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Philadelphia, Saturday. Aukus' 30, 1010
ISN'T IT GOOD ENOUGH FOR HIM?
THE determination of the committee of
seventy to get a ruling on the right
of Senator Vare to vote in South Phila
delphia is what was expected when the
point was raised.
It is important that the couits decide
just what a man must do to acquire and
retain a voting residence. We have sev
eral public officials who do not live where
they vote. They maintain their families
in another part of the city or even out
side of the city limits, yet vote here.
Senator Varo's South Philadelphia
house bears all the marks of a neglected
and tenantless domicile. The senator
does rot pretend to live there save for
purposes of voting.
There arp many South Philadelphians
who are curious to know whether he
lives in Ambler because he does not think
South Philadelphia is good enough for
him. If he has grown ashamed of the
part of the city in which he lived in
humbler days and has moved away so he
and his family will not have to associate
with his old neighbors, those old neigh
bors vould like to know it.
JERSEY WRECK INQUIRY
TNVESTIGATORS who have reported
on the causes of the recent fatal wreck
of a shore excursion train near Amatol,
N. J., fall back to two familiar explana
tions of railroad disasters.
The engine pilot, defending himself
against imputations of blame, charges
that his locomotive was leaking badly at
one of the cylinders and that the escaping
steam obscured important signals. The
officials who seek an easier explanation
y that the engineer was asleep.
Such efforts to dodge responsibility
re superfluous. Enough has been re
vealed to indicate that the wreck, like a
food many others that have preceded it
on other lines, was due to the disposition
of minor executives, higher up than the
train crews, to take chances.
Exhausted engine drivers who should
have been in bed have driven fast shore
trains in the past when division officials,
under pressure of rush traffic, put no
checks on overtime. Train crews eager
for extra pay have been only too eager to
work eighteen or even twenty hours in
successive trips between Camden and
Atlantic City.
If the man who was running the Wash
ington excursion was asleep in his cab
he may not be altogether to blame, es
pecially if it is true that he had already
piloted two fast trains between Atlantic
City and shore points without rest. On
other Pennsylvania lines there are rigor
ous provisions providing against over
strain on engine drivers. Were such
safeguards set aside on the seashore divi
sion? Why was a locomotive used after
it was fqund to have a leaky cylinder a
defect which, as all experienced railroad
men know, has been the cause of many
disastrous collisions in the past?
MORRIS ON KOLCHAK
TOOLAND S. MORRIS'S report to
Washington about conditions in Rus
sia substantiates the reports that have
come by cable. He was sent from his
'post as ambassador to Japan to look into
the stability of the Kolchak government
at Omsk. The cables have been announc
ing that the Bolshevist forces have been
forcing Kolchak eastward for some time
and that his power was weakening.
Mr, Morris reports that if Kolchak's
government had been recognized three
months ago it would have been firmly es
tablished by this time, but that if it is
not recognized in the near future the
Bolshevists will get control. He recom
mends combating the Bolshevists.
The disadvantage in recognizing Kol
chak lies in the necessity of backing it up
wjth military and financial assistance.
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'ii v-fic linwuua kiiii& kino luuiac- nuuiu uc
i peri to the charge of conspiring to foist
.wunen Russia a government by outside
;V ''fticee. The United States is not ready to
' r.-, participate in any such enterprise, for it
,j hliveu that the Russians must decide
i, jor uiemseives now inuy wisn 10 oe gov
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LaHOW THE GOVERNMENT DOES IT
J, "VTQi BETTERj illustration of the way
i. s o'ftvornmpnt husiness is dans hnR hppn
i ffrded lately than by the attitude of
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i pvieCe; VjUIillliioBiuu jii aiia.
The President at me close 01 the last
pi5on advised Congress that money
-wouU be needed to pay the expenses of
tif jjlosiinisslon after tho current ap-BO-ipirlation
expired on June SO. "But
faMnwM did nothing. Now the Prcsi-
i'i , dnt; arly two months after the ap
I ' MMCtatinn expired, has again addressed
1 1 on ino suujeci, urging acuon.
cf the commission hav? to be
paid temporarily out of the emergency
fund of the State Department
The government has the money. The
expenses of the commission must be met,
but nobody in Congress seems to assume
any responsibility in the matter. It lots
it slide along as though It were of no
importance.
Those advocates of government owner
ship of the railroads and the telephones
ought to give serious consideration to
this state of affairs before they renew
their agitation for the conduct of great
business enterprises by the most unbusi
nesslike institution in the whole coun
try. WHEN WILL GERMAN-AMERICANS
ESCAPE THEIR FALSE LEADERS?
Pastor Von Qosse and Other Relics of the
Alliance Are Opening Old Sores
That Should Be Left to Heal
DOMEONE has said that an untempered
German, left to himself, is merely an
average human, no better and no worse
than his neighbor. A profound change
occurs, it is held, when you organize your
German in a bund, shout at him in the
language of his progenitors and try the
cxpei irnent of an appeal to the mingled
cruelty and scntimentalism that appear
to be at the root of his national charac
ter. Then you arc likely to have an
amazing demonstration of vanity and
unwisdom.
This diverting theory seems to have
been proved at a meeting held the other
night at a turners' hall. It was organ
ized, sincerely enough, no doubt, to aid
in providing relief for hungry and des
titute millions in Geimany. It was the
first big meeting of avowed Germans held
in this city since the United States en
tered the war.
There was a matchless opportunity
there for any man able to lift himself a
little way above the fogs of misunder
standing that have blinded so many peo
ple in the last few years for any one
who could begin the work of interpreta
tion that must bridge some unhappy rifts
in the friendly life of America. But
German genius for irrational leadership
was revealed again.
Pastor Von Bosse, of Wilmington, who
was president of tho German-American
Alliance before that organization was
outlawed by Congress, did the honors.
He boomed like Ludendorff. He strutted
like Hindenburg. He bawled defiance to
any one who has dared to put blame
upon Germany for a war that shook the
world. The Star-Spangled Banner was
played in funereal silence. And since
then 'the Tageblatt has been in furious
effervescence, back again in the mood
that characterized it before its editors
were sentenced to jail terms. This is
all very sad for Germans.
There was altogether too much of ar
tificially cultivated prejudice and hatred
everywhere in the world during the years
of the war. Yet Pastor Von Bosse rep
resents a type of man who unconsciously
helped the propagandists of bitter anti
Germanism. The alliance over which he
presided misrepresented in its activities
millions of citizens of German name,
nativity or ancestry whose sentimental
concern for Germany in no way lessened
their loyalty and devotion to America
and American purposes.
Everybody knows now how Doctor
Hexamer's organization was formed
and maintained. It was for what a
mentally defective king termed "infiltra
tion." Its chief support was expatriated
Germans whose minds were unsettled by
a little cheap flattery at Berlin. There
is nothing to show that the alliance ever
concerned itself with the masses whose
minds move with the aspiring intelli
gence of democracy in America. It
wohshiped a decaying feudalism and
wept in ecstacy when the kaiser gave
its singing societies a cup supposed to be
silver and made of lead.
It was Hexamer and Von Bosse and
their associates who came to represent
German-Americanism in conventional
opinion. And a great many German
families who were outraged by signs of
prejudice against them had Hexamer to
thank for it. Now they have Pastor Von
Bosse.
The larger class of German-Americans
whose dilemma must be reckoned among
the minor tragedies of the war endured
pain and bewilderment in silence. They
were not of the alliance and they were
not disloyal. Many of their sons fought
and died in the American army in France.
No one has spoken for these Americans
of German descent or origin. Many of
them were old people whose spirits were
torn at the prospect of conflict between
two countries and two peoples whom
they loved.
All things seem fairer in long retro
spect. There is nothing in life that does
not seem more beautiful after it is gone
forever. If there were men and women
who, while they were giving all their
strength to America, still refused to be
lieve that Germany was a living atrocity,
they can be easily understood. They
looked back at a mystical and legendary
land, a place of peace and tenderness and
imagined perfection. They could remem
ber nothing but kindliness, hands that
ministered to them and surely could do
no wrong; voices that always were
gentle!
Yet it was not Germany that called to
millions in America, though they may
not have known it. It was the days of
their youth and the innocence of life.
If the hand of the world seems raised
against all these things it is natural to
wince. Why didn't Pastor.Bosse say
as much? 'Was he talking to the wrong
crowd? Or is he the minority German
of Hexamer's alliance, knowing little
more about his own people than he knows
of the United States?
If you believe , the pastor and the
Tageblatt the world is plotting against
Germany. The world is too tired and
too sick of lies and hypocrisy to plot
against anybody. The world is frying to
find a decent balance and it has subjected
the German people to punishment that
they well deserved.
It is .easy to realize that men more
sensitive than Pastor Von Bosse were
genuinely hurt by tho spectacle of Ger
man defeat and German misery. Bui
they remembered Belgium and the first
gassed soldiers at Ypres and women nnd
children left dead in, the sea by sub
marines and bombed hospitals and liquid
Arc and kept their peace.
It is not like America to cherish
hatreds and grudges. There is infinite
hardship among the innocent and help
less in Germany now as there is infinite
hardship among tho innocent and help
less all through tho cast of Europe. The
people of America have already demon
strated a spirit of magnanimity that
ought to shame the braggarts and tho
fools who still subtly try to inspire anti
Americanism within our own borders.
We have gone cheerfully about the
business of feeding a destitute people
who wanted to conquer us. That much
can bo said of no other country in the
world. And if anything can lessen our
enthusiasm at that task and hinder fur
ther work that ought to be done inde
pendently to mitigate the agony that in
sane leadership nnd just defeat brought
to the German nation it is such speeches
as were made the other night at tho
Geiman-American mass-meeting.
German-Americans themselves who
were ncvei touched by the anti-American
mania ought to leave Pastor Von Bosse
off their programs. And they ought to
write some letters of advice to the Tage
blatt. MR. KNOX'S BUSY BRAIN
The activity of Mr. Knox's mind is in
disputable. Even among United States
senators his mental agility is conspicu
ous. "In order to bring peace between the
United States and Germany," declared
the ex-secretary of state in the Senate
yesterday, "it is not necessary that we
shall ratify this treaty. According to
Article CCCCXL of the document itself,
following the date of the first proces
verbal, to be drawn up after three of the
principal allied powers and Germany
have signed up, the treaty will come
into force for tho high contracting par
ties who have ratified it"
This, of course, excepts the United
States if we turn it down. The point has
not escaped Mr. Knox's keen legal pene
tration far from it His contention that
we can have peace by doing nothing is
immediately followed by the demand that
Congress do something and declare a
peace on its own hook.
There is no refuge from such reason
ing unterrified by what humbler minds
might be inclined to describe as para
doxes masterfully dovetailed in a single
stately paragraph.
With a dialectic skill, implying a
stinging rebuke to lesser intelligences,
Mr. Knox maintains that "France never
forgot or forgave Alsace-Lorraine." If
that fact has hitherto eluded us, it will
not do so again. Now we know that seiz
ing territory by force is a dangerous
business, just how dangerous is revealed
in the sage's passionately expressed de
sire that "we ought not to accept cession
of German territory." Risky as it is to
reach a conclusion without consulting
Mr. Knox, the rash public persists in the
belief that Alsace was German territory
from 1870 to 1918. Mr. Knox, if not fair,
is not anything. He exposes the crime
of turning over French territory to Ger
many and the crime of taking' anything
away from Germany. Can the triumph
of fair play be surpassed?
In a sense it can, for our solon pledges
his faith in Germany's destiny to become
"a great free people as they had been
a great monarchical nation," while at
the same time acutely foreseeing that
with the treaty enforced tho German
people will no more cease to plot and
plan to recover their high estate than did
Satan plunged in tho abysmal depths of
hell.. Imperative indeed is scrupulous
consideration of a treaty decreeing the
fate of a nation at once liberty-loving
and satanic. Only a master brain can
grasp its implication.
And unhesitating as ever in analytic'
zeal, the senator from this state depicts
the virtues of "our own citizens of Ger
man ancestry, stalwart, freedom-loving,
patriotic." An occasional bomb or so or
an incidental plot were uncharacteristic.
Everybody who heeds Mr. Knox must
recognize that
The numerous other points made are
what might have been anticipated from
a statesman of his caliber. The league
of nations is roundly condemned, but the
President is urged "to convene the na
tions of the world together." The treaty
is not enforcible, and naturally, therefore,
its enforcement would be basically incon
sistent with its nature.
The new course of history through
which the pact champions would lead us
is "untried." The terror of tomorrow
has seldom been more emphatically ex
pressed. It is immediately clear that
none but tried novelties should be our
goal.
The angles from which Mr. Knox views
an argument are infinite. The possessor
of a brain so elastic and alert does not
need to care for dull consistency.
To a Discussion cou
Not Meant for ceraing the Disposal
Knocks of a Savage Dog there
enme n Certain sen
ator of Uncertain mind. "Don't kill him!"
he cried. 'Thnt would be murder. Don't
pull his teeth ! That would be cruelty.
Don't deprive hlra of his liberty! That
would not be kind. Let us declare ourselves
at peace with him! That would be wise."
Whereat his fellows Marveled nnd said one
to the other, "He's dotty!" What he said
of himself wns, "I'm a patriot!" nut the
truth of the Matter wns that n Presidential
Bee Buzzing in his Bonnet hnd got biro all
Hot Up. Moral: Don't blame it all on
Shantung.
He lives the dimple life, does Vare,
Where wealth sits up and gloats.
He has a Broad xtreet house, but there
Is simply where he votes.
And when ho lands the simple jobs
His conscience knows no crimps.
He simply Jives among the "nobs"
And votes among the "simps,"
The Patterbon supporters are throwing
mud and the Mooro supporters arc throw
ing overripe punches. The peaches hit the
target,
It will be really nud truly LnborDay
for the railroads. i
I
CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S
LETTER
Congressional Ambitions of Thomas
Robins Illness of Joseph J. de Kin
der Qoaslp About A. Raymond
Raff, Michael Donohoe, George
Kyle and Others
GOSSIP has it that Thomas Robins, who
married the daughter of the wealthy
Colonel Naglc, of California, and who has
figured n n friend of Roosevelt in the Phila
delphia mnjornlty campaign, has his eje on
tho congressional sent now occupied by Con
gressman George S. Urnham. Robins has not
been uufrfcndly with Penrose; on the con
trary, he lins nt times been quite compliment
ary, hut recently he has tied up with the
Varcs to an extent that has attracted the at
tention of his friends in the social world.
Robins was on the 'ticket for congressman-ot-largo
in the Inst campaign, but fell short
of the requisite number of votes. Whether
Congressman CSrnhnm intends to run ngnlu in
the Second district or not has not been defi
nitely nnnounccil, but the Robins rumor Is
abroad.
Till; nonspnper veterans of Philadelphia
should include John Jerome Rooney, of
Xcw York) among thoso who did service in
Philadelphia twenty-five yenrs ago. There Is
another reason John is not only a lawyer,
but an orator. Like Bob McWade, he never
forgets an inshot for old Ireland. John takes
a hand in New York campaigns nnd often
visits Washington with committees having to
do with Irish affairs. Upon one point it is
caR.v to get a rise from this quondam Phila
delphlnn, nnd that point is the league of na
tions. John cays it's a "mongrel."
WD HDAR n great deal about a renewal of
interest in Philadelphia civic affairs by
theclergj of that olt. Ordinarily the breth
ren of the cloth keep away from politics,
but when the question of civic righteousness
is rnlsed tliej sometimes find excuse for
tnklng n hand. The impression iu Washing
ton is that the mayoralty fight not only In
olves tho control of the city and state, but
that it is n Inst stand to redeem the city from
the charge of being "corrupt nnd contented,"
a tcntimeut unhappily coined by Lincoln
Steflins.
TDK Philadelphia postnl employes nre
showing n keen interest in the Bo-cnllctl
Sterling-Lehlbnch retirement bill, which is
intended not only to lclieve the service of its
superannuated employes but to give en
couragement to jounger men who arc enter
ing upon the service. This matter has
been pending in. Congress for several years
nud proposes substantially the same kind of
retirement as takes the form of pensions un
der the direction of municipalities. Philadel
phia firemen nnd policemen, for instnncc, nre
permitted to go upon a pension roll after a
certain number of ears' service. Why not the
postal employes, whoso pny is fixed nnd whbse
opportunities for high wnges or extra com
pensation nre extremely limited?
EX-GOVERNOR STOKES, who is chnir
mun of tho New Jersey Republican state
committee, is a live-wiro correspondent. The
governor writes ns well ns he tnlks, nnd it's
n snfo bet thnt William H. Albright, secre
tnry, does not have to furnish much raw ma
terial for cither. The Jersey governor's
latest crusndc is against the licensing bill in
troduced by Senator Frank B. Kcllog, which
proposes, according to tho governor, to in
troduce socialism in a mild form. The gov
ernor declares for less governmental inter
ference with business nnd more ndministrn
tive policies. If the governor would write
thnt kind of letter to the attorney general
with regard to the detection of bomb throw
ers nnd the reduction of tho high cost of liv
ing it might do some good. Apparently, we
necdjinore enforcement nnd less prospectuses, '
JAMES F. RAU, Davis I,. Brown nnd O.
A. Roethllnger are shipmntcs on the
const guard cutter Seminole, which is now nt
sea somewhere along the Atlantic const.
These bojs hnve been hearing from friends
in Philadelphia and they want to be remem
bered. One of the things thnt interests nil
the boys in tho service is the talk about a
possible gratuity on the pnrt of the stnte of
Pcnnsylvnnia to those who enlisted for the
service nnd find themselves back home with
out profitable employment. This matter was
brought up to tho Pennsylvania state Legis
lature, but apparently no netion wns taken
thereon, although some other states have
mnde provision for their returning soldiers.
The only general gratuity Is the $G0 bounty
provided by Congress for officers and men
alike.
A RAYMOND RAFF, who mny or may
not be the Democratic candidate for
Mayor, would throw a good deal of ginger
into tho campaign if tho Democrats finally
agree upon him, Raymond is that kind of
politician who does not believe in permitting
personal friendships to be severed by poli
tical contentions. Down at the Builders'
Exchange, where he takes an active hand
once in a while, Raymond is regarded as hav
ing two ears, one of which catches about all
the good things that arc said about the other
fellow, and the other of which is scandal
proof. If Raymond should be elected Mayor,
which is now not seriously contemplated,
there is a suspicion that his inaugural march
would be "Tho Wearing of the Green."
WORD reaches us that Joseph J. de Kin
der, a member of the Manufacturers' Club
and the Union League, has been ill nt Essing
tou, Pa. Do Kinder used to go to Washing
ton on his way to Norfolk and points south,
where he did work ns nn engineer. Joseph
belongs to that Union League group which
includes Howard U. 1'rench, Samuel T.
Kent, William Haines, George W. Gwilliam
nnd others familiar with yachts nnd yachting,
but Joe de Kinder hnd a wider acquaintance
as nn engineer. He figured in tho Lardner's ,
Point pumping cose and in the completion of
the Boston drydock. He attained prominence
in Philadelphia ns tho superintendent of the
water works when Colonel William Ludlow,
on army official, was called in to help the
city administration yenrs ago. Much of his
early engineering experience wns obtained on
shipboard, although in later years he studied
law and began the practice of the law.
GEORGE KYLE, of Darby, feels that a
favorable showing has been made before
the United States army engineers in the mat
ter of the Improvement of Darby river. Large
Industries hnve been located nlong this stream
and commerce has reached such proportions
as to demand its improvement for transporta
tion purposes. Provision for a survey was
made in the last river and harbor bill.
MICHAEL DONOHOE, who was a mem
ber of Congress for two terms, has not
forgotten how to play the Tabor game in
Philadelphia, even though he has become a
real estate assessor and is sometimes talked
of as a caudldote for Mayor. Like former
State Senator Richard V, Farley, Michael is
not altogether unfriendly to the Vares. At
least, this Is-what we learn from that ener
getic candidate for coroner, Magistrate Billy
Campbell, wlw expects to get the scalp of
Coroner Knight. Ex-Senator Farley his tied
up for the vare cnmuuaie lor inyor as sec
retary of a committee of which Arthur" Q.
Hawes, of Barrlngton, N. J., is chairman.
Some of these pqlltlcs-lnbor leaders have
out-of-town residences just like real politi
cal bosses, and the wage-earners are not
always oblivious of that fact.
"GOING? AW, SAY, WE'VE HARDLY GOT
THE CHAFFING DISH
"IXTE nAVB always liked to contemplate
oursclf In an imagined career of mystery
and danger, and every now and then wo glean
hints for our conduct under such conditions.
Admiral Sims, in bis Interesting memoirs in
the World's Work, has given us this
thought: never to have our initials sewed
on our pajamas. For whon Admiral Sims
and his aide sailed secretly for England in
March, 1017, in civilian clothes and under
assumed names, their cabin steward reported
them to the captain as suspicious characters
because the initials on their night clothing
wero different from those they bore on the
passenger list.
We hnve mnde n note of this, nnd we nre
also scanning the Grover Bcrgdoll news
carefully for nny suggestions ngninst tho dny
when we tnkc up a life of cscapnde and
derring-do.
Speaking of mysteries, whenever we call
at the laundry for our weekly package, we
wonder about the dusty parcels on the top
shelf. They have lain there months und
years without ever being called for. Did
their owners commit Borne crime and have
to flee the precinct? Or were they them
selves deleted by a bomb or a chafing dish
supper? Did they just forget? Or (most
likely of all) did their proinl and weary
hearts give up the quest of the odd sock?
The Bachelor Addresses the Beauty
Corner
(See last page of this paper)
Beautiful Adorner,
Shining like a star,
You Brighten Up the Corner
Where You Are I
O wedding bells, corns jingle!
Pulcherlmma, you saint,
Come Brighten Up This Corner
Where You Ain't 1
GROANING BACHELOR.
Double Orders
Dear Socrates:
I've read what JIacKnIght Black says
About a "oubllmo breakfast"
You don't have to go to Paris
For that kind of petit dejeuner.
Every morning
In a cool blue frisk of air
I patrol up the deep channel of South Broad
street
And turn In where an electric sign Bays
LUNCH.
A bowl of (deleted by Adv. MgT.)
With a double order of cream
(You have to be careful to keep those little
sawdust flakes
From floating off onto your Palm Beached
thighs)
Then a platter of scrambled eggs
With buttered toast
(And a double order of butter)
None of your coffee
But a nice little pot of tea
(With a double dose of sugar)
Toured through the swinging strainer.
If there were more tea drunk
There would be less argument In the world.
The check, you say? Sixty cents.
Yea, It's a lot, but 1'ro like Andy Carnegie.
I don't want to die rich.
DOVE DULCET.
That is a pleasant picture of Dove's, and
we know now how he gets all the macula -tions
on his Palm Beach garments.
But we think he forgot one item of local
color, The colored boy snapping, up the
used dishes from the chair-arms would be
whistling "I Was Only Blowing Bubbles,
Pretty Bubbles Soft and Fair."
Our Own Advertising Campaign
DO YOU KNOW
Nearly two billion people, a great many of
them really intelligent, live on the same
nlanet as The Chaffing Dish?
1 Chamber of Cbr.
George, We Are Enchanted
Georjo Rigby, the, friendly bookseller on
Locust street, has just sent us the nicest pet
we have ever had. It Is a lire bookwqrm,
a fine blonde specimen, in a neat little card
board box. We have named her Georgians,
in honor of the giver. Fairest of her kind,
she seems to have a nice helpful disposition,
for ns we write she Is creeping modestly
about at the back of our roll-top, making
herself at home. She is sniffing nt n large
pile of unanswered letters, and she seems to
feel hungry. It mny be that Georginna will
be a great help to us. You will hear more
of her later.
As to Houston B. Teehee
I, too, am a c'llector of autographs,
And Houston H's create my laughs ;
But "affectionate nttention" though "it de
serves," It's surely getting upon my nerves,
For my "album" it now appears to me
Contnius less than ever of Houston B.
TEXTILES.
Monday is Labor Day, we hear,
so are the 304 others, it seems.
And
Mr. Carnegie's idea of giving annuities to
ex-presidents is a very sound way to dis
courage the third-term ambition.
Bill Nothnft, who runs n "Summer Gar
den" up on Ridge avenue, near Dauphin
street, has pulled a genial pun on an ox
president. Over his garden gate he has
painted in huge letters BILL TIIAFT.
F. P. A,, the noted wag on an Island in
the Hudson river, cries "Volts for Women !"
This is a good wagglshncss. Very good, in
deed, as we ourself thought when we pulled
it some eighteen months ago in this electric
chair. Now, we wouldn't claim to be com
plete owner of that pun, but at least we feel
wo have an equity in It.
The Single-Tract Mind
The secret of eloquence, cried Dr. Mutch -ler,
as he saw some garish gambollers ploying
tennis on Sunday, is to know your tracts.
The Japanese newspapers nre deploring the
"wanton" talk of some senators about the
Shantung matter. They say that it is en
dangering the old friendship between the U.
S. nnd Jnpnn.
Wo sympathize with our Oriental frnter
nals. That sort of talk has dono even worse
thnn they allege. It has endangered tho old
friendship between the U. S. and the Sen
ate. Historical Echoes
"No," said William Penn to the Indians,
as they were discussing the Shackamaxon
Treaty, "I can permit you to make Inter
pretations, but reservations are positively
debarred."
"But are the obligations In this covenant
legal or moral?" asked a perplexed chief of
the Delawares.
"Why, chief, it is very surprising that such
"They are a compulsion upon good con
science."
All the Indians swooned, admitting them
selves done In. By the timo they had re
covered, Penn had taken the issue to the
country, and was stumping the tepees.
Welcome Home!
We have been given to understand that the
very nicest people don't wear cuffs on their
trousers, but if that is the case they miss one
of the supreme pleasures. Which is to drop
a quarter and not know where the deuce1 it
has gone to until bedtime, when it reappears,
in the fold of your breeks.
Desk Mottoes for Employers
There are soma employers who let their
competitors offer all their raises for them,
A successful business Is that where you
needn't fear to lose an employe merely be
cause he has been offered five dollars more
elsewhere. v
The margin between what an employe is
getting and what bo would take to work
somewhere else is an accurate measure of
your success in inspiring loyalty.
There are some employers who inspire
negative loyalty that Is, loyalty to their
competitors, , ' SOCRATES.
ACQUAINTED!"
Fashion's Slave
OHE hnsn't time to take a walk.
Or see a picture show,
Or ns she used to Saturdays
On little picnics go.
She loves a car, but pnsses up
Her dnily auto spiny
And she forgets to practice on
ncr brand new mandolin.
Her fond adorers cool their heels
With papa on the porch,
And mutter sotto olco, of course
Rcmnrks thnt ought to scorch.
Her pretty hnnd is needle pricked,
Her back so tired it hurts,
She's always busy shortening
Or lengthening her skirts.
Minun Irving, in the New York Sua.
William A. Derstine, bf Quakcrtown,
just returned from Armenia, says hundreds
of Armenians nre stnrving dnily despite the
efforts of the Americnn commission of re
lief. Armenia's condition is simply another
indication that America's duty in Europe
did not cud with the war; and now, as
during the war, America's duty is identical
with America's interest.
Representative Rodenburg thinks turn
about is fair play. The President can keep
Congress in Washington, and now Roden
burg wants Cougrcss to keep tho President
there.
People's enduring reverence for symbols
is mado innnifest by the enthusiastic recep
tion given to tho Prince of Wales in
Canada.
Governor Sproul Is at the Whits
House to sec how he would like it as a
temporary residence?
Thcre'B no curvature iu Hines's spine.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. What was originally the family nameeii,
of William Penn?
2. AVhat is tho tonnage of the Leviathan,
tho largest ship in the world?
3. What is meant by "The Forty-Five"?
4. What is the meaning of the word
"ergo"?
5. Which Is the longer river, the Danube
or the Rhine? ,
0. Who was called the "Man of Blood
and Iron"?
7. What kind of an animal is a manitee?
8. How many of the principal allied pow
ers must sign the peace treaty to
make it operative for them?
0. When was the sea route from Europe
around Africa to India opened?
10. Wiio wrote the poem "Sheridan's
Ride"?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Henry P. Davison served as chairman
v of the war' council of the American
Red Cross.
2. The legend of a coin is the wording or
lettering on its face.
3. Ahmed Mirza is shah of Persia. ,
4. The "left" in European parliaments is
composed of the radicals.
5. "All mankind loves a lover" is tho cox-
rcct wording of the quotation com
monly given as "All tho world loves
a lover." It Is from Emerson's
essay "Of Love." .
0, Pluto was the god of the lower regions
in classical mythology.
7, The "word "selah" In the Psalms is
thought to be direction to the choir
to repeat the psalm down to the part
indicated.
8. The Fnlkland Islands He in the Atlantic
off the east coast of the extreme
southern part of Argentina.
0,' William McKinlcy attained the rank of
n major before he became President,
10. Alexander Pope was the "Bard ef
Twickenham."
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