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THE CHARTER VICTORY
rnHE thanks of every believer in clean
- city government are due to thoo
members of the Citizens' Committer on
Chartei Revision whose conscientious,
painstaking and exhausting labors were
unselfishly contributed to the drafting of
the bills which have now weatheicd the.
attacks of a stoimy passage at Harris
burg. They can congratulate themselves
upon having done a haul job and done
it well and faithfu ly.
The lesult is a victoiy for honesty and
decency in every sense of the word.
Although not eveiything is obtained
that the members might wish, every es
sential for th" beginnm," of a new period
In municipal transactions has been ac
complished, and theie is ample reason to
predict n decided improvement in the
control of the city administration pro
vided and this is most important of all
the voters of Philadelphia do their duty
at the polls as well in the rrcu'wuixtt
performed their self-appointed tusks.
Unfit or crooked officials can undo all
the gains that have been made. The best
laws ever devised can be circumvented by
men determined to serve dishonest pui
poses. It is up to every voter who wants to
keep down graft in the city government
to back up the new chaiter with his
ballot.
., CONGRESSIONAL HUSTLE
LITTLE jobs like unscrambling
1 railroads and wires, revising
the
tht
tax laws, fashioning a budget and making
peace with Germany can hardly be ex
pected to monopolize congiessional time.
Intervals of leisure have, however, been
energetically avoided.
Of the C000 bills introduced since the
Sixty-sixth Congress opened, one-third
have been devoted to the same genera!
theme. The disposition of war lelics is
the prime concern of all these measures,
and many are the towns, villages, ham
lets and crossroads which aie indulging
in anticipatory thrills over trophies em
blematic of our military victory.
Some of the requests are modest, as,
for instance, that of the congressman
asking for only one "small cannon" for
each of the eight tovm in his district.
Others arc more exacting and urge the
delivery of "sets of projectiles" or a
"suitable number of shells." The Ohio
representative who wants "cannon balls"
fixes a different standard, evincing a
knowledge of history, but not of the con
temporary variety.
,It would be a pleasing act of sentiment
could all these requests be filled. Never
theless, it is probable that Senator Wads
worth's plan, authorizing the secretary
of war to dispose of the captuied German
ordnance in an equitable manner, will be
adopted.
But the 2000 bills introduced were not
really in vain. They furnished a season
of legislative exercise. Perish the
thought of an idle Congress!
THUMBS DOWN!
"NTOBODY need mouin for the death
A" of the so-called Metropolitan Police
Commission bill at Harrisburg save those
who hoped to use it for selfish advantage.
The enactment of this measuie would
have been a decided step backward and
Would not have accomplished anything
except sooner or later to plunge the
Police Department deeper into partisan
politics.
Every safeguard is thrown around the
police and firemen in the new city char
ter bills to keeD them awav fmm tVi
S 4 politicians and the politicians away from
'j. ! Tnnm i nn rtrii cnmMrm v.....;..!.: i
j .jinuviaiuua, ii jjiuyeny eniorceu oy tne
(-height kind o commissioners, will effec-
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$f-.tualy prevent abuses without viciously
4!eniirtinrr from thp Vinnio.v.tla nM.M:i-
?, .. We have opposed this measure from
pi; the first and we ore glad Governor Sproul
Bevlir'8 other leaders have coincided.
fcfiT Now they havo pulled nobody's chestnuts
irom the fire.
nlT
JOHNSON LOOPHOLE
. TT IS doubtless nrudent to ask trm
mv '"""courts to decide, before the Johnson
.'' ""K"'"" h'uvcu iiuu a special
J building erected to contain it, whether
''.thro has arisen an "extraordinary situa
'kU'1 "fluking jt exceedingly Judicious."
'lllaaf Uit rtirilirt' rVioiiIH hp pyntntrnI In
, tlaa residence in South Broad street unlpaa
W:'' .Miii a situation arose. Investigation has
W? pitwn that tho house is not fireproof and
H ma uiieaxu iucu i.ux ouuiiug a vamuuic
4jIlCtion of paintings. It would cos al
ot as much to make it fireproof as it
rgl4. ,to build a suitable building ex-
devoted to the collection, une
B.are now in a iireproot warc-
tBurt 6s6v&
tbaf cmdiom
exist which makev it judicious to remove
the. pictures permanently to another
place, then no interested person will be
able to make trouble in the future. The
desire of Mr. Johnson that his house
should become a museum is admitted.
But Mr. Johnson was too wise a man to
hamper by impossible conditions those to
whose care ho was intrusting his valuable
collection. He left an opening in his will
big enough to permit all tho pictures nnd
other objects of art to bo carried through
to whatever other place the judgment of
those in chaigo might think best.
COUNSELS OF FOLLY
ON THE PEACE TREATY
The Knox Resolution Contains tjje Mad
dest and Most Pernicious Propo
sitions Yet Made
NO MORE astounding propositions
were ever made in a time of grave
international ciisis than are contained in
the Knox resolution offeied in the Sen
ate within two or three hours al'UT the
appearance of the Congress ion.il Uecoid
ycsteiday morning containing the tun
text of the peace treaty in the form in
which it was submitted to Germany.
The resolution is anpaiently intended
as a complete repudiation of the course
of the President in Paris. It disputes
the constitutional power of the Senate to
ratify any such tieaty as the President
has assisted in negotiating. And it
chaigis that the tiraty "contains principle-,
guarantees and undertakings ob
litcintive of legitimate race and national
aspiratu :. oppie-.sivt of weak nations
and people- and destiuctive of human
piogiess and libeity."
In Senator Knn's eagerness to smite
I lie President lie has delivered a blow at
the hnncst) of puipcs? of every one of
the Allied nations which has participated
in framing the treatv. He charges France
and Gieat Britain, Italy and Japan, by
implication, with consenting to principles
opptcssive of weak nation- -and destiuc
tive of human piogie-s and liberty.
This is a grave chaise to be made by
a former societal y of state, who is one
of the leaders of the partv in power in
the legislature of one of the nations en
gaged in making peace. It matters not
whether the Senate adopts or 1 ejects the
lesolution when it comes to a vote. The
mischief has been done 1 its introduc
tion and publication. It gives aid and
comfort to Germany, which has been
quick to take advantage of everj differ
ence of opinion among the peace dele
gates of which it could leain. It will
htiffen the backbone of Count von Brock-doiff-Rantzau
and his colleagues, who aie
to be told that they must fign the treaty
within a few days. It will weaken the
power of the President in Paris through
its announcement to the whole world that
the leaders of the Senate majortv do not
accept him as the spoktsman for Amer
ica. We say "tho leaders," because it is
incredible that Senator Knox should have
offeied his leso'ittion without tho knowl
edge and consent of his associates.
While professing to desire tho peace of
the woild and the early agreement on the
tieaty, Senator Knox seems to have acted
without any sense of responsibility for
the consequences of his course, and to bo
seeking partisan advantage no matter
at what cost. It is most unfoitunato and
is to be regretted by every American who
cares more foi the equitable settlement
of the problem of peace than he docs for
putting the leaders of any political party
in a hole.
After announcing that Congiess de
olaied war upon Germany and pledged
the lesouices of the country to bring the
conflict to a successful termination, the
resolution declares that the Senate,
"being a coequal part of the treaty
making power," is gravely impressed by
the fact that the provisions of the treaty
"appear calculated to force upon us un
desirable and far-reaching covenants
inimical to our free institutions," and
that if it fails to accept these our co
belligerents may be at peace while we
shall be at war. This is aimed at the
league-of-nation.- tcction of the treaty
and it begs the whole question by assum
ing that it is admitted that the league
would be inimical to our fiee institutions.
The third paragraph in the preamble
goes even farther by denouncing the
treatment accorded to the little peoples
as oppressive and destructive of human
progiets, as quoted above. If the treaty1
is as bad as all this, then its ratification
should not be considered at all, either
with or without the Ieaguc-of-nations
section in it.
But we all know that a serious at
tempt has been made by all the delegates
to protect the little peoples and to insure
the independence and autonomy of the
small nations. The Poles and the Czecho
slovaks and the Serbians are under no
delusion about what has been done for
them. Their leaders are piofessing grati
tude for the opportunity which the treaty
guarantees to them to live their own
life in their own way. They are certainly
as good witnesses as could be found to
testify on this matter.
The first section of the resolution an
nounces that tho Senate will legard as
adequate to our national "needs a treaty
"which shall assure to the United States
and its people the attainment of those
ends for which vve entered the war," but
nothing is said about what those
ends were; whether they were to make
the world, including the United States,
safe for democracy, or whether they were
merely to secure a military victory over
Germany, to be followed by a renewal of
the commercial treaties which the break
ing out of war nullified.
Then it i3 resolved that the constitu
tion cannot be amended by a treaty and
that the Senate ennnot consent to any
treaty which would change the constitu
tion. This is mere flubdub.
There is nothing in the treaty which
trespasses in any way upon the consti
tutional functjons of Congress. Particu
lar pains have been taken to respect the
constitutional limitations placed upon the
President and upon Congress. There are
some lawyers who say that the effort has
not been successful; but equally good
lawyers insist that we are asked to do
nothing which would interfere with our
sovereignty to any greater extent than
it is interfered with by every treaty
""'
whlcJi we mae with another power.
Tbethtfd sfekm ak that the league
of-natlons covenant be separated from
tho rest of the treaty so that it may be
acted upon separately and at leisure, in
order that the remainder of the treaty
may be ratified at once. But does Sena
tor Knox favor ratifying a treaty which
"oppresses littlo peoples" and is "sub
versive of human progress and liberty"?
The separation of the league section
would involve rewriting the whole docu
ment, for tho league is to enforce the
provisions of the treaty. It is interwoven
with the whole fabric of the structure.
If its provisions for the little nations
are so abhorrent they must be entiicly
recast.
The fourth section announces, in effect,
that the Senate is prepared to ratify a
peace treaty at an early date if the Peace
Conference will separate the league pro
visions from the rest. The last section
piomises that in- cajie the peace of
Europe is again threatened tho United
States will "regard such a situation with
grave concern as a menace to its own
peace and freedom," nnd will consult with
other povvers with a view to devising
means for the removal of the menace.
This is a promise to join in improvising
a league of nations in a specific crisis
after the crisis has arisen and admits
the necessity for international co-operation
against which it is professing to
protest.
If the Senate should adopt this resolu
tion the United State.- would be dis
graced before all the world. And we
would have no valid grievance if the
Peace Conference should ignore the
American delegates and make such a
tieaty with Germany as it saw fit, leav
ing us to get out of the mess into which
we had precipitated ourselves by the
best way possible.
But even if the resolution should not
pass its intioduction will make the task
of agreement with Germany much more
difficult and will without doubt delay that
consummation for which we are all de
voutly hoping.
Have Messrs. Lodge, Knox and Borah
gone mad ?
A LEGISLATIVE SENTENCE
pASSAGE of the bill ousting tho Per
x sonal Registration Commission at the
discretion of Governor Sproul is in tho
nature of a legislative judgment and sen
tence on the members of that body for
failure in the peiformance of duty.
That the sentence is justified is made
clear by the censure of the local Court
of Common Pleas and the state Supreme
Court, which vigorously condemned the
body for disfranchising voters illegally.
It is regrettable that there should be
need of anything smacking of "ripper"
legislation because of the bad precedent
it establishes. A bette,- course would have
been for the Governor to call the mem
bers befoie him for a hearing on the
charges and then follow it with the re
moval of those he deemed guilty of mis
feasance. But lack of time seems to have
made this course impracticable.
The responsibility of selecting men
who thall unwaveringly protect the
rights of every voter now falls upon Gov
ernor Sproul, and with the present ex
ample before him there is no doubt he
will take care to play no factional
favorites.
Paris pessimism is
s i "i I 1 7 n reminder
FilliiiB in the Time
. that wlien one has
leisure to worry one simply lias to worry,
even if one be forced to worry because one
has nothing to worry about.
The mammoth Brit
Kcatly for New Tjpo isli dirigible 11-34 lias
been ns-igupcl to cross
the Atlantic. "Oft, all light, John Bull,"
mus Uncle Sam. "It's all n matter of
choice, but I'd rather have two planes of
sweet seventeen than one bag of K-34!"
Hugh Gibson, Ameri-
(lOOrt Man for can minister to Po-
Big Job land, hag been sent by
the Stnte Department
to investigate alleged pogroms. Cibson's
ubility, nnd integrity, proved in Belgium, will
give weight to the report he is called upon to
make.
The organization corn
Name, Please! mittee of the league
of nations commission
has decided thnt "it will be essential to tfce
league to be informed at the earliest moment
of all the political, economic, financial, so
cial nnd other relevant considerations in all
parts of tho world," Oh, vvirra, wirra ! AVe
know- one woman's club that will keep the
internntionnl secretnrint busy.
S. A. B. Farquhar
Hearts and Homes has the backing of
many modern thinkers
in his assertion before the Pennsylvania
Housing and Town Planning Association
that environment has much more influence
upon a man thnn heredity. He drew from it
the just conclusion that we ought to have
more homes and better ones. The man who
inny on occasion be called upon to fight for
his home ought at least to have a home worth
lighting for. .
The High Cost of Education is being
seriously considered by the University of
Pennsylvania.
If Harrisburg is through with the dove
of peace, it might be a goou" idea to shoot It
over to Paris.
Philadelphia G. A. It. men have proved
to Lancastrians that age is no bar to a good
hustler.
Now that every member of the United
States Senate has his own copy of the peace
treaty, he knows just as much about it as he
did before.
There is so little In the treaty to .date
that wus not Jn the nummary that one sus
pects that politics rather than patriotism
was responsible for the pother.
It is n safe bet that about 00 per cent
of the new troop of. state police will be hon
orably discharged soldiers. They have the
goods. ,
Clcraenccau has notified the Hungarian
Government that If ottneks on Czechs do
not cease "extreme measures" will be taken.
Just a little intimation that the Tiger still
has teeth.
Word has been received from Berlin of
the death of Admiral von Holtxendorff, bead
of the German general naval ktaff durlnr
of the German general naval staff durlnj
thwar." It U a rrtahu that H didn't He
CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S
LETTER i
Many Delegations of Phlladelphlano
Visit Washington Chaplain Scott
of the Army Is Now a Major.
"Congresses Come and Qo,
but an 'Uncle Joe' Is
Always on the Job"
Wnshinelon. D. C. June 11.
T UPUBMCANS in Congress are trying to
JL V ,nln Afinliiiii.H .. ........I... n...1 M'l.nf nra'
having n hard time to do it. The start on
the Indian appropriation bill nnd the agri
cultural bill was not fnvorable, since each
bill carried slightly Incrcnsed appropriations
over the bills prepared by the Hemocrnts
which failed In tho Senate. But there was
some excuse for these two hills because of
the Republicans' desire to get them out of
the way to tnkc up the linger appropriation
bills for the army nnd nnv.v The Democrats) .
iuxlsted that the Republicans hnd accepted
these measures about ns the Democrats
framed them, but the Republicans retorted
thnt they had only until the HOth of June to
get all appropriation bills through or be com
pelled to resort to the Demncintie method of
extending the preceding j ear's appropria
tions into the new year. This, with the
army and unvy bills, would carry war ap
propriations into pence time". The Repub
licans insisted that if Mr. WiNon hnd called
Congress into extra session cm the C7t.lt of
March, rather than hold up the session until
the I nth of May, the situation would have
been different. Then there would have been
time to go into the bills more eniefully.
Moreover, they Insisted that the Democrats
had not made up their committees for n
whole week after the Republicans had c'om
plctc'd theirs, thus delating hearings nnd
otherwise forcing hasty consideration of the
ntitinc bills above referred to It is evident
that a good deal of Democratic jocKejing is
to be done before the November elections.
The President's attitude on the beer, wine
nnd whl-kj business Is pointed to ns Indi
raiuig that Republicans will be forced to
pl.iv the gnmc wise! if thov expect to catch
up to the President before ehitiou.
rni.i:OATIONS from Philadelphia come
-' to Washington on n vnriety of errands.
The College of Pharmacy, intent on obtaining
suitable recognition by way of lank for
pharmacists in the navy, has been talking
the matter over with Congressman Dnrrow
and others. Prof. U. Pulleiton Cook was
oarlj on the ground, nlong with Prof. Charles
II. l.a Wall, president of the American
Pharmaceutical Association: President'
(Jf urge M Beringer, of the National Phtirmii -(cutical
Service Association, and Lieutenant
(). (i Huge, of the United States navy. Jacob
Singer, formerly register of wills, the snnic
neat and forceful speaker he was when
milking the round of the winds ns a caudi
dnte, has been here with former .Council
man Jniob (iinsburg. now president of the
Publishers' Asmeintion of the American
Pi ess in Foreign Languages, and Sf Uttiu
ger. of Pifth nnd Pine streets, executive sec
retarj of the people's relief committee for
the Jewish wnr sufferers, all protesting
against the pogroms in Poland. Robot t
Dripps. one-time director under the Blank -enburg
administration, occasionally conies
over to tall, about the Purple ('toss, the or
ganization started by Prof. II. S. Kckels. the
late General J. Lewis Good nncj ex -State
Senator McNulty. to eiiib-ilin and picserve
our soldier dead in order that their bodies
might be returned to the United States for
interment a movement that has not jet re
ceived the sanction of the War Department.
rplIAT good old devotee of healthy, sport,
J- John F. Himckrr, who re alls the days
when Judge Howard A. Davis was clever
with the mitts, is grnvltnting bctwori the
Art Club nnd his cabin ut Brown's Mills in
the Pines, nccording to Dr. Robert N. Keely,
nn Arctic explorer, who includes Washing
ton occasionally in his peiegiinntioiw. Ilun
cker and Keely nnd Upton II. White have n
real hunch for the Pines. They are all good
sports with nn urtistic temperament, but
they do like the long walks and the open air
that sweeps over the Jersey barrens. AH of
them arc mo'rc or less interested in their
traveling companions who run up against
the troublesome passport problem In war
times. Htineker, by the way, is related by
marriage to General Kdvvard Barnard
Hunkej, of the British army, whose mother-in-law,
Mrs. Catherine E. Dohau, resides at
Dailington, Pa.
TIIU chnplaiu job itt the United States
nrmy is a very busy one. So it Is in tho
juivy. And owing to certain restrictions of
law- it is difficult for n chaplain to rise very
high in rnnk. A chaplain is not supposed to
be very much of n fighting niun from the very
nnture of his calling, but he has to.be on the
firing line with the boys nevertheless. It
will be agreeable to his many friends in
Philadelphia to know thnt Willnm Reese
Scott, captain, Seventeenth Infnntry, camp
chaplain. Camp Monde, Maryland, n popular
worker among the bojs, has attained the un
usual distinction of a major's rank for tho
duration of the wnr. Mnjor Scott, like his
comrades of the cloth, has been pretty well
around the circle. As it used to be in the
Methodist Church, the chaplains are itin
erant. For a while Chaplain Scott was nt
Fortress Monroe, then he was transferred to
Honolulu, having some interesting experi
ences In the Hawaiian Islands, then back to
the states for various assignments, nnd
final to Camp Mende, where his last desig
nation awaited him.
SUM
to
U URAL Republican "Undo Joes" used
hold the boards at Washington, First
and foremost was "l nele Joe Cannon,
then "Uncle Joe" Sibley nnd then "Uuole
Joe" Fordney. Congressman Sibley, who
repiesentcd the Franklin (Pa.) district, was
one of the prominent men on the Republican
side, and his name figured big in tho recon
struition legislation following tho Spanish
American war. But "Uncle Joe" Siblev has
been confined to his bed in Franklin for sev
eral years. He-keeps in close touch with
public affairs, however, In addition to direct
ing "River Ridge Farm." Just now "Undo
Joe's" voice is for economy. "New
schemes," he says, "are continually evolved
for making the world safe for socialism under
the name of democracy. We have
gone through the wild extravagance of wnr
and now must return to sane pursuits of
peaceful Industry." It is a pity Joseph C.
cannot rejoin the pther "Uncle Joes" in
Washington, who are now up against the
problems of reconstruction,
OLD-TIME Philadelphia music lovers, and
some who have come to bo artists them
Relvc, will remember the handsome face and
figure and the English accent of Cbplmcley
(which is pronounced much more easily than
it is spelled) Jones, who Is more 'or less
active In theatrical circles and who occa
sionally figured in" the direction of muslcales
at the Academy of Music. Npw we are
having a revival of Interest in the man and
the name through the junior Choluicley
Jones his. full name is R. G. Cholmeley
Jones director ol the war risk insurance
bureau In Washington. The younger Jones
made a good war record, apd being In the
eye of Secretary of the Treasury Glass when
the Utter oppllod the boot to the putgoing
director, Colonel Llndsley, of Texas, he is
much ih evidence with the hundreds of thou
sands of soldiers and their dependents wirt Jn rrpni ana nn upwiar aown,:oioMiby
are wdeavWug ' tfr. ftw. -'r' pSttk 1,iKL'22rLWil,llVSJ
sands of sojdlers and their dependents wkV
re endeavoring ' W, havt -their W?Sf&t
uAaJiujiiut -a ,T,jji jiVAJhWafl
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THE CHAFFING DISH
OUR most grateful thanks to Miss Jennie
D. Shi'iitnn, who wns the first to send us
a dollar for the Child Federation. ,
And, in accordance with our promise, here
is her poem :
Many gaudi aie ladici bent on,
Mantl needs their laic is spent on,
And high pi ices make a dent on
Puisci by the shops beguiled:
Hut no dollar crtr ucnt on
Errand blither to he sent on
Than the dollar Mistress Shenlon
Oaee us for a giateful child!
The Monkey-Ranch
"IT is a piece of bad faith to throvv a
monkey-wrench Into tho proceedings."
Senator Smith, ot Ailzona.
Under a spreading upas tree
Tin- monkej -ranch it stands.
The Bornh, mights man 's he
With lists insteiid of bunds.
And the muscles of his brawny lungs
Arc strong as three brass bands.
Week in, week out, fiom morn till night
You can hear his bellows blow,
You can see him hull his monkey-wrench
Where the spinning flj wheels go,
O BiK. Bid Noise ! O Boy of Boise,
Borah of Idaho!
The Treaty, Is Still In Neglige
In the expressive nrgot of the inovic studios',
nn actor who is alvvajs enger to havo his
pictuie taken is said to bo n "kiis cootie."
Pel haps a senator-who insists ou peeping
through the keyhole while n treaty is dress
ing Itself might be called a treaty cootie.
Of course Mr. Wilson should have begged
tho Senate to read the first, draft of thex
trenty with especial care. In tliat ease they
would have refused to go near it.
We note with pleasure that Mr. Heibert
Fislrvr is still being spoken of, ns probably
the next ambassador to this country from
(ire.it Britain. Washington will be very
foitunate if that comes to pass, for Mr.
Fisher Is a very delightful scholar and gen
tleman, with n keen sense of humor. Wc
lemember with enduring glee the comment
he once made when we showed him some
juvenile vcrscj we hnd written. "The best
thing about wilting -poems In youth," he
said, "is that it greatly improves one's prose
stjle in old age."
The best praise wc can give Mr. Fisher Is
this: If he were a United States senator,
he would never ask permission to insert an
"extension of remarks" in tho Congressional
Record. When he says a thing, he says it.
It doesn't have to be cither extended or ex
tenuated. Desk Mottoes
I am proud of my close kinship with
other animals. I take a jealous pride In
my Simian ancestry. I like to think that
I was once a magnificent hairy fellow llylnir
In the trees ana tnat my iramo nas come
down through geological time via sea
jelly and worms and Amphtoxus, Fish,
Dinosaurs and Apes. Who vyould exchange
these for the pallid couple In the Garden of
Eden? The Journal of a Disappointed
Man, ,
If the shade of old man Noah ever haunts
Hog Island he will be disappointed to learn
that they don't bujld their ships out of, his
favorite gopher wood.
Dream of the Kentucky Statesman
If a man wants a good, comfortable, eoul
sattsfying smoke he should get a Kentucky
or a Missouri corncob pipe and some natural-loaf
hillside tobacco and go out Into
the country to a log farmhouse and sit In
th6 front yard under an old oak tree, In
his shirt Bleevea, with bin shirt unfastened
"In front and till mlitiMlderm down.-alnien hw
MOSTLY EXERCISE
ho can get tho right kind of smoke, such
as tho denizens o crowded, profiteering
cities never dreamed of In their philosophy,
whllo with half-closed eyes he watches tho .
curling, fragrant smpko drift away andp
mlnglo' with tho lazy, fleeting clouds while'
ho dreams of homo and heaven. Applause.
Hon. Robcit Y. Thomas', Jr., of Ken
tucky, in tho House of Representatives.
Hobby Horses
The Mexican sneer that the Rio Grande
border is only guarded by American hobby
"horses is doubtless due to the fact that Gov
ernor Hobby, of Texas, has asked Mr. Baker
to mobilize the national guard cavalry of
that state.
"What we like about conductors on the
West Jersey nnd Seashore Railroad is that
th6y act more like hosts thnn mere conduc
tors. If there aren't scats enongh for all
the passengers they actually go to the exteilt
of hitching on nuothcr car, whic.li is a
thought Uiat never occurs to those who run
the Philadelphia -New York trains. And if
you haven't been nblo to buy a newspaper
before catching the (1:54 n. in. they'll lend
you their owu. That's what we call
courtesy.
Mr. Borah got several financiers sub
penaed from New Y'ork to Washington be
cause ho was "convinced" that they arc
familiar with the contents of the treaty.
' Eje hath not seen, nor ear heard, the things
that Wilson hath prepared for the Senate.
One thing that has been very "openly ar
rived at" is the absurdity of the Senate.
When the boys conio home to Boise will
the gals come home to Galveston?
Page the 8. P. C. A.
G. W. P. assures us that in a recent sale
of dogs nt a Market street animal shop tho
window contained a sign
Pups Cut In Half
Which Is Why They Call It Tentative
What n shock for certain senators, if they
should now take time to read the draft of the
treaty, .to learn that all the imaginary men
acing clauses have folded up their contents
(like Mr. Longfellow's Arabs) nnd silently
stolen away.
The poor old Congressional Record thought
that for once in its life it was going to have
n "scoop." And then, before the poor old
dear could totter to the hands of Burleson's
minions the 'treaty was on all the news
stands, He Ought to Have Five Poemsl
Blessings be upon the wraith t
Of generous J. It'. Spaeth) i
For ike'kids, as tce're alive, i
He tends us iof one lone, hut Fiee,
To be exactthis gift pecuniar
Comet from-'out friend John Spaeth Junior.
Senator McCnmber was the only Repub
lican vyho voted against the resolution to
publish the treaty. Didn't Isaiah say some
tldng once upon a time about a Lodge In a
garden of cucumbers? There ought to be tho
ground plan here for a wheeze. We'll give
It away.
k ' Fo 'Dorothy, Aged Five
Dorothy Emcrioii Annette Jtendelman,
Nou attained to her siccct sixth year,
Bends us a dollar for the children,
And tee utter our homaje here.
At ce study her each, initial
A pleasant acrottio doth appear:
And. with delight this" Chaffing DlsVll
".aini. far Darotkv Is aD'BiA&
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BUT
W
UT one more month nnd I shall be
rapt in a shadowed, harmony
Of leaves and' buds and crinkly moss,
Around me dappled green will toss,
And nil nbout
Unfurled for me,
Uncurjcd for me,
The fern's unhurried rout:
But one more month so soon
Wait for me, June, my June I '
-The Hrds, live cups of singing wine
On their tall steins of larch nnd pine,
Will brim for me the glnd dny long
The comfort of their bubbling song ;
Tho nightingale
Will thrill for me,
Will spill for me
Her shy, exultant grail :
But one more month so soon
Walt for mej June, my June !
Bring me your reveling fields and woods,
Your hills and Jakes of solemn moods,
Gnther the stars, fresh-plucked and sweet,
Scatter them wide where we two meet !
I bring to you
Still near to me,
Still dear to me,
My ancient grief still new ! '
But one more month so soon
Wait for me, June, my June !
Leonora Speyer, in Contemporary Verse.
What Do You Know?
. QUIZ
'l. What is the.Portuguese title for Mr.?
I 'J. How is the plural of tenderfoot made?
3. What was the bill called "that annual
blister"?
v4. What is tho literal sense of tirade?
5. What President's wife's ex-husband was
living?
6. What is described by the Welsh words1
Bryn Mnwr?
7. What is the rule for proclaiming
Thanksgiving? '
8. What i the principal town on the
' Baarc?
fj. What is the fabulous monster, the
kraken? ,.
10,
Where is Conductor Karl Muck to be
, taken?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Managua is th'c capital of Nicaragua.
2. Tho "defense of the realm act Is known
' in current English slang as "Dora."
The word is made up of the initials.
3. Sergeant Alyin C. York is the Tennes
see soldier, formerly a "conscientious
objector," who won particular fame
for his individual record in killing
Germans in tho war.
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4. The word scythe should be pronounced
'' as though spelled Vslth," with the "I"
given the long sound as in kite.
6. 3?he two-cent rate for'first-class mall In
-"the United States is to be restored on
July-1.
0. Adjutant Casale, Frenchman, has the
new altitude aviation record of 31,108
feet.
7. John Sebastian Bach, the celebrated
'composer, lived in the latter part of the
seventeenth and the first half of the
eighteenth tentury.
8 "Wcnre BUcn Btuu as dreams are 'made
on" is from Shakespeare's "The
Tempest."
0. Chicago has been the most frequent
winner of National League baseball
championships, having secured the
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10. The battle of Lundy's Lane, west ,ol
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