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Philadelphia, Fililar, Jul; 18. 1919
MORE DELAY
STAY of execution of sentence upon the
men convicted in the Fifth Ward elec
tion murder case was effected by the
appeal from the decision of the trial
judges in West Chester denying a new
trial.
The Superior Court has now denied the
appeal from the trial court and has or
dered the convicted men to West Chester
to serve the sentences.
But an appeal has been taken to the
Supreme Court and this serves as a sec
ond stay of execution.
If the Supreme Court denies the ap
peal the lawyers for the convicted men
will attempt to find some other pretext
for delay. That is what they are paid
for.
In the meantime the policemen, under
sentence for proved crimes, are still wear
ing their uniforms and drawing their pay
from the city as faithful guardians of
life and property.
BEER IN THE COURTS
JUDGE DICKINSON, in refusing to
issue a ruling which would either
guarantee brewers and saloonkeepers
against prosecution for violation of the
wartime "dry" law or strengthen the
radical minority among prohibitionists,
seems to have shared the mood of count
less Americans who are viewing the beer
fight in Congress and throughout the
country with disgust for the lawlessness
manifested on one side and the hysteria
and ineptitude upon the other.
Congress wishes to prohibit the sale of
Intoxicants. It has refused to define the
thing which it has declared illegal. A
federal judge is under no compulsion to
act as a mind reader or to make decisions
which Congress ha3 not the courage to
make.
THE DARK, DARK FUTURE
OOFT-VOICED gentlemen representing
the trolley systems of the country are
telling the Federal Railway Commission
that the street railway companies must
have a billion a year more than they now
receive or go on the rocks. Presumably
they will sink in the water that floats
them.
The leather interests are supposed to
be responsible for the rumor that wooden
shoes may yet be fashionable in this
country because of a combination of cir
cumstances that is driving the prices of
hides skyward. Even walking is to be
made difficult and painful to the walker
and to folks who want to sleep at night.
They ought to stop Henry Ford's libel
suit at once. Henry is needed imme
diately to devise small airplanes that will
be within reach of the poor and capable
of operating with water as fuel.
WHY NOT, LADIES?
rpHE prediction was made during the
-war that the trend of women toward
masculine jattire and masculine habits
would show a marked reaction the mo
ment war was over; and that women,
reacquiring a taste for frills and furbe
lows, would become more "feminine"
than ever.
There is some slight hint of the fulfill
ment of the prediction in the concern
being manifelted by local women in the
allegation that tenni? is a great breeder
of wrinkles. Concentration and exposure
to the elements, moreover, are blamed for
hard lines and a rough skin.
Women proved their usefulness as war
workers. Now, in hours of ease, it may
be that many of them will resume their
habit of being "just charming."
WAR STAMPS FOR WASTE
rpHE avidity with which Americans
took to the war-savings-stamp idea
was a heartening index that our national
wastefulness was easily amenable to in
telligent treatment, flf oil v,
jK&J raising devices employed here during the
Rrr world conflict, this was on of ti. i-.
Wbjft onerous and most successful.
f&J . Asia spur t0 thrift- Jt is now enhanced
. i ii ,7, -"iiau scneme
which will convert so-called "trash" into
material nrnfifcnrilp tn VintV, tx,
g. " '; .ment and its citizens.
, rl The waste reclamation service of the
j'D'epartment of Commerce is to super
it' '"vlan frm sfnriH1imnf nf 1..nt . a-
lp( ;feclamation councils in communities
i throughout the country. Special weeks
'. will be designated for the collection of
M a i certain commoaities whose intrinsic
t wjrth s ordinarily scorned when they
warttossed in the ash cans. Paper weeks,
?"etl weeks, rubber weeks and the like
JjlWlI'be proclaimed in which the govern-
.'WCfit will purchase the discarded ma-
UrUls for which it has uso. Payment to
fff tw wMrs wta be made m tnrut etamps.
rt 'icy "(jb entirely praclfcal and
based- upon sound principles of hus
bandry. It is, for instance, estimated
that 8 per cent of every ton of waste
sent to the dumps is composed of rags
necessary to the making of roofing felt
The check to thoughtless extravagance
should be exceedingly beneficial to a na
tion that found its first steps in saving
much easier to take than it expected.
It may be anticipated that the favor
with which the thrift-stamp system was
received will be accorded to this novel
and important phase of it.
AFTER VICTORY
MR. BURLESON'S announcement that
mail is again going into Germany
and coming out without restrictions, the
withdrawal of the Allies' blockade, the
hurried re-establishment of banking and
trade relations between the German
states and their neighbors are circum
stances which may fairly bo accepted as
indications of a new epoch in history.
We shall hear less of Germany from
now on. We shall hear less about "the
Hun." A people vanquished or hard and
silently at work is less dramatic than a
nation at grips with the world. But it
will be regrettable if the people of the
Allied nations dismiss Germany alto
gether from their thoughts, because the
reactions of tho next few ycai s in a coun
try that is beginning life all over again
will be filled with significance for the rest
of mankind.
We have beaten the Germans, but in
one way we have done them a mighty
service. We have put them in the hard
est kind of a school. We have forced
them into a situation that will involve
generations of mental and moral disci
pline. They must cultivate the virtues of
patience and industry and self-reliance
or perish.
Bolshevism has receded rapidly in
Germany. The country has a new start
in the arts of politics and national admin
istration. Men suffer at the galley oar,
but they leave it with strong arms.
There is nothing in the terms of peace
that can prevent the new Germany from
achieving dignity and strength within a
generation.
What is to happen in the meantime
with the Allied nations and with the
United States which have not the in
centive to self-discipline, to effort and to
soul searching that Germany has in
inherited from the general ruin?
Are they to grow soft and complacent?
Will they relax into political and eco
nomic recklessness?
Victory involves responsibilities
greater by far than the responsibilities
of defeat. The loser in a fight has all to
gain. The winner has all to lose. If the
Germans emerge from their period of
enforced penance with a new political
consciousness and an enlightened sense of
the great opportunities sure to ensue
upon a humane and scientific political
administration in the modern state, they
may yet be glad that they lost the war.
And if the nations that defeated them
are content to rest upon the achievement
and to be satisfied with political pretenses
and platitudes and the old habits of
thought that permitted the debasement
of democratic government in the past,
their victory will be in the end, and de
spite the league of nations, little better
than a disaster.
There is in England, apparently, some
recognition of this fact. The political
system and the party superstitions of
England will never be the same again.
The suggestion that Lloyd George in
tends to organize a new party, to group
the progressive minds of all the old fac
tions in a movement representative of
the general interest of the country rather
than the interests of restricted political
cliques sounds valid enough. If Lloyd
George doesn't attempt some such coup
another man will.
Class and group interests in Great
Britain have to be reconciled and the
political genius of the English probably
will find means to that end. Ireland will
be made content in one way or another.
One of the ambitions of British states
men is to formulate policies which will
free some of the far-off dominions of
their growing desire for independent ex
istence and bind them anew to the mother
country. It is clear that the British have
not stopped thinking and that they are
aware of crucial years immediately
ahead.
In the United States most of the peo
ple who presume to lead opinion seem
content with the knowledge that we are
the richest nation in the world. But our
riches will not carry us far in peace and
safety if we proceed without enlight
ened policies of government and better
conceptions of political aims and methods
at home. The sort of party spirit that
has been rampant on both sides in Con
gress, the obvious unfitness of many men
in high offices, the flagrant development
of politics as a business and a gamble in
this country and the inefficiency of state
and municipal government; the aloofness
of the average influential politician from
knowledge of or interest in the concerns
of the vast majority of our people, are
things that have encouraged cynicism or
despair in great numbers of Americans
whose patriotism is not of the imitation
kind.
We shall have to revive our faith. We
shall have to be rid of the men in politics
who habitually betray us. We shall have
to advance with the onward thought of
aspiring men or be left behind, at one
day or another, by the people whom we
defeated. The responsibility is not upon
any political party or any one man or set
of men. It is upon the people, who, if
they are to fulfill the duties of citizenship
in the great period of world reconstruc
tion, must think of the country and of its
institutions first and of their political
parties afterward.
"THE JERSEY COAST"
THAT radio operator at the navy yard
who sent out a message that the
steamship Scantic was aground "off the
New Jersey coast" had his little joke, as
the ship waH aground in the Delaware
river off Snyder avenue.
But it was a joke which offends the
literary purists. "Coast" is not properly
applied to the bank Of a river. If he had
said the ship was aground "off the New
Jersey shore" his meaning .would have
been capable of the two interpretations
which he apparently intended and his
statement would have been accurate.
The coast is the land washed by the
sea. The shore is the land washed by
the sea, by a lake or by a large river.
When Philadolpliians "go down to the
shore" they go to Atlantic City, Ocean
City, Wildwood or some of the other
ocean resorts. When they "go to the
coast" they go to California, so limited
do words becomo by usage.
The operator's phtase reminds one that
New Jersey has an extended shore line,
leaching from the northeast boundary on
the Hudson river to the northwest bound
ary on the Delaware at Port Jervis.
WATCHFULLY WAITING
fpHE American people are practicing
orthodox Wilsonian doctrine in watch
fully waiting for an explanation that will
clear up the hubbub and doubt over the
Shantung clause in the treaty.
They are waiting with patience and re
straint. But back of this attitude is a stern
resolve to insist upon the facts, full, free
and open.
Personal persuasion of particular Re
publican senators in the seclusion of the
White House will not suffice if those
senators, like Mr. McCumber, after their
visit, feel that their lips are scaled.
While this method may enlighten the
senators and win them over to approval
of the presently obnoxious clause, it will
not satisfy public opinion, which, there
is every reason to believe, is deeply
stirred by the apparent inconsistency be
tween the President's profession of prin
ciples and the performance of the Allies
in this instance.
There is hope in the intimations of
Senator Colt, who said after he saw
the President, that the Shantung matter
"could be made much clearer than it
appears" and that there was a possibility
the President "might make a statement"
to the Senate.
That is what the people desire and
demand, and the Senate is recreant to its
representative duty when it fails to take
immediate advantage of Mr. Wilson's
offer to appear for questioning.
The subject is too dangerous for trifling
either in the form of bombastic and jingo
istic speeches in the Senate or urbanities
behind closed doors in the White House.
For utter and severe condemnation of
the Shantung clause, it is only necessary
to quote the President's fine speeches on
numerous occasions since the first week
in April, 1917, but judgment must be re
served until the President has been heard
in justification. That justification he
must make, after the revelations of this
week, or be content to see the section
adjudged out of his own mouth.
Tiftcen hundred po
They Did In Vain tal dorks have peti
tioned Concre. for an
increase in salarr. They would be wier to
becin b.v petitioning the President for a new
postmaster general.
There is nothing mod
They Want a Share est about the demands
of the striking Boston
street-car men, who ask an eight-hour day
nt seventy-three and one-half cents an hour.
Hut the street-car fare is ten rents, xxhieh
suggests that the railroad companies set the
example in immodest demands.
In New Tork they are
The New Hate welcoming German
opera back with open
arms. All of the emotional stress that at
tended efforts to haxe German pancake re
named as Victory Pastry has passed. And
i. is :n Manhattan that a crusade has just
started to change the name of the neighbor
ing village of Rye.
There arc 400 applica
tions for membership
on the Committee of
One Hundred, but if
Does Any Ono
Remember Wvd?
the committee were made big enough to take
them all in some one xxould begin to talk of
the Four Hundred xxhieh Ward McAllister
made famous in Nexv York, and the chance
of getting votes in South Philadelphia xvould
go glimmering unless Ward McAllister has
been forgotten
Lieutenant Charles
Heroism on Trial Wayne Kerxvood, vet
eran of the Lafayette
Hseadrille, daredevil Hun hunter, xx inner of
the Croix de Guerre for heroism in sky
righting oxer the battle lines in France, who
fled back trembling to the clouds after one day
iu Anlmorc pontics, knoxxs noxv, after find
ing politics too much for his nerves, that
valor is sometimes found in strange places.
Courage is needed iu politics. Only a brave
man can sit around from year's end to year's
end and draxv a largo salary for doing
nothing.
Why do special plead
ers always ignore es
sential facts? There
Is, for example, tho
Aliens Must Ppeah
Our Language
man who spoke in the Baptist Temple against
compulsory study of the English language
by aliens. He remarked that Prussia had
tried compulsory German in Poland and
Austria had tried It in Bohemia and both
had failed. Does he not know that they
failed because alien governments were try
ing to force an alien language upon native
populations in the land of their birth? Tho
teaching of F.nglish to Poles in American
schools is not on all fours with the teaching
of Germau to Poles in Polish schools. A
moment's thought will show the radical dif
ference. Polish Is the language of Poland,
and a man xvho wants to live there must
speak it. English Is the language of Amer
ica, and the man who comes here from abroad
Is handicapped unless lie Is able to speak
English. The state does a service to the
foreigner xvhen it requires him to learn the
language of the country.
The old Max Stirner doctrine, "My right
is the right," seems likely to be the guiding
principle of the party which David Lloyd
George is reported to be planning.
Hardening our hearts xvould be accom
panied by a marked softening process xvere
Germany to send us her irrepressible Max
Harden. But the whole suggestion of send
ing him here as ambassador is too sensible
for the rumor to have much foundation In
Teuton fact, .
THE WAR'S TURNING POINT
IN THE LIGHT OF HISTORY
Solemnity of the First Anniversary of
July 18, 1918, Profoundly En
hanced as Retrospect Illumines
the Stupendous Event
THE solidifying of news into history is a
process xxhieh only the light of retrospect
can reveal. Actuat participants in the ter
rific counter-offensive which the French and
American troops Inaugurated on the Marne
one year ago today were unfit to gauge the
stupendous meaning of that action. Their
vision.'hoxxever alert and keen, wns limited.
So aNo xx-br the penetration of the gen
erals xvho xvrote the dispatches, the corre
spondents xvho repeated them with annota
tions, the nexvspaper editors who published
them, the victory-hungry public which read
them.
Throughout the Entente world July 18,
1M8. was a thrilling day. After five gigan
tic offensives the German Invasion of France
had been repulsed. Obviously here was an
ex-cnt of magnitude. Rut just wjint xx-crc its
proportions?
Doubtless Foch himself hesitated to ac
knowledge the full majesty of the design.
SO FULLY that its estimate is now a
commonplace, the world knows today
that the xvhole )Qursc of humanity turned
on July 18. 1018. The first battle of the
Marne in September. 1014. has been called
the Gettysburg of the conflict.
The ascription is in a sense a misnomer.
History, that master clarificr of events and
the motives and deeds of men, js fast re-x-ealing
that there xvere really two wars in
the monster fray. "First Marne" was a
decisive battle. It determined the character
of the conflict, turning the impending Ger
man triumph into a stalemate.
The first war continued until the Inter
vention of America in 1017. Despite ad
vances and retreats on both sides, the result
of the Franco-British recovery on the
Marne governed the aspect of the main bat
tle terrain of France and Flanders for
nearly three jears.
Then came the new alignment, new pur
poses, nexv and epochal development. The
first war xvas over a draw. "First Marne"
had saved the Allies. It had not xx-on for
them, and thus Marshal Joffre's signal
achievement was not as peace times illumine
it a Gettysburg, marking the beginning of
a tide of uninterrupted success.
It xvas more nearly an Antietam. That
engagement effectively established the fact
the Confederacy could not win. The Sep
tember Morne ended for sane commentators
the prospect of decisive Teuton victory.
IT IS easy to interpret a Sedan or a Wa
terloo. Its finality is explicit. But a
Gettysburg grows and groxvs in import and
grandeur as history revises contemporary
appreciations, rearranges events in archi
tectural symmetry and authorizes for man
kind the maximum of thrills long after the
particular interplay of circumstance has
ceased.
Today is when the sirens should shrill,
the bands play, the guns boom, the chimes
ring forth. Next year and the next and
the next there xvill bo increasing xvarranty
for rapture.
Plainer, more overwhelmingly funda
mental, xvill appear the truth of the "Second
Marne," the true Gettysburg of the "Second
War."
STRICTLY speaking, the battle endured
for seventeen days, until by August 3,
xvhen the Slarne-Vesle pocket had been
wholly evacuated by the Germans, the
ability of the Entente to conduct a major
offensive had been demonstrated, and Paris
xvas no longer menaced.
In the broad sense, however, the engage
ment was continuous until Armistice Day.
All the triumphant movements of all the
armies grexv out of the stunning repulse in
flicted by Foch, and more immediately Man
gin and Gouraud, in the midst of the fifth
and last I.udendorff drive.
That movement xvas no fellow of its Cyclo
pean predecessors. In the interx'al that had
ensued between March 21 and July 14 the
Allies, thanks chiefly to the American cru
saders, had acquired the preponderance of
numerical strength. The fifth German of
fensive had, it is true, crossed the Marne
and xxas heading for Epernay, but it had
wretchedly "flivvered" about Rhcims, and,
furthermore, the Allied high command was
perfectly acquainted xvith the specific am
bitions of the Hun strategy.
Ludendorff's plans were by that time ap
parent, both because of sound interpretation
of military principles and because of special
information privately received. Foch's
purposes were a riddle to his foes, who, in
addition, hopelessly misconceived the enor
mity of his resources.
BY NOON of July 15 the generalissimo's
decision had been made. and the hour of
the counter-offensive had been appointed.
On schedule at 4 :3o July 18 it began. Its
main objectives were the Soissons-Chateau-Thierry
road and the heights of Soissons.
The front had been imperfectly stabilized
for a repetition of the old heart-breaking
trench xvarfare. A species of open fighting
vas possible and 'the Frapco -American
troops availed themselves of the opportunity
with magnificent enthusiasm and dash.
Chateau-Thierry was recaptured on July 21.
The prelude had been something akin to
demoralization in the German ranks, com
pletely surprised b.v the Entente assertion
of the initiative. The greatest penetration
made by the first staggering blow was six
miles on a front of about twenty-eight.
In two days 17,000 prisoners xvere taken.
On the same day that Chateau -Thierry was
regained the last ot the Allied troops had re-
crossed the Marne.
Then began the rush toward the Ourcq
and the envelopment of Jaulgonne on the
north bank of the Marne. On the eastern
leg of the quadrilateral, bounded, roughly
speaking, with lines connecting Soissons,
Rheims, Chateau-Thierry and Epernay, the
Italians, English and French were within
txvo miles of the important FIsmes-Chatil-Ion
railxvay. The prisoners bad mounted
to more than 35,000.
When the Germans reached the Vesle
their resistance stiffened, but by that time
the offensive poxxer had passed to tho
Allies, the plan of the Ludcndorff campaign
was smashed to flinders, the American
army, represented by nlno divisions, had
proved Itself gloriously equal to its Homeric
opportunity and the sxving to conclusive
victory Lad been made.
Only five days elapsed betxveen the. slow
ing down of the German retreat on the
Vesle and the mighty bloxv directed by Sir
Douglas Halg in Picardy. Never was there
a single setback to the triumphal progress.
REALIZATION of the event of July 18,
1018, is incomplete even on Its anniver
sary. But history has the initiative now,
and that drive will be pursued throughout
the years, Descendants of the present gen
eration will find the event and its Implies
tions easier to fathom than we hare found
it, for all our ecstasy.
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THE CHAFFING DISH
Darby Creek
rjIHE other day xve had an adxenture that
- gave us great joy. and, like all great ad
ventures, it xxas wholly unexpected.
We went out to spend an evening with a
certain Caliph xvho lives nt Daylesford how
many Main Lino commuters, b.v the x-ay,
knoxv that it is named for Daylesford in
Worcestershire, the home of Warren Hast
ings? and'after supper the Caliph took us
for a stroll round the twilight. In a green
holloxv bcloxv the house, only a fexv para
graphs away from the room where this Caliph
sits and xvrites essays (he is the only author
In Philadelphia who has never receix-ed a re
jection slip) he shoxxed us a delicious pool,
fed by several springs and lying under great
willows. From this pool tinkled n modest
brook, splashing ox-er a dam and xvinding
away down an alluring x-alley. A xx-hite road
ran beside it, through ngreeable thickets and
shrubbery, startiug off xvith a twist that sug
gested all manner of pleasant surprises for
the xvayfarer. It xvas just the kind of road
to see spread before one nt the cool outset of
a long summer day.
"This," said the Caliph, "Is the head-xx-ater
of Darby creek."
LITTLE did the Caliph, douce man, know
i what that simple statement meant to us.
The hendxvaters of Darby! Darby creek,
and its jounger brother Cobb's creek, xvere
the Abana and Pharpar of our youth. We
xvere nourished first of all on Cobb's, xvhi-re
xve had our n6t swim and caught our first
tadpoles and conducted our first search for
buried treasure (and also smelt our first
skunk cabbage). Then, in our teens, xve
ranged farther afield nud learned the xx-ay to
Darby, by whose crystal xvaters we used to
fry bacon and read R. L. 9. There xvill
never be any other streams quite as dear to
our heart.
UNTIL the other evening at the Caliph's
we had not seen the water of Darby
creek for ten years; not such a long time,
perhaps, as some reckon these matters, but
quite long enough. And our mind runs back
xvith unrestrained enthusiasm to the days
when we lived only two miles away from that
delicious stream. Darby creek is associated
in our mind with n saxv and cider mill, that
used to stand and very likely still stands
xvhere the creek crosses the West Chester
pike. To that admirable spot, in the warm
blue haze of an October afternoon, certain
young men used to tramp. While the whirl
ing blades of the sawmill screamed through
green logs, these care -free Innocents used to
sit round a large vat where the juice of
fresh apples came trickling through some sort
of burlap squeezing coils, and xvhere fat and
groggy xvasps buzzed and tottered and ex
pired in rapture. These youths (xvho should
not be blamed, for indeed they had few re
sponsibilities and cares) xvould ply the flagon
xvith diligence, merrily toasting the trolleys
that hummed by on the xvay to West Chester.
We xvill not give nway their names, for they
are noxv demure and respected merchants and
in.....o.e nnri memherft of ltotarv clubs and
stock exchanges. But we remember ono of
these who xvas notably susceptible to cider.
On the homeward path, as he flourished his
intellect broadcast and quoted Maeterlinck
and Bliss Carman, he was induced by his
comrades to crawl inside a large terra-cotta
pipe that lay by the roadside. Just how this
act of cozening was accomplished xve forget ;
perhaps it xvas a xx-ager to see whether he,
being proud of his slender figure, xx-as slim
enough to eel through the tube. At any rate,
he vanished Inside. The pipe lay at the top
of a gentle bill, aud for his companions it
xvas the xvork of an inspired moment to seize
the cylinder and set it rolling down the grade.
Merrily it revolved for a hundred feet or
more, at high velocity, and culbutted into a
ditch. The dizzied victim emerged at length,
quoting Rabelais.
THE mile and a half along the creek above
this saxvmlll up to xvhere an odd little
branch railroad crosses the stream on a tot
tery trestle and Ithan creek runs in xvas the
pleasure haunt best knoxvn to us. It xvas ap
proached through Coopertown, that rustic
settlement xvhlch the Bryn Mawr squire haa(
recently turned into a Tom Tiddler's grouud.
Across stubble fields and down an enchanting
valley carpeted with moss xve scoured on
many and many an afternoon, laden with the
rudiments of a meal. There was said to be
a choleric farmer with a shotgun and an
angry collie on the western marge of the
stream, and it was always a matter of cour
age to send over an envoy (chosen by lot)
to bag a few ears ot corn for roasting. But
for our own part we, jaever encountered this
LITTLE BUT LOUD
enemy, though Mifflin once came throbbing
back empty-handed and pale-faced, report
ing that a charge of lead had sung past his
cars. Above a small dam the creek backed
up to a decent depth, five feet or so of cool
green water, and here bathing was conducted
in the ancient Greek manner. There xxere
sun -w armed fence rails nearby for basking,
and then n fire xvould be built and vittles
mobilized. Tobacco pouches were emptied
out iuto one common store, and by the time
this wns smoked out a xvhite moonlight would
be spilling over the autumn fields.
Vm: GREW so fond of this section of our
''Abana that xve never explored the full
length of the stream. It xvould be a lovely
(lajrs jaunt, xve imagine, to set out from
I)rby (xvhere Cobb's creek joins Darby
Creek) and xvalk up the little river to its
source at Daylesford. It would be about
twenty miles, xvhich is a just distance for a
xvalker who likes to study the scenery as he
goe. Through the greater part of the trail
the stream trots through open farming coun
try, with old mills here and there paper
mills, flour mills and our famous shrine of
sawdust and cider. The lower waters, from
Darby doxvn to Tinieum Island and the mouth
at Essington, would probably be less walk
able. We suspect them of being marshy,
though xve speak only by tho map. Mr.
Browning, we remember, wrote n poem about
a bishop xvho ordered his tomb at Saint
Praxed's. We, if we had a chance to lay
out any blueprints of our final rolltop.
would like to be the Colyumist who ordered
his tomb by Darby creek, and not too far
away from that cider mill. And let no one
think that it is a stream of merely senti
mental interest. Hog Island, as all will
grant, is n place of national importance.
And xvhat is Hog Island, after all? Only the
delta of Darby creek.
Is Germany a Republic?
The Dish, always first xvith the news that
really matters, calls attention to the fol
lowing item concerning the ceremony of
signing the peace at Versailles. As far as
we have been, it did not get into the cable
dispatches.
Jr. Clemenceau's speech xvas notable for
a curious Interruption from the German
table. When M. Clemenceau spoke of the
Delegation of the German Republic a cry
that was almost a shout was hurled at
him across the room of "Reich:" "Reich!"
and M. Clemenceau corrected himself and
repeated the xx-ords "Reich Allemand." The
signature of tho treaty began after
three. Manchester Guardian.
Noxv of course the German word "Reich"
really means "realm," but long usage has
given it the significance of "empire." We
ask, merely for information, does Germany
consider herself a republic or doesn't she?
Those Were the Daysl
WANTED, by an American GIRL, a
SITUATION as chambermaid or general
HOUSEWORK. Please call at corner of
Stiles and Carlisle streets. Publlo Ledger
Feb. 28, 1861.
Desk Mottoes
I hax- never needed, even In my early
years, to possess things In order to enjoy
them. ANATOLE FRANCE.
Coffee has gone up to ten cents a cup at
some restaurants. The day may come xvheu
they'll charge a fee to let you look through
the window and watch the griddle cakes being
baked. . SOCRATES.
And "Br'cr" Japan, he lay low.
a way with the contented.
It's
The Senate's zeal for reservations is
clearly in Inverse ratio to its,rcserve.
Mrs. Macbeth xvould have entertained no
further ambitions concerning tho sticking
point had she known of Philadelphia xvcather;
Governor Sproul found that the reserve
militia in camp atMt. Gretna xxas a soldierly
lot ot men.
St. Swithin weather is making even the
most skeptical believe in saints.
Common laborers get better pay than
some of the postofflce clerks, but Congress is
so busy on less important matters that It has
nqt time to consider the just demands of these
men. Perhaps it would be truer to say that
the postmaster general Js so anxious to run
bis department at a profit that he objects to
a fair day's' pay for a fair day's work,
A POEM IN PROSE
OUR Allied peoples must remember
That God gave them overwhelming vic
tory Victory far beyond their greatest dreams,
Not for small selfish ends,
Not for financial or economic advantages.
But for the attainment of the great human
ideals
For which our heroes gave their lives.
And which are the real victors
In this war of ideals.
A NEW heart must be given,
Not only to our enemies,
But also to us;
A contrite spirit for the woes which I
overwhelmed the world ;
A spirit of pity, mercy and forgiveness
For the sins and wrongs which we have su
fered.
A new spirit of generosity and humanity,
Born in the hearts of the peoples
In this great hour of common suffering an
sorrow,
Can alone heal the wounds.
General Smuts.
Judge Dickinson reminds the brexver
that the xvay to get legal advice is to pay n
retainer to a lawyer.
Only the first three letters of Marne xvill
mean anything to Eric Ludendorff if he ix
bold enough to think of that river today.
Letters can now be sent to Germany by
the regular routes. But they got to Germany
all the time, if we may believe the boasts of
the people over there.
"New" National Guard is a misnomer.
Veteran Is the correct epithet for the con
trolling factors in the reorganization of the
state troops.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. How does the population of the whole
Shantung peninsula compare with that
portion of it in which Japan succeeds
to the former German title?
2. How many men per congressman or
senator are to be recruited for the
National Guard in each state when the
act providing for that organization is
fully operative?
3. What is the capital of Peru?
4. Who wrote "The Battle of the Kegs"?
5. AVhat is a tort?
6. Who xxas John Huss?
7. What amendment to the constitution
provides authority for the imposition
of the federal income tax?
8. What is the highest great xvaterfall in
the xvorld?
0. Where is the Sistine Chapel, xvhlch con
tains the famous frescoes ot Michael
Augclo?
10. Who was the sixth President of Jhe
United States?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Brockdorff-Rantzau is the nexv German
minister to the nexv Austria.
2. Thirty-one, miles an hour by the
Mauretama Is the fastest speed ever
made by an ocean passenger "Hucr.
3. The island of Yap is one of tho Caro
lines in the Pacific, located nt nbout II
degrees north latitude and 138 degrees
ca,st longitude. It formerly belonged to
Germany and is noxv in Japanese con
trol. 4. Ralsuli is a Moroccau bandit and revo
lutionist against xvhom Spalu is now
waging a "little xvnr."
0. The "Circumlocution Office" is de
scribed in Dickens's novel "Little
Dorrit."
0. Claude A. Debussy was a noted French
musical composer, exponent of tho
ultra-modern school. He died in 1013.
7. Mediocre literally means of middle de
gree.
8. A solecism is an offense against grammar
or Idiom, blunder in manner of speak
ing or xvriting; piece of ill-breeding
or incorrect behavior.
0. Thomas H. Benton, of Missouri, was
known as "Old Bullion" because of
his advocacy tit bard money coinage,
He died in 1S58.
10. The salary, of the chief justice of tha
United States is 115,000 year. .
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