.wl hth i "9" N " t 8 EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, MAY 17, lDltf ;, 3 i , "s i ' -v,t; T. c v ,r ,Y'cwwTr!i4" lFr TlT,wtrfiwf ' j""ir-' ''W' . v I fcX fc . & f I 't 1 I K Ie i i- i I K - s ' re Unletting $tab(tclie&gev THE EVENING"TELEGRAPH PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY- cxnus it. k. curtis. rMi6T . . Churles If, I,udlnIon. Vies rrlflnt: John C. Mrtln. SrrrrfMT and Treurr: rhlllD 8 Collln. John B. WlUUfin, John J. flpurson.. Directors. EDITOniAI BOARD! Ctitl H. K. Ccktik. Chairman XlJCyiD E. BMH.ET " . Editor JOHK C. MARTIN. ..Central nulnm Mna rubllhd dally at Tcbiio I.uiita Rulldlnr. Indnnndnce Square. Philadelphia Atlivtio Citi ., . rre"-r'!tlin Biilldlne Nltr YoBK.... 200 Metropolitan Tower Damon .... T"l Ford Hullitlnf: ST. Lncls , .... inns Fullerton liulMInc Cmciao , 1302 Tribune UulKIIng NEWS nt'REAVS. W.SBIWITON BCr N. B. Cor. rnnjlcanta Me. and 14th St. Nair Tonic Bossiu , The ah i mnMlnic London Bcmu. ... 1. on. inn iimra st'nurr.irTiox terms Tha Etiiinii Prsno Lbpowi la a-rvM to nuh orlbtra tn Philadelphia unit aurronndln tnwm at th rata of tweha (12) cent per week paiable to tha carrier. By rnall to points ouMde of rhll1lnhla In tha United Statea Canada or I'nlted States pna alnrn, poatire tree fifty (SM rents rr month Six dnllara per year, pasiile In adianre To nil foretfn countries on (IP dollar per month. None Subscriber" wlhlnr iMIrMs chanced must Ela old as well as nerr address. BEL!.. S0 TTslM'T XFYJTONE. MAIV Soea C-T Addreii nil communications to Et 0tff Pkp'ic Ledger Independence Square, Philadelphia Member of the Associated Press THE ASSOCIATED MESS is etch, sively entitled to the i" far republication of all neics di'patchc credited to it nr tint othcrtcise credited in this paper, and aho the local nrirs ptthliihrd thcirw. All rights of lepublication of siifial dis patches herein are also tcteried. Philadelphia, alurda. Mat I" 111' NINE MILLIONS FOR THREE TF additional arguments vveic needed to convince the Lefrislature of the need for changing the present fiscal svstcm of the city they would be furnished by the proposed $14,750,000 municipal loan bill just approved by Councils. More than a fifth of this sum is to pay for items which ouprht to be covered by current revenue. They include repairs to stiects, fire houses and police stations and mandamuses like those issued to pay salaries in the Municipal Court, over which Councils have no jurisdiction. t They would saddle a debt of some thtee million dollars on the taxpayers for fifty years, requiring nine million dollars eventually to liquidate interest and amor tization charges. What -ould any business man say about n lailroad board which sought a fifty-year bond issue to pay for coal con sumed in firing locomotives or of a mer chant who capitalized a debt for mer chandise stock in such a way? Yet that is comparatively the same resort as the councilmanic financiers are forced willy nilly to adopt under the present anti quated system. The worst of it is that such a condition is entirely unnecessary in a city so well off as this. We have plenty of money to pay our debts, but we don't properly man age. The charter-revision plan would do the trick. Isn't it high time for a change in this doddering, mossback, penny-in-a-pig-bank policy? AN ARMY WITH BANNERS IITE DO not suppose that the t eighty "' thousand shipworkets who parade today expect that the Delawaie rivet shipyards will continue to be as busy in peace times as they have been in war times. They are too intelligent and too rea sonable to expect any such thing. It is not unreasonable, however, for them and for the rest of us to expect that Congress will take such action as will keep the shipyards busy for long years in the future. The nation wishes the levival of its merchant marine. It cannot be revived without the co-operation of Congress. Men difTer about what Congress should do, but they do not differ on the necessity of action of some kind. The men parading today are piimarily i interested in keeping at work in their present jobs. By marching with bands and banners setting forth their wishes they have adopted a plan which will im press Congress with the uigent nature of the pioblem before it. AN IMPORTANT ANNIVERSARY fpHE big parade was not the only thing that made Thursday noteworthy. It was the first anniversary of the estab lishment of the air-mail service between New Y'oik and Philadelphia and Wash ington. In the twelve months the planes tiav cled 128,037 miles and carried 7,720,840 letters at a cost of $137,900.00. The bald statement gives all the set ting needed for a great world achieve ment. A year fiom now tegular trans atlantic trips may hap become just as co.mmonplace. A MISTAKEN LABOR PLAN TF IT had been possiblp to consult Ter rence V. Powderly it is not likely that the convention of the Pennsylvania Fed eration of Labor would have adopted a resolution calling for the creation of a labor party. Powdeily could have told the delegates what happens to a gieat Jabor organization when it meddles with "'"""': . The .Knights or Labor, of which Pow derly was long the head, was organ ized by some Philadelphia tailors about fifty years ago. The association grew until it had a million members and its leaders began to think of the political possibilities that lay in swinging the votes of so many men. They did their beat to develop the feeling of class con sciousness and to arraign the members of their organization against their em ployers. They tied themselves up with the Farmers' Alliance and tried to unite the farmers and the mechanics. They discoyered that the politicaLopln ions of mechanics varies as widely as the Apolitical opinions of church members and that it is as hopeless to create a solid labor block as everybody knows it is to nere'ato so"d church-member political 'jblck, American society is not fixed in : y Mftologfcal or sociological strata. The jtights- of Labor began to lose their Membership and their influence as soon jMl-thotr leaders- attempted to make the ga&iMUon a political party, iabor :f uecn, u sir cu)K. ii-sj X 1 vL, n through and on the existent political parties. Theie are Republican machinists and Democratic machinists and Socialist ma chinists, and theie aie members of all parties working as carpenters and brick layers and tailors and printers and stoel rolleis. They are Americans first of all, which mrans that they believe that one man is as good as any other man, and that it is as wrong to organize a party of laboring men' exclusively as to organize a party exclusively of lawyers, or clergy men, or millionaiics, or rcJ-haircd men, or men with warts on their noses. The present active leaders of the state federation may succeed in creating the shell of a labor paity, but unless all precedents fail their attempt will either disiupt the .fedciation or tht. plan will be snapped befoie it goes much further. CAMDEN BRIDGE WILL LINK SHORES OF 'ALL-PHILADELPHIA' Merger of Interests in Huge Population Center, subordinating State Line, Must Be Served by Span ALL Philadelphia was so deeply intcr- e;ted in Thuisday's stirring spectacle that more than 220,000 persons crossed over from New Jeisey. No apparent, yet fallacious, paradox halted thorn. Despite what the maps and the Legislatures and the state constitutions and the census maj say, they journeyed by an all-Philadelphia loute. They came because they wanted vpiy intensely to shate in the big times in their home community. Animated by similar feelings were the ciowds from Tienton, Bristol, Wilming ton anj Chester. Emphatic denials would hae been the reward of any one ventur ing to tell them that the pageant was not their concern. County lines, munici pal boundaries, didn't check them for a moment. Thoy weie paiticipants in the big show wild eager to make that fact perfectly clear. That it L not equally evident on days undedicated to cat nival is due to a habit of thinking, entailing excess of lespect for imaginary lines. The attribute of tealism is claimed for political map.--, but, in truth, they are often deeply delu sive. New York has long known this, and that explains how it is that so many self-confessed New Yorkers sit down to their home dinner tables in .Jersey City, Communipaw, Hackensack, Plainfield, Metuchen, Rahway and the Changes. They are the sort of New Yorkers who voted for or against Walter E. Edge as governor of New Jeisey. And it is not mendacity but vision with which logi cally they may be charged. Their indus trial, economic and social reckoning is made in truly metropolitan terms, the terms which distinguish between admin istrative anil commercial frontiers. The leal New York is a huge popula tion center sweeping across state Loun dary lines, under and over rivers, and describing a wide ciicle around the city hall on Manhattan Island. l'hiladelphians should learn how to draw their own impressive radius. Cam denites, Bristolites, Chcsterites have no more warrant to fear it than they did last Thursday. Local pride, state sover eignty and such matteis aie altogether untouched by it. Pi ogress, howevei, is affected most potently. The spur to ma terial development which may come of considering Philadelphia as a great homo geneous community of some five million souls is incalculable. Conservatives, with which this legion is still thickly peopled, may dismiss alarms. There is not the slightest obli gation upon them to stretch population figures after the much-derided western fashion. The facts exhibitivp of this magnificent dynamo of industry, com merce and wealth aie incontestable. It is genuine self-recognition quite another thing from shallow boasting which lags. But appieciation of what this Phila delphia community means will, in pait, be ineffective unlcss it prompts also an assessment of our diawbacks and the energy to efface them. Among these unquestionably one of the foremost is the Delaware river, that boon to sea borne tiade and, at the .-ame time, that bairier to the due fusion of interests be tween "Philadelphians" of the states of eastern Pennsylvania and westein New Jersey. It was ferryboats that brought resi dents of Camden to the city of the Cen tennial in 1870. It was ferryboats which carried the raptuious 220,000 persons heie to see the Iron Division which re flected such abiding glory upon this com munity forty-three yea is later. The tevelation of this allegiance to antiquated methods is not comforting. The Delaware at Philadelphia is neither the widest of rivers nor the most diffi cult to bridge. The best we can sa.v for our tardiness is that rectification is in sight. Speed the dav ! Relative to the upppr river, commend able action was taken by Governor Sproul this week when he signed the bill freeing passage across all bridges between Penn sylvania and New Jersey of toll charges. The acquisition by the two states and the maintenance of the spans will be joint. This coincidence of political and com mercial inteiests is fitting. Such re gional development as is now in pi ogress north of Tienton on both sides of the river will be inevitably stimulated by this removal of archaic restrictions. But a bridge with a toll can be readily model nized. A toll without a bridge is an obstruction of another hue. It is from sue!, a handicap that this bustling metro politan community is suffering. Our neighbor state lost little time in lealizing this when once the Camden bridge proposal took definite shape. The Legislature in Trenton has already passed upon the preliminary piogram, and a half-million dollars for the com mencement of plans on the east bank of the Delaware has been appropriated. Meeting significantly enough in Philadelphia the other night the Camden real estate board reproved this city for its apathy and urged the prompt passage of legislation on behalf of the span. It is high time Harrisburg were stirring and that the pending bridge bills were turned Intn nrrwluctlve ennetrrients. . Oi,U tjfelrruent cmL f-Qf firmly establishing the conviction that the cities and towns of the great Philadelphia dis trict compose an industrial and commer cial Unit thq bridge must be one. of the most powerful. The surcease from fcriy charges and the immeasurable convenience of trans portation without change between this city and Camden will be superlatively gratifying. But, in addition to these potent material gains, there is a psychic aspect to the work more vnluablo than tons of documentary testimony as to the intrinsic solidarity of this populous do main. A bridge will compel the inhabi tants of this region to think straight. The blow to medievalism, surviving from the days when neighbor cities re garded themselves both ns self-sufficient and as natural enemies, will be final. The old wars between municipalities so near together, for instance, as Pisa and Florence, seem almost ludicious now and scarcely comprehensible. The claims of co-opeiation's virtues appear incontro vertibly valid. Yet in a different form, but based Upon the same false premise, is the fallacy that the thriving towns in this vicinity are to some extent rivals lather than partners. "Annexation" plans have noth ing to do with' the question. Perhnps Philadelphia county needs an extension of boundary lines. The subject is com plex and will, in the course of time, work itself out just as did the consolidation plan of 1854. But the necessity- for union in the broader and even more significant sense is simple. Any sti anger could easily sense the fact that the Delavvnte river community is homogeneous. It is the home folks who require illumination. The bridge will cast the requisite efful gence almost befoie we aie aware of the spiiitual change. Thinking in foimulas of partnership may have certain piquant lesults, but they will be haimless ntul amusing, lather than subversive of the prime accomplishment. Nobody leally minds if the commuter fiom Nevvaik calls himself a New Yoiker. It merely accentuates the majesty and comprehensiveness of that first popula tion and industrial center of the union. Philadelphia is the handiest name in use heie. "Philadelphians" from Chester or Camden would have a warrantable title. The bridge will demolish many other things besides the Wenonah and Bevcily. And in the near futuie in which the span must be flung across the Dela ware, let it be said of carnival-seeking "Philadelphians" from another state that they merelv walked up the street to see the show. HEROISM AND MODESTY HERO is a soldier who has been found out. A Modesty is one's ability to conceal one's own opinion of oneself.. We are as pleakod to- find a heio as we are to find an honest man. Both are as common as the occasions that give them proof. "The hcioes" we read of in the public prints "were as modest as heroes usually are." Bless their hearts, that's the way we want 'em! But why should they be otherwise? Their deeds speak for them. The things they did aie the dandiest, little press agents that ever happened. A star baseball player doesn't have to biag but did you ever notice any modest reticence about a golf player who has gone ovei the course by his little lone some? Philadelphia k glad Honor tn to do honor to Sir ratlirr of Idea ltolmi t Itadcn-Povvoll. the founder of the Boy Senilis, who viMtr-d this lit yesteiduy nml tpvii'wtrt the incnnii'ntioiis for vvliiih lip is H'poniMi. It may jet lie ilPinonstratril tn the i-ati-fih linn nf the free nations that the iileii he developed is the happ.v medium be tween soft inactivity and niilitnrKni that will Keep the wnrhl safe for ileinm tin . The bo.vs nf the lOSth Small lint I'lelil Artillety are to Select l'art ! given un nffieial vvcliunip by Philadel-. phia a week hence. It is pleasing tn note that the fug that delayed the Peerless was not Mithriently thick to put n damper on I'piiusvlvaiiia'x eiitlitisiiiMw. But it was "a bit thhk" at that. The petition of uis lt's He rharltable turns rnllectnr. sur- ve.vnrs nml appraisers that the be placed on a permanent hn.is under the inil serviie tegiilntions has, nf tnili-e, nothing tn do with an desire tn keep the pibs they have, but is based entiiely on the wi-h that tlie public service should be permanently improved. Scheidemanu might .Move to Consider stop to innsiiler that 'the nppalling condi tion tiermaiiy is plated in hv the peine con ditions" is less nppalling than the position Finnic was pliued in by vvnr conditions pie cipltnted b Cirrmun. Life for the transatlantic alr-ttipper h just one postponement after another. Help's hoping that the men of the Tmn Division won't lust before the get good jobs. C.ernmiix lind gienter hopes in the Hin deiibuiK line than the have in the dotted one. ' ( hit own Mrs Mixing opines that "them there Herman propagandeis is principally geese." The people who pity the fiddlers three are comcrneil to observe that Old King Coal is losing weight. Whether ou "view with alarm" or "point with pride," the lengue of nations is an eye-fillius picture. r.very demand for a new building for a community center is a tribute to the good work already accomplished. Thp new wife of the governor general of the Philippine Islands is a firm believer In the principle of self-determination. TJiere ia ntlll difference of opinion In high nWtcr oh fy whether the Bd$ntviKt void should: uq, icu or me uoisneyjst fevw ! mlflrvad-j, L....i . . ft. .-4.1 it j - c I jMSmzr ' . ' , twyjf"' & ' " - ' ' & x h , CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S ' LETTER Alba D. Johnson's Reminiscences at the Five o'clock Club Favorlts Words of Dlmner Deeb'er and Othert Godfrey 8. Mahn't Defense of Tobacco Washington, May 17. TXniIJ.13 Judge Isaac Johnson, of Delaware ''county, and William W, Mntos, of Svvnrthmorp, with the hacking of Governor Sproul, Attorney General Sthnffer and other ptomlnent men, have been arranging a tes timonial to Hninuel M. Vaiiclaln in appre ciation of' his services to the United States and her allies during the war, It is pleasing to note the tribute paid to the retiring presi dent of the Baldwin Locomotive WorksNAlba 11. Johnson, whom Mr. Vnuelain hns' been elected to succeed, by his associates of the Five o'clock Club of Philadelphia. It was late In the evening when Mr. Johnson arose to speak, hut what be had to say bi ought to instunt attention the distinguished guests who Iincl been enjoying the evening tinder the guidance of Dr. Ilobatt A. Hare, the club president. "It is the first day in forty -three .vents," said Mr. Johnson, "(tint I have been free fiom my duties in connection with the Baldwin Lorimntive Works," Then he told the interesting story of the father who had preceded him ns an entplojc of the Bald win Company. "After my father's death," he continued, "I summed up courage to ap pear in person before the late John II. Con verse to nk for the position of clerk. Mr. Converse looked me over and seemed to think I wns too big n boy for the job., I turned away sadly, when some one who knew my fnther said, 'That's Sam Johnson's boy,' wheieupoii Mr. Converse called me buck and said, 'We hate a vacnucy here which you mny fill.' " Mr. Johnson's recital of the development of the works during the next fort -three .vests constituted n thaptcr in the history nf Philadelphia whit It might bear pi intiiiR in full. It was a story of the city'R ndveitlsemenl throughout the world by one of its own institutions, like unto which no other in the United States may attain. As to the future. Mr. Johnson told tho Five o'Clockers he intended tn devote himself to is ic wmk, lcs exacting, perhaps, than that which had occupied the major portion of his life. rpm; Giitllrnn Club nf Washington has n -- tintionnl ipputation because of the celeb lit of the guests it is better able to gather about its botiid than any other dining ilub of the kind. Its dinners are much like those of the Clover and l'ivc o'clock Clubs of Philadelphia. Its proceedings, however, have become muih inore formal than those of the Philadelphia organizations. As -with ojher famous dining dubs, almost everything de pends upon the adaptability of the presiding ((nicer. The Clover Club gained its high rep utation for wit largely through the excep tional versatility of Moses P. Handy, who wns as well known in Washington as he wns in Philadelphia. Two other presidents have helped to sustnin the Clover Club's reputa tion, the late Colonel Alexander K. MeClurc and the present president, the cfTervcscent ex-(!ovcrnor William M. Itunn. The Five o'Cloek Club early adopted the rule of chang ing piesidents annually, but it had some re markably able ones, including Henry J. Mc (iliilhy. James Pollock, tieorge S. Graham, James M. Heck and the late Mayor Charles V. Wnrwirk. Hut this year, partly because the wur upset the festivities of the club, Dr. llnbntt A. Hare wns re-elected president. In Dnilnr Hare the club has made n find. He is widely informed nml knows public men. His introductions nre tpiick, sharp and grace ful, nnd he has proved himself to be nn ex ceptionally dexterous buffer for thp shafts , of wit that sometimes shoot ihnirward from ever side o the board. SHOUT speeches by famous men: "Mny 1 not." says President Wilson in his mes sage to Congress. "He that as it may." says Judge Dimner Heeber. addressing his col leagues of the rive o'clock Club. "We want liberty, but libeity regulated by law," says ex-(iovernor Kdvvin S. Stuart, now presi dent nf the t'ninn League. "And we shall stand shoulder to shoulder," says General Wendell P. Howman, addressing his erst while comrades of the National Guard of Pcnnlvauin, T71IMDAY. Mny 10, wns n big day in the life -- of Colonel Jacob K. Hyneman, who has been fighting for years tn obtain recognition on the t;ett.vshurg battlefield for the I'nited States Veteran SignHl Corps Association. Civil War Division. Colonel Jake hns told the torj to so many members of Congress in Washington that no one can forget the hemic seniles tendered by these advance agents of viitory in the struggles of the Civil War. Theie are mighty few of the signal (nips left, but the survivors at last achieved on their own account a tablet on Little Hound Top which will be a lasting memorial of the gallant services they ren dered to their conutry. Colonel Edward H. Hitskell, of Boston, was chairman of tht (iett.vsbuig memorial committee, of which Colonel H.vnetnan wns a member. Dr. Fred W. Owen, of Morristown, X. J., is n vice president of the association. The late Su perior Court Judge John J. Wickhitm, of Itenver. a fuend of Senator" Quay, would have ginned in the triumph of the signal corps sin v Ivors had he been privileged to be with tbem, for he was one of them, rnlll" California lady who condemned the -- use of tobnico in thyme has drawn the poetic tire of (iodfre.v S. Malm nnd Hlanche II. Cook nnd several other Philadelphians, who me im lined to tell "Miss California" to "go way baik nnd sit down." Sir. Mahn hits written n few lines "to the Lady Fair," which need not be repeated here, In which, ncionling to rules which did not govern with Homer or Shakespentp. he asks if the lady bud a father like his father, "who smoked for eighty years and never had a doctor to alleviate his fears." Mr. Mnnn further ob serves that he has smoked for "nigh on to sixty car and is still here." Miss Cook also tomes to the rescue with n challenge' to the California lady. She thinks It was tobacco "thill cheered our boys in France," and then blandly calls the California lady In this wise: "What was their solace, I will ask, us side b side they fought V" and then a little fur ther on. "It was tobacco, they will say, to. bacco cheered us till the way." Evidently the soldier boys addicted to the habit are not without their supporters. mllE Philadelphia bar as well as the news- paper fraternity have missed the cheerful countenance of Joseph H. Wilson, of Shavr moiit, for a number of months past. The cat Is now out of the bag. Joseph has picked up some big clients in the Southwest and is lo. inted at Albunuerqtie, X. M. A cheerful bit of Information that comes along in connec tion with the aggressive young Philadel phia who is also remembered at Seaside Park, is that his daughter, Miss Cora Brians llawkes. Is to be wedded to Horace T. Greenwood, Jr., on May 20 at Albuquerque. After lecturing by wireless to the In stitute of Electrical Engineers in London whllo SOOO feet In the sir, a British aviator announced at last tlint he vvas "fed up" and i . '. . .--- .-.r- - .v Mf . V..DV uk hum rang pb. ifli? appears jo oe a case of high iiiu.:;.! -....I !.( lll- I , "" "NOW, DON'T SPEND ALL YOUR TIME WITH THE HAMMER!" J,.'jrij-J'-"'-'''J?''!,i"','''t'1r-'t-.(l'V '"!)'" ' WctyC-"t,'',--y.!i .iM"1"- '.-.u.-.i'' '" JjjitS. v ' THE CHAFFING DISH rnilEIUl will bo no need for John Harley--1- corn to powder his nose after July 1. The man who bought two or more Victory Notes at a time has a perfect right to call himself a syncopatriot. The Eloquent Ampersand When Hrockclorff-Hantzau .writes a note to Clemenceati he ends it thus: Accept, Sir, the assuiancc of my highest esteem. And when Clemencenu replies, lie writes: Accept, Sir, ic. We know perfectly well thnt the coneet name for thosp round life-preserver shaped pastries is "doughnuts." AVhy is it, then, thnt whenever wo wnnl to buy one a fit of cowardice seizes us and we ask the girl for "crullers"? , Does the proud heart of woman ever lankle a little at the remark, repeated every waim day at this season, that now is the time to get her furs out of storage? The Hurley-Burley Philadelphia has caught the parade habit. The shipworkers today, and as the Peerless is no longer pierless, we are hoping to see the "Old Second" on the marcli befoie long. Biography of a Rural Draftee Diafled man fiom upstate county sellj army oveicoat to buy pair of civilian shoes. News Item. ' Hick Hike ' Hock Lines in Exhortation Are you patiently attempting as the poets hint you should To do the little homely tasks, the work of common days? Are you trying to be helpful, and perform some humble good? Are you asking when the faithful little plodder gets a raise? The Boss, who's not promoting you, Perhaps is merely goattug ou a By quoting you some tripe about how patience gets the pejf : But do not let that twaddle Sink too far into your noddle. For there is no Boss nor fJod'll Lift a finger to enrich you 'till you ask it for yourself ', For it's not the little trivial things that hap pen day by day. The homely, humble, helpful tasks we hear so much about 11 isn't all these picayunes thnt matter, let me say : It's the BIG things Bosses look for when the plums are counted out. Just study heavy hauling, for That's what the times am calling for: By fnlling for the miuor stuff you show yourself a simp. If you don't want to get sacked or Trudge along like some old tractor Whv not be a real factor? Why not take a chance and make a hop nnd try to be n Blimp? STRAWBERRY. SHOUTCAKE. . A gill delegate at the eonrentiqn nf the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks in Cincinnati has protested vigorously agalnat the use of the term "brotherhood" for organizations that hare feminine members. We also hare been up agalnat this problem nnd have solved it to our satisfaction. The long-mooted organization of Chaffing Dish contributors i to be known as the ITuman hood of Chaffing Dlth Veterans. In re iponse to many inquiries we wish to pro inulgate the news that no pension! will be paid until after thirty years of active service. . Human beings are of two classes. There are those who, wncn tuey nave 10 wan in me crowd at the back of a movie theatre until there are vacant seats, eagerly crane their necks to see the last of the speeding film. And there are the others who resolutely avert their eyes, so aa not to spoil tho effect of the picture wnen inry--u ru n cumc, u i. .... ..M.,B,,alttf aelfvpAnrrntlftfl miwt 41, 1W all uimau(v j, 7 -,-w.-.. - .v,.v w m n nm r, .vwir . ,,, jc un. ianuuaaHK I ' "" 1"" T";' .-'" . S v . .V" - wwmmsNZ crisis on the screen. The movie.s are mnking lip-renders of us all, and after any brief dramatic utterance on the part of William S. 'Hart or Dorothy Gish one can hear a hundred people in all parts of the house ex plaining just what the remark was. The other evening we saw a movie of Mr. Daniels meeting the famous French leader, General Mangin, somewhere along the Ithiqe. Poor Josephus bad a savage time. Plainly he had no French, and it looked ns though Mnugin had no English. They shook hands. First Josephus took Mangin's right hand nnd they both smiled radiantly nt each other, Then some one must have told them to face the camera, for they skipped around amiably. Mangln then took both of .Tosephus's hahds and bowed low with great grace. Josephus got stage fright. Two or three times he leaned in mute agony toward the French general as though yearning to say something. His face vvas contorted with un expressed friendliness. Oeneral Slangin's eloquent features blossomed into a whimsical grin. Josephus was in torment. His lips trembled as though he was about to cry mis erably Parley voo French t He totteied hopelessly. We thought he was about to make tho supreme sacrifice and embrace his ally, when the film vvas cut off. The correct- tax on two fifteen-cent ice cream sodas is three cents and npt four, but a lot of fountains don't seem to know it. Collector Lederer informs the thirsting public that "ice-cream sodas sold in buckets for home consumption" are exempt from the tax. hich gives us 'a good excuse for putting a long-standing ambition into practice. ' President Wilson's message to Congress will be "only a few hundred words," but we fear that many of those present will not follow his example. Some of the Hunvoys at Versailles seem to think that that gathering was planned simply to provide them with a certain num ber of free meals. The navy's big blimp broke from its moor ings in Newfoundland. And from what we hear a number of usually dirigible human brings intend to do the same on the night of June 30. Emulation My father keeps how high we are All marked up on the door; Mn says it isn't pretty. And calls it an "eyesore." He holds an old cigar box Close down upon your head, And then you stoop from under, while He marks a line in lead. It's great fun to be measured, Much more than-to be weighed. I've got a whole lot taller Than when this dress was made. Sister's getting fatter. She likes, the scales the best. Because the is the heaviest And always beats the rest. She says thrway I'm tallest Is I stand upon my toes. But father says that's cheating. And I don't! and father knows! BESSIE GUAHAM'S FBIK.N'D. Desk Mottoes When 1 reflect upon the' number of dis agreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lend a different life. ' MABK TWAIN. "Tips grew to $70,000," was the headline over a story in yesterday's papers concern ing the death of a hotel employe at a seaside hostelry. No one was surprised, except those who read further and learned that the tips were of the stock-market bort. A new weekly magazine has been started In New York, op account of what the editors cnl "tho mapifest. need of a journal that shall represent tho more sober thought of the nation. " Its circulation ought to rite rapidly about tae -a oui'ij, , , H THE BONE OF CONTENTION "DDFORE the bnr Von Bantznu stands - And trembles lit Allied demands Thnt he deliver to their hands The skull of the Stiltnn Okvvnwa. "You stole the skull ! You know you did I You must, you .shall do ns .voti're bid! Tell us at once where you have hid The skull of the Sultan Okvvawn." A score of nations sit in s'nte Allied and those Associate And fourteen tedious wc5ks debate The skull of the Sultan Okwawa. Serbia to Serbs they can't refuse, Dnuzig to Poles, Jerusalem to Jews, But Britain's ruler can but choosp The skull of the Sultan Okvvnwn. ' Whence come these cries that rend the, air?' AVhat mean these mutters of despair? "J'is (Jeorgo the Fifth who won't forswear The skull of the Stiltnn Okwawa. Is it tn be Ills drinking cup That he mny sit and vengeance suit? , , Why can't he, wou't he give it Up. The skull of the Sultan Okwawa? Though Wilson's peace terms were fourteen,. Among them this was never seen ; V Yrt now we lenrn our aim hits been The skull of the Sultan Okvvawn. ' i Itnlinns, French, (Veciin-Slnvnks, Bengalis, Negroes, Yanks, Anziics. All fought and bled, both white nnd blarksy For the skull nf thp Sultim Oknnvvii. ' Edwin E. Slosson, in the New York Sun. .' What Do You Know? QUIZ Who is chairman of the United States shipping board? ' What is n grangerized book? When did . Cabot discover North; America? -, , . What syllabic Is accented in the word ; Trepnssey? Who was Herman Melville? Mf What Is a pniavane? l By what name Is the jack in cards '1 usually known in hngluud? What is the emblem of the city ef v emce .' AVhat is a monsoon? t What is misprision;' I Answers to Yesterday's Quir" Karl Bciincr Is chancellor of Austria, i raraclete: an advocate; one called to' aid or support ; hence the Consoler, -lj Comforter or Intercessor; a term ap- '' plied to the Holy Spirit, f Shortly before the dirigible C-5 reached' Newfoundland it was Sighted from St; Plorrc-Miqtielou, tho only French pos-i.-' session in North American waters, --f Guinea pig is n misnomer. Guinea !', u blunder for Guiana and furthermore, the animal is not a pig but a rodent. (V A claicuce l,s a close, four-wheeled cor-'? riage, with seats for four persons' In. ( c, side and a seat outside for the driver.' it w us milieu uuei inc uimc ol uiar- 'The Mississippi bubble was a scheme projected by John Law, a Scotchman, ' and had for its object the payment ,of H$ the national ueoi or trance, which amounted to 208.000.000 nounds uteri' ling, on being granted the excuaive-i ln J nf 1 nitlolnna .i? St. George, the patron saint of England, according to the legend, slew in lAbjnft, a nioeous uragon wnose uauy joou was' a malum, jvj Consols: iiritisn mimic securities; ami. abbreviation of "consolidated" deb.tf' all the national obligations having beeuv? massed. j v j John Doe : the fictitious plaintiff, orig la jr illy in ejectment suits, later In'othtuni i legal proceedings, the defendant Utt..,? l!nln(1 If AaV . - jr .i . ' '10; T SMf'9BL'WbrrlB,WliI.. bV-Uu Uw'Led (. ' m "VMmaUKXMv&.fr-' STfa, ,y$jKKi:u,!i. ?..,.. ?M4&tt. '?J&P.i , . '..V -' A Lr . ...-- mrt 1 s . . ... ."sr.
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