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Philadelphia, Uedneidav. '.nTcmhrr 20, 1918
THE PRESIDENTS TRIP IIHOI)
HIS Journey to attend the opening
V-' of
the Peace Conference. President
"VVHson will carry with him the high
hopes and unselfish ambitions not onh
of the American people, but of enlightened
mankind throughout the world.
Just as the ex-Kaiser tjpilies all that
Ifbrutal, ureedy and cynical in K0ein
ment, the President tepi events in the mind
of the average man and woman -till Hint
Is broad, generous and Mndl in the l.n kc r
aspect. They look to him to preserxc
those equities and equalities for whkh the
ioclat intelligence has hei-n stiugsllnK out
of the darkness into light fur a century
and a half.
With the world once inoi c at ,i turning
point of civilization, no Mau&man ever
had a greater opportunlt to tiie might
ily and strike boldly for the tilings that
are noble and Idea!. That 1 e -"- tins
opportunity must be the onl explanation
for thus casting aside precedent and risk
ing the perils which ate lnolpd. The
wisdom of his action can bc-t be judged
by Its results
When he sails acioss the Atlantic he
mtjst feel the assuiance that he is followed
by the heartfelt tmpath and good wMies
of a hundred million of his fellow country
men. The old legend thai talk Is clinap i- dis
pelled when Mr. Vare speaks of tliu lwii'.fsid
cost of keeping the streets unclean in I'MU,
. CHILD LAIIOR IN PEACE
TI7E WENT to war for the t lulus of
" small nations. To suppose that ve
nhall be willing to see that same piinciple
Violated in its Infinitely more appealing
relation to children wlio happen to by un
protected is to assume that we weie but
pretenders In a war of right' ousness
The question of child labor in a new
form is one of the countiy's Inheiitatiets
from ,the recent turmoil. In sin States Un
laws enacted previously for the protCLlion
of children in Industry were rela.rd under
the'stfess of emergency needs Regulations
established to restrict the labor of joung
children and to insuie their attendance at
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i i s'lfcir
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st u r'
fk? schools were set aside. Within a ear mans
communities reverted to the liaish Londi-
Ert&iLtlpns of twenty years ago and forgot till
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will uau utrcu irui nvu ui men uunes iu inu
f children in their caie. It is now appaient
that the re-efatablishmcnt of pioteotie
measures is to be fought by some of those
'Who profited by the reverh.il fiom enlight
ened practices and that the old talc of
"efficiency" is to be unfolded to Legislatures
ln 6ther States with a view to discrediting
tews now In force to Insuie the health and
4k, ventral welfare of children of .school age.
Pr it we nave noi eiuneiy nusseu too laiger
f tiisons of the recent war thei e w ill be no
backward movement of laws or of general
opinion in relation to the alwajs signifi
cant question of child labor. We might as
ffell admit that beneath the uniest everj
where in Europe there is a alld objection
to the Ignorant and brutal oppression In
flicted on those who had no means of de
fense. A large part of Europe was de
" graded and dispirited by the sort of dull
disregard for human rights which is often
apparent in America among those who
believe in the exploitation of childien or
profit. Europe Is seeking relief and will
'flnd It. And since any civilized code must
, be judged finally according to Its effect
Upon the race, we cannot fail in our obli
gations to the nation's children unless we
faVr ire wllllncr to have a nlaet? in thi rntm.
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Kinung wie DacKwara nations.
&. Admiral Wemyss was exactly right when
KJi ,he said that the German fleet had only to
U" come out In order to be taken. It did. and
k- v neatly now securely nns it.
MARSHAL PETAIN
J A COLONEL 'at the battle of Charleroi,
a marshal of France as his victorious
'fmieS march Into Metz, Henri Philippe
',? Petain reaps the Just reward of tireless
Hft'tjiaeTgy, unconquerable patience, keen fore-
.', ft ctnd unflagging human sympathy.
'rSha balance of these qualities is not
K si.fways preserved In great generalship.'
' . f'Often; as in the case of Napoleon, ruthless-
W595?
uvcuiiipuuies superu muiiury oru-
ncy. At the height of the terrible First
Irna crisis Petain declared, "It Is for
cannon to conquer and for the in-
mrtry to advance and occupy " No cold,
i less nero spoice mere, diu one who, oy
killful appraisement of the human as
aa the material elements of war, was
"tPfAVe thousands ot lives for France.
' H Is, well known that Petain strongly
tSlMpprpved of Nivelle's costly attempt to
lrttk the German lines on the Alsne in
$Nril I? IV. Following that sanguinary
" Ofteri the Impetuous ofllcer was shelved and
lture marshal, succeeding to the high-
LMWsitnand In the army, achieved a series
which, If unshowy, proved
y at sound importance and were
il of the llyes of his pollus.
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one tho value of which was unquestionable.
This principle in its highest estate had
been already manifested nt Verdun, which
Pelaln saved for tho republic.
With Foch In supremo command of all
the Allied forces. Petaln's rolo was largely
akin to that of Halg, heading tho English
troops, nnd of Pershing, leading tho Amer
ican army. The execution ot many ot tho
generalissimo's most masterly conceptions
in the immortal campaign of 1018 were
entrusted to his ablest lieutenant. Orant
and Sherman, In 18G."., afford no moio
striking example of harmony of endeavors
than do Koch and Petain u tho year of
victory.
liich for diffetent attributes, the three
lllusti Iouh mnislviK .loffre, I'oeh nnd
Petiiln, are llnrly sjnibollc.il of the glory
of Krance
TYPICAL TKUTONIC GALL
STILL MAMFKSTLXG ITSELF
Doctor Solf Has Not Yet l)i'coereil Thut
German; Is at tfie Mcrr of
Her Conquerors
TT IS becominp; increasingly evident
that Doctor Solf, German Foreign
Secretary, does not yet realize that Ger
many is defeated and is at the mercy
of her conqucrois.
On the veiy day that the armistice
was signed, he sent u message to Secre
tary Lansing ptotesting against its con
ditions and containing a thinly veiled
thieat that its enforcement would pre
vent a durable pence. Since then he lias
.sent out seveial similar messages. His
latest, made public yesterday, is in the
form of u demand that Germany be
allowed to administer all the territory
within her old boundaiics and to collect
customs dues thcie as usual. The old
boundaries of Germany included Alsace
Lorraine. This is a demand that Alsace
Lorraine lemain Geiman territory, that
its revenues be collected by Germnny and
that its government be in German hands.
The preposteiousness of such a de
mand surpasses belief. It is bused on
the assumption that Gcimany bus rights
in Alsace-Lorraine which the rest of the
world must respect. It is an attempt to
nullify all the piovisions of the armistice
intended to take from the Germans the
power to lepudiato the armistice, and to
stiike treacherous blows at the nations
which have combined to establish a just
peace. For unmitigated gall it has never
been equaled in the histoiy of civilized
man.
Not only does Doctor Solf ask that
Germany be peimitted to administer
Alsace-Lorraine; he also demands that
Geimans be peimitted to administer all
other Rhinelands, on the west as well
as on the east bank of the river, occupa
tion of which by the United States and
the Allies is provided for by the armi
stice. Germany needs these lands for
her industrial lehabilitation, he says,
and should have them.
The sniveling whimper which comes
fiom Doctor Solf is like that from' a
yellow dog, waiting for a chance to bite
the hand that leads it. If Get many is
a yellow dog, the sooner the United
States and the Allies find it out the
boiler. Eveiy day that has passed since
the aimistice was signed has proved that
it was none too severe. Trie provision
that all occupied territory, including
Alsace-Lorraine, should be evacuated
within fourteen days and that the Ger
man troops remaining after that data
should be prisoners of war, was made
with full knowledge of the kind of nation
with which we were dealing. The allow
ance of thirty-one days for evacuating
the Rhineland of Get many was an act
of giace to give the German authorities
time to turn over to the Allies that part
of their country which is to be held as
a pledge of good faith.
Doctor Solf wants to take everything
back which would make that pledge
worth anything. The aimistice piovides
that the upkeep of the Allied and Amer
ican troops in the Rhineland shall be
charged to the German Government.
The natural and obvious way to get the
needed money is out of the revenues of
the district. The occupying forces will
also occupy the custom houses as a mat
ter of course. If there are any surplus
revenues they will be held for such dis
position as the peace conference may
think proper.
The campaign of propaganda on which
Doctor Solf and his fellow junkers are
engaged in an effort to arouse the sym
pathies of the jellyfish-minded in Amer
ica and elsewhere will affect no others.
We all know that none but the Germans
are responsible for tho deplorable con
dition in which they find themselves.
We all know that they have forfeited the
confidence of mankind and cannot be
trusted out of sight. We all know that
until the peace treaty is signed and rati
fied, restoring the little nations to their
rights, and until guarantees have been
secured that Germany will make repara
tion and restoration, she must be held at
the mercy of the armed forces now mov
ing into her territory. There is no other
course open to intelligent men.
Sympathy for Germany now is like
sympathy for a brutal murderer await
ing sentence for his crimes, indulged
in only by maudlin sentimentalists. Doc
tor Solf is appealing to such in the des
perate hope that he can influence events.
When it comes to note writing. Germany
stems to be thoroughly equipped with A
Solf-starter.
FACTIONALISM HAS DELAYED
RE.
FORM TOO LONG
QtENATOU PENROSE favors charter
J revision. Senator A'are opposes char
ter revision. Each wshes to clip the politi
cal wings of the other. The Varo faction
is In control of the Republican party hero
and naturally assumes that a Penrose re
vision of the charter would contain pro
visions intended to weaken it. If the Pen
rose faction were in control here tho "Vare
faction would be demanding rhiete ..
I yiftlon in ordw to Btrtsjhdi itMlf. "v
Dut this city Is too big to bo made the
plaything of factional politics. What wo
need is a charter which will enablo tho
people to govern themselves with virtually
no Interference from Harrlsburp, whntovcr
faction of the party may control tho Stnto
Legislature. Wo have suffered too long
from such meddling. No argument Is
needed to piove that tho charter should bo
amendrd solely with a view to securing
homo rule. Then the mnjorlty would rule
here, w nether it was made up of followers
of Penrose or Vare or of whomever else
might ilse to n position of leadership.
Senator Vare's suggest jn that the char
ter ipvlslon should wait until the Constitu
tion Is revised does not flesuie serious
consideration. It li admitted that the Con
stitution ought to bo revised and revised In
such a way that home rule would bo guar
anteed to the cities by tho fundamental
law. Senator Penrose ought to favor such
u icvislon. Hut tho putting of a new Con
stitution Into elTcct will take some years.
Tito OeiH'inl Assembly, however, ran
amend tho charter this winter nnd glvo
us the benelit of the improvement without
wnlilng f r the submission m" a new Con
stltutioti to the volis. And If the chariot is
;,ropcily rrlsed tin' constl ii'lcnal clmr-'ts
can do bllo nunc than ma I": moie sur.' Hi
guarantee to the people here ot the rlsht
to manage their own affa'r'.
Wlij should .Mr. Hoover gn to Uerlln?
lis Inhabitants hae ahstalnod from wheat
bread, throe lumps of sugar In their near
coffee, candles, mlnceples and English mutton
chops this many n jcar
HEED THE RED CROSS CALL
PEACE expands ruther than conttacts
the Held of tho lied Cross since thou
sands of suffering humnnlty, barred from
aid through war, aie now within reach of
ininistiatlon For this reason the plan to
securo a 3,000.000 membership In the
humane organization in the fix e counties
in the neighborhood of Philadelphia war
units the most generous indorsement.
A preliminary meeting io outline, the
piojcct is to be held in tho Academy of
Mtisio tomoirow afternoon. The nation
wide call for new members in tho lied
Cinss will be sounded during the week of
December lti. Money-talsing 1b not tho
prime ffatuie of the undertaking, since the
admission fee for the soclct Is only $1
The ideal is universality of participation in
the ast lelief work that must follow tho
blight of ronliict.
In itself the signing of the nrmlstlco
meielv pav'-d th. wu for the opportunity
to nllcM.ite ineptcssiblc woo in Belgium,
Franc, Seibia and many other lands. The
lied Cross lias et otie of the noblest of
all Us missions to perform. Individual
pait in It through membership should be
taken by eeiy American worth to exlialt
the aims for which his count! j took up
arms
For iiad
papers in
tli. nuns
New York
Nothing to Ho!
have been telling the
world that tiKeiits of the Dep.utment ot Jus
tice nie trailing and watching Mrs. ltoe
Pastor Stokes Mr". Stokes might bo called
tile outlifui Queen of the Tarlor Uolshev Ikl
in the Land of the Fiee and the Home of
the Hrae. It gives her pleasure to say wild
things wildly. The news thnt clouds of De
partment of Just'ce agents are tiptoeing In
her wake makes it apparent that peaco has
come at last and that there Is a tragic lack
of useful einploMiient in the Department of
Justice.
We aren't concerned
Or n liirm Clock'.' about the inner mean
" ing of the loud cries
and the wails and the pleadings and the
veiled threats that emanate at this hour
fiom Germanv We are too deeply impressed
bv the fact that the Watch on tho Ithlnc
should have piovcd to be an open-faced
model.
From this on ships
will travel upon the
de'ep wateis In their
nil on ( liextnut
Street nn I lne
Afternoon,
old - fashioned black
paint. Camouflage Is
Uut that strange art in its
to be no more
subtler foi ins will bo carried to
fectiou in the Held of politics.
a new per-
Vienna, cries the
('inlatfni' cable, Is living on
chestnuts. When you
recall the pleas by which the Austrian armies
used to be Inspired it becomes necessary to
admit that a good part of Vienna died on
chestnuts, too.
Prince Max of Baden
A l'our-Year-Old calls the armistice a
Krror mistake. In a sense
lie is right, the origi
nal misstep in the colossal blunder having
been taken when Germany challenged civi
lization on August 1, 1011.
The street - cleaning
Don't Ask li contract .mess appears
in a fair way to be
settled. Now what we want to know Is who
will shoulder the more difficult contract to
clean up tho Department of Public Works?
The real Iron divisions are those which
now control the Brley fields, redeemed at last
from the burglarious Hun grip.
"The past is dead ; woe to those daring
to revive it," declares the new Bavarian
premier. And yet the Allies are certain to
open memories of the accomplished Hun
outrages of tho war and equally certain to
remain tho winners.
Pershing's march oecomes paradoxically
unflagging Just when our national standard
is displayed more prominently than ever In
Jubilant Lorraine.
THE POISONED VINTAGE
RHINE Whines! Rhine Whines!
Whines ot Impudence, gall and greed,
Whines of an oily fallacious creed,
Whines with an aim to render loose
Bonds ot a covenanted truce.
Whines of "weaken before our dole
And let us retain the cars we stole."
Whines of "Germany lays In chips
So let us control our battleships."
Whines acconrpanled by the groan
Of "grant Solf rule to our frail Cologne."
Whines of "Scheldemann's at the clutch
So couldn't the Kaiser quit the Dutch?"
Hasten Petain, Persuing rush, "
March brave Mangln, mighty FochI
Let not reason ever pnm
On the Ithlfi whine j. oorltv ihom up!. '
THE ELECTRIC CHAIR
The Truce
WHT do men speak with bated breath
Of this strange truco that they call
Dentil"
Death In not Life's antithesis,
It may be but an armistice.
What Is Death's analogue on earth?
It Is not Life, but rather Birth.
Men fear not to bo bornj then why
Should they bo so alarmed to die?
Our Own Private Huns
No. 1
Tho man you are particularly anxious
to hear from, who sends you a series of
postcards, each bearing the message. "Long
letter coming."
No. 2
Tho man who goes to the movies nt 6
o'clock and sits, through until 11, seeing
tho samo reels Ave times, delighted In tho
thought that ho Is keeping others standing
in line 'outside.
Plans for the 1920 census are now under
way In Washington, and we would like to
start an agitation in favor of omitting
from the count all peoplo who use the
word camouflage more than three times
a day.
A theatrical press agent has urged us
to say that Dovo Dulcet is no relation to
Pigeon Post, who is not a person nt all
but a play now running at one of our
theatres.
Dove Dulcet, a Millionaire
Proposes to Endow This Column
Dovo Dulcet Informs us that he has
come into a vast sum of money, nnd that
thereforo ho will no longer need to sup
port himself by writing poems.
It sounds suspicious to us. Is it pos
sible that some one has taken this step
in otder to throttle and estop Dove's
muse?
Still, Mr. Dulcet In his new capacity as
millionaire has thought of an entirely noxel
nnd delightful way to disposer of his wealth.
Ho sent for us today, and with a veiv
grave face told us that he had decided to
make The Electric Chair his sole h-iir
nnd legatee. t
"1 intend." he said, "to ieavo tho mm
of half a million dolluis to endow and per
petuate Tho Electric Chair as a Dovo
Dulcet Memorial Column. It seems to :ne
tnat in tills vvuy my memory will be kept
green and comparatively fragrant. It will
be a new kit d of epitaph, frcsli every dav.
I shall require you to pint at the head of
your department the words Dove Dulcet
Memorial Column. Otherwise you may bo
unhampered in the conduct of the depart
ment, save that once a jeat, on my birth
day, I wisli ou would write a little artlele
commemorating my virtues.
"There arc ceitaln difficulties In the life
of a newspaper column-writer," he went
on, "from' which I wish to release you.
There are times wheV even th . most ln
dusttious of us do not feel a earning for
toil. There are days when even tho most
highly volted Electric Chair will be em
barrassed by the static humor latent !n tho
air and not be able to utter tho light kind
of sparks. On such days it Is my wish
that you should repair to Black's IIoLjI,
where I have placed an endowed meal :,t
jour disposal. The interest on the fund
that I have, mentioned "
"Half a million?" we asked pollte'.j, wish
ing to be sute we had not misunderstood.
"Half a million," he said firmly. "Tne
Interest on that sum will permit you o liva
in n modest vvuy. without anxieties, and
also to buy enough stuff from the leading
humoiists of the world to fill out the
column on days when jot feel a shortage
of ohms, amperes, rheostats or whatever
they are. 1 should like you to use some of
Karl Itosner's stuff. He Is a very compe
tent humorist now out of Job. I mane,
rather a point of that endowed luncheon
at Black's, because I have always under-"
stood that Journalists scant their lunch to
keep the public supplied with news. This
is a great mistake.
"I do not wish ou to decline this plan
too hastily," he said, apparently mistaking
our agitation for signs of opposition.
' There are a number of disagreeable codi
cils that I may as well be frank about. I
should Insist on your keeping up the dig
nity of the Dulcet Memorial by wearing .
an ornately frogged fur coat all winter
and (he most expensive Palm Beach fabrics
in summer. Nothing but silk socks cou'.d
be tolerated. I should Insist on your hlrlns
two competent stenographers to take care
of your correspondence. It would be de
sirable for you to show yourself in public
a bit, a box at tho opera, jou know, and
perhaps an Imported motorcar, with a
chauffeur in Electric Chair llverj It would
all be good publicity for the Chair nnd
therefore for my memory. I would rather
like you to go In for fox hunting and take
your blooded mare over tne jumps at the
horse show. A photo of that,, with the
proper caption, will serve excellently to
,keep my. memory before the public."
"You would not Insist on our dying
young?" wo asked. "We do not feel very
keen about that horse-Jumping. The
blooded maro is o. k., but we are all against
blooded Socrates."
"You need have no alarm," he said. "I
Intend to make this perpetual. Your death
would mako no difference. I shall put tho
fund In the hands of trustees, and If you
are carried off by a broken pun the trus
tees can appoint some one else to cany
on the great work. I desire this column
to carrj the name of Dovo Dulcet down to
the ultimate ages. .Not marble nor the
monuments of princes shall be more en
during." "Some of your conditions are disconcert
ing," we stammered, "but we find nothing
insuperable."
"One other thing," he said. "Hard as it
may be, I would like you to wear a frock
coat in the office, white piping on your
vest and a silk hat on the street. A fancy
waistcoat now and then, leopard skin or
something of that sort, will also add to the
general effect. You see it is essential that
you be pointed out in public as the Dove
Dulcet memorial. You will owe that :o
my memory. I should like you to do a
good deal of entertaining and to keep a
good cellar and plenty of memorial cigars."
"When do you think of dying?'' we said.
At that moment we heard a ring at the
bell and Mrs. Dulcet entered the room.
She was evidently much agitated and
beckoned to some one behind her, "Here
he Is, doctor," she said. "Dove, .my deir,
num."
?es,
the ambulance Is her from the asylum.'
- SQCRATE8,
nWsillllllll ijl T-W
THE
WHAT A CONGRESSMAN SEES
Semitccekly Letter Touching on the Washington Doings of Personalities
Familiar to Philadclphians
By J. Hampton Moore
Washington, D. C, Nov. 20.
TT
ha
HAS been so long since Republicans
,ive been In the majority in Washing
ton that the result of the recent elections
has aroused the keenest interest In tho
reorganization of tho Senate and House.
Old-time political activities have been re
vived and groups of party men are every
where discussing the situation. Democrats
accept the conditions philosophicallj', ex
cept as to the Senate, where tho vote Is
close, and the Republicans are feeling each
other out, conscious of the responsibility
they must now assume and hopeful that
ultimate unity of action will ensue from
their counsels. The big contest, of course,
will be over the speakership of the House.
For this high and honorable position a
half-dozen names have been presented, in
cluding Mann, of Illinois, who has been
absent recently because 'of sickness; Gil
lett, of Massachusetts, who has acted as
Republican leader in Mann's absence;
Madden, of Illinois, who announces that
he will bo a candidate if Mann is not;
Longworth and Fess, of Ohio; Fordnej-, of
Michigan; Campbell, of Kansas, and
Towner, of Iowa. Other States, including
Pennsylvania, which has the largest Re
publican delegation, are also considering
the presentation of the names ot "favorite
sons." In addition to the speakership, dis
cussion is proceeding with regard to floor
leadership, and the possibility of a fight
by the younger or newer element in Con
gress to change the existing order ot pri
ority on committees.
, .
IN THE coming shake-up, the dale of
which depends largely "Pn whether
President Wilson calls an extra session of
Congress, Pennsylvania is bound to play
an important part. In the Senate, if the
Republican majority is sustained, Penrose
will rank high. As chairman of the 1m
portant Finance Committee he will, unless
the priority rule is beaten,' be in command
of all questions affecting the revenues, In
cluding the tariff, with the same Influence
that was once exercised by Nelson A.
Aldrlch. He Is also the ranking Repub
llcan on the committees on Naval Affairs
and Postoftlces and Postroads. Senator
Knox, whose service has not been so long
as that of Senator Penrose, will also be
advanced to Important places commensu
rate with his fine abilities. The Junior
Senator is already on tho Committee on
Foreign Relations, of which Senator Lodge,
of Massachusetts, Is chairman, and to that
committee the President will be obliged to
look for sympathy and support In treaty
negotiations and other vit:. problems of
an International import. In the House,
the ordinary priority rules prevailing, the
Pensylvanla Republicans step forward to
many legislative honors. They will have
a hand in the distribution of several hun
dred places from which they were sepa
rated six years ago by a Democratic sub
committee on patronage, of which Mitchell
Palmer was chairman; but their big game
will be In committee appointments, If they
do not securo the speakership itself.
PENNSYLVANIA Democrats ho)d no
chairmanships In the House, The best
they ever did under the present Admlnla
tration was to capture tho Committee ;or, t, ft Milan .from a Democratic to . r.-
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Worth Ballej- disappeared from congres
sional life. As is well known, most of the
important committee chairmanships went
to the Southern States and are still there.
With Republican control restored signifi
cant changes may be expected. Butler, of
West Chester, will supplant Padgett, of
Tennessee, as chairman of the Committee
on Naval Affairs, and Browning, of Cam
den, will rank second. Edmunds, of Phila
delphia, will succeed Stephens, of Missis
sippi, at the head of Claims; Porter, of
Pittsburgh, will have the choice of Foreign
Affairs to succeed Flood, of Virginia (which
ho will doubtless accept), or of Expendi
tures in tho Department of Justice, to suc
ceed Walton, of New Mexico; Krelder, of
tho Dauphin-Lebanon district, will tako
Expenditures In tho Interior Depaitment
from Hastings, of Oklahoma, if he wants
It; Temple and Robblns, of western Penn
sylvania, will tako from western and
southern Democrats tho committees on
Expenditures in the Treasury Department
and on Public Buildings respectively; Gar
land, of Pittsburgh, will takes Mines and
Mining from Foster, of Illinois; Kless, of
Willlamsport, will succeed Barnhart, of
Indiana, as chairman of tho Committee on
Printing, and Ben Focht, of Lewlsburg,
will succeed, Gregg, of Texas, at the head
of War Claims.
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Pennsylvania members will advance In
other waj-s. Moore, of Philadelphia, who
Is second to Butler in seniority In the
State delegation, will sit next to Fordnej-,
of Michigan, the successor of Kltchtn, .of
North Carolina, as chairman of tho power
ful Ways and Means Committee. A'are, of
Philadelphia, will be number Ave on the
Appropriations Committee, or one point
ahead of the veteran Uncle Joe Cannon.
McFadden, of Canton, will move up next to
(he chairman of Banking and Currencj-,
tvlth Darrow, of Germantown, a peg or
:wo behind. Rose, of Johnstown, will ad
vance on Coinage, Weights and Measures;
Watson, of the Bucks-Montgomery dis
trict, who is on Insular Affairs, will move
up next to the chairman of Patents, with
a strong probability of securing the chair
manship If ho wants it; Graham, of Phila
delphia, will advance to number three on
Judiciary; Morln and Crago will move up
to numbers five and seven on Military Af
fairs, the chairman of which, Kahn, of
California, will succeed Dent, of Alabama;
Grlest, ot Lancaster, will bo number three
and possibly number two on Postoftlces and
Postroads, the chairman ot which, Judge
Moon, of Tennessee, led the Burleson
forces against the pneumatic tubes; and
Costello, of Philadelphia, will become num
ber three on the Committee on Rivers and
Harbors, the chairman of which, Small, of
North Carolina, gives way 'to Kennedy, of
Iowa. Congressman Strong, another of
the re-elected Pennsylvania Republicans,
Is on Mines and Mining and one ot the
expenditures committees, When the new
Pennsylvania members come up for consid
eration there will be some changes In these
prospective committee appointments and
,&pme additional places will Have to be
fouhd, but, what has been set forth Is suffi
cient q show how consequential Is the
Mvstery of Wilhelm's Alleged Abdication
So far the world has onlj- the word of an
alleged revolutionary Government ot Ger
many and the phj-slcal presence in a foreign
cSuntrj' of Wllhelm Hohpnzollern to sub
stantiate the declaration that tho Kaiser
has abdicated as King of Prussia nnd Ger
man Emperor. It has been asserted that he
retains the title of count, and by some It is
reported that he clings also to the rtate of
Margrave of Brnrfdenburg.
Tho singular fact remains, however, that
no document bearing the sign manual of
Wllhelm Hohenzollern renouncing his author
ity and power as German Emperor and
King of Prussia has been given to the public
in his behalf or in behalf of the people of
Germany.
This curious omission is tho more worthy
of remark because the paper In which
Charles of Austria remitted his authority
has been published throughout the world
It cannot be argued that an embargo on
official utterances from Germany has pre
vented the communication of the text of Wi
nCim's abdication to the belligerent and neu
tral peoples. The various channels for the
dlraf minatlon of news from Berlin are notorl-otistj-
free. The propagandists, headed by
Herr Self, find them ample for the circula
tion of their documents. Yet not one word
of the supremely important writing bj- which
tho head of th6 Hohenzollerns is declared
to have quit his Imperial and kingly offices
has reached tho deeply Interested peoples
of other nations.
Why is the Wolff Bureau, official vehicle
for the transmission of Kultur to the far
end." of the earth, silent about this matter
of gravest international Import? New York
Sun.
It looks as though Prince Rupprecht
would have to get a permit from General
Pershing if the deslro to keep on courting tho
Grand Duchess of Luxembourg's sister still
burns in tho breast of the defeated Hun
widower.
In view of the Impudent, lachrymose ef
forts to pervert the armistice terms, "Sac
charlneland" might fitly describe a certain
uneasy German vallej'. - ,
The Huns seem to have adopted the rail
way to freight their sinister grievances.
The skip-stop stands a chance of being
relegated to the list of public futilities.
General Jubilation
high command in Metz.
holds tho supreme
Wlwt Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. In what fltrwna th International rnnaress
held nfter the fall of Napoleon In 1SI.V,'
2. Whnt la tho date fltfd In thr wartime "ilrr"
Wit fer the establishment of national prohi
bition? 3. What In tho erond largest city In llraill?
4. What la the plural of the word dictum?
5. What battle wna won. br the J'ederol forres
when Sheridan arrived after his famous
twentr-mlle ride?
0, What la tl.e orlain of tha word quarantine?
7. Who virntp tho poem on tho American flac
beclnnlnc 'When frrcdom from licr moun
tain IiriKht"?
S. Of what eountrr la the relebrated pianist,
Terean Carreno, a natlre?
0. What are avrltclies called In Ensiltli ralhvuy
parlance?
10. Who la the onlr ruler amonr the natlans of
the Central i'onrrs who has not left Ids
throne?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. About 130,000 American Voopa narttrtnoted
in ine euuipaian o, ino
Im.IIM. tij.n
which began on rlepti
temher 1A nnit endeil
with the alKnlnr of the armistice.
2. Canada waa the onlr Hrltlsh colony whhh
ndnpted the poller of conscription during
tho war.
3. The title of the nrrscnt rnlcr of I.uicmbnrg
Is (Irand Duchfes.
4. Mlsslsalppl Is Indian for "Great Lonir Itlvcr."
fi. fame diem" Is fatln for "beware of the
dar." The phrase waa naed br the poet
llorare to indicate that life la ahort ami
that It la neceasarr to put to prollt the
preaent dar
0. The rirnnd Dauphin waa T,ou1t eon of Lo'da
XIV of . France nnd Maria Teresa. He
never relnl as king.
7, Hinterland. Is.the district behind a sea coast
or rlrer'a Tmnks.
8. A lemor la n.noctnrnal mammal, allied to a
monkey, but with n pointed jnnule. It I
chleHj- found In Madagascar.
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