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USING MODERN METHODS
VfO ONE need be sm prised that the
' women teachcis me organizing n
labor union.
i They have been asking for n decent
vag6 for many years, and have been
; ..'asking in vain. They have been told
that Mine uns no monev for hum 'Iho
k political officeholders with a "pull" and
y vole have had their pay increased.
'01 )n etin timmnn haim lnn .nrmt K
Mcchatiicb who form unions secure an
Increase in their pay to help when living
coats go up.
Now, when the teachers get thoir
union formed and affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor we hall
Bet what we shall e.
A highly organized and actisc group
of citizens has secured the adoption of
a constitutional amendment this winter.
He would be rah, indeed, who should
iay that a highly organued body of
Women cannot get whatever it aita foi.
BEVOiND THE MAYORALTY
tt XST FREELAND KENDRICK, merely
I ' mentioned bv Senator Vnrp nc
fctbeinsr of mayoralty "type," confesses to
jjtlittle concern about that charactcriza-
?'4tnA TTa lian MM nflr rP ,.Mf fn.(1iin.
- WVO. 11V (.CO Ull Z1I1W. VSL VUI T lUl'IIUJIU
authority to fill, if, as he admittedly
expects, he is elected imperial potentate
T of the Mvstic Shrine for North Amenpn
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at m m-i.c.
si: ir-.i.i i ui i i i .. ... ..
rfe juiiicu, ciiuuvu, uununeu, Dounn inio
S3aucy doubts and fears," the post of
Da Mayor of Philadelphia may embarrass-
jj jngly be, as Rudolph Blankenburg wa3
unfortunately forced to realize. Com
pared with all the northern half of this
continent, the one hundred or so square
' miles of civic domain here is small.
Mr. Kendrick is obviously thinking in
halves of. hemispheres, and not muni
cipally. Perhaps it was breadth of view
which aDDcaled to Mr. Vari whn ho
f specified his "type," but it is more likely
map ne momentarily torgot the compre
hensive distinction which the "potential"
T( canuiuaie awaits.
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V DRY WORLD "
rnHE tegolution committing the local
LS " ' Methodist tpiscopal Conference to
K support of the movement to banish alco-
oi irom xne wnoie worm will doubtless
.'be adopted.
& Thls church has been one of the most
eortsiatent advocates of total nbstinence
frtr fflanv vpsrs Thprji waa n iIma .Unn
it condemned the use of tobacco In any
fi TAyi anil a AfAttinsllat' m!m!m ...!. . I
tfj wii niiu n ...t.v,(v,ii3b tjiiiiiokCi WIIU U3UU
fe it was subjected to discipline. We be-
r eve uii, me uars nave oeen let down
iBOBiewhat for the relief of thone who
feilnd moking a relief to tired nerves,
(.-WW! 'olnnlinlin Jrlnlrn n ,:il 1 I
K r """"v"' "'" own cuiiuciiineu.
ew- ' ine success or me prohibition move-
K nnt in the United States most natur-
t ally encourages all prohibitionists to
hope that it can be made equally suc-
V ccssful in every other country. The dlffi-
jCUltics m the way do not discouiage
them. .
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UtaE ARE READY 'JO LISTEN
galTJHE best thing that can happen is for
(.ttne aebate on the league of nations,
rxuegun in tne senate, to continue befoic
ip larger audiences in other places.
tin -viwviini vuu aiuiuuii(;t;nieilt inai
rktha subject in uublic with Prcslclnt
ri.0well, of Harvaid, comes the report
fevthat faepators Knox und Hitchcock have
3aurtea mj u joint uuuute in rscwarK.
W4W tinnn thnt: tbiu in nnltr tti, KAr.:.
Kjuinff of a Heries of similar discussions.
tf..i,i'.-. .4 X ----- -.. u u..- n,- UlUIII'
jtffpeople are seeking information. If
M&draft of the covenant is defective,
r'want to know how ft- ran I.- ?..
They will listen with onen minds
wS'k critics.
Sri .''Jut if any man is opposed to the whole
ifeleairtte idea and seeks to prevent its
Pmllzation by finding fault with the
toyjirupvaiuvn jiuyv uciuiu nig reaco ton-
rejice, the people will be quick to dls-
wmi- viiu uiiiiiiua ui vne vriucism.
'iJilt'lii morally certain thnk hnt, ;.
l . a ,'ti.. . .- an.l T.A,I. .,lll Mnr !
Speeches outside of the Senate the
mope that a workable league can
eu.
CABLES TO NOWHERE
1TJ1 respect to those transoceanic
eblea. which Britannia colled com-
Mtafely about herself during the war,
Jimkt: Sam is in a position somewhat
to that of Mark Twain's "adeyed
m'M collected echoes. A most
f'iWWSwtfWMraun4T chasm was
property owner took away the cliff on
his side.
America today has an interest in the
western terminus of the cable formerly
running to the Azores and thence to Ger
many, But as a war measure the British
cut thnt line and made a new end to it
In Halifax. The- wires which we con
trol lead hopelessly to the mid-Atlantic,
and arc about as much uic to us as his
one precipice was to the echo specialist.
Similar tnctici wcie pursued with the
cable between Libcr.a and Brazil, both
of which countries wcie neutral when
the British incision was made. That
cable, now tied up with a new terminus,
was given to the French Government.
It is an ancient tiick to claim that a
status crcatrd by an eigcncy of war
should be recognized in peace, but to
the present British contentions it is
doubtful if America will ngrer. Cer
tainly some adjustment of a condition
whereby this country controls n cablu
leading nowhere should be made if light
Is to prevail oor flagiant aggicssion in
the new era.
DESTIN"! STILL IDIM,
THE PRESIDENT IN PRIS
Time N Swiftly Proving the talidit of
Hi Plain and the Veil for a
? thrui' of Nation
AiniEN President Wilson lands in
' France today he will go with new
endowments of strength to the task nt
Pans. The forces of destiny are still
upon his side.
The Reeds and the Shermans aic but
thin voices in the present clamor. The
leally powerful enemies of the President
and the league of nations are behind the
scenes in Europe. They are the hidden
groups who hold that their own peculiar
interests air above those of the state
the internationalized b.uikmg cliques, the
adventurcis in empire, the munition
makers and the exploiters of misery.
These aic tho powcis which the Paris
Conference is trjing to disarm, and they
have had a sobering interval since Mr.
Wilson sailed for Ameiica
The ground has locked under their
feet and the akies have been filled with
omens to prove that a detent and perma
nent peace is imperative. They have
realized that it is the faith of the peo
ples of Europe in the United States and
in its chief representative that actually
is holding their civilization togcthei, and
they urc in a mood to listen to reason.
If the President returns, as ho piob
ably will, with a league of nations plan
in which the Momoe Doctrine is ex
plicitly us well as tacitly sustained it
will not be because of tho Senate criti
cism, but because some of the old world
statesmen have had time to look about
them and to consider the consequences of
a failure at Paris.
From the first Mr. Wilson has insisted
merely on n peace drawn in tho interest
of the people rather than in the interest
of special groups and for that he has
been tailed dangerous, and even pro
German. He has realized what every
rational man must perceive now, that out
of the present turmoil in Europe there
can come only nnaichy or a new tyrant
nation if the new international agree
ments do not finally eliminate the possi
bility of wais of conquest.
It is reasonable to assume that the
President hns proceeded on the assump
tion that neither alternative would be
safe for America. Yet there are Semi
tors in the United States who still insist
that they do not know what he is diiv
ing at.
But we are learning, it is easy to
recall the wild tears that were shed in
newspaper editorials, the hands that
were wrung in print, the cries of outrage
and honor that arose among editors and
politicians who vowed that the world was
coming to an end when Mr. Wilson first
sailed for the Peace Conference. That
sort of thing is in the past. It is inter
esting to observe that the storm of criti
cism from the tory side in every Euro
pean country has abated and oven the
reactionaries now admit the wisdom of
the ieague-of-nntions plan. Are I hey
too late, as they have always been?
Have they plotted and quibbled too long?
Is peace of any sort to be impossible for
years in the old world?
The unhappy soil of Euiope has
always bied tyrants of one sort or an
other. The tyrants who menace the con
tinental countries now are the half-mad
leaders of Bolshevism. Like those who
preceded them, they are exploiting the
ignorance and the unhappincss of op
pressed peoples. The fools and scoun
drels in older governments are, in the
final analysis, to be blamed for this new
affliction, since their crimes and their
eriors have made the foundation upon
which the lunatics like Trotsky can rear
structures of their fantastic pretension.
If there had been no war there would
have been no Bolshevists.
If the diplomatists at Paris could have
made it plain at the beginning of their
sessions that a fixed peace was to be
established in thp world, the hysteria
that Is devastating parts of Europe
would be dying out now instead of
spreading and gathering force.
The simple fact of the matter, alieady
obvious to any one who has seen Europe
at close quarters since the war ended, is
that the masses in the different countries
are heartily and properly sick of hating
one another. They themselves are at
tempting a 6ort of i conciliation, which
their representatives at Paris have
worked overtime to prevent. Yet the
American policy of pacification in Rus
sia and a fair deal for the German peo
ple was called heresy "by the old
fashioned statesmen when the sessions
of the Paris conference wero beffun,
, The wisdom and the necessity for some
such policy is acknowledged now every
where. On the whole, Mr. Wilson's
sojourn In Europe has been vastly bene
ficial. He showed the European diplo
matists a way outof the appalling blind
And If they had been readier lo follow
him their own outlook now might not be
so gloomy as it is.
The American critics of the Presi
dent's European program would bo
wiser to wake up and wish him luck.
He is one of the few men now striv
ing to steady the faith and tencw the
courage of harassed and doubting mil
lions in every European countiy.
For Europe will have either a league
of nations or years of tho devastating
mania of Bolshevism. If driven to it
we might withdraw utterly from Europe
and leave tho older nations to their fate.
But Bolshevism will be only a crazy
flash in history. It -s ahcady tcarfng
down all the social machinery which has
been sot up by centuries of experience to
meet the complicated needs of life in all
tho populated areas of the globe. Wher
ever it spreads it will leave weariness
nnd destruction and discouragement.
Given a start in Europe, It will make the
way casj for any new tyrant who could
get an army together for a career of
plunder and conquest.
SOGS AND THE LAW
rPIIE quality of the pioposcd "state
-- song" which the Legislature has
turned down does not seem to have been
high, but even apnrt from literary or
musical considerations, there was wis
dom in tho lawmakers' decision. Manu
factuiod sentiment makes a distressing
exhibit Patriotic songs self-consciously
wi ought a-c usually sorry products.
Rouged do l'lslr was unaware that he
was ci eating the most famous hymn of
libnty when ho penned the "Marseil
laise" nor did Francis Scott Key fore
see a legislative enactment when ho com
posed the "Star Spangled Banner" im
mediately after tho British repulse at
1 ort Mdlfcnry. When these songs were
officially adopted by tho French and
American Governments, icspectively, the
people had accepted them and the legal
acts of recognition were mere formali
ties. "Dixie" was a minstiol ditty of the
".Iim Crow" das and Belgium's fervent
"La Brabantonne" also oiiginatcd un
pietcntiously in a thcatio. For all its
royal sanction, Spain's "Marcha Real,"
a stiff and stodgy affair, enjoys no real
standing as a national anthem. The air
whith all Spaniards know best and feci
to be typical of their land is Yradicr's
coloiful and rhythmic "La Paloma" and
tho remainder of the world concurs with
their indorsement.
If any song spontaneously and popu
latiy Peniisylvanian were discoverable in
this commonwealth it would be entirely
fitting for the Legislature to authorize
its official adoption. But no such air
and text exist. Years ago, perhaps,
"The Blue Juniata" might have qualified.
Today, however, many Pennsylvanians
have no idea how it goes.
Harrisburg has done well to repudiate
machine-made sentiment just as it has
displayed restraint in not establishing,
as so many American commonwealths
have done, a state flower. If one were
inevitably characteristic as for instance,
the thistle of Scotland oV tho Indian
paintbrush of Wyoming, the public would
reall7o that without a fiut. State or
national songs or emblems do not derive
their vitality from the statute books.
RESTORING THE GEM TO THE
OCEAN
TpiVE years ago traveling Americans
of even the most assertive proclivi
ties weie inclined to feel chastened and
embarrassed in foreign harbors. Flags
of seaboard nations, big and little, took
the breeze, but ships bearing the Stars
and Stripes were conspicuously lacking.
An occasional "windjammer" or a whaler,
most of the "Ameiican" crew of which
would converse in "Portugce," were
about the only evidences of the maritime
dignity of the United States visible in
the busy ports of, say, Santos, Colombo
or Singapore. "Columbia, the gem of
the ocean," was a phrase of the most
florid falsity.
The taint of hyperbole has been eradi
cated. The broadside Of statistics just
disclosed by tho United States shipping
board colors tho patriotic declaration
with the convincing hue of fact. These
figures are not "dry," but are indicative
of a romantic chapter of progress that
has few paiallcls in history. They pro
claim the prodigious accomplishment
wheieby 4C per cent of all shipping now
plying between our own and foreign
shores is of American registry.
Representatives of Columbia's won
drous commeice fleet, comprising one
fifth of the total sea-going tonnage of
the world, may bo found today in Auck
land or in Cape Town, in Bombay or in
Valparaiso.
When tho army and navy return to
their original owners the vessels they are'
now operating the American commer
cial fleet will have a total tonnage of
nearly four million. Not the least of the
miracles of the war is the ubiquitous
merchant marine under the Stars and
Stripes. Our commerce-carrying emi
nence, destroyed by tho Civil War, has
been restored as a result of necessities
arising in the greatest of all conflicts.
When our citizens begin roving again
ships of the most romantic symbols of
power will tighten tho homo ties.
Uneasy apologies will be out of order,
providing, of course, that the nation
realizes its responsibilities with a peace
shipping progiam which will render per
manent our thrills of pride.
Longlns- for the Tllvl
On llin ora in place of chilly
Waltlnc List Amerongren, William
Ilohenzollern ex-
piesses a decided liking for a warm clime.
K not at this precise moment at least on
some future day he should be satisfied. "If
It be not now, yet It will come."
About all the Hog Island spies seem
to have done Is to have emotionally stirred
the late Imperial German Government
with the announcement that America was
operating tne greatest siupautiainff plant
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THE COWNSMAN
Precedent
A."1
PrtlSCnDrJNT li a model, an example.
priority, a aomcthln that haa gone
before, to which distance nnd a want of dis
cernment may give a ipetlci of enchantment
A precedent la the correct thing, the proper
wrinkle, tho thing that has always been
done or cIsr something which la not done
nnd therefore can never be done Precedent
la highly respectable llko old people for
what they are supposed to have been; like
thoee ndmlrablo links In the chains of pedi
gree, memorablo only aa the sons of lomt
bodies carrying down Illustrious blood to
nobodies Precedent is n blaro on n forest
trail which dclarea that there la only one
way up the mountain; or a signpost on the
roid which may. get overturned nnd point
the wrong way. There la something aafo
Bl.ible. ndimantlno about a precedent. It la
not lightly to be shaken, much lean set
naldc. Djnnmlte or TNT must bo resorted to
to move It, bed rock scarred and aliattcred
In the process; for precedent. In Its concrete
refuges nnd emplacements, predicates aolld
Ity. atolldlty, changclosanci", permanence
ind tho rigidity of death
rpHt; lime-honored thing lo do with a prcce-
dent Is to follow It, this is muth the
easiest vav in days of Intellectual twilight,
with the clouds of doubt over ua and tho
fogs of cowardice drifting in. we may grope
our way from the glimmering lamp-post of
ono precedent to the glimmering lamp-post
of the next, and to move on This Is per
haps not precisely what Tcnnyaon meant
when he described freedom aa slowly broad
ening down from precedent to precedent,
though no one could question the freedom, at
least, of such a broadening process from
nnj thing smacking of levity or haste. Tho
Gownsman, cnrs ago, was wandering on
a narrow sunken lane. In the Wordsworthlan
rounliy, with hedgea on either side and no
crosspatli in sight, and a flock of sheep
came toward him, driven the opposite way
to his Un paused and stepped to the hedge
so as not to Impede their way. But tho
bell-wether, beholding tho unprecedented
sight of a I inky American trudging In full
view of Skidd.iw. became terror-stricken,
boiled for the hedge executed a creditable
Icjp over it and was Immediately followed
by the entire fock I'xcept for the bell
wether, that flock was following precedent;
In tho bcll-wothei It v.iu onlv panlr And the
shepherd, although what he said seemed
natural and tittered under the stimulus of
powerful emotion, i.in hardly bo said to
have used language which was truiv Words
worlhhin pilKCKDHNT Is, after all, merely habit,
nnd Ihere aic bad habits as well as good
habits There ate, moreover, habits suited
to one time of life, whith adhered to, become
absurd So there are precedents which seem
to guldo us fo" a time which becomo out
worn and iiupersedednas the times change
and wo in them There was a timo when the
formation of the Ilepubilcan party wan an
unprecedented Impertinence, and there was
ii happy golden age before tho flood when
thero wero no Democrats. The Monroe Doc
trine Ins alwas been so unprecedented that
no Congress his ever et been willing for
mally to approve It, although tho ancient
Greeks fought nnd whipped Persia on the
original Monroe Doctrine that only Greek
should quarrel with Greek In Kurops and
Asia Minor If we will but look at It rightly
there Is nothing unprecedented under the sun
or, on tho other hand any precedent which
change and progress may not render obso
lete and baneful.
AMERICAN" procedure in government has
been criticized, not without some justice
on the acorei that the education of our politi
cians where they possess education is so
largely legal in its bias The Gownsman la
not apprised of the percentage of Senators
nnd Itepreneritutlvca in Congress who are
members of the bar, but he will venture a
surmise that It Is exceedingly high. Tow the
lavvjer bv lila training Is n man of prece
dent, follower of authority, a student of
the past, No Institution of rrnn can compare
with the common law In Its fulfillment of
Tenn) son's dictum cited above, for no Insti
tution has so broadened down from prece
dent to precedent; perhaps It might be
added, nor any so slowly, for who knows
not the proverbial delays of tho law? The
Gownsman holds no brief against lawyers
or the law; on the whole, much can be said
In favor of thlB one stronghold of leisure
and of leisurely procedure in the midst of
the whirl and haste of the time. But when
the majority of those who make our laws
are accustomed to think Bnd act mainly In
the terms of precedent we must not expect
from them any unusual receptivity to new
Ideas, any great cordiality to anything In the
nature of Ideals or toward things as yet to
be tried In the mechanlpm of our govern
ment the Senate la not the dynamo. It Is
unreasonable to expect motive power of an
Instrument constructed essentially to put on
the brakes. The Senate performs lis func
tion, as a rule, remarkably well, though It Is
somewhat provoking to have the brakes
jammed on when the nation wants to move
forward.
APItOPOS of all this, we cannot but wou
. der whether some of the prejudice which
our Chief Executive has encountered In his
own country may not be referable to just
this As a historian and a student of polity
rather than of politics, Mr WilEon's training
has been less directed toward ascertaining
precedent than toward the discovery of
principle. And be It remarked that principle
Is quite as practical as precedent and, when
once discovered and applied, Infinitely above
any mere march In the footsteps of the past
For the application of principle implies
leadership, whilst any one can successfully
play the time-honored game of follow my
leader. In short, there are three things to
do with a precedent: ou may follow It,
break with It or lay a new precedent a
surer, a truer, a saner guide for the future.
To follow a precedent merely because it Is
a precedent la to remain stationary a
uelfish laggard Impeding the march of time.
To break with a rule applicable to the past
but Inapplicable today Is to exercise tho
judicial functions of a discriminating mind.
While to make new precedents to guide those
to come Is to realize that leadership which
all the world expects of America, it must
not be said that we, the youngest of ths
children of, Abel, could have been content
with a iiegallve answer to Caln.'a rhetortaaU
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Ev ery time a foreign poet comes to Phil
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message of deathless beauty has meant to
their parched bosoms.
And yet we have a poet just around the
corner, Mr. James Edward Richardson, who
has written some of the finest poetry ever
produced In this city. His book, "The
Porcst Altai," takes honorable rank among
the most notable xolumes of recent verse
In our language. Get wise U what Phila
delphia is doing!
We are one of those who never can ie
member what are technically known as
"good stories." Each time we hear one,
knowing that we have forgotten all the
others we have ever heard, we vow that
we will remember this one, anyway, and
spring It In our family circle to fasten It
In our memory. Yesterday Doo Hostetter
told us a good one about a mongoose, but
It put out of our bead two excellent yarns
that Tom Daly and Dill Sjkes had sprung
when we took lunch with those laconteurs
the other Uay.
Jim Whltall Is back fiom England and
has been telling us about tho 450-year-old
cottage he has bought down In Sussex, It
looks to us like a very delightful plsoe to
live, far from the madding Jazz. ,Jim Is
busy translating some stories from the
French of Gerard de Nerval. Wef are
going to suggest that he translate some of
this department Into English.
The captain of the Annam, who "hove
to" while the President's ship went by,
will be dismayed to learn. It ho hears any
of Senator Borah's speeches, that by so
doing he undoubtedly Impaired his sover
eignty. Oeorge Creel has "returned to private
life." We lope private life has been con
sulted about this.
In any case, private life has no right to
hide George under a bushel. Now he be
longs to the sages.
Detk Mottoes
"Few pass through life without being
seen onco or ofteneri-at a disadvantage,"
Thaddeus, In Plnero'a comedy, "The
Thunderbolt." -
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VERSION OF "THE WATCH ON THE RHINE"
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seen for triumphal arches, tho Kaiser will
not be tho only arch-crlmtnul.
Philip Glbbs Has in a dispatch to his
London paper: "In splto of a central heat
ing sjstem which In hotels, restaurants
and railway trains makes the veins swell
In my forehead until I gasp like a stickle
back jerked out of water, they (the Ameri
cans) dwell, mentally, In a freer air than
that of England "
Mut, as we tried to explain to Mr. Glbbs
the other day, this has been an exceptional
winter. He should have visited us last
year.
One particularly atrocious form of cru
elty Is practiced by one of our friends, who
calls us up every now and then to explain
that he is Just leaving for Atlantic City to
loaf for a few dajs, and tries lo persuade
us how caBy It would be for us to accom
pany him
So Wilhelm Is to have the "moral re
sponsiblllt" of the war fastened upon him,
but not tho legal responsibility.
Those of us who were once small boys
may remember the feeling of good cheer
that spread through our base bosoms when
Eomo one said, "Now I shall not punish
ou, but you must remember that you are
In disgrace."
Requiem for George Creel
George, old man, thy warfare's o'er,
Now returned to live In private:
Public life is such a bore,
You are lucky to survive It.
Have no fear for your career,
Energy and manly push'll
Mako jour beacon reappear
From beneath this passing bushel.
An Ingenious wag created a mild sensa
tion in our office the other day by an
nouncing that one of tho peccadtlloos at
the zoo had ha,d a baby, and that If we
hurried a photographer up there maybe
we tould get a picture.
The photographer waa njmost ready to
start when some one had tho presence of
mind to look up peccadilloes in a dictionary
of ilora and fauna.
A baby peccadillo, suggests II. T. C, Is
almost entirely harmless.
I Perversity
I will not write a word to spilng;
I will not to her chirping sing
Of birds in April on the wing;
I will not write a word to spring.
The dusty awlrl of winds, In spring,
The green-tipped Iiuds on xlnes that tllng.
And clouds that checkered brightness
bring,
I will not write a word to Bprlng,
The stray white flakes a whispering
Of bloom or snow down-Idling,
The sun then sheets of sleet that sting;
I will not write a word to spring!
DOUGLAS C. WENDELL,
Never mind, Douglas; you will, sooner
or later. We alt do. SOCHATES.
The official translator at the Purls con
ference has a soft snap compared with
the ordinary Kngllsh-sptaklng Ameiican
In the throes of Interpreting the Income
tax blanks.
A Russian grand duke Is complaining
that the President was too busy to see
him In Parli In January. Vfhy, ho even
refused to .seo Congressmen In Washing
ton, where they are Just as important as
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THE ORCHESTRA
THEY gather men of differing lands and
yet separate, alone Intent
Each on the keynote of his instrument,
Till, 'mid tho discords, catli tho truo note
finds.
Straightway, attuned as oiip, their several
minds
To ono harmonious purposo Jolntl.v bent,
Their overj- tone is with Its fpllows blent,
And part to part melodiously binds.
Even bo, amid the clash of clamorous noedn,
God'H truth attains athwait all wrangling
creeds.
Even so, that wars forevcrmore may cease,
Rulldlng tho future on a ruined past,
Mankind, united, shall evoke at last
The "World's Immortal Sjmphony of Peace.
Grace Denlo Litchfield, In tho New York
Times.
Congress seems to bo eagerly keyed
up for tho day when It can sing "I hear
you calling me "
Mr. Wilson need have no fears of the
mud in Brest. He has just come from
"Washington.
Now If they had only ti led to persuade
the legislature to adopt "Hall! Hall! The
Gang's All Hero!" as the Philadelphia an
them tho tesult might have been different.
Are you one of the pessimists who has
not been to tho motor show yol? By
pessimist we mean a man who has no hope
of owning a motortar.
Dpsplto the approacli of tho vetnal
equinox, the fall season In Germany shows
no signs of abatement. Certain wise men
about a green baize table dally find now '
waj-s to prevent anything llko a spring.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. Who was Vice President In Taft's 'ad
ministration? I. What lake is the source of tho Mieslo
slppl Itlver?
3. What was the full name of Horace, the
Latin poet?
4. What American state has "Here we rest"
as Its motto?
D. Who was William Frederick Cody?
6. How many times was Eugene V. Debs
the Socialist nominee for President? ,
7. Wlvat is the meaning of the French
phrase "Entre nous"?
8. What Is a mongoose?
9. After what king of France was Louisiana
named?
10. What Is a microphone?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1, Catherine Breshkovskaya.ls called the
"Grandmother of the Russian Revolu
tion. 2, A lute Is a stringed instrument some
what resembling a guitar.
X Magenta, a brilliant crimson aniline dje,
was discovered soon after the battle
of Magenta, fought In Italy in 1859,
and hence named In honor of that
French victory. (
4, Bible means book, from the Greek word
"biblos."
6. Five' English monurchs. Henrj" VII.
Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and
HlUabeth, belonged to the House of
Tudor,
6. Two barrels equal one hogshead.
7, Tho Scotch word "mickle't means much,
great, a large amount
5, Norman Hapgood, a well-known Ameri
can editor, has been appointed United
States Minister to Denmark.
3, "Ben trovato" means wel) Invented, char
acteristic, If not true. The literal
meaning of the Italian phrase la "well
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