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SHALL WE HAVE A 79TH PARADE?
fpHE bojs of the Seventy-ninth who
fought foi us in France aie in the
position of the beau who. ha inc taken
his girl to a theatie and bought supper
for her, wondered if he ought to kiss her
on the way home in a taxieab. "No!"
a brutal bachelor advised him, "you've
done enough for her."
There is strong indication that the boys
don't want to participate in a welcome
v parade.
But
The man who does you a favor and
does not five you a chance to thank him
robs you of a deserved pleasure.
If it is more blessed to give than to
receive it is only fair that the giver
should share that blessedness with the
recipient.
All of which the hoys of the Seventy
ninth ought to take into consideration
If they are called upon to vote (a seems
probable) on the question of a welcome
parade.
As a matter of fact, if there is to be
any voting it should be dpne not by the
soldiers but by the relatives of the sol
diers the fathers and mothers and sis
ters and sweethearts and wives. They
have suffered, too, and they have a right
to have their feIings considered.
Let these have the vote and
Well, the boys will parade all right!
MONEY WILL TALK
THE Pennsylvania bridge commission
J'r industriously discusses plans and calls
"tneetings. One is scheduled for next
Thursday in the Mayor's office. There i
a harvest of tentative suggestions and
preliminary designs. These things aie
all indices of healthy interest in the Dela
ware river span, but they will lead
nowhere without legislative action.
The needed stimulus to the bridge proj
ect at this moment is a state appropria
tion. New Jersey has a'ready authorized
the use oi $500,000 for pieliminary work.
It is imperative, now for Pennsylvania to
hold up its end of the bridge. For months
important bills on the subject have been
dozing in Harnsburg. With the session
facing adjournment in a few weeks the
urgency of action is manifest.
The pending bills, according validity
and a spirit of progiess to the bridge
plans, should be passed by both houses
as speedily as possible and signed by the
.Governor. Few concerns of the metio
politan district of Philadelphia, with its
economic and industrial jurisdiction ex
tending into two states, ; re more vital
than the need of a link over its great
commercial waterway.
Happily, Governor Sproul has enthusi
astically pledged himself in support of
the bridge. But the "lack-of-funds"
handicap must be ended before the practi
cal effect of his indorsement can be felt.
THE WOMAN WITH THE HOE
A HOE in the hands of a woman in a
garden was as potent in the over
throw of kaiserism as any rifle that spat
death out of a trench in France.
.. eft,!- fn.,t ;..a mnn.ntw.n n U n . .
2v -una latb Kivta jjiijjui bauii- iij lug mvei-
tW i'ng in Bryn Mawr of the Woman's Xa-
prptional Farm and Garden Association and
noints to the commendatorv remarks
made by 'harles Lathrop Pack, president
of the National War Garden Commission
wr- of 'Washington, who addressed them.
The association was formed before the
United States entered the war, but the
war gave it impetus. To those who loved
a garden for its own sake weie added
men and women who foresaw the enor
mous economic value of awakening in
terest in the cultivation not only of
kitchen gaidens but of all vacant places.
With the efforts of the members to keen
IsSi' alive the enthusiasm evoked in times of
stress, all thoughtful men and women
wilt sympathize. Kaiserism is dead, but
ft old H. C, of L. still lives. As the garden
Mlloln in Mil rna i, mat. . wtnAl. t 1
the other.
I T?NO, EXCUSE FOR THE SULTAN
gi'lTlHE alleged timidity of the peacemak-b?i.'J-'
pr eoncernintr the lemoval of the
fiXmtiHan from Constantihonle is in tiik-
Tt t Li.' Anlraef In tlia Rntonltt'o nt ifiirln tn
t? rrl his role in Islam during the war.
: Then the Germans tried hard to raise the
3 ohi bugaboo of Mohammedan solidarity.
The. threatened ""jehad, or holy war,
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ISU9Q to muieriaiiii, iiism was 1101
WtStosd, but rent, as it is today, by fac
ttomllsm both cpiritual and political.
"hie Shiites of Persia and elsewheie
flatly to recognize the presump-
ht the Turkish sultan to the reli-
U4ership exercised by the ancient
i tof .Bagdad and Cairo. Arabian
rt taWd Ottoman lpretenian'
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along the Red sea, including the sacred
cities of Mecca and Medina, from the
Turkish empire.
Hither the Entente at the present time
is moved by business and financial con
sideiations which it does not care openly
to reveal or else it has become suddenly
much moie afraid of a Mohammedan up
rising than it was while the chances for
such an upheaval were far better than
they aie today.
As to the morality of protecting the
sultan on the Golden Horn, it is simply
nonexistent. Ottomnn rule has been
hideously disgraced. Political extinction,
not convalescence, should be the treat
ment for the too-long coddled sick man
of Europe.
THE BOLSHEVIST BLUNDER
MUST NOT BE MADE HERE
American Working Men Know That
Wealth Depends on Production and
Not Redistribution
NINE-TENTHS of the discussion of the
pinblem of laboi attacks, the subject
from the wrong point of v.ew.
President Wilson suggests that Con
giess should consider the relation of em
ployer and employed and the development
of the spirit of co-opeiation.
The Russian Bolshevists began their
release of the workers from "wage
slavery'' by seizing the machinery of pio
duction and in many cases destroying it.
When confmnted with the consequences
of their acts they discoveied that the
surest way to injure labor was to stop
production, and they have been trying
ever since to undo what they did in their
first enthusiastic ignoiance.
Henty Ford has ideally stated one
phase of the issue when he says that
prosperity for young men depends, not
on speculation, but on pioduction. He
might have gone farther and said that
all prosp .. depends, not on a redistri
bution of the things already produced,
but on the production of new things.
The difference in the value of a Lancas
ter county faim and the same area of land
in the heart of Africa is due to the fact
that men have succeeded in producing
crops from the Lancaster county acres.
They have applied their labor to the le
sponsive soil and forced it to yield abun
dant harvests. Men have gone there with
little or no capital and have dug out of the
soil by their hard labor enough to pay for
their farms and to provide them with a
comfortable balance in the bank. The
more they have made their land produce
the richer they hae become.
The National Department of Agricul
ture and the agricultural department of
the Pennsylvania State University are
devoting themselves to the task of teach
ing the i'armers how to produce bigger
crops and how to raise cattle at a piofit;
that is, how to increase the productivity
of the earth.
The wealth of the world today is due
largely to the production of new things
of which the men who lived a hundred
and fifty years ago had no conception.
It is impossible to estimate the wealth
that has been created through the devel
opment of the industry started by Mat
thias Baldwin right here in Philadelphia
in the last centuiy. Raw steel and
iron have been converted into locomotives
at the Baldwin works, which are of them
selves worth untold sums, and their use
in hauling freight and passengers in all
parts of the world has facilitated the cre
ation of new wealth there.
The automobile industry, in which
hundieds of millions of dollais aie in
vested, has been created out of nothing
within the memory of men less than
thirty years old. If has made business
where none existed 'befoie. And the
value of its product is due largely to the
value of the labor used in transforming
cheap law materials into efficient ma
chines. Intelligently directed labor has
produced new wealth and has shared in
the benefits of the production.
The automobile is at present dependent
on the petroleum industry, which did not
exist when John D. Rockefeller was a
young boy. The oil was hidden in the
earth, useless and inert. It has been
pumpedout, refined and turned to many
different uses, each of which has been
productive' of vast wealth.
It is not necessary to multiply modern
instances. They will occur to any one by
the score. The point we wish to make is
that the way to wealth is thiough the
production of something for which there
is already a demand or for which a ue
can be found.
This principle is at the bottom of the
conclusions of the British royal commis
sion which studicu the labor situation in
England. The men who drafted that re
port did not attempt to find a way to set
tle old disputes between emplojei and
employed.
The commission concentrated its atten
tion on the future and devoted itself to a
study of ways and means for increasing
he productivity of British labor; that is,
f.r increasing the wealth of England
through the creation of something valu
able out of something of less value.
It assumed tht the surest way to in
crease the wealth of the British working
man was to increase the volume jf his
product. Every farmer knows thai this
is a sound assumption, for he knows that
if he raises two hundred busheis of pota
toes on an acre which last vi piociuced
only one hundred bushels his profit in
creases likewise.
Working men in England have deliber
ately kept down production under the
mistaken view that they were helping
themselves by providing jobs for more
workers. Th.v have learned something
during the war and their employers also.
For example, when airships were im
peratively needed for the armies it was
taking the men forty hours ormore to
make a propeller. The contractors be
sought them to work faster, and as a last
resort they offered them forty hours' pay
for every propeller they turned out, no
matter, how few hours they spent on it.
Through the impetus of reward the men
weie soon making propellers in nineteen
hours!
The working men learned what they
could do it they tried. And the employer?
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There is little danger of producing too
much of anything, certainly not too much
food in the picscnt crisis, when half the
world has llot enough to cat. The war
has destroyed much of the world's wcalth.v
The task of the immediate future is to
recreate it. The soil is fertile. The raw
mateiials aie at hand. The dcteimina
tion to produce is nil that is needed, for
we have the machinery and the men
equipped to operate it.
Unless we mistake the temper and the
intelligence of the American working
men, they will devote themselves to the
task of production for the next few years
with all their cneigies, confident that
they will share generously in the results
brought about through their co-operation
with the men directing industry.
A PRIZE FOR GLORIOUS FAILURE
IT i the couiageous and gallant intent
of Hairy (J. Hawker and Mackenzie
Grieve which justifies the inclusion of
their names on the roll of fame. It is the
clear spirit of daring that coloied their
tiagic venture which Lord Northcliffe has
recognized m his distribution of the Lon
don Daily Mail's $50,000 prize for a
transatlantic flight.
The division of the funds between Mrs.
Hawker and Commander Grieve's next
of kin appi opriately accords with the
scheme which the two lost aviators had
meant to be applicable to themselves.
The giant bespeaks a keen sense of
values which every one must applaud.
Failuie cannot dim the epic splendor of
thf undaunted airmen's attempt. That
a ten-thousand pound prize is still await
ing the pioneer conquering in the air the
gulf between the two continents in less
than seventy-two houis is also fitting.
I'nique was the ternble and beautiful
leap into the darkness from Newfound
land. Unique, therefore, is the award of
a prize for a failure of such signal and
touching appeal.
THE ANTI-GOUGE TICKET BILL
rpHE Daix bill banning the sale of
- amusement tickets at any other price
than their face value has been leturned
to a committee mausoleum for the sixth
time during the cunent legislative ses
sion at Harrisburg. It seems likely that
this last interment will be permanent. If
so, the public will continue to appear in its
traditional lole of victim.
The theatre-ticket-premium gouge is
a venerable offender, yet old age has
appaiently left its vitality unimpaiied.
Harrisburg has consideied tne subject
at regulai intervals for years and has
just as systematically dropped it. Mean
while the ticket agencies flourish. The
imposition is perfectly open, and thus
far it has been legalized.
Nevertheless, the practice is of a pecu
liarly exasperating nature. As in the
case of tips it is not so much the mone
tary expenditure which offends, but the
manner in which it is made necessary.
The extortion could be ended as soon as
a law against any increase over the box
office price were listed in the statute
books. But simple remedies and the com
plex life have a wearisome way of not
mixing.
WITH A COMMON PORT
fTHVO ships will be launched at the New
-1- York shipyard, Camden, today a
ship of war and a ship of peace.
One, the Gilmer, a toipedoboat de
stroyer, will uphold the honor of Old
Glory in time of trouble. The other, the
Wenatehee, a cargo and passenger ship,
will contribute to the prosperity of the
country in terms of commerce. The mis
sion of both is to make the world a bet
ter place to live in.
The Wenatehee was first designed as
a hospital ship for tioops. That it can
be diverted to moie peaceful pursuits is
cause for jubilation.
Good wishes for many prosperous voy
ages go with both vessels!
Members of theAmr
A Sporting Chance ican delegation to the
Peacp Conference are
snirl tn look with favor on the Micsestion of
n ChicnRo man that the I'nited States Sen
ate adopt a resolution Rivins its interpreta
tion of certain articles in the covenant. The
delepttion is apparently willing to try any
thing once.
What Franklin Spen
Cretlit Where cer KdmnntN vays of
Cifdlt Is Due the Y. M. C. A. has
s the impress of con-
iction and sincerity. The nrj-anization
made mistakes, but the sum total of its ben
efits tn the A K. F. is great and notable
enough to overshadow all crrois.
Now that thev bave
time to think it over,
the men who were
How Will It Affect
the Amendment?
present on European
battlegioundx have decided that the Ameri
can woman is "some queen," and that her
service was a notable one in the making of
the world afe for democracy.
That majority rule is
Re-enforced Concrete a concrete fact in any
true democracy Is con
eded by rharter revisionists. Their argu
ment is that it is the part of wisdom to re
enforce it with a three-fourths vote clause.
A German comedy has
(iennan Comedians been produced in New
York without mishap.
Thp one Itrockdorff-IUutzau is staging in
Versailles may not be Mi fortunate.
The NC-4 will be closest to victory when
it is on its last leg.
It may yet turn out that the boyg of the
Seventy-ninth must add to our obligation?
to them by giving us a parade.
Judging by the tenacity with which It
sticks to'all new charter discussion, perhaps
it Bhould be spoken of as the "contract
claws."
Bermuda has just feeu its first airplane
flight. It is little news items like this that
give us the necessary reminder that aviation
is still a baby.
Attorney Oeneral Schaffer'a objection to
tfie .charter bill seems to be that It I not
wrltlep in umcientiy pisin Kngllsh; which,
,,, ,puPpiae (o think, of it, fa a cfcm.il
Wl .W Vw. ft WKey Wd bUhiM,
both efforts
iluctivcness.
CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S
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Longworth's Insurgent Fiasco T. L.
Townsend's Political Activities.
! Approaching Johnstown
j Flood Anniversary
Washington. 'O. C, May U4.
ANO.MALOl-'S though it may seem, there
are mnriy representatives In Washing
ton who hesitate to illscuss n reduction of
the cost of living. The farmer Is virtually
In control of the House of Representatives
n it stands today. He is tlin most spoken
of man in nil matters of legislation. Some
oue from the Middle West entitled the other
day to Riiggest that it might he a good thing
to meet the alleged popular demand for 'a
lowering of food costs. Instantly the reply
was (hat tn lower the food costs meant to
lower the farmer's returns for his products.
The proposition did not get much further,
because the piomoter nf it at once -admitted
thnt "Kansas would have more money this
jear than It would know what to do with."
And yet there are men In Chicago who will
dare write to eastern icpresrntatives and
complain that food price aie kept up by
moans of fnieign meat puuhflses from
American packers at prices mppoited by the
government which do not prevail in the
I'nited States. Here is a sample from a
kicker out West :
The' natural lau of supply anil demand
should causo declines ns well as adances
In price it Is perhaps nn open question
as to whether any moie meats should be
shipped from this muntr while prices
irinaln as high as the present level, but,
tegardless of that It would wem to be
only fair that th gnxernment surplus
food supplies should he offered to the peo
ple of the I'nited Mates first before any
ri tempt Is made to dump them in for
eign countries.
pOXOUESSMAN NICK S
of Ohio, nnd his gallant 1
ONO WORTH,
gallant band of Hell
Fighters" who undertook to increase the
Hnuse steering committee fiom five to nine,
on the ground that the the. including Colonel
Sam Winslnw, of Massachusetts, and him
self, weie "a bunch of millionaires" whose
political heatts did not bent in sympathy with
the welfnie of the fanners and toilers of the
land the other three "millionaires" be
sides Nick ami the colonel being Madden, of
Illinois; Dunn, of New York, and Moore, of
Pennsylvania led his forces up to the or
ganization tienches. but did not rfttempt to
"go over." The "icgulars" showed no dis
position to go back on the program the "ip
smgents" bad arranged for them nnd which
tliey had accepted, but stood their ground
and told tlie "insurgents" to come on. They
were prepared to meet the issue, and said
thc, would gladly compare notes on the ques
tions that had been raised about "million
aires." Through the nmiable ministmtions
of one Doctor Fess, of Ohio, aided some
what, it is said, by the new Speaker, the
press was given a statement "just before the
hattle. mother." announcing that it had
been "unanimously agreed." nnd so forth,
to defer the onslaught. Thus bloodshed and
tears for the horny-handed from "their true
friends" were avoided in the Republican
caucus. And ns Congressman Charley Row
land, retired, would sing, "The king of
France marched up the hill. He had ten
thousand men. And then he turned them
right around and marched them down again."
DOME j ears ago when the National Repub--'
lienn League piesidency was I eld in Phil
adelphia T. Lincoln Townsend. who lived
across the Schujlkill. was an active figure in
the nfTnirs of the Young Republicans nnd
other organizations. On one occasion, with
Coroner White, of Chester, he organized a
O. O. P. parade, which had &s an attraction
a real live elephant. Mr. Townsend has beoi
in the electrical supply biisifss in Wash
ington since leaving Philadelphia, but his
love for the firand Old Party has not abated
and he is now in conference with the na
tional chairman. Mr Hays, concerning club
work which he thinks mny be made effective
for the next national campaign. And speak
ing of Mr Hays, who is a very vigorous na
tional chairman, the question has been asked
heie why the deposed head of the war-risk
insurance bmeau, Colonel Henry D. Linds
ley. n Democrat of Texas, reached the head
of the national organization of war veterans
at the recent St. Louis convention when
young Colonel Roosevelt and other Repub
licans weie in line for the position,
JOHN STEWART, of Germantown and
" Lehigh aienues. takes a keen interest in
Baptist Church work and has a good Masonic
lecord. but few folks know how handy with
the mitts is his son, William J. Stewart.
William is one of those upstanding young
fellows who believe in healthy sports and
has made a specialty of boxing. He is the
sort of boy who would delight the heart of
Major A. .1 Drexel Riddle, because he is
generally nble to back up his religion with
his hands,
FRED HEINZ, of Pittsburgh, sends out a
notice for the thirtieth annual dinner of
the Johnstown Flood Association, to Be held
May 31. Thirty years! And the boys who
are coming back from Frnnce labeled "vet
erans of the war" were not born, most of
them, when the Johnstown flood occurred.
Edmund Stirling, who is still quite a young
ster in journalism, will probably recall the
night when, acting for the late William V.
McKean. he sent out notices to Peter Bolger,
Arthur Morrow, Roger Walsh nnd others to
get ready to go. What nn excitement there
was in every newspaper in town that night!
THE opening day brought many of the ex
mcmberR into the House of Representa
tives, including Attorney General A. Mitchell
Palmer, Secretary of the Treasury Carter
(Jlass (fresh from his job of ousting Colonel
Lindsley as head of the war-risk bureau)
and Postmaster General Rurleson (whose hat
was picked up and carried off in the jam by
some one who mistook it for his own). John
Dalzell, who still keeps a Washington resi
dence, also appeared, along tfith Henry S.
Boutclle, former minister to Portugal (Cyrus
E. Woods's diplomatic assignment) and
John W. Dwight, former Republican whip
of the House. ,
A SMALL surprise party awaited Congress
man Griest, of Lancaster, on his return
'to Washington to be sworn in for the Sixty
sixth Congress. The congressman found (as
did Anthony, of Kansas, and McLaughlin,
of Michigan) that he had been picked to
serve with them as "the patronage com
mittee" a kind of a court of last resort to
adjust all differences between the new Re
publican members In the gentle pastime of
turning out the Democratic placeholders on
the House side of the Capitol and putting
Republicans on guard.
PENNSYLVANIA has a State Federation
of Women, headed by' Mrs. Itonald P.
Gleason, of Scranton, which takes a lively
interest In legislation affecting women in the
industrial service. Just now an effort Is
being made by this organization to obtain for
the Department of Labor an appropriation of
$100,000 to start a woman's division or bu
reau of the department. The Philadelphia
women interested Id the State Federation 'In.
elude Mrs. J'rsnk Miles. Day, of Mt, Alrys
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On Dedicating a New Teapot
BOILING water now is poured,
Pouches tilled with fresh tobacco,
Round the hospitable board
Fragrant steams Ceylon or Pekoe.
Bread and butter Is cut thin,
Cream and sugar, yes, bring them on:
' Ginger cookies in their tin, -And
the dainty slice of lemon.
Let the marmalade be brought.
Buns of cinnamon adhesive ;
And, to catch the leaves, jou ought
To be suie to have the tea-sieve.
Rut, before the cups be filled .
Cups that cause no ebriation
Let a genial wish be willed
Just by way of dedication.
Here's your fortune, gentle pot :
' To our thirst you offer slakeage;
Bright blue china, may I not
Hope no maid will cause you breakage.
Kindest ministrant to man.
Long be jocund years before you,
And no meaner fortune than
Helen's gracious hand to pour you !
The patron saint of the tea table is not
Polycarp but Polycup.
Let us send you aSwift dollar, says an
advertisement. '
Alas, ours are swift enough already.
Our pangnostic friend James Shields tells
us that the famous Irish wit Maginn once
wrote an Inscription for a teapot, and we are
wondering whether any of our cyclopedic
patrons can tell us where to find it. We are
a great tea fan, nud expect to be more i?b
after July 1. .
Mr. Shields adds that tne compieicsi pun
on' the recoids of literature was a Latin in
scription on a tea caddy.. The inscription
was "Tu Doces," from the verb doceo, to
teach: which being translated means "Thou
Tea-Chest." ,
Bushnell Dimood complains that in "Oh,
t'ncle" (at the Shubert Theatre), the famous
quotation, "The light that lies in woman's
e,es," is attributed to Burns. We agree
with him thnt Tom Moore ought to get the
credit.
Mr. Dimond, by the 'way, ha- an eclectic
taste in letters. He was Been by a represen
tative of this department Btaggering up
Chestnut street weighted down with the fol
lowing tomes:
"Limehouse Nights'' (short stories, very
savage). .
"'L'lrlande Enneml . . . '7 (In the
French).
"Sailor Town" (poems).
"The Riddle of the Purple Emperor" (a
detective story).
"The Forest Altar" (poems).
"Songs for a Little House" (verse?).
Speaking of "LIraebouse Nights," our
movie fans will be interested to hear that the
already famous film, "Broken Blossoms," is
based on ajstory in that volume, called "The
Chink nnd the Child."
H is an error to think that German atroci
ties began in August, 1014. Wasn't It a
German who painted "September Morn"?
There is nothing so clever at concealing
Itself as i match-box. The way it has of
burrowing "under papers on one's desk, or
hiding- demurely behind theMnkwell, is past
mortal understanding. If we had served In,
the camouflage corps during the war we
would have recommended painting all big
guns with the designs used on safety match
box labels. 'The Germans, a nation of heavy
Bmokers, would never nave ueen awe to And
them.
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ANTICIPATING THE FLIGHT
wars with some tall tnles about cooties. We
were asking him about the Argonne Forest
nnd were interested to hear him say thnt the
legion is very similar to the Poconos, which
gives a more understandable picture than
manj columns of description we have rend.
Jack said if we would go home with him
he would show us a cootie, implying that
they linger with one long after the scene of
innfllet, but we fear he was spoohng us.
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The Old Tradition
That high-spirited journal, The Log of the
Circunmavigators' Club, clips the following
ad from a Bermuda paper:
Why worry about your clothes? Leave
it to us. A. EVE & CO.
Travels In Philadelphia
We wonder if anywhere in all Philadelphia ,
theie is a more delightful cluster nf back
gardens, old brick angles, dormer windows
nnd tall chimneys than in the little block on
Orange street just west of Seventh. Orange
street is the little alley just south of Wash
ington Square. In the clean sunlight of a
fresh Mny morning, with mnsses of green
trees' and creepers to set off the old ruddy
brick, this quaint huddle of buildings com
poses into a delightful plctuce that would
delight the pencil of Frank II. Taylor. A
kindly observer in the Drcer seed warehouse,
which backs upon Ornnge street, noticed us
prowling about and offered to take us up in
his efcvator. From one of the Drecr win
dows we had a fascinating glimpse down upon
these roofs nnd gardens. One of them is the
rear yard of the Italian consulate at 717
Spruce street. Another is the broader gar
den of some religious home, in which we no
ticed with amusement u large white bathtub
sunning itself. .Then there is the garden of
the adorable little house at 7'-'.i Spruce street,
which is particularly interesting because
when seen from the fiont it appears to have
no front door. The attic window of that
house is just our idea of what an attic win
dow ought tn be. We wonder if Mr. Taylor,
in his sketches of old Philadelphia, has ever
perpetuated this charming vista along Orange
street.
Mr. Ovcu Wister once remarked that the
first thiug he did when war broke out was to
subscribe to Punch. We nre hoping-to hear
some one say that the first thing to do( after
the peace treaty is Bigned is to take some
grief insurance in the Chaffing Dish.
Is it possible that our learned colleague
the Qulzeditor is dropping into rhyme?
Please read the Quiz aloud, just east of this,
and tell us whit you think,
Des( Mottoes
Rascals are always sociable -m'ore's the
pity! and the chief sign thnt a man has any
nobility in his character is the little pleasure
he takes in others' company.
SCHOPENHAUER.
The Russian Soviet Government has intro--duced
-a new chronology by which the year
'contains only 280 working days, says a dis
patch fiom Helslngfora.
After all the I(olshcvIsts have some good
ideas. SOCRATES.
He'll Live a Long Time
J have no wish for immortality, but I
should like to live long enough to
First. AtUnd the funeral of the lasfman
who thinks It is funny to call any kind of
activity an Indoor sport.
Second. Exterminate Hie cartoonists wbo
end their cartoons with the 'backward col
lapse of one character.
Thiid, See a movie of men marching at
less than ten miles an hour.
Fourth, Meet some person who admits
having social ambitions.
Fifth. Meet some person whq confesses to
a comparatively blameless youth.
Sixth. M'Ct "onie. one. w&p has the g00(j
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WANDERLUST
"DEYOND the East the .sunrise, beyond
--f the West the sen, .
And East and West the wanderlust that
will not let mo be;
It works in me like madness, dear, to bid
die say good -by!
For the seas call and the stars call, and oh,
the call of thp sky !
I know not where the white road runs, nor
what.the blue hls are,
But man can have the sun for friend, and
for his guide a star;
And there's no end of voyaging when once
the oice is heard,
For the river calls and the road calls, and
oh, the call of a bird !
Yonder the long horizon lies, and there
by night and day ,
The old ships draw to home again, the
young ships sail away
And come I may, but go I must, and If men
ask j ou why,
You mny put the blame on the stars and the
suu and the white roads and the sky !
Gerald Gould, in New York Evening
Post.
I'he seventh article of the American
Legion's platform pledges its members to
"proinoto peace on earth." Whatever hap
pens it can't he denied that they made a
good start in that direction on the fields
of France and Flanders.
There is also possibility that if Field
Marshal Haig goes to India as commander-in-chief
of the British forces the appoint
ment will be one of wise policy a well ns
desire to honor.
Recent decisions o! the Interstate Com
merce Commission changed standard. time
zones in Montana nnd some parts of Ohio.
The petition of Toledo to bo put in the east
ern time zone was denied. Toledo, like
Hamlet, evidently believes tho times are out
of joint.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. Who wns the Greek who was surnamed
"the Just"?
2. Out of whnt substance is paraffin made?
3. What is tho meaning of "Parthian
thrust"?
4. What are American senators paid?
5. How was Formosa annexed by Japan?
(5. What Is n "blimp" In aerial slang?
7. What kind of boat Is & catamaran?
8. What is the nature and use of trepang?
0'. When was the battle of Waterloo won?
10. What is the pen name of Peter F.
Dunne?
Answers to Yesterday's. Quiz .
1. Three states ratified the federal consti
tution unanimously. They were Dela
ware, New Jersey and Georgia.
2. vfatc'r boils at 212 degrees Fahrenheit.
3.
A statute knot is 802.00 feet longer
than a mile.
Ponta Delgada is on the island of Sao
4.
Miguel or St. Michaels, Azores.
5. The color of the Mohammedan "flag of
the prophet" is green.
6. Dante was amative of Florence, Italy.
7. The original manuscript of the Declara--
tlon. of Independence is kept In Wash
ington. 8. Hec,tor Berlioz Vi-as one of the most fa
mous and glftc'd of the French musical
composers o( the nineteenth century". '
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