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Philadelphia. MonJiY, Drrrmbrr 9. 1918
GREATNESS
TWO boys, Harry Ireland ami 'William
McBrlde, who used to carry and fetch
In the lobbies of the Bellevue-Stratford
two bellboys are dead In Trance.
Their composite name was "Front"!
Now they arc Immortal. Their graves are
elde by side among those at which "travel
ers and men of heart will turn aside and
wonder" bo long as France lasts. They
went with the first and died on tho line.
The great of this world whom they
served In the old days must now know
something new of greatness and Its queer
hiding places. They will go along In tho
old comfortable way. These lads who an
swered their bells finally sensed the exalta
t tlon reserved for those who wing It out
Into the storm In search of the stars.
Our boys In Germany will he more than
grateful to those uho heeded the Injunction
"Do your Christmas shipping early !"
MR. SPROUL'S OPPORTUNITY
ENGLAND and Wales., with 58,000 square
miles and 30,000.000 population, have
produced food enough this summer to feed
their total population for forty of tho
fifty-two weeks of the year, or food enough
to feed 28,000,000 people for .welvo months.
This achievement has been brought about
under tho pressure of war.
Pennsylvania has 45,000 square miles of
territory, some of which is the richest agri
cultural land in the world. It has a popu
lation of about 8,000,000. If our farms were
cultivated as Intensively as the British
have been cultivating their lands we could
raise enough to feed neurly 23,000,000
people.
Why don't we do It?
This Is a question which the head 'of
the State Department of Agriculture ought
to answer. And when the answer has
been found we ought to set about increas
ing the productivity of the Commonwealth.
The Governor-elect is known to bo inter
ested In good roads, which will make it
easier for the farmers to get their products
to market. Along with an improvement in
the highways there should go hn Improve
( went in the agricultural methods, which
will be followed by more bountiful har
vests and lower cost food to the great
urban population.
Desplto the presence of an Orlando, the
simplicity of life In Arden Is unlikely to
characterize the Paris conference.
SEA RIGHTS IS A WAR TOPIC
'TT IS typical of the confused condition
- of international politics that one of the
foremost questions to arise In a confer
ence planning a world peace is on which
concerns only a state of war. In the ab
sence of conflict "freedom of tho seas" Is
no'more a topic for dispute than "freedom
of the air." In all the years of peace Ger
many enjoyed freedom of the seas and
profited legitimately and energetically
thereby In the development of an astutely
organized world trade. America and every
other seaboard nation of the globe had
similar basic lights.
It is in war timo alone that particularly
of ruling Is called for. The divergent views
Which will probably bo expressed in Paris
are relative to the definition of contraband
and the limitations of expansion of tho
principle of blockade. The desire for the
reduction of International legal restric
tions naturally arises in quarters where a
strong navy can enforce its own will. In
the absence of such armament the barriers
of tho law have an allurement.
Tho extent to which the codes of con
traband and blockade will be regulated Is,
therefore, absolutely dependent on the
character of the league of nations which
will presumably be formed. International
guarantees making war Impossible would
give to arguments over the freedom of the
ceas" the flavor of archaism.
But If the world falls to believe in its
ability to police Itself then sea rights in
time of strife will be a vital issue at the
sessions.
The state of divided Germany seems to
be that of pieces without victory.
POLITICS AND AIR MAIL
TT WILL- amaze no one to see tho hand
v,f-ot Mr, Burleson fumbling- disastrously
K With the newest creation of administrative!
pyy efficiency and "bringing on confusion In tho
SPY 'Jf" Vfclrrnalt service. The precipitate resigna.
K v V ' Miller, the two men who did most to or-
l; iranlie the aerial mull system, is dlsaulet.
ri- JJIB to any one who knows anything of
fc. v;,i oie Postmaster General's ambitions In the
r- v-tr1 JWWcr oi leiepnones ana leiegrapns. cap
''' SiieJn Lipsner, who was superintendent of
- Wt air division of the postal system, quit
' Wcause, In his own words, "novices were
Mm be placed In charge of important
jMNbMhes of the service."
, KiWt, tire .novices doing; In a branch of
kyftkk thatoffers them so many
a sat w.asj(SJ ?w wrantas
master General, who Is credited with being
a political expert in Mr. Burleson's de
partment, Is understood to have affronted
Captain Llpsner when he heard the com
plaint. Now, when a man advances to the rank
of captain In the aviation service ho isn't
likely to be tho sort who usually gives way
to temper and disregards ofllclal discipline.
He isn't given to whims or petulance. If
he quits tho service he is likely to have
excellent causes.
Captain Lipsner and Pilot Miller were
two of tho best men called Into the avia
tion service In the emergency rush for
efficiency. Now the war Is over. And wo
aro probably safe In the assumption that
the resignation of tho two aviators Is an
indication of what may be expected later
In the telegraph and telephone servlco If
the Burleson ambitions are ever realized
to make the public tervlce a tnug harbor
for Morm-tossed friends nml friends of
friends' friends. Captain Lipsner and Pilot
Miller, now that they are out of the service,
might do a tervico to the country by giving
out the details of their conversations with
Mr. Praeger.
THE CITY'S REQUIREMENTS
Ii A SOLDIERS' MEMORIAL
Is Philadelphia Able to Make Visible the
Nobler Lets-ons of the Great Adventure
in Trance?
'C'RANCE, gracious and imaginative
always, is already attempting to re
veal in the symbolism dour to her poetic
spirit something of her gratitude to the
men of tho Ameiic.in army. It will not
be long until you may find in every
French city of .impoitance some stately
memorial erected in honor of the 3nrvice
done upon French soil by sti angers from
a far place who were said by the little
children to have been ' sent by God in
the dark days."
British fidelity to traditions of senti
ment is inspiring a similar service in
England. We in America gain most by
the character and service of an army
whose traditions in the years to come
must be an inspiration to the mind and
heart of the nation. Yet so far we have
thought little of the manner in which
the lessons of their sacrifice shall bn
made visible.
This duty is peculiarly pressing upon
Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. This
State sent almost 400,000 men to the
battlefields and the sea. About 7000
Pennsylvanians gave up their lives in
the struggle. The Philadelphia regi
ments and the magnificently named Iron
Division shine already in official records
and in the far more eloquent unofficial
legends of the war. It remains to be
seen now whether the resources of our
imagination are adequate to perpetuate
the fine implications of their work
abroad whether, in this city, tho sort
of creative art that is eloquent where
words fail can be made to symbolize the
inner meanings of an epic service.
Those who will have to make the de
signs for a great war memorial in Phila
delphia will have no easy task. They
will have to interpret great and subtle
impulses. Did any army ever go upon
a mission such as ours undertook? There
is certainly no lecord of the adventure in
familiar histnry. Our men gave up all
that they cherished and turned aside
from life to go away and fight and die
and endure in order that peoples whom
they had never seen might be happy and
at peace. Here, indeed, is a theme to
inspire stateliness and austerity and
tenderness in the work of any artist who
happens to be a master.
The memorial arch suggested by
Joseph D. Widener, as chairman of the
Peace Jubilee Committee and president
of the Art Jury, is to be a temporary
cen'.ral ornament in a temporary decora
tive scheme devised for the foimal cele
bration of peace and victory in this city.
Mr. Widener himself and artists gen
erally admit that a permanent arch is
out of the question, since it cannot be
made to fit harmoniously into any mod
ern scheme of city planning. It has
been proposed that great symbolic groups
be designed to flank the Parkway some
where near the City Hall end. Another
suggestion is for a monumental me
morial bridge to be built over the Schuyl
kill as a connecting link between the
Parkway and West Philadelphia. Others
who have thought the matter out believe
that a more appropriate memorial for
Pennsylvania soldiers might take the
form of a splendid hospital named in
honor of the men who served and died
abroad.
The sum deemed necessary for an ade
quate memorial is $2,000,000. There ia
novelty and valuo in Mr. Widener's sug
gestion that a week be set apart in which
every man, woman and child in the city
may contribute something to this gen
eral fund not because the money is not
otherwise available, but in order that
every one may have a part in a patriotic
service and a sense of spiritual partici
pation in the completed tribute. And
even a more interesting suggestion of
Mr. Widener's is that everybody in the
city do all that is possible to help the
Art Jury by making such suggestions
as they may deem proper with relation to
the site and the form of a memorial.
In the end the designs must be left to
the best sculptors and architects whose
services can be enlisted. But meanwhile
It is easily conceivable that some one
whose imagination haB been touched by
sacrifice or loss might offer a guiding
suggestion of great help and valuo to the
men who will have the work in charge.
Readers of this newspaper are invited to
write to us and expreta their views.
It has been already proposed that a
great memorial be built at one or the
other Boulevard entrance that it take
tin form of a monumental gate at the
tho Northeast Boulevard. But the con
sensus of opinion demands that tho me
morial bo placed nearer tho center of tho
city, where every one may see it and bo
reminded of achievements in sacrifice and
renunciation that should always remain
in our memory like a guiding light.
Write to us nnd express your ideas, nnd
be assured that they will receive respect
ful consideration at the hands of Mr.
Widener and his associates.
The most artistic thing Germany could
do is to Install her "Old Masters" In tho
Kogucs' Gallery.
WHOM IS DATESMAN SERVING?
cTUIE second attempt to get bids for street
c'eanlng which will reduco the cost next
year below that of this year has failed.
Lower bids were received, It Is true, than
those which were first obtained, but they
total f 131,000 more than the sum tho city
is now paying. But Director Datesman
paid that he had revised tho specifications
In order to reduco tho cost of street
cleaning.
The city is divided into nine districts,
in five of which lower bids were received
than were accepted last year. The bids aro
higher In four of tho districts. Senator
Vnro Is cleaning tho second district this
year for $626,000. Ho wants $601,000 to
clean it next year. He is palu $725,000 for
cleaning the third district, and ho offers
to clean it next year for $799,000. Frank
Curran wants a llttlo less than $10,000
more for cleaning tho ninth district than
tho current price, and H. A. McLceman &
Bros, will clean tho sixth district for
$28,000 more than is now paid. Senator
Vare adds $139,000 to his bids of last year.
Ho cleans the central section of the city.
Heputablo men hao said that the district
for which he wants approximately $800,000
can be kept clean for $500,000 with a hand
some profit to the contractor.
The Director of Public Works is not
unaware of the current gossip on thl3
mitter. Neither Is the chief of tho Bureau
of Street Cleaning. Tljey know as well as
the rest of us that tho substitution of tho
automobile for horses In tho street:, has
reduced the work of the street-cleaning con
tractors. And they aro aware also that
this built-up section of the olty has not
changed materially for many years. Yet
the city is required to pay constantly In
creasing sums for keeping It clean.
Something Is wrong somewhere. An
expert business man could find out what
the trouble Is In a week or two. Many of
them have a pretty definite Idea already
about what is the matter. And Director
Datesman. who has better opportunities
than any one else to learn the truth, must
have some opinions on the subject. No
one ever had a better opportunity to prove
to the people who pay him that ho is scrv
ing them instead of some other master.
Will he do it?
The propriety of Bervice (lags In restau
rants Is sometime open to serious question.
THE REVENUE BILL MUDDLE
IF THE Senate is not to pass a revenue
law during the current session, a3 the
reports from Washington indicate, discus
sion of the ten billion dollar bill which Sen
ator Simmons's Financo Committee has
approved Is waste of timo.
The bill provides for raising six billions
by taxation for 1919 and four billions for
1920. The Republican Senators have de
cided that they will not consent that a
Democratic Congress shall draft the tax
laws to be enforced after tho Democrats
go out of power. The nation will support
them, for it repudiated tho Democratic
party last November. It decided that It
desired the Republicans In Congress to
draft the tax laws in the future and to
take charge of the restoration of tho na
tion to a peace basis.
The attempt of tho Democrats to tlo up
the nation to their policies for the next
two years Is presumptuous impudence. In
order to make the attempt they are willing
to keep the f resent eight billion tax law
In force rather than consent to limit their
law making to a revenue bill for next year.
They aro already planning to pass a reso
lution keeping the present revenue law In
force and to collect two billions more
from the taxpayers than ought to be raised
In that way at the present time. This is
almost criminal stupidity; so stupid, In
fact, that It Is incredible that the leaders
will not have sense enough to abandon
their attempt and to concentrate all their
energies in pushing through Congress a
bill for the next fiscal year alone. Yet If
they persist in their folly there will bo
some compensations, for the Republicans
will draft a tax bill which will be more
Just and equitable than the best that the
Democrats have yet been able to do.
"The proposal to
Tor Use on Humble Tie transport the ex
Kaiser to the Dutch
East Indies appeals to me as one admirably
calculated to bemean him?" "Why, how Is
that, Mr. Tambo?" "Well, Mr. Interlocutor,
his rank will be relatively Insignificant In
the Spice Islands. There he will And even
a nutmeg grater !"
It is possible to re
gard Dr. William T.
Ellis's proposition to
Carrying Jwfls to
Oolconds,
have a "temple of
victory" erected on Independence Square as
In the nature of a superfluity. That building
was put up In the first half of the eighteenth
century and dedicated for all time In 1776.
"I never order my
In-Var-e-able Systrra directors to do any
thing," says the
Mayor, thus adding the final confirmation to
the belief that the real mandates emanate
from a region considerably south of the City
Hall.
It Is not easy to
Fix the Prefix credit the cable re
port that Chile and
Peru, in their dispute over "lost provinces,"
are calming down at the prospect of a "par
tial" plebiscite. Wouldn't an Impartial one
be a more, hopeful conception?
The doctors are now
The Hick Mn of telling us that the
Europe Influenza was largely
responsible for the
defeat of the German army, but even before
their explanation we all knew that Foch had
the grip.
William Hohenxollern'B hours of writing
tl yva w
READER'S VIEWPOINT
Orientals Should Preserve Their Art
Standard)
To tht Editor of the Evening Publlo Ledger:
Sir My attention has been called to
portrait and story you published on Novem
ber 29 of Mrs. Wang, the Chinese lady
w-ho studied last summer at the Chester
Springs summer school of the Academy of
the Flno Arts.
At the time of her death Mrs. Wang
was enrolled for the winter nB a student
nt the Philadelphia School of Design for
Women. Her husband Is attache to tho
Chinese legation at Washington. D. C. He
wrote me after his wife's death that he
wished somo other Chinese ladles could
Ftudy In our school, and sa'd he knew of
several who would enter If It were possible
to nrrange to criticize their work by mall.
I answered to his last suggestion that
there could bo no ndequatp result obtained.
To substitute tho Occidental vlewpo'nt In
nrt for tho long-established tradltlonnt Ori
ental methods would require constant Instruc
tion nnd supervision for a time at least.
It p lnteret'ng to 'earn that the Chi
nese are following the Japanese In the
effort to understand nnd practice our west
ern technique In painting, hut I feel that
It Is a pity for them to abandon their own
Inherited perfected standards.
EMILT SARTAIN.
Principal Philadelphia School of Design for,
Women.
Philadelphia, December 6.
Putting It Up to Senator Fletcher
To the Vrtitor of the Evening Public I.etlqcr;
Sir Referring to tho article recently con
tributed to your paper by Oeome F. Sproule,
entitled "How to Keep Our Ships on the
Sea," and fully Indorsing the views ex
pressed, I thought It we'l to send copy of
the article to tho Hon. Mr Fletcher, whose
statements ho so emphat'cally corrected.
I nccompantcd ' same by the following
letter:
Your attention If respectfully called to
tho Inclosed copy of a letter appearing In
yesterday's Issue of the Evening) Public
Letter,
The writer of this, George F Sproule,
secretary of tho State Comm'ssloners ot
Nav'cntlon, 's recognized hero as one of
the host-Informed men upon all matters
re'nt'ng to our merchant marine, having
been closely nssoc'ated since 1888 with
all phase? of the business.
Ypu will note that h has contradicted
the statements credited to you, wherein
you hae taken Issue with the vice presi
dent of the American International Ship
building Corporat'on, whose main conten
tion s that "No man can own nnd operate
a ship profitably under the American flag."
To qupte from a recent article appear
ing In the nus'ness nicesr
"The act In question (tho La Follettelaw,
or seamen's act) Is, In a word, a high-wage
law and the views of pract'eal phlpplng
men aro In solid accord on the point that
untl' the law Is repealed American vessel
owners m'tsht as well stay out of compe
tition with fore'gn-owned vessels.
"Your seafaring man does not mix sen
timent with business He lonks nt th'ngff
from a dollar-and-cents angle. That Is
why he Is In the bus'ness of owning and
operating sea-going vessels Hamper h'm
w'th laws that palpably restrict and he'll
withdraw from that business. The same
way with capital. Men are not l'kely to
p'ace money Into enterprises tnat perforce
are conducted at a loss There are too
many opportunities offering for profitable
Investment "
One of the cases cited by Mr. Sproule,
partlc'1-rlv a to the exper'ence of the
late William D. Wlnsor as a shipowner,
does net need anv Indorsement, as It Is
well known in Philadelphia. The ehlps
mentioned were ultimately sold, leaving
'Ittle for tho orlg'nal Investors In the
enterprise. W. R. TUCKER.
Secretary Phlladelph'a Board of Trade.
Philadelphia. December 6.
1
Little Studies in Words
GROG
A GROG-SHOP Is a low saloon and grog
In modern usage Is any kind of strong
drink. The word originated In the British
navy in a curious way in 1740 or there
abouts. It seems that Admiral Vernon,
a bluff disciplinarian, anxious about the
health of his sailors, when he was In West
Indian waters he diluted their daily ration
of rum with water because ho thought
neat spirits were too strong for tho men
in the tropics. The men grumbled among
themselves, and whenever the admiral ap
peared on deck they would say, "Here
comes old Grog!" referring to a raincoat
of grogram which he wore. He became
tyiown in the navy as "Old Grog," and tho
diluted rum which he served was named
for him. His grogram coat was made of
a coarse weave of mohair and slllt, stif
fened with gum to shed the rain. The
word grogram Is a corruption of the
French nros grain, meaning coarse weave
or coarse grain.
The admiral had Lawrence Washington,
a brother of George Washington, on board
one of his ships when ho made his famous
expedition against Cartagena in 1741. The
expedition is described In "Roderick Ran
dom" by Smollett. Washington admired
the admiral so much that when he Uullt
his house on tho banks of the Potomac he
called It Mount Vernon, a name which his
brother George retained when he Inherited
the property.
"TWENTY-THREE"
THE slang phrase, "Twenty-three for
you!" dates from the dramatization of
"The Tale of Two Cities," and was Intro
duced by the actors who played It. Dick
ens, It will be recalled, describes the women
sitting about Paris endlessly knitting', They
would knit twenty-two stitches, one for
each suspected person, and whn they
came to tho twenty-third stitch the person
for whom that stood was doomed. Sydney
Carton's stltcl. was the twenty-third.
According to the traditions of the stage,
the actors In the play got Utj the habit
of saying to any intruder or to a man
who bungled or blundered, "Twenty-three
for you' meaning, that he must get out,
as he -was good for nothing or that his
room was bettor than his company. The
words spreau from behind the scenes Into
the street and for years were a part of
the colloaula language of the 'people. The
expression la not used so often as It used
to be', but one hears It occasionally even
now.
"Heard melodies are
An Ecstatlo Entr'acte sweet, but those un
heard are sweeter,"
says the poet. Perhaps that's why the pub
lic continues to take so much dellgh't In the
silence of W.J. Bryan.
No, Mabel, the Inland Waterways Com
mission Is not an organization intended, to
agllate for prohibition. i1
It's likely to be the League of Motions
when all the different proposals start popping
round the green baize table In Paris.
Conscription was a big job, but it was
a cinch compared with the jnreat draft of
rsgulRtions j,ory to Insure a wit!
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MAROONED IN
I
F A Phlladelphlan of a hundreds years ago
could walk along our streets at night,
undoubtedly the first thing that would startle
him wouid be the amazing dazzle of light
that floods from all the shop windows. Par
ticularly during tho few weeks directly pre
ceding Christmas, city streets at night pre
sent a panorama that would cure tho worst
fit of the blues What a glowing pageant
they are, blazing with radiance and color!
Here and there you will find a display orna
mented with ChrlstmaB trees and small red,
blue and green electric bulbs. Perhaps there
will be a toy electric train running merrily
all night long on a figure eight-shaped track,
passing through Imitation tunnels and
ravines with green artificial moss cunningly
glued to them: over ravishing switches and
grade crossings, past imposing 'stations and
llttlo signal towers. Perhaps you may be
lured by the shimmer of a Jeweler's window,
set with rows and rows of gold watches on a
slanting plush or satin background.ftThere,
If you are a patient observer, you will usually
find one of the ultra-magnificent timepieces
that have an oid-fashloned railroad train
engraved on the case. We have always
admired these hugely, but never felt any
overwhelming desire to own one. They are
sold for $14.95. being worth $150.
SOMETIMES even the most domestic man
Is marooned In town for the evening. It
is always, after the first pang of homesick
ness Is over, an enlarging experience. In
stead of the usual rush for train or trolley
he loiters after leaving the office, strolling
leisurely along the pavements and enjoying
the clear blue chill of the dusk. Perhaps the
pallid radiance of a barber's shop, with Its
white bowls of light, lures him In for a shave,
and he meditates on the Impossibility of
avoiding the talcum powder that barbers
conceal In the folds of a towel and suddenly
clap on his razed face- before they let him
go. It avails not to tell a barber "No pow
der I" They put It on automatically. We
know one man whAP thinks that heaven will
be a place where one maylle back In a
barber's chair and have endleBS hot towels
applied to a fresh-Bhaved face. It Is an
attractive thought.
BUT the most delightful haunt of man,
about 7 o'clock of a winter evening, Is
the populnr lunchroom. This admirable in
stitution has been hymned often and elo
quently, but It can never be sufficiently
praised. To sit at one of those white-topped
tables looking over the evening paper (and
now that the big silver-plated sugar bowls
have come back again there Is once more
something large enough on the table to prop
the newspaper against) and consume sau
sages and griddle cakes and hot mince pie
and revel in the warm human glitter round
about Is as near a modest 100 per cent of
Interesting satisfaction as anything we know.
Joyce Kilmer, a very human poet and a very
Btout eater, used to believe that abundant
meals were a satisfactory substitute for
sleep. For our own part, we are always
ready to postpone bed It there Is any pros
pect of something to eat. But we do not like
to elaborate this subject any further, for !t
makes us hungry to ao so, ana we pare not
-leave the typewriter Juat yet.
o
TjR marooned business man, after a stroll
along the .streets and a meal at the lunch
room, may very likely drop In at the movies.
Most of ub nowadays worship now and then
at this Bhrlne oi Professor Muybrldge. The
public Is long suffering, and seems fairly well
pleased at almost anything that appears on
the screen, But the extraordinary thing at a
movie Is hardly ever what Is on the screen,
but rather the audience itself, Observe the
mute, exjectant, almost reverent attention.
The darkened-.hoiwe crowded' with, people
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PHILADELPHIA
evenings must have been like when there
were no movies If their present reaction Is so
passionately devout. A movie audience Is a
more molng spectacle than any of the flash
ing shadows that beam before It. If all this
mirvelous attention-energy, gathered every
evening in every city In the land, could be
focused for a few moments on somo of tho
urgent matters that concern the world now
say the League of Nations It would be a
wonderful aid to good citizenship. Tho movies
are blindly groping their way, by means of
current-event films, war films and the like,
toward an eia In which they will play a
leading and Indispensable part In education
and civic life.
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T SHOULD be a function of every large
city government to provide "municipal
movies," by which we mean not free motion
picture shows, but reels of film distributed
free among all the motion-picture theatres In
the city, exhibiting various phases of munici
pal activity and illustrating by suggestion
how citizens may co-operate to Increase the
welfare of the community. We hear a good
.deal about street-cleaning evils, about rapid-
transit problems, about traffic congestion,
about the evils of public spitting, the danger
of one-way streets and a score of other mat
ters. All these could be Interestingly Illu
minated on the screen, with serious Intent, and
yet with the racy human touch that always
enlivens the common affairs of men. And
when some discussion arises that concerns
us all, such as the character of the proposed
war memorial, various types of memorials
could be illustrated in films to stimulate
publlo suggestion as to what Is most fitting
for our environment None of us know our
own city as well as we would like to. Let
the city government, through soma film
bureau, show us our own citizens at work
and play and so quicken our curiosity and
civic pride or shame, as the case may be.
ANOTHER public clubhouse which the
marooned business man finds delightful
and always full of good company Is the rail
road terminal, A big railroad station Is an
unfailing source of amusement and Interest.
From newsstand to lunch counter, from bag
gage room to train gate it Is rich In character
study and the humors of humanity In fiux.
People are rarely at their best when hur
ried or worried, and many of those one meets
at the terminal are In those moods. But,
for any rational student of human affairs, II
Is as well to ponder our vices as well as
our virtues, and the statistician might tabu
late valuable data as to the number of
tempers lost on the railway station stairs
dally or the number of cross words uttered
where commuters stand In line to buy their
monthly tickets Tho Influence of the
weather, the time of year and the' time of
day would bring Interesting factors to bear
upon these figures.
THERE Is Just one more pastime that the
castaway ot our imagination finds amus
ing, and that Is acting as door-opener for
Innumerable cats1 that elt unhappily at the
front doors of little shops on cold evenings.
They have been shut out by chance and sit
waiting In patient sadness on the cold sill
until the door may chance to open. To open
the door for them and watch them run
Inside, with tall erect and delighted gesture,
is a real pleasure. With a somewhat similar
pleasure does the marooned wanderer ulti
mately reach his own front door and rededt
cate himself to the delights of home,
SOCRATES.
Christmas by the Russian calendar
comes late and logically the greatest of
Christmas gifts, peace. Is also delayed in
that hapless country.
No real thrill ot surprise Is induced by
the news' that LudendorKJs continuously in.
toxietted- Ita'b'ta rfjiiaw'evef itiwe' M
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THE WOP
We
HEN the line is surveyed through the
scenery
For tunnel and culvert and cut,
When the contractor has his machinery;
The "big Job" Is ready all but
"All but" means the shovel and pick of It,
Tho hunkles who work till they drop;
And so. In the dust and the thick of It,
Look out for the Wop I
The big bosses bear all the fret of It
They are the fellows who plan :
But the back-breaking strain and the sweat'
of It
Fall to the laboring man,
Dago nnd Russ and Hungarian,
All of the Immigrant crop;
Where Is the Job we could carry on
Save for the Wop 7
Subject for scorn and bedeviling.
Victim of fraud and chicane,
Still, with his spade ho is leveling
Routes over mountain and plain.
Progress? His bouI Is tho breath of It;
Lacking his hand. It would stop ;
Facing the danger and death of it,
Here is the Wop I
Ho knows the best and the wprst of It,
He knows the hard-driven toll,
The ache and the heat and tho thirst of It
Never the dream or the spoil.
Caves and explosions make mud of him
Who cares a damn? Let him flop!
Progress Is stained with the blood of him
Only a Wop !
Bcrton Braley In "Songs of the Worka
day World." A
If the "Know the Truth" placards
hadn't replaced the signs which used to tell
us wheie the car was going we might have
more faith In the P. R. T.'s protestations of
veracity.
Judging by the outburst of Bolshevism
among the humbler performers at the Berlin
Opera House the "ring" on Its stage seems .
to have been decidedly more political than
Wagnerian.
With prohibition threatening. New Torlc"
still freely Indulges In port whines at the ''
least hint of any development of Philadel
phia's aspiring commerce.
Shakespeare on an ex-emperor, about
to be "pinched"! "Sport royal, I warrant
you!"
No one can accuse Mr. Balfour of skep
ticism regarding the Paris negotiations, etneo
he has declared that "the league of nations
Is vital" even before It has begun to live.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
Whnt Rhine eltr Is the American hetdanar-
trrs In aermniurf
Z. What Is !" meaning of "Die Goctttrdaem
meruns"T 3. Who wis "Mother Ann." fonnAVr of the
American Sacletr of "Shakere"
4. Whleti finder of the human hand Is "called Tthe
"rlns tinier"?
5. What Is the name for a female deer
0. What la meinlomanla? (
7. Wli" U the word emnere nsed as a measure
of electrical current?
8. What dlstlnnilshed French statesman in
romnnnled Marshal JntTre on his visit to
tho United States In 1911?
0. Who was Dick Vfhlttlntton?
10. What treatr ended the Mexican War?
Answers to Saturday's Quiz
1. James It, Mann Is RennMlrnn floor. leader of
tho Iloase of Representatives.
3. A I'rjt n It'lan measure of lenith, Is JJOO ,
feet In lenith. ,Tr I
3. Tho Kaiser shortly before 'the Boer War rant ,
tries-ram pf sympathy to "Oom". Paul 1
Krirrr. l'resldent of the South African lie.
UUU1IC.
4, Krlss Urlnilo Is derived from the. Ofrj.isn ii
word "Christklendl," mcsnlnr Christ Child. .A I
6. The Mama Chartn was obtained from Klnc rl
John of Enzland In 1215, 5,1
0, Maienta la brilliant crimson, obtalner, from
an aniline are. of uhlch usa uab Ttinil
'wHin after the U&ttle of Maienta. In ...' I
which, tho French defeated the Austrian! . il
In ltalr In ISflO, f j.,' I
7. Henry llohrniollern, formerly known na TmjJ
iVUUam llobenzollern.
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humun belnr or an animal at dAalh ln . v.
new bodr of the same or different sneers. "'
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