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Philadelphia, WedneidiT, Aueml It. 1911
THE ILL HND
IT CANNOT be said that the multiplying
orders of the Pennsylvania fuel admin
istration make darkness general every
where. They tend to make, life brighter
for the burglars.
Thoughtful ye.Egmen have reason to feel
secretly grateful to Mr. Potter and Mr.
Garfield and to hold them in a sort of
esteem almost as great as that which they
must reserve for those who have wrecked
the police department.
Lenlne has ordered the execution of all
who oppose the Soviet Goernment, thereby
establishing a precedent which he is likely
later to hae cause to regret when the antl
Bolshevlkl get hold of him
PETROGRAD IS NOT PARIS
PETROGRAD and Paris both begin with
P, but, from the military point of slew.
that Is the only resemblance between the
j JET cities at the present tl
tit The bermans have been
time.
headed toward
Paris for four years, but they have found
Insurmountable obstacles In their way.
They are now said to be headed toward
Pelrograd In the hope of saving some
thing from the wreck of their plans to
control Russia with the aid of Lenlne and
Trotsky. They may be able to take the
city, but Petrograd is not Russia, and for
'U practical purposes It has been domi
nated by Germany for more than a year.
The members of the draft b"rds seem
, to b drafted themselves. They are not to
KLj- allowed to resign.
ICE AND THE WAR MENU
THE imminence of a serious Ice shortage
has been largely brought about through
a characteristically American failure to
regard frozen water In the same economic
light as other foods In war times. Warned
of possible wheat and beef crises, it was
comparatively eay for the average citizen
to revise his menu. Bidden to conserve
these articles, he patriotically complied.
But the right to Ice has long seemed pe
cullarily vested In our franchise.
'' No nation in the world imbibes so many
cold drinks as ours; none, not even the
Italians who are said to have Invented it,
consumes such quantities of ice cream.
Though the mercury fall to zero. Ice water
Is still the national drink.
The summer famine In gelid substances,
therefore, hits us particularly hard. An
exceptionally torrid August has made mat
ters worse. Perhaps, however, it will be
useful in bringing the situation home to
US.
In such weather as the meteorological ex-
fcsS' ,prts now dally announce we ought to
Cjjsr ;nave a sufficiency of frozen food. But in
January, when the outside temperature
would please Amundsen, we really should
forgo the delight, sung by Eugene Field,
of hearing "the clink of the ico in the
pitcher that the boy brings up in the
hall."
We don't need to freeze our throats on
the same days that we clamor for coal to
warm our bodies. Beef is not essential
every day, nor Is Ice water In winter.
Adjusting our conduct to this latter
truth will hereafter help us to counter
attack General Humidity when he launches
i' his dog-day offensives.
'jfj . aic noni uuicau is UU1IIK IIS DCS! Ifi
I nrvant tVta -riHnn nf riv-tr nna sm.k
jt'' Market street.
t.Twak wsw .w kauss m cs, W.J fcUIIC OUIilll U L
SHIPS WITHOUT FRILLS
A LARGER ship than the Quistconck
thi
was launched on the Delaware
'morning. The Watonwan was eighty-five
"per cent completed and yet her launch-
tj't '. 1 I..1-.3 .1- ,-i ,.
Rll" ' MS was Buueuuieu as a quiet, auair.
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t-yjRspirins inaex ui snipDuucung progress.
ngMrjTne nrst aip oi me uuistconcK marKea
eM5 beginning of a new era in boat con-
action, ana mo lumuu ana ine snouting
rCTsn-a Its due. But amid the nrnfimlnn nf
TjvIfJw hlps scheduled to slide from the ways
ijyw can't spare eitner tne time or the ex-
rvraw "" '
ysft i The creation of a new cargo carrier Is
': "'Mow no more a phenomenon than the pro
''"Suction of a new locomotive. Without
tafia I festivities we have for years been
l,1fitng the world in railroad equipment.
'Jfce.are now abot to turn the same trick
rMh .hips.
' A9y a Yery human law of proportion we
bound to grow less ceremonious with
launching as our monumental ship
Ifltftl; endeavors hit their destined stride.
J St la.DOsslbla that later on not even the)
-flJMM of additions to our merchant marine
.-Bat be cenerally recorded In the naoers.
!j,'i "Hi)) 8800-ton W'atonwan, which recently
a, to .suae irom ner unsioi ways, is
lucky by virtue of specific mention.
1a)ajaUHy of hundreds of her slaters
HwUtoweit up .la tlw iM"nf of
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BOLSHEVIZED PUBLIC SERVICE
A New Question That Mr. McAtloo and
Col. George Harvey May Grapple
With in Cold Weather
yERY hot weather, such as the coun-
try has endured within the Inst ten
days, is dangerous in more ways than
one. It enfevcrs the blood of statesmen
and publicists, thinkers and near-thinkers,
and causes them to say wild and
silly things.
We have Colonel George Harvey, for
instance, snarling charges of treason at
Henry Ford and demanding in shrill
prose to know what President Wilson is
going to do about it. Harsh suggestions
of the Tower, of slow music, of a firing
squad for the gentle Henry are in
Colonel Harvey's article.
Mr. McAdoo wants all the railroads in
the country electrified at the earliest
possible moment. We have it on the
word of the Navy Department that a
submarine off the Carolina coast belched
mustard gas at the coast guard.
Obviously Colonel Harvey stuck to his
desk in New York when the thermometer
went to 102 last week. Mr. McAdoo also
refused to gunrd against the heat. He re
turned to his post and let it do its worst.
It is surprising to learn that the hot
wave was severe enough at sea to upset
the reason of a U-boat captain. One
cannot be sure whether it was a touch of
the sun that caused the gas attack on the
Atlantic coast or whether the time has
arrived when the Kaiser must establish
a half-mile dry zone around every sub
marine. We are disposed to the latter conclu
sion. Now, Mr. Ford was assailed and bitten
long ago by the bug of internationalism.
He was what the doctors in the army
speak of as a mild casualty. He may, as
Colonel Harvey says, have said some
thing about the questionable use to which
some national flags have been put in
time of peace He ma;- have even said
that patriotism wasn't the end of wis
dom. Henry, too, is susceptible to the
heat. His peace ship went abroad in the
summer. And he always has been a
hasty talker. Yet Mr. Ford has been of
extraordinary service to the Government
since the war began for the United
States. He has done more than any other
manto insure a quantity production of
the Liberty motor. He is turning out
submarine chasers in clouds. He even
offered all his money to the Government.
This isn't pacifi-.m and it isn't treason.
When Colonel Harvey can do half as well
as Henry has done we shall be disposed
to take him more seriously.
Had it not been for the heat Mr. Mc
Adoo might have realized that there are
things that the railroads of the country
need far more than immediate electrifica
tion. They need less plush and cinders
and a more civilized ideal of service. If
Mr: McAdoo ever rode on any American
railroad in a pair of white flannel
trousers he will perceive the truth of this
analysis. Were he to establish a new
train to be known as the Cinderless and
Plushless Limited people would ride on
it wherever it went. Were he to at
tempt some of the humane reforms in
railroad operation that we have always
lacked, something of the finesse that
characterizes English or Continental
railway service, he would be a benefactor
of his kind. American railroad men have
never had the time for that soit of thing.
They were fascinated by the "big" side
of railroading. Our system certainly
needs refinement a humanizing in
fluence. Electiiflcation will requiie ten
years at least. Reforms quite as neces
sary might easily be instituted in a year.
What any observant man must per
ceive when he looks at the railroads
nowadays, or at any other public utility,
is the increasing discomforts and diffi
culties for the ultimate consumer. Thus
Mr. McAdoo and Colonel Harvey and
Secretary Daniels and Mr. Redfield and
Mr. Burleson and all the others, instead
of peeling far into the future, might more
properly agitate for a new office in the
Cabinet. They might use drums and
cymbals and the factory whistles and
their own voices restlessly for the ap
pointment of a Secretary for a Depart
ment to Let the Average Ununionized
Citizen Know Where He Gets Off. Or
they might declaim the need for a bu
reau, at least, established to Maintain
the Mental Balance of All People, High
and Low.
For something is going grievously
wrong in all sorts of public service.
Some singulaf1 contagior has crept into
the United States fiom abroad. What
tne Pu'c services need more than for-
malization and electrification and Mr.
McAdoo is duller than we supposed if he
doesn't perceive it is relief from the
men who are doing their utmost to
lenine or, at least, to trotsky them.
It is plain that we have conscious and
unconscious Bolsheviki all about us.
Now and then, on some of the trolleys
of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit, it is
easy to experience the sensation of the
friendless orphans who are taken for
rides now and then in the limousines of
dyspeptic millionaires. There are too
many trollcymen who view their passen
gers with a frank, open and altogether
ungracious tolerance.
It is becoming more fashionable and
more necessary to wheedle the ticket
seller and the plumber, the ice man and
the garage attendant, telegraphers and
mechanics.
Those who work otherwise than with
their muscle are the misfortunate and
oppressed of these new days.
It is nice to see everybody getting
more money. But it isn't nice to see
their new power go to their heads. If
J jjb; jrtuH rceive tM vu oc bob key-
ism symbolized vividly go out to almost
any cash-and-carry ice station or to those
central ice warehouses where the em
ployes of the companies sell ice to the
really poor. There the Women and chil
dren wait humbly in patient lines, while
men who seem to have become lords and
barons overnight bawl at them, fling
them bits of ice or make them wait un
necessary and cruel hours in the sun.
This is the iceman in his new aspcctl
Essential service is increasingly hard
to get. Those who render it become
more ungracious all the time. Are we all
becoming Bolsheviki together? Are high
wages to make us all haughty, overinde
pendent and unwilling to do anything
that we aren't compelled to do?
Where are we drifting anyhow?
Mr. McAdoo, before ho electrifies all
the railroads of the country, and Colonel
Harvey, before he buckles down to con
vict Henry Ford of treason, might an
swer that one question We have the
impression that it will prove in the long
run to be one of the most important of
all the questions of the war.
The Allies hae taken 1000 German
guns: but the Kaiser should worry. It simply
means so much more work for Krupps, In
which he Is a shareholder
THE WICKEDNESS OF RATTING A BALL
VTO AMOUNT of argument would con
' lnce the conscientious objectors to
Sunday baseball that thev are reading
Into the ten commandment an Injunc
tion which they do not contain. Yet it is
Interesting for the rest of us to recall that
the biblical command to remember the Sab
bath day and keep it holy was at first
regarded by the race to which It was given
as n prohibition against work, not play,
on the Sabbath. We bellee that, as a
matter of fact, the ancient Jews Indulged
in dancing and other nmuenicnts on the
seventh day.
The Christian Church observes Sunday
as its holy day and not Saturday, or the
Sabbath of the Jew.". Iti strict observ
ance, with abandonment of all secular en
joyment, Is due to the Puritan revolt
against the license of the cavaliers. When
the Puritans came to Ameiica thej set up
as near to a theocracy as was possible for
'hem and read into the Old Testament
laws all of the asceticism that a genera
tion of pious men, outiagcd by vicious
practices, could conceive. Our blue laws
are a survival of extreme Puritanism.
In the face of the fact that we haveia
rigid Sunday observance law, It is not
surprising that the Mayor has declined to
piv? his tilTicial sanction to Sundaj- base
ball at Shlbe Park. Personally, he favors
It, but he Is unwilling to assume the re
sponsibility of deliberately consenting to
the disregard of a statute. We could have
admired his courage had ho challenged
the courts to an Interpretation of the old
law by agreeing with the plan of the army
and navy officers to have ball games be
tween enlisted men In the two branches of
the service on Sundays, to which enlisted
men and the ladles accompanying them
were to be admitted It Is always difficult
to forecast a court decision, but It is hard
to believe that any Judge and Jury could
have been found In this county to hold
that the spirit of the law had been vio
lated. Even yet a way may be found to
permit the enlisted men to enjoy an aft
ernoon of harmless sport on the first day
of the week.
In the meantime, we should like to know
how much wickeder it Is to bat a leather
covered ball with a club on Sunday than
to knock a rubber ball with a stick on a
golf course.
Humld Old Sol seems to be ncting on
the principle that sticking eerlastlngly at
it brings distress
BETTER POLICE UNIFORMS?
UNIFORMS now worn In the police de
partment date for the most part from
the days before asphalt. They were suit
able enough to the time when the men
were not compelled to stand In the middle
of the streets, in the midst of blazing heat
reflected seven days from walls and pave
ments. The close-buttoned coats of heavy
cloth and even the headgear provided for
In the department rules aie not suitable
to summer conditions 'rrf the streets of
Philadelphia. ,
Acting Superintendent Mills, who has
the interest of the men at heart, might
properly begin a long-delayed reform in
the police department If he sought to
devise more comfortable summer uniforms,
especially for the traffic men.
The cantonments and the shipyards
manage to unite comfort and durability
In the uniforms of their guards. Khaki
and pith helmets aren't necessary' in the
police department. But some means should
be found to duplicate for the police the
benefits which the less formal garb brings
to the guards at the big war Industries.
Some serial htories may be all right, but
"Warm to be continued" wins faor with
nobody.
WELL DONE, MR. McADOO!
FOR years men who use the railroads
have been asking that an Interchange
able mileage book good on any road be
Issued. They found It Impossible to bring
the railroad companies to their way of
thinking. t
Mr. McAdoo, who directs all the rail
roads in the country, has ordered that
such mileage books be put on sale begin
ning with next Monday. They are to be
transferable and good for any number of
passengers, inus uy a single oruer oi one
man a convenience Is provided for which
the traveling public has been clamoring in
vain.
All the credit to which he is entitled
should be given to the director general of
railroads. But no one should make the
mistake of assuming that It was not pos
sible to Issue such mileage books under
the system of private' management of the
railroads.
"I'm puzzling home
A Fat Chance thing out. Mr. Inter
locutor." "Well, Jir,
Bones, I'd be glad to be of any assistance.
What's bothering you?" "It's Just this, Mr.
Interlocutor; How can Germany be so short
of fat when she can still call upon the
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The Man With the Hoo (Press)
ABOUT these roaring cylinders,
Where leaping words and paper
mate,
A sudden glory moves and stirs
An inky cataract in spate 1
What power for falsehood or for truth,
What hearts attentive to be stirred,
How dimly understood, in sooth,
The magic of the printed wordl
These flashing webs and cogs of steel .
Have shaken empires, routed kings,
Yet never turn too fast to feel
The tragedies of humble things.
O words, be strict in honesty,
Be just and simple and serene;
0 rhymes, sing true, or you will bo
Unworthy of this great machine!
9
Roscoe Peacock, after studying our but
letln board at Sixth and Chestnut with
bated breath, copied off the following dis
patch and brought It' up to" us:
N5VG7K201M5D2NN1 Reported Out Of
the Senate Committee.
Is It possible that the Senate has got
rattled by our remarks about Its willful
waste of syllables?
Some one seems to have declared a dry
zone around Karl Uosncr's fountain pen.
Keeping Them Cheerful
The following sign In the window, of a
Chestnut street bookstore always amuses
us:
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A few more thunderstorms like the re
cent one and tee will have to put our stiaw
hat on with a spoon.
In spite of the U-boat raid Cape Fear
doesn't seem frightened.
Mis Dante to the Rescue
Dear Socrates Your definition of a Bol
shevik Isn't bad, but I like mine better. It
Is this: A Bolshevik Is one who bel'eves
a week-end begins on EYlday afternoon
and lasts until Tuesday morning.
ANN DANTE.
An English paper reports that a girl
was saved from drowning by an under
taker. Will the Embalmers' Union fine
him for unprofessional conduct?
Not even the most gullible German will
believe that an advance on poor old Pelro
grad will do much to ease Ludendorff's
blood pressure on the western front.
Xothing amuses a German prisoner so
much as the care that is taken to prevent
him from escaping,
Germany Is a good deal morerespectful
toward scraps of paper now that she Is
wearing them.
When Wllhelm gets to Petrograd
We know what he will find:
A thousand hungry Soviets
That Trotsky left behind.
Discarded manifestoes, and
Some blank checks of Lenine's
The Russ has bolshevlctuals, but
He's mighty short of beans.
T7i Germans haven't enough sense to
come in out of the Ukraine.
If you make a perfect ass of yourself
you can get away with anything. The
trouble comes when you show yourself an
imperfect ass.
Germany keeps on trying to exchange
women deported from Frame for baliy
killeis captured by the poilus.
But one good interne deserves another.
The Spirit of France
"We need some more aluminum for our
rings," wrote a French poilu, referring to
the metal rings that the French amuse
themseles by making from German shell
cases.
"We have ordered some from the bodies;
they are good business men and are filling
the order Immediately."
You want to be careful what tempta
tions you fall for and what ones you re
sist sometimes a temptation
doesn't come again. Don Marquis.
Think, for Instance, what self - control
and forbearance the Kaiser and Hlndy
showed In not insisting on eating that din
ner In Paris.
SOCRATES.
It seems a little too hard on Spain that,
halng been the refuge of "Boss" Tweed,
Marshal Bazalne, Porfirlo Diaz and Jack
Johnson, she should now be selected 'as the
residence of M. Malv), the discredited ex
Foreign Minister of Fiance.
Now that a dry zone has been fixed
around the Frankford Arsenal, thirsty work
men may try to enlarge It by absorbing the
liquids to be found outside the zone limits.
If Lenlne and Trotsky ever form the sub
ject of a volume In the "Little Journeys to
the Homes of Great Men" series, the writer
will hae to do a lot of traveling.
Althqugh we do not know much about the
Usurl River, which Brltlth troops are said
to have reached, we somehow feel It should
bo brimful of Interest.
So far as Uncle Sam Is concerned, those
coastal wasps are I O U-boati, and It Is fer
vently hoped that he will promply pay what
he owes them.
Oddly enough, the Government seems to
have decided that one of the helpful means
of promoting the defeat of Germany Is not to
liquor.
The lightning stopped the clock. In the
City Hall tower, but the high old times went
on as usual beneath it.
Jvarl Rosner Is likely boon to say that
the report of the Allied victory In Plcardy
Is merely a "frame-up."
dermany clamored for a place In the sun,
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THE GOWNSMAN
Does the Naturalist
,TJACK to Nature!" the prophet and the
J3 pundit proclaim, but neither will stay
the plodding haste of his own way thither to
reply to the Idle query. "What, sago sir. Is
Nature which you capitalize so insistently,
and why 'return'?"
..XJATURE? Well, let me see; nature is
i something green, something that isn't
town or kept too nicely." Some such answer
as this we might expect from the man In the
street, who usually has an answer ready for
anything and who, as a rule, is not so very
far wrong. For the man In the street, let
the Gownsman say,' parenthetically, he has
the deepest possible respect : for he, at least.
Is not that awesome thing, a specialist.
Hesides, the man In the street speaks the
language of the moment, not some dead
tongue : he is free from scientific Jargon and,
not finding a word, invents one. wherefore
he Is nlways comprehensible. However, let
us see ; nature Is something green, that
grows. A flower, a tree, a cabbage, each is
plainly nature: but a man? Not all men aie
green or Ill-kempt : and some, alas ! have long
since ceased to glow. Obviously man Is out
side of nature, especially when he herds In
towns, whence the saying: "God made the
country, man the town," and the devil the
suburbs commutable.
THERE are persons who think of the coun
try as a place In which to get good things
to eat. Such persons do not live In too close
a proximity to a large city or they would long
since hae learned the difference between a
farmer, who lives on the land and sends his
surplus to market, and a trucker, who "lives
off the land" and on the leavings which he
cannot sell. To some nature Is the country,
a land of the heart's desire. Inhabited visibly
by mere country folk, but potentially by shep
herds and shepherdesses, all supernally
oung, gay and fascinating, possibly even
dwelt in who knows? In deep recesses, by
eles who harfht the shadows and by fairies
who swing In the sunshine. "No, sir," said
the little boy from Boston, his eyes magnified
to the size of those of an owl, as he stared
through his goggles. "No, sir, the belief in
fairies Is a popular superstition, connived
In lll-advisedly by ignorant nurses and In
dulgent mothers. There are no fairies In that
wood ; but I have personally observed eleven
varieties of edible mushrooms, to say noth
ing of deleterious fungi ," and the disquisi
tion wandered on through fields, blazing In
sunshine and glorious with autumn flowers,
until the congenial asphalt brought the young
pragmatlst back to the proximities or lite.
THE Gownsman is an admirer of science
not always of the scientific. He once,
more or less scientifically, collected, "ob
served and studied" more than 3000 different
kinds of Insects, noxious nnd Innoxious. But
that was In his nonage, and he passed on to
other things noxious and Innoxious. Can a
scientific man reallv love nature? Does the
designation of a tfilstle as a Clrslum lanceo
latum Induce even a Scottish botanist, such
as our Professor MacFarlane at the Univer
sity, to love It the more? Can the habitual
calling of things by hard names possibly
breed In the man addicted to such language
a true love of the creatures so maligned? It
has been questioned whether Thoreau did not
love nature too well to be a really good
naturalist. And our ancient of days, John
Burroughs may the sylvan gods spare him
to many more years In the world he so
loves ! does he mix his heart with his head,
somewhat too much for the scientist de
rlgueur, in his loving observances of nature?
It was Mr. Burroughs who once argued con
vincingly In a book how, after all, no animal
actually reaches, In Its Instinct, the reason
ing faculties of man. But he gave, away his
case In the end with the confession: "But
thero Is the dog and the dog Is different."
Was there ever a reasoning, analytic, scien
tific lover except, perhaps, Goethe who ex
amined the cardiac stimulation of a bird
while It was a-flutter In his hand? Science
versus LoveT science witn nis speciaciex,
apparatus, appliances, charts and heavy vol
umes ; Love, a naked, defenseless child, ex
cept for that antiquated engine of war, a
bow! Science versus Love! The defendant
has no standing In court. Old as he Is, he Is
still a minor, and there Is none who will
stand his "next-friend."
IF THERE are doubt1 about the scientist
as a lover of nature, there are only cer
tainties about "the nature-faker," now hap
pily rather out of vogue: it was he who
studied zoolocy out of "Reynard the Fox"
nnd folk-lore out of "Mother Goose." Peace.
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animal world. There Is little that a rational
animal can learn about a man that is likely
to Inspire anything except terror and dis
gust. The beasts do not talk at least out
hide of German folk-lore and beast-lore,
which appear to be much the same thing.
And If the beasts could talk they might not
only explode some of our fictions about their
merely manlike Intelligence, hut lead us into
an agreement with the perverse opinion of
Life on the subject of vivisection.
YOUR Gownsman Is a bit of a lover of
nature himself, in an indolent and Inter
mittent way. He is no naturalist in any
sense of that abused designation. He ad
mires science, as already Implicitly stated,
but does not like her superior and super
cilious manners, and wotild dislike exceed
ingly should she eer so condescend to
have her turn her cold, searching eyes on him
or anything that he loves. Should the
Gowr.sm.in ever botanize as lje once ento
mologlzed he will not pluck Rowers for
microscopic scrutiny from his grandmother's
grave. Above all, the Gownsman Is no
sportsman and looks with horror on the Eng
lishman's alleged ideal of a holiday: "Come,
let's go out somewhere and kill something."
AT THIS moment your Gownsman Is sit
ting bucolically at the foot of an ancient
apple tree, with thickets of wild cherry,
blackberries and ferns encroaching as con
fusedly and Inartlstlcally as nature can grow
such things In their completest dlshevelment.
Near by Is a boulder of granite that would
cover a fair-sized city lot. It Is close enough
to show the splashes of lichen which radiate
from dark centers and fringe white on the
edges. A branch, weighed down from the
tree behind It, has thrown a cluster of light
green, apples over the boulder with the
abandon of a white arm about a lover's neck.
In front the blades and ears of grass fringe
upward, the Irregular apple branches down
ward, training aistant lorests oi aeep green,
overtopped with hills in lessening shades of
violet and blue as they recede In remoteness.
The flold stretches In the foreground fore
ward and downward, flecked, In the tawny
green of standing grass, the Gownsman, bad
husbandman, Is sorry to have to say, with
splotches of shining white, which he is In
formed are wild parsnips, a disreputable
weed, which really has no place on any
decent farm or In any well-constructed land
scape. FOR sound there is the distant tinkle of
cowbells, the sighing not soughing of
the wind In the trees overhead, the hum of
bees In busy passage to nnd fro and the flut
ter of wings In the thickets. There follows
the twitter of swallows In flight from the
gieat barn not far away and n bubbling song
of gladness from some winged seraph, a
loely musical phrase which, could the musi
cian catch it, might be worked Into a ravish
ing human melody. Other sounds come to
the ear which will hear them, a thrush In the
woods, the metallic click of the cuckoo it
Is his secret whether he Is far off or near.
The ln'dolent Gownsman has received a morn
ing call from eight or nine different families
of birds since he sat down in this spot. He
was interrupted Just now to return the salu
tations of a persistent little fellow with a
white bib on and wearing a white-striped
head-dress, who reiterated "How do you do !"
In a language of liquid sweetness long drawn
out; but, as he left no visiting card, your
Ignorant Gownsman cannot tell whether he
was really a white-throat or only a vesper,
a song-sparrow or a hedge-sparrow with the
light of the sun and Imagination shining on
him.
SOMEWHERE. Oliver Wendell Holmes
suggests the charming thought that on the
outskirts of every town the grass and the
flowers are continually conspiring to creep
In, to cover, tp make beautiful the ucllness
of the temporary structures of men. On the
shore we pick up a white pebble ; It Is lighter
than usual ; It Is the piece of a bone of a dead
fish, cleansed and purified by the sun, shaped
to roundness, smoothness and consistency, as
an atom In the silver strand. We may har
row the land and out of our harrowing
bring ugliness and plenty. But even with
forests leeled we can spoil little of the
earth's perennial green. We may toll, too, on
the sea, but we cannot destroy the water's
eternal splendor. By land or seii. It matters
not. nature can wait. We only are the things
of the moment. And we end as we began
without a definition of ''Nature" or of our
"return" to our brown Mother Earth, which,
when all Js said, seems the only certain thing,
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The Reader's Viewpoint
Can't Goose-Step Over America
To the Editor of the Evening Fublio Ledger: '
Sir Your loyal editorials are classics Of
Inspiration and comfort to camp and hospital
and home. Our prldejind Joy In the deeds of
our boldler boys are beyond expression In
words. How we await daylight and the
Public Ledger and news of victories against
overwhelming odds, of advance In spite of
gas and masks and long-range guns and how
again we await the Evening Pudlic Ledoei
and extras for news of their valorous vic
tories with rifle, machine (run and bavonat;
I flesh ef our flesh and blood of our blood.
American courage, American ardor and
American fighting ability.
How their wounds and death sicken ust
We know and appreciate their sacrifice. We
are suffering and trying to support and up
hold them with the same matchless courage
and spirit with which they are fighting. Only
theirs the honor and the glory. They also
serve who only stand and wait. If they
could only know how proud we are of them
our glorious soldier boys! If they could see
with what pride and exaltation of spirit and
"treading on air" we read of their suo
cesses !
They are our children, and the hearts of
the whole American people go out to them
as they cannot know. Our love for our sol
dier boys, fighting with Inspiration for world
freedom, surpasses all else. They would have
our pride and cheers even In temporary de
feat, but in victory, driving "goose-stepping"
murderers and thieves to their own lair, the
American people are wrought to the highest
pitch of righteous rage and pride and,
mingling of emotions. Kaiser. Krupps and
"Kultur" system have made many mistakes In
pinning their life, property and their religion
on the "goose step."
But their greatest mistake was when they
thought our boys could not fight!
They were mistaken when they thought
they had only to order nnd their "goose
steppers" could loot Belgium with impunity.
Had they only known It, Germany was
whipped by the world when her first "goose
steppers" Invaded Innocent Belgium.
The firm of Kaiser Bill & Sons could
"goose-step" their obedient German people
around their own country, but they made
their mistake In ever dreaming In their wild
est Imagination that they could easily "goose
step" over America They did not know our
boys. They know them now and will better
know them later. E. T. C.
Philadelphia, August 13.
What Do You Knoio?
QUIZ
1. What Is the deen-woter port of llambnrt?
2 Who wrote "One tonch of nature makes tht
whole world kin"?
3 What la tho roial house of the present Klnf
of Italy?
4 Miit n rorr Cleveland's flrt naml,
which he dlscurded in political life?
fi. What la the original meaning of boudoir?
A What rere of roile Is numerically predomW
nnnt In the Hawaiian Islands?
1. What Is the mcnnlns of the Latin phrase ',.1
"lllc Jacct"? 7J
8 fir what name Is the bottle nr Antletam sea
c rally known In the .Soutli?
0. What Is a ketch?
10. Which bounilum- of the Torrid Zone Is forme
by the Tropic of Cancer?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1 The town of Nojon was ths birthplace of
John Calvin, the Protestant reformer. Ills
datra are 1500-1504.
2. John liny. Secretary of State under McKlnley
and Roosetelt. ml a prominent champion
of the forelan trade polity of "the opea
door."
3, The Illark Forrst Ilea east of the Rhine In the
(Irana Iiurnics ui iinorn una uricniDunr.
4. Policial Jerrold, an KnilUh humorist, wrote
"lr. t'uiidle'a CurUIn lectures." lilt
dates are 1803-1837.
3. 1)1 Hull, the famous violinist, was a Nor.
weslun.
(1. Vera Crux Is Hpanlsh for "True Cross,"
7. A xylophone Is u musical Inatrument of
wooden bare aruduateil In lencth and vh
hratlns nlieii ttrxrk or ruDtird,
8, The Kaiser's Immediate predcresaor on the
Imperial flcrmun throne was Frtrdrlch lit.
who died In 1888, after a rule of about three,
montha.
0. The Vlldls Kiosk la tho Sultan's palace la
L'onaUntlnoul.
10. John Qulnrjr Adams was elected by the
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