mwrmmpmw ntflTCMHSraWhi 10 EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA', THURSDAY, JANUARY 0, 1910 rj ; s-. V r mt w F tK i H V V i- I 1 i V h mr 5; "iiL vrz "t1 T L &r ?" Euenina tlubltc ffiebaec h THE EVENINGnTELEGRAPB U PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY &. 9Tn.ys."i,K- Curtis, rtiDiKr 61 ,c"11' " Iudlniton, Vlco rreildenti John C. own B. Williams, John J, Spurccon, Directors. EDITOnUI. BOAIID! . Cic It. K. Criin. Chairman I DAVID B. Sill LET Kdltor JOHN C. MARTIN.... Oenerat lluslness Manner t rubllah'M dally at Pernio I.trora Dutldlne. vp IntlenenrienrA flnitaM.. Vhllan-lnhla T.moira. CasTiii, Uroad and Cheatnut Streets nanno Citt Preia.(nlen nulldlnr Yokk 209 Metropolitan Tower DmoiT 40.1 i'onl Ilulldlnr ST. Louie ions Kullerton HulMInc CRIotao 1203 Tribune ilulldlnr NEWS BUnnAUS: Wiibinotom Ilcro. N. E. Cor. 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BrLL, SOOI) TALMT KISTf).NF, MAIN J00 VX Addrtaa all eonimtinlertlloti!, to Vrtntna puMlc Lrdger, Ind'vcndrncr Squirr, Philadelphia, Member of lite Associated Frets TUB A8B0CIATKD I'lMSS ( rai'ii tlvelu entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it pr not otherwise credited In this paper, and aHo tha local news pulllihcd therein, All rights ot repuhlteatlon of special dis patches herein ate also lescrrcd. 1'hiladrlphli, 1)turt4, January , 1V0 HEARTS AUK TRUMP IN PEACE GAME A SIGNIFICANT antldotn for Oppression over tho Indication. that a cynical antlquo diplomacy Is fast assuming In creased power In tho European chuncel- (J !.,.... I. n..niuw I.. ,1... ....... ....... .l. :w E4 jcntrt, ta uvtiuuui.T 111 urn cuiiitmn (jt uiu p.. f President's mallbag. The. documents in that receptnelo constitute. Indeed a. heart ening novelty In tho nnnals ot Interna tional relations. They aro rc-flcctlva of tho great mass of European opinion on the necessity of Just peace guarantees and the precedence which this Nstio takes over all other questions booked for considera tion at tho I'arls sessions. In ns many as fifteen different languages, "Stop war for ever" Is the fervent burden of tho cor respondence emanating from strife-weary peoples. Premiers and diplomatists with a zeal for driving hard, selfish bargains; states men intent on peaco opportunism rather than enduring peace preservatives; legis lators unearthing dusty and blood stained balanco-of-powcr doctrines aro obstinately inclined to discount Mich popular hcntl ments. Interference of this hind in tho grand old shell gamo of diplomacy Is not "cricket." Tlio Talleyrands, tho Castle re.xghs, tho Difcraclls of joro tolerated no such disruption of their inner circles. Patching up lluropo with a perilous ad justment of greedy ambitions was an "ex clusive" i ndertaklng. Toryism, albeit sotneivh.it chasteiud by current revolutionary warnings, would be pleased to enjoy u Mmllar complacency today. But times hale changed since tho Congress of Vienna, even Mnco tho almost equally nefarious Congress of Berlin. Di rect communication, uuiquo and iinim- rwi h n Hi I- ulnonr,, linu hnmi iul nlillcfonrl ,V IlAtWAAn thfi ro.ll ltpurt ff tlw, nflttntiu nnil K H the spokesman of a land with no private v ax to grind. The hundreds of terribly u x oarnest letters which Mr. Wilson has re P iielved Impressliely tjplfy a new .sort of 5 diplomacy, altogether spontaneous and J" contemptuous of tho rules. They form but ono of tho numerous Indices of tho spirit of tho plain peoplo in Kuropn, a spit It J, which tho President has both sought and ,. fired In his recent inspiring tiuvcK These letters are represrr tatilo to Mr. t Wilson of a constituency on whosn newly asserted powets ho will undoubtedly loly strongly at th coining deliberations. '. America has important strictly material ' lstlo cards to lav mi tho peace tabic. Sho i tan assert her wealth, her geographical fr security, her Imnitnm naval and mlllUrj potentiality, uul equally iital in com parison with these assets is the formica tion of her position that comes of tho deep popular sympathy it lnsplics In those who havo suffered and now demand that that suffering cease. On tho might of this passionate desire which effaces frontiers is dependent tlio security of mankind. On the etent of tho defiance whli.li It dares tu make to statesmen who aro purblind depends a pano outcome of tho conference. There uro evidences in ilrtually all of Mr. Wll son'H recent nddressos that bo is Inclined to regard It as a trump card In the great same, tho line-up of which is dally hard ening. Have jou cier heard of a IJolalieiletory? USES POR WAR ENERGY THJ3 Interrupted stor of tho I'rankford Elevated, now to bo completed. Involves ' & moral. If half ot tho enthusiasm, energy. In terest and money necessarj to successful warfaro could bo concentrated for a jear on the works of pence, that now confront 'J gw civilization, tho faco of tho world would j"1 be changed. S JJh In twelvo months In Philadelphia we MPi.hould havo IJroad strett subways, do- "-rj-?rl -nt(.,i lines to Darbv ni.d the, iinttliueif wn . -. - -- - - , nvgi'fip widened Htrrcts in the congested traffic - WJ At" v ,,.J, ,' ' .j. v. nttcu. Slrafllc In South rbiladclphla ami a I ?fletcd I'arkway. They call Trotsky red. has a yellow look. At this dlstanco THE CO-EDS' MISTAKE THOUGH lauded as it ilrtne, modesty can hardly validate lis claim when It .lashes with civic pride. Tlio co-eds of 'wtfa University of Pennsylvania In for- Rnrauy resolving to "iigut mo intiuence .1 ' flollcn 's '''n, brought to bear on our boys overseas by Trench clrls" are con ceivably less bold than they Imagine. Their words nro resounding but does not Its very existence Imply deferential qualms? Heretofore every Amerlmn cily was perfectly awaro that it contained tho most attructtvo girls extant the world over. ' Interrogate a Chlcaguan, a Italtlmorcan, 1 Bostonlan, a New Yorker, If this stutc- pinent be doubted. With these examples of mm ViM iuriivuup, x'jiuauejiiiuta iviiiimiuiy ."wai if, "if, fvn ,nvw.w( .no uit u-aai . t- - .jt,' st- ' -"-j.-.. -.v-"'. know that they can stand tho gaff, but It would bo moro stimulating for them to back tis up. Tho surest way to mako a rival formid able la to acknowledge one, even though tho langtiago employed was Intended lo bo crushing. Tho subtlest of resolutions would have been merely mental, VOTERS ALONE CAN MAKE A SSIALL COUNCIL BOSS-PKOOF Pliiladelpliiu and Chester Arc Showing Again That Political Reform Mutt Uegin in tlir. Conscience of Citizens pKRTAINLY tho BUCBcstion of a small Council of nineteen salaried mem bers, ndvanccd by the committee on charttr revision as a basis for the pro posed new charter for thin city, repre sents nit improved conception of udmln istrntivo machinery. If a candidate were to bo thus isolated from the pnrty mob and subjected to the collective nnd con centrated scrutiny of n vastly increased and vnrious-mlndcd constituency, ho would, ns they say, have to watch his step. IIo would keep better company. It is easier to watch nineteen ofllciuls than 134. The proposition happens to be made at u time when, in this city and in neigh boring communities, we uro witnessing new proof of the mighty disdain in which tho average political boss holds all ordinary formulas and legalisms and taboos and l est rict ions. A small Council would represent a vast improvement in the municipal machinery. But what is to be done with the improved machine? The best dcvilwagon ever made can take you cither to tho opera or into u ditch with tho same facility. After any frank analysis it has to bo admitted that the voter is the municipal chauffeur. Reform has usually failed in perma nency because it has not truly touched the conscience of the electorate. In a community that peimits such a riot of cynicism as we have just been witnessing in the police department under a Vnrc-Smith-Wilson direction, the issue lies far deeper than any merely legal method can go. Almost everywhere in this part of Pennsylvania political cynicism has spread like a disease. There is our own City Hall, of course. And there is Chester. Chester is passing through a time of police mismanagement and political de basement icminisccnt of our own darkest days. Chester is a place of magnificent opportunities for forward-minded men. It has an oppoitunity to grow nnd spread under the stimulus of modern industiial needs. Magnificent things might be done for its population nnd for its future if it were under the direction of constructive and imaginative minds. Nowhere in America, perhaps, is there a city that could piofit more largely than Chester under a scientific and humanized admin istration. And yet Chester is in the hands of petty bosses. Its politics smell of stale beer. Its political destinies seem to bo directed from the back rooms of saloons. Here again everybody will say "the bosses!" Yet there are times, in Philadelphia and in Chester and everywhere else, when a man who is forever snarling at the bosses seems no wiser than a man who curses his own reflection in a mirror. For the bosses Usually give the people what they seem to want or insist upon having. They are always within teach -just as the Mi.yor and the Vures aic within reach whenever an indignant public wishes to go after them. It is not likely that Mayor .Smith would have permitted the return of Superintendent Robinson if ho feared any unpleasant results of an official act altogether fla grant and almost insulting to tho general intelligence of the community. If men like Mr. Smith and Mr. Vnre are forced to accept a small Council, they will unquestionably set about nullifying tho poatiblo rofoim by turning the newer municipal machinery to their own uses. If they can manage to misguilo and bewilder and bailie the public under one form of administration, they are not likely to avoid trying the same game iiiiiiui otucr circumstances. llial is where the factor of tho voter's con science comes in. Tho boss deals with the general consciousness or uncon sciousness of the voters. Leaders for decency must learn to do likewise suc cessfully. Here, perhaps, is tho bxplantttion of tho persistent failure of icform in Phil adelphia. The reformer too often puts his faith in legalistic forms, repressions and restrictions. In many past cITorts for a larger righteousness in municipal alTaiiM the reformers depended on two battle cries. They promised "a btrict business administration" or "good book keeping." Stiict business administrations nnd good bookkeeping are well enough. But these are dry words. They do not touch nny one's imagination, and in every voter is the knowledge that a strict business administration and good bookkeeping do not necessarily represent the ultimate ends of life or citizenship. There are greater desires hidden away in most people. The icformer must articulate them. Probably the absence of such articulation is ono reason why a truly amazing number of men voters do not even know tho names of their ward representatives in Councils. There is a vas'. mass, the majority, that "trails along" at every election without any definite interest or purpose. And until a way can bo found to touch tho real interests of these voters it will make little d'ffcrcnco whether we have a largo Council or small. If a city is unclean and unprogresslvo and If It Is constantly having its pocket picked, tbo fault Ilea - V YVitli 4liA vnimra ni waII n wttYi 4ttA Vft I It is with dally life that tho voter is concerned. Whoever can convinco tho peoplo that their causes aro actually linked up with his own vital interests will get plenty of support even if ho is a "reformer." If it can be shown, for instance, that sincere opponents of boss Ism are willing nnd eager 'to enforce n sort of policy that will insure a llttlo more of comfort In trolley cars, a llttlo more happiness for children, better health and better schools, an elimination of slums and tho preservation of llfo by the simple method of cleaning the streets, bosses of tho present type would quako soon enough. There is no doubt that nil peoplo want to see tho city made clean, and that any methods likely to relieve tho oppression of life in tho crowded sections of the city would rouse their enthusiasm. They want happiness. They feel they have done a day's work when they quit their jobs in the evening, and they do not want to toil nnd fight for another addi tional hour in a mere effort to get home. They would like to feel that their chil dren could breathe clean air and play with safety in the open, and that when these children get a little bigger and go to work they will not bo crowded nnd sweated and overdriven. Leaders who come along with that sort of thing in mind will not need to worry for support. A smull Council will greatly help to clear the way for a better vision of the city's responsibility to its people. But until a better public policy can reawaken intc.-est in tho voters a now charter will not automatically accomplish much else. It In pleasant to bear that I'urope Is going wild over tho President. A lot of people will feel that It will bo better It it goes sane. Tho riot that Is brewing In Hnrrisburg over (ioiornor Hruinbaugh's Job suggests that the Ooiernor may bo n war historian In moro was than one. It la comelvable that should tho Kaler's e)e ran across tho Berlin dispatch proclaim ing "l-'irlng all oier city." "Still nt it!" would bu his melancholy verdict. ELBOW ROOM A Hussian Lullaby Hock n-by, baby, and drowsily nod -That's only tho noise of a new tiring squad. Thy father's condemned ami thy sister's In Jail, Thy grandpa is offering pencils for sale. Ifush-a-by, baby, In old retrogtad, Js'omo day you'll Hie to r-jvenge mir poor Dad: When the llolshcvik breaks, then tho soviet'll fall. And down will c-onio I.enlnc and Trotsky and all! Pomp .mil ceremony aro neier needed when a truly great man goes to icsl. Nothing In Theodore Itooseielt's career wa-s moro cspresslvo of his manly sim plicity than his funcial. And ho will need no Introduction In tho Klyslan Fields, Tho I'lflh Wnrd will soon be able to get some, hints from Berlin on the manner of celebrating an election. Hut tho speech of President Wilson's that wc .no eager tu hear will be the ono he will make after seeing the deiastated regions of Trance and Belgium. Wc hopo that be will bo made a citizen of I.ouvalu, Verdun ami P.lielms, as well as of London, Homo and Turin. 'The League of Nations is not it panacea for all mortil problems," sas a statesman. Well, wo clul not expect Ktirupc to leap right out of I lie lire Into the panacea. TI.e most aniaxlng thing about Mr. Wil son's Kiiropc.iu mall Is not that be is re ceiving thousands of letters, but that he intends to answer them all. Our correspondent in Berlin cables that that city re-echoes with "mighty f.liouta of Ifoch!'" Evidently tho High Price of Kverythlng Is getting on Berlin's neries, too. Wo aro empowered to contradict tho rumor that tho Dutch province of Lini burg Is piling up all Its stock of Llmburgcr dieeso on the frontier to preicnt annexa tion of that terrltorj by tho Belgljns. Three hundred distillers bale pledged u billion dollars to light prohibition. They taho their stand on Article X of the Con tltutlon But what they aro rc-ally inter ested in is their own oitlclo NN.. Queen of llie lloUlieiixcnj Tim crudest autocrat in Petrograd is said to bo a young woman twenty-two jears old. Kipling was right. At any rate, Berlin Is not siiffeung from feud shortage. If thn suffragists keep on lighting bon fires around the Whlto House, tnajbo Mr. Wilson will haio no homo to return to. Only tho Kaiser's strong religious con viction has restrnlneil him from commit ting suicide, It Is said. Never mind, there Is another kind of strong conviction that Is coming bis way. Ho will find that as far as ho Is concerned, tho Netherlands Is only a halt-way house to tho nether le gions. Kien Influeiua seems puny eonipaied to the ravuges of anarchy In poor Petrograd. Ono of tho atrocities that wo would like to seo stopped Is tho Incessant quoting of Shakespeare by German newspapers. More Thought About Willielm At any rato, we hopo that prohibition wont' go Into effect before tho Kaiser croaks, because that will bo the one day when wo shall feel that humanity owes Itself a congratulatory drink. And when tho Knlser does get his, it Is to bo hoped the Crown Prlnco will accom pany him, on the principle of getting rid of the heir of tho dog that bit you. a Hlgbty miles of night per day keeps a carrier pigeon in good condition, and the narao thins might apply to tho Kaiser, SOCRATES, THE GOWNSMAN Made in Germany Insg than a month ago, at a dinner ot i literary people and ncholars In New York, a professor of American birth and name, known for his German sympathies before America went Into the war and remembered ns one of tho much-feted exchange professors nt Berlin, told a llttlo story or spread a llt tlo tale somewhat In this wise: "Do you know, sir, that ?or every yard of tho trenches occupied by American troops In Prance thn United States Government Is paying Franco n handsome rental? And what Is more, our Government has obligated 'itself to fill these trenches, obliterate all signs1 of them, and reclaim tho land to agriculture, until which time the rent will continue, I tell you, sir, tho French aro In this for what they can gex out of It; they aro a ery grasping people." And ho further "substantiated" his story by Baying that be had a relative who Is asso ciated with a considerable number of other lawyera (apparently abroad), who had this momentous matter In charge. THIS story has not come to the Gownsman through any Intermediary. Tho professor mentioned above told It to tho Gownsman himself- and bo did not enjoin secrecy. Be sides, the Gownsman, It appears, was only ono of scleral persons thus "informed" on that particular occasion. This he knows, be cause two other persons spoko to him that eienlng about tho matter as Just lramed from the source of tho Gownsman's Information. Moreover, tho same professor of sometime notablo German smpathlc3 exhibited him self as deeply Interested In a memorial, to be addressed to the Pcaco Commission at Paris, nuking that a stop bo put to certain out agcoua proceedings of tho Turks, Naturally, Jno might supposo that the Armenian mas sacres, or nt least outrages on American properly In Turkey, would be the matter In question. But no; It seems that theso "out rageous proceedings of tho Turks" concern their disregard for ancient monuments of att und their cotnerslon of precious marble statu ary Into lime; a practice which Ii.ih continued nmong all barbarians since tho 'llmo ot the Boman lanplrc. TT IS no wonder that this tender solicitude for righting great wrongs should bale brought nbout a sharp and eloquent reminder to tho friend of Germany, then and there, that thero are other and greater barbarians eien than the Turks, without whoso abetting aid thousands of horrors moro terrible than the destruction of Greek marbles could not hale been perpetrated, whose own deeds of violence nnd rapine have appalled the world. But this 13 wandering from the subject In hand. QJKEPTICAL) and worried about this slory J of tho American Goiernmcnt's payment for the privilege of saving Franco In distress, the Gownsman pursued certain Inquiries. Meanwhile tho talo had got Into the papers, as arranged no doubt, and become wldcsprean, A hard-headed American business man, asked Ids opinion a.s to the possibility of tho truth in such a story, said that lie feared that It might bo moro or less true, though bo did not like to believe. It. The Gownsman dis counted this reluctant incredulity by renicm. berlng tho business man's politics and his fillh In that panacea, a. high tariff. An Inquiry of a Gow-rnment olllclal In Washing ton elicited a denial as to any knowledge on the subject, but this offered explanation. Clearly tho French peasant whose land has bull trampled by the lonlllct of armies stands to loso by tlio occupation ot his fields, eien by Ihe forces who defend lihn. Pcihaps the paternal French Goiernment had undertaken to reimburse Individual owners for such losses', the lelinbursement taking the form of rent and restoration to previous agricultural conditions. Tlio American army coming In Inquired: "How do jou manage these mat ters?" "Thus and so." "Well, we will do as niuih as the French Government for that In which we are concerned." A. Mi now comts Captain Andic Tardlcu, Pram ii-Ainci lean war mutters', to "deny olll dally in the most categorical fashion" that tbo American Government has ever paid or been asked to pay rent for icconquercd ter ritory under tbo circumstances alleged or any other, adding. "It is Germany who will pay tho war Indemnities when these claims shall bo established." In a talk to the Asso. uated Press, which oucht to receive greater publicity than has been given It, Captain T.itdleu tells how tho rules applicable to American units as to requisition and tho pi Ices Involved are precisely those applicable to French units, ecept that all hospitals and other public establishments have bcin placed tit the disposition of the American army gratis In the rear zone, all questions of Indemnity to prlvato parties are treated on tho s.tniu basis Uy tho French and Allied armies Tho regulation of these questions is csted with the American Staff Bureau at Tours The American staff Is sole Judge of all claims, and no recourso has ben opened to claimants up to this time for ap peals from lis decisions." The story with its successive explanations ri mhid.i the ijnw mi llion of the defense of a certain man, haled Into court on the chsngc of keeping a vicious dog. "In the first place, your honor, in dog has no teeth and so could havo bitten nobodv. Secondly, this person was bitten lust mouth, my dog died six yenis ago. Thirdly, I have neier owned a dog" TUH dragon of German propaganda has been scotdied, but It will not die until sundown, that sundown which shall bring homo to those who have planned and par ticipated In tho greatest outrago ever per ;stratcd em mankind a full realization of their degradation and shame. That the male- factor, iiartiened Hi ins crime, should still seek to brazen it out, hideous ns It Is, Is not al. together unnatural. But that nu American citizen, In an honored and honorable position, and merely because of the accident of hla for eign education nnd foreign recognition Bhould lend himself to tho promulgation of propa ganda ot this sort, gratuitous and false us It Is this Is a thing not only heartily to rep robate, but to sorrow for. We are all "miserable critters"; and some aro more miserable than they know. INDUBITAHLV there would bo but little talk If we were ull of us to speak only of that which wo know; and one of the great est of human delights, gossip nbout our neigh. borB, would be dried up nt Its welling source by any such unwise prohibition. But thero la an enormous difference between talk, Idle talk for talk's sake, when that unruly mem ber, the tongue, plays the pranks of a school boy, and the ilbrant flash of the forked tongue of scandal and slander. The pulling down of great names, to tramplo them In the muck where tread many feet. Is the one thing worse than tho promulgation of un truths In the help of a "cause" or a "party." There ' nro some minds that find nothing wrong In tbo slander of the enemy. The Teu tons, In this war, have made slander of them, on the part of their enemies. Impossible! But thero are still many who feel that a eense of loyalty to the great'eountry of our birth, loyalty to the great cause In which we are united, loyalty to our sons and brothers who have fallen In that cause, .should close the ear to the petty hissings of gossip as to the choral croak of Irresponsible pessimism. fcwMya: N. T -.-TT-- ' W-- fXiTS v'.-'V'o-.J!'-?" , .r,,c."H'.ii.. t7siS..i:s fc- t a.. ... ir. '. . JviMKvxrdLiHpAHin. i ain. .; -"- . .r--.s.-Ai.!iTTi . . V'ii'.'l V ""-' ' ., f . :" "''s:-.-iTr-' THE NORTH SEA VIGIL Remarkable Pictures That Show How tho Seas Were Made Free IT WAS a sort of North .Sea morning when I slipped my ofllce hawser and set sail for tho Academy of tho FIno Arts to seo the exhibit of British naval photo graphs. Mingled snow und rain wero full ing nnd tho streets were as slippery as tho deck of a destroyer tumbling In a heavy nea. Keeping a sharp lookout for hostile taxlcabs, I coasted tho dangerous reefs of tho City Hall and boro away up tho fairway of Broad street under a smoko screen of after-breakfast tobacco. I luffed at Chert y sttect and ported my helm Into the academy. Theso (probably misused) naval terms must be pardoned, for tho remarkable pho togiaphs of tho official British exhibit, on display until next Sunday evening, give so strong a btnnck of tho bitter North Sea that ono comes away almost feeling tho pavement sway and swing underfoot. Many of us havo envied tlio tough and bracing llfo of tbo men on that bleak water. Just as (I suppose) the sailors them selves have sometimes envied us at home, our tough and bracing dally discipline, facing careering motor traffic und striking milkmen and aviating prices. Geneious British mapmakers ued to call It the Ger man Ocean. But tho German Ocean has been chained off and thero now lemalns only the North Sea, which might well bo called tho ocean of freedom. And after studying theso amazing photos, said to bo tho largest lens pictures in the world, ono has some Inkling of tlio circumstances ot tho bard vigil that sends tho seaman homo with such a clean, ruddy, tough-cheeked look, shell a calm nnd wholesome simplicity In tbo cjes. VIGIL Is as I ui a, wonderful word. It moans, us l unciersianu it. Keeping awaKo during tho tlmo usually given to sleep. Wo all keep vigil now and then, and It Is an uustcro and jmiifjlng experience. But tho ilgll of tho sea, facing the spears ot tho wind, tho jneiuoiles ot those far away, and tho menace of an unseen enemy, Is surely tho most drastlq seasoning for human liber. "Ho that will learn to pray," said an old poet, "let him go to sea'." And not tho least Interesting featuro of tho showing of naval photographs aro the few pictures of the men themselves, both sail ors and officers. Tho British mariner has a faro of his own. It is clean shaven, scoured and puckered by tho nipping wind. It has a suggestion of beefy nourishment and (In tho ranks) that simple unimaginative stolid ity which Is always Joined to tho romplet est courage. Tho eyes aro gray and keen. Such Is tho face of Jack Cornwell, known In British naval ratings as "Boy (first-class) John Travers Cornwell," who died of wounds received while sticking to Ills post at tho battlo of Jutland, and was awarded tho V. C. posthumously. Such aro the faces, hero shown of three of the volunteer crow of tho Vindictive, who took part In tho famous raid of Zeobrugge. From Beatty and Carpenter and the other officers down to tho grizzled old seadogs who man Britain's trawlers and minesweepers, tho samo calm und hardened look may bo traced In all the faces. Tho ships aro won dertul, but the men are also a fasclnutlng study. And tha mascots should not bo foi gotten, too. Let no one say hence forth that ballqmen aro distrustful of black ruts at sea, for tho mascots of tho Vindictive on her great exploit wero two largo mousers of that color. TIIICSK pictures, it must be emphasized, are not the Imaginative brushwork of artists, but uctual photographs, most of them taken from the air and tinted In the ANOTHER EXPERIMENT a 'l 'afc. f - ..AW. alfjj'f ...A y uS --. t'iriiii lKs ,v?2r,:EW -rV- JiUHk r A I lfJlf " iLJ3. I ..BJzr-lB'ir .IJlfliak HI -?v.l ..'.!: .Tli "-? f "'-. rj --fiL--'e -SS S s- - "".....-..,.. ...t coloru of life. You will see there an enor mous plctutcj of tho Vlndlctlvo as sho re turned (under her own steam) after tbo fight at Zeebruggo mole. You. will seo tho amazing column ot torn whlto water sur mounted by a vast plno trco of black and gray smoke, sent up by 400 pounds of TNT exploding under water. Convoys of mei chant ships, zigzagging on a calm sea, trace a white webwork of foaming ttulls ncioss tho blue, whllo tho escoitlng de stroyers aro (hopping depth charges for Fritz. You will seo tho oily patch on tho bui faco that Is tho U-boat's only epitaph. Tho whlto llbbon of a peilscopo or tho bubbling trail of a "tin llsh" flash across the graj -green water and is snapped by a watchful camera In the air. And you will not forget tho wonderful plcturo of tho Olympic, crowded with men in khaki (Americans, pcihaps, though tho plcturo does not say so), creaming her way through a sapphire day with it leaping fan of milk white tin moll at her throbbing stem. rpiIIS photographs form a cutious con--1- trast to tho peimanent and placid exhi bition at tho academy. Tlio liugo likeness of tho riddled Vlndlctlvo hangs. If I re member right. Just underneath a peaceful pasturo s-ceno hi tho main gallery called "In the Meadow." Tho photographs uro a pageant of all that was magnificent, all that was terrible, all that was tragic in that four years' sea adventure. It was characteristic of British generosity to in cludo scveial very excellent pictures show ing tho American naval foiees at work; for Instance, tho crew of a tT-boat surren dering to tho United States destroyer Fan ning. A great many of tho enlargements show tho Inst minutes of torpedoed essels, among others a British hospltul ship with the big Bed Cioss emblem on her sldo Just awash. Scones on British destroyers rescuing. torpedoed views nro vivid with suggestions of tho many who were not picked up. On tlio mil row decks of tho bhaip-nosed llttlo destroyers stand lines of salloriiien In their clumsy sea attire, numbed and bewildered. Very striking, in deed, Is a series of three photos of a sink ing cargo vessel loaded with barrels. Tho first plctuto shows her soon after tho tor pedo had struck, when sho Is beginning to list heavily. The second view shows her rolling over and tho barrels floating off from her deck Into tbo water. And in tho last sceno sho lins Just disappeared with only a boiling swirl ot water where bho vanished; a great cluster of ban els aro drawn Into tho vortex by tho suction, and the other casks curiously uun off in long straight line, perhaps b somo cen tiifugal current thrown out by tlio rim of tlio whirling eddy. Thero Is ono very clear plcturo of a sinking steamship break ing up ns sho sinks; her bow Is already under, and seems to have parted entirely from tho body of tho hfill. Uach of these pictures carries its own conviction to tlio onlookers; a conviction which has no very gentlo feeling 'towanl thoso who carried tho war into tlio ranks of, noucombatnnts. Ot all tho works of man's hands ships seem tho most alive, nnd tho end of a lino ship is a tragic spectacle. pvNK Interesting picturo Is that of a Brit J ish cruiser standing by in tho middle ot an Iridescent patch of oil, whero sho has sunk a submarine by a depth charge. At her stern a small boat is waiting In readiness to pick up tho survivors, should they come to tho surface Also sho Is in entire readiness to make suro of her victim If he should m-ove not to have been thorough. ly "done. In," or done under, ono might say .a y rx w -" jir ' rM. "K. '"'n.iiiinumim For Fritz had ti.jks ot his own, and ono of them was to release a quantity of oil if a depth bomb had failed to reach htm, to fool tho enemy Into believing; he had been destroyed. Whereupon ho would pres ently como up again and havo another try. But this wholesome fear of depth bombs Is well understood after examining; tho photos of such charges exploding, throw ing up masses of crumbling water and tearing tho heaving surfaco into a lather of foam. fTlHE photographs are certainly a. J- triumph of camera skill and quickness. Their exceptional slzo makes It possible to study all phases of naval warfare, Its humors as woll as its tragedies. The aerial views of tho Zeebrugge molo and Bruges Canal mouth, blocked by sunken cruisers, will mako those daring sallies plainer than many books of print. Ice-coated rigging, fireproof garments,, gasmasks and gog gles mako plain some of tho ordeals tho sailor faces on his lawful occasions. The wholo exhibition is not to bo missed by ono who has a mind to know something of tho work ot tho navies ot freedom. To morrow and Sunday will be free days, and on Saturday admission Is twenty-five cents for adults and ten for children. Tho ad mission receipts go to American war chari Hcs. C. D. M. Wo will root for Doctor Garber's "better English" plan If wc nre assured that the good work will be npplled at the very be ginning to Improve some of the official proc lamations from Harrlsburg and City Hall. I.enlne, now in irons by Trotsky's order, has an opportunity to realize why eierybody dislikes him. It was always Interesting to wonder what the professional haters would do for exercise nfter Germany was beaten. But no one ever supposed that they would turn their attention on tho President. In the days of his greatness William Hoheiizollem had a habit of picking violets. It is safo now to suppose that ho wishes he bad stuck to violets and refrained from In dulging himself In the matter of quarrels. What Do You Knoiv? QUIZ i. If hat part of Holland la Peltlura aild to be ilrslrout of anneilnj? i. How old la I'realdent Mllson? 3. What la a creratae? 4. What were the "Seven Wonders of the World 'r .1. here lire the Mralla Settlementa? "' ,,0inami"d? """ "" ,t,nrT VM1 of EnUna 7. 11 lint la the mennlnr of the I.alln nhrne "n morula nil nUI bonum"? 5. Uhat U a uoatern? 0. llhlch In the larteit planet of tha solar aia teroT I0' ""iulre: k''"(' "' ,,r,,,n W ! Answers to Yesterday's Qui 1. Clnaeupe Maiilnl waa n famona Italian na. (not. rcinliitlnnlKt uml writer. Sttiiniid the "loiine Ituh' 'movement which Vvintu. ully led to the unlflratlon and Independence! of Ida countr. He died In Tina lnl72 " ThMr,"Ji,enr;ri1l';i,opTe' S"Mt llomt'" "' AnduiSJu';.'' " "l,ort vy"m' "wl'ltr Pastoral 4. "Tha arrutett of fauld la to ho ronaeloua " ,U"e''fn"5io. w" U,t Tl,lb, t0 ,h 1"d 6. General Ambroaa nurnslde. a Federal en ' AP,'f "T.S,.bXV.c.c ,?.'. al Inchea lone and ho. . ..i:t .. head, hrovvn nnd black ln.."'.na"V" clahteenth e.nl.TK 0, The Morea la is Morea la (he modern name of tha ni, clf'tini... 1,d "" """ Tn cY.TJli 10 1lecaua It woa put ton .rr elloln hrruat and a bufr Moman ' " lie Koke'a Protreaa" ta bv Wltllxn n. aarth. the celebrated Knallih palnlSr K5 rnarater of the e Uhteenth rViJSSi" tai itlb&itfi fc.v-s. i "l & !" ' 4u f-ViA- Ct.O'W? ! J . fA,l A 'y.-v... .. jfax? li..',...f& ) i ',!. em tJL'L
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