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All rights of republication of special d patches herein are also reserved. Philadelphia, Friday. April 4, 19l AX EIGHT-HOUR VICTOHY CRITICISM of the women's eight-hour bill offered by the legislative commit tee of the Chamber of Commerce has a friendly tone and is, in effect, a declaia- tlon in support of the measure. It is suggested by the membm of the committee that the bill is loosely drawn That is a failt that can be easily cor rected if it exists. In a general way, the committee's re poit should bo cheering to the women who have worked hard for the eight-hour day, since it implies a promise of fresh aid in behalf of the pending bill. ' THE THING TO DO npHE plan of Select Councilman Ulrich 1 td relocate tne street, cav iracns on Old York road and build sidewalks while the street is regraded and paved is so good that theie can be no serious opposi tion to it. At present there aie no sidewalks and tlie tracks are on the side of the road. Pedestrians have td walk in the center, where they are in constant danger from automobiles. There have been numer- fcv mio fnfnl siivMpnrs. Parpnts livinc in its E"V$r .t!a!l... a f..n!.l 4n lnt tt.nt, ftl.tlrlffm 'TV, VlVJIUfcy UIU illlllU IU IVt bUll kllllUICII W "eo out on Sunday because of the large Eg$ -number of motorcars running at high f- Bjjetu. W, Councils is expected to pass Mr. ST Ulrich's bill with the least possible delay KEt-i.in order tnat tne present aangerous con- VM j!i! 11.. ! J WiJV'i U.lllun3 Oil llie I11K'1" "m.v uc icuiuvcu. iPkQjrjAKERS AND WORLD DESIRE m rpHERE was nothing new in the anti- -" war sentiments expressed by the Or thodox Friends in a session of their .yearly meeting here yesterday, but the circumstances under which they were ut tered have no narallel in the Dast. For Kr . .though membership in the religious so- K- i ciety whose great leader founded Phila- Rt delphia nas been ot sienuer growtn or lf ' late years, one of the prime tenets of sw.e their faith unites virtually the whole of Kk civilization in a common belief. Exclu .atarAl nMiHiHinl tnrufnncjirin ifi 4frin riili ject has been, of course, what the Quak- ers have desired. tffi& " ' Mankind in general, however, has KS- taggered toward the truth through very fki'Smuch more violent processes. War itself ljhas branded war as a curse. It seems kjFj a cruel and pitiful way to achieve the jgkf tresult, but it is one at least which all if?t'vii-i1c inn nnmni'tiVifirirl RM.ciated by the Friends in their indorse- ment of an attitude of respect toward a1" 'those Quakers who have fought for world X nnrnnrirmtion. Durinn- thp Ampripnn Revolution and for a while thereafter Rk there vas a schism in the society catised ,Wf?uy repudiation ot tne "i-ree Quakers" ft who had foutrht in the Continental armv. iK Jhe facRthat that situation is not now iX, 'repeated indicates tne Jt-nends, still em ?S..nhasizinK their abhorrence of war. mav Mperhap"s be looking for the support of i&r- their ovm members who in a supreme fiivcrisis shouldered arms. SixJ. Hhviouslv there need now lip nn wirlo py?' spiritual ap between those who fought and those wno nave, as usual, condemned j rfwv u u,iu tti-" ancci' iiit-cniig, wuaKer K Ideals are no longer confined to a few. VwXow that the barbarian is felled such dr? '. SFAnlSH l'KUJIi AiND THE PACT lj-!'Timmvr : . o ... . ifA' Vl tuiiatiuuancss in opain IS Y 'iX i Tniiph nltlpr than tbnf. in mnof r.f . j& j1ter countries of continental Europe. PM? was an intense and yital sentiment rJVJi Netherlands as organized governments i swere unborn and while France was par K'JHHoned in the violent wars of religion. iWdlwi Rnirit named with snlendnr nnd o- 'H-iiranahving ruthlessness in the sixtepntri t"Siltury. when the monarchy at Madrid r'Hi;the most powerful and imperial of S'U'Klobe. V'fhe. years of disaster following the tjjt&mt of the Armada brought no slack $lt&M of the passion for national, sover- , The vast empire of the viceroys ad( yet pride in Spam survived Spain weathered successive blows. n ascribed his fall to that in- tiblo sentiment manifested sn tprbly at Saragossa and throughout iJbFiininsular War. 'i Many: 'boundary "ne were redrawn by ' Ck Ctjigress, of Vienna in 1814. Spain's ,unjuched, Ihey have varied but far, eturies. They are virtually KMidy S iiiuse eaiannsnea Dy ma jMDena. utf'- iirl(UalIy,- Spanis F,urope. Her statesmen cherish it. And yet they are the first of any of tho neu tral nations to solicit entrance into the world league. In a letter addressed to the President by tho Spanish ambassador in Paris hearty acceptance of tho cove nant idea is registered even before the plan takes final form. The tone of tho indorsement is not only hearty but eager, implying not tho remotest shadow on a sovereignty thnt has been so zealously guarded through good times and bad. The moral significance of this move is of prime importance. As a practical contribution to the virility of the league it is also impressive, for there are sev eral million more people in Spain than in Sweden, Norway. Denmark and the Netherlands combined. The league should be proud to welcome this ven erable partner. 1 WH THE IRON" DIVISION BRINGS MORE THAX VICTORY It l pliftn the Clean Code of the Soldier to Challenge Leaders in Civil Life AMONG politicians, in business, wher- ever the theorists gather and give tongue, there is endless talk of the re turning soldier. Much of it is aimless. Most of it is futile. There ha.t been no one to rise and beg us, for Cod's sake, to stop chattering about the soldier's vote, about the uses that can be made of him and about the imaginary mysteries of his mind, in order that thete may be an interval for leflection on the challenge that he brings, by implication, to the lazy and timorous minds of his home country. The men returning from overseas rep . ,g .n the wolkl So does their scrv. resent the best mat is in us me uesi ice. If a little of their courage, a little of their unselfishness and a thousandth part of their sacrifice could be duplicated in the civil life of the nation all the woes and worries that cloud the minds of busi ness men and statesmen these days would disappear overnight. For it is in the safe places at home, where delusions still persist to make peo ple believe that rational existence is pos sible without a sense of obligation and honor and a decent spiritual code, that life can often be more sordid than it is on battlefields. It remains for soldiers like ours to find a hard way to the light of better knowledge. Rich and poor weie among them, but no barriers lemain. They weie friendly in a common cause. They were unafraid of strange places, of un seen things, of risks and sacrifices and 'realities. They didn't lie. They didn't pretend. They lived according to an essential nile which provides that you must help the man next to you at all hazards and share his trouble and his perils though the heavens fall. Before long the Iron Division will be reviewed in Philadelphia. Any politician who wants to save his soul, any man in business who happens to feel befogged in new confusion, could not do better than look to their colors as you look to a light in darkness. The members of the Iron Division were plain men when they went away. Now they are a legend in a strange language. Songs will be made about them by the strangers they befriended. They were fearless and they served others. Theirs is an ancient code. It never fails. At a time like this it should touch the imagination of every man whose concern it is to give the world a new equilibrium. For no laws, no restrictions, no checks and balances and adjustments fixed solely upon mateiialistic concepts can satisfy a world that seeks peace and contentment. What civilization needs, and needs badly, is the viewpoint of these Ameri cans who found in the weight of a great responsibility a new sympathy and new understanding. Soldiers in the aimy sloughed ott old delusions, ihey es caped the mean and petty concerns that degrade and confuse existence for many of us. They became men. The tiagedy of the world nowadays is that all the forces opposed to the Ameri can policy in a struggle for supremacy in world politics, whether they lepresent a frank toryism or parade in the guise of the ultra-radicals, are essentially ma terialistic in their alms and their phi losophies. Hatred and suspicion is the natural consequence everywhere, for deep in human consciousness there is a fixed longing for decency and fair play. It may be for this reason, perhaps, that the world loves a soldier. The soldier represents that quality in human nature that can carry a man out of him self in an emergency and whip him to danger and death for the sake of what is right. Militarism is something altogether different. It is properly lpathcd. But plain men have never fought for causes that they did not believe to be right. That is why a quarrel for .spoils at the Paris conference must seem so shameful and horrible an end to the epic which free nations lived in the re cent war. Any similar spirit of hard materialism, anything that is furtive and cowardly in the future lire or America, will be detested by men who have endured the risks and hardship of foreign battlefields on a common footing. Their own code was clean and brave and they will have little patience with anything that is shifty and spurious at home. They will be instinctively critical and questioning, and they will be justified in demanding that the ethical standards of normal life in the future be not so lax as to appear shameful in the light of the hard but splendid etiquette of trenches and battle fields. So, altogether, it is not too much to say that the men of the Iron Division are bringing more than victory home from France.. They ace'bringinijjntima- A 4 .-.. ''auaul t h 1 STib HMrl. klM aa lualu tftc attrarnunHtn im- Jtlonship that is, strangely enough, nobler than any theory yet propounded 'by po litical philosophers. The rise of materialistic philosophy has enervated almost every political party in the world. Belief in the universal valuo of mere possessions culminated in the insanity of Germany. Kaiscrism was rapacity gone mad. A Bolshevist is merely a little man raging in his little World and trying to assimilate, in his own life, n philosophy that was too strong even for the Ger man nation. The American soldier remains' to think in terms of the spirit, in terms of pride1, and in terms of unselfish service and achievement. It remains to bo seen whether the men who are leaders in American civil life are wise enough to study him with profit. The men of our own Iron Division en dured much of tho bitterest fighting of the war. The city will blaze for them when they arrive. But cheers, music, color and a day of enthusiasm will not be enough.' If we let it go at that we shall be the losers, not" they. What is life to be like for them later along? . THE SEDITION" BILL WHATEVER is mean, hidden, furtive, ' ' bigoted or virulent in social and po litical propaganda should be put down consistently and mercilessly in this coun try. The very generosity of America and the American people and the grentness of the ideal symbolized in our foim of government and actually realized in the service we have done in Europe make a tiaitor seem more despicable hoie than he could be anywhere elseon the planet. But even traitors may bo dealt with without hysteria. This nation and its government developed and grew strong through rational criticism of a sort that often seemed radical in the light of the contemporary opinion of earlier times. Will the members of the Legislature at Harrisburg be able to see"clearfy and unerringly the differences that lie be tween the two methods of political action lepresented by a malignant demagogue and constructive, if liberal, criticism? That is a pietty important question now when a bill designed to check sedition is being made to include many sweeping restrictions. Unquestionably there are fanatics in the United States who, as agitators of the new school, are willing to preach disrespect of law. They are potentially dangerous. But they are comparatively few and futile. They thrive momentarily only where they can weave fantasies against a background of intense igno rance. Law in this country is law because it represents, and always will represent, the collective will of the majority. It is always safe and always beyond attack. It represents the experience of centuries of intelligent aspiration in government. The man who disrespects law is hardly less foolish than the man who assumes that it needs great artificial prptective agencies to insure its survival. It is because the law itself is inviolate and evolutionary that it should protect, rather than hinder, those who criticize its reactions in all sincerity. Political dissatisfaction that normally finds expiession in frtank and open criti cism cannot be eased by clubs such as were swung the other day at Toledo, O. No one who has any valid grievance can be gagged in America. No one who would restrict free speech properly inter prets the spirit of the law of the United States. And when a bill is so drawn that it might be interpreted some time by some reactionary judge with a grouch against progress as to restrict just criticism of government officials and in stitutions it cannot long survive on the, statute books. The so-called sedition bill now up for consideration at Harrisburg should not be passed in too great'a hurry. , One Philadelphia git I, .Miss Cora Duffy. .Major Smith's confi dential Secretary, has He Wouldn't Stay Home! been tilling the .Major's job, and another, Miss Cecelia I' Bas, is admitted to the bar of the I'nlted States court. And jet a giae and self-uaaured state leglslatute would not admit that"riWy aie qualified to ole, JHist we say, before loner, in as sessing' the lealitles of political develop ment in America, that man's place Is in the home-.' I'lesldent AVI 1 s o n's (Julie So . warning to the peace delegates t h u t the woild expects action latiier than words suggests that It is like a piofesslonal diplo matist to talk too little before a war and too much after one. They also berve who win the distin guished service medal at home. ChangeH In the German general staff haven't occurred for some tlmt It's still bread. That Camden baby who swallowed fur niture polish applied It Iji the wiong place if It, wished to shine In socletj-. The schoolboy at least will heartily Indorse any revisions In the league covenant that make fcr compression of woidlng. - The ease with which revojiilloijn are consummated nowadays seems to have made Felix Diaz of Mexico actively envious. No blue laws can make' this coming Sunday any bluer than it will be for Wil Ham Uohenzollern, for that day Is the peci ond anniversary of America's entrj' into the war. - Tho popularity and proht of rummage sales make one wish that the two political parties might follow the example of the householders artd clear out the old and useless stuff to make room for new blood. Senator Hitchcock seems to fear that the hall will be packed with frleftds of Mr, PeDDer when he comes here to debate the league of nations. ,Mr. Pepper will doubt-" less regard 11 as a compliment mat me Swmto VMMdtW MMOR COVZENS . TELLS THE TRUTH Docs Not Seem to be Afraid of Smirching Detroit by His House Cleaning Methods TTU8II!" exclaim certain Phllttdclphlans -tl when some ono begins ti talk about unsatisfactory conditions here. "You must not say that. It v 111 hurt the city." They used to talk that way In New Orleans when yellow fever appeared. A Concerted attempt was made to cover up the facts in the hope that business might not be disastrously affected bj the plague., But the policy ot concealment hampered the work of tho health department, and it frequently happened that the disease had bo many victims that the truth could be hidden no longer. Tho city suffered from Its ostrich pollcj, and it came about that when rmuois of yellow feter circulated all strangers would avoid the pli.ee because thoy could put no faith In any, statements about Its health conditions. New Orleans learned better through bit ter experience and abandoned Its efforts to hide tho truth. It fought yellow fever in the open before tho preventive methods were discovered, and now people have con fidence In any health reports that come from the city. ' DETROIT, which has a reform adminis tration, has already begun to adopt tho policy of government in the open, on the theory that the way to correct abuses Is to tell the truth about them. It does not suffer from epidemic diseases, but it has been troubled for years by a plague of delinquent personal taxpayers. Ifayor Courens has recentlj' caused to be printed a five-column advertisement in the dally newspapers of the city stating the fa'cts and announcing that the delinquents aie expected to report the amount o,f their taxable personal propertj. The only threat in tho advertisement Is contained in the provisions of tho law for the collec tion of the tax with the penalties flxed for disregard of them. The pertinent fcoctions of the statute aie printed. An appeal is made to the deslie of tlio taxpayers for fair plaj. It is announced that the board of assess ors has the power to assess anj- person or corporation falling to maKe a statement on such on amount as It believes to be proper. And It Is also announced that the Mayor and members of tho Council will lefuse to nsk the boaid of revision to decline to make anj- eduction of a preliminary as sessment If no oluntarj statement of per sonal propertj is made by any individual, merchant or corporation, , THK advertisement reminds the owners of peisonal propeity that the man with possessions In the open must not be asked to bear n greater share of the tax burden than Is fair; that tho laborer and the me- chanio cannot escape because all they hae is plainly before the assessor: that real estate holders, 6oiporatlons and merchants cannot escape, because their propertj' Is where It can be seen. It says, further, that there are thousands of Investors who have concealed their personal investments and have eaded tin? law. Some of them have failed to make returns because some body else they knew had 1191 made re turns, st In order to show the exact feituatlon, the following sumniarj of the number of per sonal taxpajers and the amounts on which they paid last year is printed: 'limber of individuals .. .. 1.190 Amount of taxable pr.opertj . $10,000,000 Xumber of merchants 11,000 Amount of taxable property. $67,177,580 Xumber of coruoiatloMs, . . '.',295 Amount of taxable propertj-, $233,758,770 Then a list of the kinds of personal prop erty taxable under the state laws Is given, in order that the citizens who maj' happen to be ignorant of their liability may no longer be able to plead that ignorahce to their consciences as an excuse for tax dodglug. Included In the property liable to per sonal assessments aie household furniture, musical Instruments, statuary, pictures and other works above the total value ot $500; Jewelry, gold or silver plate and watches, horses and all vehicles save auto mobiles, all moneys represented bj- notes, all deposits in trust companies or with any corporation or Individual, 'and all monejs on hand or in safe-deposit vaults, all sums or amounts duo or to become due, all shares of stock in any corporation ex lept national banks organized under the laws of any other state or countij, and all shares of stock in any corporation char teied In Michigan but doing its business outside of the state, and so on. THE citizens are leminded that the Major and the Council have taken oath to enforce the laws, and the advertisement announces that the Council and the Mayor believe that the there statement of their Intention to enforce the laws impaitlally Is all that is necessarj' to induce the citi zens to o-operate with them. And it Is further said that it would be better to abolish' the personal propeity1 tax alto gether than to permit the present condi tions to continue. It Is unfair that the man whose property Is easily discoverable should be taxed while the man with much more property hidden from view should escape. I T IS evident that the new broom in De- the amount of a smudge It may stir up. There Is np fear of what any outsiders may think about the matter. There Is to be government In the open, livery one who believes In this sort of thing Is con fident that the city will gain more than It will lose, for the only time when a city. suffers from truth-telling about Its evil' conditions is when It refrains fiom serious effort to cure them. It Is evident, too, that Mayor Couzens and the Council are not afraid to spend the public money in advertlalng ' order to Inform the people of tho existence 'of abuses and of the determination of their fcervants to correct them. Some moss backs may object and maj' sty that it ought not to be announced to the country that Detroit la full of personal property tax-dodgers; but the mossbacks were sent to the rear when the reform administra tion was elected. There Is a new order of things in the Michigan metropolis, the working out of which should, be watched with 'curious Interest by leformers' and stand-patters In every other 'considerable comniunlt Detroit was rescued from the control of the professional yard heelers In ,th last municipal erection. It Is now engaged In cleaning out the accumulation of bad busi ness methods which years of Indifference' to anything but spoils have piled up,, Governor Sproul'e tonsils are swollen, but his head Isn't. General Woodv deserves ihat distin guished service medal, but If they had Jet him go tot France he might have won something tlgger. ' Whatever ela0 tne' maJ' lack, the re belling Egyptians' have unquestionably lots of saiid.j The reverse of light-saving Is achieved when the Paris conference pijta back, the clock. In heeding aggressive territorial THE CHAFFING DISH Statrment of Ilia onnrralilp, raanaiHmnl, cir culation, etc., required by the act ot Congress or Auzuat 21, 191S. ot THE CHAFFING DISH Before me. a registered aubcHllber poet In and for the Btate of Pennsylvania; i ounty of fhllaael. Phla. personally appeared SOCRATES, who. liav Ina; been duly aworn according- to law. "fP0"6,8 and saa that he Is the publisher of THB CHA FINO DISH and that the following Is a true btatement of the ownerahlp. management ana clnulatlon of the aforesaid publication: Publisher SOCRATES. Editor SOCRATES. Manae-lna- Editor SOCRATES. nuniness Manager ANN JJA.NTE. OITIce Ilov SOCRATES. Off lie Gill PHYLLIS. Treasurer None, unfortunately. ' Steamer-off.of Uncanceled Htamps SOCRA1 LS, Desk-Cleanlnc Expert I) UNRAVEN BLLAIv. 1'oriespondenre Clerk Same aa Treasurer. Staff Poet 'DOVE DULCET. ., Foreign correspondent WU.LtAjr McFEE. Stockno'ders iliodlne more than 1 pr vent or stork) SOCRATES XANTHIPPE. ANN DANTE. DUNRAVEN BLEAK. . , Circulation Sit times per weeU. durlns con tinuance of health and spirits of the Managing Editor. Trustee of Sinking Fund (six three-cent stamps) SOCRATES. , , Sworri and subscribed before me this 1st day 0f APH1' ,n, DOVE DUUCET. My, commission expires immediate!. Marc Antony Overdraws His Account IF YOU have coins, prepare to spend them now! You all do know- this check-book. I re member The first time that I filled- In all these stubs: 'Twas. on a summer evening, In the sub- , urbs. The day 1 overcame the g.-ocer'a bill. See what a rent the envious landlord got! Through this the well-beloved gas-man st'ubbed, And, as he plucked his cursed steal away, Mark how the butcher and the plumber followed As rushing to my door, to be resolved If Antony still .had some balance left. For I wob certainly that plumber's angel: See his Indorsements on the checks I paid him! And here's that coal bill That was the most unklndest debt of all; For when my nervous banker saw that stub My deficit, more strong than my deposits, Quite vanquished my account: then burst my balance. And, while the cashier muffled iup his face.i Even at the base of his dread adding en gine (Printing a row of digits In red Ink) He damned the check with Insufficient funds, v O patdon me, thou bleeding banU account, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers . . . O gentle balance, dost thou lie so low? But yesterday this little check-book might Have stood against the income tax. Xow lies he there, And not a single check In him Is valid. The tiouble with X,enhle and Trotsky Is that they have been seduced by watching a typewriter. They imagine that by de pressing a Bhlft key the whole world can be thrown from CAPITAL Into lower case. Desk Mottoes Be leserved, but not sour: grave, but not Xormal'y bold, but not rash; liumble, but not servile; patient, not Insensible; con stant, not obstinate; cheerful, not light; rather sweet, than famlllari familiar, than intimate; ana Intimate with very few, and upon 'very good grounds. WILLIAM PEN'NV Our Idea of a pleasant evening (s one spent In watching, Mr and Mrs. Sidney Drew on the 'screen. We wonder why Sidney's race Js so much more amusing that his brother John Drew's, is jt be cause John was born in Philadelphia and Sidney in New York? If we had a lace like Bldney" Drew's we would find shaving every day np bore at M. ' We can imagine barbers paying Sidney for the privilege of razing that droll map. Ono of the things we regret is that tho Germans before J9H were insufficiently acquainjeajmm hib, iwew, ;oi Jpnai i irvvri ryw WHILE THERE'S LIFE ' ..;.,. .';.;-;''.Kti , . - '. ii- .-: ' -': ,. " ?':".'-' ' 'V1.a'. ic; r .;..vi !'" Vi-t ,-;-'gft-i'Hs' & ' i " ' V-i ''s,'' 'Vvv!,",,iiff'i J- I i 1 'M who said: "National hatred has Its peculiar nspects. You will alwaj-s find It strongest and most violent In the lowest stages of civilization (Kultur)." We wonder if the Penii boys' leally think they are fitting themselves for this bustling orld by planning "flour fights" and "pants fights"? Belgium could use both the flour and the pants If the students have no uso for them. "Some Unknown Motive" n grew late. Frau Ulsner put away her knitting, rose and Went Into an ad joining room, -which evidently was a bed-, room. A moment later she returned, sat' down and began to unlace her shoes. After unlacing" them she started to pull them off, but after a glance at me some unknown motive made her hesitate. She rose again, walked Into the bedroom, her shoe laces flapping, and closed the door. Webb Waldron, In Collier's. Perhaps Frau Eisner had a hole in her stocking? Qulntus H. FJaccus sends us the follow ing head from the Galesburg Itepublican rteglster.1 PRETTY WEDDING AT BARTpN HOME ON THURSDAY Will Do Their Part in the Great Work of Reconstruct , tion. Tlie Fourteen Pointi of Our Daily Existence vVhether to get up now ot 7 a. m,- to IlO'tutfi nnr.t1.ur ennMi t,Miauaaua,aiiB,a. D1IVIK.C, 8 a. in. Whether to, turn on the cold water In the shower or let the hot run a little longer. ' 9 a. m. Whether to walk to the ofilce or ride. 10 a. m. Whether to answer that letter today or wait till tomorrow. 11 a. m. Whether to write a poem or pray that some contrlb will come across. v 12 m. Whether to go out for lunch or wait till some one offers to buy. 1 p. m, Whether to return to tjie office or to keep On eating, , 2 p. m. Whether to write a poem about the tfee that blew down In Independence Square. 3 p. m. iWhether to. write prose about the tree that blew down In In dependence Square. 4 p. m. Whether to write about the tree that blew down' In Independ ence Square. 5 p, m. Whether to write something about Lenlne and Trotskj. p. m. Whether, to go straight home. 8 p. m. Whether to go to the movies, lip. tn. Whether to 'go to bed. ATIH jbu grumbling because some of . our nlen are still in Europe? ' I YOU know what you can lo about it Ot'eMiibscrloe fJie VICTORY lOAN IUpays their passage home. i ' TyEQlN t "tiYii for it now. TWa space contributed by THE CHAWING DISH i 'One of the times when even the most placid feel upstlrrlngH ot Bolshevism Is when thej" have been waiting twenty jnln utea in the tonsorlum for a shave, and then Observe all the aristocrats in the chairs i making up their ,-mtadft tp have shampoos -n4t vaaUuffc cu &. flSh- ' ., FISHING TIME , THE spring's getting into my veins; t I'm tired Of roof trees and floors; The cobwebs are clouding my brains. I long for the great out ot doors. A mouthful of keen salty air, With Its taste of the sea would feel good. In a world free from care. Oh, how I long . to be there, When the flounder comes' out of the mud. It Isn't that laziness put Its seal on my overworked mind; I want to get out of the rut, Leaving duty and routine ,behlnd. Necessity's slave driven me. And Its prodding I've patiently stood; But, I'm longing to be near the sound of the sea, When the flounder comes out of the mud. To sit on a worm-eaten dock, The woild and myself feeling fine; Forgetting the rounds of the clock, With a sinker, a hook and a line. Just waiting the quick, angry jerk Which tells that his hold's pretty good; Oh, I don't want to shirk, but I'd rather not work, When the flounder comes out of the mud. There are' plenty of things which appeal To me. strongly the rest of the year; But in spring I Just hanker to stea! Away from my usual sphere To a place where there's n.o one to car How I look, so that any old dud I am able to wear. Oh, I've got to b there . When the flounder comes out of the mud. Helen Combes, in the New York Herald.i Judge Kvans, of Kentucky, still insist that the war is over, and cites the Presi dent's armistice announcement to Congress outNovember 11 that "the war thus comes to an end." We certainly hope that th President was right. What Do You Know? QUIZ 1 What cltv Is most favorably .considered for the 'seat ofhe league of nations? 2. When was the war between China and Japan fought? 3. How long has the America's Cup (for -acht racing) been In American posses sion? . i 4. wjio founded the city of St. Petersburg. f now Petiograd? 5,. Who wrote the novel, "Far From the Madding Crowd"? 6 What word does the weather bureau em- plov to describe a wind blowing more 'than eighty miles an hour? 7 How much did' the United States pay Spa'ln for the Philippine Islands? g. 'How does gruj-ere cheese feet Its name7 9. Name two words the English spelling of which differs from the American. 10. What Is poteen? Answen to Yeilerday'a Quiz 1. The wo languages ot Belgium am French and Flemish. " "Carte blanche" Implies full discretion " ary power, The phrase refers to a sheet, of blank paper given to a person to write his own terms on. ' 3 A dingey or dinghy1 Is u small ship's ' boat or small pleasure rowing boat. Originally t was a native rowing boat on Indian rivers. ' 4, Constanza Is a Jtumanlan ,port on the Black Sea, below the mouths ot the Danube. k. n-h Ttoman Emperor Commodus (161- I02i nartlclpated In gladiatorial com- 13 bats In the Colosseum and atjied him- ?! self the "Second tiercuies. t,, JUL. . Bimiwo w."... w .... . Ben Jonoon's comedy "Every Man in His Humor," T , 8. Jeffereon City la the capital of Missouri, 9, William Hale Thompson &t Just been $ J 10; The new .world's record for speed In anJ -1 - S IfiA amM - ..... 'J- J fl ' I jachleved by a Pe Havltarui machine, Ul A , weekf.in ftrjight betwn tJtarto fMl f airniBiia m idu uiilcb uii nuur. u ruiar .. . . .- .i . : . .vr-' iti -s m J V ii t-i ..a 3 3 t1 itof think hsha friepda enough in claims. .Such procedure Indeed imsa'twa : t ?. ."-'IE '?' A'--'m 'n-f .'' - ? ( '
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