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Daily Colonel Pusey and Commissioner Fisher wriggle elaborate aiound the one question that the depositors and the public would like to have an.xweied: Who got the money? NOT THE RIGHT KIND OF TALK 'T,HE railroad emplocs are in no mood - to brook the return of the lines to their former control," wrote the lenders of the railroad Big Four. Curious language surel when ad dressed to the American people. European autocrats now in the discard used to employ such haughty phrases to cow their enslaved subjects. But it comes strangely from the lips, of en seeking what they declare is justice at the hands of a demociacy. It remains to be seen whether the American people are ia a mood to brook this kind of insolent dictation. INSIDE AT WASHINGTON TT IS customary for big business uiter- ests to have eyes and ears in Washing ton. A good tipster at the capital makes more than a cabinet officer. But if there is one thing that could try public patience to the vanishing point it would be pi oof of the allegation that the present secre tary of the Senate was appointed to his 'office through influence exerted by repie sentatives of the Chicago packets. A secretary of the Senate knows all that goes on at executive sessions and most of what Senate leaders are planning. ills forecasts of any legislative piogram would be invaluable to speculators. The Senate could well afford to forget the league of nations, the railroads and even the cost of living long enough to appoint a new secretary or prove that the charges against the present official are without foundation. FOR PUBLIC CONVENIENCE TpOR the convenience of the public the Public Ledger Company has, installed in different parts of the city automatic A-ending machines for the sale of the Evening Public Ledger and the Public Ledger. The machines will in no sense be in competition with the newsdealers and newsboys. They will be installed at such places where heretofore it has not been possible to get a paper without making a long journey. The machine, the fiist to be installed m a,city of the size of Philadelphia, is a marvel of simplicity. You drop two cents in a slot and pull a leer; an aim with a point moves forward to the paper, tilts it over on one side and drops it through an opening within reach of your hand. If you drop a penny in the slot and then discover ou haven't anothei. a turn of the lever will return your penny to you. It is also discriminating enough to return the slug of the jester. But for two cents it saves you a journey and gives you the news. A JITNEY REVIVAL rpALK of a jitney revival in the Camden - suburbs is a natural consequence of the zone-fare decision just made by the Public Utilities Commission. Jitneys have their virtues as well as faults. They are far better than straps. But the casual service which they provide is at best a poor substitute for efficient street .railway service. The people of New Jersey have an in centive to retaliation in their dealings wjth the trolley corporations, although elsewhere there remains doubt concern ing the justice of irresponsible competi tion -with established street-railway sys terns which were created by the original jitney. Many lines in every large tiolley system are operated at a loss. Many riders are carried over long distances without profit. Statistics show that at tfie present general low rate of street railway fares the operating companies can earn a profit only by taking the fat with; the lean. They profit in the rush hours from strap hangers and by the tkliort haul. V It was into this rich, if restricted, ,. md'that the jitneys broke at the begin- " w H" 'bu " oouuicu innc nothing of the heavy burden of the efal street transport service. They were operated by Irresponsible ipieulators and. at best their service was eriain, hiiu ouiucwiucs dangerous lo 'passengers. It Is conceivable that in rgncie0 or in isolated fields of opera- qgjH$rer may be, utilized systemat- , -v ically to advantage and the time may come when regularly organized motor service will supplement the trolley lines to make quick and comfortable transpor tation easier than it is now in the crowded hours. But experience hus shown that safe and desirable service cannot be rendered by jitneys for n five-cent fare. The New York bus lines have the most efficient system of street motor transport in the country and they have found that they cannot operate efficiently if each pas senger is chaiged less than ten cents a ride. REACHING AFTER AN ELL BY THE MEN WHO GOT AN INCH Why the Brotherhoods Think They Can Have the Railroads Turned Over to Them TT !--. T IS not Kovoinment owneiship of tail oads wlurli is proposed by the "Big I Four" hrothei hoods in the Sinn bill in troduced in the Houc of RepirM-ntatives I last Saturday. i It is lailioad ownership by the iiulioad brotherhoods foi the benefit of the riiil- i road brotherhoods. Government bonds would be issued, it is true, to bin the roads, but the govern ment would not control them. They would be in the hands of a board of fifteen dnectors. Representing the pub lic? No. Repiesenting the operatois. I'lM' of the directois would be ap pointed by the Picsident, five by the updating otliceis and lhn by the em ployes. Ten of the fifteen would be men paid out of the receipts of the roads and. unless we misunderstand the purposes of the brothel hoods, every one of the ten would be a cienture of the emploj.es Thny would insist that the general supei intendrnts, the diwsion xupeiintemlent.-, the freight and passengei agents, the superintendents of mechanical equipment and the like should ultimately be ap pointed from the ranks of the engineers and conductoiB and at the nomination of these employes. This, they tell us, is the democratiza tion of industiy. It may be, but it is not opeKition of the railroads in the interests of the users of them. It is not government imnciship as that term is understood anjwheie in the world at the piesent time. The plan of purchase is that govern ment bonds are to be issued to pay for "eveiy honest dollar" put in the roads. The couits aie to decide what dollars represent honest investment and what do not. This leaves the sum requited in grave uncertainty. The outstanding stock and funded debt of the railroads amounts to more than 21,000,000,000 and about $850,000,000 a year is paid in interest and dividends on the bonds and stock. The average dividends in normal years earned on moie than half of the stock aie be tween fi and 7 per cent. To force the holders of these securities to exchange them for 4 per cent govern ment bonds wonld be a form of confisca tion. Only a madman thinks that the government could float $10,000,000,000 worth of bonds at any time in the near future with which to go into the open market and buy the securities at what they are worth. But the proponents of the plan would have the government seize the roads and compel the owners of the securities to accept what it chooses to give. They want to get hold of the propel ty so that they can get hold of the surplus earnings; for their plan provides for an "equal division" of this surplus between the employes and the public after fixed charges and operating costs are met, with an "automatic reduction of lates" when the share of the employes in the suiplus is more than 5 per cent of the gross operating revenues. On the basis of the latest available figures, this would be when the share of the employes was I greater than $180,000,000 a year. Docs any one believe that theie would I ever be any automatic reduction in rates? The railroad men aie now asking for I higher wages. When they controlled ten J of the fifteen directors under their plan i theie would be so little surplus after ' regular wages were paid that there would be little to divide and none to reduce lates. Under the presfnt system of owneiahip the men have had their pay increased fai beyond that of men in any other foim of employment. The aseiage annual wage of the membeis of the brotherhoods in 1910 was S99JS In 1U19 it is $2020. The brakemen aie now asking a minimum of i $1800 and the conductois a minimum of ' $2400. And they are asking fuither for i a new sjstem of ownership in older that they "may be tieated more fairlv in the i futuie " I No one objects to the wage they are I now lciemng, but there are millions of I woikmen m other occupations whose pay i has not been doubled in the last nine i years who should receive consideiation before this one group of men is benefited ' still more, and before the property out of which their pay is earned is turned over to them that they may take from it ! what they wish. But there are other objections to this plan than the practical difficulties in the way of raising the billions needed to finance it and than the obvious favorit ism toward one group of workmen. All extensions are to be made at the exnense of the communities benefited. I Who will decide what community is ben efited by an extension of a line into new and undeveloped territory? Will the new territory have to bear the expense or will territory a thousand miles away to which the products are shipped be benefited to such an extent that it must provide the capital? And will Congress decide when extensions are to be made? We have had river and haibor pork barrels that have scandalized the whole country. A railroad pork barrel .would increase the potentialities of scandal to such an extent that the few millions of a river and. harbor,bill would be forgot ten. In the last ten years $2,500,000,000 of new capital has been put into the rail roads to keep them in running shape and to make extensions, or an average of $250,000,000 a year. The dullest im agination can picture the orgy of ex travagance which would attend the pas- lrftilsLm PUBLIC LJLJaMfelLAJDELPHiAVTDAy., ADGWl1 o, sage of the annual railroad bill through Congrtss, But this proposition has not come with out warning. The foundation for it was laid ih 1910. when the Adnmson eight hour law' was biowbeaten through Con gress by the brotherhoods under threat of a strike on the eve of a presidential election. It was discovered then that the politicians, from Piesident Wilson down, were cowed und dared not resist the de mands of a compact organization with votes. The President has long been seeking the suppoit of the radical labor element. This explains his toying with the Bol sheviki in Russia. It explains his speech, no longer ago thnn last May, when he talked about the democratization of in dustry mid the sharing by the workeis with capital in the contiol of industry. It explains the assurance with which the representathes of the, brotherhoods went to Washington last week with their de mand foi a rcduct'on in the cost of liing, followed by the intioduction in Congiess of their hill tinning the railroads of the country over to the men who opeiate them. It explains, too, the entrance of the biotherhoods into the American Federa tion of Labor a few weeks ago in older to exhibit to the President the number of organized wnrkingmen who were icady to back this pioject. The plan of the Sims bill is not new. It was outlined by Glenn E. Plumb, coun sel for the brotherhoods, befoie the Sen ate commeice committee on Februaiy 7 league named aftei Air. Plumb lias been foimed to conduct a campaign in its behulf. The brothei hoods are insist ing on their right to engage in political action in oidcr to accomplish their pur poses, confident that, even though the railioads are now under goernment con trol, they will not be lebukod by the President. nd this is going on in spite of the lamentable financial failuie of govern ment control of the lailroads, a failure which does not disturb the brotherhoods, because the big deficit was created largely by the need of money to give them the inci eased pay which they got as soon as Mr. McAdoo began to supervise the pay lolls The plan is preposterous in economy and arrogantly demagogic as a political conception, since it is wholly and solely group legislation at the cost of all other workers. Tlio dentil of 'three ( arelessness boys follow ine nu e- Nimpwliere plosion of il iinmitf in a local stone qiiurr vliaiph iluiws attention to apparent laxity in tntinK the explnuc Hoys will be bojs nnd inqui-ithoiicss is n bojisb attribute. 1 nilmiltrill tlie joungstPrs bail no lisdit lo enter the toolbnusp wheie the stuff was stoii'il, but death is too Brent a penalty for a ehildi-h indiscretion, and the men who made such an indiscretion possible are nun alls lespunsible for the traced). Sun ceding problems are I'lnmb cniiinKini to congressional .neationists. ilis- Mcner is now trjing to prove himself the joiU bj eating his words. Arc patiiotie ei lij pliennted? red-blooded, Ameriians It is nma.ing how nricli industrial mo est may be germinated from a grain of wheat. Theie is still doubt as to whether the local political pot contains plum pudding or plain soup. Much indiistiial disaffi i tion b inability to difTcientiatc between a and a "hit."' due to strike" Report lias it that Aug. head of the Spanish i abinet n Kitchen cabinet. Miranda is jounds like It will he another crime if anv of the North Venn ItanU scuttleis nie permitted to scuttle aw a) to safety What the Vnll"jj Forge c ictions lack is snow. The i oticntioiis of both history and the drama demand "the beautiful," One k"'I tliii'K about the passing of the summer will be the giailual disappear ance of the week end automobile casualty list. Internationalism nun pi.ii an impor tant factor in the piopuscil plan to national ize railioads Legislator uonomists nnd (apitulists alike will hni in mind "what is happening in l'uropc Let Those Who Screwed Up Food Costs Screw Them Down The Washington adniinisiiatiou screwed up the i ost of all food when it nailed the price of wheat high above its ical value. We mean, of course, when it nailed up that priie to the ciiusuhmiic puhln liccause the United Sl.ites Government must bu) all the farmeis' wheat on the basis of .? "( the Washington administra tion is tr.wng to sell that wheat to the American consumer at giossly inflated Hguics as if there weie a wheat famine, when theie will be on its hands at least half a billion bushels of wheat which this eomiti) cannot consume ami the greater part iif which the go eminent will noer be able to sell abiond When the Washington administration nailed up the pi up of wheat at such an abnoimnl lei. el, it automatically elevated the prlies of corn ami other giniiiK. And when the Washington administration did that thing it doubled nnd tiobled geneial food costs; for virtuall all the food that innu. woman or iliiltl eats is nothing but grain. The man eating beef at Ills dinner table eats (ondensed gtnin The baby at its bottle in the crib eats condensed grain. The steer that gives the beef, the cow that gives the milk, the hen that lnys the egj are alike fed and fattened on grain. When the Washington administration nailedmli the price of win at it screwed up the price of labor, for labor bad to hae more and more wages to pay the grossly excessive food prices whiih weie made by the Washington administration when it made the grain prices. And when the Washing ton administration screwed up the price of labor it screwed up the cost of everyVsinglc tiling that is made by labor. The Wasbiugton administration need not search the country over, it need not search one foot beyond its ow n doorstep, for the cause of the fearful cost of living, which, from having become a discomfort, now grows to be n menace to the country. Until the Washington administration knocks from under the wheat market the props which the Washington administration itself has set tin und still holds in nlnre. or I until somebody knocks them out, the cost of Jiving in mis cuimr, win jiui conic, ouwn nnd cannot come down. Unless the Wash ington administration or somebody knocks out those propH from tinder the wheat mar ket the cost of food, the cost of all living, will go still higher. Then the job will be done by political dynamite.; A'ew York ua. THE CHAFFING DISH The Kiss That I Forgot T'AI XOHRY for the many things Unkind that I have done: Kaeh day new aches my memory brings lly stnrligbt and by sun. Ah. could I live again my )cnrs 'Twould be the dearest bliss From c)es I loved the falling tears To wipe, nnd tell them this. TJUT, oh, the things I did not do J-) That easily I might They bntint me, jcs. they haunt mc, too, From morning until night : And in the dark, wet-ejed, 1 slgl). Yet naught can ,hite the blot I cannot give, until 1 die. The kiss that I forgot I SAMUKI. MINTUKN PECK. Poets and Pourbolre pOHKUT HKIDCKS Ins been getting ' 100 it )car us British poet laureate, and the mutter has now become the subject of inquiry in the llouse of Common-. It is lomplaiiied that Mr. Uridges's muse has been hinting. Where, people in .Kngland nie sn)lng, is the ode on victory, the paean on peace, that the defrauded British public had a right to expect? And some pnrlin mi ntnry wags even go so fur as to suggest that in Hen of the hundred quid the old i ustoin be revived of giving the Inurente a butt of ennnry wine. This, the) say, might pin rc the taciturn poet of his silent humor and set hi in singing like a maws And they pietend to last sheep's c)cs back nt the ylns of jolly old Alf Teninson, who was always icady witli a ditty, fresh baked for instantaneous release as soon as any big iciit came hisslug oer the wiies. All of which we deplore Mi. Bridges is too good n poet to he heckled in this wo If lie has been dragging down a hun dred quid without writing nn) poems for it, bravo for him. Might) few poets ever siicieed in getting the better of the little luiiss grill. During the totirse of the war Mi Bridges did one thing for which nil men who love benuty are perpetuall) his debtors: lie compiled the loveliest anthology in the l'nglish language (it is enlled "The Spirit of Man " and it would do n'ny sodden heart good to refer to iti and as one of the hum blest of his fellow-workers we protest against these lowbrows In the House of Ciinimons trying to hustle him into turning out cop) before he feels the demiurge bump nig round in bis skull. As for that butt of catjiiry, he ought to have it nn.iwny, in addition to the 100. Poets get far too little pourboire nowadays. If the House of Commons doesn't look out it will budget poetry right out of exist ence. What a boost foij the nirplnne business if the gin eminent should decide to own the railroads And think of the simple-hearted exultation of Henry Ford. It is said that the railroads need more economical management. In that case we would suggest foi' director general the al rend) famous individual who runs three motorcars on the slack of a .f.3 ." - a - w cck pay envelope. Hard eider contains as much as S per cent alcohol, aud our Chester county correspond ent assures us that a brass footrail is being installed in the famous cider mill on the AVest Chester pike. We confidently expect to see a number of apple trees condemned to penal servitude this autumn. Are Week-Ends a Succeis? From time to time humanity is forced to revise its customnry notions in the interests of truth. This is always painful. It is nn old fetich that the week-end in summer is a thin of riotous enjoyment, of goodly cheer nnd mirthful solace. A careful examination of human beings during this hebdomadal period of carnival leads us to question the doctrine. When we watch the horrors of discom fort nnd exntinn endured by simple-hearted citizens in pursuit of a light-hearted Satur day and Stinilin. we often wonder how it is that humanity will so gleefully inflict upon itself sufTi lings wkieh, if they were imposed by some taskmaster, would be culled atrocious. We observe, for instance, women nnd children standing sweltering in the aisles of train's during a two-hour run to the seashoie. We observe the number of di owning, n.otor neeidents, murders nnd suicides that take place during the Saturday to Monda.v penml We obserte families loaded down Willi small children, who might have been happv and reasonably cool at home, struggling despeiately to get awny for n day in the rouutry, rising nt ,i n. in., standing in line nt the station, funning themselves with blasphemy, and wear) be fore they sturt We observe them chased home by thundei storms or colic, dazed and blistered with sunburn or groaning with a Mil felt of ice cieam cones. It is a lamentable fact (and the truth Is almost nlvvavs lamentable, nnd hotly de niedl that for the hard-working majority the week-end is a curse rather than n bless ing. The saddcsr fact in human annals is that most people nte never so happy as when they are bind at woik. The time may come when eriniintils will be condemned, not to the i hair, but to twenty successive week ends spent standing in the aisles of crowded excursion trnlns Now if mil) the Senate will be ns nastj townrd'H. C I. as n lias been to the peace tieat) , ull will be well . Automobiles nie imt the only things1 that collide. We have seen two opposing ideas collide within the mind of a friend, creating grievous linvoc ami severe confusions to many other ideas that happened to be loi tering near the point of impact. What 1ms become of the old-fashioned man who used to be seen traveling at this time of )ear, uur.ving a suitcase plastered with labels of foreign hotels, mostly Swiss? Depositors' moiie.v at the North Peuu is still A. W. O. I.. What n shock it would be if some one really WAXTKD to be major of Philadel phia. We understand that the rail roil d men want a raise. If they get it we hope that the fellow who lias to take up the tickets in the suburban smoker will achieve the biggest increment. It is true that he gets all the morning papers free of charge; but consider the annual volume of -.75 japery he hn to undergo from commuters who think thnt the morning has not begun until they have passed a merry wprd with the conductor. Mr. Wilbert Longfellow, of the Ited Cross, lias promulgated some revised in structions for rescuing the drowned, Ife t.uys : Takeii out of the nlement which causes smothering, the patient. In the case of drowning, should first ba held upside down at an angle of about forty-five degrees. i Kven a congressman could hardly have said this in a greater number of words. Why nut put the tirst (ifteeu words in two, and sny "The patient?" We fear thnt Mr. Longfellow is as verbose as the po?t of the same name. ( SOCRATES, "fc ""SS. y'$ r'&&&'3j3fi ''feLlfeiO, vlffilkri'Oe! F1- ' iv'lL V Si ?$-.JlMffi rrftfJ. isL.-i.te'ir--35 TT-i .! 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These two occupations arc engaging the cap ital now. Wilson is trying to "get away with it" with the league of nations. The Ite publicans are trying to keep him from getting away-with it. The issue is big. It is some thing more than winning the ejection o lOl-O. It may even be that the fate of the league of nations is less impnitant to the country than the question whether we shall get back to our American institutions as they were before the war perverted them and before strong personalities in the executive chair began to dwarf Congress. Republicans talk hopefully of returning to the old-fashioned t.vpe of Presidents, men like McKin ley. on" whom public attention did "not espe cially focus und who did not seek to re duce Congress to a subordinate role. The temptation to find a man with vote getting qualities may cause the Republicans at convention time to forget their present good resolutions. Hut the issue is n real onr shall Congress be a m ordinate body or a mere tame cat of the Kxecutive? Republicans and the League So true is this thnt it may be more im portant to defent the autocratic tendencies in the American government as exemplified by Wilson than to organize the world into a league. Hut the Republicans genernlly don't like the issue in just that foi in. They evi dently think it is dangeious. They prefer to accept the league, somen hut modified, aud then ask the country to i eject iisonism. Their policy appears to be to criticize the league severe!), to niodifj it so far ns pos sible, by making reservations, to destioy its credit with the public ns much as possible, to minimize Wilson's achievement as far as they can. while avoiding tlie political peril of re jecting the lengue outright. It is delicate politics. On the one side, if they attack the covenant of nations stropgly enough they may be asked why they have not the courage to vote against it. auu wjien they finally vote for it they run the risk of having the country ignore their reservations and judge of its merits by the fact that it was accepted by its political opponents. It is hard to accept another man's meas ure, even with reluctance, without paying a tribute to him. An Kmbsrrasslng Position The 'Republican majority iu Congress is an embarrassment to the party. It has the responsibility of acting upoa the treaty. It cannot maintain its position of pure opposi tion. Its hands are tied with respect to the treaty. No one in possession of his senses would commend its rejection. The Senate might accept the treaty with out bettering the policies of Mr. Wilson if it were not for the covenant. The covenant is Mr. Wilson. French gesticulation against it, Knglish support carefully pre sented as support of the American Presi dent", lmve made the covenant personal to Mr. Wilson. And now Republican party politics in the Senate is deepening this Impression. If the senators felt free to reject it that might be excellent politics. Hut they don't. All they can do is to gesticulate against Jt, Can they make gestures strong enough to do jl WELL MEANT, MAYBE, BUT- Vv ' wBsKir j(f9 ,. 'A Tik?v jys&&ivwi wiaStSBnaKui-'-'!'''' ' -s-.!. . x1---1; m&&BSKsL-. rj.-i.i.mr,: jisHsjies;3--- ntf-im?Y 1$&W-: i-'lfmrPSvf''i, -r --ISiSC- -. -.'I : Lt -TV;"; "V ktsym!$m&&h ,tsK.&f;$?v??--??.&mTr. SnSSsta- V (Bt"L,'.u Sas?i VbrsffOSfcriSfl!-"wvJMi&c! am- ?-- viSCT--i,'.;'.;', Bi'.-sD3.--: $& Xt&BsL isW3il:i-'-if:JSSw! JC- -TS? T-53W-- the league any harm without damaging themselves? Mr. Wilson hopes to win the election by fastening public nttention upon the league ami making the nntion accept it as a big piece of constructive statesmanship, highly flattering to the national' pride. The Re publican senators hope to win the election by diverting attention from the lengue and fastening it upon the dead horses for which the nation has to pay the taxes, the wastes and mismanagement of the war, the danger to our institutions in the autocratic usurpa tions of Wilson. Hut fighting the league is not n good way to divert uttention from it, especially when it affords Mr. Wilson nn excuse to go on the stump for it. Can't Ignore tlie Covenant Hut the Republicans in the Senate are not fiee to elect their issue. They can't ignore the league and the covenant. To regard any thing else on the political horizon would be like turning jour back on a conflagration to watch a lighted cigarette. The league, is the best advertised political document in the world. Tor the first time in history nn American 1'iesident left the country, nnd it was to secuie the league. Mr. Wilson hns n genius for advertising. He drnmntized tlie coldly critical attitude of the Fiencli into something mnlignnnt. He made the cluirnctcrWtit- wabbliugs of Lloyd (ieorge ulino?t nn international incident. He traded a nation of 400,000,000 people for u vote for bis lengue. The Republicans cannot ignore n thing so thrust into the foreground of dispute ns tlie lengue. To talk against it is to invite the question why they do not vote ns they talk. And to vote against it apparently in the opinion of nearly all is to invite defeat. Probably the best course is to adopt the leugue with reservations. If the public can be impressed with the reservations, some of Wilson's credit for pnssing the lengue will be destroyed. If not, the Re publicnns will have made the best of a bad job, and at the same time will have pro vided some campaign ammunition. Speed a Republican Essential Hut essential to the Republican policy is speed. The paity should not be responsible for delaying the treaty of peace. Moreover, it should get the league of nations issue out of the way as soon as posisble. The coun try should be allowed to forget the peace and turn to Its practical affairs as boou as pos sible. Rig ns the league of nations issue looks now, the election mny be made to turn rather upon questions more immediately con cerning the interests of the voters than upon it. International organization is academic, even thougli President Wilson nnd Colonei House have staged the first meeting of the league in Washington so as to influence the next national' election. This country is so vast and so practical that the vote is likely to be cast for a variety of motives rather than because of any pride the voters felt In Mr. Wilson's achievements at Paris unless his Republican foes make mistakes. Pacifist idealism saved . Mr. Wilson in 101(1, but back of the idealism lay n host of practical considerations about the disadvan tage of going into war. War "now is remote and the insurance against war contained in the leugue of nations is too slight to Influence many votes among a practically minded people unless always unless. The Republi cans, if they know how to play good poll tics, will not aid Mr. Wilson by keeping his Issue alive long. Republicans Face Illg Job Hut can the Republicans carry out this program of minimizing Mr. Wilson's achiever ment by attaching reservations to the league of nations and thus establishing talking points for the coming campaign aud of doing this quickly? Their Issue against the Dem HP.-, ii J. fr" ...kVir te;.i:f- ;ll.t...-.y,r I 'lir-J'''"-?-.-"-- IS-.ta-.'t.'ttfvJGr I v ocratic party will have to be the old Republi can issue of capacity against incapacity. They won't strengthen their case by showing incapacity in dealing with the league covenant. To impress the country they must do a quick and businesslike job of accepting the treaty with such reservations as will appeal to the good senso of the na tion. Can the Republicans do this? Is there enough union and organization and leader- ship among them to go quickly to a definite' end? Here again Mr. Wilson has the advantage. He is one against many. He has the advan tage which has made the executive able to dominate Congress. The opposition to him is more or less of a mob. Many men among it are shouting their suggestions in the hope their voices mny lead the rest to rally about them nnd accept their leadership. Of real purpose and real capacity none is yet dis cernible. The Republicans have the advantage of practical issues that touch the voter's life und his pocket. Mr. Wilson has tried to shift the ground by appealing to the voter's idealism. Hy failing to show practical capac ity in meeting Mr. Wilson on his chosen ground the Republicans take the risk pf making the country Impatient and destroy ing their reputntion to get things done. It is now the task of railroad execu tives to shake the Plumb tree. More work for ticket scalpers : thres new theatres are to be erected in Philadel phia. New York gunmen are out to prove the truth of the soldiers' song: "War is hell, but peace is worse." What Do You Know? QUIZ AVhere is Vesuvius? Into what three grent classes do gcolo- iw gists group the rocks composing the earth's crust? When was the Island of Formosa ceded to Japan? 3. 4. Where is Mauritius? fj. Who wns Raron Munchausen? 0. What Hritish statesman was known ns Pushful Joe and Brummagem Joe? Who said "A good thing can't be cruel"? Who was the first Haron Lytton? Who was Owen Meredith? When was the word "jay" first used to describe a simpleton? fl. 10. Answers to Yesterday's Quiz Tobago Island is part of the colony of Trinidad fii the Hritish West Indies. A bight is n curve in a coast, a bay. It is also the Iqop of a rope. Duleinea del Toboso was the lady loved by Don Quixote In Cervantes's ro mance. 3 4. A roorbaeh or roorback is a defamatory falsehood told for political effect. Tlie name originated in 1814, when there ,,.nu nnhlUhed. to the detriment of James K. Polk, then a candidate for 1-resident, an extract purporting to be from Roorback's "Tour Through the AVestern and Southern States in 1830." Canaster js tobacco prepared by coarsely breaking the dried leaves. Kismet is destiny. The Salvation Army was founded In 0. rjnglnnd by William uootn in iouo, 8 China became a republic February 12, 1012. 0. Herbert Asqnith was prime ministei of Kngland when the war broke out. He resigned December fi, 1010. 10. Pericles (R. C. 400-420), Athenian statesman and orntpr, was known as Onion Head because of the shape of. his head. 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