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The hotels fire full. The man -who hunts for an apartment to tent must go to leal state agent after teal estate agent 111 alt almost aln fcarch for suitable charters, and if he seeks a house the agents tell him that so few are in the market that ho will he fortunate If he finds what he wants. The city is short nearly a hundred million dollars' worth of buildings because the war stopped nearly all operation". The scarcity of living quarters will continue until tho builders catch up with the growth of the city. "ISOLATION" AND UNPREPARLDNLsS THE House of Representatives, formerly a mouthpiece for Jeremiads on the na tion's neglect of preparedness, now seals with approval the defense act of 1910 au- thorizing' an army of only 175,000 men. Viewed as a, temporary measure, 'open to change according to the outcome of the Peace Conference, caution In a still clouded situation may be discerned In the action. On the other hand, if the temper of Con gress Is unfriendly to the league of nations Idea, It may be permissible to ask how we Are going to buttress "splendid Isolation" with a force so small. The alternative to entering into a covenant to preserve the peace is surely the assumption of an in dependent role in which we must be ready for war. The nation had no "entangling alliances" in 1916, jet It was on the brink 555? pt strife for which It was not equipped. jp, it wouia tie interesting to near tnoe Congressmen who scorn the plan of moral obligations not to fight square their de mands for free will with conduct which leaves the nation Insufficiently supported to assert it. 1 BARS THAT CHEER 1ET the bars from, which you quaff J your cocktails be musical and, accord, ing to John Philip Sousa, you can go the limit. Even to excess there Is t.o distress ing aftermath, for, as the famous band master put It yesterday, music "is the only sensual thing the overindulgence In which brings no bad results." There is a type of mind, of course, which will find in this indorsement both a paradox and a draw back. How, It may be asked, can a thing productive solely of good be overdone, and -- can a spree, unshadowed by the fear of subsequent regrets, attain a maximum of spicy charm? But the march king's philosophy Ignores uch disquieting queries, and it may ,prove wise for us to follow his lead In the Imminent era of the great and enforced renunciation. In a wet world or a dry, I the sensibilities of mankind demand service. Mr. Sousa suggests that we exact It from stars that cheer rather than Inebriate, from John Bach's and his kind rather than from John Barley-corn's. Brass rods wilt not be wanting while the trombones blare. The vintage of Massenet will be mildly soothing with Tschalkowsky vodka, Berlioz Burgundy and Wagnerian Hock in seasonable contrast. Richard Strauss can assuredly furnish the "kick," while Manhattan quintessential are dis coverable in Irving Berlin and George M. Cohan. To a basis of Beethoven add a AlllD of Mozart, a scrude of Debussv. a rt.rani of Brahms and a Jugger of Of'en- ' 1 sweh and behold a cocktail of more varied 'V- ingredients than even a Jack Rose. -Vf "Intoxicating melodies" are announced U lly ttom "Tin Pan Alley." Operatic en- f , lhuslasts have been described as "drunk l - with ecstasy. "Jazz lacs" are not mi. ; i" .eemmon. Some bars will be lively even ,- .when the white ribbon waves. There is . .. encouragement In Mr. Sousa's program. 'iven though it is, like heaven with Its per- factual prodigality of music, harmless. a uimnirLAH nti'Uiui MTODIFIED rapture" is inspired by the Viy announcement that tho railroad ad- Mtsiistratlon has removed the ban from a Jf carte meals. It is true that the dining- , patron desirous of a cup of coffee and I Wt of toast will no longer be obliged to ia ea.Ve away the Lucullan courses of the gMM table a note in nis quest for the Ismg-deferred demi-tasse sold only at the .HaWUr or dollar-and-a-quarter rate which JVlJaeluded the superfluous repast. This Is S,.jreiurn 10 common sense, out 11 wouia t fsm more gratefully received if the memory '. I'M he broken promise of fair-priced dinners pi net rankle. JUsaost Immediately after Mr, McAdoo Nst conjured up the pleasing picture' of MMtty-flve-cent meals, the dollar-and-a. pUter, schedule went into effect. Even war conuiuoiiB me cnarge was ex- high. It offends still more cow UA prices are starting to tc- l MliM gtuatw lor UBpreUn EVENING PUBLIC tlous individual items on the railway menu give to commonplace articles the cast of luxury. The ordinary restaurant keeper has much to answer for, but the commis sary' department of the railway adminis tration has sinned more grievously. Tho restoration of the 11 la carte system Is only a partial concession. The real re form needed is a lowering of tho whole scale of charges In accordance with chang ing conditions. IS HELGOLAND A SYMBOL OF THE NEW GERMAN MIND? The Grief at Weimar. anil Its Relation to the Inapproachable Oulpoit of DelliMii in the North Soa. TO UK .1 good winner, to know uluuiph and yet ercape thr pataiyzh'S aintctlon of vanity is not eav To be n good loser Is far more difficult. (iermany has failed both was. The pilde that can help a man to bo 11 chival rous victor or .1 philosopher In defeat Isn't In the leaders of Germany. N'o one who remembers tho flamboyant boasting that rumbled behind the Kaiser's armies when they advanced will be surprised to find the new assembly at Weimar turning u plaintive1 and teat fill countenance upon the outside world and groaning under the new aimistice towns applied by Matsh.il l'och. Tho buighcrs at Weimar, we are told, listened "In agonized silence" while Era berger read the new conditions devised to further lessen the nation's military power. The prospect of 11 skeleton army and of the demolition of tho Kiel and Helgoland fortifications shocked tho fatherland's new iepisentatles. The peopl" of (iermany are being told that a heartless enemy i intent upon nushlng them A sense of leseutment and bitterness Is being sedu lously cultivated In ull classes. Doubtless tlu.ie was agonized silence on torpedoed passenger ships, and today there Is agonized silence among the dt if ting tefugees who have lo seek the remnants of their homes In a wilderness of ruin and desolation. One may suppose that there was agonized silence among the fit at sol diers who had to face poison gas un expectedly and in the communities wheie children were slain, where civilians were enslaved and driven like cattle. Yet In none of these instances was theie a ciy so bitter as that which the German assembly has raised at the prospect of economic pressure and enforced disarma ment. In the general confusion the ofllclal consciousness of Germans Is iccoverlng and making Itself articulate. And It will bear close study as one of the most Im portant factors involved at the Peace Con ference. It Is Impossible not to wonder whether the German mind is to continue as an alien thing, remoed, aloof and in compatible with the hewer schemes of civilization , There does not seem tu he an wheie In the Germany of today a realization that even the'worst that the Allied diplomatists might do by mean3 of dictation or economic pressute must appear generous, charitable and humane when it is considered in the light of the last four jears. Indeed, it ap pears that even tho more enlightened Ger man statesmen are tempcramentalij un able to perceive that It was oiiiy the su perior civilization opposed to them, only forbearance and a. regard for the decencies of life that saed their land and their cities and their civil population from de vastation and torment such as the French and the Belgians have had to endure. This is no time for fomenting new- hatreds and suspicions. The hatemakers here and everywhere else -have done their work too well and a lot of It will have to be undone. But the new Germany, after the Germans of Austria are admitted, will Include about 100,000,000 people within what is likely to he a powerful and effi cient republic. Tho slate of mind of such a nation pitched at an advantageous posi tion in the heart of dl'-onlcrcd Europe is a matter of the utmost Importance to the rest of the world. It Is odd that the Weimar delegates should be bursting into tears of anger at the moment when tho British naval author ities were publishing the first reports of the Investigations made at Helgoland, be cause Helgoland Is an excellent symbol of tho German mind of ten years ago. This tiny island in the North Sea was equipped as a fortress to guard the naval base at Kiel and the mouth of the River Elbe. It waa mysterious. It was closed to the world. What tho British have just un covered there is a. truly staggering ar rangement of concrete and steel-armor plate, unimaginably intricate, proof against every' known type of bomb, sheltering long-range guns and aviation bases. It Includes bomb-proof tunnels and passages without number and suggests In a general way the sort of thing that madmen might work at rapturously--a fantastic horror, an outpost of organized dcvlllsm, guarded like a holy shrine in the midst of tho peaceful life of the North Sea. Nowadays the collective mind of official Germany Is almost weirdly suggestive of Helgoland. It is a thing existing apart from civilization, Impenetrable and menac ing. Is it possible that It cannot conform to the demands of civilized life? The com plaint of Erzberger and Hlndenburg and the rest does not Indicate even a remote consciousness of the evil they have done. Nor Is there anywhere In the Germany of today that general sense of contrition which would In Itself have been the best assurance of a peaceful future. It Is no wonder that tho representatives of Euro pean nations at the Peace Conference should view Germany us the most difficult of all their problems. A swaggering repub lic In the heart of Europe, fired by ambition and a continuing delusion of racial su periority, would not represent a liappy out-, come after all the losses and sacrifices ot the recent war. The statesmen of the Allied nations do not wish to so oppress Germany that that nation will be driven backward to Russia and Asia for sympathy, trade and alliances. Yet it is not humanely possible for the rep resentatlves of France, Belgium and Great Britain to permit an arrangement that would compel their own Ceople to begin life all over again under disadvantages hlgrjly favorable to those who almost brought about their ruin. Germany Is un touched. The mtne, railroads and man uiacturing plants of Franc and Belgium have been ruined. Their old enemy has set their Industrial life back twenty years. Oh Genaaiw show ni Hti,isMUiita share In patience the burdens that they have brought upon the world, about them. Tct that Is what they will liavo to do. It Is Inconceivable that Germany, having es caped with all her productive organization intact, should be permitted ta compete un restricted with tho nations sho has crip pled, Krom this distance tho new armi stice tcrint may nppear harsh. But in reality they are devised chiefly to equalize tho weight of tho great burden that now rests upon tho shoulders of other peoples. German olllclaldom has not learned Its lesson, or It would not Invito the con tinued dial Ike and suspicion of the wotld by attempts to dodge tho day of reckon iug. The state of the German mind today Justifies the Allies in their determination .to leave Germany completely helpless In it military was. 1'or there are signs In abundance to Indicate that the dtlvlng force Hint nhlm.ited the Kaiser's govern ment may set bo found behind the new teglmo after peace is declared. Po. even in a time when all mankind Is longing for reason and logic and lecon 1 illation between peoples, there must bo a general sense of reassurance In tho fact that the Allied governments ale taking no chances with the Germans. Germany mas be forgiven In time. But she has long yeais of penance ahead of her, The diplomacy of her adversaries will not be successful if it leaves any way open for escape lij means of new alliance? WHEN IS A MAN? "niAKI. HAKNHS. onctlmo professor of --' education in the Lehincl .Stanford. Jr, t'niv ei-hlty. has told an uudiente In the Girls' .Voimal Si hool that the collective Intoheit of the people of this city is that of a 1I1I11I leu ears old, anil that the 10'. lertlve liitelle' t of the 1,000,000 draftees called t.i the set vice during the war was that of a tlihteen-s ear-old boy. Mr. Haines is an educational expert and we must accept as true that which he says. His statement provokes wonder at the piecoclty of tho American child intellec t. tt must be admitted that the aveiage American, as well as the average Phlladel uhlan, has grown bejond the years of childhood, even if his Intellect has re mained tlmt of a jouth In the grammar school. Until Mr. Barnes spoke the rest of us had supposed that the devil hounds did men's work at Chateau-Thierry and that the soldiers at the St. Mlhlel salient and in the Argonne Woods fought as men light, and that there was no child's play In the work done by the sailors on the ships which chased the submarines day and night, winter and summer. But we were wrong. These full-sized men were intellectually Just boss In their first 'teens. The courage they showed, the disregard of death which glorlfled their achievements, their endlirance of all sorts of physical hardships were childlike. Some of us, in the light of this revela tion, will bo curious lo know when a man becomes a man, and how many men there are in the United States who measure up to the pedagogical standards of intellectual maturitj. Who is the standard man by which we are all measured? Is there such a man or Is he an arbitrary composite manufactured by theorists who seek tho unattainable? We nre told on the highest authority that unless a man becomes as a little child certain spiritual things are bes-ond his comprehension, and that If he be wise In his own conceit he Is Irrevocably damned. But these hard sayings do not doom all the rate to Intellectual childhood. And Mr. Barnes insists that the trouble with this city is that we are children and have never grown up. Which must mean that he thinks there Is hope for us If wo can acquire the Intellectual capacity, say, ot a twents -sear-old. Now, If It has taken three hundred years for Americans to nchleve the mind of a thirteeu-s ear-old child, when shall wo grow up and what Is the mental ago of a Ger man? Theso aro not merely rhetorical questions. We wish that some one would answer them. General Pershing, r.lliUa unit I'olltlta when he refused for Mon't Mis mally to be a candi date for the presl deiiuy in 1920. did the expected thing. The earnest politician who wrote him about the matter was left In no doubt. "I am con cerned," said the general. In effect, "only with my military duties and could agree to no condition that would divert me from them.", It Is worth observing that a soldier. In this Instance, manifested a keener regard for civ 11 ethics than tho fervid parts men who want him to get muddled up in politics at a time when no one knows how badly the country may need him elsewhere. Philadelphia almost nightly. "hold-ups" lis reputation The federal tax bill Is at once utterly unsentimental and extremely "touching." While the Senate Is exploding, it Is up to the general' public to Indorse tho league of patience. Georges Clemenceau's pseudonym Is really a mild one. Show us any sevent-seven-year-old tiger as nimble and vigorous a the French Premier. As the British have received B00U Ger man cannon as their share there will be enough to give one to every considerable British town which wants a trophs-. If the leasue of nations covenant were only signed all around It would be deeply Interesting to note Its effect on Italy In her present antl-trbltratlon mood. The only man In the Senate diplomatic gallery who heard Senator Polndextera In vectives against the league ot nations was one who must have taken keen delight In the attack the Bulgarian minister, , , a In making directly for New 'England the President may also be emphasizing the lure of the pie-belt after a season ot Euro pean sojourn. Mr, Hoover ssys that his "own Instinct" la against the federal ownership of the meat, packing business. A case where instinct against Is better than all the reasons for. Senator Potndexter objects to the regu lation of American affairs by foreigners; but what does he think of regulating affairs A m . I - - - fnari A a &al A 4ft na list SHAk laif Avaitja WJr ' . ' ,,": is LEDGKKr-PmLADBLPHIAx THURSDAY, THE GOWNSMAN Shall Wo Standardize Our Religion? rpHE Gownsman ls.no churchman, by which ho does not mean to disclaim tho state of a bishop or that of a canon ot even smaller caliber. Much less would he deny his baptism and those decorous asso ciations which distinguish most modern civilized men from the heathen. No, when the Gownsman says he Is no churchman he means an honest confession to the fact that he visits somo one particular church less assiduously perhaps than It has been thought, by certain klrfd friends, might be well for the health of his notil. This visit ing of churches Is very much like court Bhlp. When a man goes abroad he may visit many more than he could possibly marry, unless he be a Turk or a Mormon. At home the Gownsman atgues not that single devotion, which is a kind ot single blessedness, Is not the best. If a man have' a wife, let him cleave unto her alone. If he have a church, let him have none other. One church should be a sufficient' possession for any man; for in religion, ns In marriage, it should ever be constancy even unto martyrdom. "yET In this age, when so many strange -- vojees nre crying, It seems antiquated 10 some merely to -go where our fathers have gone, however that may be the safest way to follow them to that goal of reward whither they are departed. Thete are so many competing lines, running slam dash to the promised certainties of salvation, that a mere unrcgenerate may be forgiven u certain bewilderment among them. In these latter days a man may be saved by land, in the air, or by water. A man may teach salvation by Ills works - though rately If he is an author; or he may be saved by election, like many a political malefactor. Verily our waj'a to salvation are multiple; few, with our modern im provements, are straight or narrow. For tho lover of the country there are the primrose paths, meandering pleasantly thiough well-shoin golf links. In which nre carefu'as prepared bunkers of theological difficulties not too exasperating to one as vet gieen at the game. For the tired busi ness man there Is the Twenty-first Cen tury New Jerusalem Express, fitted with baths and bars and famous for its cuisine, the chic of Its waitresses and the novelties of its vaudeville. An aerial route wai once tried, but this was discontinued; for the business man was too tired to stand the uplift. The Twenty-first Century New Jerusalem Express makes 110 stops be tween New York and a destination un certain. TAESPITE all these competing lines and I-' all this diversity there Is a movement 011 foot to standardize, so to speak, our religious parts. Men, at least, do not wan der far in diess from the accepted blacks and browns and grays. If we are drab In our clothes, why should we not be drab In our faiths? We live, thousands of us, in houses made of a pattern: inevitable rooms to 'sit In, unavoidable rooms to eat In, un escapable 100ms in which to cook and to sleep. Why should not a like expected ness inhere in our religions? rpHE Gownsman once knew an excellent woman who lived In a custom-made tellglon In great security and content. She used to be visited by serious doubts as to the probable salvation of many of her fellowmen, more especially her fellow women. But she was accustomed to say of herself, with a fierce look about her. "I know that I shall be saved." And there were none so hardy as to contradict her. When this good woman died there was some debate among her patient neighbors. Her virtues and the certainty of her faith deserved heaven; her general cantankcr- ousness well, quite a different place. This case Is enough to create, even in the most skeptical, a conviction of the necessity of purgatory. LET us return to the standardization of X our religious parte. We aro broken Into a great many of them. Not to speak of lesser fragments, there are at least eleven universal churches extant in tho world. Moreover, there cannot be such dangerous theological divergencies among them If they are agreed on so cardinal a point as that of catholicity. Of course, in all coalitions except marriage and the league of nations the question of which Is to swallow which looms largc; for it Is a nice point in biblical exegesis, that of the final laying down, ensemble, of the Hon and the lamb. Shall we regard this cublcu lous Juxtaposition as a figure of the unity which, even in this world, is the lion's, when, admirably nourished by the lamb for future deeds of prowess, he enjoys that gustatory comfort which attends on a healthy digestion? Or shall we, more subtly, suggest that. If In the great millen nium the Hon shall have so lost his appe tite for mutton that he will not touch a lamb, by the same token the lamb must cease to crop grass, and the unity of the two beasts can therefore be only the unity of starvation? PERHAPS, after all, the method or sal vation may not be so Important as sal vation Itself. And why may we not extend our ideas on democracy from this world to the next? If all are to rule here, why not save all in the next ex cept, perhaps, the Bolshevists? It will be a great time when, dissolved in a larger spiritual solvent than that of creed, there shall be, for example, no Puritans; when a man may listen, in a pure, clean, regen erate Philadelphia, to beautiful music on the Sabbath day, not performed neces sarily in a church, and yet not scandalize his neighbor. In the face ot this great negation, war, before all Its hideous dis play of human depravity and crime, and with all the misgivings of heart which thought on these things engenders, we have more than ever the need of that con solation and stay which is true religion's. It has been suspected that theology is not alone the work of man, but that the clerks ot a certain fallen Someb.dy have had very busy 'Angers in much of it. Can it be then, perhaps, that before the religion which is to come some day to rule In our hearts can become truly universal, we must slough off some of our antiquated, petty, uncharitable and man-made incrustations, with feudalism, kalserlsm and other dis carded medieval furniture? The news from Paris indicate that it takes aero than live, I Blat vwmr Pro?" v11' i''Piw MSHEUiO Y la), -' " ) .w . ' r?f x. : .".!:, 'U M -1- 1 rATrrt ' "H ..... - J u , ! TilI? nu AJ?J?rrn ttqij THE CHAFFING DISH 1 I 11 11 LlXXi. M XlMKr JLiUII 1 1 Social Chat Is sr rett SPITE of the fact that he has not yet eturned our copy of "Walking Stick Papers," we'hare lent Dr. A. Edward New ton another book. For the Information of tho curious, the volume Is "Margaret Ogllvy," by. :. M. Barrle. a We reaffirm our convlctiun that Boon vllle, Mo., is the best town In Missouri that we have never visited. We have Just heard from our friend Charles C. Bell, of that town, that a consignment of corncob pipes Is on the way to us fronj the Phoenix. American Pipe Works of Boomille. And as one of our colle'agues recently bought a carton of safety matches, all we need now Is some tobacco. a We learn that a young man Hi New York who had been rejected by the army bribed a naval examiner to admit him Into the service by giving him a de luxe set of O. Henry's complete works. We have a great deal of sympathy with that dishonest naval officer. We, too, could be bribed to do anything if that do luxe edition of O. Henry were held out as a bait. We wish to repeat that gifts for Socrates must NOT be left In care of tho eleva tor boy. a H. T. O. sent us hustling to the diction ary by asserting that he is a HbrocuM cularist. We find, after some study, that It merely means one who reads hi bed. Who Is So Relentless as a Poet? WHARTON STORK and Dick Gummere are taking calisthenics preparatory to entertaining Vachel Lindsay this week-end. Vachel Is the only American poet to whom it was never said, "Louder, please!" We wonder whether Wharton and Dick know what they are up against? And is the seismograph out at Swarth more prepared for some extra heavy con cussions? Most poets, when called upon to recite their verses, do so in a timid, furtive, bashful and apologetic" fashion. They are ashamed to admit how much they enjoy i .Not so Vachel. It seems only fair to warn the com- munlty. aaliniEN I come to a town," says Vachel, W "i want a manager for one whole day and a line of march. I prefer that myj personal conductor be the head of the Eng-' llsh department of the- local college, a leading editor of the city, the librarian or the like. I expect this person to have a sense of humor and enjoy being responsi ble for me and my schedule for the day, and be willing to let me wear mm out, es pecially his conversational powers. firpHE audience I prefer above all others" i- (continues Vachel) "Is the high school assembly. If there are four high schools I want to appear before all of them, a forty-five-minute period n each one. I ex neet tho English teachers to have my six books in the school libraries or the publio library the month beforehand. I "mean nothing whatever toon audience unfamiliar with ray work. .They find me neither amusing nor edifying. faT CAN give" (proceeds Vachel) "at least - five recitals of an hour each without saying any verses oyer again. "tfext to the hlh sehool .assemblies, 1 mm ' wwmwMa&prr'' -y ,. - 1 -w. k ! i im '-.'.,' -" aWKstra : fc-a7 1 J r. anaaH9KiaBBh.TaKaaaBaL jm- 1 r rr aacaai air- t- .a-' ;.' ja tho Rotary Club, tho Chamber of Com merce and the like. These can bo taught my verses by running them In the news-. paper. it FTEH I have leclted for the noonday tJl club" (adds tho indefatigable Vachel) "it is a perfectly natural thing to include tho women's club, 0:30 to 4:30 p. m. These clubs aro apt to be trained by tho shy men that have preceded me on iccltal tours In the wrong way for the present plan. TETWEEN lecltals" (asserts Vachel) -" "I want to hnvo absolute rest In ray hotel or the house of my host. But In the automobile and after tho last recital I want to learn all about tho town's boasts and graces. The last recital is apt to be 8:1C to 9:15 p. m., though I have no objection to a short prog! am at a dinner In be tween, If It Is a different audience. Any one who wants to sit out the rest of the day with me, 10 p. m. to midnight, Is welcome to do It In a conversational way. "I despise" (cries Vachel) "giving only one program. I enjoy giving three to seven a day,' and my last Is generally my best." We now see that wo have been operating on entirely old-fashioned lines. Hereafter we shall refuse all invitations to dinner unless the host can guarantee to produce a complete file of the Chaffing Dish for the previous month, tied up in pink ribbon, and will submit to our reading it aloud between courses. , Speaking of poets, the next time you pass the corner- of Sixteenth and South streets say Howdy to Mr. S. M. Francis, the colored poet laureate who has a stand there. Mr. Francis has the right Idea: he admits that he writes no dialect or slip shod stuff, only "classic verses," and he sells them at ten cents each. "I began to write long ago, down behind the sun in the swamps of South Cailna," says Mr. Francis, when called upon to ac count for his present greatness. "I used to sit by the clay chimney and write on a slate. They used to tell me to go out and pick some cotton, 'but I preferred to write poetry. In everything I write my mind goes back to one thing: " 'Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on tho sands of Time.' " .Mr. Francis's footprints on the sands of rhyme have brought him letters of com mendation from Josephus Daniels, the sec retaries of .King Albert, "Lord George," General Pershing nnd other poetry lovers. , That White Houie Table d'Hote Bui suppose Senator Borah had NOT been invited to that dinner party at the White House? We feel sure that Mr. Borah's refusal ot the invitation was not duo to mere appre hension that he might be convinced against his will. Probably he has succumbed to that delicious advertising ofa certain res. taurant syndicate and Is taking all his meals In those spotless halls. The movie we are anxious to see Is James Montgomery Flaggs "Beresford of the Baboons," a take-oft on "Tarzan of the Apes." The silence of Karl Rosner since last November has. been' so profound that -one could almost hear his pen drpp. '.. . ' The Road That Knoivs No End 44T)UT out tho light," the shades of death X are falling Over the eyes that shall wako to earth no nioi e. And ho hears In hl3 dreams tho great Com panions calling Him they have loved of yore, Him they choose to rldo in their chosen legion Wherever the ways of valiant hearts may tend, Joyful nnd unafraid through whatever region, On the road that knows no end. "Put out the light." as down through death's dark canyon, Bound ere the break of day on the endless quest, The great Companions rldo with their great Companion, Nor plead with God for rest. They ride to do the will of the great Com mander With one more loyal knight and steadfast p friend. Their deathless figures looming over grander On the road that knows ho end. Behind their track all earthly lights are paling And suns and stars shall dim and dimmer shine. But o'er their distant path shall gleam un failing Tho lamps of God divine. Theirs is the high adventure of all adven tures. Theirs tho will no fear can swerve or bend. Theirs the call confirmed by God's indentures To tho road that knows no end. Others may walk beside still waters flowing Through pastures green and fields ot end less calm, But these forever hear tho bugles blowing And crave tho victor's palm. Others the voice of ceaseless ndoratlon Before the throne with angel songs may blend, But these rldo on In tireless exploration Ot the road that knows no end. We catch the gleam ot knightly pennons glancing Or faintly hear their mystic bugles blow Or seem to see their ghostly charges prancing On that far way they go. Farewell and hall! We send our cheer te find you Where'er your ardent souls their vigor spend, How good It were some day to ride behind you -On tho road that knows no end, William H. Crawshaw, in the Kansas City Star. n What Do You Knoto? 1. Who Is President of Cuba? Who said: "If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter the wholo face ot the earth would have been changed"? 3 When does the present Congress expire? 4. How .long did the "Reign of Terror"' last In the French Revolution? C, What was an oread In classical mythol ogy? ' C, What is the meaning of the abbreviation "Gtts" on doctors' prescriptions? 7. On what date does 'Good Friday fall this year? 8. How many gallons make a barrel In liquid measure? 9. What kind of frujt is a pearmaln? 10. What flag, used by the weather bureau. Indicates a cold wave? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. Helgoland Is little more than a mile long. ' 2. Litany; series ot petitions for use in church services. 3 Valentine Cameron Prlnsep, n, noted Eng ' llsh artist, Is said to have been the original of Taffy In Du Maurler's Trilby." 4. Bogota, Colombia, is known as the "Ath ens of South America." C. Rupert Blue Is surgeon general of ths United States. C. Victor Blue, an American naval officer, determined definitely for the first tuna the presence of the Spanish fleet In the harbor ot Santiago de Cuba in June, 1198. 7. The real name of the creator of "Mr. Dooley" is FInley Peter Dunne. 8. "Effendl" Is a Turkish title of respect, meaning lord. 0, Thaumaturgy Is wonder working. 10, The Constitution of the United States. - . before (the passage of the amendment '. m . 6:,VM':,ri'.i3,'' , ".- v ... .,--5Miie?:, &. -. .'.a &jXtiMML&i$ .,.' -..' a. ' - i SMfeiaiK' wtfJJ ;' .AiffiSft'aa
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