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Strand 'Aloe Dcriav 32 Hue Louis le Grand SUBSCntPTlOM TEIIMS Th TCveyi-m I.CDaKU le served to subscribers In Philadelphia and surrounding towns at the ?ate ot twelre (12) cents per week, payable o the carrier. Br tnall to points outside ot Philadelphia. In the united Ftates, Canada or United States pos esslons, postage, tree. fifty (CO) cents per Mdllth Qfv flnl ittllara na, v.... ttovnltln In r tape .-k Br 1W '.'Amo f V i U'J ais .i i .t '. advance. irtfum To all rcrelen countries one (1J dollar per HV Notice Subscribers wishing address chanced , anutl 11 aire ojq as wen as new nuuress. BELt. 3000 WALNUT KEYSTONE, MAIN 3000 F Addrtsr all eommuatenllon" lo Kvcnlno Ledger, Independence. Square, Philadelphia, W . ' T 1-: STtnzD at the, rntLAncLrntA rosTorrioa as Bk.CO.ND-CLA.5 UAtL UATTEn. THK AEnAOn NET PAID DAILT Cllt-CCIATION- OK THE EVENING EDdER FOn FKURUAIIY WAS 08.378 J believe and I summon you to show your belief in the same thing that it h the duty o every American in everything that he docs, ,in his business and out of it, to think not first of himself or of any in terest uhich he may bo called upon to sacrifice, but of the country uhich he serves. President Wilson to the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World in Inde pendence Square, June 29, 1916. "March!" says the calendar. Kcn the time in appropriately .set for the patriotic action tit the Cradle of Llbci ty. Tho dlfferenca between rapid transit In New York and in Philadelphia Is thlb! Now York lias its work under contruct at normal prices and Philadelphia might kave had. Aitlstlc youths who cover many miles nightly on polished dancing Moors could obtain more beneficial results by drilling over the ttamo distance in the many preparedness camps. There aro probably enough mo&qul toesstlll left in New Jersey to prevent George W. Goeth'als, now Highway De partment engineer in that State, from becoming too homesick for Gatun Luke. To take away that affectionately cultivated phrase, "onus of responsibility," from a German statesman would bo like depriving n gesticulating orator ot tho Use of his hands. Mr. "Wilson carried the Union not because men wanted no war, but be cause thoy felt confident that no war could come under his guidance unless it ""'were an inevitable and a just war. Ho has justified that confidence. It looks as though tho new English plan to grant the vote only to women over thirty might bo the last stand of the "antls" to make the suffragist cause un popular. The crisis which demands that a woman tell her age or bo disfranchised ought to make matorlal for a really great "problem" play. If New Yorkv-when her first sub way was proposed had stopped to count the cost of Iter present subway system there would never have been a shovelful of earth overturned, and yet, will any one eay today that New York should or could get along without her subways or that the subway has not remade New York? Somo very excellent citizens of the United States, men tried and true in tho ordinary affairs of everyday life, are pacifists. They aro entitled to freedom of thought and to frco expression of that thought. Citizens had that right in France; they must always havo it in tho United Statest After Congress has acted division of purpose must end and all men alike support tho policy 'of the nation. Already the food speculators are hinting at higher prices should the United States ko to war. As the thousands of t, soldiers who enter the conflict were in the h.W rh.l.dflphli, S.lutdiy. March 31. 1917 St i , . 1 1 -YMiablt of eating every day during times of : " hAaiu 4Yiflkfn vrntllH BAPm in fin Tin t-onl F- Af " .-.- ..- - ......... .- w ..V. ...... "V reason for increasing the cost of food on JJM r.cniint nf the different ceoirranhlcal lnn.-i. Hii tlon ' their bodies. Incidentally, Uncle ,t,Sam could prevent graft ami misery by r't exempting expert tillers of tho soil from J m military duty. ' Suspicions of Caribbean intrigue -.Are) at once aroused by the news that ,ndor the new law fifty per cent of the ;,ppUcanU for first-citizenship papers at Juan, Porto Rico, have been Ger- Doubtless American authorities in Wet Indies are fully alive to the n of Teuton activities in both our stab-speaking possession and their ihbora. At homo we are often Inclined : underestimate the extent of German nee in the American tropics. Co- tvatlll wary of the United States on itj of the Panama Canal negotla- aV yieiaea much of her trade into 1 hands. In Venezuela, also, Teu- Wnierclal bouses exert a powerful .and the main railway artery be Caracas and Valencia la largely a , German capital. -TVlthln a .few of; the harbor of Puerto ,h the route to Ban ClMDWmy taW aafe berth for deposed , (Rotate i and ' : ', oeapiu in rfgfcTi lean officials witl naturally keep an oyo on Porto nico's new Teuton candidates for citizenship, and an ulert navy" may find it well worth while to watch quaint old sunny Wlllemstnd. WE RENEW OUR PLEDGE TO THE WORLD TT IS no new doctrine that will bo voiced today at theworlVs most sacred shrlno of llborty Independence Hall. More than a century Iibb left unsullied and 'unchal lengcablo.tho elemental principles of 1776. Tho alignment of enemies has changed. Our ancient foe, England; our ancient friend, Kiance, aro now exponents of thoso very concepts of ficedom for which theRovolutIon was fought. Ilenowal of our Immortal pledges awakens in them hope, not fear. But today realllrmntlon of our fore fathers' deathless vows li supremely fit ting in order that tho last bulwark of tyranny within tho world may bo do stroyed. Tho spontaneity of tho Decima tion of Independence, the Immortal in spiration ringing through every phrase, adds, of course, to its abiding power. It is doubtful, indeed, whether in the swift surgo of history the signers of tho docu ment realized tho full mcasuro ot their achievement.. Tho issue of their act was ir. doubt. It v,ni possible for tho Declata tlon to become either a beacon ot fice dom or a mere quixotic, chlvalrio experi ment, crushed in failure. In 1917 tho very self-consciousness ot our acts augments their force. Wo do not wish to proclaim a new and untiled creed of liberty and mannood. We seek to bo worthy of the old. The frumers of tho Declination felt tho sense of tcctitude in their own souls. Our modern souls respond, too; but cvciy thrill which fills them Is Intrenched by mighty foitres&cs of attested fnct. "We know not merely what llbetty might be, out what it actually Is. It is. therefore, the Aim ground under our feet, tho full knowledge of what ftco govcrntnont, tested In tho lire of expe rience, triumphant over perils, means, tlifit ttdds luster to what wo do today. Germany Is fighting for tjrnnny without knowing what freedom Is. Yv"e wear aif armor forged of old. Our conscious and solemn pride In its possession is tho pilde of humility and reverence. Hut wo aie surely right in bcllovlnn that against It not all tho forces of darkness can ilnally prevail. THINK THIS OVEK IF THE United .States had' possessed the mightiest navy In the world, army or no at my, tho reply ot Germany or any other nation to a demand that our rights be respected would have been a quick compliance. Tho cost of tho building and main tenance of such a navy would represent an nbsurdly low insurance premium in proportion to the enormous wealth of the nation. "Wo can build such a iravy now. "HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF" FOR tho second time In history there Is gathered today in this city a de termined group of patriots who will mako clear tiro challenge which this nation once moro throws at the feet of a Ger man king. A mad German sat on the throne of Britain in 1770. The majority of Eng lishmen and of Americans wete opposed to his tyrannical policy. In England tho great Burke had appealed to a servile Parliament for conciliation with America. In America "Washington had written, October 9, 1774, to Captain Mackenzie about tho movement for "setting up for independency": "I am well satisfied that no such thing is desired by any thinking man in all North America; on the con trary, that it is tho ardent wish of tho warmest advocates for liberty that peace and tranquillity, upon constitutional grounds, may bo restored and tho horrors of civil discord prevented." Theso are words that would Batlsfy the most ardent pacifist of today. "What, then, turned Washington from .what we would call pacifism to bel ligerency? The fact that the German king of England, In his rqadness, had done tho very thing which all gooA Americans had hoped to avoid. Ho had made in evitable an armed conflict in which the king fought to deprive America of an Independence which her isolated position was making moro and more a reality every year. Llboral Englishmen -knew that America's independence could not be qualified save by the mere formal recog nition of the British throne as its suzerain and protector, a recognition which Ameri cans wero willing to perpetuate. Let us never forget that our forefathers de manded tho substanco of liberty and not IUj mere outward form, that they fought tyranny and not kingship. In substance we stand today at tho same point of departure. A mad German king,, opposed by the Liberals of Germany, who day by day grow more bold, would make our independence a scrap of paper. We do not believe in emperors. But we have given our kiyal friendship to the Liberal forces of" great Germany, which we had supposed the emperor was aiding, seeing the substance of liberty In tho work of those forces in doing more than any other nation has ever done toward abolish ing poverty1, toward conserving health, 'toward progress. We did not shrink from the word "emperor," fortit was the actual substance of liberty and progress that' we hailed, regardless of forms and pageantry. Many of us have fJerman ancestors. We strove for peace. But now, In a few months, we have been com pelled to see that the doctrine of "the UvinV right .of kings" to be' tyrants Is rWoetairaeel wlthaa much (danger, to our I iulfcrfe liberties .by William ir as it was If? --- ttr k?yiitmpa we. do than to Join hands 7JL. a tfasssUlsj ''"fMV T.1ViAo1a t9 naTtnatiw I aawaesji ,ww vam . EVENING LEDaER-PfllLABELPHIA, SATURDAY, MARCH 31, PATRIOTISM AS OLD AS THE RACE It Is ns Fundamental 'as tho Mother Instinct Some Fam ous Ancient and Modern Utterances Hy GEORGE W. DOUGLAS TO TIIOSH who bollevo thoro Is n divine order In tho world, patriotism ls'n duty and nn Instinct asstrong as tho mother Instinct. Tho nothcr Instinct It controlling oven In bruto creation. When Its obligations ate denied by women the language contains no words strong enough to condemn tho guilty. What happons In a emtio civilization 1ms been, admirably described by Browning In "Ivan Ivnnovltch," a poem that every lover of his kind should lead. It tells ot a woman, who to save her own skin let the wolves devour her children, mid of Ivan, t clcar-thlnklng peasant, who beheaded her when her crime became known. Ivan Is not punished because a sano old villago priest declares that ho has executed the law of Clod. Tho piiest says a mother Is the sentinel ot tho future, the guardian of life: How say you. should the hand God trusted with life's torrh Kindled to light tho world awaro of pparks that scorch, Let fall the H.iine? Korsooth, h-r flesh a flrcllnko stltms: Tho mother drops tho child ! Among what monstrous things Shall she bo I'l.isbcd? Nations arc llko mothers: They htue their mission to perfoim. It la the obli gation of every citizen to bo loyal to his country In order that its mission may bo fulfilled. He stands as a sentinel guard ing the camp of tho future. If lie deserts his post lie Is no less a tialtor than If he had been put on guard on the outskiits of an nrmy and had guldzrt the enqmy to his sleeping comrades. Stephen Deca tur sensed this truth when ho proposed his famous toast at Norfolk, Va more than it hundred years ago: Our country! In her Intercourse with foreign nations may cho nlwaya bo in tho right; but our country, right or wrong! The mother will stand by her son, even to tho foot of tho gallows, because ho Is her son. It Is her business to love him back to righteousness If sho may. It Is likewise tho business of every loyal citizen to stand b his i-juntry to the last gusp, for only thiough such loalty can the country oer And tho light Patriotism is as old as organized human society. Tiio Old Testament is full ot It. Tho man who was disloyal to ancient Isiael was disloyal to God. It was nearly 2000 years ngo that this thought was for mulated by tho Jewish race. Coming down another thousand years wo And tho idea developed In Homer, who sang: A glorious death Is his "Who for his country falls. Whether tho idea was transplanted from Greece to Home or whether It pprang from the natural Instincts of the Romans Is not matetial. Wc Jlnd It allvo in that ancient empire. Horace tells us, Dulce et decorum est pro patrla morl, In Latin so simplo that every schoolboy knows that it meuns it is sweet and glo rious to dio for one's country. Cicero wrote: Happy the death of him who pays tho debt of nature for his country's pake. And ho put It in another form when he said: Our country Is the common parent of us all. And Vergil in the Aeneid announces that Lovo of country and an Insatiate thirst for glory shall prexall. , One has only to see the flag of his country floating in a foreign land to dis cover what tjnllls it can produce. Scott understood it when ho wrote: Breathes there a man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, This Is my own, my natlvo land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned As home his footsteps ho hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand? If such there breathe, go, mark him well! For him no minstrel ruptures swell; Lting, shall forfeit fair renown. And, doubly dying, shall go down To tho llo dust from whence ho sprung, Unwept, unhonored and unsung. American orators, statesmen nnd poets' have rung tho changes on tho spirit of loyalty In Decatur's toast. It was Daniel Webster who said: Let our object be our country, our whole country and nothing but our country. Rufus Choato declared In this way tho faith that was In him: We join ourselves to no party that does not carry tho flag and keep step to the music of tho Union. Lincoln's loyalty Is what saved the nation in tho trying years of tho Civil War his bollef in the divine mission which tho nation founded hero in the name of freedom had to perform, and he appealed to tho same spirit in the course of his first inaugural address: Tho. mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to eery living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, wjll yet swell tho chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature. " The very stars In their courses "teach us a lesson In loyalty, for they are true to the laws of their being, and each pur sues its way in its ordained orbit, as each loyal citizen moves In his ordained na tional sphoro and sustains the principles for which his nation stands. renegade son In any nation In the family of na tions is as contemptible as a renegade in the domestic family. The burden has been put on his shoulders and ho has thrown it off. Trust has been reposed In his loyalty and he has betrayed it., THE NATION'S HOUR Full molten on a hearth of Love, Lay lrldo and Wealth and Power, The Bell was cast now high above, It strikes the Nation's Hour. t Alt petty purr ot pleasure.diei, And aong of etlf Is still; One hymn of Faith surmounts all cries, It sounds a Nation's Will. Base traitor hissing find its, source, , The flute of fear, 1 done,' tfWedHMlnrUW'rMiri-adKM''. t Tom Daly' 3 Column BAITU T1IH WINDOW BILL (in Independence Hall) tea an ashlar newly act, Borne myriad dawns ago, When first I felt what thrills vie vet When townsmen, as today, aro wet In council thcro'lclow. That earlier day, I mind It well. With cloudless sunshine came; And from tho heights above mo fell The brazen clamor of a bell That shook this casement frame. Below were tongues, deep, solemn, shrill, Whose chorus rose to me; One read aloud, the crouxl was still; ' Then leaned acrois tho granite sill The .Miracle and Bhcl She was as lovely as a day When wludi arc In the wcit; Iter breath twas balmy as the May, And roiy was the babe that lay And suckled at her breast. As one to other worlds withdrawn, She musfd above me there; The voice below read on and on, And In her eyes began to clnitn A look that gods might wear. She held her child far out on high, Ttcyond my granite brink. "Oh, hark, my sonl" J heard her sigh, 'Tor these are words that shall not die, And more than meat and diinh!" Her breast was pressed against my brow; I shared her motherhood; And lot my hcait of stonr, I vow, Wat thrilled, at U Is thrilling now, With warmth of patriot blood! llcyond earth's utmost parapet Hhe patted long, lonp ago, lint her warm bosom thrillt me yet When townsmen, at today, arc met In council there below. ON THAT DAY when John Nixon stood upon tho steps of tho State House and reuu" out the Declaration of Inde pendence there were doubtless scores of harc-brulnccT in chins perched in trees or craning their neck3 upon tho skirts of the crowd whom tho history-making leader Inspired with nothing moro soul ful than a dcslro to hit him with a bean shooter. Wo were somewhere in the crowd a hunched jeaiH later, when the Centennial celebration drew a great concourso- to the shrlilo of our liberties, but we have no recollection of It, beyond tho half dozen crullers wo carried on a small wire hoop until wo wero permitted to put them where thoy would do moro good. Let grandfather toll of tho blood-stirring scenes in and around Independence Square in tiro first years of the Civil War, and when Lincoln's body lay there for tho reverence of his stricken people; and let great-grandfather, If he's still able, wax garrulous over a Mexican war time Fourth O' July. Our own Hist intelligent attend ance upon a really important function at the old State House goes back no further than 1S9S, if wo count as of minor inter est the visit of LI Hung Chang, who, llko an animated question mark, passed through this country In 1S9C. Yet wo doubt if tho old State House windows ever looked down, or ever will, upon nn occa sion more rich in dramatic atmosphere. The newspapeis of Saturday, July 1', 1898, and of Sunday, the 3d, wero full of un pleasant things, lists of tho killed and ounded In tho battlo of Santiago, rumors ot the withdrawal of General Shatter's troops and other tidings calculated to dampen tho holiday spirit. Great plans had been made for patriotic displays throughout tho city. There was to bo tho usual gathering at Independence Hull, a parade through Falrmount Park, a regatta' on the river anil fireworks In the evening. Upon this great day the sun rose piping hot, and with it camo the news of Schley's glorious victory and tho destruction of Cervcra's fleet. The air everywhere was charged with electricity. Standing on tho steps of tho old hall, where Nixon had stood l'1'l years ago, Walter George Smith declaimed the Declaration as It had sel dom been lead before. Ex-Senator George F. Edmunds, despite his age and tho ter rific heat, w.'ts never moro eloquent, and the United German Singers closed the exercises with a vocal Interpretation of "America" richer in melody and In vol ume than had ever beforo poured upwnrd through thoso old trees. In tho afternoon came a spectacular storm of thunder and lightning and tor rential rain, ant! after alt a gorgeous sun set which spiead like a vast conflagration far Into tho east. We havo seen nothing like It since. The Friendly Man There's a man comes down our street ; he brings my mama's mall; An' every day I watch for him from inside our front rail. 'Coz he don't pay "Aw, ain't ho cute," nor call mo pretty names. An' ho don't toll me to be good an say "Be careful, James." I'd love my ma a whofe lot moro If she'd just talk llko him; An' holler out "Hello, old scout," or else "Good mornln', Jim." JOMACAW. 0erheard on Chestnut Street "Aren't you going down to the rally?" "Naw." "Where's your patriotism?" "Why, that's only Ledger patriotism. That's their party." "Say, my friend, if you had been a dele gate to tho Continental Congress you'd have refused to sign tho Declaration be cause John Hancock could wxito bigger and better than you." Springpome Now spring is breaking through! "Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-wltta-woo," "Lhude sing cuccu I" Now bricks aro oozing mud between their toes, And skirts are shorter made as March wind blows; Now redwing sings where ice-freed river flows, And fragrant swamp with rich skunk cab bage glows. But watch jour step, young man, for lol who knows , , But that tho morn may bring waist-deep March snows! Ah, when will spring break through? "Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-wltta-woo," "Lhude vslng cuccu!" HORACE HOOK. w . ' MMSSi 1917 j t fc5.n '-'i: "-!.,; G''i . V ffi: ftiU'! r&5 "',:;:$28 '3B3T . .ii ' :j "" "ifl s'a.'i-'ii'iV 'tW v,.:- THE VOICE OF THE" PEOPLE The Parade of the Pacifists in Washington "Doing and Dying" , THE PACIFISTS' PARADE To the ndllor of the livening Ledger: Sir To tho casual observer It would seem to be a harmless proceeding for the pacifists to parade in, Washington on Sunday next In order to Influence Congress and tho Presi dent In their consideration of tho grave crisis which confronts tho country, but is It a proper thing to do? Surely If only those parade who aro con scientiously opposed to war under all clr siimstauccs and under all provocations, most of whom are women, would not much matter, but If tho larger proportion of tho paruders should be pro-German and not really opposed to war at all, but simply opposdd to war against Kaiser Ism, and not adverso to taking sides against our coun try then It Is eminently improper to allow such a demonstration in the shadow of tho Capitol on Sunday next. How a .pro-Ucr-mau can bo distinguished from a pro-American In tho lino of parado would be hard to tell. A lady writing from Washington a few daH ago to a lrieiul of inliro said, Inci dentally, that "tho city Is full ot spies," and It tho lady Is correct In her statement, such characters are likely to form part of the procession. Obviously tho persons ot real pacific purposes ought not to get Into such company, otherwise they may do their cause moro haim than good. Suppose at tho critical moment when the South resolcd to quit the Union and Stato after Stato was passing ordinances of seces sion a parado formed of Mary landers and Virginians In largo numbers should havo appeatcd In tho streets of Washington; they might hao done Infinite mischief; but, of course, such a thing would not havo been allowed. It seems to mo that parades to Influence Congress and the President should never bo allowed lu the District of Columbia at all, for tho reason that only peoplo ftom nearby cities can fully participate, and this would not bo fair to tho ptoplo of distant States. The President and Congress should bo frco to represent their constituents at home and uninfluenced by paraders, who rush to Washington from neat by cities, overflowing with zeal for their cause and not knowing Just where they are at. W1LMUR ATKINSON'. Philadelphia, March J9. DOING AND DYING To the Editor of the Eicnlng Ledger: Sir In your Issuo ot March 2D Henry R. Kellcy, writing on "Peary and Prepar ing," says; "Theso men are npt preaching and crying aloud that wo aro uirprcpaicd und would bo annihilated In caso ot war. No, they aro calmly and coolly polishing their swords and cleaning their rifles, ready when the call comes to do, or dio." They would be prepared to die, but cer tainly not to "do." They would bo ready to do effectively only such "work as In a country prepared for modern war would be assigned to women or to men beyond the military ago or otherwise Incavacltated. Tho truth should bo told, retold- and per petually hammered In, that untrained men, no matter how numerous or patriotic, aro not an army; they aro only a mob of rookies. Opposing such to modorri, well trained troops would be simply useless slaughter. Far better. In such caso, would It be to "lie down" without a struggle This has always been true, but It Is doubly and trebly so In modern warfare, In which every campaign brings new methods of attack and defense requiring new- technicalities and difficulties of knowledge and of physical training. Whether or not we should bo "an nihilated In cbbo of war" would at present depend, as with England three 'years ago, almost entirely upon our navy. Could our navy hold oft tho enemy from our shores for a year or moro so that a real "army" of a million or moro might bo made then wn should havo even chances as to tho ulti mate outcome. At the close of this war Groat Britain will havo a navy moro than three times as powerful ns ours and an army (real army-trained men) of more than 4,000,000 men. In the pathology ot nations thero are two kins of mania, both generally fatal: megalomania, tho delusion that one can conquer the world; mania grandlosa, tho delusion that ono Is Immuno from attack or Invincible. Germany had a caso of tho llrst, England of tho second. How would you diagnose our case? CIIARIiKS WILLING. Philadelphia, March 30. LOCAL OPTION PLEDGES To. the Editor of the Evening Ledger: Sir Considerable publicity, has been given to the fact that several membors of the Legislature violated their pledges In their vote on the local option bill. The two members from Crawford County Mesart- Williams and Shattuck, were sujil ported for the legislature by many temper ance people on the strength of tho written pledges which, they made to theVAntl-Haloon League. Here are the pledges they gave tne reniiyivM un-oaioon xeague; A.Y V !!! -'K!' y""wryHM fihiienJ" ziim-T.'W "fwmxwmm .-;iiwjrt.nra- Jin. mumr nOTt4r. wr rama i v -u . ..T-'-M-nri irv ' ai fefytf. WKtf&1 MmiMr v'--"- flmmwrf? ism-. mwuu ugsmummmmfflm. ''fix. .j '..' . :i;r 'xw.w&'. r r ' inmiii rx it fan rrr'Trrrn mtt "no '-v wtfmim&mMf mmmmmMammmmvmBmt -v.aiwiK fcfisMM a wv I msmtmmsam w a WMKmjmt&w -hbshmis , msx tM.vr ... t: i.sj.v&i!i-,A liwrvi. ..::, ? iiSMMis, mmsKk wimm&.mmMm2mr i -i mi ii in in mil fflmrsKtw twBmsirmJutns.Mimmi mwm j'tm .'.v. vrv: '. ,.i-l araj, ? "AT YOUR SERVICE, UNCLE m v 1 Reprinted by request . penalty added to It for peoplo receiving liquor in a prohibited county. (Signed) J. P. Williams." "I most certainly will support local option or any other tempcranco measure brought beforo the Legislature It I should bo fortunate enough to bo elected to that body, and I hope to get the full Indorse ment of all peoplo in faor of county local option nnd other measures that tend to the betterment of mankind. Theso havo always been my sentiments, and my IJfo and actions along this lino havo been In full accord with these Fcntlmcnts. (Signed) Frederick J. Shattuck." HARKYM. CHALFANT. Philadelphia, March 29. COMMENDS THE RALLY To the lldltor of the Hvitlity Ledger: Sir Tho doings at ..ndopotidunco Hall today will tend to stump Philadelphia not only tho "homo and cradlo of liberty," but tho foremost lu tho act and deslro to bo known as tho "Protectress of Liberty." Tho Mayor and tho editor of the EvnNiso Lcnoun, who suggested the Idea, should be commended for giving vent to tho call of their patriotic hearts. Let the world gazo upon our city with eyes not bedlmmed with teats, but with a feeling that Philadelphia, the "City of llrothorly Love," Is ready In the emergency to shoulder arms. If need be, and withstand, as It has dono before, the advance of tho foe. Nothing would be more appropriate than to assign an enlistment corps In tho shadow of tho shrlno of Freedom nnd mnke urgent call to tho thousands present, willing to assist the President In his dire need, that they sign a pledge to be ready nt one day's notice. I would wish to bo the ilrst to sign such a document. A. LINCOLN MEYERS. Philadelphia, March 30. LABOR AND MILITARY TRAINING To the Vdltor of the Evening Ledger: Sir Ten years of universal military training would place in Washington a Gov ernment absolutely controlled by tho lnbor clement of tho country. History continually repeats itself, and thus the great power of high finance In our land seems destined to bring about Its own downfall. CHARLKS C. RHODES, JR. Philadelphia, March i'9. POINTED PARAGRAPHS Lcatn to do with dlllgcnco what you would do with ease. Lovo of a good woman is the best pro tectlon a man can have. In silence danger Is concealed. Women nro seldom really dangerous. Many a man has won out because of his inability to realize that ho was whipped. Though tho under dog gets a lot of sym pathy, tho upper canlno gets tho gato re ceipts. Wo usually know what Is best for us to do, but tho troublo Is to persuado ourselves to do it. If a gill works hard to obtain a husband, that Is no sign sho will work hard for him afterward. Not every widow calls for help when a man attempts to kiss her. Sometimes It Is tho man who needs help. There Is an clement of success In every man, yet ho seldom utilizes It until somo smart woman takes him In hand. Cincin nati Times-Star. All Points of the Compass An Adventure in "the Unchanging THERE are somo things so horribly un altered! A room, a street, some scene of dally working a picture hero ; Homo mls cfuble gutter; a bathroom with the towels and the soap ; a dog who's lost his way ; a stray cat In an alley whero boys are play. Ing marbles; a blind man with a cane who goes a-tap-tap-tapplng; a child of three, all open-eyed with wonder; a burglar or a thief who's guarded by policemen; an am bulance, with' clanging bell, goes with grucsomo burden toward file doctors and thq ether. Such things get on one's nerves. Two years and more ago there came a war as wars have come since God made little apples. Yet it left us cold. We had no sympathy which could havo been ex pressed, however violent endeavor might have been. Valiant Death w'as rampant, and Tragedy lurked everywhere about, but In our heart lay Peace and Gentle Visitation: "What ever comes,- wo saia, -win come. There Is no change. It's only ono straight way which leads to the illimitable end. What dreams may come aro dreams of passlmr days which bring us joy or.'posalbly. soma We had slept neglectfully, and n our sleeping dreamed of wars of battle mur der, too, and sudden death, and g'haatlv scenes of horrcr which may come vet When we waked we heard a robin a'lnaln? In the rain, upon the topmost branches of an ancient sycamore. Then came the dawn, and, with It cam. the sun. The clouds were swept away Tin came a day all blue and gold jUst n' Ik robin said. , l ns thoi 'The .robin slngahWlaHhl "God tii iiiliiinf u iriirJMMf'airi " - j- ,3 . 3 SAM" Si What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. Who l Kiit raslia? ''. Vtliiit N tlin controversy In which Major Ucnernl Leonard Wood is the central Usurp? .1. W lint Is the "roke" evil? 1. Where Is the Church of San Marco, which Is heluc protected from lioHtlle aeroplane hv meuns ot sardbaK runumrtsT Ii. Who Is llrnnd A hillock? 0. How fur Is the Suez Cunal from ileruialem, nnd In what direction does It lie? 7. Who Is nt the lirud of the marine corpsr 8, Mlmt I meant when It Ih said that armies "dlu In"? 0. What and where Is I'lcnrdy, where serer flshtlng Is going on? 10. Siiliinnrlnps nre reported ns atnklnr; barki. What Is a hark? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. Re.ir Admiral James II. Other Is the new (ioiernor of tho Danish West Indies. S. A hen-Hied Is a fust rootorhoat with rial bottom that enables It to skim over the surface. 3. "The Jinn Without n. Country" wns written hy Kdnnrd i:prett Hale and publlthef unonjniounly In I8UJ. ., 4, The reported (ierinun "news quarantine" for detaining Americans In llelclum fer our weeks is in nrcteni military inior- ninuun irom leuKinir qui. 5. Calico, n cotton loth, derived Its name irom iniiriir, menu 0. The "Clmnipucne (sector" In npiitiu Hint, luirllnn nt ihm It, Ilia mihI Is Ins In the ChamuuKiie region, Jb'rane. 7. A npu urchin la a marine animal ((Milne- derm), with u spiny shell and tube feet H "Minotlng stars" arc not stars, but roeki, that uniiall are burned uu by frlctloa before they strike the earth. I). Iliiiaim tobiiuo Is that grown In Cuba. 1U. I'lmlur was u fireek lyric poet, born In tie . sixth century II. C. "Hone Dry" Laws P. Ii. C. "Bono dry" prohibition lawi do not prohibit the use of wine for sacramental purposes. "Little Patriots" C. A. T. Tho Little Fellows' Patriotic Orjanlzatlon was founded by J, Henry Ful ton, Every Evening offlco, Wilmington, Del. Sun and Moon II. P. C The United States Naval Ob servatory says: "The times of sunrise and sunset, moonrise and moonset, ,as given In tho almanacs, are obtained by computation and not by direct observation. The problem Involved, Is that of finding when the sun or moon Is' 90 degrees distant from the zenith; the solution is readily made for any date, provided the observer's latitude and lougltudo are known. As between plaeaa In tho same country, tho effect of difference of longitude Is small and Is commonly neg lected, especially In the practice of the popular almanacs." HEROES OF THE AIR With the death of James R. McConnell, American aviator with tho French flying corps, last week, the original American Escadrllle that has been doing siich splen did work for tho Allies lost Its fourth mem ber In battle. Norman Prince, of Boston; Victor Chapman, of New York ; Klffln Rock well, of Asheville.'N, C, and now McCon nell these aro the names of Americans that have been added to that long list of "killed in action." McConnell chronicled the career of thess men In his little book, "Flying for France," Just published by Doubleday, Page & Co, one of tho most Intimate and remarkable tlOnfca nf llo lr1i,1 1m, I.A ....... Una hrAllffht forth, a book full of optimism and which A, touches tn "the fear of death" In but a ii single Instance. It la in a descrlntlon ot an I airman's dally routine. At tho close of the F flflV. Uhntl Mm n?lnn V.Aln HAilfe Hfl? -- t "mvii u unmLUo ucfeiit iu jvmui uoiuien wroto that a few of the nuraoer would be inclined to remain behind. "Then," said McConnell, "the talk be comes more nersonal and more sincere. Only on'Viuch Intimate occasions, I think, have 1 a ever ncara neatii Ulscussea. certainly we iy.; are not iiiaurerent to it. Not many nignw ago ono of the pilots remarked In a tired way: " 'Know what I want? Just six months of freedom to go whero and do what I like. In that time I'd get everything I wanted out ot life and bo perfectly willing to come back and bo killed.' "Then another, who was about to receive 2000 frnnoa frnm th AniArliinn l-nmmlttei that aids us, as a rewardfor his many $ Vltntlnna V.l...i,l V4VWIIUHO, WIlllllCUIUI. , . "'Well, I didn't care much before? M : confessed, "but now with this money com- t i6 in i uon i wanv.io aie until i ve nu t - run ot spending It.' . "So raying, he yawned and went up te D0U." McConnell was born in Chicago. He wM in uartnage, N. C. as Industrial agent iorkj tne liandolph and Cumberland Railroad oa fore salllnc In 111K In nmlmlnnca duty abroad. Although his book tells little oli iiih personal achievements, McConnell awaraeu tne much-coveted Croix de auerre. 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