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Gratixa Tcblio I.atxiia la eerved (o aub acrlbera In ritllailelphla and aurroumllns toirna .a tha rate or twelve U2t rents ptr week, rajablo to tha carrier. El mall lo point" outside of Philadelphia In tna United States. Canada or Unltad State po oeaatons, noMare tree. Ally (50) cents per month. Ufx ($fll dollar," per year, payable In adianc. To all foreign countries ona (VI) dollar per month. fCoTica Sunieribera wlahlnc aildreas chanted JtiUJt five old as well as new addreav BC1 L. 3008 WA1.MJT KEYSTONE. MAIN 300 CT AdJrrta nil communication lo Kveia TuUlo Ledger, iidepeiidenre Square. Philadelphia, rvrsarD ay tkc rntuoitrnti roar orrics is arOOVD CUM HAIL HATTIS. l'alladclpala, Vtdaciaa;, April J, Mil LO! THE OSTRICH! HERK and there In Philadelphia aie type.i of the hied mind which, ut any crisis demanding fiank and constructive criticism of municipal affairs, leae their ancient boner to sentimentalize over the illy and lis traditions and to declaim that lt Is well, that qverj thing Is about as It should be, that nobody Is doing what hasn't always been done,-that It Is unwise to make a hubbub Tills is the easiest sort of pto vinclallsm and the most deadly. It Isn't possible to persuade an'oslilch The fact remains that the Navy Depart ment investigations wote systematic, in telligent and thorough and that politicians and the police department were openly in dicted In the repoit. If the eminent pussy footers prefer to have the city dlity luthet than clean they should at least' n so frank) Wisconsin's vote was heavj Wisconsin s heatt be. So should PEACE FIGHTING AT MALVEItX A LIBERAL interpretation of old and new laws Axes the rights of pacifists In America. The man at Mali era who found himself in a ciond of dllHoultleg because of a fervid anti-war Interview has himself to blame. A pacifist Is a negligi ble factor in the community until he begins to preach and promulgate. Then he be comes a matter of concetti The Govern ment does not ask any man to change his views or forget his conscience. The Goi ernment does feel that this Is no time for a si stem of le-education dliected against the forces width the nation depends upon for Its life and its safety. Theie Is no time for that sort of thing. The situation teflects the old parallel of a condition and a theorv When the earnest pacifists can show re sults in Get many the time will iiate ar rived wnen the rest of tho world, must listen to them. Meanwhile Ihey have a right lo their own convictions, but no right to attempt to set up such convictions else where. If the pacifists observe this simple ruleas most of the sincerely conscien tious pacifists do we .shall have no occa sion for worry. Thcro are sttong men enough in tho United States to insure for all objectors the peace which they so earnestly covet. France for Germany Is becoming one large A erdun. HOW TO GET OX THE FRONT l'AGK "VTOW that J. Denny O'Xell itnd Senator ' Sproul are neck and neck flaunting at cvjual altitudes the banners of prohibition and woman irinfrage -causes, by the way, which each charges the other with having filched a conspicuous lack of imagination Is causing the State campaign to sag Into abysmal dullness. Mr. O'Xell and Mr. Rproul wjll have to agitate" themselves If they wish to ruffle public consciousness ever ho slightly. They must be oilginal. They must be various. They must be colorful and interesting If they would have a flghting.chance for the front pages. The, issues aio, not exhausted. Theie are undeveloped and unsung causes In which tho people might be taught to hav e a poignant Interest. Mr. O'Xell Is an ad. mlrer of Dr. "Billy" Sunday. Heimlgltt score heavily upon Mr. Sproul in the tussle for Issues were he to snatch a suggestion from Doctor Sunday and run upon a plat form made to usscrt once and for all that there fa a hell. Mr. Sproul, of. course, would swiftly counter with a lie) note declaration to assert that this wa never seriously denied by thinking peKons Capable observers arc wondeilug whether Mr Sproul or Mr. O'Xell will lm the- first to discover the issue of possible Stale control of the pretzel Industry and even, perhaps, Federal lnveistlgatlon of that doubtful tiaffic. The pretzel still re mains a potent Inspiration to Germanism In dome parts of Pennsylvania. It surely would provide an issue that could be cele brated in roaring phrases, syllabled with mocking thunder. The field of Issues Is limitless. Mr. Sproul and Mr. O'Xell should look about. The shad In the Dela ware are neglected and there Is the prom le of things that might be said for the project to develop the lobster Industrj on the VcrJJomen. Then there Is the war time aandwJch. it should be Investigated, wHh the current menus in boarding nouses. These thinga are Close to the life of tho people. State elections cost fcionej. The public should have something li return for the price of admission CJuebec seems to be putting the riot in jjavtrlotUm, RIGHT FOR ONCE r$L iltU'AN' had pmerged from obscurity lo uajr in Pittsburgh that there arn only two .sides to Jhe- war cuesthm now: i)hT you are on your country's aide or f i . "1 . w iiw mnen tong iime to achieve tin tkrreo of moral jsanltv lie ini t in 9f Intellectual pacifism while "rf " !. yiv iww rnui ii mo r uenmfcM, pnee wtninjea by great n$ wlrh other AUMrtMaO toui: li tMUrtoUMfc.WlMtr 4 1 d TRIUMPHS OF PEACP WORTH SPENDING MONEY FOR TT IS truer now than ever befotc that no mnn can make a mistake In being a "bull" on America Call it plunging if you will, but by whatever name it may bo designated it is of vital importance that vo begin now to get our minds ready for tho gieat work of tho future dn which money must be spent with as lavlh a hand for the victories of peace tis it is now being dealt out for the vic tories of war. The habit of doing big things in a big way, which the war has compelled this country to form, is expected to have acquired enough fotco when the soldiers lny down their arms to carry its benefits to the arts of peace. Wc are spending hundicds of millions in shipbuilding, because the war cannot be won without ships. Wc have spent tens of millions in developing n port in France where vvd have erected nine miles of piers, because a place must bo pro vided for the ships to land. Wo have spent more tens of millions in building a great supply depot in France, two hun dred miles inland, that the armies may have food and munitions near at hand. Everything is being done on a stu pendous scalo in order to match tho scale on which the war is being fought. Wc are thinking in millions where we used to think in hundreds of thousands, and we are thinking in billions where wc once were astounded at the magnitude of enterprises the carrying out of which required millions, We used to say that such and such a thing could not be dono because it would cost too much. We admitted Its importance, but we wctc financially timid. Unless the peaceful aits of the nation aie to be set back for n generation we must think in billions when wc begin to prepare for tho great industrial rehabili tation that must come after tho war. Ports and waterways and railroads must be expanded in order to accommodate the trade of the nation and make it easy for our suiplus to be sent to the other nations. Wo have pott plans here which we thought adequate a few years ago. But when we consider what the nation has done in France to meet an emer gency they seem woefully inadequate prepatation for what must become a permanent condition. It is not too early now to begin to think in tens of millions about tho development of the local wateifiont. ' The importance of connecting Chesa peake Bay with the Delaware River has been dwelt upon so many times that the average reader skips every niticle on it in the newspapers. He is weary of the subject. But wcatincss never got any further than the couch of indifferent ease. The project is planned. Its value is admitted. All that is needed to cairy it out is money and punch. The same thing is true of the connec tion of the Delaware River by canal with New York Bay. It has been pointed out time alter time that a waterway over this toute would reduce freight rates and telieve congestion on the rail roads, and that it would open up a large area in New Jersey for the establish ment of manufacturing plants on the banks of the canal. But the thing can not be done without money. When money has been mentioned every one has said that it would take so much the country would not stand for it. Tho railroads are handicapped by lack of rolling stock nnd by inadequate ter minals. They have not kept pace with the expansion of business. Hundreds of millions arc needed to bring them up with the procession. But the overcau tious have said that no dividends could be earned on the money. . These are only a few of the great enterprises on which money must be spent. There arp a score moro of the less obvious which will occur to any one who has given any thought to the mat ter. Who 11 write swivel chairs' the battle hymn of the WILL AND THEODORE G'l.lXTIXG brightly In the torrent of the news Is one of those rare and prec ious paragraphs which, radiant with significance, seem when tbey appear at rare Intervals to be reduced and com pounded from a world of living experi ence. In a column between tho roaring narrative from tho west front and tho out givings of one of the Messrs. Vare wo were informed that Will and Theodore or shouldn't It bo Theodore aifd Will? have at last adjusted their old quarrel, shaken hands and become friends agnin. Mr. Taft visited Colonel Roosevelt In tho hospital, The ice melted. The sun shono after darkened. cars! Hate Is indeed going out of fasaiun. Soon it will be as Intoletablo as a nose Ting or side whiskers. Will and Thcodole are pleasant gentlemen of great talents and earnestness of purpose. The nature of their historic differences has never been exactly defined. It has been said of Theo dore that he loved his country so well he could not bear the thought of letting some one else be President. He is reputed to have endured, In Mr. Taft's tenure, tho sinking feeling of dismay and foreboding that assails one who lends his best motor- car to a friend. The strange hand may be t loved, but it cannot always bo trusted with cherished things. Will is no longer Presi dent. That has helped him, no doubt. Hut there are deeper meanings here. Tho occa sion suggests a mystic reason for tho pains and losses of war, It is possible to im agine Theodoro gazing In imagination over bloody fields at the ruin, that war has wrought and then, suddenly thrusting out to Will the brawny hahd so long withheld. Hato Is useless. It Is a burden on the mind that nourishes It. Between friends It la an intolerable thing. JJven In tire far country that made1 of hate a national asset and set It to music thtS consequence Is spiritual devastation. The urge IS Insistent to" send flowers to Will and Theodoro. For even ex-Presldenta grow old and the warm comforts of long friendships mean as much to them as to other men In some future day of enllght enment we shall find a way to put tho tmquestioned abilities of our ex-Presidents to a national use. We cannot afford to hate thpm quarreling meanwhile It is comforting to know that Will and Theo dwet majr now sit down again together and tavlic ovwr'oW tlAM M thIr)A go and m rjritimm. tb HUia i ' - ' - i.-i' EVHtfliStt PUBLIC LEDUEPtpmLADEUhllxV, WEDNESDAY. APRIL tho affairs of this and neighboring uni verses. They wilt bo happier that way -providing alwajs, of course, th.at Will Is content lo do only, ono-fourth of the talking. ,Vo hope Miss Carolyn Wells wont stop writing detective stories Just because she has married a publisher. WHERE WE FAIL AGAIN vestcrday. .ton 600 men left this city for Camp Meade, observers had occasion to egret the confused und even mean background provided for a Rceno that has lott nothing of Its moving significance hs It has grown familiar. The crowd at tho station wcto largo as usual. Arrangements made by tho war organizations for the comfort of tho men wcro disorganized in the Jam. There was no sign of the significant foimality that proper! might nttend the departure of so many r.ien upon so gieat an adventure. Tho new soldier without friends found his own way loncsomely through the cruh. Tho police airungcmcnts wee Inadeuuate Departure fiom his home cltv Is the most dimcult Interlude for tho selected man and for those he leaves behind him. Ho has gono away Invariably under clr cumstanceM that could not bo more de pressing if tho arrangements had been thought out with that end In view. The occasion isn't brightened bj any touch of dignity or any suggestion of tho statcllness of the enterprise to which tho millions we being summoned Tho soldiers themselves hate desciibed the crush and confusion of thcli first dc partute as the most disheartening experi ence o. their now life, and one which rcqulrea ti week at least of the bright and stimulating cantonment life to eliminate ns a bad memory. Wo seem to have failed utterly to recognise the departure of drafted men as an incide.-.t among the most significant In all our history and one that bhould be observed at least with Older and a trace of dignity. Nothing netr, bjvs Ttciliti I'atlence, Tinz Simie f.f tlioifc Allows who ate Imlng made t Idm the fUg might be compelled to tee stais and feci (-ttlpes. The Coioncrs olllcc has again ceinured the wild tal chauffeurs who upeed In the streets. Tha thauffems seem to have a des perate time of It tr.vlng to keep up to the taximetei. Song of the Vice Squad Vaie oh Vare. is my llltlo vveo dog. Vate, oh Vaie. Is he! With his jobs cut big and his dough" cut long, Vate, oh Vaie, for me! It Is understood that conscientious objcctois s-9--li.li. do not knit for the mji because they aie not for It. Appearances Indicate ? lhat It I" neccsharj to lou'K Got tu rail dig pretty far down In . cui'noctlon with the vice InvestlEatlon here to locate the men hlgliet up Ideal wai kji dentin? Vnd would be that In Hulled Potatoes! which the ancient bone might tend up a tike nen' ham to blostom by the side of the happ cabbage. Today we saw a man Hrlghl l.vca In Khaki met at the and KliuUl Reading Terminal by a girl, who threw her aims atound his neck rind kissed him. Klic did It as though sho meant it, too. Indeed. If there Is anvthlng that btlghtens brown or blue or gray ejes better than khaki, uod like to know of it. THE CHAFFING DISH MnS. DOVK DULCET writes from Obesity, X. J , that her husband, tho well-known 72-millimeter poet, is unable to bend In his dally poem today. She says that he was so much upset by a platter of deviled crabs yesterday that ho was not able to concentrate as usual, and though he began five poems, he did not finish anj of them. Sho sends us, however, the fol lowing notes for a poem which Dove made and It seems to us that a literary curlosltj of this sort may bo moro valuable to pos terity than any of Mr. Dulcet's finished works. It Is not stated whether Dovo wrote this poem befoto or after toying with the deviled crabs. Humanit Human beings are moving clots of belf lmpottanco and auto-aggrandlzcment, Subject to matrimony, climate, And alcohol, But Impervious to aigument and erudition. Human beings are suspicious of anything They do not understand; that Is to bay, everything. Human beings are divided Into thrco classes: women, men and hUBbands. Human beings are nourished by exaggera tion, self-esteem and food. We have a new cook. Her namo Is Dinah Might. A very unusual Name, and It seems to bo symbolic of Her sex. DOVC DULCET. Rejection Slips We have had a i ejection slip printed for Tnc CImmnS Dlsn. and wo have the honor of sending the first copies of it to Messrs. Itoscoe Peacock and Hugh Merr. It runs thus: Sooratct' legs to inform you that he has olancod at your manuscript, hut ha does not like its looks. Sad as it seems, it Is not had enough for The Chaffing Dish. Rejection must not necessarily be attributed to the merit of the contri bution. Socrates may have lost it in the shuffle in his desk: Jt is useless to try to bring influence to beer upon Bocrates to print your con tributions. It is idle, fruitless and vain to at tempt to bribe Socrates tcith parcels and plethora of gifts, as unless they are ife livered personally the elevator boy gets them. Hosta y, sLte 40; tobacco, mild; boolis. mcdtuln. We have received thirty-two protests al ready concerning tho conduct of this de partment. The two letters that pleased us most wra .slcntd Schmidt and HapsSurg. v ,-,., ociUTsrs, ... J THE GOlVNSMAiy CLAUDH ACHILLB DDnUSSV. the noted French composer of highly original, suc cessful and significant Impressionistic music, Is dead at the untimely age of fifty-six ; and, by way of anticlimax, Karl Muck, leader of the Boston Orchestra,, has been sent to prison. To consider tho latter first, Doctor Muck's excellence as the conductor of a famous orchestra that was already made to his hand when ho assumed Its lead, ershlp Is neither hem nor thcro. And the question. "Shall we play enomy music?" Is only subsidiary. Tho real Issue Is this: Shall we suffer art to cloak tho propaganda of a relentless and unprincipled foe? THIJ Germans ate superior musicians Music Is the ono art In which tho have succeeded, In any measure, In rising above their national limitations But the Germans are not the only musicians in the world and som of their greatest names are not quite so wholly German ns we habitually think them. Beethoven was half Flemish, Mozart was a Tjrolese Austrian; In the fire nnd splendor of Wagner there has been su pccled a tlngo of tho very Jewish strain which ho bo detested The oris arc not so much an endowment of ince as tho Indi vidual gift of foitune. Music fllckcied once In Ungland but that was an far ukc-ii an the days of nilzabeth , painting blared out in medieval Italy and still Milnes brightest in contemporary nance. There was great druma. In Greece, ill fc'naln. In l.ngland In widely separated aces. And there will come a time when the arts will riso to their place beside other American achievements. Miall we give up Oerman music? Xot whole it had risen out of tho fogs of Germanism Into the legions of universal art Shall we give up German literature? Absolutely cs, where It Is degraded Into German propaganda or depraved bv German Insolent ImmoralltJ . Shall wo take this untimely time to ex ploit aiiv of the Teutonic arts? Ahsuredly not, for there Is little In their purely Teutonic elements worthy of exploitation; nnd the rest thev had from tlto aiirlcnts. from the Italians, the lVench. and the I'.nglhh, ele ments now long since becomo tho common heritage of mankind. But the Gownsman Is getting lost in tho folds of his gown IX THE death of Debussy the wmldof. music has lost an extremely Intercbtlng artistic personality, one from whom that world might well have hoped that theie was still much accomplishment to come Debus sj's work Is at once that of a daring Inno vator a craftsman of consummate skill and a poetic, at times a highly Imaginative, spirit There are musicians, as there aro poets and painters, who dlscovei for us the greater depths and itches which aie Inherent In the things which we now possess; and there aie musicians, a there aie poets and painters, who lead the way Into new provinces of art Debussy belongs to tho latter dating anil fascinating class, and he Is problematic, as all such leaders must remain until time and the onward trend of the ait of each shall juHIfy his conquests The association of Dcbussj's music with the futurists' art Is natural, with Impressionism post-lmpresslotitsm. cubism or w hatev cr maj be the name of the new art Ism with which the lagging and breathless Gownsman has failed to keep nbreast. And our licensed libertine tn words, the new free verse is a fledgling of tbo Fame nest But thoro Is a difference, and a momentous one at that The Impatient student of att. weary of the slow academic processes of training, unwilling to try very hard or work very long, dashes off In a refiactory mood a thing." It matters not what, except that It be unlike an other "thing" In ait or In life, shapeless, colorful, unslgnlflcant. absurd With thlH us his banner he marines forward with a handful of mad followeis; and the further he goes, the further his distance from art. Or "tbo poet, unable to undcign the discipline of his slater ait. unwilling to knead the intractable qualities of words Into the ductility of verse, leinembers that tine old rebel, Walt Whitman, nnd. following hi his difficult path, whoxe large ideas sutta'tied his stumbling feet, the poetllnr: tluows away rhvnir, verse, beauty, significance, and In a Jumble of sound imitates his filend the cubist In ait DKBUSST is not of this dilettante kind. Ho mastered the accepted laws of his art before he attempted to mako new ones llo did not so much tiansgrcss the acknowl edged conventions as he esrajotl to Etretch their possibilities Into the discover of new harmonic combinations and progreslons And he Infoimed all that he did with a ram creative Impulse which, however delleato and difficult at time", 13 far from tho vagueness, uncertainty and Indecision of the Ecekers after novelty, whether In music, poetrj or art. WE Ann becoming Inured rather than accustomed to the German claim nf everything in sight These shameless claims extend even to the Invlslblocmplroof the arts When an author, a painter, a sculptor oi poet rises to eminence In his art, he becomes, by leawn of his excellence, n world-poet, a world-painter, world-author, and theieforo German. Germany long since appropriated Shakespeare, Mollero and Dante. She had the Impertinence last sear to condolo with France In the death of tho eminent rculptor, r.odln, and she will doubtless perpetrate a like Impertinence now that Debussy Is gone A German submarine blow up tho channel steamer Sussex, laden with harmleso civilians in travel to and fro: and among their vic tims was Knrlque Granados, the famous Spanish composer, returning to Spain from America, where he had attended the suc cessful presentation In Xcw York of an opera of Ids After lying about this crime like a Fchoolboy In a scrape, nnd being caught In tho lie to add to the cilme. the Imperial Gov. ernment of the German Empire condescended to oxpross rerret for this "accident," and It has now offered to pay the family of Senor Granados 666,000 pesetas that the world maj know how- Kulttlr esteems music, cv en thouch It be only Spanish music. THE Gownsman rememheis to have sat at table once, some tlmo before America entered this war. with the world's great Pianist, Paderewskl, and the eminent violin ist, Krelsler The latter, an Austrian, had served his country against Russia, It will b remembered, and had written a littlo book about his experiences In which theie Is no word of rancor and unklndness. M. Paderew skl Is a Pole and, like every true Pole a patriot. Theae great artists, on cither side of a charming American hostess, discussed the war with candor, with courtesy and with out heat, though one had been maimed by It. and the other, M. Paderewskl. told of tho beautiful estate which he had loved, tended and planted, "its very trees reduced to match, sticks." These men lived in a higher atmos phere than that of controversy and politics And yet It Is right that Herr Krelsler keep his violin In tts case until a time more fit ting In which to forget that he has been an alien enemy BUT though art must rise above politics and controversy to be art. and though In tho highest cense to be an artist Is to be a cltlxen of the world; vet even the arts must yield to supreme necessity of the mo ment; and w'e pay our tribute of admiration to the bandmaster who is racrlflclng "big pay"' to train musicians for our army, to th painters of landscapes and portraits who aro camouflaging by sea and on land, to artists like Paderewskl and Ernest Schelllng who have- sunk the pianist in the patriot and are now, each In his own way, serving against that monster Kultvir which would lead even the arts, so many shackled slaves, behind tts hideous chariot of war. THE GOWNSMAX. Love for Ireland Miss May Sinclair, n her magnificent novel, "The Tree of Heaven" (adv.) sums up very wittily the love of Ireland that makes sonuclv blckerlnr In the world. "Lawrence Stephen," she says, "was one of those Na tionalist Irishmen who love Ireland with a passion that satisfies neither the lover nor tha beloved, It was a pure and holy pas slon, a passion so entirely of the spirit 'as to be compatible with permanent bodily absence from Its object. Stephen's body had lived at ease In England (a country that he declared Ms spirit bated) ever since he bad been old enough to choose a habitation for aimsd. XMAft. .-.. 4 o, iemi LOAN '7 ...N - , - A TRAGIC SMELL IN MARATHON By INDREir; McGILL rnillS Is a vei.v er l eat for us. Ev ci enibanasslng time of 1 morning when wo get on tho S:13 train nt Marathon (or is it the 7:13?) Bill Stitcs or Tred Myers or Hank Hanls or home other groundsel philosopher on tho Cinder nnd Bloodshot begins to chivvy us about our garden "Have you planted anything vet?" thev say. 'Have jou put litmus paper In the soil to test it for lime, potash and phos phorus? Have jou got a harrow?" That sort of thing bothers us, because our Ideas of cultivation aie very primitive. Wc did go to the newsstand at the Read ing Terminal and try to buy a Litmus paper, hut the agent didn't have any. He sajs he doesn't cany tho Jersey papers. So we burled some old copies of the Philis tine in tho garden, thinking that would strengthen up the soil a bit. Tills busi ness of nourishing the toll seems gro tesque. It's hard enough to feed tho family, let alone throwing away good money on feeding tho land. Our idea about soil Is that It ought to feed itself. Our garden ought to be lusty enough to raise the few beans and beets and blisters we aspire to. We havo been out looking at the soli. It looks fairly potent and certalnlj It goes n long way down. Thcro uro qulto a lot of bioken magnesia bottles and old shlnboncs scattered thiough It, and they ought to help along. The top soil and the humus may bo u littlo mixed, but we are not going to soit them out by hand. OUR method Is to go out at twilight the first Sunday In April, about tho tlmo tho cutworms go to roost, and take a sharp pointed stick. We draw lines In tho ground with this stick, prefeiably in a pleasant gcometilcal pattern that will con fuse the birds and other observera. It is Important not to do this until' twilight, to that no, robins or Insects can watch you. Then wo go back In the houso and put on our old trousers, tho pair that has holes In each pocket. We fill the pockets with the seed we want to plant and loiter slowly along tho grooves we havo made In the earth. The need sifts down the trousers legs and spreads Itself In the furtow far better than any mechanical dtlll could do It. The secret of gardening Is to stick to nature's old appointed wavs. Then wo read a chapter of Bernard Shaw nloinj, by candle light or lantern light. As soon as they hear the voice of Shaw all the vegetables dig themselves In. Tli)s saves going all along the rows with a shingle to pat down tho topsotl or tho humus or the magnesia bottles or whatever else Is uppermost. FI kohl-rabl and colanders, we think ex tract nitrogen from the air and give It back to the soil. It may be so, but what haB that to do with us? If our soil can't keep Itself supplied with nitrogen, that's Its lookout. We don't need the nitrogen In the air. The baby Isn't old enough to have warts yet. Hank says It's no use watering the gar den from above. He says that watering from above lures the roots toward the surface and next day, the hot sun kills them. Tho answer to that Is that the rain comes from above, doesn't It? Roots have learned certain hahlts In the past million years and we haven't time to teach them to duck when It rains. Hank has som- Irrigation plan which Involves sinking to mato cans In the ground and filling them with water, 1)111 says It's dangerous to put arsenic on the Plants, !.. , X klU th. cook, 11)18 COME ON, REMORSE ! He bavs nicotine oi tobacco dust Is far bettei The answer to that Is that we never put fertlllzeis on our gaiden, anv wav. If we want to kill the cook there is a moi e diiect method and we reserve the tobacco for out self. Xo cutwoun shall get a bllghty one from our cheilshed baccy pouch. I "TIRED sajs we ought to have a wheel - hairow; Hank swears by a mulching Iron; Bill Is all for cold lramcs. All three say that .hellebore Is the best thing for sucking insects We echo the expletive, with a different application 7"OL' bee, we have no instinct ioi gat- denlng. Some fellows, like Bill Stites, havo a divinely Implanted zest for the propagation of chard and i hubarb and self blanching celery and kohl-rabl; they are kohl-rabld, we might say. They know Just what to do when they see a weed; they can assassinate a weevil by just looking nt it. But weevils and cabbago worms aro tinterriflcd by us. Wo can't tell a weed from a young onion. AVo never mulched anything In our life, we wouldn't know how to begin. But tho deuce of it is, public opinion sajs that we must talso a garden. It Is no ube to hhe a man to do It for us. How ever badly we may do it, jmtilotlsm de mands that we monkey around with a garden of our own. Wo may get bitten by a snapping bean or routed by a. ruta baga or Infected by a parsnip. But with Bill and thoso fellows at our heels wo have Just got to face It. Hellebore! VXTIIAT we want to know Is, How do ou ''ever find out all these things about vogetubles? We bought an ounce of to mato seeds in desperation, and now Fred sajs "o e ounco of tomato seeds will pro duco 3000 plants. You should have hmrhr two dozen plants Instead of tho seed."'" now aocs no Know those things? Hank says beans are very dellcato and must not be handled while they are wet or they may get tusty. Again we ask, how does he know? Where do they learn theso mat ters? Bill says that stones draw out the molsturo from the soil and every stone in the garden should be removed by hand be fore we plant. We offered him twenty cents an hour to do1 it. milE most tragic odor m the wot Id hangs - over Marathon theso dajs: the smell of freshly spaded earth. It Is extolled by Mie poetB and all thoso happy bjna of tIle pavement who know nothing about it But heie aro we. who hardly know a loam from a lentil, breaking our back over seed cata. logues. Public opinion may compel us to raise vegetables, but wo aie going to go about it our own way. if tho stones are going to act like werewolves and suck the moisture from my soil, let them do so Wo don't believe In thwarting nature. Maybe l Ti , V67 Wet 8Ummer " we shall have tho laugh on Bill, who has carted away all his stones. AND we should just like to see Bill Stites rXwrlte a poem. We bet It wouldn't look as much like a poem os our fceans look like beans. And as for Hunk and FiCd the wouldn't even know how to begin o plant a poem! The German-Anierlcan Alliance Is to be d?s. solved, but it. .,.- UuUkllme? nent parts will lem&ln unleaa .nZ;li?l SSUT bln ""I" auW U "." The Man From the Front j D THOMAS CLT.TIX, well-known ttj cot respondent and author of "The Lurf, of Deepening Shadow," arrived from Euroji just befote the German drive began, when. he was an eyewitness of the operations on fifteen ftonts of tho war. In an lnterrliw, he summed up the problems facing the Allls as follows. "Three yeais and a half of war have coti vlnccd me of the following "lor anv appreciable time any greal offensive will clog In its own weight, no Dial ter bow successful in the Initial stages. 'That ono of Germany's Ercatost war Vantni-pa In thnt nhn flnmlnatau liar ntltanM and that sho In turn is dominated by tir most determined collection of men In m. world rendered partly so by tho fact their wholo system Is staked on winning1. "The, Cential Powers have the advantaw In homogeneity In the dominant race of their. alliance "From the military point of view, the Cn tral Powers havo a tremendous geographic! numiuiisc, freni me enuurance point, cii view, the Allies have just as tremendous T geographical advantage Our vulnerable front Is tho Atlantic Ocean. We must Kt loso sight of this fact for a moment M "Another German advantage Is that im. has had to pin her faith all along on htrtelf, alone. Thus her leaders had Increased inj centlvo to make new find mnlfl ndtuatmentf to fit tho changing phases of the war. 'M "ni... .,.. ... - 1.- - , - J j-jLv unij ffHy iu mane it league oi ua tlons worth the cost of printing Its rules sn4 regulations will bo first to beat Germinrj and then Invite her In. 1 "Anu we can beat her If, collectively, w( sufficiently want to. But wo must have Um will to win and wc must have no thoutbt! llllt In Virlnir nil nllP I nKlirna Inln 41lM nikt' task of winning" Wc Must Not Hate the HunT You tell nin that vri muni nnt linln the. Hist Nor blaze In scorn his execrated namefl That even a3 whctc fite Is thore Is naijj so in man's warfare things perforce jj dono That cry aloud to tho all-seeing sun. You say that malice, murder, avar(c. shame Besmirch all plaj ors In this devil's gam That victor, victim, in their guilt, are pnj. I win not ctedlt this: right still Is right, TllOtltrll fttnirrrarl In .tln1A,,A , 1. ,m i irl. thf fens of hell; J justice sinHves ana day shall flood wi light The hollow dens where nameless black, things dwell: Xo, hatred of the fiend becomes full well Our primal manhood, risen In his might: FELIX E. SCHELLINGi QUIZ 1. What U a aallent? S. Identify "Max Adeler." 3. Wliat are aomo charoclerlatlia ut Anne" architecture I. Mho wtoIo the oratorio, "Ihe DmoatIa(Mil S. What Is a aobrlqoet? 0. What la meant by .Vrabesnue? 7, What la a mortar. S. tVlilrh tmeriran ellr I. called "the li tho InUene"? 0. M ha la Jenera von Below? 10. What Is "oo marquee"; Answers to Yesterday's Qui 1. Amlena l a eltr of 100.000. elrttr-alr nU irwin J ana ana lonjr-iwo rrom me J ( wuannci, n vtiiitu me uenuana art i 3, Nathaniel Kantbarne. American n wrote "Tha Blllhedale Itommneo." 3. riilladelBbla laealled "tho Cltr of. BroWiajM Love," In allualon to tha meanlns t wrrt-a worua in uie name, '4, Ilumui la decared vecetaMa mntLafC aa a ferUllier. U O. Tho following rrenldenU of tha UnjU Bk wero barn In n Ktate ot Vow Torfcl j lln Van lluren. Millard Mlluore and TI uum Hiwi&evelt. C. "The Old Man Klouuent." u nama annllea John Unlnrr Adunu ,1 urine m eantreaalea tarrer, whleh succeeded lil ncumbeuej the vrealdener, a ;. Ilullloii I, a-old or allter eonaldcred alniotr j uirim, niumui t oimneratien ar enania value Imparted br t-olnuce or ahaplm. , o ;iuMoir la ilia ancient name of a Una ) v of what la noty lluaala. , AioellU tialllurcl la a prima donna of tho Chleaso Opera Coinvany, mB oratura art In It. .i.ni.ni i,..ll. lia raptliated, uwtla ratern ewX aaa '"' .'.! ''""" Oonaan aawMaar, ? V . "i" ,i i"4&a-V :" (t ra.
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