JtSf; y filfcfy A (jfKf PH LSftCER CbMPANY COWTIS,,,Piiesii)iS'T vice president: jnnn u. rtasnrer; Philips. Collin, i"J.J Snurseon. Directors. WWntAL noAiiD: i ta-sLvuBTis, i;nairman UJI;. .. . . !" ..j.! TMltnr i, JAWBK.'Vj.aenral Business Manager V FcaLlc Lsooea Ilulldlne, ft fldiuni. Phllnrialnhla tatff. Broad and Chestnut Streets im.St.kliits ..ii.JVess-MHfon Rulldtnir tstt.,-?. ,"... J..206 Metropolitan Tower .,ji.tW,....,....-4(U Ford Hulldlns i-4,,,41.iiiuh i-uiienon nunuinE n.Ti.v..i....j.,1202 Tribune Uulldlne "v-1 Mutuant tittuRitm. JLSOor,"Pennaylvanla Ave. and 14th St. IIKBdhaU,,u The Sim Dulldlnc f Ar tmaxr.,i. ..,..". i London Times l?f''SNINa FCBLkfl LEDCKft In HfTM'il to SUD- I fJA Philadelphia and surrounding towns ,i iweivo u-J centa per weeK, pajaDie per-. .. WM trtlnt Aittal.ln nt THlt adflTnlilfl tn .States. Canada, or United htatei po-; Lv taf,ree, fllty (50) centa ier month. evitaM pr year, payable In advance, rtreln' countries one (1) dollar per 2L.i-t KUHcriDers wisninc address cnansea Id aa .well aa new address. XfiAtNCT .aviY'" KEYSTONE, MAIN 3000 If m4" communications to Evenlnp 1'utUo n1 PKKifVHueiito attHuni xvtt,t.ucij"iiu. ' '.thfer'of th Anrinteil Press iVSOatATBD PRESS it cxclu- ,jjjco'o the use for republication "J?,ttUpatohc credited to it or not ?P 4.a av4, ft , J a S.,.1 Ii,xt Ata at reouhlteatiaii nt sncclal tils- wfl&preln arc btoo reserved. rtgv; - pJltiidpbU,ThiT.AMT. Ansuit I. 191 ilraERlj'THE HEaRT IS LgpPCt extent and cmciency or tne iucia,ut4uil3 11A Uiu UII1LCU oiaiv;.. & An ma ,. m 1. . ITlm, utnfna aralleled In history. Ana jet our t triumph, is In the things ve hae m ratner tnan tn ino iniugs ivc ttiu l'Anerlca conquered a force greater Cthan vGermany by keeping Its spirit t-Hhose contagions oC wnr which iieltiv callousness and, In turn, ce. we still rise above the war. 1M' Imnnlann mm n Inonflnilnnt -"" f5nvArnmnt nrmnnnnpmpnt thnt L"-lstt tittSiimunded In France will be brousht FSrfl. .! ., l&o. Amenca ana pmqea in nospuats i&ivSe. as? possioie to tneir own iiumn, SKfriends and their relatives Is nile- twtox show how splendidly wo hao Ld thp greatest peril of this occa- i-wej. arfl able to remember to the 15e,rlghts of our men and to accord ijBort of consideration which other ghavo deemed unnecessary or Im- Lvano'.'mes nice inis. ror soiaiers , r Pennsylvania the great hos- Ji BJ?... ... . . . iiJViftiMrry win no usea. rne aiiuc- soldiers will bo made llchter. lescenco will be hurried. Tho erful Qovernment In tho world to recognize tho subtlest f lyjy tm mm! 1AA Ann ti, I- . j $m nam tiat. ivu,vuv JlcrBUIia Vlll ue ill aad on Monday to view tho launching Ju.: - !u:8iconcK,, ana it is pronauie tn.it jtotw 01 inem win wonaer wny tno lintnt i couldn't find a more Inspiring UV'thft'ehlp. SO AiVA i tmm r SAT FROM GERMANY lijiyJa gnorally regarded simply rnachlne. In the popular ito'ild u'sts aa the instrument of ft. But in their stirring "vo the Marne our forces SMHJ rs -' SIIK'1 agricultural victory 77 tacutar in its way as tho oaxy- triumph been told xepeatediy that "food L!ihej,war."1 'Now our army has pon the slogan, in an unexpected ing: .way by wresting several bushels, of wheat, all ready for the tronv.the enemy. It is a war tal j Importance. Ff -ftaa felt the pressure of food- jwmorpteevereiy iiutu navo wo )Mice!ls. Daaiy neeaea tor troops supplies. -J. no wneat just won I JUBtithat mucn shipping space ly;Yneded war materials, and elp' to; feed the flghtets and the tartce and keep that much food lsw ieastaKiofflcer says that just liilftexl(.ruand4 Germans in the mu.1 1WV'-"e)ins eacn otners Lit la O.of war's paradoxes that a,ncet)te weakest fighter shows tpeatittK. JN(i?WITH BAEDEKER IfpasttPossession of any of the irti' little rworks of the late Karl ..tmi'hml editorial successors was tim. a' confession of weakness. The Jahadeofred In the binding of volumes betrayedthe novice, irto .Earope's shores, the in- ,'wark" and prey, of tho (Mnwants Baedekers now, ot heir admirable maps. yJft:"tfeft8fiieer lovd of touring are F ik' W!i rMA WllllrtM rf flarnaot 5 -"n.f""-" -"- - -...v.. Tr now keenly desirous of pro- f. ; tilrough - certain districts of . Ptl3tl8'-E-and eventually of Ger- t .-GtWeTenhetm, chairman of the ptvrf', committee of the Ameri. Society,4' has Issued an appeal L Sajay frnrnlTl r any of them no MVthe timorous pilgrim, but 'servant. sought originally to draw canst toward central Eu. 'thai was never planned tftflny is, going back again. mm. . - i-finjkHtf. (n retreating from Dor- tho town of all Its clocks. Can led',' to replace the worn-out , Milne and to show Germany Hi the side of the Allies? JtY KINGS thine: infinitely pitiful in ""ihktsVUicholas Romanoff, r ,'!(; the Russlas, went to jpdlthear. made helpless t W'Wimi for any sano U K'fnttn lvuu ybs unco ipt people to exhibit abjfot. cowardice when Bifate. .Viahrase which VWltn Bucn the late uHohen Jtak ; 4s&w i BREAK7fc6vWN THE BARS The Giant Philadelphia, Now Growing Pro. uigiously, Must Not Imitate the Caged Elephant rpHE war, plus superb economic and geographic advantages, is in danger of making Philadelphia elephantine. It is rather in humility than boastfulnoss that its citizens should take cognizance of this indisputable fact Mere size is but a showy attribute. Tho placid pachy derms of the zoo nnd circus accept con stricted cages in place of the vast reaches of tropical forests commensurably fitted for their habitat. Phlegmatic and clumsy, they accept their fate. They cat hay and little peanuts, and the spectacle is almost ludicrous. A single blow from a giant hoof might dispense with any of their jailers and pac the way for independence and "self determination." But the almost indiffer ent captive makes nothing of his vast powers. He may not even know that he possesses them. If many Philadelphians ate as yet una ware of the prodigious development of their city and of the elephantine perils which stand in the way of the pioper course of its destiny they are perhaps not wholly to be blamed. It has all come so fast that "self-iealization" must under go almost a daily shock of lcvision. On the whole, we have been a pros perous and important metropolis for many years. General contentment with our lot has been ascribed as the cause of political conuption. Some of us have lamented that dark stain, but not enough to efface it. All of us have been inclined to cut our suit of civic clothes in too niggardly a fashion. In consequence, Philadelphia has been called "a great, ovcrgiovvn village," and there was much accuracy in the epithet. Our singular and amazing state today is not so facilcly described. On the banks of the Delaware has aiisen a dynamo of productive energy. Shipbuilding and manufactmes on monu mental facales, gieat influxes of popula tion have come to us as a result of ex ceptional natural advantages, and of an industrial structure which permitted of vast development. It is idle to speculate as to the hum drum course we might have pursued had it not been for the war. The conflict and its needs have worked a revolution. The War of 1812 set back the progiess of Philadelphia fully half a centuiy. Th'e Great War has, in certain respects, com pelled us to jump decades ahead in weeks. Announcement was made yesteiday that $20,000,000 was to be spent by the Government in the construction of a huge quartermaster's depot at Greenwich Point; that new great piers are to be built; that the Schuylkill River channel is to be deepened to thirty-five feet. In the meantime the Delawaie is outpacing tho Clyde in ship production, and Hog Island is warming up to a stride unprec edented since men first wentrdovrf to tho sea in ships. Lesser but still "tremen dously significant instances of growth in many lines can be multiplied. Mere boastfulness is awed before such facts. Materially, Philadelphia is fairly rushing into greatness. Spiritually and from the viewpoint of true civic distinc tion, the unparalleled situation warrants immediate attention. The whole city in its new circumstances lequires a new garb measured to the new stature. Peanut politics in a metropolis of suck imperial propoitions is criminally ab 8uid. Cheese-paring, inadequate transit service io an archaism. Nanoiu streets are a regrettable inheritance. "Can't be changed" is a silly cry amid the wonders that surround us. Constructive under takings must be engineered by men of vision capable of realizing that Phila delphia is quite the largest "village" which the war has wiped out. Appreciation of this truth, recognition of the veritable necromancy of the times and the substitution of intelligence and integrity for rottenness and pettifogging in the administration of the new Phila delphia are the ways to make these Aladdin-like changes lasting. It would be pitiful indeed should the passage of these great days leave us a mere lumbering colossus, cramped in our cage, docile and subjective, like the hay eating elephant. There must be a stimu lus in our food. The dishes are waiting to be filled. Other cities of history have heaped theirs high with life-giving fare and the radiance of their names outshines even that of States. Rome, Venice, Alexan dria are illustrious primarily as cities. Philadelphia, almost catapaulted into eminence, has her opportunity. It re mains to be seen how each individual Philadelphian will help to grasp it. CONGRESSMEN AT THE FRONT NOTHING is perfect Joy is tempered inevitably by one or another of the tragic emotions to remind us that this is earth and that it was made for sinners. Thus the thrill that should be ours when we read the cables from the nest front is dulled by the repeated references to a crowd of pot-hatted Congressmen who are permitted to be at large near the battle lines where the Americans have fought to glory through great bitterness. These pilgrims from Washington are appearing more frequently in the news. .They flash upon our vision now "enjoying a basket lupcheon in the ruins of Chateau-Thierry" and again "dropping armloads of souve nirs" as they rushed hastily to cover from flying shells. Representatives M, Clyde Kelly, of Penn sylvania; Louis M. Crampton, of Michi gan; Thaddeus H. Carravvay, of Arkansas; John Elston, of California, and, Joseph Thompson, of Oklahoma, are abroad to see what the war Ju like; What are they doinff, there? Whst can a Congressman peinlw In A military way iMi IpatK,r EVENNGf PUBLIC LEDGER I men whoso businesses war-making? Tiie cables report that the Representatives Uko to mako speeches to the soldiers. It Is easy to imagine that the bored and tired soldiers accept a gassing with con centrated flapdoodle of the sort that passes as patriotic oratory in the campaigns at homo as an additional horror of war. During tho worst fighting of tho present advance officers were needed to look after tho adventurous Congressmen. Automo biles transported them hither and on. Captains doubtless shivered for their safety. It seems llko a cruel waste of priceless energy. The Oermin ofllcera- who count steadily when they approach hospital operating tables doubtless are In practice to taking It. NEMESIS IN RUSSIA VON EICIUIORN, tho bully and corrup. tlonlst assigned by Emperor Wllhelm to direct tho progress of Germanism in the Ukraine, has followed Mlrbach, late German minister at Moscow, tij a violent death. Hoth men were enemies of Russia and friends of the BolshevlkL Both were assassinated by Russian p.ttilots. The silent forces that are rising against Ger many In the Slav empire are rooted In the spirit of the race. The st6rm,lt seems, Is Just beginning. The Geiman cause at this moment ieems menaced In Russia al most as clearly as it Is menaced on the western front. Some recognition of this danger by the Germans themselves is indicated in the unparalleled affront which the Bolshevlkl Government has Just offered to the Allied ambassadors, who have been virtually pushed out of Russia without ceremony. Patience, adroitness and a calm temper are needed to deal properly with this newest wai complication. Tho Insult of fered the Allied lepicsontatlves, who were brusquely refused permission to land at Archangel, ordinarily would Invite the ap plication of force and demands for an apology. Nothing would suit the Bolshe vik! at Moscow and Berlin better than threats and open manifestations of re sentment by the Allies. The whole trend of opinion in Russia seems to be In tho direction of the Allied causo and away from Lenlne, Trotsky and the Kal&ei. The legime of the Bol shovilfl, such as It was, Is almost over. Is Russia nt large, which is now in a mood to turn against Germany, to "be dis tracted with the Illusion of a new menace in tho form of the Allies? It is for some such culmination that Geiman intrigue in Russia is now directed Opposed to the Bolshevlkl in Russia are the Social Democrats radicals accord ing to tho concepts of a few jears ago, conservatives when their alms are matched vvltl) those of tho rabid clique now In the saddle at Moscow. The Social Democrats killed Mlrbach because he was tho enemy of Russia. They killed Von Eichorn in the Ukraine for tho same reason. Their ropresentatlv es hav o appeared in England with appeals for aid from all Intelligent liberals. Thus the sane purposes of the first revolution in Russia are again being felt. Lenino and Trotsky, who betrayed not only an empire but a whole world, will be fortunate if they get out of Russia alive. Russia may vet be able to realize President Wilson's hopes by saving her. self. , The report that Turkey has broken with Germany suggests the Inquiry aB to how much further a thing which Is already broken can break. PAINT AND POWDER WHEN men grow very old and very wise they begin to perceive that many seeming faults in others are but virtues carried to excess Here and there at intervals solemn writ ers rumblo In print about the mysteries of paint and powder and the appalling spectacle of Chestnut street or Plfth ave nue on a fine afternoon when the artists in rouge are on parade to display their handiwork. The tendency of every critic is to view the exhibition as a revival and a triumph of the arts of barbarism. One must admit that it isn't always a nice exhibition. The work, for the most part, is badly done. The technique Is im mature and hasty. There are depressing suggestions of a futuristic tendency in the present aspects of the art of face painting. The vogue for this sort of thing, now at its height, Is, of course, regrettable. It is sure to pass. But it might bo more profit able to consider Its Impulse and origins. Obviously, the artist In self-painting wishes merely to be beautiful. Now, to wish to be beautiful is not to be wicked. A very gifted man, with two or three hours for discourse, might bo able to prove conclusively that tho girls who carry handbags full of paint and lipsticks and such savage accouterments are merely try ing to do with defective means what any good-looking blossom does when, iflurns upward a glowing face to brighten a gray world. Girls and women are more beautiful without paint and powder. But you must not tell them this. They believe nothing that they do not think out for themselves. It is their fate and their misfortune to learn only by experience. The climax of liberty Bead This saving Anglo -Amerl-Slowly can friendship has been achieved We fought our transatlantic cousin In 1812 for compelling our citizens to fight for her. Now, by the ratification of the new reciprocating draft treaties, we Insist that she do so. We have heard that As Too Will our "doughboys' rolled up their trous ers and walked across the Ourcq after the retreating Germans. A case of "wade jn the balance of victory and not found wanting"? General Crowder is Who Cares? considering the advis ability of extending the work-or-flght order to circuses. Can it be that there is a subtle plan afoot to wipe out political conventions? If Russia could only Give Her Time manage to smuggle In a few revolutions with the things she is so lavishly sending to Ger many the shipments might serve some useful purposes after all. , Ambassador Francis says he will stay in Russia if he hae to A Steady Diet t that cannot I'llW on wheels: Russte hersslf has 'ptm mt ti? tilf!: wMW,if .itiw'iisjiyAi; :' "WW" - Tjy irniiir PmLADECBHtA" . 'E&XmSDA.Y AVkjfaWi$1S ''- THEXEDAR CHE$T At a vChild' Bedside TS THERE 'one who has'not smiled A At the bedside of a child? If there be one, he has missed Earth's most tender eucharist. Eager mind that, hour by hour, Opened, blossomed 'like a'flower To what secret hbneycomb Have those wondering thoughts gone home? Little hands and eyes set ficc From the day's immensity, v Now relaxed and innocent t In a questionless content. r Sleep then, sleep then, little guest;, Wc will house thee at the best. Tiptoe, tip(oe,.on tho floor Wake -not God's ambassador! Getting OutFrom Under; or, Dodging Eggs at Gazn By William McFee Author of ' Casuals of the Sea" Arthur Elder, the aittst from Xutlev, X. J dropped into our caic the other day. Arthur is a great fiicnd of iridium Mc Fcc and gcncrallu has JfcKcc'.? last letter in his pocket. After a shot t hut sharp scuffle tic despoiled the artist of the manu script and aic glad to print certain ex. tracts from it, nith his pet mission. The letter teas written from somewhere in the Mcdltcirancan in Man. NOW that it is long over and the, ship a good bit away, I can tell ou we were in the Gaza stunt. It was fierce, for the enemy had it in for Us. Ecry day we were bombed and bombed and bombed. One day they missed, us so nanovvly thnt the bits of shell sank Into tho wood of the launches on deck. Dpwn below they sotirtded llko an enormous quantity of brittle glass crashing on a stone pave ment. The nntl aircraft guns were bang ing like mad, and every shot, being fired vertically, shook the ship. It was full ahead, full astern, full speed sldewajs all the time. I must say tho Germs took chances The planes were absolutely en circled with puffs. Sometimes we had to ease off for fear of hitting our own ma chines who were spotting and fighting as well. Every now and then we could hear the tut-tut-iut-tut of tho Lewis guns All the whilo the destroyeis were waltzing around watching for subs Then later on after Gaza was fallen we. had a most won derful experience. Ljlng offshore a mile or so wo saw tho Brlttbh army marching along tho beach, thousands of black dots, men, horses, guns, 'camels and transport. They halted and we baw the Turks ahead and tho shrapnel bursting just ahead of tho British. Now and again they took a pot at us and a shell would burst on the water or In the air. Our chaps In the big ships were shelling them with six Inch, and every little while you could see a tall column of jellow smoke shoot straight up among them and spread out llko the top of a high tree. Then the shrapnel would quit for n spell whilo they limbered up and retreated It was great, only all hands were on the Jump to spot enemy planes. IT IS a queer feeling watching a speck In thn fikv mnnpiimrlnr, tnr. nnotHnn right over, knowing ho is doing his darnedest to biff you. And the bombs make a perfectly horriblo noise as they rush downward. I was (quite unintention ally) on deck at one time when one of tho planes (there weie two) dropped a bomb which hit the water n good piece off. It screamed llko a soul In hell and then hoom! and a mighty spurt of water. One fell very close and didn't go off. I was pop-eyed. Fact. As one of the stokers bald, "It Isn't safe to be at sea." It was very amusing one day when a plane came over, and after being banged at several times thought better of it and raced away astern low down. The gun crews raced aft and got one of the big guns trained on him and loosed off. But It was a long shot without proper sights and nothing happened. Hitting a plane about the size of a fly speck which is traveling at eighty m. p. h., is no cinch. AND down below, while maneuvering, -when you can't see anv tiling and the orders come one after another and the guns shake the whole outfit, one gets the w lilies. And off watch (for a man can't bo on all the time) I didn't get any rest. One of the guns Is Just over my bunk, Just five feet above It as a matter of fact, and when it went off, O my word! I'm a dab at sleeping, but not in those circum stances. And the darned Turks were al ways snooping over Just as I came off after an eight-hour spell at the levers. I DO wish you were here! I reckon a water-colorlst would go mad out here, trying to get the shades on quick enough. The water is marvelous. The sky is noth ing. Don't forget that. In the Orient tho sky, about which so many cheap writers and palnteis'rave, Is nothing. It is tho light of the sky on the water and sand and rocks that is so amazing. I stop and watch it as I walk, and the others stop to see what's bitten me. It changes every moment; changes from cream to straw color, then shades into dun brown and purple. Then a strip of yellow corn-colored sand, then pale green, then deep emerald backed by plum-colored rocks and blue ocean. You haven't time to look at the sky. The tide runs out like a mlllrace and the dun and ginger smears broaden out into black and brown and red shoals, and perhaps you'll see, stand ing thigh deep in the shallows, a stray nigger, his black body shining like pol ished ebonite, or stooping to lave his humped shoulders, a glorious "note" in the whole riot of delicate color, Bet on the Odd Sergy changed hands nine times. In matters of this sort the odd numbers are the lucky ones. Page Allinson the sage of Town's End Farm, wandered in here with a largo bot tle of honey for us. And wheat cakes begin again 'today. & , It seems as thaj&h all the world is In conspiracy again 'pur , waistline. "We Lbsv a tUfwtrf lSLki'ii rfta ., . NOT ENTIRELY, SUBDUED , , x .. . . $ZM ."V ::- "V'IiF &- 'Vim -.-- . " -., .. :- .1 - j- Mrt .. - .tt. -if . i. i .a ,,- - , . -, .i. -l . if . - -. SY-'iT.- V.'SW jr- i i-sTr-J ---i-.L,, s-.r ,.,, . JC - r - - .' .'.r.V.,7,?,-:Si J-... ' THE READER'S Wartime Recollections To the Editor of the Evening Public Ledger. Sir Four jears ago today rhlladelphians were startled, amazed, dumfounded but In an academic, Impersonal sort of a way at the news that Germany had dcclired war on Russia A few weeks earlier we had read in tho newspapers about the assassination of the Austrian archduko by a Serbian youth, and during the days that followed wo read with more or less Interest of the gathering "war-clouds ovei tho Balkans" But what of that? Austria and Serbia were thousands and thousands of miles away and Philadel phians, with the exception of Colonel George Nox McCain nnd a few other local globe trotters, know little or nothing about those distant countries. As for the "war clouds." who that had read "The Light That Failed" had not laughed over tho war correspond ents In that story and how they spent a largo portion of their lives watching that selfsame "war cloud over the Balkans," or, at least, similar war clouds, alwajs planning to be first on the scene, but forever doomed to disappointment, for the ominous "war cloud' was always dissipated and blown away at tho very moment when It seemed most likely to break Into the Great Storm What a long, long time ago It seems since the headlines flashed the news of the out break of the great war across the front pages of our local papers, and what a lifetime of things have happened during those four years 1 During the first week in August four years ago, when the monstrous gray-green military machine of the German empire was plunging Its dagger-like battering-ram through Bel glum, and France and tho vast British em pire weie plunging Into the conflict, do you remember how everybody In Philadelphia and way stations was terribly excited and worked About what? The fate of Belgium or France? Not at all; those concerns came later. The big sensation of the day, during that fateful week" In August, 1914, in our town and other good-sized villages (not excluding tho Is-land of Manhattan) was tho CLOSING OF THE STOCK EXCHANGES I Think of It, folks the most resounding echo In our midst In those first davs of the war was tho TREMENDOUS news that tho "Stock Etchango had been closed, and nobody knew but that tho whole vast temple of finance might crumble and fall to earth 1 But today, after the events of the last six teen or seventeen months, and particularly after the recent happenings along the Marne, the very recollection seems preposterous, well nigh unbelievable. For from tho southern most reaches of "The Neck" to tho "furthest north" of Somerton, and from the tip-end of the longest Delaware avenue pier to tho ex tremest boundary of Cobbs Creek Park, there Is hardly a home, from vvhloh a relative or a friend has not gone forth to battle; and there is not one circle of friends but feels today the tbsence of one of Its members. Not until Jhat Juno.day, more than a year ago, when, Secretary Baker, blindfolded, drew from the big glass bowl down there in Washington a slip of paper bearing the number "258" not until that Ittle slip of paper was taken from the capsule In which It had been contained and the number flashed by wire and wirelebs to Philadelphia and to every other way station on 'the line not until that moment did the war come home to us For "No. ?5&" was not a mere num ber, but a human being, a human being that we all .know some young fellow between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-one, who had been selected by Uncle Sam to make up the first overseas contingent of American troops going to fight in, the great war. From that day on Philadelphia and every other city knew tht vve were In the war. Our' friends went away In citizens' clothes, as 'we had always known them, and came back In uniform soldiers! Not a street In the city but contributed Its quota; not a store, not a factory, not an offlce'of any size but felt that at last the fingers of the great mailed hand of Mars had reached put and touched us. And sd August 1, 1918( finds the River, Marne nearer to us and more significant to us than the Schuylkill. Jlhelms Is no longer merely the city of a once magnificent cathe dral, but a place where Philadelphia boys are living, fighting and "dyirig. Solssons means more to us than Norristown, and Chateau Thierry Is nearer to the heart of our city and Its people than Pottstown, Reading, Harris burg or an other city, no matter how near geographically, can ever be. Four years ago' today finance trembled In the balance, and Philadelphia and way sta tions closed their. Stock Exchanges, Today finance is forgqtteD. except as an incidental neoaaMy.J,For,"the,ptVana present M lit M tasttr sr.uu;-M'tta'MlM of Uw MM jf T- ... . ---.? r.iZL'jr ,- ,. -... .rcrir . . JBEt JZZ " "-'i;'. C'-l --iit 'u. flytH Ct' .-""Wr":1'- -r, '"-.l- :-'"' "'?J,'-rr. "t-v-- '. Llii . (- Liaspi " i . fc. - s .- ..f - n . . - -; -i rt.. - y VIEWPOINT many of those ' peoples" are our friends, our own folks ourselves; and tho Marne Is very near to Philadelphia and way stations this first day of August in the year nineteen hun dred and eighteen B A. M. Narberth, July 31. Pcriqu a'nd Other Matters To the Editor of the Evening Public Ledger: fair In your dally quls the other day you gave an explanation of "Perlquo" tobacco that was not entirely accurate. Perlquo Is a strong Louisiana tobacco which Is made stronger and blacker by curing It over trays of Jamaica rum, molasses and other Ingredi ents which vary, actosdlngito the w)ilm ot the curer. It is not "smoked in paper rolls called carottcs," but: After curing ns stated above It Is made up Into a cigar shaped bunch approximately two and a half Inches diameter in the cen ter, tapering toward both ends and from, say, seven Inches to twelve Inches Ipng, depending on the size of the leaves from which it Is made. This bunch is covered with a laer of canvas and then "served" with tarred "marlln." This method of preparing tobacco for smoking originated in the British navy about the time of Drake, and Is still practiced by British navy men and by sailors of Balling ships In the British merchant marine. I am rather Interested in your -"What Do You Know" and find that I average about 80 per cent. So far us being able to print In English the pronunciation ot Chateau Thierry, It can't be done There are a number of French words that cannot be either pro. nounced or spelled by the average American. For Instance, how would you pronounce "eu," ore rather, how would you spell the pronun ciation of "eu" so that an American who had never heard the word could pronounc it so that a Frenchman could understand what he was driving at? It can't be done There Is not one American n a thousand who, even nfter years In France, can pronounce this mct difficult sound for Anglo Saxon lips. But to get back to Pcrique, I have sailed with Frenchmen who called a perlquo of tobacco la carotte nnd while I do not know. It may bo possible that the Creoles called them carottes. This does not, however, alter the fact that Perlque is the correct name for these rolls. Three winters ago up In Canada I met a full blooded Indian from Abltlbl. He was an Ojlbway and I thought I would try mme of my Hiawatha Indian on him. I used Mltche Manltou, wavataysee, kago, wawa and a lot more, much to his amaze ment I can sketch fairly well, so I drew a sturgeon and, pointing to it, Baid "Nahmah" I don't know whether that's the way Long fellow spells him, but that Is the way I al ways pronounced him) My Indian, Charlie Pierce, quickly corrected me. "Nama," said he. He spoke English very well and was very much Interested to hear that there had been an American white man who haa written the story of Hiawatha. I quoted passages that I could recall to him, much to his delight, and he promised that some day he would show me how to prepare medi cine and set traps for beaver. THE OLD MAN OF THE SEA. Philadelphia, July 30. A Suggestion We Cari Recommend la the Editor of tfye Evening Public Ledger: Sir I hand you herewith my check as treasurer of the Soldiers' Leisure-Hour Fund, In the sum of $24, covering six months' subscription to eight copies ot the Evening Puplic LEDQKn, four cdples each to be sent to the following: Captain C. P. Futcher, chaplain of 109th Infantry, American Expeditionary Force, and Lieutenant Robert J. McFetrldge,r' chaplain of 108th Field Artillery, American Expeditionary Foi-ce. The check represents part of the balance left In the treasury of the Soldiers' Leisure Hour Fund, which was collected last sum mer through the generosity of many citizens and largely through the efforts of the soldiers themselves I am convinced that this is the best possible' vise to which the money can be put, and I on'yregret that the sum Is not a hundred times larger, ' I Inclose the outline 'of' a story", which, (f you care to publish, may'intluence other per sons and organizations td do likewise. v JOSEPH C. 8MJTHi Philadelphia, July 30. - ''im-r.'jtlHl'or; te2rfv!Wi -lu'lif I "- - lrrriffiHa- a wthmm fAMlMsW & u T J ' l " "" r j- -T--- -r. -. - inif r.wsrsvTv nfni. : tgzEzspzr,' .- -'?'-- -.':' a - r " a ,..- - . ."'"TV ri - r- ''"-3 y CTrjZrfr rsT ON BIDDING FAREWELL TO, A POET, GONE TO THE WARS By John Bunker , , YOU didn't pose, self-conscious of yoUr lot, f Or speak of what might be or might have been; You alwajs thought heroics simply rot, And so you merely wdro jour old-time,' grin. ' v? Whether you had a vision in your eyes, Or bore a splendid dream within your heart, -r' I couldn't tell; such things come with sur prise And cannot bo forecast by any art. Of those high secrets I can say no word) " Nor why on this grim business you were i bent; What dreams, what visions In youV bosom stirred ' Will doubtless be made clear by the event, I know but this, that 'mid the manifold' din Of breaking camp we said good-by, we two, And jou looked at me w(th your old-time grin, And that is ail I can report of you. ' " The Bookman. Foch's Maxims What Bort of man General Foch is, to whom we have entrusted our forces, mar be gathered from soma of his military axioms quoted by Majoi R. M. Johnston in hlsappre dative tribute recently published ' ' The victory will always go to those who best deserve ft by the greatest strength of" will and Intelligence." i "Every soldier must see his general musVi feel himself In communication with him Kni never be allowed to consider himself merely a poor pawn maneuvered by an unknown power." ' jf "A battle lost Is only that which you think' you have lost. No battle was ever actually and Irretrievably lost," ' !A battle won is that In wlch on 1n not aamu mmselt conquered." "Victory is the will to win." What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. Who are thr "Elder Htatesmn"T ?. Who Is Ihe Amrrkan (imcmor General of the I'hulpplne Islands? S. Sunn the tailtJ. and larsest eltr of' RJiod. Island. ,. ( 4. What were th "Mrstre of I'dolpho"? ,' 5. Who Is Karl Ton IlelfTerlch? ' 6. Where Is Fort Dtipont? , r,tJl,rr"' Un" BtU sucar admtnls. SMVhnt Is Liberia? v ,, Where la Camo UevtntT 1 10. Who said. "Efery Freneh soldier carries' a t marshal's baton In hit Knapsack"? , Answers to Yesterday's Qniv 1, Chyjmller ds , Georcei The nam br wlikkf tho son of James II of bnaland was known. , lie ras born Trinre of Wats few i (1681 and ,"d In life after raanr nni'J auccessful plots to retain tho crown. r 2, A line of communications. n the nlUcarr sense., la tho route for supplies and nea. from a base to tho front. . J 3, Cumo Grtena Is st Charlotte. (N. C, 4, deorso cljrlfester Vlereck post and writer. born In America. aW to Te a, rilatKi of tho Kaiser, edited Tho IfathorlaSd, pcU Tho Koelnlscho Zeltuns (Colosno Gaietls) iaV. one of the leadlns Inspired German suras! i 7 IL.V i 5. "The (Sold Hos," a mrsterr story by JEdjar it Allan Fa. , , ' 6, Jaulsonnet A town In the CUampan. on , wf Marne. where tbe Germans first cross4 Sit " rhr in the sprlnc drtTo. ' Vc "v a 1. 7. Tho Koelnlscho Zeltuns (Colosna flaxatiaV UK ':i . a' papers. rtf t. General Maoslni In command of .sari ' f . French nnd American 1 nine Mitta Vasts .'1 kM staaf iM -'" ' " mL 1 i ir7uJi.'jcL I m ' Ml Jil 'wT, ik. n it'i ft Jffl v, :i vl J r( i ' "Ss n v , 1
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