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". , iv Ktf $v All rightt of republication of special dis- I, $r,wt4 n;i cifi uic uiau jiiiiui ff r-- Philadelphia, Saturday, June It, I91 FLAG DAY IS TJATS off to the symbol because of IIU the thing it symbolizes! W.' ' When Congress in Philadelphia on gJujJune 14, 1777, gave the American flag Kf racv newborn. llfyX When Lee surrendeied to Grant at I t, Appomattox it symbolized a Union pre- tttx, erved pl'- ,T'0',iy "fter having flown over bloody K "(fields in Europe, it symbolizes a love for F & 1 i VlArfv tliflt rnnnnf rnct until ItKnrfv i e. ;--". . ".. ' " " - prsflarea oy an. & " The growing constellation in the union ray ot Old Glory tells of material advancc- ? jnent; but tne thoughnul patriot sees in $the blue field behind the shining stars a promise of a larger faith and the hope if "of a world-wide brotherhood. I Hats "off to the flag! Let Old Glory ELvraye from every house! It is neither silk (Snor bunting, but a people's soul made ET visible. gi, n UCVCIM I UCKIVIMIXT IVIMT CIN I CM , fi'Mt; reported revision of the peace T'ji" treaty providine for the early admis- iin of Germany into the League of P,'J1-ll- s i-: i:i.i r..lan-.i gTMlly involves no change in the principles -ijdf the original pact. l''Any fully self-governing state, KiSawninion or colony not named in the s'Sjiinex, declares me second paragrapn s'iJU'ju. 1 m 1 i -r -'v vitLicie i, may uucuinc u inuniuur ui rKtllt League if its admission is agreed to fe hf two-thirds of the Assembly, provided jK H shall give effective guarantees of its Vameere intention to observe its interna- biffioBfcl obligations, and shall accept such ferrulations as may be prescribed by the llLeague in regard to its military and naval forces and armaments. .a . . . tff The new clause as alleged to have been drawn up by Lord Robert Cecil and Colonel House serves as assurance that Eg if, Germany behaves she will not be made fej'ihe victim of unjust discrimination. A &'... -ll J !- J- i J- !C- . VC1C1 uucbruie is i.ius muut; speuiuc. The spirit of fair play and a tegard for L tka significance of the fourteen points gl'hii observed, though at the expense of Si swne repetition. , $A vital virtue of the interlineation is Ui jHwt it destroys the point of one of Ger t ny's complaints without in any way & .weakening the nrincinles of atonement gvT arid reparation which are essential to Kf the treaty s validity. ' 'NOTTO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY bdjTHE convention of the American Fed- oAt eration of Labor is considering a jtey-Bfries of radical price-fixing resolutions, KWi unless tne reputation ot tne ledera tlieitl for common sense is unfonnrlnrl it pyjiHll not consider the propositions vpry nousiy. fi-tt'It is proposed that laws be Dassed fe5 jjilithig the size of income which a man s, ymtxy receive, ana nxing me price oi lood- iMTs when the supply is not equal to the wnand, and fixing the maximum rental jfif that the owner of a building may charge. WvV.r. Bryan used to ure'e the limitintr gKfrineomes and of fortunes. He once i'satd that no man could make a million py"-jmars nonesuy ana tnat $buuu was m B'j'como enouirri for anv mnn. Whnn Vio 9.X J -, -O" " .w &,awcovered that he could make more than IgnKat on the Chautauqua circuit he modi- 12 ,a his views and said no more about the p! -matter in public. Kff . We have had some exneripnpo in rmv. lUnment price-fixing in recent months, S.v ad it has not been pleasant enough to Ej&itWurrant any one in asking that the plan fc'""'be continued, not to say extended. -' As to regulating rentals, that is Another form of price-fixing. ,-y,rae Koran xoroids Mohammedans to Jfow alcohol to touch their lips, so the ' Wii'vryants of Constantinople drink thoir 5' uoektails through a straw. Wit would take more than a price-fixing p mtute paased by Congress or by a state -jWTUiatura to prevent the old law of apply and demand from inducing men te And n straw which would permit them 'tefobey the letter but ignore the snirit !'rf,tW. dtatute. - r - :f',. . i ?' THE REAL TROUBLE i ffffiE Director of Transit is roproftinr Sf ')M- 4UA lnAifFtTtnit rt tit nnvn1 A ;fHBMy io the request that it give Phila- kut the power to decide whether or it wishes to change its mind on the tit plans. Tfc? city is committed to a transit rm by vote of the people taken in rditnee with legislation nasscd in Urrkburg. The war has intervened that vote wag taken. The subway gfjvytattiLt present prices will cost almost lev Vh autuujib nvaiiaviv. uirecior rmiDf has been urging that the Gen- Astaicbly .give, tty city Uje right to a i wiw wMwtJon. i. -T ... ' . . t . . m.fn.Mi t0 F,f . t . be settled by the people hero at home. But siich a thing as home rule for cities is unknown In this commonwealth. We cannot act until the General Assembly says we may. Whether we should agree with Mr. Twining's suggestions about transit plans or not is beside the ques tion. We certainly should be allowed to decide the Issue, heic in Philadelphia. Attorney General Schaffer is weary with threshing out charter differences in Harrisburg. Pcihaps he mny 'advise the Governor to lecommcnd to the consti tutional levision commission a city home rule provision for the new constitution which will relieve him and nil future Attorneys General of the task of settling differences that arise nmong charter framers. KNOX'S LOGIC SUFFERING FROM "LOW VISIBILITY" His Floundering Explanations of His Anti-League Resolution Emphasize the Need or New and Sane Re publican Leadership SENATOR KNOX has pel formed the astonibhing feat of simultaneously disarming both his foes and friends. The former are suddenly deprived of that in dispensable factor of watfare a solid objective The barrier whiclvthe senator from Pennsylvania raised four days ago against the treaty ratification is not the one which he defends today. Whatever is to become of 'an opposi tion, however sincere, which beholds the obstacle against which it tilts dissolve into fog? The keenest weapons aie futile in so shifting a scene. Equally embarrassing is the other side's plight. Opponents of the league of nations took heart when Mr. KnoA hurled his savage resolution at the peace scheme. Political swovds were sharpened in readi ness for a clear-cut bout with "dangeious idealists." But almost immediately obfuscating vapors began to thicken. Through them it is becoming increasingly difficult to descry the position on which the former secretary of state stands. This is hard, indeed, on his cohorts. Cettainly, if they are to fight for him, they are entitled to know what he means. If he knows, he should tell them. No body else can. Morcovei, if thcie is a consistent purport to the scnatoi's com ments on and revision of Ms own lcsolu tion, the nation as a hol should not be left in the dark. Diminution of the light of leadeiship started with Mr. Knox's recall of his altruistic proposal that America should go to the aid of Europe in case such a situation as that which brought on the European war were ever repeated. This dictum was so flagrantly in con tradiction of the contention that the" nation should keep, clear of "entangling alliances," so flatly in violation of the most precious arguments of league an tagonists that Mr. Boiah's opposition promptly disposed of it. The Pennsyl vania senator acquiesced, implying in his surrender that he did not think much of the idea all his own, incidentally anyway. But his latest change of front is even moie confusing. Mr. Knox now asserts that it is not his purpose to rrovide for a physical separation of the league cove nant from the peace treaty. His avowed desires are: First To give the people of any na tion the right to determine whether they want the league or not after peace has been signed and to insert a provision to that effect in the treaty. Second. To serve notice on the Paris conference that the treaty will not be acceptable to the Senate unless this clause is injected or unless the interweav ing of the covenant with the treaty is effaced. It will not help at all to stand on one's head while studying these statements, ft will profit little to leflcct them in a mirror and convert them into the script of "Jabberwocky.'' So long as "Mr. Knox's disclaimer of any attempt to "dislocate" the league covenant from the tieaty is kept in mind, it will avail nothing to re verse the order of his pronouncements or to read them backward. Whatever method is tried the result will be gib berish. If the covenant is not to be absti acted, the proposed provision that it is not co evally binding with the treaty becomes sheer nonsense. It is an integral part of the document. If Mr. Knox wants to get l id of it, he should have the couiage of his convic tions and insist that it be thiown in the waste basket. He will never dispose of the obnoxious intruder by letaining it in a state paper, the signatures to which must be cither comprehensive or value less. As for unraveling from the treaty all strands of the league woof, nothing could be clearer than that such a procedure necessitates a completely new pact. Mr, Knox declares that he wishes to "expe dite" ratification in the Senate and in the next breath insists upon a step which would compel the entire woik of the weary months at Paris to be done over again. Taking him at his own words and ap plying to them the musty principles of logic he has deposed as follows: First. The league covenant must be abstracted. It mustn't be.- Second. The treaty must be expedited. It mustn't be. If this little collection of paradoxes were not almost too delicious to admit of accretions, the ex-secretary of state's unwitting admission that all denuncia tions of the league had been of no con sequence whatever might be artistically added. His rueful insistence that the American people really know nothing about the perils of the covenant because they have heard chiefly the arguments of paid prop agandists is strangely contemptuous of what William E. Borah has said, of what George Wharton Pepper has said, of what James A. Reed has said, of what James M. Beck has said, of what Gen era! laemfi Wood has said, of what -i.i4'.h'tfi Bttei'd 'piiftiatJ" Henry Cabot Lodge has said, of what Philander C. Knox himself has said. Soniehow the p'ublic had a notion that the Pennsylvania senator thought highly of the views of all these Americans. Obviously, however, that deduction was fallacious. Mr. Knox plainly implies that his side has made a wretched job of things. In truth, they have. And the saddest spectacle of all has been furnished by the statesman Whose outgivings even defy intelligent analysis and whose efforts to be the spokcsmanfor a g-cat political party ate soiry in the extreme. Thousands nnd thousands of patriotic Republicans think clearly on such tran sccndently vital subjects as the league of nations and pence tieaty. They are richly desen ing of a new leadership, one that is rational and constructive, not recklchs and absurd. Mr. Taft and Mr. Root nnd Jin- Wickersham still permit legitimate Republicanism to letaln some vestiges of pride. Statesmen who have llot retired also are available. Congress is not without them. Senutor McCumber, of North Da kota, gave an inspiring example of cour age, manliness and common sense in his refusal to indoise the Knox nonsense. The .silence of certain othcis is an in timation that they may be engaged in thinking, profitable to their own and then country's" honor. With the imposing reconstruction task ahead of it the Republican party cannot afford to fritter away its good name with paradox mongers of the Knox stripe. That it will realize the situation is a sub ject for reasonable hope. In .short older tho melodramatic gest uie of Mr. Knox assumed a laughable aspect. An angry partisan apparently incapable of saying what he wants is amusing. The fizzling "sensation" which he en gineered may be salutary as a warning. Already the way in which he botched it stimulates a sense of relief. DILUTING THEIR OWN MEDICINE TIHE men who make the laws for the state thnt the rest of us must obey have laws for their own punishment when they neglect their duties in Harris buig. They have been neglecting those duties this week to such an extent that all legislative business was stopped until there could be a lound-up of the mem bers who had gone home without leave. And when they got back in Harris buig they immediately set about plan ning to exempt themselves from the pun ishment which their own rules prescribe. Thus do the men who make the bitter dose for some other fellow to swallow dilute it to their taste when it is pressed to their own lips. It is a great thing to be a lawmaker. A RUSSIAN POLICY AT LAST AS AN index of a resolute affirmative policy with regard to Russia, the Entente's pledge 6f aid to Admiral Kol chak is leassuring. Foimal recognition of the Omsk government is deferred, and perhaps wisely, since the success of the anti-Bolshevist movement is largely con tingent upon the fulfillment of promises. To enable its leader to make them good, the Allies have abandoned the realm of foggy speculation for that of practical affaii s. Admnal Kolchak is offeied munitions and supplies. In compensation he has given assurances making for the redemp tion of Russia. As soon as practicable a constituent assembly elected by free democratic franchise will be called, and if order, by that time, shall not be suffi ciently lestored, authprity shall vest in the assembly of 1917, to sit until new elections can be held. A highly commendable feature of the whole program is that it permits the eaily withdrawal of all foreign troops from Russia. The American homeward movement has alieady begun. It will not be easy now to justify the piesencc of the other aimies. Time will test the sincerity of the anti-Red chief and the measure of his appeal to sane elements in a land that has been ruled by madmen.' The position of the Entente appears to be sound. Certainly Moscow bolshevism cast away all chanae for consideration when it refused to sanction a halt in hostilities , at the time of the Piinkipo proposal. The now anaflgement should provide practical inspiration for the needed maintenance of tTie principle of self-help in Russia. ,"IIes to chicken- Illls hearted to do any to Sar . bombinc," declared the wife of one of the men arrested in lonnpftion with recent outrages Wifeh lojalty Occasionally takes curious guipes. The first American corn May be a mercial order to reach Mistake Germany is from a Chi ago firm to a firm in JIannbeim for a cnrKo of malt barley. Can't blame this on John Barleycorn, for John has an Anglo-Saxon name. Hut has July 1 no terrors for the CbicaRO merchant? The heated declaration statements of certain United States Don't "Gee" senators that everybody in Germany has had an opportunity to lead the peace treaty is dis counted by the declaration of the members of the German peace delegation that they do not jpt Know what they will be called upon Io sign. Interest attaches to the In Line With efforts of Chestnut street City Planning merchants to have a limit put on the size of projection signs on that thoroughfare. There is'no question as to Councils' right to so limit the size of fcigns or to have them re moved altogether. Maybe the day will come when the municipality will insist that all signs, temporary o'r permanent, be artistic and in harmony with surroundings. The' "leak" investigation having pro vided them with enough explanations to hold them for a while, what belligerent United States senators now need is a nice batch of 'clarifications." CUy politicians are looking forward to t'at parts in the new municipal comedr. 'Alone With a Loan." ' '' The money being raised in defense af iVin AT.Lnlttpe innftlsta nrlncfnulfv. . u. -- "- -"v vi vatj , caarw. ' i'., i. ,',?,',' ,ii',"V5' , " -" .-j .i" CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S LETTER When the Belgian King Dined With the Five o'clock Club John Lowry's Interest In the Indians Washington, June 14. lOU an American who holds no office, lames M, Beck, who studied law in Philadelphia nnd who perfected himself for the bar while assisting A, E, Outcrbridgc as Supreme "Court reporter a plaie until re cently held, by Attorney General Wil liam F. Schaffer is doing very well. The recent conference Upon him by King Albert of Belgium of a commandciship in the Order ot the Crown, an order founded by the fate King Leopold, is in Hue with the action of other potentialities who recotfnbed tbo war services ot the, Philadelphia law.icr, tianslated to New York. It was in Philadel phia that Beck -first met King Albert., The occasion was a dinner ot the Five o'Clock Club, over which Mayor Charles F. War wick presided. Albert, who was then a prinee his uncle Leopold being upon the throue at Drussels was touring the country much as the Prince of "Wales, the late King Kdnard, father of King George, and Prince Homy, the brother of the Kniser, had previously done. He wsb entertained here for a time by the Belgian consul, M. Berg ner, and through the latter accepted the Fhc o'clock Club Invitation. After the German assault upon Belgium, Beck's book accusing tho Germans of instigating the war found its way into King Albert's hands. He acknowledged it to Beck with a pleas ant reference to the dinnei ot the dub, which he had not forgotten. THET are telling a good one on Senator Kenyon. the Iowa upllftei. who hesi tates to associate with Penrose. No mat ter what his private virtues may be, Kcnjpn public! has come to be regarded in Jo, ns about as pure as the purest. It is hard reputation to maintain, but the Iowa senator has earned his wa jy refusing to use senatorial bathtubs, or to participate In so called congressional junkets, or to be lieve that any good comes out of "the fetid atmosphere of tho Hast." When it comes to pleading for the "down-trodden farmer" Ken on is about the best little pleader Iowa has ever produced, With a heart throbbing s)mpathctically for the farmer's wife, who had to content herself with "calico dresses," the eloquent lowan plunged into the reve nue bill debate. In the closing hours of the session he discovered n marc's nest. Under the so-called luxury tax provision "men's clothing" and "women's dresses" were to be taxed. Here was another ravishment of the poor bv the plutocrats of New York and Philadelphia. The senntor rebelled; he re belled to high heaven. When the other senators were asleep he moved to strike out the provision. He succeeded. "Men's clothing" oer $30 per suit and "wonicn's dresses" otcr WO per dres went out, caus ing all the subsequent parliamentary trouble that ensued over the repeal of the luxury taxes. In the House debate on the tax repealer, it developed that the senator's "successful assault" upon the "robber barons" had given 'complete immunity to gentlemen's evening clothes and tailor-made Riiits, for which the wealthy 'could pay in excess of $50, and that he had earned the everlasting gratitude of the rich ladies who buy Parisian gowns at $,"000 per. Some of the Kansas delegation in the House were actually compelled to acknowledge that the senator had miscued a little. AND John Lowry pleads for the Indians John C. Lowry, of the Union League. John should know that the Indian has the heartfelt sympathy of Congress. It helps the Indian to education, to citizen' ship and to ca6h. The Indian comes in on irrigation and lcclomation schemes and is genernlly prettv well cared for ns a "ward of the nation." Moreover, there nre, sev eral Indians holding seats in the Senate -and' House who don't permit "Poor Lof to be overlooked. But John Iowry believes In Herbert AVelsh's Indian Rights Association and thinks the agitation for Increased edu cational advantages and citizenship foV the red man a good thing. A DEMOCRATIC member of he IIouser who would prefer, for obvious reasons, to go unnamed, tells this pretty little tale which, in the Interest of economy, is passed on to the tax-paying reader of the Bvkniko Public Ledger: A youth from the country was visiting the great' War De pal tment layout oa Sixth street, He was impressed by the magnitude of the plant nnd so expressed himself to the guide. Later on, in conversation with one of the door keepeis, he observed, "This is certainly a darned big establishment." "Sure," said the door man, "this is Uncle Sam's war office." Finding himself tired and on the sidewalk as the grand army of clerks poured out at quitting stimc, the amazed young American approached a Capitol policeman. ,"Say, officer," he ventured, "poyt many people work in that building?" And with out a twinge the policeman replied, "About a quarter of 'em." rP WAS rather rough on Senator Freling huysen, of JJew Jersey, that on the very day he was holding up in the Senate the confirmation of A. Mitchell Palmer's ap pointment as attorney general, an anarchist should win for the attorney general the cordial sympathy of the whole nation. No body loves a, bomb-thrower, but in this in stance the Pennsylvania national commit teeman was in for a drubbing in the secret counsels of the Senate at the very moment the bad man with the suitcase blew him self into eternity and exalted the very man he intended to eliminate. Since he stood up in the BaUiraore convention for Wilson against great odds, no one has disputed Mitchell Palmer's courage, but in some respects it will not be denied that he has been deucedly lucky. Of course, seeing what happened, the attorney general could challenge Frelinghuysen to do his worst. SO EDGAR RAYMOND KIESS has gone nnd done it. Stayed out with Senator Penrose, ex-Governor Stuart, Joseph B, Giundy, Samuel P. Rotan, William J. Ost helmer and the rest of them, until Miss Mary Roemer Clarke came along. The Wil liamsport congressman, who is now chair man of the committee on printing, bad for some time past given evidence to his col leagues of a certain mental perturbation, bordering on delight. Prospects for a bright and cheerful summer at Eagles Mere are predicted by the entire delegation. By the addition of Japan th Big Four has apparently been superseded by a straight hush. "There's no use antagonizing any one' says the chief oftho Highways Bureau. As an expert on roads Mr. Dunlap evidently prefers the easiest way. 1 ; "'"'' Well, at leastMhe, resolutions at the convention of the American Federation of Labor arc no more numerous than those at every state Legislature. . An armjr of words dil Senator Knox Let loose from bis wonderful pen. First he philandered them up a hill, And then-philandered them down ngain. i So great ii the Amerlccn sense of humor that a vote lor the most popular' man in the country.iolgbt easily result In the I election of Peirtwatter GenwalJBurlewu, . ; t,-ri , '.."lit , ;.' i.v "WOULDN'T HURT ., ' ,.!tfe .viTii MVfbi.wpiAA a&A .J i isr's Tin -AiicWTn' jt i ?. t. r r j ? iutemj a. i THE CHAFFING DISH , j YESTERDAY morning the course of our domestic responsibilities required that we should wheel an empty go-cart along the highways fiom Seventeenth and Pine to the MaiKet street feny, in order to ship same to our young kinsman the Urchin, who is making meiry at the seashore. Our only other bag gage was a book the title of which wild senators could not drag fioni us nnd for convenience of transport we found it neccs- sary to place the book in the go-cart. And so we fared forth, in the bright sun shine of the well-known month of June. Pine to Broad, BroatlV to Walnut, W'alnut to Front, Front to Market, Market to the ferry, was the route of the procession. Hap pily the spectacle of a well-nourished sage, comparatively in the prime of life, gravely wheeling a go-cart containing one book did not seem to attract much attention from the citizens. We had risen at an early hour in order to consummate this task without dis rupting the traffic, and the streets were still faiily empt). How glad we were that none of our moie satiric friends were on hand to re mark the subtle comedy of that book in its perambulator. For it is such a young and tendei book indeed, not published yet and nn offspring of our own, so what more appro priate than that its loving parent should push it hopefully through the streets In a baby carriage A But Front street is a humorous place, and there we occasioned the first spoken com ment. "There," cried a stalwart teamster, gazing bitterly at us as he wiped bis brow; "there's a guy that's got it pretty soft. Look at that truck he's pushing!" We halted, and pretending there was an urchin in the cart we went through 'the care ful motions of tucking it in more securely and pacifying its imaginary outcries. Wk patted its invisible head. "Now, Junior we said, after the manner of patient parents, "you must sit still; we'll soon be there." The te.amstcr gazed nt us in a mixture of hoiror and uncertainty. "Fine baDy, isn't heV" we said, and went on, We were not quite certnln whether the laugh was on him or on us, but at any rate the ferry was near at hand and our em barrassing task was over. ( ' WE WERE much temptyl to linger about the docks, which afe a lively lianorama in the early morning, and the shge-shlning chairs along Delaware avenue are fine thrones for basking in the sun and smoking a thoughtful pipe. We noticed the tug Sena tor Penrose lying at the Ericsson line pier ; pei haps it was only our Imagination, but she seemed more chastened in demeanor than usual and lisped a little steam from her ex haust pipes in a strangely Quiet way.- In the sunny space of Dot;k street, in front of the odd old Exchange building, barrels of cabbages gave off a strong 'bucolic aroma. ' We strolled through the quiet little passage of Walnut place, which has a distinct Charles. Lamb flavor, and saw a Ion,; file of little boys and girls, convoyed by nuns in their black Tobes, passing down Willings' alley on the way to school. Edwin Forrest's grave, among a great chirping of sparrows, caught our eyes as we passed the yard of St. Paul's church on Third street. As we were strolling back up Wlllings alley we met John Barnum coming out from morning mass at Old St, Joseph's, that in teresting shrine which is one of the oldest Catholic churches in the country, founded ,ln 1733. John took us into the courtyard to see the tablet and bust in memory of Father Barbelin, and then we were glad to have an opportunity to step into the church it6clf, a dim and fragrant place with stained windows in soft sepia tones. In the school building adjoining the church we saw some of the Jesuit fathers in their long black cas socks. In the heart of the city, with the murmur ot traffic sounding dimly from the busy streets, it is refreshing to glimpse this little cloister of unworldllness. And yet, even the church wisely keeps in touch with the Tsood tl things oi. oartB. lor, we saw dmUm .-.SSMitiAi ,'L ' -'- -"- - .a YEjftBtt - TITO EXAMINE YER 'HEART!" announcing the Sunday school btraw berry festival next week. The last echo of old times which we no ticed on our ramble was n sign on Fourth street: The Philadelphia Contributionship for the Inturing of Iloutes from Loss by Fire. We arc getting fed up with centennials and have refrained from saving anything about the Charles Kingsley anniversary, which occurred this week. We will unbend, however, far enough to say that if the Rev. Charles were nlivo today he would have written a Drouthtcard Ho! Information, Pleasel Mr. Owen Wistcr says that the 'peace treaty is a book as big as the Philadelphia phone directory. And the thought occurs to us that'many senators seem to use the treaty in much the same way that some people use the phone book : they scream at the operator first and look up the number afterward. This Topic Now Closed Apropoa of that datnder That davender or dub Who write about a pavender A paender or pub, I'd Ilka to awlnr a davender A davender or club And end hla bally blavender Hla blavender or blub So he would make vood aravender Good cravender or grub To feed th worthy chavender Tho chavender or chub On clout upon hla lavender Hla sr&vender or sub Would make him want to aavender To aavender or aub Merge In a handy tavendar A tatender or tub Until ho mlred hla havendar Hla haendr or hub. Env&y Enourh of thla plagued ataffender Thla ataftender or atuff It's Kettlns pretty rarfender Quits raffenter or roush. CAVENDER. The Senate always has a to windward. little rancor out We wonder which feels more foolish: the Senate contingent fund after paying for investigating a leak that wasn't a leak, or , the' government printer after printing a treaty that wasn't a treaty? ' Beauty I am the lure that leads you ever on. I am the little leaping flame of light That lifts you from the dark to greet the dawn " 'While your iheart flutters fearful of my i might. I lead the souls of all men that asnire : I am the light that lies beyond your fears;' 1 om tne naming ena ot an aesire, The soul ot happiness, the balm of tears. I am the goad that you may not gainsay, That drives you dreaming through the dirt strewn street, A mystic, in tho market place astray I am a gadfly, though my sting Js sweet. HARRISON HIRES. This has been a big eek for young Johnny Murphy, aged twe'lve, of Butledge. He was elected a Boy Scout anil he sent us a dollar for the Child Federation. John's uncle, who happens to be a friend of ours, explains that John earns his pocke money by mowing the lawn. Well, John, here's , your poem : John, who it not vet thirteen. Earn hit money on the turf, he itoiei hit uncle's thaven green-" Good for little Johnny Murphy! Johnny Murphy't ait of grace , H Well detervet a better poet; ' When we haie a country place,. We'll let Johnny Murphy mou it! We had really intended, to buy our straw hat today, but then w remembered that Mr, Lederer had a prior claim on our fight hand . .. . MOCKATES,. . . , -ir, rt , , rf.. "t,' W.j ki!7,aBi , , - 4 THE STARS AND STRIPES FLAG, of the free, oh, wave on high Forever and for aye, For thou wort born beyond the sky, And destined not to tattered die, Dishonored by the way. i. - Flag of a land surpassed by none, A nation's voices rise To greet thee with the morning sun ;' And when at eve the day is done With shouts that rend the skies. Angelic hosts in realms of light Join with the sons ot 'Earth To sing the greatness of thy might, Thy hard-won battles for the right, The glory of thy birth. Oh, beauteous banner born on hlxh, Hear what thy people say: "For thee to live, for thee to die," Shall be their far-flung battle-cry Forever and for aye. Borne on the breeze that sweeps the sea, By cities proud and old, Made by thy might to bend the knee And own thee emblem of the free, Flagvof the brave and bold. To thee they haste at Fame's behest, Again to dare, to do, To thy Valhalla of the West, Haven of the pure, the blest. And Valor' crowns them true. Oh, Stars and Stripes, forever wave, Where Glory flung thee free, O'er those who died thy folds to save, Triumphant ever o'er the brave, O'er home and liberty.' 1 WILLIAM MacDONALD. What Do You Know?, QUIZ il. What is the Bepublican majority in tag Senate? 2. What is a zebji? 3. Why is an. Indian called "Lo"? 4. When wis the Stars and Stripes offi- dally adopted as the national flag? 5. What are "darbies"? t r K C. What is the highest airplane flight mtd by a woman and who made it? What is a nawab? , Who wrote the-novel, "Charles O'Mal ley"? Name two American, generals in th war oi icus. 10. Who wrote the "Moonlight Sonata"? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. Americans who h'ave won the thanks of Congress are entitled to the privileges of the congressional floor for life. 2. The two plurals of the word genius trs geniuses and genii. T 3, The American Federation of Labor bta urged the repeal ot toe wartime "dry" 1BW. y v "'a 4. There nre twenty -six .cantons in BxAtm.' K?ll criandt ., , . piSJ 5. The" three Bryt&duic, languages axe - ' weisn.- ureton ana uornisn. " - '0 Avbooby-butcb is a clumsy, Ul-eaa. .'':. J ; trlved carriage in the east of Eng- ft '- ' land. Tl Te kings of England who never mart, T rieu wcu Miiuajn Muiuo, cuwara v apd Edward VI, 8. 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