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PhllsdelpMs. Mond.r. Auul 19. HH
ONE REFORMER
JUDGE ItATMOND MacNEILLC, of the
Municipal Court, achieved his flrst
prominence as an apostle of sweetness and
light In the school of reform founded hy
Judge Ben Llndsey. His field of elTort Is
one In which good works are painless, easy
and not too sharply scrutinized
Judge MacXcille's appointment to the
Board of Recreation was mado by the
Mayor to Insure a good Job for Edward
It. Gudehus and to circumvent the will
of thoso others on the board who properly
Objected to the Vare method of patronage
In this Instance. '
It always has been tllfllcult for the
ayerage reformer to Rtay reformed. And
Itls easier to reform others than to reform
ona's self.
It begins to appear as If some one had
put an extraordinary lot of con In the Kai
ser's conquosts.
FAIR WARNING TO PACIFISTS OF ALL
KINDS
f,
T TOOK more than four months to
present the evidence against the I. "V. V,'.
agitators charged with attempting to dis
rupt the nation's war program.
It took the Chicago Jury only an hour
to And the accused men guilty as charged.
-This verdict Is satisfying to every manly
American. The nation is committed to a
great task, and It Is Intolerant of every
one. who attempts to obstruct It. The
V leaders of the I. W. W. profess to despise
patriotism and are working to destroy all
orderly constituted government,, The
weak-minded dupes who havo been used
ly them deserve nttlo pity. They are
tha victims of their own Ignorance and
lick of moral stamina. Those of them who
"Hhave been convicted will have time while
In prison to tako thought on their errors.
oand wo hope that they may profit by the
. vnrlnpi.
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iis i - xno sentimentalists ouisiue ui me i.
B ! t . W. who have been
tolerant of all
ii "pacinst agitation win ao wen to
I Ink trom this Chicago verdi
take warn-
erdict. Unless
hey are careful to mend their wajs they
i T'aSso aTe likely to find themselves caught
fljj the tolls of the law and compelled to
face a Jury charged with helping the
National enemies.
" The nation is In no mood to be lenient
With any one who sets out to make trouble
nt home while Its sons are risking their
lives In Franco.
As the fllght-or-fight principle sains
force In Russia some of the Reds are malting
"",notablo records as travelers.
,, AN INTERNATIONAL VICE
A T LAST It Is possible to define, place
li- " and visualize the legendary man uitn
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JT MV --.....,.
,He Is the war profiteer.
jl He is piunuenng in rserun ana in ienna
3 p BS UlUUBllJuuaijr ag lie inuuuc.a 111 i u-
:dlphla or New York. In every warring
ft country he Is aloof from the national ln-
El Jterest. The obligations of citizenship, hu-
Vnanlty or patriotism are unKnown to mm
JLhn' Germany or in America. He knows no
"tv flap ana has no allegiance Deyona me cir-
p)6 01 nis own seinsn lnieresis.
Since he is an outcast and an outlaw,
any weapon taxes, the law, brute force or
a club becomes legitimate when It is used
against him.
t, The news that soup kltchvns have been
"onened at Trevlso, In the Italian war zone.
LJ.;i suggests the expectation at using the Ger-
s'lnans as "stock."
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THE CATHEDRAL REBORN
Krt-i . .. . .
ji-'il wab in tne ancient anu neroic city of
C Amiens mat juies verne conceived
" Cmany of his wonderful tales His fertile
S1!r,mlnd forecast the submarine, foresaw the
B'gpossibllltles of aerial navigation, outlined
"? other marvels sua unattalned, but antici-
SWJr- fc .j -ii u 1 ... .i.. ...
t 2 trj paieu iieiiiicr hid nunu wui uur uie siriK-
Sp Ing role to be piayea tnereln by tho city
if'ot his choice.
I. a " Tfc foHorllcjif Inn nt thn mnlpatlf. Amlcna
J StCathedral, monarch of French churches.
"V nlih largest ecclesiastical edifice In the re
fM Ro'b"ui
public and one of the first in beauty, con
cludes moreover a chapter of miracles
I-jjj, to which even the ingenuity of Verne
it;, ,-wouia nave Deen naru put to explain.
, 'Vi7116 'llBh tlda of tllanlc slrlfe rolled up
'.V 7ri ivltbln Icrht miles of the fnlr ntnltnl
"rJS-pf Ijicnrdy. The hordes of barbarism raised
' 4JJielr binoculars ano oenem tne superb
bi.f't'JP'nster gleaming In the spring sunlight.
f. gsfctAnd yet tnrough months of bombard-
nent three hits alone, and these unpro-
aSP"cuv ' Blrul;lural uamage, were
jlstered on the great Gothic pile. The
-J fttavers ot Amiens abide In strength nnd
Monn j .. ....
fif,jvjiline8, ero is inaeea a miracle to
' Challenge even a king of fantasy.
.Afelmplo exercises reconsecrated the
-Ipefiument of medieval art and faith. The
tseBtlflc explanations of a Verne would
l been futile with regard to this al-
mystical aenverance. Moreover, the
of the whole civilized world are
wed up In, gratitude, Amid pur teara
TIIE TIDE IS RISING
Men Like Senator Gallinger Serve .to Show
How Far Up the Beach It Can Go
in o Sinplo Generation
llTEN like tho late Senator Gallinger
aro useful in their old age because
they are like rocks off shore by wjiich wo
mark the progress of the rising tide.
Tho world docs not stand still. Tho
progressives of one generation nro the
conservatives of the next. They aro de
nounced by tho old men aa radicals and
in a few years they aro condemned by
tho younir men ns stand-natters. But in
spite of it they have served their genera
tion and served it well.
Senator Lodge was a hot-headed en
thusiast in his youth. He is one of the
balance wheels of Congress today, pre
venting by his opposition and wise coun
cil the younger men from moving too
fast. Joo Cannon is tho repiesontativo
of a point of view which is rapidly pass
ing. Even Mr. Bryan, who was a radical
of tho radicals in his thirties, is not
moving fast enough now to satisfy the
young men. The political theories and
practices of the lato Senator Quay arc
condemned where they were once held up
to admiration as tho practices and theo
ries best fitted to the state of the times.
Tl'icn wc arc pessimistic it is well to
take a long look backward, that we may
discover hoiv high the tide of human
progress lias risen and how far out to
sea arc the rocky peaks of the former
leaders. Go back to the Civil War times,
for example, and consider what Lincoln
did and compare it with what Wilson is
doing, and then you can get some idea of
the changes that have taken place in
American political methods. Mr. Wilson
is denounced because he plays politics,
but the most serious offense of which
Mr. Wilson has been guilty, in giving
preference to Democrats and in seeking
to secure Democratic success at the polls,
is tiivial in comparison with the common
practices of Lincoln. The great Illi
noisan unblushingly used patronage to
buy the support of Congress for his
plans. If ho found a man opposing him
ho conciliated him by appointing his
friends to office. And this was in the
days before tho civil service reformers
had begun to condemn the spoils system,
Lincoln merely used the weapons at
hand for winning his fights. His methods
were legarded as legitimate. But he had
not been dead ten years before tho abuses
of the spoils system impressed them
selves upon idealistic young men and
they began an agitation for reform.
And conditions are much better today
than the dreamers of the last quarter of
tho last century imagined they would
ever be.
And the fact that we arc not content
even noil' i? the most wholesome sign of
the times.
The ladicals of the present decade will
be the conservatives of 1040 and the sons
of their friends will be denouncing them
as stand-patters nnd old fogies and be
hind the times, just as Senator Gallinger
was condemned during the later yeais of
his life.
But if one wishes to be thrilled with a
vision of progress one has only to look
back 'at the emotions aroused in the
world by the ambitions of Napoleon and
compare them with the emotions which
we all expel ience at the contemplation of
the German methods and plans. Napo
leon was resisted on purely selfish
grounds. Kc was tiying to do on a great
scale what the leaders of other nations
had been trying for years to do on a
smaller scale. But Germany is con
fronted by a group of nations fighting
for an ideal. It is not conquest and do
minion that they seek, but freedom for
all. The demand that the rights of little
nations be respected is but the extension
into international relations of the ideal
of democracy, which is based on the
equality of rights of the individual. The
tide ma risen so far since the defeat of
Napoleon that if the spot where he stood
were not marked by a buoy no one would
knoio how far out to sec it ivas.
As to Senator Gallinger, he is dead.
Peace be to his ashes. He served his
generation to the best of his lights. If
his successors do as well they need ask
for no higher praise.
That Rumpler plane, which Captain
Riddle, of Philadelphia, recently downed,
seems to have been appropriately named.
DEMOCRACY THAT ISNT DEMOCRACY
TCHITERIN, the Bolshevik Foreign
Secretary, boasts that the Soviet Gov
ernment is the first in the world estab
lished for the oppressed poor.
He thereby shows his failure to compre
hend the essential purpose of a demo
cratic government, namely, to give equal
rights to all, the rich as well as the poor,
tho ignorant as well as the educated.
Class government dominated by the poor
is as abhorrent as class government domi
nated by the Tlch. Bolshevism ts no better
than Junkcrlsm and no worse.
We are fighting this war to pjt an end
to Junkerlsm, and If It should end by the
triumph of Bolshevism It would have to
be fought all over again in order that
democracy might triumph.
A girl has Joined the marines And
there Is sure to be some one who will have
to call her his sweet little devil hound.
TIPS AND TIPPERS
LATE the bounders around those
0F
vy w:
who consistently make It a bit difficult
to distinguish between high life and low
have started the habit of tipping bar
tenders. The decline of the liquor business,
therefore, will have at least one reaction
acceptable to everybody. It will arrest the
tip mania In one field, at least.
It hasn't been proved that the bar
tenders Invited the tips that have begun to
shower on them. They were forced, by
emotlona) patrons. Into the class with
Pullman porters, waiters, barbers, chauf.
feurs, butlers, taxlcabbles, parlor maids,
garage attendants and all those others
who must be paid for things they don't
Despite the high (cost of living the
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Evening pOTI'led
habit continues to spread. Before the
Government took control of tho railroads
you couldn't go on a Journey of any length
without tipping everybody on tho line
except the conductor, tho fireman nnd the
engineer.
The case of tho bartenders Is Illuminat
ing. Tho bartenders, according to those
who havo studied their plight, held out
long against the temptation. They were
known often to reject the tip with a sin
cero show of offended dignity. But they
were overwhelmed. This proves what
observant persons have always suspected,
that the real sinner In the mattor of tips
Is not the recipient but the giver.
Tho hardened tip giver Is not necessarily
either kind or generous or liberal. He Is,
ns n matter of fact, more likely to bo
selfish In oddly subtlo ways. His tip
springs from his sense of Imagined su
periority. Ho has somewhere within him
n taint of feudalism. It pleases him to
bo a patron nnd to use the gesture of the
tip to fix another in an Interior place.
Somo there are who give tips from motives
of generosity. But whorovor you find a
lavish tipper you find a man In whom the
Instinct of snobbery Is likely to be upper
most. A dispatch to the effect that the Amiens
Cathedral was struck but thrlco before the
Hun was compelled to retire Is a beautiful
illustration of tho eternal truth that three
strikes is out.
BOYS OR MEN?
AFFECTION and sentiment arc, of
course, responsible for the general
habit of speech which designates our sol
diers abroad as "bojs." Even President
Wilson uses, on occasion, what must seem
to many to bo ah altogether Inappropriate
term.
Tho Job that Amcrlcnrs nro doing
abroad Is a man's Job. Many of tho sol
diers were boys when they Wftit away'.
They remain boys In the affectionate mem
ory of their friends and relatives. But
the nature of their work nnd of their ex
periences has brought them to a high state
of manhood. Properlv. the Americans of
the expeditionary force might more often
be referred to by the statelier term. They
are men.
It Is only necessary to
To Make Coins TJasy study th general Al
lied purpose to per
ceive that the road to Berlin Is paved with
good intentions.
THE ELECTRIC CHAIR
Recessional for the Profiteers
(A Father Speaks)
rpiIE people have given their labor,
their food, their sleep, their sona,
They have given their hands and hearts
and hopes to steel the drumming
guns;
And disciplined to giving, through all
these broken years,
Now what shall the people render to
their friends, the profiteers?
My son's in France. Will you coin his
thirst, his hunger, his every need?
Will you make your profit on dusty
throats and marching feet that
bleed?
Do you think the souls of men are stirred
and the hearts of mothers rent
For you to capitalize our loves at a thou
sand or so per cent?
Do you think the saddened world that
rocks and groans in travail pain
Has bled in stoic fortitude to fatten your
private gain?
Will you have the burning flame of
hearts that leaped for a visioned
star
To "glow your sooted forges, to drive your
motor car?
The flag that has never been humbled,
the hope of the human race,
You fly it as a mock token, to cover your
own disgiace;
You have dirtied the dreams of lovers
who covet an earth new-born
Hucksters of human passion, you shall
learn of human scorn.
Your hands, are they so spotless? Your
ways so lit with s.un
That you can pour your virtued sneers on
Turk and Russ and Hun?
What will you say to the bitter ghosts
that whisper, frank end plain,
"The world was shaken in torment, and
you trafficked in mortal pain."
The people have given their labor, their
food, their sleep, their sons,
They have given their hands and hearts
and hopes to steel the drumming
guns;
And disciplined to giving, through all
these broken years,
Now what shall the people render to their
friends, the profiteers?
The other day we were wandering In
Alder street, which is a narrow lane Join
ing Spruce and Locust between Tenth
and Eleventh. We met an old colored rag
man, with a cart of Junk, singing a
lugubrious anthem which amused us not
a little. This was his ditty:
Hard working man
Ain't nothing but a dawg
O-o o-o ragman
Ain't nothln" but a dawg.
We wish we could reproduce the mourn
ful minor air to which he sang this genial
verse. He was chuckling heartily to him
self, and seemed to enjoy his slogan Im
mensely. Is this a common cry among rag
and bone men, or Is It his own?
Referring to our query, "Can the Teens
Fight7" Samuel Abbott tells us that there
were more than a million boys of eighteen
and under in the Union armies during the
Civil War.
Is there a man with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said,
"If it takes me twenty years
I'll massacre those profiteers."
DOVE DULCET.
The Archdupe
The Kaiser U said to have approved the
suggestion that an Austrian archduke be
made King of Poland. Austrian archdukea
have been so uniformly successful In the
last four years, haven't they?
fc .pwiuviiM.
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Adventures at Eddystone
By ROY HELTON
Getting Down to Work
GETTING down to work and getting safety
home again are no easy problems for
the laboring man of this year of our Lord.
Trains, trolley cars and motor busses nro
apoplectic with people, Just before any week
day morning, Just before C any weekday
afternoon.
Ot
,NE leaves his West Philadelphia .home
C o'clock, in the cool of a gray sum-
mer sunrise. His right-hand coat pocket la
stuffe'd with lunch, his hands are stilt from
yesterday's long grip on tho bars and levers
of his big machine; there Is still n reminis
cent pang In a Just-discovered little musclo
on tho peak of tho left shoulder; It Is no
pleasure to stretch out and swing his arms.
There aro many more people on the street
than n'eafi anyways credible surprisingly
solid-looking business men, remarkably pert
and c!par-eyed young ladles Five a. m by
solar time what a disturbingly energetic
world I
AT THE street corner three Jammed cars
pass one by. The door of the fourth
bursts open, more, one suspects, from Internal
pressure than by nny favor of the powrrB
that be. There Is no room Inside, but ono
frantic, collnrless chap, In a brown Btraw
hat, desperate about being lateto work. runB
screaming up nnd down In tho street nlong
nlde tho car windows and hectors the pas
sengers Into making room;
"Say, don't youo guys think Hnjbody else
wants ta git ta work? Movo up' Have a
heart thrre, fellow I mean you yah 1 you
vlth that nine-pound lunch. Havo a heart 1
Gee vah got room In thcro ta tango!"
There Is a chorus of muffled replies from
the entrails of the car, but also a shuffling
of feet, nnd soon wo arc able to Jam in and
hold our breaths till th door Bhuts.
THE crowd Inside Is usually In a state of
grim good humor sore at the conductor
or the company, but willing to enduro any
thing short of death to get down to the plant
on time.
"JZt everjbody In here took a deep breath
together sh'd split from end tn end," tho
wag remarks, drjly, as another small party
squeezes on. Tho ehucMo of laughter that
followed Increased the pressure, but some
how no one pissed away, and we reached
Woodland nvenuo In comparative safety.
HERE, at the Baltimore and Ohio station
the comedy moves to Its second act.
Even an habitual railway traveler will be
amazed by the great ariety of new experi
ences In store for him. Ho receives the first
shock when he purchases a ticket. A round
trip, for Instance, costs considerably more
than twice a one-way fare' becauso of the
war tax, and yet thero are frequent sales of
round-trip tickets.
When the railroad Is late a fellow Is not
docked If he has a ticket to show for his
passage down so a round trip has a sort of
speculative advantage.
E minute to train time: we stand In a
U lc
long triple lino hugging the tracks. Men
put away their papers and pull down their
hats Olrls hurriedly make fast their clasps,
buckles, badges and pins Tho distant whis
tle bounds far down th line. Conversation
ceases. Jaws tighten. The chewing of flno cut
and spearmint is timporarlly suspended, Then
with a snort and a clang tho string of
empty coaches rattles by. The test of man
hood Is at hand One notes an ominous suc
cession of broken windows on the slowing
train, and ds aware of old-fashioned latticed
vestibules, reminding him of long-forgotten
train rides In tho byways of Maryland.
THEN, amid angry cries of protest, a few
bolder spirits leap to the steps of tho
moving train, scramble up and settle Inso
lently down In the seats inside The action
of those daring blades Is almost universally
condemned as unsportsmanlike. Bitter words
aro heard from gentlemen with largo and
fragile lunch kits.
With a crash the train wheezes to a stand,
still and the war begins. One coach 1b re
served for women and escapes the utter mad
ness of tho ensuing contention. There are
not enough seats to go around, and we all
know It. It Is a vindication of the prowess
of natural manhood to w In, through that
struggle, the privilege of reudlng jour paper
by tho window. Once Inside the bmoky train,
one has only to size up the fellows with seats,
and In particular the chaps with seats by
the windows, to get the full flavor of the old
conversational cud These, Indeed, are men.
HASTILY the train pulls out of tho sta
tion. A stout young spotter with horn
glaBses passes rapidly through, pen In hand,
taking a census of the Inhabitants. From my
Beat by the window from my place on the
train. I mean I watch the shifting scenery.
Wo glide on, first through a mlasmlc tunnel,
then out past pleasant vine-grown farm
houses, portmanteau villas and de-burdened
rivulets, whose scent of stale dishwater the
cut-plug Incense about me mercifully dis
guises. And so at last we slip Into a long
"Y " and back up to tne Arms company.
A half-mllo walk nlong the high board
fence Is now all that separates one from his
ten-hour task. The walk is very well worth
taking
NOWHERE In heaven or earth Is there a
more motley crowd Is there more con
trast of face, station and Intelligence. Be
cause men. when they are working, tend to
reduce their costume to its lowest terms, and
In spite of a few pointed, waxed mustches
and dapper, full-tailored coats and new straw
hats. It Is harder to pick out of the crowd of
fellows the college Instructor, the bank clerk,
tho mllkmnn or the farmhand. It can be
done, but it is hard
GIRLS, however, are more on the defensive,
and must maintain their social stamp
however hard they labor. There are many,
walking this half-mile along the high board
fence who may tomorrow evening be adorn
ing a crowd on Chestnut street, and you can
see It at once. There are others who will
not be out of the house tomorrow evening.
One can easily pick them. too. There are
girls from service, of lai go-handed, big-boned,
peasant stock ; other girls who got up early
enough to rouge and powder and put on silk
Etockings; weary, tragic girls; gay, flip girls
with ratty puffs and George Washington coif
fures; pleasant-eyed, friendly, plaln-souled
KlrI3 all these and a thousand more scurry
ing along that pavement at Eddystone and
passing out of niy sight through their little
gates.
The Crown Prince
His nose Is red ;
His eyes are blue;
His chin recedes;
His armies too.
Life.
The selection of Tschalkowsky as leader
of northern Russia speaks well for the es
tablishment of harmony. Just at this time,
however, the "Pathetic Symphony" could well
be cpared.
The rejuvenated capital of Palestine is
reported to have Instituted "all-wheat" days
in order to reduce the drain on rice, barley,
rye and other cereals. The news fortifies our
faith in the Bible, which characterizes the
New Jerusalem as Heaven.
Referring to a pro-Hun who tried to
defend the Kaiser at a National Park camp
meeting, a headline sa s, "Offensive German
Ejected." Which reminds us that a German
offensive experienced an identical punish
ment. Turn about is fair
A Dandy Affair play. The "Yankee
Doodle" boys have
captured Cohan. The latter, however, cap
tured the "Yankee Doodle" boys so many
theatrical seasons ago that some of us are
by this time quite grown up.
A German military
Terrible, bnt True vvrlter says there will
be no chanc) of peace
until the frantlo Americans have nwn their
wild oats. They are sowing wild boats down
fct Hog Island every day.
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THE READERS
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
No More Difficult to Form It Than to Form
the American Union
To the Editor of the Evenlnq Public Ledger:
Sir To see Lord Ro'bert Cecil hall the In
ternational food commission as the nucleus of
a "league" of nations reminds one of how
another has seen It In a commercial union,
another In a Judicial union, still another In a
police union, an nrbltral one, not to mention
less Important forms. The expression of
Cecil that "we must rebuild tho international
system" "In, the greatest chance ever offered
to a generation of men" gives us hope that
there are enough leading men In the various
nations to not only work for some vague
"league." but a real "Unlteu isations gov
ernment. Further encouragement is had in the fact
that there is no more Inertia or opposition
now to overcome in bringing about a repre
sentative, self-governing "United Nations,
under a constitution, than there was In secur
ing a "United States" In 1788, not to say
1776. For even In 1788, when an actual
ready-made constitution was up for adop
.i v.., tv. ncnnie nf thirteen States, it re
quired only sixty-six men tn change their
votes to prevent the formation of the Gov
ernment of the United States! That many
could have decided n majority of tho States
against it. It needed only ten in Massachu
setts to change to the negative to keep her
ouf only twelve In Pennsylvania to decide
against It; only twenty-seven in Maryland;
onlv six in Virginia the largest State, the
one' that had to give up more territorial
claims than all the rest put together and
tho same small number in New Hampshire,
while only three were needed to turn in New
York and two in Rhode Island, making six-ty-six
in seven Stales, and the great Const!
tutlon of the United States would have been
merely "a scrap of paper"! Only three of
the very smallest States voted unanimously
for It!
If the "United States" Constitution could
win out against such Inertia and opposition
as that after -a uozen years ui uiotueoiuu
and only mild suffering, as compared to
what the world Is now enduring, the pros
,.,.. nf securlnc a "United Nations" If men
work as hard for It as they do for victory
In war is equally as good, if not superbly
better.
Washington spoke as vaguely as President
Wilson, although he emphasized coercive
governmental power more, in the early days
of suggestion. But inertia and opposition
were overcomo by the Intelligence, learning
and untiring persistence and courage of
James Wilson, James Madison and a very
few others to bring It to fruition and pro
duce a new political science as well ns a
new Interstate government. They had to hear
men Bay "visionary." "impossible," "can't
be done." "too many obstacles." "Virginia
won't cede her great western territory," "the
States won't give up sovereignty" (as If
they Instead of the people ever had' it!),
"the big States won't limit their right of
majority." "the small States will not give
up equality," "It Is too cumbersome," "It
would break down of Its own weight," "no
settlement or compromise of the slave rep
resentation can be made" and the like, ad
Infinitum! But It wasn't visionary; It was
possible; It was done4, obstacles gave way;
Virginia did cede her great claim to the
new union; the States gave up a fancied
"sovereignty." becaurthe people possessed
If the big States did limit their majority
powers In the Senate; the small States did
give up equality In the lower house ; Instead
of being cumbersome and unwieldy It has
proved the most magnificently simple and
effective Instrument of self government ever
created and has become the basis of a new
rolltlcal science; a slave compromise was
tecured and the splendid new instrument
finally purged Itself of slavery to become
stronger than ever.
So will it be with those who have the cour.
age and vision to work for a "United Na
tions" and Ub constitution.
A food commission Is a symptom, n,ot a
'nucleus" ; a convention will be the nucleus,
BURTON ALVA KONKLE.
Swarthmore, Pa., August 17.
Shell Shock as Exophthalmic Goiter
To the Editor of the Evenlnp PubUo Ledger:
Sir At various medical meetings In Eng
land and France, and also In this country,
1 eminently at f? medical meeting held by the
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New York Academy of Medicine at Camp
Upton base hospital several weeks ago, ono
of the most carefully, confldered subjects
under discussion was that of hyperthyroidism
and Its relation to army life. Indeed, It Is
not only the scientist, but the layman, too,
who Is Intensely Interested In a series of
syndrome of b.vmptoms which have affected
a large number of raw recruits both here
and abroad symptoms which have been
traced to a disturbance of the thyroid gland.
The complaints described by the subjects of
this malady and the analysis of tho condition
by the army doctors provo It to be no other
condition than what has for many years
been described as hyperthyroidism, otherwise
known as Basedow's disease, Grave's disease
or exophthnlmlc goiter. The condition, there
fore, which has affected thousands of sol
diers In camp and in the trenches, and which
has otherwise been erroneously termed "shell
shock," "nervous weakness," etc.. Is no other
than hyperthyroidism or exophthalmic goiter.
Hyperthyroidism Is a disease apparently
oiiginating In the thyroid gland (ln"the neck
Just below Adam's apple), and usually oc
curs In women, though a certain typo of men,
as a result of extreme emotional excitement,
aie ilso husceptible. The thyroid gland
swells and soon appears as n goiter. Tho
eyes begin to protrude, tho heart becomes
very rapid, there Is a tremor of tho out
stretched fingers and tho whole body seems
to assume a picture of extreme nervousness
not unlike a veritable Image of perpetual
irlgnt.
During the last generation, surgeons havo
been operating on tho thyroid gland In efforts
to cure tha malady, but though there nre
excellent "surgical recoveries," the affection
Is not cured, the symptoms recurring Booner
or later with even greater severity, leading
to death from heart failure, exhaustion, or
both, the end often preceded by a period of
melancholia or mania.
This disease Is not only not a Burglcal
affection, but Is quite curable by dietetic,
hygienic and medical measures. Nearly all
cases of hyperthyroidism are entirely curablo
by nonsurgical means. If the disease has not
damaged the heart bejond redemption.
Men with Ironclad nervous systems or
thoso who have already served In the regular
army or in other wars, or thoso who are
inherently indllterent to fright and Bhock,
aro Immune to hyperthyroidism. Everjbody
elso Is more or less susceptible to this dis
ease, in direct proportion to the degree of
susceptibility to the effects of fright and
shock.
The question naturally arises In these
critical times when almost every ono must
tako up arms In defense of life and liberty,
Is It possible to diminish one's susceptibility
or to become Immune to this disease 7 I say
ueciaeaiy yes i ngiu is me reaction of the
ego. It Is the expression of the vegetative
phase of existence, of self-preservation. It
is a self-defensive expression. This expres
sion, however, can be suppressed, If not alto
gether effaced, by proper moral reflection ;
and It Is this moral reflection that ts now
saving the world from slavery; It Is this
moral reflection that spells immunity to all
fright and protects the lives and souls of
our soldiers as no coat of armor could ; It
Is this moral reflection that distinguishes the
weakling, good-for-nothing, panic-stricken
human lamb, as exemplified In the typical
emotionally unstable Russian peasant on the
one hand from the fearless, dauntless, lion
hearted, noble-minded American on the
other hand. What is, then, this moral re
flection? Brleflj-, It Is tjils: It Is the process
of evaluating liberty on the one hand and
slavery on the other. The person most sus
ceptible to shock and fright, I. e., the person
most susceptible to hj-perthyroldtsm, ts the
one who has not yet fully grasped the Idea,
that a life of Blavery Is animal, not human,
existence; that life without liberty Is worse
than death, and that existence and happiness
depend on liberty and liberty alone liberty
of thought and deed, of pursuit of happiness
and of the unhampered utilization of all our
capacities. The moral reflector or broad
thinker values liberty far above life Itself
and Is, therefore, virtually immune 10 Hyper
thyroidism, i ...
He, however, who Is unfortunate enough
to be Buffering with a degree of hyperthy
roidism or exophthalmio goiter is entlniy
curable by nonsurgical measures and need
not fear surgery. bram D
Philadelphia, August 10.
Teaching Fritzy tho Game
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grenades, to be turned out at the rate- of
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Victories
BE HUMBLE, O my country! In this
hour,
Remember there are fiery paths to cross,
Undreamed of anguish and unreckoned
loss
To face with courage, ere the perfect
flower "!
Of Peace shall blossom after hell's red j
shower.
Be confident; be brave; yet also be
Like the great Christ In His humlflty;
Be mindful of the purpose of your power.
It Is not gain you seek. It Is not praise.
Therefore let pride be burled In the dust.
Fight on, forgetful of this flaming dower
Of sudden vlctorj'. There shall be days
Of darkness when your bright steel
seems like rust.
Be humble, d my country, In this hour!
Charles Hanson Towne, In the New York v
Tribune.
, The Princes' War
Every one will havo noticed that In the.
battles on the western front the Crown
Princes of heir-apparent are always men
tioned as the heroes of the combat. It Is
always one or the other of these royal blood
chaps who Is doing all the fighting. Tho real
soldiers on that side nre scarcely heard of.
There Is a purpose in this, which Is to serve
the Prussian dynastj', which represents all
that Germanj' Is fighting for. In this way
It la hoped that the Huns will always asso
ciate the Princes with the bloody encoun
ters. These Princes may be miles and miles
away, but the mention of their names In
connection with the battles will tend to make
the Germans believe that the divinity of
kings Is all there is in the conflict Ohio
State Journal.
We'll Know Next Winter
What Is It Doctor Garfield says that there
will not be a coal shortage, or that there
shall not be a coal shortage? Boston Globe.
Beauty's Tribute
Tax on cosmetics? All right. Most glrji
that can't afford to pay It don't havo to uaa
em. Milwaukee Sentinel.
What Do You Know?
QUfe ;
1, What' dlstlniculshed American newspaper all- 4
tor recently retired from artlre serrltaf ;
!. What Is copra?
3, Why are the Don Cossacks so. called?
4, Whnt nre the asteroids? ,
5, What American general ran talnat Abraham '
Lincoln at his second election?
S. What Is the larerst city In New Jersey?
7. Whnt Islands In North American waters an -
atUI In the possession of France?
g. Who said "The paths of rlory lead hut to j
the arnre"? ,
0, What Is tha Iarreat ship In tha world an
what Is Its present name? ,
10. Who la "Carmen SylTo"? ,
Answers to Saturday's Quiz
1, Mexico's most raluabl oil wells are UeatW
near the port of Tamplco, on the Ciolf
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const, yl
A.1m1.rtf rnn n!tnrki Is Ai1mlp.il van PAiMilta'a ftl
' successor as the German Minister at Ma- ,
3. Delia halter Itarnn. an American author, was n'l
the first tn alve aenernl currency to tha
theory that the plays nsrrlhrd to Hhake
spenrs ncr written by I'rnncls llnron, Hho
presented her c In 1837. wllh a book
entitled "The I'Mlesonhy and flays of
Shakrspeiro' unfolded." Nathaniel Haw
thorno contributed the preface,
4. The llandn Islands, In the Molucca Arthl
peltuco of the Dutch Knt Indian passes
(.loin, ure the world's chief source of uU
mes".
6, The Chlcaeo World's Fnlr wna held In ,891,
0. The orlulnal meanlnit of the French wer4
"chiffon" Is "racs."
1 The southernmost posnesslon nf the United y
states Is Tutulla. n portion of the Haeoeaa m
Islands croup, in I lie noutn I'ucinc.
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0. Troy welrht, In which tneUe ounces, iakavi ',fl
pound, is used In wcllhlnt sold, silver a t;3
I 10. Blchard Olney was on American atstftSMsh'
" h,c,,tary of Ktnta under Crerer Uti&. .
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