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&, HUN LIES AND SUSCEPTIBLE EARS
f? mATTCS. iinnnthnrizn.l hv Wnshlncton. of
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''abroad are lies.
They are invented by German prop.x
Mndlsts.
fjvi' iThnv nrn rlrnilnfpd hv irlllltblo lnnta.
fSh The intent of this latter class of lmlivld
RBals is, of course, not criminal, but tlAe
Wrect of their actions is.
,"Tho latest wild falsehood allK!rs; that
KJIthe old Third Regimen of this city had
Been "obliterated is a typical spejlnu'n or
'pi disloyal mendacity. Hun ngerHs cxyll
raWhen such a yarn gains credence. It titles
RlPoignantly In the cars of emotionalists, and
Sjjithe fact that such persons liavo often of
fered those dearest to them to the rai'se
. of freedom, while it explains, do3-s rict e-c-
ui's'cuse ,their dangerous folly.
iSfift1' Thft rrnot fflpts nf wnr
SK The cruel facts of war nviat bo faced
BwJv.'-.DUt sinister myths aro Intrlerable. The
110,000, twenty years' imprisonment or
both. The cost of traitorous invent'. ins
fid susceptible nerves comes high.
i
y xiie largest coniracior in me roria
iemq aeeply infatuated with the skip-slop
jrstem.
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ROLLING CHAIRS AND WAR
gWOONGRESSMAN J. M. BAER, of North
5pK' Dakota, has been taking the cure at
EAUantlc City. He is weeping in print be-
EWtuiM or tno sights his eyes beheld.
lWhlch'," moans the Dakota sage, "Is the
iSfe'least essential employment riding in a
lifer wiling chair or pushing a rolling chair in
KKj!Kich somebody else rides?"
fos? That is a timely question, to bo sure.
LfiSut we haven't tlmo for the mpdlt.itlnn
rtilffiich a Just answer would require.
A'r-
K ye are too busy wondering whether
,' Congressmen on their vacations build
hips, load shells or knit for the soldiers.
The latest Entente shipping report Jams
JyT k. mnf" tn citHfr,fii.tni wltli no Urtiilo li.
MV IKtciRc pressure.
AN ECHO OF FROG HOLLOW
THE Fifth "Ward trial shrewd men-
were convicted of systematic efforts to
mv
fcftlsiT-ciTeumvftnt the laws nnd nrnppRspq nf fr
SiiSfgQvernment.
14, .-Fhlladelphlans are sending their sons
f and brothers to fight and die for the things
f-,wwhich the Fifth Ward held in contempt.
X;-iio war lor iree government nas already
left ten million dead men and cripples In
&Lftfl vrnlro k
ftia.k iiic ij b laiou inuiiiivaieu no sense
jet outrage, no perceptible quiver of indie-
Rr-Atlon. n. thn ripfnlla nf nnlttlpnl nrnctttn.
1?
ea were revealed at West Chester.
M' cynicism a disease prevalent every-
aere, in the city as well as in FroB
BM Hollow?
$',. Fashion decrees that the skirts of the
KWt wviiuii hid iv uc Liuicr uuu eiiorier. MO
&V" match the famllv Income?
Itch the family income?
TABULATING GERMAN FAILURE
TN WAR the burden of explanation seldom
.vX1 fall's on thft Victor. Thn fnrf .nnk- ftty
themselves. They do so most lucidly In
ST'the latest monthly report on the crowlnir
Ip'.ftUlure of the U-boat campaign.
KpJ la, July, 1917, the German submarines
BWUik 634,439 tons of shipping. In Juiy,
K.U1 . .t,A Dint f7A AAA trna ninttn.. tUnl
rf.o, fcvj o-..fc -tv,vvv w..o. xuilllH UI41
paame-' periou mo rnienie nations con
Mructed vessels of a total tonnage 280,000
jia; excess of the amount destroyed by the
leniy.
;.lxienaea aisquisuions on tins report
ay be-cheerfully left to the Germans. Wo
iV "reached a point'where terse statistics
Ujaake superior reading.
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ty haiuibiij nc: m.v jiKaacu in icaru lum
3Toles are under many flags," and yet there's
thing particularly new In the statement.
W BOOMERANG EVIDENCE,
VH" wa are told, signifies as a suflix
"one who," and a contractor la there-
""one who contracts" or agrees to do a
thing.
miadelnblans should not confuse sucn
ikWcVlndlvldual with a "performer," esne-
jftljiMJy In the case of contracts for remov-
3ffF 'the cltys ruDDisn.
Vitr uiriy anu uiirrcu aireeis unvenome
'unpleasant truth that a good con
tort a capital promlser, a past master
edge-making, may be a "bad per-
seeking to shift the blame for trash-
l pavements on the individual prop-
'owners and tenants, the Bureau of
-Cleaning has stirred" up boomerang
e.
klTeytaled .that the orbit of a rubbish
'js as. erratic as mat or a long-
fcomet, Jhat the elusive "dustman"
' avtrse to tips? prompting him a
nee of fills simple duty, and that
fotarlyst out wait? for the .scav-
nough to moiwie fairly .-is.
SELECTIVE DRAFT ON WEALTH
It Should Do Made to Equltablo Thnt No
Group of Taxpayers Can Complain
. of Unjust Treatment
WE ARE raising levenucs for the war
' by the volunteer and by the draft
systems.
Wo have consented to the selective
draft system for raising armies because
wo believe that under it the burden of
contributing the fighting men will bo
fairly apportioned among the States and
among the different groups of popula
tion, and that no men needed for es
sential industries will be diverted to the
business of enrrying a rifle.
The acceptance of the first draft law
and the certainty that the nation will
malic no objection' to n new law extend
ing the ago limits constitute one of the
modern miracles. Two years ago no one
would have believed such n thing possi
ble. The nation lias subscribed to the Lib
erty Loans that is, it has volunteered
its money in the fight for liberty and
it has paid the war taxes that is, it has
submitted to the draft on its financial
resources in the same spirit that it has
contributed its man-power.
Wc arc rend to supply all (he money
thnt t9 needed, but wc want to be assured
that when our money is drafted the draft
is based on c fair and impartial rule.
The suspicion that Chairman Kitchin,
of the House Ways and Means Commit
tee, docs not intend to be fair is at the
bottom of all the criticism that has been
leveled at the revenue bill which his com
mittee is framing. The Democratic
leaders in the House still harbor the
views which Mr. Bryan did his best to
promulgate in the days when he was
denouncing the money power and charg
ing it with controlling legislation and
dominating the councils of the great
political parties. The desire to penalize
wealth and financial success is back of
many of the suggestions for raising war
revenue made by Mr. Kitchin.
The purpose of the new tax bill is to
raise revenue, but some of the taxes
proposed would destroy the very busi
nesses out of whose profits the revenue
is to be raised.
No argument should be necessary to
prove that the present excess-profits tax
should be readjusted in such a way that
it will bear equitably upon small and
largj enterprises, upon enterprises under
capitalized as well as on those over
capitalized. Secretary McAdoo stands on firm
ground when he demands this, and when
he insists that a war-profits tax should
bo provided which will displace for cer
tain industries the excess-profits tax.
The distinction which he draws between
the two forms of taxation makes very
clear why the war-profits tax is prefer
able. The e::cess,-profits tax is merely a tax
on the profits in excess of a fair return
on capital and it docs not reach war
profits as they should be reached. A
war-profits tax is a tax on profits made
from war contracts and the profits are
computed after a comparison with the
profits made by the business before the
war and the profits the business is now
making. Those profits aie liable to be
excessive because contracts must be
awarded quickly, without the careful
scrutiny of costs which would bo possible
in time of peace.
Mr. McAdoo justly assumes that no
patriotic American wishes to grow rich
out of the war. He also assumes that
a fair icturn on the capital invested
should be assured to business men in
older that the wealth of the country may
not be destroyed. But he says that it is
only far that the Government should
take back in the form of taxes a maxi
mum of 80 per cent of the profits made
on Government work after the amount of
profit is clearly ascertained.
JVtt's is the kind of a draft on wealth to
which business ought to be willing to
submit without complaint.
Mr. McAdoo is right when ho insists
that the income tax on unearned in
comes that is, the tax on income de
rived from wealth invested in securi
ties should be greater than the tax on
income deiived from labor, whether of
the brain or of the hand. At present a
man enjoying an income of $20,000 from
inherited wealth is taxed less than a man
who earns 20,000 as the manager of a
business or as a lawyer or a physician.
This is unfair.
Chairman Kitchin's plan for a tax on
business, however, will have to bo modi
fied considerably before it will commend
itself to the sense of fairness of the
avei'age man. To compel every man
doing a business amounting to $2000
and not more than $200,000 a year to pay
a tax of ?10 and to levy a tax of $25 on
all doing a business of more than $200,
000 is essentinlly unfair. If there is to
be an occupation tax it should be grad
uated. A $10 tax on a man doing $200,
000 worth of business is so trivial that
it would not be felt, but it would be a
burden on the littlo man doing only
$2000 worth' of business.
If Mr. Kitchin's committee cannot
drafjt a just revenue bill the country will
have to look to the Senate to correct its
inequities. The country is patient and
will submit to much, but there ought to
be political wisdom enough in Washing
ton, if there is not fairness enough, to
prevent the passage of another tax law
which puts unjust burdens on any
group of taxpayers.
The report that the gold reserve has
been taken from Moscow fully confirms the
news that Lenlne and Trotsky have tied.
THE NEEDLE ARMISTICE
tSQLEEP," asserts a well-known poet,
whose nationality Germany has
struggled to niter "knits up the raveled
sleeve of .care." The assertion Is partlcu-
soft nurse" wcro not thus assiduous, who
would be? The vast army of human knit
ters faces an Involuntary retirement Tho
manufacture of all woolen or worsted
hnnd-knUting yarns has been banned until
further notlco by the war industries board.
Fair "purling" fingers have been halted.
At tho movies, tho play, the opera, tho
concert, In tho trolley, tho nuto, tho day
coach, and the Pullman thoso Innumerable
exhibitions of noiseless feminine dexterity
have been called off, or, at least, will be
as soon as tho supply of materials on
hand has been exhausted.
Man will miss tho fascination ot watch
ing an apparently Inchoate mass of fuzz
turn Into a sock foot or a sweater sleeve.
Ho will miss tho stimulus derived from
such a spectsrclo when tho play was dull
or tho music heavy. As balm for boredom
the sceno was triumphantly effective. Im
possible not to bo rapturously Intrigued
in the presence of such tireless patriotic
energy.
It will seem strange to return to the
old days to bo, ns it were, unhypnotlzed,
to remember the railway station at which
one must alight or to follow tho course
of footllght trafllc, to bo no longer urider
tho spell of that quickly shrinking yarn
ball. As for tho girls who unwound It,
surely they hao well earned a period of
release. Having knitted so generously that
tho Government Is now fearful that an
army well equipped with socks and
sweaters may be lacking In winter uni
forms nnd overcoats, tho needle pliers need
dread no Imputations on their zeal. They
have deeply Interested American males
both at homo and abroad.
When tho war Industries board resounds
the call to needles, tho refreshment of a
vacation will have given new gusto to
hundreds of thousands of patriotic fingers.
OeiK-ral Lull used to worry us when ho
took orders from Germany, but now that
Foch can either command or dismiss him
when he pleases our frars hae vanished.
THE DAY OF THE LITTLE NATIONS
VN"K thing Is morally certain, and that is
that there will be an independent
Poland when tho war ends. Tho Poles
have suffered persecution for more than a
century. Their nation has been dismem
bered and their people have had to live
under alien rule. Germany made.lt a mis
demeanor for the roles to use their own
language. The recruiting of a Polish aimy
tq fight Germany wherever It can deserves
the assistance of all the Entente Allies. A
fi-eo Poland between Germany and Russia,
with a Polish king or with a Polish presi
dent, as the Polish people decide is best for
them, would shut Germany out of Russia
completely and prevent the extension of
her power toward tho cast.
The creation of a Czechoslovak nation
In northwestern Austria, where the popu
lation is almost exclusively Czecho-Slovak,
would separate Austria from Germany and
put an obstacle In tho way of the Berlin-to-Bagdad
program. This nation has al
ready been recognized by France, Italy
nnd Great Britain. Its government is still
on paper, but when Germany Is defeated in
the field tho people can take possession of
their own affairs and breathe freely for
the first time in generations. The little
nations are likely to come Into their own.
The Germans shelled a schooner near
Cape May, but the drys have been trjing to
abolish schooners for many years.
WHAT IS WORK?
ii
' A LLi working people everywhere," says
" Tchltcherln, Foreign Minister for tho
Bolshcvikl, "are our friends!"
Are they?
And what Is work and who are the
working people?
Does labor of the mind count for any
thing in this world? Do the Bolshevikl
know anything of the brain fag and the
exhaustion and the elghtecn-hour days
that aro common among those who think
and teach and write and give themselves
up to the unending struggle of ordering
the world and making it endurable and
habitable through business and the pro
fessions? The world Is revising its conceptions of
work. Only among the Bolshevik! in Rus
sia and elsewhere are you still regarded as
a loafer unless you toll with your muscle
or with your tongue.
"What is the differ
Vfoe for tlif nan ence, Mr. Bones, be
tween America and
Germany?" "Do you desire a specific and
categorical citation, Mr. Tambo?" "I should
prefer one, and so to ease both your mind
and my own perhaps I'd better tell you that
we may eventually get rid of our extortion
ists, but defeated Germany will never cease
shedding her war prophet-tears."
If the mosquito fleet
Hot ITtnther cannot finish the sub
Keanonlnc marine that is prowl
ing off Capo May the
mosquitoes may do somo dirty work to the
Hun. No one can say that Jersey mosquitoes
don't boast good American blood In their
veins. f
Colonel Roosevelt's
The New Spelling frank expression of
regret because of his
inability to flght beside his sons In France
is more than admirable. Yet the country
would lose were ho to go abroad. He Is
needed here to deal In his own peculiar way
with malefactors of great stealth.
Docs anybody know
Tea, It' Mud the name of the Hun
prince who doubtless
was selected to be king of America?
More than 169,331,000 pounds of pork
was exported from the United States during
June to help feed the Allies. Can this mean
that Congress Is actually practicing con
servation to aid the war?
"
The silence of Director Wilson and the
Vares yesterday on the subject of the West.
Chester verdict was more eloquent than any
thing they could have eald.
President Wilson can find time between
hla manifold duties to attend a House party
now and then.
Public speakers nowadays substitute
Lenlne and Trotsky for the classic Scylla
and CharybdlB.
German man-'power la falling say the
GOING AND COMING
Can the Teens Fight?
piVEN though he Isn't a smoker himself,
-' Mr. Charles C. Bell, of Boonvllle, Mo.,
watched us genially whllo wo puffed at our
Boonvlllo corncob. We wero lucky enough
to number Mr. Bell among tho callers at
the cave yesterday.. He Is in town for tho
convention of tho Apple Shippers' 'Associa
tion, of which he was tho founder and first
president twenty-five years ago. It began
with eleven members nnd now numbers
over COO.
7T1HERE is a good deal of talk nowadays
J- about whether boys of eighteen should
be drafted for tho army It Is interesting
to know that Mr. Bell Joined tho Union
army in '64 when he wasstlll some weeks
under sixteen. Ho was in the Forty-second
Missouri (cavalry) and, ns he modestly puts
It when chaffed about- his youthfulness at
that time, "my gun shot Just as hard and
as far as tho other fellow's. Also I was a
good rider, as I was brought up on a
farm."
BELL was captured at the tlmo of
J.YJ. Pr
rlce'a Confedorato raid through Mis
souri In the autumn of 'C4, and he and the
other prisoners were corralled In tho ynrd
of the old courthouso of Cooper County.
General Joe Shelby, who was In command
of Price's advance guard, was a kind
hearted man and did not like to sec such
youthful prisoners. Coming Into tho yard,
he called upon any prisoners under eight
een years to present themselves. Bell nnd
four others lined up before him and ho
gave them a little talk.
"You boys ought to be at homo with
your mothers," he said. "If I parole you
will you go home and stay there?"
"I will," said ono of them, acting ns
spokesman, "and I guess these other fel
lows will be glad to also."
General Shelby Called to his aide, Colonel
Marmaduke, to let them out. Marmadukc
held the door open In such a way that the
young captives had to stoop under his arm
to make their exit. The last of them, how
over, who is still a farmer In Boonville, was
held up nnd not permitted to leave. He
was n very tall boy, over blx feet, and
Colonel Marmaduke would not believe that
he was really under eighteen.
This courtesy to prisoners Is a curious
contrast to the German treatment of cap
tives in the present war.
rTUIE ex-captive adds, however, that ho
only stayed at home ten days and then
rejoined the army. The farm was not a
safe place for him on account of the bush
whackers or guerrilla fighters who were
harrying that country, as Irregular helpers
of the Confederate cause. Mr. Bell likes to
recall that the first blood shed In the Civil
War west of the Mississippi was fh tho
battle of Boonville, which took place in
June, 1861, when General Lyon defeated a
larger force of Confederates commanded
by the same Colonel Marmaduke. The bat
tlo took place over tho same ground where
some of Mr. Bell's apple orchards now
stand.
TXTR. BELL Is spendlng'part of the sum--
mer In a cottage at Long Branch to
be near his son, who Is a lieutenant of ar
tillery. It Is a curious instance of tho
strangely woven threads of life that Mr.
Bell himself was horn In Germany, where
his rather (a Scotchman) lived for many
years until his republican activities In '48
forced him t5 flee to this country. He
went straight to Boonville, where the fam
ily has lived ever since. Mr. Bell's motto
Is "Get busy, stay busy." Ho has led an
active and honorable life. We are sorry
Missourians live so far away, for If they
are all like Mr. Bell we'd like to see more
of them.
Fighting Quakers
While wo are talking about prisoners of
war we might mention Lieutenant Henry
Cnrvllle Lewis, of this city. Lieutenant
Lewis is an aviator. It Is reported that he
was forced by engine trouble to come down
Inside the German lines and is now a cap
tive at Karlsruhe. We knew Henry very
well at college and we would like to con
gratulate the Kaiser on having bottled him
up, for his cool nerve and Intimate knowl
edge of motor engines would make him a
bad man to meet in the air. Henry was
noted at Haverford for having built an
automobile of his own in the engineering
laboratory, tnd it was a picturesque sight
to see him in his shirtsleeves careering it
round tho country In the dead of winter.
Henry used to say that he could never find,
a temperature cold enough to suit him.
Obviously aviation was what he was born
for. And how he knew engines! We used.
to do our mathematics together In the eve
nings, and often an automobile would pass
under the dormitory windows while we
were at work. It was Interesting to see
that Henry knew every make of motor
just by its sound.
Henry took his air training with Guy
Wheeler at Columbus last summer, and
Guy Is another Philadelphlan whoso name
may be expected among the aces. It Is
curious that from that one class at a very
small and supposedly pacifist college there
are five Fhlladelphlans In the air service:
Henry Lewis, Guy Wheeler, Reggie Morris,
Earl Cadbury and Earlham Bryant. Wo
have an Idea that the Kaiser may learn
that tho flying Quakers are among the
most dangerous of his opponents.
Foch's rule about German maraljs is,
shake before using.
The Chemln des Dames: Chestnut street
about matinee time.
The German substitute for the
minute man" Is the four-verb man.
four-
Doubtful Satisfaction
Certainly ice never thought that a time
wottld come when all we would have to do
in order to get a poem printed would be
to write it.
Some of us are o unaware of our oicn
sinfulness that when the Weather Man
sends along a cool, translucent day we act
as though wc deserved it.
The Minneapolis Tribune has been re
printing some of our stuff, calling us "an
anonymous poet." We are not anonymous
at all. Our'name is SOCRATES
The soviet governments are wlth'draw
lne from Moscow and Petrograd. They are
Hkej'y to find Berlin more hospitable to Uem l
V"- rjr V,.'. i-i-A -V "'" SM,..s.JlJ''i-5v
Edward and the Boy Scouts
THE Boy Scout craze has been a seri
ous affair in our family. For a long
time Edward has held that Boy Scouts
wero an Inferior sort of business, fit only
for weaklings and babes. Wo never knew
what it was that changed his point of
view. Ho appeared one evening in a suit
of matchless khaki, bound at the neck by
a flaming red tie. He sat himself down
to the table and applied himself to tho
soup. The family Immediately broke into
auerles nnd exclamations. Where had Ed
ward got his suit? How much had he paid
for It, when it was a well-'known fact
that ho already owed father for his new
shotgun, bought on the installment plan?
To all of which Edward vouchsafed nothing
but silence and a demand for more soup.
WHEN the excitement about the uni
form had subsided and we had grown
accustomed to seeing Edward tread tho
floors with the look bf ono uplifted from
tho common herd, there came more sur
prises. Edward, who had usually to bo
aroused by force in the morning and
pounded from his bed, now appeareu
punctually at the uncanny hour of 8,
bright, Immaculate and, apparently, clean;
his hair slicked to a radiant yellow nnd
altogether faultless In the matter of finger
nails.
EDWARD, whose marks In algebra had
long been the family shame, showed a
report card that would have been a credit
to a Prussian professor's son. When it
came to errands no ono was more eager
and willing than Edward was to run them,
nor would ho accept a stipend, and the
dime which used to-reward a trip to the
grocer's or a descent into the cellar for
wood remained unclaimed and Ignored on
the mantel shelf.
Tho cook sang loudly his praises. No
boy, so we were given to understand, could
turn the ice cream freezer ,Deuer man
Edwnrd could, nor would he and this
caused all who knew him somo uneasl
ness even lick the dasher afterward. Tho
coterie of friends and associates who al
ways followed Edward through the kitchen
and even Invaded It when the fragrance
of newly made cookies filled the air
dwindled away. Edward spent his after
noons on tne hcoui neia unu ju ctcuiuga
Industriously studying,
THE "movies" knew him no more. At
Sunday school he was a glad partici
pant, where before ho had been wont to
disappear Just as friends and family were
emerging from church. He now hung be
fore the sacred portals, dignified in a
sober serge suit, one which had formerly
been donned with loud controversy and
cries of "sissy suit."
Sunday afternoons, wjien normally he
should have been disturbing the neighbors
by throwing tennis balls at their back
fences, he took his little brother to the
park and permitted him to sail boats,upon
the pond thereof. Sunday evenings, when,
according to universal and barbarous cus
tom, tho maids were given a holiday and
the family prepared the meal, Edward
himself set the table and toasted the
bread, made the chocolate and chilled the
salad and even washed the dishes.
Mc
ONDAY had always been nothing in
the- weekly calendar but the ghastly
day when Edward went to dancing school.
Now nil that was changed. We heard
from his dancing mistress with what grace
he trod the .shining floors, how gallant he
was with Uttle girls, how polite, how
punctual I
IT'S HAPPENED!
his badgo "Do One Kind Act a Day" had
revolutionized tho household. It was re
sponsible for Edward bringing In a wagon
driver who, ho said, was starving. Nothing
but physical persuasion on mother's part
prevented him from being brought to the
table. As It was, he dined In the kitchen,
where, so tho cook declared, he would
touch nothing but a pair of sweetbreads,
newly browned andi breaded for the table.
Tho noxt day Edward found a St. Bernard
wandering on the streot and took him
to his heart, literally speaking. The dog
occupied the spare room next to Edward's,
slnco he wns too big for the cellar. This
continued till mother's cousin arrlvod, and
It was obviously necessary to give her
.tho spare room, slnco she could not, It
was pointed out, to Edward, sleep In the
cellar.
TN THE matter of thrift stamps Edward
was inexorable He would fix "us with
his gleaming eyo each morning at break
fast and remind us that tho country ex
pected us to do our bit. Father was met
on his way home from business, mother
on her return from the Red Cross, the
cook was definitely corralled each day, and,
worse than that, Edward kept a memo
randum, bound In dingy leather, wherein
he measured our respective contributions.
"You haven't given enough this week,"
ho would say sternly. "Father Is five
stamps behind."
Ho assaulted the postman and the
butcher, the man who watered the garden
and the book agent who came to sell
father the Book of Knowledge.
The Iceman, he announced coldly one
evening, had already won a War Stamp.
What were we, his family, to do no
more?
And we humbly submitted to the de
mands of tho youth who had been trans
formed by the spirit, of an organization
which is molding plastic material into
something better than it had been.
" ' B. W.
What Women Are Doing
"Women are today working as longshoremen,
as navvies, harrowing" coke, as railway por
ters and conductors and ticket takers, as
postal employes and elevator bperators, as
brick settlers' laborers, attenders In roller
mills, workers in seventy-eight processes In
grain milling, in flftythreo processes in paper
making, in twenty-four processes In furniture
making, in Doner maKinc, jauuraiury worn,
optical work, airplane building, hi dyeing,
bleaching and printing cotton, In woolen and
velet goods, In making brick, glazed and un
glazed vare, stoneware, tiles, glass, leather
goods and .linoleum," says Mabel Potter
Daggett,, author of "Women Wanted." Sha
continues:
"In the "engineering trade women have
mastered already S00 processes, three-fourths
'of which had never known the touch of a
woman's hand before the war. 'I consider
myself a first-class workman at my trade.
It took me seven years to learn it,' said a
foreman to mo through the crashing noise
of the machines among which we stood, 'but,'
and he waved his hand over his domain, in
which 1700 women were at work, 'these
women, at occupations requiring speed and
dexterity, already excel me.'
' "Ho led me to the side of a girl who was
drilling holes in brass. . 'See, he said, 'she
'floes 1000 holes at fifty centimes an hour.
No man we were ever able to employ ever
did mora than EOO holes an hour, and we had
to pay him seventy-live centimes. "
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Domestic Rule
There are contributors to the press who
still speak of "tho mistress and Bervant
question." but every one who la an employer
of servants knows who's mistress now,
Louisville Courier-Journal.
"Scraps of Paper" .
We suppose a guarantee 6 per cent gold
bond of the Imperial Buafclan Government
does not
seem at all" humorous .to anybody
THE READER'S VIEWPOINT
American Bluff
To the Editor of 'he BueiiOifl Public Ledger:-
Sir The Paris Figaro of July 12 prints In
the column under the heading ECH03 a
translation of an article from tho Berlin
Krcuz Zeltung, and adds a delicious com
ment. Tho English translation of the ex
tract and comment follow: ,
AMERICAN BLUFF
(Extract from ICreutz Zeltuns of July 13.)
"In times of peace a current formula was,
"America Is trumps." At present America
is bluff,' the catchword of the people of the
Entente, calculated to produce its effect on
the Allies, on tho neutrals and on us.
America was a war-word which was to be a
moral menace. But the effect is xcantlng. Tho
bragging announcement made by the Ameri
can Minister of War of the nctual presence
In Europe of 1,000,000 Americans Is a blujT
similar to the announcement of 12,000 avia
tors who would be found this year In action
on tho western front. Well, a short time ago
there were In nil thirty-six American aviators
at tho front. It Is true that this advertising
in regard to tho American aid Is Just now
the only means at the disposal of the En
tente to maintain among its peoples the will
to carry on the war and to hold out to tho
end. The day will come when the Entente
will see the insufficiency of the American
aid and when tho people will see that here
again as with tho rest they have been
fooled."
l'cor Kreuz Zcitungl
L. T. PENNINGTON.
Philadelphia, August 13. .
The Rookies Liked It '
To the Editor of the Evening PubUo Ledger:
Sir ;It was our pleasure to receive in our !'
mall recently a clipping from your paper of
"Movie of a Rookie on His Day Oft."
Appreciating the humor in this cartoon, aa
no doubt our friends In Philadelphia expected
we would, we placed the same on the bulletin
board, and officers and men alike enjoyed,
tho fun depicted by the artist.
Indeed, it might be true of Columbia, S. C,
any Saturday afternoon, and many of the '
boys will testify to the truth of this state
ment that one had to salute an officer every
fifteen feet hat day.
There is littlo Inducement for the soldier
to gaze In the windows, for he must be on
tho nlert all of the time to see and salute ,
all officers. 1
Wo take this opportunity to thank your '
staff for providing amusement for the homo
folks as well as the goats.
CHESTER HARLOW,
Acting Battery Clerk.
Stable Sergeants' School, Seventh Regiment
Field Artillery Replacement Depot, Camp
Jackson, S. C, August 8. ' .
What Do You Know?
QUIZ '
1, Who In the onlr Czar left In the world?
3. How many feet moke il rod?
3. What planet Is nearent the sunT
4. In nhat cltr did Columbnj diet
5. What character In fiction was always wait-
Ioe "for somethlnK to turn up,?'? i.
6. What Ik the correct pronunciation of the
word conduit?
7. What Is tho Spanish Parliament called?
8. What was tho real name of fowls Carroll,
author of "Alice In Wonderland"? ,
0. The Allies are attacking the "massif" of
Idssliny, What 1m it "matslf"?
10. What notable victory was ruined by an
American army niter the treaty of peace
with the foe had been slcned?
Answers to Yesterday' Quiz
1. Chicle Is tho basis of chewlns; rum and Is a
Kumllke sub.tance obtained from tho bully
tree, the naseberry and the sapodllla.
2. "Dolce far nlente" Is nn Italian phrase de
scriptive of h state of delightful Idleness.
Its literal meanlnc Is "meet dolni noth
ing." 3. tiurlnnm Is another name for the colony
of Dutch Guiana In houth America.
4. An Isotherm Is a man line drawn to connect
places tuning the ssme mean annual tern
perature,
5. I'lle rresldenta of the United Stales died
In office, namely, William Henry- Harrison.
Zarhary Tiulor. Abraham Lincoln, James
A. tlarlleld and H Milan. McKlnley. "
6. The title of the heir apparent to the Spanish
crown Is the Prince of the Asturlas,
7. "They also serre who only stand and watt"
oreurs In Joan Hilton's sonnet, "On Ilia
Blindness."
8. The month of Aucust Is named after Octarlus
Caesar, who assumed the title Augustus ea -becomlnc
ltoman Kmn-rror. -
V, The port side of a ship Is the left as ae-'
10, Captain 8 en we leer, who rentlr !. hl JM?
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