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,long time than tlu- pawuii ii liOOU uunicn
Ya woikers yesteiday aftiMimon.
J. The women in line were tin lepie.-i'ti-
! tatives of countIe!s tlnmaiuN of othcis
vho have devoted then- timi- and strenpth
and money to the pieat tal. in which the
nation has been enjraned They haw
worked witli an enthusiasm and a devo- j
tion unsurpassed by aii iither class of
citizens. If the could have touBht 111
the trenches they would have enlisted.
They did the thing which lay at then
hand, and they did it well.
And they aie continuing to displa the
spirit of genuine Americanism, foe they
arp working heait and soul to make the
Victory Loan a success. Their maniiei
as they marched the streets indicated
that they were not out for a laik. but
were engaged in a serious business. They
have assisted effectively in floating pie
'vious loans, and they will once more
demonstrate their ability to fulfill all the
responsibilities of citizenship.
THE EXPECTED HAPPENS
WHETHER the lefusal of Doctoi
Strayer, of the teacher' college of
Columbia University, to accept the post
of superintendent of public instruction in
this state is diplomatic or not remains to
b'c seen.
It was too much to expect that a man
serving in a university wheie the fuM
professois receive S7500 a year would
.accept a position paying only $5000.
If we are to get the right kind of a.
nan to succeed the late Doctor Schaeffei
the Legislatuie will nave to provide a
more nearly adequate salai y than that
now authorized by law.
Doctor Strayer's iefual of the post
may possibly be leconsidered if the
Legislature should act. But whether it
Is or rot, tne Legislature ought to act at
once, as we said on this page yesteiday.
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PROSPERITY BOJNDS
AFTER the Victory Loan has been taken
. up by the people Governor Sproul is
planning to float the first issue of a series
of what may propetly be called Pros
perity Bonds.
In July he will call for bids for $10,
V)00,000 of highway bonds, the proceeds
.from the sale of which will be used in
improving the roads of the state. He
has authority to borrow S."0,000,000 for
this purpose, and he has announced in
Hot Springs that he purposes to spend
this sum before the c'ose of his adminis
tration, Eveiy one who knows what good mads
will do for a community is gratified that
the good-roads movement in Pennsylva
nia is rapidly passing fiom the stage of
."talk to the stage of actum. (Jontiacts
have already been let for mi k in various
parts of the state. .Specifications for
other contracts are being uiawn or aie
ready to be submitted to bidders for
their consideration. It looks as if the
road-building campaign would be m full
BWing before the leaves begin to fall.
If the money is properly used, as we
have every reason to believe it will be,
.the vast sum will be invested in one of
tho most profitable enterpi 'ses on which
any community can engage, lor every dol
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lar spent on the highways will create
from two to ten dollars in new value in
tho farm lands through which the high
ways pass and will decrease the cost of
marketing all the crops which have to be
carried from the faim to the ladroad sta
tion or to the ultimato consumers in the
neighboring towns.
A GOVERNMENT OF FOOLS
,fpHE depth of the abyss of economic
' ignorance in which Lenine is flounder
ipg is revealed by his remarks on money
quoted in an interview, the report of
Which comes to this country by way of
Geneva.
Lonlne bays that the Bolshevik pimt
,1ng presses aie kept busy turning out
'vinnn. v,ir in nvinn T V, n f I tl (i nnffni-c. rC
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frytHe, state may be filled "with practically
' Worthless paper, with the deliberate in-
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'! Hcntion 01 uesiroymg me vuiuu ui money
aaa means of payment." "There is no
. justification for money in a Bolshevist
Jutotatc,' ho says, "where the necessities of
" Hre shall be pai4 for by work alone." He
"v"hAldiricovered that capitalism cannot be
?, roefytT out'by confiscation or by cxpro
li'v riatlon, so ho proposes to exterminato it
i r -t A J l.M.!n. iltn finliin rf nil rnntnr it.
.i-jrculatlon.
. It is apparent that he thinks that
lt4iiey is the basis of what he chooses to
ML'capjtaltsm( wi.cn us u niaiier oi iacv
inaiipv is a mere incident. Capitalism is
& result of accumulated property,
Mp0U6r 1C DO'JUIIUiWl mnoi v. liuiirea, ui
buildings, or macnincry, or wnm
'fr&pMiMii.i t be flwtrojed, all
forms of property must bo destroyed and
society must revet t to the stage of primi
tive barbarism.
The destruction jf money involves
merely tho dcstiuction of an inturmr
diary commodity used to facilitate barter.
It enables a man to exchange his labor
for the inteimediary commodity and then
to exchange the intermediary commodity
for food and clothing and whatever else
he desires. It is really a representative
of labor, and is the most convenient device
available for exchanging the labor of the
tailor for tho labor of the farmer and the
labor of the farmer for the labor of the
sugar manufactuter. But Lenine and his
fellow Marxians do not seem to be aware
of this elementary fact. And they seem
to lie ignorant of other elementary facts
also, so ignorant, indeed, that their
effoitf to establish a Maixian state aie
doomed to ignominious failure sooner or
latei.
A MONUMENT. QUICK, FOR
AN ACCIDENTAL PATRIOT!
Mr. Burleson Continues to Shock the
Country Into a Sense of the Perils
of Government Ownership
OO.MKHOIlV with a yearning to do good
should img up the railway brother
hoods who jui. pu-nnrinir to lobby for
1 government ownership at the coming
session f Cungiess, and beseech them to
' give momentary attention to the uproar
j in the mnil and who service and tlw ip
i cent incredible experience of the New
! Yoik Win Id.
I I' or the first tune in bistoij a gag has
j been applied on tin- telegraph lines to
I stop newspapi r ciituism of a public ofii-
eml.
The public ofluial was .Mi. Burleson.
Mr. liuiieson contioK the wires. To the
World wa denied the light to telegraph
the text ftf an aitieii which expiessed its
npened opinions of the postmaster gen
oral. It is but fair to say that no formal
orders from Washington were ieponsi
ble for the wne gag in Xew Yoik. It ap
pears, lather, that the officials in a serv
ice already tenor i idden were unwilling
to take chances. The atmosphere pic-
ailing in the mail system and m the
telegraph service makes it appear that
they used good judgment and merely re
acted to an instinct of self-preservation.
Lately, in the postal sen-ice. those who
criticize the Presence or assume to lead
the rank and file in effoits for self-betterment
aie piomptly f'ned. The news
paper of the Postal Telegraph Company's
employes lias been suppressed under
orders fiom above. It daicd to criticize
some of the conditions of the sen ice and
Cns .not always laudatory in its com
ments on Mr. Burleson.
Conservative representatnes of the
men in the Postofiice Depaitment aie
telling the wot Id that their sen lee is
packed with spies. Under the piesent
administration tho mail sjstejn has been
buidened by efficiency systems, espionage
i ind schedules brutally devised to pare
I down the wages of men who aie ulieady
. underpaid and overdiiven. The Mist
postal system of the country is operated
by disillusioned and disheartened men.
The wire systems seethe with discon-
tent.
i But Mi. Burleson is not a faduie
He is a magnificent success.
! He does not deserve abuse. He de-
sen es, instead, a tall monument a beau
tiful white shaft in a green place writ
ten over with the fondest expressions of
gratitude that his countrymen can deie.
For he has done more in his short period
to make the perilous theorj of go em
inent ownership ridiculous and detested
than an ordinary man could accomplish
in a lifetime of ardent effort.
Scribblers might tciibble for a geneia
tion, theorists might declaim until they
were hoarse and yet they would do less
than Mr. Burleson has done to reveal the
accumulation of assorted disasteis that
may follow one-man control of essential
public utilities in a country that depends
upon free speech, free communication
and the party system of politics as es
sentials of its life.
For Mr. Burleson is nothing moie or
less than a politician with a politician's
limitations of mind accidentally in con
trol of agencies whose potentialities he
does not even comprehend. There is no
reason why his mistakes might not be
lepeated upon a more disastrous scale
by others as limited as he if, in the future,
we are to adventure further in govern
ment ownership of utilities. It happens
that the postmaster geneial has applied
to the affairs of his office the prejudices
of a sleety toryism and a temperamental
dislike and distrust of woikingmen.
Were he of another type, if he had
special mteiesls to sene or friends to
protect; if he were a convinced partisan
of such bugand gtoups as used to rule
American industry, his power now would
be terrible to contemplate. The fact of
the matter is that the utilities of the
country are too vast and too complicated
ever to be left under the control of one
man. whether he be merely a narrow
minded egotist with a genius for making
trouble or an adroit politician ready to
use the essential resources of the country
to terrorize his enemies and protect his
friends.
It is woith wondering what would
happen if the railway brotherhoods at
some future time should find themselves
under the control of a man like Mr. Bur
leson. What would the brotherhoods do,
for example, if each of their influential
leaders was unceremoniously discharged
from the service whenever he undertook
to act as the representative of his union?
In the mail service the ablest leaders of
the different associations have been
dropped from the service one by one.
Are the brotherhoods aching to have
similar rules applied to them when some
future Burleson comes along to be di
rector of railroads?
What a weapon of terrorism the rail
roads and the telegraph lines would be
in the hands of an unscrupulous politi
cian playing a big, and perhaps a des
perate, gamo if he happened to bo pos
sessed of the energy that Is Mr. Burle
son's most conspicuous virtue!
The subtler Implications of the wire
gag incident are altogether sinister. Mr.
Burleson hadn't issued any orders to stop
newspaper matter on the wires. The
I -worst of, the whole sjJwitlon I? that m
worst of the whole suwiUon I? that Jie
didn't have to do so. In n service wheie
men of ability and experience arc dropped
for even slight offenses against tho un
written law which implies that the word
of tho supreme boss is a sacred word and
beyond question subordinate executives
soon learn to lie cautious. Unquestion
ably they will be cautious on the railroads
at some future day, if a one-idea man
controls the roads, and they will not
need to be toid to discriminate and to
obey the Great Wish. The telegraph,
telephone and railroad systems in politics
would virtually end political freedom In
the United Slates. And it has remained
for .Mr. Burleson to demonstrate the sud
denness with which that end could come
about.
It would come about thiough the sort
of manipulation and terrorism tlint Mr.
Burleson has applied during his period in
Mr. Wilson's cabinet.
The postmaster geneial has been the
most anient suppicsscr who ever held a
high government office in the United
States. Nevvspapets, magazines and
books have felt the weight of his auto
ciatic wrath. He has been reversed by
tho Piesident on most occasions. But he
does not leain.
Open covenants of peace openly arrived
at imply nothing in the mail and wire
seivicc. The principle of the rights of
small nations does not temper tho rola-'
tions between Mr. Buileson and his work
eis. I'uhne Builesons, whether they
lule utilities for one end or another, will
be shielded by the authority of the fed
eral government, which consistently re
fuses to giant the privilege of collective
hat gaining to woikers in its employ even
while it urges that piinciple upon pri
vate employeis as an economic necessity
and a human right.
And what would the lailwa.v brothel
hoods s;i to that?
Mr. Wilson is an astute man. He may
be retaining Mr. Burleson in office only
in order that we may sec whither the
government ownership theory leads.
Then again the Piesident may hesitate
to fne his postmaster general by cable.
The message might lie stopped on the
wires!
NO MICAWBERISM IN FORTLAND
PORTLAND, Ore., does not seem to
think it piolltable to wait for some
outside agency to take the initiative in
developing the business of its port.
It has authorized its poit commission,
subject to the appioval of the taxpayers,
to issue bonds to laise money to pay sub
sidies to tianspacific steamship lines
using its pteis as their eastern teiminus.
They are now discussing ways of exer
cising this powei.
Theie aie some things which the West
does better than the East. When it wants
a thing it sets out to get it, and it usu
ally succeeds. We are willing to hazard
the guess that if Poitland can secure
greater business foi its port in no other
way its business men will buy steam
ships themselves and put them on the
ocean, guaranteed against loss by the
subsidies which the charter peimits the
city to pay, just as the Hamburg business
men invested their money in the Hamburg-American
Steamship Lino anil as
sisted in making their port one of the
biggest in the world.
Portland evidently does not intend to
be the Micawber among cities, com
placently waiting for something to
turn up.
TAPPING SUTHERLAND'S BARREL
THE amusements of the rich are always
a cause for wonder to the obseiver.
Take the case of Senator Howard
Sutherland, of West Viiginia.
This distinguished statesman was bom
in Missouri and lived there till he went
to Washington in 1800 to become a clerk
in the Census Buieau. He remained for
three years and then went to West Vir
ginia as general land agent of Henry
Gassaway Davis and his son-in-law, Ste
phen B. Elkins. After a while he became
a landowner on his own account. He
entered politics and became rich enough
to afford to be a senator.
Now comes the news that he has con
sented that the editor of the Herald, of
New Castle, in this state, shall organize
a "Sutherland Alliance" to boom him for
tho presidency. The alliance lias already
been incorporated and soon will be ready
to do business.
It cannot do business without money,
however. If the senator wishes to amuse
himself by permitting his admirers to
proclaim his presidential qualifications
no one shall say him nay. It may cost
him more than to own an oceangoing
yacht, but there may be more fun in it
for him. And West Virginia, anyway,
does not abut on the sounding seas. As
he seems to be willing to have his barrel
tapped, the tappers cannot be blamed for
accommodating him.
Italy may yrt f""' strength in reiiuiiei
iition. In Budapest the accent U still on the
third sj liable.
Kolcliak appears to be a prett.v good cure
for Bolshevism
The telegraphers who paraded yesterday
aie experts in barbed wire also.
Pitiless publicity continues to Jje piti
lessly punctured at the peace parley.
And during yesterday's pageant there
nns not an anti-suffragist to declare that
woman's place is in the home.
The greatest little street in the world
has proved that eiibistie and futuristic dc
sigus arc not wholly futilitarian.
Of course there is always a possibility
that people being forced to buy their own
homes are being forced info piospcrity.
Lntirely apart from tho merits of the
Borke bill, there is no immediate danger ot
the state going into tho life insurance busi
ness. If Dr. Fridtjof Xansen wishes to be
'really helpful ho might take Lenine and
TrotBky to the North Pole nnd leave them
there.
There is no foundation for the rumor
thnti tho delegates from Peru to' a Tan-
Amevicnn labor congress In New York will
THE 'GOWNSMAN 1
"The Hobby.Horse Is Foraot"
TV TIIH Govvnsiiinn likens the teacher in
our American colleges to tho hobby -horse,
lie hopes Hint a much,-abused profession
will forgive him. The lonelier still appears
to be rcgurded as more or less an educa
tional necessity, though he mny not last long
now in competition with scales, tape nml
other pedagogical measures. Like the hobby-horse
in the old morris dance, it might
he difficult to conduct much of our educn
tional.eurvetiug without him, He is tract
able and easily managed and, like the hobby
horse, may be ridden hnrd. Like the hobby
horse, loo, the teacher bears a brave front,
but is mostly driven by others. The Govvns
iiinn will not soy that the lonelier is a pup
pet when all the weald is a puppet-show,
moved by dangling strings, or to come up
lo date rather n curious conglomeration of
Hlckcrlng shadows mid light cast upon a
screen. We arc nil in flic dnnce together, and
Hie hobby, nun h ridden mid enduring, is the
teacher.
rplli: Yale Alumni Wee
-1- tinently not long sinrc
'ekly asked very per-
ng sinre: "Has tne lenenrr
been overlooked':" hir colleges nnd univer
sities sports iimcIo exist mainly for the
exercise of two functions, the function of
teaching nnd the function of resenreh. "To
add to the sum totnt of human knowledge''
is n very fine phrase for n very fine thing.
And nil honor to the adders nnd multiplier'
of human knowledge, whether they purloin
tlie lightning from heaven or come up nuid
dily laden with some new discovery, delved
fiom the middle of the earth. livery atom
of a fact slivered from oblivion is welcome;
every microbe should be properly numbered
nnd his i aplor honored for his prowess in
the chnse. livery deed iu research should
be published and acclaimed. Happily vie
euii ncclnim it without understanding it, and
humiin ingenuit in punMimcnt bus never jot
conceived of scientific rending as a punish
moiil lor malefactors. Theie nre ureal
possibilities thai wnv. But this is a tnn
gcnl rpilH sci ond one might almost suy the
secondary dutj of n teacher, at least in
a college, is to loaih. Secondary, for the
reason that no teacher is judged by his
ability to teach nnvviidajs. He may teach
as he will short of absolute neglect nnd
it will make neither for nor against him. lie
may tench what he will, if he avoid certain
inherent prejudices among those who describe
Ihomselves as his patrons and if he be wary
of politics. He mny go cm the even tenor
of his way for ten or forty jenrs and the
ciiestion of his teaching- or of his salary
will never he raised. Indeed, the confiden
tial questionings of his own conscience are
the onlv measure of his success. And even
the "educators" w not trouble him if lie
an report that he has made a discount of
"O per cent in the studies which he has pur
sued iu order lo imbibe the concoction
pedugogv." that subtle science of "how lo
do it."
rplllilfji ni only two means, they some
- limes become devices by which n col
lege teacher may hope for an advance iu
salary or position that i, nn advance other
than that which is systematic in a very few
of our belter institutions. One is the writ
ing of something which his fellows in his
subject may ho able to approve, without too
violent n wrench of conscience, ns worthy
of. pnusc. The other is nn invitation else
vvheie. And this last usually vvoiks directly
through the first. Then only does the teacher
find himself in the interesting dilemma of
being "called" if not chosen. Then only hn
lie i-onie into the open market ns a product
to he hid for. And there have been college
presidents who have considered it "unpro
fessional" for a teacher (o better bis status
hv this method. When a university board
of trustees shall send for a man and say to
him: "Dear Professor X, we have watched
jour devotion to your profession as a
teacher now for a dozen yenrs. AVc have
learned of your success from the best
authorities, your students. You have been
called nowheie else and jou have been much
too busy to write cither an immortul book
or to get yourself into controversy over the
discovery of any of the frightful mistakes of
any of jour colleagues. Wherefore, we raise
jou to a living wnge." When this day comes
the millennium will be hard upon us.
TTXDlilt present conditions our nmbitious
s-J young men entry their ambitions away
from tcachiug and the profession is recruited
largely with second-rate men. Or if an
ambitious young man docs come to tench, he
must either tench incidentally and give his
serious attention to research or teach seri
ously and, in the semblance of scholarship,
work for promotion. The Gownsmnn knows
of a notable man who retired not long since
and who built up a considerable repute in
scholarship by the simple process of running
up a bibliography. It is something of nn
underiaking lo wrile a book, though that
depends somewhat on the book. But the
title of n note or an article looks just as well
in a list as the title of a book. Wherefore,
have an opinion on everything, no matter
what or what the opinion ; write it out nnd
send it somewhere for publication, it does
not matter where. Gefinto print, keep get
ting into print; especinllj if you can, get into
controversy, it does not matter in the least
about whnt. Little ot what you write will
be read a fortunate circumstance yet
every perpetration counts tovvnrd your re
pute as a "scholar" and, with a few hap
hazard books intervening, about tho war or
about peace, jou will wake up some morn
ing to recognition nnd, perhaps incidentally
the evasive living wage, ' '
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T WOULD be dangerous to say what pro
portion of our "scientific research" nmonir
college men is prompted by this need for
recognition iu something else lo securo ad
vancement as a teacher; but it may be sur
mised that necessity is ns often tlie mother
of "research" as the mother of invention.
The Gownsman yields to none in the respect
in which he holds science and the arduous
devotion of the true investigator, no matter
whaWhis field. But why not hpnor the in
vestigator for what he does, the teacher for
his teaching? There is assuredly a place
for each, and there should be a proportion
ate recognition for the exceptional man who
has the pluck, the power and the industry
to combine both.
Two boys in Kalamazoo, Mich., robbed
n store nnd killed the proprietor. They
have been sentenced to solitary confinement
for life. It would hnve been more merciful
to bang them ; but Michigan defcs not prac
tice capital punishment.
Germany will soon find it very difficult
to prove thai sho is iu any danger from
Bolshevism. Germans, having been inocu
lated with a more deadly disease, arc practi
cally immune.
The government will, of course, sec to it
lhat it cars and locomotives are lent to tho
Mexicans for tho purpose of building up
international trade diw care will be taken
that the equipment does not fall into the
bands ot the I. AV . W. rampant there.
The sweet reasonableness of Sin.Mn.
Erzbergcr's address to the German peace
comml88,on'SUWMt,! ll calm ,llBt f-vmqt
inner lup.puwt vi. iwmcb oner mo snanltiB
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Portraits of Husbands
Sir. Thralc's solulotj-. anil the decency
of his conversation, being whollj- free from
all oaths, ribahlr.v anil profanenoss, mnlto
him exccedinKly comfortable to live with;
while the easiness of his temper anil slow
ness to taKe offense add greatly to his
valuo as a domestic man. Yet I think his
servants do not lovo him, and I am not
sure that his children have much affection
for hiui. With regard to his wife, though
little tender of her person, ho Is vcrj' par
tial to her understanding; but he Is
ohllgiiiB to nobodj-, and confers a favor
less pleasingly than many a man refuses
one. Mrs. Thrale, in her private diary.
V V V
We have often been struck by Hie pic
turesque and imaginative insiguia that our
returning soldiers wear on their shoulders.
Yesterday we saw a member of the Thir
teenth Aero Squadron, whose shouldcr-tnb
bore the startling device ot a skeleton bran
dishing a seythei embroidered in white on a
black ground. Below it was the general
emblem of the air service, the familiar red,
white and blue concentric circles.
Buf the cleverest of all that we hnve seen
is that of the Twenty-seventh Division (New
York National Guard), which consists ot a
monogram formed of the letters X nnd Y,
surmounted by a number of little stars ar
ranged to represent the constellation Orion.
This, of course, is becauso the division was
commanded by General O'Byau. ,
V V V
Thoughts on Japan
lu all the Electric Chair's official family
there is no more delightful member than
Mrs. Iitsu Inngaki Sugimoto, a Japanese
Indy who lives iu Xcw York and favors us
now and then with charming letters. We
trust it is no breach of confidence to let our
patrons enjoy with us a few paragraphs from
Mrs. Sugimoto's last letter:
J should hnve written leforc ihii out 7
have been ciiiay from the city for fortnight.
Miss Gordon, the president of the Y. O. T.
V., wished me to help her in her worlc on
the point world friendship, especially be
tween tho United States and Japan. As
the principle heing '! hobby, I consented
lo do 1111 poor "best. I travelled through
Drftticaie State for ten days, lhc experi
ence gaic jiic ttnicft. Vspccially I enjoyed
immensely i meeting villagers in good old
fashioned villages. They gave, mc much in
stead my giving some to them. A few touch
ing incidents almost took mc' back to my
childhood days in my father's home.
Once after my address in a little village
church a rough-looking (by my unkind
imagination made mc to think thus) farmer
stepped vp to mc and expressed, "Little
Lady, I am very sorry that your country has
not the custom 'kissing' " (In my talk, I
mentioned that each country has different
way of demonstrating one's feeling .and to
forth), I rai o little startled, lie also
asked me, "Little Lady, do you like mllkt"
Of coarse J niuicercd in affirmative. He
said that he would send the lest milk he
would have in the morning. True to his
word, he sent milk early in, the morning.
Several such incidents gaie mc untold happi
ness. V V V
Mrs. Sugimoto's letters also give us untold
hnnoiness, and wo have taken the liberty of
L quoting her because world friendship is a.
hobby ot ours also, j.nero nave lieen iccent
demonstrations in this city on tho part of
those who look toward Japan with no
friendly eyes. On such matters as tho dis
pute between .Japan nnd Korea we uro not
qualified to speak. Tho world is full of in
justices and misunderstandings. Hen are
hopeful nowadays that somo of these will
bo cleared away in tho years to come. When
governments make mistakes, it is because
Shey are out of touch with tho hearts- of
plain people. Jn Mrs. Sugimoto's letters,
which conio to us on dainty rlco paper print
ed" with delicious faint pictures of yew trees
nnd cherry blossom bouabs and Urine Idnti
::- mnt -.i a i: ii i,'" r . -
lpwi mM" r?u opimoni,. uien; Bncntv,ma
1 kFyl'-fc A ,V.',Ji..iTauJM t M-Tit .K.r.'jf 2.
'I'LL PROTECT YOU!"
and simplicity, stoic courage and a human
love so intense that her people fear to give
it expression.
V V V
Tlie Koreans tell us that the Japanese are
cruel. Probably they nic. with the par
ticulur cruelty of those who are sensitive
inside. Those who tread smilingly upon the
thorns of their own hearts, who light to re
press their own emotions, will probably not
be too tender with the emotions of others.
It is always the sentimentalist who is most
cruel one remembers Xeio. And yet we
remember Japanese fairy tales we have read,
and particularly some quaint ami lovely
stories retold by Mrs. Sugimoto from her
memories of her old nurse. The heart and
spirit of a nation is more likely to be found
in its fairy tales than in the acts of its
government.
V V V
The only remedy for international bicker
ings and bitternesses lies in tlie mutual
friendship of individuals. If the league ot
nations would establish a big boarding school
and college at its headquarters, where tho
future statesmen (nnd stntcswomen) ot all
lands could be educated together, studying
the literatuies and traditions and languages
of each other's countries, many of our trou
bles would bo greatly simplified. Suppose
Hint Mcsts. Clemencenii, Lenine, Lloyd
George, Orlando, Venizelos, Chinda and
House had all gone to boarding school to
gether and had mutually studied and argued
over French, Itussian, British, Italian,
Greek, Japanese and American history,
would they not meet on mi easier footing
today with a kind of rubber-heeled tread,
as it were? Well, perhaps not. Who knows?
Men are perverse. Perhaps Lloyd Georgo
would remember the tiaic when Clcmenceau
had given him a scarlet nose, and Mr.
Houso's placid brenst would raakle a little
over the fact that Lenine had bitten his
enr when tackling him on the five-yard line.
V V V
But at any rate, it does seem to us, just
thinking about all this in nn offhaad way,
that a mighty good rule would be for every
body to cultivate at least one foreign friend.
If everybody in this country bad a foreign
chum whom he knew well enough to call by
his or her first name, surely the sum total
of those affections would go n long way to
help the world along. Pick out some for
eigner, whether Ift be French or Brazilian
or Korean or Eskimo, and insist on loving
him.
V V .V
We have often'tbougbt of a story told by
Lafcadio Hearn in one of his letters. Wo
found it in a volumo given us by two friendly
Japanese students at the University ot Penn
sylvania, Messrs. Ucda and Shimada. Hearn
describes his young .Tapunesc cook, telling
what a happy, healthy aud always smiling
face he had. One duy Hearn happened to
glance 'into tho kitchen through n hole in
the wall, and to his amazement saw an en
tirely different face. The young man's
features were lined and drawn with suffer
ing and seemed shrunken nnd withered with
the imprint of some old sorrow. "That's
just what he'll look like when he is dead,"
thought Hearn to himself. He went into the
kitchen, nnd immediately the young man's
face had changed into the familiar cheerful
mask. "I have never seen that pain-drawn
foco again," writes Hearn, "and I never
will, but I know that is what ho looks like
when lie is'njonc."
V V V
Wedidn't have the slightest intention of
cmbarklns uPn tu-'s sravo discourse. Wo
had intended to ay something about tho
amazing adventures that befell us during a
two-day trip to Boston this week; of a
bridal coUplo that boarded tho train nt West
Philadelphia; of sleepless meditations in a
blccplng'car, and of a man who had actually
met William McFce faco to face. Wo will
imiik remark that Boston is bumping its
Liberty Lan 1'ioln nlong mighty fast but
they've got nothing up there anywhere, dear
' fin? as our .Court of Honor.. ',
j The Lure of Spring
WHEN the sun is winking early
In Hie gray dawn of the cast;
Anil shines all day in his sleepy waj.
His warming rays increased;
When the muskrat haunts the marshes
All along the silver stream.
And the blackbird's glee rings out "eh wee."
A song like u golden dream ;
'Tis then the pulse of days long gone
Bents strong in every vein.
For the lure ot spring has a captive run
Aud we arc young again.
When the velvet glass is spriukled
With the dandelion's gold :
Aud the bumble bcos.'ncntk the willow ticis
Arc growing very bold;
When the chul)3 and redfins gnmbo'l
I'p nnd down the old mill race,
And the butterflies and tho dreamy skies,
Arc smiles on Nature's face;
"Tis then the memories come once nioie,
But Time should not complain.
For the lure ot spring lins a captive ring.
And we arc joung again.
James A. Boss, in Toronto Mail and
Empire.
Mr. Depevv lias again celebrated t In
opening of the chestnut burr. His eighty-fifth
birthday was marked by three dinners, and
bo told stories at all ot them.
Two hundred and fifty Yankee cavalry
men boosted the loan yesterday. Victory is
ngain their goal.
Excellent judgment is being shown in
postponing the transatlantic airplane flights
until meteorological conditions ere propi
tious; but tho fnct Hint such postponements
are necessary proves the adventure a sport
ing event rather than a coinmetcial venture.
Commercial possibilities will come later.
J What Do You Know?
Quiz
I. Who is the United States Couimissioner
of Education?
II. What is a btringer in shipbuilding?
:. Name author of "Little Dorrit."
1. Who wrote, "A thousand years scarce,
serve to form a state, an hour mify lav
it in the dust"?
,". Who arc the "Forty Immortals"?
li. What is the legend concerning the unin
iug of the Adam's apple?
7. What country is known ns Albion?
S. What is meant by the phrase, "To finish
Aladdin's window"?
0. Whnt was the Aldine Tress?
10. Who is Signor Orlando?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Oakum: the substance to which Old
ropes arc reduced when unpicked ;
used in calking the scams of boats,
etc.
ii. Bela Kun is the premier ot the Hun
garian revolutionary government; it
is reported he has been forced out of
office. -
I!. Old Bailey: a criminal court iu London.
4. Sir Walter Scott wrote "Marmion."
5. The Beign ot Terror is usunlly- set us
the period from the overthrow ot the
Girondists, .Mny III, 170.1, to tho fall
of Bobespierre, July 27, 1701.
0. King Arthur's knights sat at n round
table so that distinction of rank might
be avoided.
J. Itichard Crane, formerly secretory to
tho secretary of state, has been named
first United States minister to Czecho
slovakia, S. Sadducccs: an ancient Jewish sect who
denied tho resurrection ot the dead.
0. The Iloundheads were so called because
they wire their hair closely croppdd,
in distinction from the flowing locks
nnd wits of tho court party of
guaries J.
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