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If M-aWlcAe Tierrln nrr nljo reserird
rfcllidelphla, Siturder. October II. lltl
. WHEN OPTIMISM IS DANGEROUS
TUST bo soon as the grin epidemic shows
f lfns of a check a crcit mnny people
will relax the precautions which so far
, have proed ndequate to presere them
' from the misery and dnnger of an attack,
v, Eve" after the scourge has patted what
4 ' the doctors call its "peak," when new
f cases grow fewer and the danper seems
'; abated, the need for caution will be Im-
m- peratlve. Conalescents from the disease
-'often spread the Infection unconsciously,
fvtn after they seem to hae fully recov-
i a ered.
f To be safe It will be well to observe all
,' the familiar preventive measures for an
. Indefinite period.
j Alia niuuui ana nostrils suouiu DC
'aorayed with anv of tha familiar disinfect.
, t4 I aolutlons several times n da. Tresh
5 .air, abnllght, good food and plenty of sleep
help to keep the crip away.
Despite the fact that the Huns have lost
j urand Pre they are still cxploltlne one of
' their own In the peace zone.
Kt . ' ONE CAUSE OF DIRTY STREETS
JL' ALti the blame that Is being heaped
it P upon street-cleaning contractors whose
Begligence helps to give epidemics like the
B' '.cresent one a good start and a stout
J atronghold Is deserved.
' v At the same time It might be well if th
r alty would enforce the ordinances which
-i JKoWblt householders from making the
wJrtreeta a dumping ground for refuse of. all
aerts. In some sections the allejs and the
'j"avvways and the gutters are made the
tally disposal places of household refuse.
I'iTh extent to which the police tolerate
rlhat habit Is apparent even in the center
. a tVi Vttv
w' -
j..?i$FlBM might servo to keep the streets a
i-,lkH cleaner. A Jail sentence now and
'jthen might help In the cases of people too
rtHrnorant or stubborn, to cooperate In de-
H&ent precautions against the diseases which
" turn ltnnn them In fh nH In a.n. t..i-
j, ----- .... ........ ... .. w..u tu mubo VI1V4I
xaniiies.
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. iB. The Kaiser Is araln renorted to ha is.
; jalleated eventually, why not now?
ft,yu WOMEN COMING INTO THEIR OWN
"tfJVGll reluctance as there has been to
v L " thft nrlm'afilnn nf tvnmAn !-. ..ll
K.HtThts of men in the University of Penn-
rfylvanla Is gradually disappearing. The
m THntivu oviuuui is upen io 'nem mis year
i tfaaai 4tva Max. lu. u .1 a n
t? .-" io i.uic unu iney are crowainff
wvner ucjjLirunents 01 xne university. Fully
' a'JMO women students are now enrolled.
L M ne preseni raie or propress continues
l'' many years oeiore all tne
vr; iU&bHUes of Homen students are removed
, . . ...
hu ney are received here as freely as in
jthe jrreat State universities of the West.
, i-The difficulties in the way of coeducation
."y aVTa not lnsurmnuntnhli here nnv mnr
r pitkan they have been in other places.
i.Vir
iT.t V. lVa don't lennw hnur manv Va1b in k.
ii' iaeorporated in the German drama, hut it'
I Vftjueitlcmatily a moving picture.
Oi
fjjfrp WAR FIELDS AT HOME
i V. aV TTfiNTIOX directed tn tho n.nrv,r.n.h
i l ? menta of the army surgeons and med.
t ''Sjeai-atudents engaged In battling the in-
(rtteBa In the coal regions of Schn lklll
ifM Northumberland Counties emtihaalr.a
ft ,S,,the tru,h that glory is a nonessential
i 'to War winning. Spectacular fame is nut
B, .',lBable by the men engaged In keeping
y V-1fce miners well enough to prevent a serl-
Afpva Interruption in the fuel supply. Vet
, it' these health guardians were all overseas
b Jtkey could be of no more Intrinsic worth
r "'Hhe cause.
' , y-ii recovery of the Lens coal fields ha
' had its expected dark side. Many of the
;pi4ftM are flooded and operation of them
may be impossible until after the war.
Vacre are parts of Pennsylvania which, in
certain intensely ltal respect, are more
o tpyAluable than Flanders.
' -J-TJie doctors who are enabling skilled
ywfcmen to tap a carboniferous treasure
,V Mare at home are Indispensably in the
VlVay, en though none have jet seen a
(.,4jrtCj flash of foe gunfire.
PaJchwab says the President's note Is
right" It's distinctly up to the Ger-
, however, to do considerably more than
i ;t ,
v n iT WAS NEVER OTHERWISF.
A'NCAtCULABLB number of per-
nnawnat who never experienced an habit-
lre for strong liquors have been
with a delusion of burning thlrnt
the hour when the orders ot the
department of Health close- the
ahurch-closing order has nroved
c 'tkaMl adeOUatel to rnilaA anmthlti.r
fc NHaitOUa spirit in thousands of men
fcftrer thought of going to church
tua churches were open and to din
nvvrnlnr sense of frustrated piety.
M strange and curious and per
i tl4f ways.
aa siranee aad curloua
IMWW.'
WILHELM DISCOVERS AMERICA
Ami Also a World" of the Spirit of Right
eousness In Whlrh He I an Allen
anil an Outcast
TOUR hundred nnd twcnty-slx years
ngo today Christopher Columbus dis
covered the new world. Two continents
of which men had not dreamed swum
Into human ken on that memorable
October 12.
Tho German Kaiser, four years njro
last August, set out on n voynjje of con
quest nnd discovery. He had his armed
legions, numbering millions of men. He
had his navy, which had been built up
with feverish hnste. He planned to
mnko the achievement of Columbus look
like that of a child finding a new toy In
his Christmas stocking.
The neiv world tn well na f At- oW tin
to be hh bteauit he thought he had the
power to take them both.
Might, armed might, was his gospel.
The doctrine of the survival of the fit
test was Its Inspiration. "It was the law
of nature." He was to move forward
with the mercilcssncs of the avalanche,
the brutality of the rising tide and the
irreslstibleness of the flood of mnny
waters. Everything that stood in his
way was to be swept aside treaties, his
pledged word, tho architectural monu
ments of many centuries, the bodies of
womer and children, all the finer human
instincts that had refined the life of the
race from the coarser clay of primeval
barbarism.
For forty years he nnd hh predeces
sors had been training the German peo
ple for this great adventure. He had
panned all the jewels of German culture
to buy v.ith the proceed the weapons of
force with which to strike down all oppo
sition. In August of 1914 he thought he
was ready.
The Kaiser has been voyaging for
more than four years and the vision of
the new world is dawning upon his aston
ished sight. It is not the world which
he set out for, any more than the
Americas which Columbus discovered
were the Indies of the East,
He has discovered that there is a spir
itual world mightier than all the brute
power which can be concentrated under
the command of any man. The icy ava
lanche may wreck everything in its path,
and the rising tide may tear down the
most powerful dikes that human in
genuity can contrive and the flood of
many waters may lay waste fruitful val
leys; but no force of nature can destroy
the human spirit. This man, claiming to
rule over one race by divine right nnd
seeking to rule over the world by right
of force, has discovered that there is
something outside of Germany that is
unconquerable. It is a thing that no
German man of science hns been able to
classify and catalogue. It is the Instinct
of righteousness firmly planted in the
human soul that will rise In its majestic
powc- when it Is threatened; an instinct
that will lead those moved by it to sub
mit to every form of hardship nnd suf
fering, even to death, in the struggle to
assert itself against what would over
power It.
The world which the Kaiser is begin
ning to discover is filled with men and
women ruled by that Instinct. The spirit
of France ha3 risen in this great crisis
like a thing of light and glory trans
figuring a whole race. The spirit of
England, more stolid, but none the less
determined, has been reborn in the fires
of its will, and the spirit of Italy harks
back to its prototype of the days when It
was an honor to be a Roman citizen and
when those enjoying that citizenship
defied men to trample upon it with Im
punity. And the spirit of America! What
shall not be said of it? There were those
who insisted that we were so sordid that
no great cause could call us from our
beds of sloth to resist anything vhich
did not threaten our ease. But how mis
taken this view wasl How the history
of this nation was misread!
A nation founded on the rights of man
would never consent to a world ruled by
the rights of privileged force.
The pine tree may have no case against
the onrushing avalanche, but the weakest
American has a case against the most
powerful Kaiser. There is a divine
power moving in ws that impels us to
insist that human rights arc saoed. It
it were not the logical outcome of all our
traditions, what we are doing In this
war would be a miracle greater than the
raising of Lazarus from the dead. The
immortal spirit of righteousness breathed
into our national body in the beginning is
moving us today and we are fighting
with the forces of God that truth and
justice may not perish from the face of
the earth.
The outcome Is as certain as the fall
of Lucifer when he led the rebellion of
the angels in Heaven. The Hohcnzollern
dynasty, which hatched this damnable
plot against the liberties of mankind, is
doomed. It does not need the declara
tion of Secretary Lansing to establish
this stupendous fact. Hohenzollernlsm,
by whntever name It may be called, is
before the bar of the world's conscience,
and there is awaiting the Hohcnzollerns
a sentence of exile into outer darkness
where there Is wailing and gnashing of
teeth.
The Kaiser has discovered a new world
of which he did not dream, a world of
the spirit, in which he is an alien and an
outcast. It is a discovery of greater
promise for the rest of us than the
merely physical finding of the two
Americas by Columbus.
What are the Pennsvlvanla politicians
doing behind the barrage of war news?
THE LAST GASLESS SUNDAY?
IN TIMES like these no one has a right
to complain if he should be denied the
use of an automobile for twenty-four hours,
or for longer periods, each week. You
HMtet begin to approximate self-denial,
until you give up more than motors. Tet
It is to be hoped that tho Federal fuel
administration Is actually ready, as It
seems to be, to declare the end of gaslcs
Sundajn.
That method of conservation was clumsy.
Thero Is no doubt of the entire willing
ness of nil sorts of people to co-operate
with the (lovernment, and if tho fuel ad
ministration had suggested general re
trenchment throughout tho week Instead
of prohibition on Sundavs, the economy
would probably havo been as great, with
no unfairness to nnybody, nlthough not so
spectacular.
Many a man has seen his little flivver
Idle all week becnuse he was too tired to
operate It nnd then embargoed on Sunday,
though he knew that his car would run
obediently all day In the countrv on tho
quantity of gasoline which his moro af
fluent neighbor requires to propel himself
a few miles any weekday afternoon In a
limousine as big ns a hearse Qasless
8unda8 bore hardest on those motorists
who have the least leisure and the great
est need of fresh air.
Wo htvo an Imprcs
It'a a Snfe slon thnt come time
.Mumptlon or other, perhaps In
the far future after
the war, flrrinnny or Germans will pay bit
terl In one vvny or another for the sinking
of the Japanese stcnmBhlp lllrano and for tho
livrs of the Innocents slnughteicd nbo.ird
that vcsftcl. r.nclnnd and America and
France nre tnklng their vengeance In tho
field for similar outrages. The Jap l a good
hater who, being without that opportunity
Is likely to wait for It with wondroui pa
tience They mix war and
The International politics pretty gener-
Ailment oily In England. Field
Marshal Hale, for In
stance, who directed the British armlet to
their moit brilliant victories, has just been
felicitated bj KJng George The felicitation-"
were so long delaed that a scandal almost
resulted In Hnglnnd Presumably Marshal
Halg Isn't a friend of politician. Fortu
nately he Is of the sort that enn live nnd
achieve without the stimulus of cheers from
the gallerv.
Occasionally the Ger
man Foldlcr manifests
an nlmot human in
W lir, TlieyWe
I.rnrnert Knrllsh!
telligence. A battalion
of American, surrounded and cut off from
help, were challenged in the Hunnlsh manner
and told to surrender. They ordered their
adversaries to go to hell. And when we next
heard of the Huns they were streaking In the
direction of Berlin!
This Is, Indeed, a
On the World' strange world, Hope
Strangeneaa of peace, according to
the mot rellablo ad
vices, has demoralized the Germans. Yet, to
see black and riotous horror, keep nn eve
on Germany If the hope of peace should
prove vam
Buy all the bonds ou
Adtlce for Today can. Do not argue
with a man who
doesn't want to buy. Wo will get along with
out him. And nny one who must he urged
to co-operate with the Government doesn't
deserve that high privilege.
The emanations of
Juat What We tome of the armchair
Mere Thinking strategists in Congress
jesterday on the sub
ject of peace and peace feelers cause one to
earn for gasless Krldavs
Gudehus is having
Irlflitfulneaa about as easy a time
at Homo of It in his new Job
with the Plaj grounds
Association as a Hun Invader could have In
France
The Day that Ger
Chronologlcal many longed for ar
rived at last. And
now, In the ordered and unchanging proces
sion of events comes the Night I
A bag containing 117,-
Flnal Troof 000.000 of the Kaiser's
money has JuHt been
stolen near Berlin. And this shows that
Bernstorft Is well and able to be about.
It Is about time,
So It la! surely, for Mr, Brjan
to spring forward with
a suggestion that the corkscrews be turned
Into plowshares.
The headlines leave much unsaid. Yes
terday they said the Allies were on the heels
of the German army In northern France.
As a matter of fact, the Allies are on the
necks of the Hun armies.
The hint of an Internal Impost on clocks
Inspires the Inevitable feeling that It's not
bo much taxes on time, but time on taxes,
that we would welcome.
Make tho liberty Loan grip contagious.
Little Studies in Words
HANGAR
TTTHCN the airship advanced beyond the
' purely experimental stage and began
to be used by adventurous Bplrlts the word
hangar made its appearance In the news
papers. Those who had never seen it be
fore were able to gather from the context
that It referred to the building in which
the airship was housed, as a garage is the
stable for an automobile. The word, how
ever, is only the common Trench term for
a shed for sheltering grain or farm tools.
If we had adopted an KnKllsh Instead of a
French term we should have spoken of
the airship shed.
The word nag a romantic history. Its
root is the same as that of angel. ' Every
one knows that angel Is merely a modifi
cation of the Greek word for messenger.
The ancient Ilomans sent messengers from
the capital to the military commanders
in the provinces, and these men were over
taken by night In uninhabited tracts of
country. They built for themselves Utile
open shelters ot branches In which to
sleep. A form of the word messenger or
angel was used to describe these open shel
ters, and In the coufse of centuries It came
to be applied to a shed of any kind. The
Roman messengers who went on foot slept
in hangars, and the modern military an
gels, or messengers, house their winged
steeds In hangars, and so the csaturlM
meet In this oommonpUce Fretteh tovt.
HIM WE CELEBRATE
TTE DID not snll from Bremen town
" With blutwurst In his hold.
He did not plow tho Wcscr down
For realms that were not old.
He did not drive his sailors' feet
Goose-stepping down tho deck.
He did not gluttonously cat
Limburger, kraut und speck.
He did not sink ships off the const,
Washed by the ocenn blue.
He did not make nn evil boast
In 1402.
He did not rench San Salvador
With blood-lust In his mind.
He did not claim possession for
( Gott's pal left far behind.
He did not swill gross steins of beer
(Though not nverse to sherry). ,
He did not, nftcr starting hero
The first Atlantic ferry,
Sow seeds for national life that would
When Europe was blood red
Make Kultur's profits any good
To Bernstorff or Boy-Ed.
He did not do the things we said
He didn't. And today ,
When several million folk are glad
Ho came along our way.
Why is one land exempted from
Delight and gala glee?
Why is the scene more grimly glum
Than aught in history?
Why cannot bands roar down the shame
That halts all festal clatter?
Columburg never was his name
Perhaps that's what's the matterl
Addressed to Church-Goers
AT THE October meeting of the Penn
sylvania Bible Society, the oldest Bible
poclcty In America, established in 1808,
nishop J. r. Berry In the chair, on mo
tion of the Itev. Dr. Kufus W. Miller, it
was unanimously voted to request each of
the seven dally papers of this city during
the prevailing epidemic to publish selected
pas-mges of Scripture, with a ery brief
comment, If possible, on tho editorial page.
Theso arc to be chnnged each day for the
next few dajs nt least, while tho churches
are closed by order of the Board of
Health. TOANK P. PARKIN,
General Secretary.
scniPTuni: belectwnb
"The Lord shall preserve thy going out
and thy cotnino tn from this time forth
and even forcvcrmorc."P. exxi, 8)
"1 uill be glad and rejoice in Thy mercy,
for Thou hajff'Lonaldercd my trouble; Thou
hast knowlf my soul in adversity." (Ps.
xxxi, 7.)
"Beloved, think it not strange concern'
ing the fiery trial uhich la to try you, aa
though soi . stranpc things happened
unto you: Hut rejoice, inasmuch aa yc aye
partakers of Chrtst'a suffcrlnga; that uhen
His glory shall be reicalcd, yc may be
plad also with exceeding Joy." I Peter, iv,
12-ts )
"Eicn the youths shall faint and be
ucary,,and the young men shall utterly
fall: Iiut they that wait upon the Lord
ahall renew their atrcngth; they shall
mount up with tcinga aa eagles; they
shall run, and not be utarj; and they shall
walk; and not faint." Isaiah, xl, SO 31.)
"Qod has brought us into this time; He,
and not oursclici or some dark demon.
If uc arc not fit to cope tilth that which
lie has prepared for us, uc should hate
been utterly unfit for any condition that
u.c imagine for oursclics. In this time uc
arc to lite and urcatlc, and in no other.
Let us humbly, tremblingly, manfully look
at It, and we shall not wish that the sun
could go back its ten degtces, or that uc
could go back tilth it. If easy times arc
departed, it Is that the dlfflcuU times may
make ua more in earnest; that they may
teach us not to depend Upon ourselies. If
easy belief ia possible. It la that tee may
learn what belief is, and in whom it is to
be placed." F. V. Maurice.
THE READER'S VIEWPOINT
Guns on Merchant Ships
To the Editor of the Evening Public Ledger:
Sir Would you kindly answer the follow
ing Inqulrv 1 How many guns does the most
protected merchant ship carry pi Ing between
United States and Great Britain?
The reason I am asking Is to convince a
fellow-worker that ho must be mistaken
when he swears that he saw a British
merchant ship coming up the Delaware show.
Ing sixteen guns 1 said they must be wooden
ones, probably to deceive submarines, as the
construction of such a ship would, In my
estimation, bo impossible; but I could not
convince him BRITISHER
Cheyney, Pa , October 11.
ITho War Department does not permit in
formation to be given out about the extent
of the armament on ships of any kind Th
ndltor
Senate Wants Mr. Gilbert's Articles
To the Editor of the Evening PUbtie Ledger:
Sir Will you kindly see that the edition of
your paper is sent to this committee, which
contains the articles by your Mr. Clinton W.
Gilbert? The committee Is anxious to have
hese on die. KARL. G. GADDIS,
Secretary, Foreign Relations Committee,
United States Senate.
Washington, P. C. October 9.
Crime has fallen off' in this city since
the adventf grip closed tha saloons
Nobody seemVto know whether this Is due
to the "flu" or to the absence of the demon.
It U due to the "flu," of course, since it
was the "flu," wasn't it, that closed tho
saloons? r
The Pennsylvania politicians stopped
talking to help the loan. Are they saving
their voices or would nobody believe them
If they went out now nnd then to say .that
Liberty Bonds are a good Investment?
The season and the state of politics in
Europe cause one to recall the fact that a
turkey never can have any cause for thanks
giving. .
General Smash appears to be the rank
ing military authority of the moment i with
the aertnans.
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Then a"'1 !ch d,lftrence In Qermany
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WHAT A CONGRESSMAN SEES
Scmitccckly Letter Touching on the Washington Doings of Personalities
Familiar to Philadelphians
By J. Hampton Moore
Washington, D. C, Oct. 12.
T71VERY lojal Pennsvlvanian down here
is expecting to bco the Philadelphia
district "go over tho top" with tho fourth
Liberty Loan. It Is a big task and was
known to bo when the Secretary of the
Treasury announced tho lzo of tho loat.
and the amount he expected Philadelphia
to raise. Tho ctTorts being put forth by
E. Pusey Passmore and those associated
with him in the Inderal Reserve svstem
will need the support of tho citizens gen
erally, and especially will It be necessary
for tho good ladles who have formed com
mittees to further the loan to continue
unceasingly In the work. Philadelphia has
too good and patriotic a rccoid in nil mat
ters of this klrd to fall back. Suffer as
it may from the handicap of Director Kru
sen's "epidemic influenza," tho Philadelphia
district, like all other districts, lan slower
than was tho case with tho third Liberty
Loan. To a certain extent that was
to be expected. The Third Loan did
not have to combat the uncertainty df an
$8,000,000,000 revenue measure: nnd Secre
tary McAdoo entered upon his biggest
loan venture knovvlr.g better than any
other man, perhaps. Just what kind of a
fight was ahead of him. He sought the
early passage of tho tnx bill, hoping it
might be out of the way before the
launching of the fourth loan, but Con
gress was not satisfied with that bill and
will not be, in all probability, until after
election. And it may bo Just as well, so
far as the loan Is concerned, because of
the heavy demands it will make upor. the
tnx-paylng public; which, by the way, is
also the bond-buying public. No matter
what we may think of tho future, or of
tho methods of expending public money,
or of the possibilities of peace, the Govern
ment has obligated itself for all the money
that will bo raised by this loan and by tho
revenue bill, too, and much moie will havo
to be raised. Theso obligations must bo
met. By the end of June next they will
represent a war expenditure of $36,000,
000,000. plus about 7,000,000,000 provided
for In the deflclcr.cy bill. This grand
total Includes the approximate $10,000,
000,000 loaned to our Allies, but It proves
up the necessity of putting two bonds
aside for eveiy one that was purchased
during the third loan drive. When wo
lemembw that bujlng Liberty Bonds is
easier and safer than goh.ff Into the
trenches, and that it not only protects us
as a nation, but provides a good invest
ment for the holder, there is some Justifi
cation for the tendency to criticize those
who, having money to buy, neglect to do
so. But former Governor Stuart, who has
been helping out on the speechmaklng, and
who get.erally has his ear to the ground,
tells us "Philadelphia Is all right"; and wo
shall not doubt it.
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THERE is substantial ground for bark
ing up Director Webster, of the Depart
ment of Wharves, Docks and Ferries, in
urging increased shipments from the port
of Philadelphia. Baltimore and Boston are
doing an Increased amount of war ship
ping and Philadelphia could do much more.
Mayor Peters, of Boston, recently an
nounced that his city would obtain and
hold until the end of tho war no less than
10 per cent of the war shipping, ilean,
while Albany, which la farther up the Hud
son River than Philadelphia Is on the Dela
ware, Is demanding' a direct outlet to the
sea, and insists that her Industrial output
'jlMtMM Hf Qgy'FaVaayavt. fJsWMfr" iktt
OR BONDAGE, IT'S UP
New York Stato barge c.tnal, which has
tho hearty approval of Governor Whit
man, is looked upon as n valuable adjunct
to transportation along the Hudson and In
Now England Tho Delaware should keep
In touch with what Is going on elsewhere.
D. J. Murphy, Jr., whose experience as a
stevedore enables him to speak with a
degree of authority, tola, the Rotary Club
a bit of the truth the other day when
ho spoke of the Phlladelphlnns who "didn't
know their own port," but prefened to
waste time and money searching for the
other poits from which to make Interna
tional shipments. Unfortunately, there aro
shippers who cannot tee what nn asset
Philadelphia has in the Delaware River.
They seem to agree with that timid class
of "decp-bea sailors" who find It "danger
ous to navigate nn inland stream." May all
such be commended to tho tender mercy
of Captain John Vlrdln and his fellow
member of the Delaware River Pilots' As
sociation when tho sea is running rough.
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CURIOUS how Interesting the United
-' States is to us when we move about.
There U Ralph Heniy Cameron, tho last
Republican delegate from the Territory of
Arizona. He fought to have Arizona ad
mltted to the Union, saw his wish gratified
and then stepped out of Congress. Ralph
was bom In Maine, but took to mining
and stock raising and among other things
built the Bright Angel Trail into the
Grand Canvon of tho Colorado; and yet
jou would bo as likely to find this Yankee
born Westerner In the corridors of the
Waldorf. Astorid or the Bcllev uc-Stratford
ns upon horseback. In addition to giving
encouragement to the Department of the
Inteflor In Its efforts to pass a $50,000,000
mining bill to gather up American mineral
resources dm ing the war, Cameron Is now
conducting a big timber-cutting operation
in New Jersey, somewhere between
Brown's Mills In the-Plnea and Whitings.
Cameron's appearance in New Jersey is u
reminder that when Arizona was a teirl
tory New Mexico was ulso a territory, and
that its delegate was William II. Andrews,
of Albuquerque, formerly "Bull" Andrews,
of Wairen County, Pennsvlvanla. An
diews, who had been an active participant
In Keystone Stato politics when Quay, Mar
tin and Durham .Were pdmes to conjure
with, had quit tho Republican State chair
manshlp td become the president of u.
southwestern lallroad. He did notforgei
his Pennsylvania political training und
almost Immediately landed the New Mexico
delegateshlp to Washington. When the
Tcnltory was udmltted to Statehood,
Andrews became Senator and served side
by side with his Pennsvlvanla associates,
Penrose and Oliver, for a term of six years.
He was defeated for reelection, but there
are indications that tho ' famous "Bull"
intends to mako one moro charge upon the
senatorial battlements.
MR. AND MRS.( FRANK M. CHAN
DLER, of Philadelphia, '..now their
Washington almost as well as they do their
homo city. For many ycarB Mr. Chandler
has been associated with the Cramps. He
started In when the concern was largely
the personal property ojt tho Cramp fam
ily, jind has remained through tho various
corporate stages until tho Government
stepped In and assumed control. Ho is now
downtown manager ot the pig enterprise.
Occasionally Mr. Chandler runs over to
the capital on business, and when he does
Mrs. Chandler generally goes along. She
la a good traveler and has maA It a point
f afjS).
TO US!
natural allies, the harbors and water
wavs of tho country. The Chandlers have
"done" nearly or quite all of the water
ways conventions held along tho Atlantic
coast fiom Boston to Miami.
PHILADELPHIA newspapers are eagerly
t read in Washington thjse days. Th
casualty lists hlivc been n soutcc of In
terest to tho many Philadelphians now
nttached to the Government departments,
and tho long "death lists" since the influ
enza struck the Quaker City have increased
the concern of those whose relatives aro
within the infected territory. Washington
lias become ho "industrial" Itself and the
housing problem continues so acute that
tho appearance of Influenza here I(f giving T'
small comfoit to tho stranger population, f
Tho coal question also threatens to bob
up again, although tho Government itself
has been stoilng up n winter supply. An
amusing thing about the housing situation
is that a number of wealthy residents aro
compelled to remain in Washington willy
nllly for fear tho Department of Labor
will commandeer their homes if left vacant.),
Strenuous times, these.
The Republic of Ararat
The announcement of the formation of
"the Independent republic of Ararat" will
brush away the faifacy which regards Ararat
as Just a mountain, Instead of a country,
albeit the very mountain on which the ark
rested when the waters of the deluge began
to abate. Genesis is explicit enough to have
prevented the mistake. It might be thought:
It savH quite distinctly: 'The nrk rested
upon the mountains of Ararat." In Its day
Ararat was a great power, holding sway
far to the east and to the west. But to west
ern Europe Ararat haB long been known as
the place where the , dove first plucked the
olive leaf and returned with her message of
hope to the ark Christian Science Monitor.
Tender Thoughts
"Say, old man, you're in right t I met your
wife up the street and Hhc'a raving about
jou. Says she knows you love her because
jou waved your hand at her as she passed' '
the onice today with her new black hat on."
What! Say, tell me. Jack, did ,
she wear a purple waist and carry a gray
muff?"
"Sure; wh?" 4
"Well, well, well! And so that was my
wife !" nichmond Times-Dispatch.
Learned Bad Habits .
"Sometimes Gwendolyn speaks and Some
times she doesn't." said Maude.
"Yes," replied Maymle, "she got that way
since she took a position in the telephone
exchange." Washington Star. ,
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
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What, nre the to larcekt rlrera of tho
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SirtnlJit l"r ' "U" ,n tU War nE
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the arrant on the Mat ayllahll.. w
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to rroaa central Afrlrn.
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or rillxlaui cmbieiiii, -; ;
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