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DOES IT MEAN LOCAL OPTION?
pOVERNOR SPROUL is said to favor
' the passage of a law creating a pro
hibition commissioner for this state, to
be assisted by eight deputies. The com
missioner would be entrusted with the
duty of enforcing the prohibitory laws
of Congress passed in accordance with
, the authority vested in it by the new
constitutional amendment.
The state authorities are not u.sually
1 ailed upon to enforce federal statutes.
We have federal marshals and federal
c6urts charged with that duty.
The enforcement of prohibition will in
volve the exercise of the police power. It
is well known that this power is ex
ercised in the states and in their sub
divisions, subject to the tolerations of
popular sentiment. In some communities
in this state there is a more rigid en
forcement of the Sunday laws, for ex
ample, than in others. In Maine, with its
prohibition laws, saloons arc run openly
in Bangor, but popular sentiment in
smaller cities will not tolerate such a
brazen disregard of the law.
Now if the states are to be allowed to
enforce the national prohibition laws
there will inevitably be a great difference
among them in the severity with which
venders of liquors and beer are treated,
and we shall have some degree of local
.option.
Is this what the Governor is looking
toward in his reported indorsement of
the plan to create a state prohibition
commissioner?
HOMELESS WILHELM
TSN'T it fair to suppose thut W. Hohen-
zollern was suffering a temporary
aberration when, in order to dodge as
sassins, he proposed going to Switzer
land and forgot the horrid fact that in
Switzerland every cheese is inevitably
filled with holes?
By what route could the former
Kaiser get to Switzerland? A world of
enemies bars his way on land. An air
plane might transport him. Or can it be
that one of the German near-admirals
has mapped out a trip in a submarine ?
TAKE THOUGHT, SAVE MONEY
rpHE attempt the postoffice is making
to bring butter and eggs direct from
tho farms to the consumers in town
ought to succeed. It will eliminate the
middleman's profit and reduce the cost
of living for the families in town.
The announcement has been made
that the prices of farm products will be
announced at the postoffice daily, where
a list of farmers from whom they may
be obtained will be kept. The postoffice
is 'interested primarily in developing
business for its motortruck parcel sys
tem. The purchaser must communicate
directly with the farmers and order what
he wants. The postal trucks will do the
rest, even to the extent of delivering the
goods at the door of the purchaser.
Theoretically this plan will succeed.
It has been the dream of social econo-
mists for years to bring the producer and
the consumer into direct touch and to do
away with the present! expensive system
of distribution. The habits of the people,
however, have bt ought previous experi
ments to disaster. The housewife de
cides in the morning that she must have
- some eggs, and she buys them at the
corner grocery. She cannot take advan
tage of the facilities offered by the post
office unless she decides two or three
days in advance that she must have eggs
, or butter or what not, and sends in her
order for what she wants. If people can
be taught to plan ahead for a few days
the plan will succeed.
IT MIGHT WORK
Typ. HURLEY'S proposal for trans
ATX ferring the government-owned ships
to private owners and for assisting tho
private owners to operate them profit
ably deserves the serious attention of
shipping men.
It is the first definite proposition made
, for the disposal of the great merchant
, fleet under construction that really does
merit attention.
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wpuld put the excess interest and tho
excess insuranco rate into a fund to bo
used for meeting deficits in tho cost of
operation of the ships on new routes.
This fund he estimates would amount to
?16,000,000 a year.
In brief, he proposes a sort of a sub
sidy out of a fund contributed by the
purchasers of tho ships. Ho assumes
that some of the ships operated under
our flag would be profitable from the
start and that others would not pny ex
penses. The latter would be protected
by the subsidy fund, which he calls a
Merchant Marine Development Fund.
Whether the plan would work as he
thinks it would only experts can decide.
But it has the merit of being a carefully
thought out suggestion intended to keep
the American flag on the seas and to
retain under our control the great fleet
now building.
SCRAMBLE FOR LAURELS
BULWARKS PEACE PACT
Acceptance of Reused Coenant Seems As
sured, Now That Both Parties Want
Credit for Tlieir Fxcrtions
ALL DIFFERENCES of opinion, how -
x"jl ever bitter, concerning responsibility
for a good thing, even the league of na
tions, are grounded in a heartening pre
mise. It is necessaiily admitted that the
high accomplishment has been made.
Sir Francis Bacon, bay some investi
gators, wiote "Hamlet." The Stiatfoid
lan author of that unsentimental last will
and testament leaving his "second-best
bed" to his wife has more champions.
But while the lively wai of "experts"
lages the much more vital fact that we
possess. "Shakespeaie" gloriously re
mains. Whether we owe the instrument of
railway transportation most to George
Stephenson or Oliver Evans is still de
bated. Meanwhile, however, the locomo
tive is a substantial and civilizing fact.
Hamilton, Madison, Roger Sherman,
James Wilson have all been lespcctivcly
lauded as the "father of the constitu
tion." James Bryce dismisses them all
with the contention that much of the
great document "is as old as the Magna
Chaita." Philadelphia may be loath to
yield to Runnymede in this matter, but
even if the English publicist could con
clusively prove his point, would the bene
fits we enjoy under the fundamental law
of 1787 be modified. Not a jot.
And not a jot of intrinsic ment can
bs subtracted from the league-of -nations
pact by contending that Mr. Wilson
voluntarily revised it. or that he was
frightened into changing it, or that Mr.
Lodge indiiectly made it, or that Lord
Robert Cecil was its real inspiration.
Here is a situation and the case of
the American constitution closely paial
lels it when the act is of infinitely
greater significance than single contrib
utors to it.
If the citizens of this lepublic will
realize this condition they will piesene
a fortifying sense of proportionate
values against which political prejudice
in each of the two parties powerfully
operates. The beclouding process is well
under way now, since the fate of the pact
is very much less debatable than is the
.query, "Who made it right?" As we
emphasized, the veiy existence of such
an argument is the best possible evidence
that something admirable has been done.
The wrangling of credit-claimers may be
exciting, but the firm base of accom
plishment usually survives the turmoil.
So far as its spiritual vitality is con
cerned, the league of nations was in ex
istence before any member of the special
commission at the Quat d'Orsay had put
pen to paper. The mass of mankind
throughout the globe passionately de
sired an international pact to preserve
peace.
The Reeds, Borahs and Poindexters of
America and their counterparts abroad"
have been a noisy crew, representative of
some extremely silly interests and others
blackly malign and selfish. But the en
tire aggregation has composed a mi
nority. There cannot be the slightest doubt
that a world poll on the subject would
sustain the verdict which the Evening
Public Ledgek is recording in its local
referendum. Whether many statesmen
and diplomats in Paris were averse to
the league plan is relatively immaterial.
The conference, whether it wants to or
not, is lending a keen, even an anxious,
ear to -"orld opinion. . The eventual
formulation of some project to police
civilization was inevitable.
That being the case, a political drama
of a very familiar stamp was staged in
this country. Naturally the paity in
power is the party that does things. De
structive tactics by anti-administration
factions are trite political strategy.
Cynical as the statement may appear,
it is entirely conceivable had a Republi
can President been in power during these
times the majority of Democratic Sena
tors would havo sobbed for American
isolation and the Republicans have
cheered for world solidarity. Certainly
such was the state of affairs in 1898,
when the present "ins" and "outs" were
reversed.
The play has run u conventional
course. Republican opposition to the
league of nations has been made up very
little of inherent antipathy to the idea,
which the bulk of mankind indorses, and
very largely of antagonism to programs
which might by any chance be labeled
Democratic, or more particularly Wil
Bonian. Hence the cry for amendments
hence the extremely diBingenuous con
tention that the President was oppose
to any changes.
What Mr. Wilson dfd say, of course,
was that the league pact would be in
extricably involved in the peace treaty
and that alteration of it then would bo
virtually impossible. But political capi
tal, however extravagant, is eagerly
seized upon when the opportunity arrives
for an anti-administration party to.be
constructive. The fact that the Republi.
cana were prodigal of suggestions for
changing the covenant is in itself con
vincing proof of how deep is their in
terest in the league. Men like Mr. Taft
are superbly among its bulwarks, but
his attitude needs justification. It is
apart from tho political "game," and as
such truly exceptional in American his
tory. As to tho Democrats, selfish or ideal
istic, it was plainly their part to 'conduct
the campnign as they have. Keen poli
tics and round ethics havo seldom coin
cided more effectively.
Tho first act in the piece is nearly
over. As so frequently happens in tho
life of this land the people's will is being
registered. When this happens, political
maneuvers become lespectful. Therein
lies the true virtue of republican govern
ment. Tho strategy of the parties may
be dramatic, as was the round robin in
cident in tho Senate; it may be lavish of
sensations, but in the end it heeds the
popular voice. Measured by the results,
all the showy artifices become tolerable.
Such ns are now in evidence are espe
cially harmless in that they imply, and
more and more significantly each day
that Congress will accept tho league
pact. The discussion is shifting into
competitive claims for glory. If Mr.
Lodge votes for the league under the im
pression that he has been responsible for
its good points, no harm will be done if
all tho Republican party applauds his
consistency.
Of i datively minor importance will be
Democratic jubilation because Mr.
Wilson "has put it over." It wouldn't
make a particle of difference, so far as
the destiny of civilization is concerned,
if Britain should single out Lord Robert
Cecil, General Smuts or Arthur Balfour
as world saviors or Fiance should ac
claim the erudite Leon Bourgeois. Such
rival commendations will chiefly serve to
enliven life; but what will really make it
so that man may feel that he has not
traduced that gift is the substitution of
co-operative endeavor for the utterly dis
credited order of things that developed
the most appalling catastrophe in the
annalsof the planet.
It is altogether inconceivable now that
the nations of the world will not be
united in a pact of peace. The infallible
augury of its adoption is the scramble
tor credit in its making.
THE HOUSING PROBLEM
IT IS about time that some authotita
tive body presented tljj other side of
the housing question. We havo been
hearing the views of the builders and tho
landloids for some months.
The landlords aie laising rents and
aie in some cases attempting to foice
the tenants to buy.
The buildeis are saying that there is a
shortage of houses and that at least
20,000 new buildings must be put up to
meet the actual needs of tho city at the
present time. They are saying also that
the increased cost of building material
and labor will inciease the cost of the
houses to such an extent that at least
50 per cent higher rent than is now paid
must be assuied before any builders will
undertake new operations.
The homeseeker would like to know
what the actual facts are. He finds it
difficult to secuie the kind of a house to
his taste in the part of the city with
which he is acquainted. But he would
like to know whether there are vacant
houses in other parts of the city. A
police census of the vacant houses for
rent cduld. easily be taken in twenty-four
hours if the officers were ordered to re
port all on their beats. One cannot walk
the streets east of the Schuylkill with
out seeing rental signs on many houses.
The man who has lived in West Phila
delphia or Germantovvn or Oak Lane may
not like to live downtown. It is his re
luctance that is partly responsible for
the high rentals in the distinctively resi
dential districts. But if the families with
no small children should begin to seek
houses in the older districts, those houses
would be put in livable condition and tho
pressure on the other sections would be
relieved and the excuse of the landlords
for raising rents on houses built five or'
ten years ago would disappear.
What the people are objecting to most
strenuously is this attempt of the land
lords to charge rental on an unearned in
crement in the value of their prop
erty largely in excess of the actual in
crement due to the growth of the city.
The tenants call it profiteering, and their
resentment is natuial. At best the con
ditions are unsatisfactory. Nothing,
however, would do so much to clarify the
situation as a census of vacant houses,
for this would show just how much and
how little truth there is in tho present
assertion of men interested in higher
rentals that there are not houses enough
for the population now here.
SJarrh weather Wma to have caught
tho revolution epidemic.
Mr JIurley'8 Idea la to provide a per
manent setting for the "(Jem of the Ocean,"
Smothers as well as mothers will greet
tho Twentj-elshth when the day of days
rolls around.
"Sco what a rent tho envious profiteer
mad!" tided the Buffering Philadelphia
tenant.
Metaphorical medleys go the pictur
esque limit when an Iron Division 13 com
posed of doUKhbojs.
Clearly it Is up to the "Big- Four" to
show some "big fortitude" in grappling
wlth the Bolshevist pest.
Though ratification may mean stulti
fication for some of the round-roblners of
the Senate, It begins to look u.s though they
w-IU submit to the process.
"Dear Boy," writes "William Hohenzol
lern to Frederic William. "Expensive"
might be the way the German people would
put It.
The announcement of the Installment
payment' scheme for the Victory notes re
veals the excellent Intentions of the govern
ment to Dut them on good terms, with the
public.
CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S
LETTER
Philadelphia Hankers Wil Help
tho Victory Loan The Late
Frank Dumont and the
Local Elks
Washington, D. C, March 2D.
SECRETARY qLASS takes the ground
that the American people will buy the
now Issue of notes because they will not
permit the honorablo obligations of the
government to be repudiated. This was
about tho situation when the expiring
Wajs and Means Committee was called
upon to authorize this new loan. The long
and short of it was that tho Treasury
needed tho money to meet obligations au
thorized and Incurred. There Is no ques
tion in the minds of those who understand
the revenue situation In Washington that
tho banks In the Federal Reserve sys
tem will assist In the placing of tho notes.
The loan did not take the form of Liberty
or Victory bonds because tho enthusiasm
incident to wftr sales had passed away and
tho new Secretary was faced with the stern
necessity of meeting the debts Incident to
and following up the close of hostilities.
It Is a cheerful sign that K. I'usey Pass
more, of the Philadelphia district, and other
bfltlltprn nr finTift nront tVin nlona fit firm-
rotary Olass and talk of giving him their
Best assistance. The Secretary Is placing
reliance upon the Philadelphia machinery
which was used for disposing of Liberty
Loans and which Is ready for service In
connection with the note issue.
SERUMS and toxins which ate con
stantly discussed in government medi
cal circles bring to the foro that energetic
Philadelphlnn with Jersey antecedents, the
head of the II. K. Mulford Company, whoso
place at Olonoldeu Is generally commented
upon by I'ennsjlvanla Railroad passengers
on their way to Washington. H. K. Mul
ford has had a good deal to do with the
departments during tho war and has been
of moio than a little service to tho Allies.
He is one of the active spirits In the
Chamber of Commerce agitation to secure
a "big man" for Mayor of Philadelphia.
There are signs that the business men pro
pose to take an exceptional interest In this
tiuestlon this year.
IT IS easily within the lecollectlon of up
town politicians when David II. Schuy
ler, of the Thirty-second Ward, was the
president of the Anti-Cobden Club over in
the Nineteenth Ward. But David has been
very successful In business and, feeling
oung as even, lilts through Washington
occasionally on his way to and from Flor
ida, for David has a reputation as a fisher
man. Politics Is no longer so attractive
to him as It was, but he does not hesi
tate to speak kindly of "the Vare boys."
The Schuylers and tho Armstrongs and
the Ashbrldges they were pretty active
uptown a quarter of a century ago!
JOSEPH U KUN is to succeed the late
Louis Edward Levy as president of the
Jewish Community. This will bring the
former Deputy Attorney Gereral In touch
with legislative life at the capital, espe
cially If he follows In the footsteps of his
predecessor. Levy was well known here
as a spokesman for liberal Immigration.
His sympathies for the Jewish people, who
were sometimes turned back at tho ports
under the old laws because of their In
ability to read and write, was strong. It
was seldom that any hearing on Immigra
tion bills took place that Levy was not
present. On one occasion he told the story
of his early life, leading up to tho point
where he had become an Inventor and, In
tho matter of tho graphic arts, a very use
ful and effective pioneer, and It made a
profound Impression on a hostile committee.
He was arranging certain Immigration
matters In Washington on the day prior
to his sudden death.
PHILADELPHIA LODGE, No. 2, B. P.
O. E.p according to Exalted Ruler New
ton, Charles H. Grakelow, John C. Brewin
and some of the stand-bys, not to mention
George L. Phillips, secretary, is doing big
things Just now for sweet charity. Tho
Philadelphia lodge suffered a big loss when
Frank Dumont "went out," and that re
minds us that Dumont was a Philadelphia
minstrel whose reputation extended far be
yond the city lines. Like John L. Carn
cross, Edwin F. Dixey and Bob Simpson,
Dumont stood high In the world of min
strelsy. He was a clever writer, a versatile
actor and one of the best-liked managers In
the business. Like all good fellows, the
Elks accept tlieir losses with good grace.
Philadelphia Lodge still has Frank Gladlng
and other old-timers to call upon.
THE National Catholic War Council
"keeps steadilv on the Job in Washing
ton. The president of this influential or
ganization is His Eminence, Cardinal Gib
bons. One of tho state organizers is John
H. O'Gorman, of West Philadelphia. The
war council and the Knights of Columbus
have been In close touch during the war
period and have been extremely watchful
of the welfare of the fraternity. This re
minds us of the services of James A.
Flaherty, supremo knight of the Knights
of Columbus, a Philadelphia lawyer, whose
headquai tern aro now at New Haven, Conn.
Jim Flaherty belongs to that" group of
lawyers who were young fellows In the
days of Lewis Cassldy, which Included
William F. Harrlty, who became a Demo
cratic national chairman and subsequently
I'ostmaster General under Grover Cleve
land; Maxwell Stevenson, who In his day
was one of the leading criminal lawyers;
Colonel Edmund Randall, who berved In
tho Civil War along with General" St. Clair
A. Mulholland, and James Gay Gordon, who
subsequently went upon the bench and
then retired to become a legal thorn In the
side of almost any one who dared to an
tagonize him. Just as a matter of history,
it might be recorded that the supreme
knight also had tho honor of teaching
young "Joo" Rogers, now a Common Pleas
judgo and an oratpr In the same class
with John M. Garman, how to keep a
docket.
IF SENATOR PATTON'S schoolship bill
goes through at Harrlsburg, there will
be little difficulty In obtaining federal gov.
eminent co-operation. Philadelphia had a
schoolship of which it was proud, but the
state, failed to make an appropriation dur
ing Governor Tener's term and the ship
was lost to the city and state, notwith
standing that Iloston and New York re
tained their ships. The old Nautical School
ship Board, which at one time or another
Included Charles Lawrence, Richard G,
Oellers, formerly City Treasurer; Richard
Williams, George A. Cotton and several
other well-known Phlladelphlans, went out
of business with the uhlp. But throughout
the recent war graduates of the Philadel
phia schoolship were constantly coming to
public notice. It Is tho feeling In Wash
ington that the schoolship? should be en
couraged 'where Ihe, states are willing to
co-operate. What Senator Patton has done
will doubtless meet the approval of men
like President Holtorr of the Maritime Br
change; Secretary Sproule, of the Commls
sloners of Navigation, and President Ber
nard, of the steam navigation men, alj or
whom hove JepH pleading- for facllltloa t
1 train youn oen for service at sea,
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THE CHAFFING DISH
The Sound That Makes Strong
Men Turn Pale
THROUGH the darkness comes a rustle,
a soft secret stir. You lio in absolute
stillness, hoping that it will pass Bafely.
Again there comes a soft movement, a
sound of a breath uneasily expelled. You
fear the worst, but btill He quiet, uttering
fervent prayers.
A gentle tentative chirping, a clucking,
a gasp. You know tHnt the crisis Is at
hand and vou must rise and meet It like
a man.
A whimper.
A wall.
A roar.
That Is how a three-months-old baby
starts to cry. Ask the man who owns one.
Sam Daniels sends us the following with
the assurance that "It Is one of his own
composures." Perhaps Sam Is related to
Josephus.
"Yankee Gobs"
Out on the ley deck
There stood a mother's boy
To guard the ship from wreck
And to submarines annoy.
To guard the flag of many wars
This sailor boy was there,
And e'en mid ocean's giant roars
He spent the night in prayer.
The morning fair did come at last,
And such a morn It was,
The sun shone bright on every mast
As after stormB it does.
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But peace was not to last aboard,
For out the deep bluo sea
There peered forth one of Uultur's horde
To sink the ship with glee.
But on that ship stood "Yankee Boys,"
With none on earth their match.
And all let forth a Joyful noise
With thoughts of their good catch.
The guncrs, who were at their post.
Let loose with all they had,
Which gave the sub an awful dose,
For not one shot went bad.
SAM DANIELS.
We wanted to writ ea poem about Hog
Island today, but wo shall have to wait
until we recover from the cold we caught
down there. During that cheerful little
downpour on Thursday we were clamber
ing round the hulls of half-built ships, with
the result that today our bou! la wafting
Itself away on gusts of quinine and cam
phor. Wo only wonder whether our genial
conductor, John Fitzgerald, of the Hog
Island News, Is sneezing as hard as we are?
HUMAN MIND -
IN SAD PLIGHT,
SAYS HIGHBROW
Adams Raps Annoying Predica
ment in Which Intellect
Finds Itself
UOOD DKKHDING TO
FKION FLEASUltB
Hut Actual Satisfaction Woald
Pruv Complete
Idiocy
"Every fabulist has told how the human
mind has always struggled like a fright
ened bird to escape the chaos which caged
It; how appearing suddenly and Inexplica
bly out of some unknown and unimagina
ble void; passing half Its known life In the
mental chaos of sleep; victim even when
awake, to Its own Ill-adjustment, to dis
ease, to age, to external auBffostlon, to
nature's compulsion; doubting Its sensa
tions, and, In the last resort, trusting only,
to .Instruments and averages after sixty or
seventy years of growing astonishment,
the mind wakes to find tUelf looking
blankly Into the void of death. That It
should profess Itself pleased by this per
formance was all that the highest rules
of good breeding' could ask; but that it
J should actually b satisfied would prove
LOOK OUT, LADY!
that it existed only In idiocy,
cation of Henry Adams."
"The Edu-
The only thing we have against tho
above very admirable passage Is that It
seems, an unwarranted criticism of sleep,
which is the most delightful experience we
know and quite compensates for what wo
havo to endure (n th'e way of mental skip
stops during the day.
Then there's Don Marquis, who also Is
very unjust to sleep. "If you go :o sleep
while you aro loafing," says Don, "how are
ou going to know you are loafing?"
Wo hope we are not unconstitutional In
this respect, but wo have given so much
careful thought to the matter of sleep that
wo know perfectly well, while ableep, that
we die asleep, and that we are enjoying It.
, The Spring Poet
Sure, I tried my hand at painting, and I
found it rather hard;
Then I took up ancient fossils, when I
found I couldn't sing;
And tho fossils they annoyed me, so I
thought I'd be a bard,
And, llko every poet does at times, I
wrote a lay of spring.
First I spoke of Mother Natuic, with her
overflowing horn;
And the robins In tho tree tops, suro I
wrote about their play;
How the wind wag gently nurturing the
growing sprigs of corn,
While the bullfrogs in tho marshes tuned
up for their nightly laj.
Not forgetting Old Sol's comfort, I then
dipped my pen In ink
And splashed off a dozen verses -on his
warming, golden light.
Then the love-bird caught my lnt'rest, and
I sat me down to think
Of a couplet that would tell of spooning
couples in tho night.
Faith, the work was done In no time, and I
had a wond'rous rhyme;
Sure, it filled a score of pages, tied In
string of baby-blue;
And I felt so very happy o'er my efforts
,at the time
That at first I thought that mayhap I
I had caught spring-fever, too!
So I sent it to a paper, and my heart, It
beat with glee
When I thought of folks perusing nil the
children of my brain.
But the editor thought dlff'rcntly; ho sent
It back to mo
With the comment that he'd shoot me If
I ever wrote again.
ROBERT L. BELLEM.
Two Insurance men came In to see us
the other morning. On of them said
something that chimed rather gingerly in
our ears. "Yes," quoth he, "our company
has enjoyed a wonderful mortality during
the -last few years."
The Hooverizing Habit
The wheatlessmeatless days aro o'er;
On substitutes we feed no more,
We'vo sugar In our tea;
But when an extra lump I take
Or cut a.Julcy piece of steak.
Misgivings trouble me.
As on a piece of all-wheat bread
The golden butter thick t spread
(So strong are habit's ties),
Ere I can. take a bite or two
They seem to bore my soul right through
II. Hoover's piercing eyes.
Will ever come that happy day
When conservation's ghost I lay?
Will life e'er seem the same?
Though we no longer Hooverlze,
When shall I doughnuts eat, and plea,
Without a blush of shame?
MAUD FRAZER JACKSON.
A correspondent speaks jf the Lenlne
and Trotzky regime In Russia as a merci
less yokef
At any rate It doesn't seem like a prao
tlwU yolw. t .SOCRATES. ,
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A BABY'S DRESS
IT IS made of finest linen
Sheer as wasp-wings;
It Is made with c flowing panel
Down the front,
All overrun with fagot-stltchcd bow-knotil
Holding hours and hours
Of fairy-white forget-me-nots.
t
And It is finished.
Tonight, crisp with new pressing,
It Ilea stiffly in its pasteboard box,
Smothered In folds of tissue-paper .
Which envelop It like a shroud
In Us coffin-shaped pasteboard box.
Tomorrow a baby will wear it ata "chris
tening; Tomorrow the dead-white of Its linen
Will glow with tho tint of baby skin;
And out of Its filmy mystery
There will, reach
Baby Hands. . . ,
But tonight tho lamplight plays over it
and finds it cold.
Like the flower-husk of a little soul,
Which, new-lived, has fluttered to its des
tiny, It lies In Its coffin-shaped pasteboard box.
Tomorrow will malto It what hands
can-
not
Limp and warm with babyness,
A hallowed thing.
Tho Touchstone.
With the superb Twenty-eighth Divi
sion booked to land here. It Is becoming
Joyously evident that Philadelphia cannot
escape her fete. t
It Is interesting to recall that even
alter tne united States constitution was Jn
forco Rhode Island was still offering amen,
nienta.
It's a case of scrapping the Bcrappers
when those once doughty fighters of the
Spanish War, the Indiana, Massachusetts
uuu iuwo, aro nonoramy atsmantiej. (A- ,0
What Do You Know?
OUIZ
1. In what vi ay did the United States
acquire California?
2. Who was the architect of the Eiffel -J
Toner? V5I
3. vrnat color is named alter a ilea?
4. What Is the meaning of the word
auctorlal?
E. What percentage of the ships now under
the American fiag are owned by ,the
Euvernmiit7
' 6. Who Is known by the Sinn Fein as the
President of Ireland?
7. Who. was director of .military operations
for1 the BrltUh Beneral Btaff from 1915
to the spring of 1318?
8. Who wrote the music of the opera "Wil
liam Tell"?
Dt What series of victories does the Paris
"Arc da Trlomphs" celebrate?
10. Who was the first American President
to fall for re-election?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. George Washington was chairman of the
convention which drafted the United
States constitution,
2. Dulclnea was the idealised and Idolized
mistress of Don Qulxqte In Cervantes'9
story.
?. The Banat Is a region In south Hungary,
4. Derring-do means desperate courage.
6. George Bancroft was r. celebrated Amir, ij
Ir-nr. MatnrlfiTI TTIa rlo.aa na .BAA .. 'II
6, A majuscule Is a large capital letter.
7. The word tonsorlal comes from the Latin
"tonsorius," a shearer, barber.
8. Illinois is the third largest state In pouu-i.
latlon.
9, Count von Bemstorff lately wrote an
obituary notice of Colonel House under '
the belief that the American stfttesmitl
was uttiu.
10. Bessarabia is a recton lying
porthurt of .Rumnty'2AVlM
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