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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-
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: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
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nvgi'fip widened Htrrcts in the congested traffic
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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
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ViM iuriivuup, x'jiuauejiiiuta iviiiimiuiy
."wai if, "if, fvn ,nvw.w( .no uit
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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?
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morula nil nUI bonum"?
5. Uhat U a uoatern?
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(not. rcinliitlnnlKt uml writer. Sttiiniid
the "loiine Ituh' 'movement which Vvintu.
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