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PhUidclphii, Wednfidiy, June 5. 1919
THE DUTY OF A MAN
'".ArpHERE aro duties ns well as privileges
Sp . . "" of citizenship, ns those younc men who
wi-'. have becomo of nee since June 5 of last
year are discovering; today
, Voting: Is sometimes called a privilege,
but It Is the duty of ever qualified elector
Fighting Is sometimes called a du y, hut
an occasion has arisen In which It Is the
high privilege of all those capable of bear
ing arms.
But whether the yoi.ih who must reis-
.J.L. fl f7W n ) nnHiiInn iHnif enrrn vAa it n B
nw 'i ft. Iirlvlleiii ni n flnt' tViorn la nn pvpika
r$tt,''tor avoiding It. He must so to the pre-
Tjs acrlbed place of registry near his homo
$& Between the hours of 7 in the morning
fi unu i? ill llio uvcillll illiu iui:t? inn iuijiia
i ... ... ,- . . ... ., . ,.-
I'Pti oa lno roils. II ne is ill ana cannot fro no
KiJf h f must send a representathe to act for him.
Failure to register is a misdemeanor de-
isjt kilned by law. But if tho law dlft not so
describe It, the conscience of every ithor
MW youin wouiu so inoict ine si;n-it.'i t.
As the forthcoming eclipse of the sun
will be only partial In Germam . no doubt
the Kaiser will construe that circumstance
.as an evidence of celestial intention to re
serve him hla coetfd place In i-plte of
everything
. ,. .
J. DENNY O'NEILLS STiOO
LTT COST J' Denny O'Nell $7500 from his
SA rtersonal noeket to run for the envernnr-
hlp and lose. Jlr O'Nell is not a poor man.
He will not miss the money. And since he
'la not lacking In wisdom he may deem his
r?7600 well spent. His boom died of too
'much sweetness and light. And he prob-
vlly knows this now.
, By this time Mr. O'Xcil may realize that
his own modest and undoubted virtues had
little opportunity to win general attention
yWhen they were marshaled forth to public
.Xvlew with the sort of professional goodness
at Harrlsburg that wears plumes, hires
a spotlight and blows Its own horn Jazz
fashion.
K7jjd The renort of the O'Nell campaign e-
RiSt7t senses Just filed at Harrlsburg shows that
W$ " $147 remains unspent in the hank. This
rfJf loot ilt nf wrpplra re mtrrht Vip usnrl In
t',".., " . " " .
ihSJ-f ,UDlls" a 'ract written to Miow that even
(V?V a wicKea -oria it is possible to be too
lyy good. Or the Governor might distribute
' tne 147 among tno neeay elevator opera-
Bilf tors who were the last contributors to
finance the O'Xell adventure.
,u " The announcement from Pekin that the
S'ijpfr Kent, treaty between Japan and China "re
,''; trlcts" the signatories to co-operation
against tne uerman menace is reauy a
" reeognltlon of the scope of the pledge Then
I.. .....V.I.m. "ll.l.ftl" nlmilt I. .& tnnirnllii.ln t
X te Job which civilization has been forced
to undertake.
"MR. JUSTICE BUDD"
SOUNDS WELL
lir'ITIHE suggestion of Henry Budd
dd as the
iifsw " Democratic candidate for one
of the
SjfV vacancies on the Supremo Court bench
E'm'aV iniit in nnmmnnH Itlf trt tVr li?,.. nf in
IS& State. Sir. Budd is a lawyer of character
He would honor the bench.
It la the Intent of the Constitution that
jSyrben two vacancies In the Supreme Court
fAgifrhr filled at one election a Republican and
;w&;$i.,lemocrat shall be elected, for It pro ides
Sftibat under such circumstances a voter
Kjlmay cast his ballot for only one candidate
HaS his own party. This arrangement, tin-
ifeTiekia frustrated by Republican trickery,
jMwould Give the election to the Democratic
KSJweandldate. Indeed, if the two Republican
:.!".. . M Lbm .wv..i n .rv. I..nr.& crnm... ......ll
f&sfdates, one running as a Republican and the
Rather under some trumped-up party name to
jrfeyade the constitutional prohibition, or tnen
Wrepoth running as Republicans, a Democratic
Hcindldate of the character of Mr Budd
Mwuia have a good chance of elect.on. The
ShState can contemplate hia promotion to
jtj.tJa bench with satisfaction.
ffirW
iSL'5 i Now that the U-boat raid has at last
:yrrcu( an Brn-icici.uuB niuics must re-
:e that the blame Is now lodged precisely
-re It belongs. .
I&PAN COMMUTERS TRUST PROPHETS?
iljrR. McADOO has written to the secre-;-tary
of the South Jersey Commuters'
yjioclatlon that after the war railroad
will drop to their former level, and
secretary of the association is happy.
t.i , 4 .,. .,
SGBrk &tly uv uuiiiuuuH iu lane me joy out
liPRw! but evidence Is lacking to prove
jfptjjpat Mr. McAdoo can qualify, as a twenty
fefW carat prophet. And there is plerlty of
'VevMence to warrant the conclusion that it
rllUbe some years after the war before
liroad fares and railroad freights are
iuced to the level of f917. The railroads
'Jlbeen vainly asking for an Increase in
es lor (several ta & suun us tno
(rernment took them over It discover? 1
the rates would .have to be Increased
the railroads were to meet expen3es.
IMcAdoo has not only raised the price
services which the roads render the
Hct but he has Increased the pay of the
oyes ana is now struggling wuu a
rid for a greater Increase In pay from
fshop workers. He cannot reducs tho
anu ipe itiEo wmiuui ieuuc;n
i unless he proves that he Is the one
i 'only railroad genius In America who
t 'do what no one else has succeeded In
tkeitouth Jersey commuters must
(I l(r. McAdoo Is a genius pa
..it. tr,re xo fee any
FIND THE MONEY
If' a Cotton Tax and a Protective Tariff Wilt
Rale Revenue, Congress Should
Not Fear Them
THE Republicans who have stood by
the Administration in its prosecution
of the war are evidently determined to
give it the benefit of their advice in the
preparation of the new rcvenuo bills.
They would fail in their patriotic duty if
they did otherwise. The Republican
party has drafted more successful reve
nue bills than the Democrats have
dreamed of. Indeed, most of tho TDemo
cratic revenue bills in the past have been
such stuff as dreams not revenue were
made of.
Representative Fordney, of tho Ways
and Means Committee, has begun already
by reminding the House of the impor
tance of resorting to the tariff. He has
computed that if the Payne rates were
levied on the imports of tho current year
they would produce a levenue of $518,
000,000, or nearly $3r0,000,000 more
than has been raised under the existing
rates.
When we are confronted with the
necessity of raising enormous sums in
an emergency like the present it is sim
ply the part of wisdom to profit by the
experience of the past and to adopt tried
methods. There is no doubt whatever
that vastly greater sums could be raised
by the tariff than the Democrats have
seen fit to raise. There is no doubt,
either, that such taxes falling indirectly
upon the people and distributed widely,
could bo paid much more easily than
direct taxes such as the party in power
is considering. As Cleveland said on a
previous occasion, the country is con
fronted by a condition and not a theory.
Only theorists will fail to recognize the
fact. Wo are likely to hear much more
of th j tr.riff in the nex. few weeks.
The Democrats are not to be aUowed
to forget that mere are sources of war
profits also which they have not yet
touched. They have already been
r:minded that they have kept their
hrnds off cotton. It sells normally at
$50 a hale. But it is selling for two or
three times that sum now. It has been
estimated that between half and three
quarters of a billion dollars could be
raised by a just war-profit tax on cotton.
With this sum added to what could be
raised by the tariff we would have a
round billion dollars, a little less than
three-quarters of which would be taken
from the profits of producers who are
getting enormous prices on account of
tho war and moie than one-quarter of
which would be so widely distributed that
it would not be felt.
The fact that one of these taxes would
involve the acceptance of Republican
practices of taxation and the other would
involve the taxation of the southern
Democrats ought not to be sufficient to
deter the financial statesmen responsible
for the revenue bills from giving them
the most serious consideration. It will
not commit the nation to any policy when
the war is over, for then our whole
economic l elation with the world must be
readjusted. Conditions may arise under
which the ancient protective tariff sys
tem of the Republicans will have to be
so modified that its friends will not recog
nize it. And again, it may be that
Europe will make a tariff combination
against us, which we must fight if we
would preserve our industrial independ
ence. No one knows what the future
holds. Wc all do know that the tasks of
the present are so grave that every
instrument that can be found which may
be useful in performing them should be
freely used.
Mr. Fordney and his associates will
set out a fine assortment of instruments
ready to hand before the revenue bills
are finally passed.
The partial sidetracking of history In
tho public schools is only natural. We're
all too buy making new olumcs to dust
off the outmoded ones
LAURELS FOR AN ANCIENT
HENRY WATTERSON'S editorial on the
entiance of America into the war,
which has tecened the Pulitzer prize as
the best article in an American newspaper
last year, l Trltten In the fctyle which
made the distinguished Kentuckian famous
It concludes with these vigorous phrases:
No peace with the Kaiser No parley
with autocracv. abrolutim .ind the divine
right of kings To Hell with the Habs
burgs and tho Uohenzollern '
It is not necessary to traverse the find
ings of the judges Mr. Watterson is ad
mitted to be one of the most epert phrase
makers in the counti y. He christened the
"star-eyed goddess of refoim" in a spirit
of derision, and it was he who said that
if Cleveland were nominated the party
would "march through a slaughter house
Into an open grave." There must be con
solation for him that the pungent rhetoric
of a past generation pleases the present,
for he still writes with much of his old
time vigor
It Is to be hoped that the present can
cellation of the subway contracts will not
make the pregnant motto "sic transit" per
manently applicable.
OF INTEREST TO LAWYERS
LAWYERS of the type formerly asso
J dated with the business of ambulance
chasing have found a new and richer field.
If Information now being collected by some
of the big Insurance companies is not mis
leading. A sort of guerrilla war has
been waged on these companies for years
through the medium of motorcar owners
who are harassed Insistently by faked
damage claims. Almost every automobile
owner Is Insured. And the casualty com
panies have found It cheaper to settle
minor claims out of court than to defend
even a perfectly Innocent client.
Now the abuse has become bo prevalent
and costly. It has added so much to tho
rates of general insurance, that some of the
larger corporations, which have quietly
been collecting evidence for almost a year,
are preparing for an expose and the later
oreeecutlon of lawyers In varloui parts of
EVENING PUBLIC ' LEDGER PHILADELPHIA f WEDNESDAY" tTUNE
the country through whom they have paid rrivi'llT'JVrE'n I I
hundreds of thousands of dollars In "Jobbed" MxITCHtinEH.
claims.
Disclosures In this city show that there
actually are men who go about seeking to
have rickety wagons Jarred by a motorcar
In order that they rhay make tho usual
claim of "damages and personal Injury."
One man was arrested not long ago and
charged with stepping deliberately off the
curb Into the path of a slow-moving
motorcar. It Is assumed that there aro
lawyers In Philadelphia who are willing to
becomo partners In this sort of petty crimi
nality and In a process that confuses genu
ine claims for damages really suffered.
This surely is a matter for tho attention
of the Board of Cepsors of the Philadelphia
Bar. Tho censors-should not wait for com
plaints or for a scandal. It is their duty
to protect .the bar consistently from those
members whose conduct Is such as to en
danger its prestige.
The report of the excellent phone serv
ice far'off In the American trenches provides
another Instance of the well-known "pathos
of distance "
THE GOOD FROM WAR
T71EW realize how life In America Is being
- disciplined by the war or how much of
permanent good Is sure to result gener
ally. It is usual to suppose that the dis
cipline of our present great effort Is felt
chiefly in the aimy. As a matter of fact,
life Is being hotter ordered everywhere.
The war gardens that are beginning to
bloom on every hand aro a hint in them
selvos. No one knows how many war gar
dens there are. But if all the small plots
were counted and estimated It would be
found that hundreds of thousands of acres
of land formeily Idle are now under culti
vation. Will the American ever lose his
new taste for gardening? Will tho man
with an acre of ground let the weeds grow
In future and return to tho lnzy habit of
eating only bought vegetables?
It Is not likely that he will. His
thoughts and habits as well as his palate
are being disciplined. For him at least
war Is proving a good thing.
Marine Insurance went
up even faster than
the coast-defense air
planes. Tint They Will
Ilrlng It Down
Judging bv the royal honors bestowed,
George the rifth evidently found his blrth
d.iy the best of nil times to raise I'.ilne.
It's a great deal
easier to avoid a full
sized tornado than to
dodge the draft
And More
Honornble
General Humidity often turns those
blustering thunder and lightning night of
fensives Into complete defeats this .Tunc. Hi!
has a nasty way of rallying his muggy forces
by the next afternoon.
All efforts to prove
nut Was that Shakespeare vvaa
He a Hun? a German will come
to naught If the Kai
ser retains the "Quality of Mercy" speech
in the new "national" edition ot the poet's
works, which ha is reported to be super
lslng. What has happened to Qarabed?
THE CHAFFING DISH
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The Life of a Smoker
Age 12, bean-pod cigars.
Age 13, cornsllk.
Age 15, tries his first cigarette.
Age 18. freshman at college, a meerschaum
pipe.
Age 22, senior at college, a French briar.
Age 23, clerk at $10 a week, corncob pipe.
Age 25, five-cent cigars
Age 30, married', rolls his own.
Age 31, twins, corncob again.
Age 35, ten-cent cigars.
Age 40, two for a quarter cigars.
Age 50 putting his son through college,
corncob again.
Age 60, cremated; his last smoke.
Today's War Names
For the benefit of our innumerable
readers we are glad to prtnt the proper
pronunciation of names on the most
western of all fronts:
New York Nyawk
Boston Boss-tone
Hog Island Haw-Gyelan
New Jersey Noo-Joisey
Baltimore Ball-ta-muh
Atlantic City A-tlan-tuck
Hoboken Hoe-buck-en
Garabed. .No need to pronounce it at all
That strange disease that Is bothering
Madrid, can It be hay fever?
The cloak and suit factories in New York
report a dearth of "perfect 3;'s." If that
refers to equatorial measurements, here
we are.
Every now and then we see somebody's
canoe at the Reading Terminal, being
shipped off somewhere for a nice little trip.
It's a very poignant sight for a hard
working man. We think of cool levels of
moonlit water, and the plunk and swish of
the paddles, and rolled-up shirt sleeves,
and sun-warmed sand beaches well, we all
have our bad moments.
It has been suggested that England send
a woman ambassador to Russia. Far more
important to send a crate of safety razors.
It is so gratifying to hear of the "punc
tilious politeness" of that U-boat captain
off the coast of (name deleted by summer
resort bureau). Perhaps he has been study
ing the Prussian Primer, where we lead:
Politeness is to do and say
The rutluess thing In the ruthless way.
Heavy prune-fire has been heard along
the coast boarding houses.
There will be fearful slaughter among
the U-boats If they get within range of the
hash-howitzers of the Jersey landladies.
Even the moon Is going to take a hand
in sunlight saving.
Why not call the rivet champions rivet
erans? Since a hairpin shortage has be:n pre
dicted, may we suggest that the park
guards be Instructed to comb the ground
under the benches?
Of course, we believe In encouraging
home Industries, but still the war Is going
to be -won in France and not at Rehoboth
or Lewt-Mw, . v.SOCRATES.
or Lewtae-V f y SOCRA
rpWO years ago today Kitchener died. In
a stormy sunset off the Orkneys the
cruiser Hampshire struck a mine and foun
dered In a few minutes. Lord Kitchener
was last seen talking quite calmly (can you
Imagine him otherwise?) to the ship's
officers on the bridge.
No one will have forgotten the pang of
horror and regret that throbbed In the
hearts of the English-loving peoples when
the news was known. To many men It
was the sharpest single shock of the war.
And, as so often happens In such cases,
there were many who could not bellevo
that the great general was dead. It was
said that he had been captured by the
Germans or that ho had been picked up
by Norse fishermen; ho was billing his
tlmo nnd some day would reappear to bring
succor and blazing aid to his cause.
Such human legends and fabllngs, un
reasonable ns they may seem, nro always
based on some underlying truth. Kitchener
Is allvo Just in the same sense that Hin
denburg is dead. Hintly may tag around
over the battlefields with Wllhelm and
Rosner, but his woik Is done; It Is sewn up
and shrouded and committed to the Infernal
deeps. These reports that keep coming
in attesting his continuance ore vastly
exaggerated. Tho failure of his Inst west
ern drive Is simply the epitaph on his
tablet.
Just as truly ns Hlndenburg Is dead,
Kitchener is alive Tho work that he
began continues and will continue Our
own great draft armies aio in a
.sense his heirloom. It is said that
ho never married, that lie founded no
family. But he founded a family whose
deeds will resound as long ns men honor
courage and unflinching patience. In a
year's time ho raised a family of four
million men in khaki. He showed tho
world what civilian levies can do. It is
tragic that ho did not llvo to see our
own National Army, which would have
spoken so directly to his heart.
The world loves to invent legends for Its
great men. Around tho tall grim figure
of Kitchener has grown the story of a
sphinx of ice and iron, a woman-hater, a
demon of efficient coldness and brusquerie.
All such legends we take pains to disbe
lieve. Mr. Schwab, Philadelphia's newest
citizen, saw Kitchener at the time of his
greatest stress, when he was planning des
perately how he could provide ills armies
with enough guns nnd shells. Mr. Schwab
has told how KItchener'R face nnd voice
were broken with emotion.
It Is never safe to assume that a man
Is a woman-hater Just because he is a
bachelor, or that ho has tho temper of a
frosty devil because he scowls at the news
paper man's camera. Kitchener detested
useless and Idle chatter. He had a passion
for getting things done. He was born in
Ireland. These apparent contradictions so
puzzled the Interviewers that naturally they
were in no mood to observe the facts.
Kitchener was wise in the ways of war.
He saw? long before most, that the conflict
would bo a long and bitter one. He had
faced the German military machine in his
youth when, as a boy of twenty, he had
enlisted with the French in 1870.
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Probably the finest and deepest tribute
eveSnaid to Kitchener was that of O
HenryS- In one of his stories (Is it "The
Unfinished Story'"') O Henry describes how
his little shopgirl heroine keeps a photo of
that strong,, soldierly face on the bureau
In her mean" hall-bedroom to remind her
to play the game to the end and not to
flinch before the temptations that assail
her. O. Henry, with his vivid human In
sight, read the secret of that hard, fine
face. He saw the tenderness and humor
and knighthood behind the stern mask.
How often the men who scowl at the pho
tographer are the tendercat after all.
The common people are always right.
Tom, Dick and Harr.v, Eliza and Mary
Ann, all the little folk of England, took
K. of K. to their hearts. India and
Egypt worshiped him. He gave England
all he had; behind her errors and ab
surdities he saw the fine tradition of
democracy and clean-handedness that have
marked her dealings with men. In every
trench and field where the armies of the
Allies aie fighting his spirit is still alive.
C. D. M.
Liberia's Philatelic Hoodoo
The Republic of Liberia has a phllatello
hoodoo in the person of Its President, Daniel
Howard, whose portrait has been kept by the
fortunes of war from appealing on the post
age stamps of Ills own uoumry
At the time the world war began the postal
adheslves of Liberia contained the p'cture of
cx-Presldent Barclay. Apparently this dis
tressed the dignity of President Howard and
he ordered printed at Hamburg, Germany,
a new series of btamps portraying his own
honored likeness.
These stamps were printed as directed and
a German steamship started southward car
rying the labelb in its cargo This was late
in July, 10 H. In August came the days of
the beginning of the downfall of the Hohen
zollerns and the German ship with the new
Liberia btampa had not reached her destina
tion. British warships Intercepted the vessel
and took her a prize of war to Sierra Leone.
Here the examination of the cargo disclosed
the presence of the Llberian stamps, but as
they were addressed to a German agent In
Liberia and not to Piesident Howard there
was apparently no way of knowing so the
British reasoned whether President Howard
had actually made payment for the stamps
or whether the labels still belonged to the
German Governmept.
So the British confiscated the labels. Presi
dent Howard, learning of it. decided to play
safe the next time by ordering some stamps
printed in England instead of Germany.
Again were adhesives prepared, once more
bearing tho Liberia executive's poi trait. This
time a British merchant bhlp started forth
with them. A German torpedo Intercepted
this vesbel, which went to the bottom of the
Eea with the consignment of stamps bearing
President Howard's portrait. '
Presumably President Howard wag by this
time discouraged, for Instead of again order
ing new stamps made his Government began
surcharging the remainder of previous sets
with new values, adopting this practice with
stamps ranging as far back as 1880.
The suggestion that the terrible black
volume, with Its 47,000 names of wicked
Britishers, is the famous Domesday Book is
gratuitously submitted to witnesses in the
crazy Pcmberton-BIIUng-Maud Allan trial,
accounts of which make the Dreyfus case
seem a miracle of lucidity. , In view of what
has already happened, it should be perfectly
easy to prove that the ex-Mpret of Albania
Is roally.a direct descendant of William the
Conqueror, that the Norman ruler was largely
of Teuton blood and that, he compiled his
muco-ttatea aocumems in .juoj in order to
THE GOWNSMAN
ACADEMIC freedom is a red rag, exas
- perating to bulls, college presidents
and university trustees, a thing to bo
gored, trampled and tosed In the nlr. To
the quiet bruins of the lace, who go about
their own business and not about other
people's, the academic variety of freedom
seems less a led lag than a "glad rag," to
bo aired llko a hood and gown at com
mencements or on other commemorative
occasions nnd to bo properly boxed and
protected from the moths the rest of tho
year. From another angle, academic free
dom is the red rag tied to tho tall of the
academic cart, warning the careless passer
by, "Tills cart is loaded, hands off!"
rpHE Gownsman has a conviUlon that all
- real human freedom is as impartial as
sunsliine, beaming on the Just nnd the un
just alike, illuming tho little as well as
the big, though incapable of refracting as
much from a Email surface as from a great.
The Gownsman has another conviction, and
that is that since the days of Solomon no
one human being has had a patent-celestial
to absorb to himself all the wisdom of the
race. It seems not irrational to believe
that a man who boa studied a subject Is
likely to know somewhat more about that
subject than another who draws his
knowledge only from his inner conscious
ness; and It seems preposterous to the
Gownsman to suppose that addiction to
books and to study necessarily destroys
tho common sense of the scholar. There
fore the inference that in things which
belong to that in which each Is an expert
the teacher Is more likely to be right than
the nontcacher, be ho trustee or business
man, who criticizes him.
w
E MAY even go a step further and de-
claie that ever." free man has a right
to his opinions and to tho control of his
peisonal conduct, and tho questions who he
Is, what he does, where he stands are Ir
relevant. But there are limitations to the
freest ot the free, for every man has
parted with Jome of his "Inalienable
rights" that he may enjoy the protection
of his fellow men, and live, by an implied .
agreement, under the law. There aie even
individual limitations. There are places
into which a clergyman ought not to go
unless he is unmistakably slumming. And
there are licenses which we allow to "the
tired business man" as though nobody
else was ever tired! which would stretch
the most clastic conception of the teacher's
fieedom to the breaking point.
THE new trades union for college teach
ers, or, as It would prefer to be desig
nated, "The American Association of Uni
versity Pi ofessors." has In the two or three
years of its existence examined and passed
on some ten or a dozen cases of violation
of the lights of academic freedom, extend
ing territorially from Connecticut to Mon
tana and from Colorado back to our own
Pennsylvania. The Gownsman never
quotes statistics except to the confusion of
the statisticians. But when we recall that
there are nearly a thousand universities,
colleges and technological institutions In
"these the United States of America" in
which there are at least fifty times as
many ardent, eager, alert teachers, talking
hard every djiy in the week, the degree
to which their utterances go unchallenged
Is something remarkable.
THE right to say whatever you want to
say. wherever jou are -and whenever
you choose Is less a question of freedom
than one of kindness, decency and good
manners. The people who get Into trouble
In this way are usually taking a short cut
into that sea of troubles in which they are
happiest when most deeply submerged and
struggling. You may walk all day on the
monotonous boardwalk of dally life, com
porting yourself like an ordinary, in
glorious citizen and nobody will look at
you twice. But contrive to drop off a pier,
when It, is well occupied with people and
when rescue Is not likely to prove too
hazardous, and you can make a sensation
and perhaps get your petty name and,
possibly your pretty picture Into the
papers. There Is much to say for academic
freedom as a means of publicity, and a
chapter on the subject should find a place
in every well-regulated tieatlse on the art
of self-advertisement.
THE most recent finding of the Arru-rlcan
Association, mentioned above, has to do
with academic freedom in wartime, and the
query at once arises, Shall our can
tankerous friends, our advertising friends,
our friends who are afflicted with a burn
ing zeal for martyrdom, it matters not
about what, be restricted In the various
kinds of free speech which lead them so
certainly to these goals of their desires?
Is there a difference between splashing
In the water of ordinary controversy which
may anger, wet, perhaps even muddy, and
playing with fire In a dangerous proximity
to much that Is inflammable?
IN ENGLAND "the legitimacy of except
ional restraint upon fre,e speech In time
of war" has been strenuously maintained.
But it has been argued, vigorously that
the mate aione iB.eniuiea io exereue sucn
IS IT HOT ENOUGH FOR YOU?
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professors, while It accepts these Kwo prin
ciples "ns expressing a sound presump
tion," argues for tho deprivation of aca
demic office wherever a teacher had been
convicted of disobedience to existing law
or lawful executive order, or where such
teacher Is proved to have undertaken
propaganda cither actively by pacifist ten
ets or by Interference with legitimate ac
tivities growing out of the war. The ques
tion is a nice one nnd not easily decided.
There is much quiet, dangerous propa
ganda In our schools nnd colleges, even
now that wo aro avv'ake to It. Shall we
leave it to do Its deadly work until an Im
personal Government steps In to protect
us? Or shall we help protect ourselves?
The question Is not tho abstract mainte
nance of that magnanimous fiction of our
law, "all men are Innocent until proved
guilty." It Is rather whether we can risk
tho enemy within the gate.
IT IS one of the glories of our State that
any man may worship God as he pleases;
more that he may worship as many gods as
ho pleases, or, It such be his folly, he wor
ship nono at all. and, believe, misbelieve
or unbelleve precisely as he will. But It Is
no interference with tho avowed atheist's
"right of religion" to question his compe
tency as a witness If there Is reason to
doubt his recognition of the sanctity of an
oath. Old report tells that It la part of an
annual festival atN one place In Bengal to
drag out a heavy car In which Is borne
along an Image ,pf Vishnu and that his
frenzied devotees prostrate themselves be
fore Its progress In sacrifice to the god.
Suppose such nn attempt "to worship
God" wero to start out today on Broad
street, would our pitiful Mayor, who loves
not bloodshed, be breaking the laws of the
republic It he Instructed his obedient police
to run in the car of Juggernaut precisely
llko anv other old dray impeding traffic?
"The public safety is the supreme law.
Whatever may be true In times of peace,
In times of war we cannot afford to let even
the academic heathen rage,
A Sipn of Slackening
The Kaiser has decorated the Crown
Prince for "brilliant successes." Usually this
sort of thing marks the end rather than the
beginning of a German military enterprise,
and it may perhaps bo taken as a sign of
the forecasting by the Kaiser of the stop
Foch Is putting to the latest drive. The
decoration would come more appropriately
while the Germans were 'still moving for
ward. Rochester Tost .Express.
A Wartime Crop
Scientists are discussing the use of the
seaweed In the Sargasso Sea to obtain sup
plies of potash Utility Invades everything.
Heretofore, all that has come from the sar
gasso Sea has been supplies of romance.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Swatting the "Wanderlust"
Bv raising the passenger fares Sir. Mc
Adoo has imparted a summer meaning to the
"Home," Sweet Home" motto that many peo
ple have . never been acquainted with.
Houston Post.
In Place of Goosesteps
Soldiers in the trenches are Inventing a
lot of new dances. With the Idea of teaching
them to tho Kaiser, we suppose. Johnstown
Democrat.
Change the Breed
Funds for the war must be kept coming
to the Government. The Treasury now wants
retriev ers, not watchdogs Washington Star.
Lofty Enterprises
The gardening season isn't yet In full
swing in New York, but the roof gardens will
all be open June 1. Boston Globe.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. Where Is foliate UniTersltJ touted?
2. Who uc John Ilartrnm?
3. What I the national floral emblem
of
Canada?
4. Name the author of "Wetrd Ho."
5. Which l tho Tor Heel Mate?
6. Where In I.aon? V
7. Mho la General Slit Ton Arn'.nv?
R. What is the capital of Pennsylvania?
0. What treat bodies of vtster Mere named
after Mr Henry Hudson?
10. What Is the tltls of the hlr to the Eniilsh
throne?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. James Monroe was re-fleeted In 1(!0 unan
imously but for a slnale vote, one eleetor
refunlnc to aire to any other President
a distinction accorded to Washinfton.
2. Illinois Is called the Prolrle Mate.
a. Dominie Karopsom an absent-minded pda
rotue In "Guy Mannerlnir," noted for his
characteristic exclamatlou of "l'ro-dli-1-ous."
4. Sir Walter Rcott wrote "Our Mannerlnc."
5. The tree most noted for lonjeilty Is th red
wood-of California.
6. Clont the Implanted twit or wood ot a
crafted tree.
7. Claude Kltchln Is the Democratic floor leader
in
the llouie,
(. Alsnei on Important river ot northern France,
ronnlaa; Mat to jeil. flowing Into to
OUe, which flows Into th Bern.
a. Brown University Is la Provldeic. E. I.
i ttgy.-yyy&.w.M.
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Westermsn. In the Ohio State Journal.
A WHITE-THROAT SINGS
FROM ancient Edens long forgot
He felt a breath of spring.
And In the leafless apple tree
He heard a white-throat sing.
With fluted triplets, clear and sweet,
The bird proclaimed his Joy,
And on tho withered orchard grass
The man became a boy:
A boy who ran, a boy who dreamed,
In April sun and rain;
Who knew all good was happiness,
All evil only pain.
Sing on, O white-throat In the tree.
He does not hear you now!
The years are trampling on his heart
And armies o'er his brow.
From ancient Edens long forgot
No resurrection comes
Until the smallest sparrow's song
Is louder than the drums!
Walter Prlchard Eaton, in the Atlantia
Monthly.
The Reader's Viewpoint
Trieste in the German Plot
To the Editor of the Evening Public Ledger
Sir A special cable to the Evenino Pub
lic Ledoer, dated May 30, gives us parts ot
the latest speech of the Austrian Emperor
delivered to several deputations from the
western provinces of his empire. These In
formed him that Austria Is Inextricably
bound up with the Trieste trade, which Is
In German hands. The emperor asserted
that "his Government will always be on the
side of those who- wish to keep Intact the
sacred heritage of the glorious past and pre
serve it Intact for future generations." He
further on asserted that "never In any man
ner whatever will the .rights and develop
ments of the German Inhabitants of Austria
be checked." .
He could have omitted this last confession :
we knew ven well that Austria is a vassal
of Germany,' and that th nations subjected
to her can expect no consideration. But the
assertion that the trade of Trieste is in Ger
man hands proves to be absolutely without
foundation. It finds Its root In that vast
network of llti and misrepresentations which
Is generally known as German propaganda.
We have often heard that, though Trieste
Is certainly Italian In her population, geog
raphy and history, yet we ought not to take
her from Austria, since she constitutes her
most Important harbor. On the other hand,
we are Informed that, should Trieste return
to her mother country, her Importance would
greatly diminish, since her trado would' be
absorbed by Venice.
"Both statements are clearly refuted by
facts. What little Austria has done in favor
of Trieste she has done with the purpose of
stimulating an antagonism with Venice: dls- .HvJ
criminatory freight rates have been used toKfl
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keeping under control one of the most im-
portant seaports of Italy. There aro no in
herent reasons for this supposed rivalry.
Venice, through her geographical position,
should domfhate the trade not only on her '
side of tho Alps, hut alto In part of the In
terior of Europe, up to the natural sphere
of Influence of the German ports of the
North Sea, Trieste, on' the other hand, be
sides her hinterland, very rich and capable
of great development, dominates the trade
with the Levant, which now represents about
60 per cent of her total On the day on
which European and Asiatic Turkey shall be
freed from the Incompetent rule ot her pres
ent government there will be no limit to the
amount of trade which the Levant will offer.
Coming now to the pretended German In
terests In Trieste, we find that these are non
existent. The total trade of Trieste amounts ,
to about 5,500,000 tons; of this whole 3,100,
000 represent the maritime trade. Now the
participation, of Germany In the maritime
trade constituted In 1911 but 7.5 per cent of
the total trade, while Italy Is represented by
J3 per cent, 1. e, by an e.ven greater total
than that of the Austro-Hungarlan ports.
wnicn are, alter an, mainly Italian.
The fact Is that Austria, while always
suomissive io mo unjust rivalry oi tne uer op
man rjorts against. Trier! iv has onlv hn w1;
Intranslged In encouraging an antagonism, 'V
Between vemca ana irieste. j
This city under Austria, I, e., under Gr- '.--'I
many, would continue to be starved In favor 1
of the German ports. She would never be
forgiven for remaining, In spite of all perse
cution, a typical Italian city. The reasons for
Germany's longing for her possession are
essentially political. This Important city
could serve as a gateway into the Medlter
rean and aa a bridgehead for the political
conquest of the Levant and the Far East,
Hamburg-Trieste. Constantinople Is only a
part of the Berlin to Bagdad program of l
domination. ,.V
nut tne a ream entertained oy tne Austrian 41J
emperor of "keeping Intact the sacred heri
tage" of murder, tyranny and oppression Is
already doomed to a rude awakening. Only
last week Secretary Lansing declared Anierl- i
ca's friendliness toward the ODnressed racaa ' :
of Austria. In the name of th most sacred
principles of liberty and nationality we are
bound to wipe oft the earth the horrible rtalv Aft
which goes udder thu na:n of (ha Auatrija',.,',-1
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