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COLONEL HOUSE ABROAD
Bi'rpo MOST of the countiy Colonel 13.
Kw'it M. House Is a hazy and somewhat ro-
f$&ifc' mantle figure of mjstery who Is pie-
iS aumed to be constantly busy with secret
mild extraordinary services for the I'resl-
Wgj-dent and the country at large. There aro
W& ,e" "n.,c must seem that heuielongs
;S''Jn a book, rather than in leal life. The
Kft? . l of tlle CoIon1,s achievements, like
lU...I-.?'ipV4kak 4aalaaH n 1.1 nnu..I 1 a. 11..
f.7A't-tl,w IIBlic ui ilia tuTviue, is nut Keuuumy
uown. nis presence in i ranee at mis
Wttaae -would indicate that he is accustomed
jrtVlV Uent place of immeasurable impor-
If'lfP0011 HoUso has appeared Huddenly
Sc-ik-fcuroDe as the veritable other snlf of thn
Mi'vPrJatMAnf at a (fmo lion fi i Inn- .1 (..
S J"11 w." ix v m - vj "livii 1,4111(3 Villi CI"
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gUUM themselves. Hhh lie been went s
E.4rallA Ivninnill a mhaecanh.aptiqnwlln .... ..
1ftew President to impress upon Allied
fSg, itesmen the need for a united iolicy for
MfVt fcanoo ha h.'a11 ua fne ..a,. T. urt n un .1..
k. . ..a 11c iv uc Liic
i ope. saing things
"that may not be trusted o en to the cables
"V ....
I or me wireless appealing for unity of
lM? ; 'diplomatic aim as well as for unity on the
fir..)lt.l If Colonel Housn hns hem iHunntphnil
jWitHli'act for the President In the endeavor to
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"Pithelr open publication to tho world he is
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SQFT.PEDALINC THE W00DEN-SHIP
RJQINCE the early outbursts of enthulasm
vS.jii"- over the nrosnpnf rt rurn..i
mifuf,e , ' m.ihi4iiiiiik
I fel-Aerlcan vlrgjn forests Into "sub"-defying
I ''Myfebi have been lately followed with con-
..lila.Mlhla G,lff...n.lnllH. .. !.. i
r',,'Wheme' offlclaIs f the Emergency neet
bIIV,I0 are HJ t0 ,,e con8l''pilnB
ftxtLX rfadJus""ent of thewooden-shlp
,reram "with a Mew to limit the pioduc-
W.-Wfi'P1 3600-ton wooden cnmmeice carriers
v u ll uu tuiiipieieu,
.Oyi .moreover, jirouauiy not be used in the
itlantlc trade. Chairman Hurley
jests that some be placed In the oil
between Mexico and the United
, thus leleasllllT Htnel tnnUi.ru for.
;HvrMean service, and that others he null.
tltilted for coal coast barges, whoso fleet
!M to have been augmented witli twenty.
, llvimllllQn dollars' worth of new craft.
4l-S'S.' contract for their construction has
Et &lfcaaW''iarlaltr nnnelail
t.P?'. WT777 . '
uRtMffl i prosaic, but It Is thotoughly
Hfjetu. 'ine mea or winning the war
? wooden ships Mas a charucterlstlo
s of our native romanticism, which
HVtypIcally has a way of jleldlng to
A cme when all the conditions of a
RMiergency are fully appraised.
IJkf-you don't watch out the.antl-spltting
?J$a 'tlL
r8TRIA ON THE SLIDING BOARD
TIN the House of Ubher, the cracks
itu) House of Hapsburg are, though
, not surprising. The ciash now
TstMliy under way, Klume, the fcole
of Hungary, Is seething with
rebellion. Uudapest reports
atlon of the badgered HurJari.
Hungarian Premier, flounders
y and is said also to have quit.
Inients In Karollvlcz have oer-
the junker yoke.
oncelve the present dramatic
n exhausted Austria-Hungary,
lug active troops are stagger.
Unpttct of a terrific new ltal-
fjk' ia. be hypercautious. That
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rOUTICS IS RECONVENED!
MR. WILSON IN tHE CHAIR
The Pretident'i Sltlement Unbridles the
Mouth of Prtlan Rnror at the Mosti
' Dangerous Time for the Nation
T)EGARDLESS of party linos, every
' true ndmlrer of Trcsldcnt Wilson
ought to mourn the blunder of judRment
which led him to issue his nmazlntt
nppcal to tho public for tho election of n
Democratic Congress. We say "regtird
lcss of party lines" ndvisedly and with
purpose of accent because until yester
day there were hundreds of thousands
yes millions of Republicans as well as
Democrats who had been schooling them
selves to think constantly of the nation's
Chief Executive as the first citizen of
America and not ns the first Democrat.
But In the face of this' bitterly partisan,
perilously close to demagogic, denuncia
tion of those representatives sent to Con
gress by Republican majorities, they
must now pel force nccept the President
in the light ho pictures himself -ns tho
leader of tho Democratic party commis
sioned to be the chief factionallst office
holder of the nation. It is not a becom
ing or gracious posture.
If there was one act more calculated
to open the Pandora's box of factional
ism nt this critical time in the affairs
of the country and the world, it is hard
to conceive it. Politics, which tho Presi
dent himself solemnly adjourned for tho
duration of the war last spring, is now
reconvened with all the folly nnd bias
that must follow in its train, and the
presiding politician is none other than
Mr. Wilson, whose every sentence in
yesterday's deplorable statement seemed
jealously Intended to preserve his
right to wield the gavel. Henceforth,
even against the better counsels of
patriotic moderation and prudence, the
pettiest political huckster in the tanks
of either major party will feel licensed
to blate nnd blow his rancor, no longer
afraid of that decent sense of restraint
which tho gravity of the larger national
and international crises hns heretofore
invoked. He will be unafraid because
the President himself has indulged in
and invited partisan controversy.
Admitting that Mr. Wilson has had
some provocation; admitting that Colonel
Roosevelt and others have perhaps
flagrantly disregarded time, taste and
occasion, and that recently there has
been a growing tendency on the Repub
lican side to criticize the Administration
more shaiply than last May when poli
tics was adjourned in that memorable
address to Congress, there surely should
have been nothing serious enough to dis
turb his serenity. He has suffered not 8
hundredth part of the harassing to which
the Democratic party subjected President
Lincoln during the Civil War, when as a
body it declared the effort to preserve
the Union by force of arms a failure
and demanded peace at any price. Mof c
over, not all of the criticism has been
Republican. It seems as if. Mr. Wilson
is impatient and intoleiant of criticism.
Especially is this true if it comes from
anybody unfortunate enough in his eyes
to be a Republican.
Not long'ago the President called it
"the people's war," but his statement
gives it the aspect of an exclusive, per
sonally conducted Democratic party en
terprise, thereby challenging Republican
hostility and attack. Already the Re
publican congressional leaders and Mr.
Taft have made sharp but dignified re
joinder, conveying thoroughly well
merited rebuke.
Examination of yesteiday's statement
must be discouraging to those Ameri
cans not primarily either Republicans
or Democrats who are proud of the
heights to which the President has lifted
the aims of this war and who are not
blinded by prejudice to the very many
virtues and superb abilities which he.
has brought to bear upon the problems
of American diplomacy. In substance
he says that unless Democratic majori
ties aie preserved in the Senate and
House the people of Europe, which ia all
inclusive, will believe that his leadership
has been repudiated. That is what the
little harbingers of Democratic campaign
funds have been haying recently less
boldly and more evasively than he
against the indignant protest of hun
dreds of thousands of Republican buyers
of Liberty Bonds and devoted Republi
can workers in the cause of the war. We
have ignored such cant and hypocrisy
among these professional jobhunters and
jobholders because they did not seem
worthy of refutation. But it is amazing
to find Mr. Wilson echoing and enlarg
ing upon their babble in a formal pronun
ciamento to the nation. The only possi
ble explanation must be that in an un
guarded or irritated moment he has been
misled into adopting this falsehood by
certalri of those self-seeking counselors'
who are eyer at tho elbow of a gieat
man.
How could Europe believe that the
election of a Republican majority in the
House or Senate would weaken the de
termination of the American people to
see the President through the war to a
victory and a just peace, when the leading
Republicans in ana out of Congress were
in favor of defeating Germany before he
had made up his mind even to the needs
of preparedness or to alignment on the
side of the Entente Allies or to demand
ing redress for the horrors inflicted upon
humanity in the guiso of Belgium? It
was these same Republicans who were
denouncing with righteous indignation
the rape of Belgium when Mr. Wilson
was still urging the nation to be neutral
in thought as well as in action. The
public has not forgotten the Democratic
refrijn in 1916 "He kept us out of wr
-rM mMJw kava th Allies nor Ger-
PrfTe iWi. .
have been "pro-war," but the rJrr.Uslon
Is grudging when it is followed by the
rebuke that they have been "anil
Administration." Have they?
Last August the National Security
League prepared a chart showing how
tho members of the Senate and House
had voted on the eight principal war bills
or motions leading up to the declaration
of war, all of them impliedly involved In
the "acid test" which the President him
self laid Mown in his letter opposing the
rc-clcctlon of Representative Slayden.
of Texas. It established beyond shadow
of doubt that the Democrats voting
wrong or disloyal outnumbered tho
Republicans several to one. Indeed that
has been something like the proportion
prevailing throughout the legislation
since. The most persistent opponents of
the war and of the Administration's
policies were among the members of the
President's own party. Did not the Ad
ministration have to intrust the passage
of the various selective draft bills the
most dangerous legislation from the poli
ticians' point of view to Representative
Kahn, a Republican, rather than to the
chairman of the House Military Affairs
Committee, Dent? Yet the stigma of
"anti-Administration" is the Republican
reward. How about tho chairman of the
most important committee in the Sen
ateForeign Relations tho lale Sena
tor ,J3tonc, of Missouri, who even voted
against the declaration of war? Many
important war measures could, not have
been passed but for tho Republicans.
Yet the President wants o make believe
that the Democrats are Ms only hono of
salvation. Is it fair? He wnnts to con
vince tho voters even those "credulous"
ones, as he sncerlngly calls them that
only a Democratic victory will hearten
our allies and distress Germany, when
the truth is that Germany has had more
friends on the Democratic side of the
House and Senate than the Republican.
Is it slnccic? '
The President speaks of divided
leadership. Here his fears are better
grounded. This must mean that he does
not wish to share leadership, such as
peacemaking, with the Senate, which by
the Constitution holds the treaty-making
power. He wants a Senate which will
be entirely amenable to his desires.
Worse things might happen to the coun
tiy. The public has generously approved
the President's course in foreign rela
tions. But if he is so sure that he is'
right and that the public believes he is
right, what should there be to fear in
submitting his program for real examina
tion to the body constituted by law to
pass upon it? Would any Senate, Re
publican or Democratic, have the
temerity to oppose a just peace, even
though it might indulge its prerogative
of talking about it a while, holding it up
to the light and examining it from all
sides? What harm would come from
that? Wouldn't it lather be beneficial?
The peace treaty will be the most impor
tant in history. It will bind this nation
a long time after Woodrow Wilson has
ceased to be President. Has he so much
confidence in his own judgment that he
will not brook advice and consent even
from the Senate?
We are sorry the President has made
this step. It will hurt his prestige with
a multitude of persons who believed that
from the time when he got rid of the
man who more largely than any other
single individual made him President he
had slowly been eliminating from his
mind the idea that only "deserving
Democrats" could be trusted in patriot
ism. It will stir up bad temper and
jealousy that will not disappear after the
election. But, above all, it will give the
Huns the pretext to say which they could
not truthfully say before yesterday
that if by chance the people elect a Re
publican Congress he has been rebuked
for his war policies. They will condemn
him out of his own mouth. We are truly
sorry.
Kn gin nd, France,
Thla Vnrulj- Ital), I'oitugal, Serbia,
World! the HIms Jugo and
'zeclio as well ns
Spain and Scamlinula officially vo'ced their
approval of President 'Wilson's manner of
handling the Herman situation just after
Colonel Iloseelt announced his bitter dis
satisfaction In a torrential telegram to the
Senate, 'We hne money to bet that Eufipe
now wishes It had waited a while and
aolded the we'glit of august displeasure
certain to fall upon It,
Telephone service Is
M lint hliie approuLhlng a normal
Could Thej Ho? condition. And we
suppose the telephone
company has rigged up a lot of extra dyna
mos to carry the pent-up conersatlon of the
goeslptrs who usually camp on one side of a
party wire for an hour at a time.
Tie pay of a press
agent In one of -the
city departments Is an
Why There
Are HrandaU
nounced as 2Saweek,
A good suppress agent of the sort that the
average municipal department requires costs
a, great deal more than that
H may be said, with
Home to Baoit out exaggeration, that
the legendary Furies,
embodiments of great sins that return in
eUably to destroy their perpetrators, are
having a sort of old home week In Berlin,
Ken though one of
This la the candidates for the
Ineicuiable go ernof atrip In Perm-
arhanla, la a volunteer
fireman, It Is by no meana likely that he will
go to -lctory in a blase of glory,
Our own notion, hattd
Ha Han't Car upon the aspect of
affairs In Germany, la
that his real name Is Prince Mix.
The Reichstag ha given JVince Uail
milllan a four-flftha vote of confldence, but
what does ha lacking fifth aikwuat to mg
PRUNES AND PRISMS
Read
K HAD forgot the little roads
And all the trails they mado
Through meadowa purple with the sun
And silver lu the shade, v
FJtt we have walked the wide while way
Where nil tho passersby
Trudgo soberly with Christian feet
And hold their straight headB high.
WK HAD fi rgot the fairy folk.
And, when we heard them tease,
Wo only thought the wind
O'.t In the forest trees.
as high
N
OW let us leave the lonely road
That stretches endlessly
And follow all the little paths
That lead to Arcady.
HEATtttCl! WABHBUHN.
Never insist upon a thing ' Until you
have it.
History Confused
Rvcnts are moving so rap'dly theso da
that we wonder whether the megaphdiie
lecturers on the sight-seeing cere may not
get their history a little tangled? l"or In
stance: "This Is Independence Hall, where the'
Finnish delegates signed the Declaration
of Flnndepcnderice";1 or "This Is Mount
Vernon, where Dr. T'homas Masaryk said
'Bine, 1 cut down the cherry tree; I did
It with my Slovaks.'"
Or even, "This Is PI mouth Hock, thrown
by Oyster Day nt the White House."
Prince Max enjs the new sjstcm In
(Jermanv "involves n new mode of govern
ment In Alsace-Lorraine,"
I'xaclly. Kven Cletnenceau will agree.
Quaint Quartets
'We bought last week a great big Bond
To knock the Kaiser silly
.Vow how about a few Thrift Stamps
To finish Little Willie? '
You know It, our Triangle Huts
Music's what H13 enjoys;
Come then across with mandolins
And records for the boys!
Tho Itcd Crost we must all support.
But how my money goes!
I wish that I were rich enough
To wear my oldest "cloe!"
a
Though some war woik is rath') haid
t like It, I declare
At last I've got a really good
Kxcuse to bob my hair!
"We used to end up our invites
With neat It. S. V. P.'s
Xow in the corner we engrave
"Do come if jou don't snee7e!"
AUSlNOli.
More Thoughts on
a Bitter Theme
Gilbert Chesterton remarked once that
many forerunners would have felt rather
111 if they had seen the thing they fore
ran. Sir Walter Raleigh, we feel, sure,
would never have Invented smoking if he
had foreseen Swedish matches.
It Is a curious phenomenon that Scandi
navian safety matches will peek a boo your
ti ousei s with burnt holes, though they
will set fire to nothing else. It is well to
keep your garments as far away i : possi
ble while engaged in the gjmnastlc of
rubbing tanustickers upon their box. We
call this a "gymnastic" advisedly, for many
people believe In temoving their clothing
while spending the evenlr.- lighting a
safety Swede.
Speaking of Sir Walter Raleigh, the
Tobacco World (Philadelphia's smokiest
magazine) reminds us that next Tuesday
Is the 300th anniversary of the death of
that noble knight. He was beheaded at
the command of King James In 1618, os
tensibly for having frisked the Spaniards
of some bullion, but probably because of
his love of tobacco, which .lames detested,
Kvery well-nurtured smoker will blow a
few reveient whiffs on Tuesday in honor
of the shade of Sir 'Walter.
According to our way of thinking, no
democracy can long endure which is not
based upon a faithful use of the corncob
pipe. If the Czecho-Slav rr.d Polish and
Kuthenian and other statesmen now In
session at Independence Hall Will teach
their future subjects to smoke the sooth
ing cob they will have comparatively few
ructions. The corncob is nature's great
sedative, composer of peevish minds and
antidote for hasty -passion. If only we
had sent a shipload of corncob pipes to
Russia the Bolshevik uproar would have
calmed down long ago.
We are getting Interested In these
Czecho-Slovaks. They are fine fellows, we
have no doubt; but still we hope they are
not entirely exempt from human failings.
We wonder, for Instance, whether a Czecho
slovak husband and father ever forgets
to mall a letter, or keep on talking because
he doesn't know just how to break off a -conversation
that bores him. If so, we
shall hall him as brother.
Here's Dove Again
The Kalaer cannot gi ind his teeth
At the liberation of Llebknecht
Because they have already been
Set on edge
By President Wilson's last note,
DOVB DULCET.
Tbe League of Notions
Dear Socrates Permit me to apply for
membership In your League of Notions. I
have Invented a humor serum, by which
people of light, waggish dispositions can be
inoculated against excesslvj, untimely
laughter and all the jocose fevers that
afflict the Irresponsible. The treatment
simplicity Itaelf; It consists of tlelng the
patient to a post and reading aloud to him
half a 'dozen pages of the Congressional
Record. After that he will never laugh
again. ,
The limitation upon this serum la trifling,
It will not work within ten nllles of Oyster
Bay. CALVERT CRAVAT.
We feel that there is still hope for the
German people, for accordlg to Clement
Hhorter (who got lt( from the Berlin Tage
blatt) three of the plays now running in
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WHAT A CONGRESSMAN SEES
Semitveclrfy Letter Touching on the Washington Doings of Personalities
Familiar to Philadclpnians
By J. Hampton Moore
Washington, D. C, Oct. 26.
INTEREST In the improvement of Darby
p.a.,1, la mi I i-o.j liv iiotitlnns to Coil-
gress for a survey of that stieam. The
Yocum.& Powers Company, Ocorgo Gi ay
eon, C. L. Serrlll, George Kle, William P.
Taylor, the H. K. Mulford Company and
other Phlladelphlans have written strong
letters or. the subject. They claim that the
whole of tho Delaware River front between
Chester and Philadelphia Is now tulten up
and undergoing Improvements, some of
them of a national' scope, and that the
time has come for the Darby region to
be consldeiod. Following the cue, for
which Theodore K. Burton, of Ohio, at one
time chairman of the Rivers nnd Harbors
Committee, Is responsible, they have begur:
to call their stream a rlv er Darby River
since In Burton's day tho charge, of "iork
barrel" In connection with "creeks" was
overcome by calling them "rivers." That
is how Cooper River, once familiar to
not them Camdenites as "Cooper's Creek,"
attained Its present legislative distinction.
TIED tape continues to be one of the
cruelties of official life. The more de
partments, boards and commissioners we
cieate, the more red tape we have to
Unwind before the plain cltzen can get sat
isfaction. And we have never had more of
those bilreaus than now exlat. The puszle
citizens, lawiers and members ot Congress
alike. , And sometimes the Government i
suffers even as the cltlten does. Ir. the
matter of war risk insurance the depend
ents of soldiers aie now. up' against delays
and confusion approachlng-the-ln(olerable.v
Tho pension bureau the,, quartermaster's
bureau and the war 'risk, bureau each
must be consulted some 'time to ascertain
why a dependent wife a'r,4 children do not
receive the soldier's allotment. We are
doing many big thingS-i-nome wonderful
things In this great wa,r, but there are
many small things, many esaentlals of a
detailed nature, that shock and distress the
individual. An avalanche t of grievances
has been comlr.g forward with respect tb
soldiers mall. "Why is Jt hot delivered
more regularly?" la the query of a, hundred
anxious writers In a single conatltUSJicv.
"I have received no alio men t for. three
months," comes the lead' pencil appealj.of
many poor wives of soldiers flghthigor
their country in France. '"Won't yotf ask
the bureau to hurry It along?"n-'pr.wer
to th'ese lnquhles Congress la provjiilHr'ah
additional $7,600,000 for clerk he';vajid
Incidentals. The war risk bureau alone
la said to empjoy ,14,000 clerks Wut the
work laga and correspondence' la delayed.
A consolidation of these war bureaus" is
being discussed,
APPEALS for men to man the merchant
xahlps sound strange to Louis Erbe,
formerly Councilman from the Eleventh
Ward, whose son, Louis J. Erbe, ha gone
in UVarifa Blnrn Aril-ll ISIS. vhUMTl Bl'be
'has been the subject, of an iiawwU iU
rNMi
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sailed on all kinds of Hhlps In all the seas
of the vvoild and sometimes happened to
be the only American oi. board. When
the war broke out he registered In the
Eleventh Ward and being a seaman was
put In the fouith class. Then he went to
sea again and after three months landed
In San Francisco. Going ashore without
his registration caid he was picked up by
tho United States marshal at.d sent to
an army camp. lie managed to get tho
situation ejiplained to City Solicitor Con
nelly, of Philadelphia, and then the Washington-
Inquiry was Htaitod. Krbe's anxiety
for sea bervlce, for which he was fitted, was,
brought to the attention of the War
Depaitment and the United States shipping
board. Mr. Hurley said the shipping board
was In need of Just such men. The War
Department said they would give Erbe up
If the merchane marine needed him. Much
correspondcr.ee ensued and Erbe'a became
a familiar case. Months elapsed, but the
correspondence continued. The merchant
marine demanded sailors qualified for the
service, but Elbe remained In the army
camp. One day It developed thut the young
sailor had been shipped to the embarkation
point. Nearly six months passed. Mr.
Hurley was again calling for young Amerl
cans to go upon tho ships. Erbe's appll
cation and indorsements were still pend
ing.' Then the army order to move was
giver.. Erbe's furlough was granted, but
the War Department leplled laconically,
"Too lale." Tho young sailor Is now with
tbe army In Fiance and the merchant
marine is looking for men.
a
CHARLES R, HAMILTON has been mk-
lug borne Washington inquiries con
cerning his son, Robs, who is now In
France. The boy volunteered In the First
City Troop last year and When the troop
was broken up he was assigned to the cav
airy, United States Remount, 103d Engi
neers. For tho last six months he has been
connected with the 108d Mortar Trench
Battery with the fighting Twenty-eighth
Division, All reports concerning him have
been exceedingly favorable. ' Evidently the
boy acquhes his cavalry Inclinations from
his father, who Is enough of a liorselover
to take an occasional blue ribbon. The
Hamlltons, moi cover, come from. Revolu
tionary stock, because of which Charea R.
keeps allvo the family traditions through
active membership in the New Jersey so
ciety of Pennsylvania." An appropriate
thing for Colonel John C. Qnionu. who la
liow organizing the military policy of he
American army in France, to do, would be
to corral the gallant young City Trooper
Df Philadelphia under his wing and let
them work together. It would be like an
Ameiican homecoming to that strangely
scattered band, but such things evidently
are not possible under existing military
arrangiments. Of the City Troopeia, how
ever, It is to be said that, they went Into
Mexico and stuveil nn h6li- Int. lib, main.
and when broken up end scattered to .the
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iuk ana ,
READER'S VIEWPOINT
The Sacrilege of doling
To thh Editor of the Evening Public Ledger:
Sir "And David bulf there an altar unto
the Lord and offered burnt offerings and
peace offerings, so the Lord was entreated
for tiie land, and the plague was stayed from
Israel." II Samuel, xxlv, 25.
The State Commissioner of Health Inhibits
any semblance of the above action. He arro
gates to hlmeelf the prerogative of infallible
censor against the ordinance ot Almighty
God.
First. Th'.s'ls sacrilege; It Is also against
public pslicy, for It means a serious loss
to 'the people of moral and spiritual convic
tion In the promises of God.
Second. It Is a fearful thing In a .time of
trial and affliction to deprive the people of
the needed support and reliance Upon the
church's ordinance.
Third. The danger from the opening of
the church, if It exists at all, la Infinitesimal
In comparison with that which results from
keeping open public offices, whtire aceommo,
dfttlcn Is small and hours are long, and yet
these ennnot be cloeed,
Fourth. If to close Government and other
departments of business would be out of the
question, it is eqbally contrary to public
policy to cloae the church And thereby silence
God's witness, which speaks for Him and
Ilia people In city and country.
Fifth. General Perahlng sent, this mes
sage: "We rely on the churches at home to
keep the spirit of the people white-hot with
patriotism and courage until victory has been
won."
The man that cut off the limb he waa sit
ting on came to grief!, It? this the accom
plishment which the Staie Health Commis
sioner Is aiming at?
SAMUEL UPJOHN.
Rector St. Luke's Chure'h.
Ocrmantown, October 15,
A Perfect Reply
ho the Editor of , the Evening Public Ledger:
Sir I want to congratulate you uoon the
splendid editorial upon the President's not, - j
wnicu appearea 'toaay in the evekino-W
Pufiuc I.jdoer. , r"
To Ha contents nothing can be properly4 .
added nor taken away, It la In Itself a-per-' i
feet reply to the German letter. '
JOSEPH MELLORS. ' V
Philadelphia, October 24. ;
Alia Mia, to.. 9 nn& lu U..M.I..11.. . ? . I
less, that the HOUse-lna Droblem will ha h
promptly put up to Germany. . The colonel V
of the whole situation (a unmistakable. ,tjk
TA1.c.nH .UA II..!!. ..1.. ...- il
"- ! "TV" milieu warn .
un vesterdav are nertlnentlv nrnnhatin in J I
that taie aermany Itself will soon fellow ,rt
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