BfJ'i 3W '. n t " ' v T'-i il An EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA,' WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1919 , ' &.' I t -.r if a t iv i. & b V- r.' sv- . Is fc K P r-i1' 1 i w if-, ?(j' M V 1 :" M.tpmnn Iflithltr ?EW.rii?r riti I P' ? and irttf-VTHE EVENING TELEGRAPH J- ii' ' PUBLIC, LEDGER COMPANY W - PTIltTS II. K Pt'tlTtS. FacamcNT -Charln H. Ludlnt ton. Vicf I'rraldrm. Jnhn C varUn. Secretary anil Treaaureri rhllltiS 1'ollln. John B. Williams, John J. Spuneon Directors. rntrnntAt. nnint)! -- Hrin IT V Pitti. Phalrman P'ATID E. BMILET Editor JOIIM C. MARTIN . .tleneral nuilncaa Itanaser :.)., v-Publlahed d.iily at 1'i.auc l.tixim IluiMlnc. i-r Independence Square, Philadelphia , Atlantic Cm ... ! rv I nion Hullillne Nw Vom ... I'm) Metropolitan lower , DETnoiT 4iia Tori II ill tine ST. IiOCU IIMd rullrrtoil III! Itnj- i Caiciao ... ,i:nrj 'iiinuiie H,i...l n. r vi ws ucnnAis !" WikniNoioN liuiir N K. Cor t'enualvanla Ai and lllh St NKir YonK luarAt . I he sun rulltiinj Lo.spos Liatu l.ontloi 7iui "'' si'ust'iiinios terms The Ktimno Ptmu Llihier la aeMcl to aub acrtltera In l'hilHdelphla atnl aurruuitdliia- lona at the rate of twelve (121 tetita PT week. M.ibl9 i to the carrier. ( '.'i !l mall to rfllrit outal.le .f "-ultnleiptiia. In V. Stha United Statu Canada or I .1 Matea poa-j- atbalona, pontage free, nrt l.Vn is per month. f 'Six (16) dollars per year. puabl- In advance. -' To all foreign countrlea one nil dollar per month. Notici Subscribers wishing addrena chanred must she old as well as new addrtia. BELL, J000 WALMT KLTOM MAIN SOCO KTiAtMrcts ail communication to t.vrmip Pulli? Ltdar, independence Square, VMlndrlphia. L. Member of the Associated Press '' TIW ASKUCl rr.lt VltV.SS i crrlu tivelu entitled to the use far republication of all net' s tltsiHitclies credited tn i o nut . bthcrtetec credited in this pnvrr, n ui nMo the local ncics published therein 1 lights of ii publinitinii ' special dii "' patclies herein aic also icsened ' I'lidaJplpliKi. f.h.-.d pnl :. PI" m GOOD FOR YOl. (iOYKHNOH1: pQVEHNOR SPROUL has vetoed the bill increjisinjr the salary of the local Civil Service Commission from $3000 to iJBOOO a year. k Ho says that when the city Roscni fiiieht has money to spare for increasing ,CsalBries it should Rive attention to those itjssential employes who wotk hurd for small wages. We assume he means the policemen and firemen, hese public servants put in a full day's vuik six days a week. The Governor lemarks that the mem bers of the Civil Service Commission nic not ovenvoiked and under the circum stances they me not undeipaid. There ia not a single fireman or policeman who will disagicc with him This veto is based on common sense and on a proper appieciatinn of the duty of the city to conserve its funds. ti- But why should it he necessary to take to Harrisburg the question of salary fixing for men who serve this city alone? Are we not to be trusted with isuch matters? Peihaps the Governor will bring his hatd business sense to .bear on the subject and indorse the provi sions of the citizen.-' committee charter draft, which leaves the amount of vir tually all Falaries to the discietion of the local authorities. POPPYCOCK TEBS has waved the red flag for so many years that when things do not go his way lie cannot see any other color. This is the explanation of his silly an nouncement that the refusal of the Su preme Court to interfere with the execu , ttan of the sentence upon him for violat- ing the espionage law would be followed y a 'general strike on May 1. This is silly because it is based on the assumption that the workingmen of America are so lacking in loyalty to their country and haVe so little confi dence in the essential fairness of the t courts that they can be persuaded to tie j up all industry as a form of protest against compelling a man to herve his sentence for violating the laws. This is a country of law and its or 4, ilerly execution, and no one will take se k. riously such poppycock as Debs has 3 emitted. 'RIGHT REMEDY FOR RISSIA H1HE cheaply cynical sophistry that ,t "Russia is hopeless" is incompre hensible to the Society of Friends, mem JJ.i'bers of which report the progiess of im " portant reconstructfon work there and "virtually no trouble with the Bolshevists. Announcement is now made that mure i extended relief will be administered. p Harold Evans, of this city, will head a If new commission, which will assuage C' 7 famine conditions, study the needs of tha W&S J&' Russian peasants, assist them in learn ing trades and teach them how to carry on efficient production. "The whole scheme is in little what ha ' Icen desciibed as the "American, plan" .Jfor," 'redeeming th'e stricken colossus of ""Europe. Cross purposes, insidious in Mffluences, unfortunate obstructions of all &!. kinds have interfered with thn ni-..: f ' of the program. The Friends, however, IS n!.aiiave demonstrated its virtues nf $r course, they have not been molested in their work. T The governmental policy of Ruin ?T!Hay be Iunatic' bu.t jt is an absurdity to 'Of j jnaict a wnoie nation tor insanitv Fnr ii' from resenti"ff the right kind of sub E stantial help, the Russian people await tt?' yj :b ana win welcome it with uTnHfn,i, t.. Mr rf iheir campaigns, completed and pro- W 'v JT' tne "enas ore loyal to their "'iraditional code of humane progress. H" ' - . A RIOT OF BEAUTY $& N0NE bUt vilif'inS capitalists and WJ bourSeoisin will hereafter dare to l''I?? y ooisneyism is unappreciative of R1"- Antl even if insidious propagandists jrgpr law ana order, should make that 'r'elami. can it in sincerity bo iumHti E- ZJuiMifa n matler of fact, the Moscow Reds literally just crazy about art. Thv ive nationalized tho picture galleries whatever thaf means) ami hnv o failed tho coDvrnrhts on Rnsslnn m... aims. thus effacinre the sticmn r,t i.... TiSmTnuf nftr-wliin ..r','tBnttha most Rlcnifirnnf nnmt tu! fa il, is revealed in the radio announce- . jteni, oi ueauvuui nor. in l niladel- -' Jia", which we are reliably informed was "?f. iaiipired by the Bolsheviki." Foreign r'KtofaterTcli ' JSWms to ltliApest: teter Tclutcherin, n Moscow, sent the Foreign Minister Bela Kun, .Jlrtlitic- enthusiasm ia a precious gift M.'some civthe futurists in .i .t- -if-j.t. f a W which tho untutored eye sees not. The vorticists with their scrambled statuary have been similarly privileged, but it lemains for the '"riotlsts" to picture masterpieces of the most explosive and incendiary elegance even before they have been achieved. "Vrrt is so fine," trills, in effect, one prok'tnr'en Foieign MiniUer to another, "a.i a beautiful riot?" Judging from the exultation of the message, we should vcntuip to say it was one discernible by Bolshevist clairvoyance. Obviously, the "notf't"' schools Iwe reached fnr out for new artit o fields of exquisite subt'ety. "All passe," sanl llauthier, "art alone endure!." He was right. That is about all that is left of the "inspired" uprising in Philadelphia- in th? form of a glow ing plrae. ORUYION YEARNS FOR "SVE TSHOI'l'ER" BURLESON InjiiHii-c .mil )pprriiiii In tin- Poslofiirfs rr in Mr.miie (.onlr.i-l Willi the XV iUmiidii Theories T'HERK -ire times when it seems ac- -1- tual!y (K v-'itful whether the mail sys tem of the count! y can survive the pres ent Postmaster (ieiioml for another year. Oblivion yenin for Mr. Burleson as it jeni.i fi-i m other man in public life anvwiuiv. He i imxpliealile. The peo ple of tin- I uited States, wlioe mteiest i still oimcentiateil on the towering is ues of the war. an- as y t unauaie of the bi.aire luin that he is making of ' what was once the most efficient and the most popular branch of the federal service. Mr. Burleson ha a sluewd and pei ver.se habit of attributing all criticism of bis methods to ieentmcnt felt by newspapeis because of his zone postage system. But in the final analysis no one attempts to blame the Postmaster Gen eral wholly for an arrangement that is due very largely to the Kitchin influence in Congress. It is not as an administra tor that Mr. Burleson i di-ci edited, but as an employer nf laboi. In this latter lole he has levealod all the inept'tude of an uiupgenerate nenioi-tac and nil the soidul delusions nf a povincial tory. The postal sen ice is filled with embit tered, baffled, undeipaid and overworked men. It would have Veen in diastious conflict with state laws and labor unions and an enlightened public opinion long ago were it not sheltered bv the unap proachable authoiity of the federal gov ernment. The best of Mr. Burleson's critics has very properly tailed him a "sweat shopper." Th" Po-tmaster Ocneial has clashed with labor unions. He lia.s made liia seivice hated by thousands of those who serve in it because the postal de partment has been administered since lie went into office under a rule of tyianny and an economic creed rio hiii-jh as to bring dip-integration as a natural conse quence. Yet Mr. Buileson lemains the swaggering leactionaiy, .safe in the cabi net, a living, bi earning denial and' con tradiction of all that is generous and wise and farsighted in M. Wilson's policies. Tho.o who have been criticizing the efficiency of the postal service probably do not Know that many of the men in the Philadelphia office and elsewhere are compelled to woik long extra hours at outside employment in order to make a living. A first class letter carrier is paid less than $llJiO a year by the gov ernment, though he must be a man able to pass severe civil service examinations. Other federal departments have made it plain that this is about half enough to. support a family decently as things are at present. But Mr. Burleson is not committed to any scheme of wage ad vancement. He has consistently ob structed every effoit made by his men for better working conditions and bet ter pay and has, moreover, relentlessly ! advocated a system lcsigncd, as he puts it, to "scale down wages." Is"it too much to suppose that were the flagrant defects of tho postal sys tem to be investigated in detail it might be found that the cause lies in a dispir ited and harassed personnel kept con-, stantly under a grinding pressuie from which there can be no appeal? It has remained foi Mr. William Hard, writing in the New Republic, to levcal a drift of the Burleson mind that would be incredible if it weie not l effected in offi cial documents. Old and tried men in the service are not to be considered. Their wages uie to be "scaled down with their declining efficiency." Tho Postma.stei General waged a long cam paign for an actual leduction in wages and those who ventured to oppose him were damned out at congressional hear ings as "mere agitators." If anything can bridge the gap that has widened so tragically between work ers and those who employ them it must be a moie human approach from both sides, a recognition of the human equa tion eerywheie and a decent respect for the normal requirements of existence according to a civilized standard. These are contentions advanced by Mr. Wilson himself and implied in his state papers, and urged upon the gov ernments of the world as major impli cations of the American policies at Paris. Yet the American Government, through its postal service and in its im mediate relations with about 400,000 men and women in its own service, has rejected these principles with a stub bornness bo flagrant that in the end it must inevitably involve, some question of Mr. Wilson's own sincerity. Mr. Wilson has a habit of protecting and defending his assistants. His own courage and his devotion to the principle of fair play doubtless actuate in him in such' instances. But Burleson has finally .become at .challenge to the country. Ho has revealed in his highly Important office only the mind and the viewpoint of a provincial Texas politician and a pas sionate desire to make the Postoffice Department "pay" at all hazards. Pensions, recognition, the human eJe- lMthJr,work LpwnHirthe affairs of business arc not .""""'' - f . lW'- tJ."i i-,"t r .'lvTy A "HA" ' iZSb'irl'l"!?" iSv-t , " . ' ., -' ' nki-m "IwftJL.,-.,,. r.. La, .lK jaj&..1.-'.Jiv li-C ---. i , for him. They are for the "agitators" and the "visionaries." Burleson wants returns and he linu determined to show Congress that the postal system can earn money for the government. His success in forcing upon the workers in his department a system that would not be tolerated in any private industry hns been due largely to the co-operation of his political friends in Congress. And gradual demoralization in the service proceeds apparently without the knowl edge of those who might check it. Employe of ' the postal service arc flocking headlong 'into the American Federation of Labor. Government cm plo.es cannot strike, and if Mr. Burle son had hi. way they would not even be peimittcd to organize. But all units in tho Federation of Labor can strike, and they have a habit of striking when their mem bers, new or old, are subjected to gross injustice. The present trend in the postal de partment therefore indicates that sooner or later the Burlesonpolicies arc to have an unhappy culmination of one sort or another. It will not be pleasant for Mr. Wilson if, after he has helped in tho readjust ment of acute social problems in Europe according to lilies of humane under standing, lie should return to America to find the government over which he pre sides soi dully involved as the one remain ing ag ncy of black reaction and an in excusable offender in labor disputes cal culated to bring about fuither industrial confusion. The Pie.sident cannot afford to leave Mr. Burleson unchcckeTl. If the havoc that has been wiought silently in the Postollice Department is to bo dupli cated in the wire systems of the coun try, then the administration will have a great deal to .explain to the American people after peace is declared. Mr. Burleson belongs in Texas. And the sooner he is sent back to Texas the better it will be for the country and the reputation of the present administration. VOLUNTEERING F6R FRANCE TF THE success of the War Depart- ment's plan to replace a part of the American army in France with 50,000 volunteer t'.oops is measurable by con ditions in Philadelphia there can be rfo question of the excellence of the scheme. During March the highest number of en listments recorded here for any one day was seventeen. On Monday the figure soared to eighty-five. The enthusiasm is easily explainable. Thousands of drafted men were keenly disappointed that fate and the aimistice prevented them from taking a foieign lour, which, whatever its hardships and perils, was pregnant with romantic allurement and stimulating inteiest. The dangers are negligible now. What remains for many a youth of spirit is the charm. In their recent inrpections of the homo army camps General March and Secre tary Baker noted how potent this appeal was. The idea of capitalizing it to the advantage of soldiers abroad, who aie longing to get home, and to the profit of thoso sincerely eager to replace them commended itself to good judgment. Four times as many men are now en listing as appeared at the Arch street office before the offer went into effect. These volunteers will see something like the venl France, not the agonized and war-rent nation which many of the drafted men found so difficult to under stand. The educational value of the new policy, which will help to bring the vet erans home, is not the least of its merits. THE CRIME OF COMMUTING OFFICIAL photographs are demanded by the government from two classes of persons in order to identify them. Those who apply for a passport to visit a foreign country must supply at their own expense a photograph of themselves to be pasted on tho document. And the public authorities take photo graphs of all criminals at its own ex pense. These are kept in what is known as a rogues' gallery. Now comes the railroad administration with an order that all persons buying commutation tickets to the seaside re sorts must paste their photographs on their tickets. It does not appear whether it regards the commutel s as criminals or as hold ers of passports to other lands. We know that New Jersey has jocosely been called a foreign country, but we do not think that the railroad administration intends to -give its official sanction to this designation. The alternative view ib the only ten able one. Commuters to Atlantic City, Wildwood, Cape May, Sea Isle City and the other coast resorts must be crimi nals to be watched lest they violate the law again. What folly! 'Yet there aic still a few persons mostly holding government jobs it's true who talk in favor of government ownership and operation of the rail roads. General March says Now Oet Ready that the Iron Dlvl- For It slon will parade here some time In May after Kb return from France. That la what we have all heen wanting, not only those who have Btayed at home, but the uurvivorB of tho division who have won glory In France, There Is time enough to arrange a demonstration In Us honor which will In some email degree express our ap preciation of these sturdy and heroic fighters. The announcement Too Big to He that E 1 1 h u Boot's a Dummy? proposed changes In the league of nations covenant are acceptable to the legal au thorities with the American delegates makes one wonder why Mr. Boot was not taken to Paris In the 11 rat place. The weather man seems to have ap pointed winter to be the mandatory for spring. Tchltcherln, the Bolshevist foreign minister, who descants on the beauties of a mythical red uprising In .Philadelphia, has unauesuonaoiy a tioious imaglna. CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S LETTER How Judpo Harriett Gets His Eggs. Mann Will Help Miss Paid P-it Suffrage Through Why Hays is Like Varc Washington, 1). t, April 2. THE big gold seal of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania Is frequently In evi dence In tho Senate and House of Repre sentative.. When It comes It Is accom panied by tho signatures of Cyrus K. Woods, .Secretary of tho Commonwoilth; W. . Gallagher, chief clerk of the Senate, and Thomas II. Garvin (tho same, being Tom" Gnrvln, of Sharon Hill), chief clerk of tho House of Heprcscntatlvcn ami a statistician of no mean order. Recently, during the interim, the big seal appealed with all tho hieroglyphics. Indorsing ocr to Congress two proposition) approved by the legislative body at Ilarrlsburg. One of these favored a oto of thanks to tho local and dlstilet draft boards throughout tho United StuteK. not forgetting tlmso In Phil adelphia and I'eniiHyhanla, and the other was in support of the old-time proposition favoring an increaf.ed pension to tho maimed soldiers of the Chll War. And incidentally it may be observed that the Secretin y of tho Commonwealth of Penn sylvania, who is holding the olllce down ns cleverly under Governor Sproul as ho did under Governor Brumbaugh lias some views on that Interesting topic, tho lcaguo of nations, that might Induce the lion. William II. Taft to icspond In a few biief lines. TIIK price of eggs Is romlng down, and one of the reasons for it is that tho hens are beginning to l.i. They place great stoic hy tile AineiliMH hen 111 the Department of Agrirultiiie. and contend that Hhe Is worth more tn the eountiy than all the Iron and steel inteiestx put together. Thoie is .something about the American egg Hint docs appeal tn the breakfast table. The I'oMm.istiT CJeneial .irgues tint he gets the egg theie cheaper bv parcels post than It I'liiiM gn through the commission house. Charles i: Ii.mlelt, the new Mu nicipal Court Judge, who was a philoso pher before his old i-hiiin, "Bob" von Moschzlsker, went upon the Supreme Court 1-eneli, has not so much faith In the parcels post as he has in his two strong aims and pedal cMieniitics. The judge Knows a Bucks County farmer who 1ms a successful thicken nid, and he goes nfter tho eggs in person. The late county com missioner, "Hob" Monro, used to resort tn the same plan He said it beat the s-torage warehouse and the profiteer. Ti-oro are more ways than the parcels post for get ting the fresh egg on tho table, but the fear nf being seen carrying a market basket helps to keep up ttio price. IT'S dollais to doughnuts that .lames K. Mann, tho defeated candidate for Speaker, will tlguie big in tho next Con gress In behalf of woman suffrage. Mann knows the cause is unpopular in certain eastern districts, but he believes In It and expects to make a Republican issue of it. This ought to be good news tq Miss Alice Paul, MI.ss Maiy Ingham, Mrs, I.ijwis and the other militants from Philadelphia and icinlty who have been blaming President Wilson for their troubles. It Is worth noting also that Mondell, of Wyoming, who succeeds Mann us Republican leader, was perhups the foremost suffragist on the Re publican side long before Mi nn came into camp. On tho other hand, Glllctt, tho now Republican Speaker, has not been faor ablo to suffrugo heretofore. NATIONAL, CHAIRMAN. HAYS has some of the truits of the Philadelphia Organization leader. The Vaies used to contend that organization for national campaigns which lemains doimant tho iebt of the four- ear period is not of much value. Hays is not necessarily a Varo man, but he Is trjlng to bo a harmonlzer, and believes In keeping organization going all the time. He is tho first national chair man In recent yeais to prod Congressmen and others as to their sense or political responsibility. Tho latest moe of tho national chairman is to get tho new Re publican House leaders together, with a view of promoting publicity. He is trying to work out a similar plan on tho Senate side. The national chairman is as much a detail worker as Dick Blrely, Harry Vittlg or Charlie Voorhees ued to be in the city committee or as William Finley Is now. DIRECTOR WEBSTER tells us he Is going ahead encouraging steamship lines at Philadelphia regardless of the ac tion of the joint committees or "resoluters" who resolute sometimes more than they perform. There Is delay in the establish ment of purely American lines, ns there is also in the setting up of drydocks at Phil adelphia, but the Cunard and other foreign lines lme recently come In, and tho direc tor is arranging to accommodate them. The Cunard Line, the Anchor Lino and the Anchor-Donaldson Line piopoao to get busy in American ports, no matter how sluggish is the American disposition to look out for Its own interests, Joint offices for these lines have recently been set up bore In Washington. Wo are informed that It is their purpose to extend the serv ice along tho coast. THAT Burleson and the Postal Tele graph and Cable Company officials should clash has been a foregone conclu.' slon ever since tho astute Postm:itter Gen eral, teaching out for control of the tele graph and telephone lines under the war power, first Induced the President and Congress to go along with him on his federal operation plan. And it was to bo expected that the Postmaster General would sit tight. Ho Is a tenacious official, and tho Independence of the Postal peoplo under Clarence H. Mackey wus calculated to rllo him. The Mackey Interests wanted to get the company back In their own hands. They wero behind a movement which gained great headway before Con gress adjourned to rescind tho Postmaster General's authority. That agitation now goes over until tho extra session, when it will be renewed with the sympathy of a Republican Congress, interesting to note that when the companies were taken over by the government our old Philadelphia friend, Charles C. Adams, who used to hold forth at the Chestnut and Juniper streets headquarters of the Postal, was taken over with tho outfit. Ho hud becomo vico presl. dent to Mackey In New York when tho Postmaster General entered upon the scene. WHAT did Chaney , Ellis, of Camden, dean of the Delaware River Mayors, mean by talking buck to a Governor who Is coming to the United States Senate? Why did Brother Winston, of the charter revision committee, go over the head of Penrose and the Vares and appeal to tho Democratic Attorney General, A. Mitchell Palmer? And why did Collector Ephralm Lederer report a decrease In Income tax collections for the Philadelphia district? As James Rankin Young would say, Phlla delphlans resident In Washington "would like to know." As to the Income tax, can the answer be that tho taxes are being inoro equitably distributed? The returns for 1916, remember, showed that four largo Hiiid tnntj-t mAlia ilian ni1 a4 at. !.. iui:o jiwm uwo w nan ui me income tar. Of the 0,000,000 planters, stock raisers nta.l ,nf?rt(Mlltlllfflt. nnlv 1J0O rfnnrlarl - I,, ..v V..yv f v"i I,VVIV UlSOr and .agriculturists, only. 1-100 rtportad.- Jra. ', r,k A ,s v ,,, - f-A-i ',' ft iB--LA'l,z ''.- "SURE, HE'LL TAKE JUST WHAT'S ORDERED; HE WANTS TO GET WELL!" . j&fw - ---, . --..,---, SUNNY Danzig to Warsaw If Warsaw saw fur moro of war Than Warsaw bought to see, Another town moio sore war saw Thau Warsaw saw that's m6! For Warsaw saw the war see saw But Warsaw saw no sea: I saw war soar by sea and ahoic So Warsaw's soto at me! The hoio war Warsaw saw seo-.saw Was a worse bore war for me I ww more war than Warsaw saw l'or the war wore Warsaw free! Gobs nro getting degobllized. Jobs ready'.' Aie the Social Chat Mr. Philip Warner, tho well-known book seller, was personally observed by us at the transmitting end of two oyster stews. Many thanks, Philip! Spring Poem If daffodils wero merely yellow flowers ' (to be continued, wo hope) Clement Shorter has discovered tho fol lowing epitaph, which seems to us worth reprinting: Her last words on earth were, "Dear friends, I'm a-going Where there ain't any baking or washlns or sowing, But where you're got everything done to your wishes, For where they don't cat there's no wash ing up dishes. i I shall sit on the banks of that beautiful river, Antl never do nothing forever and ever." The cares of lite had prevented us from visiting our favorite bookstore for some time, but dropping in thero yesterday we were surprised to find a letter waiting for us. Some wag and wagess had mailed It from Jacksonville In care of our bookseller friends, knowing wo would get It sooner or later. Here it is: Dear Socrates Can you tell us whether the siege by Nebuchadnezzar was tho first case of Tyre trouble on record? " . DIDO AND AENEAS. We don't know what AeneaB Is dolng'ln Jacksonville, but If he's buzzing 'any of those southern Janes we're going to put poor old Anchlses wise. The Bolshevist foreign minister, friend Tchltcherln, sparked off a wireless to his little friends in Hungary. Paris picked the gutturals put of tho air, shaved and disinfected them and distilled ' them Into our syllables thus: , Beautiful riot in Philadelphia, which tec are rellablu informed was inspired bv Bol sncvlkl. Wo have been cudgeling, our mentals to think what riot It can have . been that tickled Moscow so. Can thero have been a riot around .here that we have missed? Has any one seen one strolling about at large? 'It was a "beautiful" Hot, too; note that. The only thing we can think of was -that two days' riot of silk ankles along- Chest nut street during the wind storm recently. If that was Inspired by tho Bolsheviki then the Boardwalk at Atlantic! City must bo their footquarters. Speaking of humor, now what could be richer In Jest than that wireless from Bolshevik Tchltcherln? Lo, from the fount of his -wit came the Jape rilling But was old Tchltcherln Just first-of-Aprlllng7 Perhaps as a wheeze on the world he un loaded It: If ho had meant It, you bet he'd have coded It I The best thing we've heard about the Senate tor a Jong time Is that It was n i.ex-enaior -iKe-u. usFiy,ys0wno:i,mp-n!y:n ;, miom "U?mH ' ( ii -J' 'wywss " ,. TiVVf',h'v' J- ' fii'i iiifafl I HJIttiiiiifti it i 'nnlairigiimNnffiraa .. ,.v' .;,.. . SIDE UP tried to kidnap the Kaiser last December, to give him to Woodrow as a Christmas present. It was llko Lea to try It, but It was also unlikely to succeed. As for horizon blue, that favorite color, tho Kaiser's horizon looks the bluest of all. Subject for Poem Tho Colyumist Orders His Sepulchre (to be written, wo hope) Mr. Taft was "broko" in Detroit yester day and had to walk to the Mayor's office to cash a check. Ho was on his way to Kalamazoo, wheio ho should havo had no troublo in finding both Kale and Mazuma. Wo aro going to call a halt on these zoo jokes. Wo camo to this decision after hearing from Becky Blunt that the Moscow had had a calf and the gnu an innovation. Joyce Kilmer Ho sang, as sing tho true, A wholesome song. Exultant, lovo born anew, A spirit strong. Ho passed, as pass the brave, Before his time, Militant, into the grave, . A soul sublime, . He lives, as live the great, In all men's love. Blessed, an envied state, By God above. A. M. HICKEY. 'Brilliants From tho "Home Manual" Nancy Wynne has added ten years to our life by lending us the "Homo Manual." Hero aroUi fowmoro gems: W7iat costume Is suitable for a gentle man to wear on board a yachtf Jf ladles are present, a black diagonal cutau-ay coat, white or black waistcoat, light trousers and light derbv hat. 1V'7mf is the proper time to send a gift to a vothcr-ln-lawt Ucfore'the wedding. Can an engaged man call on his fiancee every cvcnlngr t Certainly. He Is expected to do so. Should tha bridegroom kiss the Jbrlde di rectly after the marrlaget Xot If he desires to follow the latest rule of etiquette. Page Tiny Maxwell 1 America may Justly claim baseball as her national game. Played with great celerity, the bals pitched and batted often with tremendous force, accidents unfor tunately are not rare, but most of the dangers can be avoided by quickness, watchfulness and a determination to do nothing reckless. Tho Homo Manual, The downfall of the ellum In Independ ence Square has been a boon to the lunch, time ldlterers In that pleasaunce. The leisurely sawing of the trunk gives a, new topic for discussion, Bolshevism having grown a trifle stalo. If all Graf Bentlnck's domain has been deforested by this time, perhaps a certain elderly workman from Amerongen might be glad to take a hand. SOCRATES. As far as the prices are concerned, It is evident that passengers on the seashore railroads will havo merry-go-round trips hut dismally expensive one-way Journeys, The strain an the Imagination In volved in describing the present lively sit. uatlon at the Qual d'Orsay as' a deadlock Is rather sovere. Now that the women have tackled the Job, tho alleged "conspiracy of plfenco" about political conaiuons iu name to pe broken up. "on iv comes to laming. outermost .containing: tno animal, .. 'I ?. -'.... ! II Hllkfll.. mm m k. 1..A .1 I . . ...,...l.hll fa tuawlu I '.... Ji JIB THROUGH THE SHADOWS A LL In a dream In the twilight. " Glimmering btars In their glee, List to the murmur of far-off - Ripples of tropic sea. Low In the westward bleeding Tho sun stowly sinks in the wave Staining and tinting with crimson Tho corals that fashion his grave. Out through tho mist and tho vapor, The cloudy wreaths and tho rings, Sunlight has flown like a butterfly Brushing the gold from Its wings. Quiet is coming and folding Our troubles away; and our woes Aro hushed In the cool, fragrant shadows, Like bees in tho heart of a rose. Como on, little stars all silver, For tho terrible sun has gone, And out of the eastern shadows Tho moon Sets sail for the dawn. Palo aro the stars for the morning Is blooming fresh as the May; So through the shadows v.o wander, Seeking the perfect day. ' Charles Warren Stoddard, In "Collected Poems." Victory Loan slackers would better watch out, for the mummers are preparing to get them. Few persons are so far ahead of th times as that Catasauq.ua parson who turned his clock back an hour Saturday night Instead of ahead, and kept his con gregation waiting for him on Sunday mdrnlng. He seemed to think that it was next October. What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. Who Is Bela Kun? 2. What warship Is ranked as the largest and most powerful In the world. 3. What Is a demiurge? 4. Who Is Anatole France7 5. What two American Presidents died on the same day, a Fourth of July. 0. In what year In the war was gas first used In an attack? 7. What Is another name for the "Book of Revelations"? 8. What is skirling? 9. What is meant by "potable water"? 10. What Is a vedette? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. Kllhu Root was Secretary of State undr Roosevelt. 2. Narclesus In Greek mythology was a beautiful youth, changed Into a flower. For his insensibility to love he was caused by Nemesis to become enam ored of his own Image reflected in water. Unable to grasp, the shadow tie pined away and became tha flower which bears his name. 3. A krUs is a Malay knife. t K. Nonce, uised In tho expression of "for th nonce," Is a corruption of the old Eng- " llsh "for the ones," and means for th time being, temporarily. , . j 5. St. Paul was the Apostle to the Gentiles. . 6. John S. Sargent Is one of the foremost of contemporary American portrait and genre ' painters. 7. The word tobacco is derived from .j "taoaco, me iuub or pipe wnereDy me' a r. IL TaJInn. BMnlfAil tt,A nltnl L - uariq huhu .,.w .ut. -v 8. General Mangtn has latli Wen assigned ' $ to duties In Central Europe, supposedly to direct military affairs In Hunrary ... and other disturbed regions. n ml... l..t vnitnl vlllt rf TTnUnll Itfaai afla a" ci Lllluokalanl. ,-yj 10. The, cnamuereu naniuua is a sea unimsi,;, tho shell of which Is colled In onepUntr divided into chambers by partitions, tha ,. (IW. a t,J . j1 'ft
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