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, WJIAT ARE TUFA UP TO NOW?
fpHE attendance at tho open meeting of
tho Chamber or Commetce Committee
on Municipal Affalis on Monday afternoon
Will disclose the extent of the interest of
tlie public In the subject of .-.tint cleaning.
Bids for cleaning the s-trects next your
are to bo opened on' Tupsdn.t . li tins dis
covered late this neck that the specifica
tions! .on which bids ntr a.sUed had liei-n
radically chansed. Instead of lennirlnp
a fl.v'ed number of men and a tlxeil number
of tvagons and Hweepers to lie ueil in each
, district, these masters are to be len In
. the discretion of the bidder who Rets tho
contract. Then. too. the number of srnnrc
yards of pavement to he ileaned every
day is reduced and othei chances have.
been made.
The immediate demand of the Chamber
of Commcrco that the mcanlnff of tho
changes bo publicly explained is wholchomc.
Members of that body are lending business
; wen of tho community. If they decide that
'the government In tho City Hall must be
eftlcieij't and If they take steps to put their
decision into effect, thoro is hope for the
future. The present unsatisfactoty condi
tions havo prevailed because of the indif
ference 'of those whose influence is power
ful enough to bring about their improve
ment. The first thing to be done is to llnd out
what the new street cleaning specifications
mean. Mayor 'Smith. Director Datesirtati
and Chief Hicks should be present Monday
to jcxplaln. We await the outcome with
jome curiosity.
Now more than eer is the lime lo Ik
HwarOof bogus counts. They may be cm
.JJfofs In disguise.
A VETERAN OF THE &EAS
INVESTIGATION of a brief dispatch
from far away Chile reveals the con
soling ' truth' that tho construction of
staUncd and splendid ships along the
Delaware is no mere experimental nnelty.
A fire on November 13 in the nitrate port
of IqulqUo spread to the vessels in tho
harbor and tho steamer Pennsylvania was
burned to the water's edge.
Tlrne was when tho Pennsyhania was
one of tho crack liners of a transatlantic
fleet flying the American flag. Her sisters
were the Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, ail built
In Philadelphia in 1874. For years they
plied .with clockwork regularity between
this port and Liverpool.
Ship styles changed and the famous
"stated quartet drifted into .ther services.
Borne of them saw Spanish war service as
transport!. Outmoded in many ways thoj
were; but indestructible to a degree which
ijfe- A theannals of few vessels can parallel.
unique longevity laurels fell lo the
'Pennsylvania. At the age of forty-flip she
ceases to exist, not because of perils of
the. deep, but on account of a catastrophe
cn'-shore.
There Is a stirring ocean epic, material
for a Conrad or a McFee in the career of
tho doughty and venerable Pennsylvania.
There, is inspiration too, for our vast con
struction operations of the moment. Xot
only cah Philadelphia make stout ships
today, but she always could. The faculty
Is part of tho city's industrial personality.
What does tho Recreation Board mint
with another press agent?- The Mayor has
ectired more publicity for It in the last
three months than it lus had In all the
.previous years of Its existence.
' GIBUS'S LAST WAR MESSAGE
T.WAU has. como to an end, so also must
war-correspondents. There is a moving
polgnance in tho closing words of Philip
Gibbs's dispatch which we published the
ether day,
There will be no flash of gunfire in
the sSy tonight. Tho fires of hell havo
been put out. and I have written mv lai
JWjHssessaso aa war correspondent, thank
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VJ,. We. can rejoice with Mr. Glbbs that his
Jeart-rcndlrig task of writing about war
nAlaaif-bcen brought to an end. The eenr.
fe 'tMXlMSliaH chronicled ever since tho days
lgor'the Old Contemptibles, while full of
!-r.M? all '-thft thmhhlni? emnllnn Hia, ...,
JCapr, fittman fibera to their highest honor, were
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ivvvHco auii vl utici jicbb una, iiurror tnat
'L&TJ&niit) the soul with weariness and anguish.
9)roUKhout the terrible course of the war
f We "dispatches have been marked by the
A,Vi1w at compassion, of gentleness, of
E- hjujwnympathy and discernment into the
.sr-Hupwsen ncJiris ot men. we, ana we also
- ' twive our1 readers, are glad that he is
'.eai'ryiajn a a peace cflmnpcndent dur-
iisitho shining days of "complete restltu-
Me," 'full (reparation and effectual guaran-
taXN,1 and that the pencil which played so
gilhtnt a part In the burden an1, heat will
,-,hve iia share in the amazing drama of
ilonate retribution that now holds
wrvlces iri this war have been
: and to .the profession
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B"-W-A.
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AMERICA AT THE PEACE TABLE
We May Exercise in the Final Councils of
llic War an Influciirc as (ircat as Tlmt
Which We Exertetl in the 1 ielil
A T THE moment when the guns ceased
their uproar in Europe statesmen
everywhere found themselves suddenly
confronted with new and unexpected
forces that yet mny try their souls ns
terribly ns German militarism ever did.
Omens of unrest are everywhere in
Europe. Even in the nations that have
been victorious there is a disposition to
scrutinize and question the motives of
Gorernmcnts, Pain has made the peo
ples acutely sensitive.
In the news from Germany and Aus
tria and the Netherlands and Sweden,
ns iell as in temperamental i dictions
throughout the rest of Europe, there are
implications of a distrust of many of the
codes and practices heretofore accepted
without question as normal and inev
itable. It is idle and perilous to deny that the
war has roused and liberated new im
pulses of immeasuinhlo energy beneath
the social fabric of the Old World. The
lendcis of European civilization aie
actually on trial. They will be required
within the neit six months to define
anew the ends and aims of nationality,
to reveal the inspiration of their earlier
policies and to justify the political prin
ciples that have kept nations in arms
.igainst each other for centuries, and
above all to give practical assurances of
their ability to set up a sort of system
that will make new wars impossible.
TI.OYI) GEORGE when he said in
--'Paiis a day or two ago that Germany
must be fed and aided and that hate is
out of fashion was not moved by any new
sense of altruism alone. Me knew thnt
the peoples of Europe are sick of hatiiip;
each other and that they me seeking
now to uncover and destroy the agencies
thr.t made their unnatural enmity un
avoidable. He knew, too, that it is not
the fate of nations that is in the bal
ance now, but the fate of the existing
order all over the continent. He wants
pence not only in the field but in tho
minds of the people. He knows that
hunger and disorder cannot help to that
sort of peace.
In the Netherlands, immediately
the former Kaiser of Germany had set
tled himself comfortably after his flight,
there was a new rcstivencss among the
radicals. The ominous "soldiers and
workmen's council" appeared in the news
from the Netherlands. Here was a vivid
suggestion of the force of the popular
resentment sure to be visited upon any
one or any group that seems hereafter to
be associated with the powers of evil in
government.
It is altogether likely that a revolution
of public opinion will occur in any coun
try where William Ilohenzollcrn is har
bored and that the presence of the for
mer war lord might finally be the inspi
ration of revolution far more destructive.
So it must be in lesser ways with any
of those, who are known to have brought
the war about and any others who may
be suspected of a willingness to foment
new national hatreds and rivalries in the
future.
To statesmen at the coming peace
conference will fall the task of answer
ing and convincing the doubting, the pas
sionate, the disillusioned and the rebel
lious in the various countries that have
endured the suffering of the worst of all
wars. The time is one of self-questioning
in every European government. For
tunately for mankind, the American
policy has been directed from tho begin
ning with an almost prophetic insight.
The overwrought masses of Europe can
fling no accusing questions at us. Our
motives were clearly expressed. They
arc clearly understood. Our great serv
ice was not .only in the field. We have
done something even greater by demon
strating tho validity of the theory of
free government in proving its unselfish
ness and its idealism. For that reason
alone American influence at the peace
conference will be as great an nid to
harassed European statesmen as our
armies were to the fighting men who
preceded them in France.
Mr. Wilson may surprise the country
by going to Europe to attend the ses
sions of the conference. It is not diffi
cult to understand why the heads of
Allied Governments are eager to have
him do so. The President of the United
States sitting at the peace table might
be expected to exercise a steadying in
fluence on the opinion of all Europe. He
would be an answer to the radicals who
insist that none of the Governments
which participated in tho conditions
leading up to the war can be wholly
trusted.
How would you like a peace commission
composed of Secretary Lansing, Colonel
House, ISIlhti Root and Supreme Court Jus
tice Brandcis? They aro suggesting theso
men In Washington in order to learn what
Is thought of them elsewhere.
THE ENGLISH ELECTION
T)OTH Conservative and Liberal sup--'
porters of the present coalition Gov
ernment in Great Britain arc agreed on the
necessity of its continuance after the
parliamentary election to be held on
December 14.
The Conservatives and Liberals believe
in the .established social order. They feur
the Labor party, which has a program for
social and industrial reconstruction that is
frankly socialistic. If the believers In tho
established order right each other there Is
a possibility that the Labor party may
carry Parliament and that Arthur Hender
son, or some other radical wilt be Premier.
No one knows at the present time what
effect the Bolshevism of Russia and the
apparently triumphant Socialism of Ger
many have had on the sentiment of the
British voters. No one knows Just how
the clsb.t million women who have been
HfraRchlsed will vote The uncertainty
is bound to hold tho two old parties to
gether. Llo.id Geoige Is n skillful politician and
he has already begun to bid for the Labor
lote by laying down a program of social
and Industrial reform which he hopes will
keep the Llberul voters in line. Tho Con
servatives Hill lint desett lo the. Radicals
and can be counted on by the coalition
mlnlstr.i .
Mill ihi-re he a pleasant llla nml 1 f
of cum- nit tilling Leon Trotsky it hen he lleen
Itusaia .'
SQFEAI.ERS!
rpHK icpoiled changes In Hie (leiinan
J- Ihig seem lo have been meiely superll
cial. Yellow streHliH still sear the new
Maudaid ns they did the old. They are
glaringly evident in the repeated and char
aeteristleallf treacherous attempts to ni.ir
the effeitue execution of the arniiMii.e
terms. j
Adtnlial Hipper, chief (if the high seas
fnice. Iuh the impudence to ,-eck it ills
pulsion of a solemnly negotiated agreement
it ith Hrltlsli Admiralty representatlies.
Subversive, however, us tills brazen pin
lect is of honorable regard for the -spirit
of a sealed pledge. It pales before the n.iti
Veating moral obliquity of the messages
addressed ti Mrs. Woodlow Wilson ami
.lane Addnuii respect l ely by members oi
the National Council of the Women of
Germany.
l-'or Milielins iiiideihnud gall, these pi e
clous epistles itoiiid he hard to heat. Willi
palpable noeoiH'e tearfulness they plead
for the retention by Germany of her r.nl
iiai rolling stock as a means of saving Hie
lain! fioni .starvation.
Insidious Hun piopagamla, of which a' I
i itllization has had a sickening surfeit lor
mole than four .eais. is hcie at noik
again. Fortunately the purport of these
craven laments i not In the least illusory.
They neie designed to nullify one of the
most Important terms of the armistice
the siiriendcr of a specified quantity of
railway equipment, nearly all of which lias
orlginnllv Kiench.
At the mere concept of i pluming stolen
j;oods the Hun instinctively squeals. In
the piist iihrn his aircraft were staling
schoolchildren and his submarines were
niurdermc innocent travelers on the hiu'ii
seas, he bawled and blustered simultane
ously in his efforts to wriggle out of the
blockade eventually so powerful nil agent
of his deserved humiliation. Physically dis
armed tortas. he invokes his sole remaining
weapon sentimental twaddle. Fully a wain
that contemporaneously with his surrender
an inevitable nave of human simpathy for
the fallen swept over his foes, he has been
prompt to seek its utmost capitalization.
This pitiful plot will fail, of course. The
.sano world devoutly hopes that Germain
will some day be an honest a civilizing
and a' sincerely freedom-loving nation or
group of nations. AVitb this end in view,
no spirit of wanton vindlctiveness was per
mitted to mar the armistice. Few docu
ments so just uere ever framed by victors.
The magnanimity of the present plan to
feed a sin-stained foe is without precedent.
In the face of these facts the letters of
Gertrude l'.aeumer, Alice Salomon and
Anita Augsburg aie incomparably dis
gusting. The led Mag of a Kalseiless realm must
be purged of ellow before rational human
ity can respect it.
if the Allied nations
Another Mntemrnt an- (ontent to let
of the Obrlous William Hohenzollctii
reside at Corfu the
world might as well prepare lo defend itself
it heii Corfu gets leadj to try for u conquest
of the world.
Although the noids of
One-Sided I, lee "La Rrabaticonno,"
wilh which national
anthem the Hclgiana marched into their
home country, were written by .leniieval. a
comedian, the Huns fall to see any Joke In
that performance.
.Judging by the pro
tests in Germany oier
tho armistice leimi.
Mrike. Adenl
Ton!
lhat country Is having
her base, haul .season in November, and she's
not enjoying it, In the least.
The fact that Warsaw
Tut, Tul! really saw n lot of
war In the past sug
gests that a Pole has unusual reasons for
being proud of his (lag. ,
"Home. Quick, Home,'
army's new ersion.
has become the
One thing fell faster than the Kaiser.
That was stock in tin- Krupp corporation.
And in the end the route only lay from
llerlln to Uentlnck.
The theory of the liolshevlkl is simple
enough. They hold. In (ITect. that every ip
dividual should declare himself a republic.
Governor-elect Sproul seems to be dis
posed to decide for himself with whom and
when he will dUcufs the policy, of his admin
Istratlon. Relatively speaking, war Is short and
marriage long. Some near-draftees who
rushed lo tho altar hale now a clmnca to
analyze that reflection.
It seems to have been a case of "skip
stop and a bump," now that Coroner Knight
has requested an abandonment of the P. It.
T.'s conservation scheme.
After all, why doesn't the ex-Kaiser
retlro to his palatial villa on Corfu? The
Serbians are In control there. They'd be
delighted to see him.
The Socialists In Chicago who celebrated
tho fall of the Kaiser might have put a
little more lite mto the business If they had
eier done anything to help with the Job,
All those bombing planes that have been
left over from tha war might be sent out to
drop their terrible explosives pn the chaps
who borrow your matches and forget to
return them.
So much of the war was fought over
bridgeheads that toe prospect of harmony In
Philadelphia concerning the terminus of the
waterlei ruW to Camden, seems .far, frpm
bricht.
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HIDE AND SEEK
The Kaiser's Lease
WH&WttmtntWLitntMtti)
that Godiud flentlnek, of Amcrongcn,
Flrccht, Netherlands', does hereby let unto
William llohenzollern, formerly of Pots
dam and latletly of uncertain lesldence, n
messuage and private park and burial plot
known as Chateau Boche Napoo near
Amerongen. screened from the highway by
evergiecns and hedges, but immunity from
gunshot not guaranteed.
The lent agreed upon by the two con
tracting patties is to bo paid dally In ad
vance. The lessee is to, pay all bills for gas con
sumed on these premises; is to provide
his own hot water save In so far as same
is provided for him by the United States
and Govei nnients associated therewith. The
lesseo agrees that he will not assign this
lease nor underlet said premises or use or
occupy the same other than ns a private
duelling for the cultivation of lemorsc,
conscience and solitary '..roodlng.
The let-see agrees that during the term
of his oempancy he will keep said prein
ises in good condition, order and repair;
will lemoie therefrom or uutsp to he re
moied any and all ashes, rubbish, irown
princes, members' of the Grea General Stuff
and other refuse, and at the termination
of said term will deliver up the said picm-i-ps
in as good condition, order and repair
us the same now are. the unavoidable ills
si aie and unhallowed association of Ins
tenainy excepted. The lessee or his heirs
shall be held responsible' for ntfy damage
iIoiip lo the premises by sniping, bombs,
air raids and rotten-egg bairagc directed
against the lessee.
And It Is further agieed. that If the rent
sIihII at any time be in ai rears and un
paid, or If the lessee should not well and
truly perform nnv of the covenants herein
(ontained. or If the associated nations
should tn'-j a fancy to the lessee's com
pany and desire his presence at any legal
proceedings, then this lease shall cense
and absolutely determine, and the lessor
may obtain an amicable action in eject
ment to which the lessee may oppose no
appeal or stay of execution. In such case
Hie lessor may recover possession of (he
demised premises and the associated na
tions shall have possession of the demised
lessee.
It Is expressly agreed that the burin)
plot on said premises is only lo be used
for emergency interments such as may be
contemplated by the lessee or on his behalf
by the associated nations.
MWlitncsSfiWawcoi
the said
p a rtics
have hereunto set their hands and seals:
GODARD BI3NTINCK,
WILLIAM IIOHEN550LLHRN.
A Swine Song
'What do jou think of -this terilhlp situ
ation'.' What Schwelnerel !" The Kaiser to
Count RCntlnck.
"What pigglshnessl 1'ngiiucfiil swine
Those German folk," the ICalscr cries
"If Hlndenburg would hold the Rhino
I'd whip them back into their sties."
"My boy" (Count Uentlnck makes leply),
"The sty they hate is dynast."
Education
When upon metaphysics I took my llrsl
slant,
My tools none loo It enchant, my brain
none too rifle.
To solve but a footnote of Hegel or Kant
Kxhau'tcd the Juice of a corpulent pipe.
Addressing n y spirit, in subsequent jcars,
To depllh the rodomontade of kultur
t managed to cut with my nicotine shears
Comprehension to square with a one-
stogie cure.
Today there's an access of luminous speed
To my brain as the bodies, fondly fatu
ous, sniff
Tho world with new gospels of peace!
and I need
To understand that but one" cigarette
purr.
STANLEY K. WILSON.
When listening to political oratory, don't
take too much for granted. You can take
some of It for ranted.
Language is an unmanageable instru
ment. With tho best intentions, In the
world It Is often hard to say what you
don't mean.
The. Gold Dust Twins
The Potsdam pay envelope presumably
doesn't reach Lenine and Trotzky any
more, but they are said to have ten million
rubles laid away in a bank at the Swiss
capital. Tn other words, they still' havo
money to Berne.
With tho ships flying the red flag, the
last desperate battle staged for the Ger
man high sea fleet seems to ham been
postponed indefinitely.
The Sentence You Will Eientually Unravel
Language, as ue have observed, Is an
unmanageable Instrument. The other day
ue tried tn say something about Sloven
son's mutineers in Treasure Island. This
is the first way the sentence shaped Itself:
Xolody fears Wllhelm nolo niiy more
than they did Hen Ounn on Treasure
Island.
Terrible as this Is, the meaning Is plain:
that nobody feared Ben Gunn, and that we
don't fear the Kplser any more than Ben
Gunn was feared or was not feared or
lot's put It this way, that tho Kaiser Is
no more fearsome than Ben 'Gunn wus;
but heaven help us, wo had all tho lexicog
raphers of the office worked up over that"
sentence In nn effort to make It terse and
grammatical. Here were some of the
efforts: ,
A'obodj fears IVIIiflm nolo any more
than the mutineers feared lien Gunn.
XVilhelm is now not feared equally as the
mutineers didn't fear Sen Gunn.
Nobody fears ivilhelm any more than
the mutineers didn't fear Hen Gunn.
The fear thai nobody felt for Ben Gunn
.is equivalent to the fear that nobody feels
for the Kaiser,
The feat that everybody felt was lack
ing as far as Ben Gunn was concerned is
similar to tho fear that nobody feels for
the Kaiser,
What would you have done?
When there Is actual work to be done,
a benevolent despotism has its points. Wo
can't imagine u Committee of Workmen
and Soldiers editing a newspaper column
and getting It done pn time.
B0CRATE3.
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WHAT A CONGRESSMAN SEES
Scmiivcchly Latter Touching on the Washington Doings oj Personalities
Familiar to Philadelphiais
By J. Hampton Moore
Washington, Nov. HI.
A
N" INKLING of tho President's deslro.
for a Democratic Congress may be
discerned in the haste with which certain
of the "war boards" are beginning to bid
for a continued lease of life. A few days
ago it was announced by Chairman Bar
uch, of the war Industries, hoard, thp big
gest of tho bunch, that the President had
created a special committee to bring about
"adjustments from a war to a peace basis,"
and the impression has grown that this
Is the first step toward having some of
these temporary agencies which Congress
sanctioned for war purposes made perma
nent. It Is well known that such war
boards as tho food administration tinder
Mr. Hoover and the fuel administration
under Dr. Garfield were to run only for
tho period of tho war, but they have taken
on thousands of employes, us have tho
war trade board under Vanco McCormick,
and the alien property bureau under A.
Mitchell Palmer. What is to become of
this great army of civilian officeholders,
most of whom camo from Democratic
States? When an additional $7,500,000 to
pay salaries In the war risk bureau was
asked for before the election, Representa
tive Madden, of Chicago, a Republican,
mado' the declaration that the 14,000
employes of the bureau were tumbling over
themselves and hindering tho e(cicncy
of the allotment'dlstributton. Ho" declared
that 3000 clerks properly organized and
mado to do the work they wcro paid for
would .be an Improvement upon tho pres
ent system.
It is clear that Congress will havo to
continue some of tho President's special
boards for a while after the war, but 'it is
now a reasonable expectation that Repub
lican members will want to know whether
it is necessary ta spend as much money
ns has been demanded In lump sum appro
priations heretofore to keep up the exten
sive personnel that has crowded Washing
ton during the war and mado the living
accommodations hero Intolerable.
T3 KCENT
utterances of the shipping
XV b
board officials may Ilkewlso bo taken in
Hie light of a warning about tho future
of these extraordinary governmental func
tionaries. Messrs. Hurley, Schwab. Ploz
and Coonley nave all been anticipating
what may come with the closo of the war.
Tho shipbuilding that lias been done has
been done with the people's money. Con
gress has been generous In the extreme In
advancing tho vast sums demanded for
shipbuilding and other construction, and
the question now is, How long will tho
treasury be permitted to continue this kind
of financing? Congress, facing the neces
Blty for increased taxes the 18,000,000,000
provided for in the ponding revenue bill
remains to bp collected and additional
loans which must be raised before tho end
of June, 1919 will undoubtedly be freer
now to scrutinize tho estimates and impose
a llmltntlon upon expenditures than here
tofore. The Indications" all point to a per.
iod of governmental retrenchment not n
curtailment of cash necessary for tho
essential work bf readjustment, but a les
sening of bureaucratic power,
S13VERAI7 'ex-I'eppsylvanluns figured In
the ri4in,t elocfloiwpn bl Haw' f,
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ucl W. McCall, Governor of Massachu
setts, who was born in East Providence.
While, it is not stated that he openly
helped to defeat John W. Weeks for re
election to tho' Senate, it cannot he said
that he mourned over the downfall of his
old rival. McCall, who was an intimate
personal friend of the late Congressman
Olmsted, of Harrlsburg, had a long and
distinguished. career in the Houhc, at tho
closo of which ho desired to go to the
Senate, but In this he was outwitted by
Weeks. Following this the two men again
countered in a struggle for control of the
Massachusetts delegation to the last presi
dential convention, and again Weeks won.
The defeated Senator was one of the
strong men on the Republican side p'f tho
chamber. He Is a banker, although he
started out as a midshipman at-Annapoll.s,
where ho was ni. "buddy" of Harry 15,
Wilson, the. Camden boy, who Is now vjco
admiral of the American naval forces In
France.
rnHE new Governor of Arkansas, Charles
-- H. Brough, was In Washington a short
time ago and took pleasure In making it
known that he was of Pennsylvania origin.
Brough Is a Democrat, of course, who
obtained n' foothold In Arkansas aa an
educator. Another Pennsylvanlan who
figured in' the elections but not .so suc
cessfully ns Brough was William B.
Walton, an Altoona boy, who atended
school In South Jersey and eventually
landed In Conferess from New Mexico. In
an erfort to defeat Albert B, Fall, a Re
publican Senator, who attacked the Wilson
administration pn Its Mexican policy,
Walton was trotted out as a candidate
for tho Senate. The President wrote a
letter attacking Fall, but as in the case of
Balrd of New Jersey and Newberry of
Michigan, the White House aim missed
fire.
rpiHB defeat of Senator Saulsbury," of
Doluwnre, and of Representative Polk,
of tho same Slate, removes two stanch
supporters of the Chesapeake and Delaware
Canal project. Tfy'.reaspn of his position na
president pro tom.of tho Senate, Senator
Saulsbury gave material aid to the move
ment, it was in answer to a resolution
offered by him that Secretary Rcdflold, of
the Department of CoVnmerce, mado his
recent gratifying report upon the entire
lntracoastal plan, The condemnation pro
ceedings, pssentlnl to tho taking over ot
the Chesapeake npd Delaware Canal, which
are now held up In the office of tho Federal
District Attorney, Mr. Curley, at Wll
mlngton, were also helped along by tho
Senator. Ah a rulo the Delaware represen
tatives In Congress, whether Democratic
or Republican, have been strong sup
porters of waterways Improvements. Sena
tor'Anthony Htgglns was very active In his
day, but It was dlllicult then to make an
Impression upoh Congress.
ALFRED EDGAR FREEMAN, lawyer,
. scion of the Philadelphia family which
madq the auction business a specialty for
nearly a century, has been making sonle
Interesting discoveries about the food
administration and sugar. 'The manner In
Vhtoh Btigar distribution, has beert tnir
tailed, to th apparent delight ofhot'els and
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restaurants, is no new topic In well-regulated
families that have accustomed them
selves to the abstinence habit. Rumors
that there in plenty ot sugar and that the
restrictive orders of the food administra
tion have been overdone have been floating
about for some time. But we can leave that
to the Franklin Refinery people, to the Mc
Cubans and to George H. Earle, who know
the sugar business. What Edgar Freeman
discovers is that the food administrator,
by cutting down sugar for preserving has
dealt the cranberry industry a severe if not
a disastrous blow. The Fre'emans are
Interested in several bogs in Ocean Codnty,
New Jersey, but the sugar situation, it is
said, is having a bad effect upon tho'cran;
berry market in other parts of Now Jersey
us well as in Massachusetts and Michigan;
To a Baby Reaching for tho
Smoke
"yOL'R gray eyes dance with ecstasy,
A cooing chuckle lifts and purls,
And rose-soft fingers laughingly
Grope as the slow smoke colls npd curls
Out of my pipe. A spiral mist
You reach and close on, gay with hope?
That in youj tiny, tight-locked fist ' ,
It will.stuy captive. Still you grope.
And still it slips, dissolves, eludes,'.
To feathery nothingness and n. neiy
Pillar of grayness sldvvly broods
Up from the pipe's bowl, teasing you, C-
If onpo those roso-sqft fingerj turn
And find a solid goal.' they gain
Only fjie soiling pipe, to burn
m With reddening memories ot pain.
Endlessly so we strain and grope
To roach some coiling, curling wraith ,
That circles near dissolving hope,-
Elusivd truth or slipping faith. , ,
And' If too eagerly wc yearr.
To touch the soul of things jlu.t are,
We find the touch will soil and burn,
And that its memory 1 -a s -r.
' Clement Wood, in Life.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. Who la Peter Troelitra?
2. Of what liurlv la Arthur llenderaon. Iha
llrltlah atutrsmun. one ot the principal
lenders?
3. To. tt hut house doea Oueen IVIIIielnilnrxvof the
.Nrlherlilnila belong? '
1. In whoae 3irealdentl.il administration ru. 'tb
White llouae In Waalilnclon burned?
B. What la un echelon? .
6. What reek nod nan equlrnlent to tha itomon
llncchua?
7. How many moons lma tho planet Saturn?
s. What uro deelduous trcea?
0, What 1 the tulleat of all cranes?
10, What KnalUh Iilnc mthi lurrelr reapnnalble
for the ettubllnlnnrnt ot the Analo-I'reneh '
entente. ,
Answeri to Yesterday' Quiz
1. Wlllielm Dlltmnn U the German minister In
charge of demobilisation.
X. The ternraf the presidency of Iuncs 1 seven
Scorn ,
3, The Napoleonic ivnra lulled from list ta
1815. The aeieral years' prelude of th
trench revolutionary wars, before the
jenlua of Napoleon mm alrlklngly, man)-,
tested. Is. houcver, boniftlmra rrgunleal aa.
part of the same general period of -Karnv
pean strife.
4. Srrnnton la the third largest city In Pennsyl
vania, , ,
B.I Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote the novel, "flats
Venner."
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are nearer to tho sun than the orbit of tho
cunu.
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sea '
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