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P.ileatlp.la, trldi-, Jenuiry 3. HH THIS WINTLH T HARRISUUIU. WS HAVE a business (loerr or who nil taKe office on .lanuarj 21. Mr Spioul has Indicated In all that he lias .sukl slmo hia election that he intends to conduct the business of the Mate with as great effi ciency as private business Is conducted He has called to his as&lst.inte tmn whose primary qualification Is fitness for their Jobs rather than demonstrated ability to carry primal les and lire up oters Tills promises much And tho record of Mr Sproul Justifies the hope that thf piomises will be fulfilled They cannot b fulfilled as tlie should b If the General Assemblj falls to co operate. That bodj meets net Tuesday for the purpose of oiganUlng Then it will adjourn to gie lt leaders an oppor tunity to make the assignment of the mem bers to committees When the committee assignments nre announced wa shall know whether it Is Intended to have a business session of the Legislature; that Is a ses sion deoted to doing the woil. nialled out for It and then adjourning, or a session of dawdling and delav such a. has need lessly consumed the time of the legislator) In recent ealF. There are secral bills which should be passed without delaj One Is a bill which shall provide for a constitutional conven tion In the rear future Another is a re vision of the charter of this clu A third la the authoiUatlon of a bond issue for food roads. These aic of first importance It Is announced that an attempt will be made to pass a workman's sickness insur ance law and there have been tumois that the child labor law is to be amended The--e are matters on which there 1 wide dirfei ence of opinion The should not be pei mltted to obstruct the more Important work of the session Are oj j patr'ot, or did u imiti become an acting patriot 'for the duration of the war" - I'ASV AMERICAN "1TMCS who have alwajs maintained that the species hick In Amerh a. has its brooding place-i in the b'g cltki rather than in the vernal peace of the outlands must hav e read th New York newspapers jesterday with a scT-e of tilumphant le assurance An iireprt jsible air of amazed delight pervaded the headlines of the Riln len dailies as the told that laws made ac tive on Januarj 1 to pi event moie than a flfty-cent gouge on verv theitro tl.-l et were "working admlr.ibh" at the time when tho papers trembled to pif-ss with the Clad tiding" One cannot imaj, ne a fninie: m ai lonesome region of tli Jlidd'e AWn being dazed and dazzled b liie ducal hud wait ers, who b Ccllcire Use of the d mi snub pocket so much of tho uroarned Iticremt-ti-of the Jlunl attanev Koi can one f.mc even a farm band in Illinois piing -j -. tematlcillv tut th chill bow of a incnlil Is a dress suit It Is ws to Imagine what any rural cltizon uou'il do if a slnrp featuied individual happened along to Ml him that h must contilbute -u p-i cnt of the price of a needed eommodltv to a upeculatoi wlio had a w, of beating hirn to the store There wiuld be a fllu of jfours. .' It is not the habit of men in the.! senses to subnfit to that sou of thine Usuallv their pride is hurt even if they area t con cerncd ubout the mom- Yet this prat tlc Is habitual rtiid conventional in almost ever communit wheie there a.e manv- vt:-f a..u Ull-S Yes, tho American uKk hav his dnelJ.ug place In cltie It is the furmeis who aie sophisticated nowadays i:.is ninn i appears, makes eisy Americans Bang goes ni.jtlitr irecedw, Wilson, in Itoire i-eems deteinunej n. as the Roman do lo lOTHER MAT II. M "DETTBil than nnv information , f a - strict! diplomatic eluractei f;om I-atln America, is the new that the Associated Press will heteafter sen lead Jng dall Journals In the pilnclpal onh American cities Heretofore the peop e of the .t.n Ameiican itpubllcs have known hurope better thai they know Amcilca The life of a country is best reflected In its news But Latin America has depended too largel on what inteiested or prejudiced correspond ents preferred to send it from the' United States Tho service of the largest and most efficient news as-oclatlon v.l l be like a mirror In which the rest of Amend can see the better alms and purposes of the United States elearl mirrored Too educational value of the "A l ' seivice i i the gieat newspapers ot the other Amei lean republics cannot be too great! esti mated. Will Ameiican business, in its future programs In South America, follow the lead here suggested and realize the need I , ' L IILUIII. m.i -1 r. Vri.WlTI,i. .A- ,-..,,, , I " SSlirt ------- -v -- i - . -ai"i1 ,-fv. " aaaV v- h - i'zrrr?rrrTMiBto of a better understanding between the peoples of this continent? If It will, there may be atonement for man serious eirora of tho past Smart und nw 1ft were the was of most of the ambassador of this rountr' com merce In South Atnotlca befoie the war. Dislike and mistrust of tho United States among Latin-American peoples was the logical consequence of the attitude of those commercial leprcstntutlvcs of our who had tho habit of condescending tolerance for all the things which they were unaule to understand (Jermanv did far belter bv sending as her commercial and banking representa tives men of education, versatile enoURli to appreciate bfltln-Ameilcan way und culture After all the commercial man Is a most Impoitnnt ltprcBetitatlve of his countr He talks to a thousand men while, the accredited diplomatic rcpresen tatlve talks to one It was a recognition of this fact that enabled Kalserlsni to Infiltrate" South America ho thotoughly In the da of peace and build up not onl tnde but widespread mpatlij fot C!ei man? and nermann WILSON. IN THK FOIU'M, TIKS THK STRANDS OF HISTOR rumlainenUlt of law ami Libert. Vhiih Republican Home 1 ?pouetl, Are Mill the Hope of Mankiml TI'EKE it not foi Rome the continuity of hlstoiy iniifht be questioned. Were it not for Mr. Wilson's presence therp the sequence of tremendous new chapters would be severed. Apart from his personal qualifications for the role he now plays, theie is suprcmelv impres sive fitness in the visit of tho rcptcscnt ative of the greatest modern experiment in republicanism to the scenes where the mightiest ancient venture rose and fell Theie is u shuddei in the thought akin to that which troubled the mind of Kd wnrd Gibbon us, sitting on the steps of the Church of Ara Cocli, he beheld the material ruins of that superb elToit and wondered why. There is no answer in the thousands of resounding sentences of the mastet woik which followed that meditative quorv. for Gibbon was an eighteenth century materialist, with ocu lar rather than spiritual vision. Forti fied with the latter he would have amended the title ot his erudite annals. There was triumph in Rome still at the very moment when the first paces of the monumental history were penned. The eai was 177t5. The eiy modes of thought in which the founders of the United States of America gave expres sion to their purposes were grounded in Roman lepublicanism as it endured for seven centuries One year after the lust volume of the misnamed "Decline" appeared the Bas tille was won. A cjnical historian steeped to the full in Roman outward facts was da7ed. Hut Kuiope was sud denly illumined; though startled, made radiant. Roman ideals of liberty, though in certain temporary manifestations sav ugely corrupted, were reconqueiing the mind of man. The spirit is inextinguish able. 1'aith therein H what htirs the best elements in humanity in this kaleidoscopic age Disquieting qualms in the I'orum and by the truncated columns of the Basilica Julia nre not easily resisted, for the environment is overwhelmingly theatrical. But the spiritual pillars are un shattered. The new republic which today greets the successor of the old builds its highest hopes upon then fundamental inviolability. s a kingdom modern Italy has at times caused architects of freedom to question certain of her courses. The old Iriplp Alliance was a cold-blooded affair. The Abjssinian ambitions retailed thp Rome of Trajan rather than that of Cato Tho "provocation" for the Tripoli tan expansion is hardly susceptible of le assuring analyse. Creel: islands seised in that campaign are still beneath the sway of the led, white and green stand aid. Claims of the present Government for Writoiy behind the Adriatic littoral offer one of the most formidable of all the pioblems nptning for the Peace Con ference. Has Rome, historically the sen tinel of civilization, taught oveiy one but heiself.' Is she leistenng hei sub senption to the materialism ot the Coliseum, laised in the era of Flavian autoerac, lather than to the eternal I principles embodjing the sane balance of I llkovi. .n.l In... ?.. .-.M.. .. 1 1. .. ... t nuci.j iiu iii .iL mo u .wuin reiasu loners of a maimed planet are now think ing? Nul-ilimulatirg leouttal muv be :ouru , Itu!y hersclf. rr the,"e ar ,, . -., ... 4 . , . ... v.. o uai.M me oung aim inougillIe3 heir to an ancient tmpiie, the oppot tunist nation lured by the false gods of expansion und territorial uggiunduement, and that glorious land of idealists which made the nineteenth century the true touchstone of the twentieth. N'ot only fo: what they produced as a pio gressive national entity from a con geries of musty principalities, but for the unimpeachable splendor of their aims do tho names of Mazini, Garibaldi and Cavour nng with eloquence in the voice of fieedom. The "Risorgimento," which ictn-de Italy, furnishes a companion pictjic' to that of' a heroic, unconquerable count i which redeemed the horror of Capoietto, sustained enormous sacnficiul buidens and was again and again c' invaluable aid to her allies. The Marne might not have been won had not Italy's repudia tion of the iniquitous Triple Alliance re lieved tho I rench from the necessity of defending the Savoyard frontier. It is unjust to ascribe the attitude of Rome in this crisis to sheer self-interest. Indica tions of a German victory were very potent. It was largely the instinct for right respect for the very law born of the Seven Hills which stayed her inter ference at that eventful period. One hears now of rash Junkers , SHiSx EVENING PUBLIC LEDGEK-PH1LADELPHIA, Italy, of a heedless zeal to overcapitalize victory at tho expense of principles for which civilization expended rivers of blood, but there is Roman virtue in Si gner Blssolal), whose resignation from the cabinet rebukes the expansionist clique. Unquestionably he is but one represent ative of a vital constituency. Us mem bers may derive spiritual refreshment from the very stones of Rome and not merely those of two millenniums past. A lojal house of sub-Alpine origin may rule in Italy, but in the capital, once mistress of the world, four magic initials grace every new building, bridge or public work fashioned there. "S. P. Q. R." still runs the legend -"Senatus Populusque Romanus" (tho Senate and the Roman People). Surely the demo cratic liberty-fostering inspiration of this illustrious formula is not to bo dis counted. Mr. Wilson has a strong ally in these suggestive insciiptions, which re affirm the sometimes questioned truth that history is not wholly a spasmodic and inconsistent tale. In facing one of the most tangled of peace snarls, com plicated by elements of justice in con flicting claims, the President of the su perbly vigorous new republic in the seat of the old may derive valid moral sus tenance fiom this pregnant index of Italian idealism. I'crhapt no visit uhek Mr. Wilson lias madr t of such profouyid significance as tint to Home. The best that lie and all of ks con ask of the Italian heirr of greatness w that the be true to vhai they hare taught ns. 1 lie HolshevIM have looted JKi OuO.Oiifl from the Swiss Legation The prohabl will us it to issue pamphlets preaching liehVousness GOVLRISMENf HAILROAl)IC pAILUOAl) service in the last vear has " been the worst that America has known since 1860. Tne Government lost $130,000,000 in one jear of rail operation This would seem to be a culminating ai -gurnent against Uederil owneihlp of the rail llne Yet even a more emphatic case ngalnst the thforlstn who still are opposed to pr! vate railroad administration is made bv Itobert S I.ovett, who through the ex perience gained as Sir McAdoo's light hand man In the railroad admlnlsttatlon has had his faith restored in the old sjstem of legulated competition In the statement Issued as he left ofhee ill I.ovett saM explicitly tint (lov em inent ownership must inevitably fall In this coutitr Ho suggested the need of such .stimulation as private Initiative alone can provide and a sstem of federal regulation whlcn shall encourage expansion und pre vent tho ecol omlc loss of rate wais. Sir. I.ovett would have done an addc-u seivice for tho count! y if he had Issued a word of warning against the old 8 stem In which Congressmen from the toll grass cntintr atteirpted to tll tbe experts of the steam ' n how to run theh business Hull soldier uore the Ku'sei s cutties ii Herlln after the castle was s.u'icd b mobs nd et thev si Clenmuis ate not io lrngtous I II L L'P THU ABYaS Of IGNORANCI. rpiIAT Welshman who wants to establish a chair of world politics In the Unlver sltv of Wales in honor of 1'iesldcnt Wilson Is turning his nttentlon In the wrong direction Welshmen, becaun of theh proximitv to thn tauldron of Kuropean affairs pte p'ett well Informed on the subje t Whut i- needed Just now Is a depirtinent of v.oi.d politics In everj- American urn versltv with a night school holdlrg 'es slons In Washington during t'-e 1 fe of each t'ongies" There Is a !arh i aortm:.t of lgnoi ance on the subject m Ameiica than in aiiv other considerable civilized nat'on The veil was lift.d on the abvs when Hentv Kord went to Kurope to get the hojs out of the trenches before Chilstmas This siceasfi' bulldet of automoollis ki ev 'tss noo.t the political histoiv of Ilu.ope than the Ahltoond of Swat knows about his motorcars lie had not even heard of the. Sch'eswigHolsteln question und It . tlouotfiil If he knew unv thing about th. Alsace Lorraine question save what he learned from the suiting 0f -The Hlue Kitnn Momtalns' In h h vouth . . Know .edge of woi.d po'lt.c ls to iu. rs sentlt1 to Americans hereafter if they ore to avo'd stupendous blu-.de s 'ihe war ircome tax of Mi Itockefe. er 'oi lt inKle ear would piovide a.i amp r endowment for a eh.,!, of world pollt!rh u, three or fou bundle'. AtnerK an college and If the nroftsso!- did then c utv the i eCeitj of wai income tuxes would dippear iioinnoi ,s,r.ui 0f C.reiit Muallt. N nw V n . h,, in.-u.gur... oddreuB. re.ooimended tha tie .SU-- pohco U dls-b-iidid In fenrsUvana tie sia'a police oian!zed upon the princlp... of far p!rf, f0 everhod. coirpofcd of sc-'c-ed rren of dis. flplired character ard he!d aloof alwa from pollll-s. naele a record for quiet effi c'er.y ,ht has g'ven tl.e senV, permanent v a.ue The persctulity of Ma.'or Oroomo is r-lleited in the I'enrsUvanU service The fai'ure in Vew Vorl: snows dM'n ho-v ,d. ub c . ii'.ulltv personality can I r Iheie will he .inotiier ii "e.n. , ,.b.r. 0. atimiii,1R .1 llme w.rdf- at ths news tlat Hear Kord ft to pa Uoie jur.to k of Ills 50 a dH. vr thdt peiformaiice setirs a little worderful wlen reading farther down tho column vva are Inforired that Henrj ian pv h's twent. foui- eur o'd so-i JtJO.OOO a ei- Ihe recent br.n b outrages n.sgtir that Superlntei den Robinson, returning tt, his Job In the police department has row an ex cellent opportunity to display the efficiency which he does Tiot mem to posses' When a heudllne said )eite:day that costly dolls had a narrow escape in a fire, one could not avoid a wild Impression of a destructive blare In a fashionable restaurant. ,x s THE CHAFFING DI$H ) W: NOTICI3 In tho news that a tobacco dealer who was married recently gave his bride a check for $4,000,000 as a wed ding present. The oung lady will be In clined, we fancy, to agree with Stevenson's advice to women, never to marry u man who doesn't smoke. Ufor Socrates: May I venture seriously to inquire whether an significance at taches to tho fact that T. R. often starts TRoubleV Also TRtals and TRIbulatlons. In the street car the other day I noticed on the card advertising a certain well known blacutt, "Serve with Chafing Dish specialties" A professional proofreader, I was startled by what I momentarily felt was i t) pograpblcal error, so familiar am 1 with the Chaffing Dish ALCIBIADK3. Fable for Critics A filcrd of ours, who was quite ouns fort cars ago, wrote n great many poems in the first flush of his outh. He pub lished wome of them In a little book, of whldi the critics all said that , they ex pressed the Immature emotionalism of ex treme outh. , He was annoed, and kept the rest of his verses lr a scrapbook until he was approaching threescore and ten. Then, looking over them one da, lie thought the were worth printing, and had the rest of then published. A new generation of critics had come along by this time. Of the second book the said, having learned the author's present age, that these poems were the product of cjnical, disillusioned and morose old age. We are uncertain of the moral; but at any rate the storv proves the futlllt of Ilterar critics We sometimes wonder whether Mr. Hoover Isn't the most useful man on earth todav ? While most of us are onl talking about humanlt's troubles, he Is busy tr Ing to fill tho world's dinner pall And it begins to look as though Bolshevism were only another word for hunger, At any rate the war has not taken the Ire out of Ireland. ConneitiorH Not Guaranteed Ambrose writes that he sometimes finds our tialn of thought a little hard to catch Hut, uli' how much harder it is to get it startedl And sometimes It stops at a way st ition and it is almost impossible to move it along to the termini Unfortunately, there teems to be no I'ul -man attached to it. We have to keep our lolling stock shunt ing so lapldly thut it has no time to gather any moss. As he sweeps up the fallen necdlm and untiims the Christmas tree, Count Hen tlnek ma be pardoned for wishing that he could untilm his guest t i well Think of the delight of the Ameronf,en ashman If he were to come along some morning and Hnd the Kaiser in the rabblsh barrel. Hut Vt'ilhelm prefers to draw his own conclusions A Jeweliv expert sin tint lull the dl.i inonds in tho world arc in the United States but this is small consolation to a houxeholdet surveIng a depleted coal bin. We are aiwas tilled with amaement when we see In a shop window a little bot tle lontulnlng a model of a full ilgged ship, or some other little toy, that com pletely fills the Interloi of Ihc bottle. We have no pitlence with tho people who In sist on explaining to us how It Is done Komo people have an exp'aiiatloii for ev civ thing In regai d to evei form of human ae tMt.' Havs a philosopher, 'it is necessai that the question Bhould be asked from. time to time, What Is its put pose and ideal' In what way does It contribute to the beaut of human existence"' Like most questions asked b philoso phers, this is, tteinely embarrassing Tuo most whole-souled benefactor of humanit that we know is a fellow who fries ham and eggs at a certain lunch room U a few bundled thousand of his kind, with HUfflclent ham and egg", could be scattered lound cential Kuropi wo si ould liear no more about Bolshevism If we can't manage to settlo down piettv xoon ti-e League of Mane's mav decide to stand the eaith up In front of some (osinlt firing -quad live- siice Rouget de Lisle sat up all n ght to write "The War Kong of the Arm of 'ho Rhine ' islnro called the Mar sella'sej j great manv minor poets have Imagined that the onlj thing needed to ti.in out a greit poem was to sit up a n glit writ n' It lit ipite of out- best efiotts to diss iade Uiern, !-e American Press Humorists ate deteiinlrcd to hold tl.elr convention lune next p-lng Suggestions are in o-de- as to what is tl.f. funniest tiling In I'hilade! phla, so that wo can take a 1 possible pre lautiois to prevent those fe'lows fiom teeing 1' One of me most modest and humble ad vertisements we have over seen comes from Hanover. New Hampshire where the Hanover Inn announces itself as 'A com fortab e modern inn for nice people who tan enjoj a New Kngland environment." Who las been browbeating New dig. land and making her so meek" SOCR .TKS Oi e of the big resu i rant sndkates U uii. verttslng a triumph It boasts that tbotieh Ibe Seanif Plde pecull;l n erkati it feids irore tr.in lift million people a ear. the uveraee patron In its establishments spends onl tvent minutes In deposing of his luncheon or dinner There Is no sukges Hon in the blurb of the time which the sarre patrons waste while they are down und out with dtpeps.a or of the fortunes In docto-s" bills that are rpent In tho United States by men and women who are foiever engaged In dragging themselves back from the brink of nervous p-ostrat on The Socialists in Company franco are !rrltat4 profoundly because M Clemenceau seems .u disagree with Presl dent Wilson. There ate politicians 'n Wash lngton who are Irritated because the Anier lean people agree with the President In his foreign policies A world crisis makes strange bedfellows. tiiHjHt'jf.1 AM tAjeyftftvartaj, FRIDAY, JAXUAKX 3, NEW IMPERIALISM WANTED : A' PHILANTHROPIST TUU last time f called on I'erliarp bo was engaged in the study of detective stoiles. an lnteiestlng but somewhat mo notonous occupation. Detective storlc-s aie all alike, that is, almost nil. They pic-cnt a mstei and then unravel It. You know from the moment ou begin to read that the mitlior has the key to the m story and Intends to tantalise cm for from thtee to five hundred pages befoie he discloses It. But Just as there ate manv persons who are delighted with conundrums, there are also thousands who ale fascinated with the more complex lontindium of the ms ter tale I'erlcaip. bowevei, vvjs not reading detective stories because he liked them. Ho was merel trlng to find where the modern tale of this kind originated and he had dlscoveied that Beaumarchals antedated 1'oe t'aborlau and Conau Dujlu b mart eaif When T enteied his ajiai tmepts lat night I found htm bending over tho I'lioc nlxvllle and Norilstown sections of the excellent maps mide bv the Oovc liiment Survev, tiuclug roads with his linger and now and then making a cios with a pencil beside the little black dots w". Icli lepretent lmiies. 'Ihero was a pile (f vgrioultiiral Dcpiitmeut inpoits on the table and a lot of archltectuial books. "D ,0 YulT know am iihilunMnopIst out ot Job'' he asked without look- ing up. He is a most unniaiitieih ihap and never welcomes me when I tittr or bids me good by when I leave but accepts mv calls as u visitation of Providence as he urcepts the weather oi the muld who pp'iodkall tleaiiH out the litter he allows to accumu late about' him ' There Is the KaNei I began ' I liavo been looking foi one foi sevei.il veils" he went on, without noticing m flippant nnswei Men with nione.v aie using it for all 'oits ot loollsli phllau thtop.ts, Ignoiing one ot the moT fettlM fields for doing j,ood. Tho nnl man 1 evei htaid of Who sensed tho need was D O. Mills, who built 1 otels In New Voik foi men who d'd not like to sleep In the (heap and illth lodging 1ious.lv lie ns a leal bentfactoi But theie Is a .aige class of men m evciy clt too honest to steal and too proud to beg who aie starving foi the opportunltv to live on a lltle farm In the ountry. I belorg to that neglected class. I would not like to confess how man eais I havo been looking foi a little pi ice that will suit me. I want ten or fifteen acies of land 1 iv e would do if 1 tould not faet mote. And I want it within convenient distance of a railroad station, with good tialn service to town, and I shoii'd 1 he It to be In tho edge of a, little village with a postotTice a groceiv stole and a meat market. "I found such a plaie once jut it was not for sa'e I asked a jeul estate at,ent lo 'et me know when the owner was will ing to sell, but the man who cwned the place ne.t door bought It without letting any outsiders know what he was djing It was an ideal place of twentv acres, with a beautiful old Colonial house on it, It stable and an orchard, and It was rlgnt in the heart of a farming hamlet of three or four hundred people" He paused und looked off into space. Ills face was sad and I did not havo the beau to break into his regretful i enac tions over his unrealized dream. W,IAT'ft tlle u,e of regretting" he ' said ut last, shaking hlmtelf and making a sweeping gesture with his right arm as If to wipe aw a all nts vain long ; 't""4rssrMa03HHa c .V., UM). TO MAKE THE WORLD ings and nearlv knocking a pile of books to the lloor as he did so "ilieie is no hope for suili as 1,' he went on, "unles'i muho philanthropist comes tn out ie-tue. I Imo looked at storts ot fauns. Thev uie cither too far from the station ot the home is uullvable ui thev cost too muili. I have spent time enough dreaming about niv pioject to have built a house with my own lianas mid 1 have spint nione enough on cat faios to have paid fot a jitney bus. but I am no nearer lo m faun than when I began." ' Whj don t vou advertise? ' I asked. 'Tint is what I um doing now," he 10 Plled, u little Impatient!. 'I am advei Using niv needs to ou. Some one slid that if a man made a bettei t.iousetmp than his ncighbon tho woild would wen a path to his dooi-tep Now, it must also be ti ue that If u man has a greater need than his fellows some one will find It out I hive been vvultliu, valnl and 1 have decided that I shall tube cveiv one 1 (now Into mv confidence, in the hope that the woid will leach the light man at last " "You don t expect some one lo bii a faim ami give It to ouV Of eolith nnt'" he exclaimed indic, nanth. 'This is inv Idea 1 localised it the othei da.v when ni fiiend Doctor IJlv took me out to-his little fnini at 1'iaci He has sixteen acres and a house out theie within twentv-tlve miles of town, and gets lots of fun out of It But it U not Just what I want fot nn nll-the.eai phiLe I want a pliUamliioplst to bii, . farm of a hundred or a hiinditd and flfiv acies within n mile of a railroad station on the main line nm moie than thlit.v nilk, fiom town, divide it up Into len and fifteen acie plots, build a modest house und stable on each plot with modem Impiovements, such us water and elecliU itj, . and then ottoi one of them to me on eas.v temis of sale 1 don't want n teal state speculator to have imv thing to do with n foi he would evpict me to pay him twite what the land is woith and in ike a b ituNome pioflt on the buildings it needs a phllaii tluoplst who will be satlslltd with a fair letuin on his investment and take his pioilt in the content and happiness which he will lonfei on a lot of families ' Do ou think theie Is any siuli man".'" he Hsked wlstfulls. I am afiald nut,' -aiil i, 'Kiy man I know would say that the Usk would be too gieat Ho would bp afiald that he could hut fell all the houses or that tho'e vvl o bought them would get tiled of living In the count! and llnow tho piopeit buck on his hands, ot that the building of io ids and la lng of water pipes would cost scr muLh that the little fauns would be too expensive foi the kind of people im have In mind" I'eiliups so he adiniucd. 'but I um not going to give up hope until I havo tiled ever c.pedlent 1 may even print an advertisement In the newspapers The tell me that the people with mono who uie- anxious to do t,ood with 11 do not know how the can do tho most good All 1 want Is that some one should Invest fifty or a hundred thousand dollats In agisting to the laud those who would like to get there. It would be a safer Investment than putting It In some kind of sbnies dealt In on the stock exchanges " "You have a lot of faith in the goodness of our fellow men" said I "Wh shouldn't I " ho uvKed But be didn't wait for an auswei. His ies le turned to bis map mid lest I should vvuke him from his dieam I tiptoed silently from the loom. O, W. D. it". r' -i ift --i. i .fcj51-avn-'Ui'Vi.. ui.'":aT-';- . "a$5v,","s-C s l VV V Hoer In the ev VoiU Herald - rnSiV.t fct-K & zi.nSrtXMm!.!m. SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY The Doughboy Speaks 1! Lieut. Oantlaml 11 lie I luril .trm, A. L. I SI.OGC Cam f.OGGlNCJ through the mud of Pi ance .unplug In the rain. Hiking in u floen trance Down some German plain, ' Tall In!" hear the scigcant veil 1 ai fi oin home and clov ei , Toll mo, who the ballv bell Slid tho war "was ovei i how for bieakfast -slum foi i.oon Who savs men aie liee While the bugler's foolish tune Pipes the reveille? "Right dress!" hear the seigeanl bu?z 1'rom Main:! acioss to Dovei. Tell me who the hell It wu f-ald the war "was ovei Cleaning up a mass of wiie, Stained with clotted blood Where the big trucks bog and mlie In tho winter mud, I'ull of filth and fleas and fu Cannoneer and diovei, Toll mo who the fat-head wu Said the war "was over" Whether Paderewslci t New June for is to be the first presl- 1'ailerenal.l dent of a new Poll-h lepubllo we do not ktio some of his admirus ate nomlnillng him for thai important post Some of his enemies are h lug that lie Is not fitted foi It He has been chaiged with b.ing a pio. fierm-m propagandist and lie has been pialsed as a Polish patilot 'ilm uIolle ,vm (,ecW( which he Is. i!t ninidst all the doubt about him it must bo admitted tint he Is the gteatesl living statesman among pi mists and the gieatest pianist among stii(e-men 'I lie Pirsldeni wile leses a correspondent 'loin the ship tha o"l Mi VMIson fiom 1ms no feai of loucb lie Mat III. Ni-ne IJngland to Planer weilhei 'Mi's Is leassuilug to those of us who watch the ominous lightning that is be coming visible lu the political si, kg of Rut ope Tho Holshevlsts, act oi ding to d sputui, seem lutein upon pieclpltatlng a civil war hi German Would It not be more appro prlati to speak of that Fori of thing as uncivil wai Whut Do You Know? QUI. I. It hat U the Hull in name fur brnoa? i What U u qiildnum? ). Hoh ctften U the Jnltftl ., ,fc .,,, , . und when nil) the nut one lie ioinill,Vj '" '"tfii'''1 '""' f ,h" vtl"rl'""l I Amrr'on- ,,0.,hJ,:V,:ie,h,',,rl,,.'" "" "" "' " ,rl""' "' "JV.'dSr'l.'a'lKr'ftW, vlnVV """""" ;. Hun obi la the ( ollseum nt Komr ' "'iiltlc.'n.'1"""1'"' nD" f0r "" "0(k r "' B. Mlmt In "a priori" rrai.oiilns HI. li Is nn iictor somrtlnira mrlanharbtli. drtcrlbtd us u Rosclua? "'"apnoruaii) nsver to Yetenlaj's Qm I Vu.lihi I'rukfcU nml nulu illildril il. .,, n In , the urtitlon of .Vanu ' iV"': flclilecnlli irntur. 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