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Junf 25. 1919 THE STATE FOR SUFFRAGE SUFFRAGE wins in Pennsylvania for the same reason that it is fast triumphing elsewhere in the country. The spirit of the times and the con istent application of the principles of modern democracy are responsible for the swiftness and decisiveness of the vic tory. Even with southern opposition in view, it is now hardly questionable that the nineteenth amendment to the federal con stitution will be ratified. The speed of the enfranchisement current is now largely dependent upon the period et for the sessions of the various state Legisla tures. A significant aspect of the movement is that sensational and 'hysterical suf frage tactics have had very little to do with it save as handicaps. The favor to ward political rights for women arises from national conviction. The effect which the suffrage will exert upon Pennsylvania politics when three fourths of the states sanction the amend ment cannot be predicted. There is no other state in the Union where the op portunities provided in the doubling of the electorate are so potent. "Machine" pretensions would be helpless in the face of intelligent feminine opposition. The action of the Senate in Harrisburg yester day foreshadows a host of interesting developments of all complexions. PEACE BY RESOLUTION mHE ceace which Senator Fall in his $j At resolution proclaims has been con , ummated by the treaty of Versailles. i'7T:That, however, is the document which he and his faction are ostensibly planning to repudiate. Unprotected by this hated pact the world, including the United States, would still, be at war. Without the obligations which it imposes on Germany, none of the objects for which America took up arms would be officially attained. In introducing the resolution the sena tor from New Mexico is entirely within his congressional rights. Had he so de sired he could have proposed to announce peace between America and Germany to be existent while we were fighting in the Argonne. At that time the foe, as re gards us, yielded none of her claims. Exactly so many of them does she now surrender in this "peace by resolution." Treaties, on the other hand, are the guar antees of valid accomplishment. It is always well, however, for critics of the Fall school of diplomacy to appre ciate the inviolable prerogatives of the Senate. The Capitol grounds may be Boaked in driving rain and our body of elder statesmen may "resolve," if it likes, that it is a fine sunshiny day. JUSTICE TO THE TEACHERS PENNSYLVANIA'S school teachers thoroughly deserve the pay increases granted them by the bill passed finally in the Senate at Harrisburg yesterday. F ,Jompared with other great states and ,me also of lesser wealth and distinction the Union, Pennsylvania has long been laggard in rewarding its educators. Ae new schedule effects the greatest hanges in the small salary list. This is a measure of justice and reflects con sideration for current economic condi tions. In many employments wages have been in some degree adjusted to the laised cost of living. Proportionate remunera iKlion for vastly important educational work necessarily had to wait for legisla te" tiv enactment. A square deal to the teachers was due a- CLEMENCEAU AT THE CLIMAX TVHJBTLESS Georees Clemenceau. the K ' realist, exulted in fidelity to his creed 1j wnen on armisuce uay ne coolly sug , gested that the very voices then raised in pi ,nis acclaim migm in uie near luiurc oe turned bitterly against him. K",For once, however, he was spinning :Viuides. His imminent resignation of W ,the premiership, which he has just an- $ "Bounced, will come at the climax of his ""picturesque career, the respect in which "j his country and civilization hold him is ' unuiiniiiicmcu. That it temporarily ebbed in some cir- iH ! offended at the intense nationalism of tV",$uiehable sincerity of the man, his ardent rjpaMitality ad Keen vision took prece- i&f&e oyer an otner qualities which he 'CWjlrlDUteu iu critical sessions 01 me l"tfe.Confercnce. . History will reckon him as one of the cttMMMnding figures of .that momentous :,Wwibly. The masterly cogency and L4amntB of the Entente's replies to the Itosuaa delegates often bespoke the j superb vitality of the Clemenceau in spiration. He has been called a reactionary. Alexander Hamilton, who now stands as an American exemplar of constructive accomplishment, was, it may be recalled, similarly derided. Time justified the lat ter after his death. Time brinps to Georges Clemenceau its laurels in his honorable old age. 'As a world figure of the era he is unique. As an inspiration to France in dark days and bright he ranks among the greatest of her extremely individualistic patriots. He was a solvent for error in his radical phases when Fiance needed llis seasoning. Ho was a fiery rebuke to defeatism and faint-hcartcdncss when he waged war with untiring energy and un faltering singleness of purpose. He gave no quarter to German chicanery after the armistice. That Clemenceau's triumphant exit from political life is devoid of the irony he was eer anticipating is a fact fortify ing faith in human loyaltv. PANIC AND COWARDICE DRIVE THE SEDITION BILL FORWARD Bolshevists May Claim at Least One Vic tory When They View the Pennsyl vania Legislature Prostrate In Funk "DEVISION'S made in the anti-sedition " bill passed today at Harrisburg have not served to make that fantastic meas ure any less distasteful to those who re sent the motive as well as the letter of the proposed law. Governor Sproul has ghen his support to a bill which makes a new sort of politi cal crime out of ordinary misdemeanors. He has done moie. The influence of his administration has been thrown to the support of a measure drawn in a futile effort to control men's minds and their habits of thought. Under the one clause which remains to give the sedition bill purpose and mean ing, courts ind juries are given a right to punish any one whose utterances "tend" to disci edit the government, and it is fair to assume that in some instances judi cial infipretation would include govern mental officers under this general head ing. In its original form th bill was a mor bid legislative atrocity. Pressure of criti cism has caused it to be 1 educed to a clumsy yet perilous makeshift plainly de signed to limit advanced or liberal discus sions of public affairs. It is for this rea son that the Governor's determined ad vocacy of the measure must be regarded as the first great mistake of hts period in office. Mr. Spioul has yet time to change his mind, to veto the bill and to advise his advisers. Should he sign the anti-sedition bill he will make the state ridiculous be fore the whole country. Bolshevism is passe elsewhere. At Harrisbuig it is triumphant. Your reds mav point gleefully to the panic that they have created in the Legislature and on its fringes. Some handbills and a few bombs made of junk were sufficient to bring about a complete collapse of intelligent opinion at the seat of government in a great state. For the anti-sedition bill is at bottom furtive and cowardly. It is cheap. It is shabby. And it is tiagic because it has always revealed an utter lack of faith in the order of our government and a dismal ignorance of the true strength of those institutions which it assumes to protect. The bill is patriotic as the lamentable piffle of a campaign oration is patriotic. Its Amencan;sm is the Americanism of the tenth rate political word faker. It is essentially the work of political illiter ates. A few spiders have appeared on the fortifications and the garrison has turned loose poison gas and heavy artillery to repel the assault. Does Governor Sproul believe in his secret heart that the institutions of American government are so shaky that they will not bear the weight of free criticism? Have the men close to him a belief that they can stop by repression the processes of evolutionary thought? They might as well command the seas and the rains of heaven. Free governments have always thrived by the free expression of opinion. Every where in the world where men are seek ing earnestly to establish enlightened popular administrative systems, free dis cussion is the driving power behind their efforts and, often enough, the source of their inspiration. Yet it is in a time like this that the Pennsylvania Legislature proposes to put restraint upon those agencies of criti cism that always havp been and always will be the hope, strength and ultimate safeguards of the republic. Into the hands of politicians; to the occasional bigot who arrheg upon the bench; to tinhorns and ward heelers who achieve office, we are to give the right to decide what free men may say and think of the processes and aims of their own government. No one who has nothing to hide has ever feared criticism. Just governments do not and need not fear it. Criticism that is unjust becomes futile when it is uttered. Criticism that is not unjust is the beginning of progress. It is cleans ing, like daylight. Law and life are progressive together and nothing can stop them. If there are those at Harrisburg who have a fear of what theycall social unrest, they might as well remember now that social unrest must be dealt with ration ally at its source. It cannot be trampled out of sight from overhead. That experi ment has been tried on a thousand occa sions and it has always ended in disaster. If such laws as this had been in exist ence a hundred years ago our govern ment would not now exist in its present form. If they were on the statute books sixty years ago most of the great aboli tionists might have been sent away for life terms in jail. If we had "anti sedition" bills like this one on the statute books twenty years ago the political re forms that have been brought gradually about Ince Eoosevelt'a day would not 1 have been accomplished before a lot of good Americans had risked terms in peni tentiaries for criticizing governmental method. If the bill fathered by the Governor were national in its soope Mr. Burleson could proceed on his disastrous career of tyranny without fear of dangerous criti cism and in any crisis the army could run the country. Judges, under the terms of the "anti sedition" bill, would be exalted to the status of mandarins in China to make the decisions which ordinarily are made in the consciences of men themselves. And , the ultra radicals will have the first justi fication for many of the things that they have been saying in their wilder inter vals. , The great dangers to free governments do not come from outside. They come from within, in the manner now being conspicuously demonstrated at Harris burg, when incapable hands are permit ted to meddle disastrously with the rights of others or when isolated groups, in selfishness or ignoTance, conceive their own interests to be superior to the interests of the state. The Legislature has come perilously near to debasing the system which it as sumes to defend in this grotesque fashion. And why? Do they read at Harrisburg? Do they know what is going on in the rest of the world? Do they know that while the mind of the rest of mankind is moving forward they are trying to set the mind of Pennsylvania back a hun dred years? We have been witnessing, in connec tion with the anti-sedition bill, the odd spectacle of unpretentious labor leaders in the Ameucan Federation talking and acting in far greater enlightenment and tempcratcness than the men appointed to administer the affairs of the state. The government of the United States origi nated and giew because of free speech. Since when havp we felt the need to deny this right to all citizens? And why? To assume that the institutions of gov ernment in this country need to be swad dled in laws for protection from scrutiny is to assume that these same institutions have grown weak and debilitated since the days when thpy soared and grew mag nificently and flourished the more nobly because of the tonic winds and storms of enlightened criticism. No one in his senses can entertain such a deusion as this. And it is neces sary to assume that the bill now up in the Legislatuie is inspired either by ignorance, bigotry, cowardice or self interest. In either eent the bill ought to be vetoed and dismissed without a day's delay for the honor of the state and the good of all its people. THE ROAD MENACE REBUKE fTHE Legislature's passage of the Eyre -- traction engine bill serves at once as a needed safeguard of the Pennsylvania highway system and as a fitting rebuke to organized arrogance. The bullying and insidious opposition which this laud able measure encountered suggests a mixture of the high-handed trust methods of two decades ago and of the new dicta torial tactics characterizing Noith Dako ta's ultra-modem Nonpartisan League. It is a notorious fact that for several years the huge traction thresher engines rented by farmers have been tearing up state roads to such an extent that the Highway Commission, in the interest of the public, was forced to seek a legal remedy against the persistent and costly damage. The new law does not ban the vehicles which perform valuable agri cultural service, but it does forbid the use of the narrow cleats which have been ruining the highways. It will be expensive to re-equip the ma chines properly, and so the "thresher trut" engineered a scheme of savage intimidation which has, however, happily failed. The prime threat employed was strong political opposition by the farm ers. That they have not responded in quite the way upon which the irate trust spokesmen counted is due to the fact that good roads have a marked appeal for them. One-third of all the automobiles in the state are owned by farmers, and those agriculturists who resisted the lob byists' specious arguments were shrewd enough to sense how the ruthless destruc tion was going to affect them. Governor Sproul and Commissioner Sadler are strongly behind a welcome good-roads program for Pennsylvania. Popular indorsement is equally keen. Re sentment against the purely selfish scheming of a commercial organization and against such foolish faimers as were tricked into support should be emphatic. Of course the Governor will sign the protective measure. Jeopardizing high ways in this era is litt'e less than a crime. It has long been the The Latest opinion nf vhoolbnvs Hun Famine that tlifn- was a su perabundance of ile-clen-inns in the Rfimnn liinKUiiRP. Iu con nection with siftniiiK the peace treaty, how eer, they seem to lime run out at last. Hichelieu would tejoice to see how miRhtir the pen i when all the swotds are sheathed. It is strongly intimnted that a thor oughly serious reflection will be cait upon the German signatories by the Hall of Mirrors. "Loan," declares William .Shakespeare, "oft loses both itself and friend." That sounds also like the city of l'hiladelphia's opinion. Motor thieves in Washington may take heart. A representative of the Philadelphia "automobile squad" of detectives has gone to the capital to teach it our "protective" system. And the very time that it would hae been perfectly proper for hectic Paris cor respondents to wire "Peace Conference Quits" was precisely .hen none of them did it! Would it not be pertinent to ask Sena tor Fall, of New Mexico, whether a resolu tion proclaiming peace on the restless south ern border would be tantamount to the real thini'l & CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S LETTER Howard B. Lewis Thinks Congress Has Degenerated Phlladelphlans Seeking Passports War Rec ord of J. B. Anderson's Sons Washington, I). C, June -". WHAT a stir the prohibition bills are making! Protexts from Philadelphia range all the wny from individuals and busi ness concerns to biicIi organizations as the Arion Oesnng-Verein and the Philadelphia rtrug Exchange. No matter how we may view the moral hide of the liquor question the practical side is mighty serious at this time. The lo,s of revenue to the govern ment will be terrific. The business Interests, from those who print the literature of the liquor dealers nil ulong the line to those who do their banking and make their inestments, nre much concerned about what they term "confiscation." The revenue officials nre nlo crj much Interested in the matter of enforcement TIipj havp no small job on their hands, seeing that many individuals In the ariou states of this great country of ours are determined to have liquor whether the law sanctions it or not. Washington knnw n good deal nbout this now. "iiwe its officials have been up against the bootlegger, since prohibition laws went into effect in the District of Columbia. HOWARD B. LEWIS, philosopher, who gets to Washington on law business now nnd then, visits the Senate gallery to hear Lodge or Penrose speak and then wanders over to the House gallery and muses. Ob serving that the senntors have desks nnd nre ven dignified ami that, the Representatives have no desks but sit where they please in the House amphitheatrp. in more or less orderl. f.ivhion, the Philadelphia solon con cludes, somewhat reluctant!, that the House is losing its impressiveness and leaves with the mind of the Visitor the thought that the Daniel AVebsters and Henry Clays he gone out nnd that a wilder ami woollier generation of stntesmen have taken their places. There is something in Rrother Lewis's philosoph. The House membership is tincomfortabl large nnd the existing hall is too small to accommodate all of the mem bers with desks. Hut not all the members of the House like the present arrangement. It was due to the increase of members suc ceeding the last decennial census. The desks were taken out partlv because the scheme was said to work well in the House of Com mons, but rbielly because the limitations of the present hall of the House of Represen tatives for desk space had been exceeded. As to the impression the visitor carries away fiom the House of Representatives, let us q'uote an intimate friend of Colonel George I' Morgan, the favorite "private soldier bo. " of the I'mon League. "What did ou think of the House as you looked down from the galleries?" the colo nel's friend was nsked. j "erj intere'sting," was the blunt reply, "but fussed up a little." TIIK number of Americans desiring to go abioad to meet relatives "over there" is legion. This accounts to a large extent for the demand for passports, which the Depart ment of State is carefully cheeking tip. P. P. Young, who is well known in the shipping world as the manager of the International Mercantile Marine lines, has a diughtcr in Hurope, the wife of General Atwell C. Ray lay, of the Ilritish army. George P. Parker, the real estate man who trots into the Manufacturers' Club occasionally, has a daughter in Copenhagen whom he has not seen since the war. She was a bright Phila delphia girl who learned to sing so well that she enjo.ied a line contract iu grand opera at Herlin, a circumstance which impeded her return to the States. With the close of hostilities and the return of our soldier bos it is expected that shipping space may soon be had to enable the relatives of the man globe-trotters to fraternize once more. A SIDELIGHT on prohibition and one which will interest r.phraim Lederer, William McCoach and others who have held the office of internal revenue collector at Philadelphia, is the probable fate of the storekeepers. gaugers and storekeeper gaugers whose tenure of office will be affected when national prohibition steps in. Many of these men, who number approximately 1500, held their place under the chil-scrvice lnws and hae been in office for many years. They are both Republicans and Democrats. After January 1 next there will be little for them to do in their regular line of duty except at denatured alcohol plants. Possibly the internal revenue commissioner may find use for them in other branches of the serv ice, but this is problematic. THERE is a group of Irish-Americans in Philadelphia which keeps thoroughly well informed on the doings of the Old World. It is force of habit nnd dates back to the Irish municipal league days, when Hugh McCaf frey. Patrick Dunlevy, Robert M. MeWnde and others used to show Davitt, O'Brien, Redmond and other leading visitors around the town. They were the forerunners of Thomas V. MeTear, Thomas F. Burke, John B. Friel, John J. Farren and others of today who keep close tabs on the progress made toward Irish freedom. HEADLINES in Washington newspapers: "Government Clerks CnanimouRly In dorse Bill to Increase Pay." More headlines in Washington newspapers: "Retirement Bills Urged I'pon Congress." Still more headlines in Washington newspapers: "Gov ernment Employes Favor Shorter Hours." And so on for ever and a day. Everybody who draws money out of the federal treas ury seems to receive favorable mention down here these days. When it comes to appro priations ot millions and billions, ml of which must be levied against the people in taxes or in loans, there is mighty little space left for publicity. CONTINUANCE of the Federal Employ ment Service will be a heavy tax upon the government resources, and Congress is not disposed to encourage it beyond the preseut fiscal year. There really Is no authorization of law for the service, but nevertheless many Philadelphia organizations are writing in favor of the continuance of the appropria tions. The Settlement Music School, of which Mrs. Edward Bok is presideut, is among these organizations. Former Lieu tenant Governor Frank McClain, however, takes a positive stand in favor of the btute service, which he insists is more efficient than the expensive government service. TAMES B. ANDERSON, of the Fifth J Ward, belongs to that group of lawyers who developed largely in the office of the late Attorney General F. Carroll Brewster. He will also'be remembered as a councilman nnd political lender who divided up his time between the Fifth Ward and a point on the New Jersey coast across from Ocean City. Despite all that hchas something to be proud of in the military record made by the Ander son offhpriug. Here they are In one, two, three order: James II. Anderson, Jr., cap tain, Jlltlth Infantry, Seveuty-nlnth Divi sion; Frederick Brewster Auderson, sergeant, 103d Engineers; Charles K. Anderson, first lieutenant, Company B, 100th Infantry, Twenty-eighth Division; Richard Van Gli der Anderson, Students' Army Training Corps, Princeton College, The' first .three MWvACUVS perrirc " "",'- -;sq THE CHAFFING DISH A Chanty of Departed Spirits (As it might have been sung by Al Stct'n- burne) THE earth is grown puny and pallid, The earth is grown gouty and gray, For whisky no longer is valid And wine has been voted away As for beer, we no longer will swill it In riotous rollicking spree : The little hot dogs in the skillet Will have to be sluiced down with tea. 0ALES that were creamy like lather ! O beers that were foamy like suds! 0 fizz that I loved like a father O fie on the drinks that are duds! 1 sat by the doors that were slatted And the stuff had a surf like the sea No vintage was anywhere vattcd Too strong for ventripotent me! I WALLOWED in waves that were tidal, But yet I"Vas never unmoored; And after the twentieth seidel My syllables still w ere assured : I never was forced to cut cable And drift upon perilous shores, To get home I was perfectly able. Erect, or at least on all fours. ALTHOUGH was often some swiller, I never was fuddled or blowsed : My hand was still firm on the tiller No matter how deep I caroused ; But now they have put an embargo On jazz-juice that tingles the spine, We can't even cozen a cargo Of harmless old gooseberry vine. BX'T no legislation can daunt us: The drinks that we knew never die : Their spirits will come back to haunt us And whimper and hover near by. The spookists insist that communion Exists with the souls that we lose And so we may count on reunion y With all that's immortal of Booze. THOSE spirits we loved have departed To some psychical twentieth plane ; But still we will not be down-hearted. We'll soon greet our dear ones again To lighten our drouth and our tedium Whenever our moments would sag, We'll call in n spiritist medium And go on a psychical jag! One Advantage Even the most hardened victims ot habit will no longer nave a cnance 10 ue aoi m their ways. It has suddenly occurred to us that some reformers have a single-tract mind. Literary Notes Looking over the interesting catalogue of literary curiosities to be sold by Mr. Stan Heuke'ls tomorrow, we are grieved to find Artemus Ward listed as "A popular English UAuothi'r Item of Mr. Henkels's catalogue lists n manuscript of Anthony Trnllope's, "which innny of the author's readers con sider to be his masterpiece, even surpassing his famous AYoman in Wh it e." We would concede, and probably the Jieirs of Wilkie Collins would agree with us, that Mr Trollope's famous Womnn in irfli'fe is nro'bably one of the rarest books not in ex istence. Our friend A. Edward Newton, a Trollope collector, ought to hae a hunt for it. , . , In the New York Titans we find the fol lowing : .03T in (ml. booklet typewriting Spantnh transition elery of Thomai dray. The New York, taxi driver who found it must have thought that he had stumbled upon one of the much-condemned Wall street copies of the peace treaty. We cannot think that the light-hearted Spaniards will- find rh consolation in the waeterulece of t Analogs!- nulamcooly. ,"SEE, rar TAKE ME SERIOUSLY!" Parley Voo Dis lingo I kaint understand. It's jes' as plain as Sousa's Band, It's toot sweet, alley, part tea and Kiss ker say. Dat las' de one dat gets ma' goat, Some Frenchie '11 give yo' lots o' dope, Den add, wid face chuck full o' hope, Kiss ker say! Some o' de stuff I learn, jes' so. Toot sweet, hurry; alley, go. But what's de meaning o' dis bo, Kiss ker say? WAYNE E. HOMAN. A. E. F. Ballade of Life Unending "UT of the icy skies they came, '-' Snow-flakes blossoming, chilling, sere, Gone like the shivering breath of fame ; Where are the snows of yesteryear? Melted, their turbulent cold career Seeped into loam and granite and clay. Lo in the grass they reappear! They are the sap of life today ! TJABYLON flaunted her scarlet shame ; - ' Bethlehem flowered, humble and dear ; Rome was an Iron and deadly name, Where are the snows of yesteryear? After the seed the blade, the ear, Long in the fallow dust th,ey lay: Circling the restless, crowded sphere, They are the sap of life today! TI7AR comes, breathing Its withering flame ; ."' Creed, with a crafty nnd covetous sneer; Hate, with talons to clutch and maim Where are the snows of yesteryear? These will perish, and blindness, nnd fear Slaughter itself man will dare to slay. Evils are blooming to things of good cheer They are the sap of life today ! Envoy TTTHERE are the snows of yesteryear? Dead things only the dead revere. Yet out of death life climbs its way They are the sap of life today! CLEMENT WOOD. The American Press Humorists are to pre side at the launching of a ship at nog Island on Saturday.' Some how we would not like to be the master of that vessel. Dove Returns Haniel von Haimhausen has resigned rather than autograph the peace treaty. Daniel entered the :ion's den, But Haniel refuses the Tiger's pen. DOVE DULCET. As the only naval success Uhe Germans had was in undersea warfare, it wns natural that they should want their dreadeverythings at Scapa to become submarines also. "But where are your bloodstains?" said Davy Jones and Captain Kidd, on examining the German scuttleships. Why is it that so many poets have press agented the nightingale and have neglected the chipping sparrow? At the lunchon given the Press Humorists by the KIwanis Club, Ken Beaton (known to the big worlaVas K. 0. II.) said that the one thing he never can get away from is potato salad.' We think it only right to inform Ken's hosts, sinco we sat at the same board with blm, mac ue aic every mi ot it. One of the persistent illusions of the man who spends his week-ends at the shore Is that his rolltop desk is a wave about to break on him, and that the unanswered letters foaming about him are the perilous undertow. EOORATES, ; " -"..' I'-ft , AMONG MY BOOKS AMONG my books what rest is there From wasting woes! What balm for care! If ills appall or clouds hang low, And drooping, dim the -fleeting show, I revel still in visions rare. At will I breathe the classic air The wanderings of Ulysses share; Or see the plume of Bayard flow Among my books. I Whatever face the world may wear If Lilian has no smile to spare. For others let her beauty blow. Such favors I can well forgo; Perchance forget the frowning fair Among my books. SAMUEL MINTURN PECK. The Ace Takes the Trick Lieutenant Henry Fdrre, in his "Sky Fighters of France," gives n full explanation of the way in which the nirman's most coveted title. "Ace," came into general use. He says: "When a pilot has brought down his fifth plane the chief of the squadron tele graphs his fifth victory to headquarters, and that gives him the right to be carried in the next general orders to the whole army with a citation of service rendered, for the press to publish the following day in the official gazette. Whenever pilots merited this dis tinction their machinists called them aces, which has the same signification among the pilots as the ace card has in a game of cards ' that is to say, the strongest card, and this Is the etymology of the word 'ace,' of whioh many persons are ignorant. This title has nothing official and it sprang from the slang of the machinists, but that does not prevent it from being quoted in all languages and in, every country in the world." What Do You Knmu? QUIZ 1. Premier Clemenceau has described Ger many as a "rettre." What does this word mean? 2. In how many states of the country Is the capital also the largest city? 3. What is the function of a "Sparks' on a ship? 4. When was the Archduke of Austria as sassinated at Sarajevo? 5. Who was Gay-Lussac? C. What American minister is to be raised to an ambassador? 7. What kind of an anlmal'Is a leveret? 8. What is a parabola? 0. Who was Mother Goose? 10. Why are the Dog Days so called? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz Otto Bauer is the new premier of Ger many. Scapa Flow Is In the Orkney Islands. John Keats wrote "Endymlon." The British pronunciation of Northanger Abbey is "Norranger Abbey," with the "g" soft as In gin. There ace ulii6 justices In the United States Supreme Court, including the chief justice. Caesar Rodney, of Delaware, mads a famous ride from Dover tp Philadel phia In order to be In time to vote for the Declaration of Independence. 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