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same kind of efficiency that has
Mowed tho appointment jT a general-.
,for the armies ot tlio tinieiuo me-i
cted to result from the concentra-
.aider one board ot dlrectois of the
LoC independent organizations eiiMige'l
IT' relief work. The plan adopted la
Uit all contributions into the War
I 'and to appropriate the fund on an
upon ratio to the several brunches
'relief. There will, of course, ue n
In administrative expenses, a r- let
' numerous different soliciting agencies,
fc'Jof which has been making a -.cparatc
.'tor money, and a gain In efficiency in
button.
plan was devised by business men.
prdtngly Involves the application ot
sved business principles to bcnellcewc.
It has been tried it has worked
ably. It is expected to proiliro satis
fy results here. This expectation will
totalized If the charitably disposed chcer-
' make their subscriptions.
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ft,The Germans are growing nervous on
L Lorraine sector as well as all tne way
i.Sclfort to the N'orth Sea.
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f'!inUCHTFULNESS AT HOME
vi
INT men havo a toucn or tne nun in
rthem. The trait manifests itself in
rer readiness to make an unfair use
ifc"advantageous position. Such an In-
v If It is dormant In a man, becomes
, when he drives an automobile in a
street. The chances arc all In
aver and those afoot have no protec-
ftialnst him beyond what tho pollco
' for them.
rorder'of Acting Superintendent Mills
ttfee instant arrest of those who violate
& rules Is moro significant than all
orders of a like nature, because
irbased upon the announcement that
clans will no longer be permitted to
the offenders. This Is an assurance
tier conditions in the streets. Captain
tacted with discretion when he told
en that hereafter speeders are not
i merely reported and then summoned
ill. They are to be arrested imme-
ly 'and locked up.
I'real gasoline maniac Is the man who
HUb car get beyond his control in a
'xreet. uecKless driving is not that
aww W1BII TIJ uica U lllHllt. Ull Ull U)t-U
L'fvA.Xar more dangerous driver is one
LWikkea busv crossincs nthppwisA than
h.MAtltlnn and enma nMc n - .!....
a iiu ouiuo ochow ui iuui icay
'pedestrians, who have a prior right
ft-trery thoroughfare.
they are advertlslne collars with
Lf Why not put In pockets, too, ana
n't need to wear anything else.
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hn ARDEN ACAIN
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HjE-TAXBRS are pleasant and per-
dve people In many ways, though
Mlr cruelly Impatient with less exalted
lC,8tlll they are energetic, and it may
ineir woerui lack of success In
ff)rta is due primarily to the sort of
T' they tolerate In Arden. the
F-'d sanctuary of the cult and tho
l.that has made Delaware famous.
iindtt-ln-chlef and patriarch of the
.1mr Just been arrested for an affront
t a committee of' women war workers
eavored tq. sell Liberty Bonds In
nage.
( Jacident Is important only as it sug-
, moral xor an philosophers. Arden
celebrated originally as a place of
for those who found that the
world was not good enough for
r At considerable number of normal-
(.Kile who went there to bide have
er an unhappy time of it because
ijnorlty. So Arden has never been
ixariglna! Arden Ideal of a taxless
jy.wiin nice people walking barefoot
and with Upton Sinclair an
Pretty, never has enchanted the
r, i.TWs means that Bomethinir is
b'For when a philosophy la big
y ror a xew it must be ditched.
must .tn found big enough for
!., at the very least, for a fair-
F?
men having abolished the free
Hfwni aown at Victory Island
of free launch.
O OUTLAWS ALREADY
by the. Senate ot a 'jUI out-
'MY. W. for the duration of
'In the direction of making
t'ire what It la alraaalv
& .
wakis up Its member-
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THE MEDICINf: 1 UNPLEASANT,
BUTITVILLCURE
TVTORE will be known about tho status
" of the production of airplanes and
machino guns when the investigations
begun by the Department of Justice and
the War Department nre completed.
Charges of graft in the one case and of
unnecessary delay in the other have been
made. Delay is also charged against tho
hircrilft production board.
Although the censors havo prevented
the truth from becoming known, certain
fncts have become public in the course of
the past months; and certain statements
have been 'made by men high in authority
which had slight basis in fact. When
men in Washington were complaining
that the production of airplanes had
fallen clown we were told that the first
shipment of planes to Europe was on tho
way. It was a shipment of two planes.
The truth was disclosed within a few
days and the public lost confidence in all
outgivings about airplanes from Wash
ington. This was unfortunate.
There may have been graft in the air
craft production. The nation is not
interested in that so much us in the build
ing of airplanes in sufficient numbers to
meet the needs of the army. If the board
in charge had set about building planes
on an accepted model with engines
already developed it could have produced
enough to meet pressing needs. Instead
it set nbout organizing for quantity pro
duction. It is understood that in the near futuic
this sort of production will begin. A
vast organization has been built up in a
year, financed by the appropriation of
moro than half a billion dollars. Besides
the work in factories a hundred thousand
acres of Texas land have been planted to
the castor oil benn to produce the neces
sary lubricants. Vast armies of men are
at work in the spruce forests of tho
Northwest getting out the timber for the
woodwork. And an air corps has been
organized containing more men than
were in the whole United States army at
the beginning of the war.
This is a record of achievement tend
ing in the right direction. Complaint is
not directed against it, but against the
neglect to achieve immediate results in
another and equally important direction.
The appointment of Mr. Ryan as director
of production is likely to remedy many
of tho evils which have been criticized.
The request of tho War Department for
an additional appropriation of a billion
dollars for aircraft indicates a determi
nation to push production when it begins
with all possible speed. Unless we mis
take the situation, the investigation, out
side of the criminal line, will demon
strate that most of the defects had been
remedied before the inquiry began.
As to the production of machine guns,
we nre told that while the light Brown
ing gun is being made in quantities, no
heavy guns have been delivered. .No
adequate explanation for the delay has
been made. Mr, Baker is about to seek
the reason. Three thousand of the guns
arc due o . June 1, just as numberless air
planes wore due at about the same date.
They will not be ready then. No one
knows at present how soon they will be
ready. We are producing rifles as fast
ns they are needed, but there is delay in
the manufacture of heavy artillery.
In the meantime we may bo able to get
some consolation out of the thought that
criticism of the delay in the manufacture
of munitions and aircraft ought to serve
as a spur in the flanks of those in
authority.
Clemenceau said It would be the lapt
quarter of an hour that would count in win
ning the war. Also tho last quarter dol.
lar. That is to say. the last Thrift Stamp.
THE IRON BEAK ON THE VELVET DOVE
COUNT CZEKNIN'S secret visit to mi
mania last February hhows how much
trust we may put In him as a dove of
peace. Austria Is more terrible when she
wagei peace than when sho makes war.
Her Foreign Office may have elvcty plu
mage, but It has the Iron beak common to
birds of prey and mid-European diplomats.
There wan never any doubt that Ru
mania's peace with tho Central Powers was
one of bitter necessity. A proud nation
does not demobilize her army, sui lender
control of her rallwajs, grunt enormous
economic concessions and "rectify" her
frontiers (In the Prussian scne) unless sho
Is faced with an alternative of total aboli
tion as an Independent Power.
Rut the arrival In London of the Ameri
can Red Cross mission to Rumania has
made public the humun side of the tragedy.
The pathetic attempts of Queen Marie,
whose sympathy with the Allied cause has
never wavered, to avert surrender to the
mailed fist Is touching In tho extreme.
Count Czernln was sent to Jassy about the
end of February with the customary short
fuse ultimatum. "His manner was stern,
unbending, ruthless." The Central em
pires had decided that Rumania could be
dallied vlth no longer.
Queen Mario was too affected by her
grief to write the personal message to the
American people on which sho had set her
heart. But certainly no thinking Ameri
can can condemn her nation for the course
It was compelled to adopt. It would have
profited the Allied cause not at all to have
another Belgium to succor. Rumania did
what she was forced to do and she has our
warmest understanding nnd sympathy.
"Nelly Bly" has been missing since the
beginning of the war and New York has
only Just discovered It. What a change from
the old days, when she was her own most
efficient press agent.
ROUTING PNEUMONIA
ONE of the compensations of wqr is
found in Us broadening effects upon
medical and surgical knowledge.
The typhoid vaccine was produced be
cause the need of It was flagrantly demon
itrated In the Spanish-American War. A
pneumonia serum had been discovered
prior to August. 1914, but' the prevalence
'of pneumonia In the training camps has
.purred the Investigators on to further
'study. They report that they are on the
verf of discovering a serum which will
(UaslnUH Mortality from the wont types
isC Mm 4Im4s.
'PrY Himiiufc.- Cecil: ot .the Rockefeller
HajjsjM1. la ajaJtoiiiMtf jthat the vaccina-
'I j "
i
who were not vaccinated. In a regiment
of negroes, who are peculiarly susceptible
to pneumonia, there .were only two cases
among the vaccinated and twenty-eight
among the unvacclnated.
These facts seem to hold out hnpe for
the ultimate routing of the disease as efftc
thcly as typhoid has been overcome.
There are so few criminals In the cooler
that the District Attorney's office Is going
to take a ueek off. Why not round up some
of the minor huns in our midst, such as
those who spit on tho sidewalks?
TIGER FOOD
"VTO ONE who has achieved wisdom In
politics will know whether to feel
sorry for tho women voters In New York,
now that Tammany has hurriedly made a
place for their representatives on the gen
eral committee, or to believe that Tam
many Is about to experience some of tho
subtler agonies of retribution for its sins.
Tho Tiger loves ull horts of food, lie has
a particular relish for green things. He
smacks his lips on tho unsophisticated.
And It has been plain since the beginning
that he has vlsloncd a wonderful hunting
ground In the feminine electorate. The
Tammany system has founded political
practice upon n knowledge of human
nature. It knows how in flatter and It
knows even how to be nelierous to Its
friends, and It knows how to override alt
theory of civic goxernment by tho slmplo
method of personal contact. It knows even
how to pity on occasion. And thereby It
may actually profit by the establishment
of woman suffrage In New York.
But the Hall will never be the namo
again. Tim hard old codger.s -wlm make
Tammany what It Is aro sure- to suffer
pains of their own. They will have to sit
nnd look patient and oven smllo nnd up
plaud while they listen to speeches on such
abstract subjects iih health conservation,
sanitation, cleanliness in politics, honesty
and civic irtue. The gases of the Ger
mans could proxlcle for them little more of
sectet agony th.in this.. But they may not
even shudder without (lunger of disaster.
All their life, from this out, must be a
pose.
Ko, even though the Tiger may havo fat
days coming to him, he will have to pay a
hard price for his food.
Chicago, too, has put cabarets on the to
boggan. These arc hard days for J.izz.
The On eminent is seeking for ' black
walnut for gun stocks. Why does It not send
Us Fcouts to the second-hand furniture stores,
which used to be filled with the bureaus and
bedsteads of our grandfathers?
U-boats, tho Milue of
And Hun Dttlnlotm? flernmn money and
tho spirits of tho Ger
man populace are going down together.
Senators who will dl
It I Hereby Done rect the aircraft In
vestigation might be
reminded that even if there are no battle
planes up in the nlr statesmen cannot serve
the country by taking tho place of the absent
machines.
THE CHAFFING DISH
Old Favorites
"Twas the night, before payday, and all
through my Jeans
I hunted In vain for the price of some
beans.
Not a quarter was stirring, not even a Jit;
The kalo was off duty, milled edges had
quit.
Forward, turn forward, O Time, In thy
flight
Make It tomorrow, Just for tonight!
Why does tobacco from another man's
pouch taste so much better than our own?
We were wondering what to do about
that accumulation of unanswered mall, and
while we were out for some spaghetti yes
terday they set up an electric fan over our
desk nnd blew It all away. Electricity has
Its uses.
Where, O where, Is dear Garabed? Did
ho unbundle some of that "free energy"
incautiously and get himself wafted out
of sight?
First Call for Asparagus Poems
From Poston's Icy mountains to the films
of California
Asparagus is ripening, and wo thought we
ought to warn yrr:
Let well-bred people fork It up and drape
it us they list.
We much prefer to stevtdore that dainty
with our fist.
Our Own Higher Criticism
Perhaps the asp that I'.llled Cleopatra
In tho play was simply Shakespeare's ab
brevlatlon for aspaiagus?
We are growing cautious and canny. We
shall not predict any revolutions In Aus.
tria until after they have actually hap
pened. It seems that the good old Delaware
can spawn ships as fast as she used to
spawn shad. And they have some very
fine ship-roe down nt Victory Island.
This business of giving cities biblical
names can be overdone. What was the
good of saddellng two towns, one In New
York and one In Ohio, with the name of
Sodom?
Senator Thomas, of Colorado, has taken
off his wig and started the spring season
in Washington.
Bon Voyage!
(The Faith, the first concrete shJp, Is on
her trial voyage from Ban Francisco to
Vancouver.)
Sail on, O ship concrete!
First of the stony fleet!
Humanity with all Its fears,
With all the hopes of future years
Hangs breathless on thy fate.
And, as Kit Marlowe said, doubtless
thinking of Mr. Schwab, "Was this the
face that launched a thousand ships?"
Ode, on a Distant Prospect of
the Bolshevik!
Alas, regardless of their doom,
The Bolshevlctims Play;
No sense have they of Ills to come
Nor car beyond today.
They do not read the bourgeois press
And they Ignore the Kaiser
.IsWUed. where Bovtet to blUa i
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Warm Days
T TPON warm days like these, when rigorous
U mental exercise becomes a hateful thing,
there Is a worthy alternative ready for any
one who will let his fancy wander not to love,
for that Is perilous, but to the Tired Business
Man, who has alnnys needed to be Inter
preted In tho beneficent spirit of tho season.
World-weary folk who toll at the trade of
drama criticism first discovered the mystic
per-.onage. They wrote hint up and they
wrote him down. Before the war he was
the most fashionable peril known to parlor
philosophy. Well, times change! And
spring always was full of revelations!
Out nbout Cobhs Creek, at Hula or Merlon,
It Is possible these das to surprise tho
T. B. M. snatching his short allotted glimpse
of the outer world. About him there Is a
suggestion of temporury freedom from duress,
avidly enjojed, He dissembles bis real pur
pose behind golf nnd stands often In the
arresttd pose of a traveler startled In a
strangu land or of ono who found himself
Middenly at an allar of dim memories. Ho
doesn't sceni In tho least like the sinister
forte of legend.
And jet this Is the penon who wus
nssuined to menace civilization. When musi
cal comedies were especially unwlso; when
popular llctluti kloughed to kome new pit ot
dullness: when the economic order seemed
permanently backward, outcry mid clamor
ulways went up ugalnst tho T. U. M. The.
fashion i-prcad.
And now, when airplanes aren't delivered
on time, when the Kaiser has romo new
tjphoon of tho mind, when tho chickens don't
lay. when tho dog Is lost. when, the onions
don't grow, tho Tired Buslncts Man Is ulvvujs
tomevvhero within reach to tako tho blame.
"VUSBUVi: him now. this f. U. M., In his
fliort (lights out of tho dungeon where
We keep him us a matter of course. Ho has
a diffident reverence for every field violet,
From nfnr he Mares wistfully at the cow of
which he has heard so much. The en Is
wonderful' .Sho Is the distant magician
whose Hinb.isador clatters mysteriously Ht
the door before dawn and vanishes unseen
111(8 a creature ot enchantment, leaving
treasure behind. Wonder and appreciation
shine for her In tho cjes of the hurried vis
itor In her country.
And when vou trull him about ou learn
that ho actually prefers the real to tho
Belasco sunset and that jou havo surprised
him nt his undent tusk of fighting hack hope
lessly to a communion with the fre universe
which the fates consistently deny him.
Surely it Is not the fault of tho Tired
Business Man if he must be reassured once a
year that peus do not grow In cans and that
potatoes aro not plucked from a potato bush.
The world Itself lH to blame because ho must
be convinced nt regular Intervals that blue
bells do not ring unless It be to call the
butterflies home to dinner. In tho lucid
Intervals allowed him he knowa ns well as
any one that the winds do not sigh but sing
at this time of tho year.
All of tho artificial restrictions of com
munal existence conspire to deny the T. B. M.
permanent assuranco of such elemental
truths as these. It Is only when we. ns the
community which is his Jailer, permit him
out to exercise for a period that ho may bo
able to recover the logical viewpoint.
rpiIB amazing thing Is that tho eyes of the
T. B, M. are not too tired after his
enforced confinement with our affairs to per
ceive that spring ruin Is really sliver In the
nfternoon light. It Is a bit hard to tell how
he does It. His Job, regarded squarely, does
not appear easy. Ho Is the victim of events
nnd the Invisible support and staying power
of those who profess to find grievous fault
In him. Ho must stick to his Job and work
while others theorize. And ho is now supply
ing the money and the good cheer and not a
llttl of the courage, while the rest of the
world Is out under the skies at tho stimulat
ing task of remaking a world.
Why, anyway, did any one ever apply the
word tired to him as a term of criticism?
The word might better have been used as n
sign of appreciative understanding. For tired
tho T. B. M. must be. And by glancing at
the mirror any day you yourself will
Instantly perceive that he appears rather
decent and that he Is without any of the
marks of wickedness which his critics love to
celebrutc. jj. II.
Once u German Always a German
Bvery r.ermnn In a foreign land Ij. In
official Germany's eyes, an outpost of Ger
man autocracy, livery outpost of German
business Is considered an outpost of the, Ger
man Government.
And the careful record that has been
kept of German emigrants In various parts
of the world shows only too well how much
Germany Is Interested In her emigrated citi
zens how much she still counts on their
being German at heart, ready to forward Ger
many's Interests, even to the extent of dam
aging the Interests of the lands of their
adoption.
Four maps reproduced in the World's
Work for May are taken from Perthes's AU
deutscher Atlas, published In Germany, and
containing a large number of similar maps,
showing Germany's centers of Influence all
over the world. The United States, Canada,
Brazil, Chile, South Africa, Australia and a
dozen other countries have nil to consider the
German In their midst. In the United States
nearly a third of the country Is, according
to one of the maps, said to be more than 30
per cent German. It Is hardly concelvnble
that tho percentage Is so high, but It serves
to bring home the seriousness of the situa
tion. Parts of Brazil are nearly 100 per
cent German 1
It Is possible for a German to take out
citizenship papers In a foreign country with
out losing citizenship In Germany. He can
swear to "uphold the Constitution of the
United States without being considered by
the German Government anything other than
a German subject. Consequently the maps
contained in Perthes's Alldeutscher Atlas are
maps showing official Germany's Idea of th.
number of German citizens In foreign lands,
owing allegiance to Germany, advancing Ger
many's Interests. These are not cltlzefts of
foreign lands, retaining only a friendly mem
ory of the Fatherland. They are, to German
officialdom, German's, ready to do Germany's
work ready to serve Germany In whatever
capacity she may see fit to place them.
McGowsn Time Saver
The offices of Rer Admiral Samuel Mc
Gowan, paymaster general of the United
States navy. In the granite State. War and
Navy Building, contain no chairs and no
clocks. He believes that If you put chairs
In an office you Invite a caller to Intern. Mc
Gowan believes that clocks encourage slack
ing. So his force works without a chance to
see them. Still another example of efficiency
In- minor things Is his removal of all doors
In the supplies and accounts division to save
time opening and shutting them.
The proposed regula
Why Talk ef It? tlon to stop the sale
oi uquor in bulK In
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THE GOWNSMAN
THE Gownsman once undertook a mission
to no less a person than tho lato eminent
essalst and authority In folk-lore, Andrew
Lang, He wnR received courteously, but
with tho warning: "Of course, wo could not
do anything with this now, at least, for two
or thrco days." And to an Inquiring look.
Mr. Lang replied: "Tho Oxford-Cambridge
cricket match Is on and wo khall not bo nblo
to sco an) body until It Is decided." Tho
literary, scholarly world was at pauso until
this momentous annual struggle was disposed
of. In America we are not absorbed by ath
letics to any such degree as that.
FROM Parliament Illll, which commands a
wide view of Hampstcad Heath, London,
the loiterer may i-eo on any fair afternoon
a couple of hundred active games of cricket
In progress : on a holiday he may easily neo
three times as many. The Thames, up Rich
mond way. Is a less commodious river than
our Schuylkill, but it Is full of pleasure boats
all summer, a large proportion of them pro
pelled by musclo inther than by gasoline.
Even tho ponds In the rltv parks uio dra'sged
deep for contests In swimming nnd diving.
On the Cam, nt Cambridge, where tlier
Is not water enough to float one boat past
another, a bumlng match takeH the place
of a boat race. And it always strikes an
American with surprise that tho spectator. In
most of these athletic activities, Is ns one to
ten In England to be Interested In athletics
means that you boat or gun or cricket or
play tennis, not that ou sit on a bleachers
In a crowd, burning Incessant Incense to tho
goddess Nicotine, while you applaud, hiss and
discuss something that ou can not do and
are too lazy even to attempt.
A BRIGHT-FACED Utile English boy re
turned to his family circle after an
afternoon of "play."
"And did you have a good time, Jack?"
"Oh, yes, Indeed, Mother?"
"And how did jou come out?"
"Well, the fact Is, we were prrtty well
walloped; hut jou ought to have teen those
fellows play',"
Has the reader ever seen the blight that
falls on an American college when the home
team has failed to win? The sun Is dark
ened, silence reigns where happy voices havo
made the halls musical, faces are pulled long,
tho world Is become stale and unprofitable.
"Man delights not mo! nor woman nei
ther!" NOW the Gownsman Is aware that he Is
presenting only one side of tho medal,
nnd be knows only too well that Bport Is
becoming, as It should be to us now, largely
a memory nnd n mutter wholly Irrelevant
In t'lese das when the pursuit of big game
In Africa or India has been supplanted by
tho bigger game of war. Possibly the very
fact that we nre confronted with n fight for
civilization may give us u steadier view of
our sometime little struggles of sport on dia
mond or gridiron. The Gownsman Is a con
firmed believer In athletic sport, esteeming
tho training which comes to tho body by this
means and the discipline of the mind among
the most Important essentials ot a sound
education. But he Is of opinion that here
In America we are as yet less fond of sport
and far less addicted to It than we might be:
that wo are more ready, even the young
among us, to spend our money than, our
muscles on athletic games, and that, In a
word, we are willing to take our personal
salvation In this regard vicariously, If we
take It at all.
f ,
REAIi interest In athletics Is not measured
by gate receipts, ,y crowds witnessing a
spectacle, by excited conversation and heated
argument about stars and their exploits, nor
by newspaper reports, predictions, com
meiatary and criticism. To really love a
thing you must want to get your hands on
It, to do It yourself or, at least, try. You
cannot make a tcommunlty musical by the
dally tooting of a band, and you cannot
make -a college or a school truly athletic by
training even a tenth of Its students to pro
ficiency In the art of athletlo display while
the .other nine-tenths loll with unhealthily
curved spines on the bleachers, chewing gum
and exhaling tobacco, or loiter anemlcally
about Intent only on the incidental thrills
that lead to a winning score.
THE American boy Is not unathletlo. Ift
to himself, on back lots and unsubsldlsed,
he has developed one ot the finest games In
the world and It Is, from one point of view,
regrettable that this fine seme, like the arts
and our oharitlM. has been xplol ted ',-
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"DID I FALL OR WAS I PUSHfiD?"
nJ,3T7iTOt:L'issaTS'aB,aT 'f TrrvlTH i fr iIkw if'
rrjf
such nctlvltles, restricts their rango and sub
stitutes for the pluj era' tense of fair play
and delight In his game u cheap demand
for success, It matters not nt what price.
Every game which Is lun for the spectator Is
Ilkel) Ixforo long to take on a taint, for the
spectator has no moral obligation In the
matter und evin his Intenst in the game
ns a gamo Is secondary to his demand for
success. On tho other bund, such games us
havo kept out the professional spirit havo
lemulned measurably clean, for their keep
ing Is In tho bands ot tho pki)ers alone. Tho
psjchologlsts, who know everything, will ex
plain to tho simple lay mind that It Is tho
psychology of the crowd which demands of
tho professional basrball player that he cheat
tho umpire If ho can, that It he Is catcher
ho claim every "bull" a "strike." If at the
but every "strike" a "ball," "Get all jou
can und let tho other fellow take care of
himself," "Slug tho other fellow without
being caught at It, until he slugs jou and Is
disqualified," these aro not rules of any
game, but they aie the familiar means
sometimes Inculcated by the coach, however
denied In public which make for thv ends
of the athletics of display. "Win by tha
game. If jou can. If )ou can't why then,
win anyhow."
THE degree to which the collcgo uthletlcs
of this country aro mortgaged to tho
sporting alumnus would be a matter of
amazement to those unacquainted with the
facts. Tho method Is a very simple one.
Our great Institutions of learning, under tho
conditions of their recent enormous growth,
exist for the most part financially from hand
to mouth. They can not afford the risk of
tho outlay necessary for tho huge athletic
fields, which modern sports have made Im
perative. The sporting ulumnus comes for
ward, banded Into an athletic association of
some typo or other, and offers to raise the
money on the natural condition that ho
finance and control the sport. The bargain
Is made and tho struggle begins between a
responsible body, the faculty, whoso business
it is to see that only bona-fide students and
those In good standing take part in the
activities of the colleges, and an Irrespon
sible body, tho representatives of the Bport
Ing alumnus, who are pledged to one thing
alone, success In the games under their
charge. Moreover, It Is tho Irresponsible
party who is tho mortgagor.
NONE can foretell what may be the fate
of American sport when we resume the
playtime of peace, the work of this war being
accomplished. After more -ears of experi
ence than the Gownsman Is willing at all
times to confess, he acknowledges that the
American boy Is by nature a clean sports
man, willing honestly to abide by 'the rules
of his game, to win by merit If ho can and
be generous to his opponents whether he win
or no. When not corrupted by the Influences
about hlin. be will take no unfair advantage
and when he loses he takes his medicine like
a man. A'e hear that nort has done great
things for war. but we hope that war may
do something for sport. One thing, unhap
pily, may be depended upon: The Hun will
continue to teach the world the laws of hon
orable warfaro by his own wanton and cal
culated disregard ot them; but war, after
all, is not sport.
Secretary McAdoo's successful efforts to
Inflame the patriotism of the country In the
Liberty Loan drive also Inflamed his own
throat. We hope he will recover quickly,
but that the national Inflammation may In
crease In fervor.
Whisker High
A considerable time ago en autocracy was
defined (by whotn we never con remember,
but we think It was a friend ot Emerson's)
as a ship on which everybody kept dry, but
which might strike a rock and go to the
bottom, whereas a republic, was a raft which
floated, after a fashion,- but everybody had
wet feet. The Prussian autocracy Is a re
markable boat, which Is bound to go on the
rocks some day; and Russia Is a raft, with
the water whisker blgh. B. L. T., In Puck.
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The Kaiser Will Get the Whole of It
Hlndenburg and Ludendorff at present 'are
the two pillars of strength on which Hohen
sollern rule la based, and by a strange coin
cidence the first letters of their names are
"h" and "I." Syracuse Herald.
Weeds aad Weeds. ,
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THE READERS' VIEWPOINT
1
Morals or Mechanics?
To the lUlltor o the Kienlng rullie Ledger:
Sir Through the klndners of a friend, J
am In receipt of an article which appeared
recently In tho Evb.vino Public Ledobr,
"Is tho Industrial Problem a Problem In
Mechanics?" by Jesse Lee Bennett,
'"The dispute between labor and capital,"
says Mr. Bennett, "Is, fundamentally, only
a question of the Just, exact, equitable and
scientific division of tho Joint product of
labor nnd capital. That Is a question In
mathematics or mechanics to be solved by
detached and Impassive Intelligence; not a
question to be decided either by greed or by j
vague good will expressed In such phrases I
wo i tun return 10 capital or living wage.
Thus, at ono fell stroke. Mr. Bennett re
moves the great inquiry fiom tho province
of ethics where, for ages, u clue to tho riddle
has eluded Ihe search of philanthropists,
economists, statesmen and divines and as
signs ., It boldly to a new department of
human knowledge and research mechanics I
This proposal may startle some one unac
customed to ponder the Industrial problem,
but to tho student capable of performing a
detached anal) Ms of the three elementary
factors of modern Industry labor, capital
and money Mr. Bennett's affirmation is not
only plausible but profoundly Intelligent.
There are three, and only three, elementary
factors essential in civilized Industry labor,
capital and money. Labor Is human exertion
expended in producing. This exertion,
whether of brain or brawn. Involves the con
version of human tissue Into human energy
and is conceivable us a mechanical factor in
Industry, and not otherwise.
Capital Is nothing other than the physical
equipment of labor tools, materials, build
ings, railroads and other means of transpor
tation and distribution which, In their turn,
are obvious products of labor and hence con
ceivable as mechanical factors in Industry,
and not otherwise.
Money, the medium whereby labor and
capital are brought- Into co-operation, is a
palpable human invention of mechanical
structure nnd function.
But our Industrial machlne. built up out
of theso three mechanical elements,' does not
work In an orderly and reciprocating man
ner as becomes a properly constructed ma
chine. There is some disturbing Influenco
which will not permit the cogs In the wheel
of labor and capital to engage In reciprocal
movement, nor does money afford any lubri
cating security against friction. Is the
trouble discoverable In the Industrial mechan
ism Itself or In the greed, tricks and chicane
of the capitalistic proprietors of the great
machine? Obviously. In the mechanism;
nevertheless. It Is through a reformation In
morals that most of us are seeking to rectify
the Ill-fated performance of a disordered
mechanism I ROBERT E BARRIL.
Solomons. Md., May 7,
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
Name the ranlUI of New York.
What la the meanln. of the numeral In the
names of. hrlihta a-t r'.'-ea In the war
one. aueh sa Illll No. St?
What la oceaiHxrmphi'T
For whom waa the Stale ef Delaware named?
Name the aother of "Rudjo'a rave." ,
Who are the "SlartjT I'realdtnta" of the
I nlted HtatenT
Who orlalnated Mother's Da?
Whs IV Philip Cilbb.r
What la tne "Itaiiae Bonnet"?
What la meant bjr "T ride ahanka' mare"?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
KaVard sliortt Is the new British Secretary
i of Htata far Ireland.
Vlralnla la known aa the "Mother ef Preal-
dente."
The wlnda and warea. are Hlnrajra an the
aid ef IlienbUat jisjlfetara" la from file- ,
bon'a. Oacllne and Fall ef the Homan Em. '
llre.'
Th I'anlnanlar Wan between Enrland and
France, in Spain and 1-ortutal, lS0s-lt,
jonn Addlaon, British ixxt and eaaarkt
(IStt-lllSI. c-nuthor of -The Ni.erUtar.''
Thfl-oeta Corneri n nnrt of Weatmlnater
Abbar In. which illatlnsulahad man ef let-
tera are hurled. Alae applied to the verae
eolumna In country nanapepera.
Aeeerdliur ie eae aeeeunt. Mather (toeae waec'l
Beaten woman, wfa una the pavraaar. I
ra-rmaa. aaawlatrd with her aaau. je MB -
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