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THE PRESiOENT'S ILLNESS
pVEN thnuch the Prp-i'lrnt'- il'ne - i1?
L-' slight, the sudrien rerit from Wash
ington oticrht not to be without an rfTocr
on American opinion. The rountrv "ill
be reminded of the immense huiden1; that
it has shifted to Mr Wilson's shoulders.
And it will hae an uncomfoitahle Mie
of the assorted disasters that reitamly
would ensue if the man who has np
tained the American people thu far in
safety through a world in convulsion
should have to leave his trying post for
any length of time.
The sympathy which the countiy will
feel for Mr. Wilon should not he un
mixed with a feeling of regret that he
has suffered the hardship's nxpnenced in
the past by every other President who
was not conventional-minded and content
to move in an easy rut. When he most
needed understanding he has been mis
understood. So it wa with Washington
and Lincoln and Roosevelt.
Virtue in the presidency must he its
own reward. A man without great as
pirations goes his way in peace. If he
have great purposes he must go out and
fight for them.
ONE HOPEFUL SIGN
TERHAPS we ought to foel relieved
- after a second survey of the interna
tional complications threatening the
league-of-nations covenant.
None of the disgruntled or overambi
tious nations among the Allies has yet
demanded concessions of territory in the
United States.
THE NEW JINGOISM
TT7E DIDN'T threaten to make war upon
France when a few American sailors
were attacked in a free-for-all fight at
Brest. But there aie newspapers in this
country which seem more than eager to
end an army and a fleet to Mexico be
cause a few men from a United States
battleship clashed with some wandering
bandits at Tampico.
It is odd to observe the eagerness in
many quarters to avoid, in the case of
Mexico, the processes of mediation, the
patient inquiries and the rule of justice
. which we have been recommending to the
rest of mankind.
Mexico is hard to understand. Mexico
is a nuisance in many ways. We have
contributed to the nasty situation by our
failure to have a definite policy at Wash
ington. But these are not reasons why
there should be a religious determina
tion in some quarters at Washington and
New York and elsewhere to refrain from
getting at the Mexican's side of every
controversy.
We are asked to make immediate wai
on Mexico to "avenge an insult to the
American flag." There are various ways
of insulting the American flag. One of
them is to permit the use of the flag as a
handy shield for scoundrels and hypo
crites who happen to have their own rea
sons for misleading the countiy and
stimulating hatred of a neighbor who
happens to be dull-witted and tio-ible-some.
We shall make war on Mexico only as
a last resort in desperate circumstances.
The new jingoism is a growing malady.
The "go-down - and - clean - up - Mexico"
crowd are an isolated group of sufferers.
They do not know that thev are trying to
egg the United States into a twenty-year
war. Henry Ford thinks we should "lick
the world to make peace." There is a
Senate group that wants war with Japan.
Europe wants us to fight the Bolsheviks.
Yet we were led to believe that the
armistice was to bring rest to a tor
mented world'
THE VANISHING AIR SERVICE
TCTURTHER data bearing upon the in
x credible wreck of the American air
service are now available to show how far
ignorant politicians in Congress will go
in their efforts to make party issues.
The matter is one that has been re
ferred to before in these columns. But
formal statistics and reports of War
Department experts were required to
reveal the sorry tragedy and the peril of
the situation recently created in the most
kXttWli important branch of the military service.
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k-tf' nomicai. 11 was going to show un the
administration. It almost wined out
appropriations suggested for the air
service. The result is that in the reor-
3JJSX&1 flying units there will be about
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on earth, seem too poor to utilize in fur
ther training. Development of the flying
art has stopped The air patrol for which
surveys were made on the Mexican bolder
has been abandoned. It is no wonder that
a few sensible men in Congress have de
termined to reopen the whole question
and establish aiation upon a basis that
will not shame us in the eyes of the world.
Investigating commission's are fashion
able at Washington. It mav he sug
gested once again that the country would
benefit vastly by a commission appointed
to investigate Congress.
NO DEAD MAN WILL
WIN THE NEXT CAMPAIGN
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So What Is the Use of the Bull Mooters
Planning a Program Based on "What
Roosevelt Would Do"?
THERE i no nros in Giffotd Pinchot's
announcement thnt "the vast mijonty
of Republican; are pmcipesivp."
Thero has been no news m it since the
first Wednesdav after the fuit Tuesday
of N'ovembet, 1"! '
On the morning of that dav it was
known that 4,110,000 otes had been cast
for Theodore Roosevelt for the presi
denov and only a, t54.000 votes had ben
cast for William H Taft
The figures show thit theiP were then
n"irly 50,000 more progiessives than
.-tandpat Republicans
But thoy were the kind of progressives
,,V,n hnlipved 111 the heiitv meriranism
of Roosevelt.
Roosoelt ii dcvl ind a lot of men are
anvioui-to wear his nnntl The trouble
w lt'n most of them i that if they got the
mantle on then- shoulders they would he
so ovei weighted and enveloped and en
wrapped in it that it would take a search
wariant ind a sheiifT's posse to find them
We do not wish to lie unkind to Mr.
Pinrhot. under whose leadeiship a confer
onre of progressive Republicans has been
called to meet in Harnsburg a week from
today, but it must be admitted that un
1p:s he stood on the dead colonel's shnul
deis m one would be able to spp him
This 1- not Mr. Pinchot's fault It is
meieh his misfortune.
The announced purpose of his Hairis
burg conference is to make preliminary
aiiangements for electing a piogressive
Republican delegation from this state to
the Republican national convention next
yeai. lie does not seek to split the patty,
he say-, but to solidify it. And he is
going to bring Senator Miles Poindextei,
of Washington, into the state to seive
as the cement to hold the two wings to
gether. Now, it has not generally been
supposed on this side of the continent
that Poindexter is the kind of adhesive
the party needs. He is more like a sheet
of fly paper to which every political
vagary afloat in the air sticks with unre
lenting persistence.
A presidential boom for Poindexter
launched in Harrisburg, the capital of the
state Roosevelt carried against Taft in
1912, might serve the ambition of the
Washingtonian to lemain in the Senate,
but it would not tend to bind the Repub
lican party together.
It would be just as wise to bring Hiram
Johnson, of California, here. Johnson
has his lightning rod up. He has been
toting it about the New England state
and he thinks that he has felt several
thrills, as the Irish voters applauded his
denunciation of the league of nations.
But Johnson may be stiong on both edge.-,
of the continent without having a single
friend in the middle
Both Poindexter and Johnson belong to
that large group of presidential impossi
bilities, included in which are Lodge and
Knox and Norris and we hope he will
not feel too flattered by the mention of
his name Pinchot himself.
Bigger and broader men than any of
these must be brought forwaid before
the voters will begin to feel the kind 'of
enthusiasm with which Roosevelt in
spired them. One might as well talk of
Borah, the narrow-visioned little Amen
can of Idaho.
If the Republicans are to win in 1920
it will have to be with a man as big as
the ls.-ues which are confionting the
world at large and this country as a
member of the family of nations. That
is, unless the Democrats make fools of
themselves and nominate Champ Clark or
t.ome one like him. And so long as Wood
iow Wilson has any influence in the paity
this is not likely to happen.
But this Harrisburg confeience is not
likely to confine its discussion to the mat
ter of ways and means for electing a pro
gressive delegation to the national con
vention next year.
A United State senator is to be chosen
in this state in 1920. Senator Penrose's
term expires on March 3, 1921. Pinchot
is a leceptive candidate. He was recep
tive in 1914, but when he held out his
hand he got nothing but a nomination.
Penrose got the votes.
If Pinchot and his friends can elect the
delegation to the national convention,
they may feel persuaded that they can
dictate the nomination of the candidate
for the senatorship.
There has been much discontent with
the chaiacter of our senators, fiom Simon
Campion to Penrose. Some of them have
been foiceful, biutal men who got things
done. Their methods have not been deli
cate. They have been held up by leform
ers in all parts of the country as examples
of the type of politician to be abhorred.
If we want something radically differ
ent it must be admitted that we would
get it in the person of Mr. Pinchot.
But if Mr. Penrose is to be defeated for
the nomination there are other men than
Air. Pinchot who will have a hand in the
game. They call themselvps Republicans
without any qualifying adjectives. And
they are in close touch with the men who
dictate the policies of the party. One of
them has a much better chance of suc
ceeding either Mr. Penrose or Mr. Knox
than a man of the type of Mr. Pinchot.
Yet the Harrisburg conference deserves
to be watched carefully "by the observers
of the signs of the times. There may
emerge from it and from similar confer
ences in other parts of the country an
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idea or a man who will have an influence
upon the course of the Republican party
for the next four years. The prospect
for it, however, is not brilliant, for the
conferees spem to be trying to decide
what Roosevelt would have done had he
been alive, instead of applying what
bialns they have to the consideration on
their merits of the current problems.
No dead man will win the next cam
paign It will be won or lost by men
very much alive who have the courage to
stand on their own feet and proclaim
their own policies. That is what Roose
velt would have done.
MR. AINEY ON TROLLEY rARES
TT WOULD have required a good corpo--
ration lawyer to make n more suave
and heartfelt plea for higher street-ear
fares than that just signed bv W D. B.
iney, chairman of the Public Service
Commission of Pennsylvania Higher
farps, we leavn, are a matter nf "ordinary
husinpss prudence and sagacity." One
might as wpII demand "bucks without
straw 01 faithful toil from Hip muz7led
ov" as to expect public service from cor
porations without granting th-m iee
nues sufficient for their needs Thus
poeticallv chants thp chairman of the
Public Service Commission m n some
what astonishing interval of unrestrained
expiession.
Might not some one make a similar
plea on the side of the public'' Would it
not be the part of "business sagaciH and
prudence" to demand infoimation lela
tive to tho usp.s made of money pud to
tiolley companies under the present svs
tpm of nickel fares? Is it wisely used?
Or is it wasted? It has been demon
strated that slipshod management, in
competence or wmng-headed policies m
thp direction of public utilities often im
poverishes utilities rnrpoiations that are
not een watei logged as many nf thpm
happen to bp. Is Mr. Ainoy's decision,
granting a seven-cent rate to an up state
trollev company, merely the pi elude to a
campaign foi 7one fares in Philadelphia''
If it is, the silver-tongued chanman of
the State Public Service Commission is
playing on dangeious ground.
The P R. T has been making some
piogros.s towaid a decent and tolerable
lelationship with its patrons. It is profit
ing through enlightened management It
is on the way to gain the complete good
will and confidence of the public. If the
duectois wish to nullify all that has been
done to put their corporation on a brttei
footing they can agitate for zone faips
in Philadelphia, while their own tioas
ury and the pocketbooks of tiolley riders
are being drained to pay dividends iang
ing from 10 to 70 per cent to a scoie of
phantom companies with a stranglehold
on city franchises. Heie indeed are
bricks being made without straw, and we
should like to hear what Mr. Ainey has
to say of them
FRENCH CABINET CRISIS
TTNDER the Fiench system a ministry
u is formed for a specific task. When
that task is completed the ministiy falls.
The immediate task of the Clemenceau
ministry has been finished. It has won
the war. It is asking for a vote of confi
dence today.
Its opponents are dissatisfied with its
course in many matteis incidental to win
ning the war. They may be able to de
feat it and bring about the cieation of a
new ministry to undertake the solution
of the new problems. Or it may be that
the dissatisfaction is moie deep-seated
and that some form of social revolution is
blowing.
The real significance of what is happen
ing will not be apparent for some time,
even should Clemenceau he defeated to
day. MpmWs of the build -111s
trades unions, in
It Would!
CMrajro are jubilant
because thev have irtn.illv -.topped coiMnir
tion unik in ClmdK'i Let 11- Mippnve that
architect'.. Piisineois. and nil the other high
ly tiained spec inlets who contribute scientific
knowledge to evcr buildins operation should
be moed Mime dnj tn strike nfraiut the dom
ination of the 'handworkers." Wouldn't it
be interesting to see what sort of skyscraper
the trades unionists mid pllt (,p unaided?
1
The futuie of the
Pajinc the riper iMo.n-OO Russian pi-is-
oneis of war in CJer
ninnv is giving concern to the supreme coun
cil in Paris ficrmanr is quite willing to
send them home, hut the Allies hesitate
The mpu aro inffstnl with Bolshevism and
once in Htii,i would either have to join the
m or be killed (!erniun. started the red
dance in Russia She should par the piper
by feeding the 'JIIi.iiOO until the dance is
over.
The trouble with the
And Hang Weather Rureau is
St. Sulthin! whollv one of dis-
tiihution. With a fine
stock of rain on hand the bureau insists upon
giving it nil to us nnd culpablj neglects to
gie any of it to Michigan and Washington,
where it might be useful in helping to ex
tinguish forest tires There is mismanage
ment somewhere Let Congress, while it is
turning out commissions, provide for nn in
vestigation of the Weather Bureau.
Knglnnd. if memory
The Turning Wheel serves, used tn have a
great deal of fun at
our oxpense in the days when our nenlj rich
were nt their worst. The amazing pnl'ices
on Fifth avenue, the monke.s that took tea
with the elite nt Newport, the size of the
diamonds that Chiengo wore to breakfast
were chanted jojouMy in Punch. Now Lon
don hns its own newly rich munitions mil
lionaires who, tn emphasize thpir aloofness
from the uilgur crowd, pay 1?1 ."0 each for
peaches. S10.000 for second-hand motorcars
and an amount asked for the paintings that
the aristocratic families must sell to buv food.
Punch is still merry, but its merriment is
in a minor key.
Shake the hand-shake, says Dr. Krusen.
The Greeks appear to be putting the slam
into Islam.
Well, seven of the forty days have gone,
anylmw
The latest alignment : Main Line bathtubs
dry, everything else wet.
The troublesome hyphen keeps bobbing up
in all kinds of places.
It seems to be a battle royalthe Polce,
Ukrainians and Bolsheviki are fighting.
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STATE FUNDS AS DEPOSITS
IN WRECKED STATE BANKS
North Penn Case Recalls the Cele
brated People's Bank Affair In
Which Quay Figured Twenty
Years Ago
rTIHAT the wrecked North Penn Hankcar---
ried heavy state deposits may be cause for
censure, but assuredly, it should be no cause
for surprise Much the same thing has hap
pened before
One nf the mo.t notable cases in Phila
ndelphla was thnt of the People's Rank (also
a state nnd not a national institution!, which
led to the arrest and trial of Matthew
Stanley Qun and others on n conspiracy
charge It was during this trial that there
was offered in evidence a telegram containing
a phrnse which became a classic. It read as
follows
"Rnn Lucie. Fla --John P Hopkins If
you buv nnd carry a thousnnd Met for me
I will shake the plum tree. M S Quay "
The stnrv of tho hank's failure properly
begins with the closing of the doors of the
Chestnut Street Nntlonnl Bnnk, of which
Willlnm M Slngerly was president, on De
cember 21, 1SJ1T The Chestnut Street Trust
Compnm failed with the bank- On Februnrv
2T. 1W Mr Ringerlv died suddenh While
the Singerlv properties were engaging at
tention nn nider of court was issued to show
cnuse win n receiver should not he appointed
for the fiiinrnntors1 Finance Company. The
following ia the Feople's Rank suspended.
A1
T THAT time Oieorgc R Graham was
dinwing to the close of his long nnd nble
Incumbency a dlsttirt attorney nnd he was
not going to sucrcpd himself. He hnd been
opposed In the heads of Severn political fnc
tions, 1111 biding Mr uny And n it cnm
nbont thnt when former Judge James (inv
Gordon, as counsel, became possessor of a
certain little red bonk in the Innk. a honk
contninmg items of political as well as finan
cial significance, he. showed them to the
district attorney Mr. Graham brought
action which rvpnled an nmnzing slttintlon
of politicnl maneuvering with the taxpayers'
monei .
ON MARi
thnt ,Ti
RCH 2," the coroner announced
John S Hopkins, enhier of the
bank, hnd committed suicide. Hopkins left
n ni'ssage to his widow and fatherless chil
dren It read' "h other hand is in the
linn's mouth I cannot get it nut. To me
death is pieferable "
.l,i-.t what be meant was shown In the
telegrams nffei ed in e ldcnec at the Qua
1 ml. Money had been lent to politicians
without pioper security. In leturn the hank
bad he nine the rcpn.itnr for state funds
In (irtobei ,". Senator M S Quay and
otheis were held in '."OOll bail each to
answer a c barge of conspirai tn use com
monwealth funds for their own purposes nnd
with innspiiing with Hopkins unlawfully to
lend public moneys It was considered nnte
wortln nt the time that Jua and the others
were forced to line up at the bar 111 the Citv
Hnll Police Court liefoie a pnlie magistrate
just like mdinary citizens Benjamin J
Haywood, former state treasurer and subse
quently 1 ashier of the state treasury, was
"barged with the same offense a few days
later and gae the same amount nf bail.
pLf
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iL"it:R FunnnnicK uoTiinnMnL,
!awcr and gentleman, who hnd been
nominated for district attorney to succeed
Mr Graham, defeated James M. Heck nnd
was elected Immediatclj the political wise
acres began to look for excuses for the
shehing nf the Quay case
It wasn't shehed. It went on the docket
in the most i-onnncnplnre wa The new
district attorne.y neither dodged his duty nor
dnw attention 10 the fait that he was doing
it.
Against him in that tiiul he had some of
the brainiest lawyers, in the state. He met
then ttrrihe legal onslaughts with 11 display
nf lesoiuees which commanded their lespect
nnd 1 hallenged their admiration.
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WAS alleged by the cnmmnnwenlth
during the trial that Ilmwnnd deposited
state money in the People s lunik to be lent
tn the nther defendants: that Senator (Juay
had spemlated in stocks thiough Cashier
Hopkins and that letters and a bnnk found
in the cashier's desk shqwed how the interest
was charged. The statement, in what was
inlled the Red Hook, represented a compu
tation of the state deposits in the People's
I'ank for the several number nf das respec
Imh stated -that is to say, between April
:iO nnd June l.i, 1S'.)7. 11 period nf fortj -six
dns. the deposit was S.VJfi.OOO ; June 13 to
IP, four dajs, the deposit wns $,""(,000;
and from June l'.l to October HI, u period
of 1I54 dajs, it wns S.'uTi.OOO.
The statement, a sample of ninny others,
wns in the handwriting of Hopkins, who
multiplied the amount nf the deposit by the
uumbei nf dajs. first deducted 20 per cent
and then the interest nn .200.000 for 1S4
days, then further deducted the interest on
$."0,000 for 1M dajs, the balance being
first divided by six and then subdi
vided into three pints. The theory of
the commonwealth was that the 20 per
cent deducted was for the bank nnd that
Jinn was entitled to the use of .$200,000
for 1M days, the name Quay being written
in connection with the S200.000.
I'l lends and opponents alike agreed that
the wav Mr Rothermel handled the case
inuld not have been improved upon. It
was no lenussness nn his part that car.ed
Mr. (Jinn s .uquittnl. Hut the statute of lim
itations, which ruled nut much strong evi
dence, had a lot to do with it.
Pretty nenrh every ward politician in
town wns in at the death for a registry berth.
Who was it bad the nerve to make this
Swithin person a snint?
Shantung is to be given a dose of pit.
pub.
Henrv wns not only spanked but forced
to confess thnt he liked it.
There is hope that Hie Russians fed on
Bolshevism will eventually 'become "fed up"
on it.
Investigation of the IL C. of L. dis
closes the fact that there are pome things
the don't manage nnv better in France.
It must be admitted that at first blush
it would appear that the dear little Jappy-Jan-.Tappy
had his Shantung in his cheek.
Kven ns the wets brought nbout their
own undoing, so may the drys bang them
selves with a searoh-and-seizure rope.
Some senators have the idea that now
that Mr. Wilson has the ear of Europe he
ought to r"' 0 Aea 'n "
Herr Hohenznllern is said to be wonied
because the weather may prevent him from
completing the wood cutting record he set
for the month One would think he bad
other things to worry about.
In New Jersey's forthcoming campaign
it is confidently expected by Our pwn
Entomologist that Newt Bugbee will be abU
to put a flea In Jim Nugeat'a ear.
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THE CHAFFING DISH
Loneliness
"The worlds most notable and most
"lonely man' Herald Stanlpy Lee on
YVoodrow Wilson, in The Saturday Eve
ning Post
NO. not so lonely, either'. Hearts of men
In all the enrth toward this man have
turned :
When wearied, they have thought of him,
and lent tied
To master their fatigue; and often when
Some midnight woiker drugged with lamp
and pen
lias paused to think of coinages discerned
In that spaie face, his 8!ce"p hns been ad
join ned
And he has pledged himself to task again.
"TO. this man
is not lonely. He has
-'-' brought
Companions to his -dream from near and far;
Clear llnnics, he guesses not by him are fired.
And those whovundertand how he has fought
See patient honor shining like a star
I'pou thut deep-carved face, a little tired.
We nevei saw wetter weather than while
Tom Dreier, of Boston, was buying our
lunch cstcidnj : but we are a firm believer
in omens, and took Tom's visit to menu that
the sun is going to give a few rehearsals here
shortlj .
Tom Dreier doesn't get to Philadelphia
vein often, nnd sn we thought we'd like to
give bun a little ja,z of some sort. Accom
pnnied bv Lewis Bernnys, we hustled him
up to the attic-stockroom of a certain an
tique bookstore. Tom is a bookworm, nnd
was here in his clement. While he sniffed
and snouted nbnut among the ancient vol
umes, we ourself (who never, even in mo
ments of highest exaltation, permit ourself
to forget the interests nf Dish patrons)
lamped some soiled old books, without bind
ings, thnt were lying on the flonr about to
be swept up unci thrown away. We pounced
upon one. and looked entreatingly nt our
hot until he felt compelled to say we might
have it.
It is called "The American Commonplnre
Book of Poetry." published by Herman
Hooker. Philadelphia, 18,'IS. We had a
hunch thnt there was something in it that
might be warmed over for the Dish, nnd
here it is. It is an echo of a rainstonn that
seems to have been even more severe than
those we have endured recently:
The Bridgeport paper of March, 1823,
said "Arrived, schooner Fame, from
Charleston, ia New london. While at
anchor in that harbor, during the rain
storm on Thursday evening last, the Fame
was run afoul of by the Methodist mtet
Ing house from Norwich, which was car
ried away in the late freshet."
Harry Reaches the Hall
We have remarked before that one of our
favorite poets is Harry Levenkrone, one of
the office boys in this building. When Harry
tunes up his reboant rebeck he often emits
melodies that are sweetened with the au
thentic honey of Hymettus. Wandering
hopelessly about the office one evening, in
hope to lay our hand upon some vagrant
inspiration, we found the following which
Harrv had posted upon the wall :
A would-be poet, Levenkrone,
Whose job it is to watch the phone,
Is trjing now to get his name
Emblazoned in the Hall of Fame
By writing stuff alleged to be
Narratives and poetry.
By HARRY LEVENKRONE.
Amulet
If you are tired and worn, with cares ypu
would forget,
If you are all unstrung, with sorrows 6ore
beset ;
If you would learn a lesson which will keep
Your heart from fainting and your soul
from sleep ; ,
Go back to Nature with her hills and streams,,
Ask and Believe She will return your
dreamt '
FLOYD MEREDITH,-
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"COME, ALL YE FAITHFUL!"
Poetry and Homicide
By William McFee
(Our Kperial Correspondent in the
Mcditcirancnu)
Smyrna, June IS.
TT WAS an evening of blue iind silver
maiked by great black cypresses, when
the book came. I had been ashoie rum
maging In a bookstore for odd volumes. I
hnd purchased a small leather-bound volume
of Cnrducci, tor a present. Perhaps you do
not know Caiduooi. I used to stumble
through his lordly stanzas in Ancona. my
friend Rieardo Cairoln sitting beside me
on the loof of the Turkish consulate, nnd
holding me 1111 when 1 slid off into deep
water. And nn the flyleaf I wns writing
some verses in Fiench. though Italian would
have been more acceptable to the recipient.
But 1 1 lecord it here for what it is worth I I
never could, with all my admiration for
Italian, remember Italian verses. French
poetry is ns easy tn remember as English,
it learns itself, nnd I have a head full of
stray setups, Hugo, Verlaine. De Musset,
and so forth. And I wns writing one of
these seiaps 011 the flyleaf of I'arducei's
book.... You must figure the brown leather
volume with a thin line of gold tooled along
the edge, a blotch cm the flyleaf due to damp,
for the atcades of the Rue l-'iank are damp.
T AJ
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M filled with admiiation as I nieture
strenuous lives of writing men in
America, turning out prodigious quantities
of "stuff," writing hard, going home to the
family nt night, something attempted some
thing done to earn a night's repose, while I,
miserable wight, lnaf about the arcades of
Smyrna or Ephesus, smoking Turkish
cigarettes, drinking mastic and fiddling with
.a string of amber beads, muttering bud
French to a girl with gold eyes, and being
instructed in the politics of asin Minor by
n -Spaniard whose ancestors came here from
the Inquisition. I feel the years passing and
nothing comes of it. However. I saw a man
murdered the other night. No, not in that
arcade, bur further along. Talk about the
harbarousness of firearms give me firearms.
I like not the aftermath of knife-work, the
slimy ooze on marble steps, the convulsive
contortions of a ripped abdomen. . . .No, give
me some more mastic nnd a cigarette and let
us look out to the harbor where the great
ships ride beneath galaxies of glittering
electrics. I should make a bad murderer.
Crack ! Friends of the prisoner taking pot
shots at the gendarmerie. Quelle vie!.... I
am going ashore. 1 am always going ashore.
WILLIAM McFEE.
The tragic city of New York is now sub
mitting itself to a new Griffith film. One of
the allurements of the picture, as per the
ads, is "Fountains of Wine," and it is pro
duced in the customary "ice cooled theatre."
Wine on the screen nnd ice in the ven
tilators how New York has changed.
The best pun of the week has been pulled
hy Ben De Casseres, who is renlly a Phila
delphian, although he resides for the nonce
on an island in the Hudson river. Ben saw
Harry Kemp, the unkempt poet of vaga
bondia, coursing down Broadway in his
corduroys. "Ecce Hobo," said Ben de
murely. Book collectors have their little oddities
just the same ns other enthusiasts. Almost
every really fine collection ot rare volumes
includes a book said to have been in
Shelley's pocket when he was drowned.
Sometimes (as in the Bodleian at Oxford) it
is a copy of Aeschylus; sometimes (as in Mr.
Morgan's library in New York) it is a copy
of "The Indian Serenade." It seems to us
not surprising that poor Shelley was
drowned if he had a whole five-foot shelf
about his person.
AVe hear a good deal said about the need
of a new coin, a "Hi eent piece or something
equally fantastic.
As far as we aie concerned, the pressing
need seems to be not a new coin but a few
mare of the existing milled edges.
SOCRATES.
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THE TRAPEZE PERFORMER
TTtlERCE little bombs of gleam snap from)
-- his spangles.
Sleek flames glow softly on his silken
tights,
The waiting crowd blurs to crude darks
and whites
Beneath the lamps that stare like savage
bangles ;
Safe in a smooth nnd sweeping arc he
dangles
And sees the tanbark tower like old heights
Before careening eyes. And last he sights
The waiting hands, and sinuously untangles.
Over the sheer abyss, so deadly near,
He falls, like wine to its appointed cup;
Turns in a wheel of fireworks, and is
mine.
Battering hands acclaim our triumph clear.
And steadfast muscles draw my sonnet up
To the firm iron of the fourteenth line.
Stephen Vincent Benet, in Ainslee's.
Perhaps the civil courts will decide whether
Haverford officials are exponents of Prussian
efficiency or Prussian mendacity.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
What kind of a river is called a "pi
rate" and what is meant by "behead"
ing" a stream?
What size army is Austria allowed un
der the peace terms?
What are ember and rogation days?
When was the French Acaiemy founded?
Who wrote "Lorna Doone"?
What tiermnn painter was known as
The Green?
Who said, "Age is a matter of feeling,
not of years"?
What is an anemograph? ,'j
Who wrote "The Maid of Athens"?
10. What is the Church of Scotland?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. The banking and currency law, kn6wn
as the Federal Reserve act. was ap
proved December 23. 1913, and
amended June 21, 1017. Under it
twelve cities, known as Federal Re
serve cities, are established and the
1'nited States is divided into twelve
geographical districts, each containing
one of the reserve cities.
2. An acrostic is a poem or other compo
sition in which the initial, or the in
itial and final, or the initial, middla
nnd final letters spell a word or words,
3. William Winter, American dramatic
critic, nt a dinner in London, said .
"Acting is the moving picture of na- ,
ture."
4. The man first known as the Almanack
Maker was Richard Harvey, an Eng-,
lish nsttologer, who died in 1623,
5. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, English
mathematician, used the name "Lewis
Carroll" when publishing "AUca la
Wonderland" and "Through the Look
ing Glass."
6. The treaty of Brest -Litovsk was one
between Germany, Austria-Hungary,
Bulgaria and Turkey on the one side
and Russia on the other and was
signed March 3, 1018.
7. Emma Abbbtt, who was born In Chi- J
-s cago in 1850 and died 18SS. She
. traveled with her own opera company
throughout the United States and re
fused, on moral grounds, to ting
"Travlata."
8. South Dakota was admitted Into thf
Union on February 22, 18S9.
9. Maurice Maeterlinck wrote "The Blu
Bird." r ,'
10. Great Abaco, or Lucayo.Is one of the
principal Islands pf tiie Hahama'sroup. '
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