',' " '-,, m4 tO V EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1918 rA . Public Cebgcc kHftHt rvKNTNn tfi rnitAPM ff .j)iLIC LEDC.KR COMPNY CT1WS n. K. CURTIS. ft!rur.NT jCrFe II. f.udli ' Kfi It. Williams, 4lntton.Vlre PrisMmti John C. and Treasurer, riillln H. urcr. rn iips. i o ini. John J. Si pursron, Directors. EDiTonixr. no.vnr! 'emeu If. K CtjuTis, Cnalrmsn JM.YIB K. 8Mtt.r.r ndllcr Ml' - - jOWW C MARTIN.... General Uulnf Mmiiifr t.Tublnrifd daily at rent 10 l.riHir UulWint. ' Independence Sauare. rhllsdelDliiie. (t CCKrut,.... Ilroad and rheMmit Hir"ls SSTIO ClTI ...4.. .Vets-l'tltOU fllllMllir ( m Ton ,200 lietlopolilan Tnr blT. X. IOClt... .... .. Inoa Kullorioii Hull. Una IMS JVIbuti' llulMlnr EtHGiau., .. K,f VWaHnsoTox Hrrc 'ij " -or- rnnjiniii Ave nn urn si . 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Independence Miliar?, Philadelphia. i- Membrr of the Associated Trees B V-.4 77f' ASSOCIATED VHKSS Is cxclu- jfl'ew fntwcd to inc u&r lor rcpiiuiiiaitoii ,1 of all neicj dUiiatches credited lo (I f not ofllcrtcMc credited tii fnfi paper, and also . -thc local news mibllthril thctelii. j.'i, All rights of rciinHlcatioji special dls- .paicncs iicrctn are inso resri vca. Philndrlptiii, MdtuUjt, Srplrmbrr .10. 11U s A TIP TO THK MOVIi: -MEN i 5TT IOOKS aj If we wtri- to be trealcct I' to the spcetHele of the .Major HiifTeriiiK HtrCHl HI lllf lIUIHi. Ill H t'llllSLUUII' (lllll f; leliisr haled into 11 nmplstnue s court. j Mr. Smith's refunnl to ncccpt servito of fV 'the warrant sworn out for 1i!h nrrcst leavci i J to alternative open to the magNtrnlc. Ho . p vjjiuai oruer me conamnie lo (io 111 uuvj. '"" We hone that a movliic liieturo machine J'tfniy be on hand to make a permanent 'record of this Important event in the g msiory 01 mo cu, suowniR lis cniei c.- r 'ecutlve officer lu the uiMtody of a con- ,. table on his way to court. LfSIt would be most edifying to future senera lions. f The r. IX. T. will have to bo some to .5 Mceen. uu with Koch's execution nf thp t.1tln. Ut '-.i.... ' n.wu OJ OICII . r A I riTTrPV THAT 4VT lif i iwr 'rpHE great drawlnff of dr.tft capsules -which Hill take place In Washington today is only superficially a lottery. Its ultimate consequences arc booked by des tiny. The potential enersy symbolized by t,ho little paper slips In the already his torlc glasi bowl would impress any K.ine nation. But as the one which still di. credits facts Is mad, the same Roes on. f v ilillizlng the machinery of chance In a 1,'ame, whose Issue Is a predicated certainty. Germany tries lo beat the band, but her 1. "vMn efforts only demonstrate hou- tlulitly It J bound about her. - 1 . FACING THE EAST aTlfTT I.rtfl(l MllUUIlltM ... nA . I I , rtV .lUOIUIIIfllll 1.1.'tT tuw ai A '-1'IKecca when he prays. 0-Baltlmore Liberty Loan commlitpo lfa .- . ".. . . . . jr-,fciK c,c'- ""c '" '"c cuy 10 rise to his v -Vjt at 9 o'clock Saturday mornlnp; and Si w. the east o honor the American hob diers In France. riJ Wbv nnt pnmlilnA Iia n..liiMA' i ' With thm fMcltlr... .n..i-A , . .. . ...Huuu..tIUl.4 jv.m,t-, .iiMi ever) m, ...w.i v.s.j .tiu.jiijiK wnen ne uses race K ihe east and pray for the victory of the n American soldiers and their allies flghtlnK ft S for th trtnmr.V. r !.. i ,. w, r -r- -wi ui inupc luivipies on Ma trhlch our civilization rests? t, ett!. lt's n5w up to ,he U'tmaii centorhlp '' . ,"Pres the calendar. It proclaims fall. l." i-U ' MEMORIAL TREES lit' VTAnDnUTlI has adopted In :i in...iina,i LHt'Vl' form thn lll.11 nf lir.nA.I.. , ..,..... v Um r- .-. ..uiiuiin in .-oiuiers r..-,iBv.. .,.. n vui iirsijonacni oi tins news. paper. who'DroDoi.ecl that a mnr..i.i . ffi'S " P'nted In Broad street fcr tVery 1'hlla- ? delnhln !inMl.p .1.1. a1i i.. ...- f if .v. ...n .jmh in me war. ' Xarberth has set out D'antin- ir ,f9r every man who has sone Into the !'5 army, the navy or the marine corps from s 4h-.e.b0I'0URl, A uPRlnnlns has been made ? Mvlth fnnr frAitu nn. r .i. . i,li "" "" " "' iirsi man 10 enut in each of the three branches of the trvlce and one for the firm man to be . Jclllarl M -if" iS The plan Is good, ft keeps crecn the y, .nQuivi; vi wormy AmericanH. it also ftt - v i . .. .v "uic rcn ot inose who return the ejample of a tree which grows witi the jctua hiiu ipnn irr nmi.nt nn .i .. -t. mc ri ju me neat oj Hie daj. . The Spanish sneeze seems to be as dan ,.rrous as the Spanish walk Is difficult. -''''' ! ETO( ISLAND Is wonderful and signlfl t ' cant In many ways. It is a constant f incentive to the philosophical mind. It Is L' ,ht) Xew In America talking and showing vtiat It can do. Now and then, observing JW, processes and reactions, one cannot 'avoid a fear that speed and subtlety rarely $In forces. ,Tho Industrial relations division of the TMir yard emitted a challenging crv in the "t Mh'rtlsing columns on Saturday. It -j Itfawed at once to receive applications from -naen oi poise mm cuarcier traineu in lM'0feration oi iiivvcis. oiny ana invo- luglrls.l said the "ad" sharply, "need .',.'. wonders whether the silly and frlvo- .sisterhood was hurt when the Indus- i'hfttalln iltl'lfttntt thl.a lirtn.l o .1 1 ful eyebrow In Its direction -- or er It merely smiled In the comfort ' fijat Ci.n.-i n'tarlnm Wa 1.alla. Vi r'y ""F"' ...-- v..v. ...i. iod mi serenely unconcerned. iftdards shift and change. Yet when iawt ship has been built, at Hog Island when the last emperor Is selling shoe- on some windy corner In Rurope all the clamor .of war la forgotten, LjUly and the frivolous among girls ulnue to seem rainer nice ana ue- I, to the rest of the world. Flowers itlnee ticket will descend upon in shower t of old. w ive j;lrU of poise may drive Fords "down the, world as representatives Urn utilitarianism of Hog Island. ad frivolous sister Is not likely k to thai Wat he passes re- I'-twteMkU' with QfR one to drive 0.E HEAD IN THE BASKET The Decapitation of lliilparia Hrinp Trl timphfliitly Nearer the Dentil of the Wlole Hjtlra AqUADUUPIiK-IIEADKD monster no longer defies civilization. The tlccnpitntion of a particularly des picable quarter of tlic hydra's anatomy lins taken plncc in the headquarters of General Franchct D'Kspcrey, who has lirounht Iluljrniin to her knees with a speed surpassing the much-vaunted Prus sian pace that humbled Austria at Sa dowa in 18G0 after a cnmimlKn of seven week.. It is less than cljht weeks since (icn eral D'Espcrey took command of the Al lied forces at Snlonica, less than a month since he began the ten ilk' series of Mace donian battles which has hurtled Hulgaria out of the war. The teims of the armistice announced today cover the Halkan situation with cutting completeness. Hy this incisive document, Oar Ferdinand pledges him self to withdraw all his armies from for eign soils, to demobilize bis troops at home, to brenk utterly any alliance with Germany, Austria or Turkey, and to per mit to the Allies free access thlough Itulgnria. The principle nf unconditional and im mediate surrender. ImmoiLalized by Grunt at Fott Doncl.'on. is here once more invoked as the standaid of victory. If Bulgaria chooses to regard the Allies' stipulations as tctm, she is welcome to li delusion. The league of freedom is under no such mi.-apprehension. Com prehensive submission, the inevitable fate of the traitor, U the keynote of the negotiations which hac reduced the (.'antral Powers to n triple alliance. Bulgaria's plight evokes not n spark of sympathy from decent liberty-loving peoples. For the last five years her na tional morale has been the lowest of any country on this war-scarred ball. Ger many has been true to her detestable de signs, liut Ferdinand conducted a pawn shop in the Balkans, changing sides and driving new nefarious bargains when ever the prospect of good pay was held out. He quits ''cold" today simply and solely because be staked his chances on the losing side. His mercenary motives are precisely the same as those which im pelled him to betiay his former allies, Serbia and Greece, in 11)1.1. Germany capitalized his penchant for treachery a year later. The Allies are now detei mined to exact the full penalty. The sunender or Bul garia is the icult of a clean and sweep ing military triumph. Its miliUiry profits are just now the Allies' prime concern. IJearrangcment of Balkan nationalities is a matter Tor determination at the final Konoial pi'ace conference, whoso advent grows daily nearer. The present advantage in the Bulgarian Ifft'clion, aside from its immense moral effect on Germany, is the great wedge driven through Hun dominion in Eastern "proiii?. Tin key is isolated and word ':!- al'oad. learned the camps of liberty ' f "i Ki threatened to withdraw from the wai unless fund, huge treasure chests of baksheesh, are promptly dis patched fiom Beilin to Constantinople. The prospect of only a two-headed mon ster with one of its throats quivering to renew peace whines is imminent in the fray's cockpit. Tlw war is cracking up. Forecasters of v hat i- directly ahead of us are engaged ! a breathless struggle to keep up with current events. It i possible, however, to inteipiet the salient cause of its ilisin tegiation. The explanation is America. Until w entcied the conflict Germany was enabled to dispatch re-enforcements to any critical front. Tiic war was like a seesaw in which the Kaiser's men weie employed to restore the balance. Amer ica now sits on one end of the boaid. The teetering ha ceased. Bulgaria was thrown off in the sudden jerk. Turkey will piobably follow suit. The Hun game of transferring troops from one poition of his huge battleline to another is at an end. Every one of the Kaiser's vear'ed fighters is needed today in France. That he is facing a hopeless contest there is evidenced in 'the crumbling of the Ilinden burg line within the past week. The col lapse of Bulgaria permits the death struggle to become fully oriented at last. Ken the not unimaginative business man will tell you that the Liberty Hond campaign will be producthe of much Intercut. BACKING DOWN rpilH Senate plan to Investigate the pri-- mary election expenses of I'epubllcan senatorial candidates in advance of tho election has been abandoned. It was un precedented, for tho Senate has never here, tofore attempted to Influence an election by a partisan political examination di rected against candidates of the minority. It Is not necessary to inquire whether the demand of the Itepubllcans that the inquiry include tho primary expenses of all candidates. Democratic as well as lie publican, Is lesponsible for the abandon ment of the plan, That It has been given up Is enough. If there Is any disposition to make an Inquiry It can be made when the elected Senators present their credentials. Then the Senate, which is the sole Judge of th,e qualification and election of Its members, can pass on the subject with perfect pro priety, and we hope with perfect impar tiality. In .coalless northern Philadelphia It would be quite delirhtful to have ansela ruh In where fuels haven't dared to tread. PRESIDENTIAL "SLANG' THE most vivid English Is often the most colloquial, the most Idiomatic, Few passages, therefore, in President Wilson's New York address surpassed In expressive Vigor the one In which he proclaimed his stand for "a Justice that plays no favor- ltVL It. Sra of the rkce4 track, the pnrae has paescd Into the ilch metaphorical equip ment of lhigllsh-spcaltlug peoples gener ally. Its Invasion of the domain of states manship, lioncvct. Is Homcthlr us new a It Is refreshing, The world Is Just us weary of tho bnck-himlcil verbal foiinullstn of jllplnmacy of the "we-cannot-look-upon-wlthoilUll.sfuvor" school us It Is of the secret treaties couched In such rigid lit erar. ilirss. "flay no favorites" Is Imagi natively stimulating, crisply and intimately convincing. Its emplojment lends color to an eloquent declaration. But In the absence of a world of ) ieratitlst. with a i amnion .ongue, the l'ieident's tip fiom the tnrf propounds n task of consldei ditto dllllculty. Toward the i'Iiw of Ills hpecoh .Mr. Wllsolt e.prescd the hope that every one involved In the world war would understand his doctrine, "If he unders-tand the language In which It Is spoken or can get sonic one to trans late It coric.'tly Into his own." There's the rub, Indeed! Britain with her Kpsoin Downs. 1'ianoe with her Long (.hamps. will doubtless know pieclsely what llit President menus. But we have 11 feeling somehow that the Itutlienl.in. Bit ninnlan. Montenegrin, Serbian, TutlUsh, C7echo-Plovak snags In the way of putting over this terse metaphor are bound to be embiiirasslng. If this be true, i.'s too ba... "Play no favorites." with the hopes of civilization wlili h it summarizes, Is eipiallv as vli lie as the historic "without Mint or limit." and nppietlablj closer to the popular diction of tho Piesldcnt's tompntrlots. We trust, however, that the sporting world will not start w tangling over the track's new honor and that tho advocates of "attaboy" will withhold claims for Its admission Into the pieliicntinl voeabu larj.. The most cari.cM tfaimlalois of our mercmial BukIIsIi tongue nltcady furnish a pathetic spectacle. Make It a chc of itcner.il I'et'hlng for overseas work and tleneral Subscription hero at home. THE HEALTH GENERALISSIMO RETIRES A riGHTCB who for many jeais has ''been combating and subduing forces even more destructive than the Huns will this week retire, with a long, long lecord o'f superb victories. He Is .Major General William Ciorgas, surgeon general of the t'nlted States army. Disease was his foe. and he shepherded, tamed and thrashed it In sinister lairs throughout the globe. The battle of Havana, where yellow fever's leglo'ns went down to extinction; th battle of ran.unu, a health victory won on the heels of a piteous French de feat, head his tilumphant lecord. But his engagements with a mortal enemy were manifold, t'nder his general command mil island empire in the Philip pines has been made safe for while men, 'and the gre-ilest army In our history has become also th healthiest. The sei wee age puts a period to General Goi gas's ac tivities In his pi cent post. Ills announced successor. General Meirlttc V. Ireland, will have before him the Inspiration of a lesourceful warrior tireless In making the world safe for its inhabitants. ' KtigllBh liarrage.ls Fearful," ea.s a headline. I.e-s .so, however, than the IIuu who has to face it IS THERE HOPE FOR THE STRAP HANGERS? Tinn Public Service Commission has been -- asked b an ofllccr of the State Fed eration of Labor to rule that the Harris burg stteet rallwajs should charge only half fare to passengers for whom they do not provide u comfortable sent. This means tho straphangers. It means also that If the commission grants relief to Harris burg it' must also lelleve other cities. Street-car patrons will awaU the deci sion with such patience as they can mus ter. They hnve to hang on the straps b.v the ten thousand nveij morning and night. It is so long since mans f them have sal down in a street car that they have rcallj fotgotten how to do It. Those with short aim-, stand up only bicaiw so man.v other persons ,110 ciowdin- the aisles that it is Impossible to fall down. They would welcome a reduction In fare But If the P. R. T. would suspend swings from each strap, with boards In them for seats, the long-suffering public would will ingly pay the full fare for the privilege of sitting down even In so unstable n plaie. The swing seats might be padded in such a way that they would not break the kneecaps of the passengers- against which they would bump. IPnthese passengers should object to being bumped In this way the P. R. T. might give them a re bate of a cent for ever bruip, unless it feared that It might be compelled to pay them a bonus. But seriously, a rebate to sttaphangers sounds good, if It could bo worked out practical!. The Ficnch aie run II 1111 .spup nlng true to foim in Alu nrrninc taking -Vavarln. which happens to be good resuurantese for mutton Mew, and follow ing It up with the capture of Somine-Py. The righteous cannot be kept from their desserts. Notwithstanding- that True, the liejinans have quite True! sought to claim -Shake speare and many other vvoild figures as their own, they will prob.-bly lay off Columbus. He discovered something that they wish he hadn't. The German 1,'haneel- slncere t'Uttery lor promises some re forming, but the Ger man generals, busy as embarrassed beavers In rearranging their lines after civilization's cyclones, seem to have anticipated him. Now, If ever, It seems l.lcenae Granted! permissible to describe Bulgaria, whose plea for German troops was disregarded, as unwept, unhonorcd and un-llumied. .Milton thould They also Serb who llait Said It Thorn only stand and hatel Make it an ad lib.-erty loan. The patriotic University of Pennsylvania might consider renaming Its famous coltefe song "The r.ed. White and Blue." The Mayor's advice to Qudehus to "stick fait'' seems rather superfluous. ,!!', already tuck. THE ELECTRIC CHAIR To Certain Unpatriots TJE1NIE MclIUN. A gicat mnn for fighting, Never got done. With talking and writing; How ho would holler Americanism, But yellow's tho color That shone through his prism. Ilclnic Mcilun had written and vvrittcn Long editorials cursing Great Britain; Letters and speeches denouncing the draft, Vcibal torpetlocs abeam and abaft, Hints and suggestions in which lie had shown The tragic collapse of the Liberty Loan, Ranting and bawling and sniping and twisting, Trying to keep other men from enlisting, Writing and printing his disloyal papers, Cutting hi scurrilous scandalous capers, And for a long time his betters endured him, Thinking their patience at last might have cured him. It seems Heinle thought himself pure T. N. T-, But when Uncle wanted him (!onc like a flcn! TTEINIK MclIUN Knew how to run, He knew how to skip from his place in the sun; He ran with agility, full of humility, Seeking a icgion of low visibility. Hcinie Mcilun, that great fighting man. He ran and he ran and he ran And he ran! TTEINIK MclIUN, icptilian, squamous, Here we intend (and let nobody blame us) To do you up brown and to render you famous; A pattern of all that we don't care to own, A blowhaid, a four-flush, a lop-sided bone Now you can swallow the whirlwind you've sown. There's only one cure-all for spies when you've got 'em : Swat 'cm! TTEINIE MclIUN, we are tiled of your J"L kind, With a handshake in front and sedition behind; Give the son of a Hun just a taste of brass knuckle, Then see how he scampers and just watch him buckle. Good manners are simple: for those who won't lcai n 'em There's only one method, and that is intern 'em. We thought Heinie looked like a danger ous mnn, But he ran and he ran and he ran And he ran! lllndenbuig may begin to wony lest his Kriemhild line should 'tjurdlc. Nature a Four-Minute Man See"Natuic, blithely hinting Success for the new loan for every tree Is minting Gold coinage of its own, Through autumn's misty tissue .lack li ost his fund creates. And oak and maple hsue Their crisp ccrtlflcatc.i. With ever hill subscribing Its quota and beyond, Natuie hot -elf Is Jibing" The man without a Bond! . Another Candidate Dear Socrate- As a patron of jour col umn I have read with Interest concerning the contest between Louis Rllshemius and Dove Dulcet. I delie to enter the lists and can no longer lemain .-. flivver to blush unseen. J theieforc submit the fol lowing poem. StJL'l -A IC MeSTRA VK V, The Fahrenheit Poet. The Old Whisky Still The old whisky still on the top of the hill; I never forget it, and never I will. It brings back to mi Old days full of glet. For I loved In my boyhood -.he old whlskv still. The still is now still, and with tears -ny ees fill As 1 gare with tegret on the top of the hill. As days come and go More and more do I know That the old wiil?k.v still on the' hill is still still. The still Is still still on the top of the hill, But Its spirits I love and forever I will It's many a ear Since I drank any beer And I lovo In my manhood the old whiky still. SQL'UAKV -McSTRAVKV. Why Is It that many a man otherwise totally honest never hesitates to commit latceny where books are concerned? Who steals my purse steals trash (And darned little of It) But he who swipes my books Steals that which not enriches him And leaves me poor indeed. SOCRATFS. America' Sea "Wasps" A met lea's "wasps" are performing a vron derful work overseas and may be accorded with a certain measure of the success that has attended allied operations against the German submarines. Thus far this year, this country's destroy ers have escorted 121 troopship convoys In Ruropean waters. These cqnvoya consisted of ""J ships. During the same period they escorted 171 merchant convoys consisting of 1763 ships. While their share of the work was only 27 pr cent of the total, the fact that they were able to take over even a quarter of the task that had been carried prer.ously by Britain, France and Italy, has enabled those countries to employ thetr convoy praft In other ways. eaually,dangerous to the U-boats and equally satisfying: to peaceful commerce, Seattle Timet. A u X 7L aBMM9p!ijP &5aV 'aJHBBBBaHHFlBaH Laff A-aV jfjf 'r'l'F t4"fe mTi, " f LLffC" ' .atffflKc. I V" a9KsfLalMXl&f MF .,,. I'? !f " " Jya. -.. fr CrKV jiVjtlAj"t -i ' grg;- jz iTx' A DA Y OF JUDGMENT After llm War the Foraign-Born Who llm'a Cherished Foreign Ideals Are lo Be Brought In snttichKj n f7ermir iirrnri.r. miwirtrd nf the ilturur itltrrinij mdtllouH mnark mid li'lrrjeriuo ullh the infflfun; fiff(li(lt " the floienimrnt, i'l ttrlei V, .li.n'fimt. I nhutl 7i fnct Judo' Sir nilh IMhnta. tlellmtd nn (id dress oi ihr dltlu of lln fm'eiyn lnfl',1 In the United Nlatri and the diitu of I lie fulled Mdlri to the rmeigtl-hm ,f . The tin used litis lite Htv. I Inulimu. nt the ffrrmn.i .'t inifrllrfll I'itncl ol .Ven) Halem, .V. I), follav l.io li tiiut ,mi .!ml(o bald: YOU received jour final papeis as a citi zen 111 189S. By the oatli which ou then took jou t enounced mid nbjurrd all allegiance to Gcrinaiij and to the Rinpcror of Ger many, and swoic that Jtm would bear trim fallh and allegiance to the I'nlted States. What did that mean? Thai jou would set about earnestly glowing an American soul and put away jour German soul. That is what jour oath of allegiance meant Have jou done that? I do not think you have. You have cherished everything Geiinan and stilled everything American. Von have preached German, piajcd German, read Ger man, sung German. Rvery thought of your mind and every emotion of jour heart through all these jear.s has ben Geiinan. Votir body has been in America, but your life has Ween In Germany If you were set down hi Prussia today jou would ! In htu monj with .vour environment. Ii would fit jou Just n a (lower Ills the leaf and stem of Hie plant cm vvhlcli it grows You have lulluenccd others who have been under jour nilnlstiy lo d.i the Hiune thing. Von said jou would cease to clicilkll your German soul, and that vou would begin to build up Inside of you nil Aineilcan mill That meant that .vou would begin the study of American life and hlstor.v ; that jou would open jour mind and heait lo all of Its In fluences; that .vou would tiji lo understand its Ideals and pm poses, and love them; that jou would try to build up inside of yourself a whole gioup of feeling" for the t'nlted States, the sam as jou felt tovvoid the Fatherland when jou left Geiiuaiij THI1RT3 have been a good uunj Geimans before me In the last month. They have lived In this country, like join-self. ten. twenty, thlrtj-, forty years, ami tlu-y hud to give ilielr evidence tlnouKli an Intel pi eter. It has been an Impressive pan of the trial. As I looked at them and tiled, as best 1 could, to understand thcni. thcic was wiltten all over every one of them. '.Made In Ger manv." American life had not dimmed that maik In tho least. It stood there 11s bright and fresh us the Inscription upon a new coin. I do not blame jou and these men alone. I blame myself. I blame mj country. We urged you lo emwj.tte welcomed jou; we gave jou opportunity; we gave you land: we confeired upon you the diadem of Amer. lean citizenship and then we- lefl jou. We paid no attention to what jou Ii.ive been doing. v And nSu the. vvoild war has tliiovvn a seaichllght upon our national life, and what have we discovered? We find nil over these United States, In group", little Gennunys, little Italjs, littl.i Austilos, little Not warn. little Russlas These foielgu people have thrown a cliele about themselves, and In stead of keeping tho oath they took that they w'ould try to crow American souls In side of them they have studiously strlved to exclude everything American, and to cherish everything foreign. A clever gentleman wrote a lomanco called "America, the Melting Pot." It appealed lo our vanity, and thiough all these years we have been seeing lomance Instead of fact, That Is the awful tiuth. The figure of my country stands beslde jou todaj It says to nic: "Do not blame this man alone. I am partly to blame. Punish him for his orfeivje. but let him know that I see things In a new light : that a new era has come here. Punish him to teach him and the like of him, and all those who have been misled by him and his life, that a change has come; that there must be an Interpretation anew of tho oath of alleclance. It has been in the past noin- lng but a formula of words. From this time on It must be translated Into living characters Incarnate In the life of every foreigner who has his dwelling place within our midst. If they have been cherishing foreign history, foreign Ideals, foreign loynlty, It must be stopped, nncl they must begin at once, all over again, to cherish American Drought, American history, American (denls. I AM not so simple as to entertain the Idea that racial habits and qualities can he put aside by the will In a day, In a year, In a geneiatlon; but because that Is dlfhcult is all the more reason why you should go about It and quit cherishing a foreign life. If half the effort had been put forth lu these foreign communities to build up on Ameri can life in the hearts of these foreign-born citizens thataas bfqn put forth to perpetuate MASTERLY. EXHIBITION -afafli a.M I Mal ! T I lo the Bar of the Republic 1 theie a foielgn life our situation would have been entlielj illfferent from what It Is today. You have violated jour oath of allegiance In till., that j-ou have cherished foreign ideals and tried to make them everlasting. That Is the basic vviong of these thousands of little Islands of foreigners that have been formed thiough our whole limits, that In stead of tijlng to remove the foreign life out of their souls and to build up nn Amer ican life lu them they have striven studi ously, from year to year, to stifle American life and to inake forelgnne.ss perpetual. That Is ilislojally; anil the object, one of tho big objects of this serious proceeding In this court, nnd other like proceedings In other courts. Is to give notice that that must bu slopped. I HA VII seen before my eyes another day of Judgment. When wo get through with this war and civil liberty Is made safe once more upon this earth thero is going to be 11 dav of Judgment In these Ui.lted States. Forelgn-boin citizens and the Insti tutions which have cherished foielgnness me going to be lu ought to the judgment bar of this epubllc. That day of judgment looks more to me today like the great Day of Judgment than anything that 1 have thought of for many yeais. There Is going lo bo n separation on that day of the sheep fiom the goat.. Rvery Institution that has neon engaged in this business of making for.'Igiincss peipetual lu the United States will have to change or cease. T,'iat Is going lo cut deep, but it Is coming. I recognize the- tight of foielgn-born citizens to hear their religion. If they cannot understand It lu Rnglish, spoken lo them In the tongue that they can understand. If they have not jet acquired enough Rngllih to read, they are entitled to have a paper that shall speak to them the language that they can under stand. I cannot go further than that. AND this Is the capital thing that Is going lo be settled on that day of Judg ment, iiamelj, lhat the right to those things Is temporal yt- and It cannot be enjoj-ed bj' anybody who Is not willing to regard it as tcmpoiary and to set about earnestlj- making the time of that enjoj-ment as short na possible. That means a fundamental revi sion of these foreign churches. No freedom of the p-i-ss will protect a perpetual foreign pies In theo United States. It won't pro tect nnj press or any church who, while It is trying to meet n temporar.v need, doe.s not set Itself earnestly about the business of making that temporary situation Just as temporar.v as possible, and not making It, as has been tiue In the past. Just as near per petual as posslli'e. Mm who are not willing to do that will have to choose. If they prefer to cherish foreign Ideals they will have to go to their own. If It Is neressarj' we will cancel cverj certificate of citizenship in these United States. The Federal Government has power to deal with that subject and it Is going to deal with It. Nothing else than that surely can be possible. And the object of the sentence which I pronounce upon -ou to day Is not alone to punish j'ou for the dls lojalty of which, you have been guilt j. but to serve notice upon you, and the like of jou, and all of the groups of people In this district who have been cherishing foreign ness, that the end of that regime has come. It is a call to every one of you to set about earnestly the growing of an American soul Inside of you. The Court finds and adjudges that j-ou arc guilty under each count of the Indict ment, and as.a punishment therefor It is further adjudged that you be imprisoned in the Federal Penitentiary at Leavenworth for the term of three years. The sentences under the three counts of the Indictment are to run concurrently and not successively. k V ' Men, Not Wine Senator Clark was congratulating himself on the gradual disappearance of the German lnnguago newspaper. "We have so many citizens of German birth," ho said, "that It Is most essential to keep temptation out of their path. Tho German language newspaper is a temptation for them. "And these people are so many! Once In pre-war da-8 on a jlner a man seated next to me at table beckoned the steward and said : "Steward, bring a bottle of Nierstelner with the' fish, a bottle of Iloggenliclmer with the chicken, and with the pudding a bottle or Rosengar " 'Beg pardon, sir,' the steward Interrupted, This here Is the vylne card. What you've gotjhjf e, "In le the paseenjer list." "Detroit i 1 - -- T", I' C;,? t,,',W".0 TO DAD The follomliifj poem vas inclosed In a letter sent by Corporal 8. A'orin(iH I'errii, 2,120 "West Tlofa street, a maiine in the fifth Jlegimcnt, l'ortyflflh Com pnni, ii'ho obtained it from a mortally wounded soldier oceupylnu a led next to hh in a hospital in Vranec, Unfortun ately Corporal l'erty did not give the name of the writer. fTIHlSY think of us soldiers as heroes And praise our names to the skies; They have tears for the one who Is" vvounded, , And prayers for the one who dies. They write songs of our pals and our sweethearts, And Mothers so brave and sad; But name a great singer or poet Who's mentioned a word r.bout Dad. Poor Dad with his check-book and troubles. Ho hasn't a look-in nt all It's Mother nnd pal and sweetheart And Sammy who answered the call. But Dad must be thinking and working In a store, or mine, or a mill. To get the old round Iron dollars To pay the big fam'ly bill. He buys the new bonds by the doyen, Though his shoes arc run down at the heels And his overcoat's old and looks shabby, But you never hear old Daddy squeal. He doesn't write much of a letter To his boy who Is going to France, But sends him a crisp five or ten-spot Whenever he has a good chance; And evenings when reading his paper, And smoking his pipe or clgir, He thinks of his boy clad In khaki Says, "I hope It is well Where you are." Now I think Just a lot of my Mother, She's written each day I've liecn gone; And my pals and my friends and my, -sweetheart Have all helped to cheer me along; But my Dad Is as good and as human. And sometimes I certainly feel That as my Dad has to" pay and work every day. I don't think he gets a square deal. In view of history's repetition habit It agreeably occurs to us that when Louis XVI fled to Varcnnes, from which the Germans have been ousted, he was brought back a prisoner. What' Do You Know? ' QUIZ ' "'.'S iU eommsmllnr the Prenrli armlea In forrea '"'" ,h "' "'"ran " "reproach"?"''1 "",l,,0,,t U" nnd wllheut 3, II hat U ahlbboleth? A. Where la Jhe "Land of Coe-l.al.ne"? 3. Haw manj- klntiloma are Hiere In the Ger man empire? A, What la a holomph nlll? ' n'W i'm .'' "HJ"Jlliln rhuruitrrUtle f Corinthian architecture? A, What la n ruminant animal? 1). WhM lenerala who fouaht In the Mesltan V"f ". J?4r5,."l'.""r'1 leeam ral (tenia of the United NUtea? 10. What I; the orlsln of Italic tpe and when waa It flrat uaed? Answers to Saturday's Quiz I, Isslcrada , the capital of Serbia. S, Ilenrr Font U the. Ilemocratle nominee far Senator from Mlrhlcan. 3. The ettr nf NUnl-Noriorod. In European Rna sla, was Ions noted, Before the war, for tin, aplendor of Its annual falra or eipu- Charlea Dickens WTOle tho note! "Great r.ipeciationa.' S. An Oi ford don la a member of the tearhlnr force. The word romea from Ibo Ijittn "domlnua.'l master. 0. Lake of Tlberlaa Is another name for the Sea of (lalllee, 7, A protocol la an orlslnat draft of a diplo matic document, and especially of terms of ", trt .P'rrri to In conference nnd lined by Ilia parties, . A nlara la an open apace usually at the In. irrirrunn vi screeia in is CIIJ", J no war Is Mmnltli for place. S, The nate Is tho Inner body of a church from tho Inner door Jo the chancel or choir, usu ally aeparated by pillars from tho aUles. , 10. It has been the custom usually la uh baMlo. V. It hiia wen the rui aU4 In uu Awrfkeia Mry Vk,'1'' (! ' ---pi- . .- -1..,'i.ii.," .ys'.r'jju-.. . -il 4 ! -1 . 41 1 ?!f A .Jl., v'' ?'-. r J Av a 1
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