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Member of the Associated Pres THE ASSOCIATED PRESS i r.-cJn-tiveiy entitled to the ue for icpiibticatinn of all uetct rfispncAi't ctWifrd to if or not othcri"iir credited in this paper, und aho the InrnI iirirt published therein. All riphts of republication of special dis patches herein arr nlso reserved. Phlljdrlphia. alurdar. Julr S. 1914 J THE EVENT AT TOLEDO TN THE days when the shahs of Persia a i were taken seriously a shah visiting London in state was foimally invited to sit in the royal inclosure to witness the Derby. He wasn't a nice shah, even as r shahs go. His manners, were a trial to " sensitive people who met him. And he i refused flatly to spend any time viewing; a horse race. I am aware, " said he. "that if two 1 horses are driven side by side with equal i energy in a straight line for d eiven d: f tance one will, in all probability, be able jj to go a little faster than the other. I ht beg to assure you that I care nothing about which horse i5 foremost in such -' an odd experiment." Were the Amencan.- who endured the - dust of travel and slept on hotel floors V and subsisted on stale sandwiches and , soda pop in older that they might wit ness the Willard-Dempsey fight wiser f thifti this shah of Persia or were they less J" wise? Was it curiosity or a We of ele- mental combat or the mob instinct that drew them to Tolpdo? If they knew ;?s.. s. they would tell and a great mystery ! . would be solved. women nave ventured to prizefights. but they didn't like what they saw. So 4 At,A ! : u AHA Ai.i r s : u. viic iiik '& "' u'it: iiu-iu iii nmuuuiiu d.-f- sport mat never nas enlisted teminine interest or support. This may be be- cause women, unless they happen to be in , love, never do anything that cannot be g explained upon grounds more or less logi cal. t . :UT .. StA tUUALI I Y 'TWERE was a ball game in Ardmore this week that, On the face of it, ifnnolroH enntc mif of tlio .illoirn1 nrtiinltf. T 5 nf the seves. A team of girls beat a team of men by 3 a score of 43 to 5. i! But wait! The men were required to bat and " catch with their left hands if they were right-handed and with their right hands rt( If they were left-handed. Apart from the result of the game, the making of the handicap was a frank yIj acknowledgment that there is no equa'.ity 1 of the sexes, so far as baseball is con- '" cerned. '' But, on the other hand, if the game had been knitting the handicap might t , have been the other way. Which leaves us pretty neaily where 4 we started. The game "seemed" to isij knock spots out of sex equality. But 'T.io cares for "seems"? d A TEST OF THE CHARTER rpHE preliminaries of the new mayor- alty campaign make it clear that the Of ' passage of a modernized city charter bv no means relieves the average citizen of his responsibilities as a voter. The need " for a general intelligent interest in the t affairs of the city is, indeed, greater now than it has been at any previous election. to" 'The campaign for the mayoralty elec x tion is being astutely planned by rival n , groups, who know that any faction which may gain an overwhelming representa tion in the smaller Council may feel rela tively certain of retaining a permanent grip on the city itself. If the fine possibilities of the new charter should serve to stimulate a new and enlightened interest among voters who usually drift with factional currents the city may look forward to an era of (iivfiivoom. kuci mucin., u uosses are permitted to use all of their old methods ijj to elect obedient men and retain control of a restricted Council they might, natu- li) ., rally enough, find the means of exploita tion easier than before and feel reason a "" j" -i-i"ou m u .voicm unoer , which the work of control and direction V Jn Council would be simplified. Wl p$ AMERICANISM OF ANNA SHAW '."TUSTICE has had few champions so tR" loval as Anna Howard Shaw tin., .i , "vyotion to its cause led her into more iivvaried "es i endeavor than those tilled S-by the majority of suffrage leaders. V.K 111 l.. J L.ll 11 .... lyiusiJLiun, inuue ueiier, airectea into jWjanneJs of true progress was her prime tvoncern. Naturally, therefore, Doctor Shaw's fpJKrrapcthles were fervently enlisted on irf invfltui. v. jiui.nv.ui "tuin iua WUUien. lO eikhfrr labors in furtherance of this end she ; Vft rought, as she did to her activities in V ' 'fw(tlc8, in medicine, in' religion, in so- f v.v1 MtAlnaev H kppn fntpllf'pt. n ypflfnt utr... Jr' " -. ...---, -V.M4 uui. ind a Juciu sense ot proportionate ptJues. '",Hor 'brilliant and honorable career was Lpbrtained by the slightest suggestion of r&ikJM' fanaticim. Beholding the uf-r ii1-. ' ' t a.. - t..i. . . i frmit'wwawiff wnwa ner attention to. J? .Its-rprejlWrMj important theme that death overtook her. The winner of the Distinguished Service Medal for war services was an embodi ment of the best that is in the fine spirit of Americanism, and her aloofness from the follies committed by suffrage work ers such as Jeanett'e Hankin, nnd even Jnne Addams during and after the strug gle, stamps her ns a patriot of the sound est and most unimpeachable type. Despite her birth in Ncwcastle-on-Tyne, her years of consistent service, to liberalism and sane substantial progress proclaim hfy, regnrdless of sex, as one of the notable Americans. NEEDLESS FRENCH TREATY STAINS THE LEAGUE PACT Covenant Is Jeopardized Under Shadow of a New Triple Alliance With Dangerous Balance of Power Possibilities TF NECROMANCY could endow tieaties with personalities and were the wand of enchantment waved today over the George Washington, en route for our t-hores, the most sacrosanct section of Mr. Wilson's luggage would be the scene of a terrific convulsion. What the French alliance would have to say of the league of nations and vice versa n conceivable as equaling the acrimony of a senatorial debate. Diplomatic papers moie contiadictoiy of each other it would be difficult to im agine. If one document is good, then the other is bad. Only by the riiost fantastic piocesses of argument can approbation of both of them produce even a semblance of harmony. It is asserted that the Piesident will seek to prove them leconcilable and to plead for the acceptance of each of these clashing pacts before the Senate and the nation. The task is spiritually more for midable than any which confronted him at the Peace Conference. For then his purpose was, in the main, animated by idea's which the bulk of mankind unques tionably sought to have recognized. The present problem suggests an un wholesome mixture of lofty aims with either questionable cxpediencj or perni cious illusion. If both treaties should be fa voted, then the soul of the other ono will assuredly go soaring off into oblivion. Fortunately for the Ameiiean people, the star chamber secrecy which prevailed at times at Paris and in spite of pro tests., ended with the arrival of the mo ment of fateful decision.' The lid is off. The Senate within a very few days will possess the true copy of the Versailles treaty, already signed by the foe. In that momentous pact is contained the most elaborate and pretentious panacea for the belligerency of nations that ha ever been devised. But side by side with the covenant, which commends itself to minds unwarped by reactionary prejudice or political spleen as the most tangible in strument available for preserving peace, will be presented a plan of internal alliance which is cither an impotent echo or e'.se a stain of dark suspicion upon the whole scheme of international partner ship. On the surface, the special pledge to France is merely an affirmation of the obvious. By its teims the United States is obligated to furnish prompt armed aid if the stipulations of the Versailles treaty conceining the left bank of the Rhine are violated by Germany. But as it is unthinkable that America, having contributid its potent share to ward winning the war, should be indif ferent to enforcement of its solemn treaty erms, in what way can iteration add to their force? An agreement which is consideied binding by the patties involved needs no appendix for effective emphasis. The simultaneous employment of two taxi cabs is useless to the time-pressed trav eler bent on catching his train. To French emotionalism, cruelly in flamed by the war shambles, has been ascribed the inspiration of the triple alliance proposal which Georges Cle meanceau made to Britain and America. Such sentiments by a gallant nation which bore the brunt of the five years' agony command the full measure of American sympathy and understanding. France is our friend and we are hers in an intensity of degree which has few parallels in history. A second wanton outrage against her would not be toler ated for rf moment by this country, and particularly when America is foimally enlisted in the league of nations. Comprehension of French feelings, however, need not carry with it indorse ment of French logic. The latter is in this instance dangerously defective, since even granting that the pledge devised in Paris had reassurance for its primary object, its potentialities are replete with warnings. Once before in Vienna, 1814 an in ternational concert was prepared. League-of-nations antagonists have pointed with unctuous irony to the fate of the flimsy but pretentious partnership to which Russia, Austria, Prussia, Britain and later defeated France herself sub scribed. In a way that again suggests a parody of the league covenant's aims; grandiose meetings were held at Aix-la-Chappele, at Laibach and at Verona, within a few years after the Napoleonic collapse. But that early international society did not crumble because it was too ambitious. It fell, among other reasons, because spe cial internal deals and arrangements were engineered almost before the Vienna ink-wells were dry. The game was unfairly played. Russia, Austria and Prussia framed up among themselves the so-called "Holy Alliance." Castlereagh jeered at its de sign as "a piece of sublime mysticism and npnsense." To him it appeared as the French treaty might seem to those persons who sympathetically take it at its face value, as a harmless superfluity. Such was not its eventual nature. Con verted into a scheme for the maintenance of dynastic oppression? its development alienated liberal France and England and the European concert ended in discord. Of course, the Franco-BrltUh-Amerl- can, (hlliance can never conceivably de- JfoK bulwk, for autocracy! tous system of the balance of power allegiance which Clcmenceau refused to renounce even during the most exalted moments of the Paris convocation. Mr. Wilson, on the other hand, was equally outspoken. "If the future," he declared at Manchester, "had nothing for us but ii new attempt to keep the world nt the right poise by a balance of power, the United States would take no interest in it, because she refutes to join any com bination of power which is not a combi nation of all of us." In other words, America, with her justifiable antipathy to foreign entan gling alliances, can consistently enter into no partnership pave tht- all-embracing one of the league of nations. It is passionately to be hoped that the co-operative obligations imposed upon I each subscriber to the covenant will in sure to the world a new era of peace. 1 The plan is pre-eminently worth an hon ! est trial. Its whole essential spirit is j discredited by any undertaking binding tnree 01 me participants to special per formances. If the league is what Mr. Wilson and other ardent advocates have declared it to be, the new triple alliance is an absurdity. If the league is too frail to stand upon its own mei its it should be rejected. It takes a chronic alarmist or a spite ful politician to credit this possibility, just as it takes the most irrational opti mist sincerely to justify harmonization of the two mutually uncongenial docu ments which the George Washington is shipping westward. There is a chance that a feeling for ex pediency and the desire to speed the peace piompted the President to be the bearer and ostensible champion of the French ticaty. If so the opportunity of the American people to make a tre mendous decision is very vital. The league covenant is an inspiration and a hopeful augury at least of better times. The internal agreement besmirches it. Unless all sense of consistency is sud denly lost the joint acceptance of these disparate documents is unimaginable. CONVICTED UNDER OLD LAW rpilE Delawaie county jury which has -L convicted three ladicals, charged with conducting an unlawful meeting in Chester on April 27, apparently discov eied that the old laws against inciting to violence weie adequate to reach men ac cused of such crimes. Evidence was offered to piove that the accused had planned a May day demon stration to secure the release of Mooney and Debs and that if the demonstration failed they planned to call men to arms to overthrow the government, and that they publicly advocated such a course. The juiy believed the evidence and, on instructions from the judge that there was law enough to convict under it, they found n verdict of guilty. And the law was necessarily the old law because the act:! of which the men were accused were done two months prior to the passage of the new anti-sedition law intended to reach just such cases. THE COST CURRENT official estimates which show that the railroads of the country must have at least $500,000,000 annually above their present income, if they are to operate on the old basis of efficiency under government or private ownership, may properly be legarded as early inti mations of the larger costs of war. Every man, woman and child in the United States must contribute a little less than five dollars additional for the maintenance of the railroads in the future. Such contributions will be made directly or indirectly. They cannot be avoided. It was an incredible waste of energy and materials in Europe that drove the costs of materials skyward. The costs of labor and production fol lowed the upward trend naturally enough. Thus for many years to come, after Liberty Loans are forgotten, in a thousand unconsidered ways we shall have to pay vastly, through increased taxes and higher living costs, for the aberrations of a few lunatic kings and a crowd of neurotic diplomatists. It is littlf wonder Cause antl Kffoct tlicro is civic disorder in I'olnml. Kmpty stom achs and clear brains are seldom compan ions, anil n miiu win not aiw.ijs wuik mc strniRht nnd iinriow path when lie lias to pay a month's wan1' for a pair of shoes. The expropriation of Problem the (icnnun landowners Simplified in Czci-hn.- Slovakia is not a special demand of a particular social class, but of the whole nation. The nation, therefore, has a clean sheet on which to ipher its "back to the land" problem; There is abundant evi- VlieiP France deuce tbut the wnr is Is (iuiner koiiik to cost France, the victor, more than Germany, the vanquished. Hut, on the other hand, France. will hae that which Germany cannot hope to gain for generations to come the good will of the world, the value of which is bejoud computation. West Virginia has paid The Virginia to Virginia $14,000,000 Debt in cuxh hik1 bonds. It has long beep conceded that the state born in war times should pay some share of the Dominion's indebtedness contracted when the two states were one, and that view received official indorsement in a recent decision of the United States Supreme Court; the ono point nt issue was the amount to be paid. The Mountain State contended, and with some show of reason, that little of the moneys had been expended north of the Allcghenlcs and that an apportionment of the debt should be on the basis of improvements rather than on population or area. But, a decision having been reached, the presumption is that at last everybody is satisfied. Many of the fight fans who are Haying 'I told you so" are fifty-Hftv prophets. The insinuation is that there were as many films as films in the government movies. Death is the penalty for sellius booze In Sonora, Mexico. "Oh, well," said the Illbulous One, 'Vhut was it Patrick Heury said?" JU7n,,nT Innoouous' desuetude" describes (he. . me uefflua uwumarinei lrino- CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S LETTER Knox's Friendship With Crisp How Dr. F. D. Patterson Helped In Pre venting .Congressional Inter ference With Pennsyl vania Mines Washington. July t". rnllK incoming of Republicans takes nway - from the House of Representatives sev crnl ext client presiding officers, one of whom, Congressman Charles It. Crisp, of (Jeorgln, was once parliamentary clerk of the House, Judge Crisp is a son of the late Spenker Crisp, who used to wrestle oh the floor with the redoubtable Tom Reed, of Mauie. There is a trait in the character of the (ieorgin representative which everjbody in Washing ton appro intcs and respects bN affectionate reverence for the memory of his father. In stlnctlvt'Ii his mind goes bnck to "Father," and It is touching to observe how that dis tinguished statesman's life and character continue to influence the son. When some one recently criticized Senator Knox for his league-of-nations speeches, the Georgia rep resentative perked up and surprised his hearers hj Mtjing, "I hate a high regard for Senator Knox." Then followed this inter esting stop; : Speaker Crisp had begun to break down in health nnd he and "Chnrlej" determined to take n sea voyage. They were like boys on the boat until, being placed at the captain's table, lliej fell in with Philander C. Knox, of Pittsburgh, who was not then a senator. Crisp's line conversational abilities soon ap pealed to Knox and they became fast friends. Kno invited the spenker and his son to be his guests for a week while jn England. TJie imitation wnR accepted and on reaching London the Knoxes and the Crisps started out in n tully-ho from London to Oxford. Thcj came back by launch on the Thames to Windsor. It was a great week for both of them and established a good with which con tinued until the elder Crisp died, nor has It ceased ns between the junior senator from Pennsylvania and the brilliant Georgia par liamentarian. rpHE work which Dr. Martin W. Bnrr nnd -- his assistants nt the Pennsylvania Train ing School for Feeble-minded Children are doing nt Lhvyn, Delaware county, the gov ernment finds it must do in nnother degree for ninny unfortunates who have been turned bat I; from service iu the army and navy. Vocational training for wounded nnd disabled soldiers, who came back from France denied the opportunities which their physique and fine mentality promised them before the wnr, is one thing which the government is trying to do now and which it seems to have started out to do satisfactorily, but, the care of those wlio-e minds are not normal Is nnother big problem which the government must face pa tientlj. As Doctor ISarr has helped to solve the problem in Pennsylvania, so the govern ment is trying to solve it for the thousands who have been bereft of reason since they enteied the service. The old Civil Wnr vet eians. who love the surroundings nt Hampton Roads and who are anxious to get back to their southern homes, really gave wny. ac cording to the War Department, in' order that a thousand or more of these mentally disabled veterans might be cared for. pOLONLL WILLIAM It. SCOTT, of the - John Wannmaker Commercial Institute, who is lining up the boys for their nnnual outing on the old camp grounds at Island Heights. N. J., does not permit to slip by many opportunities for boosting his active organization. The colonel, having made up iccortls of the boys of the institute who en listed for the Euiopenn war, is now after a memorial tablet from the wreck'o' the battle ship Maine, on which he desires ,to plnce the names of the Wnnnmaker Spanish -American War veterans. Many relics of the Maine have been distributed by the secretary of the navy in mcordancc with the law. Major William McKiuley Camp No. 10, United Spanish War Veterans, has one, and the adjutant, James L. Meredith, is mighty proud of it. APPARENTLY there are no flies on Pitts bin gh. That city is awake and doing things. A few duys ago, through Congress man Campbell, a Democrat who was sup ported by Republican votes in the last elec tion, a bill was introduced in Congress ask ing for if.ri00,000,000 to build a chnin of watervvajs throughout the United States, the principal thought being to connect the Pitts burgh waterways with the Great Lakes and the Mississippi river and the gulf. Such a system, backed as it is by the Mississippi valley interests, would put Pittsburgh on the map for sure. Meanwhile the Atlantic coastal waterways, which are to be heatd at the Charleston convention in November, would probably come along somewhere in the push, not too far In the lead. The scheme is so backed, however, as to require very careful consideration. Another Pittsburgh, lead, which has the indorsement of Mayor Dab- cock and the Council, is the establishment of an aerial postal service station in or about the Smoky City. The postmaster general and Congress have been memorialized to see this project through, D' II. FRANCIS D. PATTERSON, of the Philadelphia Club, who is attached to the Department of Labor and Industry at Ilarrisburg, rushed to Washington at the instance of Governor Sproul the other day iu an effort to-destroy a rider BWnB addi tional powers to the federal bureaTl of mines, which had been sneaked in on the Senate side without notice to the House. The doctor was hot under the collar, as were a number of other state officials, who complainedthey had been taken by surprise. The purpose of the rider was to give the bureau of mines fifteen new inspectors at fat salaries, and the state's representatives contended that they would only interfere with efficient state regulations and harass business men. A quick fight was made against the rider nnd it went out, the H6use for once standing unanimous against the invasion of the Senate. ELIJAH C. HUTCHINSON, who repre sents the Trenton district, plods along in Washington just the same as If he did not know that Senator James Hammond has de cided to become a candidate for Congress in 101i0. Elijah has been in Congress now for two terms, during most of which he has been on the agricultural committee, where it h'ag developed that he knows a good deal about potash and fertilizer, in which the southern farmer is interested, and about grain, in which the western farmer placos his reliance, "i IKE former Congressman J, Davis Brod' JJ head, J. Washington Logue, Joseph E. Throppt who lives in Washington, and Illram It. lluiton, of Delaware, Joseph McLaugh lin and Daniel E. Lafenn, who were con-gressmen-at-large, occasionally look in on the proceedings of the House. Joe McLaugh Hu was down a few day ago preparatory to Ids trip West, where he is to preside over the proceedings of the Ancient Order of Hi bernians at their San Francisco convention. Joseph went out with John R. K, Scott, who figured so extensively in the Pennsylvania state Legislature. These two "at-large" mmra were succeeded bv Anderson It. Walters, of. Johnstown, and William J. jBuriPfUt XfttaKnHf Waltwa b:maml THE WAY COLD WELL, they a number of citizens found that they could be as badly scorched by Fea- shore sunburn ns they ever were by fire works. A magazine editor has written to us to say that now is the time to send him a Christmas poem. Curious how hard it is to conjure up the merry jingle of sleigh-bells at this time of year. Please grant that there is one form of atrocity the Dish has never committed. We have never attempted any jazz translations of Horace. Desk Mottoes Eleven thousand teachers in Pennsylvania receive salaries of less than five hundred dol lars a year. News item. Mr. Arthur W. Howes, of the Central High School, gives us a kindly word for alluding bitterly to a New York paper s headline, "Peace Council Waits on Ger many." Unhappily New Tork papers are not the only ones that say "Wait on" .vhen thev mean "Wait for." To all such we remark that their German is perfect. "Ich wartc auf dich" is excel lent boche idiom. t One by one all the good ,old American in stitutions are proved to have come from some foreign source. We are heartbroken to hear Mr. Howard Brockway, the eminent composer, say that jazz was invented iu Sinm. Is it possible that we shall have to fell back on'chcvving gum as America's only contribution to Great Art? Of course, there was Tom and .Jerry .... Ravings When the weather gets so torrid that my straw hut is adhesive I would like to be a lemon peel upon a nice icc-tca-sievc. I would like to be a felon Iu a cool-celled penltcnch, Or a seed within a melon, Or a raisin in a quench. I would like to be a paper cup In a well-fanned soda-kcller; 1 would like to be a mermaid Stealing rides on a propeller. These roasting'days do pain me And no commoner or duke'll Re able to restrain me From a plunge Into the Skookle. DOVE DULCET. It wus sage of Mr. WilBon to have the George Washington slowed down so as not to arrive ou the same day as the lt-34. He bavv the danger of MK Borah pulling some wheeze about the landing of the Big Blimp. Our Own Quiz 1. What prominent Philadelphinn thinks no poetry worth reading has been writ ten since Pope? 'J. Who is the "Big Fellow" nnd why docs he wear quotation marks around his name? 3. Why does the mayor of Tidaholm hesi tate to visit America? 4. Why is it always advisable to have a national holiday fall on n Friday? 5. Which is warmer, a theatre ventilated with "ice-ioolcd breezes" or one ven tilated with "frigid zephyrs"? 0. If you have an appointment at the Drcxel Building at noon, at what time should you begin questing for a car at the corner of Eighteenth and Pine streetH? 7, What fate awaits the men who design the patterns of silk shirts? 8. Which is the more relentless enemy of the Palm Beach suit, the glowing crumb of tobacco or the brimming spoonful of soup? (I. What do senators do on a holiday? 10. What punishment was meted out to the man who invented the quarter-in the-slot gas meter? Undoubtedly the real reason for the orown prince's rfsUeswiewi onH, Wand ef WWaw u Ammsm-im.' HE CELEBRATED THE c.'.v.i-ij-.rwT; r..;..y.y.r . .' 'WW . .v .w-. . s-etoiv,." CREAM The Whistle of a Train Softly through the solitude, my reverie awak ing, Breaking in upon my dreams in shrill yet tender strain, Now, verisimilitude of life that I'm for saking Comes a sound that takes mc back the whistle of a train. Far and faint, nnd scarcely heard above the woodland's sighing ; Coming from a brazen throat once twice and yet again; To my heart is brought a word a wish no use in trying r To express my thoughts upon the whistle of the train. So I guess I'll puck my things and hike it for the city Ueat it 'way back home again, stroll up that little lane Where the folks are waiting holy smokes, but It's n pity Ev'ry boy tonight can't hear the whistle of a train ! ROBERT LESLIE BELLEM. Harriet writes us that she iB "a little girl twelve years old," and sends the following poem: Cape May Cape May the land of my thought Where pleasure is found not simply bought The large blue ocean the pleasant boardwalk Where old friends meet again and talk Little girls debutantes demure And old ladles forlorn and pure. HARRIET. & Old Philadelphia I wish I had thought of It I would have made more of old Philadelphia. Should I ever return there I will put alt my heart into a book on the subject and write It all In flowers, perfumeB reeds In the rivers quaint old golden brown eve nings the scent of buckwheat calces baking In the early morning magnolia fragrance mingled with roasting coffee ghosts of bytrone Cadwal&ders and Wi'.ar tons and memories of pretty Quaker girls in the sunset light 'on Arch 'street. CHAItLES GODFIIEY LELAND, 18S3. Our observation is that no man is truly great until some summer resort claims to find his profile among the crags of a moun tainside. Secretary of State Ianslng feels that his presence In "Washington in thu near future will be necessary because of the duties of the State Department. Paris dispatch. It's perfectly all right, Robert : you needn't apologize for coming back to Washington. We notice that a coming movie is adver tised ns being "brutally frank." What fun it would be to write a flicker that would be brutally reticent. SOCRATES. The difference between a beer case and a case of beer is the difference between a juryman and a bottle. We doubt If the kaiser will ever get to London. Not while there's still chloride of mercury in the Aiaerongen pharmacy. When w'e feel that we've just got to re member the dollar of our granddaddles It is well to call to mind, also, that It was harder to tarn, Bancroft, the boudoir bolshevist, says his Fourth was wholly spoiled because he coudn't find a soap-box that would fit his feet. What with the cutting out of excursion rates and the cutting out ot booze, Atlantic City needs all the sand It possesses to stand up against the breakers. Prohibition enforcement legislation and the water-power bill are two subjects to take up the, attention of the United Btatec Senate, They might easily be one. vn-L re gtve,ernt heed to the plfs ii v i i m t n-i.... mIl. im FOURTH ' !- S4-.j...Jii,t- Rollln Klrby, in Ntw York World. ONCE ON A TIME ONCE on a time, once on a time, Before the Dawn began. There was a nymph of Dian's train Who was beloved of Tan : Once on a time a peasant lad Who loved a lass at home; Once on a time a Saxon king Who loved a queen of Rome. The world has but one song to sing, And it is ever new, The first and last of all the songs For it is ever true J A little song, a tender song, The only song it hath ; "There was a youth of Ascalon Who loved a girl of Gath." A thousand thousand years have gone, And eons still shall pass, Yet shall the world forever sing Of him who loved a lass An olden song, a golden song, And sing it unafraid: "There was a youth, once on a time, Who dearly loved a maid." Kendall Banning. The announcement Probably a Lie, that five million Ger But mans wish to "colo nize" in Mexico in order that they may escape the peace terms and that the suggestion is being frowned upon by the Mexican Government may be taken with a grain 'of salt. But if any such move were ever seriously contemplated the United States would be justified in taking drastic action. Governor Smith, of Consolation New York, recently dedicated an old toll bridge as a free highway across the Hudson by breaking a bottle of ginger ale. "What though the prohibition ban assails us?" cries the modern Sir Toby Belch. "We huve ale (of a sort) and ginger still is hot i' the mouth!" Prohibition has Draw One! thrown many men in the liquor trades out of work. ""Kansas has a great wheat crop and lacks labor. An agency to take the bartender to the wheat field might fill a "long-felt want." The dial of the Independence Hall clock lacked pointers on Thursday. Hands evidently laid off for the holidays. What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. Who is in command of the huge Brit ish dirigible, R-34? 2. Who is acting secretary of state? 3. What is a gloss? 4. How did Brazil get its .name? 5. Who wrote "Peregrine Pickle"? 0. What state in the Union for many years had two capitals? 7. What Is the ordinary Erglish name for the drink which Americans call ale? 8. How many signers had the Declaration of Independence? 0. What great naval victory was first re ported to the world on the Fourth of July? 10. What is a sterlet? Answer to Thursday's Quiz 1. The region aiound Florence, Italy, has been Buffering from a severe earth quake. 2. Sending an ordinary-sized letter to Ha waii costs two cents. 3. 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