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IISTORIC BLUNDER POINTS
A MODERN MORAL
mis Tpiian nttnnmteil tr rnno tin..
Sinih provinces nnd failed. Tho Ger-
in claim to Schleawlg-Holstcln was
w ...
anaea on a mytn mat reacnea duck to
time of King Oorm tho OM. who hail
ned In Denmark In pogt-Charlcmagno
iods. Tho merits of tho controversy
bean understood thoroughly by one
n. but he went mad. Subsequently two
era, after year1 of study, mustered thu
Bants of tho Ibsuo and they disagreed.
ftAccordlngrly Austria, England, France,
PrttMla and Husula In 1832 entered Into
Ifa Compact that "tho state of tho posseH-
atens actually united undr thi Crown of
'JaVnmark should be maintained In lt.s In
jWcrlty." Prussia signed with a men-
PitsJ reservation, and liy 1863 It had be
x" .........
onto apparent mat ono imenueu 10 bpi
Schleswlr-IIolstetn In splto of all agree-
.. .- .-... ......, T..1.. D4 . l.n
JBI1VB, VUIIipttUi Ul LU'UUVn. .Ul) -O Ul UIUI
year Xord Palmerston doclarod In tho
House jot Commons that If any violent
attempt were muda to overthrow tho
-T-tht nnrt Int.trfprn iltli tho lndnend-
K.nce of Denmark, thoso who made tho at-
Stintpt would find In tho result that It
jwaum noi ue i-reiuuurti ttiunu wiin wmun
fUJy would havo to contend." Ulsmarck
iiiughed. Ho had pacifist agencies at work
IS kt" England and ho trusted them. In tho
fcilowlnc January ho sent tho Prussian
E armies into tho duchies, wnlch they
jZM J
K;lckly overran. Thereafter there was an
Lftrmuuce ami a conrcrcnco in London, but
r' was no moving Prussia from her
tlon and It became apparent that hoc-
fC,.."
would bo renewed.
LWeuld England fight? Palmerston was
'BO doubt as to what she ought to do,
j. , .- -
CCMtlnst him. At the meeting of the Cabl-
tit on Juno 23, the l'rlmo Minister held
W head down and acknowledged his dc-
ft;.tt in these words, "I think the Cabinet
Kj ttfainst war." That was Saturday and
nM Monday the Times announced in detail
XiS.
Ke result "of the most Important delibera
iB
."Wens in wnicn ungusn statesmen nave in
timo been etlgaged."
jjProbably tho Times would havo been
tfxtWe more emphatic as to tho importance
i,- m .It ,f . tt. 1 ., A a..
vaja;uje uenueruiiuna iiuu it kiiuwji inui mv
."tr...... . . . ....... . . ...
jsjreiusion reacneu was aesiinea to leaa
tue present mignt catastrophe, nut the
had supported the Inglorious policy
! pajclflsm and was to boo Prussia, having
ana bltA nf thft rhirr-. fnWn nnntlipr
JRiT " ...... -
I'.ln Austria, a third in l ranee and
turn to make the world its oyster.
ad had Indeed avoided a small war,
t'ihe had yielded to the highwayman:
t ... . .
iwuitaugnimm to Deucvetnat nocouia
t",hls will In spite of treaties; she had
jtted him to add to his strength and
' Mwlvlty she had allowed him to grow
lip stature of a giant. Tho rape of the
provinces was the prelude to tho
of 1114. Compromise had served, as
ally docs, simply to postpone tho
aettltment and have It found tinder
ely more Intricate and terrible con-
are pacifists who yet hope that
VL
Armies in France need never fight.
1 eyas are fixed on a negotiated Deace.
reare nothing about German asplra-
L, 'nothing about the commercial and
Juggernaut the Kaiser has built
Europe, for they know nothing
International politics is too deep
appreciation. They believe that
phrase i and formulas can bring
A
f.J peace, a few settlements of unlm-
(details providing the necessary
ge, and militarism being left in
el unbroken and unchecked. They
'!) do now what England did in
iilce honor and Interest for
ot realizing, as England did not
that peace with the present Oer-
iiM nnver be more than a truce.
of the leopard cling to him.
Eland nor the world can af-
another mistake now? We
4ce of the precipice and must
?0T ! ruined. Heaven help us
i frieked by diplomats or by our
i.we-ve ot totmnK straight
sheet: atrakcht. There la jio es-
. JC'Tba fourteen conditions of
ay, j-Twioerit vyiison con
ra ' BUI otJUghta. They
F'tka) iauajqaatiaoA mm
"wTO 'iW1 ''" ; witrraxTTivTN nrm-r-rn TTinnxm
lapses. Tho only kind of Germany wo are
willing to Jlvo with is the kind of Ger
many that we can live with. Such a Ger
many doos not now exist. Thcro is, there
fore, as Secretary Lansing stated in New
York Saturday, no hope of peace until
tho alms outlined by tho President are
definitely accepted and guaranteed by
some sort of German Government that can
bo trusted.
'LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY'
COLONEL IIOOSUVKLT sees universal
scrvlco as the great exemplar of citall.
tarlan principles. Speaking of tho army
llfo which puts "the son of tho, capitalist
and tho son of the day laborer Into tho
sany. dog tent," ho says:
Tnke any club In this city at this time
my own Hazard Club as an Instance-and
every day you will mid In It ulllcer snd
enlisted men of the nrmy and oflleerB und
enlisted men of tho n.iy, all In uniform,
all on a footing of self-reiectlnK equality:
and every man of them an example of
alert and orderly discipline wlillo on duty.
Of course, this Is so; wo nlmot feel tho
Colonel doth protest too much. H should
bo taken for giantcd that oHlcers rind
men are equals. Tho pollus and their cap
tains go arm nnd arm about the streets
of Paris with Just a bit more camaraderie
than Is to be seen here. In England old
barrlerH of class are being broken down,
but not without a tussle. A witty Km-lisl.
writer has noted that of tho three de
mands of tho Trench motto, "I.lbcit,
Equality, Fraternity," tho English have
been so busy getting tho first that tht
missed getting the second nnd thlid. In
AmeYlca them has been a historical rea
son for some show of caste In tho nrmy -the
fact that wo havo had until now u
very small and a very professional army.
But that Is of the past. Wo have a citizen
army. A Congressman Is rcrvlng as a
prlvnto soldier. Many In tho ranks havo
been moro usml to uhlnp orderH than to
taking them, and tho names of officers
who havo not been to West Point would
fill a library.
PROGRESS IN THE STOMACH WAR
rpiIE (.ocrnnient ntinouncft. that exports
- of foodstuffs Increased from $98,000,000
In October to $160,000,000 In Not ember.
Exports of foodstuffs for tho first eleven
months of 1817, however, were little greater
In valuo than for tho corresponding period
of tho preceding year, and Imports wero
valued at moro than half the valuo of
exports.
Money values, It appeals, aie not ade
quately exprerslo of tonnage, ov.Iiik to
tho fluctuation of prices. Tho gain In No
vember oer October, necrtheless, Is kufll
clcntly largo to havo meaning, particularly
us little change In prices took place. Tho
moaning la that tho food conservation
campaign Is beginning to produce results
nnd wo are furnishing food In greater tol
umo to our allies than formerly. This is
highly satisfactory, for tho right Is nip
Idly becoming a stomach war.
A LANDSLIDE ON ITS WA
rpWO Senators hitherto regarded as op
- posed (o votes for women havo "Jumped"
and more are expected to fall Into lino
with the BUffrago movement, which em
phatically deserves that overworked term
because It Is constantly moving. A veri
table landslide Is evidently on Its way on
the mountainside of public opinion. Penn
sylvania women talk as though they ul
ready had been enfranchised for the sim
ple reason that women across the Stato
border are noting. This phenomenon Is
always observable when tho women cap
ture a State; women In adjacent States
grow supremely confident, and that con
fidence carries all beforo It.
BEWARE PNEUMONfAI
A NUMBER of persons have been killed
during tho last few months by noxious
gas escaping from automobiles which were
kept running In closed garuges. The local
gas company continues dally to warn pa
trons tq uso extreme caro In turning off
the gas and watching Jets. Statistics for
last week indicate that pneumonia is more
dangerous than gau-polsonlng. It can
probably be as easily uvoldctl by proper
care. With the coal shortage acute and
many houses noccssarlly inadequately
heated, precaution Is a good preventive of
disease. Unnecessary exposure of every
sort should bo avoided, no cold should be
neglected and ventilation should be looked
to at all times. .There is nothing more im
portant than the preservation of tho
health of the community.
Dislocating a vertebra does not
bother Mr, Edison, he's got so many of
them.
Chicago Is not losing any population.
The town is snowbound and people cannot
get out.
A German newspaper lefi-ra to
"treaties written on donkey skin," Prob
ably by Jackasses.
We may bo alt wrong, but It appears
that it would bo better to closo tho sa
loons than the schools.
Tot a "holy war on the bourgeoisie"
would amount to nothing mora than an
armed protest against business.
Munition problem too big for on6 man,
says Baker. Headline.
Events show that It was entirely too
big for a liundred.
Among the 134 Lords who stood
firmly by woman suffrage was Lord Read
ing, the new Ambassador to this country.
Ho begins his mission well.
Collieries in the vicinity of Shenan
doah, which were shut down for lack of
water, have resumed operation. It will be
a fine thing when coal trains do likewise.
President Dice has appealed to all
Reading employes to "stand by the ship"
and make good for Uncle Sam. Tho fire
man on an engine is a soldier in the
trenches.
We suspect, that many of those who
M.idaeM 0;au4iaBt-,epan
JD V XUXiXMVX XrUJDUJLw JJJUVTJIiXV
GOVERNOR PENNYPACKER ATTACKS
PRESIDENT WILSON'S METHODS
Objectioh Is Raised by the Pennsylvanian to Wil
son's "Swap" of the "Governorship of New
Jersey for Another High Office"
I'ENNl I'ACKl-Jl AUTOIIIOOUAl'IIY NO. 4
Copvrlont, MIJ, by ruMio Lttptr Ccmpanv
T HAD now been Governor for nearly a
year nnd tho newspaper act had been on
tho statute booksVor moro than six months,
nnd up to this time np attack had been
mado Impugning my Integrity. This final
step on tho downward jmth to Aernus
wns now taken by tho Philadelphia Rec
ord. One day I was at the rooms of tho
HIslotlcat Society of Pennsylvania, when
a man nppeared who said he had been
stnt by tho Record to show mo a paper,
nnd ho asked me to read It. Tho paper
purported to bo signed "A lawjer" and it
bet forth "that Governor Pennypacker'a
appointment of Judge Thompson was
prompted wholly by tho belflsh destro mid
Indecent purpose of Governor Pcnnypack'-r
to get the place for himself as soon as ho
urn," nnd "Ho, therefore, stooped to a plot
that Is absolutely without precedent or
parallel In all the l.lhtory of intrigue and
corruption In Pennsylvania politics."
I read the paper over nnd handed It back
to him.
Another Clash With tho Press
"What aro you going to do about It?" he
inquires. Ho said nothing about money,
hut I Inferred that v.ns whut ho meant.
Angry, I loukid htm in the tyes nnd said.
"I tun not going to do anything about It."
Then wo will print It."
"Why do you tell mo what jou are going
to print? I hno no lesponslbllltj for whit
jou pilnt. That Is your responsibility."
Tho next day tho Record then edited by
Theodore Wright, printed tho communica
tion with nn cdltorla" bended, "A Foul Con
spiracy," and saj Inj,
It lays bare a plot to swap tho Gov
pi not ship for a seat on the bench of tho
Supitme Court, as If the two highest of
fices In tho gift of the people could be
barteted or bought and told with tho In
different regard for popular opinion or
popular right that might be expected of
Jockejs making a hursu trade.
A few years later the Record saw Wood
row Wilson swap the Govtrnorshlp of New
Jersey for another high o'llce, und uso tho
otllce, neglecting Us duties, to nri-ompllsli
tho result, und suppoi tod the effort us n
delectablo proposition. There was this dif
ference: Wilson dlil what the Recon" only
said that I intended to do, nnd tn making
the statement It was mistaken. Looking at
tho matter with dpeper Insight, testing It
ethically, und ussumliig tho facts to be
Kup, us they wero not, the accusation of
the lawyer, if he was a lawer, nnd of tho
Record was billy. In appointing a. thor
oughly competent Judgo I had performed
my only duty to the comt, and nobody had
any right to ask unj thing more so far us
the court was concerned. It was no case
of barter and buying und selling to Thomp
son, because, according to the .ory, ho knew
nothing about It, and besides had nothing
to give. It was no case of selling to Quay,
because ho got neither otllee. It would not
bo a nice thing for me to appoint a good
Judgo slmpl upon tho hope of helping m
self, but that lnoKts questions of pro
prloty, not of integrity, and thcro aro few
people who rlbo to such heights.
I had no Intention of permitting talk to
go on as though sumo wicked thing wero
LITERARY BONES
OF CONTENTION
Some Popular Pieces of Verse
Cursed With a Plurality of
Parents
the uust
J of time from the rhjmo of "Hoch der
Kaiser," mado famous by the lato Admiral
Coshlan, and reprlntfd It In these columns,
aecriblr.g Its authorship to . M. R. Gordon,
a Scotchman, then writing for the Montreal
Herald. Now comes a correfpondent to
question Gordon's claim to It, glUng the
credit to another Journalist, whose name, so
far as we know, was nqter before brought
forward In this connection.
Gordon Is dead and cannot now defend
his slender claim to fame, nnd the proponents
of his rival should produce something moro
than circumstantial eldenco beforo they are
permitted to wrest from Gordon that which
seems to be his little all.
The objects of literary controversy aro
usually orphans, or half orphans, the ques
tion of paternity seldom arising until after
the death of th real or supposed parent,
and "Hoeh der Kaiser" Is only one of many
bits of verso or prose which have become
the bones of such posthumous contentions.
There was published In this city tn 1906
the first volume of verse of a writer whose
name modesty forbids us here to mention. In
ids little book, "Canzonl," was Included a
bit of negro dialect called "The Kettle's Song
of Home," A week or so after tho book's
appearance a friend of the author's In
Cleveland wrote to him and pointed out that
the same poem, word for word, was among
the contents of "Ben King's Verse," pub
lished ten i ears before. The Philadelphia
writer know very well that the child was
his own, but he mado It his business to go
lark oer the files of the local paper In
which It wSs flrBt printed, and after much
labor finally located It In nn Issue of Sep
tember, 1 SUC. He then challenged the pub
lishers of "Ben King's Verse" to thow an
earlier publication for King. They were
unable to do so, but stubbornly Insisted
upon King's right to the thing. The credit
ing of the little song to King probably came
about In this fashion: Ben King, who was
a specialist In negro dialect, left behind him
a great quantity of clippings, many of which
were undoubtedly his own work, though un
signed, nnd these were gathered together
by hla literary executor, Nixon Waterman,
for the volume published after his death In
the early nineties. Among these clippings,
probably, was the poem which the Phlladel
phlan had run anonymously In the paper
for which he was then writing In this city.
Waterman believed they were King's, and
the verses may still bo found In both
volumes by any one with the time and In
clination to look them up.
The Ahkoond of 'Swat'
Another Philadelphia Journalist Is con
nected with a similar controversy Involving
a piece of humorous verse, of much greater
Interest In Its day, which Is preserved tn
nearly every anthology of importance put
forth in this country within the last quar
ter of a century.
Whan. George TvLanln died la this city
tjtttt A -Kit tyttt a -Trtcm A V TAXTTTATJV 1.1
X'XXXJLZl.JLXKUjrXl.JUHL. iUUHXAX, uxmji.vx jfx,
being done In secret, and the next day I
wrote to tho Ledger:
I have carefully read the wanton at
tack upon myself In yesterday's Record,
to see whether there could be any possi
ble Justification for It except a wish to
excel In newspaper enterprise. I may bo
wrong, but It seems to mo thcro Is no
principle of eth'cs which would provent
mo from going before the next Republi
can Stato Convention us u candidate for
tho Supreme Court, or from asking the
support of Mr. Quay or nnv one else who
may have Influence, provided I do not tiss
the power of the Governor for that pur
pose. If I choso to tnko this course, I
should not hesitate In order to escape
Hloglenl comment. As u matter nf fact,
I havo not asked any person who may be
n delegnto to that convention, or any one
who may have weight In Its deliberations,
to tin anything whatever In connection
with It nnd do not expect to do fo In the
future. As Governor I have refrained
fiom efforts to Influenco political move
ments. In tho appointment of Judges I have en
deavored t do my full duty to thu courts
nnd In each Instance, savo In tho selec
tion of Mr. lilspham, have ascertained
und glvpn duo weight to the views of tho
rourt most concerned, In appointing Mr.
Thompson I have Indicated so p'ntnlj
that oven tho blind may see my opinion
ns to the kind of min who ought to bo
placed In thnt position. I have given
him u term of thirteen months, nil thnt I
had to give, nnd only folly or malevolence
could ask me for more.
If, however, as the Record predicts, tho
Republican State Contention should see
fit In its wisdom to nomlnnto mo for tho
Supreme Court, and that should be fol
lowed b nn lection, I shall return to tho
bench. '
Quay's Objection
This letter told the exact truth and In
ffect declared to any one skilled In the
language that I did not Intend to bo u can
didate. It nsserted my right to go hi fore
the convention nnd solicit help In tiny dl
rectlon and affirmed that 1 had not so done
and did not Intend so to do; in other words,
that I was not doing tho things I would
have done had I purposed to bo n candidate.
If, notwithstanding, the party should nom
inate me and tho people elect me, tis tho
tiHWspipcr (issorttd, then I would return to
tho bench. It would In that ovent be u
duty. Nothing could havo been stralghter
It was likewise u defiance nnd Intended to
be a defiance. Should I choose to bo a
candidate, and should f choose to usk Quay
to help me, then It asserted I would do It
In utter disregard of what might be pub
llshed In tho newspapers Again did tho
heathen lage, nnd again the cartoonists
earned their hire. That a man should be
to constiucted us to act decently In u mat.
ter concerning his 'own Interests was not
to bo conceived, and one who was willing
to go to tho Supreme Court must ncces
snrlly bo taking nil -ort.s of underhand
mcaHUrt.s In ordir to get there.
Quay thought my letUr to be wi etched
politics, but there vvtre some things moru
Important to me than either office, and wo
were not viewing tho subject from the samo
angle. And I still think It was good poll
tics, since it did away with nil talk about
secret plotting.
On the twelfth uf December 1 was
the guest of honor at tho dinner of
the IVnnsjlvanU Socletj of New Vol;,
a most successful society, tho active spit it
In which is jjarr l'erree, and thtie 1 met
Governor Odell, of New York, and Gov
ornor Edwin Warlleld, of Marjland.
weie known and admired in Panada. In Rng
hvi.d and I in Krance. M-ssant. famous edUor
of the Paris Pigaro. for a long time en
deavored to Induce Lanlgan to become i
member of his staff, and Richard Watso
t.lldcr pronounced him one of the brightest
men ho had ever met. , "
Shortly after his death a writer In a St.
Louis paper claimed for a western man the
authorship of "A Threnody," built upon o
ne, line. "The Ahkoond of Swat lTd"ad '
MMI aiwTJ!"!0 i 'n"ny K0l1 """esses
ef ht ? ''5? bee" l,res'" at the birth
of that famous ditty, and tho shouts of the
western c almant wero not permitted to
prevail The poem had been written by Lan
Igan while he was a member of the staff of
tho Now York World.
He with W. A. CrofTut. James Davla and
Trentlce Mulford-alt big figures upon Patk
Low was sitting In a cafo under the
Tribune building one night when on.i of the
telegraph editors of tho World camo In und
said: Lanlgan, a cable has Just come an
nouncing that the Ahkoond of Swat Is dead "
.. ",WI'at? WlmtT Vha"" "led Lanlgan.
W hats the news from Swat," and In Jig
t me dashed off the poem, of which these lire
tho best lines:
What, what. what.
vVhats thi- news from Swat?
had new,
lla.t nwa,
';mf by the enble led
rhrouah the Indian OeeatTa l.l.
iirsa '.h. &'.""' ouif' ,h- H"
Iterranaan he's dead:
The Ahkuond la HfrtM
Tor the Ahkoond I mourn. '
Who wouldn't?
He strove to dlarenrd ihe mt.iat. Brn,
T. . . J-ut he Ahkoodn't.
Dead, dead, dead;
.. . 'Sorrow Rnrats!)
hwats Wha hae wr Ahkoond bled.
Swata Whom often he has led
Onward to a Kory bra.
Or to vfrtory.
Aa the can mliht be.
borrow Snatal
Tears ahed.
Hhed tears like water.
Your great Ahkoond li dead!
Thafa Swata the matter'
Atourn. city of hatal
Xour..r"it Ahkoond fa not.
Uut lain mid worma to rut
Ilia soul la In the aklea
The aiure aklei i that bend above hi, loved
Metropotle of Swat lo"a
He ten with larrer. other eyea
Athvjart all earthly mysteries '
II knowa vvhat'e Swat.
.T,..1'' "V1 l"lr the "" Ahkoond
w. . S."01.'? ot mo"iln and of lamentation!
nealSiT mournlne- of tho Swat'tl.h
Fallen la at lensth
Ila tower of atrentlh.
Its aun la dimmed era It had nooned
Dead Ilea the sreat Ahkoond.
The sreat Ahkoond of Swat
la not.
At a later date Thomas Dunn English
Philadelphia-born, hud to take up a Btout
cudgel, when he was quite an old man. to
beat off several pretenders who were am
bitious tb steal "Sweet Alice Ben Bolt" from
him. And newspaper readers of our own time
will recall the contention ' over John J
Ingalls's "Opportunity" Bonnet: the dispute
over the authorship of "Silver Threads
Among the Gold," nnd the claim of Samuel
Eberly Gross, the millionaire pork packer
of Chicago, that Rostand had stolen from
him the poetto drama of "Cyrano da
Bergerac" t. A. D.
. POI'B VOT
Joe' Potadamer was la New Tork one day Jaat
reek -whatever ey,t la that' whealleaa fa.je-
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WILSON INFLUENCE
OVER CONGRESS
Three Methods Employed by Pres
ident to Assure Results Gets
What He Wants
special Correspondence Eieiitna i'ublic LtJoer
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.
Tmti
Vvlls
HHi:i; moves recently made by 1'iesfdent
son Invito analysis. Two of them pei-
taln to the President's practice of appear
ing In person before Congress to discuss pub
lie question". Tho other relates to the man
ner In which the 1'iesldcnt makes known
his wishes without putting In an appear
ance at the Capitol. Democrats us well ns
Republicans have watched thesa moves and
havo commented upon them, not so much
becauso they differ from methods hereto
fore employed by tlm rrerident, but be
cause, taften altogether, the show more
clearly the steady hold the President main
tains upon the legislative body. Conserva
tive members of Congress havo never taken
too kindly ti the President's Idea of "de
mocracy" In appearing In person In Congress.
They havo contended that while the thought
of tho President Is that co-operation should
prevail between tho legislative body und tho
eeeutIvo branches of the Government, the
result, bo far as the President's wishes nro
concerned, Is ulinost as cffectlvo as If this
wero an autocratic rather than a demo
cratic Government.
That tho Congress body was growing less
f Interested In the President's personal ap
pearances developed at the reading of his
address on the control of railroads. Not much
moro than half tho Senato was In attend
ance, and tho Representatives and tx-llep-itscntatlves
In addition did not wholly till
the House scats. Tho galleries had rows
of empty teats There was nothing spectac
ular In tho address .and. very little. In It to
work up mthuslasiii. At Its conclusion Re
publicans looked at each other querulously,
nnd even the Democrats filed out of tho
chamber Ianguldl,
The President Rules
Note tho difference when the war message,
declaring American purposes In tho European
struggle, was delivered Very few Repre
sentatives or Senators had as much as an
hour's notice that tho President was com
ing They knew the Serbian Mission was
to bo on hand, but as the visits of these
commissions have lost their novelty, there
was no great demand nn that account for
gallery tickets. But half an hour or so
beforo 12 o'clock word wcjit. forth to the
Senators and Renrescntatlves that the Presi
dent had decided to speak. Was It about
woman suffrage? No one knew. Presently
the Serbian Commissioners appeared and
were given seats, then the members of the
Cabinet, and then the galleries suddenly
filled. Mrs. Wilson, accompanied by Colonel
House, the President's European Commis
sioner, took seats In the President's gallery.
Corridors outside wero Jammed with people,
and seats on tho floor and In tho galleries
were soon at a premium. If the President
had not been received with customary fervor
during the reading of his railroad message,
conditions were completely reversed when the
war message was delivered. The usual
Democratic applause was there, and the
"whoopers-up," who ceem to have been ab
sent when the railroad message came with
notice, wero largely tn evidence when seem
ingly the public had no no'lee of what the
President was to do. Upon the Republican
side It was admitted that the President was
In the hands of friends who did not propose
that there should be any diminution of his
Influence,
Sending for Members
Here we have contrasted two of the Presi
dent's recei moves. They were made In the
presence of the Republicans, who courteously
welcomed the President with applause along
with the more enthusiastic Democrats. That
the matter of "applause," which the Demo
crats freely bestow upon these occasions, Is
embarrassing to most Republicans Is shown
by the enthusiasm with Which the majority
Senators and Representatives applaud those
paragraphs of the President's messages
Yhlch here and' there, run atteld tram war
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YES, THINGS OUGHT TO WARM
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cldcdly free trade commitment attached.
Some licpuljllcans who have withheld np
plausu on these occasions huve been chlded
as unpatrlotle. They have merely adhered
to views whlrh wtro In controversy between
the President and thim"clves prior to the
w ar.
Third move. In the largo custom htatts
there Is a wide division on the qutstlon of
woman suffrage. Tho western States arc
decidedly for It. Rarnest though possibly
misguided womin, flaunting their suffrage
banners before the White House, have been
sent to Jail. They have suffered Ignominious)-
for .heir convictions, whether light nr
wrong. Many of them havo accused tho
Piesldent of being unfriendly. Most Demo
crats, particularly routhcrn Democrats, havo
opposed woman stiff tage. A llvtly agllatlon
of the vhole problem had made the situation
politically HCUte. Suffragists ero chaigng
that Republicans would vote solid und take
the President's thunder.
How it happens wo do not disclose, but ut
the psychological moment u committee of
Democrats favorable to suffrage called upon
the President and brought away from the
White House a declaration favorable to suf
finge, which they flaunted In the faco of the
southern Pemociats on the following morn
ing as an expiesslon o the President's views.
The suffrage leaders used this s their trump
card on tho final day, and tho old VStates"
rights" fellows, who have struggled with that
Issue on tho child labor question and on the
question of prohibition, wero put to their
stumps.
The President usually gets the support of
Congress, whether he nppeara In person at
the Capitol or whether "JTohiimmed goes to
the mountain." But In the caso ot woman
suffrage ho' had a close shave.
J HAMPTON MOORU
BETTER TANKS NEEDED
In a number of respects the tank promises
well. In tccent actual performance, for one
thing, the wholesale use of tanks obtained
tho British tho most brilliant success that
they have won against German troops. But
theory goes In advanco of practice. A car
capable of going flvo miles an hour across
fairly level und dry country, of crushing
walls, bnrrlera, wire entanglements and pill
boxes, of crossing shell holes and trenches
or resisting artillery shells would play the
same part on the battlefield that a mounted
knight In full armor played on a battlefield
of Bouvlncs. It would domlnato the field.
Only the heavier artillery could touch It.
The British tanks cannot go flvo miles an
hour nor flatten all field obstacles nor with
stand cxploslve'shells from field guns striking
In vital spots. But they can come near
enough doing bo to be able to pierce the
enemy's line for five miles In one day. Yet
these monsters are small, no higher thah a
man's head, no longer at the baRe than a
motortruck. Their design, with exposed run
nlng gear and thin steel plates, is obviously
vulnerable,
Cannot a device that has come In Its fir it
crude jear so nearly up to the requirements
of an arm of victory be brought up to stand
ard and turned out on a suitable scale In the
second or third year's model? It Is worth
trylnr. Baltlmoro News.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1, Where la Komo ai4 what haa brouclit It Into
the newer "
2. What la the origin ot demUohn?
3. Which la the Charter Oak CltrT
4. Identify "The Great c'ompromUer." ,
5. Wlio was "The Youor Chevalier?"
6. What naa Utopia?
7. W hen la Iooa?
S. What la the Zend-AeeeU?
0. Who la Frank A. Vanderllp?
10. Where ta the Yoermlta Vailej?
Answers to Saturday's Qui
1. Ur. William Bayard Hale, an American Jour,
nallet. who obtained the celebrated 'aiuVl
nreued Intortlew" with h. V .l.il" ,U"-
nlth the Kjlaer
3. Mark Twain wrote "Tom Sawyer."
S, laike Dolrao U In Macedonia on the Balkan
4. Vlralnla la called "The Mother of Preel
denta, 0, To set the saekl to b dlecheffed. IVoni the
cuatani of the eultani. wlip when they
wltned to, set rid of ona of the harem had
tier sewed up In a aaek, which was thrown
lot the lloaphorua.
, The Roendheadai the l'urltana, whe tear
ahert hair, dl.tli.aiil.hlnt .hem from Si
curls and wlaa ef the Cavallera
7. CenrPef Ht. Jameil the Knsll.h court.
a called rem th palace, at ut. Jamei,
formerly the aeoe at royal lereee, """
. Tha flnaft Kabelltant m trm Mndl... . .
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UP SOON
Over the Telephone
Hello! Your husband Just
got in.
You didn't call ? I thought you
might.
Oh, well, if only to begin
The day aright."
This morning? Well, whoso fault
was thut?
I was prepared to kiss "good-by,"
But What. I didn't start the .
spat. ,2
'Twns you, not I. -a
Wait! Aro you there?
Don't go away.
I hato to quarrel so with you.
Well, say you're sorry and I'll say '
I'm sorry, too.
But I was not to blame. Oh,
come,
My dear, you know you started
it!
Of course, I lost my temper some
A little hit.
But I was right! Well, I declare,
You ask too much. Such abso
lute Oh, please Don't start again!
Well, there!
I was a brute!
Eh? Yes, it will be nice to hear
That you'll forgive me. Yes, It
seems
What's that? Why, yes; bonbons,
my dear,
Or choe'late creamfa?
TOM DALY.
WAR AND STAMPS
THIRTY-SEVEN new spaces In the stamp
albums of coming years already are as
sured as, a direct result of the status of the
United States as a belligerent rower. It is
not customary for u nation to wage war
without providing something of Interest to ,
philatelists. The South nnd Central American .
countries which have aligned themselves with ,
the Dntenle havo not jet Issued war stamps,
but It Is expected that some or all of them ,
eventually will do so.
Tho contributions of tho United States In f,
this respect aro various. Most of them arise ;
out of tho war tax legls'atlon enacted by ;
Congress. Twenty-one documentary revenue
labels soon made their appearance, ranging
In values frcm one cent to J1000, for use on
wills, deeds, conveyances and kindred legal
p'apers. This practice wus adopted by tho,
Government In Civil War days, and resump
tion of It now will turn millions of dollars
Into the nation's war coffers. The tax on
playing cards was raised from two to sevan
cents, thus making a seven-cent revenue to
dlsp ace the lower denomination.
The Postoffice Department did not put out
a new three-cent adhesive to meet the In
creased letter rate, but when the extra neces
sary millions ot the current three-cent value
were printed their color proved to be pale
violet, Instead of the customary purplo. These
pale violet specimens have appeared per
forated on four sides, perforated only ver
tically, perforated only horizontally and with
no perforations, at a'l, thus creating four
varieties. Then the Government Introduced
the three-cent envelope, and thla haa appeared
thus far In purplo on white, amber, manllu
and blue paper, It la said the p.'atal au
thorities were not quite satisfied with the
fact that the color Is so dark, and that tha
next printing will show these envelope stamps
in lighter shade, which, of course, would pro.
duce another four varieties.
The foregoing chronicling accounts for
thirty different stamps. In addition, the Gov
ernment Is planning a thlrteen-cent denomina
tion, to meet the combined new letter rata
with the special delivery or registration Ui
Then there are the twenty-five-cent war sav
ings and IE war thrift stamps, which are
classified In the philatelist's revenue division.
The standard American albums and cata
logues are to provide spaces and quotations
for these, the assent! of the government hav1-'
Ing been sought and obtained. Under thIeV
plan, collector will put these In their feooto.,1.
aim wiu psaiers will, lay in, hocks otHIIWHh .
for, future u
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