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Strand Fills Bcs.nu 32 Hue Louis lo Grand BUBSCRIPTION TEHM3 The Etxiimj Li do in la served to subscribers in Philadelphia and surrounding towns nt the rat or twelv (12) cents per week, rayablo to the carrier. Br mall to points outside of Philadelphia. In tba United States. Canada of United Hates pos sessions, postare free, fifty (RO) cents per month. Six (10) dollars per year, payable In advance. To all torelrn countries one (11) dollar pr month. Noticb Subscribers wlshlnr address chanced Bust rive old as well as new address. BEtt, JMO WALNUT KEYSTO'SE. MAIN S00O Sss- Address all communications fo Evening ledger. Independence Square, Philadelphia, Xtiibid at the rniLADzM-nia, rosTorncs u srco-.D-ci.iso ma hitthh. THE AVERAGE NET PAID DA1LT CIR CULATION OF THE EVENING! LEDOEU FOR MAY WAS 101. Ill) rhllidflrhli. Tufid.T, June 1, 191? PHILADELPHIA IN THIS ERA OF GIANTS TT IS an era of giants. Tho world has leaped forward three decades In three years. The aerial prog ress which wo might havo hoped to attain by 1950 wo havo already. Tho submarino has becomo an ocean-going craft. Inven tion under tho urge of war Is feverish throughout the world. "Within a night the United States has rent its garments of inertia and tho merchant marine which wo have prayed for during half a century is on tho ways. Our factories In months havo turned out tho ordinary production of years. FInanco on a ecalo undreamed of is an overyday affair. Prosperity, chained by conservatism, has burst its bonds at the touch of radicalism and diffused itself even over tho hinter lands of Mars. Never was thero such an era, never such an epoch of progress. Our eyes havo been opened. The colossal com merce of yesterday looms In tho vista as almost trivial. It seemed large; it was nothing. Tomorrow fills the horizon and beyond it dip vast fleets, the Interme diaries of business such as tho world has never known. This war has been a Co lumbus opening new hemispheres of trade to the people of tho earth. It is the era of giants, and cities ruled by pigmies will wither and dry up. T)REPAREDNESS? It was preparedness when Hamburg began years ago to make ready for tho mighty extensions of commerce she foresaw. It Is preparedness that is changing Halifax into a port with magnificent facilities for trade. It Is preparedness which Is building a huge system of subways, throadlng New York In every direction, that she may bo ready for the commerce of tomorrow. It Is preparedness which is putting from eighteen to thirty millions of Govern ment money into League Island, which is erecting at Lester a prodigious plant to employ 25,000 workmen, for the making of engines to drive the ships that from Trenton down to Wilmington, on both shores of the Delaware, are having the breath of life breathed Into them by master mechanics; the sort of prepared ness that constructed tho works at Eddy stone, under the sort of genius that built up within four years in Philadelphia tho largest plant in the world for the manu facture of automobile bodies and parts, or out of a shanty used as a machine shop evolved one of the greatest nutomoblle truck manufactories in the nation. mHE Philadelphia of five years ago was vast, but how little compared with the Philadelphia of today! We began, for In stance, the fight for rapid transit in 1914. and the wild predictions of which we were guilty in that fight have becomo the reality of today and have driven the local traction company out of comparative bankruptcy into increasing opulence. The municipal piers we were fighting for with more or less hesitation have In this short period become inadequate, and every hope we had of the port's future has already been surpassed by the actuality. God help little men! Progress in an age like this engulfs them before the echo of their wallings has had time, to die out. God help little Phlladelphlans in par ticular, because while they plan In puny terms an imperial community is . rising about them. Testerday we could sur vive Lilliputian leadership; today it Is 'fatal. It is an era of giants, and giants we must have to take hold of the pros pects of Philadelphia and build neces sary facilities and make the people spiritually ready for the stupendous future which has already begun to dawn. We want no more caviling by meager minded men when other men of vision make ready to build. We want no more pettifogging politics in the conduct of our municipal affairs. We want no more cold feet In high places. "Vfe do want the sort of leadership f TV" ' Iff' its Uml early days of UOrcky built, . the water works that became one of the wonders of the new continent, the sort of leadership that vlsloned and financed the Pennsylvania Railroad, the sort of leadership that achlovcd the Centennial, the sort of leadership that Inspired Cas satt when he sat at the head of his table and said: From Boston to Baltimore there are four communities around which center populations of a million or more Boston, Now York, Newark and Philadelphia. There Is no other nation on earth which can support more than one city of a million. Wo are going to build tho finest tallroad skill can build to tie those communities together and bind them Into the national capital, tho West and South, and wo aro going to through-route trains through Now York no matter what the cost. Trivialities did not interest him, pessimists did not deter him, and time, almost before tho com pletion of tho stupendous things he planned, has vindicated his Judgment and his patriotism. Thero Is a type of man we need, nnd the only type of man capablo of rising to tho necessities of the situation now confronting this city. TXrE HAVE no nx to grind, no purpose to fulfill except the greater glory and prosperity of Philadelphia; but we speak tho sentiments of tons of thousands of men and women when we say this com munity Is tired of obstructionists, whether they bo obstructionists holding up rapid transit, or obstructionists hold ing up port Improvement, or obstruction ists standing in tho way of proper sani tation of tho city, or obstructionists wanting to build a lodgo room when tho community has called for a convention hall. , Some of tho biggest men of the United States aro Phlladelphlans. Some of them, many of them, havo never como forward in public leadership because they will havo nothing to do with the peanut poli ticians who obtrudo themselves In the way on nil occasions. But such men are soon to bo railed Into the service of tho city nnd of the State. Events havo rown too big for tho little fellows. The modern definition of democracy Is ef ficiency. Hereafter this community will demand It, and this newspaper will de mand that tho people get It. THE FUTURE WILL REPAY CROSS GIFTS RED A WILD notion seems to bo entertained -" In some quarters that tho pcoplo of the United States havo recently been engaged in "giving" the Government a largo sum of monoy. Needless to nay, thoso who use that term to describe the Liberty Loan campaign did not buy bonds, for thoso who did buy know that It was not they who wero giving but tho Government, as tho Liberty Bonds will doubtless sell nt a substantial premium. So It means nothing to answer tho Red Cross appeal with the exclamation, "What, moro monoy?" It Is perfectly proper that Red Cross Week follows on tho heels of tho final Liberty Loan Week. Those who realize that financing the United States Is a "good thing" can afford to hand over In advance to the Red Cross sums that they can expect tho future to produce. They can reflect that the bonds may go to 103 or 110 or even higher. If the history of Government loans repeats Itself, and that It would be a patriotic and humane action to dis count this unearned Increment by do nating it in advance to pay for the medical treatment of American soldiers. Tho $100,000,000 required, while it Is sought In the form of a' gift. Is more like Insurance. Tho saving of soldiers' lives, the prevention of the spread of disease among them, tho refitting of the wounded for tho industrial hattle of life to follow the armed conflict these are national assets cheap at the price. Count Zeppelin's death has at least spared him the bitterness of continual defeat. Howard Heinz, Pennsylvania's Hoover, has gripped the food problem In a masterful manner. He does well to direct his suggestions straight to the women of the State, as the economy now required is nearly as much a matter of cooking as It is of supplies. Fright is seldom a praiseworthy sentiment, but if Phlladelphlans could learn to be as energetically afraid of files as the British nimy surgeons who havo described the scourges which theso winged pests spread throughout tho army, our city might well rejoice in tho particular brand of modern cowardice that brings good health. Senator Snyder may now go on record as tho man who put the age In storage. His bill which Just passed tho House at Harrisburg permits butter to rest three months In Btorage and eggs four months. Add to this the rest which both get before they reach storage and it will be seen that the people get them at a pretty ripe age. Incidentally it would be bettor If the whole Legislature went In storage, for its chief function seems to be freezing out the public. It has been said that, although the material victory of the Franco-Prussian War was Germany's, France drew an ar tistic triumph from the struggle. The tragic reverses in the conflict were im mortalized In the superb paintings of her modern war artists, of whom Detallle Is a typical example, Something spiritually akin to this method of extracting the full measure of grim beauty from war is now suggested in the plan to turn tho ruined Rhelms Cathedral Into a kind of Pantheon. No restoration of the herolo edifice is to be made. Its battle-torn walls are to tell their own tale of German bru- tallty and barbarism. War flags of the Allies are to adorn -the interior of the church, which is to be solemnly dedicated as a monument to the valorous dead. Rhelms Cathedral once proclaimed the perfection of Christian art War-scarred. It s now to speak of a mock civilization's undoing shajBsv ' r; EVNINGr CHANGES URGED IN HIGH SCHOOLS The Day of Many Short Periods Said to Bo Destroying Genuine Academic Training By PEDAGOGUE THE high school day of many short periods Is destroying genuine academic training In Philadelphia, disgusting expe rienced teachers nnd laying the foundation for nervous troubles to be developed In the students years after the present trying ex perience. Parents who know something of the silent Injury Indicted on the adolescent pupil by school machinery which inspires and compels apprehensive haste during dim cult work aro now stirred to Inqulro why such conditions should exist The high school day of six periods of forty-five minutes cadi hns obtruded Itself Into our city schools 'n tho last few yenrs, although this plan. Instead of the long and successfully tried one of fivo periods of nhotit flfty-flro mlnutrR each, was not de manded by any proper pedagogic consid eration It Is. In fact, one of those Inven tions of tho American school superinten dents which hao given tlmt class of school ofllcers nn uncnvlablo reputation for mechanical thinking Emerging for the most part from the elementary schools nnd hence Inexperienced 'n the Intricacies of high school work. It was not to be ex pected that a llttlo pioblcm like that of dividing tho high school day Into periods should present Itself to them In any other form than that of ono of an easy restoring of heterogeneous studies nnd not as one of the Just treatment of each kind of study. A large fnctnr In promoting this ev cesslve subdivision of tho high school day has been tho considerable accession of so called practical studies necessitating the ue of tho shop and the laboratory. This labo ratory work can best be- done In long periods each covering two short ones, nnd to allow this to bo arranged for all of tho labora tory work simultaneously with the academic activities an even number of periods Is mcchnnlcnlly Instltuttd. It Is, however, well known that a decided distinction ex. Ists between tho cafy laboratory work which requires no homo preparation and tho Intricate academic work which not only requires special preparation but a llbcrnl allotment of school lime. And It Is also well known that In tbo process of adapta tion to the needs of tbo laboratory thero Is no sufllelent reason for rendering efficient academic training Impossiblo and Its dally conditions Intolerable. It Is not Intended now fully to point out tho grossly absurd pretensions of tho "prac tlc.il" teachers who aro beading, without even a dead reckoning, straight upon the shoals that would lastingly discredit any valuable culture Involved In tho "practical" studies. A llttlo reflection may, however, suggest that ihe mere fact that the labora tory teachers of tho high schools now out number tho academic teachers does not glo tho former tho right to Insist on a mode of rosterlng which annuls tho efficiency of the academic work Beyond nil doubt, tho academic work must remain tho funda mental and tho Indlspcnsahlo training of the high school. "Study Hours" With thirty periods per week at disposal, a system of so-called "study hours" has been Incorporated. The pupil Is compelled to "study" amid a crowd of hundreds of comrades ono period each day and then to emerge, as a Judicious teacher has ex pressed It. so "doped" for tho next period as to be proof against all Instruction. Of course, reflective parents, as well as ex perienced teachers, recognize tho genuine deception Involved In the Junction of tho "study hour" with tho six-period day Still another element demanding the day of six periods Is that of "promotion by sub. Ject," as adopted by several of the high schools. Here, strangely enough, It Is found that a workablo roster can bo produced only by according each subject, no matter what Its character or claims, exactly the same number of periods, say four per week, as one high school actually Insists. It may take years to free such school from the destructive results of "promotion by sub ject." but this constitutes no convincing reason why Its plan of perverting the edu cation of youth should be used as an ar gument for promoting a school day of many brief periods The real pedagogic vice Inherent In each of these reasons for the use of the slx perlod day can enly partially be suggested here; the further we should go the more clearly we should have to expose motives like that for early dismissal, and. above all. that for the machine functioning of the school which Is so dearly prized by the pedagogue who can stolidly Ignore the vital Interests of tho pupils. It Is to be sincerely hoped that In the public demand for return of a five-period division of the academic work of nil the public high schools It shall not becomo necessary to detail the positive wreckage of effective teaching al ready accomplished nor become vital to disclose the final sources of the present un satisfactory conditions. The most successful private academies of the country find It necessary to conduct their work on a four-period day. and there fore It certainly is a moderate demand that In the public high schools there shall be n flve-perlod division And when we re member that the high school, established In this city before It was undertaken In any other American city, had a few years ago acquired an enviable reputation through use of Its own experience, there can be no question of the wisdom of at once return ing to that experience. Again and again It has been demonstrated that efficient work can be safely accomplished only In a school period long enough for the leisurely nnd well-rounded treatment to a subject of some difficulty to the student. Top-Speed Education The serious Injury alike to teachers and students of a schedule that compels nerv ous Intensity and haste cannot be ade quately depicted. The Imagination may at tempt to follow a crowd of high school boys or girls driven each schoolday of the year, and this for years, through six periods of work or "study" at top speed, but the biological consequences of the Insanity of such school mismanagement are to be reaped only In the home years after the primary nervous Injury has been Inflicted. Ex pert psychiatrists everywhere In the land are demanding the biological management of education, particularly for tho adolescent stage of life, and wniie mis serious atti tude of scientific men at first blush may mean nothing to the wooden obduracy of certain high school "teachers," a second reflection may well be given to the plain fact that Philadelphia proposes no longer to tolerate a high school day which1 renders thorough acquirement Impossible and be sides puts upon the young student a dally nervous strain that Is Inexpressibly dan gerous. Our Philadelphia public school superin tendents will render no greater service to the cause of high school education than by standing for the city's own successful ex. perlence under the flve-perlod academic, day and by Insisting that the laboratory work shall Justly develop atlme allotment ssstfsrfsi siaibP fr -jests V" sjpsbbss LEDOEKr-PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, JUKE 19, 1917 Tom Daly's Column The Eagle to Its Young (For the Aviation Corps) Where the war-bolts are falling And the thunder-clouds darken, I, the Eagle, am calling, That my children may hearken, May give over vain seeking In the blood-clouded water For the sea-monsters, recking With rapine and slaughter. Look aloft and come hither That the groundlings may tremble! Ye were born to the ether; Let your hosts there assemble, Let them come beyond number, With steel talons, to sheathe them In the foes that encumber France, groaning beneath thevu Depths are not to your liking, Nor the skulker's hid places; When the eagles are striking, 'Tis with sun in their faces. Yet the monsters in hiding On the floor of the ocean, When my eagles are riding, Shall quake with their motion Come aloft, then, come hither, That the groundlings may tremble. Yc were born to the ether; Let your thousands assemble! As a host out of Heaven Heat the hordes of Hell under; Yoke your steel with God's levin Your shouts with His thunder! ' REV. E. W. L1NDESMITH, chaplain l'. S. A. (retired), Is now a very old man living in Cleveland. Ho Is of the stuff of which our dream of liberty was made, for under his portrait In tho main corridor of Notro Damo University you may read his record: First. Cousin of nineteen soldiers of the Civil War, 1861-66. Set nnd. Brother-in-law ol a soldier of the Civil War. Third Brother of a lieutenant of the Civil War. Fourth. Son of a volunteer soldier .of the Seminole Indian War. Fifth. Grnndnephew of two soldiers of the War of IS 12. Sixth. Grandson of a soldier of the War of 1S12. Seventh. Grcnt-grandncphew of two soldiers of the Revolutionary War. Eighth. Great-grandson of a soldier of the Revolutionary War. Ninth. Maternal grandson of a soldier of 1798. WILLIAM GANSON ROSE somo years ngo Incubated nn Idea which had never occurred to any ono else and wrote n poem In prnlso of tho pitcher who hap pened lo bo In tho box on tho day that saw tho downfnll of tho mighty "Casey nt tho Bat." Why should tho "boner" bo Immortalized nnd tho real hero for gotten? Which reminds us that ono of our own sporting writers the other day, commenting upon tho failure of one Fred Jlcrklc to touch second base on a certain mcmorahlo occasion, when a singlo ad vanced him from first, gave credit for the hit to "Pinch-Hitter McCormlck." Brld well, batting In his regular turn, was tho mnn. TRICOLOR Poppies and daisies and cornflowers hhie; This It thr one bouquet Worn on Love's breast today. Poppies of deepest red Thru like the sky a'erhcad Cornfloirers too, llrlght azure blue. Pilckcd with bright stars of light, Daisies of gleaming white, liravc red, pure white and deep, faithful blue, roppics and daisies and cornflowers, too. Popjilcs! Tour crimson lips hold her last kiss. Daisies! Your petals are snow white nnd this Only the pale of her tear-wetted face Touching my checks in the final embrace. Cornflowers! You have but stolen your blue, Copied it straight from the eyes that I knew. Tricolor Stars and Stripes Old Eng land's flag. These like a bright bouquet Worn on Love's breast today aicnm with their poppy red Then like the sky o'crhcad Cornflowers too, Bright azure blue, Pricked wHth bright stars of light, Daisies of gleaming white. Brave red, pure white and deep, faith ful blue, Popples and daisies and cornflower, too. TAIthKY. CONFESSIONS OF A SBLF-MADE HIGH BROW I used to be a perfectly harmless druu gist I sold So & So's Medical Discovery. Pastor Hoositus's Nerve Tonic. Mrs Dopem's Soothing Cordial, Blldad's Blood Bitters, and India Cholagogue. But one day when reading a "medical" almanac I found an article called "How to Tell Whether You Have a Mind." I found by applying the tests proposed that I had .. mind The almanac assured me that the human mind was capable of anything It di Fired to accomplish. Deliberately I determined to be a high brow I stopped reading the sporting pages. I threw away my volumes of Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth. I went to a library, ana by chance began In the Sh alcove. 1 began to read Schnltzler. Shaw, Schombt zky, SchnaberagaU, Shakespeare and Pro fessor Samble's Anatomy of the Microcosm. To my surprise I found nothing difficult In any of theso authors, it was an tne same kind of stuff I had met In the patent medicine almanacs better put, but not es sentially any wiser. I tried authors begin ning with K. Kant, Keats, Keble, Kempis, Kropotkln. Klelland, Kreosote and Karboy, and then I emerged nt the other end of thb shelf unsatisfied. I found nothing thai was Impossible to understand. In my old Innocent days I used to Imag ine that learned people trafficked In deep and recondite Ideas, theorems, syllogisms, phenomena, noumena, parallpomena and other Intellectual truffles that were beyond the grasp of the plain man. I find It was all a bluff. The highbrows don't know any more than you and I do. In fact I myself am a highbrow. None of my friends will speak to me any more. But I brought It on" myself. Romanes. Reuter, Reaumer, Re camler, Rubens, Ruhmkorff, Rousseau, Rossettl. CHRISTOPHER MORLKT. TEXAS produces pecans, climate, horses, cotton, politics, Jack rabbits and an occasional original letterhead, like that of the Jackson House, of Lometa, which carries this boast; Every city and town claims to be In the center of the State, or as Governor Rob erts (the old Alcalde of Texas) says, "In the center of the surrounding country." Lometa Is not In that class, but Is on the Santa Fe Railroad and exactly half way between heaven and hell, where there Is the most delightful climate and conditions on earth; hence you will not find a soul hero who will take chances and exchange a home In Lometa for one in the promised land or any other country. Oversubscribed! Phfllp Coturnacclo's paintjng and U0.50 day oa m Mi i! cress, s - f JUST AN INCIDENT IN THE MARCH t '"?y,":Ji-2i&uf!sMrv.-c3.;" . 'vy .. THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE The Cast Steel Ship Plan Suc cess of the Liberty Loan Wifa Derartmraf Is tree to all readers who wiih to express their oillfo,is on subjeots of current Interest. It is an open lorum and the Eienlna Ledger assumes no responsibility tor the views of Us correspondents. Letters must be signed bu the tiamr nm! address of the writer, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee ot good faith. THE CAST STEEL SHIP PLAN To tho Editor of the Evening Ledger: Sir In answer to the criticism relating to tho cast steel ship from H. A. Norbom, president of the Pennsylvania Shipbuilding Company and Now Jersey Shipbuilding Comnanv. at Gloucester City. N. J.. I beg to state that It was In anticipation of suchv criticisms as theso which are met with from foundrymen and shipbuilders that a careful Investigation of the possibility of casting steel ships In sections was made before per mitting the publication of the article relat ing thereto. Mr. Norbom and your readers may take Into consideration a few facts: First. More difficult castings are now being made by the American Steel Foun dries at Chester, where stem sections are being cast complete, including the stern post and portions of the plating. Second. More difficult castings are made by the Commonwealth Steel Com pany, such, for example, as bed frames for locomotives, locomotive tenders and for various steel car construction pur poses. Third. These castings are maae aown to ot an Inch and In some cases to ot an Inch In thickness. Fourth. These are the thicknesses to be used for the cast steel ships and now em ployed for riveted ships. Fifth. Such castings for railroad work are as large as S feet 9 Inches by 28 feet 5 Inches, and to most foundrymen appear Impossible to make. Sixth. Steel castings for such rallcoad purposes aro steadily displacing riveted plate construction, owing to their su perior efficiency. Seventh. They are no heavier and In cases not so heavy as the riveted struc tures. Eighth. The cost of maintenance Is con siderably reduced. Ninth. This casting proposition Is in dorsed by some of the leading foundry operators of the country. This furnishes an opportunity not to In terfere with present shipbuilding compa nies whose utmost capacity Is demanded by the nation, but furnishes an opportunity to get In addition all the ships that may be desirable with the least possible draft upon the steel-mill facilities of the country. In fact, except for the equipment, which In tonnage Is a slight percentage of that of the ships desired, the cast steel ship proposi tion includes making ships In sh.pyards direct from the ore. Mr. Norbqm's statement that no rolled steel Is materially needed may be answered by his statement that It Is desirable to find methods to Increase the country's rolling capacity. , This Is an admission that tho present facilities ot rolling mills are Inade quate. The cast steel ship proposition makes It possible to avoid the enormous amount of rolling, punching and riveting machinery necessary to supply plates for the addi tional ships which are essential to sending a large army to Europe. MYRON F. HILL. New York, June 18. "COAL SHORTAGE" To the Editor of the Evening Ledger: Sir Scarcity and want In a land ot plenty! The latest Is a local coal shortage. After being assured by the Federal Govern ment that the production of coal Is quite adequate for the nation's needs, the local dealers to whom we apply for our normal seasonal requirement make answer that there is no coal to be had. They have not been able to get It for some time, they say, and add that the railroads are not shipping. These dealers offer to take an order, but make no statement as to when they shall be able to fill It. Their quotations, more. over, are extremely high. Wpy a (mortage jot coal In Philadelphia -1.1.1- .j.. -.. ii .... - , r r -- -;- -, SJXy-i TfmWr f'TWjfWI, f WffiBSIK J s: surcd by no less a person than the United States District Attorney that dealers who asset t a shortago aro willfully misrepresent ing. What Is happening? Is the supply of coal cars Inadequate? Does the coal not leave the mines? Hns It mysteriously dropped Into a bole on the way hero? Perhaps the mine operators will not ship tho coal and aro holding It for much higher prices. Maybo the dealers have contracted for future de livery for tho purpose of giving tho dear public an affcctlonato "squeeze." Then there is the story by the traellng man to the effect that the sidings of "a great railroad passing through Wllkcs-Barre to Philadel phia are literally lined with hundreds of cars loaded with coal." And what Is the explanation of this? Whatever tho cause for this, the public Is patiently sweating under something very much like systematized robbery. Is the Federal Government so helpless that It can do nothing but "Investigate"? PETER BROWN. Philadelphia, June IS. LIBERTY LOAN SUCCESS To the Editor of the Evening Ledger: Sir I wish to convey to you the thanks of the Liberty Loan committee for the aid your good paper has given us In tho Liberty Loan campaign. As chairman of the publicity committee, I wish to thank you for the very con scientious way Ben Bojden has done his work. He has given us his best and we appreciate It. RICHARD E. NORTON. Chairman Publicity Committee. Philadelphia, June 16. A DAY OF PRAYER To thr Editor of the Evening Ledger: Sir Thank you for your editorial calling attention to our country's need for a day of prayer nnd suggesting that, as "this Is not a year for playful celebration of Inde pendence Day. It behooves this people, In commemoration of that occasion, to meet ln" thelr houses of worship and petition God for peace and democracy," adding that "the Piwer of prayer Is a mighty power, greater ultimately than the power of arms." Brave words these, and I trust they may have a wide Indorsement from the secular press of the whole country as they must have from the religious press, and be a re minder to our President of his duty and privilege, as Abraham Lincoln so happily and often saw his duty and performed it. In not only the appointment of thanksgiving days, hut days for "deep humiliation and prayer" all through the long dark struggle of our Civil War. McC. Princess Anne, Md., June IB. "FANNY" "Fanny." In the parlance of the British soldier,, has nothing to do with a certain young woman's first play. It Is the name given to the women of the F. A. N. Y or First Aid Nursing Yeomanry. When a sentry recognizes one of its members with In the lines, his Invariable reply Is "Pass, Fanny." THE GOLDEN WARRIORS Mark where our legions be ! Kaiser our power behold ! Two billion warriors have we, Some green-clad, some In gold. Nay, more ! O King whose sires Turned Faith Into a clod 1 These are two billion altar fires Two billion eyes of God 1 Yea, King whose madness stripped The sweet, clean fleh of youth, Here are two billion arrows tipped With the hot barb of Truth I Yet every coin a sword Sharper than steel swords be Forged In the white flame of the Lord For His child, Liberty. O Trinity, your aim The earlier Three well knew; The Sword, the Arrow and the Flame Freedom are one In you ! ' All fear afar shall fleet When, golden In the air, One hundred million eagles meet The sable buzzard pair, . Defeated, deviled, dazed, Hear you across the surge Two billion golden voices raised, O Kaiser I in your dirge? Goliath, babes among, The golden stones are sped, By a'l the Nation's Davids flung i jI'l'W wJiln(. ueaa I flsSSityrilJsVsm Uu. ,vi. f OP PROGRESS QUIZ 1. Wlien to the Uisl Cross fonnd"d? I 2. What Cahlnrt ofllrer 1ms tlie Weather Bn. j rpnu under his JurlMllctlon? 3. What is the polltlrnl complexion of1 parting In foreign parllnments known as "tbt ' lUKiil," "tlie irt"7 4, Do e mean rich people or poor people trtM we speak of tho bourxeohle? 5, Wliat Is n bnrcnlanrente sermon? 0. Are tho operations of Japanese wsrcntt 1 confined to the eastern seas? 1 7. About when mu the Society of Friends or- I s-nnl.ulO M 8. What Is espionage? 0. Who Is Howard Heinz? 10. What Emperor of France wa President of Jrrnnce? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. Senor Doto Is tho new Spanlnh rrrmlcr. .. t.iutrniMi uarilialill was for some Urns s ! resident of Matrn Island. Ilorourh st itirninona. ureater New- lork. 3. Qulntln Mntsrs, knnnn as the "niacVi-nllh or Antwerp." was n, noted xlemlih painter. Ills dales nrr HCfl-1531. 4. Itoscon Conkllns wns n New- York poUHclis and a. mrmher of the United Mates Sea Pi?! '". which he first took his seat ii 1S07. He w-na the personal and polltial enemy of .In me O. lllulne. 5. When iincnl not lo expose himself In actios. rhai-lfH V, of Wpaln. U said to hate re marked, "Name me nn emperor who ml ever struck by a cannon ball." 0. Vlennr. on the Mhone Is the chief city of tho enartment of Isere. France. Alenns li mr c-iipiMii ot Austria. ?- "; eathejlra" Is n I.atln phrase meanlit "from the chair." It Is applied to wnil Is said officially or authorltatlrclT. 8. Mark Twain wns the father-in-law of Oulp (labrllowltsrh. the former's danihtw, I 1(1 fn lirstlntr mn U,I I. ..I. ..I.. . The, Battle of Hitterloo wa fouiht 101 41 10. It Is said that the Peruvian llama rofoiee II to carry on Its hack any burden vrelfhlic I more man juo pounds. NAPOLEON, AND DEMOCRACY Those who have taken old-fashioned Enr llsh history books serlouslv must have had some misgivings when they read that Gen-il eral Pershing was honored by the French! Republic In being permitted to hold tbM d uiu ui ,apoieon, tor me nation inaiwpuT at Waterloo has been wont In the past to put the Little Corporal In the category of! William TT T.U , i .- !... ........ii, ,x nicy aro Burpnseu 10 that the Napoleonic tradition Is identified with the cause of democracy But this lden tlflcatlon rests UDon a sound basis. The French Revolution had to flght forj iia existence irom tne moment tne sum- crats of Europe realized that Tarls w bent on nermanentlv abolishing klmrshlp. They knew that once a strong republic wuj founded In n nolcl.hnr. s,.it ilheraltsiIIB would spread over the whole Continents jievoiuuonary armies had amy aeienua the republlo before Napoleon began his series"! oi conquests; but If he had not strucK oaci at the autocrats they would hae regi"; ered their stroni-ih enrf nnsaihlv restored the Bourbons at Versailles before the end of the century. After his first victories, to gain whldt, Tlnnnn.,(. t.o.4 ..nt., tit .It.nllnn tn tBO w..h,h, ,. ,m jitim 1IILIS a.umtuti " Government hehlnri him. he he ran to UMJ a wider view of the part he was to plf.; In order in niilAt ih. tntfr nt home tha-Ub. Would hprniriA n Hlrafni- Via nrcftnlzed thtl Italian conquests into the Cisalpine RTlf1 uc ana constituted the uenoese aomiuiv.-i. Into the Llgurian Republic. It Is true in Rhortlv nftAr thl on Vila r.turn to Francs' In 1799. he made himself a dictator. A, dictatorship was necessary, for France w f Vll-An-tAnAH hu n n.wlu fnrm,d ReCOnd COS,!, tlon of the Powers. In less than a dee4I this people, which for generations naa v aesserl nnnn et th nrlvllecefl of Self-0.' ernment, had learned to govern ttejtffl selves and at the same time mane ' future safe. France had to be thoroufui reorganized. In this task Napoieon --- greatest triumph was the codification o'VtB laws of France. The Code Napoleon, ? result of the French conquests, was lnuHB A., J, l.t. ..... KnM nt f-entr&J SDBJJJ, southern Eurone! It la stllf In force In 'M glum, Holland and Switzerland, and M" Italian codes are largely Daseo on " j The humiliation which Napoleon TWe" upon European kings bore its fruit ' i. t.. .....i. .!. ibia and Ibis. i"ij 111 UIB lOVUIUIlUllO Ul vv ... -- ! career was an oojeti icoeuit w -:,,,-i-.i Never again could a king talking wu right" be taken quite seriously " ijl French general put In his place JM better king than the ieguima -" i a w.. ni. -..l... rf nanisms01 lia.14 uccn, ilia BiautiHB. v - . . -ajtfil rights and suffrage was a logical J" tne reorganization maao nccoo-"" -i I kronen lllimniir y,i..... jg , M( What Dp You Know? j I : '. J j ' - ' ' K5 w . I ' r iP p- " iiji A .-.- .-
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