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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&.,
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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
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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
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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
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"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,
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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,,
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