wsr . - iV if H. m I.H I hOI ?& .'&&' K-ATl F k-S!f win KST- iX 7 'SI. j !' rHWtf I ir I 2. sr Bfc-As HI , W" fc-t..; .If- -t 4 t - Ifuenmg public 3Ie&ger M?' LW THE EVENING TELEGRAPH .'f' " PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY t ih.v' cxnus ii. k. tiunTis, runoisi '..'t' rSarl.a If. r.Mtllnrtnn. Vlt. I'r.nl.l.nt . Jnhn ( lyi iMartin, Secretary and TrMiuren Philip H. Colllm. 'j v? John B. William. Jolin J. Spureeon, Dlrectoro. 1 hi " " rDiToniAt4 noARDi f Si -ft. "" Ctioa H. K. Ccaris, Chairman i-. T'j.A fAVID E. SAI1L1IY . .. cv ,. DAV'D E. SiIlL.liT . .. tauor ighifiiautt C. SlAtlTIS" . .Utntral llualnns Manaiar S-ii. . th.KllBh.,1 .lattv n , Ptihrtrt T. rtwll.lt lltlllriln 6VPJ V1 . 1Sai At: ftvi A tndi-pcmltnce Sauaro, Philadelphia. TusTic viti I'tcss-unioii uuimint fBW Vohk 206 Metronolltun Tower I llr JJnitoiT 10.1 I'onl HullJlnr t iouis iuiib i ijiirrion nunuina 'fclUCAUO .IRH- Trjttifio Uulldtnz NKwrf liLiirjArs- WiinmaToN HbatMC, N E. Cor. Pennsylvania Ar. and 14th St. Kaw Yosk llcntiu 'I'he nun Building- 1-onpon llixui London Tlimi suhsckiptio.v inn.is 'fha Uvr.Nisa rttiii LrtHjcc ! afrvou to aub acrllxra In 1'hlludelphla and surroundlnr towna At the lalo of twelve 'K'l cnts per week payable to the carrier. Uy mall lo n.lnt uu"Me u Philadelphia, In the United Stalea I'm, a. 'a or Lulled Statea po arenlonft. pontnce free flftj i."i0i cents per month. Six (0 dollars per year payable In advance. 'To all forelrn countries o-ie il dMIar per .montn. NftTirt Kiiti.pnh.r. ivmhlt c afldr.R. ehanaatl bruit clve old a. well At new uddresa. BELL. 1009 WALM.T U.VMHr, MAIS. JO00 T Address alt coi uiinL-nfru.tr fo Evening Public Ledger tndependiner Scmie I'hlladelpnia. Member of the A.ociatcil PreB 'ME ASbOi I i 1 1 l l'Kh.t$ m exolu tlvelv entitled to the tne 'oi lepublicatlon of.all news dispatcher ictlilrd to it or nof othcrwitr irerlilrd n this jinper, and uIjo the lodal news puhlit'iod (ififin All rights of republication of special dit patches herein a e also reset red I'hiladelplila. fhiir.Ji., M.rch JO. I9H SEEKING WHT W1- M.I. WANT rpHE extrusion of tlir Cliamber of Com metl'e muyoralt njfori'iiJuin from its own membership to the ineniliurihlp ot more tlian a thousand oIIht lot-al urKum zations is isc. VJiat it is !lutesUlJ tu Mo ju-t now is lo cuiicuhlriili' thr thinking of the people upon the Kind of government which they Want and on the kind of :i Major they wish to elect to five tiiem that kind of government. It is estiinated thru the referendum will reach 100 000 citizen?. 'o niun can fill out the Chamber of I ominerce's ques tionnaire without giving .serioiH thought to the ;vhole subject, and when the nomi nating primaries are held he will be prepared to vote for the candidates pledged to the kind of program to which he has committed himself. . As we understand the oitualion, the Chamber is committed to no candidates find to no faction, but is merely seeking to create an intelligent and active public "sentiment which will insist on tin- nomi nation of candidates pledged to a con structive program of good government. We have no doubt that the other organi sations which it is asking to co-operate with it will gladly consent. THE LEAGUE POLL 1'KOG KIOSKS TF ANY ONE thinks that the people are not interested in ttie league of nations plan he will discover his erro.' if he will accompany the men representing this newspaper who are making a poll of the citizens. ,1 Virtually every citizen questioned has positive opinions on the subject. Many 'of them want to argue the question. They know what they think and the have reasons for their opinions, whether they favor or oppose the plan. They are eager to be recorded. A group of workmen in a factory could not wait until the canvassers called on them, but they bought postal cards ( nnd sent their vote in by mail. Tho significance of thiB widespread in terest in the subject, will not be lo3t upon tho politicians. They cunnot put anything over on the voters under the assumption that the public is indifferent. The public is not indifferent. It is ' 'anxious that some plan be adopted which will make war difficult and will penal ize any selfish nation which attempts to disturb the peace of the world. Even those who oppose the league covenant as drafted want some kind of an interna- ', Jtional agreement to insure peace for a " 'generation at the least. THERE IS AND THERE ISN'T AN AUTHORITATIVE answer to the ; question whether business in this rpart of the country is resuming its nor v mal condition is afforded by the report of the investigutors of the Federal Reserve Board. The answer is that it is and it isn't. Prices of manufactured products have been reduced by 148 establishments, while ninety-three establishments have j made no reductions. Labor is less rest r less-than it wus, according to the obser '"vation of 147 men, and ninety-one report .,no change. Seventeen men reply that there has been a reduction of wuges and ' . 228 report that wages remain unchanged. . -The price of raw materials has been re duced, according to the experience of ,131 buyers, and eighty-nine say that there has been no reduction. Eighty-one men say that they have a satisfactory amount of orders on hand und 150 are 'unsatisfied with the number of orders. . While this report seems to give no V 'definite information, the explanation of jthe contradictory replies made by those 3fljrfwj.iniervieweu wouio. uouDtiess appear it Wpm"W hature of the industry in which 'each iffwan! is engaged were disclosed. Certain '?. Industries are rupidly adjusting'them- selves to u peace basis and certain others find tho task of readjustment slow and difficult. kfi. . - Lpy . HITCHCOCK. AT COBLENZ fst5PWANDERING bands of Congressmen C&$V i and nomad politicians of various TtaawV-. rl -J Atav am la at Ua A 4 nnnnn r a eV a irV asrn 1 ra ajyCtt jiuvo uccu ujJcaiiii ill, Jilbcivujo i Europe ever since the armistice was ed. They came and went Ivjo'one ma to know what they sought or jjreueui uiusi. 01 mem nuu uiu jouk oi len'ely strays puzzled and homesick and .U .dispirited, in an alien world. "f . 'V'Vrank II. Hitchcock, who used to be IJHlJeirmarj of tho Republican National : -ii ,a Ittcu miiu uibu fusunutivcr uencrai, cowniandingly among these ad- rows 'Americans with a new and , -MKnHee. .ne janueu in .'mh.,'1 choked Me bar.' ioQMmH UlUln or about' " ' 'IV I . J ' I v1 Coblenz thut General Pershing is usu ully to bo found. Is it fulr to ussumo that Mr. Hitchcock bears it message of profoundest import to (Jenerul Per shing u message that might be disquiet ing to the friends of Mr. Taft if they were able to read the heart of a former chahmnn of the llepublicnn National Committee? Events that develop so swiftly nowa days Under the deft manipulations of destiny mnke it appear that Mr. Hitch cock does actually bear a message to Genernl Pershing. Those prophets and seers who learn nnd listen in Washing ton are aheady in a mood to admit what was suggested in these columns u month ago that Mr. Taft has become the greatest Republican alive simply because he has tried to serve the country with out selfish motives. Is the narrow minded element in the part preparing to entice General Pershing into the Held as a last resort in order to pit the soldier vote against Mr. Taft in 11)20? HOW DID YOl l'KKI, HOL"l T.IKU)KU1.AM' MAHCIlai? ell.' I lien. tCi-nii-iiibrriiiR W hal Ilus Hup-pi-m-d Sine N 'I hire Jtnoiu for l.lnom Today? plYIUZA I'lOX is m anxious to attack its problems toda, o eager to solve them rightlj, that it- self-con-A-iousness is abrioirnully acute. This sensitiveness lias begotten the most feivid espousal of the most diver gent remedies for the world's ills. Alleged cures are called curses in some cunips, and vice versa. Yet these lines of cleavage, particu larly exemplified m the sentiment for and against a league of nations, ale not fundamental. Thev outline, it is true, widel.v differing routes to a goal, bin that end, whether it be Mr. Wilson's or Mr. Borah's, is essentially the same. What every one desires and this in cludes all but mud lltilshevists and all but a small discredited group in Ger man is a world at peace and a world faithful to the principles of democrac). In jolne quartern the very magnitude of the ta.-k and the clash of the workers inspire depression. Dark nnd menac ing looms the future to those timid spirits. "Can redemption on so vast a scale be achieved?" is fearfully asked. It can unless the law, of pioportion , ha" ceased to be operative. For the darkest danger todav is tnmtniiii.. t nitiiinrril with that monster I which leaped at civilization's throat e actlv one vcar ago tomorrow. On tint memoKible da was launched the girat Geunan offensive - the most terrific I challenge of the past to the present , which time has evei revealed. All the previous agonizing eurb of i strife were in a sense pieliminury to that I grim hour. Hy Mutch 21 all the ma I terinl and spiritual resources involved in the struggle were lilted up and crystal lized at hist. The Entente was stabilized. Us mem bership was complete, its championship of freedom solid and unimpeachable. Us cards were on thp table. So were Germany's. Her government, "clothed in strange trappings and primi tive uuthority," was kecnlj acquainted with the inventory of it., resources. Russia and Rumania had fallen. Con centration on the western front of the full force of Hun aims was possible. In a thunderbolt decision lay the only hope of victoi. Eric Ludendorff knew this and he struck with all the power at his command. The reward for his gambler's chance hung in the balance. The thinning of the Uritish line, ne cessitated by previous French calls for fresher troops further south, the absence as yet of American soldiers in decisive numbers, the luck of a supreme unified command all these things were vital factors in Ludendorff's favor. From Arras to La Fere swept the tor rent. Within three days General Cough's Fifth British Army was all but lost, its remnants owing their salvation to swift and gallant relief by Fayolle and his weary poilus. Amiens was evacuated as an Allied base. Apparently it was doomed. So also seemed the Channel ports and the defeat of the British presaged similar disaster for the French, with the loss of Paris as the bitter out come of collapse. Brief "and erratic is the human mem ory, and yet there are probably few Americans today who would say that he fails to remember vividly and poignantly his emotions on that appalling first day of spring, 1918. Nevertheless, it may be questioned if witli all of us the recollec tion is quite so intense as it should be. While the war was on it seemed that peace had never been. While peace abides it is not easy to lecall in its entirety the mental attitude born of the days of desperate strife. Psychological flexibility could be very helpful now. One way to stimulate it would be picture the compression of time, to imagine that the defeat of March 21, 1918, was followed hy complete victory on March 22. It can be said that this is to attempt the grasp of the incredible. But time is strictly relative, and surely it involves no mote effort today to accomplish the mental feat suggested than it did on that heart-sickening date last spring to conceive of the attainment of the "very Btuff of triumph" by November 11 of tho same year. When the British bulwark wavered it appeared utterly impossible, even to tho most chronic optimist, that a decision for the right could be so quickly gained. Tho idea of reaching the verdict within seven months was equally as extrava gant as the thought of the accomplish ment within twenty-four hours. Reflection upon tlje miracle is in order. Not even when Alaric smote Rome was the life of- mankind endangered by such basic and oppressive corruption as when Ludendorff, casting the dic for the last time, struck iheBritiah line. , -t ! 2auauv un. -tt r?it.t In the e"PP Pr"' sjviiv EVENING PUBLIC LEDGERPHTLADEtPHIA, THUEBAY hordes were really not moro barbaric than tho degenerate Koman whom they ovoi;w helmed. Rudimentary yet vital instincts of liberty possessed the minds of the invadern. Amid the lees of the once high-soulcd Koman republic such principles hardly stirred. A. wondrous material civilization perished when Romo fell, but its battle with the northern hordes was not essentially between free dom and tyranny. Such, however, more sharply drawn than ever in the world's history, was the struggle in which civilization reeled last spring. Uefore any lines whatever of future conduct, political or social, could b? determined it was nccessury that an utterly preposterous, insanely cynical, cruelly archaic doctrine should be crushed forever. Theie is much fretting now, u super abundance of "viewing with alarm," an overplus of "regarding with dismay" tho complexities and tangles of the present. The world, us we pointed out above, is touchily self-conscious. It is aware, as never before, of its pitiful shortcoming. Its sufferings have made it alive to pos sible defects in every proffered remedy. Disregarding the comparatively binall coterie of absurdly transparent obstruc tionists who arc playing un unclean po litical game, there arc earnest seekers after truth whom the pale cast of sickly thought makes cowardly. Speculation and projective inquio are commendable processes, but they should be undertaken with the mental apparatus fully equipped. Keckuning upon the future can become excessively wild if the les sons of the past aic barred out. Admit- I ling them in these uneasy times should give fortifying emphasis to tomorrow's I anniversary. i Can anv reasonable person reallj be lieve that the victor which we now seek to bring to fruition is mure difficult to win than the conquest of Germany ap peared to be whin that nation concen trated the maximum of her baleful power a car ago? Memory of the war as it inspires Felfish hutied is detestable. . .Memory of its tiue glories and their implications can be profoundly and ra diantly heartening. The high emprise of the past must not be cheapened b accepting it cavalierly and with mutter of fact indifference. Let us not forget March 21, 1918. The light that we made lo follow that dark da can rightly be summoned to dispel present clouds, lie is indeed ! blind who fails tj see this spring's beams, which no man a rar ago dared to hope to see so soon. CHAR IKK WILL HE REVISED rpHE Vare budget bill differs in details -1- from the budget provisions drafted b the charter levisiou committee, but both bills provide for an improved budget system. We shall not attempt at this time to decide which is the better plan. The point thut we Hvish to em phasize is that there it, agreement on the need of an impiovement over the present system. The merits and disadvantage of the two budget proposals as well as of the other modifications in the charter will be discussed at a public hearing in Harris burg in the near future. The changes proposed by the chatter reyision com mittee will be considered on their merits, unless we mistake the temper of the Legislature, and no charge that these changes are proposed only by a commit tee of citizens will be seriously enter tained. Every intelligent legislator knows that a committee of citizens is more nearly lepresentative of popular sentiment than is a single Senator or an elective law officer of the city. To oppose a bill drafted by a committee of a hundred responsible business und professional men because it has "no official standing" and to fuvor a bill drafted by a single officeholder on the ground thut it repre sents the views of the city is to beg the whole question. What we want is the best charter pos sible under existing conditions, and we do not think that the voters care a tinker's dam who drafts it so long as it is good. Two-and-three-foui-ths "Two and per cent beer should Three-fourths" so down easily in tills country. We aro used to that sort of tiling-. Wo have innu merable two-and-three-fourths per cent statesmen, for example, and the dollar in recent months seems to have had a two-nnd-three-fourths per rent purchasing power. And tho country was reconciled long ago to two-ond-three-fourths per cent pri?o flghtera There are two state Alas: 'Tis True ments of indisputable fact In tho annual report of the P. K. T. The first Is that the delay In the completion of the Vrank ford, elevated HiTo Is pyramiding tho cost of construction and the second la that unless additional transit facilities are provided In the near future tho business activities of tho city will bo seriously in terfered with through the Inability of tho workers to get about. X o fewer than How Clever! twenty-two newspa per humorists leaped forward simultaneously yesterday to cry gladly thut tho new stuff to be mado and marketed by tho brewers must be called Root-beer. But thero waa not ono, even among tho most ardent prohibitionists, who Hiiggested that'll! so far as tho dry laws ko Kliliu may provo to be the Root of a)l evil! A great many people nut Only Bachelors say tho league of Suy It nations will surely lie established be cause tho women of the world favor It. Yet It Is said that women aren't Influen tial In tills mun-mado world. Airplanes, four of Well! Well! them, circled 'over Amerongen, and went away without dropping anything! It will take clvlliiatlpn a ' hundred years to meet thecostA, nrtho recent war. There-are- statesmenrhv Afwrla who have bMK.apie to forget it to alMv.iwnttx; fl THE GOWNSMAN The Sabbatarian A8ABBATAIUAN Is one who keeps n re current day of rBt and worship In Btrlut observance of certain luwn nnd Injunc tions of Ids own making, to which ho uiually attributes a divine origin. Blx ilaj'H of tho week lio lenves as God made them: to labor In, to cheat In, to love or hate In, to wasto or harvest, each man after his own kind. Hut on tho seventh the Snbbatarlaii concen trates his lellflon, which Is therefore teveii fold nsHtronr, as another man's; and thla day tho Sa-iimtnrlan fashions In his own Imnjre which In not that of C3od. The fab tiHtnrlnu knows that the spirit of man Is stubborn and refractory: he tins deBlt much and anxiously with himself. This he calls somewhat profanely "wrestllnK with Clod." The Sabbutarlai) ban also 4dealt much and pitilessly wltli the sins of others: this he desorlbcs somewhat more accurately as 'ilKhtliiat tho devil." Tho Sabbatarian Is within lils rights when he nlves over a day of Joy and sun and eprlngtlme promise to renderings on the blackness of the grave and the nebulosity of eternity. It Is well for him to think on his olno perhaps ho hao Httlo rise to think about. U Is when tho Sabba tarian determines that because he la virtuous thern nh.nll bo no inoro cakes nnd ale, that tho unrtfroiicratc turns In emulation of the worm. WHAT America who does not can of inldillo lito is inero jes not recall Uio neat, bare Sun day parlor, religiously closed and darkened on other days, tut awesome place Into which no healthy child would venture voluntarily, the Venetian blinds with dangling olrltiirr, not to bo plaed with; the uncomfortable sofas, the haircloth-covered chairs Inhospi tably slipping the sitter off, unleis ho Bit bolt upright- the only Christian attitude In sitting. There wa-i an Ingenuity In wax under I- n glass, alleged lo represent flowers of tho Held, mado by one of the maiden uunto of l!ie household before bho became an aunt i there were engravings of biblical ttory and faded, pictures of tombs with weeping wil lowy, the last resting places of reUllvcg, dls-' laiitly interred and lingering)' lamented. There was that Indescribable thing, a what not, containing shells and curios and toire-llilng-or-other made from an olive tree, pur porting once to have grown beside tho river Jordan. And cm the cold marble-top table tliero were the books of u, godly household: Baxter's "Saints" Itest," Hlair's "Grave" lugubriously Illustrated. (Juailcs's "Poems" or "I'llgrlm's Progress" and tho big family llible, the pictures of which worn tho only sol. ict of a long Sunday afternoon, when father slept after uniiier, from which abstl liein'o was alone wanting, and mother read lrom her own blbla and s.iw to It that no little fuel patM cd too louil or ll'.llo voice rore tu its weel.-daj happiness nnd natural ness to disturb the wrenltj of u rerfect Sab b.itarlan nfternoon. Tlin Sabb liijuuctlo Sabb.itarl.t'i becomingly ub.seres the on to do no labor on tho Sabbath day. He is careful In this matter as to his ox and his :iss and an to thu stri.tigir that Is within his gato and, except for the neces sities of his own creature t'omforts, us to his mail-servant anil his imuil-bcrvuut likewise. II may be obf.erved that tho Injunction ex tends not to ids limousine, liut not onl does the S5.ibbut.irl. in observo the injunction that I ho work not; neither will lie play, nor yot allow any one else tp plaj though It be no more than a trombone. TH13K10 was :. logic about tho old Puritan Sabbatarian from which our degenerato stinln have niu h deteriorated. The bluo law H of Connecticut, whli.il shaded into the deepest Indigo at N'tw Haven, were no injtha, and It Ih doubtful If there have ever been Sab bath days of uueh a complete serenity. In those lialcjon times no uiau might tiavel, save lo church, on .Sunday, nor have his hair out; no woman might cook victuals, make beds, cweep house or kiss her own children. In Bo&ton an English captain, "returned from a erulso on Sunday, was met by his vvlfo at the wharf; lie embraced and kissed her be fore the spectators and thereby gave great offense; it was considered an act of Inde cency and u flagrant profanation of tho Sabbath," for which, It Is reported, tho cap tain was "arrested and whipped." These ad mirable laws for preset ving the serenity of tho Sabbath provided that no ono should walk unnecessarily in tho street or fields on the Sabbath day or profane it with "clamor ous discourse . . dancing, jumping, winding horns and the like." And to Insure that thcro Bhoulrt be no mistake In tho mat ter, tho Sabbath began on Saturday at sun down and continued, sans Intermission or respite, ull day Sunday nnd through Sunday night, a protracted sanctity of thirty godly, weary hours, thereby stealing six, weekly, from Ills routed majesty, Satan. O) ,TJH Pennbllvaiila law which finds Iniquity In the conjunction of two harm less, necessary arts, that of music and that of tho cuisine, has Its original among tho Puritan bluo laws which forbado "singing, piping or any other music in uny publio houses" ; and provided elsowliero that "no one shall mako minced pies . . , nor play on any Instrument except the drum, tho trumpet and tho jcw's-harp." The drum summoned at times to church, and no such aggressive people as tho Puritans could deny tho function of the- trumpet But why tho jow'B-harp? Did some rudimentary stirring of music within tho heart of a boy, dimly remembered In stern munhood, beget this exception? Or was It merely a Puritan joko7 THE Sabbatarian Is out of date. Ho hau not learned that the sacrifice of the Inno cent preferences of the many to tho preju dices of tho few Is neither good American nor Bound church doctrine, fpr that matter. And he does not know that muslo Is an art comparable, In Its power to uplift, to re ligion Itself and less beset with petty sec tarian prejudices and reactionary throw packs' Into on Impossible past than'the form of religion with which ho Is acquainted. Tlta hideous Babbath of the Puritans begat many a backslider Into tho Jaws of Satan and eup plied a childish reason, of which tho Gowns man remembers ones to havo heard, as to why the cherubim and oeraphlra continually do cry. I1 us awa- wlth the blue laws. THE GOWNSMAN. Lcnlno's colleagues aro saJd to believe he is crazy. They ought to bo connois seurs. ' Though Britain scored a foul when she let Helgoland get away rom, her, she ,aiiu ';.'( v'v iw,nina i "- -ri -i- -- . . base hiywhen thoy destroy aermanyfor. 4-would not! b .honored! by an'invltayo n,B '( , - ?, v ' ,?. f'V1-.' X.-M A 'r L ' ( ,and, theren,9ft,ne jsntentewlma)tea real ... i .j' - Mw$ ill; y- ": WK 'f ' i . -. . V . - !. . jaLHS. lJM-:-i'W..3r-r(mKMastSiaafiUS. T. I. " I' . .rXIHiii - - - "" aaaal I 111) Hi l 1 1 Jf .ir f". i. - l"na m. m i r- it THE ELECTRIC CHAIR The Whitman Centennial WHAT is Philadelphia going to do to colebrato the Walt Whitman centen nial'? It Is only ton weeks uwuy, but wo liavo not yet heard of ' any considerable public rumpus being planned. E hubbub Boston mado over tho centennial of James Russell Lowell. Dlitingulshed lit erary men wero Invited from abroad to tell about Lowell's world-wldo influence. In Now York tho American Academy of Arts and Letters held an Intellectual bazaar. Kdgar I.ee Masters wroto a poem, tho exact meaning of which Is still puzzling many an azuro-ribbed btocking. John Galsworthy mado a speech. Robert Nichols tat on the platform, and (this Is only our ow n private hazard) wus merely restrained from speaking by tho positive assurance of tho committee that ho had novcr read a word of Mr. Lowell's writings. Vachel Llndbay drank his nontoxic grog that evening with somo pangs of spirit, as he hadn't been invited to tho show. It waa tho general agreement of thoso prosont and absent that Mr. Lowell la a wortd flguro and reflects tho utmost credit on Boston. Which uoWly will wish to deny. BUT it seems to us, just at this present day of baflllng world movements and agonizing discontents, a little sad and a Httlo puzzling that wo have heard no ono in Philadelphia, or In Camden either, for that matter, utter any plans for commem orating tho one hundredth unnlversary of ono of tho most courageous minds that ovor wrestled with tho miscellaneous pungs of humanity. It is still too early to say what Whitman means. But any man of any liberality of spirit will admit that his voice, nearly thirty years silent, still out upeaks any living utterance on this conti nent. His mind was a tree, In which al most all that America has thought since his time- may bo found nesting. Amazing Indeed, during tho last few years, it has been to read Whitman's poems, to see how pregnant, how fresh, how full of meaning they are. As vital as a great wind, as brood as the sea, as simplo and full of nourishment as thp soil underfoot, his mes sage speaks to the mind of man. Wo have committed many errors In this country, disappointed many ideals, fallen short of many dreams. But we have ono assuaging consolation: "Wo brought Whitman to birth. Or did ho bring America to birth? Borne day we may havo to put It that way. a TO SUCH a mind, to such a message, one, can admit no Impediments. Whitman is an ever-fixed mark. Philadelphia has never seen fit to erect any monument to him. Perhaps it Is Just as well, for as Mr. Pennoll might say, an atrocity that is. sot on an hill cannot bo hid. Mlcklo istreet, black, smoke-swept, forlorn, acrosa tho river, has forgotten him. The little houso to which many great pilgrims came in rev erence Henry Irving, Edmund Gosso, Jus tin McCarthy, Edwin Arnold, John Morloy, John Burroughs and many anothei" holds no recollection of him. One can hardly re sist tho feeling that it is.stlll a little Indeli cate to mention Whitman In Philadelphia. It would be an intolerable thing if this unthrifty eccentric, this talkative old lout, should prove to havo beon ono of tho world's great spirits! Now If this were Parls think what a statue Rodin would havo made of html rnilEnHJ lit no living man so groat tliat.ho 4-would notjte. .honored! by an invltatje T I i 'I i ' UVaVT TaTTa' mUAm nt?tT TTVT9 "HOW DID THAT GET IN?" ..-f' T f S . " aVi JV .,-" --J y- - fJOi I, i fc.-.ua .siKaaa - , 'ivai yhb - .Hr . -s'.;?85. i . :" ".SLfiaEi' ES am. TsiV.s5 Eli..? to pay tribute, to Whitman's memory. There Is hardly a living thhiker wo cour ageous, bo advanced, who will not find Ills own thoughts already waiting for him in Whitman's pages. Unlettered, garrulous, lacking In humor, careless of tho magic of form that sublimes and concentrates, and frequently giving one; as Bliss Perry 1ms admirably said tho sensation of having opened tho door of tho wrong dressing room yet ho found In himself thoso ele mental truths of human sanity and brother hood toward which, after a whirlwind of blood and stupidity, wo aro again sadly geoplng. Perhaps ho was partly a humbug ho who was flabby and timid pusslng him self off on tho world as a creature of hairy bison strength, aiul ruthless passion! but who is not? Let all bo bald against him that is sayable; his great patient words remain. TTINOLISII critics havo tried to startle " their readers by asserting that the great English poet of tho war was not Rupert Brooko nor Siegfried Sassoon nor Thomas Hardy nor even tho laureate, but a deud man, ono Swinburne. In a for, far truor senso Whitman is tho great, tho only American poot of the war for wortd free dom. Ho went through it all In his soul, fifty years ago. Ho saw it coming. In a thousand splendid strophes ho s)ngs its horrors, its hopes and its meanings. To contrast the puny scrannel chirpings of our poets toduy with the vast volco of this man is to know a senso of sickness, of futility and shamo. PIIILADELPHItV waa only an accident In Whitman's life. He didn't como hero because ho thought It tho greatest or the bluest booded city in America. And if Philadelphia choosos to honor his memory now, let it not bo with any subcurrent of thought that to do ko would be "good pub licity" for tho town. Let It be done rever ently and discreetly, in tho hope of passing on to a now generation that greatly ndods it the triumphant messago of this great man tho message that "Tho whole theory of tho universe is directed unerringly to one Mnglo individual namely to YOU." And that tho lovo of human comradeship, In an 'inscrutable world, makes everything wholesome, solves all, "fructifies all with tho last chemistry." TT IS to be supposed that Horaco Traubel - and many others have been thinking about these things. If so, why not toll tho publio about It? Thero ought to bo meet ings arranged for the week of the anniver sary. People llko John Burroughs and Bliss Perry and Edwin Robinson and Amy Lowell ought to be Invited here. Men abroad, llko John Morley and William Osier, ought lo bo written to. Somebody, for tho honor of the human lntolloct, ought to tato this matter in hand. Wo aro hoping that when spmo of our soldier friends, to whom wo did not write the letter's we promised to, get back from France, they will bo so, glad to et home again that thoy will forget to bear us malice for our neglect t A ' There mus,t be a severe overhead ex pense In running the Bentlnck household hese days. This is the time of yearwjicn one wantt fcw! . . j-i, t terra forma ,i, ,f a li? . -v f "V" .v W-! JrjiiMi X 'I"U' "' V',M-i '. "" "I " I ' i" i l S ' U Yi :-V r"fjr'-' -!-. J fj" Creaf' t'5 '&?-? ''A'rxi:. C ?f'V t -"w; "BROAD BE THY LIGHT BROAD be thy light, O Land, llko water bright. Thy peace llko water deep that seems to Bleep. Llko woods thy soft clouds wherein the light nests warm; Let shadows on thy meadows move like sheep. Thy birds aro lovely birds and lovely, voices, And lovely airs they slug in tho rainy spring, Silver hair thy streams, drawn through tangled dreams Of trees and meads and trees that shake und sing Thero should no angers movo on tho face men love, Fear should not bo there, nor sick despair; But clear and fcteady eyes and old his tories, And thought Invisible mado vislblo there. E. F. Lower, In tho Living Ago. "Fare is foul" in tho opinion of thoso Jcrsoyltes averso to tho zono system of trolley charges. They toll us that "evoquo" is bishop and by extension bishop-vestment hue. It's well to know this. Otherwise the un initiated might conclude that from a mil linery standpoint the "First Lady Out of the Land1' has simply Joined tho "reds." t What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. What Is tho oldest lelgnlng royal dynasty in the world? vj 2. what aro railway coaches callcu.ln ling- g lanuf 3. What Is tho westernmost capo of Africa? 4. What is tho first name of premier Or- tanao oi iiaiy ( ' E. Name two Democratic Presidents who dropped their first names in political life? 6. How much was tho population of tho city of Rheims reduced as a result of tho war? 7. What animal Is sometimes called a "molly-cottontall" 1 8. What Is tho meaning of the Latin phrase "Dulco ot decorum est pro patrla morl"? 9.' Who wroto the "New World Symphony"? 10. What syllable should bo stressed In the word Panama? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. The shortest routs from continent to con tinent across the Atlantic Ocean is Dakar, Senegal, Africa, to Pernambueo, Brazil. 5. General Pershing's mlddlo name is Jo seph. , 3. The great German offenslvo last year began on March 21. ' 4. "Cap-a-pje" means from head to foot 6, Counterpoint; melody added as accom paniment to given melody; art, mods i of adding melodies as accompaniment according to fixed rules. 6. nembrandt Peale was an American por trait and historical painter and 'au thor. Ho was bom In Bucks County,. Pa., In 1778, and died in Philadelphia In 1860. 7. Mount Parnassus In Greece was dedi cated to tho. Muses. Ilenco the adop ' tion of the name Parnassians by a group of French poets, which Included de Banvllle, Gautler and Lcconta da Lisle. 8. A pantlsocracy Is a community in which all are equal ana an ruie. 9. The Children's Crusad occurred, in Ke J in a sil'i!a la a. mcrkireMmbllnr an. aso- Hill VW.(-. ... rf 7 I 10. 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