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CTrUSs II. K CUIITIS. PnraiorsT
Ht H. I.udlnston, Vice Prealilent, John C.
unVretarr nil Treaauren 1'hlllpfl, Collin.
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HOW TO GET Rll) OP Till:
MAGISTRATES
TP THE General Asiemlil; lo b- elpi'teil
"n November Joes Its dtit It wilt net
on the siiBRCstlon of Assistant District At
tornei Taulane and repeal the Ian Ie-
V i flntns thto Jurlsaictlon of the magistrates'
' .courts.
',J- It is generally admitted that thee courts
1 should be abolished. Hut It has been
'' thouKht to be Impossible because they ate
embedded In the Constitution. This news
"paper has pointed out mote than once that
,tli8 Constitution Rles to the General As-
sembly complete power over the class of
bases to be tiled before the maRlstrates.
nd that by depriving these Judicial otll-
, .cers of Jurisdiction over matters of lm-
' portanco the courts would die a natural
'' death.
In tha course of an argument acalnst
w quashing the indictments apnlnsti Mapls
! trate Persch Mr. Taulane expressly stated
I that if the act of 1875 creatlnir the courts
; Were repeated the courts wculd disappear.
1) There Is no doubt of this. The magistrates
would have to be elected, for that Is or-
dered by the Constitution, and they would
f hao to receive n snlary, fcr the salary is
"jialso ordered by the Constitution. But u
" dollar a year would meet the technical
k requirements.
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rt tu4tUn 41.- fn...l...ln.. I. I.. 1.... l ......
s l'lh'e (lenerul Assembly will come to thu
relief of this city and act on the siiKBes
, tlon of Mr. Taulane.
There's not the slightest need for the
, j aiprci oi jviDama 10 waste a tear oer Hib
,
-v capture of Durazzo by the Italians and
.tBritisll. Thev'lft tnpPAlv LlLnri unniplhlKi.
rj which he ner really had
A rnvrr ciito hit i rfuut.i..
If " a-aiill Jill I uui Ul UU.)liUI33HJi
J' riiMK rool tnat rocks the boat has an
inenvlablc rlml. Hn is tliM nnu.
....h.m. ,..u ulv.li, OMILUkAl lillll 1IU
V stroys ror tronths the usefulness of steal
ataamahlnu n lha tlma iilmn l.a ,.An.i r....
mem is supremely pressing. It is hinted
, titat some such bungler Is responsible for
' -the sinking at her dock in Hobokcn of the
; huge transport America, formerly of the
Hamburg-American Line.
Stumors that spies were involved In this
aocldent have been discounted. They were
i similarly rejected in the case of the St.
Paul, which lay on the bottom of the Hud-
, son' for months this ear when she could
'. bo ill spared In the transatlantic service
If stupidity Is really to blame fo the
'"'temporary but still extremely erIous loss
j of 'these two fine essels, tin occasion for
.scrupulously strict superintendence of
'"shipping In port is Indeed urgent. CMI
;Clans unfamiliar with marine mechanism
fiif ; may be eaully as dangerous as Huns.
Humors that "the majority of the (ler-
! piah people want peace at any price" beem
, father foolish when the tost of it has been
J o tpeclflcally Hated.
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CiJ- sidewalk has for years been mnrn r.
. . Anaw.tr1 tn fKn Vimtinh tl.nn ft, 4I,A l.nnH..
, 'ijnce. Visitors from other cities have been
T" aff.n iti.it t... .Ln .n..t.. , ..
i vucimcu u diu jjict aicuce nere 01 me
1 habit.
Now we aro told that the ordinance is
to be enforced and that those who violate
;t ,K will be fined. In order that the spiead of
Influenza may be checked.
a ', Spitting on the sidewalks, of course,
f should be stopped, but if the streets were
hept clear of all disease-breeding filth It
would be much easier to check the spread
'net only of the grip but of every other
fftl&Asla V -n a till mi 1,1 t.n l..1...i . . .
WJtever disposition may be manifesting
. iifteix to enxorce rorgotten ordinances.
- There are sortie who will not believe
tkaat,PreiIdent Wilson's note Is acceptable to
If, associated Powers until they hear
VW Colonel Itoosevelt thinks of It.
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WASHINGTON MUST HELP
l(failESS Is expected to pass the bill
'Vjaroprlatlnsr $8,000,000 to pay one-half
telle cost of the proposed bridge across
.Delaware, which Representative Vare
P Introduced In the House.
bridge Is to facilitate interstate
e, a subject over which Congress
adlctlon. It Is part of the great
iar Improving the transportation fa-
liter, this port. The development of
rt U a matter of national concern,
ielphla is a distributing point for
luets of a vast country extending
fm as the Hocky Mountains. livery
t here in dredging the river and
vlng the railroad terminals bene-
'farmer and every manufacturer
i part of the nation.
Men spending money by the
t r to liwure to ourselves and
the rKht to live our -lives
Km aovsrnmunt (in
SQUEEZING OUT THE HUN
Ilia Chances of Mikln a Stand on the Mile
alentlcnnei Line Grow Hourly Sllmmet
"PiXTENSIVE advertisement of a new
J German line of defense arouses
among the hosts of freedom no such feel
ings of rcluctunt respect as were occa
sioned when the slcnincnncc of the Hin
denburp line was realized one year and
a lit If ago.
The strength of that bulwark, now
happily obsolete, was obvious. It ran
front stronghold to stronghold. It was
elaborately planned during months of
comparative quiet on the front. It was
designed to foster Hindenburg's plans
for an encrvnting stnlemate in 1917 and,
save for Byng's ill-supported lupturc
last November, the original design was
effectively carried out until the Hun him
self decided to play for higher stakes
than a deadlock.
The substitution of open fighting for
trench warfare was concurrent with this
determination. Germany delibeiatcly
set the new style and employed it with
showy success until the mcmoruble mid
summer of this year, when Foch, with
characteristic French taste, contiibuted
pertinent finishing touches and made it
a la mode for a period which will prob
ably extend to the conclusion of the
war. The present fighting fashions are
not fnvoinblc to defensive lines erected
by an army in tetreat.
The destruction of the Hindcnburg
barner. reputed the most powerful hin
drance ever raised by an army, gives n
clear verdict in favor of incessant
offensive pressute exerted without inter
mission on all parts of the obstruction.
The oblitetation of the great wall from
Verdun to the sea provides a standard
example of the impotence of such a
structute under hammer blows.
It is perfectly obvious that the Ger
mans cannot withdraw behind anything
as caiefully constructed as the Hinden
buig line anywhere this side of the
eastern boundary of France. Fuithcr
moie, it become? incieasingly evident
that their announcement of a battle
front running from Lille to Valenciennes,
to Hirson, to Mezietes, to Metz was
frantically prematutc.
Two points on this hypothetical bar
rier arc likely to be in Allied hands
befoie many days have passed. They
al-e Lille and Mezicrcs. The line will
then have no logical teiminu'? and it
will be bleached in the center. If Ger
many seeks to stake her chances on
prospects so insubstantial as they appear
at this moment Koch's ambition to crush
his foe's military power before it has an
opportunity to escape across the Rhine
may be achieved.
Undoubtedly that is what the general
issimo is playing for. It would be un
reasonably optimistic to forecast defi
nitely such a triumph. This much, how
ever, may be safely piedictcd. Given
the present rate of the Teuton retreat,
the enemy will cither be trapped or
thrust virtually out of Franco before the
close of 191S.
Up to now his fckill in withdrawal has
had conspicuous merit. The bagging of
latge numbcts of prisoners has lately
ceased, if exception be made of the
goodly haul in the Anglo-Belgian drive
on Roulers. But the possibility of Ger
man blundeis grows apace as his retreat
becomes more and more crowded.
The German General Staff today must
reckon with three perilous situations.
The most critical is in the north, where
his hold on the U-boat base of Ostend
and Zeebruggc grows momcntaiily mote
insecure and where the fall of Lille and
Douai seems only a matter of a few
days. The extinction of the Lille salient
would totally wreck the alleged German
schemes for the extension of a formid
able barrier extending northwest from
Valenciennes. Any slip-up in this legion
would be terribly costly.
The second peril is slightly less immi
nent and is dependent on the progress
of the British and Americans cast of Le
Cateau and of the French toward Guise.
Further pressure in these directions
would render the Hirson bastion unten
able. To the southeast the new situa
tion created by the almost simultaneous
fall of La Fere and Laon, strongholds
which had resisted the armies of liberty
since 1914, is fast becoming one of potent
interest.
Three armies, Mangin's, Gouraud's and
the American, are advancing rap
idly to regain the deepest strip of
French territory still in Hun possession,
and Rcthel an important railroad junc
tion at the crest of the bend of the Aisne
is on the vetge of capture. The larger
objective is Mezieres, key to the German
transport system of this part of the front
and close enough to Sedan to make an
ticipatory thrills of recompense exquis
itely sweet.
The Franco-American forces are still
considerably more than twenty miles
from this goal. The magnitude of their
task is duly commensurate with the
scope of the victory that may result if
the tempo of advancement increases.
Like the Germans, pessimistic arm
chair strategists are in retirement at
this hour. From their Caves of Adullam
they may still dismally prophesy that
Koch will not corner the entire German
army. There are too many unforeseen
contingencies to render such a forecast
worthy of argumentative support or in
dorsement. But croakers cannot raise
the bugaboo of the terrible second Ger
man line of defense. We know too well
what happened to the first one.
A NEW LINK WITH SIBERIA
GAIII- W. ACKEKMAK, with whose
striking work, "Germany the Next He
public," as well as notable special articles,
readers of the Evckino PUBuq Ut.vmv.ix are
JMBllttr, d-Mtara that Vladivostok
lMDM TimataWa. jmw '-
proceeds to draw a pen-picture of Ameri
canizing influences In that distant seaport
which belle all suggestion of remoteness.
Attached as correspondent to the Ameri
can army there, Mr. Ackcrman will report
for this newspaper the progress of a unique
campaign which alms to establish true
standards of democracy In Itussla. The
experiment has no parallel In history and
should be u rlih Held for the expression
of a trained correspondent's Interpretative
gifts, until recently so Illuminative of the
Swiss neutrality maelsttom,
No, MaiUo dear, the girl with spats has
not necessarily transgressed the latest anti
grip ruling,
WISE RESTRICTIONS
AS THK grip epidemic sit ws a tendency
"to subside It becomes pla.t. that the
various ordets Issued by tho State Depart
ment of Health to limit the possibilities
of contagion nt public assemblages were
timely and wise and that the advetBe criti
cisms which such edicts inspired In many
quarters were without Justification.
In mnny cities In Spain and Swltrerland
the lntlueimt epidemic was of long dura
tion and deadlier even than It has been
here. The virulent character of the dis
ease and the luck of definite knowledge
which served to hinder the physicians who
pilled themselves against it certainly Jus
tified the i.estilctlve measures adopted by
tho health atithotltles of the State. It Is
altogether piobable that death nnd Illness
would have visited it great many more
households had the authorities been 1h
or lenient.
The poweitt of the Slate Depattment of
Health ate of euraol dinar scope In rises
of emergeiiej. The wisdom of the legisla
tive act under which the late Doctor Dixon
reorranled the department has been
ptoverl In this Instance. The department
has a well-trained personnel and It has
operatetl elllclentl.v since the outbreak of
the epidemic to enfotrc such preventive
measures as were netetsary to safeguard
the community against greater suffering.
The occasional angry outbit-aks of criti
cism aimed at the lieulth nuthotltles since
the so (.tilled "closing orders" were made
effective cannot be said to be In teasonable
regard for the seriousness of the situation.
Tho community nt large has. Indeed, a
light to be gutotitl to the head of the
department who had the coutage lo adopt
extruordlmiiv measures and enforce them
to the lettti In the face of all opposition.
Interest In the loan Is not debatable,
but a very real thing. lJuy up and be con
vinced NO TRUCE IN JERSEY
TN JKItSKV. too, as well as In Ccrmany,
the old things and the new are lined
up for warftie While the forces of des
tiny are battering at the foundation f
Wllhclm'.s throne, that citadel of political
traditions known to the world as Senator
Davy Huird Is under a violent attack by
the hardly less potent forces that give In
cteaslng vitality to the cause of eqcal
suffrage. The sufftuglsts In New Jersey
want Senator Davy to abdicate. Thev aro
out to fight him to the end. There Is no
talk of armistices, no fourteen conditions,
no notes In that t.uarter. The war Is to
bo to tlfj death.
It will be an Intetestlng war to wath.
The forces opposed In the conflict repre
sent the extremes of Ante! lean political
t.plnlotl tm old thing nnd tlu new, the
past and the future. Senator Dav.v Is an
amiable man. Hut he adheres strictly lo
old-school political beliefs to understand
ings and gentlemen's agreements and
smooth-working part organisations, and
above all to the Obedient Majority. There
are no frills on him. Ho believes that
woman's place Is in the home unu that
Providence loves the United StatC3.
The powers arraed against him repre
sent the New Idea. They icpresent the
aspiring consciousness. They are the
spreading hopes and Idealism of younger
minded America. It will be Interesting
to observe the sort of fight the aro ublc
to make and whethei the ate able to put
a dent or a scratch upon the urmor of
Senator Davy. If they aro able to shako
the confidence of that old chieftain ever
so slightly then we shall de''de that the
world of thought In New Jersey does
uctuull move, even If it move slowly.
W ilsonlan harpoons seem to have been
hurled right Into Herman walls,
SOMETHING IS HAPPENING IN
GERMANY
THK freedom with whlc the (lerman
newspapers are discussing the possible
abdication of the Kaiser Is astounding.
Something Is going on bei.lnd the scenes
hints of which cannot be prevented from
getting out The Tngeblatt, of Berlin, for
example, suggests that the -abdication of
the Kaiser would be facilitated if Herr
Kbcrt or Doctor Solf were to succeed Max
imilian as Chancellor, though It prefers
von l'atr. the Deputy Chancellor. The
Socialists are Insisting that the new Chan
cellor shall be a man In smpathy with
the demands of the commoners rather than
of the nobility.
But the mere fact that there is a discus
sion In Germany of the possibility of the
withdrawal of Wllhelm from the throne
Is more significant of change In the In
ternal affairs of the country than anything
that has et happened.
That deep and awful
Itepubllra Alwaya silence of which jou
Were Ingruteful cannot help but be
aware radiates, so to
speak, from the 45,866 self-appointed Assist-
ant Presidents of the United States who,
after tolling night and day for more than
a week, found suddenly that they were
engaged In a nonessential employment.
Lenlne and Trotsky
hlsna of I'roml.e have fallen out. The
' Kaiser and the Crown
Prince are said to be at daggers' points,
l.udendorft and Htndenburg do not speak as
they pass. The world, all told, looks a little
brighter.
The German editors who walled In pain
when their Government proposed peace are
probably in need of ether by this time.
The farmerette Is here to stay, sayMhe
agricultural experts. That Is more than one
can say for the cook nowadays.
All the same, the barring of the bars
kuu itwMsed the production of whines and
ft;4 tfctHar Wh Hbt variety, .
THE HOT BOX
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I'll advice to Wllhelm icould be to do
his Christmas abdicating carl.
Liberty Loan Though!
Once In a whllo the course of human
events takes us to New York, a surpris
ingly large town completely dominated by
uniformed hallboys and head waiters,
Approaching the metropolis In n, cuu
tlous and futtlve fashion, wo pass through
the train yards In Jersey City, and there
wo have several times noticed a sight that
Interests us very much.
It Is a fleet of Uncle Sam's locomotives,
each one painted battleship gray and Ini
tialed IT. S A waiting on the sidings In
Jersey City to be shipped across for service
on our military railways In France.
A locomotive Is rather nn expensive
plaything, and when ott see a hundred or
so of them lined up ou naturally wonder
who pas for them. To us th6se engines
are a vivid symbol of the sort of thing the
fourth Liberty Ioan means. It means the
Instant urgent necessities of our campaign.
We cannot Imagine that there Is a think.
Ing citizen who -does not realize that our
military effort now stands on the most
critical hilltop of the war. There can be
no armistice In bond buying.
We submit, subject to correction, that
thtee things aro necessary In carrying on
a war. Klrst, un enemy lo fight against.
The Kalaer has provided this. Second,
armed forcea of our own to fight for us.
These we htfto nrrued und they are on
the Job Third, a united nation behind
the armed forces, standing heart to hcatt
and pocket to pocket.
It is up to every one of us to think It
out for himself. How much more can you
spate to hasten Ihe war to Its honorable
conclusion'.'
Let's sic, dlu.i'l Mi. insoit sail some
tliliip about the triumphant force that
uould bring ciery Holfish t'omlnlon down
In the dustS
When It does comp. pedco will seem so
Hliangp and delightful th't undoubtedly
till enterprising newspapc-s will have
highly paid peace cortespondents In the
paMgerent countries.
ll'or has taught us all to be mlyhlu
sin cud and cnniij. Did you ever u-atch a
vmohcr strike civ safctu match these days,
and notice how far lie holds It atrau ftom
Us ilothcs until he sec t uhcthcr the bunt
ing head Is going to iputtcr off.'
Shaking in Their Shoes
A Berlin newspaper sas that no (ler
man can read Doctor Solf's recent reply
to President Wilson Without being shaken
to the bottom of his soul. Also to the
bottom of his boolsole
ll't! orn it-oiidcr tthat particular tirele
of hell Kill be icscmd for the men icho
iplt on pavements'
Perhaps the brst punishment for them
In this life icould be to picicnt them from
bulling any Liberty llonds.
The (lerman pleas for an armistice seem
to us about as honest and genuine as a
waiter's shirt front.
Mr. Mc.ldoo hat said nothing during tl)l'
loan drlic about u-caring half-iolcd trou
sers. Is It possible that he has gone and
bought a new pair since last spring?
It looks to us ns though Germany pretty
soon will do the Little .lack Homer stunt
of thumbing out the HohenzolleHis, and
then look up at us bashfully expecting
praise for such an obvious uct of good
sense.
What Clcrmany needs U a stiff dose of
some kind of icrmln killer that will have
the same effect on llohcntollcrns that a
Lcll-Unocn poison is said to hate on tats
"Ihcy don't die in the house."
Autumn Hills of I'unston
(To the memory of Lleutenat.t Ilobcrt C.
Westman, of Massachusetts, killed in
action August 10, 191S)
ACHOSS the hills of Kunston the autumn
ati rains have swept
And silent are the grasses where the tiny
creatures crept;
Brown and ted and yellow are the hollows
of the hills,
And violet the twilight when the waning
sunset fills
All the little vales and gulloys where the
prairie re .'s glowed
In early June in Funston beside the tram
pled road.
FOB esterda the word came from the
sister of u friend,
"Bob died in Prance in August" wete the
simple words she penned,
l'ct they turned my heart to ashes and
they drew across the sky
A veil that clouds the sunshine till the
day I come to die;
1 could have spared a hurdred from the
store of friends I keep
If only death had lifted tho sickle from
thbi sleep,
0 AUTUMN hills of Funston where I
wait a prisoner
With hands and feet so fettered that I
cannot even stir, .
The glory of the summer and the promise
of the spring
Are smlt with frost of autumn iiid with
blackened withering;
There's a new -made grave In Alsace-where
the sudden popples start
But It's autumn here In Funston and It's
winter In my heart,
PVT. WILLABD WATTLES, Brigade Sur
geon's Olllce, 164th Depot Brigade, Camp
Funston, Kan.
How many kindly people theie are In the
world Just as long as ou are nice to 'em!
The Kaiser Is so silent these days he
must be paring apple peelings to thivw
over his left shoulder at Halloween.
If barnacles are good to eat, what a feast
the German naval comma 'ders must be
having!
Philip Olbbs reports thati a smartly
dressed German officer surrendered the
other day, saying that he teas wearing his
"peace clothes."
The best kind of peace clothes for a
German officer would be a pair of over
alls, worn while at work clearing up tht
tcanlon wreckage done in France and BcU
alum.
The bt preventive of the grip Is to bujt
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WHAT A CONGRESSMAN SEES
Sfiniwpofdy Li'ltvr Touching on the Washington Doings of Personalities
I Familiar to Philadclphians
By J. Hampton Moore
Washington, I. ('.. Oct. 16.
"piVTUItN Hips to Philadelphia after a
steady ubenco find many changes In
personnel. Now faces ate found In place
of "old familiars" und ofttlmes old faces ate
sought in vain One must read the obituary
column j.owadavs to make sute of one's
giound. Sol Asher gone! At the Manu
facturers' Club, In Grand Army circles
(for the famous dancing master had a
good war record) and umong the Masons.
Sol will be sadlj missed. And Harty J.
Shoemaker, of Dovlcstovvn, who liplped
Joseph li. CJtundy build up the Pennsvl
vanla Manufacturers' Association until it
has come to bo nn Influence to be reckoned
with in the State and nation. At Hartls
burg und at Washington' ho was known
as an expert on all matters affecting tho
Interests of manufacturers. And Jacob
T. Alburger. Ill departure puts the his
toric Tammany Pea Shote Fishing Com
pany among tho last man's clubs. Al
burger belor.ged to the group heailed by
Colonel M. Rlchardi Muckle, William T.
Head, Samuel W. Wray. Abner Murphy
nnd J. B. Jones, but they have gone nnd
few Indeed of the active members of the
company now ternaln
MAYOR McDOWHLL, of Chester, like
Ma or Kills, of Camden, has had much
to do recently with Government officials
In connection with war vvotk. Some of
the Chester Maor's tioubles have arisen
from the disposition of shipbuilding offi
cials to proceed without consulfir.g city
officials, as in the matter of tho consttuo
tion of frame buildings, without first con
forming to local fire and building regula
tions. The war has given excuse Jjo some
of the Government contractors to 'do many
things they would not dare to do in times
of peace and thus Is aroused an occasional
outburst of tho time-honored "right of
local government." Chester Is making a
big contribution to the war and neither the
Mayor nor the Chamber of Commerce, of
which T. Woodward Trainer is the live
wife sectetary, nor the Board of Trade,
of which Eugene I' Wfclie Is president,
has lost any opportunity to keep the
wheels turning. They ate encouraging
shipbuilding ar.d housing accommodations,
ate Insisting upon a larger port and a
deeper Delawaie, and are not overlooking
that other Chester assetthe Hon. Wil
liam C. Sprout whom they expect to see
In the gubernatorial chair after the first
of January. The Ilepubllcan nominee, by
the wuyvU a director of the Chester Cham
ber of Comniercd and attends the regular
meetings.
a a a
rryiAT' stage of the congresilonal cam.
palgn has been reached where the re.
spectlvj chairmen are pleasantly accusing
each other of "pernicious political activ
ity." And yet, no campaign of natlon-wld
Interest has been quite so Innocuous a
this one. The Democrats are sending W
speakers and so. are the Republicans, tfltf
an oi tnem are taming iw mortj t
pennies auu icyv u wieut IfJsatVre
publicity fo theif utterandp te s
UtwaU e war. a(pftj
ROUND THAT "GREAT
'. . ;c"zm
pnlgnlng" that has been done has really
consisted of circulars and letters emanating
from committee headquarters hero and in
New York. The most active leader has
been the new chairman of tho Republican
National Committee, Will II. Hays, of
Indiana. He Is a good talker and letter
writer nnd travels around enough to keep
the bojs stirred up. Ills chief line of talk
is "Win the war," but recently ho has
taken advantage of Democratic speeches
In Wisconsin, Maine and other States to
accuse tho enemy of unfair tactics. A
letter sent Into Kentucky1 by the Demo
cratic National Committee, of which Vonce
McCotmlck, of Pennsylvania, Is chairman,
signed by V.'. D. Jamleson, the assistant
treasurer, is In point, it holds up the re
suit of the election In .Maine us significant
and Indicates that Berlin would be the
gainer If the Republicans captured Con
gress. Of course, the Republican chair
man challenges that statement and up
braids the Democrats for. t;uestlonlng the
loalt of Republicans. The Jamleson let
ter, by the way, was an appeal for funds
It was not signed by Mr. McCormlck, who,
although chairman of the National Com
mittee, Is also u Federal official, being
chairman of the1 war trade hoard.
QJO FAR as the have gone the two
national campaign committees huv6
been working in harmony with the con
gressional committees, of which Scott Fer
ris, of Oklahoma, Is chairman for the
Democrats, and Dr. S. D. FesS, of Ohio, for
the Republicans. Since suceedlng Chair
man Frank Woods, of Iowa, Doctor Fess
has been putting considerable ginger into
the campaign. His committee orj speakers,
of which Bascomb Slemp, of Virginia, Is
chairman, has been working particularly
In Stutes like Indiana and New York The
result Is tint' Ferris has been going to the
White House oftener, and more Demo
cratic speeches have been going Into the
Record than was originally .ntended. The
President's attitude toward Individual mem
bers of Congress has been a matter of con
cern In some of tho districts, :ut most of
the trouble such as it is hos been occa
sioned by the New York organization
known as the National Security League.
This aggiegatlon has been setting up
opposition to many members because of
their votes before the war and on the war
issue and has stirred up a good deal of
resentment. If speeches made by Mc
Lemore, of Texas, Democtuf; McCul
lough, of Ohio, Republican, and Illllard, of
Colorado, Democrat, may be accepted as
criterion?, the National Security League is
"a bunch of Wall street profiteers." Frear,
of Wisconsin, who held the floor a year
or so ugo as a Treasury reformer, being
tjhe chief antagonist of the so called "pork
barrel," has taken the assaults of the Se
curity League so seriously aa to try by
resolution to secure an Investigation of
its alms and revenues.
The ex-baseball plajer who held up a
bank at York, Pa., seems not to have heard
of the shipyards.
How is it. that you never hear any one
nUMM1'W1 p4lif,-Vf theutfe tit.
lt)aMf.ljarttM7
AMERICAN BLUFF
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The "Over There" View
WW''
Hun
HAVE come over to wallop the
11V won't be back till the vlct'ry Is won;
And winning it can't be exactly called
fun;
But what are Vow doing to help'.'
We're got to clean up the batbarous mob
That's set up to conquer and murder and
rob; i
And H'e won't give up till we've finished
the Job;
But what are You doing to help?
We don't complain when we're hit by A
shell;
We don't complain when we starve for a
spell;
We don't complain, though we're golnf
through hell;
But what nre Vow doing to help?
We are not atfcrd to subsciibc to a loan;
We are commanded to give all we own, ,
So that a demon may fall from hla
throne,
But what ate Vow doing to help?
We go through water, nnd f.re. and smoke.
Just to protect you, the home-staying
folk;
We do It gludl and say! It's no joke I
But what aro You doing to help?
Some day tl.e sun will be shining one
more V ,
Down on a world rid forever of war.
And We'll figure big when they count up
the score;
But what are Vow doing to help?
Yes.
What are You doing to help?
Leo Turner, In the New York Times. ,
Hooray!
A skirt has been Invented for women that
can be worn at the walking length, shorten)
for sports or divided and converted Into '
bloomers. San Francisco Examiner.
The Old Story
There are about 15,000 girls In Houston
between the ages of twelve and twenty, but 4
our patrols report that 96 per cent of the old j
town's dlahen are washed by mother. Ifous-
ton Post.
Answer If You Can!
Professor The first man was found la
India.
Freshman Who found him? St. Louia
Star,
What Do You Knoiv?
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