PSW WWWIWSW i. v. . t v; ) i 10 EARNING- PUBLIC LEDGER PHIL ADELPHI A, TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1919 SWF1 K-M . . Rtf " - ifik Iff V) Jr to ft M W m IV, t Ix I I i I fe Wr Aliening public 2Iefger L THE I EVENnVGnTELEGRAPH L PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY r CYIIUH If. If. cUflTIH. Pmrnini.vT . PhirlM H. Ijiidlnctnn. Vlo rrMlilenti John ,. irtln. Secretary nd Tremureri I'hlllp 0 .Collin", John n. William John J. Simrgenn. nlrwlom. TDtTOniAr. llOAHD! etuis II. li. Cirtii. Chlrmn DAVD E. SMILHT F'l"lr JOHN ' MAtlTlX... Unerat HiHni-a M inner """publlihed dally n( ruuo LntiKn lluiidlnr. Independence Suuare. Philadelphia Atmntic Cm "-1 moil llulldlne nJwVobk SOU .Metlimnlltn T.mei WtmniT "'" ''"1 l'"l''lins Kt noils ,,ms F'iMcTtnn timidlng Ciiictno I3"'- 7nfcn- Ilull.llng NEWS mmCAfS: WtMilxnTo.v mmrir. N , Cor. Pennsylvania Ave. ami Hth St. JCbit Tonic nmmi' Tli Sun ntilMlnir LO.NDU.V Ul'HKAU Lotl'teil Tlmrt pt'nsrr.irTitiN ti:ums Tho I3tn.Mvn Prm n- l.t:m;i.u la aervisl to iih gcrlbers In Philadelphia and eulToundOii; mum Ht the rnlp of twelve M-i cents im r week p.nable to lh carrier. Ilv mall tn points- nntslde nf Philadelphia In the I'llltM SlMto uunda or lulled Slle !"" eeeMnn postnvr, free flftv l"nl rent I'-r innnth Six ($(1 lnll.ir per year, pav il.Se In adx.iti'e Tn an fnn lir.i imintrles- pn iI di.ll.ir rt month Nnnrr SuNf rllwrs vvMiloc iiHrl -rs chanced rpUFt Iflve o'.l ns il us v n-ldr- ni.l.l.. 1000 WW.MT KM -TOM', MUN 30011 nfrnii,. In 1 vntno V'ibhe Sqit'irr I'liPflilrfplnn. C71 trfdrrA nit , outrun I rdorr. hUi, .;, Member nf (he Associated Press rni: .ssncii i:n fRKsa h rrehi- tivclti ratified to the iikc fnr republication of ail uctr dispatches credited tn it 01 tint othrrwhr emitted in thii piper, and also the local news published theiein. All rights rit republication of special dit patches herein arc aho referred. rh'ladrlphla, Tueulx. April 29, I'll THE IRON DIVISION "NTO CONTINGENTS in the Kreat war had a record nobler than that of the Iron Division, whose advance guard ar rived in this country yesterday under Colonel Edward C. Shannon. These Pennt-ylvanians lived up to all the mag nificent implications of their name. , Their casualties in the various actions i&taled 00 per cent. And they ncer - turned back. Nothing: that Philadelphia may do in the way of a welcome will bo quite enough to express what any Pennsylva nian must feel at the thought or men tion of these soldiers. It is odd to think that they return to an atmosphere trou bled with the squalid bickering and fur tive meanness of those who are waging war upon the men appointed to mt.ke the fruits of th?.iv matchless sacrifice cn- during. AN OVERDUE EXTINGUISHER TT IS safe to assume that the few ac- tors here and there who have been fishing for absent-minded laughs with shabby badinage at the expense of the Y. M. C. A. were not among the men who fought or labored in France. The manager of the Philadelphia theatre who ordered that sort of thing off his pro gram has set a good example to theatri cal men everywhere. Thc'Y.,M. C. A. wasn't perfect. Noth ing in France was. The organization assumed stupendous burdens, and the very magnitude and complexity of its task made friction and faults inevitable. Stage folk themselves, who woiked tirelessly in behalf of the men in the service, have been the first to object to the practice just halted in this city. No man who is not ignorant or worse will speak lightly of things done or left un done in a period of confusion and strain that tried to the limits of human endur ance the hearts nnd souls of every one concerned. THE DOCK FOR WILLIAM "KTAPOLEON, pursued by both Prus- sians and Bourbons, fled for his life on board the British man-of-war Bcller .ophon on July 15, 1815. His act elimi nated a host of complexities in interna tional jurisprudence. He was virtually a prisoner of war. By his escape into Dutch territory the ex-kaiser destroyed any legal analogy between his status in defeat and that of the French emperor. The sentiment of an outraged civilization in this instance, however, chafes at technicalities. Un precedented as the proposed plan is, the foreshadowed trial of William Hohen zollern is the procedure most satisfying to those who fought his mad dynasty. Stern justice, not blind revenge, is what civilization seeks in this unparal leled case, and that is what the defend ant will get if he is called upon to face the international tribunal. A fair trial of Napoleon would have spared the world much falsified and sen timentalized history. A trial of the ex kaiser would be a most effective anti dote for any future commentators de sirous of handling the whitewash brush. AN INTERSTATE MOTOR WAR? TN THE good old days before bread and gasoline, the two essentials of modern existence, took unto themselves wings of price, life was less of a strain than it is "now. The roads of Pennsylvania were wide open to any one with any sort of an automobile tag. There was and still is a happy reciprocal agreement between most of tHe states by which motor drivers nre made free as the air all the year round on highways in far places to whose people similar courtesies are granted by the state that the visiting motorist calls home. New Jersey is one of the few states that have maintained the right of inde- sf pendent action in this respect. It grants , Vlliy I14LWII uujro Ui K"-1- lu viaibUIb ill devilwogons with foreign tags. After fifteen days the intruding machine must sport a Jersey license plate unless the owner is willing to risk a session with a , squire. It was natural that a great many owners of automobiles in this state, ' 'which in the past was not accustomed to ! quibblo about Its rojfds, came, in the course of time, to believe that monoy spent on, Pennsylvania registry was pasted. They obtained Jersey licenses "IBid were free (o go where they would at ''all' times in their own state without fear a ir:,ilne. arrest .or interrogation. A good ;"ei money was thus diverted from the juylvsnia highway deportment to the 'f Ue astute Jerseymen. This retaliation on truck owners nnd other motor drivers from tho other side of the river. Jersey is a nice place. It is hard to keep away from. The state has a Rieat and costly system of roads. The income from native motorists, says the Jersey Legislature, is not adequate for the maintenance of the highway system. Hut what of the money-laden plutocrats who haunt the Jersey roads? Are they not worth welcoming? Roads can be paid for in other ways than by direct taxa tion. Unless the Jersey folk can realize this they oupht to be willing to take a hit of the medicine that their justices of the peace administer so freely to others. If they insist on collecting from every user of their highways, then they should contribute in a like manner elsewhere. Wo in Pennsylvania have some pood and expensive roads even if we haven't an ocean and we could use to Rood advan tage the money paid by Jersey motor license holders. AIRING OUR FACTIONAL ROWS AT HARRISBURG A SCANDAL Dut the Legislature Can Stop It by Giv ing Philadelphia a Home-Rule Charter at Once Vfy'HEN the Philadelphians who went to Harrisburg today to urge the pas sage of the citizens' committee plan of charter revision circulate among the members of the Legislature they are likely to discover a state of sentiment which should force them to redouble their effort.-. The business of (lie Legislature has hern hindered Tor ears by the factional quarrels from this city carried to the state capital. The representatives of the smaller communities are more restive this year than ever before. They are threatening to ignore all Philadelphia legislation which obstructs the business of the session, for they have grown weary of standing by while this city's political rows are aired there in public. It is not an edifying spectacle. If Philadelphia is to have greater con trol oxer its own affairs it begins to look as if the city should have to get it this year or not at all. and as if we should have to depend upon the initiative of the up-state members of the Legislature. These men can end the present conditions at once if they choose. They can take the bit in their teeth and pass the charter-revision bills drafted by the citizens' committee and thus tell us to manage our own affairs hereafter under the grant of power which they have given to us. But the bills deserve the serious con sideration of the Lcgislatuie on their in herent merits. We want home rule here, not to relieve Harrisburg of the con sideration of our local problems, but to relieve us of the necessity of asking Hai risburg for permission to do what seems best to us about cleaning our streets or paving them, or about the collection of garbage or about a score of other things. The bills in question permit us to go about as far in the direction of home rule as is possible under the constil .tion in its present form. In order to complete the work of freeing the legislators of the state at large from the necessity of con sidering the special local problems of this city and the other laige cities, pro vision should be made for a constitutional convention to be held at the earliest con venient date in order that that document may be modernized in a dozen different ways, but particularly in order that it may confer upon the cities that freedom which is necessary if they are to manage their own affairs in their own way. The constitution should be a grant of power to the Legislature and not a body of bylaws, and the city charters should likewise be a grant of power to the cities, subject only to the limitations necessary to enable the Legislature to step in with remedies when local abuses have become so grave as to menace the rest of the state. With the Legislature in its nrrsent. mood, now seems to be the time to take the first stop toward municipal home rule. We assume that the members of the citizens committee are not wholly ignorant of the state of mind in Harris burg, and we assume also that they arc not so inexperienced politically that they are unable to take advantage of that state of mind and use it for the benefi cent ends to reach which they are bend ing all their efforts. The Legislature need not fear the con sequences of its approval of these bills. They have been drafted by public-spirited men seeking solely the general good. There is no "joker" in any of them. But there are "jokers" in those bills which have been offered as substitutes. The proposal to create a metropolitan police department with a commissioner appointed by the Governor involves a continuance of the very thing against which the legislators are now indignantly protesting, for it means the transfer of police control from thig city to Harris burg and the continual protest of one political faction against the police activi ties of another faction, with constant appeals to the Legislature for relief. If Philadelphia is not lit to control its own police force, it is not fit to govern itself. This is axiomatic. Every mem ber of the Legislature must admit it, whatever he may think it expedient to say under the direction of the men who are seeking political advantage from the proposed change. The members need to make only the most casual inquiry to discover that in almost every city in the country in which the police have been controlled by an official nppointed by the Governor the plan has failed to give satisfaction. It has been abnndoned in several cities and other cities arc urging the return to local control. Baltimore, where tho system has been in force for more than fifty years, Is dis satisfied with its workings because it places its local police force under the direction of politicians who use it to re ward their friends and punish their enemies. The conditions in that city are described in an article in another part of inB neyipjHjc ; ,, claims having .spent any of Hie state's funds w?r. her.,..lucatorH ,gyr to the utijcjjr ' ot The. fW,?im!?t9q Ifcr Hnir;to).d)tUultj fJft;&hrt .tpt ;JmhA ggtft Wwr'jU .tMtt' come, but they hnvc absolutely no voice in the expenditure of tho money nnd ab solutely no say as to the conduct of tho men who get the money. This is un American find undemocratic. We do not believe that the Legislature of Pennsylvania will consent to foist any such system upon Philadelphia, because it cannot be defended an instant before the bar of reason and common sense. But as we have already intimated, it is a plan which would encourage tho local faction alists to carry their quarrels to Harris burg, as they have done this winter, and it would gum the wheels of the legisla tive machinery until1 nil motion was stopped. Now is the accepted time for giving home rule to this city, and now is the day of salvation for tho Legislature, which wishes to bo free to pass bills for the good of the state at large. A PACT WITH RESERVATIONS TJNQUESTIONABLY the tinkering with the league of nations covenant has strengthened the prospects of its ratification. Tho pact as it stands now is not so formidable that aggressive nationalists in tho various countries need be afraid of it. Tho accommodating reservations render possible withdrawal from the society, "safeguard" the Mon roe Doctrine and eliminate the element of compulsion in the acceptance of man datories. If the sole object of the league com mission was to draw up a document which would silence the timid, these changes arc to be commended. But it so happens that a very few mou"'s ago the world was led to believe that the prime desire of the league makers was to devise an instrument so powerful that future wars would be impossible. It is hardly deniable that this purpose has been somewhat blunted. Incredible as it may appear, it cannot be disputed that mankind's loathing of war has ominously abated since Armi stice Day, and hence criticism of the original pact has largely taken the form of objection to those provisions which were to have operated against nations doing what they pleased under certain conditions. When the President more than a year ago enunciated his fourteen points, civi lization longed for the most binding league conceivable. "Stop all war for ever!" was the passionate cry of man kind. The Monroe Doctrine, Fiume, even national pride were subordinate sub jects then. No ideal was regarded as too lofty for fulfillment if thereby the future could be safeguarded against a return of the carnival of death. But the wings of forgetful ness are terribly swift. Even the first covenant draft was milder than the sort of agree ment for which men longed while the carnage was going on, and tho revised version, so scrupulously careful not to involve irrevocable pledges, is weaker still. In principle, of course, it is still admirable, and it contains provisions wh'ich will render the starting of the war machinery much more difficult than in the past. The situation is somewhat as though the Bryan arbitration treaties had been made of universal application. Nobody is to blame save everybody in general. Human nature is forever clam oring for ideals which in the end it is reluctant to support. Of late the pressure upon the cove nant commission has been urging it to some kind of peace pact to which all the nations would agree. This feat has evidently been accomplished. For all its shortcomings the covenant is infinitely superior to no compact at all. The hope of the world lies in its virtue as a basis. Should it prove to be the foundation for an eventually more binding society of the nations, one with sufficient teeth to render war really impossible, a wondrous structure will have been reared in Paris. At present it is the moral buttressing of the covenant which constitutes its strength. Its practical armor is not of the sort of which war-weary humanity was dreaming when Ludendorff struck the British line. But that happened four teen months ago! If the present chain which is to bind the nations is no stronger than its weakest link, it must be considered that the thoughtless new world has exhibited an antipathy to anything less frail. What we have now is rather the best pact possible than the best passible pact. It is clii'cring to oli- A Tlnif si'i'vo thnt the trans- for Toasts iitlmitii: airplane fiiul't niuy lie arroiiiplislictl before the first of July. You may have no tirrd that tin' Ameririiii tiuvul fliers, vlio room to have boon working harder and saj -inK less than nny one rise conrerued with the general plan, now seein more likely than any of their competitors to be first iu the long, glorious nnd terrible jump. One fiuinot but feel Will II that Cmigress missed Kvfr Come? n glorious opportunity when it stooped to impose luxury taxes on trifles like pajamas. shoes and silk stockings. Tf Congress had taxed peace it would have hit nt one almost unattainable luxury for which all the world will be glad to puy whatever is asked. Any one with a long Sounds memory may recall Logical that Senator Penrose begun his political career as a rciormor. And the perilous nature of the senator's activities nt Har risburg makes it appear that ho is willing to risk ending his career in the same fashion. Unrest is abating in (iood News Itti&Ria, Kgypt. (Ser in a ii y Scandinavia. Korea, Thibet. Poland, Serbia, Ituninnia aud It is increasing at Amcrongcu. Maybe tho landlords will need some of that extra rent by the time they have mailo tho improvements demanded by the Housing Association. r ' i - ' i. 'von rnniieu .tiarLin it. iiriiinnniicii ma. n,f PENROSE AS A REFORMER Pertinent Comment by the New York Evening Post on the Inter esting Spectacle 77ic folhiring iiitrrrstliip rrmnrkti nbottt the lorn I political situation nppenrtd in the Xeie Vnifr Urruiiig I'm! of Hattirdtiy: S i:ATOIt PHMlOSi; on the side of the reformers is no new spectacle, but some how it neer loses its piquancy. Now he goes tn llnrrishurg to lead ill person the light for a new charter fnr Philadelphia, The hill containing the proposed revision is far from being as advanced as the Senatnr would prefer. It may satisfy ordinary re formers, lint not n su per -reformer. So he proposes to lime amendments offered, all in the name of "the attainment of municipal good go eminent.'" Yet he caiiliot cnncenl his fears that a hill which "has received the indorsement of the city's principal business nnd civic organisations, nf church, labor and fra ternal ImiiMps" is sjully lacking. If he were doing it Philadelphia should lnue n straight out commission goct ninciit. The number of cnininissioneis docs not matter. Only lei them he "absolutely diorccl fnn poli tic, cither of the Penrose, Ynre or inde pendent Mirictics." Piirticiilnro . cjnicnl Philadelphians re mink, of the Vnre variety, for any funda mental change in the city charter would give a new opportunity for Penrose, who thus far. like l.iiin.x before him. has had to be content with the overlonlship of the state outside of the i'itj . In the face of these unctuous professions it is painful to see Philadelphia newspapers suggesting that the senator show his zeal for belter cit government by doing what he iai: tor the bill as introduced instead of proposing, for itisiaiiie. that the city be shorn of one of it- mo-t important powers bv tin- creation of a police commissioner to be appointed In the tiovernor anil to wield the nuthoritv n.m possessed bv the Mayor and bis ilirei tor of public safelj. "rilEROCKIG-llORSir K i:Mvrn c i;i:atn. win. writes "Ye Tow ne t.'ossip" in the New York American and several other newspapers, has paid the following tribute to the latest book li Christopher Morlev. the "Socrates" of the Kvknino Pi in li' I.r.nt.l I! : I had just started to work. And' had put the paper iu the tjpevvriter. And .lean came over. With her little girl .leirv. And .lean said : "1 hope we won't di-tnrb jmi." And I said certainly not. And .Jerry went over to a table. And pulled some books on to the lloor, Aud picked out a thin one. Aud cnine over to me and said : "I'ncle Ken. read the book." And 1 tried to drive her off. Itut I couldn't do it. And she crawled up on mj lap. And put her feet in my typewriter. And repeated : "I'ncle Ken. read the book." And handed it to inc. And the title of the book. Wus "The Hocking Horse." And it was a lot of poems. My Christopher Mnrley. And I read the first one. And Jerry listened. P.ut she hadn't any idea. What it was all about. J!ut it pleased inc.1 And I turned the page. And read the second one. And .Jerry still listened, And then I said : "If we're going to rend them all, "Let's get in a big chair." And we moved. And I kept on rending. And turning the pages. And .lerr.v lay there. With her eyes wide open. And pretending she kuevv. What they were all about. But she didn't. Until vve got to the one. Where Christopher said. He'd like to have a lot of ice wagons, "Down all the sun-cursed byways of the town." And "trailed by grimy tots. "Their ragged shirts half off them with ex citement. "Dabbling toes and fingers in nur leakage. "A lucky'fcw up sitting with the driver." And after that. "Their pinched white cheeks and their pa thetic gladness. "Then we would kuovv that arurs were made for aching." And .ferry went to sleep on that. Wifh a little bit of a smile. And lay there. And I went on and read. Half through the book. And forgot about my work. And liclti t care. And laid aside the book. And looked at Jerry. And was glad. That her cheeks were pink. And Jerry awoke. And vve put on her little coat. And she went home. And 1 thanked Jean. For bringing her over. And I want to tliuuk Christopher. For his book of poems. And to tell him. That I'm going to finish it. On the very first day. That Jean can spare Jerry. For a couple of hours. 1 thank you. The wires which Mr. tJurlvson took over hccin to have been barbed. Here's hoping that April showers hriug the May flower of peace. will Kvcn though the empire has fallen, it looks as though the haiser is soon to become u conspicuous figure in court. It is cold comfort for home slnln Koreans that Japan has declared that the .Seoul mas sacre "won't happen again." As the months roll on it becomes neces sary to consider how we are going to cele brate if the treaty in not signed until after June HO. The wails of (Jermans over the imposi tion of terms which they ssy will make them n "slave nation" are a tritlc belated. They should have beguu grumbling when the im perial regime made them really a servile state. Kven though the Bolshevists have made divorce extraordinarily easy, Nevada needn't be jealous. Little Iteno has it nil over Pctrograd as a place of residence. The prospect that tho peace treaties are to be in French suggests that Germany ly1 have been uncousclctiil- prophetic "BAH, VOT A VORLD! VUNST YOU VAS NOW YOU ISS TOO LIDDLE TO THE CHAFFING DISH Interview With Guy Wheeler Gl"Y WIIKKLKH. our favorite Phil phiati, is hack fiom France aud Philadel- phiati, is hack fiom l-rnnce and ap parently bears no inalice for the number of letters we didn't write him while he was abroad. A representative of the Dish inter viewed Mr. Wheeler concerning his impres sions of the great world. Cay emtio back, with about 12!)!) others, on the cruiser Charleston, landing iu New York last week. The normal crew of the Charleston is about 1(100 men. but in order to make room for the troops the crew was cut down to ."00. This meant thnt the doughboys hud tn help iu the storing, but (!uy says they didn't mind. "Those hoys would row themselves hack to get home," quoth he. Hut the l.'MIO of them were stowed iu the space normally nllotted to ."00. They were slung in canvas hammocks, four in a tier, (iuy, lucky us usual, had the top ham mock. V V V GI'Y went abroad as an aviator in Sep tember. 1!)17. lie thought he was hound for Italy, but he found himself quartered in a college at Oxford for wireless instruction. After a month of that he was sent to a mn-chine-guii sclfool nt (irnnthnm and then at tached to a homo-defense squadron near Fnvershnm. in Kent. This was the most exciting service he saw. for Fritz's (iothns wen: coming over pretty regularly in those dnys (December and January, 1017-18). "Vve would get word when Fritz left the coast of Belgium." said Guy. "Then all the squadrons would tuke the nir in the hope of finding him. There wasn't much chance that any one plane would meet him. You see. you're Inst up there iu the dark. You can't see anything and nil you can hear is the motor muring. It wus exciting when you got over London, though, with the Archies popping off nnd the shrapnel rattling on the housetups. When you do see Fritz." lie added humorously, "yon have n strong impulse to let him alone. You say tn yourself, 'Well, he doesn't seem to be doing nny harm. It wouldn't be fair to annoy him.' " V V V T'M H A (iuy. STIlOXt! for the Kuglish," said "Thev treated us like kings. When n man who has had his flying-school training over here gets to hngland he s likely to find he's got to go through it nil again. The Kuglish nre the real nccs. In the American flying fields the authorities were nfrnid of public opinion. They were afraid tn kill any one. The Kuglish know that j on can't train a bunch of nviators without killing n lot ot them. It's rather risky work, you know. Out of our lot of 'J00 that went over together eighty-nine got bumped off." "The I'nglish are wonderful flyers," said (Juy. "They're mostly very young, but n man ages rapidly in that job. They seem a hit quaint until you understand them, but they're the very devil in the air. The demon rum perhaps hns n little to do with ft nlso." The part played by this well-known demon in aviation hns rarely been made public nnd the representative of the Dish asked for further particulars, hut Cadet Wheeler wns reticent. The tnlk then turned Upon Ouync mer, tho famous French nee. "Like nil flyers who wnnt to live n little longer, he was probably more cautious than the public thinks," said Guy. "I've talked to men who saw him fly and they say he wns no stunt merchant." V V V MTT'S a grcnt game," snid Guy, "When we -L were stationed at the bombing airdrome near Lincoln, Knglnud, wo used to fly over to Woodhnll Spa, n kind of summer resort, every day for lunch". We'd pick out n nice, hospitnble-looklng farmhouse or country place nnd come down on the front lawn, Of course they'd invito Us in nnd give pi the ntt, While I wn at Lincoln I had my ' ' ' Gl of 1018 aud was attached to the camp at Issouduu until after the armistice, lie came home from Brest this month nnd got back to Philadelphia on Sunday. Tins week he resumes his old job ns a teacher at the (!er mantown High School. We imngine that one of the favorite maneuvers of his pupils will he to try to get him off the subject of tho day's lesson by asking questions about the war. Hut Guy is a stern disciplinarian nnd we don't imagine they'll get away with it. V V V A critic who has Just read Kudyard Kip ling's new book of poems says Mr. Kipling is merely plagiarizing himself. Well, we don't kuovv any otic who is more worth plagiarizing. V V V Some one with a morbidly developed curi osity writes to ask us wiiat the Qui'zeditor, who runs the What Do You Kuovv? just cast of this, is like. He is the kind of man who, when shaving in the morning, suddenly thinks to himself, "What is a Toledo blade?" nnd writes it down in a little memorandum book to put it iu the Quiz. V V V We have from time to time given sugges tions to the Quizeditor for his department, hut we nre more generous than Siguor Or lundo. We don't ou that account want to annex the Quiz. , - V V V Printer's Ink 0 pungent, sticky, priuter's ink, I love to hear you crackle On rolls aud plate and type. T think How you all minds unshackle. 1 met you in the days of youth, Upon the chart and primer. You tried to teach me fact und truth, And, set my mind a -simmer. Through all these years you've helped me on; You've solved for me the mystery Of lonesome hours. With you I've gone A-traveling through History. You've trained the people of this world To value Freedom's blessing. And Freedom's Hug is now unfurled, With all your power confessing. MAUGAltET W. MOODY. V V V Senator Borah says that so far he has given the revised covenant only "cursory reading." After which he naturally damned it, V V v Desk Mottoes Life is like playing a violin solo in pub lic and learning the Instrument ns one goes on. -Samuel Butler. , V V V The only reason why we are sorry Guy Wheeler has got buck from the wnrs is that we are afraid he'll remember we've got his copy of "Erewhou" and nsk us to return it. V V V Unusunl virtue may be predicted among smnll boys just now. Tho circus comes to town next week. V V V 'S Queerl General Squier, the chief signal officer of the army, says that every tree is a potential wireless tower, trees being detectors of wire less waves aud admirable conductors of elec tricity. A number or cows have learned this etn. title fact by sheltering under trees during thunderstorms. V V v The,khW I aid to take a little ,trolI TOO BIG TO LICK; HIDE IN!!" FROM A LITTLE HOUSE IMVB in a little house, Hut the door can open wide I live in a little house Hut the whole round world's outside! The light marches in with the morning, The stars creep down nt night. The high rain treads on my doorstep, The far winds call on their flight, And the Spring comes in ns a lover, When Winter's feet depart; And oh, the voices nnd voices Thnt rcncli the door of my heart' I live in n little house. Hut the door can open wide I live in n little house, "Hut the whole round world's outside. Mary Stewart Cutting, in Everybody's. The welcome we have for it is a magnet that will draw the Iron Division the momcC milUnry red tnpc is removed. It begins to appear that the Victor.? Loan may be able to struggle over the top without the active nssistaucc of the Rev. Dr. Mutchlcr. Italy proclaims that she "will settle her own affairs." If she would really act upon that decision the Fitime crisis would soon be settled and Jugo-Slavia would have nothing to complain about. What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. What is the meaning of the word "na tionals," as used in the Icoguc-of-nations covenant? 1'. Who is Gustav Ador? 3. Who is the author of the phrase, "In spiring, bold John Barleycorn"? 4. Who is president of the German Xn- tional Assembly? fj. Whnt transport holds the record for the fastest transatlantic passaga made by any troopship? 0. What is the second largest city iu Japan? 7. To what commander did Napoleon Bonaparto give himself up after the fall of his empire: in ISlfi? 8. Whnt is another nnmo for Luke Geneva? 0. Where wns the Democratic National Convention held which renominated Woodrow Wil&on for President in 1016? 10. How many hundredweight ninke a ton? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. An anticyclone is the rotnry outward flow of nir from an atmospheric area of high pressure. It is productive ot. clear, dry weather. 2. Tho miisicnl term "legato" means smoothly, 'without breaks. 3. Turin is in Piedmont, iu northwest Italy. 1, Tho Empress Josephine was born at Fort de Franco in tho island of Mar tinique, West Indies. 0. Rome became the capital ot Ifnltcd Italy in 1870. 0. The word meander is derived irom Muinulros, a winding river in Asia Minor. 7. Single quotation marks indicate npojjen remarks reported within direct U ceurs. 8, A peristyle is a row of columns snr rounding a temple, court or clolttcr or the Biiacc so surrounded. " 0. An atoll is a" ring-shaped coral reel inclosing a lagoon. ,,. i l u A & . .'. j
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