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EVENItftr PUBLIC LEDGERPHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1919
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JWin B. Wll)lm, John J Spurgcon. Directors
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DAVID E. SMILEY
Udltor
JOHN C. MARTIN CcncrM Iluslnis Manager
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The EvEMsn I'l Pi h 1 men I erM'd to sub
Krihera In Philadelphia anl yurroumllnR tonns
t the rate of twelve (l- cents per work pacnbls
to the carrier . , ,
Bv mall to point" out ld of Philadelphia In
th tJnlted States tanada or United State po
eeaalons, postaee free fiftv '01 rents per month
Bix (JO dollara pe.!" venr paiable In a lvanre
To all forelsn countries one (Ml dollnr pr
month . . , .
NOTICT Subcrlber wlflilnp niMrei ilnncM
must tlve old as well aa new a Idres
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TO TEST P. R. T. RENTALS
TF PLANS now undei wav carry the
voidabihtv of the contiacts between
the P. R T and th undeilying companies
will be passed upon b coni)etent ju
thonty The United Business Men'
sociation is makinp anariBemenls to ask
the Public SeiMt'e Lommission to i educe
the lental- paid to the companies uhoe
franchises hae been leased to the
P. R. T.
Those rentals last car amounted to
$7,365,390 04, oi about one cent out of
every fare collected fiom the paseiiReis
They aie excessive As annual diuknds
they range as high as, 72 pel cent on the
money invested in the oiijrinal compa
nies. They are s,o gieat that it makes
the maintenance of a five-cent fare diffi
cult. If they could be reduced to a lca
sqnable sum the S30.000.tlOO in actual ea-h
invested in the P. R T securities could
eam good dividends and the public could
be assured that the faic would not be
raised.
The Supieme Couit has sustained the
contention of the Public Service Commis
sion that it has power to modifj a con
tract between, a rapid tiansit company
and a municipality when the public inter
est will be served. It lemains to be de
cided that the Public Service Commission
has power to modify a contiact between
two or nore rapid tiansit companies, if
such modification would seive public
ends. The P. R. T. is handicapped b its
contract with the underlying companies,
and that contract has complicated every
attempt to solve the transit problem. It
has never been reviewed by competent
authority. Whether the Public Seivice
"Commission will admit that the United
Business Men's Association his sufficient
interest to have any standing in couit
will appear when it submits its petition.
Its effort, however, is worth while, what
ever may be the outcome
THE AMERICAN LEGION
,rpHE campaign tg induce every one of
- the 90,000 men of this cit who wore
the United States unifotm dunng the
late war to join the Amencan Legion
will reach its climax in the Academy of
Music tonight, when Gov ei nor Sproul
and other distinguished men will indorse
the project to form a permanent associa
tion of the soldiers and sailois.
The men behind the organization have
wisely decided that it must be kept out
of partisan politics. They will not ignote
public questions, however, but when
great issues are absorbing the attention
of the public it will make an attempt to
express the sentiment of its membeis
This will not be so easv as it seems,
for most gieat issues divide men into
different groups which usually coi re
spond with the groups in the great politi
cal parties. Foi example, all agree on
the importance of the development of
American industries and on the expan
sion of foreign tiade, but when it comes
to the means to be employed there is wide
difference of opinion All aie agreed on
the. importance of maintaining the
American flag on the high seas, but there
is no agreement as to the best waj to
develop and preserve a mei chant manne.
The American Legion can promote
good fellowship among the soldiers and
bailors without attempting to enter the
field of controveisy If it lays stress on
this phase of its contemplated activities
. it is likely to find a permanent place for
itself; and if a quarter of the men eligi
ble to membership join we shall have an
association that will fill a large place in
the life of the country
ANOTHER STRIKE THREATENED
TUST when we are congratulating our
" selves on the numbei of ships there
are in port flying the American flag we
are threatened with a sjuke of steve
dores. What's the good of having ships if we
have no men to load them ?
The men demand an eight-hour day
and recognition of the union. They also
demand wages ranging from ?1.25 to
$1.65 an hour for different classes of
work, with increased pay for overtime
and double pay for Saturday afternoons,
Sundays and holidays.
It is further stipulated that henceforth
foremen shall not shout at the work
ero. But how, with so much money talk
ing, can they otherwise be heard?
We have a mental combination movie
and phonographic record of the new fore
man on the job:
"Mr. Smith, kindly request Messrs.
Browrt and Jones to give you a hand with
ttmt cask. Thank you. A double hitch
en, the sling, if you please, Mr. Simpson.
JtTJwnlc you. And now, Mr. Parkins,
tjtiwily go ahead with the winch!" "?
' Vcjvyes, indeed! We are reminded of
thft Mf.it on the liner whose captain was
opposed to 'profanity. After an oidl
naiy seaman had done something par
ticularly bonchcaded and just when he
had his mouth set to lay him out in pic
tuiesquc language he snw the captain
standing by. He gasped, turned puiple
nnd then said, haltingly, "Oh, you
naughty, naughty sailoi 1"
Perhaps the stcvcdoics will earn all
they ask but why the cruelty to the
poor foreman?
THE GREATEST OF ALL LAWS
HAD MERCIER FOR SPOKESMAN
The Moral Sense of Mankind Balances
the Worldt Humbles Kings. Directs
Evolution and Makes Injustice
Increasingly Perilous
pARDlNAL MERCIER was the gen-
tlest man in Belgium And, in one of
the strangest lcvclations of human ex
perience, he became, therefoic, the man
who inspired in the Geimans then gieat
rst fears.
They were made awaie of heights that
their big guns could nevei roach and
they had a hist glimpse of the powei
that in the end destrocd them. 'Ihc
conqueied evcrj thing in Belgium but
faith and honoi and the moial law
Other gifted men made themselves
heaid above the tumult of the first inva
sion The.v weir passionate, vengeful or
tilled with bittet prophecy. Mcicier
shaied none of thtse moods His pas
toial letteis and his umounteis with Von
Hissing had the dignit of infinite peace
in the midst of tire nnd ashes and a na
tion in (light He became one of the gieat
v oiccs of the vvoild
In time a whole jimv a king and a
government shaied the tranquil assur
ance of this man, and millions of people
knew that thev v le victonous oven when
thej wnnduod homeless with then chil
dren in the night.
Mercier believed in the invincibility of
the moial law and the moial sense of
mankind What to others seemed like
the end of civilisation was to him only
anothei incident and anothi l martyidom
destined to have its blight lewaid. Bel
gium couldn't lose because vanity nnd
gietd nnd injustice can proceed onlv to
defeat and ruin
And so, at Malines, theie was that
long piocession of German geneials who
found theie one man pioudei and moie
assuied than the and bcttci able to
know how the war would end.
Here in this citv, at Washington, at
Mount Vernon and at Gettysbuig Ameu
cans have risen at intcivals to do a serv
ice much like Meicier's, to uttei woids or
promises that had been awaited for ages
and to define the hopes that will lemnin
tlenily understood to guide nnd inspiie
nations and men till the woild ends.
They, too, believed in things unseen It
is as a member of this gieat company of
the w oi Id's friends that the piimate of
Belgium ought to be leceived in this city.
Men of his sort have not et said the
last'word about the lights of humanity.
But they will and they will be listened
to as the apostles of hnte aie not.
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The whole world was fianklv, dazzled
and awed by the spectacle of the German
invasion ofBelgium As a spectacle that
adventuie is without a parallel m his
tory. The German swaim advanced with
the nppaient inev itableness of the tides
It seemed as certain as the descent of
daikness at the end of a da. There was
a singulai note of admnation even in the
commonplace expressions of horror It
was then that people began to say,
"You've got to hand it to the Germans'"
It was a few words of Cardinal Mei
cier's that struck into the populai con
sciousness of people eveiywheie and re
vealed the German advance for what it
vas n pageant of incredible ulganty,
of vanity gone mad, of a self-destructive
barbarism having its last fling on the eve
of the day of judgment. Thev said then
that the caidinal was a wise man. But
if he was wise it was only because he
knew the world, its people and its his
tory He had only to look backward
over the waste of the centimes, from
Babylon to Liege to understand how the
German lunge would have to end. The
thing had been tried a thousand times
before and it had alwajs failed.
Maddened kings had always found
themselves at last confionted bv the law
which is not administered in couits, but
through the collective purpose and the
common aspnation of mankind
The m6ial sense lies deep in eveiy man.
It is revealed even in savages. It is in
eradicable Whoever comes into conflict
with it will have to fight for his life
through all his days. The hand of the
majontv will always be lifted against
him.
There la, indeed, no othei permanent
law in existence. For whenever the hu
manly constituted rules of life and so
ciety cease to serve the common pur
pose instinctively acknowledged in the
moral aspnations of civilization they are
destroyed. The destruction may be slow,
but it is certain and final.
The mind of the world has destroyed
more than armies and more than aimies
have conquered. And Mercier knew that .
it was the mind of the world that would
destroy Germany. The invasion was
wrong. Therefore it could end only in
disaster. So every other invasion must
always end, whether it be the invasion
of a country or the trampling down of
the rights of the most humble of men.
One needn't be wise to see that this is
true. One only needs to be courageous
and willing to face the inexorable truth.
Von Bissing didn't believe it, but he
knows it now. There are kings, crowned
and uncrowned, who do not know it, but
they will learn it in the course of time.
The nature of the reception given Car
dinal Mercier in America and the demon
stration of esteem and affection that is
to be accorded him in this. city today are
in many ways indicative of the deepest
strains in our national character. There
is infinite faith in us, and that is one of
the reasons why we applaud the triumphs
of faith. We have had some squalid in
vasions of our own rights. But only the
frfols get excited. Asa tieople we clearly
isrvejvv our ucauiiy ; "o wui attain
I it decently despite all the noise and the
bickering. All the lunatics of one sort
nnd another who get in the way will bo
eliminated one by dnc ns time passes.
Meicier's philosophy can be of use to all
Americans. Be light, be fair, be just,
be courageous and you cannot losel
What men say counts for ns much in
the end as what they do When Cnidi
nal Merciei visits Independence Hall to
moriovv he mny lealizc something of the
effect which his own work will have in
later genciations. Whnt was said at In
dependence Hnll changed the course' of
civilization. And what Cardmnl Mor
ciei smd and whnt others said in the
gieat documents of the Allied struggle
will lemni aftci most of the sorrows of
the vvai are foi gotten to harass Ger
mnn.v, to warn men And governments nnd
to be an inspiration to nil those who
have it in their hearts to do light.
SPROUL'S SANITY
pOVERNOR SPROUL'S leply to W.
Z Fostsi's tomplaint against the ac
tivities of the state police in the steel
strike is one of the sanest uttei ances
which have thus fai been made about the
situation.
'I he Goveinoi mfoims 1-ostci that the
intcicst of the state authorities is in the
maintenance of law and order and the
protection of the lights of the stnkeis
and "those of all of oui people, citizens
and sojouineis alike, who live within oui
laws."
Yet the Governor lets it ie known in I
no unceitain wav that if armed men fiom
other states cntei Pennsylvania in
mass "to spiead wicked propng.indiuand
to cmleavoi to incite the lgnoianJrand
vicious to not and pillage" they will be
tieated as enemies of the stale and will
he a piehemled and punished
Theie is no sentimental talk about the
oppiession of the pool and the ciuelty
of the rich, nor is theie any taking of
sides in the dispute between the woikeis
and their employ eis. But theie is mani
fested a fiim determination to stand by
the offiteis of the law cieated foi the
pm pose, of preserving oidei and pro
tecting th" lives and pioperty of the peo
ple, leg.ndlcss of class oi occupation
Stnkeis have nevei liked the state
police fin the teason that the police have
nevei winked at noting. Thelaboi lead
ers have fought the police evci since it
was oigani7id They opposed the law
authoi izing its enlargement passed at
the last session of the Legislatuie. But
the public legaids the state police as one
of the finest pioducts of the legislation
of this commonwealth. Its lecoid has
been so fine that other states have sent
their agents hcie to studv its organiza
tion and its methods, and some of them'
have nuthoiized the creation of a similai
foicc of men
The tenor of the Governor's letter is
such that it is safe to infer fiom it that
if he finds tint the state policp are not
stiong enough to preserve oidei he will
call out othei foices that noting may be
prevented oi suppiessed if it shall become
senous He is wholly right and should
have the united suppoit of all the people.
HORSES AND MOTORCARS
npHE photogiaphs of scenes at the Al-
lentovvn agncultuial fan, lepioduced
on the last page of the Evening Piblic
Lugf.r last night, indicate that the
motorcar has not eliminated the hoise,
even though the people who visited the
fan went there in then own cais. The
view of the hoi so lace showed hundreds
of automobiles parked in the gieen in
the center of the tiack, while their own
ers sat in the giand stand watching the
test of speed of the horses.
The convenience of the gasolme-diivcn
vehicle cannot destiov admiration foi a
hoise nor interest in his speed. Nor can
the gaolme engine displace the draught
horse on the farm, as the exhibition of
splendid Pcrcheron horses from Colonel
Trexler's farm indicated
In another gcneiation flying machines
may take the place of the automobiles
of today on The Allentown fan giounds,
but the hoise will hold his own and he
will be put on the tiack to test his speed,
and he will be exhibited as a diaught
animal foi work which no machine can do.
Word c o in e s fiom
Another Melons I tun of the diowimv
Cirile of a Knnc. Ia lov,
a freshman at Colgate
I'mversitv He wis the v it tun of a liazing
party of sophomores His tormentors will
h punishnl hiring will be dropped for n
tune, then etontluug will he forgotten and
the sniuo oli! Iiraml of asiuinitj will brink
ofit ngam
A Springfield ' 111 ,
Needed woman is having her
I,pl.in itinn pet goldlish embalmed
"o wondu Its inse
wis pi,ulini Its death was due tn cigarette
smoking Lest there be any inisiindc rstand-
uig, let it be sin! that hot cigarette nshes
were i areloesh dropped into the bowl in
which it aplnshed.
Instead of losing
Grew Fat on It weight as wns the
rule in 'previous wars,
I'm sinus's men nternged a gain of ten
pounds m weight while in Fruuce. declares
the (lean of the College of IMivsiemns and
Surgeons of Columbia Fniversitj And they
took that mlich out of Heinle
Theie is a circuit at
Yoti Never Can Tell torney in St Louis
whose oflice returns
approach $10,000 a yiar. and whose claim
to fame rests on the fait that' he docs the
faniilv washing every morning and has the
clothes on the line bv f! HO
German leaders look with mingled bcorn,
amusement and xatisfa( tioii on lahoi unrest
throughout the world Hut their satisfac
tion is premature Machine made minds are
more easily governed than the minds of free
peoples, but free peoples, though they occa
sionally make foolish detours into dangerous
fields, still go the lougei journey on the road
of progress
If Europe's starving people had a vote
in our next presidential election there
"would be nothing to it" but Herbert
Hoover.
Those who complain that the league of
nations is not entirely clear should wallow
awhile In the Pennsylvania election laws.
AVfcll, Cardinal Mercier is not going to
suffer from ennui while here.
HE KNOWS THE DELAWARE
Bed of the River la as Familiar to
Ellis D, Thompson as Broad Street
to a Mounted Traffic Cop
Hy GKOItt.i; XOX MiTAIX
"TIL-MS I). THOMPSON is known to every
-- Uel.iwnte riiri man. lie is the foremost
dredging engiiieci in the L'nltcd Stnles.
During his professional eiicer ho has
planned or 'superintended over $3j,0!0,000
of such work
He knows tin bed of the Delaware river
Iielty ninih as will ns he I nons Uroad
Mud '
The removal of Smith and Windmill
islands that pi ioi to 1800 stemmed the
current of the Delaware between the foot
of .Market slieet nnd Camden, was tinder
hi charge He was pilneipnl assistant n
ginecr foe the late Colonel W. C. Raymond
in all the government operations for im
piovlng the Delawnic
I p nnd down and airos the old sticam
lie has lir n (hedging for tweUy-five yeiri,
tut nine it into a grrnt highwav to the s'n
He built the new Delaware hrir.kwater and
the new Cape .Mn and its ha'hni
lie told me soiim V(rv interesting things
about di edging the lomauec of it, for
liisianie I nevir Knew there coull he any-
t'ling odd m Interesting nhout such a pio-yj
sjur inuii-aiiu waici pioposiiion.
f T in his home in West Philadelphia Mr.
-' Thompson has iluuce pieces of old china,
(inns, the inse of an ancient silver watch
i ml even some hmseslioes that weic dredged
in of the DtlnwHie liver
Mr Thompson tdl me that the dilna was
hiought up with t ilim-slie'l dredge fiom
beneath fifteiu feit of mud nhove Petty 's
Island
The i oins and vralili ease ind horseshoes
ami1 from the bottom of the river where the
w i ork shipbuilding plant now stands
below Camden Tin mills dite from nhout
ls-tn
T his is the sini
One huinliiil vnis ago whir the arcs
of that dnv i Ifincd tlie stieers of Phil.u'el
phn. thev tailed the sweepings down to the
nvei and einptiid thcin into bilges. These
were towed m ross the river and dumped on
the Jersey side
A few ycais igo when thev taited w rk
on the great shipbuilding plant, a hydraulic
diedge of the suiiion tvpr beqan eartyiug
through its pipes all soits of things, even
crowbais
It wasn t long until a pile two feet by
fun i bv six of old luusesliops wne pibd up.
There weie toppii toiiis, too. and" one man
was slid to hive found a gold watch Mr.,
Thompson has tin case of a silver watch
tint was thrown out
The dredge w is working on the sweeping'
of the l'hilaih Iplu l streets of a 'lundicd
veais ago and h ss. The oms indicated
tint the Jeise diiinpnu plan had been in
iipuntion up until iightv live .yens ago
Mi Moise thru picsident of the ship
building (ompain hi aid of (ho tieasure
tiove took ihirgi of it and the (hedge men
invei knew after that what othei stuff was
found
The mvsteiy of the old china has never
been cleared up There was no wreckage
with it How did it get in the river? the
i in ions part of it all is that the blue figures
on it are as luilliant nnd distinct ns evir.
JOSHITI S IIASSKAItL. assistant diice
tor of the Dipiitmcnt of Whnivcs, Docks
and Times, was one of Mi Thompson's as
sistints for vears It wns a spleudi 1 train
mg for his lareer as a Pluladclphi i dock
engineer.
It tequired fic venrs to build th new
Di law are hreikwatei. Mr Thompson tells
me It is about sflOO feet long It uses
from a depth of twelve feet of water at the
upper end and fiom fifty four feet at the
lowei end It inpiueil 1 ,,"00,000 tjus of
stone nnd cost $J "ill!) 000
The old Delawne breakwater is the old
est piece of linihii improvement lu the
I nited States Woik was stirted on it in
Is;;" nud lontiniied foi seventy yeirs.
It wns built unihr the old method Great
stoius weie tnki n in sailing ships to the
site selected foi the sna will and dumped
overboard. Two 'i n lations of men were
engaged on it befme the work was finished
SINCC the orguniliiin of the Emergency
Fleet Corporation, 1'llis D Thompson has
been engineer in (huge of dredging. He
has 140 dredging pi ints under his control.
It is the biggest jnh of its kind ever handle!
hy one man in this country
It is his woik to see that the river,
stream or bav is dredged deep enough that
once n ship is launched it will not stick in
the mud.
He has done the diedging for every nhip
that has been liuuched since the war
bgau.
There was no private dredging don
during the war The government took over
everv thing. Thin vvue third-en big dredg
ing concerns along the Atlantic coast that
formed theniselvis into what was known as
the l'mergency Dredging Committee. They
turned their plants ovei nnd helped along
with the work on i i ost plus basis. The
War Department and the government dredges
'were surrendered for tin- same purpose.
Uowu at Hog Island Mr. Thompson has
had.fourteiyi dredges nt work. They cleared
out basins nt the mil of every slupway for
lauuchings.
There are four kinds of (hedges. The
clam-shell, which (an he ricogmeil by the
name, for soft mud tin scoop, which is unl
foi bard material, the hydraulic, which
sucks up the sand and discharges it on laud,
njid the ladder dredge with its endless chain
of buckets
A curious thing dixilnsctl by I'nginer
Thompson is that n wooden ship is heavier
than either a steel oi a ic enforced concretes
vessel. It draws mote water when it is
layuched.
He imparted a warning, too, with an
other odd fact. If von ever attend a side
ways hruncbing of u ship, look out for the
big ivnve.1 A ship laiinihed iu this fashion
rolls over in the v m i and ofttimes mises
a wave ten feet high People on small
dock nt one of these luiuchiugs. were Irearly
swept away.
The average depth of a lnuueh'uig basin is
nineteen feet. That depth is required fot
a big wooden ship The basin is ttiaugular.
It dips right down from the end of the
ways and then slopes up ou the outer side.
You may have notieeel that a ship, as
soon as it is launched, begins to bob and
courtesy. Tin re was never a sternwise
launching that this did not happen. The
reason is that the stern, nfter plunging into
the water, grndually begins to rise, nnd
this causes the bow to dip up nnd down.
It may be said that the Federation of
Labor wns careless at least iu pcimittlng
.police organizations to join without realizing
'what it implied Mr. Gompers may plead
good intent, but he can't justify the fact.
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A governor is also an automatic regu
lator of supply, insuring even motion.
Happily that Is the vvny the state engines
of Massachusetts nnd Pennsylvania are
equipped.
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When the striking tailors find their dove
of peace it will doubtless prove, to be a
goose.
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THE ELECTRIC CHAIR
Mercier
A GAINST their armies, just a mind
Against their threats, one mystic
pride;
Against the fury of their kind
One gentle will, unterrified.
A GAINST their all-triumphant fears
One weakness, with a strange re
joice; And in their shouting-troubled ears
The thunder of his still small voice.
MOTHER GOOSE TAKES A HAND
Hickory dickory dock,
No one to punch the clock :
Since they've nil struck
Let's pass the buck,
Hickory dickory dock. i
Uncle Sam
There was an old Uncle, as I've heard tell,
Who lived upon nothing but II. C. L.
II. C. Ij. was most of his diet,
Garnished a bit with industrial riot.
He went down the street for a trim for his
head :
"The barbers are striking" was all that
they said ;
He brandished his hooks for a bundle of
lunch
And found that the girls had' walked out
in a bunch.
He went to n station to ride on a train,
,Aiiel learned thnt the railroads were loafing
ngaln ; .
He decided to croak himself, cursing hi$
luck
"Hold on," they exclaimed, "the embnlmers
have struck."
Speak Up!
If all the world were IJolshcvik
And all the sea were red, (
And all the workers out on stiiki
How would we earn our bread?
Co-operation
Jack Spratsky was a syndicalist,
His wife swore by sl.eniue,
And so, betwiit them both, they swept
The public platter dean.
He of Little Faith -
The learned QuUcdltor tells us that K.
D S. gave him a glittering definition of a
pessimist. A pessimist, said she, is a man
who wears both belt and suspenders.
Student Drowns In Hazing. Headline.
"Very unfortunate for the college," said
the alumnus. "That sort of thing gives the
dear old place a black eye."
Hut how about the victim? It seems a
little unfortunate for him, too.
King Albertswe are told, is coming over
to study American Industrial conditions.
We trust ie won't be disappointed in what
he finds In the glorious, land of Stars and
Strikes.
On the voyage King Albert is reading
American literature. Perhaps the revised
edition of Hnflcck'B famous poem may in
terest him
Strike till the last employer expires;
Strike for a 10 per cent raise in hires ;
Strike for the greenbacks of your sires,
And deuce the II. O, L.
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Let him who Is without Bin cost the first
refcervatlon.
N The Tonor' Strike
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AS ON'K at eve, with eyes set wistfully
Against the blue of heaven far away,
Wn"ts till his star lift through the trem
bling sea.
His smile we wait today.
The selfsame smile, clear gaze without a
blur.
Relit the, mag'c May in furthest night
When on his verdant vales the murderer
Had set his seal of might.
Then like the golden day that dying turns
To evening's star above the flooded bar,
AH we, that may, crown him whose bravo
soul burns ,
With radiance of a star.
JOSEPH A. FINLEY.
The Prince of Quails
After the events of August, 1018, Luden
dorff intimates, the crown prince began to
quail.
Advance of Prohibition ,
John Drinkwater, the English poet, has
arrived in New York. News item.
It is not a matter of much importance,
but it has often occurred to us (by which
we inern thnt wc have just thought of it)
mm it xnomas v oourow Wilson wore a
goatee he would look very like the tradi
tional cartoonists' picture of Uncle Sam.
This Requires Courage
We are not sure whether Mr. Wilson hns
a nephew, but if he hns, and the nephew
weie of an irreverent turn of mind, he might
refer to the White House as Uncle Tom's
Cabin.
Brazen Manl
We note that when n baseball player has
played in Clio consecutive games (with a
pretty long spell offin the winter) he is
referred to as an Iron Man.
What, then, may be said of the poor fish
who has chaffed iu 523 consccurke Chaffing
Dishes?
Help Wanted, Male
A year ago wc all had flu
How that disease went through me I
Another spasm now O pfiew
D'Annunzio has Flume.
There will be a lot of cockroaches left
homeless when the Dark Angel calls for
this old rolltop of ours.
We do hope the Senate is going to do its
Christinas ratifylngarly. At least It has
plenty of red tape to wrap up its-presents
wdtb. ,
As far as theSenate Is concerned, it seems
to be the peace treaty that passetb under
standing. The Twins
Con was a thorn to brother Pro
On Pro we often sicked him : ,
WhqteverPro would claim to know
Old Con would contradict hlra I
"It Is very grajliylng" says the Presi
dent. Now If only the1 Senate would help him to
omit the g. '
The question of what the cooHes do after
the war seems to us almost ns futile to
discuss as whether Warren Pershing vvill'
grow up a free verse poet. . SOCRATES.
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And after all the shady ,jcal estate
transactions have be.cu uncovered things
.will llktly remain pretty much as they arc
until more houses are built,
, ' :
By and by it may dawn on the Public
Service Railway Corporation that the zone
system is somewbattinpopuIar,
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DIFFIDENT
TTHTH worldwide problems grave beyond
'" compare,
Pitying one weighted by a nation's care,
In awe I stand, ,
' As out-of-hand,
John Doe will settle things in half a try,
Though saying, "Yes; George spoke to she
and I!"
The League of Nations, now, is quite a
snarl
To me, I must confess. My neighbor Carl,
At whom I gaze
In real amaze,
Tries and condemns it with judicial heat
Though he will call, "How be you?" when
we meet.
Armed intervention Is a subject deep
From its discussion I in prudence keep,
But pert Ruth Snow
Favors it so.
Yet Ruth with "judgment," "village,"
also "peice "
And "seperatcd" "gede" and even "neice."
Of Bela Kun I rarely dare to chat,
Or the Plumb railroad plan, and themes
like that,
Still, Willy Guy,
More sage than I,
Will glibly prate of such; then say, "Miss
Bess,
You're looking beautifully In that pale pink
dress!"
With modesty I'd certainly essay
To settle Prohibition, yea or nay.
Hence I admire
Ardelia Dyer
Who takes the stump for Drouth ; tells whp
should vote
Yet signs "Mrs. Frank Dyer" to every notel
Tho transit troubles, Labor's curt demands,
Albanian, uprisings, border bands,
Problems like these '
They solve with ease,
Near-highbrows, who, In wartime, always
spoke
Of "our brave Al-leys" the smart Fixlt
Folk!
Ella A. Fanning, In the New York Times.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. What town In Belgium Is Cardinal Mer-
cier's home?
2. What Is the present year according to
the Jewish calendar?
3. What potions belonged to the old Tripl't
Alliance?
4. When is a person In his nonage?
5. What is a rondo?
0. AVhat is the Plimsoll mark on a ship?
7. Why is It so called?
8. Who was Plutarch?
0. What is the capital of Wyoming?
10. What is brumous weather?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. A sprag is a billet of wood or similar
device for checking the wheel of a
ear, etc.
2. Sir Robert Borden Is premier of Canada.
3. John O. Fremont was tho first Repub
lican nominee for President.
4. He rnn for office in 1850.
5. The yellow center of an English daisy
Is very small compared to that of the
American flower. The English variety
has pinkish tips.
0. The Titanic went down in 1012.
7, Louis Philippe was called the "Citizen
King" of the French.
S. Two distinguished Czecho-Slovak com.
posers were Antonin Dvorak and ,
Bedrich Smetana.
0, Swastika Is composed of two Sanscrit
- words sipnifylng "well being." A
swastika has come to be a good luck
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