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PhlladflphU. Wrdnridijr. Derember IS. 1918
THE MAYOR IN THE DOCK
TP MAYOR SMITH felt as much hinnlll--
atlon as tho city oiiRht to fed today
Tfhen ho was arraigned, even tliouKh only
ijSyv by proxy, on n charge of participation In
lection misdemeanors ho will have atoned
In a measuro for the wrongs charged
gainst him.
Earlier accusations made against Mayor
Smith, as a result of the shameless up
heaval In the Fifth Ward, represented a
frank exaggeration of blame Inspired 'by
the usual factional spirit of municipal poli
tics. In the present Instance, however, tho
charge of election law violation Is founded
upon the fact that tho police, who aro
tinder the Mayor's control and responsiblo
direction, seem to have participated with
deliberation In ballot frauds and tyranny
over voters.
It may be difficult to prove that the
Mayor was a direct associate .In the fla
atrant violation of tho laws he Is sworn
to enforce. But this makes little differ
ence. Arraignment In court under a crim
inal Indictment is severe punishment for
"-any man with a reputation to sustain.
Mr. Smith's unpleasant fix represents
the price he has to pay for long and plac:i
association In a political system that Is
Ignorant, backward-minded &nd malevolent.
It Is a system" more powerful than any In
dividual. The Mayor lilmsells, in a sense,
one of Its victims. Retribution doesn't
come to systems. It visits the individuals
who comprise the systems one by one.
'Mr. Smith now holds Its visiting card In
his hand.
A Jewel of an army in a Rhinestone set
tine is the best of all Christmas presents for
Uncle Sam.
PENROSE AS A NATIONAL ISSUE
TTTHETHER we like it or not it must be
' admitted that Senator Penrose and tho
school of politics with which he Is iden
tified is a national Issue, likely ti grow
more acute as the presidential canvass of
1920 approaches. There is a little group
of western Senators who have set out to
do' their best to prevent tho senior Senator
from this State from becoming chalrma.i
of the Finance Committee In tho next Con
, Cress. Their opposition Is not based on
lack of appreciation of the abilities of
Penrose, but on the memory of what he
and the meu associated with him did in
1912.
As the East goes so goes the nation used
to be the rule, but this was upset In 191G,
when on election night every one thought
that Hughes had been elected. It was tho
West that elected Wilson. It will be tho
'West that will hold the balance of power
In national c'.ectlons In t e future. It Is
the sentiment of tho West that the party
managers must study night and day if
they would avoid the mistakes of the past.
The first task before them Is to find out
whether the little group of western Sena
tors represents the opinion of the States
from which they come or whether they are
merely talking for themselves. One or
.tvyo are notorious blatherskites.
With all his hundreds of uniforms left
behind, the ex-Kalser Is suited to no role
save that which he now Inglorlously fills.
DELIGHTS OF THE UNEXPECTED
AFIFTEE.V-YEAR-OLD girl remarked
the other day as she waa looking over
tho Christmas gifts which she had pre
pared for her friends: "I used to wonder
what I was going to get for Christmas and
worry about It; but, do you know, I have
found out that It is a lot more fun to
give presents than to get them?"
There is a whole philosophy of life In
.this. Wo have the highest authority for
its noundness. If every person could ac
cept it as his guide the holiday season
' would bo a- happier time. But you hear
women in the shops saying to ono an
other: "I have exchanged presents with
. Mary every Christmas season for years,
nri T fturtnnan I milRt irpf 1-ipr Rnmothlnr,
W-" r-'i ',h,a year but I d0 not know what to buy."
S5 4V' This business of "exchanging presents"
$'Xf( l the bane of the existence of those who
tjifsi Engage In It. We do not Intend to con
Kfiilttesm It, for it automatically places Itself
rVpJun, the dock every hollduy season and
mS;wUs uentencc. But wo would suggest that
f'v. little money he saved from tho annual
SurgKtfund to be used in buying something
M'!1 somebody who will not expect It and
. 1 )Nv ma Satan. aO lat a!1 fltlnHAA BjA4tan It Plt iL
K' ,i3&ui.iui uy any viiiv. iciuiii t, xiicii mo
'"-'ioy. of giving will lighten the burden of
"" ";;t"bllgatIon under .which so many of us
tagger. -,
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. i . The "Red" cross In Germany Is of a sort
'''. -which the Ebert "moderates" are finding ex.
- Medlngly hard to bear.
' REVISION MOST BE IN THE OPEN
fTTHATEVEIl mny be the purpose of the
m,n wbp are suggesting that a com-
ItflWoyor' twenty-five repre-
jifut. ) vviavu
I tne pao
a grievous and doubtless fatal mistake to
attempt to force upon tho convention nny
cut-and-drled program.
If wo aro tp havo a rovislon worth
whllo it must be mado by elected repre
sentatives of all tho pcoplo Democrats ns
well as Republicans, reformers us well ns
machinists, Socialists, Prohibitionists, homo
rulers and thoso who favor control of tho
cities from Harrlsburg. Then lot these
delegates thresh out the Issues until they
discover what seems best to tho best
Judgment of tho majority. Thero Is noth
ing llko public debato to clarify the think
ing of the participants If they enter upon
tho discussion with a desire to get at tho
truth instead of with the deslro to carry
a point.
This newspaper sincerely hopes that tho
General Assembly will this winter author
ize tho calling of a convention of elected
delegates and will make provision for the
representation of all shades of opinion In
It. Then It will not matter much whether
a commission makes a picllmlnory draft
of a constitution or not. No -small group
distrustful of the wisdom of elected dele
gates can force Its views upon n, largo
body of elected representatives of tho peo
ple determined to revise their fundamental
law to suit themselves.
CONCORD OF PRINCIPLES
iMUST BIND THE NATIONS
Agreement on Mr. Wilson's Oft-Proclaimed
Basis of an Enduring Peurc Transcends
in Import Any Program of Details
"LIVERY ONE knows that the war was
not fought in nil quarters of tho globe
by millions of men and with passionate
intensity because Vienna threatened Bel
grade or Russia mobilized perhaps too
soon or because the Germans marched
into Belgium or because they promised
security to but one American merchant
man a week plying between New York
and Falmouth.
General principles a duel of them re
spectively representative of democracy
and despotism fanned and sustained the,
flames of conflict.
General principles a concord of them,
since tho foe will play no constructive
role in tho Paris conference must there
fore logically form the fabric of peace.
Emphasis on this point is manifested
today in all nations to be represented at
the memorable convention. Conflicting'
claims on specific issues, antagonistic
purposes with regard to numerous highly
important details will inevitably be pre
sented. Adjudication of interests, the
balancing of practical values are part of
the entirely legitimate functions of such
a meeting. But the promise of results
would be meager indeed without the car
dinal tie, tho broad concept of orderly
freedom which has held the Allies to
gether throughout the war and is the
antidote for chaos at the peace table.
The dynamic force of such an ideal
gives the clcir ring of sincerity" to the
recorded fervor evoked by President Wil
son in Paris and in the French, Italian
and British press. Since the landing at
Brest the Paris populace, whose cheers
for the American chief executive ring
through tho boulevards, havo received no
clue to his opinions concerning the dis
cussed eastward expansion of France,
the size of the indemnity or the rules for
sea rights.
It is not even known that the Presi
dent himself has definitely formulateu
any, while there is a weight of significant
evidence to suggest that a tabulated pro
gram of preconceived "demands" is the
last thing with which he would confront
our international associates. Even the
fourteen points, which served well their
purpose in clarifying the German mind,
have subtly taken a secondary place.
They are meaningless unless informed
by the harmonizing principle pervading
the thought of statesmen and their con
stituents in all the Allied nations, and
they are even susceptible without incon
sistency of radical alteration when sus
tained by such a spiritual force.
Hence, when Mr. Lloyd George at the
climax of a political campaign espouses
unlimited expansion of the British navy,
that declaration, though prophetic of
argument at the session, is overshadowed
as a valid augury of results by his
affirmation of belief in the general pur
poses of democracy. The former conten
tion is a subject for judicial inquiry. On
the latter the whole existence of the
court and its chances of accomplishment
depend.
"Our object," said Mr. Wilson in his
congressional address of April 2, 1918,
asking for the declaration of war against
Germany, "is to vindicate the principles
of peace and justice in the life of the
world as againei selfish and autocratic
power and to set up amongst the really
free and self-governing peoples of the
world such o concert of purpose and
action as will henceforth insure the
observance of these principles."
Since arriving in Europe the Presi
dent's whole attitude, which has won
such favor that the detail-mongers have
questioned the authenticity of approval,
has simply been in line with those prin
ciples. A more specific platform would
necessarily undergo revision as tho
President visited tho scenes of devasta
tion, as ho gained new light through per
sonal contact with high national spokes
men on innumerable problems of race,
boundary and economics.
At this early juncture it is not only
wise but honorably so to rely on the
passionate desiro in all the nations to
restore civilization on a reasonable basis
of equity. It is that primal motive which
make many discords in tho conferences
to bo sounded in a relatively minor key.
Without it the meetings would bo
anarchic, and this tho whole world will
never sanction and would eternally re
sent With the unifying principle estab
, JUWdJt is poMlble-to poncaive' of tyifc
renders in tho deliberations. At this
prospect it is easy to bo cheaply cynical
and to storm in nanickv stvlo at tho moro
mention of'thd word barter. To bohajjr?
in mis wny is. to ignore tho announced
concept of justice, which need not 'be
inherently compromised at nil if it bo
given priority in tho "program."
The Congress of Vienna from (h.o)Ut
sct threw overboard this essential factor
arid it hns become a byword in disgrace
ful diplomacy. But tho Constitutional
Convention which met in Philadelphia in
1787 opened with a concert of 'general
principles, nil looking toward tho estab
lishment of order nnd legitimate freedom
in a vast empire which was actually in
those days a world in itself.
The nobility of tho fathers', achieve
ment, high purposed in essentials, Is
quite unsmirched by the record of com
promises whereby a riddle of conflicting
issues was solved. Of the three major
ones the most significant and ingenious"
was tho satisfaction accorded tho largo
States by basing representation in the
House on population and the concession
to tho small commonwealths whereby
each State was equally represented in
tho Senate. If this was "barter," in tho
shady sense of that word, the United
States of America has mado tho most
of it.
With this fruitful lesson in mind it is
perverse skepticism to be alarmed at tho
multitude of questions certain to arise
before the Paris peace board. Agree
ment on the main structure has been
reached. They echo in every plaudit
which Mr. Wilson receives ns an earnest
that his "program" is that of other
statesmen and nations. At once in its
comprehensiveness and it simplicity it is
the only one by which the deliberations
which seek to remake the world can
bring forth results.
The cnM which Mr. Wilson took with him
to France seems to have been altogether over
whelmed In his warm reception there.
MEXICO AGAIN
01,D times seem to havo returned when
a. whiff of fresh smoko from tho per
sistent Mexican volcano blows across tho
front pages of the newspapers to cloud
momentarily the glamourous news from
France and to remind us that we still havo
unsettled troubles at our own doors.
It Is to be a revolution now, we aro told,
to unseat Carranza. This suggestion Is
not novel. Unquestionably Carranza ought
to bo unseated when a better man can bo
found to fill his place. But thero aro Inti
mations, discernlblo between the lines of
recent dispatches, to Indicate that the next
revolution In Mexico may bo as far from
motives of righteousness as those that pre
ceded It.
Any one familiar with recent Mexican
history must stop automatically in wonder
when he Is solemnly Informed that the
powers which threaten existing government
represent or will represent a union of
the "Iluerta and Madero adherents." Simi
larly It might bo said that the Junkers and
conscientious objectors havo united to save
Germany or that tho lion and the lamb
have entered into a co-operative plan to
bring universal peace to tho animal king
dom. It was deadly enmity between the Iluerta
and Madero factions that split Mexico wide
open a few years ago. The Iluerta Gov
ernment a bloody, tyrannical, strong
handed regime, dominated by ruthless and
cruel self-interest came Into existence
directly through the murder of President
Madero, whbse mystic idealism failed to
help or pacify tho country. What we
would like to know now Is, tho nature of
the magical force that Is to unite the two
forces heretofore most violently opposed
In Mexico.
It may be necessary to look backward
over history for a guiding hint. In the
old times that aro gone forever revolutions
could be made to order In a large part of
Central and South America. Any one who
had a great deal of monoy Invested In
concessions was sure, sooner or later, to
find the demands of controlling politicians
unbearable. When a greedy and unthink
ing system of graft threatened ruin and
extinction there was but one way out.
The concessionaire financed a rebel band,
started a revolution, set up a new govern
ment and carried the territory a step for
ward to the light through a good deal of
waste and bloodshed. Thero are always
disgruntled and warlike factions In Mexico.
They havo been befriended by European
and American Interests beforo this.
For two years President Carranza has
been In a trance of pro-Germanism. Tho
navies that guarded civilization got most
of" their fuel oil from the Tamplco fields.
Tho German emissaries at Mtjxlco City con
vinced tho Mexican President that a tre
mendous export tax on oil would bring
vast revenues to tho Government treasury.
It would, for a day or two. Then It would
automatically r,uin the foreign investors
who developed the oil fields, stop tho out
put of fuel oil and culminate In govern
ment .confiscation of untold millions of
private. '"property owned In America and
Europcr. ; .
This, scheme has been carried forward
wltn cnergi'. President Carranza calls It
n measuro for "tho nationalization of In
dustries." The American and the Euro
pean Governments are busy.- They can
protest and aro likely to do no moro for
Tn'e time, bejng, .Are wo'to assume, there
fore, that the latest of the artificially cre
ated revolutions Is being stimulated In
Moxlco by Interests that see no '.hope In
any other mothod?
Automatic ' 4'shwash-
rotlenc. Vntlcnce! er's, a table 'that waits
on Itself, a mechanical
contraption that does the work of the bus boy
and a, face-drylng machine which eliminates
tho need for towels are. among the marvels
on display at an exposition of hotel ap.
pllanCes In New York. Now who will' Invent-'
an automatic handshaker forthe lobby and a
motored bell hop and 'majw'. life llko unto
heaven It8elt7
A proclamation Issued
J.e't It rose! yesterday by Governor
Brumba'.ugh 40 ,an.-
notnice tho election, of Alexander Simpson,
jr and John W. Kephaft Ho the- Supreme.
Court arid of William D, Porter to' the SupeT
rior court was the seventyrthlrd.of the Brum.
An Advertising Genius
Whistler's Connection With tho
Lady Eden Portrait in tho
Wihtach Collection
"PERHAPS tho greatest advertising genius
; of modern timps, no excepting P. T.
jjarnum, was James McNeil Whistler. lie
dyed his hair, and .allowed a' long lock In
front to remain ljeht t colored It turned
gray as ho grow older In order t6 attract
attention to himself. Ills dress was pic
turesque and unusual for tho samo reason.
He had a lot of fantastic quarrels with
his prttrons, ascribed sometimes" to his er
ratic temperament, but without doubt de
liberately arranged by him In order to
provoko discussion In tho public prints.
Every ono familiar with tho history of
art knows tho story of tho Peacock Room
which he painted for a London patron.
There was no contract, but it was agreed
(hat Whistler was to do tho room for
BOO guineas. As tho work progressed ho
asked a thousand and this irlco was agreed
on; but when the room was finished tho
nrtlst demanded two thousand. The patron
refused to pay It and Whistler declined to
accept a penny less, nnd ho never received
anything for what Is generally admitted
to bo the most splendid pleco of Interior
decoration of modern times. When his
patron refused to pay his price, Whistler
Jumped at tho chanco to get advertising
us quickly as a cat jumps at a mouse.
Ho got It.
Tho purchaso for tho Wllstach collection
In Memorial Hall, Falrmount Park, of
Sargent's portrait of Lady Eden has re
called another Instnnce of Whistler's ad
vertising genius. Whistler painted a por
trait of Lady Eden, but when her husband
paid for It ho offered pounds Instead of
guineas. Whistler Insisted on guineas,
and when they were refused ho painted
out the faco and Inserted the face of an
other lady. Ho was sued for tho delivery
of the portrait, but ho won his suit, and
got moro free advertising than he could
have bought for ten times tho sum ho
failed to collect. Tho husband of Lady
Eden then commissioned Sargent to paint
his wife. And now wherever tho Sargent
portrait goes tho story of Whistler goes
with it.
No professional advertising man has
ever put over a moro successful bit of
publicity work. Tho comments which
Whistler mtdo on each occasion when' ho
"quarreled" with his patrons Indicate th t
ho understood the value of tho discussion
of it In tho public prints.
What England Has Done
A Philadelphian whose stepdaughter
has married an Englishman and has been
living in England for years,, wrote her
with the purpose of quizzing her; that he
thought viost of the people on her side
realized that had it not been for the Ameri
can troops and their quality and number
sent to France it would have been impos
sible for Foch.to have accomplished what
lie did. The woman seemed to think that
her stepfather was belittling the work of
the English, and she replied. In the course
of her letter, written on November 3, she
makes the following interesting remarks:
t
T .EVIDENTLY, without intending It. got a
-- good old rise out of you on the subject of
tho U. S. A. can't help smiling about It You
aro wrong If you don't think I read tho
papers. I take three dally papers, two weekly
and one Sunday paper. I have never mlssea
reading ail matter pertaining to the U. S. A.,
all the congratulations, etc., you mention. 1
am naturally Interested. I also get a con
siderable amount of first-hand Information
from people In touch with them at the front
which does iot nppear In the papers. I am,
without "bucking" I Imagine, moro up on
what the U. S. A .is dolr In France than
you are. When I say she has done "exceed
ingly well" I consider that high praise, not
"Mild Praise," as you call It. As to what the
U. S. A. is doing at home I know nothing ex.
cept what tho papers tell me, and they cer
tainly give great praise. So don't run away
with tho Idea that I don't admire my native
country. I do enormously. As to my feeling
Intense admiration for the English race, you
are right. I don't wish to be misunderstood,
so will go Into the matter a bit. I feel I have
every right to feel patriotic and proud 01
England. Thero Is not a drop of blood In my
veins that did not originally come from Eng
land. I am Just as -much bred from Englano
as anybody living always here. My love for
England can't lessen my love for the U. S. A.,
Just as the love for a mother and a child
can be equally strong and never Interfere
with one another. Do you understand';
America has not been very long In the war,
she has unlimited resources and men. 1 am
enormously proud of her, but she can never bo
In the same position as France, and aboye all,
England. The former Is fighting for her own
soli and women and children. We are fight
ing for our Allies and tho right ; U. S. A. Is
doing the same. The English have done more
to win this war than any other nation on
earth. At tho end of four years and three
months they are as undaunted, as heroically
bravo and shedding their blood as freely as
they did In tho first enthusiasm of the war.
Please do not misunderstand If the U. S. A.
had the chance without doubt she would
prove herself all that we think and as mag
nificent. She can never have tho chance, for
victory Is In sight while she Is still winning
her spurs; also with unlimited men to draw
on, her men at the front need never go On
for years with their backs to the wall, the
same men (thoso left of them) still fighting
to the death, exhausted, maimed and uncon
querable. This the English have done ana
are doing, and I am filled with overwhelming
prldo to think that I have the right to be
proud of them, that their blood Is In my veins.
My point Is that we have never faltered dur
ing nearly four and one-half years against
greatest odds ; U. S. A. has not been tried to
this extent, but come In when the Hun was
beginning his final spurt before collapse. I
do hope you understand what I am trying
to explain; U. S. A. Is doing magnificent
work. It Is eaBy to do wonderful things
when you aro fresh; It Is toonderul to still
do magnificent things when you are ex
hausted mentally and physically. It Is -easier
to fight a, winning fight than to fight against
overwhelming odds through many years and
never once lose courage. Knowing my coun
try I know that had she been In England's
place, she would have fought against, odas
and .-never, given in. Just as the English have
done. There are only two countries In the
world who could have done It England and
U, S. A. I thank heaven at least America
was spared what we have gone through. I
see Austria nas cavea in, certainly Germany
won't be able to hold on very much longer,
I Imagine, The evening news Is splendid, but
I feel too worried at the moment to be very
elnted. r
The President Is said to be laying the
foundation,' for world peace. The next thing
In order will-be a good old-fashioned raising
bee, "j'olrfed In by all the neighbors.
This Is (he season when a man's wife
buys cigars and neckties for him, and, as Mr,
Dooley sagely remarked, he does not care
which he smokes.
The, Kaiser's friends are. now saying that
'hq did 'not know he had abdicated until he
gottlii news; 'from Berlin. There seems to,
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CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S LETTER
Auditor General Snyder's Hit in Washington Delights and Responsibil
ities of Large Families Chevajicr Baldi and His Lemons Peril
in Eating Terrapin
Wahlngton, Dec. 18.
fTIHE Delaware River has a real booster
--ln George Uhler, Supervising Inspector
General of Steamboat Inspection Service
of the United States. General Uhler is one
of those competent officials who holds his
place In Washington regardless of the
political complexion of the administration.
His duties take him to all parts of the
United States, and recently he has been
giving special attention to steamboat regu
lations In Alaskan waters. Uhler likes the
Delaware because he was born on Its
banks. He Is a product of Delaware City,
the northern terminus of the Chesapeake
and Delaware Canal, and Is therefore a
natural boatman. He describes his first
vicit to Philadelphia like this: "I camo up
as a boy on a spar In 1864, and thus first
beheld the spires of the big city." The
Inspector General delights to tell of his
association with Captain Ellsha Webb,
whose son. Ellsha Webb, Jr., of tho Vessel
Owners and Captains' Association, Is now
pleased to call the general ''one of his god
mothers." Uhler says young Ellsha was
"the pretties baby he ever saw." Theodore
B. Palmer, Charles E. Davis, Jr., and Albert
F. Brown, who keep In close touch with
river conditions, have gotten hold of this
"pretty baby" story and are passing It
along the wharves. '
CIHARLIE SNYDER, of Pottsville, the
' versatile Auditor General of Pennsylva
nia, gave the national colons a sample of
Keystone State oratory at the recent din
ner to Governor-elect Sproul. 'No ono Is
moro popular at Pennsylvania banquets
than tho eloquent and witty ex-State Sena
tor, his' long association' with Senator
Sproul and the relations he must maintain
with him" as Auditor General enabled him
to work off some highly Interesting and
amusing Incidents with respect to legisla
tive practices. When called upon suddenly
at' Washington, the Auditor General rolled
his hand around his white vest In charac
teristic fashion, looked "Uncle Joe" Cannon,
"Nick" Longworth and "Jim" Mann
squarely In the eye, and then "went after"
the Governor-elect. It was a treat which
the,Washlngtonlans enjoyed.
a
CABLE dispatches Indicate that Brigadier
General George II. Harries was one of
the nrst Americans to enter Berlin. Many
old newspapermen will recall Harries as a
fellow-'scrlbo. He was one of those who
put In an appearance for a Washington
paper at the Homestead Tlots. ' When the
strikers undertook to discipline the news
paper men and censor, their dispatches,
Harries was ono of thoso who formed an
organization for protection and resistance.
He .figured 1ft the visitation of the strikers'
committee to the National Guard head
quarters, suddenly thrown up on a com
manding hill, with Major General deorgo.
R. Snowden; of Philadelphia, la, command,
A photograph, or newspaper, men at Home,
stead July, 1892, Includes Harrjes, Cresson
ScheUi the artist; Hampton Moore, "Brig"
Young and Charlie Vaughn, now of Pitts
burgh Harries was always strong for (he
military, 'having helped to build, up the
National. Quttrd of the District of Columbia,
of whiclf, for a time, he was 'In general
command,
TAJtQ.S .families are a ,dellgh to fond
COMBINING DUTY WITH DfiSIRE
abbut the Christmas party In Saginaw that
Is likely to celebrate the homecoming of
the boys of his family who had gono to
France and which Is to be attended by
thirteen of the Fordney grandchildren.
Governor-elect Sproul listened and then
said sympathetically, "What more can a
man desire?" But there are other ways of
looking at trie large family problem
practical ways like thoso of the late Sena
tor McNlchol In seeing that the sons are
properly placed. With James J. McNally,
tho barge ov ner, the situation Is somewhat
different, since most of his family of ten
aro girls. How did McNally meet the situ
ation? Very simply. As each child was
born ho built a new barge and gave It the
name of the child, thus building up a fam
ily and a business at the same time.
1
CHEVALIER C. C. A. BALDI, who is
recognized as a spokesman for thou
sands of Italians in Philadelphia, is another
large family man. There ore seven chil
dren in the Baldi group, but what pleases
the chevalier most now Is that three of
them have acquitted themselves with .honor
in tho war service. One of tho sons,
Virgil, a nineteen-year-old youngster, is a
yeoman on tho Oklahoma, which has at
tained distinction, In connection with the
President's trip abroad, Joseph Baldi, 2d,
Is a lieutenant In France, whose captain
has recently complimented 1.1m for service
and gallantry. A third son, Dr. Frederick
S. Baldi, Is In the aviation service.
"Charlie" Baldi, as his friends best know
him, came to. the United States a poor boy.
Ho recently said he arrived with forty
cents In his pockets, and begar. his career
In Philadelphia Belling lemons from a bas
ket. In addition to his other . services
during the war, all Charlie Baldi and. his
firm did, as the story 'goes, was to sell
about $600,000 worth of Liberty Bonds.
Some record for a boy landing with forty
cents, who has since been personally hon
orod by the King of Italy!
YOU can never toll. Sometimes a 'man Is
sick when he doesn't know It, and then
again ho Is not sick when people thtr.k ho
Is. William Rowen, of the Board of Educa
tion, who loves Kensington as the people
of Kensington love him, and who once
coughed a great deal, was assigned by his
chums In Select Council to a "wind-up" 1.1
some haven for tuberculosis. But William
fooled them. He was trying one day to
get the lowest coffin from under the tall
pllo In his establishment. He strained .,
little and found something clog his throat
which he thought to be a tooth. H has
tlly put it In his pockot, but on finishing
the coffin Job and returning home, exam
ined it to find that it was only a small ter
rapin bone that had lodged in his throat
about six months previously. This was
what caused his throat trouble without his
special knowledge. It appeared that he
had taken In the bone at a dinner given
for him end'some of his colleagues at the
Elklna home on North Broad street. Fol
lowing his discovery, of court 3, William
stopped worrying', aliout his throat and
chest and Immediately resumed his, physi
cal status, much to the surprise and d:llghl
of his colleagues'.
Now that armed strife baa' ceased, tho
x ' n?f- ii
.
A Skip-Stop Muddle
WHY all this fuss and pother,
'Bout the skip-stop plan?
The public needn't bother
'Bout the stlp-kop plan.
A fig for nerves and bosses;
Ain't the cars owned by the bosses;
And they won't stand for losses;
"Nit" the skip-stop plan.
What tho' some lives are taken
By the skip-stop plan.
And Weakened nerves are shaken
By the scop-tip plan.
Sure, the trouble's In my eye,
For all are born to die,
And pray just tell me why
Not In the skip-stop plan.
"So let the truth be told"
Of the skip-stop plan,
With your nickel pure as gold,
In the stop-skip plan.
Let every car be cram'd,
The door of tntry slam'd,
For the public may be d d disregarded
By the skip-stop plan.
The All ChUdrM'a
This runny World! Soviet has beta farmed J
In Berlin. Several M.
hundred .boys and girls about the age of '
fourteen na.rs.detl . In Berlin, dam&ndad the ';-&-
vote and threatened the sovernmentat of- 'TV
fleers with calamity unless the Ministry were; ,V:,
T)n1hAvlz-rf. Kultur aeemit to hav renat 'i&C?
to
pretty deep in Germany, Now we await the
revolution of the babes n arms,
Are we to live to see
Ferliapa the day when the one
time Kaiser of Ger
many wilt have to hire an airplane and a pilot
nfS1 fli-plA AnAfoaalv nhnv Iia Aartti itiat
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will not Brant nlm even standing room? .iitj
The Board of Healtn &
met yesterday to "dls- w
''Yea
cuss means 'to prevent'
the .return of' Influenza." Have you ever . S
noticed that boards of health everywhere al- ;M
ways meet to. prevent the return of, a disease M
after It has returned? 'if
If the Argentine minister, who Is now tho
only foreign legate left In the Russian capi
tal, should consider writing "Diplomatic Life
In Petrograd," that singular work would, be
In the nature of an autobiography,
What J?o You Know?
QUIZ
1. Who Is the Premljr of (Irtte who has visited
Mr. Wilson In I'arliT ''It.
1. nam three noted men all known as DenJamls -A,
Constant. rg-i
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