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Philadelphia. JilarJij, Janmry 27, 1417.
There seem to bo too many" mov
ies" for everybody but tho public
It Is tho Kaiser's birthday. There
aro thousands of corpses to celebrate it
in Belgium.
Whntover kind of peace it Is, there
must be enough of It to go all the way
round the world.
Some people nro getting so con
fused over tho recent news that thoy aro
not quite certain vvhother Governor
Brflmbaugh's pants nro to bo probed or
Tom iAwson's leaks to bo pressed.
A man writes from New Jersey to a
New York paper to say, "I had rather be
a leper as white as snow than tho thing
which Is called a neutrnllln such a con
flict ns this." What a pity somebody
does not tell him how easy if Is to go to
Canada and enlist!
, Mayor Smith took steps yesterday to
bring about the adoption by the Leg
islature of nn Investigation resolution
which would accomplish harmony In
the Philadelphia Organization for tho
fall primaries News Item.
Just so. And Brumbaugh nnd Pen-
, rose and Vare and McNIchol will join in
flinging the ancient ode, "Hail! Hall!" etc.
Tho dissolution of tho Japanese
House of Representatives Is not duo In
any manner to international causes. It
Is caused by domestic dllllcultlcs. Theie
'is a Bourbon class In Japan which is
not yet aware of tho fact that tho people
count for something. This brings a clash
every now and then and a now Gov
ernment. It will never be necessary to an
alyze the causes of human lndlfterenco
to human suffering again. Tho last word
has been said In" the account of tho fight
ing, fainting, struggling and manincal
crowd of S. P. C. A. partisans and their
balloting. The "Conservatives" defeated
the "Progressives." And what may bo
th,o Conservative program for preventing
cruelty to animals? One Bhudders for
the poor animals if their method of
treating humans Is any criterion.
Mr. Root has emphasized a para
graph In the Presldent'3 address which
many perfectly peaceful persons have
either not seen or elso tried to forget.
It America is to be part of the major
force that Is to put down revolts against
the 'international tribunal, it must tako
military and naval preparedness moro
seriously. It has some distance to go
before It oversteps the bounds of proper
armament. It will be time to talk of
"limiting" our police armament when
we have something worth limiting.
The Mississippi, tho newest dread
nought, is a ship of 31,000 tons displace
ment. It was not many years ago that
Admiral Mahan -wrote that warships of
12,000 tons were probably aa large as
would ever be built. It was at about this
time that Mr. Schwab built a steel mill
capable of rolling a thousand tonsAof
rails a day and va3 told by Mr. Carnegie
not to say anything about it in public
because he did not want any one to know
he was foolish enough to think that the
country could ever demand so many rails.
American steel mills are now rolling from
twelve to fifteen thousand tons of rails
every day. No one seems to have been
able to foresee the material progress of
the world! Yet we find men now as
doubtful of Its spiritual progress aa,
Mahan aitd Carnegie were of its material
growth.
That group of Measures which
Councils' Speclal'Commtttee on Legis
lation Is planning to ask the General
Assembly to adopt for tha relief of this
eity deserves the attention of the men
interested in charters revision. It should
bo unnecessary to go to Harrlsbuig (or
' permission to fix the license tax on milk
dealers here, or to get authority to In
spect boilers, or to assets on the property
benefited tha cost of a great public Im
prpvement, or to do any one of a score
of other things of purely local concern.
Uorae rule la an empty phrase so long
ma these conditions prevail. The kind
of charter which Philadelphia, and all
OUier large cities should havie Is one
-which gives to the municipality a blanket
grant of control over local matters. Such
-$ charter would enable us to work out
sr ow salvation, possibly with fear
a,ruMtBir a4 it, ssuld, als relitrs.
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tho Qenofal Assembly of a lot of unneces
nary work. Tho representatives from
Center County do not know and do not
caro anything about tho dotnlls of boiler
Inspection horo nor aro they Interested
In tho tax wo levy on milk denleis. nnd
thoy ato Indifferent to whether wo pay
for Improvements by a?.c,qmont on tho
district benefited or by a general tax on
tho wliolo city.
THE EDUCATION OP MR. PIP
rtpvOCTOR BRt'MIlAUaH Is a mero Incl--L'
dont In tho political life of this Stale.
in n few years Penrose will hardly bo
nblo to recall the moaning of the word
"UrumuaUKh' UrmnbauBlt'" he will
f,ny. "Wlicic have I heard that name be
foie?
Tho foimcr school superintendent Is
n mere cog In tho Penrose machine. Just
now ho Is it rather serviceable cog, be
rauso tho attacks that liavo boon ami
nio being mado upon Brumbaugh aie,
to tho Pom ose.it! biand of statesmanship,
n useful screen to hide tha latest nnd
most nbysnml Penrose failure, which Is
so big thai, llko it sign with letters out
of all propui tion, ono can't see It. That
Jnlluro (a mild wont for It) has hoop
nothing less than tho utter purvorslon of
tile purpose td meaning of tho national
Republican patty from a party of prog
ress to ono of apparent reaction. Pon
roso has become tho greatest Democratic
voto getter In tho United States, and
theio may bo method in his madness.
Rather than have the Progressive Re
publicans control tho paity Its only
chnnco of rccoteiy ho will sell out to
tho Demon ntn, thioughout the icmalnder
of his caieer, for tho meicenary con
siderations of his' clique.
.Mr. Gibson drew a pictorial allegory
of ono Mr. Pip, who In face and ilgure
somswlint resembled Mr. Common Peo
ple. Mr. Pip was taken about this woitd
fty his wife nnd bcautlfui daughters. Ho
loirned a grunt many things nnd profited
by tho tossons ono by one. But he noor
saw the- biggest thing in sight, which was
that Mis. Pip and tho Misses Pip were
using him and his money in any way
thoy chose. "Educating" him was only
their excuse for extravagance.
And so Mis. Pip Penrose is taking Mr.
Pip Common Pcoplo about tho Slate.
"Oh, look at that awful Governor, Pip!
Isn't he vile!"
And Mr. Pip Common People says,
"Yeh, let's Impeach him "
But he sometimes forgets to study the
shortcomings of hi3 guide.
MENTAL GREASE ON THE AXLE
rnilE suburbs of Philadelphia are Incom-
pnrable In their beauty. Somo of them
aro lucompnrnblo in thoit goernmont.
Indeed, tlioro nro many to tho direction
of whoyo affairs aro brought tho train
ing, tho experience and tho lovo of somo
of tho most notable men In tho United
States. Where their homos are thero
are their nffectlons also.
Can we bring to the servlco of tho
greater city somo measure of the fidelity,
skill and courage which ha manifested
themselves In such abundant quantities
in Philadelphia's environs"' Tho civic
spirit which flourishes luxuriantly all
about us is tho ciWu uplrlt which must
tianslato dirty city streets into clean high
ways, build highspeed transit lines, olo
vnto the port to first rank, clean out tho
rendezvous of crlmo and filth, encourage
good" housing nnd bring to tho city
dwellers living conditions comparablo to
thoso existing in tho model communi
ties which are now tho city's fringe of
beauty.
Lot's have somo mental grease on tho
axle.
LET THE
"AGREEING
SPEAK
PUBLIC"
TIinrtK Is a "reading public," there Is
supposed to be a "thinking public,"
and thero Is unquestionably a "writing
public." That writing public Is composed
of several thousand persons who have
sometimes read and even thought. They
aro usually engaged In trying to say
something about everything a little differ
ently or a great deal dlfforently than their
competitors. This applies to writers of
letters to the editors as well as to tho
editors, to conversationalists as well as
to novelists. Wo are not going to say,
"Think twice beforo speaking," because
often the first, hot, honest impulse is
the best.
In regard to the literature about a cer
tain speech, alreadv grown to formidable
proportions in five days, It Is to be
hoped that people will not continue to
emphasize the points in which they dis
agree with others. In this discussion,
upon the Issue of which may hang the
"yes" or "no" for countless lives, now
and In the future, they should emphasize
tho points upon which they can agree.
It Is not pertinent now whether Hel
Blum's woo Is moro or less Important thap
Poland's woe. There Is enough woe every
where to let It bulk as one great horror.
If wa divide it Into separate woes, the
fragments will only balance and perpetu
ate each other.
One of the greatest many think the
greatest of English writers has ex
pressed himself In the spirit that Mr.
Wilson has patently sought to do; In the
spirit of thought that appeals at once to
the Idealism and the common sense of
democratically minded men everywhere
who are not concerned to pick flaws until
they have measured the Import of the
suggestions as a whole. It is because
they went to their work In that spirit
that they reached the same conclusions;
because they bought first to agree with
thebeBt purposes of their best contem
poraries. Mr. Wells, whose suggestions
aro printed elsewhere on this page, iias
fraiikly admitted that he has changed
lib) mind more than once about the bast
way to end the war. a humility which is
not apparent In the writings of many
younger and leaa talented writers.
It is despicable to try to make what one
says today square with or be qualified
by what one swtd a welc ago or a year
ago. Aotually In tha Senate, thero have
appeared. Incredibia as it may seem, par
tisan and personal motives In statements
about International peace. If that is so,
what must be the personal and petty
motives for disagreements In talk at
large?
The President has been aa Utopian or
as practical as the people bebiiul him
decide to be Utopian or practical. The
world will agree with hl to the same
stent that U people behind him agree
yrttb, each, otbsiw if .
EVENING T,EJ)nER-PIIILAJl)CLPIIIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 27,
WELLS'S VISION '
LIKE WILSON'S
Excerpts From n Remarkable
Article by English Author
Paralleling President's
Address
The alpnlflcavrc of the tottotclrta
pjrveriitu ftom It. tl. Wclts'i article,
In a serin on "How People Thtnk
About the War," ttifci appears in
the current nvmher of the Saturday
lUcnlnp Pott, M that the I7nt)Uih
nni'cllit hat tcnchnl UrluaUii the
tame eonclutfoni about International
prare that President H'lHoi! vxprcsted
In hit tiddrcM to the Senate. Mr.
Weill irrole catlu In A'oi etnher, ahout
fico movthi before Mr. U'lhon pie
imcii his mewartr
TTlCTOnY
V bo bought ton dearlj Wo need nm
tmimpha out of this war, hut the peace if
the world
This war Is nltogrtlieT unlike any provloti"
nr, nnd Its ending like Its development
will follow a course of Us own
N'one of the oombntfltiis expected such n
war ns this, and the cotietiience Is that tin
world nt large tmi no Idea how to get out n
It The war mnv Mnv with ns like
bov tnller, because It does not know
to go
There Is the clenre't evidence that
every one Is nnxlnttn to get nut of
of this pacification
An International Tribunal
In tho first place, thero would hove to I
no nn identical treatv between nil the
great Powers of the woild, blhding them
to certain things It would provide.
That the few grent Industrial States
eapablo of producini: modern wnr equip
ment should take over and control com
pletely tho mnnufnctuia of nil munitions of
wnr In tho world. And that they should
absolutely close tho supply of nuch ma
terial to all tho other States In tho world.
Thnt they should set up an international
lrlliun.nl for the discussion and set
tlement of International disputes. That
they Fhould maintain land nnd sea forces
only up to a limit ngieed upon, and for
Internal pollco uso only, or for the pur
pose of enforcing the decisions of tho
trlbunnl. Thnt thev should nil bo bouml
to attack and suppres any Tower nniong
them which increases Its war equipment
boynnd its defined limits.
That much has nlrendy been broached In
sevornl quarters, liut wo must
go further, and provldo that the Inter
national tribunal should havo power to
consider nnd sot aside all tariffs and local
ized privileges which seem grossly unfair
or seriously Irritating between tho various
States of the world It should havo
power to pass or ielso all new tanfT
quarantine, alien exclusion or the like leg
islation affecting international relations.
.Moreover, it nhould taKe over and extend
the work of tho International Uuieau of
Agriculture at Homo, with a view to tho
control of all staple products It should ad
minister the sea law of tho world, nnd con
trol and standardise, fi eights In the common
interests of mankind.
These things being arranged for tho fu
ture. It would bo further necetwuiy to set
up an International Boundary Commis
sion. A Hint About Mexico
Moreover, this international tnbunal If
it was Indeed to prevent war. would need
also to havo power to Intervene In the
affairs of any country or region in a stnto
of open and manifest disoidcr, for tho
protection of foreign travelers and of per
sons and Interests localized in that coun
try, hut foreign to It.
Such an agreement as that would at once
lift international politics out of tho blood)
and hopeless equator of tho present con
flict IJut it needs the attontion of such
a disengaged people as the American people I
to work It out and supply It with weight
it needs putting boforo the world with
somo sort of authority greater than Its
mere cntlro reasonableness. Otherwise It
will not come beforo the minds of ordinary
men with tha effect of a practicable propo
sition I do not foo any such plant spring
ing from the European battlefields It Is
America's supremo oi.portunlty. And yet
It Is the common ssnso of tho situation
It has nothing against It but
the prejudice against new and entirely novel
things.
In throwing out this euggestlon that
America should ultimately undertake tho
responsibility of proposing a world-peace
settlement, I admit that I run counter to a
great deal of European feeling Nowhere
In Europe now do people seem to ba In lovo
with tho United States Hut feeling Is a
color that passes And the question la
above matters of feeling
Were We Cowards or Did We Await
Our Chance?
I will further confess that when
Viscount Orey answered tho Intimations of
President Wilson and ex-Prealdent Taft of
an American Initiative to found a World
League for Peace, by asking whether Amer
ica was prepared to back that Idea with
force, ha spoke the doubts of all thoughtful
European men No one but nn American
deeply versed In the idiosyncrasies of the
American population can answer that ques
tion, or tell us how far tha delusion of
world Isolation, which has prevailed in
America for several generations has been
dispelled. But If the answer to Lord Grey
Ih "Yes," then I think history will merge
with a complete Justification of tbe obstinate
maintenance of neutrality by America. It
Is tho end that reveals a motive. It Is our
ultimate act that sometimes teachea us our
original Intention. No one can judge the
United States yet. Were you neutral be
cause you are too mean and cowardly, or
too stupidly selfish, or because you had In
view an end too great to be sacrificed to a
moment of Indignant pride,' and a force In
reserve too precious to dispel?
Kvery eouptry Is a mixture of many
strands. There is a base America ; there Is
a dull America ; there is an Ideal and heroic
America And I am convinced that, at
pressnt. Europe underrates and misjudges
the possibilities of the latter
All about the world today goes a certain
freemasonry of thought. It Is an impalpa
ble and harfly conscious union of Intention
It thinks not in terms of national but
human experience; It falls Into directions
and channels of thinking that lead Inevi
tably to tbe Idea of a world state under the
rule of one righteousness. In.no part of
the world Is this modern type of mind so
abundantly developed, less Impeded by anti
quated and perverse political and religious
forms, and nearer tbe sources of political
and administrative power, than in America
It does not seem to matter what thou
sand' other things America may happen to
be. stetag it Is also that And so, Just as
I cUag to the belief, la spite of hundreds
of adverse phenomena, that the relisloua
' . . c$m gis&w&wM
comnloto and dramatis, tnnv .", WitSraw i ;iv'l!vSiiM'.2w 'lHfilAlJf,MMlUKSSftftc,m"k JF!iTS0MSsimJWm! IrMkTOSkL
now ' Quietly perhaps and mi- ry'J.' -ft;.
obtf.islvelv. every ono t know Is now Ux- r.s...!l'f 7l$
ing to nnd the way out of the wan nnd I .. f'jK.i'AsWL
nm .-omlnced thnt the same Is the caso in .!.$. iTlaS'P' ' 'iHsralfciSSlW1 Wi SfSStWM flnLi'ft&l
nermany. That Is xvhat makes the peace- Vifc$Hite "BM ratSbMlWtWa nh JKto ISSkW1 sSHfKMSffisI?'
iit-any-prleo campaign so exasperating It W3 -C1P eMWKSw'jiri
Is like bring elmned l.y rtamorom geese -feittf'
across n common In the direction In which --"VJ rirfl'l -. httftl??!' PMfc & i'Vk
o.i want to go Sr-WW ;, "llE
All Europe wn Impressed bv jT$tr"t rf4OTllwy''llfiW
the truth, and by President Wilson's ,d'M&f . WtmW
recognition of tho truth that from an. ,,& XV '' feff Klf
other great war after this Anorlca will be fSU'1-" Mmfa , i?,! 'W$MfU Pn,' lL .". ifMm&WmmWMW''- '
tumble to abstain (T.s America come VtR !" - jK?fl ij
into this dispute nt the .ml to Insist upon Wh 4M$ZiA i I f'.Tf K- ' iWVsL X WViV M f ft JfilWilffHffia'
homethlng better limn A new diplomatic -SfjitV A. TJrt'M. 'W , ,!ffl Ki il ' J ' ' !. , -HU-yN1 NKH VilWI A I. MlBi raiStfMSRWJR WjC
patchwork and so obviate the Inter, com- $ fflAH- jl&S?iW , ,T4i M ' J,'-- . .; "l ' WW lfiWW 5f '
pletcd Armngrddon? Js there, above tho ftMm JjaW.UV' tKM4VM'"li ' , , I- V h $$$S tfM4 'blaW IWvwSiV.l'K
claims and passions of fie, mam. Prance ffJMWC HMwMi.'i1 ' VMmMWW
Ililtnln and tho lest of them, a roncolvable f, WSWmvm AWWl?MW3S?illff J' L '-i TOfrA?.TO
right thing to do for all mankind" fillE$ , i tf 4ifflWOTf
T have been joining up ono thing to t WWiW0m ' ' ", tftr'SjOTB
another, suggestions t have heard from W fclK1 ttIt3ffiTOBai!ira 'l. . . ,! Vi 4OTmPW W
this man and that; and I believe that It 1 Kft$ )r. ,"'i&Mfm"-h ''J "i ' 4 1 lip M fM WMMWAWmhvA I f
possible to state a solution that will be Mlf$! 'J 'X :' ' l' JT'i?aW&1WriPTltn!fj' . ' f.Uti4jWfc
acceptable to the bulk of reasonable men, , bJt,!!,'', l'r,WifiR!,tftf'yi .' jM'$fcfe
all over the world nirertly wo put the L SW ',' , l'. i XvvM Y 111 M TMA ' '-! .feirtJ irWlMI Wi Wi&h M 'f ff?' f
panic massacres of Pirmnt and Lotivnln fi' 'Vr - t',j 'A' V y$ fW ' h iBM1, 'Jf WM LW OTlffi'W
tho crime of the U.sltanln. and so en. Int.. :!; K. ' L 1J .'.'ijji 4 Slf 1 r -f W;
the category of svmp.oms rather than n- !lol'f W!lltfW
sontlnls, we can conceive a possible world ( w, A, " ' I liSl ll nufc J !i'r r
treaty. Let me state the broad outlines, ,'r'-'':n: I-' ', r !CT r-SHibW
"YS, IT'S MY BIRTHDAY; WHO SAID 'CONGRATULATIONS'?"
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nenrh " ' sw'SKsv teMw'WEwmi l isa." &b mNmsffltxsssszm&mmsiffl
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nnd social stir of these times must ulti
mately go far to unify mankind under tho
Uingsblp of Uod so do I cling also to the
persuasion that thero nro lntellectunl forces
among the inllonnl elements In tho belliger
ent centers, among tho other neutrals and
In Amerin, tli.it will co-opetato in enabling
the I'nltrd States to plnv tho rolo of tho
unimpnssloned third party, which becomes
more and moro necessary to a generally
satisfactory ending of tho wnr
An "Unimpassioncd Settlement"
The Idpa thnt tho settlement of this war
must bo what ono might call nn unlmpaH
sloned settlement, or, if ou will, a scien
tific settlement, or a Judicial and not a
treaty settlement a settlement, that Is.
based upon .somo conception of what is
tight and necessary, rather than upon tho
relative success or failure of cither set of
hciliceients to mako Its will tho standard
of decision Is one that, hi a great v.iriotv
of forms nnd pnitial developments. I find
gaining ground In the most different circles
Tho wnr was an adventure, it wns the Mer
man adventure, under tho Hohenzollern tra
dition, to domlnnto tho world It was to
be the last of tho concujosts It has failed
Without calling upon tho rcservo Htronglh
of America, the civilized woild has de
foaled it. nnd tho war contlnueo now
partly upon tho Issue whether that adven
tuie shnll ever be repeated or whether It
shall be mado forever Impossible, and partlv
hcrausn Germany has no organ but Hh
lohenzollern organization through which It
can ndmit Its falluro and develop Its latent
readiness for a new understanding on linos
of mutual toleration.
It is inevitable that a settlement mado
in a conference of belligerents alone will
be short-sighted, harsh, limited by merely
incidental necessities and obsessed by tho
Idea of hostilities and rivalries continuing
perennially
It will be a trading of advantages for
subsequent nttachs It will bo a settle-
ment altogether different In effect ns well
as in spirit from a world settlement made
primal Uy to establish a now phase in tho
history of mankind.
Where "Victory" Would Fail
Let mo tnke three instances of the Im
possibility of victory on either side giving
a solution satisfactory to the conscience
and Intelligence of reasonable men
Tho first on which I will not expatiate,
for every one knows of Its peculiar diffi
culty is Poland.
Now how, In any of theso cases,
can tho bargaining and trickery of dip
lomatists nnd the ndvantage-buntlng of
ihe belligerents produce nny utablo and
generally beneficial solution? What all
the neutrals want, what every rational nnd
farslghted man In tho belligerent countries
wants, what tho common sense of the whole
world demands Is neither tho "ascendancy"
of Germany, nor the ascendancy of Great
Ilritaln, nor the nscendancy of any state
or people or Interest In the shipping of the
world The plain right thing is a world
shipping control aa Impartial as the Tostal
Union. What right and reason and the
welfaro of coming generations demand In
Poland Is a unified nnd autonomous Poland,
with Cracow, Ilanzlg nnd Posen brought
Into the same Polish-speaking ring-fence
w ith Warsaw.
In every country at present nt war the
Ldeslro of the majority of people Is for a
noncontenuous boiuuoii mm win neitner
crystallize a triumph nor propitiate an
enemy, but which will embody the economic
and ethnologic and geographic common
sense of the matter Hut though tha for
mulas of national belligerence are easy,
familiar, blatant and tuMbtently prekent,
the gentler, groater formulas of that wider
and newer world pacificism have still to
he generally understood. It la so much
easier to bate and suspect than negotiate
generously and patiently ; It is so much
harder to think than to let go In a shrill
storm of hostility.
It is not with any very strong belief
that the .United States of America will
come forward to play the part of the un
Impaxeloned third pari that I suggest that
it might do so I throw out the suggestion.
In spite or us coneiaeranie improbability
because so l can imagine tile end of this
war being made the ending of all war in
the world. But 1 admit that thj hypothesis
demands a proportion of moral and Intel
lectual giants In the American population
beyond anything known to us In Europe.
In the case of America doing nothing so
magnificent, tljen I do not really see more
than a nominal end to the war. There may
be a sort of peace, the peace desired by
witless pacifists, it will mean merely that
there will be a temporary cessation of gun
fire and a transfer of the belligerent en
ergies to a trade struggle, a shipping
struggle, and a vast new armament com
petition which will entirely dwarf that
modest "pace of armaments" that toddled
along before 1SH But the msl
war wM have America la Mr Wilson
baa aahl it.
jai then there via be no other PUJn
r-li
all the world left considerable enough to
play tho rolo of the third party. The next
war that must convulse mankind, If wo can
not end war In this war, will tolerate few
ncutials and no noncombatnnts Men will
havo to look to another Power, that Is nt
ouco nbovo them nnd within, to asset t
thoso external standards of justice which
alono cav give peace.
They might very well look to Him now
instead of looking across tho Atlantic.
A VOICE PROM THE TRENCHES
Somo of my friends may think that the
notion of a leaguo of nations Is Utopian and
fantastic It might uo ho If we were living
In ordinary tlmos, but we aro not We aro
standing upon the threshold of a new order
of tho world if Christian Eu
ropo does not now makb up Its mind to
make an end to war, I do not seo how
civilization a'j we havo known It Is to
go on. If jou try to crush tho Central
Empires by u military decision, followed
up by economic strangulation, sou will
cany forward Into peace tho hostilities nnd
hntieds of war: ou will mako armies,
navies nnd nrmaments moio oppressive than
ever; jou will mnko war more 'Inevitable
than ever, and you will fasten conscription
inejocably upon this nation and all others
Corporal Leeu Smith, In tho Iiouso of
Commons.
POETIC FRENCH MUSIC
Some Prose Strays Into the Orchestra's
Program, Also
Poetry of various sorts and styles
reigned nt tho Academy yesterday after
noon. Somo of It was Inherent In the texts
and mottoes of tho French works which
tho Philadelphia Orchestra plajcd Some
was In tho tnuslo Itself And a great deal
of that mystic essence came from the In
terpretation It Is posslbla to raise rhyth
mic legends and lift the senses to far hori
zons with a llttla black stick as well as a
pen
Not nil of this poetry was of the highest
sort. Part of it was a sweeping disap
pointment But other parts were magnifi
cent In spirit and reading. All things con
sidered, the big moments of Mr. Stokow
skl's matlneo mado atonement for somo tre
mendous trllles that had In them more of
triviality than of tremendousness Strangely
enough, tbe chief regret came with the play
ing of Debussy's "The Blessed Damozcl,"
written in tha form of a lyric poem for
soprano, women's chorus and orchestra.
This novelty, based on part of the text of
Danto Itossettl'a delicate spiritual essay
(composed before ha was twenty), had
been awaited with pardonable anxiety and
soma premature Joy on the part of those
who llko their arts blended Surely no
libretto moro aptly suited to tha unearthly
talent of tha French musician could be
Imagined And yet ono began to want to
yawn before It was half over. How much
of this boredom was due to the difficulty
of "writing up" to undoubted Inspiration
and how much to tho necessary monotone
of tho BCore"ls hard to eay Intelllgenea
characterizes the piece throughout melodic
Intelligence, that Is (for Debussy has some
queer ideas as to the allotment of lines In
bis modern cantata) The color, the Idiom
of tho muslo are perfectly In touch with"
the color and Idiom of the text. It Is
orchestrated with a skill that Is both sim
ple and subtle. It does, Indeed, reach "the
gold bar of heaven" at moments. But It
palls. It cloys So one earns silently for
Gounod, for Loefller, for any devil's disci
ple with a little healthy red flro about him
All this despite a very pleasant reading of
"Tha Damozel" by tho conductor and very
pretty singing of It by tho ladles of the or
chestra chorus and Miss Mabel Garrison
the soloist
If there was not too much rapture In
what she and her assistants did, there was
beauty and to spare In the rest of the
program The Itabaud symphony fs heard
oftener here every ear. and not once too
often, at that The temptation to bracket
It with the Franok symphony, label them
lovely music, and dismiss the matter is an
easy but lazy way put of criticism. Like
the Franck, the Rabaud towers up Into
the clouds through its passion and its
ecstasy. Unlike the former. It has a strong
ly marked masculine note, and, again un
like, it makes Its design understood at a
first hearing. It Is this combination of clean
pattern with nobility of content that makes
it so fascinating; and how much mora fas
cinating jt is when played with the rap.
turous frenzy and fine serenity that Mr,
Stokowski gives tl
Ills realization of this detached arid ex
qulsite thing helps one to an understand,
lng of why his method of looking at the
Faun" and the "Sorcerer's Apprentice" is
not quite tbe perfect method Hie "Faun"
seems to have strayed into a dreamy para
dise , he is not a sensual and splay animal
His "Apprentice" falls Just an Inch short
of the SJlarltX Jt 14 roadns, JB, fit
1917
What Do You Know?
Ouerlei ol central interest will e answered
in fiis column. Ten Questions, tho answer to
toifch rueri tirll Informed person should know,
are asked dally.
QUIZ
1. Tiro President Mnrhnll Is niMressen1 "Mr.
rrrlilent" many times n jear. Why Is
this?
:. What did tho Amerlcnn Indians cnll flod?
3 Wlint Is the N'nUonol Association of Atldll-
lion Sorietles?
4. Mlio wrote "Thn I.nrk of Ttonrlnc Cmhb"!
S In wlint Intlttido nnd longitude does I'lilln-
drlnhliv lie? -
(1. In Riredrn wlint nro th Ulksdnc, Toerste-
Knmniar nnd Andet-Itamninr?
7. Wlint tann Is rnlled the Carlsliiul of
Mexico?
5, Mhn Is the estimated population of
Alashit?
0. Who nan "Honest Ahe"?
10. Hlmt Is the leenl stntns of a rallrnsd
pussenrer nho refuses to pay his fare?
Answers JLo Yesterday's Quiz
rerun I wns Uie first leiendarr Hint; of
1.
stotlnnu, SOO years liefori Christ, lie
Is mild to huvn lircn tho tlrst of n line of
110 kings The first htstorlo klnc was
Kenneth McAlpIn (A I). 811)
2. Tlie cItII serrlre net wns passed by Con
rress January 10, 18X3.
8 nnnl was the rlilef deltr of the undent
kun-worslilptnc Phoenicians
t Blrlus, tha doc star, Is the biiclitest star.
0. John Ilnnrork's signature Is the lurcrst at
tached to the Declaration of Indepeiiilfnie
liecaiisn ho won the tlrst to slicn It. later
It was derided that the- other fifty-four
members of the Conicress should slcn It.
6. The Her Ilr. Kussell If. Conwell Is presi
dent of the Temple University
7. ".Municipal" Is pronounced with the accent
on the second syllable
8. There are sUti-seren counties In Pennsyl
vania.
0 The Danish West Indies are colled nlsa the
Vlrcln Islands.
10. To use the watch n a compass, point the
hour hand toward the sun. In the morn
Ine half way between the hour hand nnd
pooti Is clue south; In the afternoon reckon
half, way backward, rims, tit 8 n. m.
south Is at lot ut 4 p. in It Is at S.
Superstition and Bees
R. V. Ti, Jit Dees aro connected with
various superstitions It 1s considered un
lucky when an unclaimed awnrjn of boes
settles on one's premises. Bees are sup
posed not to thrive if thoy are tho subject
of a quarrel. Perhaps tho most Interesting
superstition about bees ' the custom of
"tolling the bees" of a death In tho family.
In early England, when a me-nbr of the
family died, tho bees were told of It and in
vited to the funeral: Bometlmes a piece of
crapo was put on tha hive. This custom
has not died out entirely.
Tobacco Production
ADAJI The United Btates leads tho
world In both tha production and consump
tion of tobacco. In 1914, 1,034,679,000 of
the 1,496,470,068 pounds of tobacco pro
duced In the world were grown in the
United .States. Most of tha tobacco Is pro
duced In the New World. Kentucky leads
the States In production with 356,100,000
pounds, worth $27,799,000 at the farm
(191E)! North Carolina Is second, with
198,400,000 pounds, worth !2,221,000, and
Virginia Is third, with 144,375,000 pounds,
worth $13,571,000
Two Pennsylvnnlans
C. II. It. Bayard Taylor, traveler, poet
and diplomat, nnd Wayne MucVeagh.
author and statesman, were natives of
Chester County, Pa. The former was born
at Kennett Square In 825 of Quaker and
South German parentage, and died In 1878
in lierlln, Germany, while Ambassador to
that country Mr. MacVeagh was born at
Phoenlxvllla In 1833, the son of Major John
MaoVeagh and Margaret Lincoln, and died
January 11, 1917, at his home in Wash.
Ington.
SAM LOYIV& PUZZLE
TUB boys were twirling their smart
new canes when Tom remarked to
John;
"My cane Is half an Inch longer than
yours and is In the same proportion to
my height as your cane is to your height.
The two canes together are Just equal to
my height, which is six feet."
What is John's height?
Answer to Yesterday's Puzzle
WE WENT to Philadelphia at the rate
of one mile in 4 minute3 and re
turned at the rate of one mile in 3 min
utes, the average speed thus being 17 1.7
miles per hour, and not 1T&. as would
appear at flret blush.
Tom Daly's Column
T1W VITAAan POET
Whenever it's a Saturdav In January1
heel
I must confess, iolth ctvlo shame, that
this f how 1 feet:
An oak top In tho flreplaco flames flar-
Inp up tho flue
Is worth a hundred Chestnut streets and
all the news that's new.
Tho tclndotct of tfiti ttvlnproom look out
on Witter Wood,
Th finest silvan iitsta in this urban
neighborhood;
nut winter's touch It on it now, tha pU
tutc's cold and prop,
And there's a summer on mp hearth that's
calllnp me awap.
I sit me on tho cosp bench that flanks the
Inplcnook
And tnfeh the oaken branch which
through so map seatont shook
Its banncis of the vernal preen and aw
tumn's red on high,
ow blossoming with golden flames that
seek the winter sky.
mutlnp in the genial plow where
rcierlct abound
them have their will with me an'
compass me around.
Phis log of oak, I tell myself, has very
likely seen
A deal of local history since first its
leavct were pi ecu;
IVftercDcr it tens wont to stand, through
tun and rain and snow,
A'o cfottif for qulto a hundred years It
watched the city grow.
Ohl hcia befell a miracle, a stranpe and
wondrous thlngl
A voice from, out the embers rose and
thus bepan to stnp:
I
When I was small and alender
My elder oaks among,
And nil my leaves wcro tender
And all my roots wero young,
The world I know was simpler
And opoko a dlfferont tonguo.
The mon wore staid and courtly
And favored powdered hair;
Tho matrons seemed moio portly,
Tho daughters, qulto aa rair,
Woro seemlier apparel
Than nowadays thoy wear.
One day with passion latten.
When I was taller grown,
A lover and a maiden
Mado my mossed foot their throne,
And carved their namoa upon me
And claimed me for their own!
"But stay," I interrupted, "since pour life
has been so lonp,
itoto many more Important things might
fit Into pour songT
Tou've seen the dtp sqttawllng in its cra
dle, so to speak,
When travel teas a siialMlfce thing, with
coaches twice a iccefc,
HVieTi candle-light was all wo had to
brighten up tho town,
And lots of things were Uameless thinps
that since have won renown.
For instance, at a cow-path (not iiuprob-
ablp) von kncio
That celebrated street wherein we seek
tha news that's new.
Pray, pipe pour picttp song again, but
condescend to tell '
A few of the lmportnnt things that in
your day befell."
The embers brightened on the hearth and
ftom a tonguo of flame
The oak loo's voice (but softened now to
dreamier accents) came:
They wero the first of mortals
To sit beneath my shade!
And so when April's portals
Loosed spring on wood and glade
I thrilled with recollection
Of lover and of maid.
"J?or goodness sakeV I grumbled, "now,
I'm simply asking you
To talk about our city and to tell us hoxo
it grew.
Instead of which pou offer me a silly tale
like this
Of two forgotten lovers who onca sought
pour shade, to kiss.
Come! tell us tha Important thinps that
happened in pour life."
I Tieard a Yttstla near vie and noticed that
the xoife
Sad stolen in beside me and had crept
beneath mp wlnp
Then the embers flamed up brtghtlg and
the voice began to sing:
They were the first of mortals
To alt beneath my shado.
And so when April's portals
Loosed spring on wood nnd glade
I thrilled with recollection y
Of lover and of maid.
Of streets and bricks nnd plaster
Why should you seek to know?
Not Mammon was tho master
In days of long ngo.
'Twas Love and Love's home-bulldera
That made your city grow,
4
Ah I here, In ashes lying;
Another Joy I've had
To comfort by my dying,
To comfort nnd make glad; y
Another pair of lovers
Ahl hold her close, my lad
Who wouldn't, on a Eatttrday In Jonn
org's heel,
Be glad to hup the flre and ohl well'
who wouldn't feel
An oak log in the Inplcnook that tings
such songs to you
Is worth a hundred Chestnut streets and
all the news that's newf
The congregation of the Walnut Street
Presbyterian Church, which was badly dam
aged by flre early Friday morning, attended
services conducted at 11 o'clock yesterday
morning by the Rev. J A. McCallum, In the
Phllomuslan Club, Fortieth and Walnut
Btreets. Morn- contemp.
IiUcky congregatlonl Better here than
hereafter.
Thtrs was Waltsr Sorrow, of the Harbor
8juid. twenty six jears In th rvl. who
bought boow by the gallon until the evangelist
closed bis liquor account. New Tork .Trlbuns.
Ah,' yes, and it 'was Tennyson wasn't
HI who wrote:
Borrows' crown of sorrow Is remembering
happier things. ,
"Wa are all, from, the moment of our
birth, natural democrat.
The above profound, thought came to
us this, morning; upon observing our
three-year-old daughter, on all fours,
attempting to drink out of the cat'a
saucer,
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