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Jul. I-. I'll INQUIRY AFTER THE TRAGEDY THREE investigations into the tragedy of the burlap warehouse on American street are tinder way. But neither the fire marshal, the coroner nor the build ing inspectors, who are all at work, can do more than reveal the pitiless logic of cause and effect. No Inquny, however vigorous, can restore the six sacrificed lives. This exhibition of encigy is made on a delayed schedule. Rigid inspection of the structuie and of the conditions under which the Pottash Brothers conducted their business place should have been followed long ago by orders compelling observance of the laws. That the firm was notified to remove all bagging from the building back in March wis insufficient surveillance. The case should have been pursued until the explicit instructions had been carried out. Investigation after the fatalitv is a common American practice. Lessons are solemnly read from the event and then forgotten. Immediately after the Iro quois fire the regulations about crowding the corridors in theatres were drastically enforced. Later the same old season of laxity set in. The system of building inspection is designed precisely to prevent such catas trophes as that of the decaying ware house. Methods that are easy-going or superficial are certain eventually to bear tragic fruit. Every one knows what the price of safety is. UNCLE SAM, PRICE BOOSTER? rpHE war is over. The interest which - the government manifested in the everyday troubles of the people through agencies like the food administration, the war labor board and the fuel conti oilers is no more. What then is the explanation of the ardent efforts of some of the Washington departments to protect the interests of the cattlemen and meat packers by elaborate schemes to stimulate food ex ports with a view to maintaining prices ? What has earned for the cattle raisers and the packers' group immunity from the law of supply and demand? In Italy, in France and in England the governments are working overtime to bring living costs down. The government at Washington, through new devices of finance intended to cause vast exports of American meat and grain, seem actually working in effect to keep prices up. It was known that food speculators looked for a killing when the war ended and the American food surpluses were released for Germany. It is a bit strange to believe the American Government de partments are aiding at the ceiemonv. CHARITY WITHOUT "BUNK" APART from the intrinsic worth of the - work it performs, the Society for Organizing Charity commends itself to public indorsement in its announced re jection of "drives," "whirlwind cam paigns," "minute men" and sensational sentimental advertising on behalf of its treasury. Like most really useful organizations, the society performs its functions with quiet, self-respecting, businesslike dis patch. The value of its efficient service admits of no question. For proper administration about $20, 000 more a month is needed. Philadel phians who are now asked to come to its assistance may be assured that their money will be intelligently spent and that poor relief will be directed in the way that it will do the most good. The society has long justified its ex istence. The public should now insure its continuance. HANDS ACROSS THE SKIES "jvTVANNUNZIO, stormy petrel of Ital H ' Ian letters, singer of the new na- 5ef., tlonalism, voice of the war party in his iiuuvu lanu, is to ny irom Home to Toklo if he can. There are implications in this an nouncement that have nothing to do with , "4j' the science of aviation. Since tho armistice was signed it has been plain that airships are following the lines over which international sympathies are expected to flow most warmly. The British dirigible in New York, the other British dirigible that is to cruise over- India, our own air fllehts to Eno-lnml i . represented importantxperimentB in tho s," t advanced science of flight. But the effect " f of such approaches on national psychol '"' ogy k well understood. . There were high words of greeting, . onerous assurances and tho dominant (Suggestion of invisible bonds between MoMt who have been snaking handi with ish etfjdK over the wastes of the sea ,1 ffcwAnr o$hr pla,. ifc Tulii' His announcement at this particular vno ment will have as much significance In foreign capitals as a diplomatic note. A good part of Europo will wonder whether there are statesmen in Italy who hope to obtain from Japan the sort of co-operation which the Allies denied Italy's rep resentatives at Paris. And that in all probability is precisely what D'Annunzio wanta Europe to do. WHAT IS FRAMED UP MUST BE LIVED DOWN Electric Railway Companies Generally Are Now Reaping What They Sowed In Years of Political Chicanery TOR corporations as for men there are laws of retribution and days of judg ment. The thing has been proved. Moneyed groups with the mantle of in corporation over them used to find it hard to believe that good morals and good business could thrive together. Yet, whether they lan railroads or pickle fac tories, taxicabs or secict combinations of European kings, they always ended in .rouble. The street railways of the country, in whose interests John H. Pardee, Guy E. Tripp and others spoke mournfully before the Federal Railways Commission, pro sent another example of the inevitable rule. The roads sinned elaborately while the sinning was good. They told everything but the truth. Now, when they have tiuths to tell and when they feel an overwhelming need to be believed, no one will believe them. Their fiscal woes may be authentic enough. It maj be true that many lines will perish miserably if they are not granted the right to collect higher fares. It doesn't matter. Mr. Pardee plainly is a good railroad man or ho wouldn't be president nf the American Electric Railway Association. But his philosophy is o'.viously deficient. If he knew where the Double lies ho would not lecture a federal commission. He would lecture the stockholders in the lines that he lepiesents. His recital of the difficulties under which street lailway companies are now operating may wring a tear of sympathetic understanding from an occasional statistician. But the gen eral public, the patient, watchful and silent general public without whose co operation noth'ng great is possible, will smile cynically and feel convinced that something rotten is afoot once again. It remembers the squalid recn'd of politi cal corruption, of stolen franchises, of legislative jobbery, of watered stock and inefficient service that, justly or unjustly, must be atoned for by any one who in herits the responsibilities of the old fashioned street railway magnates. Electric street railways are one of the newest of utilities. They opened the way to a paradise of high finance for all the J. Rufus Wallingfords who were running loose in Ameiica twenty years ago. The habits of early speculators caused loss and hardship for millions. Any one who has to direct the affairs of street rail ways now must reckon with the ill will and the determined dislike of almost everybody who has to pay taxes and ride to and from work in a trolley. There are many lines that have to pay in financial stress for the errois piled up by men who are now dead or retired into affluence. Mr. Pardee ought to summon all the stockholders of his lines in a great con vention and tell them the simple truth. He could tell them that whatever is framed up has to be lived down. An intimate study of street railway finance and operating methods will not convince an unemotional outsider that higher rates of faie aie necessary now. Higher fares may actually be necessary later along. Even then the public will not pay six or seven or eight cents for a trolley ride without feeling that it is being robbed. Most of the trolley corporations will have to endure long years of piobation amid difficulties and prove that they are not the corporations of old before they can enlist public confidence on their side. Arguments and pleas such as Mr. Pardee advanced will serve them not at all. Long experience with street-car men who viewed their corporations not as agencies for public service but as means for stock exploitation has fixed the pa trons of most trolley lines in habits of cynical disbelief. In some cities the men who run the street cars have seen the light. Having failed in every other attempt to make money, they experimented with the for gotten ideals of honesty and efficient service. The Philadelphia Rapid Transit Com pany has been sitting for a year or two among the converts. The P. R. T. has a dark record. It wrung its hands and loudly grieved on the verge of bank ruptcy and the people who ride over its lines laughed ribald laughter. Driven to the wall at last the company in sheer desperation improved its service. It improved its equipment. It improved its operating methods. It gave the city the better transportation that the city had been demanding for a generation. And, to its own amazement, the P. R. T. began to make money. A few years ago the transit company was paying out more than 10 per cent of its annual profits in damage claims based upon preventable accidents. Through improved equipment and better operat ing methods that waste has been cut down two-thirds. The present manage ment has a long way to go. It has the virtue of silence and patience. When the watered corporations that hold the P. R. T. down have been eliminated, when en lightened management has further im proved the service, when the company makes its approaches to the people and not to politicians, the P. R. T. will have the right to be believed when it cries out Us needs. Here and elsewhere and especially In Camden and in other parts of New Jersey where the question of trolley fares Is painful rfnd acute no public service commission, Is justified In granting tho privilege of higher rates to street rail ways until a Doara oi operating experts inquires deeply, into the methods of the tpaity t qu".. It i been proved. EVENING 'PUBLld LEDGER time after time, as It was proved In this city, that Inefficient management Is a principal cause of low earning power on trolley lines. Every utilities commission should havo tho power to appoint n board of inquiry when utilities corporations nsk higher atcs for trolley rides or gas or elec tricity or wnter. Nowadays the commis sions arc almost always content to ac cept tho arguments of lawyers skilled In the arts of bewilderment. The lawyer who can tiro out a utilities commission or outwit it, rather than engineers capable of assessing the possibilities of transport lines, is left to decide how much streot car riders should pay for tho service rendered them. This, too, is in the only country that boasts of its efficiency! In the end, however, the street-car com panies themselves must take their own case to the vast jury of their riders. They will have to clean house. They will have to show the public that they know how to be square and that they have learned their lessons. No institution that en joyed public confidence was ever threat ened with the bankruptcy that Mr. Pardee and the others talked of in Washington. HE'D BE A JITNEY SENATOR TJENRY FORD never heard of Benedict - Arnold. He thinks anidealist is a man who helps another to make a profit. He says that tho War of 1812 was a revo lution. He thinks that Gcncial Pershing has ended all war. These aie a few samples from the tes timony offered by him in his libel suit against the Chicago Tribune. This is the same Henry Ford Piesident Wilson thought fitted to represent Michi gan in the United State-. Senate, and who is now contesting the seat of the candi date who leccived the certificate of elec tion. AGUINALDO AT FIFTY 'TM1E change in his political principles -- does not constitute tho only reason why Emilio Aguinaldo would certainly disdain a reolution if he saw one brew ing. Rich men abhor disturbances, nnd Aguinaldo is rich. At tho age of fifty the ex-chieftain is a large landholder and the vice m evident of two big cocnanut oil concerns. Possibly he regards his adventures of the dnvs when he was dodging Funston, only to be cornered at last, in the light of mere youthful escapades. He beholds his native land as in no need of agitators, and as a relf-governing country with in dependence at the end of the rainbow. His storv is but another exemplar of the conspicuous Anglo-Saxon ability for winning over foes. Joseph E. Johnston broke bread with the Union leaders after the Civil War. Wheeler and Fitzhugh Lee served under the Union flag Biitain can point particularly to Botha and Smuts. The latter is a magnificent figure. Aguinaldo, of course, cannot ap proach his measurements. The Filipino was a wily general, but no statesman. Honorable citizenship is evidently the height of his political ambitions in his comfoi table middle age. POST-WAR FIRST AID '"PHE government owes it to the dis - abled coldiers to train them in the art of self-support. An excellent plan has been perfected and it is in operation. The sundry civil appropriation bill, passed by the present Congress, placed such restrictions upon the expenditure of money sot apart for the work that the work could not be done. The President has, therefore, sent the bill back to the Capitol with his disap proval and a request that it be changed to permit the work to go on. His objec tions have made it apparent to Congress that the bill should be revised. The committee has already modified it in accordance with the President's sugges tions. Now that the Prrsi HopeLonj: Deferred? dent lins saved the daylight - savins law we hope that a little of what has been saved may filter into tho minds of the conRressmon who voted for the repealer. The New York Ship Preparedness -vard, Camden, has launched its sixteenth torpedoboat destrovcr. While we trust In the covenant, it Is well to keep on wetting our peace -preservers. What tvould we say if one of the cities in Hush! one of the new Ger man republics nere to report scenes as frankly suggestive of political jobbery and decadence hs thnt which wad staged in the offices of the nen board of registration? The commission that Is Martyrs of State to investigate charges o f extortion in a j e against Squire Thomas, or Haverford, will have to define the acts that constitute spoon ing. It xWU have about as easy a time as the prohibition committee In Congress which xvill Boon attempt to define for the xvorld the pre cise physical conditions which indicate alco holic intoxication. The "wets" cannot complain of lack of co-operation bj; the xveathcrman, anyway. Leading a double life has a way of lead ing to no life at all. "New York Can't Have Thaw" says a headline. There are some advantages la being frozen out, after all. Berlin has been struck by a suicide wave. There will be no great grief In the world If, as it recedes, It hits Amerongen. . It la now up to Indefatigable Pollyanna to point out the decrease of seasickness in consequence of the shipping strike. The American people are less inclined to favor a swing around the circle than a vigorous straighl-llne approach to tho ques tionable peace points. Even If Henry Ford wins nothing from his suit but the knowiedee that Benedict Arnold was not a writer but a wronger, he will have gained something. The Senate foreign relations committee Is wasting time, drafting resolutions asking the President for information about the treaty, wbfn.ltoul4 lnvjteilm fcntsxomr wltte 'r0a, where be could, tell. all about It., PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, JULY 17, THE GOWNSMAN Our Acquaintances, the Birds IT IS where the country is open and there is nn ebb in the occupancy of men that we find the land of the birds, for here they nro unmolested except by the enemies which preserve the nicely adjusted balances of nature. The Gownsman is no ornithologist nor a naturalist of any kind, and he cares less for knowledge on some subjects than for the joys of the senses. Hut deeply in teresting are his homy, kindly vocal neigh bors, the birds, who, unconventional in their comings and goings, leave not n day un eventful, if we will but enter sympathetically into their lives. There is twitter of swal lows in our barn and the flutter of swifts in the chimney. Kvcn a fne on cool eve nings seems not to worry them or their young, who must have n strange first view of life In mingled smoke and twilight. Rvery young chimney swift must apparently per form an ncrohatic feat the first time he leates the nest. How otherwise could he rise out of the chimney? The other day a family of bluebirds came jujoiisly upon us. They sat on our apple trees, on our roofs, on our neighboring stone walls nnd they examined our eaves with circumspection nnd repetition. A gorgeous gentleman, in deep blue coat nud ruddy wnistroat, took r. fancy to a corner beneath the porch rafters. Again and again he bustle,! in and out of It, returning to his sliver spousn nnd volubly explaining its ex cellence as a place of nesting. At last lie prevailed upon her to look at the nook for herself. Plainly, however, she said. "Why, John, this will never do," for soon they were following the rest of the happy flock, who hail already' clapped wing to some new imitation. rrWMy lawn- if we may so dignify the ex JLi panse of clipped grass which surrounds the house is dnlly patrolled, ns every proporlj conducted lawn vhould be patrolled, bt "those corpulent fowls which ou Ameri cans arc n'ensptl to i-iill inluns," as a jocular English friend puts it. Thej take their toll tof earthworms and fhirrnp about the linus'e ns fnmilinrlj as barnyard fowls Our little friends, the spnrrnwu. three or four closely allied American brethren, dwell in (lie hedges, their busy lives undisturbed by association with their cockney cousins from over the rns, whose behavior toward other birds is so unneighborly that we are fain to believe them not English sparrows but some species of cousin -gerninii. The fl -catchers are fewer here than further south, except for the pewee. whose sentimental note we bar In the woods, nnd the ubiquitous kingbird, who pis on grent airs for one so plninlv dressed nnd so strident of voice, ns lie darts "from some place of vantage in crisp foravs upon his winged ni-oi or pursues some bird of nlien species whHi has dared to ap proach the snored precincts of his nest. A nnir of hummingbirds aie constant visitants, losing especially our lupines, and now the foxglntes. motlng up nnd down a tall stalk, with wing invisiblv whirling, poking head in ene'i blossom for a sip of honcx- and dart ing off to complete the carouse on plebeian milkweed. DAT begins enrlv for the birds Indeed, it is questionable if the day can be spoken of as beginning for many of them, for thev are up before the sun and there is often n stray twitter in the night The morning concert usually begins with the deliberate long notes of the white -throated sparrow, very numerous heieabouts. who frequently sings in nn isolnted. reminiscent manner a sweetly-sad recollection of the long ngo of yesterday Ocnsionally his cheerfuler cousin, the song sparrow, opens the din with a gush of jo " Then comes the robins chirrup designates too deli entelv the vigorous sound of their morning rrv. which has the rhythm of "Hurry-up! hurrj-up! come away, xxon't vou?" And sonn the fields nnd woods are x-ocal with a oncert in which each sings ns he will and the sum total is beautiful We had almost forgotten the crows, who begin early their raucous enwing, which is most unmusical afar off Prows nro apt to go nhoiit in groups of five or more, for they are individually enwnrds They post a sentinel on some tall tree to warn of anv approaching danger; for the crows are sad robbers and marauders nnd thev behave like outlaws, fenrful of the hand of the law It is a cynical joke that nature should have attired the crows in n garb which men have selected as be fitting the elergx Hut look nt your crow near nt hand, nnd you will find his coat iridescent nth steel blue and violet. AN" P now the full ihoir of the morning bursts forth. To enumerate them all. these sounds, xould be to catalogue the seventx odd birds of this countrjside with which we have a calliag acquaintance. Prince among them is the hermit thrush, who sings with a perfection in tone and phrase bevond all praise; delightful is the conxersntionnl, joculnr bobolink nnd the oven-bird, whose clear reiterated whistle. musically a true fourth rung down, has been unimaginntively translated "teacher, teacher, teacher!" In June and enrlv July in this latitude of the north there is scarcely an hour in the d.-iv which is not x-ocal with bird music Silence a moment, and you may count a dozen varieties of birds by their notes, enhanced in beauty by difference of distance nnd direction. At this moment there are three kinds of spnrrows audible, the whltcthroat, the song spnrrow nnd the chipping sparrow, busy on the lawn ; the xesper seldom visits u. The apple tree holds, from its high lisp of a song. It Is difficult to tell just xvhnt kind of a xvarbler. In the woods back are thrushes xlth an occasional "teacher," and swifts nre txvlttcr ing on the telegraph xvlre, with the sharp" cry of jay or hawk away off. Strangest of our musical bird sounds is the metallic click of the cuckoo, which sounds like a tap on the xylophone, twice on the same bar xvith a drop of the stick on it afterward". , Hut any day may bring us a joyous flight of thistle-finches, xvhose bounding flight Is as charming as their care-free song; or a noisy raid nf jays admonishing the countryside that they are about in their fine feathers, nnd frisking axvay into the xvoods to leave a grateful silence behind them. rpHE night is now upon us and the noc- X turnal folk come abroad, the nighthawk, flying hither nnd thither with shrill cry high above the trees until long-after twilight. The owls come later in the j ear with their nnswer ing hoots, noxv so near that you .may hear the feathery rattle in the throat and again diminished to nn echo nfar off on the hills. The whippoorwills nre the busiest of noc turnal songsters, reiterating their lamenta tions about the flagellation of poor Will, doubtless only too xvell deserved, In eou tlnuous chorus on xvarra nights, all the time that the dew is falling, and sleeping off the effects of their musical debauch aH dav. The Raw Material IJttle Jenny, aged three years, asked her brother for a glass of water. He drank out of it before handing it to her. Much In censed, she said to him: "Hasn't you been told 'ladles first'?" "Y." said little Hilly, "but you ain't lady." fl&'-r-o'.v r4yp M-ivfpf '" 'rmm -.'; U--S3sypi,j!i. .vcfflfettBa.,.JS: "'- - 2 te r. h Li.t4- ., .jmS S5' hm- L1 , , - s- . i. jiiirHiiliii;...Ai.fttfjf-Vyi ras- -r.isr J&3xfezz&. -:.! iiWtS.'--!-? -.1...l .. ftr?-'""lis '- T.ir-M w- TOs? . ia.w-y-u-iJi!?WuxiSitajw - F$3rxiwjarrp; , .3L...i..iiJ &- ---..r.'!r'. uww !:1-T J. - rr- ' U7h1.I..ii.iii 9ttH2H . . . .. ttil'. .; ij'J-.h.M! w ' xljftgS1 JaJllX?lr-.itrt-'v' -"-. JgS2ISj5t!5S PS&i7TOtH&v -'j'SlW raffiSfiWaSdJE: W 8gEM$. THE CHAFFING DISH Employment for Discharged Soldiers WANTED, for public house, respectahl General, to assist In bar; good wages; ref req Ostrich Hotel, Heaton park. The Manchester Guardian. Speaking of that "ignornnt idealist," it's mighty easy to prove any one ignorant by asking him questions that do not relate to his particular line of work. One industrious man Armed with an ency clopedia can buffalo the xvorld. Just ask the Quizeditor. Plot for Short-Story Writers PERSONAL The Young Man xvho left his residence on Sunday, Feb. 17, about 1 o'clock to get a Cigar, will find a letter In Blood's Despatch for him. Public Led ger, March 1, 1861 It seems to us that greater Ignorance re sides in the lawyer xx-ho thinks that anything ran be proved by asking xvhat a "ballyho" is than in the victim who attempts to define it. Bob Pulls One Bob Maxwell tractored up to the managing editor's desk yesterday with a mild-mannered stranger in tow. "Say," quoth he to the managing editor, "here's n joung man who wants to get into the newspaper game. Maybe you have some kind of a job he can grab off?" The managing editor .began to wonder how he could let the applicant down ensily. Man aging editors have many troubles, and re quests for jobs are among them. "Has he had any experience?" he said. "Onlv in Chicago," said Bob deprecnt- inglv "He worked on the unicago irimine for a while. But he's ambitious and xvilling to learn." "I'm sorry," said the managing ed, xvho is a humane man and hates to be cruel, "but I'm afraid" "Mavbe I'd better introduce him, said Rob. "Meet Ring Gardner." "In dear provincial 18S0." sings' Vachel Lindsay in this xveek's New Republic. Ingereoll xvas named along with Cain Voltaire, Appolyon nnd Thomas Paine. llobert nismore riled the pious brain. We suppose the fact that Vachel xvas only nine years old at that time accounts for the two misspellings. Situations Wanted WHEN we arc In search of an innocent smile and don't know just where to get It xve love to turn to the advertising pages of the r.nglish nexx-spapers. There is just enough difference in the English and Ameri can liugoes to make many announcements that are usual enough to British eyes seem admirably humorous tq us. One of the first things one notices in the English "Situations Wanted" Is the number of those xvho advertise themselves very hum bly as "Persons." "Middle-Aged Person re quires post Housekeeper to lady or gentle man; no wash." "Situation Wanted by a i,i T'orenn n Working Housekfen- er." It appears that in English want ads a Person is alxvays a female. Perhaps a Per son is a female no longer In the first parox vsms of youth, for we note these Insertions : ''Wanted, SUPERIOR PERSON, about 45 years," and "Respectable Elderly Person Wanted as Caretaker for small country house." , In contrast to these unassuming folk are those who Insist on calling themselves Ladles. "Thoroughly domesticated, capable Lady de sires Position as Lady Housekeeper to1 gen tleman of good manners and clean habits,' Wldoxvers are much preferred as employers by this clnss of applicant. For instance: "WIDOW Beeks post as LADY HOUSE KEEPER to gentleman (wldoxver pre ferred)," Somehow it seems a little heart less to prefer a widower. One wonders xvhether these ladles scan the death notices dally and note with secret satisfaction any newcomer to the ranks of bereavement. There is a sage knowledge of human per plexities displayed In the following want : NUUHB, to taice major pari in care or "$ 1919 "AW, G'WAN, BE A SPORT!" JSS&S ft -..llrtWr I 'MHs?iiiMi! VrthrwN ; '. "rrrrvi :tiv ijrassius. The Ladies wanting positions are properly cautious as to what mav be required of them. "SITUATION" wanted by Lady, middle aged : good cook : no washing or rough xx-ork." Passing by the Refined Young Ladies wanted in the fancy goods department, nnd the timid advertiser xxho says "Useful Help xx-anted : live out: tram paid: hours, say. 8 a. m. to 6 p. m." (xvhat an opportunity for argument that "say" offers!) and the "Use ful Help wanted for invalid lady in Cheshire: good lifter," one comes to the business sec tion. Here interesting sidelights are given on the present Btatus of the liquor traffic In England. We note the following: YOUNG MAN, age about 20, by Man chester Wine Merchants ; good opportunity to learn the business; liberal salary YOUNG LADY, . smart, respectable. Wanted, as Assistant in Temperance Bar and Herbal Stores ; permanent situation ; wages to commence 28s per week, 54 ij hours, .Saturdax- nnd Sunday duties. ADVERTISER. 49, seeks Engagement in Wine and Spirit Trade : life experience WANTED, at once, Two Wet Coopers WANTED, Carrier for 4 to 5 ton load of piece goods, who is returning empty from Leeds or Bradford to Manchester or be yond SITUATION WANTED by Hotel Por ter; understands all hotel xvork and cellar xvork. And here is one Inserted by some luxurious household : PARLOURMAID Wanted; 6 in family; 1 maids kept. We are somewhat startled to observe how early the motorcar exerts xvhat Mr. Wilson would call a compulsion upon the juvenile mind. The Urchin is only thirty -one months old, but he remarked recently, "I xx-ant to have an aunblle and get in the front seat and GO." He is also quite convinced that his father, whom he regard'x as the omnipotent distributor of al! desirable mnt ters and things, possesses nn airplane and is simply hiding it behind the bcase somewhere until the time comes for a family ride. When we ride in a train these days we always try to exercise great discrimination In picking out a seat behind some one xvho looks as though he or she would keep the xvlndoxv closed. The other day xve thought we had succeeded admirably. At North Philadelphia the smoker xvas Invaded by a great number of ladles. (Of course It xx-ould be too much to ask of Sir. Hincs that he sunnly enough cars so that the ladles and children xx-ouldn't hnve to ride In the smoker.) Just in front of us sat dow'n a denr. old lady xvlth white hair and a black bonnet. We thought to ourself, certainly she won't xvant to have the window open and drink in soot all the xx-ay. No sooner was the train in full career than she wanted the xx-indow up, all the way up. During the txvo hour ride she sat flapping in a brutal rush of air, Bpeckled with cinders and trying to imagine she enjoyed It. Several times we asked her, with as insinuating an accent as we could muster, xvhether the draught was bothering her. No, she liked It, As for ourself, we tried many times to get our pipe lit xvlthout silccess. Looking round tbJe ear we observed that every mature male of discreet years had his xvindoxv closed, which Is the only way to be comfortable on n fast train. Whereas all the women and children were fluttering in a typhoon of dust and wind. What has become, wo sometlmea wonder. of that old-fashioned figure, the man' who used to ask the person in the seat behind if he, or she would mind the window being opened? Of course he always opened it uny way, but It wasnice to be asked, Coreful reading of the Congressional Rec ord Introduces us to a great many lynchlugs of the English language, but there Is one abominable expresslgn that not even con gresB'ien tfae yet committed "at that." A reporter expresses surprise at finding a J copy of "Paradise Lost" in me reading room of the Bartenders' Union, on North Broad streeti .. . . . ...... I ... .i . . .. ili. ,ii ......:.,.,, n.fii. s . i .. thA ili drn nt tai i it...ii. ill M nil 'ir iihi L iiriiiniiv. nine uuiiium. uvi f V ' gJSrXVT . J.-J.. ... A ' PEACE PEACE has come to the Flemish hills, , And the sunny slopes of fair Lorraine! Peace in the very air that spills , O'er the greening slopes of vine and grain. Peace has come to the vales of France; Peace to the smiling English lanes; Peace where the golden sunbeams dance O'er Italy's hills and woods and plains. Peace In the vagrant winds that stray; Peace in the heart of everything ; Gone are the fears of yesterday, Death has fled on the breeze's wing. Blaine C. Biglcn The German nobility is not to be abol ished, but everybody is to be made as good as a noble. Thus does German Ingenuity find a way out. Ten cents a cup for coffee in the chain restaurants is noxv the price. But wasn't the five-cent cup of coffee to displace the five-cent glass of beer? Something must hax-e gone xvrong. In the midst of ratification wrangles and all the ills which noxv seem to weigh upon us so heavily, it is xx-cll to remember that just one year ago tomorrow Ludendorff took hii Steve Brodie with reverse consequences. The convening billboard men, xx-ho hsv proclaimed the policy of treating nil criticism of their performances with consideration, might xx-ell tip off spokesmen of both parties in Washington. One young woman lost her purse con- taining three thousand dollars' worth of 5 jewels on the Boardwalk at Atlantic City, r and another young woman found it and re- 3 turned It to her. Yet some senators scoff at idealism! t What Do You Know? .XT', r QUIZ J$A 1. Who Is the new pcrman minister toths 4 new AuBtrla.' V Wlmr Is the fastest sneed ever made hr '. nM.MMHM- ii....? .- 3. Where is the island of Yap? 4. Who is Raisuli? 6. In what novel is the circumlocution of . . j ii 1 1 nee aescnueu; 75 0. Who was Claude A. Debussy? 7. What is the literal meaning of the word t mediocre? 8. What is a solecism? o 0. What American statesman was known as "Old BulIIon"7 p 10. What is the salary of the chief justice of the United States? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz ' 1. Three marshals of France appeared In the Bastille Day parade in Paris on July 14. They were Joffre, Petain and Foch. ' 2. Tellurians are Inhabitants of the earth. 3. A tup Is a male sheep. v 4. Many East Indians and Burmese are ' t-& t Mat lt Alt A ltd A DeiBl-UUV Oinni , 5 The xvoril ulgoi is 01 uecatnuie uugia. I Derivations from Visigoth and thej Spanish vxord "bigot," mustache, ' have both been suggested. 0, Calgary Is the capital of Alberts,! Canada. 7. Alnhonse Daudet wrote the famous is short-story classic of French patriot ttsm, "The Siege of llerlin." R The Eiffel Tower is 0S4 feet high, Tie J Washington Monument is 005 B"V$ high, o Ainvhem is maiming a person by oV ' priving him of the use of any of Wa members xvliieu are necessary tor nil In' detruding himself or aunoylug hf! 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