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A VACCINE FOR CORRUPTION
(A VISITOR from Detroit, the mlruclo
clty of Michigan, was driven over tho
completed part of the rnrkway ami tho
jlan for the comprehensive project was
explained to him "Wo are accustomed
to doing bis things In a big way In my
town!" ha exclaimed, "but your engine's
runnjng strong on all twelve cylinders.
flhtt Is tho moit magnlllcent and In
spiring civic undertaking with which I
ever came In contact."
It will have taken virtually two decades
to realize tho Parkway dream nnd trans
late Into broad boulevards lined with
architectural triumphs tho vision of the
plnetles. But twenty generations henco
Fhlladelphlans of the newer era will point
to it with prido and urge It ns a precedent
for tlll more enterprises.
Not many months ago a private cltl'
en, whoso civic consciousness expresses
Itself repeatedly in the nccompllshmcnt
of community enterprises that brighten
life and ease Its loads, Interested himself
to providing Christmas cheer for kiddles.
He plaryicd a spectacular event, de
signed to delight tho eves aa well aa
Warm the hearts of children. There lives
in Philadelphia n political boss. His
power Is vast nnd ho uses It. Tho biggest
.tftlng about a bit political boss Is his
heart. It Is the ladder on which ho rises
to power. This boss Is no different from
others In that respect, except that his
whole being leaps Into action when child
hood Is specifically outraged or thcro is
a, chance to help the little fellows. He
Jovcs the kiddies. So, when ho heard of
tho contemplated, celebration, ho sat down
nd signed a check, leaving blank tho
spaces wherein amounts are set, and ho
sent It to tho gentleman In charge of tho
' festival, nnd ho said to him: "I want to
be counted In when something Is being
done for the kiddles. Keep my contribu
tion a secret, but I want to say to you
that if somo other gentlemen In this town
Whb aro always talking nbout political
rottenness would do a few more things
pf this sort to mako life brighter nnd hap
, pier for those who chiefly need bright
ness and happiness, most of tho rotten
ness would dlssipato itself in sunshine
and disappear forever."
Vo hold no brief for political bosses,
)it they steal tho votes of men be
cause they steal first their hearts,
and In them tho reciprocity of human
helpfulness has, in a coaise form but
truly, reached a perfectness of per
formance unknown to tho high-brow
yearner for decency. Yet tho paradox la
that these bosses are responsible for tho
Causes whose effects they personally so
Often alleviate. Hvery dirty street breeds
dirty votes. Every congested neighbor
hood Induces stuffed ballot boxes. And
every fountalncd park, every sweet, open
place, Inspires In tho environs a pride
and an ambition that work together to
mold citizens certain to do their civic duty
Well and whoso voting no community
peed fear.
Political debauchery does not thrive in
sanitary places. It cannot survive beauty
pf surroundings, and In atmospheres of
cheerfulness it withers and dries up. He
Jo the best reformer who makes his own
Streets clean or lets the sunlight Into tene
ments long dark. A Parkway Is worth
a, dozen reform Councllmen. A Christ
mas dinner for newsboys may make a
dozen Jacob Rltscs. Clean fish llvo In
clean water; gang voters are found l
gangrenous surroundings.
' ."VYe fight for adequate transit facilities,
tfor a greater port, for clean streets, for
better housing, for popular-prl6ed music,
not only because these things aro good
in themselves, but because in a very real
way they constitute the community's
vaccination against political smallpox.
WELL DONE, MERION!
T
fTWS an excellent piece of work that
tho Merlon Civlo Association has dona
la arranging for the purchase of the
a .jmous Lancaster pike by the Common-i'-.A
aaiiti. This means, of course, 'that the
ffjy ' tpijatates will bo abolished, o that-on July
:,- M nLntnrtats ran drive ml tho main Dike
dSt of Philadelphia without toll.
Jby-atghUd entMrprlsa of th
-ast aa' saw aataM
when tho fact Is taken Into account that
less than half a mllo of tha fifteen miles
of tho pike skirts their own suburb.
They undertook the task In n broad
minded spirit for tho good of the many
nnd not .of the few. Single-handed did
tho association start out, and single
handed has It carried this measure
through to success. While this enter
prising association has many good thlnga
to Its credit, none reflects mom clearly
Its fnr-slghted clllclency than this bring
ing of tho Lancaster plko to the status
of n, modern, freo puhllo highway.
MOLLYCODDLES? NOT MUCH
GKNKUAL APATHY that most dis
heartening commander seems to
havo folded his tent llko the Arab and
silently stolen away, ms ucpnnuie
revealed In tho War Department'! an
nouncement that nearly halt a million
men have volunteered nnd been ncceptcd
In tho American at my and navy In tlw
less than three months since the state of
war was declared.
This Is, Indeed, a thiilllng achieve
ment, whoso meaning Is enriched by tho
ktionlwlgo that wo havo altogether been
spared tho spectacle of a hysterical cam
paign for enlistments. There havo been
patriotic calls for volunteers, but bucIi
appeals were not fiunzlcd. Tho assur
ance of a gieat conscription army very
properly allayed any fears of our not
contributing our due share to the field
of military action. On tho other hand,
the cortaln prospects of theso draft le
gions raised somo doubts as to tho extent
of personal patriotic Initiative. Hut that
sentiment Is now seen to have been us
powerful as it was unlet- almost unob
trusive. Since the war icsolutlon was
adopted, the tegular army, navy and
National tlunrd. all by volunteering,
havo Increased in total strength from
300,000 to between 700,000 and 800,000
men. Tho most potent psychological
microscope falls to disclose the tiniest
(-lenient of mollycoddling In this brilliant
performance. Our habit of self-detraction
Is almost ns chronic m that of England.
The trait has Its good points, especially
as a check on ovcrconHdenco and n spur
to further endeavor. But surely once in
a while it must bo permissible to sound
tho exultant note. America has n right
to rejoice in tho unprodded devotion
of her f.00,000 new lighters. It must
bo irmcmborcd. too, that ptobably five
tlmc3 this number actually applied for
enlistments.
Scvonty thousand moro volunteers aro
now wanted for the regular aimy. The
proud spirit of American youth already
manifested emboldens us to prophesy
that they will bo lalsed promptlj. Gen
eral Activity Is on the Job now.
"OUT FOH THE COIN"
THE Mayor of Philadelphia telegraphs
our two well-known political contrac
tors, who temporarily hold In their hands
tho destinies of Pennsylvania, to admon
ish them that If they do not rush through
tho Leglslatuio a bill permitting them to
dip their fingers Into tho city's sacred
transit nnd port funds there will bo no
money for some time to come for them
to get In tho form of Juicy municipal
contiacts.
Heretofore theso eminent contractor)
have been vigilant in watching their own
Interests, which they havo dono pretty
well. It Is tho first tlmo, we believe, that
n Chief Executive of this city has lent
tho prestige of his high office openly to
their .purposes and espoused their pro
gram on tho ground that It Is In tho pub
lic Interest.
Larkln's not doing It In New York,
Just now.
Riotous Sinn Fein Cork seems to
need a salutary bottling.
It nrgucs no good for Philadelphia
when Little Rollo wires to Uncle Jim.
Wo havo got rid of grape Juice
diplomacy, but an era of grape Juice ap
proacheth. Much as wo nil llko our bread, to
Use, wo also devoutly hopo that It will
fall below ten cents.
Germany's proposed card Index of
food supplies suggests the delights of
reading n Delmonlco menu In tho heart
of tho great Sahara.
"Tho moro enemies, tho moro
honor," declares General von Illume. Tho
world Is certainly doing Its best to satis
fy Germany's lust for this kind of luster.
Perhaps tho two Honsevolt boys
now In tho army aro looking forward to
an opportunity of standing on tho French
coast, talslng their binoculars to tho west
nnd murmuring tho refrain of that once
popular ditty, "Here Comes My Daddy
Now."
The skeptical saying that "faith Is
believing what you know ain't so" has
been triumphantly refuted by humani
tarian Philadelphia's contribution of her
J3.000.000 quota to tho Red Cross fund.
Wo firmly believed that the city's gen
erous Impulses would win In the end, and
they did.
Conferences were held on tHe train be
tween Mayor Smith. Senator Vare, Attor
ney (leneral Francis Sh'ink lirown,
Chairman Oaffney. of Councils' Finance
Committee; William Diaper Lewis, tho
transit legal adviser of the city, and State
Representatives Heeht, Mc.Vlchol and
Reynolds. Transit Director Twining was
with the Mavor's nartv. but he did not
take part in tne conrerence News report.
Why not?
A very pertinent query these days
Is: Should boys In school be coddled? In
the old days the negative of tho proposi
tion was universally accepted as a prin
ciple, but the Increase In national wealth
seems to havo clven the affirmative the
edge. The greatest of national character
istics should bo the national character.
Just because Winston Churchill's
appeal for a great offensive by the Allied
fleets, now the most gigantic, naval ag
gregation in the world's annals, echoes
the thoughts of untechnlcal Mr. Average
Man Is by no means a reason why tha
plat- should be rejected. The "profes
sionalism" of Knyphausen, cozly spend
ing tho Christmas of 1776 In Trenton,
scoffed at anything so crudely obvious as
passage of the Dsla-iNArj sw- Washington
EVENING IiEPOEB-PHILABLPHIA, TUESDAY, JUNE gg, 1W
REVOLUTION
IN ENGLAND
British Thinkers Arc Beginning
to Wonder How and When
the Monarchy Wilt
Cease to Be
By GILBERT VIVIAN -SELDES
Special Corrcnpowiene ifienlna Ltdotr
LONDOK. Juno 7.
THU
"Pic
latest truine In London Is called
leklng the Next On." Net what'
Revolution, to be euro. Nothing has so
excited and unncrcd and Impressed tho
Drlttsh mind since the war began as tho
revolution In Ruswln And now thoy are
looking for the next, in Iterlln? In Con
stantlnoiI? In well, why not London?
Why not. Indeed? " Uornard Sh.iw said
recently that tho Ilrltlsh Kmplro wan com-'
posed of many self-governing parts. On
of thorn, nnd th only one, was guernctl
without the slightest reference to tho char
acter and habits of the population. That
ono Is flreat Ilrltntn. Revolutions aro In
tho air. Is ono likely here?
Thcro are socral reasons why a revolu
tion is unlikely, some of thorn on tho sur
face, like the well known and exaggerated
Hrltlih tradltlouallsni, nnd some deeper,
like tho question of India. 1 havo heard It
said that tho present monarch, befnro the
war, biid hltnrolf until about 1020 to re
main on the throne Since tho war began
there has been an amount of .applause at
the movies and "Uod Save the King" has
been sung and hummed and played oftcner.
Hut no ono seriously tiollevcs that King
(loorgo has done as much tor himself as.
Kiy. King Albert or Kaiser Wlllielm. It
wasn't In his pouer to do so much
Republic of Great Britain
At the same time tho feeling of democracy
has crystallised. In a pamphlet which was
sent to mo a few weeks ago I read first of
tho Rrltlsh Empire, then of tho British com
monweaith. later of tho Hrltlsh democracy,
and finally, quite casually, of "this republic
of ours." I hae mi reafon to bcllevo that
the author desired to overthrow tho king
ship lln meant merely that this country
was a icpubllc nnd might as well be called
so.
Hut If tho monarchy has not Increased
its prestige, it has not hail the opportunity
to mako mistakes. The day after the Rus
sian revolution you could havo seen and
heard many outbursts of anger. The ques
tion of food and tho question of taes wcro
apparently worrying people Hut It was
the ministry or Its predecessor or tho Coun
ty Council that wan held to blame The
Urlton thinks seldom of his ruling family
when ho Is met by illstnnteful action on
the part of tho Government.
Tho meetings held In celebration of tho
Russian revolution all had an undertone
of envy. In structure a Russian republic
would leave Britain struggling fnr behind
nb a democratic nation Russia and Franco
and the United States would be tho three
gt cat democracies. People at these meet
ings, hard-headed business men, men and
women with accents which spoke of tho
counting house and tha market place, hae
spoken to mo lightly of "our turn next."
Their chief grudge niralnst tho royal fam
ily ECems to be a matter of pounds and
pence. Tho monarchy Is supposed to be
useless and to cost much. There Is a lit
tle talk of tho nobility not much. The
nobility has dono Its sharo In this war.
One of the best republicans I know here
gae mo his reasons today for nut believing
that a "revolution" was coming. Ills first
point was that thero was no acute tyranny
nnd no blazing wrong to start with He
quoted mo the famous lines about tho Na
poleonic wars, when "The Houfo of Lords
throuKhout tho war did nothing in particu
lar and did it mighty well" only he ap
piled It to tho royal houc.
"And then, you bee, nftcr all, the King
does mnko n difference In ouo politics. Ho
doesn't count- good enough Rut people
do not feel qulto the samo nbout electing
a member who will in turn li.no something
to do with the character or tne i-rime .Min
ister ns they would bout electing a Presi
dent That is wheio ou cm tally nbout
our Hrltlsh stubbornness It would not bo
tho new form which wo would object to.
but something different In tho spirit Don't
forget that Victoria did have something to
do with choosing her Premiers nnd that
Edward VII had an Influence on his, and,
It is said. King (leorgt lias had a bit to do
with tho personnel en of tho present Min
istry We do not want to gle oui King
power. Hut. illoglc 1 aa It Is, wo rejolco
a little In the powers wo have left' him.
Usc3 of the Monarchy
"The inonarihv had a use. in nnotntr
way. and that Is in a way which wo aro not
likely to lose kIkIU of Because short of a
wild and improbable popular rebellion If
the monarch, goi i il -v 111 go because tho
HoiiFO of f on nion3 holds the door open
and points the way And In the House
vo havo to c-msiilii not Great Britain,
but tho llvo doinlnlims and India. Wo
aren't looking forward to dissolution as a
result of this war. Do you think tho In
dian troops tnsethci with our Laneaslnro
leglmeiits look Bagdad simply to prepare
the day when India ei.d Lancashire will not
bo Interested In each other's existence? No
fear Wo arc coming closer togethtr. And
the Kins will necr ba a pure figurehead
so long as he is n link. You see. that Is
not a defense. Hut I think It is an expla
nation "With India In particular, tho case is
different from that of tho dominions. The
dominions aro coins to he far nioro In
dependent and yet far more closely related
to us That's another matter which ought
to be of interest to you Americans. But
India Is different. We think of it a good
deal. I think hdt most of us feci we havo
found the right way It Isn t far dlffernit
from your way of dealing with backward
peoples, except ihat we aro not In sucn a
dreadful hurry Hut In tho long and, to
both of us, painful pioe'css of hulldlns up a
self-goernlng dominion In India we do
need something to bold India together. The
cultivated clasws feel about the monarchy
(which Is tho empire there) as we feel about
It. For the rest, the Emperor Is a useful
thing.
"There you are I am a rcpubll
can. It takes a positive philosophical ef
fort on my part to sing 'God Save the
King.' On the spur of the moinent I can't
realize that what I mean is, 'God help Brit
ain.' Or bless her. But I believe that I
shan't see a republic here. If we get one
It will not be quite like yours we like our
ministerial system and we are looking to
you to accept soma sort of ministerial re
sponsibility in connection with your Cabi
net. Hut I can say this: if, after the war,
we are met by a reaction Into black con
servatismthen watch out. But please
to realize that it wllj be a democratic coun
try Which will elect the conservatives."
That is tne rairtsi account t nave heard,
It Impressed maalmost as much ss the off
hand way In which every one epeaks of the
King. (Not of the present King, but of
the throne.) Very few unimportant charac
ters In America are spoken of as lightly
as the King li spoken of here.- The king
ship Is the subject for a table Jest, The
jest never gets Into print thers are no
caricatures of the King because, appar
ently, he Is not important enough. I know
that there are people who really speak
with emotion pf the roya.1 family.- r hve
IMC M tfcs ferula la tmiltfm '
"1
Toip Daly's Column
THH MAN at the next desk, in reply
to our question, said, "I can never bo
sure of the exact date of my wedding
without asking my wife to take off her
ring and look at tho inscription." He
meant the oxact day, not tho month, of
course.
Now, if you can remember that yju
wero married in Juno, nnd It you're as
glad of It as we aro, this llttlo song Is
meant for you:
.1 BALLADE OF BRfbF.R
For brUlos who grace theso passing days
The pocft Jjrto gartands fidiuy
For them tho twittering song of pralso
Resounds with.many a fulsome line,
And unproved north as half dlilno
glorified in tinkling tunes.
But worthier dames shall bless our
wine
We'll toast tho brides of other Junes!
What though a thoughtless jiuMfO pays
Its homage at young beauty's shrine,
And wreathes smooth brows with orange
spiays,
With roses and with cglantlnct
Youth's checks that glow nud eyes that
shine
Arc not the most enduring boom.
Oh, who've sren such things decline,
Wo'll toner 7io brides of other Junes!
Though flowery wreaths and pods' lni
To graro the new-made brldo combine.
Oh, let us rather ttvine tho lags
For tried and true ones, thine and
mine.
Who sharo whato'cr the fates design
To bless or blight our nights and noons'
Oood comrades .stiff through rain tr
sifc
We'll toast the brides of other Junes!
Old friend, whoso bride of Auld l.ang
Sync
, SHU fills thy life with honeymoons,
Thy glass to mine, my glass to thine
We'll toast tha brides of other Junes!
We vero out of town last Monday
when tho street cleaners had their
parade, but E. V. XV. reports pet of it
for us. "Theic was a Jovial old Irishman
on tho curbstono near me," says he, "and
enid he, 'For tho lovo o' heaven, who'll
they bo sendln' over next?' "
Which tecalls tho remark of ono of
our own bright young man. "Street
cleaners In Philadelphia nro only seen in
parades." Hut this is not true; we 0111
self saw ono with his broom tho other
morning very busily engaged reading a
paper ns lie sat insido tho door of a
friendly llrehouso.
Tho, Waters of Healing
If you can .maglne anything funnier or
more Incongruous than nn attempt at a
regular, flamboyant, western Hind boom in
a sleepy, back-country Virginia town, go
abend and put Irvln Cobb nnd Stephen Lea
cock Into tho discard Anbow. the alleged
land boom was on in Snilthvlllc-on-tlie-Creek
when tho branch line from Richmond
dumped me thero only four hours behind
time, nnd the circling buzzards wero look
ing down on dry fields staked out as town
lots, and the long-legged hogs were medi
tatively chewing on tho prospectuses of
the really company. They were fine, rich
prospectuses, too. Perhaps they neglected
to dwell mi tho advantages of Smltlivillc-Forly-XIIIes-From-Salt-Wntor
ns a seaport
and aeroplane station, but I wouldn't swear
to It However, there was a glowing para
graph gloilfying SmlthvlHo-nehlnd-the-Hills
as a health report, and what especially In
terested, or. as the novelists say. "In
trigued," mo was a eulogliim of n miraculous
medicinal spring on the property of Mrs
Davis, one of our most popular young
matrons You see. I was well acquainted
with tho D.-nlses and had frequently slaked
mv thirst at the llttlo open spring that
bubblid up bf.sldo their chronically broken
picket fence, iit-ver suspecting that I was
btlng cured of whatever ailed me
When I readied the Davis estate pretty
Mrs Davis had Just finished hanging out
the ancestral faintly wash, and after we
had passed the time o' day as they do
in Virginia I said. "Oh, Mrs. Davis, In
that if.il estate prospectus tho land com
pany speaks about tho wonderful medicinal
propel ties of your spring. Now. you know.
I've been shooting over tms country quite
a few seasons nnd I never heard of nn
body doing any doctoring with that water
How nbout It?'
"Well I dunno," said 'Mrs. Davis. "You
remember that ole jallah dawg o" Tom's?
Well, he's been bavin' the mango awful bad,
an' he likes to roll nroun' In that spring;
nn' he FUttlnly 'pears to think that It does
him a powerful lot o' good " A G.
It was a worthy bonifaee
Thinks to himself, thinks he:
ffli fat'cnt is a friendly place,
Hut lacketh dignity
Hut we'll get along faster In prose, per
haps. Well, this worthy lnndioid thought
"The Old Cock" not a respcctnblo enough
naino for bis house, bo ho changed It to
"Tho illshop Blaise," thinking ho would
nppeal to n wider clientele. Rut Ills push
ing rival saw his chance, and opened a
house opposlto under tho name, "Tho Old
Cock." Thereupon the nngry landlord of
"Tho Bishop Blaise" Immediately got tho
painter to IiisltIIio under tho worthy
bishop's portrait the words, "This Is 'Tho
Old Cock.'"
Two motortrucks, notwithstanding the
great speed with which those things
usually travel through our streets, were
not quick enough to escape the keen eyes
of a couple of our scouts. Ono, so Pensyl
reports, boro upon Its sldo In gold letters,
"Long Dlstnnt Hauling. Goldstein Broth
ers & Son." Tho other, detected by Ros
coe, had tho Pennsylvania coat-of-arms
emblazoned boldly upon Its side, with the
words, "Virtue, Liberty and Independ
ence," and under them, "Eastern State
Prison." "I should say," remarks Roscoe,
"that the fellow who did that decorating
bad a very keen sense of humor or none
at all."
In tho Long Run
In the long runl The phrase leaps to the
tongue
Heavy with promise of a brighter day.
When from the years a victory may bo
wrung
In the long run. ,
November mUts may melt to tender May,
And from the hostile tides on which we're
Sung
We yet may drift Into a placid Q
At eve. when skies with silver ptftrs are
strung,
Escaping pallors of defeat that play
Often on lips when vesper beUs are swung
In the long runl
T, J, MURRAY.
The American Press Humorists planted
their chestnut trco In N. Y. yesterday and
I we were not there to ftep. We wanted.
to nang upon us lenuer branches our no
tion at the oldest Joke in the world. This
Is Jt:
Eve You never quarreled with me be
fore. Adam No, this I our first. Our de
scendants will speak of It as "raising
cmm fclS
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M
THE MYSTERIES
OF RECRUITING
How the Least Likely Candidate
Took Precedence Over
Five Others
TT IS not that there Is anything spe--L
clflcally wrong tho matter with me,"
said tho slightly stout chap of thirty
four summers; "but I am, generally speak
ing, not In tho pink of condition, not In
shapo for tho nthletlcs which army life
virtually amounts to."
"And, therefore," ho added, finishing
his highball, "I shall not consider enlist
ing for tho present."
It was a typical nrgument, based upon
everything that Is honest nnd thoughtful
and modest, based upon anything you
llko except tho truth. Men talk of en
listing as It it required a physique, and
muscular development that would put
them on tho All-American football team.
It requires nothing of tho kind. Tho ra-
crult does not have to bo, "generally
speaking, in tho pink of condition." What
ho needs Is to have "nothing specifically
wrong tho matter with him." . Bo his
muscles ever so small and easily wearied,
tho urmy will seo to It that thoy are
properly hardened. Be his muscles over
so largo and powcrfiil, tho army will
havo nono of htm If his teeth nro poor,
if his arches nro fallen, If his heart is
"bad."
Hero Is a truo story of a recruit right
hero In Philadelphia, true in every re
spect except the name:
Lelghton Sears Is a musician. The
public has not heard of him because ho
is an amateur and proud of it. Ho Is
thirty-seven and has not tossed n base
ball since 1002. In fact, he has always
liked to brag about his utter contempt
for any form of athletics. He works only
a few hours a day, so that at 4 p. m. he
has always tlmo to appear In somo studio
for tea. He always seemed very nervous,
but wo could thank his nerves, perhaps,
for the remarkable music which ho could
produco from tho piano. He undoubt
edly drank too much, nnd, In his waking
hours (between noon and 3 a. m.), he
seems to have discussed somewhere from
thirty to fifty cigarettes dally. Some
times he could not sleep, nnd he would
then switch on the electric light beside
his luxurious hand-painted bedstead and
smoko threo or four cigarettes while he
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read from a book of poems. In the last
three years it was his custom to refuse
to discuss any phase of the war. He
said It bored him. It was so Inartistic
nnd modern.
Naturally it was a surprise when he
appeared yesterday in uniform. It was
a surprise because we had looked upon
Lelghton as "generally unfit." and had
never considered whether or not he was
"specifically unfit."
He had been examined In a group of
a half dozen men, all younger than him
self, moat of them robust-looking fa..
lows. But as It happened they wero all
turned down every one but himself He,
tho dilettante, tho esthete, the man who
didn't ciye to talk war, who loathed
exercise, who preferred abslntho to food,
was Accepted, while the real enthusiasts'
1 were sent away. '
Ope of them could havo thrown Lslghe
ton across te room with ono brawny
arm. But he had seventeen good test)
out of a possible score of thlrty-twp.
Os had won medals for sprinting, pt
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THE WINGS OF VICTORY
didn't liko his heart. It seems that
Lolghton's thirty to fifty cigarettes a day
had not affected his heart so you could
notlco It. (It turns out now that ho didn't
Inhale.)
One was declared to bo tho finest
specimen tho physician had ever seen,
until ho smilingly admitted that he had
Just deserted his wife, nnd threo children
nnd, therefore, "wanted to sign up quick."
So Lelghton has his uniform and ho
certainly looks fine in It. Ho hasn't
smoked a cigarette or touched n drop for
threo days, which Is perhaps tho most
romarkablo part of tho nffalr. Some
how, when ho Bald good-by, tho grip he
gavo our hand felt very powerful. Had
ho been exercising? Why, of courso, his
hands and forearms, wo suddenly remom
bered, had been exercising for tho last
thirty years at tho piano tho best kind
of exercise in the world If It's dono right.
And ho remarked that ho had Just walked
twenty-five miles without feeling It. He
never knew ho could walk. But, of
course, wo all walk every day much
further than wo realize, though wo don't
call It exercise.
Ho ought to mako a tip-top military
man. H. S. XV.
PHOTOGRAPHER OF RUINS
There Is the photographer of Ypres, for
Instance. In the old days of peaca his
photographs wero the standard of Ypres
photography; his views of tho Cloth Hall,
tho art gallery, and the quaint streets were
those which the tourjsta bore away with
them. In April of 1915, before the second
battle of Ypres, he was still In Ypres,
though It had been almost emptied of
civilians. With an Innntte patience he had
found the exact points of vantage from
which ho had taken photographs of the
famous buildings Ifi peace times and had
turned his camera on the wrecks. His
series of photographs, entitled "Before and
After," showed to a mathematical nicety
the ruin that had been done to Ypres. He
published them In postcard form, bound
them Into little booklets, nnd told them to
the only tourists that over came to Ypres,
tho officers and soldiers of Lngland and
Canada. The second battle of Ypres In the
latter part of April wrought new destruc
tion and rendered his edition passe, and
tha patient photographer, working amid the
explosions of giant German shells, was en
gaged, with lils same loving patience, In
taking new pictures of the new ruins when
the British officers, to save his life, ordered
him to leave the town.
"What would you have called your new
edition of the photograph book7" I asked
him, as I purchased one of the last conies
of his 'Before and After.' "
"I Intended to name it 'Before and After
and After.' and I hoped to add one new
'After' for each new addition." XV Q
Shepherd, In Harper's Magazine.
COMING ALONG
Talk of the country! It's coming along,
Help It a bit with a smile and a song
Feel that you trust it and av it h,. ,,.
Uncle Sam knows what he's talking about
Talk of tha country,
You better be sura
It's going to grow, ,
And It's bound to endure.
Talk of the country; don't feel the alarm
Of thots that are eeeklng to do it sorns
hrm. ' ' "
Just you belleva that It's right, and you'll
Thsrs ars lots of your neighbors exactly
your mind,
Tslk of the country,
No use to fear
The taunt of tha cynic.
The score and the sneer.
Talk of tha country I It's fine ns you'd wishi
Bubbling and humming, Its old flag ...wish'
,U h,Vruth commun,on w',h r,ght nd with!
Strong In a'ach muscle and sound In tah,
Talk of tna country!
It's fomtng along.
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What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. Near wlint cltr are Mexico's Tabmble oil
wells?
3. Who solved the mreterr of the Itoietta
stone?
3. What American President pnrtlcularlr
urped noler celebrations of .Fourth of
4. What Is the real name of the French
writer usually known as I'lerre Loll?
6. What was the flrtt HnanKh settlement In
the ew World culled and whero was It
lornteil?
0. What Is the largest planet la the solar
e stein?
7. What are the two chief sects of Mohnra-
nieuuni?
8. Who is the new Premier of Austria?
0. Hint Is the mainline of tho Latin phrase.
"I'Mnero et clrccntes?"
10. What French seneral Is retarded a
Imilnj hcen the particular sailor of t'arle
In 1DU?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
I. The Ukraine l a Mint erctlon of Kurnpean
Ktieela, embracing tho Government of
Kiev. Toltava. TrliernlEsv and Karkov.
and wntered by the Ittver Dnieper,
3. Admiral Sims Is the commander-in-chief of
the American fleet In the hnutli Atlantic.
S. Richard Mraun U ranked or the leading
conipater of contniporary (lermani.
4. The Icelnndlo toncue. iv parent Uviinunso of
modern Norio, is spoken in Iceland.
5. Tho correct wordlnc of tho Shakespearean
quotation lei "What's In a name? That
whlth we enll a roe by any other name
would smell ns sweet."
0. rhlllp II in the Spanish King who once
claimed the EncIUh throne because of
havlne wedded Murr I.
7. Lwl rnrroll's real name was Charles
l.utwldte Dodcson.
S. "IMctiveaqne'' meane. literally, fit to be tho
subject of a etrlkins picture, "l'lcu
rrtque" I ti word applied to a atria of
fiction denllm? with rogues. It rotnes from
the Npanlih "plearo," it rogue.
0. Tho jear 0M In our era correspond to the
ear one In the Mohammedan calendar.
.That dnlo mark the fatuous paoaco or
!".'ilr of Mohammed from Xete t
Medina.
10. Xewurk l the larteit city In New Jersey.
OLD-TIME SUFFRAGISTS
rnHE woman suffrage movement Is no new
thing, although It Is often carelessly
classed with various "rcodern" Ideas Plato,
writing 2300 years ago, proposed In his
Itepubllc that women should have the same
education as mon and do tha same work,
"being lesser men." The early Christians
did not do much for the cause : St Paul's
discourses condemned woman to silence
But In the Middle Ages and after, equal
rights for women were now and then advo.
cated, as by Cornelius Agrlppa (150S).
nuscelll (1B52), Apthony Gibson (1539) and
later by Paul Itlbera and Count Segur The
eighteenth century was especially favorable
to women writers, and Franca developed
many gifted women. Political theorists
of the time, however, did not advocate
power for women.
Mary Wollstonecraft was Hot the first
real suffrage prppagandtit. In 1790 she
published her "Vindication of tha Bights of
Women." But as early as 1617 Margaret
Brent, tha executor and representative of
Lord Baltimore, demanded a seat In the
Assembly of Maryland. Abigail Adams, the
wife of John Adams, nnd Mary Otto War
ren asked that women should be recognized
In the Constitution, opd Hannah Leo Cor
bin protested against taxation wlthqut rep
resentation. Under the first Constitution
of New Jersey, by an inadvertence, women
cquld vote from 1778 to 1807. At an early
date an effort was made to modify property
laws, Lucy Stond and Henry Blackwell In
fluenced legislation In Massachusetts about
Ills and later, Antl-slayery associations
were disturbed by -"the wpman question-"
William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phil
lips were always strong sur-jorters of tha
"cause,"
The year 1818 wy on Important date In
the woman suffrage agitation. It was a
year of revolutionary action and Ideas all
over tho world. The first woman suffrage
convention was called In Seneca Falls July
It, 1141. Elisabeth Csdy Stanton, Lueretla
Matt, Martha C. Wrlfcitt and Mary A- Uc
Cllntoek were prim movers. Other en
ventlons were held In 1SEQ, and thereafter
on was held every year until the Civil
War. In 11(9 two national associations
wers formed. They wera finally united Into
the National American Woman's. 8uffr
Association In 1810. The Arat victory W
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