, KJ? riiwi ".- HVHl tWHTAn I rB Wit l LUnilR, l'FEIPE'T .TAMlntton, Vice President: Jnhn C salary and Trmurf! f'hllln. colllna. M-. ... . vllllama. John Ji Snuntcon, Directors KDrrormt. noAnt)i (SCrnca II. K Ccti, Chnlrmn I S. 8MU.KV T . . . . , . ..... ...Editor Qcneral Ilualncas Manaser C. MARTIN. dally At rtltflt l.ttncira Uullrilnr. ieoenriencc Snuar. l'hllflrictnhlA l Ctal, . ...llroiid ami ( hralnut SMrcela fcrrr. ivm l man iiuiitllna .,. r, ,., ...200 Metroiotitnn loner ..... ... 4U1 ronl llulldhur ha.... ions Puiifrion nun iimk 1J02 rrftmnr Building .u- nbws nrnEvus: tnton nmrAt, L R. C'nr. PnnailAiila Ai ami llih It rat Iliauu.. ...... . Hie aim llullillin H'BCHUt,.. . London rimr.l. .j sunscnirTJoN TF.nvts KTiMvu I'tniic uriHitn n served lo mo rs In Phllitdelphti nml surrounding- towns l rate of twelve ll-'l rents ner week, tunable i carrier. mail to points ctutslile or rhllarieltihla, In sited 8tales Cann la. or 1'nlted Mntm po M, Postaite free, firtv t"o rents pr month. Bl dollars per yeir, pajablc In advance. all foreign countries one (Ml dullir per Sub-crlhrra wlshlne nflilremi chanced Rre old an well ns new mldrcae. It, )M0 TTAINtT IvtVSTOM. VUIN S00D ' arffffe nil riutiiMt,-nlf(ii tn h i f.it.ia r-ubti B ya.S0er, nrfependr trr .sciunrr. rhl'nilciphia. m Member of the Associated I'rcs tMB ASSOCIATED J'llKSS is n,m. V ceflflficrt to the use fm tentibtiratlnn NHI.neic dispatches cuditrd to It or iiof encfue crcrtlfrrt Oi r7if? papei. and also .tocal ncit's nubllshed tlieirln. ""atB riohfa of rrmthllrntlnu nt incrlal dls. lttniii herein aie nho icscitcd. j PMI.eMpM., frld.j, Ninnh,r 1. 191 f " MM as jX fc $W CAN THIS BE TRUE.' r fW N " mnn fnml,,ni wlth the busl" IL f'vnega of tills port was asked win wo "' 1 'n' 'fet more '"'sines for our plirs, Ei,yI5r ,Bala u was ueciiuse tlie riillaileltihl-i 'y btlfllneaa mpil anra nlLnio 1T u.m.irlfn.l aVK!,.J i..i... ...j . . . i 'iwt,"'uv" injected nuo tneir cins Dctme Xm1fl"'nK couiu De aone ror esatnple, tlie yia for a flo.itlnR iltnlck fui loadliiR the r? T1?"'0' cm nuo ine noius oi sieani- ,,ihlp Is admitted, but the i!t hn'? nee 'ilVcted to hae one built. As a lonseiiuente g-Whert a loeomotle has to be loaded the ."drVp has to tle u,) Ht tlle "eud'nK nlei ,jro mere is u uerrieh, loia me loeonio-Aifa-e,Jld then moe bn.'k to Its old tiler tn 'p'ttjke on the tebt of Its caiso. jFpjfJit 'Wh hae we not this deirkK' Why are the piets, used to onh '0 pei t1snt oi their caput lt. ? Cat It be true is i"onV'Philndelphlan sas, that the test of us 'jyj'kr pikers? !" amitIW"" T ' iaia iaiaMia fe wjSf VinaB !t octurrpa to an tint tint t li ffi . f Atllda am nil n,n , .. .1 -.!., il.n. ,"l,.l a. r (, v,c wii an iariii.-j iiit- wuiiifi turn v iiiii rhtnlU mopping enrh ' fr4sS IslZX A IV ithii nr ill tmx. KTTtWAH the CcHnLl.t. Tnl r !.,... '.phlvalry troRie Tusbo sun- tnd whom .iubsequent lotnanttcUts hae celebiitcd In Mr iitotig and stor Thch successors, the Ot- j. .tom.ns, ha e hideously defiled Ideals of ( ,'or r their Inheritance temalns to them is Hfehjresquel and InspIrlncK levealed in W llSwJrtreatment of (lenetal Townshend, en as the mestener to beai the le lit for the armistice 3nie episode Is one of the most sratlous of ..the -war. It is in line also with the rj apd report ot the Tuiks in the conduct f4 c8(s!,aJjWUlltIes, a lecord which when con f ftrmate: with their nntl Chiistian nntnee . itVa tl.Al nA......i r .u.. .. t rfruTBM iiiwi jjriocviuiwil ill Ulf t Illfiuaiis 'Mil curiously bafHInj:. L'erhtus. hoeei "fthe bnttal Turk his been larseh u pioduct 'iot-Teuton dictation iHla'chalns severed, he is free to pla i 1, rl'of honor. In the selection of General p "HnrnBhend, who has been a prisoner since Jtfaiurrender to oerwhelmlnKH supeilot M-Ces at Kutel-Amara, the stilt Ins of efl"erous instincts Is assuij-dh mmifested ffceact recalls Salariln. the Seliulc: the ft iiiatya Of the Lion Hearted Uithaid Bildwin C'.ierusaiem antt tjie couitl hlstoiical M , jamteant of the storied East : a' si Tiref &$ or one nal ,s 8 unieis.iiij hat. el tlie tlawmon rum seemed in hae a Kreit inaiii S-i1j ', .1.. .. . J A trianui wiicii me alouIls were npellU artel P fij'thtllnfluenia droiiRlit .'SOLDIERS EtD JNOf BE iCHOLVKS s SiilHEX the Wai Department decided that "candidates for admission tn the Stu- ijefimtt? Army Training Coi ps need not h.ne f ti1. -.w..-,,. ,. j ;nwcKiiu) BcnoiHsiiu requnements rnr JJHN&V' entrance, pioilded thaL ihej had ryi or uusine.ss eperiem e which Jul4'quallfy them for denice as ottkera, . Bowea mucn practlcil common sense. 'college entrance requirements aie in order to oreient votinc men ulth. ,-.f , 'proper preparation riom attemptlns .Jrlriraue Btudies for which the ground not been laid. The membeis of .Students' Arm Training Corps aie ,,J expected to puisue a full college The aie to be trained as rapidlj rowlble so the may,ieteio conimls- t.in the arm, None of them is e- tf remain In the college a full eai aber of the corps. What is needed itiallfy for admission to the i nurses is ilnary education enougli to be able ue the studies in the course set "them. I, ruling will be interesting o man Jphla jouth who haie wished to the coips now tialnlng in the l'n. but had not made the pttempt i of lack of scholastic pieparatlon. It (r1 Bryan, who was opposed to making VRta to sit at the peace table 1 lie Is as likel to appoint the .Spanish I, who reallv fought, as to send Secretary of State to the con. p It' 4DS ACROSS THE CHASM anal reconciliation of the two 41can former Presidents was ef. months ago. Their political Jon was signed and healed when their joint statement aouealinn ecttbn of a Republican Congress Ktkftt the tendency tow aid uutoc- Washington might be checked . have been stiange If a common " bad not brought them together. both cWtlehied the Republican ?,.when an outsider launches his they forget their differences and kilns; for the same cause Roth ,hd severe critics in their own tl Republicans aie I.kely to have tant work to do for the next a V than to find fault with their 'auch as Is now In progiess for tha work to corns. HUFIDLY , ,, -raJvlt ,, r.i.t-?' ",'.t pTiMrty i NrtmnWt mm AaiMliie t ReMtt' ' for an Armistice Are Leaving Cermtnjr Iioiated" fpHE unconditional surrender of Tuikcy and the Austrian appeal for an armistice complete the frustration of the flormnti ItAt-lin.tn.rtiirnlnil nlnns which was begun when Bulgaria Rot out of the war. The dteam induced by the fumes of conceit and ovci weening ambition to dominate the earth hns ended in the cold dawn in which the Prussian junkers hae waked to discover that the real world is a very different place from what they had thought it to be. But the surrender of Turkey means more than the end of the German dream. It means the freeing of the Near East from the terror which has dominated it for many generations. The achievements of the British nrmics have liberated Palestine and Mesopotamia and have guaranteed to tlie Armenians the right to lic their own lives in their own may without fenr of massacre at the hands of the Mohammedans. Just what will be the ultimate destiny of these districts it is too eatly to say, but it is enough to know that they will not bo left to the exploitation of the most incompetent colonizing nation of modem times. The terror of the German is not to be substituted for the terror of the Turk. This is a gteat gain for civiliza tion. Still furthet, the opening of the Dar danelles and the Bosporus, which is said to be piovided fot in the armistice, flees Rumania ftom the German menace and opens Russia to the Allies. If Gcimany should decide to continue the war she would find it absolutely necessary to te constitute her whole Russian policy. The grain of the Ukraine, which has been kept in Russia because thcie was no way to get it out, will have free passage fiom the Bluek Sea potts to western Europe. This means that the economic tehabilitatiou flf that district, with all its political and social conse quences, can begin at once, under the tutelage of the nations in sympathy with the desiies of the Russian people. The lemoter effects will be of still greater moment. It is inconceivable that Constantinople shall lemain under the absolute control of the Tuik. Its neu ttalization is advised by those best qualified to pass upon the question. Di. E. J. Dillon, who is the most export authotity on the subject of Russia and Constantinople now writing in English, has suggested that the city be neutral i7ed and put under the control of the United States, the disinteiestedncss of whose pui poses is admitted on all sides. Such an airangement would do more to settle the disputes over tb.2 questions of the Near East than afiy other that can be conceived. It would insure to all the nations an equality of 'lights and a fanne-s of treatment, the absence of which has been the feitile cause of trou blf. It would facilitate the development of Russia, foi it would tiansform the ice-free port of Odessa ftom a port on a closed sea to a poit having free access o all the oceans of the woild. It would encou-age the building of laihoads into the heart of Russia and would open up that gieat country a it has never been opened before. The bieak-up in the centtal European alliance which began with the sutiendci ,of Bulgaria and was continued by the surrendei of Tuikey will be complete when Austria's lequest for an aimistice in the field is granted. This request is the first step toward the withdrawal of that nation from the militaiy alliance. It had to be made foi the pieseivation of what there is left of the Austto Hunganan empire. In spite of thp un official statement from Vienna that Austna was not beeking a sepatate peace events seem to be proving that she mdst have it. Get many is thus soon to be left alone to fight the rest of the woild, provided slip decides to continue fighting. N( one believes that she will be so mad as to challenge certain destiuction by any such foolish course. The end of the war is lapidly approaching, shaped in ac cordance with the desires of the nations which have bepn fighting for freedom and foi guarantees of the preservation of the world's peace against violation by any greedy power. Austi'a sues tlnd Italv puisnes Tlie eventual effects of eiliiei action will he lilentU.il DErEVT THIS MENI)!KJT rnw.ltlZ was general approval of the amendment to the Constitution tatltled bv the voteis in 1915 pumlttlng this city to inciease its Indebtedness to a sum nui tn 10 per cent of its assessed value, jnovlded the extra 3 per cent above the nonnal 7 pei lent debt limit shouig he incurred for the ronstructlo'n and Improve, ment of suhwavs, tunnels, lailwav's and other transit facilities and foi the con stl notion and Improvement of wharves and docks and for the leilamatlon of land to he used for such whanes and docks owned or to be owned by the citi. Hut before this extension of the debt, incurring power of the citv for specific put poses was agieed upon the General Assembly was asked bv Interested par ties to take nut of the amendment all limi tation on the use of the 3 per cent Increase In the size of the possible debt, It. adopted the necessary lesolution In 1915 and again In 1917, and the voters aie asked this vear to ratlfv the desires of the political con tractors to use for any public woika the funds earmuiked bv the previous amend ment apeclfically for poit and transit de velopment. The objection to this pioposed amend ment is not that 10 per cent is too big a debt limit for Philadelphia, but that tlieie is Involved in it the possible mortgaging of the jeaouices of the city for othei work to such nn extent that no money will be left "to tarr out the tiunslt and poit plans. Theie Is no public demand for, the Paliatt..w IfeMsa kaM m' IhI. MtMlt1 - v.. ..V TW- -,- - , ' ' ttw ' wy fee eMM4 tor ttM'CviM e w public credit for the new subwaig and the new pier and docka. .The amendment ahoutd be defeated by an overwhelmlnK vote lu Philadelphia In older that n possi ble favorable vote up the Stale mav not carr It. The resolution will appeal on the b il lots ns No 2. Voters should remcmbci this in ordei that thrj may be certain thej put the negative nntik jgalnt the right resolution, Among the benellcent results of the war must he listed the dual t (.conciliation of Will nml Theodoie MR. SCHWABS EWMPI.E VmiHN Chnilcs M. Schwab, as director general ot the Kmergencv Kleet Cor potation, recommended the c mediation of a 160,000,000 shipbuilding contract with Charles SI, Schwab, the steel nun, he pio v Ided a fine demonstration of the American spirit at Its best. Sir, Schwab as an otrket of the Oov em inent has consistently made his personal Intel esls sccondarv to those of the nation. His Union tion Works at Alameda, Cal , will lose virtually all Its shipbuilding ton tracts because of his decision that the work being' done there docsn t mtet the requirements of ifllckncv In the general wni plan. Sti. Schwab Is one of thoe who ce ised to think of himself when the war began. What his service to the country has cost' him no one knows He Is n tonic for our national faith In these days of screeching politicians, who seem never to be able to look upon their own country ns anything but an institution that can be exploited for private ambitions tind ustless egoism or mide to provide an easy life or easier money for those who prey upon It ' The rigrls-Kuphratcs countrv. wheiu the Tuiks Mirruidertd, Is sild to be near the site of the O.ndtn of IMm Kvldcntlv the trulltlon of bin'hhniilit still obtains there FORCED LABOR rpHIJ draft laws md the wotk-or-nght --iule operative under the mote recent war legislation do not contemplate the In vestment of t.ny Clovcrnment boird with autociatlc rights over any workct. The communltv labor boards In thrs 'Itv are doing u mos. impoitant wotk in theli ef forts to piovlde adequate m.tn-power for essential war Industries But there is a disagreeable odoi of coercion in theli ef fort lo control those under and ovci the draft age No interrelation of the exist ing laws gives the ltbor board any such authoritv Yet In some Instances the ofTl cers of the boaids have assumed bv Im plication to eveitise a universal piessure in the less essenti il Industtks This Is perilous giound All men and bovs of working uge should tontiibtite their efToits to those war Industries that at e soiely in need of help But they can not be forced If thev lie of draft age they mav go voluntarily into war Indus tiles and thus win exemption from arm; vcivite. The Government nevei Intended to toeice laboi. It reeognl'ed a dungei and a mora! fat tor which the ollicets of the local labor boatds hive shown a dis position to lgnoie i;clHttl 1 Miming suret.iry of the I't iin sylvanla Distillers' and Vt e TIioukIiI lie Una Self-Vlaile A holesale Liquor Dealers' l.i ague, iaH th it the liquor dealers h ie made Stnatoi are what lip 's todav vdmlttlng that there I'leiiNe He Serious lecihtly his been a maximum of talk and a minimum of action in d'plomatic quart rs at Ueilln theie is one fact that ought to be lemeinbeied Geimunv U.isj been short of food for tars and no one nicil be suipilsed if the hungiv statesmen (hew, In the absence of more nuti Itlous things, the legeudatv lag i liven among thlevts In tlie J.iiM Dltrli .there is said to be a sort of lionoi Oei- mauv ind lit-i allies aren t living up to the Implications provided for them by the old a'cioni Kei Government In the (rumbling system opposed to the llits is foi Itself now and none of them seems to care about tlie fate of its ntighbois If we believe half that llul We lion I Is being sa'd on the one side bv the He publiians and on the other by the Democrats it would seem eeitaln thai whkhever wa the election goes on Tuesdav the country is doomed Prepare to hear of a stiateglc abdication ktorlousl accomplished With the surrendei of Tut key the woild must look to Berlin foi the Slik Man of Iluiopr 1 bfs Is Indeed ail abnormal yeai, with 'luiktv all In' three weeks befoie Thanks giving . If ntmistkes keep on being ronsuin mated on the battlefields the Versailles Council may be forced to adjourn because of no neiv business " .Maakau Nakatanl, chief of the Tokio police, Is in town to study ou system Let us fetventlj hope that no one will mention Honorable Krog Hollow in the presence of tills friendly vls'tor. illlatn Jennings Bryan hopes, it Is said, In be appointed to the peace conference, And yet If W. J. B bad had his way theie might not have been a peace eonfeience, as we undn stand 11 now. The theatre at Sing htng, which had been closed on ai count of Influenza In the pr'son, has been reopened, We piesume, howevei, that the boys 'up the river" are still rooted to the Hpot by a ban on gasoline. Army doctors In authoilty at the uni versities say. now that the college yell is unhygienic, Somehow or other we would have expected stronger language than that from an army doctor under the circumstances Germany s tioubles will never end Now they are talking of giving her a twelve-year-old king, the Kaiser's grandson. And a twelve-year-old king seems a poor reward for four and a half years' horroi and sac rifice . Turklah I'esce Ditty Quite Quit. Fightt JJItl i - -U.Swita 16' Be Profited n on Pay Envelope r It HAVEN'S, how i hate the guy '-' Who's never, never, never wrong He nlwaya has an alibi, He always pull9 the same old song: He lamps the boss straight In the eye As confident as a star boarder And has some ready reason whv The other fellow got the order, TTi: KNOWS exactly how to pad Expense accounts on every trip: His bean Is bony as n shad, Hut always well supplied with lip; Some day that guy will get In bad, His blight young dream be rudely shaken O .lupltei, come can the lad. Who never, never Is mistaken! U'irii municipal buildings nrr nt eimfcly brauliful ns the little jumoHmc femptci on Xorth llmad vticct mid WoJiitll Wiccf, eft tlUat ton utll he licit (irfiottccrf fottfird the millennium. The Mag of Italy AS URKf'X as mountain tori cuts, "As white as Alpine drifts, As red as the heart's pulses India's bannei lifts Green mercy stripes that bunting, White truth, red anger's glow Honored by alt freemen And even by her foe. ANN DANTH. OiiJj; fiftiflic dniis to C'hilstmns .Vote f the time to it rite Uiilsfmat frffrn fo f?ip hoys oicr there. If Poems Were Written Like the Tailors' Ads Mature men of vouthful spirit Who are compelled to be dignified But still feel the pep boiling in their veins, And busv executives whose important affairs Itequlre mahogany filing cases, I.Ike theli poems cut with a little flare nnd jazr, But still with sufficient restraint and mcl lowness To prevent them from being taken for burlesque comediuns Tor these gentlemen we have devised Poems of this sort. How do you like them.' 1 the Kaltet spent last niqlit tliioiiinp apple pecllnos over his left ihoulcer to ice if thci uo Id spell Abdication, he wasted hit time lie Mould haie been better em planed in icttinn a paii of nalkinu ihoci half-solcd Prayer in Time of Victory GOD of our fathers, AVho huth called once more Our far nunc, legions to the parent shore Where England guaids the gateway of the seas And Trance upholds man's old equalities. Where Belgium bleeds beneath the steady stars And Serbia flames through freedom's avatars, Where grace of Florence and the hills of Rome Still lift the ctoss to fling hell's cohoits home, Grint Thou, our God Who nerved Ciom well with steel. In Sluenad fotms cried loud 1 has Baitile! Who breathed thiough Garibaldi and Rous seau And lifted Lincoln to prove a nation's w oe, That we not lightlv overthiow the suns Too voung, too ptoud for all oui belching Buns RUMKSIBUR Thou the agonv of Thy cross Which turned to triumph all the bittei loss Amei lea runs swift upon appointed feel , . . Stay Thou oui steps lest they become too fleet. Break Thou our balks and crown oui brows with piiu l.est we become as those that we have slain: And then In faith of loves great victories Bioken with wonder fling us to oui knees PVT. WH.I.ARD WATTLES. Why Is it aluays the icooliesi pair of &ocks that doenn't come back fiom the Xaundiyt The Clocks Tlie clocks of the citv Aie striking the time, Some strike in melodv, Others In rhyme. Time for getting up, they say, Time foi lvlng down, T'me to follow all tlie loids ' That wind about the town, Time to love, the tall clocks sing, Chiming through the night; Time to hunt for all out di earns1, Now it's time to fight Time for work, time foi plav, And time to suffei pain, Time foi happiness, perhaps, Then time to sleep again. BEATRICK WASHBURN, AimistUes are beinp acceptedvio fast it looks as thottyh the demand uould exceed the supply. SOCRATES, The dispatch of Geneial Townshend to solle't the British army to let up was a practical Idea as well as rhliahlc As a master of his native tongue errois of 'trans lation with respect to his interview with that Kngllsh commander were happily obviated. 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(n ordei. when thdramatls personae uie In a sense mas ters of the event, the scene shifts ftom a fervent metiopolls, a tiue capital of spon taneous, passionate endeavoi, lo a dusly, underpopulated town, conceived In self conscious artifice and through the singe of eentuiies unfalteringly true to its essen tial ehaiacter This little citv, whose sticets are too wide for lt sporadic tiafflc, whose vast parks and 'tardens are almost depresslngly dlspioportioiute to the pie vailing numbeis of their frequenters whose giandetn in public buildings is redolent with the qualitv of stiff and silent seclu sion, Is Vei sallies, where the pieliminaiy steps toward re-establishing security foi the globe aie now bein,; taken Let it not be consti ued from this an ilv sis that Versailles-made history is of delusive pietentlousness Its contributions to world annals hue been epoch fotmlng and mag nlfleently vital. But, as a i ulo, U has uu thoiltatlvelv conti oiled the 'clutch of cii cumstunee. Had the Bastille talsed Its gilm towers in Vei sallies the destiuction of that symbol of tyranny would scirceh have been consummated by an ineslstible popular uprising Toimal lesolutlons would probably hav e been passed nnd the sti lit -ture would h-ve been iared, though wlih thoioughneRS, yet with austeie and confi dent ilLjm: . TH.K unfailing Instinct of Flench taste has bien quick to sense the veiy special and exalted lole of Vetsallles Unless the fotelgn vlsltoi realUes It also his impies sion of It will be entirely out of key with Its slngulai functions Ovei Vet sallies hangs the oppressive melancholy of dellb eiately mauufactuied importance Its de seited avenues, laid out with geometrical accuiacy, seem dlsheartenlngly un-Kuro-poan, woefully unpicturesque. Conceptions of the brilliant, giaceful ele gance of the days of the Great Louis uie l udely dashed bv the first glimpses of the huge brick chateau and its grounds, to which the eye can fix no limits Monu mental as that palace Is, its exterioi evokes no thrill. Grass glows between the paving blocks of the courtyard. A ciovvd of people would seem merely a handful theie. The scene is almost dull. Facing the gardens from the ten ace on the other, side of the building the formal tiees, the rigidly out lined pools, the fountains, grandiose but somehow dlstiesslnglv supei abundant, heavily appall one with their exeesslv e sug gestlons of megalomania. In a word, Versailles appears too big foi Us piesent boots. Kven the ehaunlng Tilanon retreats, the Great and the Little, with their associations of sham rusticity, of Watteau-llke festivals, of kings and mis tresses, Intrigues, courtleis and sycophan tic exquisites, but slightly affect the over tones of the. general "composition." BUT Versailles can afford to be ton temptuous of hasty and supeiflelul verdicts The pageant of history Justifies her, Her place is unique and France seems consistently determined to keep It so. There1 can be no question that -.11 its sweeping flat like giandeur fully measuied up to-the colossal and egoistic alms of Louis XIV, So long as the State was the king, as the Grande Monarque dcclaied it to be, where the ruler lived became in fact the capital of Fiance. Such was Versailles duiing most of three reigns -those of the Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Louis', In the chateau on June 30, 1789, the Xi 5 . V'A' tVJ -v-.i'if ""'.t: :' . ...: States General of France took the tin tiling Oath of the Tennis Couit, wheteby thev pledged themselves not to sepal a'te until thev had given tlie nation a constitution That this solemn formality oecuued here was Intense typical of the spiilt of Vet sillies Quito niturally, Tails took ovei the, blood nnd tenor of the Revolution Versailles is fot tieatles proclamations', councils, documental y and legislative gran deui In 178.1 the armistice pieiimlnaiv to the. Iieuty of pence between Gieat Biitaln and the Uni.ted States was signed theie Cm iway from the scene of hostilities, ltwas traditionally coirect that isolated Vei sallies should be assertive when the time foi self conscious performance at lived TTS teinpeiameut was again si. Ikinglv exhibited In the Franco-Trussian sti ug gle Taris had been the goal of the con queiing Teutons, hut Vei sallies witnessed n Louis's palace the pioclimatlon of fh new unified German empire bv Kaisei Wllhelm I. It was the headquarteis also of the Get man mm; which besieged the capital and latei of the Trench national government rxlled from Tails bv the Com munlsls. Aftei both Intei national peaip and In tel nal older had been restoied, A'ersallles, peihaps bv virtue of its veiy aloofness, its uppaienl repose and its securitv, became the seat of the Tiench .Assembly, and until 1S79 It was the official capital of the le publlc. When the thlid lepubllcan legime wus fully on Its feet considerations of geo graphical and historical fitness detei mined that the old eminence of Tnrls be restored But the claims of Versailles weie then recognized in the constitutional pinvhlon' that once In eveiy seven yeais the Depu ties and Senators should convene in Joint session in the loyal chateau twelve miles fiom the capital to elect the Ti evident. Somehow it stemed to "be felt that Tails should not be honoied by that event. Versailles-like dellbeiatlve dignity was consldeied essential rpufi Veisallles Supieine Council Is, of couise, distinctly In linp witli the whole flavor of the little city, mid most of all nie tho Immeasurably significant nimlstlee pioceedings giappllng with destiny theie today. Tails Is an epitome of kaleido scopic human life Versailles symbolizes existence legulated and formalized foi the undertaking -of achievements scheduled for magnificent ofllclal peiformapce, The Impression that the urchitecluial clothes of Versailles,' ill eaiy as they mav appear, are cut too big for It is on In vestigation specious. It fills out supeiblv when Ihe curtain rises on stalely woild drama, RHEIMS1918 THE cathedral's lyric stones , Spoke in faithful monotones; Through their dust I heard them say Beauty has not fled auay, Windows where the glass wus gone Put the sky's blue crystal on, And the barest to my sight Was a rose, of colored light. Wheie a saint had left ills place, Memory tilled the wounded space, And the, nave I knew so well v Trembled to a ghostly bell. Forth I went to see once 'moie Joan of Aie befoie the dooi. Still unhurt and poised to ildo Victoiyl l thought alia cried. Grace Huzurd Conkllng in the Century, -' ' --.. CT. ,T.-l, v! V rl ' 'v"V -V I V S .." :"j.. . vrs- !M "3$.. H-iiaK'-w. ' '-!Vvr: ... . ( . i' "i.V i . -V-x' """.-"- ' ,',i''7'c ..--if-, e - j .. r -1 THE READER'S VIEWPOINT '"Wilson the Voice of America' lo tin I'dltoi of thr i:cnlnn Public Ledger: Sir As a Republican I want to say that Senator Lodge and Colonel Roosevelt are not taking a couise calculated to give a Repub lican hope of great leadership Both exhale tlie aiouia of piovlnc'allsm still, at a time whin, whether we would or no, we have joined the new and necessarv world of self government Roosevelt has become a reac tionary : It -looks as if he could only eee the old order, with America dominating the world with a 'big stick." Instead of Great Briui'n doing so with a big boat. The 'big stick ' sounds entirely too much like the mailed fist " Tlie world. In a new- union of nations, has no loom foi either a national ' big stick," big boat oi ' mailed list" as a svmliol of contiol The ' ma'Ied fist" is now the baton of a funeiai march, and the othei two may well take warning Woodrovv Wil son has given us new slogans law, justice, light, self-government of Hhe nations and n International power to make them effec tive Hn is our first international statesman ,ns well as the voice of bis American con stituencv. I'wsri tbouglitrul man in the United States knows that Woodrutv Wilson Is not a Bivan Democrat, not a Tammanv Democrat, and that he Is not cairylng out a Democratic Admlnistiation but the Democrats are allying out his principles, because they must; foi thev know that the moment they do not the Republicans, w ho made him possi ble, would get out from undei so quick It would make their heads swim This Admin istration is primal ily a liberal Republican one, bv the liberal Republicans who hold the balance of power, because they made Wood iow, Wilson Piesident twice, and I, foi one of those liberal Republ'cans, want that status quo preserved until this war is through nnd reconsti action utll undei way, .Not for Woodiow Wilson's sake, and certainly not foi partisan Democracy's sake, but for the sake of the great work for the world that has fallen to the lot of our gieat laud and Institutions thiough Piesident Wljson's Ad mln'stiatlon His lettti candidly said this very thing, and not what the Lodges, Roose veits and theli follow eis' distort It Into All he bus said Is, Let us pieserie' the stme fiom to the world that hns won the war," And will the piovlneial paitisans see tlie gieat penples of the Allies, of Ihe neutrals, and even of those hcretofoiu bound under eneniv government?, looking toward Ameri can leadeishlp lo establish law. justice, light and libtily thioughout the earth for all time, and then di.ag some partisan iin peillnenee into sueli a great situation! Jf so, there Is but one Inference to be drawn fiom It: namily, the lxdges and Roosevelts are against International self-government, unci the consequent establishment of law, justke, right and liberty! They want only the old ordei, with America dominating the woild with a ' b'g stick" oi joining wllb Gieat Britain In dominating the world! Either one let us carefully say Is only batter than the once famous "mailed flst," Here, gentlemen, Is wheie the acid test" Is to be made of so-called "statesmen" In every Allied countiy, but especially In America and Great Britain BURTON ALVA KONKLE Swarthmore, Pa , Oetobei 28, What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. Hliut dUllnsiilklied Knrll.h i.rl.nner bora the urmlollce terms to the UrltUh arms J i. H hut Is the cunilal of Bohemia? 3. Who la the Kmnrras of Autrl-Huorar? 4. Who were the (Inoatlca? 5. H ho wrote i he modern norel "The Old Wlfea 8, To wnut rare did llrlnrlth Heine belong; 1, Who la the ihalnimn of the .National Repub lican Committee? m- S. What la u .Neirlto? u. How nmn miles dlatunt from Ihe earth la Ihe aun? 1U. nhut la Ihe meaning of plenipotentiary ' Answeri lo Yesterday's Quiz 1. (harlea S dato for fiovcrnor of ew lork. e If a soft undtone Bird for 3. linlratone srnurinc nerKi. 3, ( harlea , Kinueror of the l jr Roman Em- wire, jolunurlly ubdlrslnf l 155o and re tired lo the monastery of uat. Mpuln. 4, A sumblt Ii t kind of openlns In the uama sumuit ia u kim i openins la the Kama of ebeia In whlrh tha ilaer aarrlfleea it pawn or piece lokeeure certain endi. a. ! iMn v. -.auiMirii iii iho Huaao-4uiuneao !. ...... I. A at.... A t .1. .r -r .- in Hltll, IUI.U1 Sar u focccht I arrh III. IBOV. of Ihe Kusklaiis. Sar w foccaht between tebruarr fit ami arrh 10. I0V It re.ultcd III . "efta" nf lha Kuhklana. r 6, l)e;ilh ulle. iiilforiilj la the hotte.t nor ' Hon ot llio I nlted Htale ' 7, i inirenre nierua wruie ''irimruin Whandi." a.. - v. I,. 49 ".U"-. -i-?flf?v B. 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