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BVi,, .Philadelphia, WVdn.iJ.j. Srplrmbrr S3, 1918
HE HADN'l THE NERVE
aMTATOR SMITH has again done the ex-
E:r
a am usual vim mm, aner starting out uy
Lfmpulse In the right direction he has wab-
E'bled around Into the back-track of "the
i Males t way."
K'When he tore up Sheriff Itansley's re-
quest for a "voluntary contribution to
fc!tthe Vare committee and contemptuously
I. "threw It Into the waste-basket, he was on
bVTJL . , .T , .
sirre. maniy ana courageous irucn. riao ne
J pursued this course to the end he could
gpjiave been forgiven much that he has done
i,0Tnot done in the Mayor's office, for it
l! would have emboldened a lot of needy
municipal employes to defy the political
! ttacers.
?? 'Titi ! ivAd inn Tntmli In pvriAi-t Ilia rp.
,fy -v ....... ........ -
v lution based on right Impulse caved as
fin as his bold act of Insubordination to
' . . ... . .. . .
Wi S i real masters oi Jiiy nan necame
Pf fwn to the public.
f Sit would oe interesting to Know unetner
Kj Aat thousand-dollar check happened to be
.written on yellow paper.
A. tt.A -witrir-tt nf t.nhnnnn lh Tnrla
BJwJll soon be suggesting; a revision of the
K&Itevised Version.
Br! .
THAT OTHER PHILADELPHIA
1HE redemption of Philadelphia is immi
nent. Neither Mayor Smith nor the
lyiittle fellow" nor "L'ncle" Dae Lane has
IfaMty immediate cause for anxiety, for the
Philadelphia that lias been saved is on
!-ii.banIc8 of the Jabbok, not the Delaware.
fe&tolemy Philadelphus named it after
EuSCSisetf a couple" of millenniums ago. It's
jXjJrO-called Rabbath Ammon, after the chil-"
bjEjn oi Ammon, iracms tneir oriKin to
it nephew ot Abraham, and it lies on
"yjrllejaz railway, toward which the Turk"),
te'lliefhy' Allenby's steam-roller, are now
fuaftiflK-
P4It Is the evident intention of the forces
uivjiiabiuii iiiai uuiuca ui ucicuiru vL
l shall not tarry long near the Syrian
liladelphla. Their representatives hnc
dy been there several centuries andj
aorant aespotism nas nourlsneu in tnat,
Phlladelphlans now have a chance
r:Ut end it and also the opportunity to conf
?Vre honest government with corruption.
fk.Aa mor than nrobable thev will rlsn
Ri-- help drive their tyrants Into the ob-
jKHylon of the desert.
i'miaQeipnia on cue .laoooK, inoucn a
iHttle town, is to be envied. It stands on
tM threshold of a new freedom east of
, Jordan. Vfpr is dislodging Its gang. Com-
sons are painful. What's In a name?
f
v.
fere Is this difference between Xapo-
Allenby. The former retreated from
The latter advanced there.
tW St-AUNfeKlSftl JJIACINlMfcUf
tSTTIS 'unfortunate that faults alwav.s
K"lBvite a concentration of attention that
perfection rarely commands. The enthu
'aUusai and earnestness manifested by the
Wprkers at Eddystone on the occasion of
aaWcretary Daniels's visit must have been
i?wrirlalnK to those who are obsessed with
fcWltelief, that the war Industries hereabouts
-.Slackers, as a matter of fact, are far
k.fewer than most people suppose. There
kfe'-nrobably a slacker or two In almost
'every community. There are slackers to
B befound now and then in Congress. Xo
organization is without a few shirkers.
,v!rjjit;ls because of the consistency of our
'War- enort and the steady application of
the!, majority of the men and women in
LitKeVwar Industries that the occasional
MlC;ier a conspicuous.
Si' fa.'-nlFn irlanf rtf na attitntln., tn T)UM.
- ,w. t r w Miv ailuauuii 111 A lllltl-
iphla. at the results being achieved in
Lgtin factories, the shipyards and the
w 'InHiiatrtoct rl!itH tn tha na nm,1
ite that nineteen men out of every
Mty are doing their work efficiently
Dipdwell.
v T?4
ViJThe Turks never had any business fn
iTHoly Land anyway, and ther seem to
W'realUlng it.
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CHURCH AND THE MOTORS
flffBRprMEN and all other persons who
hafan Instinctive concern fo human
'Have been troubled for years by
ent disinclination of men to go
on Sunday.
Mcent disturbance in Lansdowne,
a .citizen held that he had a right
Hjft' Mi motor to take him and his
r to cnurcn on gusiess aunuays, u-,,-quick
and efficient means to .an
tMeftttMel church attendance.
aunaays are me ruie in an ter-
ast of the Mississippi. If the fuel
ration will announce formally that
i dictum doesn't apply to church-
Spirituality will Instantly become
?1Y
who. live In 'Germantown will
"attend church In Atlantic City,
rban churches hereabouts will
- -with u worshipers from
COAL DISTRIBUTION
THAT DOESiN'T DISTRIBUTE
Why It It That Some Sections and Some
Dealers Have Coat and Others Arc
Passed By?
AJtTHY is it that some dealers can Ret
' ' coal for their customers and others
cannot?
Why is it that some householders, who
put in their orders in April, have coal in
their cellars, and others, who put in their
orders at the same time, nre still waiting
for the delivery of the first ton?
These are questions which thousands
of families are asking: in these cool days.
Their houses are uncomfortably cold.
They cannot heat them with nas. They
can get no coal for the kitchen range, nor
any coal for the furnace. And if they
could get coal for the furnace, they are
nsked not to start a fire there until No
vember. Francis A. Lewis, the Federal fuel ad
ministrator for the city, has charge of
the distribution of coal. One naturally
looks to him for an explanation.
But nothing that Mr. Lewis has said
thus far explains.
Conditions in the northern part of the
city nnd suburbs are worse than in other
districts. Mr. Lewis says that the coal
shortage there is due to the increase in
population following the erection of new
houses.
This does not explain why some coal
dealers in that section have been supplied
with so small a quantity that they are
unable to deliver even one ton of coal or
deied by old customers. Nor docs it ex
plain why persons moving into the dis
trict have been able to get coal delivered
from dealers outside of the territory into
which they have moved.
The fuel administration has ordered
that coal is to be delivered from the yard
nearest to the home of the purchaser.
Yet coal dealers have delivered coal to
men who have moved outside of their dis
trict, while the dealers within the district
to which the families have moved have
no coal in their yards.
It is evident that something is wrong
with the method of distribution. No one
is complaining that he is unable to get a
full supply of coal in his cellar at the
present time, although the fuel adminis
trator has been calling upon the people to
fill their cellars in the summer. But there
is complaint because of the inability to
get coal into cellafs that are empty in
spite of the observance by the house
holders of all the retaliations of which
they have been able to learn.
The coal Itax been m,ned. The monthly
reports issued by the Anthracite Bureau
of Information show that more tons have
been taken out of the ground this year
than in the same period last year. We arc
told that moie coal has been shipped to
Philadelphia than is usual in the summer
months, and we have alo been told that
coal has been shipped to other parts of
the country in order that they might be
supplied before cold weather sets in, and
that most of the coal used here is brought
in during the wirlter. We are near the
mines and it can be got here quickly.
But one looks through these explana
tions in vain for any litrht on the reason
for the empty coal yards and the empty
coal cellars in the northern part of the
city. They are no more illuminating
than the explanation that the cellars and
yards there are empty because new
houses have attracted new population.
They do not tell why certain little local
dealers have been passed by in the dis
tribution of coal. They do not indicate
that there was a proportional distribu
tion among all dealers based upon the
amount which they are accustomed to
handle, for there has been no such dis
tribution. Unless something is done and done at
once to r-zlieve the shortage there will be
suffering and sickncc as a direct result
of the failure of the fuel administration
to secure an equitable distribution of
such cool as has reached the city. And
if colds contracted by children and old
persons develop into fatal pneumonia, the
responsibility will be placed directly
upon the shoulders of those whose neglect
has produced the present intolerable con
ditions. No matter how much soft drinks are
said to be favored, It Is perfectly evident
that within a few months we shall be un
able to get near beer.
AN INTERNATIONAL HAT
w,
HEX Senator J. Hamilton Lewis but
toned up his amethystine vest and
adjusted his elephant's breath spats und
took his gold-headed cane firmly in hand
and departed radiantly overseas to assure
himself that there were no weak spots In
the Allied lines and that the navies of
civilization were p.'operly disposed, he did
not receive a Distinguished Service medal
or a V. C. or yet the Croix de Guerre. His
tory must explain, In calmer hours than
these, this grievous lapse of kings and
presidents.
Yet Senator J. Ham was decorated He
was decorated In Piccadilly, where a Lon
don haberdasher, touched In the sensitive
heart that all London haberdashers have
by the charm and statellness of the visitor
from afar, and moving In a sudden blaze
of emotion, thrust upon him a hat. The
hat was given without reward or price.
It Is no ordinary hat. Indeed, there Is said
to be no other hat like it in all this wide
and various world. It Is a high hat of
silk and of the color of cream a neutral
tone best fitted to catch and radiate In a
colorless world the glad lights of morn
Ins and the dim effulgence cf glorious eve.
The brim. Is broad. The crown Is higher
than that of any other hat. There are
rich ribbons upon It. He who made It had
held it at the kingly price of six quid.
The emotional tumult m which Senator
Ham returned with the Hat would make
Jt appear that tears may havo been shed
at fhe bestowal. Hands were wrung.
Senator Lewis does not deny that his
heart melted at the overwhelming demon
stration of International amlty that he
met with In Piccadilly. The Hun heard of
lit, -- m Wt-tof-MSumali"t
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L'-boats lurked In the night and torpedoed
the ship on which the Senator returned
with his treasure to his native land. Hut
through storm and darkness and nil the
perils of the deep the most sublime of
kellys was guarded, to be landed ut last
upon our beloved shores.
It Is not surprising that Senator Lewis
tells of all this In a Voice of emotion or
that a man so sensitive as he' should lmye
been moved to eloquence at the gince of
a humble shopkeeper who co appropri
ately made good the shortcomings of cap
tains and governments by making honor
able tribute to the emissary of nn Allied
Power. Hut In the news from Washing
ton there is a suggestion that Senator
Lewis is disposed to regard that Hat as
his own exclusive property. This Is a re
grettable attitude. The hat Is an emblem.
It should, so to speak, be put to a national
use.
Secretary Daniels assures us that he has
solemnly resolved to march Into Berlin
with the I'nlted States Marine Hand. The
one weakness of Mr. Daniels Is icvealed
in his Incurable disposition, to wear the
soft black slouch hat which Is ever pain
fully reminiscent of the fevers of popu
lism. Why shouldn't Senator Lewis lend
the gieat hat to Mr. Daniels for this su
preme occasion? We could thus mock the
Huns who tried so desperately to sink It
and we could show Berlin that we, too,
know not only how to kick a dog, but
how to pile dog on when the occasion re
qtilies It.
N'ow ii the time for the girls to lay In
a stock of heels They will be low, the con
servationist manufacturers Inform us, no
matter how high shoes may go
COMPOUNDING PIRACY
GKftMANY'S hit
seven interneil
test bribe to Spain is
rned Hun steamships as
compensation for the destruction of 3D
per cent ot Spanish shipping and persis
tent submarine outrage. The off-'r will
probably he accepted, since King Alfonso's
country, onre a synonym for p-ide, dally
undergoes Ignominy in the effort to pre
serve that hopeless archaism, lieulialit.v
It Is no surprise, of course, to leal n that
the Hun compounding of mtirdi1- and
phacy is simply another dirty ileal. It Is
worth while remembering, however, that
the Herman proposal is marie to a'pation
at peace. Contemptible barler'ng of this
Kind Is interestingh inrik-.Vive of the bar
gains that would have been suggested had
any negotiations been attempted between
the Teutons and their fois
A land where polities Is adjourned may
think It.s-Klf sophisticated, hut none the less
the development of primary Instincts Is more
than perceptible espiclallv in ."evv Jersey.
GUDEIU'S ACAIN
r;
TUB Playgrounds Assoclnt'ou has the
:lme and nionev necesaiy for a suit lo
test the validity of the Mayor's ictinn In
ousting a lioatri of directors and putting
K. II. nuriehus, :ijioltieal favorite, in a
cushioned job. It will be supported in the
fight bv public opinion
The Mayor has done his worst with the
playground system. His whole rourse In
the nuriehus case lias tended to lesson the
confident e nnd Intel est of the public in nn
eMremelv important unci piomlslng branch
nf community service. If some of his mis
takes can be undone the playground sys
tem will be the better for It.
The captme of Acre
recalls (lie greatest
davs of the Crusades.
The Historic Town
of Acre
Yew town have sfen
mure Hclitlng It nas taken liv the Cru
saders Ihe Allies of that day in 11(14. In
11 ST the sultan Saladln recaptured it In
1ll the Crusaders got It again and held
It for a hundred cars. during which time
It became the headquarters nf the famous
Knights of St .lohu In 12DI il fell to Dip
Saracens, In 1517 taken again by the Turks
In 1799 Napoleon's armies besieged It for
clxty-one rias. It has been continuously in
Turkish hands since 1SI0 And now Allenby
has It.
A pieat many persons
Tliey MlKht sire concerned about
Help Hie whereabouts of
college cheer leaders
nnd worried about the work that they may
do to help crush the Hun. It is a difficult
prospect. Yet the cheer leaders might help
at the shipjards by beginning a demonstra
tion of riotous enthusiasm every time a ball
player drives n rivet.
Our Idea of a movie
IliijHlt.v nt Home queen is not fairly
represented by any of
the girls In the pictures. It always brings
to mind the austerely lovely and frigidly
aloof joung thing who condescends to sell
tickets from a glass cage at the entrance.
A ceitain statesman
J.I I tic t'P " was given a curd-col-
Tliat I.lil ored plug hat, but he
shows a reluctance to
wear it. Is tills due to any instinctive feel
ing on his part that he cannot put under
neath it anything that would do the lid
justice?
The fuel chiefs in
Coaled W a s h I n g t o n who
Comfort turned on the steam
radiators In their of
fice before the allotted time seem not to
have been public benefactors until their act
Is given full consideration. Then It makes
us hot to think about it.
With the advent of
Watch Your Inatept cool weather shimmer
ing ankles disappear
behind the occluding spat And fair rhoul
ders, conversely, reappear from under the
summer-long furs.
Germany seems to
Or Windbag- have been unfortunate
In her choice of allies.
The only ones that have really been Snuch
help to her are the Bolshevtkl, and they are
In the nature of a windfall.
The fact that the
Kaiser hasn't an
nounced where he will
lint There'll
He Xo Turkey
eat his Christmas din
ner this year Inclines one to believe that
the Entente has taken over his engagement
book.
The news that Allied
Will Tliey airmen have been
Take a Hint? dropping thousands of
pamphlets on Conatan-
tlnople sufg-esta that now the Turks will
have ne excuse for not turning- over a 'new
1 THE GOWNSMAN
Has the German Leopard Changed
His 'Spots?
a X ABSORBINGLY Interesting new book
aTJl's "Genserlc, King of the Vandals and
Klrst Prussian Kaiser," by Poultney Blge
low. In It we find an historical analogy,
sustained with wide learning nnd unfailing
vivacity, between the old barbarian chief of
a Haltjc tribe who overran Spain and cross-Ing-lntb
Africa In the year 427 founded there
tho empire of the Vandals, and the' present
marauders Into western Kurope. Genserlc
wns more or less an upstart i the Hohcn
zollerns ore likewise upstarts, except f" the
blood that thev have contrived to Incorpo
rate by means of politic marriages. It must
be hard for the haughty Hnpsburgs who
are nt least somebody to endure some things
at the hands of the descendants of the crafty
burgher counts of Nuremberg who built a
d nasty on a mortgngo thriftily foreclosed.
But Mr. Blgelow's analogies are not only
biological and historical; they extend, with
some striking results, Into the barbarian war
fare, the conscienceless politics, the mouth
ings of religion, the megalomania- and brutal
materialism and the utte- faithlessness of
tho Teutonic Junker of the afth century and
his reincarnation, through Frederick, pre
posterously called "the Great," nnd some
other like worthies, In the present Kaiser.
The book Is n triumphant refutation of the
wire-drawn distinction between "good old
Germany" of the jears prior to 1913 and the
ravening beast that we now know.
THEHE was an old fellow In the days of
Queen Elizabeth, just of the years of
Shakespeare, who held a traveling fellow
ship of his I'nlverslty of Cambridge and
spent several years abroad, among other
countries, In Germany. The traits that he
observed are the traits of tho people today;
though the Junker as such was concealed
from excellent old Kjnes Moryson. lie noted
the German addiction to gross living, for
example, and to bibulous sittings. He noted
the Teutonic heaviness and the Teutonic
savagery when aroused He told how the
German people ran after a third-rate London
company of actors that he was ashamed
to acknowledge . because the Germans had
no drama nor much literature of any
kind for that matter at that time. Morjson
was- no prophet, only a clever traveler with
his eyes open. His "Itinery" is a very divcit
Ing book
ASTOHY used to be told In Dresden but
not by Germans of bow, on the narrow
footway of the bridge between the old and
the new town, an American gentleman was
accustomed to meet a German olllcer every
mnrnlni- ,n,liit- Iho other l!LV. The Olllcer
marched straight oh his way and, to avoid'
collision, the American hail stepped asme
for several mornings. Hut the American was
a man of spirit So. one day, he did not
step aside, anil the Inevitable collision took
place. To the astonished olllcer be said:
Tomorrow, sir. I shall make way for you;
the day after, .vim will make way for me. I
wish you good morning.'' On the morrow,
the American kept his word, stepping
politely nslile ft the olllcer to pass. But
the next duv then' was a violent collision,
and the olllcer drew his sword, which the
American suatihcil out of his hand anil
tossed Into the mi"' Tin- s-qucl tells that
the officer committed suicide, as he could
not challenge so lnvv a thing as an Ameilcan
w1.
HEN the Gownsman wns a very .voting
man lie once got lost In Germany but
that story will Keep for another time. It
wns then that he met and walked with two
.voting, students of Ilrcslati who were mar
velously curious about the strange, new
variety of being, an American.
"That pencil with which ou write, what
is it made of?"
"Gold."
They eyed each other skeptically.
"How do ou catty all tho money that
you ntcd fiT so long a journey?"
"I don't carry It."
And a long explanation ensued as to the
nature of a letter of credit, an explanation
which they credited not.
"And how largo did you say Is the city In
which ou live?"
"Nearly two millions"
They exchanged glances, and one of them
perceptibly slit tigged his shoulders. At last
your embryo Gownsman said-
"Lock bete; nti don't seem lo believe a
word that I tell ou lij my country when
one man Implies that another Is a liar, the
reply Is a blow; the icpllei knocking down
the intpller if the lirrpllcr is not too quick
for lilin "
'Oh, we don't feel that way about it," said
one of my joung Germans. "We were only
admiring your netve. You tell us nil these
Impossible things precise! as it they were
really so."
What a German does n it personal! know
does not exist. Another way of putting it
is' Nothing exists which a German does
not know. "
ON T1IK same journey, n young American
was sitting alone at breakfast, rather
late, in one of those laige semlopen rooms
which abroad they designate a "garden." It
was In Halle and n somewhat cool morning,
wherefore the young ("the Gownsman")
American kept on his hat. The wind always
blows In the university town of Halle, and
so do some of Its students that the Gowns
man lias known, even though not of German
birth There were few people In the room,
and presently the .voting American was
amazed to have the big hi ad-waiter or some
such functionary come up to him and ask
Impudently If people kept on their hats In
rooms in America. Looking up .the Ameri
can saw In a moment the reason for this
impeitlnence. Two German olllcers and a
civilian were seated at some distance, evi
dently observing the result of what they had
started. The American retorted very quietly:
"I'll remove my hat when those officers across
the room take oft their caps." He looked
for something to happen. Nothing happened.
FOUR months before the opening of the
war, the Gownsman was asked to go to
Weimar, to take part In the celebration of
the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of
the German Shakespeare Society. Dr. Haul
Shorey, of Chicago, lhe"exchange professor"
of the year at Berlin, wns the only other
representative from "the wilds of North
America " Some of the diverting things that
happened on this occasion belong to times
they can never come again when vve could
only laugh at the Germans. Among these
wero their condescension to Shakespeare and
scholarship about him In his own tongue,
and tho literal performance of "Richard the
Third" to the bitter end on Bosworth Field,
not reached until long after midnight. It
was about this performance that a learned
authority from Lelpslc said confidentially to
the Gownsman "Xow, otter all, how much
better Shakespeare sounds In German." And
the Gownsman responded heartlessly and
obviously: "Yes, to a German."
Tlin moment was that, It will be remem
bered, when ilexlco was making herself
particularly unpleasant, and all the Teddies
were urging unspeakable things. The func
tions of this celebration of the anniversary
of a German learned society. Involved a
luncheon at the "residence," at which the
Duke of Saxe-Welmar presided as host. He
was a kindly man, trying to do what was
expected ot him, and uniformed as a general
fittingly to do honor to a poet. After lunch,
ho spoke pleasantly to each of his guests.
When he greeted us Americans he added In
his precise and hesitant English: "And now
you Americans will take Mexico." We dis
claimed any such ambitious and Iniquitous
thought In the American mind, little knowing
that war with Mexico was a part of a great
world plan already made for us In Germany,
But the definite reply came; "That is all
very well; you will now take Mexico." The
mental process Is preposterously -simple and
logical. Germany would; fools might not,
Americans are not fools. Ergo, "you will
take Mexico." Q. E. D. And our host passed
on to the promulgation of another 'ducal
opinion for the next group.
Sac City, as the latest candldatn fnr
launching- at Hog Island Is called, seems
well enough named when we recall our In-
in aporiginea. utnerwiae, however, It suj.
,Mwmia- auffgariogas.
WHAT A CONGRESSMAN SEES
Somhcrrkly Letter Touching on the Washington Doings of Personalities
Familiar to I'hiladelphians
By J. Hampton Moore
, Washington. II. C, Sept. 25.
A LETTER from Attorney General Francis
ShunR Blown to Bunking Commissioner
Dan Lafean concerning the right ot building
associations to put their surplus funds In
Liberty Bonds stlired up a hornets nest,
the (thoes of which finally landed In the
Treasury Department. Pennsylvania has le
ceiveri credit for putting the building associ
ation upon the map and Philadelphia derives
Its title "The City of Homes" very largely
from the fact that the building assoc'atlons
have given unusual encouragement to men
of small means to save and become home
ownets. The Buiiuiug associhiiuii j.tBut ...
Pennsylvania was organized September, 1 8 i.
Its present president Is Joseph H. Palst, who
was formerly chief clerk of Select Council,
nnd its secretary Is Michael J. Brown, who
was at one time president of the national
organization of building associations. The
league has always had Its friends In Coun
cils and In tho Legislature, and especially
when James Clarency. or tho Nineteenth
Ward, and Robert T., Cot son, of Frankford,
were members of one body or the, other.
What the building association men now com
plain of is tho Attorney General's ruling
which, from their point of view. Interferes
with their right to Invest association Junds
In Llbertv Bonds. This Is the matter that
has been brought up to the Secretary of the
Treasury. Questions of this kind, affecting
as they do the rights of States and of State
olliclals. however, are always viewed with
caution by the national authorities. They do
not, as a rule, deem it wise to Interfere In
what are commonly denominated "States
Rights." In the revenue bill building asso
ciations generally have been treated as non
profit making organizations, except for mu
tual benefit. They are put upon substantially
the same basis as agricultural associations
organized for mutual benefit, but not for
profit. It is, therefore, unlikely that Wash
ington will enter Into the dispute between
'the Attorney General and the building asso
ciations. It Is a battle that will have to be
fought out ;it home.
ANY one who has heard Edward Brooks,
Jr.? address the court will appreciate
the force of his reasoning, but when It comes
to an argument before the AVays and Means
Committee of Congress, bent upon raising
to nnn nnn.oon of revenue, that Is another
matter. Mr. Brooks, on behalf of the Orpheus
Club, Joins Mr. Van Rensselaer, of the Sym
phony Orchestra, and others In the appeal
for what is' regarded as the very existence
of kindred organizations. If the tax on dues
and admissions Is raised as the bill provides.
The Orpheus Club, like other Philadelphia
musical organizations, nas wiimn mem
bership some of the most prominent Phlla
delphlans Doctor Van Lennep, of the Union
League; Jack Holton, of the Maritime Ex
change, and Billy Haupt, Included. There are
many others in professional and business life
who pine for the lyre when they tire of the
muses. When the plight of the Philadelphia
Symphony was laid before the taxing com
mittee, Cleveland and one or two other cities
having similar organizations Joined In the
appeal, but the majority on the committee
feared that to make exceptions wouM widen
the door so that professional organisations
might be permitted to pobs through without
bearing their fair share of the tax burden.
THE Secretary of War, Mr. Baker, Is In
Europe, and rumor has It that he may
remain over, there for some time. As the
Secretary of War, having under his direc
tion the millions of men that have entered
the country's military service and the bil
lions of dollars that the country la spending
to sustain the war, Secretary Baker has
necessarily been the BUbject of many in
quiries, some of which pertain to his ability
and antecedents. Sometimes we can get a
better understanding of a man or a situation
by local comparisons. When the late Judge
Clayton, of Delaware County, toured Europe,
which he did nt every opportunity, he sent
home letters that found their way Into the
local newspapers and, subsequently Into a
book of reminiscences, In which ho would
compare the Applan Way with some local
boulevard, or the River Scheldt with the
Delaware, or still better, the Moselle with
Hi Rchtivliilll Tt Ynaria thik -ihlnsr mnni tin.
1 darindbl-toth-iolkg yfaad, jwt, hw
AND ITS FORCE IS AS WE MAKE IT
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abroad. Now as to Secretary Baker. Per
haps the easiest way to size him up would
be to put him on the same platform with
Franklin Spencer Edmonds, formerly of the
Phlladelph'a Central High School. He Is not
unlike Edmonds In physique, In ability to
talk or In trend nf mind. He has a scholastic
record not unlike that of Edmonds, is a
quick and teady speaker and pracilc?d law
before entering public life. He was not
averse to politics, having been private sec
letary lo Postmaster General Wilson In
1896-7, assistant city solicitor, solicitor a,nd
afterward Mayor of Cleveland, O. At the
present time he Is a member of tho Ohio
State Democratic Committee, Thus Edmonds,
who also dabbled In politics, Is a fair match
for Baker, except that his political activities
have not generally been so successful as have
those of the Secretary.
Another point of similarity: Mrs. Baker
occasionally appears In public as a singer,
while Mrs. Edmonds, who Is a daughter of
Judge Abraham M. Beitler, Is doing "a man's
part" 1u the cause of suffrage. As Baker
nnd Edmonds are now both in Europe, the
latter serving with the Young Men's Chris
tian Association, it might do no harm if they
should compare notes.
I
F THE people who believe we ought to
save white paper really desire to accom
plish something they would begin with the
Federal departments and particularly with
the bureaus and commissions that aro wast
ing It, The number of publications, reports,
pamphlets and cheap departmental advertis
ing matter, nil tending to bolster up the pa
triotic efforts of bureaucratic rivals has
been so alarmingly on the Increase that the
waste baskets off Washington have been
bulging out at the sides. Congress has been
taking note of this waste, and If 'it con
tinues there may be an Inquiry Into fhe use
less and duplicated efforts of literary patri
ots to attract public attention and Intrench
themselves, upon the Government payroll.
The Postmaster General gets blamed for a
great many things, but he has recently com
menced to take notice. He Is calling down
deadhead issues and otherwise reducing the
"poundage" of mail matter, for that Is about
what It has come to be. Few members of
Congress are able to keep up with the dead
head newspapers and magazines that come
in from all sections of the country. The
socialistic stuff has already been cut down
to a large extent, but tho push kept up
during the consideration of the revenue bill
and showerr little signs of abatement until
"the dead line" was drawn on the dead
heads. -
THE annual conventions ot the Atlantic
'Deeper Waterways Association, which
have been organized In Philadelphia since
the association was founded, In 1907, Invari
ably attract a number of men from the na
tional capital. The Boston convention this
week is no exception to the rule. In addi
tion to Secretary Redfield, of the Depart
ment of Commerce, United States Senator
Fletcher, of Florida, chairman of the Com
mittee on Commerce, and Congressman
Small, of North Carolina, chairman of the
Rivers and Harbors Committee, are in at
tendance. For twelve years these conven
tions have been alternating up and down the
Atlantic coast to the evident satisfaction of
the' people of the seaboard States, who be
lieve in the Improvement of our transpor
tation facilities. Beginning at Philadelphia,
In 1907, they proceeded from city to city,
north one year and south the next, until. last
year, when Miami, the southernmost point,
was reached. This year, in going to Boston,
the convention attains its "farthest north,"
The delegates have been a long time getting
to Boston, but they are now making the
most of It, and from all accounts are being
delightfully entertained, At every conven
tion thus far held, no matter what the dis
tance from headquarters, the Delaware
Jllver Interest has always been largely In
evidence. They have cheerfully co-operated
with the delegates from other waterways
territory and have established on era ot
good feeling along the coast.
There Is a strong probability that the next
convention will be hela in Charleston, S. C.
If It Is, tho famous "Battery" will be as In
terestlng to the northern delegates as the
Boston "Common" is this week to visitors
frWav!.".ta.
Indications of a Dry Spell
TJOTH the House and the Senate have
--' voted to make the nation "dry" after
June 30 of next year. Tho proposition Is
In the form of a rider to the agricultural
appropriation bill. Tho manufacture of
light wines must cease on May 1 and the
sale of all Intoxicating beverages must end
on June 30 If the President approves the
plan. The House has attempted- to make
an exception In favor of Imported wines,
as tho State Department has informed
Congress that the ambassadors of France
and Italy have railed attention to the fact
that the prohibition of the sale of all
wines will seriously affect the wine-growers
of their countries, who export large quan
tities to the. United States. Hut the House
voted down the proposed amendment.
Tho form In which the House arid the
Senate have approved the "bone-dry"
measure differs. Conference committees
have been appointed to harmonize the dif
ferences. It seems to be certain that the
sale of all forms of Intoxicants will cease
at the end of next June.
Xo one knows Just when the sale of beer
will stop. The President, acting under the
authority conferred on him by the food
conservation law, has decreed that all
brewing operations must cease on Decem
ber I of this year, and that after October
1 no beer may be brewed suve from malt
and hops -now In the possession of the
brewers. The decree Incjudes "near-beer"
In the prohibition.
It has tfeen estimated that there Is or
will be a supply of beer In the country to
last six months, or until about the time
when the bill now before Congress stop
ping the sale of all alcoholic drinks Is to
go Into effect.
Peace at Any Cost
Bernard Shaw wrote a play about a young
soldier who had returned to Ireland from the
European trenches and after a brief ex
perience of the restored joys of domesticity, In
a home where bickering was of frequent oc
currence, wenb back (o Join the colors, de
claring that he longed for a peaceful life,
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Jack Put One Over on 'Em
Pershing surprised the Germans, who had
been Informed by the German General Staff
that It was the invariable American custom
to move on October 1, New York Sun.
What Do You Know?
. QUIZ
' JV'M ! 'he aiirceon xeneral of the United
States arm)'? "
2. What la the meaning of quotidian?
3. Under whose admlnlatratlsn was the Loule-
lan territory, purrhaaed from France ami
added to the United State? """"
4. Who aald. "If there were no God It wonM
bo neeeaaarr to latent him"?
8. What la a crackle?
6. Who waa the Horn an rod of Are and metal
norklos?
7. Where la the celebrated Church of St. Sophia.
, now uaed aa nioaque?
I. What, lathe meanlnx of the Latin expreaalon
videlicet ?
0. Which la the "Sunflower State"?
10. How doea the cltr of I aria set Its name?
Answers to Yesterday's Ouis
1. General Sir Kdmnnd Alleiihr la In. command
of the llrltlah forcea Jn raleetln.
tho boat.
5, Mlcblcan la the Wolrerlne State.
4. Thomaa Nelaan rate la the American nmbaa-
aador to Italjr.
8, Jeruaalem waa taken by tho Cruaader in
loUO.
6. Grorer Cleveland tuld "it U a condition, not
n theory, which confront u."
7-.Kcuador l the Spanish word for equator,
whl'ti line blued the South American re
public. K. A lUurlne Is h atiituette. The word la from
the Ita'Un. "nsurlua,'' Ulmlnutlio of
"tlruro," ttatue.
0, The fln-t Billable of the word extant bean
the. atreaa ar accent.
10, Xorth CaroUaa waa the laateoothern HM
t. Starboard romea from the old Knrllnh. "ter.
board" (ateerlnr aide). The primitive Anxlo
rlaxon craft were .leered with sweep or
paddle front what, to n man faelnt the
bow. u tho rlsht aide of tho boat.
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