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FINISH THE mNKr0RD I.INC
'TT IS Announced that the rranlsfon. e'e
l i yated line could be put In condition for
Jtse In o. complrntlcl5 short time If tho
Government uoulcl consent to the de!iery
of the necessary materinl.
Tho money needed 1 mailable and the
Men to do the work can be s-ecured. So
Tittle material 1 required that Its dUerslon
SJ'to this necessarj transportation line uould
fct interfere Ith the war worK. There
la no apparent reason for rifuslnK tho ni i-
tenai. is it not aoout time tne ieiiie.ai u:
withdrawn?
The muro vc lea'n of Trance s attitude
toward the German pace offpr. the more
we are convinced liat Tails Is in the De
partment of the Seine
THE SENVTE COMEUIA.NS
' EM Senators like J. I lam Lewis on the
? one Ido and Allies ToIndeter on the
other the cates of 'audellle jann wide.
These nre trlnjj day of course The
f country should be cheered If the Senate
cultivates comedy nt Its sessions the peo-
pit who read the newspapers ai at least
permitted to paitlclpate nt the show. Hut
Pelndexter and Lewis, when they appear
Ky , ineir nccustometi lurnw. are sun some
mF a.Mte .YI.A..tlnn- Tl.o.. n.A.if unumt. Tl.ai
elatig- elsewhere.
It was recently that Jli Lewis bubbled
Jfaed brought forth a. resolution sugsestlntr
rljiat , tbe maWne of peace and all the
ifiAjroceaaes essential tnereio ne ieii wnony
w in rresiuem. viuidui an toncuricnce
ri'y the Senate. This nale dWnilssal of
jssentlal principle Xt democratic pov-
at went unchallenged on the Demo-
sSlde. Mr. I'olndeMer, at the oppo
K ; arfta 'oie from Mr. Lewis, would make it
r Impossible, under the resolutions which lie
ents whenever ho has nothing else In
tor the-PresIdent to do anj thing what
ever In the way of dheusIont with Ger
many. He even speaks of Impeaching Sir
ITIlson.
,Dea Mr. Voindexter rtad" loe he
Jojewwhat Is trointr on In Kurone" lines
v-ir. Lewis believe li monaichles' One
jygSou)d eliminate the Tresldcnt. The other
Jpwould eliminate, the Senate. Are we In
k' America supposed to lauish at this sort
kA'ot thine or are we supposed to civ''
..t .Fortunately- the majority of the Senate
' appears not to believe that this war Is to
'Tj settled for the benefit of the clouds of
V' Jobholders who aie vital elements In the
political parties. The rest of the world Is
K,WieeTnW about It, too. Tolndexter and
R .Lewis phow between them that neither
arty holds A monopoij of foolishness.
Fbey aren't even aniuslne Tliev tepie.
tseat What ou mlcht call the Mippi tuins
ni?n;im auoeviiie at vv avuingtoii.
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W$)i IWkh Uie Allien thunderoD'lv i-jiln ill.
vartat, voa! of decision, tienrfan -ittenipt-d
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UHUiuvnii lui rainy v iti luuni jur utile 111
he bis game's final core llierc s k tlronc
fohance, too, of hei being pcnallieU for huld-
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" JWIttRE THE HUN ENTREATS THE
,C" ELEMENTS
hVH3NER-VL TA'DKXDOlt.'K'H ftantlc
aJt plea, that the German people puty for
in order to stem the advance of hlx
tJftfe; I 'dl'ifnlflcant IndUation that tin Get-
pitf4,uriiio uu inc rtisnt? irunv caniut
?)li4 Wtk the rranco-Ameilccn advance
MMHih longer. If the appearance of a dead
,jsk, there were not specious It U c-
Sjframel- doubtful whether tho elements
womu oe ao lerventiy invuheu as an uny.
fPhen the break does come on the Tltthel.
'"VoiHtler-Gi-and lie line and its extension
?o tl ileuso the reasons jr Germany's
tj. nxlety for an armistice will be ap-
LnwrtM. control or the nor1 is rat slip.
Jttiw from her. Tho thrust to Oudcnarde
' WmL tho drive tonuru Ghent may render
r" ay line west of Antwct-p and Hnisels
p-ytttenable. The loss of those cities, coupled
te lnnalnent capture cf alenclennes
southeast, will virtually iisme the
tptlon of alt Trench FiunJers and
and nave the LIegeNamur gate-
$ tOHtt ' ihrough which the Teutons began
yStmt' pttnpalgn of 114.
Dm hopes are therefore pinned on sutfl-
a sty powerful resistance In the depart
JMavnta" uf the Meinra and the Alsne to pro
W'tfee fatal operation of locli's glgantlu
ftnoftM.' Should unfavora') olfenslve
'tvbr. for which the prejers pray. Inter-
l.11! lie trap into which the Germans
Ijfall Ihrotign the xuddei loss(of all
Vastlpns and strategic ranwujs in
iwesent deepest wedge In Trante
M mn something ver, close to a
ry'derUlon for the Allies In the Held.
. atkMl' wonder then thai picked German
vrolioiing mis critical aisii dui-
f,rocoer' of Belgium is thrill-
irtr. it toucnes tne neart
iHOtIoii!, Uit the real prob
ate lies on the front
jh up to now
THERE MUST BE ECONOMIC
Self-determination
It Is as Important to the Dig Nations as
, Tolilli-al Self.Drtermlnation Is to
the Little Ones
rpHE principle of political self-dctcrmi-1
nation, which is at tho basis of the
President's peace conditions, must be
extended to include economic self
determination If thcte is to be any
League of Nations to guarantee Jho
future peace of the world.
Conttol of revenue legislation is un
atttibutc of sovereignty. No htutc is
likely to consent to surrender the right
to exercise that attribute when and how
it chooses. Control over imports is also
ni attribute of sovereignty on the right
to exercise which nil nations nrc likely
to insist.
The United States is committed to the
Ti-otection of its home industries. Tho
J policy of protection has been at the
i 1'ottom of cvciy tariff law that has been
passed in the last sixty ycais. Republi
caii and Democrats agiee on it in prac
tice, however much the Democrats may
denounce it when they nre not in a posi
tion to pass a tariff law. The nation is
united in opposition to opening the
American markets freely to tho products
of the poorly paid labor of Europe or of
Asia. The standard of living here is
higher than in other nations because the
standard of wages is higher, and it hus
been possible to pay the wages because
we have retained control of our domestic
markets.
When peace conies it will be necessary
for the nations which have suffered
more than we to concentrate their atten
tion on the rehabilitation of their indus
try. They Yntist reproduce the wealth
which has been destroyed by war and
they must produce enough new wealth
to meet the heavy tnxes with which the
nations will be saddled for the next fifty
yems. The energy let looe to fight for
peace will have to be used in lighting
for elf-support in tho generations to
come. All the nations will seek new
markets and there will be competition
bitterer than any that has yet given
vitality to international trade.
Consequently it is imperative that tiie
right of each nation to piotect its own
industiies shall remain unimpahed by
any agreements entered into at the
pence table. This does not mean that
trade concessions aie not to be made,
but that they must be concessions
granted willingly at the discretion of
each nation.
No one knows at this time how it is
best to apply the protective policy to
American industry when peace comes.
We shall then be confronted by condi
tions the like of which the nation has
never before faced. Wc have lent seven
billion dollars to the nations fighting
with us. If this debt is to be paid, nay,
if the interest on it is to be met, it will
be necessaiy for us to adjust out tat iff
policy to the new conditions. We must
accept payment in part, if not wholly, in
goods in order that the international bal
ances may be met without bankrupting
any nation.
In other words, intelligent self-interest
will compel us to be a little less narrowly
selfish In our foreign trade policies than
we have been in the past. We must also
devote out selves to assisting in the in
dustrial development of the backward
countrfes in order that the puichasing
power of the woild as a whole may be
enlarged.
There are immense possibilities in
Russia and in China. The lesources of
those countries arc almost inexhaustible.
Energy and foresight, backed with capi
tal, can cieate untold wealth in these
countries and raise the standaid'of
living so that eveiy Chinese and every
Russian will consume twice or three
times what he consumes now and will
exert himself to giatify his expanding
tastes. Only in this way can the world
mover the wealth that the last four
yeais has destroyed and icstore tho old
conditions of comfort and low taxes.
The most cursory examination of the
situation makes it evident that the solu
tion of the pressing economic problems
will strain the capacities of tho most
skillful economic statesmen in all coun
tries. Consequently it is the part of
wisdom to leave each nation untram
meled by any haid and fast economic
agreements in tho peace treaties save so
far as they may be necessary to pre
serve the economic freedom of each
nation and to guarantee freedom of com
petition for all nations in the great un
developed markets of the backward peo
ples.
civilization which regards them as I n.
I' -boats cannot do otherwise than Ins'st that
the Hun pay his debts.
CI.EMF.NCEAU AND "KINC SOLLERMN"
TS IT not at least Josously Imaginable
-1- that Georges Clemenceau. -whose ac
tualntance with our llteiature Is of long
standing, was paraphrasing an American
classic In his carelessly geneious invita
tion to the Parisian populate to help them
fe'ves to huge stores of German guns and
oiher captured trophies exhibit el In the
Place de la Concorde the other dav? "Let
ever) body see them." profusely tirgcjJ tho
Premier. T.et them touch them. Let tbenr
curry them off. I have plenty mora In
stock."
Turning reveiently to "Huckleberry
Finn" we may find u similar Instance of
mptuious indifference concerning wha Is
ordinarily tegurded as precious. "Nigger
Jim's" ready explanation of Solomon's
startling decision to divide a baby Into two
equat parts In order to satisfy both of the
ulleged maternal claimants Is based on his
feeling as the father of a multitudinous
family, and runs as 'follows: "What's a
chile mo' er less to Sollerman? Dey was
plenty mo'l" Unquestionably the la'!sh-
of "King Bollerman"-rhe of the "mil-
twramt 'ruse Xtur." with uve-
i inrTi ri nana i n n n m jLT4,wmxM
em
irnfitfjtfG publ'ic ledoer -
. .
OMIC fnlw 'enough for all 'corned. '.prlng, from j
the same senso of supreme surfeit.
The hazarded KUens that M. Clemenceau
was subconsciously echoing a bit of Mark's
characteristic phlknophy would forge,' If
verified, another plquunt link In the
franco-American entente.
"Food J'rkcs. Hosr." bewails a headline:
but those wlicrhave to pay are even more ro.
THE NEWER WAR
rpo ASSLW1U that civilization will emerge
from tho inltNt of Its pains and tllfllcul
tlcs Into a clear atmosphere of peaco and
quietude when the flrlns teases In France
Is to fall into the most dangerous of er
ror. When the flghttng stops and when
the call Is Ifsued for a peace conference,
then and not until then will the -world
have reached the crucial hour and tho
major perils of Its struggle for right aud
safety.
War Is In Itself a comparatively simple
and direct business. Jts general rules are
understood. The alms are clear. Knds and
purposes can be defined according to age
old rules and precedents. Hut such a peace
as the world shall have to make In the
near future must be evolved' from compli
cations fat- too Intricate for a casual num
mary. At U.o Instant when an armistice is
arranged, whenever that may be, a war
of opinion will rlre everj where In the
woild. General Toch, dilxlng forward with
the slnqlp purpose of destroying the Ger
man iiimles. Is engaged In a task that Is
In iifany vvajs less difficult, than. the tasks
t.oon tofoonfront statesmen who nre not
similarly able to perceive all tbclr goals
oi even to describe them.
In I"nglaid and In France, for InUancr
In Italj and even In the United States
tremendous moral and economic forces are
being held silently in leash, as they have
been held In leash for. ears pending the
icsults of tho war on the battlefield.
These foices ftro not leconclled and united
for a common aim like the armies In
Fiunte. Tlic aie opposed in man.v In
stanten. They represent ideals ami hopes
in conflict. In a pcneial wav. the hilent
agcnrUs that will meet and dash at the
peace tonferenco will act will) decide the
Tutuie of clvniratlon. since it will remain
for them to Oeteimlne conditions that
make for permanent peace cr for another
and n greater war.
The diplomatists who will be called upon
to dhect these new factors of the newer
war do not as jet understand the forces
wliiiMi they will he called upon to con
tiol Tor what theory of Intel national
ism will Hngland stand? To what nation
shall be glv n the dominant vohe at the
peaie tonfei ence? How shall the votes be
allotted and aligned in the final settle
ments and for what ends and for what
theories of human iclatlonshlps" To what
estent will the new and powerful British
Labor party In Rngjand and the similarly
inspired political elements In Fiance and
Italv support their Governments In the
hettlement" What Is to be done about
Ilussiti and what is to be done p bo lit the
Germans that will remain"
No victoilts of aims can decide thee
things It is easv to perceive that even
after the war has beerl won by the Allies,
after German) Is d feated aid uttsrl liu
mlliited, it will still lie possible for the,
world of men to align themselves li one
wav or another In umlen-tatidlngs and
agreements that ma) actually Instiie fu
ture peace or lu antagonistic gioups des
tined to settle down Into the old hard
lines behind barricades of prejudice, to
wait the processes that will once again
fling them at one anotltei's tluoits.
In each of the Allied countries theie
Is powerful group opinion ranged agaln't
powerful group opinion as the war draws
to a close Llbci.il opinion In Kngland
in Frame and in Ital) N demanding
thiiigh that the mure experienced fon-t-eivatlves
aie unwilling to giant Heie
In the United States the nralor issues are
becoming- clearly divided The President
is explicitly for the soil of International
agreements that are sine to Involve for
the United States the lc-s of ome of the
advantages of our isolation and natural
wealth. Mr. Lodge. Mr Iloosevelt aud
others believe with equal earnestnes that
we ate better off In mi Isolation of In
tel est and Mini" Tlie-e aie not ca mat
teis to deiide As the world struggles
forward step bv step it mav ee more of
the true light. For the moment the nctual
results of the war seem as difficult to
daflne as evti
'I he dlouns have
hem ilosed tight
or we were mlsin-
He Don't
ltellne It
foriued And et there have Ix-en more ar
rests for rltunkennes p( Philadelphia during
J the last teu days than eur before were re
potted for a similar peilod One cun only
decide that tho chaps jnu se leuning against
convenient houses or riding in t lie hurry-up
wagon wete Intoxicated with Jov when the)
read the new." from rhe Lattlefront.
It is within the
uiirf (,lil- lahns uf posslbillt)
IdentlrSI tlu Germans 'w cur.
Irani
Not
rent attitude of hu
mility mav be based on a Jun'keresque In
terprewtiun of the scriptural promlxe about
the meek inheriting the tarth If so. It Is
well to remind her that with her Wotan and
Kre)a lines hep Christianity qualifications
tan hardl) tbo rated bona fide.
Mexico subscribed
tlondu ill sjmiiatlir double her quota to
the new Libert)
Loan Cuba went over th lop, turned
round and went "over the top" a second
time. And )rt there are those who refuse
to believe that the peoples on this side of
the world are crowing to understand each
other better.
Germany Is still
TUe .ew raltern awarding the war
cross to her soldiers.
Hut uowadajs it Is .double.
How can It be said
that there U a short
age of food in Ger
Would ou hue
get Cannlballmn?
many when the
country seems filled with poor fish?
The Unconditional Sir
I.V HUNDURIXa homage to Wilson's
war wardship
The Austrian Government called him Ills
Lorilahlp:
Which title, however, won naught for the
sender
Of notes, who must simply lern how to
Sir-reader, .
pM3ueihiav ymmmDxr, October at, ;;;,
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I IArnjl?rr7, TtrtlTWC I I StlLli STRCHSfc ElSfStfifi f6 "THROf"
INDIRECT LIGHTING
E
VEIIT ON'13 who loiters In Independence
Rquare (and some of our very nicest
people have done so, from tho day when
Hen rranklln first coined the phrase "'Let
Georgo do It") is -familiar with the block
lady cat that basks there In the sun. She
Is black with that stlossy, almost purple,'
blackness that brings good luck to the
beholder, Itml -wnen we accosted tier yes
terday she rubbed against our right leg,
which we tflke to be a sign that Doctor
Holf's note wilt not bo acceptable to the
Trcslilent and that we will reach the bot
tom of this column safe!). We arc not
superstitious about Hn) thing except black
cats and having three meals a day.
Hut what we were aboutte say -Is that
this same lady cat has recently had a.
litter of kittens, so the cop on point be
hind the State Houso told Us. Wo wish
we could get one of those cubs, .for cer
tain!) a black kitten born In Independence
Square ought to bring good luck. anil mako
work unnecessary! frtr tiie test or fine's life.
But alas' we stipposo the Colonial Dames
have grabbed them iff.'
Summer' rn Trance
Somehow. It seems.ln.rrcdlble
While thts dear country grieves,
The indifference 'of the flowers
And the laugbjer.of tine-leaves.
rAROLUJlJ .GILTINAX,
Ofllce of the tShlet Surgeon, A. IJ. r.
Sjnthetir Toem.
Its ail light for a man
i.
Tu be ubsent-mlnded.
Hut his mind shouldn't overstay
Its leave of absence.
i
To our dlsma), no editorialist has et
risen to remark or Solf's potjt "The voice
Is German) 's voice, but 'the hands' are the
hands of Wllliclni." ' ,
How can democracy lie. .saved without
constant repetition of this ancient lag?
Does the editor of tho Congressional
liecord ever feel a pang because no one
writes him little ndtes signed "Constant
Header"?
Any nose-palntlng done In thete days
must be done In water-colois.
Hvei) German note has not onl) a text
but a pretext.
What has happened to the poor old
'welkin" we used to read about? Doesn't
anvbody ever ring It any more? Oi did
Hertllng melt It down to make muzzles for
the Reichstag?
This One Is Napoo
Dear Socrates Might one sa.v that Ger
many is training her volte by tho teutonic
solfa method?
OXK OF YOU It UNUMIL'S.
She Donbles in Brass
Germany, one might hazard, 1s getting
down to brass tactics.
Uvei) time u German note comes auoss
some amateur statesman Is on hand to
call it special pleading.
Hut Foch believes that the tieatment for
Gel mans is special bleedfrig.
He Has No Taste for a Close-L'p
Hindenburg thought he had l educed Pel
gluni to a still-life picture. It must be
rather disconcerting to him to see the film
running again, and faster t' un evei.
Thoughts in a Hath Hour.
Kaiser Kafl Sfcns to be s-iartlng under
rhe Hungarian goulash
If onlv the (lei man Government could
seij us resolutely shaking the last grains
of sugur ou. of the lestauraiit's little en
elojie it would realize our grim determl
na'tlon to keep the wutch on the sacchailne.
German) awaits President WINon s next
word In the same won led way that we
watch the lunchroom waiter as hefpjinclies
our check. We'ie alwavs pipe-dreaming
that mavhe he'll punch a figure 1owei than
we deserve Rut he never does
, Geimanv has been very i'. vi In devl
Ing substitutes, but she will not be able to
Invent a substitute for military defeat It
looks to us us though the Kulsor will just
have to chagrin and bear It.
Obits We Covet
or
Our Private List f Huns
The man whoe hearse -I'll view with glee
Is the chap who borrows a mutch from me;
Then slips my box In his pocket quick
And hands me back the burnt out stkk.'
He says it ts only absence of mind--I
call him a foe of htima.i kind:
And If the guy won't take this hint
I'll have to use force without limit or stint:
These are the das for righting wrongs,
I'll put his mind back where It belongs.
lenlne and TroUK) aie so suspiclousl)
alletit that we can't help wondeiing whether
the) have eloped with the Uolshovri. pay
envefopes.
Echoes From Great Poels
Of all the words of tongue or pen,
These are most often bald by men:
Got a match?"
And the saddest answer that can occur
Is, "Only u Swedish tandstlcktr."
In a Nulbbell
AI1 this talk about unconditional sunen
der Is bunk.
There must be conditions to every pur
lender. Even the marriage scivlce Is full
of them.
The only question Is who Is lo Impose
said conditions.
You have to hand It to the Swedes for
Inventing Indirect lighting. The most !'
direct kind of lighting Imaginable. You
scratch the whole bolcful of their matches
and then get )our light from the little
gas Jet at the nearest cigar store.
It must be sad for Dr. Wllheim Rolf to
leflect how he misread the bright lexicon
of his outh. We learn from Wer Ist's
(the Hun Who's Who) that the Doo spent
his jouth In the study of JunsUrlt, Hindi,
Urilu and Persian, at u seminary of Orien
tal languages. Ife wan all prepared to talk
fluently with the Kaiser's Asiatic subjects:
and now- the Kaiser ain't a-golng to,hav(
an)' Aslatlft subjects. Wfe is Mien .Dtlier,-
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WHAT A CONGRESSMAN SEES
Scmiueekly Letter Touching on the Washington Doings oj Personalities
Familiar ( PhiladelpJiians - ,,
By J. Hampton Moore
Waslthigton, I. 0 Oct. 23. .
COXGttKSSMAX VAItE if In love .witji
his Job on the AppiolrLatIons Commit"
lee. When the gi'eat detlclehcy bill was
under consldeiatlon last week the down
town leader sat up with the Gllletts and
the Mondells ut the lommlttpe' table or
conferred with Uncle Joe tfannon, who bar
charge of the measuie for the Republi
cans. On the last day of tfie debate' ho
joined the vetetau fiom Illinois In paying
trlbuto. to tho Industi) of Mr. Slieile, ot
Kentucky the Democratic! thalrmarr of the
committee who, bv the way, is niretlng
with fierce opposition In his candidacy for
ic-electlon So unxlous 'was the Philadel
phia member to be on the Job on' the1 last
day Ihat lie took the midnight tiain'for
the Quaker Oit on Thursday arid returned
on the flist train out on Friday morning.
He had to step livel) to do that'.
TI' CHUSTLV. W HILL, foimer Collector
of the Port of Philadelphia doesn't look
out he ma) run ufoul of the nation's1 1 are
taker in Washington, In' the appeal to
voters which be Issues as secietar) of the
Pennsylvania Patriotic. Union betsets tip
someprett) strong claims for Peiifis)lvauiu
Republicanism ln i oiuiei.tloii with, war
activities To say that our great Repub
lican State sends moie soldlerH overseas
"than all the' southern Slates combined, in
spite of the fact that the latter have three
times our iiopulatlon,"1 'N calculated to
s(lng, but to add that Pennsylvania last
jear uid in&ie taxes "than uny other"
State (eliminating Wall s.troet, which
icull) belongs to the whole counti) and
more than twice as much as all the southern
States combined," is going th.e limit-.. If
Rier Tumulty or Mltche'lTPalrner, the alien
property custodian, get hold of lhe'( HIU
ehculur. It may go haixl with the Vhn
s)lvaula Patriotic Union. . Kven members
of Congress aie not expected to take siicli
liberties ' y
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QOMKTHING of a coincidence in the
s3 deaths a few du)S ago of. 'Alexander
Crow, Jr., und David It. Jiltch. David wus
the son of Joseph C. Birch, one of tjre
faithful court lepottcrs of the. Public Led
6er In the da)s when Cla)tonU. Fife,
Thomas' H. Price aud Robfrt W. Lesley rah
the co'uit combination. Joe Birch died and
his widow took up school teaching.
"Sand)" Crow, then the leader of the
Fifteenth Waid, was Induced to inteiest
himself in "Davy" Birch, the son, and one
day, like a flash out of tho pan, It was an
nounced that.Dav), who hud come to 'be a
cub reporter,' was, to become Upltcd States
consul at Malaga. Spain. It was a big
undertaking, but Davy went to Spain, then
to Genoa, then to Alexandria, Kg)pt, and
then to Babla, Brazil. . Crow 's Influence
at Washington waned with the Changes
that come and go In politics, but Dave
Hlrch made good on his own account, until
"the regulations 'of the State Department
made his last position an onerous one. Ho
came to Wushlngton and fought n single
handed battle for wljat he deemed to be a
square deal, but eventually Concluded to
quit the service.
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OKNATOR PKNROSE. now In dally con
J ferince With the Senate Finance Com
mittee, considering the ,b0t000,6oo reve-,
inue. bill, has taken ,bh rVr
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unii); service It was necessary for tho
Senator, to uct, nd act quickly. Corro.
-spoudeiM'c comes fust und fuiious In a sen.
atorlal ofllce. especially '.when a levenuo
bill Is under discussion, and the Senator
saw; hls(pile of letters mounting higher and
higher. To take tho place of Colonel
Andiews, who was succeeded by John
O'Bilen, who ,was succeeded by Tuy
lui, the Senator appointed UJiuiles P.
Swope, of Jlarrlsbqig, a' clever joung
PennVylvqnian. "vvlio had done seti-etailal
work In Washington for John C. Capeis, of
South Caiolln-a, when he was Commissioner
of Internal Revenue under Roosevelt, and'
who Jhei carter was chief clelfc of llio bu
,teau ot engineering of the Public Service
Commission ot. Penns)lvanla. Svyope
piomptly ocmnected vVlth'the Senator's of
fice staff and together the)' attacked tho
mall accumulations and soon had things
uboDt normal. ' gvv ope Is a Quaker'-IIko
chap, In appearatice not unlike J.llenry
Scatter-good, of 'the Main Line", Who
has be,en doing liis lilt in reconstruction
woitt In Trunce, but the) do say he Js a
close rtiend of Hauy Baker, of the Repub
ltoarr State Committee, and has taken a
leaf or two out of the book of Harry 8.
McDevltt. Therefoif, It will riot take.lilmi
;ohg to got In hai ness. with the advent cf
the new secretar.v, and us If to celebrate
the occasion, carjie "Sammy" Dunbar, who,
noius tne outer uoonof the 'senatorial sane.
turn in the Ai.cade Building. Sammy
looked tip Joo Rodgeis, who keeps tabs on'
the Republican members of the House, and
before leaving AVushlngton let It be known
that the Philadelphia sftuatlo'n was well In
hand. . i
fTUIB llquoi question lias certainly, bid
. a ralr share of allernm ii. WasMng
ion since the lnfluenza,epidemlc struck the
capital. Them has been a dernand for
liquor, which onl) the diug stores arid phy
sicians couhl supply, and It lumorbe true
theis3 has been some profited ing wfiere
"a little quinine" hus been udded. Kven
BaltJmon has been closed lo, thosb "oftlie
natronal capital wh6 pad fah?n Into the
habit of ruriiri'iig over to the Marjlahd city
to get'their supplies. While the Piohlbl
tlonlsts (slarpl tlrm, the- IrtilltlclanB, have pro
fes8d trf se tiouble ahead in the vallous
Vlos.Ing up" orders, We aie'tpld that "a.
side door" business lias started up In many
cities that is piovlng exceedingly profit
able. Philadelphia, is mentioned In this
connection. Pittsburgh Is actually leport
ted Be angry because the worklngmen have
been denied their ncUistpmed beverages.
The hopeH of tjfe Bounlvvcll people have
eoi respbiidlhgly met eased.'' They think
there Is golpg to b6 a strong "wi;l" vote hi
consequence of tile, alleged incouveolepce
to vvhlch sick peoplethave been put. Meuftk
while, Clarence Glbboney, of tlte LavS- ahd
Order Society, Is out In an appeal to
Congress to go slow In -taking the holdings
of the liquor deuleis without compensation,
and Nell Ronner, of the Retail LlqUor Deal
ers' Association, has been "doing Wash
ington" In connection with recent "zone
orders" abolit w hlcli. Phlladelphlans navi
been advised' Tire advht of hoxrry
Humes, the I'itUbmlt Dlatrict .Attorney,,
row-sor, tne-erief tntflHire ,paii
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Wlinx that glad, day shall break .to
match
"Before - the- Wai" with ."Since - the
Peace," ,
And up I climb to twist new thatch
Atross my cottage roof, while geese
Stand stlfily there 'below and Vex
The yard with hissing from long necks.
In that immense, release,
Thatshlnlng clay, shall we hear bald:
"Xew" wars tomorrow, more men dead"?
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When peace time comes and horror's oVer,
Despair and darkness like a dreara,
When fields aieTlpe with corn and clover,
The cool white daliy full of cream,
Shall we. -work happily in Uie sun", '
And think "It's over now and done,
Or suddenly shall wx? seem
To watcb a secODcr'bristling,, shadow
Of armed men move across the meadow?
Will it beover once for all.
With no more killed and no more
maimed
Shall we be. safe fixm teiroi's thrall,
. The eagle caged, tho lion tamed;
Or will the Jounglof that MIe brood,
Thei ) oung ones also, suck up blood N
Unconquered, unashamed,
Rtslng again with lust and thirst?
Better WX! nil had died at first.
Better killed befoie our pWme
We rotted deep in earthly slime,.. i
Robert Gl ayes. In the New Statesmen.
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Willi General D'Ksperey at the Danube,
the Austrian fluvial fleet has necessarily
nothing whatever to bank oiu
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' - ,Xow thiit the grip Is checked,' the first .
Important step toward dlspatthlhg ft by V- .
press has been encouragingly taken,
Conservation Hint ,'
One way for the Government to temedy
, the shortage of paper would be to prohibit
,ltn substitution for leather In shoe soles.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Higher Than the Highest '
v When fai Kaiser dubbed 'himself the AJl
..Highest he little rtckned where the prlee of
"sirloin Bteak would, eventually go to-Kanj ,
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What Do You Know?
QUIZ
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auiipnued hr the Urerka ta rrow In the
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R, VOiat uromlnent Uroro In the Vrmrh Rrvalo
tISn a i)!rt j tarblo "The Nsa-Uraen
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