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ZONE FARES AND FAIR PLAY
rpHE record of the first day was be-J-
yond our fondest expectations. Our
best hopes were surpassed. The system
will work better and better as it becomes
familiar."
That is what John L. O'Toole, in charge
of the zone-fare system on tho Camden
street car lines, said at the end of the r
first day of the troublesome experiment.
Mr. O'Toole lived and learned.
Tho State Utilities Commission lives,
but it doesn't appear to learn. In reply
to the general outburst of indignation
and as a preliminary to tho hearing or
dered by the Governor to show cause
why they should not be ousted, the com
missioners have issued a statement.
They still insist that the zone-fare sys
tem is "scientific." They raise a cry for
fair play.
The gentlemen composing the commis
sion may in a final analysis prove to bo
deserving of sympathy. The'y seem to
be in the wrong jobs. They know too
much of politics and too little of stieet
car operation. The Camden lines needed
larger revenues. In Washington tho
other day experts were telling the Fed
eral Railways Commission that the pri
mary need for efficient and profitable
street-car service is scientific manage
ment. They didn't say that it was in
creased fares.
It is to be hoped that at the hearing
of the Jersey Utilities Commission some
one will ask the members what they
know about scientific street-car manage
ment. HOLED OUT!
w. fruit, miladeipma Orchestra endow
. " ment campaign is like a nine-hole golf
course; it is tu nave nine luncneons and
at each it must report a minimum of
$100,000 if it is to get its million dol
lars. It played its first hole last Friday
and holed out with $109,000. Today it
plays its second hole at its Ritz-Carlton
luncheon.
The workers report that the "ap
proach'' is good. Let us hope so. But it
Is a game in which every man and woman
in Philadelphia must take part in order
to hole out nt the ninth. In this par
ticular kind of a golf game the second
and third holes are the most difficult to
'negotiate." If the -playing there is
good, an impetus carries along, and tho
other six holes are not so difficult.
Both of those two holes will be played
by the six hundred and odd Orchestra
workers this week, one today and the
other on Friday. Let us all help them to
hole out on both. It is a game in which
each and all may well be proud to take.
a hand, it is worthy m the best sense
of the word.
GETTING ON THE BAND WAGON
ARRANGEMENTS to invite Congress
man Moore to address tho Republi
can city committee as the regular party
nominee for the mayoralty indicate that
the Organization is preparing to accept
tho inevitable with grace.
Tho congressman made his fight for
the nomination within the ranks of tho
jnirty. He was a candidate at the Re
publican, primaries, and ho insisted that.
he was -(eking tne uepuwican rwmina
' tk,n rmP1 oi 1h0 fa" .t -"
committee disregarded nil precedents Biid
indorsed the enndidncy of Judge Pnttcr
son; and in spite nlso of the charge of
some of tho leaders that ho was trying
to disrupt tho party. Ho insisted, how
ever, that he was trying to unite tho
party by giving to the voters an oppor
tunity to decido for themselves whom
they wished to nominate.
Tho police count of the primary vote
gave the nomination to the congressman,
and the official count has sustained the
police count in so far as it gave a ma
jority to Mr. Moore. Tho attempt to
change the verdict has been futile, and
Mr. Moore will go before the voters in
November as the regular nominee of the
party with the support of the city com
mittee. The men who opposed him are tum
bling over on" another in their haste to
climb on the band wagon, for they have
discovered that a majoiity of the voters
in the party have decided that they want
a new leadership.
A TITANIC WAR ENDS AS
YELLOW FEVER SURRENDERS
General Gorgas's Great Victory at Guay
aquil, Last Lair of the Pest, Affects
the Whole Course of Civilization
A
NOTHER world war is over.
After 272 years of tragic struggle,
after the, slaughter of millions white
men, black men, red men, brown men
the lethal fray which began when
Chntles Stuart was fighting to save iiis
English crown and Louis the Magnifi
cent was bedizening his French regalia
with spurious jewels is over and peace
has been declared.
The difference between this peace and
that of Ryswick in 1G97, of Utrecht in
1713, of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748, of Paris
in 176.1, of Paris in 1783, of Amiens in
1802, of Vienna in 1814-15, of Guadalupe
Hidalgo in 1S48, of Frankfort in 1870, of
Portsmouth in 1905 and even if the pes
simists are heeded of Paris in 1919, is
that it marks the decisive and absolute
extermination of the foe.
There is every heartening reason for
believing that the peace of Guayaquil
will hold. It may even be safely as
sumed that Senators Hitchcock and
Lodge would be in perfect accord on this
point.
When the news of the peace of Guaya
quil; hummed over tho wiies yesterday
mankind refrained from any manifesta
tion of ecstatic frenzy. A world holiday
was not proclaimed. No salutes to sig
nalize the event were fired. No uproar
ious mobs paraded metropolitan stieuts,
no tempests of confetti, no paper "snow
storms" drove the armies of photograph
ers to prodigies of zeal.
Given the report of an armistice in one
of mankind's period wars against itself,
and tho globe reels in delirium.
Given the announcement that the yellow-fever
scourge has been conquered,
and temperamental humanity is as im
passive as the Sphinx of Gizch.
But if Stephen Girard were alive to
day he would understand the news. So
would those superb American martyrs,
Walter F. Reed and James Carroll.
So, one may be sure, docs Major Gen
eral William C. Gorgas, former surgeon
general of the United States aimy. In
fact, he made the peace of Guayaquil.
He signed many of the antecedent
treaties which led up to it. He carried
it well beyond the armistice stage into
that of unconditional sunender.
It is upon the word of this untiling
generalissimo that the world is informed
that yellow fever has been eradicated
from the earth.
In the few unimportant communities
where the scourge still fpebly exists it
is destined quickly to "burn itself out."
Guayaouil was tho last major plague
spot. The fell disease, hunted from end
to end of the temperate and tropical
Americas and even in some parts of
Europe, was eventually confined to a
single stronghold tho steaming coast of
the republic of Ecuador.
Some months ago General Gorgas or
ganized the last drive of his health bat
talions against this poisonous lair. Like
all ical heroes, the former surgeon gen
eral is modest. When ho affixes his seal
of victory 'there is no question that it
has been thoroughly won.
Yellow fever was an American blight,
and it is therefore fitting that its extinc
tion can be validly rated as an American
triumph.
The first responsible account of it
comes from Bridgetown, in the Barbados,
in 1647. Soon afterward it broke out in
Jamaica.
Later it swtpt into Peru, Ecuador and
Brazil, and in the early years of the
nineteenth century it held grim sway
over virtually all the inhabited portions
of the American continent.
Philadelphia experienced its cruel
ravages, which Girard, among other
noble figures, strove so energetically to
asiuage.
When middle-aged men of today were
children New Orleans was tragically in
fected with the contagion. At times it
even crossed tho ocean, appearing in the
Spanish and Portuguese coast towns.
Asia, breeding place of so many plagues,
was mercifully spared.
It was popularly believed that tho nd
mirablo result of the Spanish-American
War was the deathknell of Spanish
colonial rule. That, of course, was the
expected performance. It was brilliant
and stimulating. But it is arguable
whether the unforeseen consequence was
not in the long run more momentous.
Cuba was a terribly treacherous "Pearl
of the Antilles" in 1898. For more than
two centuries it had been a helpless prey
to the dread "fievre amarilla." Back in
1881, Dr. Carlos Finlay, of Havana, had
ndvanced the theory that mosquitoes
were the source of the yellow fever in
fection. But his opinion bore little fruit
until during the American regime in tho
island, Carroll nnd Reed, heading an
American sartitary commission, gave up
their lives In testing the terrible potency
of the inoculating insect.
Major GorgaB, pa ne then wag, acted
immediately upon this epic disqovery, In
1901 he began "uu tremendous task of
EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER
cleaning up plague-smitten Hnvana.
Within six years the city was absolutely
freo from yellow fever, Cuba herself
learned tho wondrous new lesson nnd now
Havana is one of the healthiest communi
ties on the enrth.
There were two miracle workers at
Panama, each indispensable to the other.
Goethals built the waterway and Gorges
by his anti-yellow fever sanitation en
abled him to use tho man-power. With
out his control and suppression of tho
scourge the continents would never have
been severed. We should have fitilcd
there in a tropic graveyard as Franco
had done.
Oswnldo Cruz in Rio do Janeiro took
up thu mighty hygienic aims which we
had forged. The Brazilian littoral wus
purged of the pest. Full credit must bo
given to Latin-America in the last stages
of the age-old conflict.
Guayaquil remained, seething with
disease, a menace to the entile continent.
Upon nn invitation from the city, Gen
eral Gorgas assembled his heavy nrtil
lery nnd finished the job as conclusively
as Pershing took over the St. Mihiel
salient.
Not nil oCAmerica's intrepid warriors
carry a sword.
"One hundred years fiom today," de
clared Generalissimo Gorgas in 1915, "a
case of it (yellow fever) will probably
be regarded as a medical curiosity." He
underestimated his powers and those of
that marvelous at my of benefactors to
mankind who have shared in the victory.
It is conceivable that, a, the clash of
battle in the militaiy sense becomes more
and more archaic the woild will under
take to redefine war. It may lealize then
that strife is not only by poisoned gas,
Browning guns, trench knives, aerial
bombs, submarines nnd "Big Berthas."
In time the peace of Guayaquil may be
comprehended in its epochal majesty.
And, if the anachronistic diplomats
arc still unsatisfied with a performance
which merely safeguards the lives of mil
lions, perhaps they will understand what
tho end of some three hundred years of
struggle means when they behold the
tiansformation of the tropics.
If the Gorgas principles of sanitation
are respected, as, despite some inevitable
backsliding, they are in the main certain
to be, torrid America, made habitable for
white men, will play an entirely new role
in tho world's destinies. ,
It is hard to forecast the favor of fame.
And yet, despite the skeptic, the world
does slowly grope towaid truth. Almost
timidly it learns to think, but in the end
its judgments attain proportion. And
when it takes in the significance of the
surrender of the yellow scourge there
will be no doubt about who triumphed in
one war. It was among the most fright
ful and the longest conflicts of history.
And the victor, "with all respect to heroic
allies, was America.
WHERE EVERYBODY WINS
ORGANIZED labor in the British rail--'
way strike was under the influence of
the most conspicuous radicals in Eng
land. Yet, from the very first, these
radicals were conservative enough and
decent and reasonable enough to fight
every trend that might have brought
British trades unionism into dangerous
conflict with the collective will of the
people or the institutions upon which na
tional welfare is dependent.
Arthur Henderson and John R. Clynes
are among the major prophets of British
liberalism. Yet it was they who, as men
most ardently devoted to the trades
union cause, did as much as Lloyd George
to make an amicable .settlement of the
strike possible. They were not amateurs
or adventurers in the labor movement.
They sought permanent rather than tem
porary benefits, and, by refusing to per
mit sympathetic strikes in other indus
tries, made it plain that they wished to
base settlements upon moral grounds
rather than upon the purely accidental
advantnge of strategic strength. British
labor is stronger because it suddenly
abandoned a warlike attitude to reach a
friendly working agreement with the
men who have to bear the responsibili
ties of government and industrial leader
ship. Men like Henderson and Clynes are
too rare in American trades unionism,
which, because it is younger than the
trades unionism of Great Britain, is often
more intemperate, more emotional and
more willing to be a refuge for philo
sophical vagrants and the propagandists
of futile violence.
It is difficult to imagine a sharper con
trast than that of the British labor lead-'
ers at tho recent successful strike con
ference and the aloofness of the United
Mine Workers of America from the in
dustrial conference which opened in
Washington yesterday. Upon the British
side is evidence of a national view.
Upon tho other is n definite acknowledg
ment of class consciousness.
The United Mine Workers' leaders do
not like the personnel of the conference.
Do they want a packed jury? The rep
resentatives were named by President
Wilson, who obviously believed that the
instincts of justice in Americans gen
erally representative of labor and capital
alike could insuic some method of ap
proach to better mutual understandings
between the two halves of the industrial
world.
Progressive opinion in the United
States is, like progressive opinion in
England, opposed to class consciousness
in any quarter. It is opposed to the
D'Annunzios of labor and the D'Annun
zios of capital. It wants no raids either
on the common resources of the country
or on the rights of people. And it wants
peace.
Neither society nor the land itself can
provide all that people seek while the
world is full of idleness and turmoil.
The British railway strikers could not
win, yet their demands were more rea
sonable and their methods fairer than
those of Foster and his nssociates at
Pittsburgh.
Tlio wonder Is that the motor bandits
who jimmied the door of a Chestnut street
restaurant and then carried off the safe did
not call on the police for assistance.
Hotel men In convention are dl,eussln
the high lost of living. Thy bUohM worry 4
lisni ,t,uui;ii lueir ioit buwu n our portion!
PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY,
H. P. MILLER, ENCYCLOPEDIA
Don Cameron Did Service to the State
Whon He Made Him a Page.
Charles F. Warwick Dis
liked Country Life
lr GEOUGK NOX' McCAIN
NE of the best thlngp Don Cameron ever
'-' did for the Senate of Pennsylvania was
when lie appointed Herman P. Miller to be n
paRR in that body. Tlint was nwny buck in
1S70.
The boy wns barely old enough to qualify
for the position.
During the succeeding decade Herman P
Miller row through nil the gradations of
service on Capitol lllll. Today lie holds the
responsible position of librarian of the Sen
ate. He lins held it for twenty-eight yenis,
succeeding the late Captain John C. De
luncy.
For years before Captain Dclauey retired
in 1SII1 Herman1 Miller lint! been Ids assist
ant. He stepped Into the place fully equipped
for the work. He was the youngest man
ever appointed to the position.
I think that I have solved the secret of
his long and honorable service ; It is his per
feet self-effncenicnt. Ho is nccr in the
limelight. In that respect bo is distinctly
dlffetent from some other Harrisburg offi
cials. Senators may come nnd senators tnnj
go, but Herman Miller remains, for Ids serv
inM are esscntinl to the perfect organiza
tion of tho upper body.
He knows ccry seuntor who lias served
during the lust forty ears. Ho possesses a
kodak memory as to names nnd faces.
He has nn encyclopedic knowledge of
legislation.
He bus legal, legislative nnd inference
informal itm at his linger ends. During a
session if a senator requires ilatn of n bio
graphical nature concerning some One who
has been dead for n quarter of n century,
the name nnd the information required aie
handed on n slip of paper to a Senate page
In ten minutes he Is back from the libra
rlan's office with tho documents.
He is edijor of Smull's Hand Book and
tho custodian of all reports, bills and docu
ments of the Senate.
Modest, retiring and 'the possessor of un
failing courtesy, ho is the" one indispensable
official to the State Senate.
D
II. GEORGE. EAULE RAIOUEL. of this
in current events to various gatherings oi in
tellectuals, is back from Siberia anil other
remote sections of the distant East. Trans
pacific West would perhaps be the better de
scription. He has been away for over fie mouths,
having sailed from Sun FrancNco in April.
His wife, who was Miss Mury Matliuk, of
Lowisburg, accompanied him.
One of his plensnnt experiences, he tells
me, was his meeting with my friend, the Rev.
Charles V. Itnhu, chaplain to the American
forces over there. Chaplain Itnlin is a
gruduate of Ursinus College and the Lu
theran Theological Seminary. lie resigned
a pastorate in New Rochelle, X. Y., to
cuter the army.
I judge from his remarks on the subject
that Doctor Uaigucl is. Hot enchanted with
Siberia, either as tf tourist land or a safety
lirst proposition. Under existing conditions,
witTi two or three races trying to get at each
others' throats nnd the brutal Ilolsheviki
adding to the general horror, "The Land of
the tSrent Steppes" is n good place
to get nwny from. '
Anjhowo Doctor Itaiguol declares he is
mighty glad to get bVck to home cooking,
taxicabs nnd theatres.
MOST city dwellers, professional people
particularly, liaxe a earning for tho
eountrj. There is n fascination about it to
the city-born. Four out of every six profes
sional men dream of the day when they can
abandon the treadmill nnd get nut among
the lields nnd woodsy where the skjline is
nature's handiwork and not a serrated bor
der of liousetops and skyscrapers.
The late diaries F. Warwick, former
Mayor of Philadelphia,' was the one con
spicuous exception to this rule that I recall.
He hud n horror of the country. ' Several
jcars bcfoie his system gave way to the
attacks of disease, and while he wns yet
working on his History of the Trench Rev
olution, his physician advised him to go to
the country for n rest.
"The suggestion is abhorrent," he said in
a tnlk 1 had with him about that time. "I
detest the isolation and, above nil, the silence
of the country. To sit and listen to the
crickets, frogs and night insects gives me
the blues. I want to be in the city, where
I can hear the noises of the city, the clang
of the trolley nnd see the fire 'engines go
by."
And the brilllaut nnd clever Warwick had
his wish. His last dajs were spent in the
city within hearing of the sounds he loved
so well.
w
Bucks county, is an occasional isitor of
the city. I saw him on Chestnut street the
other day. He is unchanged in face and
manner from twenty years ago, when his
principal occupation wns heaping up trouble
with n scoop shovel for one Matthew Stanley
Quay and his organization,
"Ilamp" Rice was the personification of
the independent spirit of Bucks county.
When the band of the Qunv machine rested
too heavily upon them its people would swing
over to the Democracy just to teach the bosses
a lesson. For years it was debatable
ground.
Harmon Ycrkes, ex-state senator nnd ex
"judge, who is still practicing law In Dojles
town, and the late George Ross were two
fine types of Democracy who preceded Rice
as Bucks county's representatives in tho
Senate.
Henry D. Moyer was his Immediate prede
cessor. He is n bank president now. I be
lieve. He was a regular old-school Repub
lican. Then the pendulum of tho popular
will began swinging the opposite jdirection.
The Independents, who bad no lovo for tho
old regime, elected Rice to succeed Moyer.
At the end of his term the pendulum swung
still further, and Webster Grim, Democrat,
was sent to the Senate. He barely scraped
through with something over 200 majority in
the county, if I recall correctly.
But Hampton W. Rice still has the fever
in his blood. He wnR n fighter twenty years
ago nnd he is n fighter today.
Much conjecture has bceu rife ns to
tho cause of the fog which has enveloped
Philadelphia durlug the last few dajs,
Well, the winds have been from the south
and blew right over the Capitol at Wash
ington. Do you suppose that hus anything
to do with it?
Secretary Foster did not help the cause
of labor by cntcrlug objections to publicity.
Truth does not fear the light.
As a candidate Major General Wood
can't -expect to make much progress with
one foot in another man's grave.
Wonder If the Tenants Association
couldn't get the bricklayers and carpenters
to join 7 ,
1 r
Maybe it will, comfort; blm td know Jt:
mh-
mn wno paiaijaxee jn wis city!
io brwk .?
OCTOBER 7, 1919 ' N.!
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Tz.)vif' ,(V ' & - ,'J
THE CHAFFING DISH
Brogues
IX A rhjmex's old shoes,,
I had sought near and far
For 'the Commoner's Muse ,
In my sireland ;
Till I came to a sea.
Where my guide wus a slur
That piloted me
Into Ireland.
SO IN brogues of'u hid,
I go down through the dreams
And the fancies I bod
On n high-way
That was hard, ncath the soft,
Frilling star-shine that seems
To bo ever aloft
Over my way.
AND when, in the shoon
Of the Fairies, I skip
On the path to the Moon,
I shall travel
With the brogues of n bard
Slung. behind for the trip,
Should the stars be ns hard
As tho gravel.
FRANCIS CARLIN.
It looks as though it would be as difficult
to get D'Annunzio out of Flume ns to per
suade Pershing to take off his Sam Browne.
Both these matters may yet have to be re
ferred to Colonel House.
Mr. House, by the way, Is probably the
only colonel who has served through the
entire fray without a single promotion.
Isn't it time some one made him n general?
Here's Realism
We went to see "Tho Lottery Man" In
the movies. One of the scenes pictures the
local room of n newspaper during rush
hours. We want to'' hand it to tho film
director for his ndmirnblc fidelity to life,
lie had everybody working but the office
boys.
The laundry owners .are holding their
tnnunl convention in New York. We hope
thev will not forget to sny n little thanks
trivlng for fountain pens, soup nnd Pitts
burgh. AVe always get a smile when we sec the
string of little white performing dogs from
a locnl theatre going on their outing down
Broad street. If we could only patter across
a mu'ddy street ns featly, ns they do we
would be spnred those savage mornings with
a whisk brush.
The Return of Colonel House
Full fathom five his utterance lies,
Of his words naught can be made
All inscrutable his eyes,
Will not cnll a spado a spade;
He whose tongue might blithely range
Over topics rich and strange
Iteportcrs hourly ring his bell:
Hark! He tells them
Go to h--!
a.a Quills of Colonel House's "Amer
icanism" may bo rnised by the fact that he
will not get' home until nfter the world's
series is over.
Rule for Ireland seems very much nt
home In America these days.
The Republican senators are a littlo bit
nuzzled, we dare W. by these repeated
reports of the President's waggish humor
during Ids illness. He s reported ns having
cracked a number of jokes in bed. nnd Sen
ator Lodge may wejWeel uneasy.
Justifiable Homicide
Killed Amusing "U"ls-He"dllne- ,
And ns our friend BInckie observed, how
often wo have all yearned to do tho same.
It docs not do to goadji host too far.
One of our private ambitions Is to hear
what the Northwest mounted police think
of the novels nnd plays people write about
them.
The other day the Urchin woke up frpin
ute midday nnp.aad bSfMM1"0 ,J"W
about an advenWTri E.- ' ,BVet
Wrd,""Ji rtW,.' H" " w,NyJow
N TIMELY "BLOW-OUT'' v
and kissed Junior, right on the mouth nnd
plnyed with Junior. He chased me. He
wns n nice littlo bird." ..
Of course, our young kinsman merely
dreamed this, ns the window is screened.
But how it reminded us of Hiram John
son nnd the presidential bee.
I'adcrewski says that he hns forgotten
how to play the piano. It seems to us very
unfortunate that be never took one of those
memory courses.
This afternoon our mind keeps running
on Colonel House. There is this to be said
nbout the colonel : He has managed to keep
himself an enigma longer than almost any
one else. j
Fragment of a Tennysonlan Drama
Over the uufnthomiiblc sea
The equally unfathomnble nouse,
Silent ns a chock-full tireless cooker
Returns inscrutable.
" am only thirty-two, but many times I
have been complimented on having the
judqment of a man of forty.-fivc."
We find this statement in a memory
course ud in a New York paper. We may
bo wrong, but we think tho gentleman is
kidding himself, or permitting Ids compli
mentary friends to spoof him. '
The judgment of n man of forty-five is
not necessarily nny better than that of a
mere lnd of thirty-two. Judgment is one
of the faculties, we submit, that nre born
in u man and not likely to be improved by
experience. Wo are aware (in our own
easel thnt our judgment now is as erratic!
as it was ten years ago; and even the
miraculous dignity of forty-five does nof
wave a wand over a man's bean nnd open
it to sunlight nnd fresh air.
Desk Mottoes
Tread softly nnd circumspectly In tills
funambulous track and narrow path of
goodness Covetousness cracks the
sinews of faith, numbs the apprehension of
anything above sense, and makes a perad
venture of things to come; Uvea but unto
one world, nor hopes but fears another;
makes our own death Bweet unto others,
bitter unto ourselves; gives a dry funeral,
scenlcal mourning, and no wet eyeB at the
Bravo. am THOMAS BltOWNE.
We uotlccd.jbat Judge Patterson said the
other day he had been too much in his shell
lately and was going to branch out.
If the genial judge, with his Dick'cnslan
hilarity and unfailing humor, considers him
self a chambered nautilus, all we can ro
mark (nnd we do remark) is that we would
liko to be around when ho begins to' build
more stately, mansions for his soul, as tho
well-known physician Dr. O. W. Holmes
'phrased it.
Amy Lowell's new book of prose Is going
to go big, we tentatively opine, even If the
publishers do Insist on calling It poetry.
Here is the influence Miss Lowell has on
one hardened man. The literary editor was
away on a holiday recently, and in his ab
sence tho book" was handed to us to review.
lleforo we got rouna to it tne u. E. came
back. He wns nearly prostrated at the
news thnt this book had escaped him and
made us give it back.
A friend In Baltimoro writes us that It
took him thirteen weeks to get Don Mar
quis to answer a letter, even though ha,
Inclosed stamped-nddressed cavelope.
If he knew Don as well as we do he
would know that this was doing pretty well.
Vachel Lindsay wnnts us to go to Eng
land with him to. help him share the deficit
of his lecturing tour. And yet It is said
that poets have no business sense.
If we were doing things on the D'An
nunzio plan we should have sent Vachel
Lindsay to mop tip Omaha Instead of Gen
eral Vood. And our own private opinion
is that Vachel could ha,e done it.
D'Annnnzlo. wo might add,, has written
,the epic, of yiwe, but the
ague, pfna.
MloniMyrJU V & the
WATp.
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When Autumn Comes Along
SUMMERTIME was mighty sweet,
But autumn comes along,
And that's when winds arc hard to beat
At slngin' of a song!
They seem, beneath the sun and moon,
To raise a rolllckln' good tune I
And when the winds have gone their ways
Just all too tired to sing
Wo greet the dancing, nights and days,
And bear home-music ring!
Joys in tho old homo-place abound
The fiddlers call for "Hands around I" .
Oh, then there's higher hope and heart,
And .tables that arc spread,
With Love to play the huppy part '
To break and bless the bread.
And then It is tho joy we know
That makes us love sweet Autumn sol
Houston Post.
The raid of state troopers on n farm
at Mount Zion, Pa., where they confiscated
n still, is indication that Jordan is a hard
road to travel.
Even as we walk to success over the
tombstones of past failures so will the suc-
' cessful airship of the future be sustained
by the wings of dead and gone aviators.
Wonder If there isn't some way of re
covering damages from the weather man
for delays caused by sticky typewriters.
Now that the senators are beginning to
hear from the folks back home, wo may
expect a speedy disposal of the peace treaty.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. Who said "Nothing will ever be at
tempted If nil possible objections
must first bo overcome"?
2. Who was Cavour?
3. What kind of vegetable Is a sengreen?
4. What Is the largest city In Georgia?
5. What is neurology?
0. What are Isothermal lines?
7. What is the name for n male lamb as
distinguished from a ewe?
S. What fortress is known as the Key of
the Mediterranean?
0. Who was Frederic Cuvler?
10. Which was tho fourteenth stato In the
order of admission intp the American
Union?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Bulgaria was 'the first one of, the Cen
tral Powers to quit In tho world war.
2. John Tyler, who hod been President of
the United States, became a citizen
of the Confederate states. He voted
for secession in the Virginia conven-1
tion, served in 'the Confederate pro
visional congress nnd was elected to
the Confederate house of representa
tives, but died before he could take
his seat in 1802.
3. Plankton is the scientific name for the
I forms of drifting or floating organic
J life, found at various depths In tho
ocean, taken collectively,
4. Tho Arkansas rlvor runs through the
Royal Gorge in Colorado.
B. The Gulf Stream flows east and north
east.
C. Dorr's rebellion was a revolutionary'
movement under the leadership of T.
W. Dorr to introduco n new stato
constitution with moro liberal fran
chise Jn Rhode Island.
7. Tt occurred fn 1842.
8. Tho existence of Venice ns an Inde
pendent republic waB terminated by
Napoleon In 1707. ,
0. The fly of a flag is the division of it
farthest away from the pole.
10. It is now. generally conceded that' thtf tt
Tuai imaiunu tuauq uy iuii uihuwhi-
w
in' the first part of the war1 was in t
driving teward-Paris' instead of Mis
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