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gj DAVID C. SMIt.KY Editor
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-. THE HOMECOMERS
rpO CHEER for the men of the lion
- Division who landed here yeateiday is
not enough. Cheering is eay. It is as
easy as talk.
Who of those who lemamud at home to
encounter the tests of the hour that Liimn
as a consequence of the war and as part
of the war's responsibilities can lie half
us jbravc, half as patient, half as clean
minded and ha'f as stiaij;htfotaid in
the service of their country and their
people as these s-oldieis, were?
LUNATICS AT LARGE
pEBS in his cell, Haywood and Noar
ing happily at huge and all other
propagandists of hatred and delusion
were permitted to view the inevitable
reactions of their doctrines yesterday
when seventeen infernal machines, ad
dressed to men whose prominence in
affairs offended minds obviously de
ranged, were found in the Xew Yoik
Postofticc.
To encourage the malevolence of a mad
dog in isolated groups of men, to send
cowards and sneaks out to do muuler, to
make the illiterate and the bate a little
more stupid and a little more detestable
these are the methods of your up-to-date
radicals, and it is these wandering
preacheis of unrest who are the cause
of bitterness and despair in all men who
have tvc irferest of the country and all
its people sincerely at heart.
- -An opponent stopped in the course of
an admirable argument against the pro
posed sedition bill at Harrihburg to sug
gest that bombs found in this city not
long ago were placed by disgruntled de
tectivos out of jobs. This is unsound
reasoning. The bombs weie placed by
idiots made dangerous with exaggerated
notions of their wrongs.
Governor Sproul, Mayor Mylan and all
the other men for whom yesterday's
tjotnbs were made cannot be charged in
Ihc slightest degico with any offense that
would warrant this sort of attack.
It will not do to befoul legislation in
America with ideas borrowed from Rus
sia and Germany to deal with a handful
of lunatics. But if a i w s ould be pro
posed to blow up every bomb assassin in
the country with his own machines theie
t" would be no objection anywhere.
JIMMY
rpHEY used to say that Jimmy couldn't
get avxny with it that the thing was
too wonderful to believe. There were
times when Jimmy himself must have
fdt that he was lost in an effulgent
dream. But he stands today a icality,
with about $200,000 in fees safely in his
pocket, a darlli.g of the fates, envied by
$ al! the pop-eyed politicos within a radius
of a thousand miles, facing a life of
r limousines and cushioned ease, while the
'v bill that will limit every futuio Register
m ol Wills to Ins ?5000 salary moves along
Ivi na ffrpflRPrl wnvs nt. Hnrrlshnrre .limmv
$$&.! Is not a bad sort as they go. If some
fj,. "body had to grow suddenly and unbe-
ii&r. .lievaoiy ncn at me expense oi tne com-
JKTimunlty it might as well be he.
SjvBut this child of fortune ought not to
r spena.all tne money in easy living. He
' should spare enough to buy himself a
medal, a gorgeous medal witji ribbons
ot) It. Then some bright and sunny day
there should be a gteat assemblage on
Broad street south of City Hall. There
v.ihould be bands and silk-hatted commit-
JgTlecs" and loud speeching, and at the right
sjyhMiiuuieni. oiiiuiiy suuuiu uuvuncc lnio me
-focus of the moving-nicture cameras and
!&-. proudly bestow this medal on himself.
J"- Tho inscription should be simple and di-
k7 rct, anu it mignt run thus:
T "Presented to Jimmv Shpnbnn nollti.
Esk..cn and philosopher, by himself, in
pSiLycoEnition of his fortitude and gallantry
fX'-1" "laiaiinji, u;uiusi me comuincu opin
PKJgn of the world, that a good thing can
4i?rtMever be bad."
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Eg! A MORAL FROM BOSTON
jr-YCTljrE canny managers of n Boston stole,
fc" ?. which had giown in a few years from
UMlMung to tne, occupancy ot a building
t-fvering half a block, established a mini-
" jBm' wage for Its sales force ?2 a week
higher than that paid by its competitors.
. ,iWhat was the result?,
xjft had the pick of the young women
'jttUkirig 'employment and secured a force
Which for efficiency was unequalcd.
'This is what happens in commercial
k' Ht.fIt.BlM happens in tho school sys-
raiitne country.
w Ygrkr has adopted a salary sched-
. fwSthe' .teacher? in its schools which
KHIVK ILfualuiirai u f-vwv jt. w
tetAers in th-primary and ,xram-
m W ;yerfXer put.
department teachers in the high schools.
There is n prospect that in the near na
ture these maximums will he raised ?&
Capable teachers from all ocr the coun
try seek employment in Now Yoik. lne
even leave colleges and take professor
ships in the high school". The young
people of the city aie tiaincd by capable,
enthusiastic, high grade men and women.
How long is Philadelphia to be willing
to suffer from this sort of competition .
We do suffer fiom it thiough our in
nbilitv to command the bo-t teaching
skill in the country. -ae whcie nm
clnfs teachers piefei to leninm here foi
family or social leasoiis that hac no con
nection with their salancs.
This city ought to lie :m wie as the
nianiigoi.s of the Bixton store and estab
lish a salary schedule for its teachers
which would bo high enough to gie us
the pick of the teaching profession when
we wish to till a acalicv.
They pay that the money is not at hand
to pay better salaries But if we were
convinced that the salaiics ought to be
paid we cnuld find the mnc, because
we should know that it was pool economy
not to find it At picsent we aie sufTei
ing fiom that pound folly which comes
from eercisuiir nenin wi-ilom
ANTI-LEAGUE REPUBLICANS j
UNTRUE TO PARTY IDEALS
Shipwreck Ahejd if Traditional Policy
of Construction Is Abandoned Through
Plotting of Insensate Politicians
pARTISAN'SHII' that defends to mere
i-colding has long been notoriously
mini ofitahle m American no'itic-. Whit-
in
cned with the bones of failuie is the
stenle path which the Demon atic paity
for many ears puisiicd in -uppoit of
that policy Aside fiom haimful possi
bilities to the r.a'ion, sheei selfish politi
cal inteiests aie sorrily served theiebj.
The Demociatic donke.v was no hazy
symbol. It very vividly typified a spmt
of fatuous obstinacy, ,-n stupidly unrca
soiling as to be absuid. 1'iom Lincoln's
to the end of Aithur's adniinistiation Re
publican cmistiuctive measures abetted ill
the most efficient fashion the natuial
growth of the united nation.
If the opposition derived enjoyment
from being "sore." that emotion maiked
the limit of its satisfaction. Theie vvie
no material lewaid.-, foi a common scold
is not an ingiatiating figuie.
The scene was le-cnacted when Re
publican enterprise freed Cuba, .Tcued
Porto Rico and the Philippines, invested
the United States with vvoild power dis
tinction, ably suppoited Aninican indus
tries, espoused tho valid doctrine of reci
procity and nobly championed the code of
"open-door" justice m the I'ar ICa.st.
Theie aie excellent reasons in vei idea
tion of the statement that this country is
"normally Republican." It can, however,
only remain .so in case the party itself is
normal, healthy in its indorsement of its
tiaditional constructive creed.
A depaiture from this policy, such as
exemplified in opposition to the league of
nations a subject altogether unsuitable
for paitisan capitalisation is decidedly
a sign of illness. Since the nation was
formed it has never discussed a topic less
fitted for factional bickering.
Demociats, who may champion the idea
solely fiom the party angle, interpret it
as eironeouslj as those Republicans who
oppose it because it happens to have the
.support of the present administration.
Intiinsically, the conception lies out
side the ordinal y domain of partisan
politics. It was to give it ultimate reality
that the United States, despite distinc
tions of party lines, went to war to end
war. Peace and the ideal of maintaining
it with justice and in co-opeiation with
the rest of civilization was the aim of
no paiticular party when, after repeated
provocation, wo took up aims in 1917.
It is the foundation of permanent
peace which every decent American
wishes to see laid today. Scrupulous ex
amination of the gioundwork of the
structure a piovided for in the league
pact is the part of progressive patriotic
idealism. But blindly derogatory argu
ment, obviously advanced because at a
time when the assembled nntions seek to
establish the bonds of mutual security
Woodrow Wilson happens to be President
of the United States, contains elements
of the gravest political error.
It echoes of the futile donkey braying
of yore.
It is reminiscent of the diatribes of the
Parker Democrats against the admirable
administration of Theodore Roosevelt.
Devoid of sound constructive measures to
advance, those shallow pattisans stum
bled into only one thing which was
deep their grave. The triumph of con
structive Republicanism in 1001 was one
of the greatest on record.
It is open to no dispute that the Repub
lican sentiment nf the country has been
under going a new development during
the second administration of Mr. Wilson.
The congressional elections were con
clusive proof.
But the power recently acquired will
have to be wisely used if the most popu
lar of American parties is to resume
fully its honorable role of broad-minded
beneficence. And this means that tho
sharpest lines should bo drawn between
issues which the Republicans ought to
indorse in opposition to blundering Demo
crats and the monumental issue into
which the injection of political spleen is
folly.
Mincing matters will only make them
worse. The senatorial "round-robin" not
only displayed the most heartless disre
gard of the lessons of the war, but it was
as palpable a display of insincerity, in
spired by political passions, as American
history has ever revealed.
Republicans, smarting because their'
party has been out of power, may sub
scribe in a spirit of resentment to the
sentiments voiced by the Lodges, the
Poindexters, the Borahs and the Sher
mans. But thousands upon thousands of
other members of a distinguished politi
cal party must, if they think for an in
stant, tingle with shame at all this igno
ble maneuvering. This "strategy" is in
sane politics, for with Americans in their
ipreswit imuuu vuiitt-inuij; wai iiiq icukii"
pact .MW?ituaily fail oi Tatlfica-
on. And naturally the Democrats will
jump at tho cha,nce to arrogate to them
selves a victory which will really be a
result of the combined common fcense or
the nation.
Certain Republican spokesmen aie, of
course, sufficiently shrewd to foresee the
dangers ahead. From several of tho
original "round-robiners" adroit indorse
ments of the amended pact are forthcom
ing. "The changes," declares Selden V.
bpencer, of Missouri, "aro vital and com
mendable." This looks as though at least
one eraser will be called for when those
hasty signatures are again brought to
light. The repentance is of various
stripes. That of Senator Penrose docs
riot openly come under that category, and
et it is perfectly possible to interpret
his comment as presaging a revision of
his views when the critical hour strikes.
He believes in "closely scrutinizing
the covenant." A good sentiment, well
pionounced. "I have always," he ex-pb-ns,
"been in favor of any covenant or
treaty that would, diminish the chance of
war," adding that "apparently some of
the objections originally advanced to the
league as first presented, such as the
piotcction of tho Monroe Doctrine, have
hern covered in the revised document."
The tone of these remarks hardly sug
gests that of the angry outburst which
giceted Mr. Wilson's first return from
Europe.
Meanwhile the irreconcilables continue
beating their black wings. .Those of
llcjiry Cabot Lodge flap ferociously and
yet, all things considered, they do not at
tempt much of a flight. Ardently Italian
in his outspoken sympathy with Or
lando's imperialistic ambitions, he never
theless would sulkily pause when it comes
to pi enouncing upon the new covenant.
He and Senator Curtis have urged Re
publicans to bottle up their thunders
tempoiarily. If he can hold all his fellow
"round-iobiners" in line, in imminent
jeopardy of their political future, this
move may foreshadow a terrific blast of
venom. If it does, the most pciilous
breach which 'ever rent his 'party will be
visible, for Mr. Lodge does not represent
the attitude of the majority of Republi
cans upon this issue, which is so ob
viously of nonpartisan essential quality.
Republican Philadelphia, for instance,"
is overwhelmingly in favor of the society
of nations, as the Evening Public
Ledger's poll clearly proved. The tire
lessly patriotic spokesmen for these con
stituents is William H. Taft, who su
peibly champions 'the covenant for the
best two possible reasons. In the first
place, it is the only untried cure for war
which is at hand. The second argument
may interest him only incidentally. It
is admirable politics for the progressive
Republican party to support a measure
so directly in line with all the ideals for
which it has ever stood.
If Mr. Taft takes higher grounds he
is well worthy of applause; but, on the
other hand, there should be no shame at
taching to party politics if sincerely and
sanely conducted.
The party system is the cornerstone of
American government. When the Re
publicans were doing so well for their
country it used to be Philadelphia's con
viction that it was their party which was
pnmaiily responsible for the national
advancement. In a measure this was
true. It will be so again if the distinc
tion once more be drawn between what
aie legitimate partisan issues and what
are not.
Indorsement of the league pact is a
national duty in the broadest sense. The
obligation falls upon us all, Democrats
or Republicans, upon any American citi
zen who has the faintest inkling of what
the war was ostensibly about.
When the "round robins' " wings are
clipped and the nation -has become an
honorable partner in world peace there
will be a legion of topics for the Repub
lican party to discuss in healthy opposi
tion to its rival. Upon the party which
Mr. Lodge professes to represent devolve
gigantic problems of reconstruction.
The solution of them will accord with the
finest Republican traditions.
That way lies redemption.
BANDS
T)ANDS that make the windows rattle
LJ with military" music are everywhere
in the streets these days. Soldiers and
sailors play with a quickened tempo, a
ihaipened and truer rhythm. -No paci
fist, though he be ever so earnest a phi
losopher and humanitarian, enn remain
quite himself as they go by arid fill the
air with the music of glory and defiance.
Twenty yelling trombones can drown the
voice of reason with a wild call to nction
and aggression.
Even after war is outlawed and when
the woild is at peace, a good brass band
will always bring a curious urge and a
troubling remembrance of flying ban
ners and polished steel, of rumbling lor
ries and victorious guns and the lines of
men who through all the years have
marched to the heights from which the
songs of triumph have descended.
Must we reform music, too, before war
is done with?
A friendly reader,
Not Half Bail stung to action by the
observation in this
column that no existing word is adequate
to sUKKcst the various and assorted horrors
of modern war, has invented "murkllslaut"
and' rushed it in for approval. The car
penter of this term obviously was feelinj for
a terrible combination to imply briskly mur
der. Killing and slaughter a'U in one breath.
Since t lie word sounds German, it will do
till something better turns up.
The expenses of the
,l,0 ' Nvr-n ,;a(i 0id Moscow So-
. llimU of It et nave approxi-
nfcvnnn. i. n niite'1 bout ?250''
000,000 to date. The income of the glad old
Moscow Soviet has Uta about $25,000,-
000. It Is easy to imagine what Benjamin
Franklin would say of Bolshevimm
"Be calm and se-
Trearhlng and rtnefi criM Orlando
Practice t the Romans. If
tha Ti.Mnni Hail said
something of that sort to (Orlando before
be went to Paris and thch bolted madly
from the Petce Conferfnce,leBrMy".B-
j THE GOWNSMAN J
Tho Academic Wage
AT AN' important university in the East,
it few months since, the petition of the
wntrhmen and nssistnnt firemen in the light
ing and beating plant for nn advancement in
wages wag deferred because they were alrcad.v
receiving so much more than Ihc initial
"salaries" of instructors. To become nn
instructor n young man must have nt the
least tho bachelor's degree. Many institu
tions nre demnndfns n higher degree of even
their jouiigest teachers. The H. A. means n
four-year course on top ot high school.
A Ph. I)., three years of nddltlonnl special
ized study.
ON ON'i: thousand dollars n ear a .voting
collegian may live, it he lives warily:
if he buvs even n few books lie may live
shabbily. But whnt of the attempt, the
necessity sometimes, that two or even moic
mouths be fed on siu-li n mini and n certain
standard of gentility be maintained in the
process? A young instructor in a western
college where money goes somewhat further
than in Philadelphia tonfessed the other
day to nn Older friend that he had not been
financially able to buy an egg or n snap
of meat for his family for over four months.
Sueh provender was bejond them. Nor will
it do to say. "Why did the fool marryV
It raiiiiot be good publie policy to depute
the brainiest mid most Htudious of tins
primitive right. "Why didn't lie go into
business?'' is n more pertinent query. Willi
four and the dollars a day for doing what
any intelligent mini can learn how to do in
n couple ot da.vs, obviously that is the only
thing to do. And the education, the ambi
tion, the career, nil these things go for
naught.
Tnti position of a teacher is supposed to
demand n certnin scale of living. It taken
money cten to be clean: n scholar cannot
work' in n cold room: his brains do tint
flint tion with iiisuliicient food. He bn
duties to the subsistence, the cdinntion nf
his fnmily as well as to his college itMho
pervbes lie renders Hud in the investigations
in which he is busied. Wherefoie the aver
age American tear her, driven to ubnmlnti
this lust by insufficient menus, strives to eke
out his scanty income by outside lectures,
hack work, summer schools, more teaching
in an already overcrowded curriculum, with
whnt result? A little moie money, a de
creased efficiency, often impaired health
and scholarship once and for nil definitely
pbandoned.
THE (lownsinan is perfectly well aware
that by no mentis nre all college tcacheis
in o deplorable a condition. Some teadieis
have means of their own and it is a, cur
rent pleasantry that scholars often marry
money none too dignified a resort. It
would be an unhappy tiling to convert the
trust of the teacher, to the administration
of which a man slinulrt be ns nssuridh
called as to the ministry itself, into n post
of gain, alluring to the mere money maker
Hill no one. Knowing conditions, can deny
that with salaries little advnnced in n gen
eration and with prices realizing the fondest
dreams of the most impudent profiteer, there
is much genuine suffering among the
teachers in American colleges. The hand
of privation is verily upon them. The
lesult is obvious. Our most ambitious
joung men for the most part do not teach:
the few whose altruism lends them into
teaching nre driven out, the ablest going
soonest. The colleges have long since given
up tompeting in salaries with high schools
and private schools for the best teachers. Our
universities even run afford only the second
best, and for the most part save for some
honorable exceptions that is all they get.
R
X THE thirties of the last century a pro-
ceived $'Ju00 or .foOOO per annum in our
large centers. There was often a house
thrown in besides. His position financially,
and therefore sofially in commercial Amer
ica, was on it lrcl with the doctor, the min
ister, the lawjer, the judge. Tn fact, the
salaries of the Inst about tallied those of
the professor. At best in these eighty jears
the college teni her's salary has doubled ; it
has certainly not increased "0 per cent,
taking the whole body of teachers. The
judge's salary, in Philadelphia nt least, bus
quadrupled, and there nre even judges who
do not feel that they nre excessively overpaid
todny. The administration of our law courts
is n practical utility. Is the selection, the
power, the responsibility of those who train
our best youth for the struggle of life any
the less so?
THE trouble with the professor, outside of
the piofessional schools, lies in the cir
cumstance that lie lias but otic employer.
The doctor, the chemist, the lawyer, the en
gineer condescends as to wage if he teaches
nt all; for each is a money getter potentially
in the markets of the world. The college
nnd the school is the teacher's only market.
Moreover, n teacher is not functioning ns
n teacher if his mind is on money nnd its
returns for his work. Scholarship is not
measurable in utilitarian terms; only its
applications can ever be paid for. The
actual compensation ot the teacher lies in
recognition and in the following which he
evokes. But sueh impalpabilities do not
butter parsnips nor pay the lordly butcher
his bill.
THE Legislature of the state of Michigan
lias just voted $700,000 to the University
of Michigan in two annual installments of
$350,000 each to be devoted wholly and
solely to the permanent increase of the sal
aries of teachers in thnt institution. Three
years from now the charge thus created will
be included in the state levy of taxes. And
the adjustments nre to be made from below,
where most imperntively needed. The lowest
snlary for any instructor will be $1500, with
hopes of further amelioration. An interest
ing feature ot this step in the amendment of
salaries at Michigan lies in the circumstance
that it was not on the program of authority,
but, once noted, appealed to the sense of
justice of the legislators themselves. With
all our perfections upon us we may per
haps learn somewhat even of the Middle
West. Or muBt wo go on in our seaboard
universities expanding, monstrous bodies nt
last without informing minds, and our
teachers be driven to the devices of unionism
or worse for tho maintenance of their place
in an advancing world?
They are beginning
Anil Where Is That? now to worry about
the future fate of the
bar-fly not the human bar-fly of cruel
slang, but the insect that departed from a
healthy, outdoor existence and spent, its
life, rum-maddened, wherever strong drink
was spilt. What is to become of him? Will
he reform? That is the anxious inquiry of
curious ftornol0B's's '"r ourselves wo
venture to suppose that he will ko to the
place that shelters the fly that once liTcd on
free lunch.
.
The league of na-One-Way
Minds tions, says former
Governor Stokes, ot
jjew Jersey, will lead to war. Is Mr.
Stokee willing to contepd that the interna
tional scheme which the league is intended
to replace leads away from war? Mr. Wll
unn. observes a British diplomatist testily,.
Is hindering the work of peace. Can any
llvinS diplomatist in .Europe say,,tllat he
faiiwvj.tui""
UlADT K6P'
THE CHAFFING DISH
In examinlnij a literary work we should
always find out what the author's real
thoughts must be, nnd not assume that
they mo what he claims them to be.
Albeit Mordell. in the unmentionable
book.
Kor instance:
The Literary Work The Author's Real
Rreak, break, brenk. Thoughts
On thy cold gray o bov, this is titter-
stones, O sea !
ine 'em some! I
And 1 would that my
tongue could
litter
The thoughts that
nnse in me.
Tennyson.
Wir wollen nicht Ias
sen von unsercm
Haas,
Wir habeh nllc uur
einen Hass,
Wir lieben vcreint,
wir hassen vcr
eint, Wir haben alle nur
einen Feind :
ENGLAND!
Lissauer.
Not marble, nor the
gilded monu
ments Of princes, shall out
live this powcr
' fill rhyme;
But you shall shine
more bright in
these contents
Than unswept stone,
besmeared with
sluttish time.
Shnkcspcnre.
Or let my lamp, nt
midnight hour.
He seen in some high
bet nil the nntholo
gies will print this
one. '
Gott. I hope the
English don't read
it.
What rot. but it will
please the kiddo.
I must get to bed
early tonight.
Haven't been getting
enough sleep lately.
lonely tower,
Where I mayoftout-
wntch the Benr,
With thrice-grent
Hermes, or itn-
sphere
Thcspirit of Tlnto.
Milton.
The little toy dog is
covered with
dust.
But sturdy and
stanch he stands ;
And the little toy sol
dier is red with
rust,
And his musket
moulds i n h i s
I bet the boss'll hand
me n raise when he
reads this one.
hands.
Time was when the
little toy dog was
new,
And the soldier
was passing fair ;
And that was the
time when our
Little Boy Blue
Kissed them and
put them there.
Eugene Field.
No more from that
Thank goodness
that's done!. If I
get a quid for that
I'll go up to town
next week and get
a little relaxation!
cottage again
will I roam;
Be it ever so humble,
there's no place
like home.
Home! Home!
sweet, sweet
Home !
There's no place like
Home! There's
no place like
Home!
Payne,
V V
Think how glad Senator Ehenuau must be
tbat h wasn't appelated secretary general
REAL SYMPATHY
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The Signs of the Times
Come, pal, we'll go abroad today to nolo
the signs ot spring;
The budding leaflets in the trees, the birds
upon the wiug;
The pussywillows' overhead, the couples in
the park ;
(And oh, the smacking sounds you benr
when strolling after dark!)
We'll walk the glenming hillside nnd we'll
Iriiuip upon the green ;
And bask within the sunlight, till the jolly
' orb goes down ;
There's just one sign we'll have to note it
can't escape unseen
A poster setting forth the date the circus
comes to town !
Come, pnl, we'll go nbrond today, to note
the signs of spring;
The maids perambulating with policemen on
the string;
The peanut venders opened up with fresh
display of wares ;
And advertisements telling of the nearer
county fairs.
We'll gnze upon the baseball scores that filter
from the South,
And tread the grnssy woodland which the
other day was brow n ;
A sigu placed in n window brings saliva to
the mouth '
A gont's head that's proclaiming when the
bock beer cornea to town !
ENVOY
We'll board a passing trolley enr with win
dows opened wide;
Conductor knocking down the fares that
he forgets to ring ;
"For Rent," "To Let," "For Sale," we'll
see displayed on every side
Come, pal, we'll go nbroad today to note
the signs of spring!
ROBERT LESLIE BELLEM.
V V V
Old Shoes and Old Friends
I will not cast old shoes nway
While they together hold;'
For though they're worn nnd homely things,
They've graces manifold.
For oft I've ventured forth in pride
And shoes nil chic nnd new ;
But yearned to see my nin fireside
And old shoes, haven't you.'
Wemust have shoes ns on we wend
' That nre both new and whole ;
But an old shoe, like an old friend,
Gives comfort to the soul.
New friends are fine when blithe and gay
Out in tho world we roam ;
But with old friends in trouble's day
The heart feels most at home.
I will not cast old friends nway ; v
Wo'vp shared life's woe and weal ;
I need them all, tho polished ones
And those "down at the heel."
MAUD FRAZER JACKSON.
V V V
Desk Mottoes
It were not best that wo should all think
nlike; it is difference of opinion that makes
horse tuccs.
MARK TWAIN.
V V V
Which reminds us thnt we were much
pleased to notice that Hocking Horso won
the first race nt Havre tie- Grace Tuesday
afternoon. Never mind why.
V V V
They're going to brine the kaiser to th
dock after all and he won't be allowed to
leap oft it, cither.
V V V
The parents of young children have no
realLr intimate acquaintance with sleep
Thflfbardly.rirCognisuj'iUivhcii It corned , to
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THE HOMECOMING
rpHEY come, they come in brave array,
- With pomp nnd panoply of war ;
These warriors who amid the fray
The flag of Freedom proudly bore.
Now mothers their young heroes meet
And wives salute their soldier ma'tes,
While kinsmen, reunited, greet
Yet, pale nnd pensive, some one waits.
A paean now the people sing,
As tales of victory unfold.
And plaudits to the welkin ring
In honor of these spirits bold.
The cup of joy filled to the brim.
Is quaffed on this triumphant day,
Yet from the vessel's golden rim
Some one in sadness turns to- pray.
Recedes the awful battle wrnth
Before the glory and acclaim
That mark each young crusader's path
Along the corridors of fame ;
Yet one who kept the torch ablaze.
In poppy fields far distant sleeps;
Now bome one walks the lonely ways
And, broken-hearted, softly weeps.
Yet through the heavy clouds of gloom
Thnt grief assembles o'er a soul
Whose joys seem buried in n tomb
Enshrined on some embattled knoll.
The light o hope shall burst and gleam
Like sun-gold dropped from heaven's dome,
For just beyond the Stygian stream
That soldier-saint at last is Home!
Louis M. Grice, in the Baltimore Ameri
can. What Do You Knoiv?
QUIZ
1. Against which article of tho league
covenant' is much of the Republican
criticism directed?
2. What brilliant naTal victory was won
twenty-one years ago today?
3. Distinguish between the recognized
military and civilian pronunciation of
the word rations?
4. Name the uncompleted novels left, re
spectively, by Dickens, Thackeray
and Hawthorne. ,
5. What nre the names of the two houses
composing the Italian rnrliament?
0. What is the jaekstaff'of n ship?
7. What is the meaning and origin of the
word mufti?
8. Who was Jack Cade?
0. To the people of what American state
is the term "Tarheels" sometimes
applied?
10. What was tho original significance of a
barber's pole? ,
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Sir Eric Drummond has been appointed
secretary general of the league cf
nations.
2. Schelllng In "Philosophy of Art," char
acterized architecture as ''frozen
music."
3. Cerberus was the three-headed dog
which, according to Greek mythology,
guarded the entrance to Hades.
4. Ashlar is square hewn stone or masonry
constructed of this.
C, King Arthur was the possessor of the
enchanted Bword Excalibur.
0. The Straits Settlements are in the
Malay peninsula at the southeast end
of Asia.
7. The book of Genesis contains the story
of Joseph.
8. The famous Church ot St. Sophia is in
Constantlnocle.
0. General Petaln, now a marshal, wa
commander, of tho French army at the.
time when Foch was the Allied ? ,
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.10. Tostwasier', General 'Burleson U .Jtom V
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