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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?
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TACKLING A HARD JOB
rnHE men who are nlanninrr an inter-
if '!' national labor bureau ss an annex to
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-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
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'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
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.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.
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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.
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"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
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dies. We don't know just how they are
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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.
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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
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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
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