3BB23Q EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHlLADliJLPHIAf FRIDAY, ' MAY 23, 1919 " - : I Hf tig m. - 'Euening Vubltc Hedge i THE EVENING TELEGHAFH PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY CTRUB If. K. CURTIS. Pamina.NT . . Charles It. t.udlnrtcn. Vice President: John C. Martin, Secretary and Treasurer! Philip S. Collins. Jphn B. Williams. John J. Bpureeon. Dlrertora. editorial board: Clans If. K. Ccmis. Chairman DAVID E. SMILET .Editor JOHN C. MARTIN. General Dullness Slanare- Published dally at Pcblic I.tnasa Ilulldinr. Independence. Square. Philadelphia ATtiSTio Citr PiTM-fiiloii Bulldlnr Vw Ycibk 20(1 .Metropolitan Toner DrraoiT . Tol rord rmllrlltic ST. Lotu... . .. tons Fullerton UtilMInc CmclQO 1302 Inbune HullcJInt news bcreu's: WiiHtxqTON ncir. , ........ N E. Tor. Pennvhanla Me. and 14th St. New Tosk flcaitiu The Sun rtulMlnr I.O.NPON BCMau London 7 linn SUBSCRIPTION TERMS g The Erixivo Prstio Leikiir Is served to sub scriber! 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In the case of the Walker parole bill, which was recently tiptoed through both house- at Harrisburg, the matter as well as the manner is seriously questionable. The bill provides that any judge may parole a convict sentenced after June 30, 1911, after he shall have served one third of his sentence. Here is a most dangerous agency for vitiating justice. The present good-conduct regulations effectively assure prisoners a square deal. The proposed sweeping extension of paroling privileges not only carries mawkish sentimentality to a nauseous extreme, but it actually impugns the validity of court proceedings. Just penal ties imposed by the judges will be mere hams if the opportunity of curtailment Is afterward to be made so easy. The Board of Pardons is fully equal to considering the cases of well-behaved convicts. Much of its functioning will be superfluous and, as District Attorney Rotan puts it, the state will be threat ened by a general jail delivery if Gov ernor Sproul signs the bill. The gravest reasons exist for staying his hand. Oblivion should be the sequel of this measure's quiet but insidious life. WILSON IN 1913 AND 1919 TT IS less than six years since the r American Telephone and Telegraph Company, under threat of prosecution by the government, agreed to sell its entire holdings of stock in the Western Union Telegraph Company, bought with a view to the consolidation of the lines of the two corporations. Woodrow Wilson on December 19, 1913, in a letter to J. C. McReynolds, then the attorney general, wrote: "It is very gratifying that the company should thus volunteer to adjust its business to the conditions of competition." The same Woodrow Wilson, in a mes age to Congress, read to that body on May 20, 1919, five years, five months and one day after the letter to Mr. McReynolds, said: "In the case of the telegraph and telephone lines it is clearly desirable, in the public interest, that some legislation should be considered which may tend to make of these indis pensable instrumentalities of our modern life a uniform and co-ordinated system." It was to create "a uniform and co-ordinated system" that the American Telephone and Telegraph Company bought a controlling interest in the West etn UnioR Telegraph Company. The desirability of such co-ordination was manifest when the consolidation of the two corporations was planned. ' The President might have recom mended a modification of the law in 1913 when Congress was in control of his own party. It is charitable to assume that he has learned something in the interven ing years and that he is not now recom mending to a Republican Congress a course of action which he wished his own party to avoid for fear of being charged with friendliness to big corporations. CITIES AS LANDLORDS pHILADELPHIANS who for one rea- son or another find it inconvenient to buy homes now and prefer to continue renting will be interested in the bill in troduced at Harrisburg by Senator W. W. Mearkle, of Pittsburgh. Taking cognizance of the fact that be cause we were too busy doing other things during the war to build and that many cities, as a consequence, are facing , serious problems, the bill permits mu nicipalities to build houses and apart ments and to become landlords on a large scale. As an expedient, the measure may be justified. Departure from piecedent was frequently necessary while war waged, and such a necessity may exist during the present period of leconstruction. But it would seem, on the face of it, t that if the municipality caR make such a 7, veRture profitable an individual builder t, might do the same thing. If the obieo- '..f' tioR is Jack of credit there mieht be vir. i" tue in the plaR adopted iR New York, i" wncre corporauoRs nave coRseRted to vf. lend builders up to 60 per ceRt of the THE MORNING CUP . ! XkfAR may have, opened our soula to a ' new idealism, broadened our minds k t new patriotism and sharpened our ifroceryman declares, it has assuredly blunted our tasto for good coffee. '-' It ws wara running mate, old H. C. ji. that wa-5 directly responsible; and ' JtA'tf'ftlried and abetted by a queer kinkJ i wiur?,ji, tflttttwrw Mve tfteir has increased only about five or five and n half cents a pound, while the cost of inferior coffee has increased thirteen and a half cents, said thirteen and a half qents bringing the price of the inferior grade up to the price of the best coffee in pre-war days. And the kink referred to is evidenced by the fact that the inferior coffee is being purchased at the prices the pur chaser paid for good coffee before the war, while the good coffee, formerly favored, is now permitted to lie on the grocers' shelves. One looks heie for the logical working out of the law of supply and demand, which will call for a reduction in the price of good coffee to a figure at which it caiV be sold. This, presuming that the pur chasers will pay no more than they are already paying for inferior coffee, will straightway causes the inferior coffee to be ignored and Oh, well, please hand us another cup with p'onty of sugar and n little cream! BUILDING SEWERS BETTER THAN BUILDING FACTIONS It Would Be a Fatal Mistake to Hold Up the Items of the Proposed Loan for Permanent Public Improvements rpHL' fact that certain members of Coun-- cils are planning to combine to pre vent the necc-saiy two-thirds vote for the loan for city improements is regret table. Charles H. Von Tagen, their leader, announces that all but three or four of them have pledged themselves to vote against the loan at this time, and that these three or four will fall in line. What justification is offered foi; taking such a course? Certainly not that there is no pressing need for new main and branch sewers and for new water mains, for which a considerable part of the money to be borrowed is to be used. Two reasons are set forth by Mr. Von Tagen. One is that the present city ad ministration cannot be trusted to spend the money properly and the other is that if the money is appropriated now none will be left for the use of the Mayor and Council to be elected under the new char ter, as "favored contiactors" will be en gaged in doing work which will nbsoib all the available resources. Public improvements should not be held up indefinitely for fear some one may make money dishonestly out of them. If the voters, aroused to a new interest in efficient government by the charter-revision discussion, shall elect the kind of a Mayor and Council which we all hope will be elected then it does not make any difference who has the contracts. The work will not be com pleted for many months. After the be ginning of the year the enforcement of the terms of the contracts "ill rest with the new administration. The contracts for permanent improve ments ought to be let as soon as. possible. Such work has been held up by the war and the city is suffering for lack of the things which it has not been able to do. The exigencies of the housing situation alone are sufficient to justify the letting of contracts for sewers and water mains at the earliest possible moment. There are hundreds of new houses now awaiting the completion of the sewers in the streets. Theie are said to be only 3600 vacant lots in sewered streets at the present time, and the city needs 20,000 new houses. Builders will not begin operations unless they have some assur ance that the sewers will be laid when they are needed. The sanitary conditions in many little streets are disgraceful because the streets are not sewered. Those condi tions cannot be changed until money is available for laying the sewers and pav ing the streets. The church women who have been de manding that Director Krusen, of the Health Department, order the connec tion of these houses with the sewers know that he cannot do so until the money is appropriated and the sewers are laid. This work can begin in the imme diate future if the loan ordinance is ap proved. If action is delayed the situation next summer will be as bad as it will be this summer. The surest way to hamstring the next administration is to delay public improve ments, which have been postponed too long already, and to pile up for it an amount of work which it cannot very well do. And the surest way to help it is to go ahead with the work planned and thereby increase the assessed value of property in all those streets in which Rew sewers apd water mains are laid and create new assets to be used as the basis for new loans for further improvements. Every house built on a vacant lot creates new tax values and new loaR values. But this is so evideRt that it does Rot need to be argued. If the minority in Councils wishes to do a real public service it will concentrate its opposition on those sums in the pro posed loan that are to be used to pay current expenses which should be met by the annual tax levy. The practice of borrowing on long term bonds to meet current deficits is pernicious and cannot be abandoned too soon. The amount which it is proposed to borrow for this purpose should be ir cluded in the next tax levy, so that the deficits can be wiped out. Then when the revised charter, with its budget system, comes into effect the city can start even. And the new system made effective by the Rew charter will preveRt the accumulation of deficits in the future. Everybody agrees in theory that we ought to pay as we go. No serious objec tioR has beeR raised to the priRciple of the budget plaR proposed 1r the charter revisioR. But the Legislature has Rot yet passed the law. The men Ir Harrisburg ought to be convinced that the sentiment of the city on this natter is virtually unani mous. It ougHt to be made evident that there is no factional disagreement affMt intr the application oi sound m 'S,s nrincioles to city nnance anu tna is-secking any selfish or private tage because of the adoption or rej oi Dm ropei-4jriri. . ' i ''' ' - plnns to hold up tho CRtirc loan or to delay for a day the resumption of that expansion of the city's public works which was checked to the inconvenience of hundreds of thousands of citizens by the inability to raise money and to hire men because of the concentration of all activities on winning the war. SHIPS AND THE MEN ONCE upon a time the only way a sailor could get a ship was to put himself into tho hands of some rascally boarding house keeper and permit himself to be sold, preferably while drunk. Life on the ocean wave was a hard life and the man before the mast had no rights that the master or the mate was bound to re spect. But in spite of all this the ships of the world never lnckcil for men. There is possibility that America may yet build the ships for a great merchant marine. Last week's parade of ship workers may have the effect desired on Congress. But the building of the ships does not insure the service. We need the men, and it is not yet certain that we ca.i get them. Nelson Collins, author of "The Mer chant Marine" and a former instructor at the University of Pennsylvania, points out this danger, gives a reason for it and suggests a remedy. He giieves over the fact that British, French, Italian, Span ish, Swedish and Norwegian civilian crews aic employed on ships of their na tionality transporting United States troops home, when the troops should properly be making the trips on Ameri can ships with American crews He notes that while Great Britain steadily kept to the fore the importance of a civilian merchant marine, the United States, in effect, depreciated it; and an inept naval training system caused many a good man to be lost to the sea because he feared the navy was going to main tain some kind of a hold on the men of the merchant service. And he suggests, along with the building of the ships, there should be built up a strong pride in them and in the men that will sail in them. That last means publicity. It was publicity that made the mer chant marine of England, even as it was publicity of the wrong kind that put a damper on American commerce in Ameri can bottoms. It was the stories of Captains Marryat and Mnync Reid that stirred the hearts of English boys and made them scent lomance in every wind-jamming lime juicer that lay up against the docks. The scents of spices from the Indies wooed them; and the odors of oakum, tar and bilge-water could not deter them. If they couldn't ship as cabin boys they stowed away. It was the easiest thing in the world. Any sailor on board would help them. And the captain who scolded them when discovered and the cook who made galley slaves of them immediately afterward alike found them not unwel come. On the other hand, who can say how much Dana's "Two Years Before the Mast" is responsible for the American boy's lack of interest in the sea? Today the seaman is a self-respecting man, who leceives fair treatment and has ready ledress for any wrongs inflicted upon him. He is well fed and well paid. Let our novelists, our poets, our dram atists, our song writers spread the news! They can do much for a successful Ameri can merchant marine. Germany's protest against Teutons Talk the trcnty is weakened by For Time the fact thnt ' present document is not incom patible with the fourteen points; and with the further fact (if such were needed) that a chief executive's powers are limited by the constitution and the present pence treaty is at leat no harsher than the peace nlv. ajs de-ircd and ndoeatcd by the American people as a whole. The resignation of Difference of Opinion the American ex Malies Horse Races perts because of op position to the peace treaty is cause for regret. It indicates dif ferences whero unanimity is desirable. But while their right to resign must be conceded, their action does not necessarily condemn the written instrument. The for; without a tail in But Other Foxes the fable figured that he Are too Wise would be less conspicuous if all other foxes were similarly denuded. The Russian Bolshevist fox, lacking the tail of Peace and Prosperity, is determined that the rest of the world shall be in the same class. After the Slain Guy has Like Father been disposed of by the Like Son High Contracting Parties' Trial Court it is pleasing to realize that the Vigilant Committee for the Placing of Responsibility will be fixing up a place for little Willie. And whatever form the The Roily and charter takes it will be the Soul secondary to the spirit the people put into it. A charter is only a charter, but a conscience is real reform. Formal recognition of I'roperly the Omsk government by Classified the allied powers is the help wanted to bring about the political situation wanted. Happily the Great American Hen never worries about what happens to her product, but goes right on laying. It must he admitted that President Wilson's position is given added embarrass ment by the request that he add Irish stew to the peace table menu. The T. W. C. A. election gives some slight hint of woman's capacity for and enjoyment of a political fight, but is no great augury that sweetness and light will walk hand in hand with universal suffrage. Among the most ancient of woman's rights is the right to pole fun nt her hus band and to show strenuous resentment when anjbody else does which, of course, justifies nil the speeches at the Philadelphia Mothers' Qlub. ---- The vote In the Ilouse of Representa tives Is merely one of many Indication.! that -eT-Jwaattufrw,.1" eventually mike it SF.LF-DETERMINATION The Great Principle at the Basis of Sovereignty Which the Framers of the American Constitution Discovered , To the Editor of the Evintbg .PuUlc Ledger: Sir If we arc to neccpt the league of na tions as n provisional government nnd then tnkc measures to prepare for a real nnd dem ocratic international government, one may very properly search for the most Important problems to be sotted. I would like to pre sent what I conceive to be, by all odds, the most important one. ' In all of thnt great movement of the last century nnd a quarter, in which the world has come more nnd more to single out the United States as the great exemplar and model of democracy, probably 1)0 per cent of thoso who have considered the subject have at tributed those democratic virtues of our gov ernment to its form. 1 can conceit e of no need so great in Amer ican legnl education ns a course, handled by n political scientist who has studied law, showing the legal and political cleavage in legnl classic. For example, while Rlack stonc is a superb legal classic, it is the most vicious political textbook thnt has ever won n place in American legal education. Why, then, is RlneKstone n vicious politi cal textbook in the hands of an American law or when it is nlso his best legal classic? Jt was written after the Kiiglish revolution of 10SS, but befote 'he British colonial revo lution of 177(, otherwise known as the American Revolution. What wns that latter revolution? Separation from the mother country? Why, separation wns merely n by-product! No, she had n long political tutelage in living under the specified and im plied powers of rojnl nud proprietary char ters or constitutions, nnd in that school of political research she eo!ved a new political principle, namely, that original sovereignty is undivided nud lias its scat in the individual. In this they puWd far bcond the British principle of "coti'-ent of the governed," which grew out of n divided sovereignty, a crown on the one hand and n Parliament or Commons on the other; and in the Miguc feeling that the Commons ought to govern had to resort to the subterfuge of holding up the crown by refusal to vote money. Anier ica discovered' nnd adopted a fundamental political principle on which to build her political structure, while Great Britain, in heriting a compact like her common law ns n product of custom, retained the expediency unci opportunism that had i.hvj.vs character ized her political life. This is what Black stone voices ns u hj -product of n noble Brit ish classle, and this is why, in the hands of nil American law student, it becomes a vicious political textbook. The difference between the two peoples po litically, therefore, is not dissimilar to the difference morally between two individuals one of whom has adopted it rigid principle nnd the other nets upon expediency nud cus tom. It wns a perfectly nntural proceeding thnt "The Fourteen Points" should have been American and of the nature of a creed, with "self-determination" ns their cardinal point. It was the I nltcd States, not Mr. Wilson personally, who put forth "The Fourteen Points" ; he merely interpreted his country correctly. "Self-deterniinution" is a form of the" principle of individual sovereignty, nnd it is perfectly safe to say that tho Amer ican people will never take permanent part in any international union not based upon that principle. It is equally safe to say that international union will live with that prin ciple or die. The American, people will never go backward from it, nnd, will stand united with it or stand separately with it. That is why it is absolutely impossible for the Amer ican people to accept tho league of nations ns nn thing else but a temporary provisional go eminent. They will suddenly become nwnvo of the oligarchical character of tho executive council some day after the acute emergency is over and sweep it away in short order, ns far as their participation in it is concerned. This principle of the location of original soveieignty in the individual ij vast and fnr renching in its operation.. First it denies the assumption of sovereignty anywhere else as a natural crime; it is impossible for it to be located elsewhere, and its assumption, ex cept in temporary tutelage or crisis, is itself evidence of political crime. J he American who holds the principle may take the league of nations ns u provisional government or take the Philippines iu minority tutelage, but it must nvow the temporary nature of both. Then again, this principle makes govern mental forms according to natural develop ment, and so fits all possible conditions of growth. No state or nation, ns such, has anything but a secondary sovereignty, granted to it by its individuals, during their pleasure. The people of the world have original sov ereignty to make a world government in the field outside of the notional field and wholly different from it. a field in which a nation is competent, but in which a nation is imper tinent, just ns a state would be in the na tional field. So this great principle fits the world in all stages of its progress. Why should not Great Britain adopt this great principle? It is bound to bo recog nized ns the greatest fundamental principle of political science over all the world. There is no possibility of its not being so accepted. Under the form of "self-dcterminntion" it is sweeping over the world like a prairie fire al ready. To locate original sovereignty any where else is to make n part govern the 'whole, and then a part may be anything crown, upper classes, middle classes, lower classes, wealth, a church, a clique and the like, and all in impudent assumption all equnlly tyranny. The only hope of the world ngainst autocracy, aristocracy, classocracy, mobocraey, plutocracy or any of that brood of political devils is the reorganizatiqn of this great political principle. Bolshevism is the child of autocracy. And all of these monstrosities arc maggots in a rotten body politic, in which the pure blood of this great natural political principle loes not circulate. No permanent international government can be created except the peoples composing it adopt this principle. America will help put out the fire and help clean up the debris, with any one on any basis, but she will never countenance union of any permanence on any other principle than that of Individual sover eignty. To do so would be voluntary corrup tion of political blood. The English-speak ing peoples are America's na'.tral associates in any world movement, and it remains with them to say whether the absence of this great principle is to block the political prog ress of the world or not. If America has any mission in the world it is to aid in the recog nition of this great vital political principle among all mankind. And there will never be any compromise on it. From It came the Monroe Doctrine, both the original and the improved. From It came the Hay doctrine. From it come the doctrine til "entangling al liances," from which America will never deviate one hair's breadth until "alliances" become as extinct as the dodo, "Alliances" are the total reversal of individual sover eignty; the two are as uumlxable as oil and water. Therefore, wh)le we are engaged In putting out the lire and clearing away the debris with a provisional government "the league of notions" let us lay this ultimate foun dation solidly, for a future, real international goTertnuwtj. ..-.: &L. Noses ' FIND nothing so entertaining as " no: noses. Did you ever walk down the street keeping your gnze steadfastly ou the noses of tho populace? Try it sonic time, and be con vinced that the inscrutable sculptor of hu manity is n wng at heart. Or study your own neb in the mirror nnd ask yourself if ou ever saw nnj thing more humorous. There's nothing amusing about the nolo of a horse or a dog. These organs arc built for use and have the unassuming beauty of all useful things. But when it comes to man, nature seems to have had a wild idea of being ornamental as well as serviceable. Hence out woes. Beak noses, snub noses, powdered noses, pink noses, purplish noses, shiny noses rit is n quaint panorama. But we will admit that the noses of chil dren arc delightful. Nothing gives us more amusement than to watch the nose of the Urchin. When we give him his supper we cannot resist dabbing the spoonful of stewed prunes on his small, daintily beaded blob every now nud then. We find tin exquisite humor in the surprised gesture with which he'removes the thin adhesion of prune sirup nnd smiles ns though it were a huge joke. Study tho noses along Chestnut street and renew your faith in the complete ab surdity of man. Both Doing Well, We Trust Recent Tale graduate and Army In structor will serve In loco parentis after Hay first. Details upon inquiry. New Republic, Box 45. The New Republic. Literary Notes Clement Shorter, the well-known literary critic of the London Sphere, is in this coun try now. It is rumored that he has two reasons for wnnting to visit Philadelphia. These are A. Kdward Newton and Joe Hcr geshcimcr. The sum total of Philadelphia's literary reputation is the sum total of the reputations of Jier individual literary artists. Mr. Shorter, by the way, says that he "verily believes" that "Christopher and Columbus" is the best story about twins ever written. We have taken counsel with our sagacious friend thp Quizeditor on this subject, and have determined to ask Mr. Shorter to read De Morgan's "When Ghost Meets Ghost" and .Mark Twain.'s "Those Extraordinary Twins." Among well-known plays dealing with ins we recall "Twelfth Night," "The tw Comedy of Errors" and "Twin ueds." Our good friend the Camden Daily Courier speaks of Walt Whitman's old home on Mickle street as a "manse." In a good natured way, we submit that Walt would not have approved of this. A manse, as we understand it, is the abode of a parson, and therer was nothing ecclesiastic about frieud AValt. Even if our friend meant to say "mansion," we still think the term ill chosen.' According to the Camden Courier, tlie Whitman Park Improvement Association "is agitating the idea of purchasing the old horse-block on the sidewalk in front of the poet's home and Installing it on a granite pedestal in front of the handsome clubhouse at 1175' Whitman avenue, with elaborate ceremonies. In the sides of the marble block or granite pedestal it is proposed to chisel the names of the Whitman Park Improve ment Asso'ciation's founders and presidents, past and present. This idea Past President W. !' Bolzau regards as very1 fitting and also practical." There are three fitting ways that, we can think of to commemorate Walt's sojourn in these parts. One, is to name a ferryboat after him, Another irf to buy the Mickle te iuHwiy:,kise.;fc-bloek an-UKll.- ymmm'&mM&.v!& LINK BY LINK : s CONFETTI ' 1 1 TI 1 worthy bhrlne for Whitman pilgrims. And tho third, for which we have a special affec tion, would be to have a stuliic of AValt done by Tnit McKcnzio and pluccd some where down near the fcrryh'otises that he so loved to frequent. For this last scheme we would gladly start tho subscription with n hand-out of five bones whenever any re sponsible person comes nround to collect it. Sam Scovillo has written another of. his delightful books. It is called "The Out-of-Doors Club," aud kept us up lato the other evening when we had ought to of been in bed. We often wonder how Sam finds time to learn all these interesting thing3 about na ture, i i Rut there's another of Sam Scoville's books the sale of which we fear will shortly come to an end: "A Digest of the Liquor Laws of Pennsylvania for Temperance Workers." Preferential Tariff Sly brother is a boy, and ho Is vyorth two little girls like me. He can't do half the things I can, He has to wait to be a man. When we have candy, cake or pie, He can't eat half so much as I, 'Cause he's a boy, and boys are rare And have to have much better care. - When Slother says, "Not good for Boys," He never screams nnd makes a noise ; He thinks to be a Boy is more Than candy, cakes and pio galore. BESSIE GRAHAM'S FRIEND. Shad Rosa We had shad roe for supper the other night, Which the urchiness greeted with great de light. She ate three platefuls maybe four Then announced, "I can't eat any more. It tastes awful good, but mamma, you know, Those little round thjngs make my mouth tickle so, And all the way down I feel so unsteady, " And my tummy is having hysterics already." SUB ROSA. Office Reveries By a window I never can open, That looks bn a green little square, I dream in the midst of my adding, As I scent n strny whiff of spring air, How I'd like to dive through that closed window (These thoughts will steal In on'the breeze), I'll run the whole length of the office, And sail bead first into the trees, As swift and clean as a bullet, I'll cut a neat hole as I pass, When I burst ray invisible prison How the cracks will shoot over the glass 1 I'll somersault, land on the pavement, And break through the drab human ring That will gape as they gather in wonder, Lost souls who've forgotten the spring. Yet day after day by the window I add and divide and subtract, Oh how many plod by a window Dreaming parts that they never can act? PHOEBE HOFFMAN. But How About Clemenceau? Home people are charmlne so long as they are young, and afterward there Is nothing attractive about them; others are vigorous and active In manhood, and then . losa alt the value they possess as they advanca In years; many appear to best advantage In old age, when their character assumes a gentler tone, as becomes men who have seen tho .world and take, life easily. This Is oftenthe case with the French. Schopenhauer. Undoubtedly a German would thiuk the French a thoroughly delightful- nation If they had nil passed tho military age. There Is no end to the humane services Philadelphia has rendered to the nation, We learn from' .our sprightly contemporary, tha I AM NOT healed of grief; not I, Nor shall be till spring boughs forget Their poignancies down the young sky, Iu dusks all violet. Not I. Not till the year has found Some other fashion for the rain In old thin autumn fields; its sound Against a lonely pane. Not till tho worn, dear, usual things Street, house, or even n chair, a jar Rid them of all rememberings, Grow strange, and cold, and far. Who plucks my cowslips in the sun? Whose step fleets by the withered tree? Whose shadowy, golden laughters run Betwixt my books and me? They have been gone a thousand years, I grant it. Arc the deeps fallen dry? Wears grief a look not that of tears? Not I, indeed, not I. Lizetto Woodworth Reese, in Contem porary Verse. Balkan boundaries continue to be stone walls in the path of permanent peace. , The German cabinet, in opposing the treaty, would apparently rather save Its face than its bacon. President Wilson finds life at a peace conference just one darned compromise" after another. As a note-writer Brockdorff-Rantzsu does not intend to leave Mr. Wilson's laurels undisturbed. Recent pranks prove that a college boy's sense of humor is as delicate as a Prussian military order and ns airy as a steam shovel. What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. How many American states and what ones ratified the constitution unani mously? 2. At what temperature Fahrenheit does water boll? 3. How mtch longer is a knot that a mile? 4. On what island of the Azores is Ponta Dclgadn located? C. What color is th Mohammedan "flag of the prophet"? 6. Of what city was Dante a mtlhe? 7. Where is the original manuscript of th Declaration of Independence kept? 8. Who was Hector Berlioz? 0. Through what English town, now virtu ally -part of London, does longitude zero run? 10 Who wrote' "Rasselas"? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. Lisboa is the Portuguese spelling for' Lisbon. 2. A ditty-box is a sailor's or fisherman's receptacle for odds and ends. 3,JShe centenary of the birth of Walt ' Whitman will bo celebrated on May 31. 4. Sepia Is a dark, reddish brown color. D. Ocelot; feline quadruped of South nnd Uentrai jvmeritu, ugci-iui, jKupuru cat. 0. Chervil is a garden herb, used In soup, salad, etc, 7. Oscar W. 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Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers