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T'u'-'AR OP FINANCIAL WONDERS
t'r f a cursory glance over the sum
ro ' of tho financial history of tho
nt,h,lcn t,lla newspaper Is printing In
eietall than ever befoio will reveal
JL pendous resources o the country
t ability to handle great money prob-
ticcessfull.
Pfredlt of the nation Is still sound.
(" s men look forw ird with confidence
v'.lintrled and uncertain future. They
Jnhat no bigger lliunclul problems
'es framed for them than they hao
?ered during tho last tweho months
tir this knowledge which gives them
The future will bo devoted to read-
,ent to peace conditions. Wc Know
Atho war Is oter and that tho worst
bfen weathered. We know that husl-
rry urlng the past jcar has not been
) Rint, even though thoie has been
fyis In certain Industries. Tho activity
(iicrs affected by the war has Kept
,) moving.
y outstanding fact of tho jiar has
J iho disclosure of tho unsuspected
f.j of the country to absorb great
n1 loans throuBh bringing into the
11 lent market tho money of tho peo-
n 1 .. .... ..
I I iiuvu noi ueen accustomed to hu
' ,A j ear ago ho would have been
leed who should havo prophesied
1NGro than ten billion dollars could
cr -d by bond Issues without upsetting
ns r business.
andlae proved that wo have financial
willes adenuato for war. We certain!
Kooolinanclal wisdom enough to adjust
at foos to peace conditions without pro-
NW lany berlous disaster
Od
an
-'hera are certain divIIMi conditions in
'Archangel Zone- which unhupp.h bc
1 Its right to that benelkent iioiihmh.1.i-
je LO, THE SHOOTEKa!
will not regret that in a eur of
JWIng thrones and bawling Jiolshe
rhe uplift and downthrow, of fleeing
Barand "cI!nK tMants, th- munici
ar jould havo refused to make an .ip-
"oon for tho New Year hooters'
ol By that oraii-slon we aif c'cnled
'"hlrama of caricatuio which could
, tlly reflected tho might hiimoi
''ehtler Iron of the v ividest dav s
Tjjirc
fi'( atesmen think und politicians
rt,i 1 Interesting and pcih.ips im
"'R'thp moving scheme of lifp
" t tho cvoijd.iy man 111 tin
hoUis Is most Important of ul'
ten tieaso'i that vw oui selves h.ivo
11 nod to read Uu meanings of the
It
idy t bllllonairf-s, admirals, kings
drt foIMhl stand on fhoad street In
. fowlan(l marv.-l at the light wa
jfredut5 P'ain man itsarded their
rate.
il,J foJlo'et' in ihp mass conn iousness
fa.i cy of all men and all things.
crnic-
00, 11 ill pass'"
able.
ufownust be no Miner's' in Hid super
" br a tirsi clas und vholl c m pie
vet of pnnclp iN
f 1
JWSGOVEHN01JN I NTUl KAOl
j to UOII tln piaitioal vuluo of a
,!" riiC ' staff for the (iovernor of Penn-
J molstt" llar(JlN supcloi to thut of the
nite xmr' sucn tt '""''' t'' Pohtia' up-
, dressed uu for pamdn, unuues-
'.i ' niboc' '1 tlio pump of uur if but
'If you tno circuiiisUiice. Those middle
paeon tVallers were plcturosquoly attired
Jf 'it jartest platoons of police or Hi emeu
im oveittalneil such leilendono-
effective p.iradn material is no
V-V'v d mere matter of tho ostumei and
i?dly wilous pocketbool, Ueal martial
; PUBLUAvllI be available tor man ears
icles alhy time the State feels like all
'ays intijp,. thousands of war vi-u-tuns
Vi slonal or festal purposes.
Nowh bel,Il? Pertinently cogninnt of
ve a re tlat ,l10 a""al Guard, now
kes and I the I'edeial srvico is no moio
m for s emit. Oovtrnor-elect r-proul
n't just have icahzed that the dav of
mes. Vv'lauie, ,olitiial boomaladrtl" ' Is
ecipo and(le has strC)Ili;V uulmated that
e incorrecik ))o KliUci Unmf tiViians to
no expense? of colone-Icj . Aftei
1ir houot mingled gorgeousutss and se-
)ie-na,i gubeinatoilul staff t.ikea on the
nds, an archaism, l'ossibly It will
''rn Iv ed
,' 'or Its iiccoiniilishments, however.
l jully tilting In this tnv of dlsctrn
was the eMtenco of IV Govci-
yy n '" tl0 'l-'nIon',i largest State
pVruml,iCiilly) which mado possible the.
ay top' a "Woncl Houso at the Peace
nad to uj.
hold togi 1- - -
ey got 'AU THAT JUSTIFIES ITSELF
Jll '"t MLIC mone.v can bo more prollt
" '" Ljivested than In the maintenance
phe other eWe anA emcler,t "r,'ai "t
VI little aflicl Measuies, i:vtr rcputnble
tt a frtlltn In anxious to co-opcrato with
' and I u In Its efforts to e forte the
wights of the purchasing public to receive
sixteen ounces for every pound for which
It pays, thirty-two quarts for .pa cry bushel
and thirty six Inches for cery nrd
Tho largo number of doctored scales,
measures with fnlso bottoms mid short
yardsticks which the locul bureau has con
fiscated during Its llfo Indicates thut thero
Is a class of Itinerant or "fl-by-nlght"
dealers who must bo watched If tho people
arc not to bo deliberately chculcd, Tho
bureau has couliseatcd more than four
thousand measures within ten das tli.it
do not conform to tho legal standard.
Somo of them uro merely technically
defective, as they uro not properly murlud,
but others e'ther havo false bottoms 01 nic
otherwise too small to contain tho amount
which they alo supposed to hold.
Tho chief offenders uro theso .liiienint
dealers who prey upon the poor and
Ignorant
Protection of the people against this Is
not really paternalism, but In essence a
part 1 'ho general s.itom of policing
which seeks to punish nn one who at
tempts to gt t mone) on fabe pretenses
UOMBS, MADNESS AMI
VMKKIGAN BOLSHKVIKI
I'liilailclplild Has uu IIIilralion of the
Force That I llloe king Liberal
Hopes hvcrvwherc
OOMETHING nt least of the icasons
why the Allies aie determined to send
relentless armies into Russia is icvealcd
in the malevolent bomb outrages pcrpc-
ttated at the homes 01 Justice von
Moschzisker, Mr. Tukk and Captain
Mills. The incident is in itself an ironic
answer, complete and ovciwhclmiiif;, to
that pseudo-humanitarianism which is
still disposed to look upon the llolsheviki
with tolerant pity. Nothing could have
better illustrated the causes which make
of the anarchist a detested outcast, as
sured always of the enmity of lational
minds and t. laugh or a kick from plain
men who take no trouble to explain in
stinctive dislike.
Men who pave the world fiecdom and
those who tnduicd martyrdom for the
sake of humanity did their fighting de
cently in the open after a plain state
ment of their case. There is nothing
anywhcie to show that the mind and
methods of a snnke can ever be applied
111 the maintenance of a right piinciple.
And ceitainly, in the picscnt state of
society, thero is no room fur a cult that
must employ piowlmg imbeciles to set
bombs at the homes of sleeping men.
The bomb outiagcs of Monday night
lepresent the it-olatcd work of mental
deficients. The ptoblem U one for the
alienists as well ns for the police. It is
chiefly as an illustiation of the essential
difference between two methods of iea
soning now violently opposed in Europe
that the case commands a general inter
est. Violent ladicalUm and anaichy, e
piessed actively or as a political princi
ple, aie not unnatural in paits of conti
nental Eutope. Rut wo have in Ameiica
none of the conditions which inspue gen
ct al unrest elsewheie. Abroad millions
of people, depressed 111 sodden ninsses,
suffering fiom long and tiagic negli
gence and the hideous eirors of gov em
merits, have .1 definite incitement to vio
lence. Anarchy ia the product of cen
tuiies of misrule.
Theie is nothing in Amcnea to justify
any shadow of thia ott of thing. Life
heie is not fied in strata. No one is
submerged unless ho wishes to bo sub
merged. We are a nation of individuals.
Wo are individualists by preference.
Theie are no old sins to bo wiped out
no fixed tiadmons to be biokcn down
by brute force. It is for this leasonhat
Socialism does not and cannot tluivo 111
tho United States. And the cflott. there
foie, to tiansplant from the Russian
slums a cult far moie uidical is not only
a puenle attempt to ape woes which do
not eist; it is a revelation of criminal
perversity which, when it becomes peri
lously active, demands tho harshest
treatment that the police power can give
it. The wonder is that a state of mind
so foreign to the ntmospheio of Ameiica
should be so persistent. And in this
connection it i necessary to sac. that
the police direction has not acted with
entire intelligence in handling tho prob
lem. It has been a policy of the police
sometimes to exaggerate the unportunce
of any effervescent idiot who found lelief
in chanting ted platitudes from a soap
box. Suppressive methods almost fan
tastically supeitluous uaoel to be applied
to Emma Goldman and Hen Itcitman
and any other radically minded theorist
who happened along It might havo been
supposed that these persons cairied somo
dicadful germ of thought which could
not bo loosed in the air of America with
out the ceitainty of political disaster.
Even the ineptitudes of small-voiced So
cialists wore in recent times the inspua
tion for 1 aids and charges of "inciting to
Hot."
This absurd slant of the City Ifall
mind, its suspicion of anything it did not
understand, inevitably had an effect di
rectly opposite to that which was in
tended. The police havo consistently
given to every radical agitator tho sort
of backgiound that tho ladicals wish.
They gave tho ladicals tho exact color of
mattyrdom for which their souls and
press agents yearned and prayed.
Soap-bos. orators always began with
hints of police oppicssion and talk of tho
minions of "a higher powei." Without
this semblance of martyrdom, so oblig
ingly confernd by the police, the radical
cults would never have had a leg to
stand on in America. They would have
hud no audiences. The police were their
best press agents. It is tho polico not
only heie, but in almost every other
American city, who in times of peace
gavo radical orators their one valid argu
ment. Freedom of speech is assured in
theoiy under the Constitution. Freedom
of speech has frequently been denied in
practice to (he, otatois for new political
t i2Trrazxrr&., pyrnr-x-ft, kJaTiT2.
doctrines. And from this starting point
all tho propagandists of unrest have
managed to build Up a spuiious literatuic
of oppression.
There are evidences to indicate that
the old habits of mind have again
afflicted the Philadelphia police. It ap
pears that men who called themselves
llolsheviki wanted to make public
speeches. They were not permitted. If
they hnd been allowed to go out on the
street cornels and talk till they wcio
tiled that would have been the end of it.
Some one with a better idea of Ameri
canism would inevitably have happened
along to give a black eye to the led
orator for good luck or rout him with
ridicule.
Hut there seems to havo been a de
tci mined refusal to let our local Llol
sheviki talk. Any one with a knowledge
of the llolsheviki mind heie or abroad
could have told the Major or Diicctor
Wilson or Captain Mills that a Uolshcvik
who is not permitted to talk is iolcntly
unhappy. And if ho is a x cully bad radi
cal, with the strain of ciiminality pecu
liar to his soit, he will manage to make
a noise in some other way.
Thcicin probably is an explanation of
the bomb outrages in Philadelphia.
Mianwhilo the leecnt cxpciiments in
uidical liberalism in the United States
whether theso experiments take the form
of criticism in tho smart "intellectual''
journals of the various cults or in bomb
throwing tend steadily to destroy such
sympathy as used to esist in lational
minds for the newer philosophies of
social udministiation.
It will bo fortunate for Russia if tho
fanatics tempoiarily in the saddle do not
invite a icaction that will leave the peo
ple nnd their more sincere leaders help
less for a generation.
In Ameiica we have given the whole
world of civilization high pi oof of great
and humane ptu poses. So there can bo
in this country only tho utmost contempt
anil detestation for those who aie too
perverted in mind and spirit to perceive
what we arc tiying to do.
Every flip soapboxer is, in the end, an
enemy of the cause which ho piesumcs
to upresent. liu-ty petty ciime done in
the name of liberalism is an obstacle to
the further progicss of libeial ideas.
The country is in no mood to toleiate
unreason and eirant madness under any
name. If the police can get hold of the
bomb makers public opinion demands
that they be ticatcd in a manner ade
quate to stun all those who may have
similar aberrations.
Xo bomb made by tmni, lion ever devil
Wily ingcmoui, can ihaha the founda
tions of law nnd order in tlui country.
THE PLACE OF A STRONG MAN AHMED
rrillK must Mgnillcant announcement
re,; irdinjr tho nttltuue of the United
States vvhleli has coino fiom l'niis was
contained In a dipitch to this newspaper
fiom Clinton W. (,ilbc-it. printed on Sal
urdi, Deccmbtr II. Mr C5Hbt.it cabled
that:
rait two (uf tin Allien .111 polk) will
insist tint tho Amtrkun navy eijuil that
of the Krc.itest povvci Am inrr(m..rit
with nnglind on tlio freedom of the seas
will not place the Amerlein nivj ubor
dlnaU' to an other 1 (tiling th, war Amer
ica Ins counted cverv noval uhlti built
and authorized In Kngl.ind, and sho in
tends to itinahi on nn equal footing
Wo discussed this announcement at
length on tho following Mond-i, and
Interpreted It ns an informil notico to the
Te ice Confcicnco that this nation, whlcn
had gone Into tho war to assist In estab
lishing justice, was 0110 of th great
poweis of the woild whose views mutt be
leekoned with, and also that this nation
was piep.ueci to hold Its own In any con
test wlilrh might arlso if her Jut vlov.s
were not 1 expected. And now Secretary
DaniPls 111 explaining tho naval program
of Ins department has gono even farther
than we did In sotting forth tho 1 elation
of that progiam to tho pcaco negotiations
Ho asks that Congress authorize tho build
lug ol ten first-class battleships 1 hattio
eruisers. ten small scout 1 rulsers and one
hundred and thirty small croft. Tho com
pletion of this ptognm will pat us on an
cquulltv with (ireat IJraasn, for it will
Kiv us Mt two flrt-Lluss battleships,
wialo .ie-at lintaiu has sit -one nt pres
ent in commission. jj piaint.d to tho
Naval oiiitnltico of the I" is,
l)f ', 1, I iroti 1 i urn 1 ,1 1. ,,,. 1 ,,,,,1,
up III,' lmittrr Midi the 'r hl 111 ami tlirn
Im r, uftrr tie unnlstiti w t , .iK!,fil, r
p.,' lo 1I til iiciilii 1111 tin Mil, in 1, 11,.
it) funii'ill.i iirBi-. Hi it till- prm-rum lii
nilupli-il N"IIiIiik u.iiil.l mi alii lilm n ,
IV ii" ( tinfc-rem p 11 I nnure-s's aullinrlu
thm uf 11 M-; nut.
tithtr the 1'iit.klet t i.or ti'o feretory
cf the .a N Ignoring tho uncmaiuties
of tho peine Conft 1 1 ncc ilr. Daniels was
undoubtedly spcuking for the Administra
tion when ho said further.'
huppow the powers do not asm to cur
tail armunieni Then It In entirely obvious
in all that the 1 tiitfd States If sho is to
icilizo her dottiny as the leader of dimo
c rati inipulso ' - muKt have a navj
tl t will In as pimirful an that of any
1 iiMon In the vo. id
l u my ilnn oiivuiloii that if thu ion
f ui.i-e .a rrsulllM clow not result in a
g,nral agreement to put un end to naval
building on the part of thu nations, then
the fnlted fitott'8 must bnd her energies,
n uat give lur i en and glvo her money to
tie task of the creutloi) of inconiparabl
the greatest navy In tho world Shu
Is im oit parablv iioh, Im-omparablv strong
In tiatural lesouries JirrcJ bo she Must
I. ,,11 uiparablu slronu in li("ir against
anurrswia and tu uffc se against evil,
tlvcis
.Mr Uanlcs Is not speaking for the
Administration alone when ho talk in this
vein. Ho Is putting Into words tho hopes
and pui poses of self -respecting, red-blooded
Americans of all political paitles. Tho llttlo
htutesmen of IJuropo. who uro JockeIng
for position in tho hopo of getting some,
thing out of the Peace Conference to which
their countries 1110 not Justly entitled, can
not mistake the significance of such words
as the American Secretary of tho Navy
has delivered himself of ill tho publleltj ot
;i ciiitgiesalonal committee room.
The ne' Polish htae
Hupp l.unil! Mil h M thinking of
i ui ..ng Pad. rewdl I
I'll J-i i 'V l.v on- gieit niJvaiit.ii,,
over 'li -'! i .1 jna ;' uOJ j
hencvir i n luid up foi mom.), it can
give a conceit. )
BXH
THE READER'S VIEWPOINT
Three Months' Pay for Soldiers
To the Vdllor of the .'i PitlilB 'little t.cducr;
Kir -In reference to Kenntor Chnmberlnln's
speech In tho Senate etcrday, I would sug
gest that If the members of Congress got
together nnd passed legislation nuthorliing
tho Wnr anil Nav Departments to pay llio
men te based from service at leant ninety
diis or three months' pit, It would obvlnto
one of the dllllcultlcs he olntcil out. It
seems to mo that this Is tho least that tho
flov erntnent ought to do for men vho have
been willing to glvo up their lives m the
service nt tho country nnd It would certain y
give them n icsplte during which they could
l e-ctnblMi themselves in tmplomcnt after
being mustered out of the service
WII.MAM 11. leAWAM..
Oak Lane, Philadelphia, Dec. 31
Make the Sabbath a Delight ,
Ai the Editor of the ntrnliitf J'mMIo '-r'l0rr!
Mr The Important point to realize Is that
this discussion over .Sunday concerts is otil
it strait showing hou the wind blows In rela
tion to a larger question, the wholo nuestlori
of the modern Suiulav as such: what It I",
what It is for, how It should be observed or,
rather, why It' should be observed I nm for
leniency in that observance, but I am also
intent on the reason ior that leniency.
Thero lire many things that force this
nnrlcnt Institution to a new revaluation
'I ho thinking of yesterday will not do today,
nor will the codes and catalogues of former
geneiatlons servo the present one. More
over, it li stnrtllng to prevision what grave
havoc tho experience of war will work here;
what It Ins done, and is now doing, to those
eistwhllo practices we once grouped under
the hctdlng, Sthbath Observance Wo will
nil be influenced bj the leturn of those mil
lions of men who have seen and lived the
continental h'unUny.
A Hrge nnd rapldl Increasing portion of
the population has ceased to observe tho old
kind of Sunda Almost ever body Is glid
of this. Hut that is not snonmous with
saIng that It would be good to see the
breaking dovwi of all conventional restraint
llio Influences are not all beneficent that
are at work to in-ike this day merely n holi
day I long to seo the dav first considered
holv. Hut then, lifter being fo observed let
It be used for nil rightful pleasure. TI1I3
wis the Idea in the old Hebrew pluase,
' Making tho S"-ibbith a delight "
The continental Sund iv Is not modern, ex
cept hi tho form of Its occupations. The
blue laws are not old, 1 cept In tho specific
things that they proscribe. The principle In
each case Is tho i-amo Hint it has been for
(cnturleo We err if we fall to distinguish
between that gtoup of New Ilngltnil Purl
tans ns a concrete cult nnd Puritnnlsni ns
an abstract mood or temper of life The
latter Is not a eimllly in any Individual : It
Is a state of mind in lame crnmn or kuIi
divisions of the ia,e It Is the same temper
wherever von find it, tho temper of all those
who think thev do (,od service when thev
persecute somebody else, of nil thoe who are
champions of a f iltli or defenders of nn or
thodoxy. In so f.n us they c.iuso bonio one
llse to HUffer b il
When we re.ul of Augustine, advocating
persecution of Calvin advising Somerset to
punish well with the sword Catholics and
final ft' gospellers'; even of Kenelon approv
ing the Dragon.iiles these all weio Puritans.
Theie were Puritans left behind In llngland.
ann tin (.tnod foith in contrast to another
elt's nf their own d.w In Scotland thero
vie re the Cnio Cude. ' but ther'e were also
th, I. ill ds of Klllle rankle Theie were the
Covenanters as opposed to the followers of
Pontile Pi hue Charlie l.'tr'ier still theie
weio those In Italv ns will who svmpnthkted
with the Mem. ascetic sphit of .Savonarola.
us mmiisieu with thOMj who slnred that
other mood of Machlavelll Knrller than all.
thero were of (ireek philosophers the two
opposing nlinols, tlc stoics nnd tho Hpl
ciireatis tVl.ilo fer off. the Mcc.ib.-,.n
peilod, there ,, Antloehus l.-plphanes. nnd
theie wero Daniel and the Rechnbltes Ae
sveii earlier and eirlhr. Jacob was .1 rUri
t.111, wlille i:au. poor fellow, was not My
point Is that neither of these was light
Doth weio tpe. hut 1,0th weie extreme
'"""' miii) m .srnrr.c
Philadelphia. Dceo.ml.er 27
'I lie Dalnidtian Question
7-u . ,j idllor of the I.veninf, ;,,, Lcilin.
... ,'.' u"founito that 5our corre
s o idem. Mr tillhert. In his ,liHn,ch of the
Dnw wrlle inuvura.ely on a subject
so much In need of calm and .niprehen.slie
discussion as the D,,,ntlan CMiesiLt'lrs,
to take the Vorct t.c.tv by will, li the Allies
,'0'', '. support The ,nct of ,,,
? 1 'in,' "i's ,,,n -'Sreeinent between
all tho Allies', and Italv h territorial claims
were onlv one section of It It hid to be
kept setiit, for it was not desirable to adver
tise tint Italy was about to enter the viar
our correspondent like most people, foigits
that when It was signed Hussli was still l
flrst.0l.1s. I'ovvei, nnd that one of ItiiKsia'!,
dearest ambitions vvns to re-nh the Adilatio
through Serbli (then Iatiil.loe.ked'. Huisia
thirefon-, Insis'cd tint Italy surrender nil
elniiii to the .itles formerlv Italian oil tho
easte in shore of the .Vdrlatl, from (and in.
eludiig) 1 mine down to Albania These pal
Jn.ttl.1t1 roast ciiles had been for centuries
tinder enetltn rule, until .Napoleon handed
them over to Austria . and ono of them z.u 1
has nliv.cH been able to maintain bei Italian
Town I'ounell and schools ital, iievtrth,..
less, k-ivo up nil elnlms to them, at Ilussla's
In stei.ee excepting only . ir., nnd S.benko
nnd the new Jugo-Slavla w is thin piesentcd
with .1 dozen excellent harbors
V legnids Plume, one would judge, from
Mi- (.ilbett tint the Jugo-Mavs withdrew
nmical.lv from Plume What aeiuahj ,.,p.
I ened according to the latest Italian papers
was that the Cn.itl.in regiment stationed
tl.eio ib.-t looted the ui. The are said b
one who claims to lave been an eve. witness
to nave robbed tho savlng-i banks of J iino ono
ciowns the e tistom House of S00 fmrt crown"
the von stoits of oue-fourth of the. total
sto.k of coal and provisions and i, have
taken fiom the Italian families whatever
wuse.uil puitablt The population of Pluma
Is ovei two-thuds It ilian, and p )s wonder
tint tlitv voted to be under Italian rather
than 1 loatiati doni.-iio 1 n K noi iiccesinar'
lo eill up food bnbcry as u cause '
I.vei Ameiliaiii wishes the m h e,i,Mter
Serbia eve-r.v sues-.- nnd so do all Italians
who udmuo tut bravery of the .Kerb soldiers
having fought bhuuldci lo shoulder with then!
Ill Ma. edoni... Hut Italians cannot torget
and Americans should icnllzc, that two elel
meniHe.f this new stato wero nmong our Ml
terem (iwrntes till the signing of tho iirnu
slice! tho Mohummed.'m Uotnl.nis and the
Unman Catholic Croatlans and Slovenes
They are vei much on probation: the
were tho baldest fighters against the- I.ntento
on ike Italian unci Albanian fionts they
have been tho stnnchext supporters of th
HapsburgJ and the rca.tlonar foie.es whl. h
pre. ipltnted the war It Is just as if tho
Uavarlans should suddmly ask special favors
of us at the expense of Piance They should
present themselves to us In caeUrloth and
ashes and fspcua.lv avoid misrepresentation
at the expense of cur faithful ally, Italy
fHAI'.U.S I P.ON- CLAP.lv.
New Voile, Ue.-iiber JO.
Ill Dtfeiitc" of the Comic
fo llio Ldtlor of the l.nning ;'iil(,c .eelirc
bir T'tnnlt 1111 to enter a few wolds In elc
feiiso of our funny pige wlihh came under
II cruel iittnc, re.ently by one of our read
ers. Jt Is undoubtedly tho best page hi jour
paper and iven e veels our editorial ji.ige.
The (lumps appeal to mo becauso I am n mail
rled man and It Is consoling to reali.se, that
we. as a fanill havo no more) human frailties
than the, (.limps. As for Mr. Hang, my wifo
takes keen enjojntent in calling my attention
to his weaknckhiH I wonder why 'Ihe
Toonervillo trolle. however, is a reminder of
a stein teallt , tin, hlxtlcth mrect line And
right hero I would talto exception to the
Young I. idv Across the 'Wn. Her stupid
It Is no Joke: It Is nauseating Onso In a
great while, when I nm tempted to glance
at her, I am filled with profound contempt
and f e, 1 so c-xaspcrati el ut her ignorance
that I must ipilekly look up "chonI Da
fur relief There I find unaIloed bliss. If
M.ur under thinks the children aro "vulgar"
1 hen I fr.el confess to vulgailt. for they
pi.vicl, a constant renewal of inv own bo
h .ml .I., s Vk 101 th. I'tigllsh Jokes 1 m
1! .111 su ihustiat ons v.i i.iucn
ANDV.
Piuladtljiliia, Dcccmbci SO
COM KESSMAN MOORE'S LETTER
Ileal Fight Over the Revenue Bill Will Uu Before the Conference Commit
tees 7i(Jto Mr. Blanhenlmrg Bached His Faith in George If. IS'orris's
Farm Loan Bonds Lieut. C. G. Remind' Rise in tho iVary
Washington, D. C, Jan. I.
men and others who havo
TDUSINCSS
been giving anxious attention to
iCarned ai tides analysing the .Senate's
action on the levenue bill ma bo obliged
to revise their estimates bfoie the eon
feiees of tho two houses get through with
their work As a matter of fact. It would
bo unwise for un business man to mal.e
calculations on any matter in dispute be
tween the feemuto nnd the House There is
a nonul.ir Impression that tho Senato
writes a revenue or a t iriff bill, but the I
facts do not sustain this assumption. Hvetv
leventio bill must originate in the House
Tho Senate has the power to amend, und
because It does amend and thus attempt
to override what the House has done, the
notion has gone foitli tint the Senate Is
htipteme The truth Is that the bill Is
nlmost as uuceitaln us to tho llnality of
Its features after It leaves the Senato as
it is when It loaves tho House. It then
becomes the duty of tho confeiees to
thresh out) the diffetences between the two
houses nnd cr,mo to an agreement If possi
ble. Tho tas.lv of thus honing the differ
ences in this iust.inco will fall upon ten
men, five of whom como from tho Houso
and five from the Senite. It happens that
North Carolina and Pennsylvania will oc
cupy conspicuous positions In this confer
ence, sinco Senator Simmons, of North
Carolina, will bo chairman of the Senato
conferee w 1th Senator Penrose, of Penn
Blvanla, as tho tanking Republican, and
the House conferees will bo 'leaded by Mr.
Kltchln, ot North Carolina, with Mr.
Moore, of Pennslvania, next In lank to
tho ranking Republican, Mr. Pordney, of
.Michigan. Tho other confeiees will bo
Senators John Sharp Williams, of Jllssis
Bippi, and Hoke Smith, of Goorgia, Demo
crats, and Henry Cabot Lodge, Republican;
and Representatives Italnc, of Illinois,
and Dixon, of Indiana, Democrats Tho
Indications aio that tlio confeiees, becauso
of the differences between the two houses,
ate in for a long hard session It has
been ptedlcted that they muy not be able
to agree short ot two months. If the do
not agree In time lo pass the bill befoie
March 4, tho whole lneasuio dies.
wm:s
Stodtl
Mrs Bhinhenburg and Ilauy T.
Stoddurt, executors of the late
Rudolph HlanUi'tiburg, tiled their account
showing that tho Uto Ma or had Invested
heavily in I .berty Honds and had put
$23,000 In bonds ot the Ftdciat Land Bank.
It was a remindei of the relations existing
between the former Mayor and his Dhec
tor of Wharves, Docks and retries, Cleorgo
W. Norrls. Parm Loan Commissioner, now
permanently located In Washington. 1'or
a time there was bomo diniculty In dis
posing of faun-loan bonds, but moro ie
centl they hae como to be legaided as
one of tho best Investments, duo to tho
fact that they uio supposed to have a firm
real estate baching. That Hnrty Stoddait
should have become the Mayoi's executor
was not surprising, either, for In tho old
das tho two were almost Inseparablo com
panions. The late William T. Tilden, Dr.
Paul J". Fartaln and Tom Harper, of tho
League, tiere of this same group.
WASHINGTON hears that Harry A. Ber
wind's son Charles Is now on tho staff
of the admiral In charge of tho naval forces
at Now York, Polks on the Main Lino
who remember tho joungster, who went
to the Naval Academy at Annapolis somo
j ears ago, will bo pleased to learn of tho
joung man's progress. Prom all accounts
he proved a mighty good midshipman and
his advancement-was to bo expected. Ho
Is now Lieutenant Charles Graham Her
wind, and along with tho title go tho
ex-pet leut.es of numerous sea voyages, gome
WELL BE6JJN
of them under stiess of war. Lieutenant
Tlervvlnd Is a scion of the big coal family
which figures In New pott society and
among tho New York flnancleis. Ho had
plenty of outside opportunities, but pie
fcried to work his way up on his own
account At tli.it, ho seems to havo mado
good. His uncle, IMwaiel J. Hervvlnd, of
the vicinity of "VVuII street, also had a pre
dilection for the nnv.v, but cjuit e.uly to
glvo pl.t to his big business talents.
"IX71LLIAM If. PI
' Courier comes
SCHi:R'.S Xew Jeisey
into our midst and
brings us much news. Not only do wo
learn that Miss Shinn, of West Creek, Is
lecovcrlng from the "flu" and that the
load to Clover Point is being rcpaitcd, but
we also find that our quondam Philadelphia
friend, Tim OLear, Ma or Re bum's
superintendent of police, has followed In
tho footsteps of Pianlt Willing Leach and
located at Tuckerton. As 1ianlc Is now
In Washington doing for Senator Piellng
hiisen, of New Jersey, what he formerly
did so well for Senator Matthew Stanle
Qua, we presume theie Is bomo excuse
for Tim O'Learj's automobile occuping
tho highway and running Into a $30,000
damage suit, as reported by Mr. l'Ischcr's
paper. Hut that isn't all the news In the
Courier of intetct to Washington, and if
it had not appealed In the Cornier possi
bly we would never havt known It This
further report Is that the county board of
taxation over at Lakevvoou Is holding
General Hospital No. 0 a former Lake
wood hotel for a 5223,000 appraisement,
on the ground that the Government is
p.iing $45,000 or $30,000 lcntal, despite
tho fact that on appeal it Is contended the
propei ty Is worth only $50,000. In this
loundabout way Washington sometimes
secures valuable lnfoimation about public
expenditure
"tiniPN big Ted MeAlplii used lo le-11 the
' ' oung newspaper bos at the old Join
nallstb' Club that their lino ot woik "un
fitted them for methodical business," ho
evldentl hud not met with Philip S, Col
lins. Phil was then beginning to do 'tho
loutlue," which, because of Its vet
variety, entices many a clever joung fel
low to indulge the Bohemian lather than
tho practical side of life. He could take an
assignment and bring In a good story Just
llko any other reporter, but ho soon stew
oppoi utilities which other bright fellows
failed to grasp, and ho went aftei them,
When Phil comes to Washington row -which
ho frerpientl does ho comes -s tho
general business manager of what Phlla
delphlans generally lclieve to bo tho big
gest and most "methodic P publishing
concern in tl 0 countr. Ho is too intense
on cliculation, postal lates and prosaic
things to talk politics, ev.cn if lie now
knows nn thing ubou. It; but one cannot
recall Phil's stait without t linking of that
lino old gentleman with flowing side whls
Iters who sat In Councils for many eais
as the representative of tho Thirteenth
Ward. Councilman Collins was Phil's
father, and I'lndlay Drown, Billy Mc
Coach and Iko Hetzoll, vvhu aio beginning
to grow gray In tho public bcrv Ice, w HI 1
member him as ono of tho r ost llkublo
und dignified members of tho chamber.
pitKTTV nico thing to havo a few thou.
- sand acres to plant, farm or shoot over
when you want to lev... "tl.o madding
erovvd" for a couple of months, but that's
about tho situation with W. L. Hurley, tho
big Camden merchant. About this thno of
car Bill rcn be cxpe.ttd to stop off at
AVashlngton and, lajlng his bpottsmun's
outfit aside, glv us a few tletu'ls about
what Camden Is doing to keep up with
the wot Id procession In injusiry, and en-
ijJur:
yiKmKyymimKer u "v r"saMf7 "'W.
r?T&pmMlmh VWWbSc
-. csk muKmx.ft ran. n?. v.vxiiaitnisi 1 -.ry
'. ?kt?;258S5Mir MP MWmmm8UL - &!&
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terprlse. And the record last year, he
tells us, counting In war work, nhlpbulld,
Jng, Red Cross and the like, was something
to be proud of. When Hurley goes on
these southern trips his jjlace Is at Hilton
Head, 53. C. he Is generally accompanied
by Philip Wilson, the tugboat man. Phil
Is a brother of Vice Admiral Hary Wil
son, commander of tho American naval
forces In Trench waters.
r
1919
Ity Lieutenant Granlland Rice,
Third Arm), A. r .
NO PLASH from tho lusting guns;
No rifle lights the plain;
No clotted cilmson river runs
From J binders to Lorraine:
The whlto ear dawns above the hosts
Beond the last red flare.
Save for ten million drifting ghosts.
Who neither know nor care.
How- quiet now the lost trench seems,
How still across the fold.
Where lately through our broken dreams
Tho mighty thunder rolled;
Where through our restless, shaken sleep
We heard the big shells sing,
Or saw at dawn tho long line leap
To take its final fling!
Can It be that nt last the rod
Has brought Its final lasli f
Where no 11101 e out the bloody sod
A baonet shall flash? ,
Ol can sonic white diwn know at last
'I ho final charge Is through.
AV Ith flames of war forever past
Whcie llfo and love are due"
Can It be down the woild we may
Wake up at hist to know -The
soft, whlto dawn of some lost day
Wo dreamed of long ago?
Where with the ghostly shadows blown 1
l!eond tho laBt grim fight,
Soft aims once moie shall hold their own
Acioss the silent night?
Today tio btorinhig vanguatd leaps
To leave Its share of slain;
At dawn no rolling thunder sweeps
Pioiu Flanders to Lorraine
The white ear breaks against the sky
He oncl the last red flare,
Save wheie ten million ghosts diift b
Who neither know nor care.
The State Depart
One I.1111 dub flops ments plans for the
depot tatlon of about
three thousand enein aliens who plotted
against the TL nited States causes us to won
der pleasurably whether any ot the Hun
mines that theso fanatics helped to Fptead in
peaceful wale ts are still floating around to
do their bit when the oppoitunity offers.
What Bo You Know?
QUIZ
1, Mile Is Hie ,sltiin( Secretary eif the Jeuty
wliu villi ull for l'rnnce todas".
',', Win. wrote the poem "Murco Uoi-nrls"?
S, Vtl.iil i.re the mcetlnr duss for the Frrtil
U.nt'r. cibhift.'
I, VVl1.1t U t lie Hirudin: 11 f "In Hen uf"?
.. Vthere U the Mont ( rnU tunnel
ft. Where was lliielturil hlptlns born
T. What Vmfrlrnn ellj. nee online tu the hut
reiisns tontalnrd the luntrnt nrno iionu
Inllon? 8. What Is !'" meaning of the latin word
"Pfeeau".,
0. Whence does cosnac Eft Its name?
10. Who wrote the score of the opera "I'mist"?
Answers to ederdjj's Quiz
1, CurlUle Is lli j. 1'nslli.li border fit which
1'rehlilent Wilson vlhlted.
'.'. The mean dlstiin.e between the moon and Hie
earth Is SJS.HiU iiiUm. "
3, III. hard lovrlnre nan nn V.inrlUh rnrullrr
neet, f-ieiliill i.i.lr.1 for M "To Apnea In
I'rlMii" ind "in l.uiaata on (.nine to
tl.n Warn," UU datnt are 1618-1018,
lletlmr, nirium rarlr In da,
In Rood time.
life, jriir, elc.
There were fifteen Murr. nnd utrlnei on Hi
tliiB titer I nrt Mrllruo wlilrh Innplrrd
1 run. s .rcilt Un to write "The star
hpunded llanner."
I'alermu U the lament tltj In Mellr.
A lliniHt I n niolliiw with a te-nt-iliaiie-d
klieli. ktliklnt tielitli to rutin. v
l'e.lro fTi-ldrron lie, la Itirra ecus a famuim
N.1111U 1 .In.nii.lUl. One of Ills mailer-l.l-,,
In "Life l it Iire.1111" Ctldu es Sueno)
Ills .lutes ure 1C00-1C8I. oiie-io.
ri.Mufr appears nn n character In the
M.iilienieareiin pliiva "Tlie Jlerry VVIira
111 ttineiMir nnu tlie two uaru of iti,,
lleers IV," Ilia
! I".", fleiilli U dencrllied In
"Ivinir Henry V,
end of lit, Jll.liiieiin lu l,e fortniukt head lit
lareer slil,,. ami from the bonsutlt tu lu
niatlhcad In suialltr onci. ' '
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