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FAITH IN RUSSIA
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,i. .TT OULD be t utile lo generalise too
$ hastily regarding present conditions In
cjUlUMla. But beneath tlio turmoil and dls
.hi trees may. do aivinea me stirrings or nooio
f .J. ,nd tremendous forces. Those ho hae
oeen prompt to conaemn me prostration
tk ot the youne republic under tho Teuton
t'v heI may have causo to revise their lews
r.TAm4 If ever a nation needed sympathy and
' -lrteadly understanding In Its hour of trial
, 'IV IBM nation Is Russia today.
r! '" J Ambassador Trancls's remarkable mes-
'P ate to the Russian people, Issued from
f Afif Y0,0 aB nere ine American emua:ssy is
t'S' now housed, Is one of tho most appealing
1 VVtitteraneeH In tho lilstorv of dlDlomacv.
V 7ha ambassador urges the Russian pcoplo
;c ,not tO'SUDmit to me uerman peace treaty,
j 4 i ha bers them to lay aside internal differ-
ncaa and unite in repelling the invaders.
' Ha heartens them to believe that this can
C ba done, and that only in that way can a
V laatlni nanoa K.a ae.irai-1 fni Oilual.i atiH
' the world.
i . .. ...
; y; "My riovernment, taitl Ambassador
. i f ray ID, Ollll (.Ull&iucis kmi:iii..b uii iuy
.U- af tha Russian people, who surely will not
if reject ins pronerca assistance wc mil do
J'K prompt to render to any government in
V Jluitia that will offer a sincere and organ-
,& itad resistance to the German Invasion.
p 4I ahalt not leave Russia until compelled
ji, by force."
fi Mr. Francis did well to express to the
xvuaeiaiL pcupie iiio vvuriu uuu irutcrnui
lj. -aympathy of the United States. Wo aic
A not fair weather friends. AVe care little
V a'neugh what party may como to tho top
slH that country If only It represents the
it IntaUlg-ent and liberal aspirations of Great
i,Rue!a herself. Wo havo no concern in
l "What particular form the United States of
, nuwu may come to oirin. uur pan is to
U tuatat our ally in overy way possible lo
Sfraa herself from the itrangllng and dlsln
;y..'tTatlng embrace of the Hun.
X$It would be well for Americans to under-
"uuano a little moro clearly the peculiar
S dtfSculty that besets Russian liberal lead
iVara'in their present struggle. Having la-
Xiberaa to discredit war as the devilment of
autocrats and capitalists; having promised
r,tha people peace If onlj czardom and nil
it symbolized were overthrown, they now
yind the exhausted and war-weary masse)
L apathetic toward this new war lo which
i3tni'9'lre urged. Hunger knows no master;
li aMlal rirf.lllrn'nwn mnuna elnn- rninnii.n In
' atluus. The Bolshevik leaders feel In
if honor bound to organize their new mill-
i tary machinery on a purely voluntary
UjBaaBi. And.RussIa has been through such
t Wttar and Confusing turmoil that by now
lr tha peasant finds the Issues dimmed and
.tOtfy. No one, not the leader? themselv os,
Jknowa Just what will hanncn. Tiotskv
.ya ha will te Minister of War. "if there
te war," The situation cannot be Judged
jliy precedents, for there are none.
ly But, aa the President has said, there are
A - ' .l... I. !.. n ... ,-
.. ;" sreab vuiucs in iiiu rvuasiail ctner. we
iINMr Boundless hope for her ultlmato je
' saturation, we Drav for the rl.iv tvhn he
-'JlMaT ba able to gather her shattered ranks
fttitjatliar and oppose a united front to
J,(iajatar trickery and dishonest propa-
MMW. it may even be that her very
t iMlalaaanesa and her efforts to democratize
'JV l-.l .IT M.I11 A. MA. 41 .1.1 -,- A-
.imwik wilt uu inula tiiaii aiiiiiin else (O
faatna? abont a rtumnrrntln. nnlirat..nl fn nf.
iv Y'-:- -:. - . s: " :
jrwmmiiy. uniy ypsieraay i'nnce Max of
,'Saiao, said that Germany was In great
-;laflfer of "moral Infection" from Russia.
Wliatever happens, the United Stateo will
jat abandon 'the joungest republic in the
JJiaarld, and Ambassador Francis did fine
"iffaajtyice 1n saying so to t: e Rjsslan people.
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r'fclKs When William Penn in "A Description of
Pennsylvania" said its climate was salubrl
ffmha doubtless was thlnklnr of days like
i 'Mttaa not o"f last winter.
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WOMEN ON THE FIGHTING LINES?
"X'XtpOStf Secretary Baker returns from the
-!-.ff ,btt!efront he will be asked to decide
WrVtthar American women physicians shall
fcav'privlleged to hold commissions In the
Madfeal corps of the army. An adverse
tiotofon may Imply nothing more than a
at (appreciation and regard for the ex
aiaJ part already played by women In the
Jr and for tha rules of chivalry.
fe'.'jhfct medical women's national assocla
p"'oj h already made extensive prepara-
'afpaW o;.aervlce near the front, and it will
fjwni iur mo ttiiuy iu uccepi oucn
'a
tbput suDmitting women to the ultl-
. tarrora and perils that often attend
rk of commissioned medical officers.
treftual of the War Department to
on women physicians-might prop-
r(a -accepted as the ultimate sign of
' ma consideration. Tha battle lines
i awful enough already. Tho additional
rtf women wounded, maimed or
iJhe service would bo Intolerable.
of meaical officers takes them
f i within tha range of gunfire and
L dosed, except In unusuil In-
i women In tho field service.
made the wars: And there Is
rtMtwtlon of conscious reapon-
j,atrapparent ae;crminauon to
HaMfferlng- ana tno pain xor
wltanavar they .can. Every
'taivtkm acapt fuaaJa-
aiaara mrmr vajw
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THE VOTERS BE HANGED!
QNE gathers from tho reported conver
sallons of tho political lenders thai
tho work of mnklnp up the State ticket
is to be dono by the bosses, who arc prac
ticing 'business as usual," and that tho
voters arc to bo permitted to perform tho
functions of n rubber stamp nt the pri
maries. There can be no other meaning to tho
serious consideration given to tho reports
that tho Varo and Penrose peoplo aro
about to get together. The little politi
cians accept these jeports. They expect
harmony in advance of the primaries
that there may be addition, division and
silence afterward.
And why shouldn't they expect it?
Who governs the State, anyway? Cer
tainly not the voters. They do not choose
the candidates put up at the primaries.
Somebody else holds a pre-primary and
decides whether John Doe or Richard
Roe shall run for tho governorship and
the lieutenant governorship. And the
canJidate, when elected, admits that his
loyalty is due first to the man or group
of men who picked him out of the field
and elevated him on the pedestal of
power.
The sovcieign voteis, permitted to
cast their ballots for his nomination, that
tho forms of law may be observed, are
mere rubber stamps; and the Governor,
vvhpp elected, selves in hist tut n ns a con
enient rubber stamp for the men who
permit him to put the seal of approval
on what they want done.
This rubber-stamp business is thriving
in spite of the war, and the voters may
go hang for all that the pic-primaiy
manipulators caie.
Why, they are even now talking as if
the prosecutions in the Fifth Waid mur
der case were matters of barter between
rival leaders and ns if the processes of
the courts themselves could be stopped
at the ouleis of the politicians mtci
ested in protecting the guilty. Hut no
one is shocked. We a'ceept it all as a
matter of coui.se and stand by holding
the garments of the brutal leadets while
political independence is stoned to death.
It is certainly n most humiliating situa
tion this of a great Commonwealth sub
mitting to a political oligarchy while the
nation is engaged in a world war that
democracy may be prescived. But,
unfortunately few leprcscntative citi
zens seem to feel the humiliation. Most
of them appear contented with the way
the self-appointed ruleis of the State
exercise their power; at least they arc
not protesting.
If they arc discontented they have jet
to give public evidence of their state of
mind. If any tonsideiablo number of
voters vverc discontented these condi
tions could not survive another election,
for the politicians would bo forced to
"pandc to a sense of public decency," as
one distinguished statesman once put it.
There may develop before the spring is
over a spiiit of independence somewhere
which will a;seit itself and demand the
nomination of candidates for the govern
orship and lieutenant governorship who
aie their own masters and will owe
allegiance to the whole State rather than
to a group of pre-primary manipulators
and dickerers of patronage and spoils.
But at present it looks as if the policy
of "the voteis be hanged" were to
tiiumph. We can already hear the ham
mers driv ing the nails in the gibbet.
According lo a "flde-llght ' dispatch from
Germany the Crown Prince Is quoted as rav
ing that he wishes lo visit Canada after the
war ends. A whole lot of Canada will bo
visiting him before the war end".
LAUGH: DO!
THU high bchool pupils at Kcnnctt
Square who named Walter Llppmann,
Herbert Croly, 1'rank SImonds and Harold
Boll Wright aa Joint members with our
most distinguished statesmen In a hjpo
tlictfcal mission to the Japanese provided
a moment of solemn glee, no doubt, for
those whom heaven has endowed with
brows of unusual altitude And jet the
aspiring minds at Kennett weren't on so
wild a wng us u rursory glance ut the list
might indicate They paid a compliment
to tho writing craft that probably would
not have occurred to their moio ostenta
tious, if less alert, ciders.
Yet unless jou know, as twelve of the
twenty-two pupils knew, why AValter Llpp
mann has a fighting chance for placo In the
august company of Ellhu Root and Colonel
Roosevelt, and unless jou know, without
looking up the books, what Mr. Cioly and
Mr. SImonds and Mr. Llppmann have done
to make their association with Harold Bell
Wright a matter to tingle the nerves of
the Intclllgentta, then the students at
Kennett knew more than ou do because
they gr.e Mr. Wright only one vote. You
must save jour laugh for unother occasion.
When the demand for peace In Germany
becomes a public clamor for B piece of bread
Germany will get both.
THE OLD-FASHIONED HOUSE
KEEPER PASSING of the old fashioned house
keeper through demands made, by mod
ern conditions on the time, energy and
enthusiasm of women was as inevitable as
the passing of the old line businessman
from modern , trade and Industry and
of the all-around scholar In the scientific
and educational specialist. The memory of
her pies Is mouth-watering and thought
of her hemstitching and hand-sewed but
tonholing Is cherished by mere man up
against machine-made substitutes that
flcklcly fall to keep the faith, We would not,
however, recall her, for new times require
new and maybe newfangled notions. The
, bouaowjfery wl!l'tMmore efficient.
lllbe
(I
EVENING' PUBLIC LBDGBRi
tlon of energy and economical utilization
of materials that housekeeping will nover
again become tho drudgery which diagged
out women's lives und which they gladly
abandoned. Tho new housewifery will ex
tiact every calorie out of each ounce of
foodstuff and register 100 per cent of pro
duction from every item of enorgy.
We lov o the memory of tho old-fashioned
housekeeper, but for tho sake of women
In tho modern homo prefer to revere her
.pnly us a memory.
HOW FAST IS THE DEMON
RUNNING?
THU Legislatures Texas and Missis
nlrtnl limn fnllntiitrl thi.lt- rfltlflentlotl nf
the prohibition amendment to tho na
tional Constitution by tho passage of "bone
dry" State prohibition laws. Teens has
been a llcenso Slate. Its new prohibitory
liw goes Into effect on June "i Missis
sippi has had a law which limited thft
amount of liquor that uny one might buv
within u month Its Legislature has de
cided that the limit Is too high and has
sent n hill to tho Governor forbidding ab
solutely the sale of liquor.
Tho New York Leglslatuie which re
fused to ratify the amendment. Is consid
ering a prohibition amendment to tho State
Constitution. Tho Senate has olrcatly
ndoptetl the report of u committee recom
mending the passage of such an amend,
ment. if the Assembly Indorses It thero
will be a genuine referendum on tho sub
ject as soon as the amendment can be
submitted to tlio voters
The growth of prohibition sentiment Is
ns rapid as It Is surprising Nine States
have alrcadv ratlMcd the constitutional
amendment They havo a total population
of H.000,000. or about 4,000 000 less than
the corrblncd populations of Pennsylvania
and New York. The flvo States of Penn
sjhanla, New York, Massachusetts, Ohio
and Illinois have a combined population
of 33,000 000, or about onethlul of tho
population of the whole country, It re
mains to be seen whether these States will
latlf.v the federal amendment If they
should reject It am! tho other fort -three
States should accept It, prohibition would
be forced upon this great population with
out Its consent If Missouri, Michigan,
Indiana, Georgia und California with a
combined populatioi of 15 000 000. should
I eject the amendment these Joined with
the other live States mentioned would give
a total population of IS.000 000 opposed to
prohibition, but tho vole of these twelve
States would not bo enough to pievent tho
adoption of piohlbltlon ns tho national
polic
It would be etremclv unfortunate if the
United States should bo voted dry with
this Immcnso population opposed to the
piogram Yet It is within tho tango of
po"iblIlllcs.
It Is to be hoped that peace mav come
before there Is a final deel .Ion on this mo
mentoui question. At present prohibition
of tho sale of llqtiur is favored as a war
measure by in my who do not believe In It
as a peunanent policy In the present state
of popular lustoni and public opinion. We
do not suppose that even tho prohibition
ists themselves would UKo to havo th" na
tion render a snap judstnent, only to le
gret it nfterwrid. A 1 ivv dealing with tho
habits of tho people must be based on tho
people's habits or It will be dishonored and
all law b thus brought Into dlsieputc
Ther will bo time for tho nation lo
begin to make up its mind before the great
majorltv of the State Legislatures hold
their biennial sessions next ear. In the
lntciv.il levelheaded voters will do a lot of
thinking.
rossibl Mr Roosevelt liai his own ex
perience In mind In Ids belief that hii Admin
istration Is a fair target for criticism
THE ENGLISH MUNITIONS SCANDAL
THU exposure of colosul munitions
profits In England, which has roused
a tumult of rceilmlnatlon In tho press,
comes as a belated but hlglilv xlgiiiUcaut
commentary upon the ltbor disputes which
Llovd George settled with dllllculty at tho
outset of tho wai. It at demonstrated
by a recent ofllcial inquiry that Isolated
gioups of manufacturci s have managed
to squeeze by every governmental restric
tion with plunder that sometimes aggre
gated five times the cost of production.
When the English trades unions the
miners, machinists, shipbuilders and dock
workers were asked at the beginning of
tho war to relinquish temporarily nnd for
motives of patriotism the rights and privi
leges which they had won through long
and hard jeais of agitation, they expressed
ii willingness to make such sacrifices If
their cmplojers would manifest a like
spirit, The torrent of accusations let
loose on British laboring mer at that tlmo
involved all sorts of charges, from habitual
drunkenness to treason The differences
were finally adjusted through the media
tion of Llojd George
The expose of tho munition profiteers
seems to Indicate at last something of tho
origin of that forgotten crisis."
That German drive
something, all right.
Is dilvlng against
'Dave' Francis, of Mls'outi, Is
Ins them" over In Russia
'shon-
Da light savlnsr teems to be a panacea
for ever) thing but tho Income tax.
Councils' war over city Jobs has ended
In party peace. There was no demand for
a separate peace.
Ambassador Francis's ringing declaration
of heart and hope to the Russian people puts
a spoke In the plan to make the Russian
world safe for German autocracy.
Czernln Is due to make a postponed
peace statement and something Is about ripe
again from Hertling The Central empires
will soon be fighting the world for peace.
Hot cross buns aren't to have any Icing
this ear because of a rule of the Federal
food administration. There are sure to be
persons here and there who wilt, feel that
tho horrors of war are growing more horrible
day by day.
' i
Senator Gronna, of
Mourncra' North Dakota, once
lleneh l'lrat linca up with La Fol-
letta-on war questions,
now savs; "I know It to be my duty to do
ever) thing In my power to prosecute, the
war successfully." Another candidate for
the Amen Corner of American patriotism.
Oermany has de
clared against 'Violent
c annexations." Our very
Bandit Dlallk
Violent) Ia
Dtst roooera .always
have jnWawJ 'their. vlolnii to; 'd'ai4
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- BHILADELPHIA ' SATURDAY. MARCH. 23 ,
GOV. PENNYPACKER
ENDS LIFE STORY
Last Words in Autobiography
Were Written With Left Hand
After Right Arm Had Been
Broken
rEVMrurKr.rt AiiToiuotmArnv no. ids
(Copuriaht, lOlt, li 'utile l.edatr Company)
August 8, 1912.
TOHN, who Is thut llttlo man?"
i
asked
Wo bat on hickory chairs on tho porch
In tho shade of a thilv'lng vine which
climbed to the toof I pointed to a man
about five feet four inches In height, thin
and swat thy, what tho Trench would call
'Chetlf,' with ildik c)ts nnd bandy legs,
who lounged against the fence.
"Ills namo vas frown. Ho Ufa In de
voods back of Reed's mill. Dero ho makes
paskets out of white oal and hfekory.
Deio ain't nny of dent olt pasket-makers
arount any mote. lie learnt to mako pas
kets from his grandfadder, old Gcorgo
Prow ii. Olt Ucoigo has peon toad It as
tllity cats or mote Ven ho ns allfe
)ct he coc. about do countty wlss his
back alt covered vvlss paskets so ven you
look nt lilm )ou could sco nottlng but
paskets Ho makes all kinds of paskets
out of straw and hlckoiv und do rount
pi cad paskets Do jou hafe re pread at
jour house"'"
"No, John we don't use ije bread."
"Veil, ven 1 vaa a poj It vas de only
kind of prcad to had It vas right Boot,
You can't get any ie flour now. De
millets ctlnd all do meal out of de flour.
But my mutter sho sift It for herself.
Dero Is no more such dimes as dem xas.
Dlcso fellow vant mo to gifo him an olt
pair of poots Dero Is an olt pair In de
pain vat Is oro out and no goot any
more, but ho sas dcy Is goot"
"I suppose ho finds llfo a little hard."
"It Is all his own fault. Ho is too lazy
to votk. And ven de huntln' season comes
along ou can nefei catch him at homo.
Ho Is off after lapplts. Ho Ufa cheap,
puvs olt stale ptcad and eats rapplts"
Urown cat i led off thf old boots
Tho hoinel) arts which once supported
these people have been swept away by the
nnwnnl maich of events, and those who
have onl) learned tho ctafts of their
grandfathers havo dwindled with them.
There wcio three of us my brother
Isaac, iilv son Aubrey and msclf, who
called on John the morning before Easter
In 1013 He i'amo Into tho loom after a
short delay wearing a. lough woolen Jacket
with bono buttons
"John, havo ou been In bed taking n
nap-'" I Inquired
'Ven I sleeps In de tivtlmc, I sleeps In
de parn," was the answer.
Wo diifted to the profits of farming at
tho suggestion of Isiac
Your broddcr nnd I've both varms de
sinio vay and ve both knows how vo make
out. Aeh, It all depends, somedlmcs o
gets a goot fellow to xork and somcdlmes
It Is do udder vay. I vonco had a fellow
and veil ho camo to tno ho hid nodding
ma) be a car's agc. 1 uefci had to dell
him vat to do Ho chust do It. Ho looks
out vor me und xor himself, too Ach, he
cot along. Ven I vants to glfe him somo
dinij lie s iv no, but I makes it up to him
some, odder vay. Ven ho goes uvay ho had
fifteen bundled tollars Ho vas do tight
kind but dero Is no more now like ho xas"
"How long did he work for ou, John"'"
Nineteen jeais" 'I lieu ho changed tho
topic.
' Isaac, jou are elm ,4. llko my Uncle Sam
Ho vas a tall, slim fellow and vas a treat
man to valk. He said ho nefcr liked to
tide In a vaggon pccatise It made him so
tired "
July S, 1913.
We were sitting my bi other James and
1 on tho giecn In the shade of a hickory
tieo (pit? nut), whoso spicadlng und grate
ful blanches swung fur out In scaich of
ah, when John camo driving along. In
the field be) out! tlio farmeis loaded the
tlmoth) ha) on the wagon.
"V.v don't )ou fellows got up and go to
vork''" was his erecting
And then ho told us of tho time when his
grandfather, John, who had owned the
ground on which we wero lying, had first
seen a railroad tialu. It was nbout to
start on the Reading road, and ho drove
over, to Ro)ersforiI, five miles, to Inspect
tho phenomenon.
"Veil, at did jou sink of It?" was the
Inquiry when ho reached home.
"It Is a nasty sing to frighten hoiscs,"
he replied.
"When weio j-ou last In the city?" my
brother Inquired Tho city was Philadel
phia tvvent) -seven miles away.
"'It! vas apout dree )cua ago" sa.d
John. Then, turning to me, "I hufo some
ding I vant to glfe jou I vlbli I had seen
jou before jou xent to Gettjsburg," and,
as he drovo uvvay, I heard "como ofer
xonce." Tho gift soon was sent lo my
houso and proved lo bo a pair of old leather
saddle bags tit good preservation
August, 1, 19.
- This afternoon John rambled along with
very little consectitlvcness of thought, but
ever entertaining.
"Do jou vant to puy a horse? Dero
xas a man offered me a horse dat vas j-es-
terdaj- for sixty-five tollars. You don't
hafe to pay as much for horses chust
now as jou did pefore harfest. But den
he vas seventeen jcars olt. Ma) bo you
don't xant a horse so olt. Somedlmes
deso olt horses Is fery goot on a, xurm.
I hafe xorked out a goot many olt horses
Put I ould nefer sell 'em. A man offered
mo a hundred tollars for a horse twentj
two years olt, but he did not get hlin."
"My grandfadder, Chon Pannebacker,
built the stone house vat yon own. He
vas a blacksmith. Tlio cround vas nearly
all covered with xoods. He used charcoal.
Dere vas no hart coal In dose days, and
dey had to keep tho fire half covered up
or It xould pe all purned out,
"My grandmutter vas Mary Schneider;
she vas ninety-one years olt ven she died.
Ven she x-as ninety, she v'ould come Into
the room and sit town In a chair, and
say:
"I can't do anyelng any rrjore, you vlll
hafe to get someboddy to help.' She vould
sit avhile and den go out to de kitchen
and fusa around and come back, and say:
"'No, I don't vant nobody, dero la nod
ding to do hete and Sam he alvays helps
and sets dlnga vor me.' She did all her
own vork. But ve did the vashlng for her
3at abaaeuldn'tido.". . - .,
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. THE WAR GARDENER'S ULTIMATE
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MEETING THE GODS FOR A DIME
By ANDREW McGILL
Iv wi:
Phlla
13 had to choose just one street in
hlladclphU lo the exclusion of all others,
piububly our grcalert affection would ba for
Ludlow ctreet. We have constituted ourself
the president, publlclt) committee and sole
member of the Ludlow Mteet lluslness Men's
Association and Chamber of Commerce. AVo
propose In this manifesto to make known to
tho world Just where Ludlow sttcct Is, and
till) It Is so fair
Ludlow street Is not In an) sen
a thor-
oughfare.
It does not faro thiough, for Its
course is estopped by Fevcral bulky build
ings H mippeara here and there in a
whimsical, tentative manner. We do not
pietend to know all about Ludlow street,
nor have vn chut ted Its entire course. But
the pith and quintessence of this runnel of
rultuie is trod almost daily by out' earnest
feet.
Obit doings with Ludlow street begin when
we turn off Eleventh street and caress
the flank of the Mercantile Library In an
oastct lv gambit Then, with our nose cocked
for am wandering savors from the steaming
rotRt bieves of u Tenth street ordinary well
known to epicureans, wo dait along until
our progress Is barred by the Federal Build
ing This neces-ltale3 a pottage through the
Federal Reserve Hank on to the roaring coast
of Chetnut street We double back on Ninth
and find Ludlow rcappeailng Just above
Lean's Book Stole.
Hero It Is that our dear Ludlow street
finds its mission and meaning in life. From
tho tall-browed facade of the Mercantile LI
braiy It has caught a taste for literature
and against the north wall of Leary's It In
dulges Itself to the full. Perhaps you would
think It a grimy llttlo alley as It twists
blithely round Leary's, but to us It is a
porchvvav of Paradise. How many hours we
have dallied under that little penthouse
Blielter mulling over tho ten-cent shelves!
All tho rumots and echoes of letters find
their wa) to Ludlow stiect sooner or later.
o can la) our ear to those battered rows
of books as to a whorled conch shell and
heal tho solemn murmur of the vust ocea.i
of literature Theto we may meet the proud
argosies or tho humble derelicts of that
ocean for ten cents
-ri:S. thev all come to Ludlow street In
JL tho end We have found Wentworth's
Arithmetic! there, old foe of our jouth; and
Georgo I3llot. and Porter (Jane) and Porter
(fieno htratton). Thero used to bo a com
plete set of Wllklo Collins, bound In blue
buckram, at the genteel end of tlio street
among the twent)-fivo centers. We were
till) Ins them, one by ono (that was before
the da)s of thrift stamps), when some pluto
crat came along and kidnaped the whole
buneli. He wus an undlscernlng plutocrat,
becaufo he toon the secona volume or "ine
Woman In White" while wo were still read
ing the first. When we went gajly to buy
Volume II. lo! It was gone.
Clark Rufsell is there, with his snowy
canvased )achts dipping and creaming
through azure seas, and once In a while a
tattered Frank Stockton or a "Female Toels
of America" or "The M)steries of .Udolpho."
We have learned moro about books from
Ludlow street than ever we did In any
course at college. We remember how we
used to hasten thither on Saturday after
noons during our college dajs and, fortified
with an automatic sandwich and u cup of
coffee, we would spend u delirious three
hours plundering the Jeweled caves of Joy,
Rest of all are the wet days when the rain
drums on the little shelter-roof and drips
down the back of the fanatic. -But what true
fanatic heeds a chilled spine when his head
Is warmed by all the fires of 01)tnpus?
IUDLOW STREBT has quiet sorrows of
i Its own, however. At the end of the
ten-cent shelves, redeemed, and exalted, even
Intoxicated by theso draughts of elixir, It
staggers a little In Its gait. It takes a wild
reeling twist round behind Leary's, clinging
to that fortress of the Muse as long as It
may. And then comes the thorn In Its crown.
Just as It has begun to fancy Itself as a
highbrow pathway to Helicon, it finds Itself
wearing against its sober brick wall one of
the Street Cleaning Department's fantastic
and long-neglected ash piles.. This abashes
tha poor little street so that when It strikes
Kbjhth street 'It becomes confused, totters
atvtrai aarona to
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frequented by journeymen carpenters, who
bury It In their sweet-smelling shavings,
0
HLLSbLD little Ludlow street! You
are to Philadelphia what the old book
stalls on tho Seine bank are to Paris, what
Charing Cross Road Is to London. You are
the home and haunt of tho shjett, sweetest
Muses thero are: the Jtuses of old books.
The Ludlow Street Business Men's Associa
tion, In convention assembled, drinks a
beaker of Tom and Jerry to )our health and
good fottune.
"They Surely Won't Be Missed"
No names of great German painters or
sculptois come trippingly to the tongue of
the average person of culture, none emerge
outstanding from the mind on leisured reficc
tlon Hence one does not feel constrained
to protest against the proposal of the conven
tion of American artists to put an embargo
on German art. Mention Dutch art and
Rembiandt, Van Dyck, X'ermecr are the Im
mediate reaction ; the "Mill ' looms up splen
didly, the Woman Weighing Pearls" glori
fies the thought. Mention Italian art and
Michael Angelo, Raphael, Botticelli with rec.
ollected Madonnas, Springs and Nativities
pour balm on the spirit. Sav Spain, Murillo
und Velasquez, England, Romney, Ref
olds anfl Constable : France, Claude Lorraine,
Millet, Corot, and America, Abbey and Whis
tler these are only a few of the names that
Illuminate tho bead-roll of art No bucIi
bright memories spring from German art.
Tho embargo Is not professional Jealousy
or hate-hymning-. It has a profounder
reason German art s as subtly menacing
to Ideals as other forms of Prusslanlsm, and
as evilly pervasive its grotesquerle, Its
starkness, Its cruelty have been an ill and
harshening Influence. Authentic art is In
spiring and spiritual.
Bulbs "I
"The Huns hope to break through to the
charnel ports, composing-rooms a eoutem
porar) They would be that If the Hun ever
got there
Speaking of offensives, the food admlnls.
tration has walloped the good old hot.cross
bun by forbidding nny Icing on It, The
Bun offensive.
Two women In Ijndon read a book by
Ralph Waldo Trlno (no, not Hmerson) and
committed suicide. The Jur). after examin
ing the volume, returned a verdict of Justi
fiable despair.
We often wonder why more book reviewers
don't make away with themselves,
SOCRATL'S.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. What the roeanlni of tha phraia "dales
2. What la a alio?
3. Who la General' flallnlli?
4. When doea tha dajUaht aatlnr meaaar
Into enectT
" Mbflt.ln,ree,l',lf ' Mnt"Ur b"B ''
a, What la chetronT
7. What la tha auperetltlon connected with am.
8. W1't la the orlln ef tha term "rommnter."
aa applied lo auburban railway tratclerir
0. What la "boilnr the eompaaa"T
10. Whe orlcinated tha aarlnc "Homebody , ,i.
ttara (aklnc the Joy out of Hfo"T
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. The byronet la ao called becauta of an action
or French troopa near Karonno In Franca
wta, hV,nJ.lun V. of nmmunlUon. tho
aaldlera H;ed their knlrea to their muakota
and roDtnt on,
5. Tho wheela of an automobile Incline Inward
at tha around becouM there la a ellcnt
crown'r to moit roada and tha tlraa wear
oteulr br thla arrangement.
"r.iv',1,,l' lMf',.Vrn.-"'Mh'" '
IL'tfL" at." Placed in the church where
tho blihop la paalor.
4. The "el'" rmr atlll hotda a amall atrip of
5. Mthosrarha aro printed from atoas plataa.
6. Colombna Ifhled land on Friday.
7. BaMndranatli afore la retarded aa the great-
Zeri?.;St K&!',w ,h ",""t"' ,h
9, rroreeaar Stephen
lephen F. Iansler experimented
wiin naec
PatAMAJI
it. !'mb: ." aTMH iniimaa was
I il" "T"" 5" WC "''-- ' a
OBJECTIVE
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jjic nn .trr ni? vnpf ".,
m,,c crimutv c .tciv fr
A MAN S MAN" is the way Bishop Law.
.fXrence, of Massachusetts, characterlies
tho Most Rev Cosmo Gordon Lang, D. D,
D. C. L , LL D , Lltt D . who comes to Phila
delphia on the cvo of Holy Week In his ml
slon, undertaken at the request of the
Protestant Hplscopal Church of this country
and with the approval of tho British For
iULx
eign Ministry.
Doctor Lang Is psenllall) a democrat, j
lover of the Ideal of popular liberty and a
lover of the people. He h is carried with hUn
thiough his cateer to high cccleslastlcat es
tate realization that religion and humanity'
should be correlated. He Is a scholar of fine
attainments, a pulpiteer with the graces and
convincing qualities of genulno oratory.
While brie be will tiring his gifts of speech
nnd spirltuilltv to the task of doing his bit
to tighten tho tics of friendship and under
standing between the two great branches of
the.Kngllsh-speaklng race and to Impress on
America the fact that the will of the English
people Is set In seeing the world war through
to victory for democracy and liberty.
Doctor Ling was born In Scotland In
1SG4, son of the Rev. Dr. John Marshall
X
f Lang, a noted Presbyterian elrrsman, who
served as moderator of the rhurcn of scot
land and chancellor and nrlnclpal of Aber
deen Unlversltv Ills change from Calvinism
to tho Church of Hngland ctnie when h
was twent)-llvc, following his schooling at
Glasgow University and Ualllol College, Ox
ford, Aftci a curacy In Leeds and a vicar
ship In Oxford he became dean of divinity at ,
Magdalen College, then suffragan bishop of
London This was followed by the canonslilp
of St Paul's with the bishopric of Stepney
consolidated In his person He was made an
honorary chaplain to Queen Victoria and re
ceived other honors from court. In 1908, after
declining the bishopric of Montreal, he was
enthroned as Archbishop of York.
Doctor Lang Is the eighty-ninth In succes
sion la tho see, which nu founded In SOI.
Iho Archbishop of York Is "Primus et Metro
polltanus Angllae." Is addressed ns "Most
Reverend Father In God by Divine Provi
dence" and has precedence over all dukts
not of roal blood and all great officers of
State except the chancellot,
Blai-kstono sa)s: "Before the Conquest, by
a constitution of Pope Giegor), Iho two arch
bishops were equal In dignity,
William the Conquerot gavo piccedenca to
the Archbishop of Cantcibur), but Thomas.
Archbishop of York, was unwilling t
acknowledge Ida Inferiority to Lanfranc.
Archbishop of Canterbur). und appealed lo
the Pope, who referred the matter to the King
and barons, und In a i ouncll held In Windsor
Castle they decided In favor of the Arch
bishop of Canterbury, The Archbishops of
York long refused to acquiesce In the deci
sions." It was not till after a number ef
quarrels that the matter was settled a hun
dred )ears afterward. In the reign of Henry
II So now the Archbishop of Canterbury l
"Primate of Alt England' and the Arch"
bishop of York Is "Primate of England."
The other dy w
The P. and P.
Alumni
met a charming '
tleman who Is on his
wh back to his native
Russia to attend an alumni convention. Soma
)cars ago he attended it compulsory iMf
veara' lourm at lh Fortress of SS. TtlfJ
aw ,uo v... - - . - a
and Paul In Petrograd ., on account oi i
activities in behalf of a United oi -
Russia. He tells us that all the alumni "i
this and similar Institutions are getting to
gether In the hope of rescuing Russia from
her troubles. We suggest this college '
for them: r
Poter and Paul, Peter and Paul,
We care for the Romanoffs nothing at all!
Bolshevik, Menshevlk. Lenlne and TrotiKy.
We haven't got much, but we'll keep vvBii
we've gotaky.
This Is the size of the
WAR-SAVINGS STAMr
Which helps to give William,
the Kalaer, a cramp.
Till the end of this month
$4.14 Is Us cost
It qu wait until April
One penny you've lost.
So go buy a stamp if
You can't tote a gun,
And lend your assistance
In humbling the Hun.
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