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AiiKiist S. 1019 MOORE FOR MAYOR CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S announce ment of his candidacy for the Repub lican nomination for Mayor is a fine ex ample of courage and manly independ ence. A regular of regulars all his political career, he has pioperly exercised his right and the right of every party man to aspire to lead his party in the contest for the most important office in his home city. In the matter of close attention to his duties at Washington Mr. Moore's record is first class. Always on hand, laboring faithfully in the best interests of the city no matter what the season so long as Congress was in session, he has never permitted private affairs to interfere with public ones. For more than a decade he has been the leading Republican rep resentative fiom Pennsylvania as well as Philadelphia. His individual abilities have raised him to a position of influence and leadership in the House, and it is these qualities and his experience in public life which entitle him to submit his candidacy to the voters, believing that he is qualified to administer the difficult office of Mayor with satisfaction to the public. . Mr. Moore's statement is impressive for its sincerity and lack of eauivocal yrhetoric. There is one sentence in par ticular which will stick in the mind that where he declares he will be a candidate "as a Republican, singularly free from those pledges and influences which when made in advance of an election are usually the curse of a candidate." It indicates that if elected he will be nobody's rubber stamp. d OMENS IN JERSEY ANTI-SUFFRAGISTS in New Jersey are banding together to help Mr. Nugent in his run for the governorship because Mr. Nugent loathes the thought -" of a universal franchise. Mr. Nugent might as well quit now and save his time, money and voice. The antis always lose. LUDENDORFF'S LOST NERVE XTTHAT does it matter whether Luden ' dorff did or didn't lose his nerve? He lost everything else, including his head. A calmer state of mind is surely ap proaching in Germany when the news papers can give themselves up to elaborate discussions of a question that probably has ceased to interest even Lu dendorff himself. Most of the world, being wiser than Germany, will continue to feel that Ludendorff never had any nerve to lose. THE RESPONSIBILITY IS JOINT COMETHINQ more than a question of railroad rates and wages was involved in the issue presented to Mr. Wilson by the brotherhoods and submitted, in turn, to the interstate commerce committee of the Senate. In his letter of reply to the 'President, Chairman Cummins ignored the subtler and more important aspects of the whole matter. ' Any one on either side at Washington Vfho believes that the matter of food and commodity prices may be tinkered with, evaded or twisted into an election issue is being tragically misled. The burden tinder which the country at large is be ginning to chafe will actually provide a test of the sincerity of every official whose concern it may be. It will provide one of the great tests of Mr. Wilson's character and ability. It does not belong in the realm of politics. ' ,Such a crisis as has arisen in the mar kets of the world was to haVe been ex pected. Four years of headlong destruc tion has diminished supplies of food and raw materials. The United States is obliged still to feed a large part ofj Europe, mat oongation is undeniable. But it would be a calamity if powerful groups intricately organized to buy and sell were permitted to gamble endlessly with the means of life at a time like this. No solemn pretenses can relieve Con .gress or the President of their share of joint responsibility in the general search for a method of dealing with an intoler able and perilous situation. It is their duty to co-operate. IN THE LAST STAGES TDATIFJCATION of the peace treaty is - J- approaching its last stages. After many unomciai pronouncements mat me Pre-iident was unalterably opposed to any 'jdreeervatlons or interpretatipns to accom- ? -jmy the ratifying resolution there comes the official statement that he has author- ik-'iwed the formation of an organization to . ;j-yrk upon Republican senators to induce tnpM to rauiy me treaty wun interprets- 'the kind pf railfication which iWent Taft tM in his letter to Will H. Hays, chairman of the Repub lican national committee, and which Charles E. Hughes recommended in his letter to Senator Hale. There are doubt less enough Republican senators who agree with these distinguished leaders of their party to make the necessary two thirds to secure ratification. The gentlemen whom the President has called to his assistance arc members of the League to Enforce Peace, with which the lcague-of-nations idea originated. Thoy have consistently supported the plan from the beginning and have had the backing of Mr. Taft, who has done more than any other American to create senti ment favorable to the international or ganization. ONLY THE HAGIOLOGIES CONTAIN M rHKHLLtL I V LMIMOIWU The Self-Effaeement of the Secretary of State Is Cause for Wonder and Admiration '"pHE human comedy, enacted liofoie our eyes in the full light of dav. is mildly entertaining. When we have nothing else to do we cast a glance in its dneotion, watch its unfolding with casual interest and then yawn and think of .something else. It is too commonplace to absoib at tention long. But let some one draw the curtain aside and give us a momentary glimpse behind the scenes, we aie all attention at once. We are eager to discover who pulls the strings. We will crane our necks and twist our bodies in an effort to ser until we are stiff for a week afteiward Like the little boy in "Helen's Babies," we want to see the wheels go round. This is the reason for the amount of space given in the Washington dispatchrs to the testimony of Secretary Lansing before the Senate foreign relations com mittee. We have seen Mr. Lansing sitting in the office of secretary of state since June, 1915. We have read dispatches bearing his signature. We saw him go to Paris with the President as a member of the peace commission and we read that he had been appointed to membership on the committee to fix the responsibility for the war. Wo saw a photograph of the last page of the peace treaty containing his beautiful signatuie next below that of the President, the second name on the historic document. And we have wel comed him home at the conclusion of what we were wont to regard as his arduous ltbors in Paris. He looked well and stiong and we were glad that he had stood the strain so well. But when he took his seat in the wit ness chair in the Senate committee room and reached out his arm and lifted the curtain upon what had been going on be hind its glimmering folds we discovered more than we ever knew before about the art of being secretary of state in the cabinet of Woodrow Wilson. We have had secretaries of state who originated policies and were backedy the President in carrying them out. James G. Blaine will occur at once to the mind as the man responsible for the pan American policy intended to bind the re publics of the South with the great repub lic of the North. It was not a Harri sonian enterprise, but was a project which Mr. Blaine Had urged for years before he entered Benjamin Harrison's cabinet. Mr. Blaine was more than a meie subor dinate of the President. He was an adviser. John Hay likewise was a man whose conduct of the negotiations with the wily old dowager empress of China during the Boxer uprising marked him as a states man of the first rank. And the skill with which he developed the policy of the open door in China against the interest and desires of other powers was not origi nated or guided by William McKinley or Theodore Roosevelt. Mr. Hay was sec retary of state in fact as well as in name. Of course, the final authority at all times rested in the hands of the President, but we have had Presidents who welcomed the assistance and advice of big men. In more recent years there was Elihu Root, who took up the pan-American idea where Blaine left it and cultivated it and watered it and tended it with as much care as if it were his own. He left upon our foreign policy the impress of his own personality. But Mr. Wilson is not like other Presi dents. Whether Mr. Lansing under a man like Roosevelt or McKinley or Harri son would have been a secretary of state like Root or Hay or Blaine must forever remain unknown. As we have had a new kind of a President, a solitary figure who keeps his own counsel, makes his own de cisions and uses the members of his cabi net to carry them out, it has been neces sary to develop a new kind of a secretary of state. Thc fleeting glimpse behind the scenes to which we have been treated leveals Mr. Lansing as a man of great poise, self control and humility. No man without these qualities could have sustained for four years the role which he has been playing without bursting out in protest or resigning in disgust. Such self-effacement is as sublime as it is unusual. One has to look in the literature of hagiology to find its parallel. Here we have the chief diplomatic offi cial of the government, one of its repre sentatives on the commission which nego tiated the most momentous treaty of peace since the morning stars sang td gether, professing virtual ignorance about what went on in the conference. How was the league-of-nations covenant negotiated? Ask Mr. Wilson. How was agreement arrived at on this, that or the other matter? Perhaps Mr. Wilson may be able to tell you. Why was the demand of Japan on the "Shantung matter acceded to? You will have to ask Mr. Wilson. He made the decision. And so on through a long list of questions. And when he was asked for the general outline of what had been done in matters that had passed through his department he pleaded a poor memory and asked tor time to consult the records. No-rr, it l had been anything more than an a-rent- J? he had assumed responsibility iof r-'-wr-mendations that were finally acted upon he could' not have forgotten in so short a tinie. The only explanation is that he has heen the clerk of the President, sub 'mlssiyely readying an- obeying orders, Sl'WAn not'JielitUjng Mr;, La-Wing. He is an international lawyer of wide ex perience and tested abilities. Thq spec tacle which he presents forces wonder and admiration wonder that a man can be willing to be a mere cog in a machine when the post he holds would entitle him to function as one of the driving wheels, and admiration at the power of self repression which has kept him from ex ploding for, lo! these many months. He has not effaced himself because of lack of views of his own. He made this manifest by his statement that Japan would have signed thp treaty without the Shantung agreement and that the con cession was not necessary. If the public could be permitted to listen at a dicta phone connected with Mr. Lansing's desk while he unburdened himself in confi dence to a bosom friend it would have an enteitaining half hour which would more than repay it for the time stolen from that usually given to the movies. IN NEW YORK PIFTH AVENUE isn't wide enough to accommodate all the bright new limousines of all the dull new millionaires in New Yoik. Many of the elect in Man hattan therefore lide or used to ride to what they aie pleased to call work with hoi polloi. They used the street cars. The street-railway strikes that occur with astonishing regulaiity in and about Manhattan aie not devoid of advantages to the Manhattanese. The cloud has a lining not of silver, perhaps, but of nickel plate. New Yorkers are almost in variably either too fat or too thin. They toil only with the wiist muscles that are needed to count money or play bridge. They may learn to walk and they will benefit by the exercise. A whiff of fiesh air now and then and a sight of the sky will do them good. COATESVILLE: A SYMBOL A FEW years ago there were parades and rejoicings and endless speech making in Coatesville. Coatesville used to be a modest town with a borough gov ernment. It succumbed to the itch of ambition and had itself made a city of the third class. In the years that have inteivened this city of the third class, which has only eighteen thousand population, found that the obligations of greatness aie not always pleasant or even comfortable. There were expensive municipal forms to maintain. Offices and salaries were in creased. Trouble multiplied as it always does for those in exalted places. Coatesville has had the courage to admit its error. It wants to return to the simple life after its bright adventure. It wants to be a borough again. What a fine place this world would be if some of the nations of Europe were as wise as Coatesville! A Muskegon. Midi., Waste of Energy mob, to show its oppo sition to a t.pP!)-cent fare, burned n oouplo nf trollpy rais. This is ns foolish a waj nf srrkitiK t dross as the Chinosp method, according to Charles, Lamb, of cooking mast pig. With an nrtivo coal e- Easlest Tiling port business through - They Do out the siimnipr. mine operators maj find it tlifiieiilt to explain a dnmestir shoitage next winter if Mich eentuntcs in accordance with prophecies made. Discussing the Philn Or a Game dclphia majoraltj ron- Old Rooster test, Mr. Moore is iiiotd as snjing that Leghorns are wonilpifu! fellows and I'lj mouth Itneks ran hold their own. Which might indicate that that's the kind of chick en Mr. Moore is. The (oiiutj prosecutor Hogging Food in Columbus, Ohio, is Products tring to force a local packing company to disgorge l."l,fl."l pounds of pork, which he alleges has been held in storage, for prof iteering purposes, beyond the period allowed by law. lie hopes to sell it publicly at the figure at which it was acquired. This is what mny be termed putting virtue into the pork barrel. Some members of the City FI:vs in Luck Philadelphia police forre have gone to West Chester, nud some have returned from France. The city is benefited by the ex change. The political cjeie has Its daily blowout. The bank make n haul. ;ullcrj d uly expects Fisher to The ties that tie up industry. bind are not those that Varc, oh, Vaie, are Town Meeting registrars'' the little doggone Rumanians cous-iler armistice merely the thin end of the wedge. terms Now if the profiteer could only the gang at West Chester ! join Mr. Lansing, too. has adept nt passing the buck. shown himself The aim of cold storage sometimes seems to be to give the ultimate consumer a cold deal. One thing n President has to learn is that he can't keep his head erect and his ear to the ground at one and the same time. Think of a big strong government making war on a poor weak little thing like 75 beer! The Frog Hollow police convicts found breakfast in jail a joke jesterday morning but the very best joke grows monotonous after a whlle Japan wants to import white silica sand from the Philadelphia district. We have it, and we ought to have the ships to carry it. AVith army food on sale next week a host of reputable citizens will nee the inside of a police station for the first time in their lives. Mr. Lansing might have saved his repu tation an a big man by resigning long ago. Mayhap he proved the other thing by not resigning. And, after all, if Congress were anv more intellectual than it In it wouldn't b. nu lv1,1w,.,.,v Y, ""iii'uioni meijt aiwvcuevn , toy) acacia ,iiee , ceased to I neoDle. ' Jk. ... . .. KYn'fiiti!ii-. lf, 'SFfLt' " A . k .. .TOJAtf' i:' iryr r . ".a1.. . ' ? ROMANCE OF GOLD MINING Success of Spencer Penrose and Charles McNeill In Colorado Per ils In the Hunt for the Precious Metal In the Arctic and In the Tropics By OKOnOE NOX MrCAIN NEXT to love the great adventure in life Is gold hunting. In nine cases out of ter, though, the world over and I think the rntlo runs lilghcr-r-thc reward is either fail ure or death. , The gold hunter's graveyard in southern Alaska is the most desolate spot I ever saw. It Is a tiny (?od's acre, not larger than a city lot, on the shore of Lake Bennett. Lake Bennett Is the most treacherous sheet of water north of the Canadian boundary. It is the head waters of the Yukon river. The little cemetery Is on a barren rise of ground, with mountains on three sides. Within the rough, wooden -railed Inclosurc nre about thirty graes, the last resting place of men and there are several women who embarked in the Klondike rush of 1S0S. Some died of exposure, others of accident, but most of drowning in Lake Bennett. It was near here that the pioneers, having con quered the White Pass, felled trees, hewed planks and built barges. They had C00 miles of n river journey ahead of them before they reached the gold fields. rpWO Philad'dphians who have grown very -- wealtliv in gold nnd copper entprprises are Chnrles McN'eill and Spencer Penrose, a brother nf the senator. Spenrer Penrose will go to the T'nited States Senate one of these das, I believe. He is er.v popular in Colorado. lie Is big. heartj, kind nnd hospitable. His home is in Colorado Springs, though he has spent considerable time in re cent years traveling in the Orient. Clmrlie McNeill and Spenrer Penrose made their first venture in Cripple Creek twenty live j ears or more ago. They struck it rich. Later on they became interested in copper mining, and McNeill is now one of the copper magnates, a high official in the I'tah Copper Company. For years they have deserted the effete East for the wealth and fascination of the expansive West. A little-known mining romance is that of Sherwood Aldrich, whose nnme figures fre quently in eastern society columns He was a New York man and a long-time acquaint ance of Penrose nnd McNeill. lie had made and lost money around Cripple Creek. Then in 10(14 came the Tonopnh-liohlricld rush. I talked with Aldrich In the El Paso Club in Colorado Springs, of which we wpre mem bers, a few nights before he left for the new discovery. For months before he had been rather down in his luck. He expressed the confident belief that he would strike it rich in the new Nevada field. And he did. Within five jears he was wortli half n million. T DOl'ItT the details of tha. story sent out - from New York last week about n gold hunting expedition starting for Dutch Cuiana with a widely known gentleman and his wife at the head of it. It said that they were going to develop a gold field which the leader located on the Moioni rier eighteen jcars ago. As the story runs, they are carrying with them a company of fifty mining engineers nnd a million dollars' worth of equipment. The main story may be true, but the latter state ment suggests exaggeration. Evidently it is a dredging proposition in the alluvial sands of the river. If so, half a dozen American engineers and assistants would be ample for the pmposp. Labor is plentiful and ery cheap in that country, as I know, nnd a million dollars' worth of ma chinery would dredge a dozen rivers. Not all of the party, I venture, will come back alie. It't, a wretched country for fever and all sorts of tropic disorders. rpiIE smaller streams of northern South America are literally rivers of gold. (Jold seekers generally nre not aware of this. Ven ezuela with northern Brazil and a portion of western (Juiana is a land of undeveloped riches and romance. It was up the Orinoco river that Sir Wal ter Raleigh 'ailed on his quixotic quest for the fabled El Dorado. It was on the sloping bank at Soletlad, just across the Orinoco from Ciudad Bolivar, that he rested for two months while refitting his ships. I'ntil fifty j ears ago Ciudad Bolivar was known as Angostura. It was the original home of the famous bitters. Raleigh ex pected to find somewhere in that wilderness a city rich in gold and gems beyond the wildest dreams of Spanish avarice. Instead he returned empty-handed to an execution er's block in Loudon. Strolling through the western or poorer section of the little city of Ciudad Bolivar one morning some years ago I saw an im mense negro seated at a table near an open window in a native but with a handful of nuggets before him. They were discolored ancl he was cleansing them in a gourd bowl half filled with water. He did not resent my curious gaze. I told Robert Henderson, one of the two Americans in that remote region, of what I had seen. "Very likely he's n Barbados negro who has just come down the CaronI river " "There must be gold along the river," I said. "I believe it is richer in gold than any river in South America," he replied. "But no white man can live in the climate." THN ROUTE to Port of Spa'L on my return J 'from the Orinoco valley, on the Chester, Pennsylvania -built side-wheel steamboat, I met a Yankee named Shaw from Snow Hill, Me. He had lived in the country for twenty five years, hail married a Spanish woman and raised a family. He corroborated Hen derson's story, only his picture of the Caroni was more vivid : "I believe the Caroni with its tributaries like the 1'rape is one of the richest rivers in the world. I've seen plenty of gold from it, but always in small lots. It's impossible for a white man to live in the low climate along the banks. He'd die of fever inside two mouths. Nobody but the Barbados and Trinidad niggers can work there and they can stand it only a short time. The native Indians won't work. They rpend their time hunting and fishing, and care nothing about gold.. Besides they're treacherous." This old fish of a Maine Yankee told me the story, or romance rather, of the New Providence mine. It is- famous In that part of our sister continent. It Is, or was, in the Urupati country about seventy miles back from the Orinoco. Its nearest city is Gua cipati, the capital of the territory. The mine had been worked for more than 250 years. The natives, they say, discov ered It before the Conquistadores came. It was estimated that more than $200,000,000 had been taken from It. It was worked by tunnels, drifts and stopes. Then one day about thirty years ago tlio miners tunneling ran against a great rock wall. The gold vein ended. The wonderful richness ot yellow stuff suddenly ceased to exist. They had struck what is, known geo logically as a "fault." To right and left they blasted and searched and sunk shafts fr down the face of the rock. It wag all in valu. 'lhey never recovered the lead, 1 JrS'3. W S l- -i -fe 'CV :. . -- --. . !2?S2 THE CHAFFING DISH O ProflteersI ONE word is too often profaned For us to profane It, One traffic so justly disdained We need not disdain it. AVe're candid ; a word in your ear A musing to dance to : Perhaps we would all profiteer If we had a chance to. It is amusing to hear that Mr. Wilson ordered certain matters withheld "to avoid irritating the French Senate." Not irritating Senates is something he is notably good at. Two very eminent newspapermen, Mr. Heywood Broun and Mr. Jay House, have been finding amusement in the remarks of a former Evr.M.vt. Pi iu.ic Lehoek corre spondent, Philip ttibbs. Mr. C.lbbs, in his admirable novel of newspaper life, "The Street of Adventure," speaks of English newspaper reporters ns sitting in the city room with their legs stretched out toward an open fire. Mr. Broun nnd Mr. House agree that they have necr seen this phenom enon in an American news office. Our contribution to the discussion is that the object the newspaperman's legs nre'most likely to be stretched nut toward is the office boy." And we hne heard that in the rough old days the cub reporter was sometimes openly 'fired by the managing editor stretch ing his leg in the direction of the stairs. Gone Up In Smoke Found Dead, Pipe in Mouth, says a head line. At any rate it was a peaceful demise. We do not give any credit to the state ment that Britain is trying out Mr. De Valera as the new American ambassador. The question whether the paying teller of the North Penu Bank has made good his escape reminds us of the old tale about the Bacon-Shakespeare controversy. Some one said that he didn't know whether Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plaj or not; but if he didn't, he missed the greatest opportunity of his life. Literary Notes Ed Mumford, the well-known publisher, recently found surcease from care in a week at the romantic hamlet of Lovelady's on the Jersey shore. Jlr. Mumford admits that be saw the orb of day rise over the ocean one morning, and from the excitement he dis plays In describing the experience, we can not help suspecting it is the first time this phenomenon has been brought to his per sonal attention. Jolly old Roscoe Peacock writes us from North Cohocton, N. Y., that '"Suck" in the August Harper's is the greatest story he's read in years. We are going to send him Harry Levenkrone's serial. V. R. C. writes us as follows: Will you kindly give me a list of grood books to read which will help one's knowl edge a bit. Not Action or literature. We are a little puzzled. 11 V. R. C. will explain the kind of books he wants, we will be glad to help. Among the new books to appear this fall we confidently expect to see the following: How to Live Within Other People's In comes, by a Paying Teller. Hitting the Hay at Nine P. M or Sim pie Life at West Chester, by Dave Bennett and Others. The Public Be Jammed, by a Rapid Tran sit Official. How to Evaporate, by The Committee of 100. Revisiting the Old Home Town, by Orover Bcrgdoll. 1001 Ways. of. Agreeing With Mr. Wilson, a handy manual, by Robert Lansing. Looking ,'ltor a Candidate, & petectire Story, by k; ana . vi r &! W. Vare. , , : LMi&&'JFt " WaLtBOeof Mji Pethyi' ..JMkL .. .. L ... .. -t... -- il MWh1i'-7ii ! 1. . .. ...V -.tWIU.Jii?54.s- a-i "-it".-ft THE BIG PROBLEM .'."irjw-!-. Routes to Elktnn, with an appendix on Ten Minute Tioiisscaux, by Orange Blossom. How I (inash .My Teeth, a book ot political hygiene, by Scnntor Borah. Loud Applause, a handbook for Democratic senators, with a supplement on the Com mand of Language and the Language of Command, by Professor W. Wilson. A History of Gallantry, by a Floorwalker. Tarrying for a moment at a certain second-hand bookshop we asked a young man if there was anything by (I. K. Chesterton in stock. "Sure," said he, and led the way to a copy of "Get Rich Quick Walling ford." "Jlr. Wilson has an unusually long face," says a visitor to our kcnuci. "When he addresses the Senate it measures about four teen inches from npex to suffix." To which we urge that a stern face is al ways a long one. , In a Nutshell "His personal friends can conceive ot no greater rnlstake on his part than to enter the? mayoralty race under present condi tions. He Is today In political life Phil adelphia's most distinguished citizen " Said of a suggested candidate. And so long ns Philadelphia does not want distinguished citizens as mayors, she won't get them. A City Notebook Walking up Chestnut street we heard be hind us two short, sharp sternutations, sounding rather like the sudden hissing es cape of steam from an overburdened vnlve. We turned and saw a piteous individual with bloodshot eyes rapidly fumbling for a handkerchief. We gazed at him with the agonized sympathy of a fellow sufferer whose time is almost come. The hayfever season has begun. On Broad street, at a little after 2 o'clock in the afternoon, was a long line of people waiting to sec a certain already famous movie. A young lady, deeply rouged and dressed in the garments of a street-arab with trouscr-fringes a little too obviously scissored to counterfeit indigence, performed a languid canter on the navement to enter tain the customers with visions of something highly heart-throbbing. All down the street one could see groups of wemen and girls hastening desperately tow'nri the box-office, with that far-away and ouxious gaze of those fearful that the best seats will be gone before they get to the window. We commend the hopelessly old-fashioned pedal-polishing artist who has the little tem ple at the northeast corner of Twelfth and Market. He descends to no such slang as the word "shine." His sign reads, with sober restraint, Shoes Blackened. Eighteenth Amendment Shattered "Upstate" genially calls our attention to the .following: A slight Are occurred at Port Carbon shortly before noon, when flames were discovered In one of the forHrn-bom residents northeast of the town. The dam age waa slight. An Investigation Is being made of the caust of the blaze. Potts vllle Republican. Desk Mottoes His humor was sardonic Ills repartee was rude. He made one laugh some times by Bpeaklng- the truth, but this Is a form of humor which calns its force only by Us umisualness; it would cease to amuse lf It were commonly practiced. W. Somerset Maugham, "The Moon and Sixpence." 7 111 Dear Soerata: Do you lay bare your soul in the Chaffing Dish? Sometimes I suspect you of being merely facetious. MINIMUS MAXIM. Mr. Shelley it was who spoke, of Sleep as fthe fllmy-eycd"; buttbe kind of filmy eves A I ' THE FAIRY BOOK TN SUMMER, when the grass is thick, If -I- mother has the time. She shows me with her pencil how a poet makes n rhyme And often she is sweet euough to choose a leafy nook, Where I cuddle up so closely when she reads the Fairy-book. TN WINTER, when the corn's asleep, and - birds are not in rong, And crocuses and violets have been away too long. Dear mother puts her thimble by in answer to my look, And I cuddle up so closely when she reads the Fairy-book. A ND mother tells the servants that of course they must contrive To manage all the household things from four till half-past five, For we really cannot suffer Interruption from the cook When we cuddle close together with 'the happy Fairy-book. Norman Gale. What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. Where is Minsk? 2. What is solmlzatlon? .1. Where is False bay? 4. What English writer is known as the Founder of the English Domestic Novel? 5. Who wrote "Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things"? 0. Who was Admiral George Byng? 7 How many Federal Reserve Districts arexHf mere ana wncre are their beadquar ters located? 8. What queen was known as the Wh(U t Queen? y 9. What is the Guidonian ut? 10. What is "kinematic"? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. "Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small," was written by F. Von Logau in the sey-, . entcenth century. George Herbert had' previously written "God's mill grinds slow, but sure." 2. The three hundreds (nominally villages) of Stoke, Burnham and DesbOrough in Buckinghamshire, England, are known as the Cblltern Hundreds. An English crown officer long ago was called upon to protect inhabitants from the robbers that infested the beech forests. The work has gone, but ' the office remains. It is used as a , means of allowing a member of Far- ' liament to resign. He may not re sign directly, but he may accept the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds and resign from that office. 3. A pogrom is an organized massacre of a body or class in Russia. 4. Great Britain declared war on Germany August 4, 1014. G. Texas is kuown as the Lone Star State. 0. Henry Jones, English writer oo whist, fl ivmi known as '"Cavendish." -II 7. The commonwealth of Australia was pro claimed at Sydney, January, 1, 1001. 8. 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