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W .Mb MdV W llju.l'.il.ut.lil w uii nciij uufJunrfia criuiicu u i. ui riv otherwise credited in this paper, and alio fne' local nexes published therein. , Alt rights of republication o' special dls- ?w Jidfcne herein arc alto reserved. fhilsdclphia. Tbur.d.y. Orlor.cc CI. IMS V ' CONTINUING THE QUARANTINE "TkESPITE the loss and Inconvcnlencp that must fall unexpectedly to a preat taany people. It Is Impossible not to feel that the health authorities are following the dictates of prudence In preparing for a continuance of the Influenza ((iiatnntlue by limiting public meetings during the Coming week. Tho physicians are dealing with un epi demic of an extraordinarily virulent dis ease. They have found that convalescents re frequently germ carriers. Thus one person who has recovered from Influenza .may spread the Infection to Innumerable others for a week or more after his own complete recovery. Philadelphia has had bitter experiences with the epldcrrlc so far. Regard for the general welfare requires that we take no rhahces with a scourge that has already coat America more lives ur-l more suffer ing than the war Itself. It's an 111 wind, etc. The antl-grlp ban 'on theatrical performances establishes, at least temporarily, the oblhlon of the dead head. NEW LIBERTY AND ITS OLD BIRTHPLACE (XX THE'authorlty of a German publico " lion originating in Leipslc, Indepen dence Hall Is "perhop's the most Interesting edifice in America." The "cagey" adverb .wjth which Karl Paedeker's "United .States" S tempers its enthusiasm has evidently and rV ' rlchtlv no lodtrment in th minds nf tho ii' Czecho-Slovalc freemen who hove selected VtH, "State House" as the scene of thelt , Convention, which shall culminate In a new ;j!ecl.ratlon of Independence, heroic suc ;..Vcessor to tho pioneer document of 14; tyearlr ago. ill "" for the Hberty-Iovlng delegates now aM- sembllng- within the hallowed walls the historic fitness of environment Is unlm- Jt peachable. Self-consclolianejs of the dig- nlty or their role detracts not u Jot from H' lis throbbing sincerity. Tl.elr purpoje to S.3 proclaim a new nation though not a new poopie resanctllles, us Jollre did eighteen months ago, the holiest shrine of liberty, which In turn honors them. Tho epic drama of the Czecho-Slovaks Unquestionably attains one of Its finest climaxes In the venerable structure from which liberty, once launched. Is undying. At the present moment the Hun seem to be less war-y than wary. WAKING UP TO NAVAL NEEDS y .rttHAT tho Secretary of the Navy no A longer fears to urge adequate and im- lw pressive naval protection for the nation Is consolingly demonstrated by tho com- U- prehenstve r.ew building program which t Congress has been asked to authorize, l.T flbln - t ,. ...!., I. ...l.l ii.l b' .cally nor patriotically profitable Just now. biKArifl ffr. TSAtituIn lino cair!inlnii,lif .lo.,lrt.jl ... Bfll ', , 7 , " " F-v.wu-,,, U.UEU w !&ir 'jynuii wjiii me wue oi necesiSity. -" t The new budget, in the form of a three- fjyf yr naval program, supplementary to the uno uumorizeu in iib, provides Tor the expenditure of ICOO.000.000. Ten super- sw dreadnoughts will be built and six lmtil b1 'cruUers. The 140 smaller vessels will Iir l't rftalnly of the types most needed In the r'hi inli-submarine campaign and other fltua- i u" tipns specifically arising out of the wars : r.,mi -...-.... in.i- . .... ."j-fwwnfc viiaitti;ivi laiiu liuvai COnOUIons. Tha Ttrnvlslnn for tlm ulvt0. n,.i.ni jjf rhlp ,1s, an encouraging sign that the pe- l.t'' "aVIu .n,.. .1. .. ,1 .- - ? i . vuic-ifecui.- w mo iiiiis nas noi leu k to hasty misconceptions regarding the. h value of major war vessels. In the most tuwpectacular but thoroughly effective way Britain with her superb battleshlns rnd the United States with Its own con- H - iritlliitnna tn V,a ir.Ant 4111. .1 -k ... j? i hv viuvu iicei are ;,'. 'winning naval victories without firing a 'net save those or practice and In ma- jieuverti. The American DeoDle have liinir lin,1 ti, ; ''sound, conviction that their fleet was the Cflrst arm of the national security. v May "outfluenza" itsfy.tha hour. become the jiassword C "HOW THE CITV GROWS JjmlB assessed valuation nf taxable real "ir(N4ate In this city this year Is Sl.so;,. '' Tte: assessed valuation of local taxable. r'Wl.elute In 1908 was )1,287,:87.U'3. 'f-tfTOw Increase in ten years amounts to VAiMT.M, or more than half a billion i;Mprs. '! tVWA ai'krflirii Innrauii. lu utuin f .A linA AAA it'. f1 - - ....vv " --. ..,VVV. The Increase this year over lust Wily 'JJ8.000.000. figures uiould Indicate that there )r&o extraordinary Increase In the valuation of realty here. There M nd such Increase on existing i t 'Ulgh, prices now prevail, but temporary because of temporary Wlffii' normal conditions re- 'lfjatt)' wlU rMppear. aaaWtM. stiaiaW b aff.WiflWL''v. Tl HOW TO lltefsP THE ENT The Only Wy to Deprive Kltrliin antl Dent of Their Obstructive Power Ii hy Electing Republican House rpiIE attempt to inject partisanship into the prosecution of the war will fail because bo far as backing up the Presi dent Is concerned there is only one party in the United States. When we nrc told that u Democratic Congress must be re-elected in order that the hands of the President may be upheld every intelllRcnt American laughs at the presumption of those who make the plea. Every man knows that there is no truth in the charge that the election of a Re publican House and Scnntc would hearten tho Germans nnd that the election of a Democratic Senate and House would make the Hohenzollerns tremble in their high boots and take for cover with all possible speed. The issue in the approaching election is not partisan but personal. It is whether Claude Kitchin, of Scotland Neck. North Curolinu, and S. Herbert Dent, of Montgomery, Alabama, shall remain as chairmen of tho Committee of Wnys and Means and the Committee on Military Affairs respectively. Kitchin, of Scotland Neck, has uni formly opposed tho plans of the Presi dent. He voted against the declaration of war. He voted against the selective draft law and he has repeatedly voted against increasing the army anil navy. So much for his war record. As chair man of the Ways and Means Committee, which drufts the revenue legislation, lie has done his best to inject sectionalism and demagogy into the tax bills. Dent, of Montgomery, at the head of the committbe intrusted with the prepa ration of laws for increasing the military power of the Government, has been con sistently opposed to any enlargement of the army and navy and he cast his vote against the selective-draft law Whatever Kitchin and Dent have done to support the war policy of the Admin istration has been done under compul sion. They are leaders out of sympathy with the purposes of the nation. It is us if General Pershing were opposed to de fending the dignity and honor and liber ties of America and hod to be prodded on by his staff to take any action that gave trouble to the Germans. The President could very well cull upon the voters in Dent's Alabama dis trict and in Kitchin's North Carolina district to defeat these men in order to relieve him of the embarrassment of working through them to accomplish his purposes. But as he has not done this it is up to the country nt large to secure the same ends by changing the political control of the House in such ti'way that these men will be shorn of their power. With a Republican majority, Julius Kahn, of California, will automatically become chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs and John W. Fordncy, of Michigan, will become the Oiead of the Ways and Means Committee. These men are heart and soul for the war. They voted for increasing the military power of the nation when Dent and Kitchin voted against it. If we are to have the hands of the President upheld they and their colleagues can be trusted to uphold the Administration's war policy with enthusiasm and loyalty to the best inter ests of all America. The issue is so simple and clear that it is understood in every hamlet in the whole country. We are dropping par tisanship and wc are uplifting broad vmindod Americanism. The defeat of the party of Kitchin and Dent is to be accom plished not because of any weakening of the national purposes, but because the nation has decided that the House, under its present leadership, is not warlike enough, and because these faithless leaders, if tlTeir party were returned in control, would justly assume that the country had indorsed their lukcWarmness if not their opposition to all foVms of pre paredness both before and after we en tered the war. Dent and Kitchin could be retired, it is true, if the House would abandon its practice of promoting men to committee chairmanships on the basis of length of service on the committees. The Presi dent might urge it upon both the House and the Senate. But he has not done it and he is not likely to interfere with the prerogatives of Congress, He had his lesson when he attempted to force the Senate to accept his judgment instead of its own on the woman suffrage amend ment to the Constitution. So our only recourse is to elect a Republican House, not because it is Republican, but because it is the quickest and surest way to take from the hands of the men obstructing the war aims of the nation the power to make their obstructive tactics effective in any degree. Though the clubs in this city win quit nt 11 p. m there are some abroad whose functioning Is pretty continuous through every hour of the Huns' "premeditated" re tirement. . . MEXICO REPENTANT? HiailLiY Important was the news that came from Mexico City yesterday to Indicate a new friendliness1 In that quarter for the L'nlted States nnd our alllcj. It would seem to he a reconciled find enlight ened Mexican (Jovernment tlm' is prepar ing to align itself with us against Ger niuny. The cburse Indicated must have been preceded by an epochal change of heart at Mexico City. It marks clearly the decline of CUrmujfi Influence with the Car. ranza. Government. It brings nearer the time wlirn the moral and material re sources of the entire American continent will be united in all tholr Immensity for peace and human welfare. The war is costing the L'r.ltcd States stupendous sums of money. In return we are receiving- an amazing lot of good-will advertUlnr in every quarter c 'the slobe its iavett are able to read and think. r'iSm to MnUpm jK". by (jMwretit by 'tasi UVraflii- PU&MO LEDGfER- this time that the United States means well by mankind q,Qtl' that It Is Ideally dis posed for Unselfish 'ends. Mtxlco hat. been one of the hardest countries to convince. Hut Mexico has been subjected to heavy moral pressure on both boundary lines. The Curratiza Government has maintained tho otm Important note of discord In the growing scheme"-6f;. American unity. 'The reversal from Its prior attitude of crimlty and suspicion will contribute i;vuch.to the tremendous forces of human opinion now being mobilized for tho prevention 'Of fu ture wars. Germany's Inability in all these years to make the world say Klsass-Lothringcu In steud of Alsace-Lorraine Is not the least of Indices that the Teutonliatlon of theso prov inces has been n failure. THE LUNCH PUZZLE TX ITd latest diplomatic exchanges with the keepers of popular restaurants the Food Administration has been outguessed and outmnneuvereil. The dexterity with. which certain of tho restaurunts met ail evaded the formal requirements Is HUgges tlve of Berlin und l'otsdumimtlon. Prices were lowered in the Instances specified,, Half portions are served. I.tlnch costs ..1101' less hut more proportionately than lt,'dld' before. ' '., "Acting In accord with tho Pennsylvania 1'ood Administration," as the pleasant legend runs, s-ome venders of food redhcedi the bulk o." many dishes to which no change of price applied. ' . . Plainly the time Is coming when thi'-.oM fashion uf "carried lunches" will "te re vived. It was revived In Kuropo long ago, even by the rich and the well-to-do.4 O'fie' doesn't lose social Htandlng by carrying ono's lunch abroad. If we can achieve n similar state of mind hero prollt'eerllip; restuurauts will be tamed, l-'or tho mo ment the f od administration bcems un equal to the task of dealing with them. . Sehwab says there Is now no steel prob lem. Germany's Is lets also an she totters nut of Uelgluni. LETTERS THAT ARE LUSTROUS rpiIK accredited corrcspondepts fall to -- unearth all the news nuggets., "The other day," writes C'orporatGeorgi Henry Slook, of Philadelphia, to his rector, the P.ev. Dr. David M. Steele, of the Church of St. Luke and the Bplphnny, "an American soldier marched in ninety-four Germans, and his only weapon was a shovel. This sounds strange, hut It Is literally true; 1 saw it with my own eyes." Doctor Steele has a treasure hot of some five hundred letters from similarly vivid "reporters" from his own patriotic con gregation. Tho tone of this intensely human and unaffected correspondence Is nearly always radiantly cheerful, occa sionally witty, often unconsciously amus ing, sometimes infinitely touching. The sincerity of the chronicle Is unchallenge able. As human documents these frank missives from the front far transcend many elTorts of professional word-painting. The establishment of this epistolary link between a church congregation and the war front Is capital and vastly stimulating. Numerous churches In the city enjoy the same Intimacy with truth In the strife. They ure to be congratulated. The Czecho-Slovak In- Thej Furjot tent to assemble under ''Improvement's" the m roof where the March American Declaration of Independence wns drafted though laudable Is impossible, Blnce Thomas Jefferson composed ,hls Immortal state document In a building at Seventh and Market streets, torn down several decades ago. The new nation, however, can an- nounce its freedom front the State House, where ours was proclaimed, and this they will do with supreme fitness on Saturday. The Interesting and Itulmrln'a generous Czecho-Slo- llewllilrrliir Mulge ak map of Kuropo flanking the west wall of the old Supreme Court building on Inde pendence Square assigns Constantinople to Itiilgaria. Perhaps the draughtsman's pen cil slipped. Or maybe somebody told the artist that ex-(zar Kerd'nand's people wete In serious straits, and so he thought he whould picture them In the Bosporus. THE READER'S VIEWPOINT Maurire du Marais's Poem To the Kditor of the Kvtnlng l'ublic Ledger: Sir Here is a poem that you may have read In tho Iiteiary Digest recently. Be sides Its own beauty, It has a peculiar Interest because the author. Maurice du Ma rals, Is a Xaibetth boy who has been in France for some fine with Base Hospital N'o. 10, a Philadelphia unit. According to tho Digest this Is one of a collection of the best poems written by men In the A. K. K, which has Just been published In book form under the title "Songs From the Trenches." TIIHHK l A n.OSK There Is a close that overlooks the sea, Wide to the vaulting hlue and very still Save for the rooks' sad cawing. Here ut will Wanton tlie rrraut winds or .Normanqy. Within are crosses, rear'd In ebony, frying to all who pass that here fulfill Their destiny whose souls tlrpe cannot kill, "Contemptlbles" who died so willingly. And Here the other day we laid him down, Sadly, et proudly, in his verdant youth. The first of us, the sealing of tho bond, Sweet be his rest, though fleeting his renown Among his kinsfolk, warriors all for truth. Together now through battle and beyond. It) view of tl fact that du Marals Is well known In Karborth. where his parents live, and also along the Main Line and In Phila delphia on account of his work hi amateur theatricals before the war. I thought you might like to reprint II. 11. A. M, Narberth, October 23 The Most Popular Paper To the Kditor of the livening l'ublic Ledger: Sir The part In the inclosed clipping which is marked off. Is such a ludicrous typographical error that I can't help calling your attention to it and also that the Kvkn ino I'rriLiu LeuoEn is the most popular paper In camp. HUGH I.FDFOIUI, Hlxiv-thlrd Infantry (Band), Camp Meade, Maryland, October 23. Following Is the typographical error to which reference Is made: main pro'ductlonshrdlucmwfypbof un'll It was a pled line which got Into the page by accident in the rush to get the paper to press on time. Ddltor.l Hun Fall Song -.4 iHancd Cvpj No irst No hope - No rest , No scope Of whining leaguts no member. No Lille Nq steel No Rhelm . No dreams No' charc.No France, No-veraber. frirribArtlitapmA -- --1 ROASTED CHESTNVTS Rubaiyat or.Bcr.Tojg "Of AKEI For the Hun is scattered into VV flight! ' ', . The Turk and Bulgar pack their-trunks by night; " , The Austrian is yammering for peace It seems that Might no longer equals Right. , ' Before tho phantom of False Triumph died Methought it was the General Staff that cried Jetzl muss das Schwcrt entscheiden zwischen tins And now O what a fall for' Prussian pride! ," Lo, those that chanted ribald hymns of hate, ' . ' ' Defiled the shrines and looted "silver plate ,. And raped and muimed these ask an ' armistice ... The answer is one word: Evqcualt! 'The Reichstag has revived is pU desires; The thoughtful Hun toWai;d;Bcrlir retires- Where the white hand of' Solf an olive bough ' v 'V ' Puts out, and Wilhelm secretly perspires. Ostend and Bruges now blossom'like'the rose; V Where Hlndy's seven-ringed Line is, no one knows; And next come Ghent, Tournai, Val enciennes, Then Brussels will Tie naked to the blows. From Belgium's, heart recedes the heel of shame: - 'r The tricolor is wind-tossed like a flarae' The sunlight burns-iipon a dozen flags Whose honor and whose meaning are the same. And Foch's lips are locked; but not his. spine. High-piping Pershing now with "Rhine! Rhine! Rhine! The Rhine!" John Pershing cries to Douglas Haig, His shining bayonets t'incarnadine. Come, Solf & Co., your tactics would be best To stow your "honor" in your cedar chest, And put old Bill away in camphor balls. Your game is now kaput, both Eust and West The- General Staff had better cease to josh: Your armistice on equal terms is bosh; Old Hindenburg has but a little way To flutter he can fix it up with Foch. Whether at Valenciennes or at Verdun Sincere advice to you is, better run: Our wine, Success, we're boozing drop by drop; Your regiments keep falling, Hun by Hun. Trade Secrets Standing lines, for the convenience of typesetters : At n time like this theie Is no excusa Now If ever1 Is the hour to Among the benefits sure to coma out ot the war It Is unthinkable that n country like ours The New York TImes's fearfut betraal of civilization What the returned soldier will Another charge to be faced by the Board AVhy the Congressional Iteeord should In a panic the Important thing In the shadow of the dome of the Capitol New York Evening Tost. And even though we give away some of the tricks of the trodo we add the fol lowing: We view with alarm lilood and treasure We point with pride The confidence of tlie public has beer, grossly abused The dereliction of the street-cleaning de partment The quota has been oversubscribed Lament of the Theatrical Manager . Tiers, idle tiers, I know well what they mean: The payroll Is wilted, box-otllce clerks are lean. Three weeks I've treated hams stranded on the road (I wonder If I'll ever get back what I'm owed?) Sadly I ask( as the empty .house I scan How soon will the health department lift the ban? The optimist puts his hand hopefully In his trousers pocket, and then finds nothing there but crumbs of tobacco which cloy his finger nails and those little pellets of gray fluff. It seems to us that putting that gray fluff Into our clothes ought to be declared a nonessential Industry. Hindenburg may lose his AIx, but the pains will continue. Thoughts on Birds It's an ill bird that fouls Its own nest. but the cuckoo Uiller still. It doesn't ever) nest Its own fowl, The birds we prefer are those that(come home to roast. Our ambition Is to be wise as a serpent und harmless as a dub. The early bird may catch the worm, but he Is genernlly hungry again by 10 o'clock. Does the "democratization" of the (telchbtag only mean a new litter of pup pets? Nine hours are said to constitute a "nor mal working day." liut what are the" frontiers of a normal shirking day? The Ilojiemollerns have rimde plenty of trouble for Hunbom generations, and It looks as though they will presently be divorced without even any alimony. We don't hear much about cheering crowds around the' famous Hindenburg etatue these days. They should havo built It of turnips. And as for the other gilt, taring generalities of the German ataff. there seems to be no chance at ajl 6t their haying utatuea unhwi, they remln bf nUluque. ,, ; BOCJUpM, " . 1- V -. . . ai7 - ' -"-"'., 4."Sw.. - '"' THE GOWNSMAN The British Educational Mission WK AUK Just beginning to realize the abysmal depths and the ' Ingenious subtleties of tho German world, propaganda during the' last forty years, its repetitious boastfulness as to all things German, its studied depreciation as to everything else. Those who know anything smile when they hear It declared that hut for a trivial accident, the nature of which Is not quite clear, the American Declaration of Indc. pendence would have been written In Ger man, and even the unlearned laugh when they nre told that It has been tagely argued In Germany that Napoleon was a Teuton, liut many other lies have been reiterated so often that they have come to be. ac cepted In a species of tolerant hulf-belief nnd have long since ceased to be combated. One of these Is that nowhere In thft world can a thorough higher education bo acquired except In German universities, and that this applies to all subjects; no matter what, with which tjie scholarly world has ever busied itself. YOL'lt skeptical Gownsman never quite fell to this fetish of German university education. It ha-s always seemed prepos terous to him that un American youth should Journey through England, for example, and- go far, Into the Continent to acquire with ilitllculty an imperfect acquaintance with crabbed German In order to have the language b,nd literature of his own tongue exploited for lilm by a learned man who .spoke English lm-t perfectly, whose education was In many respects antithetical to English ldeas, whose very nature and character were bound to leave him unsympathetic. Dut even In English language, literature and thought, Germnu scholarship has long claimed pre-eminence. And many scholars In America have taken that claim, aa the similar claim for all the bclenceH, at its face value. IT IS not. to be denied that In conse quence American higher education has been Germanized to a very oonskjernble degree In the last fifty yeais. And that Is not all. In thus accepting Germany at her own preposterous valuation we lost France und England, and much that these civilizations, so much more ukln to our own, could have done for us. It is some times cited to their discredit that the educa tional Institutions of neither of these countries, seem to have taken much pains, until comparatively recently, to 'attract and hold American students. To put It another way: neither France nor England commercialized their Higher education for the foreign market. No Englishman holds It his mission to make foreigners .English; no Frenchman holds a brief to justify und explain France. The education of each country had developed Into a nice adjust ment to Its own conditions. Education was not business, and o'ther nations, had their own systems suited to their conditions. Least of all oould French or English uni versities have conceived of such a trades men's trick as has unquestionably been practiced In pome German universities: the grunting of un Inferior degree to foreigners while maintaining a rigorous standard at home, though using for both the same label., I N VIEW of these past conditions the visit of the British educational mis sion to the United States, is, to be hailed" M a happy augury far the future. Tku r' Wloh oemie to h ea tle, Javitf f "mpw ', .i'iV! 'fflmS 'v ' . - ''.: TXrt?V'j1rSEjfc...i2Ls- "iBoyiBHioifT." our council of national defense "to Inquire Into the best means of procuring closer cooperation between Uritlsh and American educational institutions to the end bf mak ing increasingly firm the bonds of sym pathy and understanding that now unite tho English-speaking world." Headed by Doctor Shipley, vice chancellor of the Uni versity of Cambridge, Its membership in cludes likewise Sir Henry MIers, the vita chancellor of the new university of the great manufacturing center, Manchester; tho Ilcv. Dr. Walker, librarian of Queens College, Oxford; Sir Henry Jones, the dis tinguished professor of moral philosophy of tho University of Glasgow; Sir John Joley, of Trinity College. Dublin, and two ladles, Miss Spurgeon, professor of Eng lish literature In the University of London, and Miss Sldgevvick, lecturer on history, of Birmingham University. The commission thus represents the three kingdoms, the newer type of Hrltlsh university as well as Oxford and Cambridge, women as well "as men. "VTO ONE who was privileged, as was the '.Gownsman, to meet these representa tives of tho higher education of Great Britain on their visit to Philadelphia a few days ago. could have been otherwise than Impressed with their attitude towurd their task in hand. They have come, seeking to know, us, eager to- learn, unprejudiced, extending tlie hand of brotherhood. They havo come, top, not only to find out what they niay have to offer American students ,who may care to study" In the schools of the Hiotlierland, but, to discover likewise what we have here o return In an eqult able exchange to u'rltlsh young men and women who may come to study In America, This Idea of reciprocity was emphasized by speaker after speaker in the informal con ferences which were held, the visitors re marking especially upon the excellence In equipment which they have already discov ered to be characteristic ot our .American institutions of learning nnd Upon what one Of them called our "generous provision for the contingencies of future growth." QUIt friends from over the water have v-' far to go and much to see in the less than twd months at their disposal; f6r their Itinerary Includes such distant points as Toronto, Madison, Wisconsin! Houston, Texas; and Tuskegee, Alabama. They will see many Institutions, and their per sonel on parade, so to speak. And they will see many fine buildings, In which our American universities have come to abound, and examine many laboratories, athletic Held; and other like physical features which go to make up what our trustees, from their business affllllations, Sometimes cull "the plant." But there are other things In which our "British' friends are far more interested, and It 1h to be hoped that Doctor Shipley's expressed wlsn may likewise be gratified, that he may learn to know the American student, boy and girl, his hopes and Ideals, his life and his ways, both what he Is tuugh't and most Important of all how he Is taught It. It vaa Interesting the other day to notice a. bight functionary of an old world univer sity 6ft with a couple of undergraduates to visit their rooms, bee how they lived, und 6hat with them ps to their work. Clearly the British commission Is taking its task to heart and tangible result must come, advantageous to all, from this Informal latereeurae among j.Ijave who, whatever atfare w hkiwhi, hissub in oua w- & K "-Xt'h ri&' THE BOY IN FRANCE STEEPED lm hot haze of the August afternoon The garden dreams In a many-splendored trance; The locusts drone a long, Insistent tune: And the boy the boy's In France. Down the stone steps the rose-pink phloxes stund, Like delicate sculptures, through the " breathless day, Brilliant yet shadowy, as the bright, vague, land; And the boy the boy's away. The dogs about the terrace listless lie, Waiting a springing step they used to know; We wait, we also and the days crawl by; The boy wo miss him so. Green fields reach over hllb to fields of gold; Far off the city shimmers, gay but wan; The radiant scene breathes loneliness up. told; The boy the boy Is gone. Sudden his service flag's Impetuous story Flashes a buglo note across the flowers; Sudden the aching loss Is pride and glory; Ho Is in Krancej he's ours!, Lad of my heart! From all across your land One thought wings to that land of old romance; One proud America stretches a loving Hand To the boy the boy In France, Mary Raymond Shlpman Andrews, In Scrlbner's Magar.ine. The Pioneer CapUinette . A young Japanese girl has obtained a license as sea captain. Her name Is Tatzu Irnamlio, and he received her training from her father, with whom, she sailed the Inland Sea, When" she applied for a license the authorities hesitated, for she was the first woman who had ever sought recognltien as a skipper. As there; was no provision per mitting discrimination on account of sex, the license was Issued. Detroit Free Press. )Vhat Do You Knoio? QUIZ 1. Waal, was lb war la American hlatarr ' w hse i ' treat? of pea re was t aad at Z. What federated Kn.ilia ruler la said to aara dM af tha trtoT i. 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