wfimvzz. tfv'fmfe . VftrySi21 ifcSiEESMjSw9S?S!J2Vi &"(" iJJ(iBW WiTuHj iiXj'fek vVrft-." Cfc."v Atli 'i! ..wt??. VVPv$k? VS ? Jfrt' ?M i ' V 7, 'Jtjr ?' JV' 4 T 1 1 'YWWv s .c fc, 10 EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, JULY 7, 1919 &(. ;r- aaPrtQPwv4wwri?iwpwtw' ,w?"'iri? r'TT'-'r lri'-rm,r7rz:Tv,iztTi:77.,7:,rr nr.riWEhw V- I? I'"" 1 Is EH I. Ifc. fca IjV- IV B , it it" : ! r V fit" v Unletting public We&ger THE EVEMNG0TELEGIUPH PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY CTni'S It K. CURTIS. rnrmrsT Chart" II tAidlnston. Vice Prliicnt. John C. Martin, Secretary and Tremurer: Thllip a Colllni. John p. Wllllama. John J, Spurneon. Dlrec-tora. editorial hoard Ctnrs H. IC. Cibtis, Chairman DA VI" E. SMILEY Editor JOHV r MARTIN Oenenl Ituslne Murage Published dall at Pint it I.KltfEft Hulldlnff. InUpiwndcnee Square Philadelphia. Atlantic. C'ITt . rrtn t'nioii P.ulldln New York :oo Metropolitan- Tower Tni Tor) p ilMIrr . . ions Vullrrton rulMtne .'V IS l"J 7ritiin ttjlluilij; IJETUOII ST t.nris Chicago vnit's nnwi a WiBniNums Pt'nrw, VI for retmsvlvanln e and 1-tth St. Nrir YorK nt mt .. lh in i riullJInt Lo.sDON Uukcac London Timet KUTtocntPTIOV 1 KRMfl The Fvrsi'Jfl Pt Cl in I.np. Ell t eered to Mib-crlbe- la Phlla-lelphlT and urrqnndlnK towna at ths -Rtt of twelve 1121 (?nt p-r week, pavable to the i arrlr Rv mail to point outbid o' Phllaielphta In the Vnltet sit-U"- --.nn'i or l nlt..i ; tntr pm aeloni powtrtye frp fr t: I ( ct pt niotitll. Fix $11' doi, r per veit, pail! It- adinre Tn a'l forel'.n countl- un tl dml.t p-r m.n-th Notii P ""Mrrtb-r wMilttc addf hHinred tnuat give olil . ll as new n-llres Dill. '01(1 TAIMT KfVsTONF. Mt' !MiO 3"" trfjrr, n i rom iiu tell io is to Fi ' fit Public 1 rdf , r ft,'i-itfjMic r Cfju'M. P''li ' it p'tt i Mcnibfr Of '.ho Associated Press THE iSSOrr.XTM) PhTF- n ere,; lircy cult Iril to the use for repihlu irm of a" i?r tihpatchri crdiicd to it or nnt othr iri' r-ftttt-d in thti pnprr. "7 f'to Ac inrfil nrtr pubhiherl thrrrtn. Ail rijdt n republication of iprrinl 't' patches 'emu nie oho reamed. ,. M IMU Jul. AN OMEN IN THE SKY XTOTH'Vc; that has been wntlPti fiom ' ' the battlci(.'lds or from the Peacr Cor.feroprc mint's a morn ivid sukitp'--tion of the need for ti lietl peace thin the vast diiipible pilotpi t'tom Eng and to Amenra, and it i to be hoped that the , airship will aetually make a flight ovei Philadelphia ami other cities before its I nose is po nted homeward. It should pro- I vide enlightenment for all pes.-imists and I Btand-parteis. For the R 34, though it n b'gger than any sk'i apci in Ph hiclelphui. appears but a c i de makp.h;ft when consideied in the i ght of plans now maturing in the minds of military men everywhere. It isn't pleasant to imagine what vessels lik this could do with po son pan 01 with bombs. Future wars will not'e fought on battlefields alone, if they are fought at all. They will be fought over whole coun tries by means stranger and moie terri bly potential even than perfected Zeppe lins. One can but hope that the R-34 may fly over the Senate. UNITING THE AMERICAS TJABITS of thought requiring long de-LJ- velopment are reflected invariably in every gieat decision of men and nations. Thus the German war began generations ago in the minds of the German peopls. It was not so sudden a thing as some people believe. Beliefs and convictxns of today become the acts of tomonow. Dr. Alberto Martinez, a publicist who.-e opinions are g-eatly respected by all in fluential business men in the Argentine republic, said in a Fcuith of July ad dress to his countrymen that the United States saved Europe and civilization. He said we are actually idealistic and well-intentioned toward all the world. This is a relatively new note in South American criticism. Mr. Wilson's di plomacy has been characte-ized by a con sistent effort to reinterpret the United States to the other people of this con tinent. His recent messages to the presi dent of Biazil have plainly had an effect as beneficent as othets of a like soit in tended for Latin America. In relation to South Amenca, we are only observing a rule of conduct that has characterized our relations with all other nations with Cuba, for example, and China and the Philippines. Our magna nimity has been costly. The war in Europe was costlier still. Yet, if all Latin America ever really understand'' the United States we shall dwell upon a continent as safe from aggression as the stars. WE'VE OUTGROWN OUR CLOTHES rpHERE may have been a time when this -- city was oversupplied with office buildings, but at present men aie seek ng vainly for accommodations in the big downtown buildings. This condition has encouraged the capitalist's who planned before we went into the war to eiect a thirty-two story building on Bioa.l st t between Walnut and Sansom. to lgin its erection in the ea.-ly piing, when leases on the present structure c-xpne. The high cost of materials will be more than offset by the higher rental? uhich can be obtained The announcement that the buil ling is to be erected in the neai futuie vindi cates the estimates of the growth of the city within the past five years. We have only est'mates of the population, but when hundreds of men aie finding it difficult to get office space in modern buildings we have prcof more substan tial than any estimate that we have out grown our clothes, if such proof were needed. STATUS OF THE KAISER LLOYD GEORGE says that the kaiser I will be tried in London by a bench of judges representing the five great powers. The Paris correspondent of the New York Sun reports that the Americans in that city are confident that the kaiser will never be put on trial. The London coriespondent of the New York Herald says that the Americans at the Peace Conference succeeded in forc ing an agreement that the kaiser was not to be put to death. Von Bethmann-Holhveg insists that he was responsible for whatever the kaiser d, and that he and not the kaiser should be put on trial. Von Hindenburg announces that from August 26, 1918, until the sfgning of the armistice all the orders of Wilhelm weie ssued upon his advice and responsibility, fl Rid. he asks that the attention of the st V Allies dq caiieu io mis. 'f ' Tho peace treaty arraigns Wilhelm d ' 'v ''for ' supreme offense against interna , -Vnal mnralitv arid the sanctitv of treat- !i 'ica.HanjJ Uwi German Government $ecoj&., - -. 3fc. s " .. Mi t'" il nizes in that treaty the right of the allied and associated powers to bring before military tribunals persons accused of having commjtted acts in violation of the laws of war, and the allied arid asso ciated powers announce that they will form a tribunal to try Wilhelm Hohen zollern and will '.demand his surrender by the Netherlands. Here wc have the stipulations in the treaty, tne ello-ts of tne agents 01 wn I helm to absolve him fiom responsibility 1 and the gossip about the status of the i case. H will be cooler weather before order . is brought out of the confusion in which all thinking on this question is now I inohed. PEACE UNREAL WHILE RUSSIA AND MEXICO DEFY US Humanity and National Dignity Demand That Immediate Steps Be Taken to Stop I Outrages to American Citlrens HpIIE .State Vpaitment's sharp warn I ing to RrMn" it Kusun concerning ' the continued outrages against American citizens is r.ot meielj an index of a new policy of 'goi In its implications it is an indictment of months of dangertmslj 'ont'mer.tat timuiit and acillation re sulting in a flagrant forfeiture of na tional rights. ' This shameful -ui lender, moieoxei. has noi simpl been opeiative with I epcet , to Moscow Mt mco as well as Soviet , Muscovy has ( lmmally profited by our false setie of tolerance. ' Apology fci the ece.-ses in which both countries have indulged ha been weakly ha-I'd en a poi cited extrnsion of the 1 piinciple of sPf.doteimination. In a world in which debating societies could be substituted for policemen stu-h a theory m'ght have warrant. Hut it is quite without validity when outlawrj is defiant of the fundamenta s of interna tional relationships. As was succinctly e.presed in one of the most forceful of the long series of notes to Gei many, "lesronsibibty is abso lute, not relative." Apparent inability to grasp this elemental tiuth has been per niciously capitalized by both communist and gueirilla chieftains, win tought pal liation for their offences on the ground that they weic working out their own destinies. Anj suit of cWme whatevei can. of couise be cloaked under th" argument. But that the snecious lure of it should hae brought the foreign policy of the United States almost to a point of ac ceptance of deeds of murder and spolia tion ha placed this, country in a position utteily at odds with every tradition of national dignity and national decency. The birth of this fallacy is explicable. In the first flush of American enthusiasm over the downfall of czardom in Russia and the termination of Diaz absolutism in Mexico it was a popular belief that these countrcs would take the paths to demociacy af'tei their own fathioiis and that inteifei uuc with their methods would bespeak a lack of liberal sym pathy. The theory was ostensibly admnable: the practice," devastating. It was fatal because such a policy of respect caiiied with it no reciprocal restrictions. The "self-determination" of Russia and Mex ico proved entirely disdainful of the self deteimination of any other land. The result was a debauch of license that has few hittoiical parallels. Russia not only spurned the piinciple of nationality foi herself, which was within her lights, but disregarded it with relation to all other peoples who adhered to it. In Mexico, responsibf itv dodging by the vaiious i evolutionary factions kept tragic pace with the slaugh ters and confiscations. The latest death list from the Tampico region reveals the names of eleven Amer ican citizens slain there within the last seventeen months, in addition to a leeord of robberies and other atrocities, the mere summary of which would fill, it is maintained, four columns of newspaper type. Lethal, indeed, are the f-uits of Ameiica's o -filiating policy regarding the two outlaw nations. While the war continued it was natu rallv the part of wisdom to devote most of our energies to the extermination of the German menace. But peace has come now and it finds us, after all our months of patience, as much a victim of fanatics and brigand- as though our capacity to inspire legitimate lespect weie as mild as that of Libeiia or Pa-aguay. So far as Russia is concerned the ques tion is one wholly apart from either the alleged iniquities or the alleged virtues of bolsheism Lenine is entitled to (ommuni-.e, if he desires, every institu tion in his distressed realm. He may proclaim ail libitum his detestation of nationalism But he cannot proclaim it for the United State of America and by no doctrine of sane morals can his persecu- tion of our national representatives, con suls and otherwise, be justified. It is not a battle of social and economic philosophies which is here involved. It is a battle of national rights. Ours have been again and again outraged in Rus sia. In truth, the course of infamy has been so consistently pursued that public feelings in the matter have almost be come atrophied. It is pertinent to recall the little but decisive war with the Barbary states of a century ago. Th? Bey of Tunis was brought to his senses, not because he was a polygamist and a tyrant, but because he had defied' American rights. Acting Secretary of State Phillips's note addressed to the offenders through the Swedish authorities particularizes concerning the arrest and detention of Consul Treadwell, the illegal imprison ment of Vice Consuls Durri and Leonard and the imprisonment under sentence of death of an American citizen, Kalma tiano, in Moscow. Tchitcherin, the Bolshevist foreign minister, is informed that "the govern ment of the United States now views wjth grave concern the reported threat pi? the authorities at JIojscow to take ffJHher illegal maurM in the forinNof c ' . I u & .. is. f v . reprisals against American citizens In Russia." The indictment is correct so far as it goes, but it is incomplete. The general charge would embrace a record of atroci ties which it is almost inconceivable that a self-respecting nation would have tol erated. It is imperative that the welcome new spirit manifested in this diplomatic com munication he consistently asserted until, regardless of the follies which the Rus sians may commit among themselves, thev aie tmght that nationalism still abides in the United States and that so long as it does it will piotect its citizens. A similar course of instruction is in older for Mexico. A significant begin- I ning was made when a b-ief but effec- I tio American invasion put an end to the ' "Battle of Juarez" a few weeks ago. That this warning, although salutary with leference to the particular offense under treatment, was insufficient in the largei aspect is evidenced from the re ports fiom Tampico. A vigorous follow ing up of both the Russian note anil the warning on the Rio Grande should bo leflerted upon eve'y occasion in which American tights in foreign lands are lo'ated ilt's is not triiculencc, but a mainte nance of (he national dignity based upon the soundest principles both of humanity and of elf-vespect. If the administration should balk now. not on of the old excuses will avail it. Our l'csponsibilit. too. is absolute. NOT TOO EARLY TO PREPARE SKVEN cais from Friday last will be the one hundred and fift-eth anni nrsaiy of the adoption of the Declara tion of Independence. It wou'd be fitting that this city should arrange for an ade quatr telebration of that momentous annr ersaiy. Parn le-. pageants and oratory are what first occur to the mind in conncc. tion with such an occasion. But they will not be enough. The i itrht and the ability of men to govern themselves were asserted in the Decimation. They have done fairly well in tin lespect save in the great cities. Popular government there has been a failure. The cities are run on the feudal lather than on the democratic system. Theie i an ovcilord and retainers who do his bidding and the lest of us get i along as best we may. Philadelphia does not differ in this respect from New York or Boston or Chicago or San Francisco. But it ought to be different. In iew of our history and tiaditions this should be the most democratical'y governed community in the United States. We have recently se emed a charter which opens the way to such a kind of government and under that charter we are to elect a Mayor and members of a Council in the autumn. If the members of the Council and the Mayor aie the creatuies of an overlord instead of men who recognize that their responsibility is first to govern in the interest of all the people we shall make a ery bad beginning of our preparation for celebiatiug the one hundred and fiftieth anniversaiy of the adoption of the Declaration. The best way to begin preparation for the celebiation will be for the people to assert themselves and to insist on the e ection to office next November of men who aie their own masters. ALCOHOL AND THE COURTS THE courts accustomed to deal with the drunk and disorderly havehad little to do since Tuesday. The higher courts, however, are likely to be crowded with cases involving the interpretation of the "dry" laws. Two classes of cases will be befoie them. One class will consist of the cases arising out of the wartime prohibition statute, which forbids the manufacture or sale of "intoxicating" drinks. There is the widest difference of opinion on the amount of alcohol needed to make a drink intoxicating. The Rhode Island statutes put it at 4 per cent. Other states have put it at one-half of 1 per cent. Congress has not yet fixed any percentage, though there are bills before it defining an in toxicating bevei age as one containing more than one-half of 1 per cent of alco hol. No one questions the power of Con gress to make such a definition, so far as it relates to the wartime prohibition act. But the lawyers for the "wets" are in sisting that Congress may not make a permanent definition of an intoxicating beverage under the constitutional amend ment, for the courts and not Congress are intrusted with the duty of interpreting the constitution. The second class of cases will arise out of this dispute. If these lawyers are right the country will be in doubt until the Supreme Court itself has passed on the question. All this uncertainty makes business for the lawyers and will crowd from the court calendars cases in which only the liti gants are interested The whole country is anxious that the legal limit of alcohol in a drink be fixed at the earliest con venient moment so that it may know when harmless sweet cider and home brewed root beer become outlaws. There is probably no nntlirr Ticht truth in the rumor With Germany that 5.000,000 Or mans plan to form a colonv in Mexico. That is a political ron-tinRpncj- we shall probably not hare to face. Hut there is n commercial contingency of equal importance to America : the army of Worinnn salesmen ready to swoop down on South Anient a with the intention of con trolling the mnrkets there. "l'is n queer world, my masters! The donkejH who hee-hawed in the British House of Commons get more notice than the wise men who labored. There is b difference of thirteen years in the aces of Willard and Dempsey nn inlu-ky thirteen, Willard will be willing to concede. Protests from neutral countries against the peace treaty emanate neither from the hearts nor the minds of the protestants, but from their pocketbookB. The cry of the parlor Bolshevist Is 'What is ths conatitutlpn among Un frlends?' , . 41,. -.ift 3 .. . .. iU x. 1M?- -.1. A .., - - -- L S. MORE JOBS WAITING THAN SOLDIERS TO FILL THEM This Is What the Knights of Columbus Have Discovered In Their Work of Caring for Returned Men QJKK Vtn throtmhJ." eJ Tlint is the sloRun of the Knights of Columbus. The boys who went to Franco know this welfare organization rnther well, for K. of ('. workers were with them hi the eiiiitiiimients during the months of training here, followed them Into the battle areas of Krnnee. saw them safe home again, and now are finishing up their self-appointed task by getting them jobs. The Knights of Columbus went about their war work quietly, so lint pi'.-hnps they nre bettor known in the service than out of it. Of lute they have been milking themselves more insistently known to the public than in the dnjs of the war- anil with a very definite purpose. Quite possibly they have brought their organization forcibly to the notice of the reader most certainly they lime if he is an emplojer of lt.bor. For now that the war is over the "Caseys," as the men in service call them nfTectlonately, are using eorj means tliej can think of to get jobs for returned soldiers. Any man who has a job to fill is fair game for K. of C. sodetaries. The) will hunt thai job down, list it. find out the qualifications for filling it and. if it be hiitnnnb possible, put in it an e set vice mnii Jl'ST at present the job-hunting campaign is occupjing n good deal of the time and eneigj of the Knights of Columbus organiza tion It is Hie big tiling to do right now. us other welfnre organizations and the fed eral government fnllj recognize. The eoun t rv iiinnnt get back into normal running older until the boys who went overseas to fight have been placed in paying jobs To this end the Knights of Columbus nre niiiintr.ining 1k(m1 "labor units" throughout tin I nited States. The work which the Phil adelphia .unit is doing is typical of the rest. The campaign to bring jobs and jobless service men together was inaugurated .Tune 3 with a pninde. The first step was to make an industrial canvass of the city. This was done bj men just out of the service. The "C.isejs" sent out six teams of ten men and n I'nptni i cadi on motortrucks to comb the citv. filing out pieclsely how many jobs ami what kind of jobs were available. The men on the teams and their captains were paid bv the Knights of Columbus. The men who are doing the detail work in the K. of C. einplovment bureau here nre all ex service men. also on the K. of C. payroll Flit the purposes of the canvass the city was divided into districts and these dis tributed among the teams. Kverj employer of l'ibor was visited, his labor wants ascer tained and a card catalogue record made of them Knights of Columbus labor head quarters here have a record at present of S000 opportunities, not counting the labor otilers received from such big einplojers of labor as the Baldwin Locomotive Works and Hog Island. The K. of C. labor secretaries are not waiting for men to come in and ask for jobs. They are going out after the men, b.v advertising and b.v the use of labor scouts. The job opportunities are so many that it will take perhaps, months to find soldiers to fill them. The Intensive work will end in a week or so. That will not mean that the K. of C. will cease to list jobs for which men are wanted. Thoy are eager to be told about nn.v good job which a soldier or sailor could till IT IS north mentioning that only good jobs are wanted. The K. of C. men in charge of the work have fixed :18 a week as the minimum paj worth considering, nnd the higher, of couise, the better. There have been some rather good jobs listed such as n yentlv salary of $2000 to $2."00 for archi tectural draftsmenor $2000 yearly for an ad. writer Strnnge to saj . it is harder to find men qualified to fill these better paid jobs than it is to find the jobs for high-class men. The Knights of Columbus are fully alive to the bigness nnd importance of their em ployment work. They do not lose sight of other work which is quite ns essentinl to the comfort of the returning soldier. FOU lustaiu-e. there is theii work at the pier. I'ntil quite recently the K. of C. sent secretaries back nnd forth between American and French ports on the troop ships. This lias been discontinued, three of the welfare organizations, the Y. M. C. A.. the K of C nnd the Jewish Welfare Board, combining, on the supply of standard gift packages which nre sent over to France and distributed on the way back by ship's officers. The secietnries arc on the job at every poit of debarkation on this side, greeting the men on incoming ships, welcoming them back to their own land, supplying them with the little luxuries that soldiers crave candy, chewing gum. tobacco and generally stnnd-tf ing in the position of guardian and next friend to them until they get back to home and mother. The secretaries stay on the job nt the wharf until every last man is on train board, nnd then train secretaries "ride the trains" with them to the demobillsration camp, handling any little bit of service work that the bojs may need on the way. In the camp other secretaries look after the sol diers' interests. And once demobilized, the labor units take the men in band and put them back in the ranks of wnge earners. In a word, the? do their dnrndest to live up to that slogan of "See 'em through." THERE are no end of stories humorous, pathetic, even tragic that the K. of C. secretaries can tell. A K. of C. man haB waked up Johnny's mother in South Phila delphia at 2 o'clock in the morning to tell her that her boy is mighty well, and sends his love and his mandolin. When the Twent.v eighth and Seventy ninth Divisions were coming in an open tele phone wire was maintained between Camp Dix and Philadelphia for the free use of re turning soldiers and their relatives. The most pathetic story told by the secre taries is about a ten-year-old boy who wanted to speak to his daddv nt Dix. The little fellow- got on the wire and his father recognized the familiar voice, "But why doesn't your mother come to the phone? the fcoldier asked, "She can't," the little fellow faltered, " 'cause she's burled out in Holy Cross and Mary's with her, and Maggie, and little Jimmy, too." Mother nnd three children had died of in fluenza. The father collapsed at the terrible news. When he was revived he asked the K. of C. to take care of the ten-year-old survivor until he could get out of the service. Neighbors had been looking after the bpy. The Knights of Columbus took charge of the child. It was part of the day's work. For without price, and without distinction of race or creed or color, they are In business to "See 'em through " Equality of the Bexes has now extended to automobile banditry. The kaiser is not yet dead sure whether he Is being preserved in Holland ln or trapped in it. Though these are prohibition days. there is much "small beer" q tbe United -"-' wis?- v-itv- x.- TKSsufcte "WHEW, THAT REMINDS ME; WONDER WITH THE KAISER!" TRAVELS IN PHILADELPHIA By Christopher Morley Stonehouse Lane and The Neck IT HAD been a very hot day. At seven o'clock the rich orange sunshine was still flooding straight down Chestnut street. The thought occurred to mo that it would be a splendid evening to sec the sunset over the level fena of The Neck.-tlmt curious canal country of South Philadelphia which so few of us know. Y OU take the Fourth street cor to tntn nnd Hitner. The wide space of .Mifflin Square is full of playing children. Here you halt to light n pipe. This is advisable, hh yoif will see in a moment. A couple of blocks south brings you to one of the most noxious areas of dump heaps and waste lit ters in the world. An expanse of evil-smelling junk smokes with a thiu haze of burning. Queer little wooden shacks, stnbles, pig pens, sit comfortably in n desert of tin cans and sour rubbish. You will noed your tobacco if you nre squeamish. In the shadow of moun tains of outcast scrap are tiny homes under dustv shade, where a patient old lady was sitting in a wheel chair rending a book. A winding track, inconceivably sordid, leads through fields of rank burdock, ashes, broken brick, rusty barrel hoops. Tw .an cient horses were grazing there, and there seemed a certain pathos in a white van I encountered at the crossing where Stonehouse lane goes over the freight tracks. The fro ion Compnny. it said, Remover of Dead Ani mals. Bl'T once acioss the railway you step into a new world, a country undreamed of by the uptown citizen. Oreen meadows lie under the pink sunset light. One-story white bouses, very small, but with yards swept clean nnd neat whitewashed fences, stand under poplars and willows. It is al most an incredible experience to come upon that odd little village hb one crosses a wooden bridge and sees boys fishing hope fully in a stagnant canal. At the bend in the lane is n trim white house with vivid flowers in the garden, beds patterned with whited shells, an old figurehead or is it a cigar-store sign? of a colored boy in a blue coat, freshly painted in the ynrd. It is like a country hamlet, full of dogs, hens, ducks nnd children. In the stable yards horses stand munching at the barn doors. Some of the little houses are painted red, brown and green. A girl in a faded blue pinafore comes up the road lead ng two white horses; a solitary cow trails along behind. LIKE every country village, Stonehouse lane has its own grocery store, a fasci nating little place where one can sit ort the porch and drink a bottle of lemon soda. This tiny shop is stuffed with all manner of provi sioning: it has one of the old-fashioned ,.-.. rrinders with two enormous flywheels. In the dusk, when the two oil lamps are lit and turned low on account of the heat, it shines with a line tawny light that would speak to the eye of n painter. A lamplighter comes alongkindling the gas burners, which twinkle down the long white lane. A rich essence of pig steeps in the air, but it is not unpalatable to one accustomed'to the country. As one sits on the porch of the store friendly dogs nose about one, and the village children tome with baskets to do the evening pur chasing. A map of the city gives one little help in explorlug this odd region of The Neck. Ac corilng to the' map one might believe that it 1b ill laid out and built up In rectilinear streets. As a matter of fact it is a spread of meadows, marshes and scummy canals, with winding lanes and paths stepping off ainqng clumpB of trees and quaint white cot tages half hidden among rushes, lilies and honeysuckle matting. Off to the east rlae the masts and wireless aerials or. league isianu. It is a strange land, with customs of its own, I.not to be discerned t right. Like alLsmali. KKrpriInaUt uIUm, af' tluf-lM 'feeiild; pities sharer vW identitj, it is proud and reserved. It Is a native American settlement: the children are flaxen nnd sturdy, their skin gilded with that amazing richness nnd beauty of color that conies to small urchins who play all day long iu the sun in scant garmenting. "VI'It another railway siding one passes s-' into the fens proper, nnd away from the village of Stonehouse lane. (I wonder, by the vvaj. what was the stone house which gave it the name? All the present cottages nre plainly wood.i Now one is in a country almost Dutch in aspect. It is seamed with canals and was probably nn island originally, for it is still spoken of as Greenwich Island. Along the canals are pnths, white and dusty iu the summer drought, very soft to walk upon. Great clumps' of thick old willows stand up against the low horizon. The light grows less steep as the sun sinks in a pow dery haze of rose nnd orange. In one of the canals, below n high embankment, half a dozen naked boys were bathing, attended by a joyous white dog. In that evening pink ness of light their bodies gleamed beauti fully. Through masses of flowering sumac, past thick copses and mosses of reeds, over broad fields of bird -song, narrow paths lead down to the river. In the warm savor of summer air if all seemed ns deserted and re freshing ns some Adirondack pasture. Then one stnnds nt the top of a little sandy bank nnd sees the great bend of the Delaware. Opposite is the mouth of Timber Creek, 'Walt Whitman's favorite pleasure haunt. A little lower down is League Island. One of the most fascinating dreams one could have is )f nil this broad fen-land as a great city playground. It is strange that Philadelphia has made so little use of the Delaware for purposes of public beauty. A landscape architect would go mad with joy if given the delightful task of planning The Neck as a park. It would take comparatively little effort to drain it properly and make It oue of the noblest pleasure grounds in the world. Will this wonderful strip of river bank be allowed to pass into slime and smoke as the lower Schuylkill has done? THE stream lap-laps agsinst a narrow shelf of sandy beach, where there are a number of logs for comforta.ble sitting. A water rat ran quietly up the bank as I slid down it. A steamer passed up the river, her windows aflame with the last of the sun light. Birds were merry in the scrub wil lows, nnd big dragon flies flittering about. The light grew softer and grayer, while a concave moon swung high over the water, Motorboats chugged gently by, while a big dredge further upstream continued to clang nnd "grind. By and by the river was empty. It had been a very hot day, nnd a great idea occurred to me. In the good old brownish water of the Delaware I had what my friend Mifflin McGill used to call a "surreptlous" swim. I.ef us hope that Congress will not allow the natioual budget system to get nipped in the bud. If the league of nations isn't a scrap of paper the Franco -American treaty is a work of supererogation. Even now that the peace treaty Is signed there are ever so many of us who know we could have drawn It up so much better. As a nation we are strong for business but how" many of our discharged soldiers have kept up their army insurance? With that $100,000 Jess Willard will be able to buy a beefsteak to reduce the svvelllDg of his eye. While Kusala is learning its lessons' in the hardesj school in the, 'world, it is not, WHAT THEY'LL DO 'l'il.,;:'? 'Am A f.i.i i .v I v , !?.fc BARTER BILLS of exchange and sight drafts fade afar. With tedious detail of the ocean trade; And dreaming I can see, past foam and bar. Primeval barter; in this eastern raid Essential oils and simsim seeds are spread For gleaming cutlery and iron bars; And eyes strain westward where the sun sinks red, Seeking n market under alien stars. Textiles nre nsked in trade for caraway, And coriander for enameled kid; In ardent Africa the merchants pray For roaring motors ; in their eager bid They offer almonds and pistachio And dates conveyed through distant decert haze On patient camels rocking to and fro, Through fnr, entrancing, slow Algerian --.days. Thos. J. Murray, in the New Tork Times. Old Sol also has been trying to break some records. Political fate is always cutting and shuffling for a new deal. The ex -kaiser has on his staff a fine bunch of alibi manufacturers. Fourth of July weather was tough on the young and tender. And to think that among all the presi dential bees there is only one honey-maker! The soda fountain man cuts some ice in the community these days. What Do You Knoiv? QUIZ 1. Where is Lake Itasca? 2. What great river has its source in it? 3. What Is tauromachy? 4. Of what state was Henry Clay a native? 5. What two great federal victories of the Civil War occurred within a day of each other? 0. Who wrote "Tales of a Traveler"? 1. Where Ib Tasmania, and of what com monwealth is it a part'.' 8. What are the three brightest planets ia our heavens? 0. How long was Napoleon exiled on the island of Elba? 10. In what city did Jess Willard defeat Jack Johnson. Answers to Saturday's Quiz 1. Major Scott is in command of the huge British dirigible R-34. 2. William Phillips, of Massachusetts, is acting secretary of state. 3. A gloss Is a word inserted between lines or in margin to explain a word or words in the text; comment ex planation. Apart from its ordinary meaning of superficial luster, the word also means misrepresentation of an1! other'B words, glossary, interlinear translation, set of notes, 4. Brazil derives Its name from the Brazil wood trees, which Cabral, the dis coverer, found in profusion there. 8, Tobias Smollet wrote "Ceregrine Pickle." 6. Rhode Island for many years had two capitals, Providence and Newport. 7. The ordinary English name for the drink which Americans call ale Is beer, 8. There were' fifty-six signers to the,, m L3 5 Tit'.'' 1 m wz& "b urn ' ? J J.r-t uc-ciaraiiuu oi juuciicuucuci:, n 0. The naval victory of Santiago de Cubs? "1 In which the American fleet defeatwJ - that' of, Spain under Crvera, Mi.n'rii ijyti-Hw l."l';.nv'4 iiwmHi'ia- . ,fe tfgSi'V.V U? ' 4.' i" . ,.f. --, -iY l9(tUfM. 4 -i ' - " - ' ji..IH1BHHHH
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