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Venezuela's declaration that no ship
wider her flag has suffered from U-boat
outrages suggests tho reason why Swlt
xerland's merchant fleot ts still unharmed.
The navy's expressed lament o-er
the shortage of cooks must sound rather
crude- to tho Amorlcan housewife On
this traglo tbemo her thoughts havo long
been almost "too deep for tears."
To tho American husband whoso
desk Is piled high with bills for spring
gowns, tho news that the Pari dress
makers' "mldlnettcs" oro on strike, and
that work on French lingerie, laces and
hats Is thereby halted, must seem tho ono
ray of cheer In tho gloom of n war
Wrung May.
It Is noticeable that the moro "cor
dial" Germany's notes to Spain on the
U-boat question become tho moro Span
ish, ships are torpedoed. America had
her fill of this arloty of murderous
friendship, and It Is hard to seo how the
honor of tho Dons can tolerate much
more of It.
The weather this May has come In
for many hard words, but all will bo for
given If the New York Produce Exchange
authorities prove to bo reliable prophets.
According to their deductions, tho new
Wheat crop may bo a hundred million
bushels greater than last year's and tho
Increase will bo largely duo to beneficial
spring rains. '
It Is to bo hoped that Now York
Will not leave any of those unpatriotic
Igns, which read, "Don't bo drafted
enlist In tho Scenty-flrst," llng around
until Juno 6. By tho tlmo that day of
national dedication comes wo must get
rid of tho last foolish suggestion that
thero Is anything dishonorable about tho
selectho draft.
The leader of tho first American
force to get to tho firing lines, Captain
Edward I. TInkham, is only twenty-two
years old. Ho won tho War Cross at
Verdun. After serving In the Ambulance
Corps ho returned to Cornell to complete
his course. Now ho Is In the thick of tho
tray again and all of thin swift scries
of decisions .and diverse actions during
the years In which most collego men aro
not sure abdut what they aro going to
do In life! War takes hold of good man
mateyiaand develops It overnight. Per
haps that is tho only virtue of war as
such. Tlnkham's career ts inspiring to
young rankers. It proves to them that
good work la recognized by, prompt ad
vancement. Many of tho majors nnd
colonels of our Civil War wero men In
their twenties, and there are many fight
ing in France today who won their com
missions beforo attaining their majority.
German air raids on tho English
coast aro to bo expected In April and
May, In September and October. Light
and weather conditions are then most
favorable for such operations. Their
military value, however, continues to be
nil, and the satisfaction which the Teu
tons can derive from such an exploit as
that of last Friday must chiefly lie In the
expression of the kind of savagery that
Is voiced In a hymn of hate and other
similarly frer-led outpourings. Barbar
ous indeed has been the murder of Inno
cent women and children by air bombs,
but the smallest ship sunk by a subma
rine must always be mora beneficial to
Germany than tho destruction of Brit
ish villages. A significant fact in con
nection with this last raid ts that appar
ently no Zeppelins were employed. The
loss of one of these huge machines Is
ixceedlngly costly, and the skill of Eng
lish gunners in "sniping" tho dirigibles
)iaa unquestionably made Germany
cautious.
Americans helped to bull the first
railways In Russia, notably the famous
etirect, uncurved Una between Petrograd
and Moscow. And now within a very
few days our advanco guard of engineers
Will be on hand to aid the Slavic Re
public in solving the huge transportation
problems of the war. John F. Stevens,
no ot the chief engineers ot the Panama
Carnal, ana his party or experts are
already at Toklo, It Is a comparatively
hc-rt Journey from thero ia Vladt
c4ck. In that Siberian port tons of
gontatv munitions and provisions are
tAofC avwMUnc shipment by the fa-
rivev vy pos
l
Work long before PetrOgrad Is reached.
It Is Imperative that tho Siberian lino
be developed to tho highest stato of ef
ficiency. In this work our cnglncors,
both, hy ndvtco and by direct action, can
render splendid service. Tangled prob
lems In political morals confront tho
Root envoys. But It is doubtful if what
they may do will transcend In substantial
valuo tho possible accomplishment of Mr.
Stevens's oxperts, whose speedy at rival
In Asia Is a tribute to American energy
and foresight.
RATIONAL TRANSIT
PROGRAM
QBSTRUCTIO.V In the form of delay
has achieved one of Its objects It is
a physical Impossibility at this tlmo to
go nheojl with tho complete transit pro
gram. This Is we'l understood by every
body who has given tho subject any at
tention. It Is no longor a. question whether we
shall pay doublo tho normal coit of con
struction to go ahead Wo nro confronted
with tho utter impossibility of obtaining
tho necessary mateilals at nny cost.
They simply cannot bo got.
It Is llkowlto lmposslblo for tho city
now to borrow large sums of money nt
4 per cent. Tho enormous loans floated
and to bo floated by tho Government at
a high Interest rato forbid tho entranco
of municipalities Into tho field Their
Interests must and should wait.
Wo urgo on Director Twining a frank
and bravo statement of the situation Ho
Bhould not uso abnormal conditions ai an
argument for bobtalllng plans. Ho should
advocato a postponement of tho program
as a wholo until such tlmo only as con
ditions warrant a renewal ot contracts
and work. No bobtail plans, but a post
ponement, that Is tho proper program.
To this thero should bo ono exception.
Tho Trankford I. Is In such shapo that
It should bo ruihod to completion nnd
operated. It will earn money nnd tho
profits from It will lighten tho financial
load later. Expcrlonco thero will teach
us, too, much that wo do rot now know
Peoplo nro sensible. They do not ex
pect the Impossible. Wo do not hcsltato,
therefore, at this Juncturo to urge tho
course wo havo outlined. Tho public ex
pects Director Twining to follow such a
courso promptly. It is tho only courso
that can bo followed, fo events have
lifted tho situation temporarily out ot
tho hands and control of man
AKMY EXEMPTIONS
THE decision to exempt all married men
on tho first draft Is a bold cutting of
a peculiarly dilllcult Goidian knot. It
Is Buro to be deeply gratifying to a nation
which puts so high a value us America
docs upon homo llfoand thocaro of oung
children. It will work injustices, because
many young man led men havo wealth
enough or parents wealthy enough to
make certain tho welfare ot their wives
and children. But It would bo almost Im
possible to provo that a married slacker
of this class was not tolling tho truth
if ho said ho had dependent relatives.
Lonlency toward men of this- typo Is
probably moro than balanced by tho fact
that many well-to-do married men over
thirty have volunteered. So long as com
promise Is Impossible, far less Injustice
Is dono by. exempting all married men
than by exempting none, because nine
tenths of. them aro hard-working indi
viduals with families absolutely dependent
on their earnings.
About 5,000,000 of the 10.000,000 ellglbles
between twenty-one and thlrty-ono nre
thus thrown out nt a stroke. From tho re
maining 5,000,000 must be excluded all who
nro in nny way defective. This is Icav Ing
a rather close margin for agricultural and
industrial safety, now that It has been
decided not to permit wholesale exemp
tion of workers by specified classes or
occupations It Is declared that the
President hns accepted advice to the
effect that the mere fact that a man Is
a farmer or n munitions maker Is not
sufficient cause for exemption. Labor
experts aro to guldo tho operation of tho
selective draft, seeing to it that enough
munitions makers and other workers aro
exempted to make certain that tho supply
of tho most-needed products is not re
duced But this Is not enough. Wo
must bo prepared for a greatly1 Increased
output, and wo cannot depend ontlrely, In
these days of labor shortage and dearth
of Immigration, upon tho normal Influx
of apprentices and other youths Into the
factories and farms. It Is not clear why
the farm and munitions workers cannot
be excused In a body, they nre, in effect,
enlisted men
GOETHALS AT THE HELM
GENERAL GOETHALS Is admittedly
ono of tho greatest of living Ameri
cans. His utterances and nctlons have
long inspired the deepest trust. When,
therefore, the builder of tho Panama
Canal describes tho wooden-ehlp scheme
as "hopeless" It Is Inevitable that tho
general public take him at hi, word Our
need is for ships for woodon vessels If
timber Is available, for steel merchant
men It stcol is to be had. But first and
always the call is for chips, as many
as we can construct, and in the shortest
possible time.
Tho wooden commerce carrier plan has
been described as a "pet project." Cer
tainly the Idea suggesting utilization of
our vast forest wealth appealed to the
Imagination as something peculiarly
American. But very properly neither
f the affectionate nursing of a concept nor
its possible romantic aspect appeals to
George W. Goethals when constructive
accomplishment is the urgent need of
the moment.
He has declared that sufficient lumber
for our proposed vast njw merchant fleot
ts npt now procurable. He has demon
strated that steel at reasonable rates, "may
be obtained. Any bickering over this
question of ship material would be in
tolerable. Contracts for seventy wooden vessels
have already been let- If we can soon
have timber merchantmen, well and
good. And let us also have as many steel
the directing; energy of General
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EVENING
LITTLE GHOSTS
OF THE LUSITANIA
Pierre Mille Tells a Moving
Story of How They Visited a
German Princeling
By HENRI BAZIN
Blaff Correapondcnt of the EviniVo I.tnosn
In France
l'AUIS, May 7.
IN 1610, when Louis NUI nncended the
throne of Trance, tho Isle do St. Louis
In tho Seine, nepnratrd by narrow water
from LIflo do la Cite, the cradlo or Paris
nnd upon which stands Notre Dame, wan
virgin ground Tho president of tho Parlia
ment, IMcrro do Charroii, bought the Islind
of St Louis from tho parish of Notro Panto
nnd built upon It Its first building, a magnif
icent ' hotel or regal residence, capable
of housing 150 persons The 'aclnating his
tory of tho do C'harron "hotel" has no
plnco on this page I touch upon It at
all only because It so happens that the
second floor Is occupied 1 my friend,
I'lcrre Mllle, author nnd Journalist, with
whom I spent a recent afternoon
Ho Is a modest mnn, l'lcrro Mllle, and
will not talk about himself Hut thoso who
know lils art rank him among tho foremost
litterateurs In Prance Tn such Americans
ns aro ncqutlnteil with tho liter iture of con
temporary Prance Plcrro Mllle is known,
as woll ns at 15 Qual de ltnurlinii. the
ancient street address of the do Charron
"Hotel," facing the Seine from the left bank
ft tho Island And many more who do not
rend Prcnch nre lll.elj to know him pres
ently sliieo a number of his Temps articles
havo recently been translated into Lnglish
for classlo text book purposes
Ttaough an untlquo studded Kite and
acr -si a cobbled courtyard to a stairway
of broad steps mado Ion so that in tho
dais of old great ladles in tedan chairs
might bo more comfortably carried up and
down, 1 mido my way In his three-century-old
salon, before a modern fire. I pissed a
few hours and during their paslttg one of
the stories IMcrro Mlllo told was thin
' There have been morf than three hundred
Christmas eves and rbrlstmns dtvs cele
brated in this home I thought "f that
recently mentally picturing them And out
of tho thought pamc another. It s too late
for hint Christmas and too early for the
next Hut I II tell it to jou.
'It was 1 edtltne and tho little German
prlnco hid been undressed He had been
chlldlshlv pensive all day. knowing tho night
was tho night among n'l tho nlRhts of the
ycir the eve of c-rls'mas and being a
Ilttlo child despltp his prlncellncfs he still
believed So lie ran across the velvet carpet
to the chlmncv plcco and placed his shoes
within, after the cuetom of his people He
was at the ago wr-cn little children nro still
little children, even If of princely blood.
"Tho American governess who had re
placed the nngllsh now gone nuav, occa
sionally looked upon his childhood Innocenre
with tho thought that but a little later he
would resemblo his brothers nnd his Ilvlnc.
forebears nnd that being n ilttlo prlnco It
was, of course, quite necesp.irv he should bo
like them In llcsh In thought in aim Be
foro running to tho chimney plcco with his
shoes ho had kntlt in Innocent nonundcr
ttandlng prayer, a prayer that had been
taught to him a prayer full of fierce words
that called the wrath of Heaven upon tho
heads of enem'cs he did not know Ho was
destined to bo a princely soldier, for ho had
been told , nnd In hl childish glee, pleased
to wear a uniform, the uniform of a
colonel commanding a regiment of men who
boro guns nnd instruments of death Ho
had Fcen them drawn up for pirndo nnd
thought them very beautiful and very good
"As tho governess assisted h.m Into his
liny princely bed he said:
"'Father Christmas will come this year,
will he not. Just as other years'' And ho
Interrupted hlmelf, very proud to record a
memory. '
"'I remember very well when ho came
last year He put so many things in the
chimney And the next day there were
moro things on a big tree, and it had gold
nnd silver balls on It and little lighted
candles from top to bottom You aro
suro ho will come again?"
" 'Yes, Highness,' answered the governess,
he will como when you nro nslecp, nnd not
como If you stay nwake He Is shy anil
never wishes to bo seen'
"'I will sleep then,' answered tho little
Prince. And tho governess extinguished
the light and softly doted the door
"'The Ilttlo Prlnco waH thus nlone, his
eyes tightly closed Hut his ilttlo mind
was wide awako and he could not sleep
Ho thought of hjs grandfather, formerly
smiling nnd gay but whom lie now rarely
saw and when ho did, seemed not to notice
him, to bo absorbed in Konicthlng ho could
not understand He thought 6f his father
whom he hnd not seen for a long time'
And ho thought of his mother, who boomed
a different mother with kss love and af
fection for hlhi than beforo Ho had noticed
but understood that ho must not as why '
Then he thought of hla Shetland pony,
cho prttty pony that was dead nnd could
not be replaced on account of tho war
'Were all tho bhetland ponies killed in a
great bittlo" ho had asked And ho did
not understand when ho was answered
It was not that, but they could not cross
tho sea on nccount of the bad i:ngllh
"With eyes still cloaed, his thought turned
to Father Christmas, and ho prayed to him
"'Father Christmas, I must tell what I
wish, for you do not know Pleni-o do not
bring mo nny moro cannon or boes of lend
soldiers, or Ilttlo iJeppellr3. Thc you
brought last year are still hero nnd I am
tired of them I want a farm, nnd a sheep
fold, and cows nnd peasant women to milk
them I want a gramophone that plays
something elo than W.tcht am Itlieln and
Deutschland uber Allea. I am tired of them
too
'And then sleep came to him. tho lep
of tho Ilttlo child But mingled with It,
somewhere In Its mysterious depths, re
mained tho spirit of his last waking thought,
of Father Christmas And so ho dreamed
"He heard In tho chimney piece a host
of Ilttlo voices Was It Father Christmas
accompanied with the nngels' Hut then
he saw as they enmo out over his Bhoes
that they wero not nngels nt nil, but little
children; that Father Christmas whs not
with them, that they wero little boys and
little girls In their nlghtclothes, no blggor
than himself He thought they were very
beautiful and that they had come to play
with him Hut ns they camo close he haw
they were very pale, that their hair and
nlghtclothes wero wet. And they seemed
to be crying ns they stretched their little
hands out toward him
" 'What Is the matter?' asked the Ilttlo
Prince, 'I don't wnnt you to cry: I don't
want you to bo snd '
"And they nnswered In low concerted
voice that In his dream ho could scarcely
hear:
" "We are little American and Ilttlo Hng
1181 children And one night we wero
drowned We were on a big, big boat. We
don't know why wo were drowned We
had always been good boys and girls, lit
tle Prince, and all at onco wo woke. In a
great cold salt-tasting water We opened
our mouths to call our papas and mamas,
and the water camo In nnd we died almost
right away. But Just before we heard
the derisive voices of men who spoko In
your language. Why were we drowned by
these men, little Prince? We wanted so to
see this Christmas night nnd Father Chrlst
rru. not dead and wet, but happy and
nltvo. And we camo because our spirits
may go where they will ; we had heard that
the eva when Father Christmas comes Is a
great feast night In your country shall
we never again havo tho playthings he
brought us last year In our countries?
"And then the dream of the little Prince
died, ns lream will ; the dreams of waking
and of s.ecylng hours.
The next morning when the governess
came the Ilttlo Prince awoke with a smile
and suddenly burst Into tears.
'"I have had a dream, a dream,' he said,
'' 'What was it, Highness?' asked the gov
erness. "But the little Prlnco shook bis little
haevi and would not answer,"
LEDGEKr-PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, MAY 28, 1917
Tom Daly's Column
Till: lllllTIWAY
Oho thanks for this aurilvall
I'or here's the anniversary
,01 Teacher Dear's nrrftnl
In his maternal nursery.
Other Noted Men Born May 28
Louis Agnsslz, naturalist, 1807.
Tom Moore, poet, 1779
WE SPOKE somo tlmo ago of the funny
things to bo found among tho records
In "Who's Who." Every Inmato of tho
volumo Is supposed to furnish his own
story. For years post this Is what n
great mnn offered; this and no more!
Johnum, John (I.. rornorntlon lawyer.
A. lines l.Hii.1 Title tll'le . Philadelphia,
' 7 WKIti: YOU
If I tverc you and you tccrc I,
I'cllcla, 1 soon icoiid cure
The agonies I now endure
Jlecause viy pleadings you deny.
I tmuld not take a fillow's eye
Then slay him u-lth a glance demure,
If 1 tccrc you.
Your pa, for reasons tnoif obscure,
Imagines tec intend to fly
To Gretna Giccn before July
Your slrr, bcllcie me, would be sure.
If I ucre you.
riLBERT.
Sir I sco by the paper that only threo
men have been dismissed from Fort Niagara
becauso of physical defects but that five
In camp nro In tho grasp of German
measles 'Nother plot, d'ya 'sposo?
C.
A measlo Is red. If It were green you
might call It a grasp plot.
The New lliatl
Henr VValsnrt Hill In Ills Annual Addreea
, llcfero the New Yerk State Waterway
Aeeoclntlon at Trti), N V. ,
Octohrr 6 1010
This Trnv "till liolda In peare and rrlde of
The hearte of thnje who llneer for the dfty
Within her cnnllnea euro nf their reward
If they hut ehow her gerulne regard
We rnme a. frlenle within jour open ritee.
To learn what cnterprUe lleetf ereatu
Through ttrlft of tbnie ensaced In elvle life
That leada to happtnets unknown In etrlfe.
'treat Meadows' plains T" lonu th open door
To Mohawk tribes nnd eavnKO fcucamorei
Their interchange nf peltries from ranoea
Was trado enough to mollify their woee.
These Ptete were aptly christened "Unci
A was Sim Wilson whose cood beef nnd ham
Wero paik'd In honest birtels of while oak.
And pralie on lilin was "stowed by army folk.
Here collars cuffs and ahlrta are wnsh'd nnd
ma le
And other articles of highest grade!
Your factories nnd warehouses are full
An I vour production is most tountlful
While Induatrles Increase as do the yeara,
Creative envrprle- the more flt pears
Hero were machine mado horeeshoes first pro-
duied . ,
And Deesemer steel was first Introduced,
Here Vulcan fore s hie armor platea of ateel
For Ericsson's dread Monitor whose keel
Vas nlwh're laid by Trojin capital
Of Trojan pluck that was prophetical.
The storac ponds rurpllcl h Vj nam's Kill
Prorelled the wheels In Hurln s buej mill
Vour efforts to arrett yon river's tile
Will soon bo crowne.1. where llulson's dam does
strlJe
l ontlnuel tomorrow )
Why Not "Harem Scarcm"?
"When tho British entered tho village
tho fat Turk, who was Its burgomaster,
or whatever you call It, was tnken by
surprise, and so were tho women of tho
household, who ran helter-skelter"
New a Dispatch.
3tOVC TO A31KXD
Th Legislature at llarrlsburc Is considering
a bill to abolish tho freo lunch counter.
News note
A. thought icithln my bean, born
A liopc that I? perhaps forlorn,
nut, oh! that it ml'iht be:
Why not destroy John Barleycorn
And let dear free Lunch frcct
r. ATKIXSOX.
Linden gleefully battens upon this In
tho current Sat. Eve l'ost:
Last February he became president
of the Naval War College He Is fifty-
nine years old nnd will bo llfty-clght
next October
At this rate, scz he, how long do jou
supposo It will take him to reach his
second childhood? It's a compliment.
Possibly Linden never heard of the Iilsh
ejaculation. "Lord, love him' He grows
younger tho older ho gets"
All Together Now
Let every fellow do his bit,
And smllo whllo he Is doing It;
It may be leading hepes forlorn;
It may bo only hoeing corn ;
Still ho Is acting like a man,
Who does his Job the best ho can
Let's nil find out what duty means,
In bearing arms or planting beans;
And cro we reach tho great beyond,
Let's dig dow n deep nnd buy n bond I
Oh let us promptly do our hit.
And smllo while we are doing It
It's plain to nil, now wo are In,
Wero brothers underneath the skin;
Somo Join tho ranks nnd grab .i gun;
Scene Just as proudly glvo the mon
Don't fool yourself; we'd go through hell
To help our Uncle Samuel!
We're out to win and none desponds;
Pall Into Una 1 Trot out them bonds I
GEO B HVNSON.
AND we learn for tho first time from
"Tho Recollections of Sir Algernon West"
that a clever poem wo had always at
tributed to Lord Byron was written by
a Miss Fanshawo. It's that epigram
on tho letter "II."
Twas whispered In Heaven,
Twaa muttered In Hell,
And echo caught faintly
The sound as It fell
On tho confines of earth
'Twas permitted to rest
And tho depths of the ocean
Its presence confessed.
'Twill be found In the sphere
When 'tis riven asunder,
Tie seen In the lightning
And heard In the thunder.
Twas allotted to man
With his earliest breath,
It assists at his birth
And attends him In death,
Presides o'er his happiness,
Honor and health ;
Is the prop ot his house
And the end of his wealth.
In the heaps of the miser
Is hoarded with care,
But Is sure to be lost
In his prodigal heir
It begins every hope,
Every wish It must bound ;
It prays with the hermit,
With monarchs Is crowned.
Without It the soldier.
The sailor, may roam,
But woe to the wretch
Who expels It from home 1
In the whisper of conscience
Tls sure to be found,
Nor e'en in the whirlpool
Of passion is drowned.
Twill soften the heart;
Though deaf to the ear,
It will make It acutely
And Instantly hear.
But, Id, short, let It rest,
Like a delicate flower.
Oh, breathe on it softly,
It U4a as bouri
"YES, SHE KICKS; BUT THINK OF THE CHAP AT T'OTHER END" II
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THE VOICE OF
THE PEOPLE
Specific Grievances of Ireland
Against English Rule War
Blamed on Acts of
Mankind
Tifs Department ts Irts to all rcadera uho
ulsh to express fnrlr opinions ot. subjects 0
current interest. It is an open forum and the
Eienlna Lrrtocr assumes no reportIM!(fi lor
the xleus 0 (U correspontlenls. letters must
be stoned bu the name and address ot the
uriter, not necessarily for publication, hut as a
ouarantce ot oood talth.
IRELAND'S GRIEVANCES
To the Editor of the Eiening Lctlget
Sir In an editorial today you concede
that Irish homo rulo should bo given "on
goneial and national grounds," yet some
what inconsistently nsk for somo specific
grounds upon which It should bo given
You then say
Precisely what Injustice has the Biltish
Parliament dono to tho average Irish
community In recent years which It has
not dono to tho average English com
munity, nnd what Justice and aid havo
been given to Englishmen that havo been
withheld from Irishmen?
Under your limitation of "recent years"
I could go back say twenty to look for
cabes in which tho peoplo of Ireland and
the English people nre not treated nllke.
But I will confino myself to the present
day and cite n fiw of the many grievances
under which Ireland labors now
Some years ago the Chltdors Royal Com
mission, appointed by tho House of Com
mons to consider the fiscal relation of
Great Britain nnd Ireland, reported that
since the Act of Union of 1800 a sum of
more than $1,000,000,000 one billion six
hundred millions was due to Irelnnd from
tho Imperial 1 xchequer for money paid by
Ireland In excess of her legitimate con
tribution to Imperial expense's Not a single
cent of this hns been returned Is not that
n grlovanco'
Since tho war hundreds of munition
plants havo been erected In England Not
a single ono exists In Ireland, nlthough
promises for tho erection of some have
been frequently made Is not that a griev
ance? In tho education grnnts for 1917-18, Just
published, England is given moro than
twelve times as much as Ireland, whllo
Scotland, a far smaller country, Is given
nearly twice as much For the first time
a sum of over J5.000.000 Is given for
scientific and industrial research In Eng
land, Scotland and Wales, whllo not a soli
tary penny has been given Ireland Is not
that a grievance?
Public school teachers In England get
about 60 par cent more salary than tho
Irish national teachers, nnd, besides, are
provided with freo homes, which tho Irish
teachers have not Is not that a grlovance'
The English Board of Trade will not
permit the export from England to Ireland
of structural Iron needed in the rebuilding
of that part of Dublin wrecked by tho
shells of a British gunbent during the
Sinn Fein revolt, nor will the Bame board
permit tho export of tho machinery neces
sary to open and develop a coal mlno nt
Kllllnaleck, County Cavan Is not each of
thVss a grievance?
A few weeks ago a council of agricul
ture was specially formed to develop agri
culture during the war Ireland, unlike
England, which Is mainly Industrial, Is an
agricultural country and yet not a single
Irishman was named on this board. Is not
this a grievance?
Henry Ford, automobile manufacturer of
Detroit, wishes to establish a factory In
Cork. To do so It Is necessary to obtain
the permission of the English Parliament,
and it Is quite likely that permission will
not be granted, as English manufacturers
have presented a petition against tho
scheme. Is not that a grievance, and does
not a grievance lie within the fact that not
a railway, or tramway, or nnrbor pier or
any other publlo work can be undertaken
in Ireland without the express authority
of an act of the British Parliament?
Vour space Is valuable, so I will not
trespass on It. But I could cite you scores
on scores of cases In which the Irish people
are not treated as fairly or as consider
ately as are the English people. You are
not qultu correct when you say the Irish
peasantry forced Parliament to make the
landlords "disgorge." The land purchase
act to which you refer'was passed by the
landlords' friends, the Tory party, and
under Its operation these landlords, Instead
of "disgorging" readily and cheerfully, sold
their estates at from three to four tlmss
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grandson tho owner of his fnrm In nbout
seventy -five years from the date of pui
chase J bT GEORGE JOYCE
Philadelphia, May 21.
WHOSE WAR?
To tho Editor of the Evening Ledger:
Sir In a recent addrcts by cx-PresIdent
Taft bearing upon the war I find these
words "When tho war began people began
to loo faith in tho Lord, but as It pro
giesses the dlvlno plan seems to unfold"
Now, with no thought or deslro of taking
issuo with Mr laft, 1 cannot well refrain
fiom expressing a few thoughts upon tho
momentous proposition ns to whether this
great war Is man's war or Gods war. If
tho latlet, then can neither tho Kaiser nor
any ono clso be held responsible for It, nnd
whoever may havo been tho prime in
stigator thereof was merely nn Instrument
In tho dlvlno hands In catrylng out God's
great plan ns foreordained from tljo ' be
ginning '
Hut is it Gods war' I think not For
even though admitting His supremacy In
nil things la it possible for tho finer sensi
bilities 01 tho human mind to become recon
ciled to tho thought that a being so powerful
as to l)o able to bring into existence this
vast universe, placing therein a smnll speck
upon which, nfter creating all things clc.
Ho created nnd placed man, that n being
whom wo havo learned to regard ns a Iov
lng Heavenly Father, would now find it
necetsaiv to resort to such means as nro
used In this wnr to destroy the creatures of
Ills own hands'' The very thought is ab
horrent Tho great tragedy of t'i 1 wat Is
a human tragedy, founded upon tho baser
elements of human nature, entirely out ot
harmony with both tho divine nature and
tho divine will Let not, therefdro, the war
ring nations try to placo the responsibility
upon God nor nsk Him to help them fight
their battles j hut to show them wherein thoy
havo erred, wherein they are In tho wrong,
nnd what they can now do In order to
bring this nwful carnage nnd bloodshed to
a speedy end 'vy.
Allcntovvn, Pn , May 25
THE IRISH SITUATION
To the Editor of Eicning Ledger:
Sir I regret very much the editorial,
"Hard on Ireland's rrlends," which ap
peared In the Ev evino LEDarn recently.
America must not Inso patlenco now, as
she. Is Ireland's salvation, and now is tho
tlmo of redemption
England hns fooled John Iledmond Now
sho Is getting ready to fool tho American
people. Behold this "convention"' I may
be wrong but I believe the majority of this
"convention" will be such men as "E. C
Herdman," picked to suit tho British Par
liament Naturally, the "convention" mem
bers will disagree nnd the result will be
flashed through America "England leaves
decision In Irishmen's own hands They
disagree." Tho men scattered through the
north and around Belfast nre Just tho same
as those of German descent Amerlcan-born
men who now sympathize with Germany.
Tho Ulstermen aro of English descent. Irish
born, who would rather sea Ireland In per
dition than seo her prosper.
AN IRISH GIRL IN PHILADELPHIA.
Philadelphia, May 27.
GAS MANTLES
In a chapter on the lumlncalty of flames
and the making of mantles for gas Jets, Sir
William A Tllden says In his book on
"Chemical Discovery and Invention In tho
Twentieth Century" that about 260,000,000
mantles are made In the wholo world every
year The mantle Is mado on a rotary knit
ting machine from fine ramie, cotton or
artificial silk thread dipped In a mixture
consisting mainly c thorium oxide with a
little cerium oxide This mixture was the
result of a long series ot trials and was
patented In 1893. -Since then minerals which
contain thorium have become very Impor
tant and valuable. At one time they were
known chiefly as of Swedish origin and were
called "Swedish earths," and. because of
their scarcity, "the rare earths," but the
Immense quantities now used are supplied
from monazlte sands, of which there are ex
tenslvo deposits In North and South Caro
Una and the coast of Braxll. "The mantle
Industry," adds Sir William, "Is only one of
many examples which could be quoted of
the ultimate practical application of the
results of a purely sclentlflo research to
common Industrial purposes. A generation
aro the salts cT thorium, cerium, lanthanum
and the rest were Interesting only to a few
enthusiasts Now theso e'emsnts are known
to be widely diffused and available In an-
required amounts from mineral deposits
nhlcb are handled by the thousands of tons
annually." "
What Do You Know?
j
Queries of General interest u,..J b answered
in thta column. Ten Questions, the answers to
uihich eterv uell informed person should know,
arc asked daily,
QUIZ
1. Agrarian disorders are reported in Rassls,
What aro the)?
2. Mhere Is Kent, which waa bombed by Ger
man airmen?
3. Mho Is MeAdoo, who. It Is hlnled. may be.
rome Democratic candidate for tho presi
dency In 1020?
4 What nre fnrnlrorous animals?
8. What ts a apretid-eagln speech?
0. Mho was Captain Cook?
7. Mliero aro the Itarren Grounds?
8. What baseball team la called the "Cubs"?
0. Mho Is Doctor Rone, named as Assistant
secretary of the Treaaurj?
10. What won the Sallo law?
Answers to Saturday's Quiz
1. A correspondent Is one who writes, and
particularly a Person writing for n pnbll
cation. A corespondent Is a person
named ns onn of the causes for u petition
or n dlrorce. .
8. Alexandre Rlbot Is the French Premier.
3. There nre forty-eliht stars In the American
lag one for each Mtate.
4. Jopim Is a seaport on the west coast of
I'alestlne. about forty mllce northwest of
Jerusalem, It Is very old
5. Tho caesowarv Is a large bird of Australia,
resembling tho ostrich.
0. Prisoners are sold to be held Incommuni
cado when they nro not allowed to speak
or communicate with nny one.
7. Nathan Mrnus Is a New ork merchant,
probab y beet known for hla eietern of
free niilk distribution to the poor of ew
ork city
8. Trieste la nn Important Austrian port on
the tdriatlc hea.
0. A person selling liquor to nn army man In
uniform Is liable to u fine or S1O0O ana
a sear's Imprisonment.
10. The Carlisle Indian school Is at Carlisle,
la.
French in Germany
T. O Yes, a small portion of Alsace,
Germany, Is occupied by Trench troops Tho
western battle front runs from Belgium
through northern France southeastward Into
the southern tip ot Alsace, ending at the
Swiss border.
Registry by Mall
READER If you aro away from your
homo division or precinct on June 5, you
are icqulred to register by mall A few
days before registration day go to the clerk
of tho county where you may be (or to tho
city clerk If you are in a city of more than
30,000 Inhabitants) and obtain a registration
blank Fill It out and mall it to the regis
trar of your precinct so that It will arrive
there on or before June S
Ministers of Agriculture
J. W The Canadian, British and French
ministers corresponding to our Secretary
of Agriculture nre the Minister of Agri
culture, Ottawa, Canada; the President of
the Board of Agriculture, London, England,
and the Minister of Commerce and Agri
culture, Paris, Prance.
Farm Work
E. O'K. Detailed Information regarding
farm work may be obtained best by a per
sonal visit to the Philadelphia Bourse farm
labor recruiting bureau or the office of the
United States Immigration Commissioner,
132 South Third street.
Noncitizcns
READER Every male resident of the
United States between the specified ages,
whether or not he is a citizen, Is required
to register June 6,
Exemption From Draft
R. R. It Is probable that a man with
astigmatism will be exempted from mili
tary service, but It Is Impossible to say,
as no definite announcement on this point
has been made.
Woman on Dollar
E. E. -The woman's face on the Ameri
can silver dollar is that of the Goddess of
Liberty. It was designed from no par
ticular model, but was the designer's con
ception ot an ideal face. It was first used
In 1878.
Four Yearn a Citizen
READER OF THE PUBLIC LEDGER
All men of the specified age, whether c not
they have their first papers for citizenship,
must register June 6. If you have your first
papers and are German born you Bre an
"alien enemy" and will not be subject to
draft, according to the present Interpreta
tion, ot U act.
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