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M.r j. nn A MOMENTOUS LABOR DECISION 'VTO decision recently made in an Ameri A' can court is so momentous as that by which the United States Circuit Court of Appeals in Minneapolis has just held th6 United Mine Workers of America financially responsible for damage done to mines by members of the union dur ing an interval of disorder in a stiike. The decision is a long step beyond the Danbury hatters' case. It cannot be car ried' too quickly into the Supieme Court fof a final decision. ''The precedent involved is of universal importance in a time when conservative trades unionism is acquiring larger influence and also larger responsibilities. The implication of the Minneapolis de cision is inspired evidently by the rule of law which holds business associations responsible for the nets of their accred ited agents. Are strikers on a rampage accredited agents of a labor union ? That is a question which the Supreme Court Via have to decide. BOARDWALK-HAVANA ROUTE OOME years ago when the Culebra slides worried the Panama Canal builders, a fanciful cartoon depicted the solemn dedication of the waterway, while a fleet of speedy airplanes were smartly flying over the costly breach in the two continents. The forecast was whimsi cally extravagant, since, despite the progress of air navigation, steamships are unlikely to be superseded for some time. Nevertheless, every new commercial application of flying brings reality more i tooth with' imagination. Take, for instance, the "Boardwalk-to-Havana" project. Victor Barranca, fiscal agent for Cuba, told the Pan-American aero nautic congress in Atlantic City that an aerial transport line between Absccon and the Caribbean metropolis was cer tain to be established, probably within ninety days. It will take an easy course, through mild atmospheric currents. The journey down the coast can be broken at ither Miami or Key West. From either of these places to Havana it is a safe and short run. One cannot help wondering what the late Henry M. Flagler, promoter of the expensive ocean railway from the Florida mainland to the Havana ferry slip at s"Key tWest would have thought about all this. Of course, his great work will be i useful for many years to come. Never ! theless,. the fact remains that shortly all f that will be necessary in order to take the 1 swiftest route to Havana will be to fly off the Boardwalk. .LONELY WISE MEN LEAR thinking ought to be more fash- Mqriable than it is. To think ration ally, to maintain a balanced sense of jus tice in the strong winds of emotion that sweep the world is as difficult as a loop-the-loop in an airplane. The earth is cumbered with men who keep their minds in their pocketbooks. Others inherit their opinions with their money. The bane of American life is the man who JTMts his thinking done under contract by !?iv UHI V J pujibiifcwia. By' 1 4 JVhen scholars speak of pure science muy icier fc" miv wiiv ui iiLue-iwiuwn .men whose research and discoveries pro- f-'nii.vfde' the basis for every achievement of j (the inventors who amaze the wot Id by ap- L-5 rilvinrr the nrincinles which othnr mon v. fen. rVT."" ! .'-. . -.....- V -( veal. The devotee of pure science finds his K- iruth and throws them over his Htinnlrfar f , Sto .other men and fares on, driven by a 'xfeat curiosity and hindered not at a.l by Lr any thought of fame or profit. ", There is such a thinir as nurp ihntio.hr if !' Very frequently the men who devote r-sVrthemselves to its pursuit are represented f'r Von'the programs of the American 3',, AcaJemy of Political and Social Science, wntcn, viriuuny uiuiuucei oy many rnllA rVtdelphians, has been establishing, at its .Vs'i' - -" iuiuig!i 'tic, jurum us great i'-!n":kny in the world. The Academy is hiding a special session today. Most of iW,"iH nol have time to give it a thought. ftltVt,Babe Ruth again stirred up war Smi ftnv 111(1 ui iiiq uuabuu lieu oux i " '& DAY WE CELEBRATE . -1 ' fKCENT English commentator on exclaimed over ttw'.'wtturo of the days we celebrate. Motor's Day considerably surprised ij .''Vhere is nothing like it elsewhere. B4) ?s nt n event to bo facetious about, ilce the sentiment inspiring it is yujiiera..... "Straw Hct Day" is really i ww loreign qrui: aiiouiuimve noted hy; t'mate bewilderment. Analysis jfbt nave revealed some signiu- am' cottutroiHK jmcricsn iiie uallsm, but, as a matter of fact, we simply doto on harmless conventions. Why are Americans abroad so readily "detected"? Why docs the impc'cunlous shopkeeper or the persuasive '.'guide" so easily overwhelm our alleged '"native shrewdness"? Largely, it Is because he can capitalize the uniformity of our tastes and proclivities. If the mode is tight skirts, it will be ligidly .observed by American femininity en masse. When the first Satuiday in May comes around, the other sex unani mously goes llght-heatled, that is to say, straw-hatted. If the weatherman U dis obliging, so much the worse for his obstinacy. His bright new "lid" wilt be spoiled, that's all. Should any doubt still exist that America is not really a melting pot and productive of an unmistakable type, let him observe Chestnut htrcct this after noon after the last hatter has shut up shop. Sartorial Biahminism, the formal ism of the old regime mandarin, will Bayly ttiumph there. DON'T MAKE POLITICAL CRIMES OF COMMON-LAW OFFENSES The Sedition Bill Is Unnecessary Be cause the Criminal Code Already Covers the Case LAWS drafted and passed in a panic mood usually do either mote or less than the situation demands. Sometimes they merely create confusion by dupli cating laws already in existence. The "sedition bill" now bcfoie the Legislature is one of the most perfect examples of panic-drafting ever pro duced. Criticise of it has alicady induced its sponsors to aiC to eliminate one of its provisions. It was pointed out at once that to define sedition as an attempt "to incite or arouse discontent against the government of this state or the United States" would render every critic of a corrupt administration in Harrisbuig liable to prosecution. This provision, according to an announcement made by Attorney General Schaffer, is to be re moved. But if the reputable citizens of the state are to be protected in their right of criticism and of instituting actions for the punishment of public officials, the paragraph making it seditious "to incite or encourage any person to commit an overt act with a view to bringing the government of the state into contempt" should also be eliminated. A corrupt and unscrupulous governor could say to his accusers that their attacks upon him and their action in demanding his arraignment in court were bringing the government of the state into contempt and could hale them into court under charges of sedition if this bill should become a law. Why, "contempt" is the very word party leaders under attack invariably use. They usually complain that the newspapers by their criticism of admin istrations hold the government up to contempt. When these objectionable paragraphs are remoted. pniagraphs which are about the only now matter in the bill, nothing remains which is nol already covered by existing statutes that hae been in force for nearly sixty ears. Let us look at the various subdivisions defining sedition. Paragraph a. is to be taken out. It is the one about inciting discontent with the government. Para graph 6 deals with "any outbreak or demonstration of violence" against the state or the United States and paragraph c covers the encouraging of any person or persons to overthrow or- attempt to overthrow by force or show of force the government of either the state or the nation. The existing criminal code by its riot sections piovides penalties for any kin.l of an outbreak or demonstration. A riot is a disordeily pioccdure participated in by three or moie persons. And the trea son section of the present laws piovides penalties for attacks by force upon the government of the state. The courts have held that labor riots which require the state troops to be called out are treasonable. Paragraph d, referring to disturbing the peace'antl good order, is also covered by the existing anti-riot laws. Para graph e should go along with paragraph n, for it refers to inciting to an overt act which will bring the government into contempt. Paragraph , penalizing in citement to do injury to any officer of "the statp or the United States, or to de stroy any public property, and paragraph g, dealing with the damage or destruc tion of public property, are covered1 by the existing code provisions on arson, carrying deadly weapons with intent to injure, with conspiracy to do any unlaw ful act and with assault by the use of explosives or corrosive substances and by the provisions dealing with murder. The penalties are severe. Paragraph It, referring to the advocacy of crimes of violence and the preaching of terrorism, is unnecessary because the existing laws against conspiracy and defining accessories to crime cover the ground. The next paragraph, dealing with the sale of publications or docu ments advocating sedition, is an elabor ation of thut which precedes it and seems to be provided for in the code already in force. Paragraph ;', which makes sedi tious the organization of or membership in an assembly or group intended to, advo cate assault upon state or national offi cers or to urge the destruction of state or national property or the overthrow by force of the state or national govern ment, is an attempt fo prevent crimes before they are done; but the conspiracy and treason laws are doubtless strong enough to cover any real offense. And the last paragraph, making the person who rents a building for seditious pur poses guiltj of' the kind of sedition the bill defines, does not do any more than the anti-conspiracy laws do, save by specifically j mentioning the owners of buildings. About the only change the proposed law makes is to increase the maximum penaltyGto afine of$10,000 or imprison., 'u,,n(l'fli fwAuiv vjanrit 4IJP Lutfii r. i ..- i who commits assault by an explosive is now liable to a fine of $500 or to impris onment of three years in solitary confine ment or to both. If the explosion of the bomh prqduccs death he Is liable to be hanged. If he is caught with his bomb before he thrnwa i! ho is liahtn to n finp of $f00 or one year solitary confinement in pnson or both. If he throws a bomb against the city hall or the state capitol or the county courthouse he may be fined $2000 or imprisoned in solitary con finement for ten years. The law docs not call these offenses sedition. They aie common crimes, like burglary and assault and murder and arson. No taint of political persecution attaches to the code. It was adopted in 18(50 as the lcsult of the desire of the state to classify the provisions of its criminal law and to make them compre hensive enough to cover all the offenses likely to happen in a civilized community. It is oT the first importance that wc should continue to regard arson as arson and murder as murder;' and assault with bombs as assault, and no greater mistake could be made in these days, when gome addle-pated extremists are prattling of revolution by force, than to humor them by making the offenses which they glibly talk of committing political offenses to be covered under the term sedition. The history of sedition laws in America is not b'if.h as to ciicoutngc any level headed politicians to challenge the fate which overtook thus- who secured the passage of sucli statutes in the past, in order to punish their political opponents. If this were the Russia of the old regime ne might make political ofTenscs of brutal murder and assault. But this is free America of the twentieth century, where the majority rules and where any change in the government which the ma jority desires can be brought about by orderly and well-understood processes. When our lawmakers in Harrisbu.-g recover from their present panic they are likely to see the force of these argu ments and allow the sedition bill to be f oi gotten. FAIR AND COOLER IN ITALY "TID Premier Otlando know from the L' first that not only Mr. Wilson, but all of the Aljied representatives, with the possible exception of Japan, would reso lutely oppose his desires for Fiume? "If he did not, he was not qualified for his tasks at Paris. The signs and omens of the hour do not indicate that Orlando acted the ama teur. Why. then, did he insist upon creating a situation thati is changing and shifting as swiftly as the shadowy work of a Belasco stage manager? For the Fiume affair is being adjusted beneath the suifaee, and coolness, sobriety and reason are returning to the Italian people. Was Orlando's blaze of wrath simu lated? Did the patient and disillusioned representatives of other nations at the Peace Conference know that it was simu lated? The Italian statesman knew the immeasurable peril of an actual break. But the old diplomatists are being driven to some queer alt"-i"nativcs in these days of judgment. The Italian cabinet and the govern ment itself have had no sense of a too great stability in recent months. Or lando's stirring appeal to his country's sense of nationalism, the phrases in which he pictured Italy in a state of heroic solitariness, reacted like magic to unite factions that were drawing apart and to bring about a new unity of senti ment in the country. He may be par doned for playing a daring and pictur esque game of domestic politics. But if he was deliberately fooling his own peo ple, what shall we say to gentlemen like Mr. Lodge, who was taken in as neatly as the fiery folk who paraded in the streets of Rome? Tlip nav.v was Con The Olil Habit gresicd, too, it ap pears. Admiral Sims told us .TPStPiilH that though the navy hud been appealing for ten jears for an adequate diMmycr force, it-, request's and pleas were consistently ignored on Capitol Hill. This is nothing new. Congress ignored requests for artillery and laughed in glee when the War and Xavy Departments asked money for airplanes before airplanes became a dom inant factor in warfare. Ignoring is one of the things Congress does best. In Philadelphia a po lite man does not give up his seat to a ludy. He gives up his strap. The ritimatf Sacrifice A new day, sajs I'res As Sine as Dawn! ideut Wilnon, is com ing for labor. And when it comes there wll be bomb -fanciers to strike and agitate and insist that they are being robbed of their night. "No flight," by this time, neatly ex plains the abbreviation in St. John's, X. F. The bomb in bombast is by far the most prevalent and the least dangerous variety. It is Bald that Britain will get "the lion's share" if the German fleet is dis tributed. Kmblematically speaking, that is altogether likely. , Perhaps it would have been more accu rate to describe Count Brockdorff-Rant7.au, meeting the Kntente peace commissioners, as "pale and feinting." Admiral Sims has criticized congress men for not providing enough destroyers, Slnjbe they thought that they sufficiently filled the bill thembclves. After June 30 the government will re frain from attacking certain foreshadowed lawbreakers until it sees the red of their ryes. ' It is significant that u Serbian denounced ItalyVdestgns upon Fiume at the meeting of the Academy of Political and Social Science yesterday. Somehow we have a dim recol lection that it was injustice to .Serbia which made civilization go to war. Two noted theatrical 'stars announce tliat they will present Shakespeare cex sea son, A peivcomtr to in bqnMatenfo tour CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S LETTER Men and Women From Philadelphia and Its Vicinity Were Discovered In Porto Rico by the Congres sional Party Which Vis ited the Island Washington, II. C. May !1. fTIAKING a trip to Europe or to nny dls- 1 taut point, like the Hawaiian Islands, Panama or the West Indies, is liitcirstlng because of the surprises one enjoys In meeting other travelers. There is something worth while to the student of human iiatine in a more intimate knowledge of the millionaire who js tratejing for health or of the man in the steerage who is traveling from neiejslly. The recent journey of member of Congress lo Porto Rico is In point. Cnele .Joe Cannon went along and Kitcliin, the Democratic lender, and while they were attractions and to far as I'nole Joe Is concerned' he alnnys will be nn object of interct to the cm ions whenever he goes nluoail every one of the twenty or more members of the party lan'up ngainst "some one from home" or some one who knew some one nt home somewhere along the way. As to the r.t -speaker, be ginulng witli New York, where he was glimpsed by the provincials inside and out side of the hotels and at the landing pirn's, there was no place where some "man from the States" did not turn up to look hirn over Htid seek the privilege of slinking hand1". This was so In Porto Rico, where he had been twice before. In every town, nppnr ently, some one bobbed up who knew enough English to sny "there goes Uncle Joe.'' "VRDINARIIA" persons known to Peun -' sylvanians tutu up almost everywhere. The ship's surgeon. Dr. P. X. Thorup'nu. bronzed by the southern sun and rivaling largely with ,SpnMi passengeis, owned tip to haring had'au office on CJirnrd avenue in Philadelphia, and when some one bgna to talk about bathing in Porto Iti'-o, 1400 miles .from New York, he said: "Wait until we get back and sec m' make the 3 o'clock Irani for Atlantic City. That little rottagc on Ver mont avenue is good enough for me," I'nVe Mr. Ramon J. .Tuner, roommate of the Poi'o Ricnn commissioner, Cordova Davila, all Spanish cnoiigh looking to have come fresh from a bullfight. Swinging into first-class Knglish, he asked if nny one knew our American minister to Portugal, Mr. Thomas II. Birch, of Burlington, X. J. When we said we knew Mr. Birch, his relatives and surroundings and attended his fare well din ner, he promptly advised that while Mr. Birch was not originally a diplomat, he has come to be one of the most popular and best known American ministers in I'urope. The Birch dinners and receptions are now famous abroad. Signor Janer was recently in the consular service. ARRIVED at San Juan, the party was greeted among others by the president of the Senate, who speaks Spnuish only; the piesident ot the House qf Representatives, the Hon. Juan H. Huykc, n lawyer and edu cator, whose father was associated with Dr. Martin O. Brumbaugh, of the University of Pennsylvania, first commissioner of educa tion after the American occupation, and the vice president of the House of Representa tives, the Hon. Miguel Gucrra Mondragon. Signor Gucrra, who is a luwyer and a bunch of nerves like Georgie Urennau, of the Pen ami Pencil Club, became interpreter for the party. Upon inquiry it wns found that Sig nor Guerra was educated at Xazareth Hull .Military Academy, in the cement region of Pennsylvania. He spoke iu terms of afljer tionatc remcmbinnec of Mrs. Blum'tlicl'wSfc" of the president emeritus of that Institution. Then along comes R. V. Perez Morsehand, University of Pennsylvania, 1914 law class, who desired to be remembered to Dean Wil liam Draper Lewis. Evidently there arc enough University of Pennsylvania boys iu Porto Rico to form an alumni association, a matter which they are now actually con sidering. In business circles was .Charles IX. I.,awton. of Philadelphia, at the head of the American Colonial Bank in San Juau, au institution which is now interested, along with other independent bunks, in the efforts of the local Legislature to establish a gov ernment bank and land banks in addition; and in religion, the Rev. F. H. McGuire, minister of the Union Church. Mr. McGuIre wns formerly of Pittsburgh, but is conduct ing a self-supporting institution vastly dif ferent from the ordinary South American mission one finds asking for assistance in out-of-the-way places. Cnptain L. B. Hownrth. of South Lambert btrcet, Phila delphia, has been in Porto Rico about two years, attached to the quartermaster's de partment, U. S. army, and Simon .. Mesirov, an active young Philadelphia!!, is nssisting him in the adjustment of the quar termaster's account on the island. Pay master Arthy Wright Barnes, U. S. X,, a Pennsylvania!! long iu the service; Lee II, Vendig, u San Juan business man, whose brother built the Hotel Vendig in Philadel phia; Edward A. E. Coplan, of Wilkes Barre, who represents the Armours, and Ed ward Jefkins, of Bradford, district deputy grand 'exalted ruler of the island Elks, also came to notice during the stay in San Juan. PEXXSYLVAXIAXS bobbed up at various points on the island along the military road which runs to Ponce and up around the east and north coasts in the sugar and fruit districts. At Rio Pcdras and in the orange and grapefruit districts there are mauy persons familiar to Philadclphians. The Ed son Brothers, of Dock street, are largely in terested in the Hatillp Fruit Company and are up against the same problems of trans portation that afflict all the products of the island. The American concerns are getting some fruit out, but they ore greatly handi capped for shipping space and hundreds of thousands of crates of oranges and grapefruit go to waBto annually, while the people iu Philadelphia are paying extravagantly for what they use in the hospitals and on the breakfast table. Several fruit men congratu lated themselves upon securing upper berth accommodations on the return trip from San Juan. One of these was Roger Sherman, of Brookline, Mass., who made earnest in quiries about the Jlev. lJr. Uussell II. Con well, who he said would always have, n crowded house in Springfield, and Edmund Rushmore, formerly of Plainfleld, N. J., but now sometimes of Hudson, X. Y. Wilbert Parkhurst, who has n 100-acre farm Iu Porto Rico, was alio on board, bringing his pretty Porto Rlcan wife and baby to visit the folks at Millvllle. N. J. Parkhurst was not strong for Porto Rlcan independence, but wanted the American flag to float there forever and a day. j QUITE a bunch of Ponnsylvanians ate lo cated at Mayoguez, which sufTered some months ogo from a devastating earthquake, the ruins of which are still exposed. R. S. Garwood, who has University of Pennsyl vania and Lafayette College connections au'd who speaks Spanish fluently, is dean of the university at 'this pbint. Miss Williams, of Beaver, Pa., i principal of the high school. JM these institutions arts supposed to teach v.nrllih along with Spanish, but it is annar. cnt.to the sojourner Ufat the uotlrcs away front ft, universltitw. spd nlsh(nenoofB;aro "VAIT 'TIL I SEE DER HAS-BEEN AS . !. ,ir;iivk!?:ka;.!. ,,',, :w.-h,'i f. THE CHAFFING DISH .But How About American? Count BroekdoifT-Rantzau, the, head ot the Cerman peace mission, prides himself on his- ability to speak English. News item. "1 see you arc nil dolled up for the peace' foundry," said the American reporter to liroi'kdorff-Rantzaii, "Very possibly," said the discreet envoy, having not the slightest idea whnt was meant. "I have a hunch you're going to get a good bawling out when you sit in at the baize table. Have you had a chance to buzz Eddia House yet? He's usually the fellow that hns the inside dope." "Conceivably," emitted the puzzled pleni potentiary. "Probably you're on the anxious seat, hey?" "Xot impossibly." "Do you expect to pull any sob-stuff or ni-p you going to sign on the 'dots and beat it?" "Das magsein." "Do j oil think Kaiser Bill is going to get bumped off?" "Ich erstehe nicht," shrugged Brock clm ft'. "V)ien it conies to a showdown I guess you'll l.ave to come across." "We came across the frontier yesterday," said Broekdorff. "I presume you're watching your step cnrefullyV" "Wc hope that the pence will satisfy all concerned." ' "Sav, I think one of those bellhops is paging you," (Curtain) V V V Referred to the Sporting Department "Finally, there is soccer, a form of foot ball quite unknown in the United States." H. L. Mencken, in "The American Lan guage." v v'v Xed Muschamp has taken ull the trouble to write us a letter to the effect that "every big, healthy, husky roughneck of a man who wants to have a good cry had better read K, C. B.'s story of the police band that played in the children's hospital in Sou FrUco." Xed, always attentive to detail, udds that the story is on page 10 of the May Hearst's. We're fond of a good cry, so we wish it hail been in almost any other magazine. V V V We hope the German peace envoys had sufficient bean to bring a pulmotor with them to Versailles. If Brockdorff-Rantzau nearly swooned when delivering his credentials, what will he do when he gets the text of thnt 70,000-word treaty? V V V Of course we want to see the world made bafe for democracy, but we should be sorry to sec publishers royalties abolished. V V V Desk Mottoes The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose; all other things, to reign, to lay up treasure, to build, are at the most but mere appendixes and little props, -I take a delight to see a general of an army at the foot of a breach he intends presently, to assault, giving himself up entire and free at dinner, to talk and be merry with his frleuds. . . . "Tis for little i soul, that truckle under the weight of af fairs, not to know how clearly to' dlstmguge themselvcs.-MOXTAIGXE. V VV.V Motto for Home Guards when facing Bol tdicvik rioters: Don't fire till you see the reds of their eyes. V V V We find, upon questioning many of the more' or less human race, that ''Americans All" i the Victory Ipaa poster whlclnhaj made the .strongest -itfMMlwi, It'4'g''s(ork,-i rk.i it M ' " u!V.y ft1 :"-ar" O'Brien on his list, had also added a Scotch name in. honor of the Saotch -Americans. V V V Somebody's trying to rush the season. In the auld lang syne Straw Hat Day didn't come until May IB. V V V "The literature of self-deception, which Is nearly always optimistic and consolatory, derives its value as n. defense mechanism. It Is based on a lie, but Is efficacious, nevertheless. "All the literary works wherein the precious and valued things In life are de cried, wherein asceticism, death' and celibacy are vaunted, are usually uncon sciously Insincere." So says our friend Albert Mordell in a very interesting book whose title we dare not mention. To put it in our own artless fashion, Optimism is deception, Pessimism insincere; What Bort of litrachoor is left To revel in, old dear? V V V Ambrose Has the Floor Hear Socrates Funny how signs will get joit. Being a long-enduring commuter I notice each day on my rides to and from the metropolis a most peculiar' sign. To be exact : The Thos. K. Coale Co., Jim Wood, Mgr. AMBROSE. . V V V I anmian 1 made new speech for you, a secret tongue, Dearest and best of all in book or scroll, To hear it spoken was to hear it sung, 1 copied all of it upon my soul. There wcro those leafy letters, wreathed like vines, ' Such trellises of words as Sappho spoke Heavy as silver flagons of old wines, Some Latin phrases carved by stately folk. I could not find a sound for leave-takings Slower, more sorrowful than Spanish is And the French names with flower-dusty wings Flew in and out among, the sentences. So with my heart a voice made musical, I went to you and did not speak at all. WINIFRED WELLES. V V V Dear Socrates I met Epnmlnondas yes terday in the Agora. (Not the general, but the manager of the Troy and Thebes In surance Company.) He asked me: "Have vou heard the latest Ford Ht'nrv?" "I have," i answered; "Aristides told it' to me yesterday when he took me to' the Reading Terminal to take the 9:1(2 for the Epelros." (I don't mean Aristides , the army man. I mean Aristides the head of the Aristides Silver Company, who has the job of making the insignia the soldiers and' sailors wear.) "What was it?" he queried.1 "Fellow buys a Ford and goes dippy about it. Wants everybody 'to travel with' him and everybody refuses because ho drives like a crazy man. Finally, after he has tried all his friends, he secures two Chinese laundry men to go with him. When the machine is finally wrecked they go put and And nothing but two washers, and a nut." NIKANOR. V V V Dear Socrates I have found the follow ing poem going the rounds. Can .you tell me who wrote it? , EDGAR, Our current lingo is full of pep, Of argot I never can hear enough ; I love to bo told to watch my step, Or asked, Now whe,re 'do you get that stuff? The rules of grammar, I treat 'em rough, For I kick in with a hard-shell gang, But it gets ray goat and calls my bluff When I wonder, Who invents our sling? ' . V V V r sJVe1belle1ve!itho it. was wrJtt'U 'JutoJjr .ft.FJ'ifA, ORDERED IT!" i'' ' ' " p : SOLITUDE rpHERE is the loneliness of Deoplcd places : Streets roaring with their human flood; the crowd That fills bright rooms with billowing sounds and faces, ' Like foreign music, overshrill and loud. There is the loneliness of one who stands Fronting tho waste under the cold sea light, A wisp of flesh against the endless sands, Like a lost gull in solitary flight. Single is all uprising and dowu-ljing; Struggle or fear or silence .none may share ; Each is alone in beariug, and in dying; Conquest is uncompnnioncd as despair. But I have known no loneliness like this, Locked in your arms and bent beneath your kiss. Babette Deutsch, in Banners. Taft Has Come. Back A most astonishing tiling hns happened. Mr. Taft has "come back." He stands out today as one of the greatest of American leaders. The largest following in the Re publican party today is his. He is one of the very few men of tho country who possess to nny great degree the confidence of the people, Milwaukee Journal. Speaking ot Victory Notes, the one which civilization is about to hand to Germany is interest bearing in nil sorts of ways. What a lot of worry we'd have nil been saved had we known it would take the Ger mans 1700 days to reach Paris ! . "Pitiless publicity" appears to be hiding its light under a Parisian hat. What Do You Know? QUIZ What 'was the full name of Charles Dickens? When the clouds in the sky look like fish scales what kind of weather is indicated? What and where is tho Dodecanesus? What is tho dnto set for Mother's Day? Who was Diderot? In what building iu Versailles did the Allied commissioners receive the cre dentials of tho German peace delegates? How many states compose tho republic of Brazil? 3. 4. 5. C. 8. What aulmal is emblematic of Rome? 0. What is a tontine? 10. What is a proscenium? Answers to Yesterday's Qui? 1. The Tennessee has been ranked as the greatest battleship ever launched, '2, Jean Jacques Rousseau, famous ns a champion of government by consent' of the governed, was born in Geneva,' 3. Kiao-Chau is on the Shantung peninsula, in northwestern China. ; 4. The authorship of "Henry VIII" has been attributed to Shakespeare aad John Fletcher, and "Tho Two Noble Kinsmen" is also said to be 'the Joint work of tho two dramatist?. B. Senator' Smoot is from TJtah. 6. A fall in tempernture may be forecast when a cloudy day clears at sunset, 7. The French expression "Fumer bans pipe," which means literally to smoke without a pipe, metaphorically means to put one's self in an Ineffectual rage. 8. A winch is a hoisting engine or wlnd- lass ; also a crank of a wheel or axle. 0. 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