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Attempts were made on his life while he ' nas ruling. The forces in power now are those which plotted his death in the past. It would not have surprised the world if he had been killed at the time of the t evo lution. An authentic teport that he has been killed may come at any time. Tet no good purpose would be aceom- kyi pushed by his death, lie Is powerless and fe-1- Tha will nvi- ntrnln uit nn a tlirnnp Tlip SjSt " "Bolshevik! ought to let him live; but they fcjyj. are not likely to act with any sense of duty iSKr ln'thn premises. la tj n was decidedly a "land of promise" fit 1 rather than performance wnlch Marshal K$? Boreolc pointed out to M Austrian troops af . - u . ... .. .. .. . . ..... Rv-i as ne snowea inem ine Venetian plain wnicn Kr Hi .. w .. .1 - .1 I An ' ns ucwuiitc Liitr &;;iie in iiin unwi " BONNIWELL AT THE MARNE? ? -t"ll7E STOPPED him at the Marne," is ' the remark which A. Mitchell Palmer is reported to have made at Har- 2fe" riaburar after the defeat of the attempt of Mtfjjjdge Bonnlwell to dictate the election of 5-vt.he chairman of the Democratic, State ?&?'' Committee. "'tfii'?1 The-Implication was obvious. It Is war TOk between the Old Guard and the rcorgan-!U-2 'k'ers. But Francis E. Scullin, probation officer In the Judge's court, resents the insinuation that his chief Is a German, He vjtteniaTht to resent it, even though one has Honly to look at gfihwi ancestors we the Judge to know where Wlll alvxBluia ncio uuiii. aiic juugc wiciua (fCT D'acktnorn club in his voice, ana he is Rg-vitTfmav to ngnt ai ine urop or tne nanaKer- -JpBut what has become of that third party "whlch-he was to organize if he did not suc- KtW(wI in naming the State chairman? One of Pershing's colonels In France KiJlwipte, recently: "Give' me 900 men with the ,-. !M. C. A. and r will have a more effective j?5$r" lighting force than 1000 men without It." This- represents the army's opinion of the Ked Triangle. HUSTLING INTO THE BREACH "IfHEN hustling to humble the Huns sur- '" prises even the American soldier. It is n .a. .... . . Lguar naraiy io rje wonaerea mat our aeiuaea riji i iLjs a grasp ine situation, .uioya IPl George has just sought to convince his eta?,; compatriots of our unprecedented speed; S"i" i Sttit hf lanl,a,rA tV,m,rrVi nrav.KntA ln.1r.il "4 w .' Mui, , .m.BUUbr, k.iuuci, cillH"""!.! lavneu the Inclsiveness of specific illustration. .There Is one, however, available at this fi moment and fully as Informative as a whole jMttery of statistics. The tale Is as brief ta It is pointed. On May 28, Mrs. Elmer i?SE. Fleming, of Haverford. read these lines Rw-vsr- Iittr frnm her inn fav In Vraiicc- jv'The warls pretty far off for us. We hear :?sk leas about it than we did In America. I tsxpect to go to an officers' training camp ift"rtly-" SSSfti Yesterday came a cablegram that X.leu T'tenant Fleming was slightly wounded sw.vJtsv. . sara atuiiuiia iicv.uiii.111111. Liicar mu incsnukcn r,sj4:t?4jfiwould have been easy liad they been de- IfTSJlAvmfmA a vMr nr pv-n Iy mnntlu anarl ra"w - ."- --.. "-.- ........... u... .. .Squeezed within the passage of less than , xnonin iney iwiriy hbiuuiiu ine aenatrs u ktbey thrill the heart. PoubtIe8s Winchester seemed "very far .off" to Philip Sheridan on the dawn of the Ij, da; when he turned tne tide or uattie. vtri 1 Mjrsmain lnappn was nii inumun over Pa'S"'? time. Yet that was a modest-scaled epl- THlV uvfe and reasonably comDrehenslble. The rM)I i"aTnitude and speed of our present prog I . Jmm a an formidable that we sometimes PiS'v; . , " t, . 5, ffi fear to acKnowieage 11 lest we oohsi. nui tntSI 1CBUUIUIIJ w Hfwr nw H"""'-'' Wgj5MrtoTd is unanswerable. 'IbVl.tl' MM.-A il.. (..--.. .!-... ...kUl. ti.- .'Jt'4GZjT!j. , insi UIUIIIIJ iriuniinii, "Jinn mc iS5?- Austrian general staff is now bulletining, iivj.TP .-uHUa nmaivhat th dam eleirant flavnr nf fil-BM''efeat as the "dutifully descended," where ?C V Otneral Toral described his evacuation of ';tPaatlago de Cuba. ''itrfSK ' : : .'W- TRICKS THE RIVERS PLAY f Lf. .. ... ..... . .. , tPIViTInO owns ine iana maue oy ine ueia- ttilira :.i&m ware River? The courts are about to t-'-XuA-T ,!.(. ..Aln. In ltn,,tA m.A. Vl. g-, (asstfWVA nna ijuraitwii (. uiv" wcr .w $ WHT t0 nlty-nve acres 01 nog isianu wnicn ac'-flaire originally part of the bed of the river. ,...- ... - C were nnea in oy ine current. f-vast body of curious law has grown out the disputes to title to land along "Mississippi, which changes its channel night in the flood season. Sometimes art finds his farm has been washed 'jone aide at the river to the- other. Pv'raV kUeve the courts have decided that he l .. JtV'. 1-A ai. .mmm IIHlljVB A I I aU a! a i (T -HFSi . -asjajsas'aHiina ine ius uuuci nut-n vhwuuj' af4M. Wnile nis neiguuor on me tuner s'awe river Is enriched by the addi- -r. a m. - . . .l. .. a jm -. 4dx IaIjm a a-ttea- h Kwemy acreo vr au kj jus .Aint taUMve'rlshtd farmer can only wait g-tt'.riveir shifts again in the hope that WW .M returned to mm. Ana Lb U rewarded. t ; -ltew.ira does not pl any such 1 1RV8WVM I IH .Hill EVENING PUBLIC x LEDGER i I PEACE HAS ITS NEEDS, TOO Shall Uuine Men, Enlisletl to Defeat Germany, Be Allowed to Retire From Public Affairs When They He Done the Job? "llfHEN the logs jam in a stream in the ' spring drive in the lumber region the most expert lumberman is sum moned. He spends hours, and it may be days, studying the mass until he finds what is known as the key log. Then he knocks this log out and the timber begins to move down stream once more. This is what has happened in the ship yards. The plans were made for the ships. Men were on hand to build them. And the yards were full of steel. But the ships were not moving from the ways as rapidly as they should. Mr. Schwab, one of the most expert steel men and one of the most successful manu facturers in the country, was summoned. He studied the situation and then sug gested that th'' war industries board decide what steel mills should produce the steel needed, that the Emergency Fleet Corporation should determine what tonnage should be moved monthly from the mills to the yards and that the yards themselves should decide in what order the various foims of steel should be shipped, based on the order in which it was to be used. Now everything will move smoothly. Simple, isn't it? But why did not some one think of it in the first place? Edward N. Hurley, of the shipping board, says that the "know how'' of Schwab is worth a million dollars a month to the Government. This is a modest estimnte of his value. Schwab shortens the war a week he will save the world a billion dollars. But Schwab is only one of scores of expert business men who are giving their services to the Government in the pres ent grave crisis. In ordinary times he and they are too busy with their private affairs to give much attention to public business. Mr, Schwab, however, has devoted some thought to the relation between politics and business, for he said during the winter that in the future the world is ti be governed by the producers. He was at first misunderstood, as it was assumed that he meant the wage earn ers, as though they were the only pro ducers. But he was not advocating any narrow class system. Producers are found in all ranks and they are inex tricably united, just as the Government found that all industry is interdepend ent when it attempted to decide what is essential and what nonessential. When the war ends it will be unfor tunate if the great producers who have enlisted to help the Government win the war shall take their discharge and pay no more attention to public affairs. Government is at bottom a great busi ness enterprise, but it has never been conducted as such. The ancient idea was that government existed for the benefit of the governors. That idea still sur vives in Germany. And in spite of all our talk of democracy, it is the predomi nant theory on which all large American cities are governed. We have a shining example of it right here in Philadelphia, where the City Hall is filled with political appointees doing little or no work in order that whatever faction happens to be in control may find as many places as possible for its loyal followers. Victory at the polls is sought in order that there may be a distribution of the spoils of office. Men are appointed to high places as a reward for services rendered and their underlings are ap pointed, not by them, but by the leaders of the victorious faction. When a con scientious man happens to be put at the head of a department he finds himself tied hand and foot if he tries to reform long-standing abuses. The capable and efficient business men, who would not tolerate for a day in their own establishments such conditions as every one knows prevail in City Hall, are apparently indifferent. There is a log jam in the City Hall. It is'damming up the stream of progress and preventing the payment of adequate salaries to the deserving policemen and firemen, delaying important public works and wasting the resources of the city in a moritravngant manner. What we need iSR expert who can knock out the key log and allow business to proceed in a businesslike way. There are such men here, but they do not offer themselves and when asked to serve they beg to be excused. If these conditions are allowed to con tinue we shall have failed to profit by one of the most important lessons of the war, namely, that if we are to have governmental efficiency the producers must take an active part in the conduct of public affairs. There i a significant omen In the name Diaz. Porfirio. formerly of Mexico, started one revolution, and so far as Austria Is con cerned, Armando, the Italian commander, Is doing his beat to foment one also. THE CALL OF THE SHIPS IT IS interesting to speculate upon the future uses of the vast fleets of ships that are-coming into being M Hog Island and other American yards. Even the yards themselves are a challenge. The fleets now in preparation are but a beginning. Upon what great adventures are the new ships to carry the American spirit? H is conceivable that we may realize our crowning achievements upon the sea. So far the world of ships hasn't attracted ua. We have been too busy on land. The sea has been peopled by the nations which have had to fig n't It and conquer it in self defense. The English and the Scandi navians, for the most part, hae lived the lordly spies that flower endlessly upon the dsHB.watsf s. , What will . Amerleri do Jn ' - - - ,J- -i.- !J)Li a t lk. plains of our travail and conquest? Shall we do as well as we have done In the dlrllcult work ashore? America lias Inherited the Wood of pio neers. We as a nation ate likely to turn to the sea Irresistibly whenever the land and the things of the land coasc to ccm wonderful, perilous or stranne. We nren't accustomed lo working and thinking In a limited raillua. We were the first In the air. Only the sea remains as a world of adventure and triumph in which .e nro relative strangers. And now fleets of our own ships are appearing as if ! magic and they are certain to cnll out In all that Is restless iind Impetuous In the national character of the United States. And It may be that ue are destined to fix new standards of accomplishment in that limit less field of energy and high nims. When destroyers, Voyage? a transport leave, con6yed by Is It correct to wish it Con PROFITABLE GRASS CUTTERS rpHE President is pasturing sheep on ths - lawn of the White House, fiover'nor. I.,owden, of Illinois, has a flock of sheep on the grounds of the State House in Springfield, There are scores of big estates in the suburbs of Philadelphia with sweeping lawns on which sheep would be picturesque as well as profitable. And, better et, they would Increase the supply of wool, and of lamb chops, both of which arc needed Just now. A campaign to increase the wool supply b. encouraging sheep keeping was started some time ago In this State. We ought to show the other eastern commonwealths what can be done, and the men of wealth with hundreds.tif not thousands, of acres ling Idlo, might well begin to do some thing more to help win the war by putting hheep on their land, and Incidentally dis pense with the need of laborers to trim tho lawns, now so hard to employ. It has been suggested And Tuneh bv some patriots that ald "Don't" the "Lohengrin" march be replaced by Klgar's "Pomp and Circumstance" at Amer ican weddings. It Is concflvablp, however, that there are some grooms who might object to this change. "The pomp of power" and the "felt rlulch of circumstance," of which certain wise poets have sung, are dis quieting phrases. The net gain of a million babies In the United States during 1317 seems to have been a bassl-net gain as well. THIS WAY OUT Suites to the Sweet We assume' that Mr. Zabrlskie, the Fed eral sugar administrator, will have a suite in the Washington food administration building. We shall be able to accommodate ourself to the sugar boss's rulings all right, but we do hope there won't be a tobacco admin istrator. We wonder whether the Austrian print ers ever use Italic type any more? Humorists at Ray This Is a very ominous moment. The American Press Humorists, who control the nation's raiment of humor, have been in convention in Chicago, and we have not yet heard what the styles In Jokes are to be during the coming year. Imagine what might happen If the A. P. H. decided, to abolish humor. And yet peihaps no one would know the difference. It is to be hoped that Karl Kosner will continue to flourish during the hot weather. He Is a great help to the newspaper para graphed He ought to be elected a sus taining member of the American Press Humorists. Speaking for ourself only, we have been somewhat alarmed by the shortage of Jokes lately. We have tried tii back up the humor administrator b doling them out very sparingly, but even so nt times we have very nearly reached the limit of our effectives. Is It possible that we may have to call up the 1919 class ahead of time? Bard of Avon, B. A. Dear Socrates Was Shakespeare a Har vard man? In "The Tempest," Act lv, he speaks of "foreheads vlllanous low," Doesn't that mark him down as a high brow? CUBAN HEELS. A Lament A City Hall job is no longer worth while, It shortens one's afternoons so; They want ou to slae eight full hours to tae The taxpayer's troublesome dough. Must a fellow stick 'round and write let ters and things For a beggarly few thou a year, While affairs in his ward are let go by the board And the autumn campaign drawing near? SCRIPTOIt IGXOTUS. It has been suggested that the chief executive committee of the League to En force Peace be a ministry of five, sitting permanently at The Hague This sugges tion having reached the Kaiser, he writes to us as follows: "Hochwohlgeborene Socrates: "I am deeply interested in the composi tion of that council of five that is to sit at The Hague. May I not send in my nomi nees? They are: Karl Bosner Jeremiah O'Leary Mrs, Bertha Krupp von Bohlen Leon Trotsky Estate of Bolo Pasha Cordially and sincerely yours, WILHELM, Kaiser und Koenlg. It fceems to us as though Wllhelm had been looking over some one else's shoulder. At Reported in Germany The luckless American people, reduced to the last extremities of exhaustion and despair, are now compelled to take their national drink, Ice cream soda, in paper cups. The flower of the Austro-Hungarian army was sent against the Italians. News item. The flower seems to have been stemmed. Almost the only horror the unfortunate Viennese, have not had toi endure lately Is PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, : 1 ' ' READERS' VIEWPOINT War Fit for Brutes. But Not for Men To the Editor of the Evening Public Lcilper: Sir There were doubtless many Phlladel phlans besides myself who read Mr. William F, Flslte's spirited article, "You Can Hurry Biology," In the KvK.viNa PtlBMO LEDORn hf June 24, and went home thoughtful An entomologist's commentaries on life are al most always Illuminating, for It seems that the patient study of Insects tends to make men wise. I hae read few hooks of greater human Interest than Henri Fabre's "Life of the Spider" and "The Hunting Wasps." In the present instance the wrjter took able Issue with C D M.'s basic argument that war Is unnatural because animals do not prey upon their own species. Mr Flsko was well provided with Instances. In fact, he need not have gone so far as the Insect world to cite examples of the fighting In stinct. Virtually all males of the deer fam ily fight among themselves In the rutting sea son, frequently to the death. Cannibalism among animals Is a different matter, and much more rare. But as even the Huns are not Inspired by a wish to eat other members of the human race (at least up to the pres ent) we may leave cannibalism out of the argument. Mr. Flske, then, proves his point. On r purely animal basis, war Is not un natural. But'dhall we be satisfied with such a basis for the conclusions which he proceeds to draw? War, we learn, Is the glorious thln-nlng-out of a too-thlckly seeded humanity. War,' bracketed with adventure, forms the "consummation of evolutionary progress" In one direction. In fact. It Is Itself the "Great Adventure." There Is only one conclusion to be leached by logic such aw thl. Mr. Flske stops before he conies to It But Germany did not stop. Germany's philosophers told her that war was natural and desirable; that It was her duty to make herself stronger than any other nation In order to survive. Once built, the great Prussian military machine must be put to use before It ni3ted. And the world Is still struggling to Iooen the cruel grip of that philosophy and that machine. Some hundreds of thousands of young men have gone from America to fight In France, sober In their conviction that only by co doing could they help )i end war forever. And some millions of us at home are backing -ihe fight with all our hearts, not because We see it as a wonderful process of nature, but became we believe It Is. right. It Is not pleasant to hear that when all Is over these bos shall have died merely for the high purpose of depopulation, and that we as a nation ehould at once begin deadly preparations for the next war. After all, have wo not n higher ground for our debate than the habits of the lower animals afford? Ethics has never been fash ionable In scientific circles, but thero are still nian.v of us who try to Judge our acts in the light of Itlght and Wrong. STEPHEN W. MEADER. Philadelphia, June "0. Street Signs To the Editor of the Krenlno Public Ledger: Sir I have been In most of the leading cities of the counto, and believe me, Phila delphia takes the prize for concealing with diabolical Ingenuity the Information as to where the stranger within Its gates really Is at the Junction of two thoroughfares. If he Is lucky lie may find It nailed to the side of a building after some search, but In most cases he won't find It at all N'cw York conies In for a lot of criticism, but we have at least got to hand It to her for properly labeling her streets. The rule there is, as you know, a metal post nt street corners corresponding In size and appearance with the old lamp posts of the age of gas, these bearing at the top two crossbars, one running parallel with each street and bearing the name of the street In white letters on a dark blue ground. This general idea seems to be followed with minor variations by most progressive cities of any size. I don't know of any one thing in which Philadelphia seems so far behind the procession as in this, and if it has cuused as many maledictions from others as It has from me since I came here, some newspaper activity toward a reform would surely find a welcome In the hearts of many thousanda htieahouts. iutscoi: peacock, Philadelphia, June i-. What They Will Do To Ihe Editor of the Evening Public Ledger: Sir I have just bid my bov and his friends good-by, bound for over there. This is the consensus of their talkti: "When we come back from "over there' the world will be much wler. Democracy rub everywhere and no room for a Kaiser. The Golden Bule be taught In school a great peace hav e begun ; All will be free on land and sea and not ruled by a Hun." JOHN JAY. Philadelphia, June 2f. Dr. Porai, the President of Panama The pleasant-faced, courteous Spanish-looking gentleman of fifty-eight or slty Into whose presence I was ushered would hardly give any on the Impression of an autocrat. The President may have enemies, but the men who were taking leave of lilm ns I entered would scarcely give, the visitor the Impression that they were his foes. One man was standing unit his arms around the President's waist, and taxing the Spanish language for terms In which tn express his admiration and fealty To one' Just arrived from the North, the scene was a hit ludicrous ; who, with the wildest imagination, would picture the visitor to President Wilson hold ing him firmly around the waist while he kissed him warmly upon' both cheeks? This Is onl one of the many signs constantly greeting the traveler from northern latitudes, assuring him thut he has passed from the Anglo-Saxon world Into the land of the Latin temperament I found Doctor Poias exceedingly agree able and willing to speak of the needs and the accomplishments of Panama, To my first question, "What Is the greatest present requirement of the republic?" he answered: "Banks are our greatest need. We should have a big bank which would glye long credits and demand small Interest for the benefit of the agricultuial class especially. As a matter uf fact," said be, "our agricul tural population possesses very small holdings and must do their work nn a limited scale. They need our help financially, and the bank ing systems used in the north are not always adaptable to our people " "This country of Panama." continued Doc-' tor Poias, "is a rich country and has hardly begun to be developed, Its possibilities in sugar, bananas, cocoanuls, and In mining have not been generally realized. Only a small part of the area of the country is now under cultivation. Our great need is' capital to assure the opening of agricultural business on a larger scale." Cla.vton Cooper, In Edu cational Fjundations. The Ignorance That I Russia Florence Harper, who was l;i Hussla during the revolution, recently gave the fol lowing remarkable example of the Ignorance of the Russian peasants. During the summer of 1917, she said, a census was taken for the purpose of ascertaining the names of those who had a right to vote In the various villages. The constitutional assembly was to meet in the fall and on It the great mass of Busslan people were pinning their hope of a, representative government, In the various villages the names were taken by a clerk assisted by a man belonging to the priesthood. While two of these Government agents were addressing a small crowd of persons in one village in the Volga district a woman noticed that the fingernails of the clerk were long and pointed. She pointed this out to several other wemen, who became very agitated, and very soon one woman, more superstitious than the others, called out. "He Is the devil, he has claws," Panic quickly seized the crowd, the men became frightened and one man shrieked, "He has cloven hoofs." The poor, unfortunate cletk was wearing shoes with pointed toes. The two men were seized by the mob, who stripped them to find out If their feet were really fcloven and If they had tails. Upon flndlmrno evidence of talis on cloven hoofs 1 tWJjMsWH 'Jaei jMV.TMM y -. - U. 5. "THEKE WAS IHt "! . .- .-' : '. -.V." ..'.. L. . . ,.,V;s".-i.v.T,S3afa. THE GOWNSMAN AN EXCELLENT old author was once asked his opinion of the blessed btato of matrimony. He replied that as to mar riage he belonged to the sect of heretics who deny purgatory; for man-Inge is either heaven or hell it can occupy no middle gtuund. Now, the Gownsman does not pro pose to talk of matrimony, or rather he does itot presume to; there ate wholesome deterrents from a course t.o rash in the examples of those who believe In marriage too much, too little, not wisely or too well. But It was impressed upon the Gownsman the other day during the protracted period of one of those trials of patience and purse that come to most of us who persist in going about on wheels, that the state of automoblllng, while not always blessed like that of matrimony, possesses an ad vantage in tl' circumstance that It is less frequently heaven or that horrid op posite which defines war. To go about much on wheels is tn dwell In a" continual state of sustained purgatory. AUTOMOBILING better, the blessed , state of gadding about on wheels does not consist In the possession of a grand equipage or rather two or three of them served by expeit lackeys, liveried, lux urious. Much less is it a blessed state to rattle about in a tin wagon, turned out, pressed, stamped and boxed by an ingeni ous and englnous manufacturer now on his vva to tho United States Senate; a contraption constructed miraculously to continue to run no matter how tm or Its owner or anybody else may run It down. No, the ti uly blessed state of gadding about on wheels lies in neither of these extremes, it is neither altogether heaven nor that other place except, Indeed, nt times. The truly blehsed state In gadding nbout on wheels is rather nn exciting con dition of adventure in which the Joy of motion, the sense of a potential freedom at least to go anywhere, Is chastened by 11 lurking dread of the unknown, a dread lest something may happen and it always does happen a heightened spirit of adventute into the perhaps,' Involving not so much actual danger as the delights of the unexpected. In a word, gadding about on wheels Is like or unlike the blessed state of matrimony have it which you choose; In Its spirit of adventure and In the certainty of its uncertainty. TO BE tied up miles from anywhere, that live possession of yours which has swept over hills, hurried around curves nnd tucked away miles after miles, now suddenly and always without rhyme or reason becomes an Inert, dead mass, taking oxen humiliating thought, oxen! to move It, surely this Is in the nature of vicissitude. 'To watch last year's black smith, transmuted Into an expert machin ist, scratch and nod his sapient .head at a dpllar a nod, to wait In lovely rural seclu sion, under lofty elms or spreading beeches, beside delicious streams mockingly bab bling, or, if so lucky, to loiter wearily in some inn of tha vvajside, Jn rooms deco rated with chromos, the furniture covered with plush these are among the vicissi tudes of the man who would go on wheels if he could. BUT when at last, by painful and ex pensive process , the blacksmith has W.&m h 1918 a. a UUUU SAMAK11 AN dlglous distance; when at last you have learned the Christian name of every child In the village and have expended every heathen name you can think of on things in general; when, In brief, you are once more winged, how delightfully you take to flight and away, all the weariness of waiting, all the trial of that patience of jours, that stands trial so 111, in a moment forgotten. There are sorrows for the man who would go on wheels but there are also Joys. rpiIE Gownsman Is not certain about the - status of angels. He Is constrained to confess that his personal acquaintance with them has been limited by circum stances beyond his control. He has never argued how many of them, angels being Incorporeal, may be able to sit on the head let it be head rather than the point of a pin. We should be considerate even of angels. But the Gownsman does re member that there Is a very different per sonage who Is said to walk up and down the earth seeking let us charitably forget what he was and Is seeking: rlerhaps as the earliest recorded being who felt the Joy of the road, he scarcely knew exactly what he was seeking Jt is certain that we don't. The Gownsman does not like to think that the Impulse that bids a man go somewhere else Ih derivable from Satan, who crawled Ignomlnlously out of Eden on his belly however he got in, exhibiting, by the way, In this process, an early ex ample of the deflated tire. However, man had not the lust to wander In the monot onous contentment of Paradise. He had to eat of the tree for a knowledge of that Joy ns of much sorrow. Indubitably the man who has had personal dealings with a molor is the only one who dare affirm that he has truly knowledge of good and evil, rpHE desire to move Is inherent in the -1- condition of being alive. It Is one of tho several "Inalienable rights" of man that he need not be a vegetable except by choice. And if to move- is to live, to move a great deal and swiftly Is to be much alive. Many of the Greek philosophers be lieved In pleasure as the highest good; some made it the chief pursuit of human life, for by np means were all the old philosophers like so many of the new contentious sjtolcs or cantankerous cynics. The habit of pesslmlzlng everything had not et entered a Joyful world to knit the brow of care. But even the philosophers of pleasure defined that greatest of good things variously. Best among them all was one Arlstlppus, who found the true human Joy In motion; motion rapid and inces sant, Arlstlppus was the first hustler, the flrsh man of go, push, "pep." so to speak; the first vital red pepper, Above all should those who would gad about on wheels humbly adore the name of this discoverer of that wherein lies the source of human Joy: Arlstlppus, patron saint of motorists. They Just Crowed . And those United States marines are not the result of forty years' preparation for war, either. Marlon Star. .' .- ...-. ...! ... t j 1 Still in Force .' ' ' A . r,$ . - . ri av.m.. n. tr S .,,, il AINU IHt-DUl l-iiorwi Z4 ' tJ , ; m ih itr 1 ee n. tnl H M 1 'lit CI It ii A ..V 1 i .1 Fltzpatrlck In the St. Louis Post-Dlasaieii THE RECRUIT (National Army) I USED to wake up with a sticky tongue v. And an eye that was dull and red, And the songs that the early birdies 'sung I heard on my way to bed ; " But now I Jump with the reveille j And my eyes are bright and clear H And 1 thank my lucky stars each day 'L That the Government brought me here. r. I used tq be mean as a hermit crab Till I'd swallowed my morning drink. ' But now that I'm wearing the Olive Drb I'm blithe as a bobolink, , For the fresh air thrills through rny throat and chest ' , And I Just want to shout and roar, 'At And life has a savor, a zip, a zest -., That 1 never have known before, I used to be flabby and soft' and whits u . AVhen I sat at a desk In town. But since I've been learning the way to fight I'm husky and hard and brown. It took a cocktail to make me eat u The choicest of food, but now , You watch me march to a mess-shack seat " And wade through the army chow. w vrf So I smile a sort of a shame-faced smllj When I think how I pled, exempt. .VI And I'm glad that the board saw throurlV & my guile is' With a elanre. of rnol rhntemrjt; 1B ra And though I may perish across the seal, ii I'll be one of a splendid clan, -; For the army's taken a piece of cheess y And made It Into a Man! ' Berton Braley, In "Songs of the Fighting' ! Forces." . n o Trouble Brewing ' u Tea Is listed In England under ths com-. modlties that cannot be hoarded, If tea has . become a -scarce commodity (n the United; Kingdom, It Is our guess that Prussia, will have to face a lot of embittered and uncom promising Englishmen at that peace table ot the misty future. Buffalo Commercial, .1 - : . A AVC111UVII1K 1110 ausc nt The war industries board. It has bsenj noticed, has confined itself to a reduction tt .41 the number of pockets in men's costs. Pro- tl hlbltion probably Is expected to taks cars it e tha IrniiMN hv llmlnatlnflr th4 tilr rl U ...n """"'","' "" "-'"" " " (1 pocKet. springneia union. , T What Do You Know? QUIZ ' t What Is the Dual Monarch!? (I Who Is responsible for the phrase. "A'aeta ( of naper," and to what does It refer? t Who was Hamllear Ilarca? What la meant bx the lettera "Se. T."T What are the eolora ira of Harvard I'nlfeealtxtl aid. "Mr sarins! ."Wi3& a are mr ministers' "f .-f) What monarch aah ownt rar aetlona What la a "reaponalble ministry" WhpA la Vevvata? What was the "Stir Knsland aawmlll nH'f ivnai la ine ueruaiwn or --aTiaiian-'T -tl Answers to Yesterday's Qnix ) Major General William M. BranrkeV la Brit- ' lah Comptroller General or Airplane. n Red and blue are the eolors of tha Ualrarsltr ' of I'enniiiranla. ' A 'peneo offenslie" Is do attempt b prai sand and orsanlsed mothoda. to. faref helllarrent 'Powers Into a termination at hostilities to the advantas of (heir mr', conducting the eamnalra. Th Coatral Kmnlrea apa balletM tA ha eanailrdaa BV i "peace offriislie" designed to end tho wis v before the Americana .enter the consul f In full force. .j lie I'auw I'nlreralty la al (iroenrastl. ins, 1 I "Tn uiTonae vr in uead" ia a sHfriaa' mt poem written by Theodore O'Hara. a llR ft nin of iho Mealraa War. laS 6, "A aophUtlral rhetorician, lnebrlitod.witkp.il in siuncranrB wi nia iwn iasiiy" wswv i th nhraa. apulled by Lord RMossaaMat .;J , u, fvwii.w, ,!, ,, ratoa jaw yi (iladttone, . '--'1 ouisiana ia cauea --in reiican BLaio." y . Th luka or AostaU a mombor. .of Italian rojai laiuuj, cuin ya sua 11 w. nw-'' w W ram'1 i sjW I m . a ! " mrirint''JT&mB2ZEm)3il J"4W) y VW lca,twrs; Vff I-.' WW,sajaf ir . ?; t ' -,
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