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rUBLIL LtUUbK CUMrANX
CTRUS II. K. CURTIS. Psisidint.
larlea H. Ludlnrton. Vice Preaiaent! John C
In. SJeeretary and Tniiurtt! rhlllps. Collins,
B. Williams. John J. Spurseon, Dlrtctora.
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Clio II. K. Ccstis. Chairman
AVID & BMIt.BT Editor
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rkUnlelpSd, Jilurdi;. 5rplrmbtr 14. l'U
LIFTING THE DAN FROM MARRIED
TEACHERS
, fTlHE tecommcndatlon, Indorsed by Su
1 VA perlntendent Gnrber, that married
c women be permitted to teach in the Phlla
delphla. public schools Is put forward as a
wartime measure. Presumably the Board of
: , Kducatlon will pass It as a means of re
lieving the shortage In the teaching staffs
caused by the draft. But the wisdom of
such a ruling, like that of many another
suddenly made operath e In these abnor
mal days, will warrant attention when the
crisis hast passed,''
The ban on married women teachers hds
been based on a lsionary picture of so
ciety. It implied that marriage lifted all
financial burdens from the wife's shoul
ders and that In the distribution of teach
ing positions single women generally de
served the first consideration. As a matter
of fact, no hard ajid fust rule (a legitimately
applicable to either class of' teachers. The
board should be,'free to decide each par
ticular case on Its own merits. It can
y?? then at the same time recognize both com-
Ian n mMr4 Afkantin
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fftn . . . ...
ucn enas in 'vaew, nna tnere seems no
reason why the vital business of educa-
gf tion should not be conducted, unfettered
', on me same souna principle.
PSVV peneral Pershing was fifty-elghf'jears old
iS'rle 'our yearB old today. Each Is doing pretty
ITTING TOO MUCH ON CONSCIENCE
conviction of Debs was a foregone
conclusion from the moment he made
his Canton speech. He claimed immunity
.from punishment under the free-speech
guarantee of the Constitution. A man
ito accused of libel or slander might as well
' claim Immunity under the same guarantee.
SEA While the Constitution forbids the passage
P or laws Interfering with the freedom of
Kkn speech or of the press, both the press and
fn? y. private individuals must assume respon
sibility for what they say. If they do In
.JwV they must suffer the consequences.
A LAiAica u icavc a. iiiuit 1,1,1 oa; tuill3
K about the national uovernment and es-
& - cainj, uui il m ume 01 war ne uoes any-
JfiA ' 'Ums wnicn gives uia ana comiort to ine
BS-t enemy he is guilty of a form of treason
K '---;. and exposes himself to punishment.
l'.jt JitbB was accused of attempting to In-
F cite insubordination and disloyalty In the
gSsmilltary and naval forces, attempting to
jsyw- otwiruci recruuing anu uttering language
Stiftthdlng to encourage resistance to the
fegr;PBited' States and to promote the cause
EH ovtte enemy. He admitted the charges
V 'pleaded that he conscientiously he-
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WiWv ?' aaxsai a worn 01 it.
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jT.wr w wd no ouier course open to me
taW-Jwy than to find him guilty. Conscientious
.iMfters of insubordination are not lm-
;mune, else uerman agents might ply their
K trade here with Impunity. We may be
.tolerant of conscience when it makes con.
vSsjrtU of us, but not when it makes us
ljp,, Who can offer a Job to a half-witted
Ztr MMUtrl
GIRL MARINES
rWo'sJiyHAT'S this what's this?
A Ladies'
fe-taySiM Day in
&i?i Day in the marines' recruiting offices!
W WlI we ! es clmnee so swiftly
S",..1.1. A. .V. . O
5- "fs.V TTtjvift who icj,uji .119 jjapoia. OUlllQ
rK t HAr .ttna afttft that .vh fnA ninv lu n...
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.TV-ieeF-Tyuoay win nave lost oui me laaies
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n-rt.an, v .5wv ,TT,,i w;,,di. m muai ways
$?i1ear th reantlnnn dun with thn Am Hovi
(fitf ht. Peace,. That may be. But It cannot be
UMM that women aren't doing a marvelous
,JaaTt to help save the world for democracy.
wwaj euuuiuii i nicy us 111 me marines,
1-1 IstieVo there is much to be done that they
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BO in &J1C way ui uivriual worK S AllQ
y -with a prophet's eye Is forced to
ive that this is merely the beginning.
JWyetrten are appearing everjwhere in the
xnoy aio even uiivin plunging am-
ces over the broken roads of France.
I Any dnedoubt that there aren't many
(BsT them who would be steady-handed
ipiti-Meady-'Souled enough to take the next
""ma run a oattiepiane if all their
irs were' downed and out of the
7 we tnuiK not.
te are few herplnes formally glorlr
4'(he JHistorJes-of -war. But the deeds
i.yoii ate Privileged 'to read about
aa Immortal glory,, Joan of Arc was
'Ottr own Molly Pitcher was an-
'. jrvnat win me nistones say or the
Cross la this war, of the English
And the French women and the
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Marys and the Elizabeths and the
u. Marching home from their long
to a, Koud place in citizenship
winepajiney nave neipea
WBICII mu t4HT
THE BRIDGEPORT
STRIKE SETTLEMENT
Significance of the President's New Attitude
Toward War Industries
PRESIDENT WILSON'S manner of
denlinrr yesterday with the strike at
Bridgeport was a new thing: under the
sun. And yet Mr. Wilson's method was
not so startlingly new or so significant
as the situation that made it necessary.
No single principle of trades unionism
was involved in the general question
raised by the 4000 striking gunmakers
at Bridgeport. Again, in an extraordi
narily difficult field, the President found
himself opposed to "a little group of
willful men." He found a rebellion ex
isting within the ranks of trades union
ism and headed by a group which defied
not only the war labor boaid, but the
officers of their own organization. This
in itself might not have justified an
invasion of the field by the President.
But there were other ominous symptoms
at Bridgeport.
The gunmakers were operating in this
instance as r self-isolated group, recog
nizing no interest or authority but their
own. They were, apparently, doing their
utmost to set up similar movements in
other industries essential to the war.
They threatened not only an interruption
in war work. They threatened the prin
ciples upon which labor organizations are
founded. And, therefore, while it is not
chceting to find the President breaking
a strike under the weight of govern
mental war machinery and invoking the
processes of the selective service and
the Federal employment system to this
end, there can be no doubt whatever
about the justice and wisdom of the
course he followed.
Certainly the iron prejudices of em
ployers on the one hand and the budding
Bolshevism that has made itself evident
among remote groups of workers on the
other have driven the President to un
happy alternatives within the last year.
It is not like Mr. Wilson to threaten a
group of men especially workingmen
with a revocation of the simple rights
granted them under the Constitution and
to force strikers back to work by so
unusual a method. Nor pan it be sup
posed that the President seized the West
ern Union and the railroads and the
Smith & Wesson arms plant because he
and the members of his Cabinet have not
enough work and a plenitude of wor-
, ries in other avenues of 'war effort. In
few of the industrial disputes recently
.settled by heroic methods have the rights
and wrongs been entirely on one side.
The surly prejudice of the plant- owners
against thei trades union principle ag
, gravated the difficulties at, Bridgeport
and served, by constant .irritation, to
elaborate and extend the trouble until it
became a menace to the country. And,
strangely enough, small groups of un
lepresentative trades unionists in many
quarters have lately been doing much to
encourage this very piejudice among the
employers.
What the President has done in each
instance is to recognize the moral obli
gation of industry as a whole to the
fighting armies at the front. He has
acted upon the belief that the interest
and safety of the nation itself and of
the men in France are of greater impor
tance than the piejudices and concerns
of different groups which exist peace
fully, comfortably and in great pros
perity within the safe borders of the
United States. This attitude of mind is
a complete justification for the sweeping
departure from traditional methods re'
fleeted in the edict sent to Bridgeport
yesterday. No one who has stopped to
realize what the war is about and no one
who has a son or a brother in the army
overseas will do other than applaud Mr.
Wilson for a course inspired by courage
and singleness of purpose.
Meanwhile, it is interesting to observe
carefully the conditions with which the
President has had to deal in' several
recent labor disputes. At Bridgeport
and in some of the other industries the
employers or the employes have held to
the ancient rule of "every man for .him
self." This was the case at the Smith &
Wesson gun factory. And yet that prin
ciple is one which mankind has every
reason to detest at this particular hour.
It cannot work in the present emergency.
The gunmakers at Bridgeport help to
provide an interesting study for any one
who would wish to tabulate and envalue
the war's reactions in America. Debs
was indicted in Cleveland and charged on
one count with "attempts to interfere
with the production of war essentials."
He was convicted for attempts to hinder
the war program and is liable, in his old
age, to a sentence of sixty years' im
prisonment and a vast fipe. And yet
none of Debs's prosecutors charged that
he was animated by selfishness or that
he has ever been anything more than an
unbalanced and sometimes dangerous
zealot.
Factory owners and workers who are
still under the delusion that the war is
to be regarded mainly as a means of
profit might look again at Debs before
they object to the methods which the
Government adopts at this time to keep
them from imperiling the nation at
home and the army in France.
Guns as well as pens have registered
our resolve.
COOPERATIVE WARFARE
BERLIN announces that it has had the.
evacuation of the St. Mlhiel salient
"under consideration for some years." In
that case the general staff owes General
Pershing a vote of thanks. It had the
"will to retreat," but lacked a sufficiently
forcible Incentive to that action. We sup
ply the specific 'excuse for withdrawal and
the dreams of the war lords are at last
turned to reality.
The arrangement seems admirable, 1-
"w.-wf1'?? i'?
co-operative expansion. Of course, in per
fecting the scheme the Hun should over
come his shyness about expressing his
desires. When he feels like moving back
ward and can't quite bring himself to
do so, let him speak out. Pershing will
furnish the knockdown argument.
The German Joy in retiring from the St.
Mlhiel wedge has evidently been clouded
by j ears of delay. Such things should not
be. Happily, some Of us ha-e a feeling
that the years of consideration about
moving further eastward have been ma
terially cut .short. The American mind
has a trick of coming to rapid decisions.
The war demands on peach pits have
ghen Joy to many a pie eater whose af
fronted molars have had occasion to curse a
careless pastry cook.
SEVENTY-FOUR MILES OF WARSHIPS
fTlHE German bent for suicide may per-
haps drlxo the Kaiser some day to
attempt a naval battle. Otherwise a war
of prodigious mechanical wonders ' will
have to be concluded without a spectacu
lar mass exhibit of some of Its most tre
mendous tools In thunderous operation.
It has been generally believed that most
of the French and Italian naval activities
were confined to the Mediterranean. Con
gressman Daniel Rlordan, lately returned
from abroad, (.tlmulatcs other notions and
paints a picture of concentrated co opera
tion in sea war that has no parallel In
history. For seen hours In the Nojth
Sea he passed by "an eight-mile coidon
of Allied warships Kiench, British, Ital
ian and American."
The mere conception of the thing pau
perizes the imagination. Assemble all the
Ingredients of a Salamls, a Navarlno, a
I.epanto, on Armada fray, a Manila, a
Santiago or even a Jutland, and the sum
of them Is beggared bv the majesty and
multiplicity of these fraternizing floating
foil reuses.
Words have obviously failed an awed
Congressman, for he describes this stag
gering battle array as n "flotilla." The
word Is properly a Spanish dlmlnuthe of
"flota," and means a small fleet: but per
haps Mr. Rlordan might plead that even
a word of grander bubstance would be
almost equally futile. The vocabulary has
not jet been expanded to the measure of
this manifestation of .sea power.
Maybe the skippers of inanimate ships
at Kiel grasp Its meaning better than any
one and have succeeded in expressing It
In a host of guttural syllables. And as
the barnacles grow thicker and tighter on
rotting hulls It Is conceivable that the
sheer feiocity of the word with Its impli
cations is robbing history of a titanic
scene.
"The operation was successful, but the
patient died." The phiase has angered us
in the past, but Pershing can employ It as
often as he likes.
THE TRIUMPH AT ST. MIHIEL
TIrEASUREMENT of the superb Amerl-
1V1
can Ictory undeigoes, olmost hourly
revision. The drive for a limited objective
was concluded, with a rich bag of prison
ers, when the St. Mlhiel wedge was effaced.
That movement not only nullified the Ger
man spearthrust that had resisted all at
tack for four j ears, but it released the
Itally Important A'erdun-Commercy-Toul-Xancy
rallioad, Hun possession of which
had divided the Allied front fiom Verdun
to the Swiss bolder Into two sections.
The new consolidation establishes a line
without dangerous indentations all the
way from where it turns southeast near
heroic Fort de Vaux down into German
Alsace, east of Belfort. The new oppor
tunities for freedom of action and for
military operations safely conducted and
on a massive scale have become imminent
and Impressive.
It wbb Inevitable and expected that the
elimination of the St. Mlhiel salient would
net such advantages. But there Is even
a bigger thrill In the way General Per
shing has amplified his schedule. The
story of St. Mlhiel has been told In two
dajs. The new and much more momen
tous chapter In history is the threat
against Metz.
Not only has the American army swept
northwest across the wedge, but the drive
has also swung northeast. Pagny, almost
on the Teuton border, has been entered.
It lies four miles from Fort de Sommy,
one of the outer defenses of Metz. The
menace to what is supposedly the greatest
fortress of the world Is significantly real.
The fate of Metz, when Bazalne surren
dered It In 1870, determined the course of
the Franco-Prussian war even more per
tinently than the debacle at Sedan. To
day Its Ions to Germany would be of lethal
consequences; so deadly, in fact, that the
concept at this early Juncture fairly In
timidates the Imagination,
Perhaps Pershing Is not yet ready to
undertake so magnificent a plan of con
quest He may have his eyo on the Brley
Iron fields between the Meuse and the
Moselle. On the other hand, Metz, power
ful as It Is, lies nearer at hand Metz and
Rezonvllle, St. Prlvat, Gravelotte, names
once fraught with tragedy and still as
suredly destined to be pronounced with
Joy. "If It be not now, yet It will come:
the readiness Is all."
The decline of football
The Lars Goal in the colleges seems
to be accompanied
with the ascendancy of Its spirit on the bat
tlefield. Variety of play Is Just as much a
cardinal principle of Marshal Foch's suc
cessful game as It ever was In the days of
quarterback capUms like Stevenson or Carl
Williams.
Now that the bosses
No I are passing the hat
among municipal em
ployes, will sny one be patriotic enough to
ask about the uses to which this pirate fund
Is usually put?
At the present rate of
movement In the Al
lied armies France will
i Now for Oermssrl
soon be un-Hunned.
The "salient" facts are those of victory.
Heart failure In England, says Lloyd
George, can alone endanger the Allied cause.
That particular malady Is more likely to
pervade Germany.
The Kaiser's confession that he does
"not know when the struffle will end" com
fortably, . deWus,u j44,,tjis time
THE CHAFFING DISH
Socrstes Bojs s list
AJAl Well, Socrates, have you bought
.your foil hat yet?
SOCRATES I am sorry you raise that
topic, AJax. Xanthippe has been after me
to buy a new hat, but It requires courage.
To tell you the truth, I cannot buy a hat
until I get my hair cut: ani I cannot get
my hair cut until I can find an hour with
no other claim upon my attention.
AJAX And' yet, my dear Socrates, I
find you wandering here about Indepen
dence Square, with nothing more urgent
on hand than watching the workmen put
new shingles on the State House.
SOCRATES Ab usual, AJax, you touch
only upon the fringe ot the problem. Let
us demonstrate the matter. When do you
go to lunch? t
AJAX Why, wherf I feel hungry.
SOCRATES No; in addition to feeling
hungry you must feel the will to eat. You
know very well that the will to continue
working, or mole probabjy mere lethargy,
often postpones the hour of your lunch.
It is only when the will to eat takes prece
dence In jour mind' oxer other mental
elements that j-ou tell your stenographer
you will be back in twenty minutes, and
go off for an hour arid a half and a few
furlongs of spaghetti.
AJAX But what has this to do with
jour hat?
SOCRATES Just this: I am aware of
the need of what Is vulgarly termed a new
lid, but the will to be rehatted has not yet
grown to sufficient strength to overcome
the philosopher's natural dislike for sud
den changes.
AJAX If you continue to pace the
streets with that ancient basket of straw
on your brow j'our will to be lehatted Is
likely to be accelerated by public com
ments. Already I have heard It said that
jour hat Is undermining the morale of the
citizens. Positively, It Is pro"-German to
wear It any longer.
SOCRATES Your persistence unmans
me, AJax. I will be frank with you. I
must Indeed buy a new hat, but I tell you
I dread it. Is there any man who can con
template that ordeal without shrinking?
Besides, no matter what I buy, Xanthippe
will be sure to say I have made an evil
choice.
AJAX Why does she not accompany
-ou to the milliner and supervise the se
lection? SOCRATES I will show you something.
Here Is a little pamphlet I got at a hatter's
the other day. It shows the models which
are to be worn this autumn by men of
discrimination, with a picture of each.
Now my mind hovers between these two,
which you will see are called Argosy and
Director. Of Argosy the booklet says: "A
distinguished looking hat conservative,
but one you'd notice an where." Of Direc
tor It says, "A rather dignified model that
Is acceptable to substantial men." Now
which do you think would be more be
coming to me?
AJAX Turn around a minute, so that
I can see jour profile. Hum well, I
think, Socrates, that with your type of
features jou should choose a hat that
would lend them some assistance. Now
I believo that both Argosy and Director
would tend to neutralize the effect. On
the whole, old chap. I think .you need
something with a little more dash.
SOCRATES Bravo! I was hoping you'd
think so. Well, then, what do you think
of this one, which Is made of what they
call velour, and comes In lavender, cham
pagne, cinnamon, moss green and pearl.
The booklet saya, "Many men will find this
model Is Just what they have been looking
for." Don't you think that sounds rather
promising?
AJAX Dear me, no! That Is not your
stj'le at all, Socrates. That Is the kind of
substance they make smoking car seats
out of. Xanthippe would never stand for
that, I feel sure.
SOCRATES You ee'e, the problem Is not
without complexitj-. Well, turn over the
page of the booklet. Here Is a model
that Is said to be "A fine example of alert
style, with a very sleek finish." And here
is one of which the anonymous author
says, "Looks good to the man who is
stylewlse."
AJAX I do not think cither of those
would quite do you Justice. Particularly
you ought to guard against those hats
made of velour or plush. Ernst Llssauer,
the man who wrote the hmn of hate,
might wear one, but for your simple and
primitive features jou need something
rather more elemental. Something, I
think, with a good swing and strong
curves. Something that will draw the
eje away fi6m your weak points.
SOCRATES I have always rather
yearned for a tam-o-shanter
AJAX Your contributors would cut you
on the street If you wore anjthlng like
that. If you will turn to the little preface
of this bqpklet jou will read that good
style Is never freakish.
SOCRATES But the author also says
that "gooa styie is always different." Do
you think a Scotch cap would be quite out
of the question?
AJAX Absolutely.
SOCRATES How about a Tyrolean hat,
one of those Jolly little conical ones, with
a pheasant feather?
AJAX All right for a colonel in the
Death's Head Hussars or the Cockchafers,
but really, you must remember that a'
writer for the Philadelphia papers "has a
certain duty to the public.
SOCRATES I think probably a deer
stalker cap and an Inverness coat with
three little capes would help to establish
me as a serious thinker.
AJAX This ta no matter for Jesting.
SOCRATES In my cellaretle at home
I have a very nice old derby. Xanthippe
threw it out two years ago, but I rescued
It from the ashman and have been keep
ing It for an emergency. Perhaps I could
smuggle that out without Xanthippe see
ing it. I could keep it at the newsstand
round the corner
AJAX You see, Socrates, it is as I have
always said. You are very sage in dis
cussing speculative problems, but any
practical question bereaves you of sense.
Now I will tell you what we will do. You
go and get your hair cut. In the mean
time I will go to the hat shop, taking this
straw efflry as a Bample for size, and will
buy for you something that will do you
credit. There will be nothing Jaxz about
it; it will be pure in outline and genial
in hue. Trust me. '
SUTK-AJx, you are, true frie.
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THE READER'S VIEWPOINT
Joys of the Coffee House
To the Editor of the Evening Public Ledger:
Sir I have often wondered who edits the
Quiz on your editorial page, and I wish I
could meet him. He must be a delightful
fellow, an abridgment of all that Is erudite
In man and a, Joy to his wife and children.
Some day I shall ask him out for lunch. I
suspect him of being an epicure, because so
many of his questions relate to food.
But what I really want to say Is this:
When the saloons and gin mills pass away,
ns they will shortly do. why not a revival
of the old coffee house? I am a bit stale
on my English literature, but I seem to
remember that the age of the coffee houses
wasn't It the age of Dryden and Addison and
Steele and Pope and Doctor Johnson and
David Garrick? was the wittiest and most
delightful era of human Intercourse Why
shouldn't we have "scattered about the city
a number of the old coffee Inns, with sanded
floor and clay pipes and afternoon papers,
where the gentry of the town might drop In
of an afternoon and read your Quiz aloud
and comment on the news of the day and
the latest from Flanders. And our boys In
uniform wouldn't then be reduced to the
Ignominy of having to take Ice cream sundaes
when they want to sit-down for a few con
vivial moments.
Imagine Just such a tavern, with an open
fire glowing and tobacco smoke blowing
about in blue and fragrant swirls, and the
patrons making merry over cheerful beakers
of hot coffee what a contrast to the mean,
sordid, liquorish aspect of the usual bar!
What about It? Let's go back to the days
of good Queen Anne, when men knew how
to be convivial without being sots. '
MILES METHEGLIN.
Philadelphia, September 13.
Prussia an Outlaw
To the Editor of the Evening Pnblio Ledger:
Sir when one reads In your columns that
the "Plotting Erzberger, of the Reichstag,
and the Hapsburgers, Burlan and Czernln, are
In favor of a league of nations one feels In
clined to throw It overboard, on the ground
that anything that precious plunderers could
favor could not possibly be good. It reminds
us how they are an echo of their German
chief before them, who said, with unoonsclous
but slde-spllttlng humor, that Germany also
would favor such a league and graciously, not
'to say self-sacrlflclngly, even be willing to
place herself at the head of It!
The brazen Impudence of the dishonest
man has its counterpart in the brazen Impu
dence of a dishonest nation, and both must
be treated alike. The sooner every member
of the Allied nations gives the Teutonic pow
ers to understand that their every statement.
Is discounted In advance as the utterance of
an outlaw to whom none listen with patience,
the sooner those Powers will come to their
senses, and the sooner the people of those
lands will understand what has happened,
namely, that this Is not a fight between
equals; it is a fight to overpower a bandit
nation and perform a surgical operauon on
their diseased political morals; that they
will have a hard time wiping off the criminal
stain that rests upon them; that It will take
a whole generation of new moral education
before they will be beyond suspicion even If
they are then.
All this leads to the statement that a
criminal Is disfranchised, and that the pres
ent or any similar government In Germany
and Austria will have no vote In a league
of nations ; the word of the present Teutonic
Governments Is "as good as their bond," and
their bond Is "a scrap of paper." The sooner
this is made plain to the Governments and
peoples of the Teutonic allies the sooner will
the people of those lands wake up and "clean
house" make a beginning at housecleanlng,
rather; for their cleansing Involves the reno
vation of their whole educational system, so
far as It relates to political morals. Prussia
will probably be ostracized for a generation
indeed until Prusslanlsm Is no longer a mi
crobe In the German blood. Prusslanlsm Is
an international crime to be made to disap
pear from the face of the earth. Therefore
It dees not seem probable that non-Prussian
Germans can afford to form a new Govern
ment in association with Prussia. Certainly
nothlnr would so reassure the world as to
'their BJBoerity as the, organisation ef aOerr.
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Isolation of Prussia Is all that will be satls-factorj-
to mankind. The "Punishment of
Prussia" Is a phrase that will lake Its place
beside "Carthago delenda est."
Therefore It la Immaterial what the mem
bers or sympathizers of the present Teutonic
Governments think or say about a league of
nations; as Immaterial as the sayings of
bachelors and spinsters on 'is Marriage a
Failure?" because neither will be represented
In the generations to come when both Insti
tutions are In successful operation.
BURTON ALVA KONKLE.
Swarthmore, September 12.
Memorial Trees for Soldiers
To the Editor of the Evening Public Ledger:
Sir Apropos of jour editorial of suggest
ing a movement for heroes to be placed on
the Parkway, why not also advocate subscrip
tions bj- the public for durable trees to be
planted on both sides of Broad street with
Individual brass nameplates for each Phila
delphia hero. Such a memorial would form
an artistic as well as fitting feature for the
"lqngest straight" street In the world, and
would certainly maintain a lasting and visible
reminder of our local heroes. But let us
hope that there won't be so many heroeB to
thus Immortalize that the entire length of
Broad street from League Island to City Line
would have to be utilized.
DAILY READER.
Philadelphia. September 11,
What France Thinks of U
To the Editor of the Evening Publfo Ledger:
Sir Those of us who, like Bobble Burns,
would see ourselves as others see us find for
eign papers Interesting reading these days.
Here are two "snapshots" from French papers
dated about the time the Americans were
busy moving the Chateau Thierry front to the
rear:
From General Verraux, In L'Oeuvre We
believe we can count the day very near
when our locomotives will be running again
on the line from Chateau-Thierry to Eper
naj As a sort of homage to the brilliant
operations of our friends In that corner, I
should like that the first of these might
be an American locomotive.
From Monsieur Maurice Barres, In
L'Echo de Paris Within five days the fate
of the war, of which we have never been in
doubt, has come to appear clearly to the
universe. If Germany Is thus arrested and
dominated, before having had time to see
the Americans, what will It be tomorrow?
Philadelphia, September 12. L. T. P.
Liberty for EveryLand
To the Editor of the Evening Publta Ledger:
Sir
Wilson, the democratize
Will subdue the German Kaiser
If we'll give him a helping hand.
For the glory Is ours
In these trying hours.
And a blessing for every land.
"Sons of will, determination!
Do your duty for this Nation"
'Tls democracy's great command.
Gather up your ammunition.
Keep Intact your old tradition.
Freedom for every land I
Do not fear or shiver !
And we'll make the Kaiser quiver
In his own land.
Heed the writing on the wall,
Pointing to the Kaiser's fall
And to liberty for every land !
JACOB H. STEERMAN.
Philadelphia. September 12,
Heat-defying folk at
A Charitable View the North Pole, poverty-defying
million
aires, hunger-defying restaurant owners and
the ladies and gentlemen of the South Sea
Islands for whom snow and Ice have no
terrors, will understand the Kaiser when he
talks of his death-defying navy. To the rest
of us Wllhelm will seem merely an ass of
dimensions so vast as' to defy all human
calculation. ,
It will be difficult to convince the public
that the Logan Company, dealer In bitumi
nous.' fuel, which' has Just ..been penalised..
twtw ss HT9KMrsseT.i,,is, sat' a-vaajfl-y
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The First American Troops
in Paris
rnHE tramp of feet
- In a Paris street,
The rhythmic beat
Of drums; "'
Line' after lino "' '
Of glowing eyes ' -'
Hot with the Are
Of a holy desire,
The light of a high emprise. ,-
A quiver stirs the waiting throng:
How oft they had prayed, "O Lord, hot
long?
How long till the beat of the western drums
Shall say to the weary, AtneWc'a comett"
A cloud of dust
In a Paris street,
A cloud of glory
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From marching feet,
A cloud of incense "
Rising sweet "
To the eager throng
In the Paris street;
And the rhythmic beat
Of the western drums
Proclaims to the world
America comes!
E. M. "STEVENS.
The Ideal System .,
No one, I, fancy, who has not waited far
the evening mail to be distributed in the'
little gray postofflce or loitered down the'
land toward the big salt pond, with the laiy,
tremendouaness of sky overhead and the soft'
air stirring the grasses, and Block Island ilka
a blue mirage out on the haiy horizon, quite
appreciates what gives Rhode Island white
cornmeal Its superlative quality, like no
other cornmeal anywhere. It is gtouhd'-
slowly, between soft millstones, water dr!veitwlJ
onrl nAtrataai Viakais In tViak nwtAakee aUaktavasmal 1
a-tiM iiv Vi itvatio aa vua gJ uvvsoi HIIVsm q
Tom tells how one miller he knew used to
put a bushel of corn in the hopper, walk'
two miles and court the Widow Brown, and
return In time to catch the last of the soft,'
suave, flourlike meal coming out. That isn't
the way to make money but it Is the ,war
to grind good cornmeal. Walter Prichard
Eaton, In the Bookman. -,
Season your mental cocktails with a dash'
of geography and note the stimulating erTet4
of the fact that Pagny, now in American
hands, lies some 1(0 miles from Paris and
only twelve from Mets. ',
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
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