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PhU.JtlpMi, Tutidsr. NsYcrober 6, 1917
THE GREAT DIVIDE
TUST seven months after Congress de
clared war the nation reads the
solemn news of the first casualties under
the American flag In the trenches. The
preparation for our huge effort and the
grievous sacrifices which we must en
dure with stout hearts have necessarily
been so gradual and intricate that until
now that moment had not come when an
American could say, "Yesterday we were
only preparing, today we are actually
fighting." But the killing of three Ameri
can soldiers has brought us to that mo
ment. TheGreat Divide has been crossed.
"Death has drawn the line sharply be
tween conjecture and reality. Now we
are dealing with reality and will be until
the end.
Individuals, soldiers of fortune, had
felt the call of freedom long before the
flag went to France. Heroic were those
Americans who fought and died In foreign
uniforms, but their heroism belongs to
all humanity and to all time, and Is only
shared by America. But those who died
at dawn on Saturday had stood for peace
when their country stood for peace and
they bear a very Intimate personal rela
tionship to us. They were fighting first
for us and second for humanity.
Those who werea bit too Insistent, in
and out of season, with their cry of
"Wake up, America!" sometimes said,
with too much bitterness, "Walt till the
casualty lists come in." They arc silenced
ut last. They are not the best patriot
who were eager for bloodshed. It Is not
that mere death makes a mun glorious.
It Is that a man makes death glorious
by the high purpose which Inspired him
to Invite it. No man, dares send his
brother or his neighbor out to die for a
cause unless he ulso is willing nay,
eager to get the chance to risk his own
life for that cause.
The first casualty list Is brief. It tells
of three lives lost. It is true that tho
whole nation Is more concerned over those
three lost lives than England or France
Is over the loss of three thousand today.
In the one week ending October 23 the
British lost 3550 dead and 13,491 wounded
and missing. But our allies had the same
feelings in August, 1914, that we have
row. They are not "hardened," as the
saying goes. They are softened. So great
Is the sympathy of civilians for the boys
Who go "out there" that they throw them
selves Inty every kind of war and relief
work and not Into vain regrets or bitter
"ness. Grief has made our Allied civilian's
work harder than we do; knit, sew, save
and pray harder. We can forget our grief
In work, or, rather, we can translate our
grief Into wbrk that will nerve us to
greater trials that are to come.
They' do not know their own country
and Its meaning who nay we are not so
urgently concerned as England and
France over the caub of freedom. There
would be no America for home-lovtns
folic to be snugly "Isolated" In had It
not been for hundreds of thousands of
men who laid down their lives so that we
could be secure. Their work was only
half accomplished. Once more our free
Tatom Is endangered with that of the
whole civilized world. And from making
a sacrifice equal to that of our fathers no
true American will flinch.
MISTRESS OF .THE SEAS
TWO readers at good-natured Issue
ask us to settle the question "Wild
U mistress of the sea?'' Answering
literally and In the oingular, as the
ajuery ts couched In that( number. It
an bo a(d that during the progress of
ty-e war Engtund has been mistress of
He North Sea and Germany of tho Baltic.
nswerln? 'practically, as the surface of
,m globe Is four-tlfths. water and the
Wattle Sea 1 a mere drop In the bucket
to the oceanic vasts, England is the mis
trwr of the seas, for" her powerful navy
kas kept the Teutonic fleets bottled up
tMK of the Kiel Caiial. Germany has
put Into practice a ruthless submarine
war, with U-bbat violating International
tew. rutrallty and humanity; but surely
such mrtUnvd underwater guerrilla tactics
aotvnt consrhuU a claim to the premier
ip uf tt m in. thy murder
Um WW, BMsfraa and tMaBwfeatat
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control. Statistics show that the wire
trlcted U-boat warfare Is a flirle. and
Germany has evidenced no desire or
aptitude for legitimate, abovcboard or
rather, above-water sea warfare
German mistress-ship of'tho scasl
What a calamity America has escaped!
Had Berlin dominated Uio seas at any
period Blnco the war began our trade
would have been ruined, our land have
felt tho foot of tho hostllo Invader. Von
Tlrpltz's flaunting of our rights through
his U-boats Is tnly slight token of what
would havo happened If German dread,
noughts and transports rode the surface
of the ocean unchecked. This country Is
well In tho war If only to guard agnlnst
Germany's ever gaining the tltlo of mis.
tress of tho sens. For freedom of the seas
would then assuredly bo merely an aca
demic phrase on a scrap of paper.
MAKE PHILADELPHIA SAFE FOR
DEMOCRACY
i
rpHE Issues Involved In thi fight at the
polls today are as grave to Philadel
phia as those In tho great war In Europe
are tq tho world.
Tho peoplo are fighting for popular
government. The enemy Is a company
of organized, unscrupulous political
despots who, when they think safety
lies that way, "pander to the moral sense
of the community."
They aro so despeiute this year that
they have thrown off tho mask of hypoc
risy and are standing In the opon for
what they ore. They are using tho
methods of the Huns In the trenches and
have been using them for weeks. No
trick Is too base for them to resort to and
no outiagc too dastardly for them to
hesitate to be guilty of.
But the voters aro aroused. They know
I the stake for which they are fighting and
they are going to the polls with as lofty
a civic patriotism as Inspires the joung
men. daring tho submarines to take their
places In the trenches of Eutope to drive
tho Huns back from the lands of the
free and to make them powerless In tho
future to threaten the peace of the world.
In their confidence and determination
lies the assurance of victory.
THE RUSSIAN MOUNTAIN
TJUSSIA dropped out of the military
' landscape some time ago, and it has
become the unfortunate habit of many
In Allied countries to dismiss her as un
Important and to speak of her revolu
tionary statesmen with petulance and
even scorn. Nothing but evil could come
of such a tendency If It continued, and
immense benefits to all nations would
be lost If the Great Revolution of modem
times were flouted. England's Government
flouted the French Revolution of 1789 and
the result was that her people had to wait
a century or- more for some of the social
and political leforms which an earlier
welcome to the Ideas of Rousseau and
Danton would have yielded her.
There are statesmen In Russia today
who wear the mantle of those great men
of the eighteenth century. The Fiench
people recovered their land fiom the
nobles, a feat which tho English people
have Still to achieve. The Russian peo
ple want to recover their land from feudal
barons. Bolshevik!, who correspond to
our I. W. W., are not Russia. Socialists
are at the'helm, but Danton would prob
ably have called himself a Socialist If
tho word had been In vogue In 1793.
Russia Is too Christian a nation to yield
to tho materialistic side of Socialism. The
great bulk of her people are communistic
farmers and not Socialistic Industrials.
Thero should be much moie tolerance
for Russia. Even if she does nothing
more In a military way for her Allies, the
debt humanity owes her will compensate
for that defection. For generations the
Russian nutocracy was a weight on the
world's heart, the nightmare of oTl who
hoped nnd worked for a better world, a
boulder on the path of progress. And It
seemed Impossible to destroy it. II
would have brought Russia to famine and
even a German nlllance If It had lasted
much longer. This much Is gained: thut
light at Us door Middle Europe beholds
a mountain of democracy, a permanent
rebuke for autocratic sentiment In Ger
many, and It Is to that mountain that we
must look for future peace It will be
like the hills whence cometh cur help.
The "Star Spangled Banner" does
not lose Its thrill even when an alien
conducts the orchestra.
Former Judge Gordon did not say
anything about the Mayor which the rest
of us had not discovered long ago.
The first 'deatn roll of Americans
is mercifully short. But It Is long enough
to convince us that we are really at war.
Even though gunmen are brought
Into the city today, the voters ore deter
mined that ballots shall be moro potent
than bullets.
' The German victories In Italy are
apparently intended as camouflage to
make the people at home think that the
forces of the Kaiser are not slowly re
treating to the Rhine.
Woodbury, N. J farmers say that
potatoes could not all be taken from thb
ground because the draftees were taken
too soon. There is a tendency to try
to blame too many things on Uncle Sam.
When citizens do not have to dig trenches
the least they can do Is to dig up the
r.eafby potatoes.
The way to prevent criticism of tho
police department for Its conduct today
la to compel the policemen to obey the
laws and keep their proper distance from
the polling places. Superintendent Robin
son has given the necessary Orders. It
remains tp be seen whether the men
higher up Issue subsequent orders pver
his head.
America as a melting pot of the
nations Is a frequeijt metaphor, but it
would seem that some sections are
buster caldrons than other Jn fusing
the diverse races Into authentic Ameri
canism. Hawaii, for Instance. In its first
draft tor the National Army offered for
selective service on ,the first number two
dm Americans, two Japanese one
Filipino A,d ope: Portuguese, as varied a
jrouai m any sctlon haa shown, and all
Hm of rea-HF to
MAKING CAMPS
HOME FOR "BOYS"
That's the Task of Commission
on Training Camp Activities.
How it Is Succeeding
mill" great segment of "making the world
safe for democracy" has numerous arcs.
One of tho most Important In tho view of
the soldier lads and their folks Is making
camps homelike for Sammees. And this Is
tho huge task that the commission on
training camp activities Is successfully
achieving the mission that Is bringing Its
members the thanks of the lads In khaki
nnd the blessings of their mothers back In
the homo town. For not .Only Is the com
mission, by movies, music, games, etc.,
turning tho cantonments Into pleasant
places for the drill and discipline of Uncle
Sam's potential fighters, but It Is also
safeguarding tho hygiene nnd the morals
of tho camps nnd their environment as
well.
The commission Is only six months old,
and It has done six years' Intensive work
In that brief span of 'days. The personnel
Is Raymond U. Fosdlck, of New York,'
chairman; I.ee F. Hammer, of New York:
Thomas J. Howells, of Pittsburgh; Marc
Klaw, of New York ; Joseph I,ce, of Boston ;
Malcolm L. Mcllrlde, of Cleveland; Dr.
John II. Mott, of New York; Charles P.
Nell!, f Washington; Lieutenant Colonn!
Palmer U Pierce. U. S. A.; Dr. Joseph E.
Raycroft, of Princeton University; Jasper
J. Mayer, secretary. (
To supply the normalities of life to nearly
a million and a half young men In training
camps and to keep the cn Irons of those
camps clean and wholesome was the two
fold task outlined for the commission.
When one considers that these men In
camp have left their families, homes and
friends, their clubs, churches and college
gatherings, their dances their town libra
ries, athletic fields, theatres and movie
houses In fact, all the normal social re
lationships to which they have been ac
customed and lmc entered a strange new
fife In which everything is necessarily sub
ordinated to the need of creating an elllclent
fighting force, tho Importance of the com
mission's work becomes apparent. An
army in f.ghtlng trim Is n contented nrmv;
contentment, for the average man, cannot
be maintained without the normal relations
of life.
Methods of Work
The commission has had priceless and
eagerly ready support from numerous ex
istent agencies for social and other forms
of welfare. Except where necessitated by
noel conditions, it has not created any new
machinery In Its "hit" of rationalizing the
bewildering enUronment of a war camp
and Un spiritual mission of suppressing
certain vicious conditions traditionally as
sociated with armies and training camps.
To the Young Men's Christian Associa
tion, the Knights of Columbus and the
Young Men's Hebrew Association the com
mission has looked, for Instance, to supply
a large part of the club life and entertain
ment features within the camp; to the
American Library Association adequate
supply of books nnd reading facilities for
the troops. To organize the social and rec
reational life of the communities adjacent
to the training camps the commission en
listed the services of the Playground and
Recreation Association of America, which
has placed representatives In more thnn
100 such communities and has harnessed
the lodges, churches, clubs and other local
groups and organizations with the men in
the camps. So, too, such agencies as the
Travelers' Aid Society and the Young
Women's Christian Association have been
brought Into play In connection with -the
community problem.
Handling "Vice"
Suppressive work In dealing with fclous
conditions is handled by direct representa
tives of the commission, with whom are co.
operating such organizations as the Com
mittee of Fourteen of New York, the
AVatch and Ward Society of New England,
the Committee of Fifteen of Chicago, the
Bureau of Social Hygiene of New York,
nnd the American Social Hygiene Assocla
t'on. Local pol ce organizations and sher
iffs, as well as the machinery of the De
partment of Justice nnd the military pro
vost, guards, have been utilized in this
work. The special problem arising from
tho presence of young glrN In the vicinity
of the camps Is handled by the Young
Women's Christian Association nnd by a
committee on protective work attached
t the commission
All work and no play makes the Sainmee
Br dull a boy ns Jack of the old saw So
Inside the camps. In addition to the facilities
already mentioned, the commission has ap
pointed sports directors, boxing Instructors,
song leaders and dramatic entertainment
managers Theatres are In course of creo
Hon In each cantonment for the perform
ance of drnmatlc, minstrel and musical
"-tiows," and special provision has been
made for movies, music, vaudeville and
other forms of legitimate light entertain
ment. Caring for Physical Needs
The soldiers' physical wants nnd the
needs of the Inner man are not neglected.
Divisional exchange olllcers, appointed, one
In each camp, by the commission, superin
tend the operation of the regimental post
exchanges or soldlerB' co-operative stores.
Thus a vitally Important Institution, be
ciuse one with which the soldier comes
Into contact In every-day routine. Is relieved
of every Imputation of sutlers' "grafts," on
account of the Irreproachable character of
t!,c supervision.
It's a man's size Job this of the com
mission, The enormousness of the task Is
evidenced by the fact that the commis
sion's activities are concerned with all
classes of camps and qantbnments under the
jurisdiction of the War Department Some
of these camps contain as many as 50,000
men sold'ers In the making, with home
ties temporarily broken. So the problem
of arranging and ordering their leisure
time opportunities must be met promptly
and effectively Camp life must take on
as nearly as possible the aspect of the main
street far away Broadway. Michigan
Boulevard, Broad street. Fifth avenue,
Commonwealth avenue, or (jome winding
semlurban lane In some tiny hamlet un
known to the gazetteer. When the boys
nre on native soil let everything be done
or their comfort, pleasure nnd well-being,
the commission urges. Let them have fine,
fragrant memories of hqme when they are
fighting democracy's battles "over there."
Congress has made an appropriation for
the work. But mire is Increasingly needed.
No American can afford the spiritual dis
comfort f being a slacker when the
agencies that are supporting this work pass
around their subscription lists. The lists
are permanently open. Your home Y. M. C.
A.. Knights of Co'umbus council, Y. M.
II, A. branch or public library can tell you
needs and addresses.
WELLS'S FAVORITE BOOK
If the fashion of distinguished authors
giving their llts of "the hundred beat
books'" were n vogue today, Mr, If. a.
Wells would probably place at the top
Richard aarnett's 'Twilight of the Clods."
In "The New Machlavelll" he wrote,
"Britten's father had delighted his family
bv reading aloUd Pr- Richard Oarnett's
Twilight of the Ooda' and Britten conveyed
the precious volume to me."
Now in "Mr. ,Br!tllng Sees It Through,"
a young soldier at the front, asking for
books to be sent to him, writes- "And there
li a book, I once looked Into It at a man's
rooms .In London ; ,1 don't know the "title
but it was by Richard Oarnett, and It was
alt abobt od who were In reduced clr
'ewwtaiw ) jiut amM MRr. 4ctursi
Tom Daly's Column
ELEOT10X
Now it come the fataf da
When tee will decide
If we aro to have our xoau
Or to oc denied
If vou aro a child you just
Only go to school
But If you're a-man you must
Break the tyrant's rule
It Is hard to be a girl
Who must fold her hands
When defiance she would hurl '
At the robber bands
Tliif the pleasure must be great
O to be a man
Itlslng early oorking late
Voting all vou cant
VALt,
Leaves arc falling so we call
This sad time of year the fall
Just as once when everything
1'lowers lambs and grass were found
Jumping right up from the ground
Everybody called it Spring.
It Is plain to understand
Why such gladness fl'ls ilia land
When the time of Spring Is here
For its Summer right next door
But when Pall winds start to roar
You must nearly wait a year.
Still the patient Christian child
Always faithful meek and mild
l'raiscs Ood with grateful song
Loving ajl Ills seasons well
Just n much when Fall has fell
As tehen Spring Tin? sprung.
IF YOU were crouching in a first-line
trench In France this mTnlng, waiting
for the signal to go over tho top, and
suddenly felt a hand upon your shoulder
and heard a voice say, "Not so fast! Havo
you voted this morning?" wouldn't you
Jump with surprise?
Of course you would, but that's how tho
States look after their voters on election
day, and that's how long tho arm of the
Election Commissioner is. Governor
Brumbaugh has been busy for some
months getting transportation for his
election officers to "somewhere" in vari
ous parts of Franco and the hlgh'seas, as
well ns to the camps throughout our own
country, where qualified Pennsylvania
voters happen to be.
The American citizen may rashly risk
his life wherever he pleases, but he Is not
to bo allowed to throw awa; his valuable
vote, If the State knows It.
It was so In Civil War times, too, al
though ono of tho most Interesting chap
ters In the late Colonel A. K. McClure's
"Old Time Notes of Pennsylvania" Is tho
one dealing with tho story of how tho
Keystono State was made to give Lincoln,
In 1864, a majority of C000 on tho home
vote by the furloughlng of 10,000 voters
from the armies of Grant und Therldan In
Virginia.
A still moro interesting tale, and one
not so well known, has to do with the
casting of General Phil Sheridan's first
and last vote, In that same trying cam
paign of 1S64.
I have before me, as I write, an old
newspaper clipping describing the inci
dent. Thd narrator Is General Ruther
ford B. Hayes, one-time President of these
United States, and tho story was after
ward sent to General Hayes by some
enreful person for the stamp of his ap
proval. Tho General appears to havo cut
tho clipping into sections and pasted it
upon u sheet of paper to permit of Inter
lineations. These last ure given in Italics,
within brackets, In the itory, which fol
lows: "I was present," says ex-President
Hayes, "when General Sheridan cast the
first vote and last of his life. McClellnn
was the candidate on the one side and
Lincoln on the other. Sheridan had never
voted, as he was an army officer, but he
understood that under tho laws of Ohio
an Ohio soldier could ote, and that
there was to be somewhere In camp
among the Ohio soldiers a polling place.
"He soon learned It was at mv pead
quarters,mt only memorandum made at
the time was 'Qencrala BKcridan and
Crook and Colonel Forsythe came over to
mv command to vote at the polls in the
Thirty-fourth lltgiment, O. V. I. Gen
eral Sheridan's "maUlen vote." This at
Cedar Creek in the Shenandoah Valley,
Vlrfffnfa.. So he came over the day
before and talked about It. 'I never cast
a vote before In my life," said General
Sheridan, 'and I don't understand how to
do It.'
"Next day Sheridan came over with
General Forsythe, of Toledo, and General
Crook, who also wanted to vote. I passed
the word around that Sheridan and Crook
would vote about 9 o'clock nnd perhaps.
1000 soldiers and two brass bands were on
hand. The poljlng place was a wagon, and
three noncommissioned officers were
judges and two young fellows clerks.
I said I'd vote first, so as to show Crook
and Sheridan how It was done. I was an
old voter; they were greenhorns. I
stepped lip and said to the Judges, "My
name Is Rutherford B. Hayes; I vote
In Hamilton County, Ohio, In the Fif
teenth Ward, Cincinnati' All this was
put down.
"Then Sheridan stepped up. He was
a little embarrassed, for all the men were
looking nt him. It was a new part for
him to play. He looked at the Judge and
the Judge stared at him. 'Your name, sir.'
said the Judge, with Infinite dignity.
Sheridan spoke up, 'Philip H. Sheridan.'
'In what State do you vote?' asked the
judge, impressively. 'In Ohio.' Sheridan
replied 'In what ctountyT' 'Perry Coun
ty' 'In what ward or township, sir?'
My father lives In Reading township.
Sheridan rep'1"1 In an embarrassed way
- for it was all new to him,
'Then General Crook stepped forward,
pulling his mustache' nervously, as was
his habit when he aa sliyhtly perplexed
or emburraed. He gave his name and
said he lived In Dayton, Montgomery
County. 'What ward, sirr thundered the
judge. 'I don't kpow, General Crook said.
'I always stopped at the Philips House,
though.' 'Oh. call it the First Ward,' I
no, not I; spmefsne else pld, and down
It wpnt that way In speaking with
Sheridan afterward., he said with feel
ing: This Is my first vote; I don't ever
expect to vote again, but I did want to
vote for Old Abe' I" ,
TAfs it substantially correct 30 JVo.
vemoW, JI8S. Itutherforif B, Hayes.'
THIS THJNG of higher cost o' manu
facturte Is running amuck, Yesterday
dluseppe, d4 Barber, annpunced an ad
vance In the price of ahalrcutr "because,"
, k; "eC tM mcreaawd op o raw ma-
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DAMROSCH RAPS
MUCK 'DEFENSE'
'Cowardly,' Cries N. Y. Sym
phony Leader Francis Rawle
on German Music
To the Editor of the Evening Ledger;
Sir As I learn to my astonishment that
my Interview regarding Doctor Muck and
the "Star Spangled Banner" has been en
tirely misquoted in some of the papers, part
ly through misleading headlines and be
cause only a very small portion of my
Interv lew was printed, I take pleasure here
with in sending you the actual statements
which I made ut the time and which ap
peared correctly In most of the New York
papers:
If Doctor Muck had spoken up like an
honest man and said, "How can you ex
pect me, as a loyal citizen of Germany, to
conduct the "Star Spangled Banner' when
you know that my sentiments In this
war are in sympathy with my own coun
try?" fair-minded Americans would have
accepted his attitude. I myself would
certainly not have enjoyed hearing him
conduct our national anthem under such
circumstances.
But the explanation that he gives is
cowardly and evades the real issue. He
says, "Why will people be so silly? Art
is a thing in itself and not related to any
particular nation or group. Therefore
it would be a gross mistake, a violation
of artistic .taste and principles, for such
an organization as ours to play patriotic
airs. Does the public think that the
Symphony Orchesjra Is a military band or
a ballroom orchestra?"
Does Doctor Muck really believe that
the national anthem should be played only
by "military bands and ballroom orches
trasi'? He chooses to Ignore the fact
that the national anthem Is the symbol
of our patriotism, and loyalty, at a time
when our nation Is at war, and that,
even though he is an "enemy alien," the
Boston Symphony Orchestra is, or should
be, most decidedly an American organiza
tion and ready to' play our national an
them on any occasion when the patriotic
emotlonB of its public demand it.
Equally cowardly Is his claim that the
playing of the national anthem would dis
rupt his orchestra because It Is com
posed of so many different nationalities.
All of these men have lived In America
many years, and most of them are, and all
of them should be, American citizens by
this time. '
The pity of It all Is that the feelings of
anger which are naturally aroused among
our people by such cynical disregard of
the sanptlty of our national air engender
in turn enmity against the muslo of the
German masters of the past. Witness the
exclusion of German operas from the
repertoire of the Metropolitan Opera
House this 'winter.
There seems to be every reason why the
Boston Syniphony Orchestra as an Amer
ican Institution should play our natloml
anthem, but that Doctor Muck, after his
extraordinary statements, should not be per
mitted to conduct It.
WALTER DAMROSCH.
New York, November 6.
SANE VIEW OF GERMAN MUSIC
To the Editor of the Evening Ledger:
Sir I understand that the leader of the
Boston Symphony Orchestra has never re
fused to glvo the "Star Spangled Bapner,"
and that when he was asked to give It he
did so without objection and pleasantly.
As to the patriotism of Major Henry L.
Hlgglnson, who created this orchestra and
has sustained It during Its entire existence,
he is always regarded as the' first citizen of
Boston. If I were asked to name the fore
moat patriot In the country I think I
should name him. It Is he who gave the
soldier's field to Harvard. On a shaft at
the entrance gate every student, as he
enters this athletic field, reads these words:
Thouzh love rPne and feaaon chafe.
Tlttrfr ooroas. a voice without reply:
Tl man's perdition to ba salt r
yjn tof t,h truth h uiht ,to die.
But the trouble will go deeper than mere
ly the present one. Are we to glye up
German music entjrelx npt during the war
only, but until we who are living shall have
passed away, for I ctnnot Imagine that our
feelings tbward Pruislanlsm will ever grow
less? I sHoald say that we ouaht not ta
lve iOMHM Mtktto. Wky m taw
slaved and morally ruined? Would not
that emphasize more "strongly what we think
of the Germany of today? I think Otto
Kahn, of New York, has expressed better
than any one else the proper point of view:
"Speaking as one born of German parents,
I do not hesitate to state it Is my deep
conviction that the greatest service which
men of German birth or antecedents can
render to the country of their origin Is
to set their faces llko flint against
the monstrous doctrines and acts of ruler
ship which have robbed them of the Ger
many which they loved and in which they
took Just pride, the Germany which had
the good will, respect and admiration of the
entire world."
FRANCIS RAWLE.
Philadelphia, November 5.
WHERE THE BOARD SITS
To the Editor of the Evening Ledger:
Sir Will you kindly Inform the under
signed through tho columns of your paper
where Local Exemption Board No. 29, ot
Philadelphia, has Its headquarters.
WILLIAM F. OAKES.
Pottstown, Pa., November 6.
The Twenty-ninth District Exemption
Board, consisting of L. Smith, L. M. Frled
enburg and Dr. W. T. Ellis, sits in the
Twenty-eighth District police station, 1900
North Twentieth street. Editor of tho
Evening Ledger.
SOLDIERS WHO WANT TO HEAR
FROM HOME
To the Editor of the Evening Ledger:
Sir The Hawaiian Islands, although
called by some the Paradise of the Pacific,
is a tough place to soldier In, and we find
the greatest single pleasure In the mails.
Therofore, If you would kindly Insert the
undersigned names In your column devoted
to this good cause we will feel greatly In
debted to you. We are all of us from the
good old State and cheery letters from the
home State will go a long way In breaking
the monotony of our life Jiere.
MICHAEL KELLY,
EDDIE SHINE,
JAMES KNOX,
ERWIN ENLOW,
AL GLASS,
Battery E. Schodeld Barracks.
Hawaiian Islands, October 20, 1917,
A GHASTLY PROCESSION
"I saw the ghastly procession, of rescue
vessels as they landed the living and the
dead under the flaring gaslight torches
along the Queenstown waterfront Boat
after boat came up out of the darkness,
discharging bruised and shuddering Women,
maimed and half-naked mon, and a few
wide-eyed children whose Innocent minds
wrestled blankly with this new -and strange
manifestation of life. Frenzied women
begged me for their husbands, and men
with pitiable, choking efforts .went cease
lessly from group-to group, looking for their
little daughters, their brothers, and, In some
Instances, for their American brides. Piles
of corpses, like cordwood. grew higher and
higher among the colls of ropes and ships'
stores on the dark old quays."
So United States Consul Wesley Frost
now In America, describes the scene's fol
lowing the sinking of the Lusltanla. adding
In reference to the sinking of the Abosso a
big passenger liner from West Africa. 300
miles frprn land;
"A 16yely sunset was fading In the west
and a crescent moon and evening star were
In the heavens when the Abosso received
a torpedq In her vitals. The ship yawnea
and veered like a stricken anlrnal. Her
lifeboats were smashed or overturned, spill
ing human beings like grains of sand Into
the sea. As the darkness closed aown 300
men, women and llttje children struggled In
those lonely waters. A hundred of them
perished. In this case, as In. others, the
submorlne waited cold-bloodedly untllnlght
.fall to compass Its destruction of Innocent
lives."
UNEXPLORED LABRADOR
It Is a strange faqt that, with all the
-exploration that has been going on In the
North during the last 100 years, the In
terior of Labrador should have been a terra
Incognita fcritl! recently, ' when represent
atlves of the United States Geographlo
Society and of the Carnegie Muaeumi of
Pittsburgh, passed through Jt. This expe
dition found, along with other things,
chain oMarge lakes hitherto unmapped and
rivers hitherto unknown. In fact, thejoilr.
ney covered 750 miles probably never be-
I What Do You Know? I ;
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What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. Hub the tax rule ot Philadelphia evtr ktea
moro man 9it 1
3. Who la Charles Lathrop rack? I
3. What Is the minimum recrulllnt act fir ,
the United HtntfH marines;
4. Name the author ot "The Jinn Without i
Country." '
5. Where Is the Corcoran Art (inllrrr? ,
0. vi hat Is the difference betnrrn nnthrstlu ,
nnd bituminous eoal? j
7. Define the mirnns Af the Commltftlon AT
Training Camp Activities. i
8. Where Is the orlclnul mrlodr ot "HiH,
Hall, the (June's All Here" found?
0. hat Is the Hmltlisonl-iri Institution
10. Hr whom and nlirn vvus the lloiton Sja
phony Urcliettra founded?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Finland Is In northern Russia, 'ndjolnlnl
Sweden, to which country It formerly brloniM.
2, Trederlrk .Mucmonnlcs Is n noted America
sculptor. '
3 Til. llnltnna ..nfn.wl V--ntlv nniBMf
about II per cent of the total nmnber onto I
- . ,,lan n nnn nnn '
4. nrrrslieba Is In Palestine.
II. Jamaica U a West Indian Ifcland pout t
sion of ureat lirltnin.
fl.,Xn person not born In the United SUM
ran be President.
7. Soft coal Is called bituminous.
8. "l)o not put all Jour esss in one banVrt" ,
means that one should have more than one r",
i one banVrt" i
than one tfj
iw used at
i timra It !
sonrre with which to meet n crisis.
0. (intend Is u llflnhm port now
tlcrmnn submarine base, m pence
(amous wutrrlnK Place.
10. .Vornviunm n rrllclous sect dalinc back U
the Itcformiitlon.
' FAST AND BE BEAUTIFUL
That rrmnv Americans commit sulclos
over the platter has been the contention of
physicians for years, xnai many ot mum
who do not succumb to the burden thT
nut nnon their nowers of assimilation art
made miserable by debauchery which ther
fondly regard as innocent oecause u uw
not Include tippling and singing In favernJ
is a matter of common knjwhjdge amonlj
laymen and physicians alike.
Diet and grow healthy! Eat sparlng-lr-;
and help to win the war! We exhort eJ-
peclally the housekeepers who are askeJj
to sign economy-of-food pledges. 9
Incidentally and here Is the powerful
argument the young matron who' purges
the fare of Its fatness and abides personalty
by the rules she lays down may look at
middle ago more like a Botticelli Madonna
than like a fat Flemish housewife. Lo'i
vllle Courier-Journal.
. SONG OF THE 5TH CANADIANS
Will you open up your gramophone
And turn on "Home, Sweet Home"
And over Ood's own country trot
Your fancies for a roam?
From the prairies to the foot-hills,
From the Bockles to the sea.
From the 'Peg to the Pacific,
Of the Western Cavalree?
Can you hear them learning drill?
(Left, right; left, right!)
Going through the rookle-mtll?
(March at easel) '
"All you want Is lots of cheek
To be corp'ral In a week,"
Says the man from Maple Creek.
(Carry on I)
Will you take' your pocket war-map
Of lha finllont tn thn KnmmA.
And pick out the spots they've plodded tol
And those they've plodded from 7
Are you asking what they did there?
Oh, look up the book, and see:
They've the blessed gift of Bllence
In the Western Cavalree.
Can you feel the pelting rain?
(Left, right; left, right!)
Well, they're going In again
(March at ease.)
And It's seven miles from camp,
And they're whlBtllng as they tramp.
Oh, their spirits won't get damp!
(Carry on!)
Will you close your eyes a moment
And Imagine you are where
The shades ot white men wait In line
The final trumpet-blare?
Pass around the roll and read It,
If your misty eyes can see,
Of the bunch who died for Freedom
From the Western Cavalree.
Can you catch the faintest sound 7
(Left, right; lefti right')
They're arriving on tho ground
(March at easel)
For the final big review,
We'd be lucky I and you ,
To W lines' up with them too.
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