TTK zrm&zmw' & : U, ; if at""! 17! Rf? - 'A tv rT.i-K'V.w . BPft 'V.-.-:: pwa-- . . . . iT c MP'-ri ilfcbBcIe&mtt rfOBUC LEDGER COMPANY W H, , CURTIS. rSIIIDSVT lidlnelon. Vim President! John C. I X, X. CURTIS. rtiBif trx and Treaaureri j-ntitp . M. Wllltai ttpurrton, alar. Director!. i . BDITOnlAL BOAKD! J 'JtaVJSt Ceirii. Chairmen . L WHALE r. , , . , .Editor , C. MARTIN, Central Butlneie Manner i4 dell"at rtii.io I.imii nulldlnr. Impendence Pquare, Philadelphia, ;Ttt.,,.,iircal and uneitnul streeti ClTI PrufVnion llulldlni Ut ..'SOS Metropolitan Tewer T ,,,,,,,.,,,.,403 i'ord nultdlna CI... ....... .....160 Kul erlon llulMIn lOPUt 1Z02 Tribune llulldlni LL ' .NEWS BUllCAUSl . ' id. V f, IfAHn.vlu.nU Auh . Jt Hill. C JWHW UClliPi .The flit ItuMlnit VwrBwi Iiciiin. UirfAnl Ifftiifta. Utran.l wmm ( I Bvbiao 2 llu lxmlt l Ur.nl .! sunscniJTio.v tj;im3 t. ' aeMftief In Philadelphia and aurroundlnff towna V" ta'Sw Jrf' "' (12' c,nU "' WMk' rW r man in potnia outaiat or rnuaiieipnta. in Ytfc United kiiih, Canada or United riiatea po. tHSlt' Jf'" '" ""T CO) ffnli Kr month. ei (Ml dollar. itr year, payable In advance. 'n all forelan rounlrlee nni fill Hnllsr p .rttaath. ",, 'e Subscribers wlahlnr eddrett chanied ! lra old at well at new addreti. TC, - '"JlfJJ ..... ! HU, IKf WALNUT KEYSTONE, MAP 1000 :- VAiUrtl$ alt remmusicaifaiit lo .'vrnfnc I'.MIo 'Xrf.r, fndfptadraro Square, I'MlndWrMa. imiiD at tits rniLiDiirau post nrrics a i SICOXIl CL1I. Hilt, V11TTIK, A rUltdtlp.li, Vfdnridir, lebriur, 6, 1411 OUR BABY-KILLERS AT HOME .rpHB detonations of Dr. Alon.o Taylor's 1 dynamlto still revcrbcrato In fanhlou nblo halls. Wo aro nmozed that tho doctor tva not even moro emphatic. To charac terize our wasto of auRar merely as "dl.- Es graceful and flagrant" la to use mild terms. Kr' ?! wajiteful nutrar-eater la a bloodsucker: Et .o Is the waster of any food. An&to is a 'V death challengo to thousands of babies, f: tmaelatid llttln bclnrrs who havo found at the breasts of their mothem noiulsli mnt too weak for sustenance. ".May the vengeance of God visit the?e Huns who .have bombed women and children!" Ayr, hat what of tho Hun In this country who, with callous heart and laughing face, con eutnes tho food so vital to the mere exist ence of these mmo women and children! Sorco of us may ns well quit thankinc Ood that wo aro not ns other men arc. We do not believe that Doctor Taylor In tended to convey thi Impression that wo are whipped. His brain and tonguo aro worklns In complete co-ordination to pre vent Just that thin?. Hut ho did mean to say that wo shall all bo cither angels or nlaves If wo insist on llvlne in a fool's paradise. This Is not one of those hero making wars such as wo Indulged In twenty years ago. It Is not even an Inter national war, for Uh Issues Ions since over ruled national boundaries. It is a world lit war, with civilization caught unawares. We've got to tho famlno point. Who puts the last loaf of bread Into his belly wins. It is no longer a question of who In strongest, but-of who Is weakest. Yet In nuch a crisis, with tlm decisive factors so npparent, thcro nro nun and women who etrut about and cat what they please and moro than they need. They nro not cut- ' throats, It is true, and no ono of them would consciously plunge a dagger Into an Infant's heart, but the latter coureo ' would bo far moro merciful than to assist i- in the slow btarvatlon of human beings. poctor Taylor Is doubtless disgusted with s the callousness of some citizens. Ho ought to be. It Is particularly Irritating to men on y: the Inside, who seo and know tho dim- r cultles of this war, to view tho apparont , Indifference of many citizens. Wo are the lti . ' m mlgnties. nation on cartn potentially. In -wealth thore la none to compare with us. lw Our retources are of surpassing magni tude. Our Industrial ability la enormous. tS We have available morn man power than any qther white nation. We aro fresh, Swlth' abilities unimpaired, and nothing can ?$, prevent our achieving tho victory which r' our Allies expect of us but our own care- if .laun.t! mil- nwn fnlltirn In nmiMilntn tt.n ii;' fLUHculty of the task beforo iif f?, J1 We hold no brief for pessimism, but wo fi2 abhor satisfaction. We bcllcvo In ;ipplylng Wv'" ii whin. In drivino- nrlvatn rltlvonu nn.i at public officials to tho expenditure of every- ll:hl.n ia ! In l.nni f.,r llin n..n tln --- '- " " .,V... u. fc.tw V-MUAV. u Kean' euck' men dry of their abilities mid C then replace them. It is part of tho sucrl- X, - ; lice to be nwuo. cut wo might ns well uttempt to tunnel through the rtockics i'Wlth toothpicks as to win this lmr by JJ halfway methods and half-hearted en Sitleayor. Tho devil incarnato Is looso on 'tV'-".1 J earth and he knowB how to light. Hut tf T ,V"HW div we vitit't Pt-trllltHwll, u i ". liftTft hftii ta nunDlv our nol.Hnra ivlth ttvn fnr!7 '. V- ', kaiv4a rt miir.lt. nnn nnn enrt few tVmlt -.. ,'liA annthr sort for thftlr mnntlm A V . I - y".e "" o"'s " mis war, uecauso M.".luO.At,Mfv xlll Bll'.an Inafflnlnntu m... e whenever and Avherever thov aro -fv., . ... i ana win nnauy onne its ru 1 nower JMar. but the person who In tho mean- devours with his mouth the means rCJYk!tory Is a traitor to his nation and ,-iklauelf and ought to be pilloried nubile! v .k1....o (. .1 tt fila ,alnrli1.Mu - - m..UW- "l ... .V.B.IUUID, Wi'S ' COLD STORAGE FEET WJ, tho public, ore probably in a line - . . . ... oi rignteous indignation over food scandal, tho discovery of Hi put In cold storage whllo Mr. .President and kept there ever it In two days you will fnnret nil h Tou will pay some grocer forty- for a loaf of brer.d and half a . not stopping to figure out that (Vbelng chu.ged sev Uy-llve cents er eggs that run four bad, live t and three passabl to the dozen. '' m -a, confident, businesslike t'Nke to uuestloo him before .' vc , -1 WWzWrH P"-'VI5NI&G: 1UBLIC kind -of coward lb every phaso of your life. You won't nnU for n rnleo because you're nfinlJ you'll have to work harder If you net It, You'll volo Just tha wny 1'cnroRO or Varo tells you, Your children will have 1cm mid lex rcopect for you they havo mUhty llttto now. You Whnve, half tho time, us It you wcro lmlfwlttcd. You'ro loslncyour memory becnuso joti don't try to art a heen Intere.-t In tlilnK and are dumb about ventilation, exercise, etc. You're In tho way of linvlntc your feet In cold Morase and man of you nro (It company for tho cbkh yju let them hund you, Hut of courts tliix l.i nut addicted lo you. You're not the public; tho other fellow lo. Ho It wuh that wo had In mind, tho fool! l!o has tho moiiI of a Herman hlave and wouldn't wiy "booh" If tlm (loverntnent wah handed over In a political clique In perpetual il!frtatnr-h!p. UOTTK.V! w; IIKN an iilllclal of the 1'- !! 'J- '" cliucH that the service la rotten there appear i to bo nothing more for us to add to Ihc iliuraelerlzatlon. The ndjrctlvo is weak, but so la tho whole Kimllsh vocabu lary when a situation such as I'lilliulel phla has cxperiviii'eit niut be tlrscrlbid. Hut Is there any reatnii why citizens should continue to accept "totten" terv Ice? The Director of 'lly Transit can M'o no way of swung relief and the Mayor's conferences end In automobiles, but it has been suggested that tho I'nblli- Service I'ommhMlon was organize!! to handle Just such questions. Citizens should pieseut lliolr ease l,o Hie romtn! .slon anil do It without delay. "JIM CHOW" JIANI.M..S TIIK SWITCH W't IIII.i: iliM'iihslnns as to the lime of turn of the iiillioads U. their owners Is Instructive and Interesting, theie Is a factor in the Issue of (lovrnincnt owner ship which appears t have been over looked ontlrily. It Is likely, novel thclcss, to bo decisive In character. Wo lefer, of course, to the ".llm Crow" laws "f tho .South. Jl la peifectly obvious tliat the 1'nlted states cannot Ignoio Its own Constitution. If it owns Its own railroads the State.-! will havo nothing whatever to do with tho rules and regulations governing tho mw. Htnto lawn requiring that people of one color rido In ono set of ears and people of another color ride In nnotln r n-t will not be woilli tho paper they are written on. Hut tho Smith would preler heparate cars for whlto people to greater elllclency, greater pioaperlty or greater anything else. Wherefore, wo .surmise, the South will line tip as a unit against Ibnernment ownership. LET COM) WHH' .MEN TO ACTION IT. AS is blithely i-ald, the b: utal weatlrr of this latitude Is tho bet kind to de velop chaiacter, we ought all to be super men by this time. There, is some compen F.ition, perhaps, In the brave resistance with willed the people havo laced their ter rible trials. There have Ik on fewer np. peaU for help than tlitre might well have been. Thorn Iiiimi b' en miiuo excumiblo snarls at those of the well-to-do who have been wann ami cozy nil this time without trying to do something to help a neighbor, but as a rule people have too much pride even to complain or ask help. Let us not be i-onteiit with having been proud though poor. Out of tills self-respect which did not Hindi under tho whip of what the greed and muddling of past years had made more or les the Inevita ble of the present tlieio Miould spring a new vigor of uspouslble citizenship among unknown men determined to get to the bottom of this muddle and trace the wnv each ton of coal gets from mine to cellar. if there Is any propeity in tbls laud which tho people ought to regulate It Is tho mines which !ol piovlded to pioteet theni from their weather EDITORIALS ItY WOMEN The eluldien of toil.iy are Hi,- i(izias and Milliters uf tomnriou. if one out of every kvcii dies beforo reaching tho llrst year, and half of then) from preventable causes. It Is your work and mini- to miw tho seventh bab. Till.' of HIS Is from in. editorial in today's Issue this newspaper by a woman, and a woman who knows. She Is a physician of long experienco and is in charge of a hospital. Tlioso who, llko her, aro Intent upon homo great hpcclullzcd task see many ways in which the community can co-operate with them, but are usually too busy to tell what can bo done. Wo aro asking theso busy women lo furnish edi torials nnd they are appearing dally on the Woman's Page, written by women and moro especially for women. Tills would be a Rorry world If only men had their bay. Luckily there Is a growing tendency among our women to be oeal. Meatless Tufda also! Stuff yourself and let a baby die of slew btarvatlon! Tho plan to concentrate) t-hlpbulldlng at the existing yards Is a gol one Central Ized shipbuilding Is almost as Important as centralized authority. We suggest to Mr. McAduo Hint it is not m much a question of h's aiding tho port of 1'hlladelph'a as It la of tho poll -f I'lilU. detphla aiding the nation. Tho rtatement that the military faction regains lis grip on Uerniany la a trllle out of Joint. The grip was never lost. Let's make Uerniany safe for Ucrmans. Destruction of inotortmcka by flro Is too general to admit the theory of accident. Tho motortruck Is n war ckscntlal and bhould be guarded accordingly by every owner. Thirteen Hun airplanes brought down hi ono day was a good bag for tho French. If wo run break through the air lino It will ho a cinch to get through on terra nrma. Ohio saved 262,110 pounds of wheat Hour In December, 100 per cent more than In November. All tho States' records should be Hlmtiltaneously announced to that wo .could spot tho slackers. Hallway employes' unions. In declaring their employers ure delaying trains so that Government control will prove a failure, are only making a charge of treason; nothing moro serious than that. Ouf descendants will bo a sturdy race, for the survivors of tho present generation can ba killed neither by ho Icy blasts and ulTocatliiKly crowded cars they have to ,chooee between, riqr by a combination of Uie -i ie- 1. - . . INAUGURATION OP SrATE POLICE Governor Pennypackcr Tells of tho Work Accomplished by ' ihc Constnbulnry .KN.NYIVU'KWt ..UTOIWIGItAl'HV Ml. r,a (Cnvvriiiltt, 191, hu Putillo .KfBfr t'omrani) T III. session of tho Legislature ended on tho 13th of Api II. A Department of Health hnd been crented, to which had been given very great authority nnd a. power which extended to tho person of tho Individual citizen nnd might even be tegarded h an Infringement of his personal liberty. Tho aluo and permaneiico of Iho legislation nould depend liialnly upon the manner In which the department should be organized. It was at llriit Miggcst'.'d to me that It should bo placed lu charge of Dr. II. H. Warren, but that thought 1 Instnntly ills-inl-sed. 1 then had an Interview with Dr. Charles H. 1'enroae, wl.fi had beiu very much Interested In tho mailer, and ho named to mo n gentleman coiituiied Willi one of tho schools In tho western part of tho State. I had a lull; with the gentle man, but was still not sntlsllid. Then Doc tor 1'enroso told mc he thought Dr. Samm ri. Dixon, president of tho Academy i Natural Sciences, would 'e willing to un dertake the task. That ;gestlnn suited mo exactly. Dixon rone "id, and I mad" Iho appointment, I'lider his direction it has come to be ncccptcd as the most impor tant and elllclent organization for this lino of work In tho fnlttd States There Is good gi bund for hope that many nf the Inllatnmatiiry dlsiases duo to spcclllc pol rons, such ns typhoid fever, smallpox, diph theria and tuberculosis, may be In time stamped out of existence. The State rolicc The Legislnttiio aIo. upon my uigi-iu, piuvldeil for n State police or constabulary, and hero the same kind of question mose. Such a body, If organized upon political lines, would have tirmendous power over tho State and would be correspondingly dangerous. After miking over a number of persons, some of thrni connected with tho guard, and consulting with Menenil lleniy S. Iluldekoper, liromley Wharton and otlictc, 1 tendered tho position to John C (lioome, captain of tho City Troop, who necepted. lie proved to bo Just the man needed, of the light age, (,11m, eicct, quick to ice and to net, possessing a i.iro combi nation of derision of character and sound jiidgmenl. 1 told him I wauled a police force and absolutely nothing ilse. Not n man on tho force was selected upon tho recommendation of anybody. Tho men weie all chosen upon llm results of physical and mental examination, and what political or iep;lous creed any one of them pin lessen is olllctally unknown. (Iroome has made tho constabulary famous all over tho rolled States. Two hundred and forty lu number, they havo maintained the peace within the State as was never done before. Not once Mneo has It bein necessary to call out Iho National (iuanl, and that vast expense has been caved. While organized labor has unwisely assailed them as 'Ten nypacker'rt C'os.sacks," one of the greatest of their merits has been that they havo saved labor from tho oppression of force and have done away with that kind of police intervention which came from men i mplojcd by tho corporations. Thcro weiu certain principles which iiu deil.iy tho disapproval of thoo bills which were negatived. Theie was no extension of the tight to take property by eminent domain, the effort lo create new ci lines by statute as an easy means of collecting debts or ciifori lug duties was ever looked upon with disfavor, and in no instance, during my term, did I permit Incrente in the number of the Judiciary. Among the bills vetoed was one prepared under the auspices of eminent physicians and sur geons, ostensibly for the "picvrntlon of Idiocy," which authorized them to perform experiments upon Hie Inmates of tho Insti tutions for the feebleminded, and another urged by tho osteopaths which provided for a third board of medical examiners. Greater Pittsburgh An act had been passed for uniting Alle gheny City and Pittsburgh In ono munici pality. Thcro was some protest, mainly on the prut of those interested In maintaining u dual set of ollkials, nnd fiovernor Stono argued beforo me tho objections at length; but I was heartily In favor of tho project, because it would simplify tho municipal government, lessen the expense nnd glvo Pennsylvania what no other Stato possesses two great cities, lu my messago I had ndvocated tho pat-sage of the net nnd now 1 signed the bill. Whllo I was being lauded In Pittsburgh I was again being berated In Philadelphia. Tho Hullltt bill, under which Philadelphia was governed, written by John C. Hullitt, a capable lawyer, con centrated all power In tho hands of tho Mayor, upon tho theory that In that way responsibility would bo fixed. The .Mayor had the appointment of from seven to twelve thousand otllclals, and this fact cavo him great political power when he chose to exercise, It. John Weaver, a lawyer, born In L'ngland. short, stocky and ener getic, had been elected Slayor by grace of the Republican organization. Then ho turned on his old friends and sought rcputo as a reformer. Krclong ho concluded ho had been deceived by his new associates nnd again recanted, hut for tho time being ho was using his control oer the officials for all It was worth politically against tho Republican organization. Tomorrow Giitrriinr lVnnj-puel.fr IflU of llm nfw hill lor Ihr roifrnment of liilhulrluhU pushfil tliruu.li hy liiirhnm. l.r.nnr.nc.itAMs If th-y kick Lloyd Ocorjra out, whom ulll they kick In? Iho otiUI'l" In not jo nhowy, Ikji th moilea aro Just us thrllllne. , Vorwoorta i-oja that "ve-ri thine rotnts to n military illilatorahip llumbuu! ThRfa what lhy"v had In Ofrniany for lull a century. A hlp raptaln reports that ho waa atopped hy n .eppalln. tho commander of which hovered 800 feet libovo hli, itdjualcd,,hla .Ian, read tho ahlp'a unpen and let It 50 Ita way. The Ananlaa (Jluu will haa 10 rocl a now building Cleveland In aald to bo overrun with rrlralnala. Poialhly 0. municipal election la pendlne. "Young Julio" Ilalderrama. one-time, familiar pf (laht fane In thla city, la now rirat ereant In tho ltealment Cartagena, or Iho Colombian army. He -rcporta that, ho recently "reared thla win. ...a l-ijcii. t ' the adveriia.na .. . .,1 ,., lomblan ncwepaperl "Cloea to the Hotel la u Llr moor, reeened for ahoollns vlaltori.'1 CIO tiirr 'IIM, MU, IIOOVKK! Jtont people claim they "eat to live," And ft that Biuft h nunllan. Him folk wb meet who saa tO 4t 1 .M.t-,,v.i. .a- t IU uivt', iaMiSCIViU . J R7Ri3r,.?r:J:'-'r'iw,w'"'i'V'' T LEDGER-PfflLADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY IN APPRECIATION OF SOME OLD ALLEYS Quaint Little Thoroughfares That Haven't Wholly Lost Their Olden Charm A". as "a direct descendant of three signers of the Declaration of American Independ ence," wrote a letter Iho other duy In hot resentment lit the disrespectful behavior of -liarlestnti, S, '". "It has named," said he, pausing ijii his wnv to Palm Ileach, "Its dirtiest and most filthy alloy, Itihab'tcd by the lowest class, 'Philadelphia Alley,'" This, ho perorates "Is only worthy of an enemy of our glorious country, nnd I Insist that this misdemeanor bo rectified at once." Piobahly It will be. The alley In question Is tho descendant of a once worthy thor oughfaiD fallen upon ell days. It may newr be pusnlhle to lestoie It lo the honorable Handing and the simple but slotting dig nity that holiincrd lo it when It was llrst named; but I'harleston Is reclaiming many of Its Cue old teslilenee streets, nnd this limy bo one of thim. Let no ono Imagine that the word "alley" earrles any suggestion of essential or In nate meanness. St. Michael's Alley, hi i'Iuii lesion. Is lined with neat nnd fashion alilo homes and It Is still an alley. And when Philadelphia Alley was llrst named there weic many affect lon.ilo bonds between the capital of the Palmetto Stato and this old town, bonds which for a thno prevented Philadelphia1..) lirarly and unanimous es pousal eif the Piilim eauso after tho fall of Port Sumter. It may be that we latter-day Phll.idel tili'ans have grown a bit uppish and some what too seo, 11(11! nf the alleys uli'rh were g)"d enough fi r the fnthers of Iho town. Tho littD street upon which originally flood li.is William Penti hnue, now pre served ns a shrine In I'alrniount Park, was generally ealled I.ctltia Couil, but It was little more than an alley and was frequently so designated by e.uly elnonli lers. And 111 that naiioiy tlinrotigiif.in-, utter tho Kcvo- h'tlo lany decent folk made lliolr home. Among these Was (iuisti.plif r Linluick, tho baker general of th- Iievnlutliui, wlio passed bts ileiilnlng lajh titer- lu peaceful re tirement. In his bouse many a Hessian soldier was instructed by the old mail In the dutlis e( Amrtii.iii I'tzenshlp, fur bo was Instriiininlal In I11.hu lug m-oii-s of theso fuielgners to take up then- n-slrtenie pi-ima-tinntly lu the new land. Most of them tinned to farming, down In the Nick, iho old man, himself a Hessian, was one ol tho worthies of the town. Ho lift considerable money to cl.ailtles, and Ills name until quite recently looked down upon passershy fioni tho front e.f l.udwlek Institute, 011 Walnut street, above Sixth. A Chronicler of the Signers In Strawberry Alley lcd Christopher Marshall and Ills son of Iho samo name, both decent nnd respected druggists. Tho elder Marshall was the diarist, who handed down to us one of tho time contemporaneous accounts extant 'of the leading of that same Declaration ot Independence which was signed by thieo am ostein of our Indignant "Vox Popull." Note the curious coinci dence of the thlees! Marshall was a town ollicrr, and lin tells how he and hl. assorlaies assembled at the halt of the Phllnsophh.il .Society upon that pregnant July inclining and inarched, two by two. to the steps of the old State House, where John NImui did his duty. We must not forget l make passing ref erence t ie Kriiukliii, (list nainii itenj.i- mill, who it-sided for pan of a long life on l-'i-unkltn Coiiit, which, as everybody knows, was little more than nil alley. Illark Horse Allej, running from I'ront to Second street leiwiiu Mailut and Chestnut, held th 11 sldence and shop of John linn lop. eighteenth ii-iituiy printer, who was 11 linker of some stli, commercially, In ,rt d.i. ills neighbor, at least, thought well of lilm. and since hu lhed In utility with them and appealed to appreciate tlulr good opinion I hoy mav be assumed In hao been rather decent folk themselves. A few steps 1101th of lllaclt Dense you will still find t.'ooinhei Alley. Tho slgu boardi now tall It I'tithboit street, but It was long known l,v the old name. And If you should i.ue lo inn,, around there, 5011 will come upon a number of houses of Colonial type pretty close lcpllcaa of the William Pcnii House suili as worthy Phil ndelphl.i fauillies were wont to favor for residences. em the I-'rnnt street corner of the first alley south of Chestnut street, whose le speclablo old nainii Isn't at this moment at hand, stood iho mansion of the Morris fam ily, maltsters, of whom our pieseut Ainbas rador to Japan Is a woitliy dcprciidanl. llut of all these old and still decent alleys tho ono most tenacious of that nnmenelatuie and the one most familiar to the people of today Is WllllhgV. At tho Tliinl street end of it, in 17IC, Chailes Willing, merchant and afterwaid City Count llm.in and Mayor, erected an elegant mansion, la flout ot tills house two fine bttttonweiod tiers wero planted in 17111 by Thomas Willing and John Palmer. They grew luxuriantly, and tho survivor of them was cut down when tho Pennsylvania Hall road erected Its olllces upon the preinisea of tho Willing mansion, about le'DT. This alley may never have been a resi lience street for other fashionable families, but It was traversed upon Sundays by many 11 silver-buckled shoe on tlm way to old St. Paul's Kplscopal Church, ,hlcli fronted tho Third sticet end for so many cars. And there weio others Hint stopped midway ami turned Into tho courtyard of old St. Josephs, which stilt blesses Hint quiet neighborhood. Tin- rcsldencn of the Jesuit Kathcrs, in charge of tho chute h, even now stands upon tho alley's north side, and at ita Fourth street end may still be found, on profitable oc casions, a character whom a poor poot, but our own, has thus embalmed In tho song, "Conlaylla o' tho Alley": At the corner o' the alley sits I'ontitvltit McN'ully. At tho corntT )' ttie alley where tlio people come an' un. In a penitent proceselon. I'.tftsln' to an' from confession In tho onlil Church ut St. Jeneph that woi bullded long into. Oh. 'tli well fho known there's many ltaH Iho charitable tM-nny Moro convaynlent to their llmeern then than any other day, An tier tiimeue It Is so sooth'rln 1 An' so muHtherful deludth'rln' There ttre mortiul few whatever she'll be hltln' c,-t away. T. A. D. JOHN L. SULLIVAN Tlinttn was something moro than a John In the oft-quoted boast of an Innocent minded American, "I have shaken the In nil that's shaken the hand of John L. Sullivan." Tho English-speaking peoples are for box Ing. tho Ideal which pictures man as ever ready to meet aggression naked and unaided by other persons, or weapons, but merely with his hands, his untainted youth and fear, less heart. There Is a story of O. Henry's, so good that It had to ba put In the movies, about tho sturdy Hast Side "social" which settled Ita disputes in a room oft the ball room, a knockout being the decision. To that club was Introduced a man of southern Kuropean origin masquerading ns one of tho tribe O'.Sulllvnn. He was "called out," And they found a knife skillfully concealed In bis flst-and-cuft arrangement. Not that he did wrong wus ho ejected Bvviftly nnd his but thrown out the window to him, but because he did not know the rules of America, Orcat Urltaln and Ireland, to the civilization of which nations these clubmen all belonged. Tho late Mr. Sullivan was the exponent of no brutal Ideal, but of ono which desires tho defeated to bo restored to complete con sciousness and nn Imrrovetl and chastened temper. Ho did a great deal lo make It pos sible for us (11 say that wo wish for tha Uerman people every boon to bo enjoyed by other peoples. .We have shaken a hand that's I - i --- -!- -j t",v in iv. , snane-q ins. naiui, ttuu it)unu no gpiio In It. . "f ,'lmP WfV' fS Brie r-CT"- r--!'."";'''"--. ---a--,- -urniv "". -v.-.-J. "'""' i- ".T'jfr4r-.i;;.u.-I' Bilcl -C3- .""I".'''"'""" "I-"- B.n-".!-.a;.." . . -..,. ' n-.. .ij-. ..2J'cLi ; .-!- Rlll ;'r:. :i-'- "-- '''..'",'"'"'.' ' "''-'"'.-.!" .''" "":.f.r-arr v -. R1'1 DYNAMITE IN RUSSIA'S SOUL Tho Only Nation That Under stands the Franciscan Ideal of Voluntary Poverty (ITT HAS always been a mystery to me," J-say.e Dostoievsky, "and 1 havo marveled a thousand times at that faculty In man and tho Uussian. 1 believe, mora e specially of eheilshlng In his soul his loftiest Ideal side by sltln with the most abject baseness, and all quite slnceiely." That is a hint of the sort of wisdom about llussl.i we ne,d today. Ale we lo sit at her feet like littln children'.' 1 ir Is she to sit at ours while we cast out her tleiiuiiiV AVe have been puttfiig tonie ot the cheapest sntt nf pragmatic tests to llussia. The cheap est way of stating pragmatic test is by thu formula, "If It works it's true." When ever Uussian Idealism doesn't woik we say It ln't true, llut It would be at least a. thoughtful thing to do to nad William James's bunk, "Pragmatism," before we apply the tests of the master of pragmatism. James, lu explaining his ptluelples, made iisn nf a quotation lo the effect Hint It was Important for a landlady to know how much 11 lodger earned each week-, but that it was ttiore Important to know hl- phllosuphj. He might mako $1(1 a week and believe lu pay ing his debts. Ho might uiako $lnt) a week nnd bcllcvo In sneaking off without palng. Ills philosophy was the index, even In his business principles. Wo must learn Russia's philo-ophy huforo wo talk about her material liabilities nnd niseis. We tie not have to visit litis .1,1 to learn It. Sho Is here, nt tho Academy of Music nearly every Friday afternoon and on th. shelves of tho l-'reo Library, Listen to Russian music. Read Dostoievsky's "Tho lirothors Karainozov," as a very t plual Rus. slau hook to begin the study ot the Museo vllo soul. Wo feel In theso works of art a fiantle idealism reaching out to unexplored leahiiH of sensation. Ono moment wo feel, with Dostoievsky, that wu aro "caught on the hooks of reality," tho next wo ate trans ported to a fairyland mole fantastic than any wo dream of. Am! our llrst impulsion of it all Is that everything Russian N epfeer. In our vocabulary Hie word "Russian" has como to mean "queer." This la very suspicious. J!y all the natural looks of things tho yellow, unasslinllahln Jan. aneso should bo "queerer" to us that the Russians. Hut they aro not We under stand tho Japanese very well theso days. Their oddities havo nil been standardized and It Is painful but true to reallzo that they have commercialized their oddities quite self-consciously whenever It pays them to play up tho "tearoom stuff" and the "geisha stuff" for provincial Americans. W'o understand tho Japanese so welt because thev lmvo adopted our state of mind hi Industrialism, ill' plomacy and Individualism, nut I10t K0 t10 Russians. And It will not taKo much heart seareblns for us to reallzo that that which offends us In tho Russians Just now is not so much tho appearance of treachery or iiloplan Um, but that they are po "unbusinesslike." 'Those crazy Russians nro acting Just like their own wild mtislo and wild novels," we say. As If tliero were any other way In wh'ch they could possibly act I What Is tho point In taking a long trip to tho Metropolitan Opera House to see a lot of Russian dancers turn inside out to Rlmsky-Korsakov muslo that stands on Its head, and then go and blame tho Russians in Petrogrnd for turning Inside out and standing on their heads Well, wo go to get a thrill, becauso It's so "queer." So does Paris; so does Roma; so docs London. Paris went wild over "Scbe herazade." nut we cannot go on forever with this schoolboy explanation about quecr ness. Wo need some constructive Idea of what nusslan cuieerness moans. Hero Is one that Is not complimentary to America and western Kurope that which wc call Western Civilization. Havo wo nf tho west cm nations any great man, any great un derstandablo model, who acted ns queerly as a Russian? Wo have. Wo have 11 whniA hri of legendary heroes who did wilder things nnd thought wilder thoughts than nnv tii. shevlk is capable of our Christian salnts. WO protean 10 uo itiueni iiumlrcrs of our saints. Take as, n good .example the most popular of them, that great man who did more than any one else in his age to keep Christianity, from falling Into tho ruts of commercialism St. Francis of Asslsl. A man can learn a great deal about the meaning of nusslan "nueerneaa" If s m read Sabatter's life ot, St, Francis, because only In Russla-today, Is. poverty as an, Ideal ,1 oruy m vuwivuijr, ia, poverty as an. luoal C, 1018 HE BIT THE HAND THAT HALF-FED understood, Francis outdid all tho Tolstoys and Ttotskys put together. The modern Rus sian understands perfectly his renunciation nf all worldly goods to tho extent nf strip ping nil his clothing nnd striding forth to let the llrst chance comer throw a few rags about his nakeeliic",'. In Russia tliero are many, many men who understand f-'t. Francis entirely. In west ern civilization there niu hardly any. Rus sia Is very Christian, whllo we well, we iindei stand tlm Japanese application of Christianity very well Indeed, 'l-rilKfnv- iirt-.-irlied wtiirl; nnvertv. file ner- 'A filed Christian doctrine In other ways, as In bis hort'ty of nonreslstanee. Rut that Is asido from the point.) Russia understood his Franciscan praise of poveity, and even Hu! Czar tiembled before that dnamlto ot abnegation. And to that wild man's funeral they came flocking in the'tr thousands, all thoe bearded slaves, and men lu furs, too, as wt saw lu the movies but did not under stand, "Will the New Russia pay her debts?" financiers ask. St. Francis did, Tolstoy even paid back to tho farmers tho debt which financiers tiy everywhere to withhold fiom them their land. There Is dynamite in Russia's soul the dynamlto of primitive Christianity, the fotee that mado tho world. In what other nation has the cry been raised that It declare a "Holy w'ai'". What oilier nation is called "Holy"? H. S. W. WARRIORS LOVR FLOWERS A writer In a current Issue of ono of tits magazines tefers to Newton D. Halter's rise to tho War Department as "the Use of this country lawyer, this lover of flowers, this quiet, domestic man." It lias been nntlceablo from the stmt of tho war that the men con spicuous for leadei..ldp all love flowers, and neatly all nf theni are domestic. Not that this detritLts from Mr. Uaker'a martial excellence. As a domestic man and a lover nt flowers lie merely displays tho eharactrtlstlis Inherent in all our modern men ot war. W'e said modern, but recall that Joab. Alexander and Hannibal were, In a fashion, family men. Kven Indifference lo tho pretty blooms would enhance a character with the distinc tiveness of being illlfcrcnt from tlm either OHO la a thousand. Why shouldn't Mr. Baker love flowers? Von Hludenburg does, Joffro does, Halg does we believe and Cadorna does. Ilrusslloft Is devoted to orchids and Von Mackcnsen adores apple blossoms. Tho hardy Japs cultivated their csthetlclsm In tho bone, filled ti caches beforo Port Arthur. All tho warriors lovo flowers and we might consider Mr. Raker unfit for ills elllco It he did not. Chicago Tribune. a pi,i5.!i.NT rn.wni: rein jiahv Murv had 11 little limb. And It aurprlaeil her Krently. Shu's had hut Utile morn than Jam And shn dded hay In re lately. What Do You" Know?" QUIZ 1. American troops nro deeljred In he In n sec tor liorlhet of T1111I. Where Is Ttuil'.' 2. r.vnhiln Hie ilKTercnfe between Hie fcnllariide mid 1 ihreiihelt tliermoitielers. 3. Where iliea tho Supreme Wnr Council sit? I. What mid where la Saskatchewan? .-,. What 1 (he elder product) or llntrll.' (I. The Sudan la Hie chief unirrn of Hie wnrld't iinplv of rum nrnblo unil liory. Where la thlft retdon? 7. About how- many of the l.ROO.000 liihalilliiiiU uf Ire'tind nro Catholics'; 8. llellnn "choleric," II. What Is a penturnn? 111. What It a trltocr? Answers lo Yesterday's Quiz 1. ( htnnbcrlalti nnd llltrlieork nre lleuiocrala. S. The number of American soldier In Prance has not been olllclallr niinntinced. Secre (nry linker ha. said (hut there would bo more I lit 11 .VMl.uoti (hero early In una S. "Three dl.t ItiaiiMied rlltirna of demonnlraled 1 ithl Itfl (hu I, u Mirs.e. In Henutor Cham. 1 Wrluln'a bill to create n war cnhlnet of :;: ,-- - m-'mmih-uiiuiis 110 uebcriuea ill the wordi quoted. ' 4, Mr, llaker a Maor of Cleveland, O. tj, 'MIKeleoronn" while referrlnc uperlficnlly o Central rairjpo. I, Intended In the , , "Z Herman Plan of domination to lnrl.i 'fit Jrron,e.:.o,.,c,c,o"n7ro,.n,, K"",a he '""". . The lleaert of flobl la In China. 7. Doctor Garfield helped (o orsantie -, company lu CleTelancl same lean nto. 8. The sloMIs It the. gpenlng at Hie uuper uarl of the wlndn pe nnd belueVtn ih , . horde. Bn-eelln iSdnlnTleo "f th", '.Jlfi by reintracllnic or dllatlni. . loclodlnt dlatotne. anni. ...ow, t" '" - Thwh-?.!i.nrrd?. v..." ,jw!. I mi iiHikru..' ,M .'"tW!'' . thiit . n HIM ' McAroni Ballads en DA MUSICA MAN You known Giovanni, ela musica man? He playn da harpa, lie playa pian', 1'or maka da mona wherevra ho can. Da btylecsha peopla doy gcove heem da chance For maka da music for hclpa dem itnee. He playa da music so Rooda, bo ptn', He tul me, da ladies dey calla tasi "sweet" An' fjceve heem ela plnynta good o0a for cat. I like be Giovanni, da musica man. Giovanni, da musica man, he ces fat, An' sleepy an' lazy so lika da cat, So mooehn da drcenkin' an catin' he gat I gotta da music eensida ray heart; I weesh 1 have also da musical art For mak eet com' outa my heart like he can, An filla mv stomach tvecth fooda for tat I disga ela tranch; I work hard on di '! street I like lie Giovanni, da musica man. TOM DALTf. OUTWITTING AUSTRIANS QOMH time, jiosslljly even In Ida next novel, J some of Joseph Conrad's experiences In those months Immediately following the out- break ot the war, when ho was Isolated from tho rest of tho world hi Poland, may becomi, riddle. From llttlo snatches of gossip aaJ Intimations which are picked up here aol thcro it bcconu.s moro and moro likely th' what happened lo Mr. Conrad in getting t)t of Poland will mako Interesting reading. One phaso ot theso experiences was described tin ether clay to a filend by former Ambassador Pcnflcid, who until recently represented Uu interests ot tho United States at the Austrian court. It will bo remembered that 3Ir. Conrad and his family had gono to Toland shortlf before tho outbreak of tho war to visit the scenes of his youth and spend a few weeks In leisurely travel hi his native country. Then when the delugo broke and Jtr. Conrad' friends found it Impossible to communicate with him they began to feel anxiety. All the efforts of hla bankers and his publishers to get into touch with him nnd to get ta him with funds failed. In tho effort both Ambassador Pago at London nnd Ambassador Penlleld at Vienna wcro called upon, and finally Sir. Penlleld succeeded In reaching Mr. Conrad by a special messenger sent Into Poland witii money and papers which would Insure his safo return at least to Vienna. ' Thus one clay, .weeks later, was ushered Into Ambassador Penfleld'H office the great Pollsh-Kngllsh novelist. It so happens thit Mr. Penlleld had been for many years one or the legion of Conrad admirers, and there fore his Interest In being of service to the novelist was Just that much greater, and 1 warm friendship sprang up between the two Immediately, Unfortunately, however, for Mr. Conrad's sake, when the ambassador asked for pass ports for tho novelist and his family the Aus- emu uuvi-riiiiicnt delayed giving a dennita answer on the basis that Mr. Conrad was a, ' subject of Great Rrltaln. So tho Conrad faro- lly, virtually cut off from the rest of the ' world, sat cooling their heels In Vienna, to all Intents nnd purposes Interned, tryln .' every way that they could hit upon for getting back to England. Finally Mr. Conrad made friends with the chief police authority of ' the city, subscribing to his pet charities and 1 otherwise making himself pleasant. Mr. Ten fields ndvlcft bad been fmm iv v he- ginning of the negotiations, "When you get ' tllQ Word (n en utn-l ...l.l...... ...111.... An ono else, no matter from what official the pcrtiiistioa comes." 1 4JICI ICHUIL. lireSUmnlilv-. nf Trtnef 'vna n 1iaS5. .l for the Conrads disappeared fro.T Vienna. 1 viier many nays two letters were placed 4 upon Mr. Penfleld's desk, one of thei.i upon j the right-hand side and one upon the left- 'J ItnilM DIUtJ, 4 jf m Seeing Conrad's well-known handwritIM 'J on tho envelope on hla left, the ambassador y opened this letter first. It read! "We are ,M 111 stent 01 the chalk cliffs of England ana, within twenty minutes will lm unon EnglUB. boll. ' Tho letter concluded with warm thanks Jj to Mr. Penfleld for his efforts. ,1 Turning to the right-hand side of his desto. ne pieKea up -the second- letter, which waffrl an uineiui uocument from the Austrian T94 e gn umca nnd which said Hint under , circumstances would Mr. Conrad or his iiy oe.auowea to leave the country a I i, ,..i - , ..... --. vsiwripii.' 1 . Zr ".
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