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SY. WE V JIM (.Ot ZEN'S?
"IX7E BKGIN the publication on this
rage today of a series of articles by
.tames Couzens, the rcfonr Mayor of
Detroit, who has led the iltuens of that
community In their campaign for better
government.
'Mr. Couzens is one of the most suc
cessful business men in the West. He is
'vice president of the Ford Motor Com
pany and has other large financial in
terests. He was public spirited enough
to accept the office of Police Commis
sioner and he cleaned up the city. In
the municipal election last fall he was
a candidate for the mayoralty on a non
partisan ticket, provided for in a new
cfty charter in the framing and adoption
of which he was largely influential.
Detioit, under the lead of this man,
has developed a civic conscience. In his
campaign for Mayor last fall Mr. Cou
pons devoted himself to urging the men
it? vote and to attacking the man who
votes selfishly for "grinding his own
ax." He was chosen by an overwhelming
..majority and he is, therefore, justified
when he says that the way his city reor
ganized its government was by "firing
he man with the ax to grind."
zWe commend what he has to say to
tne attention of the voters of this city.
It is extremely pertinent at this time
when we are all thinking of the changes
that ought to be made in the charter and
are talking of the number of officers who
ought to be elected and of the size of the
Councils and of the general purposes for
which charter revision is sought.
There is nothing that this community
needs just now more than u Jim Couzens
who has the vision and who has the busi
ness equipment and who has the will
ingness to devote his time and his ener
gies to lifting the city government to the
plane of Detroit's.
P THE FIRST TEST
WHOEVER is in doubt as to the senti
J" -Blent of the voters on the league-of-nations
idea should study the returns
from the special election in the Twenty
jsecorid Congressional District held on
Tuesday to choose a successor to the
late E. E. Robbins.
. Mr. Robbins, a Republican, was elected
to Congress in 1916 by a plurality of
5800, and last November he was re
elected -by a plurality of 9000. The dis
trict, comprising Butler and Westmore
land Counties, has been Republican since
the founding of the pai ty.
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Ij In the special election John H. Wilson,
Democrat, ran on a platform pledging
hls support of the league of nations.
John M. Jamison, his Republican oppo
nent, did not commit himself on the sub
ject beyond promising to follow the lead
of his party. What some of the Repub-
lican leaders thought the attituHn nf i,
-party, should be was disclosed on Tues-
a. Anv Tnrtrninre Vn tins mit.l.nt: . ..
...w. ..., ..m jiuuiitunun oi tne
Lodge resolutions with the names of
thirty-seven Republican Senatois as in
dorsee including the two Republican
Senators from this state.
Mr., Jamison was defeated and Mr.
"Wilson 'was elected by a plurality of
-about 400 votes, with 60 per cent of the
normal voto polled This change from
9000 Republican plurality on the issue of
the. support of the Democratic party in
1918 to 400 Democratic plurality in 1919
on the issue of support of a league to
make war difficult ought to bo instruc
tive to.Senator Lodge as well as to Senators-Penrose
and Knox.
, J&IERICA GETS ITS FIRST CALIF
frlCALIPH, or as the spelling reform-
era would have it, a calif, is pri
marily a successor of Mohammed and
secondarily any Mohammedan chief or
TaUgious ruler.
The Californians have persuaded the
Ftktofllce Department to order that the
.otfkiai abbreviation of the name, of their
Ute shall hereafter be Calif., instead of
'Cil.j for tho reason that Cal. is fro-
tymisreaa lor 101. ana man goes to
rado when it is intended for places
'the coast state.
,;8e California becomes Calif. And, with
MHM appropriateness, too, 'for "there Is
i ' neater variety of religions hospitably
ia)Urtlned within its boundaries than
those or. any oiner American
iwealth. It is next-door npighbor
i Oriest and receives an overflow of
. JaWatUaaaur, 'UmxucianisLs,
Parsees and the like, and its climate at
tracts the American propagandists of
numerous new and strange cults. As
the religious leader, if not ruler, of
America it stands supreme.
Huts off, und hurrahs and vivas, but
no hochs, for the first American calif.
THE GUILT OF JUDGES
AT COMING WAR INQUIRIES
Who f Artuall) Reponilile for the Tearful
Wafle and the Trapir Mistakes in
Trance and Tleliere?
INVESTIGATIONS into the conduct of
x the war will be plentiful from now on.
Sir Sam Hughes, former Minister of
Militia in Canada, has shocked the peo
ple of the provinces with the assertion
that many thousands of the dominion's
soldiers were sent needlessly to death in
vain attacks.
Congress before it adjourned was
working up a feverish enthubiusm for
army probes, which will be renewed at
the next .session.
In ewry country that participated in
the fight against Germany ugly and re
volting stories of failure und confusion
will be told. Most of them will be true.
But the tragedy of the matter is that
the great and terrible significance of
such revelations will be lost through the
efforts of men who will he nurc to mike
party or personal issues of war inquiries.
The lives of soldiers were wasted in
every battle. Men died terribly of dis
ease and neglect under every flag. On
every front they were sacrificed without
lesults. To suppose that It could have
been otherwise is to cherish hypocritical
delusions.
Almost from the first the war was
beyond tho control of the men who
fought in it. Actions of incredible vio
lence raged often on lines twenty-five
miles long. Victory and defeat became
matters of chance or accident. Certainly
thcie wus inefficiency in many commands
und many bureaus, and it ought to be
punished. But the greater fault must
always lie with those who permitted tho
war to be, since the war became a thing
that could not be managed, a stagger
ing, groping, disoidercd conflict in which
no human intelligence could maintain
nnything like perfect order or complete
co-ordination of units.
Unexpected weaknesses developed
under pressure too great for human en
durance, wild things were done in des
perate emergencies, systems of operation
devised with infinite care and pains broke
down and became piteously futile under
n combination of events that no one could
have foreseen.
It is because war itself is so hideously
wrong in an age of science and ma
chinery that the sleek probers will be
able to uncover horrors and failures
without limit when they hit down to
crucify the spirits of men whose great
est fault was that they were unequal to
strain ihat never should have been put
upon the-i.
War cannot be waged in an orderly
manner any more. It is not even fight
ing. It is a slow, deliberate pulping of
men by foundry methods.
Valor and daring no longer count for
victory. Those who have the deadliest
guns or the vilest gas or the greatest
weight of steel are the winners. Slaugh
ter occurs at unexpected places because
of these newer methods of fighting and,
of course, hospital methods prove inade
quate. The vastness of modern armies,
the scope of actions and the destructive
ness of modern artillery have made the
assured co-opeiation of essential units
impossible.
To assume that war can be waged
without brutal waste and endless mis
takes of judgment is to exalt a lie and
parade it as shining truth. And that is
what a good many of the war probers
will do.
Officers and departments that failed
to create perfection, out of chaos will be
virtuously arraigned' for judgment and
sentence will be pronounced upon them
by men whp stayed at home and escaped
the .lightmare realities of French battle
fields and, in the end, shouted down the
league of nations.
Americans, British, French, Italians
and Russians and the Germans and the
Austrians all fated in the war as men
fare in tempests. We were more for
tunate than the others. Still we have
Brest to complain of.
There are disturbing reports of brave
men caught in poison-gas waves in the
Argonne forests and of men in other
actions who were slaughtered because of
a failure of artillery support.
The British have Gallipoli and Lens.
French units were trapped many times
and wiped out for reasons that no one
ever can explain. What will the Ger
mans say if (ever they sit down to in
quire into tho Verdun campaign and the
500,000 casualties suffered by the Crown
Prince's army in that futile adventure?
And what of the 1,700,000' Rusalans Who
a'.cd like flies before tho revolution?
To organize solemn and elaborate in
quiries Into what it will soon be fash
ionable to call the mistakes of the war
is" to imply that war can be waged with
out mistakes and without cruel waste.
Yet war is in itself-nothing br' an or
ganized process of waste and sacrifice.
With modern w.edpons it b a confusion
of forces so vast as to defy the human
intelligence appointed to control it It
is for this reason that war must be
stopped.
One of the tragic intervals of peace
will come when Senators Reed, Poln
dexter and Sherman and the rest of the
critics sit down, like the Reeds, Poindex
ters and Shermans of every Allied coun-
try, to question and accuse the army
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EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA,
because, when they were caught. In Bomo
particularly bitter emergency, thoy wcro
not so great as God.
Minds that dwelt serenely in silk hats
at a far distance while hell was loose
over the earth arc best qualified, it
seems, to render Judgment in such in
stances. There will be something infinitely sad,
and at the samo time largely humorous,
about tho -war probes everywhere. They
Will mislead nul.Be nnlnlon nh tlma.
when clear thinking is cssentinl to the
present and future safety of the country.
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No one will question their wisdom and'
nuthorlty. Army officers are disciplined
to accept punishment in silence. They
will take their medicine, doubtless, and
believe themselves guilty. It is safo to
assume that nono of the soldiers to be
accused will 'vr establish a precodent
by rising in his chair and blasting his
inquisitors with a pronouncement of
those simple truths that everybody seems
afraid to utter.
If the accused soldier were ever to
turn accuser on his own account he could
make out a magnificent case against
some of the members of the United
States Senate who will have places
among his prosecutors.
"When you accuse me of wasting lives
or of letting men die because I couldn't
relieve them," he might say, "you are
playing the part of hypocrites. There
was no man on cither side of this war
who was not at some time asked to do
impos.-ible things and suffer intolerable
pain. The accusation rests not against
me, but against you and against every
one who is reconciled to war, as war Is
fought in these days.
"It was you, gentlemen, who sneered
at the efforts and hopes that may bring
peace in the world. You are ignorant,
but your ignorance doesn't excuso you.
Men who died of gas and disease; those
who were slaughtered because they
couldn't be helped; the wounded who
died without attendance; all the men who
endured the cold inferno of tho trenchis
have you not me to blame. Because I
have seen war and I hate it! You are
reconciled to war. And to be reconciled
to war is to be guilty!"
The, WashinRton res
Ix't's Cut t.turatcur who tried
the Grapefruit to tempt tho uppetlte
of -William riseott
with Grapefruit at seventy cents an order
may have started something that will
eventually curb his profits. Mr. Piggott,
who Is representing Seattle, at the con
ference of Governors and Mayors, says
lie can buy an acre of grapefruit land In
the West for that price. The Beattle man,
In tho exuberance of his humor, may have
exaggerated the cheapness of western
land (ever so many peoplo would be will.
Ing to pay seventy-five cents an acre), but
he strikes a popular chord when he assails
this particular brand of profiteering.
"Longfellow and
The Whlttler and Whit-
Modern Child! man," says John Gals
worthy In his essay
on "American and Briton." which he Is
to read nt tho Bellevue-Stratford tonight,
"can be read by the British child as simply
as Burns and Shelley and Keats." Tho
excellent British child Is undoubtedly far
more emancipated than the Juveniles of
Philadelphia If he Is permitted to browse
unchecked over the somewhat virllo
strophes of the Camden bard.
There ts at least sin
Pity cerity In the proc
the Blind lamation of the Pan
Germans In Bavaria
that their belief In the ultimate realiza
tion of a league of nations is as slender
as their belief In eternal peace. In this
they are perfectly logical. Their block
fitting mentality forbids them to believe
what their imperfect morality makes them
unable to understand.
There Is possibility of trouble at tho
peace table at tho substitution of Japan
ware for China.
rrrit
Would It be Just too terrible for any
thing to wonder if It was the woman voto
that mail .Vermont wet?
Well, it's an ft! wind, etc. The fill
buster put a "crimp In the Goro bill to
repeal the daylight-saving law.
The junkers' desiro to save the Kaiser
U bimply another evidence that the Pan
Germans need an extra panning.
"Whatever happens to the railroads, the
Kepubllcan Senators have given them
selves the privilege of shouldering tho
blame
The frequency with which the Bol
shevik! are repulsed nt Archangel would
eeem to Indicate that the Allies are unable
to Insult 'em.
The world has the choice of two inter
nationalisms that of the league of nations
and that of tho Bolshevik!. And there is
no place to" sidestep.
Maybe it gratifies tho short-sjhted
thirty-seven to rcallzu that while they hivo
not helped their own cause they have, at
least, hampered the President.
A study of the Income-tax blanks con
vinces us that Uncle Sam deserves tho
money for having thought of such a won
derfully complicated way of getting it.
As the eminent historian, Demosthenes
McClnlils, onco remarked concerning the
Roman general, Wllsonlus, "A strong chin
Is sometimes Indicative of Indifference to
chin music."-
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The desire of the Spartacans to effect
a Junction with the Bolshevik! Is the desire
of birds of a feather to flock together but
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REFORM IN DETROIT
It lias Been Brought About by
Getting Rid of the Man With
mli an Ax to Grind
Uy JAMES COVZESS
Mayor o Detroit
Jatnes Cnuien. hht m... ntA .
Mayor of Detroit on January H, has dc
YZV 0r "" Z'"' " Evening 1'ubllo
'"vr now rejorm ttattbroui
iiht nlmiir iM htm
ci!"' i,T?VrtM of'thrtv articles, tha first
of whlrh U printed today, reviews the his-
. u, mr chits rniio Charter, explains Us
main provliioni and sets forth thit Kind of
arguments-used to secure the active co-operation
of the voters in the work of better
tncnt. Mayor Cousins is on of the most
successful business men in the West, lie is
applying his buiiness ability to solving the
problems of city government. As Police
,.""' .." ,"rr he 'deeded in cleaning up tho
city. He is expected to give the community
a moitel government Under tha neto charter
wnicn mofcoj it romparatitrly easy for tho
"til ?Z '." ho,d "" (,flrf t "' departments
to strict accountability.
J DO not believe that tlicro 1h a city In
America With a healthlor nntHlrnl tnlml
tlmn Detroit hlnce alio lias divorced her
j c,ty elections from state and nation by
means of a nonpartlKan ehnriar nmvl.ln.,.
The present administration has been In
office only since January 14 and, thoreforc,
makes no claim to having brought about
many of tho Improvements in our govern
ment. The credit goes to the Individual
Dctrolter Ho has learned co-operation
and has changed his thought processes.
Again the Trench phrase, "C'cst la guerre,"
1h most expressive The war changed our
inuniclp.il political tendencies.
Detroit's otvic ofllclals are no better than
those of many other cities, but the tech
nical details of how Detroit assured her
bclf a better city government may aid other
communities scekinc an uwakened civic
conscience. Tortunately, Detroit was
arousing Itself in a governmental way
when , tho war overtook us. We had laid
the kev stones by a few legislative revisions,
hut perhaps they would have been lost sight
of without tho rejuvenation of the social
conscience.
rpilK war. period was llko the eaily.sea
son training days of a football outfit.
We had teamwork forced unon us and
found Its value. Wo have found out that
spiritually lit men arc Just as necessary
to civic progress In times of peace as tho
physically fit are to national In wartime.
It Is my aim to have Detroit known as a
city with a soul. It sounds idealistic, but
we have the chance of generations to
achieve our tfoat during this immedlato
post-bellum period.
As the recent Issue of the paper of tho
Detroit Bureau of Governmental Research
remarks, "Detroit's rededlcation problem la
to build a city which will Ins as worth
while to live In as It was to fight for."
Some day somebody Is going to give us a
synonym for patriotism which may be ap
plied to our love of city where there is
any.
Tr I wero to be asked to explain how De-
trolt has reorganize'd its government, In
ten words I would say, "It has fired the
man with on ax to grind." Of course, the
ability to accomplish such a: thing goes
right back to what we have been talking
about You have to educate the citizens; to
cease casting a ballot for somebody be
cauie he thinks that fellow will do some
thing for him when he gets Into office.
The lesson which (he Germans taught
Americans the greatest advertisers in tho
world on the use of propaganda ought to
remain with us for a long time. I would
like to see every city and town In the
United States start to drive tho man with
an ax to grind to tho bUBhes. It can be
done, because that was the Job Detroit ac
complished. Only In this way can we
hope to have city officials without obliga
tions in the odious sense of the word.
The real American citizen does not want 'a
favor if he does not believe it Is being
extended to any one else.
MX BASIC suggestion, therefore, Js to get
this propaganda to your -voting popu'
latlon and to your nonvoting population'
through every possible source of publicity
before the awakened consciousness. of war
days is lost. The heatless, whcatless, .meat
less, gasless days of last year wero the
greatest "holidays" America has ever
known. They celebrated the coming of
tho "Do yourself as you would have others
do" era. We learned to think for the first
time of people whom we had never, met
and to weigh their rights In our considera
tions Just as wo did those of folks In the
Fame block.
It Is my earnest belief and conviction
that If this conscience can bo aroused in
any municipality and tho man's ballot pro
tected from tampering fingers' after it Is
cast, that city Is bound to have the tpe
of government its best citizens aspire to.
Detroit's experience proves that It can bo
done.
TAKE caro of the city's soul and con
science nnd ever thing else takes 'care
of Itself, Is my conviction.
Of course, Detroit has been aided not
only by tho unity which the war engen
dered, but also by state prohibition. IIow
ever, tho rest pf the nation Is to have pro
hlbltlon and, as remarked before, American
cities have the opportunity of generations
to raise their political morale.
WE ABE all negligent who have to do
with city government It we do not take
advantage of our opportunity. We are
losing one of th'o greatest benefits of ,tho
war' If wo do not seo that our city govern
ments profit -'by the citizen's present ten
dency to think of others as ho never dld
before. Tho columns of discussion of the
league of nations, based upon the theory
that the strong shall think of tho weak,
may haye their reflection In our municipal
relations If we only arouse ourselves,
We. have been living In an age where
man's will to do as, he pleased has "been
unclrcumscrlbed. It hearkens back to the.
fenceless " days of pioneer times. t The"
greater part of tho better' thinking wori.tf U
agreed that the act of one country affects
all others, and so Detroit hag learned to
know that the act of one Individual affects
all others.
If this gospel can bo Imparted to a city's
Industrial leaders as well as-to its munici
pal executives, Ambassador Bryce's former
arraignment of our cities must to with
drawn. iThe second, article in the aerie will op-
tees Mt Hmfl i,
FRIDAY, MARCH
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TRAVELS IN PHILADELPHIA
By Christopher Morley
A SLICE OF
ABOUT a quarter to 9 In tho morning,
-at this tlmo of jear, a sllco of our
pale primrose coldred' March sunlight cuts
tho bleak air across the Junction of Broad
antt Chestnut streets nnd falls like a shin
ing knife blade upon the low dome of the
Glrard Trust. Building. Among those tow
ering cliffs of masonry it Is hard to see
Just where this shaving of brightness slips
through, burning In tho gray-lilac bhadows
of that stdno valley. But there It Is, and
It always bets mo thinking.
MAN lias traveled far In his strange pil
grimage nnd solaced himself with
many lean and brittle husks. It isy curious
to think how many of his Ingenious Inven
tions are merely makeshifts to render tol
erable the Hardships and limitations he lias
Imposed upon himself .In tho name of
"civilization." How often his greatest,
cunning Is expended In devising some pa
th'etjo substitute for the Joy that once was
his by birthright! He shuts himself up In
beetling glbraltars of concrete, and thinks
with pride of the wires, fans and pipes
that- brine him .light, nlr and warmth.
'And jet suhshlno and sky and. the glow of
.blazing faggots weie once common to all!
Ho tirJks to Ills friends by telephone, telei
graph or machine-written letters instead'
of in tho hei.rt-easlng face-to-fnee of more
leisured times. Ho Invents.printlng presses
to do his thinking for him, reels of trans
lucent celluloid to thrill him with vicarious
romance. Not until the desiro of killing
other men came upon him dd ho perfect
tho loveliest of his toys tho airplane. How
far, In his perverse flight from tho natural
sourc.es of Joy. ha's his lovo of trouble,
brought him! '
'So It Is that one poor, thin, thwarted
filament of sunlight, .falling for a few pre
cious minutes across a chasmed city street,
seems so dazzling n boon and surprise that
ho posses enchanted bq his darkened pave
ment. Man, how easily you are pleased!
THERE any one, In our alternate
mc
moods of bafflement and exultation, who
has not brooded on 'this queer divergence
ot,Llfeand Happiness? .Sometimes we feel
that we have been trapped: that Life,
which, oncoppned a vista so broad and
golden, has somehow ! Jostled and hurried
us Into ii corner, Into a narrow treadmill'
of meunlngless' gestures that exhaust our
spirit and our mirth. In recent years all
humanity has been herded In one vast cage
of confusion and dread from which there
seemed no egress. Now vo a.fre 16wly,
bitterly, perplexedly grbplng our way ouf
of If. And perhaps in the difficult years of
rebuilding each man will-make some effort
to architect his existence anew, creeping
humbly and hopefujly a llttje. closer to the
fountains jot. beauty and strength that Ho
all about us. When did wo learn to cut
ourselves apart from earth's miracles of
refreshment? To wall ourselves In from
tho sun's great laughter, to forget the
flamboyant pageantry of the world? Earth
lias wisdom for all our follies, healing for
ali our woun'ds, dusk and music for all,
our peevishness. Who taught us that ws
could do without her7 Can you hear the
skylark through a telephone or rntrh Hint
1 lattsky- wMhw tb'lnf ia '. I
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GETTING BACK ON THE
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graph? Can you keep your heart young
lo a row of pigeonholes? Will you forgo
the surf of ocean rollers to bo serf to u
rolltop desk?
1ITTLE by little, and In haphazard ways,
J wisdom comes to a man. No matter
how resolutely he shuts his ears, Truth
keeps pricking within him. What a fu
tility, what a meanness and paltriness of
living this Is that would send us hence
with all. Life's great secrets unlearned, her
ineffable beauties unguessed, her great
folio only hastily glimpsed. Here Is 'this
spinning ball for us to marvel at, turning
In aa ever-changing bath of color and
shadow, blazed with sunshine, drenched
with silver rain, leaning through green and
orange, veils of dusk, and we creep with
blinkered ejes along narrow alleys of un
seeing habit, ftero Is tho great book
spread before us day by day. Chapter Six
teen: How the Surf Comes Crumbling Inr
or Chapter Ninety: Birch Tree's by Moon
light; or Chapter Three: April Rainfall In'
a City fqurtre-7-for this author's volume
clrculatesudlthbout us, and may be -found
on the hflrjfblest stall. Transcribe these
passages on the pages of your heart, where,
you.'hav'o found space (I'll warrant) for.
much more irrelevant matter. .What wlil
It profit us to keep a .balance at the bank
If wo can't keep a balance of outh and
sanity In our souls? Of what avail to ship
carloads of goods north, east, south and
west, If we cannot spare tlmo to know our
own dreams, to exchango our doubts and
yearnings with our friends and neighbors?
TN EVERY man's heart there Is a secret
J- nerve that ansvyerqUothls vibration of
beauty. I can Imagine no nfore fascinat
ing privilege than to. bo allow ed'to ransack
the desks of a thousand American business
men, men supposed to be hard-headed, ab
sorbed In brisk commerce. ' Somewhere in
each desk one would find some hidden be
trayal of that man's; private worship. It
might become old newspaper cllppingr per
haps a poem that had once touched him.
for oven the humblest poets are stout par
tisans of reality. -It might be 'afphoto
graph of children playing In the surf, or a
little box of ftshjhooks, or a s.olled old time,
table of some queer backwoods railroad or
primitive .steamer . service that had once
carrled'hlm1 Into his land of heart's desire
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I, REMEMBER a friend- ot mlile, a man
much' perp(exod by the .cares of earth
but slow to give utterance to his Inner and
tenderer Impulses, tailing mo how he first
grasped thejnt-anUig and( value of these In
scrulabj?, powers of virtue, that hurl Jho
whole unlyersi dally around our heads In
an unerring orblfv-"Far some reason' or
other hq was writing a book, I think, and
sought a,pl4ce'of,nUlet-0i"had 'drifted for
somo,wirfier'wecksxtojio.ihoro 6f;a south
ern bay'doW In' Florida.' When iiojcams
back Ji t6ld me about It. It tyus, several
yeurs ago.'but'l remember the bdd'look In
Ills eyes as he tried to descrlbq his experi
ence. "I never know until now," lie said,
"what sunshine and sky meant. I had al
ways taken them for granted before." Ho
told me of the strange sensation of. light-
)mh and quiet swlUnrUuat Mad Coo44
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through him In that land where Natur
writes her' benignant lessons' so plainly
that a)l m'us"t draw' their own Conclusions.
He told me of sunset flushes over long,
purple Waters, and of lying on" sand beaches
wrapped"' In sunshine, all the problems of
human l Intercourse soothed away In a
naked and unquestioning eontent. ---What
he said was very little; but watching In his
eyes I could guess what had happened.
He had found more than sunshine, and color
and an arc of violent sea. Ho had found
a new philosophy, a new strength and,,
realization of the worthiness of lifo.
TT IS strange that men should have toibe
reminded of these 'things! How pa
tiently, how persistently, with what dogged
and misdirected pluck, they have taught
themselves to ignore the elemental bless
ings of mankind, subsisting Instead on pale
and wizened and Ingenious substitutes. 'It
is llko a man who should, shoulder for a
place at a quick lunch counter when a
broad 'ahd leisurely banquet table was
spread free Just around the corner. .The
dajs tick by, as busy, as fleeting, as full
of empty gestures as a moving picture
film. We crowd old age upon" Ourselves
and run out to embrace It, for, age is not
measured by number of days but by ,th
exhaustion of eaoh day. Twenty days lived,
at slow pulse, In harmony with earth's love
liness, are longer than two hundred
crowded with feverish appointments and
disappointments. ...Many, a man. has, llye'd -fifty
or sixty hectic years and .never jet
learned thcunreckonable endlessness of on.o"
day's loitering, measured only by tho gra
cious turning of earth and sun. Some one
often asks me, "Why don't j-oti wind the
clocks?" But In those rare moments when
I am bane clocks do not Interest inc.,
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. How many Presidents of -tho 'United
States have 'there been? , ..
2. Who was "Ik Marv'cl"? l
3. What are. ember a,i)d rogation days?"
4. Of-"what city was Edwin Forrest,, ths.
Celebrated American tragedian, ' 4
natlvo? ,v
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B. Where Is Luray C'aie? t ,
C. Hoy many kings of England were nam
ed James?
7. What wicked queen was known as th.
"She-Wolf of France"? ,
s: What Is an equerry? , .
9, What are 'carnivore'? ''''
10. What part of the land surface of tha
globe lies the most below sea-level?
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An8weri(lo Yesterday's Quiz ' r
1. Little Hock. Is tho capital of ArkanVjs, '
2. Edith Cavell .wan executed by tho der-
mans In October, 1915. '
3. Admiral Sims was commander of the
American fleet In European waters,,
during the war.
t. The vernal equinox begins, on March-21
at 11:19 a. m. .'
E, Tho Nbel peace prize In 1917 wis won
by the. International Red Ci-obs. of
Geneva, , ,,
6. Richard Ijvelace, the English "poeW
wrote "To Lucasta, on Going to,th
Wars." ' , A
7. Palm Sunday, this year, falls on April 13.
8. Benjamin Franklin was born 'In Boston.
9. Maarten Moartens was the pen-name., oi
J. M. W. van der Poorten-Hchwarti.
a nineteenth century Dutch .novelist,
who wrote In English.
10. Nine Presidents f tha United States
teryed njore than MtsUrm lnow-
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