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JOBS ENOUGH TO CO AROUND
O one who is familiar w ith the labor
' situation in this country will doubt
ihat there are job enough for evei man
who is discharged from the aimy.
The secretarj of labor has picdicted
that there will be a labor shortage within
three, months. The figuies cited to prove
that there is a vast number of unem
ployed in the country are misleading be
cause, as Secretary VHon points out.
there is always a floating idle population
of about 1,000.000.
Every employei knows that thete '
not labor enough to go around in time? of
moderate prosperity. This was true be
'fore the war, in spite of the fact that the
population was increased by immigra
tion neatly 1,000,000 a year. Hut immi
gration virtually ceased after August.
1914. Since the armistice thousands of
"foreign born have gone back to the home
of their birth, taking their savings with
them.
Business is gradually lesuming it-! nor
mal course. The demand for labor is in
creasing. In a gieat majo.-ity of in
stances the discharged soldiers have
taken the jobs which the left when they
Were drafted. In many instances they
have secured better jobs. Unless all
uigns fail employers will be bidding
against one another in the near future
for all the available labor in the market.
'? EVERY INCH A SOLDIER
TTIHE United States army loses a unique
figure in Major General Hugh Leno.
$ Scott, whose retirement from active serv
iiice", takes place at Camp Dix today. A
;!$i&tJr of keen resourcefulness and splen
? lid' vigor, he was at the same time the
Uf leapt truculent of soldiers. Clear, dis
j' ' 'criminating vision and the sturdiest sense
or lair play have been responsible lor
the brightest chapters in his long and
varied career.
General Scott's skillful settlement of
the Naco troubles on the border in 1U13
vas among the prime factors of our
escape from war with Mexico. We know
now how neatly our entry into such a
(conflict would have accorded with the
aims of German intrigue. Such an adven
ture, by engaging the American army,
might have prevented the triumph of
civilization in the European fray.
But the Naco crisis was only one cf
many from which the common sense
diplomacy of General Scott extricated
ifc 3is country. In the Sulu archipelago,
:0l where he was for a time governor, he
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r SluvMBllcu aiaei, JltaillCU LUUSf luiuu-
$ Iftnfc Moslems nnrl won thn sohrinnt rtf
the "great and good governor."
SP . Age-limit regulations, which compelled
Sr jhia retirement as chief of staff in 1917
feJHit now necessitate his exit from Camp
ODljr, denied him active service in the
.world war. but his abilities as an orsran-
P-fixer and trainer of notential soldierv
3t" JTvere rjut to invaluable use. It is aDDro-
& nriate that tomorrow will .nark the re-
W turn to the Jersey cantonment of the
first units Qf the Seventy-eighth Divi-
s . sion, which he developed into superb
&? flrli?Yio mntprml.
h '""White Man-Who-Will-Not-Tcll-A-Lie"
,5a .what the Indians, whon: he so often
fought and pacified, called him. "White
gs "Man is more compact ana even more
comprehensive. It bespeaks, the affection
which the country feels toward him and
hn nriHe it takes in his lonir. clean and
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MOTHERS
m,jfifCEi again the day has come aiound
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fciV'-when we pay tribute to the mothers,
;.'nd tomorrow there will be services in
Mfcthe churches in their honor.
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,jjut tney were noi iorgouen in
the
SearsT before a day was set apart for
fj j formal recognition by a public demon
fc stration.
rj-S, Pur Iiteratuie is full of admiration.
ruqienuge says inai j momer is a
mother still, the holiest thing alive."
PuTkoMfornv wrrntp ttmf Mntlipi io iha
Lnaine for God in the lips and hearts of
frjlkle children." Holmea declares that
th fades; love Uroops; the leaves of
3ship fall; a mothers secret hope
llvea them all."
n, wny muuipiy msiance.s .- in tne
of every worthy man and woman
is a special shrine set apart where
tftriwper? burn before the holy image of
' wiinrilinn snirit who watched over
Pfly .infant footsteps and followed his
AtttaiV, stride in later years.
''flidfe'i to the mothers! God 'bless
ibmi every one!
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THE. FLIGHT TO EUROPE
the preludes, to a transocean
t.wialMykt,
fHfffttr made by American naval men,
MtAdiy tnovene lmaginai'on oi peo
flfiryhref VA$ least four nations.
iloetiiStrauitnxMBr, snv gtojy oi vie-.
tory in n contest that is more than Greek
in its implications of heroism.
It is but fair to the British llieis who
have been tuning up their machines and
watching ominous skies nt Newfoundland
to remember that the American airmen
have great advantages on their side.
They will fly nt night. Destroyers will
await them at fifty-mile intervals to in
dicate the course by seaichlightc.
The Britishers, when they hop off, will
go largely by compass and blind luck.
Upon both sides there is great i isk and it
need for endless valor and endurance.
The attempt at a transatlantic flight
is significant in other ways. Even the
Germans are said to be feverishly til
woik with it hope of being llrst across.
Mankind is no rooticr out of the blood
and dust and miseiy of an incomparable
disaster, than it turns to lencw a mag
nificent conflict for supremacy over the I
elements. Automatical!, like a man who
has stumbled, the tace has blushed the
dirt out of its eyes and, still limping.
turns an undaunted face to the ky.
MEN WHO FOUGHT MILITARISM
MAY BE ASKED TO SUPPORT IT
Returning Soldiers Are Finding Proof
That Most of the Politicians
Remained at Home
A MISITIOI'S politicians e ei where
r' are manifesting an ominous interest
m the new American Legion, which has
jusi been organized by returned sot vice
men. who hope solidl to oiganiyc all of
lleeis and men as fast as they return to
civil life.
Tbeio is nothing to indicate a political
motne among I he soldiers lliem-elves.
Their movement was a natural and
almoM involuntni , one at tlie beginning,
llut no one will Mippoo that politintl
inanageis did not at once discern the
high potentialit of an organization
which appeals dnectly to the sentiment
of more than 1.000,000 0iing men and
indirectly to many other millions of men
and women voters.
It was plain that a paiticular appeal
would be made ready for the occasion.
The form of that appeal is now be
coming apparent. Somewheie in the
high places there seems to bo a belief
that the returned soldiers will tespond
most readily to a doctrine of extensive
military 'prepaieduess" preached a a
new political gospel in 19120.
A ort of diluted Germanism charac
terizes a good many of the speeches that
ate lieintr made in various parts of the
countiy by those who keep one eye on
the futuie and the other on the men who
are just leaving the arm.
It is questionable whether Ameiican
politicians weie ever more obtuse than
they show themselves to be in this in
stance. It is rebuttable thai professional jioli
ticos weie so few in Fiance. Had the men
who inspire patty platforms ever lived
in a dugout or endured a barrage or a
gas wave; had they ever been permitted
to see the aftermath of a high explosive
bombardment or a trench fight they
would be better fitted now to make a
decent and reasonable appeal to the
mind of returned soldiers
It , fashionable to look with a oi i of
awe upon the homecoming service man
and to regard him as a mystery of sorts.
He i a new factor in American politics.
But he is not a mystery. He is an aver
age man made a little wiser and a little
more critical by hard and astonishing ex
periences. In some ways he is dift'eient
from the men who welcome him and won
der about his secret mind.
It has always been obsetvable, foi ex
ample, that such forbearance and calm
and charity as there was in the war was
to bo found for the most part among the
men who fought hardest and suffered
most. Soldiers at the front rarely par
ticipated in the fashionable hatreds of
the last few years. Their own experi
ences helped them to a better under
standing of the general catastrophe. The
best haters were at home in the leather
chairs.
So it was and so it is with the jingoes.
Who remembers ever having met a re
turned American soldier who consciously
assumed the heroic pose? The romantic
glamour that still colors a stay-at-home
politician's conceptions of war and war
makers does not delude any man who saw
modern fighting.
"We don't want to parade. We want
to go home!" That is the answer of a
majority in almost every returning unit
when the prospect of a public review is
suggested by the officers. But the men
parade usually in a spirit of tolerant
kindness, to do the home folks a good
turn and give them a thrill, even though
they themselves feel a bit bored and a
bit tired by the performance.
The fact of the matter is that under
the O. D.'s of the service the free spirit
of these free men was voluntarily sub
ordinated but never quite submerged. We
hear a great deal of the illiteracy found
in the new army after its organization,
and often we fail to remember that, de
spite all, the American expeditionary
force was the most intelligent, the keen
est minded, the fastest thinking and the
cleanest army ever organized. It had
superb self-control because it was not a
driven mass that disintegrated and de
scended to disorder and lawlessness at
the moment when authority was relaxed
or withdrawn. Each of its individual
units was animated by a competent in
telligence. Within each soldier remained
the man who submitted his spirit to rig-m-oiK
discipline and gave up hia inherited
freedom of action yet remained always
the conscious observer and the intelli
gent critic of all that he saw and felt
and heard.
He saw things that will remain with
htm as long as his memory la'sts. What
he may bring back in the way of hopes
or determination or conviction to his own
country it is hard to say as yet.
The homeward soldier is too glad to be
critical now. The worst we have in the
way of speeches of welcome, the most
dismal of political prospects, the dullest
witted politicians, seem so much better
than the things he has left that he feels
for the moment as if ho had achieved
paradise. It is after he gets into civilian
clothes and back to normal life with timo
to think land make assessments of tho
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conditions about him that his influence,
mny bo felt In novel ways.
What does he bring? Not a lovo of
militarism, sutely! There is something
fantastic in the gestures of the cam
paign planners who are even now aiming
subtle arguments at the returned soldier
to urge an interval of rampant militarism
in the United States.
For the average man available for
membership in the American Legion mili
tary service meant the loss of his inde
pendence, a flattening out of his' ego to
a common level with millions iron re
strictions everywhere, deadly risk, hard
ship and unthinkable sacrifice and abso
lute obedience to other men's whims and
commands. He was a man taught to be
free and independent and intelligent
enough to appreciate freedom and inde
pendence. And it -is to him that the
patrioteeis now propose to appeal with
a demand that ho perpetuate conditions
thai irked and hindered him in order that
his childicn may fate as haiti or even
harder than he did!
At this distance it would appear that
political policies inspired by what lead
ers talk of as "the military spirit" of the
reluming soldiers will fail utterly to ap
peal to the American Legion or to in
sure its support. Our men finished their
job and they are eager to thirl of plcas
anter thing?.
Pennsylvania will have leceived hack
more than "0,000 of her men when all
of the Twenty-eighth Division are home.
As nearly as it is possible to express
leverence and welcome in flags and deco
rations we are doing so in Philadelphia.
Hut the soldieis themselves will not
deem that sort of thing adequate in itself
if we aie unable to show understanding
of the things they fought for and a ic
specl for the system of government
which they helped to maintain.
Men like those lcturning with the
Twenty-eighth will level a shr.rper scru
tinj nt the leaders in politic. That is
almost certain. And all the welcome and
the color, the processions and the com
mittees and the speeches will be but a
mockery if we insist on affronting the
intelligence of returning soldiers with an
invitation to vole for the perpetuation of
a cm so which they had to share before
it could be lifted fiom the world.
GREATER POLAND
rpiir. habit of regarding as compHta--'-
tively small the nations born or ic
born of the war needs correction in one
sit iking instance. In point of popula
tion, Poland emerges fiom the conflict
the sixth country in Europe. Her thirty
million people, ten million mine than
Spain'.- and only six million less than
Italy's with the old frontiers, must un
questionably become a factoi of vital
consequence in the development of the
continent.
As she wa.-, in the past, l'oland is now
a leal power. With the international
ized Danzig and her own "corridor,"
opportunity for the legitimate commer
cial progress of a historic, a i roud and a
long-outraged nation is assured. At last
the criminal partition in the eighteenth
century is exculpated. Once agaii the
nation which saved Christendom when
John Sobieski beat back the Turkish
hordes from the gates of Vienna is en
abled to play her rightful role in the
vvoild.
The genius which, denied so man other
outlets, -ought an exit in the art of
Chopin, of the De Ueszkes, of Paderewski,
of Modjeska and Sinkiewic., now has a
chance to flower in fields of statesman
ship, industr and all the broad avenues
of civilization. The matchless pianist
who is her premier has made an inspir
ing beginning. It is an index to futuie
accomplishments of an unextinguishnble
nation.
OUR FESTIVE TROLLEY POLES
THE squatty typewriter and the rigid
trolley polo have alike been held
unfitted to artistic treatment. The lattci
charge, however, is triumphantly dis
proved in Chestnut street's green and
gold colonnade which will frame the Iron
Division pageant. Clearly there is much
virtue in a coat of paint, enough, indeed,
to inspire doubt that some of the ugliness
of our thoroughfares is irremediable.
The disfigurement caused by trolley
poles seemed final when in the dim dis
tant past and in the face of much rhetori
cal indignation the transit company de
clared the wiie-slot system, which has
since worked so admirably in New York
and Washington, to be "impracticable."
Once the overhead wiles were author
ized, no effort whatever was made to
modify the offensiveness of the proces
sion of iron supports. The very mildly
ornamental top-caps are still lacking on
many of the poles as on the day when
the latter were first erected. Unsightly
rust is another index of artistic indiffer
ence. Gilt is expensive. The gleaming pole
summits along Chestnut street will fade,
and it is hardly to be expected that the
adornment displayed for a special occa
sion can be made practically permanent.
But let costly paint, attractively applied,
could decidedly brighten up the perpen
dicular excrescences from our pavements.
The festal guard exhibited for the parade
furnishes a suggestive tip.
"l'oland," said John
The Nw V. Shulski, represcn-
Vertfon tntive of that nation
in the United States,
is reborn!" The suggestion of a new
ihikibood for Poland will remind the world
at large ot a new version of a familiar
musim thut now appears to guide other
smaller nationb similarly fortunate. They
seem to believe, often enough, that children
thoul'l be heard, not seen.
Would not current
headlines have a
bright new siguifi
merely that a break
Yes! Yet.'. '
cuuee it thej said
threatens China?
"Tho document,"
They Grow
No Hetter
cried 1'rofessor
Schueklng, a II un
savant, when ht. read
the. peace terms, "is simply awful," Ger
man professors are awful Id a complicated
way
The Allied nations
Uuery
are now reported to
favor the Kolchak
regime in ltussla. Now 'will Borne one tell
us who Is favored by (lie Kolchak regime?
CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S '
LETTER
Howard B, French's Work for the
Medical Department of the Navy.
Stewart and Dennett and the !
1 Kensington School of i
Oratory
Washington. .May 10.
fTHHJ dlstresing effects of gas inatilfcst
-- themselves in various wa.vs. Home of the
bojs who were nt the front know only loo
well how deadly tint, wretched method of
warfare was. William L Bernard. Jr..
who was in action nf Chateau-Thierry and
the Argomie with the 109th Machine Gun
Battery of the Tvvent -eighth Division, is
one of the victims who now understand
that ens. once it takes hold of the human
nnimttl, is not readily shaken off. Bernard
was wounded he lind n piece of shrapnel
tnken out of his leg but that prohnbl) wits
tint so serious as the discovery that bemuse
of the gas remaining in hi pj stein indoor
work was virtually impossible. Physician
who believe the gas will work mil in time
have advised the open life, and in onse
iiuenee of that advice the omig soldier
will probably be found during the sum
mer in the life guard service at Wildwood.
Bernard is a nephew of Captain Walter .1
Bernard, who has recently been highly com
mended for efficiency as mnrine superintend
ent of the army transport pieis at Hohoken.
OLD-TIME newspaper men will if
If. Itrady, who "did Third street
ecall V.
street" when
Third and Chestnut wus the (enter of finnn-
i inl operations, but who is now at the Na
tional Military Home. Dayton, t). Brady
was a sergeant major in the Kltith Pennsyl
vania Volunteers in the famous Philadelphia
brigade. Years ago he detei mined to take
up with the southern branch of the National
Home foi Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, which
occupies a beautiful situation at Hampton
Boad1-. When the Km-opcaii war broke oiil
the old bojs were moved to the home at
Da.v ton. O.. where there are now prob.ihl.v
."00 of them, so that the War Department
might have the use of the southern home
" a hospital for sick and disabled soldiers
of the present war. Now and then, how
ever, it crops out that the old Civil War
fellows want to gel back Brady among the
others. Thej love the old surroundings
in their miiir Virginia home. But the War
Depaitinent has mled that it will need the
home as a hospital until the present emer
gencj is over.
po(;m:ssMAX boyal c. johnson.
of South Dakota, who made a record
"over there," calls by name many Philadel
phia bon with whom he was associated in '
the rank. He has a particular interest in
the .'!l."th Infantry of the Scvent.v -ninth ,
Division for that reason. The Seventy-ninth j
has been scheduled to return in June, nntl
-ome question has arisen us to whether the
bo.vs will be demobilized at Camp Di or
at l 'amp Meade, where they started army
life. Johnson thinks if they desire to go
to Meade they should be permitted to do so.
The War Department, however, advises that
it is too early to make definite arrangements
for the Seventy-ninth. The adjutant gen
eral says, "All men arc sent for discharge
to the camp nearest the point where tiiey
entercd the serv ice. All Mm, viand men, then,
in the :tl."th Infantry would be sent to Camp
Meade; those from Philadelphia would be
sent to Camp Div. New Jerse.v, as is now
being done with the Twenty-eighth Divi
sion." TJOWAUD B FIIL'NCII, of the Union
-- League, has two or three loves, all pure
1 plntonie. although that pretty home
of his out on the Main Line probably holds
fust place. The Chamber of Commerce,
of which he was formerly president, is high
up in Mr. I'renih's affections, but the Phila
delpliia College of Pharmacy has that sort
of claim upon him which makes all pharma
ceutical preparations taste to him like ic
fined sugar. Therefore Mr. T'rench is for
the bill which has been introduced in Con
gress to increase the efficiency of the medical
department of the United States navy b.
giving proper rank to pharmacists who serve
side by side with the medical officers. Mr.
Trench knows how to conduct a congies
sional I'limpjigti, and he is pursuing this
one vigorously.
B
KNUVOLIINT societies in Philadelphia
that have been giving aid to soldiers and
sailors in Belgium. Frau.ce and elsewhere
are having some difficulty in getting early
and direct information with respect to their
operations. The passport business enters
into their problem very ncutely, since it is
difficult at times to secure transportation
for those who should go nbrotul to report
upon these American expenditures. The
Belgian relief committee of the Umergency
Aid of Pentisjlvania, of which Mrs. Bayard
Henry is chairman, is going through nn
experience of this kind. The relief com
mittee is supporting at Caunes, Frame, a
convalescent home for Belgian officers. It
is called the "Hopital de riiiladelphie."
and is under the personal pationage of the
Duchess do Vendome, a sister of King Al
bert. This Philadelphia in-titution has been
officially reiogni.ed by the Belgian (govern
ment, and is said to be the only hospital of
its kind for Belgian officers.
MLMBKRS of Congress from Philadelphia
and vicinity who have not sworn In
on the question of woman buffragc need not
expect to avoid the solicitous consideration
of the women who believe in the right to
vote. There aretvvo very active organisa
tions with headquarters in Philadelphia, and
each of them is getting busy for the spring
offensive. The Kqual Franchise Society,
headed by Miss Sophie II. Dulles and backed
up by Miss Mary A. Burnhiim, Miss Mary
II. Ingham. Mrs. Matthew Ilaird aud a few
stalwarts like J. Levering Jones, Isaac II.
(Totltfer and Francis A. Lewis, is one of
these; and tho National Woman's party,
with Miss Ingham chairman of the state
executive committee, and that militant all-
around suffrage fighter, Miss Alice Paul, of
New Jersey, chairman of the national execu
tive committee, Is the other. Sometimes
these two organizations do not agree upon
methods of procedure, but like squabbling
Democrats they usually get together on the
muin ibsue.
THKUU is much pent-up oratory in the
Kensington district. The mill workers
develop a linn of speechmaking through tho
unions and textile associations and many
of them have become adepts. John S. Stew
art miple quite a reputation through the
Workingmcn's Protective Tariff League, of
which the late Martin St. Legcr was so
long president, but recently the eyes of
Kensington have been turned toward David
Martin's friend, Representative James Den
nett, who has a particular stylo of his
own. Bennett's speech at the Anti-Cobdeu
Club the other night Is said to have Btartcd
the eloquent Buchbolz toward the woods.
Jim never lacks a flow of words, nor does
bo fall to use to advantage the gift of mixing
the ethereal with his mundane philosophy.
The most coavinclng proof of the excel
lence and sincerity of the peace treaty is
,the lamentation from such papers as the
Iiudon Jlprnlng t'oijt and tat Echo tie
Paris,
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THE CHAFFING DISH
Mother's Day
(May tl. 1 !l!l J
TY'A
' When ililldish tempers, childish tears
Abused our patience, ere we knew
What knowing was, vvc turned to you
And let you soothe away our fears.
Ah. how that memory endears!
Kach child ou tucked in bed still hears
The stairs that creaked beneath jour 'hoe,
Dearest of all !
I uteitain recollection clear-.
That old enchanted laughter neuis
Our mil til and music while we grew,
llovv could we give you all our due
Or tell jon why your face appears
Dearest of all?
V V V
Another Unknown Damsel
Since leading damsels catch jour oe,
Despite their prim demeanor-,
Perhaps some day you'll watch me ply
Mj chopsticks there at Wiener's ;
For now 1 fairly haunt the place,
In hopes that I shall see ou.
And closely scan each chewing face.
Debating which can be oil.
Laih day, when it is time for lunch
And noontide whistles blow,
The time-clock hopefully I punch
And off to Wiener's go.
I prop my hook in front of me
And o'er its pages hover,
Airanging it so you ma sec
Your name upon the cover.
And, as I rend, I keep one e.ve
Un the m.vsterious portals,
For fear thut you will pass me h.v
Like all these common mortals.
If you but wore your undent guise
When ou come here this noon,
I'd know you by oiir brooding ejes
And eke our sandal-shoon.
Stay is it our approaching staff
Which makes this Rtutely tap:
1 straia my neck like u giraffe
My salad's in my lap!
Then, as 1 try to get my food
Back in my plate again,
I see it's nothing but a dude
With silver-headed cane.
I fear that modem times like these
Compel a sage to drop
His uniform, lest crowds should tease
And thus attract a cop.
But when at last you heave in view
I'll know 'it, when you look
(The surest proof that it is you)
With interest at my book.
Though longing at the Hits to rat,
(They never failed to please)
At Wiener'R I shall take my scat
Till I find Socrates.
The B-S atmosphere Is grand,
Exclusive and so tony,
Hut still I hike to Wiener's and
Pretend to read Cansonl.
SUB HOSA.
V V V
To w hit h we reply :
SVB ROSA, dear, by slow degrees .
Yopr friendly heart we disillusion :
Alas, the candid Socrates
Regrets your flattering confusion.
Cmiioiit is a book of wit,
A book of pure delight. II
Is sorrowfully wc admit-
Alas, wc didn't wilto It!
V V v
It is with great regrrt'fhat we retract and
disavow tho letter thatlappeared in the Dish
yesterday, purporting to be from llrock-dorff-Rantzau
to his wjfe. This was cabled
to us by our Versailles correspondent, and
seemed to bear as much evidence of atlthenr
ticlty as most of the Peace Conference dope
that zooms in.
Hut Dr. Maurice Francis Kgan, in an in
terview granted yesterday, states that Brock
dorff is "a bachelor and the perfect type of
diplomat."
Our own conviction is that no bachelor can
be as perfect a diplomat as the married man
is by necessity; but let 'that pass. Doctor
Egan says the gentleman is a bachelor, and
Doctor Egan knows him. isuner urocsaorn
has deliberately deceived Doetor., Hgan or
I else The Chaffine Dish's eorresMBnt is at,
AT THE FINISH
fault. Wo piefer to lake the blame on our
selves. We have dismissed our Ycr-aillos
representative.
V V Y
Page Allin-oii sends us (he following,
which he bus clipped from 77ic Outlook:
Misri:r.i.srnri
TIIOL'lill IKl'l. I'.riKllBh llllittni1tr. uri"at
render, ImrMlnir writer, rieslrinir to know others.
Invite letters from either Bex of any nun or rnnk
who will seclude themselves two liourH vveeklv,
nnrt vvrlle frank Is what they hnvo fell, seen,
heard thouuht unci done In reluru for their
emotions and observation, thought taerlou and
vvhlniDleall, hope and fears, love and hales.
Ideals arid aspirations (jood. bad, and Indifferent),
ho offers his own looping thus to demolish that
subtle harrier whieh Isolates ns from the real
ll,es nr our fellows Will von write- llrlss.
Tambov 10ns. Calcutta.
If any of our patrons communicate vvith
Mr. Ilriggs we hope they will let the Di-h
-lime in Ins dilcttaiitrums. As soon as we
can lind two secluded hours we arc going to
wi ite to him our-elf.
V V V
Pierre and the Loup-Garou
Lli? Oui, ntii, Mo'sicu,
Sine, dnt loiip-gnroii
He ces had as lull, wit' bees snail an' snap;
How I know? Mon Dieu !
1 was bite, paibleu !
Yv hen I meet
mishap.
wit' a -how
ou say.'-
1 was walk in smiic
D.il was set for hear, ,
An my laig, he ces caught so I dun' get
out;
Den dnt wolf, he come
Wil' bees blood-red gum
An' bees jaws so wide 1 win see hecs
motit',
not have mj life'
For to save m.v life ;
Pourqiini? Well, Mo'sieu, I have lef heeni
full.
So ilat wolf, he spring
Lak some devil-t'iug
An' I t'ink I not have an.v life at all!
Bui I'm desp'rale man-
So 1 light wit haus
"I'll at las' 1 have keel licciu b.i choke to
deaf ;
But my arms are bite'
When I'm done dut-Jight
An' of loup-garou I'm afraid, ou bet!
N. II. Pierre told this tale
As he sipped his ale
While we tlavvdled and talked in
old Quebec's bars ;
And (hough very few
Of his iirns are true
', I am sure this oue is, for I buvv
the scars.
ROBERT J,. KELLL'M.
V V V
More Thoughts on Unknown Damsels
"Men may be engaged in philanthropic or
political movements; they niiiy lovo their
work intensely; they may be consummating
an ambition ; but withal their minds are pon
dering on some particular woman, or on
women In general, AVe hold imaginary con
versations with women wo have known,
whom we know, or whom we would liko to
kuovv. Wo think nbout the 'feminine faces
wo meet in the streets, and experience n pass
ing melancholy because we are tiuacquulnled
with some of the girls we see." ALBERT
MORDELL, in the unmentionable book.
V V V
The ('ermuii peace envoys uught to be
grateful to Mr. Beck for saying all tho
things about the peace treaty that they would,
like to say but cannot,
V V V
Never mind, the auld lung signature! will
be along on tho date stipulated,
V V V
Thu event of next July 1st should prove a
great stimulus to aviation, now that Halifax
a very hospitable city, as we know from
pcrsoual experience proves to bo only nine
hour' nighi rrqtn .vcjy jorK.
U . - , , S(5o'A'JPJ -
Would Not Die in April
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TWC
1 AVi
"WOULD not die in April,
Nor have .voiir spade disturb them '
For my sake.
I prize too much the comfort
Of nil the pallid shoots
To grub beneath their confident
Slim roots.
Oh, lather in the snow time
That from the newly dead
The gras- may forage boldly
In my head.
And from my heart the violel
May drink, and flame .a blue
Sweet message from the heart ot God
To you.
Clement AVood, in "The Earth Tunis
South."
Even the Peace Conference, which has
untied so ninny hard knots, would balk at
the job of distributing a few thousand
tickets for parade seats among two million
people.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. What is the method of choosing the pops
called V
-. Nnlnc tlnce German cities which were
iepublicsv before the fall of the im
perial government last autumn.
'!. What is the longist distance without
landing which the American trans
' utlantic fliers will have to traverse?
I. What article of food bus a name that
literally means "taste reviver"?
,". AVho wrote "Songs Before Sunrise"?
II. What w'ar was officially ended by the
treaty of Frankfort?
7.-A"hut is hellebore?
S. AVho said "Theie never wus a good war
or a bad peace"?
!l. How is the word ovation commonly mis-ti-ed?
10. AVhat nre t!0 design and colors of the
American "Union Jack"?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Nauru, for which ('rent Britain Jms been
made a mandatory, lies in the Pacific
ocean on lougitudc 107 west and lati
lude O.tKJ south.
.. Jean Grolier was a celebrated French
bibliophile. He owes his reputation
to his passion for fine books (regarding
alike subject, binding, printing and
paper). lie designed many of his Own
ornaments and supervised the paper.
His dates are 1470-1505.
M. Thomas Jefferson, among his other ac
complishments, was well versed In
architecture.
1. The word coleslaw is derived from the
Dutch kool, meaning cabbage, and
"slaa," salad.
5. Ossip Gobrllovvltsch, the pianist, mar
ried Clara Clemens and was hence the
son-in-law of Mark Twain.
(I, The maximum size of the army which,
under the peace; treaty, Germany will
bo permitted to maintain is 100,001'
men.
7. Tho state governor who goes to the
Senate when tho extra session openu
is AA'alter Edge, o New Jersey.
8. Gustave Flaubert wrote tho Carthagin
ian historical novel, "Salarambo."
0. Tho Hanscatlc League was a medieval
confederation of cities in north Ger
many and adjacent counties formed for
the promotion of commerco and for
protection against robbers, pirates and
hostile governments.
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