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Martin, SfrrMary and Treasurers rhino P Ollln!,
John It. Williams .Tohn J Kimrrron. Director.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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