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FMUdelpnU, TTedne.d.y. October 13, 1919
MOORE TELLS WHAT'S WHAT .
CONGRESSMAN MOORE told the Re-
publican city committee yesterday
- 'afternoon just where it must get off.
Mis speech was n calm, courteous as
sertion of his detcimination to run his
own campaign with the assistance of the
committees which indorsed him for the
nomination, and it was an invitation to
the city committee to co-operate with
him.
He let the committeemen understand
that he did not intend to submit himself
to the tender mercies of men who tried
to defeat him for the nomination, even
to the extent of violating the party rules
and disregarding the purpose of the
direct primary laws by formally indors
ing a candidate, when their sole duty was
to secure an open and free primary in
order that the voters themselves might
make their own selection.
Mr. Moore put his finger on the sore
epot in Republicanism here and made it
clear that he intended to use what power
he has to bring about a change in party
practices.
J H the party leaders are loyal to the
ticket-that now has the sanction of regu
larity they can atone for what they did
before the primaries. Mr. Moore invited
them to display such loyalty, but he let
them know that there were penalties for
disloyalty which it would be in his power
to inflict.
If they want a fight he is ready for
them.
If they want peace he is equally ready.
It is up to each man to decide for him-
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Not in many years before has such a
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I'miiao w uie men who rmvu uiuiutcu party
xaffairs. It ought to do them good.
A WOMAN'S COLLEGE AT PENN
rpHE promise of a fully equipped col-
- lege for women under the direction of
the University of Pennsylvania is en
couragingly stimulated in the plans for
new buildings which Paul Cret has been
commissioned to draw. Moreover, practical-realization
of the ambitious project
need not be far off, since the Charles
Bennett foundation fund has now in
creased to more than $1,000,000 and the
Irvine' bequest amounts to $700,000 more.
The three structures contemplated a
woman's dormitory, a home for nurses
of the University Hospital and an audi
toriumshould serve to co-ordinate the
interests of the women students at Penn
along the lines worked out successfully
at Barnard and RadclifTe.
At the present the position of the
"co-eds" is somewhat ill-defined. They
are admitted to certain courses in the
, University and barred from others. They
' deserve a college of their own, at once
part of the University and yet sufficiently
distinct from it for efficient operation.
VALIDITY OF EXCHANGE TICKETS
rpHE decision of the Public Sen-ice
- Commission that the use of exchange
tickets by the P. R. T., for which three
cents is charged, does not involve dis
crimination against particular sections
of the city thus served apparently vali
dates the legality of the exchange sys
tem. It, thus confirms the position of the
!P. R. T. and enables it to bargain with
the city for the abolition of the ex
changes. The company has offered to
abolish them if the city will in return
i"eive uti tho sums nnntinllv nn!H l it fn
y 'street repairs and for the sinking fund,
'ine proposition will come before f!nnn.
?cil8 for decision in formal shape this;
"waekL nnrl it is nn tn that hn,U, u,..i
j,T .to consider the matter in all its bearings
Cejore taking action.
LIMITING RENTS BY LAW
AT INTERESTING contribution to the
I rk discussion of the ways for prevent-
i ine rent Drofiteennir haa hppn tnoHn Viw
jVi:. Clinton Rhoads, of the local bar, in
''e, suggestion that the principles laid
, 'down Dy me supreme uourt in the deci
Valorie on the granger cases in 1876 apply
to tne, present situation.
I," "..Tiie granger cases, so called by Justice
' iw, grew out 01 tne enorts of various
L sjisrinf to reculate rnilroarl rntos anA
h-eleVator charges. The railroads
t hid theretofore charged what they
pleased for carrying freight and passen--"
ere, and the grain elevators had cxer
w i-lsed, e. similar discretion.
i.13, ti'Tfeft ppneral nrlnpinln laid ilnwn hv fri
coarWas that whenever any person pur
6 ucs a public callipg and sustains such
relations to tho public that the people
M.'iUt fiAal with film nnrl nro undo mamI
4nr8 to submit to hlg terms if he is
uaisVBina y ! tnwt m- tsvsnr w,
BitjvfRti extortion the prle hji may
I charge for his services or for the use of
his property may be regulated by law.
Since these decisions were handed
down it has become tho custom for tho
state Legislatures to regulate railroad
rates, street-car fares, tho price of gas
and electric light and telephone charges.
The principle has been applied in many
states to other enterprises affected by a
relation to the public. In Maine, for ex
ample, the constitutionality of a law
fixing the maximum fees to be charged
by the owner of a grist mill was sus
tained. The Maine courts held that a
man might maintain a private grist mill
for grinding his own grain without in
terference, but if he opened his mill to
the public "he dedicated it to public use"
and "became subject to public regulation
and control."
Mr. Rhoads insists that this principle
can bo applied to houses offered for rent.
He would doubtless argue that as soon as
a house is put on the market it is "dedi
cated to public use," as it is necessary
for tho public to have shelter just as in
Maine it was necessary for tho farmers
to have access to a grist mill, and that
when a house is dedicated to public use
in this way "it becomes subject to public
regulation and control."
Whether Mr. Rhoadcs is right will not
appear finally until a case has been made
and submitted to the courts. If the
courts should sustain his view, then the
way would be opened for restrictive
legislation. Then would come the bigger
problem of finding the proper basis or
standard bcale for fixing rents.
WHEN WILL LABOR ITSELF
SPURN ITS RED BETRAYERS?
Each Day's News Development Piles Up
Evidence That Evil Counsels Are Un
dermining the Structure of Industry
"TTOW," angrily demanded Walker D.
" Hines, tho most patient of all
directors general of railroads, "are you
going to deal with labor unions? They
do not keep their agreements and they
will not obey even their own leaders!"
That outburst of wrath came unex
pectedly from an official whose subordi
nates, down to the very switchmen,
firmly desire him to be seen and not
heard.
Columns of criticism could not more'
cftarly express the indictment that rests
against the wreckers within the Federa
tion of Labor, nor could a two-hour
speech better suggest the desperate
plight of American trades unionism
under the red invasion.
If the various units in the allied
armies were to have gone wandering off
on wild adventures of their own, the
Germans would have eaten them up on
an easy march to world dominion.
That is precisely what many of the
big affiliated unions are doing as they
are Russianized one by one and led off to
disorganized guerrilla enterprises by
furtive lunatics who still believe that
they can upset the world.
If trades unionism in this country
isn't to be utterly debauched and dis
graced and rendered futile the Federa
tion of Labor will have to invest heavily
in rat poison.
It will have to be swiftly deloused.
It is being betrayed and doomed to
disintegration by a new crop of amateur
prophets. '
Seventy big strikes are on in the
United States. Sixty-two of them were
precipitated against the orders of the
federation officials.
The furious blast of excoriation that
Gompers wired to the striking dock work
ers of v New York, who are out star
gazing on an emotional jag at the heels
of discredited agitators, carried a note
of desperation. The astute chief of the
federation has been fighting a purely de
fensive action, retreating, waiting for
his Marne and obviously convinced that
the disorganized hordes into which his
organization is breaking will return
sooner or later with the hard-bought
wisdom of prodigals.
But the evil has already been accom
plished. The red invaders of the Federa
tion of Labor are the first good friends
that the remaining mandarins of indus
try have had since Roosevelt turned the
unwelcome light upon them.
A month ago the people of this country
were disposed to look doubtfully upon
the obdurate Mr. Gary and his associates.
Had the steel workers followed a sane
course and gone along without the
dreamers and rioters and seditionists
there would certainly have been some
general questioning of the policies insti
tuted by the Steel Corporation in the
mill country about Pittsburgh.
Public opinion insures fair play sooner
or later. The country might have
blamed Mr. Gary for refusing to treat
with the unions.
But Foster appeared on the scene. He
brought a flock of amateur revolution
ists, crazed with undigested theory. The
ragtag and bobtail of the slums followed
him. Neurasthenics and assassins trailed
along later with their bomb-making ma
chinery in suit cases, established them
selves in cellars and orated in tho name
of the Federation of Labor. The soldiers
at Gary uncovered machinery devised fori
deliberate murder by mail. And all of
the wretched and disgraceful business
was done in the name of the steel strikers
and in the name of the federation!
It was easy then for Mr. Gary. Dis
closures at the Senate hearings and at
Pittsburgh and Gary made it plain that
the Steel Corporation actuallwas fight
ing something new and big and ugly, and
that the issue of unionism was a minor
incident of the conflict.
, Foster and his aides, the men who or
ganized the Boston police strike, those
who called out the New York longshore
men against the orders of the federation
council have all helped equally to wdaken
the trades union cause before tha high
court of public opinion in America. And
the only ones who have profited by the
newer radical leadership in the unions
are the unions' enemies.
fTvTAm triA pnemv anil innni,Jl t.
old J rule in "warfare1 Foster and the
jojgneygHkWc;tooa dividers of
their own forces. Had they been paid
destroyers they could not have done
greater havoc in organized labor.
It is only necessary to listen to John
H.' Maurcr, head of the Pennsylvania
State Federation, to perceive that tho
confusion in tho federation is not duo
solely to economic illiterates with long
hair. Mr. Maurcr has also lost his head.
He has been infoiming the world that
thero wilLJic a cull for a conference of
trades unionists in this state early in
November, with a view to discussing a
general strike and forming a labor party.
Now, if the traditional good sense of
Americans is manifest anywhere it is in
relation to political parties. Every party
ever inspired by class interest of one sort
or another has been sneered out of exist
ence. What would Mr. Maurcr say if a banker
were to call all other bankers together
to establish a political party in the ex
clusive interest of capitalism ?
Suppose that all the business men were
to join in a convention and organize a
political party frankly intended to give
business interests the right of way over
all other public conccms?
Were we to have a lawyers' party or
a doctors' party would Mr. Maurcr laugh
derisively or make speeches charging
treason and brutal class selfishness?
Doubtless ho would do both
Tho public interest is above everyM '"""'J' Sannifl P. Ilotan and Vice Com
ho,, liw i , TTnirnrl Kr.,rp nn,l h" "" Ldward I?. Smith, who recently
other interest in tho United States and
that is why no political party can survive
that does not have at least the outward
semblance of a general and patriotic
purpose. Yet Mr. Maurcr has sdlemnly
expressed fa desire for a labor party and
he, too, talks in the irame of the Federa
tion of Labor.
Any working man or woman who re
gards tho federation as a nccessaiy
agency for economic equilibrium must
look with dismay and despair at the de
vastation being wrought in tho organiza
tion by ignorant and excited men who
still believe that a minority can dictate
to free people.
The disclosures at Gary and evidences
now obtainable on every side make it
pretty clear that organized labor is fre
quently misled in local movements by
men' whose aim is not better working
conditions but revolution.
What will the intelligent and conserva
tive members of the federation do when
they finally realize that their organiza
tion is being steered to disgrace and
wreckage by a few fanatics who toil only
with gab?
GERMANY'S NEW WAR
QUT of the obscurities of the Baltic
situation two facts stand out unpleas
antly clear. The Germans in the Riga
region have repudiated tho peace treaty
and the Entente has failed to adopt suffi
ciently forcible methods to bring the
Berlin government to its senses.
The immediate recall of General von
der Goltz, whose troops, acting in con
cert with alleged "Russians," have im
periled the existence of the Lettish and
Esthonian republics, is not enough. War
is revived along tho Baltic shores in
flagrant mockery of the judgments of
Paris.
The indications that junker elements
in Germany are resolved to offset with
force in the east what they have lost in
the west are profoundly disturbing.
More than a week ago the Entente
threatened to restore the blockade of
Germany unless the armistice and treaty
conditions regarding Courland were ob
served. It is stated now that the "entire
Baltic coast is virtually blockaded." The
inadequacy of this measure is revealed in
the continuance of tho dishonorable fight
ing. t
Are the victors in tho world war afraid
of Cermany in her present condition or
are the Paris diplomatists waiting for
Mr. Hoover to appear and tell them what
to do, as in the case of the Hapsburg
manifestation in Hungary?
To the lay mind it seems that the en
forcement of a drastic blockade against
Germany would solve the problem forth
with. Merely to talk about it without acting
is to coddle German duplicity.
The fact that eisht
HottlliiR a Panic persous were Injured
durinc a panic follow
ing the burninc out of an overhead fuse on
a Woodland avenue car suggest1) that there
ought to be schools whore coolness and pres
ence, of mind arc taught. Tho .suggestion is
not so silly as it sounds. A fireman does not
grow fxeitcd at a fire nor a sailor during a
storm, but either may grow rattled if their
positions arc reversed. In both cat.es disci
pline and experience berve as a basis for
courage. In a pity where tens of thousands
of people ride on the ears daily it should bo
comparatively easy to give guidance to ac
tions under imagined eireumstances.
Alton E. Kriggs,
president of the Na
tional Poultry and
Butter Association.
Salt Needed Willi
This Kgg Story
predicts the coming of a new type of super -hen
which will lay eggs of suporsize. Though
they will be three times as large as present
eggs, he says, the price will be the bame.
Alton E. is an optimist and we will leave
it to (Jlare of that ilk to declare what the
ultimate consumer is thinking about It.
Tll'ngs are going from
Would Tliey ere bad to worse with
Wholly Unserviceable Cucle Sam, retailer.
, ,, He is now selling
"unserviceable musical instruments " He.
is sowing the wood and wind instruments
and the neighbors will reap the jazz and
whirlwind.
The Board of Education continues to
give the faculty of the William Penu High
School thorough dissatisfaction.
II. C. of L. biffed again ! Surplus army
food again on sale. Uncle Ham now brings
relief with oatmeal, bacon, beans and beef.
William Penn is more, than fortunate.
He had considerably more than 275 candles
in his birthday cake last night.
Aosta and Flume divide all the vowels
between them, which is perhaps why tho
duke and the king are not consonant.
Breakfast saccharinity "Cut out the
sugar, sweetness!"
Labor ubIom will know true' opulnce
-.when tbw haven't a Kd.
CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S
LETTER
Effect on Yachting of the Free Chesa
peake and Delaware Canal Gossip
About Rabbis Lev'lnthal and
Krauskopf, John C. Bell
and Others
Washington, Oct. 1C.
WORD reaches us that the opening of
the Chesapeake and Delaware canal,
free of tolls, is putting life and spirit into
the yachtsmen who have been nrciistomed
to use the waters of the Delaware and the
Chesapenke. The barge men nnd small sail
ing craft owners have already become ac
quainted with the new order of things and
are using the canal freely. Samuel T. Kent,
of the Union League, who simply cannot
get over the boat habit, tells of a schooner
captain who started up the plank with
517.1(1 to pay tolls in the usual way only
to mnkc the stnrtllng discovery that Uncle
Snm was doing It and that the Chesapeake
and Delaware Oannl Company was out of
business. Humor has It that the Chesa
peake is likely to become popular sailing
ground for such Philadelphia nnd Atlantic
City navigators as Senator Penrose, Colonel
James Elverson, Jr., nnd Commodore Louis
II. Kiscnlohr, and 'that by the same token
the Delaware bay nnd river are beginning
to look good to some of the big yachtsmen
of Baltimore nnd points south. Rumors of
this kind make n deep impress upon some
of the modern old son docs like District At
made a. perilous run from New lork around
thc ItarneKiit shoals, and .T. S. Loverinc
N barton, John Kent Kane and Kern
Dodge, who sometimes seek the smooth
waters of tho Chesapeake as a soothing sub
stitute for tho rock-ribbed harbors of New
England.
FEW of us appreciate the extent of Phil
adelphia's literary endenvor. The tend
cney to publish in New York, Boston or
more recently in Chicago may continue to
operate unfairly against Philadelphia insti
tutions, but it does not indicate nny lack
of authorship. Some of our biggest and best
writers have grown up In Philadelphia, and
ninny continue to do their work here. This
is particularly true of medical productions,
which bring to mind the litcfary activities
of our Philadelphia dean of surgery, Dr.
William W. Keen, lately major in the medi
cal reserve corps of the United States army.
Doctor Keen hns just put out through a
Philadelphia house nn interesting story of
"The Surgical Operations on President
Cleveland in 1Sf)H" a line testimonial to
the ability of the surgeon to keep a profes
sional secret and if the report be true, is
preparing n new publication on the surgery
of the war that may be applicable in peace.
RABBI B. L. LEVINTHAL has been
catching up with local affairs since his
return from Europe, where he served as a
delegate to the Zion Conference in London.
This popular leader of the downtown Jews
was a member of the committee to plead
tho Jewish cause before the Peace Confer
ence and visited Palestine before returning
to this country. The rnbbi has a son who
is nlso developing a lively interest in civic
affairs, Abraham Lcvinthal, n member of
the Philadelphia Bar.
WHAT would the University of Pennsyl
vania do without John C. Bell? There
is no phase of University life or manage
ment in which the distinguished former at
torney general does not participate. He is
strong on education from medicine to
finance ; and as to sports, is conspicuous
in every University netivlty from rowing to
football. In the recent drive for additional
funds to expand the University's usefulness
and to nvoid the turning nwny of hundreds
of applicants for admission for lack of
facilities and accommodation Mr. Bell was
everywhere all the time. Even' the recent
legal association formed with Murdoch
Kendrick had a University flavor, for
though slightly younger in years Kendrick
is as hard a booster for the alma mater as
is Bell.
THE New York dock commissioner, for
mer Congressman Murray Hulbert, has
stirred up Slayor Hylan and other promi
nent New Yorkers to the importance of the
proposed New Jersey ship canal, linking
up the Delaware river with the port of
New York. This is one of the links in the
chain for which the Atlantic Deeper Water
ways Association has been contending. A
strong New York-New Jersey association
hns been formed to press this whole matter
before Congress. It -is called the New York
New Jersey Port and Harbor Development
Commission and is headed by William R.
"Willcox, chairman, with General George
W. Goethals as chief consulting engineer.
This idea of a cross-cut to New York was
born in Philadelphia, fostered in Trenton
and is now very properly arousing the good
people of the metropolis.
DIt. GEORGE WOODWARD, of Ger
mantown, is a bnsy man generally apart
from his participation in reform politics.
The doctor's advocacy of the new city char
ter for Philadelphia and his debate with
Senator Varc and others may be readily rep
ealled, but it is not generally known that
the doctor has other hobbies besides .city
planning. Way out yonder at the foot of
the Grand Teton Mountain in Jackson's
Hole, Wyoming, Dr. nnd Mrs. Woodward
and their children have a camp where,
during the summer months, they enjoy what
may properly be called "the last of the
frontier," and this "call of tho wild,!' which
has hitherto attracted big-game hunters like
Theodore Roosevelt and the Penrose broth
ers, might not have been revealed in the
Germnntown senator's case had it not been
for the Introduction in Congress of a greater
Yellowstone Tark bill, a bill which pro
poses to absorb a part of "the wild" for
the gratification of sightseeing tourists.
There are still many ranchers, some real
and some with monocles, who inhabit Jack
son's Hole nnd who regard the "coming of
the white man" as an Intrusion upon their
preserves.
CONGRESS docs- not help the National
Farm School at Doylestown, of which
rr. Josenh Krauskopf Is founder and nresi.
dent, but that school Is often referred to'
as a model wnion migm wen oe introduced
Into other sections of the country. The
national legislative body is particularly
friendly to the farmer and does very much
for him In the way of education and prac
tical encouragement. It helps In a thousand
wnys: the distribution of seed, the fertlll
zation of the soil and the increase 'of pro
ductivity. Understanding all this, Doctor
KrauBkopf and his friends, encouraged by
the state of Pennsylvania and by private
donors, maintain an institution where hun
dreds of good citizens go annually as to a
Mecca- This year the. harvest pilgrimage
attracted Governor Sproul and a number of
eminent meu. Former Secretary James
Wilson, of the Department of Agriculture,
visited the school on several occasions and
placed upon it his stamp of approval.
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The steering colttee of the industrial
c4ifrMUK iff hWqM flW because of
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THE CHAFFING DISH
Remarks of a Guest
rpiIRItK was a period in out- history, sev-
eral years ago, when we wer.s much taken
with n certain restaurant in New York down
on Fulton street, nnd whenever we found
ourself in the Bagdad-on-the-Subwny we
used to go there for lunch. In this place,
which was n French table d'hote, there was
a genial uproar when the harassed tribes of
Manhattan were busy over their midday
soup add varnished chicken and a very thin
and sour vintage of red wine which was
served "compree." To this delightful place,
as wc thought it, we would occasionally hale
friends and acquaintances. The real reason
for our affection toward the pli.ee was that
we had been taken there (at the very -outset
of our Grub street existence) by a distin
guished editor who (Wc thought) was going
to offer us a job on his paper. But, after a
pleasant meal, through which wc sat in a
state of beaming and embarrassed expect
ancy, the editor did no such thing, but ad
vised us heartily to get n good job cleaning
the streets or something of that sort. At
any rate, he paid for the lunch, and any
place where a meal has been bought for us
is always sacred in our memory.
Well, one of the' gentlemen wc took to this
place was a delightful literary man, of a
shrewdly observant turn, who has since gone
abroad to live. And what is our horror, on
picking up n recent issue of a London
weekly, to find thaj our much cherished
resort is described by him(ln the most scath
ing terms. He even goes so far as to make
some dreadful assertions about the occasion
when wc lunched there together. This is
what he says:
Some years ago I, was naked to lunch In
New York at a restaurant In the neigh
borhood of Wall street one of those places
where eating becomesVeedlng, "where, as in
a pn, men close-packed In a small room
gToan and sweat as they devour probable
dishes while flying scuds of soup and gravy
are blown In the face from plates carjled
at perilous angles by Irritable and dis
tracted waiters. It has always seemed to
me an'example of the great docility of the
Americans and their slavery to custom
that men should consent to go day after
day for years to such caves of noise and
fumes and half-warm food, when they
might have a sandwich In peace on a street
corner. My host was a large florid young
man, rather ample In movement for the
place, who locked bb If he mjght have seized
the restaurant In his arms and swung It
across the river to the Brooklyn side.
It Aems to us, speaking with just a faint
accent of pained reproach, that our friend
has been a little unkind. The London New
Witness, in Svhich his article appears, is the
weekly edited by Mr. Chesterton ; it is read
by many very nice and refined people; it
doesn't seem to us fair to pu( us in wrong
with those people by Insinuating that wo
groan and well, the other thing while wo
eat; and as for the flying spindrift of soup,
we don't remember any of It. 'Of course, the
next time our friend comes over here we
shall know better than to take him to any
of our favorite hash-counters. We will
have a couple -of sandwiches done up in
fair white shelf-paper, with tho scalloped
edge folded outward, and we will take him
up to the front steps of the Academy of the
Fine Arts, whero we can sit-in peace.
Affable Triolet
When old Neptune upclimbs
From his caves with his concb,
Does be blow pretty chimes,
When old Neptune upclimbs?
Not at nil! Nothing rhymes
With that queer word but honkt
When old Neptuno upclimbs
From bis caves with his conch.
JESTA MINNIT.
A Fifth avenue tailor asserts, in the full
ness of his pride, that "to sell such clothes
as these on Broadway or on a aide street
would be a mesalliance, because they are
aloof from tho roob. There's not a trace of
mobbUhness about them."
Not a trace of niobblshness, perhaps ; but
more thad a trace in the tailor of something
that rhymes verylwell with flsobWbasa.
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Wo" are far'rom Woe Vm '.? W n
iuaUwst judgment ou wurff mtMf.MMt, my
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MW-KTHteS V -..f C-l. ,,.. "i-ynf
ASSmBSSe- ,Mk.j,
come up," but for our own paft we rather
favor a trace of mobbishness in garments.
In the present state of the fountain pen and
safety match industries it seems safer.
A Friendly Warning
Dear Socrates:
I want you to let my ewe lamb alone. In
the Chaffing Dish you have been saying things
about a famous book known as "Tho Balsam
Groves of Grandfather Mountain." Worse,
you have given notice that you are going to
get the whole book and print bits of It.
I do protest.
When I was a little boy, thirty ytars ago,
( the Ltnvllle Impnnement Company, of Lin-
Miie, i. u., onereu i&uuu tor me Dcst dooi.
(romance) with the sceno.lald on the Grand
father, which Is the most beautiful mountain
In Jhe world.
My father was one of the judges. More
than 800 books were submitted. Sheppard
C. Dugger, a schoolteacher and "slngln"
leader" of tho Grandfather country, sub
mitted his now famous "Balsam Groves."
Ilo was very much offended that It didn't win
the prize, whlcl. was awarded, byjhe way, to
"In the Afterglow," a book that was never
published.
Shep's friends gathered'about him1 and con
doled. They drank some moonshine and made
remarks about the Judges. Shep made
speeches. He.' had a wonderful mane of
chebtnut hair, a magnificent chestnut beard
and great yellow eyes. He was a lovely man.
Shep took It much to heart. Genius was
brushed aside; native eloquence was con
fined to the hills and never allowed to reach
"the outside." Finally he published the book,
and the Charlotte Observer and the Charles
ton News and Courier a'nd the New York
Sun had tho time of their lives about it.
But you are mistaken about Shep's ever
having awakened to the fact that his book
was humorous. He rode about the mountains
with saddlebags filled with his book and sold
a large edition. The book Is to be found In
every mountain home In North Carolina. It
is tho moBt exquisite Joke of tlte whole vast
neighborhood, but the mountaineers never
laugh at Shep, nnd he has never found out.
Just as I read Treasure Island every Oc
tober, so I so to North Carolina every May
when I can, and ride across the Grandfather
back of Boone, and Join In the quiet fun of
my old-tlmo playmates over the doln's 'of
Shep Dugger.
So, I want you to let him alone. If you
print anything mora about him he will sell
his mule- and come up here and put his arms
around your neck and claim you as tho
brother who,at last understands. He'll settle
down on you and there, you will be. Tn.f
friendly warning from g, II, c
- Twilight
rpiIEUE by her window with half dream--
ing eyes,
She watched- the slow procession of the
years
Creep up tho little street: Her hopes
and fears
Became vague shadowlngs in Time's disguise
And passed as well her bosom's fall and rise
Was all untroubled by Youth's long ar
rears, And if at dusk phe knew the sting of tears
There was a, solace in the evening skies.
Long since her harp had rusted and Bhe
seemed '
All but unheeding, yet her ears would fill
With fragment melodies that slowly crept
Out of the darkness ; so she sat and dreamed
Away her life; her slender fingers still
Touching the broken strings where Love
once slept'.
L, BLACKLEDGE LIPPMANN.
King Albert Breakfasts on Mountain.
Headline in New York Times.
To which o,ur waggish client Ned Mus
champ remarks, there's nothing like that
western air to build up a big appetite.
William McFee sends us the following
tale,' from tho London Times: In giving
vent to his feelings on his discharge, nn old
soldier wrote to his late colonel: -"Sir
After what I have suffered you can tell the
army to go to hejl," In due course he re
ceived the following; "Sir Any suggestions
or inquiries as to movements fif troops must
be entered pa awrf orm'138,;XY5!;"a eonr!
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HAVE MADE SONGS
rpHOUGH I have made you many a goljen
- song,
Hymning your loveliness in artful rhyme,
No one of these but does your beauty wrongs
Aud stands a libel for all listening time.
Dusks, ,1 have said, arc clouding through
your hair,
And earth's old twilights linger where,
you arc,
Dreams I have said, have made your eyes
a lair
For largess brought from some old ruined
star.
Yet, all of this is but n faltering art
Of futile words that strain, beyond their
reach ;
And still about your image in my heart,
Trembles the cloistered silence closed to
speech
A templed shrine, a dim nnd holy place,,
Where no least word profanes your lifted
face.
David Morton, in the Canadian Magazine.
If It is true, as' Mr. Palmer declares,
that food prices in all the states save Penn
sylvania have decreased 25 per cent, Phila
delphlans will feel inclined to raise Kane.
A French aviator has started a flight
from France to Australia": The wonder of
today is always bound to be a commonplace
tomorrow.
Everybody at Washington but the physi
cians appears to be worried about the Presi
dent's condition.
France has ngain signified! her faith In
the league of nations by appointing a dele
gate to the council.
It is a poor washday when some Rus
sian regiment Isn't taking the starch out of
the Archangel front.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
lv,In what state is the town of Gary?
2. Who was the last king of France?
3. What Is the original meaning of the
word caddie? '
4. Of .what, disease did Napoleon die?
5. Who were the Brothers Grimm?
C. Who was Frederick Douglass?
7. Japanese suicide Is often described as
"hari-kari." What is the correct
spelling of this word?"
8. What is a cachalot?
0. The two Presidents who died, a natural
, death in office belonged to the same
party. What party; was this?
10. What Is thcSpnnlsh name for Spain?
Answers to, Yesterday's Quiz
1. The retina is the layer at the. back of
the eyeball, sensitive to light.
2. Robert Emmet, the, Irish patriot and
revolutionist, lived most of his short
life in the eighteenth century. lie
was born in 177S and was hanged in
Dublin In 1803.
3. Palingenesis is regeneration, revival.
Biologically It means exact reproduc
tion of ancestral character. .
4. President Garfield lived eighty days. after
he was shot by Gulteau.
5. Senator Moses Is from New Hampshire,
6. Duke is a higher title than carl in
England.
7. William Booth founded tho Salvation
Army. ,
8. Seriatim means point by point, tnklnt
, one subject, etc., After another in reg
ular ordcri
0. Moi.cs died at Mount Ncbo.
10. Captain CbnrlcsVllkcs (later admiral)
was an American naval officer, ex
plorer and scientist,' He,U ilsrtlcu-
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