".'fb' ' '" "W,raf " f5!J,lW Tf' .' J (J 1 V x EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1919 sv j nn t ' , 1- A H r " sn?TO!ffB!PwWWi95P'w ft 9 m KT rs tit IS l e W iii IV w. n '& Witts?! tj ft Iftitklts' 7T7Nn S?4',... " nl " $ ,TOE EVENING TELEGRAPH PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY CTOUS IT. K. CrnTIS. PnFitrsT Ui,-ll,rl lt i.uQinrron, icr i reeineni; .mnn s i,Irtln. Secretary and Tremurer: PhlllD S ColllnK. rfc John II. WlllUmi John .1 Spunreon. nireetor. EDITORIAL BOARD Cites It. K. CCRTIS. Chairman PA.Y7D E. SMILET Bdllc,r s& JOHN J. MARTIN. .. General Hulnes MintKr Fublliheil dllv at rcaiio I.cikiim nullAInc Att.NTIO ClTI JS'tW YoKK .. DlTKOIT ST. Loci CHICaGO independence, square, i-nuaneir-ni Pret L'nfon RulMtne I'OO Metropolitan 'lcnt-r 701 rord Rullrflnir loos rullortnn HulMlnir 130.' Tribnn'. Ilulldlnc N'CWS BL'RKAUS. TVuniSdTov TimrAU, N n r'nr. l'ennvhnla Ate. and 14lh St. New Touk Btnr.Ar lhe .Sim nuiMinr 1.0SDON Buriap London Time smsmirTiov thihi Th F.rxMKfl Pi ai tc T.ErsiKn is eerteH in uh ecrlbera In Philadelphia and aurrnundlns innnt at th rl of twelte 1-'l tents per tveel.. p.ible By mall to'pnlnts outside of PhlladHphla In tha United States rannda or United Mil" no aeaalona, postage, free, flft ir0l ent per month Six ((! dollars per ear. naythle In adnie To all forelcn tountrlea on (III dollar per month. NoilCB- Fubf-erlhers Ttlshtnir ndd-es rhned Rinlt gltft old ae well as new adtlre- . DEL!.. JOOO WA! UT KrYMOAF. MMV 3009 Cy Address all rommuntrntwnl to rienino Pubha Ledger, Independence Square Viitarffpnn Member of the Associated Press THE ASSOCIATED I'linSK it exrhi livelu entitled to the me for trpiiblicattan if all neics diipatchcx rrrditcri to it or not elhcricise credited m in paper, and nho the local nn i published therein. All rights of republication of special dis patches herein are alio referred. rhilidelpliu. Ttrdnx.l.y, tpnl 3n. 1919 THIS SHOULD END IT IT IS becoming evident that when (io crnor Sproul said that lie was per suaded that this city should hae a greater degree of home rule he was nut Uttering empty woids. The Governor's announcement to the members of the citizens' chartei-ievision .committee in Harrisbuig yesterday aft ernoon that he was opposed to the metro politan police commission bill in its pies ent shape ought to convince the men who arc urging its passage that they aie attempting the impossible. If the Gov ernor's announcement means anything it means that he will veto the bill if it should be passed. No one familiar with the state of sentiment in the Lcgislatuic believes that it would be possible to pass the bill over a veto. The plan for a police commissioner ap pointed by the Governor might as well be abandoned at once. WHO CALLED BURLESON? PLAINLY Mr. Builcson is changed. His announcement of a desiic to re turn the cable and telegraph lines to their owners is made with the air of a frightened and chastened man. The President seems to have been sending 1$ some straight talk over the cables and it nasn t been suppressed, as ine iiora High Hoodoo of Communications saw fit L,.to suppress legitimate messages from k ' Ai ...i:.i. i 1 l... .... n CMicr sources which iiuiijicuku iu ui; c.- rsiivn nf rlisnm-ppmpnt with his nol- icies. A sudden geneial desire to hand the railroads back to private control is also apparent in Washington. Government ownership as a theory of American politics is dead. Mr. Burleson was its cxecutionei. The accounting that Congress must arrange at the next session with the owners of railway and wire lines will be a stupendous task. Ceitainly war con ditions confused the problems of opera tion and maintenance for the govern ment. The acute wage question was met by Mr. Burleson, Mr. McAdoo and by Con gress itself with slapdash method char acteristic of reckless amateurs. Owners of the various systems will be justified in expecting the government to give them a fresh start, free of the impossible handicaps created by bad management. Wage increases in most instances were justified, but unless Congress is willing to permit the railroads to provide for these reforms by continued high tariffs, the various corporations may be re warded for their previous enterprise by a prospect of bankruptcy. FIUME AND THE LOAN flf- u UiCd wno Knew unyuuiiK vi mo W . -vi-k rtTI 1. 1 Jl -.J i!. Italians in Philadelphia supposed for a moment that they would refuse to sup port the Victory Loan. Again we have had the spectacle of a handful of self advertising egotists piesuming to speak frnr nonnle whiim thpv iln not iustlv rpn- $" resent. The average citizen among the Ital Jans' trusts America. And America has alright to trust him. It was men of his isrirr. Vii hrnthpre nprbns who hnrl to. dn it . he fighting, not the few who lemain saffily at home m eery crisis and make a paying profession of their nationality. ' He doesn't want to be drafted again. He doesn't want the helpless millions in his native country to be compelled at some future time to go out once moie and hold contested lines in an inferno of cold arid desolation befoie they die for the sake of somebody's vanity. What con cerns him concerns America. rIf we judge the Italians aright, they are far too intelligent to be misguided fa by the shameless and detestable servility 1', . of those American newspapers that have t been trying to make money out of their jsft angetand their disappointment. i, Ak - FUN IN THE TROLLEYS IV, ?UT-AND-OUT error is offensive. $&"sV.TTBlf.rnthB whpthpr flppiHpntallv fir If1 'S deliberately disclosed, have often been M..i .iri ' .. l..... t : tit. .ii:n:A.. ryj ingreuieiii.s ui uujjiu. it j& mc ui-uiiuua r mixture of misrepresentation with fact $ vl'ilch composes the comic sauce. s!' rfljver intent on cheering its patrons, t wain. illll.UVlJ.um ""l'" -.!.. ww...- r" !-bjiv'3 placard editors are now furnish- lArle a new stimulus to laughtqr in the t".J . L f iJ t..!.l UtM 4A1IA.. nfNd SlgnS IIOY ilUBtCU IIISIUC IMCII UUUVy 'ir at the forward, end. 1 'Ihe joHo J3 a wee bit subtle; but, of rae, cno must always allow for a cer i",reticenco" in really good art, The p u wr8iy nuormea mac one specn Jim" eight'Cent warfares, another , cnargatva tnira six-cent ones, MM iMyv. the traditional drollery! The rider is not told that five cent rides are in vogue in Washington, in New Yolk, in Brooklyn and in numer ous other American communities. Nine uiscd out of ten, he knows that, anyway. The jest is therefore neatly compounded of his own information and what the P. R. T. obligingly dispense. As an additional savory fillip to all this mirth, the placard spells seven-cent Pittsburgh, without the sacrosanct final "h," and six-cent St. Louis out in full, a fashion confusingly suggestive of the, crusading king of Fiance. It is baldly necessaiy to point out how much moie amusing this all is than if the bulletin had been wholly false or com prehensively and frankly correct. Not since the gay days of skip-stop homilies has the transit company been so playful. LOCAL LABOR NOT BEFUDDLED BY DEBSONIAN BOMBAST Worklngmen Are in No Mood to Tolerate Any Bolshevlst-I. W. W. May Day Demonstrations Here MAY DAY demonstrations of "labor," heialdcd with much noise in Europe and America, have usually peteied out befoie the demonstration was made. In Kurope the thing was usually planned by the Socialists, who announced that thry cie the forerunners of a great l evolution. The revolution failed to re volve. In Amenca, men with imitative minds thought to capitalize discontent for their own purposes and they have talked in past ycais of great May day parades of protest. There have been some parades, but the great mass of labor lias been indifTeient. We don't do things that way ovei heie. Anieiican labor chooses to pi ogress by evolution lather than by l evolution. There have been tlneats in Ameiica this year that labor would call a general stiiUe on May 1 as a protest against the punishment of Eugene V. Debs for iohi tion of the espionage act. Debs himself threatened that unless he weie lcleased thpre would be 3000 demonstrations throughout the country in condemnation of the action of the couit in convicting him. Tomouow is the date fixed for the or ganized condemnation of the course of judicial piocesses, but it does not look as if anything serious were going to happen. A Victory Loan campaign is in piogiess. The attention of the public licic and everywhere is concentrated on the task of putting the loan over. Such paiade:, as we are seeing m the street-, aie directed by men and women whose minds are so full of patriotism and so charged with eagerness to help the nation raise the money to pay its war bills that they have no time to give to consideration of the case of a man con victed of doing all he was able to do to interfere with successful prosec ition of the war. Thcio will be no Debs protest parade in this city for two leasons. The police will not permit it, in the first place, for the reason that they are not willin"; to allow even a handful of Socialists and Bolshevists to do any thing which would in the slightest degree distiact attention from the loan cam paign. And, in the second place, the labor unions of the city arc announcing that they a io opposed both to a strike and to a paiade. These are the unions, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. This federation has co-operated with the government so heartily during the war that it has won the respect, of every one, including those who in the pat were wont to look askance at the activities of the organized mass of workingmen. Mr. Gompers himself has been most active in assisting the government in every way possible. He has given it the benefit of his advice and he has used his influence with the members of the federa tion to keep them loyal to the great cause in which the nation was engaged and to postpone pressing for the redress of any just grievances which they might have. HLs task was comparatively easy for the reason that the great mass of American workingmen, both in the federation and out of it, is intelligent and broad-minded and disposed to play fair. There are ex ceptions, but they stand out like the dis cordant notes of an instrument out of tuno in a great symphony orchestra. They attract attention because they are discords. Those timid persons who fear an out- bieak of Bolshevism in America should take courage when they think on these things. This is a democracy, a country of law and a land where the oppoituuity exists for any man to lise as far as his abilities will cany him. Debs was tried in the courts by his peers. He violated the law. He boasted of it not that he violated the law, but that he had expressed the views and did the things which the law forbade, and he insisted on his right to do with impunity that which his conscience dictated. It is impossible to befuddle the minds of thinking men with any such sophistry. The policeman on the corner, the trolley car conductor, the expert machinist, the man who runs a loom knows that the Germans who were blowing up our muni tion factories were acting in accordance with the dictates of what they called their conscience, but no red-blooded American has yet arisen to ask that those Germans who weie caught should be released from prison on the ground that they were acting up to their lights. . We have confidence in our courts be cause we have made them ourselves. The judges are the pioduct of our democracy. Many of them are the sons of working men, who have been selected because of their qualifications to preside on the bench. The juries are made up of our nejghbors, the men who work at the ma chine next to ours and the men who ride to the shop in the same street car with us. Wo know that when the evidence is submitted to us we should find the samo verdict which they find. And we know also that the members o? the American Federation t Labor are ordinarily ,m 7-- .' ,. it' l.'.i.JLiJi '1 us. Even on those occasion in the past when their judgment was warped by the heat of passion they were not essentially different from other men. Therefore it is not likely that the police department will find it difficult to enforce its decision tomoriow that theiv shall be no Socialist-Bolshovist-1. W. W. paiade. However much we may toy with intellectual anarchy when we have noth ing else to do, we are in no mood to tolerate it when we are engaged in the constructive work of orderly government in such a free dcniociacy as we have built up on this continent. Czarism is alien to us and the inveitcd czarism known as Bolshevism must starve to death here for lack of sustenance. STRAYER ON OUR SCHOOLS pRITICISM such as Di. George D. Strayer, of Columbia University, di rected at the Philadelphia school system may be said to represent the best that is available in conventional opinion at the moment. It leaves much to be desired. Everywhere in the world a sharper sciutiny is being ditectcd at the piocesses of education. The war made it plain that something is fundamentally wrong some where. What i. education for? Wheio does it lead? What should be its final ends and purposes? Is a man educated when he Ieains how to outplay some one else in the struggle for a living or for money? Or should education be n means of train ing men's spirits while their hands aie left to take caie of themselves? These aie questions that aie being asked everywhere by those who have not yet forgotten the subtler and more tragic implications of the war. Doctor Strayer makes no attempt to answer the general inquiiy. He would have a survey, he told the Public Educa tion Association, and higher salaries for teachers and a revision in administrative methods. With these technical sugges tions he was content. Doctor Strayer seems to be a piactical man with a leaning toward practical edu cation. It is worth remembering, in the face of such criticism as his, that on both sides in the recent war, with the Allies and with Germany, and in the old diplo macy that made the war inevitable, there were men educated to the ultimate de giee according to standards such as Doc tor Strayer's. And yet they weie un learned or they would have spared the world the horror of the last four years. Wherein weie they deficient? What should they have known that they didn't know find what should they have felt that they didn't feel ? When we know we shall bo on the way to peace and on the way to a decent educational' ideal. THE KEY TO A CRISIS fpHE complexity of the Fiume problem is such that arguments concerning it, save by experts, are laigely futile. The Jugo-Slavs can marshal one broad side of statistics and historical data, the Italians another. The average Ameri can lias convictions concerning the al leged principle involved, but his actual knowledge of Adriatic conditions is necessarily slight. But the machinery for thorough and impartial investigation is not unattain able. Aiticlo nineteen of the revised Icaguc-of-nations covenant reads as fol lows. The ji - finlil. ni.it fioin timo to time adti-i' tlip rcinii.iiliratitiii lit tuoinberp of Iho league nC llcatios which liate ho eonip inapplicable anil the consideration of international onditious whose con tinuance might endanger the peace of the world. Belter than a, dickering compromise; better than a sweeping decision, which would beget resentment and rankling emotions, would be a settlement con ducted as provided for in this article of the covenant. Italy will subsciibe to that document, of course. But if her signature is to mean anything how can it be reconciled with her piesent atti tude? If the pact is to triumph in fact a it docs in pretensions, there can be no more significant test of its efficacy than action based on this nineteenth article in the present crisis. Kicking over the traces by either contestant would be a proof that subscription to the terms of the covenant was merely nominal. If. after he gives tip Sent b Wireless the telegraph lines, Mr. Burleson should cease using the telephone system as if it ttere irotided for his private ditersion and revise his habit of using the mail sjstem ns if it had been bequeathed to him by his ancestors, we could begin the long nnil painful process of l'orgiting him for his escapades in govern ment control. It is worth while te- Our Itcassiiring inembering that if the "Covenant" mnstitutinti hadn't unitdl the sntereign stales in n peine leugiio theie might hate been ronidoiablo tonsteninhon in New Yoik about the inwision by all those Pennsylvania troops which the KroonlaniJ brought. "Well," they are say Well, What? ing in all the diplo matic madhouses of Europe, "what could jou expect from a sthoolniabtcr':" We arc still waiting for un infant tank to Hope collide with one of those automobiles that speed maniacs plunge through eiowds at the street corners. "I'ttas indeed a Deney eve just tncuty one j ears ago tonight. No matter what the result of the trial of Mr. Ilohcnolleru, he will still be fuiiud wauling that crown he disgraced. May Day will mark the artital of mor Germans at Versailles. "Must Day" wi occur shortly before their departure. When Congress gets to work on the league covenant even the most prolonged discussions lu Paris will probably seem -telegraphic In their conciseness. Not even the chronic calamity1 howler can deny that the Peace Conference has ac ouircd new strength now that bly Mike .Difrizas, formerly of the University of Pepn )lvaula, has become a participant with ut .".. ....ir.".l . .... .... 1,-1, -IF !( ...,. CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S LETTER Mitchell Palmer on the Leeture Plat form John B. MacAfee's Fond ness for London -Activities of Mrs. William Ward, Jr., of Chester Wasliliiglmi. 1). ('.. April W. rpiu: L tor IHI:KK are signs that aftfi-ilinnrr oia- r i heme i educed to n commercinl nicety The lecture bureau lhai have hit li rrto oonlineil themeltes to Sunday chool nnd teacher' institute and like gathering where the people were willing In pay the price of ndmi.Mon nud take ihnnces on the kind of wit or widom they were about to reeeitc. are offering public men. including cabinet officers, senator, members of Cou gres and warriors bold, for banquets or meetings, "terms to be quoted." Secretaries Wilson nnd Keficld are said to he nvnilable on certain occasion, nnd n new prospectus "just out" submits the name of the new attorney general. A Mitehell Palmer, who will talk on "German Industrial Army on American Soil," and o forth. Other Penn sylvania names include .lames M. Beck, the Row Itussell II. Conwell. I). I)., and Dr. Thomas K. Green. Vne President Marshall is not averse to the lecture platform and Champ Clark hns been at it for years. GO WHERE jou will nowadays you are likely to find a Philadelphia!!. They are thick as Men In Washington. They are over in Pari nnd London and nlong the banks of the Rhine John Blnlr MncAfee. n Philadelphia lawyer, whose name btill ap pears on nn office door in the Oo7or Build ing, bus turned up in London, not ns n vis itor, but ns one who has become attached to "dear old Lunnon" nnd does buiiiess there. MncAfee was n good-looking fellow with n rnten-black mustache like Samuel A. Boyle. Ihe former assistant district attorney, used to wear. He dressed well and hud n pen i hunt for piotnoting trolley line. Before going abroad he was netite in advancing trolley interests in nnd around Not folk, and that work frequently brought him to Wash ington. He holds some officinl relation now to the group of Americans who hate a cham ber of commerce "oter theie." EVIDENTLY the Thomas D. I'inletter Republican flub, which attained more notoriety than it desired during the I'ifth Ward election troubles, is not going out of business, dimmie Carev, the mercantile ap praiser, is presiilent of this club and Myer .Michael, a live wire in Fifth Ward politics, is the secretary. We hear a good deal in Washington about w hat other clubs ore doing in the northeast, in West Philadelphia and downtown, but the Fifth Warders are also represented, nnd we gather that dim Fealy, Andrew- J. Ebert. Jim Baker and Edward T. Hackett intend to keep the I'inletter standard waving. Magistrate John .T. Har rigan. who used to be in Select Council, is the treasurer of this organization. Speak ing of the Fifth Ward, does any one remem ber when Second and Spnne was a. great trade center and Jacob Reed had hi "East End" clothing store down there? A LADY in California, who is evidently impressed by the success of the prohibi tion amendment, sends us the following about tobacco: We are in need of legislation To stamp tobacco from our nation. Brain, energy, health it will impair; These nature never can lepair. It is a poison sure, though slow: Men should not hate it, no no no. Possibly the poetic impulse of Godfrey Malin may fotm a suitable icsponse to the delicate suggestion thai me e men should quit smoking and chewing. It is submitted as a sample of modem propaganda. THE ladies of Philadelphia and ticinily who are interested in wateiwn.ts unci who hntc been ndding to the attraction of contentions up mid down the lonst have been twitted a little as to their high legard for water since the women of Chicago voted with "the wets" nlmost two for one. T'p to date, however, the sessions of these ladies, whose piesident is Mrs. William Ward, Jr., of Chester, have tended slightly more to the discussion of woman sufTinge than to the question of prohibition. Mrs, Ward, tbose husband was formerly major of Chester, has a Washington iccord on suffrage, but that is neither here nor there when it comes to talking Chesapeake and Delaware Caual or the upper Hudson proposition The vice president of the Ladies' Auxiliary is Mrs. Frnriet, who was formerly Miss Addle Ed muuds: the second vice president is Mrs. Charles Elmer hmit nnd the third Mrs. Mofiitt. The Indies have three energetic ofhccis in Mrs. James (Jwilliam. secretary, who makes a mighty good speech ; .Mrs. C. F. Stnnnard, treasurer, who knows how to get the funds, nnd Mrs. L. C. Wessels, chairman of the entertainment committee, who is nn effectitc organizer when things arc to he done. WITH Oscar Noll in the hospital, big hearted Tom Cunningham, clerk 'of Quai tor Sessions nnd crsttvhile"elium of the Inte James P. McNiehol, bus been reported ns a little lonely. Rig Tom's loneliness, however, is more of a personal than it polit ical nature. He has all he cares to do in connection with the Republican Alliance, but there is n spot in his heart that 'beats sym pathetically for the memorv of "Sunny Jim" and those who were generally in the senator's confidence. It is said that "polities makes strange bed-fellows." but it is certainly true that while many of the old-time leaders are forgotten soon nfter the giass begins to grow green over their last resting plates some are left who do not forget. Quay passed out. hut there are still those who lote to quote him. Durham was a most popular leader and there were signs In his last days of the falling away of many professing friends, but still there are those who take the trouble to lay tributes upon his grate. It is the latter service that induces big Tom Cunningham to keep alive the spirit of McNiehol. GRADFALLT the problem of employment is making itself felt in the navy yards, which during the wnr have been running full tilt. Now the work is beginning to fall off and many men who hate held places are being dropped. Bear Admiral C. F. Hughes, who is in charge at the League Island yard, is not the least of those holding the office of commandant who are perplexed over this situatiou. The government simply cannot keep employed all the forces it did employ during the war. The rule at the Philadel phia yard now is to hold on to those em ployes who were most etiicicnt. At least that is the reason given with regard to many of the discharges hat arc taking place. In one sense Herbert H, Asqtiith will still be a "prlrae" minister if he becomes .plenipotentiary to the United States. On the whole, those cables which Mr. Burleson is now so anxious to return seem to have been, of the htavy chain variety. , . i it i . Ilt Is not so- much a sign as a design 'wUghrffce.R'hnow'r'lwWpintlyHIi It Is not so, much a sign as a design RUBBER Second Interview With Guy Wheeler AN IRATE face surmounted by tawny hair punctuated the tobacco inioke of our siincluin jut now. It was (iiiy Wheeler. "You blinking idiot," he said, "what do jou mean by plajing me up in the paper as a damn hero? What's all this hand paiuted stuff about valoious doings in the air? Beaucoiip trouble for me. Is this the kind of welcome jou give a chap?" We stammered something incoherent. "What," wo cried piteously, "is the use of having friends in the air service unless they're willing to pretend to be heroes?" "I know," he quoth bitterly, "jou don't caie what ou say as long as jou get your space tilled up, but for the love of Mike, man, to make me out a tileedlng fJalahad ! I demand reparation. You know 1 was in England most of the time, and the onlj danger wc ran into oter there was from the cooking. I can face boiled mutton nnd brusscls sprouts without a whimper, but not this bird-man tripe." "This (oliimii is at your disposal for any amend possible." we bleated miserably. "Surely jou know that to the newspapers every returned soldier is a hero. We thought they liked it." "Not anybody who was with the Eng lish," he said savagely. "The Euglish bate different ideas about this blooming hero stuff. Kindly state that fljing in Englnnd was nowhere near as dangerous ns crossing Broad and Chestnut streets, and that the only ptril we had to encounter was from the' Euglish cooks. If jou don't do me jus tice on this I'll turn the Emergency Aid bondsellers loose on you." And therefore wc wish to remark, and our lancuagc is plain, that wc retract, with draw, annur and disavow any implied testi mony that Guy is a hero. He isn't, and if you lote life don't suggest it to him. V V V A Rebuke for Mr. Cove We don't know who Mr. Arundel Cove is the name sounds 'familiar somehow but he has an nrtPcle in the May "Book man" in which he describes a visit to (i. K. Chesterton, at Beaeonsfield, Englnnd. In the course of his sprightly remarks this agreeable writer we can't help thinking wc hate met him somewhere says that a man he met near the Beaeonsfield railway station "was ery urgent that I should lslt the ancient I'emi iliurch. not far away, In the churchyard of which William Penn'ls burled " The fact is that William Peun is not buried nt Penn church. As every good I'hlladelpliinu knows, many of us by dint of personal pilgrimage, he lies beneatli a very modest stone in the little Friends' burjing ground at old Jordan's Meeting House, a few miles from Beaeonsfield through country lanes. The village of Penn, from which wc believe Penn's family came originally, is also near Beaeonsfield, hut is quite a different place from .Tordans. The old Penn church is a lovely place, hut we were more Interested in Penn YVoods nearby, a heavenly tract of old beeches which Bill must have known well. Perhaps' when ho called tills part ot the world Penn sylvania, or Penn's YY'oodland, he. had In mind that little English boscage. YY'e were wandering there one afternoon just at sun set when the slanting Blmfts of light fell quivering like flaming golden arrows through the chinks of foliage. In one such spear of brilliance stood a pheasant, daz zling scarlet and blue. It, was almost as lovely a sight as a magazine cover. Tbe next time air. Arundel Cove wanders round Beaeonsfield we hope he will correct t,JretiurB's.KMllrtnwit'hofprowls near"', HAVE YOU LET IT TRAIL? HEELS The Value of Criticism Our friend Dote Dulcet, the well-known sub-caliber poet, has recently issued a slender volume of verses culled Peanut But ter. He thinks we niaj be interested to sec the loininent of the press on his book. YVe don't know why he should think so, but any way here are some of the letiews: Buffalo Lens: Mr. Dulcet is a sweet singer, and wc could only wish there were twice as many of these delicately rhymed fancies. There is not a poem in the book that does not exhibit u tender grasp of the beautiful homely emotions. Perhaps the least successful, however, is that entitled "On Losing n Latchkey." Sj incuse Hammer and Tongs: This little book of satago satires will rather dismay the simple-minded reader. Into the acid vials of his song Jlr. Dulcet bus poured n bitter cjnicism. He seems to us to be uu irre mediable pessimist, a man of brutal and embittered life. In one poem, howeter, he does so.ir to a tcry tine Imaginative height. This is the ode "On Losiug a Latchkey," which is worth all the icst of the pieces put together. New Y'ork Reaping Hook: It is odd that Mr. Dote Dulcet, of Philadelphia wc be lieve, should have been able to find a pub lisher for this volume. Tliese queer little doggerels have un instiuctite affinity for oblivion, and they will soon coalesce with the driftwood of the literary Sargasso Sea. Among many bud things we can hardly remember ever to have seen anything worse than "On Losing a Latchkey Philadelphia Prism: Our gifted fellow townsman, Jlr. Dove Dulcet, has once more demonstrated his nbility to set humble themes iu entrancing measures. He calls his book Peanut Butter. A title chosen with rare discernment, for the little volume has all the savor and nourishing properties of that palatable delicacy. Y"e wish there were space to quote "On Losing a Latch key," for it expresses a common human experience in language of haunting melody and witty brevity. How rare it is to find a poet with bucIi metrical skill wlio Is con. tent to handle the minor themes of life in this mood of delicious pleasantry. The only failure in the book is the banal sonnet en titled "On Balding the Ice Box." This wc would be content to forgo. Pittsburgh Cylinder: It is a relief to meet one poet who deals with rcallv ex. altcd themes, YY'e are profoundly weary of the myriad versifiers who strum the so called lowly aad domestic themes. Mr. Dul cet, however, In his superb free verse, has scaled oljmplaa heights, disdaining the cus tomnry twaddling topics of the rhymester. Such an nmaiiug allegory us "Ou Raiding the Ite Box," which deals, of course, with the experience of a man who attempts to explore the mlod of an elderly Boston spin ster, marks this powerful poet as a man of unusual satirical ami philosophical depth; Boston Penseroso: YVe find Mr. Dove Dulcefs new book rather baffling. We take his poem "On Balding tlie Ice Box" to be n paean in honor of the discovery of the North Pole; but such a poem as "On Losing a Latchkey" is quite Inscrutable, Our guess is that jt is an intricate psycho analysis, of a pathological case of amnesia. Our own tastefis more for the verse that deals with the gentler emotions of every day, but there: can be no doubt that Jlr. Dulcet is an arHst to be reckoned with. iV V V ' We hope thiMce box at the Hotel des n.trroIrs Vtrllles, is locked at ulcbt. or some of the flJI .delegates will be sure) to break to W?. don 8f t'.buUer.IIke . to break nto W'-Wg. uon ' 1 'Mr1 Ji) - .V&v'i To My Daughter 3 Days Old YOL'K eyes look out unquestioning, un nfraid, On an nlien world. Y'our curs arc crinkled, half-unfolded leaf buds ; Y'our hands are fluttering moths at twilight; Y'ou have supped on the white milk of my love Y'ou have never tasted the salt of tears. Little tinawakened heart ! YVhcn your eyes have grown dark with pain, YVhcn your ears have heard the rhythm Of your own sobbing in the night, YVhen your weary hands have lifted the bur den of sorrow. And your lips have forgotten my breast, This other drink I bring you The strong red wine of courage. Distilled from the slow drops of my suffering heart. Then shall your eyes look out Unquestioning, unafraid, On an alien world. Nancy Barr JIatlty, iu The Bookman. After nearly five years the tierman troops have at last worked out an encircling motcment. This time, however, it happens to bo around their own city ot Munich. A What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. YVho has been appointed secretary gen eral of the league of nations? 12. Who called architecture "frozen music"? 3. YY'hat was the name of the three-headed dog which, according to Oreek mythol ogy, guarded the entrance to Hades? 4. YY'hat Is ashlar? C. Who was the possessor of the magical sword "Excalibur"? 0. YY'here are the Straits Settlements? V. YY'hat book of the Bible tells the story of Joseph? 8. YY'here is the famous church ot St. Sophia which the Greeks want re claimed from Jlahommedanism? 0. YVho was commander of the French army after Marshal Foch became gen ernlissimo of the Allied forces? 10. Of what state is Postmaster General Burleson n citizen? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. The word "nationals" as tided in the league of nations covenant means cither citizens or subjects or both. J. Gustav Ador is president of the Swiss Confederation. 3. "Inspiring bold John Barleycorn" is a line from Burns's poem, "Tain U'Shauter." 4. The president of the German national assembly Is Herr Fehreubach. 5. Tho Aqilltaniu is accredited witlt the fastest transatlantic run made by nny troopship, having recently made the crossing to New York in five days twelve hours and some minutes, 0. Osaka is the second largest city in Japan, 7, Napoleon Bonaparte gave himself up to Captain Maltland of the British man-of-war Belleropbon on July Iu, IS) 5. 8, Lake Geneva io also called Lake Lemsn. 0. The Democratic national convention which renominated YY'oodrow YY'ilson for, Prudent Jd 1010 was held to Sr 1 "il -i " ; luue aaofmt P. pi lm amwH)qeun .wjwtf w.ie, 1.1. .1.. VA'."i5iM. . '&.iAM2i&.ak
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