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gfatHOW CHILDREN ARE KILLED
mSSJtT IS difficult for a small boy to resist
ftff " the temptation to steal a ride on the
Ktrear of a truck when it is going his way.
iSi&fllSp It is difficult for the driver of any
sSrvehicle followinc: the truck to stoD in
K?,tiine to keep from running over the boy
W'flk.when he jumps down, at the end of his
fejSrfae.
istV A lartre nronortton of the aenous acci-
4 'Jp'B'ents in the streets arise from the boys'
ISlfclcustom - sea''nS rides.
sSlyrv'Z f"!nnTiiTo iq pnnoiiloMnn. o li.11 in mnla
.lV w" ...o ..u.uw...,, .... . ...uni.
W unlawful for boys of school age to
s climb on the rear of vehicles. A fine of
',$25 is provided for the offenders and a
liKTi . .
Iw j. e truck driver who
ftjgys permits ine Doys to riae.
fkS'1' . Tl,to 1.S11 wiav Tint , in tV.a ,...
mlQiform. but some legislation is nectfssarv
ihst will empower the police to prevent
PSJyjthe boys from risking their lives for the
KW;eke of a ride. Then the police must en
force the law.
ffPJlTcbNSIDER THE SCHUYLKILL
NKEMPT banks, shabby wharves,
dump heaps, stockyards, unsightly
."industrial plants between Lea cue Island
fSysSwd Yilley Forge all vanish in the pic
l54iire of the beautified Schuylkill as drawn
flinty tho Fairmount Park Art Association
nfmin Us j-ecommendation for a war memo-
ft&mxial parkway.
STwWir'The concention is rather hrontVi.
taking. The sprightly Joseph Pennell,
SpXmp uv s nnmyivniiiji (.lie lliuwil JUIIger
S&commemoratlve highway one across the
SaTaiontment, in fact calls it "the grossest
-ftfodlishness. Nevertheless, it is stimu-
fMylttmsr to consider large-scale imnmv.
rents. Often they are accomplished in
r t'ttjirt htA nrpnqinnnllv a voalUr mni.!..
, 'fftal project gets executed.
C 'i,Moreover, anything which directs at
ii'M&lention to the artistic possibilities of th
i loS Schuylkill is commendable. Nature hnn
!&ft,wi lavish with the historic stream, but
gtejmM, especially of late years, has failed
' $$&" make the most of its charms.
-V.'The Chicago river is no more depress-
lHe sight than the bchuylkill south of
ffcerFainnount waterworks. The stock-
s..id ro only one of its disfigurements.
fswin me pfk, neeuea emoanKment
jnkf1 notably on the east shore above
a Riwird,ayenue tiridge, has hung fire for
j;4itaroaas ana a nuge ironworks
rJtkvoc with tho scene at the "Falls."
ItflMy bo years, if ever, before the
ly comprehensive scheme of the
(lAKOciation takes completed form,
M Irl.w ,.. ........ .. OUvablUlt IB
r;than a lack ot interest in a scenic
ure. There are stretches where the
k1 itself has not treated it tnn .
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ui uu,.. ,,v ,.v..u -iyiuinie
jyUea'lnj)rBich to begin the roforra.A
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, ''lTTER.BbX LAXITIES
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cams jMNMiiKinz wie noure of
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uwr tunwtiy conruuiUc
Johnson, suporintendent of mails, ex
plains that tho letter boxes aro in for
their spring renovation and repainting
and that the old and soiled cards are to
bo replaced in three weeks by new ones.
Nevertheless, more mortals can't help
wondering why useful and confidence
breeding guides, however shabby, had to
be removed before the substitutes wore
ready. But the Burlesoninn empire
moves in a mysterious way its blunders
to perform. And perhaps, after all, the
inculcation of mistrust in letter boxes
accords with the policy which continues
to shake public faith in tho mail service
-itself. In all that relates to tho wrong
way of doing things, the present admin
istration of the Postofikc Department is
beautifully logical.
BREAD UPON THE WATERS
IN FROM THE PHILIPPINES
A Timely Lesson in Foreign Policy Came
With the Delegation Bearing the Fili
pinos' Bequest for Independence
IF THE representatives of the Philip
v.!nn I nntolntiirn lllirl mniln triPir nil-
peal for freedom to the Peace Confer
ence rather than in Washington
yesterday thev would have struck at the
place where their future destinies must
actually be determined. Unless a decent
peace can be -lnde, tho pathways of
weaker peoples will lemain always, as
the President observes, neiilous.
The incident in Washington and the
promise implied in Mr. Wilson's letter,
read by Secretary Baker, should recall
to the conferees at Paris a vivid sense of
their responsibilities. It gave the Presi
dent an oppoitunity to remind the world
of the natuie and extent of the issues
waiting decision in Palis. It is character
istic of Mr. Wilson that the opportunity
was not neglected.
The essential purpose of a league nf
nations is to insure the peace and safety
of a people like the Filipinos. For peo
ples do not make war. Governments do
not make war if they are left to them
selves. It is the invisible forces that
exist too often above governments which
devise philosophies pf conouest to hnrass
and destroy helpless peoples and unex
ploited tenitory.
The present condition of life and
thought in the Philippines pioyes that
we have so far been proof aeainst this
sort of influence the same influence that
gave Europe over to min. The visit o
the Filipino delegation to Washington
symbolizes a triumph of self-restraint
and an achievement in friendship.
The purpose of the mandatory clause
in the Paris covenant is intended to elim
inate the ancient menace to small na
tions. It goes to the very heart of war's
causes, because, if it is propcily enforced,
buccaneers of promotion and thugs of
diplomacy can never again tlrair their
nations after them in wars that begin
with private ambition for supremacy in
undeveloped avetis of the eaith.
Civilization will be peimitted to ex
pand peacefully as it has expanded in the
Philippine Tslnnds. The Filipinos deserve
their freedom. But it is questionable
whether the United States can ever be
relieved of the cost and the burden which
our lesponsibility to them has always
entailed until their future is definitely as
sured under the system for which the
American delegates have waged an un
equal fight at the Paris confeience.
Ceitainly nothing could be more dia
matic in times like these than the tone
of the appeal sent by the Philippine
Legislature to the American government
..nd the statement left for th" delegates
bv Mr. Wilson. Heie was the levelation
of an international policy which has al
wav.3 run counter to the accepted rules of
national expansion and the old diplomacy.
All Ameiica has contributed to the
help of the Filioinos. Taft contributed
his patience and his gifted mind and the
wisdom of a good heart. Roosevelt ad
hered to what he loved to call the square
deal. But school teachers, engineers,
builders and soldiers gave to this people
some of the best years of their lives. The
government itselfJyas always interpreted
in the islands the- individual code of the
every-day American.
Mr. Wilson, who has exalted the prin
ciple of fair play as an international pol
icy, is not indulging in rhetorical felici
ties when he insists that he tries only to
interpret the common thought of his
country.
This national ideal, internationally ex
pressed, has been sneered at often
enough. It has been blindly called altru
istic and visionary. It has been said that
it wouldn't and wouldn't work. Those who
called us mystical and impractical were
the "practical men" in diplomacy, the
rainbow chasers who now stand harassed,
impotent and wholly desperate amid the
ruin that their own theories have made
of the old world.
In the light of recent events and for
our own guidance in the crises that are
to come it may be interesting to see
where our "mysticism" ultimately leads.
"You have truly treated us as no nation
ever before treated another under its
sway," said the spokesman for the Philip
pine Congress.
The wise and sensiiive mind of China
has cherished for the United States noth
ing but confidence and endless esteem
since we refused to participate in the
shameful loot of the Boxer indemnities.
Cuba said she would fight upejs- our
side to tho last man.
Ig it nothing to have the confidence and
the friendship of the whole world in a
time of universal bitterness 'and hate?
We have not applied any new (Prin
ciple of international relationships.
Bather, we have reverted, in all our con
tacts with otKer peoples, to a principle
that )9 as old aa civilization. 'Wo have
merely admitted the validity of reason
and, the right of every wan to common
justice., , i
'AH wemswryj pi ayjiasiiw ,anri na-
past these essential human obligations
without disaster. Occasionally it appears
that tho reverso of tho rulo may bo
workable. So tho older diplomatists used
to believe. But they gave their countries
at last over to flames and grief.
The Philippine Islands' have not been
exploited and debased. Tho people have
been trained for twenty years or more in
the duties of government They have re
sponded magnificently to tho American
approach. They have cost us a stupen
dous lot of money nnd anxiety; yet it be
gins to seem that they have been worth
the price and the trouble. We ourselves
may be able to learn something from
them and profit through an understand
ing of what their friendship means.
Doc3 the result of our past relations
with the Philippines and China and Cuba
and other helpless or harassed people
carry a lesson for tho men who must
hereafter direct our international poli
cies? Shall we cultivate the friendship of
Mexico or the enmity of the Mexican
people?
Will there be in Europe, in the east or
in the west or in the middle any nation
that can charge us in the years to come
with having helped unjustly in their op
piession? If so, then we are manifestly
in a bad way.
The next Congress will bo abe to give
n definite answer to the Filipinos. The
islands are "within sight" of their inde
pendence. But they cannot safely be set
adrift in a world of violence and intrigue.
Obviously the President is working in
their behalf. But ho must find an answer
for them in Paris and not in Washington.
DOMESTIC POLITICS AT PARIS
fXP ALL 'ie forces which beset and be-
devil the delegates in Paris, home
politics is perhaps the most potent.
Every statesman has been plagued by it,
and .whether the attacks have been war
ranted or undeserved there can be no
question that they have hampered har
mony ailcl progress at the peace table.
Just now it seems to be Lloyd George's
turn to be embariassed. The chicks
hatched by his fervid oratory during the
British general election last December
are grown up and have come home to
roost. The premier, speaking for -his
Coalition party, which carried the coun
try, categorically promised that Germany
would be mode to pay the entire cost of
the war.
The pledge was demagogic and, on
analysis, quite incredible. England, by
a larga majority, however, was in the
mood to fool itself into believing it. The
opposition carefully pigeon-holed the
,rash blunder for use at a politically op
portune moment. That time has now
arisen, for, of couise, the imposition of
any such indemnity is impossible. '
Mr. Lloyd George is thereupon exhib
ited by one faction in the role of a
promise-breaker. His supporters, by in
nuendo, and lately by some direct utter
ances, are pointing to Mr. Wilson as the
obstacle. English enthusiasm for the
President is said to be waning. This is
inevitable in circles seeking to justify
the British premier.
Naturally the infusion of domestic pol
itics into an international situation sim
ply piles on the agony. To a large extent
it missed file when American factional
ism sought to becloud the league-of-nations
issue. But Lloyd Geoige is a
more vulnerable target, placed in the
unenviable position of pleasing neither
those who tried to credit what he prom
ised or those who have been fighting him
right along.
PAGING A LOST IDEAL
rpHERE are city-bound men, and even
women, so rushed and abstracted and
so far removed in knowledge and sym
pathy from the land and its blessings
that they are never suie that potatoes
do not grow already fried or that tho
pea doesn't reach maturity until neatly
canned.
Such as these, whose tables are re
moved by two or three days from 'the
farms, never know the full glory of corn
caught upon its native cob and boiled
within five minutes after it has left the
field. They are not aware how inevitably
all garden vegetableseave the best of
their flavor in the past when they are a
day or two old.
Were this knowledge not strange to a
large part of the city's population there
would be prolonged applause for the
Mayor's suggestion of an elaborated
curb-market system for the coming sum
mer. A curb market properly managed
as it used to be here in the ancient days
and as it still may be found in Lancas
ter and Bethlehem and Lebanon is the
only institution that can actually offer
great riches at a i- luced price.
It isn't too early to talk about curb
markets, Those planned last year were
successful. Philadelphia "might wisely
borrow a habit from its earlier history
and establish markets such as still
persist in the smaller cities of the state
treasured institutions altogether 'useful
and beautiful to see. This city is belted
for a depth of thirty miles with trie rich
est farm land in the world. All pro
gressive farmers have automobiles and
most of them like to sell their produce
direct. Obviously the need of the city Is
an enlarged and central area for a farm
market."
Some day or other the plan may reach
perfection. The Art Jury may take it
up. There may be a place of color and
marble pillars and happy ladies and gen
tlemen carrying baskets in the old man
ner. Then we may talk of culture!
The government has removed the limi
tation on the price of meat. Now we won
der whether It will so up or go down,
Hufrercrs from chaotic transportation
facilities In Russia desire most of all a,
few car-wheel revolutions.
Many persons vyho have heretofore
subscribed to Matthew Arnold'a . belief in
the Tightness, ot mnorltlw must ee iiie
;!2SiCir tefifc
CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S
.LETTER
Troublcsof Henry Young 'and
Other, Fish Dealers Tho Late
Uenry IPS BarMs Gricv- ...
aiicc Against a Consul
Washington, D. C, April C.
PEOPLE hero arotrylng to get a closer
line on tho real meaning of Bolshevism.
Meyer Loudon, the New York Socialist,
who went out of Congress March 4, was
given much time to discuss tho subject and
I, could sco nothing In It but a movement
or tho people to froo themselves from un
just 'conditions Colonel Thompson, who
headed tho Ilea Cross work In Russia for
a whllo and who loaned tho new regime
$l,d00,000, told a group of congressmen that
the uprising was that of the majority of
the people who were striving to rid them
selves of landlordism and whose ,jo&! was
the right to acquire and occupy land on
their own nccount. Raymond Robins, an
ardent Progressive, whose work for Roose
velt In 1912 entitles him to a hearing and
who is credited with having tho confidence
of tho so-called Bolshevik), expresses the
opinion that the existing government
should be recognized, because It represents
the sentiment of the Russian people. As
to one thing, most of those who Incline to
use the soft pedal on Bolshevism agree.
They eay that German landlordism has
been veiy influential and quite Intolerant
In Russia. In some respects they liken the
situation to that of the Irish people in their
fight for freedom from British rule. Up to
date, however, the term "Bolshevism" has
been treated In Washington as synony
mous with anarchy or nihilism. It Is gen
eially linked up' with the I. W. W. and
klndied organizations. For a time It was
applied by certain statesmen here to the
Nonpartisan League ov er w hich Mr. Town
ley, of North Dakota, presides. The Town
ley organization coquetted with both "Wil
son and Roosevelt, however, and today is
In control of the s'tate of North Dakota. It
Is a cuiious fact that while the Nonparti
san League dominates the North Dakota
Legislature and maintains that only farm
ers shall be put on guard, the largest per
centage of Increased Income taxes recently
reported by the commissioner of Internal
revenue comes from that state. And as to
that, the.ro is a l eason. North Dakota Is a
great wheat growing state and the Presi
dent has guaranteed tho American farmer
$2.26 per bushel for his wheat, no matter
t the world price Is one-half that sum.
Moral : The material Interest of a party or
a nation may sometimes overawe their
loftiest Ideals.
FROM Bolshevism and the ideas ot Wood
row Wilson to the everyday topic of
fresh fish sea bass, vveakflsh, porgles and
the like Is going some, but the President
must eat and so(must the Bolshevists, and
there you arc. Henry W. Young, of the
Reading Terminal: M. P. Howlett, of Dock
street; E. V. Vandergrlft, of North Front
street, and a respectable group of Phila
delphia fish dealers are up against the
problem of getting fresh fish to the mar
ket. They have been obtaining their supply
largely from pond nets on Five-Fathom
Banks Shoal and the war department has
gradually come to believe that pond nets
in nearby waters are dangerous to naviga
tion. Seafaring men have also been com
plaining of the nets because of bioken
poles In tho water when fishing Is not
under way. It Is said that the loss of one
or two tugs may be charged up to sunken
piles In the ocean. The chief of engineers
has been conferring with parties In Interest,
since the Issue seems to be squarely drawn
between the fish men and the navigators.
This same problem has been fought out In
numerous other instances along the coast,
particularly In the Chesapeake bay and
the sounds of North Carolinu.
THE late Hemy W. Bartol, whose will is
being contested In Philadelphia, was a
very positive man in some respects not re
let red to by the contestants. He did not
like the American consul at Nice, where he
lived when In Trance, and made certain
charges against him. The State Depart
ment caused an Inquiry to be made, and
when the report came in Mr. Bartol In
sisted that it was In effect a whitewash.
He treasured up his evidence and sought
to open up the whole subject at Washing
ton before his death at the Union League.
It was this untoward Incident; that relieved
the director of the consular service of an
unpleasant controversy. Mr. Bartol had
traveled much and kept himself Informed
upon the consular situation. He believed
the American consuls should live up to cer
tain standards and sometimes expressed
himself freely with regard to them.
Arid West Virginia
WEST VIRGINIA statesmen have an In
genuity, a subtlety and humor that
make limited "dryness" almost Bacchic.
The Legislature has passed a bill restrict
ing to twenty-five gallons the wine that
any one person may make for himself In
a year. Much, little enough, too much,
'twill serve. The same bill makes it an
offense for a nonresident dealer In Intoxi
cants to sell any of them that he knows
are to be carried Into West Virginia. How
West Virginia Is going to punish resi
dents, how she is to prove that the non
tesldent vender ot sin knows whither It Is
to be directed who knows?
The romantic charm of the measure,
however, is the provision "giving state,
county nnd city officers authority to con
fiscate all aircraft used for the purpose of
transporting liquor into the state or from
one place to another within the state."
One sees the state liquor constables, ad
mirals of the air fleets of the law, pursuing
and fighting the argosies of alcohol, the
squadrons of bottleshlps. From balloons
anchored at conveniently low altitudes
demijohns of the forbidden are dangled
down to tlje ea&er waiters below. Here an,
observation balloon, law or liquor, watches
the enemy, There a parachute with sev
eral cases 'darts from the winged .beer'
wagon. Behind the clouds many a bottle
Is keeping cold, i Here an enormous aerial
buffet car is crowded with customers. A
lively picture, and a crowded sky. Sortie,
and not the dullsst part, cf "the future of
aviation" is there. New Yovk Times.
There has been no commander yet
whom Germany has dreaded as much as
she does General Treaty.
It Is the Filipino notion that no kind
of expansion is so admirable as that of
liberal Ideas and consistent democracy,
That suggested bonfire of the wooden
ships seems to have been aa extravagantly
fanciful as many another red notloiii
nhine whines are bearing both French
and German, labels nowadays.
Missouri not only wants to be shown,
hut Is going to be, now that the woman
suffrage bill has become a law there.
"-!& William ifohenzollern jaS' tried,, het
rrilwto, Carloa Bwtfluo
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THE CHAFFING DISH
If Statesmen Were Watched
Like Baseball Players
GOSSIP In the training camps has It that
Davie George, Britain's stumpy little
portslder, Is holding back some real stuff
until the Big Time starts. Ever since
Davie came out of the Welsh bush league
those on the Inside have buzzed him as a
mound artist with unusual dlass. In some
of the warming-ups he has put over gilt
edged flings that moan through the ether
like dangerous business. Big Wood Wil
son, the lanky catcher, has to vaseline his
mitten to domesticate some of those snaky
shoots. Dave has real stuff, and. Is also
there with the willow.
a
Big Wood Is in fine form, and with the
careful grooming he has had all spring
should be able to swallow up anything that'
comes over. Some of Geo. Clemenceau's
sallvarles wriggle queerlyj but Wood Just
smiles at them and they plunk right In the
little old hollow mitt. Eddie House Is pretty
noncommittal these days, and seen In train
ing quarters he didn't ejaculate anything
much but bits of toothpick; but Inside
gossip says that he was heard talkl.ig in
his sjeep to the effect that .Wood's wing
was better than evor, and that any man
promenading the base-paths would need to
hasten.
' Vic Orlando is still the dark hotse In
this outfit. Some of the early dopeslers
figure that Vic Is lying down on his game
because Manager House wouldn't come,
across with the right kind of dotted lines'
in the contract, but that doesn't sound
likely.
Old Geo. Clemenceau Is still In the game
and his arm Isn't crystallized by any means.
He can still clout them over the.bleachera
when they come the way he likes them,
and he can rnaKc snoots at players twenty
years his Junior. His fast ball Is said to'
have considerable whisker.
Ig Paderewsky has turned up at training
quarters, nnd after he has been to the
barber he will undoubtedly make good on
the third corner. Ig Is a bit temperamen
tal, but the flossy Pole has a genuine brand
of goods. Wood was winging some at him
across the green and Ig scooped them in
Ukp netting herrings. " v
Social Chat
' Our friend Dave Yablock, who selU pa
pers and magazines and pepsin comfits
under the statue of Ben Franklin at Sixth
and Chestnut, claims to look like Marshal
Foch. He haa a portrait of Foch clipped
from this month's Ladles' Home Journal
posted up over his stand to prove It; and
Indeed, after carefully comparing the pic
ture of the generalissimo with Dave's fea
tures we are bound to admit that there's
something In what he says. But Dave will
have to let his mustache grow a little
longer.
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Speaking of likenesses, John French
Wilson Is In town from Cleveland, and we
take this opportunity of Informing him
that Vachel Lindsay Is trespassing on his
face. Both these facial ostates look de
lightfully alike. They both happen tb be
long to poets, too, John being the most
realistic bard that ever came out of West
town School. John Wilson's nlcknamo at
that pious Quaker .academy was "Beer";
we are wondering whether he will be able
,to retain it after the 1st of July. John
Wilson Is a sensible kind of poet; he
earns his living by being a lawyer in
Cleveland. He speaks with gentle sorrow
of an eway he wrote recently "On the Na
ture and Requirements ot Poetry," the
manuscript o2 which was accidentally de
stroyed during the spring housecleanlng In
his home. Now If John had been merely a
poet that would have blighted his aife; but
as it Is he can soon make some plaintiff
heal the wound.
.Another, caller at.the, sanctum ofytbe
ChaJHne JMl m UMnv itaaulrlliiW
WHO RUN MAY READ
wmmmimmmmm m
the Kaiser will never know what a narrow
escape he had. Mr. Spaulding, or "Pete,"
as we are accustomed to call him, applied
for a commission In the chemical warfare
service last fall. His application was ap
proved and he was given tho customaiy '
ten days' grace to wind up his business
affairs. He hhed a man to take his Job,
gave away his clothes to the poor and
needy and was all set to get into khaki.
The ninth day of the ten, however, hap
pened to be November 11.
Tigerizing the Urchin ,
The Zoo Is a great help to paienls of
joung children. The Urchin has taken
such a fancy to one. of the tigers out there
that he wants to emulate that noble beast
In all particulars. This simplifies many
problems. If the Urchin Is disinclined to
finish his evening glasd of milk, all that Is
needful Is to say, "The tiger always finishes ,
his milk," and presto. It vanishes. If the
Urchin doesn't want to be Interned In his
crib at nightfall, one need only say, "The
tiger has gone to bed." If he shows a de
sire to acquaint himself with a safety razor,
one remarks casually, "The tiger "doesn't
like razors," and he couldn't be hired to
touch one. And so on, all 'down the line
of taking baths, having nails clipped, wear
ing mittens and testing the crushing power
ot door-hinges. Truly the Tiger Is a great
Institution.
People laughed at Doctor Osier when ho
suggested that men of sixty might be
chloroformed without loss to the world.
But maybe he had the right Idea. Suppose
they had tried it on Hlndenburg and Lu
dendorff, how our troubles would have
been simplified.
tna
As a returned doughboy said to us after
watching them piling Into a Walnut street
P. R. T. Pullman: "All you need Is to
paint Ilommcs ifi, Chevaux 8 on the side
of the car, and the passengers ought to
have stripes for foreign servioe."
Today Is the birthday of Frank R. Stock
ton, and lover of quiet humor might1 cele
brate by dusting off their copies of "Rud
der Grange" and "The Late Mrs. Null" and
settling down for a happy evening. Has
Philadelphia ever begotten a novelist with
a more genial sense of humor than Stock
ton's? We doubt It.
As Robert Louls Stevenson wrote, In
1884
"My Stockton If I failed to like,
It were a sheer depravity,
For I went down with the Thomas Hyke
And up with the Negative Gravity!"
We see) tliat' a' 'Mexican field marshal
called 'Blanquet has'Ieft,Brooklyn, the well
known home of losfcauses, and'lias started
out to act as1 a yrel blanket for Carranza'a
happiness1. General Blanquet's secretary
says tha$ the general will turn (Mexico ,
upside down right speedily; but" the trouble
Is, 'does anybody In that tormented land
know when she's right side up' dnd whoh
she'isn't? ,
General Blanquet's campaign may be
very hopeful Indeed, but we notice that his
secretary Is staying snugly Jn New York.
It May Have Hippened
"But can you support her ln'the kind of
home to which she has, been accustomed?"
asked the girl's fatherKof tho young man,
who happened to be the circus press agent.
"Not merely that," replied the circus
agept readily (and In boldface, "buft 'easily
and obviously in the colossus of ail homes,
presenting In one domestic menage and
for the Jrst tlme.ln all history not merely
many but all earth's greatest comforts,
revealing magnificent mammoth pleasures
such as have never been seen before npr
deemed possible of achievement, the most
astounding domestic contentments ever .as
sembled under one roof, the world's great
est assemblage of desirable emotlono.inaw
and novel cultaGf'klndnestj!'and"'UDerl)
teat t of.iintrloata (forbearance randf genl
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THEREBY
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BACK TO THE ROAD
"The Romany men. the freedom losing gipslr
who for four jeurs ha'c orn the Khaki, ara
belnt; demobilised and eo back lo their home
which is the holc. ,wlde world"
THE long load, the white road, the road
without an end .
Has called Its children back again from
I out ithj bloody fray.
The task wo had tq do is dope, '
The wa? we had to win Is won,
With faces to the setting sun
We're tramping on our waj.
The white stars, the blight star?, the
velvet sky above!
And oh, the endless joy of Jlfe that's In
the qarth beneath!
The bltd tli-it thillls the dusk at eve
With tlnobblng notes of pain that grieve.
But gladden ere the echoes leave
The hedgerow and the heath!
The few loves, the ttue loves, we know
are waiting still.
We hae a rendezvous with somo whose
lips long since we Kissed. .
And over hill and moor and plain, -.
Through golden sunshine, silver rulH; .
We go to find out own ago.n, V
Who keep the faithful tryst.
The old trail, the bold t-all that ever-lures
us on! ,
Tho days and nights of beauty In the
sky, the sea and sod. '
The life of Jove and joy and song..
The sky-roofed homo where we belong,
Tho road that winds through light and
'wrong -' ,
About the feet of God.
Harry Varley, in the New; York Times.
There ,1s really no lack of self-deler-mlnatlon
at the peace table. In factsome
of the most obstlnate,dclegates seem to be
overdoing It.
What B6y You Know? ,, 1
QUIZ , ,
l.-Who Is the British commander of the
troops opposed to the Bqjshevlstsv In the
Murmansk region of Russia?
2. What is the largest city In Egypt?
3. What, are the Eddas?
4. What kind of color In called nacarat?
6. What Is the correct' pronunclatlon.of tha
American Indian word sachem and what
does jf mean?
6. Who Is the head of the German armi
stice commission who has Just been In
conference with Marshal Foch at 'Spa?
i -what la sDlkenard?
i. 8 What Is the meaning of the title', "Met-f fj
ropolltan of Athens"? W
9. What kind of musical Instrument Is a
sackbut?
tn tifluf manv AmArirjin President wm
of JDutch parental ancestty, and who pn
were uivy .j
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Answers to Yesterday s Quiz
1. Gefaeva is Just now In favor as the official , jg
seat of the league of natlons,although 5
King Albert Is said -to haye strongly, 3
2, The war between. Japan and China, end- 'Q
Ing in a Japanese yiciory, uztan in "
1894 and was ended by the jreaty of
Shlmonoseiu in ,ip. j
3. The America' cup cror yacn. racing)
.aa daan tn Ampriran nniipaf nn '
nearly sixty-eight years, . SM
i, St Petersburg, now Petrorrad, ,?&
founded by Peter the areat In 1703. ?J
6. Thomas. Hardy wrote the noyel,- ''Far
From the piaaaing v.-rowo."i v
6. The weather bureau official describes,
wind Plowing more man eignty jnlleo
v an-hour as a hurricane. .
7. Tho United States paid Spain twenty"
million dollars for the Philippine Islands. , '
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