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Jim l 11 HYSTERIA SQUELCHED rpHE iefeat ot the anti-icditiun bill, which cast discredit upon the existing laws of this state and contained the seeds .of serious future perils is a gratifying exhibition of legislative sanity. The court-, and trie present comprehensive btatutes ar fully capable or protecting the jiublit apainst the so-iMlled bolshev ism and anarchistic vtiMties against which ih' new mcasuu was supposedly ,aimed. Alleged "safeguards" th.it infringe "lipon the fundamental liberties of the citizen as this bill did savor of the Met tarnichian system ami of the dark season of tyrannous repression that followed the Congress of Vienna. Vigorous execution of the laws as they now 3tand is quite sufficient to save the commonwealth frcm juts foes, however dangerous. The House of Representatives at llai risburg is to be congratulated for causing the demise of th s historical superfluity. .There should be no attempt at revival. BRIDGE PLAN PROGRESS T)ESriTE the cut made in the appr -"' priation criginnlly propesed, the Delaware ri . buda project hi- teen materially speeded by the Senate V favor able report i-n the bill .it Harnsburg The ?3,000,000 first ruggestei was more than enough to further the enterprise in its preliminary stages. As the measure jjow stands $'250,000 will be available this ,. year and $500.00 the year following. jji By that time the Legislature will meet "' fsgain and will br able to make further ,i. appropriations. For tl'o initial vhtcs of Ihe work there will be availr.hle the money already vrted by New .Ter.'ey in addition to the Pcnrsylvania fund, the existence of which is contingent upon the jetting aside of .m'thei half million ly the city of Philadelphia. The nest step therefoic will involve nergy upon the part of Cour.cils. When those bodies act sufficient financial back j)ig to start the great woik will be as sured. Once begun no retrogression will be tolerable. DROUGHT AND FISH XTO PRONOUiNCEMENT of fate ever -- showed a more ironic twist than that which opens the bass season July 1 and shuts down the supply of "bait" on the tame day. There 13 loom for fascinating con jecture as to the possible result of na tional prohibition or. thr. supply of fish stories - How long will a man sit on a hank if he may not alternate a "nip" with a "''bite"? What effect will the natural 'bait" have on fish that got away? absence the size the the - These and countless other questions suggest themselves to the earnest seeker after truth SCHOOL IN SUMMER TDELIEVING that what school children XJ need in the summer Is not nhsr.lnto (gljTtJst, but.less work and different work. gf the University of Pennsylvania from Julv Mf- 7 to August 15 will conduct a vacation "school for Philadelphia boys and girls. - The classes will be conducted by picked teachers; and for recreative purposes the pupils will have the use of the school playgrounds, thb University swimming TJool, the Botanical Uardfn and the Urii- veiity and Philadelphia museums The experiment will be watched with interest If it is justified bj. attendance rV thp) idea will unniiPxrmnaMir 1. .l..,.,.i . j-t ' 'J "w '"'ci31"" YUV nmuntir. ........ n" wmmvmu lviMNrgtKt5 y OOLDIERS at the Country Club for F.r,. listed Men at Rockledge may swat the ;tan on Sunday without breaking the law ,t under me decision reached at Norristown. H ' understood, however, that no rough 1 language is to be used during the prog ress of a game. . ' If by "rough language" is meant pro fanity or obscenity the Sunday inhibition ight well be extended to the rest of the , week. V,If Sunday ball demonstrates (as it will r Remonstrate if the Rockledge experi- '-nient has a fair trial) that a irnml -'Vlpnn frame of nAlI ran hi nl.v.J 1..4. EJcoarseness or rough-house tactics, it will iH.erYe an excellent purpose. The Sunday (R Jfrtlfio wm iruvc tu jc a. kuou ounaay les- r?.,lC xnose Dig enougn ro unu sermons in Btwikenea ought to find at least one on the 4lmona. &.t Tfil.TOO LATE FOR DODGING 'ITtfvE favor with which Americans sup- ' ported the war that waa to bring Ger . riy to terms ill accords with any disin- rfltffatdtion , contribute our share in I'tkinS.taoB'i terms valid. my HSWkr. vfuui'iacciy annoUncwl that every Americnn soldier will be out of Ffa,nco by September 1 It has been explained, however, that thi.i statement has no reference to any timf limit ft r the Rhino occupation. The exception is legitimately madf It is f arvcntly hoped, of course, that all our troo-, will be brought back as soon as possible, but this desin should yield to thb originn one of finishing the great job on which wo em Imrked. If a march into Germany and a longer residence there becomes necessary for the American army t" compel execution of thi treaty terms regrrt may be In order, but ccrtainlv not scuttling lrrita t!on Qualms about the lask we undcr too' would have beer scaicely less ignohK while wo worn fighting in the Argor.ne thar they -ire whilo Germany remains recab'traiit. if only in words. War involves three majot daises of rc sponsibilitie those of enteiiivj; it, those of conducting it and th."se of decisively ending it. It is not the part of patriotism to shrink from fulfilling any of them. NO NEED OF SELF-APPOINTED WATCHDOGS OF THE LAWS Regularly Elected Authorities Must En force Statutes, Not Officious Bodies of Voluntary Origin '"PHAT Topeka clergyman who wr te -- book a few years ago about what he would do if he were God war- unfor tunately not unique The world is full of ohinteer pilots of the universe who art convinced that thev could steer it bet ter than its Creator. And it is fuller of s-elf-appointed guaid lans of society, who know that eveiything is going to the demnitien bovtwow be ciikc their advice is not ac'tcd icpon. These people occasionally go into court and ask for a charter for some sort of a society to enforce some sort of laws, the enfoicement of which they cannot trust to the rcgulaily elected officials They do not seem to lealize that sui'h a peti tion for a charter is an insult to the court from which it is asked. They -tern to forget that the courts aic themselves part of the machinery for enforcing all the laws. If government hail broken down some extra-governmental machinery might be needed to perfoim its functions. But there is no evidence that government in this state has collapsed. We have judges and district attorneys and detectives and othir police ofiicers ,-hosen from among the citizenry and es pecially commissioned to enforce all the statutes and to bring to justice all law breaker!". If they arc derelict, it wou'd be much better to bring about their re moval from office and replace them with men whe ran be trusted than to attempt to tuin their functions over to a volun tary organization niefde up of citizens who cannot be held to any accountability. Vigilance committees have done good woik in communities where orderly legal piocesses had not yet been established. But there is no need for a vigilance com mittee in Philadelphia, by whatever euphemistic title it may be called. And thcie is particularly no need here for an organization composed of men who give the impression of thinking they are so much holier than any one else that to them alone can be intrasted the protec tion of the morals of 'he community through the enforcement of th criminal laws. We have had a high license law here for years with provisions against the sale of liquor on Sundays. When it was passed it was said that it would be im possible to enforce it, but it has ')een obeyed much better than its ardent advo cate hoped for, because the regularly constituted authorities responsible to the people have recognized their obligations and have fulfilled them. The new prohibition laws to follow the coming into effect of the amendment to the federal constitution will also In en forced to the fullest extent public senti ment will support It matteis not whether the politicians like prohibition; they like power and office moie than the like -the favor of the saloonkeepers and the brewers. Their course will be that dictated by the prevailing sentiment of the community, because they know that if they do not respect that sentiment they might as well commit political suicide. An extra-governmental society char tered to do their work for them is as unnecessary as a fifth 'wheel on a stige coach And it is more pernicious We have had conspicuous example. of suih societies right here in Philadelphia. Organized originally by well-meaning citizens, some of them very soon came int the control of men who used them for their personal and political advan tage They failed miserably and no one had an respect for them They would I have tailed even if they had not degen erated from their original high purposes, for tho community, will not be dictated to by any group of men who announce that there is no hope for the redemption of those who disagree with them High purposes without toleration are futile The assumption that all virtue resides in a small group arrays the vast mass of society against such a group, for the reason that the average man knows that he intends to do right and grows righteously indignant when some one with a self-adjusted halo begins to patronize him as a miserable sinner who must be coerced into obedience to the laws which the men elected by his vote have made. So far has our machinery for law en forcement come from collapsing that within a few days arrangemtnts have been made for increasing its effective ness. The district attorney has been au thorized to create a detective bureau in his office and to appoint men to work under his direction in securing evidence of the violation of law not the liquor law alone, but all laws the enforcement of which is intrusted to tho public prose cuting officer. He has employed a skilled and trustworthy detective to organize the bureau. Why should any private citizens, responsible only to their own prejudices, be eommis?ioned in addition tc the reguljrjy (V-nst'tuted forces t Th'J EVENING l?tiBHO LEJDaEli5HlBM)ELMlA responsibility for good government rests on the shoulders of the whole perple. The world is not out of jeint. It Is a pretty (rood place to live in The pet pie who are here have made it what it is, and in spite of all their frailties they aro gatting in with tho task of livinjf to gether nnd keeping the crooks in order, while those who ate not crooks nre allowed to live their lives with as little molestation as possible. The level-headed judges take this view and they are likely to treat self-anointed guardians of public morals with their ac customed sound sense. McCUMBER, STATESMAN AMERICAN honor and the honor of the " United Stated Senate were coura geously fo'rtified yesterday in Senator Porter James McCumber's sincere and manly stand on behalf of the peace treaty and the league of nations. , Frenzied partisanship would have dic tated that this Republican from North Dakota should subscribe to the desperate maneuvering of the Lodges, tho Knoxcs and the Borahs. But Senator McCumbcr rebuked such an iniquitous code last week when he refused to vote for the Knox resolution. His disclosure of his reasons for this- ittitudc is cogent and convinc ing nnd reveals him as a statesman capa ble of considering a question of tran scendent import upon its merits and without regard to party lines. In si doing ljis act squares with the ringins 'Tuft doctrine," succinctly ex pressed bj the ex-President recently when hi. said: "I respect a man who opposes the covenant upon its merits, but I have no respect for n man who opposes it for the reason that it might help Mr. Wilson and the Democratic party and might hurt his own political ambitions. I believe in parties, and know that they are necessary, but some issues transcend parties, when wo must stand before the world and give our decisions." The impression has been growing that the Republican party, to which the na tion is so deeply indebted for innumerable measures of sound and clear-visioned statesmanship, contains members who must shrink from swallowing whole the cant which Mr. Knox and Mr. Lodge have been utterin . Such folly is wholly inconsistent with a noble record. Mr. McCumber's honest stand demon strates that the party ranks are not yet devoid of political wisdom and patriotic sanity and suggests further inspiring ex hibits may be forthcoming from other personal sources. The path of recovery is definitely outlined. The Michiuau Sn -promt1 Court has de cided that tlif bnlf of bv flip State Securities This removes the last Sunny Mich. nny stock not listcii Oimmishlon i void. ' loud from the blue skj laws. ar did one Rood One, .Star thing for the railroads in the Murk nnjlinw it helped to staiul.irilizp them. This solitary little word of praise for the goat comes from Atlantic City, where the American Kailroad Association is holding convention. The first letter to Plane. Trip for cross 'lis Atlantic bj' I'ljin Thrift airplnni a froit the saving!! division of the Treasury in AVaahiiiRtcr. to the Iintih rational war savings (mumittce. mid its subject was national tlnift. t There was fit ness in the message, for it as the nation's response to n demand fuc retrenchment that made the ail" service possible during the war. Home lint lis in cnu Smolie t'p! mention in Ashury I'nrk, N. .7 h'ave been told that in order to keep healthy tliey must abtain from all meats, ggs, nltoholic bevei ages, tea, coffee and nil stimulcting drinks. Iv a happy cversight the learned doctor didn t pay Muvbe hu smokes. word about "bacu Itciniisf nf the fuct Itrady for I h a t KHi.OOO men New Drive were rejected at the time ot the diaft for unsuspirted tuberculosis nnd tli additional fact that the white plague annually kills l.'iO.OOO people in this country, the lfed Cross next Christmas will start a cam paign for 5(1,000 000 to prevent and (eia trol the disease. As nf one enn tell vhose family may furnish (he next victim, the drive will probably ht suiccssful. as it de serves to be. The fact thnt two Time Limit radicals under arrest for Visitors on suspicion of being impliiatrd in recent bomb outrages have been in this country twelve years and have nevtr bei v. natural ized draws attention to n phast of our im migration laws that might well be amended. There is a welcome lure for .fouigticrs who desire to become citizens. Tin rt is a vvel come here also for sojourners Hut it might be well to so arrange matters that the stranger who has ro eb'sirt ie beiome a citizen hhall net be permitted tee outwear bis welcome. Germany is reaping the whirlwind. "On nf being to Berlin!" is "onto" Berlin the natural result If cleanlini'ss i next tc gudliness, I'lill selelpliia stieeth are mure- lnele-y than gpdl. (jermnii) weak end. seven elujs will probubly see "I'nscrupulous politician" one who belongs to the other party Switzerland now shelters thre'e kings. Tlent's a pretty good hanel to draw to. But most any aviation camp can show four aces Members of the American Medico Psychological Association are aolding a three dajs session in the Bellevuo. Strat ford. As nut specialists they ought to "lay over" a week and meet the chestnut men. (Jcrmany has until Juno 'J.1 to consider the revised terms. With that little formality dispoxed of the American Press Humorists will forthwith begin their convontlou ic this city . To Mistress. Germanla the folio ivlng little poem by Jean Webster is respectfully submitted ; "omewhere toon sometbiijif nice U tfedng to happen. Be a good little kirl Ana UU jhl hint. Swallow with a binlln your f.oeT liter ile, Aud nret lhirj ye.u fcnojrqii wjj) itlrfa " C: THE GOWNSMAN Commencement "ITTITII straw lints, June loses and gen'al weather Oprnmen'-iincne. ii enct again upon us, traditional ceremonial (hit It Is, hallowed by long jenrH ot protracted observ ance. Commencement Is ns certalr ic Ihe recurrence of springtime and scarcely less novel in Its sameness Like Christians, an other time of rejoicing, Cuimnriioiiieiit comes hut once a yenr: but It le-k the slmiil tnneousness of Christmas It Is more spo radic, breaking out nt times unexpectedly nnd In new places; elsewhere it l.eceimcs cpl detnle', hfstlng txi times for n mortal neck and Involving fentnres of the circus, the modes, the athletic Held, tempered with processions, orations and the Imccnlnuientc seriiuin na a conveniently neighboring Sunday. LIKI3 marriage, Commencement comes to most but once in a lifetime One doee) Hot ordinarily e'onimence and recommence. To the undergraduate, who sloughs bis cater pillar state to fly avvny on the wings of a eilphima. Comnyni'cmciit Is like the- Fourth eif Jul ; it Js his first day of ineleperelence. But t" tlieise laboring bees the govvusiuen Ceimtneneement Is only the day on which n newly winged swarm takes Its tllght. leaving an empty hive, noon again to h oce-upled by another brood, to be fed day by day on the honey eif learning nnel In elue time furnished with wings In turn fur their flight Into the world The house of lonrie'iig is r. husv place in which nrc n'any workers and likewise some drones. A1;; PKKT1XI3NT and obvious inquiry ask: vviucii concludes a college or a school enreer a Commencement nnd not rather n conclu siein. Commencement, ho far ns the l'nglish usage Is concerned, appnrs to have begun nt Cambridge, where the term Is still cm pleiyeeh.as we employ It universally In Amer ica, to elenote the tinnl award of degrees at the conclusion of the college jeur, the cere monv called anciently at Oxford "an net." To commence doctor, mnster or llccntlnte have been familiar expressions any time since the days of iioctor Johnson or his predecessor, Ben, for that matter; and to e'nmmence patriot or author in the sense'of undertaking such a career upon due prepa ration is not in any wise novel English. rplIB thought in the word Commencement -L is then of the future, the new state Into which the student is Inducted "with nil its lights and privileges," as the current phrase gne'S, nnel not of auy past condition of serv itude, now brought to a happy or unhappy termination. But we must gc deeper into the lore of the past if we arc to find the nrtunl origin of the term Commencement, or nt least the usn'ge out of which our usage has arisen. In the old monkish division of university study into the Trivium, made up of grammar, leigic nnd rhetoric, and the Quad rillion, which was composed of the higher subjects music, arithmetic, geometry and astronomy a student who had completed the trivial triad, or little three, was said to "e'eimmeue-e bachelor of arts" in his appren ticeship to a master of faculty, under whose guidance he continued his study in the Qiind n'l'ium or what wo might translate "the big four." This was virtually a passing from what some American universities call the lower to the upper college, from the grades of freshmen nnd sophomores to those of what used to be called not so long ago junior and senior sophisfcrs. mo LEAVE the dust of this ancient lore, -- the Cemimenecmcnt of our own fathers in America! colleges was largely the affair of the, .Undent. In it. after the appropriate opening prajer. it was the joung graduate wno spoke for himself to admiring mothers, sisters, sweethearts and npproviug fathers rreipientl he who had just commenced bae'helnr or master spoke ot great length, and there were often many of him. A morning's Commencement program in these dajs of our parents might exhibit n list of twenty speak ers, who, from the titles of their "orations" - that was the dignlfieel accepted word left very little in their collected wisdom for nny one hereafter to discuss. A pleasing euphemism, however, prevented thes" ora tion of length from too exorbitant a demand on the spacious leisure eif old time, whereby nn asterisk led. the drooping eje to the mar ginal note, ' excused from speaking," anil in the upshot less thau half were actually hearel Tins happy arrangement saved alike the face and the voice of the speaker, to suy nothing of the patience of the auditor, ln deeel this is a device too little honored in the presi'iit Think of the delight attendant, dear leader, on the next public dinner which jou atte'ud, could louVuly read in the menu a list of the distinguished speakers with the binning topic chosen for each, aud then drop ping jour eye to the marginal note "all cx-cuse-il from speaking," look forward to post pranelinl penee. But we must bvvit:h back to Couimeuci'ineut. k of the Commence ment was the (ircek salutatory and the Latin valedictory, between which extremes English mostly was the spoken medium. The look of assumed comprehension (n the Sice of father, who had forgotten a great deal of (reek, and his genuine pleasure when he caught a familiar scra,p ot Latin which .bail happened to adhere these things were among those innocent little affectations which we all practice and bv which none is deceived. One wonders whether Demosthenes or Cicero might not have been stumped ns well ns father, and have inquired polite old gentle man that each was Demosthenes, "Ho that is Latin?" and Cicerb, as the vuledic'oij "So this is Greek." This Idea of putting the .voung through their linguistic paces to an audience ot admiring unacquaiiitance with the classics Is olmost as old as the Commencement Itself. Only in older English elays it was a debate on some abstruse topic in the contemporary spoken Latin, which was as .vet far from dead, or a play of Pluutus or Terence in the original. SOMETII1NO may be said for our contem porary bimplllication of Commencement itself, however we have amplified its at tendant festivities. One speaker ot note is better than n heist of promising tjros, a e-oncentration on the grunting of degrees is better thau the olel diffusion of topics, and the sloughing off of procedure by mentis of a sometime universal language, which is no longer such, is one apioug inuny marks In the reform of things grown obsolete iu use. lterliu shot an appiaisiug glance a( Washington, and thcn made a gesture of disdain toward Versailles. The German delegates might bcttei un derstand the "harshness" of the treaty if they were permitted to accompany President Wilson on his trip through Belgium The appropriation not, being as big as the job, most of the street work will be done by the Hheol Oood Intention Contracting Company. i ? 'Vt- The AtlantfcVCIty convention of the Federation fit A Labor has so far demon strated that the 'horny-banded' art level headed. - ,, Oh en tho right kind of ram, a new charter would not have been needed- Uiven a vastly improved charter th,jwty I gi&t.fwtiift'iku'MWjrf .1 r'M"" : r i ,'!.' .wv. , f s' -'"1i'c;7 m?'.'"" j.f. - w ..-.i. v - - - :ym 'MursdA, jtetfjef S) ' WAKE UP AND START. THE NEW CLEANER, MR. JANITOR! T Iter1'' "' v" -terM iVi ' i"- '. v .:.!. . " ! v 'I i,VI' I ' 1 i HsV, ..: .:.;.-' .".,;:.".o-;.'!;,.t- . yTVJiffili' ." -. ?!'?' v- ELBOW A City Notebook AVNE of the plcasantcst glimpses we know '-' Is on Latimer street, the little bjway just south of Locust between Fifteenth and Sixteenth. As one walks cast fiom Six teenth n large tree on tho r'ght-hniid side lifts a gracefully curving bough across the narrow street and under this arch of gtcen is finmeel a pleasing picture of foliage and back walls. On 'the left rises n screen of thick ivy, topped by a tall chimney; below this an ailanthiis (or, free of heaven), Philadelphia's favorite Lack- aril giowth, rustles its fantastic fronds. The little brick wall shows the baek gates of 1524 and 1o'2'2 Locust street; over the wall ptojcctH a trellis of wistaria also elear to-Philadelphia, in memory of Caspar Wistar and th.: climbing shrub runs up the right-hand wall, framing the vista on that side. From this belt of shrubbery, with its trailing bluii blossoms, projects a hanging couscrvatoiy, which must be a pleasant place to Binoke a pipe At tie back of the view rise the cocoa -colored pinnacles nf t'alvary Church, ovei topped by a domed corner of the Belle- vue-Stratford. . . THi: Bellevuc-Stratford, we understand, gets the latter half itf its name from the old Hotel Stratford, which Mr. lioldt amal gamated with the Bellevuc. But why was the Stratford so called? Did the statue of Shakespeare, which now stands in the front lobby of the hotel, have anything to do with It? TIIEBE is a cobbler's shop bn South Fif teenth street but nil the cobblers nowa days cull themselves shoe repairers which displays some amusing mechanical figures. A sort of Napoleon III situ in u chair having his shoes shineil or shoue by a Chapllnesqup figure, which wagj its head In i uinnner passing strange. Another stitchei and noils; a fourth hammers and turns its head stiffly., Napoleon III raises his lar and lowers it as his shoes -are burnished. A prolonged scrutiny of those imnhttiiic figures causes a kind of vertigo iu the observer, and if continued too long leads to meditations on the subject of fr-e will For. nfter all, they act with very much the same recmring aod necessitated esture as most uuniuns. D YOU kuow Mole street? It Is well named, for it is one of those small ground anil reappearing a mile nvvaly. The section we know runs off Market street be tween Fifteenth and Sixteenth. It has a low of very quaint little houses, two stories and an attic, whose well-worn marble steps, show their uge. At the corner of Runstead is n dark and interesting little grocery store; down toward the Mnrket street entrance nre the offices of several wholesale florists. The humble little block gives an impression of being a little community of its own ; It has its own service (lug flying, with twenty-five stirs, one of them gedd and two silver, ar ranged in pattern to form the letters U. S. But the hand of the builder is at work ; the lower end of the passage is boarded up and probably some large office Is to go up; and Iheic Is a new cafeteria just opened, A big tahlion of simmeiing tar fills the little street with a yellow-gray smoke; a postman, ir his blue, Hummer shirt, is delivering ihe morning mail. Looking from the Itanstead street comer, the view 'l closed by the vast arching shed of Broad Street Station. THE league of natious i bouud to be a success, for we see that a little, linoleum bound edition of the covenant is on sale In the ten-cent stores. And tho teu-ceut stores don't sell things that the people, flon't want. "vNE of tho most serious disadvantage! ot vy being bhort-slghtm Is. that wtr can ,R!a?.. ioio? ROOM that the book lending solemnity to a Market street window full of summer draperies "vas Kipling's "A Diversity of Creatines." ' DO not often yearn to be a municipal "otl thclal except when we happen to be passiug through the tunnel on tho west side of City Hall and arc overtaken by one of those moguls horning iu with his cur, scat tering pedestrians right nnd left. The lawn in the City Hall coiptjard, bj the way, doesn't seem tj be much of a smcess. Even the sparrows sneer at it. mwo of -- lovers the daintiest and most adorable we have ever seen aie the two delightful little bird are '.he. wrens, or titmice, or what? serviu; tinir iu an op- tieiau s shop on Chestnut street. The win dow there is a kiL.l of mininture garden of Eelcn ; there are a p:.ir of goldfish, a pair of tadpoles, a pair of turtles and the birds. The latter sit like a disconsolate Paolo and Francesca on a toy biidgc ovc- a tii,y stream of water, nestling wing to wing nail appar ently not knowing just wh&t ti do next. Their evident nlTectioii for iach other is pleasant to see. The only other evidence of such devotion is to be found in an animal shop on North Ninth street, where a small alligator and a .red-clieejied turtle lie side by 'side iu a shallow tauk iu mutual and patient esteem. JN A Market street window is a display nf Slinrtln ,nmltt inrli,.l!ti. ft... .,,.. f ........... tennis racket with a ball ruspendod on the strings. Vim can alwajs find a couple of small boys watiblng and aiguing how the bull can be held there. A SIOIIT that always amuses us Is the butter dropper iu the window of r res taurant at Tenth and Market. If you go by there about breakfast fime in the morning jou will see tlijC silver-plated butter dishes idled up neatly nnd a white-aproned wait ress sliding them under her ingenious in strument. She pulls a handle and a neat pat of butter falls on the dish. As long as the King of th: Hot Cakes, in his chef's uniform, doesn't distract her, she lands them precisely in tho center of the small, round plates; but when batter flipper .begins to jnzz she' is likely to miss her aim and has to justify the pats with a fork. SOME time, if you want to get a Hue on the favorite nphorisins of the great public have a look at the cards in 11 r window at CO North Ninth mreet. After n careful study of rlie desk mottoes displajed there we are convinced that the favorite postal card of the human liico is that says; What U I Am Vat, I Loving Disposition, the ope Have a In the Grill,. Perhaps? The German peace envojs were received ot Versailles, Hie Austriaus at St. Oeriuuln and the Turks iu the cloakroom at the Quai d'Orwly. Now vvherj "will the Bulnurs get tbejrs handed to them? What, with breaking blossoms and auc tioning souls, these are harrowing days on the screen. The Flouts of All Evil Rev It. C Pile. f Pall Mall, Tenn., npologlits for being aeen at a vaudevllia show In Unshvlle, vvhlo'i he was prevailed on to attend lie says "Thatwas no place for Pastor Pile 1 am very norry I waa then and liave deeply repeated of game." Utw York Times. Satan did exert his wile, That was no place for Pastor Pile; An orchestra seat, right on the alsl, That war no place for Pustor Tile ; 'Mistaken friends did him beguile. That was no place for Pastor Pile; A BIRD'S ELEGY HE WAS the first to welcome Spring; Adventurous, he came To wake the dreaming buds nnd slug The crocus into flame. He loved the morning and the dew; lie loved the sun and rain ; He fashioned ljrics ns he flew With love for their refrain. Poels of vines nnd blossoms, he, Beloved of them all ; The timid leaves upon the tree Crew bold at his glad call. He sang the rapture of the hills, Ami from the starry height He brought the melody that fills The meadows with delight. And now, behold him dead, alas! Where he mode joy, so long : A bit of blue amid the grass A tiny, broken song. Frank Dempster Sherman (1SG0-191G). Henry's Relentless Logic All of us together the whole of human society make the social system. Now, if jou allow relentless logic to take its course with this form of statement, and begin to speak of reforming the social system, then, you find yourself confronted nt once with the problem of making a pro found and complete change In human nature. No doubt, with a less faulty human na ture than ours is, n less faulty social sys tem would have grown up. Or, if human nature were worse than it is, a worse system would have grown up. Henry Ford, in the Dearborn Independent. Denmark's well-grounded fear that she may be forced to take territory she does not want is at once understandable and unique. The protection of minorities is a doctrine not wholly foreign to the democratic idea of rule by the majorities. I ;: 1 J What Do You know? . When did the Turks acquire Cons tan tl- nople? 2. What Is the literal meaning of Ineffable? .1. Who is Joseph Korzenlowskl? t Who wrote "Darius Green r.nd His Fly ing Machine"? 5 Where is Schleswig-lfolsteju? (5. In .what war was the batth- of Molino del Bey fought and what does the name mean? 7. What is asphalt made fiom? S. What is a caret? 0. Who was the vice presidential candidate of the Progressive party in ltUU. 10. What kind of a weapon is ac assegai? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz ' 1. Victoriano Hqerta was Carran.Vs pred ecessor as president of Mexico. U. Nickname is derived from "eke nam," meaning "also name. ' 3. A deck is au iron-headed golf club. 4 By the terms of the peace treaty Ger muny yields to Belgium the territory of Prussian Moresuet, est of the road from Liege to Ali'-la-Chapulle, and F.upcn and MnUncdy, also uear the .Bel gian border. fj. aiihitolsm Is regarded as the natlpnnl religion of Japaniltiioughit .receives no aid ,from tit state. 0. The fife-rail ofn shlpj) theTrail around the malnmasUwlth belaying pins. 7. Henry James wrote the story of ''Daisy Miller." S,i Strata is the plural of the word stratum. 0 Patristic literature is literature of the church lathers. ii V4 0 J vi 1 7'jt' c - ' i -&Mb i ..- ... :rjpfX'L.v C-'V A. ;A. a V.; 51 V! &.; JMLU4SS.V T. - AV-'i" ' ns .V ' a.i j..vppuuuj.. - !fiS
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers