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JERSEY JUSTICE -TT REMAINS for some gifted student - of national and sectional psychology tjo1 explain Jeisey justice and the contrast It provided yesterday with the spirit be hind disgraceful and humiliating out- . rages at Omaha and elsewhere. The same crime which caused an un- " believable reversal to savagery in west- "i enfj and southern mobs was charged BKainst ine neirro caoiurea near mount Holjy. There was no talk of burning in this instance. Jersey justice moved with vits traditional celerity. The people mani- .'i.j ; l: 1: 1. t .1. 1 W iestea an nisuncuvu respect ior inu law j and within a few hours after the fugitne it was caugni tneir respect was luny jusli- iled. The trial lasted seventy minutes. Yrhe moral isn't hard to reach. If the f law is to be respected by the people it - i. t-- .-J 1-.. ii ...t.. ...i.:: jiu4 ue ivspccLu uy inubu wiiu umiiuius- ter it SAVE THE ORCHESTRA! WROTE the other day "Help the I x Orchestra." We should have written save tne urencstra," tor it is now maac plainly apparent that unless the million dollars asked for the endowment of the -.i-.ii jit: r i .. r ..: 1 it-- iTTiaaeipnia urcnesira is raiscu iim; wuii- jpuKprchestia must disband. Sfefsyffa almost inconceivable, fpr the ofcri(istra,'has become a nart of the citv: deeply rooted, in fact, that it has be- ', cpme an institution. And yet the figures plainly show that its probable disband- ijuicni.' is uy nn means a mere campaign U-MV...-4... .11. 111C1I ..IIU tVUJiJCII Will, r nineteen years have paid its bills can Monger do so. The high cost of every itngflfas affected the orchestra as it has ,. all'pther things. The people of Philadel- pnia, as a wnoie, are now asKed to get back of it. not with a lot of mnnpv to he , -, --, , . fc-gent, but with a reasonable amount to f pe invpstcd. ISO lAf trWra fo fVlfl n.l,n.fa nml c .. , r it; arid insure it not only for ourselves, 'but for our children. The money we now giye to it will be there twenty and thirty ?r years from now; never a penny spent. ; ljt always quietly working, earning the a.hterest which alone is spent to make the jiVrtrcbestra nermanent. It i rrallw n t tjfkacy to one's family and to the city to c)ve an ive can to ine orcne.tra. J? or fy naG j. c uiira-. S(- . THE HOG ISLAND AGREEMENT kMONG the things expected of the in dustrial conference beeinnine in i-h-neton next Mondav is a decision Jlf)Varinff on the rate of wages to be paid w'tn 'Hhinvard wnrkprs. Pf' I'TThe government has taken the ground Krj.ui., tti-uuugu 1. win 1101 consiaer tne Rlhatter qi an increase until after the conference, it has no rooted objection to jne,-men getting moie money, if they can, -4vmmi uavau: unii.ra, -. ....... -. ............ rJli Tbft HArlfiinn. lnVinr Innrlova cat, nnmn lf,JQtoo late to nrevent a fpmnnrnrv lavnfT l'of shipyard workers on the Pacific coast, pf the supposition being that if they had Clv had the intimation earlier a strike miirht a." liflvo hppn nvnirlprl W 'Tr..-i' .L 1- r 1. - . nainiiijf me u-uuii ux tne omcers 01 '"lia AmoM-an Infaynafinnnl QliilM,il - .V..VI A.l.l .b..l .,..., UU.JUItUI Wlll-UI1.111I Comnanv in accedim? to the workman's tv . i yCemana ior an aroitration ooard of ten, five representing the employers and five ,the employes, has averted the strike Scheduled at Hog Island. With that de- j cision there will be general satisfaction. WA A KING WHO IS '. TS liNti AL,B-.HT of Belgium is a better ' j- democrat and altogether a more ad- able representative of free govern- 4nt than the radical-minded or pub- ty-hungry municipal officials in two iierican cities who fel moved to with t -from him the ordinarv cnurtpsips f distinguished guests of the nation. L!Jjh people of the United States will yelcome the Belgian king as a man who jaye the world a magnificent example I ,lf 'courage, patriotism and patience in a I'tfaie when such examples weie needed L-Vvwywhere. Albert was a 'man and a jfldter first-and a king afterward. The , mki of grace and understanding re- fSfid in Milwaukee and Chicago will mxr"' S THE ITALIAN VOLCANO THK'sympathy of the Italian army 3 ViWa D'Annunzia at Fiuma it is pfttarftivwtain that the next Italian elec tfaOki tTnized to provide a referendum f:a ;' otteetion aireauy ueciaea dv tne liiftnH Conference, will show Italy ranged triftiir Uie adventurous soldier-poet. 'ntefcpHtplicatton thus created could not Imiftstsm infinitely grave.from the view- intof latter-day diplomacy. Th merits of the, case are now aside. a onpqrtant thing s that the Pans ifertCe could not withstand the as- iyjt' on Ht, prestige which would be rep- ted by the open disregard of one of Its major verdicts by an associated power. Italian pride was involved at Fiumo since the beginning. It has been far more deeply involved by D'Annun zio. A poet has created a tangle that diplomatists seem unable to solve, though the fate of the league of nations itself may depend upon the proper settlement of the Fiumc affair. EITHER BOOBIES OR SOREHEADS COMPOSE THE CHARTER PARTY' Last Agonies of the Vares Are Wearliome to Decent Citizens Guaranteed Good Government by the Verdict of the Primaries 'pHE formation of the new 'Charter party in this citj s fatuous and futile. In the past membership in the politi cal awkward squad has often consisted largely of well-meaning, but inexpert, re formers with a cqionic inability to ace existing facts. But the motives behind mishandled independent movements weie beyond suspicion. Nobody, not even the most ardent champions of paity "regu larity," ever accused the foes of the va rious powerful political organizations, which too long and far to arrogantly controlled the city, of being poor sports. There was a romantic courage in their endeavors, a lofty spirit of unselfish sin cerity. Many an honest believer in the best Republican principles called for a straight party ballot at the polls and then half-regietfully filled in' the ticket. Ho would have born easier in mind could he hae believed that the candidates whom he indorsed weie equal in merit to those opponents who were almost auto matically destined for defeat. Such apologetic sentiments can be dis missed this year. The most wholesome revolution, which can have permanence in Philadelphia was lecorded by the vcidict of the recent pri mary election. Unsavory elements which besmirched the name of the Republican party heie weie then repudiated by a majority of the voters. "Refotm within the party" was then revealed, not as a mete stale and empty phrase, but as a solid and invigorating reality. Fortunately, too, the purification was accomplished not under the shadow of defeat, but in the light of ceitain vic tory. What was tantamount in effect to the election of J. Hampton Moore as Major of Philadelphia took place on September 10. It was, of couise, not to be expected that the bicak-up of the Vare machine would be hailed with .'elight by politi cians who suddenly experienced a relaxa tion of their stianglehold upon the city. To be "sore" wIipii a decisive antago nistic blow has been delivered is human enough. But to exhibit this tesentment with clumsy chicanery and shallow pre tense is not only to couit fuither disaster, but to srip from "piofessional" politics the attribute which even its righteous foes have leluctantly admired in it the practical appreciation of incontestable realities. The MacLaughlin candidacy for Mayor can mean only two things. It may typify ludicrous peisonal vanity. In that case it is worth no more consideration than the aspirations of John Paiker 01 Pierson M. StackhouSe. It may, on the other hand, denote the irritation of the dis credited Vaie organization and a fi antic desheHo "get eyen.'' Figaio laughed in order that lie might not be compelled to ween. Promptly drying up any teais, therefore, it i-, ex ceedingly easy to behold Joseph S. Mac Laughlin, ostensible leader of the Char ter party, filling the post of director of supplies under the, administiation of Thomas B. Smith. Mr. Smith was the Vare machine's successful candidate for Mayor four years ago, and everybody has since been made well aware just how much the Vares did for the sensible new funda mental code of municipal government. Upon its behalf they labored ju.t about as earnestly as did Germany to have the peace tteaty diawn up in its piesent form. So far as independent and icfoim sen timent in Philadelphia is concetned, Mr. MacLaughlin actually represents none of it. It was the Republican electorate's inteiest in good government, its convic tion that J. Hampton Moore stood for civic development along honest and stimulating lines, that made him the vic tor in the Reoublican primaries. MacLaughlin "reform" is either an ab surd superfluity 01 else it is a mask for disgt untied Frog Hollowism. And i this disguise is worn, it is quite the thinnest ever assumed in municipal politics. Not much polished professionalism about this! If veteran ward leaders, assiduous door-pullers, division deliverers and the like do not blush with mortification when the Charter party proclaims the names of James M. Hazlctt as candidate for recorder of deeds and William R, Knight as coroner, then experience is, after all, a wretched teacher. Hazlett and Knight as Vare henchmen defeated the Moore aspirants for these respective offices in the primaries. The game of running on two party tickets at once may seem alluring, but from the standpoint of "regularity" it has its drawbacks. An iriquisitive public can not be restrained from questioning the motive. It is natural to recall the fact that two years ago, in the Town Meeting campaign, the Vares and the city com mittee insisted that all Republican can didates, including District Attorney Rotan, decline to permit their names to be printed on any other ballot than that of the Republican party. Doesn't that rple still stand? The situation of Messrs. Hazlett and Knight is equivocal, to say the least. So is that of. thei floundering Vare machine, prolonging the anguish of its defeat by preposterous petitions and the useless recounting of, ballots which serve chiefly to increase the lead of Mr. Moore. The public is traditionally patient. The best factors in it are now comfort able, in the knowledge that Philadelphia is at last to have & good Mayor. The agonized and dilatory proceedings of John R. K. Scott' on behalf of the Vnro outfit fail to disturb the sense, of security which the public now enjoys. But even though the safety of the city is not imperiled by the court comedy, good taste and" decent manners nre offended. Only boobies refuse to admit when they arc properly spanked. There isn't the least doubt in the minds of citizens of integrity and sanity that J. Hampton Moore triumphed at the September primaries and it is inevitable that ho will be MayQr of Philadelphia. The picayune dilatory tactics before Judges Audenricd and Ferguson and the MacLaughlin-Hazlctt-Knight maneuver ing stand upon a common ground of con temptible futility. The city has turned over a new page in its history and hopes to write some fine tilings there. Having successfully sup ported reform of the most substantial character, it is relying upon Mr. Moore to wield the pen with vigor, probity and authority. Save for the insult to its intelligence, the community could afford to smile in dulgently nt the MacLaughlin tomfoolery. TALKING IN CIRCLES AN UNFORTUNATE air of animosity that has shrouded the issues involved in the steel strike was not dissipated by Judge Gary's testimony before the Sen ate committee or the verbal sniping of the temperamental Mr. Foster. Each side in the debate seems more eager to make out a case than to find and ac knowledge the whole truth. It is clear that some of the accounts of oppression and violence sent out by the strikers' representatives were highly colored. It is equally clear that public meetings were prevented by civil authori ties subservient to the steel interests, and it is a matter of lecord that one district attorney in the Pittsburgh distiict was forced recently to appeal against the abuse of power by deputy sheriffs who, according to Judge Gary's admission yesterday, are on the payrolls of steel companies. The one outstanding fact at the hear ing was Judge Garv's frank refusal to admit the right of workers in h-, plant to belong to tiade unions. Theie seems to be a conviction in the dominating minds of the Steel Corporation that the privilege would be abused in America as it is now being abused in England The doctrine enunciated by some of the strike leaders seems to indicate that theie is good ground for this belief. But why is the privilege of collective bargaining abused? What is the origin of the hardening dislike of labor for capi tal and capital for labor apparent in the Pittsburgh .regions and in the British railway strike? If it is ever possible to get to the root of the matter it probably will be shown that the abuse of privilege by any group that happens to be in the position of advantage is at the begin ning of all labor troubles. A labor dictatoiship is unthinkable in any country that values its life and its safety. Yet that is what Foster has been dreaming about. If the coming industrial conference can find a way to grant associated groups of workers and capitalists the privilege of efficient organization and at the same time provide a method b& which they may be conti oiled in the interest of the genet al public the country will be a step nearer to a rational industrial policy that does not seem to figure inUhe calcula tions of Judge Gary and Mr. Foster. T li p nnti hoarding 11 I'seil to He Cheap! lull jut inti oducorl in tIip Senate at At toriipy (!enernl I'nliner's behest would mnke it possible fnij the go eminent to fono nst nunntities of stored fpod on the market to bring down prii es. An immediate lcninly for the high cost of living thus lies eiy definitely with Congress. Ah the inevitable debate proceeds, the ountry can speculate and groan about thp high cost of talking "T he 11 1 il n 1 d e r Time to Protest i hangeth, giving phue to the new." A fanner ot (Jwjuedil has publicly protested againt the dropping of ndwitising liteiatuie fiom nirplanes because Mime of it has lodged in his farm machinery and "jammed it up " It is well that the protest should he made at this time. If the habit should gn un checked the aviators might next be dropping samples. ' Times have plunged Progress Morris L. C.mke told tl(e federal raihvavs commission yes.teiday that the primarv neul for efficient street-car operation is effluent management, lu the old dajs the primary need fot efficient street-car operation was underground wires between magnates and theiruling politicians. The liquor men are Uncertainty almost as uiuertain of their ,fate as the rest of the world that is waiting final deci sions on the league of nations. Striker Foster nu Ode to Sj ndlcallsin and lost her in a red, red reign. He stepped in a puddle up to the middle ami never went there again. "He who writes and runs away may live to vvrjtp another day." Mayoralty Motto Oil-tank fires are now readily extin guished by applying a blanket of bubbles containing carbonic acid. There ought to be a market for the blanket jn Mexico and the IlalkaflH. For every way of spending inonej there is one way to save it.' That man is success ful who masters the paradox and docs both. Every Balkan boundary line is an ar gument for the speedy ratification of the peace treaty. Thp price of lard ban dropped eight cents. This U great news for the doughnut jnduntry. Airplanes and living cost began tp tak the air about the same time. England's railroad strike may take her mind off Ireland for a while. Philadelphia's interest lu the big terics is purely academic. THE GOWNSMAN j Should a Girl lie Sent to Colleger AfilklJAT deal of water 1ms run under London Bridge since that fine old bear, Doctor Johnson, likened a woman's acqui sition of (.reek, to that other pretty curi osity, a do ('nneiig in a doublet. The daluty llttlo lad, who screamed Tit a mouse and fainted sentimentally oil occasion, has gone her fragile way with crluollnes nml her escort' early Victorian whiskers, and left us with different, If not fewer, nffecta tioii'j. We no longer call n school for '! a "jouiig ladles' seminar." except, per haps, In the South, where some of the notions of the last generation htlll delight fully linger. The ridicule long heaped on that outrageous Innovation, Vnssar College, is recalled only by Its earlier graduates, now elderly women, many of them of distinc tion, and the late Dr. Mary Walker might walk the streets in the ugly ninscHiliiiP cos tume which she affected, unregarded, if not admired. XXTHKS the question which heads this ' column was first asked, the resionsc was in chorus nn enftriintlc "no." Anlrwe still- hear old objections occasionally from old-fashioned bachelors seldom from men of family, for they hnve been taught better. How, for pxnmple, education, carried too far, unsexes woman, unfits her for the duties of home and the rearing of children : bow it levels up her vanity and levels down man's respect for her. However, the ex periment was tried and the woman's .col lege enme Into being ns a separate and new institution, as the appendix or addendum to n college nlrendy founded for men, yind lastly, frankly and logically, in the exten sion to women, as tnSneii, of "all the rights and privileges which appertnin" to scliol aislilp'nnd the hlghvvn.vs of learning. A XD, strange to say. nothing very due has happened. Women, even college women, arc still i harming and vvomanl.v, and men marry the fools of the other sex no more frequently than beforp learning scared them. The man who hales to have his sisters know so much more than he does hus bad to brush tip n bit, and, putting his condescension in his pockets, speaks with his womankind as equal (o equal; and tills has been good for them ns well as for him. And yet custom in the incc is strong. As lie at in his compartment of a sleeper, not et innilo up. the other night, the Gowns man iiiinvoidabl.v ovei heard n masculine monologue, feipinlnelv aicompanled b two intelligent nml cultljyited women. The mule voice (outiniied on and on lu in endless runnel of talk, small talk, dull talk, obvious, commonplace talk And his interlocutors interpolated tiniidlj with polite "nhs" and "indeeds" and "lenlljs." occasionally at tempting a lead, an objection, only to create a moinentar.v edilv. a swirl, and the cur rent Honed on in n disiourse us full of "IV as is Mississippi. Why this feminine deference to man'' Another generation of equal education fur man and woman may remedy this. MQUini'l.D a gill be sent to college?" is O less the question than "why should she not go?" For the burden pf proof is now upon the objectors nnd, with the enfranchisement of her sex in business life, in the piofcssinns and at the polls, there is no logic in fuither denial to woman of any educational oppoitunlty which is her hiother's. TDKXTITY, however, is not always equal-J- ity. Wo ni-p adapting education more nnd more to individual needs nnd recogniz ing that training for one is not necessarily the training 'for all. The elective sstem, now so much discredited, was a groping after this adaptation ; but it failed largely) because it left the selection of subject to the ihoicp of the immature mind of the student, instead of seeking that guidance In this matter which a more thorough and etpeit undei standing of the working of mind, character and disposition may be able yet to give r. The Gownsman does not know enough technical!) about psy chology even to malign H nnd precious little is needed for Mint ungracious purpose. But if individual characteristics and apti tudes should be taken into consideration in the choice of a career In life and who can question it? equally important is it that such considerations ait in the choice of the subjects to be studied in school and college. And if all this is tine of individual men ami women, may not sex, after all, somewhat determine the natuip of the di verse college courses which shall be equal for man and woman, but not necessarilv identical? THE difference between the womani-li mnu nnd the mannish woman is not that of a button; both nre out of the norm and therefore abhorrent. It is 'the qualities, common to mankind, that we want culti vated in both sexes and these nre, after all, enormously in excess in point of number and importance to those which distinguish them and stand in contrast. There is a question as to which is best, u college wholly for girls (such as Vnssar or Welles ley), a girl's nnnex to u man's uuiversitj (HadeltfTe or Barnard, with rripR-t to Har vard or Columbia), or nn InstiditlSn frankl.v open to men and women on equal terms. And decision is bj no means simple. Per haps a college whollj for girls tends o too much accentuate the ery cliffij-ence 'which it is intended to obliteinte. Inevitably the institution which is fully co-educational intersperses with those wholesome bojish or girlish activities of college life which we believe so valuable to joung people a cer tain amount of ' that social intercouise which is called "society" and which for the young had better come later than earlier. But bojs nnd girls nre born into one family, and in most of the country they are schooled together. N'eed we separate them in college? And will not the adapta tion of subject, alluded to above, partly, at least, solve the problem? IF TOU have a daughter, send hpr to col lege. If she must earn her living, edu cate her In her vocation ; if she need not earn her living, educate her as fully nnd completely as her brother for that thing which men anif women most waste, her leisure. That it is cheaper to move than pay rent is an old sajing, the rrtitli of vv.hirli is debatable theBe Any. Transfer men, in New York nt least,' appear to know -a few profiteering tricks that the landlord has forgotten. ' The London Times complains that Americans are "copping off" all England's famous paintings, including a number of Whistlers. Why worry? Some of these days some of our boys will go over and paint some more for her. A former resident of the Eastern peni tentiary hos been arrested iu Richmond, Va.,with bis fifth wife'. Marriage is a sacrament with most people. With this man it has degenerated Into a habit. Japanese business men have offered to build up Bolivia. They have already shown similar enterprise In Shantung. Word comes from Steelton that foreign ers are buying up grapes by the ton for wine-making. .John- Barlecorn has many aUascjaand more lives then a cat- ' 73 i ,:-J- . ai s ' - " JHnr ' . - v m , tmW . THE CHAFFING DISH 4- OUR OWN CONDENSED CLASSICS "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" fTlIlE verses of this magnificent song, ten- der'and appealing as they arc, may be omitted iu any rigorous -.condensation, ns their message is adequately summed up mid crystallized in the poignant chorus, which seems to be intended by the author to sjm-' bolize the dark nnd drenching futility of human existence. What could be more pn thetic, after all, than the collapse of nn iridescent bubble, spun from the soapsuds of dreams and colored by the rosy blush of hope? Our learned condensing specialist also wishes to point out that this poem is undoubtedly intended ns an allegory sug gesting the downfall of Bolshevism. Bub bles, be sa.s, imply soap ; soap means a solri-box in the bnckgiound; and n-bubble is ii spherical filmy envelope of liquid in closing gas or heated air, which, when un duly distended, fractures nnd is irretriev ably dispersed. Condensation, he adds, is necessarily fatul to nuy bubble: If the air within the envelope .condenses, the weight of the liquid breaks the supporting film and the end of that bubble is immediate. Barely have the grandeur and serenity ot this ditty been surpassed in contemporary folk-song, which may be met upon almost every human lip. THE first line of the chorus juts boldly into the theme. The anonymous vocal ist asserts with refreshing candor that his entire career is spent in blowing "bubbles. This statement is made without any reserve. ! the use of the woid "forever'Mie Imme diately shuts out all other occupations, whether active or sedentary from his atten tion This concentration, so rare in modern life, is enough to rivet the attention from the stait. This preliminary note of deti nue and possibly cynical decisiveness is rc cuired to again later, becoming the unifying motif of the whole composition. THE rapid development of the author's theme does not permit ns to remain in doubt as to the cbaracter-of these bubbles. The blower hastily explains mat tne blowees (the bubbles) are-of an enchanting beauty They are (as he describes them with a quaint inversion) "Pretty bubbles bright aud fair." There is a note of appeal in this apparent artlessness that emphasizes the pastoral and lyric tone of the ballad. Kvviftl.v the author carries us to a realm of powerful imagination. These bubbles, after he has blown them, ascend to an elevated region of blithe fantasy, "Up in the, sky, the fly so high," he says. The heart of the reader (or hearer) follows after them, exhilaiated. This is one of the most stir ring portions of the narrative, nnd leads one on unsuspectingly to the first climax. The high. flying bubbles do not maintain their altitude. Suddenly, .with almost crush ing power, a note, of unrelieved sadness Is introduced into the plot. The unfortunate bubbles fade and die. That, of itself, would be a sufficient tragedy to engross the sympa thy of the public. But the downfall of human ambition is made complete by the admirablv terse and bitter parallel drawn by the author. "Like my dreams." he says, "they fade and die." Not only are the bubbles shattered, but his own dreams and sweet illusions are withered arid defunct. The melodj . rising to a mourning potc pt piercing grief, reaches Its tonic summit of despair. WITH superb art and brusque economy of means the, author brings us back to the refrain, He realizes that human endurance cannot long support this peakload of Bor row. He drops back to the familiar and haunting theme, and asserts again that he is forever blowing bubbles, This atement is now vividly enhanced by our knowledge of thp sad fate in store for these bubbles. The mood of resignation, so .valuable, from the philosophic standpoint Is thus induced. Iu spite of the fact that these bubbles nre innmAl in r1af mi .! l.i tlfrlMnilPR it In I Hate them, la thlg cjaiclwij, or Js,it praise- J5rl. praise WME RUN OR FOUL? v . . - jam " CsXtv . ?. ' s!Wl worthy perseverance nnd stubbdru courage? The sequel will tell. There follows n regrettable lacuna in the tex"t. The present condcrtser, not having had access to the authoritative edition, only knows it in the popular (but presumably spurious) version, which runs thus: ltum1y-1um-ti-tumtiimrtuMtuin. More forr tunatc Investigators, for whom the complete text has been available, nssert that this line carries the story to Its highest pitch of re strained and melodious grief.. It is prob able, however, that many will have to con tent themselves with the conjectural line given ubove. in its very lack of certainty this version seems to add n pregnant sym bohzation of human mutability. rpiIERE can be no doubt whatever as" to '- the author's meaning in the closing lines. Willfully and with brute power he re-echoes the dismal motif ot this drnmn of human frtistiation. He continues to blow bubbles. The bubbles are, ns before, beautiful. But their beauty (we now see) is n tragic one. It is a beauty born only to vanish. Thus the story comes full circle : the refrain which seemed nt first merely a dainty pas sage of fancy has become an unanswerable indictment of human life. Life, one might say, is hit below the belt, and has nothing -to say for itself in rebuttal. The last line dies away, ostensibly with a jaunty light ness, but in reality a savage mockery. One turns away, to suffer in siience. Still Hopeful BAHICEEPEIt, middle-aged, thoroughly experienced, wishes steady position In first class place. Xew Yorjv World. We note that Mr, Cattell has discovered Iiish blood iu his veins. Looking the matter up in such reference works ns we have nt hand, we are convinced that we should have known that before, lu 1005. Mr. Cattell published n book called "'Philadelphia From the Green Town to the Great City." The Hard Working Race WHY NEGLECT A DAY'S BUSIXESS? Marriage Licenses Obtained Privately Advt. in n local paper. Mr. De Valera used to be a mathematics teacher, we hear. He must find his popu larity strange. Math teachers nre not ac customed to adulation. We hear a good deal said about the "fruits of the war." aiiey seem to be mostly lemons and sour grapes. We deplore the habit, now growing, of christening the good!d trades by new-fangled and high-sounding names. We notice a large real estate agent in Xew York now calls himself a "property management enirl- neer." The time may jet come when nJ loaler will call nimseii an indolence broker; a colyumist, a wholesale intellect demobil izes and the elevator boy will claim to be un alternator of barometric pressure. AValking up Chestnut street nbotit the time Mr. Dc Valera traversed that highway we observed the following: 7'nree green umbrellas, A green scaffolding al the corver of Eighth tircet. ' ,' John Joseph Conly, Ae Liberty Hond poet, haranguing a gathering of business college flappers 'more thaw enough to be tailed a "group," but pot quite enough to make a "levv" arwird iojM .4merfc jtnd I fish flags and a brass trumpet. A number of unnecessary hawsers along the curb. 'But what was the police patrol wagon ftolng, drawn up In Ranstead street? , Doesn't Broad Street Station ever get jealous of North Philadelphia? Association of Ideas HMia Acin.,latf1 Press corrpsivonflpnl iln into Flume concealed in a load of coal, ills nama waa probably Bill utuuq woa juuuauij ..., uuv--Je, BUgilATES, No More! AX AUTUMX wind came swingin Across the tremblin' tree, The song that it was singin' Sounded pretty good to me X'o more superheated skies! Xo more skcetcrs! Xo more flies! They talk about old winter, An' the stormy winds that blow. I'.m longin' to begin ter Carry wood an' shovel snow Xo more hornet! No more snake! Xo more ague cure to take! The fiejd has turned to stubble, The preserves arc on the shelf. If your heart.is set on trouble You must make it 'for yourself No more haminock in the shade ! Whistle blows, "All promenade !"- Washington Star. The rapture and safe jailing of the Xew Jersey criminal hunted for thirty-six hours by a posse is a triumph of justice and a credit to citizen sanity. It takes more than a government con cession. to stop n Pacific shipyard strike when the men have decided to take a brief vaca tion. Spite ot prohibition and the high cost of living, the Allentown Fair this year made more money than ever before.- Prosperity will not be denied. ' An earnest subscriber wishes ,to know what relation hcre is between Muuna Loa and Mono Lisa. We know of none save that each has an open countenance. When it comes 'to spouting Jiot stuff, 'Manna Loa has all orators backed off the map. " What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. AVhat is the hoist of a flag? 2. When' was the government of the United States free from debt? 3. What is the fuselage of an-alrplatie? 4. How.dld is Albert, king of the Belgians? 5. What celebrated 'volcano in American territory, Is now in eruption? 0, What American national song originated in a 'composition called "The Presi dents. March"? 7. How do the English pronounce the sur name Marjoribanks? , . 8. Who was Pliny? 0. What is the common origin of the words czar and kaiser? 10. What Is specific gravity? Answers to Yesterday' Quiz V 1. The seat of the Belgian government dur ing the greater partrofj'tbe war was Havre, France. .i"- 2. Joseph Tumulty is President) Wilsdn's secretary. - 3. Jenny Lind wrs called ''The Swedish Xlghtingale." ,' 4,'The order of the -Legion of Honor' was founded by Napoleon Bonaparte In '180','. 5. Senator Smoot is from Utah. 0. Et Dorado was an imaginary country, localized on the upper, Amazon, South America. It was supposed, to be enormously rich in precious stones' and gold, some ot which OrfllajUa, the lieutenant of Plzarro, pretended to have seen in Manpa, the capital, 7. A palankeen .Is a covered Utter for one, In India and the East carried usdally by four or six men. 8. Dean Swift was the author of the ex pression, "Tell the truth and sham the devil." ' 0. 'Nebraska is the "Bhtckwater state," 10, A tandsttckor is a Swedish wooden lucis - -- ier muvcu. i . a . '. m r i ! 'a Ml ''J n , .' m & m ti i i y '1 M .v . 'JTHtfl x P o'4l Y V U sffpji l4'r .V CI .11 a W -i "n x. ,
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