r. ,, L? IK3?!2Bl 1C tebCER COMPANY PPJiy It CURTIS. PumtSNT fTlMtnrton; Vic President! John C. ery Bin -Areasursrj rnmpa. uoiimi, imir John J. Bpureeon, Directors. jt EsrronrAti boaud.' .'Cfe.es H. K Corns, Chairman afcsJMILET. .Editor i XARTUf,.,, General nuslnesa Manager dally at fesue I.mm Building-, ndence Square. Philadelphia. :TUL...t.lJroad and Chestnut Street .. rrcsa'Unton ijulldlnc 200 Metropolitan Tower V t.411.1 Ford Uulldlns .ilons Pullerton HuHilInr v ..11'02 Tribune Iiulldlns fit NEWS BUREAUS: IIMTOH ncaiuo. a. K. Cor. Pennsylvania Ave. and 14th St. Took Bhud The Sun Dulldlnc BUBXAU. . t London Timet S"vTv SUBSCRIPTION TERMS Ktbkino rcauQ LtMta la served to aub 'In Philadelphia and nurroundln? towna rata of twelve 1121 cents per werk. payable RrQ&W'i carrier. mall "to points outfllda of Philadelphia. In felted States, Canada, or United .States po' M. DOStaffe free, fifty (r01 cent ntr mnnth. fa) dbllara per J ear. payable In advance. -Bl11 foreian cmintrlem nn ftll rfnllar ner " ,' uuvrMiurio n laiiuiH kuuicbs ,(sa.lis via. JaMai five old aa well as new nddreaa. MVUaAjllltta)AIVkAik ael aslaaa 4Jaad ahM-Aft K $ f v.t t . sva ., JLsrsr'' VALNUT KEYSTONE, MAIN 1001 ' , 4P4ddrea all communications to Evening Pubtlo ifc' tijfffrtdgtTt Independence Sauare, Philadelphia. E i skki ... "4'''WfS Member of the Associated Press i 'ATSB ASSOCIATED PltrSS 4.i r. exclu- Vi& T3f c'tftu (u inc ugu for J i;j(iuhlumuh f - JBWMU ntlllf in ihf to fii rfmihllnnltrm .ar.vjt,- - ." "-w "- '" ;''""" " i . tmtHsc credited tJif jinptT, and aso .xi!i local netcj puMMnrd therein. "57,'?A no"' o repiioltranoit o apcclal tM f i-fettces herein arc also reserved, ' fftffliiP PhUsdelphU. ThnnJ.r. July 1. J1H.J RENT AND WAGES .jSjTJf THE news columns yesterday the real siXT'.'hasIs of tlio rent controversy nnd the lnt,1aH-n Tt'liluli ptmtimct'inDd fnrtm. 'Hirtptre to Inflict on many families were re- M. T. Townsend, superintendent bflft the Federal employment bureau In this wafers;,, who. by worliinc overtime, can earn ifijjierauch aa $25 a day if they are especially Hikllled. FrWJLt the same hour twentv.two families In 'jf.?S:..i.- . t...J., . ,. i'LtitCtlon against their landlord and refused v&Ttoineet an Increase In their rent. They jkvn textile workers. They have not benc- Stfjiiea oy war wages. "iii &9m landlords have been tempted o K5-fott?e by reports of hlsh wages In many r!jWU8iries as muvn as oy increased taxes IsnvMaum cust oi upKcep. uiner nousc owners Sjtlj'iire moved to folloti- their example. The Mlalet that their tpnants linvp h.Trl nn wnce jlncreases adequate to make the added bur 8!v ;' tolerable Is not considered. irl Doubtless there are a minority of skilled VftWBrkers who can meet rent Increases wlth- S'jlit the least hardship. The majority can tffijot.. The time seems to have arrived, fe-"4- Jfcit Admiral Bowles has suggested should !',., Bijppoint.eu ana given an me power ne i. . r iiaUr rea ulre. " tJ.-i'SDown amonir the Kaisers, hear that JaWrneful sound. :7a;.. A.n. ...... -i gU.Clin KUUSKVtLT death of Quentln Roosevelt in N.w- . action in the air attracts attention be- i'of the accident of his birth. He was aak'imMM r? n nrimAr) Tvr.DMnn n Vn fTnUoil te. He has been more or less In the to. eye from the time when as a lively )-t ,i,THW l fiiuignter the Washington correspondents ' J - ' m-M li t ., . ... . a w inu iiim jiiicrestinR tu write auout. Kalll feel aa If we Icnan him nnrl rprplvA Vf?JaWreport. or his death with the same kind r4tirBret that would be felt at the news .,. neignDor s son nau rauen. jl liThtt youth entered the servli tiP'ymlbi and by sheer merit he I'lce as a prl- rose to the "jjjeWk of lieutenant in the aviation corps. wm many utner yuumes not so wiaeiy flNaowrn hfiVA dnnp. T?1r Mwnr waa n hrll- (V AillL ii...i . ..- j . .. 'rsiain& iuui.riiiiuii m uie uemqeracy o ine vW'Vljnerican armyj Its ranks are filled with , rWlin from all stations, and in the siftlng- E 'fSt process by which officers are selected K'vw1"!" "ho makes good is promoted be- , tim of his inherent Qualities. -li'lSlTh nation will sympathize with Colonel HaJavelt in his bereavement even though 'jWKnow ne naa aiscountea its possibility !,3rtWH his' sons entered the army. He said 'Bait,' If we had war he stood to lose as "i'&tmilt as any one, for all his sons would 4nly fight. They are all in the army lfeis son-in-law of military age Is' also yasf'vlng in uniform. No family has given 'iorV generously than this, but the Colonel i "awiM be the first to insist that he deserves P" swthlgher praise than should be given to MvBaost obscure father who has begotten 'iMiaf as ready to make sacrifices for their CS1' .VSQwrnany's new national hymn will l)ave E VKkt written In funeral-march tempo. tfL?M i THE UKlVt German spirit was whipped and ?rj!v"T r J . SSsW jllFr(TA4 along the latest drive which j ,.;Rr,""'D" ' m, I il tl-A nwvlaa tt iVia Xfnrl PmndKAii tn 'mmitW -W ti t-o u . uu. i.itt(ut wJ rMatuslon, slaughter and defeat. The fight- fafet nn aiia T,it It 1a nlnln tltf. 4l.a plans yet made by the gOdiman commanders arr 1 1 ruins. Daz-'-ilUmi tactics on the Allied side, the In- ajfiaisedpower of resistance which America rjkfalVcoritrlhuted and nmn of thn mnnt Ml" T ' - poani ngnung oi me war louea a move Mi(.tAt lAmanr linna ir nhtaln hA f and political benefits likely to at- IJan advance qver a considerable area 1 ajvyictory ovr tne Americans. bwusly Germany planned a supreme k- xnere is iitue tnat uermanycan ifcMter a failure of the dimensions now 'VnnrtH frnvrt thn XfnmA hafiu. "i r .-.. -.o- K.the last drive of her history. The 4rive will probably be In the other Americans are putting the 'off" in at German offensive. IOSITY THAT SHOULD BE CONTAGIOUS ,;ontaglon of a good example does lwy spread as far as it should. cthe matter of bequests to unlver- Hf example. The University of Is suffering for lack of fA . : aaaoiowiuvnt i QHinds of the University may be ,ifmp of the will of the late John f, oi new iorK, wunoui oeing fc With the germ of a similar be- but we hope not. Mr. Sterling InW rcf Iduary estate of about , e.Tale. This la twice as Mr1wn,t7nIyrsity has asked s asked KUi' iHbVK w ? .., ..r:v, gtg.xys b'w 'fr&mx &m;rpA&mE of the mayor ReTindi it In Rewarding the Friends of His Friends and Punishing Those Who Object pHE act creating the Board of Recrea tion providos that the members of the board "may bo removed by the Mayor at his pleasure'." We gather from the attendant circum stances that nothing which the Mayor has done since he entered office has given him greater joy than the exercise of the power conferred on him by this act. He has summarily asked two members of the board to resign. To the third, a lady, he wrote apologetically explaining that he wanted her place because "it must be apparent to you that if the board as a whole is to be a success its members should be in sympathy nnd friendship witlv the power that appoints them." The heinous offense of the members who have been ousted is that they are unwilling to take care of the friends of the ftiends of the Mayor. Senator Varo's secretary must be provided for. When the superintendent of tho recreation centers resigned to enter tho service of the national Government an op portunity was seen to give the man a job that carries a salary of $3000 a year. The Civil Service Commission nrranged for an examination of candidates, against the protest of the Board of Recreation, which had filled the place by n temporary appointment. The board wished the examination to bo postponed till the autumn, when tho attendance of experienced men could be expected. The commission insisted on holding the examination at once, and sent out notices fixing a date and announcing that applicants muc have had experience in supervising recreational work. A few days later it sent out new notices omit ting the demand for experience. Then several candidates appeared, and Mr. Varo's secretary was the only one which the commission found qualified. He passed with a percentage of .71, just barely enough to get through. He was the only man certified to the recreation board as eligible. It is customary, how ever, for the commission to submit the names of at least throe cligibles for important positions, in order that there may be some pretense of selection on a basis of merit and fitness, regardless of political pull. Now, because the Recreation Board has asked that a new examination bo held, in order that "a legal list of eligibles" may be secured, the Mayor takes"''pleasure" in ousting the three persons who have been more loyal to the city than to the obligations for "sympathy and friend ship with the power that appoints them." It was Tammany Congressman "Tim'' Campbell who told President Cleveland that the Constitution should not stand in the way when a question of doing a favor to a friend was involved. But the coun try laughed at him. "Tom" Smith puts into actual practice the principle which "Tim" Campbell urged upon the Presi dent, and frankly sets it forth as the reason for his conduct. The Vaie secretary must have a $3000 job because of friendship. Who cares what becomes of the recreation centers? What do the Civil Service Commissioners care about standing for the principles of the merit system when friends of the man who appoints them want to find a place for a friend? What does the city care when it is treated to such an exhibition of the theory on which it is governed? These are pertinent questions that ought to be answered. ( The law says the Mayor may act "at his pleasure." If it gives him joy to reward his friends, he has legal justifica tion. No one will be so presumptuous as to suggest that the power of removal was conferred in order to enable the Mayor to get rid of dishonest or inefficient mem bers of the recreation board. It is there, to beexercised "at pleasure." We elected Mr. Smith to his high office knowing all about him. If this is the kind of thing for which the-city voted it is getting the kind of thing which it wanted. We are having a government not of laws but of men. Wc arc reveling in an orgy of political favoritism, which extends from the Police Department in all direc tions. And yet our rulers, with their tongues in their cheeks, are talking about taking the police out of politics, while they use all their powers to force politi cal appointees into the management of the playgrounds for children. The Mayor takes his pleasure where he can find it, and the rest of us are sup posed to look on with appreciation at his enjoyment of the high privileges of his position. Atlantic City's police believe that when it comes to bathing suits even conservation may be carried too far. MISGUIDED PATRIOTISM NOTHING but praise should be meted out to the miners and mine workers in the anthracito region for their splendid patriotic spirit. They are eager to fight to defeat Germany. They object to being put in the deferred classes in the iist of drafted men. In some cases they leave the mines and engage in other work for a time and then enlist. Twelve hundred miners are said to be In Franco already, wearing tbo 'uniform. This Is the kind of spirit that wins a But it is unfortunately misguided. The war cannot be won if the men abandon the mines. Every time a blast Is fired In a vein of coal victory is so much nearer. Every shovel of coal lifted on to a truck In the mine galleries Is equal to a hand grenade thrown over the trench top Every time a loaded truck Is hoisted up the shaft It has the' effect of a volley from a hidden machine gun. We can't win the war without coal. But there seems to be hesitation In I Washington about giving the necesi "IT I 1 . ryjPHi " .yxsKoMtxj,hmmx liii in I i I'm i ' The operators were told In Wilkes-BejT that the draft boards had the power, to keep the miners out of tho army, but when they asked that a written order to that effect be produced the representative of the Prpvost Marshal Oeneral shifted tho responsibility from Washington upon the local boards. It Is nbout time that Washington assumed tho responsibility which, belongs to It nnd applied the selective principle rigidly In, tho coat regions regardless of any feared complications In other In dustries; and it Is about time that a de liberate and organized campaign was begun to Impress on the mine workers the Impoltanco of their work. They are men of Intelligence ns well as patriotism. They nro amenable to reason. They can be con vinced that they are doing moro good where they are than they could possibly do in France. If something Is not dono at once wo shall have a coal famine next winter worse than latit winter's. When the war Is over nnd the Kaiser's six stalwart sons are looking around for Jobs on an efficiency basis they will find their chances far better at a bono works, sausage factory or concrete mixer than In the Intelli gence department. THE UMBRELLA IN WAR "QECAUSE one of the new yeoglrls was XJ seen to powder her noso adroitly at an outside mirror on Chestnut street, and be cause she was seen later carrying an um brella In a shower, somebody flew walling into print to nsk what the navy is coming to. Somo people pass through this life without understanding tho simplest of elemental motives. A shiny nose is an affliction that no girl could endure even in the hell of bat tle. Because a girl enlists and is ready to die for her country sho should not be asked to walk about before the world with her beauty marred. There nre worse things than death. And what Is the use of powder on one's noso If one Is to let the rain wash It off? Burlnn says the war is scnseleii and purposeless. If only Austria had been in that frame of mind four years ago today I THE FLAG WENT BACK "Wc regret being unable on this occasion to follow the counsels of our masters, the French. But tho American flag has been forced to retire. This Is unendurable, and none of our soldiers' would understand their not being acked to do whatocr is necessary to re-establish a situation which Is humiliating to us and unacceptable to our country's honor. We are going to counter-attack." "pitlDE is an essential of morality. It -- exalts men and maintains their purposes at levels higher than anything dictated by the frank self-interest and the bread-nnd-beer philosophies of your modern liberal. The stlbtletles of tho superb dispatch quoted above, written by an unnamed American commander Immediately before the brilliant American counter-attack on the Marne, wero not lost on the members of the French staff to whom It was tent. In "the French, our masters," was the im plication of stately deference to the rank ing officers and the place that they have won through travail. And In the next line flamed the white pride of a nation that, even In the thick of military actions which swing back and forward with the force of the sea's own tides, could not bear to see Its flag momentarily displaced. "Xonc of our soldiers tcould understand ." There are Oriental nations which still feel that they alone know how to be austerely proud and how to feel that life Itself Is a small thing where honor Is con cerned. They might properly take that message written in the thick of battle and put it in text books for their children. The French officers had merely suggested an hour's rest for the American troops! Why not use the om-IIot-Alr Production cial bulletin output of tho committee on pub lic Information to relieve the fuel shortage? The true Christian is Via Crucls he who hits his knee an agonizing crack I against the edge of the desk and only cries "O boche !" Mother Goose must Proof Positive have been demented. Else how could she ever have considered old King Coal "a merry old soul"? The day Is not far An Early Substitute distant when Ger many's ersats experts will havo to convert the watch on tho Rhine into an American alarm clock. Wllhelm had some can Like llltlns non fuel. Persimmons Shipped it to Jaul gonne: Ach, ho said, but war is cruel See, they are all gone ! At least where King AJcohol is concerned, King Coal doesn't agree with Kaiser "kings must stick to- Not on Speaklnc Terma Karl's opinion gether." that The papers continue Unique Indeed . to regale us with ac counts of "unique" marriages, conducted by telegraph or cable. Our idea of a "unique," marriage would be If the husband continued to consort with his bachelor friends. Just as though nothing had happened. When we saw that covey of battleplanes swooping over Chestnut street yesterday we were glad they weren't dropping any "eggs." Perhaps before Christmas some of those same planes will be plastering a little stuff upon German ammunition dumps. 1 Chancellor Hertllng regards Belgium as a pawn, but he has yet to learn that the Allies will not accept a German "scrap of paper" as a pawn ticket in redeeming it. The British Ambassador What Is striking In the Reading face to Washington eyes la the ambassador's re semblance to Mr. McAdoo. There Is the same eagle look, not merely In the angle of the nose, but in the depressions under the eyes. It is possible they are natural: often they argue concentration over long hours. But Lord Beading differs in that his eyebrows have a higher arch, over eyes that are not as clear a blue as those of the Secretary of the Treasury, but with much the same clarity of expression, It possibly less intense. New York Tribune, , Ask die PreofreMbr J , m.iiSl.l-14." Ut-.' -Xii PfilLAD i 4 - VTM1.' v - RVBBEk HEELS A- i. t Safetv Matches M ATCH after match I struck- Held them vertical, mothered them, Watched them spit, glow, flutter, And fizzle out. I swore at Sweden, and tried again. Soon the floor was strewn with the puny sticks, ' Barely singed, The fraudulent little brimstone heads burn ing off t With no more flame In them than a flreless cooker. ( f And I was ankle-deep In match stalks. Enough to build me a raft to ferry The red rivers of hell that yearned fer me As I raved and swore. Mntch after match I struck, Hoping that each would be' an honest thing, Not merciy an "Impregnated safety match" Turned out In millions by Somo Swedish bolshevik. I threw the empty box on the floor, i The flimsy little box with Hs drawer pasted together With blue tissue, And Its sodden flaky brown, paste for scratching. Perhaps all those tandstlckors had been Sunk by a U-boat on the way over From Sweden, t And then fished up again; Or they wero made by lean knock-kneed pro Germans with Red elbows and soup-clotted mustaches Anyway, I went out and found A decent native match Strikes anyichcrc And I chafed It where my trousers fit tightest, And with a proud heart I watched the little blak streaks Run up'the edges of the stalk, And the soft wood shrivel and wither, And the flame burn in a clear pink triangle, Frayed at the top ljke an old coat sleeve And I lit my pipe! I noticed, ns the flame leaped In front of my nose, ' That it (the flame) burned clear red at the peak, Almost white in the heart And clean blue where it blossomed .from the Wood. I said to myelf The right colors by heaven Tho stuff of triumph Is in that match! DOVE DULCET. It looks as though the Kaiser's effort to start skip-stop traffic along the Marne had failed. Stops will be made at Chateau Thlry as usual. A correspondent In Russia laments tho tendency of the Soviets to multiply. He says that no cross-roads Is happy until it has established Its own soviet. Or, to parody the old rhyme, Big Soviets have little ones Upon their backs to bite "em; The little ones have lesser ones, And so ad infinitum. Some of(the landlords In this city seem to believe In bolsKevlctlng ther tenants. Arise Ye Deadl MIRACLE day of the dead! Out of your deep trench bed! For tho terror of death hath fled De&our, les mortsl THIS is no time for sleep, Nor trysts with worms to keep Nor Into heaven to creep Dcbout, les mortsl THIS is no time to die! Death is the Huns' ally. Who In putrefactions spy Dcooiif, Jes mortsl LET earth her old pod break i And out of their slumbers shake Those who their siestas take JJcbout, Jes viorts! FOR France, that we all adore. For Liberty and the Tri-Color; Dead heroes, Encore! Encore! Dcbout, les morts! Dcbout, Jes mortsl ' BENJAMIN DE CASSERES. So far as. we know, the only time the Crown Prince has got Into the casualty lists was when he had a (bad attack of numbed Angers from wearing his 'uniform too tight. They Do Tatting Instead About once a week some "one writes to ask us If the yeoglrls tattoo themselves. We have no Information. Battle Hymn of the Yeowomen Fifteen yeoglrls, mostly beauts, Yo ho ho, and luff, girls, luff. See the officers take salutes Yo ho ho, and a powder puff. ' It Sounds Better Hertllnir an Germany Is ready to evacuate Belslum. New Item. Evacuate Is a word we hate; ' We prefer the shout of 3et the out of. It is easy to talk about helping tho Bol shevik regime in Russia, but Lenlne's an swer to troops and supplies landed on the Murman coast Is a threat to sever relations with the Allies. Really it seems too bad about Lenin: He spills every Inkwell he puts his pen In. SOCRATESr The Colonel Would Bile 'Em Captain Archie Roosevelt was given a e soundtng kiss on each cheek by the French officer who decorated him. We would like a snapshot of any official who would try to kiss Archie's father. Minneapolis Tribune. War Saving While conserving, why not leave out the "a" in "cocoanut?" Portland Oregonlan. Proof Positive Those war profits figures sent to the Sen ate by the Federal Trade Commission con firm our suspicions that we have been pay ing for something we didn't get. New Or leans Item. , The New Version It's about time the weather took a change. We were Just gotog to remark that It wasn't so mpch the heat as' It was the frigidity. Syracuse Herald. Back to the Land Now Is the time (or the political .candidate wnp- DOsUHS mat ne ,w wm on n. jtum 10 i law isssiai sua sv " r i i, . TJB!Efi!tai4ta ... IssMiWffiSiiiiSi ' 'M 'C.i-Ociii'r-'i'jilu'KJ-a: 3Vr? f AAaHHaMBVaWTTlBHasnBV l vk Vi' """'T!j ""!. 1 XVL" (ffthtyjfcWffiJsAlYt4tftMtP f i iff' kJ'jeCX7 3ffPjlartalMtg'sjJl'SaHHiBBaHiaCa GOOD ROADS AND BAD GERMANS Readers Give Their Views Upon Two Subjects of Recent EditorialDiscussion How the Grange Wants Roads to Be Built To the r.ditor of the Evvntnp Public Le&atr: Sir In your Issue of July 9 you published an editorial on the subject of bonds for roads In which you credit tho State Grange with defeating the amendment to tho State Consti tution five years ogo, when tho ?50,000,000 bond Issue was submitted to the vote of the' people. It is true that the grange was one of the organizations in the State that fought that Issue as hard as possible, but the reason that you give for the fight against bonds in ths State was not the reason why the grange 'fought that issue of bonds and is' not the reason that we will do our utmost to defeat the amendment at the coming election. It Is true that a central department can not build roads economically, even If hon estly administered. The Highway Depart ment should be reorganized Into an advisory department, the same as our State Depart ment' of Education is. The thing that will use the money for roads economically is to lay down specifications for roads of different kinds and then let the appropriation be graduated and paid only if the road comes up to thai specification. The townships are striving for good high schools because they know that It they do not run the school up to the standard set by the State they will get the appropriation only In proportion to the grade they attain. It should be of no lnterest'to the State by what method or by what people the road Is built so long as It comes up to the standard that Is established as desirable. The great and abiding reason for the oppo sition that was developed five years ago, and which Is as potent today as then. Is that there are billions of dollars worth of valuable property In Pennsylvania that is not paying Its share of taxes, and It Is that class of property that w,lll be relieved alf the more if bonds are used to pay for public Improve ments. Years ago we exempted manufactur ing from taxation on their capital stock and have thus shifted taxes that should have been paid by such organizations as' the Standard Oil. Steel companies, power companies, ex press companies and even laundries got under the manufacturing exemption. Newspapers claimed exemption on their presses, though they would no doubt deny the charge that their news was manufactured. This exemp tion has grown to be a terrible and inex cusable abuse, and it that exemption were done away with and a moderate tax laid upon those classes of property that are not paying their share there would be ample money to pay for all the public Improvements thai we need in this generation without adopting the cowardly expedient of laying debtson unborn children. You evidently do not understand our tax system when you talk of real estate paying these bonds. The State does not get its money from the taxing of .roil 'estate, but from personal and corporate property In the main, and the- way we 'who have our mone'y In our homes are directly interested In the subject Is that we have found that when the taxes laid on personal and corporate prop erty do not furnish enough money to meet the need of the State the Legislatures, Instead of levying more tax on these classes of property that pay the State (axes, shift things that were formerly paid for out of -State funds on the counties and local people and thus make them 'pay a' part of the State tax. The homes of Pennsylvania are paying on an average nearly elfkteen mills on the dollar la taxes and -"- k4 crpm. Kosi, WtlpM.ipiAii?l to stand for such a system and then borrow money to further relieve thoso who now are escaping with tho payment of so small a part of the burden of government. You make another desperate mistake-when you assume, that thoso who are opposed to this amendment for a bond issue are opposed to good roads. You forget that we have no system of roads in Pennsylvania, except a boulevard system that covers less than 10 per cent of the roads. In these days of motor traffic that will not "do. Tho people of the State In the conduct of their business do not want to ge simply from town to town, but If we are to have good roads we must get a system that means that a road shall be made good through its entire length, with extra work upon the parts that carry the heaviest travel, Wc have Insisted on a patrol drag system of dirt roads for the whole State. We can have good roads then over all the State In a year's time and no bonds necessary. Then follow that with making the places of great est travel of stone or other hard material,, and thus with a patrol system of upkeep In operation we'ean have good roads while we are getting better ones, and we country peo ple who use trucks and autos largely, as well as teams, will Insist that our road system be developed for business and not pleasure. Wei all want good roads and we think We have presented the best way to get them, and as an officer of the organization that you have accused and appealed to I trust to your sense of falrnesst to give this reply the same prominence that you gave to your argument, JOHN A. McSPARRAN, Master State Grange. Furnlss, Pa., July 14. tMr. McSparran misread the editorial In quebtion if he thinks It charged the grange with opposition to good roads. Editor of the Evening Public Ledoek. The Boche Outlaws To the Editor of the Evening PuWo Ledgers Sir Editorials such as "Handing 'It to the Germans," which appeared in your paper on July 14, are needed. Germany Is not yet whipped, but as sure as there is a just God she will be. .We are prone, and rightly so under ordi nary circumstances, to show leniency and decency to the vanquished, but now weVtre pitted aganlst the most brutal, degraded, dis gusting, unfair and contemptible human force that history records or ever can equal. "Vengeance is Mine," saith the Lord, and Germany and all the German people sub mitting to the German system Bhoutd be seared 'with vengeance such as will leave Indelibly Impressed upon them for genera tions to come the same forms of pain, mis ery and sorrow that they have been Instru mental in Inflicting upon others. This Is not the "Christian spirit," but that cannot be ap preciated by a so-called civilized people that sanction poison gas, crucifixion, mutilation and war in its most 'horrible form against defenseless old men, wpmen and children and other more terrible things which the ordinary human being shrinks to even think of, let alone mention. - Do not compare them wlta beasts. It Is unjust to the beasts, for It cannot be proved that any creature, except those of the Ger-' man military rstem, Inflicts torture for the avowed purpose of creating misery, and that Is well known to be a fundamental part of the" German military creed. C, F. W. Philadelphia, July, 17. Monopolies Germany Msy Keep Kultur Iron creases ' Goose atSDa -.i f . .... i Wfl!!WJ!h!l5al WlMr && THE ENEMY VTTE WERE so certain, a few years ago, ' There was no evil, only lack of good. Now we are not so sure of what we know There Is a thing we have not understood, That even now we cannot understand. We havo seen deeds that could, not have been planned By any human brain. Strange fantasies of pain. . And they were not wild savages who wrought t These horrors on. mankind, Nor haggard zealots, to life's beauty blind. Nor the dark growths of centuries un taught. ' What Apollyon's mind Could bring to such Incalculable wreck The spirit of a klndlyt simple mind Whose life In peace and honesty began. And took Its course the placid years along, Happy In simple pleasures, flowers and song, Whose toll was spent I For 'thrifty comfort and well-earned con tent, . A man who wears today about his neck A locket with his children's pictured faces, While he , In all the places a J He-and his Brothers have left desolate There is no ruin so great as this A shrine Holler than Rhelms a soul Is desecrate; The filth, of lust, the poison-gas of hate What devil set them in the place divine? Here Is the cause In which our all we spend. Though t6 our grief .we rend The flesh and blood the Enemy drives be fore i To shield him, as'the Belgians' bullets tore Through their own kin to check the ad vancing foe! Not against flesh and blood do we con' . i , tend ,, i . Against .Invisible and awful powers The battle that Is ours, v The rulers of the darkness, and the might. Of evil in high places. God, send light ' Upon our sprlts make us brave and wise. Give us throughout ,Thy hard-pressed world to know N The Enemy, whatever his disguise And knowing thus, to light. Amelia Josephine Burr, in "The Silver Trumpet." No Christian Significance The Turks, accused of sacking hospitals may accept the Iron Cross without embar rassmentWashington Star. t What Do You Know? 1 ' quiz 1. What is the capital of Colorado? t. Where Is the Yosemrte VsUmT 8. When anl where was Waehlnaten "flrei laa- nniieaf 4 What M sweat by the abbreviation C, K.T. 5. What are the rotors et Columbia Unlversltr? . What a smmlttt i '1, Who was Omar KhayyamT S. 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