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rhIUddphli, Wdneida;, June 4, 1919
THAT POLICE BILL AGAIN
SENATOR PENROSE seems to be con
,, fident that his metropolitan police bill,
T falsely so called, will be passed by the
Legislature and approved by the Gov
aK,iernor. The purpose of the bill is to take the
control of the police of Philadelphia from
n an official appointed by the Mayor and
place it in the hands of an official ap
pointed by the Governor. The teim
"metropolitan" is used because the bill
nermits the municinalities adiacent to
V this city to place their police under the
" direction of the official appointed by the
Governor if they choose to do so. But it
is mandatory for Philadelphia. This is a
confession of its intent.
; The Governor is committed to home
rule for cities and it is inconceivable that
he can be bought off from his frankly ex
pressed opposition to this measure by so
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K uucaj u pint: as jt;ttviii inc xui.t tvtti v
si j, county communities oui 01 me scope iu
,uie measure.
The bill should be killed, for it is bad
'in principle, however expedient. It is a
'flagrant trespass upon the rights of this
city to manage its own police force sup-
riiH' ported out of its own funds. It cannot
uc ueienueu iui uu uisiuni uy any tine
jvho believes in home rule for cities. The
MMllAvt tlint If Ic. -nnnenA v. .lnH itfn
taM. 4 JfltbAt. Vllilb Ik 13 piUJIUOLU (II WltlUl Ltf
p . uuce tne ponce out 01 pontics win ue-
Kt a ppiva Tn nno Tt. will moral v mnlro tlto
ZW police the plaything of political factions
gjj and bring about the demoralization of
B8Sthe,-wholc force.
Rrvfe 's u to tle ovorrlor to '" 'l before
KiK its passage if he can, or after its nassaee
tri:' - ' . ...
bY a courageous veto.
TALK
rpAIK is ordinarily cheap. But the talk
that proceeds in a steady flood at
Washington nowadays is expensive. The
Senate has been talking for three weeks
about the league of nations and it has
let not a single glimmer of new light
upon the subject. It is frankly killing
time.
Every senator who talks has an au
dience whose members are each paid
iseventy-fivc hundred dollars a vear to
'' listen to him. He has the Congressional
i. Record, in which his speeches are printed
X. t ,at considerable expense to the country.
igfrj Ie uses the mail system to circulate free
ZyS .cosies of the Record. One sn.-peh snmp.
I i'times requires tons of paper for its publi-
cation throughout the country through
:."??.the Oovprnmpnt. PrinHnn Officii
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MSSlAhe benate has bored itself with the
i'J?leafirue of nations. Now it will Him n
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IJBUffrage. There is a majoritv of votes in
i'M'1'16 Senate for the suffrage amendment.
AicBut the Senate must tnlk- Tt mm, toll,
$$ov yeeks about suffrage to no end, to
"tiK&'no particular purpose.
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5, A
THE REGISTRATION RIPPER
iSjPHE Daix-Brady registration boaid bill
SSfe'r s largely a repetition of the existing
--.ac wun reierence to registration pro-
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jPcRA ceeuings save ior tne Clause empowering
ks$?'the Governor to throw the present com.
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'iX' f missioners out of office within tpn i.iv9
SL-Jf?.", "Vfnlpnt TYtntltrrl rf iUia A.f -
KjU'ilf e -"- .......v.Ma v. t.iiia nut u tt,e surly
Ifflf, 'J evidences of "reform." It is a logical
fV.f Aa'Anetr, tkit !, nn...nH f-i. ,
i uvuuvxu.i umt hie jiunci ui ujjjiuiniment
M ' ' carries with it the right of removal. A
j new law is hardly .necessary to establish
h i4nia larval itnmmnnnln n
-rfr, r -w v(jh vviit4vij'uv,j.
, I he Pennsylvania Supreme Court's re
cent ruling against -the Registration
-frt
f jjf ,ijonumssioiiers action in striking ott the
!Vl 1 , ...,. , . .. .- .
"Hlist the names of voters on the eve of an
fr (.election is a warning to the board against
A'nigu-iiauutru pumits aim also testimony
-that existing channels may be utilized to
" ecure justice.
t Gpvernor Sproul can dismiss the mem
,'"lMhrs after a formal hearing if proved
my ui iiKiiicuoiiiitu in oince. ine pub-
d'.'deserves honest administration on the
ol a board whose highly important
jtlon is to authorize the right of fran
K. It can be obtained with nut .
se to a specious reform which eoes
fe-jold ground except for sanctioning
LMOvernor to mane a speedy and hasty
n-ouv oi commissioners without
erate inquiry and rigid impartial in-
iHtion.
ii
fECTIVE ANTNLEAGUE LOGIC
impression, said to havq currency
Washington, that the league of
ilia will not hold an October meetinc
;;jkt city indicates a. highly inflated
itjition of the effect of congressional
Ition to the peace treaty.
While it is perfectly- true that the Sen-
Jran withhold its assent to the docu-
ut and thus pruserve, as long as it
i s fhanrntTitDi ota rf ,nnH Unin.M
- .mv-ikwi-k, emw w Hiir UCfctTVITJI
iniited SUtwiMid Germany, it cannot
K,taii8ctiMBlu6- of the jnternar
when three of the Entente powers and
Germany sign the treaty, of which the
lcague-of-natlons covenant forms so im
portant a part.
If ther minimum number of members
necessary to give validity to the co
operative enterprise desire to meet in
Washington nothing but special immi
gration laws or the rating of the dele
gates as dangerous aliens can stay their
coming.
It is always illuminating to remember
that this country was a partner in the
war with Germany. She, may withdraw
from the firm in the peace making, but
that will not render the other members
helpless to do a certain amount of busi
ness 6n their own account.
BOMBS ARE BOOMERANGS AND
RETURN TO THEIR THROWERS
No More Futile Form of Propaganda Was
Ever Devised by Hysterical
Malcontents
fpHE mental attitude of the men who
plotted the bomb outrages in Phila
delphia and six other cities on Monday
night is hysterical.
."Murder has never advanced any just
onusc.
Take the case of Russia. Czar Alex
ander was about to sign a constitution
when the anaichists blew him to death
with a bomb. There followed the natural
reaction from liberalism when Nicholas
ascended the throne. If it had not been
for the bomb which killed Alexander it
is not likely that Russia would have been
in her present unfortunate state. Rep
lesentative institutions would have been
established years ago and the process of
(leniociatixation would have proceeded so
far that the empire would not have col
lapsed under the strain of war.
But no icasoning will convince the
bombers of the futility of their conduct.
They are beyond leasrtn. They aic
obsessed by one idea and are proper sub
jects for the pathologist. The insane
asylums are filled with monomaniacs who
differ from these only in that their idea
takes some other form.
The men responsible for Monday
night's outiages can icadily be punished
under existing statutes. They aic with
out doubt of the same group which
brought about the throwing of bombs in
this city last December and was behind
the conspiracy to kill public officials and
wealthy citizens by bombs mailed in the
New York postoflice on April 30. They
have not yet been caught. Some of the
men charged with the duty of catching
them and bringing them to punishment
are prattling of the need of new laws
instead of doing their obwous duty.
The laws arc stringent enough now.
They provide penalties for destroying
public buildings and for throwing bombs
containing any powerful explosive and
for conspiring to do either of these
things. They also provide penalties for
all forms of manslaughter. The officials
should stop talking about the need of new
laws and concentrate their, attention on
executing the laws already enacted.
If it weie not for the moral support
given by parlor Bolshevists and I. W. W.
theorists to the views of those who be
lieve in violence there would be lets
bombing.
There aie many emotional men and
women who have talked glibly of the
necessity of ci eating a "class conscious
ness" and "destroying capitalism," and
setting up a "government of the prole
tariat," who have not perceived whither
this sort of thing tended. They can no
longer be in any doubt about it.
The man who was blown to pieces by
the bomb which he was trying to plant in
the house of Attorney General Palmer in
Washington had a lot of pamphlets
issued by the "Anarchist Fighters" in
which it was asserted that "A time has
come when the social question's solution
can be delayed no longer; class war is on
and cannot cease but with a complete vic
tory for the international proletariat."
What lot.
The literature of the I. W. W. is full of
this sort of thing. The Bolshevists in
Russia began their control of govern
ment or misgovernment there by put
ting in effect the social theories of the
"class conscious" by depriving every one
but the members of their "class" of prop
erty and protection. The thing which
they set up was not democracy, but
mobocracy.
There is no finer thing in government
than democracy, for it rests on the theory
that all men are equal before the law and
all have equal rights to life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness. The only class
consciousness that can thrive under it is
the consciousness that all men are broth
ers, with mutual obligations to respect
the rights of one another.
Living in a democracy is a business of
give and take. The bombers desire to
take everything and to give nothing.
They arc sure to learn that the bomb is
a boomerang.
If it were possible for bomb plotters
to consider the facts in America patent
to the most casual observer whose mind
Is not warped by passion engendered by
resentment against old world conditions,
they would be engaged in better business.
The rest of us know that a vertical sec
tion of American society cutting through
from the richest to the poorest would
show that the roots of the richest and
most powerful are planted fast in the
soil on which the feet of the humblest
rest.
The rich have risen by the force of
native 'genius in an atmosphere favor
able to the development of whatever
gifts a man may possess. There are no
rigid class lines. There is no permanent
proletariat. The daughter of the rich man
marries the son of the mechanic and the
daughter of the mechanic marries the son
of the rich man.
The apparent chasm is bridged so fre
quently that there is no chasm at all
save in the heated imagination of the
hysterical.
And ifany one has a grievance the
courts aie ppen to him. It is notorious
that the juries favor the poor man at the
expense of the powerful corporation,
giving the humble the benefit of the
doubt In every case.
rol Undcy of siodera legisla-
tlon has been to- extend the protection of
tho laws to the workers and to compel
tho employers to shorten their hours of
labor and to compensate them for any
injuries received In the course of their
employment.
If the lrfws arc not satisfactory there
aic orderly and established processes for
changing them. It is not necessary for a
man to go into court with an automatic
pistol leveled at the head of the judge In
order to get justice. The logical con
clusion of such a course is illustrated by
the bomb explosions.
A FIRST-CLASS VETO
rpHE dangerous jail delivery flagrantly
x desfgned in the Walker bill has been
indefinitely deferred. That Iniquitous
measure, undoing the work of the crimi
nal courts, crippling the functions of the
Board of Pardons and enabling any judge
to order the release of any prisoner who
had served one-third of his sentence has
expired under the keen edge of Governor
Sprout's veto ax.
As this newspaper recently pointed out,
the passage of the bill by both legisla
tive branches at Harrisburg constituted
an extremely serious menace to security
and justice. The whole operation savored
of a scheme to release some prisoner or
piisoners with "pull."
Governor Sproul's sense of justice re
volted at such suspicious and perilous
methods. He has summed up the situa
tion in his veto, which declares that "the
judge who imposes the sentence with
relation to the character of n crime can
determine better than the Legislature
how the minimum and maximum sentence
should be apportioned." This is excel
lent sense.
MEXICO AND A CONGRESSMAN
SPEAKER GILLETT'S address before
a convention of' Americans interested
in the industrial development of Mexico
is significant though far from inspiring.
It is known in Washington that the
War Department is preparing for trouble
south of the border and doing so as a
matter of mere routine. Mr. Gillett's
speech is of the sort that makes that sort
of preparation inevitable and necessarv.
There are likely to be a great many more
speeches of the same soit before long.
The theory that America should pacify
Mexico by force is being systematically
revived, but it is odd to find it broadly
suggested in a speech by the speaker of
the House of Representatives.
The United States doubtless could
pacify Mexico and set up the sort of gov
ernment it desired if it were willing to
endure the various stiains of a ten-year
war. Business inteiests in Mexico would
be benefited. Returns from concessions
would be surer and laiger.
The first result of American invasion
of Mexico, however, would be the aliena
tion of sympathy for the United States
in all Latin America, the revival of sus
picions and the ruin of all that has been
accomplished in the last ten years to
unify political opinion and to establish
friendly co-operation among the peoples
of this continent.
Villa has plenty of money. The State
Department ought to know where he is
getting it. If he has friends in America
the people should know their names.
Postninster Oriipral
The P. 0. Need? Uurles-on is iletenninrd
when Philadelphia rr
Mimi'o it pneumatic tube mail service it
must start again frtfm the ground up. He
1ms written thp locul company that i the
work of the lemoval of the tubes is not
accelerated lie will assign a force of post
office employes to finish it. Tisli. tush '. an
idle threat! He will need the extra p. o. em
plojes as hostlers and grooms for his stage
coaches when he starts them.
Any one who has ever
Cooking and experimented with the
Coternnient I nited States rail
road administration's
Irish stew will understand the clamor of a
reader wiio strode coldly fiom n dining'car
at Broad Street Station jesterday and rang
us up to suggest that Mr. lliues is trying to
lehabilitnte the railways of the country with
inonej wrung from the diner scivice.
When you read the
accounts of Senator
Holes
Penrose's activities at
Hanisburg it is impossible to avoid the con
viction that the senator knows precisely how
William Penn felt when he landed from Eng
land and surveyed his responsibilities Ju a
new world.
, A one-stop trip across
Grown Thrill-proof the continent is the
latest aviation jour
ney planned. The plane used will be able to
carry a ton of freight or a dozen passengers.
The fact that we are able to absorb the news
with only a minor thrill is evidence of how
far we have traveled emotionally during the
Inst few years.
Pennsylvania suffra
First Under the Wire gettes have 6tarted a
lobby to the end that
the Keystone State shall be the first to ratify
the suffrage amendment if it passes the
United States Senate. Rivalry for first
honors has aforetime made a sporting propo
sition of the most serious subjects.
Northampton, Mass.,
Refused to has had a municipal
Cough Up theatre and now it
has not. It was dis
continued after Common Couudl refused to
make good a deficit of $0144 incurred during
the influenza epidemic last year. Literally
sneezed out of existence !
It isn't surprising to
find Austria pleading
for mercy. If there
The Source nf
All Troubles
was any fight leftin
Austria she would make war on Germany
General Humidity has made bis first big
attack of the summer campaign.
Thoigh the leading roles In the drama,
"Austria TaklDg Her Medicine," were per
formed with smoothness, there was evidence
that Bome of the supernumeraries were not
sufficiently rehearsed.
Inhabitants of Mayence and Wiesbaden
were evidently of the opinion that If they
were to avoid having a republic thrust upon
them they must strike, and strike quickly.
The fact that bomb outrages broke out
simultaneously In Philadelphia, Washington,
New York, Boston and other towns evi
dence of a directing bead with a brain storm
IMMfOIU. , ,
CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S
LETTER
Republican Harmony After the Storm.
Char1esvP, Qrlm's Liking for the
Arm Antics of Burle
son's Clock .
Washington, D. C, June ,4.
THR fight over Penrose n the. Senate,
taken In conjunction with the Insurgency
thnt marked the organization of the House,
leaves it fair to assume that thp Republican
party must proceed carefully with Us legis
lative program if it expects to make prog
ress against the Wilson administration. It
is disheartening to those who think a Re
publican victory has been achieved toob
serve that the more or less personal or sec-,
tional preferences of Individual senators and
representatives sqmetltncs stand In the way
of successful party organization. Penrose
was the undoubted choice of n great ma
jority of the Republicans of the Senate for
finance committee chairman, but three or
four western senators who have helped to
educate their people to the belief that the
Kast is antagonizing the 'West held out
against him, even to the point of threaten
ing the overthrow of the party. They gave
in only under conditions which seemed to
give assurance to "the folks back home"
thnt they had made the fight of their lives
and had succumbed to save the party.
Over in the House the spirit of harmony
has been developing rapidly. Little is heard
nbnut the much -discussed steering commit
tee except thnt it is doing good work. And
much of this is due to the policy inanurated
bv the new Speaker, Mr. (.illett. of Massa
ihiisctts, of conferring with the steering
committee for an hour every morning. This
new arrangement gives to the chairmen of
standing committees an opportunity to con
fer about the procedure of the day and has
seemed to meet with general approval. If
the Senate harmonizcrs can get along as
well as those who arc now endeavoring to
iron out the differences in the House the
Republicans will be In fairly good shape to
fain the big problems thnt must be met.
IV TIinUK Was one thing John L. Grim,
for n long time councilman in Philadel
phia, was proud of it wns bis Civil AVnr
recoul John wns a sturdy Democrat, but
thnt made no difference to the boys of the
(rniid Army of the Republic, who enjoyed
bis speeches and generally heaped honor
upon him. Now comes Charles P. (trim,
son of John L., 'who wns brought up In the
(ontrnctor business nlong with bis fnther,
with n soldier recoid like unto that of dad.
The joung man enlisted in the quartermas
ter (lepaitment of the army and was ad
vanced until he became a captain. He is
now nt Camp Guthrie, Prance, doing re
clamation and reconstruction work,
IF THD clock In the steeple of Independ
ence Ilnll is a quarter of nn hour nbend
of the clock in the City Hnll in Philadel
phia, ns it wns one Sunday about two
weeks ngo, It hns nothing on the Burleson
clock in the Postoflice Building on Pcnnsyl
nnia ncnne. by which most travelers from
the Capitol to the White House set their
timepieces. Por seveinl dajs nt a time the
Burleson clock goes on a lcgular toot. It
is a real annoynticc to the weary postoflice
clerks. They think it is quitting time when
the woikdny is just beginning. Frequently
when they think it is twenty minutes to
4 p. m. it is 7:"0 a. m. It" is even less
comprehensible than Cap'n Cuttle's watch,
for the Cap'n could generally make out the
.lime no matter what the watch indicated.
Some people who have been wntcbiug the
antics of the Burleson clock "say it's a vic
tim of economj that it costs too much to
keep it going ; others, a little sarcastic, to be
sure, say it is only keeping in line with the
postal service. Possibly it may be lobbying
for the repeal of the daj light-saving law.
A FT Kit looking up Murdock Kcndrick and
other friends of the old National Re
publican League days. Sid B. Rrtlding, of
Little Rock, stopped oer to adjust some
mntters here In connection with the Fed
eral Court for the' Eastern District of
Arkansas, of. which he is clerk. Redding
went over to Philadelphia to attend the
seventj -second anniversary celebrntion of
the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company,
and, of course, brought back some personal
ininplimcnts for Lincoln K. Pnssmore and
Ilanison S. Gill. But what interested the
southern men most, said Sid, wns that red
hot nnti -league of nations speech of George
Whaiton Pepper, attorney for the company.
WILLIAM J. CONLKN tells us that the
New Jersey Society of Pennsylvania
will soon unveil, in the presence of the
State Historical Society, a tablet on the
old office of the surveyor general of the
Council of Proprietors of Wrst Jersey, com
memorating the concessions from Sir Gqorge
Carteret and Lord Berkeley, who passed
them on from the Duke of York under his
grant from King Charles II. The tablet
will contain the first pngc of the original
concessions. The mayor of Burlington is to
receive the delegation, and the exeiciscs are
expected to permit some of the Jersey tiis
torians to revive the memories of our an
cient associations with "the mother coun
try " If the committee can land Senator
Wills, of Bordcntown, as a speaker, lie
might explain why they used to call a Jer
sejmnn a "Spania.rd.'
IT MAKES ,no difference bow many cannon
and machine guns were captured by Amer
ican soldiers in France, there is a town In
.i. tt!..i (jintM wUlini tit tnke over everv
II1U l Illlftl umita e. - V. -
one of them, Pennsylvania cities and towns
included. After every war it has been cus
tomary to distribute captured guns. Any
one walking along Delaware avenue or Front
street, in the old section of Philadelphia,
will observe guns dating back to the begin-
ning of our wars imueuueu iu cue mirvi,
corners. Bills numbering thousands have
already been introduced for the recovery of
old guns for town purposes throughout the
United States. Julius Kahn, just back from
the front, says he believes there are 4000
guus thnt can be distributed here and about
J0.000 machine guns and minnenwerfers,
Congiess is going to nttempt the distribution
sooner or later, but it will be a difficult job
to satisfy everybody.
WILLIAM F. R.GRIFFITH, the engi
neer who set up the monuments for the
New Jersey Sblp Canal Commission along
the" line of the government waterway pro
ject from Bordentown to Raritan Bay, is
now associated with the office of the super
vising engineer of the .Norfolk quartermas
ter terminal of the War Department. Mr.
Criflith believes, with Mayor Donnelly, of
Trenton; United States Senator Udge and
the business men alone the line, that the
necessity for the ship canal project has beeu
proved by the war and that Congress should
authorize it at an early date.,
SOMC ONE la Washington the other day
inquired about Lewis Emery, Jr., who
was sort of 1 Btate Blankenburg some years
ngo. Colonel Binery Is the same active
business man he always was, but he is up
against the tariff and other problems, like
some other manufacturers wpo have been
watching the effects of the war, The colonel
has been away from Bradfordwhich Evan
J. Jones now represents In Copgress for
about two years, having buslnijiM Interests
In South America which occupy his fctten-
tion there, but tpe upys wno gr up wu
ana are oa tae ju jwpim,
"AW,
,iiJX.ihul.
SUNNY
Perhaps He Means a Sausage Link?
The manner in which Alsace-Lorraine
Is now treated will decide the future peace
of the world. From an apple of discord It
sbould become a link between the two
great nations which In the future will be
een more dependent than before upon
friendship with eae other. Broclcdorff
Raiitzau, In the Deutsche Allgemeine
Zeilung.
One of the things we would like to see
would be Brockdorff explaining to Clemen
ceau how dependent France has been on
Germany's friendship.
Our laughter rang n little hollow the other
day when we saw a Pullman car in the West
Philadelphia jnrds named "Economy."
Was this a joke of the late McAdoo?
Telegram Just Received
PLEASE ASCERTAIN TACTFULLY IP
rOSSlIlLE WHETHER KEV DIl MUTOHLER
WOULD HE WILLING 11B ELECTED
HO.VOIIAHY ME.MUE1! OUR ASSOCIATION AT
COMI.NU CONVENTION' IN YOUR GREAT
CITY.
AM'ERICAN TRESS HUMORISTS ASSOCIATION
Literary Note
Our friend Willard Connely, now of Cali
fornia, is seriously considering settling in
Philadelphia. We think it should be known
that Willard is the author of that very en
tertaining book, "The Letters of a Self-made
Widow."
Is the weather man also trying to be a
terrorist?
Self-Scrutiny. .
When we sample ourself (as a powerfu)
thinker has observed), and sample deep
enough 'and get down to the true stuff, it
occurs to us that we have a spiteful nature.
For instance. AVe were once one of the
commuters, and ouc breast is tender to their
woes. And yet, now that we have passed
Into a more glorious incarnation as a town-
dwellcr, we are shocked to find ourself a little
callous toward the distresses of our "old
companions. On a vary warm afternoon
recently a freight car jumped the rails near
Overbrook and sprawled across three out- '
boun'd tracks. For an hour or so Main Line
commuters sat simmering in the sim of tbe
West Philadelphia' tropics1. We, passing
merrily inward on-an unimpeded train, saw
their hopeless caravans lined up like sausage
links crackling on a hissing pan.
And did we offsr up a prayer for their
unhappy souls? Did we feel a gush of
humane and Christian pity? Did we wan
der whether their paper drinking cups were
holding out and1 whether they were reading
over their evening papers for the third time
for treasures of thought? Not we. We
glanced upon them with a cheerful feeling
of superiority and thanked our stars that we
were bustling iu tpward the jolly old city,
toward soda fountains and movies and the
boom of the evening trolleys.
We have a friend who says that whenever
he feels melancholy and depressed he has
only to turn his mind toward us, grinding
away here oa our typewriter, to be(relieyed'
and exhilarated by the thought of our pangs
of travail We fear'it is only too true. For
while no one enjoys seeing fellow humans in
distress, there is a certain humorous resig
nation with which we contemplate them
coping with the annoyances and perplexities
of every day.
On that same voyage through West Phila
delphia w'e saw a bright orange-colored "Pull
man car, a sight that stirred us strangely.
We don't know what railroad It Is that
paints its cars yellow is it tbe Chesapeake
and Ohio? but once In our extreme. youth
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and it made a lasting impression. The train
went somewhere where there was a smell of.
salt water; we believe it was taken over n
ferry nt night time. To this day wecannot
see one of those orange cars without a'strong
sense of romance and adventure.
It occurs to us that some one may sug
gest that the train in question was the
famous Barnum & Bailey special, which wo
recall is tiutcd yellow. But we were not
boru in a circus troupe. No such luck !
We wish some one would dig up a law of
1704 against Swedish matches.
Our friend Mr. A. Edward Newton is
learning thnt there arc penalties attached
to successful authorship. Three newspapers
in different parts of the country have written
inviting him to conduct their literary pages.
O. Henry died nine years ago tomorrow,
and already there is a hotel named for him
in his native state of North Carolina. Ap
preciation is trailing genius pretty bard these
days, and before long it may be possible for
a great writer to find a soda fountaiu named
after him while he is still alive. x
A Song at Parting
Your road leads to the hilltop,
My road leads to the dale :
vlt seems as if our "Farewell"
Followed so soon our "Hail."
Your road leads, you fuither,
My road leads me backt
There be roadsters plenty
Journeying cither track.
But wherever your road leads jou,
And wherever my road ends,
- We're glad to have had the meeting,
Glad to have been such friends.
BESSIE GRAHAM'S FRIEND.
One of tho cruelest cuts we have ever, seen
lies edged and whetted In a theatre ad we
find In a Worcester, Mass., newspaper
Thus ;
EARL AND SUNSHINE
Girls of Today and Yesterday
In regard to our bathing suit, we hope soon
to jdo just what the sagacious moths have
been doing.all winter' get into it.
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We are Congratulating ourself on not
having bought our straw hat yet. We still
have something to look forward to.
Petfograd keeps on falling, but it doesn't.
seem to nave toucueu Dottom. Perhaps it
only falls in the same way that prices do.
What will the governor of North Caro
lina say to the governor of South Carolina
after the 1st of July?
Speaking of sodas, why is it go hard to
get maple soda? It seems to us tbe most
delightful flavor of all, and yet we ask for
it again and again in vain.' Soraetimcs'tbe
officiating marblctender says he can give us
fi soft feminine contraption knowu as maple
nut sundae, which we spurn j but the true
'maple ice cream soda is bard to find.
' G. II. E." sends us from the Erankford
High School a Chinese; drinking song of the
twelfth century B. O., which is supposed tQ
be tbe oldest known specimen of this de
pjorable species of lyric.
It occurs to us to remark, however, that
the Chinese poem is still iu circulation,
whereas our drinking songs, however recent,
will'be out of date within a few weeks,
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UNDER the blue sky,
And the white clouds sailing high,
Where the (gallant wind went by,
A bird sang on sang 01T
Till the day (too soon) was done.
And thp daylight died
From the field and tbe hillside.
And the moorland bare and svlde
But the bird sang on sang on
Long after the light was gone. s
Like a voice that said :
"Oh, you who weep your dead,
Be comforted be comforted !
For the deed lives on lives on
Long after the life is gone!"
C. FOX SMITH, in "Sailor Town."
Tbe framing of a gilt-edged charter
calls fortfie use of many hidden wires.
Bomb outrages draw attention to the
truism that one fool can undo the work of a
thousand good men.
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Tbe man "who wants a job, absolutely
free from all monotony should apply for a
position as head of the league of nations,
Austria not only eats willingly, but Is
prepared to 'demonstrate that she really likes
her humble pie.,
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, In the, 'matter of the league of nations
there, is possibility that the United States
Senate may stand-on its dignity so long that
it won't have a'leg to stand on.
What Do You Know?
cuiz
Who is attorney general of the United
States?
.Name a gifted modern composer who was
a" Czecho-Slovak.
How quick a flight across the American
continent docs the ,army air service
plan to make? ' '
Who wrote "Samson Agonlstes"?
What kind of a tree is a bullace? ,r
What was the Bundcsrath iu the former
Germdn Empire?
What is a moraine? ,
What kind of a drink is perry? j
Who was Maecenas?
Where Is Philadelphia, New York?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz,
1 The Saar valley region was ceded, to A
' 2. Herbert Hoover is tbe head of the allied
food relief commission. -
3. Tbe Cid (Rodlguez Diaz do BivarJ Is
y the national hero of Spain, He was a
knight celebrated Iu song and'storyfor
his victories over the Moors. ,fCld
Campeador" (Lord Champion) was
his full title. He was born in Burgos
about 1010 and died In Valencia" in
1009. ;
4. The 'Weather Bureau wasestabllshcd In
, the -United States in 1870. r '
5. The lunar month is about' twenty-nine
and a half days long. k
0, Marline is a nautical term describing a
small line of two strands.
7. MlcheleTozza, an Insurgent and brigand
of Calabria, Italy, was known as
Fra Diavolo. His dates are 17G0
1800. , -
8, Marsupial is the name of the class t
mammals which carry their younf i
a pouch. -
0, "Mariage d conyenance" Is the termtfok
a marriage contracted from prudcuilsl ;
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