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Philadelphia, !alurtla), Marrli 13. 1010 GOVERNOK SI'I.O L ON COAL COMMISSIONS have folliiwptl commis sions in dizzy succession in the end less investigation of anthracite prices and tho costs of coal arc still froinR up. In almost every case the "probers" talk interminably and retire in tog and bewilderment. Can Governor Sproul put anthracite investigations on a new basis? The tone of his pronouncement in rela tion to the present state of prices in the industry indicates that he will at least make an attempt. Thero is an unlimited supply of coal in Pennsylvania. There has been a lav ish overproduction at the mines. And yet the public has been informed that rates will go up in spriiiff at n season vvhen they should be RoinK down. Governor Sproul's threat of a new investigation reminds us that a Senate committee went to Pottsvillc a few weeks ago and quizzed and thundered for a week or more. Whatever that com mittee learned was forgotten in the fever and tumult of the attSck on Presi dent Wilson's league of nations covenant. Senator Vardaman took a fling at the Girard estate because it obtains a royalty of more than a dollar on every ton of coal mined in its extensive holdings. But that was all. Transportation costs and the costs of mining have been going up steadily, but the rates paid by the consumer of an thracite still seem exorbitant and un reasonable. Testimony offered before the Senate xennmittee recently make it plain that' the coalfields are not being efficiently operated. There is a great deal of coal land that is not even being worked. It is held by interests which operato other tracts. The question now is whether there can be organized in the State Legislature a commission qualified to do something that stumped the committee of Senators to give the public a simple and lucid explanation of the situation as it actual ly exists in the coal industry. The people themselves will do the rest. INS AND OUTS OF THE HOUSE RECORDS of the congressional roll call during the last season are illuminating. Pennsylvania is entitled to some satisfaction, for several of her Representatives deserve attendance prizes. J. Hampton Moore, for instance, is a conspicuous winner of fidelity honors. Only seven absences are registered against this energetic Philadelphian, who is a member of some of the most important committees and was one of5 the House conferees on the war tax legislation. Messrs. Darrow, Clark, Rose and Temple have also been particularly faithful. It is tho nature of accurately compiled figures to be unsparingly frank, and hence both the assiduity and the de linquency of the Pennsylvania delegation are revealed by the House clerks. On only one occasion during the session the response of John R. K. Scott now in' the State Legislature rang through the legislative chamber. The absences of this duly elected Representative num ber 102. Reference to the clerks' little sta tistical table might be a profitable per formance when the next election comes around, providing, of course, that the public really cares to think on that decisive day. LESSON OF SCHOOL GARDENS rpHE school gardens, which produced $30,000 worth of vegetables last year, furnished such admirable lessons in resourcefulness and economy that it is good news that Superintendent Garber proposes to extend the woik this spring. American wastefulness was severely Jolted during the war. How far the needed spirit of reform extended was admirably illustrated in this interesting and profitable work which the children did. There was good fun to be had in tho school plots, which could boast of r?i fertile soil and helpful instruction for tho juvenile farmers. The food crisis is by no means past, yj'' with the cessation of armed strife; but f qven if tho pressure were relieved the - -1 v " iiiiia "orYPmiiiniroi QTHTifinq" urn i h JlbVAO agllVUeVUtUI nwtau nvum yi well worth retaining. Habitually we 4$ think of farming as cultivating the land ' j ii'on a larcn scale. That attitude amuses ' the Chinese, who can produce nourish- W VA $;,,' meht for a man oa a bt of ground no If .i-ri ' faf !$iaP billiard table. Today. 'when "i m.. SM T 1 if us.iJFaiaiaWn ('' tJVtra an Atua nW industrious and careful cultivator like tho "Celestial" has n new meaning. Tho maintainancc of the school gar dens provides an attractive and health ful diversion. Its prime value, however, lies in teaching young Americans not to be agricultural spendthrifts. FUTIL1TARTAMSM WILL NOT TMLMPH Our Korean-Minded SmteMiUMi, Pecking to Make AiiirrirH n Hermit Nation, Arc 1 jip.ipcil in a Hootlcss Task rpiIERE arc Americans who if properly -- clad would be going about wearing a nightshirt outride of their trousers, with pointed cloth slippers on their feet, their hand.-, concealed in the long sleeves or their shirt, and their head covered by a tall hat with tho blim at the top instead of at the bottom; Die whole head covering held on by a ribbon running over the top and tied under the chin. This is the costume of n Koiean states man. Korea is a hermit nation, long indif ferent to' what has hern going on in tho lew! of the world. Certain Americans, if they had their way, would make a hot nut nation of tlm United States, for they are preach ing the Koiean philosophy. Let us look a moment at that doctrine. It found expression at the time of tho Kusso-Japatics-p War, when Japan sent her armie.s through Korea to attack the Russians.. The Koreans piotestetl against the invasion. They averted that they were an independent nation and had done nothing to interfere with the rest of the world. They said that it was not right for Japan to disregard their wishes. They rested their case upon the principles of right and justice and expressed their confidence in the recogni tion of those principle:! by every one. It was a beautifully worded document. No pacifist or anti-preparedness advocate could have produced a better one. The Koreans sat on their haunches and waited for things to happen. And they happened. Under the urge of "military necessity," the Japanese sent their troops through Korea, and when the time was ripe they annexed the peninsula. Iiefoie that climax, however, they made a treaty with the hermit kingdom which is one of the finest examples of bamboozling on record. It recognized the "independence" of the country in iUT first sections and pledged Japan to re spect all its rights. In the succeeding sections all control over tho military and foreign affairs weie transferred to the Japanese. And the Koreans professed to be satisfied with it. Some of them protested that it had been secured under duress, but the majority who gave any thought to it at all in the spare time left after propitiating the demons, which their religion teaches them beset them on every hand, felt assured that right had triumphed. In the meantime certain Koieans have discovered that Japan is the real ruler of their country and they have adopted a declaration of independence, as finely worded as the earlier expressions of confidence in the righteousness of their case when Japan was sending troops over their railroads. They have declared that they are "no mean people" and that they have "forty-three centuries of con tinuous history as a distinct self-governing nation," and that it is their "solemn duty to secure the right of free and perpetual development of their own na tional character." As a matter of fact, their present subject state is the lesult of the de velopment of their national character. Their civilization has lemained station ary for the forty-three centuries of their national life. They are stagnant, steeped in ignorance, fooled by fine phrases, and as innocent and as helpless as babes in a world of blood and iron. It is doubtful if the progressive peoples ought to allow such a nation to cumber the face of the earth. It can be admitted that the Koreans are less dangerous than the Geimans without weakening this doubt. Every American who has opposed pre- I paiedncss is applying the Korean philos- ophy to this country. Every American who insisted that the European war did not affect us was try ing to make a' hermit nation of the United States. Every American who is opposed to our participation in a world union to insure peace on the ground that what happens across the seas is no concern of ours, is blood brother to the silly states men who sit about Seoul in their foolish' costumes, twiddling their thumbs while a live people hold the reins of power. Forty-three centuries of independent life, forsooth! It is forty-three centuries of a living death, the like of which no real American would wish to see imposed upon his native land. There may come a time when the mere statement that a nation rests its case upon the principles of justice will find its protests heeded. The theologians say that in the far-off millennium foretold by the prophets such conditions will pre vail. But there never will come a time when a nation can cut itself off from the rest of the world and, become a hermit without meeting the fate that has over taken unfortunate Korea. It will rot and stink to high heaven. Striving is the law of life. As Colonel Roosevelt once said, it is only by strenuous effort, grim resolution and desperate courage that we rise to better things. Every man and every city and every natipn which fails to strive upward is left behind to take the du3t of those who aro moving "onward with their oye3 ,on.the future. There aro fortunately few Koreans among us. But the Reeds and the Borahs and the IJoindexters, in their lone" Asiatic ninhtflhirta. cloth slinnerK and ihy&Wed, toj'M$Jp tfi on with a ribbon,- their platitudes and outworn formulas that they may now and then deccivo tho unthinking. But tho majority, when they think on Korea, thank God that they1 are not as these amiable futilitarians iaro, but that they aro willing to play th.ejr part in the world and to shoulder till tho responsibilities which may be placed upon them, confident that they arc strong' enough to stand up like men and hold their own in the competition now on to make tho world a better place to live in. MIK 1'AS.SYUNK TROLLEYS R AILKOAD corpornlionn accused of discriminations in tho past were the first to plead for a right to protect invested capital, even at the cost of com munities on their rights of way. Thus the Pennsylvania Railroad Company argued with a good deal of logic that after it had organized elaborate terminal systems with the money of stockholders it felt morally bound to encourage busi ness in the terminal area and to protect the, industries which contributed to its maintenance against unfair competition. Some sound argument was offered for freight differentials on tho ground that millions invested in business, in the rail roads and in the homes of workmen de pended on the stability insured to manu facturing communities by rates which made it impossible for adventurers in industry to organize destructive competi tion by establishing themselves nearer to the center of consumption. It is in teresting now to observe that the Pass junk avenue business men are applying the same moral principle in their efforts to restrain the P. It. T. from eliminating its service on their street. It is a fair inference that these men invested their money in buildings and in business oiganizations because they had the tacit assurance of tho city and the transit company that traffic facilities would be maintained on Passyunk ave nue. The P. R. T. is under a moral obligation to these business men, just as any railway company is under a moral obligation to maintain the sort of service that may be necessary to main tain the values of property in suburban communities built upon faith in the good intentions of the corporation. The blanket franchises of the P. R. T. should not be utilized in any effort to discriminate against any one section or street. The existence of a street fran chise implies that service will be main tained on the lines indicated. If the P. R. T. were to exercise its own free will in such instances it could do in finite damage to many suburban com munities by merely withdrawing the service which property owners paid for by their original investments. The mutual obligations and relation ships which exist between property owners and traffic corporations have never been clearly defined, though they exist and constantly affect private and corporation investments. The Public Service Commission has given the P. R. T. a technical right to do injury to property in one section of Philadelphia. But no moral right exists to justify the transit company in this case. Nearly every largo company in the transportation business runs some of its lines at a loss. To eliminate a line of ears on an important street mere ly because it does not pay is to violate the intent of the franchise agreements under which the P. R. T. operates. The business men in the affected dis trict have acted properly in arranging for an appeal to the Superior Court. It is about time that some specific defini tion were given to the rights of property i nder such circumstances, whether that property is on a s-burban railway line' or in the city proper. DIGGING IN WHOEVER has wriggled and squitmed amid the blind alleys and involu tions of the income tax forms will feel today that only the poor are happy. And he will be a potential rooter for uni versal peace. Patience like Job's and the persistence of Columbus were necessary to any one who could emerge from the maze of questions and provisions without a fear that somehow he had accidentally left himself liable to arrest and imprison ment. But the forms were the simplest that could have been devised for so huge a task. And reports from all parts of the country show that all Americans met the situation cheerfully, and that they are meeting the .heaviest demand ever made upon a people whole-heartedly, cheerfully and in the best of good humor. This is the last day for returns. He will be a wise man, who, filling out his blank, stops to realize that in come tax represents the easiest of sacri fices in the business of war. Hundreds of millions have paid heavier and bit terer tolls. What is it for? Is it to give peace to the world or was the whole un imaginable expenditure of blood and money only to give one group of trade imperialists in Europe dominion over another group of trade imperialists? Two women have The World Moves', been sentenced in one or tile up-state courts for burglary. The boldest motor thief recently arrested In this city waa a girl. Tho time has come, surely, for the antl-suftraglsts to warn the males of the species that women will yet crowd them out of some of their favorlto professions. George .Creel's Talk of Something angry arraignment Pleasant of hla critics causes one td wonder what sort of noise he would make If he hap pened to he President ! The hat-check boys at the Qua! d'Orsay must bo eager for the arrival of the Ger man envoys next week. Sweet revengel Enrico Caruso would probably .confess that Jits most taxInff.-VroH" was (he one of StXonm vrhlnh heTrWriilprl th ln.l. CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S LETTER iPfwt the Committee on Commit tees Has Done Explained and , Defended; How Local Ban quvt.i Impress Philadcl phians in Washington , Washington, I). C, Marrh in. Till: blu thins In politics in Washington this week was the work of Urn com mittee on committees, authorized bv tho Republican conference to fill commltteo places for tho now Congress iind to elect a Moor lender and steering committee. Much ado lias been mado by some of tho newspapers about tho Ho-eallcd "reaction ary group" boing in control. H lins been said the '"progressive" are dissatisfied and inuy attempt to Icicle tho bucket when tho Hopublicans got, together again in confer ence. Tho name of National Chairman Ilaj'H'ls sometimes used In connection with thin so-called progressiva movement. Up to dale, however, tho older members of tho House cannot hoc any excuso for upsetting tho Houro organ Izatlon um arranged by tho fommlttco on committees, oxrept the desiro of somo newer members to occupy post tloiis held by older members. In other words, there aro Homo ehalrmansbips held by older and more experienced members which newcomers would llho to lako unto themselves. It la tho old, old story of tho reformer In polities. Thero would be very lltllo In tills controversy except for tho desire of some Republicans to unhorse tho Republican flour leader, Mr. Mann, or that of tho friends of Mr. Longworth, of Ohio, to wrest tho chairmanship of tho Ways and Means Committee from Mr. I'ordnoy, nf Michigan. It may bo that these per sonal ambitions jnay be carried back to the Republican conference before the next Con gress convenes, but careful observers aro Inclined to think the report of the com mittee on committees, which fairly and equitably distributes the honors between the elements of tho Republican party, will not be overridden. Mr. (Jlllett has been elected Speaker, which was supposed to bo a "progressive" moe, satisfactory to the national chair man and other big leaders who are pre sumed to have their ear to tho ground. Mr. Mondell, tho new floor leader, is a western man who received tho votes of a number of western members who were opposed to Mr. Mann. Mr. Moore, an east ern man, who could hae been nominated for floor leader had ho stood for It, has been made first man on the steering com mittee. The fiillett forces, so called, wero well taken care of by the committee on committees, even to the extent that Mr. Wlnslow, their leader, and Mr. Longworth were, placed on the steering committee. Mr. Winslow's name was presented to the com mittee by Mr. Moore and Mr. Longworth was nominated by Mr. Mann, so that so far as the so-called steam-roller of the Mann forces is concerned It operated in a con ciliatory spirit and with the expectation that ultimate harmony would be secured. That's the big outcome of the week's de liberations of the committee on committees. quets in Philadelphia, reminds the on looker in Washington of tho boys swinging up Pennsylvania avenue during an inau gural parade. Testimonial banquet to Magistrate Mecleary! Judge Joseph V. Rogers, toastmaster; William A. Reuter, secretary! One can almost see the Thirty first Ward clubs marching by the grand stand with Mecleary in the lead. Anti-Cob-den Club, David Martin, president; John Leonard, secretary! In the good old ante bellum days, instead of gathering around the banquet board at Scottish Rite Had, Senator Martin Is visualized, high bat, spats and all, coming down the line at the head of the procession, with "Bucky" which means Select Councilman Buchholz close, up to the front; and then George V. Morrison, the right bower of City Treas urer Fred Shoyer, coVnes into view at the head of Jerusalem Lodge, and a strong con tingent from Tacony and Holmesburg. Mighty interesting to hear about these things In Washington, and wish one might be with the boys at home. pAISING millions is now the favorite occupation of Methodists, Presby terians, Roman Catholics, Jews and other denominations. They were all hard hit by the war and their sustentatlon funds need replenishing. In Washington we have rea son to believe that men like Bishop Berry and Brothers Blckley and Boswell, of the Stethodlst Church, and the Rev. Drs. Hun ter and Davies. of the Presbyterian Board rot Ministerial Relief and Sustentatlon, are more than gratified with the revenue law, that friendless Instrument which is proving so burdensome to most people, which af fords relief from taxation in the matter of certain charitable and philanthropic in stitutions. Indeed, it is whispered about that some of the rich folks who have not given much thought to charity heretofore are now disposed to loosen up a little In view of the fact that their gifts may be made without deduction for taxes. WHEN David Balrd c,uit the Senate the Camden folks were here to say good by. Coming to Congress was a big thing In the life of the South Jersey leader. Among those who had a rlgh; to feel proud of' the record the Senator made during his brief term was Harry R. Humphreys, who captured a fair portion of the Balrd family some years ago and who has been the apple of his father-in-law-'s eye ever Blnce. Harry has been active In promoting the worlc,of tie New York Shipbuilding Com pany, but in one respect has helped to stay the hand of progress. He is endeavor ing, to preserve for the historical sharps of the New Jersey Society tho quaint old farmhouse close by Newton Creek, which might otherwise be razed to satisfy the demands of the builders, If the New Jer. sey Society will meet In Harry Humph reys's historical house It might BOlve the controversy that has arisen over the can non supposed to have been used when the British frigate Augusta was sunk in the Delaware below Philadelphia. "We don't know Just why the Kaiser should think the climate on tho Riviera will agreo with him any better than that of Amerongon. Of course, It will bo less of a contrast "For Kngland, home and beauty" used to be the old, motto of the British flghtlnsr man. nut somo oi me xommiw In the. "WltAT .WONDERFUL WEATHER WE'RE HAVING!" r.'-.i . VS. .4JV:i?&JrL ," iw' rt- jyji if-. rei';' .-i-'J- a-T - fpr .. . dSfjg .awW-:,.!-"- BPS-? ''-ASSvJrS ffii-vS" 7?mm vssm -..-J.Vl&J ZJ .f'f-iJ ,tffi .- - mm .-r-S?! B" JrliKS- : ' -"'isc -&&m "'V,'rJ &?m J-.,VT?. ; ; j-7 Tt'"t3' ,,,"jovJ.i '.u'"' ELBOW rpHERK were two blizzards yesterday: -- one of snow and one of income-tax re turns. Tlieie are some things that not even tho patient chroniclers of the Congiessional Record can endure. Looking over that journal to see what thrills we could find In the account of the recent filibuster, we notice the following entry: Mr. , SHERMAN addressed the Senate. After having spoken for somo time Mr. SMITH of South Carolina. Mr. President , And then a little later: Mr. .HIIKRMAX addressed the Senate. After having spoken for pome time Mr. RK12D. Mr. President And then, still later: Mr. SHERMAN resumed his speech. If the Congressional Record doesn't print this famous oration it will probably take its place among the Ten Lost Diatribes. Looking over a copy of Punch at Nifty Ben's smoke-shop on Tenth street, we found the following wheeze: So the Kaiser Is growing a heard. Prob ably he didn't want to share the fate of Vllhelmshacn. Lal Thought! on the Income Tax We think it is extremely ill-judged of Signor Caruso to let it be so widely known that ho Is delighted to pay his J150.000 lncomd tax. Darn it all, if Carter Glass gets the idea that the public enjoys this sort of thing, think what we'll be Up against next jear. Let Mr. Caruso pursue the noUy tenor of his way and leave us to return to plain living, high thinking and low taxing. New York Is all worked up oer a "spite fence" that was built around the shimmering ankles of some courtroom dame. We wish we had known how to build a spite fence around our poor little defenceless Income. ' We are mailing a duplicate of our Income-tax "work sheet" to the postmaster at Sarajevo, Bosnia, asking him to post It on his bulletin board. The next time any one in Sarajevo wants to start a world war we trust he will take a look at that pathetic 'document and stay his hand. We suggest that you all' da the same. , ,' vi ' If Revenue' Commissioner Roper is a smoker, he will, doubtles sympathize with our repressed deslrff -to Jtiplude'among the deductions" the amount we spent last year fo'r Swedish matches that falte'd to Ignite. The sood old Rldgway Library has been opened again. WclCwqll! If wo are ever a fugitive from JusticeVand hard-pressed by the police we shall tpeed thither and mingle- among tile solitude. No one would eVer think of looking there. The RetQuten piade a very sage remark to AliceTvlien thfc.t tyoung; lady was visit ing bchl'hd tf.o iooklng-glass. Wo often think" pf. It in connection with the rapid demobilization of money that continues every day. "It takes all the running you can do to keep In UiB.Bame place." Someday, lio dojipt, some deep thinker will arise 'to tell us, thatfr."Through the L&oklng-glasa'4 Ij a '-very 'subtle allegory a'bout Tlolshevlsra, In which tho jabber wock is undoubtedly Germany and Lenlno and Trotsky art Tweedledum and Twee dledce. Studying the curious psychological tran sitions of a friend who la about to buy a car, wo 'are 'wondering" when his candor "&zgsx&it!zaffim I'J ,. -1Pfllao3naaK?r4Li:Sf?. J0. Xr taV' Z ,: '.'if "Y-i.1aBffau!WBHJV?rS',r,a mmmmMEmsimfii . K33Slii3S? &B&3!tas3aBHMBmBE9 aaTaTaaaafn 11 H T TiaaTi 'CT i Trlfli f i ' I Ba"W TaTT a" fl " f t tl U tT 3T IT . aa"a S -Tf Jl,g IjTT TaaPaCaaaaTaPliSlMLaaTQ..aaSaWi J O OTT. tf tf' a l1 W i4M Vpvaf aTTP Tt1 P'rl1k4aJ I sMnfiMs&ffizsfMmis. v&rjR&$8mmm&fflNam. ffirgr mKsmm'j&ma'im; nsw' S$Mi is, ' ' !',..( : ' ' .'Msf zr -a, 7. .i-aa at. a -- ;- . al : "aW. .' U a oat. ii IJ : I C fa. --." -' - tsvn a. i-j.a. a a I sa1laaa.a aari ! wsmMfflmmMBsmamuBmsMm. ..mrjiSmY i r 'afTMiifBwrtTir Ti TfiTinwin TiirrnrtTri wr it - n mit Trtmirim w Trrfi wlrrrnn inntTftawiMBni r TTiirnin n ttt rrn r fir r -, .. .wr ii'ACl '.''. -HMiy-'i: - "...res' y-x- 4': ' J-6 f ROOM he want a car for, or now, when he is stating that the kind of vehicle he has chosen responds to the faintest pressure of Ills Intellect? Thinking somo more about the above matter, It occurs to us that the state of mind of a man who says he never intends to buy a 'car Is not so dissimilar to that of the Kaiser when he remarked, some time In October, "I will never desert the dear German people." Trying to past these musings Into a form In. which they may be of value to philoso phers, we attempt tho following strip-picture of a mind In transition: 1. He decides not to buy a car. 2. Ho decides that he has decided not to buy a car. 3. He decides that some day he may de cide to change his mind. 4. He decides to test himself by sajlng to his friends, ery nosithely, that he will never buy one. o. He says it. ti. He says it again, to see whether they believe It. 7. Horrified by their skepticism, he decides to say nothing more about the matter. 8. Ho decides not to make any more deci sions, hut to let matters take their own course 3. They take It. 10. lie buys It. Rear Admiral Grayson has now crossed the ocean at least three times, and Mr. Daniels Is about to cross It, so If there ever should.be another naval war we will be magnificently prepared. The sea will be almost as familiar as terra flrma to quite a number of our bureaucrats. Pete Sepchenko tells us that he is going to work on a farm In Ottsville, Bucks County, and among other manuscripts he leaves the following with us: When you was sixteen and I was eighteen Our friendship was best that ever could be. Away in the fields and far out in green, Chasing the butterfly up In the tree. Picking the blossoms from apple in spring And puttlpg among the fair treads of your hair, Drinking the water from fresh and clear spring, And breathing the fresh and healthy spring air. When you was sixteen and I was eighteen In deep and dark woqds where bobolink sings, , Together we sat on tho bank of the stream, Tying the violets up on one string. Your cheoks of pink rose and your eyes of blue , Had smiled on me in the most pleasant .wayf Those beautiful words that I heard from you 4 Turns my memory to you every day. PKTE SEPCHENKO. A dispatch from Paris says that Presi dent Wilson wants the people of tho United States to hold mass-meetings to discuss the league of nations. Fine. Most of our orators seem to bo inclined to drop the first syllable from discuss. The kind of rocks that the Dutch popu- laco throw at Wllhelm when ho looks qut of Count Bentinck's grounds are not shorn rocks. J One of the saddest of. men nowadays must be- the proprietor of the leading hotel )ha Prlnpn.-.TfilnTliln: Vt1"' 4'4 ij" , . THE PEACE OF THE WORLD STRANGE in the ears of dying boys, who thought , They died to make the world securely l Hers - The footsterjs of whose nearlncr messena l gers Are beautiful upon .the .mountains; naught- uouiu souna so strange ana saa as mis wild tide Of jealousy and selfishness apd hate And envy this parochial debate, Held by old men, who dare condemn un'ij tried The hope of the world, for whlcji boya I went to death Gladly. By Heaven, and if it were In truth .j lll Ull CUfeCI IMBlll. UlCdill UL juuur jl As it is not then we who still draw.. I breath ifl In this harsh world these old men, I and'; you Should be the more resolved to bring It trutOl Allco Duer Miller, In the New York ' Times. We often wonder what the map-makora are doing to keep alive in this period Oi flux while there are no frontiers Ih Europa. Today Is "Der Tag" in the Treasury Df' partment ana every American wno nau ,i good year in 1918 has somehow a fcelinr that he is "it." ; President Wilsoruis said to carry 'aj' "conjure bag" containing' good luck symijil bols. We don't know just what's In !t," but there's more likely to be a rabbit',. foot than, a pussy-foot. Secretary Daniels will sail for Europa. today. Of course he will speak of tha "right" and the "left" of the ship. But there will be a great many naval ofilcers.'l to pray, for the honor of the servlco.th I.A a-lll Mvf tallf rt rr."trf "Aftvon atfolai to his cabin. . " l What Do You Know? at. QUIZ i. t 1. What two Anierlcan brothers -slaved a.fl conspicuously Important part In tHa'i development of fhe airplane? - 2. What is the meaning of the word feral?) I 3. Who is tho present poet laureate Jotil England? (l ,- B 4. Who was Ary Scheffer? E Ttrii at la Vi Tlnllan nnrrt sfn Tf iVsak - U, ttovv a vno iinuaii italic tvt Cti0 Ji I . . . .... ... ! to. jn wnai year uiu iiih uennan urowji. Prince undertake his disastrous slere- of Verdun? 7. What Is the apse of a cathedral? ' 8. What la schnapps? O Whn raIiI "Thn wit nf &. famllv Is llfms.il best received among strangers"? ,5 Q. In what century did St. Patrick live? '.I A ......... a,. V..I..J... nMt llisncio iu itBiwuaj b uja, I. The loss, without, a trace, of the United-! States naval collier Cyclops Is the 1 greatest' mystery of the war. ' 1 U. John Jay was the first Chlof JUstlce Of the United states. 3, A gibbon Is a kind of Jong armed ape. 4. The VlctoryX-oan campaign will start oa I April zi. E. Philadelphia was officially founded in- .1681, although' an English settlement! iind.r Contain William MarWham. rieni't uty for William Penn,,had been start"!' I ed the previous year. ,0 G. A sennet Is a signal call on a trumpet. ti 7. New Zealand Is the other-British colony! besides Canada that is omclally termed v a Dominion. 8. The United States has coaling stations i at Quantanamo. and Balila HondsDl Cuba, for-wh(ch an annual rental 12000 la paia, 9. Rossini wrote thearouilo of !rrhB n Hvlll." - :. 4 r .' H.. W2 "I!!hfe J!B0yl hde? th" lnc, SittS ? T?5,. Wt rar9in. hil npton Ui ; ' ' Ju i 1 17, ininmrLiwfifii Mirin n in iMr MTnr iif - . r.- rr iiii'r mnmrr --f.i'. inmnTn irr 1 1 ffTBirgTBrriianiii-hnT r- . u, -'r"iM'umttmnrttntinnr,'irmTtx if " . . . - - ....... J,-. ,-. -.a --..-
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