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Failadtlplila. S.turd.y, lir 31, 101
HOC ISLAND'S CELEBRATION
YESTERDAY'S celebration at Hog
- Island was a national event, but it
had added significance for Philade'phia.
As Josephus Danie!s, tecietary of the
navy, speaker of the day, pointed out.
the work already accomplished justified
the prophecy that the Delawaie ship
yards would become the greatest in the
world. And Hog Island, because of its
youth and rapid giowth, will lemain one
of the wonders of the world.
When an industrial wizaid waved his
wand over a morass. and turned it into
a workshop the world first marveled and
then criticized. Maybe it was inly an
imitation workshop and could not deliver
the product, some ventuied.
Yesterday many thousands of bond
holders, a term which successive Liberty
Loans turned into a synonym for patri
ots, visited that fairyland and were con
Tinced that "it had the goods."
Hog Island's big demonstration gave
enthusiastic indorsement to a woik be
'gun under the pressure of war and
" destined to tevolutionize our tiade meth
ods in time of peace.
Five ships weie launched and four
tit them were christened by Liberty Loan
workers which was fitting, for previous
loans had made their construction pos
sible. Yesterday's launching brings Hog
Island's score to thirty-two ships, and the
number will be added to every week.
America's merchant marine is alieady in
' the making!
There" was appropriateness in having
i .the celebration on Memorial Dnv. Tho
Vspjrits of, the men who died for f 1 eedom
il'Jimut reioiee to know trmr. that frooHnm
jSfSs?,, "has been won and kept and that wise
S Yf xorel"ouKnt is Dent on providing it with
its running mate, prosperity.
Yesterday's event was a success, spir-
' r ltuauv, as in every other wav.
WOMAN AND WORK
rpHERE is difference of opinion whether
a woman who took a man's job during
the. war should give up the job, now
that the man is back home. But there
should be no difference of opinion as to
the continued activity of women who
became members of various war organi
zations. ' That, at least, is the view taken by
Mrs. Eva W. White, of the War Camp
Community Service of the Department
of Labor, who addressed the Federation
of Settlement Workers in the Curtis
Building yesterday. "Never let them get
back into their pigeonholes of inactivity,"
the urged.
There is little likelihood of such a
thing happening. War is a great devel
oper, and some of the women have grown
so much that the pigeonholes won't hold
r them.
' Just how big a figure a woman, is going
3 cut 'n- Pntics and iust how 'danger
2 -ous a factor she may prove in the indus
j? trial world it is yet too early to deter-
mine; Dut tnat she wilt continue to
grow in power in all enterprises for
the betterment of the race may be taken
for granted.
QUEER FORTUNE OF WAR
pOUNT ADAM TARNOWSKI ON
TARNOW has reason to smile at the
fortunes of war.
When Doctor Dumba, former Austrian
mbassador to the United States, had re
ceived his walking papers from an out
raged government whose hospitality he
had criminally abused, Count von Tainow
rwM appointed to succeed him. He
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V ,w Brant iiim safe-conduct, but was never
. officially received in Washington.
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kUw v trian emissary, a Pole by birth, is Polish
l'j minister to Tpkio.
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BSfi? v ,"" "" "" ""'"- any -ecantation;
and all before a peace has been signed.
WHAT THE BANDS SAID
V CIOIjKMNITV reverenna nn,l !, t.
x' e nf AYltltafinn were .tHH:jlu.il..
hi " Wended (n certain features of yesterday's
vC observances. The spiritual beauty of
, , hs It hsen more deeply felt than in these
.' latest tributes paid by the city to patriot
? A' km and devotion to an ideal.
vr n(lu j":fc iuui;u utiiiuai ox gayety in
,t. ome of the proceedings could not be
rs ," ignored. The diminutive variegated
psmdes popping: up ulj over the town and
the profuijion of luaty bahds. imparted an
atwosphare .wholly dissimilar to that
JUMd by. the thrillineJormalisro of
impiimivu ptnV of the Twenty-
imwioN renuy.;;
JWPIart -tprtJ JhMXU0f
won the victory. Bands were the least
of its cjaimg to interest.
They were a potent and cheering
stimulus yesterday. And the lively old
airs they played and the way they mixed
up "The Star Spangled Banner" and
"Yankee Doodle" in march time and their
often casual and rather ragged forma
tions and the blithe fifos and rattling
drums told not of war, but of peace.
Typically American weie those scenes
and street concerts, characteristic of
the land prompt to be rigidly militarized
in a crisis that must be mastered and yet
of a nation untainted by militarism as a
gospel.
Perhaps the woild strife has made us
"think intei nationally." But it has not
essentially changed the national type
the type which asserted itself in yester
day's parades. There was a good deal
more of America than the meie title of
a patriotic air in the say the bands
played it, and as it never was pet formed
while the fate of civilization was at
ttnke.
DON'T MAKE A GRIMACE
WHEN YOU "PAY THE FREIGHT"
You
Can Keep the 'Bills Down If You
Do Your Full Duty as
a Citizen
TiniEN the ptovision dealci adds a
' cent a pound to the price of coffee
and five cents to the price of meat, and
when the coal dealer adds a dollar to the
price of coal, we all want to know the
reason. We ate affected in oui sensitive
pocket neive.
When we aie told that the pi ices have
beci taised because of an inciease in the
freight late by the railioads and in the
tax lates bj the government we immedi
ately damn the politicians and damn the
covooi- tions. This is easy, but it serves
only to relieve our feelings.
Freight lates have been inci eased since
the govern inert took over the railroads,
but the inciease has not been enough to
cover the inciease in wages to the rail
road employes and the inciease in the
cost of materials that the railioads use.
The diffeience is met out of the pioceeds
of taxation. The diiector geneial of
lailioads is objecting now to a fuither
increase in freight lates, to make the
lailioads self-supporting, for the reason
that "an inciease in trans 'ortation rntes
will immediately be reflected in an in
crease in the cost of living." And the
increase, he says, will not be merely the
$300,000,000 which is needed to cover the
lowest estimate of the deficit, but wnl be
between a billion and a billion and half,
as the manufactuier would raise the price
of his product to cover the extia fi eight
on law material, the wholesaler would
make a still greater increase in the price
at which he sells the goods to provide
for his extra piofit on the increased cost
at the mill and an extra profit on the
freight he would have to pb.v and ths
retailer would Tiake another addition to
the price, handing on the whole burden
to the ultimate consumer.
And, unfortunately, the diiector gen
eral of railroads is right, for if the le
tailer pays five cents more for an article
he sometimes adds more than the in
crease to the selling price. The per
centage added by the manufacturer and
the wholesaler is not so gieat, for they
do business on a smaller margin of piofit.
The logic of the director general's argu
ment leads to the conclusion that the onlv
way to prevent the consumer from being
charged for the freight two or three
times, with a profit on each chaige, is
for the government to pay all freight
bills and collect the money fiom the tax
payers. But this arrangement would
be so ridiculous that no one is foolish
enough to propose it.
The man who buys a suit of clothes is
going to continue to pay what it has cost
to raise the wool, spin it into yarn, weave
it into cloth, make it into the suit and
deliver it to him ready to wear. And the
farmer and the spinner and the weaver
and the clothing manufacturer and the
retailer will each ma,Ue his profit and
each profit will include a piofit on the
money invested in freight at every ship
ment. This is the way business is done,
and it is a pretty good way. It would
be difficult to improve it.
The man who buys potatoes and meat
and clothing and such things is vitally
interested in the efficient and economical
conduct of the railioads and in the hon
est administration of the government
supported by the direct and indirect taxes
which he pays. The railroads have not
been conducted economically by the gov
ernment, and every passenger and every
purchaser of goods that have been
shipped by freight is paying for the in
efficiency. In the ten years before the
government took over the railroads the
average wage of railroad employes had
been increased 50 per cent, while there
had been alight increases in freight rates.
The railroad managers, forced by neces
sity to live within their income or go
into the bankruptcy courts, had succeeded
in bringing about economies which made
it possible to pay the wages without ma
terially burdening the public.
But the government increased the
wages of the men by a billion dollars in
a single year and has passed the whole
of the cost over to the railroad users or
to the taxpayers. The owners of the rail
roads are facing the prospect of having
their property turned back to them with
fixed charges of several hundred millions
greater than the income, charges which
the government met out of government
revenues. Whether a still further increase
of railroad rates would increase the cosl
of living or not, there is no doubt thai
without an increase in rates many rail
road companies would become insolvent
soon after they vere turned aver to their
owners and that the financial disaster to
the country at large would cost it much
more in the Jong run than it would have
to pay if the rates were raised.
The point we wish to impress on the
rrader is that the average citizen mrfkes
r mistake when he damns the corpora
tions or damns the government when
taxes and prices go up, lie would better
damn himtwlf for iwgleetiag his duty an
because we elect to office men without
the first qualifications for their duties.
Philadelphia, for example, is a big
business corporation spending between
thirty and forty million dollars a year
raised largely in taxes paid by the own
ers of small houses. We do not ask
whether the candidates for mayor and
for councilmen have had experience in
managing1 a successful private business.
Indeed, few of us ask anything about
their qualifications. We permit the po
litical leaders to give the offices to men
who have been successful in rounding up
the voters in the wards and will vote the
public money where the politicians say
it must go.
If the men with gnarled fingei$ and
the women with calloused hands who
stand in line befoie the window in the
tax receiver's office paying out the
money they have hoarded for their an
nual tax' bill could, be allowed to visit the
public offices in other parts of the City
Hall and see the idlers to vhom their
money is paid they might vote for a gen
eral house cleaning.
But they do not lealize that they have
the power to keep the tax rate down by
putting in office men who will get a
dollar's worth of work for every dollar
that is spent, any more than they realize
that the expeiiment in government di
lection of the railroads is costing them
a large sum every year and will continue
to lay burdens on them for years to
come.
We all have to "pay the fi eight,"
whether on the railroads or in the local
or i ational government, and have only
ourselves to blame if the bills are too
high.
LADIES! WHO'S YOUR FRIEND?
TT WILL take cannier men than those
-1 composing the Demociatic National
Committee to fool the women. When Mis.
Peicy V. Pennypacker, of Texas, read the
statement of the committee just given
out in Chicago, in which an attempt is
made to prove that the Democratic party
is the ohly simon-pure fiiend of equal
suffrage. .-he lemarked that the Demo
ciatic Congiess blundeied when it failed
to adopt the suffrage amendment, "and
the committee should admit it."
Equal suffrage is not a partisan issue
in the ordinary meaning of the words,
but if the Democrats w-ish to make it
such the Republicans can face the situ
ation with complacency.
Three times since Mr. Wilson has been
President the Democratic Congiess has
defeated the suffrage amendments In
March. 1914, the Senate voted on it with
.13 affiimative and 34 negative votes.
Counting "pairs" 29 Republicans and 18
Democrats favoied suffrage, and 15 Re
publicans and 27 Democrats opposed it.
In January, 1915, it came to a vote
in the House, when it was defeated with
204 hostile votes to 176 favorable. The
Democrats supplied 171 of the votes
against it and the Republicans only 33.
It was brought to a vote in the
House again last year and again de
feated, with 172 Republicans voting for
it and 33 against, and 99 Democrats in
the affirmative and 103 in the negative.
The Republicans now control Congress.
They took up the amendment in the
House as soon as possible after they
assembled, and on May 21 they passed
it by the necessary two-thirds vote,
with 201 Republicans and 101 Demo
crats favoring it and 19 Republicans
and 70 Democrats against it.
These figures talk much more loudly
than the statement given out by the
Demociatic National Committee.
THE MISSING SEA CHAPTERS
rpHE admission by a Berlin newspaper
that Germany lost 198 submarines
during the war is one more of the numer
ous indices that the naval chapters of the
conflict have been both incompletely and
inaccurately disclosed.
Assertion has been made in high
Entente circles that the Hun U-boats
operating simultaneously in different
parts of the world seldom numbered
moie than twenty-five or thirty. In this
case either few home voyages were made
by the various fleets of pirates leaving
Kiel or Heligoland or else the undersea
craft in commission at one time were
more numerous than has been said.
Certainly the total of German subma
rine losses appears extremely large,
compared with the published acknowl
edgment of successes by the Allied pow
ers. It is," for instance, declared that no
proof exists of the destruction of an
enemy U-boat on this side of the
Atlantic.
Obviously the truth must be a com
posite product. Perhaps the Germans
can tell us of some lucky shots and depth
bomb charges of the efficacy of which we
have been ignorant. The course of the
land operations is now pretty clearly un
derstood. Light on the very remarkable
sea war is as yet but a feeble flicker.
There miglit be serious
. Good Halt import in the assev-
for Dudgeons oration of Uroekdorff-
Rnnrzau and others of
his kind that the fiermans were deceived Into
surrender by Wilson's fourteen points if it
were not for the fact that tho Germans were
licked out of their boots and with them it
was either surrender or annihilation.
Women clerks em
Arcorrllng to the ployed in the Penn
Point of View nylvania Itailroad of
fices in Harrisburc
ho have proved their efficiency will be al
lowed to retain their positions. Joyous news
for the ladles who advocate equal rights.
Had news for the soldiers whose jobs they
took.
Major General Joseph
We Say Sol V, Kuhu admits that
the Seventy-ninth .Di
vision is the finest ever organized. Similar
admissions concerning other divisions have
been made by Major General Muir, of the
Twenty-eighth, and other commanders. And,
like the words of proud, fathers, it must be
conceded that what is 'said is nothing but
the truth.
The members of the
late unlamentcd Hun
military command are
probably looking with
Saddest Words of
Tongue or Pen, etc.
regretful enry toward the 340,000-mile gas
cloud now enshrouding the sunc With that
kind of a cloud they might hve nceeaiT
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CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S
LETTER
How Photography Teaches the Bird
IVlen-When Quay Advised Pen-
. rose to Get Married d H.
Hambly and T. F. Slefert
interested In the Lux-
dry Tax Repeal
Washington, May 31.
mO FALL loO feet in the air, in a 100---
foot-span airplane, when only 000 feet
above the earth, to esrape a fatal crash
through knowledge gained only the day before
by their pilot, and then to go and see, afor
their flight, a motion picture which showed
the cause of the drop and the remedy for
If was the unusual experience of Congress
men Piatt, of New York; Timbcrlakc, of
Colorado, and Hawley. of Oregon. Colonel
Ilnrtz. in command of llolllug Flying Field,
Washington,. 1). ('., took the representatives
up lit .1 new Martin bomber, Clear weather,
harm jsiita and' soft wind". Hfter a vool ruin,
had made the air ''boiling" and "bumpy."
Suddenly the "ship." which had been flying
cleanly, made a fla! drop of 1fiO feet. Both
motors were woiking. but not nt top speed.
Pilot Harmon "gae her the gun" and the
airplane nunc into contiol only within four
times of her own span from the ground. Re
cent cinema photos, under a method originated
bj Fait fax Xaulty. foimerly a Philadelphia
newspaper man, by means of which the
"power waves" which cause a plane to fly
can be actually seen, hod proved to Colonel
Ifnrlz that the lifting, rarefaction effects
caused by the airflow from an airscrew
across an aerofoil were pulsattve, or inter
mittent, instead of continuous, and had
shown him what to do in the emergency. So
Colonel Hartz took the representatives to
see the technical demonstration by cinema
of what had happened. After he had seen
the generation. deelopment and collapse of
a "power wave" on (lie screen Piatt turned
to Hart and said: "Well, colonel, for one
T am glad you ate a movie fan, if only a
technical one." Piatt is from Poughkeepsie
and succeeds Carter Glass as chairyian of
the banking and currency committee. Ptiscy
Passmore. John H. .Mason and other Phila
delphia bunkers will soon be making the
official acquaintance of this new financial
"high flier."
WITH
' ' T.egio
t lie organization of the American
.egion. whiih is intended for veterans of
the European war, comment is rife with
regard to the status of the veterans of prior
wars. The young fellows who come back
from the European war. of course, will out
number those who have gone before, but we
still have the Grand Army of the Repub
lic, even though its ranks nre fast thinning
out. George G. Meade Post. No. 1, of Phil
adelphia, which may be taken as a model,
has been filling its empty chairs for many
j ears past with associate members and the
sons of veterans. Frank Glading has come
to be the tommander of Post No. 1 and
Henry Y. Yohn is still its adjutant. The
old fellows keep up the spirit of comrade
ship, hut occasionally complaints come up
from (he koldiers' homes that the boys of
'01 and '05 are being shifted from their
old moorings through the War Department's
desire to provide for the newcomers. The
leal old "vets" at Hampton. Vs., were
moved early in the war to Dayton, O.,
some Philadelphians among them, and now
they want to get back. The question is
before the secretaiy of war and is occasion
ing some concern. i '
PRESIDENT BRADLEY C. ALGEO, of
the Philadelphia Textile School, has suc
ceeded in getting a promise from Chairman
Fordney, of the wajs and means committee,
to go to Philadelphia to talk to the Alumni
Association at nn early date. If there is
one thing "Uncle Joe" Fordney likes to
do it is to talk to the boys who have worked
their way up jn the industriarworld. They
say down here that Fordney has mode good
as a business man. and out tu Michigan,
where he lives, the few enemies he has some
times (horge him with being n millionaire.
But "Uncle Joseph" has earned what he has.
He started out as a lumberjack and worked
his way up through the fotests to fortune.
WHEREIN does George J. Uiennan, who
perambulates Chestnut street and tips off
the political reporters on the latest doings,
resemble Albert S. Burleson, the more or
less popular postmaster general of the United
States? Certainly not in hcadwear, for
Albert's Texan sombrero would put George's
derby out of sight. Certainly not iu stature,
for while George is handsome, as Albert
nlso is, he bears about the same relation to
Burleson in physique as Jeff does to Mutt.
No, gentle reader, George and Albert arc
very dissimilar in ail these, things. They
arc aiiKe only in one particular habit each
of them insists on carrying an umbrella
whether it rains or shines but particularly
when it shines.
T71X-SENATOR BILLY SIASON, who is
-' now a congrcs&man-nt -large from Illi
nois, while chaperoning Editor Aleck Moore,
of Pittsburgh, nt the Capitol the other day,
vouched for the truth of this one: Quay and
Penrose were together at a national con
vention at Chicago and Billy sat next to
them. Quay was in a kidding humor and
accused Penrose, whom he called Boies, like
father to son, of staying out too late.
"You're a big, handsome fellow," he said,
"and you ought to get married. It would be
a good thing for the Organization." "Well,"
said Penrose, with that elongated drawl that
Lincoln Eyre used to imitate at the Clover
Club, "let the Organization appoint the
lady."
CHARLES H. HAMBLY. president of
the Pennsylvania Retail Jewelers' Asso
ciation, and Theodore F. Slefert, president
of the Fur Manufacturers' Protective Ann.
ciation, have called the attention of the
ways and means committee to the desirabil
ity of removing the tax op jewelry and furs.
They are not the only ones, however, who
desire to have certain sections of the revenue
law taken out. The jewelers claim they
are discriminated against and the furriers
say their furs are articles of necessity and
should not be taxed. Tlcture frame makers,
candy manufacturers and the ice cream and
soft drink men are also asking for relief.
The one thing which U likely to go through
at an early stage of the new session of Con
gress is the repeal of the so-called luxury
tax, which relates largely to articles of wear
ing apparel. This tax is embraced in what is
known as Section 004 of the law, and Its re
peal was virtually agreed upon in the last
session of Congress.
THOMAS B. HARPER, of the Union
League, like a good many members of
Congress who are beginning to get busy,
thinks too'murh government money is wasted
on prlnting'and circulars to boost the various
bureaus, including some of the war Joan ac-,
tlvltlesi There Is no doubt that the govern
roent has Pn extremely liberal with the
committees, that have undertaken to dispose
of wartime securities. But to quote the song
that was popular several years ago, "every
body's doing it" and the department in
Washington or the bureau under the depart
ment in Washington that does not advertise'
itself or boost its activities In the dlrec.
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TRA VELS IN PHILADELPHIA
By Christopher Morley
THE WHITMAN CENTENNIAL
YESTERDAY Slemorial Day was a
true Walt Whitman day. The ferries
thronged with cheerful people, the laughing,
eager throng at the Camden terminal, piling
aboard trolley cars for a holiday outing
the clang and thud of marching bands, the
flags and flowers and genial human bustle,
pervaded now and then by that note of tribute
to the final mystery surely all this was
just such a scene as Walt loved to watch
and ponder. And going on pilgrimage with
two English editors to Mickle street and
Harleigh Cemetery, it was not strange that
our thoughts were largely with the man
whose hundredth birthday we bear in mind
today.
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X JUST so far (it ueems to me) as we
find it nainful to read Walt Whitman.
by just so far we may reckon our divergence
from the right path of human happiness.
If it perturbs us to read his jottings of
"specimen days" atong Timber creek, wres
tling with his twelve-foot oak snpling to gain
strength, sluicing in clear water and scouring
his naked limbs with his favorite flesh-brush,
ruminating in blest solitude among the tints
of sunset, the odor of mint-leaves and the
moving airs of the summer meadow if this
gives us n twinge, then it is probably be
cause we have divorced ourselves from the
primitive joyfulness of the open nir. If we
find his trnmpetlngs of physical candor
shameful or unsavory, perhaps it is because
we have not schooled our thoughts to honest
cleanliness. (Though Anne Gilchrist's gen
tle comment must not be forgotten: "Perhaps
Walt Whitman has forgotten the truth that
our instincts are beautiful facts of nature,
as well as our bodies; and that we have a
strong instinct of silence about some
things.") If we find him lacking in humor
or think some of his catalogues tedious
there are catalogues and shortage of humor
even in some books considered sacred. And
Whitman, if not a humorist himself, has
been (as Mr. Chesterton would say) the
cause of humor in others. How adorably
he has lent himself to parody ! But this by
the way. The point is, Whitman is a true
teacher: first (he thrashing, then the ten
derness. No one ever found him exhilarat
ing on the first reading. But he is a hound
of heaven. He will hunt you down and find
you out. Expurgate him for yourself, if you
wish. lie cannot be inclosed in a formula.
He asks you t6 draw up your own formula
as you read him. Rest assured, William
Blake would not have found him obscure.
"If you want me again, look for me under
your bootsoles." Is not that the very accent
Of Blake?
THERE is marvelous drama In Camden
for the seeing' eye. The-first scene is
Mickle street, that dingy, smoke-swept lane
of mean houses, The visitors from oversea
stood almost agtiast when they saw the
pathetic tista. For years' they had dwelt
on Whitman's magnificent, messages of pride
and confidence : ' r
See, projected through time,
For me an audience Interminable.
Perhaps they had conjured to mind a clean
little cottage such ns an English suburb
might offer: a dainty patch of wallflowers
under the front door, a shining brass knocker, ,
a sideboard of mahogany with an etching of
Walt on he wall. No wonder, then, that
,the deathplace of the poetwith "audience
interminable" came as a shock.
And yet, one wonders, is not that faded
box, with' its flag hanging from the second
story and little Louis Skynter's. boyish sign
in the window Rabbits Jqr tale cheap
and the backyard littered with hutches and
the old nose-broken carved bust off Walt
chticked away in a corner' is it not In z. way
strangely appropriate? Would not Wilt al
most have preferred it to be so, with its
humble homeliness, so instinct 'with lm
inanity, rather than a neatly tidied mauso
leum? .If. Walt had. believed that a man
must .life-In a colonial cot pn the .Main Line
in order to wrife great poetry he would not
have been' Walt,
The great matter Is to.rVeai anfl out
pour' tha Godlike 'suggestions pressing lor
birth In th. soul.
And then tt must be remembered that'Walt
didn't lives much on Mickle street until he
became' a confirmed Invalid, "and hli pack of
listeners kept him talking so hard he didn't
know where be was. He lived on the ferries.
up and down Chestnut street, or (for that,
matter) in the constellation urion,
rpHE second seen? of the 'Camden drama
Ma at narfelgh Qemcteryj "Tlere, among
tbst,"swetMty ot'UwJ,fcfeto, HutVdifi,
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grance to the sun-heavy air, the massive
stone door stands ajar. A great mass of
flowers, laid there by , the English-Speaking
Union, was heaped at the sill. More in
stinctively than in many a church, the passer
lifts his hat.
Has any one supposed It lucky to be
born 7 '
I hasten to Inform him or her It is Just
as lucky to die, and I know It.
I thought of what a little girl who was
standing on the pavement of Mickle street
had sold to me as we halted in front of the
Whitman house. "Aly father was sick, and
he died."
"yESTERDAY Memorial Day was a
day of poignant thoughts. Walt wrote
once in ".Specimen. Days": ,)
Somehow I got thinking today of'young
men's deaths not at all sadly or senti
mentally, but gravely, realistically,
prrhapt a Utile arUtlically.
What a curious note of apology there is
in the last admission! He who was so
rarely "artistic" ! He who began his career
as a writer of incredibly mawkish, short
stories anoV doggerels, and rigidly trained
himself to omit the "stock" touches! Let
us not try to speak of Walt, or of death, in
any "artistic" vein. The topic was near to
one's heart yesterday, for we had Just heard
of the passage of a brilliant and gifted spirit,
dear to so many of us.
QTOP this day and night with mc"
(Walt said) "and you shall possess the
origin of all poems." By which he meant,
of course, you shall possess your own soul.
You shall grasp with sureness and ecstasy
the only fact you con cling to in (his baffling
merry-go-round the dignity and worth of
your own me. Jn reading Whitman one
seems to burst through the crust of perver
sity, artificial complexity and needless tim
idity that afflicts us all, to meet a1 strong
river of sanity and courage that sweens away
. the petty rubbish. Because it is so far from
the course of our meaningless gestures, wo
know Instinctively it is right and true,
There is no heart so bruised, there Is no
life so needlessly perplexed, but it will find
Its message in this man. "I have the best
of time and space," he said. So have we all,
for our little moment. Read his defiant
words, great and scornful as nny ever penned :
What Mlace Is besieged, .and vainly tried
to ralee the alege?
Lo, I send to that place a commander,
swift, brae, Immortal,
And with him horse and foot, and parks
of artillery,
And artillerymen, the deadliest that ever
fired gun. t
He sends you your own soul.
AS WE rod? back to Camden on the trolley
one of my companions spied the Wash-'
ington statue in front of the courthouse
(which I had been hoping ho would miss).
He smiled at the general grotesquely kneeling
in stone. "Only giving one knee to his
Maker," was his droll comment.
It was so with Walt. He wanted to be
quite sure what he was kneeling to before he
gave botlTknces.
If first apd second class cities had home
rule Pennsylvania's state problems would be
much simplified.
The memory of the thousands of Ameri
can boys buried in France crowned Memorial
Day with a new and glorious halo?
Participants in New London, Conn.,
race riots seem convinced that the only way
to get rid of bad blood is to spill it.
If success comes to'the new movement in
Mexico the wondering world w(ll see Villa
progress by easy stages from bandit to pa
trlot.
Hail! And Faretvell!
THEX died that we might live
Hall ! And Fa'rewell S
All honor give
To those wh. nobly striving, nobly fell,
That wa might lire!
That we might live they died
Ifall! And Farewell!
Their courage tried,
By every mean device of treacherous hate,
Like kings they died,
Eternal honor cl
Hall J And Farewell',
To. those who died,
Iln that fnll splendor of heroic pride,
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Years of tlte Modern
YEARS of the modern!. Years of the un-
performed !
Your horizon rises, I scq it parting a?ay for
more august dramas,
1 see not America only, not only Liberty's
nation, but pther nations preparing, .
t see tremendous entrances and exits, new &
combinations, the solidarity of races, y?
I see that force advancing with irresistible)
power on the world's stage,
(Have the old forces, the old wars, played
their parts? Are the acts suitable to -them
closed?) ' "!
1 sec Freedom, completely armed and vic
torious and very haughty, with Law t
on one side and Peace on the other,
A stupendous Trio all issuing forth against i
the idea of caste ;
AVhat historic denouements s.ri these we se ,
rapidly approach?
I see men marching and counter-marching
by swift millions
I see the frontiers and boundarics'of the of
aristocracies broken,
1 see the landmarks of European kings re
moved, I see this day the People beginning their land
marks (all others give way) ; '
Never were such sharp questions asked as
this day . . .
AYhat whispers are these, O lands,-runninr
ahead of you, passing under the'seas?
Are all nations communing? Is there going
to be but one heart to the globe?
Walt Whitman.
"T h e r e's 'Billy
Gotham Has Penn!" cried return-
Nothing On Us ing soldiers, joyously, ,
as the.v sailed un the "L
Delaware. And they were just as glad to
see mm as ever a crowa was to see tne .
Statue of Liberty in New York harbor? '3.
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' Toledo street cars are ra
Get the Hook! at a standstill be- "4
cause the car com- $
nanv refuses to allow the' onerators to wear S
union buttons. Their plaintive cry appears
to be, "Button, button,' who lacks a button?'? 'tl
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The official British attitude toward the ,
Americap ayiators who successfully crossed Jjl
me Atutntic nas aone mucn to remove tnei
bad taste Hawker left in our mouths by thtv
bad taste he displayed.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. What post has Thomas Nelson' Page?
2. What is the standard railroad gauge?
3. When was the "Great Balloon Hoax' '
d TVhflt- it en OflnmMn 'Iii.a.Ia"?
K TTnw hies i the F.nollel, hllllnnV
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0. Where was Woodrow Wilson'born? "
7. Describe the fabled unicorn. ' K
K What does the "land of Gosh'en!' mean?
0. What kind of a weapon is a skene?' ?
10. Whnt metal is called vermilion?.
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1, Senhor Pessoa is president of Brazil.
2. Golf is said to have been first nlaveil n
Scotland, although the word itself has, "l
been traced to tue uutch tongue,
3. Dill is an annual yellow-flowered herb.
used to give savor to cucumber pickles.' itt'l
4. A. P. Hill was, one of the most brilliant Ml
generals of the confederate army. He fWi
. wei ufllen af Tn.rahnrf. Vm Ah i.yt
April 2, 1865.
fi. "The Nut Brown Maid" is the heroins
of an' old English fifteenth century
ballad 'of the same name, ThVautbor S
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6, Twenty-six American states ave woman il
suffrage.
7, Dew is atmospheric vapor condensed In 1
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equal to four English peoples-, tw
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