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QUICK! THE AIRPLANES!
'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
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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
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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
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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.
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HARD WORK WILL
OH, BOY!!"
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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
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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. The word lichen, Bnould be pronouncediafij
with the "' sounded long vas In ", i
"bite" and the "rh" like ."k." fi -l
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