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Philadelphia, Mandaj, Mirth 17, 1919
CRIME AND YOUTH
VTO ONE who reads police court news
A can fail to be impressed by the fre
quency with which very young men are
getting into serious trouble. A sixteen-year-old
boy was shot in an 'uptown'
street while attempting to hold up a
woman. Most of the recent motor thefts
have been charged to youths who weie
still on the far side of twenty-one. And
in many cases the methods of these
youthful offenders have been amazingly
W violent.
'ST i What is wroncr? This sort of thing
used to be blamed on the movies. But
the movies never fail to show that the
man who breaks the law always finds a
truly horrid end in complete disaster.
It may be that the war and the smell of
gunpowder that has been in the air for
almost five years have had something
to do with it. Certainly the situatipn is
interesting enough to warrant serious
study.
The movement on foot in New Jersey
to make parents partly responsible for
delinquency in children has a new sig
nificance when it is considered in rela
tion to the recent police records in Phila
delphia. Such a proceeding may reveal
' "the cause of a new trouble.
STIMULATING, BUT OBVIOUS
. TlTR. WILSON'S explicit declaration
1 , that "the league of nations," by the
decision df the plenary council, "is to be
part of the peace treaty" can hardly sur
prise anybody save those persons whose
analysis of international affairs is flimsy
and specious. Inevitably, the only sure
guarantee of such territorial changes as
will be specified in the treaty with Ger-
many must be the concord of nations
capable in partnership of preserving the
new conditions.
Common sense dictates the forecast
that clauses and paragraphs of the
league covenant will not be physically
dovetailed into paragraphs and clauses
of 'the peace treaty. Any such jumble
of phraseology would, of course, be
awkward and absurd. Literally, there
will in all probability be two documents.
It is in meaning that they will be inter
dependent and co-operative.
-1, For some minds, however, it is neces
sary to "speak by the card or equivoca
tion will undo us." This the President
has, done in his cablegram to Mr. Tu
multy. In significance it is a restate
ment of the obvious, but in days of much
mental fog even the reverberation of the
axiomatic is to be welcomed.
,- SUFFRAGE CLASS INTEREST
ALL women, observes Miss Mary Ing
ti. ham, are against President Wilson
Fyr" because he didn't get the Anthony
I " amendment throush the Senate. Such
a statement will carry but little convic
tion to any one who saw and heard the
Senate in the final weeks of the recent
session. It will rather inspire a belief
that emotion is permitted too often to
form a basis for votes argument and
activity.
There was no measure that the Presi
dent could have got through the Senate.
,t v And if he failed with the suffrage amend-
-Went, that does not mean that he has
'ailed in causes that are even closer to
, jthe hearts of women pvprvwlmro n !,
& World.
Most of the women in Europe, for ex
ample, would probably be glad to relin
quish all hope for the franchise if they
were assured that their homes Would
never again be desolated by war. It is
probable that the majority of women in
the United States feel similarly.
t. Women should and will hnv thi .
3 "B" ""w".jr in uieory or in
pracucu win never neip tnem.
rrW rATTTCT-TYTVrr" inn CrETa-ir-rT-.
Ev iAAxa imiijumw juu OCIX VlLiJi
sftiVriRITICISM like that aimed at the
it'iA F0(leral Employment Service by f&r
Rwiir Lieutenant Governor McCIain is to
h' t Ata Artnf tarl nlnr-a It la r.t n n.l 111.!.. 1
"rejudlce general opinion against a prin
)jfole that should be more broadly ap-
ft jilted in the future rather than hindered.
?feii,eover, the former Lieutenant Gov-
ifepr has quite lost sight of the funda-
- ,ntal purpose and intention of the sys-
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i .v. -i"ph in u uiBuuiuiui reicruncu hj uome or
'(AWmlnor defects.
t, hrir Prtrrtana noHtfea wnq -folk lioro nn,l
fc."V!$fre in the administration of the plan
; Xftere nru jew icuerui uepnriments in
iii&vklch politics doesn't react sooner or
P ti&Mlfar, and certainly there Is no adminis-
qraJaiTv uoiiouuicm in x ciumyivnnia
trlrwa'jticijuw do' not manage to have;
'IflWp tfcat; ?Ja way,
badly administered isn't proof that it Is
not valuable.
The Federal Employment Service can
not be judged finally by its success or
failure in placing men in given localities,
though its record of achievements in
Pennsylvania is admirable enough. The
essential purpose of the service was to
relievo congestion of the unemployed in
various parts of the country, to offer
such supervision and suggestions as
would mnke it unnecessary for jobless
men to crowd in discouraged groups in
one community while there was a short
age of labor elsewhere. In a general
way, it was intended to help men and to
study the labor problem from a national
viewpoint.
It is interesting to observe that the
bitterest opposition to the Fcdcial Em
ployment Service was organized by em
ployment agents, who formerly were able
to fatten on the misfortunes of men out
of work, The Senate when it talked to
death the bill which cniried the appio
priation for the continuance of the serv
ice manifested a gnevous disregard for
the welfare of icturning soldiers and a
lamentable ignorance of one of the basic
economic needs of the country.
A POLITICAL FARCE IN
THE NAME OF DEMOCRACY
Government in Camarilla by the Nonpartisan
League of North Dakota in the
Interest of Formers
EVERY small boy knows that if he
puts one end of a rubber band be
tween his teeth and pulls on the other
end till he stretches it to the breaking
point it will snap back and laise a pain
ful welt on his cheek.
But there are statesmen who do not
know so much as the small boy.
They see the people stretched danger
ously near to the breaking point by the
conditions under which they have to live
and they do nothing to relieve the ten
sion. Thus revolutions are bred, with all
their excesses.
'Bolshevism in Russia is the snapping
back of the rubber band upon the cheek
of the men responsible for the old order.
But Russia is not the only place where
revolutions are in progress. Political
and social changes are making right here
in America, the end of which no man can
foresee. The center of revolution just
now is in North Dakota, where the Non
partisan League has secured control of
the state government and is putting into
effect a program of legislation which
cannot be contemplated without alarm.
We print on this page today the first of
two articles describing what the North
Dakota Legislature has done in its re
cent session. We commend it to the con
sideration of every business man and
every politician and every student of
popular government.
The Nonpartisan League was accused
last year of pro-Germanism and opposi
tion to the war, and its leader was in
dicted for disloyalty. But this is a mere
incident, which should not blind us to it3
real purposes. The league sprang out
of the dissatisfaction of the North
Dakota fanners with the methods by
which they were compelled to sell their
grain. They charged the railroads,
which owned the grain elevators, with
co-operating with the bankers and the
flouring mills and the grain buyers in
preventing them from getting a fair
price for their wheat. They voted, under
their referendum system, for state-owned
elevators in which they might store
their grain to be kept until the
market was favorable, but the Legis
lature, controlled by the railroads and
the politicians, refused to do, anything.
Then the farmers began to organize.
They make up eighty per cent of the
population of the state and knew that
they could get what they wanted if they
took matters in their own hands. After
a thorough but quiet campaign they suc
ceeded in electing a Governor and a ma
jority in the larger house of the Legis
lature. This happened within les3 than
two years after the movement began.
This year they have controlled both
branches of the' Legislature and elected
all the state officers except the superin
tendent of public instruction.
The league has exercised its power to
the limit. It has submitted to the dic
tation of its leaders who framed its pro
grams, as the Bolshevists have submitted
to Lenine and Trotsky. These leaders
sat in a hotel room in thestate capital
during the session of the Legislature and
issued orders. The league members
with seats in the Legislature wore told
every morning what the leaders had
decided the night before, and they voted
as directed. No political bosses of the
old parties ever were guilty of more
complete and unblushing exercise of dic
tatorial power than these officers of an
organization with no official connection
with the government. They met in
secret, made thein decisions in secret
and issued their orders to their willing
followers. And some of the leaders
were not even citizens of the state.
Now, what did the Legislature do?
It bonded the state for $17,000,000.
Of this sum $2,000,000 was set apart
for organizing a state bank to free the
farmers from their dependence on the
banking Institutions "controlled by the
money trust." Five million dollars is tp
be used for building grain elevators and
starting flouring mills to free the farm
ers from dependence on the railroad ele
vators and the milling trust. And $10,
000,000 is to be used in making loans to
the farmers secured by mortgages on
ftieir land.
The elevators and mills are to be
operated by an industrial commission,
and the commission will also direct the
state bank and administer the loan fund.
The commission is further empowered
to fix the price of everything it buys and
of everything It sells. v
The tax laws were changed so as to
exempt all farm buildings and improve
ments from taxation", while the, qwners
bitfWijfej.ftwM,id cities, are
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allowed an exemption of only $1000. A
sop was thrown to the townspeople by
providing that their residences and busi
ness structures should bo assessed at
only CO per cent of their value, i while
farm lands arc nsscssed at 100 per cent.
An nnti-snbotage bill directed at the
I. W. W. was introduced in the Legisla
ture, but the league leaders, sitting in
their secret session, ordered that It must
bo defeated, nnd this, too, in spite of the
fact that anti-sabotnge measures had
been enforced in the state by the Council
of Defense during the war.
The conditions in North Dakota are
not surprising. They arc the logical out
come of the disregard by the commer
cial nnd political powers of the slate of
the justifiable discontent of the farmers
with the conditions against which they
have had to contend. The farmers have
taken matters into their own hands, and
under the leadership of extreme Social
ists, in sympathy with the anarchists of
the I. W. W., they have put through their
program.
And the Nonpartisan League is active
in many other states in the Northwest.
Last year it had its agents working
among the farmers of New England with
little success, nnd during the session of
the Legislature in this state in 1917 it
had a committee in Harrisburg watch
ing legislation. ,
Its appeal is to the workers, whethor
thoy be farmers or mechanics or factory
operatives, to take control of govern
ment and pass laws for their own benefit
regardless of people engaged in any
other occupation. If it were democratic
in its methods it would not be such a
menace to American institutions as it
now is. But it is autocratic. Its mem
bers do not decide on its policies. They
arc fixed by a secret camarilla composed
of theorists and visionaries working on
the known grievances of large groups of
the population. It is not only autocratic,
but it plays upon the susceptibilities of
a class seeking not good government but
favoritism in legislation.
It is important that the nation inform
itself on what is going on in the center
of contagion in the Northwest, that it
may be prepared to check the evil before
it spreads and undermines the healthful
Americanism of the whole body politic.
LOGIC AND BRASS BUTTONS
WHEN Police Lieutenant Elvidge, of
' the Germantown station, got upon
his feet and delivered an easy-going and
perfectly friendly speech to a meeting
which ho attended in the role of censor
he manifested an original twist of mind
and a gift of logic that might well be
shared by members of American police
departments everywhere.
It is true that the meeting az trie Ger
mantown Forum proved not to bo radi
cal. But suppose it had been, as they
say, radical? Wouldn't it be far better
in the case of almost every assemblage
of the restless-minded if the police had
the knack of telling their own side of the
story, as the Germantown lieutenant told
his, instead of calling the wagon for
arrests that are often futile and very
frequently unjust?
Here in Germantown was an officer
who was able to talk lucidly from the
viewpoint of a service that is pledged
definitely to maintain law and to recog
nize no distinction between the ups and
the downs, the rich or the poor, it is
conceivable that a similar approach to a
radical thinking group, which usually is
disposed to ignore all interests not its
own, could be made diverting and even
useful.
More than half of the so-called radi
cals who assemble and talk aren't radi
cals at all. They are groping for the
truth like the rest of the world. Of half
a hundred men and women trundled to
a New York police station in patrol
wagons the other day after a raid on
their meeting place only four were found
actually guilty of any offense. Police
oppression is neither wise nor just in
such instances.
Talkative policemen might tell the
ultra modern theorists many useful
things from their own rich store of
knowledge. They might say what they
have good reasons to know, that good
and evil are not matters of class, but of
human nature, and that nothing of value
will ever be gained by supposing that
all the poor are good and that all the
rich are wicked.
Tho primary object of German In
terest Is the league of rations.
With yesterday to think It all over
tho outgo tax seemed really tho most
nttinR name.
Judglns from certain forecaats, temper
and temperance aro going to be Intimately
blended next summer.
Tho weather man has been demon
strating that a March may be retro
gressive as well forward.
The reportB that tipping has vanished
from Russia Is probably explainable on
tho ground that restaurants disappeared
first.
After all It was only natural that the
Poles Bhould sound fewer discordant notes
when a great musician came to direct
them.
Not the most confirmed pessimist can
deny that there will be a net Increase In
the food supply when the Delaware shad
season begins.
Spring thoughts aro not so prevalent
In Germany now aa they.wero a year ago
this week when she took her big Jump
to destruction.
It Is worth remembering that victory
is a permanent acquisition, while a loan
Is all that will be asked of tho American
people when the Bhort term note campaign
Is on. i
Although It was only a first edition of
"The Pickwick Papers " which sold in Lon
don the other day. the price seems more
commensurate with mat oi a sensational
"seeotel extra." ti vl ,
SOCIALISM IN THE WEST
How the Famous Nonpartisan League Is
' Applying lis Theories in
North Dakota
By GPORGE E. AKERSON
George E. Akcrion, political editor of the
Minneapolis Tribune, hat written for the
Evening Public Ltdgtr the following storu
of the work of the Nonpartisan League in
the North Dakota Legislature, setting forth
clearly the radical changes in the laws made
in the name of the farmers.
NOP.TH DAKOTA has now become the
public ownership experimental station In
the United States.
Tho sixteenth assembly of the North Da
kota Legislature, completely dominated by
the Nonpartisan League, enacted Into law the
entlro program of the lengue before Its re
cent adjournment. That program calls for
state-owned and operated elevators, flour
mills, packing plants, n stato-owned banking
system nnd a home-building association. The
credit of the stato will be pledged back of
these movements.
Steps are now being taken by the offlclals
of the state to embark upon the public
ownership enterprises authorized by the Leg
islature. Opponents of the Nonpartisan League are
planning a referendum on some of the meas
ures. It Is certain, however, that such enter
prises ns the publicly owned and operated
cloNtitor and mill system will not even be
referred to the people.
THE sixteenth session of North Dakota's
Legislature Is perhaps unique In the his
tory of American legislative bodies. It cer
tainly Is unique when the program of legis
lation enacted Is considered. A sovereign
state has been committed to n series of social
experiments which have long been advocated
by the Socialist party. The leaders of the
Nonpartisan League the men really In con
trol at the Bismarck stato capltol admit
that the state has become a social clinic.
It must bo remembered that the Non
partisan Leaguo Is In complete control In
North Dakota. All of the state officials,
from Governor down, with the exception of
Miss Minnie Nlelson, superintendent of pub
lic Instruction, were elected by the Non
partisan League, of which A. C. Townley
Is the president Miss Nlelson defeated the
league candidate) by a heavy vote, largely
becauso the women of the stato were able
to voto for that ofllce
The Legislature was controlled by the
Townley followers by a two-to-ono vote In
both branches In tho House there were
seventy-nine league members out of a mem
bership of 113. In the Senate there were
thirty-flvo league members out of forty
nine. Four of tho fhe Justices of the State
Supreme Court owo their election to Town
ley's Nonpartisan League. The old parties
have virtually disappeared In North Da
kota. There are now two groups In the
state the league and tho anti-league.
PERHAPS no political group naa ever
more autocratically controlled than was
tho league group In the legislative assem
bly. Those who were elected on the league
ticket were required to sign a pledge agree
ing to vote as ordered by the league secret
caucus.
The league caucus, held In the McKenrle
Hotel ecry night, really became the Legis
lature. Hero the league leaders A. C.
Tonnley, Walter Thomas Mills. William C.
Lemke and others expounded the program
of legislation to tho members. Whatever
the majority of tho caucus decided, that
was the thing done In the Legislature the
next day.
Socialist agitators and organizers of the
leaguo were the brains back of this secret
caucus. Llko the "carpetbaggers" In the
South after the Civil War, men from other
states framed and pushed through their
pet socialistic schemes In many Instances.
ONB of the first acta of the Legislature
was the passage of constitutional
amendments making the industrial program
possible. The Legislature had to repass the
amendments, which had been Initiated and
voted on by the people last fall.
Once the amendments had been repassed
by the legislative body eerythlng was In
readiness to proceed with the Industrial
program. It Is well to point out here that
the Legislature authorized $17,000,000
worth of bonds to finance the various pro
jects. Of these J17.000.000 bonds 12,000,
000 are In the Bank of North Dakota series
and are to prolde capital for that bank.
The mill and elevator series call for an
Issue of ,5,000,000. In the real estate series
there are (10,000,000. The latter Issue is
for the purpose of financing farmers who
desire to borrow money from the state on
farm mortgages.
The measure providing for the creation
of an Industrial commission forms the very
keystone of the public-ownership arch. The
commission, composed of the Governor, the
Commissioner of Labor and the Attorney
General, Is created to "conduct and man
age on behalf of the state of North Dakota
certain utilities, Industries, enterprises und
business projects." The Governor Is chair
man and head "of the state Industries.
Specifically, this commission Is charged,
In subsequent bills,, with operating and con
trolling the state elevators, the flour mills,
the home-building association nnd the Bank
of North Dakota.
The law gives this commission the power
"to fix the buying price of things bought
and the selling price of things sold."
LEAGUE- leaders decided that a state bank
J waB necessary In order properly to
finance the many Industrial enterprjses the
state Is entering, and the Bank of North
Dakota was established "for the purpose of
encouraging and promoting agriculture,
commerce and Industry."
All state, county, township, municipal
and school funds are to bo deposited In the
bank, as are all funds controlled by the
charitable, penal and educational Institu
tions of the state. The bank Is permitted to
do a general banking business and all de
posits are to be guaranteed by the state.
Such deposits are to be exempt from state,
county and municipal taxes.
Incidentally It Is estimated that deposits
of this bank will perhaps run as high as
$100,000,000 or more. The school funds now
amount to more than 127,000,000, and will
ultimately go to 160,000,000,
The Industrial commission Is the con
trolling board of the bank, with powers to
appoint the manager and various employes.
(Ur, JLktrson't article, gotng into further
I dtal. of thi subleat, will be coneludeiA
THE CEDAR CHEST
With Mr. Kipling's Permission
WE HAVE long wanted to reprint Itud
yard Kipling's poem, "The Press," but
Mr. Kipling has very strict rules about per
mitting his poems to be reprinted and
quite rightly, having suffered much In
earlier years at the hands of American
pirate publishers. So we thought wo had
better consult him about It. He writes
from the Grand Pump Room Hotel, Bath:
"You have my permission to reprint the
poem on 'The Press,' only It will bo neces
sary for you to say that It Is printed wlttf
my permission, and to add the name of the
volume from which It is taken and the
American publisher."
The poem Is to be found In "A Diversity
of Creatures," published by Doubleday,
Pago & Co.
The Press
fTtHE soldier may forget his sword,
-1- The Sallorman the sea,
The Mason may forget the Word
And the Priest his litany:
The maid may forget both Jewel and gem,
And the bride her wedding-dress
But the Jew shall forget Jerusalem
Ere we forget the Press!
VITHO once hath stood through the loaded
' hour
Ere, roaring like the gale,
The Harrlld and the Hoe devour
Their league-long paper bale.
And has lit his pipe In the morning calm
That follows the midnight stress
He hath sold his heart to the old Black Art
We call the dally Press.
WHO once hath dealt In the widest game
That all of a man can play,
No later love, no larger fame
Will lure him long away.
As the war-horse smelleth the battle afar,
The entered Soul, no less,
He salth: "Hal Hal" where the trumpets
are
lAnd the thunders of the Press.
"1AN8T thou number the days that we
VJ fullfll,
Or the Times that we bring forth?
Canst thou send the lightnings to do thy
will,
And cause them relgn'pn earth?
Hast thou given ft peacock goodly wings
To please his foolishness?
Sit down at the heart of men and things.
Companion of the Press!
THE Pope may launch his Interdict,
The Union its decree,
But the bubble Is blown and the bubble Is
pricked
By Us and such as1 We,
Remember the; battle and stand aside
While Thrones and Powers confess
That King over all the children of pride
Is the Press the Press the Press 1
RUDYARD KIPLING.
Where They Learned It
On July 4, 1917, a Belgian hotel-keeper
was fined 200 marks for having trained his
fox terrier as follows, In the words of tlie
German authorities:
j The accused says to the dog: "What
will the Germans have to do when the
war Is over?"
The dog lies down flat, stretches out his
pawB and crawls otvhls belly till he reaches
his master, wagging hlB tall and making
supplicating motions with his front paws.
Again, If the accused throws a bit of
bread to the dog and says "That comes
from Germans," the dog looks at It with
disfavor, makes no move to take It, doesn't
attempt to eat It ,
The effect of this behavior Is damaging
to the dignity of the Qerman power, ,
. K Mwns.pweverr that son
It sew,(iip.weverr that some pf the Der?
MVe.WMfMW
ST. PATRICK'S DAY IN THE MORNIN'
that excellent animal with close scrutiny,
as their actions after November 11 seem
to have been closely modeled on his pro
phetic gestures.
A boy does not forfeit nil sense of humor
Just becauso he happens to be born a
prince. Clement Shorter tells a good story
of Henry. King George's third Bon. When
the king was crowned, Henry was ten years
old. Having committed some mischief, his
governess told him that unless he was a
good boy he would not be allowed to go to
his father's coronation. He was quite un
dismayed and replied: "I don't care. Per
haps Westminster Abbey will be blown up
with all the family. Then I shall ascend '
the throne as King Henry IX and have as
many wives as I like."
President Wilson had his teeth filled
while ho was In Washington, and now
faces the Italian and Jugo-SIav Irreden
tists with greater confidence.
The more fact that a poem has been pub
lished before does not prevent us from re
printing It if It seems to us of cosmic con
sequence and we deem that our readers
may not be acquainted with It. How many
of our readers are anxious to have us re
print Charley Towne's "On Seeing a Nun
In a Taxlcab"?
Desk Mottoes
Quite a number of suggested desk mot
toes have come to us from our readers.
This Is Mowry Saben's favorite, taken from
some Oriental poet:
IIo who has a thousand friends
Has not a friend to spare;
And lie who lias one enemy
Will find him everywhere.
The news that Marse Henry Watterson
has been asked to take the chalrmanuhlp
of Mr. Pepper's new organization to combat
the league of nations suggests that Lodge,
Borah, Knox, Sherman and tho other pro
tagonists are running short of profanity.
Marse Henry Is a flno old warrior, who
might better be known as Mars Henry,
but we still think that if profanity Is the
only argument against the league It will
get by all right.
Mr. Pepper's organization, Intended to
throw large handfuls of salt on tho tall of
the league, Is going to send "couriers" to
England and France to "educate" those
nations In the real meaning of the present
crisis. But what If England and Trance
show no particular desire to take post
graduate courses?
The present governors of Germany seem
to be almost the only persons of promi
nence who have never been accused of
being pro-German.
Those who say that after all Mr. Wilson
knows nothing about politics because he
used to be a teacher always take care to
forget that Clemenceau also began life an
a domlny.
For Lawyers Only
Booty draws us with a single heir, said
the residuary legatoe when he heard of the
death of his twin brother.
Concerning St. Patrick, the nearest en
cyclopedia nearest to our desk, that Is
says: "Of the existence of this holy man
there Js no question, but every other fact
about him has neen, hotly d'sputsd,"
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GO, GIVE THE WORLD
I DO not crave to have thee mine alone,
dear,
Keeping thy charms within my jealous
sight;
Go, give the world the blessing of thy.
beauty,
That other hearts may share of my
delight!
I do not ask thy love should be mine only
While others falter through the dreary
night;
Go, kiss tho tears 'from some wayfarer's
vision,
That other eyes may know the Joy of
light!
Where days are sad and skies are hung
with darkness,
Go, send a smile that sunshine may be
rife;
Go, give a song, a word of kindly greeting,
To ease the sorrow of some lonely life!
Otto Leland Bohnnan, In the Crisis.
If certain reformers really want US
prohibit smoking their most effective cam.
palgn could be waged by encouraging the
sale of Swedish matches.
It's almost a pity that William
Hohenzollern can't go to Sweden and have
It out with Eric Ludendorff. A bout for
tho championship of Gehenna would be
really Bensatlonal event.
Opponents of adjustment processes at
Paris might profitably be reminded that
even the accepted date of the widely, cele
brated St. Patrick's Day is the result of
a famous compromise.
It Is particularly to be noted that the
Parts conferees have branded tho work
of the authors of the war as "anomalous,"
not "anonymous."
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1, With whom Is Senator Lodge to engage
In a public: debate In Boston upon the
league of nations?
2, Who waB Andre Chenler?
5, Which of the four gospels is the least
concerned with tho narrative of the
life of Jesus and dwells particularly
on his discourses and sayings?
4. What bank is called "The Little Old
Lady of Threadneedlo Street"?
6. What Is the esophagUB?
6. What Is the trlforlum of a church?
7, Which Is the "Old North State"?
8 What Is the origin of the word shllly
thally?
9, How does Latakla tobacco get Its name?
L0. How many furlongs make a mile?
Answers to Saturday' Quiz
The brothers Orvllle nnd Wilbur Wright
played a conspicuous part In tho devel-,
opment of the airplane. A
Feral means wild, untamed, uncultivated,
brutal
nobert Bridges Is the present poet
laureate of England.
Ary Schtffer was a popular, Dutch paint
er, who ranks, however, as a member
of the French school.
Venexla Is the Italian name for Venice.
The Oerman Crown Prince undertook his
disastrous siege of Verdun in, 1916.
The apse ofa church la the semicir
cular or polygonal recess, arched or
dome-roofed,
Schnapps ls Holland gin.
George Eilot eald "Tne wit of a family
Is usually beat received among stran-
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