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PMI.dflphli, Salurdi), April 1", 1119
THE WHEELER VERDICT
fTHE verdict found against former
Judge William T. Wheeler in the
Quarter Sessions Court today will be re
assuring to all those who know how
often the law seems to hesitate in cases
which involve men of prestige fortunate
enough to have friends higher up.
Mr. Wheeler grievously offended the
Unwritten law of his profession. His
presence upon the bench of the Municipal
"Court will remain as one of the inex
plicable mysteries of politics. Certainly
the prestige of the Philadelphia courts
has.suffered by his short term as a judge.
Today's verdict closes a chapter in
one of the most extraordinary cases of
the kind ever turned up here. After that
the least said about the matter the better.
BURLESON EXPLAINED
A SOLEMN hush, a sen.-e of regret and
" sudden understanding should fall
at once over all those whose bitter
criticism of Postmaster General Burleson
has been, making the atmosphere
resound.
It is not to be assumed that; they weie
altogether wrong when they found in
wr. Burleson the Unthinkable in politics
tactually realized and functioning. They
., processes.
The Democrats of Massachusetts, who
re wailing by cable to the President to
i'i .tell him that his Postmaster General is
slowly and surely wrecking the Demo-
if- . i 1 i Ml. i. il !...
rs!a5' crauc parcy, serve 10 mummum ure siuu
ii2"?ntion liko n flash of lip-htninir.
,A great many people who have been
watching the Democratic party and its
war on all that is desirable within and
without its own boundaries know that
the party is badly in need of a wrecking.
Can it b'e that Mr. Burleson, too, is a
man of destiny? Is it to wreck the
Democratic party that he was sent
among us?
Is it for that great purpose that the
Lord created so strange a man?
i NEW YEAR IN SRRING?
"NCE a piecedent is broken it is as
"' hard to restore as an egg after an
accident. For that reason we may yet
glean something of advantage from
among the debris of war, because it was
Uie war that brought about Victory
Bonds, and it is to whoop it up for Vic
tory Bonds that the downtown New
Year clubs have, for the first time in
history, moved their pageant up into
the warm season.
There is something whole-hearted about
the way in which the clubs have broken
iheir rules and habits and turned in to
lo a personal service in behalf of the
loan with a parade downtown this after
noon. Tvaditio . isn't always the best guide,
npd it "may now hoped that sooner or
later the New Year pageant, that has
done more than anything else' to make
Broad street famous, will be moved up
to the warm weather, where it ' i-long..
As .a spring or summer festival the
parad of the New Year organizations
easily might expand and grow and be
come a pageant far more attractive than
the Mardi Gras of New Orleans.
JUSTICE IN THE ARMY
TUTAJOR GENERAL EDWARD F.
" GLENN, who is in command at
Camp Sherman, with other officers who
have been addressing the American Bar
-Association in relation to the harsh pro
cedure often charged against military
courts, spoke plainly enough to make
both sides of the case easily understand
able to the average man.
General Glenn said frankly that the
him of courts-martial is not to do justice
to the individual. Here he cited a rule
fc that is penecuy familiar to all men who
tfly tiavn fn train nml finmmsiiil .ofv:M
M 'From the point of view of a military
Eii court it matters little how much the in-
fa. r'Mviual may suffer fo long as the disci'
fa 'l!it .Li:.i u
"'ji.'pmK vaac' " mi jJiL'surYaiion ot
r"Ite! .army itself is maintained. A soi
ls 4i$r8 court Is intentionally harsh. Now
f ajd then in our own army c-jntenc:s have
Ljy1 zwmvn uihicwmohiji uw, r nuns ana
tyrants are to dc iouna in every big
! 'sircnnrzation. In the main the nrmv
VC- courts have been adopting a course of
''procedure that is as old. as militarism
k.T'.l-f.'nnil nhsnhitelv essential in thn nnnMnn.
k ,;':ii?c'. ony military organization in a
'. raiie ouemciency, nnu uiai is uie pre-
""" fclfliv reason why the world is sick of
militarism and trying to get rid of it.
iUte vase of the American soldier bc-
a court-martial is particularly
gv we lought lor the very rights
nelples Which are" denied the men
l-jr; t XV- lnr nKnlln.er, The
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not well relax n rule that experience has
proved to bo necessary.
Yet, sinco another general war seems
a long way ofT, there is no reason why
extreme sentences pronounced for tech
nical violations of army rules should not
be mitigated or set' aside after peace is
made Secure.
GROWING PAINS TROUBLE
THE NEW PHILADELPHIA
Housing Problem Partly Traceable to
Tremendous Transformation of City
of Homes Into a Genuine
Metropolis
CITY OF HOMELESSNESS" is a
startling epithet to apply to Phila
delphia. Citizens who arc native heie
and to the local manner born have sev
eral forceful reasons for resenting it.
Authenticated evidence of rent goug
ing fires tho indignation. The feeling
of helplessness under any system of
profiteering is certain to be one fused
with just anger. This is the first emo
tional reaction aroused by the present
acute housing crisis.
But as inquiry into tho situation pro
ceeds, the sentiments inspired thereby
grow more complex. "No vacancies" is
a sign confronting even the house hunter
who may be roMgned to hemg over
charged by his landlord. It begins to
look hs though the profiteer himself were
becoming embarrassed. Ho has not
enough properties to rent even at ex
orbitant rates.
Indications that sinister pressure is
being brought to bear to induce homc
scekors to purchase dwellings at a time
of inflated prices are not wanting. Yet
proof .f such maneuvering is far from
explaining in full the magnitude of the
ciisis.
In many sections of the city real es
tate men of sound lcputc confess even
to a shortage of houses on the selling
list. The conclusion is inescapable.
Granted that the profiteer is engaged
in harvesting, granted that so-called
"business methods" arc often cold
blooded and cynical, granted that an ab
normal war has diaggcd a 1 itt of
oppressive abnormalities in its train,
the fact still remains that Philadel
phia is too big for its house. Formerly
it fitted that edifice snugly, cozily, in a
way to beget sentimental affections and
a sentimental pseudonym. This was the
"City of Homes." If there was one be
lief which the average Philadelphian
cherished, that was it. It comforted
him when the rate of our progress was
tardy. It consoled him when great en
terprises in other cities forged ahead.
Kipling's M'Andrew loved the rhyth
mic and thoroughly conservative regu
larity of the engines of his jog-trot
steamer. That immortal engineer would
have been profoundly disturbed had his
steady vessel suddenly reeled off eighteen
knots an 'hour. He saw "predestination
in the stride of yon connecting rod."
"Predestination," fatalism of the most
soothing, of the least arousing, kind
was in the Philadelphian's consciousness,
also. He admitted that this was a "hard
place in which to get things dony." He
confessed, almost with pride, to the fine
symmetry of big business and big politi
cal interests heie, and if he had qualms
that initiative was thus stifled thert was
ready and healing balsam in the utter
ance, "This is a city of homes." All
logic shriveled before that conviction,
just as it did in the old tourist days on
the Atlantic when, according to the stock
fable, the passenger complained, "Stew
ard, these biscuits are sour." "Yes,
Madam," rejoined the obsequious, yet
unruffled servitor, "but then, you know,
we never lost a life."
Is it any wonder, then, that Philadel
phia, the once calm, the once seasoned,
the once eminently self-satisfied, in a
word, the quondam "City of Homes," is,
apart from the genuine hardships of the
piesent scene, a trifle dazed? Something
is actually happening.
A process ot metamorphosis is under
way. The old excu.se is atiophied. In
a seething congeries of the homeless
vast new potentialities are germinating.
Mighty new energies are let loose. Many
of them were- harnessed for the war,
but amid the surge of patriotism we
were counting chiefly on their effect upon
Berlin, rather than upon Philadelphia.
Workshops of hitherto inconceivable
magnitude multiplied. Thousands of new
workmen, hundreds of dynamic new
entrepreneurs, invaded our precincts.
Germany is not noted for her humor,
but that nation would have found food
for laughter, albeit of a bitter sort, on
being informed that a largo measure of
her defeat was being contributed by a
static old "City of Homes." She knew
better. She was falling before the power
house of the war.
It is preposterous to imagine that the
influence of all these mighty engines
subsided with the declaration of the
armistice. Furthermore, not all the de
velopment was the result of th,c war.
Much of it was inevitable. Day-by-day
changes arc subtle. Regarded in terms
of decades they become strikingly patent.
Philadelphia, in truth, differs far more
widely from the city of 1909 than did the
community of that date from the one
of 1890.
A new mental adjustment i3 in order.
Any outsider could accommodate him
self to the alteration with ease. To the
Philadelphia!), with his preconceived no
tions and tradionally conservative out
look, the process comes much harder. Ho
is most apt to be alarmed at the difficul
ties and inconveniences of the transfor
mation. They arc formidable, it is true.
It is unpleasant to tussle with profiteer
ing. It is intensely disagreeable to be
compelled to face awkward living condi
tions, distressing to consider Philadel
phia as being tumultuous, froward, tem
porarily uncomfortable as a place of
residence. But with any vision which
ranges beyond the instant, it ought to
be deeply refreshing, even to a "native
son' to proclaim the fact that Philadel
phia Is alive.
To analyze what it all means is at
first a little breath-taking. There are
penalties even for progress. "I should
hate to live in New York." cried the old-time,
comfortable- Philadelphian, and at
the same time h;s!retly enyjed. th4
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UYENXNG PUBLIC LEDGER- PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, APRID 19,
not see that hive of endeavor as too
huge to be controllable by any particu
lar ring, political, financial or industrial.
Its millionaires arc powerful, but not all
powerful in their bailiwick. They lmvo
formidable competition. If one crowd of
producers lacks initiative, another has it.
The needed work, whatever it is, gets
done.
Similar circumstances operate in con
nection with politics. One "gang" never
rules- New York for long. Neither does
it Control London or Paris uninterrupt
edly.' These cities have attained the
bona' fide metropolitan rank. So has
Philadelphia, though she hardly seems
to have realized it as yet and is suffering
painfully in the transition from the old
status.
The period of adjustment may appear
protracted, but in tho end the impetus
of the new forces, the increased popula
tion, tho mighty new industries and
expanded original ones will not brook
opposition. It will soon be quite impos
sible for any clique, cither aggressively
malign or merely timidly reactionary,
to hold Philadelphia "in the hollow of
its hand." No hand, even in metaphor,
will bo large enough.
The forecast is not boastful. It is
made in recognition of existing facts
which proclaim an utter change in the
character of this crowded community,
deeply concerned just now over becoming
a "City of Homelessncss."
Anxiety about the alteration is justi
fied. It is a nasty business complicated
by the acts of extortionists and the
march of inevitablq progress. But if
self-pity is not to be legitimately with
held, neither should the thrill of joy
over the fact that the Tiermetical sealing
with which this city was for so long
afflicted has been finally removed.
The lid of immutability has been blown
off. Many of us nrc still stunned by the
explosion. But the blasting was overdue.
When we get our bearings there should
be an altogether new vigor on the banks
of the Delaware.
THE GREAT UNVEILING
AT this time of the year everybody is
a little tired. Spring fever is often
a real weariness due to the restricted
routine of winter, the tyranny of jani
tors, the burdens of a season in which
the world seems populated only by bosses
and the collectors of bills. A general
desire to flee away, to flash and flutter
in the sun, is the most natural thing in
the world. That is why- everybody who
can goes to the seashore on Easter
'Sunday.
We are not nearly so irreverent, as a
pessimist might suppose, when we seem
to dedicate one of the most solemn
and splendid days of the year to vanity.
It is true that penitence and contrition
do not always precede the hour when the
world is expected to blossom in new
clothes, simulating deliverance from care
and solemn meditations.
What, then, does it all mean? Merely
that men and women who have been shut
up all winter, chained to desks or im
pounded in flats, are following a mystic
urge that makes them wish to turn a
bright side to the sun. All the rest of
creation is doing it. Why shouldn't
they? Hasn't a human as much right
in such an elemental matter as the vio
lets that eye you from recesses' in the
park or the peach trees that are begin
ning now to blossom flagrantly up Bur
lington county way? Something tells
him that he has. And on the shore
boardwalks, theiefore, he parades a con
viction that he cannot explain.
At 11 o'clock tomorrow Tie will unveil
his grandeur at Atlantic City crushed
strawberry ties, spats of elephant's
breath, a symbol of the earth's unchang
ing innocence. Ho goes away to see
new things and he is not particularly
interested in the ocean. The ocean is
a steady old thing, with a habit of stick
ing around. It can be seen any time.
Man was born with curiosity as a moving
passion. So on Easter he has an eye
only for the beautiful and ephemeral
things that pass like styles and femi
nine loveliness.
By the simple eipcdi-
Charlotle -nt of getting its
Itiibse loan workers to
pledge themselves for
the full nmount. Charlotte. Mich., is the first
Michigan city, if not the first in the country,
to subscribe its full quota for the Victory
Liberty Loan. Charlotte's ruse thus enables
it to take the cake.
Events in Libau prove the German is
only gentle when he must be.
Trace is carefully picking
through a crowd of brawlers.
her
way
President Wilson has ever been quick to
realize that confidence- is catching.
Commonscnse plus enthusiasm equals a
successful Victory Liberty Loan.
As n cup that cheers beer with half of
one per cent kick will never make u goal.
Tim weatherman promised
setting" for Easter. Ah, yes.
eggs."
an "ideal
"Eggs is
The fact revealed in divorce proceed
ings that little Willie Ilohemollcrn is a
wifc-bcatcr surprises nobody.
The purchase by the city of all the tents
in some of the dismantled army camps might
temporarily solve the housing problem.
It is gratifying to learn that the watch
on the Rhine has at last been wound up
so far as the Tcace Conference is Concerned.
Relatives will be interested to learn that
Jnpau has paid the United States Govern
ment ?270,00O for the killing of two Amcrl
can soldiers by Japanese soldiers nt Tlcn
Tain. With an army flier making the trip from
California to Texas in ten hours, and an
other "bird" ready to cross the Atlantic
In twenty hours, all records for encircling
the world are soon likely to be beaten save
that of I'uek.
The police, of course, do not pretend
that' there is anything either immoral or
criminal about a charity dance in a respec
table hotel. It is .simply that, having rooted
out all vice, cloned all gambling dens, jailed
all footpad, and made (lie city safe for
i'riwnenMHy', thy,' m Mcbnlly fiad , to leek
CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S
LETTER
Maurice B. Saul as John G. Johnson's
Succeisor Popujarlty of X-Ray
Dentistry Conditions at
Camp Lee
Washington. April If).
rPUE Supreme Court of the United Stntes,
which he would have ndorned had In not
declined to serve upon it, no longer llHens
to the sledge-hammer arguments of John O.
JohrjBon. The great Philadelphia lawyer
who "lived his' profession" pnsscd away, and
we now read of Mnuricc Bower .Saul, his
"successor." The office ot John G. Johnson
was one worth tying to. It did not (urn
out n great number of students like that of
Frederick Carroll llrewstcr, but it was n
busy office, doing a big business dependent
largely upon the wonderful industry anil
wisdom of the big man who controlled it.
For many years Frank l Prichard was Mr.
Johnson right bower. He was n mnn of
ability and public spirit, thoroughly trusted
by nil the .Tphnson clients, but he, too, hoon
passed away. And now comes Maurice Saul,
the next in line "to nircccd" John (J. John
(.on. It is highly creditable to an industrious
young lawyer and ought to be satisfactory
to J. E. M. Keller and Charley Thomson,
who used to work in rahoots with the father,
Charles G. Saul, and Professor Lawrence in
negotiating Itepubllcan procedure in the
eighteenth division of the Thirty-second
Ward.
"IXTAHHIXGTO.V dentists, like those of
" Philadelphia and other large cities, have
had a good season, due larcelv to denial
photography. The application of the X-ray
to the upper and lower jaws has brought on
"an epidemic of abscesses ' at the roots of
pffending molars, ami extractions and treat
ment have been the regular order. Congress
man Peter E. Costello is nmong trie states
men froup who were given the choice be
tween years of misery nnd nu opcrution.
Senator Penrose, who is n little touchy about
his anatomy, also submitted to nu examina
tion. Stuart Reed, a West Virginia mem
ber of the House, has been carrying around
a photograph of his bicuspids, with an ab
scess under one of them, thnt so remind him
of a winter scene on the banks of the Ohio
near Wheeling that he cannot be induced lo
part with it. Dr. George F. Boot, of the
Union League; Dr. A. II. MnePhers-on, who
belongs to the old Doctor Street family ; Dr.
Earlc Rice, who hies himself to his Toms
River bungalow on occasional week-ends, nnd
Dr. W. C. T. Bauerle, who grew up in the
office of Senator David Martin, are nmong
the Philadelphian's now operating nlong the
new lines. Members of the Oceau City Fish-,
ing Club nrc beginning to complain that
Itauerlc's researches are causing him to neg
lect his duties to the club. Fish, tbey say,
also have teeth.
TJECEXT complaints about the apparent
' excess of officers nnd men to lobk after
the patients nt the base hospital. Camp
Lee, Virginia, have been answered by Col
onel R. U. Miller, iudieatiug that most of
the qverseas cases have now arrived in this
country and thnt the department feels safe in
reducing the capacity of the base hospital at
that point. The hospital hns been considered
as having n capacity of 2140 beds, many of
them held in anticipation of sick and
wounded coming from the other side. The
commanding officer, however, hns beeu di
rected to reduce his personnel to what is
considered sufficient to care for 1300 pa
tients. A number of Philndclphiuns who hate
been held up at Camp Lee will be interested
in this announcement. Speaking of the hos
pital service brings to mind the fnct that
Dr. Waller A. Wood, of Philadelphia, until
recently a captain in the medical corps, who
was formerly with Base Hospital Xo. OS in
France, is now in charge of Evacuation Hos
pital Xo. 14 at Coblcuz on the Rhine. Cup
tain Wood was advanced to the grade of
major iu February last.
TJEXRY R. EDML'XDS, who for so many
years has been active in educational
matters in Philadelphia, was a brother-in-law
of Joel Cook, former congressman from
the Second district. He has burvived
the Philadelphia editor-congressman, Iwho
during the life of the late Qeorgc W. Childs
was American correspondent of the London
Times, nnd his son, George W. Childs Cook,
whose death occurred more recently. The
Edmunds family has kept in touch with the
surviving member of tho Cook family, Mrs.
Edmund H. Knse, wife of a former Philadel
phia physician who is now in active ptac
tice iu Los Angeles, Calif. Doctor Kase mar
ried Miss Cook when the family resided on
Broad street near Poplar, across from the
Metropolitan Opera House. He is making
good out West.
GENERAL LOUIS AVAGXER, who had
an excellent soldier record, was anxious
that one of his boys should become an army
officer. Brother Louis went into the insur
ance business, but another son Harry S.
Wagner concluded to make a try-out for
the army. He did so early enough to be
commissioned for service in our colonial pos
sessions, and since then has been rising
gradually in the military field. It woujd
do the general good if he were living to know
that his boy Harry is now a full-fledged
colonel of infantry in the United States army
and has become one of the experts in the
tactical use of modern weapons of warfare.
Colonel Harry is on duty at the Infantry
School of Arms, Camp Benning, Georgia,
where he is assistant i-ommandaut and di
rector of training. The members of the
Lincoln Club will recall that Harry Wagner
and Charles 'C. Allen, now also regular
army colonel, went into the service about
the same.time nnd have both attained dis
tinction. IT IS the opinion of many knowing ones
in Washington that the "solid South" is
not so strong under the Wilson administra
tion as it has been. Xorthcrn members who
go South come back with stories of apathy
that are almost unbelievable. The truth is
that many southern business men are be
coming skeptical about the President's .world
plans and .are particularly critical of ,tbe
modern tendency toward government owncr
l,tn The taking over of the rnllrnn.la h
Mr, McAdoo and Mr. Burleson's actions on
assuming control of the telegraph and tele
phone lines cannot be said to have met
unanimous approval in the South, Manv
Philadelphians now nt southern hotels note
this change of sentiment in the editorial col
umns ot southern newspapers. Witness our
own congressman, George S. Graham, and
Charles J. Harrah, formerly president of
the Mldvalo Steel Company, who counected
up recently for a respite from northern cares
at Augusta, Ga; And Augusta, by the Way,
is the city whose arsenal has been placed in
charge of Colonel George Montgomery, until
recently the commandant at the Frankford
Arsenal at Philadelphia.
It is impossible that the Song of Peaco
should be sung by the International Quar
tet in eucb a way that the German critics
will be unable to detect a few blue notes.
There is nothing reajly'new in the "Wil
son doctrine" an unwritten nledie to mln.
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THE ELECTRIC CHAIR
Brainstorm
T WISH my mind would let me alone
J- And ceaso to harass me:
My bend rings'lIUo a telephone,
Why won't it let me be?
My poor old fuses might be bust
By Thought's bright lightning squalls
My mental switchboard won't adjust
For such long-distance calls.
I am romlnced tliat'Thought is vain:
Reflexes see mo through
Why can't 1 do without my brain
As oilier people do?
Peccavlmus!
Speaking of aviation, what we want to
see among the Germans is some pcccaviatlon.
Between the dark and the daylight (wo
have it straight from Mr. Longfellow) comes
what is known us the Children's Hour.
The Husband's Hour comes alongi about
-midnight, when the icebox in the pantry lies
unguarded and defenseless.
We understand thnt the headline, "Cali
fornia May Lift Ban on Cooties," was a
misprint, it should have been coolies.
We also understand thnt the question of
coolies was hotly discussed in, Paris.
To the list of those not favorite sons, add
Burleson.
The peace treaty as so far drafted is said
to contain about 70,000 words. "Tush!"
cries the editor of the Congressional Record.
"We can do better than that almost any
busy day." . v
This office has just passed through a nerve
racking tirne. The learned pundit who com
piles the daily Quiz took to his bed with
tonsillitis, after having prepared several lists
ot question!, but no answers. After several
dnjs of feeble uttempt to nnswer them, bis
colleagues are ready to admit that there is
no other man of reference living who can1
cope with this job. Happily our little brother
ot the lexicon is back again nnd the Quiz
fans may breathe easy.
Except the poets, no one uses the good
old word "dwell" any longer. The way rents
run nowadays, no ono can Btay in any one
spot long enough to say be "dwells" there.
All this talk about the Saar Valley leads
us to remark that we bathed in that stream
ou August 4, 1012, and spent the night nt
the Hotel Muetichner Kindl nt Saargemtind,
and if it is still under boche management we
would worn tourists against that hostelry.
The beer was admirable, but the tavern itself
was noisy, dirty nnd oathful. The Saar
itself is none too jolly a stream, being pol
luted by some kind of chemicals from fac
tories and fringed with reeds that have a
slimy cutting edge. This is our personal
contribution to nn international question of
some magnitude.
How is Milw-uukee going to keep famous
.after July first?
In his new job as food distributer, it looks
as though Nausea would reach the Poles at
last.
The Grammarian's Funeral
The good old Litotes Brothers are hard nt
work these days. "It is not unlikely that
no small indemnity will be assessed," they
Buy, "and it is no secret that tho Germans
will not assent without demur."
Paraphrasing Bassanlo'g friend, if your
love do not persuade you to oversubscribe tho
loan, let not(our paragraphs.
"How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this
bank" cried lyorenzo. Meaning, of course,
the bank wbcreibejtept his Victory Bonda.
in 4
Don't let the new Stafuef Victory be a
Morn Loan tjml V ,; ,, v Ai
Bob
1919
RESURRECTION
Melancholy" to "rectify the perturbations"
of his mind, and that seems to be tho motive
behind much of the scribbling German states
men are doing. f
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If Daffodils Were Merely Yellow Flowers
(Third Version)
If daffodils were merely yellow flowers,
They would not cost us fifty cents per
plant;
I'd buy one, just to cheer the gloomy hours,
But, at their present price, I simply can't.
Alas! When even necessary buying.
Must be restricted by H. C. of L.,
I can't afford to purchase, though I'm dying
To take a daffy home with me to dwell.
If daffodils were merely yellow flowers,
How easy in their golden light to bask !
Instead, each day the price still mounts and
towers.
The florists' figures chili me when I ask.
The price of one would buy the family
luncheon ;
As I'm the'one who has to meet the bills
For all the food we have to buy to munch on
I can't consider buying daffodils.
Think how their cheerful glow would light
the hours
When springtime's drenching rains come,
gray and cold !
Did you hint they were merely yellow
flowers?
I think they must be made of solid gold.
SUB ROSA.
Desk Motion
Aeneas Sylvius, amongst many other,
sets down three special ways to find a fool
by. He is a fool that seeks that he cannot
find: he is n fool that seeks that which,
being found, will do him more harm than
good: he is a fool that, having variety of
ways to bring him to his journey's end,
takes that which is worst. If so, inetbinks
most men arc fools; examine their courses,
and you shall soon perceive what dlzards and
mad men tho major part ore. The Anatomy
of Melancholy.
Now that the service men arc landing
every day, keep the home hires earning.
The German peace mission, man sagt, will
number about 200. Undoubtedly as many
German stutcsmen as possible are eager to
get away from the fatherland into a Fatter
land where they can get a square meal.
Has any one written Tho Watch on the
Wine? '
After July first it will all be over but the
droughtlng.
' Mr. Lloyd George soys the Peace Con
ference was disturbed by "wild men scream
ing through tho keyhole." But people only
scream through keyholes when doors arc
shut and locked.
" When the German cuvojs get to Versailles
we trust they will be told" that the dotted
line forms on the right.
Donald Evans, Philadelphia's sheerest and
starkest bard, having failed to shock Phila
delphia, has moved (and his publisher with
him) to New York, in the hope of horrifying
that less sophisticated city. Perhaps that is
what' his publisher means by saying that
Donald "is now emerging from behind bis
awful barriers."
Sydney Coates. the best-known reciter of
Kipling's "East Is Eaat and West Is West"
in these parts, spent an evening with us re
cently,' to mutunl satisfaction, t
Mr. Glass ns a government loan honsru.
seems less picturesque than Mr. McAdoo
waa. This time last year Mr. McAdoo was
was. Tfils tune last year Mr. McAdoo waa
,Ulll8iU P nbut b' balf-aolod trouaera.
THt DANCING FAUN !
THOU danc-eu of two thousand years,
Thou, dancer of today,
What silent music fills thine cars,
What Bacchic lay, '
That thou dost dance the centuries
. Down their forgotten wny? .
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Alas for thee! Alas, ngain.
The early faith is gone! r
The gods are no more seen of tren,
All, all are gone
The shaggy forests no more shield
The Satyr nnd the Faun.
On Attic slopes the bee still hums,
On many an Elian hill
The wild-grnpc swells, but never comes
The distant trill
Of reedy flutes; for Pan is dead,
Broken his pipes and still.
And jet within thy listening cars
The pagan measures ring
Those limbs' that hove outdanced the year
Yet tireless spring:
How canst thou dream Pan dead when still
Thou seem'st to hear him siftg?
Robert Cameron Rogers.
With the return of the various hospital
units a certain popular song should B
amenuea to read in at least
"When the girls come home."
one verse,1
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. What is a termagant? " ,
2. Who are the Spartacans?
3. Name the commander of the American .
naval forces in French waters during theitjfa.
war. . "
4. What and where is the Sphinx?
C. What American city is known as "tha
Ulty or Jilms"7
O.f Who is tho attorney general of the '
United States?
7. What is the "Stabat Mater"?
8. What was the Tammany Ring?
9. Give the origin of the phrase, "To sound
one's own trumpet." , '
10, What is the most richly endowed church
in the United States? .1
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Answers to Yesterday's Quiz V, S
1. Symbols of the evangelists: Matthew Is"
usually represented with a scroll before
him nnd holds a pen ; Mark sits writing
with a winged lion by his side; ,Luke
holds a pen and a scroll and near bint
is a vx ; uuuu uus uu eagie near aim.
2. Carter S. Glass Is secretary of, the
treasury. ,
3. "Iron Division." a popular name ap
plied to the Twenty-eighth Division.
A. E. F. also known as the Keystone, i, .
Division, and made up originally of tbt $1
National Guard of Pennsylvania. w
4. Sobriquet: a' nickname or popular. $
epithet. J ''Lf
C. Escurial: A Spanish .royal palace, about V
twenty miles front 'Madrid. .
C.Hugh Gibson, formerly first 'secretary 5
of the United States embassy at Briti-i ' ,,J
"Kcls, has been designated as the firs't r-J
American minister to tho new Polish 'ifflt
republic, l ' t.
7. W. M. nughes Is thej.prcmlcr of Ans-"
traua. - '-.,
8.
"Sister Carrie," is by Theodore Dreiser. 5?)
an American novelist of the rcillatlo v
school. , '. "'J
The Liberty Bell is kept in Independence. v&'
Hall, Philadelphia. . Vi
The flag of the'lrUh republic Is ,a irlfV;
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