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June 10, 1911 GET AFTER THE ALIEN SLACKERS KSjouTT IS said that the registration of military IPA, '"Eiblts last week did not icach the EJef?; anticipated number because the aliens rc- Bt3 fused to put their names on the list. f, vve can rorce them to recister ir we can 'tt&.flnd them, but we cannot force them to ES&ht. Last August Congress passed resolutions A., canine on the Piesident to negotiate BJJm, treaties which would permit us to draft BS?C citizens of foreign countries living here. K!V in September the Senate passed the Cham berlain bill providing for the draft of all ufi . nllens except enemy aliens, hut at the per sonal request of the Secretary of State the gft House killed the bill. In February the for the deportation of aliens who did not submit to the draft, hut the Semite has taken no action -a It. On February "7 the ; Secretary of State submitted to the Senate : treaties with Great Britain and Canada PwT PCrmlttlnR the mutual drafting of citizens of each country; but on March 2" he with drew them, and the have not been resub mitted. At present the aliens are immune from military bervlce. If they will not tight in the armies of their own countries we can not make them fight for their own coun tries in our armies. IK' The State Department Is presumably ;" trying to find some way to get the alien gfr .manners iuiu wie mimes ul one country or sv another, if it does not succeed pretty soon lA'C the people will want to know the reason, for this nation is determined not to be an asylum for slackers of any race. The proposed limitation of Incomes to KA AHA a v!ir mgl.'.n 111-1 M nf na tlah tn S&' share the pains of the comparatively few, $ij xne agony would De iruiv exquisite. 5Jt ' Mk. CANT BLUFF HIM &TTNLE SAM refuses to be bluffed. The Ya Ihrnnt f9 f!arm'iiii tr f'rriiij nln-nlnnl tti -- uasoi., XK, V.HU.-C ini J .11,1. a3.Vi i...aVa.t it i . .. .Buuvrfi.Bs 10 Americans in inai couniry j it Lieutenant von lUntelen is not ex- :cnanged ror an alleged naturallzeu Ameri- hfQi cn prisoner has been met in the proper Bar ""- .' "" "..-.... asj"1 "CausinB' physical suffering" Is a game lthat two can nlav n. Afr. T.nnRlnir mm. fcfiSS " .. " , ' ." ... ..".."" V. " aesis, ana ne rermnas tne ivaiser tnat tnere 'ar many more Germans In America than Americans In Germany. If there Is to be " any torturing of prisoners If we do not con- 7 sent to the terms of Germany we can be te,t as merciless, as any one. The primary consequence of this vigor- it ous and unsentimental retort from Wash- Jfw5 ington will doubtless bo that Americans & will not be tortured across the Hhine. And W$i& a secondary consequence wilt be that our , soldiers, when they learn of the threat. i32?'wlll DUt an extra liuneh In everv hnvnnpt ar.'jf-.. ,,-..-.. fssv?" thrust as a guarantee of our good faith imp la the war. Paradoxical as It may seem, the weather ".&Rian who forecasts a "marked coolness" can 3 make a host of summer friend. GS M'MM " lumjmu 3ci3t rnuM jhk. tuia(Ji iW4tsl.Tri T.P,niTTfATP J-l. .-.. i.. B&M' - essential' said Thomas A. Kdiaon . a.. ... a .. . . rrecenuy'i "unless it mteneres with the con- E!' vT tlirt fit th war- anrl thon nnlr tn iha ovtanf VMiV'1 "W a.. win; IU Vllb tAltlH .n , fc t.i.a ,. .a. i Mr. Edison is close to the Government. &Heknows what the Government requires rtaji mol Ti-a Biifinafiitln t......... v. t. r-Mae . duli.ciuiij Jwuc lie lias Ksl3Jielped and Is helping at the general task. ft Interference with Industry, hectic .pro- K-g posals that are apt to discourage general Okj business and amateur meddling are un- Epff necessary and unwise. The Government ESbt a tequires In the way Pcsir,.ef commodities, factories and raw materials tot every sort. Thus all so-called nonessen- SjgiUial industries will be automatically defined jand regulated. Any other course, any ijaokins; and meddling by Congress and self. appointed patriots could only react to lessen pthe virility of the country at large, to lessen the prosperity and to hobble the aatlonal spirit In a time when it neeiis ail fc energy, force and resources It can aand. That gleaming first syllable of Secretary anslnafu eurname cuts sharper than ever rhen be speaks to Germany of reprisals. flOUR RAILROADF-RS.LN FRANCE THEN the history, of this war Is written a Kipling will be needed to celebrate e little known achievements of the American railroad men, who, under Alter- tamry, of Phlladelp'.iia, have done as much :f nullify German strategy, to fool Hinden- Urs7 and to Clscourage all Huns as any ydlvlslon in tne neid. The news that I'Goyernment Is rapidly forming a new it In tlia American rail unit compels jght of the service these men are '-great German drives have ' been to deitroy lines of communication, hit at important junctions and thus to lyza anl endanger such Allied lines as UV depend on the railroads for food and lii.T It, has been evident in more than , jreat action that Important Junctions seised without having the desired ' New; lines had been laid in the unwatlon went V)n as if by mwwns, retMM .tnat they """- " J "- 'WAR NEEDN'T STOP EVERY THING "The Leon Thilatlelpliia Slioultl Learn From the Public Enterprises in Prog ress Abroad AMERICA is the only country In which tho impression prevails that war must stop everything but fif-htlni?. Of course, it is necessary to 'maintain the armies and to ol'gnniz.c industry for keep ing them equipped. Hut the nrmics con stitute only a small part of the popula tion, and life mustgo on now and prepa ration must be mnde for better and more convenient living conditions just as though we were at peace. We seem to have forgotten this in Philadelphia. And the men in charge of the war activities of the national Gov ernment seem also to be unaware of it. Nearly nl! public improvements have been brought to a standstill. The sub ways nre to be abandoned until peace. Only the imperative work is to be done on the Parkway. The construction of the city library has been definitely post poned in spite of the fact that nearly all of the money needed for it hns been available for years. AVe even hesitate to pay the city employes a living wage until forced to do it by their threat to seek work where the pay is better. The other warring countries arc not so shortsighted. Australia, which has con tributed n much larger proportion of her population to the armies than America, is actively engaged in planning her cities to be moie beautiful and more sanitary. She has time and money to give to the subject. The English, hard pressed as they are with the work of raising aimies and providing them with munitions, have not forgotten their duty to the returning soldiers and they rre planning great im provements in living conditions. And the French, with Germany invading their land and almost at the doors of Paris, are continuing their great public works begun in peace times. A new subway was opened in Paris in the summer of 1916. Great bridges have been built at Versailles and Marseilles. Elaborate plans have been drawn for lebuilding Rheims. Insanitary aieas in various cities have been expropriated and the tenements have been torn down. These things, which have no direct i elation to carrying on the war, have been done in addition to other things made necessary by the war itself, such as extensive poit improvements and canal enlargements to accommodate transports and food ships and to transfer freight inland. Attention to some of these matters is given in the twenty-ninth annual report of the City Parks Association, just made public. And the leport calls upon Phila delphia to follow the example of France and keep things going. The population here has increased 175,000 in the last two years, or 75,000 more than the nor mal number. It will continue to increase tduring the next year by the advent of more men engaged in the war indus tries. They must be taken care of; breathing places must be provided for them; there must be schools for their children and facilities for getting to and from work must be improved. But we seem to be thinking little about the im portance of doing anything that is not immediately connected with the manu facture of munitions and ships. The abandonment of the work on the Broad street subway is a calamity. We venture the opinion that if Paris had planned this transit line to make it easier for workers to get to their employ ment it would not have given it up in a panic because money was needed to feed the soldiers and pay for munitions. It would have pushed it to completion with all possible speed as a war measure. All we can do is to complete the Frankford elevated line. We have not the nerve to insist that the Federal Government au thorize us to raise the money for the other subways. Or we have not the ability to convince the Government that it is a mistake to suspend operation on such imperative public works. Our financial cowardice is costing us enormous sums. Because we, aie un willing to raise the money needed to keep the streets in repair verdicts for damages amounting to $342,000 were secured by injured persons in January and February of this year. The injuries were caused by holes in the pavements which could have been tepaired for a few hundred dollars. There seems to be broader financial statesmanship in the City Parks Associa tion than in the City Hall. Its managers have constructive vision. They may not be able to undo anything that has been done, but if they keep at it they can force decisive action on many important public improvements that have been hanging fire for years. Then work on them may begin at the earliest possible moment after peace is declared, if not before. It is about time that this city learned how to spend money to the best advantage. The charge that Germany's U-boat drive oer here is only a feint can hardly be proved without further evidence of prostra tion. GERMANY,, AND GERMAN-AMERICANS IT WAS natural to expect walling In Germany over the refusal of German Americans to approve Kultur and its works and because of the failure of all Pan-German gospels in the United States. But few people nere prepared for the clamor ous grief and disappointment which the German press has been-manifesting in its attacks on "traitorous" millions of German blood who "refused to act for the father land." .This noisy outburst from Hurdom under the whip is a final and amazing proof of an isolation of mind that Is at once tragic, ludicrous and criminal. The Berlin press has been lifting: Its 4a UO, heaven in woe and rendlnc Its of that precious organization "betrayed their old home-land." They "lacked Kul tur." Germany is now "wakened from her dieam" of universal allegiance In all quar ters of the globe, So cries the newspaper that speaks Insistently for Wilhclm. Once ngaln the German Is wrong. Germany hasn't wakened from her dream. Ger many Is still full of a narcotic philosophy. She Is as crazy as a cocaine fiend under a"' 'full charge. Otherwise such mad tommy lot as the llerlln papers are printing would never bo possible. German-Americans have seen the peo ples of their own blood and traditions fed to the guns in successive tides to satisfy the vanity of a mad man and Ills mad son. They have seen the Just hatred of all man kind gather in a destroying tempest to sweep these Idiots out of power. They have seen their nation inarched helplessly to the block Even the most Rcntlmental German-American, even the dullest and most rabid fatherlander, must have been forced to contrast the attitudes of the Her lln Government with the attitudes of the t'nlted States, which, even In these crucial hours, hasn't forgotten how to bo humane and forbearing even with, Its worst enemies. America has never feared German-Americans. It Is too strong to fear any enemy within or without. It never shared any of the delusions that now aie flaunted once more at lierlin to insult decent Americans of German descent. And this Is flnal proof that tlie Hun never could and never will understand the United States. "Xnch Paris'" cry the Teuton hordes. Hut they can't do It. Tho gate3 of the heroic city refuse to be beaten In. A day In June may be rare, but nn April day In June Is rarer, add more delight ful. SALTED PEANUTS The House ITTITH such strong arms I shut my Love ' about, She tested there; which was to me a token. This was a house she could not walk with out, Securrlv bi Icked, and neer to be broken. Alas' the tight Imprisonment was vain, 'Tivbs much too wide and physical for heal ts; When we had come most near, and scarce were twain. We had not met; some soul and secret parts Kscaped the snare; and most unperjured lips That bargained sweetly for our souls' ex change Must He. and love be blacked with this eclipse. That .she and I would lhe and still be strange. And as for Death, whose stroke dissevers men. What fool would make a firm possession then? JOHN CUOWK HANSOM. First Lieutenant Artillery, A. K. F. Vanquished! Dear Socrates I'm sorry you have trou ble in rtnding rhymes for "stars." I don't seem to have any.dlfuculty. Look here: Knowing be could npt be among the stars, The actor "Ryan" donned the guise of Mar3. He talked too much, poor boob, and gassed himself; And now he rests behind the prison bars. SALTED PEANUTS. This seems to be poets' day In this de partment. Our general theory is that poets are better seen than heard, but these fel lows, If we encourage them, may learn to write good prose. Sonnet in Distress I write, and when the thing is writ I read The thins that I have written and It 'erms , Paltry and gaunt and futile as the dreams Which paint the weakling in heroic deed. My Pegasus, a lame and spavined steed, Champs at his bit anon, and but blas phemes The art of those whose ghosts In solemn streams Return to chide my miserable screed. This very thought, shaped to the eloquence Of Tasso's mellow pen; of Angelo's Clean-chiseled phrase; Petrarca's som, ber wit; Camoens' plaint; or anything less dense Than this, the writer's wall, might ah, who knows? Have made a decent sonnet so let's quit! PERCY FLAGE. A Cinch To start a rhyme, begin with A, Proceed to B without delay. And then to C or even D; These falling, E or F or G If H is hdpeless, I and J. Our second stanza asks for K Or L; and M brings us half-way. No luck? Then try with N, O, P, To start a rhyme. If Q. U. S will not obey. T, useful U, or V essay; W, X and Y, grim three; And end triumphantly with Z That, says our author. Is the way To start a rhyme. boyp DULCET. Kings of Persia What things there are 'to write if one could only write themt" My mind is full of gleaming thoughts; g'ay moods and dreams and mysterious, md'thllke medita tions hover and fan their painted wings in the garden of my ; Imagination. If I could only catch them they ''would make me famous; but I can'hartlly ever catch them always the fairest, those freaked with the most amazing blues and crim sons, flutter beyond my reach and eter nally elude me. The childish and evej-baffjed cfyase of these airy nothings sometimes, seems, for one of sober years In a sad world, rather a trifling, occupation; Vet have I not read of the great Kings of, Persia, who used to ride out to hunt butterflies with hawks, nor deemed this pretty 'pastime beneath their royal dignity.? V, LOGAN PEABSALL SMITH. Eclipse of the Hun It seems so simple, and yet 'no one said It; the Kaiser thinks Germany is the empire where the Hun never sets. The Kaiser laments that the German- Anserlcanuare . lnWJfaU.,qulpped A LETTER TO THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE rpiIIS morning, after paying the gas bill -- and saying several times, "It Isn't the heat, it's the humidity," we thought wei , would sit down and write a letter to the Russian people. We were about to begin "w:hcn some one looked over our'shouldcr and, said; "What's the use? Nine-tenths of the Russian peo ple can't read." a That daunted us for a moment, but then we rallied. Even If only one-tenth of the Russians read this that will he eighteen millions, which will be a good beginning. We have Infinite faith In the .Russian people, mujlks and ikons and pogroms, all of them. Even If they can't read, they have a much deeper, subtler, intuitive sense that will bring them in toJch with us. We never thought much of reading, anyway. So much that you read Isn't sd. What we are about to say to the Rus sians will get to then ultimately. We can Imagine the mujlks and the droschkles and the Don Cossacks nudging each other and whispering the good news. Far away, on the back steppes and on steamers puffing up tho Vistula at fifteen knouts at hour, blouscd and booted peasants will pass a faded, yellowed clipping from hand to hand. Even the Czar, perhaps, will find It laid on the chopping block when h. goes out to split his morning kindling. Everjbody Is sains now that we must do something to help Russia. We must send an army to Archangel; we must send a navy to Nova X.cmbla; we must send a carload of questionnaires to Petrograd, It seems to be assumed that If Uncle Sam will only disguise himself as Uncle Samo var the Russians will rally round him from the Urals to the gutturals. Having freed our own slaves, we are to free the Slavs. All our humanitarian novelists are eager to write the Russian Uncle Tomsk Cabin. It seems to us that a military expedition to Russia would be a gtlevous error. In the ilrst place. Russia is not pining to rally round anybody. All she wants is to he let alone to settle her perplexing internal problems. In the second place, Russia's battle is being fought on the Marne and irt Flanders and at Hog Island. We have our hands full fighting that battle. It need not be supposed that Russia is a broken, helpless, pliable nation in the hands of Berlin, prostiate under a flood of Ger man irregular veibs. We don't believe it for a moment. A nation that has survived centuries of vodka, that toppled the por tentous superstition of the Romanoffs al most overnight, that lias grimly breasted generations of hunger and blizzard and misrule, that has kept itself warm with beards for blankets and with the burning coal of Its own heart such a nation cannot be held in bondage by the imperial crack btains of Berlin. Russia has had a ill earn: a dream such as comes to the very steadfast and very simple. !5he has had a dieam of a life In which plain men will no longer give their lives to blood and veimln for what they do not understand, for what means nothing to them. She has had a dream of land to be tilled, of parliament in which even the humblest shall have a voice, of small and happy homes with a glowing stove and well-fed children sprawled upon the floor. It is the same dream we have In this coun try, I 'Jt Russia must be allowed to pursue It in her own a Russia would not understand an Allied army landing 'on her soli. She is sick of fighting, of hunger and confusion and blood. She has seen the ultimate tragedies: she has seen her own women shorn and trou sered and armed with bayonets, marching to a tragic death and horror. She has set war behind her as a nightmare by which she accomplished nothing. "Germany Is rating the country up in great mouthfuK" sas a New York news paper In an editorial on Russia, But large mouthfuls are very Indigestible. Let no one fear (hat Germany will di gest Russia even if she seems to swallow her. In every move she makes Germany Is showing to Russia the character of Prus sian designs and conquests. Let us fear rather that Russia may misunderstand our own attitude In the war. Let us make It flaln to her that her dream Is our dream. That what she Is seekjng to .win by pot fighting, we are seeking to attain by going on fighting. What we are accomplishing on the west by resistance, pel haps she may even sooner accomplish in the east by non resistance. Russia is so vas(, bo Inchoate, so far away, that we can know very little about her with accuracy. It is no business of ours to lay down the law about her politi cal troubles. Let us cease to Jibe at her Soviets, her Bolsheviks, her Menshevlks. Let us have faith that the .splendid mass virtue of that great people will find a path out of Its agonies. When she asks us for help we can try to give It. We cannot force help upon her. We talk of the rights of small nations. Great nations have their rights, too, and one of those rights is a right not to have their rights thrust upon them. Itus8la must help herself, and wp can help her with our prayers And our brotherly goodwill. And now we find that after all this, we have not yet written our letter to the Russian people. Well, that must cbme an other day. But every timo we see the Dicture of a Russian peasant and see those 'grave,'. worried eyes speaking a great hun ger and a great sadness at the hardness of life we' want to take his toll-worn hand. We w;ant to tell him that we, too,' on this side of the world, a're meeting some, of the thorns of earth and' making valiant efforts to soften them. v ( CD. M. That spy Fritz Flase discovered at At lantio City, is -he an'x relation to Caraou, 0f the same family? A patriotic wayi to be reconciled to the new cost of miles which goes into effect at 'home, tp4y.. under, the taew railroad rata "FOR MlJF W 1 t " pi - VSaAaa.X. a, - I'sassssaf 1 WaVSsfl " ' III IssU'll TH1"" 'I ij iiir JJL-a.S,JUl.rrj' 1 V "W ttKniaMlfJfftffr''al ft. .. - .-- - - - .-- IA Dlssaaaa-a. U.aassnsSssaSsrSBssssssHaKXTS'.Z ""IT " " i"l - l"Hriw- - a.. .,-j, J . s 1 - rr H-Wssniaar a-ftSvl x;;,3ft..UWv.-irJwv:'f.iijg . --- .tW&jtF'it,v' s.T$4q'va GEHEIMRAT SHAKESPEARE By Simeon Strunsky (The tcene Is a couple of hundred miles north of the rojt of Jlohema.) TEACHI:R: Children, our literature lesson today will concern Itself et with our new natio-.al poet; and Indeed him whom with our good strong .word we have might ily acquired and self-determined, as by clause W, section 11. paiagiaph O of the peace treaty, "Raw Materials and Poetry" entitled. The proper atmosphere to create, I will now ask Hans Schulz to declaim the selection which, by instructions, he has to memory an nexed. Rtcite therefore one, thou Huns! Hans (reciting)- Hie to-be or the not-to-be. ii ii ti jn. that a-lts itself. Whether It nobler is In the German mind tho nllngs and ar tows of ojtrageous non-German fortunes to surfer, or to take up shining arms aga'nst a by the llrltih (iiand Fleet despotically mled sea of noubles and by ruthlessly op posing Teacher: Aili, himmrlachoent Proceed there fore, now. lliou Hans. Hans ipioceedlng therefore) nd them. The to-dle? The lo-sleep? Kaput; and by a sleep to say we end already the unto the flesh appertaining heartache and thousand natural shocks" Ooiiriericelfer, it Is a de voutly to he wislvd consummation! The to dle? The to-sleep .Teacher (wiping his eyes): Mao, enqugh, thou Hans therefore. Ach, children, the tears will come us they please when one thinks already of this ancient German poet, so hhamefully w res-ted from us by the r.-itlsh sea-robbers when from the mouth of the Elbe they emigrated about the year IM A. D. (In the notebooks to set down, all of you there fore!), carrying with them a good-sired chunk of the ancient Get man speech and only now to us restored. So tell us njvv, thou Fritz Meyer, who was this our national poet? Fritz (reading)- Wilhelm Schalksbard was born In Strafebait-am-Ofen, in the draff Iftiim of Warwickschlr, famous as the prin cipal stopplug-off place between Kansas and the former London. He married Anna Hasen. pffefer and rati away to London, now Wll helmshaven. On his German side he was a genius and on bis English side something of a vagabond For a while he made a living by holding horses in front of the theatres, whence, as shown by the great Sigmund Freud, the poet's pathetic revelation of his own experiences In his old age, crying, "A horse,, a horse, my kingdom for a horse. Teacher (wiping his eyes): Famos, thou Fritz thou, (linos; Proceed also. Fritz (proceeding also): He spent his leisure time in the Magdeburg Tavern In company with other poets of the same na tionality, Von Janssen, Mehrlach, Grum and Weber, and wrote "Hamlet" and, about thirty-nine other plays, but died a respect able citizen at Strafehart, He was long neglected In England, but was .taken up by us Germans, with our national predilection (or picking up other people's things. He stands In the front rank of our great poets Goethe. Dantzlg Allghlerl. Wereglld (familiar. ly known as Vergil), and the blind poet Hel mer, who used to go about the countryside playing on our national Instrument, the harp, as perfected by Jeremiah O'Leary, himself a celebrated wandering minstrel. Teacher: Right good, thou Fritz. And now therefore tell me, thou Otto Muller, what of this' great national poet of ours Schalksbard some of the best-known plays are. Otto: He wrote "Hamlet." Teacher: And the principal characters In "Hamlet" yet? And your reasons? Otto: By their names, sir, Roscncranz and Gulldenstern. Teacher: 4uscelchne.' The all too com mon and by Ignorant people accepted Im pression Is that Hamlet Is the prlnctpal part. But, as we say In Westphalia, 'A'otis ouoiu change tout cela. And other plays? . . ,.r. .......... .. ii . .1... mJ. eltial character la an Executioner. ' Teacher: Out.' Now name one play with a villain as the leading character. Otto: "Merry Wives of Wlndau." and Sir Hugh Evana. described as a "Welsh parson." Teacher: Clott ttrafe Lloyd George; also the other a?orge the Fifth. And what Is It that has made the "Midsummer Night's Dream" o famous yet? Otto: Mendelssohn. Teacher: Thou hast a head, thou Otto, And whom .do you remember in , "As Yw Like It"? ,;.-tv ,-. , c, - t-, .if ir-ift.1 THE PERIOD OF THE """ .7,1 ::r..., . J..,-lfca-.., Wa.. 'uegtitftX' fWitmomwtg""' ''"a's "Sg - - 'rs?ij 5 ;,'.-..:'.. i y -y&v to be spoken. Oolf titrate (alien. And too? Otto: A lord who sings very prettily. I think they rail him Amiens. Tencher: Imbccllo yet! Do not mention that name. Otto: Please, sir, I dldn't'know. I thought It was something about Herr von .Tagow. Teacher: But then how In heaven's name once more? Otto: Where he sings; Ihuler the greenwood tree Who loves to 116 with me, I thought TEACHER: Defective therefore! thiee hours after, school and forty examp es In arithmetic for this; beginning with Von Capelle's multiplication tables. Vnerhort! Gerhaidt Schmidt, I say, this unfortunate Impression- to wipe out now, recite lis al leady those stirring lines by the. Ilerzog .Tobnnn Ganz from "Rlchnid II" This royal throne Geiharilt (reciting): Thin loyal thioue n King, thin sreptred isle, 'J hit earth of majesty, this neat of ilars, This other Kden. ilemt-parailise. This fortre&i hull! by nature or herself Apalnst infection anil the hand of war, Thii happy hrecil of men, this little world, This prertaui .itone set In the sliver sea Which serves it In the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house. Against the envy of less happier lands. This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this NI5U BRANDENBURG ! Teacher: Illmmelschoen! And now,- Hein rich Klaus, point out to me yet one or two Instances of text corruption in our national poet. Helnriiir Please, sir, In the "Merchant of Venedlg," thus: Kerlssa: flow like you the youna German, the Duke of Saxony's nephewt Portia: Very x'llely in the mornina, tchen he is sober, and most vilely in the afternoon, when he is drunk. It has been shown by Professor Gansen schmaU that Nerlssa Is wrong; that It in deed should be "the young Englishman, the Duke of Sussex's nephew." Teacher Vortrefttieh! And now a case of bad proof-reading, my Helnrlch, Helnrlch: Please, sir. where there Is a capital letter needed; In "Hamlet": "The phrase would be more gernwn to the mat ter ,if we could carry cannon by our s'des." Teacher: One And now some final argu ments already of the true German spirit of Wilhelm Schulksbard? Helnrlch: He knew everything. Teacher: And again once more? Helnrlch: Tlease, sir, he stole all his plots. (Copyrleht.) Emll Kipper, an al leged German spy, la to he given a hearing in NeV York. And a llrrrlni? The Berlin Kreuz Zei Oierrlpe Ming's declaration that the times are not ripe for peace Is an understatement. As a matter of fact, they're rotten. The 'superb authority Fpeaklnr of of our fighters at Iitntrojeri Chateau-Thierry Indi cates that there are no "sub-marines" on the Marne. Our boys have fully qualified. "When is a conaola Muslr, Mr, Leader I lion In Paris a desola tion In Philadelphia?" Well, when, Mr, Bones? "When It's a boule vard." . The order that we Why Bub It In? start an offensive against the fly (a dif ficult to execute. He's too inclined to get the Jump on us. The greatly Increased value of tin has taken all the sting out of a ubiquitous brand of automobile Jokes, How can the Germans incensed at the damaging revelations of Dr, Wilhelm Mueh lon, the ex-munltlons maker, feel (otherwise than "Krupp.ted"?, If Klnr George, who .Is to atfend a Fourth of July, baseball ..mateh, wants any WAR" M m N III a4 , m I 1 ' Zt . J"r v" fct&nT&Zurt&iyr. Harding. In lha Rrookljn Kasle. THE POET rpHE barren music of a word or phrase, j-f The futile arts of syllable and stress, He sought. The poetry of common days -sr He did not guess. ' ' rpHE simplest, sweetest rhythms life 1T X affords ' Unselfish love, true effort truly done, , The tender themes that underlie all - words ' He knew not one. rpHE human cadence and the subtle chime Of little laughters, home and child and wife, He knew not. Artist merely in his rhyme, Not in his life. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY. n u Pianos and Mules We are paying Spain for thousands of-'' army mules by sending Its people American- " made pianos. Somehow this seems a revolt I of national Industries. Are the Spanish sere nades finding the mandolin no longer ade- -,; quate to their needs? Or is Spain in its -e war prosperity enlarging Its home luxuries i and Its musical activities? It Is certified i to in trade reports that Spanish business . has profited enormously by the war. There '? , Is more ready money in northern Spalnthan n , has been there since Hidalgo days. And there ,,,, seems to be a supply of American pianos capable of absorbing as much of this wealth as our mule needs make necessary. Roches- v ter Post Express. - fti A Fast Color "Aviation tan" Is a new shade for sweaters . "Kaiser tan" will be popular after hs "' sweaters have done their work. The In- .1. genulty of American dyemakers, we imagine, -t'l U'already very busy, Brooklyn Eagle. .(, They'll Be Good Later " "" "Theies a shortage of June bridegrooms. . i walls a matrimonial statistician. All be- W- cause there's a bumper crop of heroes headed t r ' J toward France. Reading Telegram. t ,4 We'll Speed the Trip , Last time the Gtrmans got to the Marne T4 they had a Rundrelse Billet', a round-trip ' i ticket, and didn't know It. Sometimes his- .. , tory repeats Itself. Louisville Herald. ; Seriouslv. Now "&I What will the farmer's wife think of the & farmerette? Boston Qlobe. What Do You Know? QUIZ 1, What are the Delaware Capes? S. Where la Vlllera-Cotterets? S. What la lha capital of Holland? 4, Whe, la Seeretarr of Agriculture la Wilson Cabinet? wl.h I. rnl..mt,l& lnlrepalla 6. What la the origin 'of tha name of Oh la?" : 1. What waa "Tha Hpeetatar"? ' Mj 8. Wha u aa William Harrison Alnsrrertkf H V, Wha wrote. "It Is MX treenre el luina in, untried eroercenele that tha natlia natal v at a man la tested"? 10, Name the author af "David CoppfrfltlsVt i Aniwert lo Saturdsy'a Qui t wk. .. ,.nL. w annaiUJ hi, Amevleaa farm tractors. II :, Mme. da Ktatl. Baroneaa Anna flcrmalna imUjai Ntael-Hslsteln Uies-llU). French MTtUsl"'2 ana rnutli wnwn u s, rhlladelnbla, ae tha nrtt capital of vtb J t, "Kidnapped," a nsrel br Robert i"MI Hterenaon. S, Auciuta Is the rapllal or Main. tilH S, tieneral l'eton r. March la Actios Chief, a. mis oi ma inuvu main i,, 7, Co.ivoirulus. wild maralni 'ilarr, satlei'i rain us iwoit ipitnaiaiai ana xwaa both In foliage and roots. I. 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