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PUlsdilpb.li, Header, J0I7 9, 1917 A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY FOR PHILADELPHIA tTTB HAVE no faith In tho virtues of ' " watchful waiting as an industrial proposition. Tho most It docs Is to glvo i b. good view of your competitors rushing by. Tho conservative East had many u laugh at tho reckless manner In which the Mlddlo West grabbed hold ot tho Automobile Industry, but beforo tho laugh ing was ovor tho banks of Detroit wero giving hurry orders for now vaults in which to store tholr deposits. Philadelphia a hundred years ago smiled condescendingly at Do Witt Clin ton's proposal to build 300 or moro miles of canal to connect New York with tho Great takes; but by 1852 tho dcht for that enterprise amounted to only $17,000, 000 and the annual receipts from tolls wero over $3,000,000, a fairly good invest ment, even It it had not In tho meantime driven New York tp tho head of Ameri can cities and laid tho foundations for Its ultimata world pre-eminence. By the time the Eile Canal was opened Phila delphia quit smiling, for In that year, 1825, tho Concstog.a wagons wending their way along tho great turnpike be tween Pittsburgh and Philadelphia wero becoming fewer and fewer In number and New York had bocomo tho most populous city In tho nation. It was a little lato, but Philadelphia then waked up tho State, which began a positively amazing program of canal construction. By tho mlddlo of tUo century over a thousand miles of canal were In uso within tho Commonwealth. But most of the mileage did not pay tho cost of operation. A now carrier, tho railroad, had come into being, end with It the canals could not compete. It docs not do to watch too long. A community must smell its way along and bo ready to tako a chance. To wait to Bee how new methods succeed elsewhere is not to enter tho raco until It is lost. Threo years of war conditions have dem onstrated many things, but they have dem onstrated nothing moro certainly than this: transportation facilities are tho key to success in both war and business. Wo had freight embargoes last winter not because our carriers themselves wero In adequate, but because tho cntiro terminal system of tho country simply collapsed. It was not built to stand tho strain. It was out-of-date and antiquated. Tho railroads cannot get an Increase in rates and they cannot get tho money to build tho kind of terminals thoy neod. Therein lies the opportunity of Philadel phia. A railroad with tho cash might build its terminals wherever it pleased. A city can construct Its own. If Phila delphia provides adequate facilities, we won't have to sit and watch foreign ship ments being hauled through our streets to New York, piers. "Wo can magnetize our waterfront so that no commerce can pass It by. "Wo havo. In other words, an Incomparable opportunity to tie the West to us once moro and revlvo our ancient prestlgo as a port. In this undertaking the Belt Line Is a vital factor, and the fight tho Publio Ledger la making to put "kick" into its management Is of the utmost importance. We neod numbers of modern piers and wharves, but It is the Belt Line that must mako them accessible. A terminal system efficient In some parts will do little good; It must function properly throughout. The business men ot Philadelphia ought to get this fact firmly fixed In their minds: What tho Erie Canal did for New York a modern terminal system can do for Philadelphia. A GASTUONOMIC VICTORY n THREE French officers, inspecting a United States naval station In Illinois, have met Ice cream cones.- Thoy looked detectable. They tasted better. The crisp batter-like receptacles In which the cool ing dessert nestled enhanced Its charm. American menu patriots promised the Introduction of this soul-satisfying refresh ment to France. That was no Idle pledge. Baseball has gone to Gaul with our marines. The Ice cream cone is Its inevi table concomitant. Flavored lcea are no novelty in Paris. A cunning Neapolitan took their eecret Mere in the waaixur year of tho elght- Mth UTiry. ittth the mye M4Mrt . jWfaJ.1 SWW ,' ''. h: ' Opening his memorablo cafo on tha Orand Uoulevnrd, tho latter eventually mado his establishment tho Ico cream center of Europe. From tho American viewpoint, however, his efforts wero niggardly. Had his icos been Jowolry they could Hcarccly have been moro parsimoniously dolod out. A silver franc produced but a puny mouthful. Tho custom abides today. Ico cream and generosity moko no mnrrlago In France. Our capacious cones, which until now no Frenchmon havo ever known, foroshadow a xtartllmr revolution In tho "psycholosy of tnstc." "HEATING THE WHEEL" THERE nro a cortaln two mon In this city who nro looking forward to Draft Day with ontlrcly different emotions. Thero aro probably thousands of mon llko thorn. Perhaps they represent two well-known types. One, whom wo call A, Is twenty-nine, unmarried, In' fairly good physical con dition. Ho Is strongly opposed to going to war, but would not admit it to any but his closest friends. lie will light if. ho has to. Tho othor, B, is twenty-four, unmarried. In tiptop physical condition, eager to fight. Ho sincerely hopes ho will bo con scripted, A, being a paclllst and opposed to all tho machinery of wnr, tried to get ex empted beforo tho diuft, but of course failed. Hating tho idea of "having a lottery wheel say what ho should do or not do," he Is hulf Inclined to enlist "In order to beat tho wheel." 11, on tho other hand, thinks the draft lottery Is "a flno sporting chance." If ho Isn't conscripted, ho says, ho will "probably enlist sotno tlmo next winter, ns he wants to co Fiance." What wo do not want Is an army filled up with half-hearted pacifist volunteers too proud to admit a reluctance to fight for tho right. What wo do want In the army at once Is tho men who nro eager to light. It Is B who should try to "beat tho wheel to It" by enlisting. It Is A who should tako his chances with tho wheel. Wo cannot understand nn eagerness to fight that Is willing to wait until next winter for satisfaction. There are CO, 000 vacant places in tho regular army which offer the opportunity to work with trained men and experienced of ficers. Those places should bo filled this month. 0 COUNT 'EM ID AS1 MONO tho makers of American his tory fluting tho last twenty yearn, wo do not recall that tho names of .Tcnnlo Schwartz, Abe Knnan, Isadorc Waskonsky und Alexander Levy wero prominent. That Is natural In tho enso of Abo and Jennie, becauso they arc only sixteen yoars old. Not one of tho forty-nlno So cialists nnested at it disloyal meeting in this city Saturday was voting when Wil son was elected tho first tlmo. Only four of them hao been naturalized. Half of them nro under ago. Thoy'ro nil ngalnst Wilson, Root, Charles Edward RtiBsell, John' Spargo, tho Constitution, tho war, Kercnsky, Joffro and Pershing. It was only a few years ago that most of them camo down tho gangplank clutching tholr mothers' skirts, got their first glimpse of tho Now World and started to learn English. But now thoy'ro In politics, with tho news papers telling of them In formidable hoad 15ncs "40 Soclnllst Itebols." PUT UP YOUU AXES! T A. ( HE Louisville nnd Nashville Ttallroad Company nnd tho WesUirn Union Tel egraph Company havo been having a fight which parallels In Its main features tho historic controversy between tho Ponnsvl anta Railroad Company and tho same telegraph company. Tho Pennsylvania, it wilt bo remembered, sent out gangs of workmen armed with axes and procooded to fell any and all Western Union poles in sight. That established a precedent which seemed good to the Louisville nnd Nashvlllo officials. They made up their minds to go and do likewise. Into this situation stepped tho Secre tary of War. Why should tho Govern ment have Its telegraph facilities crippled Just becauso two corporations wanted to light? Ho bent a messago to tho prcsl- j dentH of tho warring companies Inform ing thorn that tliey would 00 expectea to meot at onco and como to a peaceablo and prompt ngrcement. Otherwise, ho Inti mated, tho telegraph line In question would bo taken over by tho Government, In which case, ho ventured to believe, neither the railroad ofllclals nor any other men would undertnke to uso axes for pur poses of demolition. Wo do not llko tyranny and arbitrary action In this country, but thero aro times when the assertion of authority comes with tho cooling freshness of tho north wind and citizenship generally reJolceB to discover that not every holder of a public office needs furs bolow the knees. Food conservation rule "Never scrap your 'scraps.' " No. 1 Even tho most rigid "bone-dry" legislator can't keop Champagne out of tho war. The fact that General Chang Is dubbed tho "king maker" doesn't seem In tho least to deter the Chinese republicans from finishing his special product. Let us hope, for tho sako of France, that Philadelphia's adoption ot a ruined town, selected by Ambassador Jusserand, will not Involve the construction of Its transit system "Bread will rise on yeast short age," says a New York Herald headline. This Is astonishing news to the American housewife, so long dependent on the yeaat cake to glvo the staff of life Its requisite elevation. The Fluck suit was merely ono of a number of more or less abortive efforts to delay or defeat rapid transit. It has been very properly thrown out of court It Is a pity that some other obstruction ary schemes cannot be treated similarly. If Rumania responds to General Scott'e Visit to Jassy as readily as Russia did tq Mr, Root's arrival in Petrograd, our old misspelling and mispronunciation hf the Dobrudja will be revived, hut thU I Urn with Victory, not defeat, as IU news U. "EVENING (LEDGEKr - CHURCHILL THE BRILLIANT Tho Anglo-American Firebrand Still Criticizes tho British Military Strategy By GILBERT VIVIAN SELDES Special Correapondfttt KventntJ Ledpcr LONDON, Juno 20. Th Oovernment of Clreat Ilrltnln la Mn run by a little club, overy member of wblfti calla film by hla llrat name. rrom n weekly patier. It would be a mlefortune for the coun try If Mr 'a talente wero allowed to bo unused In this crisis From many dally papers, . The most brilliant man In nnaiind Oc casional remark -, Think what ho has made us aufier. rre 'juent remark. . , The bora In tho air want him. Occa caslonnl remark. He'd do anything- to set bark Into tho llmellfiht. Nasty remark. A ND so on I could nil a column with theso varying descriptions of a man who is still, despite everything, ono of tho most fascinating flguros In contemporary England. Will you havo thrco guesnes? It Is Winston Lconnrd Spencer Churchill, tho hero of the Sidney street murders nnd the trnnlc flKuro who stands behind the disasters of Antwerp and of Galllpoll. Winston Churchill, the man who has nlways ployed for all or nothing, and who now, even nt this moment when his enreer seems blackened out in tho darkest pages ot tho wnr, niny In' about to play for doubles or quits. For lie Is not yet qnltH with his country, nor his country with him Ho Is still n young man, forty-three, nnd he la not yet Prime Mlnlsttr TI10 war which might havo mado him seems to havo ruined him Uut 1 am not suro thnt tha end has rami) for this nutn whose every word shines and fparkles, whoso eery nc tlon Is 011 the grand scale, nnd who Knows what ho wants He has thrown oer ono party In his time; ho Is discredited for tho moment with nnothcr 1 havo hoard It said that he will nlways be truo to ono party, and that party, as James Russoll T.rmnll Raid of a lepscr politician, hlmelf Thero is mallco In tho phrase i but It In dicates. In splto of itself, the abounding rolf-confldcnce, the extraordinary faith nnd. let us say. honor which Mr. Churchill brings Into his politics. An American EnRlislimnn It is not on record that Mr. Churchill thanks Ood every day for his American descent, but he certainly realizes that ho was onco master of tho British Imagination becauso ho had an American energy, abounding nnd dnrlng nnd dangerous, added to tho audacity which camo from his great father, tho grand manner, tho trick ot corn polling nttontion. Everything ho had done until tho war broke out was profit to him. At the ago of twenty-three ho was a famous historian, for his record of The River Wnr, Kitchener's Soudan cnmpnlgn, is a model of historical narrative, and the downright deflnnco of Kitchener In It is another instance of his brnvcry. At tho ngo of twenty-ilvo ho had fought In Cuba (with tho Spanish forces), In the TIrah expedition, with tho Mnlakand Field Forco on tho northwest frontier of India. In the Soudan, nnd with Duller nnd Roberts through tho Boer Wnr He had betn captured, had escaped his enemies Insist that he broko parolo from Pretoria. Tho fact Is, at least, that ho lived through Splon Kop and was with tho rellolng col umn when It entered Ladysmlth Ho has been Homo Secretary nnd presi dent of tho Hoard of Trade nnd Flrbt Lord of the Admiralty. Ho Is Holdler and sailor, too by that token Ho has summoned ar tillery to capture a group of murderers In tho heart of London and has sent a mission to Antwerp which could not havo saved an nnthill from tho Germans. He has thrown tho military over half Englnnd to check a railway strlko and ho participates in the guilt of tho Dardanelles. He is something of n, noellst, a biographer, nn orntor. He looks for perfection in everything; he wants nlways to bo not only where tho band Is playing, ho wants to conduct tho best band In tho land. I quoto ragtime; somehow Mr. Churchill is not alien to tho spirit of our country. Government Afraid of Him A week or two ago they talked of him a great deal. He was to bo the nv food controller; ho was to succeed Lord Cow dray at tho air board , a new post was to bo found for him; tho Government was afraid to take him on. And with this talk came a rovival of everything which Britain has felt since tho early days of tho war For the average man nnd woman who gives Church ill credit for mobilizing the fleet really tho decisive factor In the declaration of war, for if tho fleet hnd not been mobilized the declaration might havo been ccn later these same people blame him bitterly for tho ruin of Antwerp and tho folly of the Dar danelles. Those who rend tho papers re member that Mr. Asqulth took responsibil ity for tho Dsrdnnelles on himself and on tho whole Cabinet When the Galllpoll re port camo out It was Asqulth nnd not Churchill who mado tho great defense. But Churchill remains the whipping boy for this misfortune. And yet not ono person In England will venture a bet against his re turn to ofllce, to great office. It Is moro than astonishing; It Is a trib ute to tho fierce hlncerlty of the man him self. Ho left the Cabinet ho could hardly do less. But he would not lease the coun try. Ho believes, at IcaBt he did bellevo until recently, that the Avar could not be won by "pushes," He bellosed In "strokes" everywhere, but particularly away from tho oastern-western main theatres of war. He diagnosed tho German strategy absolutely 1 doubt whether ho will bo "out" much longer. I saw him recently and hoard him speak, and I am Inclined to bet on his vigor against the properness and sobriety ot his colleagues. He is still a handsome man, still young looking. But the best thing about him Is tho Impression ho gives off. of fighting, lighting nlways, and for a cause. If ho stays out all through tho war he will still have his chance. When he "chucked" tho Unionist party It was al most as If a covenant had been made to make him Prime Minister. Ono othor Lib eral stood In his way, and that man is now .tho Prime Minister, but he has lost tho Liberal party After the war, In the shlft Inga of parties, Winston Churchill may find himself leader of a group outside both parties, yet strong enough to put Its leader In a place of power. But there Is no fore telling. There is only tho pleasure of watch ing an unaccountable Btar. In a book written many years before the war Alfred G. Gardner, tho brilliant editor ot the Dally News, wrote of Churchill: Remember, he Is a soldier, first, last and always. Ho will write his name big on our future Let us take care that he does not write it In blood. And now Churchill has written It In blood. But there are many who feel sure that ho will write It again, more slowly, more brilliantly, In the golden letters of genius devoted to tho service of his coun try. He is not altogether an Alclblades. NATIONAL POINT OP VIEW Change the name of New York city to Zlon. In the city directory the Cohens out number the Smiths. Louisville Herald. Gustav F. Touchard, of New York, former indoor tennis champion, haB gone to Can ada, where he will enter the aviation corps. There hm't much honor In being a champion at any kind of a game now, If one la able to be of service as a fighter. Dayton Dally News. The distilleries that would stop making whisky could be transformed into plants making alcohol for the manufacture of ex plosives, for the manufacture of ether and other medicinal articles, for the manufac ture of fuel and dyea. Springfield Repub lican. i No police department In the country has ever had a worse showing up than that of New York In the Cruger case; but the record ot neglect and Inefficiency will have a better tide if It convinces the department that aelf-turficlency Is a grievous fault. V-r 0',ns Ftaleav PHILADEIiPIIIA, MONDAY, JULY 9, 1917 1 Tom Daly's Column McAroni Ballads LXXXIV DA M'IFi: Va uie of Joe Dmlarlo She's vcrra prctla Ihccno lor show Bh&s beautiful upon da face An' walks tcccth soooha queenly oraco She should he marry weetha keeno; An', too, she aolta voice to sccno Dat shame da birds upon da tree Hut she ccs not da wife for me. A'ow, Mlchclannclo Jlaratl' lie's gotta wife dot's plain an' fat; An' drre ces few like her so tood Vor keep da house and carry wood. An' wan theeng sure, you bat my Ufcl Nobody's gon' for steal hecs ulfe Hut, stecll, for all her cendustry Bhe would not be da ulfe for met 1 I am a vcrra busy inan Een tcndln' decs peanutta stan' I have no time for looha sCo Who would be testa wife for me: But som' times ccn da night t sect At home alone an' thecals of cct. e Wen I was young ccn Italy Dcrc teat a girl I ute' to see Dat pass me by upon da road, An' aheays weetha heavy load, Dat tika ctown she use" to wear On top her theeck an' shiny hair. You mebbe no bnyllcva mc, Hut mnnny times J use' to sec flow the icould cairy noontime meal For workmen ccn da liarvcs1 JlcV l'cn bigga basket on her head; An' den, on top, a cradle-bed, Yceth baby fast asleep ern ect. An' weeth her han's she use" to knect Horn' stocktn's while she walked tlong. An' she would leeft her voice een song Dat jus' would charm da. heart ecu you; An' she was vcrra prelta, too. O! soocha girl like dat would be Da wife I'd llko to catch for mc! A "Wise Man of the East When wo wcro rushing to press last night wo found nlrcndy settled In our column this chnrmlngly nalvo letter, which was intended, perhaps, for tho column Immediately to tho west of us. Wo hadn't tho heart to disturb it: Hotel Adclphla, Cth July. 1317. Honored Sir In many American col umns I amuse myself exceedingly to con stantly read the always Irish patriot, who speaks of India, Egpt, Transvaal In his foolish comparisons, and strong ltuperatlons of England An eloquent gentleman named Mr. Cummlngs writes In your today press much nbout fcuch things which ho is not Informed nbout. I am Hindustani an am born in Cal cutta, whero the English rulo has such beneficence, bo that In not many years I hno gained not a llttlo wealths by business. I nngcr mself much that Mr. Cummlngs thinks we are slaves. Does ho not know that beforo tho English coming that tho rajah took by forco any money ho dosire by brutal operations, and if" some objections being mado, that person was caused to disappear dying very rapidly. Thcro aro now no objec tions, ns tho English magistrate is very Justly fierce In taking no backsheesh. In Bono days tho Justice peoplo were not such, and we must bury In tho earth all our possessing cnpulcnce. AH thugs llko night murderers nre swiftly killed by tho kind English We lllyi It I reside Mx months In Egypt nnd discover also that before tho English such happenings were exceedingly worse, but now tho poor stricken fellaheen ran cultivate for some certnln riches Effendl Cummlngs must study his histories from tomo uncertain books No man of wisdom credits secret Tewtonlk writings. My brother Is making businesses In the( Transvaal and reports much prosperities; Bellovo not therefore unproved maledictions. Tho truo studies are to have lesldenco In such lands, not to peruse agitating scriptures If n robber Meals my land, tho magistrate, with great celerity, and strong remarks 'gives It to me back. Why thercforo shall France not reeelvo back their stolen Alsaro I comprehend that Lloyd George desires only Indemnities for Belgium Tho Ger many Colony question Is yet inanlmatcd. I do not know of tho soldiers of America but It Is not tho custom of clsewhcro of soldiers to write to newspapers of their Intended lighting objects, but perhaps in tho land of tho free, each soldier mnkes himself his commands. This w ould concels e much battle confusion Wo have many Irishmen In India, but we find them much complaining and desiring to fight emerging from the canteen. They love tho fight for the combat merely. In such lighting lands, as In Bhopa! and mountains, the British raj stops much murders, and un faithfulness. Some peoples fit themselves not for voting government, perhaps Ire land is such. Tho men of tho mountains who constantly fight do not make safe living there for business. Great safety and freedom to live doing business aro each countries requirements If Ireland has such, her revolutions arc sinful and will have no successful endeavor. Re ceive Sir tho abased and humble saluta tions of your devoted servant. HADJIDEE AKBAR. If "llko cures llko," as we've been told, and It you should bo III and not know what is tho matter with you, why shouldn't It help you to try something oqually mysterious? Somewhere uptown thcro Is a healer who announces himself as a ' practitioner of "physio-psychic pronormallsm," whatever that means. MANY a college campus took on tho sere ' and yellow look prematurely this spring, and none was hit harder or sooner than Holy Cross, at Worcester, Mass. In tho faculty of that institution there is a truo poet tho Rov. Michael Earls, S. J. and he sings: THE TOWERS OF HOLY CROSS The roads look up to Holy Cross, The sturdy towers look down, And show a kindly word to nlf Who pass by Worcester town; And once you'd see the boys nt play, Or marching cap and gown. The gallant towers at Holy Cross Are silent night and day; A few young tads are left behind Who still may take their play. The Cross and Flag look out afar For them that went away. Then God be with you, says the Cross, And the brave towers looking down; I'll be your cloth, sings out the Flag, For other cap and gown, And may we see you safe again. On the hills of Worcester town. Bangt "PASSING tho Gorgas Public School In this fashionable suburb," writes Luke, from Flshtown, "I stopped to watch the' Janitor lowering the American flap. This la mors than the Kaiser can do,' said ka. DM M.JWtto marltr , . ,,, Ir&Wfjma, reulr Jort!'rnynvA EVERY THE VOICE OP THE PEOPLE Tho Aims of Russian Socialists. Misstatements of History RUSSIAN SOCIALISTS AIMS To the Editor of the Evening Ledger: Sir Now that free, unshackled Russia has at last struck at tho reactionary legions of William the Last, after having com pleted tho business of revolution against Nicholas tho Final, It is curious how cer tain newspapers are trying to mako amends for their maligning of the great Russian revolution Thero is a general attempt to fly to cover by attempting to misrepresent onco more tho Petrograd Council of Workmen's and Soldiers' Deputies, which had previously been htylcd as n body of crack-brained anarchists. Our attention Is called to the fact that the Russian offensive was author ized, not by tho Petrograd Council, but by tho All-Russian Council of Workmen and Soldiers, representing delegates from local councils throughout Russia. It was this body and bodies like tho All-Russian Con gress of Peasants that ordered tho drlvo In Gallcia, wo arc Informed. Permit mo to say most emphatically that there Is not the slightest difference between the policy of tho l'etrogrnd council and the All-Russian council. On the contrary, tho foreign nnd domestic policies of the Petrograd organization find Increased em phasis In tho All-Russian body becauso the latter represents tho whole of the Russian peoplo. Tho same men who led tho Petro grad council arc at t,he head of tho All Russlan council N. V. Tscheldze, president of tho Petrograd council, was chosen unani mously to head the All-Russian council. Skobeleff, Tserctelll, Stankevltch and the other social democratic and Socialist revo lutionary chiefs of the Petrograd council occupy positions of tho highest trust and Importance In tho All-Russian council. Skobeleff and Tberetolll nre members of the proxlslonal Cabinet Tho All-Russlan council stands for the foreign policy first enunciated by the revolu tion, tho policy of "no forcible annexations, no punitive Indemnities and the rights of all nations to determine their own destiny." It Is for this policy that the Russian army is now battling. It Is for this nnd the other policies of the revolution, nnd for no Im perialist alms, that revolutionary Russia Is willing to die It Is for this policy and the policy of land distribution, socialization of Industry und complete political freedom that War Minister Kerensky stands. Let those gentlemen who assailed the Russian revolution becauso It stands not only for nn abstract political Ideal, but also for a very concrete program of social democracy, think twice They may again find need in the very near future to attack tho revolution, and I would advise them to bestow their praise very sparingly lest they fall to find in the future the necessary BUbterfuge behind which to hide their ignorance Instead, I would advise them to study that Inevitable development which Marx termed the "dictatorship of the proletariat." The Russian workers have already given a snlendld exhibition of it. They are now battling to extend It throughout Europe. JOSEPH SHAPLEN. Philadelphia, July 7. VICE IN GERMANY To the Editor of the Evening Ledger: Sir It certainly surprises me that "A Woman's" article of June 29 should go unanswered. Does this woman Intimate that the American morals are predomi nated by vice and that Germany's morals, until war began, were something we should look up to? Does any woman or man dare to say that Germany In her three years ot war has learned as much about vice as the' whole world has taken thousands ot years to learn? Why do we seldom read of such con dition In German cities as we read of In New York city, Chicago and other cities? Because the press ot Germany is and al ways has been under control of militarism, such as she wishes to control the world with. They may say what they like, but I stand "pat" when I say that commercialized Vice Is Just as much In vogue in Germany as It is in this country or any country. The paperB of the United States are not controlled by militarism; rather they con trol militarism ana pontics, ana mat la why tjie people of the unte , Btjt? know I'eRaaVV 1 WON . fSMBMsaajsRstlH ,1 nmfWm 4 ''H ?v .Viaj DOG WILL HAVE HIS DAY letting the people know things than keep ing them secrot If It were not for tho American pross wo too, llko tho good Gorman citizen, would never hear of such conditions prevailing In our cities. I hae boen In Germany for six years. In that tlmo I learned that Germany reeked with commercialized vice as much as any country I'vo ever read of. Sly business In Germany centered around tho Geinan central offices and for that reason I learned more than I saw or read. Johnstown, Pa., July 6. A MAN. MISSTATING HISTORY To the Editor of the Evening Ledger: SIr-T-There was presented In your Issue of July 6 a letter signed by Walter A. Cum mlngs, of New York, which outsldo of some compliments personal to himself, contained an Intemperate attack entirely opposite to tho facts In relation to Great Britain's ad ministration In India, also. Incidentally, Ire land, Egypt, South Africa nnd Porsla, and some remarks about what ho callod tho "gush" In President Wilson's messago to the world of our reasons for going to war with tho Central Powers. The gentleman confesses to being a stu dent of history, and yet by his extreme statements one can hardly bellevo that he Is warranted by the knowlodge he ha3 gained In giving out this distorted message to the public. Ills Inherited strong dislike of tho British is his private privilege, but It Is unfair and undemocratic to misstate history In order to servo his personal bias. II. W. NELSON. Ardmore, Pa., July 6. WHAT A COLLEGE EDUCATION IS WORTH Dean Holmes, of tho Pennsylvania State College, after spending months gathering statistics and reducing them to orderly form, has discovered that the money value of four years at college Is $20,000, or a financial return of J6000 for every year so spent. Dean Holmes's Investigations reveal the fact, which at first seems a llttlo discon certing to the advocates of university train ing, that the average earnings of a bach elor of arts amount to $1187 a year, not quite 25 a week. But the situation bright ens for the colleges when we learn that the average earnings of the non-college man are only H18 not $10 a week. Tho differ ence between these two sums Is J6C9, and since tho average man lives thirty years after leaving college his financial reward for four years of more or less arduous under graduate toll is evidently something more than $20,000. World's Work. CAMOUFLAGE We have heard a good deal about ca mouflage since the war began. Camouflage we used to know as the term applied by zoologists to the protective coloring by which birds and minor animals find safety through blending Into the landscape. Now It has become the art, so highly developed by the French, by which the movement of troops or the position of guns is concealed from tho enemy. We must bellevo that this ingenious art of. war has been studied by some KansaB Cltlans, who have used it for their own pur poses with results highly satisfactory to themselves. Some men of means, who have desired to keep out of sight of tho Red Cross canvassers, have made, themselves absolutely Indistinguishable from the land, scape. Kansas City Times. TENNYSON'S ODE TO AMERICA We have had many Inquiries about the source of the '"suppressed" verses by Ten nyson which were quoted by a correspond ent recently. They were addressed to America, and ran as follows: Gigantic daughter of the West, We drink to thee across the flood. We know thee most, we love thee beBt For art thou not ot British blood? Should war's mad blast again be blown Permit not thou the tyrant powers To fight thy mother here alone But let thy broadsides roar with ours. O rise, our strong Atlantic sons When war against our freedom iprlnesl O speak to Europe through your guns. They can be understood by kings. Our correspondent now Informs us that they appeared in an article on "Tennv son's Suppressed Poems" In Haraer-a Monthly Magazine, December, 190J Orlci nally they were part of the poem af terwarn publUhed under the title of "Hands An Bound." ,The aarller Versloni .SJ"J S3TvlKEM,'(? J5 ! r r. lipgilteiH: sbt What Bo You Know? 1 QUIZ I 1 flow many Amerienn Territories are tbenf 2. What warn the famous "Mutiny el tig Uounty"? 3. What four American Presidents dlei a office? 4. Wiero Is the Great Wnlt of China? B. When was the I'nrls llantllo stormed? (I. What nro Incunabula? 7. Which la the Index flncrr? r M 8. 11 hat Htate does .senator Chnmtprli!ln 0. tlhnt la a "larwus llncuae"? 10. llline la Iia ,-finlfnl nt A.I.Ann Answers to Saturday's Quiz 1. General Chans Hsun recently rettorea D W hoy l.mperor to the ( Illness thrones H l'ekln, ty 2. I'ontn nelsnila. width was bombarfel t $ week by a (Jermaii Niibinarlne, Is thetbM X till' and neanort of the Azores Ibuiti,i f) l'nrtuciicso uoesexblon In the Norti l I1 lontle Otcan. f 3. I-acropso Is recardetl ns the national fi B of Canada. 4. fit. I'atrlek'H dates aro A. I). S?J-4OT. F 6. An American court for United States t rent i maintained In tho city of eaiw lull, China, ! 0. T. O. Apuleton la reputed to be the aiu nt ine remark, ".lit soou Americans, s they die. en tn l'nrlu . Ilnlme finatrt fl S! t in ."The Autocrat of the UreakfMl I J able." mx 7. A mlrnee la an optical Illusion uoatlrB?j rurrine In deoerts. Knr-.tnay ' " Produce nn Inierted lmnce as If relWH; in n sheet of water. The phenomena wM R due to the oirrheathnr of etrata of air saw consequently to unequal refraction ef M ! aun'a rujs. Hv R. Kdcnr Wilson Nre was the real namiiKSlI "lllll e," the Ainrrlcan humorlit. 1 0. Premier Venlielos, of Greet. Is a nitlns the Island of Crete. 10. A number of species of the cereal pin bloom at iilcht. THE NEW YORK DRAFT RIOTS rpHE conscription act of March 3, 1HH a-contained ono clause which cost in llos In New York city four months latfl It was provided that any man, after beta drafted, might procure exemption from I ice by the payment of $300. The act was vltrorotislv ns.illed aJ I constitutional by tho opponents of the Wl ministration, who asserted that the 'l emptlon clause was a flimsy device fH enaonng tno rich to evade service. Anwi thoee who udonted and nroclalmea W Views wan Clnvernnr fiAvmnur nt Vew Yorl State, who seems nlso to have represent tho attitude of many prominent men I New York city. Among tho people tW was much agitation It was obviotu tijj the average drafted man could not $ $300 to procure a substitute It Indeed, only the rich who could afford W' buy their freedom from military service. On Saturday. July 11, tho draft Ut without much opposition In New York J' ono nf the, enrollment nM1i-A In th BtrOBTf Democrntlo Ninth District. On SuncW some drafted workingmen, aided by a nt bep of nolltlcal nsrltritnrfi. fnmented the ft" content of tho populace and organized nnnnalllftn ,n a...!,.. A.. -,. n m ft " renewed at 10 o'clock Monday morning", Mj the assistant provost marshal's office j soon attacked, demolished and burned of furious mob, which, after overcomloi squad of police sent ncnlnst It, roara" about the city. Frenzied by excitement drink, the rioters committed numberl outracea. Declarlntr that tha negroes f the cause of the "abolition war," they Mj saulted. tortured and killed a number - fell Into their hands. Th Colored Orpl Asvlllni was hnrneil nn1 thA nfnceS Of I New York Tribune, one of the AdmlnUlnJ tlon papers, narrowly escaped destruction 1 On Tuesday the mobs, Increased In Pl ber, continued to pillage, sack, burn' J1 Kin, tnougn in many districts tney " sharply repulsed and partly dlsperwu thA nn.llA anA mllltln Tt wn nnnOUA that the draft would be temporarily ' continued on Wednesday, Meanwhile " ments from Pennsylvania helped to dlspe thA mnba. TW HVid&v thA unrlslntr had V thoroughly suppressed. About 1000 "" had been killed and the property loss 11 r.nn ntin nn Ancniat 10. the draft V renewed, and tt was completed wIU further resistance within ten days. The act authorized the President tp crult the army whenever necessary drafting "all able-bodied mala citizens twoen twenty and forty-five. ThousJi naM their exemntlon money, and there such a demand for substitutes that nente ot the draft even went so isr attempt to import rnep, worn rei take JMjr place. " " JCT ? 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