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rh,liJ,lphli, Urdnf.dar. April 9. lilt
IN THE EXPERIMENTAL STAGE
r' TT REMAINS to be proved that a mar-
ket where the farmers ivill come in
ujrect contact with the consumer will be
SMnore satisfactory than the paicel post
ffv system of deliverine country produce to
j city customers.
Br this vear whore fruit anrl vegetables mav
K " be sold by the farmers. If they suc
ceed, market houses will be arranged
in which the produce may be exposed
for sale.
5 But the federal government is tiying
to build i.p a parcel post business in
butter, eggs, chickens and other farm
products. It will carry green corn and
new onions and the like if this sort of
stuff is offered, and it will deliver every-'thing-
at the door of the puichaser in the
city.
The purpose of the two plans is to
bring the producer and consumer into
closer contact and to urevent the cost of
giving from soarine: too hiirh. It is im-
" possible to say, except after experiment,
i , .'.. ... ... UW3W. A WlllUlia kllC.V
ar'can both be worked. Next fall data
- annlinh utll lio apnunililntn.I tn .-i.l.ln 41...
city authorities in developing the mar-
$ Kemouse plan.
"
& WAQTtr Mrtx vrtiiD uiactc
.,w. w. ,vn nMlb
i'-vl11" ueiinition ot waste is appreciably
?? narrowed bv the war which the De-
pg'partment of Commerce, in conjunction
&irith the national "Clenn-TTn anil PAint-
UXu -...-
SJ.,'tlD" Camrtaio-n Rm-pnii nf tno Rnvino's
p,Diyfsion of the United States Treasui-y,
'. lias declared on the city dump. That in
fer i fltitution is a notorious prodiiral. How
extravaeant are its destructive methods
jjSji is' demonstrated by the governmenfs
plan to exchange! war-savings stamps
.7. for, sufficient nunntittes of "tr)ili" frjit)i.
It is cred together as a result of the spring
5! nouse cleaning.
c Old paper is especially valuable. The
practice of burning it on the dump has
p -bpen a glaring example of American ex
LSTtravagance. England was cured of this
!W a WI UVSHUtllWI UUllIlg Hie
f.rar. The opportunity of the, American
.nousewne is now at nana. She can aug
&. ment her collection of war.nvinrr
.t8tampsr make the cellar neat and at the
$VJ same time aid the government if she
MiLdeals with the "Clean-Up" agents who
SrK.wlH visit her.
it. The individual who will vcntuip tn -nll
fany thing "worthless trash" nowadays is
be 'way off in his economics.
tot- 5 i VS ' -
fea.Vl
BfertnwUHUUUI inc. UKtAI fcVfcNT
RilV 'PHE indications that sixty per cent of
IVv S X l T r!..r.i mi 1 .. . .
Kv - , ",D u" "ivision win dc aisemuarkecl
yuB'"--? "-Hi13 sumuiaung dramatic factor
M.-va ww'Biomemous celebration to which
SJthe Wholb citv looks fnrurnrr? TVio m
jade pf the entire Twenty-eighth will, of
?.5riurK. hn thi snnroma uvsnt U,.t- 1
jjrj- -. r.....w v.viiw uuv a real
PVliome-coming directly to the shores of
Kfe xthe thrills. The river pageant will be a
Pf.'vioretaste.
fw' . present plans, however, will to a
lii'lM.tno atftTV Ad a nMaf .. Y)l.!l 1 . .
ijEhaa a right to demand that this conti-
0iHity be maintained as much as possible.
iVr "' a,,w ure pressure the
j,cnvVrnmpnf. mav l. efJII ..
ft ?; ' OVM "UC accommo-
Ba " Tl- a-at.. .!?.. !Jt. 1 .. .
- v uiuua mca, wouia be the-landing
f"i. , ' . ron ",v,81n and then,
m$&ielr a bncf camp siuro, the superb
yjparadc. That combination wn,.i,i
fP'fliitutc a real home-coming.
W,2&,: tss
86.u.M.
.?li 'Mtnwinwi vyii o UHKIVIAN A
l(rllir 1. t .
if U'v" ""ore, uerpiany became our foe
ml. l?,the fimirc which cvm)nlN 1
' ft --- - - "vi.u jicr was
fn impertinence and an intrusion in the
luamorial to Francis rtunlol n..i..:.
P, whm dermantown would lik tn tmnnJ
p A4 iiiiiational entity there was no Ger-
W laasaiaiv' ivhpn thn Wnrtliv nlnF.AA. j .
si Jfrr ,., I v. "-' i'"kbi luunacti
1 Wan Pnilunplnnin RitViiivl. "? ifioo
t; ":;...t .:::r w
gi f, J-"" uiitvu uraouaqgi nis English
aWBfctiiu that Pasjp'rius, decided to cm
K -.'' Aftetleavine 'his native lfrrl.
ttta:h had become an intimate" of Wil
Bam'fjenn, hd joined, the 'Society of
fViKMl:and. had for' a while rasided in
ter" tamat Brititrn. lit luml nt a,t.i.. ..-
p Iq part Gmcn, m part Dutch antj of
p. noniie-jijn.
ipw Mtue 10.KW memory, which still
,!W,'-"a, a,ay"MH. X-flrK, IS
' vv"yVrti''.,f .J." t'il? uorainat-
aHuwcBaitiia,. rfnop only con-
mtitl J mtHmmi -J '
-w" ' yi ppi T"f, " -
,Mf JlWVHSwl pro .,
iTwnt
of the Holy Roman empire 187 years
before imperial Germany came into ex
istence, did.
It is foreshadowed that the question of
removing from the memorial the boards
which have covered it since Secretary
Baker advised, against dedicating it in
1017 will come up before the German
iown Site and Relic Society ina few
weeks. It is hard to see how any process
of sensibto reasoning can , justify the
juxtaposition of a discredited and incor
rect symbol with the graven image of an
illustrious devotee of peace.
Either, if it be 'nrtistically practicable,
a statuary divorce between Pastorius
and Germania should be granted or else
Gcrmantown thould elect some entirely
new tribute to her first citizen.
AN ANGLO-AMERICAN RIFT
WOULD END WORLD'S HOPE
Civilization Still Depends Upon the
Frlendthlp of Britain and the
United States
TF A serious deadlock has been dcvclop--"-
ing at the Peace Conference it repre
sents a conflict of wills between Presi
dent Wilson and Lloyd George. The
continental governments must inevitably
follow the lead of Britain in any crisis.
Necessity compels such a course.
The strains and responsibilities in
volved for Mr. Wilson and the British
premier in any situation that might
threaten a serious division of aims and
policies arc unthinkable. Any break be
tween England and America now, any
disagreement which might conceivably
bring about a season of unfriendliness,
would be a new disaster to mankind and
a cause for despair among light-thinking
nun everywhere.
It is for this reason and for the reason
that catastrophe looms dangerously near
upon every side at P.aris to confront old
world statesmeh wherever they turn that
any appearance of new compromises and
sacrifice upon either side must be pa
tiently judged in the world outside. As
the representatives of the two -dominant
powers at the conference, Mr. Wilson
and Lloyd Geoige aic not dealing merely
with the details of a new peace. They
are caught in the morasses of perverted
politics left to Europe by centuries of
infamous diplomacy.
Old world statesmen are weighted
with intolerable burdens. If they scram
ble and scheme it is because they are
answering to the instinct of self-preservation.
The peoples of Europe db not
yet know how terribly they have lost
through the war. They do not know that
the major losses arc incparablo, that
theie isn't enough wealth lemaining to
provide the indemnities and the repara
tions promised by reckless governments
when the nations had to fight and destroy
or perish. And their leaders are still
afraid to tell them the tnith.
The American representatives haye
found it easier than their colleagues
frankly to advocate the moral principles
which unquestionably must be adhered to
if humanity isn't to be subjected to the
agonies of another war. We were not
deluded and our losses were not ruinous.
A conflict of purposes between states
men who, in a desperate crisis, aie think
ing of their own safety and others who
are thinking of a reconstructed political
I philosophy fit to give pqace to all the
world was inevitable, iiut it is uouuuui
whether even in a life and death struggle
of political institutions any group of
statesmen would permit a rift to develop
between the greatest two powers in the
world.
It is not difficult to imagine the conse
quences of such a development. Great
Britain and America have come through
the war as the living expressions in gov
ernment of those ideals which all man
kind has sought through loss and-
anguish. In the future they niust guard
the seas in behalf of that ideal because
it is upon the seas that every war' is
ultimately decided. That responsibility
cannot be divided between rival groups.
It must be accepted in fiiendly co
operation and witlf an enlightened con
ception of the world's present needs
and demands. If there were a break in
the present relapnship between Eng
land and America arlcLa beginning of a.
;iew race in armament and a new trial
of strength as it is expressed in navies,
then there will Vemain little hope for
civilization. Blind forces of conquest
end exploitation would be released
again. Without the moral lestraints
which Britain and America alone arc able
to exercise at this time, western civiliza
tion would drift inevitably toward Wars
of extinction. A clear perception of this
appalling prospect doubtless has ac
tuated Mr. Wilson ,in previous com
promises at Paris.
t
The Peace Conference has been since
the first terribly like a day of judgment
for the old diplomacy. Latterly it has
revealed a flaming indictment of sys
tems of domestic politics that aie not
altogether unknown in the United States.
In every recent effort of' European
politicians to maintain themselves in
power the sorry errors of the war period
were repeated. Wild promises were
made of vast indemnities and vast repa
ration from the enemy. , It did not mat
ter that these promises could ' not be
literally kept Yet it is a matter of feet
that if all the indemnities promised to
the war-worn peoples of Allied countries
by their political leaders weie aver to be
realized it would have been necessary to
keep Russia and Germany and Austro
Hungary in virtual slavery for genera
tions or else partitionthese territories in
tie old ""d, truly German manner.,
The central question- at Paris, since
popular leaciions and the weight of ra
tional opinion in America and elsewhere
made huge Indemnities practically impos
sible, is not, one of mercy or pity or for
bearance for the Germans. It has 'be
come a question of European stability, a
nnaation of the life of governments.
luHia.canript.be. enslaved or pr.ti-
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If-WHIt 40
EVENltttt PUBLIC LEDCEK
hell they deserve if the world believes
that it can contend in the future with a
hell in the heart and center of Europe.
Even the torics at Paris have begun to
perceive that this latter arrangement
might bo uncomfortable and highly dan
gerous in the near future. So the diplo-
matists of the old world ,now face the
difficult business of going home without
most of the things they have promised
their peoples as slight recompense for
the horrors of the last four years. The
fault is, in the final analysis, with the
war. It lasted too long and destroyed
too much.
America has stood consistently upon
the pledge given to the world when we
entered the war. The small nations
everywhere and all peoples who seek
justice and peace have based their hopes
upon our promises. Even in some of the
Allied nations there are millions who,
with a waning faith in their own leaders,
still depend upon America to insure
them, somehow, ngainst the hideous"
prospect of another war.
To what extent can the American rep
resentatives compromise with official
groups whose aims-trre not so great as
their own in order to make a peace which
may be safe and at least constructive
even if it is not ideafI?
To what extent shall we abandon our
solemn pledges in order to insure the
stability of hard pressed governmental
institutions and to avoid an inconclusive
peace that would leave the world again
to fall apart in lawless' units?
These are questions that appear to
have harassed the American peace dele
gates almost since the day of their ar
rival in Paris. But a graver question
confronts them now. If they should ever
decidp to withdraw from the Peace Con
ference to maintain, by this desperate
alternative, the validity of the principles
for which we fought, could they be sure
that they would not, by their example,
give aid and comfort to the forces that
seek to destroy all government in
Europe? .
The Americans at Paris have to make
decisions more momentous, perhaps,
than any ever before made in the history
of government.
A JOB FOR A RHETORICIAN'
WE MAKE bold to suggest that the
number of state officers be increased
by one at lentt,
There is pressing need in Harrisburg
for a rhetorician. We 'do not mean a
man who will sling burning words all
about the air of the Capitol. There
are enough such now. But a man
is needed to apply the elementary rules
of rhetoric to the construction of the
bills before the General Assembly.
For example, his services are seriously
needed by the men backing the Salus
bill. The title of that measure reads in
this way:
An act authorizing municipalities, with
the consent of the electors duly obtained
at an election, to usw money borrowed or
authorized to be borrowed for purposes
which hae proed Impractical, or impossi
ble, or unnecessary, for any lawful pur
pose! We suppose that this is intended to
mean that when, it has been found impos
sible to spend money for the purpose for
which it has been set aside the voters
may authorize its use for any other law
ful purpose, but it docs not say this.
There aie children in the grammar
schools who could correct this title so
that it would say what it means. But
if wo had a state rhetorician such slov
enly English would not' be allowed to
appear in the printed bills.
By all means let us have an expert in
English in Harrisburg. He would save
money to the people by making the
meaning of the statutes so clear that the
courts would be relieved of some of their
present burdens.
Perhaps a distinguished former Gov-
ernor with pedagogical affiliations might
be induced to accept the office.
A good areument for
The Time for building sidewalks ou
Argument Is I'ajt Old York road or
three of them ore
now in the Abington Memorial Hospital.
An old man, a woman and a small bojr were
run down by automobiles while walking in
the load, the only place there is to walk,
snd no seriously injured that they had to
be-tnben to the hopitaI.'"'Hut argument is
not necessary. Action is what is needed.
It looks as if the tcadicrs were to get
thcit rise iu pay.
The battle of pcaco teems to be the
biggest light of all. a
The days in .Tune will be delightful to
the friends of the members of the Iron
Division.
The appearance of the bhop windows
reminds one that Easter U less than two
u cclm off.
Those Paris correspondents "apparently
thlnk'that Mr. Wilson would make a good
poker player.
Michlga's latest ban against light beer
happens to carry no- hope for those who
take theirs dark.
Another "George Washingtou" is sug
gesting to some commentators a way out
of foreign entanglements.
, It will take more than aKorean con
gres.s In Independence Hall to freo the
orientnjicountry from Japan,
It is safe to wngcr that nothing so
"rare"' ns' the June day briuging back the
Irou Division will ever have graced the
local calendar-
"W wnnt etmplo justice," cry the
Koreans. But the trouble with that demand
Is that justice isn't at all simple. Indeed, it
is proving about the most complicated thing
msn ever tackled.
'There does not seem to be much economy
in a municipal coal yard if it is possible
to save ouly siity cents a ton, which Js oil
that the Wenonah experimental coal jardls
now saving to the consumers,
uneBierfOaueioiBi aio roovea jnw tno
;W GMll; theibuiWliHt 1 not likely
'Ball, jMmMbtt raWfcrfetkw.
- PHILADELPHIA. WEDJMEHDAY, APKIL 9,
CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S
LETTER
Activities of James B. Bonner Warn
ing .Against Luxury Tax Swin
dling -Colonel T. E. Mur
phy's Benevolences
' Washington, April 0.
IP TIIK neit loon drte is to be thPi1nst,
as Secretary (jlass announce", -l( 'will
mean the (iisbniidmrnt of a large part of the
MrAdoo-'Olns organization, which began
with the putting over of the first Liberty
Loan. This patriotic outfit consists of
banks, soldiers, bailors, lecturers, artists,
aero, business men's associations, women's
clubs, moving-plcturc shows, flags, regalia,
songs and u. nundred and one devices for at
tracting public attention and producing re
Milts. In 1'lillndelphia, ns in other large
cities, the FcderaJ Reserve- system, has been
tjie chief Instrumentality through which the
work has been doue. The next drive in
Philadelphia will be in the hands of such
men as l'uscy I'uismore and John II. Mat.on.
The latter N president of the Commercial
Trust Company. lie is n popular speaker
and lind mi experience in the newspaper
world before becoming a banker that will
help bim make the campaign an interesting
one. Washington also notes the activity of
Joseph rcnuell in promoting these loan
drhes. Ills international art reputation is
appreciated here as much as it is in his
home cityperhaps more. Apart from that,
he -is the brother-in-law of Ned Robins,
of the University of Pennsylvania.
JAMES B. BONNER, who used to wftrk
with Jack Ilollon and the other high
lights of the Maritime Ilxchnnge, is now
almost a fixture at the capital. Mrs. Uou
ner joined him -here in the earlier stages
of the wur nnd has become quite accustomed
to the social life of the capital. In all the
war negotiations steel plajed a very im
portant, indeed, nit essential, part. Big
brains appeared In all the departments and
big orders had to be met promptly, Jim
Bonner's job was to speak for the Karrells
and the (iarys when they were not on the
ground and to maintain aiblrtLseyc view of
the whole Ntcel situation. Jt is no exag
geration to bay that there w,crc times of
erit.es in supplies when Bonner was as wel
come in the Army and Navy Departments
as would be Mime longloit brother. .He is
still here, with plenty to' do'. The steel in
tercslN have contracts to be completed, sup-"
plicj to be furnished, rates to be fixed and
labor conditions to he met, nud not the least
of fliese is tlic latter, for ull interests arc
now eagerly scanning the labor world.
COMPLAINTS about "luxury taxes,"
which take effect May 1, are coming
along in such form as to indicate that there
is much misunderstanding, if notsomedown
light misrepresentation, as to whnt these
tuxes mean. One Philadelphia lady writes
that the merchant with whom she deals Miys
she will be obliged hereafter to pay taxes on
n bill of $-. This is h sample of the shame
less exruses that some dealers are giving for
conscienceless profiteering. There is no
tax ou mcu's clothing or women's dresses,
and jet home "tailors arc running prices up
almost double "ou account of the tuxes."
The truth is that certain articles are' to be
taxed when the price exceeds n certain
amount. In Mich cas.es the purchahcr pays
the tax to the merchant at the time of hale
and the merchant iq due course pajs the
tax over to the government. To illustrate,
if n woman buys a hat costing more than
$in she pays the merchant 10 per cent on the
excess price over .$1C. If a man bujs n hat
for more than $3 he pajs 10 per cent ou
the execs price. If the woman's hat fostj
$" or less or the man's hat costs $o or
less neither of them pays any tax, and the
racichaut who collects it is liable to puuihli
ment for doing fco. To stop this kind of
extortion the law (Section 1310) imposes a
fine of S1000 or imprisonment for one year
upou those who make false statements to
customers about the tax on goods Kold." It
is. therefore, up to the customer to sec that
he, or bIic, is not deceived about this tax
business.
IT'S a uitc th'ing tn be nble to help other
people. And Colonel Thomas E. Murphy
is one of that kind. Fortune has been kind
to Colonel Tom, but be has not been selfish
on that account. Jf he is in Philadelphia
or Pittsburgh or New York, and he is fairly
well at borne in each place, the colonel is
found nt work ou some charitable or public
spirited proposition. If he b sojourning at
his summer place on lioguc Sound, on the
east coast of Florida, he is shipping grape
fruit or oranges to the hospitals, and if in
Washington, along with his brother-in-law,
Oovernor Johnson (when not iu Franco), he
is doiug bis turn with becoming modesty in
society and statecraft. Colonel T-om's
latest lovo is that worthy association, the
Kensington Hospital for Women, on Dla
moud street near Front, an institution bet
up in an unpretentious neighborhood, where
there is a real need for its services. And
it is agreeable, to note the kind ot men who
are co-operating with the colouel iu this
splendid work William It. Ellison, Max
well Wyeth, William Findlay Brovn, Sam-,
uel B. Stinson, Samuel M, Clement, Jr.,
Haseltlne Carstairs, Charles A. Porter, Jr.,
Florence J. Heppe and Ur. Harry C.
Dcaver. One can almost sec that interest
inn group assembled around one lunch table
a( the Union League. But bright as they
are and as ready to help their fellow men
and women, Colonel Tom Murphy is still
two points ahead in having the celebrated
tempernuco lecturer, Francis Murphy, for a
father and the late Lieutenant Governor
Robert E. Murphy for a brother.
WE RECEIVK occasional reports from
the Masonic Home, at L'lizabetbtown,
but generally about this time of year, when
the landscape and vegetable gardeners get
busy, Champ Clark talks about getting back
to his garden when his public service comes
to an end. He has a place at Bowling
Green which is very dear to bim. Jim
Mann, of Illinois, whose influeuce Nick
Longworth is bent upon destroying, has a
garden in Chicago to which he longs to re
turn. This is where the veteran Masons of
Pennsylvania, under v the lead of Superior
Court Justice George- B. Orlady, have the
bulge on the statesmen, They are already at
work in their gardens. George W, Kendrick,
Jr., was as proud of the Masonic Home ou
North Broad street as of any other insti
tution with which he was conncctd during
his long fraternal career. Jdstlcc Orlady
is bullding.up the Bame kind of affectionate
hobby at Ellzabethtown.
Robert Burns was not a pretty poet,
it that portrait of bis which John Gribbel
abas just bought is a good likeness.
Il state of siege bas been declared in
Munich, but so far as the export of the
city's most famous irrigant is concerned, the
city lias been in a state ot siege ever since
August, 1014. , '
When Eddie Rickenbacker races in the
ilr he will not be afraid that bit machine
will run ot the bauked-up track, though the
spectators may get in his way,
"Piffle, says Dimncr Beeber of be
criticisms' of the Board of Public Educa
tion. . And the, critics, when, speaking 'of
tha .'"Ufaine made by the isejubwi at iUut
1W0W
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THE CHAFFING DISH
, Communiques From Paris
0:00 a. in. Peacff is impossible.
0:15 a. in. Peace will bo slgueil Imme
diately. 0:30 a.m. Deadlock between Clemen
ceau's doctor and Rcir Admiral
Grayson. . ,
OilHn, m. Deadlock between Lloyd
Ocorge'aud Orlando.
10:00 a. m. Deadlock between Mr, Wilson
aud the grippe.
10:13 a. in. Deadlock between' Colonel
House and Pudcrcwski.
10:30 a. m. Situution is grine.
10:40p.m. Situation Is i""iioviug.
10:00 a.m. Rumor that Senator Sherman is
ou his way to Paris to explain why
the jeaguo of nations is impossible.
H :00 a. m. Peace is higncd.
The only "deadlock" iu Paris that seems
to last lougcr than fifteen minutes is the
deadlock on Colouel House's orgau of speech.
We have found the following laid on our
desk, anil print it without comment:
Water is a wondrous blessing,
Great for washing necks aud ears;
Good for spi inkling dusty pavements,
Indispensable for piers.
Just the thing for rains and" rhcrs,
Swell for makiug tea and ink,
Fine for putting under bridges,
But it's simjily h toylriuk.
The Gcrmantown Site and Relic Society
is all a "schism again over the Pastorius
statue. Bcnveuuto Cellini wjites us to sug
gest that a good solutiou would be to give
Mr, Pcnncll a bag of hand grenades aud let
bim go and aichie the monument out of
existence. That would give Mr. Pcnncll one
perfect day, mid in the lotig ruu would
hurt nobody. (
What do the editors of the Congressional
Record do when Congress is not fu session?
You might not think it, but the Chaffing
DIsb conceals u good deal of miscellaneous
secret information beneath its unassuming
breast. For instance, Philip Gibbs told us
the kind of typewriter he used on the west
ern front, and wild advertising'men couldn't
'drag the secret from us. And yesterday
.Eddie Rickenbacker intimated; on tho quiet.
just what kind of car it was lip used to
drive General Pershing around the front in.
It seems to us that so many people werp
anxious to have John J. use their particular
make ot yehicle that he came mighty near
having to walk; but nnjway, that's another
story.
Eddie Rickenbacker is a droll and. modest
ace of aces. He says he'd rather face the
whole German air corps than do this lecture
stunt he's now engaged upon. When be ave
his first lecture at the Metropolitan Opera
House in NewYork the other night be
wacteu bis manager to introduce him. btit
the manager declined. "No, Eddie," be
saict, "you need no. intra. Everybody knows
who y)u are." A minute or so later Eddie
wss standing by the box. office when two
doughboys came In to buy tickets. They
were in their oycrseas uniforms, with the
mud of France still on ther boots, says
Eddie, who was watching them, "Say, what
is this shqw, anyway?" asked one of the man
hehtnd tho window? "Why. it's Cantaln
V Rickenbacker," replied the box-officer.
"Rickenbacker. rut" said the doughboy.
"Wbaf songs does be sing?"
While driving General Pershing along the
firing lines Eddie came to Rhclras, where tho
bishop showed tbem through the ruined
cathedral. Some workmen were busy digging
out a 480 millimeter,) dud that had pierced
i.a mnt. amashcd throueh the ilnn ncl
I and burled Itself six feet deep. While Per
shing, Eddie and several others were watch
ing the uuexploded rjltell being gingerly ex
cavated, the bishop, happened to say, "It
may intrest,you to know thut the Germans
still bombard the catbedral regularly at 5
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he wanted to show us. Believe me, we did
the lest of that sightseeing u high, I was
running the car, nnd we were a long way
from Rhcims when 5 o'clock came along."
"Yes," biiid Eddie, after talking ot some
of his experiences in the nir, "(here weie
some queer" things happened. You hear n lot
about the Hjing men, but-not so much about
tho balloon observers, who have a mighty
dangerous job. It's not much fuu to bo in
oue' of those balloons and get shot up. The
balloon catches fire, aud if jou don't step
off in your pnrachute quickly enough, the
! burning ouvelopo coincs down ou you and
jou re dono for. I saw that happen twice,
onco to a Hun and once to one of our ou
men.
"in the St. Mihlcl drive one of our cable
balloons was sent up in a valley to ditect
heavy artillery tire on Conlluns, aborrt twen
ty miles away. There" were ,two observers
in it. In some way the balloon came afoul
of n cliff on one side of the valley, tho cable
was broken aud one of the parachutes was
torn off. As there was only otic parachute
left, neither of the bojs would use it.
They stuck together and the balloon drifted
along with the wind. Finally they came to
earth at the very town of Couflnns, where
they weie welcomed by .Fritz. When they
felt their own stuff eomtng over good and
plenty they were sorry they bad been bo
accurate in registering those guns:'
"J':n Hall, one of thcyfincst lliers in our
squaarou, had a damn narrow escape," said
-Eddie. "We were out ou an alertcj one
morning near Pout-a-Mousson and saw four
Huu planes beliw us. We dived, I fired
n hundred rounds at my man, nnd saw the
bochc go into a tail spin. Just then 'an
other bochc came down ou my tail from be
hind. 1 was. scared to death aud zoomed up
iu a hurry. When I had time to look around
again I saw Hall gliding' gently over a wood
nnd landing in German territory. He had
had wing trouble the Nieuport had a bad
habit of shedding the fabric off its upper
wings on a long dive and not only that,
an Archie shell Uad hit bis motor squarely,
dislodging a cylinder. Happily it was a
dud ; if it bad exploded ho'd have been
blown to bits. He broke bis ankln when
he landed, was captured by- the same Huns
we'd been fighting with and lunched at their
."
We asked Captain Rickenbacker whether
two aces qn opposing pides would single each
other out for personal combat, tryiug time
., after time to get the better of each other.
"The fuuny part of it was," lie said,
"that when two really good men pnet in tho
fair they rprcly fought long. Yoii know you
can tell, iu'' a. minute, by watching a man
. maneuver; whether he's any good or .not.
' Sometimes 1,'ve tried for an hour to get a
Hun filer in such a position that I could, get
oil bis tall, nnd couldn't do it. -iou see,
your gun Is rigid ; you can only fire the way
the plane is pointed. Two really skillful
fliers woud take a twirl around each other
and then see that neither of them could
draw a bead on the other. So, they would
pull off arid try for better luck elsewhere,",
In such unassuming fashion, wo suppose,
the knights of the iniddlo ages may have
discussed jtbelr jousts and tourucys,
Frank Woolworjh be&an hls.fllmb to fame
by borrowing fifty bones from hisMandlady
In Lancoster,'( - Wq have long been looking
for . landladyslikc that.
Wo 'do'not believe it , 1st necessary to
nssumoi'thtttr the hurried voyaijo of the
George! Washlngtpnnieauii diplomatic catas-tropbcsln-j'arjrf.
Our hunch is that the
vessel is Jpadcd With the palm bench suits of
the Ainericiiu delegation, wjilch wjll cnablo
tbem to carry op all summer
Or perhaps she is tarrying. Eaptrr bonocli?
for the-Amcricnn stenographers nt the Hotel
Crillon?1" .
"Or a friwb.supply of nulilino plllsfor Rear
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PAGLIACCIO
j"1HILD of those lovers, mottal mirth audi
J woe.
Poor Pngliaccio, fool nnd lover both.
How often hae I laughed nnd left" you
loath,
Not dreaming that your piny was mlugled SO
With prayers aud creeping dread, or'lhriY
the show ,
Of gaudy silks cnuld nhle so red ii"hcaff . f
A mind so tantalized and torn apart, ,"
A soul so taunted of the powers below. r
And look ! the laugh, the kiss, the sudden
blow.
The flarjiig lights and frightened faced
round ' .
A stained and sinking form! Oh. well I know
That rising, ringing cry ! The, knife lifts
found .''" ,
A lovely sheath! Aha, ragllacclo! ' '
Your heart was breaking then. I know
that sound. '"
Douglas Ducr.in "The Vanished World.,"
What- Do You Knoto? ' J
QUIZ '
1. What word in the English language has
two absolutely! opposed meanings?
U. What dry state this week voted down?
an nmeudment permitting the sale of
light wines nud beer? " ,
3. Who was Plautus? '
4. In what German state is Nuremberg?
5. Who wrote "Cranford"?
0. Of what city was it said "It has kept,
' its name nnd its unbroken position ds'
n great city from an earlier time than
any other city iu Europe?'-' ' ,
7. What is kelp?' , '
S. What is the coricct pronunciation of the
w-nnl lirliivn? ' "W
9. What was -the last eitv in the Unhurt j!i
States to'bc evacuated by the Britisfi 1
ui iiiu ruu ui iuo Ainericau lievoiutlon ,'
10. What is chocolate made 'from?
. ( Answers' to Yesterday's Quiz
J.Jcan Jnures was n uo"tcd French radical
leader, orator and statesman, nssassi-'
nnted in Paris just before the out
brcak of the war in 1014.
2, Last Sunday, April 0, wna the teutn nn
nlversaryof the discovery of the North
Polo by Admiral Peary. ,
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3. Pol Is a common article ,of food UKi n7
Hawaii and other parts of Polynesia;, ;A.
It consists of the root of tho taro tfW?I
plauttpoundcd into a paste, mixed with 'V .
water and fermented.
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A. A "thunder-sheet" is the sheet of inelnl ')
rattled "off Stage" id theatres to iml- .si!
tate storm effects. ("?
u. j.no nociciy joiuuun uu iu uic. vucihc ? a
Ocean between latitude 10 and WJ - J
Houiu, . lougiiuue xto to luv.iiu Welle; I
They belong tof France, i A '
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Sancho Panza, tho first word should 'Ji
be pronounced very much ns It (:
spelled) with the "n" broadened and V"
the "cb" as in English, tho frequent -f'
pronunciation of "Sauko" being in-4 ,,
correct, 'Fawn, should be soudded as"'
though spelled "Pantba," with ,tbo"f-,
first "a" broad v '
7, General Thomas, "the .Rock of Chlcka- ''
milium.'' who foUlfllt 80 nhlv nn tliu
Union side in tb Civil Wnr 'was iTii V
untlYv.ofYlrilnhu ' Jj. 1
8. Oliver Goldsmith in "Tho DesertediVU,.
Vige'i w,6'P "And stl)l tin wonder Srvve?
tlm,t.oue minll head could, carry all"'
lip knew," t v ..
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durln&M'je course of tho war, Herbert
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