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EVENING T.rtJiPHTLADELPHIA, MONDAY, JULY 2, 1917
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Cfarl. K. Lodlnsten. Vic PrMldantl John
F. Martin, strrttarr ana Traaaurari rump fl
f-amnt. jsan II. wuiiat
T. II. Whal.r, Director.
imi, John J ffpurivon
KOiTontAK uoAnrii
Ctidi It. K. Cl'illl, Chairman.
r. It. W1IALET . Editor
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SOME INSIDE FACTS AIIOUT
TRANSIT
TN THE mayoralty cnmpalRti of 1B16 a
polUlcal agreement was entered Into
to the effect that, In the event of the
lection of Thomas U Smith, a Director
f City Transit acceptable to the I'. 11 T.
x-ould bo nppolnted When the time
came to carry out the agreement thero
u ft division among the officers of the
company. One body of opinion faorrd
the retention of Director Taylor on the"
ground that hla view were well Known
and that he wan advocating a fair
and square operating agreement Tha
ther and dominant body of opinion fa
vored Mr. Twining, for reasons reflecting
In no way on hla attainments. Integrity
or character.
We believed at the time 'that the com
pany had tricked Itself when It put Its
O. K, on Twining, whose general com
petency was obviously far greater than
that of nny politician and whose profes
sional abilities wore pronounced nnd well
known Wc felt that the Incorruptible
honesty of tho new Director would more
than compensate for nny deficiency In
his vlsita
The Mayor did not know Mr. Twining,
but he summoned him to a conference at
the Adelphla Hotel At that conference
Mr. Twining pointed out that lie una
neither a public speaker nor a politician,
and he acquiesced In an agreement to the
Jffect that as Director he would concern
himself solely with engineering piohlems
and would leave to the Mayor himself all
matters of n financial or political natuie
that might arise
TJIVBN before Mr. Twining' appoint
ment P. R. T englneerH had pre
pared a bobtail transit plan of their own
They hoped to put It through by Intro
ducing a red herring In the form of n
hue nnd cry thnt City Hall would col
lapse If subways were built tinder it This
company plan reached the Mayor. He
aummoned Mr. Twining, who was sym
pathetic toward It. He changed It In
ome particulars before offering it to the
public, But tho Important point Is this
It did not originate In the Department of
City Transit It was labeled a Twining
plan, but It was a P. It. T plan At thnt
time the Mayor announced his irrevocable
decision that no subways should go under
City Hall. Public opinion compelled n
change of mind. He was driven to cover.
The May loan then came along It had
been the Intention of one faction to knlfo
Jt. but the necessary funds were not
forthcoming and there was little organ
ized opposition, except In Dave I.nne'a
backyard,
Uy October nothing had been done.
Trices were rising and conditions becom
ing more and moro unfavorable, but no
bids for new work weie published. The
patience of the public was exhausted.
Accordingly the Major Instructed Mr
Twining to draw up a lease and offer It
to the company. That was the Mayor's
lease of October, 1916 The administra
tion has since admitted that It was u fnke
and had no sincerity behind it. It was
offered, we are now told, to fool and quiet
the people. A few weeks ago, however,
the company was about to accept It,
whereupon the administration rushed
pell mell Into a councilmanlc committee
and had It killed.
TTF TO November of last year, then, It
' Is plain that every moveifetde by the
Mayor waa a move favorable to the P.
R. T dictated In two out of three cases
by that company. There was nothing
dishonest about it, we believe, there being
more evidence of stupidity, due to an
Utter lack of understanding of the situa
tion, a lack of understanding that still
exists.
TOLIXlWINa the disastrous reception
" accorded Its previous moves and re
alfting that It could put nothing over on
the public while Taylor was on guard, the
P It T then opened negotiations with
the former Director, In the hope that a
lease could be formulated which would
meet with hla approval. Conferences
wero begun, They ended quickly because
syinrafltly irreeenpllapte differences of
Mr Teykr had boen
ment, when dealing with a virtual bank
rupt, than he waa willing to be with n
company which had begun to show large
earnings.
The whole transit situation wns In a
stalemate. In these clrcumstamcs, Mr.
B. A Van Vnlkenburg, editor of the North
American, telephoned one evening to Mi
Hallard and to Mr. Taylor, expressed his
regret that they were no longer Hi negotia
tion and urged that they meet once moro
in his office, which km neutrnl territory.
They ngreed Mr. Van Vnlkenburg
bluntly told Mr Ballard that the prcis
and people would Indorse no lease that
Mr Taylor did not npprove, wherefore'
the company might ns well pocket Its
pride nnd satisfy the former Director
Mr. Van Vnlkenburg nlso laid down n
principle of equity to guide the flnnnrlnl
negotiations, quoting ns his authority
many decisions of the Interstate Com
merce Commission nnd Fttnlo Public Serv
ice Commissions Tollowlng thnt rule in
many subsequent meetings, Mr Taylor
and the compnny were able to come to nn
agreement. It was nn ngrecment thnt
represented long and p itient labor, pa
triotically performed, and also, In many
respects, the greatest of nil the triumphs
won In tho cause of rapid transit by Mr
Taylor. Some feature of it we did not
like nnd would not Indorse, but its essen
tial merit wus disclosed when Mr Twin
ing presented twenty-three objections to
It. many of which wero minor nnd e.isy
of correction, nnd only ono of which was
vital.
rrmn Major had known of the ncgntln
tlnna going on between the company
nnd Mr Taylor He hnd not been antag
onistic to them Suddenly, however, from
Jthe chrysalis of passivity merged n full-
armed glnnt, who announced himself in
loud language to bo a rhamplnn of the
people, who would smite this fellow Tay
lor who had become spokesman of a spe
cial Interest in opposition to tho public
weal' This attitude was ridiculous to
citizens who knew Mr Tajlor nnd stopped
to think of tho herculean nnd devoted
service ho had given the people Ills
lease might be bnd In spots, but It wns
not a P H T lease, or a trlrk lense, nnd
its text was dear ns ervstnl nut it was
obviously to the Interest both of the com
pnny nnd of the politicians that Tay
lor's Influcnre bo undermined nnd he
himself discredited So r campaign with
that end In view was launched They
even baited the former Dlrcctoi by urging
a lot of drastic legislation, knowing thnt
Mr Taylor would have to oppose It nnd
bo put In a false position, because he hnd
given his word of honor that If the eom
panv made certnln ltnl concessions he
would suppoit tho lcjiKC with nil his
power nnd oppose nny measures of a re
taliatory nature pioposed The Mayor
and his advisers did. Indeed, succeed In
temporarily undermining the leal cham
pion of trnnslt Thev bid something to
shoot at nnd they did not Intend to miss
the target
All well nnd good, perhaps; but while
they were spending their time disci edit
ing Mr Tajlor, the transit situation was
getting more and more muddled They
were succeeding In arousing old preju
dices and destroying tho good will tho
company hnd built up during several
j ears of Improved service under Mr
Stotesbury. They were giving out the
Impression that a fair and square lease
was imposslblo, which was not true, and
they were talking of Independent opera
tion and a new transit company to com
plicate still further the situation and give
gang ro'lticH n new lease on llfo In this
city They began to have visions of
curing the transit crimen of past genera
tions, nnd they built up nn imaginary
structure of their own which involved
the expenditure of millions and millions
of dollars more than Is now contemplated
or than the clt has any hope of having
nvallable Thej got so close to absolute
demagogy that If their hair was not
singed It waa by the mercy of Providence.
"ITrn HAVR no disposition In the present
' ' exigency to harass or embarrass the
Mayor nnd his advisors In nny practical
scheme they may have for untangling
the Intricate knot Into which they have
managed t,o tie the transit program. Mr.
Taj lor had provided a Chestnut street
subway In caso terms with tho company
becamo absolutely Impossible. The as
sumption that a leaso Is impossible, how
ever, U purely gratuitous. Thero Is little
probability of nn ngreement, it Is true. If
Director Twining and Mr. Lewis write
Into the lease they are to get ready many
of the visionary proposals which thoy
have at different times brought forward.
If they are willing to write n David
Harum lease, In which the other fellow
also gets something, they can quickly
bring urder out of chaos. But thej will
never help transit development by throw
Ing transit funds Into politics and a gen
eral jackpot in the expectation that by so
doing they will gather a few millions for
a pet hobby.
What wo are after Is a transit sys
tem In operation. What delay does Is to
strengthen 'the financial position of the
company, permit It to capitalize the mu
nicipal growth which was depended on
to finance the new lines and' enfeeble the
municipality little by little, Mr. Lewis,
we understand, advocates Ruing right
ahead with the construction program.
That la impossible. Nobody but a mad
man would j award large contracts at
present prices. It would simply mean
jHtlng th contractors' pockets. Doubt-
Um ) TubUe rviq Commlwioa jvill
grant a certificate of publlo convenience.
for anything tho Mayor wants, slnco Com
missioner Magce has taken It upon him
self, ex ofllrlo, to dictate the city's policy,
but tho public has ory little confidence
In a Public Service Commission that re
fused to permit the city to tako advan
tage of excellent bills for work In the
heart of tho city, although authorizing It
at tho same time to build nn elevated line
through miles of vacant fields, a pet hobby
of the Maj-or's.
The Prnnkford lino to Bridge street
should be rushrd to completion nnd op
eratod Wo have icason to think that
there Is no necessity for municipal equip
ment of it, but that a sultablo nnd tem
porary leaso with the P It T can bo
effected, if icqulrcd
WIJ DO tint believe that the business
lendnrshlp of Philadelphia inn afford
to permit the continuance nny longer of
the deplorable condition now existing In
deed, Director Twilling is on record ns
snylng that the only problem is the rnto
of fare, that given the equivalent In rev
enue of seventeen tlckits for a dollar, he
can adjust nil differences almost imme
dlalelj, hullTl nnd pay for the cntlro
svstem. ns planned, ami show little If
nny deficit More, ho would bo nble l
reduce the faro within n few J ears Ills
real contention Is thnt the rider ought tn
pny the full cost of the service, while Mr.
Taj lor contends that tho live-cent fare
should obtain fiom the beginning, to bo
met by ccitnln offsets nnd the stiiplus of
Inter j ears This Is tho crux of tho whole
situation, nlthough It lins never been so
cmiihnslred tn the people Dlrertor Twin
ing will bear this nut If nnv citizen Is In
quisitive enough to nsk Whv. then. Is
It wlso for public servants to Attempt to
settle the problem nlong other lines'
Whj not be frank nnd say to the public.
The service rcndcied by thn new svstem
will be vvoith moro than a nickel, do jou
wish tn pay a temporary transfer chnrge
for n short period of jears or do jou wish
to meet tho deficit by offsets nnd repay
ment from future surplus' Insteid of
a straightforward nnd true statement of
thnt sort. Issues thnt are rcaltv red her
rings are brought to the front The pro
pie nre not Idiots nnd they do not wnnt
to bo fooled.
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nej-. Director Twining and Mr Lewis.
composing the board of htintegy. Hint thej
abandon some nf tho Impractical si hemes
which have been proposed, forget per
sonalities nnd tncklo the wholo problem
ii new on frank grounds They need not
fear putting tho Issue beforo the people
in Its proper form Hut tho cniirM they
nre nt piesent pursuing will lend nowhere
except tn further obfuscntlon nnd rulni
tliin Did the people wnnt tho Tajlor
method of financing the new sj stein, iih
well as his constiuctlon piogruin, or did
thej not? If thej did not, let them have
an opportunity tn say o and decide in
fnvor of tho ttmpornry transfer chnrgo
which Director Twining and ntheis think
would bu moro fall.
To see (icrmanj'H eventual defeat
no Lens is necessary, but It ceitnlnly
helps
"Can tho Kaiser'" cries a New Jer
sey slogan hunter. Why not mako It
"Crato tho kings!" and complete tho
whole Job?
If he'd only called it "Man and
Vegi table Superman," Bernard Sliavv
would have been as great a prophet as
he occasional!) thinks he Is.
With twentj'-thleo of the StateH
"bone drj," beginning jestciduj, the other
twcntj'-flve cannot consider paitial pio
hlbition an un American Institution.
It Is so soon that I am done for
I wonilci what I was begun for
Kpltaph on a n.iby
The Stockholm Socialist conference
is over.
Tho news that the Crown Prince
Is again directing operations ngnlnst Ver
dun ought to be tho finest kind of en
couragement to tho French counter-attackers.
The Ofilcers' Reserve Corps of En
gineers has been entirely filled. It Is will
to keep little facts like this on tali when
the "glooms" begin croaking nbout tsnr
time apathy and similar mournful myths
Orntnrlcally waving tho American
flag "from the pine-clad hills of Maine
to the everglades of Plorida" won't do
for tho new Fourth of July speeches
A ccrtuln staity banner caught a certain
welcome breee In a certain 'Trench
port" the other day. The ancient formula
needs drastic revision and glorious en
largement. Not a man was lost There
was not even a case of serious Illness.
The men landed In splondld
morale, with keen, confident and eager
spirit The physical appear
ance of our men Is truly Inspiring
Pershing
The phjBlcal appearance of our
able bodied civilians at home Is Just as
fine, but somehow It Is not so Inspiring.
There are about CO.000 places to be filled
In the regular army.
The precious quality of sincerity
was the supremo feature of tho lato Wil
liam Winter's play reviews As a critic
he felt honestly unahlo to indorse many
modern stage developments, and this rigid
attitude won hlpi much opposition from
a younger generation. As a Judge of
good acting, however, no such conser
vatism ever marred his vision. He adored
the "palmy" da) a of hlstrlonto giants, but
his appraisement of the individual per.
former of our day was keen and valid
to the last. Much ns he hated Ibsen, he
felt constrained to laud Richard Mans
field's personal Interpretation of Peer
Oynt Bad actors feared Mr. Winter
Good actors loved him. "phat verdict
would be mr honorable epHawSjewT
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Tom Daly's Column
TIW MAKU'WLWVi: Bt8Tr,It
Thcy'a 'n orphnnt 'iilwrn ncroif our
C7Hrr,
Am' pot a mnkc-b'Hcie Miter there;
.1 dear Utile thinv 'bout four years old,
llh Ma blur rjn an' hair Hhe poM
An' the sweetcut dimples J cirr did tee
When she stands at her iiHndcr an' smiles
at mc.
Poor, dear Utile thinp ain't pot vo ma
IMn I am pot an' no dear pa,
Cause she ain't mv reallu sifter 't all.
First time I seen her tens 'es Ins' fall
Wen uc u us setttn' out front one day,
Me an' ma, an' the orphants they
Wut out fur their rxrrcUc 'crost the Ufil;
lit' last of 'nn all 'at ualkcd in Una
Wut 'its little makc-b'llctc slitrt o' mine,
Hhc jes' looked oirr at hi an' nnt
She ken' on Inokln' open 'n npen,
Sorter wondcrln' like o thouph
Hhe tin thlnktn' she ouphter know
Who wr are, an' aflci a ichile
The dear little thlnp hrplnnrd to smile.
An' lapped her handi an' erird, "O, lonkl
fhrrc's my ma 'at the antcli took.
I findrd my ma 'at t thinked iluz Inst!
llrlln, my mn'" the hollered nrroif,
.In' throned a lh to us setttn' there.
An' ma said, "tlootlncsil I do declare I"
An' throurd her a Kit nn nodded her
head,
"ltrllo. Utile darling I" my dear ma AdM,
An' throutd more klnes an' nodded some
more
An' vatehrd her up to the 'lylum door.
An' nru iihrn the little thlnp Ment Inside
My inn ir ;ei art back an' rrled.
' t night Wen all my prayeri nut said
An ma iiuz tuckin' me Into bed
She kitted me Ms an' her check u' icct,
An' she vihl, "Mil darllnp, ve mustn't
forpet
At poor little, dear Uitle nrphnnt plrl
'At ain't put no one in all the untl'
To lot r an' tn lot r her like ynu an' mc.
Jet' think haw thankful ue nunhter be"
,S'o eiery tnoriifn' tttj ma an' me
H'r stand nt our winder an' valt till she
flett up at her winder arrott the u-ay,
A'i' nr ean tell 'at the's tryln' to tay
"Hood mornln'. ma!" jes' at plain as day
An' my pa tei If tie wuzn't o poor
ire1!! take her nut o' the 'tylum sure
An' liilnp her oirr tn our noute here.
"Jit' valt fin' nf do it yet, my dear,"
Vy pa he tayt. an' my ma taut, "Dot
I'm sine I'm able to taie for tua.
In' think f)' the jny 'nt ue all would feel
If the make h'lleie uuz only leal."
Think of It! U'oiMn'f (I Jet' he finer
Vy mnke.h'llete sitter truly mine!
Although our eye Is nlwnjs skinned
for Jut thnt sort nf thing, for quite
n quarter of n ccnturj wo hnd pnssed
under the sign,
MWE
which may be
seen upon the
wall of the hotel
nn Tenth street
above Chestnut,
nnd hnd never
consciously no
ticed It The
other day an nc
qunlntnncc. wish
Ing to be helpful,
pointed it out to
us 119 "funny."
Wo cnubln't seo
It "U'lmt'H the
he demanded At
du.
mm.
deer put in there foi ,
first wo gave It up, but then we saw
n light. "Tint's n stng," wo said, "it's n
stng hotel, see'" "Well, well, I alwajs
thought It was meant for 'dear,' to let
jou know it wasn't cheap" Which, Hfler
all, wouldn't have been displeasing to
tho worthy founder of the houso Peter
Samuel Dooner established his hotel ns
a shelter for male animals onlj, and mi,
In nil departments excepting tho restau
rant, It has always remained, and today
It is tho only stag houso of the fhst
class in town. Peter Dooner was hard
to shako from an Ideal when ho had
once given himself to It.
CON UUUCIIUIt, now the dean of
Philadelphia prlnteis; flajt McKcnlo
and some others still nbout town, who
worked upon the Age in wnitiinc, could
toll jou how the mob siounln,; the of
fice of that Democratic organ in tho mid
hour of the Civil War found only Peter
Dooner, foreman of the pressroom, nnd
Jim Breen, a hunchback fly-boy, left
to defend tho place, nnd they could toll
jou how Petei barricaded tho front door
and went 'up to tuo roof, whence ho
treated tho crowd to buckets of scald
ing water pissed to him by the hunch
back "This Is on the house'" jelled
Potor to tho mob be'ow, but they went
nwaj'.
WI2 AH13 coming in for our share of
foolhh war talk. Moro and moro fre
quently we hear tho suggestion that CJor
muntown be rechrlstened Karly In 1915
we heard how tho Oermantown Tool
Works had lost some of Ur trade In
Australasia because of Its namo, nnd
now In that part of the world the firm,
for business purposes, Is known ns tho
nrlfllth Tool Company. Wu can under
stand that, but why should all things
Oerman bo put out of tho sight of man
becauso some members of the family
havo recently gone Insane?
roviiTii or july co.vr:sr
Come, thouph your methods be. crude and
empirical;
Come, thouph your mood be sedate or
satirical,
Come ulth your rhymes and prow Fourth
o' Julyrlcal;
Maybe-' who knov sf you'll accomplish
the miracle
That Is to say, capture the 'i 60 bit
of gold for eight lines of verse for July 6.
The news that Clam-Martlnlc is to bo
something or other In Austria struck us
first as a bit of Information diverted from
a restaurant menu. To class It with the
oyster cocktail might be not altogether
an Inconcinnlty. Maybe that's a new
one for you.
With so many of our best jouth
already enlisted and with some of qur
colleges wondering If there'll be enough
students about next year to resume
classes, It may be Idle to offer tips to
athletic scouts, but here's an Item from
the Doylestown Intelligencer that might
boar InveatiratlnE'-
Howard Drew, nearo swlnter, has run
100 yards seventeen, tIMte In J 4-1
ATTILA OUTDONE
BY THE KAISER
Comparison of the Methods of
the Huns of the Fifth and
of the Twentieth
Centuries
By HENRI BAZIN
Stuff Corrrsponiml nf tut Kienma t.rjgtr
in Frnnct.
PAUIS, June 3.
Tiin other day in Nantes I wns shown
through tho Public Library M Bellamy,
the Major, who escnited me, pointed out an
ancient portrait upon the wall of a great
book room, and said "That is tho picture
of Attlla Tho painter is unknown Tho
picture was nilglnally in the Chateau, and
is said to Ime been the property of Louis
XII, removed from Paris at the request of
Anne, Duchess of Brittany, who did not
wish to have it present In her palaco In
Paris when slio beianie Queen of Prance "
Here then was the portrait of the King of
the I Inns, tho "Seoul ge nf the Human
Itace ' the terrarum omnium metu, ho
of whom It was said "that the grass grew
no longer after the passing of his horbe."
ho who through all the icnturles of thno
has been the sjnunjm of evil and ruthless
ness, gorllla-llko tjranny and devlMIke
flendlshness through all the lenturlea of
tlmo, until his place was usurped by Wil
liam II of Oennany And with the thought
came the idea of brief comparative lecord
In proof that Attlla as against tho Clcrman
Kaiser was humane generous, a suckling
babe or Innocent novice, in that which tho
world calls tjranny and horror
I knew that German legend, the Nlcbel-
ungen, represents Attlla or Hltel as magnifi
cent, hospitable and wise, fighting true like
an ancient knight, drinking deep as nn
ancient burgomaster, the king of rude en
counter and frnnk lip, with gambrinesquo
face and a paunch like Kalstaff s I knew,
too, the spreading of black paint Is an
easy thing, that a dog with a bad name Is
accused of every theft, that since every ono
trembled at Attlla s name, every one pre
tended additional reason for trembling, that
all the tales as to his cjnlcal Invasions and
frightful atrocities are in some measuie
due to his being Attlla, and not entirely
because ho was Attlla Indeed, all the
stories of the seventh, eighth and- ninth cen
turies, If true, would not havo left a city
standing In all Gaul nor nil Italy. Yet at
Attlta'a death Borne and Venice, Belms
and St. Quentln still stood And here and
there he had shown some compassion amidst
his cruelty. So I went over the record, the
record of history, ancient history and mod
em. ,
Attila of thts Fifth Century
Attlla became King of the Huns In 431,
dividing for a ear the kingly power with
his brother Bleda, whom he later murdered
that he might rule alone Immediately
afterward he conquered the Accadlans
then the horde! of Asia and the Slavic
and Teutonic tribes, creating In 'the north
of liurope an empire rivaling that of nome.
And then he ravaged Media, Bpsnla, Sla
vonla and Thrace. In 414 he reached Ther
mopylae and forced Theodoslus II to pay
tribute, ne then attacked the Roman's with
600,000 barbarians and, although he had
Rome at his mercy, did not occupy it or
aim to destroy It And afterward he
crossed the Rhine and devastate Treves
burned Mats, pillaged Reims, sacked Ijion
and Bt Quentln, ws repulsed at I.utece
and at Orleans, defeated and forted back
In retreat lit batU. wllh the Frankspoft
ae CaUlotuan flats. Ami then he waat
.
to Italv, tiink Aqull i Venice nnd Llgorin,
menaced Home ngnln, nnd retired to tho
hntflts of the Danube Here ended his con
quests nnd his invasions Tn 461 he mai
ded Idlco, a princess of Bactria, and upon
his wedding night wns stabbed to death bj
his bride, who had minted him onlj the
Ik tier to carrj out her Intent of avenging
two mothers whom her husband had mur
dered I have but tout lied upon the malp points
In his red hlstorj' There was muih rapine
and murder, destruction nnd massacre not
hero recorded And nt Trnjes and Home
he could havo accomplished more ill had
he chosen Tills Is fact bicd upon his.
tory, and Indlcites a something nf human
ity in his barbarism a ttrango streak of
good nlloy In a man of evil All this in
eighteen j ears
The Twentieth Century ScourRO
Now. William II of Germany In less than
tluee. from August 1 -J 1 4 . to April. 1017
The Invasion of Belgium and the north of
France, the Invasion of Serbia and Monte
negro, of Rumania nnd Poland nil under
condition of Infamy, monstioslty, pillage,
devastation, org), murder Incendiarism,
violation and sacrilege, coupled with perfidy
bevond tompire Its all too near to require
di tnll, jet It is all exemplified in the ancient
woids of VclleliiH Pnterculus in his nccusa
lliui against tlio Germans Ast till. In
Minima ferltato versutlsslml natum men
d iclo genus ferocious and perfidious a
race born to thu lie
And thin the recent horrors in northern
Frame in the Smnme and Alsne and Olse
country, with, after destruction of every
iiviiik aim iimniinaio tning, tno sardonic
signs, "Nleht argcrn. nur wundern!" Not
nn atom of pltj unj where Not an atom
And jet Attlla showed the word was In
his dictionary nt Trojon, when in re
hponsn to the prajeis of the bishop
ho dUl not raze the town, although
he look the priest to tho borders of the
Rhine, that as the legend tells, "his
piesence might bilng good fortune to the
aimj " And ho did not devastate Italy as
ho might have done, when he avoided the
ruthless carry Ing out of ALL tho evil In lila
power. ,s urn uengniz-Kiian and Tibe
rius And ns did not William II of Germany,
ho who nt every occasion invokes "Alter
Gott" he who has profaned unmentlonably
sacrlleged ind burned 1500 houses of the
Almighty God murdered priests and sisters
of charity aged men and little children
Indeed, ho could not bo compared with
Nero, Hellognbvlus, Caligula. Tiberius or
Attila without Injustice to these tj rants
Indeed
And it's high time the mantle of supremo
evil in barbarous imputation were takcj
from the age-old shoulders of the King of
tho Huns nnd placed upon the living shoul
ders of William Hmperor of tho Roche who
outty ranted all tho tj rants of time
BEAT! BEAT! DRUMS!
beat' drums' Wow. busies. hln,i
Reat
ThrouKh the windows through the doors
burst Ilka iv ruthless force
Into the solemn church and scatter the con.
Bregatlon,
Into the school where the scholar is study.
Ing. '
Leave, not the bridegroom quiet no hap.
Plnesa must he have now with his
bride,
Nor the peaceful farmer any peace, plow.
Ing his field or gathering his grain
So fierce you whirr nnd pound your drums
so shrill you bugles blow.
Heat t beat I drums! Blow, bugles, blow!
Over the trafflo of cities over the rumble
of wheels in the streets;
No bargainers' bargains by day no brokers
or specuUtqrs would they continue
Would the talkers be talking? Would thl
singer nttempt to Blng?
Would the lawyer rise In the court to stai.
his case before the, JudgeT
Then rattle quicker, heavier drums vnn
bugles wilder blow Wu
Heat I beat' drums I Ulow, bugles, blow!
Make no parley stop for no expostulation
Mind not the tlmid-mlnd not the weener on
prayer, r or
Mind not the old man beseeching the youn.-
man, "
Let not the child's voice be heard, nor th.
mother's entreaties, ,M
Make even thj trestles to shake the dead
where they u, awaiting the h'arSfs
So slrone you thump of terrlbls drums.
ioua you tali bUv, vnims-f0
-Walt YtafCssW
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
I. Tim rrhlnn Premier nnnounrM (hat Mi
rountrv win Htm! a mimion to !. J n.
ion. uno i trti MAtriminnT j
3. Mlmt fr Urn t.o-riil!ed MoydrsM of t
irrnrn iirtoiuiion? r.
H NliHt In the t frond lurcfftt flty In Mexico!
I. Who In thn llnwnl.nn (tr.ecule In Conrrril
5. Who h tho present Pone?
fl. What In the nearest French equivalent to lW
fengiiNii "aii rum T i,
7. Who un "..fiaii Urn m me II" and when ilJ
he lite?
8. Where l the Maunftir North Pole?
l. Hon many re.iuh.lrn are there In Knrow.
und ultnt ure they? js
in. Wlm urnl .hut "nn lnrlitr la unrth iM"
tomorrow fr7
Answers to Saturday's Quiz
1. I -en -j U In the Trench Department of Tatl
e-t mam.
3. The lika '.f W HllnctonV imme wu Arthur
Wellesler. 3
S. Clnnnhar la nn Imoortiint ore of raffeur.
It color lanes from hnilit red to urownj
4. Jin.., ri-trhtnn. .h Krotrh trho or. f el
hrnttxt fne Ihe rreat inrletr of bis aefOBp I
llU.imentt, uuh known n the AdmimftWH
rlrhton."
ft, ihe hup N cJMnnt from the earth awntj
0 '1,000,000 mile. ?
fl. Ihr rt trTurlaii name, or ltiilcnria Ii Ila
cnrlju.
. (ut 1.. of r.uron. tlrnt wife of Hen
ife of Henrr
whn Kf'tJ "I
food, t but I
HI. w it 11 e laJiKlUh f.neen
Inn flmiA Piifflnnta UtflA 1
fcimulil he nm to lo It nn harm '
8. The Ci laden form n croup of Inlands In th
Aegean rea oir the roait or i.reeee.
0. Oerurri .Memilor. after whom the wnrld-mM
projection U named, wan a relebrttel.
Dutch teoerupher Ul date are ifllt
1.101. "
10. Four randldaten were named for Preildrtt
of the United Mates in im6o T"y nen
Stephen A. Umnl.it. of Ullnnlf. ortberti'l
Ilmimrrnii .Inlin I. llrorklnrlrlsTe.
tiitk, .Southern Democrat. John HeU u
et 01
AliratiUDi Lincoln, of llllnoli, Kfpubllcaaj
THE SUEZ CANAL 1
The plan of a water connection bett'l
tho Mediterranean and the Red Sea gotlj
back to carl j Kgjpttan history Such 1
canal seems to have been constructed In
the reigns of Sett I and Itameses II. abouil
1300 H C, extending from the Nils tU
Lake Tlmsah and thence to the Red Sea a
An International commission of engineer!
made a preliminary survey In 1846 to asctrsj
tain the practicability of a, level-wstw
i anal The Kngllsh engineer on th comj
mission, George StephenBon strongly 0W
posod a canal and recommended to his GoW
ornment a railroad from Cairo to 5iue, M
this was constructed by British capital J
1868 In the same year M de Lesstps. :
Tenneee. ontUtutlonal Unionist. ftH
i
Frenchman, succeeded In forming a corny
pany with a capital stock of (40,000,000 Ml
build the canal 1
But when De Lessens found It ImposslW
to enlist the large amount of capital ncl"
Barv. he turned to Said Pasha, secursl
from him a large loan for prellmlnMji
work and promoting, and later a subscril
lion lor nearly nan me siock, wnicni--;
about (85,000 000 Raid was not able to v
his subscrintlon and his warrants had toM I
cashed In London The Egyptian Govvsj j
ment had agreed to furnish labor si ;
nominal price, tho native workers to be ' :
treated and their health tn h cared Mi
The violation of the latter condition on lb
part of the canal company aroused a pro,
test In the name of humanity, espscUW
from Kngland, which had never looked vrtjj
favor on the canal, and suggested ta t
Sultan of Turkey that the work be stopf4
Effvnt belne- under thn nuzprnlntv of TUtl
key The Sultan decided that the fU,t
I gjptlan workmen should not be compc
to do tho work.
The company complained that this
a breach of contract, and the French B
peror was asked to arbitrate a difficult I
ternatlonaj dispute. The result was tfc
Egypt was further mulcted of neJ
120 eaa nan tv, i.'f,iii in i7R annaal
to Europe for aid in his financial dlfficiil
ties. Ills canal stock was sold to
for t20.d00.000 This made En-!"
though originally opposed to the pt"
the heaviest owner In It nnrl. pnmhined
the ceneral financial asalatanr. rendered,!
Egypt, gave that Power a direct Interest!
Lgyptlan affairs.
A very short time sufficed to show t?
the canal was of the utmost advanUf'J
England as a passageway to her Orlf
possessions England Rnd France
exercised together tutelage over
Later events led the British to assumV
responsibility alone The Sues Can
th key to this political development''
tiacame. tujiart to the complicated r;
in jpe pear Bast.
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