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OH, WELL-!
"jlTAYOFt SMITH had to plead under nn
'-- Indictment for eleetion conspiracj es
terday, vvhllo Governor Brumbaugh was
dodging n vrlt server sent by folks who
have Instituted an equltv suit to oust him
from a $10,000 job as State war historian
Tet we aro presuming to educate the
'World in the processes of good govern
ment! No legislator has tt arisen bold enough
to say that ho is opposed to an increase In
the pay of the teachers
LARCENY MADE A SCIENCE
AUTOMOBILE owners who have been
mystified for ears by the Increasing
altitude of Insurance rateb should find In
teresting reading In the police reports of
a system operated In this city to defraud
Insurance companies thiough frequent and
i make-believe thefts of "property" cars
Captain Souder, of the detective bureau,
and the men of his special squad deserve
a good deal of applause for loundlng up
Se crooked chief and his associates In the
stem.
It appears that not a little of the money
collected In high automobile Insurance
premiums has been tricked out of easy
going insurance companies by this highly
organized band. Tho Insurance companies
passed the losses on to their subscribers
generally, causing Inci eases In rates. The
police records show that various companies
paid more than $1000 In Insurance claims
on one flivver that was stolen over and
over again, through an agreement formed
between the owners and the thleven.
No automobile Is thief-proof. The habit
- of owners who leave motorcars standing
about tho streets unprotected provides a
problem of great difficulty for the police.
One of these days the Insurance companies
may find that they themselves might save
money by Instituting really efficient and
far reaching supplementary detective sys
tems of their own. Having done that much,
they should vlgoiously fight the shysters
who live by Instituting faked damage
claims against owners of motorcars, and
thereby reveal another sort of graft that
has flourished amazingly In recent years.
Whoever put the 'c-int" In Canto failed to
keep a good man down, for he Is now Presi
dent of Portugal.
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THE FLEET AS A VICTORY SYMBOL
rpHE dramatic Instinct of patriotism,
highly developed In most of our citizens,
should enjoy at least a portion of the sat
isfaction for which It longs when a great
squadron composed of numerous capital
ships of the navy returns to American
waters on the day after Christmas.
Inevitably both those who witness the
wondrous review at New York and those
privileged merely to read of It will feel
that hero at last Is concrete expression
ot an Instrument of victory revealed
spee'dlly enough to be In dramatic sym
pathy with tho sudden end of the war.
In the most Impressive terms the spec
tacle will spell final triumph. The navy.
save fpr the minesweepers and transport
service, has superbly completed Its work.
The end will be Inscribed In one mighty
chapter of war history when Admiral
Mayo's magnificent vessels steam Into New
Tqrk Bay.
It is fortunate that the navy, through
its mobility, is thus enabled to gratify our
feeling for "situation," since the army
'drama continues to be looEely knit. The
ideal armistice season would be accom
panied by a monster parado of the over
seas doughboys. Conditions under which
the Civil War was fought permitted of
the kind of final staging in whi h mankind
delights, when a short time after Lee's
surrender the mammoth Grand Army re
view was held in Washington.
, As It is now, and altogether unavoidably
so, Jhe feast of military victory must for
many months be chiefly mental, and the
,$ clean-cut manifestation of the naval arm
C j Vn 4riAtafnrA n aa nnil ltl a,li... sr i
V'W itves pent-up emotions authentic and
t SifcStangible not iihment, the first which they
tf.Kpiave really had. The fleet should be as
tls proud of Ailing this significant function
iVa we are of it for all the . lracles it has
wrought and all the sacrifices and hazards
H nan unuergune.
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There are serious riots in Dresden, but
j h iw news yet that the rioters have broken
(J fv any of the china,
I'lWR. "WILSON AND FRENCH SOCIALISTS
viTANV of the reactions inspired in Eu-
a, i"- rope by the President's visit will puz-
&'? jlfjl newspaper readers who happen to be
p- Unfamiliar with the political elements op
ed In the current diplomatic confer
,tocov The ne,ws in Mr, Gilbert's dispatch
Wft newspaper yesterday that French
HJUUU were endeavoring to mane capital
JKr. Wilson's flslt lllustratea' the case
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statement would Indicate that unstablo
rndlcals In Europo were plotting to obtain
the co-opcratlon of Mr. Wilson In a schemo
of social revolution. Uut this Is far from
true.
Socialism In Europe, as a matter of fact,
has an aspect not suggested by socialism
In America. It Is an Intellectually directed
party, representative of vast masses of
relatively conservative opinion and the
accepted medium of progressive leglsla
Hon. The French Socialists fought through
the war bravely and desired the defeat of
Germany, although at times opposed to
some of the various cabinets
The Influence of the Socialist party In
Trance Is duo In part to the' Intelligence of
Its leadership nnd In part to the fncl that
life In tho o'der countries Is stratified In a
wa that makes socialism the party of n
vast element heietoforo disregarded h
politicians
Tho conditions that make soilnllsm ac
ceptable to many millions in Europe do
not exist hete No party so definitely
founded in a class consciousness can de
velop In this country so long as wo remain
a nation of individualists, with freedom of
opportunity of action cveijwhcie to In
splio individualism
A WORLD CHARTER BASED OIM
INTOLERANCE WILL FAIL
Tor New Tj Tannics Built on rounlations of
the Old Mut Ulliiualclv He Deslrovcil
rpHE lock on which tho pence negotia
tors will vvicck their craft, if so bo
they do wreck it, will be thnt of ir.tdar
ancc failure to recognize and admit the
ligtu of other men to disagtcc with them
and neglect to insist on lespectful con
sideration of opposing views.
A new charter of world freedom is, to
bo drafted. Theie is danger that it will
be a charter for only pait of the world.
Tho radicals aro intoleinnt of tho con
servatives and the conservatives loturn
the compliment. Russia is wiccked now
by this contiict. Germany is seething
with the struggle between the two groups
of opinion. And no authoritative voice
has been heard de'claiing that the tyranny
of tho majonty is as indefensible as the
tyranny of the minority.
The Russian proletariat leaders who
have climbed up into the seats of tho
mighty aro exercising the oppiessive and
autocratic povvci of tho deposed autoc
lacy. Whoever piotosts against their
tyranny is denounced as an enemy of the
state and stood up before a filing squad.
History is repeating itself, for Robos
pieire followed the same tactics in the
French Revolution Robespiene, as gen
tle a soul as ever condemned to death a
man who disagreed with him. He knew
no better way to pioducc unanimity of
opinion than to kill all dissidents.
Now and then a sane mind protested
against the crimes done in tho name of
liberty, but the protests were unheeded.
The revolutionists had suffeied under a
reign of intolerance, and they applied to
their former masters the lessons which
they had been taught so well.
The Russian revolutionists are doing
the same thing, and they aro doing it
crudely and without skill because they
are inexperienced in the art of suppress
ing those who oppose them. The polit
ically suppressed in Germany are not
going to the same extremes, but they are
doing their best to deprive every one who
had anything to do with the old regime
of povvei to interfere in the new.
In France and England there are large
gioups demanding such vindictive treat
ment of the defeated enemy as the
Russian proletariat is inflicting on the
former ruling class. They are like a
horse with blinders on or like a man who
shuts out the sun with a penny before
his eyes. They either do not see or they
see only a narrow couiso straight ahead
with none of the dangers and pitfalls on
both sides.
No world charter constructed to meet
only the conditions which they compre
hend will be worth making. It will leave
out the broad tolerant principles of jus
tice, the disregard of which in the past
has brought the nations to their present
sad state. We do not mean to imply that
the crimes of Germany must be con
doned, but merely that a way must be
left open for a new, repentant and regen
erated Germany to live its life' in peifect
freedom tolerated by the enlightened
opinion of mankind.
Intolerance at Versailles will destroy
thj ends it seeks, for it is the law of life
that the intolerant will ultimately reap
what they sow. It is one of the compen
sations which the divine order provides
for equalizing things.
It was intolerance which created the
American republic, and the descendants of
the British kings who disregarded our lib
erties are now so powerless that they
cannot enlarge or contract the freedom of
a single man.
It was intolerance which brought about
the French Revolution with its benefits
and its excesses, and the French aristoc
racy against which the people levolted
exists now only in name, with all its
power and privileges gone. There were
reactions in France toward aristocracy
because of the early intolerances of the
people, but they were followed by the
reassertion of the rights of men to govern
themselves until now Franca is as free
as America.
In the long historical view one can see
that in the conflict of intolerances they
slowly wear themselves out, and there
takes their place a spirit of toleration for
differing points of view.
But they have not yet worn themselves
out completely, even in America. Tho
fight of those who have had a vision of
freedom must be kept up, and wo must
remember that Liberty is an ancient
warrior, armed to the ttetfy wtyh one
M&ikf) band erosping a bread shield and
brow, glorious in beauty, is scarred with
tokens of old wars. His spirit must pre
side in Versailles in order that all men
of every race and creed may bo protected
from tho shackles with which tho intol
erant, tho passionate, the prejudiced
would bind them.
The now silent Crown Trlnco seems to
have abandoned the attempt to compete with
tho windmills of the land In which he's'cxIM,
END OF THE TAGEBLATT CASE
TN THE first days of Amorlcnn partlcl-J-
pitlon in the war the Philadelphia
T.igeblntt was fairly representative of the
dirtj nnd treasonable Journalism fostered
so generally by pro Germans In the United
States The editors violated tho laws of
hospitality. Imposed upon the rarelesp good
inture of n patient host and resorted to
falsehood nnd misrepresentation to Inspire
enmity and disloyalty against the land that
sheltered them
They were too stupid to be dangerous.
And that Is why the i datively light sen
tences Imposed by Judge Dickinson yes
terday on Werner, Darkow and the others
seem keveie cnotiph
Tho vvur is ovci. If after n period the
Tageblntt editors should be pardoned no
one will complain A great many men who
are doing time for violations of the es
pionage act will probably be let go nfter
peace rs made To a gicat many people
It will seem thnt the country would honor
Werner nnd his associates too greatly
bi entertaining them In jail They should
be shipped to Germany and never allowed
to icturn That would be real punishment
now
The V It T cmnot get by with it The
comptn might .is well do its Christmas stop
ping earb
THE RUSSIAN RIDDLE
ONCE again the statesmen of tho Allies
have to admit grave diplomatic enors
in Eussl i The cables aie paying that an
adequate method for dealing with tho
problems of ussla will bo the first and
perhaps the gravest concern of President
Wilson and the others vho are to havo
i part in the conferences piellmlnaiy to
the formal assembly of the peacemakers
at Versailles
With the Bolshevik! the Allies will not
nnd cannot deal. Tho Government at
Omsk is apparently dlslntegiatlng. Mean
whilo Kusjla, largely us the result of dip
lomatic blundering, remains i riddle and a
menace to tho order of the European con
tinent. Tho old-fashioned statesmanship of the
Allied countries wouldn't 1 elp Kerensky
until it was too late. It ha been charted
In the Senate of the United States thut
filendly cooperation of t" o sort that might
have neutralized tho memce of Bolshevism
was refused -it a later date when It was
appealed for. The whirlwind was left to
brew unhindered. Now wo have to deal
with the consequences, nnd no one knows
how to begin.
About the only thing Berlin revolution
ary school children didn't want abolished
were vacations
PSYCHO-THERAPY
SHELL shick Is one of the mysterious
maladies with which the physicians
nave had to deal duilng the war. Its vic
tims have been affected In various wajs.
Some have been made dumb, otheis have
suffered from amnesia or loss of memory,
still others have come to consciousness
after the first shock with no memory of
an thing that happened since their first
youth and tl ey huve tried to .ako up life
again where they left It ton or fifteen
years ago. Sometimes the .most trivial
things have restored them to their normal
selves, and nt other tiiries they have failed
to respond to the most earnest efforts put
forth by their physicians.
For example, one man who had lost the
powers of speech put the lighted end of a
cigarette In his mouth In a fit of absent
mindedness, and astounded his attendants
by bursting Into profanity. Thereafter he
had no difficulty In talking. Another man
who thought he was about twenty years old,
although he was nearer forty, and had a
wlfo and had lost a little child, was re
stored to his normal condition when some
one showed him one of the garments which
his baby had worn.
The surgeon general of the army has
lately reported one of the most remark
able Instances of recovery thus far on
record, for he sajs when the news that
tho armlstlca had been signed reached a
Ijospltal In France where 2500 victims of
shock were under treatment more than
2000 of them recoveied at once and have
had no return of their old symptoms. "It
was the greatest experience In psycho
therapeutics known," he said. This is a
conservative descilptlon of U
A prying reporter dls-
Our Political covered yeBterday that
Vaudeville while the Republican
City Commltteo met
eight months ago and authorized the ap
pointment of Colonel Sheldon Potter and Ed
win O. Lewis to draft a bill to "take the
police and firemen out of politics," Colonel
Potter and Mr. Lewis were never even In
formed officially of the momentous proce
dure. "An oversight," says Senator Vare.
"It will be attended to at once I" Obviously
neither the Republican City Committee, on
the one hand, nor Senator Vare, on the other,
has any hope of seeing the police and firemen
out of politics. If this boon were possible
the City Committee would have been less
negligent and Mr. Vale wouldn't ,"attend to
It at once "
Tho French have en
Inslde Stuff thused over the "sim
plicity of Mr. WIJ.
son's luncheon fare, consisting of hora
d'oeuvres, eggs, white sauce, eaddle of lamb,
celery, fruit and cheese. Here at home, how.
ever, a. feeling that a stirring band rendition
of "Hall to the Chef, Who in Triumph Ad
vances," would more adequately express the
situation. .
If the conspiring monarchists have, as
reported, failed In Russia "because the secret
leaked out," there is a mighty 'poor chance
for any Muscovite crown as a publlo Institu
tion. The sixth Commandment, which a reader
suggssted to the attention or.tne r, n, t,
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THE ELECTRIC CHAIR
The Truth at Last
IWIth no apologies to the popular poem)
f.qOMEBODV said that it couldn't bo
done,
But ho with a chucklo denied It:
And cried that at any tate he was tho one
Who wouldn' give up till ho tried It"
He tackled the Job and endeavored Ills best,
Saving 'Tame is for those who pursue
it";
The upshot, of course, is much better sup
prcsied: lie failed the poor fish didn't do it!
jnOMEBODY
scoffed, 'Oh you'll wcfcr
KJ do that, .
Or, at least no one over has done It':
Uut' lie only laughed while his enemies
chaffed,
And tho first thing they knew, he'd begun
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He uo led like a slave, ulth unlimited grit,
When discouragement came, he'd pooh
pooh It;
Uut, though It gives Orison Harden a fit,
'I he fact is the Boob didn't do it!
.mHOUSANDS will tell nu It cannot be
- done;
Thousands of friends, too, will fall you;
Thousands will argue, enjong the fun,
The dangers thnt vvolt to assail you"
Maybe thcv'ic right, and this doctrine of
pep
Is bunkum, you'd better estihew it;
M'iz-ii they say it's impossible, ponder your
step
And do not cndcaior to do itt
When You Put on Your Overcoat
Mr Ainofd Bennett lemarks, "you can
not even put your overcoat on without
pieasurably reflecting that tho necessity
for jour overcoat Is duo to the fact that
the plune of tho equator Is somewhat tilted
to tho plane of the earth's orbit."
Far from this being n pleasurable re
flection, It causes us n slight sensation of
nausea. It Is bad enough to have our de
cent planet careering throurh the void like
a tlpsv toe dancer doing her orbit, wo
might call it without being reminded of
the fact every time we climb Into our sur
tout. What wo are far moio likely to re
flect on such occasions Is that our overcoat
Is sK j ears old and very maturo for Its
age; and that ns soon as wool comes down
a. hit we aie going to hock one of Mr. Mc
Adoo's autographs and buy a new one.
Apprehension
It has been calculated by an erudite
scholar that thcro were only 790 days when
Doctor Johnson and Boswell could possibly
have seen each other, and this assumes
that they met every day when they vveio
both In London.
If 790 days of Johnson-Boswell produced
a book the size of Bosvv ell's biography, I
sometimes wender fa little apprehensively)
how big a tome several thousand days of
Wilson-Tumulty will bring forth?
ANN DANTE.
Those who will be least pleased at the
prospect of the new multiplex telephone
(which Is said to permit five conversations
over the same wire) are tho Mormon hus
bands. A 'Whole Constellation
Now that Mrs McAdoo has taken down
the service flag thnt symbolized her hus
band's labors, we are permitted to wonder
how many stars there were on It? ,
Lead On
WE HAVE conquered where you led,
Said the living to the dead,
We have followed firm and true,
You were with us and we knew,
Knew It in our darkest hoiir
When the fiend rose In his power.
"Miracles can be no more,"
Said they, "In this world of war."
"But wo followed where you led," '
Said the living to the dead. ,
Brothers, comrades, not In vain
Were your brave-young bodies slain,
For your spirits marched before,
Brothers, comrades evermore.
Wo have crowned your holy visions,
Keep us to our high decisions,
Brothers, comrades evermore,
Guide and lead us as before.
PHOEBE HOFFMAN.
Overheard in a Barber Shop
"Well, Wllson'U meet a lot of brainy men
over there."
"I guess he's as brainy as they are."
' "I see he and Grayson were going out to
play some golf, but the rain stopped them."
"So that's what they took Grayson along
for, hey?"
"Well, he's got to keep Grayson out o'
mlsphlef. ain't he? Why, that fellow might'
tell ' some of the Frenchmen he's a rear
admiral, and they might ask him which
was port and which was stabbord"
"Well, now, don't get the Idea he's over
there on any pleasure trip. If he could
Just have a little sightseeing, nnd one day
go round the town and get tired out maybe,
and then say, 'I guess we'll stay home to
night and rest up, but believe me he's got
a big Job on his hands, gotta be doing
something every minute, gotta be thinking
up a speech, gotta have something nice
ready to say. All that social stuff is hard
going, take It from me."
"Funny about that playln' golf, though,
If he's so busy."
"Aw, look here, get this right. D'you
spose he uanti to play golf, Just for fun?
That's all camouflage. I bet Pinker, that
French President, says to him, here we
can't get any business done with all this
bunch around. Meet me out on the links
and we'll got a chance to talk turkey.
Why, I bet you that'll be the way things is
done over there. Wilson and Pinker and
Lloyd George will have everything framed
up before that bunch situ down at Verslles.
They'll fix Jt up right, too."
"Well, he's gonna run into a whole lot
of brainy men over there. It don't take
any brains, to get along with that bunch
down in Washington, but over there he'll
need all the bean he's got."
"Well, I guess he's as brainy as they are,
every crack out of the box."
"Well, I hope they don't put anything
over on him."
"Aw, that's crazy stuff. Who wanta to
put anything over on him? Germans
maybe, and they've got a fat chance, nix,
Leave) It to the old man. He knows what
heVdoIng."
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THE GOWNSMAN
TheS.A.T. C.
WHEN our American Colleges opened last
September they were confronted with a
new nnd Rerlous problem how Ho weather
the pecuniary deficit attendant on the loss
of the bulk of their students under the
operation of tho new draft. The army, too.
had Its problem ns to these younger men.
who had parsed through a selective process
by which they were prepared to enter college
or were already students there. Among them
there was obv lously "officers' material" ; but
Just how to try It out? To meet both these
questions and others Involved with them, the
students' army training corps was devised,
by means of the provisions of which young
men of this class were to combine a continu
ance of their work In college with military
training of a kind which should sift them
out with the ultimate purpose of sending the
best of them to continue their mllitnry edu
cation at an ofllpers' training camp. The
S. A. T. C. was n war measure, and with
the emergency at an end the thirty or more
thousand BtudentB In. our various colleges
who have thus "carried on" are now being
rapidly mustered out of tho service, to re
turn to college under normal educational
conditions. And, this is precisely as It
should be.
w.
T. C. was inaugurated
college teachers to a man offered their
services for what they could do In a curricu
lum modified under military advice to serve
a specific purpose. Mathematicians, lawyers,
Grecians as weljjis political economists and
historian's accepted the new work in "teach
ing" and "quizzing" In the novel course
called "War Alms": for it was recognized
that the embryo officer should assuredly be
Informed from the first as to what he was to
fight about. Science was adapted to Its mili
tary applications, French to Its prospective
use In the trenches, the mother tongue to
the writing of military reports and orders.
All recognised that tho man In khaki knew
more about these things than the cloistered
ncholqr, and for tho most part the colleges
gave 'over tho student to a divided control,
reservjrig for his college jwork his few un
occupied hours, which In 'trio course of the
weelcs became fewer and fewer..
WITH all these difficulties, vvhich have
been by no means 'confined to Pennsyl
vania, it Is not fair to Judge the, S. A, T. C.
as a thing tried and found wanting. Of
course, the deans and professors are rejoiced
that the experiment Is over, for such aro by
nature antl-mllltarlstlc. And the students,
who have no doubt benefited by the setting
up drill, by the regular hours, by the Inculca
tion of unaccustomed habits of tidiness and
by an acquaintance at times with a strange
domesticity, are glad that they are to be
benefited in these ways no more. The
Gownsman has yet to meet a student or a
student-soldier returning from training camp,
or from abroad for that matter, who does
not rejolece that Ods "Ineffable' thing" Is
over. The one exception: -to thisj universal
satisfaction within his experience is the feel
ing of a certain mother with 'one duckhng,
a darling eon, whose youth.stature and In
experience havo delayed his incubation, so
that he oniy Decame a iuu-neagea omcer
with the ending of the War, and hence is still
at home In the nest. This dear lady feels
that the conclusion of the war Is to be
deplored, "For, you see, as a matter of fact,
Thomas has really never had a chance."
VnHE S. A. T. Cj has worked c-ut variously
" X. in different places and under various con
ditions. The traciauiuty or. the military per
sonnel, too, has differed and varied. Obvi
ously the small colleges most easily udjusted
themselves to the now conditions. Their
machinery was less cumbersome and they
had smaller bpdles of men to deal with. At
Amherst, the usual students' activities, such
ns athletic teams, the dally paper, the Chris
tian Association, it seems even the fraterr
nltles, were not In any wise Interfered with,
students under military training; and the
others akfflfir on. tbs actlvlUe as balers)
the
was wuutoia
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"OH, YOU HOLY TERROR!"
malnfalned Some of our larger universities
tell o, very different story. A few had been
converted Into virtually military schools last
year. Others, like Pennsylvania, strove hard
to maintain the college curriculum and to do
likewise vvhnt was expected of them; and
such havo gone through n checkered career
In these months. For what wllh tho delays
vvhich history and experience teach us are
Inevitably Incident to the workings of all
free forms of government and some others
what with the influenza, with adjustment
nnd readjustment, we had scarcely estab
lished the students of the S. A; T. C. In their
quarters when, with tho conclusion of the
war, the bottom dropped out of the whole
thing. Above tho difficulties of teacher nnd
officer tho sympathy of the Gownsman goes
out to tho student-recruit, whose dally busi
ness" during thlB time It has been literally
to serve two masters. How to get tlmo from
soldiering to study, with soldiering Impera
tive, led to a very certain result for those
with less than the nimblest minds. And It
Is to the credit of the genuine college man
among these recruits that he has generally
contrived to do as well as he has.
TO RETURN to the S. A. T. C. there aro
some gains besides those Implicitly jiotlced
In the last paragraph. Perhaps they are
not Important. However, the Gownsman
would like to meet with a carriage among the
young somewhere between the slouchy lacka
datslcallty that was and the staccato smart
ness of a drill sergeant. He would like to
hear speech removed alike from the mouth
ing drawl which he has Bometlmes endured
and from the sententious grunt that eome
tlmes answers a military command. And ho
could wish for the display of n greater In
terest in current affairs on the part of the
student than Is shown In the small eddies
of "college Journalism." The Gownsman will
look, too, anxiously to see whether punctu
ality has followed the student-recrult that
was back into civil life and whether he will
less untidily, thumb and dog-ear his books.
MILITARY training, even at its best,
ought to make clear to every American
young man how wholly abnormal war realty
Is and how utterly exceptional If not Im
possible clvlllzntlon must labor to make It
for war to recur. Splendid It is when sup
ported by the patriotism of sacrifice, when
waged to defend that which makes life worth
living: preposterous and criminal, on the
other hand, when It reduces the Pursuit of
learning, the uplift of high Weals, to a.
mechanical preparation successfully to de
stroy our fellow man and what his. If
vve?have learned anything by these years of
stress and trial we must have learned hat
.L i tIm-v In war. though patriotism,
devotion lo duty, sacrifice of self j shine out
more gloriously than ever. In war itself Is
there verily no glory: and now when it has
hem shown to an astonished world that the
raw Uvks of democracy on a diet of liberty
rnn cone on more than equal terms with
SSfeStonnl teteraiw fed on militarism, the
last : argument of the militarist Is once and
forever gone. -
Instead of voting UO.000 for Sunday or
chestral concerts tho Finance Committee of
Councils has decided to set apart the money
to hire ten hydrant Inspectors at U000 a
year But this Is a tribute to melody, for
what Is more musical than the gurgling of
water from a leaking Joint on a summer day?
Ad composers have spent weary hours trying
to reproduce the musle of running waters over
the" hingle of a shallow stream.
it .r the children In the United States
-.volt they wilt not carry banners such as
"e? a thousand Juvenile rebels In Berlin
flaunted " the ttIr wh'n ,hey 1nttaclte11 ""!
nbert Government. We can see. In our m nds'
iVe the banners of the children's revolt In
America: "More Sugar In Our Tea !' "Down
With School Teachers I" "One Christmas a
WeeVtl" r
The Tageblatt. for the offenses of which
two editors and their associates have been
iTntenced to Jail, seems to have been a scrap
Ot paper with the sharp proclivities of a
boomeranf,
Westward the course of empire takes its
way but the Soviets ond tho Councils of
Soldiers and Workmen are not likely to get
any farther west than germany,
Now tVat the P. K- T. managershayei
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Little Studies in Words ,
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HIGHWAY
THE Roman road builders are responsi
ble for tho introduction of the word
highway into the English language: Arid
they did it by introducing tho thlngtitself
Into England. The great Roman roads
vvero built after a fashion unknown to the
native Britishers. Tho top soil was taken
off and the trench thus made was filled
with large stones and four layers of stone
and top diesstng were placed on the foun
dation. The surface of the-road thus-built
extended above tho surrounding ground.
In some cases it presented the appearaftco
of an embankment. The Latin name for
the road was via strata, or the road laid in
strata. The Britishers, who did not speak
Latin, referred to the roads of their con
querors as the high road or the 'high way
or the high street the word street deriving
directly from tho Latin strata and they
called It thus because it was a high road
that Is, a road higher than the fields around
It and different from the ordinary dirt road,
which is gradually worn down until ft. Is
below the surrounding country. The Eng
lish villages and towns built along the)
Roman roads all have a street which is
known not as High street, but as the High
street, this form of words surviving- from
the early days when "high" in thisjVcon
nectlon was not a noun, but a descriptive
adjective.
THE READER'S VIEWPOINT
Valiant Portugal
To the Editor of the Evening rubllo Lcdgejr:
Sir iVlva Portugal ; viva sempre tu naeao
honrada e dlgna! (Long live Portugal ;llva
forever your honorable and worthy natlortt)
Will you kindly permit me to show my ap-j,
preclatlon of your Just and kindly tribute to
our small and almost unknown ally, Ue. Por
tugal. Small and yet great; great in Its de
sire to live up to and even beyond the spirit
of its treaties. What a contrast It shows to
the once powerful German nation, which In
Its haste to conquer the world threwi its
treaties to the winds, and by so'dolng be'gan
Its Jc-urney on the downward path. Viva
Portugal e toda nacao semelhantal, (Long
live Portugal and every nation like her 6,
WHYTTYNQTON.?
Philadelphia, December 18, 1918. , '
What Do You Know?"'
QUIZ ; jj
1, How old Is Tremler Clemenreaa,- ef Frsnter
t. Who la the new President ef 1'artosal?
What li
the Tearlr Income whlrh the
(lovrnimi
iimrnt amironrlatrs every year far the
I'aue
uuy which ,nns ecr nernii
r the I'ontlfTs s'nre.the ta
nnr o
were Incorporated In the kinadem-
4. Who was .
.!:; s
fiat tlimfmm .lVH
I Jlali? ii-3
ha was .prime minister 'of . Great :J)r)Jalrj ?'.
. 'rli-c the rears of the America Cfrli J
8. W'hnt Is the correct pronunciation' ,ef;:Ls A
Angeles? v . t
o vvno was tvario foicpr . - j
7. What la the national hrmn sf Wales?;
8, Wbo waa the Roman sod of asrleiiltareT
D. Whnt klnd.'iif n composition.' moslralor
lltrnrv. la tuorceuu. suut what dors the
. word meant
10. What Is .A ehllltlath? ' ,
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Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
M. Venlselos Is the Premier of Greece iwhon
air. vyisan una me in saris.
Constant llotellio
Ularalhaffa
lh Ttnlll
republican ana revomtic
lonurr leader (13-
known BH.penJamln 1
llenjamln. Constant v -;
isuu. was aer.eraur I
Constant. Jean Joseph
HK15-lsV vrns a French nal
llcnn licnjamm (lonafant de jcrberque-wsji
iv VTench political writer, orator sod Don-
:" c. "-
tlclan.
Frederick
.plfU Tennyson rn
nn Rnsllsa poof
and brother of Alfred: Tcnnrson,
4, The Jtuilelro Islands belong- la I'ortuaal. r
R. tvill-m II. Reward una Abraham Lltieotn's
rerrtary of Htatc. i i,a
6. The explosive "TNT" Is known as "Doolci"
in army alnns. -
8. A fete-ehampetre la on "outdoor i festival. f .
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