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Kitetttrta fMlbllO -Xtdgtr, fnJfpmdtiica Smiorr, f MloiftjpwO; JIWCTMO r thb miUDCLrnu roT orrics ascosn class Mjtii. ii.fc. Philadelphia. ThuftJ.y, Mar EASY MONEY RE Is nothing to Indicate how lone tha leave of absence recently forced yjn Superintendent of Police Hoblnson BThrV.to continue. Captal.i James into e Ulso on inaenniie icave. u..... .. feat-Una; Just made by the City Controller FaaaUer advlco from City Solicitor Connelly EvtiM aatlrlcs of both officials are to be paid. ''.'.Captain Tate and his superintendent etrere nudged from their places unuer cir. biHamstances which definitely Implied an Ejattwimnsness or an inability to perform Sk&lr duties. There seems no reason nov tky they shouldn't remain away for llfty MatflA (feJiln every othet husiness a man Is fired liwhen he cannot or win not no nis worn. jKw as a city may at least be consoled 4tn tno tnougnt mar. our cnaruy is mu. e, even though we do not always reere I'ltjfor tho poor and the deserving. ? - i Commissioner Trotsky Is lcarnlnfi that 'government cannot be effected merely by leall8tlc manifesto. He Is now talking of KViWmpulsory service. Sf,THE KUBDER HEEL IN POLITICS IN THESE trying days Senator vare.Lon igressman Varo and John U.K. Scott and ST the motortruck driver with whom they aie curiously Infatuated that they want 'to aertd him to the State Senate aro (rood , t have about. They brighten tho hours. .'.The element of mystery In the situation fres it tans. i"v.Ko one will ever be able to tell what ujpteullar virtue of the truck-driving caste spted Congressman Varo into a fuddling ! ertlbltlon of ancient political hocus pocus iiaV thn Sixth District, where he seems to 've plotted In behalf of the chauffeur we cuier claim to recognition in mac 1 has tho same name as Dr. George rWlsodward, of Chestnut Hill a prior can- ate. f!jyIt doesn't matter. Theie are compensa- 'tte. Afr. Scott, tiptoeing heavily to Hnr MabursT on behalf of the gasoline candl- t. Congressman Vnre bawllne over the jtekphone at the man in Dauphin County 'rho told the courts about tho doings In Mm Sixth District, Senator vare chanting K t liars and making gestures of indignant ynTement these things are not half bad a. dull day. They need only a little 'itchy music and a chorus to make them th footlights and an orchestra, j jVi n tiia Aiuciuftcito oiciii pauiusis any fi A NEW THING IN THE NAVY IS not like the navy to put needless V blame for error on men who perish in aervlce. The court of inquiry which found that Lieutenant Kdwnrd D. MPell, of this city, was "partly" rcsponsl- i for the loss of the aged tug Cherokee, foundered near Cape Hcnlopen In ruary, has left too much unsaid. Lieu at Newell Is blamed by Inference be- of his youth. There Is an lntlma. n Jhat he should have insisted on "nec mry repairs." . tug went down with twenty-eight because she was unseaworthy. Lieu- Rtc in tho navy do not purchase ves Their service requires them to take , and to sail as they are told. Th pNUct aeems not only to be unjust. It fm'a. suggestion of ungraciousness which 'U the more strange because of IN lty in the naval service. ET There are a lot of bankbooks with pretty ;i . ut incoo aay, just arter i,wberty Loan campaign. t'V I,? JOAN'S REGIMENT iXiL the subtler rewards, of soldiering win aureiy ran to the 310th Reg!. a vi inianiry, now at camp Jleade. ever it arrives in France. Kor the la to be known as the Reclment n Be d'Arc. The commander. roinn.T IjjU.: Landers; the officers and the men maura ii. ine regimental crest has l,diwn and the regimental flag is . Blade. will France nnL rin fnt iAH. ,ioe bearing the. flair of ..Tnn. jltMie fiercest and most materlallatla aftkt tuMllairAa.4 a11 m -. - u.o.u.u, .ittuio, me one who m 10 poon-poon what the padre a, fcnona that in heaven fliem t. ne angel, that her face is wistful i ner name is Jeanne. Has he not far upon her ereat hora. n,i,. U waa most terrlbleT Haa h. ...,t feV whUper to hlrn in the charg? I What a man hai seen a t... .. X beUeT.t, ' 7 "" ' In France that the children iu mm an4 even"in Paris kn.it ,i... N,oim .their heads In reverenee- liAKiertcan najr .biased by at the ,.IM. Urst column of Amnw... Kh thlajaare) not possible else-' I no WW werld. If has been said MaWW Ot IAM oelumn panaa n i fcvw tkay OJ: But what will i when they saethe warn- we h, uwt. THE TUMULT IN ENGLAND pABINET crises are a habit with tho English In almost every Kreat emer gency. The temloncy helps merely to prove tho cold courage of the race. Thcio is something supremely gnllnnt, nsvcll as n touch of pathos and u leavening spark of mnjestic humor, in the spectado of a nation that can pause, knee-deep in fire, to oil its guns, to tighten its equip ment and, incidentally, to take u deep look at its conscience to sec if it he clean. Lloyd George has extraordinary tti umphs of solid achievement to his cicdit in England. Ho unified the nntion for the war. He dealt with ills and crowding errors bequeathed to him and to the coun try by generations of more pretentious men. He bridged widening ubysscs be tween the Government and the people and between labor nnd capital nt a time when such achievements were essential to the safety of the empire. He helped to give England the momentum that will carry her to victory. As certainly as Kitchener created ths armies of tho field, Lloyd George created and inspired the vaster nrmics that aie backing them up nt home. In his own land the Picmier has mani fested all the signs of devotion nnd con structive genius. The fault with him is that every time his mind leaves England it goes astray and gets into trouble. He cannot bee around the world. And states men nowadays must see around the world, or they are helpless in the dom inant causes. Even hould Lloyd George's Cabinet' fall, its essential works will re mal.i to benefit the world. The current assumption that Washing ton would prefer to see the Premier out is based doubtless on the belief already evident in somo quarters thnl. the part to bo played by England in the affairs of civilization after peace might better be directed by a farther-sighted statesmnn. English politics, which had been too busy with the world outside properly to consider its own people, faced n day of reckoning when the war began. Labor was d! ided, truculent, suspicious and un willing. The industrial forces of the contry were threatened with partial paralysis, though they were primary es sentials of tho war. Lloyd George was the little father to the British worker. He went about the country like a mis sioncr. He was a matchless interpreter between classes and factions. The people followed him. And when he had finally tamed the arrogant (spirit of British capi talism to tho logic and purposes of the war and to a spirit of sacrifice similar to that required of the workero, the whole nation called him wise. Yet Lloyd George affronted the inner spirit of the Russians after their first revolutionary experiment. He is blamed in part for the downfall of Kerensky and for the elimination of Russia from tho east front. He even flicked the British army on a sore spot in a speech at Paris. He blundered in Ireland. In relation to the Russia of the present, the British Premier wns compelled to revise his an nounced policy almost overnight in order to conform with the policy formulated at Washington a policy now universally admitted to be the right one. To say that Lloyd George has not been able to keep up with President Wilson in matters of world politics is not to imply unfavorable criticism. AH the world of international diplomacy lias lost its breath in the same chase and struggles forward honestly to applaud, an it were, between gasps. It is plain, through all this, that the pv.rely domestic question of nrmy man agement and the suggestion of deliberate misrepresentation in Parliament a charge which will not be taken ns the whole truth until it has been proved and analyzed is not tho dominant factor in the present crisis. General Maurice based his attack upon tho intimations of a weak domestic political policy which denied adequate man-power to tho nimy in its bitterest hours. If the whole of the British army, the men and tho officers, could have been transported by magic to London to speak with' one voice, it probably might have had a similar complaint to make ngainst the civilians in offi:e. Such criticism, however, must bo accepted as an indict ment of democratic institutions rather than of a Premier or a Parliament. Army officers aro not good politicians. Generals are not usually wise in the ways of democratic statesmanship. It is the habit of the military mind to be impatient of delays, to bo ruthless in method, since a soldier In the field must be ruthless or perish. But no soldier can understand the cross currents and the opposed forces without number which must be adjusted and reconciled and redirected and labored with in the processes of democratic gov ernment w'hen it is neccssaiy to unite a variously minded people to a common end. In his approaches to the mind of Eng land since he became Premier, Lloyd Georgo has occasionally manifested the sort of ovorcaution that makes him ap pear a politician of the first rank rather than a statesman of world dimensions. It has been said that he was afraid. He may have been. And yet ho may merely have exercised a subtle knowledge of tho elusive forces of public opinion and of the perversity of tho collective mind. Lord Derby and General Robertson long ago told of 'the need for greater man-power. They said it was an elemental need, a necessity for safety. Lloyd George per mitted the demand to go unrealized by failure to sanction the proper legislation, though he has since admitted the truth of their arguments. A stroke of bold states manship might have succeeded where political timidity failed. Had the recent man-power bill been enacted a year ago the British armies might have held the Germans back without the heavy losses in ground they were forced to endure. But would the British public have ad mitted that necessity a year ago any more readily than America a year ago would have admitted the necessity for un army of 3,000,000? It is conceivable that the extended conscription rulo which England has just accepted might have overturned the Lloyd George Cabinet if it had been ,forced through earlier. Tho political Instinct of tne rremier may have told him iki. He my have seen hia cabinet the prey to pa.rtjaa.ns and he may have PNtferred t' itemporice. aa he (did tern- .t -Atu J.l.L- fu.-lt t 91 . , rieariaai Jtwwu larger laaueB, not been able to do to the full. He has permitted public opinion to lead him or, nt least, to sway his judgments. Even admitting all this, it is well to remember that criticism is happy always in being able to deal only with theory. Achieve ments must deal with facts und concrete conditions. Therefore, tho "storms of criticism" which tho cables promise for Lloyd Georgo arc more or less regrettable. No matter what his weakness and his mistakes may have been, it is because of him that the force of England in the war cannot now be lessened, oven if he him self should fall. .Score one for tlio Supreme Court. It has decided that t'ongies has power to iale nn army nnd nd It anwhere In the world. ThereT nrn tlmen hcn that couit seems too technical, but It bus nlwa.ii risen to eery real emergency. Till: RAILROAD WAGE INCREASE UXDlMt the new schedule of ivnfo In creased Issued by the Feiforal Hallway Wage Commission vlttually nil men em ployed nn American r.illroads are nssmod n minimum wace of approximately $1 00 a month. It is expected that Secretary Mc Adoo will Immediately approve thn t-clipd-ule, which Is based upon an Intensive study of the llvliiR problem In all parts of the country made by tho wngo commission to determine the minimum expenditure nec essary tn maintain a worklngman nnd his fnmllj. Higher fieiRht rates .is n permanent factor In tho ceneral question of living cost are Inevitable unilir the new arrange ment. V't the (tuvcrnment obviously has soiiKht to relieve hardship among under paid employes of the railroads and to as sure tho srent majoilty means by which they mav live up in the standard of the normal American community. The chief benefits nf tho new wage rain will fall In most rnses to men who have made leas than $100 n month. Only 20 per cent of the railway emploves In this country nm members of the brotherhoods. Nnturallv thev have nlwrvs enjoyed a far Kreater prosprrltv th.in the unorganized clerks, switchmen. flaKinen nnd laborers. It Is with these latter classes that the Rail way tVnso Commission has been most con cerned. There arc 111.000 railway clerks who have received a wage which aver aged J5P a month Othcr'workers in the humbler classes fared no hotter When tho Investigations for the wnse commission were marie In T'hllailelplila It was found that a man who earned less than iz: a week wat usually foiced Into debt If he had a wife and family to sup pmt. This rule, apparently, was found to apply throughout the country, since $25 n week smith to bo the minimum which the railway administration desires to pay Its men no matter what the nature of their employment may he. It Is estimated that 1300,000,000 : year will bo required to meet the general salary Increase. Yet when tho schedule is analyzed It nppears that tho expenditure will bo neccsary to tho end of economic justlrr. Hartford, Conn., the former home of Sam riemens, reports the highest Llbertv Loan subscription of any i-ltv, 251 p-r cent of Its quota. That Is Mark Twain with n. venge ance, even Mark Two and n Half. Attaboy. Hartford! JMKS NORMAN HALL pAPTAI.V JAMES NOHMAN HALL, of s- tho American air bervlie. Is reported missing after a tilt with tho fierman "fly ing circus" ten miles insldo the German lines. Lacking positive news of Captain Hall's death wn may still hope that ho is In captivity. Wo know no words to tell the story of these cavaliers of tho clouds, around whom there has already clustered a high tradi tion nnd n. legend of stirring deeds. Hall himself would bo tho first to pooh-pooh heroles. but It must be said that his ca reer ns a fighting man has .shown all the qualities that seem to mark tho Anglo Saxon in war. Quiet, modest, humorous, resourceful, he has never shown tho swag ger or bravado thut might bo creditable. If anywhere. In a filing aco. After two years of service with "Kitchener's Mob," which he t,o delightfully describes In his book of that title (It ranks with Inn Hay's "First Hundred Thousand" us n picture of the first expeditionary force), ho entered the air service. A year ago ho was shot through the lungs, but made u remarkable recovery. His articles, running for some months in tho Atlantic Monthly under tho title "High Adventure." are probably the most vivid and whimsical nccount of the airman's Joys, pains and penalties that any American flier hns written. Iowa may well be proud of 'such a son. Behind tho meager words that spark across the cable when an airman falls In combat imagination paints us tho floor of clouds, the patrolling planes circling above It In tho bleak air. tVo can guess, even ai so great a distance, something of the taut nerve and hand, the keen bracing of faculty when mind and sense, mastering the most cunning machinery devised by man, beat os one pulse to meet the foe, Hiding with deuth, these lads are laughing cavaliers. And when Ihey fall they come down as Hall did, ten miles inside the Herman lines. A firm In Berlin- ad vertises a drug to allay the shooting pains caused llV hum... Well. That, Too, Will Come While not claimed to, be a complete substl tute for food, still It Is said to be almost as Joyous In tffect as. a wholo seldel of sausaga Now If they'd only invent a narcotic substN tute for Kaisers and Krupps. Hugo Schmidt, the paymaster In this country of the German Foreign Odlce, the man who kept the spies supplied with t)1jy envelopes, was known In Ilernstorffa secret code as "Sydney 1'lckford." Condolences with Mary are In order, War-savings stamps cost 14. K all thin month. They're worth 15 on Happy New Year's Day, 1913 : and they'll help to Iron out the Hoheniullerna In the meantime. Good old Spurlos Yersenkt I.mburg- has einbsrked for Sweden. To qualify aa .Vobel prlie-wlnner for the bat diplomatic bone pulled in a number of yearsT "Prussian Diet causas crisis." This may be true In mora stmts than one. The Smile on the Face of the Lion Von Arnlm Is the man AVho fights the Kaiser's foes; He sticks Mi head in the Lion' mouth And cr-r-runch, thn Lion goes. , allaVs hls.head in tba Lion's mouth BEEF, IRON AND WINE The Wstch on the Chlorine Prevailing western winds havo blown back the German poison gases over the llhlno towns. News dispatch. Of a' the nlrts the wind can blaw, I dearly love tho West! It blows the gas toward the Ithlne And gives tho Huns a taste. O bonny, bonny western wind Plow steadily, for If This high barometer keeps up The Kalser'II get a 'hiff. Green blow the gases, O; Green blow tho gases. O; The sweetest hours that Herr Krupp spends Are spent among the gases, Oh! Herr ICiupp detlares his poisoned alts His noblest work ho classes, O; His prentice Huns he tried on Runs, And then he made the gases, O! Social Notes Mr. Philip Warner, tne hlchl esteemed bookseller is still visiting the dentist. 'Wn wauled to celebrate his birthday eetcrday with a furlong of spaghetti, but It wns wheatless day. Messrs Vare. the prominent street un cleaners, must have suburban contracts too Oi t In Marathon our garbage has not been collected for ten days Sergeant Arthur Guv Kmpey, the well known over the topper, has written a song tailed "Your Lips Are No Man's Land Hut Mine." We haven't read the words nor lieai il the music, hut we can Imagine both. Arthur Is always where the barrago is deadliest. Miss Amelia Josephine Purr, of this city, has published a new volume of very beau tiful poems, in which we commend our attention. Piiv war-savings stamp-. Thai popular sonR "The Long, Long Trail" was written bv two Yale undergrad uates. Kvlilently a college education Is worth something after all. General von Krcvtag-Lorlnghoven. of the German Imperial staff, has written a book called "Deductions l'rom tho World War " Hut one of the deductions the General foi -got to mention Is the House of llohen zollern, which will certainly be deducted sooner or Inter What Is a Booh? One of our correspondents asks us to define a boob. A fellow who talks per sonalities In the train without looking to sec who Is sitting In the scat behind. Speaking of boobs, n friend of ours tho other dny whs praising tho vivacity of our present day speech nnd mentioning various modern coinages which, he thinks, will permanently enrich tho language. He In stanced the word boob. Yet it seems to us that boob s no more than tho very old English v.-ord booby. How about flivver? Maybe It comes from Shakespeaie? ViniKN somo one comes round ' To pledge you for a War-Chest con tribution, You may as well throw up your hands and cry Kamernil 1 Let him go through you with a bayo net, The boys need Your help. rontrlliuted In Hie War Cheat bj neef, Iron and Wine T Our last yeor's straw Ud is rather vellow looking, but If we pin our Liberty Bond button on It maybe the public will nccept It at any rate as a token hat. SOCRATKS. Oratory Then and Now Western chronicles lay great htress upon the oratorical pnmrN of both ministers nnd politicians. Henry Ward Hoecher. who heln a pastorate at Indianapolis (1839.47) was already famed as an eloijuenj preacher before he moved to llrookljn Not long ago 1 heard a number of dletlnrulshed politicians discussing American oratory. Some one mentioned the addresses delivered by Beecher In England during the Civil War, and there was general agreement that one of these, the Liverpool spetch, was probably the greatest of American orations a sweeping statement but Its Irresistible logic and a tense of th hostile atmosphere In which It was spol;en may still be felt In the printed page. The tradition of Lincoln's power as an orator Is well fortified by tho great company of contemporaries who wrote of him, as well as by the text of his speeches, which still vibrate with the nobility, the restrained strength, with which he addressed himself to mighty events. Neither before nor since his day has tho West spoken to the Kast with anything approaching the majesty of his Cooper Union speech. It Is certainly a far cry from tha.t lofty utterance to Mr. Bryan's defiant cross-of-goid challenge of 1898. Meredith Nicholson In Scrlbner's Mag. azlne, Sandburg on His Prrdeceiion Carl Sandburg, of Chicago, writer of queer stuff which Amy Lowell calls poetry, makes the following original comments on some earlier poets In the course of an article In Pep i "Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Is a hell of a book, because It Is the spiritual narrative of a sober Puritan writing with the discon nected lurldltv of a booieflghter. The rea ron Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Is going to the discard and Walt Whitman stands stronger to the test of time Is because Long fellow prattled a meaningless bunk for babies about 'The Village Blacksmith,' while Walt 'Whltnian took an honest-to-God Broad way cab driver and wrote about the funeral of the cabby, so that some of us almost feel ourselves hanging on to Walt's sleeve and looking In at the face hi the coffin. The thing llvts because It Is a concentrated New York 'feature story' of sixty years back." x Well Said The dlaappea ranee of the War Depart ment's weekly war summary will fill B long felt want. ,The cost or the white paper and time thus sived. If Invested In thrift stamps will clearly do much more to advance the war New York Evening Post. a ' The Flower That Bloonn in the Cpld, Tra-Ii Maryland has selected the blacji-eyed Susan as her Stat flower, and the Los An. gtles Times thinks it should have selected the oyster. So we think. It blooms through the winter months. St. Louis (Kobe-Democrat. iJ!- Tennis: Is It Sport or Vanity? y WALTER VMCUAIW KATON T HAVK reached the age when I mi) about - to take up tennis again. No arbitrary figure can be set for this age, as it varies In ilinv-iont men Put P conies to all of us, (.ooncr or later, no less surely than the age comes to n woman when she resumes dancing nnd reconsiders her hips (If. Indeed, any woman ever forgets her hips'). The man I am going to resume tennis with Is nearly fiftv. I am nearly but that doesn't matter. What matters Is that I have decided I'm not old enough to settle down to such a grandfather's paino as golf Why, for the last ten years. I thought I was Is a ridiculous mystery. I bhall now prove my vlmllty and endurance and speed 1 shall dash hither and yon over the court, volleying, smashing, the picture of muscular graco and alertness, Jiut as I used to do twenty years ago. After all, a man Is ns old ns ho feels. OK COUKSrj, why I've been plning golf exclusively for u decade now Isn't a mys tery at nil, however lldkulous the reason may be. I quit tor the same reason my dog quit playing with year-old pupplesr In n v-ord. wind We all reach n point sooner or later, depending upon how much we smoKe and how crafty h game we plaj, when we can't hold nil' own on tin- courts with the joungsters without so much effort that the game isn't worth tho candle. When that point is reached we suddenly discover that golf Is an immensely superior sport, requiring far more real skill m d concentrated Intel lectuality. (It Is proper always to speak of the Intellectuality of golf, the mental "con centration" required, though, as a matter of rold fact, the less mentality and the more subconscious muscular Instinct the better. If ou have to think muscular co-ordination you'll never make either an aviator or a scratch golfer.) THK real reason why we give up tennis and take to golf at this sad perishing of our lives Is the absence of wind nnd the presence of vanity for nothing Is so vain as a man, not even a woman. We haven't the wind to hold up our end with the college young sters who play ten sets of tennis, take a swim, go drink sodas, eat huge suppers and then dance till midnight; and we haven't the courage to face defeat or else take on antiquated opponents like ourselves. We have the feel of the game In all our muscles, we have all the strokes working and we are too vain to sink down to the pitter-patter style of plav. So we suddenly discover the superiority of golf. THKUi: probably never comes a time when a man ceases to be vain, but he Is enough of a "realist" to admit after a certain span of years that possibly he Is losTng some of his hair: that possibly the gauzy buds who are dancing around the hall aren't a bit In terested In him, and would submit only out of politeness or Inability to think of nn alibi quickly enough If he nsked one of them for the next waltz; th.it possibly It Is foolish for him to expect to have the wind and stamina to endure ten sets against an India-rubber youth of twenty. Once these disquieting, yet, on the whole, rather comfortablo admissions .have been made, the man Is ripe for tennis again, because he has now reached the state of mind where he Is willing to take on a pitter-patter partner. His muscles still yearn for a certain violence of exercise; lie has the longing still to smash a ball (n-i of the reasons his golf has never been ',,'er than It Isl), and he'B eager to show the i ,vd on the club vtranda that "there's pep In the old man yet." (Of course, the crowd on the club veranda really doesn't care a rap whether there Is or not.) So he finds somebody else alio titillating on the verge of a return to tennis, and there are mutual challenges and discussions of past prowess. Butbotli men have forgotten their strokes, and the opening contest will develop Into a war of attention, a battle to see who will put the fewer balls over the back net. I know, because I tried three sets last summer. IT IS on of the most annoying sensaUons In the world, this sensation of knowing exactly how a thing ought to be done, having. Indeed, a vivid memory of how you imca did it. and yet finding your brain utterly in canabla of directing your muscles to do It. How sweet that Lawford used to rise qff your racket ana amp suarpiy aown jusi, inside """? - "'. M ESTIMATING THE DAMAGE Lawnuil on these fcai ful modern riltt courts, glaring and hard, with their IiIkIi bounds and uoiivieldliiK siirfai-e off which u cut ball bounces ns true as n other) and It shoots over the back net. You lr rt drive ilown the nllev, and U nhnnst wings tho debutante di Inking ginger ale on the cluhlwuse tcrandn. It Is iinniijlng and stimulating. GOI.I", lliey t,a, hues .vnu cur onward to waid un Impossible perfection Hut ten nis lpMimod again at forty Iutph .vou toward a not imposhlhlc perfection you know- It is not Impossible because you once attained it. At forty ou remember vividly what a fine player u were at twenty Your strokeB never went wrong, ami what a hting they had! How seldom u ever hud to serve the second ball' And as for double faults whv, you never made any. If you did It once, of course you can do It again. This Idea that a man must give, up tennis as soon us ho goes into b'!Klnes Is nil rot. Of course, this first day you aie pretty rusty: Hint's only natural. But after a week It will all come bnck to von. 0 II. WPI.L, life would bo n dull thing with out its delusions, and snort would h In tolerable. I never met but one man hi my life who leallv pluyc!l a game "for the exercise" nnd he wns so poor nt It hs could never find nn opponent At bottom, we play all games to minister to our vanity, which Is the grenteft of nil delusions. A Blow on the Tip of the Jaw Slnyor Hylan. of New York, has had some pretty bard knocks from the newspapers and Individuals since he took office In January, but many persons believe that Chniles I'. Murphy, lender of Tammany Hall, struck him the hardest blow of all. Mr. Murphy said the other day that he was perfectly satisfied with Major Hylan up to date. Hartford Courant. Texas Doubt Him Tiotsky Is now- urging Husslu to return to tho war This Implies that there Is some of Ttussla left or th.t Trotsky Is broke nnd bus found something else to sell to the Kaiser. Houston Post. War anil Ideul Do you believe that the war has nn.v tiling tn do with Ideals? If 5 on don't, what do you make of the fact that In Germany Juvenile delinquency has increased 100 per cent since the war. while III America It has decreased DO per cent? Cleveland Plain Dealer. Scott at a Reformer To the KilUarot the Kventno PtilUc l.edfier: Sir Heading In your paper what John It. K. Scott has to say about the Fourteenth Ward makes me smile. I was born and brought up In that ward and voted In the 9th division, and It was certainly rotten politically long before the old realdenters moved away and It became part of, the tenderloin. I took" an interest In many reform fights, and If Mr. Scott did not have guilty knowl edge of the plural voting going on and the crooked methods used to keep honest men from casting the ballot, then his Intelligence Is of a very low order. Whether Penrose controlled the ward or not in times past, this man Scott, on election days, would roll up In his car und consult with the crookej division leaders, and seemed perfectly satisfied with conditions us he saw them. Of course Mr. Scott was rarely seen In the ward only on election days as he lived. I believe. In Montgomery County, keep ing a room In his brother's drug store at Thirteenth and Poplar streets as a legal residence, so for tills reason he may plead ignorance of the fact that negroes voted on white men's pames, and that houses of 111 fame were protected by politicians, so Ille gal voters could give these places as their homes when registering. The polling place for the 9th division was at Eleventh and Mount Vernon, nnd was sup. posed to be much cleaner than many others In the ward; but, take It froni me who knows that It was worse than bad that John It. K. Scott must have known something about conditions; but I never heard of him doing anything about It until the Earle fla-ht and then th dirty linen, of both faction was waahed in plain alght of , decent mat) to tmim asjna,ap iaim mt m w&fflmBmWA$M Such a Game for Soldier! Ity .sra'''iV If. MEAIiLR SlCDATi: footsteps appronched along the flagstones. Ah they paused at tho bench next mine I turned and saw tho joungest lieutenant and his grandmother, urin lu arm. My eyes lingered lovingly on them as they settled down upon tho bench. They were very beautiful. The boy suiolj he wns not over nineteen --looked big nnd graceful lu his khaki, lis had freth, downy cheeks nnd hair that matched tho -Fold bur on his shoulder. Tho bashful quality In his blue ees was belled h the Insignia of his branch of the service aviation The little old lady by bis side was dressed in black satin, with a dainty lace kerchief niyl cap. Having a weakness for old ladles, I fell nn instant captive to this one. What havoc she must have wrought at the assem blies fifty yenrs ago with those snapping black ejes! At that particular Instnnt they were quite blacjc and very snapping "Fiddlesticks !" she said. "Hemembar, Larry, I know- young men, and purely you don t fly nil the tune! Tell me the rest!" HI! GIIINNED. "Not much thuo fbr girls, If Hint's what cm mean, of course, we havo n chance, to study und lend books, and there's niusle "imietluies lu tho evening. Then we play. games, dominoes and five hun ched, and and " "Perhaps thut new game I've heard ubo.ut," slip suggested. "They call It 'shooting ' let inn see 'shooting crop' ! A game of skill, I bcllove?" Tho youngest lieutenant glanced In my direction, slightly flustered. "Kr yes," he answered, "I think It does tnke skill, You tee they throw little Pieces of Ivory try to make 'em land right and all that soit of thing. Here like this I" and he Illustrated with a familiar gesture that ended Involuntarily In a snap of the fingers. I strangled un Intense desire to shout, "Comi Seven!" and he winked desperately as hi caught my eye. GltAXDMOTHI'P. pursed her lips. "Very like Jackstones, 1 daresay," she nodded. "I often played with, them as a child." The black eyes looked off across tho square, "A soldier's life seems to have changed since th old das." She paused and smiled, "They were gav, gay boys I remember the last dance before Bull Pun, nnd your grandfather In his glorious uniform he was In tho Troop. 1....... T ..... all l.rnl.1 .....I ... ..1 . ... I ,,.,14 IttlW" , ,,.,J ,. ,.... ..1IM CJIUUICVlCa 1 t Ah. wbut u cavalier he looked! Though " really. Lurry she looked down at the trimly capaiisoned legs of her companion, "I do think your outfit rather becomes you. What was 1 saving? Oh, I recall such dash ing men they were In those days! Quite wicked, I'm nfrnld. but biave, nnd oh. so handsome 1 .Come, boy, we must be starting ! bnck." She rose nnd took his arm. , j "Jackstqnes I" she said, with something-i approaching n snort. "But then, they are ." such children 1" What Do You Know? QUIZ Kor nlioni wm IViuimIwuiIu iiumedf Where U Selnialomi:? I.I.. I. .Iii. lit. !- . flnnlk lln.,lola 'ainii the author of "Two Yenra llcfors thai lilentifv the "VIerrj Vlonardi." VVhnt la . wlieeWior? Who la Print- Hlt" at llourbou? What I' u l-i"urf? Name lie rniiiiiu oi imriiami, aa ho wn the aeiunil I'realdent of the UnlUd! Ntatea? -Jt Antvvert to Yetten'ay's Qulr . . .1 . ,.. ,k. ...nl. .1 .. ' ,. , I, loiiiu , iit ,.ie,i, . .-.r.r iuth, , 3. The nuniernla In the namea of lielihta Anas rldsea In the w, linlf- allUnsa. In mrtrra. Tluia. Mill No, St Is eli-htr-two metera In lieialit. S. Oceanojrruiilurt lli aelenre of oceanic ft. srapliy end related aubjeria. 4. The htstenf Ielar wns named far Lara Ha l Warr, un Knill.h Colonial Uovereer nf Mrvlnln. - 'i 8. J, T. Irawbrldst, nn American author the period hnnii-dliitrlr folio Ins tho War. wrote "f'udja'a fare" and 'Na Lor Jaekwood." non-la with CIIM aeii, na. Hum, mire nau an en 6. Th.ma,rtrr Vrtalde'nta. of th Untied. Aimnmu i.inroin. .lamca a. liar William MrKlnler. , 1. aioiovt - a'f wm vriaaiu BW4 at' ihvip avwH4lw i, i'.f.'.: !':. l... L 19tC XAA '..- ' .A.", 1-
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