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'.it tha Associated Prcas UIOCIA.TMI PREB8 is gaclu- v iw n0 rajntBiiiiiwr match credited to It or not lest in (Ala paper, and alts msBltslieif rkarein. orjutllcarlott of special die- or auo reaervaa. Header. SealeaUer 2. I'll fJAY OF LABOR BUTE to labor Is to be paid liueiastlcally at one time than I today is the time for generous I (acknowledgment of the debt rid owes to the tollers. dent has paid such a tribute pr Day proclamation, in which ntlon to the fact that the tools nen are winning the war as las the rifles of the soldiers. be reminds us that as this ' the emancipation of the world Coax of autocratic and arbitrary i &' war which labor should sup- all its concentrated might. rklngmen, using the phrase In d meaning, have demonstrated understand the Issues as Mr. stated tnern. xney are ue- elves with a sDlendld enthu- bJwlmtaYer task they may be en- ,o that the men who are nghting (' nothing Which they need. There ttons, but they serve only to lie rule of disinterested service. the leadership of Samuel i had to do with this condition i historian will decide after the all In. At present, however, l -Is disposed" to cive him con- rew6it for throwing the weight si Influence on the side of the raUljMtraent of all disputes be- ysej and employers In order l-'xoay be no Interruption in pro- . JH Saltish Premier has wel- ondorias a soldier or mat which is coming alter I'isrvMcfe men of all occupations KStWlU Ndnwn more ciutseiy r;the bond of common suffering .cause. --- toads) It clear that we are PH-,p benefit of the laborers of k well, as for the benefit or the rid. He was doubtless right . If the war had not come ave been a revolt against The growing strength bznocratlc party in recent Jly certain that the old lould not survive. The ve are all striving Is one nmon man of Germany i own. onsecrated to labor, Is to the hope that the mlty will be more Koutslde of books and this war ends than nee Adam delved and was then no gentle- elation for Germany e truth that we have Kith England. None ye have and their to our soul with riCS AGAIN Ijspondent of the announcing that fe a tour of the I, writes: election due In No- expected In some President to say 1st candidates in the st caused so much ent primaries. But KIcs, or anything ap- J he expedition. parently prevails in tiat the President in- olltlcs again in his tr shoD nrooosed bv Sir-New York seems actu- decent Kaiser. rES HER ENROLL- hssxnx matter to tabulate the rents engaged In the President himself has ntien several occasions. The has been a particular tr perplexity, jsvery one PS-Germanism went out with Cpnstantlne. Then came MtonPantaatlon of the Hellenic reports of its victories over )Us,wbeyond the frontier of verinvwaa. uouuia as to pre- KlftaT Alexander's subjects AMI persisted In the public rVSecretary Lansing and i, the Greek diplomatic f;;Waitegton, have made I wiai,iouia uupeu iny f&jfjii. treaty has been U 4raxqng for mill- I ia tfc United States la Greece. The k fena to those ex- WMas-and the tssirsrsla haB 1 TPslWl1""W"'fa" rAlY ZlfikxriB&i ijr"f t -'i. i ,, TaWte Are Signs t Crest RetdJotttaeBt ia the Field sf Polities POLITICS everywhere to the world is In a state of -flux. Party men are not directing events. They are drifting in .a terrific current and hoping, without much assurance, for safe landings. The reader who, in another column, refers to signs1 of a new party in America has observed correctly enough. We are likely to see a new party. It may be one of the old ones reorganised and re-established, but it will emerge sooner or later with a new set of con victions, a new appeal to minds mado alert and critical by the war. It is con ceivable that Colonel Roosevelt or Mr. Wiison or some other man sensitive to the inner spirit of America may lead such a movement in politics. An ordinary politician will not do. We have grown too wise for the ordinary politicians. Senator Lewis, when he said the other day that the old parties are virtually dead in America, was merely interpreting in terms of this country a condition that he has been able to observe in France and in England, where the old political war cries were Bilenced long ago and where all familiar issues have been absorbed or obliterated in the newer concerns that have originated with the war. War has justified the democratic theory after appalling tests. Free gov ernments, ordinarily slack, have shown that they can endure stupendous shocks. The war has been a great educator in a broader sense. It has given all sorts of people, rich and poor, high and humble, a new sense of interdependence. A new party, therefore, will have to have a broader vision, a greater enlightenment than either of the old ones, and a larger charity. Already we are unconsciously progressing to calmer and larger views. There, for instance, was the I. W. W. trial that has jast closed in Chicago. "Bill" Haywood and his co-defendants were given greater latitude in the United States Court, greater freedom of speech, than they could have had on a street corner in Philadelphia. Everybody was allowed to talk in Judge Landis's court. Everybody talked. Everybody was very friendly. Conviction at last was not founded on any of the imagined deviltries associated with the name of the I. W. W. That scrt of thing did not materialize in the evidence. Haywood and his friends were found guilty of attempts to obstruct the prepar ations for war after this country had declared war. The case against them did not rest at last upon prejudice or hatred, but upon the primal motive of self - preservation interpreted by the Court for the nation. Judge Landis ruled oftenest in favor of the defendants. Hay wood himself was amazed and perhaps, in his heart, touched by the freedom of utterance granted him in the court. And all this wag in a time of emotion, of war, of sacrifice and perils. It was virtu ally admitted by the Court that the mis guided agitators under Haywood were not merely perverse that very real in justice and cruelty had served to drive some of them to excesses. This incident, eloquent of a new con sciousness in America, shows how we are learning to see more clearly. It is dupli cated in a thousand ways, in a thousand places. We had to go to the battlefield to rid ourselves of old hindrances and delusions, to find that the English are just like ourselves. Your Uncle Samuel is in a process of enlightenment that is not always pain less. There was France, for instance. He liked to think of France as a hare brained lass given to fripperies and late hours and champagne and, somehow, sus piciously gay. And he found a being heroic and tranquil and level-eyed, who has smiled through four years of tor ment and fought on gallantly above her dead. Such revelations are not so far re moved as they seem to be from the logi cal concerns of a political party. Because your Uncle Samuel misunderstood many of his own people, too! A wider, fresher knowledge of people and of their world will have to color and temper political parties of the future to give them understanding of jthe new international scheme in which they will surely have to function, directly or in directly. The men who will decide the destinies of new political parties are learning truth in the trenches and behind the lines. Thty will not be content with less than truth. They will demand edu cation of a larger sort in politics and soma flavor of the sort of service to which they themselves were consecrated. A new party when it comes will have to be big enough for all sorts of people. It will have to know that cliques, classes and favored elements are in the past. People have been jarred out of their ac customed selfishness. They are in a mood to recognize and demand justice for others as well as for themselves. They are sick of pretense. And they know in a dim way that the old political systems are not adjusted to the times they are living in. The light will go comolettly out of a good many lives If the gasoline shortago continues in the dry days to come. THE FATE OF A PHANTOM TROLLEY nnHE Wordsworthlan theory Justifying grief "when even the shade of that which once was great has passed away" is inapplicable to the extinction of the Callowhlll street trolley service. Neither In the remote equine days, when the thor oughfare bearing the maiden name of 'one ef the two Mrs. William Penna boasted twIsAsMokfl, ftor lately, when itrhas been t. paired .rJffirTllsTrllaj.havi, splendor ana CaWBwhlll street transportation been fellows. Electrification of the line seemed but a veneer. There was something abnormal, archaic, about that itinerant trolley. One could almost detect above Its melancholy buzxlng the overtone of horses' hoofs' and the faint music of the little bells that tinkled only on weekdays. On cold winter days It was not easy to repress the temp tation to look for straw on the car floor. But there Is scant excuse for wistful sentiment over this extinction of an an cient line. 'Tis a far, far better thing to know that a car will never come than to hope against hope that It may. Phantom trolley services are indefensi ble. Patronago having failed to warrant the existence of the venerable Callowhlll street line, the part of the P. II. T. has been one of wisdom. Effort now can be much better concentrated on the main north and south and West Philadelphia trunk lines and on rerouting plans con sonant with the city's development. No tears need bo shed for the departure, present or pending, of the merely tradi tional features of the checkerboard sys tem. The news that Wllhelmlna of Holland has Just "called G. Ii. M. H. HulJIs de Heerenbrouck" to form a cabinet suggests that the Dutch Queen has some memory for Initials as well as an exceptionally athletic and well-trained tongue. THE CHAFFING DISH On Lighting a Pipe JYHY Is It that a man always looks so TT Intelligent when h Is lighting his pipe? a e Probably It Is because (he Intake of breath which Is necessary to start proper combustion causes a drawing up of the brows, a wrinkling of the forehead, a concavity of the cheeks and a puckering of the mouth, all of which produces an owlish and oracular demeanor. This mask of wisdom and soberness, when brightly lit by the gleam and yellow shining of the match-flame which leaps up and down over the bowl of the pipe, has dismayed many a timid observer. We knew tlinl our friend, like oursclf, was but a well nourished simpleton whose mind even If spread at Its thinnest could not shelter more than one-tenth of his doings wltn common sense. How came It, then, that this simple act of laying fire to dried vegetation could so uplift and ensage him? Whenever a man lights his pipe his mind seems born anew; In other words, It seeps back Into the vast ocean of simple absurdity whence most of our minds come trickling. The momentary rite gives him time to think, and he starts afresh upon argument, rebuttal and contradiction. And Inevitably he says something particu larly Idiotic. e e No assembly, sanhedrim, areopagus or Court of Star Chamber ever looked more solemn or more profound than a smoking car full of commuters; they sit in a seventy-foot box of blue vapor, busy with the persistent and futile scratching of Swedish dud matches; and yet nowhere on earth will yo'u hear so much balderdash uttered. a e We Implore women, particularly women oung and fair, not to be misled by the sage and philosophic bearing of man as he lights his pipe. A man kindling tobacco is no wiser than a woman putting hairpins In her hair, Like most things which are entirely true, this Is very sad. For if ever a man should be wise and profound as Rablndranath and Ralph Waldo Trine together It is when he is accomplishing this sacred and pen sive rite of lighting up. For the moment oh, how brief! his mouth Is stopped with smoke and plpestem; his finer faculties should be brought to a head (his own head) by the symbolic act of kindling a flame, which is the most poetical and marvelous act the world knows, whether that flame be for the purpose of cooking bacon or lighting tobacco or firing a screaming shell ten miles in an Invisible curve at the deflicrs of a French village. And yet watch your friend while he lights his pipe. Watch him hopefully, wistfully, atten tively. The little beacon will flare three Inches under his nose; his cheeks will retract and puff out; the fragrant smoke will gush blue from the bowl and gray from the lips, as some expert has noticed and then. Instead of the 'Wise and pon dered utterance that you expect, he will say something trivial. Worse than trivial, irrelevant. Worse than Irrelevant, un true! Yes, it is hard to live up to one's pipe. When to Quit Life is comparatively simple until 10 a. m. In the early hours of the morning, while the stimulus of the breakfast coffee keeps a man sane and stiff, living seems very excellent and well-oiled. The ste nographer carries her head with uncon scious grace and charm; the militant office boy has not yet begun to feel that sinister devil that gets into his veins toward noon; tobacco tastes fresh and sweet and cool. The trouble with hu manity Is that It never knows when it is beaten If we all went to bed at 10 a. m. how few crimes would be committed. Watch the map these days. Peronne and Ham and St. Quentin are as impor tant to our hearts as Harberth and Logan and Chestnut Jlttl. Kerensky seems to have learned some thing that some of the Bolshevik states men have not when to keep quiet. He must have stepped on some garabed by accident, for he hasn't cost the world a shilling's worth of printer's Ink for at least a month. A'o one u'HI grudge the German com manders the gatoUne necessary to trans port them lack where they belong. Shskeipeare on Labor Day Sir, I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear; owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness; glad of' other men's good, content with my harm. As You Like It. Judging by the way every one is toiling nowadays to help win the war, it seems that the Kaiser may be sales to be the man who made work popular, SOCRATES. W . '' K ' s'f Adventures at Eddystone Br ROY HELTON IV Coing Home DOMING back home In the evening, tspe J dally on pay-day evening, Is a somewhat mere cheerful business than getting out to Eddystone In the morning. ' One usually has to sit down on the train platform, If he has been honest with his Job, and has not dressed up till the bell sounded at "qulttln' time." But on pay day the platform seat has Its compensations. AFAMILIAIX run of fakers, salesmen and mendicants throngs the neighborhood of the big works on Friday afternoon. The dapper mtle salesman of a "pocket secretary, gentlemen, which comprises In Its small bulk a pair of compasses, a steel square, a footrule, a manicure knife, a pen, a pencil and a cigar cutter; for advertising purposes thU evening only we throw In this patent self-sharpening pencil wltH four Hun garian leads, all for the small sum of a quarter of a dollar." The blind beggar who makes change for jou out of a capacious and Jingling pocket. The apoplectic, fat-faced rapid calculator, with his portable blackboard: "Forty-six cents an hour thirty-nine hours how much, gentlemen? I write down the answer with out a thought. Ya can all do It. In my little book, etc " "He's fast." remarks one man. "He Is that." observes another. "He's faster than lightning, an' he's always wrong." The orator continues his long speech: "The three greatest rnen ever born In the State of New Jersey are Woodrow Wilson, Thomas Edison and myself." Shades of Staunton, Va. ! "Thomas I3dlson and myself." "Come over here and we'll hang you," sings out a Jolal blado from the day coach ft Indow. , "Naw, wait a minute !" bawls out a second gruff olce. "Give him a chanct and he'll bust a bloodvessel! Then the law can't touch us." With a hoot and a slang the" train heaves out of the siding, and the rapid calculator talks on to a diminishing audience. SO FINALLY we gasp in to Woodland ave nun again, pass through the hanSs of the evangelical car starter Mite smoothes down the crowds with such kindly observations as "No need to hurry. All we good folks are going to find a place !" which Is more cheer ful than convincing But at length, by power and prayer, we edge Into the car and proceed northward. IT IS an old story that the battles of this war aro being fought at home ; that one man at the front needs fle behind him at forge and on farm and In factory to keep the mills of the gods still grinding. Like many another nnostle of romance, I was one time accustomed to think lightly of this well-worn gag. I am not nshamed to admit that I Mas wrong. I cannot now feel, for Instance, that the splendld-thewcd Vcr monter In the Remington wood shop could be more netful to his country on gun deck or In fuselage than he la right down on hi Job. There are more men able to shoulder a rifle and to march victoriously through the bloody fields of Flanders than there are to profile EOO walnut rifle stocks In a ten hour day. It Is more glorious to go, but there are some for whom It is a serlouB duty to stay home. DEAR QIRLS, with your fine valorous dreams you splendid women whose sons are In the blue or the brown, and you stalwart old gentlemen who heard the call In '61 whenever you feol a bit restive at the sight of a fine, broad-shouldered fellow down town In "clwles" on Saturday night, and the word "slacker" comes close to your lips, I beg of you to remember to look at that strong man's hands. For, believe me, there Is still grilling, soul searching labor for courageous strong men right here at your very elbows; labor that none but such men can ever rightly perform ; dirty, sweating, uneventful, deadening toll for eey yard won In Plcardy. ONE evening; as I came home down an obscure small street In West Philadel phia, I was conscious of a smudge or two on my face and of perhaps more than n smudge on my hands Halfway down the block of little houses there was a fine, manly looking boy In a sailor suit. He was playing with a boat on his doorstep The boat and the boy and the doorstep formed a delightful picture. At the clump of my heavy shoes the lad glanced up, and I smiled at him aa I passed. Not being a lady, I have no special' pride In owning a smile. But a long experience has shown me that among all sorts of peoplo a smile has a certain currency value per haps small but at the passing moment un questioned certainly never questioned among small children. But this little bey on the doorstep did not answer my smile. I was curious and tried again on another well-dressed little boy a bit further down the street. He also did not return my smile, but seemed to look a bit puzzled at my presumption. I looked more critically about me at the neatly trimmed lawns, at the Immaculate doorsteps, the evenly drawn shades, and far within the houses the chance glitter or two of glass from the sideboards, and perhaps a hint of a display of nnger dowis. THEN I think I came to understand what was the matter. I realized that I was in a rising neighborhood, and that, having worked all day with my arms and my hands, I was by no means class. CLEAN streets of small houses everywhere, you cannot affront me by not answering my smiles! I know how hard you hae been struggling to keep your men and women clean-fingered at 6 In the evening as clean fingered as the folk of Melrose Park and Bryn Mawr and Chestnut Hill. It Is a hard battle to establish class In a street cf small houses to uphold a tradition of finger bowls. But, alas! dear people, on our immaculate porchfronts you are up against a bigger game than any game that was eer played by big or little houses In all the long days of the world. One year more or battle ana I venture that In even the most persistently rising of rising neighborhoods the clean-raced children Mill scarcely look askance at a smile from a smudgy man, coming home In old clothes on a midsummer evening. For the world Is running short of clean hand Jobs. In battlellne. In powder plant, in gunshop, the clean, smooth fingers of the young men of half our world are broadening and growing ever more skillful and strong and useful. And we shall all, I think, be wiser and perhaps far happier for our ad ventures In labor and for our returns to re ality. "I am convinced, Mr. Mr. nones 1 "Spellbound" Interlocutor, that the weather man Is In error when he says that no connection exlats between rain and battles, since without the former and Its Hun pretensions It Is difficult to see how the latter could ever have occurred." "Mr. Bones, my grief for your spelling Is over shadowed by admiration for your political philosophy." When Bhall we begin rretty Boon to speak of It as the German high and dry command? You wouldn't have How They naved! called It a gaslesa Sunday If you had heard the talk of the chaps who had to walk to the country clubs yesterday. The food profiteer, irritated by the street markets, may be Inclined to delet) from his Shakespeare the line which urges a court of Justice to "curb this cruel devil of his will." The Hun who, with his offensive boast ing, started out this year to break the record now hears little but tho distressing sound of its disillusioning nrst syllable. "WEXLCEU&RA'fti 1 frdSii s4mm&mBttaem r-a iu-- .& Missswajffcxrviyr-p, a &-; s.wm -i -SSttVi T&A - --..- VTSaRcaSa j5wi! -visjiL'f " 7HoJtA: . x. sv mj'mtmwm " .( a tsaw i-i?il- . e TT1H ill Il.V 1 I..-H' ' U X. - -- " --. 35?W& i 'Ik. '' hi p"-"- 4aW. -i H 1 (. v-"i 'V.rJJf . t'lafHBeft " Pun iiiil "1h.v --:-.-....; 'in. w, , ...jf urafr: . v mm w '" ' --' )!' Jf 3,iz2h1'Mf aHSPft?" ' rit- TaaBVaKaHBajBJSJBJBSBnaian!sjBflBjeam4,. T'VfiirV'leL.i KWBBBLBaHeSLlBaBeR' -,,'.'. l-'f-"-- L:'laLi.l9UeHaaiaieaHeHBHK .-T- --Sj H--, ' ' "' ii TiT iWF iTi WMMHil illjM.W1 I'm" -'-' -'-i ' -Tl-l TT Tir BJiTTeT II I "HBIfTI Ii - :T--..s .. .. .i-.a-Ma.a.a.a.avar.rraa.a.ai-.a--. .., ua. -.j i., J-Hr-J .- ya-I TWTeSisrffler TMPff rW r 'rrMeMrffeMPMrTfiTTn iirMjT JPTi?-' n fcZSaJSRTOTirTfr 'MffWr CTSajJSBjgsjajjjiiBay aflsjgyfcjTCV JfcvaJaJgl'SflTawIaiejffiaaSJBkS-. eyn?i:'&flSuf THE READER'S VIEWPOINT THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS It Already ExliU in the Purpoiei of the People of the Nstlons To the Editor offhe Evening Public Ledger: Sir A certain "Dreamer," once upon a time, had queries put to him by various per sons, among them one much concerned over a lady who should successively marry seven brothers who were kind enough to die so as not to Involve her fn marital bigamy or worst; and the questioner wanted to know about the heaienly consequences when all should arrive. The "Dreamer" replied, Indi cating that tho "undrlylng factor," "the fundamental question," was overlooked, namely, heaven claimed no Jurisdiction In such cases. Mr. Harris, In his criticism of the distin guished novelist, Mr. Wells, and myself, in your Issue of the 22d, falls Into a similar error when he objects to 177 as an "anal ogy" to a "United Nations' of today. As for myself, not desiring to speak for Mr. Wells, I do not consider It an "analogy": It Is an Illustration ot the great "funda mental" principles of democracy, that all government springs from Individual sov ereignty, acting through majority expres 6lon. This Is the new American political science that Is fast becoming Recognized as a universal and political science. The people of countries, of States, of mjtlons, of all nations, are the sovereigns, with right and power to change countries. States, na tions and world governments as thyr will, restitutions are not soerelgns; thty are the creation of people people covering ai.y amount of territory tho people themielves choose, be it county-size. State-size, nation size or world size. This fundamental fact of American polit ical science, first formulated by James Wil son but acted upon by the fathers of 1776 88, was the fruit of a twelve years' revols- - ... I waa ,-nnflrmpfl bv a Civil War that lasted from 1881 to about 1873. It Is the greatest contribution of America to the worid a discovery in political science so great that It produces revolutions wherever It Is accepted. It says: "Government comes from below, not from above; government Is self-government." The State, nation or United Nations (as poor a term as "United States, M-hlch Is also a relic of the defunct "league" Idea) Is merely a product of the sovereign neople. The sovereign people of Pennsyl vania can make two States out of it if they choose. The sovereign people of Delaware and Maryland can unite In one State If they choose. The people of the United States can create two nations out of thomselves If they choose but they chose not to do so in 1861. It was the "people of the United States," not of "the separate States" of America, which ordained our nation, and the majority have a right to enforce their de cision. Majority Is as vital a principle of democracy as Individual sovereignty .ItBelf, even though some people seem to forget It, Including the I. W. W., the Bolshevlkl, cer tain capitalists and many a conservative "good citizen" who thinks the majority should rule certainly, provided It Is his majority, of course. No majority can relieve Itself of re sponsibility for right and the good of all : any otner course iu j.v... ....... ...-.. ...... revolution. . , . . In 1776 it was not the colonies that arose; It was the people spontaneously uprising In an Informal Congress; and, excepting as a temporary accommodation to France, we neer had anything else, until the people ordained a Constitution a dozen years later. Bo today It Is the majority of people of the world who have almost as spontaneously risen as the people did then; and for the same reason, namely, that a great menace to Individual sovereignty, arose. In Oermany an avowed menace. ltls still an uprising of the people; governments are merely admln--. -.!... ill- neoDle's will: It Is all as In- formal as it was In mi,, no treaty or treaties creating a "league; the people are the Allies, doing things of great moment on mere request of administrators. This war Is a combination of both our Revolution and Civil War ; the people of the worlaV all who have been able to organize national govern ent will no longer live In a world, without B-overnment, where Prussian bandits can ter rorize the highways. They will flrs see that that bandit nation uncondltlonally surren ders and Is properly punished. They will then have no incompetent Hague "Court," so called without law or executive power, which bandit nations can flout with ImpunttyAbut will have a real red-blooded government, resting on Individuals, on the people (not the nations) who are fighting this war, U won't be a world "nation " as Mr. Harris mis,, takenly calls It, and certainly not a "league," so called, because, that Implies that It will rest on nations Instead of Individuals, The terms "State" and "nation" art now local terms; we nave no worn lor ine ne government to be created, and must create a eWSSKTsSWiSSrlWl af..-wn, p i , r-f vxgf. THE DAY WITH IFIREWORKS. Will faulty a one as the "United Nations" until a better Is found. We use the term "league," I. e , some uso it, because they do not believe in the democracy of Individual sovereignty and majority rule. Some use the term as "United States" was used, a compromise title, capable of two constructions, with the ex pectation that a people's construction will ultimately prevail as has occurred In the term "United States." No, Mr. Harris, neither "dreamers" nor ne-plus-ultra conservatives will mr!:: that government, after the unconditional surren der occurs ; It will be done by the people of the world, who have shown capacity for organized democratlo government, and the rest will be the territories ef the United Na tions, awaiting the day, like the Flllplnqs, when they, too, shall enter the United Na tlons. By tho way, Mr. Harris, I know a negro, S V. Pollack, about equal to your Bomba- zan, who actually voted on your Individual liberty. Behold, n Is upon you already! BUP.TON ALVA KONKLE. Swarthmore, August 27. NEW POLITICAL IDEALS To the Editor of the Evening Public Ledger. Sir Is Mr. Roosevelt a student of French politics? Do partB of his Springfield address sound like an echo or an elaboration of the edi torial of Alfred Capus, Le Figaro, August 8? (An attempt at a translation Is given below.) Has Mr. Roosevelt In mind also a new "National" or "American" party? Is he for mulating Its principles and has he selected Its leader? The opinion of the writer of the fine edi torial, "Our Greatest Victory," In Evening Public Ledqer of August 27 would be In teresting Translation Very mediocre observers those who do not perceive that there Is forming at this time In France, little by little, lh the midst of the rude experiences of the war a national party party as yet only In the outline, with a program, In consequence, Indeterminate, but which Is becoming more settled each day and will be definitely fixed at the time of the next elections In contact with the universal suf frage. Without doubt the essential princi ple of the republic laical character of In struction, for example, and the pursuit ot social reforms will be at the base. What It seems must characterize this party Is that It will detach from the present parties the minds the most steady, most cautious and also the roost resolute to group themselves about a Just view of the national Interest within the confines of a victorious country. One cannot reason. Indeed, except on the hypothesis of victory and the ruin of German militarism, for If these were not obtained the republic Itself would have but a precarious existence, ceaselessly menacd by anarchy. Republican order has become a function of victory (or Is dependent upon victory (?) ). It is then quite probable that In that case no one of the old political parties can main tain its status or Its relations ot before the war. This phenomenon Is perceptible already in the Socialist party, whose outlines, so dis tinct until tow, are commencing to soften and dissolve, The separation of the associ ated Elements of the others Is more marked still, aa well for the doctrines as for the personnel. Certainly the formulas and the party lead ers of a national party are far from being fdund.. For that there must be the victori ous conclusion of the war, the enchainment (concatenation (?) ) of the reflections, and, as it were, a new pragmatism, now In the act, perpapi, of being elaborated at the front. It Is not to be feared that a narrow na tionalist) will come out of It. On the con trary, the relations between civilized peoples will never be more cordial and more supple than when each, having a clear notion of Its Interest, 'will see that that Interest Is not satisfied except by peace, reasonable meas ures and respect of rights. L. T. P. Philadelphia, August 29. 4 Supremacy of Philip Cibbs To the Editor of the Evening Public Ledger; Sir That' Philip Glbbs story which you folks published yesterday was ona of the most Illuminating, human and exceptionally descriptive stories that I have seen come from the yen of any war correspondent. The EySxino Public LepobkIs to be eon gratulatedl not only on having' such a cor respondent,, but on the masterly way In which that story was lifted out and displayed above the'iiuual cut-and-drled perfunctory war news. I It was a splendid story splendidly handled ,by your news management. 7 l li w it & wrnntf t a vxtm PhlladeleniaA August 29, iTa . f ., r" Si&ajPfST ' 1 i ixe ..rvi ' '' -.'.-.-.'Ml. l-- V.-..V- V.:.V;!T.. v,j V$?... sJv'4 t. 'iS . -KS-i. ii - 1 r,- V vii 71!- -I tl It - M-: ..71 ' r!i -vK. ,.', . 1 ." ' -4 l"S&! 3 i. & I ' mm v-i KSris-'ife'Tf: BELLS OF TILLOLOY As the French soldiers entered a trench under the ruins of the church at Tllloloy, near the River Somme, they exclaimed, "The bells of Tllloloy shall ring again!" News Item. FDUL fall the day when Hunnlsh hordes Stacked Europe's fields with crimson sheaves, Her Innocents impaled on swords, Her altars stained with slime of thieves! 1 While Prayer was rising from the Fane Came fiery rain Of belching shells Came moaning choruses of knells Came voiceless ruin to the Bells I The solemn Bells! 'the sweet, sad Bells! Tho sad, the sweet, the solemn Bells! The Bells of Tllloloy! But they shall chime again, again, The Bells of Tllloloy shall chime again! The Havoc chokes the land with gloom And withers Life with scorching glance, New Lights of Glory shall Illume The shrines of Belgium and France! Each bleak, war-furrowed hill and plain Shall soon regain Its vernal gear Soon shall depart the hour of fear Soon shall return the hour ot cheer With vibrant Bells to charm the ear. To soothe the heart and drown the tear The Bells of Tllloloy ! For they must ring again, again, The Bells of Tllloloy must ring again! Ends now the night horrific! Dawn From east and west superbly rolls; Ye dauntless Sons of France, press on, The Flame of Valor In your souls! Across the unredeemed champaign Roars the refrain Revanche! Revanche! Sweeps the resistless avalanche! Flashes the saber, gleams the lance. Thunders the Chivalry of France Of France and all the Friends of France I To victory! To victory! Ring out, O joyous Bells, again! O Bells of Tllloloy, ring out again! ROBERT C, STEWART. Astute statesmen see a peace bid coming. And those who are more astute see it going. What Do You Know? QUIZ t. What State dees Jeannette Rankin rapreeent in censreMT 1. Who was MasanlelloT S. What are the colors of the flac at Partaiat 4. What la the French Dranunrlatlon ef Arras? S. What Presidents ef the t.'nlted States wera electee! or me nms parwr 6. what la the larsest lake In tooth America? jl 7. Who Is chief af staff ef the American ararffl S. Who waa the last Stuart kin et Eniland? fl . 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