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WfJnnJ.y, April 16, 1919 DOUBT'S SANCTUARY 'WE ARE stin in doubt," " the representatives of the United States district attorneys office in this city yesterday, "about the course we shall pursue." The reference was, of course, to the great hot drought that is feaied, pre dicted, prophesied or anxiously awaited as something that may or will or will not be felt over the land on the first of July and afterward, even unto the latter end of time. , Doubt in this instance is everywhere. It -weighs upon the "wets" and "drys," those who do and those who do not. It is a major affliction in the scats of the mighty at Washington. Saints and sin- ncrs, good folk and bad, lawyers and ic formers, optimists and pessimists arc all doubting together. This doubt will clear away. But it will last longest in Philadelphia, so long as Mr. Kane administers the affairs of the federal district attorney's office. Indeed this city, because of Mr. Kane's genius for doubting, may yet prove to be an oasis in the future a place to which the thirsty may look not without hope. If the United States district attorney is half so doubtful, half so hesitant, after July 1 as he was in the days of the draft and in his dealing with dangerous aliens, then, .no matter what minds are made up elsewhere, it will still be possible to get a drink in Philadelphia. ' DOING MUCH WITH LITTLE rpHE resignation of Dr. J. Russell Smith ' - from the Wharton School of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania because of the inadequate salaries paid to his assistants recalls the resignation of Dean Roswell McCrea not quite three years ago. Doctor McCrea went to Columbia Uni versity, where a better salary was offered. Doctor Smith goes to Columbia, where adequate pay is promised to his staff of assistants. At about the time Doctor McCrea's resignation was announced Provost Smith began to urge the need of an en dowment of $20,000,000 for the Univer sity. He said that it would be impossi ble to hold its professors unless it had money enough to pay them salaries equal to those offered in other universities of the same grade. The war has delayed the campaign for the endowment. How do tho productive funds and in come of the university compare with those of other institutions? Pennsylvania, with 9000 students, has ,an endowment of $G,000,000 and an in- 1 come of $1,900,000. Harvard, with 6300 ,s students, has an endowment of $28,500,- toQO and an income of $3,000,000, and Columbia, with 18,000 students, including those in its summer schools, has $33,500,- 000 of productive funds and an income of $5,350,000. Cornell, which corresponds In its relation to tho state with the local university, has funds of $14,700,000 and an income of $3,225,000 to care for 7050 students. It is not necessary to quote any more figures to show how heavily handicapped the University is in its efforts to provide education for 9000 students with more than $1,000,000 smaller income than Harvard has for educating 6300 students. The wonder is that it keeps its teaching staff at all and that it is able to give the students an education equal to that which they can get anywhere else. It could not do this but for the sacrifices of a body of devoted men. How long will the men of large for tunes permit the University to continue this struggle? FREE ROADS IN PENNSYLVANIA BOUNTY authorities who inherit the responsibilities of the toll road com panies as the various highways are freed for general use often appear to forget that a toll road in good repair is some times more preferable than a free road which actually imnedes travel hwmuo nf H iy , long-neglected surface. z& In many parts of this and other states gs'theve are stretches cf roadway that were .permitted to -fall into virtual ruin when the. toll gates were abolished. The work f road maintenance on free highways is 'wore expensive than it is on toll roads iS"" r'fcecauso of the increased travel. Thus g$iWtfce county that jubilantly abolishes toll v!' systems assumes a considerable resDonsi- ?r!,iiiI1Itv wMfh if: offpn iq unnhTn nr unurill- vif"'' ::.::. : " f . x, inK io respeci. Bv. IP '),,. MtmmieolAMaiv t f r wt I i. .... Vi ew i.uwiJiiag,w4H.ia vi. 4fjuill VJUUIV . .Bounty have always set a .good example ' MX road maintenance, and now that they ,,kva agreed to free the toll roads in the luHier Perkiomen Valley, thev may be !r .endtd upon to keep their record clean. wt they are fortunate representatives D atf a 'rich community. :, V'difHeuUfes of' county road majn- or docs business over open highways. In many parts of New Jersey, for cx nmplo, tho lino between a progressive township and an unprogressivo ono is often marked by tho juncture of very bad and very good highways. All highways of importance will sooner or later be under state control. In tho meantime property owners in every community should realize that the luxury and convenience of good 'roads justify a tax rate adequato to continue or raise tho standard of maintenance set ly tho toll companies whose gates are disappearing everywhere. THE BOARD OF EDUCATION DOESN'T OWN THE SCHOOLS It Must Respect the Demands of the People, Whose Servant It Is, and Co-operate In a Survey TJHY all tfiis fuss about a school sur y vey? Doesn't tho Board of Public Education know nil about the merits and defects in the sy&tcm and wouldn't it correct the defects if it had the money? What is the use of spending from twenty-five to forty thousand dollars to find out what wo already know? These and similar questions are pass ing through the minds of many citizens just now. In certain quarters there is a disposition to regard the agitation for a survey as tho pernicious activity of a lot of faddists with nothing better to do than to mcddlp with things about which they know little or nothing. The Board of Public Education itself has seemed to regard a survey as un necessary and to involve a waste of money wMch might better be spent for some other purpose. There is no escaping this conclusion, for n year ago the boaid appointed a committee, with former Judge Dimner Beeber as chaiiman, to inquire into the advisability of a survey. This committee has made no report and, so far as is known, the other members of the board have not urged it to do anything. It is definitely known that certain influential members of the board have said in public that no survey could disclose anything which is not known already. A few men and women inclined to be lieve that those in authority know all that is to be known about their business are reading with impatience the criti cisms of the board for its inaction and indifference in this matter. They say that the successful men in charge of the administration of the school affairs can be trusted to look after them without any advice from outsiders. But the congress of presidents of busi ness and civic organizations does not take this view. It has called upon the board to borrow school funds up to $30,000 in anticipation of the tax levy in order that a survey may be begun at the earliest possible date. There must be something in the plan worth considering if the hard-headed business men not on the Board of Public Education think it worth while to borrow such a sum in order that a survey may be made. This in itself is a partial ex planation of the fufcs about the matter. There is a more complete explanation, however. The school accommodations are inade quate. The rate of pay to the teachers is lower than in other cities of the same class. The standards of instruction are below those in the best schools in the country. Children have to remain in school more years than in other cities to receive the same amount of education. The division of authority between the Board of Public Education and the super intendent of public instruction is not clearly defined. And there are many other defects of which we know in a gen eral way. Some of these can be icmovcd by an increase in the school budget through an increase in the tax rate. Others can be removed by a revision of the system of organization. But there is not any one man or any dozen men who can tell in detail today just what ought to be dono. X This can be discovered only by a com prehensive surey of the whole system. Now, a survey is a careful and thor ough examination of the business and teaching methods of the school system and a comparison of those methods with the methods in other cities. Surveys have been made in one hundred and sixty cities within the last few years. They provide a basis for comparison. There are standards which have been ascer tained by a study of educational proc esses by which the quality of the work done here may be measured. " We want as good schools as the money at hand can buy. In fact, we want as good schools as there are in the country. We do not know now how to get them. The mere appropriation of more monoy will not give them to us. A survey will show us what is lacking and ft will point the way to getting it. For example, who can tell whether the children in the fifth grade know as much about arithmetic and reading and gram mar and spelling as the children in the fifth grade in the Boston or the Cleve land or the St. Louis schools? Perhaps there may be a few school experts here who know, but the men who pay the taxps do not know. If -it should be shown to them that because of defective educa tional methods, or by the incapacity of certain teachers, the children have to be kept in school a year or two years longer than they should be kept in order to reach a certain stage in their education, the cost of this in dollars and cents can also be shown and the way to economies can be pointed out. This is only one thing that a survey would show. It would also disclose the relation of the superintendent of schools to the ap pointment of principals and the extent of interference in that purely educa tional function by the business adminis trative branch of the educational sys tem. It would disclose the comparative cost of textbooks and other supplies with that of other cities. It would exhibit the efficiency or tHe inefficiency of the jani tor service. It would reveal the naturo of the business transacted by the Board of Public Education at its .meetings. It WOtUa iHOw;,iae numucr oi pupna as t'"wttb BHBBBBBl SV ' KWBWPBaWlMUVWTOj - ' ' the maximum number which any teacher can instruct with profit to the children. Then when all this information was collated and set before tho public with an exhibit of the economics that could be made in certain ways and the money needed to bring the schools up to the proper standard of efficiency in other ways, we should know what we do not know now, and that is just how much money is needed to give us the kind of a school system which wc ought to have. There has never been a survey in any city which was not worth more than it cost. Cleveland spent $48,000 for such a thing two or three years ago and tho business men of the city are agreed that no sum of money was ever more prof itably expended for a public purpose. It is too late to belittle the value of a survey. It has been established beyond question. The demand for it does not necessarily involve hostile criticism of the Board of Education. And it will not involve that unless the members bf the board insist that they are so much wiser than the members of similar boards in other cities that a survey can show them nothing which they do not now know and point out no defects which they could not remove if they thought they were de fects or if they had the money. Wo do not think the members of the board as a whole arc going to assume this attitude permanently and subject themselves to this sort of criticism. And we do not think, cither, that when the board authorizes a survey it will make the mistake of selecting inex perienced or interested men to make it. There are experts available whose sole desire would be the ascertainment of the truth, and its impartial and fearless disclosure. Their knowledge is sufficient to enable them to point out the merits of the schools and the efficiencies of the administrative departments as well as the defects and the inefficiencies. The names of these men can be easily ascer tained when the board's committee makes its belated report recommending a survey. ' THE GREAT DELUSION OEVENTY policemen who, having worked all day, had every right to be tucked in bed at home or off having a restful time at the moyies, stood weary guard at the Academy of Music looking for Bolshevists while Madam Brcshkovs kaya, a conservative radical, told of the old revolutionist aims in Russia. One lone heckler in the gallery made one lone in terruption. There are a great many otherwise leval-headed people in this country who will look backward some time in the future and blush for the nervousness they displayed in the presence of a spook made out of paper and ink. For that is all that Bolshevism has been, is or can ever be in the United States. Detectives who went The Wrnnc Place, to arrest n trolley Surely nintorman whose car killed two small chil dren found thnir man closeted with the T. H. T. claim agent at Eighth and Daii phiti streets. This was after a social car had speeded the motorman to nn interview with his superiors. One may wonder whether the transit company has left to its claim agent the' problems which wc assume arc suggested to the administrative officials by the accident just reported those of safety for children, better rules for trolley opera tion in busy streets and precautionary meas ures likely to protect lives. The fact that there Of Course the isn't a single sheet of War Is to Blame unused parchment in the United States re vives interest in the old English "guilds" with their trade secrets handed down from Feneration to generation. Because nobody in the world, outside of a small group of English manufacturers, knows how to treat chemically a thin layer of sheepskin so as to turn it into parchment, thousands of college men and Women this year will have to con tent themselves with diplomas of linen. One is sometimes able. Just a to get a new appre- Mere Detail elation of the magni tude of the war by viewing it from a new angle. Such an nngle is found in the brief dispatch from Wash ington to the effect that the Inst of a fleet of eighteen mine-sweepers has sailed from Boston to Inverness. Scotland ; that they are going t.o remove 57,000 mines from the North Sea, and that the work will probably bo completed by October. There is instruction Bolshevist for cverjbody in "The Tlease Note Aims and Aspirations of the Koreans" as advanced at the congress being held in this city. "Wp believe in government which de rives its just power from the governed," reads the Hrst article; and the second gives it point: "We propose to have a govern ment modeled after that of America." It is on record that a The IToad to soldier wirelessed his Happiness bride from midocean to fill the pantry, as he was coming home. If that bride doesn't know that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach it is not because she failed to get a straight tip. At all events, timeB do not go dully by in Budapest. Query for July 1: Will Sober Second Thought ever develop a real liking for soft drinks? Times change. The American boy today who wishes to fight Indians will have to go to Argentina. Touns Warren Pershing will now pro ceed to take charge of events at American headquarters in Franre. Framers of the Gehring osteopath bill seem determined that the "regular practi tioners" shall "take their medicine," If a school "ut,vej" is initiated, Doctor Witmer will doubtless have a "look in." He has already given the system the "once over." There are ministers Who are opposed to Sunday baseball; ministers who favor Sunday baseball; and ministers who are in clined to look upon it as a necessary evil. The campaign beginning next Monday Is atmnlv ' 'aatffneH in ithnw that- TTr,nt u I needs the money. Once the populace is con- I 1 ..J l (kit' fjlAt (Iim. ...til L. . , " . n. " '. ' T"-- .jfl" Zte-i . trlW' CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S LETTER "Martyrdom" of' Debs Reminis cences of the Old Independence Square Elm Savannah as a Shipbuilding Center Washington, Xprll 1G; SOOIATi questions now stirring certain parts of the country are not new, as those who can rccnll the rise and fall of the Knights of Labor will rcadlbr attest. The expression "the world Is upsltjo down" Is as frequently heard nt the .capital as else where, but uprisings like those at Seattle and Toledo, with an occasional revolution ary outburst like the bombing of the homes of certain Philadelphia officials, como and go. What tho Federation of Labor uuder Mr. Gompcrs is today the Knights ot Labor once was under Mr. Powderly, except that labor organizations seem to be more firmly intrenched now, partly because of war con ditions. The 'conviction of Eugene V. Debs for a violation of the espionage law Is one of those disturbing social conditions that should be dealt with wisely. That Debs has n following no cautious admin istrator will deny. For the present neither ho nor the Socialists, with whom Victor Bcrgcr, elected a congressman by the peo ple of Milwaukee, may be classed, appears to have tho indorsement of Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, or tho head of the Department of Labor, Secretary Wilson, who was himself a leader ot the United Mino Workers. But the punishment of Bcrgcr and Debs, con cerning which meetings of protest are being held, in various parts of the country, invites attention to the celebrated contempt case in which Samuel Gompers himself and other officers of the American Federation of Labor nt one time figured in the courts of the Dis trict ot Columbia. At that time Gompers virtually challenged the authority of the court. He made speeches and wrote edi torials defying it to do its worst. He wns sentenced to imprisonment, but fought tho court proceedings and was never punished. On the other hand. Justice Wright, who im posed the "sentence, contending Jhat the dig nity of the courts should be preserved even against the leading labor leader of his time, was made the victim of impeachment pro ceedings and finally driven from the bench. The outcome of the Gompers contempt case is extremely interesting when considered in connection with the ngitation over Debs and Berger. It threatened martyrdom, and there arc those who believe that unless Presi dent Wilson intervenes in the cases of Debs and Berger the same cry may be raised when the heavy sentences imposed upou these men arc enforced. rpHEUB are two bright young colored men - who saw service in Franre who have be come attached to the life and would like to continue in the nrmy. One of them, First Lieutenant Everett W. Johnson, is a son of W. T. M. Johnson, of Tanker street near Twenty-first, who is active iu Sunday school work in Philadelphia and who for a time, was attached to the Congressional Library in Washington. The other is Sec ond Lieutenant Walter E. Parker. While the AVar Department announces that no final examinations are being given at this time for officers' appointments in the regu lar army, it also nnnounces through the adjutant general that all emergency officers have an opportunity of making formal ap plication for future examinations, and it is understood the young men will take nd vafttage of this opportunity. So many men are trying to get out of the service just now that applications for continuance arc worth noting. TT IS a little hard on parents who have given up all their bo.is for war service that not even one of them may be sent home to comfort the folks. The Itcv. B. C. Mont gomery, of Lawnton nteniie, jielded three bojs to the service, two of whom are now in France. The youugest boy is at the army base in Norfolk. The War Department says that it is doing the best it can to re lease soldiers under such circumstances as have just been described, but it frequently happens that the boy who is an exception ally useiui souner is retained for the ac commodation ot the officers when others not so capable nre permitted to return to their work. This practice has militated against certain boys who have good jobs aw'aiting them at home. fTIHE ancient elm that topplcTI over on the Sixth street side of Independence Square during the leccnt storm shaded d number of Philadelphia congressmen in its time. Richard Vaux, who disdained to wear an overcoat and was a pedestrian from choice, frequently passed ulong the east side of Sixth street under the shade of the old elm on his way to and from his downtown office. Samuel J. Randall, once speaker of the House, used to pass under that old tree on his way to the Covington & Winkler oyster house, nt Sixth and Sansom streets. Former Congressman Henry M. Philllpstliad an office directly opposite the tree, and so had George S. Graham, who is now in Con gress. The office of Reuben O. Moon, who was linked up in the earlier days with George W. Arundel, was just n little south of where the tree stood. And the office of tho elder Alexander Simpson, whose son is now upon the Supreme beuch of Pennsylvania, was under the shade of the spreading branches. If that old tree could have told its story of past generations it would have been worth printing in the Saturday Eve ning Post, which is now housed on the site of the most interesting group of law offices ever thrown together in one city block. "PHILADELPHIA is strong on shipbuild- ing and has a splendid record for early construction work, but the city ot Savannah is now coming along to claim some of the honors. Savannah never boasted much of construction, but as a transatlantic port it figured big prior to the Civil War, and due to improvements in the Savannah river in recent years has proved to be one of the most active of the southern ports. Philadelphinns who attended the Savan nah waterways convention a few years ago will remember Mayor Pierpont and Major William Wayne Williamson, chairman of (he finance committee of Councils, who as sisted in entertAlning. They will also re call references in some of the Savannah speeches to the approaching celebration of the 100th anniversary of the voyage from Savannah of the first steamship to cross the ocean. The name of this vessel was the Savannah. The anniversary of this voyage occurs April 21 and in connection with the exercises is to be unveiled a tablet to the John Randolph, the first Iron vessel seen in American waters, which was launched at Savannah in 1831. The master of the Sav&nnah on her initial voyage was a rela tive of Mayor Ernest E. Rogers, of New London, Conn. That expedition was made when New. England and the South were working together on harmonious terms. It appears that the steamship was financed by Savannah people and that the officers and crew came from Connecticut. There is every reason to believe that tho neds will fire the world If (he world does not first fire the Reds. The patter of (be standfDattsr.seeBw tn " VMlrro w'ejd down' to lorahfsM.Pt. HVlllilii n i 1 h r r "i iTiBiiilMTiri i "i ".WHAT'S .WRONG NOW; DI1 SOMEBODY MISTAKE YOU FOR A At. PATRIOT?" ' j .'. j THE CHAFFING DISH Easter Styles In Frontiers (Ity Our International Fashion Expert) "plRENCH Btylcs in frontiers this spring will be tailored on fuller lines, with a wide tricolor sash nlong the Rhine. rpHE German sles, nn contraire, will be - designed for n more slender figure, se verely tailored and close-fitting, with a cer tain .tightness around the hips. On-the western side a straight-front effect is indi cated by the leading modistes in I'nris; while, in the cast some jolly little red ruchings and embroidered bolshevik insertions will be de cidedly n la mode. "All the materials used in our new frontiers have been carefully shrunk," says Mine. Ebert. THE mode in Austro-Hungarinn frontiers is still uncertain! but the fabric prevail ing seems to be crash. "The new lines make us smart," snys one leader of fashion in Vienna. "The general effect is stunning," remarks another. IT IS still premature to predict the Rus sian modes with any authority, but the advance models shown by mannequins Leuinc and Trotzky have been liberally trimmed with squirrel. A very low bust is predicted, with a liberal use of crepe. Tho traditional lines have been entirely discarded, but the leading designers arc said to believe that the figure can be supported by heavy boning. Along the Polish front the seams aro rique sewn, with startling panels of bright red. The effects, done with flaring sacquo lines and in worsted fabrics, are said to be very striking. ALONG the Adriatic the leading design ers arc still keeping their innovations secret, but th generally accepted feeling is that lines will be cut o'n the bias, and per haps braided or upbraided. There is still a wide variety of styles here to choose from. The Slav modistes are said to believe In clastic insertions to give expansion to a growing figure, whereas the Italian coti touriers are strong for hemstitching and tucks. IN OUR long experience we have never seen so varied an assortment of modes to choose from. Among tho jounger set, such as the Poles, Jugo-Slavs, Lithuanians and Finns, some very engaging novelty effects have been observed. Suburbs Where It Will Be Oversub scribed Valley Forge Ivyland fjhclten Hills Trcvose Osontz Radnor Yardley Jjansdowne Overbrook Ardoiore Neshamlny Senator Borah Outdone A Tolish newspaper published at Detroit expresses its grief at tho President's pro gram in the following words: rozbudzllo sle werod wamen? Itlch grupek narodowosclowych nlepocho mowane zdrwym rozsadketm dazenle do tworzenla calego mnostwa oddzlelmych mlkrosUoplJnyeh panstwek." The Lithua nian Ilevlew. We read that the supply of sheepskins for academic diplomas is totally exhausted, and a manufacturer asserts that "there isn't a single sheet ot. unused parchment in the United States." Hut timv nhout that ffltnniiN uniiBfrl 1!f- ni the U. ot P, was going to give Mr.Pen xieli aB0twM-),r ,'t t, . . T lii. -..-.";. it'M vur L. son mrMr ir,ni I . ,,. .., 4 I t- 1 German peace envoys will do when they get to Versailles will be to try to borrow some tobacco. Tho other day we heard a man on a street-cur speak of Frank Woolworth as "a lucky guy." Not so lucky as jou might think. He didn't live long enough to subsciihe to the Victory Loan. Desk Mottoes "The game is more than the plajer of the game,, And the ship is more than the crew. RUDYARD KIPLING. It will be haul to get up any great indig nation among schoolboys because the Bul garians stole the statue of Ovid from Con stnnza in Rumania. That gay poet has given many youngsters a tough hour-iu their teens. The male sex undergoes a pretty heavy barrage from the tailors' ads about this time qf year. But cheer up, brothers, wc have only -to worry about one layer of clothes, Ovhercas our betters worry ubout them all tho way in. Why is it that the men's tailor tells his prospective customers, "This suit will give you the best value for jour money," whereas all the Indies' tailors find it necessary to say is, "This is just the (luckiest, most ador able little bit of an ndventurous modishncss you ever saw?" Henry Ford says he is going to make a gasoline trolley car that will really get people to the office on time. If. Henry really makes rapid transit a fact, what will newspaper colyumists do when they need a wheeze? We aro wondering bow soon the Anti Saloon League will get after the ladies fashion ads that keep on using the word taupe? April Is Passing By T SAW the smile of April flush down the - dim wood way, Its glimmering sheen the boles between, And its iris light on the tender green Where wind-sweet grasses sway; Her Btep I heard on-faring to awaken the runlet's rune, As by budding hedge, through whispering sedge, Where the brown reeds rock on the pool's green edge, She passed in elfin shoon. IN THE gray gloam, in wide spaces, dim coverts, flower-fraught, When' the thin wrack flics down gusty skies, And tho sunset flames and fades and dies, Her miracles are wrought. At dawn dowu sun-splushed alleys where silver beeches shine, Setting leaves n-stir, soft wings a-whirr, A quickening call is the voice of her To tree and Howcrsand vine. BEND low where dryad bluebells their fairy music ring, Where thc violet peeps from ambushed deeps, And tho wind flower waits for the kiss that keeps Its tlmo of awakening; Past budding hedge, through whispering sedge, Where the blown reeds roek on the gold pool's edge, A smile, a tear, and a winnowed sigh, - April is passing by. JEANNE OLDFIELD POTTER. Vrnhnhlr the oulv thlnn thnf .IaIa. 41... ilrmcn in Newfoundland from starting on 'tneir irunsm'umii: uigni. is me luought ot the poems that will be Written about thcra. We solemnly promise not to admit any verses on this subject to our columns unless they are at least 00 per cent noetr7, . I-.Tjlt welljknown public person, Milady ALL SUNG- WHAT shall I sing when all is sung, And every tale is told, And in the world is nothing young That was not long since old? Why should I fret unwilling ca'rs With old things sung anew x While voices from tho old dead years s Still go on singing, too? A dead man singing of his maid Makes all my rhj mes in vain ; Yet his poor lips must fade and fade, And mine shall kiss again. Why should I strive through many moons To make my music true? Only the dead men knew the tunes The live world dances to. 4- Richard Le Gallienns. -What Do You Knoiv? QUIZ 1. What city has been selected as the seat of tho league of nations? 2. Who is Paul Hymans? 3. How many lieutenant generals arc there at present in the military establishment of the United States? 4. Where and what i3 the Golden Horn? 5. Who was the secretary of stnte at thi time of the formulation of the Monroe Doctrine? G. What nre Johnny cakes? 7. What is the principal cereal tho New World has contributed to civilization? S. By what nickname is New York known? 0. Who said, "I would rather be right thattt. President" Z 10. How many Liberty Loans have theri been and what is the sum set for the final one? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. Sinn Fein is pronounced "shin fayne." 2. Burgomaster Jlax is the municipal head of Brussels. He was imprisoned by the Germans in 1014. He recently of fered the Peace Conference possession of the Egmont Palace, Brussels, for nermnnent hcadauarters of the league of nations. '! 3. Winston Spencer Churchill is an Eng- lisli statesman, now a member of the cabinet. Winston Churchill is a noted American novelist, and was a leader in the Progressive party movement. 4. Emerson wrote "Our dissatisfaction with any other solution is the blazing evidence of immortality." y 1 0. Edouard do Billy (pronounced approxi- ' mately, Uce-yc) is the present French ' A High Commissioner to the United -States. . '' 0. The Great Pyramid is at Ghizch, Egypt. , ,.? 7. "In right" is'the slang phrase which has J opposite meanings, according to the '. accent. AeccntcJ on the first word it !i means confidence ot an assured status; , accented on the second, by a sorLjlf , ' humorous litotes, it is a quizzical ad- ' mission of the contrary meaning. 8. "Boycott" is derived from Captain Boy- cott, the agent of a rackrentlng land lord in the seventies- By Instructions r of tho Irish Land League of that day J?, all members were directed to ignore '"' v him absolutely, and a(ter vainly com bating tho ostracism he finally left the country. , J- 0., Litotes: a figure of speech which states 3tl an uuiriuuuvc uy ueuyiog tue oppositer,.'I Thus: "A citizen ot no mean city," r(" really means "a citizen of an illui- a, trious city." tJ" 10. The tewivor city hall in' French sr il . 38SiBi.. ,. .' t At.t
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