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S3 Hua Loula la Grand S f t BunscmrTioN terms The ErfMKO Litxjt. la aervrd to aubacrlbera ' Ik Philadelphia, and aurroundlns toivna at the MU ot twalva (IS) nnti pr wttk. payable ftf tha carrier. fee mall to nolnta outnlde of Philadelphia. In "the United Statea, Canada or United Slatee poa. m j'ataaiona. tiostan frea. fifty law cenia per 4 lauuta qi& w uuiimib -r j rear, payable In n. .Tn li e.,-4tvn mimtpla nn. Ill rlnl1p Ye t.w., ' ''& - Notice Siibaerlbera vlahlnr addreaa chanced v Biuat riro 01a as. wen aa new auarcaa. BELL. 1000 WALNUT KEYSTONE. MAIN 3000 Wf Aaiicm off communication fa Epenfsr; ItctacT, Irdeptndenct Square, Philadelphia. xkteizd at Tni rHit.iDit.rniA roTorric as ICOVD-CLABS MAIL VIATTEB. THE AVEnAOl NET PAID DAILY CIIl- CUI.ATION OF" TUB EVEWINO LEDOER FOn MARCH WAS 10U.6U rhUadelphla. Wtdnfidiy. April II. 1917 When voluntary taxation Is a suc cess, voluntary military ttuty will be n success. Wo notice that some street-cleaning wntractors havo been fined again. The remission ot the fines Is generally an nounced a few days later. The Germans made a gtlovotis etior In attacking a boat named .Smith. If the wholo family of Smiths gets Its dander up, there won't bo even a grease spot left Where Ivalscrlsm once held forth. The President got one Hay out of Congress, but ten seem to have arisen In his ptace. First thing wo know there will be a movement on foot to arm the troops with bows and arrows. "I never heard ot a 100 per cent man who favored woman suffrngo," de clares Stato Representative Stern. Per haps not. But how many men of that standard nro available to Insuto good government? It Is tho superfluity of thirty and forty per centers that Is mak ing tho suffragists feel Justified In want ing to enter tho voting contest. In a really handsome American dltlon recently issued by tho London Graphic that periodical's special Ameri can representative says: 1 I recently visited tho United States, traveling tnrough New York, Pennsyl vania, Maryland, Columbia, Virginia and right across the eastern States as far as Toledo, the middle State of Ohio. Possibly he was entertained thero by Ecott Nearlng. No richer comedy has been -staged than the "getting together" of the factions of the Organization to push transit ulong. Most of tho work would now bo under contract had not these seifsamo con ferees thrown a crank Into the machinery. The only thing needed to hasten transit la for them to get out of tho way und top playing petty politics with this great community enterprise. The Vares aro not going to get the hort end, of a contract if tho Department of City Transit can prevent It. The con tractor In politics and what It means are well exemplified by tho action of Director Twining in abrogating the contract for a section of the Frankford elevated. We can't help thinking that If matters had been reversed and an era of low prices had come to the assistance ot tho Vares, there would havo been no abrogation ot contract, but the city would havo 'paid, and paid to the last penny. When the politicians wanted ap pointments to tho Public Service Com mission the Governor threw them around wjth such rapidity that he had tho public dizzy. It required an expert statistician to keep up with the membership of tho com mission. But now that tho whoTo transit situation in Philadelphia 'Is tied up by a apllt in the commission a pair ot mules can't draw an appointment out of the Governor to fill the existing vacancy. We aeed a new Declaration of Independence In this State, and we aro likely to get It at the next election. Latin-American action and senti ment pay to Pan-Amerlcanlsm the most I Impressive tribute In Its history. After ,Vt profusion of rumora emanating from iur southern sister republics, definition T-.the attitudes of the leading nations ' is' row attainable. This is the significant Use-up:, Cuba has declared war against Ctsiwany; Panama has declared herself ready to assist In all possible iPro ttftion t of the canal; Costa Rica has l?u the use of her ports; Brazil Bolivia have broken relations with .ftsinurij Uruguay has indorsed, the Pilatjhe United Statea and has called f .-.,-f - a. m .1 m .. . yu u-uwuwariure an jiiouii iu ": Paraguay has expressed sym- grrVfth 'our; Goverffmentj'Argentlna lipriiil, our action as" "jusfand tCMIa tMi Kealco have proclaimed mtraBtyy Coloiabla, ' Vanesuela, ICop4Mrs, lvader am'Nica- i chi k formal expression ot la tmtaium from meat of them MMr to i;hi;aM, isi aa tca4Uoaal frleneY staikk sjoof ii4p,lertl..f I'aaapa aaaaw "4W. wm. witasut "jrar.' M wn?HB ,t,i'auvnii-h'- .courM'of history' in the Western Hemisphere. WE DARE NOT WAIT 90 DAYS CONGRESSMEN who soy they object to selective conscription are so muddled that they argue for It while they object to It. They actually propose to enforco selective conscription ninety days from now "if a campaign for oluntcers falls," and In tho sanio breath declaro a campaign for volunteers won't fall. They surrender. Then they say, "Glvo us time." They say "Olvo us ninety days to Jolly tho folks hack homo and mean while let the wrong men volunteer. Then we will lot you put tho light men In the Ught places and send tho wrong men home." Of course the Piosldcnt has only to raise his hand to get 500,000 volunteers. When ho has theni, 'vhat will ho do with them? He will havo to select them, man by man, and put them In their right places. These timid Congressmen nro proposing a d.irlng thing. They propose to lure Into idleness a couple of hundred thousand men who nro making war ma terials or who will bo, able to mako war materials better than they can fight. They piopose to dislocate war Industries and then lot tho President send these Idle rejected thousands homo to dislocate moro Industries. No man can stay In this state of mind moro than a few hours nnd keep a Bound opinion, if what these Congressmen havo can be galled an opinion. All they need Is a Jog from tho folks back homo, nnd for that reason Phlladelphlnns can help by following tho suggestion made yesterday by this newspaper to send its n message. If only n card, on which Is written the word "Yes" with tho signature, to ho for warded to Washington. What these Congiessmen nrc afraid of Is thnt word "conscription," for they drop off the "selective," which makes all tho difference. , There is all tho diversity In the world between selective conscription and the old duift system. Tho drnft was to mako unwilling men fight. Selective conscription Is largely to keep a number of too willing men from fighting. The draft was to make men shoulder a musket, when that was the only thing tho Government required of citizen. Selec tive conscription is to put the right man In the right place, to put In tho army or navy those who ought to be there, be they rich or poor, and to keep on farm nnd in factory those who ought to he there. It Is sheer nonsense to say that selec tive conscription Is opposed to volunteer ing. Tho rarao Congressmen who nro de manding volunteering say that tho ma jority of Americans want to do their best to help win tho war. They deny thero nrc enough slackers to Imperil our chnnccs of victory. What, then, Is tho objection to selecting tho right men for tho right places when theso right men nro alteady willing to bo selected? The volunteer spirit Is encouraged by the principle of selcctlvo conscription, not discouraged. Tho people themselves, enhoartencd by tho President's advlco that many can servo best by planting gardens or Increas ing the efllclcncy of their work, aro al ready attempting to put In force a sort of Informal selective conscription. For when all aro willing thero Is no conscrlptlvo coercing about It. It Is truo that the se lection proposed may take a born coward of splendid physique nnd put him In uni form. It can tako a conscientious ob jector who Is an Inventlvo genius, but It cannot mako him Invent, especially If ho lie down and kick. Put why should Congressmen who are hlp-hip-hurrahing nbout tho fine volunteer spirit, which wo certainly hnve, worry about a few cow ards and objectors? They can exempt these folk, but they dare not wait ninety days to talk It over. For wo need tho men right now and In tho right places wo havo tho men, they nro ready, hut they don't know where they nrc most needed. THE LEGISLATURE'S INSULT TO WOMEN'S WORK IN WAR THE Legislature has not only dealt an outrageous blow to discourage tho Ioal efforts of women who aro vol unteering in thousands to help win tho war, but it has Insulted tho millions of bravo women of England who are to bo given tho suffrage because they havo slaved to 'mako munitions that have brought victory to their husbands on the firing line. Tho women of Pennsylvania will not be discouraged by a liquor Legislature which has left undone every single thing, big and little, it could do to help tho na tion. They will continue to work for their country, as their English sisters have done, and their country will glvo them the vote. WAR OFF OUR PORTS OUR own war has begun. The official report of a submarine attack on the destroyer Smith decisively puts an end to all comfortable. thoughts that tho En tente Powers will obligingly fight our battles. Tho period of grace has been startllngly brief. Naval preparedness must be Imme diately converted into something stronger. "The readiness Is nil." Wo must clear these western seis of German U-boats and keep open the commerce lanes for the Inalienable rights of which we took up arms. Admiral Jelllcoe has Just expressed his oonfldence In our ability to hunt down Teuton submarine bases on the American continent. Poof that his trust was not misplaced Is naw demanded of American naval energy. American naval ingenuity and American naval oklll. The superhu man .valor of the French is said to have been Inspired by the fact that their coun try was directly, menaced by the enemy. So IS our nation today. Our coast Is im periled. The supreme cause of fighting in def ensovof the home Is now ours. The possibility that the officers of tho Smith may have mistaken some other ob ject In the water for a torpedo does not reallyalter the Issue. "If It be not now, yet.lt will come." It la distinctly In line With' German .-bravado to dispatch sub marines to our waters. The Teuton mind 'azuka In .spectacular terrorism, even thafe,'th. nothing to gain by it. Thla TOSW90tnt.JrveHivu w wwij tropiwiu m'tsrmmi' It. Is )ut mtchnerrer W"S CONfcCRtFTiON FOR THE ARMY Congress Likely to Go Slow Un til It Hears From the Coun try Universal Train ing Probable Special Cerretpondenct Kitnlna t.tigtr WASHINGTON'. April 17. CONSCRIPTION Is a. harsh word, it grates. It stands for force; for the power of the Government oyer the Indi vidual. Tho young American who hesi tates about volunteering for the army, being "conecrlptcd," has to go. In the opinion of tho' high officials in Washington, unless tho quotas of tho regular army, of the National Guard and of tho first 600,000 new men whom the President desires to go Into training nro quickly filled up by vol unteers, conscription will bo resorted to. Tho truth tf the matter Is that whllo many shout for national honor nnd wear tho flag conspicuously, few nro nctually enlisting Tho appeals of tho department, tlio earnest efforts of commanding officers everywhere, tho morn or less spectacular mothods of the good men and wemen who organize "auto mobllo drives" and all that, nro not pro ducing the desired result, A western Con gressman who Is Inclined to sldo with the laborltes voted against war. The next clay ho received a message from homo declaring that 7000 pcoplo In his district had signed a petition demanding his resignation, Ac knowledging tho petition nnd refusing to resign, he countered by nnklng If he. might say to the President thnt tho 7000 signers wcro ready to enlist. I to has not received nn answer. Which Illustrates that loud professions of patriotism are not always backed up by performance. . Conscription on Its Way nut consrrlptlon It on Its way. It means that profccslng patriots must "put up or shut up." It means that tho rich innn's son must go. along with tho poor man's Kon, except ns the question of dependency nnd soldierly unfitness may exempt one or tlio other. The President has sanctioned the rail for volunteers nnd Congress Is hopeful that'volunterrs will appear In siilll clent numbers to make conscription un necessary. Tho President wants 500,000 new men now, plus about 2r.0,000, to fill up the quota in tlio regular army and the National Guard 'I lien, after that, ho wants f.00,000 moro to hn trained; that Is ap proximately I.2"i0,000 new men to begin with. The preferred ago Is between nine teen nnd twenty-five t-ars. It will bo re called that the Civil War was fought mostly by boys. This war with Germany must also be fought by tlie flower of our youth, and tho problem confronting tho President is to swing that jouth Into harmony with his plans. It In volunteer if ou will, but If jou do not volunteer then the Gov ernment will requisition you. Touching upon tho necessity for conscription, a writer to his Congressman observes: "You will ha6 to come to it You can no moro ex pect enlistments for this f 15-a-mnnth scrv Ico that you can expect enlistments for taxes." Planning- for the Future Apart from tlio startling loan piopnsals that h.ivn aroused tho hopes of tho Kntcnto Allies this week, the talk of conscription has given Congress tho greatest concern. Congressmen catch the home touches quicker than tlio department chiefs who are engrossed with tho President's business. And they have been hearing from their con stituents. In conscquenco of tho "back homo" sentiment, tho word "conscription" is hard for many of tho people's represen tatives to swallow. They do not know how far It will go. It It means nt last the shipment of American boys Into tho trenches of Iiuropo, with or without their consent. It will bo difficult for manfr of tho members to approve It. Put Congress Is likely to do what tho President Insists should bo done, no matter what tho sacrifice. Con gress Is cautious, but It Is likewise patriotic And ns tho situation now unfolds Itself, Congress may tako tho view that "con scription," harsh as It sounds to prosperous and comfortable Young America, Is, after all, but tho beginning of a system of mili tary training that may mako for a stronger race and a surer and more permanent peace, Sobering Effect Upon All .i Volunteer enlistments have not come In tith expected rapidity because thero has been so much uncertainty as to tho causes of war and tho duties and length of service. Appeals by rich men and women, moved by earnest Impulses, have not been reassuring to men earning from $ 2 'to $5 a day, with families to support. As many Representa tives view It, some of these voluntary ro crultlng movements have been ns Ineffec tual, and perhaps as unfortunate, ns was the western stumping tour of certain east ern ladles in tho interest of tho Ilepubllcan presidential candidate In the late compalgn. Tho people who aro expected to do the fighting, or to suffer for It, havo been made suspicious by somo of tneso apparently well Intended efforts. Tho avcrago correspond ence of a Representative shows that pros perity, misrepresentation ot facts, lack of Information from authoritative sources and an aversion to fighting for other nations than tho United States have all contributed to tho halting of enlistments. Pres ident Wilson's "world-democracy" Idea pre sages so wide a re-formatlon that tho aver age mind has not yot seemed to grasp It Theso aro among the things that have sobered tho plain people who write to Wash ington nnd whoso hopes and fears have naturally had their effect upon those who must assume tho responsibility, along with the President, of providing tho ways and means to prosecute successfully tho war. Training System Proposed It Is not yet determined, but It Is a safe guess that, whether conscription Is resorted to or not, military training In some form or other will be adopted. Tho big eastern cities want It ; the rural communities are not so enthusiastic, but it Is likely to come. Several systems havo been proposed and several bills have already bean Introduced. The Swiss system is generally spoken of, and. anomaloas as It may seem, there are many who approve some of tho -features of the German system. It lias orten been said that we might ultimately have to come to the German system, for, with a few Intol erant exceptions, most people now concede that the German system, apart from the autocratto features of It, has been wonder fully efficient. A fair consensus of thought about mili tary training in the United States is that it will be beneficial physically to the young man undertaking It, and that If "universal," meaning that every fit youth without ex ception for anycause shall be subjected to It, the patrlotlo and moral status of all Americans will be more firmly established. The objection to universal military train ing is not so much to the service Itself a it Is to the fear that military autocrata may use it' to set' the gods' of war above' pajr ev wiuinn,. ,. - VA , Tom Dala Column BONO OF Tim AhlEV BORX America, the flames are hot 'that leap be neath thy melting pot. With theo and thtne we cast our lot, whate'er tho issue be. Italian, Saxon, Slav and Jew, with undi vided hearts and true Wc pledge our loyalty anew, America, to thee. Across the world to thee we came with fettered hands, with hearts of shame; And lot the maglo of thy name has made us strong and free. Xow, may the curse be on us yet if in thy trial we forget A jot or tittle of our debt, America, to thee. Vor ice, no less than those who trod in bygone days thy holy sod, Itavc felt tho rising tides of Qod come sweeping from, the sea; And now, when all thy trumpets call, with thee we stand, with thee we fall, To thee we bring our lives, our all, America, to thect FItAXCIS LY.VAX. Onco wo had a couplo of cocktails nt tho "American" bar in tho Hotel Savoy In London nnd wo'ro wondering now If J. Obed Smith. P. n. C. I., F. P.. O. S., wasn't tho bartender. At nny rate, J. Obed has concocted for tho American edition of tho London Graphic something Just ns good. Hero's part of it: Canada and tho United States under stand the principles of each other's trade, so may not the British Isles learn nlso the newer secrets of trade with the great Republic? Mark Twain raid somewhero "wo should do unto others what we think they should do unto us, only do It first," and this ought to bo the attitude Inspiring tho commercial activities of the Anglo-Saxon race on both sides of the Atlantic today Yielding to none of our Intellectual peers In admiration for tho President's Jingllsh style, wo nevertheless protest thnt tho Introduction to his latest proc lamation might have been Improved by a CO or 70 per cent reduction of words. A similar "retrograde advance" all nlong the lino would hnve strengthened tho cntlro movement. Our fellow craftsman Ssnn. who brightens th3 Albany Knickerbocker Pi ess, but who missed "arresting" as one of the two ad jectives we pnrt'culaily abominate, thus parodies Lovelace ' to i.rcAHT.v o.v r.ni.N'ri to thr I.ICIINSK lll'ItKAU Tho cull tn iirmx has trmif, my dear, si let's irrt rnarrU'il HtiUk, H'b truo I iinil not thought, my dear, Su noon wp'il turn thr trick, Jlut Jojb of ui'cM.-il urn iiml such I !nu h lirefrr to war I fouhl not loo tho,-, dear, no much, I.oumI 1 not fafpt moie. Hut ono nt tho best of that sort was perpctiated by Pert Taylor about eight een months ago, when n certain most distinguished bridegroom tempoiaiily de sx'itcd Ills' lirldo and rushed back to Washington to pen a letter to a coitc spondent nbioad. it concluded: Yet this inconstancy Is such As thou, too, shnlt adore. 1 lovo thee, darling, vety much, But I lovo wilting more. "Who was the greatest actor jou ever raw?" I demanded, who have a passion for sUUi things. "What was the gieatcst single performance?" Mis. l'lsko gazed distractedly about her. "f could not possibly tell." "Of course not. Wo never can. What was tho greatest shoit story? Shall we say 'A Lodging for tlio Night' to I'ave tho troublo ot thinking It out? Ask any novelist to name tho greatest novel and ho will say 'Tom Jones.' " 'Hut," said tho heretic, "It might em barrass him dreadfully, poor man, if jou wcro to ask him to namo any of tho char acters in "Tom Jones.' " "Of course, lfs an Impossible question, I know; but I should Ilko to know what names como to our mind when you try to answer It. Suppose," I persisted "supposo you wcro asked at the point of a loaded gun to namo tho greatest performance jou ever saw, what would you say?" Mrs. Klsko had answered for that: " 'Shoot 1' So I threw away tho gun and surrendered." Alexander Woollcott, In tho May Century. Wo havo always vjevved with sus picion tho fellow who claims to havo read all of Dickens. Wo doubt If any ono now living has read everything Dickens wrote, unless It bo a proofreader or Wil liam Sterling Battls, who Is tho world's Dickens fan. OF COURSE, It would be ridiculous to call the negative Claude Kltchln positive, and Kitchener was something more than comparative, yet each, In his way, might bs described as superlative. ADMITTING our Ignorance of tho mechanics of music, wo think wo know a martial air when wo' hear one, and that's what wo think Julia M. F. Mc Closkey has achieved in tho setting she has made for our "Flag o' My Land." Circumstantial Evidence Would any Jury hesitate to fix tho nationality of tho guy who set up tho Atlantlo City Press "Slnglo Tax party" news on April 1C? After mentioning the "Pennsylvania Slnglo Tax parthy," he also refers to one D. Soils-Cohan. HUGH MERIt. From Fort Slocum, where ho Is now contributing to one of Undo Sam's col umns, C. C. S. writer. "Changing tho alarm clock for the bugle doesn't disturb the well-known sun to any extent nor change tho old things under t. I had often read this thing, but last 'night It happened: 'Aviation may be all right,' said tho young gentleman across tho way, but It's me for the dear old terra cotta nil the time." Proverbials "Every Cloud Ha a a Sliver I.lnlne." What'sa use a-talkln' an' a-wastln' all yer breath, An' a buzzln ev'ry body 'til they'ro nearly tired to death? If clouds was lined with lead It would be Just the same to you Unless yo git to flyln' like the turkey buz zards do. Put a muzzle on yer language. Make a noise like leavln' town. I'll believe they're lined with silver when ye turn 'em upside down. ' P. NUT. They must get that U-boat off our front seaway and get It qulok. Things In this war must go with a rush. We couldn't stand the style of the Spanish War of 1898. For months In those comparatively tame times the United States navy bagged nothing but fishing 'smacks. ' 'We.waWt t.i V' , .. JL-.H Lx I'fiUtJ wfrnffifrvfil l v THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE A Bit of Athens in Philadelphia. Shalvcspcaro and Bacon. Patriotic Outburst in Church 7m TJrrnt (incut In Irr tn all irnnVri ufio II ist In JIl-il lirlr oplillonl fill luhjnll o nirrrnt Interest, It I fin fini onin' "il ('if JJrrtiliifl l.irlarr nuinri fi trsininl(illlti or fio 1'lrm ot Hi ron-r?ioiiflri!M. Letters mut In' stuiiitt liy the iiaiiir mirt aadres eit the tirllri. no! mcrMfiilw for iiiitiitcaflon, but ns a 0nifi!iirc i u"d fi'ln BIT OF ATHENS HERE To the lUHtor of the Vvcntng Ledger: Sli- Tho stiuctuio whoo photograph Is lepioduccd In tho pictorial section of tho l'viisi.w l.r.nnrm tonight is tho "lantern" or nrrhitcctiii.il ornament on tne.r'ifii oi m old Stock i:change Building at Third and UiicU Htieels. it may Interest your readers to learn that It Is almost nn.cit.ict copy, on a much re duced scale, of a beautlfull small building still standing in Athens and known as the Monument of I.ysloratcs. it also gives It3 namo to tho street in Athens on which it stands (HodoA Lusikratous). Tho monu ment owes Its existence to tho custom of the winners at the Dlonyslac gamrs of ex hibiting tho pilzes won by them on very ornamental pedestals. 3'iom tho cento of the cotJ,-cx loot of tho llttlo building rises (In marble) a ronvcmionalizeil acan thus plant (whoso leaves compose the Co rinthian capital) On the acanthus plant rests a triangular slab of marble, nnd this In turn was tho pedestal sustaining the bronze tripod, tho trophy of victory In a musical contest, awarded to Lyslcrntcs, In whoso honor tho monument was con structed. An Inscription on tho monument reads: "Lyslciatcs was master of ceremonies when the boy choir ot tho phylo Acamantls won the prize. Theon was tho flute player, L-yslades of Athens trained tho choir. Kuaenotos was archon." Tho namo ot tho archon enables us to fix tho dato of erection as 335 B. C, when tho school of Piaxltelcs vvus In full bloom. Tho frlezo represents tho punishment of pirates by DIonysos, tho god of alcoholic drinks (among other things). This legend forms tho subject of tho sixth Homerlo hymn, and was perhaps the theme chosen for performance by tho choir. Tho various punishments inflicted on tho pirates are depleted In different scenes. In ono scene two of them aro seen In despair leaping Into the sea. It Is remarkable how history repeats It self. In our own tlmo piracy has been revived by a northern race. Somo of them aro captured, nnd now, ns In the days of old, they nro punished by the god of alco holic drink, In that they aro sent (ob It by tho Irony of fate) to Atlanta, where no such refreshments aro to bo had. To a plrato this Is, In very sooth, to "suffer the tortures of tho damned." Moreover, to complete tho story, two of the pirate escaped (when they were at Leaguo Island) by leaping overboard. This nlso (as stated above) Is graphically represented on tho monument. This llttlo building will ever bo of In terest to architects, in that It Is tho old est extant specimen of tho Corinthian order. To men of' letters also It Is of surpass ing Interest. Until the early part of tho nineteenth century It was Inclosed within the grounds of tho French Capuchin monas tery In Athens, nnd was used by tho friar as their library. Lord Byron while in Athens stayed for a whllo at this monas tery nnd. according to tradition, wrote somo of his poetry In t'lit very llbrarjr. This thought, Is commemorated In Athens today by tho fact that a nearby street Is called Byron street. ARTHUR W. HOWES. Professor qf Latin, Central High School. Philadelphia. April 11. DAYLIGHT SAVING To the Editor of the Evening Ledger: Sir The United States has not adopted the daylight-saving plan. Tho dayllght-sav Ing plan will save light, and that will bo a benefit to the country. Is that not what President Wilson calls for In his recent proclamation to ba ns economical as we can? Furthermore, now that spring Is here and soon summer, look what It means to a working man an hour more of sunlight Philadelphia. April 17, HEADER. REMARKABLE DEMONSTRATION To the Editor of the Evening Ledger; Sir One of the most extraordinary scenes took place on last Sunday evening that I have ever witnessed In a Christian church. The pastor, the Rev, Elmer Ellsworth Helms, M. D., of the Calvary Methodist Church, Forty-eighth street and Baltimore avenue, took as his theme, "What Will Happen to the United States If, Germany up vanuoiwai ' r - -. "VELVHERE'ttSS! V standing against tho wall, and three times tho congregation expressed Its approval by vlgoiously applauding tho pastor, and at tho closo of his address n gentleman, not a member of tho church, nroso and said: "Wo havo listened to tho ablest, tho fair est, tho most Instructive and tho most con vincing address upon tho question of this world-wldo war that has been delivered In this city from pulpit or forum, and I suggest that this church eauso to bo printed In pamphlet form tho address of tho pastor In such number as tho olllcers of tho church may deem advisable." A spontaneous burst of applausb greeted tho suggestion, seemingly to glvo hearty and unanimous approval to Jlbo suggestion. JOHN W. FRAZIUR, Philadelphia, April 10. A SHAKESPEARE "PROTOCOL" To the Editor of the Evening Ledger: Sir I was Interested In tho report by "Milss" of tlio Shakespeare-Bacon debate In Wltherspoon Hall. It reminds mo of a discussion which took placo a dozen years ago betweeen my friend, tho lato Dr. Isaac Hall Piatt, of Walllngford, Pa., and! Apple ton Morgan, L"sq, tho New York lawyer -and Shakespearo scholar. fl'ho troublo with tho Baconians Is thov Insist upon too much. They not only say that Bacon wrote tho Shakespearo plays, but that ho also wroto tho works attrib uted to Montaigne, Burton's Anatomy, Mar lowe, Greene, Ben Jonson, nnd nlso had a controlling hand In tho King James version of tho Bible. Not satisfied with that, they delugo us with cryptograms and ciphers which stagger our credulity and Invito our ridicule. Thero Is enough In tho mystery of tho Stratfordian authorship to keep tho dis cussion wunin leasonablo bounds. Tho Piatt-Morgan debato ended In a "protocol," and It Is worth printing In full, as It Is about as far as any of us will ever get, First. Tho plays known as Shakespeare's wero produced In London as William Shakespeare's between 1581 and 1C1G, and wero repeatedly printed as his. In quaito, without cavil or demurrer from anybody except Richard Grecno and, perhaps, a few other rival playwrights. Second. As they stand In tho first folio, tho Shakespearo plays aro tho product of either tho growth or tho augmentation by tholr author or authors of the quarto ver sions, and contain thousands of eloquent lines anu iweivo out or sixteen cntlro plays, which, fo far as any record can be discov ered, never saw tho light In Shakesnenrn'n lifetime, or until seven years after his death. Third. There aro so many thousands of Identities of thought, opinion, circumstances, error and simultaneous correction of error In tho literatures wo call, respectively, "Shakespeare" and "Bacon," and so many coincidences between Bacon's known cir cumstances, doings and studies, nnd tho ma terial of certain Shakespearo plays, that It Is a well-nigh successful demonstration that Bacon had moro or less to do with the Is suing of tho flrbt folio edition of the Shake speare plays. Fourth. Tho Baconian theory, so called, has arrived at a point where It can no longer bo safely Indorsed. Fifth. Tho spirit of tho whole series nf plays Is dominated by ono man though una raan migm navo nau, anil probably did havo, helpers and coadjutors. Doctor Piatt, who had tho Bacon end of It, has been dead for a number of years, but Mr. Morgan Is still alive. Ho has shifted his position moro than once, and I am Informed that he now does not believe that tho actor was the real author. Ho probably believes in the "great unknown It Is much easier to ralso doubts about tho Stratfordian authorship .than to prove who tho real author was. The recent bo)ks by Sir Georgo Greenwood, M. P lawyer and scholar, are the only ones that discuss tho question sanely and fairly. Ho does not attempt to prove who was the author, but that the Stratford man was not the author he appears to prove beyond peradventure T. B. HARNED. Qermantown, April IE, OUR NATION'S PRAYER God of all nations, righteous God, On bended kneo we come, our hand upon tho latch of war; Oh, glvo us faith In Thee, Thy firmness In tho right, With conscience clear and courage strong to right; Above tho prattle of the drum, the shrilling fife, The bugle's blast; oh, may we hear Tliv calm, clear voice, , "Thy cause is Just, thy cauie Is right." Flame colored though the hea.vn .. And Iron-gated lies the sea; though earth hM,M i..mi,i. curia As a palsied man. and death's white temnlaa Tet In God's righteousness we stand and covet not ua Another's land, nor laurels, nor a victor's A world democracy our aim, rock-ribbed .and forged with steel. "B,)e,, To hold: and guard a lasting ,,,, ,. . is . rff ??-' j ,-- What Do You Know? Queries nt neneial interest wiU be anwetl i I'll. fli( rnhmif. TVn aurxtlnnt. thp nnmnm t a i xchtch tvrrv wclt'iitformcd person should .now,;M ni-o rtttknl ifoffti. QUIZ 1. Wliere Is Vnsnar Collecc? 2. Namo tlio rnpttnl at llnrid.1.. 3. Is It liofdlilo for nn nllen Urine In tall t'nlteil Mutes to Commit treason? H 4. Who was Anno Rolrjn nnd how Is the saaa'u pronounced." B. In nililltlon to liolnrr n strong German pad. 1 tlon, Mil J- U the rapture ot Lena nv 1 Kiinlfcl an Important? VJ fl. Who In Iteno Vhlnnl? 7. AVh.it U the principal religion in Itoulatl 8, Nil :it Is (Iraliam flour and why la It mimed? 0. Vtlmt Is a Itusslan ranzhlk and bow li ftai wuril prnnounced7 10. Nniuc (ho Secretary of Commerce. Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. The Cnvrmment's war bonds will toUlJ s ,iMw,vm7,vuu. w 2. Dr. Alexia Cnrrcl, of the Kotkefeller lMtt-3 tute.Tsew York. Is one of Amerlca'a f or. . inuc pnysicinnH. tf a. j no i Tench (ienenil Barrall comroamu i nllleil army in (ireece, with n bme'alJ fealonlra. 4, Itub&ln la unlit fa lio.rn morn than twantf r races, each spenklne n different lanjnMfc i C. Baton Itouco la the capital of louUlana. 'J 0. Couo-U'-C'liutf-.iu wan a maasUo feoJalJ rnsKe nuut in the cany part oi ,, thirteenth century In northern France. 7. Tlio ancient war triremes were lame iiM lejit propelled by three banks ot oan J operated liy slaves or prisoners or war. 8. Trnut-cfllorcil means white with spots oljl Muck or bronn. J 0. Truffles are eillhlo fungi crowine below tba J Durrace or tno carta. 10. About imlf llin lnlinl.ltnn( nt thf. I'nltfl Mate.i 50.000,000 nro church rr-mbttj. Cost of Coughing G. S. Tour question Is answered by an ; artlclo In tho Medical Crltto and Guide,! which says: "A German 'statistician hall calculated that a patient who, coughs one I every quarter of an hour for ten hours i expends energy equivalent to 250 units of heat, which may bo translated as equivalent: to tho nourishment contained In three gt I or two glasses of milk. In normal resplra tlon tho air Is expelled from tho chest1 tho rate of four feet per second, whereai. In violent couchlnr It mav nttaln a veloc ity of 300 feet. This waste of energy I especially imnortant. because It occurs, for tho most part, in persons whoso asslml-, latlvo functions aro .working under airni cultlcs : conseauontlv. tho indigestion of th corresponding quantity ot nourishment by no means compensates for the exertion. It ioiiow-3 that ners stent cough is per causo of emaciation, though thero aro raa7 other factors which tend In tho same dlree-l tlon: henco tho desirability of restralnuvfl cough within safe limits, especially wheal It Is duo to Irrltatlvo reflexes, such as aril cxciteu by laryngitis and pharyngitis;, Pensions P. ST. C Matters relating to pensions! snoum no taken up directly with the com-i missioner of Pensions, Washington, v. v-fl Schools .SEVERAL READERS For lnformatloi about schools, address tho educational rcau. Ledcer Central. Ttrniirl nnrl ChestBW streets, Philadelphia, Inclosing a Btamp'foi repiy. Louis XIV V. A. By "nollcv of Louis XIV may refer to the famous statement lj tributed to him: "L'ctat. e'est mol" tl'f" tho State). His ambitions wcro extent" of French power abroad by conquest W annexation, and centralization of power nome. General Gocthals J. J. McA. General Gnethals'a nam ' pronounced "goh-thalz," with the accent e "' ii oi syuaoie. Economic Botany i L. W. F. Econnmln hntnnv 1st the StU of plants which are used or can be used tf Borne purpose- In human economy. It co do referred U as "practical" botany, MP . TJUTT OnXTtQ TlATU'r' .... iiun o i.ni.u.14 , Things will turn nnn font In nnaterlty'l Germany loses, and a very different facsj Germany wins. Can the United States befl soon enough to turn out ships that can IJJ Lngland long enpugh for her seamenTJ reuueo tne submarine dapger to unaj wwiiBii xnen me next age will exai ' usuii. it we nave entered the war too i and tOO Unread V tha n.rl no- will A his greatness and rmll hl nniiMM bv i other, name. The one thing it will un not do him Is tllatlna Th. mil war'l be too near for that The New Republlft . .r . . tfd wm xsui' "THE LAST'iVJ lid Atinminrifltak nam has uae kssnV o tt..u,snn.rr,r;.m'izt:ir7S'; " . '4AW ,.' : skL'." t.... v .-. iiiwmr wa ut uaiiM aJMs$
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