EVENING TUBLIO LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1919
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GOOD ENOUGH TO UK AMERICANS
FEW Japanese and fewer Chinese hnvo
become American citizens by naturaliza
tion. Therefore when Judge Thompson, of
the federal court, admitted to citizenship
four Japanese and ono Chinese there was
mild wonder In certain quarters at this
exception to long-established precedents.
The Judge, however, was obey Ins tho
act of Congress of last May, which pro
vided that all aliens who served In tho
military or naval forces of tho country
were eligible to citizenship. Under this
law 11,000 soldiers from Camp Dix, born
In Allied or neutral countries, have re
ceived their final papers.
Discrimination against Orientals could
not be Justified, The five of them whom
Judge Thompson has made citizens had
served on American warships. If they
were good enough to risk their lives for
the United States they are good enough to
enjoy the privileges and protections of
citizenship when they had compiled with
its qualifying laws In other respects.
"LIES, DAMNED LIES Oil STATISTICS?"
TAESPITE the fact that 58 per cent of
"''the registered oters In the Chicago
primaries were women, William II Thomp
son Is once more the Republican nominee
for Mayor. On the surface this achieve
ment sheds but an uncertain light upon
die oft-repeated contention that feminine
suffrage exerts a reforming Influence In
politics.
Insistence on that opinion may obligate
the sex to fall back upon the classification
of falsehood Into "lies, damned lies and
statistics," or It may choose to go more
deeply Into tho matter and perhaps assert
that It was the men who named Thomp
son and the women who nsked for Demo
cratlc ballots.
But whatever the explanation, Chicago
has deliberately blackened Its good name
once again In the nomination of such a
detestable blatherskite. The whole per
formance condemns both the male voters,
who should by experlenco have known
better, and tho women, who as a class
are so prompt to declare predilections for
political virtue.
DRIFTERS-ARCTIC AND HECTIC
rpHAT Arctic explorer who set out on an
Ice floo, with tho expectation that ho
would be carried by the drift of the ocean
currents from Alaska to Siberia, discov
ered that tho currents run In a circle, and
he was landed where he started from.
There are so-called hectic statesmen Just
now urging that the United States set out
on a similar exploring expedition, hoping
that It will arrive at some distant point
on the other sldo of an uncharted sea.
But drifters never make any progress,
even though they deceive themselves for
a while by the movement of the eddy
around which they are being carried.
The world will never drift Into a state
of peace. It must bo steered there across
t stormy seas by men who have a definite
purpose in mind and are willing to use all
the power at their command to make that
.purpose effective.
t Obvious platitudes? Yes. But so ob
vlous that thoso who aro searching for some
remote and obscure truth overlook what
lies under their noses.
SOME BUSINESS!
BALDWIN'S did a business last year
- amounting to Jl 23,000,000, according to
President Alba Johnson's report. This
Is an Increase of 125,000,000 over 1817 and
164,000,000 over 1916.
No other private corporation In this
neighborhood, so far as Is known, made a
turnover of so largo a sum In 1918. It
Is about three times the amount that It
Costs to run tho whole city. In no year
prior to 1861 did tho federal government
handle so much money. And the total na
tional imports did nut reach that sum
until after 1845.
These comparisons are Interesting as
.they disclose tho relatlvo size of a local
institution which has carried the name of
It'olledelphla to all corners of the world.
"' The treat Increase In its buslnca imut v.a
$Sf ?"". ot course, due to war contracts. There
are etner jocai corporations the annual
turnover of whleh runs Into the tens of
millions, but the great locomotive works
., leads the procession at present. The record
4a ana It tmlf AAaa Tlklla J.1-LI .
sy iiiv. uvjr uimuoipnian can
m ih i.i.. .ji.
if, - wmo yriut.
A February without teeth-
fTlHE publlo parts company with Feb-
ruary tomorrow night with tho best
'iMMnn entertained for years toward that
Usually tempestuous month. The blue
ihrM f the Riviera are-hardly more lus.
afiw than our benign canopy haa been
fit ttt while bliiiards, sleet storms and
itfttatf anowa fade almost from tho menv
On tk aalHsrmues of war.
toK pT'tiM MRittsoiant Mr,
? ut
I HWPar MJHwa aWrtl
I officially ranked In winter, and if April bo
dank nnd chilly the- calendar proclaim
"Spring-." and the inevitable crop of poets
chirp .rally of Its charms. Even a repeti
tion of the famous March blizzard cannot
seriously shadow the good record of tho
open winter In the new age of peace.
If tho season has any critics thoy uro
probably among tho pilgrims who Imvo
wandered South, What are tho delights of
Pnlm Beach really worth If the stay-at-homes
are also basking In Invigorating
sunshine and caressing airs?
TILE BARTOL BEQUEST
A BOON TO SCIENCE
Whether Sustained or Not, It Advertises One
of the Moat Deserving Local Centers
of Education
fTIHB will of the late Henry Welthmnii
Ilartol, leaving the testator's residuary
estate to the Prunklln Institute for the
establishment of n school of electrical re
search, lifts this famous local institution
Into deserved prominence.
Although It occupies modest quarters
In South Seventh street, between Chest
nut and Market, it Is ono-of tho most
widely known institutions In the city. Its
monthly Journal, founded In 1S24, Is ono
of tho oldest sc'entltlc publications In
America. If not the oldest. It held tho first
exhibition of American manufactures ever
nrranged. And this. too. was In 1821, tho
year when the Institute first began Its
life The.e exhibitions were held annually
until 1S56. It arranged In 1884 the first
international electrical exhibition ever held
anywheie.
Scientific and Industrial Interests lnive
been the chief concern of tho Institute
from tho beginning. It was started
originally by mechanics nnd urtlsans who
wished to increase their own knowledge
and train young men so that they might
bo capable workmen. A school of me
chanical and architectural drawing was
started at the beginning nnd Is still In
operation. It Is sala now to bo one of
tho bewt schools in tho country for
training mechanical draughtsmen. Supple
mentary to tliis technical school It main
tuined for several years a schqol In which
were taught "all the useful branches of
Kn-llsh literature and the ancient and
modern languages." When the first pub
lic high school was opened here this school
was abandoned as unnecessary. The Insti
tute maintained a. weather bureau for
v..ars which was used as the model for
tho national weather bureau, and tho
School of Dcl-n for Women w-m or
ganized through the Influence of the Insti
tute. It awards every year several medals
for original scientific research, which aro
prized by the recipleits ns tho recognition
by expert authority of tho value of tho
things which they havo done.
Tho funds of the Institute aro limited
nnd Its present quurters are inadequate.
If it shall receive tho Bartol bequest It
will bo in a condition to expand Its work
and fill a larger place In the community.
The exact sum in tho bequest Is not
known, but Mr Bartol was suppoeod to be
worth beveral million dollars, and his will
makes specific deposition to other sources
of only a small part of tho estut It would
be possible, in the happy event that the
courts sustain the will, for thn Institute
to erect the new building which it has been
considering for several jears. In fact. It
would bo necessary to erect a now building
In order to provide room for carrying on
the work which Mr. Bartol evidently had
In mind.
The proposed school for electrical re
searrh wou'd be merely an expansion of
the work which lias absorbed the attention
of the Institution since the beginning, for
it would be an attempt to apply to Industry
tho Increasing volume of scientific knowl
edge. But even though the courts should not
sustain the will and even though the Bartol
millions should not be put to use for tho
good of the community, tho writing of tho
will Is likely to have served a, useful end.
It has attracted the attention of other men
of wealth to one of the most deserving nnd
useful Institutions In this clty.'und It must
suggest to them tha propriety of assisting
in Its devplopmnnt. We do not suppose
that tho mechanics and artlnans who
founded it expected It to reach Its present
distinguished position In tho scientific
world. But they laid their foundations
well. Their purposes were so commendablo
that succeeding generations have not been
willing to abandon the work begun nearly
a century ago.
Tho demand for technical training and
technical knowledge today, however, is far
greater than it was in 1824. Other Insti
tutions in other parts of the country havo
sprung up to supply that training and
that knowledge, but they havo not dis
placed the Franklin Institute. They have
proved that the Institute still lias a work
to do. It cannot do that work without
money. Tho number of young men needing
first-class technical training la Increasing
every year with tho progress of mechani
cal invention. They are eager for Instruc
tion. They would like tho opportunity to
hear the men who havo done things tell
how they wore done. There Is no platform
on which these experts would be more will
ins to talk tlian on that of the lecture lull
of the Institute, for they know that there
they would be talking to thoso who had the
necessary preliminary knowledge to under
stand and appreciate what they had to
say. The inventor speaking to an audience
of students there would be like a surgeon
demonstrating an operation to a class In
a medical school.
The possibilities for expansion aro limit
less. A great popular university could be
created, which would occupy a unique
place if tho managers wero 60 disposed
and had the necessary funds. We havo
Innumerable technical industries within tho
metropolitan area, tho men engaged in
which are continually seeking more
knowledge. It Is within the province of
the Institute to assist these men. This
cannot bo done now for lack of funds. Tho
Bartol bequest would provide money for
expansion in one direction. But whether
the will is sustained or not, expansion is
bound to come.
PEANUTS.AND POLITICS
REPOIVTB from Washington Indicate
that there are 114,000,000 pound of
less than the amount at the corresponding
time last year.
But these figures aro not sustained by
known facts. Judging from the extent of
the recent expansion of the Industry of
peanut politics In Washington and elso
where, thero must bo at least 200,000,000
pounds of peanuts still on tho market, with
tho supply continually Increasing.
A SARGASSO-SEA POLICY FOR OUR
NEW SHIPS?
CItAIUMAN IIUP.LEY announced that
"within a month or so" ho will present
to Congress somu definite plan for an
American merchant marine policy. By
that time, however, the national legislators
may not be sitting and the present pro
cedure of perilously drifting will bo un
checked. Senator ltausdell, of Ioutslana, set forth
tho dangers of the situation the other day
In a congressional speech for which, how
ever, there was but tt small audience. And
yet the miracle of our prodigious actUlty
in shipbuilding will bo sadly smirched tin
less some means of making It of perma
nent benefit to tho nation shall be speedily
adopted.
By next ear commerce carriers under
tho American flag, exclusive of thobe on
tho Great Lakes, will total 18.000,000 tons
more than threo times as much ns we
possessed In 191C. Oreat Britain and Nor
way, which suffered so severely from sub
marine depredations, will probably be quick
to acquire much of this shipping If our
present heedless policy drives us to dispose
of It. Selling vessels built ut war prices
for thoso prevalent In pcaco times cannot
bo otherwise than financially disastrous.
I'rldo in the wondrous achievements of
our great shipyards becomes but a fleet
ing flash of enthusiasm If we aro obliged
to confess Inability to master the problems
of a great war accomplishment. Plans for
keeping tho American flag on tho fccas,
whero until now It has not been promi
nently displayed since beforo tho Civil
War, may Involve government ownership,
Independent ownership, subsidies or other
compromise arrangement. Possibly no
scheme devised will bo Ideal, but almost
any plan will be better than none. Idealiza
tion that the restoration of the pcaco status
obligates us not to misprize the products
of our war energy cannot come too quickly.
"The last piece of plo
riea In on the plate" Is Dl-
1'oU rector General 1'lez's
allltcratlNe summing
up of industrial conditions in the shipyards
H! word Fhould lie read with thoughtful
lnt7Tc"t by workers everywhere. On the
other band, it was perhaps Ill-advised of Mr
Piez, Immediately after a conference with
strikers, to speak of tho stamping out of
Bolshevism In shipyards. Not all labor un
rest In Bolshevism, but every movement bo
labeled boost- rh iironTT'da of discontent.
Out of the Hurley
Life, on the burley of fhlpplng
Ocean Wat a board conferences
with business men for
the purpose of formulating a policy for an
American merchant murine arises the con
viction that the merchant tuarlno In the
making will not be wholly American until
tho American small boy desires to ba a sailor
as earnestly as he now desires to bo a cow
boy. How can this desire bo awakmed?
The movies might help. And Kipling's "Cap
tains Courageous" might bo a good story to
film for a start.
John Barleycorn, my
To lie buna jo, John ; they've left
Slowly you high and dry,
with Pennsy forty
fifth, John, jour doom to ratify, And Phila
delphia helped, John, to give the final blow,
though three men Btlll remained your friends,
John Barleycorn, my Jo.
The salary raisers. In Harrlsburg are of
tho opinion that Father Penn can afford It.
And not a saloonkeeper In tho mate
feeW grateful to the Ifglelators for attention
given to him
It's a darned good country! Wo love It
all the while; so we'll now duff up our taxes
with a smllo
The Department of Labor has hdpes
that the Governors will' bo able to prevent
the industrial engine from running wild.
What our Congress has to decide within
the next few days Is whether our soldiers
died In vain or for bomethlng worth while.
The Bibulous One says he Is glad the
prlco of nut sundaes has gone up. it makeo
him realize that he Isn't the only ono to
suffer.
Btorker Storkerson and party drifted for
stx months on a cake of ice In the Arctlo
circle. There Is a lelsurellness about Arctlo
exploration that Is positively refreshing In
these days of worry and fuss.
A bill has been presented In Harrls
burg to enablo tho voters to cast their bal
lots through the mall. Perhaps tho time hau
not arrived for anything so downright, but
assuredly anything that will simplify the
matter of voting Is worthy of consideration.
The need for a league ot nations to en
force peace Is nono tho less Insistent be
cause of tho conviction ot many of its
backers that the league sooner or later will
have to fight to keep the peace secure. That's
what eaves u naval opproprlatlon bill from
.being an anomaly.
The Paris Temps has announced Its full
support of the covenant for the formation of
a Uague of nations. Its action Is significant
aa Indicating a lessening of the doubta tho
French have felt as to the efficacy of tho
league. At to their sympathy with Its alma
there has never been any question.
Thirty-five colonels In the Portuguese
army who took part In the monarchist re
volt have been reduced to the rank of
second lieutenant. The government evi
dently didn't take them serlouely probably
I considered them merely nUtoolonels, But they
bad besti ft care tut ...Answer rvlUleB
mlarht. sain aam .--.
THE GOWNSMAN
Hie Lowell Centennlil Celebration
rpHE American Academy of Arts and Letters
commemorated last week the hundredth
anniversary of the birth of James Bussell
Lowell with appropriate proceedings and
festivities In New York. Beginning with a
reception by the president of Columbia Uni
versity, the ceremonies Included, besides
other function, a gala performance of Mr.
Barrlc's charming comedy, "Dear Brutus" : a
formal dinner, at which Mr. Boot presided,
and Mr Galsworthy, the tJngltah novelist,
and Prof. Urander Matthews wero chief
among tho speakers, and a publlo meeting,
where Trof. Barrett Wendell and Mr. Croth
ers spoke and Mr. Alfred Noyes and Mr.
Kdgar Lee Masters each read original poetry.
The presence of many guests from Great
Britain, from Canada and even one from
Australia gavo full significance to tho Invita
tion, which read: "In honor of tho ono
hundredth anniversary of the birth of Jamos
Bussell Lowell and In celebration of the
unity and power ot the literature of the
English-speaking peoples."
THE American Academy of Arts and Let
ters, It might be explained, Is the Inner
circle, so to speak, of the National Institute
of Arts and Letters, a club or guild of
American men who aro tho producers of
books, pictures or music In a sense somewhat
above that of manufacture. The Institute
arrogates to Itself no primacy or leadership
savo In so far aa Its members may bo ap
proved and accepted, each In his chosen art;
but It stands for high Ideals In all the arts
represented, honors thoso whom It can ap
prove by membership by tho higher honor,
on approval, of an election to the academy,
and by tho presentation annually of a gold
medal In recognition of achievement, artistic,
literary or musical, to the deservcr, Irre
spective of membership in this or In any
other association. Tho joint annual meetings
of the instltuto and academy, in the city of
New York and elsewhere alternately, havo
become an Inspiration to thoso who have
been privileged to attend them, because
Uiey are characterized by the simplicity and
the Idealism which habitually sustain
American men of arts and letters and be
cause to every worker thero Is helpfulness
In association with his kind.
I
T WAS the privilege of Lowell to bo born
Country, as It was tho fortune of Hawthorne
to be born on tho Fourth of July They
manage these things very well In New Eng
land. And 11 was the fortune of Lowell to
represent. In his blood, an ancestry more
purely Hrgllsh and New English than It
wou'd be easy to equal In our land of mixed
blood and jumbled opportunities. In his ex
cellent prcpentatlon of the matter. Professor
Wendell well brought out tho Brahmlnlcal
soundness of Lowell, de'plto tho tang of
radlcaU-m In him, when he said that It would
havo delighted Lowell to eeo a common fol
low s'ap Julius Caesar on the back, though
he might havo resented a like familiarity to
himself. Lowell was of tho best of the con
servatives in that he could distinguish what
was worthy of conservation; he was one of
the best of liberals In that he recognized that
all chango Is not necessarily betterment.
IOWELL, decplto all his conservatism,
1 stood out boldly against slavery, that
terrlb'e negation of tho very principles of
the Declaration of Independence for which
Americans had bled ; and ho lived to see
slavery wiped off the slato of civilization.
Lowell, despite a certain clannlshness 'which
Is the strength and weakness of the New
Englander, stood out with equal boldness
against disunion and tho dismemberment of
the nation. The triumph of this Ideal, too,
he was spared to sec. For when he went to
Spain, and Jater to England, ho went to
represent a great people, which out of the
furnace of civil war had como forth welded
Into ono aB nover before. But Lowell cher
ished a third Ideal abovo cither of these,
and that waa the ideal of a unity of the
English-speaking, the Anglo-Saxon race
Political unity, no. That was past and gone
and, after all, less essential. We ha.d begun
In the old quarrel to fight for our rights as
Englishmen until wo found In them our
higher rights as Americans; there was no
need to go back. Tho unity of Lowell's
dreams was that hlgher'unlty of race, spirit,
language, literature and aspiration. It was
well said by speaker after speaker at the
celebration dedicated to this practical
dreamer that Lowell, of all men, would havo
joyed to attend a meeting devoted to "the
unity and the power of literature of the
.English-speaking peoples." It was not quite
so clearly said that, could he have lived to
day, he would havo recognized and welcomed
with the prevision of a poet and a patriot
tho coming realization of his dream and Its
transcendence In the league of nations, the
essential sanction of which Is Anglo-Saxon
unity.
IOWELL lost Bomethlng In his achieve
J ment from tha variety of his Interests
and the versatility of his talents. He has
lost something In fame' for the same reasons.
Ho devoted himself with no such singleness
of purpose to poetry as did Longfellow;
he wrapped himself not eo closely In the
pontifical robes of thought aa Emerson. Nor
did ho lead us arduously to a height nnd to
the contemplation of our vasttiess llko Whit
man. Lowell was a man among men, a man
union g books, because men had mado books;
a man who loved nature, because nature is
the environment of man. Such an author Is
too occupied with the larger things to be
merely a stylist; wherefore, a certain fino
carelessness about him, notwithstanding tho
appreciation of form which was his. Such a
man Is too open to passing Impressions to
worry much about tho permanency of tho
ideas which he expresses; wherefore the con
temporaneouiness of the Blglow Papers,
which we are now beginning to read with
notes. Of tho cold aloofness of him who
writes only for posterity, Lowell had nothing.
Hencs the love In which we hold him, licnco
his placo as the most truly American of
American writers', and yet the strongest of
the many literary ties which knit us to our
brethren of Greater Britain.
The success or failure of Bepresentatlvo
norke'a House bill to permit movies, orches
tral concerts and lectures of an educational
character on Sunday wilt depend not on IU
wisdom or Its unwisdom, not on the testi
mony ot witnesses, but on the strength of the
organised publlo eenttonjM-tor or agalut
the measure. , . fV .
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THE CHAFFING DISH
"A Man That Has Endeavored Well"
(CT LOOK with pleasure on my work, how-
ever defective, and deliver It to the world
with tho spirit of a man that has endea
vored well. That It will immediately bo
como popular I havo not promised to my
self: a few wild blunders nnd rlsib'.o ab
surdities, from which no work of such
multiplicity was ever free, may for a tlmo
furnish folly with laughter and harden Ig
norance In contempt; but useful dlllgenco
will ut last prevail.
"Even a whole llfo would not bo hufil-clent-
A writer will sometimes bo hur
ried by eagerness to (tho end, and some
times faint with weariness under tho task;
what is obvious Is not always known, and
what Is known la not always present; fcud-
den fits of Inadvertency will surprise
vigilance blight avocations will seduce at
tention, and casual eclipses of tho mind
will darken leurnlng; and, the writer nhall
often In vain traco his memory at the mo
ment of need for that which yesterday ho
knew with lntuttlvo readiness, and which
will como uncalled into ills thoughts to
morrow." The above words were not spoken bv
Woodrow WHaon concerning fte Icaonc of
nations covenant. They are from Doctor
Johnson's preface to his Dictionary, 1755.
Thero will not be nearly so much living
from hand to mouth after July 1st.
And "With Hoover Over There, Too
We nro expecting almost dally to hear
eomo ono call down the commandcr-ln-chief
for his cruolty in permitting somq
of our divisions in Franco to bo "ekcle
tonlzed." If the League of Natious
"Were a Brand of Tobacco
Hey, Mr, Man, put it flush up to Uttlo
old Lenguo o' Nations to produce, right off
the windmill, more peace-happlness than
you over beforo got wise to! Built to fit
your peace-appetito like a union suit fits
a forty-chestor. Just the jlmdandtcst flavor
and coolness and fragrance you ever
butted Into!
Come on, put yourself hep about this
just tho double-quickest thing you do next.
Our llttlo pld cxcluslvo process cuts out
all international blto and parch. Never
makes your tongue sore, and done up in
that tidy Uttlo covenant that you'll want
to read aloud to mother and the kids. This
is the stuff that puts old mon Mare on the
gloom toboggan. None of tho bitterness
and hangover of the old-fashioned brands.
Mellow ns a fat man' on tho sunny sldo
of tho street en payday. Fill up and puff
hardi
What Youth Suipecti, Age Confirms
When Thomas W. Wilson was an under
graduate at Princeton ho wrote In an essay
that "Congress is a conglomeration of in
harmonious elements," and wo havo not
heard that ho haa changed his views.
Mrs. Ebert', tho wife of tho German
President, ia said to bo a very domestlo and
unassuming person, but we will wager sho
haa made a mental note of the new bonnet
Mrs. Wilson bought in Paris.
Who can ay naw that.the Bolehevikl aro
nnt nractiGUl? Ac
to an Aaeoeated
J re dl4Wi ti
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- AND LET ME SLEEP!"
in Moscow has led to a government decree
making tho undertaking business a stato
monopoly. It's a very lit wind that blows
nothing toward Lentno and Trotsky.
Prayer to Sleep
(Written after a thirty-six hour "trick"' on
a United States naval convoy)
Sleep, I am deadly weary.
And tho Weariness stabs llko a knife:
Sleep, enfold me and lift mo
Out of the halls of Llfo!
Bear me away from Time,
Over tho walls of tho world,
Over tho sllcnco of tho tea
Whcro the sunset flags aro furled.
Into your purplo kingdom,
AVhcre myriad treasures nro found.
Sleep, with your wand of magic
Lead me, and mako no sound I
Moro deep than tho mystery of Death,
Than the deeps of tho sea profound,
O Sleep, plungo mo In sllcnco,
By thy strong arnia enwound.
Carry mo further, Sleep,
In time to your noiseless life,
Over the walls of tho world,
Out 'of the halls of Llfo I
DOUGLAS CAHY WENDELL.
Homeopathy for Lcnlne
Lenlne's automobllo eot stalled in a
snowdrift, says a dispatch from Russia, and
footpads appeared and demanded his fur
coat. Ho oxplalned, "I am Lenlno"; but
tho thlovea retorted, "That's all right. Wo
know you don't object as long as wo aro
comrades," and mado off with it.
Suggested Subjects for Historical Paintings
Senator Borah saying farewell to Wash
ington's farewell address.
Mr, Tumulty showing W. W. tho declina
tions of that dinner Invitation.
M. Clemenceau's doctor trying to kocp
the patient In bed.
Hear Admiral Grayson explaining to Mr.
Tumulty tho difference between a blnnaclo
and a barnacle.
Quests at a Whlto IIouso dinner wonder
ing whether their sovereignty would bo
Impaired by a second helping of pie, and
uneasily waiting for tho May-l-nottlng to
begin.
Democratic Senators defending the league
of nations project, strafing tho Senato by
saying '7onl solt out mal y pense.
Thomas W. Wilson aa ,a young man
making up hla mind whether to grow a
beard.
The man who graduated first in tho
.Princetpn class of '79 being reminded that
V. W. Wilson graduated thirty-eighth in
that class. '
Mrs. Wilson wondering where to put all
those glfta" brought homo from abroad.
Colonel IIouso' committing himself by
proposing marriage to Mrs. House'
A correspondentrcporta-that Mr. Balfour
yawned twice during: the first meeting of
the Peace Conference. At least let us pray
that it was the Gapo of 'Good Hope.
Epitaphs for WUhelm
lie ame, he saw, ho YunkerauV
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SAD brother ours, who with thy vision
wholo
And hand unswerved within the long
duress
Of Death's dark self, but gazed through
rcspltelcss
And blunting years that won far less than
dolo;
Strove, suffered, thought'; gave Strife and
Thought thy toll
With no. despair that Llfo's own iron
stress '
Gavo back scant room to eclzo the full
Impress
In compromised rctcnt, of ono strong soul:
But what of you remains, this sign alone
Surviving tho stilled .hand that made it
known;
Tho dying dream of Immortality
Boturns, and with a tlmo-trued sense to
warm
Our questioning days, and bid them of
It see,
If but for ono brief hour, eomo nobler form.
James Edward Richardson, In "Tho Forest-Altar
and Other Poems."
Tho dean of Hahnemann Collego prom
ises "a real egg from tho chemical labora
tory." He adds that It will have the yolk,
the whlto and the shell. But 'no synthetic
chicken will ever crack that shell.
It may yet turn out that a cure for
Bolshevism will bo found In the deliberations
of tho Peaco Conference Commission on In
ternational Labor Legislation.
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What Do You iKnow?
QUIZ
1. Who Is the premier of the Commonwealth
of Australia?
;. What are the colors of the flag of the
German republic.
3. How do currants get their name?
4. Who wrote "The Res and the Ring"?
B. What American statesman was known
as tho "Old Man Eloquent"?
6. What Is tha difference between analysis)
and synthesis?
7. How many states havo passed the pro
hlbltlon amendment?
8. What is the origin of tho word foolscap
as applied to paper?
0. Who Is StorHer Storkerson?
10. AVhat is meant by a "manana policy"?
Answers to Yesterday's Quia
1. Julian Story was a noted American por
trait painter, who died in Philadelphia
this week.
2. Twenty-eight states, two territories and
a federal district comprise tho republlo
of Mexico.
3. The date of the "Boston Tea Party" waa
December 16, 1778.
4. The Suwanee River Is In northern Florida.
It flows Into the Gulf of Mexico.
C. Rupprecht was Crown Prince" of Bavaria
before the German revclutkin, ,
6. "Dry" wines are opposed to sweet or' -
"fruity" .wines. In sweet wines lores
ot the sugar ts not yet decomposed! '
in "dry" wines all the sugar has beeq
converted Into alcohol
7. A palmer In the Middle Ages waa a re,
llglous pilgrim privileged to carry al
palm-staff. He spent all his days' In
visiting holy shrines and lived .on
charity.
t. Leal means loyal, nonest.
0. President William Henry HarriMaV)
grandson Benjamin became PreeMeat
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