. COMPANY a. ytee PnMdMtiMHl C. id Treaeurari rbitj . Hpuneon. i RIAli BOAAS) ; X CtlTit, Chairman .Kaiter flNw.Onrl Buelneea Mmuw T at PoeLia .na Building, IBM tiAMBM TMlaiflfttlL. l,...Dro4 and Cheetnul Htreeta . . . . Jre- Union Bulldlno ,....; 20fl Metropolitan Tow.r ...I........ Ford Iiu M)n ........ i.. ...100H Fullerton Ilulldlnc I.MiMii, uo: mmi Duiiami .Vmwii nuniixilsi Atr. tr. Pennsylvania. An., and 14th St. WD. , The Sun liulldtoi V. ....4...Marconl House. BtraTid tp.o S3 Hue L4ula Urana ,VBUBCRIPTION TERMS IM1 Pueuo mmii Is eerved to euo- rlliaaeipnia ana lurroun'uni uw.- twelve (IS) cento par wtek. parable to"plnl outside of rhtUrf.lelit. In . States. Canada or United Stetee poe- (Mace tree, nttr mup cema pr i. now psr year, PJr"D",JL,,m"-r,""- oreum countrloe on (11) dollar per Aiit,.r1hrs vrishln address chanced i 010 u well new maim. ' .. ' VALNUT KEYSTONE. MAIM MM oil eommunlcntfom to K''!n, J!v,t0 . inojprnarnce ggvBiri n.n......"-. iat T riitt.nti.riiu mt omc it itOOMl CI.SM MAIL M1TTIH. JsloUs, Sstordsr. Dccembec K. 1417 UBOR PAINS OP TIME" gains or the arts of peace liave tya .been made in the midst of war. l't the crisis of Holland's lone strug- . threw ntt ttin vnk. nf Knnln Hint the. ..... - ,-... ... -,.. Ei- .... a - .. M.1- uy oi L,eyucn was lounueu. ine rs of the fifties and sixties of the Ittury did not hinder Bessemer from lionizing the manufacture of steel. ven wrote his "Erolca" to the tunc tnr . . neon s cannon, which for a time nc I were blasting freedom through the I of Europe. Later he denounced the r..... . .... J4 out in me meantime me u rum iucing the Code Napoleon, putting tangled legal system on a sound the first time in fifteen hundred Either was first used to kill pain e were In the thick of our war with roven with world politics and world IMtr being an Intense form of politics tho great creative pattions. This Is (raise war; It is to prulsc the police. gigantic riot broke out In 1914. ave had to mobilize about 35,000,000 en in England, France, Italy and' Edison could not have worked in I we called peace times if armed men Bt walked our streets. There will Ire ssors of Edison If armed men do eJk the streets of the trenches. not a flippant nor an avnriclous r.that prompts a satisfaction In the lis of wartime. Invention rushes 'at breakneck speed. In airplaning liere have been enough discoveries clentlsts a decade of work; for I learned in ono science affects every etence; a wireless device put Into may reappear as a :iew uppliance try a dozen years from now. Art, courage and pain, climbs a new reverberates to us from tho trench t J?t "t home, not privileged to die ay. are not to profit from these Lsv ' lm wartime any, more than the sol- t'for the full harvest will not bo I until we are In our dotage or dead. -making a new world nut nt theen ouc wo win not prom at the hoi- . eiDense. No one will renlK- in!n hut wi , " CT Kwho are young children now. iverybody cared as much for children r'tilmself this war would go through to Its end as on the wings of a jtjpeace or war to find new ways to anas, ieea Armenian urchins, bring VIA tnll? Tt- U .1t.,- ......... .. M.la life, which is cbovo peace and Blldren have been born every day .last three years and 148 days, a non that was neither of peace nor b Peace and war are Inextricably ?How many army corps were killed trial accidents and rotting slums 'we called neace times ami w .11,1 a nnger stupidity nnd greed war on us and captured Verdun rdun. We did not T?ake up till a 41a, Scourge1 of God, hammered on .gates. -we to look forward to generations tj Says the Secretary of War In universal military training: ormatlon of a permanent military fwlll Inevitably be affected by the ar- ioni consequent upon tne ttnnlna fthe present war. Civilized men pe that the future has (n store a However vain that hope f it persists DerhODs . W are encouraged by the analo- Kituuon or courts for force In the t.,of private cor troversles; per. an the perfections of nature Flfcat they are the product' of proc- i have eliminated waste and tub. , gawtructlve for destructive prln. V re principles! Have wo not 'hye years of Industrial war '?' We can win. this wax quite till be sowing the, seeds of pat Industrial wars to come Via' the enmities of the past. nt peace we talk of, so much here and now, from day to ' mm wwii nun wii vnviny zrin4a.of tomotrow: whom we '.because we 'mean to be their friends la the daya I FOR SOLDIERS ur"'loys for Christ- Uncle Mem mp$ fMagrr JQKJ (FUJI I l. y1T-.J .' ,; .-'i .. f afcf atl6al, servlce.ata source eeimand respect. Acquiescence vas made' wherever possible without Impair ment ot military organization. Christmas in the great feast of thft American home, and even If tho mothers' .plea that families be united for it received Government assent simply as a concession to sentiment, honoring that sentiment was a wise and beautiful thing. This year our soldiers are In the mnln within easy reach of homo In their assigned can tonments; next, year, when they nre "over there," they cannot Join In the festivities about tho Christmas trco. Objection raised to Vuletido furloughs on the ground that the return of men from the camps would add to transportation congestion dwindled In face of tho fact that If the boys were not sent home for Chilstmus the congestion was suro to bo much greater, Instead nf individuals traveling liomewnitl, extensive family visitations would have been made to the camps to maintain the Spirit of tho season, tcsultlng in tho overcrowding of railroad trulns and great discomfort all around. THE UNTAltnOXADLK SIN Till; I.uxburg disclosure tell us nothing new about tho heart and soul of Kulscr Ism's methods of denting with neutral countries. WJ know tho source that gave us Uernstorff mid his crew must have been ono mass of corruption, It was tinthlnk oblo tht.t a Government which could use Its envoys nt tho capital of a great Vower as agents of destruction would show a generous, high-minded spirit toward smaller nations. The Argentine revelations, however, bring out with startling distinctness the broad hcopo of this treason to humanity. All South America, together with JIcxlco and Japan, was to bo united In an 'ever lasting enmity for the United States. To what purpose7 We could understand nn open appeal from lierlln to the neutrals for action to Insure that Germany got fair play. Sir. Wilson publicly appealed to the neutrals tn sever connections with Germany, but with tho specific purpose of restoring International law. The neutrals could consider tho proposition and take tt or leave it. In contrast with this mo Her Hit's secret whisperings, falsifications, promises nnd threats In nil the neutral capitals for no other purpose than to beat down her foes een nt tho cost of sowing eternal feuds between peoples that for generations had lived in neighborly friendship with no dream of disputing with one another. This is nil "old stuff." Everybody knows about it. Hut often through sheer wcarlneps of hearing an old tale the minds of men become blunted to those Intolerable outrage and they forget to mention them when the pacifist fires Ills narrow little arguments. Theio was reason enough for us to go to war with Germany for her acts In South America and JIcxlco aliine, it re spective of the U-boat question. JUSTICE MISCAMUES VEItUICT IN MASCIA Is tlitic any Justice In Philadelphia? Jlrs. Teresa Kppley. WEI.I, may this indignant ;uc-tl(iu be asked by the mother of Policeman Eppley, foully slain in performance ot his 0vy by ti political plugugly imported with his gunman gang, hired to win tho "Bloody fifth Ward" for a plumlorlmnd, consciously willing to be a miirdcrbuml, as tho price of a stolen victory at the polls. The verdict of u secoud-degice murder was u gross miscarriage of Justice. Mrs. Eppley Is right in her feeling. The Court supports this view. In pronouncing j-en-tence of the maximum penalty on Jlasclu, the actual 'slayer. Judge Carr said that the evidence presented clearly warranted a verdict In the first degree, Ills charge to the Jur' should have brought such n te turn. The carefully prepared testimony of the Commonwealth Justified no other de cision. The Jury exercised its constitu tional light of relativity of judgment; but according to tho commentary of the Court, exercised it badly. Possibly it realized that, after all, Mascla was merely uu Ignorant tool. FISH TO THE FORE WE CAN expect to hear more and more of fish as time goes on. Time was when fish was considered the brain food and nerve food of tho race par excellence. It may not bo all of that, but it from time out of mind has served as the equivalent of meat In many communities where cat tle are not easily obtainable. One would expect to find that England, depending on the outside world for food, would have increased her fish takings during tho war. But this has not been the casd. Before the war tho British yearly supply wus 1,200,000 tons. In 1314 it was only 881,000, In 1915 it fell to 427,000 and in 1918 to 408,000. fishing boats had to be used In naval defense; U-boata had made many fishing grounds unavailable. Unaffected by U-boats, America has mado immense strides In fisheries. The figures give a cheerful aspect to the food problem. The Bureau of fisheries has done wonders in developing the wealth ot our coast und Interior waters in the lat year, the output of the hatcheries having passed the G,000,. 000,000 mark. The value of Alaskan canned salmon for the year Is $40,000,000, twlco last year's record, and more than the yield of 'the territory's gold fields. There have been unusually heavy catches along the Pacific coast, a signal assistance to our selves and our Allies. Increased postal rates are reaping a quick harvest of millions for the postoffice. That leaves little excuse for slow malls. Germans seem to hdve the Insane Idea that all they have to- do Is to capture Parts to end the wa,r. They might capture the continent of Europe and still be as far from success as when they started. Old Father Neptune Is a factor In this titanic struggle, and he Just dotes on the. Allies. 1 The additional gas tax, It .appears, will actually go to the dependents of widows and children. It's a funny way of raising money, but eem; to be a con cession to theprlnciple that the tax Is not JuUW!QnVeDd U excusable on chart-1 Hi ? J! 'h M PENNYPACKEfe AUTOBIOGRAPHY Judge Pennypacker's Address When the Court of Common Pleas Was Moved to City Hall Formed the Basis for the Reconstruction of Congress Hall (('opyrltht. 1017. hj TuMIc Wnr Companj) Tin- Intfallmttil of Ootrrnor Innprkfr' "AutoMoirnphr ot ft rmnatltanMn" trmnornrllr nlll ifpi.rar on the rdllorlnl pnee of the Ktenlnt I'ulllc l.rdrtr. CHAPTER IX CONTINUED ON THK evening of November 1. lH94, Henry Wnttcrson. of Kentucky, one of tho most famous Journalists of tho day, lec tured In the Academy of Music. The Union League, of which 1 was thpn n member, gave him a dinner, nnd several ot us mado speeches at him. He was rather h fierce looking little. man. wearing n big mustache, but as wo got nearer to him we found him genial and companionable. On September lt. 1895, the Courts of Common Pleas formally abandoned their former place ot meeting, nt Sixth nnd Chestnut streets, nnd moved to their looms in tho City Hall, nt Broad und Market streets. On Invitation 1 mado nn address to tho bench nnd bar nfter having thor oughly studied the associations connected with Congress Hall. This address was printed by a committee of tho bar consist ing of Kdwnrd Shlppen. George Tucker Illspham nnd Samuel Dickson. I'D t that time little nttentlon had been given to the history of Congress Hull, but it then came Into vogue. At ono time tho city offered U for sale, but the Colonial Dames took hold ot the matter, and with effort persuaded the city authorities to -undertake its restora tion. They and the architects depended upon my paper for their information, and its effect was, therefore, helpful not only to the city, but to the nation. When the building was reopened In 1013 Woudiow Wilson, President of the United States, and Champ Clark, Speaker of the House of Iteprcsentatlves. were piesent on tho invi tation of Mayor Blankenburc; but they knew little about tho hUbJect. and perhaps cared less, and the architect then told mo that ho had made his reconstruction, and the agent ot the Associated Pi ess told mc ho had bated Ills report for the country, upon tho facts I had given them. The papers were not only a historical investiga tion, but could be Included among what tho cataloguers of books call facetiae, be cause of a reference they contain to Gen eral Henry Knox, unearthed from a con temporary description of him. Upon going to the City Hall the Judges put on the silk towns which they have slnco worn when performing their duties. Heath of Joseph U. Whitaker tn 1895 my Undo Joseph P.. Whitaker died. He was a bachelor, about hcventy one years of age, inithtciful but good hearted, who had u great 1 fluence upon my fortunes. He left property of the value of perhaps a million dollars, which on his dentil lie distributed among his nieces and neph ews, and lie made mo one of his executors. Amid the vicissitudes of my later life among politicians the fact that 1 had my own resources on which to lely saved me fiom those intimations which me ho often ruthlessly and recklessly made concerning those holding public office. The same year 1 became ono of tho vice presidents of tho Hlstoilcal Society of Pennsylvania, the president ot the Pennsyl vania German Society and the lieutenant governor of the Colonial Society. One of the brightest letorts, In baseball language "right off the bat." I have ever known occurred in the trial ot n case before mo about this time. The question was the right of. an alleged political party to have a place on the printed ballot. John C. Bell, afterward Attorney General under Governor John K. Tener, represented tho applicants, and James Gay Gordon, later n Judge In .No. 3 Court, represented tho oppo nents. Bell's client, u noisy fellow, told how lie and two or three others had met on a liroad street corner and concluded to organize a new party. Bell, when lie came to tho argument, explained this rather dubious beginning by saying that It often happened In nature that important matters had an Insignificant origin, that the ncorn might become a mighty oak and the Ama zon Blvcr, 150 miles wide at Its mouth, started in a little rill in the Andes Moun tains. "Yes," said Gordon In reply, "but this party began In a big mouth and ends in a little rill." In December, 1890, Judge Hare resigned from the bench after a servlco of forty-five years, and the effect of his withdrawal was to make me President Judge ot tho court. My commission was read and I assumed tho diitfes December 13. One day Sulzberger and I sat in our room discussing the situa tion, and we concluded, when our advice should be asked, to suggest the appoint ment of J. Martin llommel, a. capable young law cr, as tho third member of the court, j A tap came upon the outside of tlio uoor. When It was opened In stepped Colonel Lewis E. Bcltler, a tall person with a mili tary air, who said: "At tho command of Governor Hastings I como 'to present his compliments and to inform you that l.e has concluded to appoint Jlr. William W. Wilt bank to the vacancy In this court." And he did. Judge Wlltbank was a descendant of Bishop William White and ot General William MacPherson, of tho Revolutionary army. He had been on officer In tho War of the Rebellion. He had a considerable practice and had had long experlr.c at the bar, and le possessed a technical knowledge ot the law as well as Intelligence. His mental processes were a little prone to be stiff, prim and formal. Ho never would permit himself to precede me In going through a doorway. He was almost horri fied when he found me sitting on a boot black stand on tho street having my boots blacked. He made an excellent Judge and distinctly strontthened his professional reputation by'golng on the bench. In Holland nnd England In 1897 I took my three daughters, Jo sephine Whltake.r, Eliza Broomall and Anna Maria Whitaker, to Europe and wo spent the most of the time tn Holland and England. It Is one of the comforts of my life that I have spent a month of It In Holland. The Englishman, with a capacity for organization and a. force of character which has made Itself felt In the world. Is a surly sort' of creature and retains many of the original brutal Instincts. This fact Is shown In all ot his dealings with weaker peoples. Tho Dutchman, while inheriting from theisame ancestry the strong traits of courage, tenacity and the willingness to .surrender Individual Inclinations I r order to 1 -.... i . . .. ... good humor, which Is a gifcat saving grace. In tho English Channel a dense fog settled down over us. One morning I was on deck leunlng over tho rull toward the prow lis tening to the horns wlllch nppcared to be blowing In uil directions around us. Sud denly there loomed up bcfoic mc, out of tho fog, not more than twenty or thirty feet nwny, tho sharp nose of a steamer, the Maine, coming directly for tho fclde of our vessel. Tho deck hands on botli boats yelled aloud nnd ran to tho far side of each In order to avoid tho splinters, A collision Fcemed Inevitable and ours was to bo the steamer ruinnied. I hung over tho rail only nnxlous to see.thut it did not strike, before passing, tho stateroom of my daugh ter Josephine, almost beneath mc, though n little further toward the stern. When that point was passed I felt n scnt'o of relief, though 1 was told my face was bloodless. The passengers who were nbout ran to get life preservers. Uy skill ful seamanship on both bouts the officers nnd ciews managed to keep them apart and the Maine swept by. almost grazing us. Then there was a mighty cheer on hoth boats, There was a tlinltl lot of passengers for the rest of tho trip. One man wore a life preserver the whole time and we all shall icmcmbcr the Maine. Pnnncbiikkeis nnd Others At Antweip our hotel was near the cathedral and its chimes rang every fifteen minutes through the night. We rode in a sticet cur out to Hoboken, a village thrco or four miles Inland. At Amsterdam wo had rooms at tho Hotel Amstcl. The fields around the city urc divided off, not by fences as with us nt home, but by ditches filled with sea water, und there Is but ono entrance for the big black-and-white cattle which seem to lie never hungry and always Ijing down, and that is through a gate. Ono d.iy Josephine, who Is something of nn nrtlst, nnd 1 went through one of theso gates in order to give her nn advantageous location fiom which to make a sketch of a tower. She made her sketch. While wo were so engrossed ono of the farm boys locked the gate and we discovered that we weio hold as prisoners. I would lme enjoyed caning the Dutch scamp, but In stead I was compelled to pay a ransom while he nnd some companions laughed with glee. On nuritlicr day my brother Isaac nnd I went til Utrecht and there hunted up Jan Pnimchakkcr.. n goldsmith and Jow eler, with whom I had corresponded. The earliest of tho niimo of whom 1 have knowl edge was burned to death by tho Spaniards as ii heretic nt Utrecht fn 15GS, nnd these cheerful Christians likewise drowned Ills wife. Wo took Jan, whom wo found to be an agreeable, black-eyed man, with a pleas ant wife nn'il a family of well-educated child! on, to Gorciim or Gorlnchem with us In older to make some Investigations nnd to seo tho church In one ot whoso windows tho arms of tho family at an early dato had been painted upon glass. Ho did not know a word ot English, nnd such conversa tion as was maintained throughout the day had to bo conducted In Dutch., AVo crossed tho North Sea from flushing to the mouth of tho Thames und spent a week in Lon dou. While there we visited tho British Museum, witii its Immense collections ot literature und art, und tho Kcv Gardens, with their many varieties of flowers and shrubbery. AVo stood on London Bridge, rodo on top of tho omnibuses and saw again on the Strand the- tangle caused by the vain effort of the Englishman to solve modern transportation by tho extension of tho old method ot cab service. With all of his capacity, the Englishman Is a little stiff In Ids mental Joints and, therefore, slow In ills movement. I saw outside of Coventry a woman, born in the house in wlllch sho lived, who had never seen tl)e nearest village, only three miles nway. I found, it I wanted n carriage from a liv eryman the only safe course was to givo an order he day before. In something of a hurry, I went to a man at Coventry, as I would havo' done at home, and told him I wanted his carriage and driver. Ho began by feeding the horses, then he had them groomed, presently he brought out tho carriage and had it washed; and greased. After all of these preliminaries were com pleted and the horses stood there har nessed, I supposed wo were ready to start. By no means. He then had to dress him self and put on that ugly long .hat with out which no man with a proper sense of his dignity would think of driving a team. My object was to go to BosWorth. It was fifteen miles away. No traveler had ever before nsked ' to be driven to Bosworth, and ho did not know tho roads. I sug. gested that we might Inquire as we went along and find them, adding that It was time for him to learn the way to a place so famous. Three or four miles from Coventry we turned a sharp corner, r.p proachlng the little village of Fenny Dray, ton. On tho corner was a lot overgrown with weeds, In the center of which stood a stone. "What does that'stono mark?'' I usked. "I do not know," he replied. "Stop the coach and let mo see." The inscription told me that on that spot stood the house In which George fox, the founder of the Quakers, had been born. had stumbled upon an Interesting site, replete with asso clatlons of Interest to a Pennsylvanlan, and I felt repaid for the trip. We reached Bosworth after the noon meal, but learned that we were In Bosworth market-town and still not at the battlefield, The driver objected to going any further. Among other Incentives, one of my forefathers had been killed at Bosworth and I did not pro pose to get that near to the field without seeing It, so I Insisted and told htm to rest Ills horses for an hour and feed them. All that the tavern people could give us to eat was the remnant ot a cold leg of Iamb, and nothing could have been more palatable. While In England I cultivated an admiration for sheep from which I havo never recovered. After reaching the neighborhood of the battlefield I stopped at a rectory, and the rector, an Intelligent gentleman, pointed out to me the way across two or three Intervening fields. In a vale, between low hills stood a rude monument, of rough stone twenty feet high, marking the spring where Itlchard III was killed to make way for another line of English kings. He died In November, 1915. KHBBB CAN'T A FAMILY MAN DREAM STRANGE CONGRESS HUNTS A NEW KIND OF ENERGY In Addition to Its Other Investigation's, It Encourages Mr. Giragos sian, Inventor of a New Species of Force Spcvlal Correspondence nf the .'renins Til!) lie Lcitflcr . WASHINGTON, Dec. SI. IT MAY not bo patriotic to say that con fusion reigns In certain departments having to do with the war, but many observers ntu Inclined to bcllevo that statement Is true. Uncertainty prevails even In Congress as In what tlio futuro may bring forth. Money for war was appioprlated so lavishly nt tlio last session of Congress as to Inxlto much of the trouble that Is now brewing. Congress has already begun several investigations, no tably In tho Army and Navy Departments, and It can be set down as a suro thing that the Shipping Board, which litis hid a brief but exciting career, will come In for a searching Inquiry. Congress wants to know why the war has not been prosecuted with more diligence, and the departments will undoubtedly bo called upon to glvo up much of their valuable time to explain. It wns tho understanding at the last session that only war business would be transacted and everything wus mado to give way to war appropriation bills. Tills session, we nre told, will be devoted to war business if It can be held down to that ; but already, In addition to Investigations Into war transactions, a variety of new legis lation Is making Us appearance, Including the demand of the federal farm Loan Board for $'J00, 000,000 to finance the operations of this experimental Institution, which was expected in the beginning to finance Itself through the manipulation ot loans to farmers. The Senate passed this extraordinary meas ure reducing the amount to be taken out of the Treasury to $100,000,000, but a fili buster In the House in the closing hours of the day on which the recess was taken pre vented final action thereon. It h decreed, however, that the bill shall have Immediate consideration when Congress resvmes nfter tho holidays and that all opposition to it will bo overcome, The difficulty about a bill of this kind Is that while It looks like a deliberate draft upon publlo funds to aid cei tutu sections of the country, It Is by no means a partisan measure, since it commands support from Hepubllcan members as well as from Democrats who come from country districts. t It Is not clear how the withdrawal out of the publlo treasury of $200,000,000 or $100,000,000 from war funds to negotiate farm mortgages Is a vital war measure, hut such it Is held to be. To meet this objection the bill will probably be so amended as to provide in some way that ''production" shall be encouraged on the farm where the loan is negotiated. That will bring it within the terms 'of war. Cobgress does peculiar things at times. Some of its enthusiastic leaders indulged In patriotic paroxysms a few days ago over an unrevealed discovery of a man named ylragosslau, who seems to have completely mesmerized the membership of the Patents and Ilules Committees of the House. It was said for Ulragosslau that "It he had what he said he had," which was all the evi dence produced before Congress, then he would be Indeed "the world's greatest bene factt'r." What Glragosslau told his devoted supporters was that he had discovered a new force not a Keeley motor, no but a new source of energy which, If he could go into partnership with tfie Government to develop It, would enable him to put our army and navy In poaltlon to end the war. It was a weird sort of proposition ami very unusual, since inventors and discoverers are numerous In Washington : but the bill uassed the House, notwithstanding the President himself had failed to sign a similar bill bt the clone of the last session. The advantage which this special law would give this un known but apparently influential discoverer would brf a direct certificate of character and authority which all other discoverers and inventors are obliged to obtain in the regular way from the Patent Office. When reminded th;t Glragosslan was seek ing a special privilege his supporters Insisted merely tha't "if he had what he said he had" then he had something that the United States ought to have; meanlnr that It the United States got It first the fate of Germany would soon be decided. Of 'course, It Is to be hoped that Mr. Glragosslan "has what he thinks he has." Congress certainly places a great deal 'of confidence In him. , Congress may not have reversed itself on the States' rights' question, but certain Con gresaraen seem to have done so on the pro hibition vote. Those who favored the pro hibitory amendment wsrt chiefly from the -rt LL. southerners, of course, being the laigcr num. ber. As the doctrine of States' lights had Its homo In the itoutli, although lecently adopted by ninny northerners who have observed the tendency of the Administration to federalize almost everything, It was amusing to see the gentlemen from the southern States hop, skip and jump on this proposition. One of tho sarcnstlc members from the South recalled that tho leader of the prohibi tion forces, Mr. Webb, of North Carolina, had delivered some very learned utternnce's In support of States' rights on tho child-labor hill. The House tittered", this allusion be cause it remembered that the distinguished chairman nf tho Judiciary Committee, when opposing tho child-labor law because it Inter fered with the sovereign rights of North Cnrollna to inanagb Its own affairs, had taken a position that seemed to bo directly antag onistic to that taken by him as the proponent of a federal law to compel the States to yield their sovereignty on the liquor ques tion to the federal Government. But Mr. 'Webb won out on the prohibition amendment, defeating tho forces of Mr. Gomp ers. who opposed It, nnd receiving the plaudits of Mr. Bryan, who favored It, so what did he care? And as to the child-labor law, with true legal Intuition, Mr. Webb contends It Is entirely different from the prohibition nnend ment and In due course will be held by the Supreme Court of the United States to bo unconstitutional. The chairman of the Ju. dlclary Committee points to the decision of the courts ot North Carolina to sustain this viewpoint. in another Instance Congress or at least some Congressmen laid themselves open to criticism during the short -session. The news papers had prodded them all about exempting themselves from taxes, and some of them, as suming the charges were correct, which they were not, hastened to square themselves with their constituents by Introducing bills to correct the so-called "mistake" in the war-tax law. When debate opened It soon developed that there was no mistake at all and that Congressmen wero subject to tax, the income tax. the supertax nnd the excess profits tax,. Just like anybody else, ,The leadew concluded, however, that it would be better to emphasize tho fact by the passage of an amendment which they permitted to go through, not, however, with out including the President nnd tho Justices of the Supreme Court and other federal Judges who hitherto have been presumed to be exempt under-the Constitution. The Pres. Ident receives $75,000 a year and a large amount for traveling expenses. Why should he be tax free? wns the argument of those who forced their amendment on tho leaders J. HAMPTON .MOOBE. What Do You Know? 7, QUIZ ,",irs;,"d,!fd'i'"ollfrce'T" " " M "" Where I Astrakhan? Who I tilth-man cf the War Traile hoily? What U rhararlerlitlc of Tudor architecture; What U khlre? Name the author of "The niilow I'aprra." Why la a thermometer as ralledr Which l Ilia Tarheel Htnle? Who la Sultan of Turke? What l h mural palatini; Answers toYesterday's Quiz ' 1, Mr Erie Geddea f the Ilrltlih Flr.t Lord t 110 AUinilBIIJ. vtr I In th eitremr northwestern rorner of neltium. k few iiiIIm from tlio French frontier. It In now held br the.Urltlih. 3, Instinct l the Innate propentltr. particularly in (he Joer anlmaln. to certain aeemlnilr rational acta performed without ronncloua deln. roiiolilered to be the developed aur viral of old hablta. 4, Circa waa nn encliantremr ubo waa rcituted to have tho power of lurnlni men into boo. Sjhe Hsurea In the vranderlnsa of iJljraaea. 8. "Tho Culprit Far" waa written br Joaeph Rodman Drake (UBJ-IMO). It ma the Prat auatalned work ot l rival Imagination r an American poet. . Ohio la the Buckere State. 7. Amendment!. to the Federal Cenotltatlen are Eropawd br two-tblrda vote of both oueea of Consroaa or br it convention railed by Contreaa At the reaneat ef the 1-oiitluture pf tno-thlnta of 41ieal siatea. -io oeeome operative proneaed amendmenta. muat bo refilled br three feurtbe of the NUtea. either throasb the .eslilaturee or br ronventlone In the eev ernl (Malta, according to the dolmatlon ef Conireas. t Article V.) I. Jamee Madlaen waa called 'The Father of the Constitution,1' 9. Heat la the klnelle and potential enerfr of lavtalble maleeulM ef hail... aafcla .1 V ' (A'fs''' rj&gs??jf?$fi ,k''v " Hpkt' ""SSrtfSfty? ? f'V THINGS" ABbtfT . .',.- -i Tom Daly's Column THE VILLAGE POET Whenever it's n Saturday nn all my work is through There's still u lot of patriotic work for mc to do, An' so I grab my hammer an' a good, stout noil or two An' saunter forth on Chestnut street to sec what lies are new. I como upon n knot of men who gossip at a bar, An' one remarks: "You'd hardly guess how rotten some things arc, But here's it bit of news I got from one that's in the know A-lot of soldiers in the camps go barefoot in the snow! "An' then they say there's other lads the winds .of winter pierce Because they have no overcoats; the e'eath rate's something fierce " . The stsncil "Made in Germany" is plain upon such rot, An' so I take my hammer out an' nail it on the spot. A little further on I hear that ancient sweater tale That no ono seems to hold in place with any kind of nail. The yarn about this sweater is tho thin nest kind of stuff, (There's no need to repeat it, for you've heard it quite enough; , An' how the girl who made it for her "Jim" or "George" or "Jack" Had recognized the garment on a Red Cross worker's back). An' so, although I fear me nil my work will go for naught, I take my little hammer out an' nail it on the spot. I meet the talc of Tumulty arrested as a spy. The tale of wild extravagance that's making coal so high, The news that John D, Rockefeller paid the President for war To bolster up his millions an' to bring him many more. An' gosh! the silly things I hear have made me feel so vexed I've got a blame good nption just to nail the liars next. It's just a plain, black German mind that starts such tommyrot An' oh! to draw my hammer out un' nail one on the spot! So, now, upon this Saturday, when oil my work is through. I'm hopeful for that bit of patriotic work to do, An' flourishing my hammer an' a good) ' stout nail or two I sally forth on Chestnut street to see what lies are new." NATIONAL POINT OP VIEW Look pleasant and feel warm! Coal Is $230 the ton In Denmark. Washington Herald. A large Income Is the only really satis factory labor-saving device. Atchison Globe. (ieneral Allenby will at an early date tell Jersusalem kindly but firmly that it might as well make up Ha mind to be well sewered. Chicago Herald. Poor overworked Cincinnati I The drys are going to precipitate another anti-liquor campaign next year in spite of her 57,000 wet majority. St. Louis alobe-Democrat. The authorities aeem to have Interned about all the leaders ot the symphony or chestras now and we. hope they'll get down to the saxophone players In a few days. -Grand Itaplda Press. Cincinnati can boast as mucd as any other city that she has those of German ances try and even those ot Clerman birthplace who are making the fight, whole-heartedly against the Intolerable system and spirit of our enemy, Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Norway has lost EOOO sailors during tiia war aa a result of Germany's ruthless nub murine campaign, Thus does the Kaiser evi dence hla zealous regard for the rlglrtn of the small neutral nation. Hut than., necea- Uy knows, no, law that Is, Qornian MO; vMSfr0' fTINUBD 'MONDAY) " ' V'" ', w uaj, Jiwa.aa-utapaica. ,
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