s rt t i" $V "m W u t .' Jiy.V - ft W r ur V L !?' I- fe & l.r Lvt. R& r t L i . ST f PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY crnus il K cuims, pmsidsst CJiarlM H. I.udlngton, Vlea rrealde-ntr John P. Martin. Herniary iinj Trtaauren Vhlilp 8. Colltna, John II , Williams, lohn J. Bpurseon, P, L Whaley, Dlraotora. 1"1 ICf K, TO Hfo 4Si iC nuiToniJU, noAJiD! Ctitca II. K, CciTta, Chairman. T. )t. W1IAI.ET ' ' 'il' Zitor JOHN C. MARTIN.. Otntralnulnn Mutineer Publlahcd dally at I'ciilio l.flirn IiuTlillim," Independence) Square. rtillidelphla. LapeiKit CKeT4t.,.t1roail nr.l Chi-atnut Rtri-eta Atiaxtio Citi... ...... I'rcK Union tlullilim Ntr Yuan .....SOD Metropolitan Tower IitTioiT 4111 Knnl Hull llnic FT. I.nma.,..,, lni8 IPiillf-rton llulMlnif Crickio i:o. Tribunt Ijulldln news buiicaus. WniiiTnv T1riu .. . ,-Vira TT'MIir j-w iouk iii'iuv ine iiniri uuiuinc Lopuo niiikAb ..Mariuni in ui. ..irt.i. ? Uckkau 31 Hue Ixmla lo UratoV scnsciiirrioN tkiims Th TTerKIVri f.Vttnvtl l a.rv.il In ittiairlia in rnuaaeipma an i aurrnutminir twn nt rata or twelvo ll-l cents p-r week pcijra io in carrier. By nail to polntx out-IJc of Thlladelrhla. In tha United Htatea, Canada or United ptntea poa aeaalonp, ixialng-a free, flrtv tlio) crnta ,ii-r month. 8l (10) dollara per car. payabto In advance. To all (orelm countrlea one (II) dollar ler month. Noncr Hul acrlbi-ra wlhlnjr addrcas chanxed kuat (Iva old aa well an new addreaa. tha abla BELL. J00O WAI.M.T MASTCM:, MAIN J000 WrAilimi oil rommwnlrnllon lo rtenlnj; Ztdoer, Independence Square, l'hllalclphla. the United (Hates nhall consist only In levying war against them or In adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort"; hut wo know of no amendment to that effect. To kIvo tho enemy aid and comfort Is treason. Do Hcnntors not givo tho enemy aid when they Milce tho onemy'n rtentl menti and uro that thoy ho adopted ni American policy? Do Henator not Rlo tho enemy comfort when they oupouho tlecluratlonrt which nil but wrecked Hus Hlan military olllelency nnd m.ulo cowards of noldlcrs who formerly weio hccuh tomed to fnco tho foe und bent him? In It In our own Httonrfholdn or In tho enemy's that tho sentlmunts of men hucIi tut La Follctto aro applauded7 Tho nation Ktand for frco upeech nnd a ft cc cxpiCMsloii of opinion, hut udvocacy of certain proposals Is n blood rclatlo of treaaon whon tho whole purpose of nucli oiUocacy Is to wuken Aliurlcan mllltniy HtrotiKth. ciilouliro oppoHltlon to tho drnft and dlvei't tin- nation fiom the perfoimanto of Its wilemn duty. THE I.MI'EIUAL JAI'ANESC MISSION Evening ledger-phii?adblphia', Tuesday- 'Awust h ioi7 j n ' ANOTHER DYNASTY uvnn rom uaiys --oiunm V A, Si $ ALSACE ALWAYS FRENCH AT HEART Kcpublic la Determined It Shnll Ever Be Under the Tricolor iKTrnrn at Tttr nut Alirti iiia rnnrricis A IKCOin-l I AM JIAll. MATTKB to I'hllidelphla.TueidaT, Amu.t II, 1917 CITY-OWNED UTILITIES DE CREASE TAXES U11 i:An.Vi:STf.Y trust thai the IraiiHlt lraie which tho Mujot Is nbout t lubmlt to Councils Is not based on tin; Idep tht tho nc hlKh speid snttm Is a eommiinity liability. Wo hio noted an Unfortunate attitude on tho put of public officials ( assume that the city Is dedi cated to o wildly eUinwiiMtit pioKrnm, likely to Brim! down the tnxpnirs for )earn to come, and that statesm inshlp In the chcumstanccs consists In 'imhsIiik the buck" to the I It. T. "It matters not what shaio of eventual lirodts tho com pany ma) i;ot" mns the nrKiinitnt. "If tt can only bo persuaded to tun a bl haro of tho Initial tlsk " Wo luo muhoii to belle that tho company Is not boIiib to run onv ilsk whatever but wo should warn citizens Kenerally that theio could bo no mistake more fatal to thelt Inteicsts than an uRrecmcnt which fulled to ussuto futuio isrest, piolllh tlisolutilv tc the city. The history of city owned utilities in Philadelphia despitn crlmlnnl mUmanauo ment of the pas works for ear, Is iin in piling; one. Tho revenuo now fiom tho Cat wotks is mote than one sixth of the total ire untie fiom levies o"n real estate Maieovet, tho net teccipts Ineicase yeatly. A cty larco lnctemcnt miy bo xpected during 1918, fot the clU's shaio will contlnuo to be twenty rents tho thou. and under n nlnetj -live cent roto and the volume of consumption will be stimu lated considerably by the lower ros price. Wt assume thut tho tffoit of politicians to ttansfer tho llvectnt re duction lo the City Tieasttty l not erious The net profit resulting from the opera tion of tho water wotks, unfortunately, Is not definitely known. The bnokkerp. ing of this bureau Is putposely compli cated, wo are I nf mined with tho Idea of concealing from the public the real profit. Hut no ono estimates It at less than 11,600,000 a car The Impott.tnt thlnp, howuvci, for very Utl7en to kecji flimly fixed In his mind is this Tho gas wotks and the water works combined lcld tho City Treasury not less than $1,000,000 u yeat, pptoNlmatcly a fourth as much as tho jlejd from tiytes on real estate. Under capable, municipal administration tho caa works ou!d jleld twice what thy are yielding. Kven a child can undei tand that the leasing company Is earn ing a profit, and a big one, on the eighty cents which It Bets for bos, nnd will enrn tood pioflt jn the scvontdlvo rents which tt Is going to get after January J, We have never advocated rupld tianslt olely on account of tho ncwsslty of the facility. "Wo have teen in the new s)stem rich source of levonue, certain even tually 'to lessen the tnxpaycis' lotd Not only, under nny lease, will the system In fifty jeats belong debt freo to tho mu nlclpalltv, but long befoio that it will bo a princely earner, under even tha most pessimistic forecasts. "What wo nre mold ing is a vast public utility which will divert transit ptoflts to tho Treasury nnd thus bo a rebate on city taxes. It Is a great asset which we are constructing, not a liability. Early deficits, if thero are any, are properly to be charged to capl tallzatlon. It is Imperative, theiefore, for tho pub. lie to assure Itself that any lease entered Into protects tha city's sharo of tho earn ings In the lato years of the leaso. We cannot afford to be stampeded by present day pessimists Into concessions that will be fatal to the city's Interest twenty jcars hence. It would not bo good policy to give the company millions later on In io turn for a few hundreds of thousands BOW. A test of the equity of the proposed Jomo will be how It will operate two decades from now and not how it will operate the first one or two years of Ita E,Kt-Utira. i-rk. '?' WHAT IS TREASON? f AVE mn who wear the toga tho right t tm Ualtora? ' let that tn definition of treason i iwr TI1H Imperial Japanese mission to tho United Slates at rived vestrrday at a Pacific pott Not oiilv oi din n y courtesy, but mete lotninon t,etiho ns well, lequlrcs tlat the mission be itulvcd with ofllclal and unolllclil hotiots similar to those net oi ded other foielgu missions which have iiccnllv lslttd this country Phil adelphia, foi InstntKf), In tthout to te eelvo the Ilclglan mission Wo trust tint th Aluvor will bo finally prompt in et( tiding nn Invitation to tho ripro LcntntlVM of Jap.in to visit this lilstotie siu'tliuiv t llbeit and pnitnke of tho hospltalltv of this (oinmunlty. Tlicr Is nothing, wc Ixlleve, mote Im pnititut to tho rutin o iiearp of the world thin onll.il telitloiiH bitwot'ii this coun try and .lap.ui t'ltfortumto nntago nlsms In the West have led to dllllcultlcs f I aught with possibilities of disaster. Itaco piejudice has been nut tint d and somo Journalists have .spent their time onden voting to mar tho plias.int rela tions existing between tho two mtlons. We have no Intel its tint conflict with Lilian's in such n wav as to prevent t.isj Mttlcment Mot cover, Jap.in todiy Is one of our Important allies, taking a vetv ronsldct.ible put In thu pioecu tion of the w.u and ongoing In It on a In gei hcale month by month She Is one of tho champions of tho cause Wo have espoused, doing her pirt to chive Knlsetiwm back The visiting mis sion should i otiu n convinced of the friendly attitude of this country. It is particularly llttlng that Philadel phia should bo tho host of tho Japanese, for tho new Ann tic an Ambassador to Toklo, .Mi Mollis, Is n Phlladelphi in. Till! be leglsla millions mom: nki:i)i:d belief of Secictatj McAdoo lb it now for $0,000,000,000 In addition to the Liberty I,o in already authorized appeals to bo Justified Wo ate loaning billions to our Allies, who uio pouring the money back Into tho avenues of trndo by pur chases which in (i positively staggeiing In magnitude The cost of maintaining our own fences In the field and of general pi opart dness mounts day by day. Mil lions have almost ceased to havu mean ing, they go so fast Thero Is nothing, however, nlatmlng In the sltintlnn. A latgo pai t of the sums repiescnts nothing mote thin a etedlt e- tended to nations which will be nblo to meet their obligations, dollar tor dollar, at th' appointed time This eieellt lias tho effect of keeping American Indus tries nt full speed, nssuiing such ptos pcilty as no othor nation In lecotded tlmo lias ever expeilenced Much of tho money letuins to the Onv eminent In tho form of excess-profits tnes and Income taxes, There Is no uppiient chain on our gold supply, which Is larger by tens of millions than that hcictofoie possessed by any other government It Is pconomv, too, to bo liberal In our initial expenditures Tho object is to put tho full weight of our lesomrcs Into tho Held In the shoitest possible time. Ton billions spent within six months will doubtless do far more good than ten bil lions spent within u jear This Is tho theor underlj lug our financing, and it Is a good thi-oiy If, In addition to tho piodlglnus financial weapon vvn havo already brought into play against tho enemy wo can put Into tho field next spilng nn nrmy worthy of tho ttadltlons of the Republic, wo need not despair of an early peace, decisive In chninctci. Tightly boxed In by nh land hungty nllles, rordlumd of Ilulgarla Is decidedly In the caidluo class, llio liceiess weddings now urged may bo iiummantlc but thoy help timor ous Mr. Vounghusband to get his des-Berts It appenrs that the Kaiser himself was unable to dotlvo much satisfaction from the sinking of tho Iusltnnla, but tho perpctiator of tho outrage got a decora tlon. Wo huvo not reached high tide in the gieatest ern of prospetlty tho nation has over known, but thero ato plenty of people going around knocking oppor-tunlty. There are doubtless somo poltioons among rich mon' sons. Just as thero aio among poor men's sons, but the recoid In dlcates that wealth Is palng Its full sharo In blood ns well as money If tho rieuch Socialist delegates to Stockholm who keep on insisting about "reparation" nro not caiciful they may bo ruled out of tho International party on tho awful chaige of high minded patriotism. "Give me," sang Popo, "a crust of bread and liberty,''" Mr. Hoover Is happily less modest. He doesn't see why a whole loaf at a reasonable price should be In any way Incompatible with tho spirit of twon tleth century freedom. The Munich tfeueste NachrJchton gays It doesn't matter whother that mes sage of the Kaiser to "Wilson, aa revealed by Mr. Gerard, la authentic or not, as it tomMIZZZJAmnmiLSNmj.' Uy HENRI HAZIN Special CorropondfHCf of tho Kvcnlno htdoer in rrancc. ..,." 'nllnwln article la llic- rnneliialon of lr Itailn a nrtlclo on AUnrc, whlrh brgun In Snturdnj'a i:cnlnn Lnlitrr 1 PAniS, July 17 I ATRIt In tho day I was escorted to nn-J-i oilier town a dozen kilometers away, traveling ngaln over lovely mountain roads Hero T was welcomed by the Mayor nnd town officials ns well as officers of tho gir rlson vlsltlnp. among other points of In terept. tho beautiful fifteenth century cntliodr.il of wlileli It Is said "Rtraaburg C'Htliedril est le plus limit (the highest) Metz Cntliedral Io plus gros (tho largest) but Cathedral le plus beau (the most beautiful) " After an hour's stay wc drove over tho mountains ugnln and clown Into n villev where In the fjuiltil hotel of , wo pissed tho night Ikio again tho Mnvnr greeted us telling me that atlir thn repulse of I'rinch troops that h.id eceiipled tho vllhgo ho hid been taken to Uociiu headquarler, where, with revolver at bis head, ho was commanded to give Informant n as to I'renrh numbers Ho refused, v.is thrown Into a cellar to ho ex ecuted ttit. nc'Ht morning, hut was rescued by the French, who successfully rcorcupled tho vlllngo during tho night All this was before llio cbivs of trenches In thlM vlllago I sioko to a dozen Inhab itants who expressed their Joy at being -ignlti amid tho French nnd under the pro tection of the flai' of their forefathers Ore was an old tnin who could neither read tior write Anothci w,c a phsiciin who had given his ptoft isloti il fervlce to nn Im prnvbed hospital wllhln llm vlllire He was engiged In timpuliitlng the arm of a Ocrmnn soldier when a lloche "7 exploded within tho linuo killing tho pillcnt ami wounding the doctor. As ho laj in agony amid the debris a (Imnnn lieutenant struck lit in In tho fm e, wiving, "Vein swine, ou traitorous sultio " In this Hintc- village, too, during the two elavs of C'erm.in itocciipitlnii, u man with whom I talkeil was delegated by the (br ill m officer as officii! water tester, being compelled to swallow a mouthful fiom everv pall U'cd for culln erv or table purposes, which he seld "did not indicate. Monsieur that the Prussians thought vie AKitlins wero as loval to (lummy as they hive tried to ninlee the world believe" "Hero Liberty Ends" The next div we motored to a mountain top ROOO feet nliovei tho level of tho sea Within a h ilf inllo of ItH summit w left our cars and climbed the lit Iglits, passing nn ancient shrlnci to the Virgin and fields of wild p insles glowing modestly put pie In thu brilliant sunlight I'pon the top we entered a circular walst-blgh olmerv.itoiy of granite about two fut thlek with a roping of hrotii) pointing towntd and In eliciting towns and 1 mils bevond Here we spent llio forenoon And fiom hem I siw llnrtmins Welleikopf the highest point of all the lighting In the war The eiiemv lines me tbltt feet nput, and the Fleliili trcnclies some meters above thn lloche In another dliettlon I s.iw lloehe-occu-pled Miilhoiiro far In tho dsineo the faint outline of Colin ir with beond still and greiMlv further awiiv the muddv sllveied ribbon of tlio Ithlne In front of tho HIjcIc Forest Jn another dire e lion still, Switzer land And In the mlddlo dlstnnce hung French oliserv itlon Inlloons and over the ficrman lines the f ill-, ige-shiped stillonirv billoeins of the lloche t'neler the glnss I could filntly distinguish upon them tho black tioss of the Hoc ho and the trlcolored clrcln of France Zurich, Uiel, lAiccine Mont Plane, Mont Tenllile Heme and the Jungfrnu were pointed out to me All nbout wcrn moun tains nnd vnllc)s and red-roofe d towns nestling among them ,i. a child at Its mother's breat It was Indescribably beau tiful thn greens of the pints a seeming blue-black the greens of tho beeches In jellnwlsh tones, the nit idows and fields upon llio mountain lower sides In varied color from green to brown according to tho crop thev fostired In tho early ifternoon we descended nnd motored thlrtv kilometers lo llio cltv of three sieges Kn mute wo stopped and stood at siluln nt tho grave of Hall Itlchirds thn flr-d American Ainbulanc'ii boy to bn killed In the war, h" cljlng In December, 1'JtB I'pon this return journcj, too, we went through the tunnel th it In Its center divided France from Oeimmy under tho Treaty of l-'rankfurt One-lnlf of It Is French nnd thn other half flermnn masonry. Tho dif ferences aro as chatactetlstle as the tastes of the two nations one grace fill nnd prac tical, th other practical nnd cumbersome At the open entrance from the German sldo a slan reads- "Ouri'hgnng verhoten ohiu) untersucliung" ("Forbidden lo pass without examination") At the open en ti alien to tho French side another sign re-ids- "Id fltilt la llbette" ("Hero liberty ends ') And lheo tv pitied something as illstlnc tlvo hs th dlffe ranees In tho nnsonry; unci of a people) whose governnient.il watchword Is "Verhoten" nnotber whoso enuil watch word Is "I.lhcitj and tho rights of men" Alsace Never German As night fell wo took train for Paris carrying nn InextlngulshihlH-. memory of Alsace tho beautiful, Alsace amid tho Vo ges mountains. Alsace tho lojal; Alsace, where, despite hero nnd there ono heard tho Alsitlan pitols, the speaker was French at beirt, yearning for tho day when nil his land nnd all, too, of Lorraine would ng.iln le and forovcr remain under tho pro tecting, llbctrty-lovlng flag of France For Alsatians, despite their patois, which approaches German, nie French nnd have been for centuries ( 'lutles Uernard, one of their poets, expressed this thought when bo wrote' Deutsch Ut dlo sprache, doch fraenk lsch 1st das her7 (Our languige Is German, but our hearts me French ) k President Polncaro nnd Marshal Joffre had publicly said In one of tho towns I a Ited1 that the Alsatian patois should ever remain Invlolite Napoleon lias said upon dlveis occasions, "Let the Alsatian speak In his patois, Blnco he fights in French." It Is meet, then, that these fine peoplo speak In their patois or the language of France, ns they elect Tho former will always be as their mountains to them a very part of their being For It dates from the time when Alsncn was Austrian. Never was she German, do spuo ijcrman claims, as iar DacK as 1334 the Alsatian Countess de Fcrrette married an Austrian prince, bringing Aliace as hor wedding portion. Later this prince became an emperor of Austria Thus Alsaco be came Austrian, to so remain until won for France by Louis XIV, In Its origin, then, the Alsatian patois Is as much Austrian as Ger man, as many words so indicate, and means no more ns a signal of nationality and loy alty than the Italianized French of the JIaute Alpes. or the German of a portion of Switzerland History proves !n Indliputablo fashion these facts upon which I only touch" Witness tho Alsatian union to France In 1648, the Strasburg union of 1081, the Mu!. house union of 1798. For theso were gentle nnd harmonious unions, tho hands following (ho heart, and foreign as the night the day from tho violent Germanlo annexation through the force of might In 1871. m a word, Alsace. : French In hurt a- C.!K!!.M XM MWtfM McAroni Ballads rim Lovn boxo You often hear me speak of Joe, Pa barber -Joe llaruccloT An' alacomo Soldlnit lie V.cg frutta merchant UKa mc. Wat, dcu are loie da aama atpnortnn. Decs falloio from cfo barber iihop lie imc for iiccna uccth (Iranda Op', An' Gtacomo, lie cci so !oio lie lent no pood at all to'en Joe WauMwcno to her an'plauda mandoHna. "Maria mint day are long (Ho made dees fallow Joe hrc tonoh tlavcauic dry Kecpa mc so far I'rom tihrrr you arc, Ot brlghta star, Maria mlal" An' niacomn, w'nt could ho do' Ho Jus' would say w'en Joo was through: "Mc, too Maria!" Decs Joe he drrd not care at nil. Wen ha Mould no to mak' hces call, 1'ef alacomo tint eilso near; lie was so proud he deed not fear Dat tinny nan could steal dat slpuorina. Deed he not hale da suecta tolcc for viaV da female heait icjokef lint ah I Maria, tit id ilic care Dat annybody ehe urn tlcre Tohctu hcevi vena an'plauda mantloHnnf "Maria vital eel cci wrong (No made tlcci Joe uan nlyht hers sony) To ivmiV your time weeth two or three Wen you could be alnnc uicth mc, Maria mlal" Poor (ilacomo1 w'at could ho do. Ho Jus' could say w'en Jno v.ns through: "Me, too, Mai la 1" Malta laugh tin' slial' her head; Her eye tit bright, her cheek ces red. An' irtn she the up from her chair An' stand btiyfnie tloic Itiicri tleie, You net ta vrc so pietla ilgiiorlna, "Wc tiatit Hint," sir sniy, "too long, iSo lion , foo, n ic SkCcnti a sow), A it' tlec.in loin; tlat I it tt II st emi llet rt i so i ei i a Uctla thceng 1 tcccll not need at all da mtiiiilollna: "'Maila mlal' to ytm j,ccng. Hut lot ti-soiig ain't cvrathcmgl .So .of, fiootl night I Hut you (tl stay, My (Hamuli), dat jus' can ay: Ve, too. Mm ia I'" Ah (ilticoino' w'nt could ho do? Ho Jus' could say w'en she was through: "Me? O' Maria'" WILL l.Ot', chief HUppocl of this shaft of shlftlthsness, scorning to tnko advan tage of that cncuso for exemption, Is waiting, waiting, wnltlnr; to bo called Meantime ho utters this wall: "This, boss. Is a ciucl war Thej'vo ralsod $30 323 45 for tobacco for tho soldiers. And I don't smoke!" Tin: MiaitTY magician llppa ltlxey, Duke of Dlrte 'look a little pinch of land. Unit hli Knee And made a tee, loitiud and shaped it u-lth hli hand, 'look a ilmple Haby Dimple, 1'eichtd it Irmly for the diive; Marked dliretlon Ihrn, by section, Htuttyhtcnul up his slx-fct l-flve. lie's not airy As n fuliy, Yet hli tkriia li a timid "Working itrange And sudden change In that golf ball on the land, hull 't it lifts nd ikyiiard drifts l.tke a bubble in the blue, I.Ike a bird II U tenor itincd Wht n the inner hanks pursue. High and higher floiin the lilt r 'In the apix of iti an: then, descending I'.arlhuard, trending Yet unerring to its maik, Hufjtr.1 still Another thrill And ti subtle thangc of habit; htrikei the giound And at a bound Is at oiite a startled ralplf. On it hopi nd nt xer stopi. Loping doun a gtaisy hollow. Over dale And snat' and i eilc. We, toio uatched it, rise and follow; HIbo and pais Through close-i ut guni Whith the hicci's haulu nimple Where it lies, 'lo our Hurpilxe Changed again-a llnby IMviplel Next to slamming tho IaiRor pellot of horsehldei ovet tin. fence contiguous to the center-field flngpolo thero Is no sensa tlon moio sntlsfvlng to be had outdoors thnn the thtlll that telegraphs to 5011 through tho handlo of your driver the news of a 300-nrd drive. Hppa Hlxoy, passing: through town from Pltsi.rh .,! Boston, spent Sunday afternoon with us ni fticnion and poled out ut least ten drives such as wo havo tried to dcscrlbo above. Wo'd like to seo a contest be twecn him and our own John Howe who weighs only lie pounds, but consistently outdrives all rivals. STRNTON, by tho way, lms a fatherly Interest In joung W. U. Dewees, Jr., who won tho Hula tournament on Saturday Tho lad was a Junior nt Stenton and would be thore et If ono or two seniors hadn't stubbed their toes, denying him grown-up privileges when he had earned them. He bears, let us add, the initials that marked another man successful in a dlffeient line, tho Into "W tj. Honsel This cute cover lor a watting customer was lamped outside t tailor shop In the town of Athens, Pa., by H. B. W. JUMP IN 1 I vhile I I .HESS Twisted Table Talk MOTHER started it at Sunday tea. She asked If wo preferred "pevved steaches or Jawberry stram" for dosserr. So the baby quite, naturally asked net- nearest, brother to J'peaaa plow the charjuv sne mi, j -rji S.7 . HIP. lifiB " I 1'TT W i.--' cj , - Vaw : o thW,mrli,rt,i k .",r SXWrf PLUME POACHING meit was discovered In one ot the pantries Otbei Indications would le.nl ono to be DM T'WTT T A PTTTTP I lifX0 beong a doubt that men hid been on v-i-i x liJJ J. iiucr jlj Hi Occasional Massacres of Birds in Spite of Uncle Sam's Vigilance F AK out In the I'aclfio ()cem a diy s steaming fmni Honolulu, Haw ill Fn- cle Snm owns jeviril Winds the sole In habit nits being blrils There am millions of the fenther) creature s to bo seen Among them aro the sheitwater, led-footed and blue-fooled boobies, frigates, boitswaln, albatross, terns, finch, noddy and peticls. t'nclo Ham eeicl,-is the saino solle'ituilo In caring for thn bit.ls on theso re--eiva-tlons as ho docs In pieventlng the destruc tion of sxals in the- ronlceiles of the llerlng hea Yet, elespltci his lgllnnre, poachers ply their trndo and make occasional l.ilds on the- birds A lieutenant or the Foist ilu.ird Service, desri iblng an Inspection tt ip lo the reserva tions, wiitcs as follows- 'Thero wis a veiy pleasant seuitlon attached to this visit among tho wild birds. It wns brought about, no doubt, by the utter lack of fear tho birds entertained for men Some of tho albatiosses allowed us to stand or sit down nlongsldo of them without seeming te mind us being m near them a lilt All the birds on Hlrd Island could bo approached close enough to be captuied with the bands, eceptlng tho llnclics and plovers. Itulng strictly land birds, they did not havo tho samo confitluicu In mm that tho sei bilds exhibited, or, as they weio not found nesting, this fict in i account for the dlfteieiice In belnvior "It was Indeed a sad sight piescuttd to view on teaching the shoto above tho suit lino of l.ujHiui Island. Dead bluls 'wem seen in piles of ten and fifteen, ami some times as many as foily or fifty in a pile. At first wo attributed this enormous numbei of dead blids to some epidemic or disease but soqn It dawned upon us tli.it poachers had again 1 aided the Island foi feathers Knih dead bird was found to havo tho breast feathers miMug, All tho other feathers remained Only the breast and belly fenlhciH had been taken Ncnrly 200,000 Slain 'The white, oi I.njsau, albatross was the chief sufferei ; next, tha black-footed alba tross, with tho filgatu blnl and blue faced boob following In cirilei of number found killed Jletwcen ono hundred mid fifty and two hundred thousand bluls were found Ivlng In heaps in nil puts of tho Island All of them wero found on their backs with only tho breast feathers missing in the majority of cases tho feathers bad been pulled out, but In some Instances knives bad been uted, and the) breasts nnd been cut nwny from tho bodies of the birds, it was a most dlstrossliig sight to see so many fine birds rotting away. As a consequence theio wero very few young albatrosses nnd boobies "Tho albatrosses, black nnd white, were very Bhy and did not permit us to get very close to them. Thu western half of the Islands has only a -very few joung alba trosses, but there nre hundreds of eggs with joung chicks In them that never hatched Evidently from this the poachers made their raid about tho time the oung were well developed In embryo. Along the southern and southeastern parts of the island cmlte a number ot the young of the black-footed albatrosses. wero found. However here as elsewhere, liundreds of grown birds ha,i been slain for their feathers. In fact the work wan thoroughly nnd systematically done, as no portion of the Island was snared Tho dead birds, what was left of them' wero lying In heaps everywhere. Uvldentlv they wero killed nnd brought to persons who removed the feathers, thus accounting fn. thelrbclng In piles. "B t0' n Island u-ltliln a nerlod of two OT tWO j and a. half months. However, when nil Is said, tho greatest evidence was tho presence oi llio cieiei mreis minus wjt:ir ujcaai lumi ers Around tho building skinned birds wero found; also tho wings of terns nnd albatrosses. Mystery of Three Graves "To tho right of tho buildings and half a hundred ards fiom the beach were dls eovetcd what appear id to bo three graves. Tlicto wero three headstones burled in tho sand, consisting of slabs eif phosphate or limestone rock Ono of theso stones had a piling fence surrounding It In tho form of a. rectangle. The ono next to It had simply a rectinglo of heavy timbers surrounding it, while tho thltd was without any wood at all 'lheip wero no Inscriptions or marks on thu stones They weio not thero when the Thotls's party visited the Island last September " The mystery of the three strange graves gives wide range for tho flight of romantic tanc Hid the plumo poachers fight over the disposition of the fcatheiy spoils? Or did an arm of birds kill the killers.' It is u problem likely uover lo be solved. THE AIRCRAFT BOARD The chief wni stor of the hour Is In m.inj lespecta what America cm do In the air Tho Council of Nntlonal Defense lias taken decisive action herein It lms created an alieraft production board, headed by Howard i: Collin, of Detroit, who, as chair man of the committee on Industrial pre pirerlness of the naval consulting board, conceived and dtovo thiougb, without a cent of Federal money and with the aid of the engineers of the country, the inventory for military purposes of tho 27,000 leadng plants of tho United States All this hlghb valuable Information li now locked up in the files of the Council of National Defense Mr Collin, vice prcsl. ilcut of the Hudson Motor Car Cnnipiny, Is one of the most brilliant englncei r of Amer ica and for nearly two jenrs has devoted his services io tho Oov eminent without a pentij of i etui n Ho Is a man eif vision out uf thq West who has n veiy distinct power for getting action out of the people around him I Io t pities tho now Impeisonnl tpe ot public ndnilnlsiintor who knows nothing of politics, thinks llttlo or not at all of himself nnd seeks only to get tho Job duiio Ho Is known as the father of stand .irdlr.itlnn In tho American nutomoblle In. dustis-. the standardization which has made It possible for more than 3,000 000 motor, ears to bo running on tho roads of the United Slntcs ng.ilnst somo 800,000 In the rest of tho countries of the world put to gether. Tho point, of course, Is that ciuan. tlty production of airplanes must, In the first Instance, flow from standardisation of parts and types and in production Thus fnr on tho western front In Hutono tho supremacy ot tho air has moved la k ".V,' ,f",rth ,,etween Oeimans and ho Allied forces, as each sldo has perfected In new tvpo of war plane which could do things that the. preceding tvpo couhl not do Neither s do has been able to produce such a preponderance of planes as to make the control moro than moment,,,., V.' ,.-." where America appeals upon the staee From "What tho Council of National nT few. Is," by Grosvenor ClTlnL? What Do You Know?l "Arriving nt the buildings on the western part of the Island, wo found a. great p dead birds, bare breaBts unnermi i' ". of, tjie sheds. Unmistakable . sign's W,I NATIONAL POINT OP VIEW A day's delay! Can you conceive whet It means in this war In lives t? ,$". nwlmtd, In property destroj ed, In sorrow and anguish? if you cun m m ! Congress know that It s iim JV"1 ,Iet eiulbbllng and talking ami "nTt on ' h" numerous war measures that must i J . a Into law to fn,iiit. " n"1 must be wade Into law of the war.-Akron livening rTca io lacllltate America',. -..T... ,1,7 vwimi; The Savannah Press sava i).. Hardvvlclc (Senator from GeoreiA ' iIe" resign and go to Germany? ffi.WJ ' the Leglalature ought to . adon? n P,""n. asking him to return th. a "80,ln holds back to the State he hM,,,,0n, Lawrencevllle Newa-Hcrold. tetraVed-- th.Truoa"oftnhe, X,""bTC"?n with ought to bo of "u,"o if. mM0" tha was a most remarkably nonmn?,' ieM' " it lasted -SchenectadWrn.srtarea Wh"8 EStS!!Z,&. American. QUIZ I. Wlint Is n "eiulil nunr"? Oil, r . . .. . iii.ere m neiiPEiu. rrom which ranafci Iranre cetj. ninny of licr colonial In9 8. Hlint la the "I C. I',"? 4, Mho la the present ruler nt Slam 8. Mhnt Is the. name of the Snrdlth ulni mem niucn preeeclnl I'enn'a roton aa i i unnxa or -no iielnwnre? 1 0. Mlm Is the reform rsncliilite for JIajorrf '' "'citendttr?'0 prt""'nt "" ln h '"! . lio WTOte the novel 'TNIe ennfr''f I). Ilhil Mol. ..m.. t ... . . aM,vff ?utlf? tl, Vnmh mlIInrv trm"W Answers (o Yesterday's Quii 1. eisrhe Ilelcli l the oBlrlal nama o( flu rrman l.nuilrr. n ..,...-. . .. ... "" ii,,ilB"lrn.V . '"erallT meana "f.TalM watt; ..nM.,2'.. 'ssssx a' !5s.83 "manfeiu," "rlonk." , 3" ,hIr!;,1i",, ,,n?, V",'31"- "tone a,irL 1. tmnwnle" la iironoiinrrcl "cunl " nenrt,."t1tej,.'Wn.t .rn',,a! Of th. lit"! tn'iriilrt.V.dhrIt,n rriKnr.1 '"' "'rt'" rue rfrrriali Unr f nunrli. 1 l'rV'a?ntf'rBrlil wiia hnt In H athlnilN 1 or (lUilrnil nn .In, . mai M JJ. Culm K called "The rarl of the AnlllUi.'H ,!lnlh,l,Bd,'. '" ,l!'UKion nr satlrt. H-fl r.nLli.,fn.,Jlrv :M'"n of Rome mrtlS ini.i .. . ' I'af'.inB mniiKiona on a At ".,.',,i,0 "blrh.was facftlontl J.i.t.'J'ft uu ''!llor '"""i-el I'ai . ." l"ed I" he nelehhorhooel. in. iriiKjii . u the rapllal of lh fountrr rfM .. ., , ,9 llo,v an iiaiiun toiw, 'FREE QUAKERS OF THE 'EMPIRFj The word "empire" has a sinister twti nowadae It Is associated with Imperil! S Oermany nnd with that autocratic Rimtt aW which, happily. s no more But tlmttll.M when proudlv and patrlotlcillv our orldntlH luiicciioii or htntes. later welded Into " moro perfect union." was uilled an "W Plre, and a tetord t ti..it etui iIimIi Inscribed In maihle on nn ancient bulldltf at tho southwest corner of Fifth and Art streets. Thereby hang two tales rp weiy or uction and fact of partlcoW perlluenco today when pacifism and MM-' erency are again Issues. Tho Imaelwthf narrative springs from the late Dr. S. Wilf Mitchell and hl3 ndmlrablo historical novil ' Of "Hugh Wvnne." Dnetnr Mlteholl Icttf his Philadelphia keenly and subtly. TbM- snnds of our citizens havo doubtless pl S by that Arch street tablet, perched hlfllM W uiiuer n quaint gable, without notlcinr W j curious inscription It reads ns followil By General Subscription For the Kreo Quakers, Hrected In the Year of Our Lord l?l Of the Emnho 8. Therein tho eminent author-phjltdal j found tho Inspiration for his hero, wKBJ uevoiutionary dajs, consdentlouBiy Jcctcd to "consclenllono nhleetlons" tl militancy. At tho cost of being ruliet i Of llieetltlCT. Phllnclnlnhln'a VreC. QUI fought for liberty In the Continental arnJI ineir exclusion from the regular socitv w Friends, with its high Ideal of pew. W Its nnalogles today In the plight of Mm Russell nndfSpargo, repudiated by tliIJ1 Ctnllst Hurt,, tl,ot inb.i Ita atnnit SXUPe War. Ar tn thn t,u, ifnfnmlllnr USA Of V word "empire," the state of the natloe fr. Im. thn ....im. il. ,.,i.i.. a r-ATifaflftsVi tlon. before the Constitution was mIJi luiiimiies inn pvn nnntinn "Tile lciiu, i COrdtni? tn Thnmn,nn Tirtnlt "iVftfl 1 0 mon enough one In 1783. The United FtjJJJJ were under tho confederation of lnatP3 Governments, united under a limited eftwj authority. They constituted an eropini-i tho most correct sensa of tho word. Throughout the Revolution those who tH erward became the "Free Quakers" wW'xJj parently too busv flehtlne to worry IT''! over the banishment from the reiw' gnnlzatlon of Friends. One Thornaj lack even emphasized his bellicosinr drlvlnc f,nm fil .. n A,rta.m,9tlVS Till who had been endeavoring to dIsuIJ younger eolon of the Matlack riouw r BOlns to war. After the struggle, new" the Free QuakerB felt the need of ?ri uation. In 1781 Isaao Howell. Jw"' rlsh. Jlimpi Rlnnnn Whit. MatlaCK, P Bartrnm. Samuel Say, Owen DlddlJ. oamuei Wetherlll met at tne nou -laBt named and formed "The MonthUM rng or lTlende, called by aome,T distinguishing Us from those jof ourl $UtWVBWXtfrM
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