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TROUBLES OF A PRESIDENT
pRESIDENT WILSON'S trials will not
have ended when he sails home with
an acceptable covenant to a docile and
penitent Congress. There will remain
Burleson.
Burleson continues to loom as an issue
even more important to the Democrats
than the war or the lcaRue of nations.
He hks been called wrecker, sweat
shopper, slaver, tory and incompetent
tyrant. He cannot set along with capi
tal and he cannot fret along with labor.
Telegraphers, telephone pperators and
nil the people in the mail service are at
war with him. He is called a pel ii to
his paity and to the Wilson administra
tion. All the newspapers that have sup
ported the President through thick and
thin have hysterics of rage when they
think of BuYleson. They Vsniff, snuffle,
snarl or screech, according to their va
rious dispositions. To this rising and
overwhelming ciescendo of anger the
New York World now adds a hymn of
hate that roars and rumbles gloiiously to
the very heavens.
Mr. Burleson is one of the Piosidcnt's
best friends. If he has been loyal no
where else he- has been loyal to Mr. Wil
son. In mind and manner he is in no
way like his chief. What can be done
about him? That is the question that
the President must face as soon as he
lands, and it is not an easy one for a man
as fixed in his loyalty to his friends as
he is in his sense of duty to the people.
BLARNEY: KANSAS STYLE
''VOU may be assured," said Senator
- Curtis, of Kansas, to Miss Alice
Paul, the stormy little leader of all mili
tant suffragists in America, "that the
Susan B. Anthony amendment will be
considered and passed almost as soon as
J the next session of Congress opens!"
There arc times when Curtis, of Kan
sas, appears to know what he is talking
about There are times when he doesn't.
This is one of those times. If ever the
Susan B. Anthony amendment passes it
will go through Congress in a storm of
oratory that will be weeks long at the
very least. There is pressing business
on the congressional calendar to keep the
House and Senate busy for a month at
least unless the -railroads and all other
branches of the public service are to be
thrown headlong into confusion. Until
the money has been found to run the
government and find jobs for soldiers
suffrage ought to wait.
Curtis, of Kansas, knows this as well
as any one else. What we have to won
der at now .is whether he merely wished
to be polite or whether he was anxious
to get away to an appointment or
whether we are to see something new in
the way of a filibuster at the next ses
sion. UNCLE JOE IN PORTO RICO
TTNCLE.JOE CANNON'S best friends
-' would not venture to call him a torch
.bearer for humanity or an evangel of
progressive thought. This Joe of ours is
often a trial to rational minds. But
there was a touch of hard, middle-western
common sense about his lecent
speech to the Porto Ricans that com
mends him again to a sort of admira
' tion.
Mr, Cannon'-: reply to the plaintive
demands of Porto Rico for independence
and freedom was almost harsh. He re
minded the island people that they were
well off better off perhaps than any
people in the Caribbean. He told them
they would get independence when they
were ready for it and not before. Ho
manifested a testy impatience with the
endless clamor for "freedom" that rises
from small peoples who wouldn't know
what to do with absolute political inde
pendence if they had it. And he spoke
solid truth.
If small peoples anywhere in the world
have a safe and prosperous time of it
they aro on this side of the earth. Porto
,5s ., Hlco and Cuba have blossomed and
Brown prosperous. If, undeu indenend-
1WM nt government, Porto Rico should stum-
l'i i-.'Me into trouble or into bad company it
rh' is 'the United States that would have to
ia?.jt'i Ill- J !!- r r.
'ggj. J)y wiui money unu ancmice. iur. jnn
y&f non'a intimation that tho nnlirlinne
'tf seeking offico and glory had better wait
M-iJT-a while longer and until tho world o.
SgjlSjl tics down was timely.
WHAT DO YOU KNOW?
1vli'TT U3BD t0 be 8aW that the wa""i " it
ntWnff else for America, would
-iin9rive pur knowledge of geography
V'MVi world affairs. The lively minded
, )wn who arranged the Vfctory Loan
!. ' lUeerations in the region of City Hall
HV unintentionally provded a test of
rnw culture,
aw'jwahy of the flags in the general
fjl.i' .;- . i ii i
. on ,yitu rNWEime Almost
IWhflr' to Mp W4h ,vrhom
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wo fought. Tho decorators themselves
haven't a good memory for war's lessons
if they may be judged by one detail of
their work. Very properly they intended
to honor Japan. But they have, instead,
done honor to the Japanese mercantile
marine a mercantile marine, by the
way, that has been becoming a serious
rival of our own. The flags of Nippon
now on display carry the ie.d disc on a
white ground and aie, therefore, the
merchant flngs of the .Japanese. The
national flag of Japan is the sun flag,
which has n red disc with rays.
It is'interesting to observe that a good
many folk who believe they can scent a
difference between a Bolshevik and n Bol
.shevist have so far been unable to recog
nisso many of the flags of the Allies'
cause.
NO RIPPER OR FORCE BILLS
CAN HELP REAL REFORM HERE
Senator Penrose's Meddling With the
Citizens' Revision Program Impsrlls
Its Chief Object, Home
Rule In City
TI- SENATOR PENROSE had set out
maliciously to wiecK tne plans ot the
citizens' charter revision committee for
honest refoim of this city's government
he could not have adopted any couise
moie effecthc than his present one at
Harrisbuig.
With the senator's appeal arcc nt the
state capital yesterday came the first
fruits of those sinister schemes to pcr-
veit chaiter revision to factional ends of
which warning was sounded in these col
umns scvcial weeks ago.
Under cloak of sincerity as lcpreaented
by the citizens' committee and its many
months of conscientious efforts, the po
litical chieftain of Pennsjhania at large
seeks to strangle Senator Vaie, the po
litical chieftain of Philadelphia. The
situation is inteiesting, amusing from
some angles yind even diamatic. But to
the true refoimers it must be regarded
as potent'ully serious and pel haps even
tually tiagic, since it plunges the whole
discussion of municipal reform into the
realm of peanut partisanship, where it
ought not to be.
Thdre may be some earnest citizens
who will applaud- the denouement, re
membeiing that when piofessional poli
ticians fall out honest men sometimes
come into their due. But they are mis
taken in this instance, for whatever the
end to be served, they cannot afford to
countenance resort to such methods as
the senior senator now seems bent upon
using to win control of the next city ad
ministration. If the real independents
will only insist that the charter-revision
piogram be passed as originally planned,
without concessions to either faction,
they can keep contiol in the public at
large and there need be no vicious,
precedent-making "rippers."
Fortunately, Governor Sproul is not
losing his head. He is not a neophyte in
this business of factionalism. He has
seen a lot of it during his long career
in the Legislature and kept singularly
free of entangling alliances. That is the
secret of his following throughout the
state and his prestige with all lines in
the Republican party. As he emphati
cally indicated in his comprehensive in
terview with a representative of this
newspaper at Hot Spiings yesterday, he
is on the side of sensible and practical
reforms as embodied in the charter
levision program for a smaller Council,
financial improvements, better civil serv
ice restrictions and the separation of the
police from politics, but without the aid
of "rippers" in any style, however sugar
coated with reform.
As we have repeatedly pointed out,
home rule is the essence pi reform for
Philadelphia's government. We want
less interference from Harrisburg and
more freedom to construct or change ac
coiding to the needs and growth of the
city. Yet Senator Penrose would stultify
this purpose in the very beginning by en
laiging instead of diminishing the power
of the state authority to interfere.
Governor Sproul hit the situation
neatly on the head when he said that the
bait dangled before him was meant to be
tempting, since it would expand his
power of appointment, though at present
it might only be confined to naming a
commissioner who would be the actual
head of the local police, superseding or
hamstringing local authority. "The peo
ple should not be deprived of their right
to elect their officials," said the Gov
ernor, and he is entiiely right.
If the people of Philadelphia are not
competent to select proper officials for
their government they can make no com
plaint. We believe they are, but Senator
Penrose evidently docs not, and his im
plied suggestion is an insult to the in
telligence of the public.
Of course, it is obvious that Senator
Penrose has in mind control of the Phila
delphia police during the campaigns
before the mayoralty primary and gen
eral election next fall. He wishes to
render the present administration power
less to use or abuse the police power at
that time. He probably Would disavow
anything more, although his opi onents
will charge that he would not be averse
to using the force on the other side.
The senator can be alluring in argu
ment. He and his friends are adepts at
reform in theory if not in practice.
There is even reason to believe that
some ardent but impetuous spirits among
the independents already have lent will
ing ears to such seductive reasoning.
But they ought to beware. No gopd
thing was ever obtained in a wrong way.
A "metropolitan police commission"
has an ear-filling sound that may deceive
some people. But there Is nothing In the
plan to guarantee against misuse of the
force any more than under the present
system, Suppose the appolntm'ent of the
commls!onr hd been in the hands of
i"- ,.. t,f " u
some of our governors, especially n re
cent one. Would there have been nny
likelihood of keeping the men out of
politics? Certainly not. The very sug
gestion is f cell j in idea.
The only way the police can be kept
out of politics Is the way Mayor Blank
cnburg did it by ordering that they
shall do nothing but real police duty
and seeing that the order is obeyed. In
other words, when the people of Phila
delphia realize that, after all is said and
done, the primary lcsponsibility for hon
est administration in office rests with
themselves, and when the laws aie im
proved and strengthened so as to make
that responsibility effective, it will be
easy to keep tho police or any other
officeholders out of pernicious political
activity and not before. Patent con
trivances are purest bunk and Senator
Penrose, probably most of all, knows it.
A GREAT MAN'S SHOES
'pilOSE who knew and admired the late
-1- Colonel Roosevelt have little reason
to feel exalted or reassured as they
appraise the men who have appointed
themselves heirs to the prestige and pur
poses left by the Sage of Sagamore Hill.
Of the originality and independence
iftul daring that characterized Colonel
Roosevelt his disciples show no trace.
Indeed, it seems questionable at times
whether they really knew or understood
their friend and leader.
Gifford Pinchot, for example, after
meditating in the fastness of Pike county,
cries out to the nation to nominate
General Leonard Wood for the presi
dency because General Wood is presumed
to be representative of tho Roosevelt
mind and the Roosevelt manner. But is
General Wood in any respect like Colonel
Roosevelt?
The general is an able man and a gorxi
organizer, and he has the love of mili
tary life and the sort of vocal and pug
nacious Ameiicanism which many people
still believe were minor flaws in the
otheiwise remaikablc personality of the
Piesident whose friend he was. In the
piping times of peace the nation might
be expected to manifest its high regard
for the Roosevelt tradition by sending
one of the late President's closest friends,
to the White House. But if he is to 'be
successful in years that will be hardly
less critical and trying than those that
have jus.t passed, the next President must
have other qualifications than friendship
for Roosevelt and belief in his policies.
Mr. Pinchot's assertion that President
Wilson will run again shows how woe
fully a prophet can deteriorate from lack
of practice. Mr. Wilson is not likely to
run again unless he is compelled to do
so by lack of available material for the
presidency in his own party.
MORE LIGHT IN MEXICO
TT IS stated unofficially upon the au---
thority of the Mexican Government
that General Blanquot, who was killed in
battle the other day while trying to start
a new revolution, carried papers which
prove that his adventure was planned
and financed in this country by men who
seek or control valuablo concessions in
Mexico.
Blanquet was a survivor of the Huerta
regime. He departed from New York a
few weeks ago press-agented like a
prima donna. Now his head is being car
ried on a pike in some of the Mexican
cities. But the efforts of those groups
which have always seemed determined to
involve Mexico and the United States in
war will not end with Blanquet's death.
Carranza has almost run his course.
Even though he suffered for a time with
pro-German abenations he has made des
perate effoits to establish a stable gov
ernment for the good of the people.
Whoever succeeds him will be far mote
friendly toward the United States be
cause .influential opinion in Mpxico is
rapidly becoming Pan-American. Blan
quet and his native supporters aimed to
get in at the turn of the tide. They had
no enlightened program and were com
mitted to policies of corruption and op
pressive militarism.
Such Americans as aid Mexican revolu
tionists have always had one of two pur
poses. They seek to profit by connip
tion or to inspire an annexationist war
spirit in this country. What would we
say if the process were reversed? If
the State Department can obtain the
names of the Americans found on Blan-
,quet they should be placarded from one
end of the United states to the other.
One mny ngn-p with
A Question of the f-ens-e ami purpose
Manners nf Dr. Lislitnor AVit-
uior's criticism of the
Hoard of Education nml nt tho snine timo
lament the rough -anti -tumblp phraseology of
the daily outbuists from the psychological
laboratories nt the I'nhersity. Doctor Wit
iner'n aim is better than his manners in
most iiihtnnrcH. And if he doesn't soon
realize this he may jet bo listed with the
great and growing company of Reformers
Who Do More Harm Than Good.
Snitzerlnnd is clap
Advice to n ping heavy taxes on
Friendly Nation the dukes, diplomat
ists, princes and other
struy royalties who hnve cought safety
within Its borders. And having acquired
the money, the Swiss will do well to send it
abroad for snfe keeping.
A London Miburb re-
Where Local ports that otic of Its
Pride Itules itizens lind his hair
rut by lightning. H
any such phenomenon were reported from
KanxaH it would have included at leant a
bhave and a nhampoo.
Life would be wonder
ful, wouldn't It, if we
could all borrow an
easily as our Uncle
lie (Had You
Can't
Samuel?
The George Washington Is nt Brest.
Now will they behave?
Egg were rolled in Washington on
Easter Monday. The logs waited for Con
gress to ensemble.
If you don't like to be asked to buy a
bond, there Is an easy way to escape the
popular supplication. Buy two.
Kpeaklug of HolahevNm, lan't there
something bit fantastic about a people,
who beg bread one minute aud defy the
world tue next
iu tuq aexif
HOW QUAY PASSED THE
PITTSBURGH RIPPER LAW
He Secured Control of a Hostile Legis
lature and Then Used It to
Punish His Enemies
rpilE famous Pittsburgh ripper law of
-1- innl got It name from a remark of
Senator tuny. While talking nbout the law
in lis preliminary stages he said, with a
grim smile :
"It will tip Pllnn up the had;."
'Hint was Its purpose. It was n deliberate
and premeditated attack by Senator Quny
upon the iinlltlc.il conttol of Pittsburgh by
Senators Klinn nnd Mngee nnd an attempt
to transfer the control of the city to the
friends of Quay. ,
Quny had fulled of ire-eleetlon to the
I'ulted States Senate at the session of the
Legtslatuic in 1MH). The deadlock con
tinued till the cloe of the legislative ses
sion. It was impossible for him to break
It. Rut as soon as the Legislature ad
journed Governor Stone appointed Quny to
the Sennte.
The Senate, however, nfter hearing nrgu
ments on Irntli ships nf the case, decided that
the lioieriior lind no (ontitutlonnl power
In appoint Qiiiij. The (Jinrrnor imilil ex
ercise the power (if appointment when a
viii-nm-j occurred during the recess of the
Legislature, hut when the Legislature had
had nn npiinrtmiitj to elect a senator nud
had failed to elect mm It ,mlst be assumed
llint the stale deliberately pieferred to
leave the acancy utilllled. The Senate
theiefore refused to seat Quay.
rplli: chief issue in the election of 1000 be
- eame the indorsement of Quay, as he was
still a candidate for the United States Sen
ate. The voters turned him down. The
state .Senate was a tic. evenly divided be
tween the Quay suppntters nnd opponents.
The House, with 201 members, lontnined
foil) -nine Demiiciats, who were, nf cnuise,
counted in the opposition, nud lifty-nix He
publicans, who before their election had
signed n pledge thnt they would tiot vote for
Qunj under nny circumstnnces. This made
lli.i hostile votes.
As soon us the ballots weie counted
Quay and his lieutenants got bus, with the
deti'iniination nf securing the support of
enough w.tcs in oigani.e the Legislature
and later In send Quny himself tn Wash
Iiigton ii mi in as senator. They peisiiniled
Senator Wiishhui tie. who had been elected
as n Populist and Dcmocmt. to vote with
the Quay foiccs in organizing the Senate,
and with the nid nf .McTighe. elected as an
niiti-Qiiiij rnnriidiite, bucked up by Hint nf
live Democrats,' tin- organized the House.
This wns victory number one for political
manipulation to defeat the will of the peo
ple. TriCTOHY number two enme when on
January LI, 1001, Quay wns elected to
the Senate on the first ballot with n vote
of 104 in the House and L'O ir. the .Senate.
Wiislibiirne, who voted with the Quay forces
in organizing the Sennte. still voted with
them. In the House seven Republicans
who had pledged themselves to oppose the
election of Quay voted for him. nnd one
Democrat wns found willing to nssist in
the betrayal of the people who had voted
for him.
Now the nucstion for Quay to consider
was what was to be done to punish the
men who had kept him out of the Senate
for two enrs nud had cnused him the
humiliation of going to Washington with
credentials which the Secnte refused to
recognize. The answer was found in the
Pittsburgh ripper bill, which, ns already
indicnted, Quny said would rip Plinu up the
bnck.
TIIIIS bill, which became a law, was intro-
duced on January 21 by Senator Jluehl
bronner, of Allegheny, six days after Quay
was elected to the Sennte. It provided a
charter fnr the second -class cities of the
state, namely, Pittsburgh, Allegheny and
Scranton, because it bad to be drawn iu
such a form in older to be constitutional.
Its important provision was a grant of
power to the Governor of the state to re
move the mayors of these cities forthwith
and to appoint in their place recorders who
should perform the duties of mayor and
hold office, not until the next election, but
until April nf HIO.'l, or for two jean. Tho
recorder wns to hnve power to remove virtu
ally nil bends of departments nnd all po
litical appointees and to till the vacancies
with men of his own selection, Its purpose
wns to bring nbout the removal of n Flinu
major of Pittsburgh nnd to put in his place
n Quay mayor, who wonJd through his ap
pointees use the police nnd the political ma
chinery' for the benefit of the Quay mu-i-hine.
There was a lot of talk nbout boss
(ontrol in Pittsburgh nnd nbout the unsat
isfactory conditions prevailing in the city
government, but it was admitted on nil
hands that it was not icform which the bill
sogght, but merely a chnnge of political ton-'
trol.
TTIIEN the date for consideration of the
' bill on second rcadiug approached Quay
himself went to Harrisburg to line up his
forces. He succeeded so well that the bill
was paused on second rending on February
27 by the House and was sent to the (iov
ernor on February 2S. The Governor
signed it on Mnich 7. nnd on the snme dny
appointed the mayor of Scranton ns the
first .rcconler ot thnt city, thereby extend
ing the term of that officlul for n year. This
appointment had been made in "order that
a state of, fncts could he created on which
the courts could be asked to consider the
constitutionality of the new law. Within
ten days Presiding Judge Archbald, of the
county court, declared the law constitutional
and in May the Supreme Court sustained
his decision.
TN THK meantime Governor Stone np-
pointed Major A. M. Brown, n reputable
and successful business man, as recorder of
Pittsburgh. Every one was surprised at the
eharnctcr of the appointment. Itut Major
.Drown did what wan expected of him he
turned the government of the city over to
the opponents of Fllnn. Hut before many
months Major Brown split with the Quay
machine and he was removed by the (!ov
ernor after the November election and J. O
Brown, a Fllnn mnn, wits named as' his
successor. Thus twice within n year the
chief executive officer of the second largest
city in the state was named by the Gover
nor. In flagrant disregard of every principle
of home rule and merely' to serve the pur
poses of the politienl boss of the state. The
city was made a plaything of fuctiona'l poll
tics. The scandal was so great that it at
tracted the attention of the wholo country
and to this day legislation like that paused
at the order of .Quay Is called ripper legis
lation, In whatever state it ls'proposed.
To ask' for a perfect league of nations
before one Is fornied is like demanding a per
fect alrplano before starting to fly. But-present-day
success In the air is based on
countless mistakes made by brave and enter
prising men.
Honor, writes a correspondent In Latin
America to his newspaper In Ntw York, U
npcessafr to success in tin emni-t m,t
?Wer W uwipr not an aid to upce?
j i, bcji? 1 uwjor noi an Bia to succwf "
THE CHAFFING DISH
If Love Affairs Were Conducted
by
Foreign Correspondents;
or Open Covenants Openly Arrived At
A PHIL 15 Engagement of Miss Jones nnd
A Mr. Smith is teportcd.
April 10 Great enthusiasm iu both fami
lies. April IS Itumored rupture of relations.
April 20 Situation very tense.
April 22 Mr. Smith will go Itolshevik if
engagement is broken.
April 2r Deadlock between Mr. Smith and
Mr. Jones.
April 27 The crisis is over. All serene.
April I!0 .Mr. Smith brings Mrs. Jones a
box of enndy. (Jreat enthusiasm
over nppioacliing union.
Mny 2 Second crisis bursts like a bomb
shell. Miss Jones threatens to
become IlolshevKcn.
Mny C Will Mr. Jones break with Mr.
Smith? If so, nil is over.
Mny S Messrs. Smith nnd Jones seen
playing golf together. Crisis
pnst.
5Iny 10 Mrs. Jones said to hnve aroused
her daughter's home feelings.
Miss Jones will refuse all en
tangling alliances.
May 1,1 Disquieting rumorx.
May IC Confusion prevails.
May. 18 Fall of the Jones household pre
dicted authoi'itntively.
May 21 Mr. Smith said to he discredited
in the eyes of thinking men.
May 25 The Jones household presents a
united front.
May 2S Experts agree that the situation
is hopeless.
June 1 The young couple are happily
married.
V V V
Desk Mottoes ,
The woman one enjoys meeting must be
something of a woman of the world. She
need not necessarily be a SOod wife or
mother. We uie provided with the best of
wives and nt the moment nie not on the.
lookout for a good mother. "77ce Amenities
of Hook ColleclUiti."
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After watching the Rmnll boys clustered
about the cnptuicil German guns on Broad
street we realized why Americans make' good
fighters. Those guns hndu't been on the
street fifteen minutes bcfoie urchins w'cic
gnthering from all directions, drawn by un
erring instinct. They swarmed over the
(ieldpieccs, nnd nfter n few moments' in
spection they had learned how to operate
the breech blocks, raise or lower the barrel
and knew the function of every lever thnt
was still in commission. On one gun wc
stopped to look at yesterday morning four
small boys had organized themselves into n
crew ond were going through what they
lnfngined ns the appropriate gestures of
loading, uming and firing at a kaiser sta
tioned somewhere near the .rubbish can at
the midpoint of the Broad and Chestnut
crossiug. They were very professional in
their movements mid took great pride in
exhibiting their team work to passcrsby
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Wc brooded philosophically oer the first
gun we came to. Here (we thought with
somber satisfaction) stood the hated Prus
sian officer, commanding his pieeo to tire
upon some defenseless Freucji hamlet
Upon this lever rested the calloused uud
bloody band of n bocha urtilleryinuii, now
perhaps hoping to get back his old job as
a waiter in a New York hotel. Through
this rifled barrel sped the screaming hell
bolts of Bertha Krupp. Wc opened the
breech nnd gazed grimly through the shin
ing tube. This very handle, wo paid to
ourself, has been worn bright by the
ensanguined hands of'a desperate and pitiless
fo, aiming the deadly weapon UKolust the
advancing ranks of our own bravo men.
We examined the muzzle and found on It
the words "Watcrvllet Arsenal, 1608." It
was an American gun, .
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The German, guns ttftn tobcpf. a
mueh
1 iuore recast tktei.
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"WHATCHER GOIN T'DO ABOUT IT?"
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made by Miigirus. I'lm. It'll 8. This inter
csled us. us I'lm is n town we wanted to
visit when wc weie in that' part of the
world. Wc' never did so, however. The ren
son for our wish was simple enough. L'lm
is famous not only for its cathedral, but
even more so for. its carved and decorated
pipe bowls, which are so popular among
German smokers. Wo thought that was
seven years, ngo it would bo pleasant to
have n leal I'lm pipe.
It wns it bad dny for l'lm when it gave
up carving pipe bowls and turned its at
tention to making artillery.
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Speaking of nitillery. permit us to litter
a word of applause for the fine old brass
enrronade or htn'ntiebiiH or whatever it is
that stands in the central aisle of Iude
pendence Hull. It is mounted on a quaint
wooden can iage. vvliic h attracts much at
tention from visitors ns a well-preserved
example of the sturdy simplicity of
medieval workmanship. The fuct is tb.at
the carriage wns made by our friend Victor
Anderson, the boss carpenter at Inde
pendence Hull, only n few weeks ago.
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And, by the wny, is the map of the world
in the Supreme Court room nt Independence
Hall a joke? It purports to sho'w how large
a proportion of the globe, today is gov
erned by republics. The key states that re
publics nre marked in white, the British
empire iu light gray, other governments in
dark gray mill black. But the amusing
thing is that no light gray Is anywhere to
be found on the map except the oceans.
All the sea surface of the world is printed
in light gray. Britain's earthy dominions
are colored white, just like the republics.
This tribute to Great Ifritnin as mistress
of the sens mny be a wnggishncss, or per
haps it was intended as a tribute to Cap
tuin Carpenter, of the Vindictive, whose
portion of the concrete mole nt Zecbruggc is
now displayed in the s-nme room. But the
error ought to be corrected.
V V V
If any patrons of the Dish were Nos. 2."i8,
2.",22. IMJ1S, 4,-.:i2, 1021S. -MS, 340:, 10015
or 15217 in the first draft it would interest
them to see the large glnss bowl used in
the drawing, which was given to Independ
ence Hall by Captain Chnrles It. Morris.
The original scraps of paper bearing these
fateful numbers arc shown in tho same
cuse.
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Some light-hearted citizen, weary of
toting his overcoat during these warm days,
threw it petulantly Into the little rolling
ash can that stands under the light standard
in the middle of Broad street at the Chest
nut street crossing. It looked to us like n
very comely surtout and we were steering
rapidly toward it, but the white wings on
duty there reached it first, lie drew the.
garment from the can, smoathed it out nnd
folded It curefully over the haudlc of Ills
little vehicle. Iu the golden light of the
setting sun he set off for home, trundling
his can. It was a highly presentable
redingote. The next time the street-cleaning
department calls for recruits wc shall be
highly tempted to volunteer.
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It is worth a stroll In Independence
Square, these bright mornings to study the
variously blended tints of tho juvenile
foliage. Unfortunately, several of the
sipiure's trees seem to be dead, but the rest
are burgeoning bravely. Osc realizes afresh
every spring how many different colors
there are In the new leaves. Every shade
of pale green, yellow, straw-, bronze and
even pink flutters ond waves in 'the sparkling
sunshine. When the sparrows volplauo
down from the treetops you can 'see a svvjft
glint of amber light under their wings
where the sun glows through tho membranes.
Martha, tlm Htute House cot, has probably
noticed this too,
V V V
Mayb'(j you are thinking that this is eoluc
lo DC a naro wcck, uut just consider Messrs.
Erzberger anil the other German delegates,
'4tn?j fMuxft"" ti vriBuiiiua uu lUB.llfli;
The Nurse Who Stayed Home-
WE HAVE hailed with adoration our
nurses overseas,
And their worthy deeds of valor justly
brought us to our knees ;
But there's still another idol and we
, haven't far to roam
'Tis the girl who nursed the old folks and
the babies here at home.
Hers tho task to heal the aged or tho ehll- it
dren left behind ;
Hers the lot to render comfort unto those,
of feeble mind ;
Hers to serve in ward and household in this
land from sen to sea,
While her sister nurses served the cause in
winning victory.
And she had no thrill of battle to excite
her to her task ;
Aud she had no dream of glory ah 1 what
honors could she ask? '
It was naught but simple goodness love of
home, of life anil art
That has kept her nt the bedsides in her
vigils with her chart.
Oh, the never-ending story of our woman
hood In war! '
The imperishable glory that is heralded afarl
Here's a health to her that ventured far be
yond the ocean foam,
And a double health forever to the tfurse
who stayed at home.
Itemsen Crawford, in New York Herald. J I
Perhaps It la Dishwashing
Butgers College has now- abolished Greek
as n requirement for the degree of A. B.
Almost, all the colleges are doing It. But
what arc they substituting for Greek that is
"just as good"? New York World.
What bo You Knoiv?
QUIZ
1. How many persons have abdicated or
have been dethroned as u result of t:
Uerman l evolution:
2. Iu what year was the Panama Canal
opened for traffic?
3. What is a helix?
4. Who wrote "Moll Flanders"?
0, What is the predominant religion in
India?
0. What language employs quesion marks
both before and nfter written or print
ed interrogative sentences?
7. In. .what century did the painter Titian
live?
5. In what Island was Eleiithcrios Venizc
i los, the distinguished Greek statesman,
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tipped?
10. The birthday of o world figure In litera
ture occurs tomorrow. Who was ho?
Answera to Yesterday's Quiz
1. "The Expounder of the Constitution1
was Daniel Webster,
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3. Brigadier Wilds P. Itichardsou has just?
taken command of the United States -)
forces In northern Itussia, wjtb head-
quarters at Arcliungel.
4. "The lion's share"! the, biggest portion -J
in a division. From one of Aesop's - I
fables.
T. The "Marseillaise" is the national nti-
them of France, , ik
0. Walker D. Hines in the director gen- f
erai oi me united tatcs railroad
administration. t
7, Letvla : A new republic basod on one ot i
the former Baltic provinces of Russia. '
The natives arc called Letts,
8. .Th fifty-first Psalm is known as tht '
"Miserere iron) tho opening word.
0. Washington Is burled at Mount A'ernoa, -i'I
nn thn Pntninrtp. 1 -I
10. Mollle Slagulres ; A secret society in th "
Pennsylvania mining regions, .whlektj
f-aii- ,n.vJjiijgL',wiw many crimen.-.-' it
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