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". - "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 '
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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.
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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)
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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
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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
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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. Banda 'Oriental (Eastern League)'' Is
sometlrries used to describe the South
American republic of Uruguay.' '
8, Columbus's son Ferdinand,. 4uxxsnWiil4s). ,
the great discoverer' on his .last Tvy-
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