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evening Public ledger Philadelphia, Monday, july 21, 1919 '
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DISTURBERS OF TRAFFIC
rpHIS is the time of enr when the jret--
rich-quick madnc- oeivhelm con
stables in the Rreen hinterland that
motor dners fly to in their houi- of
freedom from the citie of then captnity.
The lust for fees, with its accompaniment
of the speed trap, the stop-watch and the
ambush, breaks out with cloekl'ke regu
larity amonpr countiy coppers, thouiih,
like measles, it neer .strike.- twice in the
same place
New Jersey used to lie a p.uadise for
constables with a weakness fm frenzied
finance, who managed to make that pleas
,ant state an inferno for automobilists
before they were suppiessed ly the State
Highway Department, which found it nec
essary to act decisively at last in older
to protect the interests of the shore te
isorts. Thousands of tourists were being
frightened away from Xew Jeisey
The an est of an occasional automobile
driver is understandable. I!ut when, sud
denly and without warning, automobilists
trapped aie arrested in shoals at a given
point and squeezed by a waiting squne
"the thing looks suspicious. The automo
'bile clubs of this city desene the giati
tude of all law-abiding mutoi owneis for
,their detei mined effoits to suppress the
latest outbreak of the fining mania in the
Philadelphia suburbs. The aie dealing
with a nuisance as gieat as the devil-may-care
road hog, who .still peisists in
areas made impassable fot othei and
more caieful dnveis.
ACTORS IN THE FEDERATION
A BROADENING general definition of
" woik is one of the heartening signs
pf the penod we lie in Abioad .ill labor
leaders of every slant of mind have lost
Hv the old belief that to do any woik that
matters you hae to labor with youi
jhands.
i The most conspicuous advance iciently
imade by oiganized laboi in England was
(recorded when trades union leaders m
jvlted doctois, artists, actois, writeis,
'teachers, cditois and all "mind woiktrs"
jgenerally to memheiship in then oigani
izations. It is not uipn.nK;, thuefoie,
la find that the actors' union of the
United States has been meiged deftlj
with the American F-edeiation of Lntmi.
Playeis woik, of course To sing when
Jou don't want to, to appeal delniousl.v
funny when jou ate in tiuth daikly sad;
to make an audience laugh when oui
mind is tormented with thoughts of un
paid bills or an alimon.v-hungi.v sheriff is
to toil indeed
AS THE PENDULUM SWINGS
TDOSTON, we aie told, was laid out b
- a cow. As the cow walkeil the road
Tvound; houses faced it; siirveynis
clinched it on eouithouse books, and the
city of cultuic and beans became a fact,
to tfrc joy of the scholar and the puzzle
ment of the pedestuan
Modem efficiency saw m ciooked
streets a gieat wasiei of time, and
throughout the countiy new towns wen
laid out with pencil and uiler and old
towns had their stieets -ti .lightened by
Highway surgeons It became possible m
ver so many cities to tra"l fioni lleie
to There in the .smallest possible time
It was inevitable that s,ionei 01 later
human nature would levolt at the dictum
qt efficiency; inevitable that a man who
races should occasionally wish to mean
der. He makes his living in stiaight
jjtreets; he desires to go home to gieen
lanes that twist and tuin and show unex
pected vistas.
And so it has come to pass that on the
outskirts of many large cities some
quaint little "villages" have arisen. The
latest of these is at Merion, where a com
munity of twenty families plans to get
away from the madding crowd and yet be
'within easy walking distance of. the
Qverbrook and Met ion stations.
" It will be interesting to note just what
effect these little home-giown towns Hre
going to have on the body politic even
tually; for that it will have some effect
if' the idea grows, as it may, is beyond
peradventure.
PERSHING IN LONDON
1HE English that is, the English of
the North sea, of Ypres, of the Marne
the mulitudes whose sturdy and na-
rtt souls stood through all stress im
movable in the way of Germany have
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t' Ann creat misfnrtunn nf n enrf fliof in
t'i nojt Irhfamiliar in America. They have
poKesmen wno in too many instances
Misrepresent thehi.
-Hawker was oi.e of these. He was
,WfqRe' in a fight for his life amid the
r,ttd. He was Dadiy rattled when he
1 9 o maise an aiier-oinner speech and
-HhingB which the rest of England
I'fcerfMn'tmean.
4!d
ftl Hafg kept ha head mag-
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nificcntly in battle nnd lost it when he
stood on his feet to address group of
returned soldiers. He is still trying to
explain why he belittled the pait of
Uiitain's nllics in the wai and why he
omitted, apparently with deliberation,
any mention of Amenca's pait in the
gieat stiuggle.
General Pershing has the vnttie of reti
cence. He may have developed that habit
of mind in his long contacts with the
Indians, who say little and ponder much,
t'cishing behaved nicely when tliey feted
him in London lie pinised eveiybody
but himself anil his own men. He left
mention of his own woik to otheis. That
is prcciselj what a good Indian would
hnve done.
Maitdial Ilaig might bine piofited by
pai ticipation in a war with the stoics
who weie Pershing's ft tends and his ene
mies in bis eaih das of soldiering.
BUSINESS BRAINS PLUS
POLITICAL INSTINCT
Without This Combination In the New
Mayor and Council the Same Old
Things Will Go On
JOHN KISI.ER. vice piesident of the
" Manufacturers' (. lub. speaking at a
Republican Alliance meeting in West
Philadelphia, said that the business tntei
ests have detei mined to have a hand in
the government of the citv "It is n bil
lion dollar cot poiation," he ontmucd,
"and we piopose to have it administered
on a businesslike basis "
The city is a billion dollai business cot -potation,
with a president and. under the
new chartei, a boai i f twenty-one
directots l'.ut no mote grievous mistake
can be made than to assume that it is
meld a business eoi poiation It lannot
be iuii as Baldwin's or the Pennsylvania
Railroad is tun, because it is engaged in
a (lifl'eient kind of business Its function
i not to sell government to other cities
at a profit, as the function of Baldwin's.
is to sell locomotives to men who aie not
shaieholders. Its function is to sell gov
ernment to itself and to uppl a quality
of government which will satisfy the
shaieholders, who aie all the people
It is of pnmary impoitnncc that the
Majni and members of Council get this
idea into their minds. A successful coi
poration piesident, who has been accus
tomed to tunning the affaiis of the corn
pan to suit the conti oiling majority of
the shateholdeis as lepiesented in the
boa id of directois, and who counts him
self successful when he can show a .safe
niatgin ol piolit, might lie a misetalve
failuie as Mavo The chances are that
he would be a failuie unless he had had,
along with his business tiaining. some
experience in the aits of politics that
is. in conciliatoiy dealing with gieat
masses of people who legaid themselves
as masters and not as soivants. t'oun
cilmen selected f i om the boards of dnec
toia of lailioads and othei corpotations
who weie meie business men would fail
as lamentably.
"Dave" Lane, who is a political philoso
pher of gieat acutcness, has u minded
the- refotmeis of this manv times It is
tiuu not because "Dave" Lane sa.v s it,
but because then- i- a radical difference
between the methods that must be em
plojed in public and in pnvate business
Vet it is of vital importance that the
ne Major and the members of the new
Council should be men of business abilit
and experience. Then- aie men seeking
nomination to the Council who would not
be emplo.ved at $40 a week by any re
sponsible busines. man in the city. Thev
would make good rnand bo.vs, but it is
preposteioUs to tiust to then judgment
the ItMng of a business policy or to de
pend on their discietion in spending mil
lions of dollais
There aie men mentioned foi the
mavoialty who aie good hand-shake i s
and amiable jolliei-, but the dneetois of
a five hundred thousand dollai coi poia
tion would no -oonei think of putting
them at its head than they would think
of elevating then office boy to the manag
ing dnectorship.
Men of this kind aie political expeits
The I-now how to get out the vote. But
then qualifications aie all on one side,
just as the qualifications of the meie
businiss man aie all on the other side.
What we untie) stand that Mi Fisler
means and what we undci stand the
Chambei of Commeice had in mind when
it polled business, men on the qualifica
tions of the in w Ma.voi, is that greater
stress should be laid on the business
qualifications of candidates for ofhec than
has been laid in the past.
It is not nece-saiy to uige the meie
politicians to olli 1 themselves The will
take cuie of that without an sugges
tions fiom any one But thete will not
be that lnipiovement foi which we aie
all hopin,; unless the new Mayor and
membeis of Council are politicians plus,
with the emphasis on the phis.
It will be necessaiy to insist on this
emphasis it we aie to get the light kind
of men. The salar of $5000 attached to
the councilmanic office is attractive to a
lot of little men. It seems large to them.
IJut the kind of man to whom the salary
seems laige is not big enough foi the job.
The councilmen aie to be in a veiy real
sense the dnectors of the municipal coi
poration. Undei the chatter they will
originate some policies and will appiove
or disapprove policies originated by the
Mayor and his heads of depaitments.
They will have expeit advice, it is true,
but in theory they are to do more 'than
act as rubber stamps for the expeits.
They are to take a going concern which
has been managed badly in the past, tor
lect the errois and set it going in the
right direction. -They must be men of
experience anil initiative, accustomed to
dealing with large affaiis. It will be
within their power to take this old town
and shake it into life and spur it to plan
ning for fifty yeais ahead in order to ac-
L commodate the population which will be
heic then.
We need transverse boulevards, we
need more water, we need the slums
cleared out, we need a transit program
that can be carried to completion before
the congestion of traffic gets n,uch worse.
We cannot get these things from a Coun
cil made up of men eager merely for a
Job with a fair salary attache
The kfeal Council 'would be made up of
strong men of the city truly representing
its difTetent interests, willing to devote
their time to its service for the general
gooel. We will not get such n Council,
but if the Chamber of Commerce and
men like Mr. Fisler continue to insist
that the business of the city be ad
ministered on a business-like basis we
shall make some appioach to it.
The Mayor also should bo a man fitted
by training to manage the big business
inteiests of the city. He may be a law
yer oi a business man. It does not mnt
ter, so long as he is qualified for the post.
Some of the greatest business executives
in the countiy have come from lawyers'
ofllces. 'I hey have told meie business
men how to manage their afinirs and they
have loscued bankiupt corporations from
insolvency. They hnve npplied brains to
business problems.
What the city needs now above all
things is the application of brains to the
business and political problems of mu
nicipal government. They must be the
kind of biains that would succeed in the
pie.sidenc.v and board of directoiate of a
gieat corporation, plus political instinct.
CAR FARE FIXING
nMIK application by the Superiot Couit
-- of the thud section of the sixteenth
article of the state constitution to the
regulation of stieet railway fates will set
lawyeis to thinking about the local
tiansit situation
That section piovtdes that the exetcise
of the light of eminent domain shall
never be abridged or so coifstrued as to
pi event the (ieneial Assembly from
taking the pioperty and franchises of in
coiporated companies and subjecting
them to the public use and that the exei
cie of the police povvci of the state shall
nevei be nhiidged or so construed as to
permit coi potations "to conduct then
business in such a manner as to infringe
the geneial well-being of the' state."
The ctiiitt has decided under this sec
tion that the Public Service Commission
ma laise stieet lailvvay faics if condi
tions wan, int. in spite of the fact that a
community has gtanted to a company the
right to use its stieets on condition that
the faie shall not exceed a fixed sum.
The judges dccl.ue that where the in
teiests of the public demand the contract
may be modified without anv violation of
the piovistons of the national constitution
with lefeieno to the inipanment of the
obligations of conttaets.
The natuial infeience fiom this de
cision is that the Public Set vice Com
mission may considei the rates of fate in
each case on the merits of the paiticulai
is,ues invqh od, legatdless of any con
ttaets with the community and also In
implication regardless of anv leasehold
obligations incurred lij. an operating corn
pan v.
The test i- whethei a eontiact. oi a
lease, oi what not, is consistent with "the
geneial well-be ng of the state." If the
higher couits shall sustain this view the
way seems to be open to the piotection
of the tiav cling public fiom the butden
of paying dividends on wateted stock, as
well as to the piotection of investors in
stieet lailvvay seeunties fiom losses
liable to follow the enfoicomcnt of a eon
tiact with a municipality when the con
ditions have changed so radically that the
eontiact becomes impossible of fulfill
ment without banktuptc.
Pet haps this decision is the legal
wedge needed to split awav the excessive
70 pei cent tentals paid 1 the P. R. T.
undei oil leases to the stihsidiaiy com
panies; tentals which, by the way. have
caused most of the ttoubles tu which the
ptpse-nt stockholders and management of
the com pain aie hen
ill" "inns, ii ma ,r
flrr Interview Inc tli.it t' summit
l) ('. (if lv. Ii.lllillts i . t,t uallv
IhiI inc n Inn incrch
-ii'Ich .cftci new siMis,iiiniis f,,i i nine to
Iliiiik of it. it must I,, ,i miv iiiuiMinl
1mIiii' to have an cmhuk Ionise with anv
mom ill one's oc ki t
Aittiin. i I. lit. of
I'.iss Hip Hate! cdu ilecl.nes that
ill' i' il "spoonei s"
IiiimI lie 1 111 wm fm il nllii ml- ui'iv ii'ioeei (lie
llionev tlli'V llllllilicl mm i .is ti,,. niilinani e
uinlii vvlnili tliei win hiuIiImI is null and
void It is a kniti in the viluls of IlavVr
foiil to be ioiiiii ileil to toil, oiei to the
' spoons.
I' i i Ii s tlnitientli
laiile 'I Mil tic ii iMisiinisii i his uist
In ' ii nfliijiillv inmii
iintccl b tlii- I'iisi,.ii mil si nl to the Senate
fni coulniniiliciii s In ,cl aliiiidy seived
lii Mats it in it In' i i kin tin grunted that
tlinteiii is Ins linke ii ii mix i .is il is (lie
I'lesidc nl s
Tin Itcv .1 W H.iv
Will lie Know llnw.' Im of tin. Miniiointe
'linn Ii (ictiuaiitiiwii
avenue, lift fm Xil.intii I'm tclav ami
will Mnv a w.ik Ii is tin lust niniiiiiu
lie lias linil in tifi v i, us i nia now
ix lint an inn iv n w with turn In .in en
teiprisuiK slnn. imliliiiie nian igei on "llnw
It 1'ieU to I f
li. In Alls, '
llaieiforil .iihiiis to h.iie sonic
not in s.n iu incus, ligislatois
ailiam cl.
.1 oil il Mnlclli in. in Ii is
di'Kiei' of II f nl I,
taken to Ii mis, If the
'I'lie ilnv light
ariestcd toi hi
.mil!; law ii'pcal lia
klcss ii,h,iK
Sotue New If
l i till of plilllll,
ev po'itn inns
mill IMgc too
We li.ive
that all Ithc
on iiuimpi ,ii halili autliont.v
' I'. nl ni Hfo.(
Tli' moitaliti late chopped in Pliiln
delpliia list wick People weie loo liu
(jiiimblins nl the i ,iin lo think of djini:
fined morning ! Has join aiitomnhile been
Hlolen'' No-' Will, give "em (line! tine
'em time'
Are tenants happj V No. Ilie.v ain't
(111 justice they're Intent.
And when tlic met to make complaint
The veiv air was rent
It IooUh ns If tens of tlioiiHuncln of per
sons who never heard of the ShantiuiR pen
insula were In a fair way to discover where
it H.
Field .Marshal Hmg gazes regretfully at
a maxim he uiilurklly forgot for a moment;
"The man who doesm't talk doesn't have to
explain," , a
MAYORALTY GEOGRAPHY
It Bars Many Fit Men From Political
Preferment When Iz Durhatn and
Quay "Made Up" DeWalt
and Daylight
l.v (iKdltdK NOX McCAIN
T IS to be regretted thnt the boundary lines
-1 of Philadelphia hnr from political prefer
ment so ninny men conspicuous for their
fitness and clianutei.
Theie are mires of such men thnt 1
could name who nre Philadelphia!!- in every
i esprit en qit that of residence. They
siiend half their lives within the city limits.
Their business Inteiests nie i entered here.
Their fi ieiiils and acquaintances reside heie.
rnfortiiiintely they themselves dwell ju-t
hejoncl the border
The ma.voraltv question would have been
settled without a striiRBle bad il tint been
feu this handicap. All talk of a compromise
candidate would have been sileneecl before
it started
W W Attcibutj would have snlied the
problem, I believe lie is a gentleman nf
tnnininmliiiK iihlhtv and Iu'rIi pinfesslonnl
attainments lie is popular with all classes.
Ills reputation as a great railroad execu
tive lias been immeasurably enhanced by
Ins woik in Kniue As chief of the rail
mud illv islon nf the American Kxpeilltlcfnnry
Pciices be ac couiplishi'd what he set out to
do And It was clone under diiTieulties with
out paiallcl
lie vvnlild hnve been an icleal candidate.
Hut alas' though a Philadelphia.! he
dwells w ithniil tlie vvnlls
"nU'IMn politician east nf the Schujlkill
--' knows ' .Inn" Randall lie has been
i lei Tilling fiom railroad conductor to dc
tic lie and pieeiiKt woiker He is a politi
cal i .vine Likewise he is a follower of the
unit npo-tle to the Centiles in that lie
is all things imlo all nun " It might
also he added "at all times "
ftei this light's ovei Ihev'll nil ger
lo-'ithcr. ' mused .lini wirciisticallv the other
il.n in his hahitat. South Penn Square
It alwa.vs linns out that wa.v in politics
Itc mi mlier when l.imv and Duih.nn had that
light and didn't speak to each othei for a
vein or sc.' They got together again I
knew thev would. Afler thev had made up
Ijiiav said to fill) ha in one da. .
' '1 I understand von told Rerburn
that I was a old wall eved - - '"
" "Sine, says 7, 'An' I thought jou
wis one then
It'll tin n out the same wav this time
si i it it don't "
rrtHK f.u'uieis in the eotiutti's .ldioitiing
-- I'hiladc Iplna are in a state of indignation
Il is mi'i the failure to repeal the chivllght
- n nig lull
('nngic'ssninn At thin (! DeWalt is due.
I think, for a dose of Dutch tumble lie
will uiiilniiblc dlv encnuuter npposition from
i new iiii.nici ui his landid.iej fm the
In in Ii in the Tliirlv hrst piilii ml clistiut
l.i high lounu icimpiiscrt the ili-t 1 1 t
s .in urn uinpiniiiisiug Dcuiociat. Mr De
Wall wis i ouipi'lled to vote to sustain the
Ph sub nt's veto nf the lull.
I'lHtnits univeisalli have eotidenmed the
luinsiiie Thev sai it opeintes solelv in
the inteiests nf the citv clwelleis The war
being endt d thev insist that the Hvv should
hi icpi'.ilcd Now here is this feeling stmngcr
than aincing tlie Peuiisvlvnnia faniiiri
l' age long c iisicun the aie eailv I tsers
Manv of them ale at woik thice linuis befme
the iilv man is up and diesscd Tins hill
ieiiuies them to get up an hunt cailier
than usual, because the milk tiaius run
an licuii e, u In r. Thev must do then milking
hv lantein light It is impossible lo woik
in th v soaked he Ids at that eailv hum.
lint tli it is a modest objection
The fat m hinds who i ise at this uuearllilv
hour dc ui. mil that tluv cease their woik at
It in the evening. D.i.vlight under tins law
lasts m suniinei until S :',(! o'clock The
faiinei thus loses about two hours of ilnv -light
II means a full dav's woik Ins) hut
paid for ec i wc ek
(dilution to the elavlight sacing plan
conies exclusively fiom the eoutitiv people
St .lulling the ote on Picsielent Wilson's
veto I tinil that with perhaps one exception
tticisi who votid to include the veto icpre
scnitil louutiv (list i k ts. With tluee ex
ceptions tin nineteen nie mhi'rs who siistaiucd
the Piesident (.ime fi eiin large centers nf
population If not thej tepiesenteel mining
oi iiiiiniitin tin ing elisti ii is
The lull is a blessing to the cities Its
opei at mil is a matter of iiidiffeicm e tu the
niinci ni the mill woikei
('ongtcssman Aitlim ! DeWalt is a
Pennsvlvani i I Milt Inn. in His c oiistitiu nts,
the Pi iiiisih,iui i Dutch funnels, who aie
l.ngtlv Di'iiioi i.ilic in I.eliigh, will dniiht
less have a few weirds to Ml to Inui at the
next election On the cither hand Allen
town Hi nun i. its will stand behind him for
I is attitude on the hill.
(frplll!ltl! S a lack of newspaper stories
-L about the disastrous effects of prohi
bition on s..nv ill uiki'is," remarked an in
telligent hn attendant at one of the leading
rliihs
'I lie mining of pinhdution caused ever
cliinkei high en low. who had thr price, rn
lav in a stock of his favonte beverage. Most
of the in 1 piisiuiie, could buy only s case
in so Pioliibition has eoino, nlso the
spc,ikc.is, the bootlcggii and vaiious other
channels fm obtaining drinks on tin. quiet
Wc'ic mil likelv to hear much about de
pi nation vii awhile' Hut it 11 come later,
"Tin nil d.iv fm the stcadv ill inker will
be' whin his little piivalc steak is exhausted
ami lie i nutlet n'ticw it, when most of the
bootleggeis .ire niggc el and the law gets
weuking smoothlv
"Then tie full fence nf prohibition will
he felt hv the me n who ill end it most.
Thev'ic tin ebleilv fellows, who have been
stench eliniki's in, ii v all their lives Their
tumble will be due ui about three months,"
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III! Mnvoi.illT of Philadelphia is regarded
giavcv.iicl of politic al ambitions.
Pei haps nsbtlv mi Possihl the ilignit
of the position l- c oiiipe iisatiiiii enough Most
mi n of modi si .ispnatioii wiuiUI so ugaid it.
It is a ilim fact that in fifty years
no .Major of Philadelphia, with one ex
ecptiou. lias ever attained to higher honors.
IMwin S. Stti.nl hieanie (loveinor of Penn
sjlvaiiin All the other occupants of the oflice,
fioni .Ma vol l'ox. who-e Ii nil imiiIccI In
IsTl, lo Majoi Smith whose term will ex
pire at the close of the piesent jear, have
passed out of the white light into the
sliadowj let i cat of iiiulistmhed privaej .
Majois Stoklev and King cpiietlv accepted
the di( f fate William It Smith, the
"elandv .Mavor." Inniiiie a salesman in a
dcpaitiuent stoic IMwin II Pitlei ladl
icitlj deioteel himself to hu great hiiKiuess
interests Chailes P Warwick became an
author ami historian Samuel II Ashbridge,
.lohn P. Re.v burn ami Rudolph Mlunkenbiirg
cl.d not long Miivlve the expiration of their
tiims Rdwiu S Stuart was elected (Jov
ernor and now. In graceful retirement, de
votes himself to books and th,. Miporvlslon
of bin biiidiiiisK nffiiirs .lohn Weaver is on
attorney. They are the sole survivors.
To be Major; to have a police lirelmnt
named for you and then the peace of
private life
Hie transit clorin iimndi
Niblick Julep is authority for the
tstatcmrnt that, the bottom has dropped olit
of th? NM-ulli Hole. U Eh
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Peace
WHAT is Ibis peace
That statesmen sign?
Mow I have sought
To make it mine.
Wheie groaning cities
Clang and glow
I limit' d. hunted,
Pcuc e to know.
And still I snvv
Wheie I passed bv
Dise'iiidc d heaits,-
Ilcaid ( hilihen ci.v .
Itv w illnwecl waters
Itiitnini'd vv ith tain
I Ihuught to c aptme
, Peace again.
I sat nie down
Mj Peai e to hoard,
lint Itcaulv pin keel me
With a swoid,
I
Pen in the stillness
Sonic thing stirred,
And I was crippled
I'm a wold.
Theie is no peace
A man can Jiud :
The anguish sits
His heart behind.
The eves he loves.
The perfect breast.
Too exrpiisitc
To give him rest,
This is bis curse
Suiee luaili began,
His penalty
Pen In ing num.
We Are Chaffed
IN Til A I.I 4 s iieenif E""'t SocmIck.
What Is llil- thlnrf jou call u "whepzft ?
Veil seem tu t tup elm tiHine upon
so miu clirtectNit klmlt of fun
V hctli r ou le tlltlnii at a Teuton,
! es ageiillnK for ndtlle New ton,
Keeplnit the .senate up to aerate h,
Anlinutlvertlni, en it match,
er when with naimllls Klet vou hasten
To feteh eraik nt Cary Hrieon -MountliiK
OUmpua at a leap
Then turnliiB diavemler or chenpl
XVIeflom wai-KiM what oul'Ieaiee
What is thin thlnii jou call it wheeze?
AS i:iliillAM ,i rdlterj
A fiulp In t ittll the t-iillerj.
Wit humor li.inter repartee.
Hude Jape or rnpler jeu tl'eup It.
Hare Attic wit or modern aaior,
An Impudent Hoerullr flavor
In shorl there'a nothliiff that won t do
(See Uocet btrtlon (1. lit four two),
In earth or heaven or sexen beaee,
Tor the nialtrlal of a wheeze
If It rntij uetly lure a laush
eir point a pjtiseut paruff aph
VV hi -even stulelv tinea like thtse
A!, on., Just-aoth,r fviUVMn
A Knockout Promised
on 'i m: iiANe'oici s July nth
Dear friend Narrates
1 waa tnlklnir with my friend Hal a wile hack
and he mivee Your u cood uuj but jou have tot
no Heme of humor' eo I aald "VVhRtelajamenn
dont 1 lauiih evt rj time jour missus bawls jou
nut" So he avid V ou elont cet in" You want to
read noma aultle Htuff like Socrates nulla In a
Chaflne I'th In the i:e l.tilrtr" Well 1 utcerta
bujlnr the aheet reslar but I dont see mithlns
ho funnj In II nnlv when sou talk .ttmut Wtllard
and Prea VVIImhi and Home of the !o I knows
of Well 1 Kuest ou atnt never heurd no reel
funns ones as I have lltondy pulla one at the
more the, other dav so I was koIpk to write It out
and aend II to ou hut Hal he said "Thej doit
print them kind He meant a lot of wlmmen
folks would have saw It
Well Mr Stw noes xiu keen up jour battlnu
axerace a wile and I'll send jou a knockout In
a day or 2.
jours resptj
HIMX IIARUim
Desert Fever
C M.Alt from the fetid breath of death that
blows o'er the shifting sand,
. Clear from the burning, blazing sun that
scorcheH with burnished eye;
Clear from the lifeless, trackless 'waste, by
breath of the devil fanued
Its voice Is calling the desert-damned to
come to its heart and die.
rrvr, nf the. mind. !f nob tbt soul '. lis victims
V. n ncevcvr en '. Al
VONDER IF I VASNT CHUST A LEETLE
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high;
Others, lenaeieiiish gripping life, cm ape fm
the1 nolle e but lo !
The di'sei t calls them and biings them
hack, to w lithe on the waste and die!
Clear fioni the In oiling, sncciuig smi tli.it
mounts cm a braze n sk ,
Cle.li fieiin the w liite-bleached bones of
men who gambled with Pale and Inst;
Clear fiom the vtillnies that ptnht most,
i milling the n i.iuc oils nj
The desert calls to the ch'sei t hied, ami
the dcsei i -In ed pti) the in-l,
Travel far to the mountain top, sail on the
si vc n seas ,
The ileseit eallm,: will bring ion link no
miiltci how t.n nu mam ,
If vou'ie cleseit el.iinneil, then jou can't ie
sist not even on bended kmes
Soon oi laic. vou'II die 'neath a cleseit ski,
ami v oil II pass to jour desert home,
itnp.DitT i,i:si,ii; p.i:i.m:m
.Mill: I ne alittvt lers.s were written about
leu vears aro In th' ltsert of ejold, this tn,i,
atiounl for siveial sllhl limps In the nntei
Hut one thlnR Is certain there ev a charm about
tlest rt iruvellnff whltn Is unetpialed bv eenj oth, r
form of titiui'utlou known to man 1 mvself In
ten I lo letiun to llolil at nil er (list oip.u
t unit . althoueli 1 c'niibt whether I sheell In lor
tuliate rimuah to sunn tlie seniles of two surh
ttrllnir nildes as I, hail the lust trip As near
as I t en translate at this writing ihelr names
wei erjaiu,' Tu and Ven elhat an I better jellovv
men Cor white, for that matter) I have nexei nfi.
some da I hall wiltc a poem In commemoration
of their services In some prettj tleht tonitrs all
ovei Aila
leut to return to the pneln It was written In
the hen of the flax upon a board f-nm one nf mv
pinklnLT eatrs 'I lie brolllnic sun had so shruna
th" woo.1 tint all the nails fell out m tluit most
of mv trends h nl, of lutessltv to be left on the
ean.N where thev mux lie to this tliev for few
mtn penetiale as far as 1 did The heat was so
Brent that we could not travel durlhir the day at
nil. we were forced to seek what shelter we tould
and wait for the eotmtiK of hihl Vml when one
realizes th et th nlthts on Hub! In Inverse retlo
to the tlavs are as cold as fir nurlhe-u winters
one stes thit exl-tente there Is nol cjulte a bed of
roses Put some laj I shall leturn It Is in the.
blood It I, II
The Motner-Tongue
TTOW pooilv wolds eniotiuus do express!
---- Tlie gieatest poet does not skill possess
To sweet icalitv of dieams impai t ;
His tan est thought stiivs hidden in his lieatt,
lake those of Mabel, often do we stand
I!ne li a pom loiielv soul in alien land.
Stilling in vain our cleat eat ones to tell
The thoughts divine that deep within us
dwell.
The lende r sj mpath.v niiotliet 's heart
Holds for nur glii'f. we onlv see in part :
In his distress we leac h to him nui luiiid
I'm all we feel he cannot titideistand
llnw deaf How unite! All suri'lv heaven
above
Will ope' our cars to hear our lips to speak
thee. I.ene!
Ah. mm civ then we'll walk no mine alone.
While send to soul we'll know as we aie
know a
Theie daw ns at times a wend on jou. ou me,
When foi the moment soine true heal t we see;
Our motliei's voice and our lielovi'd's e.ves,
The Alpha of the language of the skies!
MAPI) PUAZKIl JACKSON'.
We icinemlii'i that when we weie a small
bin we used to watch iiihiiliiuglv a man who
alvvujs held Ins pipe with his foiefiiiger
eroeiked over the stein, the howl resting ou
his second finger and the iiioiithple'ie i-iip-poited
b his thumb. We thought there was
soiiit'thitig particulurl.v iilhiiing about a pipe
he'll that wax and tisolved to Imitate the
gestuie uk soon as we weie old euftugii.
Wc were lemiiidcd of this liding on a
Muiket street trolley the other evening. A
comely daiuosel sat down just in flout of us,
nnd us soon uk seated, her well-groomed baud,
with nulls ucutl tiimmed to a point, flew
up to her hair round her ear.. It was pcr
fectl composed, but she smoothed it down
with u in ions (Hitting, fluttering gesture,
something like the flnger-flieker of un expert
pianist. Just across the aisle sat a small
girl, who was watching the young ludy with
secret Intensity, evidently fho t ,dc u men
tal note of tluit pattering movement, for lu
a moment her own hand rose to her tlgntly
snooded braids and itnlfutee fhe gesture. Jt
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T I PI. offeted ui-j lips to me;
-L-J I stooped and kissed them tenderly.
Plight shone the sun. and cheerily.
While some small bird, safely hiehlen,
('moled a rnptuiotis lefiain
Diopped it and caught it up again
Then penned it forth like sijvei tain
I! spaikling siinlieams lidden.
Pine king a peifumeel hawthorn spray,
Life beckoned me. mid lid the way
Where fain ti limpets eerily
Willi golden music wooed us;
I. eel us timing!) glasses drenched with dew
Mocked us, and hind us on nnew,
While Sen low kept us well in view
And stenltlnlj puisued us
Life tmiii'il a haggmd cheek at last
When all the summer d.iv had passed,
Pac ing me wan ami weanly.
Half looking lo be chidden.
Hi aw n were her lips b.v then, and gray
( Nightf ill. mid we had lost the wa.v!)
Yet foi the song, the hawthorn spray,
I kissed tbeiu, all unhidden.
licatiicc Il.iii, in the New York Times.
Tin- hnest pen e paiade in the world
will lie a Heel nf American ships sailing in
mid out of eveij poit ill tlie world.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
What is the Pedetal Kosetve act?
What is an aciosticV
Who linn it said, "Aeting i the mov
ing pic tare of nattiie"?
Who was fust known us the Almanack
Makei V
Who lias Lewis Cauoll?
When was the lieaty of Itrest I.itovsk
signed?
What singer of national reputation de
clined, oh iikii ill giounds, to sing
"Tiav lata"?
When was South Dakota admitted to
the I'nioii?
Wlio vuote "The Itlue Itird"?
Wheie and what ts (iieat Abaco?
Answers to Saturday's Quiz
Tien-tclii is a tieatj pent of China
sex cut nulcs scnttheust of Pekiti and
lines a population of 70,000.
The eoiistitiitloii of the Tinted Stutes
pioviclcs that "the House of Repre
sentatives shall huve the" sole power
of impeai limciit" and the Senate
"shall have the sole power to try all
imp! ae limeiits."
A ( bin iv in i is a medley of sounds
usiiall a sci entitle of puns ami trayi,
etc., to un unpopulur poison.
A mesti.o is uv Spanish or Portuguese)
half-ruste, cspi'ciull the child of a
Spanitnd uud American Indian.
It is estimated that China's foreign
population is in the neighborhood of
SHI.tKIO.
The Ilattle of Lookout .Mountain, a part
of the battle of Chattunoejga, a federal
victor won by (Jraut ovc- the Con
fedeiatcH under Hragg, is often called
"the Ilattle Above the Clouds" be
cause of the heuvy mist on the moun
tain side.
Meltepi -Mow bray is In Leicestershire,
Kngluud, uud Is noted for Its Stilton
cheese and pork pies.
John James Ingalls, of Kansas, who
lost his seat in the Pulled States
.Senate in JMII, ufter serving eight
een jears, and elled nine years later,
was iiuthor of that much-quoted
plirnse, "The purification, of politics is
un lildescent dream."
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CJiarles laimb was the author of th
line, "Presents, I often say, endear
absents,"
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