iSF7? wv !?? , EVENED LTDDER-PHilJADfeliPHii; frHUBSrfAfr, FEBRUARY 22 1917' ,Pf I.1---1 .a u v . fev &.' jff ".!', fle&gcr 5hz PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY crnus ii. k. cuims, pimmst rM H. Ludlngton. Vice President: John tftui. Seerstary and Treasureri Philip H. f, John 11. Wllllama, John J Bourgeon, 1'. aiey, iJirecior. KDITOniAL BOARD t Ctiss It. K. Ccn, Chairman. ,K. WHALET Editor I C. MARTIN... General Business 5!inr iNMU sinned dally at l'cut.io I.kmir Building. laaepenacne uquare, rnuaaeipnia. : CIKfuL.... Broad and Chestnut Streets itnia Cm.. Vrtsf Union Ilulldlna; t Yopk 200 Metropolitan Tower HT (WO Ford UUIItllnK OCIS .409 aiob'-Drmncrnt HulMlne qo.j 1202 Tribune Building NEWS BUREAUS: aiHiNOTON Suutr Tllccr Building riou iit)EAU.........Tn Jimr.1 I'ulldlng UN lluagAU ..GO FrledHchatrnaan SDOX HmiAD Marconi House, stmml IMS Ucuiu ....32 Kuo Loula lo Urand y , SUBSCniPTION TERMS Th KTNtNn I.XIK1ER la served tn subscribers '. Philadelphia and surrounding- towns at ths t of twelve (12) cents per week, payablo the carrier. By mall to points outside of rhlladelplila, In , tfc United States, Canada or United mates po"- btsslonav postage free, fifty (80) centa per month, six (10) dollars per year, paable In advance. - - To all foreign countries one (tt) dollar per aoonth. f It'orics (Subscriber wishing address changed autt give old as welt aa new address, s ' - MIX. MOO "WALNUT KEVSTtys'E. MAIN' ioOO . BsT Addrtts all communication to Eventno '', iLtdetr, Independence Square, Philadelphia, . t-TTrato at ma rninnrxniiA msTorncn s -.' BECOKD-CLXSS Mill, MATTER. THE AVERAGE NET TAID DAILY CIR CULATION OP TUB EVENING I.EDOEIt FOR JANUARY WAD 118,717 Philadelphia. Thimday, Frhruirr :2, 1917. American commerce is virtually ubmarooned. Tho Earl of Derby is still talking through it. lie predicts a war crisis Within a few months. The professional pacifists should how noma slight tcgard for tho protcc tlqn of tho Pacific. Leopold StokowskI, who was made a doctor of music by the University to day, wyre his academic gown as grace fully as he wields the baton. It can be proved In "black and white" that rapid transit has alteady come to Philadelphia In the new taxi Mrvice. Judging by tho size of tho break fast rnlla it.ft Uv iha KitrorM thpsn morn- jr tt Ings they are trying us out with the f-vj 't Greek ration of seven-eighths of an ounco t)f bread per day. i - li?1. Kvrnmisn TTnlverKitv'fl football coach , , . . . '-" eontroversy has been ended by the sum- fe'tjBary dlschargo of "Bill" Ilollenback after !-"t a contract with him for next season had .Sv.feeen signed. Other colleges, other cus- ,V wins. HX wnaame ae Biaei were auvo to day she would certainly revise her ver- Igf,; diet that there are only two kinds of ,; people in the world men and women. JBhp would su the pacifists. fhft n I'arn ira limicou'lfa la nnt tn. F ' i . dAKaaaaiti' (nlni-narnrl In ttA tiaii-ci Mil r inll. bages are selling at $160 a ton. She does not buy them that way. But she does understand the situation better when she finds that this time a year I ago cabbages sold for $11 a ton. The British embassy's statement f'j V that less than one ship was sunk in the first two weeks of February for every i hundred ships which arrived at or left British ports in that time seems to prom- C Ue that the submarine Is doomed to be come as ineffectual as the Zeppelin In i the way of terrorizing England. r- . 7T. . , h;;- oeiiaiur uuuuiuermiii a universal ,Vjallltary service bill will fall of passage V.'.. .V. . t -. .-. !... . ,t II nil linnn thnt rn rnniltMniia mnt. rwc I - ....... ...,, V l arise after March 4 which will mako riipIi &' ' .9AtYnt,1aM-.. n.1t!tl-l, uB.llln. nniAaan ...r n n ,tv(;iiad to be resorted to during the Civil jK k '.'War. We must not forget that men had to v to be drafted Into the armies in a time er national pern. y f' Frederick Funston rose to high ' rank. In the army because he had the '. natural equipment of a soldier. He was jene of the men who could take a mes . sage to Garcia. Yet It sometimes hap '"'pens that a youth will study the ex ternals of a successful man's career and (attempt to duplicate them In his own .'ease In the hope that he may have slml ' ' tar success. Edison started as a news ' boy and was graduated from that work &Y ,' Jato a telegraph operator's chair. But - ae youtn wno thinks that by becoming B, a 'telegraph operator he can become an ,JDlspn Is likely to fall. Just as the the- leal student who postpones his preach- tatrcareer till he Is thirty because Snur- 'en did notbeg.in to preach till that ae is likely to remain a little man. Tho Bard of Twickenham, who said that honor :'l and shame from no condition rise, had aervea tne lives of great men to good Afjwrjwoc. A committee of one Senator and Assemblymen of the New Tork iture, appointed to Investigate nar- drug evils, has come to the same Jmous conclusions as those of the rfttee of Philadelphia citizens who. lir Initiative, prepared legislation to ati the "dope" scourge. Will it be try for the Pennsylvania Leglsla- ta vo over the ground a second time i mar, say a third time for tho New I Pennsylvania conditions are the tore passing the bill prepared by aluee? There are thousands of 1 In this city who are as help. a. They are sick people who ft protected from themselves. la tfotaft to extraordinary are movemeaU to abolleh aWMkMkaVoutar hate. Every day that passes without action is nxlng the "dope" habit more deeply In those who have Just learned tho terrible fascination of drugs. The Legislature should toko up the bill at once and pass it. N WASHINGTON, THE LIBERAL piEBnUAltr 12 and February 22 are tho birthday anniversaries of two great Liberals, though that fact Is often ob scured by some who cannot transpose the politics of n past nge Into tho terms of the present. Consummato reactionaries and Tories who, had they lived In tho sixties, would have reviled Lincoln, sought onico In a later day in tho name of Lincoln, though they had no under standing of tho reason for his fame. And 'Washington has been praised In terms that betray a belief that tho first President was something of n flno old Tory gentleman. To believe In American nationalism In 1776 was to be ns much of a Liberal as any Irish Nationalist of today, and Ocorgo 'Washington was that kind of a Liberal. His fight was essentially the samo as Lincoln's fight for national ism. They were both rebels against vested Interests. Thousands of wealthy monarchists left for Canadu and Eng land lather than submit to the equality of opportunity that the success of the American Revolution promised. They ere both fighters ngalnst hyphcnlsm, tho frame of mind which puts nny for eign or sectional interest nbovo Ameri can Interests. Washington fought for Americanism; after eighty-five years Lincoln had to fight for It ngaln; and after fifty mote ycais this Is still the leading Issue In our politics and the only thing worth fighting for. No one who wos not a Liberal could have wished that our Constitution should survive as devoutly as Washing ton wished it. Europe had, as he said, a 'set of Interests with a very remote i elation to ours, because the most lib eral minds in Europe could constantly look to this country for complete ful fillment of their most democratic am bitions. Tho best proof that this con tinent has been primarily the nursery of fieo Institutions U the fact that our West Is made up of free States and not of colonial provinces and that South and Central America have not become European dependencies. Voices in Europe may ask us why we do not help savo tho world and wo may answer, "Is It nothing to have saved half of It? "It is nothing to keep half of tho lands of the white race Intact, In competition with the yellow peoples, whom war has not torn and whoso primacy on earth we alone oppose In tho event of the complete exhaustion of Europe?" KIOTIXG WON'T HELP IT IS suspected that the food riots are not spontaneous protests against the increasing cost of living, but that they are organized by professional agitators. If this be well founded, a largo part of their significance disappears. The fact remains, however, that the exorbitant prices now chatged for certain forms of food used by tho poor aro causing genuine hardship. A horizontal reduction of twenty-five per cent In wages would not produce gruiter hardship. Tho equivalent of .such a reduction has been experienced by virtually every man wot king for a fixed wage. It takes at least a dollar now to buy what seventy-five cents would buy a year ago. Rioting, however, will not bring relief. Neither will a congressional Investigation into the cause of high prices. There Is a shortage of food due to the failure of tho producers to keep pace with the growth of population. More productive farms nnd bigger crops secured by Intensive cultivation will rapidly bring the prices down, nnd noth ing else will. THE REASON FOR MOTHERS' PENSIONS IT COSTS $5.85 a month to maintain a young child In Its mother's home. It costs.at least $15 a month to maintain the same child In a public Institution. If there were no other reason than that of economy to be urged in support of an appropriation of $800,000 for carrlng out tho provisions of the mothers' pension law, that reason should be sufficient. But there are compelling social reasons of greater force which should lead the Gen eral Assembly togrant the sum asked for. No normal mother will permit her child to be taken away from her and put In an Institution If she can care for tt at home. The care and affection of the mother, even in direst poverty, react upon the child and make a better citizen of It than can be produced in the most scientifically and eltlciently managed orphan asylum. But this Is not all. Tho responsibility of bringing up a child reacts upon the mother and saves her to society, when if her children were taken from her she might become an outcast. Tho only objection worthy of respect that can be raised to tho mothers' pen sion system Is that there is liable to be grave abuse in the distribution of the funds. It Is a system of outdoor relief, and such relief as ordinarily administered does more harm than good. It Is possible, however, to devise a way to prevent the misuse of the funds. A system of investi gation by trustworthy agents would in sure the distribution of the money to those who actually needed it, And a broad-minded, tolerant charity would glvo the money to some nlothers whom ,the finicky might regardTis "unworthy," be cause a Uttlo intelligent help given to the "unworthy poor" has been known to work wonders of uplift. An Increase In the appropriation of two years ago is imperative if the system Is I to be continued, .mere were zzoo applica tions for relief In this city, but there was money, enough for only 184 cases. Tho dlaasnoinuneni ot inose who had to be rejected was rnoatypathetlc. If the legl latafi bava.Uaasiaatlon enough to put CO-OPERATION CUTS DOWN PRICES Danish Farmers Can Compote in English Markets Because of Their Economical Methods THE chairman of the special comi.'ils Blon appointed by Governor Whitman, of New York, to Investlgnto tho high cost of lllng, In nn nddrcss beforo the Amer ican Association for the Advancement of Science, said that to far tho results of their work had shown that competitive methods among formers must glvo way to cooperative methods, nnd ho sug gested thnt tho much'desplscd middleman Is tho ono to co-opcrato with the farmers. If this Is to bo tho but den of tho com mission's report to Governor Whitman, It offers little comfort to those who hao been expecting a way out from tho pres ent conditions. There is no question that co-opcrntlon r.mong farmers, If properly conducted, would solve tho question, not only so far as tho farmers themselves nro concerned, but also for the consumers. But scientific co-operatio,: to be supremely successful must bo preceded by scientific farming, and when tho nation becomes as wide awake to the necessity for tho highest development of science in this form of prcpardedness ns It has In tho matter of military preparedness, then nnd not until then can wo expect to place tho cost of living on tt proper basis. In no other country in tho world has coopcrntlon nmong farmers been brought to such perfection ns In Denmark. This has been accomplished In very recent years, nnd In the evolution the middleman, who pre viously obtained ns high as 120 per cent profit, has disappeared entirely. What has been accomplished In Den mark Is possible to a rlegreo in each of our separate States. Ths Danish farm ers do not only cooperato In tho manu facture of butter and cheeso through co-operatlvo creameries, but they nlso co-operate In tho marketing of their prod ucts nnd In the purchasing of farm Im plements nnd supplies of every kind. They get the profits both coming nnd going nnd nro therefore nble to sell at a low figure. How It Affects Eggs There nto today In DeumarK moie than 1200 creameries conducted on tho co operatlvo pla;i, the managers of which dlsposo of the products, thus ,saIng tho farmets" time In going to market. Each of these creameries has about 160 mem bers, owning nboirt 950 cows. The plants were constructed at n cost of nbout $7500 each and the money was boriowed ftotn the local Farm Loan Bank. In addition, they hno cooperative slaughter houses, with a membership of 4S0O and 600 branches, Beforo the advent of co opera tion Denmark exported 800,000 eggi early; now tho exports amount to 430, 000,000. England Is Its principal mar ket for butler, cheese and eggs, so that the matter of transportation Is Just as serious as In this country. If the numerous commissions that have heen appointed all over the country to Inquire Into the causes of tho high cost of living find, as tho New York commis sion has, that co-operation nmong farm ers will solve tho matter, nnd if they ex poet to get anywhere further than mere recommendations they must enlist tho nld of Federal nnd State governments In the work. If our Navy Department can enlist the unselfish services of the best scientific brains in the country to ndviso In the matter of naval preparedness, surely here Is a field where tho best talent that can be secured can do a lasting service. Each ear the co,st of farm produce is getting higher and higher for the con sumer, with no remedy In sight. If'the solution of the difficulty Is scien tific co operation among farmers, where they can reap good profits nnd can afford to sell at low figures, It Is up to our statesmen to take the matter uo In a vigorous manner. The establishment of the Farm Loan Banks, with their nec essary combinations of farming associa tions as a clientele, should be a good basis l on which to make a start. E. S. R, WASHINGTON'S TWO BIRTHDAYS In the quaint old quarto Bible, now among the treasures at Slount Vernon, Is written the following: Oeorge AVnshlngton, ton to Augustine and Mary, his wife, was born on 11th day of February, 1731-2 about 10 In the morning. Tills record was made according to tho old-style calendar, and while Washington's Birthday now Is celebrated throughout tho country on February 22, It Is Interesting to note thnt for n great number of years his neighbors nnd descendants celebrated Wash ington's natal day on February 11 In old Alexandria. Taul WHstach describes this discrepancy In dates In his book, "Slount Vernon, Washington's Home and the Na tion's Shrine," where ho says: "In February he (Washington) was the guest of the citizens of Alexandria for their customary celebration of his birthday. 'Many maneuvers were performed by the Uniform Corps and an elegant ball and supper at night.' Tills was the entry In his diary for tho 11th of the month Wash ington was born February 11th, old style. The new calendar was in vogue nhortly after, which moved his birthday up to tho 22d, but the old friends clung to tho old fashion, and so as long ns he was with them his neighbors In the little city up river celebrated on the 11th." These Alexandrians were very dear to the heart 'of Washington as neighbors and warm friends, and 'the General and Mrs. Washington drove up In 178 from Mount Vernon to Alexandria to attend the first of the birth night balls, "The predecessors," according to Mr. Wllstach, "of the later holiday, Washington's Birthday, and suc ceeded to the Colonial custom of celebrating the sovereign's birthday." A double birthday celebration at Mount Vernon Is recorded by Mr. Wllstach as follows: "Washington's Birthday was celebrated twice this year ot 1789, the second time on the I2d, within the walls of his own home. There 'Miss Custls was married by candle light to Mr. Lawe Lewis.' Washington chronicles events In deceptively few words. The wedding was In fact a brilliant occa sion and was the culmination of a romance which enlisted the General's most Interest ed solicitude, for Nellie Custls was the ob ject, next to his wife, of his tenderest af fection. 8he came Into his life at a time when It wan apparent that his union would not be blessed with a child of his own. Ha adopted her and brought her to Mount Vernon and she never knew any other father or any other home than his." FINDING MR. DANIELS OUT TT..ld'nt Wilson la not the first one to Mvt;V)K the olfks of the Sweiary of THE VOICE OP THE PEOPLE Who Said "Damn the Torpe does"? Relation of Prayer to America's Position in the War This Department (a re' to all reader who U'la to cxitrcis their onintoni on aubjecta of neneral Interest. It (a an ojirn forvm. and tho i;i-mlK9 Ledger naaiimra n re aponslomtj tor the ileus of (la corrrajjonrtrnta. Letters mint le slant, I In tho name and address ot the itriter. not necensarltu for publication, but as a tuurantio of pood faith "DAMN THE TORPEDOES!" To the Editor of the Evenina Lcdoer: Sir Newspapers should be careful In their quotations Yesterday you quoted Farrngut saying "Damn the torpedoes; go ahead!" Dewey used this expression at Manila. In Farraguts day they did not hae torpedoes. The other day you at tributed to Grant the raing "The way to resume is to resume" It was Horace Greeley who made this remark, in relation to specie pnments. Shortly after tho last election you told your readers how some ot the unsuccessful candidates took their defeat. You told what General Hancock said to his wife the day nttcr the election The fact Is, General Hancock did not have a wife. A good newspaper like the Eve ning LEDOEn should bo sute of its facts. I'hlladelpltla, February -0. II. G. B. Torpedoes wpre used In the Civil War. Tho few ships of the Confederates offered little opportunity for tho use of torpedoes by the Federals, but the gteat fleet of the latter and necessity which often compelled .i, .oi in miprate In nanow wnteis . .vittititttria nt rhanees which their enterprising antagonists were qulcU to seize. Eight Federal armorciaus. iium nun boats, six transports nnd one cruiser weie sunk or destroyed. We nre not nwaro of having quoted any ono on "the way to re sume Is to resume." You aro probably thinking of a phrase In Salmon r. Chase's letter to Horace Greeley, "ino way iu re .,,,.., !, lo tn ipsiime." Your account of what wo said Hancock said is rather vague. If ou will quote mo eniiro pas sage as It nppenred we hope to be able to set forth the truth about It. Editor of the EVENING LEPOEK. WHO IS CORRECT? To the Editor of the Evening Ledger: Sir In Sunday's IMbllc Ledger your correspondent.' Raymond G. Carroll, says that the following Is Inscribed on the statue ot "Christ of the AndW: "Sooner shall these mountains crumble Into dust than Argentines and Chilians break the peace to which they have pledged themselves at the feet of Christ the Re deemer." In tho Evenino LEcasn of Monday, con tradicting Mr, Carroll's nssertlon that such a pledge Is Inscribed on the statue. Bishop Neely is reported as saying: "That personal viewing of the famous piece during his labors in South America enabled him to say authoritatively that no Inscription of any sort existed." 1'hlladelphla, February 20. VERITAS. PRAYER AND THE WAR To the Editor of the Evening Ledger: Sir While I would not say a word against tho efficacy of prayer In any great calamity, yet the war has to my mind been so emphatically and so exclusively due to human agencies, and the part we have been Incidentally playing therein, and which has resulted In tho present crisis in Jhe life of our nation, was so largely due to the elements of selfishness and greed, that now to aBK God to enter into ina iray ana Dy His all-wise and unerring counsel help us decide the issue, seems like trying to place upon Him the responsibility for that which belongs to us only. But suppose, being moved by our Inter cessions, and regardless as to who were the Instigators of tho war, God, seeing that Germany Is now fighting for her very life and existence as a nation, would in some manner make It manifest to President Wil son and his advisers that she is Justified In so doing, and that we are wiong In giving our support to her adversaries, would we, as the pro-ally nation that we are, be ready and willing to acqulesco In that decree? I am afraid not And yet had we been strictly neutral from the beginning of tht conflict to the present time, aiding neither side, who would dare to say that the world conditions would be as they are today? Knowing-, then, that we have been instru mental In bringing about present conditions. f.ajre ffure inui our uvutaap'aavw-vwiijiaa FEBRUARY 22 MADE US THINK OP IT cutlng and prolonging tho war has been In harmony with tho Divine will? God may try to Influence and direct men, but he will not compel them to obey, just ns soon, therefore, as those responsible for the In stigation and continuance of this war nro willing to eliminate from their hearts nnd minds the elements of selfishness, envy. Jealousy and greed nnd make their will subservient to the Divine will thostrugglo will end, and not until then. W. Allentown, In., February 18. THE GERMAN-IRISH To the Editor of the Evening Ledger: Sir It Is a safe bet that nowadays when we lead a pro-German or antUF.nglish or peace advocate Utter nnd co'mo to the signature we will find either a German or Irish name. The Germans naturally can see only good In their country, only wicked ness in England nnd have only contempt and kindred feeling for tho United States. As to tho Irish, though professedly a llb-erty-lovlng and Idealistic people, they allow their hatred for ICngland to carry them Into tho camp of Germany, a nation which under other c rcunistaneo.s would seem utterly antagonistic nnd abhorrent to them. Sup posing, Just supposing, that It was Eng land who had Instituted tho barbarous and inhumane submarine war Our papers would hae been filled with Itato letters of our Irish residents, crying aloud Eng land's infamy to the skies and urging the I'nited States to avenge the blood of her slain innocents. Surely, It Is a very nad s-tate for bo many representatives of a nation like Ire bind to fall In ; they nre In deed "blinded" with hatred. It Is, indeed, lucky for them that they live In thesa free I'nited States, for I, who havn lived in Ger many, can assure them that If nt a critical time like this tjey would glvo vent to their sympathies like, for Instance, Mr. Coy and Mr. Mc.N'ulty have done, for a nation with which the United States Is nt odds, and If the case weie reversed nnd they were living In Germany and uttered such pro-American views, they would find themselves de prived of their liberty. J. H. Philadelphia, February 18. LOCATING MR. FOSS Eugene Foss was ono of Billy Sunday's Boston converts, but It Is hard o say whether the conversion was from Repub licanism or Democracy Gene's so hard to locate. Memphis Commercial Appeal. THE OLD HOUSE fold and cheerless, bare and bleak. Tho old house fronts tho shnbby street ; And tho dull wlndoxs eastward gaze. As their cobwebed brows they raise. Just as though they looked to' see What had become of you. and me And all the other children. ' The dust drifts o'er the garret floor, The little feet thread there no more; But o'er tho stage, sttll standing there. The Muse first stalked with tragic air And whispered low to you and mo Of golden days that were to bo For us and all the children. Good-by, old house! Thy tattered cloak Is fringed with moss and gray with smoke; Within thy walls we used to see A gaunt old wolf named Poverty; Yet from thy rafters' dingy bars A ladder stretched up to the stars For us and all the children. Grace Duffle Boylan, In the Rochester Evening Times. All Points of the Compass Rubaiyat of a Commuter LXXX I went one day to call on Neighbor Shaw. Oils Kid Is quite the, wort I ever sawD Ills Father said, "(pome' Johnny, speak your Piece!" N He bawled and said, "I needn't, Need I, Maw!" LXXXI I wished he wouldn't. Why should I hear, pray. About the Hesperus, or One-Hoss Shay? Or why the Curfew rang, or what oc curred When Sheridan was Twenty Miles Awayl LXXXII But when MY children stand up to recite, That Is, of course, a different matter, quite. You should hear Jim's "Horatio at the Bridge!" I tell you he's an Orator, all right. One of Bert Taylor's contributions asks him why a lady discharged from her post of employment In the offices of the Ameri can Can Company couldn't have achieved a headline In the newspaper as, "Canned from the Can Company," B. lw T. sug 'gest "Canned'' as being sufficient. Which What Do You Know? Outrie ot aenernl interest tUU be anxwired tn (his column. Ten tjuentiona, the aniwera to uhich eterv wttUin formed person should know, ure asked daUu QUIZ What la the population of Cuba? What la n I.enten ault" (of clothes)? What great American soldier bernrae a col lene president? What la n hectometer? What la the Duma? Hhcro la 1'rc.lilent Jackaon burled? What la bumblcfoot? Wlint part of thla country's area la cov ered l' foreata? illint State flrM ratified the Constitution? Whu was Ynier? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz Genrue Washington's father was Aucuatlne WilthlnEton, a landed proprietor of West moreland C'ountv. Vh, lie married twice nnd hail ten children. George's -mother, yinry Hall, vwis his father's second wife. England obtains moat of Its oil from Mexico, where there ure large British Intereats. A nmrtjry Is a chapel or shrine creeled In honor of n martyr. "The I.lon of the North" aa Gnatarua Adolnuiis, King of Sweden, 1011-33, also tailed GultaiiiH II. 1'rcaldents Monroe nnd Tler are burled In Ilolhunnd f'emeter, Richmond, Va. A millimeter Is one-thoiiaandth of a meter (.039.17 of nn Inch), the smallest unit of the metric sstem In use. The ntrrage jleld of potatoes per ncre In (erman la 18.1 bushelsi In the United States, 11.1 bushels i An nrchlnelago Is an Island group, or n sea body interspersed with Islands. The morning stara now nre Venus (January :."'"" ..''!'5, nni' Mercury (January 18 March 3!)). El Duradn Is Spanish for "The Golden." meaning n wealthy country. Automobile Maps B, II The Automobile Club of Phlladel phla, 22 South Twenty-thltd street, pub lishes automobile road maps of Pennsyl vania nnd adjoining territory, nnd through the club you may obtain automobile maps of other States. Knockouts ' MERION "IC. O." Is tho abbreviation for "knock out" In prizefighting. A boxer is adjudged to be "knocked out" If he Is unable to ilse within ten counts by the referee (about ten seconds). The nickname "K, O." Is given to or assumed by boxers supposed to be capable of knocking out their opponents. Best Hook Stores L. R It would be difficult to name the "best" book stores In the city without know ing the nature of the books you want. In quiry at any library probably would give you tho Information you wish. In the tele phone directories, under "Books," aro lists of bookstores. Passports R. T., JR. A passport Issued by the De partment of State expires within six months. Mothers' "Pensions" R. P. M. Yes, the State, not the Federal Government, pays monthly allowances to wl'dowed mothers or mothers whoso' hus. bands are permanently Insane, who have children under tho legal working age. The laws governing the allowances, which are made possible In tvventy-nino States through so-called "widow mothers' pension" acts vary In the different States. In Pennsyl vanla tho widowed mother must prove her moral and physical fitness for caring for the child nnd the necessity of aid. To ac cepted applicants there Is paid $12 a month for one child, JI0 for two, J26 for three and S for each additional child. The al lowances are administered by a board ap- nntnteri hv thn Clhv.rnn innii..n.- should be made In person to the Mothers' Assistance Fund, fifth fldor, 1414 South Ptnn Square, SAM LOYD'S PUZZLE CHARLIE CHAPLIN handed the bank cashier a United States banknote and said: "Please break this into "small-time change. Give me sorao ones, twice as many twos, five times as many fives as twos, ten times as many tens as fives and the balance In twenties." Now, what Is the smallest United States banknote that Charlie could have furnished to pay for that change? Aniiwer'te Yesterdav'Pu.!. 2 UK cents weuM bvy. aia peart, , Tom Daly's Column LVUTLA dlORQIO WAttnm,. You know tu'ahfor ccs tc'hool keep out Decs holldau, my sont Wtf, den, I oonna tal you 'bout ' Decs Giorgio Washcenton. Writ, Giorgio teas Icetla kecd "' " Ilea leeve long time ago, An' he gon' .ichool for learn to read An' write heca nam.', you know. He moocha like for gona achool ' i An' Icarna hard all day, Bavcausc he no gat time for fool ' It'ccfh lada keeda an' play. ', - IV'nl, wan cold day w'en Giorgio Ilea alccll so vera small, lie start from home, hut he ees no t Show up ccn achool at oil Oh, my! hecs pop cca gotta mad S An', so he tal hecs wife: "Bom' Icetla loy ccs gon' feel bad Today, you bat my lifel" An' den he grab a blgga slecck An' gon' out ccn da snow y An' lookin' all aroun' for seek Da Icetla- Giorgio. Ha! w'at you theenkr Firs' theeng he ses 'Where Icetla boy he stan', All tangla up ccn cherry tree, Wccth hatchet ccn heca han'. "Jlal w'at you dot" heca' pop he say, "Wat for you bilsta rule An' atay away like dcea for play Ecnatcad for gon' to achool!" Da boy cca say: "I no can lie, An' so I spraka true. I atay away ftom achool for try An' gat som' wood for you. i 7 theenka dceaa cherry tree Tct ooorfa size for chop, An' ao 1 cut heem dotvn, you ace, 1'or justa help my pop." Heca Fop he no can gatta mad, Hut Idoka please' an' aay: s, "My Icetla boy, I am so glad You taka holiday." Ecs good for Icetla boy, you ace, i-'or be ao bright an' try For help hecs pop; ao den he be A granda man bimeby. So now you gatta holiday An' cet cca good, you know, For you gon' do da aama way Like Icetla Giorgio. Don't play so mooch, but justa stop, Kef you want be aom' good, An' JUsla help your poor old pop By carry home some wood; An' mebbe so like Giorgio You grow for be ao great You gota be da Preaidant Of dese Vnita Stat&. This Is tho way these things usually; come about: "Mchercle!" cries the colyumlst, lacing his shoes In the morn ing, "would that I had a poem fit to grace the colyum's apex." "Le's see," nova Uxor Arnica In her customary help ful way, "what day Is It?" "'Tls the Ides of February and then some In fact, tho btom-ldes Washington's Birthday no less. Jove! there's that Italian thing of mine from 'Canzonl. Well, dear, why not republish that?" So tho colyumlst runs it, marked "reprinted by request." CANNED OPENERS Predigested Preludes Prepared for Postprandial Prattlers Let us after locking the door assume that one of our pupils Is to speak, some Friday evening in Lent, at the annual banquet of the Men's Sodality of St. Co lumkllle's Church. He will arise, when called, and at once begin to win the favor of his audience, speaking as follows: My friends- I must nt tho outset congratulate you upon your sobriety. I have In my house several pictures of Jolly monks in a wine cellar, and I lather expected by the way, speaking of wine cellars, there was a priest in Ireland who called In a man from the v llage to clean house for him. But be fore I tell thnt. did you hear about Chief Murphy, of the Fire Department? One of your people remarked to an other with great admiration: "Chief Murphy's a fine-Iookln' little man, ain't he?" "Well." said the other. "You might say that, but you know ho digs with his left foot, he's a Prodestant.'' "Ah! ve don't tell me." said the other. "Well, come to think of it. ye can see It stlckin' out all over his Jib, can't ye?" But to go on with the other story. The priest was nmazed at the number of wine and whisky bottles tho man had spread out on the lawn. "Well, Michael," said his reverence, "there are a lot of dead soldiers there." "Aye!" ' said Michael, "but let ye not bother yer head about, them: sure Ivry wan o' them had the priest before he died " This should carry the speaker pretty close to his finish, nnd there we leave him. SAILOR'S CHANTY WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. Howard A. Banks, of North Carolina, who has been private sccretnry to Secretary Daniels since March 4, 1913, has resigned that office to accept tho position of associate editor of the Sunday School Times, of Philadelphia. Newa dispatch. To-ho, my Jads, yo-ho! To wider seas I go, For youth's a stuff brooks no delay In grape Juice dalliance day by day, And so awayl away! away! I'll have my fling, lads, while I may. i To wider seas I go And larger life I'll know, For my young blood sings and climbs At thought of the feel Of a trick nt'the wheel Of the rollicking" Sunday School Times. Sir In a Sunday contemp. a help wanted ad reads: "Wanted, 76 men to clean streets; white and colored; good pay, etc. May 1 suppose the colored' streets to D Brown, Green, Pearl, etc.7 J. H. D, i And "from a, distinguished Eve. Con temp, we cull: MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. BASS "drum, snara drum and cyrnbsl. allor MS. also orange angora cat. Phone Kens. SI". Tuneful music and lovely stage pic tures at the Metropolitan on Tuesday' night, but the story ("Francesca da Rimini") sent us Into the night with a bad taste In the mouth. The notion of one brother egging on a second to kill third Is too unbelievable to stir human sympathy and next to Shelley's "Cencl Is our Idea of absolute Impossibility a warmer of opera bosoms. ADD FAMOUS TRIPLETS Fair, fat and forty, Bread, butter and coffee. Virtue, liberty and Independence. -inrce rinao v-umhv .... ,..'A ; Life, liberty and the pursuit of hsppln8" 8. M. i' U, M. J. anu vj. u. Three cheers. ffrY Jwft,,iitJUe bottom '.of l l 1 ,1 I i m M MM af .tna daaaadeai VI w.i iww i , jmwaem..t " "" aasr. tww .11' IU .
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