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IN C. ilAnTIN... Oeneral Buslnena Manaaer
Poollhd dally at rt-Btio I.emkh nulldlns.
BVt CKSTSiL... IMnl nnd CheMnilt Streets
rMKTiA Cm... Pre-Pnlnn HulMlnit
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lir 1nr,a - - . . innft lr,illrtnn Itullrilnz
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B'.w'iS'alWMS Brrr.tr. London Ttinea
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,VWiB The.' EtE9)n 1'cBLtr LrtHirn l s-rvxl to ub-
2V.0uft,Srri In rhllad!rhla nl aurrouinllna townt
tfrTt,"t the- rat of twelve 112) rents pr week, payable.
i'jaJ? tn " farrier.
rS1?'' , Tlr mail to polnta outalde of Philadelphia. In
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t)ft'i.I twitfrtCTH fp tlftv t'.m (oiit if r mnnlh.
r-v .fllT (tfll dollar! rwi war. nnvaltl In fiilvanCf.
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ISK&JT rhila.Ulphla, f.liir.l.r. June 1!. IMS
A JOB UE LUXE
! tTEHY few men can hope to bo paid $4500
j$$,. Tet Gomo such good fortune abide? with
SJt fluoerlntenrlrnt nnhlnenn. of the nnllcp iln.
t'ew iartment, who had to be oliminnted from
Lnsaotlv'e duty before his nitlre beramo effec-
AfiS ivlvn IITiHor Cntitnin tllla
$, JCo orin doubts th idtlrlpnrv nr thn lm.
W't
"'Dartlalltv of the navnl ofllcers who kiio
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.:? .fjesied captain JIllIs for the post now held
'j: W ,in ineory oy uperintenneni tioninson. mo
Efi . vla-y Department Insisted upon decenry,
14' ,fflclency nnd honesty In police admlnla
i$e'v'c' tratlon here.
Tot tho forces directed In Councils by
Mayor Smith and the brothers Vnre sue-
Si tj' cessfully opposed the move to mako Cap-
6; tain Mlllss appointment permnnent. Thus
ji.tlne city administration frankly manifests
l'A L t w men ui i ttoptt iui iit tuusiufraiiuus
:jg wnicn animateo. secretary uanieisvana
jsjjll' Jt is nrgued that Superintendent Uobln-ft.?lj-'ah
Is being retained In order that ho may
t tZJb'I ri : - . ... . .
?,$tMaOt lose tne privileges or tne I'oiice I'en-
Efyf-'Alon Fund, For the sake of efficiency the
& city might better clve him tho money and
Eg jet him go. Ho has no right in his present
Job and there are a good many who, after
Isl? ,hls sorry failure, will find it difficult to
l. - unaerstana wny ne snouia oe accorded
w4' extra consideration or exnenslve favors.
5'i. Th61-6 "fe 20.147 surs in Philadelphia's
Lviv Trice ?ae- But the Kaiser doesn't seem to
vgu asa uicra a .uiikj- way.
"WAR MISSION OF THE SUMMER
l$ft," KtSUKiS
(WljlOnTUNATELY
the Government has
m,
not decided that the conduct of vacation
rMorts is an unessential industry
As a
! &',?' aBatter of fact It Is one of the Industries
.'rViajBsentlal to winning the war. It Is a
lsrypenny-wlse policy to try to get along In
IftS'SSpthes' strenuous times without relaxation
S-S2 Jind rest. It is like trying to run a machine
WjiSSjrthput oil. The machine can be run for
f;MmHttle whlle .but before you. know It It
v4tl 'twtrt ln..t n.. ..n...... 1... ... n . ......
;'wSVi'n without a complete overhaullns:.
?iS4aThe resorts at the seaside and in the
tiMaountalns are doing their bit to serve
friStSthelr countrv. Thev are nrevpntlnt- men
iu')Si'm breaklnS down and keeping them In
Kg&pondltlon to do effective work. What hap.
f .&?' t-i mubiiuieu in me case or a
-"SW&,,ea' business man who has Just come
A$jjL,1clt t0 town after spending a week at
rAW' ' ""ou o
!" Ieft home IIe Gained Ave pounds In weight
$$ within the first few days and came back
VR iQ condition to go on with his work with
pv&vfnew energy.
pjS uermanys "atem Song" decidedly lacks
$!?&, conviction of America's old college ditty.
vlMY5VfcKY THILADELPHIAN SHOULD
, mfc THRILL AT THE PICTURE OF
rL A SHip"
r-$Wlt sentence at the head of this article
'J.Ik eV rinnn trt nilvAMlAmiint K.. i,- -
iVp?wFxchan8e Bank which was printed In every
Lsjjggfjdcal newspaper Thursday.
Rf&KA"1110 purpose of the advertisement was
B,pt to call attention to the business of the
pA-Jnk' but to remind rhlladelphlans of the
5r;reatness or tneir city. Besides telling us
igfjtfeat we should thrill at the picture of a
tPTf i - rem'n1 us mat about .as much
33wHtanrlAV will hn rtpnf in hnllrtlnc nMn. Dui...
-Sjtikere next year as the Panama Canal and Its
f'iVj;jrortflcatJons have cost.
rl-S " .ui4jjaitsuii !! ua to unuerstana
fcftb bigness ofa single enterprise conducted
fc,1.-wMfcre- The advertisement might have told
V&g$j that roore thQn -10 per cent of alt the
k',w shipping to be built In America next
t. ry. r " 3 tonsiruciea on tne lelaware,
?feS"jjnaklns that river tha greatest center of
e. .'."lmritnhlitMlncr tliA wnrM hd. aam ca
(jt . .. .. ... ..w..i. .,uu n (lCII.
Vlt la a sign or a new spirit In Phlladel.
Bla when Its local business men begin
:rtalk up their own town and to devote
kemselves to putting It on the map,
6ur resources are such and our ability
serve tne nation -id the world la so
a.1 that every Phlladelphian should thrill
t'only when he looks at a shin, but whn
r thinks of what the future holds In store
jrnlie city when we all pull together to
iVelop what wo have and to bring here
ryrightful share of the commerce of the
antry. .
.ti. . rvnr .vn inf. mn.r rani " .na
Hot
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-,jtword"to ay against tha recent-Increase of
, . iyirydpeks.
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Ji'&i . THE SENATE REFUSES TO HP.
? SILENCED
tWAB,the common Impression In Wash-
Figton that .the Underwood resolution
ilhg debate In the Senate topeeches
n hour was proposed to prevent ex-
Jjid debate on some war measures soon
sunmjtlea, u netner tms impression
flwei! founded of riot we do not know.
4e congratulate tha Senate on Us re-
): to- pasctha resolution.
Ii. Sena tv Jtas a cloture rule which
yWBilts It tp em! debate when two-thirds
C'Uie nieinoers irunK u nan uxienua ions
--"-'" 'TMaVulR seems adequate for
.'ttmarservcles., It' leaves control of djs-
m m'.ine ujiiuti ux itiv ptuaiit,
. 1 j -JH .. IL .... litaitiii J nnnimlal rao
POLITICS IS NOT ADJOURNED
Republican Program, Afide From Support
of the War, Is Wide Apart from the
Democratic Policies
piNE of the best things that could be
done for the successful prosecution
of the war would be the election of a
Republican House of Representatives in
November.
We have been, told that "politics is
adjourned," but events disprove that
statement every day. The party in con
trol in Washington is playing the game
of politics with exceeding cunning. It
has been assisted by the Republicans,
who have laid aside partisan feeling in
supporting the war program of the
Administration. The Democratic leaders
are assuming that this course involves
an indorsement of their leadership and of
their partisan program in matters not
connected with the war.
The surest way to take politics out of
tho prosecution of the war is to make it
impossible for one party to claim the
credit or receive the blame for what is
done. With a Republican House nnd a
Democratic .Senate, or with a Republi
can Senate and House and a Democratic
President, partisan politics could find no
place in any act of the Government re
quiring the co-operation of the legislative
and executive branches.
It was possible to read all this between
the lines of the admirable address made
by Will II. Hays, chairman cf the Repub
lican National Committee, to the State
Republican committee and other Republi
can leaders at the Bellevue-Stratford
yesterday. The burden of the speech of
Mr. Hays was that the Republican party
as a mission to perform in this great
crisis. It would be false to its best tra
ditions if it refused to rise to the occa
sion and neglected to make a strenuous
effort 'to poll its full strength at the polls
in November that the sentiment of tho
nation might be adequately represented
in Washington.
The party does not intend to lie down
on its job. It has an affirmative program,
which includes exerting itself to the
utmost to win tne war, insisting on a
peace with victory and opposing a nego
tiated peace which would "violate Ameri
can rights, interests nnd honor," and
preparation for the solution of the prob
lems of restoring the Government to its
natural functions after the war.
This newspaper for months has been
arguing the necessity of electing a Con
gress which should be pledged to con
sider the future and to study the grave
problems of the restoration of the con
trol of business to private hands, and
the adjustment of our tariff laws to the
new conditions which the war will create
and which peace will make more compli
cated. Those problems cannot be solved
by tyros who take them up overnight.
There is involved in them the application
of the fundamental principles of eco
nomics and a conception of the proper
functions of government. Their solution
will strain the capacities of the ablest
statesmen in nil parties. They are
beyond the abilities of those politicians
who are interested merely in the fight
for offices for the sake of the patronage.
The appeal of Mr. Hays to the leaders
to forget factionalism, which is another
name for greed for spoils, and to con
centrate their attention on the big ques
tions was well phrased. It was uttered
in a presence where it was needed. This
is a time when all Republicans should get
together and unite in the advocacy of
the sane principles which have charac
terized the party from the beginning and
in opposition to the socialistic tendency
of the democracy, a tendency which is
increasing with every war move of the
Administration.
It must be made clear that' com
mandeering of industry is a war measure
and nothing else, and that industiy must
be returned to private control as soon as
possible when peace ' comci. But the
party in power, or many of its leaders,
are committed to Government ownership
of various utilities and. they are undoubt
edly planning to force the question as an
issue in the next presidential election.
The Republican party does not believe in
any such extension of the functions of
Government and no time can be lost in
making the issue so clear that there can
be no mistaking it. Then those unthink
ing persons who say there is no differ
ence between the Republicans and the
Democrats will learn their error and
those voters who jave positive convic
tions will know what party to support.
Pleasant as it Is to learn that "Ice Is
going down." the summertime fear that It
may "go to nothing" still paradoxically
abides.
BRAINS AND BRAVERY STILL COUNT
TTALVS gallant exploit at Pola depriving
Austria of two of her most powerful
battleships deals another crushing blow
to the shallow cant that modern warfare
13 all a matter of mechanics, statistics and
"biological fcrces." If the pedantic Teu
ton continue In this belief so much the bet
ter for his foes, all of whom have given
brilliant proof that Individual initiative,
resourcefulness and courage are still prime
assets of victory.
Brains and bravery, gallantly combined,
have never yet been engulfed in "the ma
chine," and they are not going to be.
France threw away the rigid rule book
when Galllenl's taxlcab army sprang To
the relief of Paris.
Britain .repeated the gesture with the
triumph at Zeebrugge.
America followed suit when her sharp
shooting marines fought "Indian fashion"
at Belleau wood.
Surely the waves of the Adriatic, long
since wedded to the queen city at Its head,
must have danced with Joy at the spectacle
of PelllgrinI and Rlzzlo's epic valor.
Xhe, first of tljese heroes raided Pola
.harbor with tprpedoboat and put a ffrst-
and disabled a sister vessel last December,
nnd this week, heading a tiny rhotorboat
expedition, ho destroyed one dreadnought
of the Vlrlbus Unltls class nnd crippled
another.
It Is folly to believe that even the most
Intensely organized of all wars can ever
place keen coolness anil alert Intrepidity
nt a discount. "Bloody Tybalt's" monoto
nous "book of arithmetic" has throughout
history been inadequate as .1 compendium.
Names like Decatur, Balnbrldgo nnd Hull
are Inscribed In a much more stimulating
and equally ns valuable a volume. The
spirit of those great captains and Italy's
sea knights Is akin, and the lustrous new
pages which she adds to the world's naval
annals are glowing with pride and hope.
The forecast of higher Kltchln tariffs will
be no surprise to the American housewife
who has hten battling with the H. C. U In
planning the tne.-iN.
OIR COAST A DANCER ZONE?
pi KIt.MAN submarines find life Increaa-
Ingly difficult In Kuropjan waters.
They have fought a losing battle and they
have suffered rout In nil actions of legiti
mate warfare. Only the gray wastes of
the North Sea can tell of the appalling ends
thnt hnte come to many of them. The
men who combated them have kept silent.
The German Government has not even the
consolation of knowing the fate of the
ships and crews that go out in the mists
nnd never return. For the crews of these
vessels the wnr has become a nightmare,
because they have never been termlttcd
to know tho exnet nature of the weapons
which the Allied navies are using so effec
tually against them.
It is not surprising, therefore, that tho
submarines havo run for It that they
srom ready to set out upon another tack
and try potluck In the relatively safe and
quiet waters off tho American coast. Such
a diversion, which is said now to ho di
rected by tho Hun Admiralty, represents
nothing but an lgnoblo retirement of forces
which nt the outset were depended on to
starve England nnd wjn the war.
At Berlin It Is said that orders are In
preparation to declare the Atlantic coastal
waters of the United States a new danger
zone. Obviously the patient population
in Germany is in need of a new stimulus
a new hope substitute if It Is not to turn
and rend Itself or the Governnient. Other
wise even the German Admiralty would
hesitate to risk the derision of the entire
world with so fantastic a pronouncement.
A proposed blockade of the American
coast may serve political ends in Germany?
It may hypnotize the people Into a further
endurancp of torture. The Zeppelin served
this purpose. So did the submarine at the
outset. The Flying Tank and the Paris
Gun were less effective as soul stimulants
for Germany, since even Germnns soon
saw that these weapons were made to awe
them rather than to awe tho enemy. And
now the Kaiser resorts again to the old
method. To tell his people that the Ameri
can coast Is "blockaded" by submarines is,
of' course, to insure n temporary diversion,
of attention from the failure of the sub
marines elsewhere at a time when Hlnden
burg's nrirUes in France are facing the
great Arrlerican forces which the subma
rines were devised to stop or destroy on the
way over.
There is nothing that submarines can
do In American waters to hinder our fight
ing. They have been unable to Interfere
with transports. Their operations could
be dangerous only to coastwise shipping.
Yet our coast Is thick with harbors. The
Atlantic Is wide. Vessels can easily be di
verted from familiar routes, If the necessity
arises. They are always within reach of
safe harbors and coastwise shipping is not
related essentially to the war. It could
even be stopped temporarily without Ir
reparable loss or confusion. And while
the submarine hunted small and unimpor
tant merchant vessels It would be hunted
in turn by destroyers. Submarines in
American waters have a mission that is
not only futile. It Is ridiculous as well.
Would it be passably
Certainly correct to describe
those 208 mllllon-a-jear
chaps as A. little group of till-full men?
When Hennery Ford
Fre Advertl.ement runs for Senatori what
will his slogan be? FHv and let fllv?
"Fleet" suggests both
Tell the Jlun! speed and ships, and
happily Hog Island
has now become synonymous of that com
prehensive word In Its happiest double sense.
"I know a mighty good
way that Henry Ford
can prevent any punc
You're Inimitable,
Mr. Tambot
turing of his sena
torial campaign, Mr. Bones." "Is that so,
Mr. Tambo? Suppose you tell us how."
"Why. by being tireless !"
Austrian military au
thorities cannot find
enough hangmen In
Poland to carry out
They'd Tay for
the rrlrllege
executions, Though they offer 15 per hang
ing, the people refuse to perform. And yet
they say there are Germans In Poland!
Kerensky, bound for
Shuwlnr Up Hi Paris, seems to have
Big Oun wisely chosen a secure
place of residence.
Doubtless he fully appreciates the fact that
the Hun armies have been powerless to reach
It since the war began.
"Hertllng Threatens German Diet."
a headline. So do the Allies.
says
"Belgian villages are In tho heart of Eng
lapd," declares a dispatch. And In counties
other hearts as well.
Bars are vanishing fast In this country,
but Germany Is encountering plenty of them
on the road to Complegne.
Descriptions of the nauseous tobacco
with which the German troops are now being
supplied suggests what an awfully sick time
they are going to have when they are com
pelled to Bmoke tho pipe of peace.
The German troops complain that the
tobacco substitute that Is rationed out to
them is worse than the eis attacks of the
Alll. if that's true, let's hope the wind
keeps westerly.
Ptrhaps the Austrlans will admit that
with the right commander a motorboat Is as
good as a dreadnought, Even calling a bat
tleship. "of the Vlribus Unltls type" doesn't
make It unslnkable.
On a gusty day, when straw, hats go
careering down the street, and we start, in
chase of some, portly, gentleman' lid. we
Preface to an Obituary for
the Kaiser
J
rpHIIVTY years ago today Wllhelm became
-- Kaiser. Tho customary phrase Is, "he
ascended the throne"; but one does not'
think of Wllhelm In connection with a
throne. A throne Is something to sit down
on. in all the Innumerable photographs of
the Kaiser wo have never seen one show
ing him sitting down (except on horsebick).
We wish we had the right touch for
writing a little sketch of the Kaiser's thirty
years' career as German Emperor. It ought
to bo done with a ripe rare flavor: with a
sting of satire nnd with a fine bass note
of anger. Mnrse Watterson got $500 (or
some such enormous sum) for writing "To
hell with the Hohenzollerns." If we could
only blast olT something vivid and zig
zag like thnt, perhaps somo.ono would
Eend us a check.
Our trouble seems to be that'we don't
hate the Kaiser enough. It seems to us
that hatred requires a big object; a target
commensurate with tho emotion. Hatred
1.1 a pretty serious nnd venomous kind of
feeling; It Implies nn Intensity nnd ferocity
of dislike that cannot be wasted on any
thing, petty or picayune. One does not
hate a centipede. One does not hate a
maniac.
We hate people who talk too much; we
hate reople who bother us when we are
busy; we hate people who believe every
thing they hear; we hate people who disbe
lieve everything they hear. Som.etloics we
hate ourself. Hut how can we hate tho
Kaiser, that poor pathetic lunatic, that In
corrigible Infant strutting In a thousand
uniforms? In a better Job perhaps ho
wouldn't havo boon a bad sort: an ag
gressive salesman, a brisk hat-tender, an
endless retailer of snappy smoking-room
stories. Age doth not wither nor custom
stale his Infinite fund of energy. And
think what a blessing he has been to the
cartoonists. No, as far as hating goes,
Wllhelm Is a big thing to look for. but a
small thing to find.
The only time we really feel bitter toward
the Kaiser Is when we pass one of our
favorite second-hand bookstores and think
of all the books we might have bought if
we hadn't skimped and scrooged to buy
Liberty Bonds. Then, It Is true, a feeling
of resentment almost akin to hatred does
vibrate In our placid heart.
The first thing the Kaiser did on June 15.
1888, when the great nation of Germany
was committed to his hands, was to Issue
a proclamation to the army. "We' were
born for one another," he told his soldiers.
These were the words of a mental Irrespon
sible. Indeed, the Kaiser has shown hut
few signs of rational control since June
10, 1871, the day he rode his piebald pony
down Unter den Linden In the glittering
triumphal procession after the Franco
Prussian War. He was reared in the echo
of that "drilling, trampling foolery" of
Prussian militarism: he was besotted and
bedazzled with the grotesque dream of
soldierly glory. Most of us are, ns chil
dren: there Is no game so delightful as
that of playing soldiers; as a game, war
fare Is magnificent: but to take It seriously
to conceive the breaking of women's hearts
as a trade for grown men it Is madness.
Old Doctor Hintzpeter, the Kaiser's tutor,
has naively recorded his difficulties with
his erratic charge. He t.aid that Wllhelm
was totally unable to fix his thoughts on
any one subject, and "his character ma
tured with almost tropical rapidity." Cer
tainly his character, whether mature or
not, has since exhibited some of the
freakish and brightly colored poisonous
growths if tropical fungi. The Kaiser
seems to have conquered his Inability to
concentrate: fee how his thoughts have been
fixed for" four years on that entry Into
Paris. Still, to concentrate for four years
on nn Impossible Idea Is not a very high
proof of tanlty.
It Is a bit hard to account for Wllhelm's
streak ofilnsanlty. His father and mother
werc'bothvery reputable people. Certainly
It would be hard to find a saner, shrewder
old lady than his grandmother. Queer! Vic
toria. His mother was English, nnd he had
an English wetnurse. When he was born
'Berlin was decorated with English flags,
out of compliment to his mother; and the
London papers burst Into congratulatory
verses. One such paper wrote (In the meter
of the national hymn):
Hall the auspicious morn
To Prussia's throno is born
A royal heir.
May he defend Its laws.
Join with old England's cause.
Thus win all men's applause.
But alas! ono cannot always depend on
birth and parentage to guarantee perfec
tion. Let us not forget (we say It In due
humility) that the parents of Dr. Krupp
von Bohlen were Phlladelphlans and his
grandfather a general In the Civil War.
The Kaiser's English mother and wetnurse
did not avail to graft in him British com
mon sense. The mania of military dominion
fevered him as measles or scarlatina does
mos.t Infants. Undoubtedly the swift, mad
dening glory of 180 had u deal to do with
the perfnanent scrambling of Wilhelm's
volatile brain. Reared against that trellis
work of military prowess, what could t,He
young mind do but blossom In bombs and
bayonets.
a
It would -be hard, perhaps, to hate the
Kaiser himself, for he seems such a tragic,
futile pawn; so luminously grotesque a
figure against the white light of history.
Probably he loves Germany well and
deeply, yet he has drabbled her In mire and
blood that six generations will not efface.
Could the Kaiser have prevented the
war, even If he had wanted to? Probably
he could. When he came to" power, thirty
years ago today, Germany was ripe for
wise and sane leadership. But governed
by a youth who was Indiscreet at best, and
ai worst "wholly mad' (with the worst form
of madness,' egotistical obstinacy), and who
took pains to surround himself with a
posse of firebrands, her doom wag sealed.
It Is said that the Kaiser's chief passion Is
reading press clippings. We doubt if there
will, be room enough on St. Helena to hold
all his "notices," but at any rate It would
be a,, kindly thing to gather a shipload of
Beware of the Six Best Stellars
Noiv That the Spirit of Mark Twain Has Taken Up the Ouija
Board, the Old Masters May Be Heard From
By SIMEON STRUNSKY
IN LAW I believe they call It a bill to In
tervene, this privilege we all have of bor
rowing trouble by asking the courts to permit
us to butt In, as the,v say nowadays in the
House of Commons, on the side of plaintiff
oj defendant, usually In the Interests of Jus
tice and a postponement to the next calendar
with costs, etc. Why any one In search of
excitement should ask leave to intervene In
a lawsuit when the same effect may be more
speedily obtained by buying JIO.OOO worth
of Iridescent Copper Motors common at
nincty-elglit below par and jumping off the
Brooklyn bridge Is, as a rule, haid to under
stand. But there are exceptions.
One such exception. I Htn convinced, Is the
Authors' League, which should lose no time
In applying for leave to Intervene In the
suit brought by Harper & Bros, against
Mitchell Kennerley. The Harper people were
and are Mark Twain's publishers, or at least
the publishers of tsueh material as Mark
Twain produced In his lifetime. Mr. Ken
nerley, as the people In Franklin Square
might put It. has set up as Mark Twain's
astral publisher by ' giving to the world a
novel dictateJ by the spirit of Mark Twain
to the ouija board. The Harpers have sued
to restrain Mr. Kennerley from proceeding
with the distribution of the book on the
ground
Well, .the exact legal grounds are to the
present writer unknown, and I shall not
bother tp find out. In the first place because
It's too much trouble, and In the second
place I wish tn lay a foundation of lgnor
anpe and Irresponsible In case It Ehould
turn out that these lines Involve libel or
malversation or caveat emptor or something
else that jou expose yourself to when you
intervene in a lawsuit without first asking
the court's permission. At the same tlmo I
don't imagine it's attempting to prejudice
the case for either sld or Influencing the
jury not yet empaneled If one just sug
gests the gorgeous possibilities, given three
or four good legal minds and half a dozen
copyright experts. Does International copy
right extend to the bourne whence no trav
eler returns? Are the rights of translation
reserved for all languages, Including the
Swedenborglan? Does the defense of a
writer's reputation as vested in his publishers
extend only to that part of his reputation
based on the books in said publishers lists,
or have they a general supervision over his
total frame? Here Is matter enough to tie
up the Federal courts for- a dozen years
and food for any number of five-to-four-decl-sions
at Washington. It wouldn't be bad
fun to have the son of Oliver Wendell
Holmes's opinion on the rights of spiritistic
authorship.
BUT as far as the Authors' League Is con
cerned, there's nothing funny. about it
at all. It means bread and butter. And If
the league Intervenes It should be, It seems
to me, on the Harpers' Bide. Though why,
looking at It from a cold-blooded, practical
point of view, the Harpers should be so gut
out by the super-terrestrial Mark Twain
volume Is hard to understand. If one may
Judge from the stories In the notoriously un
reliable dally press, Mark Twain's old pub
lishers make It their chief complaint that
the Intersteller successor to "Huck Finn" and
"The Connecticut Yankee" Is poor literary
stuff. This may be a rather fine spirit of
reverence In u publishing house, but peer
business. It's enough to make a. good pub
licity man bite his nails and shout at the
stenographer. Imagine- "Has Mark Twain's
Style Degenerated Since He Passed Into the
Silences? Compare his latest from some
where In the constellation of Andromeda
with 'Tom Sawyer' and judge for yourself."
I repeat: From the business point of,
view, it hardly matters whether the super
spatial Mark Twain Is better or worse
than the man who wrote In Elmlra. Hart
ford and Redding, Conn. The questions all
viP ask arc. If better, how much better? 'If
worse, how much worse,? InVlther case the
reference for comparison must be to tht
earlier works printed with Ink on paper, and
so the older- publishers do not suffer, The
only Imaginable case for damages Is .where
some one who has never read the terrestrial
Mark ywaln picks up the extra-solar Mark
Twain and docs not like him. That may- be
a prospect gone, but a very dim prospect
considering how long such possible reader
bas remained immune.
'a; to lae Auinore. ieai
'I GAN'T TEACH YOU ANYTHING MORE,
In this business of authorship. Your Remlng
wood No. 5 competes not only against every
other typewriter in existence, but against
every pen, stylus, Chinese Inkbrush and
chisel that ever created literature, back to
the hunting khlfe that scratched things on
mastodon skins. Your author must stand
up against the tremendous competition of
the dead, with all the publicity that attaches
to being dead, with all the advantage the
dead ancients have In the matter of no
overhead, no club expenses, no free copies
exacted by friends (who make their demand
on the ground of friendship, but In reality
because you can't quite convince them that
you have actually written Mjmethlng worth
$1.35 net). It's perfectly absurd, when you
come to think of It, that the butcher around
the corner doesn't have to mark down prices
against the prime Warwickshire ham for
which Strattord-on-Avon was famous in the
Elizabethan times, nnd the fruit grocer
hasn't a rival next door offering choice Tro
jan figs and olives from the vintage of
901) B. C.
BUT now It's a good deal worse. With
astral authorship In the field, competition
grows cut-throat. With only forty plays by
Shakespeare to buck, as they say nowadays
In the House of Commons, there was some
thing of a chance for the contemporary
scribbler. In forty plays you cannot, after
all, suit every kind of human taste, and so
here or there you might find somebody who
will pass up the great William for some
thing In the Tabasco Weekly. Then there
are the young men and somewhat older
young women who will not read Shake
speare because he dates further back than
1907. Altogether, therefore, there Is a small
non-Shakespeare audience, and the living
practitioner has a chance,
But with Shakespeare working like mad.
Indefinitely after his demise? With 500 plays
by Shakespeare on the market forty writ
ten in his rldlcuously cramped and illegible
hand and 460 dictated In the limpid ouija-1
board style what chance is there for the
newcomer? I don't want to produce panic
In the Authors' League, but I am tn duty
bound to point out what will happen to the
book ma'rket If from somewhere out In the
remoter cosmogony the manuscripts begin
to pour out: "Newest Fiction Homer, Apu
lelus, Cervantes, Dickens, Turgenleff, -Victor
Hugo The Six Best Stellars You Can't
Afford to Miss Them The Newest Poetry
Psalms Second Volume: Newest History
Herodotus on the GalllpoH Expedition ; New
est Everything by every author you can find
in the Britannlca, We can afford to sell
cheap because the authors pay no rent."
AH, you will say, but these old boys can't
L compete with us, after all; they're
classics and they don't know how to snuggle
close to the tired business man. They're over
his head. There's a level they can't come
down to, nnd that's where we come In.
Can't they, though?" Presumably, before
embarking on this paper, I ehould have read
this spiritistic first novel of Mark Twain's
that, the Harpers are making such a fuss
about, but I have not had the least temptation
to read it. and I have teslsted manfully. But
from what these Harper people say about
the book and from what I know of other
nonmanual literature, these ancients can
turn out as acceptable guff and slush as any
of us once you turn down the light and put
your fingers op 'the table.
Get busy, Authors' League.
(Copyright)
Red Cross Work
Interminable folds of gauze
For those whom we shall never see.
Remember, when your fingers pause,
Ths,t every drop of blood to stain
This whiteness falls FOR YOU AND ME,
Part of the price that keeps us free
To serve our own, that keeps us clean
From shame that other wom?n know.
O saviours we have never seen,'
Forgive us that we are sq slow!
Gqd If that, blood should cry in vain,
Ab4:w bay lt our,mofnt Ml ,lH-
WILHEtM!
THE READER'S VIEWPOINT
Irish Conscription and Dr. O'Malley t
To the Editor of the Evening Public Ledger:
Sir Will you kindly glye me space for a
few remarks upon the letter ef Austin
O'Malley on "The Irish in tho War"?
Mr, O'Malley seems to resent criticisms
of Irish opposition to conscription and tells
us that "It Is their own business largely,"
There la where Mr. O'Malley makes his bis;
mistake.
America's Interests are bound up with
those of the Allies to beat the enemy and
opposition to the cdnscrlptlon in any Allied '
country Is Just ns harmful to our cause as it
It occurred In our own nation : and Uncle
.Sam so regards It. as Mr. O'Malley will fipd
out to his sorrow' If he continues to condone
treason In an allied country; All honor' to'
the men of Ireland, whether Orangemen or
Nationalist, who have volunteered to fight
for world democracy, but their loyalty ot)ly
shows up In a brighter light the disloyalty
of a section of the Irish who In Irelapd are.
opposing conscription and nre negotiating
with the enemy for assistance and in Aus
tralia defeated conscription.
Mr. O'Malley says "whether they are right
or wrong In resisting conscription Is another
question altogether," but Mr. O'Malley Is
careful not to criticize them for their oppo
sition to conscription. Instead of being
"another question," It Is a very present ques
tion for eery opponent of Kalserlsm to an
swer at once. "
He who is not for us Is against us. This
Is no time to dally with treason either here
or In Ireland. The Irish pro-German Is just'
as detestable as the American pro-German.
A true loyalist will denounce disloyalty even
though It convicted hie: own brother.
JOHN M. SULLIVAN.
Philadelphia, June 14.
Where Jhe Money's Going '
I have a small vacation fund. '
A fine, though little roll,
Which I've decided now to .spend ,
To buy next winter's coal.
Detroit Free Press.'
Ask Sherman ' '
Man made the city, God made the country
and the German army transforms both Into
a place some of us no longer believed ln,j
K't,
rsew vorK i-jvening rpsi.
Losing Our Respect
When n dollar becomes ?o weak that It
can buy but two pounds of bacon or a half
a bushelot wheat It's no use to worship It.
New Haven Union. (
Economic Aversion
Speaking of meetless days many persons
are finding that both ends -are encountering
a good many such days. Springfield Union;;
The Price of Rliis
Is the marriage license fee to be, raised
on the theory that It Is a luxury J St. Louis
Post Dispatch. ' - "
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