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9fr9m '" Philadelphia, and surrounding town!
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THE WORST irrf THE COUNTRY!
TLTAYOR SMITH'S statement, devised to
-" explain nfway upon lie ground of poll
kw the iNavy Department's revelatlonsTof
bnbrldled vlco In this, city, docs not explain
swtfefactorlly. Secretary Daniels and Mr,
PiweHck. roV-lovping tho situation, call Phila
delphia tho worst vlco-lnfcsted city In the
wintry.
Director Wilson Is responsible for tho
work" of his department. His mismanage
- iwtni and Inefficiency havo now brought
wn upon his men one of the ugliest In
efctfnents over hlmed-from an' ofllcial quar
ter at a pollco organization In tho United
Stales.
The Xdvy Department has merely cor
roborated a belief common to everybody
hereabouts.- Foif. the work of the Varos
and their Mayor and tholr pircctor of Pub
lic. Safety and tho conditions of a servlro
which these, men havo maladmlnlstcrcd and
prostituted, the city aa a whole Is Indicted
officially before all the country. Even the
decent men In- tho rank- and fllo of tho
police department seem forced, In many
Instances, to live down tho standards set
fcy men higher up.
Haw long must the pseudo-respectables
who support such conditions wait to re
alize that the corruption which they have
encouraged In politics Js actually pene
trating into the moral life of the. com
munity? Philadelphia isn't actually tho worst city
in tho country. But it happens at present
te bo saddled with ono of the worst police
Mmlnistrattons.
Xayor Smith, make your Director of
Public Safety clean up tho resorts nnd
enforce the law or kick him out of olllce!
"When T, It, writes on the art of being
a grandfather It will be as an expert, quali
fied by a varied cxptrlence.
SPIES AGAIN
TT WILL bo interesting to observe tho
nature of governmental reaction to tho
news that German agents havo actually
'been at work In tho plant of the Curtlss
Airplane Company at Hempstead, L. I.,
and working systematically .o weakar. Im
portant parts of American warplaues. Sen
ator Overman's open chargo In tho Senate
that lead brackets were sjtmtltuted for
the usual steel radiator supports had vivid
corroboration through arrests mado by
Federal agents.
It ha been known almost since the bo
tinning of the war that German money
hs json sent to America in great quan
tities and that special funds were raised
fey pro-Germuis hero for Uies never ex
actly denned. The arrests at Hempstead
Way help to explain the situation.
America seems Infested not only with
spis, but with mercenaries too despicable
to b designated by a ttrm usually rowed
'tor- men who assume a normal rink In tho
pexformance of a question:;hlo ddty.' It
remain to Iks seen now whether the Gov
rwnent will Intern plotters of this type
In comfortable quarters at public expense.
r ake them decently out Iwforen firing
quad.
w'och Is the man who raved the day
Ja) the. Battle of the Mime. May he save
the world In the llatte of the Somme!
VOICES OF BATTLE
MrTUIEirt great motors," eald a wounded
French ottlccr, teillng proudly of the
part played by the air fleets of his service
tn tho Jrcsent drive, "sounded ccasefensly
Jn tho air all through tlip nig.it. and it was
tko Ihs music of nmenso organs. 'The
machines were steady overhead in great,
.(Treat numbers, and their wings, glistening
In tho moonlight, mado us think of a great
Bield of silver!"
Vlsloi and voices are always in the r.lr
pt -France, because there are eyes and ears
there uf see and to hear them. The spirit
t Jban has taken many forms since It re
twrasd for tho war. In the tiid it may bo
siU that U appeared most wonderfully
vr tho, moonlit battlefields near Amiens.
Secretary Ilaker will kpowi a lot more
aWut war when ho conies' home!
IBK- WiaMM7Tiin J, BpurgeoH. Directors.
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A LESSON FOR PEACE
CITRIKIOb' levo always been recognlied
Sjp Mf an .economic -waste. The striker
ifoa,, employer loses. The- com
,, MMimty 1ori. The war as required, to
' )HBtrti iHOst acutely the fo)fy and
' Stirrh ontta ot strength and endurance
n BetvCer lrjstanpe- a Is now on In Kail.
" , M Cir$--re hef wore to be xcusd thB
StlMit waster; jnre profliable to either
iinaj-tv amf '.agiMcttMr as Uncomfortable tor
h kv c-pmltteA;jafter; to the light
6f wu virfnc, iM-itfeer a oaitait on
,i o hand nor s ira4 unionist on, the
.thr (n afford tc pcmH a. strike wH,hou
lnvUinK ),u'm und USfc(Hl.
tFV ftKl'irl rabor- plflrtnimf tettrd has
4ved s, ajatem or (tttratiBanJa which.
fuaorivti It labor, will avert
. fr war liattuatftas durine; ts War
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THE BIGGEST TRUST YET
THEY nro planning In Washington to
create tho biggest financial trust
over conceived. It is no much bigger
and It Is to bo to much more powerful
than that famous group, of half a dozen
men without whoso approval tho critics
of "the money trust" used to tell us no
great enterprise could be undertaken
that the alleged power of the old group
seems to be about like the might of
Luxemburg as compared with the brute
force of Germany.
Tho plan is no less than the concen
tration in a bureau In Washington of
tho power to decide whether any public
or privuto corporation may float a loan
while the war is in progress. An ad
v'sory committee on capital Issues Is al
ready at work, but it has not yet abso
lute power. The Mayor and Controller,
who wish to borrow money to pay for
work already done on the subway and
to provido funds for completing the
FJrankford elevated here, havo already
found it prudent to go to Washington
-o seek permission from tho advisory
body to solicit bids for the bonds.
Every ono will admit that the war
loans should havo the right of way.
Every ono admits, also, that the success
ful prosecution of the war is of so great
importance that nothing must bo allowed
to interfere with it. But the ramifica
tions of war preparations a- so great
that it will be exceedingly difficult, if
not iii possible, for any little group of
men to decide what is and what is not
necessary. Blunders hnvo nlready been
mado in tho regulation of freight han
dling. For example, an embargo was put
on the shipment of stone, on tho assump
tion that stone had nothing to do with
winnir the war. But some men went
to a Washington department and com
plained that they could not deliver ma
terial needed at a plant engaged In war
work because tho roads were impassable.
The head of tho deportment told them
to have the roads repaired. "But," said
they, "we can't get any stone. The rail
roads -re not allowed to haul it." Tho
official was surprised. But he set to
work, and after ho had unwound two
or three bales of 'red tape succeeded in
getting permission to have tho stone
shipped. This is only one incident of
many.
Financial men and men engaged in
largo industrial enterprises have been
watching with much uneasiness what Is
going on in Washington. They realize
that the power which it is proposed to
concentrate in a Government bureau or
commission will be sufficient to ruin any
business man or to boom the industries
of one State at the expense of those of
another; in short, that the power of in
dustrial life and death Is to be conferred
on somebody who may or may not havo
either knowledge or judgment.
The most expert men with the purest
motives would inevitably make grave
mistakes in the exercise of any such
autocratic power. Yet tho ends sought
n.us' b accomplished in some way. If
no better means can be found than those
which commend themselves to the Ad
ministration we suppose they must be
employed. Tho experience of the Mayor
and 'hs Controller is merely an cx
i.mple of what will happen.
Theoretically, an appeal to patriotism
ought to be enough to prevent the at
tempt to raise large sums for work
which will interfere with the arming
and transportation of our soldiers. As
a matter of fact it is enough in nino
case i out of ten.
But tho executive branch of the Gov
ernment docs not seem to take this view.
We shall soon know whether Congress,
which is in closer touch with the people
and knows the extent of its willingness
to make sacrifices, agrees with the ex
ecutive.. Men are getting fat In the training
camps on the army ration, so why feel ilowi
cast at - the prospect of putting the whole
country on rations?
WOOD STILL FIT
rpHIS nation Is to be .congratulated upon
-L the fact that Major General Leonard
Wood passed his physical test with flying
colors. It would bo a national calamity
for n officer of eonard Wood's gallantry
and experience to bo placed on the retired
list a moment hooner than is absolutely
necessary. We have not such a plethora
of proved and seasoned generals that we
can afford to spare a man of his capacity.
Majot General Wood has come back
from France with personal knowledge and
personal scars to testify to his study of
tho military problem at tho front. Ha now
returns to hla KMt at Camp Funston, Kan
sas, to li still into tho men of his comman'd
tho cntrgy and flg'itlng nMuisIasm for
which lie is so highly cstccircd.
. Lancaster has bought more than Its
quota of thrift st'amps. But what would you
expect of the metropolis of the richest farm
ing district In the world T
MAKING HEAL MEN OF BOYS
THK Democrat, assisted by four Kepub
llcans, defeated in the Senate the plan
for six months' compulsory military train
ing for all youths between the ages of
nlne'een and twenty-one. It was argued
that "this war wo are fighting has for one
of its purpoites the prevention of, future
wars; therefore, why universal military
training?"
It Is- Incomprehensible how a man blgA
enough to be elected ,to, the Penate can
delude himself by any such poppycocjf.
No. man whose op'inlon Is worth the breath
It takes to express it thinks for a moment
that thii waF is to ond all war.
The triumph of force over the powers
of evil 'can continue only so long as force
is available to keen the powers of evil in
subjection. The time will come when all
nations will desire Justice and fair play,
tut that day has not Vet dawned and is
not 'ikely to dawn for many generations.
In the interval the only way to preserve
the peaae Of the world 1 Jo be ready to
tty for,!!. We have had our lewon in
the consequence of unpreparedness, it
" vm. m neiuv oi joiiy n rorret It
QjrWJa4 jwust be trained Jn X
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EVENING PUBLIC LEfcGER-PfflEADELPHIA,
plln and development of the young men.
There Is npt a man tn tho camps who Is
not enthusiastic over tho effect of military
Hfo upon him. Some of them have written
home thp they have changed their views
about, compulsory military training and
now beilevo that every boy ought to be
allowed to protlt by it as part of his
preparation for civilian life, X for nothing
else. When Congress discovers how the
nation feels on this matter, it is expected
to respond to what is bound to become an
imperative demand.
In the meantime wo must not try to de
ludo qurselves into believing that this
war is to end all war.
Has your stomach accustomed Itself
to the; shift In the meal hour7
HELLO! MR. IIINDENBURG?
TWENTV-TimEE American telephone
wires that serve tho American army In
Paris and beyond, and the ofllcers who
lifted receivers a day or two ago and
heard tl.e familiar "Hello!" must havo ex
pcrlcncea a sense of homo such as comes
with tho far-off sound of an old melody.
One unfortunate restriction appllos to
tho service of the American telephone girl
near the front. If the tides of war should
mix the wires and if she should some day
get Hlndenburg or the Crown Prlnco or
tho Kaiser on the line she couldn't tell
any of those celebrities what sho thinks
of them, Shu Is too polite.
Tho manners of the modern telephone
girl are often a source of Inspiration. She
keeps her good temper and her pleasant
tone oilcn under great difficulties. She
has been known to help others to a cheer
ful fratno of mind by the mero force of
example.
Ono of these days an American tele
phone girl In France may get Hlndcnburg
on the wire. Though sho will bo too nlco
to tell the old boy what an appalling
chump ho Is, sho may be Imaginative
enough to say:
"Hollo! Mr. Hlndonourg? Nemcila
calling!"
Certainly German republicanism has a
great asset In the Crown Prince. How any
ono can look at him and still support tho
Hohenzollerns Is beyond our hen.
Tho druggist used to say that he had
"something Just as good" for less money,
but the bakers are discovering that substi
tutes for wheat flour .are so expensive they
hare to go out of business.
APRIL FOLLIES
WELL, It seems rather obvious, but It's
got to bo done. April fool, Hlndy!
Dandelion wine Is jur favorite drinlc, and
It'll be along soon.
Dove Dulcet believes In doing a thing
handsomely when you do It at all. He nays
If daylight Is worth saving, why not save
all of It? He says he turned his clock on
twelve whole hours and never expects to
see the sun again. And yet. he adds, th$
change doesn't seem to malic much difference
In his dally schedule.
Heal Estate Advertising
The castle of High Zollern. or Zollern-on-the
Hill, from which a certain family once
Influential In Europe takes Itn name. Is said
to be closed for repairs. This interesting
mansion, which Is near the Danubo IUver
and Is not often visited by -tourists, may be
highly recommended to those In search of a
desirable summer residence fully equipped
with family skeletons and emergency exits.
The present lease will fall In shortly. Those
Interested may npply-to the caretaker, or to
Wllhelm. near St. Ouenlln.
Although they operate under grievous diffi
culties, all the German humorists are not
dead yet. We would like to meet the bold
fellow who was given a commission to"deslgn
some new Prussian bank notes not long ago.
He put In his drawings a marginal decora
tion of minute pictures of his favorite articles
of food. Over a little vignette of a ham he
Inscribed In microscopic letters, "A tender
memory." Over a wreath of burly sausages
he mlnusculed In anguish, "Gone but not
forgotten." And over a design of three tur
nips he wrote, "This Is how the Germans
live." All these little cartoons were so tiny
that they could only be distinguished with a
magnifying glass.
Unfortunately he was found out and Im
prisoned on a charge of holding the father
land up to ridicule.
Dove Dulcet, our seventy-two-mllllmeter
poet, was challenared to produce a poem com
plying with the customary laws of rhyme and
measure, and to our amazement he belabored
the Muse to some purpose. This Is hla effort;
KITH AND KIN
The Utplnir Lovers, nice younc thlnri.
Ar walklnc arm In arm:
nut rliareronea who hear them talk
.Show no liana of alarm.
Their worda are all of refatlvra
And who) I)- without aln:
When he aaya. "Mar I have a kith?"
She answers. "Sure, you kin."
DOVB DULCET.
We get ery fed up with tho persons who
are always calling the Administration.- tho
War Department. Congress, the shipbuilders,
the food administration, Mr. McAdoo and nil
the real of Uncle Sam's ofllcial neph'WB, bone,
heads. It Is always a great temptation to
allege bone, or at any rate cartilage, as tho
skull nillng of one's Immediate superiors; but
a grand old biblical refrain to recall now
and then Is "Even the Boss Knows His Jotl."
We would be pleased to see a little parsley
handed about now and then, We like It
when It comes our way. even though It's as
rare 'bs freckles on a negro. Perhaps other
folks like It, too. and deserve It. Kor In
stance, those engineers who rebuilt the Vater
land and other eminent packets so that
they could take troops across to France, The
Leviathan, which was chnmpagned as the
Vaterland. takes more than 8000 men at a
time. Here's a long aifd foamy "How" to the
fellows who put her In running order and
a knot faster than before. In Germany they
would all have had an Iron Cross.
Dunraven Bleak, who Is a dlsolpto of Dove
Dulcet, by the way, twangs the string now
and then. He Bends us this;
KOI.II.IMIUY '
, At home, at nlfht,
How' fine to ttt -, ' (
And 'droway-dreamlnr.
Think a bit. .' ' , '
What allly 4htnss
I've done today
. , What daylight 'savlnrs ,
V Thrown away! ' '
What taika I ralaht , ,
Have done tnatead', '
What wlaer wftrHe
I could .have aald.
r might baVe climbed
Alaa, I slid, , . . ,
Xla't via vol no
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DUNHAVEN- BLEAK.
The secret of life J learning' not to-overdo
thine. Painfully, and after rnrpy W ad tx.
prjerijf, a own learns not to eat too much,
ot to rjpk to MUk, pot !o talk to- limes,
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A WHALE OF A STEAK
A "WHALE of a luncheon" was given In
New York the other day at the Ameri
can Museum of Natural History by President
Henry FalrfleU Osborne as a demonstration
of the superiority of whale meat over other
meats during the present food crisis. Whale
steak Is as palatable as venison, Can be sup
plied In largo quantities in the United States
and sold at 12 W cents a pound. The lunch
eon -was planned on a strictly war basis.
Whale meat, that of the humpbacked variety
Which makes tho best eating, formed, of
course, the backbone of the meal, and the
piece de resistance, as the society reporters
would say, was planked whale steak a la
Vancouver.
Somo years ago Doctor Osborno first be
came Interested in the use of whale meat
as a food, through thcreport of Hoy Chap
man Andrews, Curator of Mammals at the
Museum of Natural History, who devoted
eight years to the study of whales, who has
attended whale hunts and eaten whale meat
In all parts of the world, and who knows so
much about whales that ho has even written
a book, called "Whale Hunting With Oun
and Camera." It was, however, not until tho
present food crisis that Doctor Osborne
thought of Introducing whale meat generally
as a substitute for beef, nnd decided to get
up a luncheon for that purpose,
All of the guests found the taste of the
novel meat excellent. Federal Food Admin
istrator Arthur Williams, who has had Inter
national experience In compiling menus,
agreed with the opinion expressed i by Doctor
Andrews In his book, "Whales nnd Whale
Hunting," thnt whale meat closely resem
bles venison In flavor. Others Bald that It
tasted very much llko iwtroast, only that
It Was richer In fat and Juices.
Mr. Andrews relates In his book that when
he was Btudylng the whaling Industry In
Japan he found whale was nlmost the only
meat used by tho poorer classes. He says:
"Few people realize the great part that
whale meat plays In the lite of the ordinary
Japanese. Too poor to buy beef, their diet
would Include little but rice, fish and vege
tables were It not for the great supply of
flesh and blubber furnished by the huge
water animals. In winter If there Is little
fish to be had, the meat of the humpback
whalfe, which Is most highly esteemed, some
times brings nB much as thirty sen (fifteen
cents) prepared, but ordinarily It can bo
bought for fifteen sen or less." Besides tho
blubber and flesh the Japanese use tho heart,
liver, tongue nnd Intestines of the whale as
food. They prepare It In a variety of ways,
but their favorite whale dish Is made by
chopping the whale meat up finely and mix
ing It with vegetables and a. sauce made
from the Boy bean called shoyu. In the sum
mer when tho fresh whalo meat cannot be
shipped Inland because of tho heat, tho flesh
Is cooked nnd canned at the Japanese whal
ing stations and sent to all parts of the
Mlkado'B empire.
Whale meat Is coarse grained nnd has a
flavor peculiarly Its own. "It contains," said
Mr. Andrews, "more than 98 'per cent of
digestible material, while ordinary beef sel
dom has more than flJ per cent." The whale
blubber, or fat, Ib also especially rich In fat
and could, no doubt, advantageously bo used
Instead of suet In cooking.
Although the subarctic Islands have proved
the greatest whaling grounds of modern
times, the shores of our own country are the
site of a largo whaling Industry. New Bed
ford, once the center of tho world's whalo
trade, has lost Its former prcstlgo, but thero
are seven large whaling stations on the Pa
cific coast. Only three of these, however, aro
equipped to hnndlo whale meat for food,
The other whaling plants only uso the meat
aa fertilizer, and IE.000,000 pounds of ma
terial that would make splendid human food
are wasted In this way every year. Doctor
Osborne has ascertained from reliable sources
that 100,000,000 pounds of whale meat could
be supplied to this country annually at a
cost of 12i cents a pound. This food makes
an excellent steak, roast or stew when eaten
fresh and is said to bo more palatable when
tinned than beef, mutton or pork. Ono mem
ber of the museum staff, who found whale
meat too oily to be to his tasto when freHh.
declared that canned whalo was delicious
and that It tasted like first-class beef. Tho
whale flesh, as It Is now put up In cans, can
be kept Indefinitely and should prove a very
welcome nddltlon to the diet of all Americans
who are trying to do their bit by saving on
the meat which Is so sorely needed by the
armies In Europe.
Z
BULBS
The other day we saw In a magazine a
panorama of the staff of tho now evaporated
Austro-Hun embassy In Washington. We
suppose that Messrs. Harris & Ewlng, pho-
lograpuers, must nave had somo trying ex
periences in their day, hut hardly ono worse
than standing up In cold blood to snapshot
that troupe of Mona Lisas. Wo took- a
'peculiar negative fancy to the third from the
left, the Baron Stephen Hedry de Hedrl et
de Geuere Aba, who used to earn his pay
envelopes as "chamberlain to his Imperial
and apostolic Majesty."
Thero seems to be a little uncertainty
about the Baron chamberlain's nanie.
Spoken hurriedly. It seems as though ho
might belong to the fine old family of the
do Generates.
By the way, aro we at war with Austria?
We never can remember.
The Taming of the Snooze
John J. Harrison peace to his head!
Had ono passion, and that was bed.
Truly lie counted the day .11-spcnt
Unless by nine to the hay he went.
My, how he loved, on a chilly night,
To turti down the coverlet, tuck up tight,
And Ho, like tho beautiful girl In Keats,
A lltto bit goosc-llcshcd, between cold
sheets,
Buried by blanket and padded qUllt,
Many a castle in Spain he built;
Nestled and snuggled and spread his toes,
And Just evaporated into repose.
I
John J. Harrison wisely deemed
That sleep can never be overestccmed, v
And a twelve-hour night, on good wire
springs,.
Is something rare in the lives of kings.
The passion that most men bestow
On golf or' cards or tlt-tat-toe.
On the other sex, or baseball scores,
J. J. H, put in on snores.
Oil! that man made sleop a career;
Ho would lie and pound his ear
Eighty Oatermoor hours a. week
What do" you think of that technique?
I; as his roommate, had often chidden
Him for being so bedridden!
?.t looked 'to me like a tertaln jlgn
Of horlzontallty of the aplnel
John's bleepmeter would mew and buzz,
But never could jure him out o the fun;
At eight o'ejock, when to work X went,
John would register great content,
"Sleep," he aald, "appeals to me, ""
8q I take It seriously;
I wish my blanket could be my pall
Save the daylight, and save It all!"
He . A a man I sifnirad I
- pa ay warn W4 M tlr4:
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The Tragedy of Washington Square
By CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
ONE of our favorite amusements at lunch
time Is to walk down to Henry Rosa's
pastry shop. In 237 South Sixth street, and
buy a slab of cinnamon bun. Then we walk
round Washington square, musing, nnd grad
ually walking round i.nd engulfing the cinna
mon bun at the same time. It Is surprising
what a large circumference those buns of
Henry's have. By tho tlmo we havo gnashed
our way through one of thoso warm and
mystic phenomena we don't want to eat
again for a month.
Tho real reason for the cinnamon bun Is
to fortify us for tho contemplation and on
slaught upon a tragic problem that Washing
ton squaro presents to our pondering soul.
Washington square Is a delightful place.
There are trees there, and publishing houses
and warm green grass and a fire engine sta
tion, There are children playing about on
the broad pavements that criss-cross the
sward ; there Is a flno roof of blue sky, kept
from falling down by the enormous building
at the north side of the square. But these
things present no problems. To our simple
philosophy a treo Is a vegetable, a child Is
an animal, a building Is a mineral, and this
classification needs no further scrutiny or
analysis. But there Is one thing In Washing
ton square that embodies an Intellectual prob
lem, a grappling of tho soul, n matter for
continual anguish nnd decision.
ON THE west side of the square Is the
Swiss consulate, and It ls this that
weighs upon our brooding spirit. How many
times wo have paused before that quiet little
house and gazed Upon the little red cross, a
Maltese Cross, or a Cross of St. Hleronymus,
or whatever tho heraldic term Is, that repre
sents and symbolizes the diplomatic and spir
itual presence of the Swiss republic We
have stood there and thought about William
Tell nnd the Berne Convention and the St.
Gotthard Tunnel and St. Bernard dogs and
winter sports and alpenstocks and edelw61ss
and the Jungfrau and all the other trappings
and trapplsts that make Switzerland notable,
we havo musea upon tne Swiss military sys
tem, which Is so perfect that It has never
had to be tested by war; and we have won
dered what Is tho name of the President of
Switzerland and how ho keeps it out of tho
papers so successfully. One day we luceed
an encyclopedia and tho Statesman's Year
n ,. .... , .1... ............ ...... ... .... ..
ouutl uui ly it, J uu,u i,iiii us anu Bill UOWn
on a bench facing the consulate and read up
about tho Swiss cabinet and the national
bank of Switzerland and her child lahnr
problems. Accidentally we discovered the .
name of the Swiss President, but as he has
kept It so dark wo are. not going- io. glva
away his Secret,
0U1 dilemma is quite s.mple. Where
there Is a consulate theta must be a
consul, and It seems to us a dreadful thing
that inside that building there lurks a Swiss
envoy who does not know that we, here, we
who are walking round the square with our
mouth full of Herry Boca's bun, once Spent a
night In Swjtzerland, We want him to
know that; we think he ought to know It;
we think It, is part of bin diplomatic duty to
know it. And yet how can we burst In on
him and tell him that apparently Irrelevant
piece of Information?
We have though, of various way of
breaking it to him, 6r should we say break
ing him to itf
- Should we rush in and say the Swiss na
tional debt is J--, or kopecks, and then
lead on to.other topics ucl as th compara.
five heights of mountain peaks, letting the
consul gradually graap the fact that We have
been in Switzerland? Or -should we call him
up on the telephone and make, a mystcrlpus
appointment with him, when wa could blurt
it out brutally? '
We are a modest and diffident mad, and
th(s little problem; which would be so trifling
to many, presents Inscrutable' hardehlps i us,
ANOTHEIl aspect of tile matter Is this.
. We think the coniu! ought to k ow that
we spent on? night in Switzerland pnc; we
think he ought to know what we were doing
that night; but we also think ha ought to
know Just why It was that we spent Only
one night In ha beautiful country. We
don't want him to think we hurried away
because we ware annoyed by anything, or
because the national l t was so inany rwnyei
or piUrs.xorbocH.cWIfI labor n Swltx
erUli it ttA & tt,telet thatf the
rsDMit Mid ail His Jtaaf ant in total l.n-.,1
f 'aatr m,smimbk-,.m, .
lOJS
SETT'INk THE CLOCK FORWARD-
age enough to tell him the truth? That is
the tragedy of Washington square.
IT WAS a dark, rainy night when we bl.
cycled Into Basel. We hn.i been riding
all day long, coming down from tho dark
clefts of the Black Forest, and wo and our
knapsack were wet through. We had been
bicycling for six weeks with no more lug
gage than a rucksack could hold. AVe never
saw such rain as fell that day we slithered
and sloshed on the rugged slopes that tumble
down to tho Rhine 'at Basel. (The annual
rainfall In Switzerland Is .) When we
got to tho little hotel at Basel we sat In
tho dining room with water running off us
In trickles, until the head waiter glared. And
so all wo saw of Swltzefland was the In
terior of the tobacconist's, where wo tried,
unsuccessfully, to get Fomo English baccy.
Then we went to bed while our garments
were dried. We stayed in bed for ten hours,
reading fairy tales and smoking and answer
ing modestly through tho transom when any
ono asked us questions.
The next morning wc overhauled our
wardrobe. Wo will not particularly, but we
decided that one change of duds, after sx
w,ek bicycling, was not enough of a ward
robo to face the Jungfrau and tho national
debt and the child-labor problem, not to
speak of the anonymous President and tho
other Bights that matter (such as tho Matter
horn). Also, our stock of tobacco had run
out, and German or French tobacco we slm
ply cannot Bmoke. Even If we could get
along on substitute fumlgants the Issue of
garments was Imperative. The nearest place
where we could get any clothes of the kind
that we aro accustomed to, the kind of
clothes that are familiarly symbolized by
hrce well-known Initials, was London. And
the only way we had to get to London was
on our bicycle. Wo thought we had better
get busy. It's n long bike ride from Basel.
Basel -Cathedral, so as not to seem too un
appreclatlvo of all tho treasures that Switzer
land had been saving for us for countless ccn
tures; then we got on board our patient
steed nnd trundled eft through Alsace.
THAT was In August. 1312, and we flrmly
Intended to go back to Switzerland the
licxt year to havo another look at the rain
fall and tho rest of the slatlstlca nnd status
quos. But the opportunity has not come.
SO THAT Js why wa wander disconsolately
about Washington square, trying to make
up pur mind to unburden our bosom to the
Swiss consul and tell him. the worst. But
how can one go and Intern pt a consul to tell
him that tort of thing? Perhaps he wouldn't
Understand It at all ; he would misunderstand
our pathetic little story and be angry that
we took up hla time. He wouldn't think that
a shortage of tobacco wind clothing was a
sufficient excuse Tor alighting William Tell
and the Jungfrau,, He. wouldn't appreciate
the frustrated emotion and longing with
which we watch the little red cross nt his
"?,"' ,d5?r' ?1d ,t,llnU ' a" " '" to us
nnd all It might have meant.
WE TOOK another turn afound Washing
ton squaro. trying to embolden our
solf enough to go In and tell tho consul all
this. And then our heart failed us. Wo de
elded to wrlte'a plexfc for the paper about it
and if the Consul ever sees it he win be gen
erous afcd understand. Ho will know why.
behind the humble, facade oflils consulate on
TVashtngtqn square, we ee,the heaven-Dlerc.
Ing summits of Switzerlandrising k0 a.
dream, blue ahd silvery and tantalizing
Now that you, have tne
extra hour of daylight.
. don't make light of it.
Tift, Xu I
Wllhehri shouldn't bo
blamed for hla use of
lion It Started
lied troops
i eviovii kbk on the Al-
Ho has tried It eVen on heaven.
The Kajser IS send
liahlea NexJ Ing Seventeen-year-old
After h, next drive fr-dlUV yoSmay
tune j'pur ear for W'ilhelm's charge that
Jha Allies daughter wcmenanQ children.
Tka" anvteur nt b u.i,'-i.
??"""' ! "KfiM. "ftteTat..
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FOCH THE BRILLIANT
rplIE staff of tho Twentieth Corps of the;
.1 i'rcncu army nau a banquet at .Nancy la .
1913. The commander of tho corps In nk.(
dressing his ofllcers said: '
"Find out trie weak point of your enemy
anu acnver mo mow. tnere. ,s
"But suppose, general," sold an artillery
oincer, tno enemy nas no weak point! .,$
"Then make one!" the general came baclrj
with a gleam In' his eye nnd a dcclslvo tilt ot "
the chin.
Tho trencrnl wns Ferdinand Foch. who ha i
Just been made generalissimo of tho AllleiM
armies In PIcardy. General Jorfre'has char"-?;
nrtprlzerl hlin nn 1hn irrpntAftt trfltes-lt In
Europe. He Justified Joftre's Judgment by,!!
his brilliant maneuvers at the Battle of the 3
Itn.nn ITa I.aI.1 ,1... ....... .. n ,... L..,..!, II. .7
with 120,000 men, opposed to 200.000 Ger4-!
mans. Both his wings were driven back, but !
he decided that the Germans were disregard.,";
lug their own center and he made alerrifla .
.attack upon tljat point, broke the German,
line and saved the day. Ha was also in com-
iqand during the first successful fight at:
Ypres and prevented the Germans froaj,
breaking through to Calais.
Foch was born In the Basque country on
tho border of Spain. His father was a Bona
partist and was secretary for the prefectunrl
ot Tarbes under Napoleon III. One of ,alS
brothers Is a lawyer and the other Is a
Jesuit priest. He served as n subaltern li
me iTencn army in tne iTanco-iTUSsian
ar. Ho later became a captain of artlllory
and then was made professor of tactics lni
the Ecole do Guerre with the title of conv.?S
mandant. When ha reached the irrade of a
brigadier general he was put at the head o(-j
the War College. Clemenceau, was rremli;
at the time. He had Foch as a guest at
' dinner and discussed routine business with ;
him. "When the coffee was brought in tht".l
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icii..c. iciiiaiAcu. ,
"I've a good bit of news for you. Tou ara"!
nominated director of the Avar College.
Foch expressed his astonishment and eater !
that ho was not a candidate. J
"That Is possible.", tho Premier replleAJ
"but you are appointed.".
Foch protested and. said that he wsja
afraid that Clemenceau did not know that'
one of his brothers was a Jesuit priest. The j
Jesuit priests were then la disrepute In
political circles.
"Jesuit bft d' !" the Premier is said to
have replied. "Oh, I beg your pardon, Totfi
are tne director or tne war college, ah me
Jesuits in creation won't alter that it is tt '
fait accompli."
This Is the way promotions have com,
to this great soldier. He has been picked.
for Important work because he was qualk?
fled and not because he soiiclit to nuah him' J
self forward. The selection ot him, therefore1,
In the present emergency to direct the strati 1
egy of tho Allies Indicates that he is tho
choice 'of the men who know his abilities J
and Is not pushed forward as the result tj
favoritism.
. 13
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What Do You Know?
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, Identify "IllulT King Hal." "j
3. YVhera, la the Dnliri'dji and in. what rannet-lj
lion in iv iiKurinei
a. Name the author of "Ijrufet.'1
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