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Aft rights 0 republication of special dls. patches herein are also reserird. Philadelphia, Saturday. Otl.b.t 1. 1911 DIRT AND WARD POLITICS SOONER or later the Door and the unin formed In the crowded quarters of tho city will learn that the pretensions of friendliness by which ward politicians re tain their support are not only spurious but tragically cxpenslv e In tho end. Tho letter of tho Ke T. n. delta Cloppa, printed on this page, indicates one means by which tho superstitions of -ward politics miy bo fought, It is the delusion of the average man that politics does not touch his life. Tho state of tho streets downtown, the extent to which contractors' negligence has con tributed to tho death rate nnd to general suffering during tho influenza epidemic show how certainly political cll will react upon the community that tolerates It. Ward politicians contributed a few buckets of coal or a month's rent now and then to some of the families that ultimately had to pay with the lives of their members for the Imagined favor. The crooked ward politician Is t menace Jte always has been a menace to free Insti tutions. The tlmo Is coming when he will e.-Tf6 longer bo tolerated. Despite their alleged deficiency In air ' planes, the Germans are still setting a lively standard In flight. BONNIWELL ENTERS WAR WORK r BECAUSE of his continued isolation in the affairs of his campaign Judge Bonnlwell has seemed to be regardless of tha trends of the war and the Interests of Bw .uia soiuiciB. tie ui icu.fi tius uecome aware r t-C at lnt et Vtm rtMlir-it li-ine nt YrtHtlnil .on. ,J i, v " " .--"" - J.u... ...... van- BsiV;,', dldates. E' Judge Bonnlwell has started a campaign Kfor tho collection of "used playing cards" to be sent to tho front for tho lads in the trenches. With great feeling ho ob aerves that there must be many decks of old and discarded playing cards In clubs about town that could be diverted to pa triotic uses. Dear, dear! Doubtless there are many dog-eared poker decks that might be so diverted. There may be stale cigars, too, and broken noker chins nnflttoH tn the in. ji j .Of gentlemen who frequent political clubs !1! fill fAA innrrU a- baUI, .l. e & What causes us to wonder, however Is that a politician so astuto as Judge Bonnl well and one so alive to tho odd and fan tastic uses to which a war can bo put failed to agitato for armored checker boards with which our men might relieve tho ennui of the battlefield and brighten hours in which they have nothing to do but drive wild beasts out of Europe, fight poison gas and avoid a shell a minute. Food conditions In the dual monarchy have been variously reported, but the truth Is coming out at last with the knowledge that Hungary's restricted diet has been re duced to Invective INFAMY Trr IS the immediate and unavoidable duty of the State Department of Health and of the city department under Doctor "Krusen's direction to determine the truth or untruth of the charges made against those cemeteries and undertakers said to have profiteered during the present epi demlc. If there are in this community men or corporations willing to plunder the afflicted and take advantage of den.i and agony for extortionate profits thev aro guilty of conduct too Infamous for words The public will demand the truth in this connection. The Health D'-jrtment is. no tar as we can see, the one agency that tias power adequate to re eal the truth and publish the names of the Xo, Wilbur, my bo, jou needn't think because Congress pases a billion every now and then that you can rightfully escape Skipping any of jour obligations to help produce the final one of the Liberty Loan. DENMARK TAKES NOTICE ' XT IS reported that Denmark feels ac. Ms kV 'grieve! because the "fourteen points" r fsniain no specinc reference to Kcnieswig- VnltAfn lalan w Tetieala tli.Ai.nl. nnn , Attest and Intrigue in 1866. , A fismarcklan chicanery and Hun greed, 1, 1 NMked by force, were seldom more glar- Jfli.. tfakadar ,!lan1av,f than In t) Ih.tt C.nn. v Kzr.::r::.";.;".. :"."- ,: t Denmark's jnlafortune, however, that perilous geographical position with re- to Germany, and especially tho Kiel has compelled her to remain Ervout the war the most patient of 1 fcauaased neutrals. She has been com- rely, quiet abput the deep wrong tier in the Inaugural stages of the ((o" career of arrogance. world has a way of listening to who talk the loudest, and hence the Hf-Holsteln question has been at sidetracked. That Copenhagen It now with a new passionate fer- saMstosust index that the Hun i a-. J k. - - .. .. ... 1 pw " THE PRESIDENT'S REPLY AND THE AUSTRIAN PHOCLAMATION The CovernincnU Mini He Hematic in f tonlanir With llie Wllie of the People 'l!icnielr J3APIDLY movinR events nrc'piov.riK " beyond the shodow of a doubt thnt Justice Is mlRhty nnd will prevail. Tho projrram for the world's peace which Mr. Wilson luid down in his speech of Jnnuaiy 8 is bcincr accepted with a speed beyond the wildest drenms of tho optimists, nnd it is bcinR accepted because it is just. We rntorcd the war, according to the President, because vio lations of right had occuircd which touched us to the quick nnd made tho life of our own people impossible unless they weie collected and the world were made secure ngainst their recurrence. Wo demanded that the world be made fit and safe to live in for every peace loving nation. All the peoples of the world, as the President s.iid, are part ners in this interest, and we bavv then as we see now that unless justice bo done to others it will not be done to us. The progiam of the world's pence was based on a demand for justice. It was an ideal which Mr. Wilson held up and some of us weie so lacking in faith as to believe that it was impossible of realization For example, when he said that the peoples of Austna-IIunpary should be accorded the freest opportunity of autonomous development wc all ad mitted that this ought to happen, but that it was unlikely in our time. But within a little woic than nine month from the date when this ideal uai formulated the Empoor of Austria has isvied a decree netting forth that "Austtia mutt become, in conformity nith the will of its people, a confideratc State in which each nationality shall form on the territory which it occupies Hi own local autonomy," This means a federated Austria, made up of States controlled by the Czecho slovaks, the Austrians, the Illyrians and the Ituthcnians. The independence of tho Czccho-Slovaks of Bohemia has already been lecognied by France, Eng land and the United States; but theic is no Czecho-Slovak Rovernmcnt save on paper. Theie is n larpe group of Czechs which will bo satisfied with autonomy. It may be possible for Austria to con ciliate the mnlcontents and save her ter ritory by the very course which Emperor Chailcs has adopted, even though the Czech leaders at picsent insist on abso lute independence. And the same policy of conciliation can remove the causes of discontent among the other races in Austria proper. But the President in his reply to the Austro-Hungarian request for an armis tice says that conditions have changed to such an extent since January 8 that the different peoples in Austiia-Hungary, and not he, must decide whether they wish to have autonomy or absolute in dependence. This is in line with the spirit of justice which inspired tho Janu ary speech and an extension of it to met changing conditions. This policy of conciliation has already begun. The attempt to found a re modeled Austria upon the principle of justice is under nay. There remains the Polish question to be settled and the position of HunRary in the dual empire must be readjusted. The disposition of the Austrian territory inhabited by Ital ians is still undecided. But the attitude of mind which has led the Emperor to issue his decree Rives piomise for an equitable settlement of thee issues. But nothing of this hind uonM haic been done at tint time 1 it had not been for the leatvn of justice which the Presi dent of the United States hid in the meal of the world's thinhing and left to do its perfect work. The whole lump is not yet leavened, but the stuff is still active. Before it began to manifest itself in Austria it showed that it was producing some etiect in Ucrmany, for the changes in the Constitution of the empire enlarg ing the powers of the Reichstag over war and peace aro directly due to the demand made from WashinRton that the ripht to make their will effective be accorded to the people. What is happening now gives piomis"e that the whole piogiam will be adopted before there is an end to the changes in progress. Belgium will be evacuated and restored Germany will get out of Russia and the oppoitunity to develop their own institutions under the tutelage of disinterested Powers will be given to tho Russians. The injustice done to Alsace-Lorraine in 1870 will be undone. The frontieis of Italy will be lemade on racial lines. The Dardanelles will be opened to all nations. Serbia will be restored with access to the sea and Poland will be established with a port on the Baltic and a general association of nations will be formed for tho pui poae of assuring political independence and territorial integrity to great and small nations alike. These are great days in which we are living, the like of which the sun never before dawned upon. And every Ameri can should be proud of hit citizenship in (i nnfion whose chosen leader him been able to lift up iti the sight of the H'orld an ideal of such magnetic power as to draw all the other nations to it, even though some of them approach xt un willingly. Even though It has the llrltlsh who re deemed Belgium It was unquestionably the Yank method which so elTeitlvely ousted the Huns UNRECONCILED DEMOCRATS PRESIDENT WILSON'. If memory serves,, is the last man living who could look backward upon the Democratic party ma chinery of his own State and view it as a citadel of patriotism, fair play and imagina tive statesmanship. Sir. Wilson's own ex 'yfiea9M with the New Jersey Democracy wero not always reassuring. When ho left Princeton to become a candidate for the governorship a largo part ot his own party chose tb rrgard him as a rank outsider. As his campaign progressed there were thoe among tho leaders tin his ltlo who did not heMtnto to use against him tho Infamous blpirtlsan machinery that 1 rved so long to maintain boss rulo and corrup tlon throughout tho State. Hut tho man from I'rlnreton lifted his fight nbove partj politics. He refused to net as If tho essen tial Interests of tho people were divided on party lines And ho won The I'rcsldent seems always to have been ready to admit that neither political party holds a monop oly on righteousness It Is all the mnie diverting therefore to read tho promises being m'ado by Stato Chaliman JlncDonnld to thost? anxious Democrats In tho State who aro not vet reconciled to the rule of ndjourncd poll tics Mr MicDonald nssurcs tho candi dates under his wing that the President himself and Mr Tumulty may visit New Jersey to stump In their behalf for the good of the pirtv The courage of tho Jersey Democrats must be ,01 a pretty low ebb when such wild premises as lhee aro necessirj Tho Stato chairman quali fies tho news carefully with the statement that the President will appear to help tho party 'If tho circumstances of tho war permit." That provision Is broadly Inclusive Those who aren't so Intent upon a hunt for offlco na to lose all sense of the fitness of things will feel safely assured that the rresldont will leave the Democrats In New Jersey to fight their own battles It has become altogether Impossible for the Huns to "see by the dawn's early light" what so sadly they saw by the twilight's Inst gleaming. Cross-coimtry running Is un favorable to any such plctorlil permanent THE LAST DAY rnOMOHROW the American soldiers in Tranco will know how the Liberty Loan went at home. They will know whether the cause for whlcn they are giving so much must rest upon thelt sacrl flees alone nnd whether the people for whoso liberties they aro fighting aro worth the effort. Are wo to lot Europe know that the United State.? Government cannot have tho fullest co-opcratlon of every 0110 of Its citizens or that it cannot have tho fullest help of every man, womnn &nd child In this greatest hour of its history? Is the Government to be forcid to the unhappy necessity of extending the period of the Loan? What have you done to show jour love of country and vour allegiance'' Today evcrv citizen must feel acutely the sort of responsibility that falls to a toldler In tho field The private citizen of fcma ! means 1 not without the advantage of splendid exam ples Hani s and business houses and corporations have done wonderful things. John Winamiker and Hodman Wana maltcr and tho emplojcs In their two stores have shown how Americans should behave by subKcribing the sum of $12,733,000. Tho Philadelphia Saving 1'und Society takes 515.000,000. Tho l'lrst National Bank of Phlladelphii has added $10,000,000 to the Government's resources by Its individual purchases of Libertv Bonds. Tlicro aro many others doing thus nobly, but not enough. Huv a bond today. Subscribe again, even though jou have subset lbed before. If Philadelphia permits the day to pass without meeting Its quota It will havo failed for the first time in Its hlstoiy to glvo its fullest support to the Government In an emergency. The record of Nrltlf-h The Leason heroism In the present for Oovernmentn war will bhlnc through all history to Inspire men as long as books art written and read. The Trench have passed through successive Infernos and nlwavs havo been able to smile even In tho midst of fire One of the noblest and taddtst chapters of the war is the story of the Russian armies tint went to their end without arms or leaders In the early dajs of the catacljsm One conviction is Inevitable after a surve of any daj s war news When governments can become as noble, as gen erous and as valiant as the peoples whom they so often misrepresent the world will be safe not onlj for democracy but for all the other things that ro.iKe life worth while. mws neaannes un Our Hat I Off, Too furled above the nar rative of the part plajul by Pennsjlvatila rtgimonts hi Prance say, falrl enough, tlja't ,no town In all this State 1h without a heror And vet since wars began .1 good part of the suffering has fallen to those who remain behind and to 'women who r member in the night" So. we wish here to remark, with our hat otr. that no Pennsjlvanla town l without Its heroine. I READER'S VIEWPOINT Negleit of tin- Italian Quarler Jo the tdttur of the f i eninn 1'nblle Ledgti Mr v.mir ariltl. nfcrrtng to the condi tlon tif the stieeti m the Italian toinniunltv di-!.rv! the gm'lltide uf all the itsldents of South Phlladelphii The tilrtlent ultej in NapiK eluiner than many parts of t hrbtiati sirt-et As to gar hagt the onl hope uf having It collected on certain small RtrtHs Is to co ix the ashmen to take It with tht- rubbish Between Tenth and Eleventh, on halter .stiect. n gat bags tfagoii would astound the nelghboihood I have mado repeated apptaU. to supposed au thorities, with the tesult that it was col lected once If refuse Is thrown In those simll streets Just where ehe would the city prefer the people to throw It' With much Inconvenience we burned ours all last winter. Chief Hicks Is not the least to be blamed among those responsible Tho pollct" do not enforce the law, und ro one tan ask our working clafcsen to do their part If the cllj authorities and street sweepers do not do theirs There ate many problems In the Italian district which reiiulrH linmedlute attention The congested and badly drained homes 1 eatables exposed to street dust on ever street, Inek of plaj grounds, rtr In this great distress of epldemlu Influenza the dlf. ferent undertakers have been profiteering horribly on the stricken people Indescrib able Bccnes have tuken plate, nnd I have asked myself If there Is any Inn In this city Where are all the Intelligent and honest Italians' I am convinced that w must take these matters up ourselves by organ izing our political forces and by destroying political bosses among us. if we can have neither clean streets nor police protection, we Will be unable to have any of our rights respected. Why tiot organize at once and In a permanent manner protect the rights of the community? General Indignation has reached Its climax, and It seems to me that the time Is ripe for a drastic step T V. DKLLA ClOPPA. L'Emmanuello Italian Episcopal Mlbslon. Philadelphia, October IS. THE CHAFFING DISH "The Mail's In, Boys!" By William McFce l.tlrn-Speelul Correspondent of The Chaffing; Iilli In Mediterranean Waters tl A MAIL has Just arrived." For those f-who llvo In houses at home, or ovon those who n:o In J'rancfl, the words would not mean bo much, Hut In the Levant n mall is an event. It comes like a visita tion, at uncertain periods. No man can foretell the coming of a mall. Tlmo was when shipping offices had wind of such things by wireless, when su.h nnd such a ship was signaled as due, and when the arrival of thnt ship In harbor was sig naled In Jovful flags from Lloyds' station. Now that'ls all changed. Tho Gentle Spy who sat In the bar of tho Eastern Ex chango Hotel nnd listened to the shipping news of the Seven Seas Is out of a Job. Ho gazes sadly nt the notices plastered cvorj where, Beware of Spits, and wonders how ho Is going to earn his pay under such ndverso conditions. Tor the British havo so fixed things up now that nobody knows nnv thing. Thero are no mall routes, no mall shlpj, no mall das. Wo Jog along In our dally rut for a few weeks, and then one dty some one says mcditatlvelv, "'Bout time wo had a mall," and tho others nod. A day or so later the Impression grows In strength that It Is about tlmo wo had a mall A quartermaster tells the C. P. O. (chief petty officer) that he heard up at tho naval canteen that thero was a mall In The paj master tells the surgeon that ho heard on Monitor 999 that there Is a moll In. We all get geared up to the no tion of a mall coming In. Somei mes tho excitement dies away and thero is no mall, leaving us Hat, stalo nnd unprofitable. On one dreadful occasion wo passed six weeks in letterless lassitude. It was a Christmas mall, too, nnd It arrived nt tho end of January. Several heads nro prcmuturely graj over that. "DUT that wiis exceptional. As a rule, - after a few dajs of this entirely gra tuitous optimism about a mall being In wo subside Into a patient expectancy. Somo of us review our past conduct and debate whether we have written sufficient faithful answers to Justify hopes of a good mall. Some reflect that this mall will ccr talnly Includo a subscription renewal form from the Tufthunters' Club or whatever body they may belong to. Others aro fool ishly elated because they txrct four sheets covered with the vile scrawls of their Inamorata Hut the general tone Is placid. We aro Inured to exile. Wo know tho folks nt homo havo got on for three jears without us and nave not jet drowned themselves, und a saving grace of humor keeps us from stlf-destructlon, too. Wo snap at each other at time ., as is In evitable on a bhlp We criticise each other's per&onal habits. Wo transmit scandal Wo Join cliques and fall away from them We arc, In short, hurian "DUT mark the change when the mall does cornel Mark the sparkle In the oves, the firm set of the mouths, tho fresh ring of interest In the voices. Why, when tho launch comes thuttcrlng ulongsido with its load of sacks, when those sacks aro carried up unresisting to the officers' smokeroom on tho bridge deck (so called because nobody ever smokes there), when tho postofilce orderly opens his knife and cuts the throats of those unresisting sanks and the rich tide of mall pours out upon the floor why, this is a different ship. Wo clutch each our batch of letters and papers and like wild animals when they aro fed rush away to our dens nnd devour them alone. Wo tear off the envelopes In a fury and laugh and chuckle at tho most microscopic Jokes. We fling away some one elso's letters which have got In by mistake. We dive after tho envelopes to sec what the date may be, At dinner each one of us brags thnt his letters are of tho mobt recent date. It Is to bo feared that some have suborned their folks nt home to postdate their effusions, for no ship could do the voyage In the time claimed. Hut time, the great healer, assuages these acerbities nnd we drift away onco more to write our letters homo. Tor by some astounding concatenation of perverse offi cialisms a heavy mall Is often delivered on the afternoon of our closing day, or per haps the very day we go to sea. SO, IP ou went round now, jou might see us all hard at It. The commander In lonely grandeur In his suite, the officers In the wardroom, the men in tho messdee'e flats, the bojs in their flat on the lower deck (Just over the dvnamos), aro all en gaged In the old, old game of writing home Mothers and sweethearts get most I fancy, though old shipmates coino close Hero one writes to his father, heie one. who has expectations, to an aunt, One, xo the much-abused surgeon tells me (ho is our censor), carries on a most nffectlonato cotrcspondence with his divorced wife. Another sends a weekly letter to his Sni,. da school class. Yet another corresponds, with his pastor. But thc-e are exception Most of us aro not nt ease In Zluti We aro of tho humdrum human tvpe. We like to write letters home, but b heavens how we like to get them! There's a mail in, boys' Here Is the best Liberty Loan epigram we havo seen, It comes from a eeitaln Island at the mouth of the Hudson lllver and is signed by Sol Satin: ';ie Hun ha "c 'ooc " "c oraic and tha other on a banana peel Jlomb him lioiui and In with Honda! Carl Ackerman reports that a shipload of American underwear and winter cloth ing has arrived at Vladivostok for the Czechs. A very practical way for Uncle Sam to indoreo a Czech. SOCRATES. I'och took Laon. Now It's up to us to take the Loan wltnout stint or limit. The seakon for Urussels sprouts Is fast becoming Ideal. . i Jt is evident that Ilelchsraths will leave. a sinking ship of state. America is to get her lost hour back on October 27. but German) 's Is forever unre lurnable. A minister without portfolio Is not un common, but It looks as though we would soon see the congenial sight of a Kaiser without portfolio. "today AiatkrcA;s JfjaVtiA u?r" ?ft j . t 1 ' i 'i V ')'"'! V'X '?. CS tnfhlTj&Mgim&jss&imS sJWS!RKS?BSsla5-KSfetJr hAiWtt ii.fflaaiaspw5JaKirss.wfrMBs sa&HUSiuvneeaHHPM -iMsyeyw4ito.a3xti3 fmtf-rt friYTf"1-: j:-: rMV - rmiPmmmm WHAT A CONGRESSMAN SEES Seniiucehly Letter Touching on the Washington Doings of Personalities Familiar to Philadclphians By J. Hampton Moore Washington, D. C, Oct. 19. UNITED STATES army engineers who worked on the Delaware Hlver chan nel project have been making rapid pro motions since the war began. Honors havo been coming to others, but tho most con spicuous of them all in Major General Joseph E. Kuhn, now in Trance. When he camo to Philadelphia from the Norfolk dis trict, he wns Lieutenant Colonel Kuhn, a bright, keen and energetic officer, who had won his spurs In the Philippines nnd as . mllltaiy observer In tho Russo Japanese war, Ho had also been stationed for u tlmo at Berlin and had reported upon tho German military maneuvers, so that ho was paitlcularly valuable to the nation when the war broke out. After leaving, Philadelphia, where ho had become well known to the maritime interests, Colonel Kuhn became president of the War College nt Washington and eventually acquired tho rank of a brigadier. When Camp Meade was organized he bccamolts com mindant nnd was advanced to the rutin of a major geneial. Ono of the blight things he did at Camp Meade, apart fiom popularizing himself with tho bojs. was to get married to a lady who Is quite active in social circles In Washington and Phila delphia. Another Delaware Itlver engineer, who has advanced considerably is Herbert Deakjne, who was a major when in charge of the Philadelphia district. Dcakvne had Pennsjlvanli connections and tooK u great Interest In the Delaware channel project He w.is so painstaking that somo of tho Philadelphia business men were dis puted to feel that little progress would be made under his direction. Ho was regard, ed an a ploddir, so cautious as to excite suspicion that ho lacked confidence in him self But the mujor disproved nil that by his work. Tho order for n thirty-five foot Mirvev came along while he was In Phila delphia, and he pioceeded with it without a flouilsh The result was a repoit calling for a thlrtv live foot channel (the Delaware had less than thirty befoie) at a cost of upward of l 0,000,000. We are now get ting our thlrtv the feet, in accordance with the- Deakvno plan. That the major's tacl turnlty (Piesldent Holton, of the Maritime Exchange, William It. Tucker, of tne Hoatd ot Trade, and John W, Llberton, of the Atlantic Ilefinlng Company, will re membei It) evinced no want of backbone was amplj proved when on the next assign ment, which was the Mississippi-Missouri district at St Louis, he reported flatly against the Missouri River project despite the liveliest kick ever put up by the water wa boomers of that section. Even Champ Clark, Speaker of the Houso of Represen tatives, who Is generally pretty solid for Missouri, Joined in the uproar, but the major stood pat. When tho first regiment of United States engineers was sent to Franco the malor, advanced to colonel, went with them. His work In Traricehas sjeen so creditable that he has since been advanced to a brigadier generalship. -1EORGE Q. PIEIUE tells us that "Uncle" Dave Lane is in good form, , George was never known to1 say anything l-Ttf I 1KI to tho contiary. When ho speaks of the political sage of Philadelphia it Is alwavs In terms of optimistic admiration. An other themo which bilghtens up tho author of ' The Darby Ham" and tho Gridiron Club of Washington Ins never licatd that song sung right Just yet is "The OU1 1'lsh lng Hole Behind Beach Haven." Jim Mc Laughlin, tho electrical wizard of the City Hall, and Colonel Lew Beltlcr, who pulled off tho recent fourth Liberty Loan parade after the Influenza had "pulled off", most of his performers, know "Tho Fishing Holo" story almost as familiarly as the Cloverltes do tho Dai by Ham. They get It, when called for, In the smoking room at the Union League. Halcvon davs those, when Plerlo and Billy Head and Prank renlmoro nnd Ned Dlxej did their own chores at Boutin. TR. HIRAM H. BURTON, of Lewes, -' Del , has more than a passing In terest in Washington When ho- was a member of Congress ho had n brother hcio who conducted one of tho leading hotels. Tho doctor was an nctlvo Congressman ho had to be, for ho constituted tho entire delegation from tho Stato In tho House. When an Important bill was up, tho whips would ask, "How does the Delawato dele gation stand1" and the doctor would smllo nnd say, 'The Dtlawaio delegation stands unanimous." After doing good woik on waterways and fisheries, matters in which "tho Uluo Hens Chit kt ns" weie Inteicsted, the doctor was caught In the Aeldlcks-Hlg glnsAlleo-du Pont Imbroglio and went down Ho was succeeded by William H. Heald, of Wilmington, likewise a Itenub- llcan, who givo way to u Democrat, who was beaten bv jouug Tom Miller, a Re public in Tom Is now In the at my, and tho sitting member Is Albeit F.'polk, a Democint, who his been lcuominatcd and will stand for reelection on tho samo ticket with Senator Saulsburj.pie-sldent pro tim. of the Senate SInio Doctor Button's teim expired Delaware has sent In succession four other men to tepiesent her in tho lower house. Tho changes have been so rapid as to suggest tha Indifference of Dela warcans to tho general belief In the value of continuous seivlco In Congress. Ono thing is suri:, so long ns Delaware's repre sentatives last only one or two terms, tjio State will never be oerbutdenc,d with high or influential positions In the House. A BniDGE across the Delaware ,ns pro " posed by the Phlladelphla-Camden bridge commission Is not new, but, as with every other largo project, it may be well to Keep up tho agitation. Tho idea of a "memorial" bridge was tried out In Wash ington befoio the two States, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, had ns thorough work ing agreement on tho subject as they now seem to have; but the bill went to the Com mittee on tho Library of Congress, where nil proposed memorials, monuments and so forth go, and theie died a natural death. The troublo was to get Congress to under stand why tho United States should pay for the bridge. Possibly Congressman Varo'a half-and-half plan may have better luck- The CoagreMSMR baa a yta,a - v-- Br '1 t'ti?-.. n, w''yW.ff vrTr J-- MW ' i'.'..i:r,'-.ii'?;-kfv;v . ilrJB " ' ' , "- 1 "T---T mJ " " y P VlT fFTl - ii .STa a 1 si aWW s. al i a M i i L KNOW!" A rt ." ?' i r-' i.6-v- vantage in being a member of the Appro priations Committee. rpiIE big Commonwealth drjdock at -- Boston Is about to become tho property, of the United States. The Navy Depart ment Insists that It has no drydock north of Philadelphia large enough to accom modate somo of tho ships that have re cently been constructed, and ono large vessel Is now needing drjdock facilities so much as to forco the Issue. Somo years ago the Stato of Massachusetts appro prlated $9,000,000 for port Improvements, Including a 1200 foot drjdock at Boston, but tho terms wero so rigid that when the dock was within $350,000 of comple tion no additional funds could be had. The I'edcral Government undertook to lease tho dock at $50,000 per annum when the war broke out, but could not use it for tho reason stated. It is now arranging to tako over tho wholo property and complete the work by January at a cost of about $4,550,000, including some additional land. Liberty Loan Limericks TTOW slow Is tho tread of a snail I J-J- Prom speeding 'twill never grow pale: But you're not so slow Leavo jour quota below, Buy Liberty Bonds with your kale. JUST wait a few years, we shall seo (About j ear nineteen twenty-three) Tho money wo lent To our great Government Was Inv ested for you and for me. A BEAUTirUL thing is a prayer i-Kor support of our bojs over there, But besides prayer they need (So the Lord has decreed) All tho money und checks jou can spare. fTIHE meanest of men over known Thinks that hls coin Is his own, But ho knows In his heart He's not doing his part Unless It Is put in the loan SQUEAKY -IcSTRAVOG. What Do You Know? ' QUIZ 1. Who I the nueen of Ilrlclum? 2. How niunj- millions make billion? 3. Vllin wns touln Kossuth? 4. lAlmt Is n bibliopole? 3. What tier In u tlirutrs Is known as tho rs- liy rlrelsr n. Where Is the Provenee? ,. "hut l the nieunlns ot the Srolrli worst syne"? 8. mint I'resltlent uns tlearrlbed br J owell aa 'the llrt American"? u II. What Is the nurllument of Austria railed? 10. Wlin nniiH the ifuinaus diamond rulletl the Kulilnoor? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1, In addition to the Tripoli which General Allenbr's tirmr h.is Just raptured, thero la a Iohii of rrlnoll In sunthrrn Ureeee and another one In tho Italian rolonr of Tripoli on the orth Afrliuit shore at tbs Mediterranean t. An orlltamme Is the sarred banner of St. Denis, a banderole of red silk reeolrtd br enrlr Fr'nth klnis from the abbot of St. llrnls for stnrtlnc war. In fliaratiV senan tho word deserlbes anything- material or Ideal sen In as u ralljlns; uolnt In i strut-do. 5. "la llrabanconne" Is the national hrmaef llelslum. 4. Iuet .I'aalia I the new prime minister if Turkey. t 5. Tho orb Is a (lobe surmounted by s cross. and Is part ot the rrcalla or the EnsTlsh crown. Q, Theodore O'lTara'a well-known norm. "The iiitouae or me ileud." was wrlttoa la memory of the American soldiers who fell at the nattle of lluena Msta in tho Mexi can War, 1 Kx-rrrsldtnt Taft Is a native of Ohio. S, Hot-rstf rratra. the Athenian Philosopher, IItosl tn the latter Part of the efth and tW-sLa part of the fourth century 8. 0. V . A csmsrllla Is a cabal wr tliqae. Tha -ami U a dlmlnnuse form ei "casaan.'f faifit) tr room. ' At ! "'. . , n . . &A
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