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JOIN THE RED CROSS
UP UNDEH the Runs, to the er flrat
llne trencher, the Hed Cross carried,
for the American soldier, an almost mater
itial care When a man was carried from
the battle It nas the arms of some unsung
heroine of the sen Ice that cradled him
It wan the Red Cross that watched him
through the night and wrote his letters and
kept him happy and cheerful
Through al the terror of modern war the
Red Cross has maintained Its service as a
reassuring sjmbol of the ineradicable
human deslrt for good It will be on dut
In Europe till the last American of the
rapcdltlonarj fotce Is safely homo It is
at work now evcrj where on the Continent
amid the dreadful aftermath of war be
ginning at the very foundations of the con
structive scheme, averting pestilence and
famine, caring for the homeless and doing
all that human effort can achieve to help
discouraged, dispirited and desolated mil
lions. In ritiny parts of Europe it Is the
first ad ance agent of a re eo'abllshed
civilization. Some of Its heaviest work is
still ahead.
The Christmas drive for membership be
gins today- and membership costs only a
dollar. No d liar ever spent ould do more
for those who get It and the one who gives
than the dollar required for membership In
the American Red Cross
The red flag Is blgnlflcantly of the hue
which prevents It from blushing for Its sins.
SUNDAY MUSIC 01" THE BEST
VIRTUAL assurance is given that Coun
cils' Finance Committee will favorably
recommend the Philadelphia Orchestra's
offer to give a series of free Sunday con
certs during the winter provided the city
will appropriate $10,000 towaid tha under
taking. The assets of entertainment, spiritual
stimulus and esthetic development In such
a proposition cannot be gauged by the
expenditure necessary to make it thrive
Good music available to the public at a
time when the public Is best able to enjoy
It may be productive not only of pleasure,
but of the right sort of artistic betterment
which should be sougl t by any large com-
munlty.
"Bluo laws" still operate against 'pay"
concerts on Sundas here Lofty Idealism
may be formidably costly, as the orchestra
association learned when several jears ago
it tried to finance gratis entertainments
here out of Its own treasury.
The present scheme appeals both prac
ticable and fair. The orchestra will add
zt J80"00 to the city's gift. The total sum
Vwill enable all debts to be met. No profits
from the plan aro contemplated. Tha
music will be offered as a benefaction to
a community whose artistic progress has
already been so admirably intensified by
thg regular weekdaj subscription concerts.
If the present mlltl weather continues
the Blrls will have to be getting out their
furs again.
WHEtf DID WILSON SAY IT?
POSTMASTER GENERAL BURLESON
, , has announced that his resolution, In
troduced In Congress, providing for Gov
f ernment ownership of the telegraph and
i i lelephone lines, had been shown to Mr.
Vilson and had been approved by him
So far as the general public knows, Mr.
"Wilson has not committed himself to Gov-
ernment ovvt.ershlp of either the telegraph
,r lines or of the railroads. The country
would like to have home definite word from
htm on the subject Instead of accepting his
lews at second hand. This is important
because it is desirable (hat the opponents
of Government ownership should know
with yhat forces they are to reckon. A
proposition supported by a handful of
( theorists In Congress Is not so dangerous
j as when It Is backed by the President with
ali the powers at his command.
j In spite of Mr. Burleson's Intimation,
the country will await some definite word
direct from the President before believing
that ho favors turning over the telegiaph
g&Jjand telephone lines to a Government de
S$l , partment which has managed the collec-S.--ttlori
and delivery of the malls with no-gr-
torfous Inefficiency and extravagance.
The President's well-known fondness for
moving pictures could be Indulged to the
w-j full when ha eared on ecstatic Paris.
THE GlftAT NEW WEAPON
frjITACHINERY for public discussion of
' International disputes," says Lord
Jtoberi, Cecil, Assistant secretary for
Foreign Affa.rs In the British Government,
"will prevent future wars." Thus the far.
sighted English diplomatist suggests the
basis of a new scheme which he has
worked out "to Insure permanent peace.
And he indicates the novel application of
"""ifrtf'!'qrc tha laa Blwav been overlooked
I, v '"aI uridereatim'ated In the ordinary proc-
ofsecret diplomacy.
He Oiunion is a aeiativeiy neyv factor
.wbtM t Ifltw-nallinal politic. From
f- 'i
this time on It will be' one of the most
tremendous forces at the disposal of any
statesman with a good ciUoO. It is to be
regarded as a great new weapon because
It did not exist until education became
general. And the potential force of public
opinion has Increased steadily with the
perfection of the printing press, tho cable
service and wireless telegraphy The
achievements of the modern scientists have
indeed narrowed tho world of wstern
civilization down until It may b said that
Europo nnd America will always be within
the sound of any man's volco when nny
momentous thing Is to bo said.
President WIIkoii was the first to rec
ognize the Importance of a unlvorsal nppeal
mado possible by the wireless nnd the
cables In behalf of a Just cause.
Tho beauty of his method and of the
suggestion Just advanced by Lord Robert
Cecil Is that a Just cause Is presupposed
In each case No dispute In which the
world Is the Jurj can ever end In on Inter
national conflict. It Is reassuring now to
know that hereafter the means will alwavs
exist to present tho evidence in the case
directly to all tho peoples concerned
AN ARMISTICE WITH SELF
SIGNED ONCE A YEAR
Why Not Make It Permanent So It Will Out-
lal the Christmas Season and Help
Make the World Better?
ANY ONE who views the Christmas
"or, let us sny, the pre-Christmas
crowds in tho streets these days will
have to ponder nnd puzzle -once again in
the presence of the strange phenomenon
that we call a New State of Mind.
Again, suddenly, it has become fash
ionable to be kind. The poor have many
friends. Be little and forlorn and all the
world will tiy to befriend you. Grieve
and multitudes will turn from their own
affairs and search for ways by which
you may be comforted. The hungry will
bo fed. The unprotected will find strength
and compassion gloriously upon their
side. Everybody is disposed to look back
in puzzled amazement at his days of bit
terness and grinding strife and to feel
an overwhelming conviction that life was
made for happiness and fair play and
that the way to receive the best in exist-J
ence is first to give it.
The miracle has happened vearly at
this time for many generations and yet
it cannot be explained.
Mr. Wilson and Mr. Lloyd George and
Premier Orlando and M. Clemenceau
wise old Clemenceau, veteran of
stoims! now face the immeasurable re
sponsibilities of providing a permanent
peace for mankind. Theirs is a task
which many men say is impossible and
of a sort sure to break the heart of any
one who attempts it. Would it be too
much to say that the statesmen of the
Allied world and all the exalted intellects
of their various letinues might piofit
hugely if some gift of clairvoyance per
mitted them to know the inner mysteiy
of days that bring tho world, once cveiy
year, to a state of spiritual peace and
understanding? They might learn
thereby that the world never can have a
permanent peace through any new style
of legislation alone. Indeed, they piob
ably know already that only amateurs at
the game of life suppose that you may
correct evil by meiely putting a legal
ban upon it. To put a taboo on war will
not eliminate the incentives and desnes
that lead to war any more certainly than
the taboo on crime can compel all men
to obey the law.
All great motives, all great achieve
ments, great virtues and great dimes
begin at the heart of man. It is with
the heart of man that the peacemakers
must deal in the final analysis. To it
they must make their ultimate appeal.
It is the thing that must be cleaned up,
as the reformers say when they speak
of Philadelphia politics. It is a high
tribunal that makes most of the decisions
usually attributed to reason. It re
sponds once a year to some gieat echo
out of the past to the memory of a
matchless service done in behalf of an
undeserving world.
So, it seems, human consciousness is
not altogether beyond reach by any
appeal that is obviously valid and for
the common good.
Observe, in the light of this assump
tion, the things that are happening every
day in Philadelphia. When a man jostles
you on the street you take time to lcal
ize that it is because some one in turn
has jostled him. The discomforts of
crowded pavements and aisles and trol
leys aie accepted generously. People in
the crush establish friendly relations for
an instant with others whom they have
never seen and never will see again. Life
is warmed and pacified. People partici
pate in the eager enthusiasms of
strangeis and help others whom they do
not know to find gifts for some lad or
other overseas.
Everybody smiles with a new tender
ness at all children. We obey the traffic
laws,, and. realizing that the policemen
have difficult jobs we buy good cigars
for them. All of a sudden, obeying some
impulse out of the air, we have approxi
mated the goal and ideal of civilization,
the state of mind that endless wars have
not been adequate to bring about.
After the 25th of December a change
will come. The old hardening process
tends to be restored. The enchantment
lifts as if all life were a fairy tale. The
Peace Conference will sit at Versailles
to make a permanent peace and it will
not be able to retain any of the magic
that was over the world.
Europe and America are filled with
noisy radicals, rich and poor because
tho Incurable Tory Is as red a menace
any day as tha most enthusiastic
thrower of bombs who beliove that
world peace may be brought a"bout by
the particular sort of oppressions which
it pIsasM. them to recommewL No -man
is so poor In any country nowadays that
he may not grow a frenzied beard, buy a
soap box and promulgate a new theory
of government with the complete assur
ance of a definite following. Invariably
such a one will preach a system Involv
ing injustice for those whom he happens
to dislike or misunderstand. And the
first element dispensed with in every
such new philosophy Is faith which the
radical of hese days calls superstition.
They all forget that faith is the con
victions of the heart, that tho heart is
stronger and surer in its reactions than
tho mind and that as the heart of man
kind dictates so will go tho world
upward or down.
The. Main Lino bos from over here seem
nlso to have been the main line bos In many
a critical Juncture over there
MR. WILSON'S UNASSAILABLE LOGIC
rjIHE principle of Justice has seldom been
- defined with more powr. and dignity
thin In tho pregnant key sentence of Mr.
Wllsons address to President Poincnre.
Tho details to be considered in the Paris
conference are multifarious. But the spirit
which should anlmnte their adjustment Is
of elemental nnd eternal simplicity.
It vltill7es the American President's ap
preciation of the "necessity of such action
In the final settlement of the Issues of the
war as will not only rebuke such nets of
terror and spoliation, but make men every
where nwaro thit they cannot be ventured
upon without the rertalnty of Just pun
ishment "
Tho two purposes for which America
went to war and for which she now
shiits In the peace making are here po
tentl expressed. Criminals must pny the
condign penalty. Valid coercive guaran
tees must be given that such outrages
shall not occur again
Mr. Wilson's position as revealed In his
first formal pronouncement on foreign soil
Is morally unassailable It presages, In
i,plto of a multiplicity of interests, an
ultimate wholesome concord between the
nations that aro remaking civilization. It
completely repudiates the mealy mouthed
propaganda of Huns plotting to open a
bleach of aims between tho United States
and the Allies.
Justlco is never more unimpeachable
than when It punishes the guilty. This is
why the President's conception of it, fore
shadowing such action, lings so reassuring
nnd so true
Oscar Hammereteln Is coming back to
Philadelphia Well, well ' It Isn t surprising.
Oscar has been coming back all his life. '
WIRELESS NEWS ABOUT AIRSHIPS
TTTE ARE so accustomed to modern won
' ' ders that when the Public Ledger on
Saturday contained a Marconi wireless
dispatch from London announcing that
Mr Handle) Pago is now accepting orders
for airships which will fly 600 mllej and
be equipped with a comfortable stateroom
for use nt night or. In bad weather, we
read the news with no more thrill than we
experienced when we read of Mr. Wilson's
arrival In Prance.
Indeed, the perfection of wireless 'eleg
raphy did not create so much excitement
In tho world as was caused when the fitst
telegiaphlc message was sent over wires
a few generations ago. It Is worth while,
however, pausing npw and then to consider
the pi ogress of Invention since the Napo
leonic wars The steamship, the railroad,
the telephone, the electric car, the auto
mobile, the sending of messages, by wire
less, the alrthlp and the submarine have
all been perfected within a hundred ears.
and all but the steamship, the rallroa-' and
the telegraph within the memory of men
now living who are still a long v,a this
side of old age The commercial use of
the airship does not look so Impossible to
day as the commercial use of the auto
mobile looked twenty jears ago And the
possibilities of wlieless communication for
written messages and even for the spoken
word are still unexhausted. The joung
men of today may live to bo able to talk
bv wireless from their hojses In the coun
try, miles from a railroad station or an
ordinary telephone station, with their
business offices In town or even from their
airships In which they fly to and from town
every day. The wonders that have been
are as nothing to the wonders that shall be
The one factor lacking
The Queer to complete the pi-
Tale of a Tuno quancy of' the scene
In which Breton
joungsters, led by a doughboy, sang 'Hall,
Hall, the Gang's All Here," to honor the first
visit of un American President to France
was the English composer of that alleged
"American" ditty. Sir Arthur Sullivan, long
since laid to rest In St. Paul's, wrote for
'Tho Pirates of Penzance" the original
melody to which W. S. Gilbert afTixed the
words beginning 'Come friends who plow
the sea" Metamorphosis Is complete when
Prcnch voices pay tribute to America with a
tuno first heard In the old Savoy Theatre, cm
London's Strand
War caused a suspension of the WIs
tar parties nearly sixty years ago. And war
caused a suspension of the Assembly balls
two ears ago It was a long time before
the Wlstar parties were resumed, but there
Is to be an Assembly ball this winter which
shows how much more quickly the pleasures
of frivolity revive than do those of Intellec
tuality. If the German propaganda exposures
continue Senator La Follette and others
charged with pro-Germanism may not get off
so easily after all. A minority of the Sen
ate Committee on Privileges and Elections
has recommended that La Follette be tried.
"I raise my glass," declared the Presi
dent, addressing Monsieur and Madame Poln
care. Is It permissible to ask of the Commander-in-Chief
of the beme-dry army and
navy of the United Statea what were the
contentsT
It now looks as if the Germans, who
have been killing Englishmen, Frenchmen,
Italians and Americans for four years, were
about to begin killing one another.
Colonel Hatch does not seem to be
frightened by any local protests against his
attempts to protect the soldiers and sailors
from protected vice.
Captain Robinson has been discharged
from the army, but that Is not tho It hid of a
discharge which will satisfy those who want
a clean city
Even tho weather man must be feeling
the effects of the peace regime, for his offer
ings have not even permitted Philadelphia
to enjoy a snowball fight this season.
, TVho says (he Germans haven't learned
oiiythingT It Is now proposed that the execu
tlve of the new Hun rDUbllo b made less
jWweKul than tlie wwlun rraaiissC ,
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BEEF, IRON AND WINE
a A Humble Tribute
DON'T talk of Miss Fickford or CMaplIn
or Mix. ,
It's nono of these stirs that my preference
picks:
Leave over jour praise of Miss Bara O
hush I
Let Frnncls X. Bushman bo back to the'
bush
For of nil the screen artists, tho elegant
dish
And tho, lady I. vote for. Is Dorothy Glshl
jtTISS FERGUSON'S beauty Is scornful
"! nnd trite, (
Fatty Arbuckle's fun Is a horrible sight;
Caruso, unheard, is devoid of his art,
And I know MIst Kellermann's outlines by
heart
Tho feature I yearn for with passionate
wish
Is a bright new flve-reolcr with Dorothy
Glshl
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WHAT rollicking humor, what pep and
what kick,
How tender, how comely, how youthful
nnd chic!
When she's on the bill nil the houses ore
packed:
No wonder the child has the looks, and
can act
She makes all the rest seem a shoal of
poor fish:
The kid that I covet Is Dorothy Glshl
And ithtle on the sublect of movies, ilc
haic olnaps meant to say that Charley
Chaplin teas the man Mho put them, on a
different footing.
Some one else will probably say It, why
shouldn't wo: The Kaiser Is the man who
put the N. G. In Amerongen. That town,
by the way, Is almost the only one in
Europe that hasn't asked Mr. Wilson to
come and visit.
This must be a busy time for Vice Presi
dent Marshall something to do every
Tuesday.
We Have One, Too
Dear Socrates The original Socrates was
attended by a familiar datmon or demon
which got htm into a good deal of trouble.
I hope jou are more fortunate.
ANN DANTE.
Our demon Is tho printer's dev il.
Remarks on Poets
"yoUNG poets begin, when they are very
voung indeed, by writing poems about
death. Unfortunately they only write
about It and rarely make nny serious at
tempt to investigate.
W ourself wrote a poem, when we were
seventeen, called "To a Skull." Tho last
line, we recall, was this:
One thing alone Is sure, and that Is Death.
N one ever took the trouble to contra
dict us.
a a
rpHE next step Is to write poems about
--love, especially richly requited love.
The young poet Is obsessed by the thought
of loving and being loved In return with
almost embarrassing reciprocation. He
takes good care, however, If he attempts
any experiments, to fasten his adoration
upon some object so lofty that thtre Is no
chanco of his finding favor. What he
really wants Is not some one to love him,
but an excune for secret pining. In our"
own case the unsuspecting object of our
passion was Miss Maudo Adams.
A BOUT the time the young poet gets his
" first Job he Is likely to dally with ro
buster themes, such as vagabondage, the
open road, or even tobacco and liquor. He
takes care, however, to conceal these effu
sions from his employer. At this period
he is a verj strong soul Indeed If he re
sists parodving Om.n Khayjam.
T OOKING.back on his preceding verses
'-' as mere apprenticeship and feeling that
his "art has matured," he now considers
himself qualified to attack some serious
topics In a way that will command atten
tion. Socialists vegetarianism, deeper,
waterways, solar eclipses and the memory
of Abraham Lincoln are generally his vic
tims. TJIS old age is occupied with such trifling
themes as cash registers, cigar light
ers and the movies By this time' he has
observed that a fall down Is less conspicu
ous If It deals with a humble subject,
A FTER his death he is said to have been
" "a ery graceful versifier." Some
hardhearted critics even speak of him as
having been "prolific"
Additional Argumentg Against Prohibition
Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.
A woman In Coblenz threw an empty
bottle at an American soldier.
Suggested Epitaph for Mr. W. H.
Here lies one whose namo was writ In
slaughter.
Studies for Future Epigrams
Feminine hearts are as delicately ad
Justed as typewriters, and equally depen
dent on ribbons.
Considering a certain Christmas dinner
that is soon to be eaten in Paris, the Kaiser
now realltes u.hat a mistake he made M
not being a professor.
And speaking of professors, we wonder
what has happened to tho ninety German
Intellectuals who had so much to say at
the beginning of the war? Havo they no
comments to offer?
The War After the War
C5mmunlty Council Conference, Park
Avenue Hotel, addresses by J. W. Slaugh
ter, George Gordon Battle and others,
From a New York paper.
Page Mr. Hoover
Cold Rolled Strip Steel luncheon, i n m '
Waldorf-Astoria. Also from a New York
paper.
It looks as though that ancient Jest
about many a slip 'twlxt the cup and the
Llpton will have to be Inducted Into service
once more. gOCRATES.
Germany's original tearful reluctance to
'g?..11 a""lBtc9 aIa the alacrity wl(h
which she pledges herself to Its iitiewol give
prf,ttty Mm MH4. a( !, ., Jv
THE READER'S
THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY
Pennell's Plan to Line It With Monuments
Discussed by Another "Artist
To the Editor of the Evening Public Ledger:
Sir Last Monday, now more than a week
ago, tho Evenino Public LEDOcn Invited
Its readers to write and express their views
upon the city's (requirements in a. soldiers'
memorial
It fvas an earpest appeal, addressed In a
friendly and intlmrtto spirit to the" people of
Philadelphia. "Write to us;' It ran, "and
express jour Ideas, and be assured that, they
will receive respectful consideration at the
hands of Mr. Wldenr and his associates."
I have been watching the colunms of the
Evenino Public Ledobp. In the full expecta
tion of seeing a spontaneous outburst of en
thusiastic suggestions for the permanent
commemoration In marble and stone, In
bronze nnd gold, of the valorous deeds of
Pennsylvania's sons on the battlefields of
France
Of the several millions who live In Phila
delphia, among whom may b counted thir
teen ominous number directors of the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and
some thousands shall I say? of architects,
sculptors, painters, graverafand designers,
only one responded to your .appeal, Joseph
Pennell, who In an Imaginative and Illumin
ating letter exposed his grandiose scheme of
decorating Lincoln Highway as a national
memorial to the soldiers. With this one ex
ception there has been unbroken silence.
This is not apathy It is atrophy' of the
emotion and sense of beauty, of taste in Its
highest nnd most expressive, form
Should It continue, a complete paralysis of
the esthetic sense must ensue with all Us
degrading symptoms of human decay; but
fortunately there are stimuli at hand and of
these there Is nothing more exciting to arouse
the emotion of beauty thnn the''sham nnd
evanescent cities and courts that, surround
and embrllsh fairs and pageants. Of these
we ar offered one by Mr. Wldcner to wel
come home the returning armies as they pass
along Broad street, and another by the mem
bers f the T Square CluVto be erected on
the Parkway to glorify tho phases of war
and victory and peace.
In addition to the enthusiasm such a
decoration of the Parkway will Create, It will
show the multitudes to be there assembled
In rejoicing over victory what Philadelphia.'
may do to permanently establish Itself as the
art center of the nation, but substituting for
perishable tovver and temple Imperishable
Btone and marble.
The Parkway Is a short stretch of the Lin
coln Highway. Since It has been opened up
the distance between Logan square and the
rocky elevation atitne entrance to the park
seems only an arrow's flight, but In that
short space what rnagnlficence and splendor
may be conjured up by tho Imagination and
skill of the architect I
In the long stretch of the Lincoln Hfghway
nature will also do her matchless part In
decoration and Its windings, through the
Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevadas of
California will be adorned by ever-shifting
pictures that will rival In beauty If not In his
torical memories the vision that Fennel) has
given us of the Slmplon, Mount Rosa and
'the "Qloom of the Alps."
It will be, when carried out for I am sure
It v. lit be a glorious memorial to the soldiers
and a helpful revival of our civilization. If
It sometimes will lead us Into the srlmo and
smoke of our manufacturing cities It will also
lead us out of them and enable us to escape
Into peaceful valleys and on to heights of
solemn grandeur; and In the) contemplation
of Its viaducts and bridges built upon rocks
and embowered In trees the emotion of beauty
will take our minds from nature to art. and
I our civilization will be better for it,
Art maae- civilization possiDie, not. religion
or commerce or science, and so soon aa art Is
called In to crown and complete the religious,
commercial and scientific structures of onr
national life the people will be better fitted
to frame a nations policy.
The Lincoln Highway will link up the At
lantic with the Pacific and whether It starts
In the east from the great pleasure city by
the sea to cross the Delaware to Washington
square or'from New York across the Hudson,
It must pass .through Philadelphia's Park
way and what Is drstgned" for that tplcndld
site will 'either make or mar forever the
city whoso present opportunity Is unique
among the cities of the Continent,
It has been well said that Philadelphia
should stand In art In the'same relation to
New York at "Florence fia tb Rone--and
curiously enough we have n our midst at
this iB-BMtMt ejxioh :in our Olty's-plstjiry1 a
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and whose other qualifications might entitle
him to bo called Its Lorenzo dl Mcdlcl. In
my mind's eye I can see nlm llrectlng tho
elevation of a temtile In white marble to
crown the monument at the cntrAnce to the
Park and. Inscribed In letters of gold Tho
Pennsylvania Academy of the Flno Arts.
JOHN McLURE HAMILTON.
President of the Fellowship o! the IVnnsjI-
vnnla Academy of the Flno Arts.
Philadelphia, December 11.
Objects to Provost Smith's Remarks
To the Editor of tho Evening Public Ledger:
Sir A short time ago Provost Smith's
remarkable statement regarding S. A, T. C.
men appeared In jour paper. Thus far his
remnrks seem to have gone unchallenged
and they have given the public tha Impression
that wo men are slackers Our venerable
provost has branded us as "bullet-dodgers."
Will Doctor Smith please answer this: Did
the, colleges of the country send out circulars
to men of college age. telling them that It
was their patriotic duty to come to school
and prepare for commissions in the army, or
did they not? The Committee of Public
Safety of Pennsylvania sent out circular
letters signed by George Wharton Pepper to
all men of college ago In Pennsylvania, urg
ing It upon them as a debt they owed their
country in the present crisis to go to school
and train for commissions Both these letters
were couched In most beseeching and begging
terms
When the S A, T. C. was organized and
all the plans were known, every man In It
knew that he would be at camp in, at the
latest, six months. We went Into It despite
tho removal of all tha glamour from the plan
as originally described In tho letters cited.
Tho writer has seen more than one man who
was physically unfit for military service beg
to be allowed to Join the unit, not because
they wanted to dodge bullets, but because
they saw here an opportunity to serve
America. That wao the sentiment that
actuated all of us the thought that here we
would be given the chance to do our bit In
tho most practical wny. We came here as
preparation for officers' training camp. work.
Men who gave up their professional courses
to devoto their time to their country nro
bullet-dodgers, according to Doctor Smith.
Men who gave up good business positions and
offered their services to America aro bullet
dodgers. Men who answered the call of
Doctor Smith's and Mr. Pepper's letters are
bullet-dodgers, according to Doctor Smith's
own wnrrl.q nAmnmhA,- r.n.n- a ....
.......W...WV., WV.W. ami. ii, we
came into this voluntarily. We were not
conscripted!
With every call from camp for urgent
military service 'more than double the men
needed Immediately volunteered' Penn's
bullet-dodgers did this. When the call came
for tho motor transport corps for Immediate
overseas duty, hundreds of these bullet
dodgers volunteered for this work" and ap
plied for transfers, because things were t6o
slow here, .
DqcW' Smith's remark was entirely un
called .for and an -Insult to "his boys," -as he
fondly (?) calls us. s, A. T. C.
Philadelphia, December i.
No Polish Pogroms
To the Editor of the Evening Publlo Ledger:
Sir Your paper on December 4 published
a letter from Mr. Maur Drance, to 'which
you gave the title of "Justice toithp Jew."
May I be granted the privilege, of having
you Insert a few lines of comment?
While all reports about the massacres oi
the Jews have come from Berlin or Vienna,
via Stockholm or Copenhagen, "at the same
time also were received, througn' tho Asso
elated Press from; the special correspondents
of the New York, Sun and Washington Post,
and other sources, flat denials of those sup
posed pogroms.
In other words, while Germany ana
Austria, at all cost, strive to prejudice pubjio
opinion agntnst Poland, It looks as though
the Allies were trying to warn tha America-.
public against this latest German camouflaged
propaganda.
It Is an historical fact, corroborated by
some Jews themselves, that Poland has been
the most tolerant of nil European nations.
(See ...El.enberger's Jewish Encyclopedia,,
volume IV.) While) tho Jews were slaughter
ed and persecuted everywhere In Europe
they found a safe refuge In Poland and were
granted not only protection but .special
privileges as far back as 905. In 1345 they
were given the freedom of the country.
Why should the Poles have suddenly
altered their traditional policy of respect for
the creeds and nationalities of othersT Is It
reasonable to believe that having suffered
tor 1B0 years themselves, from ths oppression
,of others, they should' wish to v persecute
othersT
Koccluszko and Pulaski have fought for
tha, liberty of (his country. No army during
the last centlny want to battle for freedom
Mebdld not count m 8 ", 0mfyi (
Poles Tho word "liberty" Is maglo to, tl,sm. -Why
should they not respect the liberty at
their own fellow citizens? 1
On tho other hand, what nation ever craved i
most for world dominion? What nation Is i
most Interested In the nonexistence of an .
independent powerful Poland.? Germany of I
course! Germany Is Just now using 'every j
me-vns tqjjgep open the gate which leads Into "
Russia ajSthrough Russia td the mu"h-
rnvptp," "Irian a it ran nf KlhaHn. . Whtttavar
serves that purppse meets with German P- M
proval and support And If she succeeds In
arousing publlo opinion sufficiently", as to,
nrptnrllpA thn flMAcrit ,n tha Taapa Pnnfr.
ence against, an Independent Poland, .'her ;
aim win bo- achieved She win have
frustrated tho Allied nlan of erecting a-wali
of natlcns, extending from tho Baltic to the -kf
traditional policy of "prang nach Osten"
(push toward the East). ' "'"
Ono thing remains certain: whether; In-
D1..-C.,V . ..W.. ......:.. ..I-, -T. ....- -v-, .
cision ox mo peace iriounai, me I'ousn ihi j .
will never be wiped off the face or the eatm,
and on that Polish soil will continue to 'live
25,000,000 Poles sldo by side with 6,600,000
Jews Even If all the Jews In tho -world ...
(13,000,000 In all) were to migrate to, Po-
land, still the Jews would be In the minority.
And If the Poles hold conclusive proofs that
the Jews are responsible for the nont '
materialization of their hopes for independ
ence, then hardly could the Jews ask for;the
application oi i.nnsiian principles oi or- jZj
givenes3 in regara to tnemseives. ,
I Join you In asking "Justlco to the Jews,"'
to all Jews, to those of Poland as well, to
those very Jews who regard themselves as
Poles and are despised by their brethren, the
Jewish Nationalists. i V,,,
m rt nnnavrr . "l1
Director of the Polish Bureau of Injorma-
lion. tf,-
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Little Studies in Words
CABAL
A CABAL Is a clique or faction given to
intriguing. Tho word Is applied to 'any
group of men who meet In secret and .plot
for the accomplishment of their purposes.
Tho word Is an acrostic, mado up of the
Initials of the names of the committee for
foreign affairs of Charles II of England
whlcfi served fiom 1677 to 1673, "alie mem
bers of the committee were Clifford, Ar-
'.
Ungtgn. Buckingham, Ashley and Lauder
dale. This committee was exceedingly un
popular and It was spoken of In derision
as a cabal, and tho word came Into com
mon usage to describe a clique of men en
gaged In nefarious schemes.
The cabal was the precursor of the. mod
ern cabinet, a body of ministers named
from the small private room In whlcli they
were wont to meet for consultation with
themselves and with the king. And cabinet
Is the diminutive of cabin. 3'4
What Do You Know? ,
QUIZ '
What la the 'chief town of the Island of 81..
Hefena? . B,'r
What Italian eltr la the birthplace of the
present Tope? .
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bestowed the arltt et fire en nsnkuidf '-.
Who tmld. " 'Tl.safrM In matrifcenr to be
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W ho wrote tha famous Civil War . sons'.
"Tramp. .Tramp. Tramp, the Jlojrai Are I
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What la the larre'st dtr in Georsla
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