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' BY FORCE OF EXAMPLE
pHARGES are made that men have
been registered in the Vare ward-, from
lodging houses where they do not live
nnd that names have been put on the
assessors' lists not represented by any
Jiving person.
But why should this be surprising?
If Senator Varo can register from a
house that has not been occupied for two
years or more, why may not a lesser man
register from a house in which he does
not live ?
The force of example has inspired phi
losophers and pieachers to many a homily
intended for our good. Why should it not
inspire politicians to deeds intended for
our undoing?
MR. WILSON IN COLUMBUS
'"WTHEN this treaty is accepted, and I
'' say 'when it is accepted' because it
Will be accepted," is what the President
said to his audience in Columbus yester
day, and thus verified the conclusions of
observers far from Washington.
Mr. Wilson, however, seemed to be
nnxious fb remove any misunderstanding
about the nature of the treaty, and it is
evident that he intends to devote consid
erable time to this effort while' on his
tour. It is true, as he said, that many of
the criticisms of it have been made by
people who apparently had not read. it.
If they had read the document they could
not be so mistaken about its provisions.
But the President's confidence in its
ratification is reassuring. He knows as
much about the situation as any one and
the rest of us can bo content in the same
confidence which he shows.
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-nJ WISE COUNSELORS AT WORK
JT IS reassuringly evident that leader
ship in the Republican patty is not held
exclusively by senatorial ofiieeholdeis.
Otherwise the threatened trailing of the
President's tour by the treaty obstiuc
tionists would now be confotming to
schedule. , It isn't. The bitter-enders on
, behalf of treaty smashing will confine
, their nagging to congressional oiatory.
Hiram Johnson hardly counts. It is
hintpd that he is courting the nomination
fpr tRe presidency. Consideied with his
record, no fac,t could more succe..sfully
minimize the significance of his lone
awing nround the circle.
What is of real impoi tance both for the
nation and the Republican party is the
attitude of suclr men as Taft, Root,
Hughes and Hays. For months it has
been apparent Jhat they have had scant
sympathy with the antics of the marplots
in the Senate. Mr. Taft, for example,
holds something more influential at this
time ,than an office in the party. lc com
mands the lespect and confidence of the
bulk of its members.
The' dropping of the "pursuit" is clear
and wholesome evidence of the force of
Jhis sentiment. The situation is an
augury that the Republican party will
become stronger than ever for causes
that are just and that the eason of wild
floundering in opposition to its best coun
selors and the pervading spirit of the
nation is Hearing a close.
A CARNIVAL OF CONTRADICTION
TN THE French Chamber of Deputies,
M. FrankliivBouillon has announced
that he will vote against the tieaty be
cause the functioning of the league-of-nations
pact is too greatly dependent on
decision by the Congress of the United
States. ' The treaty smashers in Wash
ington bitterly complain that America
under the covenant is virtually at the
mercy of the European powers and that
the position of Congress is ignoled.
Both of these interpretations cannot be
true. Furtheimore, a covenant so equiv
ocally worded as to permit in honesty of
such variant readings would be little
short of idiotic. Its rea) meaning is quite
as clear as any broad-working formula
for 60 great a project as a fellowship of
nations can well be. The obligations and
duties under the pact are interlocking, re
ciprocal. It erects no monopoly of power
lfpc any particular country.
Those persona who contend that it docs
V e lined up on the same side, no matter
',. how divergent their interpretations are.
' Borah, Brandegee, Knox and Johnson arc
actually lined up with Deputy Franklin-
poUillon. They are nil simply "agin" the
government.
"v The fact that this attitude In America
iI In France compels its champions
Jfaitly to contradict each other in their
jwtiona of what the treaty means is plain
jMroot of tha desperate folly of such
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' mansions, once so characteristic of the
iron, Philadelphia is payingho familiar
irfjj."' f Progress. The recent an.
nduncement that tho picturesque col
onnaded Roberts houso in Rittcnhouso
square will soon make way for n huge
apartment hotel is followed by the news
that the spacious old Norris residence at
Sixteenth and Locust streets is to meet
the same fate.
Tho charming Wilstach mansion at
Eighteenth nnd Walnut streets vanished
I some years ngo. The Lippincott houso
and garden at Broad and Walnut sue
' cumbed to modern enterprise at an car
' Her date.
While it is idle to resent these adieus,
I which are so plainly an index of mctro
I politan development, they are hard upon
i the sentimentalist and the sincere ad
mirer of graciojis architectural survivals.
The physical aspects of Philadelphia
have been slow to change, but in tho cen
tral part of tho city at least the trans
formation has now become swift. Gcr-
muntown is still a fascinating museum of
eighteenth and early nineteenth century
"places." The Friends' meeting houses
still strike significant "atmospheric"
notes even within the original metropoli
tan boundaries. The State House, Car
penters' Hall and Christ Church arc
rightly inviolate.
But whether it hurts the artistic sensi
bilities or not, the metamorphosis of the
town cannot be stayed. Pride and re
grets 'struggle for position in the shifting
scene.
FIGHT FOR NEW COUNCIL
MUST NOT BE OVERLOOKED
Something About Bosses in General and
a Survey of the Method by Which
They Keep Control
nniME spent in pious denunciation of
-- political bosses might better be em
ployed in a lational effort to find the
reasons for their existence. Without tho
aid nnd the active sympathy of a largo
element in the population a political ma
chine of any sort could not survive for
a day.
As the next election goes so govern
ment is likely to go in this city for a
good many years. An extremely power
ful oiganization is intent on using the
new charter an instrument conceived
for its destruction to get a surer con
trol over municipal nffaus. It i plain
that the people have only an imperfect
acquaintance with the thing they arc
fighting. That much has been made
clear by the methods of leformers in
every election heretofore. Their chief
weapon was a slogan. They cried out
for what they calletf civic lighteousness.
But the pluase is indefinite. It means
nothing. It couldn't get even so strong
a man as Mr. Blankenburg anywhere.
Opposition to corrupt politicians ought
not to be founded in mere emotionalism,
1101 ought it to be limited to a vague
phrase expressive of nothing tangible to
befuddled voters. It ought to be based
upon the obvious fact that all their
gestures of patronage are rank andvshal
low and abominable imitations of friend
ship. The modem habit of likening a
machine boss to Robin Hood, who plun
dered the nch and gave to the poor,
springs fiom a romantic delusion.
A division leader is always glad to
spring to the aid of a partisan in trou
ble. But tho system that he repiesents
is the system that maintained dives and
the soit of lax police method in which too
many troubles of the ordinary sort have
an origin. He will pay the rent for a
poor family in a crisis but it is his own
system of spoils that keeps that same
rent at a maximum figure.
The people who hold allegiance to a
coirupt political machine' pay in a thou
sand ways thiough unclean streets and
consequent illness; through waste of
revenues which must be met by taxes
applied even to the tiniest house and
passed down by the houseowner. The
system which they support perverts and
debases every law made for the protec
tion of woikers. It turns' factory inspec
tion into a farce and laughs at laws made
to insure health by providing against the
adulteration of food. Once in a while a
division leader will send a doctor to an
afflicted family. He is the one who
should do so, certainly. Robin Hood
i obbed the rich. So does the modern boss
and his aides. But they rob the poor,
too.
Those who know how'things go in tho
inner sanctuaries of boKsism know that
the Vare leaders are not seriously con
cerned about the abstract legal terms of
the new charter. The trend of events
jhows that they are devoting their ener
gies to obtain complete control of the
new Council, which, with its restricted
membership, may easily be made a close
corporation devoted not to the general
welfare of the city but to the policies of
a controlling bo?s.
A regime like that of the Vares can be
defeated only when the light penetrates
the minds of its supporters of the rank
and file. And it is because the new
Council may be boss controlled and be
cause political control and general negli
gence have made it possible for machine
inteiests virtually to monopolize the
councilmanic campaign that the fight for
the mayoralty takes on the aspect of an
actual crisis in municipal affairs.
Within the next four years, while the
experiment with a small Council is in
pi ogress, the people ought to have at
least one conspicuous, powerful and inde
pendent representative on the inside.
Such a man the Mayor ought to be. If
the city did not take advantage of the
teims of the new charter in advancing
candidates of the right sort at this elec
tion, that is not proof that it will not do
so later along after it has been awak
ened to the possibilities of a salaried and
restrcted Council.
What we shall need meanwhile is fear
less and intelligent criticism of municipal
methods from some one in authority. The
next Mayor might see all his policies de
feated, his plans wrecked by an antago
nistic Council, yet he could feel that his
administration was. a success if he could
but perform the service of an inexorable
critic and good reporter of the new sys
tem as ho finds it The possibility of
Vare control in Council is the greatest
conceivable argument for the election of
Congressman Moore.
Political hossism. survives wherever
EVENING PtfBLIC LBDaERPHILADBLl?HlA;, FEIDAV 'SEPTEMBER
reformers have failed t6 find a Substi
tute for it. Its pretensions are fraudu
lent, Its gifts arc spurious, it is founded
on ignorance and hypocrisy. But it docs
nt least pretend to recognize the human
concerns, weaknesses and worries of the
multitude. Those who wish to establish
better political standards in America may
not have to follow tho bosses' method of
approach, but they will have to deal
realistically with the conditions that
make bosses possible.
THE HEATLESS MELTING POT
WE HAVE set up n melting pot and
hnvn nptrnnltA tti KuUrl n firn unflfti
have neglected to build a firo under
it. This is what Judge Page, president
of the American Bar Association, told tho
members of the association in his open
ing speech at its annual convention in
Boston. He was discussing the perils of
I American democracy. The immigrants
i have not been absorbed into our social
and political system. They do not un
derstand the genius of our institutions.
They are the people who are making the
most trouble and it is they who are hos
pitable to the ideas of the Bolshevists.
Judge Page remarked that to make a
real democracy there must be surrender,
compromise and service. He said that
the golden rule is an "absolutely and im
peratively necessary rule of conduct in
a democracy." There is nothing new in all
this, but we need to remind ourselves of
it periodically lest we forget it.
The few persons who are talking about
revolution do not understand the nature
of our institutions. We live under the
rule of the majority. Whatever the ma
jority wants it can get. It is a dissatis
fied and ignorant small minority that
talks revolution. It wishes to force its
ideas upon the rest of the people whether
they will or not, forgetting that if the
majority wants anything it can get it.
No "reform" that can stand up under
examination and public discussion is ever
rejected. All that is needed is patience
and perseverance.
But it must be admitted that the neg
lect to apply the golden rule in business
has provoked and is provoking unrest.
Far-seeing men are already engaged in
the effort to bring about a better under
standing between the workers and those
who hire them in order that tho ground
for complaint may be removed. The more
intelligent leaders of both sides are ad
mitting that they have made mistakes
and have not done as they would be done
by. They admit that they have tried to
do the other fellow and do him first. But
the tiouble here is industrial and not
political. It would arise under any form
of government. It is' merely a phase in
the progress of humanity toward enlight
enment, but the dissatisfaction with it is
bright with the promise of a better day.
If we can Americanize the immigrant,
and teach him what the right to life and
liberty and the pursuit of happiness
means, we can make easier the solution
of both the political and industrial prob
lems. The Socialists who used
None, of Course! to nrtfiie that they could
steer the country into a
new en
:a of peace and prnmUp had hardly
their com cation ih Cliii'ajo before
oneneil
they split violently into three warlike cliques,
each of which is consecrated to a theory
of its own. Now which, do you suppose,
lias tlie right idea?
I'nclc llavc I.ane ache,
apparently. to bet
airainst Moore in the
I. ory body is invited to
(hie may say that only
Velvet
ma malty fight.
cover ins liionrj
those who liae been in orj-anization politics
as long as I'nele Dave can afford to take
chances such as lie is willing to face.
The American Xntion
One. Tuo. Three! al Association of
Kalance Like Me! Dancing, which recent
ly held a convention in
New York, decreed the passing of the shimmy
and the reinstatement of the waltz. Strong
in the belief that dancing is the poetry of
motion, they are resolved to taboo the vers
libre of Terpsichore.
Franklin-Bouillon will
Canned Soup oppose the ratification
of the peace treaty in
the , French Chamber of Deputies. "Sow
watch the chamber call him.
Diivers of undertakers'
Hiiili Tariff wagons in Cincinnati
for I-ast Hide are demanding an in
crease of wages of !?5
a week. This will assuredly Increase the
cost of the Cincinnati bier.
Now, perhaps.
Shantung.
we'll learn all about
The entente finds food a potent argument
witli recalcitrants.
The tiouble with Villa appears to be that
he doesn't know when he is licked. .
While we are watchfully waiting Mex
ico continues to spill the beans.
There is a ilying squadron on the trail
of fraud in registration. Would not grub
bitig squadron be a better name?
One can't blame the political contrac
tors altogether. With the city scheduled to
spend pretty nearly $1,00().(X)0 a week next
jear it is small wonder they grow excited.
It must be said for the President that
he never hesitates about tackling a big job;
and October's labor conference may prove
as big an undertaking as the peace con
ference. A member of the Japanese peace dele
gation has declared in New York that Japan
will shortly return Slitntung Jto China.
An official declaration to the same effect
would cat a gladsome, roseate glow over
the President's trip.
It would appear that all a runaway
bank clerk has to do to elude the police is to
wear crimson bloomers aud drive a plum
colored motorcar. The theory is that the
color blinda the sleuths. It was the tactical
error of trying to get rid of tho car that
brought about Stanrg's arrest.
The House of Correction at Holmtsburg
operates a gas plant for the benefit of neigh
boring dUtrlct. Prohibtlon hes reduced the
number of Inmates in the house, the plant
is shorthanded, and Tacony and Bridesburg,
are in darkness. Residents of the districts
are In a parlous state but perhaps some
Itnoiiifji' 'v,i -.mim- ii inrif- as'-anr
WHEN WARWICK ORATED
Meeting With General t-atta Recalls
to Col. McCain Story With a Punch
Which Made Hit During Gu
bernatorlal Campaign of 1894
By nHOHGK NOX McCAIN
MET Oeueral Jaincs W. l-ntta 'on the
street the other day. He la best remem
I
bered by the older citizens and politicians as
secretnry of Internal affairs of the state for
two terms from 1803 to lUOH.
In spite of his snowy beard and mustache,
he carries himself and his eighty years with
n hint of the o!d martial bearing that char
acterized him when he was assistant adju
tant general of volunteers in the days of the
Civil War.
He is one of the young old men of Phila
delphia, lie keeps himself In trim by keep
ing busy. He is in dally touch v. 1th the
big affairs of life.
GENERAL 'LATTA was one of a group of
men that witnessed a unique demon
stration at CSrecnsburg, Pa. In the party,
as I recall, were the present Attorney 'Gen
eral W. I. Schaffer, Colonel Recder, of
Bcllcfontc; Colonel Henry Hall, now Wash
ington correspondent of the Pittsburgh
Chronicle-Telegraph, and Charles V. War
wick, afterward Mayor of Philadelphia. It
was during the gubernatorial campaign of
1804.
The party had jumped from Franklin,
Pa., to Greensburg. It was Saturday night
and everybody was hurrying to get back to
Philadelphia.
On the trip from Franklin down the Al
legheny river the fnmous painted rock"
near Franklin were pointed out. Thej
recnlleil nn incident to the mind of Colonel
Hall, who related it to three others of the
party facing in n double car sent.
As Hall concluded the story Warwick
slapped his knee in enthusiasm and said,
"I'm going to use that story tonight at
Greensburg. It'll bring down the house."
And it did.
rnnE mass meeting was held in the old
court house in Greensburg. It was a
splendid audience. The greatest enthusiasm
prevnlled.
General I.ntta opened the meeting. He ad
dressed himself particularly to the front
benches filled with Grand Army men.
Charles F. Warwick closed the meeting.
He, too, addressed himself specially to
the. veterans who were in uniform. His per
oration was the iory told by Henry Hall
on the railroad tin. This it was, in brief:
Down in V ver county at the outbreak
of the Rebellion one of the first men to
enlist was n gaunt woodsman more than six
feet tall and built in proportion. He was
rough, uncouth, and the homeliest man In
the region.
He was so uglv that they nicknamed him,
"The Indian God."
He was made color sergeant of his regi
ment. Somewhere down in Virginia one morn
ing a year or so later headquarters re
ceived information that a body of the enemy
was in the vicinity. Skirmishers were
thrown out. the regiment assigned to posi
tion, and preparations made for an en
gagement. In the meantime the color guard In ad
vance had moved forward of the line which
had halted. The order to halt was given, but
the guard failed to hear. Tn n louder and
more emphatic tone the officer in command
bhouted :
"Color guard, halt! Bring your colors
back to the regiment."
The guard halted. The sergeant, the "In
dian God," fearless, crude, and profane,
turned half-round and shouted back so that
his words rang along the line:
"Bring vour damned old regiment up to
the colors.
I never recall such a scene. The climax
had been worked up beautifully by War
wick, who was an eloquent and captivating
speaker.
The Grand Army men leaped cheering to
their feet. Women rose nnd waved tRcir
handkerchiefs. Hats were tossed in air and
the hand In the midst of the uproar played
the "Star Spangled Banner." The effect" on
Warwick himself was so pronounced that
tears trembled in his eyes.
Wp barely made the midnight train for
the East.
A MEDIFM-sized, strongly built man.
brown skinned nnd vigorous, and wear
ing mandarin glasses, who seems to have a
speaking acquaintance with two or three
persons in every block on Chestnut street,
answers to the name of Timothy O'r.eary.
When he was assistant superintendent of
police some years back hc was known ns
"Tim" O'l.eary, the man who drilled the
police force in military tactics for four
years nnd who had the best dressed nnd most
soldierly police force in a generation.
O'r.eary had been in the army nnd was
a drlllmaster himself.
To Tim O'l.eary belongs the distinction,
held possibly by no other citizen of the
United Stntes, of having administered a
good sound punch in the face to a future
prime minister of a European nation.
That is. if Leon Trotsky can be termed a
prime minister. He is at least a despot.
It was during the period of Trotsky's
residence on the East Side, New York. The
greasy little anarchist filled in his time
when not writing flaming editorials for the
anarchist bheet with which he was con
nected In visiting neighboring cities nnd
preaching disorder and general annihila
tion. On one of his trips he came to Philadel
phia, accompanied by Emma Goldman and
her side partner. Berkinann. to harangue
a choice collection of their kind in the
Parkway Building.
Of course, thf police had been tipped off.
Assistant Superintendent of Police O'Lcnry
was also there in citizens' dress to judge
the character of the speeches.
WHEN Trotsky got properly started hc not
only cursed the capitalists but hc damned
the government nnd demanded Its overthrow;
or words to that effect.
It was at this point that one T. O'Leary
hove himself on the stage and politely but
firmly, and with due emphasis, notified the
future despot of Russia that his speaking
time had expired.
"Who arc you?" blustered Trotsky,
throwing out his chest like a pouter pigeon.
"I'm a police official sent down from
City Hall. You're abusing the government
and preaching anarchy. I don't want to
bear another word from joti," Bald the
assistant superintendent in a tone that would
haye been significant to anybody but a fool
anarchist.
"You cannot deny me the right of free
speech," sputtered the greasy little Bol
shevik. "You've got no rights. You'ro an alien.
Shut up," was the final word of command.
And then something happened.
The wretched apostle of governmental
chaos began another insolent reply. Be
fore he. got properly started, however,
O'Leary's open hand shot out and the
base of the palm, above the wrist, landed
midway of the agitator's face. That is, just
beneath bla nose. The effect, of course,
was to bend that organ unr.nnl urM h.ni,
ward with a force that sent Trotsky reel-
! log Into the "arms of a friend.
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"WE'Vti HAQ. ENOUGH FIGHTING, LET'S
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TRAVELS IN PHILADELPHIA
By Christopher Morlcy
On British Soil
"YESTERDAY I spent several delightful
hours on "British soil," with ns au
thentic an envelopment of English atmos
phere as though a loug sea vojnge lay be
hind the adventure.
The first thing one notices on reaching
British soil is men smoking pipes. As I
entered the Consulnte of His Britannic
Majesty, on Third street, I saw a gentle
man relishing a pipe in tho luxurious man
ner peculiar to the island kingdom. I felt,
ashamed of the medicated vegetable ciga
rettes I was smoking as a dcspnlrlng hay
fever remedy. They are very thin little
tubes, with a cardboard mouthpiece; they
exhale a vile peppery scent; they are as
sociated with the first whiffings of very
young lads who buy them nt drug stores
before they dare purchase legitimate fags.
"Emit the smoke through the nostrils,"
says the legend on the box; "they will make
the head ns olenr as a bell." I emitted
furiously, and asked for my friend the vice
consul. Trailing clouds of ayomatic incense,
I was ushered in.
I HAD had a hunch. In the morning paper
I had seen the announcement of the
Cunard Line:
PHILADELPHIA to LONDON
Vennonia Sept. 9
For a long time I had had a hankering to
get on board n ship. Like Mr. Wilson, who
"chafes at the confinement of Washington,"
the mail who feels any salt in his. blood
chafes at being bound down to pavements.
He has spells when he wanders along the
docks, yearning over oyster schooners tho
Maggie A. ITateUtt is in from Maurice Uivcr
Covo! and feasting his eyes on the tall, lean
bows of ocean-going steamers. He rides the
Gloucester ferries trying to memorize the
comely lines of the vessels in midstream.
The propeller of nn unladen tramp, turning
over in a slow flap-flap of foam, kicks at
bis heart. The harbor is a never-ending
panorama of romance nnd excitement. He
tries to imagine n thousand excuses for
getting aboard the ships hc sees. ut it is
bard to make sailormen understand this
yearning. They expect one to have some
plausible reason for wanting to hang about
their vessels. I have never met a profes
sional mariner who did not suspect me of
some dastardly purpose in loitering about.
How can one explain that just to noso
about a ship, to poke and peer about her
fascinating decks, is an end in Itself? Sup
pose you were to say you were "admiring
the funnel," tbey would think you mad.
And yet that is just what one wants to do:
BUT my hunch was this: to lure the vice
consul from his tasks, and under his
.authentic wing to go down to the I'rnnonia,
'the pioneer ship of the new Cunard service
to Philadelphia ; to go aboard, if possible,
and gloat. The chief rule in life is to follow
the hunch. It never fails.
So the vice consul ngceed, and emitting
clouds of medicated fume I sallied along
with hlrni At the Cunard pier we found
the new pier .superintendent, Mr. Aunall.
I would have been much abashed to face his
clear gray' questioning cje alone, but tinder
the chaperonage of my consular friend nil
was easy. Beside the sheer flauk of tho
Vennonia we 'stood chatting and he agreed
that we might go aboard. Just then along
came Captain Brown, and we saw that
fortune was with us. Up the ladder we
scrambled. We had a glimpse of the well
known scarlet and black funnel, familiar
in New York and elsewhere, but a stranger
to Philadelphia. Then we were. In the holy
of holies, the captain's cabin. Captain
Brown got out his pipe and his tin of Cap
stan. It was plainly British soil!
CAPTAIN BROWN was the perfect host
that only the sea-captain can- be. The
two landlubbers bung entranced upon his
words. His sea experience has been as com
nlete: one thinks, as any mariner's. Trained
in the, rough school of sailing ships, ho has
peon twen'V Pnr- in i"f vnnir.1 roinnsnv.
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in the Montreal and Boston services, and
on such greyhounds as" the Campam'o and
Lttcania, the Lusitania nnd Maurctania,
On the last he was stiff captain before the
war. A naval reservist, when the war broke
out hc was put to immediate and grueling
work, first in the landing of troops on Ger
man Southwest Africa (Swakopmund) then
in tho terrible year of the Dardanelles trag
edy. He was commander of the forward
turret on the Albion, one of the two ships
sent in .within 2000 yards of tho Turkish
forts nt Seddul Bahr and Kum Kale, with
orders to stay there Until cither the forts or
the ships themselves were put out of action.
Captain Brown drew out of his desk drawer
a fat notebook in which hc kept a private
log of his war experiences. He read us some
of his notes, jotted down with the terse
compression of the naval officer. I hope
some day hc will find time to put those days
into a book. It was a terrible picture that
lay behind the blunt brief words. Never
was humau heroism more fearfully exhibited
than in the tragic effort of the British and
Colonial troops to force a lauding on those
sandy cliffs. Out of a boatload of 230 men
sometimes only ten would gain a footing on
tho shore, struggling through the -barbed
wire, with shells and concealed mines burst
ing among them. Captain Brown told of a
boatload of killed and wounded men that
drifted back to the Albion, swimming in
blood up to the thwarts, the dead men
floating in this blood. He used two words
to describe it. Bloody murder. For seven
months he slept beside his tvVclvc-iuch guns
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LATER, Captain Brown was commander
of the Prjiicp Edteard, nnd then was in
command of the anti-submarine defense iu
the eastern Mediterranean. As hc talks,
with bis quick, cheerful accent, his bright
gray seaman's eye, it is hard to realize what
this friendly, bronzed little man has been
through. One gains an inkling of the quiet
discipline of the sea -that trains a man to.
take what comes. "Carry on," the favorite
catchword of the Briton in wartime, is the
phrase that occurs most often' in his talk.
That's the only explanation .these, men have
for' it. Thf? shrug their shoulders and say
they "carried on."
CAPTAIN BROWN Is very pleased to be
the pioneer skipper of the new Cunard
service to Philadelphia. This is his second
visit to the port. The first was last July,
wheu he arrived In the midst of St. Swithin's
debauch, and got 'the impression that Phila
delphia was a very rainy place. "Y'ou have
a fine port here," he says. "It's right in
the heart of industrial America." He has
visited Hog Island, and is very enthusiastic
o,ver tho plans to deepen the Delaware chan
nel to thirty-five feet at low water. His
own ship, by the way, built in Dundee, is
the English equivalent of the Hog Island
fabricated ship. She's an 8000-ton cargo
carrier, more, graceful in design than the
Hog Island vessels, but with coal-burning
reciprocating engines instead of-the oil-fuel
turbines of our own wartime fleet. He told
us of one ingenious dodge adopted on ber ,
during tho war. The double-derrick masts
were made to fold down out of sight during
a voyoge. On the port side of the pilot
house was a fake mast, far off the central
line of the vessel. An enemy submarine,
sighting this mast and getting it into align
ment with the funnel, would think tho ship
was proceeding in an entirely different di
rection from the course she was actually
steering.
OiVR host insisted on our staying to lunch
' with him and his officers in their snug
mess-room. It wan a delightful sight to see
tho vice-consul's eyes shine as he gazed
upon genuine British food, including so thor- ,
oughly ivngusn u reusu us ancnovy es
sence. Take a Britisher, many years ex
patriated, and put him on an English ship
Where hs can see the red ensign flutter over
the taffrall, taste a pipeful of English to-
bicco, and har some good rousing- anecdotes
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thoroughly happy man. I puffed my medi
cated tubes and thrilled to See the emotion
of my consular friend.
rpH.H captain is already a stanch Phila-
delpb'.a fan. It Is pleasant to hear his
enthusiasm on the subject of the whole
heartcd co-operation of the American naval,
officers with whom he shared many respon
sibilities during the war. He says the Cun
ard passenger service to this port will be
started as soon as they can build -some ships..
n the meantime he's busy moving big cart
goes across the blue water. He showed us
the deep holds of tho Vennonia, where thou- .
sands of tons of wheat were pouring down
from a floating elevator alongside, and where
barrels of oil and sirup and crates of Cali
fornia raisins were being stowed. And by
this time, as we Had made him nearly an ,
hour late for nn appointment uptown, we
thought it fras time to take our reluctant
leave. The generous captain, who deplored
my herb smokables, even insisted on my
carrying off his own tin of Navy Cut. Smok
ing this, the vice consul and I returned to
America.
On Reading a Certain Book
T TURN a page, read on, and on,
J- A traveler up a pleasant road
Where others have before me gone
With brains that dreamed, with eyes that
glowed.
Unmindful quite of time I fate.
From line to line my glances flit,
Delighted and bereft 'of care
. By quip of humor, flash of wit.
Sometimes I con n paragraph,
Whose beauty makes me pause a while;
A happjv fancy wakes a laugh,
An ap! allusion lights a smile. ,
And so a feast my journey seems
Whcro I partake yet leave behind
A wondrous board whereon there gleams
Untouched n banquet for tho mind.
Samuel MInturn Peck, in the'Boston
Evening Transcript.
Wlmt Do You Knotv?
NQUIZ
Who is premier of Egypt?
What state docs Senator Hitchcock rep- "
resent? ,
What is the meaning of the word
nmphlbologous?
How many years before the Civil War
did Wncle Tom's Cabin" appear?
On what date do some states observe
Columbus Day as a holiday?
WThy is the Blue Peter, a flag indicating
that a ship is about to sail, so called?
What Is the Erse language?
8.
Where did the President deliver his
first address on his nation-wldo tour
on behalf of the treaty?
What is a peri?
n.
10. What "organ of the human body wasi
once believed to be the seat of IU
humor and melancholy? '
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Cardinal Mercicr Is primate of Belgium,
2. The only bequest which William Shake
speare made by will to his wife was
that of his "second. best bed, with the
furniture."
3. Brazil was formerly a colony of.Portu-
gali
4. Fosse; long narrow excavation, canal,
ditch, trench, especially in fortifica
tion. !
G, Karl Renner is the head of the -Austrian
peace delegation.
G, An English farthing is worth about
half a cent in American money.
7. All bills for raising revenue, for the fed
eral government must originate in the
Housb of Representatives. ,
8. A lough I a lake or arm of 'the sea.
The word is derived from the Gaelic,
0. The althea is called the "Rose of
Sharon,"
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