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PhiUdtlphlirSllurdir, .Norrmbrr 2, 1418
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'iWlt MURDEROUS
SKYLARKING"
rSTT WAS an appallingly familiar type of
$St l Wh Slew llttle MarIe Bur"s- Heck
i'jti and cowardly Hooliganism has long
'SgJrMrs fatalities oa Fourth of July, New
i sMm.T tar Eve and Halloween hn b liern n
5X;-JMfcllessly conventional feature of the police
eveJ"!orda. on the comparatively Infrequent
jjiiSec&Blona when the guilty parties hao
bA.DSan Cauellt "flpplrtpnt" linfl boon thor .lft
tV4??8e "' '3 'nnmlsslble. The wanton
j-Sftv-Carffe of loaded pistols Is an unanswer-
iTSSSf inaiciment.
".t$.3Ch Innocent child, whose nniM.a nf
PjiiStBrty dress adds the touch of bitterest
May to her fate, was murdered. That the
'S?j;ifc,te or brutcs who shot her did not de
JMbirately select their victim Is the paltriest
jMextenuatlons. The act was homicidal,
'"&!!!, ia that of any lawless blusterer who
Jertebrates" with bullets.
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IJT.cjr--y " Btto,CM u "it unm aner eiec-
fe ,
Mt. A HUMILIATED SECRETARY
jj&jmuiN the cables told of the presence
-2tt?kat the Versailles council of every Pre-
' V4jhlr and Foreign Minister of the European
-?" . AI . .1 . .
ft&Tf ' sympainy must nave gone
vi&"Ht from many minds to Robert Lnnsfnir.
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ivei w""v i,w'wa t11" aj nidi uuiiiiiiihion oz Dec-
qmary of State xf the United States He
faa Konspiuuuuhiy au.seiu nom tnat au
:ljt and portentous assemblage, although
sjiftk Government he represents is supposed
:'"1iave an immenbely important part in
.;s.lM deliberations.
.fiSJWf' the other Foreign Ministers, Mr. Lan
1 '.'ii'n' a "leal descendant in office of such
llluatrious Secretaries as Jefferbon, Mon-
taSjitvarts. Blaine. Bavard. Foster. Sliormon
iS",?Wd Hay, is kept at his desk in "Washing
k.SH, principally tilling the role of signing
,-, name at tne oottom or notes dictated
Jfcwri the White House.
? "Mwhat is the public to think? What has
i? $& Secretary of State done or not done
SL'JSMf, deserve this humiliation? What course
lVm4lOUld his self-respect suggest under the
, &-lrtrcumstances?
1 v.SjA. There are times when words can be
, "S.eda, as Mr. Hughes's airplane report em-
.la&ticallv TirnvpR
AN EMPIRE IN ASHES
Austro-Hungarian monarchy, so
rjitit.
t' long on the brink, has at last tumbled
??adlong Into the vortex of chaos. It Is
.&,t easy to Identify all the swirling frag-
aJiwents of empire, yet the ceneral evldenre
5,,k i ' . , . ..... Z
.i!r(vuiwjr wietttajje js unmisiaKaoie. start
,lto though as yet all too meager, reports
rA. tfttt rrnllflriua toll nf an I . nnr.. ilnn T
"atim'la, with Prague as its capital: of a
L"i.i. TT ..U ,1. tx ,
siw uuugaij', vviin wie napsuurgs over-
rown; of a successfully self-determining
ttoatia. with Flume as Its hnlw.irk- nf n
TiftV i'VV '
";niy"v-oary vjenna speeuing plans lor
v"a..nonmonarchlcal State: of a helnles
"PPMW In night to his country retreat:
W "'j-Hr-'- rebellious fleet in Pola; of an over-
elmlngly defeated army in yenetla.
''A'-vTa MflV Ka Dfltrl n.ltV. r.lmnr.t 1ttr.1 A 1L
J Jnat (hA lerrv.hnllt mntrA rr.l.r. ViAr.nn
Pm 4fMwar Is nonexistent. Even in Russia,
iWflfn abBolutism fell, the pace of history
riii no dizzier than It has been In Mittel-
5 MBCtSM W1 10 tOOt YCCK.
ialAtVF ...
Hough the effect of the long-foreseen
cle has been repeatedly discussed, now
It has come the imagination almost
at going beyond tho event. Epoch
ng history is now compressed Into
undingly narrow time dimensions. The
iflcance of a few hours today is equal
f;the import of a decade under the old
Jglixough the smoke and conflagration of
Diving monarchy, however, Germany
LJb discerned in utter Isolation. How
RtjAk wiH strive to maintain that posl-
I'la dependent solely on the extent of
r jiurbllndnejs.
mf -
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.! m-" ""'? b v "t orrawoM js sum-
ruu to make every subject of her
empire a bluer ender.
-'fa ENGLAND'S OWN GLORY
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J9 lnpirlngly typical of Britain that
ber tragic error of Galllpoll she
I nave grappled with the Turk slngle-
and completely crushed him. On
i active war fronts of late, save those
I'tb Ottoman empire, lnte 'national
fttlon has been developed. The
,'were partners in Ilussla, Siberia,
jrFrance, Flanders, Greece and Cerbia.
i Knalish and colonial Troops virtually
l'narched" to victory through the
,'jM Mesopotamia and the hills of
Tne record of resolution, of
ivor to retrieve the blunders
d-Amara. and the Dardanelles
of the most striking in
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NEXT TUESDAY'S ELECTION
Wljst' It Means to the People of Penmjl
vanla Tlie Issues ami the Candidates
"M'EXT Tuesday's election Is far more
important to the people of Pennsyl
vania than tho dullness of the campaign
just closing indicates. Overshadowed in
interest as Stnte and local affairs hnvo
been by tho intensity of war activities,
including tho fourth Liberty I.onn sale
during the last month, which in normal
times would have been the liveliest
period of the political drive, there arc
still several points at stake which are
deserving of attention by every citizen
wlrt. wishes to vote intelligently.
Besides choosing a Governor, Lieuten
ant Governor nnd Sccretnry of Internal
Affairs, the State will elect two Justices
of tho Supreme Court, one Judge of the
Superior Court, thiity-six members of
the national House of Repiesentutivcs,
half the membership of the State Sen
ate, the complete mombctship of the
State House of Representatives and
approve of disapprove of two amend
ments to the State Constitution. More
over, tho Legislature to be selected will
pass uponthe prohibition amendment to
the national Constitution and perhaps
one extending sufTi age to women.
So fur as concerns tho executive places
in the State government, the citizen who
has tho welfare of Pennsylvania sin
cerely in mind need have no hesitation
in voting the straight Republican ticket
headed by William C. Sproul for Gov
ernor. Compared with it, the Democratic
ticket is a fantastic thing of shreds and
patches, fearfully and wonderfully put
together.
Against Senator Sproul stands Mu
nicipal Judge Bonniwell, whose candi
dacy actually was repudiated by a large
element in the Democratic party.
Whereas Senator Sproul has repeatedly
declared his purpose to aid in the adop
tion of the prohibition amendment,
Judgs Bonniwell stands for tho whisky
ring. So the issue here is squarely
joined. But this is not by any means the
paramount issue, as Judge Bonniwell
seeks to make it. It is unfortunate that
it should have been an issue at all, for
there are others more vital.
Comparison of the equipment of these
two leading candidates for the Governor
ship leaves the. balance decidedly in
Senator Sprout's favor. His long ex
perience in legislative affaiis at Harris
burg, his successful career as a sound
business man, his wide acquaintance
among the people of the State and above
all his carefully ripened judgment and
lestrained temperament are much more
likely to impress the voters favorably
than those attributes of his opponent
which have been most conspicuously
present in his public appearances, es
pecially the fact that, although seated
on the judicial bench, where impartiality
is the prime essential, he has never
ceased to engage at the same time in
partisan political controversy of a rank
and grossly offensive character.
As to the other executive offices, they
will probably stand or fall with the heads
of the tickets. Mr. Beidleman, running
for Lieutenant Governor on the Repub
lican ticket, is a skillful politician, with
much experience in the Legislature.
Former Congressman Logue, the Demo
cratic nominee, is wholly out of sympa
thy with Judge Bonniwell on the liquor
issue, having been interested for many
years in the temperance movement. His
selection in the same primary is one of
the freaks of that election. Mr. Wood
ward, Republican candidate for Secre
tary of Internal Affairs an office now
wholly superfluous and one that ought
to be abolished is a former Republican
floor leader in the Legislature. Mr.
Johnson, his Democratic opponent, is
probably equally competent to fill tho
duties of the office, such as they are.
Regarding the election of members of
the Legislature, the situation is more
difficult. Here factional selfishness is so
prevalent among the nominees of both
the Republican and Democratic parties
that it should be the duty of the voter in
every district to inquire closely into the
affiliations of the nominees before going
to the polls. Generally speaking, where
a candidate has respectability, a fair
degree of intelligence and common sense
and a desire to do the right thing, that is
about all that can be expected. In the
general run these nominees are far from
touching the standard that should pre
vail. In too many cases they have been
selected because they stand for one fac
tion or another within their parties and
not for individual merit, The best that
can be hoped is that their neighbors will
try to view their qualifications apart
from their factionalism and send the
man best fitted for the highly important
but too often slighted work of passing
the laws of tho Commonwealth. It is
always difficult to arouse Interest in the
selection of nominees for the Legislature
at a primary held six months before the
general election. Hence the political
leaders who work at these matters 365
days a year are the real censors of the
qualifications of members and they
usually make a very bad job of it indeed
from the viewpoint of the public interest
In Philadelphia the voters ought par
ticularly to be sure that they send men
imbued with the idea that the city should
get a complete reform of its charter
through a larger measure of self-government.
If necessary to secure It, they
should be ready to fight for the calling
of a constitutional convention to revise
thjat exceedingly out-of-date document.
Had President Wilson not injected
partisanship into the congressional elec
tion it might have been possible to say
that changes in the personnel of certain
exactly calamitous. But, unfortunately,
the President has made it entirely a par
tisan issue and as such the voters must
view it.
Pennsylvania is a Republican State.
Its people believe in Republican princi
ples, which are best suited to protecting
ftnd fostering the huge industries that
have made our people, among the most
prosperous and contented in the country.
Even if every one of the thirty-six seats
were filled by n Republican, which is not
likely, tho result could not be viewed as
having any direct bearing upon the for
eign relations of tho nntion, but only as
nn expression of determination to have
an nuthoritntlvo voice in the solution of
'those grrnt problems of domestic con
cern which will arise immediately peace
Is declared. The people of Pennsylvania
are patriotic to the core. In no other
State m the Union have they made
greater sacrifices of their blood or done
more industrially to back up the Fed
eral Government in the prosecution of
the war to victory.
But the people of Pennsylvania do not
intend to have their prosperity im
periled by the fanatical and provincial
dictation of n crass sectionalism such as
now rules in Congress. We mean the
South with its Kitchins, Dents and
others like thorn. So wo believe that the
more Republicans elected from Pennsyl
vania, piovidcd they are patriotically
loyal to the winning of the war, the bet
ter it will be for Pennsylvania and the
country as a whole. Every Philadel
phian will have tho opportunity to vote
for four Congressmen-at-large and one
from each of the six Philadelphia dis
tricts. Tho nominees for the judgeships will
appear on a separate nonpartisan ballot.
There are nine names presented for tho
Supreme Court. Each voter may vote
for one, although two are to be elected.
The present incumbents by gubema
toiial appointment to fill vacancies are
Alexander Simpson, Jr., of this city, and
Edward J. Fox, of Easton. It is to be
hoped that both will be elected.
Justice Simpson, who is a Republican,
is fully qualified by long practice and
distinguished ability at the bar for his
place. His thoiough knowledge of the
law in all its branches, and especially
his familiarity with Philadelphia mu
nicipal law and the accompanying prob
lems, make him most desirable. He has
the indorsement of leading members of
the bar and partisan or factional con
siderations should not be involved.
Justice Fox, who is a Democrat, is in
a somewhat similar position. He is a
lawyer of unquestionable technical fit
ness, well and favorably known in the
northeastern part of tho State and wor
thy of nonpartisan support which shall
insure his election. The Constitution by
its provision restricting the right of the
voter to one choice where two vacancies
are to be filled undoubtedly contemplates
that the Supreme Court shall not be
made up of justices holding the same
political convictions, even though the
Legislature saw fit to take their nomi
nation out of the line of party action as
such. Justice Fox's election will serve
to preserve this minority representation,
as he succeeded Justice Mestrezat, a
Democrat.
For the Superior Court the choice is
easy. Judge William D. Porter should
be elected in accordance with the tradi
tion that competent jurists are to be
retained. Ho has had a useful and wor
thy career of many years in this court.
Of the two proposed amendments to
the State Constitution, the first should
be approved and the second defeated.
The first will allow the State to float
bonds to the amount of fifty million dol
lars for the improvement of the State
roads. The rural districts are being
urged by the granges to defeat this
amendment as they did several years
ago, but the arguments used are too nar
row and prejudiced to prevail with pro
gressive people. The State's highways
are deplorably behind those of many
other States. But to bring them at once
up to a standard where they may be
maintained in first-class condition per
manently will require the expenditure of
many millions. This should be done by
bond issue, since future generations will
benefit by the work as well as the pres
ent. It is impossible to allot enough
money out of the State's current reve
nues to undertake the work on tho scale
needed without increasing taxes at a
time when the Federal Government has
drained the resources of the people
heavily. Once the foundational work
were done on the highways, it would be
easy to maintain them out of current
. revenues.
The second resolution that changing
the debt limitations of this city we dis
cussed in detail yesterday. Sufficient to
repeat that it can be desired only in the
interests of greedy municipal contractors
who would divert funds needed for rapid
transit and port improvements to gen
eral uses.
Count Stephen Tlsza,
Nemnl. In the who perverted the
Brat of Form noble patrlotlo Ideals
of his father, Kalman,
Into the sheer Junkerlsm whose tenets he fol
lowed sb one of the prime factors In provok
ing the war, once boasted that Austria would
fight, If necessary, "all the devils of the
world." Before his assassination on the
streets of Budapest yesterday he had seen
the refutation of every one of his contemptu
ous boasts. It la consoling that his taking
off was sufficiently postponed, just as It
seems fitting that he pay the penalty In the
hour of utter disillusionment.
A good many thrones
With Th.tr Owners are sure to be vacated
In AiUndsac.T In "Europe. Tkviwas
are net
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SINCE YOU INSIST
On Doom
(TIHE opening and closing of doors are
- tho most significant actions of man's
life. What a mystery lies In doers!
No man knows what awaits him when
ho opens a door, Even the most familiar
room, where tho clock ticks and the heArth
glows red at dusk, may harbor surprises.
The plumber may actually have called
(whllo ou wore out) and fixed that leak
ing faucet. The cook may have had a fit
of tho vapors nnd demanded her passports.
Tho wise man opens his front door with
humility and aplrit of acceptance.
i men ono or us lias not sat in some
anteroom and watched tho Inscrutable
panels of a door that was full of mean
ing? Perhaps you wcro watting to apply
for a Job; perhaps you had some "deal"
you were ambitious to put over. You
watched the confidential stenographer flit
In and out, carelessly turning that mystic
poilal which, to ou, revolved on hinges of
fate. And then the young woman said,
"Mr. Cranberry wilt seo you now." As
you grasped the knob tho thought flashed,
"When I open this door again, what will
have happened?"
fTIHURG are many kinds of doors. Re-
olving doors for hotels, shops and pub
lic buildings. These are typical of the
brisk, bustling ways of modern life. Can
you iniaglno John Milton or William Penn
skipping through a revolving door? Then
thero are tho curious little slatted doors
that swing outside barrooms and extend
only from shoulder to knee. There are
trapdoors, sliding doors, double doors, stage
doors, prison doors, glass doors. But the
symbol and mystery of a door resides In
its quality of concealment. A glass door
is not a doorVit all, but a window. The
meaning of a door Is to hide what lies
Inside; to keep the heart In suspense.
A LSO, there are many ways of opening
doors. There Is the cheery push of
elbow with which tho waiter shoves open
tho kitchen door when ho bears in your
tray of supper. There Is the suspicious
and tentative withdrawal of a door before
tho unhappy book agent or peddler. There
is the genteel and carefully modulated re
cession with which footmen swing wide
the oaken barriers of the great. There is
the sympathetic and awful silence of the
dentlbt's maid who opens the door Into the
operating room and, without speaking,
implies that the doctor is ready for you.
There is the brisk cataclysmic opening of
a door when the nurse comes In, very early
In the morning "It's -a boy!"
T"OORS are tho symbol of privacy, or re--'treat,
of the mind's escape Into blissful
quletudo or sad secret struggle. A room
without doors is not a room, but a hallway.
No matter where he Is, a man can make
himself at home behind a closed door. The
mind works best behind closed doors. Men
are not horses to be herded together. Dogs
know the meaning and anguish of doors.
Have you over noticed a puppy yearning
at a shut portal? It is a bymbol of human
life.
THE opening of doors Is a mystic act:
it llflH 111 it Knme flnvni nf tVio iink-rimim
some sense of moving into a new moment,
a new pattern of the human rigmarole.
It includes the highest glimpses of mortal
gladness: reunions, reconciliations, the
bliss of lovers long parted. Even in sad
ness, the opening of a door may bring
relief: it changes and redistributes human
forceb. But the closing of doors is far
more terrible. It is a confession of finality.
Every door closed brings something to an
end. And thero are degrees of. sadness In
the closing of doors. A door slammed, is
a confession of weakness. A door gently
shut' Is often the most tragic gesture In
life. Every one knows tho seizure of
anguish that comes Just after the closing
of a door, when the loved one is still near,
within sound of voice, and yet already far
away.
THE opening and closing of doors is a
part of the stern fluency of life. Life
will not stay still and let us alone. We
are continually, opening doors with hope,
closing them with despair. Life lasts not
much longer than a pipe of tobacco, and
destiny knocks us out like the ashes.
The closing of a door Is irrevocable. It
snaps the packthread ot the heart. It Is
no avail to reopen, to go back. Plnero
spoke nonsense (but, as usual, brilliant
nonsense) when he made Paula Tanqueray
say, "Tho future is only the past entered
through another gate." Alas, there is no
other gate. When the door Is shut, It Is
shut forever. There Is no other entrance
to that vanished pulse of time. "The
moving finger writes, and having writ"
.
THERE Is a certain kind of door-shutting
that will come to us all. The kind
of door-shutting that is done very quietly,
with the sharp click of the latch to break
the stillness. They will think then, one
hopes, of our unfulfilled decencies rather
than of our pluperfected misdemeanors.
Then they will go out and close the door.
Skip This
The only lasting bays that Wllhelm will
get out of the war will be the baize where
the Versailles council Is sitting.
Where They Bit
Turkey signed the armistice on the
island of Lemmons. New York Herald.
Clvllianlsm will no longer be the
greatest crime In Germany. And the
Kaiser has not only lost the Letts, but also
his epaulettes.
The Punktn-Pie Wrangle
Dear Socrates Who's the Narberth sage
who thinks he knows something of the
difference between squash and pumpkin
pie? Tell him he's In the kindergarten
class that he should go to school under
any New England fanner.
One thing is sure; pumpkin pie in New
England is not made out of sweet po
tatoes! NORTH OF BOSTON,
Not Adhetive
I never stick, and so I get
No raises from the boss.
I'm glad I am a rolling atone,
I never cared for moss!
ARCTNO.
The Kaiser is spending this week-end at
the general staff headquarters,, ft
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WHAT A CONGRESSMAN SEES
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Semitveckly Letter Touching on the Washington Doings of Personalities
Familiar to PhiladvlpJiians
By J. Hampton Moore
Washington, D. C, Nov. 2.
"JO, GENTLE reader, Browns-Mills-ln-
the-Plnes was not named after Wil
liam J. Browning, of Camden, Its most
distinguished congressional sojourner. Mr.
Browning set up his summer home there
back In the days when Colonel George
Pfelffer, Jr., was the whole show, except
for the celebrated "duck farm" that rivaled
him as an attraction. Those were the days
when BUI Browning was chief clerk of the
House of Representatives and Harry Lou
denslager, of Paulsboro, was the Represen
tative of the First New Jersey District.
Bill went In with the Keelys and the
Griscoms and the other old-time frequent
ers of the Jersey pines before the present
globe-trotting postmaster, W. C. Hargroves,
had become "the big stick" down there.
And now Browning has 'brought a new
distinction to the place. Not only did he
succeed Loudenslager on the. Naval Affairs
Committee, but he has specialized on that
work until he is next in service to Tom
Butler, of Pennsylvania, the ranking Re
publican. His recent tour of the European
battlefields with other members of the
committee has made him one of the war
experts of the House. Moreover, th.e Re
publican campaign committee Is quoting
"the Browning motion to recommit," a step
taken by Republicans In the battleship
'program, to show that Democrats led the
movement In opposition to a big navy
when "preparedness" was In its Incipient
stages.
SPEAKING of the navy, It may not be
pleasant news to Philadelphlans that
Secretary Daniels has actually made the
so-called "Frogyllollow Gang" a thing of
record, This term does' not Justly belong
to Philadelphia, being a New York impor
tation, but nevertheless the Navy Depart
ment has taken official cognizance of It
and the term Is likely to stick, just as
"Hog Island" is likely to stick, only for
different reasons. Some time ago it devel
oped that the Navy Department was re
leasing from the naval reserve a number
of young men from the river wards who
had been taken into the service. Inquiry
was instituted concerning these discharges,
and for a time it was difficult to ascertain
the ground for them. Finally the Secre
tary came out flatly with the statement
that the young men were connected with
the "Frog Hollow Gang" and the naval re
serve was(no place for them. He said he
had made careful Investigation and that
no discharged man had been dealt with
unjustly.
THEY tried to beat Elijah C. Hutchinson
for renomlnatlon for Congress from the
Fourth New Jersey District, which Includes
Trenton; but they fell down, Just as did
the opposition to Heqry W, Watson, who
represents the Pennsylvania, district across
the Delaware. Watson knew he had oppo
sition at the primaries and went Into the
fight knowing he had to fight. Hutchinson,
on the other hand, was surprised by an
unexpected Republican candidacy, which
gave him mora trouble than he expected.
The primaries over, however, it Jjtnow
expected that Watson and Hutchinson will
pull through at the election, notwithstand
ing each has strong DemocratlctfppotUon.
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Is Interested in fertilizer nnd keeps In close
touch with the agricultuial situation, being
a member of the Committee on Agriculture
in the Houbc.
T5ED CROSS war work has become of
' such far-reaching importance in the
great war in Europe that the publication,
by the Columbia Historical Society of
"Clara Bartpn, Humanitarian," an affec
tionate sketch prepared by Mrs. C. Bacon
Foster, a native of Texas who died recently
in Washington, is appropriate and helpful.
Mrs. Bacon-Foster, whose last work was
brought forward under direction of her
daughter, Violet Bacon-Foster, had taken
a deep interest in Clara Barton, a native
of Massachusetts, and after a careful study
of her character and work had placed her
"first on the long roll of America's great
women." Her argument was based chiefly
upon Clara Barton's extraordinary services
during the Civil War and 'her persistence
In organizing the American Red Cross, an
understanding of which she seems to have
acquired in Switzerland and Germany dur
ing the Franco-Prussian War. To Phila
delphia nurses who remember Clara Bar
ton or who have tieen influenced by her
work It will be interesting to note, as Mrs.
Bacon-Foster discloses, that many of her
early struggles were fought out nearby.
After leaving Massachusetts she taught
school at Hlghtstown, N. J. Then, accord
ing to Mrs. Bacon-Foster, she went over
to Bordentown and started in where there
was "a deplorable lack of public schools"
with "six notoriously bad boys of the
town," whom she succeeded In "taming,"
As the result of her labors "the little city
decided to provide a reputable building,"
and "In the fall th"e school opened with 600
pupils." All this, It Is explained, was "be
fore the o,ra of free textbooks." The ac
quaintances formed In these nearby places
seem to have figured In all of Clara Bar
ton's subsequent war work In America and
Europe and after she toured the country
as a lecturer.
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GEORGE P. DARROW, of Germantown,
who represents the Sixth District in
Congress,, having succeeded J, Washington
Logue, who was elected at a time the
Republicans were on bad terms with each
other, has a fine-looking boy who wants
to figure in the war. The trouble with the
young man was that he was only seven
teen years of age. He was offered a place
at Annapolis, but declined, on the ground
that It would take too long to get into the
service In that way. The Navy Depart
ment offered to put him on a ship to photo
graph wrecks and maritime operations In
northern waters, but he thought that too
tame. At last it has been arranged to give
the boy a chance, a place having been
found for him In the Yale naval unit.
Friends of Potter 'his name is George
Potter Darrow predict that this young
'man will be heard from before the war
in over, , ,
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MANY of our Philadelphia farmers are
appealing to Washington for .relief In
the matter of farm labor. Some of them
have places in New Jersey and Pennsyi.
vanla which they say it will not be profl.
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quality" of the labor being gathered up by
the Government officials, but those who
have not run up against the "unworkables"
contend that the real trouble is In "the
robbing of farms" by the higher wages and
other allurements of Government plants
and munition factories. Richard Campion,
tho wool merchant, has lately undertaken
to do some real farming In Cape May
County, New Jersey. He has 500 acres
under cultivation. He has been having
some lively correspondence with the Gov
ernment labor experts without much Im
mediate prospect of relief. This is the way
Mr. Campion sizes up the situation as it
is now affected by Government control and
distribution. "The kind of farm labor sug-v
gested Is not the kind required to produce
food to feed the aimles. An efficient farm
hand must be as skilled as must a ma
chinist. He must be able to handle a $600 '
pair of horses.an $800 machine or a $2000
tractor. The man picked up suddenly In
the city streets cannot do these things. If
food will win the war,' food must be
produced and to that end the Government
must not onjy not take from, but actually
put on, the farms experienced farm hands.
rpHE fraternallsts who held their big
congress in Philadelphia recently have
1 made good their promise to bring up to
Congress the scheme to facilitate the pay
ment of benefits to the beneficiaries of
those who die In the service. They are
now urging the' passage of a -bill which '
provides for such notice of death by tho
Government as may enable the societies to
make payments to those indicated by tho
soldier or sailor member. It Is claimed
that there are more than 9,000,000 frater
nallsts in the United States of whom
nearly 3,550,000 are under arms.
Despite the report that
Sialic In Wanderland the Kaiser has left
Berlin for German
grand headquarters. It's safe to bet that he
doesn't know where he's going. Bedouin en
campments are no more movable than the
conferenee tdble of the Hun army chiefs,
continually "rectifying their lines" with the
unsolicited iaBslstance of Marshal Foch.
When It tries to run over those fourtsen
polntB there will be every reason In the
world why the Hun monarchy should be re
tired. What Do You Know?
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