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A CALL FOR COMMON SENSE
THE announced intention of Director
Wilson to submit to Councils a bill
calling for a "substantial advance" in tho
pay of policemen und firemen Is a much
needed step In the right direction. Its
sequel should be action by the city fathers
In which the line will be sharply drawn
between essential and nonessential public
servants.
It Is said that execution of the Director
Of Public Safety's request will Involve
'"'some clever financiering" relative to this
year's municipal budget. But. as a matter
ot tact, there Is no need whatever for any
expenditure of subtlety.
The situation Is transparently simple.
Purge the castellated pile on the Plaza of
Its useless and boss-appointed chutr
.warmers, and even in wartime there will
be sufficient funds to reward our indis
pensable guardians according to their
deserts.
We haven't had any anxious telephone
Inquiries relative to the condition of the
German Kmpress, who seems to have suc-
cumbed to the contagion of funk that Is now
"aii the rage In Berlrn.
IS THERE TO BE COTTON PROFI
TEERING? -TTITHEN the Department of Agriculture
J f T reported that weather conditions had
reduced the prospective cotton crop of
, 15,235,000 bales to 11,137,100, cotton went
Ep'-. "i, J"P $10 a a'e on tne exchanges.
Kr .Now the war Industries board is con-
t?iuciiiik iiie uuvjuuuiiy in uxing me jirice
trjtfot cotton in nrdpr tn "tnhlll.p" It Tt U
y? 'selling around tnirty-flve cents a pound.
Pn'S. T ..i...! V . tut- l i.
JICS' fc uccu ii ub jiussiuik io nuse It Ul H.
bv profit If It could be sold for eight cents.
B& i It is said that it now costs elchteen cents
cV a pound to produce It.
The anticipated crop of more than
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-'ir jw,wvu,wvu uiiiea naa uiuuu itiigfr mail
WSS. Ta Usual. The average crop is about 12,000,000
bales. The prospective shortage, when
U.-J Tl nnmnnvAfl ...Itl. 1. 1 a o.'Awonn tn .. ..am..
W vv.ui.wi cm ...in hub u.c.af,:, in iiul 1CLJ
fvii- wrge. There ought to be a generous profit
!,' AM U. r-An.AM l Ua. nn a. .Ul.... f .
l.f ' b""";lfl l uirj lull hit tiilll3-lle
H cents or even thirty cents a pound for lc
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ft TVnxne country will await with considerable
v Interest the efforts of the war Industries
ifljf Doara to siaDiuze me price, Knowing, as
mx.'t tf Anna fh.it rhnlrmnn Tlrtiln i.f tUn
"Ways and Means Committee, has not
Evf. - sought to tax any of tho war profits of
ujo vuuuii giutvets.
5?j It Mr. McAdoo Isn't a bit more careful
R''tfMlI the high-paid shlnworkers will beEln to
ISA j Wramble for Jobs on the railroads.
ON THE CREDIBILITY OF WITNESSES
ttft A MITCHELL PAI.MKH said that Judge
3'. Rnnnlwpll was nn this Tlonnhllpnn imv.
ksrfi .. ... ' . : ---" '
f v roil anu mat sinnott nnanced his cam-
'.'i-paign for the Di
i, i m Senator- i'enros
mocratlc nomination.
ose says that the state-
Kjf;.ment is "utterly unfounded."
JmJ'' Blnnott says that he had nothing to do
RrjVWUh Bonnlwell's financial campaign.
rVTO' , T b "wiuuiicii najo ttii. wic tlldlKH
KlViS ','f his- financial connection with SInnott Is
jjair "unqualifiedly false."
$LU Three to one on the question of veracity.
V?i" Juror was once asked why ho oted
u'l3-p''or the acquittal of a man accused of
HI crime.- "He had twenty witnesses who
l'-''"Jt: .swore that he was an honest man," was
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v."iJio reply. iiu iiiu uiuer wine iiua only
.iV" tA.n wilnnaana tn uii'nni fhnl V n-n.n't '
: yfcw .,...u .w u... ....t ... M0., fc.
Bv--jy. AimQii uxiyuuuy win aumic mat A.
Iltcnell l'aimer, wnen ne went to Harrlsnurg
other day, did gome pretty neat work
it-senator Sproul.
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mt WHITMAN'S THIRD TERM
SiTt-i-
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HE renominatlon of Governor Whitman
-t ;Ja tnr. n third tprtri In Joti- Vn-V hmnl..
i'(irprecedents of recent years. It has been
8& i'.'-jfusComary to give the Governor two
. . . 4na if Via nntiM ha oTantaA Ih- caaaa.1
,T"r- " "" "" --.v!. ...o ocmuu
Then he has retired for some one
7. Democrats re nnnnrpntlv nlnnnlni
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Ji9 'oppose the re-election of Whitman on
f'jjttiij'ground that he Is running this year
v;:'rot Xor the governorship, but for the Ite-
' -jUjibllcan presidential nomination In 1920.
i.'.-jisey say tnat ne win control tne aeiega-.
.Wttii from the State to the nominating
I. invention and that he will insist that it
ifW pledged to him.v
S,.'rjey will have to get a better Issue
in that on which to base their attacks.
, voters of New York, as well as the
';rtrs. In the other States, will not be
irhlns of the presidency this year. They
l' thinking of winning the war. If the
fork Democrats can convince enough
M;tat It will helpvln the war if the
svernment is turned over to Tam-
Mfllll .through the election of Mur-
mate, omun,, tney may win,
i.OpJ. 8M Tb'bo' an able and
apped by. tht,
MR. PALMER AND MR. BORAH
.
The Bonnlwell Incident in the Light of
Recent Political Prophecy
NE is tempted to wonder whether A.
Mitchell Palmer, when he turned tho
big berthas so suddenly upon Judge Bon
niwell, experienced, amid the fireworks,
n recollection of Senator Borah nnd tho
sleety political prophecies tossed off in
Washington a day or two ago by the
man from Idaho.
The coincidence of Mr. Palmer, Mr.
Borah and the Bonniwcll case isn't to bo
disregarded. It is luminous. Mr. Borah
has just taken time for a contemptuous
dismissal of our illusions of a coming
reform in politics. The war, he holds,
has not tempered tho heart or tho soul
of cither of the big parties. It will not
have tempered them in 1920.
"There will be no pioneering with new
political or economic or social doctrines
upon cither side," said Mr. Borah. He
said flatly that politicians were cowards
and that they will remain cowards; that
they will continue to trail furtively be
hind the crowd rather than in front and
continue to job themselves to the de
sired places. Politics in America will be,
after the war, what it wur before.
The newspapers had a pleasant time
with Senator Borah and his prophecies.
They were acclaiming him as -a gloom of
the first magnitude. They said his peri
scope was fogged. And then Mr. Palmer
stood upon his feet and gave tongue and
revealed or pretended to reveal Judge
Bonniwell and Senator Penrose and a
flock of first-line politicians of both par
ties in attitudes which caused thoughtful
men to look twice nt Mr. Borah and say,
"By all the prophets! The man may
have been right!"
Now, few persons seem to realize as
yet how dramatically the Democratic
candidate for the governorship has been
pushed forward in this instance to pro
vide a test of the temper and spirit of
the people. Mr. Palmer has made it
appear that a group of public men of
great influence who talk prettily enough
about the war and manifest dazzling skill
as flag wavers are, in reality, untouched
in their consciousness even at this hour
of hours by any of the war's meanings.
Mr. Palmer has charged in effect that
they have done their utmost to discredit
and to disregard and to make ridiculous
the institutions of free government the
things for which we happen to be fight
ing in France. The Democratic State
chairman named men in both parties.
But no one has sued him for libel. No
one has died of anger or of indignation.
It may be worth while to digress here,
for the sake of the moral, to Senator
Sherman and the amazing attack which
he has just made in the Senate upon
President Wilson. Were it not for the
situation in Pennsylvania we might look
to Mr. Sherman for proof of Mr. Borah's
shining abilities as a prophet.
"All the Republican members," the
wires said, "applauded Senator Sher
man's address." The country didn't ap
plaud it. The country sneered. What
we must wonder now is whether Senator
Penrose was there to applaud Senator
Sherman the same Senator Penrose
who is now charged with an effort to
boss the future Governor of Pennsyl
vania, whether that Governor be a Re
publican or a Democrat.
Senator Sproul is Senator Penrose's
friend. There is no secret of the rela
tion between them. It is clearly visible,
well understood, and there is nothing
discreditable about it to Mr. Sproul or
to Mr. Penrose. With Judge Bonniwell,
Mr. Sproul's rival, the situation is differ
ent. A Republican Senator accused of
paying the way of a Democratic candi
date for the Governorship is a novel
spectacle to the uninitiated. Judge Bon
niwell, who is thus singularly distin
guished, is charged with attempts to sell
out his own party, his own friends.
Deep water this! We shall have to
wait and see what comes out of it.
Words arc of little use now. All con
cerned will be appraised by wliut they do.
Mr. Palmer is known as a truthful man.
The men he attacked have called him a
liar. But they haven't proved him one.
What we should like to do now, for
the interest of science; is to take Senator
Borah, of Idaho, by the hand and lead
him to a grand stand seat, from which
he might observe the progress of Judge
Bonniwell in the State election and de
liver up saws, observations and prophe
cies suited to the occasion. We should
still insist that he talked nonsense re
cently in Washington. But we should
confess to glimmering doubts'. There
are many who had hoped that the par
ties, like the rest of the world, would
receive a new baptism of grace and de
cency from the war. They will know
whether to believe or disbelieve Senator
Borah, whether they were fools or wise
men, by the progress of affairs in the
Pennsylvania campaign from this on.
They have only to keep an eye on Bon
niwell. What shall we do if it is proved that
Mr. Penrose sought to have the Demo
cratic Governor in his pocket? Shall
we become indignant? Or shall we take
comfort in the old bewildered gesture
and try to think of pleasant things?
Shall we confess once again in that in
stant that we are unfitted for self-government
and that the politicians are too
clever for us?
And what will they say in France,
those men who are suffering and being
wounded and killed to preserve for us a
privilege for which we seem to be un
fitted? Yes, we understand
being played somewhere,
a world series Is
LAFAYETTE DAY
MARIE JOSEPH, Marquis de Lafayette,
the one hundred and 'sixty-second an
niversary of whose birth is celebrated
today.vwM- M.ilpttir; champtoa, of
EVENING PUBMO ED'aEPPHnrADECPHI, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER. j5,
rrra PTTTlTnr,TOnhTORPTTTTAT5np1TT,A mmvAV. flTTPTTn
cherished his memory with a peculiarly
intimate, almost selfish fervor. Tho
broader ideals of freedom which inspire ua
to take up arms in the world war may
profitably be stimulated by a less familiar
conception of tho best foved foreigner in
tho history of the United States.
For not only did the gallant Lafayette
help ua to be free, but his devotion to
liberty was unfaltering nnd unsullied
throughout his cntlro career. Before the
French Revolution reached tho stage of
tho Terror ho was a conspicuous lender In
all Us great affairs. The key of tho Bastille,
his symbolic gift to Washington, sig
nificantly reposes In Mount Vernon to this
day. Repudiation by frenzied Jacobins
and Imprisonment by the Austrlans failed
to temper his enthusiasm for eternal
principles of orderly self-government.
Late In life he commanded the French
National Guard In tho Revolution of 1830,
which hurled the Bourbons forever from
the' throne of France. The purity of his
disinterested services on behalf of a
sacred cause is unstained.
It Is well to remember the breadth of
his sympathies today, when America, free
herself, Is fighting for world redemption.
The natal day of Lafayette, who opposed
all tyranny wherever he found It. has a
new meaning for a new America.
Now that summer Is almost over we re
call that summer girls seem to have gone
out of fashion.
THE REAL WORLD SERIES
THE "world's scries" of baseball games,
which opened in Chicago yesterday
afternoon, Is blanketed by a bigger series
of games, playing on a larger fieW, on
the other side of the world.
Baseball has had hard sledding this sum
mer. Men are Interested in bigger things
than professional sport these days.
The Huns can make n stand now nnd
then. But the Allies seldom give them a
chance to sit down.
HOW GASOLINE CAN HELP WIN
THE WAR
THE figures compiled by the Quaker
r
City Cab Company are correct, they
Justify the common saying that this Is tho
most wasteful nation in the world.
These figures, in brief, show that enough
gasoline is wasted In a year to supply all
the war needs of the Government, with
more than 200,000.000 gallons to spare.
The economical use of gasoline has evi
dently never been taught to motorcar
owners. The cab company estimates that
240,000 gallons a day are consumed need
lessly because of improperly adjusted car
buretors and 150.000 gallons through keep
ing the engine running when the car is
standing still, and another 100,000 gallons
through leaks.
These enormous quantities of fuel could
be saved by proper adjustment of the car
buretors and through repairs of leaky
joints and stopcocks.
The company estimates also that nearly
900,000 gallons a day are burned through
needless use of tho cars. It can be saved
by keeping the cars In the garages except
when there Is Imperative need for them.
It is not necessary to accept these fig
ures as accurate to conclude that much
could be done to mitigate the gasoline
shortage by a judicious conservation of
what we have. They show how men who
cannot fight can do a little something to
help win the war.
Of the Czecho-Slovaks It may be said In
passing that they cannot be checked, and
there doesn't seem to be anything slow about
them.
THE PUBLIC PAYS THE FREIGHT
THE director general of railroads, as he
contemplates the sum required to pay
his latest Increase of wages to the railroad
employes, must be in the mood of the farm
ers who used to buy scales from a manu
facturer in Btnghamton. This manufac
turer won fame, political office and some
fortune through the popularity and pulling
power of his advertising slogan:
"Jones, he pays tho freight."
Mr. McAdo'o docs not have to worry
about where the money is to come from.
The public pays the freight.
No one begrudges tho railroad workers
a fair day's pay. They are entitled to it.
But the public Is Interested in the financial
outcome of Mr. McAdoo's management of
' the railroads. He ordered an increase in
wage in May, to date from January 1.
It will take $300,000,000 a year to meet the
added charge on the railroad Income due to
this order. The passenger and freight
rates were Increased In order to provide
the necessary funds, but the railroads
ended the first six months of Mr. McAdoo's
management with $225,000,000 less than
was necessary to pay the rental guaran
teed to tho owners of the property. The
new Increase of wages, which Is made to
correct the inequalities In pay which arose
under the first order, will add $150,000.0(00
a year to the expense budget. Now If he
ran behind a quarter of a billion dollars
In the first six months, how Is Mr. McAdoo,
with added burdens, to end the year with
his books balancing without still further
increasing freight and passenger rates?
But this is not the way to convert the
public to a belief in Government owner
ship. Hindenburg's Latest Song
O where, O Where's my little line gone?
O where, O where can it be?
With its head cut off and its tall gone
wrong, i
It seems to be all at sea.
Why Is It that so
Ask Sdme One Kle many terms of deri-
eion originate with
the bill of fare? No man Is so mild that he
will not fly Into a rase the Instant he Is
called a hard-boiled egg. It Is currently
believed that even so complicated and un
pleasant a person as the Kaiser Is fittingly
described as a big cheese. Call an actor a
ham and ypu have an enemy for life. And
to be known to the world of men as a big
stew Is to bear the ultimate designation of
contumely.
The German com
Tlie Winner Illea manders are offering
a reward of about
$100 for each American brought In us a
prisoner. Now we know how German widows
get their, pin money. ,. ,
The Mayor's explanation ol the Gudehus
lncirtiriU jatfst UU,.MMllto .that
THE CHAFFING DISH
rpiIE quip is not our own, but we can't
resist saying again that Pershing Is
probably humming "Pop goes tho Vcslo."
In these days when so many of us wear
patriotic buttons of ono sort or anothor,
why shouldn't there bo some kind of
decoration or chevron for a man who
hasn't used the word camouflage for six
months?
Peach alone contain prusslc acid, so U
seems onlu right that wc should save
them to embarrass the Kaiser.
Tho public Is rarely convinced that an
operatic soprano Is really coloratura until
divorce proceedings have been made public.
After reading that speech of Senator
Sherman's, Qcrmantown will not be so
anxious to call itself Shcrmantown.
All summer the German war correspond
ents havo been laying great stress on the
Kaiser's lino healthy sunburn. And now,
thanks to Foch, he seems to be getting
tanned Indeed.
It occurs to us that Karl Itosncr's In
ststence on the Kaiser's coat of tan may
mean that Wlthclm Is conscious of a cer
tain pallor tcithln.
The man who treads the pavement with
downcast eyes and rapt demeanor may
not necessarily be a philosopher. Perhaps
ho Is watching the shimmer of ankles,
soon, alas, to be shrouded once more In the
autumnal spat.
The' helpings of pumpkin (or punktn) pic
arc smaller than they were last year, but,
happily, they stilt are an essential In
dustry. Any dictionary that contains the word
camouflage has a right ,to wear a service
flag.
77ic farther the Germans get from Paris
the more Interested they become In Prus
sian franchise reform. By and by they
may be so concerned with their own affairs
that they wilt take up the problem of
safeguarding themselves from another,
brutal nggicsslon on the part of flelglum.
G. K. Chesterton has remarked of Tenny
son that "he had much more power of
expression than was wanted for anything
he had to express."
Tho same thought has sometimes oc
curred to us In connection with the melli
fluous Henry van Dyke.
As Reported in Germany
Terrible, civil war In the United States
of North America. The Sox (inhabitants
of the Boston Soviets) have Invaded Chi
cago nnd are attacking the natives, whom
they bitterly call Cubs. Grandiloquent
Yankees call this the world struggle or
world series. Terror has struck tho hearts
of the population to such an extent that
those watching the carnage are pale with
panic, and are known as bleachers.
Bonnfires
Allied aviators set fire to war plants In
Bonn and other Rhine towns. News Item.
Why Is It that when an actor concludes
a telephone conversation on the stage he
always crashes down the receiver In a
manner that would bo considered unmiti
gated swank In private life? -If we tried
It Mr. Burleson would probably arrest us
for contempt of government ownership.
It is curious hoto many men between
the discreet ages of twenty-one and thirty
one seem to keep their draft classification
cards In the cedar chest at home instead of
in their pockets.
Belter Skip This
Judging by the large amount of ljooty
that has recently been recaptured from
the, Germans It appears that It was only
Hun-deep.
.WJint you sec the green flag flying on
Sunday do not Imagine that it means
Jerry O'l.cary has been acquitted. As
long as gaslcss Sundays last green bunt
ing is to be the emblem of a doctor's
motorcar.
It would be Interesting to know Just
how the Bolshevlkl think their standing
in society is improved by the murder of
ambassadors.
We learn from ."Who's Who" that Dr.
Frederick Cook's name was originally
Koch. Well, well, well iras that Xorth
Pole business also a bit of German propa
ganda? Exiles From the Front Page
sneaking of Doc Cook, there are
And,
certain other exiles
whose whereabouts
troubling the world
lowing occur to us
from the front page
don't seem to be
very much, The fol
doubtless there are
others:
Bergdoll
Kerensky ,
Garabed
Rosner
Nearlng
W. J. Bryan
Von Kluclt
Czernln
The Yellow Peril
Villa
King Constantino
Big Bertha
Esperanto
George D. Porter
Xow tliat the lllndcnburg Itr.e has shown
ItseTf not impregnable, many a man will
feel more hopeful about outflanking his
waistline.
Dove Dulcet tells us that he is going to
claim exemption in the new draft on ac
count of his dependent poems. We agree
that his verses are quite unable to sup
port themselves. SOCRATES.
If, Ermentrude, you
For You Alone, are devoting yourself
Erroeotrude In a powder factory
' to the work of making
the world unsafe for Kaisers you are a
"munitionette." That is the newest word In
the language, and if any one would try to
joeh you about It tell them, for us, that, with
all Its faults, it is a much nicer word than
slacker.
Let us leave the world
out of it for a moment
and admit that Judu
Pld Penrose Help?
BonnliroU'
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THROUGH THE
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FREEDOM FOR ULTIMA THULE
Unique Iceland, Most Misjudged of Countries, Heading for
Independence
THE land of ponies, pancakes and pumice,
of lichens, long nights and literature
craves a nod of recognition. Its formal bow
to the family of free nations Is scheduled for
December. The months immediately ahead
of us are certain to be crowded with world
shaking events, and yet it might be a gra- '
clous thing to spare a moment's consideration
for the newcomer. Iceland, continually
heroic, continually misunderstood, deserves
it. Against obstacles that would have been
the despair of a people of frailer fiber, she
has battled for centuries, keeping alive the
flume of a distinctive culture, sustaining even
In stricken times an unquenchable spirit of
liberty.
I'nder the new plan, now being prepared
by n Joint commission of Danish nnd Ice
landic statesmen, Iceland Is to have some
what the same status as had Norway before
the separation from Sweden and the corona
tion of King Haakon. The King of Denmark
Is to be King of Iceland. Denmark is to rep
resent Iceland in'forelgn affairs but Iceland
holds the right to substitute special legates
of her own at any time and the privilege of
remaining aloof from any of Denmark's pos
sible disputes with any nations. Iceland's
prospective independent position is defined as
one of "permanent neutrality."
This coming distinction is not a mere
lloni-n nf sneech. It has. moreover, a real
rhearlng on International politics, since Ice
land lies almost wholly witiiin tne isortn
Temperate Zone and Is geographically rated
as a European Island. The little mall boats
linking It with what we are wont to call
"civilization" start at Copenhagen, proceed
across the North Sea to Lelth. the port of
Edinburgh, and five days later the traveler is
in Saga Land.
Some twenty years ago the writer was a
passenger on one of these staunch hut far
from speedy crafts. In those days no Ger
man "Land of the Midnight Sun" steamships
had yet made Reykjavik, the capital, a port
of tourist call and not even the records of
tho hasty sightseer were available as an
Index to the character of the output of
Europe. Lotl's "An Iceland Fisherman" was
no guide at all, for the tale is French and
concerns itself chiefly with the heroism of
Bretons In stormy seas, and not at all wllh
the life of a unique and Interesting people.
Hugo's "Hans of Iceland" is singularly un
convincing, a romantic stage picture.
In the good old days of Harper's Young
People a fecund author of juvenile books,
one Kirk Munroe. had evolved an unpre
tentious tale' entitled "Dorymates." The
scene of boyish sea-faring exploits that began
In Gloucester, Mass., shifted eventually to the
farftung land which medieval man had
vaguely termed "Ultima Thule," whither Co
lumbus Is said to have roved prior to his
major effort In discovery, the land of vol
canoes and Vikings, the head and front both
of Norse culture and Norse courager
The recollection of Munroe's adventurous
story dispelled for me many an Illusion, t
told me that the folk of Iceland were not
Eskimos, but verily the herolo aristocracy
of Scandinavia a tall, virile, light-haired,
white people, a nation of poets and saga
spinners, forever battling against formidable
natural forces and taking refuge from the
hard facts of existence In a veritable orgy
of literature. For approximately a thousand
years Iceland tjas been both consuming and
producing books. ,
Since the days when Erik the Red, whom It
is possible to Identity either as a Norseman
or an Immigrant to Iceland, ventured far
beyond the seas to Vfnland, generally admit
ted to have been a portion or norin America,
the Icelander, beset by volcanic convulsions,
by earthquakes, hampered by lack of natural
resources, cut off from any Intimate connec
tion with Europe, had consumed the long
wintry nights In creating his own wonderful
literature and diverting himself In its
perusal. That stirring monument of medieval
literature, the "Helmskringla," or "Stories of
the Kings," although descriptive of Norway,
is an Icelandic product,
"The Story of Burnt NJal" and, of course,
the Eddas are other masterpieces. All serve
as inspiration for the maintenance of the
literary tradition, for Iceland today- still has
her poets and novelists and even her dramat
ists, as the powerful modern play of "Hadda
Padda" vividly .attests. For a population of
80,000 the proportion of newspapers is per
haps higher than anywhere else in the world.
There Is said to be not one Illiterate person
In lh land. '-
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truths, but It did awaken Interest in the
signal and almost appalling scenic wonders
of Ultima Thule. A land seared with Blnlster
volcanic chasms, contrasting with pale green
pasture lands and little gardens productive
of a few hardy vegetables; a land where the
sheep and cnttlv vastly outnumber the human
Inhabitants ; a land of blackened,, burnt-out
mountains, weird old sisters of Hecla, that
still raging peak of Are and snow, a land of
thunderous waterfalls, of terrifying chasms
and unexpectedly gracious lakes was re
vealed to me on a long and drizzly pony ride.
We Journeyed from the capital,. with Its chill
ingly prosaic dwellings of alleged "damp
proof" galvanlzpd Iron, Its cultural theatre,
university and Parliament house, to historic
Thingvnlla.
Tlere on an "island" between awesome
earth fissures the chiefs of the stormy old
republican days between the ninth and elev
enth centuries, before the official merger of
the fortunes of Iceland In the league of Nor
way and Denmark was made, called the
Althing, promulgated Its laws and debated
the welfare of the State In much the same
tonguo which the modern legislatures are to
employ In the dignified brownstone Parlia
ment house In Reykjavik. Of living lan
guages, Icelandic is truly a veteran. It was
contemporary with the extinct Anglo-Saxon,,
to which it naturally bears certain affinities.
Thlngvalla, with its rich historic and star
tling scenic values, proved so arresting that
certain surprises concerning modern Icelandic
life weie rather vaguely sensed. Later It is
possible to reflect that I had passed the
night In a "hotel" In which the sleeping ar
rangements were modeled on berths In a
ship; that delicious pancakes somewhat a
cross between the French nnd German va
riety were a staple of the Icelandic cuisine;
thnt in one of the least tropical of lands the
art of colfee making had reached an enviable
pinnacle of merit : that the fresh lake salmon
belongs to the list of Incomparable foods :
that, though Icelandic ponies were almost as
large as horses, my huge cavalier guide,
Thorgrlmur Gudmanson, was barely able to
keep his feet from touching the turf.
I learned considerably more concerning
this cultivated descendant of unwearied Vik
ings the next day. when he told me in his
fluent English that he knew four other lan
guages, when his skill as a caravan pilot
gave me confidence to ford a swlft-flowlng
river just above the ridge from which It
tumbled Into the deep pool below, and when
bis Indefatigable good nature was displayed
by his vigil by the geyser, historic parent of
all spouting springs.. In the gray light of
1 :30 In the morning It was mid-July and the
Icelandic day was almost continuous Gud
manson summoned me to see that gleaming
spire of hot water.
We were miles beyond Thlngvalla now,
miles even beyond Gulfoss a waterfall
which vies In splendor with the prodigies of
Niagara, the Zambesi and the Tarana.
Peitner the cheerless Iron habitations of
"metropolitan" Reykjavik nor the picturesque
thatched cottages of the shepherds and cat
tlemen were near the sulphurous Inferno of
hot springs.
A capacious tent, however, served us ad
mirably and when the spectacular eruption
had ceased the Ingenious Gudmanson ap
peared with a dish of smoking hot beef,
Icelandic magic was suggested by the engag
ing sight. The notion was substantially cor
rect. The accommodating geyser pool had
heated to a degree of savory warmth a can
of potted meat originally emanating from a
Chicago stockyard I
Tho return to Reykjavik verified at the
little museum and the university the tales
about Icelandic books and Icelandic literary
culture. Tho modern Althing house, facing
a statue of the great sculptor, Thorvaldsen, of
Icelandic parentage, though born In Copen
hagen, made concrete the Island's tireless
spirit of Independence.
At that time an extremely liberal home
rule system was ln force. But Iceland',
though peaceful and averse to armed strife,
was still unsatisfied. Universal suffrage i for
men and women alike has been a subsequent
development. With the virtually assured
consent of Denmark the distinguished honor
of nationality Is now In store for Iceland,
Her ships will display a new flag.
. The kindly Gulf Stream, which almost
encircles the island's coast line, has taken
off some of the chill In more ways than one.
The hearts of Viklngly freemen beat warmiv
for, liberty.-. SeU.determUiatlon in. "LTitim-.
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"ITTHAT'S the score, Satan?
What's the score, God?
Is this the ninth inning of the Game
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Or only the seventh, where we stretch for jwj
A twenty-two inning tie that will end in
utter darkness?
What's the score. Satan?
What's the score, God?
Our score cards have blown acay
Over the fence of the Visible.
Who made the First Error,
And who is that gigantic slugger,
Slugging out fouls all over the.world7
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What's the score, Satan? e
What's the score, God?
Isn't the Second Game of a Double-Header,
When we In the bleachers and we in the)
grandstands '
And all the tired, mud-splattered players "
Must begin all over again, ' '
Forgetting the old percentages '
And the billions of runners lost in tha ''
dirty, pool at Second? 1
What's the score, Satan?
Benjamin De Casseres, in the Nev? York'
Tribune.
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Making the Demon Disgorge y
Prohibition has been postponed tllj July 1,- ..
1919, in order to Bave $900,000,000 in liquor S
taxes required by the forthcoming revenue,
bill. This Is common sense, making the devil
aisgorge nerore shooting him. Only a fool
would kill the demon that lays the golden
egg. New York Evening Post.
A Fine Job for Efficiency ''
Hlndenburgx has quit figuring on gettiror '
, ta .iiu ucbuu ucvuL.ns uii nis time to v-w.
Press. '
Superfluous Information
We don't favor a tax on summer furs. Th
furs are a sufficient affliction In themselves. '
Houston Post.
Idea of Insinuating He's Old!
This may be the day of the young man."
but Just look at Uncle Joe Cannon. Charles
ton News and Courier. '
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