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GOVERNOR SPKOUL is not a resident
of Philadelphia and, however much
he may be interested in the coming
mayoralty election, he has announced
that he does not intend to interfere in
any way whatsoever in the selection of a
candidate. He is canny in this respect.
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fu V - i liUt UlU UUMUt'n V4 Hiu uutiinn
I. ro interfere in local fiphts. Once he be-
I' cvitn Tin -vvnulrl Vinvo his linncte: co full thnt
l'. ij i ... i!. . !-.. r... .u 1
n wouia nave no time ieii. ioi uic mai
business of his office. Moreover, he
would accumulate a larfjc and varied as
sortment of political enemies.
THE LOAN AND THE CHARTER
IT WAS some one hunting for a mare's
..nest who put forth the proposition that
the provisions of the new charter govern
the acts of City Councils before the char
ter itself goes into effect.
The power of Councils to make loans
for Vork which the new charter says
mustxbe paid for out of current revenues
is therefore disputed.
, The suggestion is ridiculous. Councils
act under the present charter in all re
spects until July 25, when some of the
provisions of the new law go into effect.
li Until' that date Councils may act as
T-tnougn there had been no ciiange in the
lW. When it authorizes a loan that loan
rufts..against the debt-incurring power of
the city, regardless of when the money
is actually borrowed. There have been
. numerous court decisions on this point.
. This is aside from the wisdom of bor-
rowing money to pay lor repairs to the
streets or to public buildings. Common
Council, in indorsing the loan for repairs,
"v-has'shown bad judgment, but it has not
exceeded its power. Fortunately, after
the end of this monti it will not have the
power to indulge in such unsound finan
cial methods.
OPEN THE CAN
, rpHE government has lare quantities
of food bought for the armies which
it will not need. It is charged that by
syjreement with the canners it refrained
. from selling $100,000,000 worth of canned
vegetables "so as not to disturb the mar
ket" This is a serious charge. If it were
made against private citizens it would be
followed by their appearance in court as
defendants in a suit brought by the gov
ernment accusing them with a conspiracy
in restraint of trade.
If government agents have been con
niving to protect the market for the
benefit of the canners the country wants
to know it.
The lid cannot be pried off the can too
tjuickly. The people want to know what
is inside.
THE JERSEY PENDULUM
jla TFHALP of the rumors that float across
the Delaware are to be accepted as
truth, the unexpected is happening in
New Jersey politics and Jim Nugent, of
Newark, is gaining strength as the
Democratic candidate for the governor
ship on a platform opposed to prohibi
tion, woman suffrage and every other
principle of what we have come to regard
as advanced legislation.
Mr. Nucrent atmears to bo sunrmrtnH
H not only by the same Democrats who, a
few years ago, were the vociferous propa-
ft tjandists of sweetness and light and the
jft political idealism of an exalted leader.
i,, The Republicans, too, seem td be tcm-
"f poraruy mscinaieo. oy me piain-spoKen
jjijf boss from Newark. They arc drifting to
M ward him in secret, if reports are to be
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believed. They find some bort of mystic
appeal in that side of Mr. Nugent's na
ture which abhors the thoughts of woman
suffrage, dry years and meticulous elec
tion methods. Mr. Nugent's opponents
) areT alarmed and they nre saying so
jranKiy.
j," Ne Jersey is worth watching.
Jijfrphets and seers in politics have pre
afefnd, reactions from our present en
itWaiasm for uplift by force. The eon-
J'ldition in Jersey suggests that that state
y serve us a suit 01 national political
roineter for the time at least. And we
W to thank Mr. Nugent's Democrats
W stunning exhibition of the celerity
.which a political faction can change
dnd and its convictions when offices
)t stake.
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rJlTHIlN President McKinley submitted
I 1i- e Senate the treaty of peace with
Jt' Hill ?Gfl.jr j,im 2v mt. H.ii. ik ku b..
' f-itptfcol' by a messenger and the Senate
JWDjrn-l it behind closed doors and de
1 StihitHiin secret
I - -'- - - U'llnnn fnilair irnoi in (Via
eVUVil ! Mevii iwmij ,wv0 iu viiu
1 In .nursort. carrvlnt? with him the
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pfW3,with Germany, and in
open session he delivers the document
nnd sets forth tho reasons Wch led him
as tho primary agent of the government
In negotiating treaties to agree to the
conditions laid down.
Secrecy has been abandoned. The na
tion knows what the treaty contains and
it will know the reasons which lead to the
nction of the Senate when it finally votes.
The discussions in Paris may have been
behind closed doors, but the discussions
in Washington will be in the hearing of
nil the world. They began weeks ago
and they arc likely to coptinue for weeks
to come.
This is well. The whole nation should
know what reasons the senators may ad
vance for their support or opposition to
the treaty. The debate will not be con
fined to Washington, for wherever
serious-minded men come together the
validity of the arguments of the senators
will be examined. In the end it will be
the nation acting through the Senate
which will ratify.
POPULAR WILL IS SCORING
OVER POLITICAL GAMES
Difficulties of Republican Strategy Have
Given to Wl'ld Men a Specious Prom
inence Which Can Be Countered
With Credit to Party
THE brightening prospects in the Sen
ate for the league of nations and the
peace treaty are not properly to be con
strued either as a blanket indictment of
Republican fully or as sweeping evidence
of Democratic wisdom. What the in
creasing auguries of the covenant In
dorsement plainlj do emphasize is the
ultimate soundness of public opinion.
Popular sentiment unquestionably
favors the pact of international partner
ship unamended and unweakened. Popu
lar sentiment, urges speedy ratification
of the Versailles treaty. But the shift
and interplay of politics are not reducible
to such simple terms.
Party maneuvering is a subtle and
complex game. It is a match in which
such players as are strictly professional
seldom wrap themselves in mantles of
irreproachable idealism, a conflict in
which expediency is a prime factor and
sophistication a governing principle.
Naive party loyalty has for nearly a
century and a half been industriously
capitalized by American partisan lead
ers. Hut as a solvent of the political
cryptogram it is without value. Any
evidence submitted in 1800 to prove that
Adams Federalism was all white and Jef
fersonian Democracy all black, or vice
vcisa, was spurious.
Neither a stainless nor a wholly spot
ted Republicanism exists today. Nor is.
Democracy as it is played at the Capitol
a complete symbol of perfection or a
sign-manual of infamy. Like most cats,
politicians are gray, and their indefati
gable efforts to see more in the dark than
their opponents beget the intricacies of
partisanship.
That the nation has survived such tac
tics is due, of course, to the basic prin
ciple of representative government, which
in the end renders the legislative spokes
man responsible to his constituents. If
the system isn't perfect it is st least
workable.
It is, however, repeatedly productive of
situations mystifying to the ingenuous
observer. Thus if one ignores the classic
rules of politics there is the superficial
semblance of fatuity in the Republican
reactions against the league idea and
the picture of perspicacity in the Demo
cratic line-up. As a matter of fact, the
whole scene at Washington is one of
strategy, in which considerations of the
highest morality have played a relatively
small part. It is impossible for politics,
to be intelligible unless realistically
treated as such.
The Republican majority in the Senate
has by no means proved an unmixed
blessing to the party. The simple fact
of its existence made for confidence and
the determination to assert control. On
the other hand, the tiny margin of nu
merical superiority two votes rendered
the least dissension m the ranks a source
of immediate peril.
Mr. Lodge has been accused of leader
ship at once bungling and truculent. The
charge cannot be disallowed. Neverthe
less, the difficulties which beset the path
of the self-constituted harmonizer were
formidable, and apparently they were
magnified by his own realization of his
plight.
This consciousness of the problem
played directly and, from the political
standpoint, disastrously into the hands
of the wild men of tho West. William
E. Borah and Hiram Johnson, who might
have been impotent factors for mischief
had the Senate been overwhelmingly Re
publican, became increasingly disturbing
elements in any program aiming at a
sane party policy and successful party
politics.
How much the effort of conservative
Republicans to prevent such a split in the
party as wrecked it in the past governed
the original stand on the League of Na
tions and how much the opposition as
expressed in the "round robin" was forti
fied by sincere conviction are not easily
determinable.
But many things have happened since
last March. Those specific objections to
the first draft of the covenant which were
valid are inoperative against the com
pleted document.
Mr. Taft has crusaded untiringly for
the pact Mr. Root has indorsed it in
principle at least. Mr. Wickersham and
Doctor Lowell are among its stalwart
champions. Some of the finest and intel
lectually the strongest elements in Re
publicanism are outspokenly cognizant
of its worth.
And yet the political drama in the Sen-'
ate continues up to what appears to be
the brink of defeat.
Mr. Knox has made a foolish exhibi
tion of himself; Mr? Fall, ditto. Mr.
Lodge's alleged captaincy is seriously
clouded. The coveted harmony suggests
that of the lost chord. The Democrats,
the minority party in the upper house,
plume themselves on a forthcoming vic
tory. In reality their, role was easy, PcliU-
cal preferment advantages have helped to
keep them, with tho exception of the im
possible Reed, of Missouri, solidly in line
with the presidential policy. Doubtless
honest convictions operated also, but
purely selfish instincts are never negli
gible. Response to them is neither pecu
liarly Democratic nor peculiarly Republi
can. It Is politically true.
The net result of the various interlock
ing circumstances will almost certainly
be good, for the treaty seems destined
for ratification. But what Republicans
who for years have had faith in the gen
eral policies of their spokesmen would be
glad to know is that their party has not
been seriously damaged in the conflict.
There are more reasonable hopes than
superficially appear. Analysis of the
senatorial situation will reveal that noisy
upstarts like the wild men, fumbling
dialecticians like Mr. Knox and a hate
blinded, if otherwise able, statesman like
Mr. Lodge, have been monopolizing the
attention of intelligent patriotic Repub
licans. What most of the senators of the ma
jority party think about the revised cove
nant has not been expressed. The "round
robin" is obsolete. Mr. Penrose, past
master of expediency, has been silent
since he perpetrated his star error during
the week of the Knox tirades. McCum
ber, of North Dakota, has been explicitly
for the league.
Various appraisements of the Wash
ington situation agree that thinking Re
publican senators have begun to be in
fluential. The Borah melodrama is ap
parently heading for the cheap circuit
Meanwhile the Taft troupes arc augment
ing in popularity and power.
It is unfair sweepingly to ascribe
league indorsement to Democracy and
league denunciation to Republicanism.
Out of the familiar welter of politics,
which should alarm only those who be
lieve America a failure, comes the mighty
pressure of public opinion which gives
to the congressional strategy game its
true proportions.
It is a fascinating fray, replete with
"secondary intentions" and hidden obli
gations. There is an excellent chance that the
way in which it has been played will per
manently impair neither the vitality of
the Republican party nor turn awry the
great destinj of the American people.
SEA NAVIGATION'S LAST LAUREL
VX'HEN the R-34 completes her return
' trip tho distinction of being the me
dium for transatlantic speed passage will
have departed from the sea. Until that
eastward voyage is successfully made by
the giant blimp, however, one record of
the many of which the old ocean is proud
will stand. It is distinctly in line with
the most gal'anl seafaring traditions that
this achievement was registered on the
very day when the dirigible which Major
Scott commanded landed at Mineola.
On that same eventful Sunday the
American transport Great Northern
ended the record round-trip Atlantic voy
age. Neither in the air nor in the water
has her feat of consuming but twelve
days, eight hours and thirty-five minutes
from America to Europe and back been
equaled.
Considering that as long ago as 1909
thij Mauretania made the run from
Queenstown to New York in a little under
four days and ten hours, the Great
Northern's performance may seem to
lack sensation. But the shuttle ferry was
not in operation in antebellum days and
it was usually at least a fortnight before
any vessel completed an "excursion trip."
It is interesting to recall that the
Great Northern is a Philadelphia prod
uct, launched on the Delaware in 1914.
She has been the greyhound of the trans
port sen-ice and is now likely to go down
in history as the Inst ocean-plying vessel
whose fleetness has not been revealed as
snail-like compared with the prodigious
hustling in the vault above.
TESTS OF HEROISM
"PVERYBODY in England," said Lord
Weir to the home folks when he
landed at London a day or two ago after
a long visit in the United States, "must
work, and work damned hard!"
It is plain that many members of tho
nobility in Europe are at an intellectual
and spiritual crisis. One might even
venture so far as to presume that his
lordship has achieved a job.
Tlie Ilritish (iovcrn
Easy to Answer incut recently volt fif
teen million yards of
balloon cloth to n printe firm, and the In
quirinB One is puzzled to know what will be
manufactured from it. That's easy ior a
Cockney 'nir mattresses.
We nre solemnly as.
Golng Lp! .urecl that there will
be no reduction in the
price of the article as n result of the govern
ment's Intention to sell .11,000,000 pounds of
surplus sugar held by the AVnr Department.
Ilut, blesa you, we never even thought of
such a thing. Nowadays we look for nothing
but a rise.
The war has done
Better Than much good by indirec-
Great Riches tion. Tt is responsi
ble, for in.stnnoe, for
the setting aside of $100,000 for the re
habilitation of men injured in mines, mills
and factories. Aforetime they were thrown
on the scrnp heap to become objects of
charity ; now they will be taught to earn their
own living and thus retain their belf-respect.
The fiirl,' Patriotic
Taking Time by League of Uryn Mawr
the Forelock has begun a series of
weekly meetings to
prepare for a Christmas paity for the benefit
of the Philadelphia settlement houses. The
girls are making paper dolls nnd furnishing
dolls' houses and having a dance or two on
the side. When, about November 1, agents
of Hanta Claus begin to cry, "Do your
Christmas shopping early!" they will have
an answer ready.
Canned goods are going up, according to
advices from Chicago. If they go too high
the public will can 'em.
The declaration of the crown prince that
the Allies will get only his dead body is not
a threat but a promise.
"Ersatz" has so long been the slogan of
the Germans that one ceases to wonder that
substitutes for the' ex. kaiser have become a
drug on the market. .
THE GOWNSMAN
A Case of Arrested Development
SO TRACK has come at last, and Ger
many, after many wry faces and protes
tations, hns signed n treaty which Is verily
the bitter fruit of thc'deadly tree of predatory
war which she planted. That the treaty is
substantially just, few save Germans arc
likely to deny. Full reparation Is vastly be
yond nny human power; but reparation so
,fnr ns possible is the essence of elemental
justice, nnd it is just this reluctance to re
pair the evil done, this recalcitrancy to abide
by the Inevitable, to take the medicine, to
use n homely phrase, which distinguishes tho
Ger'man whipped from most other men In a
similar predicament. The German is a bad
sport! Before the game he Is cocksure nnd
boastful ; in success he Is ungenerous and
overbearing; when he loses he sulks and
grumbles nnd questions the decisions of the
referee.
IT WOULD seem that this, with the Ger
man callousness and the worse things that
came of it, were born of his darling doctrine,
Ingrained for generations, that of German
superiority in nil things, no mntter what.
This begot nn intolerance, fittingly to be de
scribed only by the favorite German word,
"colossal."' In small things hr in great the
German way was the right way, any varia
tion from it preposterous and a certain evi
dence of Inferiority. The German in writing
an address gives first the country, then the
city, next the street, followed by the num
ber. "How ridiculous!" is his exclnmatlon
at the inverse order of our usage, as though
it mattered in the least. The Lilliputians
were divided into two parties, nt deadly en
mity ns to whether it wns proper to break an
egg on the big end or the little. And the
Little-endians ostracized the Rig-endlans,
In Germany there is serious question, of your
breeding if j ou crack nn egg with a spoon;
even more, should you stand it on the table
ns did Columbus. Ym must cut it across
with a knife; that is the German and there
fore the only wny.
BE SELF-COMPLACENT and at the
same time strong of will, and the gods
may grant you talent, cleverness. Industry
nnd all other gifts that make for success in
the world, and ultimate success will not be
yours. The self-complacent man, however
strong he may be, is built of a material which
is lacking in temper. He may break nt last,
but he will not bend, for of suppleness and
adaptability to conditions which arc outward
he hns nothing and he will not learn. It
seems unwarranted to cnll the Germnn un
imaginative with his imposing, if vulgar,
dream of universal empire, in which, after
a short, effective nnd therefore frankly brutal
triumph, when he had become master of the
world, he was to mete out German kulttir
to the subject races in proportion ns their
inferiority might be able to receive that
beneficent hnlm to their slavery. But all
this the veriest barbarian could learn from
the column of Trnjan or any Romnn tri
umphal arch. The Germnn is unimaginative
beenup he lacks the first condition of the
imaginative way of looking at things, and
that is the simple ability to put yourself in
another's place.
AND now Germany is having trouble with
the role of a defeated nation. It does
not seem natural or proper to be the under
dog; and it is abominably disconcerting But
ns to this, it is always to be remembered that,
however outrageously the German people wns
mi-led by its military caste, it was only too
willing to be so misled, with the possessions
of ronquered enemies in view nnd that
"higher use" to which Germany felt thnt Bhe
wns called upon to put those possessions in
bright prospect. It is esy to understand a
war-lord mad to try the efficiency of his toys
of war in actual conflict. And it is easy to
understand Reynard the Diplnmnt, trained to
a game of chicanery In which provinces are
the stakes. What Is more difficult is to grasp
the attitude of enthusiastic assent to all this
by Germans whose status in the world of
science nnd letters might have given them a
more humanitarian outlook. And could there
be found in England, France or America any
body of manufacturers and men of business
who would have lent themselves to a plan
for the deliberate destruction of the machin
ery of their rivals? Or are there women in
other countries who could receive with de
light the loot sent home by their marauding
husbands nnd brothers, the household goods,
furniture, even the wearing apparel of their
sisters in Frame nnd Belgium?
NOvf the destruction of your neighbor's
property that you may beat him in trade
is a medieval idea ; and so is warfare for loot,
with its attendant brutnlity, its incidental
enslavement of nnncombntants and the rest
of the horrid cntegory with which we nre nil
so familiar. Medieval survivals, too, are
nb-olute monarchy, with its foolish state,
punctillious distinction nnd titles in all
grades of society, a nobility of landowners
nnd war-lords, the enslnvement of the mosses
whether on the land or in factories, to say
nothing of such social customs ns dueling,
the solemn and protracted pleasures of the
table, always a social function in Germany,
and many other things. German polity up
to the time of the war had about reached the
days of James I in England or Louis XIII
of France. Germany hns still far to go to
English (ommonwealth times or to a verita
ble revolution like that of France. Shall we
say, without too far stretching n point, that
German humor tends to the grotesque and
the coarse, both medieval characteristics;
that German sentiment is notoriously apt to
slop over; that even Germany's boasted
scholarship has in it more thanthe remnants
of medieval pedantry? But enough.
HERE is your Gownsman's theory : The
strange and perverted psychology of the
people which plunged the world into this re
cent cataclysm of war is referable to the
circumstance that the Germans "have been,
politically, socially nnd morally, laggards in
the intricate errors of the middle ages while
the rest of the world lias moved on ; that
they have remained, despite all their clever
ness nnd success in many of the ways of
modern life, essentially a people of provincial
spirit, not so much, after all, perverted or
misled as compelled bv their elemental and
quite uncivilized self-complacency to remain
unmnnumitted and slaves to the past. In a
word, the Germans appear to present, In
more senses than one, a remarkable case of
arrested development.
He Dearly Loves a Fight
Frnnk II. SImonds, author of the "His
tory of the World AVar," on his return re
cently from Paris and the Peace Conference
told this story about his six-year-old sou.
His nurse produced a book to read aloud to
the small boy. Before she opened it, he in
quired :
"Is there any fighting in it?"
"No, dear," replied the nurse.
"Isn't there even a disagreement?" young
SImonds asked in tones of disappointment.
Villa bnnds are BtlU playing ragtime on
the border.
Suffrage Polly has no reason to love the
Georgia cracker.
Rumors of Burleson's resignation may
be labeled "Not yet but soon."
Queer, Isn't it, how names lose their
nrtfflnnl mesnlnrs? PrnrreaalvA T....wii
J cans, for instance
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THE CHAFFING DISH
They Don't Play In the Morning
The story Is that In the days of the In
tense Unpopularity In England of T.loyil
George, the customary greeting In clubs
and on the links was, "Good morning.
Damn Lloyd George !" New York Evening
Post.
This, however, did not prevent Lloyd
George from becoming prime minister. For
the people who win elections don't usually
get out to the links until late in the after
noon, if at all.
When we were a commuter we used to
think thnt it would be a touch of realism to
give instructions in our will to have the
coffin lined with green plush.
Every now and then we hear some sugges
tions for reforming the calendar. Our own
Idea would be to name the months after our
favorite foods, according to their seasonable
ness. For instance, January would be
christened Hotdog, February would be
Wheatcake, and so on. The Socratean cal
endar would run thus :
Hotdog (January I
Wheatcake ( February 'i
Cornpone (March)
Grapefruit (April)
Rhubarb (May)
Strawberry (June)
Shrimp (July)
Shandygaff (August i
Greencorn. (September)
Punkin (October)
Oyster (November)
Mincepie (December)
A City Notebook
It would be hard to find a more lovely spot
in the flush of a summer sunset than Wister
Woods. Old residents of the neighborhood
say that the trees are not what they were
fifteen and twenty years ago; th chestnuts
have died off; even some of the tall ttllip
poplars nre a little bald at the top, and one
was recently felled by a gale. But still that
quiet plateau stands in a serene hush, flooded
with rich orange glow on a warm evening.
The hollyhocks in the back gardens of Rubi
cam btreet nre scarlet and cheese-colored and
black ; nnd looking across the railroad ravine
one sees crypts nnd aisles of green as though
in the heart of some cathedral of the great
woods.
Relfield avenue, which bends through
the valley in a curve of warm thick yellow
dust, will some day be boulevarded Into a
spick-and-span highway for motors. But
now it lies little trafficked, nnd one might
prefer to have it so, for in the stillness of the
evening the birds are eloquent. The thrushes
of Svistcr Woods, which have been Immor
talized in perhnps the loveliest poem ever
written in Philadelphia, flute and whistle
their tantalizing note, while the song sparrow
echoes them with his confident challenging
cajl. Down behind the dusty sumac shrub
bery lies the little blue-green cottage said to
have been used by Benjamin West as a
studio. In a meadow beside the road two
cows were grazing in the blue shadow of
overhanging woodland.
Over the road leans a flat outcrop of stone,
known locally as "The Rum's Rock." An
antique philosopher of those parts assured the
wayfarer that it is named for a romantic
vagabond who perished there by the explosion
of a can of Bohemian goulash which he was
heating over a small fire of sticks; but one
doubts the tale. Our own conjecture Is that
it is named for Jacob Boehm, the oldtime
brewer of Germantown, who predicted in
his chronicles thnt the world would come to
an end in July, 1010, From his point of
view he was not so far wrong.
Above Boehm's Rock, In a grassy level
among the trees, a merry little circle of young
ladies was sitting round a picnic ' supper.
The twilight grew darker jind fireflies began
to twinkle. In the steep curve of the Cinder
and Bloodshot (between Fisher's and Wister
Stations) a cheerful train rumbled, with its
engine running backward just like a country
local. Its bright shaft of light wavered
Ji amoug the tall tree trunks. One -would not
ACCORDING TO REPORT
imagine that it was less than six miles to
the City Hall.
We were sitting on Sixth street, having
our shoes shined by nn Italinn youngster.
Three small boys went by, talking eagerly.
One of them said, "Aw. don't you know that
Belgium did more fighting than any of 'cm,
and lost more soldiers?"
The Itnlian lad looked up from burnishing
our buskins and cried angrily: "Did you
hear them kids? They don't know any more
about the war than a chicken."
We were about to ask him for his idea on
the subject, but at that moment along came
our friend Wilbur Thomas to remark that he
was going to send us a list of precepts on the
bringing up of I'rchins, n list which wa3
handed down to him in his stern New Eng
land youth.
The' Lawyer's Intocation to Spring
Blackstone writes asking us to reprint
"the famous poem representing a lawyer's
thoughts on spring." Presumably he has in
mind the. following, which wns 'written by
Henry Howard Brownell (1S20-72) :
Whereas, on certain bouplia and spras
Now divers birds are heard to spring,
And sundry flowers their heads upraise.
Hall to the comlnff on of sprlngl
The songs of those said birds arouse
The memorv of our youthful hours,
As green as those said sprays and boushs.
As fresh and sneet as those said flowers.
The blrd aforesaid happy pairs
I.OVB mid the aforesaid bouffhs, enshrines
In freehold rests;, themaehes. their heirs, ,
Administrators, and assigns.
O busiest term of Cupid's court.
Where tender plalntlrfs actions bring
Season of frolic and of sport,
Hall, as aforesaid, romlns; Sprlns1
HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL.
As to the Urchin
Wo hnve received nn inquiry as to the
present felicity and nmbitions of the Urchin.
In reply to same would state that the Urchin,
having had nn extremely small bathing suit
abbreviated to meet the requirements of his
limbs, is engaged in remodeling the Jersey
sand benches with the customary implements
of a shovel and miniature tin pail. His
treasure trove during one afternoon's beach
ing recently consisted of a dead dragonfly,
three crabs, two shrimps, several large shells
and two very smnll hoptoads. We built a
large sand mountain for him nnd pierced It
with a cunningly nrtificed tunnel. The
Urchin was Inconsolable because he could
not take the tunnel home with him.
He is still convinced (after several visits
to the Zoo) that he is a llama, and his
favorite game is to contest the honors of
llamaship with any one who will pretend to
be a tiger. We do not like to think of the
sad disillusion when he realizes that he is
not a llama at all, but only a human being.
We arc not worrying about the kaiser's
punishment. Vrouw Bentinck undoubtedly
has the matter in hand. SOCRATES.
WILSON THE CONCILIATOR
The President Should Seek to Persuade,
Not Coerce", His Opponents
Mr. Wilson can hardly fail to be aware
of the marked loss which has come to his
former prestige. This Is both personal and
political. The high" repute in which his
authority was held nt the signing of the
armistice last November has been grievously
diminished. It may not be wholly his fault.
Hut the fact is undeniable. No one who
makes it his study to ascertain what men
and women are thinking and saying can be
in doubt that a sort of anti-Wilson in
fluenza haB been ravaging the country. The
story is that in the days of the intense un
popularity In England of Lloyd George, the
customary greeting in clubs andton the links
was: "Good morning. Damn Lloyd
George." A similar conventional dislike
and depreciation of Mr. Wilson Iirb spread
from group to group of Americans.' About
whatever else they may differ, they could
agree .tha,t, tfc President hud tocn making '
""WSi
a mess of it. A slight reaction in bis favor
has doubtless been caused by the excesses of
abuse indulged in by the Republicans in the
Senate, but it remains true that Mr. Wilson
has to face the fact thnt he has lost much of
his personal hold upon his fellow-citizens.
His first endeavor should be to strive to re
gain it.
The adverse sentiment which hah had such
wide expression may be largely unreasonable.
But it is explicable. People have felt that
the President wns too headstrong, too In
tolerant, too oracular. They have thought
him secretive, aloof, out of touch with the
trend of popular feeling and of congres
sional temper, and all this at a time when a
policy of good understandings and of con
ciliation was obvious wisdom. We do not
say that these complaints are altogether well
founded. But they have been made made
repeatedly. And the undeniable element of
truth in them should now suggest to Mr.
Wilson the ready means of winning his way
back into the full esteem and confidence of
his countrymen. He is a master of speech.
Let him now show himself a master of per
suasion. That Mr. Wilson possesses the mental re
sources to meet and conquer his novel and
difficult situation, there is no reason to
doubt. It is not a question of ability so
much as of manner. No one can be more
gracious than tho President when he chooses ;
no one franker or more adroit in suggesting
ways out of deadlocks. Acerbity of utter
ance should have no place. The stress should
be given not to authority but to appeal.
And anything like a party color should be
avoided like the plague. There Is embittered
Republican opposition to the treaty, but the
great mass of Republicans are ready to be
persuaded to its support. That is mainly
the President's task. We hope to see him
essay it with gravity, as becomes the high,
matter, jet with open hand and heart, ready
to confess disappointments, to admit im
perfections, while insisting upon the funda
mentals in the great labor of securing a just
and lasting pencc.for the whole world, New
York Evening Post.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. How many boroughs compose Greater
New York and what are their names?
2. How many Vice Presidents of the United
States became President?
3. What is a deodar?
4. Who waB the original "Old Probs"?
5. Who was called the "Lord of Irony"?
0. What is the native name for the Island
of Formosa?
What Is the plural of the word incubus?
Who was Goya?
What is an integer?
What animal is sometimes called a
cygnet?
Answers to Yesterday's Quz
1. The present seat of Admiral Kolchak's
government is Omsk, Siberia.
2. The inference in time between New
York and London is five hours.
3, Joseph Grlmaldl was a celebrated clown
of Italian descent. JIls dates 'are
1770-1837. Charles Dickens wrote his
life.
4, In political parlance a henchman Is a
supporter of a leader.
D. Korea was formerly called the "Hermit
Nation."
0. "The philosophy of one century Is the
common fcense of the next," is by
Henry Ward Beccher in "Life
Thoughts."
7. There are ninety-sir United' Stages sen-
ators."
8. Gorglo is the gypsy word for nm
jypsy.
0. Mozart was a native of the city o! Sals
burg, Austria..
20. Recitative in opera is musical declam&r
tion as distinguished from arias, dupta
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