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To'all forelen countries one (111 dollar per onesSubscrlberi wlnhlni: address changed ' must give 0I4 as well a new address. MXt, S000 WALNUT KEiSTONE. MAIN JM TAAtr,., all commimlcrtllonsTo Btjoil-tJ ''ut'llo JLnloer, Indtvcndtnce Sauare. rhtlaatipnu'. """tonaiu at tub riTitTDEtpuii rojix orncs as " PhU.J.lphl., Tffdnild.r. April II, Mil MAYOR SMITH GOES CKUSADING NOTHING that Mayor Smith may do In the way ot police shalte-ups and trans fer under the relentless whip of Federal official criticism will bo rdcciuato to tho end la lew or even worthy of serious at tention while- ho permits tho present Di rector of Public Safety to remain In office. The Major made this plain yesterday when ho said that he Imported detectives from other cities before he could learn the truth about his own police department. This M an extraordinary Indictment of Director "Wilson. If tho Major didn't know what a as going on the Director of Public Safety aid. If the Director didn't ho Is obviously tmflt for his office. If he did Unow and Xt withheld the Information nnd managed to Ueep the Mayor in the foreground as n foolish apologist for his department, then he has been faithful neither to the city nor to his superiors. The first real show of good faith on Mayor Smith's part camo when ho summarily transferred Lieuten ant Bennett from tho Third District, Di rector Wilson kept Bennett at the post which he had discredited In the course of the Trog Hollow episode. Mayor Smith may yet save his administration from dis grace If he makes tho uppaicnt rift be tween himself and Director Wilson wldo and permanent. Baseball has broken loose on tho front page again. RIGHT MAN AT LAST THE appointment of Charles M. Schwab as general manager of the Emergency Fleet Corpoiatlon, with completo super vision and direction of shipbuilding, is the most heartening thing that has been done In Washington for months. Mr. Schwab la tho right man for the placo. He has constructs o imagination and. grasp. Ho has demonstrated his ability to build up n great steel corpora tion equal to tho biggest enterprises.- Ho Is convinced of the necessity ot winning the war and he i3 confident of the power o American Industry to turn out the ships needed for tho purpose. Thfs combination of confldei.ee, ability and, moral purpose will give drlving force to all his efforts. Delays and bungling arc now to cease and we shall soon see re sults. An Atlantic City theatre owner Is charged with stealing hot air from a neigh boring hotel Was he too poor to hire a press agent? "ECRETARY BAKER'S' RETURN FWAS a fortunate coincidence that took Secretary Baker to tho European bat tlefields In the stormiest and most critical days of the wholo vvorM conflict. The Sec retary of War is a clever man. If eer he had any doubts about tho dimensions of the struggle, of Its ferocity, of the neces sity for determination an . aggressiveness even greater than that of Germany, he doubtless outlived them In the atmosphere of endless fighting and in Immediate con tacts with travailing millions. Ho was tho mind of the President projected to Kurope. And the short summary of his view given when he passed through this city jester day Indicates that he, liko tho President, has completed the process of disillusion ment and realizes a last that we are at war with a foe who Is without reason, without compunctions of any sort, without a mind that may bo Influenced by any of tho ordinal y considerations of civilization. "The American army and navy nnd American resources," said Mr. Baker, "will swing tho war." There is no immediate danger of a decisive victory for Germany, ho said, and no doubts whatever of Allied victory. This, properly interpreted, means that tho war Is to go on, that many thou sands of Americans will yet go abroad and that wo shall yet participate exten sively In the fighting. The Important thing to observe in this Instance Is that Mj. Baker, like Mr. Wilson, has outlived the old humanistic tendencies that formerly confused his policy and resulted In more than ontv serious delaj'. He sees nothing now but a war of cumulative force to the bitter end. And so it must be. Perhaps air. Baker knows better now bow to cook theTIun'a goose. , REAL HOME RULE ISSUE WHEN the late Cecil Rhodes subscribed 5000 to the Irish homo rule cause it H In the hope that the British empire teht become an Imperial federation of lae-H-governlng states, somewhat on tho gwedel of America. There Is constantly propping up In the discussion, of the new Jrtea home rule bill the expression of tho hope that nothing may be put In It which wW prevent the establishment of a federal government for the United Kingdom. Tlfj seed haa been germinating slowly, tiut surely The war is forcing it rapidly, Tin solution of the Irish question by. the irjUblUh,ment of a parliament In Dublin Till bring the harvest nearer The dispute bther conscription shall be applied in Wnd before or after the new Irish par- t Is set up la of less consequence Mttlnsr up of the Irish legislature. detail, overahad. -., K . ,, h SPEED, AND THEN MORE SPEED! As the Germans hao been proved hope Iftisly wrong in their estimates of tho y luvnia, uiDiicn hiiu ucieriumiiiiuii ui wiu American people, so they will ho protcd wrong In their estimate as to tho speed with which the Americans will bo able to carry out their purpose and program. Foreign Secrctary'llalfour to tho Amer ican labor delegation TMIIS speech was made while the Ger- mans were hammering the Riitish lino in Picardy and while new soldiers were being sent across tho channel with tho greatest possible speed to rc-enforce tho nrmies nt the front. Mr. Balfour was talking not, nlonc to tho labor delegates from this country. Ho was talking directly to every Ameri can. The Germans are wrong in their esti jnate of the speed with which we can prepare for war. It is up to us to show how fnr wrong. On that depends tho issue of tho war. The attempt is now making to force n decision before we can bring our full strength to bear. Ihitish nnd French soldiers nro being disabled by the tens of thousnnds. Tho men to take their plnces must ultimately come from this side of the ocean. Evciy week of t'clay means the disabling of more British and French fighters und demands that lany more Americans to fill the ranks of the Allied armies. The moral of this speech is that there must be haste in preparation, and then :gain haste, and still more haste. It is useless now to talk about what might have been if wc had begun to prepare when the Lusitania was sunk. We have begun now. Tho foundations have been laid, and u. the months go by we fehnll see the structuic of our military organi zation rise in increasing height till we can do effective work, It is not a time fo'r complacency, how- 1 . ,. 1.11 1 citr, uui 11 nine lor reaouoica applica tion to the task in hand. The thing can be done. The Gciman nnd Austrian propagandists have been saying that we were indifferent or incapable and that we would never spend the lives of our young men in n European quarrel. Some Americans have assisted them in their devilish work. But the nation knows now that this is not n, European dispute. It knows that the issue is whether the world is to be ruled by brute force directed towaid selfish ends or is to be ruled by 'the ideals of justice and equity under which free peoples may live in peace and content. It is a world issue. We cannot escape it if we would. The cry coming across the ocean is more than an nppeal for help. It is n demand for moie rapid co-operation in the work of saving tho world for democ racy. The burden is upon us. It increases in weight with every assault of the Ger mans upon the Allied tienches. But how ever heavy It may become, it muSV be borne till a merciful Providence takes it from our shoulders when the task is ac complished. It will not be soon and we must pray God that He will give stiength to the Allies to hold out till we can biing our full force to bear. He will answer the prayer, for righteousness hab the Eternal Power behind it. An official census reports that there are 1T7J swlvel-clialr officers of draft ngi In Washington who bave received oinni'sdons Klnco the. outbreak of the wai A .ivvnlt the enumeration of wcatliervanes In i'oii gress. SOMETHING WRONG AT PENN IS Tlin editor of tho I'ennsjlvanla Ga zette, the esteemed Unlversltj' of Penn sjlvanla weekly, growing old? Or has ho merely acquired a high haf By one or another of the two atlllctlons that come In e Itnbly w 1th passing j ears ho has become burdened with a senso of dignity that touches heallj- upon his soul. In meas ured terms the Gazctto pltads that alumni o cry where speak of the University as Pennsylvania not as Pcnn. Something strange Is happening In tho college world. Such an appeal smacks of a flat ignorance of tho humanities. Just so soon as a man learns to love anything he llnds or Invents a diminutive term for Its designation. Colgate University used to be "The Hamilton Literary and Theo logical Institution." To.shlne in song and legend and in the memories of men it had to become Colgate. Princeton used to be bo Tho College of Xevv Jersey. You could not sing about tho College of New Jersey. But "Princeton," sounds well with music. In conferences of scholars nnd in tho minds of grinds Pennsylvania will doubtlesu be. Pennsylvania. But speak in a fai place of Old Penn and jou can.stait men to to memberlng. to singing, and theso two words will bo enough to send the thoughts of thousands backward acres tho seas or leaping tho hills to home. The President Is to bo elected to member ship In the Academy of Moral and Political Science In tho Institute of France in recogni tion of his distinguished services. Tho Kaiser has not jet been nominated. FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY AT HOME Turn. jmYAN'S theory that an army of a ' million men could be Improvised over night to resist an invader has been ex ploded by tho hard facts. But there are men who think tha an army of voters to rescue tho city and tho State from the plunderers und self-seekers can be organized at a moment's notice. They are no moie mistaken than was Mr. Brj-an. Victory for democracy at home needs the same kind of preparation nnd discipline required to secure victory for woild democracj-. v The preliminary work inust bo done to day when the places are open fpr the reg istration of voters for the nominating pri maries of May 21. Nearly 110,000 voters aro disqualified from taking part In the nomination of candidates because, they ore unregistered. In six wards of West Phila delphiaall normally Independent In sym pathj there are nearly 36,000 men so in different to the demands of citizenship that they 'have not taken tho trouble to get their names on tho registry lists. They are men whom the machine politicians are anxious to keep away from the primaries. The machine voter always goes to the polls. He Is active and alert. It Is the indiffer ence of the rest that gives him his power and enables the machines to Intrench themselves. This has been said so often that It has lost its force. Nothing short of a bomb of moral dynamite can,Imp;ess Its truth ' EVENING HJBLIC lEDGEfr-PHi;LADEI.PHIA, WEDNESbAY, APRIL IT, upon t .e electorate with sufficient force to produco action. If the world war has not nwakened these citizens to a realiza tion of their moral obligations by opening their ejes to theVonscquonc.cn of lndlffcr enco to n growing menace, then nothing can do It. We do not bellcVc, however, that they aro not awakened Thoso who did not voto Inst fall nro going to the places of registration today between tho houra of 4 and 10 p. in. nnd have their names en rolled, and they uro then going to the primaries a month from today to voto for decent men as candidates for olllco If they can find such on the tickets, and If they cannot find them they nro going to nomi nate them- by petition afterward. This means jou, Mr. Worthy Citizen. "Death to Kples1" rrles the Board of Trail"1, but It will hao to say It several times more before the Department of Justlco really thinks that spies should be shot. JAPAN IS PLAYING FAIR T.V St'lTi: of German efforts to detach - her, all tho evidence points to tho con rluslon that Japan Is plnjlng fulr wltlrtho I'ntente Allies. Viscount Ishll, who has Just arrived In this country dliect from Toklo. announces that if Japan should think It necessary to mnko a military ev pedltlon Into Slbcila it would be In oppo sition to German plans. This corresponds to tho statements that h.io come from responsible officers of the Japanese Government while Ishll was on tho seas. Yet the talk of an alliance be tween Jnpan and Germany will not cvac. Tho Gorman propagandists will keep It up both because they liopo for It 'and be cause they think that by talking about it they can ciuato distrust of Jnpan nnd pro duce complications which may help their plotting. Chairman (inffnev. of the Councils' I 'ZL":0' "'.'" V!?l? "r.. I ....n. ,,--, ,,,, lillllrlAV III IIHJ l.l 1. in- urn wn iiesnmc" is lie orraM of a vote of lack of ronflih'ncp'' Old Hill" Snl?or lias been Indicted again, and Taranum made the charges this time alo THE ELECTRIC CHAIR "JJIZ WUXT to school with Chailey Her- ' 7og, tho famous baseball stormy petrel. Clmrlej (we used to call b,Im "Buck") has forgotten that, but wo hmcn'tj nor how he used to play hulfbacl; on tho school football team. Lots of other boys went to that school, and became lavvjers and Insurance agents and nuthois and soldleis and doctors of philosophy but all the nlumnl put together, plus the Janitor and the headmaster, noei get into print as often ns Clins. docs In one season And all the faculty ot tho school put together don't got as much salary as Ciias. does for. enjojlng himself on the smooth shaven dlamoAd. Wc have nlvvajs wondered why wo didn't go in for baseball or evangelism, or some thing profitable. Dove Dulcet saj-s ono of Maj-or Smith's sleuths called on lilm to discuss the tender- Join district of Obesity, X. J. Dove was at u loss to know whj lie should be so honored until ho learned that he had been mentioned in the paper as Ico electrician of this departmtnt. This had aroused the suspicions of tho Major. Henceforth communications to Sir. Dul cet must bo addressed to the assistant elec trician. Getting By the Censor Secretary Baker arrived at an Atlantic port, proceeded south by an American rail load, was Interviewed by an (ahem) Phila delphia afternoon paper and Is now In n district of Columbia capital. TITOt'I.D any man hesitate to lend "' monej to his best fiiend? Uncle Sam Is the best filcnd you havo and he needs tho monej You know how that money Is to be used niicl'jou know It will como back to jou with generous interest. LIBUUTY BOXDS ore the best Invest i meat jou ever had a chance to buy. They pay Interest In monej-. In' life, self-respect and human happiness. Contributed by (he I.leitrln (hair "Bum" Turk indBiitrate dirferentlatea tho of fenIveni.H of the orii "bum ' used ae verb. ad. 1ei:tlM nnd noun News Item YWMZX jour friend fills his pipe ' ' With some mlxturo supeib. And jou bum soinu tobacco That's bum as a Nerb. Ho won't match jou for lunch Tor ho fears tho cxptnso; Then you call him hum sport In tho ndjectlvo senso. At the verb or tho ndjectlvo Xo one will frown; But ncvet, I pray j on. Uee bum as a noun. DUXItAVHX BLEAK. Advice to Those Visiting a Baby TNTEUVinw the baby alone If possible. If, however, both parents are present, saj "It looks like its mother." Add, ns an afterthought, "I think it has its father's elbows." If uncertain as to thq infant'u sex, try some such formula as, "He looks Uko her grandpaients," or "Sho has his aunt's sw eot disposition." When tho mother only Is present, j-our situation Is critical. Sigh deeply and ad-mlringlj-, to imply that jou wish you had n child like that. Don't commit yourself at all until she gives a lead. When' the father only Is present, jou may be a little reckless. Glvo the father a cigar and venture, "Good luck, old man; It looks like jour mother-in-law." If possible, find out beforehand how old tho child Is. Call up tho Bureau of Vital Htatistlcs. If It is two months old, say to the mother, "Bather large for sl. month?. Isn't he?" If the worst has happened and tho child leally does look like its father, the most tactful thing Is to say, "Children change ns they grow .older," Or you may suggest that some mistake has been made at the hospital and they have brought homo the wrong baby. . If left alone In the room with the baby, throw a. soundproof rug over It and escape. SOCRATE3, THe Gownsman MQJCHOOLMEX'S WEEK" was In session O nt the University during the tedious ana protracted April storm of u fcr dajs ago. Thero Is no connection between tho storm and tho schoolmen, such ns Is popu larly supposed to exist between the Yearly Meeting of the friends and the habitual In clemency of the weather at that time; tedious and protracted weather only happened to como then. "Schoolmen's Week" Is a wel come Innovation of latter jears In the tedium of the teachers' life of this Stato and vlclnltj-. The conclave Is n species of educational fair to which those possessed of educational wares that Is, Ideas on specific points In the trndo of teacher resort to barter and ex change thb same for other Ideas likely to prove helpful In the business. This Is per haps to present tho matter too commercial'. The Govvmman has only n hearty upprovnl for every means by which n current of fresh Ideas on nny subject may be set blowing any where, a current or draft, If the reader will, by means of which to ventilate- the over breathed air of tho schoolroom, the labora torj oven the courtroom or tho church. TIIEHE was at one time prevalent a gen eral notion that teachers are llko poets- born, not made Either a man or woman could tench or he could not, and tlaro was an end of tho matter Xo, unfortunately there was not the end Teaching Is at a great dis advantage as compared with aeronautics. In training a man for the air he tlther files or be docs not 11) When jou havo once dropped him he Is not likely to II again. Tho teacher who cannot teach habltu.illj goes on teach Uig, nn 1 In this patadox lies more than linjf of our pedagogical troubles In the older tlmo persons learned how to teach so far as thej did learn as boys learn how to Bvvlm by swimming Very few bojs drown In tho process and jou cannot learn to swim bj paddling In ttif shallow water of practice schools, much less b shivering on tho bank with a treatise nn natation in Jour blue lingers. However, the Gownsman anticipates. Wo havo latelj- made n great -illscoverj": teachers are not like poets, born, not made; teachers are merely the product of a highly specialized training: teachers uro made, not born. Av N OMINOUS iIi'M IfiniTiciii of our own time is the upgrowth of tho parasitic 'silences" And a parasitic subject Is one wlilfu has no material perullsrlj and prop-trlj- Its own, a thing which lives on some thing else nnd, like a confirmed bankrupt, can onl- keep up bv hot rowing or worse Tho tlefhents of which a substance Is made, tho way In which one thing acts and reacts upon another, the nature and relations of numbers, knowledge about these things we call phjsles, iheniltrv and mathematics And history has to do with tho political affalis of men as language lias to do wltji tho Instrument by which men loinmunlc.itn to each other their thoughts Not to be lost In the gown, much less to widen Into contro-versj-, Dean Swift owe ontrasted the lltera tuio of the ancients with that of modern times uiidei the figure of the spider and tlm bee The spider spins his ilalnty and ptrfei t fabilcs out of his own vitals, the bee buzzes about rilling eveij likely (lower of Its sweet'. icturnlng heavllj laden with inaterl.il, both lionej nnd wax. none of Its ow.n Actual science is eager to barn bv deeper studj nioio fullv its own material, the parasitic subjects, whatever they are, beg, borrow nnd pillage from any gay source, fijlng wlilthei thej will, hiving and living on n wealth which thej cannot produce themselves Howcvei, "we must confess that they ore busy; but even among them theie be drones THE Gownsman iloes not wish to be hyper critical, but he is possessed of convlc tlon. And one of them Is that tho "-clence" of "how to ilo It in tho classroom" Is of tho parasitic ouler because there Is no part of it whli h Is in anv wise important which Is not a derivative of the material of hlstorj-. blog. raphj-, psjihologj, philosophy or somo other luwnili of speculation Moreover, "how to do It' can never be In anj true sense n science; it Is scarcely so much nn art ns a collection of precepts, anil one cannot but ask the per tinent question If a masterv of tnnvv ledge ns to "how to do It In the classroom Is really so Important so much more Imperative, we are even told at times, than "a mere knowl edge of the subject" whv are master peda gogues not more commonlj actually master teachers? A SMALLISH bov once lnutcd himelf to a Placo In n lawjcr's office. "I have noth ing for jou to do, my boj-." "Hut may I sit hero by the door and open tho envelopes If MlssVjplst is too busy? And jou pay rno only fo'r what jou need to have me do'' "Veiy well." And that boy, being a clever bov nnd n serviceable, became before long Indispensable When he did not find work ho invented work,' he anticipated work, he Intioduced nn 'indispensable" sjstem which could be run only by his own "indispensable" self because ho was the only one who really understood about It He had never touched a tj pew tiling machine beforo he went Into tho office, but he was soon Instructing Miss Tjplst In the proper wav In which to write He sjstem itlzsM tjie law library so that nohodj could find anj book In It except him self Tho files of law papers, briefs and the like were m.irvclouslj arranged on a sjs tem of his own, which, not Uelng possessed of his particular cast of inlnd, nobody but himself really understood though bo was alwnjs explaining It At last he began the Intioiluctlon of bis art of "how to do it" Into the legal business of the office. Ho had grown by this time larger, more aggressive Ho knew no law and did not want to know nns, but ho knew how nny legal case could be inducted In a better manner than th.it In vogue a matter of no veij profound knowl edge In short, he was an expert in "how to do It." The Gownsman does not know what became of that boj. but he rather thinks that he must be a professor of pedagogj some wheie. THEIii: will come a time doubtless when tho young among thoso who are to teach will take a 20 per cent exemption from the amount of their study, learning 80 per cent ns much In the gross total as heretofore, being four times as well or ill educated as they aro now Instead of five times. In order that they may spend this 20 per cent of their time learning "how to do it " And corre spondingly the Gownsman does not doubt that the excellent army practlco of putting the old fellows through their paces will bo extended to those hapless old schoolmasters who had the misfortune to be born In tho dark ages wherein no ono could learn nny thlng becau,so nobodj know anything about the behavior of children (psychologically "observed"), when there could have been no "educational products," because nobody had Invented the means of measuring them, and when the dead languages were the only things approaching 'the supervisory corps" or corpse, the Gownsman, In his Ignorance knows not which Why should we allow theso relics of unenlightened times to cum bor our schoolrooms with the continuation of a success in teaching which must have'eome only bj accident? The science of "how to do It" knows no accidents, It deals In "certain ties based upon obscrvei facts" It knows that there Is nothing whleh is Immeasurable from the brain power of a chimpanzee to the precise degree and color of gtnlus necessary to' produco an abiding work of art, There Is nothing Immeasurable except the possibilities of ' how to do It." . " Tho dispatches say Mrlnelni lllm? that Emperor Charles, of Austria, harf again wired tho Kaiser. "Wired? The soldier who writes home that the Germans dre outclassed by The Americans Is telling jiothlng new. The Germans have never won a battle fn which they did not out number their enemy. . Every map' can be his own Jim Corbett and punch the Germans by subscribing for a Liberty Bond. t.. With , standard brands of smoking to bacco commandeered for the soldiers the horrors" of war are beglunlng to com horns to every owner of a T. D,. Mr. Gerard's Goods Court-Martiakd By Our Special Correspondent Mr Clerdnl household clferls sl.ireil In a wftrehouso in llprllli rmve been eizel bj the German Government Ntwa illspatcli AGEHMAX CAPITAL, Apill" 17 -Proceedings were today by rourt-maitlal upon tho household goods of the late am bassudor of the Vcrelnlgten Stautcn, J nines W. Gerard, instituted. Your correspondent, bj disguising himself as a trainer of mili tary dnchshundsXnn'd keeping nil his veibs well to tho icar. admission was able to se cure and the censor to foil Gieat indignation has been lit this city apparent for somo months at the fact that the exceedingly .sumptuous domestic ef fects of Botsehnfter Gerard In a warehouse still stored were, nnd tho rumor was that many noui lulling foodstuffs were' In tho collection Included. The Court Chamberlain presided, and said It was the pcisonal will of n vCrj- high peisonagc indeed that Sir. Gerald's goods be to n strict accountability held for tho misdeeds of their master. mifE lit st item to lie called to the bar 1 was half a pound of white sugar. Amid universal silence nnd awe this for the use of the Imperial household sequestiated was. Three housewives In tho rear of the court with emotion fainted. Much excitement was caused by tho ex amination of Mr. Gerard's art collection, Including some excellent oil paintings bv Uontalno Io, Clate Biiggs and other old masters. The 'leprcsentatlve of the cut ttistnlnisterlum, who present was, pleaded that these valuable objects be temoved to the national art gallerj", but the com t ruled salut popull xit)rama lex. Tho Chamber lain insisted thnt tho canvases, containing rich and fatty oils, should be to the Pood Minister turned over, for reduction into soup. Somo of the best families of this city havo applied fqr permission to include the paintings of the Botsehnfter Jn their to n.ortovv's menu. A number of double barreled fowling pieces were found. The Wnr Minis'er his delight expressed, and said that with these re-enforcements thero would ho no doubt ns to success on the western front. "These no treacherous weapons," he exclaimed, "which have cost the lives of (deleted by censor) German pheasants and ducks, will now be turned against tho perfl Ileus breasts of their owner's countrymen" AXUMBEIt of articles exhibited were "which the catalogue listed ns "antique vases," but It to jour correspondent evi dent vvas that these nickel-plated cuspidors were. Tho Minister of Turnlng-Evcrythlng. to-Valuable-Mllltary-Uso demanded these for helmets, and they wero so requisitioned. A sharp discussion took place between the Chamberlain and tho Minlster-tor-De-vlslng-Vlctuals-from-What-Was-rormerly-Consldered-Uneatablc. The subject of the argument was a very highly enameled por trait of the imperial dachshunds, formerly to the. Botschafter by a very high person age given. Tho Mlnlster-for-DcvIslng-Vic-tuals claimed that this portrait had a ric.li value In calories, nd that it could Intq quite useful synthetic sausages be turned, which, even if not eatable, might be, dis played In shop windows to revlvo trio spirits of tho populace. The Chamberlain insisted, however, thai such a portrait could best servo the Interests of the empire if sent to the front to terrify the enemy. A LEGAjL pofnt of much subtlety arose. -The question at Issufy was, these house hold effects, of what crime ore they gulty' Are they, by the same stigma, attaching to A 1918 "G'BY!!" J.o ' their Into owner attainted" Or are they of leo inajcste guiltj'.' Oi aie they simply to bo confiscated'.' The Mlnlster-for-Kceping-Up-tlic Spirlts-ot-thc-Gennaii-Kolk-oj-All-Means-l''air-or-lAml wjT called upon to lay down the law on this point. He said, In part: These articles, belonging to the late ambassador fiom that countij which shall bo nume less, arc guiltj of conspiracy- against the German empire. Thev of pseudo kultur convicted have been, and of attempting to lutioduce Into this nation fulse standards ot art. It Is treasonable against the instinc tive beauty-sense of the German people to permit china, bed lljien, crockeiy and ob jects of m t to remain unadnilred in the fastness of a w alehouse. Mugs to be drunk out of made are, sheets likewise to be slept on mo f.iln icnteil. Mm cover, ho filed, It Is to tho best Interests ot Mi. Gerard him self that tl.ese so choice aitlc'es bo kept in ii-e. thnt they i list not neither mildew In the lecesse.s of a liotise-for-thc safc-kcep-Ing-of-valuableai tides. Mrs. Gei.ud would far rather, said lie, that her linens and damasks vveic being used by some fair and comelj hnusfrau than that they should the Incursions of moth and worm enduie. This argument indignantly quashed was, us being lacking in truo Germanic frank ness nnd decisiveness. The Chamberlain pronounced tho verdict: "Tho goods nto to bo confiscated as dangerous enemies of the empire. Thej me subject to tho same criticism that against Mr. (lei aid leveled Is, that they unsci upulously continue to exist after having Inclined tho dlsplcasuie of the Great General Stalf." milE censor very loth was to let through the following Item, which, however, I ultlmatelj lim to o K. persuaded. Tho valet or a very high pcrsonngo tit tho couit-maitlal present was, -md put In a requisition for tho Botschafttr's trouser pressor. It is iiimorcd in exceedingly lofty citcles that thoso in authority were alvvajs Jealous of Hie ci eases in tho ambassadorial garments, and that un improvement In this matter is now to bo looked for In a pair of very exalted limbs. It Is also said that tho Empress, now that the supply of Paila hats so exhausted Is, will be seen wearing n creation of tho Botschaftcrin, but your correspondent is not nuthentic on that point. If there Is anj thing olll riiangr In Philadelphia that Mreet Contractor,! ! needs cleaning up and If changes will effect a clean-up," saj-s Senator Varo ot the Mayoi's vice crusade, "then I am In favor of them." The Liberty Gifts "Tired of giving," friend, jou say? Tired of giving what? Tho gold jou'vo gathered along j-our way, The worldly goods jou'vo got? Well, I am tired of giving, too, But my gifts wefo not of gold; I gavo of my flesh and blood, but ou Gave what Is lifeless and cold, p I've given my heart, my home, my all; I'vo given three cherished sons'. In answer to weet Freedom's call They died to halt tho Huns. "Tired of giving," friend, you bay? Tired of giving what? your price Is a little one td-poy, Your U, a happy Jot. . , . .. JACK SHENNAN, i,l,l - - -. --- - ".m. ' v"ff . THE READER'S VIEWPOINT Injustice in the Draft 1 o the Vtlltir of the Vvcning Public I.eigtr Sir A few weeks ngo I lead jour editorial entitled "A Draft Safe for Democracj " You stated that a lennsjlvanlan between theastj of twenty-one and thlttj-onc J ears ai (0 per cent more Ilablo to be called In the list draft than an Alabaman or a Florldan, and jou further stated that I'ennsjlvanla and Xew- Jet ey supplied one-third more than a proper quota of selected men on a genuine democratic balH of selection in th Jjr drawing" You added, 'That these are more than Inequalities; thej arc injustices" I agree with jou It is not I'ennsjlvanla alone which can complain of such Injustices VJluU about Porto Itlca" I'm to Ulco, with 1118.012 In habitants, must give a quota of U'.MJ sol diers, while the Stato of Nebraska, with population bt 1.192.2H. gives onl 8185; Xew York, with 9.11.1,014 Inhabitants, has a quell of 89,241, and Viiglnl.i, with L'.Ool C12 Inhabi tants, contributes 13.79., oi 9CJ more men than Porto ltlcn If the Stato of New Yoik were to supplf soldleis at the same mte ns I'oito Uico that Is. 12,000 for cverv 1 noo.onj Iti shin would be more than 100,000 and still It Is only a little more than one-half that number The world cannot bo made safe for demos i.icy until demociacj- Itself performs the work, and democracj, pure democracy, " last el upon Justice and equalltv EUGENE VEKA. Albrtiij-, X Y., April 10 Would Rouse the Churches To the Editor of the Kvenlnp l'ublic Letlgtr: Sir In theso ci Itlca times, when our verr civilization Is nt stake, when we are dlttlnl J up every root which might possiblj prove! , tonic to our patriotism how Is it that our churches are not more 11111113111" t. Let our ministers deign to become adver tisers for the nonce and keep probing their J flock to tho constant sacrifices absolutely necessary for their countrj's sake Now l"-' the nccentcd time Xarmvv contentions over stf doctrinnl nolntH must io kbr.lv pd After the w ar they, will probably not stand out In their former Importance. Churches nro not usually penniless VM can they not Invest, as n corporate body. In Liberty Bonds' Invito occasionally eoiiio good orator1 jucieriiniy not irom any theological conrc. j Tho pow er of suggestion furnished by such a topic as freedom from tho grasp of the. great! oppressors could not fall to leave n'deep lit press on the conerecitlnn Add the enw tlonal effect of patriotic music the "JUr-elki laise," the "Bed, White and Blue" Above" alt lit our "Star Spangled Banner" echo to tin root irom every voice A jwvjjua.i. Philadelphia, prll 1C. What Do You Know? OUIZ 1. Vtldili U the Holy tlty unci widen the Etfrail; ciiij 3. Name the author of "The Meld: That I'alle. 3. Identify "thn ljimlitnir I'lillnsoilher." 4. Mliero nnd what wj the Jluson and VUfi i.iner S. Mliut lit tlm Multhuklan doctrine? a. Mini t la meant liy "the Land of Kod"! 7. Where In Vnrr? K It l.n ..n.. !.... M.I.. 0. Vthat nre tlm ".upvorter." of the PrlUrtJ ro)nl aim? .1 10. H No Is the American Ambanador to the Cowll ott. Jameif ' 1 Answrrs in Yesterdnv's Quiz 1. The Romanoffs were- the rrlrnlni home- lT ..unnii iiiiiii .lie mviuiiiHM .s 3. IUrwIrh. n forlltlrd port on Ibe rail'M, rjJJJI of Kiuliind. now clo-eH to commercial "-j ..low ..nit huiI n . Ml.l hit... ft ttinV r ri.... in .i....!..! .mtlinliiKr s rl.uSl whlrh made lt wearer tnii-lblx. Mr !"!(l if lis nower tlj.e-t innrdfml the- IM 1 l.jdlu und eeUrfl the throne. mfKk i, Jonathan Hnlft. Irl-ti author, wroto "Gaiu-Vj 3. Ilalllmare I somctlmea called "the ""'"MM 0. Crown l'rlnce Kuimrrrlit. commander i . ,(i . man force, an the wetrrn front, l 'r J the throne ot llnvurla. . J 7. Bordeaux mliture, u fuHIfiu "r "iiliul-M tree und plant., comnoaed of blo i" nine ami water. r 8. Neolol.nil a nenlr rolnrd word or ne "" -j Ins for n familiar word, .A 0. Martin Tapper l the author of th"J;, if "A babnn I he lioute I a -flUPrl" pleanurc," 10. Montr of ri slloxlnr a ufrndre4 " to keep but arm. nail tuuiUrn, !! , ' '"?, A Vf u. T ir - 1 1 C f A i t aUi" " X -.. 0' if
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