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THE AVKJUOE NET i'AID DAILY Cllt-
CULATION OF THK KVENINO MSDclKIl
FOR JANUAKV WAS 115,177
PMUJJphU, vTedndr. February it, I'll
The Hollanders
Dutch up.
hao got
their
Philadelphia streets nro bad enough,
but one has only to go to New York to
discover how much viorso they might be.
High prices are moro effective than"
ny law which can be .passed In Harris
burg In forcing cold-storage goods on tho
market.
Are the Palm Beach ladies wear
ing aeroplane hats to remind their hus.
bands that the prices of everything are
up In the air?
Germany boasts that she has sunk
4.998,500 tons of shipping slnco the war
began. If she is not pretty cateful she
will sink two or three tons too much.
Now that Philadelphia has Intro
duced city government bv telegiaph since
Mayor Smith went South, we suppose
ome more progressive city will bo try
ing to put one over onus by using tho
wlrelees on an'abs'i'nt 'Mayor.
Window glass up In price ten per
cent Headline
Whoever would have thought that
the high cost of living would extend to
looking at tho neighbors' wash In the
back yards?
It Is "unconstitutional" to appoint
a commission of distinguished citizens to
Investigate the Governor. Yet the Gov
ernor wants such a commission to find
cut the truth about the food shortage and
high prices. '
Fog which obscured a danger sig
nal Is said to be responsible for the disas
trous accident on the Pennsjlvanla road
at Mount Union. Fog also used to he
blamed for the frequent fatal accidents
en the New Haven. As the record of the
Pennsylvania Is somewhat different from
that of the New Haven, the public will
be inclined to accept tho explanation lieio
without unduly criticizing the manage
ment of a road which has carried pns
aengera for years without killing' a single
ne.
If It were not for the submarine
crisis, the German etreat from the Ancre
would be the one themo of great lmpor
, tance on both sides of the Atlantic. As
it Is, the first voluntary German with
drawal from strong positions since the
battle of the Marne must be an Im
mense encouragement to the worried Eng
lish. It was the one thing needed to prove
that Germany knew her plight was
desperate when she embarked on her
ruthless submarine campaign It Is pre
cisely the kind of confession of weakness
which the Kaiser would have avoided
making at this time had it not been abso
lutely necessary. Its political effect must
be .powerful In lowering the prestige of
sf' Germany in the eyes of all the neutrals
' who have been on the fence fearing that
Germany still had ast resources of men
"nd munitions to draw on.
Many talk of arming and convoy.
Jl iSMfasl'
. tng ships as If that were a certain means
Ut saving them and their mnr. i
Bgjjt.lncreases their chances of escaping sub-
I JHlnarlnes' tornadoes, lint If lu ..., . i
- ---. . .- . .iwv mi in
amble defense. It is Important to re-
iCmcmber -this, as there In n urirnt rf..i
Syv-yloud talk, about rushing warcraft and
.V : J. n. ui.ui ui
Kf f'ii"rn,e1 merchantmen" Into the barred zone
R ji without any of the precautions which the
,c, -British navy has not mastered after
-v,Swr,y month of experience with subma-
i 11hjui "re . i i . '
ih3b. ii oiiiiuiK njia convoying were
'Li.'an infallible defense. Pnc-Una ,.... u .
.have a submarine problem nn lt r.on
Mjttwaa with this knowledge that the
President asked for-ctedlt for adequate
l-urance against war risks, knowing
,oai in an probability not all of the Amer-
n snip wnicn are to be protected will
iape damage or disaster. Tii n..i...
$j2yfinjllA liulirar.ee expire. Ly llml-
n . mw pn pepiernrjer 2, and It will
rteeeacary for Congress to extend it
tliri yetr, as Secretary McAdoo
December,
4rVIt la a Yord worth? This Is
, fpewsn quHion, nut one which.
eourt: hiy, have to paw upon,
T Wyy" will be the right
kPama r t i(Msaoratlon to have ex.
i.of a word. The
' Mpioad uee ot
The patent hu expired, but U" owner,
.who had spent considerable money tn
making tho word known, are Insisting
that they still have tho exclusive right to
use It. The courts will settle the question
In their own way and In their own Rood
time. Those of us who have no direct
Interest In tho controversy may, however,
Ilntl some Instruction In contemplation
of the fact that a mere word, tOilali de
scribes a commodity that has recognized
value, may come to hae so great vnlue
of Its own that men nro willing to fight
for control of It. The case Is an Illustra
tion of how the Judicious use of adver
tising can make n trndo name worth so
much that If nil tho tangible assets of a
company owning It were wiped out by
flro or flood the company would still
have an onset on which any broad-minded
banker would lend hundred of thousands
of dollars, If any one doubts that monoy
spent In Intelligent advertising Is reallv
nn Investment that can't be destroyed
there Is proof of It here.
IS THIS THE OVERT ACT?
AMHAPSADOK PAOB has begun nn
" Investigation to determine nhether
or not the unofficial reports nbout the
sinking of the Laconla and the Identity
of tho lctlms nro conect. The one fact
of supicmo lmpot tance to bo verified Is
tho report that Americans wcro killed
There seems to bo little doubt that two
American women died In an open life
boat e:posod to tho ldy winds ot a winter
night. This way of killing women Is moro
cruel nnd limitless than If they had been
instantly killed by the actual explosion
of the torpedo which sank the liner. This
nppears to be the overt net or ''clcnrcut
rnse" for which Mr. Wilson has waited,
l 11, II1UVCU llltrre VUIlli:il "CIO miinmutn
For he said on February 3.
tf American ships and American lives
hou!d In fact be sacrificed by their
naal commanders in heedless contra
vention of the Just and reasonablo un
derstanding of International low nnd
oblous dictates of humanity. 1 shall
take the liberty of coming ngaln before
Congress to ask that authority be given
me to use any means that may bo neces
sary for the protection of our seamen
and our people In the prosecution of
their peaceful and legitimate errands on
the high sens.
Tho President did go to Congress again,
on Monday, saying that ns yet no overt
act had occurred. But while he was
speaking tho new of the Laconla sink
ing was coming In. While he was asking
for nuthorlty to arm ships and use other
methods to protect our ships nnd our
people "should that become necessary,"
It apparently did become necessary If tho
facts are as reported That tho Laconla
was n British ship Is an Immaterial de
tail, for the President opened his address
of Tebruary .1 by stating tho facts con
Vrnlng tho sinking of the British steam
ship Sussex, which had caused him to
threaten to sever diplomatic relations
with Germany. Germany promised not to
Bink without warning merchant essols
of tho Allies nnd neutrals. When that
promise was withdrawn Mr. Wilson mado
good his threat. We did not resorjt to the
use of arms between February 3 and
February 20, because (1) no Americans
had perished on merchant ships of the
Alllesor neutrals, nnd (2) no American
ship had been sunk under circumstances
more ruthless than were manifest before
the German submarine order of Jan-uar$-
31.
If the nlleged circumstances of the
Laconla sinking be not those of an overt
act, warranting armed defense at once, It
will be difficult for many of us to see
what was the point In bringing us to the
brink of war with Germany a year a,-o
oer the Sussex sinking.
It Is not that our arms should protect
British ships, of course, that the Piesl
dent's appenl is made. It Is for the Biitlsh
navy to protect British fchlpa nnd the
noncombatant passengers of all nations
thereon. But because the Germans have
killed Americans on British ships, as
seems certnln, the least that we can do
Is to protect Americans on our own ships
and not leave to the British navy the
whole task and responblblllty of guard
ing Americans on American ships as well
ns on British ships.
Tho peace at-nny price opposition, with
sickening partisanship or cowardice,
sought to limit the President's right and
power to use nrmed defense to certain
kinds of voyages, even nfter the repot ts
of the Laconla sinking gave Increased
evidence that It had been only good luck
that had saved American lives at sea.
The Republicans among them need to be
reminded of what tho country does not
forget, that they sought le-electlon last
summer on the plea that Mr. Wilson had
not been assertive enough In behalf of
American rights, and that now that he
would assert those rights they seek to
hampv him.
WHEN A MILITIAMAN IS A
NATIONAL GUARDSMAN
THK organized militia of the States be
comes a part of the National Guard,
under the army reorganization law, only
when Its members have taken a Federal
oath binding them to respond to the call
of the President. State troops who have
not taken this oath may belong to the
organized militia, but they are not entl-
Jled to Fodernl pav as members of th
National Guard.
A large proportion of the troops which
went to the Mexican border failed to take
the prescribed oath. The State Adjutant
General has called the attention of the
troops of this Commonwealth to the pro-
Visions of the law In order that they mayi
know what is in store for them when
they are formally muttered out of the
Federal service.
The old National Guard is evidently
not yet federallsed, and It will not be
VBUUthe.prssant enlisted force takes the
fAmitta, r until' new MvoMi la
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EVENING LEDlJEB-ltotADELPHlAV' DEStAY; VeBRUARY
REORGANIZING
HIGH SCHOOLS
Plnn for the Institution of Junior
Divisions Proposed Because
of Rapid Increase in
Enrollment
TUB proposition advanced by Henry B.
Bdmunds, president of tho Board of
Public Bducatlon, In his annual report
points a way by means of which school
taxes, levied directly by the board under
the new code, can be held down, to nn In
crease within the present circumscribed
condition of municipal finances without Im
pairment of the growth and omdency of
the schools, nnd It suggests an nttempt In
apply thQ modem elllclency doctrine In Its
principal manifestations, elimination of
wasted energy nnd complete utilization of
oqulpment to tho clty'B educational sjetem
I'rA.M.n, f-.1n.IIM.ti. H..n..nn . t. .. . .1...
. .intuitu KUIIIUIIUD tlllllUllllll'n lllill lilt-
high school enrollment is Increasing In n '
far greater ratio than the elementary school
population Ills opinion after nnnlsls of I
tho figures, Is tlint parents appreciate more
Uian ever In the pust tho money value of ,
education and desire their children to linvn I
advantages hettci thun the three Its t I
insure successful careers
The high school sjstem nf Philadelphia
has been enormous!) augmented in the lat
two decades. At the rate of present ile
mand a new million-dollar high school pi r
)car will be necessary unless some other
device Is adopted Th plnn stiggestrd l
the president of tho hoard nnd ltulor.-l
by members of tho body Ih tho Institution
of junior high schools In neighborhood icn
ters and tho continuation of tho prcsen'
high schools an senior hleb schools. This
plnn would nbvlnto thn necessity for vapt !
expenditures and would mean the compre
henslvo utilization of nil tho resources of
faculty buildings, etc Flnall) the plan '
would ork out problems In that border
land or "twilight zone,' which marks the
transition between the elementnry and pc
ond.iry schools
Details of Plnn
The theory of high school illusion nl
readv has been worked out b) Supurlntmd
ent John P Gnrber nnd his ntoclates The
senior schools will remain much ns the)
are In curriculum nnd faculty hut with
subtraction of their students The first
year students will go to the Junior schools
which will bo established In present build
ings In widely enough separated localities
to he attended bv the high school freshmen
nnd bv the pupils of tho seventh nnd
eighth grammar grades An experiment of
measurable value demonstrating tho pos
slbllltles of thn plan has been under way
for more than a )ear in the James U
Blaine School
It has been long recognized by educators
that thorn Is a distinct line of cle.ingo be
tween thn grammar school and tho high
school No satisfactory method his hith
erto been dels-ed to bridge this gap Yet
more nnd more business men nnd trrn
corporations are reoulrfnir Ihp ureoirntwiTi
of higher education in their prospective em
ployes The customary font ) ear term Ins
been a detenent to many who have not tli
time or Inclination to tomplete the coin-
for a high school dlplomi Hv the Institu
tion of tho Junior s.vstem opportunity will
in given fo- a "flnlshlng-oft ' piociss for
many of thoe who ordinarily halt in their
educational progress with the grammar
school
The curriculum will be adjusted to the
requirement of youth In one of Its transi
tional stages, when It is passing from what
ps)chologlsts call the period of memory Into
that of reasoning It will have tho mocil
effect of cultivating the developing capic
itles of youth at a time when self-iellanee
Is succeeding the dependence stage Cul
tural studv, attention to what msv he
called cltl7etiHhlp studies (lilstorv, politics
and civics) nnd opening at Just tho ape
for commercial education opportunities in
such branches as industrial and liuslnexa
arithmetic, stenogiaphy, bookkeeping, etc,
are all actors
In recent )ears algebra nnd elementarv
science have been Introduced In grammar
grades heio and ehewheie and In some
places beglnnerp Latin nnd German Junloi
high schools will be enabled, through the
presence of specialists on their staffs to
amplify the tentative experiments ahead)
made in these branches
Many Economies
Great economies In ndmlnlstiatlve ex
penses will be effected Doctor Garber, In
his last report, stated that at prebent there
aie E30 seventh nnd eighth grades In 125
schools Wide distribution of these classes
Is responslbla for an average attendance
of thirty-eight pupils per teacher, which Is
three percent below the normal require
ment, and represents the equivalent of fif
teen teachers and classrooms needless!)
tied up Salaries Involved leprescnt. son
the Philadelphia scale, $15 000 annually
nnd the value of the classrooms, on the
unit bals of ISOOO, Is J120 000
The reorganization plans the utilization
of every ,lnch of space and every minute
of the teachers' time "IVe all the space I
an me ume was a oriel enarncteiizatinn
of a member of tho board
"Concentration." Doctor (larber says,
means a more normal attendance per class'
thus effecting a financial saving There
will be a closer classification
The centers will mean more economic
provision for continuation clashes required
by the child labor law They will likewise
provide better facilities for evening schools
Larger school units would mean decrease
In the number of principals required and
the bringing of high .school facilities to
tin Immediate neighborhoods of children
of high school age The Is nlso a possl
blllty that the often-discussed plan to make
the Central High School, almost a century
old and housed In a building of collegiate
equipment Inclusive of high-class labora
tories museums, libraries and a $100,000
astronomical observatory, with a faciilt)
compoed almost exclusively of men with
the Ph D degiee from American and for
eign universities, Into a city college as a
capstone to tho Philadelphia educational
s)stem, will be forwarded by the reorgani
zation since a great deal of the pressure
will be removed from this old Institution
which has since 1857 been empowered by
the Commonwealth to confer tha same de
grees as are given by the colleges and
universities of the State, , W It M.
COROMANDEL FJSIIERS
Rise, brothers, rise, the wakening skies
pray to the morning light.
The wind lies alseep In the arms of the
dawn like a child that has cried all
night.
Come, let us gather our nets from the
shore, and set our catamarans free.
To capture the leaping wealth of the tide,
for we are the sons of the sea.
No longer delay, let us hasten away the
track of the seagull's call.
The sea Is our mother, the cloud Is our
brother, the waves are our comrades
all.
What though we toss at the fall of the sun.
where the land of the seagpd drives?
He who holds the fitorm by the hair will
hide In his breast our lives.
Sweet i the shade of the cocoanut glade,
and the scent of the mango grove,
And sweet are the sands at the full o the
moon with the sound of the voices
we love.
But sweeter, O brothers, the kiss of the
spray, and the dance of the wild
foam's glee;
How. brothers, row to ths blue of the verge,
where the Jow skyvmates with the
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DARE HE
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THE VOICE OF
THE PEOPLE
"Less to Fear From Germany
Than From England" War
and Christianity
Tdt fyrfnrtmcnt . ftcr tn nil yrnth r t ho
n it, to n iirc-H ti eir oitinioiia it ttubjrct of
enrrrnt iiitrrrxt it t un opm toruut ami th
htvntw I rt(jei ni iri vo irspontibilitv tor
the i irtf v of if evi rrsjjfindrvts Itttctv wnurf
b Mitnra by thr ttnnir ami atltltrs ot the
uritrr wof vcressarilt for i vbltcatiou, hut ah a
avaranttr of uoott faith
INITIALS "J. H." CHALLENGED
lo thr h.gitoi nf thr Kvrnina J.rtlpir
Sir This Is an answer to one who is
evldentl) an uiiunturallred Kugliidiman, nnd
here is a good old lilsh name signed to till"
letter "J H " was ashamed, evldentl). to
wrlto his name to n letter which s
headed tho fierman-lrlsh ' He can see no
good In an) thing any one else thinks, sajs
or does If it differs from his mighty opin
ion He might have read a little lilstorv
He would have found that the lilsh and
Hermans fought side l) side for this coun
tr) when the Kngllsh were trving to cut
our throats Let me tell 'J II ' tho Kng
llsh tried this In 17TC. in 1812 and in 1861
and thi) would toda) If they weie not
afraid
Let me ask our Initialed friend of th
Kngllsh what Is the dllTeieneo between
throwing bombs fiom the air Into peace
ful cities and towns nnd killing poor little
children (both sides are doing this) and
using a submarine to stop trnnsportatlun
of tioops, munition-", etc, to tho enemv 1
think If 1 were making war either wav I
would prefer to ue the submailne The
Kngllsh would havo u--ed the submatimi
long since, but their heads were swelled b)
"Itritannla Itules the Waves', they thought
nothing could disturb her "rule of the sea "
I m pro-American, but associated a good
deal with the lirltlsh and Germans heie
and on the other side 1 know them both
1 consider we In th.s country havo less to
fear from Germain who has alwa)s been
our friend, than we have from Kugltnd,
who has nt ever) opportunity been our
cnerfi)
Knglnnd, as Germany, ordered a block
ado ngulnst us ; she has taken our boats,
sent died them and let go when she got
good anil lead) , blacklisted our merchants,
etc We have had no redress She built
the Alabama and Florida to destroy our
shipping and gave millions of money to
the Southern Confederacy, not that she
cared for the Confederaoy one cent, but
she wanted to destroy this country.
Let this J II ." whoever he is, listen
to what our Thomas Jefferson said of his
friends
"We concur In considering the Govern
ment of Kngland as totally without moral
ity Insolent beond bearing, inflated with
vanity and ambition, aiming at the exclu
sive dominion of the seaB, lost In cor
ruption and deeply-rooted hatred toward us,
hostile to liberty wherever It endeavors to
show Its head and the eternal disturber
of the peace of the world"
PAUL. F. QU1NLAN.
Philadelphia, February 23.
THE CAPITALISTS REBUIyED
To the Editor of the Eventnp Ledger'
Sir If we do not get Into the war the
bankers will not get a chance to make
loans. Poor old Germany gets the blame
4or tho high cost of everything when our
capitalists' pockets are bulging with the
gold stolen from the poor American house
wife, so that she has to send her little ones
to school on bread and coffee. Oh, this
Js a great country, all right, for the great!
It Is money mad and on Its way to de
struction. This Is Just a thought from
an American mother whose ancestors came
from Kngland and helped to found Phila
delphia. ANOTHKIt SOCIALIST.
Philadelphia, February 2J.
WAR AND CHRISTIANITY
To the Editor of the Evening Ledger:
Sir Doctor KUot would do better to let
Christianity severely alone and blame human
failures of all kinds In both civil and corr
eal lite for their Inexcusable selfishnesses,
Ignorances, littlenesses and meannesses.
Though States and churches Join to accumu
late swag and destroy all human liberties,
they shall not escape the righteous verdict
of the posterity that will suffer so, much
from their having been so much more cun
ning In cruelty than any of the brutes.
No valid excuse can ever, be given for the
crusades of Peter the Hermit, which were
the cause ot an ins wars jieiween jtussla
ad,, Turkey, and of all thr. -Balkan wars.
An mriawgii rsaw wuwi
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TELL THEM HOW HE
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or all Instigators, aldeis and abetters of it
It cannot be any ciedlt to any king or anv
potentate who, If he seek glory ns well
ns gain will fight for liberty. Justice and
tho common good They should keep the
peace and prevent war by teaching real
human Justice and helpfulness Instead or
substituting the 'best seller" counterfeit,
and then sending round nn adulterated
"Civilization" film of f rightfulness, when
peace will he moi profitable for those who
do not cither ltnow or care what real civ Ill
ration Is It cannot exist where Justice,
llbert) nnd human Inalienable rights are
moxt unfeellnglv ignored nnd crushed The
1SJ2 "Secret Treaty of Verona" was con
sidered b) President Momoe to be the very
reverse of the forerunner of "human clvlll
ritlon" and no other kind ot civilization
Is either genuine or beneficial
HKOIUIK WILLIAMS.
I'ottsvllle, Pa, February 22.
DEFENDS AMERICAN PRESS
o the Editor of thr Elening l.rdgc .
Sir It a shows our strong Idea of fair
play to grant space to Mr Tuarlegue's
facts ' 1 def) Mr Tuarlegue to provo that
one single leading American newspaper, let
nlone eighteen. Is owned In Kngland Such
. (Statement is simply outrageous
Kngland Is simply pteventlng contraband
reaching German), which is her right In the
preseift condition of affairs Germany is
sinking ships doing this and murdering the
ciew The) stole $1400 worth of stores
fiom the L)iuan Law among other mis
deeds His remarks about the humanity of par
ents bearing children to pay debts Is one
which he had better Interpret
The price of potatoes here has nothing
whatever to do with Kngllsh prices, as not
one single cargo of potatoes Ins gone from
here to Kngland Another of Mr. Tuarle
gue s "facts' In Merlin tho price Is seventy
five cents per bushel Does he perhaps In
sinuate that tho United States Is sending
potatoes to Berlin' Onions are phenom
enally expensive. Vet no onions go, or have
ever gone, from America to Kngland
The true facts are that there Is a scarcity
of many eatables and speculators are boost
ing tho prices for all they are worth
S. BROWN.
Philadelphia, February 23.
All Points of the Compass
Rubaiyat of a Commuter
LXXXVI
Strange, Is It not, that of Commuters who
Before me passed tho trnln-shed Portal
through
Not one but carried Sundry Packages,
Which is the way I have to travel, loo.
LXXXVII
For I remember stopping by the Way
T6 get some things my Wife wants every
day.
And laden down with Bundles great and
small,
I catch a train as early as I may.
Casuals of the Day's Work
XXXI
DR. HENRY NOBLE McCRACKEN, who
la by way of being president of Vassar,
In a recent lecture deplored the use of
slang He said In part, as the dinner re
porters have a habit of saying:
The essence of slang Is repetition.
At first It Is poetry. The second time
It may be witty, but the third time It .
is only slang. It Is like the grass,
which after frequent crossing gives
way to a path over which many hur
ried and Irresponsible people pass. You
find these short cuts to expression all
along the real walks of life. In the
most congested places, where folks, for
Instance, leave their bicycles.
It Is not a bad habit, but It tends
to make the meadow where true flowers
of rhetorlo grow look untidy. So It Is
necessary to warn people oft the grass.
We can at least be original and avoid
cheap hackpeyed phrasaa, such as j.a
for yes and all the rest.
We admire Doctor McCracken and the
product of his BChool for young ladles,
doing, as It undoubtedly does, a whole lot
toward furnishing raw material for happy
homes. Yet we cannot agree, though we
may be meticulous, with his Idea of Vhat
constitutes correct simile, as: "You find
these short cuts to expression all along the
real walks of life, where folks, for Instance,
Wave their bicycles."
In an earlier youth, when banting wasn't
necessary to produce a waistline, we rode
a bicycle, but Memory has lost her seat If
we ever left It on "a short cut to express
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What Do You Know?
Queries of oenernl interest will be atsv errd
in this column. Ten oufffiom. the nnurr? to
wMcH every v rll-informrd ptrson .should hnoti.
are aked daily
QUIZ
1. What hlKtorle event lll the anlTrairliita
Imitate when Uier perform their "Jerl
fho" march about the hi to HnuiteT
2. Where did Delaware set Its name?
t. What In a nerent act?
lime the Nobel peace nrliea for 1914, 191.1
anil 1010 been awarded?
S. What l the rilgerenre between biweekly and
aomlweeklj?
!. lhat Is Don nine Street?
7. unnt Is the vnlue of the widow's mite
of the lllhle?
8. hat 1-resldent
Is hurled nt Princeton.
0. I'rnnounee "archenloity,"
10. Width la the rnstnl weridlnc nnnlversarj?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. The latest submarine torpedoes ordered by
the L'nlted mate, rout S7S00 eaeh.
B. The rhlnqiinpin tree la the Amrrlran dwarf
ehentnut, single small nuts crowing In
toe burr.
S, A rios N n wooden shoe. In Kngland the
(Ions sometimes have leather uppers with
wooden soles.
"'.V. V.i"fniTr '." ."" '.""'" shortstop of
tie I'lttshurali bnseball rlub of the .Na
tional l.encue. who rerentb celebrated
Ids forU-thlrri blrthdav unnlversarr
8. FreaMent C.rnnt Is burled nt Itlverslde Park,
8' l,'domm"ar8SO,"bll,h'''1 "' "",ra,e kln-
7' rJ,i,tJin n?V. h.rrn "nnrted In New lorU
and Philadelphia.
S. The I.neonla, of the Canard line. Is the
larseat shin sunk br tho l.ermans In the
Ig.ODB.v"" ""' """" ' lonnste was
. Abont 800 000 rounr men a year wonld he
Riven military training b the provl.lonj
of tha army General Mag's bin,
10. Greenland Is Danlth America.
Tsing-Tau
T R. (a) General Kamlo, of the Japa
nese army. ,was commander-in-chief of the
operations which resulted In the fall of
the German stronghold, Tsing-Tau, on the
Shantung peninsula, after a siege of more
than two months. There were 20,000 Jana.
nese troops and a British force of about
1000 regulars and 300 Sikhs, commanded
by the British General Barnardlston Vice
Admiral Meyer Waldeck. Governor General
of Maochow, commanded the 4500 Ger
mans comprising the defenders. ,h) Tha
Japanese used about 160 guns. Including
some 28 and 2S centimeter siege runs In
the bombardment In which a Japanese nee?
took part. The Germans' artillery was far
inferior to that of the besiegers.
Oldest Republic
W. A. S The honor of being the oldest
republic belongs to neither the Uni ed Bute,
nor Switzerland, but to San Marino? a tiny
country situated In Italian territory vThi.
republic1 dates from ths Middle Age J, "J
Independence being recognlse'd by ti !
Church In 1231. San Marino. It may be
mentioned. Is one ot the Powers engaged
In the European war. "agea
Bird Spider'
8. E. Whether or" not the bird snider
actually eats birds has not been tabnwi
It Is called a blrd-eatlng spider but h,.
never been detected attacking 'or Ltinl
Its supposed prey, nor have any traeea ?
Its food been discovered hi Its burrowT i?.
body Is about two Inches long, blick .n'5
very hairy. Counting legs and in. if",,
about a foot In diameter. Its habitat .
tropical and subtropical America.
Senators
W. T. a. Jr. In the oloslng Slxty.fourth
Cpngress there are flfty-flvf DemoSXle
Senators and forty-one Republican Sm.
tors. In the Senate of thi , Slxty-ntS,
Congress there are flfty.four Democrat,
and forty-two Republicans. "Bmocrats
SAM LOYD'S PUZZLfe
THE combined ages of father, mother
and Bobby amount to seventy veara
Father Is Just slg times as old as Bobby
When their combined ages amount to
twice seventy years father will be only
twice as old as Bobby. Now. then! whu
Is the sis of mother? ' wnat
Answer to Yesterday's Puiife
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J tlllt A'HVHI
"Hear A'cH." tic wrote, "thcae violet.
1'ir made so bold to tend to von
Srioll bo mj mute ambassadors;
And each shall tell how deep and tn.
The sender's loie Is, craiipp vourt
For him. What messengers more mcett
Are. thcu not typical of you;
They arc so siccctf"
"Dear Jack," she wiote, "your tlolela
Have Just thb moment been rcceiied.
Their message took me by surprise
Twas something scarce to be believed.
, oc,. ti.y una,., uhck icun them
What fitter messengers for your
So typical of how you'll feel
They arc so bluet"
Look Who's Here!
Disintegrating bricks, laths nnd plaster
wero dropping under the Insistent blows
of nllen picks nnd crowbars. The old
building at Fifteenth nnd Arch .i-....
was dissolving and fading from the path
of tho Parkway.
The ruins interested
us; particularly the
marblo figure of a
Hon whose right
forefoot was miss,
lng. It had been
newly broken off,
nnd there were un
mistakable tooth,
marks on the pe.
cstal. This stirred
us strangely, and
wo were almost pre
pared for the low
whine that came to
us a moment later
from n corner of
the wall, We looked
and saw him crouching among the
debris, thin, foot-9ore. Jaw-weary, fish.
e)ed nnd utterly unpeppery, but in.
dubltnbly our Bunkhound. Goodness
knows, whore he has been all this tlmel
But there he crouched before us, a hor
rlble example of Dynamic Enctgy un
blessed and unbridled by Intelligent Di
rection and Conservative Moderation. We
led him back to his kennel and removed
tho can from his toll. We may enter him
at the dog show, hut never again will
we nllow him to overwork.
AND WHEN our Bunkhound has
quite) recovered his spirits we may send
him to Atlantic City to lntorvlew Mayor
Bachnrnch, who recently addressed the
canine world In this fashion:
Don Mi'77.i,in PRon.wiATinN
I Harrv Bachsrach, vtovor of the city of
Allanlle otv by virtus nf the authority vstM
In me hy.nn ordinance nf the city of Allamio
i Ity do hereby forbid anv don to he upon the
nubile streets or public places In Atlantic CUT
for the space of nlnetv dais front the date of
this proclamation unless nose Is muzzled securely
so sk lo prevent ssld dog from biting sny person
or animal This order applies both tn dori run
ning at large and to dogs held In leash
Issued under mv hand this seventh dy of
Februar). A D HUT
HARnr tiAt'HAn 'n
' Mayor.
Pertinent Persiflage
Fond father nt tl.i nrenkfnst table look
ing up from his moinlng contemp : "Well,
I see they are going to require a llcene for
cats flftv cents per"
Little Mabel, brlghll) oh so brightly:
"Our Peter ought to get a dollar for his
purr, It's so loud!" MIKADO.
"The sea," says J. St, Georae Jo)ce
bless his untamable Irish heart and
speech! "Is no man's land."
Speaking of the Irish, let us announce
In ample time our determination this year
to repeat our performance of last St.
Patrick's Day and admit to thlB column
on March 17 nothing that doesn't carry
a bit of green with It.
"Talk about your low Irish tricks,"
writes Wlnthrop, "there's a man In
Gloucester, Mass , who advertised In one
of the papers In his town that he would
give $5 for the best specimen of a potato
sent to him before March 1. He already
has six barrels of choice tubers."
Tho only thing Irish about that trick,
friend Wlnthrop, Is the potato. The rest
Is Yankee unadulterated.
Add Famous Triplets
Thtee wise men
Gold, frankincense and m.vrrh
Three for ten (while they, last)
One yard
Tom McNaughton's "Three Trees"
"Three Little Maids From School"
MIKADO.
YOUNG MAN wanted for light factory worm
experience not necessary, Jl" 80 per acre Ap
ply, etc Ad In o o a p
The desirable applicant, thinks John
Dee, being ono who, can cover lots of
ground.
tuiq w i.i. rtani larrce v- wiin .tames '.t
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.Montgomery v lagg, nrusi ami niumiuiw ;,
Wo can't help It. -n
Tha Dutch Treat Club, of New York, jh
. : " ... . ; ..a m
holds a Dinner witn stunts annuany, a"
Monday last saw the 1917 eiuptlon. ws
were present and we liked It, arid In
writing about It we can't nvold mention
ing .1. Mpnt. Flagg. The dinner, very
nrnhahlv. wraa not cooked by J. M, Flagg,
hut everything else was. so Monty Flags
must have place In our story. James
M. Flagg Is president of the club, and
J. M; F. presldentlcatos In regular Wood
rovlan fashion. Mont. Flagg permits the
congress to be ejaculatory and corrobora
tive merely. 'We are not even absolutely
sure that J. Monty Flagg did not cook
the dinner, but these things we do know:
Montgomery Flagg mado .all the medal
nrosentatlons and all the after-dinner
.. .... V wrota ths
npeecnes; jaron oioiueuju. -. ... -
book and the lyrics for "Western iun.
the movie burlesque which followed ths
dinner; J. Montgom. F. painted all the
ecenery, hired the heroine, painted th
cover for the libretto, hung the smallei
and less conspicuous jed-whlte and blue
relatives with which the stage was
draped, and last but b. n. m. 1- dealt
to Jm. Mont. Flags: the role of Director,
.v.i.t, allowed .la. M. Flagg to be the
nntv noranna dramatis constantly In the
i.. e h. fTiAtiie-hta. Jamie FUgi""
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never once left the stage I
n-.... .. iK. whn ralaa avehroWS and
AllCICl WW lVW T...W ... - I T
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l-.1l.l.n . flrMlnr- n man who IS SUCH -
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ns lift mil- hat.
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Montgomery Flagg, monopolists gem-
n nn nn Jlna nf tribute, not eve
mention of its name, thall we Blvet,
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