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All riphts nf lepublication nf special dis patches herein are also leserred. fhiliiMphii, rid.. Mi7 . ll CO TO IT WITH A WILL! rpHE job must be finished by tomonow nijrht. Those who have been waiting till the end to learn how much of their help was needed to complete the Victory Loan quota assigned to this district have only a few hours in which to come to the rescue.- As the days have passed this week the speed with which the people were sub scribing has inci eased, but it must in crease still more if the remaining amount of more than $150,000,000 for this Fed eral Reserve District and $75,000,000 for this city shall be subscribed befoie the lists close, i Wc were urged timing the previous loan campaigns to subset ibe to the limit. Many responded to that extent. Months have passed since then and the limit of our ability to give has been raised. Once more we are asked to subsciibe to the same extent. We have the money; and we are confident that the people of this city have the will to finish the job. Now, go to it all day today and a'l day tomorrow! WHERE TO BEGIN "PROBLEMS of faulty and dangeiou - housing such as Mayor Smith ap proached again yesterday in his confer ences with Director Krusen and other representatives of the Buteau of Health are by no means so difficult of solution v as some of the more recent public dis cussions would suggest. Any effort to remedy a situation that fcjs swiftly becoming intolerable might begin effectually with a stricter enfoice ment of the piovisions of the existing sanitary ordinances. The laws devised to protect life and health in the crowded sections of the city are consistently vio lated. Their enforcement would auto matically eliminate much that is objec tionable and perilous in tenement areas. It is a mistake to suppose that the effects of recklessness on the part of tenants and profiteering and lawlessness among house owners aie felt only in le stricted areas. Infant paralysis and the later influenza epidemic did their gi eater havoc in the congested streets and in the regions that recently were the subject of new complaints to the Department of Health. But the loss of life elsewhere in the city and the general high late of child mortality in Philadelphia indicated the price which any community must pay if it is content to tolerate a breeding place for pestilence at its very center. TIME SOMETHING WAS DONE TpVERY one inteiested in a just wage --' for the teachers will be glad to know that the Legislature is seriously consider ing bills to increase the revenues of the state. The House has passed an inheri tance tax bill, which it is said will bung in large sums. Other measures aie be fore the committees. The teachers cannot get better pay unless the money is in sight. Their pres ent pay is scandalously low. For more than thirty years the average pay of women teachers in this state, one of the richest and most populous in the whole country, has been below the aver age in the nation as a whole. In 1915, the last year in which the sta tistics are available, the average salary of women teachers throughout the coun try "was $64.72 a month and in Pennsyl vania it was $50.14. In 1888 the average in this state was $30.10' and in the nation $34.21. If this relation had pievailed in 1915 the average salary here then would have been $57.31, or about $7 a month j more than we were paying. We have fallen behind in the pioces sion. We are away behind New Jersey, where they have just passed a law fixing v a minimum salary of $70 a month. The average wage of teachers in that state in 1915 was $862 and in Pennsylvania it was only $466. " i In the light of these figures the duty of the Legislature is clear. It must re move from this prosperous common wealth the stigma of niggardliness and indifference to public education which Jirest upon iL THE NEW MAP ?t'TT WAS the German ambition to remako ': 'safJL ilia n-1 IMto I mnn nf ilia Mfrtfl in at1Vt ,-v v I'uiivivni niuf " vnv uiu omvii a' way that the number ofi nations which 'the teachers could ask the children to bound should be reduced to one. ,. But vnultintr ambition o'erleaDed , rjitself and fell on the other side with a Wdull and sickening thud. And the former 'kaiser is biting his nails nt Amerongen 'H Tl.o now mnn rtf RllrnnA will lii env. f . J'. , , : 7 .1 iz ? -' f4r&a vy a lot vi ft"" jjauuiia aim wie maji 'make will pe running, tneir presses ovtprtWe for' the next few months to.sup- M.ll'' .1. . 1 1. -.. 4 i ! ..t t. IW'WHM HJ 9HWWIHJC. UOW u if-dctcrminntion har triumphed. The' boundaries of Germany have hrunkj and the boundaries of France rid Belgium and Denmark and Italy Ave been stretched to take in new terri pryj and new states have been created tit of the old Austro-Hungarian cm tire; and Poland, which was once the nost enlightened nation on the conti ent, has become independent again, pith its dismembered fragments joined lto a cohesive whole. And Freedom sits on the heights and loks down complacently on what she lis wrought. German ambition has made a new map. 1ME LIMIT FOR IGNORING , RUSSIA'S PLIGHT EXPIRES Civilization's Second Great Problem Due , for Immediate Settlement Now That the Peace Treaty Is Delivered MADNESS that was scientifically AU- calculating, deliberately predatory aid based upon the boastful assumption 'ofpojjjer is manacled in the second treaty oif Versailles. One preposterous illusion ehanating primarily from success is skittered. But the madness that fed on Uriure, that throve on chaos, that uas 'ertilized with despair the terrible and lathetic madness that is Kussia remains nhealed. In the longest international document ivur devised no solvent is prepared, 'hat is not a fault. It is a simple fact. key capable of unlocking simul aneously the hearts of two tremendous p-oblems is indeed a miraculous instru jeiit. The commissioners at Paris were wt necromancers and they knew it. Any elusions to that effect received a violent nock when the attempt to parley with tie Bolshevists and other Russian fac- 'tons failed. The effort was well meaning, and if te task of guiding the destiny of the U'gest of all the fallen empires had not ben of such prodigious magnitude, per hips it might have succeeded. As it was, th difficulty of grappling with two tiunic issues at once was convincingly denonstrated. "he German problem claimed prece des. It was superbly handled. One hal of the great process of world re derption and security is now under way antlit is now strikingly obvious that the corect sequence of events was rigid. Aw,aveiing civilization is simply a horrble example to champions of a fan tastt new order. Inability of the Entente to rijust its relations with Germany wouli have furnished bolshevism with specteular and convincing new capital. To ajospel of negation thete is no stimu lus lie failure. It is unavailable now. One tde of the world slate has been cleane. The reverse can now be consid ered ad the methods of purification in voked. The erms to Germany, which inevit ably "wU be accepted, will piovide the Russianpeople with an avenue of escape which sme of her fanatics refused to consider while international uncertainty prevailed As the prospect of decisive action b' the Peace Conference grew, in dication! that banity in some parts of Russia ad leawakened became signifi cant. Overzolous piopaganda has done its worst tobecloud the real nature of the antitiblshevist factions. The sincerity of tneKolchak, Ukrainian and Ruthenian partlei has been questioned. Yet the fact that their successes coincide in point of time w-ith constructive progress in Parisl unquestionably gives them greater validity Order and right beget older and rlgit. There is a contagion in wis dom as veil as folly. Peitnm observation of affairs in Rus sia wis the most that could be accom plibheii vhile the case of Germany was in hand. But that period is now vir tually rided. It is the case of Russia which Ui pre-eminently in order now. Excuse for paltering aie not visible. Statesmet who henceforth ignore condi tions in territory which comprises one seenth f the total land surface of the globe an of the ostrich persuasion. The mtthods to be approached are the exact anttheses of those which civiliza tion fourl necessary to apply to Ger many. I the one instance it was le quisite to lestroy a power, the malignity of which lad imperiled life and liberty. In theectnd, it is needful to exalt power by guidini it aright. Without Russia regenerate! twentieth century civiliza- I tion is incomplete, even specious. Those pesons who are fearful of ap plied idealim can dismiss their qualms in connectioi with the Russian situation. It would b humane and beneficent to save the tunultuous empire, but the mo tive stirring the possible emancipatois would primaily be the strongest possible -self-inteuet. - The gain to Russia and the rest-of tie world would be reciprocal. The fitting restorative apparatus has long moved merican thought. Practi cal sympath constitutes its driving force. Punishnent for a nation in agony is a sickenin; conception and that is why the Ameican people have felt so uncomfortableabout the military opera tions in the .rchangel legion, despite their valid ordinal cause, and why the promise of theipeedy withdrawal of our troops is so wcom'e. The relationship of spiritual am physical health is pal pable. Feed thiltussian people and they will think strafht. Minister to them with tenderness and wisdom and they will credit the ejstence of those virtues. It is said that he immensity and cost liness of the Amrican cure for the land whose sufferingiTlurintr the most terrible of all eras surpascd those of any of the belligerent nation somewhat startled the other conferees if Paris. Yet sentiment in these same cotitries was heroic when enormous problem? of the war were up for solution. 1 At home the sutgestion of large-scale enterprises onlyjeft Americans more eager to embark toon them. The same mood should be reestablished with re spect to Russia. (Peaceful, restorative measures, the distrjmtion of food, relief of the sick, industry and economic re habilitation must b undertaken in the most sweeping ,f bsIAti. There can be no djwtion of the result. It is absurd to imagine that a nation which merely adopted bolshevism be cause one social order had broken down and any change was acceptable, will sub scribe to the tyrannous fantasies of Lenine when a way of authentic redemp tion is in sight. It is still more extravagant nonsense to raise the bogie of a Russo-German alliance. Germany is crippled for more than a generation. Failure is an attri bute notoriously lacking in charm. The nation which received that humiliating treaty from her conquerors on Wednes day need not be dreaded as a possible exploiter of the mighty natural resources and untouched wealth of her gigantic neighbor. Germany will be concerned for many a year with keeping her own house in order. A redeemed Russia should have an un precedented bulwark of strength, peace and prosperity in the society of. the na tions. Predicating that the league will be durable, the admission of Russia into the fold will be the crowning triumph of its aims. Without that vast nation as a member the purposes of covenant makers will be unfulfilled. It may be years before that whole gieat realm from the Baltic to the Pacific will be restored to normal conditions. Its agony has been extreme. It is par ticularly for that reason that the work of salvation should be speedily begun. The lunacy of bolshevism cannot combat legitimate forces of enlightenment. The by-products of the war were in proportion to the struggle itself. The fury of the Paris commune was of a few months' duration only. .But then the struggle from which it was an outgrowth was also brief. Lenine and his follow ers have profited by the large scale of the whole world tragedy. They have exulted in a chaotic interregnum. They can only continue to rejoice if the Russian people are still oppressed with a sense of utter hopelessness. Every thinking individual must be aware how that sentiment can be dissi pated. A comprehensive fortitude, clear vision and energy grappled with the Ger man problem and found the answer. Similar qualities differently applied can make of Russia not a danger to the world but a blessing. The old cry of "Too late!" must not be re-echoed. The day to act in Russia has arrived. It came immediately after Brockdorff-Rantzau teceived a certain voluminous "book." THE TALE OF A HORSESHOE NAIL WE WOULD commend to the men in charge of the Rtreets a careful study of the story about the man who started on a journey without having a missing nail replaced in the shoe of his horse. The tale used to be printed in the school readers. For lack of the nail the horse cast his shoe, it will be tecalled, and the man could not reach his journey's end. We have been neglecting the repairs of the streets until they are in such a bad condition that it is said millions will be needed to put the pavements in proper shape. When a hole has appealed in the asphalt, instead of having it repaired at once, it has been allowed to grow until in a week it menaces the safety of every vehicle that passes over it. Then it has been unthriftily patched up with bricks, which in turn come loose and wear the hole still larger. They have a better way of caring for the state highways acros.s the Delawaie, wheie the roads are patrolled by men with a wagon filled with the necessary materials for repairs. The breaks in the surface are filled as soon as they appear and hundreds of thousands of dollars are saved every year by this method, while the roads are kept in good condition. It is said that the scarcity of labor and the high cost of materials during the last two years made it impossible to make needed repairs to the streets here. There would be some force in this plea if the streets had bee"n systematically kept in repair before the war. But every one knows that it has been the consistent policy to neglect repatts when they were first needed and to allow the pavements to be destroyed, jubt as the manneg- lected to have his horse's shoe nailed on, only to discover that an apparently trivial thing could bring grave disaster. If the small holes in the pavements are repaired at once and there certainly should be money enough available for this the sum needed for repairs in the future will be reduced, to the profit of the taxpayers and to the comfort of all users of vehicles. President Wilson, Sec Sine Woman letury Baker, former President Taft nntl others sent pxpreMiioiiK of reverenre and high est ecm to the mooting held at the Acad emy of Music yesterday iu honor of Miss .lane A. Delano, who died at a huse hospital in France recently after distinguished serv ice with the Red Cross. Yet something seemed lacking in the general tribute. War is so far removed from the normal (oneernt of women, it is a thing so opposed to all that they desire and cherish, that when one dies in the field at a service of compassion noth ing said in the way of pity or acknowledge ment can ever seem quite adequate. AV h e n photography Prophecies was invented every one said that the art of portrait painting would immediately die out. Now an artist .gets $10,000 for painting n millionaire. The movies were to wipe out the legitimate drama. The legitimate drama in still prosperous and flourishing. When phonographs came in the world was assured that niuaic would never be the same ngain. Yet the appreciation of great music and the demand for it grow together. The tireless prophets saw in the first sputtering automo bile the ure end of the horse. Now the horse reigns at a show in Philadelphia. The German peace Temperature; delegates are con In Paris plaining of the cold in their Paris hotel. If the French were not notoriously polite they might Invite their undistinguished visitors to consider a trip to a place where there Is heat in plenty and do it even more definitely than the Peace Conference has done in the long-awaited terms. I The President went A Sf Bet to the races at Long- champs yesterday aft ernoon. We venture the t;uess that he put hit) money 6a the Lcstue of Nations. 1 THE GOWNSMAN "THE PROVOST'S PLAN" IT IS an old quarrel that Is ngltntliig university circles, n quarrel ns old as edu cation itself, as old as the first radical who Ktirred up the first conservative, whoever Uicbc nncient folk may hac been ; hut it may he doubted if the solution is quite so easy ns that redoubtable 'epeaker out of "what l in his mind, Professor Wltmcr, would have it. The Gownsman knows thnt there are those who believe in the classics and that there arc those who don't. He has yet to meet the bugnboo who really wants the edu cation of fifty years ago and nothing more. Ho has yet to meet the man or the group of men who dcllbcrntcly conspire to make edu cation the perquisite of the rich or who wish to control education nbsolutely In the in terests of capital, rniloubtcilly the reaction aries, of which the Gownsmon is not one, llo many unwise things in their efforts, con scious or unconscious, to keep n hold on that which they have so long neglected to ad minister with any appreciation of the trend of the times. But education has other ene mies than the reactionary, and it is by no means cerlnin that he is the worst. THE college has long been ground between the upper nnd the nether millstone, ami perhaps the ultimnle logic will be its disap pearance as a separate stage in education. The growth of the high school hns trespassed in the earlier years, in mibjwl, if nut always in quality. Doctor Witmer is rigljt when he declares that there nre high schools doing better work in much the same grades than some of our colleges- nt lenst in the earlier jeurs. This pressute fiom the schools has forced up the standard and the age of stu dents entering college. Secondly, the voca tional and technical schools have come into active competition with the college, offering practical training with the prize of nn imme diate livelihood. These schools have mostly fulled in the almost impossible effort to turn out educated men nnd women simultaneously with those technically tinined. Agnin, the professional school hns made inroads on the college, demnnding that a part of its curric ilium be given over tn preparation for the study of law or medicine. So that there remains of the old college of libernl studies little but a shell, nnd theie nre fen students who pursue its courses except with view of becoming teachers, ministers, lawjers or doctors, and these Inst, ns already suggested, nre vocntionalized in the process, ns the tencher is likewise in his school of educa tion. THE average American wants to know what he is getting, wherefore he is not coutent with nn education; he wnnts. to know what it will fit him for when he has got it. Owing to this, the old college has been still fuither disintegiuted by the establishment of parallel schools I that is, schools attracting students of the same jenrs nnd training ns the college) in which the newer subjects thnt is the nggresshe topics which have not yet succeeded in running out the classics, mathematics, histor.x nnd langunges- nre taught with n degree of spocinlizntion nnd particularity impossible when they must compete with the older curriculum: hence the Wharton School of Finance nnd Com merce, schools of biology nnd the like. In these schools students are now admitted at a stage of development .which corresponds to the entrance of college, unci their work still coincides in some drgiee with the older curriculum. Every one of these schools is a compromine between n college course nnd n course in -n universitj. And eery one of them to tlnt extent is H short cut, substitut ing special tiaining for n thorough education. ttrpHOROrGII education" does not beg -- the question. A thorough education Is one thnt is well founded nnd not one-sided. A thorough education does not admit special ization before n sound nnd wide gcneinl foun dation. Our gindunte schools for the most pari demand u tlforough foundation, believing that n mnn can not specialize cither in scieme. philosophy or lunguuge unless he lias beforehand a wide general knowledge. Our professional schools at know ledge this by demanding that is. the best of them -n col lege degiee ns the basis of piofe-sional study. Some of them accept the degree of a school of education or n school of Militics; most of them prefer the bachelor of arts degree nnd whjV Because it still is. to some extent nt lenst. a guarantee thnt specialization has not been allowed to set iu too t-unn, because it still stands for a thorough edui ntioii. THE logic of the phalli all for the the situation stands cm- piovosi's plan, which, ns the tiownsinnn understands it, is not the sudden suppiessiou of the Wharton or nnj other school which is doing good and honest work, expeiiiueiitiug with education nloug specialized lines on the liaxis of the prepara tion which the high school can give. The provost's plan rather looks to nn ultimntely sounder foundation for our technical nml other specializing schools, a foundation out confined to the study of Latin nnd (lieek, hut to a liberal curriculum in which nn studj old or new- shall be excluded by prejudice, but nil shall be pursued with thai freedom and disinterestedness which is not nt pie ent a conspicuous feature of nn of the new schools of utilitarian aim. If we demand that our lawyers unci our doctors be college trained before they become university trained, shall we deny this training to our psychol ogists, our botanists, our men of finance, our engineers? We can not look to the renlin tion of this fine ideal immediately. Theie are vested lights; there are also vested prejudices, for the leformer often equals the reactionary iu his lesistance to any change but his own. In the family of human knowledge there should be nn favorites; mid a plea thnt it lakes so long to become a scholar ill becomes any voice that proceeds from a university. Between n university based on the high school and a university based on the college foundation, liberally Interpreted, there can be no question. Let us all hope de He Will fiet Ills v o u t 1 y that the weather matt bought a new straw hat on the 1st of May. These are the dajs when the Victory Note subscribers think of the sweet buy and buy. Ope of the unsettled claims yet to be presented to Germany may come from the baseball managers, wliose Mars tire still fight ing a losing battle for the front page. Hungary haB not had enough fighting and rejects the terms of the armistice sub mitted by Rumania. But just wait until she has to consider the terms of the peace treaty. That s right. .Make the route of the Iron Division parade long enough to allow ns many admiring friends as possible to. sec the conquering heroes come home. No wonder Mayor Ole Hanson gets there! He does one thing at a time. When be talks Victory Loan he bus no time to say anything about Bolshevists. There will be more criticism of the peace treaty this week than after the men re sponsible for .its ratification discover that they could not have made a better one. Criti cism is as easy as slipping down ba vn ley jpaycincnt. "REMAINED SEATED, YAH? DOT frON'T REPRESENT DER CONDI TION OF CHERMANY!!" s 1. -Wj.-Jji min ?&& m,rcvi-a7Jft t mmmrWsmsms . . . . , . mmmimimsEmmmr !i' l5f3?I7M-,Ji3?Srf:W BBGfc"2sTv I IT l 1 I IT IT il rWM . . HV.'-- V-' WJ !;iflw-. lor? " ' i ' .i i " m ftp T& THE CHAFFING DISH Herr Brockdorff-Rantzau Writes Homo Versailles, May H. Mj dear Lieschen : Thou wilt forgie my not having written to thee hist night, for indeed I was quite col lapsed. My clenr child, the so ingenious knee-stiffeuers thou knittedst for me entirely failed in the crisis, for when it came my turn to spenk I whs uuuble to rise from my chair. (I good old German knees, never did I think thev would have failed me so. But. my darling Hausfinu, the little strip of India rubber thou didst sew within the neckband of my collar was of goodly assistance. With out it my linen would have been sorely wilted. The tleece footwnrmers were also a happy thought. Mj child, it wus n horrible ordeal. How I wish 1 could be back with thee tonight to leceivo thy wifely consolations, to light the stow Hiid'hhiit nil the windows and. get out the china pipe nnd have thee put on my enrpet slippeis and forget all oTir troubles. This t'lenienceau is n terrible mnn. It wns contrary to nil the rules of civilized peacefare to let n man with so fierce a moustache nnd so glittering an eye intimidate uw. His e.ics nre appalling to behold. How niiiv I describe them to thee? Thou hnst seen little pools of beer, spilt on a cute tauie, with the electric light shining upon them? Even so do the eyes of the old French chan cellor glow anil, glenm. And the haystack moustache! My darling, I believe he has let it grow nutrimmed ever siuce the armistice, on purpose to increase the shrecklichkeil of our humiliation. How snd that n gieat stutesmaii should stoop to such cruel strata gems. Herr Wilson at least has no moustache, but his insiertes gesicht was small consola tion. He sat jauntily with his hands in his pockets little heeding our patuful situation. I fenr that we Germans will all have our hands in our pockets for fifty years to come. When it was all over we came back to the hotel and took turns with the pulmotor nnd the little ozone flnsk I broirght. It was nearly 10 o'clock before we gained sufficient strength to begin reading the text. We took turns reading it aloud, iiiieen minutes wus; ,,u inner nn nnv one of us could manage at a time. Poor Landsberg rashly attempted to go on longer, but after reading the entire seventh section iu a faltering voice he wns i nrried away, and is still under the doctor's cnie. Seventeen of the sixty typists In our party are In hysterics. Their morale had nlreiidy beep terribly undermined, poor crea tures, by a heartless newspaper correspond ent who described thsir costumes as a parody of last year's Parisian modes. Most of the stricken girls are consequently incapable of taking dictation and are now on the verauda of the hotel, watching the women of Ver sailles through opera glasses, in order to remodel their garmepts. By the way, never forgetful of my sweet Lieschen, during the session yesterday I managed to make a little sketch, as thou askedst me. of Frau Wilson's bat, which 1 inclose, so that thy dressmaker can copy it. That will be a Bore blow for Frau Ebert. Alas, sweet snail, this is a pitiless treaty that they have upframed. Indeed I am nearly as' much opposed to it ns the United States Henate. We have to present our com ments in French and English, so I bid thee mail me at once the little phrase book in my left-hand bureau drawer (the drawer where 1 keep my dachshund permit and pot of mucilage for mending. paper trousers), If I only knew the French for grievous covenants grievously arrived nt we could get started. The period of grace expires in two weeks, unless we expire sooner. Imagine what a state of mind wejare all in. Try to find out for me what' has happened to the skull of the Sultan Okwawn, which we have got to return to the I.rjtlsh Government, nne oi our I party ever Iieara ol juc man, , jrr I iu u pcaic irraix juy incomer victory I 1 Bbcrt It DC ims gOl,. 11. iyt " "Here, i'-uie . n t,r, r awwAXES. . , -n vwiwi; w w uuuttu-wi ,v ' '" n f u'W,". ill I3.V. , !l .. - J1- i.ii St.JSE'i'.s,. . js, ,.'.. , '; ;srri -i v v ' among his curios. If not, we may have to sacrifice Ebert himself. It would never do to have peace fail just for the luck nf n suit able skull. Ebert's is so nice nnd round, too. Pray for us. my dear Lieschen. Of course we shall have tn sign, but our only hope lies in the United Stntes Senate. Gott has been conspicuously absent from Versailles these days. Although thy dress is, as thou snjest, a frock of ages, 1 doubt whether I can bring thee a new one, ns we nre not allowed to wsit Paris. Thy husband, BUOCKDORFF. V V V "While the speaker (Iiiockdorff-Hnntzau) was admitting the acceptance of defeat, those watching the German delegates saw that they turned their eyes in other direc tions." Associated Press dispatch. In the direction of certain United States senators, perhaps? V V V Senator Penrose snjs "we should not be called upon to take such n departure from our traditions nml policies without full in formation." Such a departure, that is, ns signing n treaty that imposes overwhelming humilia tion upon a defeated enemy? V V V When Holland delouses itself of the kaiser most news'papers will issue nn cxtrntlition extra edition. Wc ourself will be tempted to issue an Extra Dish. ' V V V Let Philadelphia's motto today and to morrow be, Open Quotas, Openly Arrived At. V V V To One About to Be Extradited "The world's mine oyster, w hlch I w Ith sword will open !" Slerry Wives of Windsor. O kaiser, kaiser, 1 declare You thought the world jour oybter! Whence jour boasted savoir-fain Merry Itoyster Doyster? Where's the pearl you hoped tn seize; O where the costly guerdon? Was it achieved along the Oise, In Bellcau Wood or Verdun? It's known from Ascalon tj Gath, From Paris to Hcnlopcn ; That once you raise a bivalve's wrath, The mollusk will not open. I hope you get your worthy meed, Like Cain and llarburossa. May ravens on jour liver feed, In Greenlapd or Formosa. IIOIIEIIT GII1SOX. v v y Desk Mottoes AVhy is it that we rejoice nt a birth and grieve at a fttnerup Is it .because we are not the person involved? MARK 01WA1N. V V V Frustrated! My mother says my brother Has certain splendid traits That show ho will be President Of the United States. , And then my brother cries because He's altogether bent On being a policeman ' And not the President. HESSIE GRAHAM'S FRIEND. V Y V Why not have a hand in the enforcement The Returning Soldiers . THEY come in r long, brown column, These sun-bronzed boys of ours, And wc deck their way On this proud day With flags and love and flowers. How firm of step ! How gallant ! To highest concepts true; Our thoughts are deep As on they sweep Up the stately avenue. To you, brave, young crusaders, We owe this lasting debt That strong nnd bright Burns Freedom's light And wc shall not forget; Nor the Unseen Host that marches In silence up the street, Their gift sublime On sands of time The imprint of their feet. Alice M. Fay, in the New York Herald. - I- What Do You Know? ' QUIZ j Where is Nauru Island, for which the British empire has just been made the mandatory? Who was Jen droller? What President of the United States :i was, among other things, an architect?. 1. Why is coleslaw so called? 5. Ossip Gabrilowitsch, the pianist, is the son-in-law of a famous American humorist. Who was this writer? 5. What is the maximum size of the army trf' whjch Germany will be permitted to maintain under the peace treaty? 7. Name a state gnemor who will soon resign to take his seat in the Senate when the extra session of Congress is called? 8. Who wrote the Carthaginian histori cal novel, "Salammbo'? 0. What was the Hanscatic League? 10. AVhat country has been called the "cockpit of Europe"? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz J. 1. Sir John French was the first com- i mnnder-in-chief of the British forces S in the war. - 2. The definitive edition of a book is the J final, complete authorized edition in j which the uuthor or his representatives desire it to stand. I 3. A corvette is a flush-decked war vessel with one tier of guns. , 4. Liberia was founded by negroes sent by the American Colonization Society f in 1822. It was declared an indt)i " pendent republic In 1817. 5. Thomas Jefferson declared; "Since due "' participation in oflice is a matter of Ki right, how are1 vacancies to be ob- tnined? Those by death are few; by j resignation, none," 0. The Panama Canal was opened for navl-" Ration on August 10, 1014. , 7. Alliteration is tho commencement ,of M words in close connection (especially S in poetry) with the same letter. . I S. "The Artful Dodger," otherwise John v Dawklus, was a young pickpocket, em- t ployed by ragin in Charles Dickens's "Oliver Twist." 0. 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