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BELL, 3000 WALNUT KLYSTONF, MAIN SOW Cy Address oil commwHlcntloii to Evening Public Ledger, Independence Square, Philadelphia, Member of the Associated Press I T11& ASSOCIATED VKKSS n rxclu tlvcly entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published therein. t All rights of republication of special fi patches herein arc also reserved. Plilliilelphla, Tur.Jjy. April 13, 1910 COMMON HONESTY WILL DO IT rpHERE is encouragement in the news - from Washington that the Republican leaders of Congress are planning to turr the railroads back to their owners on July t of next year, after making provisions to protect their solvency. Under government control a deficit of nearlyhalf a billion dollars has already been' piled up and the roads are operat ing now at a loss of $40,000,000 a month. 'It would be criminal to turn the roads back to their owners with fixed charges due to disregard of practical business principles so great that the owners could not meet them. Representative Slemp, of the House appropriations committee, is said to be drafting a bill to protect the railroad owners. When it is agreed that they must be protected and that their prop erty must be returned to them in'as good a financial condition as when it was taken over, the proper way to do it should not be difficult to devise. REASONABLE INDEMNITIES TTUVE billions in cash within two years and twenty billions in bonds at once are what the peace commissioners have agreed Germany must pay, but this does not cover the total amount that will be demanded from the nation which started the war. .Further sums in reparation for dam ages must be paid. The amount is to be fixed by an international commission. It will be dependent upon the amount which the commission finds Germany is able to pay. Thus one of the perplexing problems before the Peace Conference seems to be disposed of. The delegates know that it would be foolish to ask Germany for more than she has. They know, too, that it would be a diplomatic mistake to ask for so much that the whole German people would hate the conquering nations or the rest of their lives. The worst thing that could happen would be the creation of indemnity conditions that would, provoke future wars. The 'figures agreed upon seem to oe big tmough to be adequately described as punitive damages, especially when they are added to the war debt which Ger many must bear on her own account. Compared with the indemnity which Ger many secured from France after the Franco-Prussian War, they, seem to be fairly proportioned to the difference in the conditions that is, as fairly propor tioned as the financial condition of Ger many makes possible. CAN ANY ONE ANSWER THIS? W COMMEND to the consideration o the men who control the raising and the spending of the money for edu cation in this city the discussion of the teachers' salary question in the Man chestei Guaidian, which we rep-nnt on this page today, ;Tbe Guardian makes the perfectly ob vious poll t that the effect of the in creased taxes and the increased cost of the necessities of life have virtually brought a reduction of 50 per cent in the pay of the teachers. They were ill paid before the war. They work for a pittance now. The same condition's which exist in England prevail here. Salaries on which assistant professors found it difficult to make both ends meet four years ago will not now stretch over the ground they are ', supposed to cover. VX There nas ocen enougn talk about tnis the conditions. Are we going to do any thing about it or are we to force the able men and women from the teaching profession into occupations where they can earn enough to support their fami lies, leaving the training of the future generation to Incompetents? ( TACKLING A HARD JOB rnHE men who are nlanninrr an inter- if '!' national labor bureau ss an annex to . - , w -the league of nations do not seem to be ? daunted by the difficulties in their way. ri'They have drafted a charte of forty-one L!-Vrticlea setting forth the- functions of V "'' tr !i.. . ii isii li jpggurt; unuoiimty ml iouui vuuuiuons "'HU.'..'. 1.-..4- il,,. nrn.l.l avTVfUjKltuui. vile Hiiiu, 'it has thus far been found impossible C'rt'lAr'inf- nlimif Klirh llrnfnrmlfv in flio I. jxor&y-eight states of the American , rtlnlHrh. Some states have child-labor Mji'jro "and, women-labor laws, and laws L'I,"''iitultinT the number, of hours for a '"..'. . mi . m .ttay worK. tne passage or sucn laws '"'jMW'beeh opposed in, many industrial steUe on the ground that they would Mice it impossible for the local indus- ;KiM to compete with the industries in SfMW which place no restrictions on the jjilili'iin of contract. Metal necessity of preventing the i vac; labor is ignored by the opponents of advanced legislation to protect the workers. They stress the dollar above the worker and they advunce the very "practical" argument that the cost of living in the different states dif fers so widely that the government should be careful in its meddling with in dustrial conditions. When ono considers world conditions one realizes that tho cost of living and the standard of wages in the United States and in Italy, for instance, vary so much that no attempt by an interna tional bureau to scale American wages down to the Italian level can succeed. And the task of ruising the Italian stand ard to that of America is so great that the mere contemplation of it must stag ger the minds of thoughtful men. If the proposed bureau is to be merely a clearing house for labor information it may succeed. If it attempts to do muc. more it is likely to stir up complications which it cannot unravel. DOES VICTORY SEEM COSTLY? ASK IN ENGLAND OR IN FRANCE! The New Loan Is a Benefit to America, Whose Allies Must Continue to Pay With Hard Sacrifice fPHE interest rate upon the now Vic- tory HonJs will be extraordinarily high high enough to make tho invest ment attractive to banks and the far sighted men who like such interest le turns. But it is not the intention of the government to borrow chiefly from speculators and institutions. The essen tial responsibilities of the hour should be shared by all the people. The strange tjnng is that we should have to be uiged to participate in them. A little irriairinatiun on the part of the public, a better knowledge of the bur dens we have been spared by the victory for which the new government bonds are named and the soldiers whose needs must now be met through general co-operation with the government should be potent enough to float the new loan over night. The war debts that lemam to the other nations are stupendous. They weigh heavily upon every man and woman in the old world. Every child born in France during the next fifty years will be mortgaged to the extent of about $1000 in the general accounting.- In Great Britain the burden upon the people is almost as great as in France. Almost every income in the empire ih taxed, surtaxed and taxed again. There are rich men in England who pay four fifths of their incomes to the govern ment as war taxes and there is no relief for them in sight. Here we are merely asked to invest our money with a right to reclaim it in three years after drawing annual interest almost as high as interest usually is upon funds lent under a safe mortgage. There has been a supposition that the new bonds would "move rather slowly." It will prove unfounded unless the good common sense of the American people has deserted them. There are innumer able people in this country who were taught the virtue of thrift in earlier war loan campaigns. They are now in pos session of big or littlei "stakes" which represent money that, but for war bonds and the war-bond habit, would have van ished a's irretrievably as the snows and the roses of other years. It is not too much to suppose that they will find the means to buy Victory Bonds. If there is any hesitancy, if there is any reason why the new bonds should move slowly, it is because bonds of the Liberty Loans now range below par. But Liberty Bonds are below par only because the buyers did not follow the advice of the government and retain them instead of regarding these securi ties almost from the first as mere legal tender. Bonds decline in quoted values only because holders are willing to sell them. The more people there are ready to sell the lower the rate is likely to decline until wiser investors are enabled to ac quire all the benefits that should have fallen to the original bond buyer. If bonds had been regarded as the means of popular investment, which the govern ment intended them to be, they would be above par now. The inexperience of the amateur investor is to blame for the present quotations on Liberty Bonds. So, too, is the American tendency to ex travagance in all things. There is no man who, having sold his government sQcuVities at a rate below par, will not admit, if he is frank with himself, that he might have retained the bonds by a little elf-denial and thus profited in the end as the financiers are profiting who buy bondH of the various war issues to hold them until they may collect the full sum of the original in vestment, with accumulated interest. Investors in the Victory Loan are made almost safe from themselves. The new bonds are to be redeemable in three years at their face value. It is improb able that this issue of government paper will be as profitable as the previous ones have been to speculators who wait around for the small investor to unload; There is no reason why the Victory Bond should ever go below par, since the short term of the coming loan will do much to fix the value of the securities perma nently. There is a sentimental side to the Vic tory Loan. The funds now being sought by the government are to pay the accrued .cost j of the most momentous victory ever won by Americans and to insure the safety, the comfort and the general well being of the noblest army ever mustered. The loan is necessary in order that the men who were hurt or disabled shall be cared for and given a new start. The money must be found in order that families that gave their best to the nation shall not be desolate and that the soldiers themselves shall not have reason to feel that the nation is cynical or un grateful or ready to pay them with an empty cheer for their loss or their sac rifices. It is to be hoped that the new bonds will not "move slow." We in America are unbelievably fortunate. Alone among the western nations we are not faced with the necessity for paying vast war bills through sweat and deprivation and a generation of hard and. lean years, Our good fortune is not an accident. vi!)xNiisa PUBLIC. LiiilJUJiU JfcJblJLLAirJbiLirMlA, TUliibJLJAtf. AMtiUb ia, It was assured to us by the men who cheerfully pulled up their roots and threw their liven, or some of the best years of their lives, into the struggle through which disaster was held back from the United States. They didn't have to be wheedled and coaxed when they were asked to contribute ull they had their opportunities, their freedom to live as they wished to live, their hopes and all the rest of it. There were, more than four millions of them. The time to remember their service is now. The bills must be paid. . The army must be caied for. No man vvho served his country must feel thVt his country is not ready to serve him with an equal devotion if he has come out of the war wounded, crip pled or ill. The endless debt that the United States owes to its broken soldiers is to be paid out of the Victory Loan. There our honor is involved more'deeply than it was involved even in the' war. There ought to be no straining or hold ing back when the responsibilities of the loan arc put up to the country Over with itl PROTEST AT LONG RANGE 'TMIE aspiration for Korean independ- ence now being expressed at a con vention in this city is indicative of the beginning-of an awakening in one of the most backward countries. That inde pendence will follow in the near future is by no means ceitain. Korea is, controlled by Japan, and we ate now told that the country is the Belgium of the East. The analogy is far from perfect. The Belgians resisted with their well-organized armies all efforts of the Germans to pass through their country. They failed, but they fought. When Japan passed through Korea to meet her enemy further north the Koreans contented themselves with issuing beautifully worded protests. If they had fought to the last man one might listen with more patience to their companson of themselves with the heroic Belgians. But the Koreans are not a fighting race. Neither are they an in dusttial people. If they continue their agitation and demonstrate their ability to take their place among the progressive peoples their condition is .likely to improve, but they have a long way to go. A conven tion in Seoul would be more significant than a convention in Philadelphia. . A BLUE LAW MADE ROSY CUNDAY ljascball is not unlawful in Tennessee, whatever it may bo in other states. The Supreme Court has, decided that the act of 1803 which made it un lawful for any person to play at any game of sport on Sunday referred only to sports with which the lawmakers were familiar. These sports were horse rac ing, cock fighting and gambling with cards. The lawmakers knew nothing of baseball, so could not have meant to pro hibit it. It is easier for the legal mind to find fault witli the logic than for the fair minded to quarrel with the conclusion reached. One may easily imagine a mis chievous twinkle in the wise and kindly eyes of the law dispensers. THE WAR'S JVIONSTER TT HAS been suggested that America's excess stock of lethal gases can be effectively used in the extinction of the caterpillar pest. This is an appealing idea until it is shadowed by the uncom fortable fact that many of the army gases are of a persistently clinging nature. The vapor so deadly to the pred atory insects on the tree trunk would be no less fatal to the human invaders of a leafy lane. Scientific methods for dissipating some of these terrible chemical concoctions are available, but not for all of them. Down in Maryland, for instance, there is now an oversupply of the most destructive gas ever invented, and the question of its disposition is one of the most baffling riddles caused by the conclusion of the war. wnatever sou it is discharged upon will be ruined and physically unfit for habitation. To add to the complexi ties, this gas, it is said, will float upon water and if the tanks are sunk there is fear, of course, of eventual leakage. Not even the plague of the seventeen year locusts forecast for this year is sufficiently formidable for letting loose the perplexing Frankenstein monster of the war. Every strike nowadas is accepted as red. A few more defeats on the eastern front will turn Trotsky into I.inipsky. Peace Conference proceedings are not least iiupoitant when they arc undramatic. Opponents of the league are doing some clever and entirely praiseworthy back pedal ing. The flask trade did a pretty good busi ness today. The trout season opens at mid night tonight Just a few days more and a flying trip across the Atlantic may hive ceased to be merely a flight of fancy. Maybe the humorist who said "Where there's life thero's soap" had in mind a bucket of suds after July 1. It seems to be a very efficient division of labor. Colonel House says nothing and President Wilson saws wood. Extract from a coming best seller: "Miss Phllly smiled confidently. 'What's a little thing like $187,500,0005' she de manded." If the victory fleet will but pay us a visit we Bhall bo xvilling to forgive New Tork for hogging pretty nearly everything that comes niong. Colonel House says "it is the last fif teen minutes which count." This is the colonel's version of "the first 300 years are the hardest." It is interesting to note that the argu ments of those in favor of Urusscls for the home of the league of nations were precisely those of its opponents. German peace delegates may have a's much difficulty in finding a residence in Paris ns some perfectly .respectable people have in finding one in I'hiladefpMa, THE TEACHERS' SALARY QUESTION IN ENGLAND It Is as Acute There as In the Univer sity of' Pennsylvania and the Local Schools rplIAT the payment of inadequate snlnrics - to university professor mid school Ipueli crs is not pmillnr to Philadelphia or to the United St ii ton la made manifest by a discussion in the .Manchester (Stinnlinu of the sad state lu which the Urltisli university professors lnive heen lpft by the war. The litrchatIug power of the income of n pro fewor linn been cut in half by the increased burden of taxation and by the increased cost of nil the uecesjiaries of life. The (liumlinu speaks purtlculurly of the case of Man chester University, which, like the Uiii rersity of I'ciuisjhniilii, is inadequately cti dowed and dependent on the f"es paid by kttidciit". No professor lias jet resigned ns a protest nRuiii'-t the low pay of his assistants, as Dr. .1. Russell Hmltli, of our own unlversit, hits recently done. Hut there Is no telliuj; what may happen. I'ol lowiiiB Is what the (Stinrdian has to say tiudcr the title of "The University Crisis": TT IS so common and t-o bad a prnqtice to -preuch economy in ccneral and expenditure . on any particular tiling you tare about that one Is slow to propose any new or additional public cxpenditme whatever just non. It must be dcspeinlely needed in order to justify itself nt a time when our national solvency is in extreme danper. Still wc must at any rate Keep bare life and health, physical and mental, in the nation if we can, nud to do this we mits't deliver our uni versities from the state of scmistarvatinu in which the war lias left them. The dilli culty, of course, is. most severe in the joiuiBcr nml less richly endowed universities, like our own in Manchester, and a statement which wc published a few dajs ago shows how great the need is. 1 To a prcrit etent these universities de pended for their pie-war income upon fees, mid the greater part of these fees vanished with the students, actual or possible, who went to the war. Of course this somen of income will rcivc. but it wns never adeqtiutc in itself nnd, while the supply has been cut off for j ears, a hirge proportion of pre war expenses hae rim on. Some, such ns tuxes, have increased. MOST of th at all tin the able-bodied junior teachers lie universities became officers early iu the wnr. and the senior members of teaching staffs have pretty generally- been overworked ever since on n combination of their ordinary duties with various kinds of special war work And now all the sur vUors, whatever they have done since the summer of 11114, lind their icnl incomes cut dowu by n good half. That is to srty. when jou take into account the increase in tax ation and also the increase in nil the cx penscH of living, a professor or assistant now receives in return for his labor not more than half the purchasing power which his appointment brought to him before the war. UNIVERSITY teachers were never well paid. It has always been the regular thing for the most famous and distinguished professors to earn less thnn the head master of any well-known public school. During the war ninny teachers in our universities , have earned higher pay as temporary 'officers than they ever got in their professional lives. A wartime munition worker who only made as much money as many university lecturers and demonstrators do would have thought himself extremely ill-used. In sci ence especially a capable teacher who sticks to university teaching must often be n re markably disinterested man, so great is the contrast between the money rewards of teaching nud those of the industrial appli cation of ndvnnced scientific knowledge. That was the state of things even before the war. The war has made it much worse. While almost every skilled or unskilled workman has received considerable increases of wnge3 or war bonuses to meet the in creased cost of living, the university teach er's fixed income has been unchanged at the best. At the worst it has partly dis appeared with students' fees. In either case more and moie of it has been taken directly; in taxes. And no incidental com pensation has come in the form of Indirect 'profiteering. The deluge of borrowed money uitk which the spending departments of the state have saturated so much thirsty soil and more lightly irrigated so much more has never splashed a university. OVERWORKED, underpaid, the teaching ttnffs of univeisities arc now about to be asked to do more work than ever they did. liy a wise increase of its expenditure on school education the government has very rightly made it certain that the demand for university education will be much increased. It was quite time. War, like peace, has shown that educa tion is the most practical thing in the world, and that you can no more fight your enemy successfully with the untrained brain than you can bend the forces of nature to jour will. One of the most admirable and invaluable new types prominent in the war was to be found among those temporary officers of artillery and engineers whose edu cation' had been received in municipal ele mentary and secondary schools nnd In the science faculties of the new universities. Many of them brought to their emergency business of war a most impressive combina tion of the acquired scientific habit of mind with the plain Englishman's habit of judging everything in the light of practice. A university training had turned the raw material of good privates into inestimably useful officers. And, now that the war is over' and a changed industrial world has begun, in which labor will exact so 'full a share of 'the proceeds of industry that any cmploj-cr failing to keep in the van of prog ress in mechanical equipment and scientific organization will be at a hopeless disad vantage, the necessity of the highest train ing for the leaders of industry is certain to be more urgent than ever. SO IT is not a time at which the nation can afford to depend upon sweated lsbor in universities. If no improvement is made there must soon begin a steady drift of tho best brains away from university teaching to occupations in which it is easier to gain a living. On that there would follow a steady decline in the quality of the teach ing and a corresponding lapse of English men and women generally toward mental provincialism and loss of caste among other nations. For the universities of a country act as the water towers of its general in tclligencc, which, like water, will not rise higher than its source. When our child is well taught at school or tho taps flow as they should in our bathroom jt is only De cause people who came before us had the sense nnd spirit to make proper waterworks and universities, and it would be a shame to us if wo served the next generation worse. They're Doing It Now that the Monroe Doctrine amend ment to the league covenant has been adopted, the way is wide open, for erstwhile members of the opposition to make a swift rush for th's league bandwogon, Charles. Ion Kcwj and Courier. A'1 J.J-S '. !'.' .WMi-'. '. W'".r jf ... iTttr .j" ,!. -" -'".-''ir '" -r ..-'".its." '" '".V... .. &$&'$&$ ...' - - illl t 1-:i .- ,?&& irjt ' -T.Pj!- i' .IJ,. J - " im.-p'.--X .. JoWV ..". ..fi f&HK . A'.i hw yHi-'.KWWtr a4 - T ;-.-w...i.j; . .- - iV .'-r.ui GS-'-iff i . -- tiF -. ,,f i -" mil. . 1:1 un-n .isasi.h-t svt .r .. M .1 k .j ! - r: itj.t sit .J----.tr . .r . ." ' tSmfl 'it. rf Vfil XS iJ& THE CHAFFING DISH AMONG the streets that will oversub scribe it arc the following: Venango Ionic Chestnut Tulip Onturio RWjfc , York JjOCUbl .' Qxtofd Arch Ninth Breeches of Promise Wc frequently learn by rending the ads that an extra pair of trousers doubles 'the life of a, suit. The same applies to an ctra pair of lawyers. Also, as the Siamese twins once remarked, an extra pair of trousers suits the life of a double. And the thing that doubles the life of a pair of trousers is our own patented safety match -head catcher. An Appropriate Misprint Mr. Keeling muBea for some time oxer his pictured food ships. When he spoke next T knew he had been, thinking of the politicians and bishops and journalltsts with whom he had recently been talking anil of all their schemes for a perfect Rus slaq policy. Piglouwyd-Ro. nB SHR SHRDSI "AVouldn't it be better," he pondered. New York Evening Post. To a Hero Tree In remembrance, friends did plant Thee, a saintly tribute tree, Spreading branch and leaf aslant, Souls departed lean to thee; Bring glad tidings to the ear, Hid their spirits linger near. Mute yet echo'st with rare pow'r; All the struggles our brave bore, Through tin impulse for the hour, Heaven-born, and o'er and o'er Waving leaf, shall waft their song Over Seas, the peals prolong. Grace and strength in thee unite To reflect the boldier's life, What he gave for freedom's right, And his steadfastness in strife; Thy unbending branch, kind tree, Tells the story of a man set free. Calm, upstanding yenr on year, Gazing nt the celestial door, Whence have entered xvithout fear, Our brave heroes of the war, Thoh-s a living monument, Who with death were well content. As thy moving shade lets fall Rnys of sunlight to the earth, Oft in memory we recall How tho warrior's grave gave birth, To the light of omen good Shining through earth's brotherhood. J. M. A. A neighboring wag, xvho has no idea how fast his jape is spreading, says that the favorite amusement for tourists this sum mer will be seeing America thirst. Independence Square Benches In April The benches in the park are worm, Just comfortably wide the slats are The loafer finds they fit his form, And thinks how happy dogs snd cats are. The benches in, the park are warm, And so the loafer's noonday glee is To feel them underprop his form; They're curved abaft the same as he is ! Benches are cool along the slits, But still he sits and sits nnd sits. About this time of year Atlantic City leek ons its population largely by ankles. It's worth going down to Christian street to see Little' Italy's Easter display of pastry and confectlonerr.x ,5fpst Jnterestins 3JJl?!!Sil5!Wf" 'V.. ft "VrV-"'' yxi) n WHICH SHOULD HOLD HIM FOR I." . "'.-r . "j C- Zr ,II'r-r ,.-;,.- ,SJ J,r IX.. I JTT II- .TLJTXfl riST j;r".'; ..I1 , fit .!'ii j-T i''fH' '' ' &&' j' . M VfA v- 4K. -3srjte$tf .-." -IT j r- ---. la W7 '-.'!." Ill :,- r m. irrssii uiuun ik.ui. ... i' .--' t ;... r ;; . ai.i-i a. j- fMmm-j? tMzmiato. r 1" . r-i- .Jtricj."- sr .-. mi u vz. msiu. - - s S- s - xv 'us assess n mtsr SSSfKSS&Cu ft:"1- - . - . . - " . " SPBTtoS-S-X '"aai --- .'- ,-'" . , prs5Kl.'t!u.!;i,r!L-' .-'"-" ....'.- - : - . - : - KJ'V?. - . .". 1 ff.a ' . l. . .;. . . - ,...- -I'.M'.. "'.. ...T.li- (J t. " t,r""' '.:'' .?'... 7& !?" "-" tta-.-i'urj -i'-'- i.j- -:r;r- to us are ring-shaped loaves of bread with two eggs baked in one end of the circle and strewed with tiny bright-colored can dies. We don't know just how they are eaten, but they are very delightful to con template. Tho ministers who arc so horrified at the thought of Sunday movies on behalf of the Victory Loan never suggested that our men iu France should stop fighting on Sunday. We were curious to see just what ideas our twcnty-cight-month-old Urchin has about money. We showed hjm some pennies and nsked him xvhat they were, t "That's, money for the organ man," he said. Wc showed hira a nickel. "That's big money," he said, and then added, "That's Hcsslo's money," Hessie being the delightful person xvho honors our kitchen. Then wc showed him a 51 bill. There was no doubt at all in his mind as to where that belonged. "Mother's dollar," he said. Chaffing Dish Children Steve Meader has a thrce-wecks-old daughter and we are holding space in this column from day to day for Steve's first poem about her. It is understood that when any members of tho Chaffing Dish's official family are visited by the stork, the Dish is exclusive mandatory of any resulting literature. Man's Inhumanity to Man "I have not held any public or political office, always xvorking for n living." From a letter to the New York Evening Post. ' About this time a good many up-state trout aro wishing they had avoided en tangling alliances. Desk Mottoes At first one is surprised that stupid peo ple should have within them such an as sertive, convincing intonation. But it is as it should be. Otherwise no 'one would listen to them. Journal of Leo Tolstoi. The New York Tribune says that many public school children in that city "quote Karl Marx as glibly as the normal child speaks of the Swiss Family Robinson or Little Women." Wc fear that the Tribune, does the normal child too much honor. Most of the normal children we collide with are not glib upon any topic save the Katzenjammcr Kids and Buster Brown. We called on Mr. .T. L. Smith, the well known map publisher at 27 South Sixth street, and during the course of a chat we pulled out our pipe and began to light up. This reminded him of the Civil Wnr, as he remembers a friend of his who lit his 'briar as he entered the fighting at, Gettysburg. Mr. Smith showed us the little gold compass ho himself carried through three years of the war. He found it fionting in a stream, buoyed up by a broad silk ribbon, and be lieves that some officer had lost it there. It was his constant companion through more than thirty battles, nnd he says jt saved his life many a tirao xvhen he was lost in the Virginia woods. Mr. Smith wrote a very interesting book about the Civil War which has brought many callers to his quaint shop on Sixth Btrect, General Longstrect among others. Ho believes that he is tho only prlyato soldier engaged in the Civil War who wrote a book about it. He. enlisted with the 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers as a boy of sixteen. Among ether entangling alliances we nominate tho oighteen-inch skirt hem. SOCRATES. ' He's Heard It Before Mr. Hohenzollern is soon to be arraigned before the bar of justice. In caso he. gets life the cry will be "Long live the ex kaiser!" Detroit Free Press. -", fc' 'it w fjr- 'if'' -j-i ', ' , 4i A WHILE "-m t '. vw m. o -"v6 - j "S ,. ' '"l-" p"t -,.:,. .....'T'jVtJ ".-fSTifr -.!T-"'iLr .ii'SWjASl'.iW ...ri- ,-.:..-.5, -- K:,-it..i-1& vxrr- r . r,.llKl-:'w.v.vC?e THE, BALMY SPRING COME, let us sing A song of spring, Of fragrant apple-bloom; Of birds and bees (I pause to sneeze, I left 'cm off too soon). O'er ev'ry cool And shady pool The drooping maples lean, And mirror'd true Each tender hue (I'm sure I need quinine). The blackbird now Sits swaying bough In ecstasy of song; A joyous thrush In yonder bush (Now I am going strong). The shepherds keep Their gra.zing sheep In many a quiet lane; , The frisky lamb, Its sober dam, The wether (sounds profane!) Come, let's forswear . Dull corking care ; Come, roam the sunny lea ; But first prepare My underwear And overshoes for me. -Charles C. Bryant, in the Hartford Courant. Wliat Do You Know? QUIZ What is the correct pronunciation of Sinn Fein? Who is Burgomaster Max? Distinguish between two famous con- temporary Churehills, the English and American. Give the author of "Our dissatisfaction '-vv 1 X j - 1 ,ir.rm ,ri.. . i" L t.i .- with" any other solution is the blazine'"l,,'iJ evidence of immortality." t fj. Name the present French high com mislsoner to tho United States. 6. Where Is the Great Pyramid? 7. What slang phrase has diametrically opposite meanings? 8. Give the origin of the term "boycott." 0. What is litotes? 0. What is the city hall called in French and Belgian cities? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. Castor oil 'is preferred for use in air plane engines because, unlike mineral oil, jt retains its normal consistency under the intense heat generated by a gsaoline motor operated at maximum speed. 2. The daylight-saving plan originated iu . England, a. Lord Robert Cecil is credited with having glv,en most help to the Ameri can peace delegates xvhen the league of nations covenant wns being formulated, 4. Napoleon Bonaparte's admirers called him the Colossus of the nineteenth cen j tury. C. Korea is sometimes called the Herinit Nation. 0, T, P. O'Connor, a member of Parlia ment from Liverpool, xvrites in British newspapers over the signature "T. P." 7. 'The country in which William Hohen zollern sought refuge, commonly called Holland, is' properly designated the Netherlands. 8. President Wilson was sixty, two years old last December. . Ttlsroell said "Success is the child of 0. audacity." ,' "V iJ 10, The, ancient Romans used concrete iu i their roods and brWf.es, r H "1 4 I ?l I A ' L 'if, 'JU n,v 'Lr . L JJi,"- o -.. e i. . f C.I 'i n-. .'-. LI v- -,,-v , .it' CO if ;u -.-' -1 . ill'v- Jiv t ,r"ir'3lv (- " ' i '.;'' J' '" . .t.T,.t- " .. H -v li. M'L .-.ilmBlHfc... ... - "K'lir' r .ALA a ., ' '
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