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PhtlidetphU, Thund.y, Aujutt IS, HIS
GUILTY!
IT1HE conviction of Isaac Deutsoh and
five policemen Is like a breath of fresh
air to a suffocating man.
All that was necessary was to present
the evidence to a Jury of Intelligent and
Impartial men. The verdict was a foregone
Conclusion from the moment the courts
consented to a change of venue.
, The Jury of Chester County citizens, tin-
k contaminated by the political machination
of the Philadelphia political crooks, could
- not he Intimidated or browbeaten. Nor
r could they be bribed. The attempt to
bribe one or two of them was tell-tale
Whether the trial court permits a new
', trial or not It Is hoped that the Judge will"
sentence the six men found guilty to as
extreme a penalty as the law allows. They
deserve It, for It has been proved that they
Attempted to conspire to interfere with a
free and fair election, a crime than which
there Is none greater in a demooracy, and
that they have deliberately violated the
Inw rilpti fnrrtlH thA nnllttrnl nrtlvltlps
iP, " r
sfe 01 policemen.
HZ mo ciean-up wui not do complete until
the, men hleher no. who nermitted If thev
ISBP ... . '... .u- -., .. j.-.v...
k th law. nrp hnlprt hefnrp n. inrv nnd pnm-
is Jelled to answer for their offenses.
5
When they order a dry zone around the
p'' shipyards will they christen the ships in
water?
THE COAST PEST
' fTlHE futility. In the large aspect, of Ger-
A i
many's depredations off aur coast con-
fjw' ;h Boies us only in purt tor meir uuiiiiauuiiuu.
'Vv' , , - .l-.l- &l
iKfc.". We nave a right to bo proud that our
kK troopships have escaped the sea wolves,
f"but the satisfaction is tempered with un-
i easiness over tne nun persistence in
. .. -W-, . . ,
attacking other game.
sya . - .. .- w... - ,.,.., .
or-. (no ugei s, uui uulii uic iiiiitiiuai iu
,t humanity.
Official news that some even one of
5V ho lnsects haa been swatted would allay
ltV the growing Irritation, Mr. Daniels.
It's easy to understand why Germany
if Is now blaming her Plcardy defeat on fog.
g Theres nothing so distressing as a victory
KJB if
W A NEW NATION
fcisf rpHE recognition of the Independence or
. . . .
ltfw . . the uzeciio-aiovaits Dy ine rsritisn 101-
lows similar action uy tiio rieiiun unu
Italians. It was forecast by the United
States when Secretary Lansing Issued his
! statement expressing the sympathy of
r' this country with the national aspirations
4 of the non-Qerman races of Austria-Hun-
K&v $ v 1 9
& B",jr- .......
Kg, The work of the Czecho Slovak armies
-" fin xiusHia eiiiiiics iiiciu iu icvukuhiuh uy
?the Entente Allies. They have formed the
Qmi$, Mtlv,tr,v nnlnt fnw n nnnnnnnla rt ihn
$fi pro-German Bolshevik! and their achieve-
J-e1"! TTienta have made it nosslblo for the sub-
H&j'-,CBtantIal and responsible elements among
sty-? the Russians to hope for deliverance from
Ht Jaa ca AL ktnb ah W lVi Vinn nt"A1n!!nrl
- since the Kerensky government fell.
s?v ;
The Emergency Fleet Corporation is
3?J? aatlsfled with the showing of the concrete
By T .ships, but It Is ships in the concrete which
&' lS'irouonns uennanj-.
SH .. . -r. C5 rV ?r.T . TTT IV ATlin
,; Tnt wit,L,i3-w.v ar.caiw ui umu
' TJ1RANK B. WILLIS has been nominated
' S? for the governorship of Ohio for tho
mjn iniru nine uy mo iMjuunwiio, dilumi
$V nonor nas cdihb lu jamca xj, vujl ul liiu
? hands of the Democrats.
Wtff Willis beat Cox in 1914 by 31,000 plu
rality and Cox beat Willis In 1916 by 5000
' ..- IJ .1.1 !!.
ml&Li'V .votes. Xlicvv wua u. incaiueiiLiui cicuilUiL
14 .-two years ago and Wilson carried the
fix State by 89,000. Cox was evidently a weak
- candidate. He must run this year on the
strength of his own record without the
xyu assistance or a .Democratic presidential
)fandlaate to bring out tne vote.
It .looks very much as If this were Willis's
. turn to win again. At anv rate, he will
SatThsLve the sunDort of the dry forces, for h
favors the ratification of the prohibition
..amendment to the national Constitution.
Speaking of the rights of little nations,
jAV Mexico reminds the British that she Intends
ili in" Insist on hers.
W&V
;& .CONCRETE SHIPS SATISFACTORY
rn. BnUNIER, In charge of the con
struction of ships of concrete, reports
at the Emergency Fleet Corporation Is
:tifled with the showing made by the
trips already constructed and will build
jjtiSwny more than the original forty pro-
,'vWed for In the original plans.
(i-TThU la interesting news, for the con-
?Vf' creta ships cost much less than ships
built of wood and only about a third as
Much as ships built of steel. But they are
'likely to displace steel ships, In fact,
is already been announced that steel
are to he preferred. Concrete, how
S'wiir serve Ita'BUroM, in Increasing
'2
LABOR AND THE DRAFT
U llie Senate Snesking a Dig Stick Into the
New Army Bill?
OINCE the first days of the war Con-
grcss has been developing an odd
talent for evading decisions' of the sort
that appear unlikely to win applause
from the galleries. Tho Senate, like the
House, has often exhibited dazzling foot
work in eluding issues that seem to in
vito unfavorable reactions of general sen
timent. The committees thrust their in
herited troubles upon the President and
flee to the trees.
It isn't surprising therefore to find the
new draft bill containing some loose ends
and ambiguities, evasive where it should
be definite, murky in those clauses that
should be most clearly phrased nnd re
verting, in a crucial provision, to "the
discretion of the President."
To scrutinize this epochal measure in
its present form is like scrutinizing a fog.
Objectives, aims and purposes are not
plain. Approximately 16,000,000 addi
tional men will bo made available for se
lective service under the bill. It is com
monly understood in the Senate and in the
House thnt the War Department hopes
to have 3,000,000 men in France next
summer. "The rest," vaguely say those
who prepared the new draft bill, "will
be in camps and in general training."
The actual uses to which "the rest" may
be put arc not clearly indicated in any
plan so far made public either by the
War Department, by Congress or by the
President. Speculation is, therefore,
made imperative. And speculation, in
this instance, doesn't lead one's mind into
pleasant fields.
Obviously one of the purposes of tho
new draft bill is to eliminate waste, idle
ness and lost motion in the wnr indus
tries. This is apparent in the sweeping
clause which provides that any man in
a war industry who docs not continue to
work will automatically be drafted for
service with the colors. "The President,"
reads the amendment introduced by Sena
tor Reed, of Missouri, "shall make regu
lations for enforcing this provision"!
The President, of course, since the
courage of the Senate committee appears
to have run out when it copied this nice
detail of discredited English legislation!
At one stroke the Senate committee has
left itself open to indictment not only
for amazingly bad taste, but for cow
ardice as -well. It was not content with
implying that the military service is to
be regarded as a penalty provided for
idlers and wrongdoers. It whittled a big
stick for labor, yet it lacked the courage
to fully reveal its handiwork! The Reed
clause i3 an apparent attempt to shuffle
this club secretly into the hands of the
President.
Did Mr. Wilson himself anticipate such
a course? Did he seek or does he wel
come the power which Mr. Reed, of Mis
souri, would provide for him? Since Mr.
Reed frankly dislikes Mr. Wilson, it may
be assumed fairly that he seized the oc
casion to kill two birds with one stone
to evade a decision which he and his con
ferees should have made under their own
authority and to add a little more of con
fusion to the President's tasks.
We are, so far as the industrial side
of the war goes, muddling through, sure
enough. There is an appalling waste of
time, money and energy in the war
preparations. It may seem to those who
must bear the brunt of responsibility in
Washington thnt the coirection of some
of the apparent evils by force of the
draft laws is logical enough.
Out it isn't logical. It vs, perhaps, the
most dangerous suggestion made in
America since the war began.
If the President or the Secretary of
War or any member of Congress or
anybody else supposes that such a proj'
ect would be other than subtly disas
trous he is cherishing a delusion.
At any cost the nation must keep the
military function and the industrial
function of the war, and the laws govern
ing the one' and the other, separate and
forever apart. It must permit no hint
or suggestion of interaction between leg
islation devised for the development of
the military establishment and legisla
tion devised for the direction and de
velopment of war industries. If it is
necessary jir the development of the
army to classify, register and make avail
able for the draft all men between the
ages of eighteen and forty-five, or be
tween eighteen and eighty, no one will
ask any Questions.
But if behind the draft bill there is
some veiled intention to give the Admin
istration or any of its department a whip
hand over labor in the war industries, or
an intention ultimately to apply anything
of military regulation and discipline to
workers, then it must be admitted that
we are adventuring into perilous fields.
Any plan for the conscription of labor
involves an affront to the whole spirit
of the nation and a violation of tho
rights of all men. It was upon such an
issue that England was almost split in
two in the early days of the war, when
the Government unwisely attempted thus
arbitrarily to control labor.
No one in Washington has yet hinted
openly at any such purpose. But a study
of the new draft bill indicates plainly
enough that it would pave the way to
that end. It would give tho President
power to punish any man in a war in
dustry who might be idle for a day. It
would make labor demonstrations impos
sible. It would make it impossible, if the
President so willed, for a worker to take
a day off from one job to look for one
that paid better. Through subtler inter
pretations, the new bill easily might
bring most of the men In the industries
directly under governmental authority.
It may be that industry isn't going fast
enough, that we are in an era of terrific
waste. But the Senate and the Adminis-
I trat'on are on the -wrong tack if they
"JfJ'-jhi
EVENING PUBLIC lEDOERPHII3ADteLi?HlA, THUKSDAY, &TJ(fUST 15
hope to euro tho existing evils by con
scriptive measures.
Industry must discipline itself. Wo
will get through somehow as things are.
Out legislation of a sort likely to rouse
class consciousness and a sense of en
forced discrimination is likely to spoil the
unity of spirit that is tho chief strength
of the nation at ihis time.
Therefore, a fuller explanation of tho
purposes of the eighteen-to-forty-five
draft bill is required at once, cither in
tho Senate or from tho War Department
or from the White House, if only to re
move the doubts and suspicions which
Senator Reed and his colleagues in their
maneuvering have managed td set up.
Tho' news that England "has pronounced
the Czecho-Slovaks a nation" may provoke
varied opinions on some counts, but admira
tion of her labial dexterity Is unshadowed.
A MOMENTOUS MONTH
rpiIERE Is considerable difference be--
tween being a humble commuter, ever
fearful 'that tho train will go without him,
nnd the traffic manager who makes tho
timetables, and can stop or start tho
express whenever he feels like It. Within
the short space of a month tho world of
civilization has experienced the sensations
of each of these individuals.
From March 21 to July II, 1918, Luden
tlorff was the war's traffic manager. His
timetable kept tho Allies anxiously on
tho Jump nnd the danger of missing con
nections was ever present. On July IS
the hand of Ferdinand Foch grasped tho
throttle, all Teuton schedules wero can
celed, the war traffic was rerouted and
turned east. It's Ludendorff who mlsse3
the trains now and doesn't even know
when nnd where they aro about to move.
In all the history of warfare there has
been no such sudden and sweeping trans
fer of victorious authority a-j this. "First
Marno" tas succeeded by a long stale
mate. Meade's triumph at Gettysburg was
clouded by his inability to continue an
offensive against Lee, nor could the South
ern commander press his advantage after
Chancellorsvllle.
Tho definite passage of the initiative to
the Allies at the very moment when tho
Hun hordes wero booked to reach the
climax of their power Is an achievement
whose luster cannot be dulled, even If the
road to complete victory is longer than
even tho most conservative foresee.
In dramatic celerity the event is over
whelming. The tide of war, four years In
reaching its flood, was turned in the
momentous month which ended yesterday.
"Ice tea dropped at many cafes," says a
headline, and the fact that not a drop was
spilled convinces us that the fountain clerk
Is a conserving patriot as well as a Juggler.
SELF-DETERMINATION IN AUGUST
TTKRMERLY it was a scrap of paper and
occasionally a circle of celluloid. Gen
erally Just now it is a loop of linen, but
ever has It been n ring of ruthlessness.
Winter winds insistently invade its re
cesses, yet summer zephyrs fear its for
midable front as the Hun does Foch's.
Our theme is the Inexorable collar, at once
a symbol and a potent Instrument of con
striction. In the midst of an outrageous August
tho whole subject is particularly sadden
ing nnd wo would not have opened it save
for the fact that relief from servitude Is
demonstrable on patriotic grounds.
Over In Germany a man named Simon
inscribed on his classification card a false
measurement of his neckband. Tho fact
that tills offense landed him in Jail Is
sufficient evidence of the collar's sanctity
in Hunland. Doubtless Herr Simon, whoe
name, appropriately enough, is August,
merely wished to wear his bonds a size
larger. Teuton tyranny squelched him,
thereby registering its approval of ono of
male humanity's most deplorable hhackles.
It Is obvious then that collars, llko every
other disagreeable thing, are of pro Ger
man character. Patriotism, therefore, espe
cially when supported by a hot spell, dic
tates American emancipation. And, in
addition, S. Leighton Frooks, of Now York,
has announced his candidacy for Congress
and has organized himself Into the Anti
Collar League of America. "Take off your
collar and leave it off!" Is his inspiring
slogan.
Will his sweltering fellow-cltlzens heed
him? It can be logically worked out that
to bo antl-Frooks Is to be pro-German.
Self-determination for the Adam's apple,
orchards of them gleaming In tho hot sun
of Chestnut street, would be the reward of
a sartorial revolution long painfully
delayed.
The Crown Prince and
Rupprecht are out and
Ludendorff is at tho
No Helen
Checks Are Issued
bat with Foch pitch
ing. It isn't surprising to hear, therefore,
that the American soldiers in France have
lost all Interest in the big league games at
home.
It Is pleasant to know
Trne that the Carlisle In
dians are now work
ing at Hog Island since we can be sure that
a few persons at least will understand tho
significance of the names painted on the
new ships.
Registration Is vexa
As the Kaiser tlon,
Views Us Enlistment's very
bad;
The troops at sea bewilder me.
And vlc'try drives me mad.
Call him Eludendorff
and bo done with It.
The distinction seems
to have been earned.
Certainly,
for the Present
Lieutenant Sam Katcher, here recruiting
for the Marines, has fallen a victim to a
recruiting officer himself. The officer's name
is Dan Cupid, and he wears an excellent
hot weather uniform.
France paid America a graceful tribute
In renaming the Belleau wood after the
marines and yet reletterlng her maps was
really unnecessary. The forest of Ourscampa
lies also in the war zone.
There's no offense whatever in the
weather man's "marked coolness." In fact.
It proclaims him as rather a good fellow
after all.
The alleged naval battle off Copenhagen
Was probably only the usual SUaggeracket,
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BEEF, IRON AND WINE
The Smell of Apples
TTTE STOPPED in at the Bcllevuc-Strat-
ford Hotel yesterday afternoon to look
at the apples. The dining room of a big
hotel Is not usually a place ono would
associate with a country orchard, but the
International Apple Shippers are holding
their convention there, and arrayed In
shining piles on the long tables are all
tho apples you over heard of. The room
was fragrant with that marvelous, fresh,
nipping, unforgotten odor tho emcll of
ripening apples.
rpiIERE wore big, glossy, green apples
-- nnd bright red apples and yellow apples
and that particularly delicious kind (wo
don't remember the name) that Is the
palest possiblo cream color almost white.
There wero apples of strange shapes, al
most llko a pear (sheepnoscs, wo bellevo
they call them) and tho Maiden Blush
apples, with their delicate shading of yel
low and pink. And what a poetry there
Is in the names we copied a few from
the little tags on tho piles of fruit: Wine
sap, Pippin, Northern Spy, Baldwin, Ben
Davis, York Imperial, Wolf River, Jona
than, Smokehouse, Summer Rambo, Rome
Beauty, Shenango Strawberry, Benonl.
WE RAN Into Mr. R. A. Troth, of
Orleans, Ind., whoso apples had
Just arrived. Ho was laying them out on
exhibition, and we watched them with
amazement. Such greens and reds and
yellows! There used to be an old legend
about apple packers putting the biggest
fruit at the top of tho barrel, but we don't
believe a man could associate long with
such magnificent fruit and still bo dis
honest. Wo are all molded by the things
we work with. Wo defy a man to live
next to a printing press, that marvelous
piece of accurate and beautiful machinery,
and not try to put Into his writing some
thing of tho fire nnd wonder of the great
machine. A man cannot live with a lovely
nnd gracious woman without becoming In
some degree a worshiper of beauty In all
Its forms. And wo don't see how a man
could live and deal with apples very long
without wanting to act honestly by thn
world.
A ND wo suppose
-who has not a
suppose there Is hardly a man
an applo orchard tucked
away In his heart somewhere. There
must be some deep reason for the old sus
picion that the Garden of Eden was an
apple orchard. Why is it that a man can
sleep and smoke hetter under an apple
treo than in nny other kind of shade? Sir
Isaac Newton was a wise man, and he
chose an apple tree to sit beneath. (We
have often wondered, by tho way, how It
It that no ono has ever named an apple
the Woolsthorpe, after Newton's homo In
Lincolnshire, where the famous apple Inci
dent occurred.)
A-
N APPLE orchard, If It Is to fill the
heart of man to tho full with affec
tionate satisfaction, should straggle down
a hillside toward a like and a white road
where the sun shines hotly. Some of its
branches should trail over an old, llchcned
and weather-stained stone wall, dropping
their fruit into the highway for thirsty
pedestrians. There should be a little path
"Tunning athwart it, down toward the lake
and the old flat-bottome'd boat, whose bllgo
Is scattered with tho black and shriveled
remains of angleworms used for bait. In
warm August afternoons the sweet savor
of ripening drifts waimly on the nlr, and
there rises tho drowsy hum of wasps
exploring the windfalls that are already
rotting on tho grass. There you may lie
watching the sky through tho chinks of
the leaves, and imagining the cool, golden
tang of this autumn's elder vats. That
Is the sort of vision that the desk-bound
citizen consoles himself with about this
time of year. If you want to smell that
whiff of boyhood once more. Just drop into
the Bellevue-Stratford dining room today
and see the long rows of winesaps and
pippins spread Out before your gloating
eyes.
An Interview With the President of the
German Republic
After a visit to the National Museum to
see the wax modols of Hlndenburg and
Ludendorff (preserved there as curious
specimens of the military era) we wero
honored with an interview with Mr.
Harden, the president of the Republic.
We asked the president how It was that
the German Republic had established Itself
with such apparent ease.
"After the Kaiser had gone to St.
Helena," he said, "our task was simple.
We hired a special train and took the
Crown Prince to the leading cities all over
the country, to show him to the people.
Everywhere, as soon as ho was seen, the
population becamo ardently republican.
Indeed, we regard him as the greatest
asset the republic has. Wo keep him per
petually on exhibition at the Publicity
Department, with Rosner to act as lec
turer. Those who have any lingering sen
timents of Hohenzollernlsm aro taken
there to see him. One glance Is sufficient."
"What have you done with the Prussian
army officers?"
"A good many of them had to be sent
to tho obstinacy asylums. The others
have been made wild animal trainers in
the zoo or doorkeepers at movlng-picturo
shows and department stores. They have
been allowed to retain their uniforms, and
have been very useful. Almost every
movie has. a doorkeeper with an Iron
cross."
"And the submarines?"
"We loaded them full of all the volumes
of Treltschke and Bernhardl we could find
and sank them. I'm afraid that some of
their commanders went down with them
It was rather careless of us."
"How did you settle the troublesome
question of Alsace-Lorraine?"
"After discussion with the French, it
seemed best to turn over that matter to
the people who are so good at ruling all
countries except their own the Irish. We
converted Alsace-Lorraine into an Irish
republic under the .presidency of Sir Ed
ward Carson."
We left the president, marveling at h'a
sagacity.
The Kind-Henrted .Motorist
"What's happened down there?"
"Man run over by an automobile."
"What kind of car was It?" asked the
motorist, eagerly. SOCRATES.
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THE JOB THAT NO ONE WANTED
By Private James
Extract lorn a
IET me tell you something about the
j matter of physical courage something
which you piobably know already but
which needs repeating. Physical courage
Is about the cheapest, most widely dis
tributed virtue which the world has in its
nrsenal not that it isn't fine and thrill
ing nnd ndmirable. It Is all that and I
have seen enough of It to redeem, my faith
in mankind. But it is not exceptional.
Lord, the aveiage human being is mag
nificent In extremity and for that let us
be thankful.
TO PUT It differently, I once heard
Major Rockwell, a first-rate surgeon,
who recruited the Columbia Ambulance
Company in which I enlisted, say that one
man is about as brave as another, and that
the two things that count are brains and
endurance. Not that there aren't genuine
ambusqucs (slackers), some Intelligent, edu
cated ones, too, who haven't room In their
narrow hearts for the greatest emotion
that has ever swept over this earth. Not
that there aren't worms who shoot them
selves In tho foot rather than go Into
the trenches very low and rare mental
types these. In general I should say that
It is chiefly tho lower types whose de
velopment can be furthered by being made
to pass through the ordeal by fire.
B
iUT no really first-class person needs
pass through this ordeal needs to
prove his courage. Courage, both moral
and physical, Is the Inalienable possession
of every first-class person. Chances aro
he never had to win It himself his an
cestftrs settled that for htm two or threo
generations before. But he's got it, and
when he runs away from serious respon
sibilities In order to prove something which
Is already self-evident, he is merely in
dulging in romantic folly.
I BELIEVE that this war, and America's
entrance into the war, are the greatest
events in the history of the world, and that
compacted In all the suffering and tragedy
and heartbreaking trifling and boredom
there Is the most glorious hope that ever
came Into men's hearts the most stu
pendous vindication of the divinity of man.
The health of the world, the sane,
courageous youth of the world, the im
mortal abstractions of truth and decency,
armed and fighting, are going to kick the
whole paraphernalia of medievalism Into
the dustheap; armies and armaments and
military castes and military science all
on the Junk pile like used tin soldiers.
(The child Is growing up and wants other
toys.) A lot of false religion is going." A
lot of narrow and unenlightened patriotism
Is going. A lot of vicious and anti-social
commercialism is going. All theso things
are going to happen not all at once, but
swept along In the rush of this vast tldeot
creative energy which the breaking up of
the Old World has set loose.
IT IS. good to remind oneself of this. (I
am afraid I put it a little too rhetor
ically.) It saves one from doing frivolous
things. The world can't be saved by the
fine gesture of the young man who dies
fighting bravely for his country. That Is
part of It, of course, but the "present
emei gency," as the enlistment papers call
It, Is bigger than that. The world will be
saved by the men who come over here and
fight the Germans; by the Germans like
LJebknecht and Lebedour nnd Schelde
n-aT" M'S -a v.-.: K.iiwflriiv' i, . . roawj'WJHirs !'" iii.r'o. --
g'-- . jw ;n at' .MKir Mmvar,'V1&r
"FRAMED!",
F. Rorty, A.E.F.
letter from France.
mann, who nurse and organize the forces
of unrest In Germany; by tho men who
stay home In America and keep their heads,
so that out of the disintegrating 'fabric of
tho old world there may rise the nobler
structure of tho new, A new world!
Whether one lives to see it or not is a
chanco that doesn't matter, for at least
ono will have had a share in its creation.
Rvppv lilimnn linlnr. man nnrl wnmnn nlllrn
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alive at this moment, has his chance to
have a share In this magnificent creation.
T STARTED out to demonstrate that the
-- war cannot possibly be reduced to the
proportions of a tribal ordeal of courage.
The soldiers themselves realize that. Take
our llttlo section, for example. The most
devoted, faithful, serviceable, patriotic per
son In tho outfit Is the cook. He was a
driver In tho Norton-Harjes service, has a
Croix de Guerre, obtained under difficult
circumstances at Verdun, and didn't know
anything about cooking when ho joined
the U. S. A. As. and got dumped Into tho
base camp at for three months. The
cook's Job was one that nobody wanted
and he took It out of pure decency, I guess.
And once having taken it he hasn't been
able to get rid of It, although, llko every
body else, he likes the excitement of front
line evacuation work. He does a tremen
dous amount of drudgery without growl
ing, and incidentally everybody In the sec
tion Is devoted to him. Wonderful how
tho warm humanity of the man finds, an
outlet fn splto of everything. He has a
particular passion for reciprocating the
French cordiality to Americans and being
cook ho ls'ln a first-rate position to recipro
cate. As a result you can go almost any
where along his trail and ask the first pollu
you meet if ho knows Monsieur Woodell.
Llko as not ho will throw up his hat and
cheer. "Tres bon camarade! Ah, oui, Un
tres, tres gentil Amerlcaln!" I maintain
that Woodell Is playing a bigger part than
ho realizes.
Airplane View of a Battle
Major W. A. Bishop, king of all airmen,
with seventy-two confirmed machines to his
credit, was In the air during tho battle of
Arras, and In his book, "Winged Warfare,"
he describes the extraordinary effect of
artillery fire when viewed from a height.
The flames from the guns gave the
Impression of a long ribbon of Incandescent
light, and the air seemed literally filled with
shells. But tho spectacle of the advancing
Infantry was tho most remarkable:
"The waves of attacking Infantry as they
came out of their trenches and trudged for
ward behind tho curtain of shells laid down
by the artillery, were an amazing sight. The
men seemed to wander across No Man's
Land and into the enemy trenches as if
the battle was a great bore to them. From
the air It looked as though they did not
realize that they were at war and were
taking It all entirely too quietly. That Is the
way with clock-work warfare. Theso troops
had been drilled to move forward at a given
pace. They had been timed over and over
again in marching a certain distance, and
from this timing the 'creeping' or rolling
barrage, which moved in front of them, had
been mathematically worked out. And the
battle, so calmly entered Into, was one ot
the tensest, bitterest of the entire world
war,"
The Russians, who are said to have re
solved to blow up their warships to prevent
Germany from taking them, are at least
plentifully equipped with gas.
The Bahamas report depressing times
for the sponge. Theslump, however, should
be only temporary. There'll be something
doing when Germany throws itup.
Ll.
The Reader's Viewpoint
Who Invented Ice Cream?
To the Editor of the Evening Public Ledger:
Sir You say that the Italians are credited
with the Invention of Ice cream. My Infor
mation Is that the first Ice cream was made
I by a London confectioner named Gunton. It
was Introduced into America by Dolly Madi
son, who served It at a reception at the White
House. In 1811 it was added to the cake'
and wine which had been served at the Wis
tar parties in Philadelphia from their incep
tion. Nancy Johnson, tho wife of an Ameri
can naval officer, Invented the Ice cream
freezer which made It possible to freeze the
cream more satisfactorily than by merely
Packing the mixture of cream and flavoring
, lcc. T know that there ,sm fuion that
ice cream was discovered accidentally when
Martha Washington left some sweetened
cream out doors on a cold night ; but this is
merely one of those Interesting and curious
tales that grow up about every great im
provement in tho manner of living.
I know that in Europe the Italians are
credited with the Invention of Ice cream and
the Neapolitans consume It In great quanti
ties to this day or to the day when Italy
entered the war, but they aro wearing bor
rowed culinary plumes. EPICURE.
Philadelphia, August 14.
Rioting and Voting
To the Editor of the Evening Public Ledger:
Sir It Is more than certain that the mob
violence at Strawberry Mansion, extending
over a district reaching to Twenty-seventh
and York streets and resulting In damage
to property, tho infliction 'of bodily Injury,
"tc, will not lead any well-balanced person j
to argue that men should never have been
permitted to enjoy the vote. Nor will any
one be likely to recommend depriving even
the rioters themselves of the vote. In a few
days the whole affair will bo hushed up.
AVhy Is It, therefore, that the action of a
handful of women at Washington actions
attended neither with damage to property
nor assault and battery, etc. should lead
your editor to fear that some votes for the
suffrage amendment will be lost in the United
States Senate?
Are the methods of reasoning used by men
line senator Tnomas so tumsy that a small,
tame affair like that of last week can cause
them to withhold their vote from a measure
affecting the women of the entire nation? It
looks very much as If Senator Thomas has
not been a real friend of suffrage for
twenty-five years. Real friends do not reason
In this way. They are not so emotional ( !)
as to permit the misdeeds of a few to blind
them to the rights of the many. They are
governed by eternal principles always, and
not by human perversities. As for Senator
Reed, it appears that he rejoices greatly
over the bad behavior of the forty-eight. He
talks like a person who Is really glad that
the thing came to pass as It did. Meanwhile,
democracy vvaits! E. C.
Philadelphia, August 13.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. What Is chicle?
2. What Is the mennlnr of "dolce far nlente"? ;
3. Where Is Surinam?
i What Is nn Isotherm?
5. How manr VrrsldenU "t the United State!
died In office and who were tner?
0. What Is the title of the heir apparent ta
the throne ot Spain?
1. Who wrote. "Tber also serve vho onlj- stand
and wait"?
8. After whom is the month of Aocost named?
0. Which Is the port side of a ship?
10. Who commanded the German U-boat which
sank the Lusltanla?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Coxhavrit'ls the deep.nater port of Hamburf,
2. The line "One touch of nature makes the
whole world Jfln" occurs In Shakespeare's
"Trollua and Cresslda," and Is spoken bjf
I'll sees.
8. The prMent Klnc of Itatr Is a member of
the House of Savor.
4. Durlnic ltts political career drover Cleveland
discarded nls first name. Stephen.
5. The word boudoir la derived from the French i
verb "bonder." to pout, nod hence literally
means a pouting place,
6. The Japanese are the race numerically pre
dominant In Hawaii.
1. "II lo Jacct." frequently Inscribed on tomb-
stones, is IUn for "Here lies."
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erallr knewu n the battle of Bharpsburn t-
0. A ketch I a email two-muted coaaUns Tg
set.
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