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A- PhlliJflpWi, Mendar. 5rplrmbrr 9. 1"I9 - HOG ISLAND AND HUMAN FRAILTY fTlHE chronic Inability of mm to cut hh acts to tho nieasmc of his Ideals l" Characteristically (llsplajecl In the redcr.it Investigators' report on Hob Island. Wasto and extraa&anco In Rotting tinder naj are charged. The chiefs of the huge un tfertaklnir point to the magnitude of their achievement and tho necessity of turning eut vessels as quickly a possible. Explanation rather than ethical Justifi cation of their acts Is thereby offered The wish that better ecuscs for mistakes could have been offered is general. Only n the assumption, hoeer, that man Is j a perfect being, and that hence I1I3 co orainatcd efforts shjuld bo ulthout fluw, can tho superb accomplishment at the world's greatest ship construction plant be denied frank and generous praise The errors committed -ncic largely born ef the somewhat llambojant and also almost bojlsh enthusiasm which regarded Uncle Sam as tho modern prototype of Aladdin's slae of the Limp and oor- palnted the capacity of a giant enterprise. The announcement that Hog Island Is s,, unable to?llo up to its schedule calling k for the. delivery of forty-eight vessels by ' New 1'ear's docs, nt mean that tho ship- cvyard has failed, but stmolv that cicn the -.. Mn4 UIA... - . 1 I... 'jffik ,'the sweep of the human imagination. , mo iorty-eignt contntiutions to tho Jricrldge of boats, it is authoritatively said, frsk.1 irill bo launched before 1919. Tiint nc- JK-- compllshment will bo stupendous, unprece- &., 4ented. It is a pity that any of its luster S, anoum ever nave been dimmed by a fan ia elful nicture. 3' ' is regrettable, too, that blunders now fc-'fejj happily rectified should hae been com- ttttfd at the outset. Hysteria ocr Hog Island conditions today Is wholly unwar ranted. A good way to cool off Is to recall those pessimistically cheery and incontro vertible lines: As It was In the beg.tmlng, Is today oftlclal sinning, And shall be forever more Of course, there arc men who will tr to drink enough between now and July of next year to do them for the remainder of their lives. HIGH TAXES TO BE PERMANENT TITR. KITCHIN has prophesied that the " annual budget of the United States Will be J4.000.000.000 for many years after -ihe war and that the Government will 'Dave to continue to levy heavy taxes on rtyro "e, wealth of the nation to meet Its bur- B .. "4n. EJifiai. It has been Known that tho burden of cmwj; ,jUie war qodi wouiu welgn Heavily for PJfVHiany years, but Mr. Kltchin is the first KiAijt n a position of authority to makq a oennito estimate or the tax bills of tho I'M. """"" SfiiL'Vi Hera am hla flrrnrr.s! Trttproef nn tUn &,7war debt, $1,250,000,000: maintenance of 1VIC"Y ' --a- ....w.v . v... "S(5 lne army ana navy, i,uuu,uuu,uuu; pen- iT7 aions ana insurance, i,uuu,uuo,ouu; oral- narv exnenscs of the flnvprnmpnt J7f,n - kt "00.000. Total, $4,000,000,000. KI AIr. Kitchln's figures mtv be a llttln Zl'th hlffh. lint If th war i nntli-ini tnrt 9KS " ..o-. yjwan Is now expected they aro more likely jv . to be a little too low. We are doomed to R".j!'an era of big tax bills. Tho necessity of jj'a. ' raising enormous and unprecedented sums iSf in times of peace ought to develop some the monnv bv a. mnrn rnultnbln dlntrlh.t. ', V , ot tho burdens than Is provided for "in tne war-revenue uiu now before Con--,-t i iress. KStoj inose urcams 01 nun victory are in- MjtitB t alsputably all boche. S.S.' MMIN.NL.b Uf 1'HUIIIUniUN K (wT"HE order of Mr. Hoover closing all K'n'i.'J'"'' breweries 'on December 1 and forbid. L.J'i. . .. ... ..... . . ... 'sng mem 10 ouy any more grain win X'aKobably result In a beerless country be- fetV tno end ot tlls car T,1 ust"'lnff r spirits was stopped long ago. When Hoover was asked earlier In the year cut off the grain supply of the brewers 1 refused on the ground that there woull nothing but spirits for the use of those wanted alcoholic stimulants'. Tho age of fuel and food grains and the sgestion of the railroads are given as reasons for the new order. I.TjThe Benate has passed the rider to the cultural appropriation Din lormamng . Hi MBsthl mlri of spirits after July 1 of next vetr. and the House Is expected to acres '' tho changes made In It since that Way passed tnc amendment, originally, "he? Hoover order and this amendment rv' Iwyi-make the nation absolutely dry after Hy 4 -DClwecil Hiui uuic uiiu 111a ciiu the current year spirits and wine will tke only alcoholic drinks on sale. In Interval the Legislatures of a ma-- ot the States will bo holding their sessions and an attempt will be to bring about thp adoption of tl.o aiaendment to the Constitu- tlUa'atUnipt should succeed the ImtiiviiiUj: drx. . . i 7 V"l r v THE EDUCATIONAL CRISIS The Drafting of the Colleges for War Work Increases Responsibility of Public Schools rpHE responsibility of attendinf? to tho nonmilitary education of tho youth will rest almost entirely upon tho public schools until peace is made. This is made certain by the ordor of tho War Department taking over 400 of tho colleges as military training schools. Only the smaller institutions nic omitted from tho order. Tho private piepara tory schools will continue to supplement tho work of the public schools in giving instruction in nonmilitary subjects. As all tho youths eighteen yenrs old and over capable of serving in the army or navy are to bo drafted there will bo few of college age left to attend the colleges not included in the War Depaitment plans. No more serious crisis ever threatened the cducntional authorities of the coun try. Higher education on the old-fashioned lines is to be virtually abandoned if wc read nright tho indications of tho times. Highly specialized technical edu cation is to take its place. Tho Univer sity of Pennsylvania and Temple College, right here at home, are to become schools for tiaining officers and subject to the rules of a military camp. There is to be no more Greek and Latin. Literature and nrt nre to be given up. History, save as it is necessary for the instiuction of an officer, is to be ignored. Tho sciences, with the exception of physics ami chemis try, aio to be treated as if they were of no importance; nnd sociology, which has only recently found a place in the coui--es of study, is to he forgotten for tho time being. And so on through the long libt of subjects. All this mrans that for a year or moie that is, so long as the war con tinues tho work of preparing young men for civil leadership by tiaining their minds is to bo abandoned by the colleges in order that conditions may be estab lished under which the work can be re sumed without danger of interruption through the ambitions of any nation to dominate the world. But the woik of education must con tinue in order that young men and young women may be prepared to enter tho colleges when they resume their bioador functions, and also In order that the boys and girls who will never go beyond the grammar school or the high school may be taught what they need to know. The public schools will find it difficult, however, to do their work. Those in this city, which open today, find themselves short of teachers. Many instructors have resigned to do war work at better pay. Tho men of military age arc liable to be di af ted into the army and there is little disposition to giant them exemption on the ground that they aio engaged in an essential industry. It is assumed that their places can bo filled by men not fitted for militaiy service or by women. The Board of Public Education will do its best to solve the problems forced upon it by the extraordinary conditions. The parents who understand the conditions will be chary of criticism if they find that their children aic crowded into larger classes than usual and if they Icain that teachers without the equip ment of those who have gone into other woik arc called upon to give instruction. Such parents will do their utmost to assist the school authorities ami it is likely that some of them who have had teaching experience will offer themselves to the board, that they may thus do their part in winning tho war and in keeping the educational machinciy running. It must not bo allowed to slow up. The city owes it to the children and to itself that it continue the training of those who are to bo the leudcrs in its public and business life and that no child who seeks a place in tho schools should be excluded through lack of room, for part of a day at least, or through lack of teachers. Food etpo'-ra aro often painful, hut thoe on Lehigh and South College avcnueH nro productive only of patlsfictlon and healthier pocketbooks A WAR DRAMA IN PREPARATION rpHR report that but 7 per cent of tho - American troops sent to Franco are now engaged in the most activo battle zono unmistakably indicates that the great est reserve nrmy In the history of warfare is in process ot formation. Britain nnd Kranro aro chiefly responsible for tho present magnificent victories. Meanwhile our men are landing In Kuropo In numbers far superior to tho aggregato of weekl or monthly arrival", at Kills Island or Castle Garden In tho dajs when tho human tide flowed the other way. The 400,000 United States soldiers reaching Franco In August surpasses tho total of lighting men of Germany's 1920 clats of recruits It Is idle to deny the significance of Koch's present deposition pf the Allied forces. Tho husbanding of Amerlacn strength Is evidently deliberate nnd pur poseful. It would bo presumptuous to forecast when tho curtain will rise on a new act of the greatest drama In history. But the feeling that an epic scene is being rehearsed Is difficult to suppress. It begins to look as though the school geographies would Boon have to enlarge their chapter on Imaginary lines enough to admit Hindenburg's. THE LAST RESORT fTUIE reported mysterious departure from - Belgium of tho German general staff suggests that It has gone to the bad Cad Klssingen, Bad Xauhclm or Bad Ifomburg. It Is hard to Imagine that It could be con tented at any dissimilar places In the fatherland. Furthermore, it needs a cure, and although that was not attained in Spa, the daddy ot all health resorts the world over, the now discomfited "Piff-PaffrPoiifs" of the Hun high command unquestionably appeased themselves with high hopes and delightful 8urreusiUj fer many BoatRi i -EVENlM PUBLIC !fiEDGlPtellJADBLHIA, M0NJ3&Y, "SEPTKto;S4iv k. '. onal crisis inwUw..ohc.oneof th.n,ostch.rn.'imTrr 1 IZZU "NOT DOT YOU AIN'tlN PERFECT' lng nnd storied spots In all Flanders. It Is stimulating to speculate on what tho spirit of Spa, wcro It vocal, would say of Its vanished and unwelcomo Intruders. Tho vencrablo little town, which demon stratcd far back In tho eighteenth cen tury how tho pursuit of health and pleas uro could bo profitably combined, long since gave Its name to nil analogous places, Saratoga Is a opt; so Is Vichy, so is Hot Springs and so is even a soda fountain. Those, however, like Homburg and N'nu helm, are In -a sense parvenus. Apoplectic British colonels nnd dashing French offi cers of tho old reglmo tasted the delights of effervescing wnters, cnslnos nnd gaming tiblcs In the most comfortable place In Belgium. Under tho control of tho Teu ton general staff, which, significantly, mindful of Koch's progress, is Just lcported to have moved out for destination un known, nil tho old easygoing trndltlons of Spa must have been sorrily outraged. Its releaso from crown princelings and their upstart kind is a pertinent Index that the Hindenburg lino has been tan gled. Indeed, there is soothing warranty for tho hope that so far as liberty-loving lands arc concerned the Hun chieftains have abandoned their last resort. The land of the free was expanded by two thousand square miles when Foch re Kilned that much of Trance during tho last month TAMM NY IS TAKING HEART OF HOPE piIi:NDS of Alftcd i: Smith, the Tam--- mnnv cindldite for the New York gov pinoihslp, are tejolclng over the Indorse ment of Mr. Lansing, tho Secretary of Snte. They aro saving that tho national Administration favors tholi man. An 1 they expect the lndorhcmcnt by Mr. Lan sing to be seconded by Sccietary RedHelJ, of tho Department of Commerce, and by Secretary McAdou, of tho Treasury De partment, who Is also general director of railroads. All three of these Cabinet mem bers nre New York Detnocnts. Whether Mr. Lansing spenks as tho rroy of tho President does not appear. It may ho that Tammam will have to get along without tho foinial approval o,f Its candidate by Mr. Wilson And It may be, nl, that it will havo to bo content with out the public appioval of Mr. McAdoo, for the general director of raihoads has called upon all men connected with the operation of the toads to refrain from political activity ot every kind. Thcro are men inclined to think that what Is sauce for the rest of the flock Is sauce for the bellwether. It's all In the gicat liberty trust. The Trench get Ham and the American army is coming fonvntd with the beans VON TIRPITZ'S LUCK Tp.XKMPTION from responsibilities Is tho '-J one gieat piiv'llegu of demotion. The raso of Admlial von Tiipltz causes one to lament tint tititli. Our only regiet con cerning the piesent glotles of the Amcil. cm shipping situation, In which losses have touched a new low mark and pro duction for the- month of August sets a wot Id record, Is that tho discredited dean of sea pirates tan duck the blame1 for one of the bitterest exhibitions of frustrated hopes In the Hun's war annals. Tlueo hundted and forty thousand dead weight tons, divided among sltj -eight new delivered ships, tell the unpiecedented story of Amcilcan consti uctioji work during tho last month. Out submarine losses during the last three months wcie less than seven-tenths of one per cent. Von Tirpltz, "snaked down," In the lan guage of Huck Finn, out of a high place, "can pass the buck" ronrernlng this sub ject to other unfortunate compitiiots Our present triumph was so Inevitable that we must bewail his pnsent obscuiity. We can't help 1 eventing any wry pleasure, which the deluded boaster may take in unshoulderlng the blame for disaster. Only the Iiuivp deserve the Fere and, therefore, the Trench nro richly and unques tionably entitled to it HOHENZOLLERMSM AT STARE THE same cables that boretho report of the speech of Chancellor von Hcrtllng to tho franchise lcform committee of the Prussian upper house also bore the report that tho Chancellor has resigned "on ac count of bad health." I As to franchise reform, he told the com mittee that it was of the first importance and that those whojjie-'opposed to it must give way, for thowwas involved in It "the protection of the most precious ti ensures of our political life the dynasty and tho crown " When von Kuehlmann said that there could be no peace by force of arms, but that It must be sought by negotiation, his resignation followed soon after. Can it bo that there is any connection between von Hertllng's remarks about the peril to tho dynasty and the crown and his reported ictircment? Whether thcre'is or not, we shall know within a j ear or so whethet the Germans think that there Is anv thing more precious to them than the fate of the Hohenzollerns. Vhat with the coming Cold Comfort ban on breweries and the spirit of drought In congressional legislation, It Is becoming increasingly evident that the "nips" of next winter will consist exclusively and gratui tously of Jack Frost's Now that beer Is to be Not Morh eliminated there may ' be a little comfort for Its admirers in the knowledge that it orig inated In Germany. The time has come for Doubtful the Kaiser to predict that he will eat his Christmas dinner In Berlin. Germans of the Polyanna temperament are entitled to any pleasure they may take In the' thought that as their hold on the Brley Iron mines grows Insecure the need of making war crosses correspondingly falls off. Foch has inade the "r" in September suggestive of something else besides oysters and given new emphasis to its presence In "run." Berlin, which now organizes Itself under ' laws- relating to a state of siege," displays a keener gift of prophecy than at any, time 'since the war began. la. . THE STILUSMALL VOICE Truth, , "VTOT long ago we remarked as follows: - irftcncrcr any one urges us to telt the truth tie always trcptu that the truth is so inaccurate. Several of our readers may have been grieved by this flippancy, so wo Intend to amplify the thought a little. yoU" have seen' James Montgomery - Klagg's recruiting poster entitled "Tell That to the Marines." It shows a red haired man tearing off his coat in anger ntter reading some news about German atrocities. A few weeks ago Mr. Klagg made a large copy of the painting, working In public outside a prominent building in Now York. Tho incident aroused much interest nnd was freely commented on In the press. Two of tho accounts that wo have seen of this episode havo Interested us a good deal. One was In a Now York journal, which stated that when Mr. Klagg arrived on the scene, to do his al fresco painting he drove up in his limousine. The other account, which appeared in Philadelphia, must have come by word of mouth, for it ran thus: "Mr. Klagg worked outside tho Metropolitan Museum beforo an admiring audience for days till it (tho poster) was finished." Now for'tho "truth." Mr. Klagg drove up not In his limousine, but In a filvvcr belonging to the marine corps. His own cars aro laid up for tho duration of the wii. The building where this took place was the New York Public Librarj, not tho Metropolitan Museum. The length of time occupied by the work was three hours. These facts are given us by Mr. Klagg himself, nnd upon our word we don't know whether we ought to believe him or not! THAT Is whv we ought to be a little slow In believing that Lcnlno is dead, or that he was shot, or that there even Is such a pei son. Wo ought to be a little cautious in accepting all we hesr about the bolshcvlkl, nnd depth bomb", and tho American airciaft program. One day we are told that General March savs there aro plenty of American nlrplanes in Fiance. The next day it Is said that March never made such a statement. It Is not nccessarj to ascribe these canards to Get man propaganda. Human beings are constitutionally inaccurate, perfect only In Imperfection. Let us rejoice that this is so, for It helps to make life enter taining. Rumors, like time-tables, are subject to change without notice, nnd hu manity should not be held responsible for tho failure of fact and hearsay to make connections as advertised. THEUnronn we say that truth Is so Inaccurate We don't trust ourself to tell the truth, why should we trust any one el-e? Application for Vacant Apartment Dear Socrates I know of an Idea that, having reached matuilty, .would like to settle down In ono of those empty mentel apartments thnt ou advertised for rent. The Idea Is of a patriotic pattern. It was born in the Country and reared amidst ideal surroundings It has alwavs had an abundance of good things to eat and lotR of fresh air, so H is neither narrow- minded nor flat chested. Your would be tenant reached manhood when its origina tor was confined to bed and couldn't go to war for reason of rheumatism and a heart condition. . Tflc Idea is to write dally a small article concerning the trials and triumphs of a good American, who'nlmost bolls over with a surplus of "Win the war" and "Kill the Kaiser" spirit. The gentleman could be middle-aged with a limited sagacity ftn business and an cces of avoirdupois. A flat surface on the under side of his pedal extremities could be the cause of his civilian caste He could labor In the vine jard of his back garden: pass a gasless Sunday In patriotic pursuit: sell Liberty Bonds to his nelghbois; every day accom plish Komething to help send the light of liberty to the slavery darkened corners of the earth. JAMCS J. DEHHAN. We often wonder what they think of the war In Tibet? Tic ndiancc 0 the British under Gen eral Home Enlist be particularly annoying to Ludcndorff. It is Uhc being pored by an infuriated dilemma. Count Beventlow, the fire-eating mili tarist, now asserts that Germany has never betn inspired by the ambition of conquest News item. Swing Iteventlow, sweet chariot! Hindenburg tells the Germans that they ought to be t'ery grateful to him for short ening his battle line so nicely. Put that chirt fool them Indefinitely. "What hap pens when you try to shorten a straight liner When the Hun general staff left Spa, bound for some nice cool Dead Letter Office, two special trains were required to transport Its documents. Evidently some of the Bosner manuscripts and Iron Cross citations must have been left behind. Boy, Page Matter Shakespeare The French are within ten miles of Laon. Laon, Macduff, And damn the Hun that first cries Hold, enough! Hello, Boston! Printer's ink seeping from Boston Inti mates that a local board in that city has been told by Provost Marshal Crowder that "persons writing poetry" are engaged in an essential industry and are not subject to draft. Very sad j nothing said about bean bakers. But If poets are eliminated how will tho Back Bay regiments be recruited up to full strength? If that draft board will take a friendly tip, It had better exempt only poets making a living by their poetry. That won't be nearly such a blow to Boston man power. Aier the closing of the breweries on December 1 the infiltration 011 the ucstem front icUl have an added poipnance. The Hun general staff hits left Spa to give the Rhine tke once over, I . . , . . . tsOCRATW, ,,1 NOT DOT YOU AIN'tlN PERFECT "rmt- v 7 W .rK s, "" Vi .. -' f ' .i.t . .alslsMr -V Ui'iM ..'. cL 'it.'J-rfit..5 -VjlJi. 1 1 r V lH"?f 9 t V tKtFtt -JsiaCklxtsV. H4M3B2M'aa9't25gHW -"V 1 f WAR THRILLS AT HOME Here is a Broken Song of Railroading in the Day of the Ladies To the Editor of the Evening PiiHle ledger. Sir: MOST of what ou hear About tho wild mistakes of The sweet joung things who sell v Tickets On Mr. McAdoo's railroads Isn't true Through the pains and travail Of others The girls have learned to sell Railroad tickets and to Waft jou along to where jou would go Deftly enough What I should like to cry From the houstops Are the woes ot those They practiced on When they weio green At the business. a MEN of faith eager for Jerscs-City Were cast out at a place called Chicago, A wild community Populated chiefly by ( Policemen. Some that sought to go to Kokomo Went trustingly awuy to Keokuk, and some Who, for unlmaglnablo reasons, Yearned for Keokuk, Found themselves, all at once. At Kankakee and bide there still, Cursing the das Upon which they were born!" Returning travelers tell of these Uncomforted Participants nt Armageddon; Of wraith-like men Who walk wild in strange places and shed The lonely tears of strangers In strange? lands. One moment only have they of Joy. When tho name of Wtlhelm is told The cracked, and hideous laughter of them Trails In dim streets and dies In the far byways That are their wailing places. Mothers draw their children In swiftly And close tho doors. THERE was a man. who, Fresh from dalliance With the Grand High Awful. Bo Of his lodge, ' Arrived, ere dawn, At Broad Street Station To beseech the gentle creature at a window For a ticket to Camden. a 44TVY iV TUNNEL?" said a sweet soprano olco, And golden echoes Let him know that the cost Was Twenty-eight dollars. - ' a YEARS passed. (f ALASj" whispered the suppliant at last jv. From the deeps of reverj, "How time changes all things!'' . ' In the days of my youth Camden was but three cents away And tunnels Were not! , Still, if the Government ' Wants twenty-eight dollars To take me to Camden It shall have the money. TMa t ymV j JJfi L' J-. -T-. "ti.,r"' AND Aln now, amid tho piled woes the seventh circle . Of a light lunch hell nt Camden, North Carolina, Labors this misfortunate man seeking By elemental toll to find means to return To his home and loved ones In Camden, New Jersey. a T1LSEWHKRE. too, -J At Missoula, Montana, and Butlers Point, And nt Memphis and Tunkhannock Are crowded Woeful men who didn't want to go To those places at all Martis were they to the causes of Democracy. And what I want to know Is. when Tho hat will he passed to return them To" where they should have stayed Till the trouble'was o'er! C, R. Philadelphia, Sepcmber 7. THE READER'S VIEWPOINT A Call for Airplanes To thc'Vdltor of the Evening Public Ledger: .Sir Aji order dated Washington, August 17, Issued by General Crowder, calls for men from eighteen Sftates for special aero nautic service Let us for a moment or more consider how we can enlist our efforts for "special aeronautic Forvlce." Let every one of 11s (not women and children; we do this to save them) open our hearts iitul pocket books, nnd gave a modest dollar for the eoiistiuctlon of a fleet of airplanes The cry was ships, ships, then moro ships this is being accomplished. Now let the ciy bo planes, planes, then more planes. This may be accomplished for the small amount of $1 per man Let each citizen take this matter up properly or ganized name the machines after his own town or city, say, Philadelphia, Philadel phia 2d nnd 3d, so that we may follow their great work and movements, na wo do our boys at the front. Let them be operated by men from the same, city or town, ' How proud and honored the lads that man their ow.11 city's machine! What a stimulus to our patriotism ! Shipbuilders, munition workers and all who are working for the cause of democracy, think with what snmii effort and how easy It would bo to ralso $l,000,00p In Philadelphia alone at $1 per man. I trust this will meet the eye jf mert who will take tho matter up. become Interested and consider its possibilities. Bonds and stamps aro nn Investment, Don't stop buy Ing. But remember,'' this would be a gift to the nation to help' win the war. "Procrastination Is the thief of time." Go to it, 'men. Let us do it now. E. QRJFF.IN SMITH. Philadelphia, September 7. Appreciation From New York To the Editor of the Evening Public Ledger: Sir Allow me, a New Yorker, to compli ment ou on the issue of jour fine paper September . The splendid letter of Philip Glbbs would have been butchered -in a New York paper, and muft other fine matter Intelligently dealt with by jou would likely have given place n a New York paper to a lot'of slush. .u,.d, uiiii,iciDiiiifi lu uiiii-r man sensation alists. I really don't Include the New York Sun in the above, but am convinced that, as a whole, you have "it on any New York eve ning paper by a wide margin. If resided In or near Philadelphia I would read your paper dally. It's a fine, high-class, real American paper. a O, New York. September B. ,,' Coins Down A 1000-foot droil or Iep by parachute from an airplane traveling ninety miles an hour la reported from an American camp la Texas, which Indicates that the parachute, which is a-good deal older yian the airplane. km na thai avi.ailaa.a.al wl... m . . r.rLL ', , loronio.uau Sy;'-.. :ClCV TiEXlTH J-- ' "i ttEAlTTH - -,. "ii, ' r-i-.-'-.r.' -a-.-i:8."'. 3SPK. AUXPOILUSs p OH, THE wind blows sweet o'er the hills" , ot Kiance, -And quiet shadows call The tiled pollus where the poppies dance 'I And tho fairy whispers fall. 1 Long has the wind blown sweet and fair ' Kor the tired pqllu's return; "a He has come-i-ibut 'to kiss and be gone again ' . To where the star shells burn. 11 But the whispering winds from our own) far hills . J Have called to us" sweet nnd low, "By tho dream of homo that jour longj night fills, " Stand and destroy the foe! . "Let the pledge of youth from the western j shores, ( Given to France in her woe, i Be the bolt and the bar of freedom's doors, That all of the world may know." j '! So wo shall stand as do Krances own, Though time without count we pay, j j That Pietre may dream by bis hearthstone. Though ours may be far away. Kace to (he dawn, through the fiery night' i, We shall stand by the line to the end! 1 Kor the worst that the gods can do is to writer "He gave his all for a friend." ,c . Stars and Stripes. The Longs in War ;' '? Ae ttin mnrltm r-nmu tina In tin rnmnlvminF 4e A !..... e AnA ..ii. -n .. ....... nf n.1 I If between nineteen and twent according 4r 2 olTicl.il figures, It Is one of the best examples' ; of the part which bojs nre taking In this war. It even enlists- boys younger than $ eighteen to the number of 1 per cent, .each ' f 1 u a tif . ftfinf f.i."-iliWr ' JT .v rTt-. .. jKjr,4-j3rnle'Tamtt9m "l "n'll " at.il-! J 1 11 fiaiimni"1"" ..1. ?)..-. .. ' - -isj. 11- . '" !,! case being made, the subject of special action,: 'I Only a few dajs ago there was accepted a' tall jouth of fifteen, Andrew Kennedy Long.?' hecatise. he. could not wait loneer to live UD' to his family traditions as a fighting man.?ej He naked to enlist in tne name i tapiani'v. A ii .1 row Vpnnpiiv Konir of tne Revolution. of V Colonel Andrew Kennedy Long of the War of ( v 1812, of another colonel Andrew tvennewr, N I.onc of tho Mexican War, of Colont! An-' ? drew Kennedy Long, IV, who Berved hr the) -9 Civil War, and in the name of his father,- av Lieutenant 11. u. r. i.ong, 01 mo Dimmu-; -ini.rkin V:ir. Sn he was sent to Paris -C Island to be tfalned for the usual six months t of Intensive drill. within eignt or ninety montns ne is imeiy to no 111 trauw. 1 $ YorK Times. . j What Do You Know? T v- tTf r-i 1. Who la the present United States. AHonusr T-aanAvei.1 m t. What la s relfsta? " 'i vl 3. What Is the plural ef the ward tersvphT -j? . Whot la th capIUl of-BaionyT ..B. In addition to Freneh. tna innaoiianna sjrvsK ths.nsrthnreaiern part of JftV- r 5 native lanauaae of their own. What W.ftJ this speech called? 4Ntf3 a Ha.. Juu atlii ararat Wsa flmtf tffr 1. What ja un InUtlloT u S. Mho waa Hitting Bull? ' a Uhat U th lilcliMt mountain In tho viofl4ti3 10. lho (.aid. "nod made him and therefore lttJ him pasa for a man"? '-Ja . 7T...J.J. ..!- va Answers 10 aaiuruaj a ul tlti 1. Cambrle t.akra Ha name froaa tha town ejj'j Cumbral. toward which Halt's forees r.$ now drlvlni. j . 2. Kdxard 1). White, or Louisiana. Is CMr J us. jm r 4t 4H ftnltAri Atafta. 1 ..SAfl m H k.AA u.lll'h lA amai. trM laa nade In strata I different eqlora and flavors and, ntorIl.7''! orlzlnatod In .Naples. . rr.'-iS 4. A nrnn J'nr. oeiura soon after the moon's him and third quarters, In which the wasaa? levtl Is at Its lowest S. Samho l'ania la the nmusln riitl,-!il.mlttri.ui wrvsnl a noiel it taST. rt In (ertantea'a celebrated nm name. .-. carta" la French for "hr tha ' i aeiecien wt in -' r fcJ- M. Aiutojo Franco la the, pen naroa of .viaiaaji ; TMbnult. ono nf tlio mast dltliuuUsSS ' nrltars of tho dor. i -.1 ."-1 0. Lord. Heading. la the present Hrltlsb A dor (a the I'alted. State...., 4. , U. Xltoro an.lwalra aM.e'Msf fM a. "A la unci amine to , meat seiecien wi in N diner from the bill of fare. In rontra-r ' distinction to one arrnnsed.ut a nxatl TK lijr tlie hotel or restanrnet keeper. jAr;' 1. na.H.H .... .1 w.w.v . .. .- i'RRL fafjBS. 7 e-8 ' 1 11 fii a VA i-asssp wfisaanBBBBW'r - v t : .'-A' KrfiA . 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