V V -1 " , IV- a SS ,S -'' r; t" . ,10 EVENING PUfiLIO LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, THOTSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11019 - " . .,'- - v ;-;i I ;. ft rui k.' a Aliening public Wefcger PUDLIC LEDGER COMPANY crnus ir. k. cunTia.PnEdioiNT Martin. Si-creUry and Tresurr, Philip H. Cnlllrn, John B. Williams, John J Snurreon, Directors. EDITORIAL. JIOAROl Crncs II. K. Cum. Chairman AVID E. SMILEY rjdltor JOHN C. MATITIX.. ..Ocncral Hutlncu Manager PuMlnhrd dally at Pcblio T.LTor.R llulldlnc. Independence Square. Philadelphia. AntNTiG Cur prem.l'Bion Ilullillnc Jew Yobk 200 Metropolitan Tower IJETotr 70t Ford Ilulldlntr HT. Ixrn ions Fullerton Jlulldlne Cmcioo , 1302 Tribune liuildlne . NEWS IlUnBAVS: WABUINOTOX ntnriAt). N K. Cor. Pennsylvania Ave. and 14th St. New Yobk IIiriuc The Sun Ilulldlntr London Uuncvc London Times HI'HSCRIPTiON THUMB The Evenivo ITnMC LttKira Is i"crvcl to lub fttrihers n Philadelphia and furroundlns towns at the rate of twelve (121 cents per week, pajable to the carrier. IJjr mall to points mitsldo of Philadelphia. In the United States, Canada, or United States pos sessions, postaira free, fifty (.in) cents per month 81 ((! dollars per" year, payable In advance. To all forelcn countries ono (M dollar p?r month. . . . , Xrmcr Subscribers wishing nddros chanffru must give old ns well as new address. DELL, 3000 WALNUT KEYSTONE, MAIN 3000 Cy A id ren J all oommunlcalfoits to Krenlnp Publie Ledger, Independence Square, Phlmilrlnhle, Memher of the Associated Press TIW ASSOCIATED PRESS cxel't slvely entitled to the use for republication of all ncirs dispatches credited to It or not nthencisc credited In this paper, and aho the local ncics published therein. All rights of republication nf special dis patches hncln are alia rcicried. I'niladrlphia. 1hurdi. s.-pinil,er la. I'll BREAKS ALL PRECEDENTS OUT of a total registration of 856,000 voters of all parties 313,fi00 vent to the polls. This breaks all precedents. It is a greater number than ever before voted at the primaries in thi3 city and it is a larger proportion of the registered vote than ever before took an active interest in the nomination of candidates. Of the number voting, 298,942 were Republicans, according to the police figures, and 14,672 were Democrat.-. If any one has been inclined in the past to say that the people of Philadelphia are not interested in the kind of government they have, it will only be necessary to point to these figures and to say that when an adequate alternative to bad gov ernment is offered they will do their 'best to secure it. A TEST FOR THE CHARTER TF THE new charter is anything more than a scrap of paper its efficacy will. be promptly tested in a rigid inquiry into the "epidemic" which attacked the City ,Hall as Tuesday developed into a crisis or the Vare machine. As usual on election day, the jobhold ers vanished from their posts. They were needed as bell-puliers and button holers. Most of these political office holders telephoned that they were too "sick" for desk work at Broad and Mar ket streets. Their respective divisions presented the same old lively scene. The charter proscribes with emphasis and clarity such desperate political ac tivity by municipal employes. It is im perative that District Attorney Rotan leave no stone unturned in identifying these offenders against the law and in prosecuting them for treir defiance. The fundamental charter strengthens his hand. Decent citizens will demand that ho use it to terminate a notorious abuse. THE JUDGES rpHE nomination of Judge McCullen to the Court of Common Pleas and Judge Henderson to tho Orphans' Court is gratifying to all those who are opposed to making the judiciary the football of partisan politics. These two judges were appointed to vacancies by Governor Sproul. Their fitness was recognized by the bar. They have vindicated confidence in them by their conduct on the bench. But there were well-founded reports that the Vare organization was plotting to defeat them. The Governor, however, let it be known that the politicians who opposed the men he put on the bench did so at their peril. There is no doubt that he will have the vote carefully analyzed in order to dis cover whether there was any treachery and, if so, in what wards, for he knows how to play the game of politics and is willing to be tho instrument of fate for the men who try to knife a ticket in the dark. WRONG WAY TO RIGHT ERRORS TP IT is true, as has been reported, that the United States Government has asked Japan to fix an exact date for re turning Shantung to China, tho adminis tration's method of handling a knotty problem is indeed characteristic. The best elements in the American public iwould have been spared a lot of sincere anxiety had they been told that the gov ernment contemplated calling for a show down on the Shantung question. Similar tactics marked consideiation of (the Monroe Doctrine at Paris. Judging .from tho unrevised form of the league-lof-nations covenant, our commission was satisfied with omission of any statement concerning a prime feature of American (polity. Popular sentiment was aroused 'and a new clause was then written in Ithe treaty. There is something ungracious and jtrrndging in such conduct. Had the nd jministration chosen to be frank it could clearly have speeded the passage of the 'treaty. Its chronic way of dealing with (crises exemplifies bath bad manners and (inexpert politics. The good results are clouded by petty exhibitions of false .pride, which cost the administration Ivaluable sympathy in a critical hour. U. S. BEHIND THE COUNTER rpHE decision of the government to sell - at retail in twenty-four cities its sur plus of army and navy supplies would Hot have been made if there were not a widespread demand that something be .done to reduce the high cost of living. Under ordinary circumstances the sup plies would have been sold by wholesale to. the highest bidder, who would have peddled them out amonir retailers, taking r 'ids profit in the process. The present arrangement will climi Tartc the middleman. The net price which J'ihe government will receive will doubt- less bo higher than it could have obtained from any largo bidders. And tho public will benefit by tho opportunity to get certain staple articles for less than the prevailing market price. "When tho store is opened here next week with Uncle Sam behind the counter men and women in search of bargains will flock to it. But the government has not goods enough seriously to affect the business of the established retailers. Nor has it that variety which the pur chasing public desires to find in the shops which it patronizes. If there were any likelihood that the government were planning permanently to go into the re tail business there mignt bo cause for alarm. HOOVER'S PRESIDENTIAL BOOM IS A SIGN OF GREAT PROMISE One Man Who Actually Knows the Made Over World With Which We Shall Have to Deal TN NEW YORK tho other night they launched a presidential boom for Her bert Hoover. Mr. Hoover made negative signs. But every American with a decent sense of tho requirements of tho hour in Washington felt instinctively that he was witnessing a political event of the first magnitude. Hoover talked of Europe, of Russia and of our own future as only a man could talk who was re turned from the very center of the whirl wind. He made the conventional patter of political mandarins seem incredibly poor and mean. There was no hatred in the man, no lies, no pi (lie, no propaganda for anything or anybody. He had a great deal to say of bolshevism, yet he uttered no word of hatred for the masses of those whom we like to call Reds. He saw only the failure in Russia that is as terrible and almost as pitiful as the war itself. For once at least the country had the opportunity to glimpse the Russia and the Europe of today as it appears to a mind that is free and practical and wise and yet compassionate. It re mained for this resourceful American to say all that need be said of present-day radicalism in practice when he told his audience without emotion that the Old World is no longer able to feed or clothe itself. There are now about 100,000.000 people in Europe who ultimately must die, if conditions do not change, because the lessened production that has fol lowed a revolution against work leaves them without the essential means of life. Lies proved during the war to be the most futile and at the same time the most dangerous of all weapons. It is natural to suppose that, after the experience of the past few years, the world would be sick of falsehood and pretense. Yet it is with idiotic propaganda that European nations are trying to fight bolshevism, while the simple and far more terrible truth, as Hoover was able to perceive it, is disregarded. To Hoover, bolshevism is but an inci dent in the larger question of Europe. The Russians were told that they would be guided to the millennium. But the "idealists and criminals, the murderers and intellectual dilettanti" who led them destroyed more than government. They eliminated the impulse to individual effort and they systematically hindered the wholesome and indispensable exer cise of individual initiative. Doing that, they did the worst thing conceivable for civilization. And so Russia has become a place in which firing squads, starvation, pes tilence, a new and infinitely cruel class consciousness and isolated groups ex alted by new and undreamed of privi leges are necessary to sustain delusions of freedom among tormented millions. It is the spread of this fundamental social disease,-not its transient effects in one country, that concerns the man who was privileged to study its actual reac tions on the life of Europe. If Leninism were to become by any means general in Europe, Europe would merely perish of hunger within a year or live by the charity of the rest of the world. That, in fact, is the alternative that faces some of the smaller nations now. Yet Hoover is not willing to ac cept the conventional view and regard Russia as a country populated by danger ous maniacs. He sees Russians rather as a people whom the ages sinned against and left at a disadvantage. To him the ferment in all of Europe is traceable directly to "centuries of social and political wrongs" inflicted on the people by ignorant cliques in and out of government. And he insisted that it is idle to suppose that you can use force to overcome a state of mind. It is not because of the magnificent nature of his mission in Europe or be cause of the singular ability with which it was directed that Hoover appeals in this instance to the imagination of the whole country. It is rather because he has tried to make it plain that the people of the United States, through their great ness of heart and by their own resource fulness, must maintain the dignity and validity of their own inherited institu tions and yet find a means to correct the economic and social disorders that the Bolshevists and Socialists have been attacking in vast experiments that tend certainly to unthinkable disaster in many parts of the world. This is a brave way of looking at the whole matter. Hoover, who did miracles in Europe, appears to feel certain that there is in the existingAmerica;i political and economic system a means to meet the challenge of the times nbly and suc cessfully. What he appears to have in mind is the better education of all who work with their hands in the inexorable truths of economic theory. He is think ing, too, of the better education of those who direct and organize the industries. Radicalism as he found it everywhere in Europe was intellectually and econom ically bankrupt. And as America found a way to serve Europe in a material way, it must find a means to serve Europe by its mind and- by its spirit in a greater crisis. Such an analysis as this lifts the league-of-natlons issue to a new plane altosrthrT. The second American inter vention, as Hoover defines it, took place after wo had entered the war with Ger many. It involved tasks of charity, of organization and of reconstruction silently performed in a dozen nations. Tho responsibilities on this occasion fell upon thousands of unnamed Americans who, drawn "from tho common life" of America, were able to help little democ racies that found themselves miserably astray in the sudden light of freedom, to reorganize their railroads, to build their shelters, to feed and clothe them and to show them the new ways of life. It cannot bo said of Hoover that he isn't a practical man, yet he believes that all peoples desire peace and co-operation. And it is a little odd to find that he bases his faith for tho future in the "glow left at the heart of Europe" by tho services done in obscurity or on battle fields by our people. Hoover lived close to all sorts of peo ple. He knows the dynamic power of the elemental emotions loosed by the war and its aftermath hope and fear, grief and happiness, love and despair. He talks like n man who does not forget these forces in his calculations. And if ex perience teaches, ho may justly be re garded ns having had better opportuni ties for the acquirement of wisdom than any other American alive. Such knowl edge as lie gained In Europe relates to trends and forces that are bound to hate an effect upon the life and policies of America. That is why his presidential boom ought to be regarded as far more than an incident in the day's news. VARE LOSES CITY COUNCIL npHE nomination of eleven independent candidates for the new City Council justifies tho confidence of the charter revisers in their program. They insisted that under a fair apportionment tho Re publican voters would reject the candi dates of the men who control the organi zation in the city, and that it would thus be possible to get a representative legis lative body. Under the old system it was possible for n third of the voters to elect a ma jority of the Councils. Senator Vare fought the new plan. He demanded that tho district in the heart of the city should have more councilmen than were pro pored because of the great value of the property there; and he insisted that the number of councilmen in the sparsely settled districts should be increased be cause of the large area of land there. But his objections were ignored. The plan for a Council of twenty-one appor tioned among the senatorial districts on the basis of the number of assessed voters went through the Legislature. Then we were told that, after all, the senator was not seriously worried over the outcome, as it was certain that he and his friends would nominate eleven of the twenty-one, and possibly twelve or fifteen. Indeed, some enthusiasts gave out figures intended to prove that the in dependents could not possibly nominate more than three councilmen. The outcome establishes the contention of the charter revise's that the organiza tion was a minority body holding its power because of an inequitable appor tionment which made the protests of the majority ineffectual. If the official count corresponds with the unofficial police returns and Con gressman Moore receives the nomination over Judge Patterson, tho victory becomes the most sweeping triumph for reform ever won in this city. The independents will be in control in both the legislative and executive branches of the local gov ernment and the contractors' ring which has long dominated the city will be powerless for harm for the next four years. Oue of the reasons Chasing Perfection we never reach Per fection, remnrked Pro fessor Aristophanes MeGoogle, is thnt we arc always diverted Into another path lead ing to somewhere else having greater possi bilities. Consider the stage conch. If we hud stuck to stage conches we would, by this time, have achieved a super-stnge coach, riding smoothly and drawn by horses of a breed vastly superior in speed nnd en durance to those of a hundred years ago, nnd officered by drivers and guards who long ago had settled the matter of adequate re muneration. Hut Stephenson comes along with a locomotive and queers the game, and we proceed toward Perfection on par allel steel rails. It is a longer journey and despite all progress we have just about started. And we'll never get there! Never! Just when we are within measurable dis tance we'll go off on bouic other track. It may be tho automobile; it may be the air ship; it may be something else; but be sure there will be something to divert us be fore wc have fairly got down to a trial of the Plumb plan, the Cummin.! plan, tho Wnrfield plan, the Esch-Pomerene plan or some other plan. In one way it is discour aging ; in another it is altogether cheer ing. What's the good of worrying when Time has forever something new up bis sleeve? The mayor of Newark, N. J., plans to havo the city art as middleman for Uncle Sam, wholesale grocer. Plans have not yet been completed, but Newark's enterprise in the matter of fighting H. C. of L. justifies the belief that its executive will soon get action. Camden business men nre shortly to meet to explain the high cost of living. Old Ultimate Consumer isn't worrying about why things arc high. What he wants to know Is how be may cither climb up to reach them or make them come down. Chancellor Day, of Syracuse, charac terizes President Wilson's opinion! ' as "modified bolshevism" nnd "unthinking blind egomania of socialism." The chan cellor wouli have lacked nothing of force if his language had been modified. When Undo Ham opens up hW little general store in this city next .week there's no doubt in the world that he will do a big business. Look at the way the newspapers have advertised It! Conshohocken will have a welcome borne celebration on Saturday. Aa tho town furnished more men for the war In propor tion to population tliun any other city in the country, It Is entitled to the Morvout. When Cardinal Merrier r.rrlrts we'll ;nke hi" welrotrie nnsnlmous, . J THE GOWNSMAN Work, Rest, Piny VrpiIE melancholy days are come, the sad- dest of the year," when vacations, be they short or long, eome to on end nnd the favored few who enjoy them return to the task of providing as much butter to accompany our dally bread ns it may bo possible to snatch In the struggle for exist ence. Man has been described as a working animnl ; lie Is likewise n creature who needs a great deal of rest. It Is somewhat hu miliating to realize that we, the active lords of creation, arc under the physical compulsion of spending nt least a fourth of our lives abed and that unless we nre coddled, warmed and fed, all our high en deavors must go for naught. Hut not only must we rest, we must play, every man, woman and child of us, If we are to escape the proverbial dullness of Jack nnd main tain that wholesome balance out of which alone results, material or Ideal, are to come. TI70UK, rest, play; philosophies have been ' ' founded on these three necessities of our existence. C'nrlyle is never tired of insisting on the demand, the beauty, the nobility of toll, nnd the poets sing: "Work npacc, apace, npace, honest labor bears n lovely face." The whole Brahmlnical sys tem ends in the supreme Nirvana, absolute quiescence nnd nbsorption into tho All, when the oscillations of this stormy life, which toss us nbout and all but raze us from the foundations nf things, shall cease and each soul remain to all time "like Saturn, quiet ns a stone." Even more sought after and followed urc the philoso phies of pln.v which from the days of Omar Khayyam, or the Psalmist, for that matter, have bid us eat, drink nnd be merry and heed not the morrow. Work, rest, play If we could only get the proportions of these states equitably adjusted for each man and for the whole of mankind our problems would be simple enough. Tor there would be none nf the sodden dullness, the stupefy ing blight that it upon him who is only a Inhorlng man, lc his labor with the horny bund of toil or with the jaded brain, and there would be none of the silliness nnd Inanity of those who, having no work to do, resort to mere pln.v, hard play, trivial play, too often dangerous nnd dirty play. As to rest, which of us knows that his course iu this world will warrant him less uncertainty iu this particular iu the next world thnn is his in this? "IXTORK, whatever its kind, involves ac- tivity ; rest is the negation of activity nnd comes like the cool sweetness of night after a torrid and gnrish day. A vacation is a period relieved of the accustomed activi ties of routine, a moment iu which the brakes are off and wc run free of thut grind in the engine, impelled alone by the pleasing declivity of tho road. Tho sluggard, who finds his only respite from the stress of labor in the inertia of rest, is like a motor ist who, possessed of the highest powers of terrestrial locomotion, lies supine in tho shade and lets his power "rust in him un used." For a true vacation must have In It ever the quality of freedom, nnd freedom In the healthily constituted man involves activity. It mny be physical or mental. It may involve the hardest kind of work. It is sufficient that its kind be not thnt which has come to mark the hum nnd drum of his daily life. For a true vacation is a time for tho suppression of ull thnt pcr tnins to your vocation in favor of the de lights of a hobby or avocation. Truly wretched arc the people who take their troubles and problems of business or their professions away with them, like Horace's black specter of care, seated on the crupper of the saddle or. to bring old Horace up to date, hidden in tho hood of your limou sine. pLAY is the vital clement of childhood, -- work the business of manhood, and -rest the necessity of o'd age. Tint into each of the other two periods some of the ruling elements of the others must enter. When we denude ourselves of thnt gift of the gods to infancy, the love of play, what is it that we gain? Only some other kind of piny, often of a very different nnd inferior kind ; games with greed in them, intrigue with the measuring of wits, the vanities of pa rade and the parade of vanity. Play, indeed, is almost as varied in its nature and varieties as is work itself: and he was a wise man who. in our activities, found everything next to nothing in the Jesuits. In this lies the superiority of play over any kind of work. To finish a task with nothing to show for it but the thing done is no better than the labor of the ox. Pass ing the milestone is nothing; to pass It ahead of somebody eli-c, with a speed hith erto uncqualed, in a style admirable or unusual these nre the things. And it is tho element of play the sporting Instinct thnt makes the hardest labor palatable, the clement of competition, the matching of wits, the development of skill. Men who have amassed large fortunes are not often misers. Thrift has entered into the building of their enormous edifices of finance, but it is not thrift which alone has made their fortunes nnd often they have played even more for the sake of the game than for the stakes. pOULD wc but balance, let it be repeated, 's-'jsur labor, our recreation and our rest, how much could be adjusted once and for all: no breaking down from overwork, no nervous prostrntion from the excesses of leisure, no vegetable inertin from addiction to the understimulnnts of rest. The labor ing rami would no more clamor for a five hour day at ten-hour wages, the profiteer would no more underweight us, bhort measurc us and keep us in the cold storage of his cxtortlonB. Workers would get a chance to make acquaintance with the smiles of Lady Pastime, and the players even In Now Yokr would resume work. But we nre dreaming o fthe millennium. nydrogen In dirigible Up In a Balloon, balloons bursts Into Boys flame every once in a while and lives are lost. If balloons could be filled with helium Instead of. hydrogen disasters would be fewer. There is only a limited supply of helium in the United States though mil lions of cubic feet of It are being wasted dally thrbugh natural gas mains in the Middle West. With the exception of one. plant working under the direction of the Bureau of Mines, the supervision over the production of helium Is in the hnnds of the Navy Department, while the army waits with folded hands. Isn't there concealed somewhere in these facts an argument for the establishment of an Aviation Department that could devote nil its energies toward the development of all branches of aeronautics? The Texas tornado demonstrates that Nature, cruel as she sometimes is, lacks the cold brutality of war. Tho casualties, large though they are, would have been but a trifling detail in the war just past. The rublie Service Railway Company doesn't appear to be exactly the right name for it. ', The Bell Telephone Company Is de termined to prove the falsity of 'the old time declaration that talk is cheap.- The election was a moving picture, with the final returns providing the necessary fjosfvnp. THE CHAFFING DISH What He Was Thinking About WE HAD a curious experience yesterday. We were moseying along Walnut street in tho serene afternoon sunshine thinking rather mournfully about the amount of toll nnd labor that seems to infest this enrthly life, when wc saw In front of us an indi vidual whom we Instantly recognized as that Interesting person, The Average Man. But the fact that was most startling about this person was that his head was trans parent. He himself seemed happily unaware of this unusual condition ns he stood medi tating in front ,of a tailor's window. Hut as wc watched We wercnmazed Jo see th:tf his forehead was ns translucent ns a sheet of clear glass, and through it wc could ob servo nil the workings and revolvings of his mind. Wc felt that this was a good deal of a privilege, as wc have always won dered what our friends are thinking about, so we lingered, pretending to study the same window. Fortunately, he was lost in thought, as the saying goes. For some seconds his mind remained n kind xf cloudy whirlpool of shifting ideas, all mingled nnd knotted up together ; then it cleared rapidly and we saw a succession of thoughts flash up distinctly. This is what they were: Gotta buy a fall suit. Wish I hadn't tatcn that shrimp salad for lunch. Price of coal. Pattersont Moorct Wonder tcho'll strike ncxtt Ought to buy a pair of shoes, but got a hole in one sock and can't remember which one it is. (We saw, him wiggle his toes in an nttempt to ascertain which was the of fending member.) Wish I hadn't had my vacation. yice afternoon to be in the country. Last ttistallmcut of the income tax tcill be due just before Christmas. Had luck. Mooret Pattersont Wonder if the league of nations means perpetual peacet Wonder if it means perpetual icart Wonder what the world's coming tot Too many problems nowadays. I give it up. Cost of Uvmg. Wish some one would ttowiiiiafe Hoover as the next President. irotidcr if Liberty Ponds will ever get up to part Wonder if the cook's going to stayt Seems as if everybody thinks the world's troubles can be solved by quitting work. Pattersont Mooret Wish I could buy the wife a nice fall hat for a surprise. Think I'll have an oyster stew for lunch tomorrow. Better get back to the office. Observations In Boston . THE average Hub-lte must be 1 A mighty agile anlmllei Witness this sign which greeted me Above a Boston subway stile: "Persons must not run up and down the escalator or ride on thenoving hand-rails." When we entrained at-Forest Hills Wlth-no desire to make a fuss. To keep us In our proper place This warning placard glared at us: "Persons detected in boarding or leaving a ear while in motion, may be ejected." ThV care not bow much paint they use. Their slgnB with gorgeous words abound, Kach time you move from place to place You find something like this around: "Whoever, without right, shall loiter upon or remain upon the property of the Boston Elevated Railway Company, after belna re. quested to leave, or shall be guilty of any mllemeonor or breach of conduct therein, thalt be prosecuted to the full extent of the la. Wouldn't "NO W)AFING" do just as well? SUB nOSA Social Chat Wo liear rumors that Sinclair Lewis has left West, Chfsr. (lr'dr. Will the West "YESSIRSOME SCRAP, SAYS Chester Chnmber of Literary Commerce please confirm or deny? Gnb D'Anuunzio, the well-known poet, is getting his stuff over big these days. A. Edward Newton, the Caliph of Dayles ford, Is buying up Carlisle street. It Is alleged that he will found a Bohemia with really sound plumbing. Jim Beck, a former resident of the head lines, harangued a vast throng in Inde pendence Square. James is said to have. forgotten to utter the phrase "the birth- ( place or liberty, and is inconsolable. Willard Wattles contributed a poem to our paper last week, and writes to us in considerable Anguish that there was a mis print in It when it appeared. He wrote "Grandmothers shawkd nnd gray" ; It was printed "Grandmothers hnwledv and gay." Willard insists that wc apologize to tho people of Philadelphia for this. We do so, and the troubled populace that has been worrying nbout it can now get the matter off its mind. Ed Mumford, the genial wag, tells a story of an American sergeant at Monte Carlo. It seems that that town is worried becauso Its reputation is damaged by stories of sui cides committed there by people who have been cleaned out at the green tables. So the town council provided a roll of bank notes to be put in the pockets of any corpse so thnt it could not be' said he had done himself in becauso he was broke. These bills were to stay in the corpse's jeans until the coroner had made his inquest, nnd thcu be returned to tho police department. An A. K. F. sergeant, hearing this, hastened out one dark night and lay down on a grass plot. Ho waited until a cop came along and filled his pocket with tho roll of bills. Then, while the policeman ran for help, the sergeant made off. Henri Farrc, the well-known French por trait painter, dropped in nt aCamac street Club yesterday. The talk turned upon por traits of eminent men, and M. Farre asked if any oue had painted the new Mayor. It was gathered that M. Farre had not quite understood the political news, and bo was asked which one ho meant. "Oh, the hand some one," said he, Many present Insisted that this was premature. Our friend Wright Kramer, of tho "Toby's How" company, has been reading a book called "In the Sweet Dry nnd Dry," and after a good deal of morbid questioning on our part asserted that he had got a' laugh out of it. He went so far as to say that there was Btuff in it 'which might even form tho basis of a Winter Garden skit. Enormously gratified, we offered to buy his lunch, but he hastened off, panic-stricken, to attend a 1 o'clock rehearsal. "You give mo a pane!" cried the motor man in Camden, as he bcized the shlpworker who had broken tho trolley window with a brick. "When is n woman most reflective?" asked Dovo Dulcet. "When she surveys herself, in tho shim mer of a Chestnut street show window," cried Ann Dante. Splendid News Tho rumor persists that waistlines this season will be nipped In a bit. To achlevo the maximum of youthful slendernesa with the minimum of nip Is he mission of the Godet flare. Ad In a New York paper. We say, hurrah for the Godet flare, whatever It is, and we're going to have ono for lunch tomorrow. SOCRATES. Well, two bunches of prophets (ono in each faction) got "In wrong." It wasn't any landslide. Governor Sproul was -luckier in Phila delphia than in Chester. II!" - I BATTERY B AT NIGHT I NIGHT and the glimmer of winding road, I Night and the rumble of caisson wheel; Night and the ache of tho strap-worn bark, Night and the throb of tho raw-bruised heel. There to the north flash answers flash, But no bound is borne on the whispering air Save for an Instant a vague low boom Then night things murmur. Tired stars stare. Then on and on through the glimmeV and gloom While you doze and lurch nnd doze again, Held by the caisson's dusky loom And tho route-step rhythm of weary men. At last ! It comes from the column's van, And tho looming caisson lumbers slow As it echoes down and down the file : "Battery HO!" . Donald M. Calley, Fifth Field Artillery. From "Qu 'est ce que e'est," the A. E. P. paper in Toulouse, France. It was the consensus of opinion of those interested yesterday that wo have a darned good constitution, and that there are times when .we need it. What the final figures appeared to be suffering froiri was chronic indecision. ., Chester's "whisky ring" evidently hasn't lost all of its kick. What Do You Know? QUIZ 1". To what nation did Napoleon surrender himself? 2. What commerce raider made the richest hauls for Germany during the war? 3. Who wrote the comedy, "London Aat suranco LOVhat notorious French politician hail just been released from prison because of ill health? G. Who was Sir Edward Burne-Jones? C. What Is the largest river on tho Ameri can continent flowing into tho Pacific ocean? 7. What Is another name for tho constella tion of the Dipper? 8. What Is faience, and how does It get Its name? " 0. What Is meant by Stygian darkness? 10. What is Herbert O. Hoover's native state? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. Roland Rohlfe established the new air plane altitude record at New York last week, when he ascended to a height of 34,000 feet. 2. This is-about 5000 feet higher than the top of Mount Everett. 3. A homunciile is a little man, raannlkln. 4. The word carnival is derived from "car- nlvale," originally the Italian name for Shrove Tuesday. "Carnivale" is derived from "camera levare," to put away meat. Hence a carnival was a celebration before a period of cb stinenCe. 0. Admiral von Tlrpltz's first name Is Alfred. 0. Two future Presidents were members of the convention which framed the fed eral constitution in 1787. They wer George Washington and James Madi son. 1, Shelley wrote the "Ode to a Skylark." 8. Month and silver nre two English words for which there is said to ho no perfect rhymes in the language. 0. Henry van Dyke was American "minister fo the Netherlands during the war, ' 10, The Scotch .form of the surname; John-' son Is Johnrtone. r n . ' ii r. J O V v: -vM V .ur)I W c. rat" -a .,? " 4 .Ji 'J rti B- ,;V "'-;-..$ '' V- , AY. & n s, - . oi . "A ! i. ; -
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