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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.
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. 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.
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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.
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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.
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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, .
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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
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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
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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.
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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"
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4. There nre twenty -six .cantons in BxAtm.' K?ll
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5. The" three Bryt&duic, languages axe
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apd Edward VI,
8. In the word troubadour th "du'bst
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the sound or. "oo.
0. Pompeii was buried in lava by the truptj
Hon of Mount Vesuvius in 70 A D.-
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