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I j-' ,, ' I , . i, ii. : - i L Member of the Anociated Preii f THE ASSOCtATF.U Pit K US ti cvrrlu- iaafauufi Att9lmJ n 4Um m , m m ..h.. fill.... s I i-i.t - v ' " ;' 7.iii4im,uiur ,r ait- Ticirs uuparriri crrairra ro ir or nor (fltAa"l4Wsra f ftf It ? i H h I a ft lift rtMrl rtf atrt ffts Tocal Heir fluMliirci tArrc.i. rtr )t ,All rights of republication of special f(. y .' Pbllidflphl.. Seturd.r. Kfbruirr IS. W ". - "WHY IT ATORKS IN HOSTON fTlIIE Hoton plan of taKltiB the police ..otit ,of polKlcs has workni ucll bocnuso jit took the control of tho police depart ment from the hands of the politicians who controlled the city. Boston Is Democratic, Massachusetts Is Republican. Tho pollen commissioner Is appointed by tho Kcpubllcan Governor. He hn thus far been n man of high Ideals, who under any system would have kept tJie'polIce out of politics. But the Demo cratic ward leaders In Boston have found it. Impossible to use the policemen to help them control their wards. And tho Itepub IJcar .ward lenders have not been allowed to use them for any such purpose. 'The Boston plan might work here. And fnen again It might not. If the minority Republican faction In this city belonged to the Taction which was In control In Har. risburg und was able to name the local police commissioner, the chances are that '"5 Jtollce to defeat the local majority faction v ..w Fu. k . j. iiia nnuiu j!UJlJtrn unless there -was an honest disposition to take Uke police out of politics. And If there Is 'fruch a disposition ;he police can be taken 6w of. politics under the present svstern. .A.mre change In the machinery will not , chango the nature of the product. 'A DEMOCRAT CRITICIZES THE ADMIN ' ISTRATION TT iS gratifying to And such evidence of economic sanity in Washington as that ferhlch Senator Gnre. chnlrmnn nt Ua r. R. .mlttee on Agriculture, manifested the other Kt day when he criticized the price-fixing of 'fr The action Of the envrrnment In flvl,, Nj2JliWb'""ttri- price, he said, caused a loss " '" larmers OI iuu,uvu,uuu in 1917 and a similar sum in 191S. The price fixed for the new crop win enable them to recoup themselves for their losses In the two pre ceding years. Whereas, If the price had been allowed to take Us natural course under the operation of the law of supply and demand, they would have made money, the consumers would not have suffered any worse than they did and It would not be necessary for the Government to appro priate several hundred millions to meet the difference, between what the market price Is likely to be next summer and the price ftxed by the President's proclamation. Senator Gore is a Democrat and cannot fc, charged with partisan political motives In criticizing the course of the food admin istration. Indeed, he protested against tho price-fixing program before it was udopted, and, sold what every one familiar with awen, experiments knows, namely, that they had never succeeded. Incidentally, the Senator reminded us that the world supply of wheat Is not so large as had been supposed, so that three or four hundred millions Instead of a bil lion would probably be all that would have, to be appropriated to assure the arbi trary price of J2.26 a bushel to the farmers $ . ... y WHEN AN ALIEN HAS NO mr.HT5 .0" MATTER how many times a point of law has been decided a lawyer can tklWnvn YlA fniind urhn ...in 1 ,, - - .... ..in uwtejji a iee LJ-. ,tOi ask the courts to pass upon It acaln. -tr'-inis proround reflection is suggested by the action of a lawyer who sued out a toaf nt tinhpfin enemta in .Ai.nii ... l lfM undesirable .aliens who are awaiting UIBfriu UJbLtutl 111 CW XOrK. Tho lawyer doubtless knew that the jfiWrlt would ultimately be denied, for the l.lSfe;na Court Passed upon the question -- " o" - nna IUIDCU in IU6 C3Se :a dlstlneulariMl TtrltUh ln..u.....i archlst who came to America to lecture .o id not advocate violence, but he Hid DrCACh -opposition to all COV'ernmprrto Tho .Immigration authorities ordered his de p'ortatlon. .His lawyers nought his re lease and BUed out a writ of habeas corpus and pleaded tho provision of tho ffenaHttttlrtn 4Vinf 4l.. ...I.. II. . i. v 7i?V, I'wviicBu oi tne writ l& afcould , not be suspended except In ex ;!'i Wtional circumstances. Tim p.-i ,, as .-v ,, taken to the Supreme Court, which t. J?Wed. that the guaranteea of the Const!- :.4Win io noi extend to nonresident aliens, VWt are for the protection of citizensof the ' Waited States. But even if. there had been no court ;i4 ,- w.. .., t'v.i.v, nidc ta unuuuDiea !i?iMwer under the authority of the imni. ..ration' laws to deport every undesirable aHeB In the eountrv 'i&tl-A . itiSEDEDt SERUM FOR INDIFFERENCE llrjjAN for spending, 1211,000,000 to over- i r. come tne nanaicap or the port of New jhA.tt, nrftlnv fmm 4hfc fat Iha tk. it.. a ,m"""o - .v -.M.V Mi, biio Kliy kkiMM oa iBiunu nua unn ouinnea dv una. r.' Ava'.Xtnflenthal to the. Kfew York and New nraey mn ana iiaroor j-ivejopmnt com- kMon. ft) lrw1illaa a Vuklf.lln'a a41pwa nn 4I.& ,.(n.w . h,wwu v,a ifu jjrsy .juwjrc tiieiiuiuT ivin ouiien K. HI' uwtnam, on 1110 iiuaaon, ana t riaTRt ciaMiitcauon yard on the aa. . ..' ' A . ." . . r.iiMwi! tram wiucn Jocai to Jersey City and Manhattan by way of railroads running Into Manhattan through tunnels. A three-mile, tunnel under the bay from Greenville, X. J., to Bay Rklgc, L. I Is also Included. Xo such enormous expenditure as Is con templated by these plans Is required to put the port of Philadelphia Into condition to handle freight. Railroads from the West and South can be connected directly with tho piers on the Delawaro ltlvcr and freight can' be transferred directly from the cars to the holds of the ships. And there Is room for freight classification yards within convenient dlstanco of tho rallrond terminals nnd the piers on the river. Everybody known all this so well that he Is weary of hearing more about l(. Hut the port languishes nnd wo do llttla more than talk about developing It. What Is needed Is the discovery of a serum for the cure of indifference. Then something may happen. THE COVENANT WHICH OPENS THE DOOlt TO A NEW AGE Dreams TutnieiR to Reality on Comprehen sive League I'rogram Forecasts Impossibility of War THE most comprehensive buttress ever created In support of the mornl wilt was revealed in Paris yesterday when President Wilson rend the closely reasoned covenant agreed upon by tho commission on the League of Nations. Betide tho impli cations of this stupendous document the magnitude of the war shrinks into Insignif icance, save only if regarded as the instru ment most directly responsible for the foundation of n world-peace pact. If ntone ment Is possible for tho monstrous tragedy of universal strife. It Is clear that It can only bo made by the execution of a. re-solve to sin no more. But it is clear also that rarllled Idealism, however fervently applauded. Is bv Itself an insufficient stimulus to good behavior In a world of error. Where selfish Interest colored cither by hope of gain or fear of punishment, can be made to coincide with fundamentals of rlht. a heartening ap proximation of Justice can be nttalned. That is so in all statea whose laws are kept. The "covenant" alms to apply the principles of such a balance universally. It Is a. titanic ambition, realization of which will change the whole course of human history. Formerly, however, It was tho fashion to characterize It as a glorious dream. But that was before tho whole earth was shocked to Its foundation by a war transcending all mundane conceptions of horror. It Is not alone, therefore, high thoughts which have sped forward the League of Nation plan with such enthrall ing rapidity, but bitter, agonizing necessity. That was the motive which completely altered the order of proceedings In P.irls, It is the same motive which re-enforces the moral values of the covenant with un precedented practical bulwarks. Tho ma chinery is so specific, so mindful of a host of eventualities that there Is Inspiring warranty to entertain the hope that war will bo mado impossible. The document specifies more checks than any panacea for peace ever devised by recognized authorities. The program seeks to consider realities. The President's share in it has obviously been extremely potent. Tho world has been hearing much of "compromises" whllo tho commission was at' work, and doubtless many adjustments have been made. Nope the less, several of the most Important pro visions are vividly expressive of the American viewpoint. Old treaty obliga tions inconsistent with die terms of the covenant are automatically abrogated. AH subsequent agreements between any of the contracting parties shall bo re garded ns unbinding until publlshed.There Is to be no world state or world police. Indorsement of the mandatory colonial system for the residue of defeated empires Is categorically made and linked up with modifications in sympathy with tho doc trine of self-determination. The economic boycott Is to be tho first punitive weapon employed against refrac tory members o'f the League. Under neces sity, the application of armed force will be "recommended" by executive council. The administrating machinery of the League Is of a nature whose value can only be proved by experience. The execu tive council and the body of delegates suggest analogies in their composition and functions to the American Senate and House of Representatives. Vital coercive authority rests In the smaller body, in which the smaller nations will ha' i four votes, with the representatives of the United States, Franco, the British Empire, Italy and Japan, which Powers inevitably constitute the backbone of tho league. But tho Judgment of tho body of delegates, in which ail the signatories to the League are represented, may bo invoked If certain formal rules of procedure are observed. The compulsion to arbitrate questions of international Irritation Is mado extremely drastic, and a great variety of contin gencies have been foreseen. They include squabbles between League members and non-League members, disputes between out siders, who, if refractory, are obliged to enter the association, and threats of armed force if all other methods, including the interference of a permanent court of arbitration, fail. If war, after all the mollifying machinery has unavalllngly operated, Is deemed unavoidable, League members are obligated not to resort to the sword until three months after ad judication of the Issue has been made. It may be argued, of course, that dis honor can attain extravagant extremes, aa In the case of Germany, but that shadow Is upon all man-made laws. Illegal acts are committed in tho best admin istered countries, but such performances by no means wholly discredit the rule of good governments. The League machinery has the potentiality of a mighty warder of moral force, and that la precisely what moral force In this world of human weak nesses needs to be effective. Infractions of the League pledges arc made exceed ingly unattractive, and 'the fate of any nation which indulges in them is likely to furnish a salutary warning to all other malcontents. Those which remain without the League wilt have no easier time than any erring signatory, for the covenant Is not merely a scheme to band arrogantly together a group of a few domineering Powers, but it actually undertaken to comprehend in Its lofty scope the political world. This naturally include Germany,- efevrewlr ' fanmii-ta 1m tk. i.it.1-,', ... f V'. . c "s ?T-. TT?7" EVENING PUBLIC LEDGEPHILADELPHIA; v SATURDAY, FEBRTTB ' "Xo state shall bo ndmftted to the Leaguo unless It Is able to give effective guarantees of Its sincere Intention' to observe Its Inter national obligations." But sano behavior will secure admission, without which the League, which wilt prescribe the extent of disarmament to which tho various. nations must agree, would eventually be incom plete. Many skeptics will bo heard before tho Involved procedure, Including ratification of .the draft by tho Peace Conference nnd by nil the constituted homo, authorities of the nations, has been nttalned. Objec tions that It won't work nro invalid, be cause Judgment without trial Is Indefen sible. But where criticism is oven moro likely to bo forthcoming Is In respect to tho colossal scope of tho'plan. "You can't change human nature on 'so vast n scale," is tho pat formula, History' has something to say on this theme. Mankind al Kills lied slavery. Mankind nhollilied religious persecution. The rocortl leads directly to the concept that mankind will abolish war. The third unfversal reform Is nurely Imaginable in the light of (such precedents. Moreover, tho world, with the wondrous accomplishment In Paris to hearten it, has triumphantly passed tho stnge of tho "thin" nnd abstract. It Is in sight of the solid nnd concrete foundation of tho great redemption. ' , HURLEY PEEKS LIGHT IN DARK PLACES rTUIE shipping policy of the United States -1- will not be settled by tho national refer endiim -which Chairman Hurley, of the shipping board, Is asking the United States Chamber of Commerce to take. The refer endum will nsslst Congress to an under standing of what the commercial -bodies of tho country think on tho subject. But unfortunately many of the commercial bodies have no well-grounded opinions to express. They have only Impressions and prejudices, 'a referendum to be worth while ought to be preceded by a campaign of education, In the cptirso of which the arguments for and against the different forms of shipping control are fairly set forth for the Information of the Ignorant. There are large sections of the country where the uverage man Is supremely In different to the whole subject. Ho does not realize that the prosperity of his business Is dependent upon the development of the ports on the Atlantic nnd Pacific coasts and on the use of those ports by ocean going ships. When he thinks of It at all he says that he docs not care whether his grain Is carried abroad in an American or n British or a French or n Japanese ship, so long as It is carried. Ho has not even learned the lesson of the last four years, that a nation dependent on foreign-owned shipping In time of peace must also bo dependent on It In time of war. The cam palgn of education must start with driving home the fundamental proposition that wo must have, a merchunt marine approxi mately adequate to take care of our for eign trade. When we admit that we must have a merchant marine, then we are prepared to consider whether the merchant marine shall be publicly or privately owned: whether It shall bo assisted by subventions or subsidies, and whether the ships shall lie a part of a jwval resetye to be operated by naval reserve seamen with the govern ment paying part of their wages. Tho referendum plan under present cir cumstances Is interesting but not impor tant. The difference between Thomas Edison and James M. Beck Is that Foyt nnd Mouth Dlaeaae Edison can kick his outstretched band wlth his foot and Beck can open his mouth and put both feet In It. President Ebert says The lirat to ltun the Germans will de mobilize, but Bill Hohenzollern bent them to It by demobiliz ing to Amerongen last November. What Is so delightful as a day In June In February? Mr. Wilson ought to arrive In the United States In time to celebrate Washington's Birthday. Director Wilson says there will be a shake-up In the Police Department unless there aro fewer shake-downs In the streets. Those burglars frequenting the fur stores must ,be laying In a stock for ue next summer. Xo one Is wearing furs now. jji j There Is' no anti-monopolist so rash as to object to tho plan of the League of Na tions to monopolize the war-making power of the" world. Now If 'the charter framers can do as well as the men who hae drafted a consti tution for the League of Nations even Sen ator Vara should be pleased. Henry White, who heads the Peace Con ference committee on transit, has an easy Job In comparison; with that of the transit commissioner of Philadelphia. -Wilson Instructs U. S. Stleslon Headline. He seems to hae been instructing the peace 'conference also. But what else could yoii expect from an ex-professor? As the, grandmother of the revolution considers whst has happened In Russia, she must be reflecting that it- Is a wise grand mother who knows her own grandchild. Representative Mt'dUl. .McCormlck is unduly alarmed' about the Monroe doctrine. ,Hls dernnnd'for a heresy trial of the Presi dent onJbe ground of apostasy win not excite rijuch npprehenslon" anywhere. .' i . , . 'ft- j j Oovefnor.s discuss bridge Headline. . So have the times 'changed I They used to- discuss" poker In the good old days , and the "Oovornors of the Carollnas were wont to talk pt irrigation. , Soohsr or later, if peace has a long .enough reign, lives" lost by.'the war will 'be leas In number. than lives saved by the war as a 'result of the great strides made in surssry during hostilities. With a six-hour business day In the de partment .stores from 11 to E, how Is the husband to -.manage to do' the. llttls shop ping errands for his. wife which he Is in the habit of getting rid, o w -his. way to the t"?1".! ". 4 CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S LETTER Washington Not Interested in Free Ports Discrimination Against Officers Serving at Home Rat lin L. Ltixon's Services as an ' Aerial Photographer Washington, D. C, Feb. IB. PRESIDENT JOSEPH R. ORUXDT'S eloquent, appeal to The Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association for protection to American Industry nnd freedom from vexatious legislation Is being circulated In the Capitol, where the Impression prevails that a tariff bill will bo one of tho early tasks of the Republican House In ,nn extra session If tho 'President calls one. And while most Republicans tire prepared to Inltlato tariff legislation, tho Taussig- Tariff Commission, under the inspiration of for mer Congressman Kent, of California, who wns for Wilson, although ho catted himself an Independent in politics, Is pushing the "free port" idea nnd gathering in some Republican support .for It. Among: those whom the plausible Callfornlan quotes ns favoring tho free port for Philadelphia are Nathan T. Folwell, of the Manufacturers' Club; J. S. W. Holton, of the Maritime Exchange, and H. K. Mulford, of the Cham ber of Commerce. Thus far, however, the Democratic Ways and Means Committee hus permitted the free port bills to slumber and there Is no Hlkellhood of their re appearance this Congress. . . . x NE of the big war factors -was stevedor- Ing. It facilitated the movement of troops nnd supplies. D. 3. Murphy, Jr., of Philadelphia, who had much to do with the Delaware River end of the Govern ment's stevedore business, has been telling his Washington friends nbout the services of the officers who had to stay on the wharvea In the United States morning, noon nnd. night, without getting a chance to shed their blood In France. He thinks they have been prejudiced In the distribu tion of honors and has como to the con clusion, nfter consulting members of the Mltlltary Affairs Committee, that the Overman act, which gave the President authority to rearrange and reclassify tho departments, Is responsible for the over sight. pRETTY rough on Wilmington and other - Delaware River towns which have been making water-front Improvements to hear of the discontinuance of the Clyde Line, or of any line running from Philadelphia to New York or southern points. There is a suspicion here that the railroad admin istration has much to do with recent de velopments In steamship management. Tho McAdoo plan for co-ordinating roil and water transportation is a part of It, but tho boost Ing of freight rates on waterway service to equalize those on the railroads consti tutes the big Interrogation point. Wil mington, for instance, under the guidance of a harbor board, of which Charles War ner Is president, has been contemplating a seaboard pier development at the mouth of the Christiana River, and it is naturally concerned over the railroad-waterway sit uation. TITITH the outgoing of Brumbaugh's sec ' retary, Mr. Ball, and the Incoming of Sproul's secretary, Henry S. McDevItt, memories of former Governors' secretaries are revived. Lew Beltler went in with Stuart, Walter Galther with Stone and Bromley Wharton with Pcnnypacker Some day. If they get together early enough, a real live organization of Governors' secre taries may have some weight in the Com monwealth. Such an association, however," should be started at once, since a society of ex's soon disintegrates. At the Roose velt memorial exercises in Washington the one ex-President cf the United States, Wit Ham H. Taft, came down the alste alone. a a TTTATCHIXG from time to time the great ' price-guarantee bill In its formative stages have been C. H. Bell, w. K. Wool man, Hubert J. Horan and A. B. Clemmer, all of the Commercial Exchange of Phila delphia. These men, who are Interested in the grain trade round about Pennsylvania, Delawate and Maryland, are none the less concerned In the activities of the grain men of the West and Northwest, who have fig ured extensively In the effort to secure an appropriation more than a billion dollars to make good tha President's price assur ances to the wheat producers. They sat with the "horny-handed" from Indianapo lis, Chicago and other grain centers, and listened intently. rpHE Wanomakers have a real live boos Mer in Dr. Joseph Kossuth Dixon, leader of the Rodman Wanamaker historical ex peditions to the Xorth American 'Indians, who comes to Washington frequently to keep in touch with Indian legislation. On his recent visits the doctor has been with out his son and boon companion, Rolleri L. Dixon, who Is now serving as a second lieutenant In the air service. The Junior Dixon, who Is an expert photographer, having helped his father on certain expe ditions to obtain the picturesque among the fleeting race, was discovered In the army and finally put Into the overhead photographic service. Captain Michel, of, the French army, has pronounced him one of the most expert aerial photographers in the world. JlrUCH money Is being spep.t by the gov ' ernment to advance the Americaniza tion Idea through such bureaus as that of naturalization In the Department of Labor and education in .the Department of the Interior. There Is also ay association in Philadelphia wnlch is specialising on this work among Jewish immigrants, the presl dent of which Is Louts E. Levy. Mr. lvy and Jacob Olnsburg, vice president of the association, have been keeping In touch with the restrictive immigration legislation recently passei by the Committee on Immi gration and Naturalization, to which they are opposed. Thus far the Committee on nules, through which it was proposed to rush this legislation, has .not yielded to requests to hasten these measures, out of order. Meanwhile, the task of those who labor among the foreign-born In Philadel. phla and elsewhere is to keep on with the J work of molding into good cltlsenshlp those from foreign. cluna,wlu aM already b) (Ma tBtez.' 's'm,p-, ' ,, r- 4 -" 3CR44EKSffi9Hal3J)Sffl?'&i SWBIalsMafSBWRjrSat l S'--?TKlat'X' ,-'-;-,aw'?SSfSJKI)aPcanBj5Xrfr liBSnaMBBUIiMiHniPr- 'fltW --B4wF '.i rrrj:jljma-i.jf rr.nTrTii. 'Ui i'J'J '3aff.IBSWSSas-ir" ' ' i liJfTrnffTi ffli ir i" I'liiiii " mWIm laHWLfWiTr i 'i5""" wgavj,jv;rg--f" --"'" ijjsV&iffyfyrw'asscrJs:wsjssssHC n fcaK-rgy. M WcSrkfSf mmr:9rii.titiTi&fi9m " " . ,SbCT.j3aehvgmtt?rHfflBftjujeTi :,:. vf iEjT.-irSiisa4isgfi?yiSLgia023Prgcirr 'a" t"?l"'fiiVSTryi . 'SMkSsBmSfsssSSSESSSj-f'SL ifllfV'ii Musi T tiyiBiiSTirTTtffTi"i!gHfli Tin yvrTfr-i l'l'gglfrlSgtlfe ' , rpHE draft of the League of Xatlons covenant was a very agreeablo Valen tine for the world. T7i8 only thing we missed In it was "May I not." Our nomination, for secretary-general of the league ,1s Colonel House, viz: Wholly unquotable. Always ungoatable, Secretly notable, Silence's spouse Darkly inscrutable, Quite irrefutable, Xobly immutable, Edward M. House! There is-a conspiracy of silence 'about Colonel House, and lie is the ringleader. Certain Ststetmen at Gettysburg Three score and ten days ago Wood row Wilson left this continent, dedicated to the proposition that a league of nation's must be founded to safeguard the peace of men. Now we are engaged In a great and acri monious discussion, arguing whether that league, or any league so conceived, can long endure. We are met on a great bat tlefield of tongues. We are met to dedicate a portion of It as the final place of silence for those who shed their arguments freely that the league of nations might not live. It Is altogether fitting that we should do this. But It is rather for us here to be dedi cated to the great talk remaining before us; that from these perished arguments we take Increased loquacity to the cause for which they gave the last full, measure of oration; that we here loudly resolve that the world shatl have a new birth of orgu ment, and that government of, the nations, by the nations, for the nations, shall not perish from the earth. The iron, has entered my sole, cried Miss Ann Dante as she stepped'on a tack. Mr. Wilson, speaking in larts the other day, mentioned Nthe "miracles of compre-. henslon" tho war hos wrought. We can also think of some miracles of Incomprehension., 'The Fisher Poet I sailed In a'shlii of fancy On;the grim .gray billows of Time, And J caught a netful of silver Joy In cunning meshes of rhyme. CHARLES WHARTON STORK. Yes, -Wharton, out where is itr Sonnet on Colonel Home If a mart holds his tongue Tou cannot contradict him, It's the words he has swung That rise. ftp to afflict him. The thoughts left unuttered Will never embarrass you, What you Just muttered Will ndt stay to harass you. And If you don't Ink it You wcoh't have to edit it, If you Just think it You can't be discredited. And so, when it conies to distributing credit, In the matter of silence, you have to hand Ed itl Desk Mottoes What avails it that another" loves you, fit ilm i ilr iiii?iMnliM,J T ate4VJYv .. . jsjaajy TlJISllillllll f"HMsSSBSrlQFfW' lo QL910 INSIGHT? The Superman The man I give toast to And praise In this sonnet Ha3 never played host to A bee in his bonnet. Remarkably moderate, Thoroughly 8ane',", . ' Indeed odd and odder U ' 1.' ". Seems to my brain So few are Inclined to -, Give heed to his tone,' But still havo a mind to '" .' ' Fool vfe,ws of their own. The wisdom of Slnal Is his by the "shelf: Of course you divine I allude to myself. DOVE DULCET. Xbto that the Germans have given up their morning hour of' hate they no longer observe a hate-hour day. Boston Is shortly to begin celebrating the centennial of James nussell Lowell, and Intends oncq more to be the hubbub of the universe. . All patent medicines, says a doctor friend of ours, have practically the same ingredi ents: a narcotic, a laxative and a bitter. The same analysis applies to most, po litical speeches. Becky was Sharp, but Beck Is' sharper still. The longest long trail as that of the after-dinner speaker. ' SOCRATES. Killing in Alsace Kisslng.fwas very much in eyldence in Alsace, where pretty Alsatian girls, in the costume of 'their country, were seen to throw their nrms around the necks of the President and his companions and to re ceive a good hug. M. Clemenceau, for ex ample, the octogenarian Prime Minister, kissed, a great many of these pretty girls saying aloud the while,' "Ah, if I were' twenty years of age again!" General Guillemot, Marshal Petain and even the Immortal- I'och showea that if they' were great warriors they were also very human. I havo a suspicion that many of th.Ens llsh correspondents were absent from this part of the function or they would have written quite brilliant letters on kissing as a fine art. I met, for example, Mr. Gerald Campbell, the exceedingly abje correspondent of the Times, but while I read many fine artl. cles from him on the subject of Alsace and Lorraine, I missed a descriptive sketch on "the generals and the girls," which should have appealed to his Irish heart. Clement Bhorter, In the London Sphere. Winter may get us yet 'The famous blizzard of 1888 came in March. A Loftier Deiiro "A German wanted; experienced. Apply ." This advertisement, which appeared In k Manchester, newspaper, caused great indignation. The manager of the firm concerned,' which has a bleaching, dyeing, printing, and finish ing works, states that an amusing mistake has been made, "We want .an agerman and .certainly not a German." he said. An ager man Is a worker In charge of a rqachlne which fixes colors." London Evening Standard, , Movie Kathneis We have tried to be sane In the. matter of popular preJaMioe against, derman music, but when a five-piece picture show orchestra Atata!' AStni-attl 4n Spat StaA tTl U Jf .SL. aa m Uiiui inr, vw fW,T . JtlUVfH, VtllQ VH I Kynesyi.wea .,iw a. ,r.ufiM,jUi allied 1 ysjiisK RUBBER IjIEELS . A rfv k ,n SWITCH IN TIME TViere is a nimicty, a too-muchncss in all Germans. Coleridge, "Table-Talki" fTlHERE'S still too mucli too-muchness, Assertive such-as-suchncss, Complacent ovcr-Dutchness,..- In German thought and act; . Both root and branch need thinning, Blsmarckian disciplining -. -. If left to think-they're-winning, - . THey will hn've won In factl i , They must bo taught the blunder Of legalizing plunder, ' And should-be-taught it under The- victims whom they robbed. What-is there harsh or. spiteful ,-.,, In yielding to the rightful The taming- of the frightful Who struck them when they sobbedt Why should we give a button n . j-' That wolf should luck his mutton?, v It's only fair a glutton ".- - Should tighten up his belt. Have done with mush nnd twaddle; i Xo conscience-stricken model. "'" ' Strayer for saints to coddle, This shark ofLysand Stheldtl '-' Richard Butler" Glaenzer, in Xew'-York Times. If the social welfare' conference in Har rlsburg can tell how to 'make the church' Boclal Interesting It wfll fill along.felt want. Joseph -H.-' O'Brien, the new magistrate who now holds three offices and runs a plumbing shop, muit.be,seeklngJo break .the record for versatility. What Do You Know?, QUIZ I. What Is - the first name .of President Polncare of .France? 2. What traglo event, .potently affecting-'the course of American history, occurred, twenty-one years ago today? 3. What kind of a window Is called an "oell de boeuf and what does the name mean? 4). How do ten-penny nails get thelr.-nams? E. What Is the' capital of South Dakota? 6. What is the overhang of a. ship? 7. Who wrote the muslo of the opera, "Zampa"? 8. What la the longest river In Asia? 9. How many times In American history' did the Whig party win' a presidential election? ( 10. How many, .articles compose ,tht drafted plan of the League of Nations, which has Just been unanimously1 adopted? Aniwen to Yeiterdty's Quls 1. Phillip Bcheldemann Is the new chancellor' of Germany. ' 5. Six Russian factions which have, accepted the invitation to the conference at Frlnklpo are those of the Bolshevists, the Ukraine, Ufa, the Crimea, Latvia and Esjhonla, 3. Hammock, comes from the Spanish 'hamaca, which is derived from1 a Carlbbes word In use when Columbus discovered the West Indies. 4. According to the last census, Rhode Island was the most densely populated State hi the Union. , E. The so-called 'pitcher-plant" eats Insects. 6. An amalgam Is the solution .of any metal In mercury, 7. Jonathan Trumbull was an American patriot, friend and adyfser of Wash ington, who Is said to have given him the name ''Brother Jonathan," subse quently used' to personify the United States. 8. 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