lio EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1919 ( ?&. lb If F ' ItV I ijt r iO. tw Rfe fVr M M?ft Sasening public Hied get PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY CYRUS H. K. CCnTtS. rnrsmrNT Churtu It t.ndlnii'on, Vlen rroKldcnt: John C. Martin, SfrrMary and Treasurers rhino P Ollln!, John It. Williams .Tohn J Kimrrron. Director. l-JlTOniAL COAHD: Crura II. K. CrtTis. Chairman DAVID n. cy.iz.T- raito? JOHN C ?".r:Ti:;. general rurln.-ST Maliaco. rublt'hed dallv nt rmiic I.Eluilt TxilliSlrur, lwlcH'livuce '''lu.ire, l'li.uuelnlil. ATt.NTio CiTr I'rraa-I'nfoii DulMln. Kn" Yobk 200 Metropolitan Voiver Dnoftli' 7i rorrt ituiM nr St. Lni-ia jots rmiorton nnlMlne ClIIClCO 130? Tritium DullJIlig Nnfs nvrtcAfs: TVAnttiNdTov nt;nrt N t: r. remslvnnla Ave. nid 1 'h St. kbit YnrK trr.rju Ths . liuiirtiTic London licuciv London Times SH'tl.TWrTtrw TKnMSS Tho nTNrv'j Ti nt.ii' Lri-onn li nrvM to suli scrlhers In Vhll.vlelphlu and urrounlinjr tM.'n at th rn t of. twelo (IS) cents per week. ra.iblo to the r.urler. Ity r.ftH .o rolilts oulde of Phllfl'lTphla. In tha t'nltt 1 Ptnte. canndn. c UnltM Htate pn--eslons. potn?e fr. Mty l"Oi riM pr rm-rth. Six ltd doMarn per year. payMo In nftMitiT To a: forelcn countries one (M) dullar per month Notice 'SMbsrrlbrs uihtn,t ad.lres I'lansM XDUftt civa old as w--'l p- i mv ndrlress. BCLL. 3003 'XALM'T MIYfTONE. M VIN JMO C7" Addrrt r'l nr-i't1 -rat'ovv to .'c-ri j &;. Lcdati, iiirfr;i-.tJ . c .Sr.inri. i'fn.'nilt.P' io. Member of (he Associated Press rnn associate vkvss u r-wi- tivfhj cnti'lrd In Ihr tnc for yrpuhhrn'inn of till ncirs p'iipaichci rrniitcit to it r,r not othcricisc credited iu thii paper, and also the loral pvllishol therein. All ria'nts nf rrpuhlication of special dij patches hc'Ttn l.'C also reserved. 1'hllailrlphlu. TImtsi1.i.t. Aticu-t 11 Ifclli NONE BUT GENUINE JUBILEES CPONTANEITY is the indispensable factor in a jubilee and Mayor Smith is therefore acting wisely in appraising public sentiment to see whether this city shall have two peace carnivals 01 one. Enthusiasm for the proposed festival of the fraternal orders is repoited. Their j display now seems likely to be made early in September. An effective cele bration would be possible if the munici pality co-operated. On the other hand, a less specialize! event later in the autumn, acccnt!nc more strongly the military note, is in order if the citizens of Philadelphia wint it sufficiently to pay a consideiablo bi.l. We are now so far fieri the event uf victory that nothing but sincerity in a jubilee and a keen popular zest for one will justify it. An artificially dramatized affair two thirds of a year after aimistice day would be worse than none at all. LINE UP FOR THE KICK-OFF lYTUCH as the public resents pateinal- - ism and exhortation, there is really no other way to make the mayoralty eon test representative than by dwelling on the need for full reg'.itration of voters. The first of tho three days for th's indis pensable preliminary to ths November election falls on August 2(1 between the hour3 of 7 a. m. and 1 p. m. and ! p. m. and 10 p. m. The committee of one hund.-cd, co operating in the Moore campaign, is dis tributing placards containing the impor tant date and an appeal for attention. In the camps of both local parties there is naturally the hope that their oppo nents will be careless about signing up. The interpretation of this attitude is ob vious. The people can only accurately - record their will by first insuring them selves of the right to vote. It is indolent citizenship to dwell upon the three chances to register. In the liveliest local contest since the Earle Blankenburg campaign it is vastly pref erable for the public to bo present at tho kick-off, August 26. ANOTHER "TEMPORARY ONE" rpHAT the most important post in its J- diplomatic service is still embanass ing the British Government is reflected in the announcement that Viscount Grey is to represent his country in Washington temporarily, "pending the appointment of a permanent ambassa dor." The situation is puzzling, particu larly in view of the fact that relations between the two nations are the most sympathetic in their histories. It was recognized at the outset that Lord Reading's tenure of office here was k likely to be brief. The frequent ab sences of this brilliant jurist and states man were accepted as a partial conse quence of a world crisis and in the belief that his successor would be less likely to early recall. The new role of Edward Grey pro longs the mood of expectancy. The sole reason for it, however, is the British Poreign Office's own admission of uncer tainty. In experience and intellectual fitness for the position the viscount is t brilliantly equipped. The authoritative and magnificently honorable fashion in which he grappled with the prologue to the world war stamps him as a diplo matist at once cool, firm and knightly. His eye affection, which resulted in partial blindness, is now said to be much improved. If his sight is good enough for him to accept the appointment, Ameri cans would rejoice if he were given some thing else than a stop-gap part to play. His is a type of legate of whom both nations can be proud. HP- WHO WILL WIN? CHAIRMAN GRONNA, of the Senate committee on agriculture, has an nounced that he is about to appoint a subcommittee to wait on Wheat Con troller Barnes and Secretary Houston in the interest of the farmers, who are de manding a higher price for their wheat. Senator Gronna thinks they ought to get it Other departments of the government nre going through the motions of an effort to bring down the price of food to the consumer. If it were not for the tragedy of the situation it would be amusing to watch this contest between politicians who are trying to boost the ' ''prices of food and the politicians who are 5 trying to bring prices down. A CHANCE FOR HENRY tlTHY DO not the advocates of the Oft' aemocrawsauuti ox muusiry expert ,a .went vn a cuinuuiauvciy hniuh scum in- ; qtwnJ u seeking to begin with tho rail- Ua. Gi Umf Fm m manning to build a mil Hon automobiles a year. His plants are already producing three thousand a day. Henry is an idealist and a friend of tho workingman. Ho pays a minimum of five dollars a day and he is supposed to bo intensely interested in industrial and all other kinds of peace. There is no telling how ho would re ceive the suggestion from his employes that he accept 4 per cent bonds for what his plant cost him and turn tho whole establishment over to the workers on the understanding that they rhould fix their own wages and hours of work and have half of tho surplus above fixed charges, while the other half should bo turned over to the people of Detroit and the other cities where h's cars are cither made or assembled. He is tho most likely man we know on whom the democ ratizes should make their first demand. BOSSES AND BOLSHEVISM ARE RELATED IN AMERICA An Old Curse That Helps a New One.' Ward Politics and the Social Unrest You Hear About TT"HEREVER you go these days there ' ' is talk of social and oeonomie read justments, of new beginnings, of better a.ms. Business men of the better soi t arc eager for light and enlightenment. They have been touched by a sense of th" moral obligation that is inseparable from any position of power or influence in a free community. It is interesting to observe, too, that labor men. even when they are radical-minded, profess to think rf others as well as of thorns Ives. The collective mind of th" count'-y ha'' been trained pietty well in ert'eism. The war roused it to action. Wis-1 men try to move with it in the inevitable trend toward a franker, truer and friend lier system of human relationships. It is no longer enough to be mrely hrrvd in business or out of it. That sort of thing gets you nowhere perma nently. And yet there is one powerful .croup of men which el;ngs desperate'y to tho old hnbit of M tlessness and lie, to the old sham-! and the old pretenses, the hypoens es and the seedy platitudes by which people we' e befuddled i" tvie easy going days of old. They are the profes sional politicians. They hive lea'ned nothing new. And, oddly enough, they are the men who like best to lecture others on the duties of the hour. Humanity is detei mined to get a new start in life. But the cynicism and the evasions, the jobbery and briber and "gentlemen's agreements," the sordid codp of the w.ird bosses, whi"h in the past have debased and confused the processes of government in the United States, seem to have undergone no change. Habits of thought in Washing ton and in the state Legislatures are altogether too suggestive of the squalor and futility of waid politics. It is not in Philadelphia alone that in stitutions of government supposed to be sacred aro twisted and distorted and despoiled by men who mrke a trade of politics, and that rights of citizenship for which millions of men recently died are laughed at by illiterates and tinhoins, scoundrels and bribers and second-story men who haven't the decency to get out from under cover and take the chances that are familiar to any self-respecting buiglar. A little bit of the eighteenth century still persists in Massachusetts to defy the aspiring intelligence of the world. It has Mr. Lodge as a spokesman. There i- Tammany in New York. San Fran cisco has a Chamber of Commerce in politics and Fickert and the Mooney case. The lessons of the time ought to be plain to any leader in politics. The bosses of the country will have to get out of their trance. They will have to send bettor men to Washington, to tho Legislatures, to the courts, to mayors' offices. Otherwise we may yet see the routineer politician properly indicted as the true Bolshevist and the really dan gerous enemy of organized government. It is because of the lassitude of ordi nary voters who peimit the political ma chinery of America to remain in tho hands of men whoso code is the code of ward leaders that we have come to a day when various groups of men think noth ing of establishing themselves in a solid organization to talk and think as if they were citizens of an independent state, with interests separate and apart from the rest of the country. This isn't' a pleasant spectacle. The railroad men are not the only ones who have provided it for our contemplation. Congressmen are used to being ordered about. The institution of Congress itself is flawless. It is the membership, elected by the orders of bosses, which is respon sible for much of the confused opinion that now helps toward economic uncer tainty in the United States. Congress should have been aware of the towering problems that were certain to follow the war. It wasn't. Perhaps the President and his cabinet are not free of the blame, but at any rate Congiess should have formulated a labor policy and a railroad policy and a food policy. It didn't. Perhaps it didn't know how to begin. The fact is that any average business man or banker or labor leader who ap pears hefore a committee of Congress usually appeal's to know more of what i3 going on in the world than the men whom the bosses send to Washington to man age the affairs of the nation. It is for this reason that various cliques and groups go to Washington, formulate laws that they deem favorable to themselves and then quite openly set about the business of crowding these laws through Congress. Yet it is the business of Congress to devise the laws which it passes. Are we to assume that in a time of unusual complications it hasn't the mind necessary to this task? Propagandists of radicalism fall nat urally into the mistake of believimr that futile congressmen aro proof of futility in the Institution of Congress itself. Yet a decent political, alertness is all that Is needed In America to make of Con- isa a penecc imtrurocnt. is. me intel ligence and patriotism of America were nctually represented in the House nnd Senate in true proportion there would bo no railroad problem, no food problem, no destructive intervals of uncertainty nnd debate such as now keep us technically at war. These issues would have becn'thought out to a finish and settled in advance. The fault is traceable directly down to ward polities, whether operating in city or country, which is the basis of all elec tions and back again to the people who toleiate it. Before wo can get decently rtarted in this country tho election ma chinery will have to be dragged up out of the moias3 of eonuption in which it is engulfed. That is a job for tho whole people not for isolnted groups. A LESSON FROM THE WEST WHAT'S the good of having a good '' town if nobody knows it? All the good in the wot Id if you want to use it as a retreat or a graveyard; no good nt all if you want it to grow. One reason why western cities grow rapidly is that their people appreciate the value of advert'siirg; they know the potency of printer's ink. Kansas City is using a hundred nnd twenty of tho leading newspapers of the United States for thirty-five days to tell the woild how good it is. You'll find the ads in the Hvenino Pra.ir LrofiEB. You'll find in them something about Kan sas City that you didn't know before; and, if you read between the lines, you'll find fometl.irg very well worth while concei n'ng Philadelphia. Philadelphia is bigger and richer than Kansas City; but, even as there is no product so well l.nawn that it can afford to quit advertising, so there i no city big enough nnd rich r notiph to afford to "sit tight an' say nuflin'." Ph'ladelphia, to keep up with tho procession, must step lively and watch its step! We arc first in the manufacture of hosiery, knit goods, leather, carpets, lugs, hats, oilcloth, locomotives, street l ail way cars, saws and cotton lace. Why be so modest about it as to keep the facts hidden? And what wo are second and third and fourth in aro perhaps even more potent arguments for publicity. Everything good concerning Philadel phia should be so well known that even a congressman will have it at his finger ends. Then when we strive for a ship building plant or a canal or a dredge boat or a Federal Reserve bank or a parade or a visit from the President w; won't have to prove that we're on the map before getting down to business. Kansas City did it; and Kansas City is but a small child to us. After a news paperman had wakened up the citizens the Chamber of Commerce called a meet ing and, those attending subscribed $"), 000 within twenty-four hours for public ity purposes. It pays! You'd better believe it pays! And whoso fails to believe is industrially, commercially and financially damned! I'mnli K. Norton. How (lie Jag Works ncoiistieal engineer of ('liii'.ico. told a Piltsbinsli mirticnee the oilier ilav that now that prohibition lind eome, special atten tion v.':i likely to lie given to the musical jug. wltieli might readily lie a.(iiivi(l by emotional vibrations incidental to rh.ithmic lepetitions calculated to drive devotee to all the extremes possible in a plain booze jag. .Anil to prove it be added' "It lias been by music that the dun hue of muscular toil and menial monotony have been purpled over with a rhythmic cute p 'an glow." In food cot and wage First Hook regulation "every tub of Kcnnnintrs must stand on its own bottom." Kvrry busi ness has its own problems livery locality has its own idiosynciasie. The interests of employers and employes are identical in every firm and different in degree from the interests of cmplowrs and employes in every other firm. Tins is inevitable where there is competition. It is lack of realiza tion of this fundamental fact that causes strikes. A dispatch from liea Itut It Sounds ver Falls tells of a' hull Interestiii!; barging a Harmony car. derailing it and coming near driving it over a sixty -foot em bankment. This seem to suggest the Toon erville trolley ; but, as the Harmony ears are all heavyweights, really suggests ISaron Munchausen. If it had ever been urged that the league of nations was a cure-nil Itu mania's conduct would jolt one's faith. Hut to say there shall be no league because the Peace Conference cannot bring instant harmony into the world is to say that there shall be no brakes because u farm wagon figures in a runaway. If nnti -league publicity managers were responsible for the Senate gallery play it must be admitted that they made u good job of it. Any person tempted to use more ice than is absolutely necessary may get n new viewpoint by thinking of tho babies of the poor, who will be the worst sufferers i we have nn ice famine. President Wilson will doubtless find time between treaty pleas and golf to veto again -the bill repealing the daylight-savins law. "Suspended interest" is one of the factors that make the North Penu Bank serial a thrillciv The man who lets food waste in order to keep up prices is 10 per cent fool nnd the rest knave The average housewife resents talk of food economy while the storage houses arc gorRcd. When the issue is joined, discriminate inc citizens may be able to separate the sheep from the gnats. There is no skeptic quite so pro nounced as the political nenchmnn who is promised "noinetlilnr; just as ennd." Grey's eyesight is probably good enough to enable him to distinguish the difference between a hawk nnd a handsaw. One, at least, of the ronyoralty candi dates will see to it that the time shall not pass dully bv us. The trouble with the "fair prico" bpard, seems to bo that It w)U have executive! dutlt TVtt-ous extcuiiTe powers. THE GOWNSMAN The Blueberry Patch TMAfiINK jonrself n ten-acre piece of - sround on the slope of a hill, or per haps better, part of n shelf on the way up where the whole country Is aslant. Tho hills in various depths of color surround It, far enough away to give the sense of sweep and vastnesn. essential to n land scape, If it is to inspire. Leaning to the smith, this piece of lnntl is flooded witli sunshine, in this northern latitude temper ed, on even the hcttcM dav. by the clear, vigorous mint ti tti in air. Facing the wet, the prevalent hrcer.es blow over it. benr inc the odor of pines and, at this season, the scent of new-mown liny. Two or thrre generations ago. I his piece was cleared of the primeval foresls of pines, hemlocks, spruces nnd beeches, nnd the plow traversed It, running eccentric furrows, diverted to avoid the none too occasional outcrop of the giant ribs which constitute the frame of tbese mountains. The loose stones were laboriously gathered and mnile into bar riers walls is scarcely the word for these organized divisions between fields, some times eight and ten feet across, and bor dered by n double row of well-laid stones, the loose and smaller ones thrown in be tween. Hut stone walls do not make a blnelieiry patch. N'ATCKF is patient anil awaits her op portunity to derange the trivial utili ties of husbandry, its regularity, its same ness, into die fluidi of beaulv. And here this bit. reclaimed from the wild, first re lipscd into nn up'and pasture in which It served us well the deer that came srx reptiliously by night, warily treading rar the bomes of men. as his cattle hv day. And little by little there grew with the grass and in increasing encroachment the things which we call weed', because neither we nor our servile beasts can eat Ihein; fern'' in their lovely varieties, sweet -smelling plants, (lowering each after its kind and eneh in it-clf a tiling of beaut) : buttercups, hlnek-e.ied snsans, mal lows, an occasional orchid; iu the full, the rinsed gentian with its buds of blue, the universal coldenrod, asters white nnd purple and sturdy hushes of speedwell. In the more barren pots. came lichen, gray as granite, with blight green slmnls of win tergieen. its delicate white blossoms and led berries; in the dumper places, deep green moss into which the foot sinks eh'eper than into rugs of Persia. And brambles starred the stone-heaps in the snring with their constellations of white stars, and hunchberries clustering with arbutus on the edge of the woods, turned their bell -like (lowers into chnteis of coral as the summer passed. XTOW it was that the ttees began to J. enter into this conspiracy to make beautiful once more (his bit of hillside. Little spiigs of bitches shot up into rap lings, the white, black, yellow, least use ful, most delicate of foliage, the gray birch, that weed of the mountain forest. And the big pine woods to the north sent its seed lings scuttling on the winter's gale, scat tering, to grow up in dainty straightness and ie with the jnung mnp'c which. loj.t in the general green of summer, llnmcil into scarlet at the totuh of the first frost. 'I'.y no means the last to contribute their beauty were the b'ueberry bushes, which let the botanists distinguish for themselves fioin whortleberries or bilberries or huckle berries. TO MOST, huckleberries mean a saucer of blackish, sweetish seedv wild berries served, in country places which have not yet become sophisticated, with a little sugar to add grit and a little milk to add moisture. Or perhaps the mind may wander hack to childhood, to one of those days best anticipated or remembered, when we actually picked the thing ourselves nnd carried home the evidences on lips and c'olbing to n predestined punishment. To the homelier sort of epicurean and which one of us does not follow the excellent old gustatory philosupher. Fpicurus. most of his life? comes the suggestion of huckle berry pie. Hut this seductive path into the sugary land of eulogy we refuse now to follow. Till, blueberry is really a beautiful plant, and lemarkably varied in its speries. On our hillside plot it ranges from a little bush, a few inches in height, bury ing its clusters of light blue in the mos urn grass niiour ir. tnroiign unities of two or ibree feet in height, healing sticky ber rii'j. nllui in; to insects and almost com p'etely black in co'or, to huge hushes into the higher branches of which a tall man must reach for the fruit in its several shades of blue between these extremes. A cluster of blueberries often exhibits white, two or three shades of green and of pink in the unripe fruit reddening into blue in the lipening berry, with a bloom on the bunch to vi" with the cheek of a poach ; and the foliage of the bush is as attractive as its fruit, feeminntlv tni't.im. .. . ..: i leaves or whole branches a vivid red long before the autumn. rnl'RN a dozen people, men. women nnd -L children, loose in a hiiekleberrv patch and their conduct will betray their char acters, infallibly. There are those who pick only for the love of picking, and those who are "fond of blueberries" nml ,.,,,,1., .up more than find their way into the pail; nun some mere are wno Unto berries because they stain pietty frocks and disfigure pretty faces with a livid blue. The Oownsmnii was once honored by a visit from a poet who had written beautifully of the lure of the blueberry. We looked for a practi cal exposition of just how to enjoy your self in a blueberry field. Hut although the berrying was good nud tho sun shone nnd tho breezes wore of the softest, the lure was not working thnt day and the poet prefened to sit on a hilltop in esoteric discourse on less mundane topics. The (townsman knew another man not a poet who, pricing tho pitiful boxes of ber ries exhibited ns blueberries nt the village store, and held nt the price of rubies, wilted things, full of steins and sticks and bits of leaves, spent his time while the sun was shining in figuring out the commercial potentialities of our blueberry patch. This man later subsided into polities. Indubit ably tho blueberry will tell. A strawberry bed is usually a thing artfully prepared by man, nt any rate you must stoop to the picking. A rnspberry or blackberry patch at best is more or less a matter of bram bles. The blueberry alone is as nature made it. springing up in the wilds, unasked and unaided, grateful to the palate, a de light to the eye, whether in anticipation or remembrance. Altoona citizens, aroused at the dump ing of eight tons of old potatoes nnd 100 bushels of now potatoes, arc now de claring thnt thoie is something rotten be sides the spuds. No retailer can afford to enter a cut rate game with Fnelo Sam, but, if ho tries it, no consumer is going to make complaint. Now that the Republicans have agreed on their reservations the peace treaty special may proceed ou its way, Senator Penrose has announced him cell in opposition to the repeal pf the dsy-llght-savjng law, thut indlcaties that lie M so jarrat-r. "AND A GOOD WAGON IF WE EXPECT ANYTHING DELIVERED I'M J?P3-K J .t-.t't3r h3 Tro$-v!C -. - . -- Ut t. !-. ? P - ,ifer srHfi-A V (&L Jm ' xt..(.j-: -' i ilr. SK-iaS-- $Kw?j-: -Y ' -T -- -a. "5r THE CHAFFING DISH Mounted Police WATCHFUL, grave, he sits astride his horhe, Draped with liis rubber poncho, in the rain ; Ho speaks the pungent lingo of "The Force," And those who try to bluff him, try in vain. INITHKD to every mood of fool nnd crank, Shrewdly and sternly all the crowd he cons : The rain drips down his horse's shining flank, A figure nobly tit for sculptor's bronze. 0 KNIGHT commander of our city stress, Little you know how picturesque you are! We hear .ou cry to drivers who transgress. "Say, that's a hch-n place to park your car!" Senate gallerlc3 applaud Mr. Ixidge. N'ews item. If all the theatres are going to be closed by the actors' strike, perhaps nudieuees can get their entertainment in the Senate Cham ber. There are lots of first-class comedians there. Spanish THOFOH I have felt each colored syllable Fall like an autumn leaf on my bent head, I have not understood nn" word you said, 1 only know that it is beautiful. Your sentences nre velvets thnt you heap In green nnd scarlet, brown nnd mauve and gold, Softness upon softness nnd fold on fold, I'util I droop and dream as though asleep. Surely I greet some prince unheralded From Spanish castle or Castilian star, Who murmurs of his love alas, you are Only the waiter offering me bread ! WINIFHKI) WEI.LKS. We hear n good deal said about increasing the purchasing capacity of the dollar. Hut how about increasing the dollariug capacity of the purchaser? They say that Jersey fishermen have been throwing back some of their cateh in order to keep up the price nf fish. We disbe lieve it. No fisherman could do a thing like that. It is contrary to every instinct iu his breast. H. C. L. Nursery Rhyme A yell nnd n holler, A depreciated dollar Oets spent so horribly soon, It used to last till supper time, And now it s gone nt noon. Desk Mottoes Oct what you like or you'll grow to like what you get. BF.UNAUD SHAW. In our favorite tobacco shop wo ran into Mr. Felix (Jerson, who told us nn en tertaining anecdote of George W. Chllds. When he was a young man Mr. Gerson used to contribute frequent poems to tho editorial page of the Pcnuc I-iF.noEn. He was then working as chief clerk in the Heading railway office at Port Richmond, where he enme in contact with many sea captains. One of these captains wanted to give him n number of parrots nnd monkeys, Mr. (Jerson hod no particular use for these pets, but offered to find sotnc way for tho skipper to dispose of them. He found out that Mr. Chllds was the vice president of the Zoological Garden, and went to cnll on the famous newspaper proprietor to make arrangements for the monkeys nnd parrota to bo given to the Zoo, When Mr. Gerson sent In his card, Mr. Chllds recognized his name ns that of tho author of a number of poems on the edi torial page of the Lf.nc.F-Tt, lie spoke pleas antly of them, saying that he had not read them, but tint Mrs. Chllds had liked them much. And then hit nddwl. "Wht did you set for them?" L 5 Mr,- OHM tdaiitted tat e 4 sot ifl ' ' I " A. ft M's71-tck:.s-V- :.-.f.-A ...-J --1- " ftdVTSZ ' - - i t"MUU3 1 rtrt-f- ' . a ---- ceived anything, and said that the pleasure of seeing them printed in the paper wns suf ficient compensation. Hut Mr. Chllds ex pressed great amazement at learning he had not been paid. "Go to see the cashier on Friday," he said. "He'll have something for you." Accordingly, on Friday, which was then ghost -walking day in the LEDOEn oflice. Mr. Gerson presented himself at the cashier's window. The cashier, looking unhappy, handed him a check for fifty dollars. Then he said, very earnestly, "I wish you wouldn't mention this to any one. You know it's very irregular. Wo don't usually pay for poems, and if the news got round we'd be swamped with poets." Mr. Gerson admits that he kept it very dark indeed ; but thnt thereafter ho always got a cheek for ten dollars every time one of his poems appeared in the Lkdoek. "And it was mighty useful for a youngster in those days," he adds reflectively. George Itigby, the bookseller on Locust street, writes to rebuke us for having re ferred to the bookworm ns n more or less mythical creature. He says that he had a very fine specimen in a cardboard box for some time. He fed it on canary seed nnd small scraps of paper. It finally pined away and croaked, and our own suspicion is that it may have been unlucky enough to eat a paragraph from one of Mr. Borah's speeches. One of the most heartbroken men we know just now is Forrest R. Spnulding, the librarian of Dos Moines, who was one of the editors of "The Vsc of Print," a news paper issued by the American Library As sociation during its recent convention iu As bury Park. Mr. Spaulding wrote to a num ber of authors asking thera to contribute to this worthy sheet. Among others who re sponded was our friend, Miss Margaret Widdemer, once from these parts, who sent in a charming poem called "A Second -Rate Novelist." But what broke Mr. Spauld ing's heart was that the typesetter forgot the "Ry," and when the poem appeared iu print, the title read thus: A SECOND-RATE NOVELIST Margaret Widdemer Let us add that Miss Widdemer, whose graceful talent is known to many readers, was the first to chuckle at the typesetter's error. SOCRATES. Rolling Pebbles Spirituality often finds itself ineffective in the specific, material instance. An ocean rolls nil pebbles interned within it or abut ting upon it; but it may be difficult for an ocean, upon request, to roll any one par ticular pebble a measured and certain twenty inches north or west on nny par ticular beach. President Wilson (with his great tides! may move all the pebbles of mundane statesmanship, nnd trace with his ebbs and flows impressive nnd cryptic and ever-changing symbols upon the agitated sands; but we have often felt thnt when it comes to picking up any one designated pebble nnd putting it into any one desig nated little red pall upon a beach President Wilson fumbles. Guidance in these tritllug affairs is Colonel House's function; he fur nishes the mechanism of contact through which President Wilson's spirituality may operate upon little physical things . . . such little things as natlous, which arc but gnats In the whirling winds of eternity. The new statesmanship is a condition ot tho soul. To get into accord with it one must become expansive, penetrative, per meative, ethereal. Don Marquis, in N. Y. Evening Sun. A Woman Never Knows Her Mind The funeral of Mrs. Mary It. Vnughan at Surmcpton, Bracltloy, announced lor today (Tuesday) Is postponed Persopal in London Times. We are told that growing rabbit fur Is ,a profitable; business. -But docfl it pay the I THE TAVERN OF THE BEES TTERE'S the tavern of the bees, Here the butterflies, that swing Velvet clonks, and to the breeze , Whisper soft conspiracies. Pledge their Lord, the Fairy King: Here the hotspur hornctsi bring Fiery word, nnd drink away Heat and hurry of the day. Here the baron bumblebee, Grumbling in his drowsy cup, Half forgets his knavery. Dragonflies sip swnggerlngly, Cavaliers who stop to sup : To whose boast come whining up Gnats, the thieves, that tap the tunj Of the honeyed musk that runs. Here the jeweled wasp, that goes On his swift highwayman way, Seeks a moment of repose, Drains his cup of wine-of-rose, Shenthes his dagger for the day : And the moth, in downy gray, Like some lady of the gloom, Slips into a perfumed room. When the darkness Cometh on Round the tavern, golden green, Fireflies flit with torches wnn, Looking if the guests be gone, Linkboys of the Fairy Queen: Lighting her who rides unseen, To her elfin sweet-pea bower, Where she rests a scented hour. Madison Caweln. We'll nil be reconciled to high price once we have swatted the profiteer. What Do You Know? QUIZ 1 TVIint- it b ennitnl nt fl.nl n.,.. H - '- - ..., .n, ft?-) Russian territory controlled by Ad miral Kolchak? 2. Who is president of the Actors' Equity Association, now striking against r ' the theatrical managers? .1. Who wrote "Shirley"? 4. Who was the classical goddess pi music? 5.; What is dapple? 0. What is the pronunciation in England of the word lieutenant? 7. What is the smallest state in the Union nfter Rhode Island and Delaware? 5. Where is Montmartre? 9. Who was the projector and engineer of the Suez canal? 10. What arc the asteroids? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. Bellcau Wood, in France, was renamed in honor of the valor of the Amer ican marines "Bols de la Brigade Marine." 2. The Louisiana purchase was made by the United States from France lu 1803 in Jefferson'B administration. 3. A laird is a Scotch landed proprietor. 4. Circumambient literajly means surround ing. Metaphorically it is used to describe the air or the heavens. 5. John, tho first Earl Russell (1702- 1S78), the English essayist, wrote under the pseudonym of ."The Gentleman Who Has Left His ( Lodgings." f 0. Grover Cleveland wns the only Amer- rf icon President who filled two non- is consecutive terms. .1 7. The Romanies are the gypsies. J O K.1. n nul.M..nA ,(, ft, A CAfll r9 1 1. 1 n..11 1.B JJ II O. 4.11"; ouiwwm'K o m uiu. u. tun iuuiiw n courses ot me lacumes ot science yj and letters or. tne University of " Paris. 0. A, Mitchell Paluer is attorney general ,: of the United mates. Yt 10, President Wilson lias called for wv in- i 1 ternntionai jat-or conteresce to n :, ia Wns-lugtm,- Oetotat S? jt. t 1. . t.t.
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