g- -mM Euentnatttdyiilrt public lEdgor comfany - '". f.y8. . CURTIS. rir.Ht (AnrI H. Ludlntton. Vice. President. John C WEila, Secretary b1 Treiiutir, rtiltip R Collins, ffm B William., John J apurtcon. Dlroctora, it" ' . EDITORIAL 80AR.D My SM&& Cvnt: Cht,r!nin u.r MARTIN . .general Euilncn Manager I dalljr at Pert 10 Tirana JJulldlns. ndenca Piur. Phlladalohla Ktn Broad and Cheatnut Street, ClTI Prea-lii Building SOS Metropolitan Tower . ..401 Ford Bulldlni m inis Fuuerton iiuiidin. . j.uj jnowie uuuains .. NKW8 DUBEAUB, wmipi ian pcbmu. ' ' Ni K. Cor. Pennsylvania Ave. Ave. and lllh SI tajw zoauc uuar The Sun. Dulldlnar M BCMBio ...Marconi Houae. Ftrand Du .32 Hue Loula la Orand 81 BSCRIPTT.ON TERM3 'lw SnRiKo Pcm.10 lacnota In aerved to tub' KrtM in Philadelphia and surrounding townt Ctba rata of twelve (12) centi per week, payable Ua Mrrltr. an is norma ouiaiaa or rnuadeipnia, in M States. Canada or United Statu ma . voatara free, fifty IB0I centa wr month. S) eotlara per year, payable In advance, 11 foreign countriea one (111 dollar per 1 Subscriber tvlthlnr adrfrean chanted (Ira old aa well aa new address. JULL. MM WALNUT KEYSTONE. MAIN J009 $3A4trtsM all communlcollona to Evenlttff PuMlo 1itmi',l Independence Square, Philadelphia. 'atrtafttD at tbs rnninrxrnii roir crrice it -it atooxD cum wilt. matti. ' 't ' 13, .-' rhii.j.iphi., Thur.Jir. Aptj) . mi SPREAD OF THE DROUGHT i'VrOY that Massachusetts has ratified i ' the prohibition amendment to tho ' TCnoetUutlon tho dry forces are Justined la TMlievlng that tho amendment will ulti- . KsUely receive the necessary Indorsement Jn .three-fourths of tho Slates. Massachu- r: att3, It Is true, has a local-option law ptjr which the sale of liquor has been r forbidden in a considerable part of the "State, but the number of large cities which Pare usually "wet" is so great that It has ' l)fn Impossible to carry a prohibitory amendment to the State Constitution In past years. The members of the Legisla- Muuk tat. tAnnn1 t nrUaf nnnaoyarl In' toij i.. . .. .. j . ,.... s inom iu uo a, popular ucmunu lor proniDj- If Massachusetts favom the amendment ; thare Is no telling what the Hnal action of Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and Illinois swill be. But every State added to the list 'of those ratifying it increases tho pressure E.an, the others. We shall see what we 11 see. (T The Berger that mads 5IllauKee ta- 'S5PJ1S seems to be an lcebergcr PUNCTURING PROPAGANDA ! rppB election of Lenroot ns the Senator iT't'rom "Wisconsin has put that State In jJine with the other loyal States and has "jns.de It Impossible for tho Geiman props- jrjialsts to point to It as an Illustration itf American sentiment toward the war. Patriotism triumphed in the Republican pyrlmarles when Lenroot was nominated Ver Thompson, the La rollett Drn-riar- min candidate. The dlUsloii was unfor- tiunate, but the outcome procd that 'he I heart of the party was sound Patriotism has triumphed again in the election by riK defeat of Davies, the Democratic can- k'4ate, whose sapporters tried to create C'the Impression that none but traitors and pwiflsts and Kaiser sympathizers would f vote fcr Lenroot, as though the primary fcresult had not made it evident that Kals ji'eelem had no place In the hearts of the 'Seubllcans at large. Euch pro-German ivotes an were cast were pollsd for Davies lHd Berser, Thero is no escaping thla conclusion, for the returns lndLcale 1t byond the shadow of a doubt. - Jenroot will move from his scat In the Uese to his place In tho Senate as tho 4rereentatlve of that broad minded, pa PiCip.tlc Americanism whlnh la nm, i, ,..,,. laWsoul for the prosecution of the war mn for the support of the effortn nf thr. Administration to organize victory Mr. Baker must be learning- a good deal Jo. his awing around Yurrup. A regular tHaedeker. HONORS TO THE HUMBLE ?T enlisted man in the navy stood by Lhls gun in a recent action after all the 'jpcst of his particular crew had been nut lout of action and worked methodically attl he was killed. Now one of the newest troyers is to be named for him Secre- y Daniels is to be credited In this in- nee with graciousness and Eood iudr- IaeiH. The destroyer is an odd sort of craft flfera is the spartan role. Life aboard her Sis iron routine devoid of the comforts CHutt are common aboard her more impos nr sisters of the line Your destroyer jhjcefl it lonesomely upon the deep. She feiust protect others and herself at the piame time. Only perilous waters cradle Bur and where the moll and the tumult fare bitterest there she Is sure to be. meet- E Kreat odds without question, takinir Song- chances, depending always unnn hr vrj ability to carry her through. So, (n r eqlltarlness of purpose she la one with Itka obscure warrior whose fate It (a in rrtaveal the snlnnrlnr nf bla tmi.u i.. i m manner of his death. The high wishes many whose Imagination was touched Jty this departure from naval tradition pi .ipuow tne Ingram out upon the UDKa waters, to keep her company in rr. ana everybody will wish heij glory ood luck and, in the end. pleasant I and blue. ' Ao accountant took a wind gauge to reea and learned that our lawmakers : at tKe rate of 100.000 words a day. We v Wcd that item to our Cyclopedia of rsble Facts. , ' THE CHILDREN'S YEAR , IS Mtimated that 100.000 children the age of 1KJ die in the United a preventable diseases each year. eus army is sadder than France Utan Belgium because it hasn't M consolation of a fight for life. (f 11 Its woes. 'tasjr has given us, Jn the Women's 1 01 Kational Defense, an extraordl- SSmtiVe and efficient organization l sreoe io start a determined cam- ,t redncei he tragic death rate a4t .,iV, iw lllJ A1CU9 AllO r pt President Wilson, and the TiH cooperate In every pos- M, it h) Is a war in behalf "of ctefli the children's year must , Bticceen. OtbrwI the HtVll lW-ii 'iBMM! w MHaSi . Mva GUW AND ROPE! rpHE Senate and the Attorney Gen- cral's office, effervescine Idly and in unison about the very real menace of active pro-Germanism in Uie United States and covering the renl issue with a barrages of sounding words, are in a way to give the country an acute pain. Laws at present in existence are ade quate to hang or shoot every enemy plotter and every one who given aid or comfort to a plotter. These are simple and explicit provisions in the criminal code of the United States. Tho espionage act, passed since the nation went into the war, includes long and elastic definitions to make the full est punishment of serious war crimes a relatively easy matter. And yet Sena tor Poindcxter rises with n long amend ment to punish with fines the use of "profane, abusive, threatening, violent, etc." language of a sort likely to indi cate disloyalty and to suggest a series of other provisions of the exact sort that never are and never can bd enforced. Simultaneously the Attorney General in a veiled apology for the sorry failures of the Department of Justice declared that more laws are needed to curb enemy aliens. The Department of Justice, as h mat ter of fact, has failed scandalously to apply properly such restrictive meas ures as are already in force. If the charges repeatedly made against active propagandists and spies in the United States were proved the present statutes are adequate to make the death penalty inevitable. The offenses attributed to the editors of the Philadelphia Tageblatt were within the definition of treason under the Federal code. And treason in a time of war is punishable by death. The fantastic and altogether humiliat ing collapse of the Government's case against the Tageblatt editors is indic ative of a condition that is general throughout the country. The water front fires and grain burnings, explo sions and propaganda generally and the increase of seditious activities may be traced largely to the obviou3 laxity rind inefficiency of tlip law department of the Government. Senator Poindexter added nothing to current estimates of his intelligence 'when he gravely suggested a series of repressions which would be impossible under any circumstances. What he sug gested would provide a superhuman task for those departments of the Gov ernment winch, by their own confession, have been unable to grapple with prob lems of the utmost simplicity and defi niteness. The dispatches said that he "stirred the patriotism of the Senate." He may have done so. His deliverance was of the sort that sounds well enough in the oratorical manner. But the Sena tor didn't stir the nation unless it. was stirred to derision. His amendment to the espionage act, like the apologies of the Attorney General, can serve merely to delay a general realization of the true difficulties. The active enemies of the United States understand only force and fear. And the Federal Government, because of the deficiencies of its agents, is either unable or unwilling to meet the issue of enemy propaganda as it should bo met. It is for this reason that intern ment camps and Federal prisons are being filled with men who would have been shot or hanged before this if they had been caught in any other warring country. And the old system of political patronage, which still flourishes in the civil departments of the Government, is responsible for a condition that adds new perils to those that normally are the lot of the military service. The country does not need new laws so much as it needs a proper enforcement of those already in existence. The United States had been at war for half a year when Kaltschmidt, a con fessed pro-German plotter against the Government, went boasting to jail under a four years' sentence. A man was taken from the United States navy a few months ago and convicted as a spy. He has been interned. Kurt Wilckins, a former German cavalry officer, was found gathering information for the German Government. He was interned at a camp in Utah and later escaped. He is still at large. A spy named Sturzell was caught red-handed. He is now comfortably tucked away in Fort Oglethorpe. Spormann. another spy against whom there was direct evi dence, is in the Atlanta prison. These are but a few instances in a list of hun dreds. Have the usual political fears and considerations rotted out the con science of the party men entrusted with the conduct of governmental affairs in isolated communities? Or are the local representatives of the Attorney Gen eral's office merely incapable? Galll-Curct and Garabed Garagosslan seem to be almost the only notables missing from tho line-up of those who are going to boost the Liberty Loan here. THE NOBLEST CALLING THE hundredth anniversary of the found ing of Philadelphia's public schools makes It appropriate to say a word of tribute that has long lain unexpressed in our heart. We gladly offer a word of honest gratitude to the teachers, past and present, who have worked so faithfully in behalf of the children of this city. Every time we meet a teacher we feel as though we ought to take off our hat. (If it Is a lady teacher or one of the men teachers who wrestled stubbornly with us in years gone by, we do so.) There la a brightness In the eyes of a good teacher that we rarely see an where else; a kind of clear and disinterested pas sion for human service. You may instance to us other servants of the public weal the parton, the slum worker, the doctor, the policeman but our greatest reverence Is still for the teacher. The work is ob scure, undramatlc, ill-paid, a steady mono tone of patient, helpful days. A good teacher, like a good plumber or 'millionaire or editorial writer, labors in secret His task requires tact, humor, endurance, relf. sacrifice. It is a dedicated life. And yet, happily, haw great the heart's reward, though the world's applause be scant. The pleasure of the teacher in his noble cJUng h beyond all other human Joys, tnpre lasting, more subtle, more soul- Ho nttn IWK uinyu uvyll 'A . EVElffi-TG- PUBLIC LEDGERr-PHTLADELPHIAN room full of boys and girls without a curious quiver of tho heart at the sight of so great a section of Tomorrow laid bars and palpitant before one? Molding those eager or obstinate minds Is writing on the brain ,of mankind, We have met clumsy, Ill-Informed, cyni cal teachers, as wo have met clumsy and Ill-informed and cynical merchants, nctois and street car conductors. But we have never met a teacher In whom there did not shine Homethlng of that unearthly radi ance, the shining of a seal for truth and human happiness. When no meet a teacher we nre too bashful to tell him or her what we think. Hut here It Is! 'Hie man who threw $2100 from a ImIii windou. thinking It was waste paper, must hao been able to open the window SWIVEL CHAIRS AND RED TAPE- WHEN Uncle Joe Cannon tald recently that tho thousands of tenderly .berthed army ofllcers In Washington wear spurs to keep their feet from sliding off the desks ho began something that he. didn't finish Most persons who have been ob serving tho horrors of icd-tapism In Wash ington aro about ready to bel!eo that the spurs havr sunk rather derp Into expen sive Go eminent mahoganv It is the common experience of men on Important business nl the capital to And It Impossible to reach the executives and the equally common experience of execu tes to And thenisches unable to meet men upon missions highly Important to their departments In tho outer officers there are captains and licutnidnls without number whose sole duty seems to be Hie interruption of communication between tho men who do things and the men who are trying to haxo things done. This is an aspect of the matter that ought to be looked into when tho Senate begins the proposed Investigation of tho swivel-chair contingents. It may be found that there are various reasons wljy it would be better to send the younger men to the fron. Varr do v e t;o from here, boy, do we go trom here? Vare n en now it appeari that the pro-Germans managed to put the Hie ln, Too" eon in Wisconsin If Mr. Vare ere a Ulial A SIII3 lady would you, speak- Questlnn! ins under the Inspira tion of this gracious season, call him Queen of the JIaor'.' The Germans hae be IneTltable qun to shell Xoon Mxerv nne alwajs ad mitted that (he Noyon cathedral Is rather beautiful THE ELECTRIC CHAIR TUIUtY THIMBLETnOT teems to hae - been somewhat uptet by our "Obits We Coset." Ho writes to tell U3 thut Hlndcn buig is not dead, and he can't see the Joke of wrfiting obits for people v ho are not dead We sent Jerry'r letter to the Department of Justice and received thU reply: form 9SJ13. re Detection of Enrwn .Mens Your letter receUed and contents duly noted, transcribed, filed, Indexed and treated with chemicals. Copies in quin tupllcate have been forwarded to head quarters In Washington, where the mat ter will be taken under advisement. If jou will forward further detail, filling out Inclosed questionnaires G5D ni.d CJ3.M, we will have Mr. Illmbleblott placed under espionage and observation Kindly Indicate by return mail whether ou consider Mr Mimblellot a particularly dangerous alien and whether In your opinion one agent of this department would be adequate to cope with him in the event of personal conflict Please bear in mind that the accusa tion of enemy allenshlp n an exceedingly serious one. and action is not to.be taken lightly or hastily. We will give Mr Hlmbletrott a week's time to pursue his usual course: if any buildings or fac tories are blown up m the meantime it will bb necessary to attach a pursuit ant or mandamus to his trail Please keep In touch with us. and make five copies of all correspondence with said Mr. Hlmbletrott Yours, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Is it possible that we have been mis taken in Jerry, and that his name, as fonie one suggests, is really Thlmble trotiky? Is There a Parcel Post? Dear Socrates Will you inform me if there really is any parcel post, or is It all an elaborate camouflage? For going on two years I have been trj Ing to send pack ages by parcel post, and have never uc ceeded I tako them to the po&tofflee and say Jauntily. "Parcel post, please." The mail clerk looks severely at my bundle, weighs it, sniffs it. sneers at it and finally says. "This won't go by parcel post; It weighs less than four pounds." Some times the trouble Is ,nat my package weighs more than four ounces: or it is printed matter; or it isn't printed matter: or it exceeds eighty-four inches "in length and girth combined"; or it is not a "harm less medicinal preparation." or it is not going "to, from or between Guam, Tutulla and Manua and other islands east of lon gitude 171 west of Greenwich"; or "it ex ceeds twenty-four ounces, liquid measure" Under these and other pretexts the post office rejects all my parcel-poit offerings, and makes me send them by first-class mall. Unfortunately, I lti.ow very few people cast of loncitude 171, so I don't see what good the elaborate zoning system is to me. A dreadful suspicion has occurred to me, is there really any parcel post? Do you know any one who has sent a package that way? CADVEHT CRAVAT. Albert Mordell is a lawyer and a student of psychoanalysis. He says a man reveals himself in what he writes. After reading some of Dove Dulcet's pieces he asserts that Dove must 'be a tall, thin, under calorled person with a wry nose and cheese-colored eyes. We do not know, as Mr Dulcet transacts all business with us by telegraph (collect) from Obesity, N J. Will Mr. Dulcet please call at this onjee and submit to scrutiny? Cuming Attractions Important revelatlous tomorrow concern JS, Jtqscoe.reai.uck, t,n.,w. OOLILVIEO. I i, "' ' '' M7 . M. FREE SCHOOLS FOR A FREE PEOPLE The Ideal Slowly Realized in Local Education flv WILLIAM DICK Secretary at the Board el Public LifnratOn A JJ ACT to provide for the educalkm of children at public expense within the city and county nf Philadelphia" was the title of nn act passed March 6, 1818. This created the Board of School Con trollers, now the Board of Public Hducatlon. which holds Its centenarv celebration in tho Metropolitan Opera House next Saturday eve nliig In these days of liberal education the title of this act would seem to Indlcato.lhat it was intended to afford public education for nil children However, such liberality was not contemplated, for a provision of the law In question limited the attendance at school to Mich boys between the ages of Fix and four teen aud girls between live and thirteen years whose parents or guaidlans were re turned nnnuallv bv the assessors as too poor to pay for their children s Instruction This characterized the schools at once as "charitv echools " and many parents, rather than submit to the humiliation Imposed, re fused to allow their children to attend. Theie seems to have been constitutional warrant for this distinction, for the Legislature was authorized by the Constitution of 1730 only 'to establish schooh throughout the State In Mich manner that the poor shall be taught gratis." Apart fiom thlt, however, public ecntlment was slow In comprehending that a democracy such as a then in Its first Mages of development could not attain Its highest nlni In th preparation of its future Mtiscns until education was nude fice to all, regurdlcsF of station or condition S! almost twenty ears of active campaign ing, with the Governor of the Stale invariable espousing tli cause, before the Legislature at the earnest solicitation of Governor Wolf could be Induced to approve what was called the free schobl bill It was passed In 1831 but contained h provision that, before It be came opeiative, the electors of the several school districts throughout the State were to have the opportunity at a special election to vote "For Schools ' or 'Against Schools " When the returns were flnallv computed tt was learned that, out of 187 districts, 4S5 oted "N'o Schools" or took no part tn the election Such was the opposition to the fiee tchooi bill that it became tho leading issue tn the net election of the Legislature the com plexion of which was so completely changed that when It began its rrsslon In 183R there was a sufficient number of members pledged to repeal tho law A repealing bill was . cording!) introduced and after passing the Senate was scheduled for approval bv Mk House of Representatives, when Thaddeu Stevens then a voung member from Lancj'-'-ter Countv, took the floor and. In an lmpa loucd speech In behalf of the light of the poor to have the Mine opportunity as the ilch to obtain an education, succeeded, bv voir of fit tn ,15. in holding the free si linnl bill on the statute books The following year th Philadelphia school enrollment, which had increased only 3000 In eighteen jeans, i-howed an Increase In one .vear of 10 000 the stigma of charity schools had been removed During the next three decades, while the schools continued to grow In numbers and popuhulty. the methods mi ploved wern not of the moit approved plan and ct perhaps were fully abreast of the schools of that daj THE appointment of teachers war, geneiallv dcternilucd bv the political affiliations of the relatives or friends of the applicant, often taken from the grammar classes when thev were scarcely In their teens. In 1864 the Legislature passed a law which discontinued the practice of employing teachers who lacked proper qualifications, and required thereafter that the local school boards could elect only such persons who had shown bv examinations, authorized bv the Board of School Controllers, that they possessed the necessary qualifications to teach. This was a distinct step forward, as shown by the personnel of the teaching l.odv In the years following. I.V 18ST tho Legislature tool, its first step X toward tannic the- reboots nut of imini by depriving the local hoards of the right to elect members to th central board The power of appointment wn3 given to the Judges of the Courts of Common Pleas, and at the same time the title of tho school authorities was changed to the Board of Public Education In 1S83 the office of superintendent of schools was created by the Board of Public Lducatlon. and thence quickly followed a more complete supervision of the schools Then came the Introduction of the kinder garten, the opening of the first manual train ing school th organization of sewing and cooking classes the opening of the school of pedagogy, special classes for defectives and other branches of educational work to meet changing conditions and popular de mands During this period the schools showed greater advancement than was shown In any previous period of their existence 105 the central board's membershln J. was s reduced from fortv-two in ..,. one members bv abolishing sectional repre sentation The appointment of iei.. , taken from the local boards and placed In the hands of the Board of Public Education but subject to eligible list requirements Th. 1905 law also Increased the school' financial resources by making it mandatory upon City Councils to appropriate each year for the support of the schools a sum equal to five mills on each dollar of the assessed value of the city's real estate 5-e-- aiue In 1911 the present school code was en acted, completely divorcing the public schools from municipal control by giving the Board of Public Education full power to levy taxes and to borrow money for new sites and 'fifteen " a'! "dUCed ",6 memuershlp How the city and the school system have grown In the last hundred years will be easily appreciated when we compare 1818 with an approximate population of 135,000' nine schools, ten teachers. 2815 pupils and a total expenditure of J23.019 8B. with w year's estimated population of 1.750,000 350 school buildings. 6250 teachers, 232.000 punll and an expenditure of more than $1 000 ooo" together with assessed value of school n'ron erty of $35,000,000. prop How the schools will grow t numbers during the next century Is a matter of mathematical calculation. What their nroc ress will be depends upon the adminlstra tors yvho are to follow. Some one ought to tell the proper officials at City Hall that the They Wouldn't Ilfllere It prevailing dry senti ment Isn t meant to apply to water That Impression seems to prevail In the Water Bureau, Pro-Germans at Wil- llut They Ukt mlngton haye started Ida Smell what looks like a cam- palgn of destruction against gas plants They might have tayed the yvorld a lot of annoyance If they had devoted a little energy to the one at Pots- dam. TO PUT money into thrift stamps that is urgently needed for food for the family would not be thrift. Thrift Is the yvise super- -viciiui aim pruviucui una emcient apportion ment of all the resources of our life. Thrift means war-sayings stamps and Liberty Bonds and yvheatless meals; but It also means books and inspiring music and decent clothes and all that humanity needs to fortify Itselfi for the fearful sacrifices we must make to win the yvar. Thrift means organized common sense and devotion. It means a patriotic scrutiny of our spendings to the end that we put our money where it will honestly and plainly do good for the cause That is the kind of thrift tliat yviii strengthen and exalt the nation and put the enemy qui 01 puxinc I'roin KHtz'i mini II .,1,1 I.. Ih. .1,-1. I,. .1.- 1 enemy out jr putunesff From Fritz's view- r" - J,&$r&lf -"t J." V7 THURSDAY, APEIL 4, "ER-R, HOW MANY MORE GLORIO US VICTORIES CAN WE AFFORD, PAPA?" NEWEST INSULT TO THE FLAG It Is the Enemy Salute More About Hog Island The Readers' Views in Prose and Verse lo the Editor of the Evening rubltc Ledger: Sir Once again 1 read of a numbei of pro-Germans being forced lo kiss the Star3 and Stripes and say "to hell with the Kaiser." How many Americans Ihlnk that this Is n punishment for persons who, bv words or action, Insult our glorious flag" I for one consider the flrrt part of thcli punishment an insult to the flag and feel tho lip3 that kiss the flag under these conditions ale only ns "one adding coals in the fire," as In their hearfs the fires of hate are burn ing, and they, like tho Hun of the trench, when cornered, are onlv too eager to seek mercy, and they are willing to kiss the flag, which means nothing to them, and in this yvav they escape severe punishment which should be dealt out to them. What would be the thought of our brave boys who are bearing the Stars and Stripes through the battlefield? if France, giving their blood and lives that the stains of the Hun upon the glorious flag shall be yviptd oft while we at home are adding more stains by forcing thee fllthv lips upon Its sacred surface" 1 As lo the final part of their punishment, I feel this lemark also means nothing to them and once said, they ran again go on their way They should be made to leallze that th American means It when ho says "to hell with the Kaiser." AN AMERICAN. Phllailelphla, April 2 Real Light Saying To the Editor of the El filing Public Ledger Sir I am unable lo see the saving 111 light by the advance-hour plan, at least if April and October are Included In April the sun rises at 5.45 on the 1st. to 5 05 on the 30th Hence, a person who usually rtses at G and now rises at 5 must have artificial light n good part of the month In October the sun rises at C 55 to C-18, with anothei need for artificial light by early risers If the Gov ernment wishes lrsave light let It look for the street lights burning an hour or more before sunset and the same time or longer after sunrise. OLD-TIMER. Nai berth, April 2 Christian Science Practitioners To the Editor of the Elening Public Ledger. Sir Please tell me If there Is a practi tioner In science of health in this city and please give his name and address. JOSEPH L. MINTZ. Philadelphia, April 1. Addresses of Christian Science practi tioners are listed in the classified Eectlon of the telephone directory Editor of the' Evening Pubmc Ledqer. Money's Worth for U. S. Money To the Editor of the Evening Public Ledger. Sir Noting the way In which things have been done at Hog Island up to the time Admiral Bowies took charge, a business man told me he employed a young man to go around and loosen up pennies and nickels when they stuck in slot machines, paying him 120 per week. The young man was no mechanic, having to be taught how to re moye the coins, and the $20 per yveek was more than he yvas worth. But he went to Hog Island, told yvhai he yvas doing and yvhat he was getting and was at once employed at $40 per week The managers told him they hadn't anything for hlni to do Just then, but they yvould teach him to do something. Now why weie they so anxious to em ploy men at Hog Island, yvhether they could be used or not, and ray such wages? They had a contract yvith the Government, under which they got back the money spent and 10 per cent more. Under such conditions u man employed at $20 per week made only $101 per year clear profit to the contractors, while one employed at $40 per week made them $208 per year It was clearly to, the advantage of the contractors to employ all the men they could and pay them all the wages that the trafllo yvould stand. And they did But whose fault yvas It that such an Ineanoni-lble contract -was made' - At dlffneiil time! JasL.ytsr htaid t w . '-J'rr.7f 1918 the outrageous waste of lumber, material, time and wages in the building of different cantonments And later it was said that Congress had before It a proposition to ap propriate $150,000,000 for the building of more cantonments. While yve must all save and do eyerythlng we can do to help speed the war, it seems to 1110 the ofllcers and em ploye:! of tho Government ought also to do some raving and try to get their money's vvoith for the money they spend JOHN SMITH. Philadelphia, Apiil 2 SMILE. MILES, SMILE To the Editor of the Evening 1'itblic Lcdget Sir Just a word on the "Dance. Dance. Dance'' in the Evening Public Ledokb of April 2 SMILE. MILES, SMILE" Youe "walked In the garden alone' too long. Where the dew was soggy, my lad. "And you've brooded the whiles" o'er a seem ing wrong nil I fear you are going mad , Just turn to your Bible and read a bit Where Dave, at Jehovah's command, Had slaughtered the Philistines one and all And fully possessed the land Returning, he gave unto each of his tribe Bread, meat and a flagon of rum Then he kicked up his heels in B Jubilant mood Aud danced like n ton-of-a-gun I'm loath to declare what the Scriptures aver, But their utterance cannot be ylle. But all he had on when he danced like the deuce Was a plnk-tlnted Syilan smile I fear that youi optics are "off," my son. When you say in sepulchral tones Or suggest that the ladles who danced with the "lads" Were portable bunches of ' bones " "Ur eadtheS'" the bravcst that MaU- th6 Deserving of all that's best, "Ur bMh- d b'"S 'em f nU"nly Thus honors each knightly guest. So plunk your melodious lyre. O And sing us a marri ,i..i. . .ut , V J e.?.,Jr r,Unk Pessimistic frost And dont let us hear it again "stunt'" '"y ""' am be dolns your i-nf ih. c. v ",.. ."'" lu .une. rti u neip us the hours to beguile. ThV; . u ucmu you and put it in front, H Sarouevrr111 be C AUStln Smile u farniirl vi. n, 10, jB o Philadelphia. April .1 4 AILEY THE SPIRIT OF JAPAN lj ....uiounoiy the Japanese have been , m0Ved bj" the brutality of the Germans and how deeply their religious feelings are etlrred by the war are indicated " i following letter, dated February 28. which Prof. Barrett Wendell, of Harvard, has re celved from his daughter in Kyoto: "Yesterday I went to the shrine of Ise the moot beautiful and Impressive thing that I have seen at all, On the wnvh.wC. was h.led with the lord aobot of u e ch?oy?n Temple, the head of the Jodo sect, and a great many of his abbots from all parts of Japan. He was dressed in gorg fous "carllt robes, the others all in purple. He Is rf nM man of elghty-seven years, with one of tl most beautiful facts I have ever seen Crowds greeted him at every station? and liis secretary delivered quite a lone tn.e?i. rhL(t7na-irTlinS '" traLlaTeT't for me and what do you think It yvas? He was telling the peopj. that, according to the custom of hi. sect, at great crises the heads had gone to Ise to worship and to get divine help, and that he (the abbot) had gone there to pray for the cause of the Allies II eh? ?'? . h5V0 a STeat nt'ng here In Kyoto of the heads of all the sects, to get them an to go about and tell th. people aboutNhe wickedness of the Germans and the g, eat yll tbey are sowing In the world, to teach the people that they must bero of them and to get the whole of th, people and all the leniples to cay fe. ,1, "t u," -Allien and the UvAvnlal v hi aeftaos.. ' , TTfT -. .. n THE OTHER SIDE OF MR. FOSDICK R-:, Ice conditions here has set the town by the ears, Is able to see the other side of life when he looks for It He has been study Ins the surroundings of the soldiers In the camps in various parts of the country Among the things which he discovered, ar disclosed In an article by him in Sciibner's Magazine, Is the variety of books demanded bv the boys. He writes. "The icquirements for books tn the camp libraries ate more specialized than m ordi nary city libraries. The standard us n whole is even higher. Fiction, of course comes first, but a close second nre books nf pure and applied science Mm are being called to unaccustomed tasks: so they are doing a vast amount of 'reading up ' Books on vari ous kinds of machinery, gasoline engines, airplanes, electricity, chemistry and farming are in constant demand, and any book not on the shelves that is really needed 13 pro vided by special purchase "Another phase of the soldier s reading is 'llustrated by the private in a jJTexas camp who made a request for books on intensive agriculture The llbrarlart yvas interested in men first and books afterward, so he drew him out on the subject of his preference la reading It's tills way,- the man said. 'I'm a farmer My dad has a truck farm Just out side of Houston, and he sent me to agricul tural Fchool to learn the up-to-date methods, I've simply got to read these things and keep up to date so that when I get through sol dlering I'll know how to handle a cultivator And say have you got David Uravson's 'Adyentures In Contentment "' ' The growth of the reading habit among the soldiers has brought to light an interest Ing contradiction to the generally accepted theory that among a group of Individuals the leveling process lo a leveling downward. The men In the camps who are readers stlrau late by their example the interest of those yvho nie Tiot 'Ha.ve you read this story" asks Private X of Private Y 'Naw replies Private Y. '1 never read a book through In me life' 'Well, y'oughta read this one. It's better'n any movie show y'ever saw It's bear!' Thus does Private Y get an incentive to taste the Joys of llte-ature There Is tendency toward a leveling upward, "The valuable service of the libraries is further developed by lectures, university! extension courses and the general education, plan. Men not only will keep jjace with their former civilian activities, but many of them will emerge from the army and navy better equipped for the battle of life " What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. What Is n deeldnoua tree? 2. Who la the president of Princeton I n1- TeraHy? 8. Who painted "nreaklnc Home Ti"? 4, Identify "The rlroiirse of find," ft. Wlm t la a mitrailleuse? 6. Who wrote "The Hle of Silas Laplm"''' 7. What la a sector? R. tVhnt Nn, characteristic or Tudor arch! tcctoro? 0, VI hero la Montdldler? 10. It hut I'realdenla of the I'nlted Mole were born In Ivew Enaland? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1, Salient! In tv nillltarr "enee. the liul'ln e-r or projection forward of a Una Into (lie enemy front. 2, "SJ'ix Adeler." Hie paendanrm er t'h.rlrf lleber riarV. nn American writer, snoon a a homorltt and political economist 3, Some charaeterlatlra f "Oueen Anne" arfld- 1 u.nre "? "lanaaM eoofa and profusion of sablea and bar window a. 4, Hector ll-rllcr. Frenrh i-orunneer, wrote the ol"a?anatr" oratorio. "Tho Ilamaatlon Fauat 8. hohrtquelt An ntsunied or a fanciful name or name, nickname ippeuation. u, Arahequei rf. .i?".1 In fl' OT. architecture, referrln lo the Arab aula, the rharaclerlttlra heln M?."Pfi,r,cl,ll S'.,,.,h..,;,"an prohibited tha plrlurlnr of ililn thin... In literature. .. ,.. or wcn lantaauc, alle. 7, Mortan A hort nnd comparatively ilaht nrn.?.1 ""5 , ,"" .''H with- lo lecltr and UMislhr at Man an. lea. aa .1 to drop on their objective from above, g, n..t-i I. fceniettmca called "Tha Hub of lt vniierae. . 'rrl Otln tun llflow Ir, In romntAtv. tt nn lmi.Kir.unt ff.tnn nf tho German froa lin In tiorfJu-rn Trance. 10, kOll MArtMta Id run ufil Vrjuietfi . -aLi- wlkltrtfl ml una tt.ti.il . ,...r s-a atai fi9 '-..:-' " r "aTl r"TtI"'L' . -" X maisBs ar iw Y. .' ' ' . , i
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