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EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1919
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THE ETENING"TELEGRAPH
PUBLIC LEDGEU COMPANY
CTHUS It K. Ct'tlTIB PltfJUnrST
Chrl II I.udlncton Vic rrldcnt. John C.
Murtln. Secretary and Trurtrs Philip fl Collins,
John II. Wlllln. John J Spnrrfon, Director.
EDITOntAt. nOAItL)
CTitcs It K Cchtis, Chairman
DAVtn E SMILEY Editor
iOf C MARTIN General IlU'lneaa Munnce-
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RI'tlorr.tPTION THtlMS
The KvrMNO Ptctte I.rnnrn I1" senel to mli-
crlbe' In rhllndilplilii an I aumnimllnic tmrn
at the rate nt I'V'li" U.'l oent pr week p.iable
to the earner , , ,
Hv mall to point outfl.V of Phlladflphli In I
tlie. Hnttet stitei Cnnitdn or Knlted Btrtt- po
pinion po-tn' fre fHti I'm r-nM tier month
SI i$nl dollin per i"ir pnjihlc In aipnnre
To all forltn iounlr'- ope I1 dollar per
NoTir? s.jlnrrlnTs v. hli'B R Mre, rhenirM
must Rive oil a wl. n n lrtre
Dili., '000 Tl II MT
KlVTOT. MV 1000
tr 4fMrr nil wnnmini on o Ti r, a 7" Mir
I fil(jr jtt'-!i t (! I'f" ' inif ;iU n
.Member of 'he Arso-i.-ited Piess
THE SfSOri 177.7) ffr.s'.s' ,t ruin
Iter 1 cnitlrit In Ihr me fin irwMii titinu
of nil nwt rfM;m'ii rdllr(J In it nr not
fithm hi r nhltii ill llni ittiin ., uf n'O
Ihr mrnl irnrt tMihhhftl therein.
Ml right nf i rpuhlitn lion nt ;r, ml In
pafir Arrrin mr nhn irsrinit.
Philn.Wrliu saluriCji Jil"' 21 I'll
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A STUPENDOUS BLUNDER
T70R THE firt tunc in Amen a .. p-v- '
f ci nor has put his lu.me to a law uh.ch )
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makes, a cume i
.f an act done with no
crim'nal intent.
The crudcl ibawn anti-sedition lull,
properly known as tlu gag law, which
Governor Sproui s gncd estcrda after
having jammed it thiough the Legisla
ture, pi ovules fo- the impiisonment for
twenty years of citizens whose utterances
"tend" to pioduce certaui lesults ecn
though those it suits aie In ought about
bv madmen. It 11" eises all the p inuple-,
on which criminal 'aw is based in order '
that a new punt-hment might be pioiuled I
for teiroriits. I
And it goes su f.-n. as .1 distinguished j
lawyer ha said, as to make an oidinnry j
assault, 1 committed on the person of a 1
man who happens to hold a state oftice,
an act of sedition. I
It is a piece of ill-a.lHcd panic legisla
tion, which has within it the possibility
of the gravest abuses It is a dnect blow
at freedom of speech stiuck in the name
of orderly goeinmcnt, and it is .lkply to ,
be a heay load for the Gmcrnoi to
carry through the rct-t of his political
careei.
THE OTHER FELLOW'S VIEW ' n,lVL' tl'PM ,1"'Plny'ne onlv a langu.d m-
T.,--.,, , , i teicst in the proposals to tn and execute
HERE has been much speculation thp tuo iiohcnzollcnis and a ciowd of
about the effect of the war on the j their militiuy adviser they are manifet
thinking.of the men engaged in it. We inK eidenies of a truer sense of dis-
enail not Know the truth about It until I
the men tell us eithei by then words or
by their acts.
The war has ceitain changed the
pomt ot view ot one man, according to
his own confession, and that man
W. W. Atteibury. xice p.csident of the KSMon
Pennsjlvania Railroad Company. a , ' mo'
ATr Arrorh,,,, m., , ,,i.i.i ...i
dress before the railioad women's dm- !
-ion for war re ief, in the course of h'oh
he said that he had icalized tint we had
foutrht in the nnst ,n nr,ln, t m,u i, -.. '
liberty and the pursuit of happiness the
right of all. "I had always known that
it was my right," he said, "but I do not
know that I had eei hid so keen a real
ization that it was our right and the
right of every other fellow."
Mr. Atterburj said that he began to
try to put himself in the other fellow's
place and to try to get his point of view
nnd as a result he had concluded that
this great right meant foi the worker:
First Steail) cmplujim nt ,
Second At a cood imp. .
Third Time for i en eat Inn
Fourth npportunit.i lo k.Ui luinsult
In his emplonient ,
Fifth A oice in detorminlnR tho rulos
nd regulations under winch li, should
work
Sixth A fair dllslon of ,iny profits
after .1 reasonable wage had Win .iirncd
and a sufflc'tnt amount paid to i.ipital to
attract it to an ixiianding business-
After setting forth these n points.
Mr. Attcrbury made the significant an
nouncement that when he came home he
found that the men heie had been think
ing along the same lines and had come to
substantially the same conclusion.
If this broadening of the sympathies
which this railroad managei repot ts is
general then there aie compensations
for the war which may in the long run be
worth all that it has cost.
HOW THEY DO IT IN FRANCE
rpHOSE local politicians who demanded
during the progress of the new chaiter
through the Legislatuie that the mem
bers of the Council should be elected by
wards might ptofit by consideiing what
has just happened m Fiance.
We have been told that it was impor
tant that each waul should have a repre
sentative in the Council, for the icpresen
tatiye from a larger district would have
no interest in the wards, as though it
were the business, of the Council to con
sider local districts as of greater impor
tance than the city as a whole.
The members of the French Chamber
of Deputies have been elected from ar
rondissements since 1889, that is, from
districts similar to our own congressional
districts. The auondissement is not an
administrative entity at all. Electoial
reformers have for years been- demanding
that the members of the chamber be
elected from the departments of France,
all thosp from a department being chosen
on a general ticket. President Poincare
tn, a book on "How France Is Governed"
says that there arc grave drawbacks in
the arrondissement plan because ''it sub
jects the representative to local influences'
and tends to make him see the interests of
the country in too fragmentary a
fashion." He reminds his readers that
, the members of the chamber are not rep-
, . resentatives of the arrondissement, but
r i i "they are representatives of France."
10' Tho French Parliament has just voted
' -f that the members of the Chamber of
a TS 1! 1 11 1 tL t t A-J
:$ , uepuues snau ncreaiier or eieciea irom
fi ( Apartments, or provir
instead of
r iron me arronuissei
nd it has
taken this action in order thnt the mem
bers may be men who will think first of
France instead of the little constituency.
We nro so nccustomctl heic to electing
legislators from small districts that the
charter framers who wished to have the
members of the new Council elected on
a peneinl ticket were unable to carry
their point. A compiomise wns reached
under which the councilmen are to be
1 chosen fiom senatorial distiicts. Thi is
j much liettet than electing them fiom
I vvnids, but it is far from being the ideal
I system.
GERMANY'S DAY OF JUDGMENT
REVEALS A NATION INDICTED
Her Crime Was So Manifest That Her
Representatives Could Not Avoid
a Plea of Guilt
GERMANY has pleaded guilty to hei
ermes ami hei lepresentntives have
signed the treaty which iies the penaltv.
The consummation which was ccitain
from th" moment Amenta enteicd the
war i now accomplished..
Vena Hi- today is mnii nenrl like
tin Pa cf .liidgmciit than aiiythini!
that the vvoi d n likely t ci" again.
Climes unthinkable, fo'l.v without end.
1 runs and offenses that, it seemed,
were mailed and toi gotten veils ago,
have to be arc minted foi in full at last
and the weight of lesponsibility is gicat
enough tn t-j -mils moie lOMihito than
those of the men who hae to beat it.
Decision, -nib as woic male at the
Pans conference cannot be sustained by
the will 1 f statesmen alone. I'nqueUion-
abb" the majonty opm on of the world
"f -111 !"P'' " '" "' "t "' the
.... m. 1 It t 1 c on 1 ivi tin hii. tf til 1 1 'illrl llllw.
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sinn 101 tne acauernic view supports
tin pean U'iri- Yet fiom now on we
-hall bear a great deal of cntieism
founded in the htihef that the teims .11 e
too rigoiou- toi .safet.
Much of thi; c iticism wil be sinceie.
It will be s-a'd that the innocent will
suffer in (ieimnn This is tiue. But
h:nc the innocent uifeied. and aie they
sulTeiing, nowhrte else'
If thoie 1- tmtbir wai and confusion
m huiope-it will be said naturall. that
a mole charitable attitude tow 111! the
defeated Germans might have insuied a
long peace. Hut who know- what a vain
ami need people, deluded still with a
scti-e of in incibilit. might attempt if
they weie suddenly grn the mean- of
strength in the presence of a piostiate
anil tiled Em ope"
The woild I- dealing with .1 new (ici
manv and no one can do more than gue--
at its .ntentions. The Kaisei -haters.
the peep e who still blaze finioiislv at the
name of the Crown Pi nice, hae missed
the more impoitant lessons of the v. ai.
If the Allied icprcsentathi". at Pans
enmin.-ition n the . fTort to n.jieh the
loot of the Gei man malaiK
The KaiscM was at best onlj an orna
ment to the .system of Get man ag-
Behind him were men far more
noie le.solute and mote lesourceful
"n" '" J '""" analysis, must no listen
"s t.thl" ""l! wil,-m;lU" There was
"athen,ut.Ir,,lt cvap " of th Glma"
onPni1 :lec "C, Com"'l' ..t,U! N1,',,
('0lnJ11 Llo',l '"teiests; the krupp and
tne lsenin uanKing cliques all con
secrated to a puipo-e of induitnal woild
conquest which had militarism as a mcie
by pioduct
These men, with the utmersitie.s and
schools which they dominated, weie the
piopagandists of a philosophy half pagan
j anil half baibanc; brutal, acquisitive,
I ciucl and disdainful of conscience.
Germany's gicatest crime was not
I militarism. It was a hab.t of thought
I which earned the whole mind of the
nation downward in a giadual decline to
a lewd at which the moial -tandards that
su.stain civilization wcic dehbeiatey
abandoned as tiouble.some supeifluities.
Eents nlncc the aimistice have not in
dicated that the Germans have learned
to think in new ways, that thej feel con
dition or that they even admit defeat.
Is this one of the reasons why the Peace
Conference pi f ferret! to he meiciless?
It is easy to u member the wild talk of
"unbeaten aimies" in the various Geiman
cities. He was, an unusually charitable
man who could observe without disgust
the sense of satisfaction that pi evaded in
Gei many at the contrast between the
blackened nieas of northern Fiance and
the peace and gieen fields "untouched by
war" that began immediately on the op
posite side of the Rhine.
The "unbeaten armies" cannot help
the. Germans now. The will hae to
share the fruits of their untouched aieas
liberally with the people they wronged
The innocent will suffer in Geimany.
But no one who has not forgotten the
Germany of the last five years and the
Geimany of the ten yen is prior to the
war can doubt that these innocents in
Geimany must suffer in order that the
innocent elsewheie in the world need
not suffer moie ternbly and in vastly
gi eater numbers latei along.
It has been said that the whole order
of German civilization must decline into
paralysis because the Allies have denied
to the conquered people the essential im
pulses of hope. Even that may be true.
But if hope declines in Geimany it will
rise elsewhere, in greater areas, wheie
it could never survive whtle millions of
people lived in sick diead of the impacts
that they knew to be inevitable so long a3
the tramp.ing egotism of the German
nations was left unchecked. If tho loots
of the Berlin philosophy are still alive in
Germany, then nothing that the Allied
nations may do to kill them may be con
sidered excessive or harsh. If Germanv
can be made safe only by hunger and
torment and relative poverty, then it is
better for the rest of the world that she
be made to endure hunger and toiment
and poverty.
One of the first effects of the peace
terms will be the knowledge throughout
all Germany that the war was lost, that
the armies were beaten, that militarism
and the materialistic philosophies which
rotted out the national conscience of
the country have failed. It has been ap
parent recently that the Germans eould
be brought to this ndmission only by
terms devised unmistakably for u thor
oughly beaten and detested foe.
It is idle to hope tlint the mere signing
of the tieaty will bring an era of com
plete pence in Europe or a settled order
of national relationships. Germany's
plight is hard. A people moie lesourcc
ful in spirit, moie imaginative and opti
mistic, might have better survived the
crisis which lias como about for the nntion
that stai ten out to own the eaith.
Germany may disintegiate and cn
tninly it will be a generation befoie the
country is ns efficient industiially as it
wai nt the outbicak of the war. There
may be hopeless ears or lliitations with
the Bolshevists m Russia and new hatieds
:ind a passion for vengeance may rise to
In ire fm ther despair and bewilderment
to Euiope.
The pieseiwation of the new peace will
depend to a laigo extent upon the league
of nations But it will depend to a con
siderable degieo upon the manner in
which the German tempei anient with
stands the piefent test by fu Yet it is
appaient that a soft peace Mou'd have
been the most dnngeroils one. The ques
tion is one between the welfaie of Gel
many and the welfare of the lest of the
Will 111.
T-i ir- i rinip'i- tiin-nr nnnni n r-fs I
THE LEAGUE AND THE PROPHETS
TTOPK RATHER than Amid piophecy
-- was s.mpl. anil eaine-tly expiessct!
b Ptesident Wilson at the farewell din
ner gien bj Picsidrnt Poincaio to the
pi ,ue delegates This attitude, paiticu
lail emphnsred with limped to the
league ot nations, is one which should
readdj cnli.st populai sympathj.
When the inal forecasteis. now so
easpci.itingly common among us, get up
steam either side cm "prove," after its
own lights, about anything it choo-es. It
can le -bown thnt gien a succession of
(tuijeetu al happenings international
peace will epno in a second Aima
geddon. And it can be demonstrated that
a series of hypothetical favorable events
will lead to an .ippinximntion of the mil
lennium. Such pei foi mantes aie oid of
s-ane aigumcntntuc fence. They aie
weaiisomely lellectno of the prophecy
mania which has become one of the most
lamentab'e features of the post-war eta.
Mi. W, son consolingly cleaved to
actualities m bis icmaiks to the peace
makeis. "We have begun." he said, "a
plan of co-opeintioi.. We have been
and shall continue to lie comrades. '
We will weave out of oui sentiments a
common com option of duty and a com
mon conception of the lights of man.
jj-" u. sifjn.iicantly added, "it be
tiue that this has been accomplished, it
is a very gnat thing." 'I he proviso is
cxccedinglv .mpnitant and in its sanity
it intienches the position of the league
suppoi teis.
The pact is a piclimmnry step towaid
an intensely tlcsiiable thing. Time will
piovo its value, good in ill, just as it did
that of the Ameiican constitution, con
cerning the future fat" of which mankind
was natura.ly ignoiant. The woild
leagued in a covenant of partnership is a
nove!t. It stands a chance of high ac
complishment. It is a substitute for a
disci edited competitive international sys
tem saddled with jealousies. An un
picjudiced trial is its due, especially in
view of the fact that no otbei scheme
bleaks sp much flesh ground. To legaitl
it with hope is to consider it in a spnit
of earnest fan play.
Th'.s is the note thnt the President has
once moie accented. Theie can be little
question that the best sense of the nation
will eventually be similany responsive.
Meanwhile if the piophcts delight to
match one extravagant fancy against
anothei theie is no constitutional limita
tion on their mental exeicises.
MILLIONS FOR MUSIC
TN LINE with the swift, comprehensive
-- and solid development of musical cul
tuie thioughout the land is the munificent
bequest in the will of Augustus D. Juil
liaiel. New Yoik multimillionaire and
opera enthusiast. The endowment, which
may amount to $20,000,000, is to piovide
for the education of "vvoithy itudcnts of
music" and to defray the cost of high
ginde concerts and recitals foi the bene
fit of the public.
A quarter of a centutv ago the act
might have been charactei ized as almost
freakish. Music was an exotic then and
popular interest m it was, broadly
speaking, low. Today it is one of the
most vigorous of the arts in America,
maintaining in its loyalty to sincere
and lofty ideals a standaid which reveals
the drama as a cultural laggard.
Subsidies fot the gieat symphony or
chestras in the leading cities have been
generously given Colonel Higginson of
Boston was unique when he set the
example, Flagler and Pulitzer and the
unnamed benefactor of the Philadelphia
Orchestra have been woithy followers.
While it is still extremely doubtful if
the cabinet will ever contain a minister
of the fine aits such as France enjoys,
private endeavoi seems incieasingly
eager to sustain the cultural impetus.
Mr. Juilliaid's endowment is one of the
laigest that has been made. Its prime
virtue is that it now aids a necessity,
which is being fast divoiced from all
shadow of dilettantism.
The Allies hnie set n wuteh on thf ex
kuiser its will ns on the Rhine
lerniRen sinus to ho j,,st as ,00r
substitute for Blba ns I'rioiliith Wilhelm in
for the ninn that intitle it fatuous
It is doubtful if Thiers ami (iniubettn
would prefer i v en hemen to t,e cnri.
June "JS. 1010
III spite of his Presbjtirinn upbringing
the Piesitluit hns no olijeetlon to traveling on.
Suinl.iJ in orilei to get homo.
Now the question is, where was the ex -erown
prince hiding whin It wns thought he
had esiaped from Holland.
The crow tls around the counters in the
retail liquor stores remind one of the rush t0
the department stores ou bargain days.
Obstinucv soenm to have been injudl
ciouslj distributed latelj With the proper
apportionment Gennan might have made a
graceful response to justice and Governor
Sproui could have rebuked tjranny by veto
ing the anti-sedition bill,
CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S
LETTER
Approaching Conflict Over Protection
for American Industries and the
Bight of American Owners of
Foreign Industries to Re
ceive Tariff Favors
Washington, I). C
June US.
WHEN .AIltiliHI Palmer, the nttorne,
Kcnotal, was alien piuperty etisto
orney
iliaii, lie took in er l"i0(l pntents for thp
inniuifiietiire of iljestuffs tlint iwre credited
lo Herman owners n ml unilor mi noiiitive
older of the President sold them fur S2,"0,
000 to the Cliomicnl roiiiiilntinn. Inrnr
poiale'l, a eotnpui.i made up of ilnllnr-n-eo!ir
men in the liiimiu. who accepted n
their president Pnineis P. (iiirvnn, of Nntv
Yolk, who sii i ceiled Mr. Palmer n alien
propel t. etistoilinii That wns the alien
in opei t i iistoilinn's win of ilenliiiR with
eiieinj inlet ests Stilispipienth the Chemical
roiiiiilafinti. I ncoi pointed, sticRosteil to
Congress n high taiiff plan to keep out
(ieininn decs, neeompnnied b a liecnsiiiR
sjsteni whieli would enable those in eoti
liol nt WnshiiiKtoii lo KnuRc the illstiibu
tion At the wins and means inmmittc'P
meetings, w heie this matter was discussed,
tin' iiiestion of iiinKiiesitp whs also lieins
iiilisnleii d Whi'i e.is djeittiffs weie snld
to he Hie ki'J lllllllstll HI the mnilllfaCtUrC
, ,,,, nni, , IIII111,i01H. it ., aid
that inajjiiesite wns eipiallj essential in the
pt oiltii t of it on mill steel, i upper nnd the
like I'lit tin- intcres-tniR question at once
anise The alien piopetti iiistmlmn hav
ing seieil ninl disposed of Gemma patent
luhts in the I tutiil States, what wns to be
epiiteil with icKiul to a Sl.'.OOO.OOO in
M'sttnetit of Peiinsilvnnia and Ohio interests
in emiiiiesite mile's m ei ninny a ml Austria?
The Ami i ii an owneis. who said they went
into the fuificii nnmiesite Inisiness to pre
n nl .1 German Aiistinn monopoly, fiankly
si.ilul thei llni not know what had become
of tlieii piopntj , hut w hei ens Ameiican
nrienesite had heen ilei eloped in tlie Ktnte
of Washington, thei insisted tlint no such
tin iff should he imposed as would utterly
lint out their foieiim pioduit. width they
siiul wns superior to the Ainericnii, and
whiih i oiiM he Inid down at the foundries
in the east for ahout one-thliil the cost of
ttanspottiiiK the WnslmiRtoii pioduct nctoss
the lontineiit Pninier t'oiigiessmnn .Inmes
rtaiHis I tin Uf. of l'ittshutRli. who lepic
seuted I he Anient an interests in the foreign
pioduit, insistul that what his people had
done before the wai tu pieirnt n foreiRii
moiiopnh opei.itiiiK in the I'nited States
wns equalh as pntnotie as was the cxtia
ilfott put foith In Americans to deielop
n domestic nulustn I'm, ipierj ! If the
alien piopeiti i ustodiau seizes (ierman
piopeiti in the I nited States n ml sells it to
.i ptiwitc i oi potation orLpimed under his
own auspices, what me the American
on in is of mngnesitc mines in Germany ami
Ausiti.i to epect with regnril to their
piopeiii. whiili tliej hae not been able to
nppin.iih iluiiiiK the war pcilod? This is
oiii ol the tit for-tut problems of the wai
N',-VS1M
' t ntiBies
KWSl'APl'.K men keep coining to
We now lime Guj V . Hardy.
ii presenting the Hind oloiatlo distiiet, a
liepublii an. who happens at the piesent time
to be piesiilent of the National Ethtoiinl
Assoi uitiou. Iluuly bent Edward Keating,
a Ih'inooiat. who wns ptobnbly the most
persistent labor leader on the flooi . As
Kent in,; was an organisation ninn through
ninl thiough, it goes without saying thnt
llni d Jittist luive been something of nu
oignnier himself. For this he niny have
been indebterl to bis Pennsylvania training,
for. notwithstanding his Hombrero and de
lidedl.v western make-up, he acknowledges
with some ile'iie of piule tlint he once lived
in Petiiisjlv.iuia and ditl not feel the wot so
for it As a mere snipling he spent n niitii
tier of ve.iis tu Sullivan lotintj and later
on lesided nt Cnnlon. the home town of
Congiessiiuiii Mel'mlilcn. who is endeavor
ing to tinhiiise the oinptiolli r of the cur
lenev. -I oil ii Skellon Williams.
ROBERT HOPEWELL HEPBl UN. of
West Philadelphia, hns heen explaining
to the iiuis and means committee his lea
soiis for admitting I'.oliiin tungsten to the
I nited States fiee of duty. Mr. Hepburn
is up ug.iinst Anient an produceis, piinei
p.ilh in Colorado, who lielievpn duty should
be placed upon tungsten to pioteets the
Aineiieaa products notwithstanding Amen
i, in capital is invested in foreign countries
Mi Hepburn is in substantially the same
boat as those Ainei ieaus who invested m
Get man anil Autiian potitsh mines
American eompt tition opened up dtiiing the
war and now the question is, shnll foioign
potash or fortign tungsten come in, ns heie
tofoie, under not mill legulfltious, or shall
a high ilutj be levied upon them to pioleit
the newlj developed American deposits? Mi
Hepburn, in discussing the matter, eontrtb
mis the inteiestiug thought that "the lmsi
ness man knows that theie is little alti ui-ui
in trade and none in international eoni
liien e "
And jet there nre a number of gentlemen
who have been selling the government din
ing the war at the late of .$1 per annum
ROBEUT W BAEDEHSON, of hnnnelt
Squill e, constituent of Cougtossmnii
P.utlcr. draws attention to the desne of
the Inler-Stnte Milk Producers' Association
to blue emu led an amendment to the anti
trust laws which will permit collectiie s.iles
of fat m products b farmers' orgiiii!.alions.
Mr. Baldeison snjs the antl- trust l,t
seem to favor labor to the prejudice of the
fnrmers. The association hns its hend
cpmiters in Philadelphia, but its ofln ers,
including F. P. Willits, president, are mostly
from the Ktiiioundiug counties in New .lusej
nud Pennsslvnnla.
PEOPLE who believe in the single tnv as
a remedv for inanj of our economic
baidens find few converts among the real
estate men of the country. In fait, there
nre some men who hold real estate who nre
renllv suggesting that they would be glnd
to turn it over to the government In lieu
of income and other taxes' now being im
posed. The Ringlc-tax men are on the job,
however, nnd so nre the real estate men, the
latter of whom happen to be represented
just now by a Philiulelphian, Thonins Shall
cross, Jr.." who is chairman of the legis
lative committee of the National Associa
tion of Ueal Estnte Boards.
MA.IOU UICHAHI) SYLVESTEU. who
earned fine reputation as nn adiniuiN
strator while superintendent of the Metro -jiolltan
Police In the District of Columbia,
cets -en or to Washington occaslotiallj (m
matters of Interest to the du Ponts. with
whom he is -now associated at V iliiiiugtun.
rjelnwnre. The last visit of the major had
tn o with imports of nitrate of soda, which
he big powdermukers bring in In large
Quantities from Chile, a matter which is now
engaging the .attention of the framers ,,f
nevv tariff Mil. Major HylvMter keeps up
with the movements of the National Asso
elntlon of Police Superintendents, seeing that
frim" Htlll- "tulKH abroad and that the ,.
turber of the P-ace has not fallen tn with
the spirit of the league of nations He
ikes Philadelphia nnd may locate there
nl"" .' IIM. mnlnr U of IoV8 Stock, bin
fathers bavins been among the abolition-
tt uJoncers.
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TRAVELS IN PHILADELPHIA,
By Christopher Morley
To League Island and Back '
YESTEUDAY afternoon the American
Press Humorists visited League Island.
When the paity boarded a Fifteenth street
car I was grently excited tw sec a lady sitting
with a large market basket in her lap nnd
placidly reading The Amn:ing Montage.
"You see." 1 said to Ted llobinson, the de
lightful poet from Cleveland, "we have n
genuine cultuie in Philadelphia. Our citi
zens read Meredith on the trollejs as they
return fiom shopping." "That's nothing,"
suid Ted, "I alwavs lend Meredith on the
cms at home. I've often read the greater
pail of a Meredith novel on my way to the
ofhee in the morning." So perhaps the
Cleveland transits aren't any more lapid
than our own
THE rain rame down in whirling silver
sheets ns we crossed the flats toward
League Island, but after a short wait at the
end of the car line the downfall slackened.
Cutler the guidance of three courteous war
inut officers we weie piloted about the navy
jurd.
Nothing is ever so thrilling as n place
where ships me gathered, and the'ndventur
ousness of u trip to the navy .vnrcl begins ns
soon ns one steps off the car and finds great
giuy hulls almost at one's side. It seems odcl
to see them there, apparently so far inlttud,
their tall stocks rising up among the trees.
The ilfnisnciHSCfM and the Imca were the
Jirst we passed, and wc were all prepared to
admire them beaitily until told by our naval
i-onvo.v that thc are "obsolete." Passing
b.v ii pack of lean destrojers, leashed up like
a kennel of hounds, we gazed at the gray
profile of the Verncfn. The steep chains per
pending fiom her undercut prow we were told
were for the use of the pniavanes, and 1
think- the ladies of the paity were pleased
not to be paravanes. The older destrovers
such as the U'cimicripil are ver small coin
nr,il with the newer models: but it is
curious that the outmoded tjpos of battle
ship appear to the civilian eje moie massfve
iiml towering than the latest superdread
notights. The Ohio, the t'oiiiiccficicf, the
Vrtc Ilampslitic. all older vessels, loomed out
of the water like cliffs of stone; their two and
three high funnels out-topping the squat
single stack of the new oil-burners.
THE wotd submarine lias become a common-place
of our daily life, but there is
nlwajs a tingle of excitement on seeing these
trunge human fishes. The O-10, one of the
American undersea craft that operated from
the Azores base during the war, was lying
awusli at her pier. I would have given much
to go nboard, but ns the officer guiding us
said, "Tt pretty nearly tnkes an act of Con
gress to get a civilian aboard a submarine."
In a vast dry-dock, like small minnows
gasping for breath in a waterless hollow, lay
four diminutive submarines of the K type.
Men were hosing them with water, as though
lo levive them. Their red plates miitle them
look absurdly like goldfish; the diving rud
ders like a fish's tall, and the little fins
folded pathetically upon their sides toward
the bow, inerensed the likeness. Thel peri
scopes were snipped off, one! through open-
illgS III Hie Ullll nnr uiuammi
inside. Otic tried to imugine what the in
terior of these queer -craft might bo like. Of
all the engines of man thej nre the most
misterious to the lajman. Their little,
brass propellers seemed incongruously small
to drive them through the water. At their
noses we could see the revolving tubes to hold
the four torpedoes.
WE PASSED, alas too fit, the great air
craft fuctory, with its delicious glimpses
of clean and delicate carpentry, the steam
boxes for bending the narrow strips of wood,
the sweet smell of banana oil which I tup.
nose Is used in some varnishing process. A
little engine came trundling out of n shed,
milling a wingless gray fuselage on n flat-enr.
Its graceful lines, Its sensitive and shinlpg
metsl work, Its sleek, clean body, all were as
v...,ir,il mid tender as the works of a watch.
! Overhead roared aq older brother, a fljrdng,
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singing that deep hum of unbelievable motor
pow er.
AT ONE of the wharves along the Dela-
ware side was the new destrojer 7'nff:
nei7, just taking on her ecpilpment--ioils of
jellow, creak) rope; fenders, cases of electric
bulbs, galvanized buckets, eases of heavy sea
boots. It was a tale of adventure just to
study her lean, rrisp, timing bow with its
minimi n fiiii ..r. !,-. f...... . l...n.. f..n,.1 !.,.
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mttui, i m-t- nun. i.iun in me iniiu swell
and swing of Delawaie water she rode dain
tily ns n yneht, lifted nnd caressed by the
flow and wash of the water. J low she must
leap and sway in the full tumble of open seas.
She seemed an adorable toy. Who would
not go to war, with such delirious playthings
to covet nud caie for! And beside her, ou
the pier, lay a clumsier nnd glimmer-seeming
engine. Three great gun -mounts for
Admiral Plunkett's naval railroad battery,
that carried the fotii teen -inch guns thnt
chopped shells into Metz from twenty-eight
miles away. On one of these huge steel cais
sons I saw that some member of the A. E. F.
had scratched bis doleful message : George
11'. ollcl, a soldier of .S'. Aainirc, Fiance,
u ho wishes lo go home loot sweet.
rpHK lively little tug Hetty curtsied up to
the pier and took (is on board. Harry
Jones, her friendly skipper, steamed us down1
past the gieen mounds of old Fort Mifflin,
past the long tangle of Hog Island's sliip
wa)s nnd the wet-basins where the Schntic,
the I'ipeslone County nnd other of Hog
Island's prides weie l)ing, one of them kick
ing up a white smother with her propeller in
some engine test. Then wc turned upstream.
It had been raining ou and off all afternoon.
From the Jeisey shoie came the delicious
haunting smell of waini, wet pinewoods, of
moist tioe-.triinks ami the clean whiff of
sand) soil and drenched clover Jields.
"U'lt Humoiist visitors admitted that they
-' had never realized that Philadelphia is
a Ronpoit. The brave array of shipping as
we came up the river was an interesting sight.
Among several large Dutch steamers lying in
the stteain below Kaighn's Point I noticed
the Ilemseheid, which bore on her side in
large white letters the inscription:
WAKKKNSTILLSTAND AKMISTIl'n
Waffenstillstand is the German for armistice.
This struck me us particularly significant.
Probably the cautious Dutch owner of the
Hemsiheid, sending his ship to sea soon after
November 11, feared there might still be U
boats at large that had not learned of the
truce and would not lespect a neutial flag.
Among other ships we noticed the Edge
moor and "West field, of Seattle, the four
masted schooner Charles li. Stanford of
Bangor, the A'niW of London, the Jfciiim
gen of Brest, the 'crjcrciaiiia of Trieste,
and IsKia of Elbrovnik. 'The port of Elbrov
nik is new to me, uud I do not find it in the
giuetteer. Can it be the Polish name for
the West Prussian port of Elbing, which is
(I believe) to return to its original Polish
status by the teims of the peace treaty?
Thus, In the names on the sterns along Phila
delphia piers one reads echoes of the war.
And most appealing of all the ships we passed
was the little winte Danish Dark ValdMa,
just such a craft as used to be comuinndecl
by the best-known sea captain of modern
years, Joseph Conrad. ' .
IT MI'ST be a brave life to be a tugboat
captain. To con the Betty up the shining
reaches of the Delaware In a summer dusk,
the soft flow of air keeping one's pipe In a
gtowl that good musk" of the Jersey pines
tingling In the nostril, Then to turn over
the wheel to the mate while one goes below
to tackle a tugboat supper, with plenty of
clripping steal: and fried murphies and eoffeo
with condensed milk. And a tugboat crew
sleep at home o' nights, too. Think of it; a
sailor all day long, and jet sleep In your own
bfd at home!
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THE KISS
A HE you shaken, nre jou stirred,
Bv n whisper of love?
Spellbound to a word
Does time cease to move.
Till her calm, guiy eye
Expands to a sky.
And the clouds of her hair
Like storms go by !
Do the lips that you have kised
Tin n to fiost and to fire?
Does a flanie shot mist
Etiwinp jour desiie.
Till back to their bhtli
Fnile watir, air, earth
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Over void and deai thV
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So the elements return
Into chnos of night.
Yet the hot flames burn.
They dazzle your sight ,
And desire i tiles the woild
Till it fails, goes b).
And death down is hulled
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Hoheit Graves, in The Century.
What Do Yon Know?
QUIZ
1. In what part of the Netheilands is
WieWngcuV
2. Name three American musical compos
ers.
.'i. Why is the alphabet so called? ,
4. Some members of the (iciman delega
tion in Versailles have been quartered
in the Hotel Vatel. Who was Vatel?
.". How many British ships were sunk by
German submarines timing the war?
(I. Who were the "Hunkers" in Ameri
can politics?
7. In which direction does the earth re-.
volve.'
8. Of what state was General Grant ,ai
native? 'I
P. Who wrote the drama "William Tell"?
10. When did the United States acquire the
Danish West Indies (Virgin Islands)?
Answers to Yestet day's Quiz
1. The president of France is elected every
seven jears bj a imijont) of the votes
in the Senate and the Chamber of
Deputies sitting ns the National As
sembly. 'J. Herheit Hoover and General Pershing
have received degrees from Oxfotd Uni
veisity. 3. Milliner is n corruption of Milliner, so
culled from Milan, whiili nf one time
gave the law In Euiope in matters of
tustc in dress nnd elegance.
1. Tray os a dog's name is said to be de
rived fiom the woid "trag," a runner,
or else from the Spanish verb, "traer,"
to fetch.
5. The German national monument Is at
Niedeivvald opposite Biiigcn on the
Rhine.
0. Bathos describes a fall from the sublime i
to the ridiculous; unticlimax; per
formance nbsutdly below the occasion.
Pathos is the quality in speech, writ
ing, events, etc., thut excites pity or
' sadness.
7. Washington addressed his farewell ad
dress "To the people of the United
States on his approaching retirement
from the presidency,"
8, Two books written by Woodrow Wilson
prior to his presidential term were 'A
History of the American People'' and
"George Washington." f
0, A wit Is called a wag for his qualities
of amusing rogulsliness, Tlie word
vug Is thought to be derived from
"wag-bolter," a rogue.
10, The ex-crown price, of Germany is
thirty-seven jears old.
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