" 9 $. I m I IA l.w i & h,i 3" M & I ;ik IE 10 - jpucning public Ucftcjcr Itt THE EVENINGnTELEGRAPH eJk . nrtnr ir i rnrrn rnttf.iv & A WUUIU UUUULlit VV'll. ilil JL rrrnus Jr. tr oiirrris Prrtmrvr lt-l IT. T.llfltnrfnn Vlr PriMnt. Jnhn C tin. Serrttflrv and Traniirr! Phttln a Clolllhs tin' fl. William John J Hnurepon IJlrcclorK w; KUiToniAt. noAnD uihcs if. K, c nms cjnairnun A.VID E. SMILF.t TMIIor JOHN C. MAP.T1N- General Tluilncs VHtinccr K' Tuhhatrt .lallt l n i in t rtiirn tliillrtlnv a HVIIviiru unlit li a- a 1,11a i a ui'uciii a'uiiummi lndnendenr Nnnarr PhllftrielnhlH HU a. tvT in r?irr K1 YOUR ... JJrraolT. . , St. I.oi,h , .Cuioioo. rrcsn Ciltlt mill line -OH MelropoWnn lowt 701 I n-il UulldltiK inns I nllciion llulMInc IS'IJ 7ri(mi riulldliic news ntnuwi TVkniiTov ninun V. K for Pcnn-'hanij i ami tlfh M Nllff YonK ninrAl Hie sh HulMlnr LOIKI.N UcitrAC I ondon 7lu' srnsrnipTuiv ti-hms Th UtrMMi Pi bt h l.pnmcn li -Tcd in uh crlhfra In Philadelphia and iiirroundlnK ion at lh rat nt tvrtlie H.'i emu r-r v.tt pab! to lha carrier. Tiv mall In pol ti outld' or Ph la lelpliln In th Unlt-Ml Slatti 1 aliada nr I nlt"d slnlr nn I'Mlan-. pnatarp ft" flflv I'.ni reula pr tnnnlli (BIT l(l dollar per ".ear paviMe In edance To a'l forelsrn founlrte on i$P dollar pt month. NoTtcr ubrrlhera Inhlnc f Irlrr-- ihansM Must ele old aa well pi ii'w nl Ircip Bt-Lf.. 3000 WAt MT Kl VsTONf. MVI V000 C7" .4rfrfrr nt roi i i rn ni' Co t i -i ntp Public IttdatTt HrtVpfifdr i S7itrt r Hfttlrlph a Member of Hie Nssoriatcd Picss Tim AssnriMKD i'in:ss , n,h, tivelll entitled In thr r for icpubln nh'in Df nil tine diipntihn nrHtlrrl In 1 or vol athcrtciic nnlilcH in tins pnpn nml oho fhr local Mfii ptibluhctl thcicin All righli 0 irpiibhrntton ' prrml rfn 70cie harm air nhn incited rhlladrlphli Iridm. Vprtl NO CAUSE.FOR WORRY WHEN Roar Admual Cioodnch told tlic convention of N'cw Jcr-ey county su perintendents of schools 111 Tiontoii that "no boy ovci ten yeai-, oil should be taught by a woman" be echoed the 1c marks of many objectors who have piu testcd in recent yeais against what they arc pleased to dcci ibe as the feminiza tion of the youth. Befoic the icai adnuial -poke he was described by Commissioner Kendall as a man 'with vcr. heteiodo views on edu cation. We suppose the commissioner meant that oithodoy was bi own doy and heterodoxy was the othei fellow's. But whether the icai admnal is hetcio los or not. few of us have noticed much feminization in the twelve and thntecn year old boys ol out acquaintance. It takes moic than a woman leather to transform a icai bov into something else KEEP WATCH OF THIS fPHE American l.euion movement has reached this city and a mabs-mcctinp; of men who have woin the aim, navy or marine coips uniform is called for next Tuesday evenniK to elect delegates to the national convention of fighting men in St. Louis. The purpose of the legion is to unite the men in an oiganization committed to public service. 'the politicians are already suspecting that an attempt will .be made to organize the soldier vote in the interests of political candidates, although the leaders deny that they have any such purpose. The potentialities of the cntciptisc aie no great, however, that it deserves the erious attention of all who wish to know what foices aic at woik. Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt is active in its .ilfaiis. and the fi lends of this young man aic diligently working to impress the country with his ability to serve it in high office. Ve shall see what we shall see as the summer goes by. SPORTS LOOKING UP EVERYTHING seems to indicate that --1 the present baseball season will be one of the most successful in 1 ecent years. The war occupied so much attention last year that there was little left for sports. This year the reaction is likely to send men and women to the ball parks every pleasant afternoon, and the nonpiofes sional sports also will be lesumed by the young men who have come home fiom France or have been discharged from the training camps at home. In some sections of the city and 111 some bf the suburbs small tennis clubs which flourished two or three jears ago went to pipces because a majority of the young men belonging to them were drafted. These clubs will be leorganized as the summer advances and the youths in flan nels will once moie make the landscape picturesque. America is back at play. THE WOMEN CAN DO IT A THOUSAND women, lepicscnting the churches, are planning to march to ihe City Hall next Thuisday morning to demand that Director Kiuscn, of the Health Department, enforce the sanitary jaws. These laws aie not enforced. No one (pretends that they are or that they ever have been enfoiced. The machine! y for tompelling landlords to put their nron- "rty in livable condition has never been i provided, and there seems to have been reluctance to use what machinery there is 6 for fear that some one might say the Department of Health was making inrid- 1 ious distinctions among landlords. A church women's housing committee has been organized for the purpose of doing something to improve conditions. JThe demonstration next week wi'l be tinder its direction. Such woik is practi cal Christianity. The churches have known of the scan- cIrIous conditions for many years. Their -.Workers have found families living in &i quarters that aie a disgrace to any civil ? ized community. More than four years ELObgo the Rev. Dr. Edward Yates Hill, of piyXIie nisi, t jtauyi.tiiMii iiiuicji, in vasn- LJngton square, made a survey of the dis- gffcrjct bounded by Poplar and Broad streets, atl ut avn-n atrAniifl arifl Vi-r. T-ulmi a !- viimM tV hit rllornvPi-M thnt there wrrp R79.& fnm. jllos each living in a single room and that 3 mk.m i$ fTiotn InaV linnrrlnre tin rltcm.- Vr. DV UU Si .." ww.. uv... .v, va.dwk..- . ' ered that there were 5041 families each (brllvjnff in two rooms. The buildings occu- 5ff"p(ert Dy inese .uumt-s were cnieny in foteMTTOVT nuoywayg wnere me Bun seiaom Hwe. They had no- sanitary con- ' -flwnlenccs. The city allowed filth to ac- DUmUIIHI UH IIIU l"i-liJl.lll., hliKCUIllS WIO- km and ticatn. lf.know all this." We know that every yer 01 muvr tumuis uum oum .does not jet wnat no pays ror mad women livio in such conditions arc unable to do a fair day's work. The owners of such propel ty reap returns by disregarding the plain provi sions of the law governing tenement houses. If now and then a landlord is disposed to improve his propel ty sewers nie not even provided for him If the chuich women aic determined enough they can force a change in condi tions. They may oven be able to induce some of the men in their chinches who own the tenement houses to begin on their own account to impiovc their prop city before the inspcctois of the Depart ment of Health gel after them. THE AMERICANS AT PARIS ARE KEEPING THE FAITH President Wilson Still Dominant and Immovable as the Champion of a Peace That Will Last A'OIHi;i of tin- csplosion bi pathless piophets foietell that piophets loielell wncii thev name the dav upon which the Peace Confeiince will be lent to make way for chaoa is ovei Instead of ruin the dust of the feeble levrrheration i even's the best omen that the vvoild has ccn since 'the IVjcp Confeiencp diiouded itself in secieiv. l'rcsulciil Wilson still holds the whiphand. And he hasn't foi gotten how to di ive The statement that devastated Oilanilo and Sonnino wax not vvutten alone foi Ital.v It was wntten foi .Japan, for ustialia, foi all Mlied statesmen and foi the world at laige. Unquestionably, it is .1 pic ude to decisive action in othei quaiteis whole the mania of impel lalism still peisists. This latest pionouiucmcut is all lian quillity and fi lendlmcss, jet it cairics an awful an of seiene finalitv, and theie is the ring of .tcel in its cverj phiase. 'Ihe leagut'' of nations was said long ago to be dead. A New Yoik newspaper bulled it enthusiastically only a few days ago. Hut it i the league of nations that has refused to permit Italj to go blindly to the disaster of I'iumc. 'Ihoic are people evciywheie who sup pose that the league-of-nations covenant had been tw isteil and denatured and be deviled in the last few months until it became only a collection of empty woid-. Certainly the essential pi inciplc of that document lias been almost invisi ble at times, when it hasn't seemed shaken and uncertain like a flame beaten by the winds of night. It is like a great light that that principle has leaped sud denly out of the gloom at I'aris to illu minate and icveal the elements of a oiu cial situation for the intelligent scrutiny of all the world. It is fixed and immov able, sustained by .1 calm gentleman with a poker face and an unbreakable wi'l. Mi. Wilson has not huit Italy. He has tiled to save Italy fiom a lumous and hopeless entcrpiisc. Italy has ai rived at the peak of her ambitions. Her people aie icunited and at home again. Her lost territories aie restored. Tiieste. the grail of'Italian ambitions, has been found and made sctuie. Tor the land and its people theie is in the futuie a gicat piomise of happiness and green peace. This is the Italy for which Oi lando and Sonnino want a little moic. They would take Tiumc. And by taking Hume they would give to their countiy the shut of a conqtieroi and leave it unfnendcd and anogant, circled by enemies, hated by neighboring peoples and menaced for all tune by nations liied with a blazing con viction of gieat wrong. Italy might have got Fiumc if theie were no lcague-of-natioiia agiccments to intervene. But she would have got end less yeais of umest and bitterness, and a certain prospect of bloody wars. So goes the old diplomacy in the yeais of its late decline! Contrat.v to all that has been shouted and vvhispeicd and snceicd out of Pans, the Wilson philosophy, which is the American philosophy, has not changed. In the tet and temper of the Fiume statement there is levelled again a per sistent determination to introduce i sense of justice and the virtues of forbcaiance and honor, and even sacrifice, as vitaliz ing piinciples in world diplomacy. These are the familiar virtues of com mon men. Without them existence would be torment. Plain people live by justice and friendship and honor among them selves. But your diplomatist has never believed in such principles. That may be what was wrong with the world. The President has returned with sctene - 1 1.1 mnllii.l Tin i e? lull. assuranie u mo "iu nivu, - - tun ing again to the people as he used to talk to them in the days when nc vvorKeci won ders up Mouistowivway and in Burling ton and at Mays Landing. His audience is laigci now. He is addiessing himself to the men who have no special interests to seive; to the multitudes in all lands who have to fight and die for things they do not understand; to the rank and file of nations that have come through these years of terror and amazement to dis illusionment and despair. Something of what he promises is meant, too, for the driven millions in Europe who, even while they are striking out blindly at the whole order of society, still tum upon the woild faces stamped with miseiy and gray pain and touched with the faith and the patience that are the peculiar riohes of the poor. How will they answer him? Theie can be little doubt about that. 1 he statesmen in Japan, whose ambitions m China arc not unlike those of the Ital ian peace lepresentatives in Fiume, are less assuied than they weie a few days ago. The ministiy whose representatives have introduced occasional confusion at Paris is growing weaker. Premier Hughes, of Australia, is less insistent than he used to be. These men are not the sort who ordi narily would move at the beck of nn American President. It is not Mr. Wil son's voice that troubles them nor his letters. It is the echo of tlie President's voice that sobers them when they hear it flung up from the hearts of their ovn people. Yet the Americaps at Paris talk no magic They nre pledged merely to hon orable service in the cause of right and justice and reason. The principles they uro-e aie everywhere undeiatood, every where desired. In Japan, in Australia, in rhino. s well as in France and in Encr 1 Jond, the plain poplo want peace and the, EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, assurances of enduring peace. And thoy know instinctively how to obtain peace when their lcadcis do not. That is why, in every crisis, the unostentatious Ameri cans get what they desire at Paris. Certainly the Italian representatives at the conference know the menace that Fiume would be to their people in the future. In the last analysis they nie not to be blamed. They vvcre caught in the drift of the older diplomatic cui rents and thoy were left high and dry at Paris after hav ing promised then people Impossible things. They could not go home and explain that they had engaged in agree ments too sot did to he countenanced in the ticatics of peace. They could not quietly surrcndei then claims without sacrificing then olitica standing and piestige at home. An attitude of mar tyrdom may save them yet And the foimal statement of the Piesidcnt which is unquestionably one of the great documents of the wai may seive to case their difficult path. Italy needs the friendship and to-op-eiation of the United States and the Allies. She could not exist outside the circle of the league of nations. Her tcpicsentatives at Paris know this, and if thev were the masteis of their own souls thev would pioliably have been the fust to wave the teintoiy of Tiume aua.v. Foi they know as well as any one that if the Peace Confcncncc were to give them Fiume all the devastat ing macbineiy of conquest and militarism would instantly be iclcased elsewhcic. 'I lien the world of civilization would have to be restored after the German fash ion to wait the time of the final smash. SLIM CHANCES FOR A DRINK '"piIC feeling in certain quarters that - wai-time piolubition may not go1 into effect on July I arises fiom the belief that 'a law with inadequate machineiy foi its enforcement is a dead letter. But such a law is not and cannot be a dead letter unless it fails to express the will of the gicat majonty of the people. Law, as eveiy one knows, is 1 cully the will of the majority, whether it is wnt ten in a statute or not. If theie be any community in which the gieat mass of the people wish to have .liquor sold it will be difficult foi any law ofticeis to pi event its sale so long as Congicss neg lects to make the ncccss.nj appiopna tion for the appointment of men to get evidence and to londuct piosccutions. 'Ibis is a law-abiding nation. Not many icputable business men, even in lesponsc to the demands of the commu nity, will be willing to sell liquoi in vio lation of the war-time prohibition act. If liquoi is sold after July 1 it will be by men who arc willing to run i isks for the sake of making a few illicit dollars that is, unless Congress should repeal the w at -time act and give its attention to legulations to cnfoice the constitutional amendment when it shall go into effect next Januaiy. STEADY PROGRESS U1LORIDA declines to follow the exarn " pie of Tennessee in passing an equal suffrage amendment to its constitution. Lhlcss Missoun is called a southern state, Tennessee is the only state in the South thus far to pcimit women to vote. Equal suffiage is moie populai in the Noi th Within tbtcc months Indiana, Maine, Minnesota. Missouri, Wisconsin and Iowa have adopted suffrage amendments, and the Vcimont Legislature put itself on record as favoring equal suffrage, but the govcrnoi vetoed the icsolution. California's IcrisIr Wisdom in tors showed lommcnd Inaitlon abh- solf-rcstraint in H lining lo adopt a lc-olution lircim? the Ameiuan pome rlole pntion to oppose nnv pobtv that would in terfere with the liRhts of nations to (ontiol the siibjeit of immigration TIicip is little likelihood that nuv siipH polit.v will he adopted by the IVai Confeienie iiud to sug Kfst its possibibtv is to tause embarrassment in .1 situation abeadv siiffaicntlv compli tated (ierawny's iunhililj Logic and to undeistand the Sensibilitj ie point of her advci - saries lias never been moie appatcnt than iu the instructions to her peace delegates to suggest a plan for a league of nations diafted by Count von Bernstorff. It doesn't occur to Gcnnanj that possibly America might hove some feci ings of dislike for that person, and that suth dislike might caiie distaste and distitist foi auv tiling he might suggest It has been estimated Would Talk that if the (ierman fur Time delegates to the Pcnio (.'onfeience weic pci nutted to discuss the Iteatv the discussion would last four months. This is a gloss uiitlerestimnte. The Gcimnn delegates would talk until they were icady to make war again Geneva authorities have Cheese ome into possession of II I onfidentiBl instructions fiom Nikolai Lcnine for a revolution m Switzerland. But there was no revolution. The Swiss movement contin ues on old-fashioned lines. Bolshevism failed to locate the holes iu the Swiss cheese. Mexico's history contiuues lo read like a Bad Boy's Diary. Straw votes sometimes show whose political harvesting machine is at work. Theie is no grief in German) over situation at the Peace Conference. the There is every evidence that the Victory Loan is going to justify it name. The Bibulous One inrjuiics earnestly: Cnu alcoholic content be found in half ot one per cent?" Fiume is simply the latest illustration of the old truth that land-hunger is a great begetter of bad Diooo. There may be healing balm iu the treaty in spite of the fact that at the present time wc can see onlv the flics in the ointment. It may be that Italy will jet realize that magnanimous renunciation is at times the highest type of statesmanship. Respectfully submitted to the parties in the Fiumc-Dalmntia controversy: "It is more blesscn to give man 10 receive.'' To which may b! added, "Blessed aie the meek, 1 for thty shall lnnenc me earui." THE WINNING APPEAL OF LITTLE STREETS Carnival Camac Street's Distinction Is Not Unique, but It Establishes the Quaint Thoroughfare in Charming Company CAMAC HTKBF.TK ih light In being l the same time small enough to be great and gnat enough to be small is hupplh tun n I rented In the u torj 1 .cm n level, whhh is nightlv lontiibiitlng new elements of pic tiiresiiueness nnd i olor to a ipnnnt and veil einbje thoioiiglifnie The self-ionhdenl n-t I iplion however. ' (i i enlist little st i eel in the world ' had pel Imps best tint he i m ulnted ton far if the vvoild is iciillj to have peate when the l'nns i onfeiees ndjniiin sine die Othei litlesvvith "ininlnialial" pietensions in streets might be in lined to protest Foi it so happens Hint almost even metropolis on the planet bo-jsts of a pel little thoioughfaie the ph.vsicnl nltnbiites of vvhuli me piqtinntlv dispiopor tionale to its distinction And each one of these cities bus n poistent wnv of thinking that Ihe might of this ntel of littleness has niitintiged competition Not even Ihe fointeen points ventmed In in iik this misruled iiiestinn Matters of locnl pride nie not debatable So. probably, the best iompininie on the subject that tin be Httnined is one pioilninnng Hint neailv evnv impoi t.mt i imc ininiuiinitv islhepioud pocsnr of the gieatest of small stieet en the smallest of gieat sticets--nnd tlmt in iiiinpiiilsnn with them the pietensions of the lnost giandio-e hoiib vnids nnd patkwnvs seem hollow and pain v T WAN the r.totheis liouioiiil who as- veiled that "nnv moustiosltv of liltle- ties in women" was evcessivelv winning But tint whs in the eta Victorian in Brit inn and Lotus Napoleonic in France when the undeisied heiome. "n In Die ken." piedominiteil in poetiv aud tut inn Athletic and enfranchised modem femiuinit.v stci nlv taboos siii h sentimentalising. Bui I eg tiding streets the go-pel of the iiitistn of little things still prevails. In fail, the moie "ictoum nie the nlmos phei H side thoioughfiiies in our cities the moie dimming the.v nte often voted. Fnendh. c lubbj little Cam.n stiect is np pieiiated quite nlnng llieso lines. Juniper sticel "Inst i lass ' when it was compelled lo flank upon the eavl (he wide plni about the Cil Hall So called ' pingiesx. ' of iouie. is the null enemv of little sheets, jusl ns s.vmp.i thetic cnusenatism is tlieii giiaidian. Mod c in cities nei esuni llv intnpeUei to keep pace with new conditions thus must choose be tween sweeping impi elements with con veiiience as the first consideintion oi n mid die t ntn so wheiebv innovations pioieed at a late not too clisiespcc tful of tindition. London seems to have balaneed values with considerable skill She is still nch in lmnantic lanes and quaint "i 11I3 tie sac." while at the same time wide new thoiough fares ill leitain sections have telieved con gestion. But H is odd how little flavor at laches to these spacious uewcomois. Kingswnj. of admirable utilitv ns a con nesting link between Ilolboiuand theStiand, is indeed an elegant avenue. But the pulse of loninnce or histon heats eiv tamelv when its name is evoked. Kingswnj in all its splendoi. including Oscar Hammeistein'F ill -Mai red opeia house, will not "stall a spit it." But Downing stieel will It is perhaps the shoitest of all the fa nious little streets. Its single block extends onlv from Whitehall lo St. James's Pnik. But the Foieigu OfTiee occupies one side of this small thoioughfnre. and the intimate association of that institution with Ihe street his given 1 ise to one of the most significant metaphors in diplomacy. When "Downing stieel intenenes" it is peifeitlv euclent that the British empue is roused lo action. PARIS is rather badly off in the matter of illustrious little lanes, her boulc vaid makers befoic and sftcr the great Ilausbmann having been comprehensively uithless. On the light bank the Rue Riche lieu, nanow, sombei . "atmospheric." but fatilv long, has a passable claim as a dis tinguished little street. Ac loss the Seine, however, bet lei condi tions prevail. Notre Dames des Champs, with its seipeutine ionise, its m.vstciious gaieleti walls, over which loses occasionallj prep, its fuitive studio". eocative of the souls of Trilby and Little liillee. impart a potent charm. The Rue dc Seine, loo. with its mjsteuous twisting around ihe Institute is ledolcnt with the flavoi of old Paris, while the names alone of the Rue Madame and the Rue Monsieur Le Prince are sufli eienjlv intercRt;Compclling to secure them nn honorable rating, even if those streets lacked in pieturesqueness which they do not. Just at this writing there is also a very short street in Paris one, moreover, of re cent construction which has acquired a cer tain sensational position. It is the one-block-loDg Rue Edvvaid VII, and it leads merely from the Boulevard des Capucitics to the entrance of the new Hotel Kdwaid VII. But it so happens that thnt conventional-looking hosteliv has lately been the residence of Vittoiio Iimmanuelc Orlando, of Ital.v . Buenos Aiies tliffctcntintes slniplv be tween giandeur and iuliinacy as street kej -notes. Her broad Avenida de Majo is a pic ture of Paris. But the narrow and thoi -oughly Spanish Calle Florida unquestionnblv comes first in her affection. At 5 o'clock oery afternoon this ancient thoioughfare is roped off. All vehicular traffic is suspended and the elegance and fashion of Argentina on foot possess loadbcd and pavements. It is the time of "paseo" and of respect for the Spaniard's immemorial tradition ot promenading. BUT of all the little stieets in the vvoild the Rua Ouvidor and the Sierprs are perhaps the proudest. Wheeled traffic is forever forbidden from their paving stones, and such invasion would he impossible anv wayf Despite the opening of the highly ornate and loomy Avenida Ccntial, Rio de Janeiio clings sjmpathetically to the con stricted Rua Ouvidor. Awnings from house top to housetop keep out the blading tropi cal sun. On the absurdly nanow, fantasti cally tiled sidewalks arc the best shops in Brazil. So also are the fiuest baaais in Seville on her famous Sierpcs, whereon uo wheels ever levolve. The little street, with cafes sprawling quite across it, bears the palm for crookedness. It winds delightfully and in full confirmation of its name- "Serpent." Awnlnes shade it graciously and the bril liant Andalusian sun peeps in only through tho divisions in the "rigging." Sometimes Its raja, illuminating the pink or blue Btuccocd building walls, beam on a marble tablet of which Seville seldom fails to boast. The inscription proclaims the house se as one in wiueu ccrvanies wrote part of 'Don Quixote. ASSUREDLY, then, Camac street is lu high company when she rejoices in her littleness. A tompauionship with Wall street, decidedly greater than its size, seems permissible, and the claims of narrow Bour bon and Toulouse streets in New Orleans are also valid. Wttlc streets, indeed, form I ft, noble coHspany, FRIDAY, APRIL .25, i919. THE CHAFFING DISH April Travels ONCL", when I was traveling In an April yellow. Men weie building houses With mortar, planks and p.uls: On their airy scaffold I saw them at theii labors Watched them measuic windows, 1 Ileaid them driving nails. ALL those little homes Seemed to stand on tiptoe, Stiaincd their naked uifteis, Shining in the sun : I. ns I was travcliug Willi no home to go to, Lndci stood their yearning, F.agei to be done! TO TIIOSK little houses When they shine with lamplight Men will come leturning' At the end of da.v : Men who had to tiavel Will hurry home to suppei , Wondering, as I did. Why they went away '. V V V Trouble in the Training Camp Orlando Pulls Bonehead Stuff (By Our Sporting Expert) I'aris. April S4. ONCD moic all is confusion iu the training camp. Manager Eddie House thought he had his team all lined up for the opening of the Big League season. And now , on the eve of the fust game with Fritz Ebeit's boys from Bciliu. Vie Orlando is holding out 011 F.d. letiiRing to sign his contract. Eddie isn't saying much. He was obsetved munching toothpicks iu the grill of the Hotel Ciillon this evening. His demeanor was calm, and those on the inside say that he has supreme 1 onfidence. Some of the news paper boys bnbcd a chapibermaid at the hotel to set up a dictaphone under his bed, in the hope he might mutter something in Blumbcr. They don't know Ed. He sprays his -cocal cords with freezing mixture eveiy night befoie hitting the hay. V V V JL'ST the same, this last crisis burst on the training quarters like a bombshell Eddie had Vic Orlando slated as catcher, but Vie says he won't stand for it. He says he's got tluce split fingers already from the speed bull old Wood Wilson zooms over the platter. There's no question about it, the larikj- moundsman is in wonderful, Hing. Ills tie-. livery is a little too formnl to catch the eye of the blcacheis.jjut cvhen the pill leaves his daw it travels. His stuff has a deceptive spin It looks easy, But it has terrible trav eling capacity. He bakes them fresh with every wind-up. When Fritz Ebcrt's clouts men' stand up to Wood's hot muffins they're going to find them mighty puzzling. V V V THAT'S the problem Eddie House Is up against: All his catcheis aie leery about that ball of Wood's. Ed tried out Davie George and Geo. Clcinenceau Both these dots claimed to enjoy mltteniog Wood's slo'nts, but it was noticed in tho press gal lety that after a day or so they were pleased to get back to the sacks. Davis is hold ing down the premier bag, and the fans say he's in excellent form. No one knows just who it was that tapestried the first-base posi tion with banana skins the other day before practice, but Davie was wise, He was out before breakfast and had the fruitmongery all removed before the boys got ou the field. . Y V V ' TO GET back lo ic Orlando.. Vie wants to play the keystone pillow, and prohablj thinks that In that position he will get n I better dunce to ilgure la a double play now. WHO'S IN DANGER? and then. Jt K nNn said that he has an eve on games Hint will be placed in the old home town, and has nn gieat Venning to face that high-tension stuff of Wood's befoie the home fans. Howevei that mav be. Eddie is inexorable. He 1ms u- slated for catchei or not at all. Vic sas it would kill him with the home ciowd if he chopped one ot Wood's si7leis. The fact is ' the whole team is a little bjt scjnd of Wood's tech nique. Fellows on the picss bench no ticed that when Wood came up to bat the other da.v in a piai tice game the infield edged back until the weie plajing way out jondei in the garden grass. Then, of ionise. Wood laid down a bunt and mode (hue bases on it. This business ot having one plnver pull new stuff like that bieaks down Ihe inoialc of the team. Uhej all ,n that Wood.v's ball is a wbard, but vv'hen it comes to standing up lo it thej enunciate "Lei (ieorge cln it !" V V V VIC sajs he's thioiigh. lie savs if Eddie won't put him 111 Ihe infield he'll go right hack to the spaghetti firm, and a rumor itin thioiigh the tanks that he had ordered a special Main to take him home if Eddie didn't come aeioss with something. None of the bojs icall.v believes this, how ever. This is Vic's hist chance to get into the Big League game, nnd the way cveiy body dopes it he would be a uilt to turn it down. Vic said todav, with tears in his eyes, that his home folks had set their heart on seeing him cover the second sack. But, as At tie Balfour said, being iutei viewed just after catching some high flies 011. in the left gatden. this outfit ought to be inn nicotding to what's the best team plaj, not on what the home-town fans want to grab off. Geo. Clemcnceau, who was inther peecd for a bit at giving up the hist iiinttiess. is now play ing at third. The old veteran is iu fine foim. Thioiigh his mustache he filleted the lemark thnt Vic was trjing to pull a trie il'ot. V V V WOODY says he doesn't give n that is, Iicssotb he doesn't ically caie whether he pitches for this outfit or not. His spiel is that he has a peifectly good business at home that earns him u decent living, and he won't go on hurling unless the team backs him up. The way the scribes dope it. Wood must have something on Manager Eddie, for the only thing that makes Ed look like Billa bles and audible sounds is when Wood threatens to quit. There isn't much dope about the Frit, learn. The.v nie said to be weak iu batting nnd also nervous about playing on foreign grounds. Sliding for home is iiimoted to be their stiong point. V V V THERE is no doubt, however, that tiaiu ing quarteis is in a good deal of an up roar today. Woody win doing a little warm ing up vvith Geo. Clemenceau, and Geo, said it wasn't fair to thtow them so haid in n mere practlie. Woody said he had a ship waiting with steam up to toke him home if Geo. didn't relish his pitching. Davie George, getting diavvn into tho argument, cried that he had an airplane all gassed and icady to fly home vvith. Even Prince Emir Feisal, tho A'labiau dark horse, who was given a tryoujt for one of the bench warm ing positions, claims to have a camel all ready harnessed and waiting to lopo home, with him if the team bleaks up. Chuck Grayson, the talented lubber-down, who gives Woody his olive oil massage after ex ercise, sajs that Wood's pulse is normal. Eddie House, under extreme picssure, rc marked this evening, "Tontoriuw will bo a lovely day." In spite of all lumuis, our prediction Is that tho teams will meet on schedule time, SOCItAXES. 1 1 ' SHALL BE PROUD i 1 . WHEN" Johtl tomes home vvith pomp of bnnneis pioud. And marches up the stieel tcV thrilling ill u 111, As I stand bv, all ejger in the ciowd. And tenlue the tiuth that he has tome. If on his blow the fame-lit lnuiil lesf. And men shall know nnd speak his li v ally. If service stripes his biavciy attest, All! thtilled shall be the vcij hcatt ot me ! Bui if just John, plain John, comes back to me. The soldier lad, my only bov so dear (Whom I knew biave wherever he might bel. And once again I have him with me hcie. The vvoild to me would then seem just as fair Just knowing he is HOME and did his shnie. Floicuce T, Ostium, in Ihe New Vork lleiald. As Sam Welter Would Say When it comes lo buying Bonds of Victory Let the whole wide nation fcpcll it w ith a We. , New York Sun. As to Figures Bill pending in Florida Legislntuic gives women light to wear tiouscrs. Sounds a bit ladical at first blush, but aftnr all, is mete sub-titution of the literal ,foi the figurative. New York Herald. What Do You Know? 1 QUIZ Whete aud what is the Wharton School? Who commanded the United States forces Iu Italy? ' Where is the Dalmatian coast? Who is Count Czerniu? What is a plebiscite? In shipbuilding, what arc stays? AVhat was the Alexandrian Lihtaiy ? Where did the phrase "almighty dol lar" originate? What is alto rilievo? Identify "The Fathei of Angling."' 1. ..... J Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. Dr. Philander P. Claxton is the United States commissioner of education. L Stringer: in shipbuilding, a longitudinal stiffener for the Eldc of a ship. a. Charles Dickens widte "Little Dorrlt." 4, Loid Byron wrote, "A thousand years scarce serve to form n state; an hour may lay it in the dust." 5 'Forty" Immortals: thp membeiship of the Fiench Academy, which is re stricted to that number of distin guished men, 0. Adam's apple: so called, according to legend, because a piece of the forbid den fruit Iqdgcd in Adam'B throat at that point. ' 7, Albion: n poetical name for Englaud, from the white cliffs. 8. To finish Aladdin's window: to try to complete' another's work, Iu allusion to the fact that Alajdln's palace was pci feet cxrept for one window left for ' the sultou to finish, but his treasure failed him. . 1). Alilinc Press: founded by Aldus A'lnnii' tins, In Venice, in HUO, in the -st century of nrlntlnc. ' I id JSlgaor Orlando 1 . yrcmier of Italy..', f t r 5 O i t ', J A ' - . t w.-i U & 'M Si 1'i (r. 'Vh,im? U ) ; "rffc .r
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers