m imM yts$W ' ' r r. ti ai.r. i -i a &-.$ Kc'; -i3-, -ft r- ?' .-i !BV3EN1NG TUBHC LEDGER-PHlLAjqELPHlA, WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER" 11 1918 v v & Vrl 1 1 - .i ling public fieogec THE EVENING TELEGRAPH FtiBLIC ledger company Cnrla H. Iaidlnston, Vice President; John C. IptM, Secretary and Treasurer: Philips Collins,. MM B. Williams, John J. Spurseon, Director! , 5Y EDITORIAL BOAllDl !t Clans It. K. Ccbtib, Chatrmtn PtfLftp K. BM1LBT .EdHor pnsssssvj. jmaiv ajis. . .ucneroi uusiness Aisnsrer Mthsd d.llr at Polio I.anoaa nulldlnc. independence Square, Philadelphia t jBSTiiL.,(..ijroaa nnu cnestnut wirreis no Cm.... Prtas-Vnlon llulldlnc Toil.....,, 200 Metropolitan lower ti.i.. . 401 I'ord liuiicunis OH. 1008 Knllerton HuIMIiir 0....... 1202 Tribune llulldlnc J NEWS BUREAUS: iMiiioton Brsriu. . 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M tfiLNUT KtSTOF, MAIN' JOOO tT Aidrtss all commu(cnt(ons to Eienlno Public xajjcr marrrnarnce aauarr, i-nuaaFipnia, w : 7. : 7 i Member ot me Associated rress THB ASSOCIATED PRESS ft rxclti- -feeti enfMcd to Me use tor republication &, oil netc dispatches credited to it or not otnertetSe credited lit this paper, ana auo ptjii local neics published therein. rf XII riohts ot i cmtblication ot special dls- fpmtches herein are also reserved. P, rkUjJ.lpKI., TOdnnd.r. Srplfmbtr 11. 1918, i& xno use run them OUPERINTENDBNT BERKY, of the It? kj. rlk.. Ult U 1-..... l,.l.. ...... r-tvvtnH A s.iijr linn, jiaa uuilicu -ji-,11 ttrcu uciiimii . flags which he found in the stock of na tional banners used for decorating the m- building on festal occasions. Philadelphia has no use for the flag ot if.'tho present German State. When the German people enter a league Profanations, set up a decent Government raiid kick out all traces of the existing fl dynasty and the existing order their colors finjy tie again seen in civilized countries 'And It Is probable that by that time the i. r . .n, ,.- it--,- . i lucnuiuia win lime men prevent uanner if "as greatly as the rest of the world hates tV-U for the things It has symbolbed. With each day of their existence Rhine whines grow Increasingly bitter , umiTTiir maiivp nrcTTtT iMniriTi's m T-, .uu.....u ..uouv. .w.v.-.. (? fPHE only doubtful congressional district - J- In MAlnn was th Kpcnnil. whloli lmH Ft. r . . ... ' . ,,. uUCCJi lejii caeiuru uiitrt iiiii jjuur iu 1911 kibv Daniel J. SIcGlllicuddv. a Democrat, of Ptlkwlaron. He was defeated at the 1916 f; election by Wallace H. White by a plu- fialy of 467. The two men were contes- nts again this year. White Is reelected y a plurality of L'50(J. Thus the Maine delegation remains solidly Republican. Gains were made by the Republican can- Rr'didates In three of the four districts. The wfLVtluUftua.ltl nuuac luic lui ic cici.iiuii nui ticed was elected two years ago by a "Vity of about 6000. rp? Mr. Wilson cut the normal Republl- rA mtnritv trr n nrdaWldnttul ra nrllila tt -e than 30,000 to about C00O In 1916, eittis cold comfort for the Democrats in f(tlw,e!exton figures this jear Their hope Siof winning back one of the districts has one glimmering, and the rejection of "McGllllcuddy, one of the most popular "lam r nra ta 1m thn S2t fttt Viv nn Iniipon eaA ... ...C "". -. . .W.l. aaverse vote in an lnaustrmi aisinct, sug- fefwgests that the prospect for a Republican House of Representatives after March 4 is good indeed. 1 1 heart sick. 14 - m. OF COURSE! 'fPHE Senators from the cotton-growing iA States hae lodged a formal protest with raMHBi ivar 'inausines nuaru acainsL nnv fclfice-flxlng for cotton. his was expected. The cotton growers l?yraust be allowed to make all the profit "which war conditions make possible wlth- Pjaut any Interference by the Government. IThelr representatives In Congress hae (kept out of the revenue bill all forms of if taxation on the staple and they ha e levied fcrithe taxes on the industries and wealtli of Aho States In which the majority of the fvvatera are Republican. KjThe cotton men see an opportunity to rauxt war proms ana u is not to oe denied r.thHi If their representatives in Congress lhave their way, !?; AIt looks as If we may have to toast the Bins; neroes tn grape Juice : feCAN LONGWORTH BE MISTAKEN? VTICHOLAS LONGWORTH, one of the f. ..4y.w..- t,...uv.. vt mo ivu-n aiiu ua Committee, is dissatisfied with ,'ma'ny features of the revenue bill. He frwaraed Congress yesterday that many of s" Mij w.w ,i.c..i. ,,cc. hiic utilizer iVmi", and he said that the purpose of the "is "to raise revenue and not to re inlze society." KSw -. u. ,, .. vrriT l,ul "u ouic liiui. ir. iungwortn i-'V s.1 . . ., . . . - f,li.rigni. unere is a scnooi ot politicians Hhlch advocates th9 remaking of society rtiax laws which snail upset an ot ex- lag, business arrangements and cus- .- And the title of the measure which rLongworth is discussing Is "A bill to revenue, ana tor otner purposes. sWt the clause, "For other purposes," enstve enough to include the re- tion of society? '- ,- JUata of men had to ask their wives how tMy'' are. '!voltif Tcuivr A DDrprnruT ,f BOAnUliliJUIlIU t iilbUl.UI.llJ 1 3 HHU new ucAiiea wuii;ii iiie uermann f IWY forced out of the Russians provide 4Ula shall pay to Germany 6,000,000,- rKS, or aDout fi.suu.uuu.uuu, to rec- her for the German property de- land confiscated by -the revolu- If Germany thinks It is proper ia to Indemnify her for Injuries C, by German property owners, il... .. .. !... iU- Tn. Allied BIJV Bd 1JICII Jlia JIJlCJJiO SltJld Indenjnlty iiom her to recom- 'French and Uelglans for the intonly- destroyed by the Ger- p if deliberately confiscated and iBwtnapyT r jmMMtt which no THE SEAL OF FREEDOM The CcUure of Tltirtcen Million Americans Will Be Pledged Thereby When They Register Tomorrow T"UIE covenant with liberty which thir teen million registrants will make to morrow will be virtually identical in spirit with a voluntary pledge. Under the popular agreement wheicby democracies are maintained the form of a mandate gives it an aspect of com pulsion, actually not inherent in its origin. Thus the draft machinery, with its peiemptory call and its penalties for delinquency, is in the final and true analysis an expression of the nation's will. It exists today by reason of a manifestation in the aggregate of those very sentiments and passionate convic tions which prompt any individual citizen to volunteer for service. .4s representatives of the people, not cik their mastets, did Congress and the P evident pass the two great conscript tiov ach. Enfranchised Americans act ing in mass formation are the dictators of their country's destinies. Channels for the expression of ideals, purposes and feelings are, moreovei, by no means confined to the election booth. The terrific impetus of the majority opinion is heeded at all times. It was lecognized when the diaft legislation of 1918 was put through. The chief criticism on last month's proceedings in the capital was lelative to so-called "delay." The oice of a vol unteeiing nation was one of urgency. Its demand for a draft system was in spired by the richly warranted belief in its practical efficacy. The solemnity and spiritual beauty of tomorrow's national scene are therefore unsullied by any factor uncongenial to democracy. Germany will misundei stand it, of course. It is natuial for her to interpret a draft as originating in vir tually an arbitral y fiat. Her blindness to the lessons of Ameri can history has bailed her from making highly significant distinctions on the sub ject of service calls. Had she kept pace i with civilization she would know that the attitude with which oui ancestois resisted conscription against their will in the pre-Reolutionary days and their lesentment of British navy drafting which provoked the War of 1812 and the eager piide with which the present call for registration is accepted lepresent, re spectively, the repugnance to tyianny and the zeal for freedom. Possibly if 'the central autociacy could leally comprehend the true mean ing of pledges of life and honor that will be made tomoirow she would cease at once to wage hei stupid war. As her befogged consciousness now forbids entrance of the luminous rays of reason, her intellectual cavern must be invaded by drumming guns. As the legions loom eastward the meaning of this registration, established by the con certed consent of those whom it concerns, will be made increasingly plain in Cen tral Europe. At home, whatever perplexity about the legistration may exist is relative almost wholly to details of its operation. Counting birthdays has been productive of errors by perfectly well intentioned patriots. The safe rule for the man who wants to know whether he is involved in the registration of tomorrow, September 12, is to determine whether he reaches the age of eighteen after September 12, 1918, or tho age of forty-six before September 12, 1918. If he does either he is not entitled to register. The legistrants will be composed of all men between the ages of eighteen and forty-five inclusive. The man who be comes eighteen tomorrow must sign up. The man who becomes forty-six tomor row must sign up. All men between those ages must be listed. It should be understood that these rulings apply only to men not previously registered. In addition to American cit izens, those men oi iginally hailing from a neutral nation who have declared their intention of becoming citizens must leg ister. Enrollment may be made at any bureau designated by the local board of the registrant's district. Regular polling places will be largely used, but in some districts there are other specified bu reaus. The complete list of registration plates has been published in the news papers. Any one in doubt as to where he should legister should go to the place where he votes or to any one of the local board offices for infoimation., The hours for registration are from 7 a. m. to 9 p. m. Petsons who are ill or out of town may register by mail. The question of exemption for those pcisons with dependents or engaged in tho officially specified necessary indus tries is one which will be considered when the questionnaires are distributed. Tomorrow's registration is not compli cated with those issues. It will be the simple and superb ratifi cation of the compact which the membeis of a democracy have made with one another for the preservation of their in alienable rights. The signing of thirteen million names may in a sense be regarded as a single majestic gesture whereby is affixed a gleaming seal on the imperishable docu ment of fteedom. It Is disquieting these das to observe how well women can do men's work. AMERICA'S EMOTIONAL BAROMETER AN" ENGLISH commentator In the Lon don Dally Chronicle writes In praise of the "quiet pride" with which the United States' Is. realizing thel responsibilities of the war. Another observer of the name nationality tells' hJ"Wgin in the Man- In which tho wur Is being viewed In Ameilca. It Is always Interring to hear more or less detached foreign opinions on one's native land. Heretofore American taste for them has been so keen that "What do ou think of us?" was the stock question with which visitors were bombarded be fore they had passed quarantine. In war time we have become less subjective. There Is such stupendous work to be done that tho quality ot Its performance has been concerning us more tljan the mood In which we act. The two recent English opinions how ever, arc so contradictor as to piompt attempts nt elf ailalsls. Are we Indeed ns temperamentallv o pi wrought as we arc painted on the one hand ot as stoical as wc are pictured on the other' Introspection is n ticklish business, but nonetheless It stems lenonable to assume that the comment on uur emotionalism was born of deductions largelv made some months ago. The Hist vvai deeds of Ameri can tioops and the energy of Liberty Loan campaigns had their nenous reactions. The present moment, when apparently, a dlma of the war is nt hand, unques tionabh reveals America In a mood of cooler determination than at any time Hlnce wp entered the conflict The test of our neives was never more drastic. Wc fate the largest of the drafts with the equipoise of a seasoned patriot ism Wo await a -etmlngly destined stmkr 1 more than 00 per cent of our tioops with hope, but without a sugges tion of old fashioned spicadeaglcism. Our spirits are buoyed 1j the Allies' superb victoiles, but attuned to a possible future clovver pair of fortune and adjusted to the concept of still moie monumental struggles laiiotionaliMii Is undoubtedly an Ameri can trail, and the .Mimchestei Guardian ui ilei's leiognitlon of It illsplajs n genuine knowledge of oui ihnrattci At the risk, however of boasting of thK new "re serve, we feel that if Americans at this Junctuie paute to rellect lhe cannot fall to note its presence How man millions of people have won ileied in vain what the automobile fiend does on a galess bilndav? rocH am) Tin: mmce of life rpiif -L va K war diama Is fast becoming a arletv show, and one of the most stim ulating ever plaved on the greatest tagc in histoiv. The tempo! aiv slowing up of Trench and BrilWh progiess enables Foch the superb staite manigei to put on an other act He reintroduces the Helgians Yeslcr dav thev plunged forward for two miles on n fiont extending the Allies' lines toward the North Sea The speciflcallv announced doctrine of ' Implacable pur suit" is seen to be of the widest applica tion and of the kind most embarrassing to a foe whose watchfulness would me to be aimost supei human to fotestall the indefatigable marshal s kaleidoscopic plans. His manner is familiar enough. He lilts a vulnerable head, aftei the Donnv brook Ttlr fashion, wherever he sees on. But the execution of his methods bristles with surprises. lie has seasoned civilisation with the hope-giving spice of life. Ver.v propel h the WlirreThej lilne State Department suggests that manv nf the reports fioin neutral countries, which tell vividly of levnlt and depalr in Germain, he taken with a grain of bait or not taken at nil The Garmans know thev nre beaten Hut alnce the war began thev have been supreme In one field, at leaut Tliej are the greatest and most astute liars In the known world And they may vet benent greatly If they can outwit their enemies When, toward the Unilonbtedlv end of the Wet Age, a j ear from now, cocktails cost $1 and highballs fetch nlnet cents each, in accoi dance with prophecies made jesterday b the demons custodians, the sort of man who likes to drink him self to death will be able lo sav some ai tlstlc things about the high cost of djlng Talaat Bey, the Turk lionbts ih Hun, has been teilmg the homefolks at Vienna that he expects peace in a short time. The cable doesn't sa.v whether Talaat Intends to shoot himself or take poison The big league play Oh, Of Coorse! ers who are in rebel lion for more wprld's series money will, of couie. be referred lo rooner or later by the sports wiiurs as Base jolhevlki. A glory substitute, too, is badly needed in Berlin Life presents unsurmountable problems thcFe das for those whose motto Is work or flight. " Because of the shortage of cooks In Bos ton, the society women there are preparing their own, meals And, of course, they hare found that paring beans Is difficult work It isn't t' i German border that is men aced, as General von Ardenne suggested jesterday to the quaking Berllners, It 8 the German Interior The masting retort that Judge Bonni well began to write to A Mitchell Palmer last Sunday has et to be published Is the Judge tuning up his courage or tuning up his vocabulary? The fleet corporation announces now that there ar ample ships for our troops Before long the problem will be one of sup. pljlng enough troops1 for the ships. Because Moses Urltzk) a soap-boxer In the Bolshevik councils at Petrograd, was killed by a counter-revolutionist, B12 men and women, mostly Innocent or any crime, were taken out under orders and slaughtered In the streets. And that Is what they call a government of Idealists! Senator Lewis was aboard the tra sport Mount Vernon when the Oerman U-boat man. aged to torpedo that vessel In tho dark. Can It be that the captain of the Mount Vernon neglected to compel Senator Lewis to douse li(dlamond and quiet the, thunderous waist- ooatHhj it nas Kc-pt t Hrl'i T jlfir s?. ; INDIRECT LIGHTING On Unanswering Letters rpHERE are a great many people who really believe In answering letters the day they are received, just ps there are people who go to the movies at 9 o'clock in the morning; but these people nre stunted and queer. H Is a great mistake. Such crass nnd breathless promptness takes away a great deal of the pleasure of correspondence The psychological didoes Involved In re ceiving letters and making up one's mind to answer them arc very complex. If the tan gled process could be clearly analyzed and Its component Involutions Isolated for In spection we might reach ft clearer compre hension of that cui lous bag of tricks, the efficient Masculine Mind rTIAIvE Bill r, for Instance, a man f de--- llghtful that even to contemplate his existence puts us In good humor and makes us think well of a world that can exhibit an Individual cquallv comelv In mind, body and estate TOverv now and then we get a letter from Bill, and Immediately we pass Into a kind of trance, In which our mind rapldlv enunciates thealdeas thoughts, surmises and contradlctlonsthat we would like "to write to him in replv We think what fun It would be to sit right down and churn the Inkwell, spreading specuHtlon and cynicism over a number of sheets of foolscap to be wafted Billward Sternlv we repress the Impulse for we know that the shock, to Bill of getting so Im mediate a relortywould surelv unhlngn the well fitted panels of his Intellect We add his letter to the large delta of tininswered nmll on our dek, taking open sion to tuin the ni iss over once or twite nnd run through It in a hrl smiling nmod thinking of all the jollv letters we slmll write some div AFTHIl Bills lettei hits lain on the pile for a fortnight or so It has been gentlv silted ovel bj about tnelil otliei plensantlv postponed manuscripts Coming upon It bv chance we lefloct that au specific problems raised by Bill In that manifesto will b this time have settled themselves And his inn dom "peiulatlons upon household manage ment and human de'tlnv will probablv hive taken a new slant bv now, ho that to answer his letter In its own tune will not be con gruent with his present fevers We had In I ter bide a wee until we icall have mine thing of phcurnstancc lo Impart, We wait a week Bv this time a certain sense of shame has begun to invade the privacv of our brain Wo feel that lo answer tint lettei now would he an Indelicacv Hetlei to pretend that we lievei got it Bv and by Bill will wilte again and then we will answei prompllv We put the letter b.uk In the middle of the heap and think what it fine chap Hill is But he knows we hive him so it doen t really matter whether we write oi not A: N'OTHi;i: week passes bv. anil no further communication from Bill We wo'idei whether he does love is as much as we thought Mill we are too proud to wilts and ask. A few davs later a new thought strikes u Perhaps Bill think" we have died nnd he Is annoved because he wasii t Invited lo the funeral Ought we lo wile him.' No be cause aftei all we ate not dead and even If he thinks we nre his subsequent lellef at hearing the good news of can survival will outweigh his bitterness during the interval One of these da s we will write him a letter tint will icall epre"s oui heart, filled Willi all the grindlngs and gear work of our mind rich in affection and fallacv l!ut we had bettei let it llpcn and mellow for n while Letters, like wines, accumulate blight fumes and bubhllngs If kept under cork ItnSLNTI.V we turn over that pile of let- - te heap two or three that hive gone for i months, and can safelv be destioved Bill Is still on our mind, hut In n pleasant, dreams kind of wa He does not ache or twinge us as lie did a month agi It Is fine to have old friends like Hint anil keep In touch with them We wonder how he Is and whether he has two children or three Splendid old Bill ' Bv this time we have wiltten Bill several letters In Imagination iind enJoed doing so but the matter of sending him an actual letter has begun to pall The thought no longer has the savor and viv d spaikle It had once When one feels like that It Is unwise to write Lettei!. si ould be spontaneous outpourings: thev should nevei be under taken merelv from a sense of dutv. We know that Bill wouldn t want to get a lettei that was dictated bj a feeling of obligation. A: NOTHI2R fortnight or so elapsing, It oc curs to us that we have entirelj forgot ten what Bill said to us In that letter We take It out' and con it over Delightful fel low ! 11 is full of his owii felicitous kinks of whim, though some of It rounds a little old farhloned bv now. It seems a bit stale, has lost some of Its freshness and surprise. Bet ter not answer It just et. for Christmas will soon be here and we shall have to write then anvvvav. We wonder, can BUI hold out until Christmas without a letter? , w K HAVE been rereading some of those Imaginar letters to Bill that have been dancing in our head They aie full of all sorts of fine stuff If Bill evei gets them he will know how we love him. To use O Henry's Immortal joke, we have das of Damon and Knights of Pthlas writing those uninked letters to BUI A curious thought has come to us Perhaps t would be better if we never saw Bill again It iivery difficult to talk to a man when vou like him so much. It Is much easier to write In the sweet fantastic strain We are so inarticu late -when face to face If Bill conies to town we will leave word that we have gone away. Good old Bill! He will alwajs be a precious memor) Ari2V dajs later a sudden fienzy sweeps over us, and though we have man) press ing matters on band, we mobilize pen and paper and llterar shock troops and piepare to hurl several battalions at Bin. But. strangely enough, our utterance seems stilted a'nd stiff. We have nothing to sa. My dear Dill, we begin, U seems a long time since we heard from vou. Why don't you xcrltet We ittll love you, in spile of all yarn short comings. That doesn't seem very cordial We muse over the pen and nothing comes Bursting with affection, we are unable to say a word. Just then the phone rings "Hello?" we sav It Is Bill, come to town unexpectedly "Good old flBh!" w cry, ecstatic. "Meet jou at the comer of Tenth and Chestnut In live minutes" We tear up the unfinished letter. E1U will never know how much we love him, I'erhaps It is Just as well. It la very cm barrahstng to have your friends know how jou feel about them. When we meet him we will be a little bit on our guard. It would not be well to be betrayed into any extrava gance of cordiality, SOCltATES. The Callowbill Street Line To the Editor ot the Evening Public Ledger: Sir The editorial on uouie .no. eb is so exceptionally good as to call for a word of comment from a Vine street resident. Jho line "Tis a far, far better thing to know that a car will never come." etc., at once be comes classic. Such a weird anomaly as Iloute No, ( deserved, an editorial epitaph ina iiicouJu.jtuvMro w "", ,K.My ; si . jtcHuiwukiisV v THE It, !, , THE GOWNSMAN How the War Conies 73 WER.I3 a small number, made up from VV ome three oi four families at most toung folks and old And we were assem bling in tills thml Inhabited fringe of the White .Mountnlns bv auto to pioceed to a cet taln delightful little lake, theie to swim, boat, eat a picnic supper, and letum after the August moon had llbcn This was not a mere junket of slackeis- the sons of two of the lamilles vveie soldiering, a daughter is in training as a nurse. One of the fathers had snatched a few class finm work on the hous ings of mechanics at one of our big shlp sards Another was not with us becaus" lie was abroad on a political iflisslon as fai as Jeiusaiem We were to take up two ou'ig women at a nelghboi's and, as wo drew up at the door, one ot them came out with a scared face 'Oil, we shan't be able to go. Uncle is at the phone Something has happened to Chai lie"' And something had 'happened lo Charlie " He had been killed in action at the front In Fiance. A moment later we had grasped the trembling hand of our friend, who seemed aged in a moment, as he stood, pale, with quivering lip, repeating and repeating- ' Charlie was all I had Charlie was all the world to me' IN THIS country of ours the population lias been at a slow and steadj ebb for half a century or more The ambitious oung men have gone to the cities, the ad venturous to the. West, leaving the old, the feeble, the incompetent, though there are manv happy exceptions, and the hereditary thrift of generations, established on the soil Is still evident here and there In flourish ing acres among the many deserted farms, or rathei, sites, now overgrown, wheie fauns once weie But if the men have ebbed, the tide of the forest has returned. Insensibly ovei grow lug the once plowed laud, obliterat ing the landmarks of old stoiu? wails, plant ing huge trees In the cellais of what were once houses, ovei glowing even the road that once had been. Within the recent memory of the Gownsman, the road dowi "Break neck Hill," for example, has i everted to nature; for nature would have it that a torresat should descend In time of storm down that roadbed. It is now a torrent bed. and man has given up the fgbt. IN SUCH a community one ma know the whole countrjside or not; the country side is sure to know all about the newcomer, who is ntisbod ai rived since stage-coach davs Tho summer boarder is not frequent in these parts they ate too remote for him, too primitive.. Put the bucollcally minded professional man, the teacher with that ivise dispensation of American education, a long vacation, In which to live nnd grow, it is he who has made himself a nest In many an old farmstead, who mlgiates ear after vear family and all, with the swallows, to and fio. as the season changes The summer folk and the native, tile austere, uncommunicative, unattractive, jet human. New Kngland native, canny as a Scotcn l'nan and valuing his-services in these times beiond the price of rubies, half contemptuous of these city folks that "jou never see doing am thing," but square, if hard. In his deal ings, with the shadow of that black thing, Puritanism, still somewhat upon him. but a man for" all that, and expanding, at times, unexpectedly. As to the summer folk, he is simply ypur next door neighbor at home, masquerading In overalls with a hoe or an ax ostentatiously and awkwardly carried over the shoulder, OF THE little squad which went from this "town," three, that Is nearly 10 per cent, are gone, a proportion that wotfld mean for the State of Pennsjlvania In the new draft over 100,000. In our small wav, we have already been hit very hatd. One of our boys died of disease In camp, with only one regret, that he was not to have his chance at the Germans. The Gownsman did not know this boy, but be knows by this spirit what he was and that the star that is his on the service flag of his country ls.rigniiy a wnue star. OF THE two others, one was Charlie. Charlie was a Boston lad, with the tra ditions of the Hub and neighboring Harvard surrounding him. He disappointed the family tradition as to Harvard with an easy-going, nonchalant disposition, out of which many good things may be made, but not scholars. His was to be easterner school than Harvard, and -tea honorable; but, alas I his was a speedier graduation. When we ara seeking with what al we may the jewel, which Is con'.ealed In the head of this toad, uly an T LAST YEAR'S BIRD-NEST "'fV..fl.E.t: V-is-SS. ".ft-iiV "4," ' ' w to Us in the Countrj the spirit that gives freely and fianklv as tho thing which one does, which no one would think of not doing, that counts There aie obligations; we don't talk about them We honor them, as a matter of course, when the fall due ; and there Is an end of the matter. But not an end of your admiration, sour homage and mine, for this great simplicity In the charactei of our American vottlh. a sim plicity that at once ennobles and makes trulv democratic our joung men's service lo tne nation OUP. thhd boy was little Johnny Clough; though he was leally first in the service lohn had worked about at such jobs as he could find slrce he was a small bov, pliking up such crumbs of cducatfcn as a bright mind might find by the waj-. He was kept In the neighborhood by a sister vv hose grow lng family needed such help as John might give them There was wood In the Gownsman s woodhouse once of John s splitting; and there are beds of John's digging In the garden In the second year of the war. the spirit ot adventure seized on John and he shipped from Boston with a cargo of mules for Eng land. In London he enlisted, not altogether Incongruously in a S'ootch Highland regi ment and, after due training, found his coveted way to the front. In a bojlsli let tei, the last that he wiote, he laughs over wearing kilts and tells In indignation of the cowardice of the Germans "who kill women and little children" nnd of how thev "run when we get at 'cm with our bajonets" The Gownsman lecalls the solicitude of John, as a halfsprown boy, to give his babv niece an outing, how ho struggled over a stonv load with the overgrown child and a huge bundle of washing In a ciazv little soap-bo wagon of his own making There Is nothing which so stirs the American heart as Germans 's inhumanity to the weak and the helpless John was hit with shrapnel duilng a chaigp, his face to the cnemj-, and Instantly killed. There Is no golden star for him on our vil lage banner, foi he fought In the Biitish ranks But John was as native as one of our pines, as uhlte, as straight, as beautiful. vjhlte, our Jill AND a aTltoo, after ourslmple country manner, we. remember our dead In the village church we all gathered, the other evening, with the aid of the selectmen, the minister, his choir and an egregious brass band ot four pieces, come all the way from Conway, to do honor to the dead The list of the tvventj'-nlne was read bj one of the select men with solemnity nnd over a road stony with the difficulties of diffidence A euloglum, more fluent in our hearts than resdy on our lips, was pronounced on eacli of the fallen three and a service, banner was un furled by two of the maidens of the village, All was Intel lardeJ with much slngirg of such pattlotlc songs ns we half remembered: ind the egregious brass band "executed ' several numbers and keptus palrloticallv standing a gieat deal. It was a matter of mingled smiles and tears It has alwajs seemed to the Gownsman a credit to certain sects, the Puritans, for example, and the Quakers, that fhey should have abolished such music as they could make in the praise of their Maker r to stand face to face with jour own Insufficiency and know It Is granted to few men In this world. It had lot been granted to the egregious four from Conway, BUT, unblessed with Charles Lamb's happy condition, who had no' ear, the Gowns man has let Bound run awaj with him. The dignity, the reality, the patriotism of our evening was preserved above captious criti cism ot trivial externals by "a simple talk" bj Arthur Hodman, the secretarj- of the Y. M, C. A. training college at Springfield, Maes , tfwho came down literally from the top of Mount Washington In tramping togs, shortening bis few dajs of outing, to tell our fourscore people of the American boy as be had seen him in France. How happily was the world profited by tho death long since and decent burial of the thing called oratory, that thing of fuss, and fur and feathers, of virtuous platitudes and fervent sentiments. It Is a long way from Jennings Brjan's oratory of cross and crown to a simple, significant message jit President Wilson.. The secretary at Springfield did not talk down to us, but took us all, down to the humbUst, with him, We were not only Informed by, his words, we were better pa triots tor tnenv Tha hand to help, not of exportation, uieworas or a oromer, not of iw- im"n.j wt'wusu r net LjVV.'. ' i WAR PROFITS T HI3 horns of the moon ate tipped I3j charms and won, Endymlon, Inheiits 'quietude. H7iffc the gleam Of the drcim On his eyes. The hums of the sun are dipt In luddy flame that flings Adventurous joung Icirus To earth on i ulned wings. 71 Mf 7ic flew. Hut he knew H'lnd" enirf shies. Lucifer's horns have a crust Of gold and topaz gem On points that "thrust lo vcllovv dust The heart that covets them. Heed! take heed! For by greed Qloiy dies Katherlne Lee Bates, In "The Retinue." Efficiency of the Colleges Aithur H Qulnn, dean of the collegiate department of the University of Pennsyl vania, has the following interesting things to say about college and business efficiency In the course of an article In Scrlbncr'a Magazine for September: "The American college is not perfect, for It Is a living thng. It Is facing now a herles of problems that are taxing the brains and the hearts of those whose duty It Is to see that our colleges meet Ihelr great oppor tunities and responsibilities with courage and oclsdom After tho war Is over there will be the problem of guiding the thought of the next generation rightly, especially In the fields of economics, politics nnd social science. In order to meet this task tl" college must, above cverj thing else, have puuilc confidence. "Public confidence, like kissing, sometimes goes by favo. and again, like kissing, thers' maj be more, of it than Is generally sus pected The DUbllc likes th rnllnrn nnd In even parting, with some reluctance, from Its5" traditional conception of a college professor as a being with long hair and shoestring necictie, and or tne college as a place to which a studeiv: retires frqm the world. This conception clied flnalls. It Is hoped, when at the same time a college teacher be came the President of the United States and the President of tho United Stntes became a college teacher, and the vital and constant connection between the life of an American college and the life bf the working world became apparent. The man In tho street or the suburban train or the luncheon club or whero else criticism Is most rampant Is now usually willing to acknowledge that the mod ern college may be as clilclently managed as the average business What he has yet, to see Is that It Is conducted with much g.eattr eftciency In both the popular and the true meanings of that word." What Do You Know? QUIZ I. Vthnt la the ineaiiins of the word boon. In Ilia portico "a boon companion"? i. VI ho U the preMnt I'rline Minister of ltlj?, i. What luncuare Is opoken In Haiti? 4. What Is it planet? , 5. Who KUbl "Hod helps tlifm that help thess- uelves"? 0. VVh.it Is n ''pourbolre" and what Is the mass ing or the word? 7, What U the rupltul of Kuiisus? S. Ilonr lime Is a meter In Knxllah measure ment? 0. What ii drneral t'rondrr's official position? 10. Yihere Is Leonardo Dn Vinci's famous PlcH ture called tho "Vloim Lisa"? . Answers to Yesterday's Quiz I, Oustaf V Is the present Kins of Swedes. 2. 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