TT ra- $n M &i s A IV:S' SVII.1'&'-'VLv w;,.& 5..,;, TV f?y ' ;" vci.f .!''- i Xv-f "-fe&.' .i."H ,'4 W ino uduc ilwiqci: PUBLICXEDGEti6MPANY TtIB H. Cl)Ai6. VltMDWT rlt H. Ludlnaton. Vice, rreeldentt John C. i Secretary andTreaaurer: Philip 8. Colltm, a, Vtllllamt, John J. Spurseon, Directors. & EDITOtttAL BOAHD! Ciaus It. K. Ccitu. Chairman VIDE. SMILET .".. .Editor rFtfOHW & MARTIN,... general Duilneia Manager JublltheI dally at Peat la t.cnaca Butldlnar. s. Independence Rnuare, Philadelphia. UMII Cistiul, . ..Hroad and Chestnut Streets S ATLINTIO CUT .. .. .....Prr-(n(ol Bulldln '.US Teas. ...,ii.. 206 Metropolitan Tower f.WrrroiT , .4tn J-oni nuiidinic .'T. Lorn .....loos Fullerton llultillna '.CntHo 1203 Tribune Dulldlne NEWS BUREAUS! tiWainiioros Bcrc, 'i. J'- E- Cor' Pcnnaylv I W lOUK Illicit .. ., wflfvWe-. vanla Ave,, and 14th Rt . ..Th Hun Ilulldlna- I !Jl ulcstos Ucibac ..London Timet Sr subscription terms 11 h fV1! b-bb,b. aa, rf wea mm y a.- I a a AAt ft a, at 1st . Aerlbcra In Phllarielnhln. and Burroundlntr towns t .vtt th rt of twelve U-') cnU per week. panbte S7i.r .IT IL" -1".TZ " . ' sriif?f In carrier. SwV -, By mall to points outside ,Wtna United States. Canada, or of Phllacietohla. In nr lTnlterl Htaten no. i MttlMii, pomace tret, fifty tvni centa rer month. Tuife Jlx(6) dollara pe.t-ear. paable In advance-. iff id mix iuiciii luuuiiica who lew uuii.i . fchri Sonth. ,S, rentier. Subscribers wlhlnr address chanced - ttfettuft aaJaeak a 11 bb wait 1 am bi naiif aa A A a-aiaiav l&Wa, B VIU BMO Ttl OJ 1111 BBUUv0a .VBELL. 5009 TALNtT KrtSTONE. MAIV MHO pCSTUrfdrcsa nil commiiitlcntlom to Ftfitlna Pnblla jeagcr, independence aquaret rnuuaripnw. r.vrrjtD at Tn rninorirnu roT orrtc. a itCQNP cma mail mnri, rhiUdrtphls, Tuf.dir, June 11, 1118 RENT PROFITEERS fri-fTIHE problem Involved In rent profiteer- iRy '"B '" Phllauelphla lie") prett deep The Lji'v isiiflnn fa nun nf mnral rlphtd ni nnnnpd atia-i t0 economic rlRhts. Kormen the 1 u of llUd ...... 1 .!-. 9 .. kA..-.n.1 ... ImoIII. LtO'j. BupJlJ UIIU UC1I1MIIU naa iit"auiiivii in ju-5im. wj man in ills enori to n rmK jiii me piunt Impossible fiom his poods or hli propertv It vlBust be decided now whether this General SPf "le may be applied to a whole community b?$ im1ir thi Rtr0q nf nlmnrillnnrv inn ISffi dltlons: whether one man may turn the jffi hardship, sacrifice and devotion of others fiS. to personal profit. Kf"4 It Ls nnnarent that a considerable number ,', of house owners have been tolnir to profit wv- abnormally by war conditions. Thev have .l.Vtt A rAA nAnnknr n. AW .ViaI. .At.anfo ttll.1 1- c S.ICCTI. nu.nuio.c ii.c uio .triii. i., ..-. must face confusion and discomfort or Iej4, meet whatever demands are made upon them. Labor costs and taxes do not whom Justify the soaring rents annoumed In jnany parts of the city What ls required first of all Is liclu on the 'general subject and information rela tive to the present activities of landlords. Representative Darron's bill, with which he proposes to force concessional Intel Terence1, can be little more than a sestuie The city government, Councils, the I'nlted States District Attorne.v and Mr Itotan have means at their disposal for a review of the situation. It should be possible to do Justice to tenant and house owner alike Exercise for health,-' savs Director ? Xrusen. A great many of the folk around City' Hall would rather be HI s?r is politics adjour;ed? MV'i vTTjOlilTlus," saw I'resiaent vv uson : f recently, is aoiourneci IS. This was a cheerlnn nleKase and one S calculated to set thoughtful minds at ease If the rule hasn't been followed consist ently on cither side In Washington it Is -KBtll n rptnemhpr thnt AVaRhlncrtnn Is full S" of men--who make a HvlnK by politics. JJrf ef$f Y.aT.A elitnn nfatix' noil In n -r.onnrnl P way. thouch the strain ahat attends the K4junusual performance shows repeatedly be- fn ..ttt-Mn thp llnps of. the news Senators and jfeJjnCongressmen are as. consistent, on the 3fS&. Whole, as many other men mlKlit tie tr the iPresIdentwere to announce that the hard- IklTvare business or the real estate business , or pretzel maKing were to ue attjournen SjS'ifor the duration of the war S In New Jersey the "outs' of the Demo- ifc-V - TlK,.cratlc party are altogether unwilling to Mj;& have an adjournment. They refuse even yW.to permit the President to adjourn politics Oj.t j in nis own me ana routine, inus ine uem Mt "'ocratlc committees virtuallv promise the P t State that the President will deliver two tfvnv a uciiaiL ui juukc i iiuuia n iS waigni, wno is coiuesun wun uovernor ?4Edge for a seat In the United States Senate jri-i.- Mr. Wilson has a habit of keeping his feS word. He Isn't likely to stump for cundi- !iftaat9s anwhere. He hasn t time The 2??Vir. Jersey' Democrats doubtless are twsFNew, Jersey tfS&l- f . . j.. v- etijoyinK jiicaoiiHi uji)- dreams. But their IM announcements are hardly just to the EfS.. . r "Sergeant" Ran, the fake war hero. Is Bit(ellng cold steel after all. His Moyamenslng S'mII door ls of that material. i- , i !SS "FOR VALOR!" fep THE fine art of war-making Secretary i-'ind aDDllcatlon In these later dais atone jfBOniewnaL 1UI 1'ioiuua ciiuin uiiu UJIUH- CTalons, Now, however, he has muffed an If ... . .j ,i , , . B3sf """ xssue. wna ii is an issue oi extreme atJffA . . . . . . Captain A) mar hmtnirj, who designed the crosses and the medal which are to awarded to American soldiers for dls igulshed service or great v-alor In the 'RJIeld, la a member of the camouflage corps. In' civil life before the war he was a New 3jTork architect. Paul "v7. BarUett, president ! the National Sculpture Society, and ff,rthtr artists without numbei are burning itieMreB Willi inuiKimiu jnuieaiH 10 vvasn Jnjgton, and It ls only necessary to look me compieieu service uauges to per- (ye- that the sculptors have adequate Bunas tor tn assertion tnat.tne designs almost fantastically Inappropriate. -.Captain Embury's designs are echoes from a school of decoration that is per fectly adequate to Interior decoration or 0M building trades. But neijher In the nor In the medal Is there any sug- ktkm of the simple nobility of design or f the -high symbolism 'which properly be- rfftlfn wltbTsuch nsighlaj The medal wllch i m ttm ntntorrr ns nn attttntir,r nt iraordlnary valor, sacrifice and'devotlon little more than a corruption of the 'of the United States. The crosses are ate beond words. The f nation Is not inflicted vvltii such a ' poverty of sentiment as this latest mistake f JCr.Saker8 might imply. There are t$M. doeen culptors iri America who could ve 'provided designs of beauty, dignity I' BlnHHc.ance, inere is n uommission W-&0 Flni.ArU Jn existence ready to extend MVKse ana us service to (ne uovern- wtth Bit-1 cost But the artists were 'W pians ior meaais were in BaBury admits that This wil MBMsrwv:mmw . " v.' ' ''ti.A,:'Ti& r JV.T1 V i. v " . i..JT a ' ,1lTI .aiv. . ,. ," i t, tv a ' - - MBOR NOW AND AFTER THE WAR Rclallon of the American Federation's At tilutfe on Strikes to the International Social Program rpiIE American workinRman is first of all nn American citizen. And the American capitalist is likewise. When we talk about the conflict be tween capital and labor on this side of the ocean we discuss the effoits of the men who live in one block to agree with the men who live in another block on the conditions under which they will co operate in the struggle for existence. We know that at bottom it is a human problem and we know also that there is a genuine desire on the part of both labor and capital to solve it. The fact that labor looks at it from one side does not piove that labor is wholly wrong, nor docs the fact that capital looks at it fiom another side prove that cnpital is wholly right. When each side attempts to understand the point of view of the other the problem will be in a fair way to solution. The war has given the Amcncan vvork ingman an oppottunity to prove his Americanism. The repott of the execu tive council of the American Fedciation of Labor, submitted to the annual con vention of the Federation in St. Paul, epitomizes the creed of Ameitcan Inbor when it declares that "no strike should bi inaugurated which cannot be justified to the man nsking his life on the filing line in France," and when it pays that "the woikers in war production are piactically a patt of the fighting foice.' The repott does not place any narrow definition on the phiase, "workers in -x-ar production," foi it includes within it all those in any way even indirectly, en gaged in vvoik connected with the prose cution of the war. The other labor organizations cannot do less than follow the patriotic example of the Fedeiation. A special Govern ment commission has been cicated to consider all their giicvances and to arrange for fettling them without a sti ike, so that no substantial lights of the workers aie sut rendered by their abandonment of the light to strike timing the pi ogress of the war. And oiganized labor will come out of the war stronger than when it entcied it because of its demonstration of its ability to postpone insistence on its specific de mands in the face of graver issues. Yet we shoultl not close our eyes to the fact that the lcadcis of oiganized labor are aware of the stiategic im portance of then piesent patriotic atti tude. Both in America and in Europe labor is planning a campaign to (ne fought when the aimies lay down their arms. They are demanding a larger share in the control of industiy and they aie insisting on international agree ments which will free adult and well-paid labor in one part of the world from the competition of chiltl and low-paid labor in another pait. The report of the Executive Council of the Ameiican Federation includes some of the demands made b;; the Intel -Allied Labor and Socialist co.nfeience in London last vvintei. Among them are an international child-labor law and nn international eight-hour law. And the repoit also indorses the London confer ences demand for a league of nations that should oiganize the different peo ples in older to prevent international anaichy antl make for the preservation of peace. If labot postpones its demands now it will be in a position to demand consideration of them later. It is not necessary at this time to dis cuss these issues on their meiits. Indeed, it would not be wise, for nothing should be done to distiact attention from the great task of winning the war. Yet we should not close our eyes to the move ment that is taking shape, which has for its object the control of the vvoild by the workers. The English labor party, under the lead of Arthur Henderson, has defined "workeis"' as all those who are engaged in any form of production, whether as manufacturers or laborers, authors or artists. Mr. Schwab, on this side of the ocean, has said that the producers, as distinguished from the politicians and the idle rich who live on their incomes, will control the vvoild in the future. Mr. Schwab belongs to the "capitalist class." If American labor agrees with Mr. Schwab and Mr. Henderson we can, con template the unfolding of events with out misgivings. . . Now- that General Tershing has Intl- fuiea nrimiess reit nals ror the overseas army, the heads of his gallant "douKhbovs" will have no chance at all to expand under cover, THE COST OF THE CAROLINA pOIlTO niCAN resentment overr the destruction of the Carolina is one more demonstration of the stupidity 6f German terrorism. At no time since the war began has the patriotic fervor of our Island pos session been so vividly crystallized as now. The loss of one of the finest ships In the New York San Juan trade has aroused in our West Indian outpost a storm of indlg. nation culminating In a bitter anti-German demonstration in Ponce, Here once again is the old story of Hie greater the bar barity the more powerful the stimulus to civilization's righting spirit. Our Government's prot from the present situation ls specific. With several thou sands of the Islanders now mustered under our flaff, Porto Illco's Iojalty Is Indisputa ble, but the new ardor prompted by Inti mate and tragic concern with the struggle can still further aid us in the difficult task of watching the Caribbean. The German submarines are said to have crossed by the West Indian route. Porto Rico's magnifi cent strategic position can be made even more valuable, to us by the Increased watch- tutHMfrf.fr Inhabitants. JfcW.i'T ,, .n ; i '..ww.!1! . '. izaiv i i li -v t: w 'wrw f 'A j m''i!!W EVENING' BtJBMC LEDGER-PHILiVDELHIA, .-.-r '-..... I . . of Curacao. Its pont of Wlllemstad Is only a night's run to La Guara, the chief coastal town of Venezuela, a land still In fested with almost as many German In triguers as Colombia, Porto lllco has natu rally been watching her questionable neighbors for more than a ear. But her keenness ls now spurred by her first real tragedj of the war. Perhaps the U-boats, should they escape the coast patrols, will not select the West India route for the return trip. In any event, the memory'nf the Carolina will Inspire Porto lllcans whose nffalrs take them to the Spanish Main to keep their e)es wider opn than ever. rnforttinately, the announced Installation of a new "truck service" has nothing to do with cleaning up the City Hall plaza. THEY DON'T NEED TO WAIT FOR ORDERS A SUPPLY train of thirty-two cars stand- lng on the tfndk at an American sup ply depot in IYn,hce was bombed by Gei man airplanes. One shell set fire to n car containing petroleum. Twenty American soldiers, safely hl'iiden In a dugout, rushed to the lescue, uncoupled the burning car antl pushed the rest of the train a safe distance fiom the flames without wnltlng for orders Theh Initiative and presence of mind astonished the French ofliceis In the vlilnlt. It is not astonishing to Ameri cans One of the great advantages of the t Milan habit of mind is that it can act m its own responsibility The military mind must wait for a superior to tell It what to do. There nre occasions when the military mind seives a good purpose It Is the milltarv-mlndedness of the German which makes him act like an nutomaton in nheving orders and behnve like a stick when his officer is not about to tell him what to do Jt Is the civ Ilian mlndedness of the American whlclCwill make him out fight the German at eveiv point. , The next total eclipse ,et Out the wlll lie In Septtmtier, Telescopes! 1111 It 1 calculated that the present "lock of nr nnn nnn gallons of hlky will be exhausted b tlm time Wheie will the r mours get this great quantltv of stock whkh I see they are "Well, where Ml. Bones?" "lll Mtllc, Leader I" about to ltie" ' From the jartls The ftrt tint .1 new (lie II I tn Time! stai has been discov ered In an Vmerlcan astronomer Indicates that the Teuton 'all highest dldn t properlv tip off his con federates -oncernlng additional realms to annex Don't forget that we Vnil Vlmlie have . I krnlne of our a llllllon Tiyn, and one that Is a lot pleasantei to ileal with than the fkralne Berlin Is bickering with The western wheat crop this e.ti will run well ovtr OOO.ODft.nmi InHieW Put her there ' Who put the glum In Horglum" Hughes0 Mr The Reichstag has a ni-u president, but he talks the Fame, old tuff about Its being Frame s fault The weather Is said tu be veiv hot In France Perhaps the Huns are complaining about the Devil Dog dajs I HAND GRENADES The New Star Astronomers have found u new star, nd I know what that means; Heaven has hung out a ervice flag In honor of the Marines Mm. Dulcet'-. Knillinp Hag Mv wife has gone awa.v to visit her mother. And I took a look at her knitting bag. It contained 6 gum-drops, 3 handkerchiefs (one of them mine), 1C hairpins, needle case, certificate of Red Cross membership, vanity box, small can of baking powder, four pulverized prunes, 12 newspaper clippings (mostly Situations Wanted, Female), novel by Harold Bell Wright, spool of embroidery silk, a thrift stamp, bo of goldfish food, marketing list, smelling salts, tortoise-shell comb recipe for making cake from sawdust, 6 safety pins, pair of rubbers, small service flag (does that mean she's going to make me enlist?); but no knitting. DOVE DULCET. Irvin Cpbh has come back from the Picardj battlefront with his identification disk still dangling from his wrist. But surely Irvin needs no tag? Not even the hoches could mistake that portly figure with the mint julep contours. The motto of the Netherlands still is, e plurlbus neutral. The service that never flags; the Marine Corps. The skipper of 'the Edna, who was held on a U-boat for elghfAlays, sas that the crew of the ralder'plcked up all the base ball scores with thejr wireless. We hope those fans lin,the U-boat crew haven't pinned their falth on the Athletics. Variations on a Familiar Theme The falser had a pet Islam, It bleated and obeyed him; But even Bill can't tell Just what Islam can do to aid him. The Kaiser gave a jachttng-cup Of seeming precious metal. But when they scratched the varnish off It was a pewter kettle. The Kaiser had a little Wolff, A cunning- press bureau; At every Hun reverse, the Wolff Announced,' It Isn't so" As Reported in Germany A few Americans having evaded our. (U-boats have landed In France and been In collision wlttwour brave troops, As these Americans are said to be marines, It is evident that our-xvlctorlous armies have The Boulevard That's Dead THRENODY (With apologies to Theodprc O'Hara's "Tha Bivouac of the Dead"), THI1 somber signal of retreat Hath stopped the cry and hue. No more on that chaotic street -Shall rage rath wrecking crew. On that eternal rubbish pile A tleeper dust hath Bpread. In heaps of Junk Is sadly sunk The boulevard that's dead. No rumor of a biave ndvancc Is heard at Logan Square No longer Is theie half a chance That any library fair Shall rise while we are hale enough To read Its books within. Its distant dav Is further 'way Than conquest of Berlin. The rattling cart and great mach.ne For crushing bricks and stone Have gone the way of might-have-been. Htagnatlon rules alone A blasted and deserted snath. Avaunt e city plans'. For fell dela hath strewn ur way With chaos and with cans. Like the fierce gales of Rurlnamc That lash the tropic seas, Vast armies of contractois came And humbled to the knees High habitation right and left, From Vine to Callow hill. And scarce a house braved that carouse That bodetl so much III. Alas' for undigested lees Of Incompleted plans! No silken turf or rows of trees Shall greet whoever scans A shambles that a boulevard Could utarce be more unlike A blighted road whlth once bestrode Could win no second hike I Yon severed houses gaunt with walls, Old paper's falling from. Bespeak a scene which sight appals, A monumental um Of woe. Anil e'en O'Hara's muse Would plead to leave unsaid All further thought of what hath wrought The boulevartl that's dead' II. T CRAVEN The Irish in the War Dr. Austin O'Mnllcy Writv of the Large umbers Who ate Voluntarily Enlistca 7o the l.ilUni n thr Kveninn I'ubhi .rtori" , Sir There has been so nuah discussion of Ireland s opposition to conscription that the astonishing psrt "he has .ilreadv taken In the war has been overlooked The Philadel phia N'oith American for example, sa'd 'The Hermans have one tlalm to renown , they are the nnh folk In bl-torv the Irish have de clined to fight t olonel OeorKe Harvej, In the North American Review's War Weeklj .Mine 1, who savs nf himself that he Is of liiKh blood writes klndlv and appeallngly to the lrlh of America begging them not to be 'traitors to the common cause." I am Irish In the sense Colonel llaivev Is. 1 have never been In Ireland In nn life, but In the Interest of fair plav one tan set him and olhei Americans right all the bettei betause of merlcan birth 'I he Irish have fought the Gentians fiom the verv beginning of the war '1 hev weie In the first retreat nn the Vlarne in HI 4 where in twentv minutes the Jlunster Funilleis as a rear guard lost 7" men, and thev have been in everv battle since August, J91I A conservative estimate at present Is that there ate In the Allleil armies, counting men from Gteat Britain, Canada, Australia antl the I'nlted Slate', 300,00" men nf Irish blood Not a single American casualtv llt has come to us since we entered the conflict that was not dotted over with Irish names ' Kell and Fiutke and Shea." The British mllltarv census, made In Oi Wilier. l!Ufi rhowed that II eland proper has 641,4)7 men between the agis of eighteen antl flftv one .veals The number Is veij ni.ill. be cause theie aie one and a half more inhabi tants in the cltj of .New Voik, with its ion tlnuous suburbs than In all Ireland Of thee fi45 417 men, 21," 87r aie engaged In Indis pensable occupation", 107 492 are phvslcallv unfit, 130,841 have alteatl.v enlisted for the war and onl 161 231 are available for nilll tar service Since the census w'as taken Sir A Geddes nlha.illv announced that up toJanuar.v. 1118. 40, nun additional Irish have enlisted That leaves 121 000 men now fit to be drawn on of het total man-power of 211.000 men, Iteland has already given aN volunteers, not as tntiscrlpts. lemembei, but as volunteers. 170 000 cu SR l per cent of all she possibly has to Rive I.otd Roberts, who pleached preparedness for this war as vainlv as mil own General Wood pleaded for It, was an Irish volunteei Kitchener, French and Maude wete ltih volunteers, as weie Wolselev and Napier befote them and the Puke of Wellington, the gieatest "English" soldier, who was as lrl"h as any Burke, Frendergast nr Hut lor Of the 108,000 000 Inhabitants of the I'nlted States we estimate that between 17,000,000 and 20,000.000 men ate between the ages of eighteen and fiftv-one jearR. If those needed for Indispensable work at home and the phtcalls unfit are eliminated In the same ratio as obtains In Iielaml we have 45per cent of these, or fionj 7.750,000 to 9,000,000 available men. Ireland, then, Up to January, 1918, accotdlng to the British War Office, recoids. has given 58 per cent of her men ay volunteers; the I'nlted States to rio as well would have to get out from 4,579,260 to 5,317,000 men, and every e,oldler wou(d have to be a volunteer When we get from 4 000,000 to 5,000,000 volunteers Into our annv we luay consist ently even revile the lilsh, but at 'present It would be much more decent to inquire what ls the real reason the Irish, who have never shown an fear of a fight, are resisting con scription The are not only not refusing to fight the Germans, but they have fought them five times better than we have, and they volunteered to do so Thev got into the row at the first drop of the hat, not two jears loo late as we did Whether they are right or wrung In resisting conscription as such Is another question altogether, and their own business largely If we let them alone they will all get into war with us to the bitter end , no Irishman can keep out of a Plan's fight. That a few Irishmen have, as has been asserted, but not proved, been traitors to our cause is no reason for snarling at all things Irish. We ourselves have had ten such for one In Ireland, . AUSTIN O'MALLEY. Philadelphia, June 10. Astronomers say that Co-operation the eclipse last Satur day was twenty sec onds too early. nvldently our daylight saving campaign Is being backed up by the heavenly bodies. Germany Is trjlng to swallow Russia even 'at the risk of choking to death. They say the Czar is going to move to Geneva. The name obght to b'e congenial to him: he used to Jiave a palace on the Neva, In Petrograd. Recruiting sailors for the. U-boats in South street saloons Is the latest charge against the. Germans. It Is incredible enough to be true. It Is likely that the courts will have to be appealed to before every one ls satisfied with the validity of the new railroad pas senger rates which went Into 'effect yester day. The attorney of the New York IJubllc Service Commission has expressed the opin ion that Mr. McAdoo has no control over rates-on railroads wholly within the bound aries of a State. Holders of 1000-mile ticket Insist that they are entitled to ride on them until they are exhausted and cannot be compelled to pay three cents a mile so Ions as they have an unused ticket. The validity-of contracts Is Involved. The order aVAi- ufiWKiaaa.M used only. la "jv TftSDAY;roW iliiife Wt:." WKy t 'LIGHtfNlftG-TRAINED YANKEES' ISS DER ilKSiKBsKyKMRiiimSiK9itB3 11 i. ! 'rfBBBBBBMtv $ -"-'------". ""- '-JS'-i frJS-- .K22"- ."" - .-"'". -" -' ' -''YjtF'Z.'L '! - .. - - I The Recluse of WHO can describe the endless fascination, allurement and magic of the citv? It is like a great finest, full of enchantment foi the e.vc ami eai. What gloves and aisles and vistas theie nre for .wandering, what thickets and underbrush to explore! And how cm Ions It Is, that most of us who fiequent the clt follow only little beaten paths of our own, rarely looking round the coiner or investigating (In the llteial ense) unfamiliar bjwn.vs. We tread our own loutine, from teimlnal or trolley to office, to the customary lunching place, back to the office, nnd home. Year after ear we do this, until the city Is for us nothing but a few ledlous streets we know by heait. BUT how dull it Is to be confined to one life, one habit, one groove of conduct. Do vou ever pine to shed the paimcnt of well-worn behavior, to wander off into the side-paths of the citv. to lose vouiself In Its great teeming life? The thought Is fasci nating to me I like to Imagine mvself dlsappeatlng one dav from my accustomed haunts, slipping away into some other quaiter of the town, taking up entirely new habits and environment. Ah, that would be an adventure! I THINK I would emigrate to Franklin Square, which, after all, is only a few blocks north of the territory. where I oscil late every day; but It Beems almost like a different continent. I would go up to Franklin Square, take a loom at one of those theatrical lodging houses on the west ern side bf the square, glow a beard, wear a wide sombrero hat. and keep my pockets full of sweetmeats for the children of the square. In the course of a few months quite a legend would accumulate about me. I would be pointed out as one of the char acters of the neighborhood. Newspaper te porteis would be sent to Interview me. Then I w.ould shave and move on to some other home, FRANKLIN SQUARE is a jolly place on a warm dav. There are red and pink geianlums lound the pool I" the middle. Theie ls the drowsy whirr and hum of lawn mowers. There ls a sweet,' dull air moving gently across the wide grass plots; the flag waves heavily on the tall staff. There Is a whole posse of baby carriages gathered together In a shady patch of pavement, with usually one small girl left to "mind" them while the other little guardians are sprinkling themselves islth water at, the stand-pipe, or playing hopscotch In the sun. You mind my baby and I'll mind yours, is the tacit understanding of these ragged little damsels. But, really, It ls surprising how- little minding the Franklin Square babies seem to need. They He In their car riages, furling and unfurling their toes with a kind of spartan restraint. They re fuse to bawl or to hurl themselves upon the paving below, because they know. that their young nurses are having a good time. FIRANKLIN SQUARE policemen are 'stout and very Jovial, An Italian woman was sitting on a bench oppjslte mine; she had a baby on her lap, one lean ing against her knee, three sitting on the bench with her. and two in the carriage.' Seven In all, and I gathered from her re marks that six of them were boys. "Quite an army!" said the stout policeman, passing by. Her face gleamed with the quick pleasure of the Latin race. "Ah, yes," she said, "Italians good for boys!" ON THE west side of the square are the theatrical boarding "house, wfiere ladles .with very short sklrfa iM'sUk'atoclo .r.'At-i-ii tXaAJ- ! Jf .. . -BKS.fl ;p; r Franklin Square the low' is a bulky chocolate-colored church, Deutsche F.vang. I.uthcilsche, according to its slgnbon'ld. Gottesdlenst, Morgeps 10:45, Abends 7!30. It Is wel) for us to remember that God s woishlped In nil languages. And up at the little news-stall nt the coi- net of Vihe stieet. the llterar.v and dramatic leanings of Franklin Square seem to be i effected In th'e assoitment of paper-backed volumes on display. 'The Confessions of nn Artless," "The Strangleis of Paris," antl 'Chit ago by Night" are amont the books theie, also some exceedingly dingy editions nf Boccaccio and Napoleon's Dream Book, I could learn a good deal, I am sure, b stud) lng those volumes, TjlttANKI.IN SQUARE Is full of color. -- The gieen spaces aie islanded In a frame of warm, led brick. The fountain bubbles whltelj, the flag Is an eager spot of tight ness on the tall white mast. Shop windows seem to display a broader, more lilting kind of poster than they do on Maiket stieet. Theie Is. one on a bj -street representing a joung man blowing heart-shaped smoke rings and a glorious voung woman Is pierc ing them with a knitting needle or some other sharp Instrument. T DON'T know just what I would do for - a living nn Franklin Square. The only thought that has occurred to me ls this: some one must have to look after those little white dogs while their debonair mis tt esses aie at the theatre. Why couldn't I do that, for a modest fee? I would take them all out at night and tow them tin oiigh the fountain pool. It would serve to bleach them. ANOTHER thing I could do, which 1 have -alwajs wanted to do, would be to de cipher the last lino of the little tombstone that stands over the pathetic grave of Ben jamin Franklin's little son. That is not far from the square. The stone reads, as far as I can make it out, 'lands F,, Son of Henjamin and Deborah Franklin, De ceased Xov. St, 1"S6. Aped J years. The number of months and days I can't make out, nor the last line of the epitaph, which begins with the sadly expressive word Deliuht. It is much effaced, and without squatting on Hen Franklin's tomb I can't read it. And as there are usually some voung ladles sitting knitting on the bench by the grave I am too bashful to do that. But If I lived in Franklin Square I would find a way somehow. "DUT much as I love It, I doubt if I could -- live in Franklin Square long. There ls an air of unrest about it, of vagabond whimsy. The short-skirted ladles would come and go. and sooner or laj.er the bearded recluse, with his pocket full of candy, and his sombrero hat, would dis appear and only the children would lament his going. Tor I know that If I were a wandering blade I could never resist a summons like this, which I found posted up Just off the square. Here speak Romance and Adventure, with golden lute: -Men Wanted to Travel With R 's Circus A Chance to See the Country Excellent Board and Comfortable Sleeping Cars Provided by the Man agement C. D. M. Slagging a Slogan "See America first'' Is a'cood loan. only B0oauni.,! i-.-je-wKV,! f vwVi.' .- ., ', I'ji aatfaBt, PROPER TERM!V?3 TO AN OLD LADY IN A TRAIN HER hair was beautifully white o; Beneath her bonnet, black as night, htrt Which, plainly of New England kin, ' il Was tied wltlj strings beneath her chin. 5 And when she spoke I had no choice But listen to that sdrt crisp voice; fV And when she smiled, I saw the truth,' '' f She had been lov elv In her vouth. n And with those quick, observing eyes, Was dimming still to all the wise, ti And still, in spite of 'bonnet strings, ' si She thought keen,' quaint, amusing? things. With a gaiety that many hold Remarkable In one so old. We talked ten minutes in a train, And when we came to part again, "Good-by, enjoy jouiself,", said she I told her that ahead of me No pleasure beckoned; no, 1 said, Stern duty only lay ahead! 'Oh, well," her parting answer ran, "Enjoy yourself the best you can." ttR -e J And so unconquerably gay, She went unon her darkling way. 'b -rAllce Duer Miller, in "Wings of. the8"1 Night." ' ot a? Flagrant Deception u, Queer, isn't It, how fashions change? But,", J a short time back and then weie all sorts, of an outcry against nature-faking. Now- wef' have Government courses In camouflaging. I'fT Louisville Herald. 'jJ-f " , ",4 Slim Chance 'Wri Girls are urged to wear low shoes this' ' summer In order to conserve leather. Doesi an. (v!-l ,,-llh nn,. lHnrl nf nn nnlrle naait ' urging? Cleveland Plain Dealer. ,,:' . . Experience Teaches '",r The Kaiser knows better this time; he-'- hasn't ordered another dinner to be serve rs In Paris at a specific date. Savannah Newn.njl ''ittH Consistent The fact that hundreds of tho'usands of Russian husbands and wives are separating; shows that the Russians cannot even agree ,' among themselves. Rochester Tost-Express. F.vrrihorlv Salute -. ,.. ' ' " .... , . i The Star Kpanglea Banner sain, is saia w,;,v be the latest for the patriotic summer girhjit.' "Oh. iay, can jou see?" Boston ston uiooe. j it, Gets the Spotlight e till tha rows come UCU MIC tJHu"'b". ., ) p Tn'estlrat till the cows come home, then .2. Investigate the cows. That Is the spirit as Jt'&ff manifests itself In Congress. Toledo Blad.Vft , ,. , .,. ,., .J I.M,?.? 'J3v J What Do You Know? TT nmz t. Wha In the head of the Un'Taciltr at S 1 nit aco 7 w;a S. Which la the Sunflower State? V 3. What la the larrait cltr In tha world?,. t.4V,S . niai la in jainarr -5. Wha la General retain? f. What la an Idloijmrrair? 1. What la's trattor? ' t. Wha I Perretarr of tha Interior In the, miaon lanineiT . Nairn tha autliar af "Candida." 10. Who la In fommand ot the I'nlted marlnea In Jfranret Answers to Yesterday' Quiz t. 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