ns they
want to be treated. Another man goes
Into politics nnd treats his followers as
well as they want to bo treated. If ho
does not give us good politics, who shall
say that bad politics Is worse than neg
lect of tho needy?
No Organization has been broken In
nny State or city until tho reformers
took up tho cause of unskilled labor, of
helpless women and children. No re
form body In this city has ever con
sistently stood for the unskilled and holp
loss poor. That work has been left to our
beloved vagabonds.
.MAKE IT UOGUE-IMtOOF
TOCCH tho pocket nerve of the nation
nnd tho electric shock is immediate
There is no politician in Pennsylvania
who can trifle with tho insurance situa
tion and get away with it. It is averred
that tho present Commissioner of Insur
ance has his hands full coiroctlng abuses
which a former Commissioner permitted.
Tho point Involved is that the laws them
selves were so obsoloto that a Commis
sioner could permit tho kind of goings-on
which havo recently been exposed.
AVo applaud tho good work ot tho pres
ent Commissioner, but we nro in entire
disagreement with him In his contention
that a few amendments of tho present
insuranco codo constitute the only reform
necessary, sinco good administration
thereafter will bo sufficient. AVo do not
want a patched-up insurance code. AVe
do not want a codo with holes in it.
AVhnt wo do want Is a body of insur
anco laws for Pennsyhanla comparablo
In their strength to tho luws existing in
New A'ork and Massachusetts. AVo want
model Insurance laws, not immoral insur
anco laws.
Tho abuses which havo been brought
to light in tho last fow months are a
warning to tho people of tho whole State
of the kind of laws they ought to insist
on having. AVe expect that they wilt
Insist, slnco their most sacred funds aro
involved. .
DIPLOMACY
MODERN diplomacy is an oxcart racing
with an automobile Tho processes of
diplomatic thought and tho media, of in
ternational relations belong to an era
that crawled on its belly. Friendship and
peace are talked of In terms of tho turtle
ages, when it required a eontury for a
thought to travel a hundred miles, and
progress was so slow that it took a spy
glass to tell whether the movement was
forward or backward-
Till 3 Is -.he electric age, the ago of
movement, the age of Instant communica
tion, when men from the far corners of
the earth have been brought Into close
communion with one another, when whole
peoples know more than their few super
rulers used to know a few years ago.
Democracy Is nothing more than knowl
edge. The cable and the telegraph have
knocked old 'methods Into oblivion In
almost every trade. Industry and pursuit
In the world, except in the conduct of
International affairs.
We suspect that the President, through
a vale of human tears, has been forced
to smile at the worship of ancient idols.
About all he has tried to tell Europe is
that any automobile that uses wagon
wheels is not going to get very far. He
may have used a peculiar method to put
that information over, but we have an
Idea that the multitude will grasp the
thought eventually. In a modern age
things must be done in a modern way,
and statesmen with cobwebs in their
brains will not last long in competition
with gentlemen who are using their
thought processes for something more
than bread and buttsn.
EVENING LBDG-ER -PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 25,
WHY NOT JUST
SAY. 'WE'VE WON'?
An Analysis of the Four Phases
of Allied Victory and tho
Alternative
By It. S. WEBEK
rpmjltia is an Impression that, If the
J- Allies presently win In a daclslva action,
Iho bottom will fall out ot the President's
appeal for guarantees) ot futuro peace.
Seven or eight Gorman warcraft woro re
ported sutilt tlio day after lie mado It, rthd
this, If It were true, would dotibilos's be
hailed as "nnglnrid's answer to 'peace
without victory.'" What If It were tho
other way? What If tho Germans made
a elf Iking success such a surccsd, for ex
ample as to encompass tlio complain
ascendancy of the pro-Oermatt parly In
Russia, tho mero thought of which Is Iho
nightmare of western Ruropo? The Allies,
nt the first breath of uch a dloasler, would
ask America to enforce pence without vic
tory Tlio point hat been made very clearly
by tho New York World that "peace with
out victory" duos not mean "war with
out victory" Tim North on. but did hot
impose a letor' terms In tlio sense of
those who ttnuid "i rush." Louis NIV
was defeated by thr Alliance under Will
lam lit, says the enllit of history, but In
the actual fighting Loins scored most of
tho points. Uut notions, unlike men, are
not easily led to awn It Hie verdict of his
tory. It In Important to get some Idea of
what "victory" meani .imong tho Allies to
day. Thr re nre tlmie whniW nf opinion as to
wbnt ought to linppen to flcnnnnv
"crushed." "humbled," "deftrnted." "halted."
"flushing" ha been fairly well defined
hv that school of Knglinh thought led by
IJelloe and tho two r'hestertons. Prussia
f must be permanetitlv outlawed by the com
munity of Herman peoples- its religion is
a dangerous henpv. Pence can only bo
mado with the libera ted southern nerman
people who Hli.ire with the Latin coun
tries the honor of maintaining tlte Hiiro
pean tradition, based upon orthodox Chris
tianity. Prussia has never been properly
Christianised, tt was the last country to
be lonverted. IN barbarism has never been
tamed, it must be bom again, and until
then must be nn isolated, weak nation, ns
Innocuous as Portugal-
"Crushing" In the Past
They back this theory with history They
trace the crimes of thn llohetisollerns to
the twelfth century and show how prov
ince by province was "crushed" and an
nexed by that house, tho archfiend of
which was, of course. Frederick the Great.
Ito conceived the partition of Poland and
forced the tripartite spolH upon his people,
upon Russia and upon Austria Then the
"Kretlerici.in tradition" "as adopted bv
Prussian statesmen light down to the
piuxcnt da j. UNmaick got new spoils;
William II seeks still more. True. Kngland.
too, has gained empire Uut "tho crimes of
Kngland," say these writers, can be summed
up in a phrase "Imitation ( Prussian
Ideals " For centuries Ungland, her con
science stifled, held off fiom the European
tradition led by France. She allowed tho
PrussinrN to expand But at last sho
lebelled against the widening, atheist ter
tor, thing her Torce to the side of the
ani-lent comity of equal European States
mid regained her soul. To this school of
thought the (ar Is a crusade on behalf of
Christendom They would not annihilate
the Piusslans although ltelloc seems to
hint at that when ho talks of tho French
revenge being capable of "terrible thlugM"
but they would leave them on their knees
until thiuugh humiliation they might learn
humility.
This is the limit of militant Idealism.
Compared with it Xlr. AVllson's idealism,
or the Kaiset'h idealism, reads like a hard
headed business lepmt Kullleo it to say
that tho ICntente has officially renounced
the Idea "it goes without saying." says
Its leplv to tho Presidents note, "that If
the Allies wish to liberate Europe from
the brutal covctousiiess of Prussian mili
tarism it lias neer been thoir design, as
has been alleged, to encompa.su tho ex
termination, of the Herman peoples nnd
their political disappearance. That which
they desire aboe all is to insure a peaco
upon the principles nf liberty and Justice,
upon the Inxlolable fidelity to International
obligation with which tho liovernment of
the I'nlted States ha.-, never ceas-ed to bo
Inspired "
i:on this language, indeed, might bo
st i etched to nvuu the dismemberment of
the Herman llmpire. Uut if It be so
stretched, the language of the F.ntento
must be only considered as a means of
concealing thought. If the dismemberment
of the Herman Kmplre is not to be con
bideted as the equivalent of the political (11s
appeaiance of the Herman peoples, then it
is time to abandon words nnd to turn to
inustc us a mure accurate luedlum ot
thought.
No doubt the Kntente would like to see
a Uerman revolution, but a revolution Is
not forced upon a nation by crusaders.
' And, by the way, how are indemnities to
be exacted from a nation split by righteous
evolution? The Hermans amv that diffi
culty In '71. They were well pleased when
thn French Oovernment put down the Com
mune, so that a united nation could pay
its line.
Evolution of "Humbling"
"Humbling" now that "crushing" is of
ficially renounced is the shade of punish
ment supposed to be most popular among
the Kntente peoples just now. This in
volves huge indemnities, tho receding to
France nf AIsace-Lorroine and the dispo
sition "f the Polish, Balkan and Turtilbh
questions according to the Entente's pleas
ure But the idea of "humbling" is not
measured by territor.v or money even by
sturdy "humblers " What they want is a
definite lowering of German prestige. They
seek to do this by a clean-cut victory
like that on the Somme, and not necessar
ily by a sweeping of the Hermans back
across the Rhine, Following such a vic
tory, a bold statesman like Lloyd Oeorgo
might rush the Entente Into peace negotia
tions, pretending that that move was a
concession to a hungry Qermany. Onco
the negotiation were started there would
be no more fighting, no matter what terms
were made.
Put there may be no clean-cut victory.
A tremendous onslaught Is expected in tho
spring, hundreds of thousands are to die,
the front will bulge forward here and back
ward there, but if the modern war machines
which are being improved from day to day
are able to neutralise any temporary ad
vantage, the ' humbling" theory will have to
go tha way of the "crushing" theory. An
other word mUBt then be found to describe
success call It "defeating' Germany
"Defeating" Qermany that brings us to
Jlr Wilson and "peace without victory"
and extreme subtlety A war with victory
can be combined with a peace without vic
tory Take the question of "halting" Ger
many, the least violent of all the phases of
Ictory That has been done Germany was
'halted' at tho Marne. Nay, a stronger
phrase recurs again and again In tho
literature of the war, even in the literature
of the ' crushers ' "Germany was defeated
at the Marne " Why cannot the Entente
statesmen do what Mr Wilson lias done
give to constantly recurring phrases the of
ficial sanction? If he eouid take the
nullion-tongued rumor of the world
"league of nations." "guarantees ot neu
trals." "equality of nations" if he could
take these phrases and weave them into an
apparently new Idea, why cannot the En
tente statesmen take those other phrases
"Germany cannot win," "practically de
feated," "attrition," "slowly starved out"
and weave them Into this manifesto?
"Germany has been defeated Modern
-weapons make it impossible to demonstrate
the Entente victory more clearly without
untold suffering The Prussian militaristic
regime is impotent AVe have accomplished
all we set out to do Respect for the rights
of neutrals restrains us from carrying our
Mctory to Rs extreme AVe invite the par
ticipation of the beads uf neutral uauuus
to a concert, of the lowers."
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To the Vdttm- of the JlvcnUW Ledger:
slrl view of the rumor that Philadel
phia newspapers arc to be put on a two-cent
as?s. the following article by Richard f.,. 1
lane In Commerce and Finance seems to be
worth printing:
"Tho cost of producing newspapers has
Inci eased tremendously In the last two
years. Print paper has been advanced In
iirlco so much that It has occasioned gov
ernmental inquiry. Ink has gone way up.
Many newspapers in various parts of he
country have been hit so hard that they
havo had to suspend publication In some
cities newspapers have raised tho price nt
which they were sold fiom ono cent to two
cents nnd there has been some Increase in
advertising rates, but thero probably has
not been a time In the last half century
vvhon tho newspaper Industry the nation
over wos In so bad n state financially as
today Few newspapers nre making money
Tho vavt majority nro suffering heavy
losses And this at a time of colossal cir
culation, unpiecedented ndvertlslng and the
Greatest general prosperity tho country has
known In their despcrato efforts to reduce
production ots tlio publishers have ro
Borted to the poorest quality of print paper
that can bo mado.
"Thero is one nowspaper in New York
which on the basl3 of Its present circula
tion and tho contract It has entered Into
for newsprint for 1017, will pay J680.000
more for print paper than it did In lOlfl
And yet It clings to Us one-cent price
There ts nnotlier paper which nt ono time
earned nearl $1,000,000 a year which is
said to havo had a deficit in 1910 of $1G5.
000 A newspaper outside of New York
which has a circulation in eues of i 00.000
is paying $1,200,000 a year moro for paper
than in normal times. AVhat must be the
extra paper cost to a sheet like the New
A'ork Uvening Journal, with Its SOO.uOO clr.
culatlon?
"Outside of New York thero has been a
decided movement to do away with tho one
cent paper and supplant it with the two
cent sheet If it has nffected circulation or
advertising tho fact is not apparent In
New A'ork the editors walk tho floor after
they read tho financial statements they get
from the business olllce. Then they soothe
their SQUls by lashing out at Congress and
everybody else for thoir sins of commission
and omission nnd they tell the erring ones
exactly how things should be done and how
sensible, clear-headed pcrtons, would do
them.
"All of which is right and proper, far the
editor is to " Judged only as tempera
mental persons are to be judged.
"Henry Ward Beecher once was criticized
by a person who argued that Jlr. Beecherte
performances were not In accord with his
preachings.
' -My friend,' replied the great lecturer,
'don't do as I do ; do as I say."
"Which might be said by the editors and
publishers today" AV. p. II.
Philadelphia, January Si.
COURTS AND CONGRESS
To the Editor of the Evening Ledger:
Sir In your editorial In regard to Sena
tor Owen's proposition that the Supreme
Court has no authority to declare an act of
Congress unconstitutional ou ignore two
Important claims made by Senator Owen:
First That nowhere does the Constitution
give the Supreme Court that power. Second.
That there were three attempts to give the
Court that power in the Constitutional Con
vention and these attempts were voted
down.
Now, does this look as though the framers
of the Constitution intended or Implied that
they should have that power? Further,
Marshall himself. In t7S8 in speaking in
favor of the A'irginla,oonventlons ratifying
the Constitution, said: "Congress Is em
powered to make exceptions to the appellate
jurisdiction as to law nnd to fact of the
Supreme Court. These exceptions certainly
go as far as the Legislature may think
proper for the interest and liberty of the
people."
A few years later, when arguing a case
before the Supreme Court in the Virginia
sequestration case, he said "The iegUIa
fcye. authority ot any country can only be
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restrained by Its own municipal constitu
tion; this is n principle that springs fiom
the very nnttiio of society, nnd tho Judicial
authority can have no right to question the
validity of n law unless such Jurisdiction
Is expiessly given by tho Constitution."
Isn't It stiango Marshall, after ho was ele
vated to (he Supreme Court bench, claimed
power for tho Court which ho had previ
ously denied It? There was nn act of Con
Kicss passed March 27, 1808, which pro
hibited the Supremo Court fiom passing on
lis validity and the Supremo Court unani
mously held tlio prohibition valid. W. K.
Philadelphia, January 23.
NO, DR. JOHNSON SAID IT
To the Editor of tho Evening Ledger;
Sir If tho objects of the American
League aie as patriotic as thev proclaim,
why should thoy lie secret? Was It not
Abraham Lincoln who said "Patriotism is
the last tefugo of scoundrels"?
Philadelphia, January 23. JtOSCItnA.
SINGLE TAX AND THE CHURCHES
To tho Editor of tho Evening Ledger:
Sir The controversy between tho Tax
Hoard and tho Baptist Temple manage
ment brings into prominence the many
idiotic provisions nf our taxing systems
If tig; churches and educational Institutions
like the Baptist Temple would only face
this question in a t-quarc and upright man
ner, nnd then help In tho establishment
of tho blnglit tax, the power of tno Ta
Board to worry them and obstruct their
beneficent Intentions would bo gone. Tho
single tax would place churches nnd simi
larly exempt property on an exact footing
with other privately owned ami regulated
institutions by taxing nil land values into
tlio public treasury.
AVould not tho church tpire point heaven
ward with more moral dignity and honest
pride If the possessors rf the land on which
the church stands knew they were paying
their share of community expenses and
were asking no exemption favors which
generally have to bo paid for by support
of non-churchlike political conditions?
Aside from all this, it would pay to
adopt the single tax for purely business
purposes The single tax. by opening up
opportunities for men to go to work, would
decrease the numbeis of poor people and
increase tho numbers of those who would
gladly and could afford to pay well for
the magnificent advantages offered by tho
Baptist Temple The decrease In the num
bers of those compelled to accept church
charity would also be an item in tlio count
for single tax
The churches should advocate the estab
lishment of the single tax. because, when
finding it necessary to move into more de
sirable locations, they will not havo to ac.
cept, In the sale of the old site, any un
earned land values which do net morally
belong to them OLIVER McKNIGHT.
Philadelphia, January Si.
CALLS WIL.SON A PLAGIARIST
To the Editor of the Evening Ledger:
Sir President AVllson's Senate speech is
grandiloquent and exalting, but, after all,
is it not an elaboration of the principles
ot the AA'orld Peace League, of which
former President Taft Is president?
To copy Mr Taft's Idea and claim It as
original may be a AVllson method, but it
U not fair, nor Is It manly.
FIAT JUSTITIA.
Germantown, January 23.
PRESIDENT MAKERS
An Italian woman who has adopted
America as her home asks us If her little
bon. born In this country, ts eligible to be
come President of the United States. He
Is Ills chances of becoming the most pow
erful Individual in the world are probably
as good as were those of Jackson or Grant,
and their chances were greater than those
of Lincoln or Johnson.
The early histories of all our Presidents
have one thing In common. Promptly upon
hl3 nomination It is invariably announced
that the mother or aunt of the candidate
predicted that the child would land in the
AVhite House It Is always a woman who
points the way to fame. "Put him to
work." says the father "Send him to col
lege." says the mother This-is wh worn; i
have been so eiovy to become Utisen Ti:
nave been eu busy making Presiduuu
1917
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What Do You Know?
Outrtea of a'ntral interest will o onjicfrcl
oi ;ifi column. Ten questions, tlie misierrs to
which evcru melt Informal person siouM Buoio,
nre atkrd datlu. ,
QUIZ
Wliil creat ttnet's blrlliilis anniversary Is
tllll,!)?
VI hv Is the star Antnres cnllnl the t-rnr-
lilnn's Heart.'
Mlint Is the uriiniinrLitliin it thiTara. n, town
ef Vlrvlui
Mho Is (iinrrnnr tienrr.il nf tho rhlllp-
liilie-..'
Name the four ihlef wlml-Roils nf Tinman
mvtlmliiR).
Him ill-miprcd that vnrrinatlon IminiinUcs
lIKlllli-t MllllihlOV'
ttli.il N Hie slciilllr-iiiie or tlio "I," in the
li.une nf a ei,iiiilli?
Win, Is Ilr. Uii 'limc-ranK?
tMi.it IlnglMi poet-essulst vias railed the
"Ulrkril Musu of 'I wlrUenli llu'".'
Where Is tlio Ts rrlionlnil .Sea?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
Sherman Whipple i a llnstnn iawrer en-
cuceil as immsi'l fur tho lliulso lainmlttee
luveslleathiic the peace nntn Stock l.-
tliaiiso leak
In IHIK Mitur Illicn wrote his first linnk,
"llliB-lnrsill." on a nncrr tli.it he cnlilil
write a hunk In a furtiilKlit. He was slv-
trt-n M-urs nlil.
reiilislwinin Is hounded liv Nrw Aork. I.nUe
i.rle, Ohio. West Mrcllila, M.irj l.mil.
Iifluwarn ami the Delaware Hlver bepa-
rutliiK It from e Jersej.
Krnest T. Tricjr. a pilot inintif.ictnrer. li
tlio new It eledril preidiknt of the liilla-
ilrlnhl.i (handier of Com men e.
I.lnrnln's birthday will fall on a Monda)
ircbrunry I'l
The lViiiisUiiiia hlKhwa speed limit Is
i miles per hour. 1-1 miles helm; the
luavlmum when mi ileftlKiialt'd h slens.
It is s.ihl mat VIevli.ui peons nun mil
VIII. i "111 iinltiiii l.ni iint.iilii," ur "The
r.nrhaiitcil Leader." Iieiause of ills man)
ii irrow i scapes.
Ihe town of ( nlnnia Ilulil.iii Is (irneral
Pershing' tlchl Inse In ( hlhuahim state.
Mrxlio. from width it Is reported tint
he is witliiiranini: his troops.
Infectious diseases nro (oinmiiiilcatcd by
Kerms tarried h air or wutt-r, without
contact with the patient ContiiKioiis
tllseascs tire tlUeases louimuiiicatril h
tontiict with tlio luilit'iit nr Mime object
touihril lo Iii in.
The I'nlted Mat- Is the leading inuturins
nation, ahotit three-fourths of the utilo-
iiiolilles ot the nurhl Ileitis in use In tliU
touiiirj.
Leap Years
U W. 51 Yes, thero aro three instances
of an eight-year Instead of a four-year
lapbo between leap years since the Gre
gorian calendar was adopted. Tho years
wero.1700, JSOO and 1000, which would
havo been leap years except for a correc
tion made In 168S by Pope Gregory XIII In
the calendar created by Julius Caesar In
46 li. C. Tho Julian calendar, which brough,
order out of chaos, divided the year Into
265 days, adding an extra day every fourth
year. It was based upon the wrong as
sumption that there were exactly 3GB 4
daja In a year. Tho actual length of a
year Is 365 days, 5 hours. 48 minutes and
40 seconds. This discrepancy of U mlnntes
and 14 seconds a ear and the addition of
a full day every fourth year since Caesar's
time amounted to ten full days by 1582
To restore dates to their normal position.
Pope Gregory, with tho aid of Clavius, the
astronomer, deducted ten das from the
year 1582. Then, to check ne increase,
they worked out the present method of
counting only every fourth of the first
years of centuries as leap years, beginning
with 1600, that Is, of the ears ending in
"00" only those that are divisible by 400
without a remainder are considered leap
years According to this, 1600 was the last
century year that was also a leap year and
2000 will be tho next century leap year.
Because Russia and Greece have not
adopted the Gregorian calendar, thero Is a
twelve-day difference between their dates
and ours.
. SA.AI LOYU'S PUZZLE
MRS. S1SIPK1NS counted out the cor
rect amount tjf money and said to
Delicatessen Louis, "(live me a pound
and a half of bologna, for boarders."
Louis cut oft a piece, weighed It and re
marked, "It weighs 10 cents over"
'Then give me half of It, and the re
mainder ot the money will buy 5 cents'
worth of pickles," said sirs. Simpklns
How much did she expend on the bo.
logna?
Answer to Yesterday's Puzzle
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Tom Daly's Column f3
Hnllnde of tho Front Pago
nefore the great reviewing stand
They pass, a Jostling, motley corps
The grave, tho gay, tho fierce, the bluid,
From chorus girl to emperor.
Here's ono that plunged a world in gore.
And ono that forced tho poor to pay
tor fuel and food a penny mora
Whoso tiama Is on pago ono today?
Who's this comes stepping it so grand,
A3 if he's trod this path before?
(A btoody bludgeon In his hand)
It Is, it Is Lord Theodore!
Just ns wo think his act Is o'er
DIspatrhos flash frofn Oyster I3ay
That make tt needless to lmploro
"Whoso namo Is on pago ono today?"
Blvcrso and weird tho ways they land
Ona wrote nbout a dinosaur,
Another mado a speech that fanned
Class hatred into civil war.
Whoro's Oliver, that won a seoro '
Of lady loves, then ran away?
Whoro's sho that flew from lako to shore?
Whoso namo Is on pago ono today?
Omnipotent Night IMitor!
Pleaso cxerclso your matter gray;
l!0 careful Just a, llttlo more.
Whoso namo 13 on pago ono today?
Gripping Adventures
II
Thr nurse opened tho door, but no more
than six Inches or so.
"Positively, no!" sho said, in a low
voice, to Ronio ono in tho hall; "no
visitors!"
A'o wondered languorously who It
Loulil be; hut wo didn't caro if visitors
wero never to bo admitted. It wasn't com
pany wo lncljed, not nt all! l-'irst ot all
thero wna .Mr. Alexander, tho man who
owned tho mulcted lung, which pained us
so when wo coughed. Strango that it
should bbthcr us when It really belonged
to Jlr. . AVhat was his name'' nit?
Oh, yo3, Mr. Hannibal. "Beyond
tho Alps lies Italy," a voico said. AVo
know that was not tho password, but
wo wero helpless. AVo couldn't movo or
spenk and so ho just opened tho door nnd
camo In. It was our boss, tint we knew
lio had no business thero. lie was smok
ing, too; smoking ono of his favorite fat
fifty-cent cigars. Although wo couldn't
speale, wo must have looked shocked.
"Tut! tut!" said ho, "that's Just what
you need a smoke," Oh! wo thought,
wouldn't that bo fine? IIo took out
his big eignrcaso and solocted a flno,
fat, brown fellow. "Open your
moulh!" Ac tonic It between our lips
and puffed nwny. But thero was no
tnsto to it; It seemed to dwindle like an
iclclo. It scorned very liko nn Iclclo.
Tho nurso heard us pufTIng nnd camo
over and took It away from us. Sho
carried it over to tho window and looked
at It closely. "Ah! hundred and two nnd
three-fifths," sho said, nnd mado nn entry
on her chart.
Jlr. nnd Mrs. Samuel Oreonwald, of
1203 AVyominrr avenue, Logan, an
nnunco tho engagement of their daugh
ter, JIIss Hortenso B. Grcenwald, to
Mr. Nathan B. Fclvcs, of tills city,
of a most modern and attractlvo con
ntructlon. AVorfc will ho started at
once. Tho consideration for tho pur
chnso was not disclosed. Logan Times.
Why Not Eat That One First?
Dear Tom I wonder It you can help
me. My fnlth In jou Is gteat; you
seem to bo so wonderful. You have
been 'ill with pneumonia, thoy tell us, and
hero's tho colyum going along day after
day. AVell, hero's my trouble: I'm a
victim of what might very pioperly be
called "ultlmaphobla." Tho disease mani
fests itself usually nt banquets and table
d'hoto dlnneis, where prearranged oys.
tors to tho numbbr of flvo or six are fur
nished ono. On such occasions I man
age to dispose of all but tho last, which
tho others having proved good I always
nssumo to ho bad. If I wero to nttempt
tn swallow thnt Inst oyster it would
strangle mo. Hpw can I avoid this?
FINNEY KEY.
Dippy Ditties
(Write your own music nnd try em vour finally.)
i'sc tuh hub a f en hy dc name of Kuhns
Some plc-ano plain' mant
All dc time tleklln' dc populah chuncs
Sav. bo, he ten? slmplah gran'!
.In' Kuhns his playln' was dc ha' oh all
When U come out sof an' low
In a sneaktn', whlspcrtn' icay he call
"Plc-anlsslmol"
lie turned dc icarl' Into Ileabcn above,
An' ah loafed raun' Ileabcn all day,
Jes'doin'nothln' hut dreamln' 'bout love
Mesmerised when dat boy plan'
Ah'it coax an' ah'd cuss an'ah'd hide his hat
When he'd say he had to go
Jes slmplah craxu to hah him play dat
1'le-ano somo mo'! M IC IBVIi.
Hints to House Guests
, If you discover, on your way with
'your host to the house you are to visit,
that ho has a boll, do not tap it with
your umbrella handle or put your foot
on it. A decent regard for another's be
longings characterizes tho experienced
man of tho woild.
If you find, upon inspecting your bed
room, that tho pillows are covered with
stiffly starched holly material, it is per
missible to lay a bathrobe under your
face or to sleep on the floor, so that the
crackling of tho material against your
eyes and whiskers may not prevent others
from sleeping during tho still nigW
watches.
Do not prowl about u strange house
after the family have retired Every
home has its skeleton nnd at least one
loose board.
It is tolerable, but" not punctilious, se
cretly to fill your own tooth-powder hot
tlo from the contents of your host's. Ob
servo the little reticences. They are the
signs of a scrupulous conscience
MICHAEL-
SOMU YEAHS ago Bert Taylor estab
lished his Academy of Immortals, to which
he admits only those wh'ose names are
distinguished, so to speak, for distinctive
ness. Jet AVImp. we believe, has been
president for some years. May we nom
inate for membership Mr. Turly Curd, of
AVilmore, Ky.?
Here comes to us a bold, not to say
impudent, thought In these leaky and .
investigatlous times, why should we not
subpoena each member of the self mad
Academy of Arts and Letters and demand
of him if the uMT-tcality of iua rorae
--" t en immediately appjient auswe1-
Tom Dalv's Cohimti M t V?U