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ANOTHER PHANTOM VOTER!
QENATOR VAKC'S astral l.odv inhub-
its the old Vaie homestead in South
Philadelphia. The rct of the seiuitoi,
all that is mortal of him, has n laiiei
sanctuary in the palace at Amblei
If there can be such a thing a. an
astral voter oi a spiritual tesidence, then
Senator Vare has a moral 1 ight to cast
a ballot at the coming election. Othei -wise,
no matter how the decision of the
registration commissioner nuv go, he
hasn't.
Yesterday's hennng showed that their
is. neither electric light nor gas in the
South Broad street houe. man who
has become accustomed to the comfoits
of a country estate is not likelv to spend
much time in a darkened and unfurnished
house. But one's astral self needs ncithoi
food nor warmth It can find its way to
bed in the daik
By his own tcstimoiu Mr. aie proved
that he has no actual residence bete and
that the seat of Philadelphia's govern
ment has been moved to Montgmer
county.
END OF THE LABOR BUGABOO
HPHE attempt to line up organized laboi
in opposition to Congressman Moore
has collapsed
The Central Labor Lnion ha decided
to take no pait in the mayoralty cam
paign, and will indorse the candidacy of
neither Patterson noi Mooie. This is
prudent. There is no suiei way to wreck
a labor organization than to inject it into
a political controversv
Samuel Gompers is pi evented b the
-lucaui vu ma inuic. i.uik Lumuig ne.f u.
Joaits Af t.- 4n ll. f. . 1 i .. I
rn.ke me mucn-neraitiea speecn in oppo- t
eition to iHoore, but no one knowing Mr.
Gompers's record took the teport se
riously from the first. The piomise was
exacted under a misapprehension of the
issues at stake.
DON'T NEGLECT COUNCIL
TROGRESS is making toward agree-
ment on the councilmanic slate to be
submitted to the voters by the independ
ent Republicans at the primnnes next
Tuesday.
It is needless to say that the nomina
tion of independent Republican canth
dates foi Council is as important as the
nomination of an independent Republican
candidate for th mayoralty
The voters who have legistered in un
precedented numbers aie evidently aware
of the issues at stake.
They are, not misled by an attempt to
create the impression that some one is
trying to split the Republican part
They are Republicans themselves and
they are attempting to rescue the Repub-
lican party and make it really lepiesen-
tative oi ine wisnes ot the great majontv
tf Republicans in the eit.
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POSTOFFICE NECESSITY
rpHE Postoffice Depattmcnt' consideta
- tion of a new central station for Phila
delphia at Seventeenth and Market
streets will be something moie than
academic when an appropriation for the
building is at hand. It ought to be
promptly forthcoming
Of the, inadequacy of the piesent postal
facilities at Ninth and Market street
there is no question. 'I he new site
recommended by Postmastei Thornton
will have the advantage of close prox
imity to the city's busiest railway termi
nal. The lot between Seventeenth and
Sixteenth on Market street and extend
ing back to Ranstead is sufficiently large
to permit of the erection of a spacious
nd fully equipped structure
Mr. Thornton's suggestion that the
station in the federal building at Ninth
street be retained is sensible Phila
delphia needs a new postoffice, not in
substitution for an old one, but in addi
tion to it. There is no waste involved in
a plan which recognizes the city's enoi
mous growth and the absolute necessity
that the Postoffice Department should
keep pace with it. No excuse for holding
"back the funds to begin the work is valid.
GRACE FOR THE UNREGISTERED
, yTNABILITY to register on the three ap-
pointed days need not bar Philadel
phiuns from voting in the primaries or
the November election. By the new
amendment to the registration law two
i ays of grace are provided. The board
ef registration commissioners will sit in
Ue City Hall today and tomoirow from
9 a. In. until noon and from 1 p. m. to 4
p. ra. This is positively the last chance
to qualify,
That the Vare forces are distressed by
'the large registration is evident by their
uneonyincing efforts to analyze it. The
returned soldier vote docs not explr.in
$0. jucrM3t. Tho. truth is tha '"e pvro
and a
new sense of civic
lcsponsibflity is felt
Citizens who for
various reasons .were unable to express
tlieir aroused sentiment before can
render their actions consistent with their
emotions by visiting the City Hnll today
and tomorrow.
It is superfluous to dwell much .norc
on the .significance of full registration.
If there are any persons now who don't
know what it means they are hopelessly
indifferent to the city's welfare.
HAVE POLICEMEN A RIGHT TO
! STRIKE?
ArrAIKS within the Federation of
, Labor must be in lamentable shape
I when that oiganization could foi an m-
stant think of lending suppoit to a strike
i of policemen in Boston A premeditated
walkout of an entire police foice is pure
j Red in punciple. It is the sort of tiling
I that Trotskv dreamed of in moment of
I high exaltation. It is a perversion of
I the labor union principle.
I The federation has been wandenng
, nftei some sttange gods dunng Mi
I Compel s's absence in Euiope. It has
plain! been misused by ome of its
newer membeis.
The railway Inothcrhood-, foi eam
i pie, wcie strange! s m the house of the
federation, et they took complete pos
session ol the picmises and sent every
bod else out into the back yaid. The
oldci unions in America were made the
burden bearers for the lailway men in
even let cut adventure of conquest in
Washington They were used as shock
ttoops and as second lines of defense in
a cause that was not their own.
Herctofoie the PedeMtinn of Laboi
has hecn c ucful to sanction nothing that
would diseiedit the strike method Its
couise has been cnnscivative The opin
ions and claims of federation officials are
listened to with icspect. The Boston
police and the lailwav In othei hoods seem
determined to discredit the whole sys
tem of labor piopaganda as it has bpen
foimulated under the inspiration of Ml.
Compels
Polite stnkts cannot be tolerated oi
sustained ov an.v code of labor stiategy
acceptable to common opinion in the
United States. That sort of thing is
apait fiom the rules of fan plav
policeman is not meiclv a laboiei If
he wcie the rest of us would not willmglv
I take oidets from him in an emeigeniv.
' oi admit his supeiior right- in public
I places.
1 A policeman is ptopeily an oflicei of
i the government, under oath. He is the
appointed representative of law, which is
1 the common will of all the people He
I is lfsponsible to the community at laige
and anj attempt to diveit his allegiance
i to an isolated group appioaches piettv
close to an act of tieasoti
To abolish a police force at i stioke. bv
! stnkes oi an other method, is to abolish
' the foice by which thp peace and safety
i of a community are assured. The A nen
can Federation of Labor has undeigone a
mightv. thange of hait if it feels justi
fied in giving help and encouragement
! to methods such as thi.
I he protection of life, piopertv and
lhe lnstitutlons
of government is the
(jut ()f
dutv of cveij citv and slate ointiai.
Policemei' who stuke are ceitain to lose.
It may be gi anted that they aie undei
paid and maltreated by conupt bosses
and that in moat American cities they
suffer through the negligence of unthink
ing people who peimit spoils systems
and low vvagevsc.iles and overwoik with
out extra pav But stnkes will not help
them, becaust b striking they do moie
than quit work. They break an oath and
assume an attitude opposed to the law
which thev weie pledged to uphold
TEMPLARS EN FETE
THE i espouse of the imagination to
pageantiy is piompt Philadelphia,
just now invaded b the picturesque
legions of Knights Templars, is taking
unaffected pleasure in this emotional le
action, which is healthy and in modern
life somewhat too rare.
The conclave does not duccll signal
ize the ending of the wai, but it does
happily fit into the spirit of new and
happier time The populai predilection
! for snectacles is now no longer hampeied
...
bv disturbing "back thoughts."
The knights do well to pieseive the
tomantic tiadition The town is sympa
thetic with thtir endeavois. While
apologizing for, 'hp muggy weather,
which petsists in' jft' , Philadelphia a
bad name as a convention center, the
public is unquestionabl united in the
wish that its plumed visitors, with then
splendid displays and then spinted
music, aie enjoying themselves as much
as we aie enjoying them.
AND THEN IT MAY TAKE A REST
H'
ERE aie some of the "self-evident
piopoiitions
the industrial
ton
will
giess
called bv Piesident Wilson
have to wiestle with:
rust s the world latks mini things
the vvoild must produce them. This can
not be done by shortening hours of labor
or b stopping labor altogether thiough
utrikes
Second Wages cannot be inti eased
and pncej3 i educed at one and the same
time '
Third As stnkes aie won while prices
are rising and strikes are lost while
puces aie falling labor will want to see
it pioved that any self-denial on its part
is not for the benefit of the profited.
Fourth. Any increase in the purchas
ing power of a dollar means that people
and nations with debts to pay must pay
pioportionately more than they received.
Fifth. It is the province of the indus
trial congress to reconcile these appar
ently irreconcilable facts and more
power to its elbow!
CAN THE WOMEN DO IT?
SUFFRAGISTS have their eyes on Min
nesota nnd Nevy Hampshire this week,
for the Legislatures of these states are
meeting in special session. An attempt
will be made to induce them to ratify the
suffrage amendment to the constitution,
and it is confidently expected that the
effort, will succeed.
Fourteen states have already ratified
the amendment gmce it was passed bjj
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biii
Congress on June 4. Favorable action in
Minnesota and New Hampshire and in
Utah, where the Legislature meets
September 29, will raise the number to
seventeen.
The women cannot vote for presi
dential candidates next year until nine
teen more states act. Regular sessions
of the Legislature will be held in three
of them next winter, but in the others'
with biennial sessions the Legislatures
will not convene until the winter of 1921.
The women nre doing their utmost to
induce the governors of sixteen states to
call special sessions of the Legislature
so that the next President may be chosen
by the vote of men and women in all the
states Their powers of persuasion are
great.
UNTIL DEATH?
TT IS over a week since William
x Tanner said "I'll stay with you,
Mary," and closed his eyes and accepted
death in a peculiarly terrible form rather
than leave his wife to meet it alone on
a railroad crossing near Chicago. Yet
millions of people arc still praising or
blaming the man, wondering about the
fate of his child) en, debating the wisdom
and even the morality of his act, trying
to decide by argument and long delibera
tion what Tanner himself, had to decide
in the flash of an appalling instant.
The tragedy of the Tanners touched
the imagination of multitudes because it
involved a pitiful and magnificent ges
ture of fidelity to what was, perhaps, the
fust promise evei made by a man to a
woman. To debate the matter in the
light of piactical things is to miss the
significance of all heroism. No great act
of set vice or saciifice was evei based
upon calm calculation. Men who do the
wild oi despeiate ot glonous things do
not stop to count the costs. They react
according to the depth of their pity, the
degree of theit tenderness, and let those
who sutvive do the counting for them.
Many women believe that Tannei did
wiong, because he left oiphaned chil
dren Men aie disposed to believe that
he did right. In the end a saciifice such
as Ins was probably mote than worth
while. It must at least have inspned in
countless people a new, if tiansient. le
gaid for the one piomise that is oftenest
made and oftenest foi gotten in these
dav of overworked divorce couit
WHEN IDIOTS RUN LOOSE
'TWERE is a type of road hog who, aftei
L the last traffic policeman has quit his
post about midnight, feels free to use
the stieets as if they had been willed to
him. N'ight-owl taxicabs flit in the wrong
direction on one-way streets and slide on
one wheel around corners where, under
i the ti-aflic mles, they have no right, to
I the dangei and inconvenieiiaa of pedes-
tnans and other vehicle traffic
'I his nuisance is pafticulatly marked in
the center of the city, and the police foi
some leason or another hare become ac
i customed to permit it. An automobile
j that was wiecked against a light pole at
l Bioad and Vine streets lecently vas
frov.ded b another machine moving
on the wrong side of the street.
The time of those who l ide in night-owl
taxis isn't so precious that it should be
conserved at the cost of danger to life.
Street traffic laws ought to operate at
night as well as in the daytime.
Ou Mptimhfi -" tln'ie will be iu mn
vi'ntion m Atlantic City the New Jersey
IVderntinn of Liquor Dealers and Auxili
mil's the Drj Saturating Felt Manufactur
ers Asin lation am the HIihirIp Manufar
tnri'rs' Assomtion of tlm I'nited States
all is ilr.v as a ilungli with B drvness that
will be felt.
A mnn lias in he level headij to be
able to keep cm ilie peilestul on which pop
u la i fnvor lias plated linn "Black Jack"
I'ii shin? seems to he holding lii oun pretty
well so far
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Attendants in a limine asylum in Tip
pel an. Ireland aie out on strike This
would seem to lie a tune for the inmates to
do likewise
Kveij- sink
. a blow at tin'
undt i present conditions
goose that lajs the golden
ggs. And am blow
nnv proie fatal
Seven men have died in Jamestown,
Y , nftcr dunking bin mm Others,
elsewhere have had dose shaves
Albeit of Iltlgium will be wtkome for
hiuiMlf as well as for the brave little
louutrv cif winch lie is the head
Senatoi are is willing to bae it un
deiteicid thai lie is a Philadelphia!) ineielj
foi voting imposes
lime mav be good icasons foi the
Kenvuii and Kendntk bills, but the packers
dinnn ken" them
strike of policemen
a bit of solid ivorv l
suggests that
i their Boston
tbeie
beans
Oli well," said Kolchak to the Bol
shewsts ns thej meriily plajed seesaw, "we
all have our ups nnd clowns "
Sometimes it appears as if the Orator
lather thuu the President is talking in the
We.t
Perhaps nullenniul da.vs aie
when all the police stations may
an groeerj stores
at hand
be used
The thief who htole a bnjde at City
Hall doubtless felt safe with so many po
licemen around
Wowldn t the Prtsidint be plnjing in
hard luck if he wcie a liny fevei victim?
It is tough on the kids that they have
to go to school during a week of big parades.
After seeing their turnout one realizes
b) every knight has a feather in his cap.
The children who are on "part time"
will make no complaint this week.
Kven the house that Jack built might
help a little in the present shortage.
A week from today countless thousands
will grow hoarse saying "I told you so!"
'Wilson's speech in a nutshell," leads
a headline. Home nut!
When labor makes the strikes it is tbe
.consumer jflo,w out.
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CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S
LETTER
Comment on Patterson's Remark
About Penn Qostlp Concerning
Ex-Judge Beltl'er, Mayer Swaab
and Others
THK Philadelphia ninyornlt.v campaign is
bringing nut a good deal of tomment con
cerning the use of automobiles by city, offi
cials. Opponents of the Smith administra
tion say the automobiles in the city serv
ice have become so numerous ns almost to
constitute a scandal. There seems to be
no eentrnl place for housing or repairing
the machines, which nre used by all sorts
of officials and employes New York has
had this problem up and figures on making
every machine do officlnl work without being
nt the exclusive service of one individual and
also provides for their rare in a central ga
rage This problem is one which might be
mtt in Philadelphia nnd Cumden when the
new bridge is constructed All those tun
nels under the approneh to Broad Street
Station of the Pennsylvania Railroad were
used to great advantage for storage and
business purposes. Mtijor Kill', of Camden,
might see that all the Camden official ma
chines were housed "and repaired under one
great arch of the new bridge on the Camden
side nnd the Philadelphia JIavor. whoever
he may be. might do likewise on the Phila
delphia side. If the machines were housed
in one central garage nnd repair shops could
he thrown together, n t becking svstem might
be installed which would enable nnv city
official to obtain a machine for official use
nt nnv time, thus keeping the mr.diines in
band nnd movln; when ordered
EX .TVDC.n ABRAHAM M HK1TLEII.
who quit Ibe beni h Teais ago to go into
private prsttice. still loves to shoulder his
gun and hunt ducks Charles S. AVettei
nnd he mnde a tup I'.lk nverward the othei
dm merel.v to look over Ibe prospects for
the toming fall season There is it little
bit of the "wild ' in everv man's mtke-up
and you can detect it in men like the judge
when they don the corduroys, or in Charlie
AVetter when he shnkes bis derbr nnd puts
on his easy-fitting' cloth cap. Quite a num
ber of Philadelphians have located along the
i:ik river and upper renches of Chesapeake
bv. nnd they teport fewer mosquitoes than
some of the Atlantu loast icsorts.
TVTATER SWA A It
who used to live in the
"J- 'Ihirtv second
ward, but whose head
quarters aie uow in New York, is a top
nnldier in the i hewing gum world. Hi"
-on. Captain .latiiues Swanb. went from
Philadelphia to the nviation service and be
came an nte in Kraut v That hov has taken
un his resident e in Philadelphia and the
folks nre proud of him But there is an
other Swanb who has been doing things
the former president of the Knginecrs' Club
of Philadelphia S. M Swnab. The latter
has been in charge of the Keystone Stnte
Construction Companv subwnv work under
the City Ilnll and from all accounts has done
his work well Refore the Engineers' Club
lecently Mr Swnab outlined n vigorous con
striictive woiks policy for the city.
PW KICFAItEK accounts foi the high
tost of living in two or three wnvs.
He leasons that beef goes up in price be
cause the number of people is increasing
while the number of steers does not keep
nace with the minimi population Brothe'
Kiefaber specializes in eggs nnd poultry, but
he wntches the cattle business and thinks
calves should be conserved nnd not killed
too joung A.mit fiom running an iron
woik's in Pennsylvania nnd (ultivnting nu
Rttrfl"tue garden on the bluff at his summer
place overlooking
all right
Toms river, Kiefaber is
M
ARRIOIT C MORRIS whose family
dates back to the Revolution nnd be
fore, has just romuleted an inspection of the
Chesnneake and Ilelawnre ennal and the
I water of Chesapeake bnv Mr Morris is
n fiermantowner. who devotes i, good deal
of time to the work of the Atlantic Deeper
Wnterwnvs Association, upon whose con
ventions he has been a faithful attendant for
vears Kiee tolls through the Chesnneake
nnd Delaware cnnnl lecentlv accomplished
bv the government purchase will, in the
judgment of M' Morris largelv stimulate
the north and south tinthc
THE bovs me commenting upon .lodge
Pnttei son's suggestion that he will "know
no boss but William Penn." It was a safe
proposition, particular! as mlliam l'enn
hnB been dead for n long time ; but when
the judge suggested thnt he would live up
to the practices of William Penn. there were
some delvers into the earlr lustorv of Phila
delphia who wondered whethei the judge
wns ns well posted on William Peun's finan
cial transactions ns be is on the characters
of Dickens. Term laid out the'eitv all right,
hut he did not provide streets suffidently
wide to trcommodatf the traffic of 1020.
ThiR.may not have been Penn's fault, for
he laid out n big city even as it was; but
what the bovs want to know is whethei In
view of the present high rentals iu eertuin
parts of Philadelphia the judge has sized
up William Tenn as r. landlord. Congress
man Tom Butler, of the Chester-Delaware
district, who is nn expert on Penn lore, says
the eminent Qunker eloled out town lots at
a good price and that he was a .pretty
stiff sort of landlord And vet we love the
memory of the mini whose statue stands at
the top of the Citj Hull.
GEOROE W, FIELD, the genial George
whose father. Chailes .1 Field, was one
of the most popalar members of the Build
ers' Exchange in its early dajs, is longing
for Christmas, fiiorge is a hardware man
from one end of the year lo the other and
he keep4 in tomb with big events, but he
certainly does like Christmas. It isn't tl
together because of the sparkling candles,
the brilliantly decorated trees or the old
fashioned mince pies; it's , ht-cause of the
mechanical toys. Most ms have hobbies:
Roosevelt loved to hunt Senator Hoar rev
eled in Nick Carter detective stories, John
Oribbel pays high for Burns manuscripts,
but George Field goes iu for mechanical
toys the dancing girl, the pugilist, the
acrobits, the jack in the box and George
jets them 'in large numbers ami uses up
the whole of Christmas eve delighting bis
friends, and nt the close of the evening the
friends get the toys. It's n great day for
George Is Christmas
THEY decoiated the giave of P. J.
JIaguire ou Labor Dav and they gave
him credit tor being the father of the new
holiday. P -T. Maguire lies under the sod
in Harleigh Cemetery, where Walt Whitman
sleeps. He was nn industrious labor leader.
He built up the Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joiners and became vice president ol the
American Federation of Labor when it was
n small organization compared with the
Knights of l4ibor, of which Terence V.
Powderly was grand master workman. Ma
guire's headquarters were located at Eighth
and Callowhill streets and there he worked
to improve the conditions of the carpenters
and joiners who were then obtaining less
t,an ?2 a day for more than eight hours.
Whet a change there has been In rhr ir.tre
Kale since that time!; t
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THE CHAFFING DISH
Horace Traubel
W
'K WAIT with particular interest to
hear what Philadelphia will have to say
about the passing of Horace Traubel.
Traubel was the official echo of 'the Great
Voice of Camejon, and in 1i!h obituary one
may discern the vivacity of the Whitman
tradition. JHiis is n matter of no small
concern to the curators of the Whitman
cult. The soul of Philadelphia cannot be
kept alive by conventions and statistics
alone. Such men ns Traubel have helped.
There are two kinds of rebels By their
neckties you may know them. Walt Whit
man was of the kind that weais no necktie
at nil. Then there is the lesser sort, of
which Tiaubel was one the rebel who
wears a flowing black bow tie with long
trailers. Klbert Hubbard wore one of these.
It is a mild rebellion of which this is symbol.
It often goes with shell spectacle
w
E NEVER knew lloiacc Traubel. though
he was the man we most wanted to
meet when we came to Philadelphia. We
have heard men of nil conditions speak of
him with affection and respect. He was
dedicated from bovhood to the Whitman
cause. From Walt himself he caught the
habit of talking about Walt, and he car
ried it ou with ns much gusto and happiness
as Walt did. Only recently he said in his
little magazine The Conservatoi :
Wnen I was quite small I used to want
to be a irreat man But lu mj observa
tions ot the old mans better than gieat
way of meeting the gifts as well :ia the
reverses of fate I didn't want to be a great
man I only wanted to sta unnnrexed
to any institution as he was No college
ever decorated hhn For the best of rea
sons. No coUega could He c'oulcl decorate
them.
So Traubel lemained unauneied He was
fired from a bank because he happened to
tnkc issue in public with one of the bank's
chief depositors. He floated about happll7,
surrounded by young "Whitman disciples,
c&rrjing on his guerrilla warfare for what
his Leader called the "peerless, passionate,
good cause" of human, demotriuv. His
.little magazine led n precaiious life, sup
ported by good ft lends. His protest against
iniquities was un honest, good humored
protest.
HORACE TRAUBEh will be lemem
bered, as he wished to be remembered,
as the biographer of Whitman. Whitman
also, we may add, wished Trnubel to he so
remembered. In ins carctui recorei ot tne
Camden bnge's utterances and pulse-beats
he approached (as nenrly ns nnj one) the
devoted dignity of Boswell. We were nbout
to say the self-effnclng devotion of Boswell;
hut the beauty of biography is that the biog
rapher canpot wholly delete himself from
the book. One is always curious about the
recording Instrument. When we see a par
ticularly fine photograph our first question
is always, "What kind of camera was it
taken with?"
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SEEMS to us speaking only by intui
tion, for we never knew him that Trau-
hel was. a happy nvn. He was untouched
by many of the harassing ambitions that
make the lives of prosperous men miserable.
He was touched in boyhood by one simple
and overmastering motive to carry on the
Whitman message and spread it out for the
younger world. Much of the dunnage of life
he oast overboard. He wag too good a
Whitman disciple to estimate success in the
customary terms. Whef. he left his job In
the bank he opened an account iu the Walt
Whitman philosophy and he kept a
healthy balance there to the end
We are a little worried about young
Warren Pershing. We hope that the gen
eral is sending him to bed early enough.
Remarks by Our Friends
The words that give us most depresh
Are these,: "How ou have put on flesh."
After carefullj watM the New Tort(
NO "CLOSED SEASON"
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"iBatSwcWa,
IVPers we have gathered that General Per
shing's ftntiiics nie undergoing nearly as
much wear and tcai as thoe of Miss Barn
in a seven-reel butrieane. Yesterday's New
Yoik journalists described them thus:
Glim UMi time.
Smiling l.'ifi time.
Teudei 8S times.
Embarrassed 10.1 tiinis
Dieply moved "" times.
Boyish giin ,"8 times.
Stern 000 times.
Set 800 time.
War-worn 1)0 time.
Bronzed ;."00 times
Soldierly 4700 times
Our own decision is lo go to the movies
and see for oursclf.
Irrelevant Conundrums
If it lakes the Eminent Sirs four houis to
puss a given point on Iiroad stieet, how
long will it take the Senate to pass fourteen
given points?
A pastor in Cincinnati lias mitten a
prayer for fans in which the Lord is asked
to give a little coaching to the Reds to the
end that they may win the pennant. He
implores the deity to giant "speed. eo"ntrol
and deceptive curves" to the pitchers ;
"frequent nnd timely hits" to the batters
and "blessings to Pat Moran. manager."
We fear we aie conservative. It seems
to us that the Lord may object to being
tailed into the bleachers. We fear the
Cincinnati pirson has misunderstood the
"fifteenth chapter of Jeremiah, where we
lead: "Then said the Lord unto me . . .
1 will fan them with n fan."
A City Notebook
Stiolling downtown to a well-knonu home
of fish dinuers. it is appetizing t0 pass along
the curve of Dock street in the coolness of
the evening. The clean, lively odors of
vegetables and fruit nre sttong on the ait.
I'nder the broad awnings of the commis
sion merchants and produce dealers the
stock is piled up iu neat and engaging piles
leadv, to be carted away at dawn. Under
the glow of pale arcs and gas lamps ihe
colors of the scene arc vivid. Great has-
lritff f AttBf'nt,t- nliA l.f. !.-
iv.-i.a ui t-&6i,iuui Hume jiku nuge grapes, a
polished poit wine color; green and scarlet
peppers catch points of light; a flat pinkish
color gleams on carrots. Each species
seems to have an ordered pattern of its own.
Potatoes are lunged iu a pyramid; water
melons in long rows, white and yellow
onions are heaped in sacks The sweet
musk of cantaloupes is the scent that over
breathes all others. Then, down nearer to
the waterftont, comes the strong, damp,
fishy whiff of oysters. To stioll among these
gleaming piles of victuals, to watch tbe
various colors where the lamps pour a pale
silver and yellow ou cairns nnd pyramids of
vegetables, is to gather a lusty (.ppetite and
attack the first oyster stew of the season
with a stout heart.
Dunyan on the H. C. L.
He astced me If I had a family? And I
told him. But, said I, I am so loaden with
the burden that Is on my back that I can
noc take pleas ire In them as foimerly .
The Pilgrim's Progress.
Roughing It
Pocket flashlight portable stove sleep
ing sack mariner's compass with radiolite
dial thermos flask rubber blankets
What is it, anywny? A sporting goods
catalogue?
Oh, no; only a list of Senator Vare's little
camp kit for a wild night in the old-fashioned
home at 2000 South Broad. We
think it is really very Ingenious of the
senator to keep his "permanent home" in
such a wild, abandoned state. He gets all
the fun and hardship of a camping trip in
the geat woods without having to go to the
Adirondacks for it,
, We looked in aln, in the inventory of
2000 South Broad, for the one thing that
really makes a borne. A rubber plant.
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ON THIS BIRD
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HOME SWEET HOME
(Latest Variation)
tTUTW Ambler and Florida though I may
" mam,
Be it ever so ruined, there's no place like
home ;
A vote at the polls only hallows me there.
Which sought from its walls will respond to
no prayer.
Home, Home, Uroad street Home!
There's no place like Home! There's no
place like Home!
An exile from home, splendor dazzles in vain;
Oh, give me my old registration again,
The heelers attenttve that came at my call
Give me them and the contracts, much dearer
than all.
'Tis bitter to sit on my tumbled-down porch,
Distressing to eat by the light of a torch.
Rut 'spite of temptations to scuttle and roam
The act of Assembly has driven me home !
To home I return overburdened with care ;
The roof and the plumbing nre out of repair.
Oh, why was there ever a registrar's tome,
Whv must I be humble? AVhy must this
be home?
Home, Home, Broad street Home!
That's just what's the matter, there's no
place like Home !
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Philadelphia will be glad to welcome
General Pershing, Cardinal Mercier and the
' Prince of Wales. And we are .willing to
admit that we shall have something worth
while to show them when they show them
selves. What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. Who Is the present head of the Hun
garian Government?
. What is the meaning of "In hoc slgno
vinces"?
a. WJint is pandanus?
4. AVho established the first English colony
in North America?
5. AVhat is the origin of the current slang
expression "Let's go"?
0.
Of what country was Paul Jones a na
tive? Who introduced the potato into Ireland?
What is a nylghau?
What is the priming of tbe tides?
How long before president! ll elections
are the national conventions usually
held?
8.
0.
10.
Answers to Yesterday'a Quiz
1. Helsingfors is the capital of Finland.
!!l?he ceremony ofN signing the Austrian
treaty took place at Saint-Germain-
en-Laye,
3. General Pershing was abroad two years
and about one hundred days.
4.
Democritus of Abdera was called the
"'Laughiug Philosopher." His dates
are 400C.to 337 B. O,
Prophylactic means tending to prevent
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disease.
C. Thomas W. Lamont was a financial
adviser to the American mission at
the Peace Conference.
7. Kentucky was known as the "Dark and
Bloody Ground."
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Wraith; person's double or apparation
seen shortly before or after his death.
0, Tbe character of Falstaff appears in
three Shakespearian plays, "Tha
Merry Wives of Windsor," "Henry
IV," part I and "Henry IV, part
. II." His death is desciibed in
"Henry V," but the fat knight is not v
presented on the stage In that play.
10,
The daylight-saving law expires at 2 "
o'clock in the morning on the bit v?
Sunday Jn October, 1919.
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