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STATE CENSORSHIP ON MONUMENTS
GOVERNOR-ELECT SPROl'L'S sugges
tlon that a State commission be ap
pointed to pans on the artistic quallt or
public memorials and bridges will lie ap
proved In principle b all Intel ested In
beautifying the towns and highways of
the Commonwealth
It comes at a time when the people
re considering memorials to the men who
died In the war. Unless something Is done
to prevent the election of monsttosities
the memorials of the present war win tje
little better than those of the Cill War.
A man has a perfect tight to gratlf his
own taste within the four walls of his
'own house but when he or a group of
men propose to put a monument in u public
place they must be Induced to consider the
taste of others who will be compelled to
look at It. The Art Jury of this city hnH
justified its creation, for it has prevented
the erection of statues unwoithy the best
taste' of the community; at least It has
'prevented the placing of any such In a
conspicuous position.
Such a commission as Mr. Sproul pro
poses could very well take over the super
vision of the decoration of the Lincoln
Highway in accrdance with the plan out
lined by Joseph Pennell In this news
paper, if that plan should commend itself
to the Judgment of the State. The bridges
over the .streams which the highway will
cross could be made permanent memorials
of great artistic value, and the milestones
could be ns elaborate or as plain as the
purso of those who chose to use them for
memorial purposes could afford, the ontj
restriction on them being that the) should
.commend themselves to the State nrt com
mission as worthy to be erected as repre
sentative of the artistic taste of the Com
monwealth. We do not suppose that it is Intended to
supersede the local Art Jur. The State
commission would doubtless exercise Juris
diction only In those communities which
had no art Jury of their own.
This Is the day to do Christinas shopping
early and late.
NO "ALSACE-LORRAINING"!
AS BANE a word as hao been utteted on
-tho treatment of Germany Is contained
In an edltarlal article In the Manchester
Guardian which is reprinted on this page
today. It is an Indorsement of Lloyd
George's declaration that there must be no
"Alsace-Lorralning" and a discussion of
what must be done to avoid It.
The selzuro of Alsace-Lorraine, as every
one knows, established a permanent grle -ance
against Germany. The Guardian
wisely and Intelligently protests against
the establishment of a permanent griev
ance in Germany against Franco and Eng
land. This can be accomplished only by
the abandonment of the plans of the
extremists.
In brief, the Guardian pleads for that
which this newspaper has been arguing
for (many months, and that is a livable
jiesce. Germany must be punished for her
offenses, and in the New Testament phrase
treated as a publican and a sinner, nut
this does not mean extermination. It does
not mean that a permanent outlaw nation
must be created, but it does mean that
after the punishment shall be Inflicted the
victorious nations must do their best to woo
the criminal back to the paths of law and
order and to agree to the restitution of Its
rights as a member of the family of
nations. This is the Christian course and
It, Is the course of practical wisdom as well.
There follows as an Inevitable corollary
from the demand that there shall be no
Alsace-Lorralning against Germany that
there shall be none against any other
powers. Italy's ambitions on the east coast
of the Adriatic conflict with the desires of
the Jugo-Slavs who liavo racial interests
there and Grecian Interests In Asia Minor
conflict with the territorial claims of Tur
key. These questions must be considered
. with reference to the preservation of world
peace rather than with reference to the
selfish smbltionB of nations seeking to
extend their boundaries. .
As In most civil wars, there are scant
evidences of civility In Russia's.
LET US DE GUATEFUL TO THE DRUIDS
"ItniEN n young man finds a charming
V young woman under the mistletoe and
exercises his traditional right he should
lift up his heart In gratitude to the ancient
Druids, who established the custom.
Its origin Is lost la the mists of an
tiquity. Caesar found the Druids in Gaul
With their mistletoe rites. Pliny tells
us that tho Druid, dressed In white, climbed
the xik and with a golden knife cut off
the mistletoe bow as a preliminary to its
OTfonnonlal use. And we learn also that
th. Druids assembled once a year In a
truteh province, whither all those who
EsirgntliiMl ,urrelt resorted In order that they
it b reconciled, we may, oe psrnw
in imium tht when the Judged had
directed to exchange tho kiss of recon
ciliation" under the sacred plant. But, how
ever this may be, the kiss and the mlstlotoe
have been associated so long that tho
memory of man runneth not to the con
trary. Wo may condemn the Druids for their
bloody sacrifices, but wo must bless them
for their establishment of atr osculatory
custom so consonant with tlio desires of
the human heart that It survives to this
day, nnd will doubtless survive so long as
lips remain klasable.
THE SUPREME CHRISTMAS
OF SECULAR HISTORY
The Deep and Noble Import of This Year!
1'eslival AuaLcns New Hopes in
the Heart of Mankind
TTOPE in the hcails of men replaces
the bitter irony of four Clnislmases,
mocked by the hideous tragedy of war.
Joy in this revolution is warranted, but
it is ecstasy of a singular kind not un
mixed with awe. l'or never since the
wondrous star first beamed on Bethle
hem, never in nearly two thousand years
has the import of a Christmas day been
so profound. The centuries melt away.
"Tho smoke and stir of this dim spot
which men call earth" vanish before the
white light of eternal truth. Conscious
ness thereof has been instilled by tragic
travail and sacrifice in the souls of hu
manity. Never has the armor of justice
been so palpably manifested. It may be
donned oi rejected, but men can never
say they did not know it was at hand.
The cynic, of course, will come for
ward with the merciless papes of history.
Admittedly, it is a shameful record,
often a base betrayal of spiritual ideals
to which millions of sane men subscribed
but which all too few of them, when
banded into nations, indorsed in deeds.
But it is not merely niiy optimism which
sees in the authentic tale of national
Krced, national selfishness and nntional
truculcnce lessons not comparable with
the one which the world has now had the
opportunity to learn.
Plain as these arc, not all statesmen
are reported as yet willing to acknowl
edge them. Time was when such digni
taries as those at the Congress of Vienna
and the equally myopic Congress of Ber
lin could have directed the world accord
ing to their purblind vision. But a vast
and mighty brotherhood of war-wrung
peoples is now alive to such perils. It
beholds the unexampled privilege of re
fashioning a complex civilization that
has gone awry on a basis whose gencial
principles are of transparent simplicity.
Perfection in the reconstruction is in
herently inconceivable since human
nature is frail and evil is bound to survive
the mo3t stringent fiats of the most effi
ciently organized league of nations. But
an approximation of accomplishment,
heartening to a degree which history has
not hitherto revealed, can be achieved
with honest reliance on the most ele
mental and familiar of ideals.
For nearly two millenniums the mil
lions of the race have paid tribute to
these ideals on Christmas, flattered them
selves upon their realization in deeds of
charity, tolerance, generosity, open-mind-cdncss
and warm-heartedness upon a
single day in the long calendar of the
year and then relapsed into the familiar
round of selfishness. Not even a hideous
war and the warnings that it utters can
make the path of virtue one on which
the individual can be expected invaria
bly, serenely and instinctively to tread.
We do well to open our hearts and render
amenable our impulses at Yuletide.
But nations are supposedly the admin
istrative expression of the best and most
civilizing forces extant in the subdivi
sions of an uneasy world. Germany
misconceived this theory, emphasized or
ganized power, exempted it from all
ethical safeguards and she fell. Her ex
nmple is before all other Governments,
our own included, and these Governments,
represented by bodies of men trained to
think more clearly than some of the
humbler of their constituents, are now
empowered to apply their efforts to a
reconstruction in which not the weak
nesses but tho firmest bulwarks of moral
rectitude will be manifested. Nothing
could be less obscuie than their mean
ing. Their spirit Is precisely that of
Christmas.
And that is why the significance of
this ancient, beautiful and soul-reviving
festival is of such present magnitude. A
day which mankind, freer from delusions
than ever before, conceives as the final
gateway to a peace instinct with at least
some of the aspirations of the Divine
Founder of Christmas justifies the joy
with which it will be hailed here and in
far-flung realms that know His name.
The peace planners Rcem by no means to
be out of tho wrenches before Christmas.
PAGE AND LITERARY AMBASSADORS
fTIHE literary tradition In American dlplo-
maey was sustained only vicariously In
the appointment of Walter Hlnes Page as
American umbassador near the Court of
St. Jumes's.
Mr. Page, who has Just died of an
illness which became acute while he was
serving in London, was not so much a
literary man us an encourager of the pro
duction of literature by others. He. has
only one book to his credit and he got
little fame from its publication, He waa
an editor of newspapers and magazines
and -x publisher of books written by per
sons more inclined than he to put their
ideas on paper.
The data are not at hand on which any
judgment fit his success as u diplomatist
can be based, lie served in London during
the trying years of tho war, but the exigen
cies of, that war have thus far prevented
any disclosure of tho details of his work.
He may have made a record that can be
compared with that of Charles Francis
Adams In the same post during our own
Civil War. or he may have had a com
paratively easy tusk. At any tato he sue
cseded In preventing anything approaching
111 feeling between the twp 'countries, In
spite of rlous friction ever British Inter-
frnc wltlt our shipping,
EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER -
diplomacy had comparatively easy sailing.
Their task vfas to represent the American
people at foreign courts, which thny did
gruclously. James Itussell Lowell, in
Spain and in England, was as successful
in this as 'Washington Irving had been at
earlier dates In tho same countries. George
llancroft, John Lothrop Motley, Bayard
Taylor and Andrew D. White were all mon
of letters first and diplomatists Incident
ally, In more recent times Arthur Sher
borne Hardy, who was sent to Spain as a
man of letters, is remembered for no dis
tinguished achievements, nnd Thomas Kel
son Page nnd Henry anDke, whom Mr.
Wilson uppolnted to Italy and the Nether
lands, respectively, have represented their
country much more acceptably than It
would have been represented by n ntcie
politician, with no interests outside of law
making and carrying elections.
The former Kaiser will cat bis Christmas
dinner seasoned with bitter herbs.
WHEN SKEPTICS RECANT
rpiIIS Is the season when the small
boy who has doubted for the rest of
tho year the existence of Santu Clans
leeanta and experiences a relwil of fnith.
faith with him is In reality the substance
of things hoped for. If It were not for the
fear that the genial fuend or children
would pass him by on his annual rounds
tonight the outhful skeptic would perslht
in his skepticism; but in the absence of
certitude his doubts aie tiansformed from
questioning of the reallt of Santa Claus
to questioning of fie reality of the doubts
themsehes.
Thus wo discoer tliat bo.vs are but men
of a smaller growth, for who has not
known of the skoptic.on the ee of his dis
covery of what there Is really on the other
side of life, to return to the hopes of his
childhood and early utith and to ngiee
that after all there may be something In
what the human heart has di earned about
Immortulity '.'
The fonuer Czar ma still be phjslcally
,Ui. but lie is without doubt politically a
(lend tine
Iraguc of charter levlsers l Just as lm
pon.uit for Philadelphia as a league of
nations for the rest of the world
It Is old Nick rather thnn Saint which
tin' lm.iBln.it on assoc.ateg with Amerongen
this Chiistmastide.
The "ink of Iniquity would be something
moie than a metaphor should the Allies de
cide to open the sea-cocl.s on the fleet In
Scuiiu. I'lott
"Cowards dio many times," bays Shake
speare. as he perchance prophesying about
the e-Czar nnd the innumerable and In
Jlnltelj Mirled account of his taklng-ofT?
No Hooner Is German) s 300.000 mettle
tons of sauerkraut released than it Is In Im
minent danger of being interned again this
time by the consumer.
The "over the top" Idea seems to be con
tagious. Ken the explorers now aie demon
strating Its appeal in their zeal for a flight
to the North Pole
Now that Doctor Masarjk has taken tho
oath of otllce as President In Prague, the
C'zecho-Slav republic may be considered as
estnblihed and In working order.
The death of l'rau Coslmu Wagner
would be of wider Interest if there were any
likelihood of the restoration of Hayreuth as
an International musical shrine in the near
future.
The Waning of 1871
Mn. LLOYD UCORGE said a wlso word
)esterday when he warned us against fol
lowing the German precedent of 1871. There 1.
according to him, to be no "Alsnce-Lorralnlng"
In the coming peace. The folly of the Alsace-Lorraine
policy was that It perpetuated
bitterness, erected a permanent monument of
defent on the very borders of France and
made Inevitable the forty years of armed
peacs that ultimately broke Into the recent
war The wickedness of the policy wan that
some parts of this folly were Intentional.
There were thoBe who wished Franco to le
maln hostile in order that fear might keep
South Germany loyal to Prussia. There were
those who were lesolved that France should
arm In order to justify German armament
nnd the continued ascendancy of the Prus
sian general ntaff. No such policy or wicked
ness seriously Influences any of the Allies,
but fear and resentment remain the most
potent motives, and If any "Alsace-Lorram-ing'
13 to bo averted It will only be by a wise
and self-controlled statesmanship. Mr. Lloyd
Ueorge docs not In fact tell us how he pro
poses to avert It. Indeed, while in one sen
tence contending against anything that
makes permnnent pence Impossible he Is In
the next sentence arguing for courscB which
would go a very long way In that direction.
Take, for example, the exclusion of Germans,
without regard to character and personal
record, from this country. If this means that
Germans aro to bo permanently excluded
from peaceful Intercourse with the rest of
the world, It is a condition clearly Incompat
ible with assured peace. No people would for
long acquiesce In such Isolation and disgrace
They will struggle against It nnd, feeling
themselves already Ishmaelltes, will go for
ward the more recklessly to win back their
position by force or fraud. There Is no peaco
on those lines, but only the permnnent threat
of revolt and the permanent machinery of
repression.
Take again the exaction of Indemnities to
the utmost of Germany's capacity. It is
most Just that Germany should pay full com
pensation for Injury to civilians, as provided
In the peace terms, Dut the Indemnities
now talked of go far beyond this, and people
do not hesitate to speak of Germany working
off a debt of colossal magnitude through a
long term of years. What they do not at the
same time explain to the public Is that to
exact such a debt requires an army of occu
pation, nnd that If It takes thirty years to
pay off the debt our soldiers must be In Ger
many for thirty years. This la not what our
people want. Still less Is It the way to end
war and arrive at a stable peace. One of the
bad rcsulta of electioneering at such a time
as this Is that the most extreme views of
militancy hold the platform, Whoever dares
to hint that an extravagant demand may not
bo conceived In tho best interests of the
natton Is at once dubbed pacifist and pro-German,
Patriotism la measured by violence of
language and extravagance of proposal. The
result Is thnt men is a gooa urai more ot
"Alsace-Lorralnlng" in the talk of people to
day than there was at tho moment of the
armistice. Mr. Lloyd George appealed to
women to exercise a moderating Influence and
to hold the establishment of a reasonable
prospect of permanent peace as the greatest
Issue. If women seriously want this they
must demand me moderation and self-re-etrnlnt
from statesmon. We cannot have It
both ways. We can have a settlement which
by intrlnslo Justice and reasonableness makes
for peace, or we can have one which satisfies
our resentment and fills our pockets at tho
expense of the enemy sn "Alsacs-Lorraln-ing"
settlement, which Is. Just a challenge to
the enemy to rsvolt and revonge himself
. ' ... ri.. it ..,- .--iint nup. ti-A mm.
wnen no can. " ..-.. ,- ,, .,.-
abate something of our emotlonw. and If we
want to satUfy our emotions we must bid
good.by to the prospect of peacs, That Is
the alternative which Mr. hWA George
miiM hhve nut before the-womsa yswtsr-
PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24,
THE CHAFFING DISH
TOBACCO POUCH TALES
The Squirrels' Revenge
(A Story for Children)
SOMETIMES nbout twilight. when
Daddy gets home from work, the chil
dren climb up beside htm on a big sofa nnd
say, "Daddy, Is there a story in the tobacco
pouch tonight?" Then Daddy puts away
tho evening paper nnd gets out a great big
tobacco pouch and looks in It. "Is there
any magic in It tonight?" says little Nick
eagerly. Sometimes there Is? and some
times there Isn't, because ou ean't i!ifnji
find magic, even In tobacco. If there Isn't
any magic there, they have to fall back on
mere games, such as trying to reckon how
long it will be before all three of tho chil
dren put together will be as old ns Daddy.
All their three Hges added up are only
twenty-eight, so they still have soms time
to go before they can catch Daddy. They
expect to catch up with Mother pretty soon
if Daddy will only tell how old Mother Is.
But when Daddy thinks he sees some
magic In the pouch he tells Stumpy to get
the Special Pipe. Stumpy Is called Stumpy
because she Is short and very plump; nnd
Uonj boy Is called Bonyhoy because he Is
long nnd bony. Nick Is Just Nick, because,
as Daddy says, he's been Nicknamed al
teady. So Stump hurries back with the
Special Pipe, which Is a very large pipe
indeed nnd holds a great deal of smoke,
Then the) nil make themselves comfortable
on the sofa while Mother Is doing her hair,
without anyone to pick up tho, hairpins for
her. Daddy fills the Special Pipe and Nick
holds out the ash tray for the mutch. And
then Daddy blows out a great cloud of blue
smbkc that twirls and twists in the lamp
light, and looking In the Mil ok e he sees a
story. i
once
Vy wiios
upon a time there was a little boy
use name was John Ldwnrd Andrews.
He was not a bad little boy as boys of that
age bo. What age? Well, what age are little
boys usually? Somewhere between seven and
eleven. As I say, he was not a bad little
bo) : In fact. I have known at least two
small boss who could be. when they trltd,
much vvoise than John Bdvvard ever was.
Hut John lidward had one very unfortunate
habit
John Edward lived in a comfortable home
near the Park. His mother lived there too,
nnd also tho cook, except on Thursday eve
nings His daddy lived theie at night, but
all day he lived at an olllce and only camu
home at supper time to find out If anybody
had been naughty.
THE magic In the tobacco doesn't tell me
whothcr John Edward had any little
brothers and sisters, but it does tell me
about his bad habit. Hi cry fine day he used
to go out to play in the paik. He had n
little tric.vcle with rubber tltes, and he used
to ride this along the paths under the trees,
nnd there he used to see lots and lots of
gray squirrels. Great big, beautiful squirrels,
with bushy tails as soft uh whipped cream
and little blight eyes watching for nuts and
little paws that they washed carefully thtee
times a dav In the fountain. Now It didn't
take John Edward long to Eee how fond the
squirrels were of peanuts. And that was how
his bad habit began. He used to pick up an
cmpt) peanut shell from the path, where
theie were 'usually some l.vlng about, and
then he would hold It out and call Bunny,
Himiiy. Bunny, and the squirrels would come
hurl) Ing, looking first this way nnd then that
vva.v, to get the peanuts. And John Edward
would hold out the empty peanut shell, just
as though there really were something in It,
and the squirrels would come right up to him.
Then one squirrel would put Its front paws
on his shoe and look up at him, and John
Edward would keep on saying Bunny, Bunny,
Bunny, and finally the squirrel -would walk
up his stocking and hnng onto his trouser
leg and smell the empty peanut shell and
find there was nothing there.
TOIIN EDWARD kept up this game for a
(J long time, until finally all the squirrels
got to know hlin by wight. They knew his
sailor suit and his round sailor hat with the
band that said '.'. S. &' I'cnnsyhania In gold
letters, and even If he wore another suit
they know him by his tricycle. And they
used to watch him, and when they saw him
stoop and pick up a peanut shell they would
all turn their backs and wave their plumey
tails at him ns much ns to Kay iou cant
fool vs'" And they even vvatchod him, so
carefully that they noticed where he lived
right ncross the street from the park.
Now we light our pipe again and come to
the sad part of the story,
IT WAS winter time, aiid a hard winter, too.
All tfic squirrels had been economizing and
doing without nuts as much ns they could,
for orders had como from the Mr. Hoover,
among the squlnels that as many nuts as
could possibly be spared were to be shipped
overseas for the squirrels in France and
Belgium, and even for the squirrels In Ger
many, for those countries had very little
food. And every txtra peanut that camo
along was very welcome, Indeed, but not
many of them came, for It was winter time
and snow was on the ground nnd few people
were In the paik. And then, on Christmas
Eve, a bright, sparkling afternoon, John Ed
ward wont out to make snowballs. In the
pocket of his coat he found some empty pea
nut shells, and he couldn t resist tho tempta
tion to play his old ttlck. He did not really
mean to bo deceitful, but he loved to see
the squirrels come darting ncross the snow
and climb up his leg. So hn held out an
empty shell and called Bunny, Bunny, Bunny!
And the squlrrols, not dreaming he would
hoax them on Christmas Eve, when they
were hungry, came running and sniffed nt
the empty Bhell. And when they saw It was
a fraud they were ver) angry.
THAT night was Christmas Eve, as I have
said. Santa Claim was late on his rounds,
for he had to attend to all the children .of
France and Belgium nnd England and Italy
and even Germany before ho came over to
America, where the children were luckier
and didn't need so much Still, his pack had
plenty In It, and when he got to John Ed
ward's house he found a little note that John
Edward's father had left, saying:
vDear Santa As far as I know John Ed
watd hns been a good boy, and )ou can go
ahead and do your best. I've left tho tree
all ready In the nursery and a cigar on the
table for your good self.
(Signed) JOHN EDWARD'S FATHER.
So Santa determined to outdo himself.
John Edward was fast asleep in bed, and as
the moon was shining In the window Santa
didn't need any light. He really enjoyed
decorating that tree. He covered It with
llttlo colored balls, and peppermint canes, and
strings of pink nnd white popcorn, and hung
up little sugar pigs and chocolato wrapped In
silver foil, and gilded walnuts, and cornu
copias and toy trumpets. At tho top of the
treo ho put a little cardboard angel with a
golden star and an Imitation Santa Claus
with n red coat and a white beard, He filled
the stocking that hung on tho end of John
Edwaid's bed, He put a big red applo down
In the toe and then packed it with all the
things that email bo)s like. There was a
clockwork engine, and a set of dominoes,
and a llttlo bag of marbles, and some choco
lato cigarettes, and a drum and a flashlight
and a toy airplane.
T)L'T there were eome others still up that
,r night. As soon as Santa and his rein
deer team nau jingiea ort out or sight there
wsb a pattering and a scratching up the
wall of John Edward's house. The squirrels
had been watching, nnd they knew Just what
they were going to do. Each of them had a
little bag over his shoulder, and they dartid
Into John Edward's room through the open
window. They saw the treo shining In the
moonlight; they saw the fat, bulgy stocking
hanging on the bed post. They swarmed
over tho tree as only squlrrols can, nnd In
u Jiffy they had everything off It except the
little angel and the Imitation Santa Claus.
They turned the stocking upside down, and
in less time than it takes to tell it all the
contents of the stocking and all the nuts and
toys and candles on tho tree were In their
little Pari, men may scuttled out of the
window and down the side of the house and
back to their homes in the park.
And when John Edward woke up In the
morning, all ready for a mrry Christmas,
what do you suppose he found In his stock
ing? What do you suppose W found decor"
uttng his trseT
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CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S LETTER
Director Webster's Services to the Port Corporal Smith, of the Columbia
Club, Satisfied With His Title Thomas Devlin s Sons in the War.
Colonel Scott's Christmas Greetings to the Boys $t France
'Washington, Dec. 24.
DIRECTOR GEORGE S. WEBSTER'S
long experience in municipal affairs
makes him nn effective spokesman on
behalf of Philadelphia when tho city's
Interests are involved in Washington. The
Director's sincerity goes a long way with
officials here. During the war the munic
ipal piers were held up by embargoes nnd
war-board orders and necessitated frequent
conferences. In some of these the Director
got what he wanted, but sometimes he did
not. Moie recently his intimate knowledge
of transportation and river conditions mado
him a valuable witness In tho Chesapeake
and Delaware Canal hearing. When asked
what Philadelphia had done to merit this
national Improvement, the Director
promptly asrerted that for a time up to the
completion of the twenty-six-foot project
Philadelphia had virtually maintained tho
entire project from Marcus Hook to Phila
delphia. At tho present time, he said, tho
city maintained Its own dredging plant and
provided piers to accommodate nny ship
that might come to the port.
IT WILL please the farmers of Swedes
boro and vicinity to know that Con
gressman Bill Browning, of Camden, has
put In his annual claim before the Rivers
and Hurbors Commltteo for Raccoon
Creek. Tho Congressman told the com
mltteo that Raccoon Creek turned out Into
the Delaware more tonnage than any of its
other tributaries except the Christiana at
Wilmington, He credited the Sivedesboro
region with- high record for vegetables,
such ns potatoes, tomatoes and cantaloupes,
and said It figured large in the markets of
Philadelphia and Baltimore. The Camden
Congressman also revived the Mayor Ellis
and Board of Trade project for u deeper
channel In "front of the city from Cooper's
Creek south. This channel Is sought by the
Camdenites to bring shipping up to tho
wharves nnd to enable our sister city to
connect readily with the thlrty-fivo-foot
channel to the sea,
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THE Columbia Club veteranB, Including
Corporal Smith and Sergeant Quigley,
have figured In some of Congressman
Edmonds's latest yarns at the Capitol. The
Congressman is winding up his fifth year
as president of the popular uptown organ
ization and occasionally droi-3 into a remi
niscent mood. He says the lato Colonel
Bosbyshell tried to put tho old Napoleonic
Htory of "McGlnnls" over on Corporal
Smith, but the corporal and the sergeant
countered with conclusive proof that the
battle of Gettysburg was fought out on
more substantial lines. They admitted they
had some help. Tho Congressman ex
plained further that Corporal Smith, whom
Phlladelphlans have known for a Genera
tion and more as "the map man," doesn't
take very kindly to the tltlo of "colonel,"
which some of the rank laymen around the
club have been passing- up to him. Ho
regnrds "corporal" as a genulno title with
lighting qualities attached1 and is proud
of It,
W:
HICK recalls "Private"' John Allen's
famous speech while a candidate for
Congress In Mississippi. Wa will let Tom
Blsson tell tho story, Allen's opponent waa
a general and they wero having a. joint tie'
bate, The-jgeperalhad Lhs first ech. JIo
1918
IT SEEMS TO MEAN MORE NOW
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quent over "the dark nnd Btormy night"
succeeding the battle, when he dragged his
weary limbs Into a rudo log cabin on the
mountain sldo and threw himself down on
tho rough pine floor for a four hours' rest
before the battle was renewed at dawn.
"It's all true, fellow citizens," said Allen,
opening his speech in reply. "Every word
my opponent has said about that 'dark and
stormy night' Is true as gospel. The gen
eral did crawl Into that rude log cabin, but
he didn't tell you that It was 'Private' John
Allen, who now stands before you ns a can
didate for Congress, who stood on guard
In the sleet nnd the rain and protected him
from the enemy during that precious four
hours. Tho general Is entitled to credit for
all he suffered on that historic night. The
generals and tho colonels ought to vote for
him, but you, my fellow soldiers, you brave
boys who trudged In the rain and kept
guard while the general slept you will
vote for Prlvato John Allen"
THOMAS DEVLIN, of the Manufactur
ers' Club, whose big malleable iron
factory Is at Burlington, on the upper Del
aware, had three sons to enter the service.
One of them, Dr. Raymond A. Devlin, went
over In August and Is now somewhero in
Germany. He has tho rank of a second
lieutenant. Another son, who Is also a
physician, is at the base hospital at Camp
Gordon. A third son, Clarence, tho young
est of the Devlin boys, was a mechanical
engineer, He entered the army along with
the others, but contracted the influenza
and died. With all his business cares,
Thomas Devlin has taken his war sacrifices
stoically and philosophically. He is ono of
thoso solid Philadelphia types who are will
ing "to give and take," "to live and let
live"; but if he had the run of the army
as ho has of the Thomas Devlin Manufac
turing Company, It is probable some pri
vate soldiers who have the power to com
mand would be wearing shoulder straps.
AND now, after Congressman-at-Large
. Joe McLaughlin introduces his resolu
tion to free Ireland and George Darrow
starts the fires burning under tho Kaiser
comes tho Philadelphia Protestant Federa
tion, headed by Samuel A. Wilson, Harry T.
MacDonald, Frederick 'W. Crosta, Eugene
Kraft and Frederick T. Roberts, with a
protest to Washington "against the injec,
lion Into the discussions of the Peace Con
ference of any reference to home
rule, self-government or political freedom
for Ireland " Truly, the way, of the con
gressional reformer Is hard, And the Con-gressman-at-Lurge
had won over to the
Irish cause a large number of his col
leagues, Including Miss Jeannette Rankin,
and was being baoked up by tho advocates
of a Boer republic headed by General
Samuel Pearson, of Scrantonl The Phila
delphia, protest, however, did not arrive In
time to impede tho hearings which were
held by the Foreign Affairs Committee for
tho benefit of the President and the peace
delegates abroad.
COLQNEL WILLI AM II. SCQTT, of the
J. W. C. 1. 1 which, bens Interpreted,
means the John Wanamaker Commercial
Jnstltuto, has added to the burdens of Bur
leson by devising and mailing Chrlstmae
greetings from their ojd crpnlos In Phila
delphia, to Die boys of the Institute who are
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ington, since annual pilgrimages to th
Capitol have Jong been in vogue. When
tho boys arrived In Washington In pre- "
war years they usually took in the HoUse
and Senate and then Journeyed over to
Mount Vernon. Occasionally they got into
tho White House during the terms of Pres
idents Roosevolt and Taft, but when the ,
war came under President Wilson the
White House visits ceased. The boys gen
erally camo in uniform and sometimes gave
exhibition drills.
THE READER'S VIEWPOINT
Scrap the German Ships for Belgium
To the Editor of the Evening Public Ledger;
Sir You carry the Information that the
President will urge the Allies to sink tho sur
rendered German ships.
in view of tho fact that there Ib a world
shortage of Iron, Btcel and steej products and
in view of the apparent shortage of such
products In Europe, I (would suggest that the
hundreds of thousands of tons of steel, Iron,
brasa and copper contained In the hulls of
these German ships bo wrought Into structu
ral steel shapes and presented to the Belgian
nation for rebuilding purposes. In addition,
there are hundreds of motors, dynamos,
boilers, engines, etc., that could be used for
some useful purpose In the same country.
EDW. J. STEVENS.
Philadelphia, December 23.
The record of 6,000,000 deaths from In
fluenza reveals tho fact that the germs had it
all over the G'ermans.
One cannot help wondering which of th
publicity experts of the P. R. T. invented
the theory that skip-stop accidents we?;
caused by mental aberration.
!
If the nation can do nothing belter for
the generals and lieutenant generals who
have helped In winning tho war It certainly
should allow them to retain their presenf
rank, as Secretary Baker recommends, .la
The Senate Is Inclined to regard clothing.
as a necessity and not a luxury and Is plan
nlng to leave it untaxed. Anthony Comatock
also used to regard clothing as a necessity
and most of the rest of us do. ,
The Attorney Generul decides that the
ten days which the President has under the
Constitution to consider bills passed by CoHJ
gress dates from the time he receives thsm
and not from the time Congress finally ap
proves them. This seems to be In accord with
common sense, ,r '
What Do You Know?
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QUIZ
1. What suburb of Tarls. contains1 tlie lart
American ho.pltnl which l'resldenl WAkd
vliitfd on NundarT
2. Where is Ktali. whleh stlll.ba nea bw
for the iiroposed expedition to explore (nt
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3. What la the original mrnnlnr of the wr( y
tenter, used In the expression "on tenter i
hooks"? , '
4. Of what la pewter composed? .,
5. Who waa I.eibnlti? ;
6. What la the laneat river In Itali?
7. What nrtlrle of fowl la roetophorlcallr known '
as nombur duck? '" .
8. Under what name did EUar Allan Vat enIM ,
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D. Who ret "Diana, ef the Crcswa.'a"f
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at the Jnzo-HUr nnd lrek peoples, "'
i, David Itlltenliouko was o noted American - :, I
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In northern ItUMSlia.
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