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EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, . DECEMBER 27, 1918
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PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY
CTHUS II, K. CUnTIS. PaietDSNT
. Charlee H. Ludlnjton. vice Preeldcnt, John C.
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EDITORIAT, BOAIXDi
CtlSS II. K. CusTts, Chalrmin
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Philadelphia. KriJij, Premier 27, 1911
EVERY ONE IS AGREED ON THIS
"TURECTOn DATKSMAN, of the De--'
partraent of Public Works, will have,
the hearty support of all the people in Ills
efforts to secure money for building bridges
and sewers and removing smile crossings
all work held up by the war.
The city needs these Improvements ns
soon as they can be provided. Mr. Dates
man Is expected to do all in his power,
with the co-operation of the Major and
Councils, to end the delay and start work
at the earliest possible date.
Two ends will be accomplished: Tlie citv
will get what it needs and work will he
provided for men who have been engaged
In war Industries, either making munitions
or using the munitions when made.
Mr Wilson lias no respect for nut pi ere.
ilent He has asked the British to linn. v.
BAIT FOR THE EASY MARK
"TJOUBT that the gold brick or the shell
" game Is leally outmoded Is suggested
by the recurrence of the Christmas fund
swindle. The gullibility of his prey is Btlll
the chief ally of the sharper, and will be
so long as this ancient tale continues to
be recorded at Yuletlde.
Tear after year there are saddening in
stances of the easy accomplishments of
the phoney "association" or oily embezzler
posing as a savings fund. The subscriber's
sole reward is disillusionment when he
learns that he has been merely piling up
his earnings for a rogue who has made
way lth the swag.
The warning In such circumstances Is,
unfortunately, but nan-owly salutarj It
Is crrU3iely that the particular victims uf
each porllouiar frame-up will be mulcted
again, but there is ever a new crop of
thoughtless, susceptible investors to en
courage a new C.nvnclal "operatoi."
He knows that the game of collecting
other people's money and then coolly run
ning off with it will thrive until all the
public learns that reputable, authorized
savings Institutions are the only safe ones
for Us cash. It beems Incredible that Ig
norance of this fact has prevailed so long
Mr Wilson seems to ht? rejoii-mg in a
Windsor tie.
EDDYSTONE
rpHE Eddystone shops, which will close
on January 11, turned out army lilies
at the rate of 1.000,000 u jear and made a
record for speed and efficiency never
equaled anywhere. No such achievement
would have been possible If the men In
charge of the Job hud not bi ought some
thing more than a desire for profit to an
..overwhelming task thrust upon them at
a short notice. We are proud to advertise
this record and claim the Eddystone plant
aa one of the great war Industries of the
"Philadelphia district."
It is cheering to observe that the most
relentless critics In Congiess and the most
astute agent of tho Department of Justice
has yet to turn up anywheic In American
war Industries anything paralleling the
malodorous embalmed beef scandal which
the pessimists had expected to nee repeated
upon a vast scale.
It was conceivably a relief to the 1'itsl
dent not to be hailed esterda as 'Mecster
Vealsonr."
CHAPMAN AND THE REVIVALIST.
ALTHOUGH from the day of I'entcjuM
down to tho present tlieie hae been
great religious revivals, the term revival
In religious history Is usually confined to
the religious awakenljigs In England and
America which began In the eighteenth
century. CeQ;e Whltefleld and Jonathan
Edwards w'jfctnong the first revivalists.
It was a e y6 to repeat the work which
these meiiand their successors accom
plished that led the Rev. J. Wilbur Chap
man, who has Just died, to abandon a regu
lar pastorate. He had been a successful
pastor of the Bethany Presbyterian Church
In this city and he was equally successful
In New York. But he preferred to leao
to clergymen with other gifts the routine
work of caring for a church, and he be
dame one of the best-known leadeta of re
vival meetings In the country. Ho has
been credited with starting "Hilly" Sunday
on his career, but there was nothing in
common In their methods.
The eighteenth century wus distinguished
by what Is known in religious history as
the Great Awakening, the seeds of which
were planted by Jonathan Edwards in
Northampton, Mass., who preached so
vividly about tha lake of Arc and brim
atone that the people In his congregation
would grip the back of the pew in front of
Uiem for fear that they would slide down
Into It, At about th same time that Kd
wtrds was preaching his arousing sermons
In, New England, George Whltefleld was
ajitatutlRg In thd same lilnd of work in old
Wh!tM cmm to America
JIM, mimu .L,x city, U
vast crowds, and fiiiiflly dying In Newbury
port, Mass., where he Is buried.
The nineteenth century produced a num
ber of groat evangelists. Notable among
them were Charles G. Kinney, president of
Obcillu College, of whose power over men
many tales are told, and Dwlght I,, Moody,
a man of a very different type. "Ciypsy"
Smith should also be Included to teptesent
the English.
There Is n wide difference of opinion
concerning the value of the woik done by
these men, but it must be admitted tint
there have been some permanent results.
Princeton Colleuo Is tho piodtivt of the
"Oreat Awakening" of the eighteenth cen
tury, and so Is Dartmouth and scvctal
other rolleges which were founded origi
nally for the education of Christian minis
ters. Uut It is a curious and Interesting
fait that the levlvallsts ieoele least en
couragement toda ftom men connected
with the colleges which owe their existence
to the levlvil spirit.
TUB SPOKESMAN OF THE
WORLD'S CONSCIENCE
I're-nlenl Wilion I Hacked in That Cupai-it)
lay I'nileil American Opinion, in Spile
of I)iintrv Minut Details
EUROPE is being fed with American
,.l ;,!n,'e rtl tVn PtncillnTIt mill ll I S
VLI.Iiaill ". IIIV . .K.U.U1...V .....
peace plans, according to the dispatches
from Clinton W. Gilbert,' staff corre
spondent of this newspaper with the
peace delegation in Paris, nnd no fnvor
able American comment is cabled, or at
least published, uhroml.
Those Kutopenn statesmen who for
leasons of their own wish to ninki' it
difficult for Mr. Wilson to entry his
points uie milking the most of the situa
tion thus created, if they have not delib
eiately created it themselves. It is im
portant thnt the people of Europe to
whom Mr. Wilson is appealing over the
heads of ceitnin of their statesmen
should know thut America stands be
hind Mr. Wilson to the last mnn on the
genet al principles which lie has laid
down. We went into the war to assist
in establishing justice and fair play for
outselves and for the rest of the world.
We know that if nothing is done to guar
antee these things to the lesb of the
world we shall suffer in the long tun.
What difference of opinion there is
over here arises out of questions of de
tail. Senator Lodge and Senator Knox
are not opposing the establishment of a
just peace. They are discussing the order
in which certain matters shall be consid
eted nnd the emphasis which shall be
given to this point or that in framing
the peace tieaty. Their views should bo
enlightening to the Piesident and to
Lloyd George, to Clemenceau and Or
lando; but uo one should make the mis
take of (insuini)irj that they are evidence
of divided opinion here on the great
issues at stake. Nor should any one so
far misread the significance of the
November election here as to assume
that it was a rebuke and a rejection of
the President as the rcpiesentative of
the nation in foreign uffuiis, although
Mr. Wilson himself, by a great strategi
cal blunder, opened the door for a mis
interpretation of the election when he
appealed for a Demociatic Congress as
a personal indorsement for its effect on
European opinion.
The congiessional election wus carried
against the President primaiily on do
mestic issues. So far as war issues wcie
involved the nation voted for n more
vigorous prosecution of t.ie fighting
against Prussianism. This is what every
Republican pnper of standing snid nfter
the election. And it is the truth.
It may be a little embarrassing for
Mr. Wilson to ndmit that he misjudged
the temper of the nation in his pre
election appeal and to insist now that the
nation, after all, indorsed with added
emphasis those things which he has gone
to Europe to secure for us and for all
men, but it may be necessary for him to
do it in the interests of the great cause
to which he has dedicated his abilities.
And if the news associations, or 'the spe
cial correspondents of the European
newspapers interested in strengthening
the hands of the European statesmen, do
not send to London nnd Paris the Ameri
can comment indicating general approval
of the main purposes of the President,
then the State Depaitmcnt should see to
it that the Foreign Offices abroad get
that comment direct from Washington.
In spite of the fact that he is pleading
for simple justice, the ability of Mr.
Wilson to win his points will depend in
large mcasuro on his ability to impress
those with whom he deals in his repre
sentative character us spokesman of a
handled million justice-loving freemen.
Everything that Mr. Wilson has said
on the other side indicates that he appre
ciates the difficulties of his position. He
is the spokesman of tho aspirations of
America and he is testing out the senti
ment of the people of Fiance to discover
whether the ideals which he has held up
are their ideals ideals which their
statesmen must respect. Now that he is
in England for a few days he is likely to
pursue the same wise course in tho hope
that he can muster back of him that
irresistible power of public sentiment
which politicians disregard at their
peril. He has set out to convince the
statesmen that the people must have
their way at the Peace Conference and
his hands should be upheld by every be
liever in democracy throughout the
world. It is unfortunate that Senators
Lodge, Knox and others here who are
criticizing the details of his program are
willy nllly providing ammunition for
thpse reactionary European statesmen
who wish the Versailles conference to
resemble the notorious Vienna congress
as closely as possible.
Time, however, Is working with Mr.
Wilson. The impression may prevail for
a few days or for a few weeks thnt there
is divided opinion here, but ultimately It
Will be discovered that the division Is nqt
Ma' JwfeMMfital ptimisl at alL
Every time Mr. Wilson appeals over the
heads of the statesmen to the democra
cies of Europe ho strengthens the cause
which he fs promoting, namely, the es
tablishment of a peace which shall be
just to nil, Germany included.
Thcro is already n growing opinion in
England against grabbing territory and
creating new AlsnccLorrninc problems
to curse future generations. It was ex
pressed the other day In the Manchester
Gunrdian, and it will be expressed In
other organs of public opinion as the
weeks go by. The sentiment of mankind
is slowly crystallizing around the prin
ciple of fair play.
Unless this result comes to full frui
tion the Peace Conference will be a fail
ure, for it will plant the fertile seeds of
enduring hate nnd lecurring wars. As
we look at it, Mr. Wilson is endeavoring
to pi event any such disaster nnd we are
persuaded that the whole American peo
ple is with him in this glorious endeavor,
even though some of them wish that he
had gone about it in n different way.
But a disagicemcnt over method does not
mean a disagreement over the ends
sought.
I'liiisnn.m comes but once h year, but It
"lll" f"f nt least a week In the tut key
hali
THE SOLDIER VOTE
pVKIlVHODV wlthva liuddliiK ambition
- foi nrtVe m a plun to lcfotm life In
(lie Tutted Slates as nell as the far larer
Indhldiial who happens to have rt sound
and since! e nnd unselfish Interest in the
welfrne of the count r Is talking and
tlilnkliiR nowadays about the soldier vote.
The slate of mind of the letuinlng armj
Is pioperlv viewed as a fiieat potentiality
of the Inline. Hut It i eprcscnt-. fur those
who have ifjsoii to be concerned about It,
the same sou of baflllng mystery that al
wavs confronts publishers, politicians, the
utiicul liiaiiageis or otheis who hae to
appeal to untiled public opinion. Indeed,
the soldier ote Is more difficult lo analyze
In advance than the possible i factions of
mafs opinion to a new book or a new play.
It will be' Involved with new concerns,
actunted bj novel mentil e.peilences. No
one can tell how It will go.
The advocates of a bone-dty world, for
Instance, aie Insisting that all the men in
khaki will be solidly behind their cause.
Those who believe absolute prohibition to
be unwise nnd impiuctical aie equally sute
that the letutned soldier will be upon
their side. Suffragists and nnti-oulTraglsts
alike are looking to the soldier vnle with
alternating hope nnd anIet.
It will be Intetestlng to study the mind
of the new army man ns It is expressed
through his ballot. Will the bosses and
the hcelets be able to mislead him vlth a
spurious sympathy and the faked, theatri
cal staispangledbanneilsms of former days?
This doesn't seem likely. Tha men of the
evpedltlonary forces have been living very
close to lealltles. They have had their
ejes opened to the purposes of govern
ment, and the have been able to bee how
abominably false nnd futile leadership can
bettay a people They will have something
of the breadth of vision thut must come to
tiaeled men. They have been educated
abtoad as no Ameilcans weie ever edu
cated befote. In tho old das. when an
American went to Europe to study he got
a polishing off In art or letters!, and If he
had n disposition to snobbery It was sedu
lousI cultivated
The American soldier has had an alto
gether different and a far moie valuable
soit of tialuing. He was enabled to see
und to participate in the lite struggle of
peoples fctrange to him He was forced
close to humble people to learn of their
patience and their noble fortitude. He
saw the wonders that talth can do. He
"saw Kuropo' as no comfortable tourlbt
eei saw it. It will be his own fault If he
l.Ets not acquired a new and invaluable
I now lodge of the world and Its motives to
guide him In his own contacts with life.
The soldier frmn the fiont lias been
thiough a hard school It will he well to
watch him, for he is verj likely to make
himself felt in unexpected wnye. And
often enough, because of the Intensive ex
pel lence which has been his und because
of his. new knowledge of life, he Is likely
to be u better leader In community politics
than the i online boss who will attempt to
lead him.
Colonel lloosovelt Is
time More (lie Still Writing acid CI It
Colonel lolsni of Mr. Wilson
for the Kansas City
Sum- If the colunel Isn't a bit more careful
some one, will rise lip and speak of him as
a Him of Hate
Down II ii rl I ng t on
County way Ihey aie
talking of Indicting
Mlifry l.aitea
Company
some of the Free
holder because the toads nre in bad condi
tion. Thai should make us feel a tilt more
comfortable In Philadelphia
Luckily Armistice Day
Jualirlnir a 1'ort'a Is far enough pant to
Color l.lne make Guy Wetmote
Cat oil's throbbing
poem. "When the Gieat dray Ships Come In."
perfectly appropriate leading in connection
with the leturn of our vigilant and valiant
war fleet. Shrieking camouflage vanished
with the cea wolves and stem but sober
hues gave dignity to the wondrous scene In
New Yoik harbor.
European reactlona
I'nr a CiiuT rles, said Mr. Gilbert In
his cable to this news
paper yesterday, aie sniping at President
Wllsqn, This reminds us that Hharpshootlng
Is a peculiarly American talent and that our
stsndpat friends on the other side may merely
be engaged In a contest with the shtcwder
marksmen of America.
All this blithe talk of
II Can't "e Done getting the police and
firemen out of politics
suggests that the cleaning up of Philadelphia
might be more easily and quickly accom
plished If some one would tell us how to get
the bosses out of politics.
In parts of middle Europe they are al
ready wishing each other a scrappy New
Year.
That snow scene yesterday morning waa
aoout n suusiswpii at ine )oirtvi)t,!,V00(
TOtflW:
THE CHAFFING DISH
Referred to the League ef Notions
Dear Socrates What do you think ought
to be done with fathers who Insist on play
ing with the clockwork tralnsi given to
their little boys? HARRY (age eight).
It Is always darkest Just before the dun.
A correspondent questions the correct
ness of our statement that Burns Used the
word "cootie." As the rebuke comes from
one who Is himself a Scotsman and was
born In nn adjoining parish to that of the
poet, we hesitate to argue the matter. But
in our edition tho first stanza of the "Ad
dress to the Dell" is printed thus:
O thou! whatever title suit thee,
Auld Hornle, Satan, Nick, or Clootie,
Wha In vvon cavern grim and sootle,
Closed under hatches,
fpaliges about the brunstane cootie,
To scaud poor wretches.
Is (his version Incorrect"
You Guess It, of Courte
Theie aii thteo subjects that always
arouse coirespondence whenever mentioned
In a newspaper. One Is Robert Burns.
One Is Ireland. And the third Is well, we
won't say what it Is, not wishing to start
any controversy.
Oliver Twulei!
The other djy we reprinted n verie of
Oliver llerford's which has aroused some
emulation among local bards. The piece
In question a typical Oliver twist was
tills: ,
It Is not falr'to visit all
'Hie blame on five for Adam's fall:
The most Eve did was to display
Contilbutory negligee.
To which Stanley Kidder Wilson, of
these parts, who lives up to his middle
name better than most of us, emits as
follows:
Pl mol ), pense applies most rare
To such as blush for the First Pair,
For surely it were in fra dig
To hold that either cared a fig.
We imagine that Abraham Lincoln had
0 ver.v enjoyable time splitting rails. Hpllt
ting things is always fun, whether they aie
tails, quarts. Infinitives sides, hairs or
dlffeiences.
The Unforgivable Syntax
A ceitaln oung man never knew -y
Just when to say whom and when who;
"The question of choosing,"
He said, "Is confusing;
1 wonder if which wouldn't do?"
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Nothing Is so illegitimate
As a noun when his veibs do not fit him; It
Makes him disturbed
If not properly verbed
If he asks for the plural, why git him It!
i.ir and lay offer slips to the pen
That have bothered most excellent men:
You can sny that you lay
In bed jenteida ;
If you do it today, vou'ie a hen!
A pei son we met at a play
Was ci uel to pronouns all da.v :
She would fiequently cry
'Between you nnd I.
If onij us girls had our waj-:"
Some of those whose palms weie gt eased
by Hen- Bernstorff are beginning to realize
that the game was not worth the scandal.
We trust no one will be so ungallant this
winter as to refer to decollete, gowns as
an Instance of low visibility.
SOCRATES.
THE READER'S VIEWPOINT
Brazilians Friendly to Americans
Jo the Editor of the livening Public Ledger:
Sir A good many of the American p.-ople
do not realize how they are appreciated by
their neighbors In the southern nations. A
Kiout many of them think they are hated;
Ihey are regarded nothlnr but foes by the
l.atln-Amerlcnn people These Ideas 1 gath
ered personal!) while I was studying In
Philadelphia. In facl, some of th questions
flied at nit weru of that character. These
questions I could not answer conectly, for I
was only sixteen years of age when I left
Uiazll for tho United States, but promised I
should let them know as soon as I returned
home
I stayed In Philadelphia for six years and
tame bock home n few months ago. During
this tliiin I have been In close contact with
peoplo from Para. Tenia, Pernambuco. Bahla,
San Paulo, Matto-Grosto and Rio de Janeiro,
six of the twenty llrazlllan States, and the
capital of fhe republic, respectively." My first
Impiesslon was that all these people had but
the same Idea about the American people,
Their opinion I shall relate In what follows.
America is known all over as a nation of
piactlcal people. An device or object that
reveals a practical Idea Is American. Brazil
ians have followed the F'lench In their way of
dressing, but since two or three years ngo
American fashion, for men and women, has
been gradually adopted throughout tho
country. It combines simplicity with com
fort and jet becomes exceedingly elegant,
Athletics are gaining much enthusiasm
over the country, thinks to American activi
ties. Americans have Introduced hockey and
baseball In San Paulo, and at Rio cricket Is
becoming quite popular.
American moving pictures flood the whole
of Drazll, from north to south and from east
lo west, and the people preffr them to any
other make. They know by heari, but
pootly pronounce, tho names of the most
famous players of the Fox film. Paramount,
Triangle, Famous Players, Ince, etc. Qlrls
of high society go wild over Oeorge Walsh'
In fact, they get so ridiculous as to place his
plutuies m their bedrooms. The fellows, how
ever, prefer Pauline Frederick nnd June
(,'apilce. American pictures are well appre
ciated hete, on account of their originality,
moral effect and revelation of real life,
America has aent down some of her people
as merchantmen, representatives of corpora
tions, etc., since Iliazll was looked upon as a
nation of possibilities. Thus, American people
have been Judged In all their particulars by
these types. .Since they did not show much
courtesy, their manners were reflected on all
of their countrymen, and only recently this
Impression has been changed, due to better
types of men, such as tourists, diplomats
teachers, etc. Now the Americans are con
sidered as "manly" pollle; that It, discard
Ing all sort of rldleularlsm.
War has brought foith all the capable,
most Intellectual mcsi. Wilson vvna soon
picked as the foremost type of diplomat. He
Is known In Brazil as the man of the occa
slon. the Hero of the world, a great thinker,
an Impartial and Independent speaker. Ills
speeches concerning the Liberty Loan peace
nnd war have been published In good Portu
guese translation In the best Braxlllan papers.
Mis Integrity la known by all who read his
speeches.
The elected President of Brail) will tako
oath on November IB next, the day of the
proclamation of the republic. One of ths
most Important Items on his program,
according to what has been said by the news
papers, Is to provide all means for a closer
relation with the Unite States, lheby
proving the great affinity exlaiinar k.i..
fjhoM two great republics. '
- JUBBAMTIAK'n Doirinrv,
JJCwwBfea, MfM-t3m, anMf "--nlHiii' J,
Old Thoughts
ANEW thoftght for Christmas? Who ever
wanted a new thought for Christmas! i
That man thould be shot who would try to
raln one. It Is an Impertinence even to
write about Christmas. Chtlstmas Is a mat
ter that humanity has taken so deeply lo
heart that we will not Imve our festival
meddled with by bungling hands. No effi
ciency expert would dare tell us that Christ
mas is Inefilolont: that the clockwork toys
will soon e broken: that no one can eat a
peppermint cane a yard long; that the curves
on our chart of kindness should be ltoned(
out so that ths "peal; load" of December
would be evenly distributed through the
yrai. No soiirface dare tell us that we
drove postmen and shopgirls Into Bolshevism
by overtaxing them with our frenzied pur
oliaelng or that it Is absurd lo send to a
Mend In a steam-heated apartment in a
prohibition city a bright little picture curd
of a gentleman In Georgian costume drink
ing ale by a roaring fire of logs. None In
his senses, I say, would emit such sophis
tries, for Christmas is a law unto Itself and
la not ..onriuiited bv card-Index. Even the
postmen and shopgirls, severe though their
labors, would not have matters altered.
There Is none of us who does not enjoy
hardship and bustle that contribute to the
happiness of others.
THERE Is an efficiency of the heart that
transcends and contradicts that of the
head. Things of the spirit differ from things
material In that the more you give the more
vou have. The comedian has an Immensely
better time than the audience. To modern
lze the adage, to give Is moie fun than to
receive. Especially If you have wit enough
to give to those who don't expect it. Sur
prise Is the most primitive Joy of humanity,
kurprlse Is the first reason for a baby a
laughter. And at Christmas time, when we
are all a little childish I hppe, surprise Is
the flavor of our keenest Joys. We all re
member the thrill with which we once heard,
behind some closed door, the rustle and
crackle of paper parcels btltig tied up. We
knew that we were going to be surprised a
delicious lefinement and luxuriant seasoning
of the emcrtlon!
ChrlBtmas. then, conforms to this deeper
efficiency of the heart. We are not methodi
cal In kindness : we do not "fill orders for
consignments of nffcctlon. Ws et our k nd
ness ramble and explore; old forgotten
friendships pop up In our minds and we
mall a card to Harry Hunt, of Minneapolis
(from whom we have not heard for half a,
dosen yeata), "Just to surprise hliii. A
business man who shipped a carloyd of goods
to a customer. Just to surprise him, would
soon peiish of abuse. But no one ever re
fuses a shipment of kindness, becnuse no one
ever feels overstocked with It. It Is coin of
the realm, current every whet e, And we do
not try to measure our kindnesses to the
capacity of our friends. Friendship Is not
measurable In calories. How many times
this year have you "turned" your stook of
kindness?
IT 18 the gradual approach to the Great
Surprise that lends full savor to the ex
perience. It has been thought by some that
Christmas would gain In excitement If no
one knew when It was to be ; If (keeping the
festival within the winter months)' some
public functionary (say. Mr. Creel) were to
announce some unexpected morning. "A week
from today will be Christmas!" Then what
a scurrying and Joyful fteniy what a
festooning! of shops and mad purchas ng of
Dresents! But it would not be half the
fun of the slow approach of the familiar
date All through November and December
we watch It drawing nearer; we see the
shop windows begin to glow with red and
rreen and lively colors; we note the altered
demeanor of bellboys and Janitors as the
Date flows quietly toward, us; we pass
through the haggard perplexity -of "Only
Four Days More" when we suddenly realise
It Is too late to make our shopping the die
nlsv of lucid affectionate reasoning wo had
contemplate, and clutch wildly at grotesque
toVens--and then (sweetest of all) comes
the oulet calmness of Christmas Eve. Then,
while we decorate the tree or carry parcels
of tissue papsr and rd ribbon to a care
ruiiv nrerared list of aunts and godmothers
or reckon up ! P of bright quarters
on the dining-room table In preparation for
tomorrow'i largesse then It Is that the
brief poignant nnd precious sweetness of
the MBirlenM claims us at the full. Then
I" -Vf L ikat all our careful wisdom and
shrMfftaaM wT felly stupWUy: " w.
t'lM rndskf tf.MsM tJceaU
:;,Vfcuw we 'MMHMsifSNMa. '
JACKS BACK, GOD BLESS
. ... . .
After Christmas
. 1
found ourselves poor; that where wo thought
J V Impoverished we weie eiulched. The
f"' "uiu uiiun a lovciy Plan ir we take
time to study the blue-prints of the heart.
HfMANlTY must be forgiven much for
having Invented Cluistmas. Whut does
It matter that u gieat poet and philosopher
urges "iho abandonment of tho mascullno
pronoun In allusions to tho First or Funda
mental Knergy"? Theology Is not paddled
upon piououns; the best doctrine Is but three
wolds. God Is Love. Love, or kindness, Is
fundamental energy enough to satisfy any
btooder. And Christmas Day mentis tho
bit th of it child; that Is to saj. the triumph
or life and hops over suffering.
Just for a few hours on Christmas i:v
iand Chiictnms Day the stupid, har&h
mechanism of the w'oiid i a.is down und vvi
permit ourselves to live according to un
tiammeled common sense, the unconquerable
efficiency of good will. We grant ourselves
the complete nnd selfish pleasure of loving
others better than ourselves. How odd It
seems, how unnatmnlly hippy wo are! We
feel there must be some mistake, and lather
Jtarn for tho famlllnr frictions and dls
tresses. Just for a few hours wo "purge out
of every heart th-v lurking grudge." Wo
know then that hatred Is a form of Illness:
t.iat suspicion nnd pride nrc only fenr; that
ho rascally acts of others aro perhaps. In
lie queer wobwork of human relations, due
o some callousness of our own. Who
knows? Homo man may have lobbed a bank
In Nashv lie or fired h gun In Louvaln be
deSli'hl.V ,n,olernl"-v Bmi"? '" PhHa-
SO AT Christmas we tap thut vast reser
voir of wisdom mid stiength call It eftl
wMCyrh,'!i.l,e fundB,'"fnt"l energy If you
i!.ivi "".'. And our Wndncss. thank
heaven, la not the placid kindness of angel"
".i" ',?I.""J ,wl,h """"nn blood ; it Is full of
absurdities. Irritations, frustrations. ,"
100 per cent kl would be Intolerable. As
ft wise man unld, the milk of humai kind?
friend".' ''T.1"" ",t0 ''"eese' "'' "J oSr
friends affections because we know the
tincture or mortal acid is In them We re.
member the satirist who rem" led that fo
love one'? self is ti,e iy.,ntlni. ofr ."."
win ,umeTse, I'? 1M "" romance
InUdiearm'arafS
oVn r..'rli3sy rve1 " i ' A " '
Tve8",,SO,nU'8, "aeea of Charles ofekens
,f,i ," , ,,uma,llty endures ns long n, the
fn fV0.' and """" "B are pscked ns
full of It as a pound enk Is full 0f fruit a
pound enke will keep moist t Ireo vesla
sponge cake Is dry ln threo days yM"'
AND now humanity has Its most beautiful
i and most appropriate Christmas gift
Peace. As the Magi of Versailles gradually
unwind for us the tissue paper and red rlK
gifts, let us In dn's to come measure un to
what has been born through such anguish
and horror. If war Is Illness and peace is
health, let us remember: also that health Is
not merely a blcsslnr to be rece Ivec Intact
once and for all. it l 6t a substance b5
a condition, to bo maintained only b -sound
Blm "'"o'PUiw nd slmplclt?. l"?
the Wise lien not be too wise; let them re
member those other Wise Men vvlo, after
heir long Journey and their sage urmi
lngs, found only u Child. surmis-
Karl may not have abdicated, but In nnv
evm,t he Is about as much emperor o Au..
BoynVwXr " W" MK f ISn1
George Creel's mysterious leslmntinn
from the President's staff In Par,wl Ch
means his resignation from tho chalrmansiiir!
of the Committee on Public Irifo m"on
makes us sort of wish that Mr, Creel
could have held his Job long enough tc T lei
why he quit It. ' ,r"
Herr Hohensollern Is now said to be
grieving because ho abandoned his country
We had always suppoaed that It was the
country that abandoned Herr Hohensollern
The first aerial Santa Claus, an army
aviator who dropped hi Christmas gift to
his best girl In Brooklyn from a .height of
1000 feet In the air, wrecked hts machine on
the root of tha young lady's horn. W would
f Ilka t.hr that yer- maa'a sMrlr tiMr,
.It Was. i . '
HIM!
T
Not Even Cigars Are Safe on the P. R.-T.
77 the Editor of the livening Public Ledger:
Sir I've, neer been much of a fellow"to
knock-, but things uio getting pretty bad and
I've simply got to leg'ster this one klcki
It use! to be that a fellow could buy' a
fat cigar or two -after work, Stow them
away In h'e vest pocket and get them safely
home to enhance the comfort of h'ls arm
etia'r. Well, It can't be done now In PhHla-
delphla. J
Ynil run hnv tliA il'ffjre nil ,-t(-l.l 'na' fl
slow them away all right: but when tyou
lilt the mobs that storm our sticet urs,
KO'id-by cigars ! Fend and fight ns you will,
they can't be saved. All thn football tac
tics nil lho art of self-defense that long
P. It. T. riding may have taught you won't
1-sep otT the fatal elbow
Therefore I protest. It seems to me that
n nickel Is enough to pay for the privilege,
of maul ng your way Into u car every Eve
ning, of swaying violently hither and yon
ln embarrassing proximity to i.omcbo-Jy elrs's
wife, with nnother woman's hatpin gently
inking your left car. Kven when you codnt
tho exhilaration of the danger, the benefit of,
the exercise and tho free massage the crowd
admln'stcr. a nickel seems enough. The
sacrllW of thos- evening cigars Is simply,
too much to ask.
Therefore I protest again. Tills ought
m n a rc uquiuiy, r.i least rree enough I
ho that a poor man could get hie stogies f'l
noine luiact, especany sliicc they're getting
to be more precious than platinum. And I
say that if nny slroet-cnr company won't
guarantee that o'gai.s can be transported
upon Its cms In comparative tirfely lhat
company should provide Its patrons' with
cast -lion cigar case:.', or pasj out ifree
smokes, or do eomo other icasonahle thing..
Pin not plsg'sh In Ihls mntter. Of course.J
I don't expect any such company to prov'lde
more cars, although that woutyl help.
Philadelphia, December 26. H. P. S.
The Internal condition o- ccrniany seem
to piove that lho Hermans were right whel
they said they'd never leave off fighting.,'
Tho ascendancy of the Plane people wal
a loa!cal and visible feature of ,the Pvres
.! it, a ;vrjinuii ,i j'uilii i
With the bull's ryo closed indefinitely fof
lepnlis, It was inevitable that the Kddy
stone rifle plant should shut up shop.
Under the Burleson system, f.'hrlstmet
card
s are likely to become a prominences
of New Year'a Day,
ture
After all. It Is a good sign that the
Peace Conference will not meet on January
1, thus saving us the usual qualm about
New Year's resolutions. ' '
:.u
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. vieere.la the town of Chaiimoni. where VritU
dent Wllaon addressed the American troope?
'4. Whst treatr of tllnl Import In, the Mater? af
Fnvnr V" "pde In that place anil when
trainee im m
was It altnedf
S, How nM wna W'lllasi Hhskeapesre at the lime
of hts death?
4, How daea Chnrlnc Cross set Its name? ,
5. hep 414 the Holr Roman Kmplr tori a to ai
end? '
. Wl-at la the "Abnanseh de Gotha" and why
la It ea called?
1, In nhat croup et Ulsnda la Guam?
, What are. the Imlmla en the eheulder lotos
ef an American general?
. What la the larseat riser In Korope? '
10. What la a fiduciary position? !
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Answer to Yesterday' Quiz
1. ThM.lt, Walft la editor af ilia Itrrlln Tin. t
Melt.
I", A alio la on alrlllht atrurtn
pa. !li, In it,.
croon undersell!, fermentation art) prctaset
and kept for fodder.
3, Alain nene IO Hate (ISas-UU) wroU "Gel
lilac,"
ewer, in vrnicn area
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4, St. John Is the capital f Htn nrnnieetu
5, The Kenete Cam ml; tee on An
Nenate f'emmlttee on Annninrlallnna tku
Mtlmated that the coet ef the war to KI
IJnltei States was 35.000,000,000.
, Catalanla., the ehlaf rlty ef which Is ILir- ,
celsnn. la ths part of rlpals new Jemaaafw
jmtanomr,
1, Charles Maeklnlaali. a Heated chemll,,ls
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