n& t i...s. i v-. MC.UJJ ) Ludlngton, Vlea rresldsntl John sretarr and Tr-asoreri rhtllp S, V'onn ii. mmams, jonn j. Bpurgeon. heley, Director!. FUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY CTRUS It. K. CURTIS. PMtiDiirr ' WM frla TT T J feT t ' Kmi,ni.a'onn ? f , ft ,f- BUlTOniAIi I30ARD1 Sfff. K. WKAI.ET Editor ' ,,IWW c. MARTIN. .Oeneral Business Manager 1 .trubllshsd dally at Fcstto I.xnasa Hulldlng, r Indsnendenca fiauare. PhlladelnMi. fc-'.'('toB CivTSAt....T)road arid Chestnut Btreets wft ' .AsM-A urtn Pitt . . . . iiauaia. iia- ti..iui.. 8 B" Ttomx 200 Metropolitan Toww j'MTHOlT 403 l-or.i nulMlnr "V Bt. X-ODia 1008 Fullerton lIulMln. ,j unttBCsao 1W2 7rtrn Xlulldlng h ! news ncncAusi WAismaTOS Bohao. t AJ iubk, lIURMAUff 't'A AVBaLIN AluaKAU. many more boys than England an 'ul,y ns many aa Franco. . Th! la one sacrifice that America will not havo to make. Our boya will be, In n acnsc. the backbone of the next genera tion of world Inhabitant a solemn thought. It should nut upon their mettle alt paronta and teachers to Imbue In their boya the most mnnly, fearless spirit; for th6 contompotatics of f.ur younger gener. ntlon nbroad will havo bten, tried In the llro whllo American lads stayed at homo. Never was thcro a tlmo when tnero was Icsa excuse for coddling nn American boy. IN WHITE HOUSE? Not Such nn Idle Dream, for It la Symbolic of Senior " Service Corps i mr Hulldlng .Th Times nulldlng ''..-- YZZZZZ. I? u" ....ou tTiearicnsirat "i K .""n """" Aiarcnm Jimjie, mrsnd -iA'111 Bc"-n 32 Jtu Louts Is Grand ' "-ji ouirai.mniu.'i ifcluiH -",4i-,S.EI,,""J,,0 ,',t?" '" nrd to subscribers f, 'ii" Hi Philadelphia and surrounding towns t the 2$, I1..01 '"", " cents Kf week, payable lftf to tha carrier. ."r .."t.'V.'J i? poinis ouiije or rniiidflDhls. In k VI, Vntei States, Canada or United mates ro 'tf' loni. MiUro frje. nfty (50) c-nt pfr . -M mnnin. nit (in dAiitn .a. d.. .... t.i. V- ?, idrineo. " '"" "'""'" "' .V To all forelrn countrlo on rill rfniiar np '-j RDonth. Vv Noticb Bubserlbfrs wlhlilr BddrMt channd auuab ftivo via wtii as new aadreii. THE YANKEE SPIRIT IN DOWNING STREET E vnY tlmo Hngland shake? up her iti DELL. iW VALWUT KEVSTO."E. MAIX J0D9 ' fT AMrtat otj eommunkatlom o Kuralna litiOtT. Indtftndenci Square. Philadelphia. Sxtiiid at tiii rniTai.kt.rnu ronrorricn ai ICOin CI.AH MAIL MATTItn. rbll.ddphll, Mel)J7, July :), 1917 THEIRS IS THE ACCOLADE 'h !' 6.' 4 TTIVERY man who goes Into the new " army goes aa tho champion of every ( Other man's or woman's faith In tho processes of law and Justice. HH sacrlllcu ta great whether "ho feels tho thrust of German steel or German assassination, or merely performs from day to day tho tasks srsigned him. The dlsclpllno of tho camps will be rigid and severe Tho habits of years will bo broken. Men who have dawdled will work by the side of i1" 'VJ ftYien TChrt nlnfA Infrtnnv tmvn fnp.it atrilfr. ; " " j ... ..vu U.. .. S7 " " ' useu m n, a no man who IX&S i . .. . . ooasia six generations or American on- eestora will sleep In tho tent with the son ' ''Of the Immigrant who twonty-flvo ycari ago packed his belongings In a handker- tr kl ., li , l . - -. .y'i . uu" u"a nmiieiA in me sieerngo lor me jiiuiuiBcu ianu. waste dropped oui or tne nation when the draft was sanctioned and pure democracy took its place There Is none, wo trust, so selfish and o hardened that a senso of gratitude does Hot thrill him as ho contemplates tho upremo sacrifice his fellow citizens aro Biaklng, They are tnk.pi) from their np. pointed positions In life. Many will leave businesses which they havo spent their youth in upbuilding. Others will tako leave of splendid opportunities which their abilities oponed for them. A few a very few, we hope will be taken from their wives. It Is a violent cxerclso of Sovereignty to ask so much of men. It PWta a superb' definition of democracy and &&' an overwhelming evidence of the devotion uJt Inspires that the great public Itself EKalemanded, oven gloriously Insisted, that &sifthA r:nn(7rca nl.tn t.tu ...ot... ti"l --..o .,.. ....o j.untj. SuV ConscrPtlon y order of a Government, ,, wiiiiuul rignt, oi me people to oppose, la -A he conscription which has come down W$ thr0Ugh hlstory ns frightful, awful (fckl; " --0..v ......o uim JlffMJCII ki always uy a free people. But this democ- Etf' Iacy haa Given tho woid "conscription" KH t new meaning. It Is the accolado now f'4 -r Of eacrlflco and patriotism, tho beginning Of the sort of universal service that nhances a thousandfold tho might of democracies In war; guaranteeing, Indeed their permanonce, and answering In terms Of efficiency the taunt of autocracy that freedom breeds diffusion of strength and foreordains Its discing tn mnrtini ,.. u. W "' For thls Krcat truth la v,ta: 'no ndenoo throughout itho Engllsh-spcakltig world that a stronger leadership has been effected This mnllcablo condition of government Is In happy contrast to tho rigid German polity, which, when it shows tho slightest sign of a crack, threatens to go utterly to pieces. The American spirit can claim a greatly lnrrcascd sliato in tho guidance of Gcorgo of 'WlndJor'H realm In tho ap pointment of Winston Churchill, son of an American mother, and of Sir Eric Geddes, who served his apprenticeship in railroading on tho Daltlmnto and Ohio. Wo say 'an Increased share" becatiso Mr. Lloyd Geoige Is more llko nn American of tho now hchool than ho is llko nn Eng llshman of tho old school of statesman ship, lto has always been against tho Idea that Eton boys and Oxford grad uates wero tho only persons 'eligible to power, and tho hostility formerly felt In England against tho "little Welsh lawyer" and his aggressive, goMhcro attitude was tho samo kind of hostility that was felt against Americans. Mr. Churchill's father, I.otd Handolph, was the great Iladical of his day, and his son has kgpt up tho tindltlnn. Iladical In politics, ho ha3 also been ladlral In war stiategy. Trench warfare was as repugnant to him ns tho idea of it is to most Americans IIo wanted action; ho urged that Iirltnlii try to outflank tho Germans in Belgium, and If that could not be dono to outflank them at Galllpoll anything to (bieak through, however daring. PROTECT INDUSTRIAL WORKERS M rpHE rushing to completion of muni--I- tlon and other war contracts will bo accelerated with evory batch of 10,000 men wo send to France. By tho tlmo wo have half a million men In the field tho factories will perhaps be experiencing tho maximum strain. It Is well to prcparo In advanco for a sltuntlon that has pro duced many troubles In belligerent na tions. "A general remedial system must bo Instituted which will deal with tho pre vention of disease and tho tientment of Illnesses In their lnclplency," hays a writer In American Medicine. "A com prehensive plan will probably rcrulro Government authority In order to bo suc cessful." AVomen will bo called more and more Into Industry. With the development of tho draft, in tho event of a long war, women may have as largo a share In fac tory work as they now havo In Epglnnd. They must bo protected trom overwork and strain. In England tho most 7ealous ones wero often allowed to go too far; often a woman was found unconscious besido her machine. In tho end It was learned that this sort of thing had cur tailed rather tlinn incrensed tho output. It Is a lesson we must learn in time. Gov ernment Interference may not bo needed, but the Administration should bo pre pared with a comprehensive program for any situation that may develop. A FOOTBALL squad composed of Presi dent Wilson, Secretaries McAdoo, Lansing Baker, Daniels, Lane, Houston, Rodfleld and Wilson and Attornoy General Gregory and rostmastcr General Burle son sounds like a quotation' from Ger- trudo Stoln. It was not that prophetess of whirling words, however, who hit on such an nthletlc peisonneL The sane and adroit mind of Walter Camp, athleto and trainer-extraordinary, proposed It. "I will promlso not to scrimmage them," ho wrote to Congressman John Q. Tllson, of Connecticut, "but will take them through the hour's work. They will not mako touchdowns, but will shoulder again the burden of Stnto with renewed vigor. What they do they can then ask any man of forty-five and over to do. It Is not ns hazardous as testing a submarine or an airplane, but it might prove as great a gain for our country in the long run." Perhaps Mr. Camp's vigorous demand on tho President and hla Cabinet may savor, to the sluggish thinker, of Indig nity and frivolousncss But he wanted to pummel Into tho consensus of national Intelligence the realization that men of forty-flvo and over aro by no means scrapped In the war of the world. It was this feeling of his that tho youngsters who aro to trench ,'t are not the whole resource that led to tho forma tion of his Senior Service Corps. We all know tho sort of man who can benefit it and himself rugged, perhaps; vigorous, certainly; possibly a bit run down from too zealous addiction to work or to cock tails; patriotic to tho bono; interested be .vond all telling In tho Great Martial Ad ventuio. Sometimes this man let us term him Mr. Usual In nn excess of patriotic spirit Joins out with a, branch of tha sorvlco for which his yurs and physical stato unfit him. His country gains nothing; nay, It rather loses time and money on him. Properly exploited, with no sensational muscle-hardening stunts to face. Mr. Usual might do his bit sturdily and with finality. That Is what Mr. Camp wants him to do, and that Is what Mr. Camp is helping him to do. ,. Ml. f, t X S A Tom Daly'tv Column OUR ENEMY, THE MACHINE Slit Government has not called Its sons to Vvkif ' rvlce; Its sons have.called themselves. f&V Thlft In fhA KnHnrnat riAI 1. (.1 ... ,.. w.wmw 'V.Wl luu U1!U vvur, ever Known. aien have served In $(. little wars and hnri Hili- mn.v4 ne ,.. BifV T " i""1"-- :). ilUt these men nbn nnn rrn tn nr..n.. s til Mrvlce go to a great war, whero tho tall J Of hell lashes tho hillsides day and night I, and only the allant can withstand tho JJ "i ""!, wnero tno accustomed bravery nt I A !..- nAa l.n. V.. .1. ... I :a e urn ucuuuiu xne nauitual K routlno of the day and death has lost K&i. its atlng. To drive tho Moloch back pwg'jouth must pour Itself forward. That our wVAmerlcan youth proposes to do. confident -$$ ' it strength, suro of Its ability, ostab- B.t JS mmuillioHUll IlCVCr lO qUll ra 'Until the things on which its heart Is set 'Sit.' are fully and forever ntt.nlnnri TtTA ,m. n ,l,An. .1--.. . : 4w "j men mui inoso OI US rjiywho remain at home will do our share lvuWa shall eat lean nnrt wa Yiaii iAn i. wf-f V " . dvi inn EJjCKlf br so dolnor wn ran nM h.m n..- i&L ' :. r. .. . . :mtvuvt Diiuu iuw jnio mo national use i endless streams for their support, Into Red Cross we shall ihmw ivh ,.... $fnnda are needed to aid the sick and ',WF?unle(, We shall keep clear the high- Waya of supply. The days noV passing aro ' A v ,c'lt " "' American History, the I aya of which future generations shall ' (d for their Inspiration. Well may we flory In the spirit shown. It la a trumpet Sf, & to every sort of good citizenship. J 1 i ?T DO NOT CODDLE THE BOY ", - OYS who were in knickerbockers In wf 1914 ore In the trenches today, and i(wa are boya everywhere alike, them girthing; atartllnr In the report fijom nil' mat -uermany'a ttsswer to tho tad State draft Is the calling to the r of 2.000,000 youths." The boys of ana ranc6 nave been growlmr o,mi the three years of war, an.ct Mr bo voason '.to &eiive thai Gar- 'Jtaa1 a groater store of adolecwnU rnVHAVjaMyac, tka AAM km'Ufuwtm la ONE thing at least In this world of many surprises can always bo pre dicted with accuracy, having been re duced tn cold science. That Is tho speech of a German Chancellor. The latest example was well repotted in all English and American newspapers a week before It was delivered. Germany's alms and terms aro the ?omo as thoy always have been and aa they always will be until she Is beaten, If they wero capablo of changing thcte would never havo been any war. Tho wholo hopelessly complex German system Is llko tho "One-IIoss Shay," which Was no well mado that no pait of it could break down until tho entire vehlclo was ready to collapse. Militarism favored war industries to hucIi nn extent that tho most influential German business men wero nntunilly in favor of war. All the pro fessorships went to Conservatives, so that college men wero taught to bo Im perialists. Labor was unable to develop an independent character because the Government was always craftily nursing Into silence any elemont that showed signs of revolt. Even religion and art were standardized. There has been n good deal of exaggera tion about tho Prussian censorship and about what Germans are and are not allowed to say. It is a serious question it leading men in contemporary Germany feel thoy have anything to say that la worth salng. As a tip to tho London Morning Post, which laments tho abundance of "unslnkablo politicians," we suggest de tailing them to ocean carriers as' sub marine quellers. Tho wartime craze for new names prompts us to suggest "lift lassies" for Philadelphia's smart young elevator girls, whoso patriotic alms are at least as high as the top floor of our skyscrapers. It Is only to be expected that a sex that persists n making Itself thor oughly unoumfortable In "summer furs' should balk, as Kansas City's feminine Tullman car cleaners have done, against wearljig so sensible a working garrnent as overalls. At tho beginning of the war Ger man leaders talked a lot about "the necessity to increase our territory tn order that the greater body of the pro pie should h'aye joom to dcveloi We will, take .aa much land as appears to be necessary." Nont. appeals to be neceB ary nowj tharo art ti M xatMf Gar- .a am Tho Senior Service Corps has few frills and no follies. It doesn't demand stern military duties, nor does it try to mako a soldier-mountain out of i citlzen-mole-holo. Its suggestions on 'Uness (they aren't quite rules) are pithy, practical, yet peppy. Pithy, Practical. Peppy Hero aro a few: "Drink without eating, and eat with out drinking.- "Warm feet and n cool head need no physician." "Dress cool when you walk, and warm when you ride." "Getting mad makes black marks on the health." "When you rob the trolley company of a nickel by walking, you add a 'dlmo to your deposit of good health." "Tennis up to the thirtijs. but golf liner lony." "Too many drinks at the nineteenth holo undo nil tho good of the other eighteen." Similar sound-senso aphorisms, offored as a cure for mental and physical dls. turbances, include; "You can't bo taxed on cleanliness, perspiration, walking and deep breath ing." "Don't shirk, don't talk, don't worry, don't explain, don't knock, don't kick don't quit, don't loaf, don't lag, and don't rush." "Xaturo said: You must earn your living by the sweat of your brow,' and if you earn that living in some other way you must get tho sweat, or she will make you pay." The beautiful part of the corps Is the exquisitely clear-cut simplicity of Its re quirements. "Wo want men," it says In effect, "who are above military age; who 'wish to bo of service and will give their time; who will act as a body, not merely as individuals." The qualifications nro that they must bo more than forty five years of age, bo citizens of the United States, undergo a simple physical examination, and be willing to devote an hour a day three days a week to the work. No Spartan Regime Tho work's detail Is summed up happily In two terso phrases: "Ten to fifteen min utes' setting-up drill or gymnastio work; forty-flvo to fifty minutes' outdoor work." No c(lls of dreaded red tape; no Spartan regime that might wreck an oldish man's constitution through Its rigor, and most certainly would wreck his disposition. And don't think, Mr. Usual, that these demands will pester you In business or fun. They won't. Unlike the baby In the .Lewis Carroll classic, they "do not do It to annoy, because they know It teases," but because they know It will please any sane, ambitious, not-qulte-vet-eran patriot, Tho Camp scheme has been written for success since tho day it went into effect. It has registered as being not only effi cacious, but actually enjoyable, by a big majority of Its patrons. Indeed, tha list of prominent persona who are trying out the stuntB reada like an important dinner at the Bellevue Stratford. Professor Taft (not exactly a hthe man) Is one; Deiin Jones, of Tale, another. They will be come fit," as many others have grown "fit before them. They will see the value of shaving down the alcohol schedule and learn the pleasure of being kind to the physical temple of man. Even if war should cease tomorrow, they would have found and proved a new right to the Joy of living. Perhaps these middle-nged self-tralners will never carry a gun for America, or dig a single trench, or fire a cannon. But while their sons and nephews are attend ing to those duties, they will not be Ml. and unwell. Maybe "crabbed age and Vouth cannn live together," but ", a4 yeuth,- . r - . iMii- -. . -'-- . -" Shanahan'a Otild Shebeen THIS Is to celebrate a Jovial singer of whom Philadelphia knows little, but of whom she should take some notlco; and to give to thfl keepers of scrapbooks one more chance to preserve a classlo In rhyme, which for some unaccountable reason has never been given the perma nenco of publication tn a book. In the early nineties n black-haired, well-set-up young man blew Into Philadelphia from somewhere In tho world outside, carrying' a brand-now suitcase, which bore the Initials J. G. B. The suitcase, aa wo havo said, was now; and, since everything else about him was a bit shop worn, this newness was painful. When he applied for a Job he waa conscious of It. "You'll maybe bo thinking," said ho, to the man to whom ho was offering his services, "that I'm after lifting tho bag gage of James G. Blaine. My name is John Gerald Brcnan, with one 'n,' if you please." Now tho gentleman who engaged Brcnan and for whom tho lad worked for a year and a half or more is still In active newspaper work In this city, but ho looked blank when we mentioned the name to him yesterday. Brenan has passed out of memory. Few of those who wero his mates on the local staff of the Record twenty years ngo can recall him. Our owp recollection of him Is not very deeply nfhecL He "had n way wid him," ns his .pwn peoplo say, for he was no "second crop'V he seemed to be "of tho quality " but we never heard him talk of his family. Wo nover mot any one who could be sure what had becomo of him. Wo heard samo years ago thnt he had been killed by a 'rain In Pnddlngton Station, London. Wo only know that ho left Philadelphia In 1S9G and that about that tlmo Puck published this human bit of verse: kip ffi "jsgrwfg V- v "IF THE CIVILIANS HOiiD 'OUT ' It Is the "Folks Back Home" That the Army De pends on to Help Them to Win Through By GILBERT VIVIAN SELDES Special Corrttpondent Everttnt Ledger "PROVIDED JL 0 " tho civilians hold out ..n BIIAXAIUWS OULD fifEiJBJJ.V This is the tale that Caaaidy told In his halls n-sheen with purple and gold; Told as he sprawled in an easy chair, Chewing cigars at n dollar a pair; Told with a sigh and perchance a tear. As tho rough soul showed through the cracked veneer; Told as he gazed on the walls near by, Where n Greuze and a Millet were hung on high, With a rude little print in a frame be A picture of Shanahan'a ould shebeen. "I'm drlnkin' mc mornin'a morntn'iut i it doesn't taste th' same, Though the glasi is ft) finest crystal, an' th' lienor slips down like crame; An' mc cockney footman brings it tn on a soort of a silver ptatel Bhorry an- bitter it is: xohlshkey (s out iv date. In me bran' neio brownstone manshln Tiff av"noo over th' way, Th' Cathaydral round th' corner, an' the Lord Archbishop to tay. Sure I ought to be sthiff wid grandeur, but me tastes arc mighty mean. An' I'd rather a mornln's mornin' at Shan ahan'a ould shebeen, "Oh! well do I mind th' shanty th' rocks, an' th' field levant, The dirt floor yellow wid sawdust and th' toalls on a three-Inch shlant. (There's a twelve-story 'flat' on th' site noo 'ftt-a? mesclf that bullded th' same, An' they called It 'The Mont-morlncV though I wanted th' good ould name.) Me dinner pail under me oxther, before th' whistle blew, I'd banish th' drames from me eyelids wid a noggin' or maybe two; An' ohl it was th' litigant whlshkeyits like I have never seen Etnce I went for me mornln's mornin' to Bhanahan's ould shebeen. "I dlsremember th' makers I couldn't tell you th' brand; But it smelted like th' goolden sunlight, an' It looked and tasted pr-and. When me throat was caked wid morthar an' me head was cracked wid a blast, One drink o' Bhanahan's dewdrops an' me many troubles were past. Thafs why, as I squat on th' cushions, wid divil a hap'orth to do, In a mornin' coat wid velvlt, an' a cham- pagna lunch at two, Th' mom'ry comes like a banshee, meself an' me wealth between; An' I long for a mornln's mornin' in Bhanahan's ould shebeen. "A mornin' coat lined wid velvlt an' me ould coat used to do Alike for mornin' an' evenln' (an some times I slep' In it, too); An' twos dlvlla sup lv sherry that Shana han kept no fear; If you couldn't afford good whtshkey he'd take you on trust for beer, Th' daclntest gang I knew there Mc Carthy (Blnathor since). An' Murphy that mixed th' morthar (sure th' rope has made him a prince),. You should see 'em, avic, o' Sundays, wid' faces scraped an' clean, When th' boss stood a mornln's mornin' round Bhanahan's ould. shebeen. "Whisht I here comes his Orac&s car riage; 'twill be lunch time by an' by An' I dasn't drink another.'though me throat is powerful dry. For I've got to meet th' 'Archbishop I'm a taoorcr now no more, jsut o' ft one; lad, an' ' sore. An' whisper there's times, I .tell vou when I'd swap this easy chair ' An' th' velvit coat, an' th' footmin', wid his Bassenach nosa In th' air. J-Hn th' Lord Archbishop himself, too for a drink o th' days that ha' hJ bMror.tV'cwt o' ajnornin't mornin,' to 1 these were fine times then, n' to talk & 'em makes ,. ew makes me Tho phrase came first from tho French, and Barrcs has made It the Utle of one of his books, "Pourvu que les clvlles tlen nent" Later another expresrion waa given to tho same Idea by, I think, Sir William Robertson, who answered a ques tlon concerning, tho war with these words: "Why do you ask mo, who am con cerned with only 25 per cent concerning a thing which deponds on tho 75 per cent tho people at homo?" From the diy ten million Americans registered in preparation for calllng-up, tho center of gravity shifted to the ninety million who did not register. The disposi tion of the ten million is in tho hands of the authorities. But the control of tho ninety million is, with duo allowance for children and Incompetents, In tho hands of thoso ninety million. That, at least, has been the experlenco of England, and ono of the things tho ninety million in America can do Is to scan tho record of tho British civilians, to avoid their mis takes and to tako cheer from their suc cesses. Becauso, on tho whole, it Is a cheering record. Tho civilians havo held, thoy have stood tho frightful gaff of three years of war nnd tho signs are that they havo still plenty of staying power in them. Their lot haa been easier than that of the French, Immeasurably easier than that of the Germans. But their spirits never were supple steel, to tho French had all the ndvantago of rcslllcnco; nnd they were never taught to lie down and shut Up, so tho Germans had the Inestimable ndvantago of training. And yet tho Eng lish havo hold. Their senso of humor has dono It. (I know this Is a shocking statement, but It is true.) At a dinner party tho other night I licsrd nn officer on leave remark that when the war ended, ten years hence, some peoplo would positively miss It. "Ten years?" queried nn old professor, for whom that seemed tho allotted span of life. "Why, my dear fellow, somo of us vill Just bo getting used to It and know how to livo with It then!" And this man had told mo, not an hour before, of the tragic death of his son In the flying corps. Tho sense of humor is not the thing which cracks Jokes about tho war, al though there Is plenty of that. It is the senso of proportion which enables so many hundred thousands to seo that their losses are parts of an awful and lrrepara bio disaster. They feel their sorrow quite as poignantly as if a railway accident had snuffed out tho life of a dear one; thero is no callousness to the blight of death. But no bitterness can enter In, becauso peoplo havo learned to think of themselves In their social relations as well as In their personal relations. It Is not likely that a mother who loses a son thinks deeply of "tho State"; but It is certain that sho thjnks of all tho mothers who havo lost the sons of Britain In tho war and, If she is heartbroken, sho Is still capable of pride. Enlisting for a Lark In tho way of Joko humor many things coino up. At a tribunal recently a man was asked why he didn't Join' tho army. "What!" he replied, "Join the army with this bloody war on!" That Is, of course, an attitude which many people will appre ciate, but It is uncommon. The more ueual sentiment is that of a friend of mlno, one-time grain merchant, who was kept out of the army In spite of violent efforts to get in, until three months ago. I saw him Just before he went off to France, and he mixed me a cocktail of British and American slang, like this: "This Is tho life, eh, what, old kid? Bellovo me, I'd never have heard of tho merry old army if It hadn't been for this ruddy war, and think what I'd have missed! I tell you, civil life is a washout after this. Cut tho stuff about what wo'ro fighting for. I tell you, I like it for itself alone.", I wished him good luck in France, and then I thought of some thing which hadn't occurred to me before. Whenever soldiers nnd civilians are to- it- ika str gethor the soldiers always w.i " vies "good luck." And the civilians smile and look a bit sheepish. The civilians need tho wishes, becauso they are not under orders nnd can bo as cantankerous as they please. They can "grouse" at tho Government nnd nt the food controller and crltlclzo tho higher strategy of the war because It deprives them of mashed potatoes on Friday nights or cuts down the sire of their saddle of mutton. The soldier grouses at tho mud alone. Yet, to the' civilians' lionor be it said, those at home havo schooled themselves modoratoly well in discipline. Tho more fact that voluntary rationing 'in bread stuffs has actually cut down tho bread con sumption to tho point whero official ra tioning may bo unnecessary is an Indi cation of what a democratic people can do when It makes up its mind. But I am not so much impressed by tho mere bearing of discomforts, becauso every man in the British Isles has before him every day pitiful and striking examples of those who have borno worso and will bear worse to tho end of their days. You can hardly pride yourself on learning to eat porridgo with salt instead of sugar when jour neighbor Is humbly learning to cut his meat with ono hand instead of two. Physical sacrifices are trivial when they are made by those at home. The thing on which tho civilian population of Eng land can bank is the temper in which it is taking theso stressful months. The whole world Is In an agony of doubt; everywhero tho old question returns, Can it be donc7 How much longer will It take? "Will thero be anything left of us when It Is done? Will It be a good pence, after all, when peace docs come? These questions nro everywhere, and the most thoughtless must glvo heed to them. And every day there is another tug at tho taut string of their emotions. Tho string does not snap. There are precious few signs of "nerves." Peoplo talk more about themselves, peihaps, than thoy did beforo tho war, although I am Inclined to doubt tho stories about "silent Englishmen," unless they referred to a small and unimportant class. But It is the fact that they aro still not afraid to talk about themselves, to show you how much they feel, which guarantees what can be said of them. The cards of their emotions are on the table nnd you cannot detect a false one. How One Woman Felt About It A woman whoso husband has Just been called up told mo what sho felt. I think she was trying to prevent me from feeling cut up about his going. "I am sorry Philip is going." she said, "but I feel Jus as I always did when he went off on long trips to South America, Of course, I think of the danger of his not coming back; I'd hato myself If I couldn't bear to think of it, because he's bound to think of it, too. I suppose I'm very like most of us. When Jhe war began I knew nothing about it. I was for England and against Germany, llko the rest. I won't bother you about the sepa rate phases read Mr. Britllng or some thing because I went through tho usual experiences. Phil was for Joining up at once; I kept him back. Ho told me in a half-Joking way that ho wanted to go out and fight so that Phil, Junior, would be able to row Jn the eight at Oxford twenty years from now and not havo to pay Ger man taxes on his home in Surrey. "Well, now he's going and he's happier I m not happier and I suppose Ihall be rather miserable at times. I don't think I shall be particularly proud of Phil un less he does something specially note worthy; and It certainly will not be any consolation to mo if ho gets wounded or worse to know that it was for the right side. Ira simply praying that he'll come out of It with tho lucky majority. If he doesn't-I-well, I don't want to talk about it any more. But I think we'll all see It through, and I'll be Just like the loei-rSa? " h8rd t0 "ay "G HEAvi!NLY., THILLS OF Vw The heavenly hilla of HoMan How wondroualr they tlaf Above the smooth green aeade-. J Tntn 4fiA aMA 1l.t . " M With blue and purple hollows. With peaks of dazzling enow, Along the far horizon They march serene and eto, No mortal foot haa trodden The summits of that range, Nor walked those mystlo valleyo Whose colors ever change: Yet we possess their beauty,' And visit them f.n dreams, Whon the ruddy gold of sunset From cliff and canyoivgleams. The old Dutch painters leved thm. Their pictures show them clr urn MODoema and RuysdaeL Van Goycn andVermeer. Above the level landscape Rich polders, long-armed mills, Canals and ancient cities Float Holland's heavenly hilla' Henry van Dyke, in Harper's Maga,! q AN EARLY PROFITEER A thousand years ngo, and three yau, a over, one or those who sat In hleh u. .4 took advantage of tho necessities of tha 'I ,,tU,z.c ...,u wiuncu uis xooa supply, Th had been a protracted period of r&ln u'Sfl Mainz, the harvest was ruined and famt.- M followed. The peoplo were perishing with uuiiKur. n But. as the story goes, the gransjlul ui .uiBnujj riiiiLo were overflowing. Hi had gathered grain during tha years of plenty, and he had enough to feed h .tn. population. Naturally enough, the popuii. Hon r.imA in him in u tA rr.i . $ - "" "- "ey worried n hla lnrrtshln with ftiol,. In...,...i I r v..w.. .wui tuniueg. So, according to the legend, he gathered thm all together in a big barn and set flra i the barn. nr t9 ' That was the end of the people, but thw M rats also wero hungry for the cr.iin ..i M Hatto couldn't get them to go Into ai empty nam to be burned. Finally th 1 chaser! him frnm hla ,!- , .'! inef .'I . ... ,'n.ui.c, ana n tCOlC M refuge In his strong tower, built In th. .1 ITlMrllA nt h Phln. TJ... .1. ' -. '" ln 91 ,,,,u..u w. x..w A. .11,,. UUL LIIH r.iTa DniM L. rler, stormed the tower, and ate Hatta 1 l,n Qa v,n.,ntl, .......11. -.a t "" M " -' ii( i.iruiini is tno storr H that tho tower Is called "The Rats' Towet" 3 ii una utty, A thousand years of unllft and .nti-v. enment hao passed since then, and it U W no longer likely that tho food sharks will U burn hungry people by wholesale to keen 91 tnem rrom eating tho grain. The modern -'l iuh. ,Min m ucvuma miiaer or manners i ho does not desire the lives of the populaca il but will be content with thi, ,: ', If thev havo nr mnnov thi la !.., ...Z Jll out. And such a campaign has been waea VI against vermin, that it Is highly Improbably ? that enough rats can bo mustered to do th justice xnai was aone to natto. The only thing wo can do Is to prevent the Hattos of the present time from hoarding 'tha food from the people. How strange It seems that the people, who have this power should allow the friends of Katto to do his work by obstruction and delay to represent Hatto, and not the people. In the housei of Congress Cleveland Plain Dealer. HOOVER'S SINGLE-MINDEDNESS When Herbert C. Hoover has a Job in hand he Is apt to have a rather single minded purpose. In Belglufn he developed the Idea that the reason he was there wu to feed the Belgians. And that Idea wu a life-preserver for the Belgian people. Few men have ever had the temptation! that were given Hoover to throw down a task. When the situation became completely hopeless Hoover was wont to remark, "But we must remember that we are here to feed the Belgians." and grit his teeth, and go on working. Sometimes the provocations be came so Intolerable for some of tha'other Americans that after working upon one another's feelings they would decide that tha tlma hn4 .ava ... . .1-- ,.-. . - " vuuio iu diujj ine wnoio Dull ness as punishment to the Germans or to some set of persons. But it never went any further thnn that, for a few words from Hoover were always enough to put every body back on even keel nnd to cause them to wonder that with millions of Innocent lives at stake they could have thought of anything so preposterous as abandoning the great work they were privileged to share in. Hugh Gibson, in the Century. What Do You Know? n THE VOICE" OF THE PEOPLE Socialists With Anarchical Lean ingsSuffrage Pickets Viewed as Martyrs SOCIALISTS'- "DOLLAR MANIA" To the Editor of the Evening Ledger: Sir I would like to answer J. McMullen. who comes out so nobly In defense of So clallsm. f lt,wero not for law and order this nation (or any other) would not be a fit &m d?'C2' i"u The whoI tMe Is that lots of Socialists would tear this na- dZd''0? h"8 T 5 the other' " t?; fnnf't.1 have 5eard Soclasta talk, and all of them are forover knocking our laws and Institutions. These people nerhans are the Ignorant followers of Socialism and nrt5rHawl?.untU toay Blvo us a be tw idea and drop the anarchlstlo principles which a great many have in their heads. Socialism is a curse under Its present workings. What better form of government ,..,., you live under than we have here in imr tea? Does not the whole worm 'look t0' America for guidance and Justice? untn n"Z?Aet bhrlgnter P01"6 ln mU an? So" people who curse a man who has a few more dollars than you have (this see to be the Socialists' mania the doHart then perhaps you might get more converts' ..Ji.8'5 a scla,lst th other day what under the sun he was aiming at, T whal Rn r.med- He rcpl,fd' "AH wecan get!" 80 here you have it. u ... . 'AMERICAN ON GUAnn Philadelphia, July 22. UAKD' SUFFRAGE AND MARTYRDOM To the Editor of the Evening Ledger: Sir The whole suffrage picket altiitnn carries with it a sense of strajUH m ? ." arity. It Is. but history Acting , r In our age as In the ages pa.t Theia im! prisoned women, our friends. atanSin. justice and liberty aa theh- conscUnca r tates, are, but the repetition h2S2utt other brave soul who down ASL?0' centuries have hung on crosses and riw beta..who hava haan th-.. " "..V? 'D- or aufferad wh.t.v tZZl' ri.T,M ta A:... t: -iL:r"'.-r "", lnes an ,,.......-, . ment.Ttoned sawn Rr8 a,n1 '"Wlson swords. &Sn.""?iri "ta with the - luiineniea. idrr"1" th" word, of th happenings! Toiay as i ,? pres?nt;J: of hope tn.r.ff B thrill ned torn. ,3 .1" ,"""" wn.se W are privilege 1" "lw"ln.? ot lay of turned toward tho daw, . ey,es fuller nrivlleee tT J"? of a. ay Prison far v.! ""'"" l"e world over. freedom areVu ?'. irsrta 'Personal signs of that inwart .n?rinfJ?tan1 vlslbl8 which our fri.n. a. "P".1 kingdom for To this country la arivVn X na tunlty of watching El '5 rare PPr made simultaneous fortht"81?"0"8 democracy. One und.S ... fxte,nsln of tag drums and alUhe hnSo? ,Wlth beat" great nation can o ,T an1 reBaIIa a faring forth to a great causTV'3 l0ns under torn banners, with volt!cnhe ,tner' advocates tho daughters of iB"e.nced' ,,s looking out upon th. waVM1 natlon' serve through prison bars ?t remVuW .rthe light of .Cttft Beverly. N. j.. JulyJJARY v-ORICG QUIZ 1. Who Is now Tremler of RusslaT 2. Where did the peace formula "No annexa tions, no Indemnities" originate? 3. Which Is farther north. ChlU or Tern? 4. What Is a, plateau? ' & Can a drafted mnn now enlist nnd pick the ae?1"?1 se"'te ln which he prefers U 6. Can U-boats aubmerre to the bottom of ths l ocean, or Is thero a limit nnon the dl- .3 ince tney are able to sink with safetr? 53 .. tnai is a danker? S. It is proposed to use falcons In war. new M..u iiii t-oiuu mis mra do oi use as an a attnt of destruction? 2 0. Where is Catalonia? 10. When was the first raclflo Railroad opened, , llnklnc the En it with the Kar West? 1 Answers to Saturday's Quiz I 1. Eldritch Is a Scotch word, meanlnc wetii. , 2. Quintllllan. the l.atln author, declared tha j v "warfare seems to slfnlfr blood tai Iron," tho phrase quoted by Bismarck. , a. nejkjavlk Is the capital of Iceland. 4. Thy present Kins of Sweden Is descends! from Charles John Iternadotte, ono of Ma poleon'a generals, B. The celebrated actors Edwin Forrest and Jf seih Jefferson wero born In l'lilladdphl. 0. Pickett's rhars-e was made by the Confed erates nt Gettysburg on July 3, 1803. 7. Robert Iluchanan bitterly attacked Swia; burne. Jto.scttl and William Morris an declared that they belonged to the "Fleso ly School" of isnrllsh poetry. 8, John Fitch built the first steamboat Ii America. The shin made regular trips be tween Philadelphia nnd Trenton on to Delaware River In 1700. 0. Tho Talmud Is the monumental work which cont&lna thA Ju-tcti .tmriltlAiial nr Aral laws and regulations of life explanatory to tho written law of the Pentateuch. 10. Kentucky la an Indian word meaning "dark and bloody ground." WHAT IS A MAN? What Is a man? How mnh i. ,. from a aeientinc .tandpotatT h he WOrth maWwo?.nWjr5ViMda,nVat "' a shoulders down and anywhe f h.? hls to U.000,000 a yearShT.W50'000 The scientist. howe'lJoks a? thA" Up tlon from another anirl a ?, tho -ues-a man is worth i it i forh,0?1"8: to him. poses, since iV'iS"' W: contains 3B00 cubic feet nt Punds gen and nitrogen In hU J0.m?Jfn' hydr at 70 cents per 1000 ub, f"0"' wl"ch price above. ubl feet iuals tha Furthermore, It makes h. sour a man rnay look h. rl!Seiience hw sixty lumps of sugar a - -ntf,M ab"t chloride of pota8h?maftgatdea'ottarch hydrochloric acid In his svat l?vhur anl l':,wJ;'5HrH'''""'k cynical answer of one sciential "newhat "Break thA ... '5,'n.,lne mam i fcn. .- '. :vr """ ot iooo ..'... ? t&O stoat daiiAit. .3tJ?nt hla toe tun. .'." WHH A kl- . " " Msec "--- - --" - mm iwaUL' k 2 rT, t A turn A Ticic r. A nrM uftinftftiuo unuuriN jfj iriUKTi-six years before the Revolution J- John Bartram owned .a farm In what Is now West PhliadelDhla. He waa a Friend. One day, resting from his plow ri Under a tree, he pulled i daisy to piece. l ana, onservlng some of the more obvious vj marvels of Its construction, suddenly awokf to a consciousness of his pitiful ignorance jfM oi me vegetable wonders in the midst or j which ho had lived and labored from child- Si hood. This discovery was the Inspiration 'i which in after years made him the greatest r Doiamsi in America. Bartram flourished to a green old age (like his garden) and, according to Jama Parton. ln hla "Ufa of Thnmi. .rTraon., he died upon the approach of the British fii army, durlntr tha rtAvniiitinnai-v war. of ! terror lest tho pride of his life should h j iiumpieu inio ruin Dy the troops A traveler has left us a nlcturesaua aOv count of Bartram's way of life. Mr, Bar A Irnm Vila .. t.i. .. n. .iA.,as im "71 feucai,, mis imniiy ana n's p.avji s au sai aown 10 one large table well etorea j rttV. . .V.nl A An A J .... . -. .k ill ...... nuuicauilia JOOU lOO SiaVOS Bl " ll fOOt Of thA tnhlA "halrtw V. .al Cnrna T of the slaves whom he had freed remain hi wun mm until nlB death. Thero was a lot Of hard WOrk to ha rtnn tn turn thla lnw- Jylng rlver-bank farm Into a garden. ThfJ ww Biuuiiua. ai nrar a awAmnv bah. naa to be reclaimed bv rlmlm-p-. ai-a itr-hlnt . Tha elder Bartram waa hum in 1701 hlsi grandfather with his famitv tmvieV eoraafl from Derbyshire? England, with the 'fl J loieera of Penn about the time of thtV'1 fOUndlna- 'nt Thllft.li.in iii. wfl. a! liam. was born in .itsi, 't- its . Al.tAI . I" -.V . 1 ' " TlVS- r:J?1iJ'.,,.f'r,oi ootanV:lB the unw
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