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I'hiladrlphla. t,M. Jul) II. 1111
' THE NEW COMMISSIONERS
OF THE new registration commission
George G. Pierie and William WaHl,
the hold-over Republicans, are admittod'v
supporter.-, of Senator Vare.
Clinton Rogers Woodruff, independent
Republican, and Ignatius A. Quiiin.
Democrat, new appointees, are generally
believed to be in sympathy with the Pen
rose wing.
E. Lawrence Pell, the fifth member,
whose post was created by the new law,
is a personal friend of the Governor and
has tahen no active part in politics. He
is a man of high standing and it is be
lieved that when the Peniose and Vaie
men on the commission take opposite
sides of a question the Governor, thumgh
him, will have the deciding vote.
This is the way the politicians look at
the matter. The lest of us are hoping
that all five members will legaid them
selves as representatives of all the peo
ple, commissioned to insure the fairest
possible registration of all the voters.
SPEAKING OF THE MAYORALTY
T HAVENT given the mayoralty se-
rious thought." said Freeland Keu
drick. Assuming that Mr. Kendnck will not
change his habit of mind and looking
backward over the records of a good
many previous Mayors, is it fair to say
that here is an ideal candidate for the
office?
COUNCILS AND THE POLICE
CITY COUNCILS, in their relations
, ,.. with the police department, have often
ij? behaved as if that overworked and es
sential orancn or tne municipal service
were a useless luxury.
When theie is a deficiency in the mu
nicipal pension fund, for example. Coun
cils appropriate funds to meet the short
age. The police, on the othei hand, have
,to work oveitime without pay and meet
deficiencies through individual assess
ments, band concerts by then own or
ganization and an annual carnival. They
are compelled each year to peddle their
carnival tickets in their off time and even
while they are on duty. Councils reluc
tantly contribute $(!0,000 a year to the
police pension fund. The annual dis
bursements from this same fund have re
cently approximated $300,000.
It is logical to suppose that men in a
service that is consistently overdriven
and underpaid would be spaied the hu
miliation that attends the annual sale of
carnival tickets. Their show is worth
seeing. Admission cards ought to be dis
posed of through the usual channels.
The present system, which would be un
necessary if the city did the decent thing
and appropriated half of the money
needed each year for the pension fund,
imposes an additional hardship on the
members of a department that is already
handicapped by the niggaidliness of
Councils, by defective management and a
diminished personnel.
GERMANY'S ONE TRIUMPH!
TT IS plain now that the term of war-
time prohibition in the United States
will be fixed by the Germans in Geimany.
This was made clear between the lines of
President Wilson's statement to the
Washington correspondents yesterday.
Those who still hope for a "wet" interval
before the national prohibition amend
ment becomes operative in January must
look toward Berlin and the Rhine.
The troublesome old Hun still holds a
lot of war munitions enough to equip a
good-sized army and send it to the field.
Under the terms of the peace treaty the
jil Berlin government is allowed from one to
l.'iwaA- fi,v mnnllio tn rnmnlntn ft-... ...nx ..e
h . jj,ihis dangerous stuff to Allied territory.
ivjp.JVIeanwhile American soldiers must stay
S&Win ihe Rhine regions with the other occu-
- national forces. And, of course, there
: if ' can be no formal order of demobilization.
This order is necessary, as things stand
E' 'ti' now, before the President may lift the
fjwM liquor ban.
if Congress passed the buck to the Presi-
r'vscient. Ana now tne f resident deft v re.
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t"J&' A PARK MYSTERY ENDED
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A THE city's interests have been sanely
'??? '". safeguarded by Mayor Smith in his
!g7Vqpuaiaiion or me mysterious ana un-
v; .-businesslike methods' characterizing the
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.IdMion of the Park near Wissahickon
f avtiiue and Carpenter street.
r,Th origin of the plan eeems to have
feiMa enveloped in haze. The execution of
' 'tti klch ;wouhl have involved purchase of
tt iwnaH!1 w?f mc uuroen o a.
odds with sound principles of municipal
finance.
While it is desirable that the Park
Commission shall make the best of oppor
tunities for increasing the people's pleas
ure ground, it is equally exigent that
directness nrjd a clatity of method shall
fortify its endeavors. It is a simple mat
ter for the cfty to acquit e put chasuble
land for the Park when the treasury is
equal to buying it outright.
Postpohrment is the wine course in the
present imtunce. and when suggestions
for other extensions come it is to be
hoped that the memories of the pioposors
will function with straightforward e
plicitness and dispatch.
CONCILIATION IS KEYNOTE
OF WILSON'S ADDRESS
i Offer of Co-operation With the Senate
Opens Way for Speedy Ratification
j , of Treaty and Peace
, pROPERLY to appraise the Piesident's
j address to the Senate it is necessary
l consider the circumstances under
winch it was made.
Theie has been an active and virulent
' Bimoiity in Washington bitterly attack
j mg the league-of-nations covenant. It
has been accusing the Piesident of en
I twining that league covenant so closely
I it to the strands of the whole agreement
tint the Senate would be foiced to accept
i it 01 to i eject the tieaty itself. It has
' lipen denouncing the covenant as un
I Vmerican and sutiversne of our ronstitu
I tmnai liberty of action
l In this minority there hae been men
i vthn have been bitterly hostile to the.
I'lcsulent himself with a hostility both
peisonal and political.
The members of this minouty weie in
the audience befoie which he spoke.
Some of them are members of the Senate
itself, which is asked to latify the tieaty.
New, the thing which the President
desiies is the latitication of the treaty.
He could demand it With an assumption
of authority, oi he could set foi th the con
ditions under which it was drafted, the
difficulties which had to be oveicome arid
the expedients adopted to meet the diffi
culties, and explain that, while it was not
a perfect instiument noi siu-h an instru
ment as anj one of the negotiators, left
to himself, would have drafted, yet it
piovided a woikab'e plan.
Mr. Wilson chose this Iattei couise of
argumentative and explanatory concilia
tion. In his fifth sentence he offered to
the Senate all the information he had and
said he was at the disposal of its com
mittee on foreign lelations at any time,
either informally or in formal session.
And he hoped that theie would be no hesi
tation m calling on him after the com
mittee had had time to study the docu
ment. This is the attitude which the count r
has been hoping the President would an
ytime. It has been hoping that contem
plation of the magnitude of the task to
be accomplished and the gieat national
obligations to be shouldered had so
sobered and broadened him that he would
gladly co-operate with the legislative
branch in the consummation of the woik.
This teems to have happened.
The address was a plea for the league
of nations. All the lest of it was a meie
setting for that plea. There was nothing
new in it. He has said it many times
befoie. It has been -iiul in the columns
of this and otjier newspapers time after
time. And it will have to be lepeated
again and again.
The peace commissioners wele not
friendly to the league idea at the begin
ning. It was Contrary to their habits of
thought, and it invoked the upsetting of
century-long precedents. But Europe
was in solution. Two gieat empiies had
fallen to pieces. Races which had been
held in bondage weie demanding their
fieedom. New nations had to be set up.
As the discussion piogressed it began to
appear that no tieaty dependent for its
enforcement on the old methods of diplo
macy could stand the strain upon it. New
machinery must be devised. Then the
force of circumstances compelled the
agreement on the league. This happened
while the other issues were still unset
tled, as a necessary preliminary to any
plan for settling those issues.
Whether one likes the league or does
not like it is not material. It was not
agieed upon because it was pleasing in
the abstract to the men who drafted the
covenant. It was accepted because the
search for peace by any other road led
to chaos. The Piesident attempted to set
forth this condition so clearly that those
who 'heard him could not mistake his
meaning.
It was as though he were expounding
the operation of the law of gravity, which
works whether one appiove.s it or not. As
he said, forces greater than we have been
in opeiation and we have had to bend our
wills to them not the foices marshaled
by the European statesmen, but forces
directed by the power which controls the
destinies of men. i
The Piesident's leference to the part
which America has played in world
affairs is reminiscent of Roosevelt.
After the Spanish War that red-blooded
American said frequently that the time
had passed when America could decide
whether it would play a large pait in the
world. It could decide only whether it
would play a large part nobly or ignobly.
Mr. Wilson remarked that "the only
question is whether we can refuse the
moral leadership that is offered us,
whether we shall accept or reject the con
fidence of the world."
That is the issue before the Senate.
Since April, 1917, we have played our part
nobly, and have borne our burden as a
member of the family of free nations
committed to the proposition that right
is greater than might and that there is
no might in the world powerful enough
to trample right to the ground. Now
that right is established, we are merely
aiked to assist in keeping it on its ped
estal. .
It is assumed that the Senate will meet
the President in the same conciliatory
mood in which he has met it, and that
the two branches of the .treaty-making
power will consult tflrether and come to
lu v i Mr -j t t i t A
treaty in its entirety will be ratified in
,thc near future.
Its early ratification is desirable In
order that the fruitR of peace may soon
manifest themselves. The government
of Germany has already accepted it, be
cause of tho promise that the commercial
embargo would be removed when it acted.
The resumption of trade relations be
tween Germany and the rest of the world
is a necessary preliminary to the fulfill
ment of the terms of the treat by the
Germans. It is necessary to the pacifica
tion of Germany itself.
If no other reason weighs with the
Senate, the dollars and cents argument
that American business men be permit
ted to enter Germany as soon as the busi
ness men of other nations ought to bring
delay to an end and enable the Piesident
lo send word to Paris in the neai future
that this country has accepted the docu
ment. THE HOUSE SHORTAGE
JONC of the wage increases discern-
lble in present schedules justifies the
astonishing lates on building material
just levea'ed in a general survey made
to explain the unwillingness of builders
to resume operations in this city.
It is no exaggeration to say that the
prices now demanded for brick and lum
ber aie actually prohibitive. They are
often L'O pel cent in excess of the rates
that pioiailed during the war period, and
theie I. some evidence to tupport the
chaige that lates are being maintained
by tia.ling groups formed under govern
ment auspices to hurry war work.
If oeioiganization in indiibtrv with
the (.eiitiali'ed control of commodities
urged by th" authoiities at Washington
in a time of crisis is to be continued
aftei pepce. then the afteimath of war
will be bitter in America.
What mi us has got into those who
contiel production and distribution of or
dinal. v necessities it is hard to say. But
it is opeiating here as well as in Italy,
Trance and England. The spectacle of
house owners tearing down their build
ings over the heads of tenants in West
Philadelphia and of families tramping
the city in seaich of shelter is not pleas
ant in cnntiast with that of speculators
deliberately cm tiering building material
and sending prices to tho skies.
If there is any animation in the
Federal Ti ade Commission or in Con
gress theie will be a swift investigation
into a state of affairs that is as acutely
interesting to the whole country as the
President's letuin or the league of nations.
A FAITHFUL "SCOREKEEPER"
rPHE excellent record of sincerity a
- unprejudiced public service perform
nd
med
uy uie oureau ot iUiinicipal Kesearch is
sustained in Director Giuenberg's le
fusal to be associated with political
movements while acting as city "score
keeper." So delicate a regard for moral values
is rare, and his act strengthens the good
impression which the municipal research
work has won. Confidence in its capacity
to teveal important facts underlying
governmental administration, irrespec
tive of paity lines, should prove particu
laily beneficial to the city at this time,
when the charter law draws so many new
administrative lines. The pub'ic needs all
the infoimation it can get concerning the
working out in practice of the scheme.
NO WINGS FOR AMERICA
CONGRESSMAN VARE in his de--'
lighted references to congressional
skill in killing appropmtton bills will not
inspire enthusiasm among those who have
been observing this paiticular talent in
its application to the aviation program.
England is building five super-Zeppe-lms,
largely for experimental purposes.
Prance, Italy and even Russia .and Ger
many are piepaiing tor great expansion
in the air. The development of flying
proposed by the American navy has
ceased with the magnificent tests made
recently in the transatlantic flight. From
now on our progress in aviation will be
unorganised and merely casual. And all
this is because of congiessional skill in
killing off appropriation bills.
While lm lenders nik! blowers fall out,
bootleggers jt tlmir i intuit) (lew.
KpoaKins cit the death i(nnt,v. f. it
possible to niiike the Kaiser am (loader than
ho is?
After nil. Mais is a soldier, not a diplo
mat, and Anii'i icons are gom-niiis enough tu
forg'ne him if lie swanks a litlle
"' in around at
.Surli Kcparlce! about L o'clock next
month." snid Senator
Knox to a irpoitui who asked him what lie
thought of the I'i evident "s mrssapo Isn't lie
the nierrj wngV His badinage is only equaled
bj the peisiilnge nf a irrtuln forgotten reso
lution II. It. Hatfield is going
And thr to present a swimming
Water's Fine! pool to the N'ieetown
Itojs' Club; but. as
that won't help them this jear. lie has pur
chased for them the freedom of the (iermau
town I!os' Club pool. That is what may
w?ll be termed piaelieal pbiliinthropj . It
makes clean citizenship.
The I'liilndelphia min
Popuhulliip thf ister who told the 'men
Church of bis congregation to
lake off their coats
during seruie on a recent hot Sunday has
"nothing on" the Ocean City preacher who
reHcncs the last rows of seat in his church
for those who with to worship Id their bath
ing suit.
There fs no truth in
Hut Man, Toor Man! the rumor that Kuir-
mount Park squirrels
are respondents lu a suit to 'provent them
from hunting nuts on Sunday. Neither have
the Iambs been nrrested for gamboling; nor
has the blue-Kky luw been invoked agalnat
the birds. On the contrary, -they all continue
to be permitted to observe the day naturally,
sanely and happily.
A vaca t ion in the
Sunshine Dlktrlbutors country for every boy
and girl in Philadel
phia'. That appears to be the goal of
various organizations acquiring farms and
entertaining children for periods of ten days
and two weeks. Tho zeal and earnestness of
the promoters will have their reword In the
better Ueslth oud th,bUeri;ltUenshlp of
HOW SNUFF HELPED A
THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
Weyman's Gift of a Library to the
Mount Airy Institution Mackey
Tells How His Board Is Im
proving Labor Conditions
H CKUItUK NOX McCAIN
HCNDHIIDS of Lutheran clcrgjnieu anil
thousands of laymen learned with sur
prise It week the name of the nisterioii
dotior of the magnificent $100.0011 Krauth
Memorial Mbiarj building to the Mount
Air Theological Seminar).
His name was II. Frank Wenian. lie was
a I'hilailelphian b birth, but after the close
of the Chil War went to Pittsburgh, where
he lied until he died less than a month ago
nt Ihe age of seenty-elght jenrs.
lie was one of the most grievously dis
figured men I hae eer Known, lie served
in a PeunsItanla regiment during the re
bellion and wn wounded in the face. There
was no such thing as plastic surgery lu thojc
dnjs. and Frank Weynian was compelled to
go through life with a cavity that half
encircled one lde and the base of his nose.
It was partially concealed by flesh -colored
rubber or a composition filling
The Wejinans engaged in the tobacco busi
ness in Pittsburgh in a small way at first.
Tbe bud a cigar stole at Fifth aenue, but
for years and until they retired from retail
trade the store was at the corner of Smith
field and Diamond streets. Prior to their
time nearly all the snuff used in this country
was imported. They began making it in a
Miuill way until finally they became the
laigest manufacture! in this country. Their
factory was over In Allegheny City
V( o man's snuff became famous. Tons of
it were shipped anuiifilly . to the South par
tieiilarh Years ago the concern became
merged with one of the great trusts, nud
It Frank Wejmau retired, more than a
millionaire
He was an affable, courteous grntlemnn.
whose disfigurement did not embarrass him
in the slightest in b,is intercourse with the
public
0NF of the patrons of AVeyman's stc
was well known to the older Philadi
store
lei-
phia politicians. He was James I,, firaham.
speaker 'of the House in lS,', He was a
warm friend of "Al" Crawford, for several
terms a Democratic leprcscutathe from
Philadelphia.
The men were opposite". Crawford bad a
limited education, but was one of the tincet
parliamentarians the House ever knew
til ahum was well educated, punctillious and
laboriously careful in bis choice of words,
lie wore a high silk hat and black broadcloth
Prince Albert coat with flowing skirts
The most embarrassing thing to disturb
the dignity of the speaker's deslt that I re
all was when Speaker firaham appeared In
a manner both embarrassing and ludicrous
one morning before the House. He was n ue
tini of total baldness. In the snnctltx of Ills
room his head resembled an ostriib egg that
had been varnihed with shellac
He was past sixty years ot 'age. yet he
wore a rich dark -lu own wig without the
suggestion of s( much as a dash of gra In it
The trouble on this morning was with his
wig Whether be had canted it too far front
or tilted it beyond the proper angle, what
ever the trouble, the speaker preseuted an
uncanny appearance It was positively weird.
His wig was all awry. The careful line
P'uting it at the side had shifted. It crept
up ami formed an oblique line at the center
ot his forehead and ran hack like the angle of
an isosceles trinuglc to his left car. To its
ircdit. the House preserved its decorum.
The very unusual episode yielded to the
tact of Crawford, who hurried up to the
ostium and requested the speaker to tall
some one to the chair, as a matter of vital
importance demanded his appearance in
the speaker's private room.
There everv thing was properly adjusted
according to Ilojle.
TIIF.KI
lished
IIF.KT was n curious coincidence imb
ed in two newspaper items a few
davs ago They were telegraphic dispatches
from vvide'v separated sections of the state.
( hie told of the marriage of Congressman
F.dgiir S Kiess. of Lycoming county, the
other of th" death of Ira F. Mansfield, of
ltcaver county .
Thev were former members of the House.
Mansfield was old enough lo be Kiess's
father The latter was young, aggressive,
eager and independent. Mansfield was easy
going, quiit. rather lethargic and a tiqe type
of the "regular organization" man. He was
one of Senator Quay's personal friends; a
haiid-pickcd-nieinbcr of the House, in which
he served a number of sessions. He was a
fervid admiicr of Quay, and the latter re
wnideil him for his faithfulness.
lMgar S. Kiess fought bis way to the
House and subsequently fought his way into
Congriss. He will have to fight for re
election if he desiies one this year, for he
will have two stiong opponents Walter
Merriik. of Tioga, and Hruu C. Keefer. of
bis own county. ' Possibly Congressman
Kiess's man luge may be a signal for bis
letireinenl and a closer devotion to his
pioperties al Faglesnieie
rfUIF Workingmcn's Board of Coinpcn-
J- sation of Penusvlvuiiin is doing more
to bung about u better understanding be
tween apital and labor than any other
agenev in the Fnited States,"
It was Harry A Mackey. chairman of
the boiiid. who made this declaration. He
was intensely iu earnest, and confirmatory of
his statement he added ;
"The Pennsylvania system of compensa
tion for injuries is bringing it about. It is
producing a growing feeling of trust and
confidence on the part of the employe in
the companv's fairness. AW rarely have any
difficulty in adjusting claims so far as the
big concerns go.
"All the great corporations self-insure
their employes. If a man is Injured the law
says just how- much compensation be shall
receive. Prior to the introduction of this
svstein there was endless controversy. An
attorney was engaged by the employe, coun
kcI for the company fought the claim and
In the end the Injured man got little if any
thing. "Now everything is chnnged. Corpora
tions facilitate, most of them, Instead of
delaying relief payments. Krnployes note the
change. It is uccepted as a desire to 'play
fair' on the corporations' part. The crown
iug evidence of this Is the numerous appli
cations to our board for changes in mode of
payrneut of compensation which carry the
request 'I desire, tho company to arrange
Uils for me,
Best wishes and the hope for favoring
winds go with the H-34. v
In transatlantic travel It Is a long jour
ney from tho square-rigged ship to the curved
' rigid airship.
Prompt ratification of the treaty is
needed to make Germany keep the promises
it has made.
There is reason to believe that the peace
treaty will be given pitiless publicity from
povv on.
There is ground for suspicion that In the
building supplies iraue wartime ,co-oa.
TRAVELS IN PHILADELPHIA
By Christopher Morley
Valley Forge
ACUMOFS magic moves iu the air of
Valley Forge. There is the same subtle
plucking at heart and uerves that one feels
when coming home from abroad, passing up
some salty harbor on a ship to see one's own
Hag rippling fuuii a home staff. It is a
sudden inner vision of the meaning of Amer
ica. It is a lealization of the continuity of
history, a sense of the imperishable quality
of human virtue. And today, wbeu this na
tion stands on the sill of a new era. ready to
surrender for the sake of huinnuity some of
the proud traditions ingrained by years of
bitter struggle, what place could be a moie
fitting haunt of dieams and uuisery of im
agination? Here, on these wind-swept slopes
where now the summer air carries the sweet
ness of fiesh-cut hay. here in this vale of
humiliation, men met the arrows of despair.
There is nu old belief that it is the second
summer that is the danger time in n bub s
life It was the second winter that was the
cradle-crisis of the youug republic the win
ter of lVTT-T's. It was then that began the
long roud that curries us from Valley Forge
to Versailles.
FFAV of us realize, 1 think, what a vast
national shiiue Valley Forge has become
under the careful bauds of n few devoted
people There is little of winter and dearth
in that sprcadiiiK park us one views it on a
July nfternoon. In the great valley of the
Schujlkill green acres of youug com ripple
in the breee. Sunlight and shadow drift
across the hillsides us great rafts of cloud
swim down unseen channels of the wind.
There is uo country lu America lovelier than
those quiet hills and vales of Montgomery
and Chester counties, with their shadowed
creeks, their plump orchards and old stone
farmhouses. My idea of jovial destiny would
be to be turned loose (about the beginning
of the scrapple season) somewhero iu the
neighborhood of the King of Prussia no one
but an Idiot will ever call him by his new
name of Ye Old King! with a knapsack of
tobacco, n knobby stick and a volume of
It. L. S.
COM I NO down the road frpin Devon, the
fust thing one sees is the great equestrian
statue of Anthony Wayne on its pink ped
estal. It stands on u naked ridge, which was
formerly groved with tine oaks. The Caliph
who hud me iu charge told me with blood iu
his eve that the trees nau ucen iuuBmi-ivu
in order to give a wider view of the statue.
It seems a serious pity, ueyomi '. "
tomes to the Natiouul Arch, designed by
Pnul Cret. of the University of Peuusyl
vania. who has since so gallantly served his
native France on Helds of battle far more
terrible than Valley Forge. From this arch,
with Us fine inscription by Henry Armitt
Drown, there is u serene view across yellow
fields of stubble where a big hay wagou was
piled high with its fragrant load.
BUT the chief glory of Valley Forge is the
Washington Memorial Chapel, a place so
startling in its beauty that it takes the
breath away. Tniough a humble arched door
as lowly as the doorway of Buffering
through which the nation came to birth oue"
enters a shrlue of color where tho history of
the republic is carved in stone. The tall
windows blaze with blue and scarlet. A silk
Stars and Stripes, hanglug by the Btone
nulpit, wavers gently lu the cool wind that
tlrawo up from the valley nd through the
open door. The archway Into the cloister
frames a glimpse of green. In every detail
this marvelous little Westminster Abbey of
America shows the devoted thought of Dr.
tt..l,..t Ttnrl th maa who has IsvUhml
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NOTHING TO TERRIFY
tioual life. With his brown eyes glowing
with enthusiasm be will explain how the
religion, the romance, the pathos and humor
of a century and u half are woven into every
line and tint of the fabric. The magnificent
stuined windows windows (but recall noth
ing less tine than the most splendid cathedrals
of the middle ages were planned by Doctor
IJurk and executed by Nicola D'Asceiuo.
The marvelous oak carvings of the choir
stalls and pews, the carved lead lamps, the
oigau, all were done here iu Philadelphia.
rplHS amazing poem in stoue. endless iu
- lovingly elaborated beauty, can no more
be described thau any great poem can be de
scribed. It is ns perfect, us unique, ns "The
Fve of Saint Agnes"; us lich iu color and
as thrilling iu meaning. Ou these hillsides
where men "tramped tho suow to couil,"
hungry, shivering and unshod; where a great
uttist, wanting to paint the commander-in-chief,
had to do it on bedtickiug; mid where
this same commander, worshiper as well as
v?!irrior, stole fiom the camplire to pray : on
this field of doubt and suffering there has
risen this monument of religious art, devised
as a focus of patriotic inspiration for the
whole republic. It is an altar of ngtioual
worship, as though expressly conceived to
give outward shape to the words uttered
only ytsteiday bj another commander-iu-chief
:
The stage Is set, Uie destiny tllsclo'ed
II liaa come about by no plan of our con
calving, but'ljy the band of (Jod, wbo
led us Into this way. 'VVo cannot turn
bach. We can only go forward, with
lifted eyes and freshened spirit, to follow
the vision It was of this that wo
di earned at our birth
Of the dreums of America's birth the
Washington Memorial Chupel Is the noble
and fitting symbol. It is both a thunks
giviug uud a prophecy.
TTiItOM no other lips than those of Doctor
Burk himself can the story of this plucc
be told. He will tell you how the chapel
grew out of humility and discouragement.
He will show you the plain little wooden
chapel which he built first of all, before
money could be raised for the present build
ing. He will show you the gargoyle the
Imp of Valley Forge which lie says is em
blematic of the spirit of the place because he
can even smile in wluter whea his mouth is
full of Ice. The chapel goes back to the
truest tradition of medicvul nrt, when so
much humor wns carved into the itone or
naments of cathedrals. When the' comer-
Stone wns laid In lf)03 Doctor Burk had only
enough money ou hand to pay for two load's
of stone; he had only a piece of hemlock
board to shsjter the copper box that contained
'the relies to be Inclosed in the foundations,
and after the ceremony had to smuggle the
box back to his home for safe-keeping.
Standing in the beautiful little cloister where
the open-air pulpit looks out into the wood
land cathedral (with Mount Vernon elms
planted In the form of a cross'), he says: "If
the park were left alone it would' be merely
a picnic ground. It's the most spiritual spot
In America : we must maintain Its spiritual
heritage."
IT. IS one of the rector's regrets that only
one President has ever visited Valley
Forge. As one stands lu the open-air pulpit
looking out through .the grove of elms and
over the blue and green valley, one wishes
that-Mri 'Wilson might visit the spot. There
is no place In America of such peculiar sig
nificance just now, there would b no man so
oulck as Mr. Wilson to rateb. its spiritual
. .1 : J Was f hilt Mitthia, !- l.,..
fbve" !)' fi"""v m'HB Wrp
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To an Unknown Ancestor
A MONO the goodly folk whose name I
bear.
Merchant and priest and plowman on the
hill.
Whose ghostly wisdom follows where I fare,
With whispered promptiugs that must
haunt me still
What place was there for you, whose dif
ferent fame
Delighted, once the Don Juans of the
town?
Tho family annals have forgot your name.
And time has hushed, nt least, your gay
renovv n .
Yet, often in the chamber of ray mind,
The righteous rise nud leave, their
councils done.
And there is counsel of another kind
The room turns tavern and there enters'
one
I pledge as kinsnan in a reeling toast
Still unregeneruto nud delightful ghost!
David Morton, iu the New York Sun.
It costs SO per cent '
High Cost of more to build a house
Housekeeping now than It did before
the war, says an ex
pert. To which muy be added that It costs
at least another SO per cent more to keep it.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
I. In what part of Mexico is Tamnlco?
'-'. Who invented the miners' safety lampf
3. How did Stephen Decatur, the Ameri
can navul hero, meet his death?
1. Who was Silas Deane?
5. Iu what play of Shakespeare does the
character of Malvolio, th,e pompouB
steward, occur?
0. On the leaves of what tree do silkworms
feed?
7. How is the word popljn, describing t
fabric, connected with the papacy?
S. What Is the largest city in Mississippi?
0. What treaty closed the French and In-
dlnn War?
10. Who wrote "The Water Babies"?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
Five boroughs, Manhattan, Brooklyn,
Queens, Richmond and Bronx, compos
Orcuter New York.
.
IV Eight Vice . Presidents of the United
States became President. They were
John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Mar
tin Van Buren, John Tyler, Millard j
Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Chester A.
Arthur and Theodore Roosevelt.
:. A deodar is a Himalayan cedar tree.
4, Albert James Myer, an American
meteorologist, wbo became chief signal
officer of the U. S. army in I860 and
head ot the weather bureau In 1870,
was popularly known ns "Old Probs!" ,
5, Byron called Voltaire the "Lord of
Irony."
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J. Tho plural of the word incubus Is eithey ,
incubuses or iucubl:
8. Francisco Goja y Luclentcs was a
noted Spanish painter, Ills dates art .
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