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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
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"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
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taW aafe berth for deposed
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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,'
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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!"
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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;
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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
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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.
SONG
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To sail in the moonlight clear
And merrllv we would float
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And strings of .Orient pearls.
uiice gossamere dipped In milk, V j .
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