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CITY HALL NONESSENTIALS
"NCE more the City Hall clerks nre
'-' complalnlns of the Inadequacy of their
pay and are asklnpr their friertds to use
Influence to get their salaries raised.
If the departments In tho City Hall
were undermanned these clerks might cet
some sympathy, but a quarter of them
could leave and get Jobs at much better
pay doing war work without interfering
t all with the efficiency of the depart
ments. This would leave money emueh
to increase the salary of the clerks really
needed.
Such a simple solution does not seem
to have occurred to the clerks nor to f.e
ward leaders.
It ought to be made plain, however,
that a man holding down a useless Job
In the City Hall is shirking his duty In
the Industrial crisis which the summoning
of men to the army has caused.
The Kaioer has granted the Crown Prince
a six months' leave of absence. This will
bring him back to the front In time to get
licked again when we begin our final spring
drive.
THE END OF VARDAMAN
tT0 "WHAT extent the defeat of Senator
" Vardaman for renomination was due
to the President's letter of condemnation
and to what extent It was due to the de
creasing personal popularity of the man
himself It would be useless to conjecture.
The reassuring fact is that Vardaman Is
defeated. Of course, his defeat will be
regarded as a condemnation for his anti
war activities and for his attempts to ob-
uct the plans of the Administration,
whether It is or not, and Mississippi will
be reckoned among the loyal States,,
It did not take this primary election to
prove that the nation Is committed -wholeheartedly
to the war. Every time there
has been a test pro-Germans and pacifists
have been condemned. The moral effect of
these accumulating verdicts Is likely to be
manifested in a changed attitude on thfe
part of some of the obstructing Congress
men who think that they catf'win' popu
larity by making trouble.
Germany seems to have adjusted her
war movement" artistically to the seasons
On March 21 It was spring. In September
It will be fall.
PINCHING THE GERMAN SALIENT
TT LOOKS as though the evacuation of
- pyun -were oniy a matter or time, ana
J54iknot A very long time, either. The French
Kg now ;bpld Blerancourt and Lasslgny, doml-
? naungisoyon irom,-a-8hallow arch of
'faj higher ground. Their advance along the
SS? TaIIeyof the Olse is presumably retarded
jj&r by the wooded region of Ourscarap.
ai me same time waig is striking
heavily along the Ancre north of Albert.
This is only some thirty miles northwest
of Noyon, and If the English should get
through to Bapaume the whole Sommo
Valley .from Bray to Peronne will be In
danger. The Kaiser may have to rely
;$. rather heavily on that "retreat specialist"
he Is said to have called in and St. Quen
tin may again have the dubious honor of
being the headquarters of the Great In
fernal Staff beforo frost sets in.
, What we are expecting to see in the
jjt . ' course of tho next few weeks (or days) Is
, very viprgus onensive on the part of
V Amertnon trnnna atAnn tv. T- ,
.ny
ltsJ)lows struck northward across the Ais
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v'wouia render the whole German salient in
vVPicardy, additionally uncomfortnhln tnr
""the Kaiser's command, however skiii,i it
nttfJf ---. .....u fc
KW')"11" De oacKwara tactics.
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J&ft ford Arsenal for a hundred years, but neer
jifefQr. a better cause than now.
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UASUALUfcS AMUWJ THE KINGS
rjCVRDINAND, King of Bulgaria, is re--'
ported to be dying, presumably of
:!worry. The Czar of Russia fell not lnnir
; ftiiot a lonely and ignoble figure, before a
Ei, t'rjng squaa or peasants. Francis Joseph
oi.Ausirm uieu neany iwo years ago. The
war killed him. He died a broken-hearted
md "disillusioned o'ld man. King Con-
'-mrtantlne of Greece Is out of a job and
j;ex!Ie in Switzerland. These four men,
th Kaiser vllhelm of Germany, figured
prominently in the conspiracies that
baated in the war. Only Wilhelm re-
lAalns alive and well. Tet all the- signs
M omens of "the hour show plainly that
' Hi accumulated hatred and detestation of
ation is gathering for the stroke that
Inake his throne vacant.
ITbase kings offended the conscience of
ad. They, roused forces beside which
and cannon are trivial. They
't, escape.
H doubt the existence of a law of
, you, mmnu pur to observe
the pep
THE ISSUES OF 1920
They Are Llleely to Cut Across Old Tarty
Lines and Make tho Result of the
Election Uncertain
TTNDER normal conditions the voters
have usually decided by the middle
of n presidential term whether they wish
to retain in power the pnrty of tho
President The defeat of Mr. Cleveland
for re-election after his first term was
virtunlly certain before he had been in
oflke two years. Likewise it was ad
mitted to be impossible to le-elcct Mr.
Harrison.
But conditions at present are not nor
mal. No ono knows what is to happen
between now and the assembling of tho
presidential conventions in 1920. While
some tentative issues arc framing them
selves, the nation as a whole is suspend
ing j'udgment on them until it knows
more about them. Of one thing we can
be certain, and that is that prognostica
tion about the alignment of the voters
in 1920 is pretty dangeious business.
One man's guess is as good as another's,
because nobody knows anything about it.
The Paris interview of Senator Lewis,
printed in this newspaper yesterday, set
ting forth what the Illinoiian thinks
will be the issues in tho next presidential
campaign is interesting chiefly because
it epitomizes tho opinion of many men
who have been giving sonic thought to
the matter. But the Senator would
doubtless be tho first to admit that ho is
only guessing and that events may put
an entirely different complexion on the
whole situation.
Nevertheless, it serves a good purpose,
because it will set tho voters to thinking
and may assist them in forming opinions
which they can express at the polls when
the time comes. Whatever else may
happen, it is doubtless true that the for
eign policy of tho country will play a
much larger part in the presidential cam
paign than ever before. We are now
taking part in a great foieign war and
we are hoping that within a little moic
than a year we shall be represented at
the council table of the nations negotiat
ing a peace treaty which shall remove
tho pretexts for more wars in the imme
diate future. We are playing a great
part in the world now. We must decide
whether we are to assume the responsi
bilities after the war which our partici
pation ir. it has placed on our fchoulders.
Senator Lewis thinks that the decision
will come in the form of the acceptance
or rejection of the policy of entering into
alliances, offensive and defensive, with
other nations. Peihaps ho is right.
There has already been gossip in the
London dispatches about a possible alli
ance between this country and Great
Britain. The Senator thinks that the
Democratic candidate for the presidency
will come from the West, and that tho
West will be opposed to any change in
our historical policy.
As to the domestic issues the Senator
places government ownership of rail
roads and telephones and government in
surance first. These issues will cut
across the old party lines and make fore
casting about their indorsement or re
jection exceedingly difficult. Theie aie
small groups of thinkers committed to
both sides of these .luestions, but the
great mass of voters aie open-minded.
They are willing to be shown, and they
will judge by the outcome of the experi
ment now making. -
We think, however, that Mr. Lewis has
guessed wrong when he says that the
tariff has disappeared from politics and
has become merely "s matter of inter
national bookkeeping." All the signs in
dicate that it is likely to become one of
the most pressing questions in interna
tional politics and so will react on na
tional politics. Theie is involved in it
the after-the-war commercial relations
between the Germans and the nations of
the Entente no'w fighting them. Are we
to allow the commercial penetration of
Germany in the future as it has been per
mitted in the past, or are we to defend
our own maikets? will be the question
which the English, above all, must an
swer, and which will be put to the states
men of Fiance and America. Our Demo
cratic friends cannot whistle the tariff
down the winds quite so easily as Mr.
Lewis seems to wish.
It is not too soon for all of us to begin
to consider the future and how we are to
face the problem of adjusting ourselves
to the new world which will come out of
the war.
The new Ludendorff drive Is Kild to bo
intended to drive the reluctant German youths
into the army.
MINSTRELSY
rpHE death of Hughey Dougherty by no
means terminates the Influence of
minstrelsy, of which for more than half"
a century the Philadelphia comedian was
a gleeful exponent. Burnt cork art
after the "classic" pattern, with Its pom
pous interlocutors anjl irroetcnt "end
men," Is disappearing. Yet even today its
salutary spiiit nbides in tho land of its
creation and tho mode of thinking it en
gendered saves ua from many a pitfall of
fatuous error.
The prime Intent of minstrelsy was, of
course, sheer fun. But it was fun of a
singularly bold and racy sort; fun which
behind all its satiric extravagance was
essentially keen and discerning. The fol
lies of oratorical flapdoodle, the absurdi
ties of fashion and snobbery, the self
satisfaction of the shallow politician all
forms of provincial conceit In our na
tional life were the game of the graceless
"minstrel moke,"
Ills weapon was laughter. By its em.
ployment he fostered in us a habit of
humorous yet immensely helpful self
examination that is today perhaps more
profusely cultivated in this country than
anywhere else in the world. "Air. Bones-"
or "Mr. Tambo" burlesqued the stump
speech and thereafter much of i the windy
EVENING- PUBLIC LEDGER
at ourselves, which Kipling declares bids
us even "mock our hurrying soul."
Tho mental attitude, however, is, like
minstrelsy, not cynical. It Is wholesome,
stimulating In Its sunny keenness! Thero
Is In tho American character something
markedly congenial to this type of self
critical humor, but minstrelsy tilled a fer
tile soil with raro success.
Tho delicious Dougherty would prob
ably hnxe been appalled on being called a
philosopher. None the less tho humblest
funmnkcr, alert to pcrcclvo humanity's
foibles, is In a sense entitled to bo so do
scribed. Sound truth often lay at the core
of the last mliiMticl's wildest so-called
"nonsense." Hughey Dougherty was a
tonic like tho characteristically American
form of footllght foolery ho 60 long
adorned.
PRUNES AND PRISMS
I s
SOUGHT Immortality
Hero and there
I sent my rockets
Into tho air:
I gave my name
A hostage to Ink,
I dined a critic
And bought him drink.
I
SPURNED the weariness
Of tho flesh;
Denied fatigue, and v
Began afresh
If men knew all. how
They would laugh!
I even planned
My epitaph. . . .
AND then one night
When Hie duk w
as thin
I heard the nursery
Rites begin:
I heard the tender
Soothlngs said
Over a crib, and
A small sweet head.
mHEN In a Hash
-"- It came to mo
That there was my
Immortality.
Salted Peanuts suggests that tho army
inulo will have something to say about
the capture-of Bra.
Curlotm how a habit will grow on one
een a habit of working.
How a Woman Heads a Magazine
On thoe raro occasions when wo do not
rido in the smoking car wo like to amuse
ourself watching how a woman reads a
magazljie.
She sits down, rocks to and fro on the
plush with a graceful teetering motion to
be ship she's comfortable and then looks
at the ioer. If It has a baby on it or a
soldier in uniform she examines it care
fully, and may even say to her compan
ion: "iMi't that sweet? It looks like ,
don't ou think?"
Then with her right hand she spins tho
pages past rapidly, just to see that every
thing is all right and to mako sure that
the advertisements haven't been left out.
Half-way through her quick eye makes a
mental note of an attractive ad that
catches her fancy and she turns back, to
see it. She looks at It gravely. From her
philosophic profile as she studies it you
would imagine it was a serious article on
the Singlo Tax (which, by the way, she
imagines to mean a le y on bachelors).
Then she turns back to the last page
and begins to run through the advertise
ments, backwards. It occurs to her that
fall Is coming and she will soon need an
autumn hat. She makes a mental note of
this.
(Women, by the way, never make tcrltfen
memoranda of really important things. In
fact, they neer make written memoranda
of anything)
She instinctively rejects any advertise
ments dealing with masculine affairs. One
of the wonderful things about a woman's
mind is that she knows instantly and with
out consideration what is relevant and Im
portant. Suddenly It occurs to her that there
may be a story by her favorite author In
the magazine and she rapidly runs over
tho fiction pages, but only glancing at the
Illustrations. This saves her the trouble
of reading them. She has a sort of dis
trust of tho table of contents and would
rather find out for herself what the Issue
contains.
She reads Che captions under the Illus
trations nnd finding ono that sounds In
teresting she turns to see who wrote the
story. If It is a name she never saw be
fore she feels convinced it is not worth
reading. Probabl she is right.
She finds a little poem which the despair
ing editor stuck into the middle of a page
as a decoration. She thinks It Is rather
cute, and surreptitiously withdrawing a
small hairpin she slits it out and puts It
Into her little bag, where there are already
six others of Hie same sort. Just then
tho conductor comes around for her ticket,
and looking up she sees that Mrs. AVIne
sap, three seats ahead, has a new bonnet.
The magazine slips quietly Into the
ciack at the back of the plush seat.
German U-hoat officer said to have at
tended Bioadway theatre last week. Head
ltn. If there are any plays running on
Broadway good enough to lure a U-boat
captain all the way from Nantucket
Shoals, New York must hae turned up
some new playwrights.
Tho man who says he saw a U-boat
captain in a New York saloon must have
made a mistake. Surely he saw tho Ger
man In the Brooklyn subway, where he
had gone to get some tips for new fright
fulness. If Jack Burroughs, Tom ErKson, Hank
Ford and those other Irresponsible boys
on that fishing trip keep on playing
jouthful pranks some country. sherlff will
arrest them as draft evaders.
How It Will Look to Berlin
Before you do anything these days you,
should be sure to think whether It could
possibly give aid and comfort to the
enemy. The Ford-Edison-Burroughs fish
ing escapade is sure to be reported thus
in tho Berlin papers: .
American magnates, terrified at Oerman
Victories, take to the woods in panic, food"
shortage America compeiit them;
- PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 722,
Adventures at Eddystone
By ROY HELTON
II.
Inside the Shop
ONE hangs his brass check on the section
board and proceeds down through the
long rooms past piles of sawed walnut
boards and long racks of half-finished gun
stocks into his own shop, where, stripping off
his once comely outer garments, he bangs
his hat on the nail, nods to the boss and
moves over to his machine.
The early men are nlready at work. Here,
and there one hears tho rip and growl of
the cutting blades, a deafening crash thnt
fills one'rf ears from morning till night and
lingers ovor Saturdays and Sundays In heavy
ear-filling "murmurs, like tho sound of tho
sea.
II-OOK about tho room at my fellow work
men, their bare muscular arms, their hMry
chests, their tense faces. They are n splendid
lot. Not ono of all the workmen I came In
contact with failed to reveal somehow an
inner kindliness, a silent sympathy with a
new man on tho Job. They said little or
nothing Tho worklngman has no time to
acquire the habit of talk. His feelings nre
as remote from his lips as the feelings of the
folk of the southern mountains.
These men In my room, save "ono or two,
were experts on a laborious and difficult
task. They wero very well paid for very
hard and skillful work. Their methods wero
direct Courtesy In , tho clean-hand, down
town pence was almost unknown men work
ing at the fever heat of piece work in a
great rnunitlon plant have little time to give
or take thanks. Hut beneath this hard,
silent surface of tilings was something, to
my way of thinking, far finer than all the
social graces of Fifth avenue.
I HAD no word of welcome from any man
In the shop, save the boss, and jet these
fellows, speeding up to the highest point of
endurance on piecework, hae stopped and
broken their stride of production not to talk,
but to do things to show mo tho right
way, to run through ,a bit of my work fdr
me, while their own was waiting
I come out of that shop profoundly Im
pressed with tho Inner fineness of impulse In
the man who works with his hands rerhaps
I was fortunate in my shop, perhaps theio
Is a certain humanizing influence in the
crooked grain of walnut and birch that I
might not find in the characters of men
whose 11 es are spent on the predictable sub
stance of chilled steel. But I do not be
lieve it.
RIOHT next to mo woiked a tall, quiet,
up-State Dutchman. Ho said little or
nothing, took his business seriously n-id
alwas had a wild burst of temper when
nnj thing broke down. Ono morning his belt
got cranky He came over and sore Io the
boss that the wop upstairs who bad fi.ed it
for him ought to be boiled in oil and be made
to swallow whole a jard or two of that
same rotten strap. A few minutes later I
was roused from my task by a tiemendous
rattle and crash Tho offending belt had
parted and, having colled up about a pulley,
was milling around with its loose end to the
danger of all beholders. The Dutchman,
venturing In too cloo, recehed a sharp
crack on the side of his face. With a wild
and startling burst of profanity he snatched
at tho end of that broken belt and by main
force, against all tho pull of the wheels,'
ripped it out of tho bowels of the machino
and hurled It wildly across the room. A
grave, important little inspector was bend
ing over a pile of gun stocks. The coiling
belt hit him over the ear nnd wrapped around
his neck. There was a frantic scream and a
long moment of universal laughter.
I milE next morning, when a belt broke over
f -L me nnd came rattllnir down on mv he.iil.
I understood the Dutchman's rage. I car
ried the fragments up to the belt man and at
his benoh saw tho first and only evidences
of the hunger for beauty In all that great
Plant. The beltman was a little smiling
Polander, with largo mustache Over his
locker was a wooden frame frfr an alaim
clock. Carefully patted on to Its rough front
was a postcard picture of Norma Talmadge.
In front of the locker was another work of
art a calendar picture of a mother and
child standing expectantly by a tall draped
window. I looked on the beltman with n
new respect and interest. Promlnentlv on
his locker was a written sign: "No 'belts
taken out of here onlest by order of (Pol
lack) beltman." I hasten to add that the
word Pollack was clearly the word of an
other and a hostile hand.
IT WOULD he Impossible to tell. In a few
words, of tho many curious and pleasing
personalities 1 encountered in that one small
shop
Among them would surely be included the
boy inspector, with an appetite surpassing
that of the Fat Hoy In Plcku Ids ; ho began
eating at 9 ID and finished bis enormous
lunch nt 4 4 5. Every ten minutes during tho
day he would approach me to make certain
or the time. How many sandwiches, boxes
of saidlnes, tolls of cake that liov consumes
in the course of a week I should be afraid
to print. '
Then there was Oold Tooth, a fine, tall,
smiling figure of a man, who was famous In
tho shop for a wonderful, resplendent upper
incisor, which the boys swear to mo he takes
out eery lunchtlme and sticks in again
when the meal is over. It was darkly hinted
that ho was afraid he'd wear it out if h6
used it for chewing some aer he has dedi
cated the gold tooth to the sacred uses of
tobacco. It is a pretty sentiment that I
think Barrie might readily understand.
THE rirate was another first-class figure.
He was a gigantic New Englander, who
did piodigies of labor, but spent his spare
time eating sandwiches and exchanging
sweet nothings with the littlo jailer gal who
had the sweeping up of our floors. His nioir.
I name arose from the great blue bandanna
imnuKercniei: mat ne wrapped around his
grizzled hair, giving him all tho appearance
of a dime novel buccaneer or a gunner's
mate on Old Ironsides. Neer gunner's mate
worked harder to win a war than this tre
mendous man toiling at his profiling ma
chine. And finally the Mechanical Wonder the
prize of the lot, whoso job Is to adjust ma
chinery, but who also takes on the Job of
cheering up chronlo grouches, composing
quarrels and salving down everybody In
his thin cheek was always a generous' wad
of sliced plug. His brimless black hat hov
ered on the back of his head. He was
always moving in tho direction of trouble
and also always smiling. To him both par
ties of a dispute Invariably confided their
troubles". Without such men I don't see how
Industry could eer get along. They are the
buffers between system and humanity,
THE Adjuster once confided to me that his
personal dream was pf a Job where every
week he could move Into a new factory and
learn all the Inwardness of every- new ma
chine. I suspect he would also Just as
quickly learn the men who worked tho ma
chines. He was a storehouse of human and
mechanical Information. How to make your
.heart beat "regular" when you BO up to an
army doctor. How to tell which way a belt
ought to run. How many men here owned
their houses, and which ono had a cottage at
tho shore.
Before I left the place I found that I too
had succumbed to his charms and that the
Adjuster knew all my private business Oh
enviable man, who can master both men and
machinery I Beneath whose humble and
sometimes Ill-washed exterior lurks the creat
treasure of an inquiring and a sympathetic
soul,
Tiie New York World
has collected subscrip
tions aggregating more
Go RIotr on
Statues
man jso.ooo for a
memorial to the late Mayor Mltc&el. It i.
to be hoped that this will not be expended
on a statue or aoumiui inspiration but
rather for a civil service scholarship or in
some manner whWi twlil promote the,w;,
, ' ymi i ....) . i-l. ii - 11 T ,, M
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THE READER'S
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
It Now Exists Among the Allies Fighting
Germany
To the Editor o the Evening Public Ledger:
Sir Under Nje headline, "The League of
Nations," Mr. Konkle expresses an aspiration
that is quite prevalent among the nations
comprising our allies What views are held
by our enemies we do not know, except that
three years or so ago, when our Piesidcnt ad
anced such a proposition, tho German Kaiser
offered to become the head of it with Prus
sia. It looked to him that his ambitions for
world-wide rule were being easily accom
plished. The reason I mention that Illus
tration Is because it brings out the funda
mental question.
It is all well and good Tor Mr. Konkle to
see the analogy between a I-eague of Na
tions and the founatlon' of our nation. Mr.
II. O. Webs in "Th'e Fourth Year" makes
the same analogy. But the analogy Is. we
are sorry to observe, extremely superficial
It does not reach the underlying fact. I
think It would help Mr. Wells In his thinking
if he would concentrate tho penetrating
quality of his Imagination upon our Civil
War. It Is not a pleasant subject to discuss,
nnd tho hard work and fighting underneath
it are not especially good food for dreamers.
Hut the Civil War was the most necessaty
and terrible conflict that the world has seen
up to the present crisis. Mr. Wells should
study tho Civil War and decido whether or
not the present United States of America
is due to the formal document known as
tho Constitution or whether the Union Is
not tho result of conquest between those
who held the view of a League of Nations
and those who held to the ideal of a single
nation. If the serious fact of the Civil War
does not gle a sounder basis, to the think
ing of Mr. Wells It may help him to under
stand the underlying principle of our na
tion to observe that It has the Just right
and duty to lay an Income tax and enforce
n beneficent draft directly on the Individual.
Our nation is no League of Nations, or If
that dreamlike view should be entertained
It Is not at all the League of Nations that
Mr. Wells is dreaming about.
If a nation like that of the United States
Is In contemplation, then It Is necessary
for the electorate of each nation to under
stand the personal and private, the Individ
ual, needs of The individuals in every other
nation. For example, the rights of an In
dividual In Rhode Island would be the sub
ject of decision by a Hindu In Bombay. I
respectfully suggest that I have no desire
that my personal rights should bo voted upon
by an Individual so remote and different.
But that Is exactly what happena-ln America.
By my vote I help decide the regulation of
tho private citizen In the Kentucky moun
tains. A single nation formed from all of
the world, based on the theory of our own
nation, is impossible. As homogeneous as
are the peoplo of the United States, there Is
a friction at times, and there is no public
clamor that our electorate be extended to the
four winds of heaven.
There is no analogy worth while consider
ing of the kind Mr. Wells dreams of. The
Hague Court could have furnished what was
desired, except for one fact. The extension
of the Jurisdiction and the consent neces
sary to give It foundation was explicitly and
categorically refused by Germany. And in
1911 Serbia offered to submit the remaining
question with Austria to the Hague Court,
but Austria refused. It was the desire of all
of the nations except the Central Powers to
extend and clarlfyHhe operations of interna
tional law. That is the whole meaning of
the present war. It Is an effort to bring Ger
many under the domain of International law,
and on the part of Germany It Is a desire
to establish its claim to be above that law.
Until Germany is willing to come under the
law of nations there can be no peace. It Is
precisely our Civil War in that aspect of
the question. But Mr. Wells occupies the
position of the fiabby-mlnded people who
asked during our war why tho parties could
not compromise.
Tho"outcome of this war Is the whole cen
ter of a wise man's attention. If the" Central
Powers could win, all of the dreamlngwould
be useless. All laws regulating your con
duct and mind would be made by the Junkers
of Berlin. For .there Is Where the power
a on ber;1"! knee, w' could I
would ream", aim
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1918
T is
VIEWPOINT
Ing League of Nations, solving together their
refatlons to one another and to the enemy.
It Is an accomplished fact, operating smooth
ly and with a just co-operation. It Is a
league of rivals In a common service. It has
under Its temporary Juilsdlction a wide ex
tent of the earth's surface. It has a stu
pendous task confronting it When that Is
accomplished It may be thought useful to
make the formal Constitution or treaty which
will recognize a union already cemented. It
will not be a union formulated by dreamers
w ho see an analogy, but It will be formulated
by those who hae fought side by side to the
victorious end. H. F. HARRIS.
Philadelphia, August 20.
The Destroyer's Crew
To the Editor of the Evening Public Ledger:
Sir Much has been written in prose and
verse about the army, and rightly so; but
for some reason or other the poor old navy
never comes In for much credit. Saint Bar
bara, our patron, doesn't seem to have much
influence with the literary muses. Occasion
ally one sees something in the press that
would Indicate that the guardians of the sea
aro not wholly forgotten : but olive drab
seems to have more of a hold on tie popular
fancy than dees navy blue.
Consequently when I do see something
about the navy that ssjfms to have the divine
spark I feel as though It ought to be pub
lished on the billboards of the world. The
Inclosed Is a bit I copied from the magazine
Our Navy, a publication which Is ceitalnly
too little known In civilian life, for it Is ex
tremely Interesting and entertaining, both to
seaman and landsman:
The Destroyer's Crew
They needn't climb at their sleeping time
To a hammock that sways and bumps;
They leap, kerplunk ! in a cozy bunk
That quivers and bucks and jumps.
They hear the sound of the seas that pound
On the half-Inch plates of steel,
And close their eyes to the lullabies
Of the creaking sides and keel.
They're a lusty crowd that Is vastly proud
Of the slim black craft they drive.
Of the roaring flues and the humming crews
That make her a thing alive.
They love the lunge of her surging plunge
And the jnurk of her smoke-screen, too,
As they sail the seas In their dungarees,
A grimy destroyer's crew.
There's a roll and pitch and a heave and hltah
To the nautical gait they take,
For they're used to the cant of the decks
aslant
As the white-toothed combers break
On the plates that thrum like a beaten drum
To the thrill of the turbine's might.
As the knife-bow leaps through the yeasty
deeps
With the speed of a shell in flight.
Oh, their scorn is quick for the crews who
stick
To a battleship's steady floor,
For they love the lurch of their own frail
perch
At thirty-five knots or more.
They don't get much of the drills and such
That the, battleship jackles do.
But sail the seas In their dungarees,
A grimy destroyer's crew. t
Unfortunately the poem Is anonymous,
which is to be regretted ; for to me. at .least,
it Is a real literary gem. If you think It
worthy of a place In the columns of the
Evenino Pirauo Ledorr I should certainly
appreciate your putting It there ; -and'I am
sure that many other sailers would be glad
to see It In a "non6ectarlanv paper, for It
seems to breathe the real spirit of the navy,
PAUL H. MYRICK,
Yeoman, Second Class, U. S. N, R. F,
Philadelphia, August 19.
t A Tribute From Our Allies
To the Editor of the Evening Public Ledger:
Sir Le Figaro of July 20, 1918, give's the
following as an extract from.Le Gaulols of
same date':
-The Americans '
All accounts arrlvlnr from the field of
battle show them playing with danger, as
though they grudged not havlnr braved It
sooneO A French general hesitated to
send his men to a particularly exposed
position, "Take ours," offered his Ameri
can colleague; "we still have 15,000,000."
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STUBBY JONES, EXEMPT
0 CONGRESSMEN unsmiling,
Who call stern duty king!
When taxes you are piling,
Pass by one precious thing.
Go tax the 'palaces awheel
The Midas family owns.
But do not tax the pushmobile
That's run by. Stubby Jones!
O Solons of the Senate! '
O financiers profound!
Tax tales by Arnold Bennett;
Tax pomes by Ezra Pound;
Tax beer and beans and veils and veal;
Tax Coney ice-cream cones;
But do not tax the pushmobile
That's run by Stubby. Jones!
Tax patriotic ballads;
Tax all the wartime plays;
Tax syllabub and salads;
Tax aces-full-on-treys;
Tax every gambling Wall street deal
O'er which the sucker groans;
But do not tax the pushmobile
That's run by. Stubby Jones!
Tax hat and glove and panty;
Tax undershirt and sock;
Tax pots at penny-ante;
v Tax grandma's eight-day clock;
Tax sealing-wax and orange peel;
Tax spooning on ths phones;
But do not tax the pushmobile
That's run by Stubby Jones!
John O'Keefe, in the New York World.
If you see a young man walking about
the streets with an air of conscious pride
you may safely conclude he is one of those
who became of age since June 5 and will
register for the draft on Saturda'y. There
are 2000 of them almost enough to make
a regiment.
The plan to house Gloucester shipyard
workers -at Atlantic City this winter is
enthusiastically Indorsed by every shore
landlord who sees profit In letting rooms i
'usually vacant In the cold weather.
What Is fame? A Pennsylvania farmer
Is said to have heard of John Burroughs,
but to be ignorant of the identity of the
other members of that famous Ashing party
camping' out this week.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. Where Is Lake Balkalr
2. What la a ohllaUllitf
3. What la the nationality of Mturlce SUeter-
4. What Is the derUatlen ef the word Friday'?
8. What Ktate dots Senator Vardaman repre
sent? 8. Who aald "Difference of opinion makes horta
rat"t . . .
T. What is a kermis t ' ,
5. VI hat rifted rouns American poet was klUod
In action last week?
0. What Is the aerond larrest cltr In Maryland?
10, What Is another name for a mou t h-orrunf '
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Baku, recently reached by British expedi
tionary tore, la a port on the western
shore of tho Caspian Boa. ,
t, Franklin D. Roosevelt Is Assistant Secretary
of the Nary.
S. Montpeller Is the capital of Vermont.
4, Truffles nre fund, uad especially in France,
to lend savor to food. Their taste Is some
what more delicate than that of mush- .
rooms, -ironies grow unaor me srouna r (j
f ana axe rooiva up r pigs.
8. The Missouri compromise was an act passed
by Conrrrss In J MO. permlttlnc the en
trance Into the Union ef Missouri so a
stare State, but prohibiting In all the rest
of the Iultlana Territory. Irlnr north of
latitude M.80, the line formln the south
ern boundary of Missouri. To counter
paianc) ids admission oi laissoun a
sUts mate, name was aumiitea as a
State at the same time.
I. Charles Bernadotte. one of Napoleon's
pcroaaviir. ono ok napoieon-a aaa
founded the present royal house
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