s i x ... TV y fr .' .Ju .v - 'fa -. i- n. it , f "' - EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA', FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1919 Mk. T ffi r K, R .t m E?i 7 -til Mr ViK W TWPW K5 .' . and v THF. EVENING TELEGRAPH V PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY V - crnus it. it cuims, pixt , . Charla II. Ludlnrton. Vice President. Jnhn C. ! rtln. Sfrrttury end Treasurers I'nlllpS. Colllna. llfoenina Uublic He&aer $ , ran D. Williams, John J. Spurgeon, Directors. EDITOIUAt, BOAIID: Citos Id K. Cuius. Chairman AVID E. SMILET .Editor 8HN C. MARTIN. ...General IIuiIihh Manager iff ' 'ubllsned daily at Polio I.stmn Bulldlne. -Aturtio Citi Prrts.Inlon liulldlnr siir iobk. 208 Metropolitan Tower 403 Kord lluliJInr JJ1T10IT. BT. IjOtlll 1001 Fullerton TlulMlna i-fvv( Ni:va iiimEAits: VWliHIHCTOX 1JCBKAC. i. N. K. cor. i'ennsynama am. end 14111 si TJw Yir TlrerAtf The Kim rtulMlnr J- , ZjONPon Ul'tcic London Timet Imhx .Jt utTncf TTTTTrr n-r-Tla err?- -I rt. r?vMvn T'ifat In t.rrvir la .rv.rl to nuti. Ek'' rplhn In PhllnHolnhln iihil KHrrnutitllnF towns at the rata of twcle (12) centa rer week, navablo rto the carrier. . By man to points outside or i-nuaaeipma. in tha United Stales. Canada, or United States pos sessions. poHtaffe free, flfti tr.0) cents per month. Six (SO) dollara per sear, payable In advance. To all foreign couitrlea one (SI) dollar per ftnonlh. None Subscribers wish'nr address chanared ,. must (lie old as well aa new address. BELL, 3008 WALMT 1 KHSTONE, MAIN 30CO F K71 Addreta all commtrnfcnflona fo Evening Public Lf"V$ i Ledger, Independence Square, Philadelphia. Member of llie Associited Press 1 THE ASSOCIATED mVSS is exclu tlvely entitled to the use tor republication Of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local neivs published therein. All lights of republication of special dit patches herein aie also reserved. FliUadflphla. Iriddy. March :i, 141V UNCLE SAM. INSURANCE AGENT THE government wrote about fifteen billion dollars' worth of insurance for its soldiers and sailois and virtually doubled the amount of insurance cav- ' ried by the citizens of this country. It is now planning to change the war- risk policies into ordinary life policies of the variousftkinds issued by the private companies. The Treasury Department has approved the forms of the new poli cies and the soldiers will soon be asked to adjust their insurance to a peace basis. If the soldiers consent the government "will soon be conducting the biggest in surance business in the world. $ It is not likely that any one antici pated this sort of thing when the war began, unless it were the man who de yised the war-iisk insurance plan. If the government continues in the busi ness it will be because it has drifted into it and cannot very well drift out of it. Congress will probably have something to say on the subject before many months have passed. WHAT P.R.T. FIGURES INDICATE TF THE population of this city had in " creased as rapidly in the last eight years as the passenger receipts of the 1 P. B. T. this would be a community of ,2.500.000 uersons." gj The passenger receipts 'have giown from $18,000,000 to $30,000,000, or sixty isix and two-thirds per cent a remark- afOv trnnA sVtnwinov Thn Ttnrnilntinn Vina i3? 'increased less than thirty-three and one- third per cent. ;iThe P. R. T. is carrying 2.240.000 uas- N tengers a day, or 300,000 more than in 1917. These figures are an illuminating reve lation of the growing business activity of Philadelphia. The bigger the city gets to be the more frequently do its citizens ride on the street cars. Eight years ago there was less than ,011a fare a day collected for each inhabi tant. Last year more than one and a ihird fares was collected from each in labitant In 1925 this will probably grow to two fares. Every improvement in transportation Wakes new business. If it is easy for people to get about the city they will get about If it is difficult they will stay at home. , No .forecast of probable increase in business following the opening of a new car line on the surface or above or below it has ever been optimistic enough. And gno growing city has car lines enough to v&" suecfc uib ueiiiunu. ;j3 " m, , i ' mere is no reason to justify pessi- fi mism lrjfcthe P. K. T. management. If W win continually improve its service the 1 tieonle will rnnfiniiA tn nnur fhni. l..inin J --i---- w -w fWU W.W.& 111LAC1S HSv.iHto its coffers. t - . fro., , ' )aL -"LIUJAL VULUiNTEERS jpppHE tribute which Dr. Edward P. kf !Mfdlcal Corps, pays to that organization, -ofjwhich is to be dissolved on Annl 1. is rxCthoroughly well deserved. It was not a rXBhowy role which these fifty-six thou y 'sand physicians played, but civilian $ Jiealth during the war profited largely uy their accomplishments, and their aid Spfcwas also comprehensive and valuable. Ihen peace is signed and the country gjaettleg down it is inevitable that the pres- 'lerrotion of the public health will nlav , 4sn tnronainrFlr lawra .oW- In l. .... yy .. .mw.wu...,. .u.a piuv tu uic fcUV- u exmnents activities, in tnis connection --fit is significant that the surgeon general ill retain the list of all the doctors who were members of this corns for r-nnstrl. jfatlon "should future emergencies arise. .wliich these men gave does not by any &jri&ans Dass with the dissolution nf tTimV Stet5c-C0!!l WPm i?nxtr,rrv tuu utatat icrm . VWWJ. "" nielli IMUli t-i nS""1"" rijr.A'jniau'a Doast that i1aw4TfA faaf Vvifwaea MnAJ rA.. i r.ttst legislation to build up the Ameri- Ufi merchant marine than any other Ongjess ever passed has some of the 'it laments of truth in it. .-, -ItMa true that under the. new lavas ifoki 15,000,000 tons of shipping have faMtlV proviaed for and that 4,000,000 i nave ueen duiic ana commissioned, t aaBBw.000 tons have heen laimrriprl nnrl tVin are awaiting equipment and 8,000,- .s have been contracted for. lutl when normal conditions on the Jure restored, how is all this ship- to da operated at a profit under Aawican flag? tunately, the Congress which au- th building of fie shiny has 'akwrt ot makiner such a chansre m$. !.'iUjprovido for thir can merchant fleet that is, putting tho fleet on the seas will have to bo done by the new Congress. It must authorize the payment of subsidies or subventions to enable the American owner to com pete with tho foreign owner or , irtually every ship that has been built will be sold abroad and will fly the flag of a for eign nation. The present shipping laws arc inade quate. Under thein what little shipping we had on the Pacific disappeared before we entered the war. So long as there is a scarcity of shipping we may be able to worry along in competition with other nations, but the moment the world re turns to peace conditions the disintegra tion of tho great merchant fleet which is built or contracted for will begin unless Congress acts to prevent it. The intelligent revision of the ship ping laws is one of the most important tasks before the new Congress. We as sume that tho members of the Commit tee on the Merchant Marine are already considering a legislative program and will be leady to announce it in tho near futuic. THE MAN IN THE STREET VS. LODGE'S STVNDPATS 'llic League of Nations Poll ?lios That I'liited States Senators Need to Go Home Occasional! OENATOR LODGE seems to be hedg- iug a bit in his opposition to the league of nations. Senator Reed took his Senate uberia tions home to Missouri and fifty of the sixty-seven Democratic Representatives in the Legislature promptly demanded his resignation. Medill McCormiek was hooted down at a banquet in this city for a speech that would have won him applause and congiatulations in the Senate chamber. The city of Washington is not the United States! It was intended, xhcn the Piesidcnt insisted upon an adjournment, that the members should leave their cloister on Capttol Hill and learn from the homo folks something of what is going on in the world. That -was a wise provision. Tho light seems to be bieaking in a good many quarters. And the forces that aie at work to inspiic second thoughts in the Lodges and the Reeds of America are revealed in the league-of-nations poll now being made in Philadelphia by rep resentatives of this newspaper. Two men and women out of every three de sire a league of nations. The collective mind of the American people has come to be a saving element in the world. It is fool-proof. And being an educated mind, it thinks in funda mentals and has little patience with the abstractions and the bigotry, tho theories nnd the special interests that so often befog and benumb the minds of partisan statesmen and partisan editors. The wise good humor that character izes mass opinion in America is respon sible for the battlecry of the man in the street: "Let him rave!" We let them rave. The unfit in poli tics aren't hated or stoned. They are tolerated, and when the time ccmes are nudged into oblivion without fuss or emotion. As a people we aie too self assured and too generally intelligent to be long misled. It is fortunate for the world that we are able to react critically and gener ously and with fine courage in every emergency, and that no man lives who is permitted to do our thinking for us. For more depends on the President and on the league of nations than ap pears upon the surface. If a fixed peace can be assured, the institutions of civili zation that so often have been twisted and distorted and bedeviled bye selfish groups will have a new beginning and an opportunity to keep the world in equi librium. The faith of countless millions everywhere will be restored and peoples will have heart to go on and rebuild a decent order of government and society. Any one who wishes to see ruin and destruction spread over all of Europe cannot do better than oppose the plans which the American peace delegates have advanced at Paris". The validity of the present social order is being tested at the Peace Conference. If the Lodges and the Reeds of Europe or America should manage to wreck the plan they will inspire fresh disorder everywhere. All the apostles of the super-radicalism will have a new argument. "We knew you couldn't make peace," they will say. "Anything is better than a new war. .Anything is better than government by munition makers and secret diplomatists!" The poll in Philadelphia is unusually interesting. It has proceeded far enough to show that the plain men and women of America have kept a rational middle course between the two dangerous groups that have opposed themselves most vio lently to the plan in this instance. Upon the one hand are the cliques which repre-t sent partisan bigotry and tho special in terests. On the other are the half-mad preachers of anarchistic socialism who are telling their followers that the American President is the secret tool of vested interests. The two things that normal-minded America most dislikes neurotic radicalism on the one side and rabid standpattism on the other provide between them the most insidious propa ganda against the only plan adequate to give the world new stability and a new start. These are elements that have made a good deal of trouble for America in the past. It will be years before mankind can make itself free of the confusion they have already wrought. But If the incidental voting on the league of nations in Philadelphia indi cates, anything, it shows that the mind of the 'country has been in training to deal swiftly with these agencies. Because plain Americans are sincere, because they love fair play, it is not sur prising to find signs indicating that most of the men and women in Philadelphia resent the nature of the attacks mado upon the league idea. V Because most Americans are not cow- dly snd bwwuiieOttw frf aU,te tuke they aren't moved by artificial fear of any invasion of pur national rights and the Monroe Doctrine. Since the polling began there have been few persons unable to strike unerr ingly, by the power of ins'tinct, at the essentials of the matter. They want their boys at home. They think that selfish men have debased tho spiiit of nationalism in every country for their own crazy ends. They believe the Presi dent is trying to serve humanity. And they want to help him serve humanity if they cnn. That is pretty good Americanism. Instinct tells every thinking American that if there are to be more wars wo shall not be able to escape them. In that they are light. Europe is pros trate. It is questionable whether any army in western Europe will ever again fight for causes which it does not clearly understand. But theic are a few nations left that aie still fresh and eager for conquest and empire. They can be tied down by moral obligations alone, first because they would fear the antagonism of the lest of mankind and again because civil ized men, though they may always refuse to war for the profit of cliques, will defend to the end of time the sort of moral piinciple that Mr. .Wilson and his associates at Paris are trying to embody in tho plan foi a league of nations. Unpretentious people in the streets of this city sense this. Sooner or later realization will dawn in the Senate! BUREAUCRACY RUN MAD rpHE Cincinnati Times-Star, owned by a brother of former President Taft, has raised a point in connection with the 1 tiling of the Internal Revenue Depart ment on the alcoholic content of non mtoxicating beer which will commend itself to every business man who has dealings with governmento departments. There is no definition of an intoxicat ing beverage in the -wartime piohibition law. Whether it was omitted deliber ately or by inadveitence does not mat ter. It is not there. The Internal Reve nue Depaitment hus assumed the power to make a definition of its own and it has ruled .that a beverage containing more than one-half of one per cent of alcohol is intoxicating. The experience of experts is that beer with two and three-fourths per cent of alcohol is not intoxicating, and Elihu Root has advised the brewers to disregard the ruling of the government bureau. The question at issue is not whether a certain content of alcohol makes a drink intoxicating, but whether a bureau has the right to fix an arbitrary limit in the absence of any definite authority of law. The Internal Revenue Department has merely followed long-established prece dent in this matter. The Postoffice De partment has for years made arbitrary rulings on the postal laws, from which thcie has been no appeal; and the col lectors of customs have done the same. In the customs department, however, provision is made for an appeal, but those who have dealings with other bureaus have had to adjust themselves to the views of the little officials who set up their own judgment on the meaning of the law and have supplied out of their own consciousness all omissions made by Congress. If tho protests against the arbitrari ness of the Internal Revenue Burer'v shall lead to a sweeping reform in this matter even the extreme prohibitionist ought to be glad that they have been made. Tho world will he in Hae Patlenco spired, of course, by thoso writers and speakers who are crowding to the forc Bround to tell how the "war was won But humanity will be more greatly benefited by any one who will be frank enough to Bo behind tho Kaiser Into Germany nnd the rest ot Europe and tell just how the war was started. It looks as If It wero going: to cost tho city $5000 to learn that It Is not entitled to Jimmy Sheehan's fees. "Dollars Flood Chestnut Street." says a headline. Of course they do. That Is where dollars aro made. Now If the yeowomen only woro put tees no ono could tell whether their stock ings were brown or lavender. Ono cannot lalt tho Commercial Mu seum this week without discovering that truck farming Is prosperous. Hindenburg now Bays that "Wllhelm fled for tho good of Germany. There are a great many Germans yfho will agree with him. it "Why try to force tho movie censors to transfer their offlce from this city to Harrlsburg when tho General Assembly meets but onco In two yejirs? Now, if the charter debaters at the City Club tonight will only tell the real reasons for their views we may make some progress a well as get some insight Into motives. Shipping, tied up by tho harbor strike in New York, is coming "to this city. If it were necessary to prove that one At lantic port wero not enough for the busl ness of a nation this fact alone would be sufficient. t It seems unfair to blame Burleson because the sharks who exchange gold bricks' for Liberty Bonds' do business over tho telephone. "Where, for example, aro the agents of the Treasury Department and the Department of usticej? That welfare worker who reports that our soldiers on the other sldo were too busy attending to their Job to give any thought to revolutions' upsetting the social order at home verifies tho opinions of those who have always had faith In the essential sanity of the average American. The Governor had to" ask the Attor ney General whether he had any right to assign Deputy Superintendent Koch to act as Superintendent of Public Instruc tion until the vacancy could be filled. The next, thing ifor him to do la to a-ik the Legislature to provtd.9 for the exerpise of the functions of every appointive, of.1- AIRMEN WILL SHOW COLUMBUS'S MISTAKE Suggested Aviation Routes Empha sie the Fact That the Atlantic Isn't So Wide Ajtcr All If You Use the "Narrows" riHniSTOPHEn. COLUMBUS was an t enthusiast, and hence his moral courage stood .the test of a budding mutiny when tho sight of the promised western land was so long .delayed. Confidence that tho Santa Maria, unless favored by extra ordinary winds, could mako no swifter trip across the Atlantic sustained him. Had he known tho truth lie would hae been really depressed. Tor tho fact Is that tho great admiral crossed tho sea from the Canaries to the Bahamas by ono of 'the longest of routes. The appli cation of accurate geographical knowledge could have cut tho passago time easily in one-half, oven In 1492. TUB Atlantic's "narrows" aro worth considering. Columbus -would hao de lighted to heed them, but he hadn't tho chance. Tho airmen, -who are in a sense his modern successors, nro moro fortunato, and they purpose tor capitalize their ad vantage In transatlantic flights that are now Imminent. In no Instance, whether tho feat is per formed by Tontan, of France; Hnwker, of Britain, or Bellinger, of America, will the unbroken air route be thrco thousand miles long. Tiom Iceland to the Tnlklands tho Western Ocean swlngo and twists until viewed on a world map it assumes Eomellilng of tho shape of tho letter "S." Tho three thousand-mile width la a popular but erroneous convention. Newfoundland and Ireland aro but nineteen hundred miles anatt, Pornambuco, Brazil and Dakar, Africa, but eighteen hundred, rurthermore there are island stepping stones to break the -Journey. Tho Ber mudas pioIde a handy halting place, as do also the Azotes, tho Cape Ycrdes and St. Paul's Itocks. REP.OUTING the world in this way will occasion somo altogether new l elatlonshlps between the nations nnd their coastal towns. Dakar, for Instance, leaps into prominence. Tho Trench havo been rather proud of this "mado city," es tablished with significant foresight back In tho sixties, but to Americans Its name carries a wild, almost heathenish ;sound. Yet , civilization has considerable to say at Dakar, and it will have moro ns Its proximity to PcrnamUuco, across tho "nar rows," la appreciated by airplane pilots. TUB Fiench have worked wonders in tho thriving West African city. Sene gal, of which Dakar Is the only good sea port, suggests lions and crocodiles. What tho majority of its inhabitants most think about, however, is groundnuts, of which large quantities are grown, and, of course, the commerce and shipping which is fast developing as a result of the prosperous city's singularly advantageous position. Dakar h.is its boulevards, Its 'handsome public squaies, its flno government build ings, tasteful and attractive In tho French manner. Its great harbor works impart a hint of Bordeaux. Daintily dressed llttlo French girls roll their hoops and toss their dlabolos in the parks as merrily as in the Luxembourg Gai dens in piquant contrast to the tall, strong ebon Senegalese, , who form tho overwhelming majority of the population and aro proud of their French citizenship, which places them on a suffrage parity with tho whites. Spiritual as well as material changes havo been at work in Dakar slnco the republic mado it tho capital of all their vast possessions ip West Africa. The black Senegaleso aro lusty patriots, superb fighters, as the Huns who met them In Flanders and Champagne now painfully realize. IF LIEUTENANT TONTAN eventually reaches Dakar and begins there his pro posed transatlantic flight he will bo feted In a well set-up modern town connected by rail and water with remote TImbuctoo and tho great Niger hinterland, In a busy, picturesque metropolis facing southwest ward In a way that may exert a potent Influence on the world's new trade and passenger route. Mounting In his machine he will soar over quaint Goree, that ancient island city In the'harbor flashing with an oriental Zanzibortlke color, which modern Dakar never attains, and careen high over the Atlantic wraves to St. Paul's or Sao Pedro's Isles, some thirteen hundred miles away. The green and yellow flag of Brazil floats there and from St. Paul's some five hun dred miles of air navigation will bring tho pilot to Pornambuco, the vivid tropic mart which is tho easternmost metropolis of all the Americas. It bears scant resemblance to Dakar. PERNAMBUCO is an enterprising en trepot, a busy market for all kinds of tropic products, Including most pic turesquely parrots, screaming of voice as of hue, sold In tho opentreots. But there is a mellowness and antique charm about this Brazilian city of some 200 000 souls. Tho Dutch, who were nmsng tho early colonizers, have left their architectural im print, as thev did in tho West Indian Curacao Manv of the old gabled ware houses have a flavor of Amsterdam. THE Fontan route will be rich In con trasts, but best of all it will Involve less continuous flyincr over the sea than any of the other courses under considera tion. The equatorial sun, moreover, will be a boon if the flight is conducted at high altitudes.. Via Newfoundland tho crossing will in evitably bo cold, but this course wins In Imaginative appeal, for it will bo a Jour ney without "calls," nineteen hundred miles direct from, bleak, odfishy" St. John's to rain-soaked Erin. In any event tho trip won't be so rough as the sea pas sage between tho two Islands usually is. America's proposed course has a Colum bian aspect. In that it Is concerned with tho very wide Atlantic, but In Patrick N. L. Bellinger's case advantage will bo taken of the Bermudas. Those sparkling coral Isles, beloved of Mark Twain and also" of some other folks partial to onions, now potatoes and lilies, will provide a con venient halt somfe seven hundred miles southeast of Hampton Roads. Taking Wing again the American airman will head for Ireland, seventeen hundred miles away, if the plan goes through as intimated. Of the three nations, therefore, France has the advantage of the nhortest route, America of a charnilng Intermediate stop and Britain of a jump the simplicity of which appeals to the fanqy. Any of the courses, if known In 1492, would have saved, Columbus a Jot of worry. The con, iridfratlw ef.tbn today ,maWeo the,pc$au -a-P??SllPKvlWsPfTsBUjH flfc lMPiHlCF'iy " "p ,Vfjfr 'r' fr THE CHAFFING DISH ENGINE ROOM AGAIN . By William McFce Cliief Engineer II. M. S. Kliarkl Tho Chaffing Dish's distinguished cor respondents have a waj) of writing to us from pumprooms. The other day it uas 31 r. Kipling, writing from the Qrand Pump Itoom Hotel at Bath. Nolo comes William 31cFce, our most cherished correspondent o naval matters, xcho flings us a cheery dispatch from a pumproom of a very dif ferent soit. You all know 3IcFce, or ought to, as the author of some very remarkable books, and an engineer lieutenant of the British navy during the war. II. M. S. Kharkl, Malta, Feb. 23, 1919. WELL, here am I once more In a boilor sult. This is a fuel-oil ship, technically ' belonging to the royal fleet auxiliary, and files the Hue ensign. She chases around after the destroyers, submarines and so forth and suckles them with oil. Whereby I have a most beautiful pumproom, copper and gold, with cream-enamel bulkheads, bronze floorplates and handrails of silver like rays of moonlight! And In the main engine room she shines. The Second, an embittered idealist, cannot conceal from me the months of toll which have produced this satisfactory conclusion. She shines. Her dynamo engines sing HlJe enchanted humming-tops and her pumps are to me what a woman's hair is to her a crown of glory. And now a horde of complacent machinists have como aboard from the yard, men who are past masters in the dextrous surgery of ships, and have dls emboneled her. They havo ripped out her entrails and placed suspensory bandages about her. They have cut her heart out and taken it ashore to examine (I refer thus poetically to her High Pressure Cylin der). She lies now, stark and stripped, in a byway of French Creek, apparently in the throes of an undignified dissolution, but really advancing toward her reincar nation. When the Dockyard Befit Is over, when Her red-lead wounds are healeC and covered with seemly gray paint, when her one gruff little funnel (I borrow the adjec tive from that flno young artist Thomas Burke) rears up Its re-riveted threat once more to the skies (and coughs wet steam over an lndignorit and Immaculate de stroyer), when all the sad disarray of the engine and boiler rooms has sifted once again Into the slick sobriety of efficient routine, you will not know her! And as Du Maurler's esthetic damsel said in Punch, as she gazed in a trance at the single lily in a glass of water, "Oh, Edwin. jnay we live up to it!" So I hope, to Hve up to the irantlo' standard attempted by the present reconstruction. WELL, I had three months' rain in Lon don and I hope I did sdme good work at the desk, though a strong solution of Soot -and Labor Unrest is a poor stimulant for a genius who seems doomed to short circuit on the slightest provocation. How ever that may be, when the genial genie who presides over our destinies Jn White hall aaked me if I would go to the Medi terranean again, I replied that I' would go to Helllngfleld to get warm, or words to J mat eutTvu iw tauisueu h.iiu kiiu, wen, go to Constantinople instead." I started and got as far as this1 enchanted isle, where I found my ship, i I HAD an'unhappy night Journey from Havre to Paris in an unheated "wagon" (good word, that I) of the Chemlns de Fer,;de-n3tat which cured m vof,any laa'"-, "lunaaisiait nnMnniifl. -;T I ( . ii w nuiasji.il .. nwrx. - "k""tw,jsm wihw , at "BUT WHAT'S THERE TO INQUIRE ..Jr .-. .. .. . . r ..- r.f .rU.JrS .i' .,,'WWJ.r. vJ?.-.:'i-i-j..-i.t'eas,. 1 i for an attacho case and my.hand struck an icy object. And lol it was my foot. My breath froze on tho windows in fan tastic devisings, and a French major in the opposite corner created on interna tional crisis by losing his pince-nez on the floor and waking us all to order us to keep out feet up while he got down to And them. It took him hours, I believe, for of course he could not see without them. Great nation, the French. They have the best bread and the worst tea in the world. I should like to tell you, if I had time, tho story of tho marine (French naval lower deck rating) who rode from Dijon to Avignon in our compartment 1 the seat which had been reserved by tele graph for a rear admiral. No doubt'lie was guillotined at Avignon, for t saw a flag at half-mast as I bolted my flye-franc dejeuner (avec vln) and the Indignant officer, who had stood In a cold vestibule for 200 miles, put his feet t p on my suit case and glared clear into Marseilles. I saw him later on in the Cannebiero (pro nounced Can o' Beer by tho British E. F.) escorting two formidable females to the Casino. "ITTHAT I was going to "say -nhen I diva T "gated was that orders to travel inter-' rupted a' series of "Letters on Leave" which I was writing (somo of them in bed). I did six or seven and Intended to do a dozen. Have I mentioned IC? I believe not. She is a woman who is modern without being mendacious. She Is by no means unique in that she regards ships with Jealousy. Shb feels, without ever having been told, that ships steal the hearts of men. Some ships do. They All the heart and the eye aind Inspire love. Some ships aro fine ladies not necessarily liners, either they are tall and stand-offish and you have to woo them for years before they recognize you for a real lover. This ship Is not a fine lady rather a saucy little nursemaid who will let you walk with her for a spell say until peace is signed and think none the worse of you because you go off to America and perhaps don't write. One of the advantages of Malta over London is that here in Valletta I get the Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post for sixpence, whereas Jn Leicester Square It costs sevenpence. If the League of Nations Were a Patent Medicine Why use drastic purges and all the griping, violent drugs and knockout drops when good old DR. WILSON'S LEAGUE OF NATIONS SIRUP is ready to build up your system in such a pleasant way? With a little thoughtfulness, all your troubles can be eliminated by this sovereign remedy and a beneficial Influence exerted on all the organs involved. DR. WILSON'S remedy, sold only in sealed packages, drives out all the poison from the European sys tem and produces such a feeling of relief and vigor that you will never want any other. Its action is prompt and thorough, allays aill inflammation, it is safe and gentle, one dose will convince." The most chronlo cases' of Monroe Doctrinltis have been cured by th!s agreeable sirup. Sleep lessness, nervousness and despondency be come unheard, of. A prominent English Prime Minister (name yon application) writes, "I never saw anything like It." A well-known French War Minister (name, on application) says, "It breaks op the most dangerous alliance, in twenty-four Uoura.V Try5 LEAGUE OP, NATIONS ABOUT?" i f .,f.itt- ' T r .nr? THE UNDELIVERED OUT of tho night an angry woman cry ing, . -A typist clicking on, the clnk of glass, Laughter, a tenuous music, all denying The whole dark sllenco of the sky; these pass. The lighted windows blacken, one by one,; The stealthy noises of the late hour ceaso; Anger and business, mirth and love, are done, Safe in sleep's umber envelope of peace. Safe, as In death, they He; but with day's breaking They stir uneasy limbs once more, and Know t Tho dull" familiar throb of waiting, And all night's soft forgettlngs swfft to go. "" They have had release; but tho unsleeping, these Are prisoners who have thrown away the keys. Babette Deutsch, in the Lyric. They tell us that fresh eggs brought from Lancaster County by postal motor truck are selling at thirty-eight cents a dozen, but how is an overburdened house holder to get them? Mall aviators flew between this city and Washington at the rate of 114 miles an hour and made a new record for speed. The record for slowness in the delivery of mall Is still held by tho postoffice in Ninth street. There seems to have been a, concert of bids among tho bandmasters rofferlng to give concerts in the parks next sum mer, Every ono of tho six bidders offered to supply tho music for $13,413.50. But why the fifty cents? What Do You Know? QUIZ' 1. How long Is the government's Alaska railway, now under construction from Seward to Fairbanks? 2. -What Is the baptismal name of tho pres ent Pope? 3. How are treaties ratified In tllo United States? 4. What part of England Js known nB the Duchy? C. Who wrote the doxology beginning "Praise God From Whom All Bless S ings Flow"? 6. Name two prehistoric animals allied to the contemporary elephant? 7. How long was W. J, Bryan Secretary of State in Wilson's cabinet? 8. Whom did Shakespeare call "the hook nosed fellow ot Rome"? ' 9. How Is tho word Newfoundland pro- ' nounced by the Inhabitants- of that island? x x 10. What leaf Is represented in tho decora tion Qf the capitals of Corinthian col umns? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. The oldest reigning dynasty is that of Japan, said to have been founded by the Emperor Jlmmu Tenro In 600 B. C. 2. Railway coaches aro called carriages in England. n 3. The westernmost cape of Africa Is Cape Verde, near Dakar, Senegal. 4. The first name of Premier Orlando ot - Italy is Vlttorio, E. Stephen Grower Cleveland and Thomas Woodrow Wilson dropped their first names in political life. C. The population ot Rhelms has beerwre- duced by the war from about HO7OQO to 'about 8000. 7. A rabbit is sometimes called a "molly ' cottontail." 8. 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