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AFTER THE CHEERS
"M"0 MAN is rcnlly Brent until he can
A ' get along without puiise. Pershing
didn't lose his head in Fiance. It is clear
that ho isn't going to let it get away
from him at home. He took pains to
accept the acclaim of the city gtaciously
yesterday, only to pass it along over his
6houlder to the millions of men who were
the cutting edge of his purpose in the
War. He took it for granted, he said,
that the demonstration was a tribute to
"our magnificent soldiery."
The wise old Indian, fighter knows how
greatly he is honored and esteemed, liut
he knew, too, that a large part of the
cheering was, consciously or otherwise,
for the lads who didn't come back, for
the broken men who never will recover
from the war, and for the majestic army
that represented us at our very best. Po
Pershing didn't strut. He wore none of
his decorations, though his aides wore
theirs.
The commander of the American
armies is not only a great soldier; he is
a great citizen. It is an extraordinary
man who can be both.
THE GOVERNOR'S RENT PROBE
TF HALF that the representatives of the
,J- Tenants' Association have been telling
Governor Sproul is true, the case against
the building associations, house owners
and real estate men, who are reported in
a combination to profiteer, is precisely
similar to the case against food gamblers
and larger speculators who are dragged
into court at intervals as examples of
conspicuous evil.
The shortage of houses doen't excuse
rent gougers. The law of supply and
demand is a pretty good one ordinarily.
But it has ceased to be acceptable in re
lation to essentials like food, water, coal
and shelter. Without these things people
would perish. The barons of this country
are finding that they may not play reck
lessly with the essentials of life.
Amateurs at the game will have to learn
the same thing. That is why the Gov
ernor's investigation of the tenants' com
plaints ought to be as thorough and
inclusive as it can be made.
FRUITS OF OUR INDUSTRY
A LTHOUGH Philadelphians lndivid
" ually may be quite as vain as other
mortals, the city considered as a unit is
traditionally averse to blowing its own
horn. There have been critics who re
jected the word modesty in this connec
tion. Indifference seemed to fit the case
better.
In that case the exhibition of Philadelphia-made
goods, which closes tonight,
may serve as a wholesome antidote. The
variety of products on view in the First
Begiment Armory can be surpassed in
few, if any, manufacturing centers in the
land. Throughout the current week
40,000 or 50,000 persons a day have pat
ronized the exhibit. It could not fail
to have made them legitimately proud of
their town. The strangers in the throng
must also have learned an illuminating
thing or two.
The plan to make such a display an
annual affair is happily conceived.
Leipsic with her great yearly fair was
not called boastful, but enterprising.
Lyons, her successor in this line in con
tinental Europe, similarly fortified a good
name. Philadelphia far surpasses either
of these cities as a workshop. Some
day we may have a great industrial fair
of our own. The exhibition is an ex
cellent start.
BOSTON AND MR. COMPERS
MR. GOMPERS was l.-'o in his attempt
to deal with the police strike in
Boston. Hia suggestion that the police
men return to their posts, abandon their
claims to union privileges and await the
result of the industrial conference at
"Washington can have no relation to the
fundamental issue revealed by the walk
out and its immediate consequences. The
country wants to know whether the
president of the Federation of Labor and
his executive council actually believe that
jiolicumen should be unionized.
So far Mr. Gompers and his associates
3iave done nothing to explain the precise
origin and purpose of the movement to
organize the police in Boston and Wash
ington. In both cities there have been
aspects of recent labor propaganda
which suggest a definite effort on the
part of somebody to put the "policemen
in every large city on a trade union basis
as locals of the federation. If that aim
were ever realized new police organiza
tions would be necessary or the enforce
ment af law would cease to be a privilege-
cfr constituted governments Jt
would be, instead, the privilege or oe
aiaorMe coosututio
Labor. Government as wo understand it
could no longer exist.
A movement like that instituted at
Boston and Washington could gain no
momentum without the tacit approval
of the higher officers of the federation.
What does Mr. Gompers think of the
theory involved"; What is to bo the
attitude of the executive council which
is in session at Washington? Has Mr.
Gompers been unseated by the radicals
in his organization? Are organized
labor and its loadeis in this country
actually ready to invite for themselves
the disaster that must follow upon an
acceptance of the red gospel?
COLONEL ROOSEVELT
AS "ONE OF THE FOLKS"
Great Men of the Past Are Uninteresting
Because No One Has Preserved a
Human Record of Them
VIOTHING is more intetesting to nipn
' and women than other men and
women, however much they may pretend
to be interested in histoiies and philoso
phies and other abstractions.
This is why people in all parts of the
country have been discussing the case of
William Tanner, the Chicago man who
died with his wife when she caught her
foot in the track in front of an approach
ing railroad train. In order to understand
the situation it was not necessary to
know Greek and Latin, or to be able to
tell offhand whether the pleistocene era
preceded the eocene, or to know whether
escliatology is akin to piscatology. The
problem that confronted Tanner arose
out of the human relations which existed
before the orderly study of language or
science or history was dreamed of.
History and biography are frequently
dull and uninteresting bocau.-e the men
who write them busy themselves with
the externals, forgetting that the great
men were first of all men of like passions
with the rest of u. Confucius lives today
as the maker of maxims and the creator
of a system of philosophy. Hut we do
not know anything about Confucius the
man, whether ho disliked to get up in
the morning and whether he loved his
children and had a pet cat. He is a mere
abstraction. No one has taken the pains
to write of the race to which he belonged
as if it were composed of human beings.
The Chinese, to us in the West, are
strange creatures, who, till a few years
ago, wore their hair in a queue down
their backs and ate rats. In the nineties
of the last century, however, some one
translated into English a volume of Chi
nese nursery rhymes, which did more
than all that had been written previously
to create the impression in the minds of
those fortunate enough to lead the book
that the Chinese are akin to men and
women on this side of the world. The
father would speak of his little son as a
peach blossom; he would refer with
exquisite tenderness to the sleeping babe
and reveal the delight which the prattle
of children gave to him. After reading
the volume one could stretch his arm
across the ocean and clasp the hand of
the Chinese and call him brother.
Fifty years from now men and women
will be wondering what kind of a man
Theodore Roosevelt was. The histories
will be filled with his achievements, but
they will be achievements of the states
man. They will tell how he made peace
between Russia and Japan by persuading
Russia to send her delegates across the
Atlantic, and Japan to send her repre
sentatives across the Pacific to meet in
America and agree upon the conditions
on which they would lay down their arms.
They will tell how he built the Panama
canal. They will discuss the war that
he waged upon the standpatters and reac
tionaries in his political party, and will
announce that he was the first Vice
President, succeeding to the presidency
by the death of the elected man who
was himself elected to that high office.
But there is nothing human about all
this. It deals with the intellect. To
understand Us significance one must bo
well grounded in history and economics
and international law.
But those who come after us will not
be dependent on the formal histories for
their knowledge of Roosevelt the man, for
a collection of his letters to his children
has just been published, which will pre
serve a picture of him that will make
him understandable by the unlettered.
Roosevelt himself had a loliglng that
he might be icmembered as a human
being rather than as a statesman, for
shortly before his death he said that he
would rather have these letters published
than anything that had ever been written
about him.
There is nothing i-emarkable about the
letters. They are such as many a father
has written to his children. He addresses
them by pet names when they are small.
Quentin, who lost his life in France, was
"Quentyque"; Theodore was "Ulessed old
Ted," and Ethel and Kermit and Archie
were "Darling," and their mother, when
the children were away from home, was
described to them as coming in to dinner
looking sweet and pretty. He writes to
"Quentyque" about seeing "a real B'rer
Terrapin and li rer Kaubit sitting sol
emnly beside one another" when he was
out riding and how as his "horse walked by
B'rer Rabbit went lippity, lippity, Uppity
off into the bushes, and B'rer Terrapin
drew in his head and legs till I passed."
He tells them about Bill the lizard, and
how the dogs on one of his hunting ex
cursions climbed the trees for the game.
As the children grew older he gave
them good fatherly advice. Ho writes
of his interest in the fact that their
playmates when he was President regard
ed him without any awe, but as a sort of a
big boy amusing himself with them. He
says that ho doubts if any one had
greater pleasure in the White House than
he and Mrs. Roosevelt and frankly con
fesses his delight with its quietness and
with Its historical associations.
The letters give to those who did not
know him personally an intimate knowl
edge of the kind of a human being he
was, and they make him so much like
the rest of us that he can nevei become
an abstraction or a mere name.
If we had a collect
n of similar letters
!: examsJe, how
much more alivo the great Roman would
be! All the most of us know about Alex
ander is that he wept because there were
no more worlds to conquer. The Pharaohs
are nothing but names, save to the
Egyptologists, and it is doubtful if even
they know much about them save that
they were so fond of cats that they had
their pets mummified with them when
they died. But the mummied cats bring
us into closer human touch with the
Pharaohs than all that has been written
about them. That is, unless some expert
who knows more than is good for him
should tell us that the cats were mummi
fied not because, they were pets but be
cause they were sacred.
Shakespeare, who lived much nearer to
us than the Pharaohs, may or may not
have written the plays ascribed' to him.
If he had preserved the1 letters written to
Anne Hathaway we might have known
more concerning him. About the only
authentic fact bearing upon his intimate
life appears in his will, which bequeathed
to his widow his second-best bed.
We know Samuel Johnson because
Roswcll wrote his life, setting down all
the trivial things that happened, and
we know Pepys through his diary much
better than we know much greater men
of his period.
A Texas father, when his son was
about to seek his fortune in New Yoik,
told him not to be afraid of the men he
would meet in the great city, "for," he
explained, "people there are just folks."
The value of this collection of letters
written by a man of great force and
energy and courage lies in the fact that
they exhibit him as after all "just one
of the folks."
A NATIONAL DISCRACE
A S A people Americans have never
'i- been disrespectful of law. And there
has always been a touch of reverence in
the popular regard for federal authority.
People of all sorts have been accustomed
to feel assured of the lightness and
wisdom of federal laws and even a sense
of pride in 'their efficiency and dignity.
Men who think nothing of squiiming
narrowly through municipal or state
courts accept the higher dictum with a
feeling that to do otherwise would be
neither safe nor quite decent. "It is the
government!" So banks are robbed, but
nobody nowadays ever tries to roll the
mails. Only adventurers try to violate
the customs laws. The food restrictions
ordered by the national administration
were automatically enforced by the
pressure of public opinion on violators.
And the food administration was con
sistently aided even by people who suf
fered great inconvenience under its rul
ings. A change is noticeable now in some
quarters. Disregard of the wartime
prohibition laws is widespread, open and,
shameless here and everywhere through
out the country. Attorney General
palmer wasn't giving the House appro
priations committee any news when he
told it that New York is, in its own lingo,
wide open. The offenders in most in
stances are profiteers and poisoners who
are selling faked liquor at extortionate
rates. There is only an imitation of
effort to mask the traffic.
Congress, which insisted on the con
tinuance of the emergency dry laws,
made no provision for their enforcement,
and no provision to sustain the traditional
dignity of federal laws. The question
as it exists now is far larger than that
of prohibition. If Congress is willing to
have the laws of the land flouted and
derided it is setting a lamentable prece
dent for times like these. If the dry
law was worth continuing it should be
enforced at all costs, not for the sako
of a few months of prohibition, but for
the honor of the country. If it isn't to
be enforced it should never have been
left upon the statute books.
Law is of little use if it isn't re
spected, and that is why the spectacle
of widespread violations of the liquor
rulings will continue to be intolerable to
right-thinking people in America. Con
gress should appropriate whatever fund3
are needed to meet the situation and to
make rigorous prosecutions possible by
the attorney general. And meanwhile
the zealots who forced a difficult com
plication upon the country, and the Con
gress which was subservient to them,
may feel that they have done nothing
for prohibition or the cause of enlight
ened government. Indeed, it may be
wondered whether the laxity and confu
sion manifested in Washington recently
may not be in some small way partly re
sponsible for the amazing disregard of
all law and all conventions which is
one of the odd phenomena of the hour
in Boston and elsewhere.
N'ar Independence
Time Was Short Hall yesterday Gen
eral Pershing ga an
exhibition of magnificent restrniut. He re
viewed the Emergency Aid Aides and didn't
kiss even one of them.
A (strike of campaign
orators? No. The
best things possible in
So We've Observed
life never linppen.
The president of the Firemen's Union
in Boston said bn would not take the re
sponsibility of calling a strike unless author
ized by the American Federation of Labor.
What he said in effect was that it was up to
federation leaders to prove whether they
were patriots or boncheads.
There. i8 significance in Pershing's ad
vice to the soldiers' organization to keep out
of politics and in his ignoring of cries that
hailed him as a future President. His level
headedness is not the least of his good
fluidities.
It was fitting that Pershing should be
welcomed in the home of independence ou
the anuivcraary of the battle of St. Mihiel,
the day ou which the American army dem
onstrated to the world that It could be
relied upon.
It would have been also a great day
for "Sergeant Pershing" but Warren was
missing from the festivities.
"Och-houe!" said the victim of the
barbers strike, "if this thing keeps up we'll
all look liks Uolshevlkl."
If it permissible for a strlklnr K-W
I U 3hv A striking Wilwacl
CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S
LETTER
Reminiscences of Andrew Carneflle.
Gossip About Commander Nelson,
H. J. Glocke, Major Scott
and Others
ANDREW CARNEGIE hns passed away,
leaving a reasonable fortune for distri
bution despite his desire to die poor. The
famous ironmaster hns been written about
so much that little remain! to be told, but
the newspaper boys who were at the Home
stead strike will recall Hugh O'Donncll,
the strike leader, and lliirgcss McLuckie,
who were bosses of the town up to the
time .Major General George 11. Snow
den, of Philadelphia, arrived at the head
of the National Guard of the state. At one
stngc of the uprising, Carnegie Instead of
showing ill-will toward the strikers, gnvo
expression in n practical way to lilt sym
pathy for the families of the iinfortiumte.
This led the burgess, who was nn explosive
sort of fellow, tn blurt out: "That was
dniim kind of Andy." The correspondents
carried that story and Carnegie read it in
New York, lie clipped it and was so fond
of it that for years it was naid he in
tended it should constitute his epitaph.
WILLIAM G. HERNARI) reminds us of
another Carnegie Incident : The Atlantic
Deeper Wateiwnjs Association held Its
third annual convention nt Js'orfolk and
made strenuous efforts to have President
Taft attend. Carnegie was also invited, hut
he paid little attention to the Invitation un
til it was definitely announced that the
President would go down from Washington
on the Mnytlower. Then it was bruited
about that Carnegie would gb and that he
would join the President on his yacht.
Carnegie left New Yoik and arrived nt Fort
Monroe ton late to connect with the Presi
dent, and in time only to make the last boat
for Norfolk.' A iiiark doctor, who had been
advertising extensively in Norfolk, was on
the pier and greeted Carnegie, bidding him
welcome to Noifolk, and inviting him to
stay over night nt his home. The official
Noifolk committee, because of this, failed to
connect with the steel king. The advertis
ing specialist made Carnegie comfortable
for the night and delivered him over, much
to the chagrin of the reception committee,
in the morning. Carnegie believed him
self to have been entertained by those who
were expected to take care of him until the
arrival of the President and Ms yacht. The
enterprising specialist got the advertisement
he wanted and the official committee, al
though ready to chastise htm bodily, wero
afraid to do so. fearing the ridicule that
would surely ensue on the publication of
the story.
1ENIAL TOM NELSON Commander
-'Nelson, if you please is still on duty at
the navy yard in charge of the personnel
of the Fourth Naval district. We have
succeeded splendidly in this work in the
Fourth district and much of it is due to
the good nature of those in charge of the
naval forces, including Commander Tom.
Tom NeNon used to be in the insurance
business with his father, who is one of the
best known adjusters of the city. He early
acquired a love of the water and after the
Spanish-American War, in which he par
ticipated, became commander of the naval
militia. Hence his advancement. Another
naval militia .sharp, who figured in the
earlier work of the organization of what
hns now come to bo known ns the naval
reserves, was John S. Muckle, who recently
has been devoting himself to the entertain
ment of distinguished foreigners. Colonel
John has n hunch for "shaking hands across
the sea.-'
NOBODY along the Atlantic coast is
boasting nbout mosquitoes, but reports
generally indicate that the "skect" is out
in full force and is showing no favors. The
situation reminds old-timers of the efforts of
George C. Itoldt to establish a fine summer
resort near Lavalette. That effort was one
of the few failures which the popular boni
facc ever endured. Herman J. Glocke, the
( irk man, who hns one of the prettiest
places at Island Heights, doesn't stand for
cheap badinage on the mosquito question.
"You ought to see Wildwood," he says,
passing the buck. And at Wildwood they
say "just wait until you get qver to Ocean
City" and then Ocean City passes it along
to Atlantic. The truth is, the mosquito
pest has been wftrse this year than for many
seasons back. And the federal government,
which cleaned up Panama, leaves the ques
tion up to the states and the states leave
it up to the commissioners, and the com
missioners say they could eradicate the pest
if they had the money. And there you arc.
MAJ
JOR WILLIAM REESE SCOTT.
hnplain, U. S. N., has been mado
superintendent of education of the Caiftp
Meade schools. An attractive booklet, com
piled by him and printer: by command of
Major General Grotc Hutcheson, has just
been issued, which tells of the vocational
and educational training now being done nt
the military camp named for Pennsylvania's
famous general. The departments of edu
cation provided in the Camp Meade schools
indicate that common sense efforts are being
made to give the boys in khaki a chance to
equip themselves for civil life while also
undergoing military instruction. The Young
Men's Christian Association, the Kimhts
of Columbus and the American Library
Association arc co-operating in this work.
CONGRESSMAN YARE has been looking
up the records in Washington, particu
larly with regard to labor votes. The con
gressman and his former colleague, John It.
K. Scott, are adepts in this line. No ouo
thought much nbout these labor questions
prior to the Philadelphia mayoralty cam
paign. Now they become of supreme im
portance from the viewpoint of Brother Bill.
There are those who insist that the Vare
interest in the labor situation U due to a
desire to defeat Congressman Moore, but
friends of the latter are pointing out that
he has consistently stood for the protection
of American industry, that he has opposed
the invasion of foreign-contract labor, child
labor and other unfair products, that he
has voted against child labor in the United
States nnd bus generally supported the ef
forts of government employes and of work
ing men generally to obtain higher wnges and
better living conditions. The Columbia
Typographical Union of Washington nnd
other federated labor bodies have already
testiueu to iwoore k assistance in matters af
fecting their welfare.
JOHN P. DWYER, the stormy petrel of
the 'draft board, has been out with Com
modore Louis II. Elscnlohr on the Mira
mar. So has George J. Brennan, the polit
ical specialist, and Judge Patterson. If the
handsome cabins of the Mlramar could
talk they would probably tell of some In
teresting conferences, although the com
modore makes it a rule to let every man
think and do' as he pleases on board. The
Miramar Is a sea-going yacht, as- familiar
along the coast of New England as It Is
on the inside waterways of Nw Jrrsey
leading north and south from AUauik CUj.
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THE CHAFFING DISH
We Saw Hlml
rpHE pavement in front of Independence
- Hall wns a gorgeous jumblo of colors.
The great silken flags of the Allies, carried
by vividly costumed ladies, burned and
flapped in the wind. On a pedestal stood
the (ioddess of Liberty, in rich white dra
peries that seemed fortunately of sufficient
texture to afford some warmth, for the air
was cool. She graciously turned round for
Walter Crail, the photographer of our con
temporary, the Evesixo Pi'ULio Ledoek,
to take a shot at her.
Down Chestnut street came a rising tide
of cheers. A squadron of mounted police
galloped by. Then the First City Troop,
with shining swords. Fred Eckersburg, the
State House engineer, was fidgeting ex
citedly inside the hall, in a new uniform.
This was Fred's greatest day, but we saw
that ho was worried about Martha Wash
ington, the Independence Hall cat. He was
apprehensive lest the excitement should give
her a fit or a palsy. Independence Hall is.
no longer the quiet old place Martha used to
enjoy before the wnr.
THE Police Band struck up "Hail to the
Chief." Yells and cheers burst upward
from the ground like an explosion. Here
he was, standing in the enr There was the
famous chin, the Sam Browne belt, the lygh
laced boots with spurs. Even the tan gloves
carried in the left hand. There was the
smile, without which no famous man is prop
erly equipped for public life. There wns
Governor Sproul's placid smile, too, but the
Mayor seemed too excited to smile. Rattle,
rattle, rnttle went the shutters of the pho
tographers. Up the scarlet lane of carpet
came the general. His manner has a charm
ing, easy grace. He saluted each one of the
fair ladies garbed in costumes of our Allies,
but taking care not to linger too long in
front of nny one of them lest any embracing
should get started. A pattering of tiger
lilies or some such things came dropping
down from above. He passed into the hall,
which was cool and smelt like a wedding
with a musk of flowers.
WHILE the Big Chief was having n medal
presented to him inside the hall THE
CHAFFING DISH managed to scuttle round
underneath the .grand stand and take up a
pencil of vantage just below the little pulpit
where the general was to speak. Here the
crowd groaned against a bulwark of stout
policemen. Philadelphia cops, bless them,
are the best tempered iu the world. (How
Boston must envy us.) Genially two gigan
tic bluccoats made room against the strain
ing hawser for young John Fisher, aged
eleven, of 332 Greenwich street. John is a
small, freckle-faced urchin. It was amus
iug to see him thrusting his eager little
beezer between the vast, soft, plushy flanks
of two patrolmen. lie had been there over
two hours waiting for just this adventure.
Then, to assert the equality of the sexes,
Mildred Dubivltch, aged eleven, nnd Eva
Ciplet, aged nine, managed to insert them
selves between the chinks in the line of
cops. An old lady over eighty years old
was sitting placidly In a small chair just
Inside tho ropes. She had been in the square,
over five hours, and the police had found lier
a seat. "Are you going to put Tershing's
name in, too?" nakcu John as we noted his
address.
INDEPENDENCE SQUARE never knew
a more thrilling fifteen minutes. Tho
trees were tossing and bending in the thrill
ing blue air. There was a bronzy tint in
their foliage, ns though they were putting
on olive drab in honor of the general. Great
balloons of silver clouds scoured across the
cobalt sky., At one mlnuto to H Pershing
nnnenred nt tha top of the stand. Tl.n
whole square, massed with people, shook
with cheers.
Had it been nny other man we would have
said the general was frightened. He came
down the aisle of the stand with his delight
ful, easy, smiling swing; but be looked
nhrewdlv about, with a narrow.fyed. tuirk.
ere4 H wa plainly a lltt!e3abbr.
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something to himself. On his lips it looked
Jlkc "What tho deuce," or something of
similar purport. He bat down on a chair
beside Governor Sproul. Not more than four
reet away, peering over the floor of the
rsrand, wns the alert representative of THE
CHAFFING DISH.
TTE WAS paler than we expected. Ho
looked a bit tired. Speaking as a father,
we were pleased to note the absence of
Wnrrcn, who was (we hope) getting a good
sleep somewhere. We had a good look at
the renowned chin, which is well worth
study. It must be a hard chin to shave.
It juts upward, reaching a line exnetly below
the brim of hia cap. Below his crescent
moustache there is no lower lip visible: it
is tucked and folded in by the rising thrust
of the jaw. It is this which gives him the
"grim" nspect which every reader of tho
papers hears about. He is grim, there's no
doubt about it, with the grimness of a man
going through a tough ordeal. "I can see
him all right," squeaked little John Fisher,
"but he doesn't see me." The first two
rows of seats at the right of the aisle were
crammed with generals, two-star and thrce
stnr. From our lowly station wo could see
a grand panorama of mahogany leather
boots nnd the flaring curves of riding
breeches. It was a 'great day for Sam
Browne. The thought came to us that has
reached us before. The higher you go
in the A. K. F. the more the officers are
tailored after tho English manner. It is
tho finest proof of international cousinship.
When England and America wear the same
kind of clothes, alliance is knit solid.
PERSHING sat with his palms on his
knees. He looked worried. There was
a wavering crease down his lean checks.
The plumply genial countenance of Governor
Sproul next to him was nn odd contrast to
that dry, hard face. The bell in the tower
tolled eleven times. -He stood up for the
photographers. Walter Crail, appearing
from somewhere, sprang up on the parapet
facing the general. "Look this way!" he
shouted as the general turned toward some
movie men. That will be Walter's first cry
when he gets to heaven, or wherever. Tom
Smith's face was pallid with excitemenf.
His nicely draped trouserings, which were
only six inches from the Dish's notebook,
quivered slightly as he said fifteen words of
introduction.
As Pershing stood up to speak thfc crowd
surged forward. The general was worried.
"Don't, don't! Somebody wilUget hurt!"
ho called sharply. Then Tom Smith surged
forward also and said something to the po
lice about watching the crowd.
The general took off his cap. Holding It
in bis left hand (with the gloves) he patted
his close-cropped hair nervously. He
frowned. He began to speak.
THE speech has already been covered by
our hated rivals. We will not repeat
it, save hssay that it-was as crisn. clean-
cut and pointed as his chin. He was nerv
ous', as we could sec by the clenching and
unclenching of his hands. His voice is
rather high. We liked him for not being, a
suave and polished speaker. He gestured
briskly with a pointing forefinger, and pro
nounced tho word pairiotio with a short A
"pattrlotic." Later he stumbled over it
again and got It out as ;a(ero(ijm. Wo
liked bim again for that. He doesn't havo
to pronounce it, anyway. We liked him
best ot all for the unconscious slip he made.
"This reception," he said "I understand
Is for the splendid soldiery of America that
played such nn important part In tho war
with our AWcs." A respectful ripple of
laughter passed over the stand at this, but
he did not notlco It. Ho was fighting too
hard to think what to say next. We Hked
him. too, for saying "such an important
part." A man who had been further away
from the fighting would have said that It was
Amerlcu, alone and unaided, that won tire-
war, lie is just as wo nave nopeu lie would
be: a plain, blunt man. We luvo heard
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BEAUTY AND THE ROSE
Tho color that bathes the Intelligible
World is tho beauty that blooms within
its flower for beauty In tho In
telligible World Is not a Hower that
blooms only on Its surface. Plotlnos.
T READ a page of mystic laws,
-- At silent coon n garden's shade.
A rose my nearest neighbor was,
In more thnn rose's charm arrayed :
And there (unless a dream it were)
The soul of me had speech with her.
"Say why should fiends of closest touch
Within their hearts thy symbol wear,
O rose? Their fond esteeming such
No fenst of theirs but thou art there,
Above their board a leaf of thine
Afloat upon each cup of wine?
"And lovers, too why 'neath thy sway
Have they n covert taken, rose?
Of all their lips or looks would say,
So sure thou nothing wilt disclose!
Why should they deem thou art so deep
Unfathomed silenco thou wilt keep?"
"Becnusc so beautiful nm I
That beauty holds me as her own.
And binds me by the closest tie,
Rut bcauty'3 self cannot be known !
And she, so secret, makes me part
Of her unsenrched eternal heart.
"Love is the beauty lovers know
All wistfully, a troubled joy,
Since flaws across her image blow,
That half its perfect lines destroy ;
But if her mirrored face shone clear,
Not love itself could hold them here!"
A petal fell Oh, did 'I sec,
Or did I only feel it fall?
A petal, one nnd two and three,
The rose had heard a sovran call;
Its soul was gone, to be a part
Qf an unsenrched eternal heart.
Edith M. Thomas, in New York Times.
William Penn nnd General Pershing
wero alike honored.
What Do You Knoto?
QUIZ
1. How did stogies get their name?
2. How much is a moietyT
3. In what country has the parliament just
indorsed woman suffrage?
4. What is the difference between a Mo
hawk and a Mohock?
5. What nation has tho largest fleet in
commission today?
0. Whnt is the highest mountain in Aus
tralia? 7. W'hat is the shrievalty?
8. What Is the meaning of the Latin phras
"Stabat mater"?
0. Who Is Baron Fisher of Kllverstone?
10. From what language does the word sen
ator come?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. General Pershing is fifty-nine years old.
2. Glamour is recognized In American dic
tionaries as the correct American
spelling. From honor, labor, parlor,
etc., the English "u" is dropped in
this country.
8. Coxcomb: conceited, showy person.
Originally a coxcomb was a cap worn
by a professional fool.
4. Lord Byron swam the Dardanelles.
6. Alice Masaryk, daughter of the presi
dent of Czecho-Slovakla, has jast re
signed as a member of tho parliament
at Prague.
0. Ten cents is the trolley fare In Boston.
7. Bret Ilarte wrote the poem about the
st. .sate
"Heathen Chinee.""
8. IU correct title is "Plain Language '
FromiTruthfui James." ;
0. Taft and Roosevelt were the tMtt
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