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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.
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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.
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' 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."'
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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. '
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