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NEW JERSEY BEATS US TO IT
'GOVERNOR KDGE, of New .k-i-spy,
has signed the mitiinuim wage hill
for teachers, which provides that no
teacher within the state shall receive less
than seventy dollais a month dtirmp: the
period when he or she is employed. With
a school year of nine months, this will
give a minimum of six hundred and
thirty dollars a year to every teacher.
The rural schools will he the chief
beneficiaries, for they will net hotter
paid teachers than in the past. But ulti
mately all the schools will benefit, for
.when a state has started in the direction
of a fair amount of pay for a fair
amount of work it cannot stop or turn
back.
New Jersey acts, but Pennsylvania
Eccms to hesitate.
TEMPEST IN A COCKTAIL GLASS
1 ipHE annual flurry about the legality of
& ,JL- dancing: where liquor is sold is
JlOW on.
The season of halls at the fashionable
V'liiuiei?' is uiawjiiK 10 a close aim iriiccioi
I IWilson, of the Department of Public
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KSp Bafety, has just announced that he must
fe1 enlprcc the rulinp; which prohibits danc
ing vjn any building in which there is a
bar for the sale of liquor.
The rulinp; was made in order to make
it possible for the police to close dis
reputable dance halls attached to low
Wa- aalnnnc Ruf ife tnrmc 'i trnnninl c
Ki""") seems impossible to discriminate
$& amonp; classes of liquor-selling establibii-
Wjr r'inents.
SF'') If one were so inclined one could write
Rf A'fc burninp; Bolshevik homily on this con-
muon, dui it is not worm wnue. i no
sale of liquor is to end in a short time
and the whole thine; seems much like a
tempest in a vanishing; cocktail glass.
A NEW KIND OF SALOON
TTNLESS the people seeking; to find a
' -' substitute for the saloon make haste
the' brewers may get there first.
The ice-cream saloon may take the
place of the saloon where beer is sold.
In some parts of the country the brewers
have already turned from making beer
into making ice cream. What has hap
pened is described by .lames H. Collins
in the current number of the Saturday
Evening Post. Mr. Collins tells of a
brewer in an eastern "dry" city who had
made Ro.000 barrels of beer annually,
which he sold for about .$400,0(10. lie
turned his breweiy into an ice-cream
factory and turned out 800,000 gallons,
.which he sold for $1,000,000.
It has been the history of the moe-ipss
?V- 4 tnc "dry" movement that when the
sale ot alcoholic drinks ceased the sale
of ice cream and other sweets increased.
ih the city in question the per capita
consumption of beer had been about
eiirht-tenths of a barrpl v.-jir WitV,
S prohibition the per capita consumption
'tof ice cream rose to thirty-two quarts a
Wd year
ius' Now. when the breweis. with their
Kt0", knowledge of chemical processes and
their training in absolute cleanliness,
a no;"' " mic in- iii-ain anu to provide
l places in which it is sold under agree-
5& able .conditions, it is possible that the
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&"C place may be discovered. At any rate,
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.ts" oMuovivwt ,,111 ajji-ii wiiun me men
who attempt to provide something that
bb,, iine people icaiij want, succeed in nnu-
r ine it.
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A HOUSING SUGGESTION
Hf 'irNE of the most practical suggestions
LJf-y V. .-!. I.. t 1! ...
mss l J" mime lur relieving tne housing
eftv kV-
situation is that of Mr. Ihlder. executive
K't Secretary of the Philadelphia Housing
JJ4- ' fvssociauon.
l& . It is that a company of public-snirited
1 1 'fcapUalists be organized to build modest-
t.'.Sr.r it'll! 1 -l 11.. i.i..
EJ'f, icuai.. jiuuaea lui iciu. :ir. miner I1XCS
KgMl.0,000 houses as the minimum number to
KWjT6' ercted nd he estimates the cost of
fL' There is an undoubted need for that
ffcumber of houses of that character. The
r'.'feltormal. increase of population in peace
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Mies has been provided for by the erec
,ijn; each year of from C000 to 7000 new
r Wwses. In 116, 77C2 were built. This
'-4.frHtbcr fell to 2700 in 1D17 and in 1918
amounted to only 9G9, put up by pri-i-Ste.
builders and 2685 bv the govern-
Lu'tiivant; for war workers, making a total
ftwHy the year of 3654, or a total for the
b.veara of 6354. If there had been no
'iSjiormal increase in population it would
lve required 15,424 houses on the basis
ifcftthe 1910 building record to meet the
wiands of the city. The actual number
cted was 9070 below this. But there
'been an. unprecedented increase in
iliiition and an unprecedented demand
'Wuges,
Sur6 juatLfy Mr. imi, .-.r.n.
mato of the minrmum number needed at
the present time. There are vacant
houses, it is true. Some of them arc not
for rent, but are offered to purchasers.
Others which may fye rented cannot be
had for less than fiom $75 to $150 a
month. There are vacant apartments
also, u few of them. Hut the landlords
nre asking $150 a month for three rooms
and a kitchenette in downtown build
ings. Such houses and such apartments
are beyond the means of the miyi earn
ing from $30 to $50 a week. He must
live in a house for which he pays from
S.'iO to $5(1 a month rent and just now it
is virtually impossible to find such
houses vacant.
The merit in Mr. lhlder's suggestion
lies in the fact that it would provide
houses built without anticipation of the
speculative profit for which the ordinary
building opeiator hopes. Similar hous
ing corporations exist in other cities
and they earn a fair return on the money
invested, while at the same time provid
ing shelter for families of moderate in
come at a price within their means.
PARIS AND GOOD FRIDAY
AND A VOICE FROM AFAR
Easter Week and Its Ancient Promise
Sharpen the Attention That the
World Has Turned on the
Peace Conference
"Ami In, I 11 in irith jinn iilinij,
rrrn initn tin rml 11 the ivoi'UI.'"
TX THE wai that has just passed the
- world miw pity armed with a sword
and compassion terrible in aimor and
millions of young men following in a
quest through blood and flame. Yet
grieved voices 1 ise eveiy now and then
to say that the moral principle tians
lnted in Christianity has failed.
It hasn't failed. It rings in all the
rational cnticism that storms fiom the
four qtiaiters of the earth upon the
Paris confeience. It is a fear at the
hearts of all men who, in this crisis, aie
yet unwilling to befriend humanity. It
watches with countless eyes. Wherever
there are fearless men who think of
others first and in teims of the future as
well as in terms of the present, there
.lie the ambassadois of the eternal and
simple truth uttered in Galilee by the
Loneliest of Men.
There is a suggestion of cosmic drama
in the fact that the leaders and pioneers
of civilization are reaching the end of
their tasks in Easter Week, 111 a season
that always has symnolized light after
darkness, hope after despair, victory
after great loss. Certainly at this phase
of the business a dim cry must reach
them from the far times a cry charged
with all the wisdom that the world can
know. The cause of right may be over
whelmed again. It remains to he seen.
Justice, patience and charity these
guiding principles, anciently proved,
have too often been left like discarded,
gaiments to the humble and the obscure.
The leaders of nations have been deluded
with a belief that speb virtues were im
practical. And Europe flamed in conse
quence. Nowhere in old woild politics was
there evidence of a belief that the merci
ful are blessed. Hut it is the merciless
who are now in the gieatest peril and
the gieatest agony every wheie.
In the end of every great human ad
venture the lule of life proposed nine
teen hundied years ago by a Man who
was crucified for it remains as the one
surviving light in daikness like a "city
set upon a hill." It cannot be bid
All the makeshifts and evasions
plotted in its stead have been futile. In
herited frauds and schemes and beliefs
have been enthroned, elevated, venerated,
walled about with armies and blessed by
bishops, and one by one they have gone
down to the dust carrying peoples to tor
ment. All the spoils that captains and kings
have won by the violation of the simple
principles of conduct given for human
guidance at the beginning have become
a burden in these days of reckoning a
danger from without or an agency of
corruption within the nations that hold
them.
Nothing of it all has the aspect of
permanency or strength. Very properly
one might legard the Paris conference as
the end of an adventure in cynicism that
has been two thousand years long. Will
that adventuie be resumed in the old
fashion with the old belief that there is
an end to the rainbow?
If it is, and if the world must face a
lenewal of the anguish through which it
has passed, it will be because a Voice
that was wise with all experience could
not make itself heard thiough the men
appointed by destiny to titter it.
It was an Oriental who first said that
truth lies at the bottom of every man's
heart. The hearts or men have been
plowed deep. Before long we shall know
whether the wounds were tleep enough
to permit men to see to the bottom.
If the Paris conference fails in this
season of fulfillment it will be because
humanity has not been hurt enough. For
the leaders of nations are not unlike
their people. Kings aie in exile and
they have faced firing squads, and states
men have felt the structures of govern
ment sway beneath them because they
shared the ignorance and the weaknesses
of those they ruled or led. They have
been learning what they should have
known at the beginning-that the law of
compensation is inexorable. It never
fails.
All the political philosophy of Europe
maintained the belief that crimes of
cruelty, of injustice, of oppression and
greed might be committed by adroit men
without fear. The confusion in half a
dozen nations merely shows that the men
who have been making history are face
to face with the necessity of an account
ing at the end of their road.
It is, fashionable to be cynical about
the Peace Conference. There are few
men who haven't at some time called the
diplomatists gathered there a gang of
thieves. Yet it is a question whether
the leaders of the Peace Conference are
not far more earnest in their efforts to
be just than the men who sit safely at
home without their responsibilities and
criticize their, morals while they them
selves, in their own little way, go head
long on the course that leads inevitably
to bitter retribution and regret.
These arc days when men seem to fear
the truth as if it were a pestilence
though It is the only thing that can save
them and their world. Truth is a chal
lenge to the Paris conference. It will
always lie a challenge to all men. The
truth always reasserts itself. It will
always find men ready to suffer for it.
It demands justice, patience and charity
in all human relations. And until it is
recognized everywhere we shall ljave to
go on as we have gone before, and the
most awful of wars will be but a flash
and an uproar in the long travail that
men must endure before they can lid
themselves of their besetting devils.
And so all rational minds everywhere
are merely trying to find a way to lead
mankind back to a forgotten rule of life
that might have given the earth peace
long ago if there had not been men of
power everywhere so poorly educated as
to feel that it could be evaded.
Truth which is a sense of justice
speaks in many languages. It has many
name. It has martyrs and ehampions
among the great and among the obscure.
It always will have them because of the
command handed' down thiough the cen
turies by one Man. Men will go on as
they have gone from the beginning, to
follow and find it because it is the goal of
their existence. And if they were not
somehow divine they would' have given
up the quest long ago because of its diffi
culties and its matchless pain.
Whoever you find the passion for
spiritual truth translated into action,
transcending fear and selfishness and
delusions, fired by courage, showing un
mistakably the clear evidences of im
mortality and riding down all that is
mean ami ugly and evil, you will find the
full meaning of the marvelous sentence:
"1 am the resurrection and the life!"
RECOGNITION FOR LENINE?
SUCH intercourse as the Allies may es
tablish with l.enine cannot by any
means be interpreted as a recognition of
Bolshevism. '1 he Paris conference ap
pears to be disposed, to grant a request
for food which emanates from the
chastened and partly sobered wing of the
ultra-radical paity in Russia.
Lenine and Trotsky have been drifting
apart. The theories of one aie not the
theories of the other. Lenine has been
gradually effecting a reconciliation with
elements in his own country which a
year ago be abused and derided. He
found he couldn't get along without the
intelligence and industrial leadership of
the group which he antagonized at the
beginning and he has been tending grad
ually to a conservative course to save
the land fiom chaos and himself from
destiuction.
Apostles of the led tie and violence
will find little to comfort them in such
terms as the Allies may make Lenine.
The Russian group that has been
piessing its overtures upon Paris does
not represent the raw and unthinkable
political doctrine of a year ago. Lenine's
group, after the first fever of their ex
periment, have seen disaster looming.
They have been shifting gradually to a
way of thinking that ultimately may
lesolve itself into an experiment with a
liberal socialistic form of government.
Russia is due for years of instability
and trouble. To refuse food to the peo
ple is to invite chaos in eastern Europe.
And if the Allies have had to compro
mise in a distasteful situation it is their
own fault. There seems to be no other
way to save the Allied expedition now
menaced in north Russia, where it never
should have been sent.
Tim proper roniling appears to be Fiuss
and Finnic'.
Helsolniid N I" liinlcrgn a sliidit rair-i-nngi-inviit
"f stlliibli"..
Two slates ihcirimI into a slate of en-tliii-iiivm
l diniriil Wilson arrived.
Tlieie will 1' no cull for limit It -killers
at the i-.ieial center Milislilule for saloon".
It is a mi-take to .uppn. that a dachs
hund i't willing l bid1 simply because it
has its tail between its legx.
lioml citizens everywhere will join in (lie
wish that tin1 armistice signed liy New York
murine workers will result in a permanent
pence.
When one realizes Unit it is easier to
make trouble than to remove it one ceases
In worry nicr the delnj in foriniilaling a
pence treat.
The airplane race across the Atlantic is
a siortitiK event until the trip lias been suc
cessfully ninth1.. That moment it becomes a
i-iiiiiiniTciiil proposition.
Tlieie an1 cleri, men in (his cily who
will not allow the million picture contro
versy to stultify 1 heir patriotism and will
tliercfoie support the Victory Liberty I.naif;
but they are not uiakiiiK'mucli noise about It.
Kecent meetinss of business men inter
ested ui making Philadelphia safe for democ
racy suggest the thought that the time is
now' ripe for the establishment of a get-Ninvtliiug-done
club in eiery ward in the
cit .
World doctors, concluding that it is
impossible successfully to diagnose tin. case
of Russia, as they hnvejiothing to go on
but a comparatively few isolated symptoms,
liuve decided to allow the disease to run its
course, frVling assured that the strong
physique of the patient will bring about
eventual recovery.
The report that a big railroad and tim
ber concession has been made by the Rus
sian Itolsli'evlk (ioveinment to two ineti with
Ameiicun capital behind them gives point to
the assertiou of Lloyd (ieorge that, while the
Bolshevik force is apparently growing, Ho.
slieviMii itself is gradually waning breaking
down before the relentless force of economic
facts.
Strikes and rumors of strikes have more
significance today than ever before fn the
history of civilization. The one thing needed,
on both sideH of every controversy is level
liendcdiiess. Even as the dachsliuiuls ale
ready to simp at the legs of the sitters nt'
the peace table, so arp'the Holsheviks ready
to take advantage of every manifestation of
iaduatrlaluurcbt.
A GREATER FLIGHT THAN
ACROSS THE OCEAN
An Old Tale of a Man Who Flew to
the Moon, and What He
Found There
rplIE flight across the ocean which the alr---
men are now planning is not n marker
to that wjilch old Mlshop Oodwlu, of Wnles,
made the hero of a fnnlasllo tnle take. The
bishop's hero Hew to the moon.
lie tells of (lie exploit in a book published
in London in K's'tS, which he called "The
.Man In (he Moon: Or, 11 Discourse on a
Voyage Thither by Domingo (lonzales." The
flight is used as the means by which (he
hero is transported from the earth to the
heavenly body, where a perfect state of so
ciety is supposed to exist. The bishop is
more Interested in explaining h!s Ideal state
than in the navigation of the nlr. His hook
belongs in the class whh Plato's "Republic"
mill Sir Thomas More's "I'fopla." It was
published aboul 1SMI years after the Latin
version of "I'lopin" was written anil aboul
ninety years after its first translation into
English.
"TVOMLVCiO (iON.ALES, the hero, is a
' Spanish dwarf, who has been abandoned
by n ship cnplain upon the "blessed Isle of
Si. llellens. the only Paradise on earth."
The captain was so good as to leave him a
negro servant; but (lonzales does not regard
the servant as a pleasant companion, for he
compels him to live 011 one side of the
island while he lives on the other. He says- -the
story is told in the lirst person thnt he
remained on the inland "a whole jear, sol
acing myself fur want of human society
with birds ami brute beasts." He used lfls
liine to such good advantage that before the
end of the year he had several white geese
so well (rained Hint they would carry his
meals from the hut of the negro to his own
hut. Ity yoking seternl of them together
and attaching Iheni to a car or "engine,"
as he calls it. he found that they were strong
enough to carry him through the nlr, for lie
was not heavy. A Spanish ship, stopping at
the island at (he end of the year, took him
011 board with his negro and Ills geese; hut
when the xesscl was within ten' leagues of
the island of TcnerilTe, in the Canaries, it
was wrecked by an English fleet. Domingo
saved himself by using his geese nnd was
carried to the peak of a snow-capped moun
tain in Teneriffe.
TT WAS now the season that these birds
take their flight away, as our ruckoos
and sparrows do in Spain toward autumn,"
coiil inues Conales in relating how he got
to Ihe moon, "and, as I afterward found,
being mindful of their iminl voyage jus!
when 1 begun to settle myself to take them
in. (hey with one consent rosp up, and
having no other higher place to mnke toward,
to my unspeakable fear and amazement
struck both upright, and never left towering
upward still higher and higher for the space.
as I guessed, of an hour, after which I
thought Ihey labored less than before, till
al length (nh, wonderful!) they remained
immovable 11s if they had sat upon so many
perches. The lines slacked ; neither 1 nor
the engine moved nt all. hut continued still
as having no manner of weight." In ponder
ing upon Ihe reason for this strange cir
cumstance he concluded that the earth Mas
11 magnet and that he was now outside of
its circle of iiiHuence. After resting a short
time his birds renewed their upward flight;
but they moved with such startling swift
ness that the voyager says of this part of
his journey; "I must ingenuously confess
my horror and amazement in this place was
such that had 1 not been armed wilh true
Spanish resolution 1 should certainly have
died for fear.-' I
A I'TER a flight of eleven days the gcosc
J-- alighted upon the moon. The traveler
was soon surrounded by a crowd of the in
habitants, who were of all sizes and shapes,
from giants towering thirty-Hie feet into the
air (o dwarfs not more than a yard tall. He
gives a fanciful description of these people.
Some of the tallest, he says, lived to be a
thousand years old. The attraction of gravi
tation was so slight that they traveled by
jumping into the air and propelling them
selves from place to place with large fans.
After telling how he was entertained by
the "Lunars," he passes to a discussion of
their social and political condition.
There had beu no thief in the moon for
a thousand years when (lonzales visited the
planet, for "there was no want of anything
necessary for the iisi. of man, food of all
sorts growing everywhere without labor,
"As for clothes, booses or whatever else n
man may be supposed to want." the tale con
tinues, "it is provided by their superiors,
though not without some labor, hut yet so
easy as if they did it for pleasure; again,
their females are all absolute beauties, and
by a secret disposition of nature a man
there having once known a woman npver de
sires any other. Murder was never heard of
among them, neither is it hardly possible to
he committed, for there can be uo wound
made but what is curable; yea, they ns
sured me, and for my part 1 believe it, that
though a man's head be cut off, yet if within
three moons it he joined to the carcass again
and the juice of a certain herb there grow
ing applied, it will be so consolidated as the
wounded party shall be perfectly cured.
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IIL 1 me cinei cause o llieir good gov--'
eminent is an excellent disposition in
the nnture of the people, so that all, both old
and young, hate all manner of vice, and live
in such love, peace and amity as it seems to
be another Paradise; though it is true, like
wise, that some are of 11 better disposition
than others, which they discern immediately
after their birth. And. because it is nn
inviolable law among them that none shall
be put to denth, therefore, perceivlug by
their stature or some other signs who arc
like to be of a wicked and debauched humor,
they send them, I know not by what means,
into the earth and change tbe.m for other
children, before they have either opportunity
or ability to do amiss among them. '
Their ordinary vent for them is a certain
high hill in the north of America, whose
people I am apt to believe are wholly de
scended from them, both in regards of their
color and their continual use of1 tobnceo,
which Lunars or Moon Men smoke exceed
ingly. Sometimes, though but sel
dom, they mistake their aim, and fall upon
Europe, Ashror Africa.
"If you inquire how justice is executed,
alas! what, need is there of exemplary pun
ishment where no offenses are committed?
Neither need they any lawyers, for there is
no contention, the seeds whereof, when they
begin to sprout, are by the wisdom of the
next superior plucked up by the roots, Aud
as little want is there of physicians; they
never surfeit themselves the air is always
pure and temperate, neither is there any
cause of sickness. I could .never learn of
nuy that were distempered. But the time
assigned them by nnture being spent, they
die without the least pain, or rather ceuse
to live as a candle does to give light wlieu
what nourishes it Is cousunied," ,
THOSE who hnve reail Counn Doyle's tale
of the monsterR which nu airman found
between" five nnd ix miles above the earth
will be interested to note that Bishop God
win's hero discovered nothing but. a cessa
tion ot force, ot gravity. But no one can
I m-ove'llittt either 'was rijjht pr wroag.
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Favorite Poems
Village Blacksmith
1 Pen.seroso
Cotter's Saturday Night
I'hanntopsis
()(le to Tobacco
Recessional
Yankee Doodle
Love in the Valley
On 1st Looking Into Chapman's Homer
Address to the L'uco Guid
Nothing to Wear
Put a service chevron on your pocketbook
next week.
The Philadelphia convention of the Ameri
can Press Humorists is only two months
away, , aud no one in this t""'n seems to
have realized the seriousness of the situa
tion. Joint Hnrlejcorii will soon be wearing his
red chevron.
Unheard Of, Perhaps, but Certainly Not
Unseen
Virginia I.ee, of the chorus at the
Casino, and Uabe Marlowe, one ot the
Tumble In" girls at the Selwyn, will sail
shortly for Knelnnd to fill an eighteen
months' contract at an unheard-of figure
for a chorus girl. N'ew York Evening
Sun.
The Mexican girl who scrubs- the marble
steps of the Mexican consulate at 1432 Pine
street every morning is a loyal Carranzista,
we linznrtt. (That sentence is lacking in
concinnity, hut let it stand.) For we were
passing by there yesterday mornfng Just after
breakfast, when we saw a messenger ooy
bring a telegram to the consulate. "Hullo,"
we said to ourself, "something's hnppening
in Mexico." So we lingered about the pave
ment for 11 few miuutes to see what was to
be seen. The girl got up from her kneeling
job on the steps nnd took the boyinside. In
n minute or so they reappeared. The boy had
the grinning visage of one who has been
tipped for bringing good news. And Chiquita
,herself was smiling gently as she resumed
her task.
We prowled on down to the office, and the
first thing we learned there was that General
Blanquet had been killed the afternoon be
fore, leading nn nnti-Cnrranza insurrection
near Vera Cruz. ,
Among substitutes ffor the saloon, try
reading the Congressional Record standing
up, with one foot on the nearest rail. The
knockout is not quite so rapid ns that in
duced by whisky, nor is it so ngreeable In
its primary stage; but the ultimate prostra
tion is 100 per cent perfect.
In the beautiful office of the Philadelphia
Electric Company nt Tenth and Chestnut
a place so'ctinuingly planned and so full of
marvels that it is ou houor to the.ltuma'n
intelligence we overheard James Spillan,
un employe of the company, talking about
some ot his experiences in France. Mr.
Spillau, who has only recently returned from
overseas, was attached to a trench mortar
battery. In the Argonue fighting his platoon,
numbering twenty-eight men was taking
shelter in a large shell-crater, when a Ger
man shell burst rlcht in the middle of the
group. Twelve men were killed outright,
thirteen were wounded. Only himself and two
others escaped unhurt except for the shock.
Mr. SplHaii" spoke with some lilimor of the
anks passlop for collect
llecting boche souvenirs,.
I anu. jneuuoaeu.ft.fsajinjr.
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nmong the armies: "The British fight the
Germans because they hate them; the French
because they, fear them; nnd the Americans
because they want to collect souvenirs."
Electricity and the League of Nations
The Philadelphia Electric Company is put
ting up a new load-dispatcher's board, a de
vice for commanding and regulating in one
central nerve-plexus all electrical energy
circulated through the company's cables; On
thia amazing diagrammed screen roaring
dynamos in distant power-houses arc repre
sented by little clusters of lights and col
ored (buttons, and their throbbing turbines
are subject to the supreme command of the
load-dispatcher as he sits at his all-seeing
desk. We are told thnt this new installation
at Tenth nnd Chestnut will he the most re
markable thing.of its kind in America, and
a view of it suggests the thought that the
function of the league of nations will be
very similar, From outlying power stations
all through city and suburbs the Electric
Company's load -dispatcher is informed by
telephone ot any break -down or of ap
proaching storms that may cause trouble, so
that he can take steps to reapportion the
lightninged forces at his command. In the
same way, in its headquarters in Geneva the
league (if properly planned) will be in in
stant communication with all governments;
will be apprised of emergencies among its
clients, and will have supreme authority, to
transfer power from one point to another
according as the needs of public interest
require.
Like the load-dispatcher's board, the
league of nations was bound to come into
effect because the idea is logical, scientific
and appeals to common sense. Wc only' wisli
there might be one or two expert electrical
engineers like Mr. Black, the Electric Com
pany s chief loud-dispatcher ou the com
mittee that is to draft the final international
covenant, oucn men nre accustomed to
dealing with terrible and deadly forces in
such a way that they become the tame pets
of our kitchens and library tables. Wliat we
need now arc some lcaguc-of-nntions engi
neers who can control nnd distribute in
safely insulated chnnnels the .immeasurable
forces of national prides and passions.
'TU I Go Whlsp'rina
JfTlIS I go whisp'ring, whlsp'riug,
J- On bleak ways, bare and brown,
Across the wide and windy fields,
All through the dreary town ;
Tast pools where reedy sedges rock
I wander up and down.
SO SOFTLY do I whisper,
Where sweet wind shakes the grass,
The golden crocus answers,
The violets hear me pass ;
At firelit qottagc windows
I call to lad and lass.
SO I go whisp'ring, whisp'ring,
To birfls on wheeling wing, s
And wake the wood anemone
Where shadows shift and cling,
For I am Life and Gladness,
For I am Love and Spring.
JEANNE OLDF1ELD TOTTER.
If they really want the kaiser to get a
good stiff sentence, why not impanel a jury
composed of Jiis daughters-in-law?
if they would only put up foot-rails In the
second-hand bookstores We could get as much
fun there as we ever had In groggeries.
s,
Our. Idea of real happiness Is to pull down
the rolltop at six; post-mortem and set off
to meet Xanthippe for a session at our
I favorite cafeteria and, our favorite, .movie
I 'Sri
AN UNFRAMED PORTRAIT
HIS wii
Asa
IS wife is as beautiful
blossoming star in a blue sky,
Or a thought out of Keats.
But she sits'at home alone, of an evening,
Watching the romance of the city streets
Through a curtnined window.
While nt a clubhouse
He bends over a silent poker table,
And gazes rapturously nt a woman's angular
face,
Printed on a card.
Morris Abel Beer, in New York Evening
Sun.
Prince Lichnowsky's wise words would
fall on ears more willing If Germany's vic
tims were not facing a desolation worse
than that of the nation responsible.
There is encouragement for American
"wets" in the uews that the New Zealand
soldier vote has defeated the "dry1' in that
country.
The Bolshevist idea of bringing about a
heaven on earth is to make things today so
much like hell that anything else following
will seem like heaven in comparison.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
I. What are the symbols of the evangelists?
L'. Name the secretary of the treasury.
Si What body of American troops has re-,
reived the sobriquet of the "Iron
Division"?
4. Wlmt is a sobriquet?
f. Where and what is the Escurial?
fi
Who is Hugh Gibson?
Name the premier of the Australian
Commonwealth.
8. Who wrote "Sister Carrie"? s.
0. Where is the Liberty Bell kept?
10. What is the design and origin ot the flag
of the Irish Republic, recently pro
claimed in Dublin?1
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Sir Walter Scott called Pierre Corneille
(160G-84) ''The Homer of the French
Drama." .
2. James Itussell Lowell wrote the "Com
memoration Ode" for the dedication of
a memorial to Harvard's dead in the
Civil War.
3. Iconoclast: literally an idol-breaker;
one who attacks traditions and Institu
tions. 4. The Mensheviki, or minimalists; the
party opposed in Russia to the Uolshc-
vlKi; moaeraie socialists, lt
5, General Joseph T. Diekman Is com-
, mauiler of the Third American Army, . 3?
now occupying parts 01 tier many.
0. Honors ot war: allowjng a surrendered
enemy to keep his arms and banners.
7. Dr. Alexander Wekerle, reported exe
cuted by the Ited party in Budanest.
was three times premier of Hungary. 'Bll
8. The Iliad: an epic poem, in classical
Greek, ascribed to Homer, relating the
story of the siege and taking of Troy by
the Greeks.
J). "Gretna Green'1 is a name applied to a
town where marriages are easily con
tracted. From a town In Scotland
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