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ONCE IN A LIFETIME!
TT IS the silent vote, the mass of opin-
ion that holds allegiance to neither
faction, that will decide todays election.
w It is clear that the organized forces in
the mayoralty fight aie pretty evenly
divided. Consoivntive voters who are
accustomed to stay away from the polls
, because of an impiession that elections
are won by organizations rather than by
the individual ballot never had such an
""opportunity to make their influence felt
ns they have today.
It is the duty of every registered voter
to cast a ballot on this occasion. As the
fight goes today affairs in Philadelphia
.will go for four year and peihaps for
ta longer period. If the smaller Council
is boss controlled, boss control may be
given new advantages under the new
.charter. It will be harder to abolish in
the future. The election involves great
"opportunities and greater responsibilities
for the unattached voter. It i the op
portunity of his lifetime.
If the election is permitted to go to
the cynics nnd corruptionists, the blame
"will not be on the members of any fac-
g'.tibn. It will rest properly on the unor
ganized voters; upon the citizens who
tlike to talk about their respectability.
These are the men who can elect the
Mayor and the majority in Council today
if they will take the trouble to go to
the polls.
They are the balance of power.
THE EASIEST JOB
TT IS said that more than one man who
shook hands with Thomas W. Marshall
irj this city yesterday after having been
asked to meet "the Vice President" had
a moment of uncertainty and finally
asked:
"Vice President of what?"
To be assistant President of the United
States in these days is to have the easiest
job in the world and to know the very
deeps of obscurity. Others may worry.
The Vice President of the United States
is the one person now alive who can sit
down in peace and watch the roaring
world go by and thank heaven that he
t.has no conceivable part in its affairs.
SSAVEDBYTHE GENERAL'S SPEED
TT IS likely that a good man Philadel-
phians regret General Pershipg's in
ability to pay a prolonged visit to Inde
''pendence Hall last Friday. But if they
consider the matter closely they should
be glad rather than sorry.
A venerable and historically hallowed
part of the State House Buildings is
quite unfit for inspection. The old City
Hall and United States Supreme Court
,'Jiouse at Fifth and Chestnut streets is
almost as dilapidated as Edwin H. Vare's
downtown "home." Bolted doors hide
.the shame from visitors, but the broken
windows convey a thoroughly dismal im-
pression of what the intenor must be
like.
The four-starred commander has told
Ms he is coming back to look us over
.more carefully. Can we afford to let
Jhim find out how we have neglected that
portion of a national shrine where John
Jay and Oliver Ellsworth expounded the
'supreme law of the land?
WHEN RANSLEY PROPHESIES
"IXTE SHALL know tomorrow morning
o' whether Harry C. Ransley is one of
$ 'the major or minor prophets, or just a
'toiere bluffer.
He has been so rash as to give out a
t detailed statement showing the majority
which Judge Patterson will receive in
each of the thirty-six wards that the
sheriff is confident the Vare candidate
. ' will carry. He admits that Congressman
.Moore will carry seven wards and he
Jplaces five wards as doubtful. The sure
JPatterson majority ir. the safe wards he
iputa at 67,450. The sure Moore ma
jority in the seven wards he puts at
S000. This leaves 58,450 for Patterson.
Perhaps the sheriff believes this, but, if
Zfo, why did Moore money seek vainly for
takers yestc-dnv?
A POET MiViw ...
VlABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO'S wild ud-
venture in Fiume maytfce ended wi.h-
out serious lesults, but for the moment
'It is sure to give all statesmen concerned
-with the league of nations a sense of
almost hopeless exasperation.
' ," Fiume was a rock upon which the Paris
'echeme for rational settlements was
pear wreck before. The nationalistic
pas3iuns of a powerful element in Italy
rajher than any logical lequirements of
"the situation made it difficult for the
.Peace Conference to deal with this inci-
dent of the Italian claims. It is this
came f motion which D'AnnuhzIo's secL
tacular "invasion" will fan to a danger
oiis flame.
In nn instant a poet who used to be
noted only for his eccentricities has
created a situation that may defy all the
processes of peaceable diplomacy and be
a new obstacle in the way of the Pal is
covenant. Ordinarily a force such as
that which held Fiume yesterday nfjainst
the will of the Italian Government itself
would have to be put down by the com
bined forces of the league of nations. If
Italian leRiment have actually mutinied
rather than attack their adventurous
fellow countrymen who seized foreign
tetritory as followers of D'Annunzm,
the Allies either would have to send
armies of their own to Fiume to ficht
those of an associated power oi permit
the plan formulated after infinite lalioi
at Paris to be wrecked before the world
had even an oppoitunity to tiy it in
practice.
THE RIGHT TO STRIKE
HAS LIMITATIONS
Policemen Have Not That Right, and It Is
Likely to Be Denied to
Railroad Men
rpHE police strike in Boston has prccipi-
tated an issue which will hae to lie
settled before theie can be any pnma-
ncnt industrial and social peace, ihat
issue involves the restriction of the right
to strike in ceitain employments.
The goal toward which labor unionism
is striving is the organization of every
industry and every employment, includ
ing the police and file forces of the
cities, and the diiection of thc.-e men by
a centia! committee. Xo general nation
wide strike in all Industrie- has yet been
ordered, but it has been talked about and
the threat of it has been held over the
heads of employers and the public. But
the industries are not yet oigamzod in
sufficient numbers to make such a strike
successful if called.
All the evidence indicates that the
moie radical labor leaders are merely
waiting until they have unionized the
men in all tiades befoie attempting to
use this ternble weapon. Then when the
men in one trade demand higher wages
and a shorter working day the men in all
other trades will lie called on to -trike
in svmnathy and hold the whole country
by the thioat until the demand is granted.
It is necessary that the police forces
should be unionized if the plan is to
succeed. The police in thirty-seven
cities, including Boston and Wa-hmgton,
have already formed unions affiliated
with the American Federation of Labor.
The Boston police struck for the recog
nition of their union, and the membeis
of other unions are considering a sym
pathetic strike. In view of this hard
fact the statement that the police unions
will not strike becomes mere camouflage
intended to deceive the public until the
unionization of the police throughout the
nation is completed. Then the great
mass of ununionizod people will be at the
mercy of the unions.
One does not have to think very far
into this subject before it dawns upon
him that this would be a concerted effort
to set up a government within the United
States intended to asseit its superiont
to the goernment of the nation and the
governments of the states. It would be
a class government, organized on the
theory that its rights were superior to
those of eveiy other group of citizens and
committed to the proposition that resort
to a general strike, tying up all indus
try and all transportation systems and
paralyzing the police power, were justi
fiable means to be employed for enforc
ing its demands.
The lest of us must decide whether we
like this sort of thing and are going to
consent to it. Events in Boston indicate
that that city does not intend to consent
to the proposition that its policemen can
mutiny and desert their posts.
Mr. Gompers, who has been asking that
the men be taken back on the force and
that the issue remain in abeyance until
after the Piesident's industrial confer
ence in Washington early next month,
seems to misunderstand the situation.
The governor of Massachusetts and the
Boston police commissioner have decided
that the policemen aie not mere strikers,
but that they aie deserters and that they
have surrendered their offices and that
their places aie vacant.
These level-headed public officials are
now filling the vacancies as fast as possi
ble. They do not intend that the preserva
tion of the peace and the protection of
public and piivate property shall be in
the hands of men who will take an oath to
obey the constitution and the laws and to
submit to the orders of their superior
officers and then violate that oath and
turn the city over to the mercies of the
vicious elements of the community.
The crime of these men is the same in
kind as that of a regiment on the French
front should it have withdrawn from the
trenches and let the Gernwns through
because it did not like the "orders of its
colonel.
The leaders in such a mutiny would
have been shot at dawn and the follow
ers would have been punished to the last
man.
It is charitable to assume that the
Boston policemen did not realize what
they were doing. They were told that
they were mere employes like the clerks
in the tax collector's office. But they
were not mere employes. They were
sworn officers of the government. Their
sole allegiance was due to the govern
ment, and when they tried to divide their
allegiance between the government and
the American Federation of Labor they
made a fatal mistake.
If we are to have orderly government
the right of a police force to affiliate
itself with any outside organization must
be denied to it, just as the right of an
army to divide its allegiance between
two nations must be denied. In the case
of an army such a thing is unthinkable.
It ought to be equally unthinkable in the
ease of a police force. And the right to
strike cannot be admitted any more than
thd right of an army to mutiny can be
palliated
It is likely that! before this matter is
settled there will be some clearer think
ing on the subject than has prevailed in
the past. And it is likely also that n
public sentiment will be created which
will fiown upon geneial strikes in other
foims of employment affecting necessi
ties of life. That is where the labor lead
ers have erred.
The Cummins railroad bill forbids
railroad workers to stiike because they
are employed in an industry on the con
tinuance of which the whole nation is
dependent. But the iicads of the fourteen
lailioad brotherhoods and unions have
made a protest against this prohibition.
They itT-ist that "the right to strike as a
last resoit is ingrained in the natuie of
the American workingman," and they
ohjrct to any provision of law which will
prevent Ameiican workingmen from
t ing up interstate commeicc whenever
they see fit.
They seem to forget that the right to
lnterfeie with interstate commerce is
already denied to thrm.
This issue was laised in the Chicago
railroad strike when Cleveland was
President. In spite of the protests of
Governor Altgeld, of Illinois, the Presi
dent sent United States troops into Chi
cago to piotect the railroad companie.
in the operation of their cars. The ques
tion was taken to the Supieme Couit.
which sustained the President in eveiy
particular. Now, if the army can be
called nut to keep thn trains momg.
what is the use of a strike which cannot
succeed without preventing the trains
from moving?
The nation will not consent to the
stoppage of the raihoads. They are the
arteries through which the Iifehlood of
the communities flows. It is pieposter
(iiis that any gioup of men should assume
that it has the right to put a tourniquet
on any one of these arteries at its pleas
ure. The unanimous condemnation of the
Boston policemen is likely to remove the
danger of future police strikes.
But we have some distance to go before
the right of railroad men to stiike is as
generally denied. But it will be denied
ultimately as sure ns there is a senc of
justice and fair play in the American
heart. Wo are not going to consent to
any system which will paralyze all in
dustry. The sooner the laboi unions
realize this fact and adjust their con
duct accordingly the better for the whole
cause of unionism.
JITNEYS
I7HENEVER a community gets into a
' row with the directors of its street
car service it cries out for jitneys. That
is what the people of Camden are doing
now. The iitbus is supposed to be the
ultimate solution in every street-car
ciisis that arises from inadequate serv
ice or high fates. Ancient motorcars
are trundled out in droves and the transit
prohlem is declared solved.
Yet experience always shows that the
jitney is, after all, a poor thing upon
which to base high hopes of an easy nnd
quick way home to dinner at a minimum
fare. Jitneys can never be more than
an incident in any extensive system of
street tiansit. It is only when they are
opeiated in a haphazard fashion;, that
they icpresent a cheap means of getting
ahout.
If a jitney transports passengers for a
five-cent fare it is because it is not sub
jected to the soit of regulation ordi
narily established to .safeguard those who
ride in public conveyances and insure
systematic service. An organized sys
tem of jitneys more elaborate and exten
sive than anything yet dreamed of would
be necessaiy to nvet the transit require
ments of any old. nary city.
It i3 a question whether motor vehicles
alone could ever accommodate the rush
crowds in Camden. When jitneys are
operated as part of a regularly estab
lished system under state regulation
they, too, have to meet overhead charges,
insurance for passengers and similar
obligations, and inevitably the fare is
raised. The jitney prospers and renders
what seems like ideal service only when
it is permitted to take the best of the
"short hauls" fiom the street cars.
Tim Barnard statijp of
Art anil Lincoln lias nt last
Senslbilit found a resting plaee
m Manchester, I'liR
lnnd. thn formal presentation having been"
made b Judge Alton I!. 1'aikor. Perhaps
thn Barnard statue is lees "nrtk-tic" than
the St (iaudi'iis Linroln. which has been
given a plan- in WtmIn-trr. but it may
bo thnr Mauihestrr will bo -ati-tiod with the
"likenc-- ' of the ead-fared mini In whu-e
bide she suffered Let it not be forgotten
Hint tin' raon and women of the Lancashire
town sided with the Noith in the Civil War
even though such espousal of the cause
meant the lo-s of In end and butter.
Mmli to-dn is made
As to Modesty over the fact that Gen
eial J'ershing parades
without medals while hi aides wear many.
General I'er-liing doesn't need medal-. The
world knows be ha the goods and their
finality. A golf plajer dne-n't need to blow
hi- own horn when he has n "gallerj " to
blow it for liiiTt.
An observer writes
It Does fiom the West that
the nation is blind to
the real extent of the labor crisis. Perhaps
it is. But labor, too, stems to need the
services of an oculist.
It is pretty hard to de-
bodce or eide today whether tbe
D'AnnunzIo? greatest menace to the
league of nations is at
Fiume or in Washington.
The Bureau of Internal novenue lias
ruled that war taxes on luxuries, includ
ing the two-cent tax on sundaes, may be
deducted from gross Income in computing
income tax. Thp lulitig is manifestly a fair
one and the trust it implies in Individual
honesty will be justified
Perhaps Bear Admiral Itristol had no
authority to tell Tut key to stop killing
Armenians, and, if he bad, it may have
been very remiss on the part of the United
States to permit such authority to be forced
upon him but aren't you glad he had the
chance and the Kind to do it?
The appeal having been made to Caesar
by President Wils m and his opponents,
Caesar will say (or is saying) : "Cease your
damnable faces and get the treaty out o(
the way. I need room to swing aa ttr
on the H. G. of &." ., "
CONSTITUTION DAY IS TONIC
Fruitful Object Lessons for the Pres
ent Contained In a Retrospect of
the Job Our Forefathers
Tackled
GKOHGi: WASHINGTON Rlgned tW.
While the southern members were writ
ing their names Benjamin l'rnnklln turned
his ejes toward the president's fhnir, on
the back of which n un was caned. "I
hate." he said, "often nnd often in the I
(ourse of the sc-ion and the solicitude of
nn hopes nnd fear" n to the isue, looked
at that -un behind the president without
being able to tell whether it wns rising or
setting But nt length I know that it is a
rising and not a netting -un."
That nioinentotix dawn broki 1.12 years
ago tonionow when the contltlltinn of the
I'nited Stntes was "done in contention by
the unanimous consent of the stntes present."
It was not, however, until more than a
enr and a half bad pa-seil thnt the new
union of the thirteen oiiginal nnd sovereign I
(ominoiiwralths was officially drilled.
TN Tilt: spiing of 1700 Congress was eon
-1- sidering Heating balkv Rhode Island ns
a foreign powei. When the smallest stnte
did uitifv the document it was only by the ,
nariow inte nf thirty lour to thirty two
Amendments ni (link a- leaves in Vnl
lolnhio-a weie suggested iluiing I he pio
(tailed peiiod when the American public wns
making up it- mind Comparatively speak
ing (lie senntois of tod.n me ainatcuiH when
it comes to fault -finding villi thn league
of nations. I'min eieiv conceivable stand
point the federal lon-titution was iewcd ns
a dmiimciit of gueoiis crior.
And jet the munition which closed op
September 17. 177. ncwr I en-senibled. The
pact was never lewiitten. Not one of the '
eighteen ninrndmcnt- now nlhsid lo i( wns
adopted until after the lii-triiiueul in its
oiigiu.il form had been unnmmoush adopted
I j the thn teen -files. Kiankliii was right
The sun wa- ti-mg. Yenis later it was
diukened bj the Chil War, but it never set.
rpiIG mo-t inMiuctite anniversary in
-- American liistotj i- at hand. If Knox,
Johnson and Borah icftise to regaid its
meaning, so nun Ii the woise for (heir sense
of values. If (he mass of (he American
pinple is f in ful le-( the league of nations
lie destuued in the making, let the iccoid of
the past he consultid. Theie are stimulus
and m fieslininit m the chionicle.
Theie is nl-ii a en huni.in picture of
grnundh fi.ir-, futile forecasts, cantanker
ous protests, selfi-h tecilcitraiic , ingenu
ous doubts, iinwaiiaiiteil i'(iii ictions, absurd
political sp.us, high idealism, practical com
mon sen-e. nui-tiiii the foiesight. vaiieil
passion-, aiird mood-, public interest, pub
lic apatlij in shoi(. (he whole conglomeia
tinn of sentiments and motives which the
pie-en( Ameiic.iu siene reveals.
Out of the chaos tame order. Thnt which
has happened can happen.
rplin constitutional convention which sat
-- in the building across the street from
the site of (lie future office- of (his news
paper stnitrd nperaUons with a policy which
would make pre-rn(-dn liberals gasp. The
se ions weie -ec let !
Details of what took plnce in the State
House fiom May 2t to September 17. 17V7.
Iiiim" ncwr been completely known. Gap- in
the story luiie. however, been filled in fiom
time to time. We now know that the -e--ions
were coijtinunll.i on the point of break
ing up Two of the New Yoik delegates,
Lan-iug and Yates, did actually go home.
Only the ceitain conviction thnt the amor
phous niticles of c onfedeintion were wieck
ing the nation rendeied any leconciliation
of opposing interests possible. The line-up
of the states shifted cou-tnntl.v.
On one point all the little commonwealths
would hand stoutlv together against the big.
On another geographical lines would lie
tightlv drawn, nnd the North and South
would be engagecl in their historic contest.
The principles of fedcinli-in and stnte rights
stiuggled for siipiemacv . In the end
no side won the cvlusivc m.i-terv. It was
compromise, ailiuslineut. convenient nppiox
imntion of polic le- wluc h held the stage when
the final curtain wa- rung down.
IT HAS been said ihat the heart of the con
stitution was the Yiiginia plan proposed
by Edmund Itandnlph In n sense it was
the basis, but the suli-eipient modifications
were so far-reaching that no single stnte
can claim to have bi en the dominant factor
in the drama. Yirgimn leprcsented federal
ism, New .lersev state's rights piinciples.
Connecticut plnved for a while the inle of
compromiser. I'ennsvlvaiiia sided at times
with the strong cential government patty.
On the slnverj question it took part in a
new grouping.
The ultimate colierencv mny be ascribed
to tbiee great compionuses. The champions
of n vigorous cential authority and its oppo
nents were reconciled when the povveis
delegated to the Presuleut were offset by
his limited trim of office and by a com
plicated sjstem of checks and balances by
Congress and the state-.
TIIK second compromise settled the battle
between the large and small states
by basing tbe nieniber-hip of the House of
Representatives on population, while accord
ing to each state an espial number of seu
ators. The virtue of these two adjustments has
remained unquestioned Xhe slavery ques
tion wns naturally (he most difficult of all
(he subjects before the convention. War
alone finally disposed nf it. Yet the com
promise icarhed did suffice for generations.
It was agreed that the slave trade should
be abolished' after 1M1S, that lu apportioning
the lepiekpntation of the slave states a
negro should count as three-fifths of a
person and that neither Congress uor the
President should be empoweied to interfere
with slavery in the states.
When tlie-e three major difficulties were
out ot the wa.v constructive work upon the
constitution made steadv progress. Franklin
viewed the result as a whole sanely and
without illusions. He had expected, he said,
no better constitution. He was not sure
tunt it was not the best. He hoped that
each member who still had objections would
do likewise doubt a little of his own in
fallibility and sign the document.
WIicd the important "bill of rights'
amendments were adopted in "D1 they were
not of a stripe to miu tbe original pact.
They strengthened it.
PERSONAL predilections count for a whole
lot in reading objert lessons from
history. Violent opponents of the league
of nations may insist that tbe international
pact is only a calamitous set of articles of
confederation. Burdens of proof are upon
tlictu. 'Hie exasperating feature Is that time
alone will reveal the full truth.
Meanwhile, for Americans of another com
plexion, a retrospect of Constitution Day is
food for rejoicing.
The cheerful Mexican bandits having
received ransom money from Americans will
cheerfully pay the money so received to
Americans for firearms if not rfbvv, then a
little later. Then with the firearms so re
ceived 'they will shoot some more Ameri
cans, capture a few more, apply for a ran
som, get It, and buy some more firearm.
JCIiIs must be another of "them there vicious
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THE CHAFFING DISH
The Veteran
rpHH Summer now her colors dons
In honor of campaigning dnyis ;
In put pie, crimson, gold and bronze
Her service ribbon she displays.
WITH goldenrod her sleeve is crossed
Her service stripes, he nnd n doubt ;
And on the maple, touched with frost,
The scarlet chevron mustered out !
Brie Ludendorff. telling nf bis troubles in
the last (ieiman offensive snjn that "the
numerous slightly wounded made things
more difficult by the stupid nnd displeasing
wa.v in which they hurried to the icnr."
This was one thing which the Great Gen
eral Staff never did. They were at the rear
already.
Boston is a good-tempeied city. A hnher
dasher on School street in thnt town was
plundered during the riots. He boarded up
his plate-glass windows which had been
smashed hy hoodlums, and posted the fol
lowing notice:
Any Person Who Got Hats
Shirts, or Underwear, Wo
Will Gladly Exchange
For The Itlglit Size
The Return of the First
ml3 nAf wifr It nmnn nf rirtnrr. ffonrfikt I
I I 1W UUb V" J" -(' ' ...., J -. . .- I
-- heart,
Nor blast of trumpet nor with roll of
drum,
But as worn pilgrims from some far Sinai
Tis so we come.
For we hnve felt the finger of the Lord
Grave old commandments on the palsied
heart,
And we have heard that only he is Hun
Whose idols nre the High Gods of the
Mart.
We have no lurid tale fef gaping crowds,
Though well we know the forred march aud
the fight ;
White faces, waiting for the gray of dawn,
The red heat lightning of the battle's
night.
But best we know the hearts of simple men,
Old mothers toiling in tbe cot and field;
And little children plaving in the sun,
To whom we would be bulwark and the
shield.
For we have played with the petite Paulctte
And dandled kleiner Heiurich on our knee;
Have heard the aged Grandmerc tell her woe,
Have heard, ugain, the gnarled old Mut
ter's plea.
The heart of mere and Mutter nre the some,
f 'cfife and kleine in our hearts arc wrought,
And now as pilgrims we arc coming home.
The lips are silent. On the brow is
thought. '
DONALD M. CALI.EY,
Fifth Field Artillery.
Ono way of telling whether a weekly mag
azine is any good is to read it a month late.
If it still sounds like good sense, you can
bafely risk a subscription.
Lion Tamer Weds at 02 Headline.
Ben Zeen says It sounds like a pathetic
case of overconfldence.
We wonder who will get more sleep to
night Hampy or the Judge?
Eden Phlllpotts has written a new noeel,
railed "A Btorm in a Teacup." One of
the characters in it is called Philander
Knox. Is It possible that the eminent nov
elist does not know he Is plagiarizing from
tho birth certificates of Brownsville, Pa.?
Willard Wattles, the poet, was In town
the other day, and told us a good story
which was told him by Miss Eloiso Itobln
bon. Miss Robinson was doing canteen
work in France, up near the front lines.
One evening a captain halted his company
near there, among the woods. His men were
tired and he nsfced the canteen workers if
bey could giv.th'ew " Mt of entertainment.
Miss Kobinson and others gave them some
refreshments and recited for them, and they
bad an enjoyable time. After the show was
over a rough and dusty looking sergeant
came up to Miss Robinson and said that
there was a poem he would like to hear. He
said it would be appropriate there in the
forest. Miss Robinson nsked what It was,
and the sergeant said "Trees," by Joyce
Kilmer. She was a little surprised that so
hard a looking campaigner should be fa
miliar with the poem. She said she didn't
know it perfectly, but he said he remem
bered n few lines. Between them they pieced
out the verses nnd she recited it to great
applause. Afterward she was struck by a
twinkle in the sergeant's eyes and asked
him n question. "Yes," he said, "I wrote
it."
Changeling
When I go a -walking
Down old paths we knew.
And my hands are groping hands.
Just for you,
Then I marvel that true love
Could change so suddenly
From a fragrant growing shrub,
To n barren tree.
FLOYD MEREDITH.
Drama In Four Lines
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Oh love is a sprite, he's a moon-
touched fay
Whom the nightingale enthralls.
SHE: No. Not on your life! He's a
practical kid
In n suit of overalls !
THE BARD OF UPLAND.
Outside the Bookstore
TT7-ORN-OUT books of worn-out men,
And worn-cut gentlemen fingering
them over,
One for five or three for ten.
Calf-bound sermons by Smith of Dover.
Who was Smith that he got into print,
Dry ns dust, but full of damnation.
Fashioning God with a heart of flint,
Who cursed his offspring before their
creation?
With what a superior scoffing glance,
Toss wo tbe doctrines dead aside,
Laughing that men could such views ad
vance, That others could follow what we deride.
But I wonder what the world will say
A hundred years from now or more,
When the Smiths of Dover read today
Clutter the shelves of the old-book store!
J. MBEATTr.
Reciprocation
The general who medals pins
On heroes of the nation,
The while the doughboy bashful grins,
Confers a decoration.
The doughboy, nil unklllable,"
His general much cherishing,
Confers an extra syllable,
And calls him John J. Perishing.
ANN DANTE.
Desk Mottoes
I want to get deeper into the universe, or
quit. VACHEL LINDSAY.
Now and then, when we consider the
perishability of political reputation, we
permit ourself to wonder what happened to
the little button we once wore that carried
on its innocent celluloid the portrait of
Alton B. Parker. SOCRATES.
If Germany succeeds In establishing
"Industrial colonies" In South America
"where the German language arid German
customs may be perpetuated," a little thing
like the Monroe Doctrine won't disturb them
in the least.
Director Wilson evidently has a pre
monition ot what is joing to' happeo today.
He (y bis tTO end wits Uie Jiayor'i,
I Coronation Day
KING CITIZEN'S crowned ! At the poll
is his throne
And the ballot he marks is his scepter.
Queen Liberty smiles. She's his bride his
alone
And with tenderest care he has kept her.
But her eyes open wide
As she sits by his side
And the courtiers carol and sing;
For some of her floaters
She sees 'mid the shouters
Who chorus the loud "Hail the King!"
King Citizen'a crowned ! But will Liberty
see
Her king wear his crown on the morrow?
Will the mandate he issues today keep him
free
Or land him in chains forged by Sorrow?
Will he rule in his might
Or be dumped out of sight?
Let him answer with courage, and fling
The fetters that bind him
Forever behind him!
And he will forever be King !
GUIF ALEXANDER.
"It will be a landslide," says Judge
Patterson. Who does he think will be
buried?
There seems possibility that the barbers
will walk out. Wo trust their walk will
continue only as far as the polls and back
again.
Uncle Sam sold a lot of kegs yesterday.
Later on he may betray a disconcerting
desire to hnow just what the purchasers
put in them.
This is the day when every sovereign
citizen should be able to look the boss in
the face and tell him to go to Ambler.
Slake no mistake about it. You are not
100 per cent American unless you have
voted.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. Switzerland, because of its mixed popu
lation, has three native names. What
are they?
2. When is a bird said to be torquated?
3. In what country is it said that the ex-
Emperor Karl of Austria is planning
to take up his permanent residence?
4. What is the origin of the word tory?
5. What is the origin of the word whig?
0. What Is the difference between latitude
and longitude?
7. Who was Thomas Sheraton?
8. Why U fishing called the "gentle craft"?
0. What are widow's weeds?
10. Which is correct, Welsh rabbit or
Welsh rarebit?
Answer to Yetterday'o Quiz
1. Mrs. Marcus II. Whitman and Mrs.
Henry G. Spalding are said to have
been the first white women to cross
the American continent. They accom
panied their husbands, who were mis
sionaries, who journeyed from the
East to Oregon In 1830.
2. Calvin Coolldge is governor of Massa
chusetts.
3. The strongest telescope in the world Is
the telescope at the Yerkes Observ
atory at Williams Bay, Wisconsin.
It is 40,000 times more powerful than
the human eye.
4. The treaty which ended the Spanish-
American War was signed at Paris.
G. Oliver Goldsmith wrote the comedy,
''She Stoops to Conquer."
0. A foyer is a large room in a theatre,
etc., for the audience's use during an
interval.
7. The word should be pronounced as
though it were spelled "fwah-yca."
8. Heuator George Graham Vet,' of Mla-t
souri, ciellveted the famous eulogy 9s
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