t'f jMV3gvv C U80GERC0MPANY M h. it ccnTia, rinctMT Jjliainaton, vice ITPiiaenij jnnn -. arr ana -reaaurerj l-niup b, v.oiuna, m, John J. Spurtton. Dlrcclora. i K. WuiIluA" "UAIiUI ;wiji u. ji. ucini. tnairman .M1LET Editor RTIN.... General Pmlnen Manager 4ilr at Fcbijo T.irwta nulldlnc. noe.nce ctquare, jcniiaaeipiiia,. T.iL....Uroi4 and Cheainut Streets , .... rmi-unwn uuuainz tv.i .... 306 Metropolitan Tower .;..,,.. , 403 Ford nulldlnc Kir, '...., ....10(1 Fullerton Building NEWS BUREAUS: OK BoaJutJ. L Car. Pennlvlvanta. Ave. nA 1 llh Rt IsK Dciut The Sun Tlulldlne ,. JSuaiAU London Times J SUBSCRIPTION TERMS MCtsvis-o PttBUo Ledock Is eerved to sub- ra. In Philadelphia and surrounding- towns kx&ie cl iweivo.u) cents per ween, payauie ijKel .1 .o points outeiao or j'niiaaeipnia In d States. Canada, or United Mate poi- i.-poatate free, titty tool cents per month. TVW WU.II PCr JC.ri PKJKUIO 111 BUtDIIV., fail.' Xorclm countries one ($1) dollar per -Aubaerlbera telahlnif address chanced ft Old as well as new address. M 'WALNUT KEYSTONE. MAIN J00O M all communications to Fi-enlno ruhlle , jndrprnaence square, rnuaaeipnta. ten irini r-mt.ADr.Lrnu rosT orricx is srca.No cuss miil tiiirc. IP""''!4' Philadelphia, Wedneidiy. Miy 2:, U jBRUMBAUGHISM TO THE REAR IB outstanding fact In the nomlnntlon SpjTjfMrt Bproul at the primaries Is that fefti Republicans of the State are tired of KsIBrumbaush-Shunk-Drown-Varc regime SiiHarrlsburg. J Denny O'Nell Is defeated venyhelmlngly, losing because of his asso- (jatjonrvUh discredited men. tf,TKe, defeat of John R. K. Scott for the f ond place on the ticket, which Is fore- hadbwed bv the incomplete returns indi- mrv a . lies tnat tner indorsement or an lmpos- ble candidate by some well-intentioned U-rch people Is not enough to convince wrynass ot the voters that it la wise or rarudent to elevate to high ofllcc the paid liltorney of the vicious. wThe1 nomination of Bonnlwell Is a iumph for the liquor interests in the Itmocratlc party and an expression of rlis- ppblntment over the way A Mitchell lmer, as leader of the reorganlzers. has ten; trying to run the partv from Wash- "gton. It Is an lllustratlt.,i of the peril hfch lies In patronage and pi oof tha'. for Very friend made by the distributor of pap Wv '. Q?a hungry organization a dozen enemies rej created. i Bonnlwell Is frankly a friend of IU0, his running mate, J. Washington gue, wan jur eais an m me uc.iu ui mr thollc Total Abstinence L'nlon and an ponent of the saloon. The ticket as it : y . . ... 08 is constructed to piease nmn me w . . ana the arys. 'fit,, " r Yet the Governor will have nothing to &-. .. . . ... 'Wtn the ratincation 01 tne prontnitinn namenu inat issue is up 10 me i.egis- ture. A majority of the nominees to the Of Representatives appear to he ted to Its adoption. The Senate is doubt. P r-t fernbers of police vice pquads fail lo see iinE.J-eal!y new about a HylnR 'tank.'' 'S-H-I-P-S SPELLS VICTORY! lEfjT'new steel ships were turned over to Sihe Shipping Board last week, totallnn tfAAA tnM rrA CO r.An n., t Ar.. .1.1.. ! W'V UJiia, aim u ,vjj luna ui 110 ouiir ne were launcnea in me same lime. ff.1U Rptinrah maHo armnwAmctu mi Mnn. r, v4. v..nuw ...uu. ui.uiibiiiiiuia uii ...,,i- Sytqr the building of 130 new ships on e. Great I-akes of a size which would nit .their passage through the AVelland flil.iwith a total capacity of 516,000 tons. Uyis' announced that fifty new ships of iwr. sire win De put into commission tSiaOnih and be ready for sailing Jn Eljrjii'iWe are making such progress that Inbrldge Colby, commissioner of shii- f.J'says that a single shipyard on the aware will turn out a crcater tonnage. M -year than the total annual output of l:UK British yards herore the war. liiiibls means preparation for getting ira'rmjes to Europe. They are to be mvea as rapiaiy as transportation can ie fteividtd. Bhins soell victory, and then t'C'alreatfi progressed beyond the first Habie.af the word. ft?-'. -- EiJr 'Don't you fel this morning 'like going 'to tne oia-iasnionea nominating conven- ! system T CURIOUS SUPREME COURT SITU ATION HBbe'st thing that ever happened to the f&Tlnlted Shoo JIachinery Company was -appointment of Louis D. Brandeis to Supreme Court bench. en Attorney General Wickersham t ault for the dissolution of the com. ttjfoini, charging It with violation of ;t)iitrust law, Mr. Brandeis assisted in BTpreparation of the case. He was then (.Wtter enemy of the company. As a so- i "people's attorney" he had demanded li'dicaplution before the suit was lA-ought. t'when, the case came before the Su- iOaurt he was compelled by the Just .of that tribunal to refrain from tMtjMUton In Us deliberations. i Ofctsion oy wnicn tne company lias : eteetared to be a legal combination ffeebed by a vote of four of the rajraJnit three. If Mr. Brandeis had would have been a tie. Judge refrained from votlngybecause General In succosslon to Mr. he had beenjeonnecteo! with atlon. It la assumed that he Air. Brandeis that the com- IS.' conspiracy In restraint of shad not so held he would not I WHJebiifil Us prosecution. , .sb-ece Is done to the views of Bt-wpeeynoias, tne shoe machinery ii l. t ..... ,oapes dissolution by accident fAit Inability of the majority of S,.yote Its views. The decision f:rf course, but it Is unfortunate can arise under which so h Verdict can be reached. jK'fs63 hld that the company prta tnrougn tne aDinty of tts t,tnat it has benefited small and has cheapened shoes. ' th contentions of ltd lawyers. ' tliat- what advantages it en- (.joiripetltors were Inherent H ytWtU protected by the toaf iVl iPt ''-" i . - Wr m mmmp mw&KmmmmBttAimm&, wsamm.. &&?,&&. n.r.-. Vnur .,vT,r, r,...,s, VTIIVIU A.n 13 IMU W HO I BREAD SUBSTITUTE The Flying Tank May lie Expected to Serve the Purpose Temporarily T7IVERY time tho German bread ration is cut down the Government at Berlin manages to provide spiritual consolation for the people with a new invention of supposed frichtfulncss. When grain, meat and beer approached the vnnishinfr point they were replaced in the popular mind by poison gas, flame ejector and the submarine. The Paris gun v( j introduced to the world simul taneously with a swecpinp; reduction of the bread issue to civilians. And now. when Germany is shivering on the edge of actual famine nnd groaning over another reduction of the bread ration a flying tank has made its appearance over the American lines. It is only in print that an armored battleplane of the sort that killed Raoul Lufhory appears really terrible or potent. It is exactly the sort of thing with which the Kaiser en.'cs his endless nightmare a device nicely calculated to pry up the courage of a homokeeping Hun who has grown dispirited on straw tobacco, imitation food and an egg a year. Even a superficial knowledge of aviation and the requirements of aerial warfare shows that the armored battle plane represents not an exclusive Ger man achievement, but the beginning of a new phac of nviathn for which the All c.. h ve long been ready. The vrw nir machine must he rcnnrrlctl nnt as it contribution to aerial fighting, hut as a novel weapon for use in the fighting on land. The Allied Governments have been awake to this trend in flying machines. What they themselves have done in the same direction no one may yet know. It is not to be supposed that they have been idle. The appearnncc of the first flying tank in an air duel, therefore, was a dramatic gotu-.c : txt.aordinjiry vivid ness and little more. For such a ma chine would inevitably he a. licar among wolves. It would be virtually powerless in any offensive against the light, swift and agile planes that pit filmy wings against its steel. In air fighting under ordinary circumstances it is suicidal to fight a fast machine with a slower one. Aerial warfare is a business of maneu ver. To kill your man you have only to get above him. Speed, the ability lo wing it butterfly fashion, to flash and flutter nnd careen is as essential to suc cess and safety among battle aviators as it has been since the beginning, when the first ins-ects tried their wings and began their endless system of easy war fare on the slower things of the air. The flying tank of Toul, as it is de scribed in the cables, is slow and cumbrous in the air. Its vitals are armored. The gunners are in armor. The pilot works in a steel turret. It is supposed to have a speed of fifty miles an hour no more. Therefore it would be as futile in an offensive against other air. machines as r. cow might be against a rabbit. Vet it has one important function long predicted and doubtless provided for in the Allied councils. Such a machine might work considerable destruction in loir flights over massed infantry in action. British planes of the conven tional type destroyed whole German regiments in this fashion in recent actions on the Ypres front. But un armorcd airplanes are easy prey for anti aircraft guns. They have even been brought down by riflcfirc. Battleplanes armored against rifle bullets and against the flying fragments of steel sent out by the exploding shells of anti-aircraft guns might be supposed to work havoc amid marching or entrenched troops in flights at an elevation of a few hundred feet. This doubtless is the purpose of the new type of German machine. It would be folly to suppose that the Allies, who recently introduced this lat ter meliod of warfare, are unprepared for its elaboration in future actions. An armored German battleplane was brought down at one of the Somme bat tles. It was a double-motored machine, with vastly les3 power than could be sup plied with two Liberty motors. Two Liberty motors would give the machine equipped with them almost 1000 horse power, power so far unknown to any winged aircraft. The German armored planes, so equipped, would be faster and more efficient than they hove s-eemed in recent tests. And with the armored machines as with those without armor, the fester plane is usually the winner. Great propulsive power is needed for the heavier armament that will be neces sary in combats between armored ma chines. There should he consolation for everybody in the knowledge that the Liberty motor is now admitted in France and in England to he the most powerful and efficient yet designed anywhere in the world for the purpose of aviation. It would be as foolish to ask the Allies to disclose what they are actually doing to meet the new peril as it would be to inquire about the precise methods being used in the submarine war or in the technical development of the neivest artillery. The climax of earthly misfortune has been found by a private in the American army, somewhere In France. He and the captain of his company both correspond with the same girl at home. But the captain censors the letters ! THE GRAFT MICROBE GRAFT Is an epidemic that historians of a wc-ndertng future will associate not with any class, occupation or calling, but with the Age ot Money. It Is usual to sup pose that politicians are the only grafterc. Yet many Imposing business systems whose representatives periodically rail at the po litical grafter are themselves the victims of, or participants In a aystem of petty spolteUen aw,watfMj -and; varied thaa -,.-. cl S-lV.' sWMa44PfAV &,j' rv .'V'Cwi.V anything known to the gutter school ot civil administration, A report Just submitted to Congress by the Federal Trade Commission as a review of tho graft epidemic In business traces one of the remote factors In the high cost ot living. And It suggests, too, another char acteristic of tho German methods ot "peace ful penetration." It has always been known that an Iso lated class of men representing various Industries, who spend the money of their organizations, were vIctlmH of the c-""ft microbe. From this beginning the malady lias Bpread to Include Incalculable num bers of men In every avenue of Industry. The l''edernl Trade Commission found ihut the principle of the rake-off Is widely tecognlzed and that 10 per cent is the standard figure acceptable by many men who make great expenditures for others. The business man who Is Inclined to resent such a demand made privately by a repre sentative of a purchasing organization Is forced to rid himself of his scruples. Other wise his rivals get his trade. The Trade Commission found that bilbery of this sort was most extensively used b firms intro ducing goods "made In German.." Old German governmental subsidization of trade go as far thl? l'robably it did. Vet it would not be fair, even to Germany, to suggest that every salesman who bribes bis customers and every purchasing agent who Is as tlntrieedy as n head waiter rep icsents a direct leactlon of the Hun philos ophy of commeicf. The commercial tip Is known everywhere In the world. It enjoys a riotous vogue In Latin America. England passed laws against It. The habit is a product of the times. Congress Is now asked to eliminate the practice by a Fed eral law. And the suggestion Is one worth seilous consideration. Quite apatt from rnn- lr sulfation ltli the poll- f.nl ticlnn. the weather lint In Ihr loan did hlM liest to make the primal lr-s a hot tight The speed uh tvhlrh our new ' tailor made" ship are being turned out indicates that the alleKed relationship hetneen "falirl ratlnii ' and mendacity has been mcrempha s zed l-'cminltip li-ttms of the latest st.len In high heels may he expected tn dissent from Mih Suptrme 'nail's ruling that th Mhi manufacturers' allegod combine Is tint a tight mnnopMl.i. The Lutherans resent the charge that the are numbers of a German church ery limpet ly, for the ate Christians. THE PUNCHING BAG Our Own Ntirser Rlijmes SOM I old K da I shall he ton old for i crib, ilrl foi a pinafore, old for u bib: Some ila and soon, at the rale that grown. I'll have a proper bed. all of my own I've SO.MK day Dad; I'll hae an allowance from I won't be scolded because I am "bad"; Mother will let me cross sheets unattended, The holes in my stockings won't have to be mended. Qti.MK day I'll ride in the men's smoking And look at Pad's paper, and smell bis cigai , And I'll hae a razor and Iong-tiuiier suit. And then I will learn what i. means in "commute." Sour-; day I'll cat with a fork, nol a spoon; And these manly changes can't happen too soon ; nut one thing I'd like to keep up. if I might - Hae Mother lo tuck m my blankeis at nighl! What's happened to the Kaiser's G-and Fleet? Hab the Ulght of Helgoland been muzzled? The most lrulent form or graft i? the graft in the newspaper business para graphed, of course. Meditations on Germany Germany claims that her U-boats keep on landing guns In Ireland from collapsible boats. Germany has pulled so many col lapsible stunts In Krln the Casement up rising, for Instance. Taper clothes hae been a great disap pointment to the German workmen. Ap parently they had to be reprinted too often by the tailor. And as soon as the next extra was published they were out of date. YSre feel sorry fur the man who had to wear a copy of the Zukunft to church. The Zukunft Is such little paper, only 12mo size. Paper clothes having failed. Berlin inv announces that every civilian having more than one suit of clothes must turn his extra duds over to the Government, ex cepting evening clothes and smoking jack els. Are they salng the smoking jackets for the day when the Styx becomes a Ger man lake? "What you see," the Kaiser might have remarked to the graes of German soldiers at Aachen, "Is only a tired man trying to dodge a dozen ways at once." Boston being the hub l the solar fs tem, could It be said that the Kaiser is the Hun of the infernal system? The encyclopedia defines Ukraine as "a region In Russia of vague boundaries." Those frontiers art no longer vague. Ukraine is now bounded on the west by Von Hlndenburg and on the east by tho Bolshevik free lunch counter. Senator Hitchcock has- become chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Commit tee and evidently he takes the Job seri ously. His secretary says the first thing the Senator did was to subscribe for a magazine dealing with current events. Will the war please hold still a little while until Senator Hitchcock catches up? The Chambered Kaiser Build thee more stately kingdoms, O my soul! Absorb the Finn, the Slav, the Serb, the Pole ; Ieave thy low-vaulted past. Each annexation, richer than the last, Keep thes from starving with a crop more vast ; Till thou, at length art super-Germanee, Leaving thine outgrown shell beside the Baltic Sea. SOCRATES. THE GOWNSMAN Q1TItANaR," said a young Englishman Oof education who was contemplating a map of the United States, "strnnge, that you should place your capital so remotely In the northwest corner of the country." He had mistaken the State of Washington for the city and he hart mistaken, too, somewhat the scale of the map. Another Englishman offered to wager that the Congress of the United Stales sat In New York city ; be called It "the parliament of the Stales." And a third an Oxford man, too, at that after complimenting the Gownsman on his excel lent English speech. wa surprised to hear that Spanish was nnt "the ofllrlal language of Noith a well ns of South America." EXTRAni norance. HtDlN'ArtY and Inexctisahle Ig- rtRsuredly. Hut nre those of us who do not trael. hut grate In nartow circles about our own little local centers of Interest, are we rry much better In our "knowledge'1 of England? There Is a culti vated American woman uho had to travel to Liverpool and to Plymouth to get these two ports, If not on the right side of England, at last out of the P.rltol channel And what American man In the street crulrt nnme to yon ten let us say een six nrltlsh cities In the order of their population? (lur school hooks of history see to it that the prejudice' of two old wars shall he perpetuated, and what our scboolhooks d" not accomplish In that way our Irreconcilable lrlh friends complete V hae nnt progtessed In our popular prejudices very fnr beyond Haw thorne's conception of John Hull as a coarse, beefy, commercial old chap In top boots nnd side whiskered, and when we meet charming people of English birth lv belle till our preconceptions, we do as Hawthorne did. congratulate ourselves in the disco ery "f persistent American traits ' I nEree as to the tight nnd the necessity of this war." de i lared a Southern gentleman, "but somehow I hate the Idi-a or lighting on the side of the British ' TTOIV preposterou all Ibis W need only lltn he stated to appeal. The old war in which we startid out to tlerenri our tights as Englishmen and found our larger rights ns Americans Is glorious to us now. nnt because we won aualnst Englishmen, but because we di'Tcated the Intolerable policy of a stubborn rcmtionaiv king And we re member the somewhat Inglorious 'nr of 1SI2. acaln not so mm h be.-ause we fought In it our elder brother as because il pioed to us that wp could hold our own as well bv se.t as bv land It Is good tiling Hint we should "get together," the statesmen, the scholars, the histoilans of the two coun ttles. and tell oer again, with gl eater ttuth nnd with less tancor, the stoi of our some time unpleasantness-, tile sequel of out crn tut'J of peace, good will and cotdial co-opeta-tlon and our present Inotheihood in arms for the maintenance of all that iu woith while In the woi Id Bbc in thus ceituiR togeili.i there must th.it mutual concession, that spirit of fair play, even of comptomise, whhh is one of the distinguishing i-haim-teilstli-s of the An-Klo-Saxori race l-'or example, we ale not I'olonials though il is an hotioi to be classed with our heiolc oungei btetiuen of i anada. Australia nnd New Zealand We settltd the t'nlonlnl question long ago and hold the helm of our own ship of state It lias been sue gested that, by wa of concession, wp give up the celebration of the American Fourth of .Inly, or at lenst mitigate Its cuhr.iiKe. This temluds the (low nsmatl nf a ollug It Mi barrister who. tiavcllng the --ens on an Eng lish ship with an Ametlcan cousin, asked. "Why all this hanging out of flaps'"' and having the Fourth of .lulv laieftilly explained to him. declared that he tegaitled the whole thing as "In deucedlv bad form " l.el us hae the tiuth about that glut Ions obi Rev olution of ours and even our .voting Irish barrister, ir he be a lovei of freedom as It Is said all Irishmen are will foiget "form in the celebration nf an event thptt marks such a step forwatd in the triumph of human right CEt'II. RHODES had a line ideal In lew when he founded his oxford scholaiships for oung men of England's colonies, for Americans, for Germans alas' he little knew the bleed! These last asked for a modifica tion of Mr llhodes s or'ginnl plan, by which a laiger number should tome to Oxford at once. This granted, (hey came, seKfegated themselves into a gioup of then- own anil spent much of their spaie time tho liown1 man is Infornud by those who know in ex pulsions about England for lopoginphlcnl investigation and repoi f back to Berlin Mr llhodes's ideal was soniPtllluR vctv dlffPlPlil. the creation of an understanding among the young and impressionable bv that inlei-i-hange of Ideas that comes best during the period of education, that tonus best of all with a s.vstem of education that still in volves, as at oxford, the Idfa of leisure A moving tarKPt is difficult lo bit. Tin- in cessant actlvlt.v of American education makes the penetration of an Idea at times a veiy uncertain matter l.elsute. for oxtoid studies mainly tn vacation. Hip exchange of ideas, personal acquaintance, in the shadow of an ancient and honorable seat of learning hal lowed by traditions precious at hast to every man who speaks the Engllyh Mucin , What could be moie Ideal? TT t'ANNOT he said that the Ithoiles si hnl- X arsbips have workptl out for Amprica quite as had hcen hoped Our Ameilcan youth has not rushed to embrace the op portunity. Wp have not alwavs (outlived to send our best men. Some of the more im prcssinnahle have been too easily Anglicized In nonessentials and have mine home affected In manners and speech and meas urably unfitted, till the gloss rubbed off. tn the ways of their own country Moieover. theie is a notion as to the oxford education; being the best conceivable for Englishmen. It can therefore not be bettered for nn.vbndv- else. Neither ptennse nor conclusion need trouble us here. Education as a means of Interna tional understanding and Iberefme as a means to that cettatn and continued peace which the win Id must have If It Is tn retain its self-respect, such eduiation muM be a mutual inteichange on a large scale, not the bountiful sift of a mother to a few- favoied sons Kor this larger purpose It is as im portant that we Americanize Oxford as that Oxford AiiKlicize us. And be It said, with modesty and in a consciousness of all our shortcomings, we. too. have something to give PERHAPS, even now. the gieat kneading of the bread which Is In be the world's salvation Is at woik in Hie trenches where our boys fight shoulder to shoulder wllh those who have never enjojed the Oxford leisure, hut whose hearts and spirits are as undaunted as their own Here Is the great international university with Its daily courses in heroism, self-denial, devotion to country and to (lag. And here It Is that our common tongue, our common blood and in heritance must bring us nearer and nearer tn England, the country of our Shakespeare, our Milton and our Bible. if Germany's latest Crowding jingo-junkers execute Hades their own plan of "kicking to the devil all who don't bow to the Kaiser" they will afford such offenders an excellent opportunity for inspecting the private apartments at Potsdam. The new treaty be tween Switzerland and China makes it pos- nlemlnsa of Teste ' slble to top off a mess of chop suey with a bit of cheese without the slightest fear of international complica tions. Captain James Norman Hall, aviator, is alive In a German hospital, we now learn. after he had been missing for two weeks. , This Is a great renei to nis larse iouowing ot friends wlio Know mm tnrougn nis aumiraoie articles on war flying. And Senator Tenrose voted as a Repub lican. Not even Senator Vare Imagined that the talk of challenging him would amount to anything, That flying tank had a short, life. ? "SURE I KNOWS DER WHY, BUT VOT CAN I TELL SpwMsi'ii.i--'""" j;ffiig,ggW2g .. leirisses '0sM0MMfmm -Thfc-.-ai i-.n,.. ,.'g m." ' . " 3Wt3rfi3?m:jy::x'UTi irry-Si'rilnv i5 ---&lUw'Z&7l'tTttto&x!?iuii JKSvffiBiSeJaR PwMsstiKsMsssrs. ;n!Si....v rjf "v-.--vT-i3:-'--K -T - rvr-t-'rrjj-rTy-LTrgr.-anigr e h.-j n SSwK1-. '-"- -- --rPci---TiVS-."j.''.''.-.'-J.7,.r- '''--!..--rffJTIP- ' iMs,,..... 'S-SW,,... Kai - --. THE EMBARRASSED VACATIONIST "Garden Spots nf the IF arid" fanish With Railway "Literature" 77i' ill Dn-rrtor nf Kailtnn,lt, in thf intiirsl i, iioinn.it. ins tnililrhlrii thr tniltnnil t nin)inni i tn ismo" tin HM.fd sriiunoi M i "tnlitrt 1 ' lhi 1' m . rpilE Aim-man V. -- ftont of a huso. icatiritiist paused In grim structure and wiped iiwa.v an il tesistible tear. He hnd sensed the ti.isic situation even befote complete condonation of the ."acts, ('lulling blasts were issuing rrom the immense void slot age plant, and Into its cavernous le cPss an aim of wmkmen vveie staggering iindei the weight of cieat chests labelecf "Wolds keep In a cool place foi the duration of the vat." "What kind of words?" hp Inquired fcar fnllv. "Railvva.v, nf couise." ipsponded the slpvedoie. "an" steamship, urn -summer gtirf Aln'l ,iiu heatd? All them gaudc Miinmer .varus about where to spend your vacation and how pietty the plai es is and how much higher the mountains is than the Alps and how much bluer the lakes is than Cnmn, and hmv the sun shines tluee bundled an' slt.v-si. davs in the year, tin' how I he 'tang' of the sea breezes turns ,ou ftom an old man into a bo of fifteen nil that stufT what's been printed in the illustrated foldets has got the book. Uncle Sam seems down ml them lit'ry fclleis what ladled out that tlossle talk, it's goiip with wlie.it In end Them guys'll soon be wot kin" ill munition plants, t guess "Was vim thinkin' of takin' a trip"" he continued The American Vacationist glanced sh.v ly down at his elaborate ac coutcrmenls. of which a kodak, an alpen stock and a fishing rod w ere' conspicuous featuics. "Well, you'll have to rely on your own imagination-or whatever vou call It this time." continued the practical patriot. "The time-tables on! gives fads, and that's all that's permitted now." THE traveler stimulating. traveler's mental plcttne was not He envisaged a fruitless struggle with those baffling logarithmic train statistics bristling with asterisks and daggers, and vaguely pointing the way to disillusioning footnotes, such ns "This train tuns milv on holidays." "This train onl.v takes passengers ftom Hopeless .1 unction." "Train No. ni carries diner onl.v between Cruller's Hole and Wutcr town." Sn disheartening were his reflections that lie boldl.v raised Ills glance In the surround ing busy scene. The procession of crates seemed endless. Most ttie stenciled la beling was upeclfic nnd pathetically remi nistcnt of bygone days. One mammoth box bore the inscription: ".Myrlad-huei".," L'0,000 specimens. "Kaleldoscoplcally radiant," "rapturously Invigorating." "gorgeously golden." "entranclngly lovely." "testfully sylvan." "ideally recuperative" were among the other imprisoned epithets. But the longer captions, often covering a whole box surface, Inspired particularly poignant pangs. W" TT tii this typical old friend: "Bosomed high in ldfty trees rises the far-famed Sugar Loaf, illustrative of Nature's handiwork In Its most fantastic mood. The opposlty shore of the pellucid lake Is crowned by the Devil's Punch Bowl, rich In legendary lore. A few paces to the north brings the traveler to the Balanced Rock, from whose weather-worn summit may be descried that dizzy eminence felicitously known ns Lover's Leap, comparable only In grandeur with the hoary crags of the Caucasus or Carpathians. "The surrounding country constitutes a veritable paradise tor the artist, the sports man since the silvery streams teem with trout and gamy fish or the mere vaca tlonlst', 'one who has beep lone In city pent, By, the calm shores at fair Punk- L v - m W MfcS.-,;! ti.jrA ivr? i bnakiim. so aptly termed the Lake Geneva of Snake Valley township, the way-worn visitors of the latter class may at last find lelief and solace from the ares and wor ries of this workaday vvoild. The natives of this favored region are simple, kindly folk, whose hospitality com s from the hcait. and few are the travelers who, pausing on the threshold nf comfortable farmhouse, will not tecelvp there a meed of reficshment and gracious cheer." it A LI. the chosen coin of fancy flashing, ii. Flashing foi 1 1, in many a golden phrase." " sighed the American Vacationist Ten ii.Vhoul.inly. Hut the depths of chagrin were still lo be plummeted. A gigantic autotruck was unloading another old favorite. The insci iption covered the six shies of the ponderous box. and as tliG men shifted their burden their melancholy spectator glimpsed the following elegant extracts: "Who can paint the charms of the Silver Sea. the ever-changing, the ever-changeless? 'SJuch us creation's dawn beheld. ' de dal cs a well-known poet, 'thou rollest now." .Majestically It laps the shores of Anopheles Beach, that supreme Elysium of the oceanic littoral. There the serene spirit of the great outdoors Is untrammeled and unfettered. There Is rest for the mete Idler amid the romantic sand dunes, the joy of natation In the sparkling waves, sustenance for the intipr man and shelter for his body In the magnificent, up-to-date hotels and boarding houses, which have comet ted this peerless stretch of golden strand into it veritable metropolis of the empire of the salt sea spray. Aptly has this ideal playground been teimed 'Ameri ca's Riviera.' " "Gross contents. 50.000 specimens," read the Vacationist, as the chest was borne away tu Its frigid tomb. Tin; "to: watch. "tolderless" traveler glanced at hl3 alch. All these 'garden spots of the world.'" he considered sadly, "have ceased to exist. Isn't there some region whose charms are primarily independent of 'litera ture'?" He rememheied Falrmount Park. There was time enough to make the trip. Alighting from the trolley at nn attractive place, his eyes sought the station sign board. "Chnmounlx." it read. The heart of the American Vacationist sank. "Some thing wrong here," lie murmured. "They'll have to begin crating station names. AVhere are the Alps, Where's Mont Blanc, where's the 'Mer de Glace'? The spot Is pretty enough, but It doesn't look a bit like the picture postcards my aunt sent me from Switzerland before the war." Mournfully he mounted the shady hill that overlooks the river, ahd, gazing across tho Schuylkill, bis tear-dlmmed eyes beheld the mills of Manayunlt. II. T. C. The ex-Mpret of Albania never said R word when Germany doled out the latest job-lot of thrones. He knows a thing or two about Indian gifts. The way in which the Tommies penalize Germany every day for "holding" on the western front proves that Britain's tradi tional football spirit is as lively as ever, The Germans did not get the Grand Duke Nicholas when they took the Crimea. He heard they were coming and escaped. They did not get him, either, when ho commanded the Russian armies. The submarines destroyed only 374,000 tons ot shipping In April, as compared with 1,123,000 tons in March. Now It the. May record falls still further we may assume that th British" raid on Oetend and Zebrtigo was successful. , w fcHJPWS' flVJTM. I.;--..l Jl -H"l . -'TJ -! Itr ----. SI,' DER ,PEOPLE??' xa, '-'fThip SS3sM3fe--!l iSSS'3w,&--4 3f.ciirVi5WLV-i5 -'" Ztt-j y-j-wz: &::-;&-' - -"-. S&E?ti!,&?:Y,':- T - -Wfta-nW vim-'t-r'. .V" -"";. I Ships That Are Sailing SHIPS that are sailing on journeys so far. Trains that are traveling, car after car; Men that are leaving by daylight and dark Who is to hearten them when they cm bark? TS THERE no clangor of bugle and brass? Is there no riot of flags where they pass? No; where the ships lie in silence austere There needs no bunting to honor that pier. QUIETLY, quietly, see how they go! Silent and suro as the blood in its that is drawn from the nation'a red heart; Proud in our anguish we watch them depart. qillPaf Carrie fie r ship, as it fades on its path Ties our courage, our pride and our wrath; This be our honor, 0 hearts that were stirred Lo ! when they left us we said not a word. CHIPS that are sailing, we watch you and say Some day we'll wait for you, coming this way. CHRISTOPHER MORLEV. Til II y Qualified if Hie Kaiser hasn't lost his mind com pletely by the time he loses his throne h ought to be qualified for a)oh as 'barker" at a Coney Island show. Binghamton Tress. Comparative Luxury If at any time one is Inclined to flnrt fault with war bread II helps some to reflect that it tusles much better than trench mud. Toledo HIade, The Prussian Way The Kaiser Is now ready to give former RitFsian provinces a chance to do their bit for Germany or suffer the consequences. Loula vllle Post. Aiiled by Movie Stars Income taxes yield J36O,ooo,O00 more than was estimated. The preachers, school teach ers and newspaper men must have made honest returns. Albany Knickerbocker Press. What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. Who were the Cjtlnps? 5. What l the difference In the llrttMl Imperial between governmental .rftireenttle an Ireland. 'MnHdA and miliar 3. Name the author nf "Vanity Kalr." 4. tVlilch In the I'almctto Mtate? 8. In what three tnalanrrs did the flection of the rresldrnt nf th- t nlled Mutes pati from the Hertnral t'ollnf? a. hat l n roileve In other than the ed ucational sense? . 1. Identity "Old lllrkorj-." . What l meant h "blood nnd thunder"? 0. What l tho Colorado beetle? 10. What U the camelropardr Aniweri to Yesterday's Qulr 1. status quo ante hellumt Plate of affalra prior jo the wr tllterallr "ttate In which be fore war"). 2. John tar wan tho Art! Chief Juatlre ot the United Statea. 3. John Adam ami Thomaa Jefferson, both died on Julr 4. 1!0. the, fiftieth nnnl lersarx. of the Declaration of Indo nendence. which the latter wrote and th former nan lorgelr Instrument!! In pate nt, throuth Ida floor leaderahlp In the debates of the Continental Consreaa. . "Jo'a Bora." tho third of the "I.lttlo Women" erlea. by Loulau Star Alcott, American author. B, Wlxronaln la known a the lladirr State. a. niaxlnv it trails Aterm ued In pioneer dara lo ueivuin int. maraint ui l roatl '. road throuth tne urein roreii tr nacsini mama on Ireea. 7, The Htora and Moral A name banner of tho Confederu America. pplled to th. statea of 8, llonton la tile rur-IUI nf Miaaarhuulia. 0. "V. II. C. A." tho. mtllaf term foi .(ha Young ilen'. . Christian AatotrStion, ' it), Uora: Nlrholl Oirnea l the labor tueuibtr a vi'Uw BritUB .WlUftCaUliuiUesw -VVfZ I,-... - Tmsd& w .ir 2M n i' " .- fJiiC - L. y . i-Aatr?i- - .. ' ' J1KW5, -j '.. t -,. W ! ? Bt r . - Li . ,0 ..i, ... .(', - ,S, JUl", :$'.. 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