mtmtmim (. v ..' lfi 1 . J EVENING PUBLIC LEDaER PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23," 1919 1J" tWrtSjMfr , I ' f ') IM w 1 '1 la VK r 1-0 Aliening public Ulc&ger L TUBLIG LEDGER COMPANY r crnus it. k. cum-ib. pauihnt , 'i.ChAtlM U.- Ludlntjon. Vlca rrtlclnt , Jnhn r j MArUn. Be-tar aM Trturr, fhlllp 9 CMIIni, JBhn P. WIIUami. John J. 6jmrtm, Dlrtor. ' 'EDITORIAL. BOARD: Crete II. K. CciTii, Chairmn TPAVIP E. -SMlLCf i ' Editor -m C- utTly' 'OtntraJ Pulne Mtnagef 'Pvbnhd d1ty At TTM.10 I.smorif Hulldln, .. . lnd'tndence. Square,' r-hUAdtlr-hlA. Atuktio Cur Praa-Uwn nulldlni JJw Voir., 508 MetrcpoIltAn To or J5TtoiT. ... , 701 Ford Building CB1CAOO. nr Ijoujb, i!'i i-uuprcon nunninK "I VfrTfO BUREAUS- ' 1YAA3INOTON JJCKKAU, Si. R. Pai. TVnnaili'ant Avf. (! 14lh St. Knr toxc nriuc. Th Sun nulMtnr LdKBOK Bcakac ,. 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S.plnubtr :, 1919 UNDER THE LID "ClARLY revelations at the official count of the primary vote arp -ip-nificant chiefly for what l? indicated deeper below the surface. i The closeness of the fight now appears ts a fortunate circumstance. It will in fuse an interested scrutiny of election methods by the general public and a wider general knowledge of the manner itt which election machinery has been debased in times when election officials Had little to fear. Good daylight let in upon the methods employed in some of the wards at the recent balloting will reveal some amaz ing: things. Judges Audenned and Fer guson are to be commended for their ap parent determination to see the thing through, to take the lid off and let the people see what has been under it, lo! these many years'. The effect of such an examination as the court has ordered is sure to be felt at future elections. The day of the per sonally conducted election is almost past. A SURPRISE FOR ALBERT TZING ALBERT'S hope that "on ac-- count of the food scarcity" he will not be entertained at many banquets during his American tour is naive and natural. It is hard for him to realize that, despite participation in Armaged don, despite the shock to the world's Economic and industrial conditions, de spite labor unrest and high prices, the United States of America is enjoying an era of simply, prodigious prosperity. Perhaps enjoying isn't quite the cor rect 'word. Prophets, oracles, profes sional forecasters, labor with the largest wages in its history, capital poured into r industrial production upon an unprece dented scale; in fact, the country as a Whole professes to be having a wretched time. Pessimism and prosperity were never so vividly combined. No wonder that Albert cautioned against waste. He knows what war's destruction means and it involved con siderable strain upon the imagination to picture the United States as it really is. " We fail to realize the scene ourselves. The tendency to "make a poor mouth" is very easily acquired. It is the prevailing fashion to predict calamity. Yet even the Jeremiahs know that Albert will not be spared a single ban quet because of economic conditions and that wasteful .display and prodigal ex penditure on all sides and by all classes of ; people will reveal to him the true status of a singularly fortunate nation. Often it seems a pity that Thanksgiv ing Day comes but once a year. Cer tainly jt is the most necessary and whole ome'feature of the American calendar. -THE LESSON IN FRANCE TITBEN the war opened the Germans '. did their worst to prove that France wa? spoiling for a fight. When the conflict-closed mendacious propaganda was again employed to demonstrate that vic torious France was the new bellicose and militaristic menace. There js now before the French Senate a" 'recdmmendation for a peace army of 350,000 and a" plan for reducing the period of military service from three years; to one. .After this any one contending that Prance' has ignored the meaning of the Wrid,strije will be confronted with an embarrassing fact.' The proposed army is 'eyen smaller than the one which Con jrresahas recommended for the United Stages. If 'is significantly stated that the Friench plan will be considerably changed If 'the1 league, of -nations is not formed. Among other things, the conscription term 'will' be restored to the old onerous prerwar basis. , iLianowup to Hir'arn Johnson to jjrove that, ihe-more sojdiers France equips and thflmore' thoroughly she trains, them, the store 'inclined for, peace will that nation becimeA ' - Egf f - ffi - ANY- I WHERE WB SHINE VNY; dNE who knows anything about A3L. European hotels, with their portable hatha 'and. the plumbing that dates from tfcfej dayof William the Cpnqueror, kftwsstiiat'thYtraveler in America- fares better than travelers anywhere else in At...' u..1.1 it la h IimU. jm..1. 4 t..j. jy, -"jttopiy in his pocket.' As hotelkeepera .Americans .SFpn.q..iriumpianuy apart frHB all the jAsi. of .mankind. 'If -.1$ not. alone .the size of the Ameri- j4.tan-JiQtel or its occasional atmosphere of HfcBtiura or ancient. "Rowe or the'fren- ' aoljeirbrts of its architects to 'hit a glo- . foti Hrtf of 'Munich, land the iniagined iAMdiaei that' ak fc superior to the "Mtii pt Pur,op, AaWn .hdfcsie have older countries, where whatever Is ex quisite or luxurious is necessaily pro vided for a small and exalted minority. As a people we splurge. We can afford to? The result is science, organisation and good taste in hotels such as have been built recently here, in New York, at At lantic City and elsewhere. It was supposed a few years ago that the newer hotels at Atlantic City repre sented the limit of human ambition and ingenuity. Yet that resort is now to have a ten million dollar "house," which is intended to be twice as magnificent as anything now known in 'this phenomenal world. That is as it should be. Every day is a day of new beginnings' in America. So long as ten-million-dollar hotels are being planned and built and being lived in and up to, we should, ns they say, worry. FOREIGN INDUSTRIAL DISEASES HAVE NO PLACE IN AMERICA Or, Flnegan's Harrlsburg School Confer- ence Can Do Something to Protect This Country From Experiment' Ing With Alien Aliments "TJOCTOR FINEGAN. the new state - superintendent of public instruction, is reported as expressing the opinion that there should be an adjustment of the work of the schools to meet the new conditions that have arisen as a result of the war. He has called a conference of men and women interested in education to meet in Harnsburg in November and to dis cuss the question for a week. Prominent college professors, high school teachers and city and county superintendents will be invited. It has not yet been an nounced whether any one save persons professionally interested in education will be asked to be present. The fact that the conference has been called should be encouraging to those who are hoping that Doctor Finegan will make the public schoolb of the state equal to those in any other commonwealth. He has come here with the hearty indorse ment of educational experts as a man who knows how to get results. His ap pointment of Dr. William D. Lewis, of the William Penn High School, as one of his deputies indicates that he knows how to choose men to assist him. Doctor Lewis is a man who is not content to follow the methods that have been in vogue for a generation merely because they have been followed by his predeces sors. He has been more intent on results than on method and has shown himself willing to discard everything that does not produce the results he is seeking. Doctor Finegan is understood to be the same kind of a man. Now what are the new conditions con fronting the public schools that, have arisen as a result of the war which de mand the consideration of persons inter ested in public education? The physical and mental examination of the young men by draft boards during the organization of the armies disclosed some facts about the status of education which were not generally known. A sur prisingly large number of the young men were unable to read and write. The illiterate were found in every state, Pennsylvania as well as Mississippi, and Massachusetts as well as Alabama. Yet we are supposed to have a school system which teaches the elementary branches to every boy and girl. Schoolmen in all parts of the country were impressed by this exhibition of the extent to which the public-school system had failed to reach all those for whose benefit it is maintained. It was also learned that a still larger number of the young men of draft age were physically defective and incapaci tated for service as soldiers. The schools as a whole have apparently been devot ing their attention to the minds of the children arid ignoring their bodies. But we know that many minor defects can be removed if they receive attention when the children are young. The w-ar has impressed upon us the necessity for a more rigid enforcement of the compulsory education laws and the importance of giving more attention to the physical condition of the public school children. But these unsatisfac tory conditions existed before the war and have not arisen out of it. The most disturbing result of the war is the spread of un-American ideas among the workers. We are hearing much about "direct action" when unsatis factory political and industrial condi tions are discussed. Direct action means violence. In Russia, where the term originated, it moant bomb-throwing and assassination. It is the appeal to force. No argument is needed to prove that this sort of thing is out of place in America. This is a democracy in which the majority rules. As soon as a mi nority becomes a majority it can have its way surely and peaceably. Every proposition for a change that can stand the test of public discussion and can commend itself to the judgment of a majority is certain of adoption in the course of time. There is no tyrannical dominant class here holding the rest of the public in servitude and provoking re bellion. But there are men who, as Her bert Hoover said the other day, would make America a laboratory for experi ment in foreign industrial diseases. It is evident that the way to destroy these un-American ideas is to begin with the children and to devote more attention to -training them for citizenship. Our public-school system exists primarily for the purpose of qualifying thfe rising generation for self-government, for teaching them that the right to life, lib erty, and the pursuit of happiness is in herent, and that respect for' the rights' of others goes along with the respect of others for our rights. If we have time and money left after teaching the elementary branches and the fundamentals of Americanism to teach manual training and auch like thing's," all well and good;- hut manual training should wait until the more important sub' iecta hav rciyl i-wwr attention. how lo earn his living in school If when he begins to earn it he is not allowed to enjoy the proceeds of his work ? If the Harrisburg conference addresses itself to this pressing problem of the Americanization of the rising generation and to the importance of teaching the boys the elements of sdund economic principles it will be worth while. WHEN CAR RIDERS WALK T1HE Public Sen-ice Corporation across the Delaware may profAs indigna tion when its trolley cars are attacked and its track torn up, but it is quite pos sible that this sentiment is not unmixed with a certain relief. Disorders are quell ablc. Law breakers are obviously in the wrong. Champions of public security are in the right. Every time a Camden carbarn is threatened by rioters the morality of the company's position is seemingly by contrast enhanced. It is altogether otherwise when the pervasive boycott tactics are peacefully employed. It is. the disappearing ob jectors in extraordinary numbers who are embarrassing the transportation com pany. Jitneys, autotrucks, Fords, rail way trains in Camden and nearby towns are jammed. In one of his rare philosophizing moods, the proscribed Karl Baedeker de clared that "the pedestrian is the most independent of travelers." He is pre cisely that in Jersey, where empty trol leys and sturdy exultant walkers just now abound. The Public Service Corpo ration cannot drag its former patrons aboard its cars. It cannot police a public opinion when that is at once faithful to the laws and its own convictions. Evidently a conversion of popular sen timent on behalf of the zone-fare system is impossible. Concession looms large as the only other course open to the trol ley company unless it is enamored of running cars without riders. It is use less for the Public Service Corporation to seek to prove that the zoning is equit able. The public and the Camden City Council which speaks for it in urging a suspension of the order dislike it and prefer any other mode of communication to trolley transit under the new system. Matthew Arnold contended that ma jorities were always wrong. But he could not deny that they were powerful. It is not so much the ethics of the case in New Jersey as it's the imponderability of mass opinion which is so impressive. "NATURAL AND FREE" T)R. AUGUSTA RUCKER, of New - York, thinks one should walk the straight and narrow path in sensible shoes. To that end, she makes a vigor ous kick against the pointed toe and grinds her heel into the practice of wear ing high heels. Addressing the International Confer ence of Women Physicians in her home city, she said that the stockings worn by children were too short in foot length and that this, coupled with tight shoes, re acted later in life and often caused de formed feet. Savages, she declared, de veloped a better race physically because of their "natural and free tendencies" presumably in the care of their feet. There are millions of small boys in this country who, at the approach of summer, unqualifiedly indorse the doctor's views; and it may be that their firm conviction that they ought to be permitted to go barefoot, a conviction which not infre quently overcomes the prejudices of their elders, is responsible for the well-being of the race. Mudwasps built a rest A Friendly Tip in an electric alarm at a railroad crosMnR at I.ambertville. X. J., ami prevented the bell from soundinK. As a result an automobile party was struck bv a milk train and seven people were injured The wasps, presum ably, were tnen dispossessed. If they have not yet procured new quarter we know a talking machine and piano that need si leucins, and they may take their choice. There arrived in Get- No Heartless tysburg an honest, old- Proflteer fashioned farmer who declared that ten rents a dozen had always been n fair price for sireet corn and he'd be hanged if he'd charge any more. He did not have to beg for cus tomers. If such a farmer arrived in Phil adelphia somp middleman would get bis stock before the "ultimate rousumer" knew it had arrived in town. There is said to be Altogether under construction- a Too Speedy giant airplane that will carry a ton and a half of mail between New York and Chicago in seven hours. There's a catch in it some where Mr. Burleson would never allow that kind of delivery. Report has it that Kolchak has re signed in favor of Denikine. What the uorld pines to hear is that Lenine and Trotsky have resigned in favor of Sense and Decency. Steel employes in this city have refused to join the steel strike. It is difference of opinion that makes the world safe for democracy. AVar between Holland and Belgium is a rumor that doesn't "gee" with King Al bert's start for the United States. Politicians are keeping eager eyes on Capitol Hill and some of them are going to be dotted. It wasn't thundv you heard yesterday afternoon. It was Atlantic City giving a welcome to the NC-4 and its commander. . Many a man who would protest against a punch in his dining room has no objection to a kick in his cellar. Today completes the doublecross the sun annually gives the equator. Despite its optimism the British em bassy in Washington sees Grey days ahead. The groom of a presidential dark horse has to be an optimistic guy. The club the populace is using on the Camden trolley companies Is nlclel-plated. Men who buy liquor licenses nowadays. snow an optimum wortny pi a. better caus. Woaier if DftveXas-e k trvln in , I J- ulill Ltafi.iMl.Iq " ' TIP FOR J. HAMPTON MOORE Col. McCain Suggests the James G. Blaine Handshake for the New Year's Reception Some Nearby Politicians Ily filCOKtiK NOX .MtCAl.V . WHEN J-. Hampton Moore, as Mayor, grectR several thousand people at his New Year's reception I shall adrise him In advanre to adopt the Blaine handshake. I told General Daniel II. Hastings about it when he was touring the state on Ills gu bernatorial canvass. He accepted the sug gestion and it snred his right hand many nn nrlie and pain. .lames f. Blaine, so far as F know, was Ihe Inventor of the nonhurting handshake. The I'rinee of Wales has received his first experience, or effect rather, of this universal American and more or less idiotic practice. When Blaine was n candidate for the presidency in 1RS4 I was one of a Httle coterie of newspaper corespondents, fire in number, who accompanied him for four weeks from New York lo Detroit. Mich., on his tour of the states. He received a wonderful ovation everywhere and was com pelled to shake hands with thousands. To be more exact, I should say shake fingers. Whenever Blaine had lo undergo the pawing ordeal he would draw a lead pencil from his veRt pocket, or hurriedly borrow one from his stenographer. Andrew Devine, or his manage?, Joe Manly, grasp it with the thumb and two last fingers of his right hand, extending ouly the first two fingers to the "shakers." They didn't notice the difference. If they did they fancied doubtless that Mr Blaine had been making notes and had not had time toidrop his pencil. As a handshake it was a great success. T30Y A. HATFIKLD. who. in the ex '' pressive Pennsylvania Dutch of Salford township, has "busted all up" the Repub lican organization slate in Montgomery county by defeating one of the anointed candidates, is one of the most subdued, un demonstratative and lowly spoken politicians I have ever known. T do not believe that he ever raised his voice above a conversational tone. 'No one ever heard him whistle. Possibly he can sing i I don't know. And yet when it comes to practical politics he seems to be able to build stake and rider fences all around some of his opponents and coworkers, too. It has long been a surprise to roe that greater attention is not paid by Philadelphia folks to the incomings and outgoings of politicians in our next -door county. They're exceedingly interesting and entertaining. I'll warrant that there are tens of thou sands of people in Philadelphia unaware that Montgomery county, at the farthest boundary line from the center of the city, lies but eleven miles distant from City Hall. Furthermore, thai lowcr Merion town ship, which joins hands with some of our western wards, is the wealthiest township in the United States. The "busting all up" process which Roy Hatfield has just put across is in connection with the job of county commissioner of our neighbor. Montgomery. He is at present one of the- three members of the board, the others being William Wallace Harper and Harmon Bready. Bready is a Democrat. They are all business men, though Bready is a farmer on the side, and all are up for re-election. William Wallace Harper is one of the largest nurserymen in the eastern United Stales. He has enough beautiful trees, shrubs, vines and flowers on the 1000 acres covered by his nurseries to make every public park in Philadelphia look like a posy bed in poppy time. There is one thing in which Montgomery county is fortunate ; its board of county commissioners are business men. They exer cise business judgment in handling the busi ness affairs of their county. They do not always get credit, however, for the good deeds they perform. TVTONTGOMERY. more than any other of "J- our neighboring counties I think, has in past years contributed a larger number of leading business and professional ineu to its political life and activities. A. D. Fettcrolf, president of the Col legcville National Bank, is a fine sample of the type. The "squire," as he is popularly known, having held the office of justice of the peace, was for years active in Re publican politics He was chief elerk of the House of Representatives during the sessions of ISO,"-18115. B. Witman Dambly. president of the Per kiomen Mutual Fire Insurance Company, was a member of the House at the session of 1803-lS9."i. and a constant thorn hi the side of Senator Quay. Another conspicuous figure in the Legis lature was the late Henry W. Kratz, pres ident of the National Bank of Schwenks ville, who sat in the House in 1805 and 1807. He was aqother Independent, by the way. Captain II. A Fetterolf, capitalist and bank director and a brother of A. D. Fet terolf, represented the county at Harris burg in 1800. Henry K. Boyer. former state treasurer and speaker of the House, although he rep resented a Philadelphia "district, is a native of Slontgpmery rounty and still resides at Kvansburg. He is now seventy years of age. Boyer claims to be the individual respon sible for the career of United States Senator Boles Penrose. It is in view of the fact that it. was. he who first introduced the present senior senator and chairman of the Senate finance committee- to Matthew Stanley Quay who, then and there, extended to the young Harvard graduate the right hand of political friendship. HENRY K. BOYER was one man who did not hesitate to tell Quay just what he thought. And his expressions were not always to Quay's liking. Boyer's fearless ness iu this respect was due to his, unswerv ing loyalty aB a member of the organization. Quay was aware that no matter what happened in the course of events at Harris burg., or elsewhere over the state, Boyer would stand-by the machine. And his faith fulness to "the old man," as the senator was known among his intimates, was rewarded with high offices. I once heard Senator Quay say that Harry Boyer was' the ablest parliamentarian that ever sat in the speaker's chair, and that Al Crawford came next. Crawford, whom I have mentioned before, was a. Democrat from the Eleventh district of- Philadelphia, which then comprised the Eleventh ward. It is now the Ninth district and embraces the Eleventh and Twelfth wards. Crawford served continually in tile House from 1875 to 1885 and again during the.ecssion of 1803. Tie was without doubt one of the greatest authorities on decisions of the House that ever stood upon its floor. I think there must have been a strain of Pennsylvania Dutch In Crawford. He was a fine, upstanding, well-groomed man, past! fifty, of commanding presence, and affable though reserved manner. He was, despite Ms-politics, a firm friend and great admirer of Chris h. Magee. t .The. admiration was reciprocated. , Magee once'Jaughingly said the only fault that he could .ever find wlth.Al Crawford was his disposition to substitute the letter W for aY. - ""Al told me the other morning.", said 'Mii qa one occasion witlTc iitlr,'tMt' i;f.Mt best Meads wH 'at $' "Sorry, .jh .- .iW A Si. ,( nl ' .'.-' , j -j- - -"- ..-.-j--. .,- ..' .,; .i-jf y-.'-.. -jr .' .,:- t-.J' .V J' THE CHAFFING DISH The Shore In September rpHE sands are lonely in the fall. On - those broad New Jersey beaches, where the rollers sprawl inward in ridges of crumbling snow, the ocean looks almost wistfully for its former playmates. The children are gone, the small brown legs, the toy shovels and the red tin pails. The familiar figures of the summer season have vanished: the stout ladies who sat in awn inged chairs and wrestled desperately to unfurl their newspapers in the wind ; the handsome mahogany-tanned lifesavers, the vamperinoes incessantly drying their tawny hair, the corpulent males of dark complexion wearing ladies' bathing caps, the young men playing a degenerate baseball with a rubber sphere and a bit of shingle. All that life and excitement, fed upon hot dogs and vanilla cones, nnointed with cold cream and citronella, has vanished for another year, BUT how pleasant it is to see the town (it is Fierceforest we have in mind) taking its own vacation, after laboring to amuse its visitors all summer long. Here and there in the surf you will see a familiar figure. That plump lady, lathered by sluicing combers as she welters and wambles upon Neptune's bosom, is good Frau Wein traub of the delicatessen, who has been frying fish and chowdering clams over a hot stove most of July and August, and now takes her earned repose. Yonder is the imposing bulge of the real estate agent, who has been too busy selling lots and dreaming hotel sites to visit the surf hitherto. Far ther up the shore is the garage, man, doing a little quiet fishing from the taffrail of a deserted pier. The engineer of the "roller coastef" smokes a cigar along the deserted boardwalk and discusses the league of na tions with the gondolier-in-chief of the canals of Ye Olde Mill. The- hot-dog expert, whose merry shout, "Here they 'are, all red hot and fried in butter!" was wont to echo along the. crowded arcade, has boarded up his stand and departed none knows where. THERE is a tincture of grief in the survey of all this. liveliness coffined and nailed down. Even the gambols of Flerceforest's citizens, taking their case at last in the warm September surf, cannot wholly dispel the mournfulness of the observer. There is something dreadfully glum in the merry-go-round seen through its locked, glass doors. All' those gayly caparisoned horses, with their bright Arabian housings, their flowing manes and tossing heads and scarlet. painted nostrils, stand stilled in the very, gesture of glorious rotation. One remembers what a jolly sight that carrousel was on a warm evening, the groaning pipes of the steam organ chanting an adorable ditty (we don't know what' it .is, but it's the tune they always play at the movies when our favorite Dorothy Gish comes on the screen), children laughing and holding tight to the wooden manes of the horses, and flappers with their pink dresses swirling, clutching for ihe brass ring that means a free ride. All this is frozen into silence and sleep, like a-.'scene in a fairy tale. It is very sad, and we dare not contemplate the poor little sllent'h'orses ' too long. BITTERLY does one lamept the closing of the Boardwalk auction rooms, which were a perpetual free show to "thosew who could not find a seat in the, movies.' There was one auctioneer who logkecLso like .Mr. Wilson that when we saw his earnest, ges tures we always expected that the leagjie of nations would be thft subject jof, hls harangue, But on entering and 'taking a seat (endeavoring to avoid his eye when be became too persuasive, for fear, some" In voluntary gesture or the contortions, of an approaching sneeze would be construed as a bid fir a. Chinese umbrella stand) we al ways, found that it was a little black bqr full of teacups that was under discussion. He would hold one up against ,an .electric bulb to. shew iU transparency.., WenVlie Valvar mfi'flt l?lfiMA & W a JhfcEf WnlJ&X'mfA found bM(au(. wriponjive ne4wouw sir, full car, siri i .4i a mm j - is ,Zi -v to pack up and go to Ocean City." But he never went. Almost every evening, cha grined by some one's failure to bid properly for a cut-glass lady-finger container or a porcelain toothbrush-rack, he would ask the attendant to set it aside. "I'll buy it my self," he would cry, and as he kept on buying these curious tidbits for himself throughout the summer, we used to wonder what his wife would say when they all arrived. ATONG the quiet Boardwalk we saunter, " as the crisp breeze comes off the wide ocean spaces. Bang ! bang ! bang ! sound the hammers, ns the shutters go up on the beauty-parlor, the toy shop, the shop where sweet-grass baskets were woven, and the stall where the little smiling doll known ns Helene, the Endearing Beach Yamp, was to be won by knocking down two tenpins with a swing ing pendulum How esy it was to cozen the public. with that! A bright red star was painted at the back of the pendulum's swing, and the natural assumption of the simple competitor was that by aiming at that star he would win the smiling Helene. Of course, as long as one aimed at the star success was impossible. The Japanese deal ers, with the pertinacity of their race, are almost the last to linger. Their innocent little gaming boards, their fishponds where one angles for counterfeit fish and draws an eggcup or a china cat, arcprding to the num ber inscribed on the catch, their roulette wheels ("Ten Cents a Chance No Blanks") all are still In operation, but one of the shrewd orientals is packing up some china '. U 1 I. ,L. -I TT 1 iL. ui iue uu:& in iue quuji. ne Knows inaL trade is pretty well done for this season. We wondered whether he would go down to the beach or a swim before he left. Ht has stuck soa close to business all summer that perhaps he does not know the ocean is there. There is another thrifty merchant, too, whose strategy comes to our attention. This Fs the rolling-chair baron, who has closed his little kiosque, but has takeu care to paint out the prices per hour of his ve hicles, and has not marked any new rates. Cautious man, be is waiting until next summer to see what the trend of prices will be then. ACROSS the fields toward the inlet, where the grasses have turned rusty bronze and pink, where goldenrod is minting its butter-yellow sprays and riotous magenta portulaccas seed themselves over the sandy patches, the rowboats are being dragged out of the canal and laid up for the winter. The sunburned sailormau who rents them says he has had a good season and he "can't complain." He comes chugging, in with his tiny motorboat, tewing a string of tender feet who have been out tossing ou the crab bing grounds for a couple of hours, patiently ..lowering the fishheads tied on a cord apd weighted with rusty bolts. His patient and energetic wife who runs the little candy and earsaparilla counter on the dock has endel her labors. She is glad to get bark to her kitchen : during the long, busy summer days she did her 'family cook ing ou an oil stove behind the counter. The captain, as he likes to be called, is about to' make his annual change from mariner to roofer, the latter being his winter trade, "It's blowing up-for rain,",he says, looking over his shoulder at the eastern iky, "I guess the season's pretty near over I'll get up the rest of them boats next week." BUT there are still a ,few oldtimers in Fierceforest, cottagers who cling on until the, first' of October, and whose fraternal password (one may hear them saying it every time they meet) is "Sure! Best time of the year!" Through, the pink flush of sunrise you may see the husbands moving soberly toward the ea.rjy cqmniuters' train, the 0:55, wjilch" is no longer..c'rowded. (A month ago one had to reach It half an hour early' In order to" get a seat1 in the smoker.) Each one .transport his tatched, and also curious bundles,' for" at this time of year1 it is the .custom to make .the husband carrr hppjeach week Hn instalment of th family ammml -"' ft" ;33S?'Oii -'FlS -T m ronov; aaoHwr, goth" somewhat grimly through. the thin morning., twilight, going back for another week 'at office and empty house or apartment. -Leaving behind them the warm bed, the little ' cottage full of life and affection, they taste for a moment the nostalgic pang that sailors know so well when the ship's bow cuts the vacant, horizon. Over the purpli rim of sea the sun juts its scarlet disk. You may see these solitary husbands halt a moment to scan the beauty of the scene. They stand, there thoughtful, in the immortal loneliness of dawn. Then they climb the smoker, and pinochle has its sway. SOCRATES. THE FLAG OF MAN .VTirEAVE for the world the flag of man I Finish the fabric our sires began! Out of our lives shall the thread, be spun I Out of our veins shall the color run ! Out of our deeds shall rise its luster! Out of our dreams its stars shall cluster! Wide as the heavens spin the span Of freedom's fabric the flag of man! Ply the shuttle and crowd the loom! Spin the threads of the tyrant's doom I Spin humanity's hopes fulfilled Shackles sundered and cannon stilled! Blend the glorious flags of the free In the far-spun cloth of fraternity ! Twine with the victor's shining sheaf The somber threads of the people's grief 1 Those who inherit must know the price Dye the folds in our sacrifice! Weave for the world the flag of man! Gather the nations into its span! Yea, there shall still be struggle to spin, And divers goals for the tribes to win, But show them joined in generous strife. To lead the race to larger life; ' Lifting the torch of t common aim Out of warfare's trampled flame! Making the roads our armies beat Paths to a common judgment seat!" ' Daniel Henderson in "Life's Minstrel." What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. What state took no part whatever in ths' formation of the federal constitution? 2. What is a Helvetian? 3. Who was Captain Boycott, and how did ' he enrich the English language? 4. When did the separation of Belgium ' from Holland take place? 5. How should the name of the English town Cirencester be pronounced? G. What is an heir presumptive? 7. What sort of an unlmal is a dottrel? 8. Why Is an opal considered unlucky? 0. Who said "He was the mildest man nered man that ever scuttled ship or cut a throat"? 10. Who was Vice President during the ad ministration of Benjamin Harrison? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz. 1. To send 'a person to Coventrymeans to refuse to associate with him. Accord ing to tradition, the citizens of Coven try, England, so detested soldier that awoman seen speaking tot. one was instantly ostracized. No Intercourse was allowed between the garrison and the town. Hence when a soldier was sent to .Coventry, he was cut off from social Intercourse. 2. A counter-tenor Is a male voice higher than a tenor. The' earth is divided Into fivo.zones. They are the North "'Frigid, South Frigid.tNorth Temperate, South Tern- perateahd Torrid. 'Henry" Morgenthau has tecently b80 serving. as tie head jf the 'united in vestigating commission in Poland. Ice expands-when heated. Boswell's life of Dr. Samuel Johnson tis considered the masterpiece of all biog raphies, j Persiennes are outside window bllwU'j ol'lljUthoVisontaUatlm ,, -4 0. 7. 8. jftMUaLiH it i&fifazM H kjutt a if m -Mw&i n u 8r. xXbtr'tnOstl S-.fr- ' ' - H I? .-.Is- I
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