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CANT THIS BE STOWED?
" CIEVGRAL hundred mlnerH ktf been
i.Aj ..W inlf.n from IIia nnti-;i-'l( rot-In, t tiv ll)it
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fVSffiaraft within a dav or two.
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At. .t & Aiito 19 n. luniani.. vu laiinui in tin;
iJfS tyfar wltJ-out coal and we cannot set coal
l&iVWlthour miners. The ISngllsh learned this
'. iarly p the war and they had to send over
Vv!w i ... . .....
t ii una la h. itiiniHKi;. lie cuiiiiul 111 i uu
WLi""! France and sort out of their urn'lcs
fcKthoUsands of miners who hut! ln-cn put In
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wo Knew of (ho blunder tho Knciisn
FAjV'madQ and we were warned u?aitist it, but
wfKr'thoae in authority seem tu liavo Icnoted
J.i. ' t tlin ,nv.ln.v
1 It la about time a system was worUeil
out for excmptlns'from the draft the men
T(iAnEaKd in occupations necessary to the
conduct or me war. At present mere
Tho commandant of the 1?otm Navy
J Tard has ordered the otlKers to hulute tha
. yebwomen, but not in the New Testaimnt
Uffi manner.
SANCTITY OK THE "GROWLER" AND
OTHER THINGS
'W-. XTE:
!IIi BONNEU has made u remark
which convinces us that one-half the
A'V'a.nrnAn ,n ,n V nritt hnvi t ho nthpf liilf
fcrv;r "" : .
1st .dtinks. The Iietall L.iquor Ueulerb vs-
ijWj ''ui;inuuji iuo ut'uutu iiiut iiit-pi iuja l
fcf""oJvv J" eoweauay iib infiTiucs -win tea si: m'iuiik
VtW i. i Bfrntuijua iiquui a in uuih, unt iiiul n win
Sj-Xy protect the sanctity- of tho "growler."
t&ffiVTh prowler? Don't you know what
Rnt . -Vi a - T Id tiA ..... tUn l.imlrnl . I,a
r r Ji ub lr la iiiu t,aii iitu unv,i i, itiv
w-jSoIah. the paiL the pitcher or what you will
g"vthat .the honest housewife (according to
dvjut; Conner; xaK-'s to me suie-uoor oi a
SSjijaJoonof an evening to be tilled with beer.
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T,,'xn cannv woman ureases tne nsto or
DHpntlif. can or bucket no that the barkeeper
MJ "1"" Ab 1HI tlUlll, UUl lilVaOi tSV li(.'l
trnnA mnnaiirn 1t l)mtnni c-n-u 1n.f If
, Duvw l.Wfca 4 . 1UMIH.l OUJkl LIIIIV. 1
(,vino women are not to do perrntttcu to set
iiMthetr beer in this way they will sit in the
j saci: rooms of the saloons and be demoral-
; ' lised, So the growler trade must he pro
tected In the interests of womanly Irtue!
5 PerhaDS he is ritht. But lie Is an nvrmi-f
fjr ud must know.
tr"-' " Creel says he was only joking, hut
t, L.nsress aoes not yet tee tne point of his
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TROUBLES OF THE AIR MAIL
(rTfVBYIOUSIA' the new air mail service is
experiencing some trouble in adjusting
ijJiiflUeu?. to schedule and in overcoming the
fRsjcBOVet dlfllcultles of an experimental serv-
CTfvff.. ClkHtA .. 4 V... ....11 .ln.n l.n.... I.n..n
iw. uiiq ui. Lite iiiau ituiita iiuu ucun
B., Two have had to drop in the course
the Journey between hero and New
P.SSjyorlc. Their letters were shipped by tall.
HS-jJrhe record of the air mall service doesn't
PivSMtarmonlze so far with the notions of the
w-eWerage man, who knows of aviation
gVf&Through his reading about the amazingly
,jSflfcient work of the air fighters In Hurope.
v.,4919.'(tmVLCl Ul liL.V 1IIT IIICIQ 111 lC till
Lft-yaBrvice have done extraordinarily well.
it-Odd its it may sound, they face dilliculties
i& unknown to the war aviators. Because
.' 'fV.kta.a.f.at'i . 11a... a..a. il.lnl.h, l.a.tl . a.rtrl
si.ucfi uuursc ilea yvei liii-ii uuiil ui viiu
BfAj populated regions they are forced to fly ut
gsreat height. This U necessary because
,m forced descent in or near a town or city
often involves disaster. The aviator who
JiV"flti nvaf. Hiittt.iiit fnnimilnlllpit milat rn
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K"VrlU5ll -Hi uruer iiiui. lie niuy uc ttutu iu tudai
4TiAll UPCIl UUUIIkiy 111 VcWC Ul IIUUIHC, ittl
ItT.-!! A..I..A..n V.n.... tUt.. I.lnj.nn. In tt.nl.
.' fUill aviaiuia ituc tttta itiiiut ttttt.c tit 1111:11
Ijfvork over strange country and on routes
$thfarhtliar to them.
BO There is no doubt that tho new air mall
Ejirvce will be valuable. Inspiring and ef-
Mclent. The postal filers are the pioneers
ftf a, service that is sure to be expanded
SftMr' 'n a 'ew 3"cars ' accommodate pas
V .eneera as well as mail matter. And best
'ttCall, it Is giving a real excuse for trying
toeut, our army fliers both men and ma-
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iv? 'j. Some one is hunting for America s
rjilkddest boy. There have been times when
' t' e President thought he could name tne
SP- wrst one it the limit wero raised to Include
f who wear Ions trousers.
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nft i ut itAVt. la uii
j-international contest now on In tho
iiipyards oi Great Britain and America
ltreo spectacular as a. race or a yacht-
$&$ 6ut jt-is more exciting just now.
('present America nqias tne rivetera
ror a woriiman in tne uaitimore
Uie Bethlehem Shipbuilding Cor-
n drove 4S7E rivets In nlno hours
areday, beating Tuesday's record of
nan in Scotland! by 353 rivets.
i ia real sport There is no trickery
Mt, Th,e rivet has to be driyen home
!Mded or it 'does pot count. And the
i at- which the men are playing is
; of beating 'jhe German submarines.
Baltimore yard 'holds tbo prize for
tb'?ment. It has besri competing with
r ioomestic plants where the rivalry
ay Keen, novt mat. it nas lateen on,
rnatlonal character the' lovern of
vol, ek)U ari .likely to watch for the
rfn'week to week with as much
an (he baseball fans scan '-he
dj;.Bvcry afternoon for tha ro-
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TUESDAY'S PRIMARIES ,
Who the Caiulldaico Are and 'What They
Stand For Issues of the
Campaign
N0J
MINAT10NS for State odiccs and
onpfcss are to be mudc nt the pri-
have nlirndy been held in the private
oflices of the party nr.d factionnl lend
ers and candidates to be voted for have
been nnmed. We no longer attempt to
delude ourselves into bclievinp; that the
untrummeled electorate Roes to tho polls
and out of its wisdom selects the best
candidates, regardless of the will of the
party organizations. The primary in
use is an expensive and cumbersome way
of making nominations, which often
deprives an unconupted and militant
minority of the power of forcing from a
majority better nominations than il
would give if left to itself.
The Democrats will be virtually re
stricted in their choice of candidates for
the governorship to GulTey and Honni
well. Votes may he cast for other men,
but they will he too few to affect the
result. Honniwell is frankly the candi
date of the liquor interests. He is
opposed to the ratification of the prohibi
tion amendment to the Federal Constitu
tion and he is seeking support among
those who believe as he does. He may be
nominated, for no one knows the senti
ment of tho rank and file of the Demo
cratic party in the State on the subject
of national prohibition and no on knows
what support ho will get from the old
bipartisan gang which wishes to keep
solid with the liquor men.
Mr. GufTcy fe.vors the amendment.
He hopes to draw to his support the bet
ter element of his party. He is one of
the reorganizes who broke up the
alliance between the Republican State
machine and the Democratic organiza
tion. Mr. Guffey is a real Democrat, who
believes in a straight-out fight. Hi
nomination would mean that the party
had set out to fight its own battles with
out dickers with the Republicans.
The contest on the Republican side is
between Mr. Sproul and Mr. O'Xeil for
the governorship and between Mr. Bcidlc
man and Mr. Scott for the lieutenant
governorship. It would be incorrect to
say that it is between Sproul and Rcidlo
man on the one hand and O'Ncil and
Scott on tho other, for some supporters
of Sproul are also working for Scott.
All the Republican candidates profess
to favor the prohibition amendment, but
Mr. Scott voted against its ratification
by Congress when it went on its final
passage last December. Congressman
Vare also voted against it. Scott and
the Varcs were anti-amendmontists in
December and are pro-admondmentists
in May. Mr. O'Neil is squarely opposed
to the liquor business. He is anti
Pcnrose as well, for he does not relish
the relationship that has existed between
the brewers and distillers and tho Pen
rose organization. If nominated he will
continue the Brumbaugh policies, for he
has announced that if elected he would
make Francis Sliunk Brown his Attor
ney General. This would mean the con
tinued dominance of the Vare influence
in the Executive Mansion. Mr. O'Neil is
undoubtedly popular in the western and
central part of the State, where there is
jealousy of the influence of all the Phila
delphia leaders.
Mr. Sproul. so far as he is tied up with
factionalism, is attached to the Penrose
wing of the party. He has had long
experience in tho State Senate. He is a
man of lnrge business affairs and of
undoubted executive ability. The local
Vare leaders are said to bo working for
his nomination, expecting perhaps that
they will find him as amenable to their
control as Brumbaugh as Governor and
Smith in the Mayor's office. We know,
however, what Mr. Sproul has been as
Senator and can judge from that what
he would be as Governor. His friends
say he would be his own master in Har
risburg. His enemies say he would be
the agent of Penrose. He might attempt
to play Penrose against the Vures and
hold them both at bay. That remains to
be seen. Penrose at any rate is willing
to trust him and is throwing his great
influence in favor of the Chester states
man. The voters will make a grave mistake
if they allow their attention to be dis
tracted from the legislative candidates
by the fight for the governorship. Tho
Governor cannot pass or defeat the pro
hibition amendment. That must be
acted upon by the General Assembly.
The voters will blunder also if they
fail to recognize that there are other
issues besides the liquor question involved
in the election. That is important, but
it is a single question. It is more impor
tant for the Commonwealth that a
Legislature be elected which favors
economy and efficiency and will take
steps to reform the State Constitution
than that we have a Legislature which
favors prohibition, will continue the old
practices, ignore thj demand for a
reform of the fundamental law and the
correction of the evils of government in
the large cities.
A gang of workmen at Hog Island has
set 101 tons of steel In eight hours; but
what is Colonel Bogey's score?
LOAFERS
WORK, when you stop to think of it, is
rather hard to defluo intelligently.
Labor is not always useful In proportion
to the degree of energy required in its per
formance, A burglar works hard. If de
voted toll was In Itself admirable the man
who cracks a safe should be esteemed in
any division of society. On the other
hand, poets do not work, nor do captains
of-industry engage in the arduous manual
labor' which s the commonly accepted
symbol of simple virtue. It Is dlfllcult to
define and tabulate the qualities that make
a, loafer,
.Councils aren't dismayed, however, by
ueh abstract p&uvm oi one of Mi
the fash
ionable questions of the hour. Councils
have approved tho Bourse's suggestion for
an nuti-loaflng law and u bill to mako
loafing a crime Is now actually in tho bands
of ono of tho committees. Antl-loadng
laws havo been signed In New York, In New
Jcisey and In Marland. It is said that
countless lnrurahlo Idlers are drifting to
Philadelphia idlers rich and poor, young
and old for refuge.
The cuinunities that bne already passed
l.iwi against Idleness lmn religiously ic
fralned from all efforts to define work,
t'sually the provision is that all persons
between tvcnU-onr and llfty who ate not
engaged III "iceognlsTd. systematic and use
ful rniplo.viuciit" lire candidates for the
police court mi matter what their prestlgo
or their social estate may he.
Cut wouldn't on iintl-lnallmr bill crcalo
havoc in Councils themselves'.' Wouldn't
It ilesolale the political wing of tho Mnrulii
Culldlng"
Jim
Si'hvwib
Mill I in
I will bf moving dn.v for Mr.
us wi'll us r.tr the suet't Indies lm
tltilllile lillllle-s lllfll
GOOD USE FOR FREDERICK
SKNATOI! CAM
gi ess to oi iler
A M. INCUR has aslicil Con-
that the statue of Fred
erick the Ci'eiit In Washington Iw melted
anil I in ned into war tiinleri.il. We do not
Know what Cmuics will do about it. but
there would bu a surt i.f poetic justice In
using the stnlue, which the Kaiser gave In
Aineilin as p.ul of his prn-Cerman propa
ganda, for carrving tho propaganda against
K.'iIm'I'imu.
til eat Caesar, dead mid turned to clay,
slopped a hole to keep the wind away, and
the great Frederick, molded Into guns, may
well be used to stop a raid and chuck I ho
Huns.
Some of Mr Peolt's ruppnrtii- me s.iv
Inc they ;ne for him Iwiiun1 he !- no vvors-c
than neldleinaii.
KERENSKY'S MISSION
Nn ANM.it',
spei'ltli' ml'
ANNorNCK.MKNT of Ktrenskj's
Isslou to America has iicconi-
pained the report that lie will arrive in
this country on Moiida or Tuesday. Cut
he undoubtedly comes In the interest of a
tree Itussla.
As such he deserves a hearty welcome
and a icspcclfiil hcrlnp. Cven though
he represents no one but himself, lie Is
equipped bv knowledge and experience to
give the State Department information
which It can get nowhere ct."e so well.
Amciicu is svnipatlictic with the aspira
tions of the Russians. It Is hoping that
the nation ran organize Itself to icsisl the
Cernian plans of absorption In time to
keep the Ceiman armies busy on the
eastern front. It is hoping, too, that
leaders will arise Willi a sense of their re
sponsibilities to established and orderly .so
ciety and organize a government which
will conserve the libel lies and lerources of
the nation. The men In tho iiiiddlo at
present have not pioved themselves to In.,
men of this type.
The sufliiigtsts now i nil him (Ileal Scott.
Slneki is who have mmikIiI draft hn
munily in the slilpj .nils aie not Hading the
timber theie very tall.
Vin-lc
-.un will spend I3.iliin.non for new
housis in Camden. This is one vvi of
relieving the pressnie on tin ferrh's.
living ltneluilor wiites to Hit e-.Iaor
of Rome that Amern'.L will si ml I n.iinii.nnii
soldii'rs t" Kilinpt' if n ssiii.v. and Ihe c.-
Mavtn is apprnprlatfly heartened.
It tnok about a work to Kvl 1'al i olniati
AiH'ibui'h la jail Now that nMau. uit
Ufp,)fr who in ho asaultftl oukIu to bo al
lowed to do business uthoul fuithcr moles
tation. THE CHAFFING DISH
Thoughts in a Thunderstorm
Marathon 13 a great place for thunder
storms. Whenever there's all electrical dis
till banco in the neighborhood It conies and
camps out on our hill.
We don't care for thunderstorms. When
the lightning gets so filundly we always
wonder whether anything personal is In
tended. And lightning is so hast, don't
j 011 think'.'
When we see those big purplu clouds
piling up over our bean patch, and those
unpleasant .vcllow and gieon ribs of light
ning Muckering down In that careless and
irresponsible manner, all the ill-assorted in
formation we half remember about thunder
storms comes into our mind.
We remember hearing of so many cows
struck by lightning that we get u hit wor
ned about the baby's milk In the icebos.
So we hun down and make the infant
drink all the milk and sneak out and put
the bottles on the next-door neighbor's back
pinch. Then we recall that milk turns sour
in a thunderstorm and are afraid to tell
our wife what we havo done.
tlenerally our wife is out calling or
away .somewheru elte during a thunder
stoim, and we have to bear the peril alone.
We put all the umbrellas In the cellar.
We take our new penknife, out of our
pocket and put It In an old rubber boot in
the cupboaid.
We have recently had some new fillings
put in our teeth, and we have an idea they
attract the lightning- That worries us
greatly.
Wo hide our safety razor under the
bathtub.
Then we go down to the kitchen to as
sure the cook that there Is absolutely no
danger.
These must bo anxious days for Kills
Parker Butler, the well-known author of
"Pigs Is Pigs." The 1918 issue of "Who's
Who" will (toon bo out and we hope it will
list him correctly. The 1917 edition had
him down as Alice Parker Butler. We
wonder why they didn't call his famous
story "Sows. Is Sows."
A spare box of matches is Just as impor
tant for a man as a spare tiro for an auto-1
mobile.
Deck Mottoes
Dear Socrates My desk motto- comes
from Mark Twain. It Is this:
To be good Is noble; to leach others to be
coot) is nobler still, and less (rouble.
GEOFFREY.
Evidently the "petroleum peace" in Ru
mania has lubricated Herman propaganda
In Mexico. Carranza i's now trying to stir
up an oil war. He may find those Tamplco
old fields Carrancid; SOCRATES.
GVYNEMER
THE ACE OF ACES
I Wv Christopher Morlry
IN Till: dingy hall of a dismantled depart
ment store on Market street lies a little
brown bird with outspiend wings. It seems
to strain upwunl. eager to launch itself Into
tlie tlcnti blue air. above the gloom and con
finement of flint eiowilnl sluice. Us tall Is
slrlptd with the Immortal colors of France.
On Its hotly Is painted a led i-iork. It is ona
of the fninons Clgogne csearlrllle It is tltiy
neiners plane. It Is the I'iriiJ- f'nrcs.
WHAT could Minnies the tenderness, tho
shnplltit.v. the masculine feeling In those
two brief words I'lritj- rharlcn! "Old
rlmvlr.1." the llllle brown plane (so gallant
and so small) In which iluvnenier won tvven-lv-t'wo
of his lirty-three ollli-i.il triumphs.
What a slory that little brown bird he
called 11 affectionately his "cuckoo" could
tell If It could Hpeiik! Never again will it
see Uie riimilhir IlKure, lull, pale and thin,
with the burning blink e.i es. iliiynemer. the
A f Aces, the Idol of Fiance, the heroic
btiv who snared w high Into the heaven of
Klorv tlnil one dn.v lie tllsappentcd and never
ciine bad, 1 iuj nciiier ls gone There Is a
legend In l-'i.inee that his plane lldes the
air still Ficnch childieii s-ipilnt into the sky
10 sen that hnaghnii.v black speck. He whoso
soul was lll,n a Maine hovels fin ever in tho
azure of 11 nov -i
Gi:uRiii:s
Ceeeiubir
ill VM'I.MKK. born in Palls
J I. It!' I, of a hlstriile soldier
fimiilv. has entered the ranks of the proudest
chivalry of earth, the w allium of 1- riince.
J11 his youth his passionate fury of combat,
his in iieiunii- ii'ivuus vitality, there was an
echo of the veiy pulse of France. His life
spoke to the lieart of the nation. Honoilng
him, she honoietl her own Instincts, her own
trui st Ideals. II- was her eaglet, her Imp of
glory.
TT WAS when he t luunini t
Krihs. the son of a vvell-k
luiinmiil Willi .lean
iioit 11 Ficnch
automobile engu r. that his vocation began
In show ilself i he IWO hnv s IIM'il til wall'
In the Champs F.l.vsees, wing with each
oilier to lilcntlt'v the make ami power of the
curs that passed When the scholars m.Vle
expeditions with their teachers In see engi
neering factories, iliurges was alwa.vs linger
ing behind lo ask tpiestlons of the workmen
when the nlhtrs had bet 11 lined up for the
return trip, lie wanted to see and touch and
untli.i-staiid 1 vi 1 v Hung. 1 me day an airplane
Hew ovtr the m hool nrd. Years afterward
he told his father or the incident:
"I don't know what happened in me. 1
felt an eiutilliiii si pinfoiiud it was almost
religious, Vttu nni'-t believe me when I till
joii 'c ioi 1,1 be an avialor."
And one ttf bis schoolfellows savs: " hen
evtr an implant- happentd to tly over that
part of the cit he tollowtil It with his ejes
and lenialnetl watching the sky lung after 11
had ihsappt ared."
HIS fatht r. however, discouraged the idea.
Aviation was. not a caicer, he told hhn ,
If was niilv a sport Which was liw licfmc
the war. And tin 11 ileorges admitted his
great seen t, that as a schoolhoj he had been
up in an airplane He had persuaded a flier
at I'orhcriiilieti, mar his home In Compiegne,
to take ltl 1 11 up. I'louched behind the pilot,
his arms clutched tightly imind the man's
body, he hail tasted the gkuy of the air.
WHHN the war broke out (leorges was
with his patents at Itlarritz. For the
inoiut-nt his old ilicnms wete forgotten. Ills
onl thought was to m-i-vc In any possible
wa. l!ul he was twice rejrcKd for military
service. He was Indeed too trail for the in
fantr.v. He was In disp.iir and w-amleted in
mournful htondingH about the sandy beaches.
Then one day a plane landed on the seashoic
He rushed up to the aviator and asked how
he could get into the air service. The man
fold 111 in to go to the living Held at P.m.
He did so the net tla, anil his earne-am ss
and glowing dark e.ves prevailed upon the
ciimtnander. on November J1 he was eni
plnvci as an appi entice mechanician. In
duty oveialls he cleaned the engines, studied
the machines In detail and. as one of the
tlieis said, would ciurv 11 Inn ket of water
across the field Willi enthusiasm If the pilot
would only nnswir a tmestlon hi return. In
January, CUB, he licc.inie a pupil pilot and
made his first ascent in Fchruuiy.
Gl'YNK.MKR was born for the air. and
with his Hist lllght began a new life.
His letters home, brief, witty. Intoxicated
with the passion of the sky, show how every
energv of ids soul ami brain were con
centered In tins magnificent gymnastic and
jugglery with duith. He found It "folleincnt
aiiiusant" madly amusing. i if his first
lllght he wrote tn his father, 'i was not a
hit nervous: It was quite comic I enjo.ved
it 1 iiormniisly, hut I'm glad mother wasn't
there 1 don't think I established a reputa
tion for caution."
No man was evu- mine ntttrly absorbed
in any task than (iu.v iieiuer in his burning
zeal to eonipier the air. He inuld not 1011
ceive that what delightid hhn could tumble
am one else In June, lDIf,, M.nt to join an
active escadillle (The Stoiks) on duty near
his home, (oinplcgnc, he made Ii bis custom
every day to "teassure" his mother and sis
ters of his safety anil progress by pei form
ing the most fantastic evolutions ovi r the
house. Most of his letters wci e of this tenor:
"Ycsterdaj 11101 nlng about n o'clock 1 did
some twirls over the house, about 17111J
Haters up. Hid ou see nie? I punished the
motor for live minutes so .vnu'd he sure to
hear me." This strain of laughing boyish
ness was characteristic. After a hard duel
he would come down exulting cr the
.wounds In his plane, and could not lest until
lie had showed eaeli lent of fracture to his
companions. On July 1!). 1 9 1 S, ho brought
down his first Iloche ; but bo had to wait
six months for his next one and also for
his new plane, a Xlcupnrt. When he got
It he pei formed outrageous loops and spirals
our the home roof lo "consecrate It."
ON'K could go 011 for many pages recount
lug anecdotes of this cavalier or the sk.v
Henry llordeaux. In his just published "Vie
lleroinue rie Cuynemer." tells the story with
infinite charm and tenderness, 'lids boy,
scaicely bearded, was possessed of an al
most maniac joy and fury In his airy com
bats. Ills nervous, electric temperament was
unappeasable. His face, departing for ac
tion, was "terrible." Kven returning from a
successful duel his countenance ne,ver lost
its savage hunger and eagerness. After he
was wounded at Verdun he was afraid that
his nerve had been shaken, sp 011 his next
Might he determined to test hhnself. He
"commanded himself" not to lire at his
Boche. lie elided round the enemy flier
(who fired 000 shots at hhn) without pulling
the trigger of his mitrailleuse. This was to
batlsfy himself that his spirit was Intact.
ON SEI'TEMBKIt 11. 1917. this king 0 the
air flew into the Flanders sky and never
returned. His comrade, Lieutenant Ilozou
Vcrduraz, last saw him engaged with a Her
man plane, about 10 o'clock that morning.
Apparently he was killed by a bullet through
the head over Poelcapelle, but neither his
body nor his plane was ever found. That
territory was under very heavy bombardment
at the time, and the village of Poelcapelle
was shortly afterward retaken by the Brit
ish. As Henry Bordeaux says, he accepted
nothing from the enemy, not even a wooden
cross. His name was carved on the wall of
the Tantheon In Paris, and there can be no
finer epitaph than his last citation:
"A legendary hero, fallen in tho full
heaven of glory after three years of ar
dent fighting. He will remain the purest
symbol of the qualities of bis race: In
domitable tenacity, ferocious energy, sub
lime courage."
FRANCE could have done us no greater
honor than lend us the V(eux Charles.
Of all her gracious and noble gestures of
affection, this was the finest. Think what
that little brown hawk of the sky means to
her. On those wings the darling of France
outrode death and laughed In air above the
roofs of Compiegne, swooping and spinning
to "reassure" his mother. Vfex Charles,
Vtcux Charles, I think your wings must
quiver for tha blue sky ot France.
JU.
THE FEMALE AFTER SPECIE
hi War-Fund Solicitation She Is More Deadly Than the Male
By SIMEON STRUNSKY
I
WENT stiaight to the man who Is re
sponsible for filling up these pages with
tvpe, took his piotTcni! cigarette, and under
cover of the snioke-iioiitl wan over the
ti cliches and Into his fori most positions be
fine lie knew- 11.
"It wouldn't Incommode .von In the least,
would it, now." I said, "if my article railed lo
turn up this week'.'"
The attack had t.een laicfully prepared
and delivered with irresistible pathos. A big
hole In his make-up suddenly confronted hhn.
I lonlideiitly expected hhn to lose his morale
and say ' kamerad, Kamerad'" Hut lie re
tired d'oggtdly to positions piepared In advance-die
has hundreds of them and threw
in the first installment of his army of maneu
ver. "Theie's a leasun, 1 suppose?" he said
"Colonel." I said, "the reason Is fnlr and
wanner with thunder showers at night. There
Is a haze over the top of the Equitable Build
ing. The straw hats are blossoming like
mad. The grass in the park across the way
Is ridiculously green. Ilefore the incubators
in the windows of the horticultural stores
the multitude swirls hither and thither, and
the women gasp over the darling little
watering cans, and strong men tuin pale
at Hie low price of California piliet The
Indira In the subway have put on their fins.
The classified columns are full of furnished
apartments to let and bungalows right over
the water; the kind ou leap out of the
windows of, ou know, and right Into the
waves, at the risk of . breaking our neck.
The orators In City Hall squaie quote from
the llieek Testament. Trousers will be
worn rather snug around the leg The news
bovs aie diving into the municipal fountain.
There weie people for dinner last night, and
afar that I sat up writing poetry. I haven't
a carttldgo 111 mv head. It is spring,
Hiigadii'i- Ceneial."
HE C.M.I.lUi up another battalion of the
army of reserve. "Have a cigarette," lie
said "Thev are pretty good. A fellow came
In with a pen-and-ink sketch, 'Grapefruit
Stand bv Moonlight.' I didn't buy the
sketch, hut lie forgot bis cigarettes on tin)
able. What am I to put in place of your
stuff at a riav's notice?"
I chased hhn all the way up the ridge and
hair wav down the reverse slope. "Put in
something about the Red Cross." I said.
"How?" he said, fanning a salient.
"Ceneral of Division," f said, "It's the
easiest thing in the world. "Tell the people
who are hovering before the hat-storo win
dows that it rains just as heavily on No
Man's Land as It does on the best $5 Panama.
Tell the people In the touring cars that things
are much less comfortable on the stretchers
in the bnvaux. Itcmlnd the people In the
bungalows that there is less air around the
operating tables In the dugouts."
I saw his line wavering, but he called
up his camouflage corps.
"f:o on. go on." he said, and I thought there
was a grim smile in his eye.
"Ask the people," I said, "why on earth It
should be necessary to formulate any argu
ments for tha Red Cross. That's all."
My shock attack bad him groggy for a mo
inept. He had evidently been prepared for a
sustained bombardment.
"That's fine," ho said, "as far as It goes.
We need another thousand words."
"There's war stamps," I said.
He counter-attacked fiercely.
"I was Just thinking about that," he said.
"You mean?"
T7lli;iiD MARSHAL," I tald, "It's rather
V interesting about war stamps. They
make life easy for us parents. You know
how we used to He awake nights thinking of
how to save up for the children. It Isn't any
longer necessary. They attend to the thrift.
All I do now Is lie awake nights thinking of
xvhat will hapuen to the butcher's bill after
the young ones get through being thrifty for
the week."
He countered bravely while re-enforcements
were rushing up. "There Is a good
deal In what you say," he remarked, "though
not, quite enough."
"Harold, you know, has reformed," I said,
"He no longer demands a nickel for runnlne
errands to the drug store. All lie wants Is
a thrift Btamp. He Is constantly volunteering
for drug-store service. He has Btocked up
with peroxide and tooth powder till the
autumn offensive of 1921, He has no preju
dices against the grocer, either. He skips
down with a dollar bill and brlngf lack a
box ot soda crackers and ninety cents'
"I'M GIVING THE KAISER A TONGUE-LASHING!
worlh of tlnifl stamp:
i. At the rate he Is
going if shall soon no woitn ii,nvii "
thrift stamps, provided I can keep the fam
ily lu food. The great problem, however,
is to pi event the cook from leaving. Harold
is pretty geneiallv ill the kitchen trying
to sell the cook thrift stamps. The other
day we found the girl In tears lie had been
tr.vlug lo sell lit r a LJhertv Bond. He suc
cieded. She said she had never been In a
place wheie she had been so much put
upon. Then, are tho-e who say that in the (
Intervals between selling stnmps to Maggie,
Harold visits the icebox, where the bananas
ate Hut I don't know "
He advanced under cover of darkness.
"Have ou another cigarette?" he said. "And
Harold's small lister?"
"Versailles Council, give ear." T said. Im
parting a lighter touch lo the horrors of war.
"The reinale out for specie is moie deadly
than the male. Harold's small sister comes
nround after her suilper and says she knows
a new dance. She Insists on my being very
comfortable in the armchair and not reading
while sht' dances. It Isn't very good danc
ing, but It isn't v"i bad It Isn't as good
as Pavlowa. but it's better than the Brahma
putra Elbow li.iuce. The performance lasts
from one minute and a half to three minutes.
When It is over.' she announces that the
price of ndtnlssinii is twenty-five cents one
thrift stiimo. When I tell her that I am
connected with the press, she says nothing
doing and demands the war tax one nickel
In cash, twice the legal rate I think Mr.
MeVdoo ought to know about It"
lirt tr'ed a flank move.
"Harold and the little one are all you
have?" he said.
"That is all, Generalissimo." f made
answer.
"I thought vnu might tell me something
about the others, if you had them." ho re
marked, somewhat inconsequentially. I
thought. And then, suddenly, "Havo a
cigar''"
So he was bringing un ids heavy guns.
"Now there's the shipbuilding program."
he remarked. "f wonder if ou've ever
thought about It?"
"Vot a thought." 1 told Mm.
His face grew sad For a moment, f Im
agine, he contemplated some sort of sapping
opei-atlon, hut gave it up.
"Well," he said, "f Imagine we have almost
enough fir this week. Retter luck- nex't
time. Ludendorff."
I don't quite know whal hn mean! but
what's the odds so long as 1 reached mv
objective?
(Cnnvrlulit)
Forceful Language
There is just ono kind of peace talk that
Is useful now. and that Is the voice of the
cannon discharging explosive shells in the
German trenches. New Haven Union.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. l!nv iimii DfrnnrrMr rrrrllent! hut there
lirtti lu tin liiht Hfty car i?
3, Niime tlie author nf Nutr'Hia"?
3. Wtutt were (lie tlilrtrrn Orlttlnnl M;itrs?
4. Which U thf l.iiou Mute?
A. What U the iiitlmiul flower of Trance?
0. H1i.it U the capital of Ohio?
7, Uhat it ii hiTKftuit major?
K. Wlm I U mrunt liy the Initial. "K. of IV?
0. What U the urlcht of the nuine of Kentuckj?
10. Who nun tlmenul?
Answers to Yettcrtlay'g Quiz
1.. MohofkM a iirototiure of "hooHKuni,' uho In
fected London In the- eUhtrenth century.
2. llorldn c-ome from a Spanish word, mean Inc
'land of flouerit"
3. JtyneM U tha numt frenurut tUen name of the
I'reiildentN of the United Mate.
VOId (ilnrr U u nouulnr term of u (Tret Ion ap
plied to the Amerlran flair
5. rrorrnlnet In elrthlr mrtliulncir the daughter
of C'ereM, Hhit ua uhdurteil hy Pluto and,
an hU wltt, was iiueen of the lower redom.
C. JteMon!lble tnlnlntrrt n eablnet whose pro
gram and polM-let, mutt lime the Indorse
ment of h parliamentary majority. The
roternuient retires on Hit ftdicrit tote rec
Utereri aialnM u iltHl party polio. Kns
land ha a "reunonnlble ministry,"
7, "Tom Kiwjrr"! k story of American life
by Mark Twain.
S, He thy lion (Mm. V.llzabeth t'laynoole), who,
according: to tradition made the timt Amer
lran flag. Is hurled In Mount Morlah Ceme
tery, Philadelphia.
0. 1 la nurd VnU entity h In Cambridge, Mar,
1U. Jonkherr J, Loudon U l'orrJgu Minister at
Holla ud.
ivdtit'aM!'
THE HARPOONER
SUSPECTS
By Strplwn W. Memlor
THE
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HE nautical-looking old man who spears
c scraps of paper and cigar-stubs In
our square dropped his bag of waste
on tho end of my bench and sat down with
n brief nod of greeting. It was a lino
afternoon. My polito observation to that
clfect btought foi th only a surly grunt
and I turned avvny to the company of my
pipe. There was no wind stirring. A blue
pulf of smoke, gently impelled from the
corner of my mouth, found its way past
the nose of the ex-car-fcrrymali, and watch
ing him sidelong I saw him onltf and fumble
in liis pockets. The ancient black pipo ap
peared. The Harpooner shifted his weight
uneasily and fidgeted tho pipe about in Ills
hands while I smoked on with deep and
obvious content. At last he cleared his
throat.
"Let's see." he muttered, "what did you
say was the name o' that terbaccerV"
I swung around. "Angelica," I replied,
genially. "Here, till her up."
HE PA
thin
iU'IvED the tobacco ill with a horny,
imb and thanked mo quite civilly.
"Now," f said, when tho black pipe was
drawing, "tell mo what has spoiled your
day."
Ho took a pulf or two in silence. "Well,"
he said finally, "things ain't what they used
to be."
"No," said I seriously.
"L's mlxin' In with all these different
Alleys an' funiners," be went on. "We
generally used to manage to fight our own
wars, without callin' in fellers thut couldn't
even talk American."
rp.KE these here, now, Blue Uevils.
; I seen 'cm pullln' up in front of In
dependence Hall in automobiles with them
littlo soldier-girls drlvin" 'em. First I
thought they was sailors, from the caps
they had on, but then when they got up
closo I saw the gold-braid trumpets sewed
on their clothes an' I guessed right off they
must helong to some fire department. Only,
as 1 told Kelly, the cop, I'd hate to have
that bunch workln' on a tiro around my
house.
"'Fire,' lie sajs, 'them ain't firemen.
Them's Alpine Chauffeurs!'
.(TTTELL, o'
" up, but :
com se ho knew, so I shut
they sure was a bloodthirsty
lookln' gang. I guess maybe they keep 'cm
to run the tanks.
"Anyhow, they all marched in the Hall
with their flogs an' the band played first
the 'Marseillaise' and then tho 'Star Span
gled Banner," un" before you could get
your hat on aguln they started 'Aineiicu.'
I got tired Just stnndln' still, but you know
them, now, little Motor Mess'nger Maids
kep' their hands up to their foreheads
salutln' tho whole time, an' never winked
a eyelash.
"By V by tho Blue Devil Chauffeurs
come out, laughln' an' Jabberln' in their lun- ,
guage, an' wavin' to the girls in tho crowd.
Somebody says they've all been wounded
an' got medals for bravery an' so they're
tukln' their vacation over., here.
"Well, maybo so. Maybe them female
tarn o' shunters Is what soldiers wear In
Paris, France, but It looks funny to me.
You never can tell much about these
furrin'-talkln' fellers. An' say" he leaned
closer und lowered his voice "how about ',
them mustaches, huh? Borne of 'em looked
mighty like tills hero Hludonburger to me."s
With an emphatic nod tho Harpooner '
picked up his sack: and strode away in the
direction of a trespassing cigar-stub-
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