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July 2t. 1417 V. if GOETHALS AND SHIPS OR DENMAN AND NONE? m - k W kr. - raw. t-Sr llij BK-tf SfAB i . -'.'' leant Insisting every day upon -very p NORAMA OF scrap ot tneir constitutional iu upon a few unconstitutional rights thrown In for good measifre. Ho prefer to have militant picketing tho Whlto Houso entrance, becauso It produces the Impression hero that thcro Is no serious military business on hand. As between long and short speeches confusing a war Issno with rt moral Issue In tho Senate, ho prefers tho long speeches. In fact, so easy Is this Kaiser to plcaio that It Is a wonder ho docs not got along hotter at home. ilONFUSION as to tho extent of sub- marlno ravages arises from two prl uary causes: flrst, because somo esti mates lncludo tho weight In tons of both cargo and ship, whllo others lncludo only the ship tonnage; secondly, because the censors, with their usual stupidity, liavo Insisted on tampering with tho returns. "Whether tho monthly losses aro 1,000,000 cr 600,000 tons, or less, tho fact remains that tho submarine Is tho only scrvlco arm In which Germany now excels, that her hopes of ultimate succesH depend wholly and solely on tho submarine, and that, with tho elimination of that monace, her final defeat becomes purely a question j I ' at time. The public Is not informed of tno many and feasible devices which American and foreign inventors have proposed to defeat the submarine. They may or may not bo successful. Recent experience, however, indicates clearly that transports can sail With comparative safety under convoy. The methods which have rendered the English Channel virtually safo may bo xtended, at frightful expense, to render all seas safe. But whether these expert nients succeed or fall, the one big, out standing fact is that tho tonnago of the World has been materially reduced, that It Is not sufficient now to meet tho cxl- ,v. Kencies oc war, tnat it would not ie sut- Af;itflclent to carry on ordinary business In ft'titne of peace. . The President a few months ngo sum moned General Gocthals, told him tho con- p - anions or affairs and asked: "Can you i&Ai. take control of tho situation and give wir-i us the ships we need?" Tho man who had built tho Pnnnma Canal was not to 'ifck. .- .. J U.. .1.1. ..!. .T , ...... ; ' JVO BIUIU1JCIA uy 1111.1 uizm. iiuuvutiuu mui he could. He ventured tho opinion also that It would not have to bo a makeshift fleet, to be discarded after tho war nnd left to rot. Ho would build ships of wood 'where such construction was possible, but for the great mass of tonnage ho would Cepend on standardized steel vessels. Ho Consulted with makers of steel nnd build rs of ships. Tho former agreed to fur nish all the material ho needed; tho latter were ready to Join with him in tho Imme diate construction of huge shipyards. A ilte for one of them was found on tho Pelaware, immediately adjacent to the avy yard and tha great "VVestlnghouso t , , . ra vuBtiio iiiiuib F"S -....- . .. . to ' nn nan a nunurca wooaen vessels ! provided for and every detail arranged f$i-- for a .truly miraculous construction of WJ , -i .uin. r-.M.-i s-..i., . aicci cmiiJD, uuiiviui uueiiium unnuunccii that the time for action had come, that ho was ready to award contracts and 4hat Atf(H'(Vlln rp fart til at n Aaa .la,.. ... ..1.1 ?? WJ w"o "" w uaja wuwiu k7 e numming in xypicai American roshlon. tj The General, however, had reckoned jr$! Without one Denman, a lawyer, who In pBT limes ot piping peace naa Deon appointed S'tVef , tn one rut ft. nnt In hnllH Cln-vnrmman amnu p'vjiyi Xlio lawyer did not like tho vigorous fiW' memoas or. tne uenerai. wny, tho latter hJZ " going ahead as if the main purpose f"v1fa tQCet ships instead of political capl- HjiaAdy jj'jr'feir!!! He was disregarding red tape. He ffiMjnu paying no attention to Donman's Brvfc1ends and mighty little to Hcnman him- ,V" self. Soup Jumps tho lawyer and bjds the C.. n.na.al rinnllinla 1. n m ,.wl,lan .Via T1h..I 4'v; """"" -"-- - .. ':fent to say tnat no win get out or the way " ''.vW n..aaat-1 in ntrnltrtitnn TnnttAr. nut tTn FK-ftifi ?& 'MMBt not be permitted to get out of the Li&.. mrmv. for hla venv la tlio Arrtftrlnnn wrav. ar 'vrr - - h -ainii hi mAthnda flra thn mnthnfla thnt 'will defeat the submarine and uproot tjuokerlsm. The whole country, there- expects wie i-rtBiuuiii. a iui in lr & 'v,f&Vrnment squarely behind General tthals, to bid htm go ahead, to take the rtr of obstruction out of Denman's ' and give the signal for action. alQoethala we shall get ships; with ,we would set delay and excuses. RUSSIA RUSSIA emphasizes ono thought for tho United Stntes, ond that thought Is "Hurry!" Itevolutlon Is soldom orderly. Tho cataclysmic upheaval which drove tho Czar from his throne, tho Immediate success of tho movement, started currents which cannot bo stayed within a few months. It Is a mhnclo that Keronsky has been able to bring anything llko order out of tho confusion. Thero Is a conflict of "Isms" at tho capital ond throughout tho land. They strive for liberty, but each by a different rond. It would bo criminal for this nation to trust too much to Russian arms In such circumstances. Wo must bo ready to win tho war without Russia's aid. Wo must go about our task on tho ns-uimp-Hon that Russia will fall. So much tho better If sho does not, but for tho Allies and ourselves thcro can bo no reliance on possibilities. If tho young democracy should bo deluded and cheated out of Its destiny, so much tho more Imperative Is it that wc In triumph should later como to its rescue, for it Is certain that noth ing is more Important to democracy In tho world than that Holy Russia should remain a democracy. IMMEDIATE KELIEF POSSIBLE Wi: Sl'GOr.STin) to Director Webster a few days ago that ho could very readily put nn end to tho debauchery and disgraceful proceedings which character ize tho Sunday excursions on ceitaln liver boats. During tho Ulankenburg admlnlstintlon thcro was tho same talk of divided authority that thcro Is now. Hut when It becamo evident that the Department of Public Safety could not mitigate tho nuisance, another depart ment was turned to for relief. Tho captains of the offending vessels were Infill moil by the Dltector of Whaivos, Docks nnd Terries that tho use by them of city piers would bo prohibited Imme diately unless law nnd order wore pre served at nil times on their boats. It wom a drastic threat and It produced results. Sunday river excursions ceased to bo-n disgrace to tho community. Wo trust that Director Webster will consult the flics of his ofllec and repeat the action that formerly brought Instant relief. THE SENATE LEGISLATES TI1I1 President urged that tho food con trol Hill be enacted by .Inly 1. It was passed Saturday by tho Senate, being loaded down with amendments, some good and homo bad, tho worst of the latter being a provision that thero shall be thrco food controllers. Just enough to make discord likely and prevent tho sort of efficiency which is so imperative In this crisis. Congress has been liberal with money. It has been mean and cowardly In Its efforts to weaken tho Pic&ldent's hands and compel him to wago war with the assistance of boards that spend most of their tlmo disagreeing. Wo question the wisdom of appropriating huge sums of money and refusing at tho samo tlmo to permit tho efficient expendlturo of this cash. Nothing so appeals to Congress aa divided authority. Tho Kaiser likes It, too outsldo of Germany nnd in tho ad ministration of his enemies' affairs. PITY AND SORROW The Great Army of Dead Which Stretches Across Franco From Mountains to Sea By HENRI BAZIN Staff CorretDOndfnt ff the Evening Ltdoer in rrunin I "UNIVERSAL LIABILITY" THE peculiarity of tho American draft has been tho changing phases and ap pearances tho system has undergono alnco tho President, In his war speech, sug gested that soldiers bo "chosen upon tho prlnclplo of universal liability to service." Now that it Is "all over" It will bo seen that tho results obtained are literally much nearer tills formula than any of tho lnflnlto, conflicting theories about con scrlptlon that were popularly advanced. Slnco every mother's hon In his best military years has been drafted, "uni versal liability" is a fact. Though a man's number bo tho 10,500th number drawn, still It Is his number and tho moral re sponsibility of giving his maximum of fcervlco clings to him. Too much has boon said of "lottery"; this Is not anywhero near so much a lottery as It looks. When thoso who are far down In tho list and aro thus apparently Immune for n year or moro begin to see men somewhat Inferior to themselves In physical and financial condition going about In uni form, they will not want to magnify their "luck." It would bo different if tho "lucky" ones did not know personally the ones whoso numbers came first. But there Is not a husky young man in tho country who does not know nt least ono man In tho flrst few hundreds drawn. PARIS. June 24. N THE north of France, from the sea to tho mountains of tho cast, In Pas do Calais and Flanders, In Sommo and OIso and Alsno, In Marno nnd thn Ardennes, In Meuso nnd Meurtho ct Moscllo and Lorraine, in tho Vosges nnd In Alsace llo hundreds of thousands of dead, tho flower and youth of France, nnd her sons of moro sober years, oven Into mlddlo life, who, with tho young nnd strong of Englaml and Ilclglum. have given their lives In defending honor nnd right against tho Invading Prussian from over tho Rhino. Among and about them Ho many nnd many of tho invading armies of Ger many, to rest forever beneath tho soil they have despoiled ond desecrated. They llo silently, theso men of four nations, mute emblazon of tho wickedest and most usclcis war slnco tho beginning of time. They llo In new graves and old graves, cncofflned and uncofllncd, singly nnd In group of companies side by side. Somo aro upon hillside and some In plain, In cemetery nnd farmland, In forest and In tho open; somo under f)ro still nnd somo far behind tho roar of heavy guns. All theso myriad grnvc3 aro marked In many beautiful nnd touching ways: thoso of France, vastly most numerous, with varied cross and without It. with pieces of shell nnd Btone nnd wood nnd metal laid flat upon tho scarred surfaco of tho earth or about a mound. Thero ore groups whero entlro batteries, killed nt their guns, aro hurled whero they fell, tho tricolor or cockade abovo them. Thcro aro slnglo graves of countless number and great graves were ono Immenso mound covers a battalion of men. Panorama of Pity nnd Sorrow They form an Immense panorama of pity and sorrow, carrying ns far as tho eyo can reach; nt closo range, with name, ngo, regiment, rank and dato of death Inscribed upon a slnglo cross or nn Im mense tnblet. Upon a certain hlllsldo hundreds of Moroccans; within a. certain plain hundreds of Senegals, each grave carefully marked with i-ymbol of a far off country and tho cockado of France. In common grave Inclosed in mute nnd tiny picket fences two or Ave or seven hundred uniformed dead of France, with a great cross towering nbove them nnd a great tablet by Its side. Js'ono is like nnothcr, yet all nro alike. Somo ore tenderly cared for, marked with fading flower or unfading wreath, tho loving personal tribute of wlfo or mother or sister. Theso aro far behind tho present battle line. Others havo hut tho barest essentials for futuro recognition. Hero nnd thcro, from Tpres to the sen, tho same, the sorrowful, pitiful same, save that tho tricolor of France Is re placed by the red cross of England or tho red, yellow nnd black of Relglum. And many, many German graves abound, each marked In the equality of death as carefully ns tho graves of young France. Hut tho cross Is black and of quite different form. Burials During Battlo And every day, every single day dur ing the last thirty-five months, even as today and tomorrow, this lmmonse silent nrmy gains recruits. Every day, some where in France, thero are scores and scores and scores of now-made graves, at times hastily mnde despite full rever once, mado almost In tho trenches their silent occupants died to defend. And sometimes, too, ditrlng tho lull In battle, tho period of comparative calm, thero Is tho sad honor of a little ceremony, a coffin, a priestly prayer while comrades stand with rlflo nt salute. Hundreds of thousands the flower, tho strength, the vigor, tho youth of four nations. From tho sea to the moun tains of tho Vosges, and from the moun tains of the Vosges to the sea, kilometers deep and kilometers long, testifying the eternal spirit of France, testifying tho multitudes of sorrow within myriads of hearts. You who read afar, let this sink into your soul In such imperfeet form as words convey. And ponder. This ruthless sacrifice Is the lntermlnablo slirtmo of William II of Germany, the oternal crime of Prussian militarism. Tom Daly's Column THE cow I Uke to icatch the, cow and think Of oil If means to vie. At home when I have mllfc to drink Or sometimes cream in tea Iiccausc I do not see the cow I never think about it But on the farm I tcondcr how R'c could get on without it. I stood for quite a uhilo today To see how milk is mode teafcheel a flock of coxes when thev Were feeding in the shade And thcu would cat some grass at flrst And then thcu Kent and stood Hight in the brook to cure their thirst And then then chewed their cood. And moit important it would seem Is this strange cood they chew Because it, turns to milk and cream As soon as they arc through. At milking time the farmer takes The milk and cream so sweet And with tho cream he often makes The butter that wc cat. So hero with milk and cream to drink And butter too you see I llko to watch the cow and think Of all it means to me. The Lnntcrn in tho Hay "And to read tho Xew Testament in haymows with tho light of a lantern, be foro rolling up in ono's blanket, must bring to ono all tho reality and polgnnncy of tho parables," says Harry Kemp In Tho Independent. Well, now, It might bring to ono "tho reality and poignancy" of that parablo which has to do with tho bundles of tares or was It cockle? thrown Into tho oven to bo burned. WHENEVER I catch myself forgetting that tho world must bo mndo safo for democracy I go out to the ball grounds nnd seo a coupla thousand voting citizens run a ball gamo. W. L. TO J. If all the suns lay dead and love Were eaten by corioding drouth. There still would be the memory of That little lyric thing, your mouth. And those felicities, your eyes, So faint and wan nnd fine with mist, Recalled, would rear a paradlic With memory as its rhapsodtst. Let fall the sky's old span of blue; Let all decay but memory's might. Your smile will form tho world anew, Your look will spur its pulse aright. CHRISTOPHER. The offlco boy said ho thought ho knew a coupla girls that would do, If there wasn't a mistake somewhere In this classi fied ad: QIHLS. experienced glrla to do amoklnn: ateady pot Itlotii Rood pay. Penn Tucking Km broidery Co. GEORGE BINGHAM'S Hogwallow Locals, particularly the ono about tho village musicians who "discoursed sweet muslo at the party within wishing dis tance of the Ico 'cream and cake," al ways got a laugh out of us. But Hog wallow Is sleepy in July. This tho first local from George's pen that we've coen In some time sounds llko an echo of tho song of Solomon: Frogs croak In the grass around tho pond ; the mud turtle suns Itself on a log; the grasshopper swings to tha top of a swaying weed, and the young squirrel feasts In a mulberry tree ; the cow, from exile, with a knock-kneed cnlf, that was expected last month; the bumblebee Is bumping about In his dally round of dis turbance, the Jaybird chatters In the cherry tree, and the catbird thlnes In the orchard; the top of a fisherman's straw nai is seen aoove mo nanus of a stream: the lliard goes round on the other side of the fence and the turtle dove sits on tho dead tree limb. do. Tho mailed fist has moro work to Slam has Joined the Allies. PHIL- FR(END Thcro Is somo reason to suppose that Russia also has a Scott Nearlng. Month by month tho business of the port shows ( extraordinary gains. Never before in Its history has tho Dela ware been of such uso to tho nation. v' , T TIB KAISER WANTS I ia aur.whatthe Kaiser wants ' Jkttt" K ia uy to define ,H;wnt Congress gavo tho money for air planes 'In a hurry. If thero Is no Don man on the board commissioned to ex pend It, probably we'll get tho airplanes. The reduction of ocean freight charges by agreemont among tho Allies la encouraging, but It Is worth while re membering that ordinary wages for sea men In these days would not bo alto gether fair. Doubtless tho new rates allow for liberal profits from operation. It may make Senator Reed uncom fortable, hut the President haa decided that he will not deprive the nation of the advice and counsel of Its leading busi ness men even to' please Missouri. The v r becoming: 'more and .icon nf.Wi' Jt.IfA. . aA J" a FERNAU'S PLEA FOR DEMOCRACY "Away from Hlsmarck I That Is the lesson of this world war for Germany. Justice and liberty, not blood nnd Iron, are the cement of modern fatherlands. Let vjs break with tho -development of the last century. Tho world war signifies the col lapse of a system and a spirit of culture that were thoroughly un-German; that Is, thoroughly Prussian. Let us Join hands with the other clvlllied nations of the world an peaceable, equally privileged and equally efficient laborers In the field of culture. No longer 'Dcutschland ueber alles,' but Ger many with and by the aide of all. Democ racy Is tho only possible, only enduring basis of the futvre peace of nations. On ward to democraVy!" Theso words, aston ishing though the fact Is, are addressed by a German to the German people. But It Is done from the safety of Switzerland, where the author, Hermann Fernau, now lives. The book from which the extract Is taken. "The Coming Democracy," will be published In this country In two or three weeks. It makes a Btudy of what the Hohenrollern dynasty, and the Idea of submission to dy nast la dominance, have done for the German people, shows how the war was the Inevi table outcome of the direction In which Ger many has allowed herself to be led by that dynasty, and pleads with the German people to cast aside the falsehoods that have blinded their eyes and to make Germany for the German people, not- Germany for tho dynasty, their aim. Ha begs them td establish a democratic form of government keeping the royal family for show if they must have pageantry and tells them that the reforms which he pleads with them to make are for methods of government and for social and political conditions "which in all the civilized countries of the world have for decades past appeared to the dullest peasant an understood thing." The original German version of tha book was published In Switzerland at the end of last February. Fernau once btfor orltlclztd taverely the government of his country In "Bseausa I am a German," which examlntd the accusation ZZl;Z2'ZZIa u toatZ'aiiirV r cr,M". " r y THE FLAGMAN There was a man, A poor Italian, Who had not been among Our people long, And tvho began '"Ho be American" In humble allocation jit Harvey Station On the B. and O. Not very long ago. His service was to render His days as crossing tender. An easy Job, thee'll say; And well, indeed, thee may, Far Harvey only knew A train or Uoo A day. The flagman might have kept Tho croMinp while he slept, But there was in hU breast A heart for beauty's guest That would not let Mm rest. And of his own accord From his own meager hoard He bought' the seed To beautify the bank That theretofore was rank With tangled grass and weed; And flowers came to bless His toil with loveliness, What may not such as he, Industrious and clever. What may he not endeavorT At least he will not be A menial forever. Already on his way, He's master of a store; Bo here's our wreath today To help a little more. a ANTONIO SANZONI W$t Union St. Wilmington, Oof. Food Administrator Proved His Courage in Boxer Uprising, When He Directed the Building of Barricades "T7IFFICIENCY receives his devoted serv- i-i Ice, but always with that discrimina tion that never loses sight of the human element of the people he Is working for and thoso thst are working with him." That Is the way Herbert C. Hoover Is described by Hugh Glbjon In the course of a thoroughly Informative and Intensely readablo monograph In tho current Century Magazine. 'Mr. Gibson should know what he Is talking about. During tho first two years of tho European war ho was the first secretary of tho United States Legation In Brussels, Belgium. So his data on Mr. Hoover nre first-hand, vested with authority of fact, finely appreciative personally, with out bias and without hyperbole. The question, "Who Is Hoover?" Is not asked often nowadays. It was naked often enough at tho commencement of our part In tho struggle of tho world. But now Mr. Hoover Is as widely known ns President Wilson. Just why ho Is so prominent It Is thn purpose of Mr. Gibson's story to tell. Food conservation Is but a part of tho narrative, for Herbert C. Hoover has played manv, vnrlcd nnd vigorous roles In his llfe-tlrama and that of our own and other peoples Some of the Incidents recounted havo tho warllko tinge nnd Illustrate ad mirably the fixity of spirit and the adher ence to purpose of the man. Caught in Boxer Uprising Here Is one, not, perhaps, ono of the most Important, but surely ono of tho most pic torial ever penned; "After a few years In Australia, Hoover was offered the position of director of mines of tho Chinese Empire His firm released him from his contract, ond hn started for China by wav of America in the spring of 1899. "The new position was about as Inter esting aa any that could fall to the lot of a mining man China had been mined for thousands of years, but always In a small nnd most primitive way. The sur faco had been scraped off and sifted over, but no ono knew what was underneath, and llttlo mining had been dono by modern methods. Neither had thero been any mining law In tho country, miners holding their temporary titles by favor of the crown or under tho varying regulations of the local authorities. So Hoover was called upon tn explore tho country, advise as to the development of Its mines and draw up a mining code to meet the needs of tho empire. This last was a task to stir tho blood of any engineer familiar with the hopeless and uncouth growth which con stitutes tho mining law of all civilized countries" Mr. Gibson goes on to (ttplaln tho fas cinating difficulties that beset tho Ameri can. "But Juot then his whole attention waB demanded for other troubles: tho Boxer uprising caught Hoover at Tientsin, Ho was recovering from nn acute attack of Influenza and about to start on a trip Into Mongolia. So ho was In tho thick of It, for In Tientsin there wa3 hot fighting for a month. It was nn active siege that would fill a book In tho telling of shells bursting In the houses by day and night, bullets kicking up the earth In the garden paths, nnd not a word from the outsldo world for weeks on end. And with It all was the knowledge that when strength or ammunition failed It was n Question of a bullet apiece as the easiest way out. "Hoover was there through It all only because ho choso to be. He had warning from devoted Chinamen concerned for his safety. Hut ho could not bring himself to run away from his Chinese employes, who had been faithful to him J he could not leave them to he dealt with by the soldiers of many nations who might not know how to distinguish between tho different sorts of Chlnnimn. As Mrs. Hoover refused to go alone, tho two stayed on, to care for a few hundred yellow men." Kept Calm Under Strain Follows a grimly suggestive sketch of the mortalities of those wild times: "It Is well known that In thoso hectlo days there was not always a fine discrim ination shown as to thoso Chinamen who were deserving of punishment and those who were guiltless. Hoover and a few others made themselves unpopular In certain high quarters by going twice a day to tho guard house nt 'shooting time' and rescuing such of the Chinamen as they could vouch for. coming back unnerved from the sights tney had seen." Now how did this disinterestedly pas sionate American meet the requirements of his task? We learn that ho stuck to busi ness with a firmness unmarked by any thcntricallty or exploitation of tho Hoover personality! "Admiring newspapers havo credited Hoover with directing tho military defense of Tientsin, but ho disclaims this. Ho had enough to do to look nfter the feeding of his hundreds of employes and keep them supported montnlly nnd emotionally under tho strain of tho rumors that flew about the place and the moro or less accurato knowl edge they acquired of nctual happenings. With nil his European nnd American staff he kept the ten-Hied Chlnamon nt work building barricades of rice and sugar sacks, bringing Ico and provisions from the ware houses on the other sldo of tho settlement, nnd constantly fighting fires. They mndo themselves generally useful doing what they could, so that the entlro force of 2.100 military men could devote their wholo energies to fighting. Even with that It was a closo thing, for It was all they could do to hold off the tens of thousands of well-armed, madly bravo fanatics who failed only becauso of their faulty strategy and tactics." Dynamo of Energy It Is not nil dark and suspense and tragedy, this story of tho American who now Is planning properly to feed America. The Shakespearean element of sudden and ludicrous comedy enters: " Hoover had a cow famous and Influential In tho community, and tho cow was the mother of a promising calf. One day the cow was stolen, and Hoover set to work with all his energy to find her. After a fruitless search through the town he had an Inspiration. He took out tho tiny calf, and by tho light of a lantern led the little orphan about the streets crying for Its mother. Finally, as they passed In front of the barracks of tho German contingent, thcro was an answering moo, and Hoover walked up and claimed his property. Tho sentry, disregarding Hoover's statements, countered with the Inquiry, 'Is that the calf of tho cow Inside?' Upon receiving an af firmative answer to his Ollendorf question he calmly confiscated the calf and sent Hoover home empty-handed. It may bo re marked In passing that this was Hoover's first passage at arms with the Germans, and that the Germans paid for that cow." Nothing quite so takingly original as this talo of the moo, the German sense of fair play and tho recompense Is contained In David Lawrence's "Hooer Comes To Town," In the New York Evening Post Magazine of July 21 But there Is much fnctful comment on the hero of the story. Mr. Hoover Is described as "modest buf aggressive, bluntly nssertlvo when neces sary, a dynamo of human energy a genius In executive organization." Sidelights nro cast on the personnel of tho Hoover bureaucracy: 'Thcro Is no rank In tho Hoover con tingent all aro aids, counselors, execu tives. Titles mean nothing, for each Is subordinate to tho direction nnd command ot 'the chief,' as he Is familiarly called. First, there Is Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, president" of Leland Stanford University. Wilbur happened to be In Washington at tending a convention of college presidents when asked by Hoover to take charge of a department of education on questions of food conservation. There was, for instance. Miss Sally Splint, of Today's Housewife, who brought a suggestion that was promptly acted upon for the mobiliza tion of the editors of women's magazines." Other biographical snapshots follow. But tho spirit of the controlling genius Is over It all. That, evidently, Is tho sort of man and mind that make up Mr. Hoover, tho "dynamo of human energy." u. D. THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE Mr. Moore and the Liquor Ques tion A Socialist's Complaint LJiMiSh Jgi agy .7!fc&y mSm- mm- G This Deportment free to all readers lono wish to eipreu their opltitona on subject) ol current interett. It ( nn open forum and the Kvenlno Ledger nasumea no responjlblllty tor (he vleioa ot its correspondents. Letters must be sloneil by the name nnt address ot the tcHtrr, not iiccessaHly for publication, but as a ouarantce, of good faith. MR. MOORE'S LIQUOR VIEWS To Ue Editor of the Evening Ledger: Sir What Is the reason for all the ten der care and sollcltudo for tho liquor In terests? J. Hampton Moore's tirade In your paper against the effort of tho tem perance people to save the food supply and the country's manhood by urging a restrictive liquor clause In the new food bill at Washington Is a glaring example of misleading arguments In behalf of the promoters of drunkenness. I am a poor mechanic, with little education, and must confess that I do not seo things very clearly, but utter amazement possesses me when In a newspaper articles are printed which seem to condone the whisky business. Every physician, every statistical taoie or health or Insurance company condemns liquor as a harmful ond dangerous quantity, Im pairing both mental and physical health. I work for a large transportation company, which not only will not employ a drinking man, but will discharge a man who even signs a petition of a saloonkeeper. Congressman Mooro'a chief fear pretend ed to be over the loss of possible revenue from liquor. Doesn't he realize that liquor revenue la blood money, coined from women's tears and half starved children; that the miserably poor pay the ble end of that tax? Doesn't he know that any community without liquor could pay nny necessary taxes much easier than with It? Let him Investigate and find out from some body disinterested who really knows; let him consult the mercantile agencies llko Dun or Bradstreet, who know, and have tnem ten mm, it tney win, of the Im mense economic Improvement In a com munity after booze haa been killed. They could tell htm that IB to 20 per cent more food, more clotbjng, more furniture, etc were purchased. I will not speak of the spiritual Improvement, In addition to the material Improvement, because a politician wouldn't understand. Have we no men at Washington brave enough, brainy enough to grapple with this problem and make the people see that In every way, economl cally. physically and spiritually, it Is for the" highest 'benefit to the country that llituui uo nuuiiDucuf C. J. WILKINSON Philadelphia, July 21. uw' A SOCIALIST COMPLAINT To the Editor of tht Evening Ledger: Sir in Philadelphia the other day thlr. teen Socialists wero arrested. Their onlv offense consisted In distributing a circular The circular Is called "Long Live tha Cnn stttutlon of the United States!" it quotes the thirteenth amendment as follows "Neither slavery nor Involuntary servitude except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted shall exist within the United States, or any placs subject to their Jurisdiction, The clr. cular makes the claim that this provision ts i" "J'!?? .r?szf Intelligence that this Is perfectly legal and orderly To pursuo such a course sets a good example as to how governmental busi ness should bo transacted. Nor Is there anything In the circular but what has been said over and over again from the lips of the founders of the republic to those of Speaker Clark In the House of Repre sentatives. But while this may have been the proper way to proceed In times ot peace. It Is evl dently not the way to do Just now. At least It does not appeal to persons of extraor dinary Intelligence, such ns some of Phil adelphia's policemen and Magistrates. That our policemen aro specially equipped to Interpret tho Constitution, and that local Magistrates are particularly competent to pass as constitutional authorities, goes without saying. The time has come once again for the American citizen to take account of stock We are at the parting of the roads. We can go back to autocracy, Imitating the ex ample of the German Government. Or wo can go ahead to democracy, following our ?innve,,e,de1t and keoplns steP w"h revolu. SSf,y IlVBf a' JOSEPH E. COHEN. Philadelphia, July 20. THE SUFFRAGE PICKETS To tho Editor of the Evening Ledger: Sir I have been a reader of the Eve ninq Ledoek for a ,ong time and enjoy the little letters you publish In the evening issue very mucrT, ar.d would like to put one fmv first one) In, In ansuer to "Rights of White House Pickets." by J, j. First of all, be an American. If those ,nTyosa irzi beab?,M!i!SJd- WHEN EFFICIENCY CHEATS DEATi Why Drill Officers Forco Their Men Q uo inc ucsi a nnt in in Them IN THE camps whero officers are betnjji trained nnd In tho huge canton.-!: whero presently half a million men inn bo undergoing the Intensive work tojnak soldiers of them In tho quickest nn...iJ rvBaiuut tlmo many a man feols and will feel re sentiui towaru nis superiors who are' doing tho training and think them unduW RAvern. catulaus anil ernrilnn .. should rend tho sk'etch entitled "Drill" la) uoya v-aoio s vicuon a ront," which tells ) about tho grilling and grinding to which' an Instruction sergeant In a certain artll-' lory regiment of tho British army vfa' jccieu ins uuuiunmeiu. Mr. Cnblo descrlhos hmtr Via -... .. -;J ., onal, meej with sarcasm and chastises thnm hiw h. , ...hi mi ii tonguo becauso they aro not quick enouh.'w iiuurs uii enu no iiceps mem at It anj. i anvil Mr. Cnhln. "nt ihn tnA e it v- -- . ? nnothor five minutes pointlne one u. VI manifold faults nnd failings of each In- ! dividual In tho detachment." Dlsmla.a'lfl tho men went away grumbling to one 2m another, calling him "Old Sergeant Cut. 'B thc-Tlme," and complaining because he ?W would glvo them no credit for achieve, ;! "Tho better wo does it." sav n. . tlinm "nnrl thn fnafnr. !.. t..-- - .. J , ....,.., ,.,, ucl.lcr ana tbe I faster ho wants It dono. It's my v,flii. ? that If ho -had a gun detachment picked, "l from tho angels abovo he'd tell 'em their ' htlttonn ntid flinli- eM ,..., 2 , viumis was a t! disgrace to heaven nnd that they were' tnn nlnw tn rntl-h nrnrmo ..k .... 7, ......o . vaiwi a coi" But in tho meantime their instructor Is saying to a fellow sergeant: "They're good lads. Wo cut three solM seconds this morning from off th i. wo havo been taking to get the gun into action ana a second a round off the firing of ten rounds." "Threo seconds Is good enough," g&ia 1 the other mildly. V, "It Isn't good enough," said th .. structor, "if they can make it four, ana 'i four's not cood pnniicVi if ,,. . ! It five. They won't he blessing . e. It now, but come tho day mavhn th. 1 will." VI And nfterward, in a hard-foucht hntti. 1 the battery obeys signals so quickly ana perfectly that it misses destruction by a I few seconds. Then Gunner Donovan, who 1 had complained most hlttoriv n,v. .u. itt .,, .lv,, n,oy - were under training, leaned over to Mlclc as me c-attery lumbered and sklddlel along and shouted in his ear: uuwa Diess oia cut-the-TImel" jr'A What Do You Know? 1 . ' ir h. "Vh. "i "' l"? law- no mat- while in al . u t them be lawi81 ladles, and they wou.a , the.r'bfk ast! cUlzeT th Sam6 ft8 any other sepaecUD: ... vuuuuy, una we have no tlmo y vote to this class of uaies de" These militant ladles were given !. days In Jail for being nuisances , km? ,.J ,y trlotlo while the good. re3.wnnJ.- Unpa" men of the country ari be?n drawn y,Une to France to fight our flghl torou Al B0 and democracy. g Ior OM 'ory ve good Americans have nlmio. .. selves to the full suppor : of 0$ PrM0Ur to stand by him though thick th.n6".1' this great struggle for a wlde-worW r,!" mocracy. and these ladles should h.. ?.?' side giving all the he" they can w. should be one big family with ; Wb thought, and that to d" and i?BC,hly ne best that is in us for our count Very Philadelphia?; ANDREWS. JAMES 3. HILL'S LIMERICKS James J. Hill, empire makar h.i did een. of humo? and wa8 w.liiVPlen- among his Intimates as a wit H.'.kPown composing limericks and .V. V.'.N011 aouDie-barreled one Is recorded 4:u,V?wln" by Joseph Qllpln Pylei d ,n th. L"" Anre was a younar fai i- ... verworked .i v..J"5 wt QUIZ 1. What Is the orlslnal menntnic of "bonne"? "'Iit.,tu,t".on,a?rnstab?nn',Ve'a'4,"Mn",,n " 3. What country has. Juit derlared a itata of XSaVrls? "" " nnd "M sis 4. What branch of Amrrlren military aerrlra la represented by n hrUht red fiatMri? 3. Who la Nikolai Lenlne? 6. Will nny effort be made to reatore the bona. to"? "" '00d "1 WmBS 7' Ini.I',,Stj?.att of England la FeUntowa. bombed by enemy alrrrnft last Sondayf 8. Haa the Identity of "The Man ta y,, j,,, yiatk" ever been discovered? 0. Who wna "the liberator nf Tv.''t nipt ia tne ominnr the marine corps? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. Kerenskr lias become Premier of Russia, i-vorf nailnr realjrned. 2. The peace formula, "No. annexation!, no la- demn lea" nrltlnnted with the ltnsslaa Socialist, although, of, course, similar lilena had been expressed before the for. mula was thua succinctly adopted by the Jluslan peace advocates. 3. rent Is north of Chili. ' A -SitiW ori tableland. Ia. an .extensUa elevated region with a level surface. 8. A drafted man can now enlist and pick the .I?in,1i 0L rvlce he prefers, just as be could do before the draft numbers were announced. 6. Tresiure of deep water Pt limit t the distance to which a U-boat can drsrena with anfety. The Germane are said to nave .Perfected a submarine which can travel SOO feet nnder water with aafety. 7. "Junker" la a flerman word, pronounced "joonker," dciiied from words meaning "joung sir." or ".tonne lord." A Junker la a member of the exclusive, aristocratic and mllltarlstlo party tn Prussia. 8. The falcon, as of old, can be taught to swoop own un in f n oDjetiH, 11 naa neen sug- Rested that falcons be trained to aweoo VJ down on periscopes, carrying bombs tied . uiuui inrir necKB. ine uomoe to ezpiaae 0. and alnk the submarine on touching the nuirr, Catalonia bpain la the 10. The firs and 3 opened in I860, northeastern corner of first. I'nclflq railroad, linking the East nd Middle West with the Tar West, wai M 1 SO mUCh DVSFvn,!, -ii' !" " That it wearily- said " pre8M .J"" take to my bed ' Anddrop through to China to rest" , .But, alas, whan the roota . . 'rlBS tI THEATRES IN OLD PHILADELPHIA fl fTIHE theatre had a hard time holding on fy in .rniiaaeipnia during tne eignieenui century because of the opposition of the Friends, who were of course more numerous than now In proportion to the total popula tion and generally controlled the course of public opinion and action. The first theatrical performance in Phila delphia of whlcm there is any mention was given In 1749. The actors were evidently amateurs. The first professionals arrived In 1754 Hallam's Company and got a license to open what they called "The New Theatre In Water. Street," in William Plum stead's store, at the corner of Water street and tho first alley above Pine street. There they acted "The Fair Penitent" and "Mlsi In her 'Teens." The box seats sold for J1.50, seats In the pit were $1 and in the gallery 60 cents. This company seems to have made a hit, and is found playing it the comer of Vernon street In 1759. That was beyond j" the city limits, where the opposition of the f Philadelphia Friends could not directly. ji anect tnem. However, Friends botn insioa and outside the city continued to hound the Players and sought to make their business a failure. To evade this hostility the com- 51 pany called Its entertainments a "Concert of music," with the purpose of "Improving youth In the divine art of psalm and church if music" When they gave the play "aeons Barnwell," they advertised that It was "for tho benefit of the College of Philadelphia.", 5 The British occupation of Philadelphia aia much to revive the drama ana place it on a good foundation. They used the South- wark Theatre, the performers being offldere in Howe's army, the proceeds going to the widows and orphans of tho soldiers. Major .Andre and Captain Delancy were the scene- painters. In 1793, when Washington fctefUf Wi. second term In the Presidener (and he oftea visited the Philadelphia theatres), the Cheat- (j J nut Street Theatre, at tha riorthwest comer M of Blxth and Chestnut streets, was ereeteeVjM under the name of the "New Theatre" M accpunt of the yellow fever epldemlo It wMfl not opened. Until Knv.mh.e 1T01 Aa'asaissfal .. .. i r. 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