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A GOOD TIME BY ALL
THE Juxtaposition of facts docs not neces
sarily establish a logical, connected
story, but it Is often productive of slgnlfl
cant thoughts that pursue an unwavering
course. The retail coal dealers gave a
dinner this week to Francis A. Lewis,
former chairman of tho Philadelphia
County fuel committee, and good cheer
seems to have prevailed.
"The coal business," declared one of the
merchants In black diamonds, "was never
better than it Is now."
"The people," asserted Mr. Lewis, "who
think that the cost of coal will come down
after the first of next month aro totally
mistaken. Coal may not come down in
price again for the next ten years."
Let us be fair. Let us consider these ob
servation!! as unrelated statements. Let
us not put two and two together. They
might make four.
FORTY DAYS FOR THOUGHT
fTIHE metaphorical sackcloth which tho
Christian world will don today Is perti
nently seasonable. Society, save in Ger
many, where "fox-trotting on tho edge of
a volcano" seems to be tho favorite prac
tice?, has rather less need for Lenten re
pentance than usual, for society hardly
struck Its old gait this winter. The war
ended too suddenly for that.
But In the political arena. Ash 'Wednes
day and its thirtj-nlne successive- dajs
may be of chastening service.
If ever prajer and reflection were needed
on this reeling planet It is today,
Toryism needs to think and take stock
'"of Its rash endeavors, and arch-radlcallsm,
too, may profit by a wholesome essay Into
tha contemplative field.
Introspection, how cer momentarily polg-
nant, would be beneficial to both Europe
-and America.
Lent this year would Indeed be a balm
could it temper heedless passions and give
fprecedenco to the restorative of thought.
Abstinence from a legion of perilous follies
is in order.
WORK FOR THE WOUNDED
rnHAT disabled soldiers are by no means
'- disqualified for positions enabling them
to bs self-supporting is revealed In the
thorough survey of the labor field con
ducted by the state departments of labor,
health and education. The report compiled
.from the result of questionnaires tent to
commercial and industrial establishments
a ytar ago particularizes nearly 60,000
position! which could be held by men suf
fering from a wide variety of injuries.
There are more than D000 different Jobs
which in case of vacancy would be open to
Jthe blind, and about the same number for
the totally deaf. Seventy positions are
listed as suitable for the legless, but only
one for a man without arms. Only a small
proportion of the firms solicited, howecr,
have "specified work which they would im
mediately give to the injured veterans.
As the; .state cannot dictate the operation
of private enterprises, Its researches have
necessarily a somewhat theoretical alue.
"What they do proe Is that the disabled
soldier, as regards self-support, is In some
lines on a parity with tho man of normal
physique. The fact should nt least be con
ducive to tho morale of tho injured even
., though economic conditions and the per
, sonal predilections of employers render, as
-ever, the clinching of a Job a difficult busl
"ness. The best that can be hoped is that when
this Important preliminary investigation
is concluded, firms with aailable employ.
, ment for the Injured will bo generous to
those who have sacrificed so much to
patriotism.
MONEY TO HIRE WORK-MEN
THE Imminence of the new Victory Loan
Is doubtless responsible for tho offer for
only two and a half times the amount of
the city loan of 18,000,000 floated this week.
Offers for Ave times the amount sought
were; made at the time of the last
loan In October. Yet the result Indicates
that there aro still large sums of Idle
money seeking investment.
Of, the proceeds of tho loan Jl.000,000 is
tebe used for transit and the rest for
gesersl purposes. The money will be
spent In the near future and will provide
' employment for many idle men, while at
..tha same time it makes possible thn mm.
plekten of works which have been held up
' ' ttw war.
Mh THE IMMUNITY OF CIDER
.1H. ihmt thrv rr.av be able to buv a drink
-sJOsr June SO because of tho failure of
ONtgre t PnsB a supplemental act for
the -onforceruaaa of wartime prohibition
at JvlUlCirJBBgjMalla)n-
tM weff5FaKpihe President
W' November 2U&mi- .ifie sale for
' .MfcamM purposes oTIMsbi
spirits, wine.
t")ur wr asker -IntoxJcatlna;
Lit or vinous
t 1,4iW Jum.M. w4
ill penalty
ietth
law. This act is in force and will remain
In force until pcaco Is declared and our
armies aro demobilized.
Tho sale of elder, however, is not inter
fered with, for that Is not distilled spirits,
neither Is It a mult or vinous liquor. But
elder Is an unsatlsrjlng bcvenigo for a
man whoso taste runs to whisky or beer.
If, however, It remains outsido the ban for
a few years wo may havo a lot of elder
millionaires, whoso wealth will rival that
of tho old-time distillers and brewers.
POLITICAL MADNESS NOT
AKIN TO STATESMANSHIP
Bedlamite Counsels Must Re Rejected liy
the Republicans Unless They Seek Dis
aster to Their Parly and the Nation
fTIHE Introduction of tho Lodge resold-
tlons Into the Senate In tho present
status of tho peace negotiations 1 a
calamity. They set forth tho objections of
signing Senators to the draft of tho cove,
nant of u, leaguo of nations, and demand
that pcaco bo mado with Germany ns
quickly ns posslblo mid beforo any attempt
to organize a leaguo to prevent futuro
world wars.
Whatever may have been tho purposo
of this slop It will weaken the hands of
the American delegate In 1'arK Tlicro
can bo no doubt of this. Those delegates
havo been co-operating to tho best of their
ability with their colleagues In discovering
a modo of procedure fitted to the existing
conditions and In finding a, base of agree
ment on which pcaco can bo offered to
Germany. We all regret thut they havo
not moved more rapidly. Wo nil know that
delay has complicated the problem, and wo
all aro hoping thnt pe.ico cm bo reached
at tho earliest possible date.
But tho delegates had not been In Paris
long before they (Uncovered that no suili
peace treaty as the world wants rotild be
made effective unlets there were created a
Iwdy of nation agreeing to enforce Its pro
vfolons upon Germany and to protect tho
little nations to bo created out of tho
WTeckage of Austria-Hungary and nusxla.
Tho body of delegates is now acting as
the authoritative representatives of an in.
formal leaguo of nations. Theso delegates
havo discovered that a formal leaguo la
an essential part of any effective peace
agreement, and they have acted accord
ingly by having a committer draft the con
stitutlon of mucIi an International body.
That document may be defective. It Is
fctlll subject to revision. But a covenant of
some kind mutt bo made to supplement tho
peaco treaty. Whether it becomes n part
of that treaty or not is a matter of detail
which must be left to tho discretion of tho
men on the job.
What the world wants and wants ns
soon ns posslblo is a peaco treaty backed
by guarantees that Its agreements will bo
put into effect.
As vve have already said, the action of
the Senators who signed the Lodge resolu
tions will weaken the hands of tho Ameri
can delegates.
But who Is primarily responsible for tho
conditions which called forth the resolu
tions? With great regret we are compelled to
say that tho President himself Is not
wholly without blame. He has attempted
to exercise autocratic power, "conferred on
him," ns ho would say, "by the will of tho
plain people." Trom the moment he entered
the Whlto House Congress was expected
to obey his will. Tho Democratic majority
surrendered its prerogatives as tho con
trolling group of a coordinate branch of
the Government and merely registered tho
decrees issued from the Whlto House.
Many Democrats who do their own think
ing have resented In prlvute these assump
tions of the President, and all tho Repub
licans havo publicly condemned them.
Mr. Wilson mado one of tho most
grievous political mistakes In ths history
of the presidency when he called upon the
country last fall to elect a Democratic
Congress, in order that he might go to
the Pcaco Conference with the Indorsement
of the nation. There was betiind tills appeal
the assumption that tho Democratic parly
was conducting the war and that the Dem
ocratic party muat be indorsed. But tho
nation knew that It was a national war.
It knew that the Democratic party had
hesitated and wabbled on tho subject and
that Mr. Wilson had been re-elected on tho
trick issuo that "ho had kept us out of
war."
The rcsponso to tho President's appeal
was the election of a Republican Congress
commissioned to prosecute the war with
greater vigor. The nation accepted his
challenge nnd repudiated his assumption
that It was a Democratic war. If this
action weakened him ho had only himself
to blame.
Ho was rebuked again when he went
tefore the Senate and urged It to pass tho
women suffrage constitutional amendment
to tho constitution. Leaders of his own
party expressed their resentment at what
they called his interference with their
prerogatives.
Now, the Lodge resolutions aro another
rebuke to Mr. Wilson. He has been quoted
as saying that the league of-natlons cove
nant must bo accepted or rejected as
It stands. The Senate was not represented
at the Peace Conference, In spite of the
well-known fact that any agreements
which might bo reached wcro constitu
tionally subject to revision by that body.
Mr. Wilson, bo far as known, did not even
take the Senators of his own party into
his confidence, and when he returned ho
was met by a body of men whoso amour
propre had been wounded.
But the blunders of the President do not
justify or excuse blunders by oilier men.
The Senators may have u Just grievance,
but tho present world crisis Is too grave
for even the pettiest of us to go around
exhibiting our wounds In a bearch for
sympathy.
The political blunder of Mr. Wilson In
the congressional campaign Is insignificant
in comparison with that made by the Re
publican Senators who signed the Lodge
resolutions.
The league of nations has not been a.
partisan issue. Its supporters and advo
cates havo been in all parties. All tho
Republican traditions have been such as to
Justify the confident hope thai whatever
any other party might do It would' adopt
the great moral Idea for world betterment
as its own, as in the last congressional
campaign it adopted the war as its own.
But a .majority f yt he Republican Sena
tors W , m - mJMa -tosifcrliir
J i.ailatt"-. -A-.-;-' W
claim which their party might havo had
to sympathize with tho hopes of a suffer
Ing world and to hand over to tho Dem
ocrats on a gold platter a ready-made IssUo
for tho presidential campaign next year.
All tho professions of solicitude for n
leaguo of nations to Insure peace, mado In
tho specific way which tho Republican
Senators propose, will go for naught be
cause every ono knows that the, effect of
their action will bo to make difficult tho
formation of such a league. They havo
thrown a firebrand Into tho Pcaco Confer
encc that Is certain to bo used by all of
the reactionaries to light a flamo which
they hope will destroy tho foundations of
the temple of peace, already laid with great
difficulty.
The statesmen of certain of tho nations
gathered around the peace table havo am
bitions still unrealized. Some of those
ambitions will bo unrealizable If a work
ablo leiguo covenant is framed. Theso
statesmen will welcome every evidence of
petty bickering over tho subject in the
United States or elsewhere, nnd no one
will bo better pleased than they if tho
Pcaco Conference can bo compelled to
draft a peace treaty with Germany with
out a league-of-nations agreement signed
simultaneously by the delegates. They will
say that peace has been mado nnd that
tho rest can wait until there Is greater
unanimity nlKut it. And years may go
by before anything Is done.
Unless tho Republican leaders arc court
ing disaster they will right about face at
the earliest opportunity, abandon their
policy of petty bickering over order of
pioccdure. lino themselves wholeheartedly
on the sl'lo of the hopes and pravers of tho
wholo civilized world, demand that a
leaguo of nations bo foimed und pledge
to It the support of every patriotic Amcrl-
blX-SHOOTERS AND OLIVE BRANCHES
IT IS doubtful whether the hanging of
Leon Trotsky on tho old gallows at
Moyamensing Prison or tho tying of Wil
liam Hohenzollern to a whipping-post in
front of tho Statue of Liberty in Penn
Square would create n more overwhelming
demand for tickets of admission than did
the Joint appearance last night In Now
York of President Wilson nnd ex-President
Taft, appealing from tho same platform
to the American people to bring permanent
peaco to the people of the world by their
sanction of the covenant for tho league of
nations.
Perhnps never fur any public event of
the kind in this country has there been
such n. vivid eagerness to look upon and
listen to two great men as thut which
was revealed lust night. No greater lottery
has ever been conducted on this side of
the Atlantic than tho allotment of 4000
tickets of admission from applications
which easily exceeded 100.000. Had sonic
ono removed the roof of tho Metropolitan
Opera Houso the sky would havo been
darkened with hosts of disappointed spirits.
Did all these persons indulge in a mental
retrospect which confided to them that
here, Indeed, was a scene moro benign than
the death of an erstwhile East Side "Red"
and less requiring o; physical effort than
the rawhide lashing of nn ex-emperor?
Mabe they did remember that beven
jears ago Theodore Roosevelt tore In half
the Republican lifebelt of William Howard
Taft and let him sink in the waters of
politlcul defeat. Vet tho other day that
same man wept as he stood over the simplo
gravo of tho great American.
Seven jears ago Woodrow Wilson de
nounced tho principles that Mr. Taft bo
lleved In. Taft then witnessed Roosevelt
himself sinking beneath tho Wtlsonlan cur
rent and the victor seated In the minority
saddle of tho Democratic donkey. Yet last
night that samo man gavo strength to tho
rich Idealism of the American President
with the gift of his calm logic and tho
brilliancy of his analytical powers.
By tho stund he has thus taken In tho
furtherance of that covenant which has
sprung from the wisdom of an international
mind, Mr. Taft has deliberately and know
ingly, confident In his own firm judgment
and high motive, drawn upon himself tho
Ire of a distinctive group of powerful Re
publicans. Even as he waved the olive branch of a
common purpose above tho nonpartisan
heads of his listeners, senatorial six-shooters
were being aimed at the well-protected
heart of our only living cx-Presldent,
And yet, who would bo surprised if, a
llttlo while hence, this same "Big Bill
Taft," as all Yale men affectionately love
to call him, were once again to shed the
magic smile of his simplo self-forgetfulncss
over tho shining barrels of tho congres
sional six-shooters and effect such a
camouflago of olive branches as to drive
from every electoral mind tho memory of
the weapons whose triggers were really
never pulled?
The I W. W. Idea Is that to labor is to
prey
We aro off on the Lenten voyage bound
for tho port of Easter
Philadelphia's most popular flower yes
terdaythe Woodrow s.
Chief Mayer finds comparatively Uttle
Idealism In the meat business.
Tho tide In Irish affairs was taken at
tho riood valuation In the House,
There are many who will love tho city
charter bill for the enemies It has made.
When I. W. W. members fall out, bomb
plotters my get what's coming t them.
Tho filibuster does something more than
kill time and bills. He kills public confi
dence. Civic bodies continue-to demand that tha
burglar and the highwayman be taken out
of politics.
Wounded soldiers need sticks. Sena a
cane. If you are able, to tho Jewish Wel
fare Board. .
The danger of Bolshevism is lessening
in England with the return of shipyard
workers to their Jobs.
If a mad dog could reason and talk, its
remarks would probably reflect tho courage
and the fatalism of Clemenctau'a assailant.
The absence of La Follette's name from
the list of signatures to the Lodge resolu
tions stems, on the face 'of It, a pathetic
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CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S
LETTER
Inside Story of the Republican
Speakership Caucus Tha
Sherlock Holmes of
Philadelphia
Washington, March C.
NOTHING moro Interesting than the
speakership fight has taken place In
Washington for many years Tho Repub
lican conference although somo Repub
licans aro now willing to ndmlt It was a
caucus, a term much derided in modern
politics was an event to which tho Demo
crats of Congress would gladly havo paid
a liberal price of admission, tax included.
It had been talked about for many months
nnd was expected to dovclop a first-class
row. What it did develop was worthy of
tho pen of "Marso" Henry Wattcrson. It
was as much like a national convention ns
anything wo havo had in recent years.
Almost everybody conceded that Mann, the
faithful but plodding Houso leader, had
earned the speakership. No one tjuestloncd
his ability, but Influences outside the
House of Representatives had mado them
selves felt In tho Interest of Glllctt and.
whether ho knew It or not, much manlpu
latlon and somo gumshoeing was done In
his name. Tho Mann forces wcro not organ
lied with tho clever thoroughness mani
fested by the Glllctt managers. Mann
stood almost alone, relying upon, his rec
ord nnd that hopo of appreciation which
ho had a right to expect would bo his re
ward. As often happens, however, the
manipulators ovcrplajed their game. Some
of them baw great power and Influence
ahead nnd they worked upon Senators nnd
through Nattonnl Chairman Has until it
looked as if thoso who dared to vote for
Mann would be swept out of existence.
Senators Lodge and Penrose and Watson,
of Indiana, and other Senators were ac
cused of attempting to influence tho Houso
organization, and Uncle Joe Cannon finally
broke loose, "calling a spade a spado" and
denouncing "foreign Interference" In the
House's domestic affairs. Those who stood
by Mann when the vote was called in
cluded Butler, of West Chester: Moore, of
Philadelphia; Grlcst, of Lancaster, and
Porter and Morln, of Pittsburgh. Darrow,
Crago and Mcl'adden wero a sort of steer
ing comnilttco for the state delegation, tho
latter being an aggressive Glllctt man, who
was suspected of earning the Penroso in
fiuento to tho Glllctt bund wagoners.
After tho Pennsylvania delegation had
selected Moore to represent It on tho com
mitteo on committees, McPaddcn's name
suddenly appeared along with that of sev
eral Glllctt Insiders on the celebrated com
mittee slate.
This so stirred tho delegation thut Aaron
Krelder, of tho Dauphin-Lebanon District,
wus Immediately advanced as tho choice
of most of tho Pennslvanlans to combat
the mysterious influences thut had In
jected McPadden Into tho fight.
THE Introduction of that slalo by Wins
Inn. nf M-iecifliltcnMu tli ft 'h!f? wllttl'
of the Gillett forces, was what "spilled tho
beans." Tho campaign against Mann had
succeeded, Gillett had been selected for
Speaker and Winslow was flushed 'with
victory, but that slate was so clearly In
tended to take caro of the personal Inter
ests of thoso who had departed from Mann
for Gillett that tho wholo body of the con
ference was Instantly In uproar, Winslow
went down llko a flash. Mann stepped
forward with his substitute resolution
liberalizing the committee on committees
and It went through with a whoop. From
that tune on Mann mado tho motions,
taking what was good from tho Winslow
program and eliminating that which was
undesirable, but each time carrying his
point with tho caso of a Matt Quay or
Mark Hanna. It was tho queerest re
versa! of political maneuvers that most of
those present had ever witnessed. It upset
tho apple cart of thoso who were banking
upon high place and power and helped to
restore the equilibrium If not tho good
humor of a much-exercised convention of
representative Republicans.
Glllctt will be Speaker and Mann will
continuo to bo an nctlve force In the
Hoube, although ho has declared ho will
not under any circumstances continue to
serve as floor leader. He had hoped to
wind up his career a3 Speaker, which
would havo relieved him of the fearful
drudgery to which ho had been subjected
and which has broken his health. But
that day has gone some are charging it
up to tho "ingratitude of nations" and
whllo ho Is likely to figure in parliamentary
proceedings, It Is expected ho will now
take lifo cuslcr. Whllo the management
of Houso affairs will remain largely with
those who assumo charge In committees
under tho Mann plan, most Republicans
aro hoping for harmony and are expecting
no untoward aftermath of tho, great fight
that was so disappointing to some.
WOULD any one who recalls George
Barton as secretary to Wes Thomas,
Collector of the Port, believe ho had
reached that stage where ho could boast
of having two sons in the army and ono
daughter a nurse? Yet the facts are as
statod. Herbert Barton, George's oldest
son, was a graduate of Temple University,
nnd after passing tho state law exami
nation was recently admitted to practice
at the Philadelphia bar. Another eon,
George Barton, Jr., is with the Pennsyl
vania Railroad studying engineering. May
the boys hew close to the Barton 'lino as
It has been laid down by their daddy whom
some regard as tho Conan Doyle of the
Quaker City.
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ON HIS way homo from Milwaukee,
Charles Elmer Smith, of Philadelphia
and Barnegat City, stopped over In Wash
ington. He had some business with the
Postmaster General. Charles Elmer had
been secretary of the National Association
of Builders' Exchanges of the United
States, but retired from office along with
John R. Wiggins, the 'presldont, also of
Philadelphia, Those things for which Mil
waukee was once famous seemed to have
no attraction for Wiggins or Smith, who,
having; put in a hard year i.n the Interest
of the national body, were glad to lay
down the offices they held, with or with-
eut rtfrMhyU. t , 4
THE
fmk "m mm Kill ' ;
lit tin's ,":
THE ELECTRIC CHAIR
To Senator Sherman
"Gentlemen, Mr. Sherman has the floor"
Anil in that session, trnglc and absurd,
, lien heard Jilm piling word on futile
word
Xaw'renco Y. Sherman f "What dots Y.
' staud for?
For Yawn, perhaps? You should have
- heard them- snore.
"Men sat wllli heavy eyes, nnd ached and
stirred,
And talking, talking, talking undeterred
That Senator, half zealot and half bore.
Against deep-moving tides of human will
This sodden schemer sets his futile plan.
Aye, but a wavo shall break to cleanse and
spill,
, Ae, but a wind bhall rise to purge and
fan!
What humorist' holds votes from Women
still
And gives them pause for laughter to
this man!
Well, the Senate has proved Itself a very
present hindrance in time of trouble.
Wo can't, help thinking that if Senator
Sherman worked in alt office ho would ho
the fellow , who Is always borrowing
matches. V ,
Wo hear thai the seventeen-year locusts
aro expected again this summer. We also
prophesy some seventeen-year Jokes about
tho time that convention of newspaper hu
morists meets hero In June.
The Golf Stream
again.
Is beginning to flow
Mark Antony in Washington
If you hayo votes, prepare to cast them
now L
You nil do know this covenant: I re
member Tho first time ever Woodrow wrote it
down;
Twas only lately, 'in the Murat Mansion,
That day he overcame the Bolsheviks.
Look! in this place ran Knox's dagger
through: ,
See what a rant the envious Borah made:
Through this the filibustering Sherman
stabbed.
And, as he droned the morning hours away
(Whllo statesmen snored and mumbled an
their desks.
And viewing nil that mass of legislations
Shouted, "They shall not pass!")
The gavel sounded, and tho gabble ceased.
And then-that so-called robin, that round
robin,
1 Pecking the senile husks of old reaction,
That resolution of the thirty-seven
(At midnight staled, of midnight dulncss
bred
That was tho most absurdest thrust of all!
For when the noble Woodrow heard Lodge
blab,
Stupidity, moro strong than German arms.
Quite vanquished him. Then burst his
sense, of humor,
And in Tumulty muffling up his face
Even at tho sill of those committee rooms
Which all the while ran talk, great Wood
row laughed.
But when that gavel fell,
O! what a fall was there, my countrymen;
Then I, and you, nnd all of us fell down,
While filibuster flourished over us
But most of all fell down the thirty-seven,
Who had d chance to play a noble role
;n freeing all the world, and could see enly
A petty party issue.
Of 'the vo attempted aastuinatleiis
rav-wagr' uwiatua 'iiri .(Mlfiww every twown
ifV
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IDES OF MARCH, A. D.
Senate's attack .on the league of nations
we hardly know which was moio un
worthy. But wo venture to think that tho re
cuperation of the second victim will bo
Just as speedy as that of the first.
What Is West Philadelphia going' to do
about (hat street called Vintage avenue?
The other day wc printed on this page a
very clever pseudo-classical odo under the
title, "If Horace Had Been an Advertising
Man." We asked who was the author, and
find to our pleasure that It should be cred
ited to Mrs. Corlnno R, Swain, of 648 North
Fifty-sixth street, whose delightful verses
are familiar to many magazine readers.
Swift Newton is home from service In
France with tho Johns Hopkins Hospital
unit, and tells us that George Wheeler, son
of Associate Superintendent George
Wheeler, of the Board of Education, served
In the came unit. He adds that George
Wheeler discovered a medical preparation
to be used in the treatment of wounds that
the army doctors of England and Fiance
had been -looking for since tho beginning
of the war. He was told to work out the
formula If possible, and did so In half n
day, in the laboratory of Base Hospital 18.
' Wo havo not had an opportunity to
Verify this by reference to the English and
French medical staffs, but it sounds Inter
esting, qnd.it also sounds .like a Wheeler,
George bebg tho younger brother of Guy
Wheeler, wijo has the reddest head and the
quickest wits of any member of tho Elec
trie Chair's official family. Guy is in the
aviation service and we expect to see him
almost any day. We haven't answered any
of his letters in tho last six months, and
he is probably so incensed that he will
shortly be home to tell us what he thinks
of us.
The shattered city of Ypres, at the ro
quest of the Belgian people, is to btay In
ruins, "to stand for all time as a monu
ment to the futility of hate."
The scene in the Senate yesterday, If it
could only be perpetuated In bronze or on
canvas, might servo the same purpose.
And we can't help seeing a rather ap
pealing pathos in the statesman turning,
for one brief hour. Into the grandfather.
What a welcome relief from tho realm of
endless vituperation nnd unthanked effort
must have been that llttlo excursion Into
the privacy of family affection.
SOCRATES.
, Womankind, of course, has an abiding
interest in Mr. Wilson's efforts to find Indorse
iment for the League tit Nations but ft is
secondary to Interest In Mrs. Wilson's gowns.
Vlctjms of Hun ruthlessness might look
with equanimity on growing chaos In Oer
many if It were not for the fact that Oer-'
many cannot hurt herself without iurtlng
others.
That the Azores na ahould desire to do
honor to President Wilson is not due alone
to admiration for American Idealism. It Is
also due to appreciation of the worth nnd
strength of tho American navy, which used
Portugal's westernmost colony as a base.
With municipal landing places for air
planes and dirigible balloons, the city may yet
find itself Independent of railroads and boats.
And, by the same token, vvllh the development
of" sir service,, Flttstjurgh or Butte, Mont.
I may easily become receiving ports for trans-
I Mltto commerce., There's a measly llttlo
trarri f -
1919
On Looking at a Children's Book
Dated 1838
1 rno EDWARD, John and Mary, with
- fond love."
That's the inscription that- tho front page
bears,
It's full of dogs and cats dressed up as
clowns.
This picture book of theirs. i
Ono page is torn; did John and Mary tight
And tear it? (Edward I am sure was good.)
And then, perhaps, they kissed and mads
it up,
As loving children should,
1
Edward, I find, died young in '43,
But Mary lived to quite the other day;
And John's the cross old man in 'the bath
chair
Who often comes this way.
And yet tho pictures still are fresh and
bright,
They have not changed, and still the child
ish show
Is as It was when It pleased little eyes
So many earu ago. .(
Tl
It seems a little sad to mo ' """)
That It is so.
NANCY MAUDE. '
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The ehowy helmets and uniforms the
Germons prepared for their triumphal eiftry
Into Purls will be used to help the Victor
Loan campaign hi New York. This Is' one
of life's glorious Ironies. '
. ,
As yet no good evidence lias been ad
duced to prove that a man will bo less
godly for having paid good money to hear
good music played by a g6oi Orchestra on
Sunday, nnd there is llttlo likelihood that
such evidence will bo presented at thoiieir
Inga on tho Rorke bill.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. What Is a bicameral sjstcm of govern
ment?
2. What Is minever?,
3. In what century did the Chevalier Bay
ard live? ,
4. What was the real name of Joaquin
Miller, the American poet?
5. What office In the British cabinet is now
held by Winston Churchill? ,
6. What Is a Eurasian?
7. Who is the new chairman of the Demo
cratic National Committee? '
8. Into what provinces Is Ireland divided?
9. What does nn all-blue weather flag Indi
cate?
10, What Is a gopher?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz '
1, The Entente flag In use on Austrian and
German ships, the finnl disposition ot
which has not jet been made. Is com
posed of whlto and blue, and a whit
stripe running horizontally.
2. La Follette represents Wisconsin ln"'the
Senate, .
S, "The ruins of Ypres will be left 'In sltuV
means that they will be left ns they
now are, that no portion of them wilt
be taken away for exhibition else
where, "In situ" literally menna In
place, ' i
4. Eugenie de MontlJo, former Empress of
France, Is ninety-three yearsoId.
5. There are forty-eight states In the Amer
ican, Union. ,
6. Hawthorne wrote "Generosity is the
flower of Justice." The passbgo It
from his 'American Notebooks."
7. The Income tax may be paid In four in
stallments, the first being due March
15.
8. Dr. 8amuel Johnson war called the
"Levtatlian of Literature."
9. There were twelve so-called """Minor
Prophets." k ,',, 1.
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