Ms & cMaV'.S& -WLIC LEDGER COMPANY tlij,8frrftrj' and Treasurer: rhino S.Coillne. HI B. Williams, John J. Spurseon. Ulreclore. EOITOIUAb BOAnDt Cries R. K. Ccitii. Chairman IVtO S. 8MILBT Editor 1 & MAKTIN.... General Buslneii Manager JuNlnhed daily at Tcttte t.ttxiri nulldinr. inaernanc square l-nnnaeipnia. CKtit... .Broad an4 ChMtnut streets tXTTO CITT rmt- Union nulldlnc r Toaa :o Metropolitan Tower BOTT... . . Jrta I.Vir.1 nulMlnr tiOCI ion Kullerton HulMlnir CMO 1203 Tribune BuUllnc NEWS BUREAUS 1 PaarirATnM DttTT. ! 'iJ: $T- E- Cat- rennnrlvinla Ave. and 14th St. t" Vtw oik Rtmv..., The Ann Bulldlnr ibtKiroH uvttiv..... ..Lonaon Timet . " ' SUBSCRIPTION TERMS r' ", Th EtiNiva Pcslio kstxita la rr4 to ub- ;fwim in l-nnaaeipnia ana eurrounaint; towns tat the, rata of twelve 112) cents per week, payable. rv u tha carrier. "i"3 Br.mall to point" outalda of Philadelphia, In , f tfc United Statea. Canada, or United put" po- aaaiona. roeiace rree. nfiy (.toi eenta pr month. at iltt 4iik ...... ..... ..ki. ..a....... v Ta all Ionian rountrlee one (It) dollar per WaWith. ... vfc. rioxics ruDacriora Tcienmr aaareea cnencea V 1 nutt mivm Aid a rll nw mAArm. I I - -- - -- . - -..., ilC ' irii. loo almit keystone, main loan Ev t7 Aidrttt all oommimlcntfone lo Brentm; ruolfo iil'V iedjer, independence Square. Philadelphia. . T i - -; .V iHTcatD at tna rnrt.isst.rnH roer orrica i t-s,. , ercoND cuii un. MiTTrn. f ' $ rhHidelphU. Thimdit, June 1). HIS MONEY IS ABUNDANT TT IS not usual for the city to receive " bids for fivo times the amount of money sneeded when It offers Its honrH for sale. K -Just offered, was subscribed for five times iji. over Indicates that In unite of the recent tij' absorption of about $4,000,000,000 by the third Liberty Loan money Is still plentiful. . It cannot help being plentiful In view of the enormous sums that are constantly being put In circulation by tho (Jovern lnent. The billions to be spent this year will en hnplf fntn tlin oVinnnplx nf tr.nilp nnH ''Jfe! m l..l- I..l 1.M !...!. .....1 ..III 3, ,4lIU 111VI1 lU.J 1I11U tnu luiinvn lllllt ll seek new Investment. Wo are not quite In the position of the farmer's boys who could be locked In a Toom on a rainy day and make 20 npleco trading clothes with one nnother before nightfall, but the least of our worries nro those connected with finding money to carry on the war or to make needed public Improvements. The new "Kollles" ha oiionril In At. 1?;' Untie City, but the old ones are still ruin f vusly running in Berlin. PERILS OF PHRASE-MAKING SOME rich patriot should appoint and endow a committee for mediation be tween Congress and tho President. Ob vlously Jlr. Wilson and the men In the two houses do not understand each other. Their mutual plight was illustrated by Btnator Borah's ardent attack when ho got the Administration supporters in a fix by arguing for the free and open discus Ion of all international treaties, basing Ills demand on the text of tho President's phrase about "open diplomacy." .Mr. TrVII- g. son himself gave Mr, Borah a good start in an unreasonaoio argument. t Tt ! nlnln that th Prpqlrfpnt iit.fu hli IS? knack for phrase-making In order to put piV dominant principles of American policy - Into, simple words Into monosyllablrs If it 9 possible so that all tho world, Hun and Isiav. Turk 'and Hindu, mav not be left in fcJrany doubt. Now and then ho Is forced to II the unhappy business of q'J'JJ'Jf i?'0'1 and aw- - explanation. Ana mis neea is iorcea oy fB the restless spirits In Congress when it SAr Isn't made Imperative by the drift of 5 events. ?. rtrntn fllnlnmar.v such am SVnatnr nnrnli Kil -.---. . -- rU cried aloud for isn't no&sible. We mlcht .- vn show our own cards in the great , game of International diplomacy and argue k o Brooosed agreements in the nnen and !' . .. .. .. ... . !, majestically aisregara tnc consequent au- i,-vantages to the enemy. But we couldn t Pahow the cards of the nations allied with I; us unless we wished to terminate relatione lyrlth them altogether. The suggestion that Atrurican readers renounce Olae as "Was" is particularly ippy today, when description of the Gcr- an advance has to be made mainly in the st tense. IS LUNCH A LUXURY? fcjpiOWS, of course, are demanding higher :.V wares. And It must be ndmlttpil thnt Itth costs of catching, killing and hauling iMs are greater tnan tney used to be. h Still, inarticulate souls without num- Ijjbtr yearn for the day when a congres laional commission, headed by a dauntless crusader like J. Ham Lewis, shall rumble ?jdown Chestnut street and Into the res- fttaurants to tell us why pie that used to pS. be five cents a section Is now ten and S'5) why milk that used to b obtainable at ;;i five cents a glass has Increased In cost In M.,1.. ... MnMHlflnn MlU ETt tnc name llianiiiiiv.iii. lauui iffy A relentless investigation would show -wny oiner iooqb aro sinniarij creeping Ik"a. Jl .kvAnil nfHInarv human rpnrh 1n thn rm. L-VtS..""""" " ' !1urants favored by the crowds. It is to Ki be assumed that some one Is making more i. nt . vaanHae than 4 Via m 1 1 ti t ( t nri el tnn i fi rl nrm Linl th- feat Is based unon an aiiDarent ----- - . fe-Sconviction that the average American, If akAi. 1ia wnoa 4r 1llnVi ! In ttft mllrVi ftt n IjiiiiTry to think. II: T friM'' Those "clubby" monarchs, Charley of ryAustrla and Ferdy of Jloumanla, who arc ' J;iiow so anxious to "stick together," are cer- tain to nave inrir wish mum mail sraiincu. They'll be "stuck" for fair when Uncle Sam r 'fees over the top. WHY. DO BABIES DIE? 1HE theory that the Increase In infant mortality in this city Is due solely to higher cost of milk does not seem to i supported by the facts, .lust as much sllk is consumed at the new price us at the.old. BV ivjltthan been aucra-ested that the ceneral SitWiher cost of living, of which the higher i for milk Is but an incident, la respon- e, as the poor "have to live in more ped quarters and skimp on food of all la. Doubtless this Is partly responsible, but ce are physicians In town who are con- that if the street-cleaning depart- ; would compel the contractors to keep 11th out of the highways the lives of 1ny infants and adults would be saved. St there is scarcity of nourishing food In i hemes ot the poor, the duty of the city . fb lieep" the streets clean Is doubly 1m- Ive, in order that those persons with vitality may not be attacked i''aeraraUwe4' to accumulate .''" ,. . w F.n.T. )ERS,TOO! If Conlrscts WithXBnarlcs Can tie Vio lated on 1st QucWon, Why Not on Watered Stock Question Also? "PIVERY street car rider in Philadelphia should cry "Amcnl" to the Rapid Transit Confpany's nppeal to Coiikicss to make its underlying companies pay their own war income and excess profits taxes. For once, at least, the P. R. T. has the popular side of the argument. The intention of Congress in imposing war taxes was or should have been to distribute tfie burden upon the person or interest receiving the income and not on the source from which it is derived. Thnt is to sny that the stockholders of the subsidiary companies who nro drn ing incomes ranging from 10 to 73 per cent of their original actual in vestment in cash should pay their war taxes out of their huge 'dividends rather thun force the P. R. T, to pay the tnxes in addition.' So much for tho fundamental principle involved. But the snag lies in tho lcabc covenants whereby the P. R. T. opernles undct the underlying franchises. These nil provide that the P. R. T. shall pay these nnnunl incomes or rentals, tax free, and it seems necessary for Congress to pre scribe in the new revenue net that thee covenants shall be disregarded before the P. R. T. can past on the burden. Even then there is sure to bo n law suit to test the constitutionality of such an enactment. OfMicrs of watered stock hate to disgorge even to help make thv world safe for democrary. They demand the ultimate pound of flesh and blood money. What chance is there for tho courts to sustain such a law? Apparently a lot. Before the litigation is ended wo nrt likely to hear a great deal about sacred vested rights and the inviolability of a contract. Likewise nhout the invest ments of widows and orphans whoso sole support comes from thes-e iniquitous un derlying stocks. That is an old story. It has been told with sobs and plaintive exclamations many times during the last twenty years; in fact, on every occasion when any attempt has been made to squeeze tho water out of the people of Philadelphia have heard it with few variations. But here are tho facts a tabic show ing the paid-in capital stock, the rentals which the P. R. T. has to pay yearly and the percentage of income of the principal underlying companies: , i rtenlal t'er cnt IU kleiirla 1'nld In Stock $110,000 7 THlrl In Capital Slock J192.500 334,523 120.000 140,000 1,S7.',"00 "71,Tli 473,001) 1125,000' .ri71',S60 0:,05R 00,000 "fiO.OOO 10,500,000 303,700 C 000,000 Citizens' Pass.. 13th and ISth Sts. Passenger Ridge Ave. Pans Green & Coates Passenger . . . Krankfoid and Sotithwark . . I'd and 3d Sts. Passenger . . Phila.City Pass. Union Pass.... Germ't'n Pass,. People's Pass... C n n t I ii ental Passenger . . . West Ph I In. Passenger . . . Union Traction. Phllii. & Gray's Kerry People's Trac tion Company 240,000 liiO.OOO 00,000 075,000 254. 1(S 150,(100 2S5.000 157.500 224,000 120,000 150,000 l.SOO.DOO 10,532 008,000 71.7 12.8 10.0 36.0 3.1.0 31.6 30.K 27.r. 'J 1.2 20.7 20.0 17.1 ICO 10.1 J2I,5D9,721 J3.033.500 Isn't that illuminating? Out of a total of $24,000,000 capital paid in by these underlying shareholders, they draw more than $5,000,000 yearly, or an average of 20 per cent excess profits for sure. Yet they ate protesting against paying a war tax that everybody else has to pay. They want to throw it back oiv the P. R. T., which means that eventually it would have to come out of the pockets of the street car riders in Philadelphia in the form of increased fares. Can Congress hesitate over such an alternative? Yes, but what about those blessed con tracts? Soi 'body will bleat. Well, that is up to thu court, which more and more incline, and rightly so, to,consider public interest before privateKgain. Perhaps some of these gentlemen who have been getting their dividend checks regularly out of these exorbitant rentals may not know it, but the fact remains that the judges ot the higher courts have shown a tendency in recent years to modify very considerably tho old, stiff, hard-and-fast adherence to the maxim about the sacrosanct character o"f con tracts like these which are prejudicial to public interest. For example, when the Interstate Com merce Commission first began to inter fere in the matter of contractual rela tions between the railroads and their patrons, the freight shippers and the passengers, it was declared that their power was in violation of the constitu tional clause which prohibits impair ing the obligation of a contract. But it was very clearly pointed out that no such impairment could be found, since the commission merely was ex ercising the power of regulation in the public interest over the exercise of public utility franchises which are in herently unrelinqui8hablc rights belong ing to the publid and only loaned, not given outright, to the operating com panies. It is this doctrine which lies at the base of every public service commission law, Federal and State, and it is becom ing more apparent and generally under stood with every decision handed down by these bodies. Courts as a whole no longer arc guided in their decisions entirely by technicali ties. Public interest Is paramount at all times, and those Judges who do not re alize this fact are back numbers, reac tionaries, legal mummies whose influence upoa the legal thought, of th day .is illlL A1 rWJv I'tstV" -I- tNG PUBlilS LI rapidly disappearing alone with the jar gon nndmpty forms of the last century. So it is that In dealing with questions like these which touch the daily life and welfare of the public so intimately nnd v'tally the courts may be depended upon lo take the liberal and enlightened view that contracts which nro inequitable In their literal rending shall be construed to accord wjtli public interest. And who knows but that if this be so nnd the reasoning is inevitably suggested by the able brief filed with Congress by tho counsel for the P. R. T. himself the courts would not go further along the same line and completely revise such a set of contracts as that which bind the P. R. T. to pay unreasonable and exces sive sums to dead companies which have only "vested rights" to sustain them? It is the abundant water In these under lying companies which has proved the chief barrier to a solution of Philadel phia's transit problems. If the Public Service Commission has tho right to de termine what is a fair rate of revenue for the P. R. T. Company to demand of tlic car lidcrs, it would only be logicat to assume that the commission" has' tho power to detcrmino what is a inir profit or dividend to pay to tho underlying stockholders on the basis of actual capi tal invested instead of hypothetical values set by a gang of promoters who fat tened off crooked deals long years ago. At any rate, the idea is alluring and might be worth giving a trial in the form of an action or complaint if the present attempt to invade tho "sanctity" of the Iensc covenants rhnll succeed. TIip weather man seems to have shame less! gone over to the "Wets." WORSE AND WORSE TK IMPullTANT departments In any busl- nrss organization were as badly managed as tho Hi g and police bureaus aro man aged under the sanction of City Councils there would bo a noisy revolt of stockhold ers and everjbody In authority would bo fired in a fl.ish. Firemen air now quitting the ncrvlce because tlie.v havo been required to work twenty-three hours a clay. The extra time has been put In al the training school. The city doesn't expect any man in Its service to work twenty-three hours a day. It doesn't expect capable policemen to work for luadcqiiato wages. It In liaid to see hiij- real novelty In the ))ollo of "klwtniH" which the P. It. T. ex perts are now considering. That's nn old and sad tor at the rush hour. OUR SUBMERGED CONGRESS ONIS of tl that ha the most poignant word pictures as come out of Washington in a long time was that which revealed joiing Mr. George Creel breezing Into the dazzled and passionately resentful House to auk $2,008,000 for his Public Information Com mittee. Congress in that Instant was crouched, In a beetling rage, for a. deadly spring at its cheerful visitor. This, in dubitably, was one of the great moments of the war. Black resentment- ebbed In tho House. Mr. Creel was promised the money. He deserved It. And yet the Incident In volved one of the memorable tragedies of government. For reasons altogether subtle and In telligible only in Washington, Congress shudders at tho name of Creel. And this is not the fault of Mr. Creel, who is resented In some quarters to n degrco out of all proportion with his occasional mistakes. The reason lies much deeper. Congress suffers. It is in pain. It is enduring the precise sott of agony which a brutal war has inflicted upon the small nations of Kurope. It is the Serbia in our midst. It is in a fix as awful as that which has made the walling of the .lugo Slav audible over half the world. The truth Is that Congress has been deprived of its most ancient and deeply cherished rights. It can no longer revel In the bliss of talking its head off as the voice of the people. The President docs most of the talking now. And what tho" President hasn't time to say Mr. Creel says with the aid of battalions of bright oung men recruited from the forces of the met ropolitan press. It Is not difficult to perceive why Con gress in this bleak hour of opptcsslon and servitude should gaze with troubled eyes upon a brisk young man who arrived to ask for $2,089,000 with which to tighten the abhorred chalniq Mr. Creel was awulted with depth bombs ai)ilfverbal bear traps of every conceivable description. And then, as if through some mystic sense of hope lessness, his adversaries surrendered with out cry or moan. The thing was all the more sad because .Mr. Creel is running n bureau which is efficiently engaged In many large and es timable enterprises that quite overshadow the earlier mistakes of the airplane jiropa gandn. Congress should not be blamed. In the blessed days that aro no more the consoled by tho sound of Its own voice. This comfort Is gone now because Con House, in any dire emergency, was always gress Is only a whisper In government. We should legard Its situation with com passion. Somebody yet may even organize a rescue expedition to save Congress from its matchless torment. The proposal to let hfltleU 1500 convicts from the Kastern Penitentiary fight in the army has two dawn. The otht;r two million soldiers might not like It. And military regulations deny the honor of mili tary service to men who have served prison terms for serious offenses. "Why do the lafe rirnlltmrn, coatroom bos and lie hfaltci: theatre lobby attend ants long to be in Eu rope today?" "Well, why, Mr. Tanibo?" "Ilccauso often the -Germans compelled to take checks don't even get their hats back." Germany's rumored na paklnc or val plans for gaining tierman Mualc the high seas are like ly to prove as vvlndily futile as the efforts of her flatulent opcrutlc tenois to reach them. Don't forget that your Income tax must he paid by the 15th. llon'l for Today The Spirit of "76 is also the Spirit of '18. "Tokio's Intention," eys a news head line, "is not clear," That means that Toklo's intention 1 cJaar. j THE CHAFFING DISH Our Foreign Correspondence France, May 24. I have been hero since August, and as a result of trials and tribulations wear a service chevron on my noble left arm and' In a couple of months will havo nnother. Some of us fear that before we get back wo will be wearing them down our trouser legs, for we get one every six months. But we feel that only on the dark days, for as a matter of fact things aro very bright and rosy over hero now. II. A. HOriWOOD, First Lieut. Sanitary Corps, Base Hospital No. S, A. E. F. Why Is It that a man who smokes a pipe at his work always looks as though he were working harder than the fellow who doesn't smoke? We try not to disagree with people more than wc can help, because so often we And they are right, Germany has a neat name for that part of Hussla that sho intends to leave to the Soviets. Sho calls It Residue Russia. But Residue seems rather an optimistic word. Why not bo frank and call It Dregs? Zcebruggc gets its dally ration of twelve or fourteen tons of British bombs quite regularly. tx tho U-boats there punch bomb cards? Another of Kaiser Karl's letters has turned up. He wrote to Ferdinand of Ru mania saying that "this Is a time when all kings must stick together." We won der If the stenographic notation at the bottom of that letter runs thus: W.H. K.H.? An Invitation to Tirpilr. Th6 British and American Grand Fleet At Homo In the North Sea livery Afternoon, from three to seven. To meot Dcr Tag. Music and Dancing. R.S.V.P. During the last month we have struck S3.802 safety matches that wouldn't light. If they could be taken down lo Hog Island they would furnish timber for quitei a good-sl.cd raft, seaworthy enough to ferry the Kaiser to St. Helena. ' Did anybody Ihlnk to show the Mexican editors our collection ot Junk In the City Hall courtyard? We don't know anything so Impressive as the fact that Philadelphia Is so busy with war work that we ha-cn't time to clean up that tangle of old jilpcs and beams. Milk and Mensheviks TrTifcssor Lomonossoff, an eminent Men shevik and head of the Russian railway mission in this country, created a sensation during his speech in New York by drinking milk at tho end of each paragraph. It Is long tlmo since the City of Magnificent Excavations has seen anything so simple and pastoral as a glass ot milk. v We don't blamo Professor Lomonossoff for sniping all thetresh milk he can get through his beard. The various factions in Russia aro rocking the boat so hard that all the milk in that country turns into whey before tlvcy can drink It. Old St. Peter's The other afternoon we were walking down line stieet and rambled Into the beautiful old graveyard of St. Peter's Church, at Thlul street. The tall tower ot the church, of ruddy brick sunned and mel lowed by the years, stood up over the toss ing gicenery of tho trees, and from tho school near by came the clear voices of children singing. We looked at the tomb ot Commodore Decatur and rambled about In great content. Wo "have always been fond of church ards, and as we shall prob ably have to spend a lung time in one of them it Is just as well. And then we came to the following in scription, which amused us as an echo from a day when England and America did not feel quite so cordial to each other as they do now: In Memory of Mrs. Mary Hamilton, who departed this life the llth of October, 1793.. A Lady of Amiable Character and Polished .Manners. Descended from the illustrious family of that name In North Britain, She resided many years In Philadelphia, which she preferred to her native country. TO ROBUSTA On SIsckiiiR From the War (With profound Hpnlosles to the outraccd shot ot Sir nichanl Lovelace.) TIB Lb me not, Sweet, that I'm too kind When to the nursery Of thy strong arms I have a mind From horrid war to fly. OTHER mistress now I chase i-s 1 Though others be afield, Because no other's stout embrace So well my neck could shield. AN'D though my constancy be such . That you can't well adore, You must admit I love you much More now than ere the war! THE VA1RY GODMOTHER. Thej say the Weather Man Is going to cable his prophecies Over tq Pershing, ho that Our boys in France May know when it's going to be fair And warmer for the Kaiser. Well, we only hope It won't be the Philadelphia weather man, The fellow who said yesterday would be bright and sunny, SOCRATES. No. Madge, dear, the reported "struggle of the Georgians In the Trans-Caucasus" has nothing to do with tha, rivalry between At lanta and Savahnah, "German Sailors Wield Hoes." says a headline. But that scarcely compensates for the lack of salty "Heave Ho's V .impossible, to a fleet that vkulks in Kiel. ' Max Harden says that Germany will not win the war by requisitioning door knobs, kitchen utensils and ash cans. Quito true. Nor yet by requisitioning all her man-power and slaughtering It to amuse the Clown I rrlnct, ,, VH -' .! ; ' -,-i I ii -j L , ., . , OTl .!" .v ii!.',..M. i -MS. U, . niilt,!.',M v'j'tirtT -1 Jlv i4IET:..1'5 . 'I'AwM'i'A-Wi, JFtiiabyi- ?. ', dfmWM . , 'mSt WHY NOT TAKE A HINT FROM JAPAN? AMONG our callers tho other day were. . Mr. K. Shimada and Mr. T. Ueda, of Japan. Mr. Shimada Is a graduate of Wascda University, Toklo, and Mr. Ueda of Tokio University. They were sent to this country by their Government to study for three years in the United States and are enrolled at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. They are going to spend the vacation studying at the summer school uf Columbia University. TT HAS always Interested us immensely - to observe how Japan, with quiet per sistence and foresight, Is bullying up a governing class which will be familiar with the languages and customs of other na tions. There aro usually at least twenty Japanese students at tho University of Pennsylvania, nnd similar groups at al most every college and university in tills country. We were Interested to learn -that English Is a compulsory study at all Japa nese universities. SHIMADA, who Is the son of the "A Spi Speaker of the Japanese House of Representatives, told us that he Is going to Northfleld this week to attend the an nual student conference held there by the Y. M, C. A. The V. M. C, A. has done a remarkable work In bringing together the students of all nations and making them acquainted with each oth,cr. But how much we have to learn In the way of send ing our own students abroad to study at foreign universities. It may be well to re member that the great Rhodes trust, which sends hundreds of young Americans to study at Oxford, was the initiative ot an Englishman, The Kahn' traveling fel lowship, which has enabled many American teachers to travel and study abroad. Is due to the generosity of a Frenchman. Wc In this country have done comparatively little to send our students abroad. NOW that this nation has definitely thrown aside Us old aloofness from the world at large, and now that we are embarked upon the complex problems of International politics and ethics, It is surely of the gravest Importance that we should endeavor, sstematically, to rear a genera, tlon of statesmen who have some personal acquaintance with other nations, who un derstand their history, their prejudices their sentiments and their language. One of the causes of our present puzzlement as to Russia Is that hardly anywhere In this country can wc point to a man In high position who knows anything at all about Russia. Sympathy, friendly feeling, desire tu aid, all these we have In large measure; hut where Is the man who can really tell us, with authority end accuracy, Just what we can best do to help? SOMETIMES we think it mlght'be good propaganda for our Government to send to all foreign countries a few Americans who would lose money, Just to show our foreign friends that Americans don't al ways prosper so grossly! OUIt days of shirtsleeve diplomacy and amateur statesmanship are on the wane. We have come to see (we hope) that to deal understanding with the other na tions we need the help of men who have studied those nations, who have lived In them, who know their history, their habits of thought and ambition. We hope that we may less often have to send to foreign countries ambassadors 'who cannot even speak the language of the aeveraawat to , - - - ,H J"n.y"'i"!'"f' ''iSi JUST ' THAT IMPORTANT i ,:?ITu'.r1J' -.-. '"A... '..vx-fl'Vr.ii ".-' v ;,.' " 'riv- ;Kv'f:y.. .- ';-.."!;'! ! -"il-S'S'r - ''-','. I-;---- If r -.'. -" j,--5s5r,5"?y v which they are accredited. "The Influence ot the United States is somewhat pervasive In the affairs of tha world," said the PresI dent lu his address to the Mexican editors. It is Indeed, but paradoxically enough thla leading position In International affairs has come to us before we are educated up to It, TT IS with something like shame that we face such callers as our Japanese visit ors, Mr. Shimada and Mr. Ueda. How much more they know about us than, we nbout them! We asked them If there were many American students in Japan, and they said "Very few." They intimated po litely that there were a great many Ameri can business men In Japan, who aro making a great deal of money;' but hardly any students who might bring back to us ix living understanding of what the younger generation of Japan Is thinking. TT IS curious that this country, which A likes to consider Itself hard-headed and practical, has given so little attention to building up a race of trained public ser vants. Our great business houses take more pains to rear a generation of salesmen or bankers and engineers than the Govern ment takes In the matter of training com petent men to represent it among the na tions of the earth. We like to think that any American, no matter what his career has been, is fit. In a democratic scheme of things to partake of the functions of State. And yet Is It so? TN THE years ahead theie are many ex- cccdlngly delicate and interesting prob. lems to be faced In International relation ships. Bearing in mind the great part that we shall Inevitably play In the Euro pean settlement, we shall need men most intimately and thoroughly trained In po litical thought to act as our representa tives abroad. Where, for Instance, will we find our new ambassador to Germany after the war? Can one conceive of a more deli cate, a more exacting, a .more Important post than that? And our diplomatic and consular posts In South America, in Japan, In Russia? All these positions must be flled by men of exceedingly high caliber. ' JAPAN is looking toward the future by sending thousands of students to for eign countries to learn the colors anil con tours of their llfo. You may have seen some of those young men, quiet, zealous, courteous, delightful and well-informed companions, You may have noticed the young Chinese ambassador in Washington, formerly a student at Columbia. How long will it be before we can send tu Japan an ambassador who has studied in a Japanese university? Or to Brazil an ambassador Who has studied In Brazil? Some wealthy American who wishes Ills country well can do a great service by endowing a founda tion to provide for the scientific and care ful training of the men who are to be America's spokesmen abroad. SOCRATES. Overdue Donnerwetter! That second Paris dinner Is getting cold. Savannah News. 1 1 1 i , i , i A Surprite German toldlers were told that the Ameri can bios would run, but nothing was eald about the general direction. Toledo Blade. Putt Co'vered A114 what, In the meantime, hds becomo of Mr. Trotsky and Mr, Lu Kollette? Head- Wi . WW ".. , Al.'., i.,W lf"li 3SS"Rf!P V.if"W'',;I',H IVTr"lr! -x4"' ?? H2 'M'ii A THE READER'S VIEWPOINT America Must Win To rf, VwMn nl thf V.vtfWinn PtjhKr l.rAntr! 1 Sir While 1 object to the frazzled ana- worn-out term of German "efficiency," on oM my frlendB objects more strenuously to so' much newspaper writing about tho Kaistri I statins that our enemy Is not the brains. x- .1 cept as he may have cast "the, evil ey'l over the whole German people.. By tins unit; I think all understand that the term "Kalstr . has become, and will remain for all tlme,v-i synonym for evil ; the personification ot aal evil power which would crush out all hap-l Plnes3, all that Is desirable In life for a fr peonle ; whose monument In history represent one whose military necessity knows no law. And these military necessities constitute na mean monument, from a satanlc standpoint,": ln.ln1ln na .I.A.r .In 1 ,.. A.I timmA.. .Hlfl children, poisoning with gas fumes of 40,0001 heroic soldiers, taken unawares-b' such jev-l IIIVm4IIIB. HIIJ HW ln"W .... w ...., nun, emcienj" ana unexpecica memoes 011 warfare: bomblna: of nurses and skilled sur-:i geons as they minister to the suffering arid i J the wounded, and many horrible atrocities to Belgian and French wives, sisters, mothers" ami hwepthenrts. And nnlv veaterdav we reaA ' first hand from a French countess how this'. J "emclent" military tnougnt anu system 01 ,j many years' erowth has developed a class "ot fiends who, after murdering civilians and clill-f 1 dren, left bread for other starving children, U'hlrh. an soon an It was CilL throurh. wlth'l nowerful explosion killed all within reach, an "efficient" satanlc trick over which, no doubt, a-l satan a conoria lausn witn iriee. a-i It in Him rlfrnffntiR rnffn nf tliei wnnriftrfllt V51 youths of a wonderfully developed people whoSl will make the German war lords laugh on.A? the other sldo of their mouths before the-; I are done w tn them. x .'. ;. i v i m . zr ji At close range what chance has the "em-fel dent" Kaiser, worthless without an "efficient" .f I Krupp factory and a poisoning emclent l chemist, against these Allied and Amerl-i can fighting youths with a sure and righteous,! cause, with perfectly trained minds andVl bodies and every means to combat sciences vilest and worst and most "emclent" warj tricks? Our American youths, true to their birth right, fighting with all their strength for thi right as God gives them to see the right will. help see that wrongs are lighted "over there. 'V, Heaven bless the marines and the boys nowh "over there for setting such examples ofk Indomitable courage. Though they plotted It 1 out with hellish design, the morale ot GerJ man arms must lose. The morale of Allies"! arms will win. E. C, Tv iA Philadelphia. June II. ;,M : 3 "Aim lie moat; jusbiiuk ucihib iiu more iej lleved, j9t That palter with us In a double sense ' And keep tho word of promise to our ear But break It to our hope," said Macbeth. It behooves Spain, another;! one ot wnose mercnanimen nas just peemn attacked by a Teuton U-boat,- to pondefi these pregnant lines. fl city will probably hooii start overseas. Ttfeg main earthquake s in, Europe just now. What Do You Know? QUIZ I. Where In Haver ford Collect? S, What l the raidUl of France? 3. im the anther af "Dream Life." 4. 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