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TN THREE days the latest Japanese scare budded, flowered, expanded, glittered and collapsed. The intimation at the State Department that reports of a Japanese land coup in Southern Cali fornia were due to politics is far graver than any aspect of the California inci dent, which seems now to have involved nothing but the desire of some American landowners to lease an isolated tract to some Japanese farmers. Who is interested in discrediting: the existing Mexican Government and intent upon creating new irritations between tho American people and the people of Mexico? Or who is particularly desir ous of creating a widespread suspicion of Japan in this country at a time like this? Rumois of Japanese ambitions in South America have been renewed at regular intervals for twenty years and at times have been circumstantial enough to inspire senatorial activity and grave debate. Yet there never was any actual proof to warrant American anx iety or resentment. Japan has her wor ries and ambitions in the East. When Senator Phelan launched the latest rumors he doubtless was suffer ing from nerves. He may be declared innocent of hidden purposes. But, the State Department will do a service for the country if it can reveal the names of the men who make the sort of ammuni tion that Senator Phelan fired. THE STATE'S ART JURY OUGHT to be easily possible to I reconcile the functions of the State Art Commission suggested by Governor Sproul and provided for in a pending bill at Harrisburg with those of the Art Jury which already exists in this city. There is no justification for a measure that would "rip"' the Philadelphia organiza tion out of existence. The state itself needs precisely tbe ,l?ort of supervision in relation to art development in its various communities that Mr. Widener and his associates have provided here. The next ten years will bring a great expansion of decorative work in smaller towns and cities which are already preparing to commemorate the part which they and their citizens played in the war.' An expert eye and trained judgment will be necessary in the authoritative direction of such work if millions aren't to be wasted in clumsy and uninspiring buildings and monu ments. The Governor has very properly at tempted to meet the situation by provid ing for an art commission to be endowed with general jurisdiction in the state. At the same time, the plan as it is now being considered would eliminate the Philadelphia jury, which has worked most admirably because of its special knowledge of the peculiar needs and aims of this city. This prospect suggests a serious fault in the Governor's bill, which has already been passed by the Senate. What is needed is anamendment to insure the Mnne!minn.o rf ilna ?il,r In T)Vi1nln1t.l. LwH Swhich has proved its value by actually jp Belting me example lor me suite Itself & in this instance. SEATS OF THE MIGHTY rpHERE is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at its flood, leads on to fortune." Lieutenant Colonel Theo dore Roosevelt, son of perhaps the most 'dynamic force which ever made its ap pearance in American public life, in an nouncing that he has abandoned the pursuit of business for a political career. lnt AHonn n oviiftinl mnmntil I. ....It .. Vj..V ""-" " . .wu.il-.lll. ,u pun oil Skills father's boots and step into that sea KeSyil which ever ebbs nnl flows at the whim f&-g of the, man with the ballot. Whether its SE&"-:? 'flood will lead him on to fortune onlv '" Wthe will-o'-the-wisp of Republican poli- KjJv-' tics' can tell. At Sfi -t t ... . ST-ytjC' ln tma country tn? dr of oppor- ftJ ,a Pen vo "very man wno, on his jijwrt tnerits, works out the combination Sfchieh opens the lock. The task of tho fc'Jttyun!f man who would seek to travel SapO Pln wnicn a great iainer naa Mazed v' IE lieav .uuc, uauciit Wlljj CXEIT- rj.jgerated expectations of ability and at- ' . Ijtainraent. '"iff -The public will perhaps realize that, ibf carrying that burden, young Roosevelt ''AJU assumed a liability rather than an , iSiVt' and will frown upon any tendency K'jsjsaus. yvm Bcca. tw onuc mum ui ucjjuiiu- ria.a. k.to,na l.l fathai'a Mnntallnn f B11VU nto aavaava m Imuran, 4 I napecuiwrjy qangerous pcattcat l a'wrrmjM ii. er.iere- upo. dsM tkft tMHkiMOf'ataaaaaaaaaM lasar aaaw aaaaasasn aipaa . f aaaraasav' taining ambitions not justified by his own experience or qualifications. But his "hat is in the ring." His name keeps fresh an affectionato memory In the hearts of all red-blooded and youth ful Americans, men and boys who havo been wortt to think of manhood before political principles. They and others, it is hoped, will judge him solely on his merits. If, indeed, his own worth carries him into the seats of tho mighty, where the spirits of his father and of Lincoln and of Washington still hover, or the flood tide of his splendid war rccoid recedes and echoes a no greater name than just "citizen Roosevelt," he is but doing what thousands of American schoolboys are doing each day whispering to them selves, "Little George Washington just so high, he became President and why can't I?" BEWARE OF THE BEFUDDLERS OF CHARTER REVISION! Police Ruled From Harrisburg anil a Mayor ally Reduced to a Mere Honorary Figure head in Violation of Local Home Rule SINISTER efforts are apparently; mak ing to wreck the charter-icvision pro gram. Reports have been put out that a "rip per" bill is planned to remove the Mayor and Councils and to empower, the Gov ernor to fill the offices until an election can bo held. The purpose of these ru mors is to cieate the impression that the control of the election machinery is to be put into new hands befoie the mayor alty election. If the impression can be created that the men backing the charter revision are seeking to destroy home rule temporarily as a means of getting what they are accused of seeking there will be natural and righteous indignation among the oters, indignation so hot that the legis lators in Hanisburg will not dare pass any important charter bills. Still further, certain interests are ad vocating openly the distribution of the present powers of the Mayor among a lot of other officials and the creation of a metropolitan police commission to take the control of the local police force from the local authorities and put it in the hands of a commission named in Harris burg. The suggestion nf these things is an insult to the intelligence of the people of this city. The primaiy purpose of charter revi sion is to give us a greater degree of home rule, and to do away with the ne cessity of going to the state capital when we wish authority to change the details of local administration. To put our police force in charge of a state commission is to destroy the very essential of home rule. To urge it as a way to take the police out of politics is to indulge in the most transparent and barefaced sophistry. The police are in politics not because the Director of Pub lic Safety is appointed by the Mayor. And they would not necessarily be taken out of politics if the head should be ap pointed by the Governor. The change would involve nothing more than shift ing control of the police from one politi cal group to another. The police are in politics because the politicians wish them to be in politics. They were taken out of politics under Mayor Blankenburg without any change in the laws. They can be taken out of politics instantly under the laws pro posed by the charter revision committee provided proper officials arc elected by the people. The police provisions of the charter draft of the citizens' committee will not prevent the use of the police for political purposes if the officials desire to use them in that way and if the people of the city arc content to have them so used. But the charter draft docs pro vide a way by which worthy citizens, aggrieved by the abuse of power by the Director of Public Safety, can bring him to book. Any taxpayer can go into court with evidence that the police are being made tools of the politicians and secure the removal from office of the offending policemen and of the superior officers who have winked at the pernicious activi ties of their subordinates. This plan places upon the people right here the responsibility for the conduct of their Police Department and the remedy for its misconduct if misconduct there be. It has real teeth in it. To urge anything else in good faith or with sinister motives is to advocate the adoption of principles in city govern ment long since abandoned. It is to de mand that we go back twenty-five or fifty years and undo all that has been done to free great cities from the con tinual interference ' of the state law making bodies. It is to confess that we are not capable of governing ourselves. It is to expose the city to the danger of being governed by the faction which is in the majority in the state at largo and may be in the minority here. It is to attack local democracy at its tap root, which is government by the local ma jority. If it is desirable that there should be homo rule, it is impossible to muster a Bingle argument in favor of the metro politan police system which can com mend itself to the reason of an intelli gent human being. The proposition to decentralize tho riowcr of the Mayor is as pernicious at. the proposition to place the control of the police under a state commission. The Mayor has too little power rather than too much. We are talking all the time about tho importance of the application of busi ness principles to city government Every great business man holds the heads of hla various departments re- itt. it.. J a i .. ponsiuie lur m ueparunenc II any HVflartMWlt faiU to. produce, results the blame and ho calls the offender to ac count The people elect a Mayor to manngo their city government If he has power enough he can manage it successfully, provided, of course, ho is also endowed with sufficient ability. And if tho city is badly governed, the people know who is to blame and can elect a different kind of n man the next time. The chief ex ecutive officer must be tho executivo officer in chief, holding all of his subor dinates responsible, as he is hcd respon sible. He is the city manager, by what ever name he mny bo known. A charter which will give the absolute executive direction of the business of the city to its Mayor will command the serv ices of a much higher typo of man than n charter which ties the hands of the Mayor and makes him impotent in the face of flagrant inefficiency, or worse, on the rinrt of the heads of the different departments under him. All this is so obvious that when it is stated it is proved. The evils which we are combating arc known. The proper remedies are also known and arc as familiar to stu dents of municipal government as the cure for the common ills of the body are known to the physicians. All that any sincere friend of charter revision is try ing to do is to apply the known remedies to the known ills. Those who are befuddling the issue, with undoubted sinister motives, nre like the quack doctor prescribing some nos trum not to cure, but to enrich himself or those who are dependent on him. That is, unless they are mere monkeys being used to pull the chestnuts out of the fire for some more nstute men be hind them. We want no ripper bills, unless it be a bill to oust tho present Board of Revi sion of Taxes appointive by the Board of Judges and virtually irresponsible to the voters in the interest of a fair as sessment and an honest tax rate, along with other changes to be made effective in the new Council. This would not be a real ripper, but a step in progress. And vie want no bills to shift control of our affairs to Harrisburg on the theory that we cannot be trusted to manage them ourselves. This city is capable of running its own business. The laws to be passed should be laws which will untie the people's hands and leave them free to do what they wish to do and which will also pro vide remedies to be used by the people at large when by any chance the serv ants they have elected in good faith prove recreant. In brief, we wish majority rule, with power conferred upon the minority to hold the majority to strict account. We shall get these things if the citizens' committee charter draft is passed sub stantially as it has been introduced in the Legislature. We shall not get them if these cunning alternative propositions metropolitan police and a figurehead mayoralty are passed. FRANCE AND DOOMSDAY BOOK Fc OR France, read Chile. For defeated Germany, read Peru. For the Saar or Sarre coal fields, read the Tacna Arica nitrate mines. Trace the story through the biggest book in tho world the book of history. To many readers it is a terrible volume, a "Doomsday Book," a cold and steely commentary on hu man error. It takes courage to turn its pages, yet for every disillusionment they contain there is by implication a contrasting ideal. Confucius is accredited with stat ing the Golden Rule negatively. Simi larly in the world's "Doomsday Book," the demonstration of "how-not-do-it" furnishes so often the key to justice. Between 1879 and 1883 the republics of Chile and Peru fought a fierce and bloody war. It is the subject of a com paratively little read, yet vitally in structive, chapter in the great book. Therein it is recounted how the struggle primarily concerned possession of im mensely valuable deposits of nitrate. Chile won the fray. Peru was pros trate, bankrupt. As an extension of the indemnity prin ciple, the Treaty of Ancon provided that those precious fields and the provinces in which they lay be turned over to the victor for a period of ten years. At the end of that time sovereignty was to be determined by a plebiscite. It has never been held! Peru, renewed in strength, nourishes an unremitting grudge for her conqueror. South America is contin ually darkened by war clouds. Chile assumes the attitude that "her prop erty" is being coveted by her neighbor nation. Full diplomatic relations be tween the two countries have never been resumed. In lieu of any guide to the future only the record of tho past can be consulted. It is clamorous with warning when wo change the names in that tragic South American chapter, as France stretches out her hands for temporary control of the Saar Valley. The torture which France has suf fered under provocation from a cruel and savage foe has brought to the love which all civilization bears her the profoundest sympathy and pity. The world, and es pecially America, owes her so much that, the feeling that she should bo satisfied, no matter what her demands, is un doubtedly hard to resist in many hearts. But the lustrous role which she plays will be enhanced in grandeur, if that keen logic of which she has always been mistress is applied to the present situa tion. The republic should be unsullied in her beauty. Renunciation of her claims to the Saar country would be a supreme gesturo dear to the French im agination. More- sailors In the Tut I Tutt United States navy than doughboys In the army married abroad, and the world Is now wondering why this should be. There will be cynics, or course, who will Insist tkit the1 sailor '.saw T hurri'stfly.lnto married! J Revolution in Portugal A WITTY speaker once likened the re publics of South and Central America to tho terrestrial globo, Bwlmmlng ln space. "For," said he, "down there they havo a revolution of their own every twenty-four hours." It would Rcem that these fortu nato wards of tfyo Monroe Doctrine, for whoso behoof some North Americans seem willing to hazard tho pence of the rest ot tho world, have como by this revolutionary reourrcnoy qulto honestly. Tho opera bouffe Is ln their veins. ACOnilESPON'DENT sends tho Gowns man a clipping from a recent numDtr of O Seculo, a newspaper of Lisbon, which Is too frood to keep. Translated with llttlo more than a certain Involuntary freedom, It rends much as follows: "Revolutions In Portugal itro becoming periodical and there seems no good reason why they should not enter, like rain, good weather, movable feasts and holidays Into meteorological almanacs. For tho conven ience of nil, future predictions should con tain an enumeration of nil prospective, revo lutions (approximately, of course), with tho probable dates and, as nearly as possible, tho hours. For e:iample: 'February 14, Fri day, Saint Valentine's Day. full moon, sun rises nt 7:30, revolution in Lisbon at 5:G0 p. m." 'March 2, Saturday, Saint Simpll clus, new moon, nun sets 7:17, Insurrection In Lelrla nt 3:45 p. m,' Thus we shall all be warned, small accidents, especially a want of punctuality, may be prevented and .no one need haunt the tobacco shops to learn what Is going on. On the 14th of February, at C:45 In the afternoon, tho law abiding citizen, happily forewarned, goes home, orders tho flrn lighted, shuts tho windows and waits. On the other hand, tho revolutionists at that moment know their accustomed duty nnd the government takes Its customary precaution". Nobody Is alarmed; there are no dinner parties, no one buys tickets for the theatro and birth days aro carefully kept for tho next day. ( A LTHOUGH it must be confessed that - public services, such as that of tho postomco nnd the railroads, are not very well organized In Portugal, perhaps a 'serv ice of revolutions' might havo better luck. Wo might not mind a belated revolution qulto so much us n belated letter. But I must insist on a skillful publicity. I jlo not wnnt to speak ill of my own country, but the truth is that frequently a re grettable confusion does occur. A revolu tion announced, for Instance, eight days beforehand for sucli and such a day at noon does not go off, owing to the bad example of our express tialns, until four hours after schedulo time. Tills creates a bad Impres sion, especially In foreign countries, and causes disturbances ln the lives of method ical people. ."NJATIOXS. like private citizens, should LN lent n how to profit by their charac teristics; and revolutions, long an acknowl edged industry of Portugal, have now be come one of its attractions. 'Eso de las revolutlones, como va?' (And how is tho revolution coming on?) Romanones asked me this question the other day before ho Inquired after my health. This, too, Is tho question likely to greet a Portuguese as soon as he passes tho frontiers; and only too often he is unable to satisfy this natu ral and flattering curiosity on the part of foreigners. Now, It being known with some degree of certainty that on March 2, at a given hour, the trouble will be on ln Lelrla, nn express train service might be organized for that district, with a prearranged Itin erary and competent guides for the curious. A little visit to Batalhn. might be included nnd my friend, Prof. Lopes Vielra might arrange for an adequate lecture on the Abbey of Alcobaca. The town, the railway company and hotelkeepcrx would proMt and the patriot in any part of the world could elucidate, nfter consulting his almanac, thus: 'I will tell you, your excellency, there is at this moment a revolution In Braga, likely to prove very entertaining and to draw a great crowd. Braga is a very an cient and Interesting town, and your excel lency should take advantage of the oppor tunity to visit tho cathedral, which, r can assure you, Is well worth while.' lirE WOULD recommend, as soon as VV this service Is organized, an equitable distribution of revolutionary attractions to all tho provinces, arranged as far as pos sible with a due consideration of climate and the seasons of the year. The govern ment must not fall to Intervene ln this delicate matter. In order that no part of the country gain a revolutionary monopoly to tho prejudice of any other. And it is Important not to have too many disturb ances ln any one month and none in some other. Indeed, why not divide Portugal Into revolutionary zones, the right of in spection to remain ln the tourists' office, and, if needful, establish a new ministry, which, once created, will doubtless have a-plenty to do? The Ministry of Revolu tions and Social Corruption; that hounds very well. Why not make a profit out of a sure thing? Thero Is little method ln much that Is Portuguese. Why not have a little method In our revolutions?" H-yESTERDAY," writes the Gowns X man's correspondent, "I saw a mob In the Roclo. Several men were on a bal cony; one ln military costume was talking; from tho looks of his hands, thrust for ward, and so on, I Knew it was a fine speech. The crowd gathered, then suddenly fled ln panic a very characteristic scene. It would seem that one Teofllo, a man of destiny, was he who had appeared on tho" balcony. To the cheering ho had replied, 'Viva Repoob'llca! ' i "Yes, but which? tho 'Republica' of July, umsteen and nine, that of Decembor 5 or that of April 1? Old or new? "Some one In the crowd yelled, Viva Re publica velhal ' the old. "'Nao,' answers Teofllo, 'Viva Republica Nova! ' ,' 'Fine for you to be Baying that safely up thero in the balcony,' sneers a Demo crat. "I'll come down.' says Teofllo, and ho descends behind a .45 automatic, yelling, 'Nova, nova!' wherefore the scattering of the mob. -p EVOLUTIONS,!" says a Portuguese, JLV'they are nothing here; Just spring showers. But Mien one hates to be caught In a shower with his good clothes on," Another, exclaims, "Ah s'nhor, our only hope is that tho Americans will run this unhappy country." The Bolshevik! have long been too red to blush. Suggested adjective for the Peace Con ference weather report: "Fair." It was 176 years ago yesterday that Thomas Jefferson was born, hut his spirit stllf not oniy auve uut Kicking espe- lilX W Jer'LwM ' w.CSW" MR rto. THE GOWNSMAN itr"- It !Ii.H:-JSS535-w3r'cP:"U .jt1' i-' - nKsHDnHSKiBfirvA er r ;i v Vvm? s' toot v-Ss-C"r?'''."'. 'ill &rr !r 1 -? 1 '"smWIiI Hi im 1 1 ' I i ' i Jl - f... i -- -ft 3 t tl hskVP T T,' .isJiij. l--!i1) Xxnf "t SUNNY Trailing Mrs. Trollope ROY HELTON has lent us a copy of "Domestic Manners of tho Americans," in which Mrs. Trollope, tho mother of An thony, recorded her numerous chagrins during a three-year tour among tho bar barians in 1827-30. Sho visited Philadelphia in the summer of 1S30, and remarks as follows upon some scenes familiar to us: "The State House has nothing exter nally to recommend It . there Is n. erv pretty lnclosuro before the Wal nut street entrance, with good, well-Kept gravel wnlks. . . . Near 'his lnclosuro la another of much the same description, called Washington Square. Here there was an excellent crop of clover: but as the trees nre numerous, and highly beautiful, anil beveral commodious seats are placed beneath their shade. It is. In spite of the long grass, a very agreeable retreat from heat and dust. It was rarely, however, that I saw any of these seats occupied; tho Americans have either Jio leisure or no Inclination for those moments of dclassement that all other people, I be llee, Indulge in. Kven their drams, so universally taken by rich and poor, are swallowed standing, and, excepting at church, they never luwe tbe air of leisure or repose. This pretty Washington Square is surrounded by houses on three sides, but (lasso!) has a prison on the fourth; it is, nevertheless, the nearest approach to a London square that Is to be found In Philadelphia." E VEN after nearly ninety years there Is a certain pang In learning that while Madam Trollope found notning comeiy about the exterior of Independence Hall, she proclaimed New Ydrk'a City Hall as "noble." , TRYING to imagine that we were Mrs, Trollope, we took a stroll up Ninth street in tho bright April sun. It wes chilly and the burly sandwich-man of Mar ket street, the long-haired, hatless philoso pher so well known by sight, was leaning shivering ln his shirt-sleeves against an arc light standard trying to wrap his ad vertising boards around him like an over coat. "Why don't you walk up and down a bit?" we asked him, after he had rebuked the thermometer with a robust adjective which would have caused Mrs. Trollope to call for hartshorn and ammonia. "Can't do it," he said. "I've got a bum Job today. Got to stand on this corner, advertising a new drug store; 7:30 to 12:30 and 1:30 to 5:30. It's a long day, I'll say ao." NINTH STREET above Market Is a de lightful and varied world in Itself. At the corner of Filbert wo found the follow ing chalked on a modest blackboard: Irish Stew Tot Roast 2 Vegatables 15c Within, a number of citizens were taking those standing drams Mrs.- Trollope depre cated. We were reminded by these social phenomena that we had not lunched. In a neighboring beanery we dealt with a do 'llghtful rhubarb plo, admiring the perfec tion of the waitress's demeanor. Neither too condescending nor too friendly, she laid the units of our repast upon the marble table with a firm clank which seemed to Imply that our eating there meant nothing to her; yet eno nopeu no migni una uour t lshment enough not to dlo on her hands. THE assorted attractions ot North Ninth street never fall the affectionate stroller. Novelty shops where mysterious electric buzzers vibrate and rattle on the plate glass panes, and safety razors reach bot tomless prices that would tempt even a Russian statesman to unbush. Picture shops, where such really delightful senti mentel engravings as "The End of the Skein" cause soft-hearted bystanders to fly homo and write to dear old grand mother; wine shops, where electric bulbs 'MMMr,M:W-lSMMm"W. vitki'im,v',mi.imm!mpr-Jt'ry, COMING DOWN SIDE UP t crle3 tho vintner. There's a Bad Time Coming! And ho adds: Wo know a man who sells a quart of water with a llttlo cheap whisky In It VERY CHEAP Morale! If you really want a highball buy our, etc. THE animal shops always attract the passers-by. One window was crowded with new-hatched chicks, tender yellow balls of fluff that cause grizzled bums to moralize drooplngly on the sweetness of youth and Innocence. They (the chicks) wero swarming around their feeding pans llko diplomats at the Hotel Crlllon ln Paris. THEN came Louis Guanlssno, tho famous balloon man, moving along ln a blaze of color, his red and blue and, yellow bal loons tugging and gleaming ln the sunny air. Louis Is a poem to watch, a poly chrome Joy to behold. And such graceful suavity! "Here's Jiealth and prosperity, and God bless you," he says, his kindly rugged face looking down at you; "and when you want any little balloons" ON A sunny afternoon there are sure to be manv browsers olcklnir ovor the dusty volumes ln the pavement boxes of' that llttlo bookshop near the old archway abovo Filbert street. Down the dark alley that runs under the archway horses stand munching their nosebags, while a big yel low coal wagon, lost ln the cul-de-sac, tries desperately to turn around. The three big horses clatter and crash on the narrow paving. A first edition of "Rudder Grange" for fifteen cents wasn't a bad find. By prying up a flyleaf that had been pasted down I learned that "Uncle George" had glvtfn it to Helen L. Coates for "Xmas, 1880." UP AT tho Arcn street corner is tho famous Dumont's Mlnstrelc, once the old Dime Museum, where Frank Dumont's picture stands in tho lobby draped ln black. Inside, ln the quaint old auditorium, the' Interlocutor sits on his throne and tosses the traditional Jest back and forth with tho end men, Bennle Franklin and Alf Gibson, clad ln their glaring scarlet frock- coats. THe old quips about Camden are still doing brave service. Then Eddie Cassady comes on In his cream-colored duds and sings a ditty about Ireland and freedom while he waves the banner with the harp. Beneath the japes' on prohibi tion there is an undertone of profound sadness. Joe Hamilton sings a song which professes to explain that July 1st will be harder on tho ladles than any one else. "Good-by, Wild Women, Good-by," it Js de murely called. Joe Hortlz gets "Come Back to the Farm" over tho footlights a plaintive tenor appeal, , in which the church steeple chimes 3 (a. m.) and all the audience can hear the cows lowing out ln Manayunk and Marcus Hook. We are all nigh to tears for the little sister gone astray in the bad mad city'; but hero come Burke and Walsh in, a merry little duo about whistle-wetting. "We took this coun try from the Indians," sings Burke. "We'll give it back after the 1st of July," replies Walsh in his dulcet barytone. Then, to show they really don't care so much, they Wind up with a Jovial bit of dancing, DUMONT'S famous "timely burlesques" still keep pace with the humors of the town. The "Drug Store Telephone Fight" reduces the audience, to cheery hysteria, Joe Hamilton or somebody gets Saint Peter oh the wire j tho rival demonstrator gets connected with "the other place." The problem is whether the Jazzbo Phone Com pany or its rival can locate the where about of Mr. William Goat, who (it ap pears) Is the father 6fthe interlocutor, the dignified interlocutor in his purple dress suit, who is writhing In embarrassed dis tress on his throne, And then, as wj are already trespesslng on the preserve of the dramatic editor, comes what the program calls. VJntermUwJon ot fveral minutes; to tM'iaoMft w.pewww: tweir nov,:. " it i.y M IN A HOSPITAL I HAVE a little garden That's very fair to see Asters, pinks and panslec, Roses and sweet peas. Close grouped ln tiny clusters Each lifts Its smiling head - My garden's on a table -x That stands beside my bed. Soft. pink, rich purple, yellow, Like some gay butterfly, I love to watch theni nodding Against my window sky. The perfume of the pansies Is like rich garden Ior.m, Tho perfume of tho roses Whispers to mo of home. -Constance Johnson, ln "Everybody's.' Remember, it was Uncle Sam who be stowed the precious gift of victory. All he will ask in a few days is a loan. Senator Ashurst some months ago called Lower California "the Achllles's heel of the United States." He might have added that it was periodically shod with gum-shoe politics. One admirable feature of the proposed airplane truffle rules is that grade cross-, ings can bo inexpensively abolished by mere flat. It looks as though It will be up to I Senator Borah to drop the "d" from his J cry of "Amend!" when the revised league'" pact Is submitted to him. i "Berlin gambling crazy," says a head line. Evidently the same old plunger she was when Ludendorff speculated so des perately. lvinir uoai is nnvtnincr tint n. mnrrw monarch when he intrudes upon tho Paris i conference. What Do You Know? QUIZ . 1. What are the two languages of Belgium?' i 2. What is the meaning of- "carte blanche,"! and what Is the origin of the phrase? M S. What kind of a boat Is a dingey? M 4, Where la Constanza, where troops ot th$. Entente are paid to have landed? 'p 5. What Roman Emperor delighted to enter the gladiatorial contests In the Colos-'! seum and styled himself "The Second' I Hercules"? ffl 0. What scholastic degree is expressed t)jA the letters LLB.? ' j 7. Who wroto "Hang sorrow; caro'll kill $ rat"? 'T 8. What Is the capital of Missouri? A Ttrhn I. William ITnlA Thnmnann? '10, What Is the new world's record for speed by an airplane? ..,, in V.lrav'a Cni ' V 1. Bela Kun Is the Foreign Minister otr Bolshevist Hungary, -ft 2. The Idaho Is ranked as the largest ana most powerful battleship In the wor(i.t7 3. Demiurge Is the word applied to theJ creator ot the world In Platonlo phllos. onhv. also sometimes to the Christian'1 J God or to supposed subordinate agents.; in creation. 4. Aliatoio jjranuo ia nuu rrencn novels 1st, essayist, tmiinoi mm savant, ills real name is Anatole Thibault, rfsg K John Adams and Thomas. Jefferson wn-niv. , ' the American Presidents who died'dtfiN h ITnurth of July. 1826. 6, Gas waB first used ln"an attack In war oy mo ucnmui in ixo. t v. 7, "ine cwk ui iicvciuvii- is aomalHnai called The Book of tha ApoclypM,n; 8, Skirling la, playing the bafplpes,. -.y,t 9. Potable' water means arJnkabl)w.UVN- 1 n 4 fl 17W ft '( . " . ."' t; irfjj a , i..,- Ji,J,Tj.iaa.aaja-j.a.-aa. .-im JiJ ..-j..JK5oa.wi-jaiaa -.. ar. .1 rfv'
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