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MONTGOMERY COUNTY PRUSSIANS
AGAINST a little band or willful King
of Trusslans an equally determined
knot of Montgomery County villagers have
raised the standard of revolt. The famous
old roadside inn has already been re
chrlstened, but King of Prussia is still
officially HstcJ ns a Pennsylvania post
office address, exemplars of one brand
of patriotism view the name with loath
ing. Equally loyal but more sentimental
burghers of another type exult in rising
euperlor to Its sinister syllables. They see
no reason for changing their letter-heads
just because a certain William Hohen
tollern chose to run amuck.
There is Shakespearean precedent for
disregarding the sound of a mere name.
And yet the bard's own procedure some
what weakens his case. Undoubtedly a
rose listed as skunk cabbage would loso
no fragrance, but somehow the poet
showed no inclination to banish the pret
tier word from his pen. It is noticeable,
too, Romeo Montague is a name keenly
Instinct with romance, a quality not dis
cernible in, for example, Seth Pecksniff.
The most ardent rural sentimentalist can
not deny that King of Prussia has an
acrid flavor In these times.
The best argumentative artillery for
routing their opponents has, however, a
base of considerable strength. It gives
one a real thrill of pleasure to imagine
the Kaiser or the Crown Prince or Karl
Rosner captured by a chap from German
town, Pa.; Berlin, X. J., or King of Prus
sia. The sweet irony of this thought
would seem almost to justify retaining the
old historic names, and especially in this
last Instance, when the appellation per
petuates a lifelong champion of French
culture, , r'rederick the Great. Will the
Montgomery County "Reds" have any
adequate rebuttal if such arguments aro
driven home?
It may be. forecast that Germany will
conduct her oratorical offensive from the
same old bombastions.
CALLING IN THE WISE MEN
rpHE world has so long been afraid of
- its wise men that the appointment of
& great philosopher on a French Govern
ment mission is a striking index of the
fast flux of history in which this old
planet is revolving. The savant in ques
tion is Henri Bergson, who has Just been
named civilian head of the French Eco
nomic Mission to Australia,
v A prime feature of the Bergsonian phil
osophy Is Its lucidity. It also espouses
the gospel of the "elan" or dash, a quality
which France herself has so heroically
displayed throughout the war. Bergson
""should thus represent with distinction the
clear-headed nation which appoints him.
He may climb to higher posts. A
philosopher at the peace conference may
be a delegate worth having. Perhaps If
Goethe had been sent to Vienna In 1815 no
blood need have been shed for liberty in
1848 or even in subsequent years.
"Remember tthe Aisne!" would make a
euphonious substitute for a warcry of the
past.
GILT-EDGED GERMAN MUSIC
QJHOULD Richard Strauss's "Salome"
J happen to be produced during the war
not even the most zealous patriot will
have legitimate cause for uneasiness. Ti'e
daughter of Herodlas may appear to be
dancing before the Syrian Tetrarch, but
Jn reality she will be cavorting for Mr.
McAdoo. The Treasury Department will
nAf.1ttt all iVta rmmlf (na r.-. 11.A .......
L '? Sinn nnri n nVittaf tt T IKn... TIa..?- .iu
r .... .u U....U v utuitj uuuua will
neip iu jjui u loan unve over me top.
1',, n ib twut'civumc, iuo, iiia& wuuzes Will
y, win the war may be, considered as a
brUf patriotic slogan. Uncle Sam has a rich
' , .potpourri of them, originating in "Tl e
Chocolate Soldier," "Miss Springtime, '
"The Riviera Girl," "Sari" and other im-
, ported Teuton musical comedies to which
Eai he has Just acquired the American rights.
jA The "Star Spangled Banner" is more pa-V-
trlotlc than these scores, but nothing like
so lucrative from the Government's view
point. "What Lehar, Fall and the Viennese
waltz factories lose the United Kf.ntei
'&- Treasury will gain, for A. Mitchell Palmer,
r the Enemy Allen Property Custodian.
, -. --.
i" swooped down on Broadway the other day
:Vand made a bigger haul of rights to n.usl-
Ejl plays than any Rialto manager In his
V'.'iauoat monoDollstic vein. Hundred) nt
ja '"Stheusands of dollars' worth of royalties
"n iWJlcti formerly accrued to enemy authors
VfM' 0' these hits will be poured into the na
few;)',Jft'onal cashbox through the channel of
fe-' Investment in Liberty Bonds,
r;Y wunueipi mau win piny uweei music
. (or Uncle Ram, who now control the
I, ytmray Pestinn and Fritz Kreisler record
''-"fcovaJtlea and numerous others. It be-
7JC1 ua, lUQtcivic, w ua nwu IU DVIflU
...a ll.n-AfnA 4n t.& 1rlnY ,e. s..n
m music,. Its strains may be puu.ed
jn-o4taUy enough to equlpja "Yunk"
Wy mw auu"112nb for a
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PROFITEERS AND THE DRAFT
Having Charged the War Industries With
Plunder, Can the Administration
Draft Labor for Them?
"Y"OU would bo willing," snid a mem-
ber of the House Military Affairs
Committee to Secretary Baker in the
course of the hearinp on the new draft
bill, "to uso the draft regulation in in
dustrial disputes?"
The Secretary of War hesitated and
replied :
"Yes; to a limited extent."
In that instant one of the mot un
pleasant situations that ever has risen
in the processes of national legislation
reached a climax. Congress and the
Administration, after announcing that
profiteers aro rampant in the United
States, after creating a widespread feel
ing of distrust by a half-explained in
dictment of the war industries, left
themselves open to a flat charge of play
ing into the hands of these same inter
ests at the expense of the workers of the
country.
Little time was needed to give that
challenge the form of words. Frank
Morrison, secretary of the American
Federation of Labor, flung it at the
Houso committee yesterday nfternoon.
The issue thus formulated automatically
from the drifting tendency in Congress
and in the Administration is one that
transcends the interests of any group or
division of the population. Any move
ment for the conscription of labor at a
time when charges of scandalous profi
teering are still hanging in the air will
tend certainly to imperil the unity of
sentiment which has enabled the United
States to work miracles in the industrial,
financial and military processes of the
war.
The President himself implied that
profiteering is general. The Treasury
Department presented statistics a few
days ago to make the indictment conclu
sive. It has been held, on the other
hand, that the statistics were unfair and
misleading. Perhaps they arc. the
great majority of the industries are, in
fact, innocent of profiteering, then the
Administration has permitted a pro
foundly disturbing misapprehension to
become prevalent throughout the country
and has aided in the creation of almost
impassable obstacles in the way of what
it now describes as essential tear legisla
tion. An intolerable contrast is presented in
the recent official arraignment of the
nation's industries upon a charge of
plunder and the Thomas-Reed amend
ment in the new man-power bill which
would, as Mr. Morrison said, deliver a
weapon of limitless power into the hands
of employers, fair and unfair alike.
A recognition of the irreconcilable
principles involved does not imply fault
finding with the general programs of
the President or the Secretary of War.
It is the methods of procedure that seem
lax and ill advised. It is significant that
bitter opposition to the clause permit
ting labor conscription springs instantly
from the most conservative leaders of
American labor, Mr. Morrison and Mr.
Gompers.
Ground for even more violent opposi
tion is provided by the failure of the Ad
ministration and of Congress to clarify
and to prove or to explain fully the
sweeping indictment by which the Treas
ury Department made it appear that
most of the concerns engaged in war
work are reaping unjust and often fabu
lous profits. Congress shrank from a
full elucidation of these charges. It left
a tale half told and it left the imagina
tion of the public to round out the story
of war plunder in its own way and to
rest upon its own conclusions.
The officials of the American Federa
tion are justified in describing the
Thomas-Reed amendment as an insult.
There is nothing to show that labor will
not do its part or that it isn't doing its
full part, except in isolated instances.
It is conceivable that in an emergency
the country would surrender to the new
and fantastic theory of labor conscrip
tion. But it will reject that plan now,
and reject it violently, because it has
been led to believe that the industries
which are clamoring for men are piling
up millions of illicit profits in secret.
The President and Mr. McAdoo have
not yet uttered a word to dispel an im
pression which many of the business men
of the country call unfair and unjust.
If any such explanation is to be made it
should be made at once. If the industries
are profiteering Congress should set
aside the laws which' shield them and
cause the names of the profiteering in
dustries to be made public in a roll of
dishonor. Otherwise labor in the United
States will have its first actual grounds
for a suspicion of unfair treatment.
Unpopular with the "wets": "See your
own country thirst 1"
DEMOCRATS IN A MELEE
ALIj experience, like all records of
-human travail In other fields, proves
that the tall never can wag the dog. The
State Democratic Committee, in waging
a furtive war on 'Judgo Bonniwell, is
therefore wasting Its energy.
It is well enough to view the row be
tween the major candidate and the party
leaders as another sprightly illustration
of the mercurial temperament in a politi
cal sect whose members are said never to
be happy unless they are fighting one
another. And it is interesting to observe
that Judge Bonniwell in lonely rebellion
and his opponents who doubt the value
of a barrage of beer are rapidly making
the sldeshov-' In State politics more di
verting than the big top In which Sproul
and his friends disport in slow dignity.
Yet a nice question of political procedure
Is Involved in the Democrats' rumpus, and
in Justice to Bonniwell it must be said
that he has the right end of the '"oh-
roversy.
(( The leading candidate In a State cam
jjws. thtvjiest or it always. His
H-8ca.aaota4Uwik.hini without
indulging in the questionable luxury of
lmrlkail If lie wishes to exploit a ruin
ous Issue his committees cannot properly
complain. They must nccept him ns one
of the misfortunes of war. A State elec
tion means most to tho man who runs for
the governorship. He goes up or down at
tho finish. In theory at least tho Stato
Committee is presumed to have no special
Interest In tho matter.
Judge Bonniwell has been shrewd
chough in adopting an attitude favorable
to the liquor business to sense the possi
bilities of a reaction from some of the
excessive piejiullers of the hour. He has
tnken a gambling chance. Ho has shown
moro courage than a State committee
which Is yet unready to declare it-? lcw
polnt In relation to tho prohibition issue.
And therein ho Is likely to gain sympathy
becauso of the opposition of moro timorous
leaders.
Is It because the appeal of an Ulsterman
In summertime lnclts conviction that English
Indorsements of home rule for Ireland hao
lately assumed such emphasis?
AN ARMY TO HEAT GERMANY
GENERAL MARCH says that wo can
win tho war by September of next year
if we have an nrmv of 3.200,000 In France
on Juno 30 and about 1,000,000 In training
at home.
Tho duty of Consress is to pass tho laws
which will mako It posslblo to raise such
an army and keep it equipped, and the
business of the rest of us is to co operate
in every possible way v.t tho War De
partment, on which the task of raising
the army rests.
The American army contained 3,012,112
men on August 1, according to General
March. This Included the forces In Eu
rope and those on the way to tho number
of 1,301,742 men, together with 1,432,706
in tho United States and its Insular posses
sions and 277.GG4 called In tho August
draft.
A minimum of 1,200,000 men must bo
found between now and Juno 30. Where
aro they to come from'' The purpose of
tho man-power bill now before Congress
Is to answer this important question. It
extends the ago limits of the draft at both
ends.
Provost Marshal General Crowder has
estimated that there are 1.797.G00 effective
soldiers to bo found In the group of youths
between tho ages of eighteen and twenty
inclusive and 601,230 between tho ages of
thirty-two and forty-five, making n total
of 2,398,S45. That is. there are about
2,400,000 available soldiers in the groups
at both ends of the extended draft age
who will be put In Class 1 subject to call,
or about twice as many as will be called
under the present estimate of the size of
an army needed to beat the Germans.
Only one-half of the ellgibles, therefore,
will be drafted, according to the present
outlook.
What every man of family and every
father of a boy within the draft ago wants
to know is to what extent the married
men are to bo drafted and whether, the
eighteen-year-old boys are to be called.
Secretary Baker has said that he did not
think that the boys between eighteen
and nineteen years old would be needed.
General March says that wo must "get
rid of tho Idea that the calling of the
youngest class Is to be deferred." There
is" apparent conflict here between the views
of the Chief of Staff and the Secretary of
War. If the eighteen-year-old boys are
omitted this will reduce the number of
ellgibles by about 675,000, making it neces
sary to draw more extensively on those
of greater age. Before Congress passes
tho bill there should bo agreement between
tho views of the Secretary of War and the
Chief of Staff. The Committee on Military
Affairs of the Houso has decided to put
the eighteen-year-old boys in a deferred
class. But this docs not settle the ques
tion.
The nation is ready to provide as many
men as aro needed. The desire to know
in advance to what extent tho youth are
to be called on arises from no reluctance
on their part to fight and no unwillingness
of their parents that they should begin
thus early to fulfill tho duties of their
citizenship, but merely from a desire to
adjust themselves to the demands of the
near future.
There is less uncertainty about the pur
poses of tho Government regarding mar.
ried men. Wo are assured that men with
wives and children absolutely dependent
on them will bo put in deferred classes
and will not be drafted until the other
classes have been exhausted, which under
present estimates would mean that they
would not be called at all. The deferred
classes under the first draft law are not
to be invaded at present and will not be
!o long as men with no dependents can
be found
Of this much we are certain. And If we
succeed with our expeditionary army of
3,200,000 men, added to the 2,750,000 of
the French army and a British army of a
similar size, in whipping the Germans by
or before tho end of September of next
year, we may consider ourselves fortu
nate. Yet we should not count too surely
on this happy outcome. It may bo neces
sary to continue the war until September,
1920, and we must be prepared to flght
on If necessary. But the surest way to
bring the war to an end is to pour Into
France as big an army aa possible be
tween now and the opening of the spring
and summer campaigns next year. As
General March well says, any other policy
would be to play Into the hands of the
enemy.
An overwhelming force within six
months means victory. The same number
of men put Into battle in driblets means
defeat or further postponement of vic
tory. It is Yank, rank,
Wheat Till Yank,
(lie War Holla With a wheaten loaf
liy, Johnny I no matter what
your rank.
Though in pity we've surveyed you
By your Uncle Sam that made you
You are better fed than we are, Johnny Yank.
"Dry" arguments In
rrohlblt Them, the Senate are no
Too novelty. We had more
than a sufficiency of
them long before prohibition ever became a
national Issue.
Coal miners . have asked for what the
dispatches refer to as a flat Increase In pay,
A look at the schedule suggests that the "I"
tnay have crept fnto tfcfcadjwtlvo by accl
THE CHAFFING DISH
A Regular Guy
TIMMYLEGS hung around tho camp
post as a hundred others do;
But Jlmmylegs did not wait In vain, 'twas
a Jolly fat letter, tool
With eyes glued fast while he tramped the
mud and through the barracks door,
Ho'd chuckle and laugh and grin with glee
ns over a pago he'd pore.
Then ho'd ralso his freckled face and say.
to his bunklcs standing by,
"It's the Dally Letter from Mother, boys.
Gee! Sh&s a regular guy!"
4QAY, listen to this: 'I was knitting
socks, the hardest job with yarn;
It was during our church social, and I
suddenly satd, "Oh, darn I"
That fussy deacon you know who looked
up quite shocked at me.
I said, "DUl you ever turn a heclt" 'Not
a darn one,' satd he,
'On friend or foe.' "You're like my ooi,
liastcncd to reply.
He shook my hand.'
Gee, fellows! Ain't Ma some regular guy!
(( AND- listen" the khaki forms stretched
xlDut on bunks and on tho floor;
Smiles lighted boyish faces whero disap
pointment lurked before:
Ton. icmcmbcr, Son, those kittens that
came to our house astray,
I took them down to the little wharf, the
one you built last May,
The kittens struggling In a bag. I leaned
out on the dock,
When something gave way and In I icent
head first, you'd say kcrsockl
It wasn't deep, but on the bank there sat
thoic kittens dryl'
Say, fellows, what do you think o' that!
Ain't Mother a regular guy!
tl (rnilOSn kittens looked reproachful
JL moiu they're here to stay; 1
know
When you were just a kiddle you altcays
loved them so.
And oh, yes! that pretty Jameson girl, I
asked her In to tea.
I shotted her your picture In olive drab'
say, boys, tho rest's for me!"
A. comrade spoke, "Where's Browning?
He looked like he'd gone broke."
"His Ma wrote, too," said some one; "you
know she's scared he'll croak.
She writes the dlngdest letters, honest they
mako him cry.
Straight goods; I've seen the tear stains
Say, his Mother's no kind of guy!"
THEN Jlmmylegs said softly, "There's
a box a-comlng to me;
Sweaters and socks and stuff to eat, we'll
have a peach of a spree.
We'll get that Browning fellow and brace
him up a bit
I'll ask my Mother to write him she'll
have him fcelin' fit.
She wants to know all you fellows and
she's coming to say good-by
Gee! Did you ever know a Mother that's
such a regular guy!"
DORA ADELE SHOEMAKER.
Is the river Lys where the cooties come
from?
In spite of their name, the Jugo-Slavs
are said to be very temperate, and tho
Rumanians aro alleged to bo total ab
stainers. Austria seems to be solving her wild
Croats.
Mr. Garfield, N. B.
See a bin and fill it up,
All the year you'll have good luck;
See a bin and leave it void,
All your friends will be annoyed.
Why Is it that tre are never out when
people come to call on usf
Our Creed
None of our arguments convinces any
one else and few of them convince ourself,
so we have given up arguing.
We intended originally to be loquacious
and talkative, but we find that other peo
ple enjoy talking so much we don't see
why we should deprive them of Innocent
pleasure.
If you agree with a man rapidly enough
you may lull his suspicions and escape.
Never argue about any subject in which
you have strong convictions, beciuse you
will not be able to convince the others.
Never argue about any subject on which
you have no convictions, because you may
havo some one else's convictions forced
upon you, and they are probab'y wrong.
One good taciturn deserves another.
Philadelphia" are kind-hearted people,
and about 5 o'clock In the afternoon they
often stop to think of the unfortunate JVeto
Yorkers about to go under the bottom in
their subway. Bhontstturos salutatnusl
Evpry now and then we meet soma stal
wart British Jackles on Chestnut street,
and when we look at them we havo an
Inkling why tho Hun dreadeverythlngs
stay so near Kiel.
arrmany is very much annoyel by the
leaflet barrage that keeps dropping down
from Allied aircraft tn the shape of League
to Enforce Peace pamphlets, Ltchnowsky
reprints, etc. But Germany ought to know
that ictth the approach of autumn leaves
always fall. Why not make tho best of It,
like the Autrianj, and sell the pamphlets
for immense sumsf
A Berlin editor suggests that Germany
undertake a vigorous counter-offensive to
these pamphlets by strewing some of her
own. Think what an inspiring mass r,f
material she has: Statistics of hospital
ships sunk. Red Cross nurses shot, pris
oners starved and beatan, neutral coun
tries terrorized.
Search Us
Dear Socrates Why do people always
say "bone" dry? Why not some other
kind of dry? PRO BONO PUBLICO.
The chemln des Colonial Dames will not
be appreciably lightened by Camden's new
Washington statue.
Glorious News
Brooklyn Is greatly elated over the dis
covery of a submarine In parts packed In
cases and lying In a vacant lot. Optimistic
Brooklynites are thinking- ther may now
be some hope for a rival to the Manhattan
subway. -.'; - n
' " A..
THE GOWNSMAN
The Cosmopolite and the Provincial
IT IS reported that a gentleman once en
tered tho breakfast room of his club In a
state of utter absenttnlndedness as well as
otherwise insufficiently clad. Suddenly awak
ening to the deficiencies of his toilet, ho re
marked to the attentive and silent servant
somewhat deprecatingly:
"John, did you observe that I had forgot
anything this mornlng7"
"Since you mention It, sir, I believe I did
notlco that you hadn't put on your coat,
sir or your trousers."
The story is less credible as to any "gentle
man," British or other, than as to tho serv
ant: though no ono can claim to be well
bred who has not a cultivated, u well
disciplined blind side. In London one Sunday
afternoon at the Tate Picture Callery, a few
years ago, a gieat hulking fellow stalked
about coatless, In a "shirtwaist" which would
have been called shamelessly decollete had a
woman worn It, his hairy legs bare to the
knec3, sans shoes or even sandals; but no
one In the crowd turned eye or lorgnette to
look at him. You may walk the streets of
London In the costume of Benjamin Frank
lin, Bhadbelly waistcoat and all, or in that
of Pericles, as Isadora Duncan's eccentric
brother actually did, and even tho coster
mongers won't notice you. This it Is to be
metropolitan, cosmopolitan.
THE provincial, not to the manner born. Is
Bometlmcs put to It to preserve this lofty
detachment. Tho Gownsman remembers an
afternoon at the home, in Goldcr's Green, of
that genial and kindly English gentleman, ex
cellent author and scholar, Ernest Rhys. The
company was Interesting and drawn from the
four quarters of the globe. An Indian prin
cess, or grandessa at the least if there Is
such a thing as a femlnino grandee and tho
word Is applicable outside of Spain fell to
your modest Gownsman's lot. She was "not
fair as other maidens be," though her fea
tures were fine and she was aggressively
young-. In complexion, to be accurate, verily
she darkened the lady of Shakespeare's son
nets and all other "black ladles." She was
cultivated and voluble In perfect English,
professing a warm personal solicitude for
tho poet, Arthur Symons, who nt the thno
lay dangerously ill, and talking flat treason
respecting Brltis-h rule in India. But what
troubled the Gownsman most were the lady's
dusky arms and ankles, especially her ankles,
which were garnished with prodigiously
sparkling anklets and bracelets from
which even the gorgeous costume, clothing
an admirable figure, could not wholly entice
the curious provincial eye. The Gownsman,
thanks to primeval Imitative Instinct, Is
happy to say that he achieved, on this occa
sion, a- mien of sufficiently blase and well
bred Indifference; Just as if dusky, treason
able, risque Indian grandessas were, moro or
less, a dally matter of course with him. But
he still wonders whether It might not have
been worth his reputation ns a cosmopolite
to have yielded to temptation when she
passed him later, so as to have seen Just
how an Indian princess looks en passant.
Perish the thought that a princess could have
had the slightest curiosity as to the rear
ward of a gownless Gownsman from beyond
the western sea. But how can he now tell?
-LIVER WENDELL HOLMES once noted
Zy a peculiarity unarauiciiaitc, no uccmreu,
of every New England town with which ho
had ever been acquainted ; the axis of the
earth sticks out visibly In the center of that
town and the rest of the earth moves, more
or less, in the manner of a satellite about It.
It Is doubtful if this peculiarity is wholly a
Puritan inheritance. Indeed, the Gownsman
gives It as his private opinion that tho tower
of City Hall Is only built up so high and so
hideously to hldo that whirling axis whereon
the world swings, with our Billy Penn fit
tingly screwed onto the obtruding end. As
you stand In the yard you can hear the
whirr if your ears are lone enough ; and
the accident that the tower stands a little
north of center notice It as you pass gives
that preponderating social and political
weight to Walnut street. Spruce street and
South street, to Bay nothing of the Neck,
which all observers have noted as peculiar
to the Philadelphia yariety of provincialism,
It Is this ecliptic to use a learned term
which accounts, too, for our Vareablllty, so
to speak. In politics as well aa for some other
local portents.
rnHE Germans are, the most provincial peo
i'XjPle In the, modern world, if provincialism
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HARVESTING
faith, religious in Its conviction that you
alone aro right, that to differ with you Is to
bo dead wrong, a contentment, a Pharisaical
thankfulness that you, at least, are not so
big. a fool as other people. The Gownsman
remembers walking tho streets of Cologne In
company with a young countrywoman of his
own, who was becomingly and modestly
dressed in a sallorlilto suit, known techni
cally and commercially as "a Peter Thom
son," then rather more novel than that popu
lar garb has long since become. The Ger
mans and Cologne Is not a village stared
and sniffed nnd laughed, nfter the manner of.
truo provincials. They had not happened to
have seen that particular kind of costume
beforo ; It was so "comical," so unconven
tional that Is, so un-German, and therefore
ridiculous. Your provincial Is a great con
formist. Ho scents Immorality In change ;
felony In reform. He has no manners, ex
cept thoso of the sheep who follows his
leader until nil are made mutton; he has no
morality, except conformity to the accepted
code. Ills eyes, ears, nose are on the' qui
vlve for something novel to disapprove,
something mysterious to make a scandal out
of. He and sho equally has never learned
what not to see, hear or leave ununified.
He and she, once more has no blind side,
no self-control, no breeding : such are chaff
"which," ns Carlyle puts it in a somewhat
different connection, "let the wind blow
whither it listeth."
THE Gownsman has a friend of whom he
has heard that he has spoken valiantly
and brilliantly In defense of what he calls
"the higher provincialism." The Gownsman
confesses to the brilliancy of the phrase,
"the higher provincialism," and to tho
valiancy of any ono who dares seek to de
fend nny sort of provinciality, which. In all
its varieties, has one constant quality, that It
Is Introspectlvely Invisible. However, like a
true friend, he will not seek to find out ex
actly what his friend meant by his happy
phrase, but he will proceed to tell the reader
what ho thinks his friend might havo meant
or ought to havo meant.
ffrpHE higher provincialism" is obviously
JL derivative of "the higher criticism,"
that acqua fortis and corrosive sublimate
that has eaten away the metal of our faith ;
cieany a oaa parentage, nut be It remem
bered that there is a place for the higher
criticism is confounding our false Idols.
Provincialism is the habitual seeing of the
small things of life which are near to us, in
tho disproportionate size and importance
which their close proximity to us Is likely to
give to them. There are small things which
are near us, but which are, none the less,
among the great essentials; of them we are
at times forgetful because of their very prox
imity. The unostentatious performance of
the petty duties that aro nearest to us, this
is one. Cheerfulness, that best of all lubri
cants of tho dally machinery of life, is an
other. Still another is the resolute suppres
sion of the aggressive ego (the spirit of I)
which, firmly but gently practiced, day by
day, will dlscoer a world fult of Interesting
people not circumstanced In life precisely
like ourselves. These are some of the no
tions, doubtless, of the Gownsman's Ingenious
friend of "the higher provincialism," together
with many better ones of his own. But In
the final analysis it Is refreshing for any man
io worK nis way out uoiniy along the spokes,
so to say, of the wheel of life; even If, as
we have seen, the. axis and hub of the uni
verse may buzz and spin Tiear him. He will
find, perhaps a little to his .surprise, that
there Is ever more motion and more actual
traerstng of Bpace beyond him, and that
he will have to go far to reach the great
whirl of the larger outer rim, the rim which
Is actually in contact with the world, where
Is the greater friction of life, Its larger move
ment, Its actual progress onward.
Rice Is no longer
It Is Ever Cheap thrown freely at wed
dings. It is too ex
pensive. Old shoes also are cherished as they
were never cherished before. They are being
conserved by a great many people who
formerly flung them freely at departing
brides and bridegrooms. The only thing that
now may be thrown liberally at weddings Is,
It one may be permitted the use of a slang
term, the bull.
With the power of Old Sol and the
.Katstf both on the wane the' summer of 1911
frS.JP? f" 'jrer me TJfwy ,
IT CAN BE DONE
Somebody said that it couldn't be done,
But he, with a chuckle, replied
That maybe It couldn't, but he would be one
Who wouldn't say so till he'd tried.
So he buckled right In, with the trace of a
grin
On his face; if he worried, he hid It.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn't be done and he did It.
Somebody scoffed: "Oh, you'll never do
that
At least, no one ever has done It."
But ho took off his coat and he took oft
his hat .
And tho first thing we knew he'd begun It;
With the lift of his chin and a bit of a Tln.
Without any doubting or quiddlt;
He started to sing as he tackled the thine
That couldn't be done and ho did it
There aro thousands to tell you It cannot
be done;
There aro thousands to prophesy failure;
There aro thousands to point out to you, one
by one,
The dangers that wait to assail you.
But Just buckle In with a bit of a grin,
Then take oft your hat and go to It.
Just start in to elng as you tackle the thine
That "cannot be done" and you'll do It.
Author Unknown.
Well, He Was Wrong
Remember when you became Impatient
with Kitchener because he prophesied that
the war would last three years? St. Joseph
News-Press.
Strategy 1
German observers must be tlnllng with
delight over the clever way Ludendorff Is
luring us to the Rhine. Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
En Ronte Home
The goose-steppers appear to be fairly
adept at the hesitation, too. Macon Teli-
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War Gardener's Rhyme '
Beans and peas and garden-sass, they tell
the boche he shall not pass. Baltimore Sun,
Watch the Map
Kaiser Bill started the "storm of peace,;'
but Foch la running the Weather Bureau.
Toledo Blade. ,
And Armies to Match
Germany leads the world on disappearing "A
guns. Brooklyn Eagle.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ 1
1. Where la liaka. which a British ezpeU ;
tlonarjr forte reentlr resetted?
2. What offclsl position Is held br Franklin
I). RooaeTeltr
3. What U the capital of Vermont f i
4. What are tnuTlea?
5. What was tho Mlaaourl compronlieT
0. What one of Nanolron'a marahala tnaniei m
royal houae which still rule In KuroooT
7. Who defeated Jiiim O, Illalne far I'rMantf
8. What la the meanlns of "Hotel do VI1I"T
V, Who was Thomas Naat?
10. How la the dale of Idbor Day determined?
Answers to Yesterday's Quli
Yon IlcrtUna; la the present Chancellor of
Clermanr.
A .hit. Ajti la n. iirlB fif varliHAiia tm a.
basplpc. i
General Grave liaa been appointed ram-
mandcr of the American forcea In Nlbert. i'
SIi.mi.. I T.nnthMll ffamna tin ,IA M,
name of Mark Twain, A
Woman will be the laat thins rlrlllied b!1
man." la a quotation from Gears Mer-.V,
ntlth'a .novel. "Tho Ordeal of Blekard 4
jrererci.-- v
Ilrnill la the chief coffce-produclnc country
ot lie worio, 5
A winch la holatlnc machine or wlndlaw f.
lined to a lane extent on ehlpe. It aka,j I
mnni a crank of ik it heel or an axla. " I
Jpme Krhooleraft Hlierman was Vice Pral-f
dent under Taft.
, A xonare la a member of n French llghl
fanlry rarpa, oriiinnnt
una, retaining mi Orli
hlktliiE or looae
trnitaera and lezalnxa.
redinient of somites I
10
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- rormeq or ltoaje
ntul uniform. -
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The Ktirth iiloe Mel
111 the rlrll War. '
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