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A ONE-MAN PEACE DELEGATION
QINCE It was first .iiinouiiced officially
that the President himself would attend
the peace eonferem e. not a great deal of
Importance lias attached to the personnel
of the delegation lie would select to accom
pany him, because It was appaicnt that
the delegates would not be chosen for indi
vidual ability ns thinker or as outstanding
representatives of the public o much ns
for tho likelihood of their being completed
acquiescent In the lews nnd opinions of
tho chief delegate
In appointing Messrs. Lunging. Houe,
, "White and Bliss, Mr. Wilson has fulfilled
these expectations and justified them. Not
one of them may be said to represent the
public at large. None has cer been ele
vated to high office by tho suffrage of
their fellow countrymen. None is really
Intimately well known to the public.
Where they have served in important
offices at all, it has been by appointment
rather than popular election.
For example, Secretary Lansing has
come to be regarded largely as a clerical
assistant to the President a secretary in
fact as well as name. He has had long
experience in the technical side of State
Department work, but the cool manner in
which tho President set him aside and sent
Colonel House instead to the Versailles
War Council was a commentary upon the
Importance of the place he holds in the
'Administration.
Colonel House, of course, is well known
by1 name, but tho public knows almost
nothing about him personally. He is a kind
of mystery to the people. All they know
Is that ho has the ear of the President,
who frequently calls upon him for adice.
That in itself may be regarded as a dis
tinction, since it is almost unique. Hut he
is not truly a representative of the public
at large or any segment of it.
Mr. White's selection Is supposed to bo
the necessary concession to the Republi
cans. But is it? It is true that he was an
ambassador under a Republican adminis
tration, but for nearly a decade he has not
appeared as an active member of the party,
and, in fact, has been so much out of
public view that the newspapers this
morning find It desirable to print his
biography In detail to remind their readers
' of who he Is or was. Incidentally it Is a
question how much the Republicans will
relish having credited to their i arty a rep
resentative with a Prussian nobleman for
a son-in-law who, even after the ravish
ment'of Belgium by the Huns, was urging
that the American people &I1011UI remain
neutral because the European war was
none of their business.
General Bliss Is the m!litar delegate,
and as such will probably figure only to
the extent of advising upon the technical
military matters which may arise.
Indeed, Judging by the personality and
recent records of the men themselves, It is
impossible to escape tho conclusion that
the delegation is entirely a one-man affair
and was thus expressly designed. It Is
quite as well that this should bo so under
' the circumstances, because It fixes the re-
, eponslblllty solely where it should belong
on. the shoulders of the Piesldent, who is
evidently entirely willing to bear It.
The P. R. T.'s humanity seems to be
regulated on the sklp-Btop system.
Wh TIPS AND TAXICABS
If&iiL TYlGH above the awful clamor of a world
B. AA I..!-. ,v -nmn J- 4 1. a v...!... . .. T.1. 1 1 .. .t .. 1
TfirfV uwuis a guiuuq mo v uito vk cb i uimuei-
VcV clt,zen soars in passionate complaint
(m3J?.' because he was charcred flftv eents to
' -T voyage from Broad Street Station to
"-h, Juniper and Chestnut Btreets In a taxicab.
oL? ' moment 01 rage ne witnnem a tip
.-.l? from j the driver and was loudly abused.
- i J He has addressed himself to Director
' ' JMcAdoo, He wants rules made. And It Is
' 'p fer new rules and legislation that they are
?,jJ clamoring In New York In the periodical
uproar aooui ineaire ucot gran, no one
KmtRB ever to realize that laws can never
Binaie me up jiuuu or ino griui nuuu.
, will have to look dopp into the Amer-
tV psychology for causes and cures.
ijThe average Intelligent citizen In th'e
lindrof the free and tho home of the brav
i W JiflWcted wlt singular obsessions on tils
( Wpfctt "out- He. Isn't the hard-headed man
. tfalr?' ,JottwWiv.w,v national I
tnah$fr, WfC'-vi!f 'Wl4,!
Ills clothes. Ho moves In Rttful dread of
three vivid words In his own vernacular.
These mo "piker," "fourfltisher" und
"tightwad." It Is upon these three terms
that the Int-chcck boy and the waiter nn"
all other night-blooming banditti havo
founded their kultur.
Tho American feels his blood chill at the
thought of being llted under one or moro
of these definitions. He consents to a
sstem by which he must buv his hat
back from f'e management etry time ho
visits a fashionable restaurant. Ho sub
mits to organized plunder In all his festal
hours and will endure ecn the Insolence
of waiters ami chauffeuis rather than
seem, by lesl.stlng, to belong to the de
spised class that "doesn't know how to
spend" And he continues to pay tips
and meet eces.s i barges that would shock
tuactlced hlghiolleis In Europe.
When Amei leans refuse to lecognlo the
aitltlelal significance- of the slang terms
devised by the tip-takers to awe and hyp
notize their victims life will be easier.
The hat-check ho will liae to turn to
honest toll for his nlglitl bread, waiters
will obtain living wages from their em
plojers and gentlemen like the complain
ing Philadelphia!) will not feel that when
they ride In a taxi tliey must pay twice
for the service.
GUILT IS I'KKSOXAL EVEN
V; HKX IT WEARS A CROWN
Wlien Kings and Their Ministers Are Held
OiminalU Kc-ion-ililc for Wars They
Mart the I.t of Universal Peace
Will He in S?ht
TVERY friend of world peace will hope
that the icport which comes from
Viennu that the Austrinns are planning
to put on tiial in the courts the men
responsible for startiiiR the war is based
on the deliberate purpose of the people.
The dispatches mention Count Berch
told, Austro-Hunparian Foreign Minister
at tho opening of the war; Count Czer
nin, who succeeded him in the foreign
oflice, and the former Emperor as the
men to be arraigned for their offenses.
Tho Entente Allies are arranging to
demand the surrender of tho former
Kaiser by the Netherlands that he may
be disposed of as the judgment of the
world thinks best. Von Bethmann-Holl-wef,,
who was tho Geiman Chancellor
wheli the war began, foiesecing what
is likely to happen, has begun to make a
plea in avoidance and extenuation by
saying that he did not know anything
about the. Austrian ultimatum to Serbia
until after it had been delivered, and
that then he thought it was too severe.
The indication that there is to be an
attempt to make war-guilt personal con
stitutes tho most hopeful development
since the armistice was agreed upon, if
not the most encouraging sign of the
disposition of the world to put an end to
war, which has shown itself in the
heavens since the beginning of time. The
execution of this purpose would accom
plish more than any international arbi
tration tribunal or the largest league of
nations which could be formed.
It is notorious that this war was not
begun because the people of Austria
Hungary willed it. They were not con
sulted. A group of statesmen arranged
it for their own purposes and for the
glory of the Habsburg dynasty. Tho
people had to submit, and they were led
to their slaughter and their country was
brought to ruin because of the ambition
of the small ruling group. Conditions
were almost the same in Germany, even
though the German people had been
trained for nearly two generations in
preparation for "der Tag," whenever that
might dawn. The Gorman leaders, with
out consultation with the people, de
cided when the day had come, and in
conspiracy with the Austrians they
blocked every attempt of the other
Powers to prevent war. It should sur
prise no one if the Germans themselves
should demand that their leaders, from
the Kaiser down, should be put on trial
for their crimes for sendug the Ger
man youth to slaughter and for ruining
tho German empire.
If the leaders in Germany and in
Austria-Hungary are led out before a
firing squad the guns will proclaim to all
the world that war-making by secret con
spiracy does not pay. They will an
nounce that guilt is personal and that
the guilty cannot escape, and they will
be the heralds of a new day for this
troubled old world.
They may not mark the ending of all
war, for it is conceivable that issues may
arise between nations which cannot be
settled peaceably. But they will make it
impossible for nations to be suddenly
precipitated into war. It was secret
diplomacy which made this war possible.
The judicial killing of the men who con
ducted that diplomacy would do more to
discourage that sort of thing than any
thing else of which the mind can con
ceive. It would force into the open the
discussion of the relations of one nation
with another, and it would open the way
for public sentiment to influence Gov
ernments toward a reasonable course of
action.
While this course would discourage war
and tend to end secret diplomacy, it
would place democracy on adamantine
foundations buttressed by recognition of
tho right of the people to make their own
decisions for war or for peace. The world
is not yet safe for democracy, and it will
not be so long as the kings and emperors
and their ministers who have plunged the
world into war by secret agreements are
allowed to go scot.free.
We may not like to admit it, but it is
a fact that the most potent force in
causing evils to disappear is the demon
tration to the evil-doer that his course
does not pay if he is a little criminal
or if he indulges in personal vices.
Drunkenness is disappearing because the
man guilty of it cannot hold his own in
competition with a sober man. The dis-
covery that drunkenness ia e. financial determined that the rtaj "Tag" in Germany, J,", U? of Wtautar M
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EVENING PUBLIC LEDGKBR -
poranco than nil the sermons and
crusades of tho centuries.
It remains io be proved to the oi'c
criminal, even though he wear a crown,
that when lie plunges a nation into war
ami brings mtin upon its people he must
answer with his life for his offenses.
Tho Austrian people are headed in the
right direction. The sentiment of the
democracies of tho world is behind them,
and tho hopes of all who dronm of that
time when the earth shall be lapped in
universal law goes with them in their
jient crusade.
Br.in, Kurd and Carnegie were our
mo."! ardent peacemakers. And it none
of tliem has been mentioned for service at
the peace conference.
MR. GILBERT TO REPORT THE PEACE
CONFERENCE
MR CLINTON AV. fHLBEH
Kvkmso Pi ulic XiKPOi:rt
RT. of the
stnff, will
.all for France tomorrow to report the
ilt abroad of President Wilson and the
dcllbei jtlons of the peace conference. AVo
believe this will be welcome news to our
re.idei". No journalist going from this
count! is better qualified to take this im
portant and difficult assignment than he.
His long experience as an editor and writer
on the larger topics of domestic, nnd Intel -national
politics, lii.s recent stay of many
months in Washington and his wldo ac
quaintance among leading men who will
attend fit him for the task of analyzing
und interpreting the moves immediately
us tliej are mode in this gicat game of
ic establishing tho world's peace. Know
ing conditions in Washington intimately,
he mil be enabled to discuss developments
fiom tlie unbiased American point of view.
Thl- is highly impel tunt.
Mr (illbert has no propaganda to serve,
no Individual's Intel ests to protect and no
mission hut to get at the truth and trans
mit it to our leaders sanely, intelligently
nnd piomptly. The consistency of his
analvses and predictions during the time
when many Washington correspondents
were hopelessly floundering In their effoits
to understand what was going on behind
the scenes while President Wllon was
exchanging mites with tho German Gov
ernment will be lemembered as one of the
finest pieces of reporting in this tremen
dous crisis. It affords a measure of what
may he expected from his pen concerning
the greatest state meeting in history.
Now that the I"-boats are gone and sub
merged icebergs are taking precedence as an
ocean neiil, u new use for left-over depth
bombs suggests itself
YEGGMEN AT PLAY
TT IS.N T often that a company of high--"-
waymen can put on masks, draw revol
vers and obtain more than $5G0O from the
pockets of other men In the very heart of
a city on a busy afternoon and diive away
safely in an automobile.
Two members of Mayor Smith's vice
squad were among the victims at tho
Thirteenth street poolroom robbery. They
lost even their expensive pistols and stood
with their hands in the air while they
were relieved of their money and the
family jewels. Great Indeed are tho rlBks
of the police service!
We have to thank the unfortunate Slier
locks for one thing at least: they furnish
tho vlvldest Imaginable demonstration of
the standards of efficiency acceptable under
Captain Souder. For years the Rialto
"sports" have gossiped freely about tho
poolroom where they were trapped. Yet
by their own account these chaste mem
bers of the vice squad had just discovered
it and tiptoed In to get evidence!
Chemists, inventors
and islonaries have
been promising for
A JlrTolutlonary
SnbRtltute
j cars the advent of
a substitute for gasoline. In every case the
promise went unfulfilled, and a gasoline sub
stitute was listed with Uarabed among the
things too good to ever be attained in this
world The formal announcement from
Washington that officers of the War Depart
ment have actually evolved a fuel more
efficient and vastly cheaper than gasoline is
of the utmost Interest. If the persistent
dream of the chemists Is realized the high
cost of automobillng is a thing of the past
and a new era of increased cfilcleney is here
for farmers and all others who are waiting
until tliey can afford to apply tractors and
motorcars in their day's work.
Two more persons
Safety l"lrt were killed and sev
eral were injured in
this city jestcrday by automobiles. The skip
stop remains in force on the trolley lines.
Altogether, the increasing peril of traffic in
the streets makes It appear that aviation
will soon be the safest method of getting
about.
Now that doubt Is
thrown upon the re
port of the killing of
the Czar, wo must be
A thane- for Men
who Look
Like Nicholas
prepared to hear for
years to come that he has made his appear
ance in one obscure place after another. And
false czars will spring up Just as false dau
phins have risen, flourished awhile and dis
appeared. No one need be afraid
The War of Spain disrupting- a
Dodfloc Don league of nations. She
held out for peace
under provocations more fearful than any
which might conceivably arise In the future.
The layout of clothes prescribed for the
Vare marching club at the Sproul Inaugura
tion striped trousers, frock coat, gray
gloves, white tio and like debris may be
preserved by more than one meticulous poli
tician and laid away In lavender for wear
at his own funeral. We've heard of a man
whose great ambition It was to be burled In
a high hat.
High living Is a reality at last. The first
aerial banquet haB Just been given for nine
persona In an American bombing plane at an
altitude of about 4000 feet over Elizabeth,
N.J.
The Irish are now demanding a place
at the peace table. That's encouraging, any
way. -
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Britain, according to Lloyd George.
PHII
WHEN THE WORLD
CAME TO VIENNA
Pretentious Congress 'After ATa-
polcons Fall Botched Its
Peace Problems'
THE Congress of Vienna, which met In
1814 to repair a war-torn world, has left
an evil memory. President Wilson In state
papers and addresses has referred to It with
abhorrence. Similar aversion dwells In tho
minds of liberal leaders In other lands. Yet
ostensibly many of the major alms of that
momentous convocation In the Austrian capi
tal may be paralleled In tho purposes of the
legates about to write a new chapter In his
tory in Paris todav.
Uthough non-European nations were not
engaged in tho Vienna sessions the United
States at the tlmo being Involved in an In
conclusive war with England the Congross,
broadly speaking, was International in com
position. It was the first powerful assem
blage of that character In world annals. It
planned to establish boundary lines, appor
tion territories and. above nil, to authorize
and safeguaid a lasting peace. .
Then, ns now, the world was war-weary
Napoleonic ambition, accounted "an Intoler
able thing," as latelv the William Hohenzol
lem's haw been, hail been apparently de
strojed The Allies of that day had entered
Paris The fate of Fiance, whenco the men
ace to peace had arisen, was In their hands.
AN7'
A ten
XII yet with aims so laudable the pre-
nses of the Congress of Vienna dls-
pltit the idealist and fortify the cynic.
The session has becomo a mocking synonym
for malign, greedy and furtive old-Bchool
diplomacy. Its priceless opportunity to re
make the world on a sane, secure and up
lifting basis was Impecunlously frittered
away. The salient features of the convention
were selfishness, intrigue and frivolity For
all Its superficial grandeur, the Congress of
Vienna was politically one of the most Im
moral bodies on lecord.
That such degeneracy will shadow the com
ing Paris conference is unthinkable, for al
though the analogies with the Austrian gath
ering are numerous, thero Is at least one In
spiring discrepancy which augurs triumph.
The Vienna Congress sought to bring back
an ancient, discredited dynastic world. De
spite the representation of free-minded Brit
ain, involved with strange political bedfel
lows. It whs a veritablo orgy of autocracy.
It Is the making of a new world wh'ch the
Paris commissioners will consider. Conflict
ing claims among the various nations will
be Inevitable. The very existence of diver
gent views Is, of course, one of the foremost
reasons for the meeting, but the tie before
which all others are secondary Is that of
liberty and humane justlco to the peoples of
tho eaith It is the first of international
democratic congresses unsmirched in that re
gard by pessimistic precedent.
THE Insincerity of the Vienna conference
Is thoroughly well exemplified In the
spectacular presence of six iclgnlng Eu
ropean monarchs, w ho attended none 'of the
official deliberations jet all the time piled
the trade of unscrupulous Intriguants with
characteristic zeal. It is not surprising to
note that the King of Prussia and the Em
peror of Russia, the latter the vain, ambitious
and domineering Alexander, were the chief
trouble-makers.
The rest of the royal crew, however, were
constantly pompous encumbrances to tho
practical proceedings, and with their elab
orate entourages they stimulated a whirl of
gorgeous social functions which gave Vienna,
where thero was exigent serious work to be
nerfnrmed. the most dazzling carnival sea
son In her history. There wore hunts, hunt
balls, masquerado dances, children's parties,
private theatricals, banquets and tourna
ments; in fact, all the concomitants of the
"anclen regime" of divinely -eanctioned au
tocracy. EVEN the British commissioner, I.oid
Castlereagb, whose advocacy of tho abo
lition of the slave trade Injected a curiously
isolated note of idealism Into affairs, was
furred Into the heedless maelstrom of fri
volity. Chroniclers of tho time, however,
have voted his great gala-ball "dull"
But Sidney Smith, the English ambassador
to the Hapsburg couit, Bpeedlly succumbed to
the mood of the hour. His "picnic dinner"
In the Auergarten provided a unique exam
ple of supercilious condescension. All the
monarchs, counts, dukes and other nobles
Invited actually sat down to table in a
"tavern" and paid their own way. Tho bitter
pill was coated with the information that
'he tickets were sold for the.purpose of pur
:haslng an immense sllv er lamp for tho Holy
Sepulchre in Jerusalem!
Fortunately, the awful spectre of royal
precedent had been allayed some tlmo before
this amusing event. Priority in processions
was regulated according to ages. The kings,
therefore, lined up as follows: Wurtemberg,
Bavaria, Denmark, Austria, Prussia and
Russia. Oddly enough tho weakest ruler
came first in this arrangement, and the most
energetic and self-assertive last.
POLITICALLY tho Vienna sessions speed
ily degenerated Into scenes of cynical
bartering, at which racial questions and
those of self-determination were ruthlessly
overridden. To the most powerful of Na
poleon's victors, with the exception of Great
Britain, who desired little beside the Ionian
Islands and Malta, which she obtained, went
the spoils. Austria grabbed Lombardy and
Venetia, Russia a large slice of Poland and
Prussia ousted Austrian influence over Sax
ony. Sweden secured the control of Norway.
The position of France, the defeated na
tion, wns singular and eventually highly em
barrassing to some of her conquerors. She
was represented by the astute and masterly
Talleyrand, who soon became tho dominant
figure In a convention gathered as a rebuke
to the overthrown ambitions of his native
land.
The antipathy of England to the absolutist
schemes of Russia and the Teutonic States
was cleverly played upon by this Damascene
minded diplomat. By January of 1815 he hard
actually arranged a secret treaty between
France, Britain and Austria, directed against
the alms of Russia and Prussia. The tension
becamo acute. In the end, however, a com
promise was achieved, but not before France
had been triumphantly rescued from her
humiliating position and consent to the es
tablishment of her pre-rcvolutionary bound
aries had been won.
MONTH after month the backing and
filling, the disposal of one helpless peo
ple's destinies In exchange for another went
on, and to the accompaniment of the most
ornate social mummery, when a lightning
flash of reality smote the masquerade. Na
poleon had left Elba!
Harmonized by a common danger, the al
lies hastily patched up their huckstering and
a few days before the battle of Waterloo, In
1815, the so-called Final Act was elgned.
It was a merciless makeshift, and as such
was sustained after Bonaparte's second and
conclusive fall merely by the repugnance In
which an exhausted world held the prospect
of renewed strife. Fp to the Congress of
Alx-la-Chapelle, In 1818, something like
a League of Nations a tyrannical and mon
archists one endured In Europe. After that
disruption Bet In apace.
England realized that after the Napo
leonic menace, which Bhe had been so Instru
mental Jn crushing, the code of repression
which her former all'es were advancing was
the next most serious menace to world
progress. Somewhat Informally, though de
cisively," she withdrew from the International
partnership. France, where liberal thought
was making new headway, followed suit
when tho "Citizen King," Louis Philippe,
ascended the throne as a constitutional ruler
in 18S0,
One by one the misdeeds of the Congress
of Vienna, which supposedly aimed at a
permanent peace, bred wars. Some of these
offenses were among the roots of the great
est of all conflicts. The second stupendous
world council and the first liberal one now
has the unexampled opportunity to rectify the
last Injustices or tne Vienna gongrcas, whose
ity sim gy ftortssr, iwimaw
fi ,t VJA
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CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S LETTER
Disappearance of Uniforms From W ashington A Long List of Pcnnsylva
nians Who Tried to Get Into the Army hut Were Turned Down.
Gossip About People You. Kiwiv
Wuslilnglon, Nov. 30.
THE exodus of uniforms from Washing
ton has been a marked result of the
cessation of activities on tho other side
of the water. From many points of view
this is a good thing. It relieves tho pres
sure at hotels and apartment houses; It
enables tho departments to get down to
work with less interruption, and it sends
back to other occupations a good many
men who probably should not have re
ceived commissions. Say what one will,
there has been some justification for com
plaints of influence and favoiitism In tho
making of nppolntments. Hundreds of
young men who would have gone Into the
service through tho draft and who could
have gotten over to France in that way
were given compaiatlvoly easy berths here,
with rank from lieutenant colonel down,
to perform work of a nonfighting char
acter that could just as well have been
performed by civilians. At tho samo time
a good many older men who had seen
service were shoved aside when offering
themselves for servico In the field. The
experience of many of the National Guard
officers who endured the hardships of the
seven months' campaign in Mexicd before
we entered the European war is in point
GENERAL WENDELL I'. BOWMAN,
long tho commander of the First Penn
sylvania Regiment, which performed bo
admirably at Chateau-Thierry, and after
wards head of tho National Guard of the
State, was of tho typo who might havo
been called. He was a trained soldier of
wide experience, and in excellent health,
but when he called upon tho Washington
authorities he found thero was "no place
for retired major generals." Colonel J.
Warner Hutchlns, who sought to bring his
Pennsylvania National Guard knowledge
lntd play in the ordnance or quartermas
ter's departments, met with a similar ex
perience. So It was with Charles J. Hai
rah, former president of the Midvale Steel
Works, and Assistant Director Hasskarl,
of tho Department of Wharves. Docks and
Ferries. Hurrah's old friend and associ
ate, Vice PresldentW. P. Barba, of tho
Midvale, was taken In as a major and ad
vanced to lieutenant colonel, but tho
millionaire ex.presldent was left out. Hass
karl wanted tct be a major of engineers,
and his long experience on Delaware River
work qualified him, but such places went
to younger nnd sometimes to less expcrl-'
enced men. ' Ono of the most persistent
efforts to get "over there" for real serv
ice was mode by Murdoch Kendrick, un
til recently president of tho Five O'clock
Club. Ho took private lessons in French
for several months, attended drills and
setting-up exercises, mado arrangements
for the transfer of his law business, and,
on receipt of word from General Crowder
that a captain's commission would bo ten.
dered Jim, prepared to take leave of his
family. To properly qualify lie was In
ducted Into the service as a private and
under orders proceeded to Washington.
While thero news of the armistice was-
proclatm'ed. "Private" Kendrick was then
ordered to remain in Washington, which
he did for several days, until sent home
on furlough. Another Phlladelphlan who
was all ready to go was Colonel Lewis E.
Beltler, who expected to bo attached to the
military police In' France under command
of; colonel JOim y- iruj;. ,i mw
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OBJECT TO THIS-DELEGATETO1 VERSAILLES $
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These are a few Instances only of the
patriotic endeavors of many Phlladelphlans
who were bitten by the war bug.
"DEFERENCE to General Bowman and
' his readiness to serve in the European
war recalls the Spanish-American war ex
perience of the First Regiment. This or
ganization, which grew out of the Wash
ington Grays' Of Civil War fame, paraded
in the peace jubifeo or 1S98 as the "Fhst
Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infan
try." That was the designation under
which it came out of the Spanish-American
War. The regiment had been organized
by Colonel Bowman, but ho was so se
verely injured in saddle while awaiting
muster-In that the command fell to Lieu
tenant Colonel J. Lewis Good, who had
advanced to the rank of colonel at the
time of tlie parade. Fred Taylor Pusey,
who is now in France, was the first lieu
tenant and adjutant of the regiment. Tho
chaplain was the preacher-author Cyrus
Townsend Brady. During the 'Mexican
campaign Colonel Charles C. Allen, a
Philadelphia boy, whoso father, Colonel W.
W. Allen, of West Philadelphia, was
Ciyil War veteran, guided the destinies of
the regiment. Charley Allen had attach
ed himself to tho regular army and was
well equipped for the service. After him
camo young Mlllaid Brown, of German
town, who experienced "the real thing"
in France.
ALL In a half hour the other morning
.Pennsylvania avenue disclosed these
personalities, none of them perhaps aware
of the presence of the others; leaving a
hotel after one of his periodical visits to
keep posted on national events, Editor E.
A. Van Valkenburg, of a "twenty-story
building on p. prominent corner" In tho
city of Philadelphia; on a street-car riding
to the Capitol, "Brother Bill" Vare headed
for the Appropriations Committee on tho
House side; In a big red touring car, pass
ing tho aforesaid street-car, tho "Big Griz
zly," as Sam Hudson used to call Sen
ator Penrose, taking Will H, .Hays, chair
man of the National Republican Commit
tee, to a conference of Senators; outsldo
of tho Houso office building Congressman
Tom Butler, of AVest Chester, and Bill
.Browning, of New Jersey, gesticulating to
a group of Congressmen about the tre
mendous estimates sent In by Secretary
Daniels for after-the-war expenditures.
Fairly good Ilne-up of Pennsylvanlans for
ono brief spell and Congress adjourned.
And speaking of Chairman Hays, who had
to sit up pretty straight to be seen in the
Penrose car, It may he observed that If
Billy Roney, of Tacony ahd Harrisburg,
don't look out he will be mistaken for the
national chairman. Put Hays and Roney
on the scales and Roney would probably
havo the advantage, as It might be If they
appeared together before the photogra
pher's camera, But even so, there is more
than a passing resemblance between the
two.
TUB AVarner family at Nat berth has
reason to be pleased with" the progress
being: made In Washington by Dr. Cardh
F, Werner,- who located Tiere 'some years
ago but who finds time to raad tlie Phil-
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of folks along the Main Line. The Doctor ''?JtJ
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graduated from Hahnemann, but rounded "
out a general medical education at Vienna ,
and London, and finally threw his shlrrgla a
n Vii rinrtltnl tirVintA hn la lllofVit rm
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specteu. tie inquires occasionally uuuut
Fred Stites, the Montgomery County states- '
man, whose eloquence electrified the Penn ''
sylvanla. Legislature at the opening of tha'1
la3t session at Harrisburg, and is gratified
at the record his brother, Frederick Wax- y
ner, the architect, is making In ship, con
structlon on the Delaware.
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ANY German-born citizens prevented
from corresponding with their rela-
tlves in Germany during the war ar "
writing to AVashington to learn wlien tlt V
may be possible for them to communicate) '
with their relatives with the view of ex;
tending individual assistance If needed. , '"
Acting for the Postmaster General, Sec-. '
ond Assistant Postmaster General Otto
Praeger advises that the department is "
now using "every means at its command
to learn when mall may be dispatched andj'
received, conditions In tho country con
cerned being of &uch a nature aa to pre "-v
vent the resumption of service as carWj,
as expected." '"!
Mr. Praeger states that announcement 'Cl
will be made through tne press ana win ji
bo posted at the various postoffices and,,,i
that information should bo looked for from "-4 ,
day to day. , ''x
There are thousands of loyal AmerlcansrS
In Philadelphia who have been unablaV
to obtain any information about relatives
and friends in Germany for moro thonai
year past and it is believed that they will',!
aid the Government in extending Individual l
relief In many cases of distress as soon ; I
n .1,- n ... a n nnTMm,lnlnnttnn'A.n'MM.M
This is a. matter nf interest to the Juneer?!
Maennerchor, the Turngemelndjs and other
Philadelphia organizations, whose loyalty
during the war has been unquestioned and ,
whose assistance In the matter of Liberty ,,.
Bonds has been considerable. ' " I
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Tho freedom of the high "c's" hms don) '
Emico Caruso many a good and lucrative
turn when pay day at the Metropolitan Opera,
House came around. if
If Governor Brumbaugh had been s
shade more Imaginative he might haye
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waited until he was out of office before 1st &'
Bulng an appeal for a state-wide thanks- "
giving.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. AVIio are the Rpartarlde In GrnnaniT
3, What la the meaning of al' fresco?
S. Who-waa David Rleardo?
4. Mint la the claaalral name of Switzerland?
6. What country la called the "Sonrll Klna ?M
dom"? A
7. Who wrote the modern story of mu.lcal lifa. Jj!
"Jean Chrlatoplie"" 1
a IThm, U Ralliin Rnwt r ?
V, What la a teaarllatrd naTement?
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10, What American President refused ts rtt 4
hla turAMMP at tha i-nnltalf I"
Answer to Ye.tcrday's Qui ' " Jj'i !
1, Henry White, formerly American ambaaaador 't
to Iraneo. ana Klinu Hoot were mentlonea c
aa (no iiepuimenn rnvuya on ,1110 American 11
Pac eomiulsalon, Mr, White haa, baeB,,,tui
elected. ' '!
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Tit Tatalan lanftnaara. aa well aa flnantah. la.f-v'Q
apoken In Jluroelono, Hpaln, - 'eS7'"(
.Tjtan-FranMila Millet nalnted 'Tha AnsaluaJfe.v ,-,
The pear conference after the' SpanUS-Ama)
lean War waa held In Tarla. , .
6. IJndley If. Garrlaon waa Mr, Ilaker'a mme
dials predeceaaor aa HccrcUry ot War,, ,
1. A baaaork ia enahlon far kaccllnc or ia.y
S. The Newrate- Calendar jeaa, at naMlrataWf 'r
wllh arcaunta ot th prl.oqera at Atwavfa' (
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