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"It Is a great ago to Hvo In" becauso the terrlfio forces of liberty nro united and In motion aa never beforo In tho annals of our planet. "It Is a groat war," not because monster armies aro engaged, but becauso It Is tho struggle that shall Insure tho freedom of mankind. ' And to sovcr tho chains men of epic staturo are certain to arlso, aro undoubt edly arising now. History has never tolerated a tremendous crisis without tremendous human agents to direct Its forces. Such figures In tho pageant of tlmo will bo our contemporaries. Surely, notwithstanding all tho sacri fices Involved, It Is a superb privilege to Hvo In an era of miracles. Wo can In- crenso their number nnd speed their ac complishment by Imbibing some of keen sighted Sir Ilrlc's cosmic fervor. RECIPROCITY WITH AMERICA France Pinna Closer Trndc Re lations for the Benefit of Both y Countries After tho War By HENRI IUZIN Stag Corrttpondent of the Kvenlno Ledatr in France. Tom Daly's Column WWAddresa all communication to Evening Ledger, Independence Square, rhtladrlphla. iitiicd it tub rnn.itiet.riiu rn-Tornci as SKCOSD-CI.ASS MAIL UATTBIt Philidrlphle, ThunJ.r, Aufmt 9, 1)17 J COULD SCHWAB BE ELECTED GOVERNOR? ,V m awTTLW 3ra? 'ft 5$ .( & :'f m AMONG the Americans viho havo put J-tho stamp of their elllclency on'lho cx iatlne, era, none, wo bcllevo, Is moro con plcuously nblo than Charles Schwab. Tho ravens wero fastening tho "down-and-out" sign on him a few years ago. Thero wero tales of wild doings In Europe and thcro wero plenty of llttlc-mlndcd fel lows ready to glvo him a character thore from and cataloguo him with tho "also rans." Ho was no longer president of tho United States Steel Corporation. Tho accident that had put him at tho head of It, they said, foreshadowed tho nemesis that was to pull him down. But "Charllo" Schwab had tho goods. Ho didn't mopo nnd ho didn't publish a book of reminiscences for tho entertain ment of weak-hearted Individuals who had been thrown In tho tusslo with llfo and did not have the hnrdlhood to get up again. Not "Charllo" Schwab! Ho sim ply Journeyed to Bethlehem, for which eourso thero was historic precedent, nnd beforo tho Steel Trust or anybody else knew what was happening tho Bethle hem Steel Corporation was a young Her cules, on Its own account. Trusts did not bother Schwab. Ho could mako them himself, If need be, a.nd ho know how to beard them In their lairs. Ono week ho was In Busala, tho next In Hongkong. Wherever steel was wanted In largo quantities, Schwab was likely to bo Johnny-on-the-spot. Ho learned efficiency driving a stogo from Lorotto to Cresson, and thereafter driving stakes. In a purely business way, wo should ay, hero Is on American who can play the gamo with any Individual living and have at least an even chanco of coming In tho winner. His services to a great, corporation could not bo measured In dollars. A salary of a million a year might bo enough, and ten million might bo too little. We doubt If "Chaille" Schwab has polit ical ambitions. Suppose, however, ho should bo willing to servo as Governot of Pennsylvania, at a comparatively meager salary unswollcn by campaign contributions. Suppose he should Lay, "Yes, the admlnlsliatlon of tho Common wealth's affairs is In a bad way. Its finances are muddled nnd tho funds of tho ttixrayer aro being wasted. I've made all tha money I want. I'm wlllln, to turn my ability to tho sorvlco of the people. I'll take the Job." Could ho get It? It Is to laugh. "Ho Is not a Varo man," ono coterie of pap. hunters would cry, "Senator Penrodi 1$ Mr aid of him," would be whisperer! in tho saloons of Chester, "He's had no practical experience," some bleary-eyed grafUr would exclaim. "Who Is Schwab?" would shout a local Senator Reed. And tho harpies would bogln to Tick on his character nnd tho slush-fund promoters to arouso class feeling. Mean time some nincompoop, too timid to havo enemies, conspiring beforo election day to obey Orders and prostitute tho powers of his high office, financed by designing Indi viduals, would bo heralded as tho only twenty-four carat, unadulterated hope and avlor of the Commonwealth and would get the votes of enough dead men and Incompetents to be rolled into office by a ponderous majority. , a matter of fact, Mr. Schwab is too busy doing a man's work to be a candi date for any office. Offices seok big men; Jlttle men seek offices. But Fennsylva xilang can got a good idea of what polit ical conditions are and what pigmies alt In high places by simply asking them elves the question: Could Schwab bo elected Governor t.t Pennsylvania? CANICULAR DAYS ABOUT a week ago "Old Probs" angrily xXrovcalcd himself ns tho man who put tho temper Into temperate. Some hun dreds of thousands of wilted collars limply yet persistently emphasized tho first two syllables of tho phroso describing tho zono of latltudo In which wo Phlladcl phlans dwell. That Irritating Idiot who Is forever asking "If It's hot enough for you" usually added a feverish darkness to the gloom by murmuring, "If's tho Dog Days what can jou expect?" Truth to tell, It was dllllcult to expect anything good from so grimly named n period. "Dog Days" Is Ill-sounding, suggesting unstirred tree leaves, a zephyrless nnd stagnant August ntmosphore. Vot at least a brief rcsplto now the Weather Man has graciously reformed, and wo nolo with curious Interest tho pos sibility of keeping placated with kindlier -vcrblago thap that lately In use. " 'Dog Days, " declares the unrulllcd dictionary, "form but tho 'canicular period' after all." With tho alleged "Arctic" breezes of our electric fans temporarily turned orf, wo can afford to echo these honeyed syllables of erudition. "Canicular days" Impart no sting. May "Old Probs" duly noto the be nlgnlty of that description for those, weeks of tho American nlmanac semi ofllclally bounded by July 25 nnd Septem ber C. "Canlcula" Is only the gleaming Dog Star, whoso rising Is now In conjunc tion with our summer sun. Wo can easily stand for nnnmount of "canicular days" If they but continue-to dispense their picscnt charm, nnd nil our stay-at-homes must certainly bo willing to flatter a chastened Weather Bureau with this dulcet phraso during tho tlmo of good behavior. All Is cnptlvatlngly "canicular" while tho mercury lies low. Should It again rise in Its wrath we havo In rcsorvo the sinister "Dog Days," perhaps even "whelp days" and "cur days," to hurl In tho teeth of tho offending Isotherm. But wo lovo to dally with "canicular" Just as long as our collars and hatbands will stand for It. SWIPING THE PEOPLE'S NICKEL . THE GREAT PRIVILEGE OF LIVING - IN A GREAT ERA SIR EBIC GEDDES, First Lord of the , British Admiralty, is good for gloom ' 'wearied souls. "It Iq a great war," he .wrlte to a Pittsburgh friend, "and? a (Treat, age to live in," Amen! So tlmor- I r we of being Jingoes that we have tAtnMft afraid of nthuelawia.'-The ISkjLbl auu . i ill. B.-fi- . - .Hr. r. . . m Nlnety-flve-cent gas would not bring any real benefit to tho pooplo nt this time, because wo should have to get the money out of them some other way. Controller Walton. SUPPOSEDLY a people who meekly en dure a tax of 25 per cent on a neces sity of llfo will bo quite willing to havo it raised to 33 1-3 per cent. Between now nnd tho first of January, however. It will dawn on Councils, wo believe, that not only has tho city no moral right to se quester the five-cent reduction guaran teed by contiact, but that It would bo poor business to do so. Increase In con sumption under the lower rate would eventually moro than compensate for tho reduction In unit price. "AN AIR OF EXPECTANCY" "JONDON reports that thero Is "an air XJ of expectancy" of big things on land and sea. Yet battles aro never announced beforehand. It Is only from Zurich and El Paso, which, according to Mr. Polk, are tho two greatest falsehood-factories In tho unlverso, that accurato accounts of what Is going to happen emerge. Something Is expected to happen bo cause nothing much has appeared to bo happonlng. There Is often a feeling that "things can't go on llko this." But this Is a false Impression. The great news of todify Is precisely tho absence of news. It Is Berlin that really needs and craves "nows," news of forty or fifty merchant men sunk each week Instead of eighteen or twenty, nows of a Russian collapse. It Is wo who can do without news while elowly and relentlessly our Industrial processes reduce Prussian militarism to pqwder. To quote a Gorman, Friedrlch von Logau, "tho mills of tho gods grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small." Mayor wants transit lease fully dis cussed. News head. It will be. By declaring war on Germany, Liberia lines up with Gunga-DIn. Ehe Is "whlto, pure white, Inside." The truth of Mr. Gerard's story of Teuton diplomacy. Is triumphantly con firmed by the decision of the Imperial censor to bar It from Germany. The streets have not been any cleaner since Director Datesman reor ganized the Bureau of Street Cleaning, but the contractors' fines have been less. The Municipal Court sometimes releases offenders on probation; the mag. istrates nearly always release offenders altogether. It is evident, therefore, aver& the Director of Public Safety, excusing his failure to hold vice in check, that the Municipal Court is detrimental to the proper policing of the city. The agent of the Mayor's bonding company notes "a desire on the part of contractors and dealers to place their business through the Smith company un solicited." The public has also noticed the same desire, which is due, no doubt to, the fact that the Mayor's company upnw 8euer oonoe, ana not at all to Mtat tafXtvSknltkbaa v. . ,TT TIW';,-" , , PAIUS, July 17. PLANS are perfected and In waiting through which the manufacturers of France will make dotormlncd effort to buy nnd sell In hitherto uncovered markets In tho United States after tho war. The gen era! Idea, according to M, Clomantel, Min ister of Commerce and Industry In the French Cabinet, Is that open preference will be given to American products In a frank bid for a reciprocal condition, not only for tho industrial and artistic outout for which Franco Is world famous, but for merchandise heretofore popularly associated In largo measure with German nnd English Industry. In n short Interview granted me M. Cle mantcl said: "We havo learned many things through the war that wo expect when put Into prac tice will, from both buying and selling perspective, revolutionize our economic fu ture (.'no is that we want to buy more and fell more In the United States. "Wo ha-o n reputation for beautiful, ar tistic, luxurious products that ha never been approached by any other nation In tho history of commerce. We shall not only retain It, but Increaso It. Hut we shall no longer be satisfied with tho classification as a nation of meiely nrtlsnn and artists. Wo havo always made the practical, tho useful, I may say tho homely articles of trado ns well. Only, wo havo never so rlously sought a market for them, tho con sumption having been nlncty-flvo per cent vlthln our own frontiers. Wo now pro pose frankly seeking now markets where wo havo long since held old ones. Tho new will be In general clasxei of merchan dise that are, broadly cpeaklng, supposed to be other than of French manufacture. Wo shall openly go after tho largest mar ket for tho sale of all classes of French product: and enter the largest market for tho purchase of tho cnormoui needs that will confront France In both senses this logically means tho United States. "Wo shnll need quantities and quantities of American merchandise, machinery and manufactured products for tho re-cstahllsh-ment of our Invaded districts alone, and wo shall need also ast ranges of general supplies nnd foodstuffs. Wo propose very frankly seeking them in America in pref erence to other countries, not only with the Idea of supplying our needs, but of recip rocally influencing American trado for general French production in all grades and of all natures. French Staple Goods for America "Wo would like to see our trado to nnd from the United .states assumo a stupendous aggregate. Wc want to sell to American merchants and consumers a range of man ufactured stuff that, popularly speaking, has been associated in tho past as the special prlvllcgo of Germany and England. Be cause we are first of all a pcoplo of artistic genius and our markets aro full of beauti ful things, sight has been entirely lost of tho fact that we also mako a great rango of useful things. We want tho American peo ple to become ns familiar with our cotton cloths as they are with our silks, wltb our canned goods as they aro with our Jewelry, with our simple, Inexpensive furniture and furnishings as they are with such merchan dise of an expensive, luxurious nature. And wo want the French people to become famil iar In return with the great range of manu factured product that the United States can furnish us, nnd which before tho war cmo from Germany. "So wo shall very openly go Into tho American market at tho close of hostilities for the many purchases that might bo bought elsewhere, with tho ulterior rnotlvo of bidding, all else being equal in price and quality, for preference among buyers thero for French product "From our own perspective we have al ready formulated plans In this Important step. Wo shall have in Paris special bu reaus, where American buyers can find at their disposal samples and examples of all grades and qualities In n specific trade, the whole under one roof, with the advantages of free ofTleo conveniences, stenographers and the like. The buyer will no longer bo compelled to run all over Paris and France, but will find everything In which ho Is Interested, so to speak, at arm's length. These bureaus will be at convenient centers and will of themselves not only Invite new trade, but facilitate tho old. Perhaps as times roll on such bureaus may exist In New York for the convenience of French buyers. LEaS make this a Swimming Number. Our talk about tho old "Bathy" has stirred up so many old rascals with no hair left to got wet, and they seem so hungry for more of It, that we'll Just plunge right In again. Stand back If you've got your good clothes on I J'DVER BEE 'ilt I once knew a suHmmcr named Bowman Who had alt the atra of a showman; Ho teemed to opine That his dives were Just fine, But he started them, with Ms abdomen, THE RUSSIAN DYNAMO Kerensky, Always Known as Friend of the Op pressed, Weathered Many Storms Before the War or Interruption A lad from the proofroom rushes In to hand us a wheczo: "Has It anything to do with swimming?" wo demand, holding him off. "Well," scz he, "some pooplo swim In It." So wo permit him to nolnt out what nearly got by In nn advortlscment about "dried beef" In this very paper: Nice, tender boor; dellclously good when creamed. An "emergency" ration to havo In tho house. "It Pays to Carry It Home" Regular lalidedahs youso guys dat used to go to tho old bathy and cough up your nicies at tho front door to Kccbler's man, wuzn't youse7 wny nono ui ua nuii Streoters over dono anything so nutty. Wo used to hldo our fow duds In the bushes under tho old Wiro Brldgo nnd swim up to tho south end o' tho Bathy whoro thoy wuz a looso board wo could tako off nnd n'tcr wo wuz inside could put back again. Ono of our gang wuz Hagan. '.Member him? Youso don't? Don't remember Hagan w'at saved six kids from diownin' under tho lco? Sure, '.it's tho guy. And thoro was Johnny Wlso, John Harding, tho Carroll boys, Johnny Gordon, Gcorgo Dunlap, Jnkoy Shaner and mo. HEINIE. Collaborations Give mc the splendid, silent sun, As long as daylight lingers. Take hack your splendid, silent sun, The darn thing burns my ftngerst -!U,r WlllTMAX AXD WILL LOU. AND Will Lou reports from New York that he passed the physical examination swimmingly and so that lets him In hero. Ho has resigned his teaching Job and Is ready for Franco If they need him. Carl Shnnfcltcr Is already there. and as a result there was a constant Invl tatlon to disorder and worse. The fact that towns sprang up, mushroom-fasnion, added to the lawless feeling. Elected to tho Duma Once workmen In a gold mine struck and a battlo with the authorities followed. Soy eral laborers paid the flrml penalty for their temerity with their lives. Anger, swP1" Russia, demanded a probo of the lrcu" stances, Kerensky was on the Job to sup port the rights of the laborers. Dangerous though tho course was which ho had elected to steer, ho reached his port Genuine legal ability, coupled with faith In his cause and fearlessness, won. Tho laborers made their point. . Kerensky began to enjoy more than a parochial vogue. Ho became a figure of national popularity. tii Hint mnvn Into tho light of great publicity was In connection with tho no torious Mendel Bells case. Bells had been charged, at Kief, with ritual murder. Kerensky, again choosing the hardest path, assisted in the prisoner's dofense. This time, however, ho was not to got ort so lightly. A round-robin protest against tne n....itUn'i tnethnrls resulted In himself nnd Borne other lawyers being sentenced to prison. But even In those unlit hours the Government showed Its Innate fear of popu lar sentiment. It dared not Impose too heavy a punishment on Kerensky. Ho had. become too much of a defending demigod with tho downtrodden. So, with theatrical haste, another year finds him a member of the Duma, representing Socialist labor. Tho Government then, llko many other governments, was not without Its cancerous growths. Corruption In tho bureaucracy was llko tho proverbial red rag to Jhls youthful Siberian. Ho exposed It, nnd as n reward for his pains his mall Jumped remarkably In bulk. This was due to tho IncreaBo of letters threatening his life. That ho did not abate his work a whit Is an Indication of his moral caliber. When tho great war Involved Russia, Kerensky camo to tho foro with Btlnglng denunciations of Pan-Germanism. Inci dentally, ho kept on denouncing grnft and the officials who took part In It, In and out of the military service. One of his boldest countrj wiicro suspicion In not tho excep- , ,h r,m!, revolutionary shad- NE of the catch phrases of the last threo years has been, "It Is a war waged by young aristocrats." But has It not also been a youthful, democratic war? Great gray men, like Joffro, have had their place In It, and It has been a big place. Young men, too, have shared the turmoil, tho planning, tho action of tho conflict Alexander Fcodorovltch Kcronsky Is one of thoso. Even now prostrated In the cause of Russia, Just ns when ho was wounded In May he said, "I am sorry that I did not die two months ago, when tho dream of a new llfo was growing In tho hearts of the Russian people," Kerensky remains ono of tho most striking, ono of tho most dynamic and, In a way, ono of tho most touching figures of the great martial hurricane. For this ascetic-looking young man, with tho earnest eyes, refined mouth and philo sophic nose, has proved his physical as well as his ethical bravery. He has re ceived Into his body bullets of his own troops that aro so emblematic of the mental hurts of his strange, swaying, passtonat. race. And still his "head Is bloody, but unbowed." Kerensky Is thirty-six years old. He Is dictating a nation's energies a sight un licllevablo in almost any other crisis than that In which tho world Is flndlnc Itself. "Is he tho man to savo Russia from her self?" That question Is on many a Up theso days. It Is said that thero are two ways out for Kerensky; that ho either may succumb to tuberculosis, with which ho is supposed to ba tainted ; or that reactionary missiles may send him to tho early grave ho so richly docs not deserve. Those who havo talked to tho man seem to think both chancer Improbable, They feel that neither naturo nor man can stem the Hood of passionate patriotism welling up In his blood. Champion of the Poor The Russian dictator has many attributes likely to endear him to popular opinion. Always Inclined to favor "tho little fellow," always tending toward sympathy for the oppressed, ho not only champions tho poor, uui ,a miutvii ns mo cnamplon of tho poor, Trade Between Friends "We bought millions of marks' worth of varied mcrchandlso from Germany yearly before 1914. We shall make that mil lions of dollars In American merchandise, not only for the exceptional needs of tho re construction period, but for tho decades beyond It. At offering our own merchandise we shall beat Germany at her ancient game, but without tho avaricious selfish perspec tive of the Germans, slnco we will not merely seek to sell. And there will be some thing In buying In a market of friends. "I think the simple principle of favoring a customer who Is A. friend as against- ono who Is not will, aside from any sentimental perspective, bring about within a few years after tho war a reciprocal condition of trado between tho United States and Franco that will astonish the commercial world. "My Intimate official knowledge of French commercial and manufacturing Interests since the war and before It, and the broad Intent of French manufacturers and mer chants, as made clear to me In many con ferences, makes very sanguine In my mind the great and genuine Importance of future economic relations between France and thn United States." l GIVING IT A MEANING It Is a clearer vision and full understand ing the world gets of the nature of this conflict as seen In the words of the presi dent of the French Chamber of Deputies In welcoming to French soil a party of Amerl. can soldiers, words that will keep company with the fine expressions of the time: "Soldiers of the free America, the inter, ventlon of your glorious Republlo gives to flnaSact" ESl8 ' " Um6 tS true " European politics, international alliance and sympathies, the upholding of treatle. of binding character and national asnira tlons were the compelling Influences In one and another country's warring that ha made Europe the hell of conflict and iti fields run red with human blood. But frV. America gives the trup and final character to the great struggle. t a now free Imer iw wur. una iree America wars not fm- self, not for terrttnrv n - II- " ..' lop for' revenge, but 'fVr a prllX Vat humanity may be as free as America has been free and is determined ever to ba fr. and that theworld may live In a T ...The world. better undratnj. ..-. " kalnv . J' THE IDYLL OF OLD JO.Y8 You started It, Judge and the Colonel you knocked at my bedroom door, Disturbing my peaceful slumber at the ridiculous hour of four. The "best time to fish," you assured us, and hopefully led us away Up over the htlh that were faintly pre dicting the coming of day, And so, to the lake In the hollow, green- rimmed by Its deep-wooded shores, And then, when wc got In the boat, Judge, with you hard at work ivtth the oars, Wc found you'd forgotten the bait EM What nonscnsel Of course, It was you. Wc brought your fault home at the time, Judge, and made you acknowledge It, too. 01 well, let It pass. Then the Colonel be nignly remarked that although Our fishing was off for that morning, tee ought to havo something to show; Wc shouldn't go home empty-handed, he said, and suggested the joys Of hunting those silly pond-UUcs, like so many Sunday school boys. You fell Into line with the notion and started to row us inshore, And then we discovered that springboard we never had noticed before. Wc gazed at the board and each other, and gazed at the springboard again; You trailed one fat hand in the water and twiddled your fingers and then You gave us the ttvo-flngcred signal that no fclloio ever forgets. We looked and tec grinned at each other and lohlspered In chorus; "Icfst" There tt'asn't a oI there to sea us, so wc Just beached the boat icith a rush And fell to discarding our garments in the leafy underbrush, had to laugh so at the Colonel Un gainly? Yes, wasn't he, thought My dlvet Well, it would have been grace ful If you hadn't hurried me so, But, say, when you ducked the poor Colonel, I thought that was shabby of you. And you sixty-four last December and he only sixty-two I It served you right, too, that you had to "chaw beef" when you started to dress, Whatf 3lef Why, I didn't do that, Judge; that trick was the Colonel's, I guess. But toosn'f It great, thought And didn't you thrill when your body shot in, With nothing 'twlxt you and the water, Just nothing at all but your skint We'd come to this lake rather often and bathed in the full light of day. With throngs of those summer sojourners who fritter their time in that way; But then there were thick bathing gar ments to cumber us, body and Umb And that sort of thing's but a "6ath " Judge, but this was a regular "swim" I And then, walking back to the farmhouse, with the rising sun in your face, Just gliding the hilltops with glory, you thrilled with a newly found grace That wafiened a host of sweet memories these long years forgotten, and then , Bay, Judge, if we go back next summer, 1 dare you to do it again, ONCE when W. J. Glackens had his tudlo on the third floor of 724 Chestnut street a fellow artist who was doing com mercial work blew In with a sketch he was doing for a seashore concern, it showed the conventional summer girl of the time disporting on the beach. "i'm thinking of calling it 'The Fair Bather ' " said he, with marvelous originality, "Well Bill," said Glackens, aqulntlng at the work on his own easel, "your work's so pnoioKrapmo your una mould be abso- lion nut tho ru e. with Ma oti.-..f.,ic gifts, Kerensky combines nn aptitude for specchmaklng that will inevitably stand him In good stead with a people nat urally Impresslonablo by cither good or bad appeals to the emotions. He carries at tho core of his country-lovo a steadfast ness nnd ardor that have made and always will make Individual power exercisable for the Individuals, not the Individual Ho Is brave. Witness his most recent dramatic coup on the Brzezany front, when, under a hall of firing, the dictator in a motorcar drove between the contending Russians deserters nnd stalwarts nnd halted the killing of his troops by their own men, at the exponso of a wound to his person. Kerensky comes from Tashkcnd, Siberia. Interviewers describo him ns of medium holght, slight build and much physical ac tivity. In splto of his Infirmity, a serious ono, ho has displayed tho forco of his mind over tho matter of his mere physique. Ills discipline, his ethics, are rigid. As a young nttorney he made a sustained fight In tho interests of tho Jews, which at that tlmo was not a to.sy bed for any Slavic youngster to choose for repose. His dem ocratic Instinct also found expression in tho defense of tho worklngmen and the peasants. Tho first Intimation tho Russian world at largo got of him was when he defended a number of Siberian laborers who had been nttacked by tho Russian police. Siberia was frequently tho scene of bloody activity. Tho district was well removed from tho center of Government, tutlnn nf thn Tiiim.i. Revolutionary snau- ows hung over everything; the curront of affairs was vastly displeasing to many people. On tho day that Nicholas ordered that the Duma adjourn, Kerensky rose and shouted : "We will not go ; wo stay here I" Popular With Troops A young man with enough grit to tako such a perilous stand as that might well expect to find tho eyes of tho earth upon him. Other characteristic acts followed tho liberation of Siberian prisoners when he was Minister of Justice In the provi sional government : attempts to weld to gether Russia's military forces Into a com pact machine ; Impassioned Invective against tho Hun ; exposuro of tho interests of the German Socialists. Metaphorically, he tpat upon tho notion of a separate peace with Teuton foes. It Is n paradoxical fact that the more Iron-flngered Kerensky became tho greater was his popularity." Putting the easy and suavo words of oratorical persuasion Into the discard, he enacted disciplinary meas ures to forco efficiency from his country's men for her sake. Among tho troops them selves, It Is firmly asserted, ho Is well liked. One moro curious facet in tho many-sided life of tho dictator is that ho possesses the Cross of St. George. It was not tho Czar's gift, but that of an army" delegation. What moro fitting symbol of his place In a land where the crown and tho peasant cap havo been contradisposcd for so long? B. D. BEAT! BEATI DRUMst Beat, beat, drums I Blow, butl. u 3 Through tho windows throuah tS". i burst llko a ruthlesa fn. "" U0W. Into the solemn church and ecatt., .. gregatlon : ""uier th,.( Into the school, where the scholar t. "5 lng J mr ls tady ness must he haveq no, Nor tho peaceful farmer any peae. , lng his field or gathering hli WHi oo jieica juu winir ana pound, vnn a ,u1 so shrill you bugles bin, ""intt-Zfi Beat. beat, drums! nimt- t,i. .. 4 Over the trafllo of cities over tl' of wheels In tho tr.. . ""sbkfl No bargainers' bnrgatns by day no t, t fl or speculators would thev -w'f'MM Would the talkers he talking? wv,,,linWl singer attempt to sine? oul4 1 Would the lawyer rlso In the court -. m his case beforo the juoVe? ,UM Then rattle quicker, heavier, dni. i bugles wilder blow. """"'Knj Beat, beat, drums! Blow, bugles m. . V Mako no parley ston for n ril' ..! , Mind not the timid mind not the i w.;aUoV Mind not the old man bcse'echlnc th man ; " "UHf Let not tho child's voice be hear ,- S mother's entreaties. " n On, Mako even tho trestles to shak .. . S whero they lie awaiting t he h..iHi', So strong you thump of terrible Sranl BO juuu you DUgies Blow. "I -Va" TOltmujJ What Do You Know? 1 QUIZ How manr President of the Unli . J ram from New Vork Stat?. Eff&Jte 1 Want In the chief tltv, of the new I ."& ent nation of Arabia? " """Mel. 3 lVhrn ln tha flraf aiit.H.n.1 ... th Piirlnn rnmi.li.n.19 aDIC tow : 4. rcnnsvUnnla hail more MfnatortM . i'l Declaration or Independents th.I otlier .State. Who were the,? mVnt t. mini posmon in llie.llr t h am, , . '1M by Sir William Robert noii? T U 0, What famous Frenchman said. "If ruj ..H hfm"? " " """ary to Ure- "' "BSm,''?tI", mtanu, of "flotsam andJn? THE VOICE OP THE PEOPLE Not All Newly Married Men Are Slackers Latin Inscriptions MARRIAGE AND SLACKERISM To the Editor of the Evening Ledger: Sir Tho military authorities of-tho War Department nro said to havo declared that no man within military ago married after July 20 Bhall be exempted from the draft for tho dependenco of his wife. Such a declaration ls unjust, Illegal and undemo cratic. I know of n man who had contemplated marrlago since two jears ago; and the wedding was Incidentally set last Deifjmber for tho twenty-fourth of July of this year, and he was then married accordingly. The couple had no Idea, when they planned their marriage, that war would tako place; henca the bridegroom had no Intention to evade tho draft, and tho bride mado no attempt to aid evasion. The marrlago was regular and lawful and It was to take place war or no war. Cannot this man claim exemp tlon on the ground of having a dependent wife? And can this woman he accused of disloyalty and unpatrlotlsm? There are no doubt many cases similar to this whero marriage Is not Intended to oscape conscription and conforms to all morality and legality; nnd, therefore, the married should bo entitled to the full legal right, that any other man married before tho declared date has, to claim exemption on the ground of the dependence of his wife Should this man bo deprived of this right could not he uso his Individual rights? How could tho Government separate this man from thoso who really are "slackers," In tending to hide themselves under petti coats? Furthermore, In every nation, in time of pcaco or war, there is a certatn normal marriage rate ; that is, there must be a cer tain number of persons married every year wri' m.,nthi fver' day- Dl1 the draft law provide hat men shall'not marry within the war period? or does the constitutional J?. I iMi law or Rr,y othe'1 law of the Xn.lte,'LState"7 No' of C0UrB0 not. Fo? If It did, the United States, after a hundred HT WarJ whlc? lB not '""Possible, would be totally depooulated. and then there would be no people to fight for her. If no law prohibits marrlase. but. on the other han? ernr7marr!,nBe """ " Bran,el X 5!?',".? eV5y weJd"B ceremony per fhem.edcby the.churh. People married under these circumstances cannot but be lawful and moral citizens and are not to be prose' tt,!;ny,ra,te' the Gvernment mast divide cU,sSae"er;Jh"ly:t0Znt."th ma""es htotw r.ia f ' the formal marriages and tha "slacker" marriages, if. asB ,t s jUchtn' discrimination is Impossible. It Is advahu to let the slackers have the r way rather than to afflict thn.A ,,.. ?'..ay ratner ttd..Sla.t!f "?. for -8Kers aremmost rian, unacquainted with declensions and con jugations, had constructed this marvelous rendering of "Put on tho whole armor of God" by the uso of an Gngllsh-Latln lexicon. Mr. Freeborn might readily have solved tho puzzle by assuming a combination of home-mndo Latin and typographical errors; Adserton Is adsertorl, defender; conlctla, united ; exergne, ex equo ; recaperatumo, re cuperaturo. Of course, these are conjectures; but tho Inscriptions seem fairly clear: To George Washington, supreme leader of tho armies in United America (on tho reverse, on horseback, About to capture Boston. THOMAS FLINT. Concord, N. H August 5. : Be It understood thf t Huntingdon, Pa,. August"?." C YER LATIN INSCRIPTIONS' To the Editor of the Evening' Ledgtr- bofn1aptrareVlnr-thara,nk W' F" 26 indicate, the 'd fflcuUy fei ' rate Latin Inscriptions unless thev !.acCU tatlons from classic writers Y r quo' The Central Branch Youiiir Men', m. , tlan Association, of BrooWivn n a,.?nr1' stateliest assocla Ion butldlnKln' ,?lth tn9 OLSto "1 in .11 It? llhSa v" SSL h,iHuiieBtnmm.M feu ..:.' .2l iiiar.r?""! CONCERNING ALCHEMY To tho Editor of the Evening Ledger: Sir In your valuable paper of August 6, under the caption "Tho Voice of tho Peo ple," G. W. D In commending your edi torial on the power of prayer and in re flecting against tho arrogant assumptions of tho Germans In their pretentions as to "German Kultur," takes occasion to attack the alchemists on the ground that, instead of seeking results through faith In God they "sought for a material substance and to change other materials Into something bet ter," and that in doing so they "missed the spiritual significance of life and were unable to comprehend the power of spiritual forces." While tho criticism by G. W. D of the ungodly "German Kultur" Is sound, he Is evidently ono of thoso who do not recognize the developments and discoveries In science as having anything whatever to do with religious sentiments, beliefs or doirmas of the multitudes of religious teachings. The alchemists were the founders of the earlv science of chemistry, though not until later n the times of Lavoisier and Dalton was It reduced to a definite science. A I of the greatest scientists. Including Newton, Faro! day. Davy. Lavoisier. Sir William Ramsay and hosts of others, havo been believers In alchemy; and today alchemy In nature ttnS In the laboratory Is an ordinary, undeAtoSd occurrence. It has been so for flf ! years, though perhaps G. W. D l, !2I aware of the fact. No man can .? ' question the truth of alchemy rJ? day nra.nc! ' re"' dlscoS. C Afct by- ..., u iJi-ticuceii as a commercial Industrv and based wholly upon clearli Hn y Physical laws and7 prwMcM w?th deSnito precision. Atomic structures may be com Pletely transmuted Into entlrelJ a? ml atomic structures of higher or inL?"?r8nt weights and done In an nUiheent T tiflc manner under defln t, rft , 'en; chemical laws, and without the Sit gard to religious sentiment or beliefs It would be more senslbfo to leave mBe,ntnsoUrtfarernCea tf Philadelphia, August 6. Ml H' YOUNG GERMANY'S HEAVEN For fifteen years before the H every one knows who has taken Wfr J18 to Inquire, this war has hn 1 the troubl8 by German editors pamPMe,eVT71 'r and preachers. This li ,,!? Prfe'sors of a publication oT the sSoc &? In 1913 "Toung Germany'; aBsoclatlon known as "War ls tho nnhiA.. -j ... of human activity. For u. f" efuPresslon great hour of battle win ,1' lh8 elad. deep In the German heart ?u StJ" and of battle and the inn-i muat "ve e Joy ridicule teethe u,tmost1the'M,t Let u breeches who fear war n0Ld ?omen cruel or revolting! No wardffI2r9 ' a Its august sublimity el.?! 'bea'lful. heart beyond the earthy and.hha human In the cloud palace above rit th. common all the men of action ft,. the heroes and Moltke. noon. Bismarck arBtat EmPror. but not th. i ' J.""CK. are there n u,.n our Joy wa?. When Co J?"1 take awaV Is won by German a?ms an0, ,5 ear h battle ascend to heaven, a Pot,dim? falth'Idekd wll cal th. .:.j1.i".aa" lance cornnri vtw. PrtaWBo K! ,2?r. wuvoia SHktt ,Uu iato-iii'.- .?""&' !J 8. How many j-ard make a perch? 0. Hliere ore the Spire Island? 10. Who Is the liero of Homcr'g Iliad? Answers to Yesterday's Qulx 1, Abj-sslnl.1 ! an Independent nation In Af.'.l not Involved In the present war ' ". 2. The. two creat "K's" of Russia are Prl- Kerenoky nnd General Kornlloff. iB 8. William ii. Tuft is now a major nnm)i.ffl the American Keil Cross service: eMn,"Q In tho llrltlsli trench slane clearettM u'E known us "tags." " !, The Doomsday Hook was a direst In Nona,"' J reneh of the results of a census or5 ley undertaken by order of Ullllao E" . u.Kliir, ut t.,iu lufiipicieu in luoo. Thy city of Tzernowltz has chanted bil.V' ten times since the war beican. " Garret A, Hnbart nnd Theodore Room' KlT lresll,''nt9 u"lcr WUUamlS! 8. Georges Illiet wrote the opera of "Cirm. produced In I'orls In 187S. -i, , 0. Horace Greeley, .founder of the Jifw t J Tribune, ran for I'rt-iMent In 18J K 1 was defo.ited by General Grant. J lueipni" is n Greek wortl meanlnir "tmttM ern." In London the .Idelplila a arwin'1 10 rninnrltlnir lmamI .f.u,. n .1 0I 1 side of the Mrnnil nnd the ,de IdM t2 race, fnctne.tlie rhcr. The name ni ' Klien from the fact that the terrace wu. liullt b.v fnnr brothers nnmprl Arfnm v.7 names were Rlten to thn streets JgB .1 street, ltohert street. James street u3 1 William strret. STREET RAILWAY "FETISHES" "Tho five-cent faro," says Joseph IT. i Choate, urging as counsel an Increase, "hii been a fetish of transportatlon"ln street J railways. With due deference, the fetish of street railways has been tho capitalization of Uti-'I cent fares on a ten-cent basis, and unlo4.j lng tho stock in time. In the simple ol days they built roads for tho bonds inl Issued bonus stock, some of which on leafed lines ls now paying from 0 to 20 per cent dividends. Tho moro daring manipulate of our hugo holding mergers havo learned to turn stock Into bonds and double fin quantity and other profitable parlor trick! Thero is not a street railway of Tjj consequenco In New York which, upon u honest capitalization, could not be payiui vory handsomely indeed with a flve-cesl faro. If, as Sir. Choate complains, capital' ssiiuns mem, wny not attract Honest capital to a lucrative Investment by such assuratin" of fair play as would be furnished br I "'"' ti.i.iiitaiiuii ui mo Bins oi ai&no&eg capital in tno past? At any rate, there ls no excuse for robS&J mo jiussensers. ueioro trying that, wlf I not squeeze some water out of the old Isma i and some honest value In by the ftlf J nnd onco familiar process of assessment!-.! .uw lurK oriu. THE INEFFICIENT POLICE W0BI OF 1849 i frISORDER and bloodshed In the yea? - 1849" would at once sucsrest Cufr fornla to any one acquainted with the ii tory of this country. But there were let communities in the California of 1849 fold digging days that could compete In la' lessness with the Philadelphia of that vat, mer. For about fifteen years the splrlof disorder had been growing In the city, and the police seemed unable to cope withjl' What the precise causes were would hard to say, but the general cause ls dear enough. The Jacksonlan period of the' thirties was tho awakening of the "maaiel'',' to a consciousness of their power. TMr. frontier President showed little regard for the old restraints of courtesy id Caution, and this snlrlt ni cur to BJr meate the wholo country. ' f, Organized gangs of ruffians became told er ana colder In mlschlef-maklng on ! outskirts of the old city. They were knoii by such names as tho Killers, the DlooW Tubs, the Rats, the Bouncers, the Schorr kill Rangers, etc. Ono reads of hatt)! between tho Killers No. 1 and the BouMJl ers No. 1, but nobody ever seems to hew! heard of the Killers No. 2, 'or No. 3. district of Moyamenslng was partlculas afflicted with these gangs. The fin of this district were also In deadly en with each other. On a June Sunday, 1849 a battle took place In the street! i lasted all day. Bricks, stones and flreari were Used and hundreds took parti W fighting ranged from Eighth to Eleven! and from Christian to Fitiwater street.' Two weeks Inter n Ev,. nn RhloMln (Balnbrldge) street between Ninth afl Tenth streets was fired numoselv. carriage of tho Frnnkiin TTnen cnmnanM proceeding toward the place, was selwjl by a gang of rufflnno nh wr lvlnt.Ull wait nnd run Hnmn 4A (...i.i..a.. atrnne 1 wharf on the Delaware, where it was puaWl Into the river. A retaliatory operation-! mo camo nigni was brought about oy " tlnST flrQ tn n ana in .......I... nnrt Shlppen street. Tho Moyamenslng HWj t.vmiiHuiy was nttacked by adherents. rraiiKun, a serious flght tooK pi with firearms. In tho mtr nf which Alexander Gillies was killed and nine icu wero wounded. Another terrlbl broke out on election nlh .nlni. In B der and In Uie burning o'f the Califor l.miA A C!l U j. n. .. . ,. fcj ZZ. . . v " ana oi. wary eireew, m that Is another storv In Itself. 1 . ThJs disorder of the summer and. OI 1849 was nil tl.' ... .?.,! (n.l of the fact that a cholera epldeml!(!j .-... , ula qujr, -lne cuatns in tn1 "" Kouniy Detween Nay 30 and Sepft were 1012. mt th. ,... ...i,.hii aout JQOO of alwlera. JU the J
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