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Auiuit 20, 1018 LAST RITES FOR A LIE h fTlHE interment services held along the Avro over the "Francc-ls-bled-whlte" 11 , luslon had the merit of complete finality. , Even Germany must confess that her ' favorite He has been burled. ' The Hun troops In this region were de 0 featcd the other day not by "shock" legions, but by what are known as "sector V divisions," composed of men whoso func tion was supposed to be purely defensive. The brilliancy of their aggressive attack - surpassed even French expectations. b The only thing white about France Is 'the incandescent flamo of lctory which t refuses to be extinguished, i- - 4 Hupprccht takes a "acatlnn," Von Cap- pelle Is retired, Von Hoetzendorff Is shelved ' and hence we sec that, though crops may bo poor, the canning season Is out for a record e in Central Europe. SENATOR HAM DOES IT AGAIN rpiIOSE In France who know uS by our - fighting men will be disposed, of course, " to regard America as a nation most gener j, ous and brave. Those abroad who are If forced by circumstances to listen to the p speeches of Junketing Senators and Con- rjgressmen are likely to feel that America w Is the home of the resounding platitude. ,. )'Vt'o shall have no compromise w-lth despotism," declaimed Senator J. Ham Lewis at a dinner given him In Paris Im- fnerltntfiH nffor ji "Imir nf lnnprtlnn" nr Ej ne ront- That Is the oldest principle In STtr American pontics, lee u was senator U2 Ham's message to France, delivered as If e,lt represented' a new and novel point of View. What In the world did Senator Ham u?h thlnk, that the French were thinking we 'Ivvwthlnk? v. ! -,,,,. . . , , ine aeniai tnac opuin sent any strong Ultimatum to Germany" suggests that ma) be aome llberty-lovlng printer merely embel lished the word "not" with a final "e." THE REWARD OF VIGILANCE "fc 46QAFK as a 'suo' soaked sea" suggests J Itself as a handy simile. Recent re marks of Herbert C. Hoover attest the truth of the phrase. Outlining the merits of the Bystem whereby the llberty-lovlng tgc nations of Europe will receive the great fe ' bulk of their food supplies from the United States this year, the food adminis trator emphasized "the comparative lm Jmunlty of the Atlantic lane over all others from interference by the enemy " Peril is the best incentive to vigilance. In selecting the Atlantic as the chief scene of their U-boat outlawry, the German ad- 5fgfc,mlralty seems to have overlooked this fact, t? and the reaction agalrtst piracy has been ,5. T mo w44a.nui w, uv iaib-ab uuu lUUSt, CI- vf ItiM frtmriHftn rt tlir loirrnnf nnrl if.,aV a fectlve ocean police the worm has ever seen. "lt " it ia itpuiicu uiiti jjinijerors wnneim vf) nu jvari vfuiu ptiito ueiora Lnrisimas " 3''merlca and the Allies ar dninir thr hct to oblige. SCRAPPING THE DESERT'S 'SHIPS" i rpHE German dream that Important (f J- enemy vessels would be retired from trade routes as a result of the war has "" come true in a way that was never Joy--. ously contemplated in Berlin. The "ship w of the desert" Is being scrapped. A dis patch from Jerusalem describes the rele O brution of the arrival of the first "broad h gauge" railvv ay train from Cairo The news that the Suez Canal Is now crossed by a fine suspension bridge ts also for ' the first time disclosed. ''Ship me somewhere east of Suez'" no Jonger calls forth the picture of a lazy camel caravan The modern mind en visages a less romantic ticket ofllce where comfortable passage may be booked for the Slnal Peninsula, Gaza, Jerusalem and f-way stations. The new trunk line was born directly of the war, for English rail-' - 1 A 1I . . mo nuuj3 iiiaiLiuiiK 10 victory jn jeru- ty, -'Baiem in me last. 01 ine crusades. f4 tS ' It is not, however, war, but the civilized lSj peace to come after it which will profit most by the wonderful new Egypt-Pales- ?.t jtine railway. Unquestionably. Jerusnlpm itor centuries a laggard among historic LHowns, s now destined for a modern de- mveiopment, similar to that which has trans- reformed Cairo. Ls TJie isolated short line from the Holy jijMty to the port of Jaffa was ah Insuffl- rvfAVJeni mairuiueni vi progress, ine nucleus ?o?-a. great railroad system which will revc- The i, Moslem built .Damascus - Medina line, a ;jargo part 01 wmen is now controlled by 'the new ite of jfictor In, Independent and anti-German Arabia, will be an Important th desert network. Qrcus camels will be more plentiful and r.A.wono remaue can spare these L'fro its tratic'.UnM without a. 'WMmhs; Urv ',' ., :---awBmnraw-4 V-Y ) rf TAX THE PROFITEERS But Congress Must Firt Be Sure That It Is Mulcting the Guilty rpHAT figures don't lie, but that linrs " dan figure, is ono of the trite aphor isms of the literature of statistics. No ono is inclined to chnrge the clerks who prepared tho report of the Treasury Department on profiteering with delib erately lying. There is n w'desptcad feeling, however, that the report does not tell the whole truth, and that it is there fore misleading. No ono doubts that theie has been profiteering, but no expert accountant will admit that it is possible to discover what business man has been making nn unfair profit nnd what business man has been earning merely a fair return on his business merely by computing the per centage of profit on tho capital invested. The men who have gone into the busi ness of making munitions on a "shoe string" -and are accused of making large percentages in profits may or may not be guilty of profiteering. Jt is impossi ble to decide on the evidence so far made public. What the country wants to know is whether the manufacturers of munitions, the shoe manufacturers, the flour mill ers, the garment makers and all the rest have been charging a fair price based on the cost of production, regardless of the capital invested in their business. If the pi ice is not fair, if an exorbitant per centage above the cost of production has been charged, then there has been profiteering. But if a manufacturer has made, say, $75 on every $1000 worth of munitions or clothing or shoes or flour that he has turned out he is guilty of no offense which would justify any one in pillorying him as a profiteer. Tho basis of computation of profits adopted in the Treasury Department statement is not wholly trustworthy without corroborating and amplifying facts. It is up to Congress to get at the truth in fairness to the business of the country. Tho program seems to be for the House of Representatives to jam tho Kitchin bill through, with its provisions for heavy taxes on excess profits and on war profits, without any inquiry to dis cover whether those taxes will work in justice to legitimate business. It will be the duty of the Senate, therefore, to make such an inquiry into tho amount of tho annual overturn in the businesses to be taxed and into its relation to the profits earned as will enable it to form some sort of a defensible conclusion as to the justness of the extremely heavy taxes proposed in the bill. The man who seeks to get rich out of this war deserves no sympathy, but it is useless to shut our eyes to the fact that many men will make fortunes out of it. It is admitted that after the money has been made the Government is justified in taking a large part of it by taxes upon it in order to help pay the cost of the war. But we should not fall into the error of assuming that because a company with a capital of $1,000,000 has made $1,000, 000 profit on a $10,000,000 annual busi ness it is guilty of a crime. American business men as a class are not crimi nals. They are as patriotic as American Congressmen. What the country desires is a fair tax law which will raise the needed revenue by distributing-.the burden as widely and as equitably as possible. The man in the street knows enough, about what the economists call the repercussion of taxa tion to understand that if the shoe manufacturer, for example, has to pay a tax equivalent to twenty-five cents on every pair of shoes he produces the tax will appear in the retail store in the form of an increase of fifty cents or one dol lar in the price of a pair of shoes. If any one doubts this all he has to do is to recall that when the coal operators had to pay the miners about five cents a ton more for mining coal the consumer was compelled to pay twenty-five cents more a ton when the coal reached this city. At the best, the taxes which Congress is proposing to levy on the manufactur ers of commodities in general use will be handed on to the consumer doubled if not trebled. Thus the country will be compelled to pay the tax two or three times over at the least, while the national Treasury gets it only once. If Congress would levy some form of a consumption tax, to be added to the retail price when the article is sold, the country would have to pay the tax only once,' and the possibility of such tax profiteering by the manufacturer and middleman would be lessened. But in any event, every business man, great and small, and the public at largo are entitled to know what justification there is in the charge made by inference in the Treasury Department statement that our industries have been making excessive profits. When the charge is proved then the profiteers can be mulcted of their gains with no injustice done to any one. That even low shoes will be high this year Is at once ono of the saddest and truest of paradoxes RIOTS AND CHRYSANTHEMUMS LIKE every other civilized country, Japan J considers its form of Government Ideal for Its peculiar needs. The system of ad ministration in Japan is founded upon a nice adjustment of racial trends, religious leanings, resources, geographical environ ment, tradition and inherited pride with the national goals. Toklo has aimed to make ordered gov ernment a progressive and flexible science. It has recognized, as every othsr admin istrative system must recognize, that the factors of race, character and geography must always dominate over merely ab stract theory. It has clung fast to many ancient princlnAs including class and IOMand &cpeifM poverty The outside .-it EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER world looks with various emotions at Japan. It regards with admiration and a touch of nwe tho placidity of Japanese existence and often Is willful in its con templation of the peace and color, tho poetry and the contentment that are per ceptible everywhere in a country where no llfo Is so hunibls as to surfer tho allllctlon of ugliness oj ungraciousness In Its en vironment. Patriotism among the Japanese is as deeply rooted as religion. And yet tho country Is being torn by food riots 1 Even the closplv woven llfo of Japan Is not adequate to leslst In tranquillity tho stupendous reactions of tho war. Tho food riots in the various cities are, howover, no sign of governmental weakness or of Im pending confusion of a more serious sort. What Is being witnessed In tho Mikado's country Is of far more significance to tho observer abroad than to tho people who rioted because they were hungry. Tho Japancso have Inherent pitrlotlsm, philos ophy and simple needs to mako their courso easier, and jet they havo not been ablo to resist the lnioads of the interna tional dlscaso of profiteering. They, too, J have been overwhelmed at tho prospect of easy money. Tho get-rlch-qulck theory rushed tho minds of tho people. They couldn't help themselves. But they will. Because humanity learns only by experi-, cnco. And its means of defonso are Its laws, which are the result of experience. Japan's food riots, therefore, show that human nature everywhere Is pretty much alike and that It must always bo suscept ible to direction nnd to discipllno of a sort devised out of common experience for the common good. I'ntll wo have been bet ter civilized, men will not bo proof against temptation. The collective will of a na tion directed In tho Interc-ts of all sorts of people must make Itself felt In emer gencies. Russia In one way, America In another. Japan In stll' another way show more vividly every di that law Is neces saiy to justice, that most people and most classes become tyrannical with power nnd that an accepted rule and balance, founded on a just view of richt nnd wrong, is necessary to maintain society In a stato of stability. Germany reduced her bread ration yes terday, but there Is (.till plenty of food for thought In tho Central Kmplre. Tho Kaiser's anxiety This My to get his men out of i:plnln It the trenches byChrlst- 111 is may bo duo to a fp.ir that If he doesn't succeed he may have to put In the babies. THE STILL, SMALL VOICE VXTHY Is It that the bank cashier always says to us, even before he looks at the check, "will you have It In ones?" Lines to a Familiar Music O why, O why should my little coal bin Still bare and empty be? O why, Mr. Garfield, have you sent No chestnut, egg or pea? Months with an It, now rapidly op pioachlng, arc notable for other things besides oysters coal shortages, for ex ample. When My Ship Conies In Years ago I used to say: This I'll do and that I'll do If my ship comes in today. With gold to spend and give away That was ere I had met you. Then remember how we planned, Sitting in the summer glow. What dream-riches we'd command When our treasure ship would land That was ere you had to go. Now there's but one ship for me. Just n transport, battered, too; But what gladness there will be When peace flashes o'er the sea And my ship comes in with you! T. MORRIS LONGSTRETH. William Blake as a Prophet The New York Times has called atten tion to the fact that ono of William Blake's engravings to illustrate Dante's Inferno shows a fiend whose face looks remarkably like that of tho Kaiser. An equally interesting forecast seems to us the following passage In Blake'3 "America, a Prophecy," published in 1793: Solemn heave, the Atlantic waves between the gloomy nations, Swelling, belching from Its deeps red clouds and raging fires. Albion Is sick' America faints! Enrag'd the Zenith grew. As human blood shooting Its veins all round the orbed heaven, Red rose the clouds from the Atlantic In vast wheels of blood, And In the red clouds rose a Wonder o'er the Atlantic sea Intense ! naked ' .1 Human fire, fierce glow ing, as the wedge Of iron heated In tho furnace ; his terrible limbs were lire, With mjrlads of cloudy terrors, banners dark, and towers Surrounded heat but not light went thro" the murky atmosphere. This may certainly bo conceived as a very Impressive vision of the tiubmarlno pestilence and the gathered lightnings of American vengeance. And Blake's poem goes on to a remarkable passage which also predicts the American Civil War. The pnly difficulty about tho prophecy, which stultifies it for these days, is that Blake also seems to foreshadow a war of exter mination between England and America. After all, one has to take prophets In small doses. Tom Edteon, John Burroughs and Iaii.V Ford haie gone on their annual fishing trip and taken Vd Hurley along with them. Ed has slid so many things into the water lately it seems only fair he should take something out in return. In answer to the old query "Is life worth living?" it might be retorted it depends upon the flivver. The Kaiser has called on a "retreat spe cialist" to take charge of the German armies on the Bomme front. If he is a specialist now he vMll he an expert ot the time roch gets through with him. The Fat in the Firing Line Sousa has written a new march called "Solid Men to the Front," and is playing it at Willow Grove. Does that eighteen-toforty-flve draft refer to waist measure ments as well as age? ouvnniA i. f " r-tM.". ,r m j.I..l 4 .vi nfiE ,,4, . , --,. - PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, &UGKJST Lullaby for a Baby Tank (Apologies to Lord Tennyson) CQUAT and low, squat and low, Tank of the western front, Feared by foe, bravo Gouraud Welcomes thy features blunt. Over tho rugged trenches go Crawling from Soissons or Belleau, Trundle foreshortened runt. Creep, my little one, over each brittle. Hun, creep. Creep and rest, creep and rest, Rest on the Teuton's Iocs; Sleep, sleep on the Franco we'll keep, Victory bring thee repose. Lie in thy cradle a crater depressed Deep as German hopes in tho west, Sunk in their August woes. Sleep, my gritty one, wee, unpretty one, sleep. H. T. CRAVEN. VACATIONING IN 1918 By Raymond G. Fuller SEVERAL weeks ago, jou may remember, I promised myself aloud and In your piescnce, Mr. Editor that I would write some artldeB for your editorial page. Of course, I knew that there was gravo danger of wasting my time, for you never seem to be hard up for good stuff to print, but tho literary urge and the fact that Fred B (deleted by the censor) hadn't paid back the ten-spot he borrowed and hasn't yet, for that matter combined to spur me on to action. And where aro tho precious manu scripts now? In my trunk nnd where that Is only heaven nnd the United States Rail way Express Company havo any means of Knowing, and the express company maintains a silence which I am forced to construe as Ignorance. My only consolation Is the thought that Heaven knows. SO I can't send jou the manuscripts until the trunk comes. A man In the smoking compartment of the sleeper told me 1 ought to have had It checked and sent as baggage. He got on at Northampton and said ho had waited tlnro months I think it was for an express ptikage from New York. It may havo arrived on the train by which ho left. Tho trunk supposedly was shipped from Philadelphia only ten days ago, and my vacation is up In ten days more. I had to stay In the house jesterday while the tailor was pressing my suit of clothes. He Informed me over the telephone, when I called him up, that four men had recently come to town In tho same boat that Is, being Interpreted, with no trunk and no extra suit to wear. Cost la guerie, as they say In France. In other words, we aro living my wife and I In a suitcase, and having a grand and awful time. WE HAVE been traveling, you see. This Is my wife's homo town, but not our destination. If the trunk comes tomorrow we aro going to Greenwood Lakothe following day. All her middy blouses and all my fish ing tackle are In that trunk. (Also the manuscripts.) AS I said, we havo been traveling. Not .far not to the Rockies, nor jet to the Sunny South but wasn't It Thoreau who wrote that a man could travel without ever going outside of Concord? Or was It Emer son? Neither of them, however, could keep away from Boston. Everjbody, even now, goes to Boston. We didn't go to Boston on this trip. It wasn't necessary, as we used to live there. WE MADE the journey from Btandyvvlne Summit to our West Philadelphia apart ment In a friend's automobile, starting on a Monday morning. It was nearer noon than morning. Did jou ever start an where by automobile with a party and start at the time planned on the preceding evening. No, jou never did. ON TUESDAY wo packed the trunk, put ting in everything we expected to need In camp at Greenwood Lake. (Also tho manuscripts, which awaited a few finishing touches.) In the afternoon I called up tho Pullman ofllce nt Broad Street Station to engage chairs on tho 1 o'clock train Wednes day. I learned that the world moves and that you can't get reservations by telephone any more. It was raining hard, so J. let tho mat ter drop with the receiver, and we traveled to New York In a plain, ordinary coach next day and had a seat together. WE DIDN'T stop In New York any longer than we had to. We saw a conductorette while riding across town. At the Grand Cen tral we got some Ice cream, but no Pullman chairs. At Bridgeport we saw the Reming ton Works from tho" car windows. Bej'ond Bridgeport we saw five ships building on the ways. At Springfield we changed trains, with no time to spare. , On the northbound train we secured sleeping berths and thanked our lucky stars, but we'd have gone on to old Verrhont If we had had to sit up all night. The conductor Informed me that my B. and M. and C. V mileage books left over from last jcar wee no good, not having received the Government's official O. K. I counted my cash, and ho took it and put if in an envelope. But, I gave the various rail road and Pullman conductors encountered en route a good run for the monej At the last junction point, at 4 o'clock tn the morning, the C. V. conductor was still figuring the sum total of carfare, extra fare, Pullman faro and war tax when the station was called. He followed me Into the branch-line train to convince me. No, there wasn't any quarrel. Everything was straight. Merely this: I am no mathematical prodlgj. I re ceived thlrty-Blx cents and four ten-cent re bate slips In tho envelope In which my small fortune had been deposited when we left Springfield. C'est la guerre! CASUALTY lists from France boys we know or whose people we know boys that went to school to iny wife sons, broth ers, husbands, sweethearts of sweethearts. Some dead, some wounded Boj-s from right here in Barre. Right across the street. C'est la guerre. The neighbors have shown us letters that they havo received from the boys over there. ..... Inln.aatlnt. lull... Vi. .... ,!... iney uru iiucisauui, ..., wm juuia imuii interesting, for they are significant by reason of the spirit they express. They are all cheerful, some of them humorous. Somehow they make a man feel small and mean even a man whose staying at home is obligatory. People are talking about the new draft. It concerns me, as I shall be one of the registrants next month There's no apathy over the war up in this ... m .(.a luinnl.v Tim r.lt ahm.. .,... ,,. nccK oi urn ,wM....rf. -.. v..i,.ciuy uuii i una war any better than they ever did, but they're behind this war in good earnest. There seems to be a sort of consecration among the people, and yet, at other times, thelid seems to be the feeling of the young recruit who was congratulated on his supposed de sire to help make the world safe for democ racy. "Hell ! that ain't it," he responded. "I want to get the boche that said the Ameri cans couldn't fight!" POSTSCRIPT I am finishing this letter In weather as hot as the weather was when I was writing those manuscripts. Those manuscripts If genius Is 80 per cent perspi ration ought to Be Important documents. The title of one is "Free Verse in the Light of Poetry." Another Is called "William Hohenzollern in the Shadow of Hell." Sorry I can't send them, but I've just received word that the trunk Is still In Philadelphia, ARE we going camping? Oh, yes; there .are some clothes we can borrow, and some we qin buy, and some we can do with out The gospel of doing without is popular these days, you know. There is one thlnr my wife and I cant oo -witnout this year. and that la oreenwooa ik. . ' -jr-v KaSBfi. iLilT ,,& ,, .-: -. Tmmammmmm3fmKmmmm'jm wmmmmm. laiw . " "?mm - i. i',ft:l v-ittr-r-B&iFtir-iKi: .j-jESSS,-,-.--, ..u'tSKSS"? 7V:in-aiy-.':'3!T: tfpS"--- ftrr iT7TT-ii m3 .i i "l-v. rZ - "-rrl -- .ZB - f - """rdWfc 5r'?r$"K?vIlrlv S -.-."""- ' ---r- If " r j ArZ Jt -Jtf rr"y mm m"1 JOYCE KILMER By Christopher Morlcy I WONDER if there is any other country where the death of a young poet is double-column front-page news? And if poets were able to proofread their own obits, I wonder if any two lines would have given Joyco Kilmer more honest pride than these: JOYCE KILMER, POET, IS KILLED IN ACTION which gave many hearth a pang when they picked up the Pudlic Ledqeh last Sunday morning. JOYCE KILMER died as he lived "In action." He found life Intensely amus ing, unspeakably interesting; his energy was unlimited, his courage stout. He at tacked life at all points, rapidly gathered its complexities about him, and the inore intricate it became the more zestful he found It. 'Nothing bewildered him, nothing terrified. By the time he was thirty he had attained an almost unique position in literary circles. He lectured on poetry, he interviewed famous men of letters, he was poet, editor, essayist, critic, anthologist. He was endlessly active, full of delightful mirth and a thousand schemes for outwit ting the devil of necessity that hunts all brainworkers. Nothing could quench him. He could turn out "copy" in any emergency. When he was run down by a train in New Jersey, he continued dictat ing from his bed in the hospital, and his weekly article for the New York Times reached the printer on schedule. BUT beneath this whirling activity which amused and amazed his friends there lay a deeper and quieter vein which was rich in its own passion. It is not becomlngV to prate of what lies in' other men's souls; wo all have our secrecies and sanctuaries, rarely acknowledged even to ourselves. But no one can read Joyce Kilmer's poems without grasping his vigorous idealism, his keen sense of beauty, his devout and sim ple religion, his clutch on the preclousness of common things., He loved the precarious bustle on Grub street; he was of that ad venturous buoyant stuff that rejects hum drum security and a pelfcd and padded life. He always insisted that America Is tho very shrine and fountain of poetry, and this country (which is Indeed pathetically eager to take poets to Its bosom) stirred his vivid imagination. The romance of the commuter's train and the sub urban street, of the delicatessen shop and the circus and the snowman In the yard these were the familiar themes where he was rich and felicitous. Many a commuter will remember his beautiful poem "The 12:45," bespeaking the thrill we have all felt in the shabby- midnight train that takes us home, yearning and weary, to the well-beloved hearth: What love commands, the train fulfills And beautiful upon the hills Are these our feet of burnished steel. Subtly and certainly, I feel That Glen Rock welcomes us to he. And Btlent Rldgewood seems to stir And smile, because she knows the train Has brought her children back again. We carry peopjo home and so God speeds us, wheresoe'er we go. The midnight train is slow and old, But of It let this thing be told, Tn its hleh honor be It said. It carries weary folk to bed. TO A man such as this, whose whole . fervent and busy adventure was lit within by the lamplight and firelight of domestic passion, the war, with its broken homes and defiled Banctlties, cam as a personal affront. Both to hut hunter for 20, 1918 ; ' V - - -y - ' y.lB' '' ,v 1 "AFTER YOU YET!" ' . S i Wff.vKY BSklt mtti . . fcUm wUrDBWrTyViT D i J? Sr3saMf 55 tcUlifyf? -5 WbrfcJL. .. e-r-" " -inaXSV'rgm Hhf .TS.-1 ."T- V 1 k-- .1 . iMMnBaBaBaBaBaUBarsBaBaBBa-BrSi " i-.-"' . '11 AfWM: MVO " J lHRS2iHMlHBnWUT H ll fit ll a')r Ta,. WBEt-mm ?nraiiBBmaiBatfiH kkwi .2-rr.. ,afl ..'run j - Sr'A1" - w J""'"'-'---. -i .p?THvr,:"i:-;.,- .-l?. "' '"tp!. - the glamour of such a colossal drama, and to his sense of what was most worshipful in human life, the call was irresistible. Counsels of prudence and comfort were as nothing; the heart-shaking poetry of this nation's entry into nn utterly unselfish war burned away all barriers. His life had been a fury of writing, but those who thought ho had entered the war merely to make journalism about it were mistaken. Only a few weeks ago ho wrote: To tell the truth, I am not Interested In writing now adays, except In so far as writing Is the expression of something beautiful. And I see daily nnd nightly tho expression of beauty In nctlon Instead of words, and I find It more satlsfactorj". I i.m a sergeant In tho regimental Intelligence section the most fascinating work possible more thrills In It than In any other branch, ex cept, possibly, aviation. Wonderful life! But I don't know what I'll be able to do In civilian life unless I become a fireman! A8 JOURNALIST and lecturer Kilmer Xi. was copious and enthusiastic rather than deep. He found a good deal to his own secret mirth women's clubs and peetry societies sitting earnestly at his feet, expectant to hear ultimate truth on deep matters. His humor prompted him .to give them t,he ultimate truth they craved. If his critical Judgments were not always heavily documented or longr pondered, they were entertaining and pleasantly put. The earnest world of literary societies and blue-hosed salons lay about his feet; he flashed in it merrily, chuckling inwardly as he found hundreds of worthy people hanging breathless on his words. A kind of Kilmer cult grew apace; he had his fol lowers and his devotees. I mention these things because he would have been the first to chuckle over them. I do not think he would want to be remembered as having taken all that Bort of thing too seriously. It was all a delicious game part of the grand Joke of living. Sometimes, among his friends, he would begin to pontificate in his platform manner. Then he would recall himself, and his characteristic grin would flood his face. AS A Journalist, I say, he was copious; . but as a poet his oong was always prompted bj; a genuine gush of emotion. "A poet Is only a glorified reporter," ho used to say; he took as his favorite as signment the happier precincts of the human heart. As he said of Belloc, a true poet will never write to order not even to his own order. He sang because he heard life singing all about him. His three little books of poems have always been dear to lovers of honest simplicity. And now their words will be lit henceforward by an inner and tender brightness the memory of a gallant boy who flung him self finely against the walls of life. Where they breached he brpke through and waved his sword laughing. Where they hurled him back he turned away, laughing still. 1ET us spare his memory the glib and J customary dishonesty that says "He died as he would have wished to." No man wishes to die at least, no poet does. To part with the exhilarating bustle and tumult, the blueness of the sky, the sun light that tingles on well-known street corners, the plumber's bills and the edi tor's checks,, the mirths of fellowship and the Joys of homecoming when lamps are lit all this is too close a fiber to be stripped easily from the naked heart. But the poet must go where the greatest songs are singing. Perhaps he finds, After all, that life and deatb are part of wi mm irnynMj -a. -Hi" '" I When We Come Back WHEN wo come back, remember the things wo planned to do: The little house upon the hill with room enough for two, The casement with the ivy, the grass so soft and deep, The singing roof where drops of rain would lull the night to sleep. You said you'd hold me tight and never let mo trr firrnlti- .. :.-."' , luua hiss eucn scar upon suy tan aiiu every mark of pain; A When wo come back, remember you , J laughed when it was said I might be out an arm, but you would hug me twice instead. I'll know you will have suffered far more than even I, I'll know the sleepless nights when you could only walk and cry. Remember, proud of heart, dear, if I should chance to fall, You'd rather I had not come back than never go at all When we come back, remember the things we planned to do: The little house upon the hill with room enough for two, The casement with the ivy, the road winding track, The little houso upon the hill, and and when we come back. Charles Divine in "City Ways and Com pany Streets." Nobody Gives a Tinker's Dam It is a desperate undertaking at this sea son for any ambitious candidate to seek to arouse popular Interest In politics New. York World. Not to Mention the 4Ss The thirty-five and forty year old fellows who have been expressing regret, that the age limit prevented them from going Into the army are not looking as happy now as they did a short time ago. New Orleans States. Must Feel Like Doing Something No doubt the Kaiser will soon think of exempting the Crown Prince from military service on the ground that he has a dependent wife and children. Cleveland Plain Dealer, What Do You Know? QUIZ Who Is the present Chancellor af Germaajf What l plbroth? . Who la tho rommander of tho Amorieaa ' troops In Siberia? What was tho real name of Mark Twain? Who aald"Womnn will be tho last thins elf- lllird br man"? What ronntrr In the world produce the satse coffee? What Is a winch? Who was Vice Tresldent under Taft? What is a touare? Why are actors called Thespians? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz Henry Waterson rcrentlr retired from th active editorship of the Louisville Cornier Journal, Copra Is the dried kernel of the coco-nut. The Don Cossacks are so called because ( their residence In the country drained by the ifivrr uon. in me aouinern pan Russia. Asteroids are small, Irrrcularlr shaped plan ets, lylm between Jupiter and Mars. , General McClellan ns tho Democratic can didate for l'reoldrnt defeated br Lincoln la tho election of 1S04. , Newark' Is (he lariest city In New Jersey. , The small Islands of M. Pierre and MIqmIm form the only North American poaaeaalen of Krunie. They lie off tbo southeast ceait of Newfoundland. The line, "The DJths of dory lead but. to the crave," occurs In dray's "Xlerr," The stlnthan. formerly the llamburr-Aasef- ican uner vuieriaua, is mo urges pbmb an lha urnrld Carmen Hi Ira U the ten name of the n)Ya)ss W jUowaacr at KuanaiiU. wtdaw at'Kli;JH ' Charles I. Hhe Is HstlninUka a . tM i4ri, ,j ',-,?' am V .je l ft" ? r .t-u. ,:,M -- n ry ; JW-v . ',". &i&iJBiBU!ijSiZ?'f. .- tHTMHSBSnHinaHlK'fe i.t.
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