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April :i. 1919 ABSTRACTION OR INERTIA? ALL sorts of people have at one time X1 or another debated among them selves in an effort to determine what is the matter with Philadelphia politics. It isn't easy to say what is the matter. But there are times when it must seem to any reasonable observer that the jnental habit which makes the recoid of municipal affairs in this city what it is is the same that causes so many people to stand daily in the space at the for ward end of a trolley car to block traffic "both ways while there are, as the con--ductor mournfully reiterates, "plenty of eats in the rear." TREASURE ISLAND A LTHOUGH most of us weie ignoiant " "of it the Boy Scouts of Philadelphia have known for a long time that they could live in hope of visiting Treasure Island and digging for hidden spoil. The island lies in the Delaware between Trenton and Easton, and is the summer camping: ground of the local scouts. It has just been bought by Edward Bok and given to the Philadelphia Boy Scout Council. The boys now have a pro prietary interest in all the Indian relics on the island. There are many of them, for the place was a gathering place of the original Americans years before Co lumbus discovered the new world and be fore his successors settled on the banks o! the Delaware. Nomore appealing place ctuld have "been selected for a boys' summer camp , than an ancient Indian headquarters on n island. There Is something about a piece of land eritfrely surrounded by ter which stit the imagination of a boy, and -when e can find real Indian arrowheads tn such a place his cup of joy runs over. The Boy Scouts are envied by many adults the possession of this fascinating place. GREAT FOOLS rriHE ?50,000 prize for an overseas flight in an airplane, offered by the Xondon Daily Mail, has lured a number of aviators to attempt to enroll their names among those of the "great fools" of the world. Hawker, Raynham, Wood and others re only awaiting favorable weather con ditions to "hop off" on a daring and unique endeavor which may, for the first time, link America and Europe by aerial travel and give them rank with those earlier pioneers who have bound the hores of continents together by cable, ship and wireless telegraphy. From the earliest times those men who have leaped into the dark seas of un known experiment and discovery have ever felt the sorrow and sting of scorn, 'ridicule and lack of sympathy from their contemporaries. Some of them died of broken hearts. But most of them were as adamant against the shafts of a world which thought them crazy or fools, through an indomitable faith and knowl edge that they were to give to their de tractors and the world the instrumentali ties for lifting all life higher and higher in its search to find and harness the laws and powers of God's great universe. Often the people laughed at them; they called them fools, fools because they 'themselves could not see beyond the sun set of their present day or travel the seemingly visionary roads which they who blazed the inventive paths of prog ress did so greatly. But whether it be Hawker, Raynham or Wood who is the first to cross the seas through the air, he will blot out the name of "fool," as they all have done, and leave forever, in golden letters, the "great." ART AND THINGS AlTERY humbly the citizenry have been ''W W eiving ear to Mr. Pennell, Judge Pt- f ' Nnon, Leslie W. Miller and others con- ?S iS'rste1 t0 the impeccable in art as it art jouno. in sKyscrapers ana war me- .erials. Mr. Pennell did the bawling ,at of the newer park plans. Mr. Mil Mtr has. the air of a man who will l-pon ""jmir memorials chaste or die. Judge Pat- ",t.fn specialty is sKyscrapers. They .'reatncere and able-men and their criti- J;ra has a tonic quality, even if occa- j4orially It exaggerates. $JjsThiB matter of art is .discomfiting be- ixit-tauae it ia I'ut easy w unucraiunu. judge -'.. lini n - TUtwrson on oKyacrnpers, ior exam risW poke much truth, but not quite "OjOWgh, when he verbally bombed some 'VW-the tall buildings near City Hall. jme buildings leave much to be desired, ' mmr&s. Bat so does everything else in Mrla.' E (JkjF6rewr are still in evolution. We PVni ' ;aiir;M(imirr- r waa aw w'swmm' itw trWJia.ir tricks with them tho ancient Romni. twist, ..ho Byzantine flaic, the cold Greek motive and they have even adventured occasional notes from Hindustan, tho South .Seas, the Aztecs and the aborigi nal igloo. And still they must search because the skyscraper is a new and un expected thing that must inspiic forms and lines of its own. To say cruel things nbout early examples is hardly fair. Would Judge Patterson willingly walk Chestnut stieet in the clothes he was proud to wear twenty years ago? When Mr. Miller and Mr. Pcnnelt are most eloquent one cannot but bo dis turbed by the haunting knowledge that artist make etchings of old European bridges and say violent things, about old blidges in America. Old buildings m London are very ugly. But they figure largely in contemporary ait. Here we ate told to destroy old buildings nud make "artistic" ones. A little while ago hoisehair sofas were called damnable. Now they arc clipping nobly into the class of antiques. If n thing is old enough it usually satisfies the cntic. It is the middle age of art and aichitccturc that the critic cannot endure. THE VICTORY LOAN MEANS A VICTORY FOR PEACE Or Else the Great Price the World Has Paid Will Have Been Spent In Vain Mos T annropiiateh, the time for the --'-1- Victoiy Loan beginning today is taking on a festal character. Flags aie fiing, bands are playing, men and women arc maiching and the air h filled with shouting. This is the wind-up of the war financing and theic is a general disposition to be cheerful about it, just as when tho news of the signing of the nimistice reached Paris the people marched the streets singing that inspiring line fiom the "Marseil-' laisc": "The day of glory has come." But all the pageantry hides a great horror which we must not allow our selves to forget. What, war is and what war means was never before fully under stood by civilized nan. Nineteen na tions with moie than twenty million men in arms were arrayed against four nations with approximately the same number of fighting men. The whole commeicial and industrial strength of the nations in Eutopc was used for maintaining the armies in the field and for the produc tion of implements of destruction. This woik was done so effectively that neaily seven million men were killed duiing the progress of the war and more than six teen million were wounded, and a con siderable poition of the wounded were permanently disabled. And these killed and injured were the young men, the promise of the future, the potential hus bands of the daughters of the race. Their death dooms hundreds f thousands of young women to a life of perpetual un married widowhood. Jt seriously affects the ability of the race to make good the losses from war and its effect upon social and industiial conditions no man can es timate. This slaughter of the flower of the race inohcs a loss which it is impossible to estimate in dollars and cents. Yet the loss in money has been so great as to astound those statisticians who thought the knew the financial re souices of the woild. It amounts to not less than two bundled billion dollais, a sum so stupendous that the imagination staggers before it. When the four and a half billions of the Victory Loan have been raised the United States will have contributed about thiity billions of this enormous total. It has come from the rich and the poor and from all the groups between these extremes. One peison in every five of the total population has contributed of his savings to the war funds. And these people will have to contribute for years to come in order to provide the money for the payment of the interest and the principal of a war debt which will amount to twenty bil lions. Great Britain has raised nearly forty billions, France nearly thirty billions, Russia nearly twenty billions, Italy ten billions and little Serbia eight billions. And Germany and Austria-Hungary have been compelled -to laise at least fifty billions between them, the burden of which they must bear m their bitter humiliation and defeat. Let no man be so rash as to say on this Monday after the anniversary of the demonstiation that the vital principle of equity and justice, shot through with the spirit of sacrifice, cannot be de stroyed, that what the civilized world has won is not worth what it cost. No price is too high to pay for liberty. No price is too great for the destruction of the theory that greed can triumph over the lights of man or that selfishness can be the inspiring motive of any great people. Wc hae paid the price and now it be hooves us to see to it that we get what wc have paid for. t A handful of finicky, quibbling men is attacking the league-of-nations plan for preventing war and guaranteeing peace on tne grounu mat it is not periecu "Now, if I were going to draft a league-of-nations covenant," they say, "I would do it thus and so." And they forget that the men in'Paris who have been charged with the respon sibility of acting are just as able as they and just as anxious as they to prevent future wars. And they forget, top, that the men in Paris are forced to adjust a score of conflicting interests and conflict ing theories of the right way to apply the principles of justice. Compromise and concession is the rule of nature and the law of progress. The Russian czar who built a railroad in an air line from Moscow to St Petersburg disregarded all principles saye tho one that a straight line is the shortest dis tance between two points, and as a result he handicapped every great town that had grown up on tjia site which the con formation of the land made suitable for a. toiwn and thereby delayed the develop- mens ot his country. The rivers 'en. wir way to the Ma are wUeAhaa iiM MM?iThey avottW oV staclcs in their path. When they meet n chain of mountains they skirt its bnso till thcyfind a way through. They wind about the valleys and spread out in the plains, and when two of them meet they automatically create n center nt which men gather and build a city. If wc mistake not, the peace commis sioners have been following tho law of nature and have been turning out of the way of all obstacles which have con fionted them in order that they might continue on their course toward an effective and effectual agi cement. The agi cement that they arc making is the only guaiantee in prospect that the price of the war shall not have been paid in vain. It is the only guarantee that the men and women who are t6do,v subscribing for the Victoiy Loan shall not be compelled in the future to sub scribe foi more loans to pay the cost of more wars. When the men on whom the lesponsibihty of ratifying that agice ment rets come to consider tho question they ate likely to abandon tfceir hypcr cutical attitude nnd to express their nmazement at the success of the peace commission in accomplishing so much as it has accomplished, when five jcars ago the idea of a league of nations had not jet emerged from the shades of academic discussion into the realm of practical politic-. The Victoiy Loan will fail of its pur pose if it docs not cairy with it the de teimination of the nation that it shall involve a victoij for permanent peace. RIGHT AT LAST WOULD be difficult to state tho r. whole case for charter levision and revision of the state constitution better or more compactly than it is stated in the resolutions adopted almost unani mously by Councils, whatever the in spiration that evolved them. The preamble calls attention to the ex istence of separate county and city gov ernments with jurisdiction over the same territory and declares that "it is abso lutely essential for its development that the city and county of Philadelphia should have within its borders but one government clothed with the fullest de gree of home rule." The resolutions dcclaic that while there should be no postponement of legis lation which will aid Philadelphia, a con stitutional convention should be promptly held in order that the constitution might be so lcvised as to enable the Legislatuie to t,ive the city complete home rule. 'Ihese aie things which this newspaper lias been urging for many months. The charter diaft of the committee of citi zens was framed in such a way that, 50 far as it went, it could lcmain un changed when the county government vyas merged in the city government. The passage of the bills which the committee has sent to Hairisbuig would "aid Phila delphia" in the language of the lcsolu tion. They ought to be passed substan tially as diawn. If the members of the General Assem bly have been hesitating about the couisc which they thould take xlhey can no longer be in doubt. The legislative body of the city has foimally and officially called upon them to pass bills to aid the city. It can no longer be said that no one is interested in the matter save a handful of disgruntled citizens. As to the revision of the constitution, that is necessary for more reasons than that it prevents the Legislatuie fiom giving to this city the home lule which it nsks. The plan under consideration in .Hairisburg to create a commission to consider the need for revision and to re port in. two years is merely a plan to postpone that which should be done at the earliest possible date. Now that Councils, acting, without doubt, on the suggestion of Senator Vare, have called for piompt action, 'instead of a delay for two years, we assume that the Senator himself will join with other men in Har lisburg in fighting for the passage of a bill which will piovide for the election of delegates to a constitutional convention next November and for the sitting of the convention next winter. Th Back Road to the No! No! shore, say latest ad vices from the world ot gasoline, is beat. Rut any oncwho lias been snatching a spring vacation will realise at once this doesn't mean the road back. T h e Massachusetts Democrats who com plained that Postmas Wmklnc a Wreck ter General Rurlcson is wrecking their partv arp themselves pretty clever at that sort of tliiHK- Governor Sproul is not in Harrlsburg, hut the man who has made several gov ernors is. Once, more' it is shown that it does not pay for a trustee to use trust funds in his own business. Whatever the merits of the present school controversy, there is reason to hope that the children will be none the worse off because of it Germany, a headline tells us, is to be permitted to digest the new peace terms. With a little practice Germany may be able to digest food again. It will be interesting to learn what crime the courts find that man committed who sold a brown nonalcoholic liquid to soldiers who thought they were buying booze. As Mr. Brumbaugh says he does not rare to be state superintendent of public instruction. Governor Sproul will doubtless refrain from urging him to reconsider his determination. A VirgmUn baker is alleged to have invented a crumbless roll. We don't Re lieve it. It were as easy to believe that a Virginian cotillon leader Uad invented a dancelcss reel. ' Kggnog is gone forever because next Easter will be dry. There is.no dry advo cate who would not say, in consequence, that the Easter of 1010 marked the final passing Of the deviled egg. When President Wilson senf Michael J. Jlyan apd the other Irishmen in Paris to consult Colonel Hpuse he evidently knew tbt s a talker- the colonel was, tae best1 ltotsar la the tw8JtlpDtre ,- . J FACES FROM WHICH HISTORY CAN BE READ First Complete Photographs of Peace Table Members Furnish Stim ulating Clues to Great Events In Paris ocraln ambitious statesman it was V vrritt where men mnv read strange matters." Ex panded to the cevcut -third degree ot mag nitude, the simile holds good for the un precedented portrait gallery to which the hnrk page of tins newspaper is devoted to day. The book- Hie greatest of all mundane volumes n the hook of history. In this instance something more expressive than the pen' writes therein. The human fare is the scribe, as represented in the nearly fourscore vnneties levealed around the green bai7e tnble at the Quni d'Orsaj . Of all the Indices of the portentous trans actions of the Paris conference,-this compre hensive achievement in photography is per haps the most significant. Dull indeed is the imagination v hldi cannot read "strange mat ters" matteis of tiiitiveii(1ent import, mat ters upon whlih the very fate ot mnnklml depends in this revelation by the eje of the camera. Geoigi' W. Nan is. of Harris S. Ewing, went to Paris recently to register upon his lens the faces of eery member of the most august nnd deeply responsible assembly ever organised since the human chronicle began, l.verj picture is slrictlv contemporary. The sen'e of realitj innvc.ved by his galaxy is extraordinary. With all due respect to the platoons of corrinpondents nnd their cargoes nf wenrj tvpcttritor". it mav be said that no "storv" from Paris is quite so vivid as that which this notable feat in genuine por traiture unfold. pritSO.N'AL predilections, inherited or ac- quired bias, must of rourse potently nf fed any interrelation of these pictures. Even the nnnljst, most keenly desirous of being fiiir, will he hnrd-presed not to read into the most familiar of the faces traits and qualities which he has come to regard as characteristic of thce statesmen. It is, for instance, quite conceivable that omc visitois to this "gallerj" will see in Mr. Wilson's vinge phjsical factors indica tive of idealistic resolution. Other observers may detect evidences of mere egotistic ob stinncj. To some persons the expression upon the face of David Lloyd George may bespeak shiftiness nnd wriggling craft; to others resourceful acumen and conspicuous administrative ability. Similarly, a perverse and antiquated torjism may be read into the aspect of Georges Clemeuceau, or a seasoned and exalted patriotism, quickly re sponsive to the best instincts of humanity. The 1'och fuce easily fulfills tho ideal of the masterly soldier and the great humani tniian who stopped the war at the flood tide ot (onqiiest. There can be little argu ment 011 this point. Whatever mav be the consensus of opinion concerning the revelation of the Italian dele gates, there can be scant dispute that they are among (he best-looking men at the con ference, and that the faces, especially ot Orlando mid Sonnino. betray exceptional vinlity nnd power. Indeed, the Latin races, omitting the Ficnch, throughout the assem bly rather hear off the palm for comeliness, .limn Blanco, of Uruguay, is a handsome (hap. He might be an operatic tenor. Burgos, of Panama, is another fine-looking fellow. On the other hand, Dr. Ecas Moniz, of Portugal, rather belies his nationality. He rather suggests 11 capable, business-like American. piLEUTHERIOS VEXIZELOS, who has been generallv 1 anked as one of the nhlest statesmen nt the, conference, has un qucstionablv convincing visual fitness for that role. The greatest man in Greek history since her modem revival as a nation is giaced with ejes that sparkle vividly with lesolute sincerity, nnd there is a tolerant et determined expression of reassuring wis dom in the lines of his mouth. There mny he hnndsoiner men than Jan Smuts at the peace table, but few other faces than his are more stimulating to the, im agination. One liai a feeling that he could don sixteenth century armor with magnifi cent fitness and reincarnate some gloriously heioic captain iu the tiain of William of Oraugc, battling against Spanish tyranny. Superficially, there is hardly the character ot the diplomatist about the face of Robert Lansing. He suggests rather a successful banker of approved integrity. Colonel House, however, looks preciselj as he should. There is not a scintilla of loquacity conveyed by that queer little face, nnd in tensity of thinking behind that high fore head is easily conceivable. He looks, more over, as though he could work admirably, as he has done cm the league of nations draft with Lord Robert Cecil. Studiousness, profundity and high thinking are palpably evinced by the fentuies and expression of the idealistic British delegate. His earnest ness contrasts significantly with Arthur Bal four, from whosd expression one may readily tiauslate erudition, , ace ompanied by seasoned philosophical disillusionment. Quite the. fiercest face iu the "gallery" is that of Charles Krnmar, of Czecho-Slo-vaUia. 'The Serbians, too, seem somewhat formidable, with the exception ot old Nikola Pashitch, who has the largest whiskers at the green table and the air of a. patriarch who might look well in the trappings of a metropolitan of the Gieek Orthodox Church. The British "coloninls" are generally, iu character, able enough men obviously, but not the most forceful members of the con ference. Scholnrhness c haractcrizes, the as pect of VI Wellington Koo and his Chinese associates, while the quintessence of Orien tal shrewdness is patent on the faces of Viscount Chinda and Baron Maklno, of Japan. Paul Hyman, of Belgium, is graced by an impressive distinction of countenance, and one somehow, feels that the photograph hardly does him justice. His associate, M. Van den Ileuval, oddly recalls Joe Cannon. Emil Fclsal and Itustem Haidar, in.their Arab burnouses, carry off the honors for picturesqueness, seconded by the dusky C. B. D. King, of Liberia, and Certullien Guil baud, ot Haiti. A' NDKCW BONAIt LAW is decidedly un - impressive in appearance. It was, per haps, to have been expected. The French delegates, including the venerable Jules Cambon and the American-looking Andre TardifU, all pale.before the "Tiger," whose face, however it may be interpreted( pro claims leadership. So, indeed, do all the faces ot tho heads of the "Big Four." Power and brains areunmUtakable in their Surveying the gallery as a whole,' it is brains of which there is patent suggestion iu these photographs. That is the most salient and reassuring fact to be deduced from this unique facial clue to history. Limburg would .rather be Dutch than 'In Dutcb . The fact that no sane man expects to see a perfect covenant come out, of tjie Paris conference discounts the pessimistic cackle of the caVilers. The most we hart) a rlfikt to.expeU ty a fHlMcinlddllnv; iu gtrumjiw"rn,'wf e jmprovea upea M 1 awn s-' -. 4 m ft SS .- Mh '' - ,-iui-r , .v,a y 01 ss4J JBS-Tv t - - ' - IstV i. 4 ffJr "a. sifAa-asH . v , t'A , 1 .. '- ,--''" dswv- W il'i?W .- ,.-,:.r r;-s3 'JKatSf MmV' " SI, im' 1 & w ' :,;; ?i m .'' - utw PRUNES AND PJRISMS Famous Remarks Veni, Vidl, Vici. I appeal unto Caesar. Consider the lilies of the field. The kin: you will eventually buy. Obey that Impulscf. Revenge is a kind of wild justice. Your nose knows. I,ay on, Macduff. Once more unto the breach, lcar friends. A.sk the man who owns one. JJone b i the brave deserves the fair. V V V We all have V. V's eyes these dajs. V V V Desk Mottoes Even the clearest and most perfect cir cumstantial evidence is likely to be at fault, after all, and therefore ought to be received with great caution. Take the case of any pencil sharpened bv any woman.: if you have witnesses, you will find she did it with a knife; but if you take simply the P;V' the pencil, vou will sav she did it with her teeth. MAUK tvvai. V V V We hasten to contradict the rumor that the Easter Parade at Atlantic City was thrown into confusion by a lady appearing on the Boardwalk wearing cotton stockings. v v v x We suppose that, like all our contem poraries, we ought to set some definite date for the President's return, but we are so , afraid that he might not live up to it. V V V Rebirth TXrY HEAItT, I thought, died utterly when 1VX you . , Passed bv as in some silent night the snow, Or shadow clouds that, wraith-like, cpme and go , , , And leave no trace. Then all the world .was blue With violets, and daffodils' bright gold Brimmed -high the world with spring but left me cold ; How could I bear the ljlac-scented rain? I prayed Time would not bring them back again. Aj;D yet and jet, now spring is here, I'see - You coming through the greening fields, wind-blown, Or bending where but now the catkins shone, And from dusk violet haunts you smile at me ; The scent of clove and pink float through ,lie air' .,. 1 u t The lilac plumes wave proudly,, debonair, And Love lives on in just remembering, For you will come with eyery" new-born soring. ' JEANNE OLDFIELD POTTEB. V v v It wis a lovely week-end, and many a dollar spent Sunday at home for the last time until the loan matures. V V V Every crowd has a silver lining, and the Victory Ilian booths are golnfc to do the un hemming free ot charge. . V V V Icebox Raids THERE are 'two theories on the subject of midnight icebox raids. ' One Is that ot the hubband. The other Is that of the wife. The husband's theory is that if he takes a little of each dish he finds in the icebox, iiiitrinuiinr mi utDttumiuno cuunmxu over thfl stewed prupes, thecoHled snd naked polled potato, UVHfe.mtJag;'rs"ubij and.raltla ok. C SttttrtT atCset of tht Mia TRYING IT ON THE DOG FIRST v -n) lsr iiPSi-x ,l will be less noticeable. He imagines (in his simplicity) that when his wife rpviews her forces the next morning she will merely think that there was just a little less left of each dish than she hud imagined. He makes it a point of honor not to cat quite all of any one victual. Tho wife's theory is that Jt is far better to concentrate on one item say jtfic cold boiled potatoes nnd demolish it entiicly, than to take a little of all. The wife, of course, is right. For the result of the husband's siuister piracy is that each viand is reduced below the bulk nt which it is still useful as a left-over aud the nucleus of a servable dishVor the next day's lunch. And the wife, on the morning after the raid, is confronted by a tragic spec tacle : four prunes lowly nestling in their own sirup; a sliver of pie half an inch wide; seven pathetic string beans clammily resid ing in their humble earthenware custard pot ; and three Blices of cold beet. What can any housewife do with wreckage of that sort? It is not'onlv in France and Belgium that tcirible pioblems of iceotistruetion have to be facied. Our own life is not altogether pure in this matter, but we hereby throw the im mense influence of this department onto the side of wives, appealing to noctambulant husbands to eat all the potatoes or all the prunes, nud let the other things be. During the war, icebox raids were taboo. Shall we' fall back into the old state of .baibarism? We appeal to men of generous feeling to support us in this campaign. V V V To a Soldier You hesitate "because you'ic maimed, n care, If you were otherwise I could not share Your pain and glor.v, and I love the need That makes you want me, and the gallant deed That saved the others. My brave reckless boy, You gave jour treasure with a spendthrift's joy. My happy lover! now jou smile to hide Your wounded spirit and your tender pride, But as it must be, I can give you mori Ot love nnd service than 1 could before. Through the long jears you fear that I'Jl forget Though others may I'll pay my country's debt. Child, husband, countiy, as I'd love them all I Jove jou only you, tho highest call. PHOEBE HOFFMAN. VV V Typographical Joke G. Willlkers has found a headline that cajs the Germans insist ' on a 14-point covenant. He suggests that they are' more likely to get it set in 80-polut Old English boldface, and some Italics as well. V V V Boardwalk Review Suppose that we coiilc) always feel v , The difference Uwlxt the , False and real. Suppose that we could taste and tell Just what to take ,'i'o make us well. Suppose that we could hear a fly ' ' ' Walk.put across s The lemon pie. , If we could see a single hair Af mile or more Through foggy air, And then( i( wc could smell a rpse Some ninety miles . Beyond our nose, Would we be happy? Well J guess I That is, of course, If we had tho clothes, ANIDYL KING, i V V V Wc noticed a flockt birds flying over tbe city this -morning. nu were pieaseu 10 00 .f. Jefferson on Socialism on. let! rpHE following letter by Thomas Jefferson may be interesting rending to dense Dem ocrats who wish the government to continue to operate thosexprivate industries in which it engaged during the war: Monticcllo, July 28, 1808. ' To William B. Bibb: Sir I received your favor of July 1st, covering an offer of Mr. McDonald of an iiou mine to the public, and thank you for taking the trouble of making tho com munication, as it might have its utility. But having nlvvajs observed that public works are much less advantageously man aged tnan the same are by private hands, 1 have thought it better for the public to go to market for whatever it wants which is to be found there ; for there competition brings ft down to the minimum of value. I have no doubt we can buy brass can non at market cheaper than we could make iron ones. I think it material, too, not to abstract the high executive officers from those functions which nobody else is charged to carry on and to employ them in superintending works which are going on abundantly in private hands. Our predecessors went on different principles; they bought iron mines ami sought for copper ones. We own a mine at Harper's Ferry of the finest ifon ever put into a cannon, which wc are afraid to attempt to work. We have rented it heretofore, but it is now without a tenant. The world's revolutionary trend is" plainly mirrored in the fact that on the committees to have chargo of tho reception for the Twenty-eighth Division "eminent citizens" are to be ignored as such and place given only to men who arc able and willing to do things. What Do Yau Know? QUIZ 1. Who was called "The Expounder of the Constitution"? , U. Where is the Mummoth Cave? 3. Who is' the commander of the United States force's in northern Russia? 4. What Is the origin! of the phrase, "Tht Iioni? share"? ' B. What is the national air of France? 6. Who is Walker D. Hines? , 7. Where is Letvla? 8. Which psalm is known as the "Mis erere"? 0. Where is Washington buried? ,, 10. AVho were the "Mollle Magufres"? Answers to Saturday's Quiz 1. Tcrmagaut: a shrew. The Crusaders. brought back the story that Termagant was the wife of Mahomet. 2. Spartacans: the extreme ''Beds" In Germany. 3. Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilsqn was in 1 ' command of the American naval forces in. French waters during the war. 4. The sphinx; an emblem ot silence and mystery. A monument near Cairo, 1 Kgypti halt lion and half woman. B. New Haven is called "The City of Elms." 0. A. Mitchell Palmer is the attorney gen , eral ot the United States. 7. Stnbat Mater: aj.atin hymn on the Cru cifixion. ' ' 8. Tammany Btng : a set of New, York city officials vvho looted the treasury1 and who were'exposed in 1871. 0. "To sound one's own. trumpet"; In al lusion to the custom ot knights a a. lourney, whose heralds announced their entry Jnw me lists wun trumpets. Ifbana'tinw in II ft- nna'i i-f rt ti ol.a. - Means now to utter one own. praises v jjt i4vi? Gfewc-llrpaclvvay, KeVvYwk?.y j .fl WtM.? 4 JWl- y s l hut 'W$l Vl T-rr V?l J. '.,' 1 V it " . rV 1 1 '. 1 !,.. A ' .' fc. . l .. 1 iv. . A&, & : ' 1 , ' 'VWlf -,' 1 .' ',.' - &- " "te rtJ . O. !i '-. 1 - . ' M ST .
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