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PhiUdrlphli. SiturdaT. Jul; 12. 1919
NO MORE MORBID FILMS
THE capitalization of moibid tastes by
the theatrical box office is effects cly
rebuked in the ban against the further
showing in this state of the moving pic
ture, "The End of the Road." The original
purpose of the film, sponsored by the
Pennsylvania Health Department, was
laudable. It was educational in character
as is a medical clinic, and just as emphat
ically unsuited to exploitation before
mixed audiences.
The commercial purpose evidenced in
presenting the picture in a theatre open
to the general public is of the type that
would, if permitted, make a show out of
the morgue. No one can deny that a
morgue is indispensable, but no right
thinking person will affirm that it should
be used to stuff a showman's pockets.
The Governor has cleared up the whole
situation by forbidding any pictuie of
any sort to be displayed publicly without
the approval of the State Boaid of Cen
sors. The line between pathology and
entertainment is thus clearly drawn and
an end is promptly put to the hypocritical
practice of catering to morbidity under
the thin mask of "instructing" the public.
The sensational line "nobody under
sixteen admitted" is as crude a bait to
gullibility as it was when similar
methods were employed by the dead
beats who promoted the famous "Royal
Nonesuch" in "Huckleberry Finn." The
Whole game was transparent, and it is a
source of deep satisfaction that it has
been played here for the last time.
IS IT TO BE HARDEN?
TF MAXIMILIAN HARDEN or any
man like him is appointed as the Ger
man ambassador to the United States we
may accept the revolution as an accom
plished fact.
The Germany of 1914 did not appoint
ambassadors from the ranks of the un
official class. A man passed through
various grades before becoming eligible
to the rank of minister, and ministers
were made ambassadors. Most of them
served for a time in the foreign office
before going abroad.
Harden is the editor of a little weekly
paper in which he has expressed himself
freely for years, or as freely as was pos
sible under a rigid state censorship. He
has probably been more widely read in
America than in Germany. Just now he
is calling on his fellow -ountrymen to
accept the peace terms in good part and
to face the future. So far as appears he
would represent the Germany of today
without forgetting the Germany of yes
terday. It would be Impossible to select a more
skillful propagandist to state the German
case here. If that is what the Germans
want they are thinking of the right man
to do the job for them.
A CHANCE FOR DAYLIGHT SAVING
TTOPE for the continuance of daylight
"- saving next year is not dead while
the President withholds his signature
from the foolish rider to the agricultural
bill.
The present prohibition muddle is
partly the result of a hasty presidential
indorsement of an amendment to the food
stimulation bill. Reckless riders abound
in congressional legislation. If the one
attached to the bill now before Mr.
Wilson can besupported by any really in
telligent argument in its favor it has not
yet been revealed.
The President is said to have an "open
mind" on the subject. When occupation
takes place, may it be such as will inspire
him to make daylight saving permanent
the most inexpensive, the least onerous
rind one of the most effective of public
economies.
SUMMER MUSIC IN PROFUSION
rpHESE are ideal summer days in which
- to disprove the fallacy that Philadel
phia's musical activities cease when the
theatres, concert halls and opera houses
become "dark." Last night, for instance,
' Hwas possible to hear excellent programs
C. ' at either Strawberry Mansion, the City
$;j,7HaU Plaza or at Weccacoe Park, Sixth
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nc regular scneuuie inciuues lourcon-
if j. v certs every weeKaay tnrougnout the sum-
' THer, a matinee and an evening bill in
&-. ,' Jfairmount Park, a Municipal Band per-
t ., formance at some city square and Silas
n Hummel's Philadelphia band cntertain-
' j ment on the Plaza All this is a hearten-
,"i " Ing- display of good art and of considera-
r1 l ? i-tn 4nr tlio nnnnlav facto ftr Infnlltrvnnf
fc ttyyeralon.
.4 Invidious comparisons between this
r&?;nd cities in Europe as dispensers of
gi wUe;n0 longer hold. Small charges
lam. uaMtftllir Axed abroad for both seats
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tain In Philadelphia's generous musical
largess. The selections played combine
respect for talents of tho great composers
with n feeling for the public's predilec
tions for rousing melodies and popular
airs.
City habitation even in ton id Philadel
phia has its compensations. The average
al fresco crowds nowadays will inform
tho stranger to the scene how widespread
the popular appreciation is, while the ad
mirable progvam will show him how much
agreeable art he has been missing.
SENATE SHOULD ACCEPT
WILSON'S OFFER TO EXPLAIN
Opportunity Must Be Given to President
to Tell of Paris Difficulties and the
Rumored Japan-German Treaty
THE President returned to find that
mnnv nf his mnt nrdpnt friends had
become his bitterest critics. These were
the idealists who felt that the world had
lost gieatly when, at Pans, the spokes
men for America seemed to shift sud
denly from a policy based upon the hope
of early reconciliation between all
peoples.
Mr. Wilson's change from a mood of
forbeaianee to one ot immovable rigor
toward the German people was one of
the dramatic developments of tho Paris
conference. His later policy was said to
insuie futther friction and new wars in
Europe. It was said of tho President that
he had caved; that he was outplayed by
tho old gun id in Euiope; that he had be
come a toiy!
Yet now, if the s-o-called Gci man-Japanese
tieaty which Senator Lodge has
demanded from tht State Department is
not a fiaud and a forgery, it will not
only explain and justify Mr. Wilson's
coure but prove the entire validity of
every argument advanced in support of a
league of nations. It will show that the
co-operation of the United States and
the nations of Europe in imposing the
harshest possible terms upon Get many
was necessary to save mankind from the
consequence- of a scheme deliberately
dcvi&ed to split the world violently in two.
The document in question was first re
vealed in Berlin after a raid on state
offices by Bolshevist troops. It may be
fraudulent. But even the suggestions
which it contains aie of a .sort woith
pondering. Japan, if the treaty was ac
tually agreed upon, was to protect Ger
man interests at the Pans conference
under a secret agreement devised to in
sure German co-operation in the later
exploitation and, of course, the future
political domination of Russia,
Did the President and his associates
at Paris know that the horde of un
crowned kaisers still at large in Germany
intrigued, even while they weie beaten
and prostrate and crying for mercy, to
corrupt the Peace Conference and pre
pare a way for a scheme of empire that
inevitably would hae ranged one-half
of mankind in arms against the other?
Is this why it was made inexorably
plain to the German people that no one
could help them, at Paris or elsewhere,
but themselves? Is it because the domi
nating minds in Germany weie piepar
lng for adventures in commercial and
political conquest madder and moie dan
gerous than anything ever conceived at
Potsdam that they and their people were
made virtually subject to the will of the
other nations of Europe for years to
come?
Russia is lax and prostrate, helpless
and fabulously rich. Since the first revo
lution it has been an almost overwhelm
ing temptation to exploiters and adven
turers. The so-called German-Japanese treaty,
sent to tho State Department by officers
of the American intelligence service in
Russia, may yet prove to be nothing more
than a detail of Lenine's propaganda.
The fact remains that it outlines a course
of action and a series of political agree
ments that the rest of Europe has feared
for thirty years. If such a compact were
in effect it could mean only that at one
day or another Germany would lead the
East and perhaps the Russians against
the rest of Europe.
Mr. Wilson Is still heavily burdened
with difficulties. The Senate in one
breath criticizes him for failing to give
definite information in explanation of his
policy at Paris and in the next intimates
that it will refuse to listen to the testi
mony that he has offered to present at
formal or informal inquiries.
But it is safe to suppose that the mood
of truculence will pass from the Senate
leaders. They must surely realize that
the restraints and restrictions of his
office must still control Mr. Wilson's
actions. It will be entirely proper for
the President to give, in reply to direct
questions from the Senate, information
which he may not volunteer in a public
address without violating establishe4
rules of international courtesy and pro
cedure. Congress is swept now and then by
prejudice and partisan emotion. But
Congress is made up of pretty sincere
and, pretty shrewd Americans. There
has been no time when personal likes and
dislikes and partisan feeling have been
permitted in a final analysis to override
national interest in the House or in the
Senate. It will surprise no one familiar
with the habits of Washington if the
Senate leaders who have been among Mr.
Wilson's most industrious opponents
show a sudden spirit of co-operation in
this instance.
It is certain that the President has
found ways in which to inform men like
Mr. Lodge of some of the inner details of
the Paris agreements. His expressed
willingness to submit himself to cross
examination and to testify at as many
formal and informal conferences as the
Senate may desire was significant It
carried the flat suggestion of Information
which could not be voluntarily given.
The American people will feel nothing
but Impatience and just resentment at
any effort to hinder him in his desire to
make a full report to the country of his
alms, methods, purposes and difficulties.
And the first thing that the country will
want to . know ah out ia the snnnnrl
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ireaiy uy wuicn wwan teeoant aie said
to have sought once again to betray
civilization.
If such a treaty were actually formu
lated and agreed upon, the league of
nations and tho men who inspired it have
already done an incalculable service to
mankind. The masses in Japan, who
could know nothing of such intrigues dl
iccted by their diplomatists, will benefit.
Russia has been spared a fate harder than
any that may be conceived even as a con
sequence of the Lenine dictatorship, and
the Geiman people have at least a fight
ing chance for pence and liberty.
This is the work of the Pniis "vision
aries"! YOUR UNCLE IN THE MOVIES
pOR the tireless idealism that animated
x him in Europe, your Uncle Samuel, if
one may judge by much of the current
comment in the foreign press, must await
a reward in heaven. And ho will have to
wait with the same patience for the rich
compensation that ordinarily falls to a
plunger in the moving-picture business.
Millions were expended by tho govern
ment after our entry into the war in the
production of motion pictures. Some of
the most expensive units in the military
organization were trained, equipped and
maintained in the field for tho produc
tion of elaborate films intended to show
the woik of the army and the navy and
to give the country at largo a vivid un
derstanding of the nature of our task in
Europe and the manner in which we were
going about it.
As a movie producer your trusting
Uncle was what the critics would call an
artistic success. Some of his pictures
were splendid and many of them are of
great and peimanent value. But all the
profits, it now appears, were garnered by
a few astute gentlemen who knew more
of the ways of filmdom than your Uncle
ever guessed.
Movie exploiters w-ho had nothing in
vested got viitually all the receipts.
Through what members of Congress be
lieve was collusion between minor fed
eral officials and the professional picture
men, the war films made at government
expense were exhibited for the profit of
a limited clique of profit hunters.
Natuially, a "sweeping investigation" is
promised at Washington. But the won
der is that sweeping investigations into
such war piofiteering as has been re
ported in the United State3 are organ
ized only after the damage has been done
and not befoic.
A CABLE SUPER-TRUST
A LTHOUGH the Paris conference has
-"Mhus far dodged the problem of dis
posing of the German transatlantic
cables, there are strong indications that
a world monopoly dominated by large
British interests, with which the smaller
French ones will coincide, is in process of
formation.
In a significant article printed else
where in tho Evening Public Ledger
today, Clinton W. Gilbert outlines the
possibility of America being made vir
tually voiceless by one of tho strongest
combinations ever formed. British con
trol of wireless communication is also
forecast.
With such advantages the power to in
fluence public opinion will be exceedingly
large. American independence in the
matter is seriously hedged. New com
panies must come to terms with the
"combine." Even the establishment of
any half-way station in the Azores must
involve consent by the French and Eng
lish companies in control there.
Adjustment of the problem in a way
enabling the United States to keep open
and unrestricted transcendently import
ant means of communication calls for the
employment of both wit and vigor. At
present a general freezing-out process
seems in sight.
Tt hns always seemed
Applause! to us that the true
mnvip queens never
are to be found in thr- pictures. The damsels
in the world of lilmdom who reveal all the
pomp and graces of royalty sell tickets in
gilded cages outside the theatres.
Without questioning
Sounds Logical Detective Lieutenant
Emmanuel's j u d g
ment or the Teracity of his assertion that all
the Reds have left Philadelphia, one might
venture to suggest another theory. The Reds
may still be here. Who knows that they
haven't just turned pale?
You have observed, of
It Would, Indeed! course, that the poli
ticians who are for
ever warning us against entangling alliances
seldom or never apply their favorite rule in
their own rareer. If they did this would be
a happier rountry.
Kdwnrd Abcles, the
Obsolete Drama comedian who died
jesterday, was noted
for his performance in "Brewster's Mil
lions," n play concerned with the difficulty
of spending a million dollars In a given short
time. The problem of the piece is now quite
as dead as the star.
Peru's revolutionists
Revolutions In nre evidently tired of
Triplicate a one-ringed circus.
With the republic di
vided into three states, according to their
latest plan, there is every possibility of
presenting a big show.
"The public," laments
Why Not Republican the New Tork Tribune
WhereforesT in Ifs criticism of the
generalizing tone of
the President's Senate speech on the league,
"has the right to know the whys and where
fores " Right. Rut why Bhould perfectly
bound Republican explanations of the pact be
so discounted? Mr. Taft has revealed its
meaning with boundless energy and the keen
est acumen. Hns It become necessary for
Mr. Wilson's opponents to wait for him to
expound a fact before they will credit It?
The fact that seventeen stolen automo
biles have been recovered by the police In
three dajs is evidence that at last an earnest
effort is being made to discourage the thieves.
The Legislature has removed the size
limit on captured trout. There never has
been any limit on the size of the trout that
got away.
The President's taste for vaudeville
must be insatiable. He spent Thursday eve
ning witnessing it in a Washington .theatre,
despite having been to Congress on the self-
sine BtternooB..
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CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S
LETTER
Architect Wlndrlm's Big Job Hos
tility of State Bankers to John
Skelton Williams Wash
ington Gossip
Washington, July 1'J.
PHILAI)i:i.l'HIANS who nre connecting
the name of John T. Wlndrim with the
mayoralty situation do not know apparently
that Sir. Windrlm feels he hits "bigger fisli
to fry." If there is one thing an architect
delights to do, ic is to build bigger and
grander Ihnn others have done. John T.
Wiudrtm seems to have this opportunity
right now and be is going to seize It. The
old T.lpplncntt ptoperty across from the
Union League hns been token over by the
Fidelity Trust Company and President John
U. Gest hns been going over the plans with
Mr. Wiudrhn. The job will be n big one, tho
cost of the building mounting as high, per
haps, as SS.OOO.OOO or S10,000,00O. Here
then, indeed, will be n work worth while.
And from what we hear in Washington,
where the Windrims nre well known, John
T. intends to make this bis monument.
Years ago the Windrims had their archi
tectural headquarters down on Third street.
Philadelphia, in the vicinity of the Glrnrd
National Bank. .Tnmes II. Wlndrim was
then the head of the concern. Subsequently
about the time John Waunmaker came to
Wnshinglon ns postmaster general .Tames
II. Windrlm also enme as supervising archi
tect. John T. Wlndrim Kept up the work in
Philadelphia, but saw enough of Wnsbing
ton and the big things that nre .done here
to make him a In ond -gauge American. If
piiilndolpJiia does not get the architect for
mnyor, it is likely to gel from him n mighty
strnetuie that will ornament the city for nil
time to come.
A LOT of new members of the House from
Kansas, like Tinehcr, of Medicine Lodge ;
White of Mnnkotn : Strong, of Iilue Rapids,
nnd IIocli, of Marion, are watching with in
terest the progress of one Jay E. Houe,
who hns ridden into Philadelphia newspaper
dom "Ou Second Thought " Tinrher is
already betting on House as a "sure thing"
in the Quaker City journalistic world, but
some of the others, who nic mighty strong
on prohibition, bnve been "viewing with
alarm" the rnpidity with which their erst
while Knnsnn hero hns advanced in bis
knowledge of such mjstic compounds ns
"White Horse" cocktnils nt forty cent',
grenadine rickeys nt the same prito. logan
berry highballs nt thirtv ceiits nnd pine
apple fizzes nt tliirtj-lho icnts. The nre
concerned to know whether thi is Jay 10
wit or House wet.
FORMER State Senator John S Fisher,
who is now commissioner of banking,
bends a long list of Pennsylvania financiers
who favor the abolition of the office of the
comptroller of the eurrencj. Commissioner
Fisher is in n position to say what many
banking men decline to say openly, viz.,
that the present comptroller of the cm'
icney is very unpopular with the banks nnd
banking institutions. Mr. Fisher lises to
remark thnt "as to the said John Skelton
Williams," and so forth, that "besides
using the power of his office to coerce state
institutions to convert into natiounl banks,
he hns been issuing many bulletins designed
to disparage state financial institutions."
Truth is. the bankers of the country are
tied up in the federnl resene, so that it is
not wholesome to discuss officiuls at Wash
ington: but some of them, like the old
Quaker lady who missed her train at n
remote station, lan thank the Pennsylvania
commissioner for "expressing their senti
ments" as the good lady did when she beard
a mnsculine fellow-traveler cussing the rail
road management.
B
()TH Democrats nnd Republicans nre
evincing nn interest in the ship canal
project ncros the state of New Jersey, and
it is very likely that nn effort will be made
to hnve this important improvement included
in the next river and harbor bill. Congress
man John II. Small, of North Carolina, hns
already taken this mntter up with Mnyor
Donnelly, of Trenton, an early boomer of
the New Jersey project. Meanwhile, Sena
tors Freliughuysen and Edge have gotten
into the game. Some of the state senators,
including Senator Hammond, nre also nt
woik on the project. The New Jersey ship
canal is a link in the Atlantic coast
waterway from New England to Florida
nnd will come along legislnthely nfter the
taking oer of the Chesapeake nnd Dclnware
canal for which provision has been made,
but concerning the delivery of which to the
government there haR been n slight hitch,
which is now in process of adjustment.
SOMEBODY hns been pnssing word around
thnt nn offer hns been made for the pur
chase of Hog Island. Vice President J. i.
Ackerson is authority for the statement that
this rumor Is without foundation. No offer
or proposal of any bind from responsible
parties has been made for the purchase of
Hog Island, according to Mr. Ackerson. It
Is known, however, thnt a number of pros
pectors nre at work hoping to interest capi
tal in this enterprise. The problem is,
"V.hat shall be done with Hog Island?"
One suggestion is thnt it shall be made a
free port, but Philadelphia would probably
have to take it over for this purpose and
Philadelphia does not seem to be in a posi
tion at this time to invest very heavily.
Another suggestion is that private interests
may yet be induced to make on offer for the
yard to build stnndnrdlzed ships. Then there
are other rumors that some of the big In
terests interested in other shipyards nre not
anxious that Hog Island bhall be per
petuated. OOME day there may be n brenk between
Othc Senate and House of Representatives
In the matter of rider legislation. Under
the constitution nil revenue legislation must
originate in the House, the theory being
that the House is more responsive to the
will of the people and is therefore in a
better position to understand how the people
feel about revenue and taxes. Tho Senate
has the right to offer amendments, and this
is where the trouble ensues. Instead of
correcting, amending or cutting down expen
ditures, the Senate has resorted to the prac-'
tlce of adding to bills that are sent over
from the House all kinds of legislation,
much of it being In the nature of appro
priations for special purposes and In extrava
gant amounts not contemplated by the House.
Under the rules ordinary appropriation bills
thus loaded down by the Senate go Into con
ference from which they must be voted up
or down by the House. The embarrassment
of the House, when it rinds its bills re
turned with short paragrspbs enacting new
legislation, or adding tremendous appropri
ations, can be easily unfterstood. For in
stance, a bill to build a bridge may come
back from the Senate with a proviso that
the bridge may bo built "provided it shall
be made unlawful to mnufacture, sell or
use distilled spirits," or an appropriation
bill to pay salaries of postal employes may
rnme back from the Senate with a nrovlso
that "for the purchase and" acquisition ofv
the Cape lou canai there is hereby an.
proprlatcd $10,000,000." In neither in
stance would the House have on opportunity
of discussing these amendments if the chair
man ot the conference committee moved the
previous question on the bill and demanded
it. acceptance by the House and that' motion
THEY SAY THE FISHING IS FINE
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THE CHAFFING DISH
The Paragrapher Contemplates
His Week-End at the Shore 4
THE wot Id down there is blazing white and
blue.
Rasking upon the beach, with mind swept
clean.
I'll watch the rollers crumble, shining
green
Where shallow sandy bottom glimmers
through.
The sun shall season me. T will pursue
Entire quiescence, nnd n wind that's keen
Shall scour my shabby soul. Then, made
serene,
I'll ask forgiveness for the sins I do.
I will not heed the most luxuriant pun.
I'll doze, nnd drenm, my mind 1 will not
strnfe ;
Nor annotate my t'rehin, infnnt son,
To use for copy in this Dish of Chaff.
I shall not think n single thought, not one,
Nor put the ocean in a paragraph !
Page Jesting Pilate!
President Wilson's
address cannot fall to
make a profound Im
pression ou the mind
and purpose of the
American people. Mr.
Wilson has never
been more felicitous
In any of his publlo
utterances. X e w
it does not fill the
bill. It Is an emo
tional. Ideallstio ha
rangue, not a bpeclHc
reply. From begin
ning to end the.
reader will meet
nothing but dlsap
p o lntment. New
York Sun.
York World.
Wonder where Colonel House has evapo
rated to, and what Is he brewing in that
tireless cooker mind of his?
If he stays abroad much longer, we shall
have to call him Colonel Maison.
Manhattan Preterits
It was her wish that she) should he re
membered by tho army which she strlved
faithfully to sere. New York Eton.
I strlved with none; for why should I have
striv?
Nature I sceked, and gived no dnm for
grammar ;
1 het my hands before an Infinitive :
It splitted and I haved to face the clamor.
H. T. C. faithful attendcr of the Phila
delphia Band's concerts on the City Hall
Plaza, says that Doctor Krusen really ought
to get some one to set his words to music.
He went to the concert the other evening,
and as usual found the following notice nt
tho foot of the handbill: Kindly Join in
Singing Wordi on Hack of Program. And
turning over, he read :
Is Your Birth Registered?
The reporting of a birth may seem a
trivial and annarently unimportant event
to the uninformed and Indifferent father
and mother, but when at a later period of
life It Is required to prove the Identity of a
person, Jils age or his parentage, a legal
birth certificate Is of extreme value,
WII.MER KRUSEX, M. D.
Spoiled
A youngish lightning bug was he
That sat upon my nose:
He switched on all his candle power
Then giggled as be rose.
I hailed his father that same night
As he went flying by ;
"Old bug, you've spared the ligbtniug rod
And spoiled your child." cried I.
HORACE HOOK.
A new and Interesting form of insurance
was offered to us the other day by the Lon
don nnd Liverpool Mutual Correspondence
Assurance Company, Ltd. The policy takes
two forms. One form Insures tho policy
holder against eyer having to answer any
letters; the other insures his getting an an
swer to any letters he may write.
The premium is payable quarterly in the
form ot postagu stamps. The surplus deficit
of this enterprise (so the admirable company
announces) Is to be devoted to erecting a
monument to Mr. Burleson.
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thoughts, when nn embittered pilgrim leaned
ier and whispered to us, "What's going to
become of the women who marry men to re
form them?"
Troubles In Missouri
A Philadelphia publishing house has re
ceived the following letter. It was written
from Mammoth, Mo., on July 1st:
O'-ntlcmen: I am trjlntr tn gn a Hog. Sheep
and otMr law. to wake them up 1 want to amiiH
In county and ns 1 have neve- spoke In imtlle
but ery llttp 1 feel weak; 111 speaking on tills
subject 1 will Ke ni a general ble-i or my
country and then I want vou to make a speach
on this nubject and t will buy it from vou I
Urn In Ozark fp , Mo it Is a mountain coun
try has lots of timber and acorns, the hogs
eats tho acorns but about three jears out of
four the noun eats acorns and die from worms
In the acorns, the farms on tho creek overflow
and wa;b. the fence down and the hogs get Into
the, field and eat the crop up and some people
kill the, hogs In the Held. We can keep tho hogs
up and have bettor hogs and more and better
crops make more money better tlm and more
pork II we Lould get a Hog. Sheep and Ooat
lav Wo could take tho fence we have around
our crop and rut It around a pastor and can put
three straps of batbed wire around our crops
to keep cattle and horses out. We keep sheep
and goats on pastor on the account of wolves
Now If we have a hog law we could get along
much better.
Now ou have a general Idea of my country,
now make a speach In favor of a Hog, Sheen
and Goat law Just as jou would If you was here
before a larg crowd of these farmers and I
will pay jou well.
Song of the Open Road
' As I wns walking Wynnewood way
I felt n touch of pallor :
I asked a motorist, "Now pray ,
How far is it to Bala?"
He never offered me a lift,
Nor gave a friendly smile ;
But pausing just bis gears' to shift
He quoth, "Oh, 'bout a mile."
So on I limped and on I blimped,
The road seemed long to me,
And when I got there, I had shrimped
Not just one mile, but three.
O better for that guy, by heck,
Who told the fib to me,
With n milestone hanged about his neck
And cast into the sea.
DOVE DULCET.
"Why," writes a correspondent, "don't
you write a poem about our great Irish
president De Lnvera?"
Principally, we suppose, because that
doesn't happen to be his name.
Of course it makes nil the difference
whether Professor De Valera is president or
only "president." SOCRATES.
Crothers on Adams
"Education In Pursuit of Henry Adams"
is the subtle manner In which Samuel M.
Crothers renames tho Henry" Adams
biography. "He points out his own short
comings," says Mr. Crothers, "with the
suppressed glee which characterizes the critic
who detects n uaw in n much-praised work
of art. But never for n moment does he
take the blame for the imperfection of his
education. Ho is tho clay and he will put
the whole 'responsibility on his maker or
makers. He is a very critical piece of clay
and very much dissatisfied with his shape.
The influences which have made him what
he Is have, made a poor Job of it."
The battle of Chateau-Thierry was
nothing to that which is beginning In. Wash
ington. Now If Lodge would only go on the golf
links with the President he might learn how
not to foozle his drive.
Bronze victory buttons, worn by vet
erans of the war, will soon be as common in
the United States as Legion of Honor rosettes
are in France.
Another contract for the "biggest" war
ship has justbeen let by the Navy Depart
ment. And the next contract will be for a
bigger one.
The third attempt to launch the steam.
ship Sea Girt will be. made ia Camden next
we!r. Here's, hoping that three times will
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Kind
THE blessing of blessings for blm
That hns always time to be kind,
A blessing running before,
A blessing trottin' behind ;
An angel caring his house
To drive away every sorrow ;
(iood luck at his heels today,
(Jood luck on his path tomorrow.
A place for him up in Heav'n,
And St. Peter there at the gate
With the kindly welcome word '
And himself not bid to wait:
For I'm thinking the saint will say,
"Come in here out of the wind,
It's not so often I see
A man that has time to be kind."
W. M. Letts.
Near beer is what some men are re '
grettiug they nre not.
Most of the senatorial comment on the
President's speech was about something else. '
The packers might make still more money ,
if they could only utilize the squeal as by- ,
product.
The French sense of fitness persists.
Enghien-les-Bains, where tho Bulgarian ,
peace commissioners are to be quartered. Is.j
famed for its gambling establishment. What
an ideal place for representatives of the.,
most notorious of "plunger" nations !
What Do You Knotv?,
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QUIZ
1. The French national holiday occurs on
next Monday. What event does it
signalize? '
2. What is the difference In meaning be-''
tween the words complaisant and com-1
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H. wnac is ine capum oi riusu ivoiumuiar..
4. "Oxidized silver" is a misnomer. What'
is really done to the metal to give iti
the dark, lusterless appearance?
5. Who wrote "The Confessions of an
Opium Eater"?
6. Where were the Alabama claims ad
judicated after the Civil AVar?
7. What is pabulum?
8. In what novel of Dickens does the in''
corriglbly cneerful character of Mark"
Taplcy occur?
0. What Is the parvis of a cathedral?
10. What is the longest river in Asia?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz '
1. Tampico is a Gulf port on the east coast
of Mexico, a short distance below the"
Tropic of Cancer. "
2. Sir Humphry Davy, a celebrated English
chemist, invented the miners' safety
lamp.
S. Stephen Decatur, the American naval,
hero, was killed in a duel wjth James.
Barron in Bladensburg, Md., in 1820..
4. Silas Deane was an American states-1
man and diplomatist, who served ittf
France as a secret agent In 1776. H
was recalled by Congress for having
made unauthorized promises to French'
officers to join the American service '
5'. The character of Malvollo, the pom-ij
pous steward, occurs in Shakespeare's
comedy, "Twelfth Night.'
6.
Silkworms feed on the leaves of tho'f
mulberry tree.
roplln gets its name from the French'"
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fabric was made. 3
8. Vieksburg Is the largest city In Missis.
0. The treaty of Paris, In 1763, closwtf M
4he French and Indian War. j; 'V 'B
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