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Loms.,.j,.i loos Ful, r tiutM i CriCi.00 Koa iti'.'t liutljli.e NEWS DUniSALSi WHI11N0T0N DM I JC T, Cor I Nff VokK lit i i T.OTi"r litnl'v XMma Uc:irji , 11th ft. I 'I -B .I rt n I'tanl I Hi .til Tj i TM Privii.i I i n I -r-..l tn n.i t,')m lIl ier ivt iMablo In rhll.idrlphlu ral of twlv 11.' to (hn t.arrr. ! tnall to rln' i th "nltJ Hlafi i I It of r.itl i 'I-lilu In x op Tnll. I r I r'tl- "t'f !"' i i ' TLr . n i In a iion i POllrn i" n Hi. six (H) u advunr. To all foreign cotntrlia ona (tl) Jollir per month. Notic Subwtlhra w-lhlne nMlra ihinicd rnuat clvo old aa well aa new aiirtn. btlL, SOW VALNtT KEY5TONF. MAIN 3000 WF4eMrfM oil Ciymnutntotlonv In Vrily Ledger, ndrpf.c't'ice Square, Philadelphia. iMiito at Titr rninnnrnii rnTorncis x fUCO.M-CLi-5 1L JliTTFH rl.ihdtlplili. Tii'i.liy. Saitmhtr 2C, 1917 AN ULTIJIATUM 1JUILT UPON A ROCK Tho I'reildcnt Is at liberty, hotli In law and conscience, to lie us Mr it man as ho can. Ills capacity will set the limit; nnd If Congress bo overborne by him It will bo no fault of the makers of tbe Constitution It will bo from no lack of constitutional powers on Its part, but only-because tho 1'resldcnt has the na tion behind him and Congress has not. TITR. WILSON wrote theso words long " before ho had any Idea thnt ho would ever nil the offlco In which ho saw uucli boundless possibilities of constructive leadership. In a gravo crisis, which has ousted executives In Franco and Italy and threatened to dislodge tho British Premier, it Is reassuring to realize that our Government Is not to ho shaken by caprice or hteilu and that at Its head is a man who feels free "to be ns big a man us ho can." Many have wished in tho past that our Administration might ho ho constituted as to reflect popular change of opinion more swiftly. It la fort'unato that tho Power which has hecomo the spokesman tor the Allies Is as stable as a lock for the duration of tho war. Tho American ultimatum to tho German autocracy Is the Allies' ultimatum, and It will stand without ono woid changed even though the personnel of nil the Cabinets In i:u- ropo be completely changed. Changes In tho personnel of the Amei I can Cabinet would be for ndmlnlstiatlvo Improvement and not for political stiat egy. Our political parties, unllki those f of Kurope, disappear In crimes. This Is not because Americans aie any more patriotic than Europeans, but because the Chief Executive's powers nro huch as to lalse him above parties. Xonpaitlsan In a crisis, vlitually Irremovable, he Is In a position to command a loyalty fiom the people such as the King of England com mands as the human symbol of the State. The Uritlsh Piemler, owing his tenure of olllce to Parliament and coming to that office only through a career marked by intense paitlsaushlp, never can win that wide loalty from nil soits and conditions of men. Llojd George has te.r.poiaill mudeled the British Government on American lines. Just as Mr. Wilson has gone to the people over the head of Congiebs, when necesbaiy, t,o tho Picmlor has gone to the people over tho head of Parliament. Tha parallel Is very close. Mr. Lloyd George has gone before the tiado union representatives to mako poraomi! appeals of Just tho dramatic sot that Mr. Wilson made at Duffalo. Until men have hteereel their couise b ignoring tho politicians and keeping clo&e to popular sentiment. If, as some sa, tho liiitlah Cabinet is guided by the ups and downs of a news, paper war, that Is only another way of saying it Is guided by the currents of popular opinion. If Mr. Wilson has overborne congressional strategy and prejudice In tuch Incidents as the Roose velt volunteer bill nnd tho fight agqlu&t Hoover, it "was because he 1 new he had the people with hl'ii and that Confess had not. We arc now to see hyy.tl1-'.e.H1llL'JlK''r are to work out in the greatest task that Mr. WlUon and Mr. Lloyd George have yet faced. It is becoming evident that tho wo statesmen aro working in closer harmony every day, and this is really a great triumph. An American President working; at odds with tho Premier nt this time would mean calamity. Tor, while it is military unity that will he sought first ut the Paris confeience, military unity inevitably implies 'political unity In common war alms nil alons tho lines. Mr. W'lSin and Sir, Lloyd George are anti. imperialists, us are tho great majority of; the.American and British peoples. It is on this ground that' they are at 'one with eah. otller and their peoplos and it Is on this that thoir strength is based, txcaiisC this principle js the, strength f the Allle.-t cause,! ; CELEBRITIES ON HONOR ROLL , ,- TYAKNUN55IO, modern .Italy's greatest LT? ' Poc'r ia missing after a flight ot er "(the Austrian lines and is believed to be 'i ial. Of all the men of world-wide fame "'-Wfcio, kye served the Allies none lias ; ffjaier naps, inan es Me became ''pot darter Aviators and '.tlHU.OMtaCiMM that jjmpelled lilm was a deslro io be an example to his countrymen. Nearly nil tlio nations have mode a heavy sacrifice for tlio pdcta' roll of honor. Ireland lost Francis Ledvvldgo In tho trenches tlio other day, Kngland has Blveit Rupert Brooke nnd In Secgor tills country sent Its herald .to tho "rendez out wmi iieain," Death has inudo heavy Inroads In the lists of famous men, hut no class haH suffered so mifch as tho militarists. The four men In L'uropo who In 1014 icprc sentcd tho military hph It were tho Kaiser, tho Czar, tho Austrian Archduko and Kitchener. Two nro dead, ono Is n Hfo prisoner and over tho fourth hangs tho trngedv that Is dercrved hy those whoso motto la "Woild Vowrr or Downfall." CASH ANSWERS THE KAISER rpiu: Y. M. C. A. 1ms won Its $ 35,000 000 I fund If t"'en il.VS of (.ampa'milnc: T"'ive million lollais a day tho people of Ameiicn lia-i given, not" for military , "irpo e hut for the i)hslcal welfare and 'Plritual uplift of their lighting sons. Ametlca woishlpi the Almighty Dollar! This was onco alleged ugalnst us, om" times In light but lll-natcred Jibing, homo times In c.ustlo and seiious criticism. Tho allegation was unjust. Hccauso wo succeeded in trade, business, finance, In aught we undertook, we did not deify inom'.v. Wi lieaid the charge unlllngly, perhaps trio unheedliiKl, too lllUPlmK- tnJy. Whnt if wo did know how to no. etimiilutc miiiip.x '.' A'o know how to sptnd It ton our public institutions, our phllan thrnpU'j, ha' o pnned it. Wo did not seek to conti overt, as a nation, what we wcro nwaip was false. A busy, producing land has no time for futilities. Wo realised our ideals and our aspirations. This Inner consciousness was enough. Well, this war has proved to all men how much America worships money. Money Is a means to an end, not tho crd Itself. Cash Is simply an ngont In this cbfo a weapon uralnst Kalserlsm Dcrlln said America would not spend Its money. And lo! tho reply Is two Liberty Loans totaling soven billions, a Red Cios en dowment of $100,000,000 and this week a. Y. M. C. A. fund of $33,000,000. Shallow nnd unkind critics are refuted. Itls God not Mammon Aiicrlca worship". It can mako money. And It can spend It gladly and genet ously in a gicat cause. FORESTALL WATER SHORTAGE WATER shortago Is a menaco both to baftty and sanitation. Tho threat ened water famine in the central portions of tho city should be forestalled by Im mediate action nnd the bUpply safeguard ed until additional facilities can be pro. vlded to aveit all danger. Abundance of puio water Is absolutely neccsssary for preserving tho public health accoullng to pioppr hygienic standards. A constant flow at high piessuio is essential for protection from file. Moie than a decade has passed without augmentation of the clts water facilities. At least two dec ades have elapsed since tho new filtra tion nnd pumping stations l cached efll dent and adequate standards through a devious course of financial and political contract scandals. Such a municipal utility as the water works should never he considered a Job that once done Is fin ished. Notmal city growth and wear and tear on machliiPiy Imperatively necessi tate constant expansion and leplenlsh ment. Tho mlstako of considering tho filtration nnd pumping plants perfect and complete has led to serious consequences. Investigations by. the Chestnut Street Business Men's Association sound a new danger wattling. The teriitory boundod by Market, Rioad, Pine and Sixth streets Is a zone of peril under present condi tions. A modern supply bystem must be built befoie the (Vingpr sign can como down. So grave Is ths situation that It will take two years to pot form the task. The warning Is timely. Tho central rone should he taken out of danger at onco The piesent localled menaco should be Milllclcnt to Induce city-wido scrutiny. Other sections will be subject to water famine in u few jeats thtough gains In population and depreciation of present plants unless their source and system ot supply aie extended and mod ernized. PATRIOTIC SILENCE qxi: VV tie. of the wartime mottoes of cmbat- nie put up In prominent places assuring citizens that sllenco about unpublished mllltnry Information la one of tho first duties demanded by tho republic. Tho man beside you In a restaurant may be a Bpy. This warning is now more ap plicable to Americans than to tho French, who have had three years more than we have had to perfect their organization against German agents. A young woman whom nobody sus pected has Just been sent to an Intern ment camp for sending a cablegram to MnNleo destined for Berlin. She was paid $l'00u a jear to forward important Indus- Trial 'information. It is significant that Berlin Is willing to pay for buch work. The German Government appreciates the fact that its armies are running n race wth American industry and organization. It, Is no secret that wo are sending abroad everything that Is needed by our troops and allies, but the speed at which ship ments are made nnd tho amount, nature nnd destination of each cargo are Im portant secrets. It Is no secret that many thousands of soldiers have been and will bo sent to France; but Just how rapidly they can be sent is a secret that Von Iltudenburg would glvo a great deal to learn. 0 Americans must get out of the civilian habit of telling all they know. Ice men nnd ice cream dealers have not turned a cold shoulder to the can of Uncle Sam. They are quite warm in their patriotic resolutions of support for his food administration. ' In these .dajs of high costs, why not mako emplo)ers pay tlto wages of their help themselves? This can bo dono by cutting out the waiter's tip. We do not tip the man who sells us our clothing or household goods, and there Is no reason why wo should ttpthe salesman who brings our food. Here ,1s an opportunity for the sociological workers who' aim to Stale bwJBUty indeucndait. ENGLAND LOOKS ' FOR A LONG WAR Italian Campaign Revises Views Of Germany's Reserve Power By GILBEUT VIVIAN SELDKS Spcc'.al Correspondent of tht JStrnlHa Ledocr I LONDON, Nov. 1. A-'V rcvlow of the war situation written -TXln the week of tho Ita.lan debnelo Is bound to ccm pessimistic. To avoid mis understanding, I must ntk tlio render to believe that the opinions set down here (and I they nro by no means "persona'" opinions. ! which mc Interesting but worthless) were formed, elaborated nnd expressed, either to or by the wrl'ci, long beforo tho Italian camp-i'sri brgan. Theie nro In cery coun try three -ets of opinion tho thoughtlessly optlniistlea the thoughtio.ly pessimistic nnd the Infortntd It is with informed opinion that this nrtlrle deals. 1 have written "Italian ilelincle," but It would bo a mlstako to tnlo thoso words ti I ho siro of a disaster to Italy liven f Italv -,.ro ten times as hard hit ns sho ", oven If shp wero oveirun, which heaven and the Allies forbid, tho disaster to her ""' nnr. uo n.iir so serious as tho ruin f foolish opMiiilm In tho I'htente. Tlio people who ready suffer from tlio revet scs nn the Isonzo nro tho-o publicists and wntesmen who hno nssiiml us that tho Allies wem bejotid the rlk of reverses I'or sixteen months 0 hao been told two tli.iigs that tho CJ.im-in moiale was breaking up anil that the (7erinnn icervo was K.iitg i.hnutid With a stiro insight Into military purpu-.-s tho eorrcqiondtiits at tho front and the critics at homo hao ItislstPil upon th.se two thing, which nro tho two moil Important factors in the military defeat of Germany. They hao not consciously lied Tlio men at the rront lwuo seen Germans drugged from dug. outs after llo dns of drum llro which has broken their nerve, cut off their re-enforco-ments and their food, and been tho iiio ludo to an attack by well-fed, rncrgetlo and choorful troops Tho moialo of these pltlablo captlcB has been broken, and from Jills evldenco wo wern asked to bellove that the German army was quivering, ready to fall apart llko Jelly. At homo credlblo experts havo worked out the process of cxhauttlmj Germany's re. scr-.o. Mr Hllalre Ilelloc has dono this jery well, conservatively but cheerfully. In tho penny press tho phrase Itself has been u?cd with tho lesult that most people wcro of tho impression that Germany had tin Irfinn. n ..a... .. - ,.-.. .. .. for i,n'at,lckV "o Z o iTti , .V" ?"? .11.,... ...... ... .-....o '....w u im.i uinv io maio casualties of the com juuamriy zo men opposing u., and tho resistance of Germany would be over. As for the eastern f'ont, wo wpip given to understand that it was thp rest-curp. No still dy troops were kept there, but tlio men who went through tho mill on tho western ftout wero sent tlipro to recuperate. Loose Talk About Peace It was rons'dered necessary, In order to keep up the prcstlgo of our Allien, to say that we were winning against terrible defenslvo powets That was true and Is. But Indlildiials who should have known better gave It out that the power of Ger many was breaking nnd that wo wero with in visible distance, of the end. It was not nlMcl'il, but It sounded good nnd people be lieved it Todiy I find )mo surprl In the British press at the belief, reported prevalent In the Bnltcd States, that tho war win he iv cr by Christmas I wish to as sute you that more loose talk about a sud den peace is going on In London than In Philadelphia And now this army of shattered moralo and exhausted reserve has put between five and eight completo army corps Into the field, not on tho defensive but on the of fensive Tho combined weight of tho Brit ish and French armies has been Inadcquato to keep It engaged; It has massed against Italy, and reports of "feeble resistance" and "getting In by tho back door" do not cover tho essential fact of Germany's re maining power. A correspondent pitifully remarks that If the Germans had attacked near Gorizla or on tho lialnalzza plateau ho would havo met a lighting force. No doubt. Hut wo are not nblo to determine where the enemy shall attack Tho Inabil ity of the Allies to keep the Central Bin pires on tho defensive Is tho great disaster of this summer. And It Is no use to blamo Russia. We may havo to light and win this war without her. In making the staying and offensive pow. er of Germany tho first feature of this re view I am merely doing tho safest thing: I am trying to glvo such a view of the situation ns the enemy might hold, so that tho terrible mlrtako of underestimation can not occur. Most Americans. I am told bj returning fi lends, aro mentally convinced that the' war may go on another year; somo think eighteen months; those who say two years are called pessimist" The purpose of this review Is to Indicate why It may go on two jean longer and what two years' war will mean to America And tbe first of tho reasons why Is tho simple military rea son that the Allies are not jet able to pin Germany down to any place, to hold her on the defensive nnd It seems now to meet any offensive, anj where, which the Central Bmplres enn make. The second reason why the war may go on two years Is that Germany Is In largo p irt persuaded that her .choice Is between World-Povvcr and Downfall, nnd she seems to have chosen World-Power. I mean that tbe mad dream of Central Burope may be transformed Into the nightmare of German Burope If Germany believes herself un defeated today. If she prospers In her Ital ian campaign, with tho view of restoring parts of Italy to Austria? parts to tho tem poral power of the Papacy, her imperialism may take tho Napoleonic form. Sho will havo to fight us and tho British Bmplra to the last ditch, to be sure. And that Is ex actly tho point: that we must be prepared for this last ditch, even If It Is a ditch dug along tho Atlantic coastline. Dissolution in Germany The process of dissolution Is continuing In Germany and we may please ourselves bv thinking about it If wn have time for such pleasures. But for us to trust In a German revolution Is as sensible a thing as It would have been for Sir John French to trust to tho appearance of angels on the retreat from Mons. It may be thnt angels or arch ers held the Germans up on that retreat; but no one has suggested that these celes tial visitors would have taken the troublo to come if seven divisions of British troops had not been present to need their aid. So It would be a folly steeped In our own blood for us to depend on a revolution In Germany to help us. We can help It. no doubt. And that Is as far as wo havo any right to go In thinking of the matter. The more frequently wo say that we will talk with a democratized Germany, the .better for us; but we must understand that the way to lemncra'iv Germany Is to defeat autocratic Germany In the only way which autocratic Gefinany can be made to feel de feat, which Is In the field. These are the essential things In a dis illusioned view of the war situation: The comparative inability so far of the Allies to ' establish anything approaching a definite military supremacy or superiority on all fronts, and the existence, In Germany of a willingness to continue the war which can be converted Into a fanatic eagerness to nciulre something closely resembling world power ns a result of fighting In self-1 defense. That Is tho German view, the thing wo have to fight against. But we cinrot fight against It unless we know that It exists. Further articles In this review will de velop certain special points,, but the con clusion may be antlclpsted Ja order to avnlfl misunderstanding. That conclusion Is that Germany can nnd will be. defeated; this conclusion coincides with a political con viction that she must be. But to Insure thla happy ending certain things must be done which have not 'yet been dona, certain r'tadJusroents'of,Wslon'must fc njad. ot theae the first, the alt-tmsortint. Is the Tom Daly's Column ' A Hunch of Old Newspapers A PASSING band of music, o'r oven ft slnglo horn, will always pull us to the window, but flro bells lntorcst us not nt nil. Wo wouldn't walk around tho corner to look nt tho most "horclflo holocaust," yet wo know mon who would ovactiato a warm bed on n freezing midnight to run a milo to a $C000 blnzo. Kverybody to his tnstcj nnd everybody known somo one .thing ho'd rather loaf over than do his day's work. Wo ourself confess our utter inability to resist tho lure of a century-old news paper. Ono oftthost things is always sure to roh us of an linur"ii tlmo nnd a bundle of them will knock nu eight-hour dny to smithereens. W. W. HANNA kept u from our work nearly tho wholo of yesterday. Uo drop ped upon our desk a bundle of Journals which wero chronicles of the news as long ago ns 1S0C to 1821, und wo spent our morning browsing through them. In tho Belfast Nevs-Lcttcr of (November 17, 1807, wo lead all tho details of nji'.earh green robbery which had moved tho authorities of that great linen district to offer a lcward of $300; and we followed with breathless In'.orest tho story of the exploits of somo wild Irish iilghtrlders who "st.vlcd thcnrelvcs 'Moll Doyle and her ,'ons' and barbarously killed, houghed and otherwise mangled cattle and t Aimed byres and houses" Wo milled at tho formal notico of the wedding of one Stuart Campbell "lo tho amiable Miss Dotigliip, relict of Adam Douglas," which confirmed u Htoiy wp had heard thnt In old times in Ireland a widow was nlnuya a "Miss," until sho becamo "Mrs." again. BUT MOST of our morning wat, wa-ited over tho Nowry Telegraph of Friday, November 5, 1S21, In which appcarn a dis cussion ns to tho authorship of tho poom beginning: Not a drum vaa heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried. Not a soldier discharged hln farewell shot O'or tho gravo where our hero wo burled, etc Tho discussion seems to have been pro voked by an attlclo In a London paper giving a garbled version of a "poetic trlb tito to tlu memory of tho lato Sir John I Moore" which had been recited at an eve nluir-compuny by Lord Byron. It appears to ha c been taken for granted by tho London Journal thnt Byron was tho author of that stlrrlnr,- ballad, which every schoolboy knows now ns tho work of Charles Wolfe. The strangest part of It all Is the fact that the poem had been going tho rounds for at least ten years nnd tho poet had himself been laid In tho gravo unwept, unhonored nnd unsung. Wo gather from all tho pother about it in this yellowed issuo of tho Newry Tele graph of November C, 1824, that Wolfo's poem might havo dropped silently out of sight nnd memory, as has many anothor unappreciated bit of newspaper -crse, If It had not thus belatedly como to tho notico of Lord Byron and earned his O. K. The poem first appeared In the Newry Telegraph, says ono of tho parties to tho controversy, nnd ho continues: "It is beyond all question that Mr. Wolfe was the author of these verses; for. Independ ently of my testimony, his friends, his fellow students, nnd his Intlmato connex ions amongst the Clergy ot tho Estab lished Church, of which ho was an nctlvo, useful and pious Minister, know tho fact to be so. Mr. NVolfe, Sir, was too unassuming, candid and tenacious of truth, to claim a poem which he had not written. Tho lines. Sir, as recited by Lord Byron, afTord tho strongest Inter nal evidence that tho eminent poet was not their author. Tho poem first appeared in tho Newry Telegraph, signed C. .W." ANOTHER defender of Wolfe's claim, In this old Issue, ono John Sydney Taylor, relates Jiovv Wolfe, under the urglngs of his frlonds "to read for a scholarship" In tho College of Dublin, "commenced his studies nnd guvo them for somo tlmo tho Intense application which is absolutely lequlslto"; and he "seemed to bo endowed with both strength and talent to ensuro the most brilliant success, yet, after a tlmo, his Industry visibly relaxed. It was soon understood that tho mind of tho mathematician had been subdued by the heart of the poet. Ho was said to glvo himself up to softer inspirations than thoso of science. Ho was observed to enjoy a moonlight walk moro than the calculations of tho lunar mountains. Ho lost nil tasto for a fellowship, which, according to (ho absurd and mon astic statutes of the University, is Incom patible with the matrimonial state; ho closed his books, which might lead to wealth and distinction, but not to happi ness, nnd never returned to tho path of academic ambition. Ho laboured for tho poor and friendless an(j about two years ago I heard that death had closed tho story of his misfortunes, his talents and his virtues." HERD wo copy out for you the poem ns it appeared first In tho Newry Telegraph; a slightly different version, wo venturo to say, from that which you memorized in school: Not n drum was heard, not a funeral note As his corse to the rampart wa hurried Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O er the grave, where our hero we burled! Wo burled him darkly nt dead of night The sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeams' misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffln enclosed his breast, Nor In sheet nor In shroud we bound him But he lay like a warrior taking his rest ' With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said And we spoke not a word of sorrow ' But we steadfastly gazed on tho face that was dead. And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought as we hollowed his narrow bed And smoothed down hls lonely pillow ' That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head And we far away on the billow. "Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold, ashes upbraid him But nothing he'll reck If they, let hln 'sleen on ' In the grave where a Briton has laid him." But half of our heavy task was done When the clock toll'd Jhe hour for re tiring, And we heard the dlntant nnd rapdom gun grhat the foo was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame, fresh and ory; vy carved not a line we .raised tiot a, Ptuov, I "HALT!" mM ''trf PJi"t-2i'o. .r'M,.-S'Vi' I .. fTMM w ' Sii;r ,Sst" ' :i! 'j 'f .t '.. i tir-r" -. 1 7:i.. Vi-aJr 4r-.'4 ' Jr" 1 vltr J . . j 'jgpil$w fSli ' i- ., lij-,, i -i'-",V.' . . . .j'sjM !' t&.r&2i! "? ',: i,' Vs 'A iv ''i Tr . It 1X1 aj " f I iTSsr. jBfvS?aBBB ' :mml( mv y3sMMalx- ? -'.f.iWSfi&i l fXaZmBmW2&FSMt ''vm A rffBNEHKM$Sm' vWtmm f. sat. sjtfm -r.-'r.-t'-"' - misStm' jij '.. - . '-cSSSS5cx .Saai9aajSSBtBBSSHiaaKpTiCftlu94lJASt'VV-MTL.ev .j I THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE Pneumonia in Trolley Cars Se vere Treatment for the Dis loyal in U. S. The Y. M. C. A. To the Editor of the Evening Ledger: Sir Is there any scientific basis whereby the "public health" demands ventilators opon In tho surfaco cars and closed on tho subway-"L" trains? My cxperlenco since the cool weather set In has been that an avcrago of one window for every three cars Is opened, and that to tho extent of a few Inches. Tho ventilating system Installed may work on paper, but It passes my understanding how a half-dozen carefully inclosed "slits" 3.C cm. from the roof can bo expectod to provide a flow of fresh nlr sufficient to take off even a small number of tho germs breathed out by somo 200 persons. Tho "pneumonia commission" might find It profitable to ride on tho trains, capture a few bottlcfuls of "air" and publish tho results. Incidentally, an assiduous search upon tho "yellow-dog" crosstowu cars has failed to disclose tho hiding placo of the heating apparatus. The Public Service Commission In Now York several years ago issued an edict compelling public carriers to main tain a certain temperature within the cars according to the temperature In tho street. Wby not "Fresh Air for tho 'L'; Heat for tho Cars" as a slogan now and ' at tho next election and until wo get It? VICTOR If. LAWN. Philadelphia, November 19. URGES DRASTIC MEASURES To the Editor of the Evening Ledger: Sir Tli ees of all nations aro on our republic. Great la the Make placed In our hands. Grrat la tho responsibility which must rest upon tho rcopls ot thla United Statra. Let ux realize ho Importanco of tho attitude In which wo aland before the world. Andrew Jackson. These words were spoken by Andrew Jackson March if 1833, and they can well be used nt the present time. Wo havo many persons in our land who came hero to better their conditions when there was no other place for them to go. No one wanted them, their own country was not good enough for them, so off to America. Your Uncle Sam waH at the shore to meet them, to give a welcome to our land of the free and the home of the bravo. Many appreciated their new homes and became good American citizens. The rest could not sea the light, and remained loyal to their fatherland, not knowing Just when they could be of some service to their "good fatherland." In which they coiild riot make a Recent' living. And now when we will be compelled to extend ourselves to reach out for democracy and humanity, we need every one to be loyal to America, orleave it There Us entirely too much trouble In side our country, caused by people who are friendly to the Huns. This country must be rid of them, and that very soon. A nation by eitabllihlna; a character for liberality an? maananlmlty gains in the friendship and reapect of otnera moro than tho worth of mere money, Thomas Jefferson. Our liberality has been stretched and pulled Into treason by these same people to whom we as a nation have been so good. Nothing Is too little or mean for them to do so that they can serve their fatherland. There must be Borne nerolc measures used to bring about a better condition In this country. One way la not to be afraid of hurting some one's feelings. This is no time to think about feelings, but 'to wake up beforo it Is too late and bring out some of these people who are caught blowing up munition plants and other places to hinder the United States Government from going ahead with tho war. Bring them out nnd liaye afwWc efcut'on in somo of the public places so that their friends can see them and you wlll.soon see the rest of their bunch hiking away, or It will bring them to the understanding that thoy must be loyal citizens and behae themselves. Just try this onco and see how It answers. I trill bet a big red apple you wlj! not have any more trouble- Do you for one minute think we could do thla same thing In Germany? Well, I don't think you could, only once, then jrQUweuW.ne shot,- - r EvMY ?MNkn0WS how w Pt Into thla ftght inw " "'"j"! 2LtzXL , . . Our best boys are In uniforms doing their bit, and glad thnt thoy can do Jt, Citizen ship means undivided loyalty to America. You can't go fifty-fifty on it. It must bo 100 full or nothing. Our nlleglaneo must bo ono American language, o tho Declaration of Independence and Lincoln's Gettysburg nddress. That is tho kind of citizenship wo want, and wo Insist on It. JOSEPH i: G. ANDREWS. Philadelphia, November 19. ANXIOUS TO AID Y. M. C. A. To the Editor of the Evening Ledger: Sir A Y. M. C. A. secretary Just returned from tho firing lino in France was detained ovornlght In a llttlo country town out West. Sitting In tho corner grocery ho began to tell somo of the men round the stove about the work of tho Y. M. C. A. with tho men under fire. They wero so Interested that ono of thorn begged him to halt until they could round up all tho Inhabitants In the flro hall to heir his message. Ho did so, and within half an hour addressed a gather ing of nearly one hundred people. He said that if any one felt like contributing to help the work he would gladly take caro of tho money. Tho next morning he went early to the railroad station, but found that his train would bo an hour late. Whllo ho was standing on the platform ho saw a farmer urging on: in a wagon, lashing bis team of horses furiously. Ono of tho men with hltn said: "You see that fellow over there, (driving hell-for-electlon7 Well, bo's got $20 ut home that ho forgot to bring vv Ith him this mornlifg. He wants to get home In tlmo to get It and bring it to you before the tram gets here." L. R. C Philadelphia, November 19. THE UNENDURABLE FORTIES Time was when the middle forties seemed an admirable age. One was old onoughUo have learned a llttlo of contentment, young enough to undertake now things. It was an ago to take up golf seriously without giving up tennis. It was an age to reread Dickens, tven to undertake TroIIopc, and still to watch the outcomlng magazines Now It's a sad ugo ; too eld to be of real use, too old oven to bo wanted, but youna enough to feol the pull. The Government doesn't ask you, or If It does It rejects you. B cssed and burdened with a wlfo and family, the .man of tho middle forties can't even ask to do the things he dreams ot doing, bingle, he learns of a blood pressure ho never even know he had. Too old to march with the parade, too young to stand contentedly on tho sidewalk and watch ho lags along, hopeful that ho will bo let carry water, and ashamed to be seen doing it Days like these one should be twenty and well In It or seventy and certainly out of ItNew York Sun. .. j THE BOOKS WE READ It may be wo think less of our modern books and authors than wo should for the reason that there Is Buch an abundance of both. You know there Is an old "ay?ng that there may be too much of a good thing. And so It may be with our modern literature, though we are frank to say-we much prefer the old, If apathy can be said to have a preference. Wo do not care for the Roman classics, nor the old Greeks' and the great overwhelming majority are as we are. As a matter of fact we would rather read Hope or O'Hara than Homer or Horace; and Shakespeare ever always. before Aeschylus, Sophocles' Menander, Euripides and all the rest of them. Cervantes, Mollere. Goethe and Scott are admirable Youngstown (O.) Vindi cator. A. KNIGHT ON JUST WAR War ought never to be accepted until II is forced upon us by the hand of necessity Sir Philip Sidney. H "siiy. SONO OF THE SENSITIVE POET I love the reddened autumn moon I love, the smell of fields, ' I Iqve the silent midnight moot( And the romance it yield. I loverthe mists all gemmed with star The roadsldo shapes and sheaves ' I love the twinkling liguts afar, ' The burning of (he; leaves. I loVe It all (a Una or two, in ' melancholic , spite 1 ExotH.IkU.th chauffeurs who - mhm tts'sUrHt nltht v H Whcrt Do You Know? QUIZ 1. Mint wan "The FrderolUt" i litml t mo uuinoraf ( 3. Ilotv lone Is n meter. In Inrbflt 3. ho Is Major Henrr L. Hitfiam? 4. What Is arhor vltnc? 5. .Name the painter st the moil ttmu'U Supper." ; 6. Who Is civilian head of the CallW I nmppinc lionrar 7. "What la coloratura? 8. Hy what name were the mtefmli of Venice called" 0. Identify "the Wliard of the Nerti" 10. Where urn the greatest three SIT7 I on ine Atlantic aeuiraarti; Answers to Yesterday's Quit ifl ' 1. Viscount Toudrar. nmildeat7ef the 1 Air Hoard, hnn rcalrned all DMt 1 Jiit has been erected Into a nelaela lalry. 2. The frnnclnanl U tree Jntt ta I Smith Mik Ktflndl. barliu neanai odoriferous (lower, the eiMcare el l la uhfil lor a popular ptriuoe. 1 Ti. ,. ..a- ,1 v. ICJIit -,. iiivrHNa ruiu dip .... .. -,, . ,r la baaed on American ueire thM! 4. Churl,. nrnck,1n llmwn. of PhtlUtWIH vvn tho flrnt American norelM- ,! wrote liliiniy urnmano uuea lion, muruuinrM hiiu ,.. 3. The name Tammany ! Tirn i chief of the l.ennl iMepe, unallail Tamanin IT. A unisr fnn iu nil A tllatltM to M0V I nu fprilllzpr. . . .m 7. VUfotiiit Ilrjce, formfr DrUUh -l a I.. ITxU.J ajnt sjm uur iu imp hiii TTaTTa' Ti I A marlrnn fammnrltt MUD. .' 1 8. The opera "Aldo". was mittta ri on commission of the MMtiJfj" J for the tnaiiaurai 01 in" V""V Itouao In 1S71. .. . 0. A "coun d'etat." WeralU'fc J "atroke of ntnte." means a i lorrnui ponurwi niw.r. r ., I in. v . Mrtronolltan Muicom f Sn Central I'nrk. New Yark, - " THE HORSES OF VENICE- THE bronzo horses of Saint raj added another Journey to their m . a . -1 - 4 1... nnfi A tfitflCL M travels mruusn umv iiii fomniia u.AsMlfl llfiLablo US ft WOW -. i iMtnA cvnlivnT In trtaflurtsof I etuu in vutiwvi mMv --- ,Ai lure, iiuiiikiut, mis ."", ' u j celebrated possessions of tho J?"y IIIU1IV' imvv' .J saM rr.i:,.ri iinit. Basilica of Saint Mark In daysta To pilgrims whose Ideal f'" in i,o Hmitirht "Bevond tne ! . .. , Io vnlM." til iiaiy, anu in vij ..-Mr MM of art. the proud mien, the fine rJI natural poso of the horses mane it" JM Gallery of the Basilica, where th W i ono of the revisited Venetian polo W"Jfl Interest w Ith the Campanu w. -;- ann iner noteu iiciiih "-: i i. jtt And now the horses are Uckjn oi ... h.w .vime OUt Of J""" have had a checkered and -chMgUir ij . .innr,i,,m and a Has.' aioro man u rani" - j. . . . i... inft Home, f" they stood for hundreds of years Man of the triumphal arch of Nero, V2i Bi.lratlon tradition nscrlDes "'f-,"- The purpose of celebrating one ois.j rles of war or statesmanship, or mj" i . njiii. in thA nrena of an, - ? ?!??. PIVS!!!..0.. Tewfi rin. nf Rnme unknown artist, wiw well because of his wtlsrt iJ by virtue of a Caesar's commlM i,r.. hove been placed for .V',S during the war In tho Baths of w- ..X"I"?K?"V,rtTi3 to WJ naniinopio ; ?""Crnee in JJH1 liowiy lounueu eu. ",: . m were taken to Venice by the ngrn Knrico Dandolo. He was the luw J Venetians among the Cruajen nnj Constantinople In 1.203. Thus na , revenge by taking the my . "'In ,, j Dean aurunvcu -,. ana anucicu. - v.. to the Byzantine JWW went as envoy winded by the Emperor w"Tj was elected Doge I Venetian" power and Crusade gave him nw wuVt ""& vengeance on Stamboul J j.. portion one-half of Const an y, '..., .. in uns. nlmost a """ Rntihin. iris monument .Vuw C1 th.W6.tam eomiuest in U ; ,, ViievSSffl TheConV'srovlee.whtchrert , of Bonanarllzed Burope., resj steeds to thq'VenetUss, wn?y fCBCU inci" '"J VJ1 4i I UM..rg'rT.!TCr I't ",. . 1 "-IW'VJ . rTuJ r'l . -v. V.Y i yL ,. ""Ii.BJ'IJ, ;.,. i J fetT-KT .'-A... L -7?L .1. ' .wc A . '! 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