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Pl.ll.ilflphli, TuJT, June 1" 1919
THE GOVERNOR IS RIGHT
rpHE attempt to convince Governor
Sprout that the state cannot alToid to
contribute $G,000,000 to tho local school
funds for increasing the salaries of teach
ers has failed. The Governor has an
nounced with finality that that much
money at least must be laiscd for the
salLi-y fund, and that if more can be
found the amount must be increased.
The Governor has evidently decided
fchat the schools of the state shall no
longer be handicapped by lack of fund;,.
This is one of the richest states in the
Union. Its wealth is estimated at fifteen
billion dollars. Its school salary schedule
is far below that of less populous and less
piosperous commonwealths. The charac
ter of the instruction offered has suffered
because of the inability of the schools to
command the best teaching talent.
When Doctor Finegan was appointed
as superintendent of public instruction,
the Governor gave evidence of his inten
tion to do his best to lift the school sys
tem to a level with the best in the coun
try. It cannot be lifted by the most
expert superintendent in the world if the
money is not provided.
The Governor has had his way thus far
with the General Assembly because his
way has been right. He is likely to have
his way on this salary-fund matter for
the same reason.
GETTING RID OF THE JOKERS
rpHE study by George Nox McCain, spe
' M cial correspondent of this newspaper,
of the provisions of the cold-stoiage bill
J and the changes made in it on the demand
r, of Professor Eamussen, secretary of
, : agriculture, force one to the conclusion
(frcthat thcGevernor made no mistake when
Kff. .he drafted Professor Rasmussen from
EW. aA i -the State" College into the service of the
fjVs'O The bilniis originally introduced per-
? rmittcd all.sorts of abuses. There was
tnothing in it to prevent the cold-storage
'""' people from selling food unfit for human
consumption, As modified on the advice
of Doctor Rasmussen, the storage people
i. are allowed to keep food in their ware-
" houses for twelve months, but if it is kept
(K, longer it must be destroyed. Chemical
experts have found that food can safely
t be preserved under proper temperatures
for a year. The present law is not so
generous, for it permits the storage of
w ' beef for four months only, pork, sheep
and lamb for six months, drawn fowl for
ft.5 five months and undrawn fowl for ten
'2 months, eggs for eight months and but-
&. tor and fish for nine months.
The amended bill is so generous in ex
pending the limit that tho storage men
can "have' no just cause of complaint on
the ground that they are to be compelled
to sell the goods within a year after they
have been stored.
The public is protected by a provision
that the refrigerated goods must be prop
erly labeled when offered for sale in the
markets, so that the buyer may know
whether he is getting cold stoiage meat
and eggs or fresh food. Many meats are
improved by storage, in the opinion of
epicures, but the public which objects to
them should not be fooled into buying
them when they are offered as fresh
killed.
The bill in the form in which it is to
be passed seems to provide adequate pro
tection for the public and to deprive the
storage people of no privileges to which
they have proper title.
JUTTING IT UP TO THE PEOPLE
"OfHETHER the peace treaty with the
' ' league-of-nations covenant in it is to
, "be ratified or not depends on the senti
hfent of the nation. There is no doubt
about this. The suggestion of some of
the opposition senators that the matter
b submitted to the voters at an election
is a recognition that the people them,
selves are the court of final appeal.
, But an election is not necessary to dis
cover how the people feel on the subject.
Sentiment is reflected in a dozen different
ways. When Charles E. Hughes was
governor of New York he appealed from
the Legislature to the people of the state
time after time. The Legislature tried
to block hjs plans. He then toured thi
estate making speeches in which he set
forth his case, and set it forth so convinc
ingly that before he returned to Albany
the recalcitrant legislators were ready to
l$p eat out of his hand. Roosevelt followed
? 'the same course when lie was President
tW1 nd Congress came to terms.
jpf Now President Wilson has let it be
&0"lrnnwn that soon after his return from
$; Paris he. will visit a number of large
'fcUies in different parts of the country
' ' bd explain what has been done andjvhy.
t'SCe will .appeal to the common sense of
. vrt j TT ill it-. x
avsrsiMTRan. -ue win nut nave u
K..rarL 'Li i.-i u : ii..;
will manifest themselves in Washington.
If ho is listened -to coldly and indiffer
ently, tho antMcague senators will take
heart of hope and continue their fight
with redoubled vigor. But if his appeals
to tho desire of the nation to shouldbr
its responsibilities and to do its utmost
to make another great war unlikely shall
receive that response which nil those who
have confidence in the manliness of
America, believe it will receive, then
the opposition will dissolve so quickly
that we shall forget that it ever existed.
Borah nnd Johnson and some others
arc said to be arranging to swing around
the circle to pit their reasons against
those of the President. This is well. Let
the whole thing be threshdd out in the
open on as large a stage as possible, so
that as many people as possible may
know at first hand the kind of quibbling
logic and the kind of scuttling cowardice
which arc at the back of the opposition
to the league project.
The people will decide, and all who
have confidence in them can await the
outcome with complacency.
STANDING ON THE RHINE;
WABBLING ON THE RIO GRANDE
President Wilson's Chronic Vacillation
Regarding Mexico Emphasizes the
Contrast and the Need for a New
Policy of Sanity and Vigor
'THE watch on the Rhine bespeaks the
firm will of a great nation, triumphant
with its allies, over the most formidable
menace which the foices of tyranny ever
roused against civilization.
The watch on the Rio Grande bespeaks
the absence of consistent resolution and
the riotous advantage which the scandal
ous Kilkenny cats of brigandage take of
tnnt faltering."
Were it not shameful the contrast in
these fluvial scenes would be ludicrous.
Doubtless it is grimly amusing to Pancho
Villa, whose prospect of immunity from
justice continues to be so much brighter
than that of the prisoner of Amerongen.
Doubtless also Venustiano Carranza
enjojs his little joke.
Two j ears ago a mighty empire offcied
to aid him in carving off choice slices of
the United States. That empire col
lapsed, which is one of the reasons why
that engaging scheme fell through. But
the suggested partner in the enterprise is
under no such practical obligation to be
contrite. Mexican anarchy, Mexican dis
regard of the ordinary principles of civil
ized existence, Mexican zest for license
and looting remain ineffectively rebuked.
If these predilections manifested
themselves exclusively within the borders
of the most tumultuous "republic" on
earth the situation would be tragic only
for its citizens. The Mexican fury, how
ever, is not respectful of frontiers.
It was reckless in the Nogales and
Juarez outbreaks of the past. It
is impertinent and irresponsible in the
latest manifestation at a one-horse, lam
shackle border town. The "battles" of
Juarez periodically imperil the lives of
the citizens of El Paso and cast a shadow
of the most lamentable disrepute upon
the standard which floats with so glorious
an assertion of justice and authority over
the turrets of Ehrenbreitstein.
There is the essence of the most pain
ful mockery in the page of American his
tory which simultaneously displays this
republic standing on the Rhine and wab
bling on the Rio Grande.
Impatience at the lack of any discern
ible policy regarding Mexico was to some
extent unjustified while the world war
was on our hands. Germany would have
been delighted to embroil us in the mud
dle while the conflict was being fought
and, indeed, she did her best to trap us.
The Mexican mess, however, both ante
dates and postdates Armageddon. Had
an intelligible and courageous course
been adopted by the Democratic adminis
tration prior to April, 1917, there would
have been no embarrassing inheritance
for the very forces that are endeavoring,
and rightly so, to establish a league of
international peace. As it is, the situa
tion presents some of the same familiar
and disgustingly intolerable aspects that
it did in the ante-bellum days of vacilla
tion and bungling.
In ineffectuality alone has Mr. Wilson's
policy in Mexico been consistent. His
acts have been largely futile. His inves
tigations have been untrustworthy
witness the notorious exhibits by tho
taciturn and mysterious John Lind and
the communicative but equally mys
terious William Bayard Hale. Bluster as
revealed in the Vera Cruz fiasco has
alternated with, tame acquiescence in
situations bristling with dangerous para
doxes. It has been said that the Wilson admin
istration attained its principal objective
in the overthrow of the murderous, drink
sodden and insensate Huerta. If that is
so the President and his colleagues were
more easily satisfied than the American
people, since the partial success of the
Cananza regime has produced merely a
repetition of tho old outlines.
In the newest fray at Juarez there are,
as usual, elements of absurdity. The
town itself is a wretched hole, of no im
portance save as a spot wherein fighting
"may be concentrated to impress Ameri
cans with Mexican revolutionary turbu
lence and as a haven for various kinds
of license, sporting and otherwise, banned
across the river.
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the
r'-iIt-,hB,rHwn intimatM (that -net all
TVT5;NING 'PUBLIC TjEDGEllEKn
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Tcxans have been averse to tho sway of
the bandit Villa beyond tho Rio Grande.
Thero were flush times (in Juarez when
Pancho presided at tho celebrated race
track, the grand stand of which was,
until tho other day, about the only whole
structure in the town. It is 'even better
known that foreign exploiters, American,
British nnd of other nationalities, have
gleefully welcomed' reports of chaos in
Mexico.
But the intimations of these sinister
influences, the belief that Villa was not
altogether friendless in some of the very
regions that clamored for protection
against him, the indisputable knowledge
that Juarez was a pest, should have been
factors of substantial potency in inform
ing the government's policy with clarity
and decisiveness.
War with Mexico would be a monstrous
crime. In his avoidance of it Mr. Wilson
unquestionably reflected the sentiments
of decent Americans. Beyond that, how
ever, it is difficult to see that he has done
anything toward solving a difficult and
critical problem.
The Pershing expedition was meaning
less. It was neithei war nor peace, and
out of such a twilight zone it became
impossible even for the future com
mander of America's mightiest armies to
extract anything tangible.
What is impcrathcly needed now is
precisely what was in order in 1914, 1915
and 191G a policy which Americans can
understand and respect and one which
will render future carnivals of muiderous
disorder in Juarez or elsewhere on the
border impossible.
It is equally important, moreover, that
Mexico should entertain no doubts of our '
intentions. Villa, Angeles, Diaz, Zapata,
Carranza and the whole pestiferous crew
of rebels, rulers and road agents have
capitalized American vacillation to the
full. American lives in Mexico have been
wantonly sacrificed. American property
has been looted and confiscated.
The kaiser may have outwardly scoffed
at us, but it is certain that he feared our
just wrath. Mexico has seen altogether
too few evidences of sane and purposeful
American governmental will to be in
dread of it
It is specifically stated that the entry of
our troops into Juarez and the chastise
ment administered to the Villa despera
does is not to lead to any invasion of
Mexico. This is a wise pronouncement
proportioned to the aspects of the par
ticular incidents which prompted Briga
dier General Erwin to cross the intei na
tional bridge. His action indisputably
safeguarded lives in El Paso and rid the
border of an immediate menace.
"Battle of Juarez" is a florid term. It
was a brush with bandits who had become
intolerably bold. It Is the ominous sig
nificance of the affair which inspires un
easiness. The American people have no
guarantee that such outrages will not be
recurrent. The scandal in the situation
is its perilous uncertainty.
Criminal absurdity of this kind has
outworn any conceivable palliation.
President Wilson is under pressing obli
gation to declare himself plainly and
without equivocation concerning Mexico.
Perhaps the league of nations may be
intrusted with a problem which has out
lived all the tremendous questions of the
great war.
If so, if there is the gleam of a sensi
ble, forceful and consistent idea on this
theme in the heads of the responsible
statesmen it should be forthwith dis
closed. Public patience is exhausted.
D p 1 a w n r e sturgeon
Purity a Necessity mny now inctcasc and
multiply without lot
or hindrance until March 1, 1022. That is,
of course, if the closed seu&on also applies to
all stream pollution. -
Kny strike the world
Huns Laugh In oer,is an argument
Tliclr Sfcees for the speedy sigmng
of the peace treaty;
and all ohstruetUe tnti(s, whether in Uic
United States Senate or elsewhere, are aids,
unwitting or otherwise, to German.
The Senate judicinry
All "Hct" Up Hubiommlttfe Is un
duly excited. There
are already laws enough ou the statute books
to deal adequately with "radicalism, lawless
ness and violence in America.'" While a
Btrict regulation of the manufacture, distri
bution and possession of high cxploshes U
commendable and desirable, the suggested
regulation of "mushroom organizations"
and additional restrictions on the newspaper
press saor of a censorship that can only do
more harm than good.
Marshal Koch may yet have to apply the
fifteenth point.
Delegates to the Federation of Labor
convention are thankful that the shore is
still wet.
General Felipe Angeles appears to have
provided himself with a competent press
agent.
Germany's complaints suggest the fact
that no criminal was ever entirely satisfied
with a sentence imposed upon him.
To scrap Hog Island after the present
ship contracts ate completed would be noth
ing less than criminal wastefulness.
The United States Senate may take to
itself a little of the credit or blame fpr the
"demands" now beinginade by Germany.
The report that the, kaiser and the crown
prince will return to Germany as soon as the
peace treaty is signed may either cause the
Germans o delay the signing of the treaty
pr givMnc aih jwwenr
A STUDY IN FUTILITY
Being a Review of the hJJgh Points of
American Failure to Meet the
Mexican Problem Adequately
nfiABr4 6 the difficulties along the
Jfcjicnn border makes timely a review
of the events in the relations bcticeen the
I nited States and Mexico during the last
deiade. The iccord is bound to haic addi
tions in the near future, v it is put in com- ,
pendious form for leader icho icnt to fol
low the course of cienfs with, intelligence
and understanding.
December 1. 1910 Porflrlo Diaz In
auRuratetl president for an elRlith term of
four jears Itoolt beRun under Francisco
Madono against contlnuanco of his Iron rule.
April 23, 1911 Under apprehension of
United Slates intervention, armistice nr
ranpred. May 18, 1911 Peace proclaimed on basis
of Dlaz'a resignation Dc la. Barra president
nd interim
October IB, 1911 Madero chosen "unani
mously" at a "free election," at which only
20,000 votes were cast Oomez, Oroczo and
Zapata begin revolts
March 14, 1912 President Taft approves
resolution of Congress prohibiting export of
arms and ammunition Into Mexico except to
,-tiauero government.
February S, 1913 Vlctorlano IVuerta, commander-in-chief
of Madero forces, deserts to
government's enemies riffhtlng In Mexico
City. Madero and Vice President Pino
Suarez arrestcd, forced to resign nnd a few
dili later shot and killed under the "fugl
tlc law," Huerta becomes provisional pres.
ident.
Mnroh 26, 1913 Venustiano Carranza,
goxernor of slate of Coahulla, denounces
Huerta and proclaims "Plan of 'Guadalupe "
Becomes first chief of Constitutionalist army.
Begins operations In northern Mexico. Fran
clfeo Villa leads peons Into Carranza's sup
port Jul, 1913 President Wilson appoints John
l.lnd,1 former governor of Minnesota, as
special Investigator and personal representa
tive August 27, 1913 President Wlteon explains
lo Congress he had sent Ilnd to extend good
ofllces of this country. Said Mexican authori
ties had rejected overtures, so he had ex
tended embargo op arms to the whole of
Mexico.
October, 1913 Huerta commits coup d'etat
arresting members of Mexican Congress and
assumes dictatorial powers
November 12, 1913 Und leaves Mexico
Cltj
December 2, 1913 President Wilson In ad
diesj to Congress denounces Huerta as n
usurper and declares he will stand by a policy
or 'watchful waiting" to eliminate him from
power.
April 9, 1914 Boatload of sailors fiom
United" States gunboat Dolphin placed under
arrest at Tamplco by Mexican federal troops
Immediately released and Huerta expresses
regret Rear Admiral Mayo demands salute
of twenty-one guns, which Huerta refuses
unless the United States would return the
Lompllment, maintaining that release of men
and apology were sufficient. United htates
insists on demand
April 14, 1914 North Atlantic fleet ordered
to Tamplco, and on tho following day Ad
miral Fletcher, on orders, occupies Vera
Cruz with loss of nineteen killed and fifty
wounded, Mexican losses being much greater.
April 20, 1914 President Wilson in address
to Congress says he deemed it his duty "to
Insist that the flag of tho United States
should be saluted in uch a way as to Indi
cate a new spirit and attitude on flie part of
the Huertistas."
April 22, 1914 (Vongress, at President's re
quest, votes consent to u'-e the armed forces
of the United States.' in such was and to
such an extent as mlghtbe necessary to
obtain from General Huerta and his ad
herents the fullest recognition of tho rights
and dignity of the United States."
April 23, 1914 Huerta issues general am
nesty and Carranza protests to Secretary
Brjan ,-against "hostile acts of the United
States " Same day ambassadors of Argen
tina, Brazil and Chile tender mediation, which
is accepted.
April 30,'1914 General J"uhston, with 9000
regulars, occupies Vera Cruz, sailors retum.
ing lo their ships
May 20, 1914 "A B C" mediators meet at
Niagara Falls.
Juno 14, 1914 Protocol signed providing
that a new government, constituted by agree
ments between Mexican factions, should be
recognized by tho United States, which should
demand no "war Indemnity or othe'r material
satisfaction
July 6, 1914 Huerta "elected" president
July 15,. 1914 Huerta resigns under
pressure of the United States, leaving Mexico
five days later on German warship Make
shift government formed vylth Carbajal at
head Carranza refuses to recognize this gov
ernment Villa and Zapata support him.
Fighting continues, first one faction and then
another occupying Mexico City.
September 15 1914 Presldert Wilson
orders withdrawal of United States troops
from Vera Cruz
November 23, '914 Withdrawal accom
plished. August 5, 1915 South American repre
sentatives confer with Secretary Lansing to
consider Mexican situation.
August 11, 1915 A joint appeal dispatched
to leaders of Mexican factions.
September 18, 1915 Lansing am conferees
agree that United Stales shall recognize as
de facto government faction which at the end
of three weeks best demonstrates its ability
to maintain order.
October 9, 1915 Carranza decided to be
entitled to such recognition.
October 19, 191& Carranza formally rec
ognized,' March 9, 191G Villa attacks Columbus,
New Mexico. ,
March" 15, 191J5 United S,tates sends "pu
nitive" expedition across Mexican border
after Villa, General Pershing irt command
May 5, 1916 Bandits from Mexico raid
Glenn Springs, Tex. Troop3 pursue them O
miles across border without result.
May 22, 1916 Carranza government pro
tests against the violation of Mexican sov
ereignty by Pershing's expedition.
June 8, 1916 Republican National Con
vention protests against Vthe Indefensible
methods of Interference" employed by the
administration "In the Internal affairs of
McxIco,"and refers "with shame" to its per
mitting ftxlstlng conditions to continue by
'failure tto act promptly and firmly" and
through recognition of one of the factions re
sponsible -
June 20, 1916 United States' formally re
fuses to 'withdraw troops.
June '52, 1916 Detachment of United
States troops attacked by Mexican troops at
Carrlzalnd seventeen made prisoners after
several had been killed on both sides
June 25, 1916 United States demands Im
mediate release of prisoners, avowing that the
act could only be regarded as "deliberately
hostile." Prisoners released.
July 4-7, 1916 Carranza suggests media
tion byLatln-American states, and United
States accepts.
November 24, 1916 Protocol signed pro
viding for withdrawal of United States troops
If order were maintained innorthern Mexico.
January 15, 1917 Joint commission dis
solved after endeavoring unsuccessfully for
four months to reach, an agreement on border
CFe'bruary 6, 1917 United States troops
"March"?', 1917 President Wilson Jnforms
benate of'Zlmmermann note plotting on be
half of ftermany to embroil this country with
'(Throughout the rest qf 17, 1918 and to
date there have been frequent rumors of difli
cultles with Mexico, but American interest in
the European war overshadowed Mexfthn
affair so that absolutely no progress toward
a settlement can be Indicated by any date.)
.in'i7 1919 American troops cross
Mexican border to drlveCW followers out of
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THE CHAFFING DISH
Song of the Disappointed
Handley-Page Aviator
Why didn't sonic power the giftie gie me
To let mc pilot that Vickers-Vimy?
It was quaint that Alcock and Brown
should have landed in a bog, which is just
where most politicians land when they era
hark upon the Irish problem.
It was hard for Miss May Kitson to learn
that though Alcock would nottake her as a
passenger he had found room'tfor a cat and
a dog. ?
It seems, as wc brood over this u the hope
of excavating some wheeze, that not only
petrol hut pets arc necessary to a successful
flight.
Our Own League of Natations
We had our first post-war swim the other
dav, in no less n body of water than the
Atlantic ocean. We were much disap
pointed tjiat Mack Sennctt wasrfot on hand
to offer us a contract. The "occasion was
otherwise successful, howevef,in that a
number of moths who had evidently intended
to raise their grandcocoons In our bathing
suit perished ignobly. '
One of our favorite punishments for the
kaiser would be to take him down to the
beaoh at Fierceforcst, let him get a thorough
blaze of Friday to Mojiday sunburn and then
watch him shave with an uiistroppcd razor.
8hrimps and Senators
One of the delights of bathing at low tide
is a certain small animal that burrows in the
sand we coll them hardshell shrimps, but
our friend nnd fellow Fierccforester Tom
Farrell insists they are a kind ,of snail.
Whatever they are, they are built something
like a shrimp but with a hard and very
comely gray shell; they are easily found as
the tide recedes, as they leave a Bmall dimple
in the sand where they have taken cover.
The game is to root them out and carry them
back to the Urchin, who stands at the edge
of the strand (whatever that is). A small
pool having been prepared, you place the
Bhrimps in it and the Urchin greatly enjoys
seeing them scuttle backward and dig them
selves in, scooping with their hind legs and
pushing with their front limbs. Jt is enter
taining also to put them on the harder sand
and see them try valiantly to stern' Into it.
They kick as resolutely as a Senate trying
to find a hole in a peace treaty (or a Mnck
Scnnett lady in the front row) ; but with a
sense passing the sense of senators, when
they find themselves stumped they sit still
and wait for something to happen. One
cannot resist the impression, watching them,
that they will bo greatly relieved if nothing
happens.
The Urchin, having already been intro
duced to crabs, also calls the shrimp's "nice
little crabs," Shrimp is a word that presents
some dlfficultfcs to him, and his mind so far
only classifies the denizens of the sea into
fish and crabs. Later on, of course, he will
have to subdivide his classification to in
clude jellyfish, ladies in one-piece bathing
suits, nnd so on.
It is hard to keep the Urchin at the edge
of the strand while" one brings back the
shrimps for him to watch. His delight is
so great that he has a tendency to dash vio
lently into the sea up to his knees. He is,
in very truth, a sea-urchin.
Seems like old times to see that photo of
the international bridge at YA Taso back in
the papers.
"Casualties were light," says a dispatch
from Juarez. The unhappy thing "about
casualties is that they are never light to the
casuals themselves, T '
Hopeful to the last, we opine that the
scornful phrase, "tin Lizzie," Is only an
abbreviationfpr itinerant Lizzlei
Alcock and Brown bad tho right idea.
They waited until all the, third-rate paeU
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transatlantic flight. No minor poet will dare
to tackle the subject now.
Transmigration of Shoals
An old salt tells us that Nantucket shoals
have moved so much that the position of the
lightship may have to be changed.
Wc fancy that the treaty is the kind they
w ill eventually sign.
It is for us to sec, President Wilson may
remark as ie tnkes the stump against cer
tain Senators, that these loquacious dead
heads shall have talked in vain.
, Mr. John McMnster sends us a copy of the
Caledonian Magazine, in which we find a
story of an old Scottish judge who said to
a perverse witness, "You have got a mind so
twisted that it a nail could be got into one
side of your head I am convinced it would
come out n screw on the other side."
What would that judge have said to cer
tain senators?
We remarked that the Chavender or Chub
controversy was closed, but we reopen it just
long enough to insert the following, which,
while technically inaccurate, gives us a
harmless grin :
.The Old Kow
Blzzjr mooln.
Sadly chewln
On her cavender or Cud,
She wuz atandln' In tho jnedder,
In tho mavender. or mud,
Wen her ves aplde aumthtn' In the tfras.
Llko Blavender. or Bludll!
Juet a ruby on green velvut
Wuz. this stavender or stud I
Hal
A rout) a rose, a red, red rose'
A bavender or bud I
She ate It.
No morsel aweeter
Had she raided.
Since the (lavender.
Or Flood!
EddEH ALLEN .rOTATER.
We wish to acknowledge contributions for
the Child Federation from Harrison Hires
and Francis W. Power.
Thanks to the generosity of our clients we
are able to send a check for $23 to the fed
eration. This will help twenty-five needy
children through the hot weather. A number
of contributors have expressly requested that
we i should not write a poem about them,
which shows that their literary taste is as
acute as their kindly charity.
Detroit Catching Up
Next week's audiences at the New De
troit will have an opportunity to see a
successful Broadway production for the
first time outside- of New York, Detroit
Free Press.
Broken Bones
After sending our ljttle contribution to
frlepd Ephraim Ledercr the" other day we
spent a blue Monday construing ' the
stsvenders or stubs in our check-book. To
tell you the truth, we felt as though every
bone in our bank account had been broken.
Perhaps this is about the right time to
remind ourselves of what Mark Twain said
about an approaching celebration :.
July 4 th i Statistics, show that we lose
more .fools on this day than In all the
other Mays of the year put together. This
proves, by the number left In Btock, that
one "Fourth of July per year Is now inade
quate, the country has grown so.
As Fleet as Fleet Street
Lord Northcliffe, commenting on tbe'Al-cock-Brown
flight, says he looks forward to
the time when London morning papers will
be selling In New Yorkuhe same evening. '
And we, peering into the future, like to
imagine the time when Lord Northcliffe will
find no savor in his breakfast marmalade and
toast unless the .Philadelphia Chaffing Dish of
the night before accompanies them,
Every week or'so some olp announces a
"new eppch" in motion pictures, but it
usually turns out to be merely that Charley
Chaplin has taught a hen to lay an egg
directly Wo the frying pan.
When Charley can raije bacon In a skillet
there'll relly be WHMfUiBg to it
'WISSj '
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THE SECRET PACK
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' Wherein I store the loveliest things i
And in my heart, not on my back,
aiy aear and guarded treasure swings, il
With every passing year it grows,
And as it grows life fairer gleams;
And lesser weigh my dally woes, ,
And brighter, rarer shine my dreams.
My memory hath a secret pack ;
It steads me, cheers me all the while.
Within It enters nothing black,
But each kind word, each loving smile.
It matters not if darkness fall,
I never let my heart be dumb,
For love knows not until it call ' i
What faithful echoes back will come.
My memory hath a secret pack;
When I am sad I open it
And soon of solace I've no lack,
And all my soul with joy is lit ;
And over land, and over see,
My thought flies swifter than a dove,
' For are not those who smiled on me
Still keeping bright the lamp of love?
Samuel Minturn Peck, in the Bostoi
Transcript.
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Massachusetts legislators have raise
their own salaries from $1000 a year tol
$1500. That's the spirit 1 When Ihere'sl
work to be done, hang the expense!
Hog Island has been spoken of as th
Clyde of America. Our local pride will notl
be wholly gratified, however, until the Clyde
is spoken of as the Delawareof Great
Britain. , il
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Wltat Do You Know?
QUIZ ,
It What is the nationality of Lieutenant!
Arthur W. Brown,- navigator 'of the I
first airplane to achieve a nonstop fllghtl
i across tnc Atlantic? yw
2. Which is the larger, England or Penni
sylvania .'
13. On what syllable should the accent 'fall
In pronouncing the word cigarette? yi
4. Who is Sem Bcnelli? Si
5. Wlfat is a Dansrolin? .
VJ, IVUUl JO JUIC.
x 7. What is a fay?
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8. 'When was the Mississippi first seen by
a white man? , t
0. Of what new state does Serbia now
form a Dart? i
hlO. What is the predominant' race in fhe
territory oi. nawaiif - 1 1
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1. A "ripper" bill is a bill designed to ou'st1
officeholders to whom the party respond
sible for the legislation is opposed, !
2. The temperature of a. cold -blooded ani.
mal is the same as that of Its environ"
mem. -11
S. Asuncion is the capital of Paraguay. ,3fT
4. Anthony Vandyke or Van Dyck paInt4JI
me ceieuraicu portrait ot unarits J. o I
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cient ships, especially the Spanish, hs
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0. Philip Freneau was an early Amer'ie
poet, nis nates are nuz-ltMX. &
10. The Gordlan knot was named from Goi
dlus, a Phrygian peasant, who dedto
tatcd his wagon to Jupiter and fastetiM'I
his joke to a beam w.lth a rope pf bartJ
bo iiigeuiuusiy nea tnat no one cotl
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