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WHISKY FOR THE SICK
rplIE decision of J.udgc Dickinson in
the Federal Court that the saloon
keeper who sells, whisky to be given
to a sick man is. not guilty of violating
Iho law seems to nullify the wartime
prohibition statute.
Tlio saloonkeeper, who was on trial
had sold the liquor to an agent of tho
government who had said that he
wanted it for a sick man. The case was
taken from the jury as soon as this
evidence was offered and the district at
torney asked that the indictment be
quashed.
It must be noted that no physician's)
prescription was used and that the word
of tho purchaser that the liquor was
wanted for a sick man was. regarded as
sufficient warrant for the Mile.
If the law was intended to prevent the
sale of all liquor save for medicinal pur
poses on a physician's prescription it is
evidently fatally defective, that is, pro
vided Judge Dickinson's decision is sus
tained, and as if any man who can induce
a saloonkeeper to believe that he needs
a drink as medicine can get it and the
saloonkeeper will escape punishment.
It looks as if there would be confusion
until Congress finally passes a law for
tho enforcement of the constitutional
prohibition amendment.
4 THE RESULT IN JERSEY
f"NE of the candidates who opposed .Mr.
x-' Bugbce in the run for the Republican
nomination for the governorship in New
Jersey yesterday was pledged to rip out
tho state public utilities commission be
cause of the zone-fare decision. An
other candidate promised tho state a
commission free from political inilu-
ence. Governor Ilunyon himself turned
on the utilities commission at the last
hour before the primaries and summoned
the member for a hearing.
Mr. Bugbec made no such promises.
So far as he appeared to be concerned
tho utilities commission might have
been a, flock of angels. While the state
was seething with an authentic rage
against the administration of its trolley
lines and utility service generally, Mr.
Bugbce promised merely to have the
property of the utilities corporations, ap
praised at some time in the future to
determine just rates for trolley, gas and
electric service.
Mr. Bugbec has what looks like a com
fortable majority. He was no amateur.
" Until recently he was head of the Re
publican organization in the state.
Others may have known what was wrong
with tho public service in Jersey. Mr.
Bugbee knew his way around in politics.
Tho defeat of Nugent by the Demo
crats was a surprise to many observers.
Is'ugent, as an aspirant for the governor
ship, was pledged to the interests of tho
resorts and the hotels, and as one of the
ablest antagonists of prohibition in the
country was expected to make a showing.
His defeat ends what is left of the Dem
ocratic party in the state. Mr. Edwards,
who won over him, will probably never
bo heard of more.
ACTION IN THE TAXI PROBE
TNQUIRY into the taxi-stand graft is
"etaking form which the public can ap
plaud. The Hotel Owners' Association
and the automobile cab companies arc to
"be given the opportunity to tell the truth
concerning a practice which is said to be
largely responsible for high taxi fares.
The Public Service Commission, which
Is conducting the investigation, promises
relief if it is shown that rentals arc ac
tually paid for parking privileges.
Selling the streets is a kind of buc
caneering which gives almost the color
of legitimacy to old-fashioned piracy.
The cab companies and the property own
ers aro equally guilty when they are par
ties to such a preposterous outrage.
SHIPS, SHIPS, SHIPS!
PHILADELPHIA'S foreign shipping
recdrd is broken at the auspicious mo
ment vhen dominant forces in the Ameri
can mercantile marine foresee a perma
aence for the new position of the na-
bf tienal flag upon the high seas.
- Of the 112 ocean vessels now moored
along. theDelaware river fronts, ninety-
- one are of American registry. A few
months ago jubilation over such an ex
hibit 'might have been countered by the
forecast that our great merchant marine
. yiS war haby destined to perish be
cause of foreign competition, under con
ijittona which this country would be un
Wa to combat.
Jfee ink of pessimism has been, freely
pitted concerning American inability
mkr the present shipping laws to main
tain its shipping while the cost "of man
nine, the vessels was so much higher than
"4fet obtaining In rival maritime nations.
r Bwt tho wages of the foreign seamen
arenowr little, if any lower thkn ourc.
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EVENING
The new raised scale occasioned by the
wat prevails virtually tho world round.
"The outlook," declares P. A. S. Franklin,
of tho laws committee of tho United
States shipping board, "seems to indi
cate that all the shipping laws as they
now stand may not bo so unworkable ns
tho ordinary understanding declares they
arc."
Figures disclosed at the committee's
meeting proved that one-quarter of the
shipping of the globe is now under the
American flag. Tho value of this ton
nage is equal to that of the whole world's
shipping in 101-1.
There is a thrill in this summation of
prodigious enterprise. Thcic is even
deeper stimulation in tho prospect that
the American mercantile armada is not
going to fade like an unsubstantial
pageant.
RED CONTROL IS MENACING
THE FEDERATION OF LABOR
Foster, Who Inspired the Steel Strike, Is
Not a Trades Unionist, but a Propa
gandist of Social Revolution
TIip wages s.vteni mtifct bo nbolishcd
The thieves at present In conliul oC 'ho
Industries must he stripped of their loot
This poUiil reorRaniratlon will he ,i refill
lion rpiIAT cheerful sentence is from a ic
cent book bound, of course, m flam
ing led which bears the name of Wil
liam Z. Foster as co-author with anothci
and lcsn conspicuous wsionaiy.
Mr. Foster i- the man who has been
organizing the steel and iron woikeis
under the auspices of the Federation of
Labor. He is presumed to be tho ani
mating genius behind the present strike.
Yet his book, issued just befoio ho went
into the Pennsylvania steel country as an
organizer, is a bitter and contemptuous
tirade against the whole principle of
trades unionism as it is accepted in
America. To him trades unionism is
"idiotic" and "futile."
The author.-! of the red book accept
the Federation of Labor. Hut they ac
cept it only temporarily as an instalment
which they lccommcnd as one that may
be used to bung about bulshrvisiu and
the social overthrow for which they arc
fanatically hoping.
If, at the hearing which the benato
wisely ordcretl yesterday, Mr. Foster is
properly questioned, the country at Urge
may be permitted to get a new insight
into the actual origin and purpose of the
lecent strike order."
But it is for the intelligent rank and
file of the Federation of Labor itself
that astonishment seemingly is in store.
The prestige of the organization has
been relied upon in this instance for the
development of a scheme of labor con
trol that is frankly revolutionary, avow
edly opposed to the existing order of
government and cheerfully dependent
upon coercion and violence.
For Mr. Foster is a fervid advocate
of syndicalism which is anarchy in an
organized form. The method of con
quest which he has been recommending to
dissatisfied labor recommends sabotage,
crime and ccry conceivable method that
may be applied to bring about indus
trial paralysis. The aim of this propa
ganda is tho formal denial of property
rights and stale authority and "control
by the proletariat." ,
A year or two ago the man who ap
pears to have inspired the steel workers
in the present instance was suggesting
ardently in print that workers in America
could, best obtain a stranglehold on so
ciety by tightly organizing all men in
the basic industries in order that they
might stop transportation and the pro
duction of essential commodities when
ever they wero ready to assert their
right to rule tho nation.
If tho Senate will look into the more
recent literature of American radicals it
will perhaps be able to perceive the ac
tual motive which caused tho leaders of
the steel men's organization to refuse the
President's request for a postponement
of the strike order in order to permit a
review of tho disputed issues by the
coming industrial conference.
Many of the demands made by tho steel
workers' representatives wero unfair.
Some of the conditions which they pro
posed were impossible. From the view
point of Mr. Fitzpatrick and Mr. Foster
a strike seemed moro desirable than an
adjustment.
Wages have been good in the steel
industry. What the strike leaders seem
to have desired was to create among
their followers a sense of oppression and
the dynamic scntimcntalism such as often
bind those who are drawn together in
a common cause. By this means the
leaders hoped, apparently, to quicken the
slow work of their organizers.
The strike, so far as it has progressed,
is for the most part a demonstration by
foreign-born workers. It was planned to
be a national crisis. Instead it has be
come a crisis for the Federation of Labor,
which, first in Boston and now in tho
steel industry, finds its name and in
fluence used to sustain the half-mad
theories that left the stupendous ruin in
Russia and poverty and despair over half
of EurP io prove their crazy futility.
The stupidity and cruelty of tho old
regime in tho steel industry cannot bo
defended. The methods that still prevail
under an inherited policy are a blight on
some part3 of the industry.
But any one who looked below the sur-
PUBLIC
faco of tho strike preliminaries can un
derstand Gary's lcfusal to deal with the
thing which Foster and his associates
represent.
The Senate hearing ought to show
whether other Reds in disguiso arc con
trolling tho policies of the Federation of
Labor without knowledge of the masses
of intelligent workers who compose that
organization.
If they are, the federation hasn't much
time in which to save its life.
From Russia to the west of England
bolshevism has killed everything it
touched.
BRITAIN'S LEAGUE POWERS
QENATOR REED damages hi3 case
against tho league-of-nations cove
nant by intemperate denunciation of Mr.
Wilson.
The President seriously weakens his
position by withholding from the public
so important an interpretation of the
league covenant as is the letter which he
and Lloyd George and Clcmcnccau signed
and dispatched to Sir Robert Borden,
premier of Canada.
The British Government is transpar
ently cusuistic in rating India, which has
a vote in the league assembly, as a self
governing colony.
The whole vital question of British au
thority in the international paitncrship,
which is now concerning the Senate, is
beclouded with partisan prejudice on the
one hand anil misrepresented by egoistic
obstinacy on the other.
The American public is not composed
exclusively of international lawyers.
Mr. Reed tells them one thing. The
President flatly contradicts it. To com
plete the conflict, the covenant itself
fails to shod tho desired light on the
matter of the British oting power.
What is the average citizen, unequipped
with the legal powers of a Root or a
Taft, to think? Whatever Mr. Reed's
motives m bringing up tho point, the
public is his debtor if clarification of tlio
subject ensues.
The President lias committed a two
fold mistake. In his recent speeches he
has told only part of the story by insist
ing that although Great Britain by the
ranking of her major dependencies as
national entities has six votes in the
assembly, yet m tho council of the league,
which is tho dctcimining bod, the
British empire has but a single vote.
Sophistry and apparent truth arc neatly
doctailcd here. That the explanation is
inadequate is disclosed by the damaging
letter contending that the "sclf-goicin-mg
dominions of the British empire may
be solected or named us members of the
council."
By his disinclination to be frank con
cerning u communication of such moment
the President of the United State's has
presented a vulnerable front to an oppo
nent whoso iccord is notoriously un
wholesome and oblique. To decent
Americans it conies as a disagreeable
shock to bo championed by James A.
Reed, marked as the pestiferous antago
nist of the indispensable Herbert C. Hoo
ver. It was equally distasteful to be
compelled to heed Senator Norris when
he disclosed the Shantung blunder.
Yet if Norris, who opposed the war,
and Reed, who vilified Hoover, have sig
nificant facts, to leport it is imperative
for tho public to consider them. That
the President has 'laid himself open to
attacks by men of such caliber is deeply
regtcttablc. It is one of the many penal
ties of self-sufficient secrecy in a critical
period. '
At the present moment it is true that
the British empire has but a single ote
in the council of the league of nations.
That is because the members of that body
arc the "principal Allied and associated
poweib," tho United States, Britain,
France, Italy and Japan. Four additional
members of the council "shall be selected
by the assembly from time to time."
Until the league machinery is in motion,
however, the first four powers in , the
rotation system are specifically named
in the covenant. They are Belgium,
Brazil, Spain and Greece.
But by the Wilson-Lloyd Georgo
Clemenceau reading of the pact as ex
pressed in the letter to Premier Borden,
the five alleged self-governing dependen
cies of the British empire (including In
dia!) are eligible for entrance into the
council on the same basis as sovereign
nations. It is in the power of the assem
bly to enable Great Britain to have five
votes in the council. Mr. Wilson has
been hitherto silent on this possibility.
Mr. Reed is stridently vocal. The letter
supports him.
Can the council, all action of which,
unless otherwise specified, must be unani
mous, reject selections made "from time
to time" by the assembly? The cove
nant has nothing to say on this theme.
It is indefinite, moreover, concerning
whether or not tho assembly shall choose
the rotation members of tho council by
unanimous vote. If tho entire assembly
must agree beforo the four transitory
members be elevated to the council, tho
United States is by its veto power armed
against British control. It is conceivable
that there may be occasions in which this
country would gladly wish to admit Aus
tralia or Canada to the council. There
are crises imaginable when so many
British imperial votes in the upper cham
ber would place our legitimate interests
in serious, jeopardy.
America's entrance into the league
must be contingent upon a clear under
standing of these questions. The sena
torial inquiry is a good thing. The Presi
dent's plight and the venom of Reed are
subjects subordinate to an exact and un
equivocal realization of just what the in
ternational partnership in itself a splen
did ideal will mean to this country.
Uncle Sam has no complaint to make
concerning tlie immigrants now landiue on
his shores. They are;' composed exclusively'
of war brides.
There is btrong suspicion here and there
that among tbe real rent boosters are tie
strikiug bricklayers and carpenters.
Tho Fiumo situation has so many dell
cato angles that no one can blame Italy for
passing the buck.
LEDaER-PlJILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER
CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S
LETTER
Prospect of a Hog Island Investigation.
Gossip About Clinton R. Woodruff
and Captain J. W. Emery,
.Mobert Qrler and Others
Washington, Sept. 21.
INVnSTIGATING committees appointed
by the Republicans to Inquire into war
expenditures are still digging away with
flue prospects for n number of important
reports. 'I lie promise of (lencrnl Pershing
lo lay nil foreign military transactions
before the Senate and tho House nt tin early
date h reassuring, in sicw of the refusal of
the general ou the other side of the water
to nppcnr before n subcommittee of the
Gr.'ihaui inestignling committee, which
went abroad to follow up certain clues with
respect lo waste and o.traugaucc. The
shipping hoard inquiry, which is under the
direction of Mr. Walsh, of Massachusetts,
hns been conducted largely along the Pacific
coast up to the present time, but it is
coming 1'ast, nnd in due course will reach
Uostou, New York, Philadelphia nnd points
south. Kxpenditures nt Hog Island uud
oilier shipyards lire likely to come tinder the
purview of this committer. Concerning Hog
Island, the recent statement of President
Matthew ('. Brush that there la enough
contract work ahead lo keep the jnrd going
another jear is being commented on and is
now inviting n compatisou of the cost of
ship construction at home and abroad.
TIIKRi; is no minimizing the import of
lecent labor outhreaks. The policemen's
itriko in Iloston has ghen concern to the
national legislators and they lime cnch been
commenting upon Mayor Kllis's efforts to
keep down disortler in Camden, .lust how
Iho demands of labor are to he met is otic
of the grate questions with natioual states
men. The announcement by Chairman
Good, of the appropriations committee, that
there would be a deficit approximating
$.",000,000,000 this year has had a sobering
effect upon ecrjbody. The people dpmaud
a reduction of luxes. Tho fedcrul govern
ment is faced with tho necessity of con
tinuing existing taxes for some time to
come. Tho war brought ou such a cbaugo
in our economic conditions us to mako the
aftermath worthy the study of the couutry'b
most careful thiukers. The problem is:
How arc wc going tn keep profits nnd wages
up nnd tuxes down'' It is a hard nut to
craclf.
TjlIlANCIS A. LUYWS, B. Spencer Mil-
ler and Dr George Woodward belong to
thill group of 1'hiladelphians who believe
that the Varo forces were fairly beaten in
the recent mnjoralt.v eoutcst and that the
city will he the gainer by a change of ad
ministration. It is noteworthy how wide
spread was the inteiest in tho Philadelphia
election. Not ouh tliove in trie vicinity of
Philadelphia watched the returns, but New
otk, llaltiinore, Washington and Pitts
btiigh. to say nothing ot Atlantic City,
weie stirred up ovir the situation.
CLIN'J
addil
ton npGi:i:s WOODRUFF, in
dition to being a registration commis
sioner and, by the wny, he was one of the
propauents of tho law protiding for n board
nf registration finds time to edit the social
service department of one of the magazines,
uud also to act as secretary of tho National
Municipal League. lie is also president of
the Social Service Commission of the Upis
copal Chun h.
Cap:
to
bo the Beau Bmmmell ot the police
force, is engaged ou u piece of work in
Brooklyn, but be found time to go over to
Philadelphia to vote. Ho did Vic Hamilton,
of the Seteuth ward, who has been finishing
ui a contract in Ltizeruo county. The prac
tical fellows in politics, no matter what the
sacrifice, know the value of the individual
vote, and they usually coine borne to cast it.
The suggestion is often heard lu political
campaigns thnt a man who is entitled to
rote and fails to register, or to vote
nfter he has registered, is not n good citizen.
In the recent mayoralty campaign comment"
went even so far as to suggest tho propriety
of legislation which would iu soraerway pen
alize those who enjoj the protection of the
lnw and yet fail to exercise tho right of
suffrage. Somo day this questlou of indif
ference or neglect of tho voter may become
an issue.
CHAI
Nat
HARLUS 11. CAKTOR. secretary of the
llonal Association of Hosiery and
Underwear Manufnctmcre, has forwarded
to Congress an aflidavit certifying to tho
signatures of o00 reputable corporations,
firms and Individuals, protesting against a
dje licensing commission as proposed in the
Longworth dyes tariff bill. Many of these
signers aic Philadelphlans.
JOSEPH RODGERS, sergcant-at-arms
of the IIouso of Representatives, and
Harry Nrsbit went over from Washington
to vote at the Philadelphia primaries. They
reported that the capital was immcuscly
interested in the clcctiou and that buttons
of tho candidates were being freely worn in
Washington. They returned in time to get
a glimpso of the great Pershing demonstra
tion. WILLIAM. R. LESTER, who talks as
he writes, and who writes in thnt fine
stafcinwhich betokens the well-trained news
paper man, has a string of stories about the
late William M.Singerly which are worth
being set down in the memoirs of fumous
Philadclpbians. Lester's stories go back to
the days when Singerly was not ouly be
loved by all tho boys who worked with him
on his newspaper, but was tho typical
Democrat who helped lo make and unmake
candidates in tho city and state. Singerly
finally became a candidate himself, running
for the office of governor. He had helped
to make Robert E. Pattison governor, but
like other king makers, failed to land on
his own account.
ROBERT GUIER is still popular at the
Corinthian Yacht Club, Cape May.
Robert keeps up his interest in cruisers and
motorboats, notwithstanding bis activities
for tho Republican Alliance. The way
Robert explained the wind-up of tho Phila
delphia primary election to Doctor Starr and
Henry Hallowcll was something like this:
The captain of the Vare craft wbb bringing
a basket of eels up the gang plank, but
when the captain struck tho platform the
basket struck a rafter and slipped from the
captain's bands. Thcu the eels bllpped from
the basket. It was like tho wards and
divisions in Philadelphia slipping away at
the primaries. "There, d you, you're
gonel Nobody can get you together now
but Theodore Roosevelt," said tbe captain."
Tbe taxi investigation
The Immediato .Issue just completed by tbe
Public Service Com
mission will cause little, excitement among
tbo much -talked -of proletariat. What most
people are worried about is tho dwindling
portions of what you might call corned be?f
and taxi-cabbage.
Camden trolleys appeared to be equipped
with a block system as well as a zone eys-
Utem.
4 '
D'A'nnunzIo seems determined to turn
hU' Fwhic limerick into an elefij,
A LITTLE
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THE ELECTRIC CHAIR
The Classroom Reopens
(In .Mrmoriatn Francis B. Gummcro)
ACROSS tho fields the scent of uutumu
days,
Ibe bronze and russet hills, the dim blue
haze,
Tho stir and laughter of rcgathercd youth,
The rustle of dead leaves along tho ways.
Once more the old familiar classrooms fill:
The clustered feet come trampling o'er tho
sill,
But vanished is the well-remembered face
That waited by the desk. Wc sco him still.
This was his lecture room, and when ho
bpoko
Ah. 'what a vision on our senses broke:
AVe saw the pageantry of human mind
And all tho sense of wouder iu us woke.
The freight of human passion that endears
Our language, echoed to us down the jcars;
We laughed with Chaucer on the pilgrims'
road,
Kaw Juliet leaning iu a mist of tears.
And every haunted music English bore
Fioui out the heart of man, seemed in his
store:
How like the clang of swords his voico
could bring
The blood and anger of tho ballad lore'.
Iu this his room it never was his plan
To btiut his teaching to a narrow span
And most of all, wo learned by watching
him
How Nature blends a scholar and a man.
What humor, and what charm! Wo all
nnd each
Adored him for bis gracious gift of speech;
In -bim his favorite line was born again
"And gladly would ho lcaru, aud gladly
teach."
The Blind Hen
A BLIND hen walked through the open
door
From the earth o a haggard wild with
worms,
But sbo becincd to know that tho earthen
floor
Had nothing that crawls nor squirms.
For she neither pecked nor scratched the clay
Of tho kitchen's ground, where Pcgg
McGlrr
Has fed her by hand since the dreadful day
That a magpie swooped on her.
"Faith, the tale concerning the tempered
wind
And the naked sheep, Is as true ns'truc,"
Said I to Pegg: "For this hen, now blind,
Js helped by the Lord through you."
"Sure, it may be so at that" said she
And a thought grew nngnr. in tno eye ot
Tegg
"But as for myself, I do always be
Concerned with tho blind hen's egg."
FRANCIS CARLIN.
Bertha's Eyes
(After Charles Daudclaire)
E1
YES famous and august I bold in high
disdain.
But, ah, my darling's eyes, that filter clear
and free
Hints of sweet, shadowy good, like tho
night's perfumed rain:
Dear eyes of charm and shade, turn back
again to me !
The eyes my darling hath arc mysteries
adored,
That glitter in my sight like occult,
carven cafes,
Within whose depths there lie bright treas
ures, but Ignored,
nid by tho lary clusters of the shadows
of their graves.
My darling's haunting eyes are Tast, pro
found, obscure;
Immensities of night, and morning's
wrkthfrktww;
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NONSENSE NOW AND
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-JJI"..i". -," ,.- . . "- -:.
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Their flames are thoughts of love and flakes
of faith so pure,
Voluptuous or chaste, sun-hot or chill as
euow !
RICnARD DESMOND.
The Sour-Dough Speaks
UT of tho Northland T hear a voice call-
ing:
Zcphjr-likc winds sweep across the pla
teau ; .
Rivers arc rising and glaciers arc falling;
Malemutcs jelp on the last of the snow.
Short summer season has come to Alaska ;
Winter has fled to tho far Southern Pole;
Jolly su thaws frozen Nome, Athabasca,
Railroad construction camp, gold miner's
hole.
Out of the ground rise the short-lived
flowers;
Reindeer rove cautiously in from the east,
Searching for mosses and lichens and sours
Poor hungry devils, they've need of the
feast:
Out of its torpor the Northland is waking';
Bearing n note of rejoicing, it seems;
can't stay here iu tbo city; I'm tnkipg
Ship to Alaska, tho land of my dreams.
- ROBERT LESLIE BELLEM.
It Can't Be Donel
.Dear Socrates To illustrate one of the
"sayings of Robert Burns, thn following story
is told of a man who decided to commit
suicide :
Ho went to a store, bought a rope, a can
of oil and a box of matches.
Ho the- went to the druggist nnd got a
doso of arsenic; then to tho hardware man
and got n revolver.
When be reached the river be secured a
boat, pushed front; the shore, paddled until
ho got under a convenient tree, threw the
rope over an overhanging limb, with the
noose ou the other end around his neck.
Ho then saturated bis clothing with the oil.
swallowed the arsenic, struck a match and
set fire lo his clothing, pushed the boat from
under him, put the revolver to his car
and fired. '
BUT .
The bullet glanced and cut the rope.
Then he fell kerflop into the water.
This put tho fire out.
Ho got strangled with tho water aud,
coughed uf) the arsenic.
He then waded out, and began to study
the best way to defeat the league' of uu-
tions. McM. J.-
Desk Mottoes
The epigram shows us truth in the cm.
brace of a lie.
O..W. FIRKINS.
Inventors
WE MARVEL when tho night is driven
away
By lights Innumerable, of genius bora
Yet more than at an Edison today
I wonder at a ccrtuib balry man
Back in the fog whero history began, '
Who, musing In somo desert waste forlorn,
Took up a pointed stick and shaped an A.
J. M. BEATTY.
It seems that George Creel bag taken to
writing ads for a will-power corporation.
This certainly marks tho breach that has
appeared between Mr. Creel and bis former
employer. For wo all remember what tho
latter onco said about willful men.
SOCRATES.
Speaking In the terms
Altitude of aViatiou suggested
by the. tour of Mr.
Wilson's trailers, one might' say that Sena
tor IU Johnson's 'first' namo fits bim per
fectly. ,
Ludendorff end Tir-
Tlie Way of pita bad to write
Many Authors books beforo the world
x could know what
IftUMCruur iaej.Bciuuu..T nit,
THEN1,
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The Average Golfer
"This stroke Is not for tho averag
golfer, however." From an expert dis
quisition on golf. ,
rplIE average golfer! Somo call him a dub.
-- lie's fttifiish and angular swinging a cjub ;
He's painfully lacking in style debonair,
But docs under eighty strokes brushing his
hair.
Tho average golfer has never met "par";
A hole under six is to him caviar.
Ho traces each bunker and trap to its
source,
Aud sometimes tbo language be uses is
coarse.
Tho average golfer in making a round
Sows largely the landscape with spheroids
unfound.
Every tenet of form he is known to infringe;
The eyes of bis caddie induce him to
cringe.
The average golfer, though here is the
nub
May break all his clubs but he keeps up
the club.
The cracks aud the kickers some gratitude
owe;
no digs up the divots but likewise the
dough.
Tho average golfer is strong from the tee
That follows tho eighteenth iu fellowship
free ;
And while one can't class him top hole at
the .sport,
No one can deny that ho is a good sort.
The average golfer with me makes a bit !
Unbailed and unheralded, he docs bis bit.
My vote I'll record to keep him off the
shelf
Y'qu see I'm an average golfer mvaolf.
Maurieo Morris, in tho New York Sun,
' What Do You Know? I
QUIZ
1. now much of the world's shipping ton
nage is now under the American flag? .
2. What is tbe correct pronunciation of the
word cantaloupe? '
3. What state in tho Union has the most
towns of 50,000 inhabitants or over?
1. What is a monuikcr?
C. What part of the United States is some
times called the "Pie Belt"?
G. Whi was tho foremost American advo
cate of the single tax?
7. What is a commando?
8. What is a canard?
0. What is tho origin of the word?
10. What is the nationality of Emmy
Dcstinu, tho opera singer?-
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1, Rhodo Island took no part whatever in
tho formation of tho 'federal constl
. tution.
2, A Helvetian is a citizen of Switzer
land.
3. Captain Bojcott was an Irish landlord,
who was ostracized by an Irish pea
sants' uprising. His name passed into
tho language as a verb meaning to
refuse to deal with or to take notice of
or to sell to a person.
4! Belgium formed itself into on independ
ent state iu 18U0.
D. Cirencester should be pronounced as
though it were spelled "cls-sister,"
with the aece.nt on the first syllable.
0. An heir presumptive is one who will be
heir if no ono is born having a prior
claim. ,
7. A dottrel is a kind of plover.
8. An opal is regarded ns unlucky for tbe
samo reason that peacock feathers are
so considered. According to supersti
tion ou opal is an eyo stone and in
troduced into a bouse it will interfere
with the sanctity of domestic iprlvacy'.
1). "He was tbe mildest-mannered man that
eycr scuttled ship or cut a throat'r Is
from Byron's "Don Juan."
10, Ley! I. Morton v?as yico President durf
log tbe administration of BenjauiiB
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