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Ily tnall 10 points outslJe of Phlladelohla In tha llhlted Ktfllva I'inarl nf I nltuH llafB nm. itissslont. poMftce free, fifty isoi cent per month 9vi uiiimn ver jenr, puyauie in mitancc. To all foreign sountrlts one (til dollar per month. NoTioa Subscribers wishing address chanxed must Blve old as well as new address. BELL. 3000 XTslALT KrTONF. MCIN 3000 Cv Addrtst nil commuiiicnfio it to Kr'ttlnfl Public Zftfffrr. ndrprntfeiire Swart, VilarfelpMa. 1 Member of the Associated Press ' THE ASSOCIATED I'RUSS it cxclu Mvclv entitled to the use for republication cf all netfs dispatches ci edited to It nr not othenrtse c edited in this pnpei . nnd also the local news published thetcin All rights of lcpubllcalion of special dt patches herein arc also rescued Philldrlphla. Iridic, pril 11. I'l'l PROGRESS AND "UNCLE DAVE" "UR own "Uncle Dave" Lain- is an un-'-'usually alluring typo of the mandarin in American politics. Ho never dis courses upon public alfaits as he dis coursed yesterday upon the proposed new charter without revealing himself as the compc embodiment of all that is di verting and all that isn't in those public men who pray for the night to stay be cause they hate to face the duties of the mornfng. "This is the way it has always been done," says Uncle Dave, speaking of the present ward system in Councils. "Why change it?" But they didn't hae ward politics at the beginning of the world. The afflic tion evolved and it will pass in the course of time. If all leaders of opinion had been like Uncle Dnve we should still have stone clubs, slavery and witch burning. Mr. Lane would say, doubtless, that there are worse things than stone clubs, slavery and witch burning. He might even be able to prove the contention. Hut if men were not willing from the first to accept the processes of evolution there would have been no wards, no political parties and Uncle Dave woultl have had to work harder and fare worse than he has done in his long career as n sage in the councils of municipal leaders. UP TO THE CUSTOMER" AGAIN rrHE government, of coutse, will frown V " HYinn umr nvfrn-l ,...- -........ In... 1 !.. ...- fvn tmj i-Anji kiviu f:v:i,iiuii in iuil- nection with the luxury tax, which be comes operative on MayL Dealers who base profiteering on a misrepresentation of the new impost burden will be subject to a fine of $1000 or a year's imprison ment But the measure of piotection thus af forded the public is somewhat moie ap parent than real. "It is up to the cus tomer," declares Congressman Moore, "to see that he or she is not deceived." And therein lies the weakness of this irritating law. It was "up to the cus tomer" in the first instance to see that food prices during the war were not ex orbitant. Yet they were so, for it was no easy matter for the ordinary layman to tell whether or not, considering all the (Conditions of labor and transportation, he was being cheated. He will be no wiser when the luxury vender grows imperious. The fact that the law provides punishment if guilt is proved will not be helnful unless the average citizen is competent to bring the initial charge. Theoretically, a tax on luxuries has a foundation in justice. Practically, the administration of the impost is bound to be complicated, with inequities hard to unravel. A tax on bank checks would have involved none of these difficulties. ObviousJ the labyrinthine congressional mind which rejected that plan was awed by the very simplicity of so fair and easy an expedient for raising money. ISOLATING THE MILITANTS "NJOTHING- violent," ciied a pundit of L old times, "endures"! - Nobody would listen to him. and all thpse who reigned and prospered in his p& s dayleft nothing but ruin in their wake. $'' ' Since that far day almost everybody kit ' vc".ii.u mm, aiiyuiuif; acineveu by Bj'- violence is inevitably transient. Miss EV Al'ce Paul and her militant Suffragists 4iavj cv m uu tonverieu. iney have not learned anything from the lrp A.i' V ures of violence in Germany and in Rub- Is sja. The leaders of the more enlightened RV anil tirniyrnntiiiFn ofTenr-int. ...1 v ions weie represented hv Mm .u. - L' . Uller, president of the Pennsylvania B- .-'Woman Suffrage Asjociation, in her ad EfYV.drcss. here yesterduy, are therefore justi- KfiiJjT'-",!1 '" u,c" i"a" lu isopue miss Paul rjRjj"iMi e ru-Buess element anu leave them y&jtfl'fisht alone with dwindling forces l14. JThc militants have hindered the cause V 'f .suffrage in 'America as definitety as jie, ultra-radicals in Russia and else- c 'fafarr rinvi rinrt. ib r.ittcn nf i:u n. feMaW. L. Ul-'""Sm P at" "uiiu' "ie , - , 'fCLEMENCEAU'S CLEMENCY - 'TTIJSW weapons nie more nowerful than V clemency. Julius Caesar mjde the ;j'at of it, and that canny old statesman, ( -jGirVcs Clemenceau, seems to have taken -',.l-r'-Jwf from the Kieat Roman's book. At W 1( "Tiger's" behest, President Poincme hi cpmmuted tlie sentence of Kmile Cfttin to ten years' imprisonment. i" intent, of course, the French pre- sssier's assailaht was a murderer. But M'aUo a fanatic stuffed with- half- idf isJU! or he would pot have at- twF". -V:r- lusions are not slain by the operation of capital punishment. On the contrary, they are apt to blossom with dangerous luxuriance. . Young Cottin was a peril to Krauce, nntl he will be locked up. There will be time for reflection upon the folly of his delusion. Moial conversion may not be achieved, but at least theie is the chance for it. As to Georges Clemenceau. who thus buries bitter resentment, no wonder he is a hard man to combat at the peace table. Even when he clings to toryism he is a lovable old man, a keen and seasoned philosopher. HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF BEFORE OUR VERY EYES Men Are Waiting Now as In Past Cen turies for a Fall In Prices Which Never Came THE man who is delaying business enlei prise in the hope that pi ices will come down is eiy much like the man who sits on the shore of the ocean wait ing for the water to dry up so that he can run his motorcar to Europe on the bed of the sea. The economists who are familiar with the financial histoiy of the world aic telling us that prices have reached a new level, fiom which they are not likely to recede. There, may be exceptions due to peculiar conditions, but they will be exceptions. Piofcssor I'isher, of Yale, has ic minded us that the general level of prices is ilenenilont unon the volume and rapid ity of the turn-over of the circulating medium in 1 elation to the business to be transacted. If the number of dollars cir culated in cash and by bank checks doubles while the service to be rendered by this circulating medium remains constant the prices will come near to doubling. This is what has happened time after time in the history of the world. There was a price revolution in the sixteenth century following the influx of gold from the Americas. Europe was flooded with new money and prices went up. People thought that the condition was tem poiary and we suppose many business men decided to postpone new enterprises until the prices came drwn again. But they did not come down. A new price level was reached. To skip the intervening years with their successive -xpansions t of the amount of irioney in circulation due to new discoveries u' the precious metals or other causes we come to the close of the nineteenth century, when within the memo'ry of most adults the gold fields of South Africa, Cripple Creek and Alaska began to turn out their yellow flood, and when the invention of the cyanide process of mining made it pos sible to recover gold from ores that hitherto ha'd been discarded. Prices again rose and what men paid $1 for ten years ear ier cost them 51.50. The prices in the sixteenth centuiy did not return to their former level and prices in the nineteenth century stayed up and have continued to rise in the twentieth century. The conditions brought tfbout by the war have forced them up still higher. Let us look a moment at the amount of money in circulation here at different periods. In 1900, for example, it was approximately S'J,000,000,000, or just short of $27 per capita. Tim amount had risen by 1914 to $3,400,000,000, or $34.53 per capita. In 1918 it was moie than $5,000,000,000, or more than $50 for every man, woman and child in the country. In eighteen years our circu lating medium has more than doubled in actual amount and has nearly doubled in proportion to the population. Since the Federal Reserve banking system was established it has been increased by the addition of $'..600,000,000 in Federal Reserve bank notes. The use of trade acceptance's as commercial paper, dis countable at the banks, has expanded bank credit to an enormous extent and has had the effect of still further cheap ening the value of a 'dollar. An expert statistician could plot this expansion of currency on a diagram along with the inciease in the index prices of typical commodities and thus show how they move together in the same direction. "Normal" conditions that is, condi tions like those piecedmg the war are not likely to return. We have left the old price level foreve1', un'ess all the teachings of economic history are wrong. The individual business, man knows that he cannot reduce his prices very much because the price of labor is high and the price of raw materials, save in exceptional instances, is also high. And the price of raw materials is high be cause the cost of producing them is de pendent on the cost of labor. And labor is high becauso the increase in the num ber of dollars feas decreased the pur chasing power of each dollar. N'o government interference with prices can permanently affect the pre vailing conditions. Thus far it has pro duced confusion and dissatisfaction in all quarters. In the case of steel, which is an exception, the government has tried to keep the price at a level higher than the natural conditions warrant. The heavy demand for the commodity for war purposes Jias come to an end. Its export to Europe is likely to fall off, for the European nations are forced by diie necessity to produce at home all the steel possible. They have no money left from the war expenses to pay for foreign steel. Our steel men are likely to be confined to the home market for several years to come. The law of supply and demand will affect the price and it is likely to reduce it somewhat, but hardly to the pre-war level. All restrictions on the price of copper have been removed and it Is-now sellintr tempo! arlly ot ab.out the price which it brought in 9U.) But when the current cf trade IwfJw i Jo flow acrois the ocwin . FWJaM a -jj v EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, again the demand for copper in Europe will be followed by nn increase in price, which is likely to raise it to the prevail ing level with other commodities. The price of wheat will adjust itself to new conditions in a few months for the reason that the war bus prevented the free distribution of the world crop. It will come down, but the day of $1 wheat is doubtless ended. If, ns the economists assure us, the general price level is to remain about wh"cre it is, it is imperative thrtt the farmcis get more thun $1 for their wheat. They cannot raise it for the pre-war prices. The moial gf all this is that, save in exceptional cases, it is a mistake to delny new enterprises in the hope of it leturn to the price level before the war. Wages are up and they are likely to stay up. Salaric.1 wi.'I follow next and the cost of production will remain about where it now is. So it is the part of wisdom to face conditions as they arc and to move forward, not rashly cr with impetuosity, but with common prudence. Thus will the noi ma! pi ogress of business be re sumed with safety, adjusting itself as it goes on to the great change that war and other things have wrought. THE BOOM IN INSURANCE TXrOST of the forecasts of business cx- L'x pansion in the United States havo fallen short or (lies actual expansion. Yet none but a rash statistician would predict today that the life insurance business would grow in the next fifty- three years at the same rate tha't U'has' increased since the late John R. liege man, president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, entered the business in 1860. When Mr. liegeman became an insur ance man there were fewer than half a million life policies in force for an amount far below two billion dollars. When he died there were between forty five and fifty million life and industrial policies in force calling for between twenty-five and thirty billion dollars in insurance carried by the private compa nies, and the Government Insurance Bu reau was carrying more than fifteen bil lion dollais in insuianco on soldiers and sailors. For the last seven or eight years the amount of new life insurance written has amounted to about a billion dollars ji year. Between 1870 and 1880 the life insur ance business was in disgrace. The in surance companies wore not properly su pervised by the government. Irresponsi ble companies wrote policies, accepted the premiums and eventually went into' bankruptcy. The scandal became so great that the State Legislatures passed stringent laws to protect the policyholders- These laws are enforced so rigidly that the policyholders are now actually protected against loss and the people have confidence in the established companies. The insurance agents aie reporting that there was never a time when it was so easy as now to sell life insurance. The people aie ready to buy and they do not Have to be urged. How much of this new temper is due to the federal war insurance campaign it would be idle to speculate, but it is morally certain that the official indorsement of life insurance has had a marked influence. It is possi ble that the effect of the insurance of the lives of the fighting men by a gov ernment bureau may be so great on the attitude of the public at large as to'offset the effect of government competition with the private companies. At any rate, it is fashionable just now to take out a life insurance policy. A LOSER'S BATTLE CRY rpHE National CivO Service Reform -1- League, which will meet here today, deserves a place in legend with the boy who stood on the burning deck. It hasn't had nn easy time or an easy job in a land that is still content to have most of its thinking done by political bosses. The really extraordinary manifesto is sued through the League by Doctor Eliot, oi narvara; resident Hadley, of Yale; President Hibben, of Princeton, and fac ulty men of other American universities who are convinced that" t,he cynicism of corrupt politicians is inspiring much of the present social "unrest" will not greatly help the cause of civil service reform among those who do not believe in it. Politicians distrust intelligent criti cism. They do not understand it. And from the ancient times man has in herited a fear of all things that he doesn't understand. I he men whom Doc tor Hibben, Doctor Eliot and Doctor Had ley aim to indict have a reply,and a de fense readymade. They will dismiss the charge of the universities with a cry that was familiar all over the length and bieadth of the United States a few years ago: "What can you expect trom a school master?" I" proclaiiuinj; 'itself A Snap for the "the m o h t exclusive Admission Committee HuW in tIP entire world, " the Kftvuppil Officers' Club, rrrrntl) formed in Loudon, is inordiuatcly vulli. If the escaped ex em perors are ever moved to "oricnnixe" there will be a (trnncl iiiciiiln-ryliii of two in their society and no randicliites for admltHlon. Those two prisoners in Kilt Speech Cherry Hill" ,0 Was Oolden were overheard ills- Hosing the hiding place of .$33,000 worth of stolen Liberty Itondx will be inclined to duptitc the niuxiin that talk I cheap. Vv Ninre Doctor Da Costa Tills May Is a nerve npeciulist, K.vplaln It Isn't tt fair to assume that he has been culled tn Paris to help a lot of European statesmen who must soou face their own people In an ucrotiiit(BE for puNt errors? T h e finished Icaciie Had News covenant, gay lhn most recent cubl en, nj '"uattsfy all." That Is discouraging nfof. Mwi&U LvbodV; . ; ' nntiou, bc-vuuvunimiiiug'tnat sausiit-rtvcrr. LESLIE W. MILLER ON THE SCHUYLKILL PLAN Secretary of the Falrmount Park Art ' Association Replies to Joseph i Pennell's Tart Criticisms i : 7o the Kdltor ot the Vvenlng I'ubliti t.idpci : Sir Without wishing or Intending lo eniiiliilp cither the only too obloiis purpose or the not mt.v kindly method of n corre spondent who shall he nniiieless tm fur ns I inn concerned, lint who has iilrcud made M'ry liberal demands on jour good nature ns wen ns jour public spirit, may I be pel milted to uj in explanation of the proposed improwiiicnt of the Schuylkill embankment. ud united in the recentlj published report of the Palriiinuiil Park Art Association, that so fur from being n menace to cither Itar train's (iaiden or the business interests which make tit pic.-ent such limited u-e of the facilities which the ricr ofTcr.s, or ought to offer, the Improvements have been planned us much with u pw to dc eloping these er.v feiituies ns to the beaulllicaliou of the bunks theinsches 7 In the very careful studies and masterly plans made bj Clnience intzhiger as long ago ns VMo tl iap of the Hejiujlkill from (he park to League island wns not only not ignoied, as jour correspondent (lunges, but it was miuutelj studied, nnd iwcrj feature of the situation, ccry difticultj presented mid crrj need to be seized weie thoioughlj' incest igated. The result was a plan for the decelopineiit of .the whole southwestern section of the tit j-. which puid due regard to the nuicli needed but long-neglected facilities for the kiud of water-borne traffic lo which the river is adapted, as well us to the pioper location of bridges, converging thorough fares and all such mntteis, the intelligent and comprehensive iniisidemtioii of which constitute the cs'-enlial claim of the sthenic to respect. The Kairtiinuiit Turk Art Association, in inuunoii, 1 n tn sure, with every other organ ization interested in the citj's welfare, to whose attention lliej were brought, enthu siastically indorses Mr. Cuntzlnger's plans, and it is u source of much gratification to note t hut ma n of the excellent suggestions embodied in them . Ninchded themsekes at once to the municipal authorities nnd to a considerable c.tcnt hnve actually been adopted by them ns opportunities for such modifications of the city plan ns they tep resented hnce arisen. N'o one who is at all cutnersniit with the work, either of the Fniriuoiint Purk Art As sociation or of auj other single one of the matij agencies which are active in promot ing the best interests of the cit.v, needs to to be told that linrlrnm's (iarden is one of the very first object- of its solicitude and will certainly be lust to suffer through the accomplishment of any such project ns the redemption of the much -abused und neglected Schuylkill may involve. Far be It from me to nsk for any revision of the list of critics of the city's affairs whose efforts the Evening Pcih.ic Ledokh deems worthy of encouragement, but abuse of nlwajs unselfish and sometimes able serv ice in others is far from being proof of ouc'm own infallibility . Moreover, discussion und argument gain nothing after all by being couched in terms of ill-nature and contempt contempt uot onlj- for one's opponents in the discussion, but for common courtesy as well. LESLIE AV. MILLER. Philadelphia, April it. Mr. Miller'R fetter 's a reply to Joseph Pennell's criticism of the plans of the Fair mount Park Art Association for n boulevard along the Schuylkill froln League island lo Vnllej Foige. The letter was printed on this page last Tuesday. Editor. LLOYD GEORGE DISSECTED ' fTHIERE are few living men of whom more -- loutrndictoiy estimates have been re corded than of David Llojd Ceorge. the British premier. Observers of his course at the Pence Conference have found it 'difficult to uudcrstuud him. us they failed to com prehend him ill the earlier stages of his career. One of the best nnaljses of the dis tinguished stntesman is made by E. T. Ray mond, tin English journalist. It 'was first printed iu.Everjmnn in Loudon und has now nppeared in n collection of essujs on Eng lish statesmen. Mr. 'Raymond uses a recent portrait of LliJjd George us his point of departure. Following are some of the in terctiug and illuminating thiugs heK has to saj : "M1:. AFfiFSTTS JOHN'S notable nvus will tend to avoidant e of the grosser kind of etror concerning Mr. Llojd (ieoige's character,, In regarding it one begins to understand whj the subject stands where he is today. One teulizes for the first time that there is gre.H sticugth in the man. Physical strength, tirst. despite lack of ;-:ciic; sturdy build, bull neck, pow erful shoulders, the whole man approximat ing to that southern European Ijpe which produces the greatest musters of swordsman ship, a fjpc thnt surprises in the test of bnttle those northerneis who nie pi one to overvalue mere stature. In f,.a. turcs can be rend an iuflexihllitj nf purpose compatible with infinite plinbilitj of method: an imputiencc of opposition: even a certain ruthle&sness one of the abler Human em perors of the later period from lllvriu or Spain, might have hud just sut li a fate. UT'V IS not the face of n gicul muster of J- statecraft: the brain behind those rather skeptical eyes is quick nnd vigorous, but neither capacious nut- subtle; it enjoys '.u iatellectual game of draughts, but chess is rather bejond it. Still, so fur as they see, the ejes see dear!), and the. brain, within its limits, is nn ndmirable iiHtrument. For the special purposes pf its owner, per haps us good an Instrument us he could have. For Mr, Llojd Georg belongs essen tially to the empirical school of stntcsmun ship. He does uot look "befoie und niter,' but only nbout him. He stands in small uvye of precedent, principle or doctrine; lie Is alvvujs reudier to experiment thnn to think. InteiiBcly interested in the things of the mo ment, in himself and the people he likes, in the 'causes' which appeal to him in his varjiug moods, no man 1ms less sense nf the continuity ot human things. For him the present tick of the clock has all the dignity of the eternal Occasion ally, like the German emperor, whom he somewhat resembles in his k: acl of saying inemoruble things on trivial occasions' (a well, It may be added, us trivinl things on sivnie memorable occasions), he rises to very tousiderable heights. mIIE fever of doing, the gtit and pas- - sloii or perpetual movement, (he revolt against pauslvlty are in his very blood If thought is a malady, he is of all men the most healthy, His poor acquaintance with history and literature Is less the conse quence of lack of opportunity than of his innate dislike of hard study. He, h n sense Indolent through excess of encrgj What can be done at a sitting he docs ns well as most men; but he quickly tires of monotonbUH application, und hi 'only Idea of repose is change of effort. Hence the Just criticism thnt he rales manv tpiestious and settles few, thnt whatever he touches he leaves a litter for some less gifted per. boh to clear tip, anil that the more, pas slpnaUly he advocutes u pqlvy the. 1CS8 L yfljZ . "-"" " w wn, FBIDAY, APRIL" 14, . . . : . . ' ' '' ' .' .'.' ..,''"" - ,; .' III xi j'lHHnaJMssPilHTjisVSjr'" li if V. ty jfm . r,?ir! , Jfi-'ttf 'I Wvi' t -""i' -iVi 'SaUKiSfli?' t V I "" ' "- .,.,.. , . . I "- I . ' -, ... . .1 . ., I ! THE CHAFFING DISH A'n Interview With Martha "7"ESTERUAY we went over to. the cellar -- of Independence J In II to pay a call on Mntthii Washington, the well-known black cut who makes her home there. It was a warm day nnd we had rather expected to meet MiiitUa strolling u 1-011 ml the square, us she frequently docs nt lunch-time, but we found her reclining comfortnbly on 11 box near the furnace. We never saw her looking better: her fur shone a glossy black, her ejes were bright nnd her figure remains beautifully slender for u matron of her standing. "You ntc looking very fit, Martha," wo said. "Oh. 1 keep fairly well," she replied, "although it has been a trying winter. Spring alvvajs makes me feel a bit languid.. However, I have introduced two daughters to society this season, nnd I shall hnve to let the third go soon. Shu is really onlj' a sub-deb still, but n grcut many people have been ashing for the privilege of taking care other. Here she is now. Victory, come und speak to the genllemqu." VICTORY is 11 svelle young thing, ruven black, without a white hair on her. She has her mother's delightful green eyes and is of 11 gentle disposition. However, she shows her nrKtocrntie lineage plainly. Her mother is one of the Colonial Felines of America, said to be descended directly from the black cat that Franklin used to stroke when he wonted to produce sparks and there wns no thunderstorm hnndy. Victorj- purred gently as we talked to her. "Victory is really the best of the three," said her mother. "They were born on January -!,' which wns a Sunday. Ton re member the old adage, 'Sunduj's kittens are fair of face.' It was a narrow escape; one day later would have been the kaiser's birthday. The other two.'who were chris tened Liberty and Freedom, have been ndoptetl bysfriends of mine. My host, Fred Eckersburg, the engineer, had a great; many letters from prominent people after your paper published a picture of my daughters last January. They all faulted to have an Independence Unll kitten, u was willing to part with Libert) and Freedom because they had white feet, which is -n little bit of it blemish in our family strain that crops out every now and then. 1 believe it is due to one of inj ancestors having been stroked by a British general when the redcoats were in Philadelphia. Even so, I had farcfuf in quiries iiuide before letting my daughters go to live with btrangers. Liberty went to Mrs. Charles Strater, Jr.. of Riintiymedc, N. J. 1 wouldn't have let her go just au'ywhere in Jersey, for I am rather particular; but Runnjmede sounds aristocratic, don't you think' I uuderstnud' flint was where Gov ernor Spioul signed the (irent Charter of Philadelphia. Yes, I feel it my duty to keep fi with current events. "The other daughter, Freedom, went to my frienib R. It. Riegel, of 1113 North Fifty-seventh strt'eti und she sends " me word thnt West Philadelphia is rich in mice and that the mihWvncons deliver half on hour eailler there than in this pnrt of town. T SIIOL'LD like to say a word of eoin- mendation for my generous host, Fred Eekeisburg. the engineer nt Independence Hull. He has been most attentive to me in the two jeurs I have lived here. He. has acted us my caterer" Martha purred at her own puu "us there are really very few mice in the State House, and rven in the hardest mouths of the food shortage he Saw to It that my needs were fully supplied. I have sometimes thought that he even stintc.d himself nt lunch in order to give me the choice bits. It was he who put up that sign by the cellar door, BEWARE OF THE DOG! That Is just a little joke, for of course I would never tolerate a dog here. It is just to keep me from being bothered by curiosity mougcrs. Of course," Martha added gently, "visitors who come with proprr credentials' a re. alw ayr welcome. iT SEE you fcnvnoticeci my service flag." ( mr ",rtha I, for 1919 v "TOO SLOW FOR ME!" poor dear. He went abroad, into 'Washing ton Square or some such place, and got cor uipted by the Bolsheviki. He was alwajs of u rnving disposition. Well, they in stilled some of these new-fangled nbtions it) poor George's head, and the result was he went up to a bulldog one day and called hint 'Comrade.' I think I can truly say he gave' his lives for his country. He was a fine, aristocratic fellow, with a sweet tenor x;oice. Down in Willings alley, where he was born, they used to cHll him the Prince of Wails. As for me, I have never cared to' travel. In dependence Square was good enough for the Continental Congress, and I guess ft will do for me. There was some talk of sending me over to Paris, to give the peace delega tion good luck, but I understand Colonel House was sent insteud. Well, I am just as pleased. I never really cared for publicity. "What issue of the Chaffing Dish did jpu. say your story will appear in? I wish you'd send me a few clippings. I want to mail one up to the cat at the City Hall. She never got more thun two inches in the paper in heVlife. 'T0 I believe in suffrage? I'm afn '-'not. 1 think jou're confusing me w fraid itli another public personage who is ispcaking J nt the Bellcvtie today. Think what aliuis nuce it would be to have to make out nine ballots every time I wnntcoj to vote. You'll excuse me now, I'm sure. This is just1 the lime that Fred Eckersburg and my friend Victor Anderson, the boss curpeuter, have luncheon, and I generally make it a point to be on'hand. Mr. Harrison, the curator's secretary, usually drops in, too, to tell me about his guinea pigs. I don't see ranby mice around here, and it always does me good to hear about those guinea pigs." Desk Mottoes A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies jou ran invent. WILLIAM.BLAKKV We hear that Brooklyn is going to have a big hullabaloo over the Walt Whitman centennial In May. According to Walt Whitman's publishers, "such British lit erary eelebtities us Kipling, Galsworthy, Shaw, Wells, Maselield, Arucdd Bennett, Alfred Nojes and George Butler' Yates have been invited," We doubt whether Mr. George Butler Yates will be present, and probably Gerald Matthew Barry nnd Arnold Wing PInearo and James Conrad will decline for the same reason. v, Eugene Field Who are the men jou woultl mosljike 40 have met? Our choices are Charles Lamb, Robert Louis Stevenson, Samuel Butler and Stark Twain, and we also cherish a grudge against the norns that allowed us to be born too Uttii to meet Eugene Field. Wo note that Francis Wilson is going to lecture about Field at Witherspoon Hall tonight, and it occurs to us to wouder whether Mr. Wilson knows the poem O. Henry wrote on Field's death. Probably he does, but it is n)t in cluded in Sir. Wilson's delightful book, ''The Eugene Field 1 Knew." 'In case ony Field lovers iu these parts do not know it, we are reprinting it iu the column just east of this, Desk Motto for Downhearted Paragraphera ','1'ou shouldn't make jokes If it makes you so unhappy. Alice Through the Looking Glass. , ' One Reason for Insomnia $0,GO TALKING MACHINE, solid oak, tlouble doors, good condition, open evenings, From classified advertising, SOCRATES, Lloyd George in promising d tory group in England that he will "stand, by his elec. tlon pledges" and bring hoyie fabulous Indemnities seems to have,, forgotten' thnt lW'-W"5 .U0l4eW I"!""? "WHO yJU.BltBtt ttjf ill. N EUGENE FIELD "VTO GIFT his genius might have hud. y Of titles high in church or state, Could charm him as the one he bore Of children's poet laureate. He smiling pressed aside the bajs And laurel garlands thnt he won. And bowed his hend for bnby bauds To place a daisy-wreath upon. He found his kingdom in the wajs Of little ones he loved so well; For (hem he tuned his lyre and snug Sweet simple songs of magic spell. Oh, greater feat to storm the gates t Of children's pure nnd cleanly hearts. Than, to snbdue a warring wdrld Hy stratagems and doubtful arts! So, when he laid him down to' sleep And earthly honors iieemed so poor, Methinks he clung to little hands The latest, for the love they bore. A tribute paid by chanting choirs And pealing organs rises high; 'But soft and clear, somewhere he hears Through all, a child's low lullaby. O. Henry, in the Houston Post, Novem ber 0, 1S05. (iet ready for the Victory Loan ! The David H. Lane is cmphatieully one which has no turning. If the Philadelphia Sunday weie ever a dull day,' all the argument about It has quite deprived it of that rating. The President 'should be an expert in "hammering ahead." There's very little on the subject of knocks with whicli he's' un acquainted. What Do You Knoiv? QUIZ ' In what part of Russia is Odessa, which the Bolshevists are reported to have taken? ' Who is President Wilsou's personal physician? What is the highest mouptain rising from any island in the Pacific Oceuu? How many lunar months are there Iu n year? What is a "dnnse macabre"? What is a nuncupative jwlll? What color is a sardonyx? Who was Gargantua? What js the correct pronunciation nf the. word leviathan? What is the meaning of the Itulldu word "staccato," used as a musical term? 0. 7. 8. 0. 10. Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. The military term "point d'nppur describes the fixed object oil 'which tint troops commence formation Into line, 'J. Patagonia is the southern part nil ihe Argentine Republic, consisting of tin territories of Rio .Negro, Cliubut and Santa Cruz, 3. Amnesia is loss, of, memory, 1. The Articles ot Con federation were lit force in the United States from 17S.I to 1788, C. Fourteen Hues ot -verse compose n son , net. (I. Aq eyas Is a joung'hawk taken from the nest tor training and yet uot com. plctcly trulncd. 7, Velasquez (lMMMOOO) w-as the greatest of Spanish painters, ,, S. Edgar Wilson Njc was the real nam of BUI N. v V.flWnry White is the Itcpublleau mem (ier of the American peace commission., 4JJ, 'ftWJNi and a Iol cable lengths, jmin- "A ' i m ' 1 I a I n 6 Is 4 1 -y '4i "I i M I f I JS '9 18 M 1 .&: v " i. !(" - f 1 ttj ii '' v ft J r " '' Jm '( nj , ' p 1. j,'. -S.J kn I ! ' i h .,.. ". J 1 ..ftt
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