y vav rtlls BfUrt c . rx tir '$ Vjw. ..Hi. IUI Queuing public IGc&aei; ' PUBLIC LrUOLIt COMPANY . crnvs it. k iitiTia. pumimivt (Turin n t,im(nitoti ioo President Jnli f Surtln. Hrrreiary inrt lrcaeurer Philip H e-ollinr, Jahn B Williams John 3 Hpuraeon inre-eium UDlTOntAt. novim i, -. t v Ccsiia. I'liairmai CAIp . SlllLET r-innr JOHN C, MAnTIN. . .Umenl uHni Vnr Iubtlat,d daily at Vtatau I.trwrn llulldlnz. Indtpendenca Square. Philadelphia. J.tnorn CasTsit..... Broad and Cheatmit yirts jTL4NT ClTI. i , Prmi-Unio Ilulioitis kiw T'ltk..,.. , ... "l! Metropolitan Tower DiTnniT,..,,, . 403 Knrd nulMInc Mr Ixista.... .. . . 100 rutls r on liullOtnar CMCJ'IO...... 1S02 IritUHf Uuitdlnii nkvvs nuncAUa: N, K, for. Pennayitanli Ave. and 14th St. AIW TOSW tlCKEtC. The Slllt Ilull.llllS 1.omos Bttnt. , . ... London Timta suuf'mntus Ti:nMri Tin Htkmkq Pcauo l.eisica Is nerved to -uh crlbers tn Philadelphia and aurroundlnff Iomtm at llurrale ot titelvo III') eents per ttek. nayublu to the carrier. By mall 'o polnta outride or Philadelphia. In the United States. C'amutu or ITnllesl Matte. ro ailona. pontaro free, nrij (fiOl ct-nta ikt month, til (101 doilara per ear payable In ailianie. To all foreUn eounlrles one I! It dollar P'r month. Norir -,1'ibacritxTi wlahlns kHIi-ms thanse BlUJt Che old s well aa nw address. HELL, 3000 VAIM.T KnTOM MAIN StOO C7 4 dre s all tommioitceifOiis to livr,.it a Vubln Ltdoer, Independence Stjvare, Philadelphia. ItTEncp at Tn thii Aiifi rsi rnx urea a va ftrooin ilaw maii Mi-mcn. rhllidflphl., Urdn'tili), Vpnl 10. 1118 just so: SHN'ATOIt VAIli: uiiiiouitriH Mini the dominating issue In Iho Stn.tr cam paign is ttio tullllcuthui of Iho prohibition amendment to tlic national Constitution It overshadows everything else, lie n. sure? us. Just so Tlicro are leaders of the oilier faction Who 'Mould iiIho bavu us think that tio other Issuo Is worthy of consideration They are exerting llieitisolves to that end If they cull prevent Iho public frum thinking of un tiling else- the) can play their llttlo game under cover of the while ribbon movement and put over nil the Jobs Which they huvo been plotting slnco tho last election. I'nloss tho voters bevviirc of the buVse bcnrlns moral Issues thej uro ltliely to suffer the fate of the difendern of nncietil Troi The .Mnur lias at InM dlsiuvoivd that hrro Is Bometlilnp; rultcn In Hip police dc nartnicnt Koom't lio Imovv jet vvluit II Im ' I'oi.ici.nc thi: I'oi.in: rUHTJitCT ATTOItM IIOTAN M iiiu--' Idtlon for n doiccilvc Iniipiiu of bit own, established under the authorl of tbo 8tato Loglilature. preiiimah to polb-e the pollco force In I'hlladelphla, might be cud Ued with u rimolo b isIm or IokIc ir I.eslx laturcti were accuhtonicd to aspire for tin ideal In State and municipal ufTalr. There is nothing In the present, point of view at IlarrlsburR to give anj HMiirance I bat still another forte of specially organized detectives mlsht not be required ultlmatclj to keep u watch on the UHtrlet Atturne.vN men. A piopcrlj orcanlcd and financed poliie force In thlf city would not reriuho a sup plementary organization to Keep il in ordc,r. rnforlunattlj the x.unc forcew that have desrnded and disorganized the police .organization here have had a more or lean definite coutiol in the I.tgNliiturp, It a man Insists on liavlng his ill ink whj fchould he object to an Increase In the price made in order to create a "slush ' fund to prevent closing tho drinking place."-' niK failing slumakim; rntllSRi: is small glorj tor Geriiumj in JL tho general tabulations of submarine results Just reviewed lij tho L'arl of Head ing In un addross at Washlnglon. It bus been estimated that tho Allies havo turns ported about 10.UuU.00U troop In the witr zone. The men lot through nubmurlnr attacks numbered lSuuO, Including .lull soldiers lost on a turpedoi d hospltut fchlp Tho conspicuous triumphs of the sub marine have been agnhi-t the weak and tho defenseless. When the undersea es sels went gunning for traniports thev nero arrayed against men on their guard. It tho real truth wero known, it might bo evident that the German. Ill their sub marine warfare lost fur moro than tliej gulncd even at tho beginning. Despite nil that Germanj has been able to do, tho Allied navies havo protected tho transport of 130,000,000 tons or commodities In tho submarlno zone. And now something mjs terlous Is happening to the U-boats. Thej hto accomplishing les than they did at the outbet. Thej nre being sunk in greater numbers. They arc going tho way of tho Zeppelin. What tho "movie" stars want to ec la a "Uoso up' of a subscription for Liberty Bonds TKinuTi: ok thi: .sou. SURKL.V, uhen tho full narratlvo of this war is written out In the dajs of peace, tho people of Kuropo will havo rea son to feel something like nctunl ufTeeiioi) for the soil of Amcrlou. Thulr lives will , bo touched upon every side and for all thno to como by things sprung from this land -of ours. ' Tho graves of dead Americans, will be on their battlefields. Itut that will not bo nil. Not long ngo, when tho Germans began systematically to devustuto the French oichni-da and lncjards. regions from which they were forced to rctlic, hun dreds of thousands of j-oung plum treos wero .nstuntly uprooted In California, 'thlpped to Tranro and planted in tho places left desolate by tho Kaiser's armies. Count- .vless thousands of grupcvlnos wore slilii- 4 flariy transplanted, within a short time ' itho land that watf laid waste was blooming fa train'. jSitvf; ' N0H" though the nowcr wheat crops will Q prpvld.o an excess estimated at 200,000,000 yusuvio uyui vvi van Murium rcHluireiUOIUS, Wa are Informed by the food administra tion that all of this and more must go abroad. We shall sond it willingly nnd much else. But tho tribute which the soil - this country Is giving up should be ud- (Ktuato to -insplro us with a now rovoroneo filter tho endowments that worj ours at the The Frsficlt arc not lacking in heart and ' U) Irnngliiatloti. It Is linposffblo to Imagine ties between nations niore ipowerful Uw ulliwing traditions which tho ujm up in tiieirj Jiseir w-i IS .ICELAND TO HK A NATION AT LAST? ALTHOUGH no olllcitil iinnouncoment of the coiirtuslotis of tlio Irish liomc rule convention litis liren mink', tlic I.on tlotii Kxjness k'io what put ports to bo a Mummtiry of its pliin. Us jnovislons nro, briefly: An Irish I'arliiimcnl in Dublin. An executive responsible to this l'nr hntucnt. Military service for the Irish. Suft'Kiianls for l'rotcstnnte. A new customs iiiTiuiBemciit. The aiiuouiiccmcnt by the Kxprcss that Ulster is to bo iiicluiled within the plan ought to be taken us n matter of course. The convention was culled In urcler that all pharos of Irish opinion michl bo rep resented. Ulster dclcguti'H weie present. They had to j;o or admit themselves ns irrceoiicihibloM, unwilling to nccepl any plan which they did not make. AssiimiiiK that the forecast of the Kvpresf is trustworthy, it is easy to point out tho controversial feiitutcs. The extreme Nationalists have oiit:lit to net up mi independent government in Ire land ihut should have no connection with the I'arlliiment at Westminster. They have earned their point in part. 'I he settini; up of a I'nrliuim'iit in Dublin has been admitted nil nlotik" as the first es sential in any home nile plan. It remains to be seen whether Great Britain will consent to the creation of an Irish l're iiiicr responsible to the Dublin Parlia ment. It would involve u concession to nationalism whirb (iicat Driliiiii bus not hithei'to been willing to make and would place Ireland tit once in the same cIh.s.h with Canada and Australia. Her eon liuction with Great liritnin would be retained only llirouuh u Governor Gen eral appointed b the crown. SafcKiinids for the 1'iotestaiits are eonreded ns necessary ami desirable by men of all parties, even though some of the most extreme home iuler in tho past havo lueii 1'iotestants, followed loyally by tho Uomiin Catholic liishmen. The provision for -,niilitnr service needs fuither clucidution befoie any one can form an opinion on it. The Irish have thus far objected to conscription forced upon them fiom London. Whether they would consent to conseiiption onlerccL by their own Parliament is another matter. If (hoy have agreed to this, vvhirh is conceivable, they have made a cuncco-um Iho siKiiilleatice of which it isdlllicult to magnify. The demand for a new customs ariangeinent also needs to be explained The lilsh have insisted that their indus tries have .suffered under the present tariff laws. They have nsKed for some foim of protection nnd have not trot It If they are allowed to set up un inde pendent government ns independent us that of Canada, control of their customs laws would follow as a matter of couve. It wus inevitable that the Irishmen, left to themselves, would work out a plan for greater independence than the Lon don Parliament would devise on its own account. The settlement of (heir dill'er ences was put up to the Irishmen with a soil of moral obligation on the pint of Gteat P.iilain to accept their conclu sions. Whether the plan is really work able, in view of the difference between the i elation of Ireland and Cnn.ula to Great liritnin, cannot be Known until we know definitely and oflicially what that plan is. Whether it has been agreed upon by the Irishmen, with sullicient unanimity to justify Parliament in en acting it into law, is also uncertain. Lloyd George has already intimated that the Government might be compelled to net on its own initiative and disregard tho rccojnniendntion of the convention. .Mi. t.i nnon sajs Him Un Aluvoin bond ing business is to lie probi d in tin op. II Now lei hlni .n Ihil Hi, piuliv Mill I,, pushed lo til. Imllotn W O.MAN KXPLAIMIli: rpilUriU who profess to have gllmpn d the - inner heart or things have ulwujs suld that men and women alike make heroes nnd heroines of the historic figures who most closely approximate in achievement their own secret nmbltions und desires. Thus every roaring baseball fan roars K causo in his soul hu Is a Tj Cobb. The acknowledged f.iet thut the ma Jorit.v of l.lttlctnarj Plckford s worshipers are not men but women, Distantly tempts any mind Into u Held of shining i chela tions. When I.lltU'iiiarj urriviJ hcic yes torday to help boost the Liberty loan, women und girls predominated in the rapt crowds over which sho wos permitted i0 queen. What an Infinitude of knowledge thus becomes available, In u Hash! At last it Is possible to gaze behind the veils that women have uvd since time begun to hide their Innermost dfslrts und usplrutlnns! All women would be like I.lltlem.iry. They would bo small und blond. Thej would huvo a profusion of golden curls. The.v would ex perlenoo great and perilous ndvenluros and Ihoj vvould wish all tho world to pluj around In. Thej would wish In their se cret hc.irts to be rescued often from Hj Ing automobiles and from tho paths of thunder ing railway trains; to enduro tragic Inter vals of sorrow and to toll through a world ot assorted dangers, carrjlng aloft alvvujs tho principles of boauty and truth, until they arrive at last snfo with their treasures in tho refuge of heroic arms and strong. Who would havo supposed that the movies were to serve finally ns a solution to mjs torles that have balked human liitclllscncf since the Hood? (iurbai mo Is mistaken Tlic tpj laws uio not too inihl II Is Hie men who uro supposed to enfuiee iliriu. Till: KOAI) TO VICTOR V RAILUOAD congestion in so great that automobiles aro being sent this spring under tholr own power from the factories to tho point of dellv cry. Word comes from tho South thut a hundred now ears puss over the Lincoln Hlghwuy at Iluntsvitle, Ala., every day ffor points bejond. One duy last wcok llftj'onc slx-cj'llnder cars f?oiu a single northern factory went through Atlanta on tho way to Columbia, 8. C and another consignment of eight een curs passed through on He" way to Hjlvanla, Go. And new inotortrucks aro continuous'! passing through northern cltlos headed toward the home town of the purchaser. Z viflj.e ipo p "t, lap Tuovrcav is in ...,. .. . ... . it- . . V I m jja ., iue aciwuar. jk . , .. :v .. . . i . fit 1P EYEIXG PUBLIC LEDGlRr money spent on road construction Is nlsn lilercaslng. Alabama spent $150,000 List jiar on road building. Il will rpend $S,r.00, 000 this jear. Texas spoilt $5,000,000 In 1917. It has arranged to spend $.Ti,00W,000 this jour. There Is hardly n .State south of tho Mason and Ulxoirs line which li nol In tiering Its roads. Although the nol thrill hlghwajs hnVe nlwujH been bellcr tlinn those In tho Suiith, tho tratlle mi them bus been ten times greater Wo cutinol fall behind In expenditure If wo tuo to hold our place. The heavy liiick Is destined lo do work which has been dono by tho railroad". Wo are discovering Its possibilities -now that Wo have been forced lo uso II. lnlcs the hlghwajs nre built lo stand tho tnillle the truck will havo to bo kept on tho elly streets. Philadelphia Is nlroudj llnkod with New York- und Usltlmore by truck lines, but no one knows bow long the pfc.ienl roads will last under tlm constant liuiuinerlng of the powerful driving wheels. Mnnev spent on these hlghwajs is spenl Jum now to ward winning the wnr Just ns really as though II wre icd for building runnoii or making shells. Hlghwajs uri1 nnsjrd also To tunnel the farms about ovorj large city with Hie markets within the elly limits in order thai food may bo delivered with ns little waste ns possible directly lo the consumer This conservation of euergj In food dis tribution Is ulso a part of the work that must be done If the wnr Is lo be won. The tfrret of the war upon I lie in w Hie ologj 1 marked. The ministers no longer doubt the existence of hell, fur Ihtj inn iim celve of no other sullnble pl(u for sl.tckt rf. jirolltcirs and pro-Hermans. The New Jrr" clergyman v ho i, in tot distinguish between V linker tiooille' mid the "Slur Hp.inglid Ilanner" would b'tler te.irn Hit dlffercnre between these songs uml Tli Watcli on the Klttiie ' v ih or I hlnriiriirnr,' Uy what method can .Vtajor Sniltli bn made safe for deniocniej ? Tile tilston of the war Vinl I'naiiullj up to Hi' present tlmu, Mala. Just puWI.'IimI In lor- iniinj-. ruiulres tblru- tlinr volumes VVIIbelm's prajers anil Ins leltgruniH of cruignttulalloii are eloiibtle tt'Siuu,iblt. for Iho bulk of ihe bonk ':; .S77X. SMALL VOICE H' HM11 I'LANTMillNUT, who seisuV to be u lover of horse", kuj s he' iilwnvs blop- mi I'bt'Stllilt streol to caress the mounted pollce'mcn's sle-cds. He ndds thut it horse-s sllkj no. e Is flcr thun any luelj "s cltt ek. 'I hoiiglits on Jscisniopr.iihs A . isiuugruph Is an lUKtrimieiit foi re 'ording treuiulutlniis and dlsturbanees in the earth's crust. The only I rouble with a seismograph is it must be equipped with an expensive pro fessor to interpret Its readings. It seems to us that n great deal might be done with this seismograph Idea We must do iivvhj with the professor ami make It practical Uovc Ihileel has instaUcel u seisum grnph In lit homo ut Obesity. X. .1. Uvcr time the goldllsh hns u nightmare or a lln do Steele, tho ingenious Instrument ic-e-ords it. This Is Important, because gold fish must not ho overfed when their night's rest bus been broken. Hut Mrs. dulcet, not to be outdone, is hard nt woik on u plan for a seismograph of her own. Sho recommends il to nil wives. It will trace n wabbly lino every time Dove takes a drlnkBai tho elub. And If Dove takes n glass of Ton) nnd Jerrj the Instrument will summon an umbuluncc by wireless. Hut the kind of celsmogruph thut would be must vuluable to this department, would In an instrument thut would warn us of the proximity of u mlrl lupiake. a If one e-ould toy nil Ihut Is In ones heart It vvould Ilnd an cello In cverj human breast. Wo huve received the following flom Ihc L' 8. Humor Admlnlstintor: Shnrlagu of llimiar Ttiric l Drive ilanicr of a sltprtapi of luiiior. .So maiiv of our tccll-kiioivn hu morists liaic pone abroad as uar tcic respondents there icltl he a joke amine viilesi nil our rciottrcci are conscricil and put to inc. Thi ic must br no hoanUnif ot liumoi: Vul pour jolrs la tirruhitlou, Vlrasr urii'lsf us ot joiir earliest i on 1 enlrner just what stuck of humor vou have on hauil and how lout) iuii think it ultl last. Inform us of iiour duilii comkhiu. lion of humor and what subslltutis uou itm ii. ( mait be mecssurit to use unln 60 per rrnt humor In jo'r joins until li i In Cobb gets lack from abroad. Have vou anu old t( (deisms or drullrrlm In cold storage that can be used to (We us over the prcii nt rrtelsf 11 mail be necessary to tall back on the (lies of the Congressional Uccord for raw materials, but this supreme emcrjeney must be averted If possible, ire do not dctlre to put the nation on humor rations If It can be avoided. V. U. IIUMOI! ADMlXISTIl.UOIl. TTirtOJl tho train we look out on thoti--- sands of quiet' homes, each rich In the safety nnd peace of a ejulct laud. Tho fruit trees aro blossoming, tho cro cuses uro slurring tho turf, tho greon hollows along tho railway aro quick with sunshine. Hclilnd that vlM.'i of quietness hangs u red mlrngo of war. h vision of the flaming country east or Amiens, where our allies hold the enemy In check. The battle line runs u llttlo oast of Amiens and right through our hearts. That line, mi mercilessly battered, Is guard ing all we hold doar. Aro j'our dollurs on that lino? Have j on done YOUK UTMOST? Lltrrcd br Iho Mil! Small Vulce. A number of electrical engineers havo been heckling us because occasionally we call tills department The Kloctrlo Chair. They Insinuate that we don't know any thing about eloetro-motlve fori'e nnd high potential and amperes They challenge us to give a dcllnltloil of electricity - , What IS electricity? To the engineers we, retort, watt lselcerlcity. ,--. -.A.-'.lr SOCEATE8, - PHlLADELPHlA. WEDNESDAY. APRIL' 10, r "FORCE TO THE UTMOST nil AT IT MEANS "or. r, fnrer in the ttfmojt; force Willi out nltnt or Him', the righteous tile irl uiiinieinl forer uhlih shall make rlilht the Inv nf thr Horld and east n rrj ttlflsli dointiinit eloii'ii tn die dust." -1'rcsldcut 11 lfu ri( In Id in ore. II MN POWLIt rrmtSlii; Is Man Power enough In iho free J- nations to prevent the re-illzallon nt tho German dream of (-elfish dominion Thriro iinned that man may Isj whose quarrel Is Just; annul Willi Ids physical weapon, tinned Willi his conscious recti tude and iinned with tho determination Ihut unrighteousness shall not triumph Hut we cannot trust In the justice of our cause r.lone. When brutrs tlin force thev must be met by brute forco employed ro ovrrwhelmlnglj that Iho'e who use force Uru Lilly may loarn their lesson. The weapon that Is to win the vvur is Alan Tower. Industry must wletd It, both Industry directed towurd rending nnd cloth ing civilians und lighters and Industry di reeled toward producing munitions of nil kinds, llul Mnu Power bnel.rd by Indus try niuM be concentrated In nrmlcs and navies In such ove rwhplmlng mass Hint It can overcome all obstacles. A living wall of human Hch must be ereclcsl to stay the Herman mlviine'c: u living wnll In reality that produces nut of Its own life the material to (III the gups left by tin dying und the tloutl: n wnll quick with nu eternal vitality Hint no power or evil run batter down or break through. Tho slupi ndous und terrlblo task ni helping lo keep that wnll Illlnel Is lunl upon this nation It Is not a Insk teio grenl for our resources. That fncl must be kept alivo 111 all our thinking. We have the men. Tile llrst draft law summoned all muli -between the ugec of Iwenty-one nnd thlri Inclusive to reglsle r. The response brought out a list of O.iSO.CSJ .voting men within the prescribed ages, an army big enough to win the vvur nlono when properly trained. Hut this ri'Slrleled draft did not disclose our military resources in Vim I'ower. The last census showed thut Micro were L'0,S9.".S4 men of military ngo In the eotintrj, tluil Is. between the ages of eighteen und forty, nnd Hint there were 26,r!lfl,l."il men nf voting uge. In the eight years since thai crtisiis wns token the tolnbi have grown. Out of this great number it ina bo necessary lo create on nrmj' oC fi.OOO.ulii men before peace ran be brough' about. The estimate Is (lenerul I,oiiurd Wood's. Hut Ibis Is not "force to the utmost." We can raise a bigger army than that Prance and llreat lirlluln have done It with a smaller tola) population. What we must remember Ih thut we have lite men and vie must ndjusl ourselves lo the thought that these meij, must hold themselves in readiness to respond to the cull us soon us It Is issued. "I'eirco to the utmost" menus thin if 3,000,000 men uro not enough; we must send .1,000.000, nnd ir M00.000 mo not enough we must rend IO.OOO.uOm It means Hint we must fight as u mother would light whose babe was In the claws of a tiger from the Jungle. And means noth ing shorl of thai. (llnnim I'emrr villi he ilLumrd Imiiiirrun.l There 1m one mticli- Si He Will lulUed-of monarch who I'lre Ills Country, will have lo pul up a hard light for his throne when (lie Kaiser dlt and invades his realm Why is a. girl pleased Nnliuilj lnw. when sho 13 called u peach, while a man tn istanlly tiles Into a fighting mood if he is characterized as a prune? Ilcuuly's Yoimgv.tl Son Thr Crntfttmy of "Eiulyminn'' I J I KT 100 ytnrs ago today .lohn Kei n young man not iet inenij -three, wrote ul 'lelgiunouth. in lievonshire. the preface to his "Ilniijmion. ' It la a passage that will always echo In the minds of poetry lovers llko a snatch of sweet, sad music 'Looking back on tlm poem, which had biassed in his mind ror Iho greater pan of a jc.ir. Kt-nls confessed that il seemed a reverlsh otieniii rather than i deed accomplished. And he added, in words that will live as long as any in the poem itself. "There is not a tletce'r hell than tho failure In a great object It Is well Hut humanilj nliou!d not tin gel Itsflpoets. Their pangs nnd their pas sions havo many lessons for us. for those whose lu arts are tender lo the strange, and iiiwilllablo mugle of lieaiitj. Keats will always hav. a thrilling appeal The ior of his brief aiiil fever-haunted days Is among the Imperishable anna la of the tailh. X. vcr did the jcainlng spirit t.r man make more passionate and cndiiiliig outcry In im attempt to voice liself. firuiiken or moon light, iUzici by deep draughts of sky nnd sea. this man chili lied at the Mars 111 romance was Hie romance or all, ballled bv Hie dJPMdvliig vesture of reality. presM-il hard by neeilleis thorns, lie dreamed or strange histories, potent to send A joung mind from Its bodllj tenement . and poured out for us "an endless fountain of immortal drink rpilU human brain can hold but small pu. L lions of thai Intoxicating anguish in.,, call llrautj. It is not well to peer too closely Into the face of life. Tho golden accents that men live bj too often spring or tho llfcblood of the musician. The song outgrows tho blnger. Humanity is but n narrow channel for the great flood of life und love thut Hows through It, UTTVND 11 1110 Is one of Hie tin. lortal outbursts of ardent vouih coining its dreams lu fresh and overrun nlng gold, glutting Its sorrow on the morn ing rose. Obscuro and Incoherent as Is tho nairativc, distracted wltli n thousand Irrele vant urns nun lonos. u is tu sum u kIiihIii parahle of iho cuger soul or map in n cndlept, nnd bewildered quest for lleauty .toil Truth Tho boy or girl who has not ftasteil upon it In the springtime of love and voulh has lost oitn or the- legitimate Joys or life. Keats said or tho early growing leafages of tho rorest he describes ut tho outset of "Uniljinloa" that they Itun In mazes or the youngetu hue About old forcete. The same Is truo of the poem itself. H embroiders Hie old woodlands of clastic myth with tho huppy and luxuriant blos soms of green fancy. Down Its fragrant aisles of dappled sun and shadow we como upon llttlo cool springs "with crystal mock Ing of the trees lind sky." In tho silver glow of that Immortal moonlight the hazards of every day aro forgotten. Tho heart of joulh wanders In maiden meditation, trem. bllnr lis old and painful (ecstasies ' A thing of beauty Is a Joy forever ' t I. MMOnTA.lt bov, and nursling of the moon' Vcn In the death-day of empires the heart of humanity turns back to jou n pltj and remembrance. When you died the great spirit vhjspered, to each other, "Make more room." They were wistful to ee you. come eo,eoonf v- t , , ", c,p..j.. .XT' jnL1tfmiILriiJT. :UL7f .i.l' A i a"S-. jr-Vr-aftdr " .! laHW .IXisJ" . f 'iATl J. -in" f r i-u' . . 1"- ;-r..i XUTi"iJ"J AVriJIZCT-f 'v - rK' L1 f. 1 . .-una? j",LW : y n rf&WTr-r , THE GOWNSMAN "W'lSAlW ago, vvlien Hie r ovvi -man in in ' J. Minlly of jouth. sel mole stoic h In gown nnd his cap Hum he eloes now, n candid friend begun nc ot lhis pliai-lng alien ntloiiM of friendship Willi Hit- liumt . "You know, tint I should not consltli i jou n rending uutn ' Now this mined very linid. The UoVVIi--man, redolenl us ! luitl hoted. Willi the odoi or scholarly oil. buiut night "fl'-r ulghi m steady devotion . lie who was ulvvnys nsdlng rraillng he who wus Holding, nlii-l if lie was HOI bookish, thil" lo Im tleiih d the gloiy of his one tlarllna vuulty! Antl the eandld friend conlhiiictl "Vou are not a reading man, beenuse it Is your business "to reud. ou read under compulsion, you reud sordidly fm.guln you arc a slave not u free rcudei " "A1 happy tlioughi To nod whin you wnul to lend, to rend when you will ami how J oil will To chtwt a book us ,1 man cliooics n frb lid. netl In ciiise br Is "a III assin-iile." nu bliprov lie ncnualnloiicc. ptrhaps. Hint terror, a godly tiiiu, but to clioa-'e liec.iiiM you linvc n vvliho to rend that particular bonk bec.iiin you like the color of the covei, m Ilii print, or the novelty or the unknown name or Ihc unknown n'uthoi. There aie leal leasons for lending a book Vloroovir think of the lb light of reading when you will: In Hit small houm of tho night, wnsllng oil or bus or elec tric light- though this lasl somewhat dis till ba the hnppv lin.igtry. foi electricity pup erly cnllghltiut loll, nut lelsuit, und tlicii' Is 11 hopeless IncongiuHy about icjicllng an old book bj a new tight. Uistly. lo rend how you will: nol like n slave meticulously . be ghtiilng Willi the title ninl lln prefae'e and teudlng what '" vvoihc iinilerstunillng -every wold, illllguitlv plying the Index In the. 1 ml lo eleiii' up lu bluntil Sfiots In yoiu comprehension and mining up bilght and Informed ul me ctineiusmii 01 tiit-m- n torlous labors This Is not bow lo reud. Tht free 1 cider ncrvts the right to begin a book In the middle or ul the end to dnvott hluiseir to twv or tlirtc books ut tin same' time, or lo diop any or all or iheiu nt 111. without in curring anj moral oppiobrlum for bis conduct or even o supercilious iiitlloii us lo Ills ivnstiency. loui free under It nullj Ihc only completely happy man RUAPlN'll- m "lull. Is ,i j mneli like walking -or any other huiiiau uctivity. ror Hint mailer- elo it for itself und It - u Joy . do il for some utttrlor calculated pur pose and II beconn s a thing or naught. To read for gain. Intellectual, jnoral 01 mom tsiry, Is like walking tu git somewhere To re-ad for phasuie is to gad about, whither you Will, Mopping wlnn oil like, icjurnlng when jou nio Hied of gadding Tho man who wqlks to get soimwhtre Is lull nt on that pctlJ end and sees nothing by tho waj There nro no surprises ror him. the uu expected would not Jollc his pel and prosaic make-up. No laugh of ehlMren would lift tils eyes fiom tho icadrno Pilling buttci fly distill b bis steadfast nam foilhright IJe gets there, and lh.it Is all lie gels. TJie fieie eiuler knows Hint It Is iiullc tinuiattilal. In Hie long run of things, that any one should get anywhere. It Is what we see und .hear by tho road, iinel wlirllicr we leave that load behind us In uiullslinbcil buiuty 01 "Im proved' by our pissing Into Hie lik.nes of something unliunimi and tlesolate axlIUIllI was fcomo tliuo since, in a evllego ri'etiuentcVl by the now neiiiaii, un r.xecllont elderly protestor, long slficb g"oi(e ttj bin ie ward, who was in man) reptcts an Ideal rondels cccpt. perhaps, for it certain dis concerting omimuejuH' to.- oiauc.ii. a lule 16 Jfad for pleasure alter midnight, having tolled all duy and half the night hi his vocation. Wheii bo slept was u mystery never solved It was his good old-fuililtyiifd custom to vlsirono of our big-libraries peri odically and there lliunfb-.lnd-flliger the rtcw books, especially fiction, Inking away with him Iho volumes which took his fancy and inv Ited a closer acquaintance for sonio one of the good reasons noticed aboje. The jirofes eor was old-as)iloed, loo. in the diversity of his learning -it va beforo the rtajf, niien each scholar dig? down only tu ii- own utile dtfh -and his kiiovvleklge of many tongues several s I'nee Isipi and ologi. i , j,0, loys among tnos who knew biin nm t,a, k of jhe dek at th jlbra.r there was an excel lo.nt j-ouugien wqiOiUJ': HWUK-- JBacrn.iype. that touldenvir.paya fallen,, Into the error Tt CljtoUtMUniiysjiUtAlwa.y84htC'' e thi M, aVUVtft iitaiwa.ys4h.tc' r 1 MS EVERY SHIP HAS A FEW 1. 1. .lb. 1 -, Ki , pi r unit sUt dlii not Know tin tnuft ii Mm kuiu unlj 'llu foolipli old tn tit 1l1n p hIwhjh '(nlhiu nut" tuinW art .in iltlrijt nulla tit inluht lit tnkhv uut 0111m hull" Anil In r tmpatlrueo at larl lo 'nnif 11 Hulli'lUitlt. wtiiili rojr Into tin tpieri ; Woukln't uu liK ptr. -ijcrlmiw, tu ?oc funic tf our more tmproln ImioIim'" wot J liou inn loll a ninn smnewhal by the nok- hi Imp", not. ot 1 nurse, his ledger "i tils ilnj book, but the shelves or book-cist- 01 Hie sumptuously furnished room that lie calls his llbrurv Do not Judgi hii.i loo certainly l,y bound copies of unread fa mous poets given to lilui by mniileii aunts nt Chilslmas which decorate Hie pallor Inble. or bellcvei hlni mi nbsnhpe tlevotee of Hie poetry of thr moment even ir you lint " 111y Lowell" or "The Utile I'.cvlcw," to say uoihint- f "The lllast. ' lying varcletdy Uncut on his bloltir lie may possibly de sign 10 have you think him rur more aban don, d thun lie really Is You tan tell dim lieller by the things -tlie;y arc often rutlcr "llilngs ' thun books -that he acluallv leads, whlih are soineiliues lockcil up from his family, be cause Ihey arc so cosllv or for sonic tttlttr ivnson As lo I lie nt-wspapersr our nsltiui n pinvi niler. willed s a nile is "not text lirlghl or Kat for humiiii nature's dallv food 1 In- newspaper a ninn uml vvlll tell vou hi), nuilonaltly lil religion or want of It, his polities uml vou eau gauge more nnr row It his nuliirc, his lasle. hks mentillty by noting the column to which he tlrt turns'. Is II sport, llnanee, politics, baseball or the fill lured Jokularltles of the last page which stunner lu Insipidity dining the week to burst out virulently Into color and horror in the Sunday editions or eeitalp papers It In. uiiMlug what some peo'ple will nail Indeed, lor that matter even Ihc average man will nad almost any thing a timetable, adveitise nienis ot rcrtlllers or shuesttlngs. "The Xtw Kcpubllc" tu escape, that uwTul thing, communltiii wild his own thoughts The townsman once knew n man who read "The Xai'uii" for his sins mid he was a great siunei rpilll Uowiismau has often vvondricd whs mm: e J "the 10 unlvcrsully iiiidcrstood, has not been utlllrrd, as das knitting, for example in peni tentiaries ami lu many other places In which men ami wonnn arc dally punished Tho tiuivnsiiiau is not unaware that there Is much of Ibis kind of ptuniicc already In prac in e. The crime or having become an editor Is visited with heuvt penalties In this kind. Tlm reaijer or students- themes tor nnnv tears is impressed or a struns urain If i't doe nol soften In the process. And those who read fji piilihshirf. to Judge them by their works l times succumb quite hope lessl lo Hie lieldious effects of tills e.tmo luollif' ing illsr.ii-o Theie can bo no epics Hon as to Ihe ctlliacj of reading as a nunlsli menl ami u-i penance Moi cover, tho penally might be made fittingly to suit the crime Itovlcvvcis should obviously bo compelled by law actually to trad every syllable of tho books thej havo levlcvved Tlicro arc well known writers Dreiser ror example who ror the safoty or the public, might bo doomed to suth perpetual penal .rending that they may never find, by hook or crook, a moment's time In which lev perpetinto another novel And there aie nthcis. like Musters, the cpl t.iphuluglsl. to whom might be meted out Hie ghoulish atonement or a long time of forced labor over the tillsome platitudes or actual murium j inscilptluti There aie gicat possi bilities In tending as a punishment und as it Penan) p. Tho use ur a library as u. house or torreillvu Is'iinolhcr thing, perhaps some what less piactluahlv und it mu.t be con tested tliul JjjsI as Hieie aro soiiiq, writers who ate b.jyond any hope, of reclaim, So there jio itaders win must be left their bulks und Hied Hirsts ' THH I30WXSSIAN. henator Owen, of Okv 1'crlmpa lie Unie lahoma, wants, to we ,II1 in 11. tho statue of Prelet- , . , . dk the Qreut at Waili- Ington topple.1 into the Potomac. Now what can tbo Potomac, have done to Hsnator Owen? Beilin has at last discovered Jt waa a mistake to assume that America cared for nothing but munition contracts nut Cier many is Btill In the kindergarten clats- when It comes, tp knowledge of American purposes 'li-V Iitc stoppeil boollegginj: (n L.Irl. tlfiii by the elmplc process of aopplng the sale of K.a than o. nuqrt of llyuor to be taken Jfrnm the ealoonv. Hut CamXsn i .1 ..." away that our UJ-ui .,.i,T;i., ' ' rirr-V' ws.'bo' wSuaMx SjTaTM The Commuter and His Ticket W,',' !li:. tin raid out! man drops into.vthil lie would think lie would write u.tl r.tllmarl mini, but tlic rollowlng potm tj Henry ,T. Mjcrs. which appears In the RB road Glen's MagHltic indicates that It wiltts as a human being i M commutation I u I nil roll ol boles 1 1 been pnnclsJji I'oneluclors do nol icalue that ticket na; have souls. ' i3 lint I know- land the tlrk.l knows) l)Bt such Is not Hie case . There's meaning In each pun, li hole In l'J travel-punctured fau -I Toi each conductor ha. .1 mark thai u Ul v cry ow n : crescent, clrelc. .tp.idi or square H iiauuiworii IB SHOW 11 j Uaed mark relates a Mory of a trip l fist or w-cst "J A story that Hie ticket 1 oleis within fJ papd breast riiu- oblong tells al.Miji iho mp when) IW i saw my sweet . NI IbN square reminds nn nt Hi. i , me I offers) her my seat , J This diamond Is the Juuinei where I loohrt Into her eves . This arrow is tho mom ns when vve m!r --poke in sighs s's l how i This doublo star remind ror lire was planned. This circle w as recorded w hen I asl"l te toe her lirinrl The ticket's month ciplics there, httll shnlltanot be ve.ved. Eccauso Its little stoiy is continued In Hi nest And when I bring my bilde to lonn I M i . tdoj punch a heart And when I bring her hemic they outttlj punch a Cupid o dait m Then later, when I ride to woik, 19 ein her lirparl nntl mini, Tliej 11 wish me luck and rorlune If 0? inincli a dollar sign 1 And il success rewaids mj daily biHlnW tr ns to town ewiiiei. enn. ...Ot t.A .....J.J M .V tfH v by a crown 1, HI rcjliaps row years .if tern a til the IriiwMJ or tho 1 ne -d Will Ilnd a group or little in sets trjvduil with mjue. ! What Do You Know? 1' 1 QUIZ I. What la a "tompfatf frriilirr"1 S. utne lh rompoaer of the "JurlUt" n llion, - 3. Who U tlTtlrman of the Iniled 'Utujf trade Isiard I. What la u rampunilr? 3 3. Who wai. the Mihilir : 'A A. Iilcntlty M. Iula. A ',. Who said "I vould rather be ritht than fs dent"? 1 S. Where la lUmhurc' tl. Win U rominander-in-tfuX of Ji arms? 10. W litre. Is the lllse Itlter? miiil Answers lo YcBtcrtlaj,'a Qui I. Vlowow wa die antient raoltal f B'1"1 ..... A . ,1 1. nalltnt At J tard t'nhrllj. '&M 3. Ifowlleerl a eannort. shorter. llhlr s sas neatb a rlshl r J Under bi ahapa t"M son of the tame rubber. ITl ahella vtlji medium telafllr and "J lalns nn objestt ihaltered from fMJ hv IntHPavct ni riirtavl flrt. ' ihTir luviuaan i ."k ani j.v nrimps " j 4. Ivlel is a fortified teaport and ulT1 ?y Meiiletwls-llftltteln. rruisia, ' tcrmlnoa of the Kiel Canal. y:1M ik.l ..A ..tit. ti. vn.. nli-,J S. near ndplral In the nsrr earreapond lJ live rank la major senenu in ia- . Oilier Goldamllh. Irlih dramatlil, M and poet, wrote iho eodtedy of ".she Sloop to Connuer." Sf Inaaolil haiMMallaal KA In alllan at 10 Dreaiure rflatarta a Ihln-watW wl tiiflal. thus tttoiint- a pointer 0 Htralure eeala, . I'retrriistt'aii mcam InAeilhle. Vf"i anrlfnl brigand, made hi vKtlnt'e atHsrlal bed dp liadvmaee. 0. 'Starr Tlidor. (luern of Clislanilv "4 "Mletitlr Jlrjv! - hr. VN1 &'V ,r W J u v '?wr V i -iHClWtVS jfW T ' , .ar - i .Hi , i i - V V o 'i Wv o fl X ' o r
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers