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$mWi IAW, NOT THE MOB, MUST RULE
kV en never accept any man as a cnam
,m llon of liberty cither for ourselves or for
tft ' the world who does not reverence and
'bey the laws of our own beloved land,
Whose laws we have made. He has adopted
the standards of the enemies of his coun
try, whom he affects to despise.
THI3 concluding paragraph from the
appeal of the President to his fellow
countrymen today that they discoun
tenance and frown upon all mob violence
epitomizes the whole document. There
.have been assaults upon enemy aliens hero
and the Germans have used them In prop-
mj;l ajganaa ,n soutn America to prove mat
fiwrvA we are not the proper custodians of the
$m democratic idea. We who profess to be
is,? nsiiitiets tv niano uciuuti tiuy saiu uiusi uc
the last to resort to mob rule, even under
treat provocation.
Further, this statement Is a protest
against I, W. V. rioting and all disregard
ef law and all provocation to disorder
whjch may originate with agitators of any
lilnd. We must have the reign of law here
If we would demand it In the rest of the
world.
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' It berlns to look as thoueh the best
lly?'3$? tMCt to help Russia is on the western front.
NIGHT WORK AND FUEL SAVING
totrjA A HONG the newest conservation olans
ife'llf5 being considered by the Pennsylvania
KjV luel administration U one by which it is
JhL woposed to revise the working schedule of
5?5 MH! ctor'e8 under a rule which would compel
SKj.-y "' ine operatives to work at mgnt ana remain
"MMin In the daylight hours. It Is to
SjfjfiLreaumed that the suggestion origin:
..if W. lUt I. Ka n.ltfUf l.n.. T lo tn Vin
originates
5fe,wsJS W efficiency experts of public utility cor-
b 'jr.'OS. .." t Innw Trhn aim nt n mnw fvpn rll.
r4Mrf tributidn of the burden of power supply.
if 'nS&Jvi Everyday experience in the operation of
PjtV, Veentratlon of energy is necessary at given
yerlods, ana that greater economy woum
'Jlr.'Thm nrtaalrilp wm thp "Innrt" natlv (lis.
B.'-CtIS" Miti,ttjkff n,rf. i nrhrtla ticitnt v.frtllr. hmtl-o
rtV '13' eiw 111 4ml alaeaA 4n lr 1 n w yi4 1 t.
w a; v MM Anneal for thn rparrn ntrpment nf manv
jBKv' Industrial schedules to some such end. But
(MfA w roiBjni remeraoer, too, mui uiuny serv
BVW , la . t 11 . ...lit..-
ncfc Sees are organized and operated and Iran
t1V -f tfHfafi1 tn niPAt thw tippHq nnrt th rnn.
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venlences of the public. The reversal of
rfiv- thte principle upon a theory that the pub
SfSiC? He should meet the needs and conveniences
MK'tf f the utllltv pornoratlonE Involves a
1 rather startling suggestion.
:; General opinion will countenance tne
-&-f attaht operation of factories and the en
forced employment of many men and
W&ltM' "Women from daylight to daylight only
ziyiiyLs fxxier 11 nas Deen snown mat aoine aucn
fJSutep Is Imperatively necessary. And Mr.
l"Irt?MV -Lk.A& 11, 1 .!!,. Ut.. .. Annl
roller win iin-ve iu iuuivo no vljvl jiiii
aad definite If he would justify the lnflic-
J fr 'n of, so much discomfort on many thou-
lVt$'- sands of people,
The fuel administration has overlooked
the City Hall clock.
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SCHWAB has come back from the
est with the demand that each ship-
uaLi-ri have 60.000 tons of steel as a "reserve
lKJ? ewahJon" In order that the work may be
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That phrase, reserve cushion, Is most
5. 'fertunately conceived.
It will apply to
"ta-fv Kh' army as well as to the shipyards.
3r?l Tt Vra. Yla nn0a,tnn rtf rMnrVAa tVtat maH
iJVSJt?' possible for him to change a defensive
!?. eeratlon between the Marne and the Alsne
vC.1vV into si aurcPRaflll nffen?iivp onil It wna
$!& reserve cushion on which his fighting
rfSStoif&lrces rested that made them comfortable
?52JV! 4 assured as they went over the top.
w.'w- Antl Jt '8 the reserve cushion of a balance
fei3i In the bank that makes it Dosslble for
foljjyery householder who has It to go to bed
"""-atfcr luaiiifc uuwuriicu nuuui mu luiure ana
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vale to walcei In thn mnrntni, wltVi nAw
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to take us his tasks.
WSJJlr. Schwab has many claims to dis
Wllr.
r;-Naton. but he is likely to win new fame
krtf&iPi? maker of winning phrases if he keens
?S?'Tm ho has begun.
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w-mrONDON an Paris are now savin c- that
421 fSnMrflt Vrwh h. tnatffl.l v.A .iu
was put in him when he was made
lisslmo of the Allied forces.
l?Cs ' v e"ame Vlew w nem ln America and
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aHTf oui. 11 nas not touna expression so
'fptetjr. The value of this confidence In the
M0h command is Inestimable. We can
wun patience me worKing out of nis
knowing that he understands the
Uon and has the ability to take ad-
tftfe of every opportunity to strike a
blow.
;it the men In the ranks did not believe
Jtech before they have every reason to
him now. And an army with confi
tn the man directing It Is virtually
utrable.
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DINCERE liberals In every part of the
world those men and women who
havo based a desire for progressive
social reorganisation upon a sound and
scientific estimate of human needs must
look with amazement and despair upon
the prostitution of their theories in Rus
sia and, at the moment, in England.
They see their high hopes threatened
with the dust. The sweeping threat of
operatives to tie p the English muni
tions industry cannot but bring most dis
may to those who heretofore have been
most ardently on the side of the workers.
The savage self-interest of the groups
now most conspicuously active every
where under the label of liberalism rep
resents but a mad caricature and a
malignant perversion of all that the
enlightened propagandists hoped and
wished for. The flaring ego of the mob
seems at this instant to involve a menace
to civilization far subtler than anything
that has emanated from Germany. It
threatens, by inviting the hatred of all
people, to arrest the progress in the
future of those ideals of liberalism that
have been conceived in justice, in coin
passion and in a real love of humanity.
The tragedy involved for those who
havo given themselves endlessly to
liberal causes is overwhelming They
were n various band. There were the
ragged saints who grew old and gray
crying out to a heedless society of the
sorrows of the travailing poor. There
weie scholars who fought the fight of
the unrewarded and made of human con
cerns a sort of religion. They wished
alike merely to free their kind' from
slums and hunger for the good of pos
terity. They wished to liberate the
human spirit to let it shine. They were
assured of the essential decency of all
men.
And now leadership has been whipped
nway from them by cliques of energetic
fanatics, by oppoi turn's ts and tinhorns
moved by an elemental greed and the
isolated consciousness of the jungle.
The whole cause of liberalism has not
only been desecrated. It is imperiled.
The force that menaces England now
through the munition strikes is not lib
eralism. But the world will remember
vaguely that it was somehow allied with
the rise of liberalism. And the Huns
at home who have sought opportunity to
discredit every progressive human aspi
ration will revert to it in the future for
their own ends.
The war, because of the sacrifices it
has required and because of the poig
nant concerns it has laid upon all man
kind, will be remembered -vividly for
generations. Every force and reaction
involved in it will be burned and cut into
the minds of the races. The labor
strikes that now threaten to sweep Eng
land are likely to make liberalism a
word hated and despised by every soldier
on the battlefront. It is a term asso
ciated with an enemy in the rear. It
will be difficult to convince the people of
the future that the crowd of radicals
who ruined Russia and prolonged the
war and inflicted added horror and blood
shed on millions were not liberals of
any previously recognized class. And
these men will be remembered as traitors
who betrayed not merely a nation, but a
whole world.
In England the doctrine of radical
liberalism is hopelessly entangled in a
movement that menaces the country in
the most trying hours of its history.
The men involved in that movement are
not illiterate. They are not groping
blindly like the mass of Russians. And
yet they have turned upon their own
Government at a moment when England
is in an attitude of defense that is so
ennobled by heroism and sacrifice as to
compel the endless reverence of men.
These isolated groups of free thinkers
are disposed to consider themselves more
important than the State. And the piti
ful part of it is that cveryivhere in
Europe where liberals have been most
militant they have been characterized by
a similar point of view.
Such men are the great enemies of
the race and of the future. If the war
by the reaction from such processes as
they have originated should halt the
movement of progressive social ideals of
the conservative liberals here and in
Europe or diminish intelligent and gen
eral co-operation in a sane revision of
many social and industrial theories
humanity will suffer a disaster as great
as that which might come with a Ger
man conquest.
The really great liberals who did most
to stir human society to recognition of
its errors in the past Wells, Angell,
Shaw, Henderson and the lesser men in
the ranks, whose devotion was, quite as
great as theirs are swept out of sight
and hearing. All of their energies and
all the intelligence of those who really
believe in collective human reason will
be required now to avert the wreck of
a movement that is progressing from
enlightenment close to the realm of mad
ness,
We saw an officer of the Polish legion
on Chestnut street yesterday. The blue uni
form is very nice, but why the Uhlan cap?
LOYALTY AND LOYALTY
POLITICS, so far from being adjourned.
Is not even taking a recess. The Presi
dent in response to a request for his views
'about (he renomlnatlon of Democratic
Representative Slayden, of the Four
teenth Texas district, has telegraphed to
San Antonio that "the Administration, as
between candidates equally loyal, never
takes part, but in the light of Mr. Slay
( den's record, no one can claim he has
given support to the Administration."
One can easily imagine the furore such
a message would arouse 'if It were sent in
J any other circumstances than those In
swyvrv
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etoneV.ln rt "of. a White "W
tween loyalty to Amnrlc and loyalty, to the
Administration. We are all loyat to the
country and we are all upholding the hands,
not of Woodrow Wilson, the leader of the
Democratlo party, but of the President of
the United States as the agent through
which the nation must do its great work.
This is a distinction which it would be welt
for the Democrats to keep In mind.
The more the Huns blow up their
"dumpV the more they're in them.
WILHELM AND HIS DENTIST
NO MAX, snys the platitude, can be a
hero to his valet. William of Ger
many, an Incurable precedent-maker,
disregarded the truth of the general Im
plication. He tried to be a hero to his
dentist. He failed. Dr. Arthur Davis, the
American who cured the Kaiser's tooth
aches from 1914 until a few months ago,
has arrived In this country and has told
of his observations and experiences at the
task. He has stripped Wllhelm of the
last illusion of greatness provided by
enemy Imagination. Wllhelm appears In
Doctor Davis's record as a poor sort of
Attlla after all.
He was most unreasonable to begin
with. He asked Doctor Davis to stop off
at London and klck the shins of his
cousin, the King of England, In his behalf.
Here spoke the Imperious man who was
equally unaware of irresistible obstacles
when he sent his son to take Verdun.
Hearst, thp Emperor of Germany said, was
doing excellent work. But he grieved
over Colonel Roosevelt. "I gave him a
review," he mourned in the dentist's chair,
"and I was amazed to find him turned
against us after the manner in which I
entertained him!"
The First Hun was also convinced that
President Wilson should have his throat
cut. He was astounded becausp America
didn't seize Canada when England be
came involved in a war on the other side
of the world. "Now," he cried. "America
must pay the bills. What does a professor
like your President know of politics and
dlplomatlp niflUra?"
The President seems to have known a
good deal. He seems to have realized from
the first that the German Emperor Is a
rattle-brained ass. Doctor Davis has done
much to show the rest of the country the
Justice of this point of view.
Everybody Is praising
Crentneaa General Foeh Paris.
London and Washing
ton view him ns one of the great men of
the century. The officers of the Allied armies
speak of him with trust and affection. The
achievements of the last few weeks Indicate
that, aside from his genius for soldiering,
Foch has two dominant qualities: The one
Is modesty; the other, a virtue so rare that
It has almost disappeared from the world, Is
patience.
"Why Is it. Mr. Tarn
bo, that you and I
have not figured In
any editorial para
graphs lately?"
what explanation can
Correet I
nut Walt Till
Next Week!
"Well. Mr. Bones,
you offer?"
"Perhaps some one called for the hook."
".No, Mr. Bones, I believe the gentleman
that writes them Is on his vacation."
Girls who Join a nun
M'r Toeta nery
on High Are said to take the
veil ;
But Foch, by heavy gunnery,
Will shortly take the Vesle.
The Crown Prince has
Horsing! not been ablo to "sta
bilize" the fighting in
the Marno sector, even though the Allies
have used cavalry forces.
Humility to Everybody Is much
Follow! too busy watching
the news from France
to worry about the warm weather. Humidity
Is high at German headquarters.
Would you speak of
Leaie Instantly! the cries of indigna
tion that rose in Bos
ton over the visit of a submarine to the
Ashing ground as a codfish bawl?
Speaking of the potato
Yea, We Get Yon blight that is now
afflicting the crops In
Pennsylvania, have you ever eaten the sort
that brides fry?
There are signs every-
It Doean't Work where to show that a
good many persons
may have to depend upon their temper to
keep them warm next winter.
No one will make fun of the name of
"Ferdlo" any more, since It's General Foch's
monacker.
Fewer lights outside of City Hall prompt
a reminder that there isn't much light
speaking In the larger senses within.
Dismay, says a headline, is general In
Germany. And you can't cat dismay, or
wear It, or burn It to keep warm !
Poor old Hlndy Is so 111 that he can
only eat the white meat. He always asks
for "a little of the Brest-Lltovsk."
Tomorrow will be Marines' Day at the
Willow Grove soviet. Won't the grove ra.
name itself Teufel Hund Copse Just for the
day?
Why are Lenlne and Trotsky so sensi
tive about the Murman coast? Are they
afraid some one will Interfere with the mani
festo quarries?
In the competition for short war poems,
enter the following:
Jo Daniels' crusaders
Will get the U-ralders.
If the President was foolish, as the Ger
man Emperor says, to bring America Into the
war, what Is the word to describe the German
who took Germany Into It?
They aren't telling the folks back home
In Germany about the troubles on the Marne.
The Allies will carry the news to Berlin soon
enough.
To the list of useless occupations might
be added the work of writers and speakers
who are trying to make Germany appear a
despicable as she really Is.
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" pockets In history. 1
Humanity Is Instinctively base. Who
has not felt a thrill of pleasure when the
elevator shot by a landing without stop
ping for some guy who was'elamorlnf to
be let on?
A correspondent writes to the New Tork
Times to say how -much better "The Star
Spangled Banner" Is played at Willow
Grove than at the Metropolitan Opera
Hpuse In New York. '
We are glad to hear these kind words;
but It will sound best of all when It Is
played In the public squares of Btrassburg
and Brussels.
Sometimes I can't help wishing subur
ban evenings weren't quite so still and
peaceful. I hate to hear the electric light
meter ticking In the cellar and the Ice
melting In the Icebox. .
ANN' DANTE.
The Kaiser had a pocket
Between Solssons, and Rhelms, '
And Foch with busy plneera
Is ripping out the seams.
Fudge
EVERY now and then I have a craving for
fudge.
Fudge!
Fat brown cubes of It, not too crumbly and
sugary.
But moist and dark
And vivid with sweetness.
It should be Just so soft that when I
Bite Into a chunk
The part still In my hand retains the
Angled cleavage where my two crooked front
teeth
Shore through.
I SEE TRAYS of It In confectioners' 'win
dows. Almost black with rich chocolate,
And I sigh for the days when
We used to make fudge every Saturday night.
We spent our honeymoon making fudge,
Stirring It over the blue gas name
And watching the syrup bubble and heave
and thicken.
I used to stir It with a big agate spoon
(Turning the gas down a little
I never liked Dora's theory of turning on the
gas full blast)
While she buttered the pan.
And then we would set It on the top of the
Ice-box
To harden, markl-.g the sticky surface
With a criss-cross oattern.
WHILE we waited we would go back on the
porch
And read the evening paper
-There was no war news then),
And nil throush the news columns
I could taste the preliminary ecstasy
Of that warm sweetness.
And feel the muscles of my cheek and Jaw
Trembling with anticipation.
Do you ever have that craving for glucose
That a man gets sometimes
About five o'clock In the afternoon,
About eight times a year?
THERE is something in man that yammers
for sweetness !
And did you ever notice that surprised agony
of delight
In a dog's eyes ,,
When he Is given fudge for the first time?
He thinks he Is In heaven.
He did not know that life had such possi
bilities. People who are simple minded, like dogs.
Find In fudge a complete synopsis
Of their philosophy.
As for me, my Idea of happiness
Would be to He on shiny pine-needles
On a bluff overlooking Iake Champlaln
With a novel by Leonard Merrick
And a big box of Dora's fudge
Still faintly warm.
BY THIS time (returning to the honey
moon) The fudge would be cool enough to eat,
And I would be about to go In and get It
When some neighbors we knew slightly would
come along.
I would whisper:
"For heaven's sake don't tell them about the
fudge."
And then she would say:
"Wo mustn't be stingy,"
And remark to our callers,
"Oh, you must come and sit on the porch,
We've been making fudge!"
And I would grumble to myself,
And go and get It,
WE DON'T make fudge any more.
Mr. Hoover doesn't allow It.
But once In a while I see some In a window
And It maddens me.
I yearn for fudge as a crawfish
Would yearn 'for a mudhole
If you put him In the middle of a marble floor
At the First National Bank.
Some day, after the war, maybe.
We will go back to the kitchen on summer
evenings.
And I will put on the old pink apron
And make fudge.
DOVE DULCET.
What Makes Them Angry
The Bolshevik government considers the
Allied landing of troops on the Murman
coast tantamount to a declaration of war.
News Item.
Inasmuch as troops and supplies were
landed on the Murman coast to aid the
Bolshevik government in Its embarrass
ments. It will be valuable for statesmen to
know henceforth what Lenlne and Trotsky
consider acts of war.
President Wilson shaves every day, and
Lenlne and Trotsky might consider this
a personal Insult.
The Bolshevik! probably think the Red
Sox and the White Sox are two different
kinds of sovlets. Every time. the White
Sox win Trotsky would be Justified In mo
bilizing. Doctor Davis, the Kaiser's dentist, says
that Bill begged him to kick King
George's shins for him.
But don't let's Judge Bill too hastily.
Perhaps he referred to the Shin Fein?
Austria ought to put Itself on Premier
rations. One every twenty-four hours
seems wasteful.
The Kaiser says the good old German
middle classes will win the war. Eln feste
Bourgeois 1st, unser Gott.
SOCRATES.
Swat the Profiteer
High rents and high fuel crowd the tene
ments. Crowded tenements crowd, the hos
pitals and Jails. Nashville Tennesseean.
, Not in Order
Mr. Hoover, now In England, Is sure of a
warm welcome, but of course he Isn't expect
ing any banquets. Boston Globe.
Bat Equally Futile
A German peace offensive differs from a
German War offensive In that It Is all poison
gas. Syracuse Herald,
Like a Butted Hose
The best laid plans
Of Huns and snakes
Are often filled
Withy holes "and breaks.
Brooklyn Standard Union.
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THE OFFICE BOY
rpHE effect of black on the office boy Is
very curious. The average man, as every
one knows, hates black. His countenance
is overspread with heavy gloom as soon
as he sees you wearing it, and a black
evening dress Is his abomination. But as
we were saying, it Is- quite another matter
with the office boy. He Is visibly sustained,
so soothed and cheered by a black dress;
whereas If you wear colors, he Imme
diately says the boss Isn't In and there Is
an end of It.
OR is this the only thing In which the
office boy contradicts the usual laws of
nature. He is a living puzzle, full of
whimsy, fantasy and unaccountable moods.
He Is, to begin with, almost invariably fat.
Whether he becomes fat after being an
office boy or is an office boy because he is
fat Is one of those questions wo have never
been able to determine. At any rate the
fact remains. Perhaps It Is the ultimate
destiny of those dimpled, pudgy babies you
see In photograph albums and occasionally
(n homes. And again. Is It a question of
Inclination, heredity or training? Are office
boys born or made? Does he acquire that
brooding, oblivious air, that absence of
deference and courtesy, that curious accent
with which he Intones a language that
once was English? Or, like an undertaker,
does' he simply follow In the wake of some
acknowledged predecessor? History Is full
of office boys who have risen to higher
things; If anything can be said to be
higher than his own role. This attitude of
continually guarding the portals of the
gate from Invasion has given him a sure
ness of what the T. W. C. A. calls "social
approach" that Is completely dented the
average individual.
IF YOU are In business you find that the
whole downtown stratum is underlaid
with office boys. 'They form, with stenog
raphers and elevator boys, the bulwarks of
society. And there Is a brotherhood, a
great free masonry between them which la
touching to contemplate.
T71NTER, for Instance, a modern office.
- You are confronted at once by a plump
boy at a desk. He is completely uncon
scious of your approach, nor does he seem
to hear you even when you speak three
times. His eyes are glued to a partl-colored
book. You fill out a slip which says that
you want to see Mr. Dash. The slip also
requires you to state why and for how long
and what for. If you huve come merely to
have lunch with Mr. Dash or for a friendly
chat the situation Is critical. But the office
boy is inexorable. Nor does he even relent
when you have written your name, history
and previous record on the card. He tells
you calmly and 'Without moving a muscle
of his face, except those essential for ar
ticulation, that Mr. Dash fs out. It makes
no difference whether you have Just been
talking to him or even can see him through
the door. The office boy merely reiterates
and In the end you have to believe him. It
Is the triumph of force over reason.
THE boss himself does not know the true
character of his office boy. How should
he? Only the outside world sees him as he
really Is.
AND yet we have even had office boys
.of our own. "Et In Arcadia ego." One
particularly we remember. His name was
Louis and he had deep black eyes and
smooth, blue-black hair. By his presence
alone were we protected from people who
wanted "a piece In the paper," people we
didn't like who wanted to take us out to
dinner, people we did who wanted to see
us when we were busy, people who 'wanted
to know who wrote that article and cried
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aloud for vengeance, people who wanted to
sell us things, and Just plain people. When
thp night desk wanted to send us on an
uptown assignment Louts would look
toward the corner where we sat modestly
concealed behind the files and unblushlngly
say that we were out. And since we have
adopted civilian life Louis has been the
only living soul who has followed our many
changes of address. Mall sent to him
reached us unfailingly. He even turned
aside the typewriter man to whom we owed
two months' rent 'by asking him about his
new baby and offering him a cigar, so that
the typewriter man forever afterward
ceased from troubling us. And once, when
we drifted into the office and saw three
envelopes with the name of an uptown den
tist stamped across their brow and ques
tioned: 'Ah, yes," said Louis deftly, "I
didn't forward them, miss', because I
thought they might be bills."
Incomparable Louis, who with a single
action hath redeemed the whole race of
office boys; nay, hath even hallowed them
in our eyes! B. W.
READERS' VIEWPOINT
Do Dogs Pick Cucumbers?
To the Editor of the Evening Public Le'daer:
Sir In your paper on Friday there was
a story about dogs molesting war gardens
and spoiling the vegetables. It was stated
that the police had given the owners of
the gardens i.uthorlty to shoot dogs found
In their gardens If the dogs did not wear a
license tag. .
I have a garden at Forty-seventh and San
som streets, right opposite the high school.
There are a number of dogs In the locality.
I have lost a half peck of onions and a
number of times peas have been picked from
my pea vines. I have' heard of others miss
ing cucumbers and others having a peck of
onions dug up and still others losing beans.
Do the dogs pick cucumbers and beans and
peaa or dig up onions?
A FRIEND OF THE DOGS.
Philadelphia, July 25.
An English Tribnto to Our Soldiers
To the Editor of the Evening Public Ledgtr:
Sir The Inclosed poem was written by
Miss Clara A. Walsh, an Englishwoman liv
ing at Southsea, In the vicinity of which are
several concentration camps. She has done
splendid work in entertaining our boys who
have been temporarily located at these
camps, and Is enthusiastic over the American
as a clean-cut type of soldier.
I thought possibly this poem would be ot
Interest to your readers, ,
THOMAS R. ELCOCK, Jr.
Philadelphia, July 25.
TO THIS BOYS FROM U. S. A.
1918
Oh 1 the English lanes'are deep and green.
And the English oaks spread wide
Roman, Saxon and Dane they've seen.
And the Norman In his pride.
The English lanes they welcome yout
As you tread them side by side
Oh! The English hamlets nestle warm
'Mid Immemorial trees.
Many a voice, through shine ahd storm
Has rung on the English breese.
Now they hear the tones of Canada,
The soft Australian drawl,
Voices of big South Africans,
All come to the Mother's call
And the English hamlets welcome you,
Who have come to Join us all!
Tall young sons of the mighty West,
Some of you here will stand,
Where your sturdy "English forebears rest
.For you're' back In the old Homeland!
And some of you come of the old Norse race
That harried our wave beat strand
Or the stout Dutch "folk whom we used to
face. ' ! '
Frank foes, we could understand
Yo,u have seen where Freedom's beacons
burn.
War-worn, we stand, by .her side .,
Our swords are red, we are grim and stern
For our best and bravest have died .
There are graves in France and aalllpolll
There are dead on every tide
Brother Crusaders, we weloome yout
For we fight for the crucified.
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FOR FRANCE
By Beatrice Washburn
XTOW down the great dim highways ol
Li the" world
Wo ride to meet the hosts; our bannerl
furled!
Here's Coeur de I.ion, In whose might!
train '
Sing the crusaders, those who start agalJ
To seek the Sepulcher. That phanton
throng
Are brave King Arthur's knights 1
know no wrong,
St. George, the fighting angel, lends
aid
We see the flashing of his holy blade.
We come, we come, oh Genevieve awak
The Huns are here again and strive t
take
Your city. Not Attlla this time, but on
More merciless than he. The meadows ru
With blood. Joan, you warrior maid, on
more
Lead out your armies as you did before.
You, Francis of the Jeweled courts, yo
hear
The savage mutterlngs. Lift up your spei
Oh Charles! You, Louis, call your men
Call Caesar, call the Gauls, call out t!
Corslcan
From still St. Helena. How can he alee
When France Is suffering and the Pru
slans keep .
Watch over Belgium? We hold the rlgh
To call the heroes of the world to help
fight.
Come back from out your graves, do
from the skies
You warriors, maidens, kings, awak
arise!
We come to Join you we who crave u
chance
With all of history to fight for France!,
A Supernatural Hint?
Perhaps that "cubist art" fad, specimen
ot which used to be reproduced often In tr
period Just before the war, was Just a supel
natural tip from Fate as to the Imminent
ot Armageddon. Certainly most of these pi
tures bore - a most striking resemblance
the photographs taken for military purpoi
from alrolanes. which are the all-lmnortad
data used In the fighting; of this war. Syrl
cuse Herald.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. What la (he rrtanln drnaatr in IUlr?
t. What la meant br the Eltaabethan Iramar
S. What Is tne diatlnsulshlns qoalltr ef a Irrl
4. Who la TehlteherlaT
6. Where an what Is Hnll-Home?
5. What Is a sector?
T. Who la Andrew Benar lawf
I. Name the anther ef "Mere UUratare."
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