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MR. WILSO.N IN ENGLAND
rpHE President has arrived in England
-- today, according to his program, and
will talk with the British war cabinet to
morrow. "Word comes from Fails, where
Mr. Wilson has been talking with various
people, that it is generally believed that
England will understand him better after
tt has seen him and heard him.
It is quite Important that England un
derstand him and understand also what
he Is trying to do to bring about conditions
Which will Insure future peace. The Brit
ish statesmen have doubtless been reading
his Paris speeches and reading betv, eon the
lines also, and discovering there that Iip is
aware of many things which have not been
more than whispered in public.
Mr. Wilson Is engaged in the most stu
pendous task of his career. He Is awate
of It, and he Is also aware of the obstacles
which must be overcome. It Is unfortu
nate that some distinguished Americans
do not seem to understand what he is trj
Ing to do, and it Is a'so unfortunate that
he has not taken them Into his confidence.
If he had done so his task would have been
easier.
Thero was probably a deal moie din
than dinner in Bolshevik n'is'a sesteid.i.
REINSTATED ENEMY ALIENS
THE restoration to some elevon thou
sand Germans in this city and ail others
of their kind throughout the country of tho
freedom of movement which they enjojed
before tho war suggestlv ely ends a chapter
of fears and delusions.
Most of tho dangerous Germans in the
United States were melodramatic bunglets.
The American Secret Service was won
drousiy alert and the internment camps
tell the story of their loundups. But there
were thousands of Teuton-born residents
here who, whatever may have been their
sympathies, had nu penchant for getting
Into hot water.
It was their tempeiament and attitude
which the Kaiser completely misconceived
when ho banked on their material assist
ance In tho Nchemes engineered uy the
Bcrnstorffs, Von Papens and Boy-Eds.
His boasting set our imaginations going
also until we gave that persistent bogle of
Hun "efficiency" far nvjre than its meed
of awesome respect.
Today wo realize that, although some
despicable outrages were committed, tho
majority of the arch-plotters had an almost
ludicrously hard time of it her, while do
cility was the characteristic of most of the
German-born population. With no disposi
tion either to whitewash or explore the
hearts of these Individuals who kept away
from water fronts, arsenals and camps un
der orders, it Is at least worth noting now
that the lurid days nro o'er.
The tide of Yule and eulogy seem Io hav
come simultaneously for Mr. Wilson.
- TWENTY MILLION HEARTS
r:rtS estimated that the Bed Cro-.s will
have twenty million members when the
results of Its canvass of the nation are
known.
There were about twenty million sub
scribers to the last Liberty Loan.
These two groups of patriots are not
Identical, though they overlap. They prob
ably Include at least twenty. rive million
different individuals, perhaps more. On
this day after Christmas, when we have
been celebratlnif the birth of the Great
Humanist, it Is Interesting to consider what
all this means and the relation It bears to
the expansion! of the sympathies of the
human heart and Its response to need.
New and revised odltlon "A Christmas
Carol In Pose," by William Hohenzollern.
THE DAY AFTER
THIS Is the day when many grown-ups
envy the baby, who Is pleased with a
ten-cent whistle and passes by the more
expensive toys with which his adoring kins
folk have burdened him. The baby today
1 is blowing his whistle or beating his drum
or hugging his rag' doll or scrubbing the
floohwith hl3 stuffed animal, while his
face bears the expression of ineffable
content.
Some of the rest of us aro wondering
whether Wq can tako our more expensive
presents hack to the store and exchange
them for something which we really want.
But, on the whole, Christmas Is worth
tvhlle, even if there Is the after-feeling of a
.f debauch of givlny. What evil there Is In
Jt 1s only the evil of a good thing carried
to excess. And the philosophers tell us
that most evils ore nood things perverted
or misused,
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The Senate Is for n tax on wealth, Let It
fcs a tax on words arid every Senator will bo
Jn the Sheriff's hands In no time.
LET THESALTS SPEAK UP
if to ha hoped thai the return of the
t AmwJcan, fleet, .due at New York
gftivty 4Mk 8f'' ? tyr mfdm
Illumination of Its exploits than the public
has been thus far vouchsafed. What the
army did thioughout the war was disclosed
twice dally In communiques which, though
brief, were explicit and Informative. On
the other hand, the whole nature of the sea
strife made It imperative that the navy
should perform Its part In silence.
Advertisement of Its accomplishment,
how It Infused the offensive spirit Into the
antl-submarlno operations', how It super
vised tho trauspoit service and convoyed
our troopships, both those of American and
British registry; how It plajed Us superb
roller relentless vigil with the Grand Fleet
In the North Sea, would have been foil in
tho das of Its duties.
But tho ban is lifted now, and tho Ameri
can people oio just In the mood to accept
with joy finf gratitude the most opulent
oh'jiDter i- tea lore from toe mouths of
shippers and Bailors who have lived Ihcm.
A DIVIDED SPIRIT MUST liti
AVOIDED IN THE ARMY
Tioubles That Loom for the Cnr Depart
ment in the Trillion Hetvvecn Old
and New Officers
THERE is a tough and tiying job
ahead for the men who must find
plans for a ieorr;anization of the aimy's
official personnel and menus for tho in
evitable readjustments of rank and
rating between officers of the old and
new crops after the last gun has tolled
home.
The situation is one that will require
endless tact and wisdom. The news that
there is friction in the army between the
men of West Point and the men of the
training camps and that the newer offi
cers are making plans to unionize, as
the word goes, reflects a condition that
actually exists nnd that has existed from
the beginning. Impulses altogether hu
man nnd natural animate ench group.
But a knowledge that some such state of
affairs was unavoidable is not adequate
to prevent a. feeling of keen regret
among those whose pride has been stimu
lated by the dazzling record made every
where and under all circumstances by
our new army under it3 mixed leader
ship. It is a question whether theio was over
anywhere a more competent lot of men
as a whole than those who enteied the
army as reserve officers. They repre
sented the very heart of the country, its
,best enthusiasm, its youth, its undis
mayed energy. The work that they have
done in strange places, under the pitiless
exigencies of war, has had the quality
of inspiration. By the force of circum
stances and necessity these men wore
lifted suddenly out of civil life and moved
up, after half a year or so, to an equal
footing with others who had given five
or six of their best years to the acquire
ment of a similar rank. A great many
West Pointers have cheerfully admitted
the necessity of this procedure and as
frankly refused to admit its justice.
Men who trained for an army commis
sion in the days of peace abandoned all
other ambitions and devoted themselves
to a sen-ice that is in many ways ob
scure, exacting, uncomfortable and, as
things go nowadays, underpaid. They
submitted themselves for years of grind
ing study and relentless discipline. To
assume that West Point training confers
only a formal distinction is to fall into
error. The West Point tradition gave
America an army that was unequalcd in
its way. Wherever soldiers arc known
the American "regular" is celebrated as
the hardest, cleanest, calmest fighter
upon this troubled earth.
Few persons understand how much of
the fino quality of the old "regulars" was
re-established in the grent American
army of today by the corps of regular
officers who were charged with the work
of laying foundations for our present
military organization. Technical knowl
edge, ethics, inspiration and all the diffi
cult art necessary in the maintenance of
a huge fighting force are not things that
may be obtained out of the thin air. It
is a matter of fact that the spirit of the
American expeditionary force radiated
from the old regulars. When American
units wouldn't fall back in France, when
newer officers of less than a year's stand
ing found the thought of retirement
wholly intolerable, even though the odds
were all against them, they were ac
tuated by an American trait. But they
were also sticking instinctively to tho
austere code of the older service.
The brilliant and moving recoid of
the vast new corps of officers is not com
plete. We know that these young men
often moved veteran officers of other
armies to wonder and admiration by a
headlong gallantry ajid n sort of swift
efficiency all their own. There were vast
numbers of them who revealed some
thing close to genius in relation to tho
business of organized fighting.
But the quality in them which will
most deeply touch the heart of their own
people when they finally know of it was
a habit of restraint, of harsh personal
discipline, self-inflicted, of spiritual poise,
that is the great and fundamental requi
site of any one who has to command
men. How much of this lare quality
came t "10 now offices instinctively,
through their experience in the face of
terrible realities and a sense of high ic
sponsibillty, and how much of it they ab
sorbed from the army traditions that
have flowed out of West Point for moro
than n century it is hard to say. Tho
old army must havo contributed some
thing of it. Because the attitude of
mind that is half Spartan and half Stoic
that so amazed the French and British
when they, encountered it in extremely
youthful officers from tho American
training camps is not usually acquired
through any familiar systems of civil
ian training hero or elsewhere.
Of the relative achievements 0 West
Point and training-camp men,' of their
rclUvp courage md resQtircefulnesb In
actwo, )?-tiMr relative value ii tiw arv-.
'si
ice, therefore, there is hardly any ques
tion possible. Tho fact remains that
many of the newer men who achieved
promotion nfter promotion because of
extraordinary valor or service may havo
to drop colonel's and enptnin's bnf3 nnd
become again second lieutenants to make
way for West Point men if plans now
contemplated aie carried through,
Tho same issue arose after the Civil
War. Then, a3 now, the army upon n
peace basis had no room for all of the
officers of high rank who had been
trained for nnd by the war. Painful
memories and painful compromises en
sued and it was never admitted that the
questions involved had been satisfac
torily settled. The basis of the whole
matter is largely a sentimental one. The
judges in this instance who have to de
cide between two men of equal ability
wi'l have to question whether the hard
years of West Point training must, in a
llriHl analysis, represent a practical asset
to junior officers. Logically it would
seem that the easier method would be
to rate men, under the inevitable system
of selection, according to their talents
and their records in the war.
For the present it is impossible to
know what our military lcquirements
will be. We cannot know how many
officers or what sort of an army will be
requiiod until after the Peace Confer
ence. Thus the War Department will
havo i.lenty of time to prepare for what
may be extreme'-y troublesome decisions.
The pioposeil nen Mioc tues are In
ert! oul of a Kind to get you coming nnd
going
PROTECTIVE POLICY ON THE SEAS
TF THE I'nlted States is to have a mer
- chant mailne there must be some agree
ment on the way to keep it on the seas.
Tl e Democrats are expressing opposition
to all forms of subsidy. Vico President
Marshall sa.d the other day that he did
not favor government ownership, but that
he prefened It to subsidies. Senator
l'loteher has announced his opposition to
subsidies. Mr. Hurley, of tho Shipping
Board lias said that even though it costs
more to build ships hero than abroad, and
even though American shipownets must
pay higher wages than foreign shipowners,
the Americans are so much more efficient
than shipping men of other races that we
can compete successfully with them.
But we have not competed successfully
In the recent past. And tho only time
when we did compete successfully with
other nations' was In the sailing era, when
our clipper ships could sail faster than the
ships built In Europe and beat their com
petitors In the race for business.
There is nothing moie clearly evident
than that we capnot build up a merchant
marine without changing our national
policy or without building ships so much
better than an one else can build that
we can cany freight as cheaply ns other
nations and make a profit. No 0110 will
run ships long at a losa unless it be the
Government, And if the Government runs
them at a loss tho money appropriated to
mnko both ends meet will be a subsidy, no
matter by what name it Is called.
Tho subsidy Is merely the application to
the soa of tho policy of the protective tariff.
It has developed domestic industries with
out number. Intelligently applied. It will
develop sea trade under the American Mag
and piovlde for us a merchant marine
whlk.li will mal.o us independent of the
shipping of the rest of the world instead
of absolutel dependent on It, as we have
been during the past four jears. We are
building a merchant fleet that will bo
equal to the best without any definite plan
for keeping It on the teas when it Is
finished.
rortunatel for the country, the Repub
licans, who are willin? to face the facts,
will be in control of shipping legislation
after next March.
In the far, far future,
Viliat? Oh, Vou vvlien musical comedy
Cletcr llilnj. audiences have learned
to entch and laugh hi
a joke that hasn't the obviousness of elemen
tal simplicity and greut nge, and when the
recent war will be the subject of gay
HbrcttoP. theie Is sure to appear on almost
every stage a singing major general JIo
will dunce and wave flags, nnd Invariably lie
will refer brightly to tho Immoious Junior
olllcer ut his elbow as a Icnio-ialOe.
Peace, after nil. was
the greatest Christmas
present that tho world
For Komrthlnc
More Kxprrmlve?
found in its stocking
yesterday. But there arc a great many c
cited people in Europe some of our Jugo
slav friends espcclall who seem strangely
anxious to hustle It back to tho exchango
desk.
The Vuletldo doings
Tlmc'i Maglu of Will Hohenzollern
illustrate again the
swift magic of modern evolution. Instead of
a conqueror's Christmas1 dinner in Paris, the
world estciday beheld merely nn Incurable
Christmas sinner at Amerongen.
Tin) former Kalntr is sahl to have
cookeii his own tuikey jesteiday lit Ameron
gen Now, if goose vveie the fashionable
Christinas luxury In Anieiongcn wo Bhould
havo peiceivcd yestciday one of the most
vivid parallels In human history.
The silence In Atietria lu more ominous
than any news. Austria started tho war.
And the Austrlans seem io be paying tho
penalty.
We havo a Christmas cigar to wager
that when Will Hohenzollern went out to cut
his own Chilstmas tree he used a sword.
In Russian affairs at least the Christ,
mas colors were still brightly glowing yea.
terday. The government Is red. And the
people are green.
Not nil the Hun skill In fashlonlnir sub
stltuteH could' produce a victory Christmas
present yesterday.
It's about this time that FAther ChrUt
mas begins to file his claims for Indemnities
and reparations.
Even though tfermnny has been jicked
there are no y mitrks there, a the budget
of UM Jnascwi ptyflcamU Utts,
PRUNES AND PRISMS
WE ARE Informed that Count Bentlnck's
Christmas gift to the Kaiser was a
pair of hot-water bottles, one for each
foot.
L'neasy lies the head that wears a frown.
Tho Kaiser's earache Is said to be better,
but tho Crown Prince's helrnche Is In
curable. Some of tho criticism leveled at Mr. Wil
son Just now reminds us of tho cild story
nf tho man describing his senst-tlons while
seasick, "first," he said, "I was afraid I
was going to die; and then 1 was afraid
I wasn't."
If the Allies really want tho Kaiser to
commit suicide they should let him have
a nlco new uniform to wear. Naturally
he doesn't waut to be burled In civilian
clothes.
Borrowing From Poe
"His face la ashen and sober," reports a
correspondent who has seen tho Kaiser.
Who says that newspaper men don't read
the poets'.'
Three Sonnets
VTOW must I answer that my antic soul
' Shall Rive no grievance walking at
your hand;
Manage his mettle, press the firm parole
That he will do no wrong, nd keep com
mand. Good soul, do no Irreverence or riot;
Our squiring, be It delicately done;
Consider, nlie Is exquisite and quiet;
Her beautj , be content with looking on.
0 soul, the ground she habits Ij so holy,
There Is a curse if we approac'i her near,'
And we are marked for shame and melan
choly : '
Acquit me now of great defiling fear!
It is a cause that takes of time and
strength,
But lusty souls can be compelled at length.
T
HE green things grow. Now this was
all they meant.
Suing tho sun for light, the earth for
lease,
And having these they keep a cool content,
Vacant of passion, In a virgin peace.
One practiced bird delivers him of song,
Notes thin and heartless, chanted from
the tree
Like words of ladles, loveless far too long
And now perfected in gentility.
One foolish wind is loose among the airs
And brings distemper to tho wheated hill,
Bending lilm Into Pharisaic prayers
For sinful souls less beautiful and still.
Here is that school for souls rebellious,
bound
To pattern after green things on the
gTound.
WAS this the honor estimated high,
To walk so tame, to be a. second choice,
To see the flowers receiving love, while I
Feed on such crumbs, a glance, an even
voice?
Tour flowers are thankless; cram them In
a vase,
They scarcely know they die; the're hot
of hue,
But cold as slugs; then put them Into place
Beforo they brag of mere looks taking
you.
How they will ildlcule the beaut.v's wit
Who runs nnd gabbles to the grubby
grass,
Wasting her lexicon of love on It,
And hangs her lover's honest head, alas!
Insensible, the floweis, as hardest stones;
Lovers are people mudo of flesh and bones,
LIEUT. JOHN C. RANSOM,
With the Army of Occupation.
Think of the expectant eagerness with
which the Amerongen undertaker must
run to tho phone every time tne bell rings.
Who knows? The test may have hap
pened! Even Gott must have turned In his grave
to hear of the Kaiser preaching a Christ
mas sermon. SOCRATES.
THE READER'S VIEWPOINT
Pershing Should Be Rewarded
To the Editor of the livening Public Ledger:
Sir That wns a timely nnd well-put edi
torial In your Issue of the 20th, and we
Americans deserve If "Rewards In Knglnnd
and America." Some one should start a popu
lar ueinciisirnuon 01 appreciation of tho
dellvernnce and the glory General Pershing
has been largely instrumental In bringing
to America by raising a jienny fund. A penny
on the nverngo from every child would bring
about a hnlf-mllllon dollars. A cent from
each citizen would yield nearly a million
dollars. A nickel from each adult would
come to a Vound million or more, to be ap
portioned to Pershing and the chief com
manders under him. To grunt a large sum
by congressional action might become a
piecedcnt for nbuses later. Let the people
personally honor these men. Personally, I
would be pleased to contribute for twenty or
a hundred children myself. AMERICAN.
Philadelphia, December 24.
Do Something for Perilling
To the Editor of the Evening Publh Ledger:
sir "Rewards In England and America "
an editorial In tho Issue of this date, should
start something. There should bo a popular
movement demonstrating our country's
gratitude and nppretlatlon of the glorious
results garnered from tho wise, loyal, de
termined efforts and leadership of Pershlnr
nnd other commanders j, a. O.
ritrnan, N. J., December 20.
It Was Gladly Done
To tho F.dltor of the livening Public Ledger
Sir The committee wishes to convey to
you lt thanks for yourj generous support
of the Red Cross rollcall campaign, 'rhe
space you have given us has been remark
able for Us extent nnd character, and we feel
that whatever success the campaign may
attain It Is largely due to your generous helu
CHARLES D. HART, P"
Chairman Christinas Rollcall Committee
Philadelphia, December 2S.
The news that the Yanka ln-armany r
rejotclna that the word beer sounds the came
In both languages Is of transitory Import.
Next summer It will be quite untranslatable
In "American."
If tho Ideal league of nations Is really,
lormvu ko iwgut wmr me use or familiar
Initials. V. B. A, would ' do nlaiv .
j uaiTKP siwwwtw AAMMtl.
Mmlty yum k, l
THE GOWNSMAN I jws
Beggary and Our Herded Charity
I
N A well-known essay, Charles Lamb com
plains of the decay of beggars In tho me
tropolis of his time. Lamb could have raised
no such complaint today; for never has beg
gary so flourished, never has it been so un
restrained, so unabashed and so resourceful.
From an amateurish avocation, allied to
tinkering and vagabondage, begotten of im
providence or misfortune nnd decorated with
rags and pathos, beggary hns risen to an
organized Industry, more methodical and suc
cessful than Its nearest kin, highway rob
bery, which It resembles in its brazen reso
lution nnd tho conscienceless proportions of
Its levies, but more dangerous because, mask
ing under the disguise of altruism, the booty
can never be traced nor tho freebooter
brought to deserved justice. When the arch
tempter In his reach after human souls
found that few were beguiled by his ugly
demons. hlB old hags, malevolent witches and
fiends deformed, he bethought himself of the
hourls and perls of his friend Mnhomct
and of tho marvelous!- enchanting sirens of
the old, wicked world; and, emplolng their
unhallowed aid, filled the coffers of Hades
with lost souls. His modern reincarnation,
the cunning god of Beggary, has profited by
his art; he waylays us not with maBked
bravos In byways at midnight, but with fair
maidens, charmingly capped, becomingly uni
formed, enchantingly soft-spoken, who, be
foro we know what has happened, relieve us
of our present'bclonglngs nnd mortgnge us
as to our future. Thus Beggary de luxe
stalks among us and, wearing our antebel
lum overcoats, our years-old hats nnd
thrlce-patchcd Bhoes, we dine on a sustain
ing sense of our generosity and go proud
and supperless to bed.
w:
HEN Charles Lnmb thus deplored the
decay of beggary, he meant not the
wretched condition Into which beggars hnd
fallen In his tlmo by reason of the neglect
of their sometime benefactors to administer
to their needs, but rather that the restraints
put upon pubtlo beggary In the Streets should
have reacted upon the hearts of givers and
have deprived those who have of a legiti
mate function of the generous heart, the op
portunity of spontaneous giving. The oppor
tunity of spontaneous gllng-r-hero Is pre
cisely the point. Our time Is assuredly not
wanting In opportunities for charity, As
the Qovvnsman looks about him at the mo
ment ho can discern only two classes of man
kind those who subscribe, donate, present(
bestow, unpocket nnd disburse, and those
who eternally hold out the expectant palm.
The Qownsman labors under no delusion as
to his personal classification. While not yet
exactly a bankrupt, he Is hopelessly In the
hands of the receiver. Independent volition
In the matter of disbursements has long since
nassed from the average man. He Is In this
respect as In so many, the creature of so
ciety, or rather of societies. The channels of
his gratuititB, his charities, his benevolences
are all predetermined for him, even to the
amount of his giving, which Is verily unto
the last denier. It Is not, then, that our
opportunities to give have been Impover
ished. There seem to be few opportunities
to do anything else ; apd the Impoverishment
Is elsewhere. It Is that spontaneity , has
gone out of giving, and Joy and Independence
with It. '
T ET us take this matter of the war and
rl J our contributions to It, If we dnro talk
of such a tlilng, Would our patriotism, which
Is unquestioned, whether It take the form of
standing behind the President or of getting
in front of him would our patriotism have
, glve any le financially, If It hnd been less
prodded, pushed, pulled, haled, badgered,
battered and kicked Into giving? Is the
Gownsman conspicuously alone when he con
fesses that he has been just a l'lt ruffled at
times' whn, knowjng taut A had dene M
a.- lit i,. mtn litu aIiaV jm n&i --. M 4uil.
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"ALREADY?"
buttons nor his hands eternally waving flags,
some pert Miss would plaintively Inquire,
"Havo you forgotten tho Belgians? Have
you no heart? They are giving all, what
are j-ou doing?" The other day tho Gowns
man, In the harmless pursuit of his dally
vocation nnd within his own precincts, was
waylaid with an impertinent Red-Cross ex
amination as to his antecedents, his relations
and his Intentions, and compelled, vl et
armls, then and there to purchase the right
of Ingress nnd egress to nnd from his own
loom. He was guiltless of any intent to
defraud anybody, though his mind had
wandered momentarily from tho ever-present
regalia, posters, booths, chatter and Irrele
vancy ot the ladles who hold us up In the
name of humanity.
AMERICA has given In our great cause,
and given nobly. The Gownsman finds It
difficult to believe that America has so given
because of the noise, the bustle, tho excite
ment and tho Junketing of the "drive." We
"drive" the unwilling, the reluctant, the re
calcitrant, the stupid. Has America been
unwilling, recalcitrant, reluctant or stupid?
Surely our patriotism Is made of sterner stuff,
and there Is something more In 'it all than
a chance to make a safe Investment fully
embraced, as there'-Is assuredly a service
of which we hear little, unselfish, unassum
ing and effective that It Is other than irrele
vant nAsqueradlng and the badgering of
unhappy old curmudgeons Into giving when
out of humor Instead of In a generous con
tentment of spirit.
AS TO spontaneous charity, has the klnd
" hearted reader never Indulged himself In
an Indefensible Impulse? Has he never given
to one, who has neither Impertinent lead
pencils nor unnecessary shoe laces to sell?
Has he never sought to' llnlc himself to a
half-forgotten past by dropping n nickel Into
tho hat of an anachronism In tho shape of
a blind man waiting for alms a't the corner?
Hns he never listened, to his undoing, to
the pathetlo lying of a master-mendicant or
helped a tramp, "who could eat but little
meat," on his way to perdition with a dime
predestined to follow Its predecessors Into
tho bar till? If the reader has In none of
these things been reprehensible, If he has
given' a ,soup ticket to one who cried for
brftadr the address of an organized board of
charily, to lilm who was a-cold and' good
advice, with nothing more, to the widow and
the orphan, then may he In a word even
more organized' than ours considering that
there could bd so awful a place cingeal in
a charity coJde than his own.
CHARITY begins at home and some'ttmes
stops there. Other charity 'stirs only
when 'abroud and knows not home pr; kin
dred, It is so Impersonal, bo" Impartial, so
Just, so regulated, so commercial. The
charity' that keeps a daybook and a ledger
Is scarcely authentic. The Bookkeeper of
our good deeds should be alone the Record
ing Angel, and with all our giving calcu
lated, herded, organized and arranged for us,
It Is at least Questionable If the Celestial
Bookkeeper Is greatly overworked, n might
be worth the Inquiry as to whether, despite
our apparutus In this matter of giving, we
have noticeably raised the spiritual con
sciousness of the race. Measured by ma
terial standards, by statistics to the effect
that more people are fed, more warmed, more
reformed, perhaps more pauperized, much
may be said for the Intrusion of the order
ing1 Intolleet Into our charity, As much may
s6ine day, be said, alas 1 tor eugenics In the
sphere of 'marriage. But what Is love and
what Is charity If each be not an affair of
the heart?
s
some
There Is some satisfaction In the
thought that Willi the P, R. T. insists In
announcing what ntws, ln!'c the pavers keep
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Little Studies in Words ,
POMEGRANATE ,
rpHERE Is no fruit which has -morer.o-
mantle associations than the pomegran
ate, but Its name, derived directly from
the Latin, Is merely descriptive of Its char
acter. Porno, used In English to designate
a fruit having several cartilaginous or bony
carpels. Is the Latin, pomum, meaning a
fruit. In the French it Is pommc, aln
pomme dc tcrre, the potato. This form
pome Is combined with the Anglicized fppi
of the Latin pranatus, meaning grained, or
having many grains or seeds. Thus'we
havo pomegranate, a fruit with many seeds.
Granada Is tho Spanish word for pofne
granato and it is tho Spanish form of (he
Latin pranatus. The city of Granada IS
the pomegranate city and on Jts coat.of
arms tho fruit appears. And grenade, a
bomb filled with shot, is the samo 57jrd
applied to a military weapon, Grenadier
Is the man who throws the grenade. ,
11,
POMP 0
rpHE word pomp has come Into the Eil'g-
llsh language from the Greek throlfgh
the Latin languages. It Is still useiT'ln
French, Italian and Spanish In a signifi
cance substantially tho same as th'at which
wo give It in English. Tho Greek wtfrd
Is pompe, meaning primarily a senflrng,
and It comes from the verb pompeln, m$Sn
Ing to send, It was used to desc'rlb'e' a
religious procession when tho people Sent
their representatives to propitiate tlUlr
gods. Later It was applied to all profes
sions. As these were accompanied by dis
play of banners and gorgeous trapplitgs,
the word came to mean, a display of mag-,
niflcence nnd then splendor Itself and fin
ally vain or ostentatious display In, .-he
last sense we have It In the phrase "the
, i -a 11. t. t.l If
pomps ana vunmus 01 mis wwiu. , (1 ii
j Out of the Reign Ht
'Tou are old," said the Prince, "and youjre
getting quite bent, ,--
And rheumatic, yet only Just npw, ,
Tou turned a back isomersault Into your ttrlt,
Pray why did you do It, and how?" r v"
''if 1
"In my youth," Kaiser Wllhelm replledp.to
the Prince, "
"I kept all my muscles In training 1 ''(
I've practiced one thing that I learnedfiter
since 1 jj.(
And that's to go In when It's ralnlnsVf v
Oliver Hcrford, In "The Laughing WIlloNr.'"
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Wliat Bo You Knotv?
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QUIZ
Who Is Theodor Wolff?
What In a tlloT
Wuo urote "Cll nlss"?
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What l the capital of New Ilrnnswlck?
tit.
5. VVhst w the cojt to the VrUt SUtw f
thn war as ntlmiiteij br the densttvODm-mltti-e
on Appropriations? t
, Vht part of Spain f dtmandln aqtensr? -.
7. Win Inrentefl waterproof fabrics? , . , "
8, What Is the mesnlns of sUilnnna? , ft
0. Nrn In celebrated Amrrlran actors, mmt
itetfti, who were I'lilladelphUns, - !
10. What color Is marson, ' .)t
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Answers to Tueiday'j Quiz ' ,i
1, lh American hoooltiil Tllted br.thc rr;Ueni
Uit rlundar In In Neulllr, a suburb ef 1'iirli.
I. KUli. to be used n one of the base fef'tlW
' riicilUloii whlrji will flV to ibt NorlLttri?
i In northern Ureenund. V
8. Tenter book r thos .tucil to. hold the tfh
on a tenter, a machine for strotchlst ,
article Io set or dfr, r . '
4. 1'cwtrr U li .trar alio of (In n4 leL r
other' metal. .,'-?!
6. (lettfrlfif Wllhelm. flaron von LclbnUs', i
u celebrated (lermmi nMlonoither, theaUnUf
iinif nisthcmstlclan, Ills dates are UIS
1710, 6, The I'o Is the Ursent rlrtr In Itsl,
f, Uomlijir diieU Is o dlh mad ef a rmatl.flah
, called liumraato, nutlre to Mouth AehUle
waters, s ' , ) ,
a, Kdr Allen roe enllstrJI lh Unjtfjl H(kU
' nrmy lu 1MJ under tho name of JtAiorfA,
ytrtt, jv,
0, (lcorse MeroMUi wrote "rUii ot-ttWCciw,
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