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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
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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
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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 " "",'-
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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.
A davit of a ship Is a vertical pillar, of
which the upper, 'ud is bent to a
curve, used to support tie end of a
boat when lowering or hoisting.
The highest denomination .for which
United States silver certificate paper
money is issued is $100.
Sultan Ahmad Shah Is the present rule
of Persia.
The astronomical sign for the sun lc 4
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