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'nun In Fraii.T, tell him vviiat no
At tp know. Tell lilni tlmt the third
rty Loan was well oversubscribed, ami
F the Tuckahoc, a fiSOO-tou t.lcol ship,
launched In Cainden twenty-teven
after her keel nui lal.l down. And
.that sho will lie ready for sea service
8rty-two days fiom tin- keel laving.
,that other shlpjards all over the roun.
1re straining to beat the record of thu
kahoe.
f?Mr. Hurley did net! In cable the good
i'of the Tuckahoe'H l.tunchliiB to 1'cr-
t, asking him to pass the word along
trenches. Thero Is no duty more
Sing than, every day and In every
f, to sustain and hearten mir men over
i by proof that this country is behind
' to tho limit. Kacli day In the week
opportunities. Write to them, "-end
n tobacco, subscribe generously to tho
fair Chest (a common fund for nil war
at organization), and never In .our
show any other note than that of
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tlfThere Is every reason for proud cou'l-
Tell jour bojs In Prance how the
skies are red at night with the leap.
t( flames of unrostlhg factories and en-
erlnff plants. Tell ihem that on tho
morning (Sunday, by tho way) that
Tuckahoo was launched, flip mine.
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eper viugeon tooK the water at dies-
' and was moving under her own steam
sin two hours. Tho Delaware 1'lvcr is
fcjtha Job, Sundays and all '.ijs.
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KJ. Th fellows who built the TucKalioe rer-
ay tucu a holt In craud stle. Here g
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UNG OVER THE TRANSOM INTO
fe-S" GERMANY
l OJE who wishes to understand what
la Bolnff on In Germany can afford to
the series of dispatches nnd letters
l B. F. Kospoth, the special correspond-
Ijof this newspaper in Switzerland.
ir Kospoth In In clobo touch with Cer-
a public opinion and with Herman
ents. Ills latest letter, dlscusslncr the
hods of the press censors, Indicates that
i system of colciiln-; news which AiiiImh-
or Gerard leported was deliberately
itfctlced by the Government while ho was
fr)'Berlln has been CNtcndcd S41 far as to
ia it impossioie lor me uennan peopio
kj learn what Is happening. Tho peopio
. nub unuweu iu jviiuw in iuu iiiniLury
dtlfis or of the mllltury methods.
p,lt,l.ls evident from Mr. Kospoth's dlc!os-
latnat we must assumo tnnt tnc ccr-
, press comment on the war. cabled to
1,'country from Amst'cidam and Berne,
IBot the unfettered opinion of the editors,
Ut merely the propaganda of tho Govern-
at If we read the comment with this
tin mind we shall be able to Intcrpict
i It should be understood.
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n'A German king for Finland? Of course.
he Is crowned wo may' expect to hear
latlons for a German czar of Russia.
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fcflS SPIES AND THE CYCLOPS
CRETARY DANIULS, speaklng.ln this
i'.Ulty recently, said that tho country
liAve to enlarge Its Jails for spies and
nlats.
A'tho same hour dispatches received
i the news wires Indicated u conviction
Washington that tho naval collier Cj-
U lost recently vvitn uii ncr company.
':unk by bombs placed In the tdilp's
fain't the place for men who engineer
ef that eort. If a man deliberately
another on land he Is hanged.
U no rule of reason by which It Is
'v to exonerato those who murder
company at sea, In the dark, with.
Inn and beyond reach of help.
stigma of tho old liyperhuman-
!eems to persist In Washington.
war. And the only way to tight the
k with Are.
?ir
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, does not seem to be a foreign coun
l oversubscribed her Liberty Lo.nn
H.000.000 by C.SOO.OOO.
THE IMPERIAL CLOWN
what emotions, one wonders, did
i JKalser stand on hla "advanced po-
19, 'watch the movements of the
. wtaaaed In that world-shattering
k'sround Keramel Hill? A German
nt reports that the Emperor
r the details of the battle both
lit and telegraphically," marking
on his map.
pawn, who cares what he
(dm his property map? Powerless
: at to restrain, the mere Simula.
r man, he live on from day to
through the mummery of
I' ro-i'.ln, the Jest' and scorn
rid. If that sorry heart .could
what a, medley of miserable
i emotions' would be disclosed!
stes the thoughts of that man
IM aevlls, orchestra of the
thousands of brave men
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rt owithim nt arotesque
KKVfflTOC iLUtfD bftLOltfACY
We are through with llusslal Uoyd
George, after tho nolshevlk revolution.
Germany, once cMabllnhed In Itui-ola. can
fight the whole world forever! Iord Itohert
Cecil, Under Kecretnry of State for Foreign
Affairs, on Saturday.
"IORLORN Russia, friendless fn tho
r dark, still manages to servo the world
mightily as a mirror in which civilization
may road tho sum of Its major errors.
Toryism lashed the Russians to revolu
tion. It was not BtirprisinR, therefore,
that Toryism elsewhere in tho world
should call down the loudest curses on tho
revolutionists. It is tho way of human
ity to hate nnd suspect thoao whom it
has hurt most cruelly. Even Lloyd
George hud days whe.i ho conceived Rus
sia to he Ktrcnsky or Leon Trotilsy nnd
little else. Thero ate other statesmen
who still believe that Russia i.s Lenino
nnd the Rolshcviki.
Allied diplomacy is only now revising
its opinions nnd its attitudes to the con
sciousness that Russia nctually is about
180,000,000 people, a great hope, a flam
ing spirit, high faith, limitless icsourccs
nnd almost limitless territory, a poten
tiality for good or evil that transcends
all possible estimates. Certainly Pres
ident Wilson has had most to do in
bringing about n now viewpoint among
tho Allies in the intervnl between Lloyd
George's brusque dismissal of the Rus
sian tragedy and Lord Cecil's somber
hint, of the possible consequences of that
majestic ciror. Fate and circumstances
have helped. Yet nil this suggests
merely the surface meanings of Russia.
Russia i.s like a cry, in these uncertain
days, to every intelligence that is not
diverted by the tragedy of war from the
ultimnte pin poses of war. The sins and
cirois of tho Allied diplomatists in Rus
sia were, after all, but minor reactions
of the larger aberrations of that pait
" society which uuu-y has diplomatists
as representatives and spokesmen. Tor.
in the larger sense, Russia i.s everywhere.
Russia is the poor of the world, the
misguided, the uninformed, the ignorant.
It wonders and listens nnd suffers in
every land. Its shining faith goes out
momentarily to any bawling idiot on u
soap box since it has waited long and
has never ceased hoping for the one
who shall lead it out of the wilderness.
It is tho ingenuous heart of this larger
Russia that i.s thrilled by any dema
gogue who happens along. It is every
whcio trying to understand and trying
to make itself understood. Its gentle
faces are in every crowd. It bides in
the little streets, cnduiing much in si
lence, tending its children with difficulty,
making no sound.
And in this Russia something as sin
ister as the spiiit of Germany has al
leady established and fortified itself "to
fight the woild." It is ignorance and
suspicion nnd distrust of the social order.
Those who are to blame are those who
long ngo thought they "were through
with Russia." Is it strange that any
cheap agitator can get a bearing and n
following, or that even thoughtful men
will defend the fanaticism of organiza
tions like tho Industrial Workers of tho
World because of tho spark of justice
that is behind their complaints?
There are faiths and philosophies
which hold that nothing is lost in the
universe and that even human suffering
tends by some mystic process to enrich
life and tho world for future days. The
assumption is founded, of course, upon
the successive miracles that began at
Calvary. It' might bo believed, therefore,
that the heart of Russia today is the
anvil upon which a new and better social
idealism is being hammered out.
It is trite to say that the problems that
will follow after the var will be as try
ing as those of the war itself. To sup
pose that the world of humanity, which
has endured so much, may still be left to
trail with straining eyes in the heels of
demagogues is to encourage an intolerable
assumption. It is only possihle to wait
unci hope that tho directing intelligence
of the future will have become aware of
the present symbolism of Russia, that it
will have realized that one part of hu
manity can never be "through" with an
other. For Lloyd George, in tho moment
of his amazing statement after the Rus
sian revolution, was no more ignorant
of Russia than one-half of America often
has been of the life of the other half
G.rm-iny s submarine campaign has
failed and staff officers are admitting In the
I.e'clistag that her air campaign has broken
down The land defense will lie the next to
go to pieces, and after that the deluge for
Gcrmaii ambitions
THE CLASSICS
rpHK classics nio bafe for a few more
moons, It seems. The Classical Associa
tion of tho Atlantic States, which con
cluded Its annual convention In this city
on Saturday, still keeps tho best-sellers of
antiquity sheltered under Its plumy wing.
The classical associations perhups are not
altogether unbiased advocates, but when
so eminent a scientist and engineer as Dr.
Hollls Godfrey, of Drexet Institute, pleads
for the classics, thero must ho some goodly
ministration that they perform In modern
life.
Even In wartime wo cannot afford for a
moment to forgo the great and beneficent
strain of thought and Idealism that Greece
and Romo have handed down to us. Not
McGuffcy of the readers nor Dr. Frank
Crane of the press syndicates was the
first man on earth to cull nnd utter memo
rabilia. Thousands of men In the trenches
and training camps havo been heartened
and nerved to their grim discipline by some
remembered Bnatches of l'urlpedes or
Horace, or the eclogues of Virgil.
It is a quaint thought that there are
more copies of Virgil and Caesar and Cicero
told every year than of most modern
novels. Yet It Is true. And one who takes
the trouble to look hack at his old dog's
eared texts will sometimes find 'a curious
thrill when ho discovers that 'those old fel
lows were Just as humun as the corner of
Broad and Chestnut streets. Take this, for
Instance:
Gather and save our time, which (111
lately has been forced from you, or niched
away, or has merely slipped from your
hands. Believe the truth of my words,
that certain moments are torn from us,
that some are gently removed,, and that
others ctlde beyond our reach. We are
mistaken when we look forward to death ;
the major portion of death baa already
.passed.. Whatever, rears lie behind us are
from the Moral Epistles of Seneca, written
about tho year 63 A. p., and translated by
Dr. nichard Mott Gummcrc, of the Penn
Charter School.
Ambassador Islill insists that tlm yellow
peril Is the product of yellow journalism. An
apt characterization of tho Kaiser, who first
talked of the ellow peril.
WAR AND THE BUILDING TRADES
T
HK building trades havo suffered ex-
trnnrrllnnrll V linpnii.A tt 41, n ,inr llin
difficulties of transpoit nnd tho demands
of other Industries In the labor field. Mean
while tho question of housing Is cumula
tive In Ha Importance. The confusion nt
Hog Island and tho tendency to grossly
Inflated rents In this city Indicate merely
tho beginning of a logical reaction. Ships
and guns nnd ammunition are moro press
ing needs than houses, to he sure. Tet tho
question of shelter has como to havo an
nctite hearing upon means of military pre
IMiedncss. It will continue to grow In Im
portance as population shifts to tho con
lets of Industrial activity. And It Is likely
to reach tho most trlng stage Immediately
after tho war when Increased Immigra
tion further taxes tho exltting accommo
dations In towns mid dtles everywhere.
Greater tongestliin In pn-c.illed slum
nrcas Is an Intolerable outlook. No one who
has studied the question has yet been
ablo to offer u solution tor a situation
which is the tnoie confusing because It was
altogether unexpected. It has been sug
gested tli.it In the absence nf transport
facilities cities with extensive slum areas
might very propeilv iae ancient and un
hygienic buildings and utilize the material
In creating new communities of hvglcim:
dwellings. Hero again the question of
labor intervenes. The complication as a
whole Justifies the Ameikaii Institute of
Atchllccts In Its plan to make it complete
Mirvev nf the building and housing ques
tion as It exists In all parts of the t'nltcd
States. The f.itts of the matter -hould
bo anajed first of nil fur thoughtful con
templation. And tho Amciiciu Institute
of Aithitccts, which Includes many of tho
ablest men of the building craft, will do
n service to the country as a whole by
malting Its survev quick and thorough.
.lolm I! K Scott Is up the State rooting
for Hie prohibition amendment- -as will aii for
voles for John U. IC Siott
JERSEY AND OUR MOTOR LAWS
THK State Highway Department in New
Jersey Is endeavoring, with little prom
ise of success, to obtain the co-operation
of this State as well as that of New York
for tho establishment of uniform rules
likely to reduce tho number of serious
motor accidents. Tho ofllcials In Jersey
nro working with a lamlablo ambition ami
a logical plan, und ,et it Is because of the'r
own pi lor disregard of tho cooperative
theory that they arc now finding co-operation
difficult to obtain elsewhere. It has
been an old habit of the exalted nt Tren
ton to regal il tho roads of tho Stato in
tho peculiar pioperty of their own tax
pajers. This theory has been embodied
In tho motor laws in clauses which dis
criminate definitely ugalnst Jlccnso hold
ers in other States.
Tho current agitation of tho roads de.
partment In New Jersey Fceks tho estab
lishment of laws In Pennsylvania and New
York under which any chauffeur convicted
of negligence In n case of serious accident
will have his license revoked for a year. This
Is a suggestion Iii lino with progressive
legislation. The !iw now applies in, New
Jersey, but drivers may evade It by obtain
ing licenses from the adjoining States. Tho
ofllcials nt Trenton Insist, therelore, that
they aio unable to keep order on their own
hlghwn.vs.
For 5 cars i'cnns.vlvnnla has sought lo
obtain from New Jersey the reciprocal
courtesies under which Pennsylvania motor
licenses would bo recognized on either side
of the river, as Jersey licenses nro. Tho
request has alwny been refused. This
may not only explain the lack of enthusi
asm In this State for the Jersey Idea, hut
also to point a moral. The time always
arrives when the other man can say no.
rVilwvn. Delaware fnunt.v. has oversub.
scribed its allotment five times The little
towns seem to be where they realize we are at
war.
The Germnn demand that war materials
be allowed to paa through neutral Holland
is onlv another Instance of dljreg.trd for In
ternational law.
i:ilnor i"iln's story of the treatment nf
women by the Germans which appeared In
the rublle Ledger jestprd.iy. discloses some,
of the reasons why tho British and French
are lighting so valorously
Germany has sent a Dutch financier to
Hncland t talk peace I.loyd George will
doubtless talk to him HUe a Dutch uin;le.
They are melting silver dollars Into bul
lion at the mint and Mr. flrjan has not raised
a protest.
Do you know )et tli" meaning of that
green card with "St to 1" printed on It?
The New York pape-a
Very Weill .are agltuted over tho
Very Weill uuestion of a new nams
, for sauerkraut. Thev
suegest that we should call the fragrant weed
ehoucroute, as the French do; or kapoosta,
as the Huss'ans do; or even Liberty cabbage
For our pirt, since the price has gone up, we
call it taxlcabbage.
Where lloen lie Lire?
The sweetest sensation
In the world
(and the most surprising)
la to go to the second bureau drawer
and And u handkerchief
unscathed by the laundry,
a pair of socks fresh ilnrned,
and a collar without saw-teeth.
I'Ulnc Sale
I am feeling rather perky
Now that I've heard Galll-Klrky.
Ray, she's a reg'lar Circe,
That there lady Galli-Cursy,
Wish the soloist In our churchy
Just could eln like Galll-Curchy.
When They Crown Hylsn
Vi'e have been altogether too casurvl In
naming our bridges. What Is ".Manhattan
Bridge" or "Williamsburg Bridge" to Ger
many's mouth-filling "Quartermaster Gen
eral of Infantry I.udendorff Bridge"? For
the next bridges In be built In this neigh
borhood we propose the following cogno
mens: Third Depuly Sheriff Pat aallagher
Bridge.
Chief Bureau of Repairs and Supplies Cor
nelius Q. Van Cortlaudt Bridge.
Secretary Board of Inebriety the Rev.
Isaiah Jeremiah Judklns Bridge.
Acting President Board of Water Supply
Horatio Ztmp Bridge.
Hm f raroie cgmniMwn ex-umcio Bur-
,WBPBF.r--NW I T(
THE BIRTHDAY REVIEW
(Today It the blrthda, o the Otrman Crown
l'rlncc, bom May fl, 8SJ.J
SAID the Prince, "This is my birthday:
Day for wasp-waist, sword and stars!
Let it be a feast nnd mirth-day
Muster my Death's Head Hussars!" .
Southward to the blue Swiss border,
North to Flemish sand-dunes pale,
Ran the Prince's birthday order,
"Skull and Crossboncs, zu Bofcbl!"
Meanwhile, he put on his frock of
Whalebone, tinsel, gilded braids
Garments that had borne the shock of
Many glittering parades.
Clomb the tallest of his stallions
Ready for his martial stunt;
Waiting for his proud battalions,
Playboy of the Western Front.
To tho great reviewing stand ho
Cantered, nnd his aides deployed
Angrily the royal dandy
Gazed about him, much annoyed.
"Where an: all my men?" he thundered.
"Did I not give orders strict?"
Uniformed cqueriic.s wondered;
Heels of sub-lieutenants clicked.
Then, from trench and field blood-weary,
And from hamlets black with scars,
Come dend voices, thin and eerie,
Spoke the Prince's lost Hussais:
"I am here where Verdun held us,"
"In a shattered trench I lie."
"I, where JolTrc's legions felled us,"
"I. ami I, and I. and I."
"I am whcic the great guns slew us."
"At Bapaumc death set me free."
"I, whcic men in blue wont through us
They no braver men than we."
"I am here where Haig defied us."
"I, where England stood ut bay."
"British dead nro thick beside us,
Wo no braver men than they."
"I, on Kemmel. where war squanders
All that honest men desire."
"I lie here in muddy Flanders
On a trench's clotted wire."
"Come. Commander, what you covet
Wehave bought you, flesh and soul
This is war; and since you love it,
Join us, fill our muster-roll."
On the broad parade ground, waiting
In his coat of braid and stars,
Stood the Crown Prince, celebrating,
Lnxt of the Death's Head Hussars.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
DAWN SONGS
By Samuel Scoville, Jr.
OUProsn Tetrazzlnl sent word that she
J nnd Schumann-Heinle would sing for
ou tomorrow morning at G o'clock In your
garden Wouldn't ou get up to hear them?
Suppose by the same mill came a letter from
Mlseha Dlman and Kubelik that they would
play a duet before breakfast In that patch
of woods near jour house, rain nr shine,
would ou be there"
Yet nearly every morning sou can listen
to music that no human sinner can ciiunl
Last week ns I pai-seil through a pitch of
trees a brown bird hopped from the ground
to a low limb. He had a faintly speckled
breast and his bead, back nnd wing were
olive brown, while his tall was reddish
brown As I looltrtl he slowly and stlfllv
raised said tall until it made an angle vvltii
his bod.v This action betracd him It
was the hermit thrush, who can nlna.vs be
told by this tilck from any of the other
lour tiirusnes. l stood quiet and watched
Dim
Suddenly before mj iyes he opened his
beak and began his whisper song which be
sometimes slug while Journeying north, al
though usually he Is a silent travelir. It
pounded miles away and If I bad not watched
him sing I should have supposed that the
notes were coming up from the valley be
low. Then ho sang loud and louder, until
at last 1 was listening to the full summer
song which I had last heard In a Midi
grove In the Berkehlien at twilight with the
raK of the setting sun inhering down
through the green leaves. Kirst came n pure
fluted note, followed by u tremolo of grace
notes Then suddenly the song soared up
and up until It broke In a spr.i of golden
sound Still the bird with open beak and
lluttrrlug wings sang on In mi ecstasy yet
I heard no sound The song had gone beyond
the ranee of human ears, for the best part
of tho hermit thruh' song Is only heard
by tho wild folk alone. All day that fairy
music sounded In my ears and many years
may pass before again the hermit thrush
sIiiks ids full song to me In migration
A few days later from a dark thlclcet I
heard the song of his cousin, the veery or
Wilson thrush, also rarely ever heard when
tho bird Is on his travels. It only lasted
a moment, a weird arpeggio chord of so
prann and contralto notes like a phrase of
harp music. The veery Is the lightest brown
of all our thrushes and Im sometlmeH called
the tawny thrush from tho color of hlu
bark and sides.
In almost any nearby pasture can be
heard the silver flute notes of the little field
sparrow, with Its pink beak and unspotted
breast, lrom the nearby treetops sounds
the tlamboant song of that grand opera
singer, the brown thrasher, with his long
brown tall and beak and heavily spotted
breast. He likes the topmost hough, where
all can see and hear him while he pour
forth a Hood of finely executed florid
phrases more artistic, but to inv mind not
more beautiful, than the single limpid notes
of the Held spanow. Below the thrasher
on the lower limbs I.s that slate-colored sing
er, the catbird, win nt his best Is nearly
equal to his more brilliant rlvHl. He will
take snatches of half n dozen other bird songs
and weave them together with trills and
tipples and whistles of his own until you
would believe that u whole chorus of birds
were sinning In the bush. If the catbird
were as rare as the nightingale people would
travel hundreds of miles to hear him Ab
It Is, he sings In our door yards, and most
of us won't even get up to hear him.
Social News From the Middle West
Mrs. J. T. Miller read an article on "Per
sonal Devils." Seventeen were present.
Boone (la.) News-Republican.
The first fall meeting of the Indies" Matl
nee Musicala will be hell In the Central Chris,
tlan Saturday afternoon at 2;30 o'clock.
The Columbus (Ind.) Republican.
Mr. Roberts went to Kansas city tn a
car of hogs. Several of the neighbors went
In together to make up tho car, lola (Kan J
lteglstir.
A Book on Economics
Between long rows of figures lurk
rtctures of little- boys at work.
And how poor women Xado away
Page after page the margins say.
t
And (n a note once In a while
, j .laeavfett Urease a MJur'a i
''BIRTHDAY GREETING,' PftlNCE,' FROM TOUR HERITAGEiT M
A GLORIFIED "ROTTER
By Jesse Lee
WE DO not hear much nbnnt the poor
old Superman any more, liven tho flf-tlcth-iato.
fiction vvilteis appear to havo
forgotten him. Ho has been relegated to
tho limbo of discarded, moth-eaten, obscene
fetishes. The phosphorescent brilliance
which deluded us Into thinking him really
luminous soon wore off.
Yet It ml.glit be well to lift the revolting
idol for a 'moment fiom the cosmic gar
bage can and let the sun shine upon him
while we study him with fully open ejes.
There nio certain very Illuminating aspects
of the Superman which can only be fully
appreciated now that his brief day nt glory
is over. Wo can gain new lipdght Into
certain forces which ncrvci ted Gel many by
re-examining the fetish which a perverted
Gei many put up for adoration. Wo may
even observe a i acini "tmnsvuluatlon of
values" which Is one of the most ludlcious
and absurd things In all hlstoiy.
Tho books of NleUsche. In which the
Supeini.in slowly giew fiom an idea Into
it voodoo, are all comerncd with the gloilfl
c.itlon of the picd.ttnry instincts of man ut
the expense of the herd or gregarious In
stincts. NOW the geographical situation of Kng
kind has generated over many long
centuries such pied.itoiy liiiltnct.t In her
sons that, with little recognition of what
they were doing from necessity nnd us u
matter of course they conquered one-fifth
of the earth's surface and learned to gov
ern one-fifth of the world's peoples. Yet
eo little (ilrHcrfmil, so little artleulnle, has
the process been that only the tiniest frac
tion of Englishmen have ever taken se
llously the attempts of Kipling nnd othcis
to create an Imperial consciousness, u
sense of great race destiny. Englishmen
are too healthy for that sort of thing. They
pliy too much, meditate too much. They
conquered an empire nil In the day's work,
but they have always loathed any "Intel
lectual" or "damned professor" making a
philosophy of what they had clone.
TllH ceographleal conditions of Germany,
on the other hand, developed over long
centuries tho gregarious, herding hisflncfj.
Gemuthllchkelt," "Suengcrfcsts," music
with Its subjective appeal, ' philosophy,
dressing gowns and china pipes all the
warm human attributes so Identified with
tho old Germany were manifestations of
such Instincts.
But with suddenly developing power,
wealth and lmpoitanre, a national dislike
for these Instinctive race characteristics
developed. Germany felt her oats. She
wanted to swagger und strut, she wanted
to throw off tho philosopher's cloak nnd
assume "the attributes of an Imperial, con
querlng race."
Nietzsche feels the Impulses ubout him.
He studies with Teuton thoroughness and
lack of humor undent languages and
shows that always men have apparently
accepted the equations:
"Bold, flerce-noble, good."
"Weak, klnd-lcuoble, baBe."
It wu3 what Germany wished, to hear.
She accepted the equations avidly. And
with their acccptnncp the world beholds
an unthought-ot philosophy of force de
velop in our modern life; sees predatory
qualities, acted upon not simply and In
stinctively and naturally, but deliberately,
consciously and with articulate design.
WITHOUT question the Germans con-
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llberatelv sought to develop those Instincts
and to accentuate their peculiar diameter
Istlcs. But that Is a task which is beyond tho
powers of man, who can develop his mind
hut cannot deliberately change bis In
stincts. .Moreover, It happens that tho
truly predatory mces havo not only not
worshiped uhstiaet force they have been
somewhat ashamed of their own natuio
mid hnve dev duped nil nppirent sentimen
tality and hypocrisy to hide them; have
elaborated sportsmanship and fair play to
temper them.
What gi eater paradox docs history 10
cord than that thn nation with Instinctive
piodatory Inheritance should develop u
philosophy of ft (sinfulness, hardness and
exploitation'.'
rpili: antithesis of the Superman phlloso
- pliy may be summed up In a few sen
tences by Thomas Huxley, who said: "Tho
cosmic process has no sort of relation to
moinl ends. Let us understand, mice and
for nil, that the ethical progress of society
depends not upon Imitating the cosmic
process, still less In tunning away from It,
but In combating it."
In other vvoids, a cleanly iinlmal people
learns slowly by self-control, service, pity
and .altruism to temper beastliness, create
standards of honor and conduct. A sud
denly rich "highbrow" peopio uses logic
and leason to glorify rudimentary hruto
Instincts rather than to suppress them;
accepts tho nonlntelllgcut, evolutionary
forces of life ns the greatest forces nnd.
Instead of combating them, assists nndper
fects them.
That Is the "trnnsvaluntlon of values"
which tho world will observe with amaze
ment long after Nietzsche's "transvalua
tkm of values" has been forgotten.
Tho Supetmnn was never a truly heroic
figure. Ho was merely a .glorified cad,
bounder and i otter, loud-mouthed, un
scrupulous and selfish. JUs "brutal, frank
philosophy," far from representing nny
thing new or admirable, represented things
very old and very bad untempered seltlsh
ness und uncontrolled bruto Instincts, the
slow mastery of which by Individuals or
races lepresents tho only leal human prog-
ess.
The Superman, we can now clearly see,
was but u crude glorification of tho very
Instlnctlvo forces existent In every man
and, opposed. In their essence, to uii the
fine und beautiful things which will nnd
discipline and altruistic development have
purchased so-slowly Intthls old world of
ouis.
With which result of our scrutiny .we
may now drop back Into the cosmic gar
bage can the half-silly, half-fiendish fetish
We took from It. Moloch, Mumbo-Jumbo
and those hideous gods of ancient Peru
will surely try to remove themselves as far
us1 poasiblo from the noisome relic thus
thrust umong them.
So It Would Seem
Spring is here now, or at least almost
here, and we suppose those of our patriotic
rltlaens who put up their automobiles when
It was so slippery last winter, in order to
win the war by conserving gasoline, are
thinking of taking them out again In order
to win the war by conserving time In go
ing from one place to -another. Ohio State
Journal.
Naughty Michigan
Michigan became a dry State on the first
of May asd It U resorted that some o the
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CLEAN-UP WEEK
LI .M HI It tho sweeping machine up!
i Bring Into action tho broom!
This h; the week of the clean-up!
Dirtiness faces Its doom!
LADIKS with buckets and hrushes,
i Ladies with dustpans and mops,
Dash up the stieet In swift rushes,
Scrubbing the sidewalks and shops.
TVTL'ST these Industrious ladies
'-'-' Polish our city alone'.'
Surely to aid their brlgado Is
I'll to YOU, masculine ill one
SINCI' for municipal beauty
Women so willingly slave,
Men, lot us rise to our duty!
Let's get u haircut and shave!
ICflABOD.
The I'reurh Cull Him Chariot
"Our town was big and hsd moving pic
tures twice a week." sajs one of our dis
tinguished critics who went with the first
unit of the Amerlcaii expeditionary force to
Trance, "but up the line In the little villages
there was no such source of amusement.
After tho men had been In training for a
week or more, a French Red Cross outfit
stopped at one of the villages with a traveling
movie outfit and announced that they would
show a picture that night. According to
the annouiuVment, the picture was 'Chariot
en "I.e Vagabond'" It sounded foreign and
forbidding The doughboys anticipated trouble
with the titles and the close-ups of what the
heroine wrote and all the various printed
words which go to make a moving picture
Intelligible. Still they were patient when the
title of tho picture was flashed on the screen
and they tried to look Interested. The first
scene was a road winding up to u distant
hill and down the highway with eccentrlo
gait there walked a little man strangely rem.
Inlscent. He drew nearer and nearer nd as
the figure came Into full view the soldier In
front of me could stand the strait) no longer.
He Jumped to his feet.
" 'I'm a son of a gun,' he shouted, 'If It Isn't
Charlie Chaplin.'
"Recognition upon the part of the audi
ence was instantaneous and enthusiasm un
bounded. If Americans gi out tombrrow and
capture Berlin they cannot possibly show
more Joy than they did at the sight of Charlie
Chaplin In France. Never again will the
French be able to fool theni by disguising him
as 'Chariot' "
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
I, What Is a battion?
, lilrntl'y "the I'ellrun State."
3. Nnnie the author nf "Kutenle Grendet."
4, It hut l meant by sapidns?
!. What l 'rliool surrey."
It. Hon many ex-Prei'dents af the United State
ur llilnaT
7. What l the eureulloT
s. VHm wrote "Itohlnmn I'ruwe"?
e. What l a mautoleuniT
10. ihn la ionlderec by mokt rrltirs the most
original of American lu) noeta, lb) tom.
noiarn. (e) urtutt?
Answers to Saturday's Quiz
1, Kannaa la known nt the Sunflower Plate.
. "The lleeralaer." o.notel by, James Fanl-
niore Cooper, one of Ilia euillrat American
novellata.
3. "Drive." aa uwcl In war news, has two
meanlnai. both Homewhat looe. In a large
tenia It la uaed to nenote a major enTen
tlve. In a restricted hum it la utad for
an attaek or assault.
4. "The I.Utle Old I-aaV at Threadneedla
street." a alans term far Ilia Bank f
Knsland.
8. Hector. In the military tense, la a aeetlon r
seament, with aume atrategle unity, uf a
baltlefront.
0. The (Iraml lurhr. Merle Antoinette af
rarma l the mother of the JCmpreaa Zlta
Rf Aufttrla-llunsary. rth raeently waa
anWhed from the llual Monarchy far tea
lurlod of the war fin account of Bliss
aiitl-tlerman ttndenelea.
1, Th IMIgrlma landed In I M0.
5. t'anali a ellqu or aecrel aaaoelatlon, unalur
r-"Y;
.st niaclai paraona. rani aurh rilaae I
fn h nlsn. af .tharlaa II 4f Kaitsod. I
what InltlaU make the word l rllfrerl. ArVJ
llngton. Buckingham, Aahlrr. LaoHuMt.il
9. Alexander Hamutes w .Hilled la a wet
Aarvit
t.