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"RENT VICTIMS"
VTEWSPAPERS in New
Yoik
have
-fcarved out a new composite term to
meet the unusual demands of an unusual
time. They are speaking of "rent vic
tims." The bleak expression i appro
priate in a city where thV piepiiiations
made by churches and relief organiza
tions to care for evicted families are
reminiscent of the mcasuies usually
adopted after a slrpwreck. a volcanic
eruption, a destuictive flood or some
similar catastrophe.
Philadelphians who read of "rent vic-
tims" will be well able to appreciate the
aptness of that designation. In New
York the churches and armories have
been fitted up with cots in order that
s families without the means to meet in
creased rent demands may oscane the
streets. We are not yet so badly oh" here.
' But we may have rent victims clamoring
for the assistance of charity if. some
method is not found to solve the question
of housing in Philadelphia.
Cartoonists who used to dra v a fat
man with bulging pockets and do'lar
marked clothes and label him "Capita-."
when they wished to show what was
wrong in America would be ashamed of
their shortsightedness if they were to
study the conditions that irritate Ameri
can communities today. A cure for the
, profiteering epidemic is difficult to find.
Law cannot provide it. Men all sorts
of men need merely a greater sense of
decency and a better conception of their
obligations to one another. Whoevc.' can
so endow them will do a great service to
-,-thc time he lives in.
IRELAND AND MR. WILSON
IT IS odd to find British newspaper-! in
the group unfortunately distinguished
by the leadership of the London Post
feverishly attacking President Wilson
and the United States because of the pil
grimage abroad of tho American Irish
delegation in which Michael J. Ryan, of
this city, is a member. Mr. Wilson is
'presumed to have asked for passports
to enable the delegation to proceed from
Paris to London. This act the Post in
terprets as an effort on the part of Amer
ica to "intrigue" in the affairs of the
United Kingdom. The tory press per
ceives' a deliberate effort at disruption
dirqeted by the President and a handful
of American citizens.
It is as clear as day to any reasonable
mind that the traveling American Irish
men have attempted a journey of senti
ment, and that their effort has been to
give merely a formal outline to age-old
claims of sentiment and justice before
the various representatives at the Paris
conference. Mr. Ryan and his associates
certainly have not pretended to be the
American nation. But the Post had a
tart welcome for them when they arrived
in London. "The United Kingdom," this
newspaper observed, "does not tolerate
interference in its domestic affairs. They
arc our business and the business of
nobody else."
The Post is the voice ot.a narrow clique
that hasn't changed an opinion in a hun-
drcd years. Its implication is plain. The
majority in Ireland have no right to de-
"' mand consideration. They 'must not ex
pect even mention in the discussions pre
v liminary to peace. The Post does not
t desire it.
. This is no attempt from the outside to
disrupt the United Kingdom. Fair play
for the Irish people would not have that
result. But there is danger of disruption
within, and the dangerous factors may
easily be identified as the London Post
and its followers.
CHURCHES AFTER THE WAR
BISHOP RHINELANDBR'S address at
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-ir- i uie ujeiiiu& ui mc x-.jjisuujjui uioce
! .'". Rn convention here is renrnsnnt.it iv nf
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w' a point ot view wnicn cnurciimen of al
v ' .denominations have been striving, with
-. -".".more or less success, to attain since the
Mwyrar came to teach them new lessons.
fe' . The church in America has been ultra-
R-... .-'"conservative and, by the admission of
Ij y.ji'Jts sincerest representatives, it has been
ihfU'nn Helf-KJltisflPcl. It was liltln mnvo
' ."' 'than an onlooker at the drift of thought
. L'uid affairs that led up to the war. Can
' -iiti, afford to be a mere, onlooker while
'''Mankind 'is braced to meet great and
,r.;tryir)gr tasks and awaiting battles that
ftMMt be fouirht largely in the soifit of
-'me race? It is to the church that many
- Jopiej iiuk in wiyse u.tys or political
n "'recklessness and rampant greed and
Aiarflsan thinking. How is it enuioned
aHl what can jt do?
Y Tho war wiped out many of the dan-
""gerous class superstitions that had been
" xrowing in Ayierica. Bishop Rhinelander
ndeeerves creditor his rebuke to all
!,hoee Avho would attempt to revive bitter
ml perilous doctrinal bigotry to sepa-
J , hi rate .srrcat groups, of American citizens.
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j aims were so nobly demonstrated in tho
service of their country. I no amies 01
tho church will be heavy in tho futuro
unless its tasks nrc overlooked and
neglected altogether. Yet it is in the
United States that the old conservatism
and aloofness from realities is most evi
dent among the leaders of virtually all
denominations even now.
In Canada one of the oldest of
the evangelical denominations recently
adopted a statement of aims that might
amaze most churchmen in America. In
this instance the church was flatly chal
lenged ami accused. It was paid to have
idled while jndividuals and organizations
outside the circle of its influence were
working devotedly to make the Christian
principle operative in the everyday af
fairs of life as it is lived today. The
church in Canada is pledged to a brave
part in economic reforms and to a closer
and more earnest relationship with all
people Cnnnda has been through a hard
school. We learn by experience. It is
true that ihe ultimate appeal in any
effoit to bring pence and unity in the
world must be made to the spiri of
mankind. That appeal must lie made in
great sincerity. A complacent and self
satisfied church will never get the an
swer il seeks.
SHALL PHILADELPHIA FAIL
"TO FINISH THE JOB"?
This City Has Profited by War Work,
but It Is Lagging Far Behind
in the Loan
p.VX it li
Victory
lie that the woikman in the
;.oan poster who put his
hand in his pocket and says. "Sure!
We'll finish the job!" is overconfident?
The progress which this city has made
toward raising its quota lias been so slow
that the job will not be finished unless
the laggards begin to hand in their sub
scriptions. Only four days remain in which to
raise two-thirds of the amount assigned
to Philadelphia. This rcerve district
stand, ninth in the order of its propor
tion of the loan subscribed with .TJ.IS
per cent. St. Louis lias .subscribed more
than two-thirds and leads the country.
And St. Louis is in the heart of a
district with a foreign-sympathizing
population, whose patriotism iva at one
time suspected. Minneapolis'. Chicago,
Boston. Knns-as City, Richmond, Atlanta
and Cleveland are ahead of us and only
Xew York, San Francisco and Dallas are
behind this city.
Yet there is probably no district in the
whole country which has profited more
from the money spent in the war than
Philadelphia. Billionsi have been paid
out Here tor war material ol various
kinds. The money has gone into the
pockets of the manufacturers in the shape
of enormous profits and into the pockets
of workingmen in the shape of wages
twice as liija as they ever earned before.
A'l the government asks is that these
people, manufacturers and workingmen,
should lend to it some of tho money they
have received." The rate of interest of
fered is generous. It is far more than
the savings banks can afford to pay. It
is more than any safe industrial bond will
yield above the income tax.
And il is morally certain that the Vic
tory notes will be selling for more than
their face value before they fall due in
five years. Although they are to run
only five years, it is more than 1'kcly
that most of the issue will be lefunded
into long-term bonds, for the govern
ment will be compelled to raise so much
to pay the interest on the war debt and
to meet current expenses that it will be
practically impossible, oven if it were
thought expedient, to increase the tax
burdens to such an extent as to enable
it to pay off any of the principal of the
debt in the near future.
It is not safe for any one to assume
that the banks and the owners of large
fortunes will come to the rescue of the
loan. The banks cannot invest their
funds in it without using money that is
needed for ordinary business expansion.
And the money the banks have comes,
anyway, from the deposits of tho busi
ness men of tho city. The business men
arc putting their surplus into the Vic
tory notes without depositing it in the
banks save to be checked out immedi
ately to pay for tho notes.
And the great capitalists have had
their incomes taxed so heavily, some of
them up to 60 per cent, that they have
not the funds at hand to buy government
securities to the extent that they bought
them two years ago.
The little people must come to the res
cue of fhe loan in greater numbers. An
average subscription of ?75 a person will
fill the quota before Saturday night. The
subscriptions of men who can take
$10,000 worth will make up for the fail
ure o" the very poor, who cannot take
anything. But if some of the well-to-do
should learn how large a part of their
income working girls are mortgaging in
order to do their share they would be
ashamed of their own lack of public
spirit.
The loan must not be allowed to fail.
We shouldered the responsibility for it
when we entered tho war. Our sons and
our brothers went to France or to the
training camps. They gave up their
positions in business and their comfort
able manner of life and faced the rsk of
death while the rest of us remained at
home. Some of us stepped into the posi
tions vacated by the soldiers and re
ceived the pay they had surrendered, and
avc profited by the chances for promotion
which ,they forwent.
The duty which remained for us was
to provide the money to pay for the
training of the army and the enlarged
navy and to provide them with food and
clothing and guns and ammunition, so
that they might do their work effectively
and to send along with them doctors and
nurses, so that those who were injured
might receive the proper treatment.
It is inconceivable that we shall refuse
to pay the bills. It would be like refusing
to pay the doctor who had saved our life.
No reputable man does this even if he
has to deny himself all luxuries in order
to get the money. But, as already in
dicated, the government is not asking us
to give it the money. It is only asking
that it'e lent
Fora another point of vjew the loan
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is n thank offering for the end of the
war, ns Secretary Glass has suggested.
We spent billions for war material that
never was used, but if it had been used
we would have had to spend more bil
lions in maintaining our armies on the
other side of the ocean and tens of thou
sands of the soldiers would have been
killed by the C-ermnn armies in resisting
our men equipped with tho stuff which
now, fortunately, is piled up in store
houses or will be allowed to decny for
lack of use.
The Germans' did not tell us they were
going to quit and we had to be ready to
fight for another year. It would have
been mndnc. . to pursue any other course.
So the least that we can do is to pay for
the war material which peace has made
worthless and tii thank (Sod (hilt peace
came when it did.
Our '.osses were smalte'1 than those of
any other nation engaged in the war.
Little Serbia and Montenegro suffered
between them twice as many deaths and
Belgium, only about one-fourth ns large
as Pennsylvania, lost almost three times
as many soldiers as we. besides being
devastated by the brutal German armies.
When compared with the sacrifices
of life demanded of England, Franco and
Russia are losses are insignificant. Our
contribution has been chiefly in money,
a thing that can be replaced, while the
sacrifices of our Allies have been the
promise of the future in the best young
blood of the nice.
So in all humility and thankfulness it
behooves every one of us to come to tlie
rescue of the loan this week by shoulder
ing his full share of the financial burden,
while he looks about at our vigorous re
turning soldiers and at our undevastatcd
cities and towns.
THE LEAGUE NEEDED ALREADY
rpHK unquestionable benefit of sctting--1-
up exercises is stimulating- tho
league of nations. From present in
dications it is deducible that neither
Fiume "nor the Kaio-Chau controversy
is being subjected to a rigid settle:
ment. Where compromises anil provi
sional arrangements arc made it is obvi
ous that the validity of pledges in com
plex situations must be referable to
some recognized authority.
If .lapan is to police the traffic of the
Shantung peninsula and China is to re
tain sovereignty, it is clearly the func
tion of the international body to see
that the bonds of justice are not relaxed.
Similar obligation will devolve upon
it in the case of Fiume, no matter what
the terms of the settlement are, and in
regard to the intricate Saar valley sit
uation. Decisions in these matters must
inevitably give cognizance to the league.
Pessimists may retort that the league
is not yet officially created. Yet virtually
it is at work before legislative enact
ments in the various countries enable it
to make its formal bow. The-strength
accruing from these setting-up exercises
will be difficult to resist.
The unforecast feature of the whole
scene is that it was Uie very ructions,
so much dreaded in the conference,
which gave to the comprehensive peace
machinery its elements of vigor. It is
worth remembering that if there were
no present dissensions and none was in
prospect in the future there would bo
no league at all. None would be necessary.
A "BEAT" TO BE PROUD OF
TMIK first complete summary of the
- proposed peace treaty terms was pub
lished in this country this morning by
the Public Ledger, and is republished
with very considerable additional details
in this edition of the EvtiNiNG Public
LUXiER.
This is a "beat," to use the newspaper
vernacular, of which we feel the Public
Ledger organization may be justly proud.
Il is certain to be recorded in journalistic
history along with the greatest feats of
the kind since such enterprise first came
to be recognized as a sign of leadership
and prestige.
The story was obtained in conjunction
with the London Times and cabled di
rectly to the Public Ledger office cs part
of the London-Times-Public Ledger news
service. Tho first half of the dispatch
was received in time for the regular edi
tions of the Public Ledger this morning,
while the later portions were received
early this morning and appear in full in
this newspaper.
We believe our readers will be inter
ested in having these facts called to their
attention, and rejoice with 'us in the fact
that the two Ledgers are again first in
telling the world a momentous piece of
news.
Russia as in the
Loss anil Blame Tinted Stntes who arc
directing powerful
propaganda for the support of a conservative
government In their linrasscd country have
pultlisliod a chart to show the proportionate,
losses of life in the -war. Russia, of
course, leads. The Russian dead num
bered 1.700.000. Franco lot 1,. '500,000
men nud 700,000 British soldiers gave
iii their lives. Serbia and Montenegro
lost more men tlinn the Tinted States. The
Work lines of the chart indicate more than
losses. If wo think in tcrmi of governments
it might be said that the diagram indicates
something of the proportion of blame that
might be traced, in nn ultimate accounting,
to the old diplomacy of the various nations
since the war ended.
In answer to the in-
The Camden quiry of n patient
Bridge reader we can say
only that we' have
heard nothing pew recently about the Cam
den bridge. One may suppose, however,
that the bridge will bo completed at about
the time when, through tho progress of avi
ation bcience, nil people will travel to and
from work in airplanes.
None of the profes
sional diplomatists
Omens
seems altogether sat
isfied with the terms being arranged at Paris.
That is the most hopeful news that the world
of common men could hear.
II a y e jou observed
that the newspapers
Yes
which were most os
tentatious in expressing grief at the Fiume
decision aren't saying anything about China?
The only audible syllable In decant is
bound to be the Inst.
All of us who used fervently to hope that
the Allies would "hand It to Germany" are
entitled to satisfied smiles today.
CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S
LETTER
Gossip About George Brodbeck, the
Rev. Edward M. Jefferys, Reuben
Fink, Robert H. Hepburn,
Charles E. Schermerhorn
and Others
Washington, 1). ('., May 7.
mlin task of the Tnited States Circuit
- Court clerk, particularly In the various
eastern jurisdictions, is iu idle one in these
days of war nnd transportation. The nctual
court duties that full upon our own George
Brodbeck, at Ninth mid Chestnut streets,
are sufficient to keep the average mind busy,
hut Mr. Brodbeck has to deal ns well with
immigration and naturalization problems and
a variety of things which come up nt Wash
ington for the usual course of red tape. In
the list of special matters due largely to' the
war are those arising from this issuance nf
passports. The. Circuit Court clerk liud.s
himself up against the stern necessity some
times, of asking his best personal friend sonic
very delicate question'. Just now the gov
ernment is not issuing many passports, al
though the demand is very heavy, and to
have to ask a man whom you know well
whether his intentions arc patriotic or mer
cenary, or to be obliged to impiire of the
lady who seeks n passport ns to the date and
place of her birth and ns to other matters
which take the joy out of the traveler's life,
does not tend to popularize the official whose
duty it is to put a good American citizen
through such mi ordenl. But war is war,
even until the President slmll make procla
mation that pence has hern restored.
MKN like Hampton L. Carson who still
retain their interest in old St. Peter's
Church, at Third nnd Pine streets, are proud
of the service being performed by their rec
tor, the Rev. Kdward M. .Tefferjs, who has
been in the war since the curlier stages and
lins been chaplain in Base Hospital No. 10
in Belgium, the hospital of which Or. Rich
ard II. Harte, was the mnjor. Doctor
.lefl'erys, who is still abroad, linil n
son in the service who experienced the thrills
of the fighting near Verdun. Another son,
who was born in Philadelphia and who is
now nt St. Paul's School, Concord, N, IL. is
hoping; to match the military careers of his
father and brother by entering the navy.
QI'll
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CR old friend Howard SI. Ileston, who
mes to Washington once In a while
with a chip on his shoulder about the tariff
rates no wall paper and kindred subjects, is
president of the Rotary Club of Buffalo.
Howjird hns been an active spirit in the
Lake City for n good many years, but keeps
in close touch with his old Philadelphia
friends, and particularly with the Lincoln
Club. He belongs to that group of young
Republicans who are gradually growing gray
in the belief that protection nnd prosperity
go hand in hand. He is one of the big fellows
now in tire SI. II. Birge & Sons Company.
rnllK committee of delegates to the Ameri-
can .lewisli Congress, under the direction
of their energetic executive secrelnr.v. Reu
ben Fink, are pushing into nil sections of the
country the "bill nf rights" ndopted by the
First American .lewisli Congress in Philadel
phia in December, 101S, which the executive
secretary calls "nil nppeol to the lion -.lewisli
world to relieve Israel from the injustice,
intolerance and persecution that he has been
suffering in ninny lands." The executive
headquarters of the new organization nrc in
Washington.
TJOBF.RT II. HKPRTRN. of West Philn--
delphin, is n keen observer of South
American conditions. His son is interested
in the production nf tungsten in Bolivia, al
though the elder Hepburn has been studying
trade expansion from other .points of view.
In n letter to the Speaker-elect, Sir. Oillctt,
of Sliissiichusetts, Sir. Hepburn inclines to
the l'elief thnt American citizens working in
the Andes should have every opportunity to
compete with those who operate in the
Rockies. He says there are not so many of
(hem that it would have any serious effect
on the quantity of importn'tions. He sug
gests a government charter or license for
these American operators abroad, and thinks
reciprocity should prevail.
rplIH folks down about Bnrnegnt City have
- been drawing the, nttention of Washing
ton to the erosion of the point on which the
famous lighthouse stnnds to warn vessels nt
sen of the shoals at Barnegnt. The borough
collector. William II. Builey. recently indi
cated that there had been a loss of 11," feet
in three weeks, which 1ms started Kditor
Fischer, of Toms River, after the Depart
ment of Commerce. Commissioner Piitunin
lias taken the matter up nnd is said to be
considering the establishment of a light
vessel off Barnegnt, which he believes will be
nf great benefit to the maritime interests.
Apparently, the Bnruegatters do not want to
lose their light, which is one of the best
nlong the Atlantic senboard. Evc'ry yachts
man nlong the Jersey const knows of the
vagaries of the Barnegnt inlet nnd prepares
himself accordingly.' But, they jvould cer
tainly miss that light.
ONK might well look askance nt the sug
gestion thnt nn architect has any place
in warfare, but judging from .the farewell
given by Edmund Leigh, chief of the plant
production section of the military intelli
gence division, to Chnrlcs'E. Schermerhorn,
who quit his office, "somewhere on Walnut
street," to engage in wnr work, lie is rather
nn important adjunct to the army. Charlie's
friends among the veteran "Young Repub
licans" will be pleased to know that he comes
out of the service with a splendid indorse
ment for "intelligence nnd ability" along tho
lines of plant production. Apparently there
was a place for every man while the service
lasted, from putting enstor bean seed in the
soil to the operation of motors utilizing1 the
oil of the bean thousands of feet above the
earth's surface.
FT1IIE boys of the John Wflnnmakcr Com
J. mercial Institute, 131 of whom enlisted
in the navy for the wnr, have put it into the
head of their commandant, Colonel Scott, to
establish a naval unit In connection with
their summer encampments. Under certain
circumstances the secretary of the navy is
authorized o set aside n fully equipped man-of-war's
cutter for every twenty-five cadets
in nctual attendance upon nn encampment
adequate for instruction in elementary sea
manship, but such authority is usually de
rived through the governor of a state lm-ing
n seoconst line or bordering on one or jre
of the Great Lakes. Whether the V ana
maker boys will bo able to establish a unit
with goiernment oversight is not certain,
but tho lines are being worked out with that
object in view.
Tip for P. R. T,
Street cars virtually without scats are
being tested on a crosstown, line in T'okio.
Three seats on each side of the car arc pro
vided for tho aged, while the rest of tho floor
space is standing room for strap-hangers.
Each car accommodates many morn passen
gers than the old-fashioned type with seats,
state tho engineers conducting the test.
Japan Socletj Bulletin.
Considering how things go In Europe,
It is less significant that King George V ns.
rended a throne, nine year ago yesterday
than tuat.bMMU'Mu.uponi.r., ,.
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THE CHAFFING DISH
The V-Neck
Sly typist Myrtle boosts the Loan,
She is a daring miss;
Her this.
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Dropping in at our favorite biblio.hc.,u;y-s
during a downpour, we i mm. ""'"",
n: two TanderYng drolls in Florid.,, ad
dressed to us in our capacity as preshle.it of
the Ludlow Street .Business Men's Associa
tion. Partially, k runs w"
Dear Sorrntc, - Knowing your fondness
for epitaphs, we submit the following It
comes from u genuine tombstone in St. Au-
""ou'rVhild that moulders in the tomb
Was beautiful from birth ;
We fondly thought to see her bloom
A lovely flower on earth.
But she was born for better things,
The high behest was given,
And holy angels waved their wings
An-lwnf,"ll,cr Odysseus and
THE DOCi ARGO.
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Comments on the Peace Treaty
BROCKDOUFF-RANTZAIJ - Rarely
. " t .i n,,rihinir so absorbing. I found
nnvu i n ..,--- .'...:
'.. . . m,. nitontion in every
lotnet ling 10 imih"b " , , ;
line On tho whole, I was very much struck
V.AVnSHEHO T
hardly think that this
work will become popular but tl.ero is no
nuestion of its power. The author sIidws
but tbero is no
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gri"nERT-Really very startling. Perhaps
the' work is a little '.ncking in humor, but
the general effect is quite '""J81,.
H VRDEN '-This rcmnrknblc treatise
,,'...!.!. l.rirn miblect in n large way.
Deserves close attention. It is just what wo
hTpii7sTOUFF-i"con.Wcr this a thor
oughly 'vicious work. There is a great lack
of variety In it. and the general tone is
whollv depressing. It will never be a favorite
nnS?BItOK&ita with n very dis
agreeable theme'. 1 trust we shall see no
more books of this sort from the same author.
HINDENBURCv-Very hard reading.
W1LHELM Tho seventh chapter might
well have been omitted. ,.,
everything else in order o rend this inuch-Ulkcd-of
book. The author is evidently an
uncompromising realist.
V V V
The Unearned Increment
One of our colleagues on our morning
older sister came back from "Tiger Rose ' in
no very calculating frame of mind. For,
aUMlsseuirio Is an ideal cliolee for the
title role, the half-educated, half-tender,
naif-untamed girl of the Canadian North-
Wln behalf o thla much behnlved lady, we
plead that our friend grant her another half
nud make her twins.
V V V
Desk Mottoes
Every dogma has Its day.
DON MARQUIS.
V V V
"The Dear Little Boy"
Louklug over the collet-ted letters of Queen
Victoria, we were mildly entertained to find
the following which thnt strong-minded lady
wrote to the King of the llelgleng a few days
after tho birth of the arch-urchin who is now
the star boarder of Amerongen :
Ttocklnzham Palace. Feb. '8, Jtt9,
.1 kno- how pUMd you areatth .birth
. Tii?.
YOU KNOW THAT FEELING
of our first prandson. Everything goes
on so beautifully, the dear llttlo boy lm
piovlng so much and thriving In every
way. The Joy nnd Interest taken here Is
na (rreat almost as In Trufsla, which Is
(fry gratifying.
VICTORIA.
V V V
Spring Again
Our love had slumbered all the winter kng,
There were so many tears,
It seemed wc had forgotten every song
Of bygone years.
But yesterday, the spring come down our
street,
A -laughing at our door,
And noM-, again, our love is young and
sweet
We live once more.
- FLOYD S1ERED1TH.
V V V
Several of our clients have mortified us by
calling our attention with ribald remarks to
the window disploy at IG'JS Chestnut street.
AVo regret it ns keenly us any one, hut you
know how much one is nt the mercy of the
photographer.
V V V
When tbe federal inspector of restaurant
French gets around this way we aro going
to call his attention to a menu at 1520 Mar
ket street, whereon we read:
Consomme en' Cup .......15
V V V
Speaking of menus, why Is It that twenty
five out of thirty print cold slaw when they
mean cole slawf Cole means cabbage, and
slaw is simply a battered form of tho word
salad.
V V V
We wonder if Frank II. Taylor knows
that there is ono o his charming drawings
of old Philadelphia tucked away behind the
postern door of tho Colonnade Hotel that
opens on to Chestnut street, just beside tho
cigar store.
V V V.
Brazen Business
Dear Soeralei On tho bronze, tablet over
Itcnjaraln Franklin's tomb in Christ Church
"burying ground" appears this entry:
"1185, Signed treaty of amity andcommerce
iciirt rniJJia.
As a Philadclpbian, I blushed to read this
monumental testlmonal to the flagrant pro-
Germanism of ono of our chicly claims to
greatness. How can wo keep this damning
evidence in appropriate obscurity?
VOX FOPULTS TEAM-MATE. VOX DEI
V V V
' Hunmlstakable
A foreign correspondent thus describes the
German peace envoys at tho Hotel des
Keservoirs':
Through the doorway, the tourists can
catch h glimpse of a few Individuals,
very straight shouldered and upright,
whose soft hats are, too light in their
tone of gray, whose coats nre too fawn
In shade, and whoe manner of taking off
their hats Is too florid for there to be any
question of fraud on the part of the
guide. They are unmistakably German.
The females, mostly typists, are clad in a
strange parbdy of last year's Tarls
fashions.
Wo should say, let them fawn all they
want to nnd take their hats off as floridly as
possible, just as long ns they keep them off.
As for tho females, their costume is prob
ably, n boche version of the Paris modes of
1011, carefully prepared for the time those
ladies expected to mako their French trip.
It's not their fault they didn't get there
sooner.
V V V
We nre still waiting to hear one ot those
aviators In Newfoundland cry, "VenI, Quid!
Vldl, VicU"
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1
VIOLETS
BLUE violets ! For me, they grow
But in one spot, in Long Ago ;
At April's end; the wet world gleamed,
And spongy pastures faintly steamed;
And, on the drown'd world's misty rim,
A rainbow's magic light grew dim.
A child, upon some errand sent, r
Alone, yet happily, I went;
And carefully I picked ihy way
Along the rail fence, winter gray,
Liko a rough necklace thrown ubout
Its field, with zigzag in and out.
Each angled turn I knew could hide
Some wondrous thing yet uuespicd,
For I that way before had been
And had, myself, borne marvels seen;
.A field mouse, washing its sharp face,
Gone in a flnsh, without n trace;
A finch's nest, half (lone and I,
"With the bird's blessing, tiptoed by!
But what to hope for, on a day
Too wet for cither wor,k or piny?
j'ust then, another turn I made, ,
And in a trance of pleasure stayed;
Blue violets! There was no room
For ono green leaf, so thick tho bloom,
So filled with rain, it seemed to make
A little, spreading, nzurc lake . ,
And I remembered, all my years,
Those blossoms hung with April's tears.
Who knows what Memory will bind,
So careless or so subtly kind.
As when she shut within her palm,
For me this reminiscent balm !
Edith M. Thomas, in the New York Sun.
What Do You Knoto?
QUIZ
1. Where is the city of Chihuahua," which
tho Villa revolutionists aro said to be (1
tureatcuing.'
L'. What is a pallium? 1
3. What is tho meaning of the word
lustral?
4. What was the real name of "Black-
beard," tho celebrated pirate?
5. What colony was assured to tho Nether
lands by tho peace of Breda, in 1607,
in exchange for New York (then New
Netherlands), which had been con
quered by tho English?
C. In what country is the umbrella the
symbol of tho possession of roynl
power?
7. What Is the meaning .pf the word
"svelte"?
8. Who wrots tho comic opera "The Yeo
men of the Guard"?
0, Who was Charles Sumner?
10. Who is the head of the Japanese dele;
gation to tho Peace Conference?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Frank J. Tolk Is acting secretary of
stato in tho absenco of Mr. Lansing.
2. Quid! Vldl is a quaint village near St.
Johns, Newfoundland, and Is to be
the starting point of ono ot the trans
atlantic flights.
8. M. Delacroix Is premier of Belgium.
4. The Union corvette Kearsargo sank the
Confcdsrato raider Alabama off Cher-'N, J
bourg, Jfrance,' on June 10, 1864.
C. A silhouette Is n portrait of a person ,
in profile, showing outline only, It is v
named after Etienno de Silhouette, Z
French minister of finance In 17(50, i
with reference to his parsimony. 3
0. A chauge toward storm is indicated by i
a halo around the moon. ' 4
7. Fore-and-aft: In line with the length i'I
of the ship, lougitudinnlly. j
8. Tho imaginary Forlunntus purse ,1s In- l
exhaustible. It is described in Strspa-
rola's fairy tales canea "Niguts."
0. The word bumblebee ifl a corruption 5!&
of the German "nummel bee," the. bus- tw;
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zing bee.
10, Vnndjko, the painter, was natlT; ,(
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