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'ALL those senators who desired to "advise the Peace Conference and weren't permitted to do so are badly needed in Paris at this hour. A crisis has arrived in which, with a few words, they could do much to insure the future peace of the world. Jim Smith, who used to be the sole owner of the Democratic party in New K'" TltMAt, nl.rl Tiot. T,ii.Mf li.ViriTvl W 1 QrviifU uwsvj, miu unit .luwi.t, niiuiii jut. wiiiii.ii regarded as the heir apparent to the state, ought "to be airplaned to Paris without a moment's delay. They, too, could help to insure the peace of the world. They could tell Lloyd George and Clcmenceau and Orlando some things which Lloyd George and Clcmenceau and Orlando need to know. Mr. Nugent and Mr. Smith know better than any men alivo that President Wilson doesn't bluff. Like the senators who have fought hardest against the present administra tion, they could tell the Peace Conference that Mr. Wilson, whether he is right or , wrong, isn't accustomed to starting things that he doesn't intend to finish. WRONG WAY TO DO IT TT IS perfectly obvious that the key- note of the coming Victory Loan cam paign should be joyous. The shadow of appalling tragedy hung over the pre vious bond-selling enterprise. There was little evidence, even last fall, that the financial success of the loan would mean an immediate end of the slaughter. But the curse is lifted now and the money which the government wants is to pay for the triumph of the right which has been achieved. Vigor plenty of it should characterize the campaign. It should, however, be cheerful energy, lusty and good-humored. Outside such a category fall the lutld posters bearing the ominous inscription, "Beware Poison Gas," and followed by a cryptic intenogation point. The loan committee confesses to knowing the prc ciso meaning of these placards, which have appeared not only on walls and fences but actually on the boarded-up windows of some private houses. Residents of the Rittenhousc Square district had a, little shock when they saw these flaming signs yesterday. The mental specter of Bolshevism1 appeared. Buteven though that spirit can in this instance be laid, the posters are not eye gladdening. Advertising that is alarming misses fire. The display of these threatening posters was not a good idea. Ingenuity should, delight, not disquiet, those to whom the appeal is made. A MYSTERY OF TRAFFIC "NE of these days some man wiser than the rest of us will discover why a drayload of empty barrels or a truck filled with coal or a van filled with eecond-hand furniture moving leisurely in the main streets appears to have rights superior to those of thousands of people stalled in the trolleys and auto mobiles that follow behind. Slow-moving traffic belongs in the side frfeta psnpninllv in iUa t.nc.1. l.n. e PC i "uura 01 St- , the. morning and afternoon. RED TAPE IN CONFUSION . T?ED TAPE is bad enough when it is - --v operative, It is trebly irritating, however, when an obnoxious system breaks down and persons in no way re 1 sponsible for it pay the penalty. Victim ized in this way are a number of Ameri cans who fought for democracy before '' u America entered the war. 2 j . l"cs,: vchhbhs, iutiuuea in a contin- 8V gent or zwv men who weie mustered ,jjp lUt "- v"t """ "'"., arriveu at .New nYorlc on the Mauretania this week. All ,t were detained at Camp Mills as aliens, Xvfci ""j' .miicitiiiis who were in per f2fec$y good standing when they shoul ?S?$'e(1 a mu.sket or liberty were not wuteBBcu mini uiu immigration authori-'-;, tkefwere satisfied of their citizenshin. !,, Of course there must have been plenty i?-"- "- -.n..kr w prove me y-.status of these soldiers beforo th j$?vw;lled for home. But to make assurance (jf,BuMi awe mc umiupuiion aepartmCnt thipboard in order to record once more Vh desired facts. Hvr, grunted that the inquisition was taltttable on the ground of caution, the jttUv J"v coulu nave ueen expected was itjr'vo tnj BBcrea peaantry lor which uHaortivlieIvM were respon- WMT paj uajJB Ml MM Ulelr WarUnw msd .&.. i m wm Mwi- fests, and hence, technically speaking, the vessel carried more men without n country than Edward Everett Hale ever imagined. Tho "boys" are said to have taken their detention good-naturedly. That speaks well for their sense of discipline much better, indeed, than it does for that of tho red tapists who fell down on their self-imposed job. THISTLES WILL NOT CROW ON A HEALTHY FIG TREE Nor Will Bolshevism Flourish on Soil Suited to the Cultivation of Real Democracy pH'ERY farmer knows and cvny man --J who had a war garden last jenr has learned that it is impossible to raise a crop on ground unsuitcd to it. Yet many good people are worrying over the possible spread of Bolshevism in America, If they will take the time to consider the course of political development in the world, about which every schoolboy knows enough to keep his thinking rea sonably straight, they will discover that there is little reason for alarm. The first lulers in history were kings, the strong men who seized power and used it for their own ends. They made nobles of their lieutenants, but they re tained the power in their own hands. In the course of time the nobles grew dis satisfied with the role assigned to them. They wished to do something more than obey orders, and they demanded a share in government. When the English barons met King John at Runnymede and forced the Magna Charta from him the first stop from absolutism to democracy was taken. But society is composed of more than kings and barons. Tho great middle class, the commercial class, grew dis satisfied wnth conditions and demanded a share in the government. This was the second step toward democracy. And finally, the working people, the men who are hired by others, began to insist that they had rights which should be respected and to declare that any government which ignored them was op pressive and should be reformed. Secretary Wilson, of the Department of Labor, has reminded us that the greater part of Europe before the war had reached only the second stage in political development. This was abso lutely true of Russia and Prussia and Austria-Hungary and only partly true of France and England. Bolshevism, shorn of its excesses, is an attempt to bring about the third stage in political development by revolution. It is a not unnatural product of delayed political emancipation of the workers. Its excesses arc those which always accompany an uprising of the oppressed. Its demand that government bo con trolled by soldiers', sailors' and working men's Soviets is more defensible than the claim of the aristocrats that government belongs of right in the hands of the favored minority. Of course, neither icw is correct. Goernment should be participated in bj all the governed, re gardless of their social or financial con dition. Bolshevism flourishes in Russia be cause it has been sown on a fertile soil. The diead of it in Germany and Austria Hungary arises from the knowledge that conditions there are favorable to its growth. Sensationalists are talking of it in England, but the participation of the workingmen in government there has in creased so rapidly within the last twenty years that the plant of Bolshevism, even if it springs up, will wither in a short time under the rays of the sun of liberty which are shining in the windows of every workshop and factory today. The third stage of political develop ment was theoretically reached in the United States when the constitution was adopted, and it has been actually reached for nearly a hundred years. There are legally no restrictions on the right of manhood suffrage. This is a government of all the people. The humblest worker may rise to the highest office. There is no hereditary and privileged class. Our political leaders are, nine times out of ten, men who have made their own way. Lincoln and Grant and Garfield and Cleveland and McKinley and Wilson are shining proofs of the rule of democracy. No soldiers', sailors' or workingmen's boviets could devise a system which Mould make it easier for a man of the people to rise to positions of authority than the present constitution makes it. There is nothing that the majority wants which it cannot get. It matters not how radical' it may be. The recent success of the Nonpartisan League in .North Dakota is the latest illustration of the ease with which a large group of people desiring specific things can take the government into its own hands and arrange for what it seeks. Some of us may not like what the Nonpartisan League has done, but no thoroughgoing American will deny the fundamental right of the people of North Dakota to build grain elevators in order to deliver the farmers from the control of the rail roads if a majority of the people of the state want these things. The Bolshevists here, and there are a few, are the foreign-born who have not yet realized that they are living in a land of equal opportunity. They are re enforced by a handful of native Ameri cans with imitative minds, who think that the radical remedies employed for European evils can bo applied to the cure ul uvia mm v..i Mwi.iw uioaaiis- fled workingmen are influenced by thee propagandists. But the rank and file of the workers know that the remedy, so far tnere ,s any PHUal remedy for unsatisfactory condlUons, lies in their' ewH hjteaW. TfWjr.tawHfce vote. When "eriouih . of., Jmh "few 'on f what they wnt, i tit ttFf acmd'-ta Wwtfc Dakota, they can get it by themselves if the old political leaders, anxious to re tain their power, do not give it to them first. There has never been a time when the majority of the people in any state or in any city were agreed for long on anything which they did not get. Their will mny be frustrated for a year or two by the machinations of interested politi cal leaders, but no political leader can survive who habitually disregards popu lar sentiment. Theiein lies the safety of democracy. If there ever was a government on the face of the earth broad-based on the people's will, it is the government of America. The evil in Bolshevism lies in its effort to base government on the will of a class. In a country where there arc no fixed social strata, where the employe of today is tho employer of tomorrow, where the nch and the poor change places from generation to generation, no policy intended to fix rule in one group, even though it bo n large one, will appeal for long to the intelligence of the avei agc American citizen. So those who arc attempting to plant Bolshevism here arc trying to raise thistles on a fig tree. The European grafts will mot grow. MAKING TREASON EASY 'TWERE arc federal laws on the statute books to protect all the' institutions of the American Government from tiaitors and scditionists. If there is an efficient attorney general at Washington with a department efficiently represented in all parts of the country, there is little need for "emergency laws" conceived and passed by State Legislatures fin emo tional intervals and so closely drawn as seriously to restiict the individual free dom guaranteed by the constitution of the United States. An alarm clock in the office of the United States district attorney in Phila delphia, for example, would be far moie valuable as a means to cure incipient treason expressed in vagrant propa ganda hereabouts than all the solemn provisions of a drastic "sedition bill" such a3 the Legislature at Harrisburg has been considering. The supporters of the bill have been wise in withdrawing it for radical amendments. There is a question whether any such law is necessary or desirable. If bcditionists are permitted to mask furtive propaganda in the publications of radica' political paities, the responsi bility lies with the federal authorities. The offense is one which ought to be dealt with by the national government. State laws overlapping those of the federal government can only lead to confusion. Some of the political propaganda being issued in this city to incite ignorant minds is frankly treasonable. The United States attorney general's office is said to be "watching the situation." Doctors at the port of New York, who happened also to be federal officials, were "watching" when an inbound vessel from one of tho European ports brought the first canes of influenza. They watched and did no more. The administration of the attorney general's office was lax under Mr. Gregory. Mr. Palmer, who is better acquainted with our friend, the alien enemy, has an opportunity to deal with the nuisance of treasonable propaganda in a manner that should reassure the Lcgislatuics at Harrisbuig and else where. SIDNEY DREW 0 rpHE untimely death of Sidney Dicw -- comes -as a personal pang to many thousands of movie lovers. Mr. 'Drew, an actor of distinguished ability and grace on the spoken stage, brought to the screen qualities which were new to the drama of speeding shadows. There was a time when motion-picture comedy was synonymous with slapstick absurdity, in. which so-called comic ef fects were produced mainly by unbeliev able physical contortions exaggerated by speeding up the film. Mr. Drew and his wife, in their delicate and delightful domestic comedies, showed that true humor, of a gentler and more wholesome sort, was not incom patible with the exacting technique of the photoplay. The whimsical charm of their pictures made them favorites' to millions. Mr. Drew did as much as any actor to show that true art can "register" in the movies. His facial pantomime was al ways restrained, subtle and inimitable. There will be a curiously poignant feel ing for those who loved him to see that familiar shadow move across the screen, even though the man himself has come to the end of life's great reel. He glad dened many hearts with his wholesome, tender fun. The vast audience that meets every night in the darkened pic ture houses will not forget him. "Here lies one whose fame was writ in cellu loid." Gradually, us the Tliry Won't Care forces of reaction arc being revealed at Palis, it mut dawn upon the editors rind politicians who have been Hunting the American peace plan that they have drifted into strange company. Jn' Chicago the steins For the Dead Tast thaVonce held foam ing beer' now are used as flower pots iu the newfangled coffee housos.r And some one has already 'sug gested that only lilies of the valley and forget-me-nots ought to be so cultivated. Officials In the police Xot After Midnight department and nt the district attorney's office refused to say whether a friendly poker game is or is not gambling. But is any poker game ever friendly? The Germani, it is, A Belated Invitation said, are consider ing inviting an Al lied army to police their distracted coun try. The pity ot it Us they didn't think of IV. tJ.. aakraal WAAiXi rafii VitiH !- mevN jwmi frvJ,w "suio ;w?ui Wi Lhoft Ibm aBannranara t aaa anaamamasaj t -- i ,u, -w' THE GOWNSMAN What Ii an American? TIinilB Is a man, well known to the Gownsinnn, who was born far enough within the confines of America to hove been In no danger of falling into Boston harbor In his boyhood, who was educated in Amer ican schools, so for as American schools educate, and in American colleges, so for as colleges in America arc American! a man whose tongue is fluent only in the Knglish language us currently spoken in Aincrlcn This man has alwnjs mistrusted the Ger mans. IIo has udmircd much that Is Prcneh and more that is lhiglish. lie has never hated the Jews; he lias never comprehended the Irish. He retains enough of the spirit of what he believes to bo American free dom to be neither an uurepentnnt Itepubli can nor an nnregencrnte Democrat. He disagrees with most of the kinds of socialism of which he has heard nutl knows that nil kinds of Bolshevism would disagree with him. He has voted consistently all his life for what he believes to be the best princi pies and the beM men. He believes in wai ns n means of peace nnd in a league, of peace as a preventive of war. And yet -in one of those moments of candid and heated friendship vhich come to us all this man was tnuytcd the other day with not being an American. AN AMBUKWV: what, nttei nil, is an Amerirnii? is this being nn American a condition individual or distributive? Is it geographical or atmospheric? Is n man. fro to sneak, a lepreseutative American in him self, or is flint blessed stnte merely a mat ter senatorial? There appear to be some who are of opinion that there Is au equal modlcufa of Aincriuiuism distributed to each state, like the equitable distribution of senntors. Now. obviously, if there is just as much Americanism current in one state as in any other nnd no more, it must follow that the bigger the state the less its Ameri can spirit; the smaller, the more concen trated that essence of nationalism. New Kugland and espc inll.v its smaller parts under these conditions must be couccu tratedly American, and our prevalent dis trust of all edifices, mansions or shacks which have been reared iu 'I'cxnB finds n conclusive explanation. Americanism is n species of perfume or aroma, most potent hi closed places and in quarters carefully shut in, whiOh will account for the un Amcricauiem of the Middle nnd other Wests during the war, who, despite the fact that they gave proportionately more, responded to the country's demand earlier and declared a consistent belief in all things American, were, it appears, nfter all, only seemingly such. THIIlti; uie still rxtiiul people to whom a Christ inn is :i man who goes to my church; u heathen, one who docs not; to whom n patriot is one who voles as I do ; it creature cast out iu utter darkness any one who does not. The Gownsman's learned and distinguished friend, Professor Witmer, of the- University, has just been called n Bolshevist because lie docs not agree with educational experts such as Messrs. Shnllcross, Stern nnd Lune as to the glaiing irerfections of our Philadelphia public schools. And which of us knows not the little lawjer or petty political light who sees the world plunging to destruction be cause bis little finger is not at this prebent moment helping nud controlling its m,ad career? THI2 blesicd (ondition of being an Ameri can nnd it is the most blessed stale in the world todaj is viewed somewhat dif ferently from the outside. Years ugo, in trnvel abroad, the Gownsman proudly avow ing "I m an American," was very natu rally asked. "A North or. a South Ameri rnii?" And nn old story tells of a London hotclkceper who, a meeting of Methodist Church dignitaries being' on, was expostu lated with by certain Amcrhnns for taking in n couple of colored bishops. Ills reply, too, was natural: "I am sorrj, but wc make no difference among Americaus." TO BC au American is to be something big, broad, large, liberal, assertive, but not inconsiderate as well. It is American to take all the loom you need to grow in. It is also American to give the other fel low all the room ho needs. It is American to sec largely and to plan greatly; and it is American to set those who need it on their feet nnd not to boss their steps too curiously when they begjn to walk. Alto gether American it is to wclcomo new ideas, to give to all not only a .chosen few the right to think, act and speak as each will, with the one and only proviso that such liberty shall not impair the similar liberty of nny one else. This country is large enough to entertain many men and many ideas; it is safely enough under way to be unlikely to be careened by the momentary error of any one steersman. The heroism" of our boys, approved on many fields, the sobriety and good senso of our people at large, their sane instinct for whnt is right and their recognition of demagogy as dem agogy these things assure us that our fears should not be as to the many but as to the few who sneer, who deny, who carp and continue to grow rich on the very conditipns which they decry. S6ME "Americans," forgetful that they are the sons or daughters or a revolu tion, rejoice in ancestors of whom nothing is now remembered except that they enme over in the stupendous cargo of the May- now cr. xnc ancestors or tnesc were starved out of Europe, my friend, sooner than ypurs or mine, or they would never have come to rock-ribbed New England. And any Siour or Patagoninn brave can unfold a longer "American" pedigree. To be an American is something moro than geography, length of tenure, essence of prejudice or accident o party or opinion. To be an American is to be at once an idealist and the most prac tical of men J to be a liberal and yet to hold fast to that which the race, has approved to be goodj to bo an individualist in tho senso that to caph man shall be accorded fair play and an equal opportunity; even to be a socialist in so far as that terrifying word may mean that we cannot live in jus tice or in prosperity unless each of us sac rifices somewhat to his brother. . , Jf . tI,e European In a utsliell statesmen wcro as . ,J,brai;? nni1 'as square as the European soldier, the Peace Confer ence would have been ended happily lone That faraway rumblo Or MoscuwT you just heard and wondered about was evil laughter at Amerongen, If the cobles would only quit spelling Saar "Sarre" one could feel easier about the fourteen.pAnts. 'Kvtn in the age of republic Kin Mobws, seems to thrive, as will be exempli uijw)w the ucwbj pay tribute to Mm i.Tsfcatriam raminilam a rtmlu,A't.- asfcsaw T"V .3iKi' ".VT"T" ."" - . l . .vvL . ; . - ' ' "IF LOVE, PRIDE AND I .tfaASLKMil - (Iff hi 'IAtfpn ' ' r.v fli -"- - -"V PRUNES AND PRISMS tSldney Drew HIS Image moves across the scene. His face perplexed with gentle whim Only u shadow on ;i screen Is left of him. How sfrangn to sec him conic and go With all his winning quaint appeal, After thr Master of the Show Has changed the reel. Al nny rate, one of the tiials of. the tuibuihuii gardener will come to an end after Jul 1. He won't find slinrds of broken bot tles in his modest plot. Bottles will be too precious. The Seek-No-Fiirther Land PUINCE and pauper nnd loid and lout must tiavel nsmider far; For earh must follow his journey 'out through the Lund of Things That Arc; And one shall follow a beaten track and one shnll follow n star, But each must follow his journey back, however so far he roam, Tor no road leads to a journey's end but the road that reaches home. So prince nnd pauper and lord nnd lout turn back at tho set of Sun ; And the song I sing, and the songs that ring in each of their hearts, arc one: t(( WHETHER the night be bright with J stars or black with the rack of cloud, Something there is in my soul that leaps and quickens nnd sings aloud ; For whether 1 travel a mooulit road or pavements that gleam with rain, There nt the end are the lamps aglow, and faces against the pane, And the smell of wood from nn open fire, and the welcoming lips and hand; The Queen of ultimato heart's desire, the ones who w ill understand ; And walls that bar the Things That Arc from the Seek-Xo-Further Land." JOHN FRENCH WILSON. It seems that we won't have to finish thnt pocui on daffodils of which wc had written the -first line. Mrs. "Jackson, of Laurel Springs, N. J., has kindly nnd gracefully finished, it for us, thus: Daffodils If daffodils were merely yellow flowers, Did they not hold the spirit of the spring. Could they so cheer a sickroom's dragging bouts And make world-weary hearts once more to sing? I fared me forth ; life seemed n humdrum story,' But suddenly, while passing' down the street I saw a basket full of golden glory, And God seemed near and life once more was sweet I No word they spake, but oh, my heart was hearing A tender song, seeing the daffodils; Sunshine of love, and faith instead of fearing They brought, and raised mine eyes to God's high bills,. ' I know they are not yellow flowers merely. These" dear heart-blooms, so full of heaven's gold ; And while I llvo to look upon them yearly I'll not despair and never can grow old. MAUD FRAZL'R JACKSON. Social Chat We had the pleasure of introducing Lewis Bcrnays, the British vice consul, to a Jack Hose nt a well-known ccrviuo hostelry on Tenth street yesterday. Wo have also prom ised to help this delightful diplomat make the acquaintance of Messrs. Tom and Jerry before July 1, Mr. Bcrnays has been in this country for some years, and it saddens us to think that his education has been so neclected by his American friends. s.-T.-BMA tinvtfw ' & aV'Jne.,oJ i,Kl'lf-fcfjer' ) l m 8oi(tu feiitjj HARD WORK WILL OH, BOY!!" ' ' T"V$' ' J " 1,J V iJ ' j' "' street, ask Sidney, the colored bootblack, to show j on the old book he fouml among the roots of tho fallen elm in Independence Square. When they were digging out the roots Ihc other day and the workmen had spaded six feet or so down toward the center ot gravity, the volume was thrown up with n shovelful of earth and Sidney grabbed it. The, binding has disappenied. but otherwise the book is in good condition. It is culled "Charlemagne; or the Church Delivered, an epic poem in twenty-four books, bv Lucicn Bonaparte." It was published in Philadel phia by John Conrad & Co. in 1S1!". On the flyleaf is written, "James Wilmcr, .Tr.,Julr 2S, is:io." 4 Sidney' has dipped into the volume and finds it pretty poor rending, but hc'n goiug tokcep it carefully in a drawer of his shoe shining stand in cn.e an of bis customers get tired of reading the papeis while he burnishes up their russets. It's only natural thnt Sidney should have made this biblio graphical find, as his full name is Sidney Booker. , We were ouL in Marathon the other eve ning, and were pleased to see Hank Harris nnd Jlil Stitcs in their working clothes, torturing the innocent soil with some ngri culturul maneuvers. Luckily, Fred Myers forms a buffer state between those, two em bittered -zealots, but even 1'red says he doesn't intend to have his territory used as a corridor for Bill's fowls and Hunk's rad ishes to parade in. We predict some kind of on ultimatum beforo the first of May. We have learned what the editors of the Congressional Record do when Congress is not iu session. Tho iiuhappy men toil upon the compilation of nn index of tho proceed ings ot Congress during' the preceding ses sion. This index consists in great part of a libt of bills authorizing the secretary ot war to satisfy the requests of various towns and villages for captured German artillery. It seems as though the communities nsking for these trophies have baldly kept themselves informed of the details of modern warfaic, ns most of them want not only the guns, but "cannou baliy to go with them. Green wood, Wis., asks for "one medium cannon or ficldpiece, tdgcther with a sufficient num ber of cannon balls to form a pyramid." The Greensboro College for Women, Greensboro, N. C, (from which, by the way, O. Henry's mother graduated in 1SD0), is more business-like. It asks the secretary ot wn'r'for "two German cannons or field pieces, with carriages. and suitable comple ment of projectiles," If all the women's colleges are as blood thirsty as Greensboro, it won't be possible to withhold national suffiage much longer. Now wo know what the editors of, the Congressional Record do during the vacation, tho question comes, What do the Congress men do? ' Desk Mottoes Life Is mostly frolli nnd bubble, Two things stand like stone: ' , Kindness In another's trouble, Courage in our own. Adam Lindsay Gordon. Newton Baker is a nice litrie man with a klud, kind heart; but what is his idea in taking uino-ycar-old Warren Pershing over to Frnnco "to surprise the general"? It seems to up, though wc haven't attempted to think the matter out very fully, that a man as busy as the, general would rather not bo bothtrcd with'a uinc-ycar-old urchiu iust now. Or maybe they're sending Warren over so he can tag around Paris with Rear Admiral Grayson and jglvo tho admiral something to do? SOCRATES. Secretary Baker has sailed for France. Secretary Lanslbg and Secretory Daniels and President JVilsoh not to include Colo BIr House are already ihpti, ,Cau it be .mjmmmr& w MAKE IT A SUCCESS, HIS CRUTCH HE HOBBLES down tho quiet street, A otithful veteran AVhosc heurt is still uttuncd unto Tho drum's wild rataplan, Whose ears are deafened even y By battle's dread alarm, Whose halting step depends upon The ciutch bencuth his arm. Ilis sood right leg is gone afar In Flanders mud it lies.' But there's a smile upon his lip", For still Old Glory flies, And though n slow nud painful gait His mundane progress mars, Behold ! his spirit vailts the clouds And strides among the stars. Washington's sword and Franklin's staff And Lincoln's pen shnll be Embossed forcvermorc upon t The shield of Liberty; And lo ! the doughboy's battered crutch, Through Time's eternal flight, Will stand a signpost on the road To Freedom's mountain height. Minna Irving, in the New Tork Sun. It's not so much tho key to peace as the kejholc to it to which the barred-out correspondents crave access. "In my old ace." moans ex-King Lud wig of Bnvaria, "I have no place to lay my head." Have tho fusillading Bolshevists put even the block out of fashion? There still seem to be sentimentalists who, if they saw a baby and a dog on the railroad track in front ot an express train, would rescue the dog first. What Do You Kntilo? QUIZ 1. What is 'the meaning of the military term "point d'appui"? 2. Where is Patagonia? 3. What is amnesia? 4. How many lines of verse combose a sonnet? C. How long were the Articles of Con federation in force iu the United States? C. What is an eyas? 7. Who was the greatest of Spanish painters? 8. What was tho real name of Bill Nye? 0, Who is tho Republican member of the American peace commission? 10, How many cable lengths make a mile in mariners' mensurc? Answers to Yesterday's Qulr 1. Cleave is a word ot tvo absolutely op posed meanings. It may signify "cling" or "sever." 2. The state of Michigan this week voted down on amendment permitting the use of light wines nnd beer. 3. Plautus (B. C. 254-184) was a Roman comic poet and dramatist. 4. Nuremberg is in Bavaria. K. ElUabeth C. Gaskcll wroto the story "Cranford." , 0 The city referred to in Freeman's as sertion that "It has kept its name and Its unbroken position os a city from nn earlier time than any other city in Europe" is Cadir, Spain. Cadiz, or iginally Gadcs, was the remotest col ony of tho Phenickns lu the west and wos founded about 1100 B, O. ' 7. Kelp Is n large kind ot sea weed, nf .commercial use for the ake of its soda 8. 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