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Philadelphia, TunJar, September 21, 1918
LIBERTY BONDS OR POLITIC I. SWAG?
rjlHE prospective Libert j Bond buver
whose wages happen to be pild bv the
city of Philadelphia lt In a quandary. It
is currently rumoted that he is wie tu
the great truth of the Interdependence of
gangs, be they of Potsdam or the metrop
olis of Pennsylvania. A boost for the lat
ter by a financial contribution which might
otherwise be diverted to Liberty Loan pur
poses runs sufficiently counter to the pa
triotic spirit of the times as to benefit the
Hun ring.
The choice of going over the top or
under cover Is thus eplkltly presented.
Of course, It's hard lines to hae one' Job
imperiled by n refusal to cough up when
the annual collection plate Is passed. On
the other hand, 'here Is a sneaking suspi
cion around that those Potsilnmmets, if
they ever got fairly started, wouldn't care
a rap for division leaders, ward chieftain".
Treasurer Thomas I" Vaton, Sheriff
Bansley, the "little fellow" or nnbodj
else. So what's the use of suppotting a
little gang If It only aids .i bigger one"
Badgered, harried and dunned policemen,
ilremen and clerks have significant food
lor thought when the hungrj-h.iul fellows
are hailed on the broad pavement of the
plaza.
Medical advice to those about to sneeze
""Don't."
PALESTINE'S REACTION ON THE WEST
fJIHE theory that military expeditions re-
mote from France would prevent the
irar from being fought 'to a clean-cut deci
sion on the western front has been shat
tered with the Turkish army In the hills
ot Palestine. It Is Indeed the elimination
Kx6 of the loose ends of the wot Id struggle that
H?r' "frill" bring us closer to Its cruv.
k$hil Realization of this fact 13 difficult when
a.' ' "Yllll 9PV nnni-'ltlinG i-amrrunlilnllo fn-
afield, fall, as did Townshend's at Ctehi
phon, or the Inadequately bupplled little
British army's recently at Baku. But
victory superbly vivifies the force of the
principle.
Authentic reports lndicato that Allenby
has virtually annihilated two Turkish
armies, the Porte's chief military arm.
Forty thousand Ottomans hae been
trapped. The release of all Syria from the
Sultan's rule is Imminent. Turkey as a
factor In the war has suddenly become
almost negligible. The British advance of
sixty miles In a week is a triumph as
categorical as It is relatively new In this
war.
In the Balkans the Bulgarian power Is
-crumbling, with the Franco-Serbians
driving ahead at the rate of twenty-five
miles a day and already astride the single
railway from Vskub to Salonica. Turkey
and Czar Ferdinand's pestiferous "empire"
are being ruled out of the conflict.
The fall of St. Quentin, when it comes.
aa it inevitably will, will thus have a new
import. It means the dashing of German
hopes In the place wheie they ate con
centrated. Looking far afield for com
fort will be vain. The western front,
partly because of distant triumphs, be-
sSr' .comes the war's barometer.
Loan boom Hun doom.
"LET US ALONE"
SENATOR THOMPSON', of Kansas,
, visited the grand fleet In the North
Sea on August 29 and asked Admiral Rod.
man, the American officer v he shares tho
command with the British Admiral Beattj,
what message he wished to send home.
"Tell the Secretaii,' sild Admiral Rod
man, "we have everything we need over
here and that everything Is running per-
jy, J.otiWJ' Biiiuukji, auu nil uuu 5 saKO lei US
Kan alone!,"
' ' No more eloquent commentary on the
grf administration of the Navy Department
rnaa Deen maae than is contained in the
f last six words.
The "gas" slacker, garrulous In exnlaln.
Ala why he lapsed. Is doubly a waster
(-TT . .
i ',' f r Tiiutriiur" mac -"Mr nnii
?flTUME was when flunking In college car-
S 1 1
, ried the lightest of stigmas. More often
man not the delinquent student was a
Jfttood fellow, whose interests wero keen and
L-4)aamfold simply not bookish. Low-mark
p."BBen had even a way of becoming extreme-
f:y likable class leaders.
trTime is when failure to pass the tests,
Mtal or physical, means exclusion from
b JUl exactly wnai every college cnap irom
Immemorial days has sought to enter a
' WT game. The universities have been en-
lled in the biggest game ever played.
$ka admission requisites are exacting, but
it fact seems only to whet desire to
iter them. Two thousand applicants
kittled with flying colors at the mill
ed University of Pennsylvania yester.
"Flunking is an archaism nowadays. It
at belnr done. Uncle Sam himself has
y Ttm."atr9i His nephews follow It
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OPPORTUNITY AT THE DOOR;
WILL THE CITY GRASP IT?
Philadelphia Business Men Should lie
Awake Enough to Arise From Tlicir
Couches of Ease
IT-JOG ISLAND is more than a ship
yard. It is a great tcrminnl where
railroad lines meet and connect with
water lines. Peter O. Knight, vice presi
dent of the American International Cor
poration, which has built the plant and
its piers, says that it has within it the
potentiality of becoming tho Krcatcst
shipping point in America.
He is astonished that Philadelphia
business men are not awake to the op
portunities that lie at their door. Ho
did not quote the famous words written
by the late Scnntor John .1. Inpalls; but
he might have done so. "Cities and fields
I walk." the Senator made Opportunity
say. "I penetrate deserts and seas ic
mote. If sleeping, wake if
fea-.ting, rise before I turn away. It is
the hour of fate, and they who follow
mo reach every state mortals desire, and
conquer every foe save death; but thoe
who doubt or hesitate, condemned to fail
ure, penury and woe, seek me in vain and
uselessly implore!"
Mr. Knicht cries out to Philadelphia
now: 'If sleeping, walccl"
We have been talking for years about
increasing tlfe foreign trade of this poit.
We have talked of new pieis and new
railroad terminals. We have secured an
amendment of the State Constitution so
as to permit us to borrow money for
new piers. And we h.ue made n begin
ning. But while we have been dawdling along
in leisurely fashion there has arisen in a
short twelve months, right at our doors,
a gieat terminal, with seven piers 1000
feet long and 100 feet wide and a supple
mentary maiginal wharf 1000 feet long,
making a total of more than three miles
of wharf loom for ships, with -water
thirty-five feet deep to float them.
Railroad tracks run directly on the piers,
so that cars can be loaded and unloaded
directly fiom and to the ships. As tho
new ships are completed at Hog Island
it is planned to tow them to the piers
and load tnem with cargoes without the
loss of an hour.
Before the war is over, and while the
terminal is still under the control of the
Government, the whole machinery of the
terminal will be got into operation with a
continual procession of ships moving in
and out, eairying supplies to Euiopc.
Now what Mr. Knight wants to know
and what the live men of Philadelphia
also want to know is what wc arc gains
to do to provide business for tliit termi
nal when the war demand on it ceases.
What is the Chamber of Commerce
doing about it?
What is the Bourse doing?
What are the great textile manufac
turers and what arc the steel mills
doing?
Hog Island was selected by the Ameri
can International Corporation befote the
war as the best site on the Atlantic sea
board for a great railroad terminal to
connect with ocean-going ships. Men out
side of Philadelphia saw its advantages.
When the Government asked them to
build the shipyard and terminal they be
gan at once at Hog Island.
But we here at home were still dream
ing about it. We do not yet realize what
it means. We make a spurt now and
then to develop the business of tho port,
but the movement has always lost
momentum before it has got fairly
started because there has been no driving
force behind it sufficient to break down
the obstacles.
One of tho great obstacles was re
moved by the Government when it took
over the railroads and assumed the power
of diverting freight to the ports to and
from which it could be shipped most eco
nomically. No railroad company can any
longer pass this city by in favor of other
cities. The jealousy among the Pennsyl
vania, the Reading and the Baltimoie and
Ohio systems has ceased to be effective so
far as it relates to the freight that is to
be landed here as their water terminals.
The lines of all three railroads aie con
nected directly with the Hog Island ter
minal. The Federal Director of Railroads
can order that they be used to their full
extent. He will so order so long as the
terminal is to be used for Government
shipments.
But what is needed is the cultivation of
the habit among shipping men of billing
their goods to Europe ahd- to South
America by way of Philadelphia.
This habit u'ill not be contracted unless
the Philadelphia business men combine
to encourage it. The thing can be done
if we only have the will to do it.
Can it be true, as Mr. Knight suggests,
that Philadelphia is like Charleston,
S. C, and that her business men think
the city is finished and that there is
nothing more to be done?
This newspaper does not believe it is
true.
Our business men have shown positive
genius in building up their own enter
prises, until in a score or more of lines
of trade they are unequaled by the busi
ness men of any other city in the country.
But will they get together and pool
their commercial genius for the general
good?
Opportunity knocks at the door. There
should be such a rushing of men to open
it that the welcome visitor cannot possi
bly escape.
STOLEN RIDES
TO EVEN the casual observer on any
gasless Sunday one thing is plain.
Those who ride down the street In an
occasional automobile even those who are
accused of using physicians' nags without'
warrant and whose thin pretension was
plainly, evident even ;bf ore the fuel ad
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ministration discovered It get little fun
out of the adventure.
The gasless Sunday automobllo appears
furtive even from tho icar. Tho driver
Is alwajs in a hurry to get away to an
other place. His passengers take no pleas
ure In the sights along tho way. They
do not like to look to the side.
Conscience Is a terrible thing. Provi
dence seems to have devised It with the
express purpose of making the world safe
for democracy.
It is tho one unfailing weapon that oper
ates In thousands of ways for the great
caue.
Everett Colby, of New
TanUa nnd Thing Jersey, who was one
of the first to go over
tho top with the Bull Mooscrs, has Joined
the tank oorps. Jlr. Colby may easily havo
found life tame and tho promise of noise
nnd trouble alluring after his experiences
with the Moose In those terrible days of old.
And, speaking of politicians In the sirvlce,
one might remark that the rule works back
ward In Pennsjlvanla, where the tank corps
has Joined Judge Bomilwell.
Secretary Baker Is
Some One A1itt 81hj expressing his
-spoils Thlncs amazement nt the
progress which the American army organi
sations have made In Prance. Those who
have not jet learned to forglvo Jlr. liaker
for his earlier Inhibitions will say that thej
can understand his amazement, but that thej
cannot understand why he wasn't dazed.
Judging from the re
ported eagerness of
battle correspondents
Write, They Do
Itlglit Tliey Are
to throw up their jobs
army It may be gathered
write for others are also
themselves
ind fight In the
that tho-o who
nn!ous to rlEht
The plight of the Kal-
An Imperial ser suggests that of a
Pendant tjrant who maj- "be
hanged if ho knows"
w hj- he's
doesn't.
losing the war, and also If he
The Kaiser talks and
It Ilml to tome talks and talks unbe
lievable nonsense, and
jet no one has er thought of speaking of
him as a gas bum !
CAMPHOR BALLS
Fl
none rummaijlnq In an editor's pigeon
holes, how, many poets there are in the
u orld.
Mr. Cattell. the rit)i statistician, hai cal
culated that in Philadelphia alone one poem
is rejected ei cry minute.
Our pocti haic been complaining that
xic don't treat them gcnciouily enough.
Therefore tec haic plcasuie in rjivtnij them
the whole department today. In the mean
time, we will go out and have a talk uith
a coal dealer uhile the artliti perform.
On Reading Some Anthologies of Poetry
r CHASTEN'i: bards who tang In lyric
prose and rhjme,
We catch j'our plaints and groans across
the bridge of time.
What secret power or vision has played
Its subtle part
To waft jour souls to us so cast In magic
nrt'.'
What gift made jou divine the thoughts
that stir the breast?
Tho lurking dreams In us, we maivel jou
had guessed.
Your words ate walling jet, though throats
that Fobbed are stilled,
You help us bear such griefs as your own
hearts had filled.
W1
ITH gasping breath we hear each
sweet and tuneful dirge,
Which calms our sorrowed spirit and stills
Its restless surge.
You
tame and soothe despair that else
would grow too wild;
art like jouis must make a raglnc-
For
anguish mild.
For time hasn't made one bosom with care
jet heave the less.
Wo voice tho same old longings, tho .same
old gods address
A sad though pleasant cure to easo us of
our tears
To echo doleful songs of past and weeping
J ears, ,
And dwell upon the words a poet made In
pain,
And sip a little honey from his sad refrain.
ALBERT MORDELL.
You Ask Me to Forget
"W'OU ask mo to forget this hour
- This hour that was a life to me;
Ah, would it were within my power
To stem the floods of memorj-.
This hour has filled my life, and jet,
Alas, you ask me to forget'
TUTUST I forget these kind brown eyes,
" Must I forget these tremulous lips,
Tho cool white arm that round me lies
The while I kiss jour finger tips
Ah, wish that we had never met.
But do not ask me to forget'
H. TARR BELL.
Ode to a Druggist
TN ML'SORAVE'S store In Scranton town
-- There Is one Philip Jones;
Who mixes up tho poison stuff.
And likewise Ice cream cones.
A verj' busy man Is he
Correcting pains arid ills,
And in his time has doubtless sold,
A million bilious pills.
MOONSTRUCK.
The Poet
Though man forsaken, I am God-attended.
Though love-forlorn, the Spirits love me.
I listen to those songs with Heaven
blended:
And though for it all men reprove me'
LOUIS M. EILSHEMIUS.
Supreme Spirit of the Spheres.
Query
Who can alleviate
The Joy of a Boclal worker
Alleviating
The sorrows of the poor?
DOVE DULCET.
In case there should be a great popular
clamor for more poetry, you will be pleased
to hear that our pigeon-holes are '.aden
with plenty more of this star-dust.
SOCRATES.
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WkLrm
T. R. and the 1920 Issue
Do Dnnpcrs of the New Interna
tionalism Give, tho Repub
licans a Great Cause?
Uy HART HAIFA'
TT IS Colonel Roosevelt's fate or should
one snv his pleasure? to Inspire in his
critics a flerj, an almost religious, zeal, Those
who Instinctively oppose themselves to the
Colonel In nil things grent and small are
clever men Thej- are almost as cVvver as
the Colonel And the Colonel keeps them talk
ing. He keeps their minds going In twenty-four-hour
fhlfts lie compels them to rake
their gifted souls for tho sort of elemental
truth which thej' deem necessary to lay him
stark and low
The process Is one that serves to enrich
general intelligence and to clarify popular
opinion So, In a manner singularly novel
nnd picturesque, the most tumultuous ex
rresldent In this or any other world still
manages to do his countr.v an Immense serv
ice. It does not matter (hat he Is often upon
questionable giound or that his adversaries
nro often on questionable giound. Between
them they give us light to see bj
It Is easv to visualize Colonel Roosevelt
ns a "olitarj-, cloaked figure plodding Indus
triously among the Unanswerable Questions
of the Hour and trailed alwajs bj- a close
knit, shadoviv group, well armed and Intent
upon an enveloping or flanking movement
designed to make him a prisoner of logic or
a major lasualtj Attacks and Impacts are
frequent Thej are not casual, Thej are
sudden nolv furious There are sorties In
the dusk, 'cutlles. shouts and cries of pain
No one is ever victorious But the clash of
stupendous weapons, of Ideas sharp and new,
brings spiiks that often leave n motnentarv
revealing light upon the No Man's Land of
national pclitli
Till' ( olonel is ju-t emerging from one of
thrM- encounters perhaps the mostslg
nlflcant rmnunter of the ear. And a new
and shining thing Is visible In the dust of
the scuffle ft begins to appear that Colonel
Roosevelt has liei n able to unrover a really
formidable Nsne for the campaign of 1920
that he has performed a miracle that was
hej-ond the power even of Jlr Lodge In his
listening post at Washington. The Colonel,
with his usual gtnlus for reaching the mass
consciousness In a sensltlvo place, seems lo
have laid his hands upon an Issue that may
grow to prodigious importance; that should
serve to touch the popular Imagination
swlftlv and surelv, and that Is touched, too,
with the hues of romance It Is an Issue
that Ins the added advantage of being star
spangled The question which he raised in his most
recent address is whether the United States,
through a philosophically minded and ldeallv
disposed Democratic Administration, shall
commit Itself fully to a program of Interna
tionalism whether It will merge Its nusteie
Identity vith other nations In the course of
peacemaking, whether the republic Is to re
main proudlv nloof, self-sufficient and free
from the confusing Interests of alien policies
and the novel concerns sure to be Involved
In a program of close co-operations with for
eign nations old nnd new. Nothing that has
been turned up by the swift current of recent
events is so alluring as this general query
or so potential as a rousing challenge to
national feeling The principle upon which
Colonel Roosevelt seems bent on sounding the
countrj and his own partj is opposed. In
manv of its aspects, to tho present trend of
administrative philosophj at Washington.
Undoubtedly the countrj Is being taught to
think more and more in terms of Interna
tionalism The question to be raised Is, of
course, how far we can go with safetj.
TIUl addiess that carried Colonel Roose
velt's habitual critics nlmost to the brink
of hysteria was delivered a few dajs ago.
It was full of sneers for the doctrines of
Internationalism It was opposed to the pro
posed League of Peace Jlr Taft's organiza
tion. "Nationalism," said the Colonel, "corre
sponds to the love a man bears for his wife
and children Internationalism corresponds
to the feeling he has for his neighbors gen
erally To substitute nationalism for Inter
nationalism means to do awaj- with patriot
ism. It Is as vicious and as profoundly de
moralizing as to put promiscuous devotion
to all other persons In the place of the stead
fast devotion of a man to his own family!"
This address has been answered bj Colonel
Roosevelt's adversaries in various vvajs
with studied contempt, with noisj rage, with
screeching derision Is this the man, thej
crj. who a little whllo ago was willing to
sacrifice all the blood In America to make
Poland free and Insure unto the Czecho
Slavs a place In the much-talked-of sun-
And If a man should love his wife best of
all and his country like his wife and chil
dren, why should he be asked to depart fiom
his wife and to leave her widowed. If need
be, for the sake of the wives of France and
Belgium?
HERC the two theories clash brightly
enough. And jet Colonel Roosevelt and
his critics have not vet attempted to do more
than touch the surface of n question that
becomes larger everj daj Certujnlj when
peace Is declared we shall have no easy time
determining the part wo shall take In Inter
national politics. Undlcss morasses He In
that direction nmotlon.il and Intellectual
forces, tremendous and Immeasurable, ate
Impelling the United States In the drift to
ward a new Internationalism to a place at
which we should have to give up something
of our old exclusivities' and, perhaps, not a
little of our national energj. No one can get
the measure of the new world that Is to be.
So far It Is onlv possible to perceive the
looming difficulties vaguely. That we shall
have to make stupendous decisions when the
war ends Is certain Shall we decide to re
turn to the old point of view, to withdraw
to our own berdeis and leave Europe to make
the best use possible of the gifts we have
put In her hands' To what extent, on tho
other hand, shall we assume responslbllltj
for new and shaky Uuropean governments?
Which Is the safe and most honorable way?
Could the League of Nations keep the In
dividual members In order? Will the new
little nations maintain In peace the Ideals
that they are watting for? If they do not
Bhall we go abroad to make future wars?
These are but superficial queries related to
a great central question of our future course,
and yet no man can answer them until he
has seen tne lorms aim snapes into which
civilized opinions settle In a made-over world
fresh from the fire
But In risking to bring the great topic to
the fore Colonel Roosevelt has manifested
his old virility of mind And he Is In a
way to make the campaign of 1920 a cam
paign of constructive thinking and one that
may well be the most Interesting, rather than
the dullest, of a generation.
Special Assistant United States Attorney
Roberts asserted that editorials In the Phila
delphia Tageblatt Interfered with the draft.
Not so you could notice It, whatever may
have been the Intent.
"Finnish throne In doubt," saj's a head
line. Yet there Is no doubt whatever about
the throne finish In certain quarters of the
globe.
That Hejaz band which so gallantly co
operated In General Allenby's-victory seems
to have converted the "Turkish Patrol" Into
a "rag."
Foolish question for September 24:
What's tie use in the Kaiser promising the
Sultan a free hand In Persia, when Turkey
has already taken the count In Palestine?
The war experts tell us that General
Allenbj-'s front In Palestine "extends
roughly north." "Roughly" Is right.
Some few Turks may withdraw to Tyre,
1 but 26.0Q0 tlreiwlthout wlthdrawlm. , iThat la our Aceldama, our PoUer VMt, O-
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"HOW COULD I HELP
Making Marathon
By CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
THE Urchin and I have been strolling
about JIarathon. on Sundaj mornings for
more than a jear, but not until the gaso
llneless Sabbaths supervened were we really
able to examine the village and see what It
Is like. Previously we had been kept busy
either dodgmg motors or admiring them as
they sped bj. Their rich dazzle of burnished
enamel, the purring hum of their great thes,
evokes applause from the Urchin He Is
learning, as he watches those flashing chari
ots, that life truly Is almost as vivid as the
advertisements In The Ladles' Home Journal,
where the shimmer of earthly pageant first
was presented to him.
w,
ARATHON Is a village so genteel and
comely that the Urchin and I would like
to leave some picture of It for future gener
ations, partlcularlj as we see It on an
autumn morning when, as I saj, the motors
are kenneled and the landscape has ceased
to vibrate. In the douce benlgnance of equi
noctial sunshine we gaze about us with ejes
of Inventorj. Where mj obseivatlou errs bj
too much sentiment the Urchin checks mo
by his cooler power of ratiocination.
JIarathon Is a suburban Xnnadu gently
caressed by the train service of the Cinder
and Bloodshot. It may be recognized ns
an aristocratic and patrician stronghold by
the fact that whllo luxuries are readily ob
tainable (for Instance, banana splits, or the
latest novel by Enoch A. Bennett), neces
saries are had onlj bj prayer and adv6wson.
The drug store will deliver Ice cream to jour
very refrigerator, but It Is Impossible to
get your garbage collected. The cook goes
oft for her Thursday evening in a taxi, but
jou will have to mend the roof, stanch the
plumbing and curry the furnace with jour
own hands. There are ten trains to take jou
to town of an evening, but only two to
bring ou home. Yet going to town Is a
luxurj, coming home is a necessitj. The
supply of grape Julco seems almost unlimited,
yet coal is to be had catch-as-catch-can.
ANOTHER proof that Marathon is patrl--cian
dt heart Is that nothing Is known
by Its right name! The drug store Is a
"pharmacj," Sunday Is "the Sabbath," a
house is a "residence," a efebt is a "balance
due on bill rendered." A girls' school Is a
"j'oung ladles' seminary." A JIarathon man
Is not drafted, he is "inducted Into selective
service." And the rallvvaj station has a
porte cochere (with the correct accent) in
stead of a carriage entrance. A furnace Is
(how erroneously!) called a "heater." JIara
thon people do not die they "pass awaj."
Even the cobbler, good fellow, has caught
the trick: he calls his shop the "Ralo
American Shoe Hospital."
THIS Is an Innocent masquerade! If JIara
thon prefers not to call a flivver a flivver,
I shall not expostulate. And yet this quaint
subterfuge should not be carried quite so far.
Stone walls are made for Bunny lounging;
jet stone walls In Marathon are built with
uneven vertical projections to discourage the
sedentary parts. Nothing is more delightful
than a dog ; but there are no dogs In Marathon.
"Ihey are all alredales or spaniels or mas
tiffs. If an ordinary dog should tvai his tall
up our strett the alredales would cut him
dead. Bless me, Nature herselt nas taken
to the same insincerity. The landscape
round Marathon Is lovely, but It has Itself
well in hand. The hills all pretend to be
gentle declivities. There is a beautiful little
sheet of water, reflecting the trallery of
willows, a green salute to the eye. In a
robuster community It would be a swimming
hole but with us. an ornamental lake! .Only
In one spot has Nature forgotten herselt and
been so brusque and rough as to Jut up a
very Blzable cliff. This is the loveliest thing
In Marathon: sunlight and shadow break
and angle In cubist magnificence among the
oddly veined knobs and prisms of brown
stone. Yet this cliff or quarry Is by com
mon consent taboo among us. R Is our In
delicacy, our Indecency, Such "residences"
ob are near modestly turn their' kitchens
toward It. Only the blacksmith and the gas
tacks are hardy enough to face this naked
ness of Mother Earth they, and excellent
Pat Lemon, Marathon's humblest and black
est citizen, who contemplates that rugged
and honest beattty as he tills his garden on
me tana aoanaonea ny squeamlsn Durgners.
IT? ALLAH QUIT WHEN HE FOUND-GOTT
HAD DESERTED!!"
Safe for the Urchin
onlj appioachcd by the athletic, who keep
their ejes from Nature's Indiscretion bj' vig
orous sets of tennis In the purple shadow
of the cliff.
T IFI3
J-J Natl
Is queerlj Inverted In JIarathon.
ture has been so bullied and repressed
that she fawns about us tlmldlj. No well
conducted suburbin shrubberj would think
of assuming autumn tints before the ladles
have got Into their fall fashions Indied
none of our chaste trees will even shed their
leaves while any one Is watching; and thej
crouch modestly In tho shade of our massive
garages. 'They havo been taught their place.
In JIarathon It is a worse sin to have jour
lawn uncut than to have j'our books or j'our
hair uncut. I havo been awaro of Indignant
ejes because I let my back garden run wild.
And jet I flatter myself It was not mere
sloth. No! I want the Urchin to see what
this savage tempestuous world Is like. What
preparation for life is a village where Na
ture comes to heel like a spaniel? When a
thunderstorm disorganizes our electric lights
for an hour or so wo feel It a personal
affront. Let my rearward plot be a deep
tangled wllduood where tho happy Urchin
inaj' imagine something more ferocious lurk
ing than a posse of radishes. Indeed, I
hardly know whether JIarathon Is a safe
place to bring up a child. How can he learn
the horrors of drink In a village where there
Is no saloon? 6r the sadness of the seven
deadly sins where thero Is no movie? Or
deference to his betters where tho chauffeurs,
In their wltheicel leather legs, drive limou
sines to the drug store to buy expensive
cigars while their employers walk to the
station pulling briar pipes?
I HAVE been hoping that tho war would
knock somo of tliis topsj'-turvy nonsense
out of us. JIajbe It will. Sometimes I see
oh the faces of our commuters the unac
customed agitation of thought. At least we
still have tho grace to call ourselves a
suburb, and not (what we fancy ourselves)
a superurb But I don't like the pretense
that run-s Uko a Jarring note through the
music of our life. Why Is It that those who
are doing the work must pretend they are
not doing it ; and those not doing the work
pretend that they are? I see that the motor
messenger gir.ls vjho drive high-powered cars
wear Sam Browne belts and heavy-soled
boots, whereas the stalwart colored wenches
who labor along the tracks pf the Cinder and
Bloodshot console themselves with flimsy
waists and light slippers. (A fact!; By
and by .the Urchin will notice these things.
And I don't want him to grow up the kind
of chap who. Instead of running to catch a
train, foiters gracefully to the station and
waits to be caught.
The Vatican's Position
To the Vdltor of the Evening Public Ledger:
Sir A dispatch from The Hague describ
ing the ceremonial opening of the Dutch
Parliament last week contained the follow
ing sentences:
"The heads of the Entente diplomats were
divided from those of tho Central Empires
by an aisle. It Is perhaps significant that
tho representative of the Holy See was seated
with the latter." No one can seriously attach
any significance to the fact that the Pope's
representative happened to take his seat with
the Teutonic diplomats Undoubtedly it was
a regrettable accident that the papal envoy
should have been seated on cither side; It
could not bo more than an accident.
In a world torn with liaBslon and beset
with tears there Iihb been no more honorable
and consoling spectacle than the Holy See's
preservation of a neutral heart. From the
papacy saddened humanity expects and de
sires no partisanship. Those who have pre
tended to misunderstand the Vatican's ten
tative moves for an armistice willfully dis
regard the wholo mission and function of
the Pope. It Is wholesome to quote again
the words of the Pope In his appeal to
the belligerent nations In August, 1917.
These, the Pope said then, are the three
purposes the See has had In mind: Per
fect Impartiality toward all belligerents
as Is suitable for Him who Is the Com
mon Father and who loves "all His chil
dren with equal affection. Continually to
attempt to do all the good possible, and that
without exception of person, without distinc
tion of nationality or religion, as Is dictated
to ub by the universal law of charity, Flnaljy.
our pacific mission also requires to omit
nothing as long ae It was In our power which
might contribute to hasten the end of this
calamity.
Even In the midst of our just passion IMs
well to know that at leaBi one agency Is
as neutral ias the human heart may be.
JUSTJQBv
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The Food I Left Behind Me
W
E HEARD today from one among
The first to cross the sea.
I've slept In tho rain and mud," he said,
"Where candles are a luxurj.
Though it majbe that )-our reply
To this will never find me,
I only know of one regret
Tho food I left behind me !
44T'VH -slept wl
- I've snlffcc
ith rats In crater holes
e sniffed the gases fought the lice
I've passed up sleep and passed up smokes,
Tho thousand things j-ou sacrifice ;
But here I staj to see it through.
There's Just one tie to bind me
To the life I lived so long ago
The food I left behind me 1
(tfT0 think of salads, steaks, and chops,
-L Potatoes, pie and savory fish
I left upon my dinner plato!
I often wish I had some dish
I spurned in the past whose very sight
Today would nearly blind me
Would I had what waiters got
Of tho food I left behind me I
rpHOSE plates of luscious edibles
J- I nibbled at and pushed away
Now rise again like steaming wraiths
And haunt me every eatless day.
Oh! some one send me kindly t
A table d'hote allowance of ,
The food I left behind me !"
Sergt. John I. Roche, in "Rimes in Ollri
Drab." .
Russia's Rainbow Division
In Russia we now have the Red Guard's
(Bolshevik), the White Guards (bourgeplBlo),
the Green Guards (Czecho-Slovaks), and the
Black Guards (anarchists). Why not unite
them In a Rainbow Division? The Inde
pendent. From a Window
A winter evening, but the frozen land "m
Presents one cheerful picture; there below,
Shaking as tno with laughter, poplars stand, "
And warm their fingers at the sunset glow,
Antoinette de C. Patterson in Contemporary
Verse.
Vision of Peace
Once more the sea on which we float
Will be a pleasant place
And give Sir Thomas Llpton's boat.
Another chance to race.
Washington Star.
The Huns are indeed exiles when pushed
out even from strips of No Man's Land along
the western front.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. Who la In command of the victorious British
forces In Palestine? "
2. VVhr Is the rlxht side of a ship called th .
starboard?
8. Which l the Wolrerlne State? ' '
4. Who Is the American ambaasador to IUlt
5. When was .Jerusalem taken by the Cru
saders?
e. Who said "It Is a condition which confronts '" t,
us, not a theoir"? J
7. How does the republic of .Ecuador set tta- V
name?
8. What Is fit-mine? ' v
V, What syllable should be aciented In the -
word extant? i ,
10. Which n the last southern Stat to secede Jn
from the Union In 1881? P
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Sofia Is -the capital of lluUarla. . V
2. Vice I'relclent Marshall comes from Indiana.'
3. "Oemnltlon how wonrs" Is a faTorit i-V-j-
nrnnloii of Mr. Mantullni In Dickens's f'f
"Nicholas Nlcklebjr." $ '
4. A casserole l a heat-proof, earthenware Tea-
set In which various foods are cooked and
aerved. ' ' i
S. An Isotcelc trlantle Is one of which two Idea--'
are equal In lenith.
0, Anaanwy is i ne iianan vrora ror lolnr. is , ,
7. Charles Keade wrote "The Cloister and the j
Hearth."
8. The Hallo law. orlrlnatfnc In the MIMtal' '
Aays. eiclajied females from drnastla aw:'-
ceiaion ton tnrone. , w.i .44'
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