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All rights of republication of ipecial dis patches herein pre oho reserved rblladelplna, ThunJ.y, Ottobfr 16, 1919 AN OFFSPRING OF WAR WORK TT IS one of the salutary lessons of a crisis that humanity is enabled to .realize lapses that it nab tolerated in less exciting times. The Community Service of Philadelphia, for example, would have had a fertile field for its activities in ante-bellum days. But wel fare work for the service men and sail ors in town was rather neglected then. The development of the War Camp Community Service in the war was mag nificently comprehensive. It is said that the Philadelphia organization adminis tered to the needs of more than four mil lipn in uniform and provided more than thirty thousand dollars' worth of profes sional entertainments and other social features. And now, instead of entirely shutting up shop, the new volunteer Com munity Service appears as a praise Worthy offspring. It is an excellent sign of sound think ing when the spirit of enterprises aris ing during war, which, relatively speak ing, is seldom with us, is preserved for peace, which, according to the hopes of mankind, is to be our normal state. TOWARD A SCHOOL SURVEY "pREDERICK P. GRUENBERG'S skep " tical pleasure over progress made to ward the conducting of a school survey has its origin, of course, in the frequent rebuffs which an admirably conceived en terprise has encountered. "If we live Jong enough," declares the director of the Bureau of Municipal Research, 'we may see the money appropriated." The forecast seems rather unduly dis mal. Joseph W. Catharine has presented a resolution authorizing the expenditure of $25,000 for the work and, despite its owgear, the Board of Education does at times move on. There can be no question that the sur vey is much needed. Anything that will foster education along efficient lines is a necessity in America, which has cause to be abashed at the ignorance revealed in classes that pass as "educated." The draft statistics, moreover, revealed some alarming facts concerning enlightenment in this country. While the Philadelphia schools will compare favorably with those of many cities in the land, there are still futili ties to be eliminated and there is room for solid improvement and more effective organization, The survey should be a practical and profitable guide to high endeavor. There ought to be, and piobably is, sufficient public interest in the schools here to render the functioning of the commission a fact while the director of the Vell-run Bureau of Municipal Re search is still young enough to enjoy the inquiry. "HICK CROSSINGS" rpHERE are cities in this country and in - 'Europe where any one who crosses a heavily traveled street in the middle of a block is likely to be snapped up by a policeman and charged with a misde meanor. In communities where the danger of that odd performance has been fully realized through' disastrous experience an attempt 'to get across a street by worming through rapidly moving motor traffic is known as n "hick crossing." The effort of the Rotary Club to stop the practice on Market, Chestnut and qther crowded streets is commendable. An ordinance aimed at a habit that is a constant source of danger would be wise. Why do business organizations find it necessary to lead a municipal adminis tration around by the hand to show it the needs of the city? One wonders whether the Rotary Club can show the police department how to handle a parade without isolating shops and business houses, stalling traffic for hours and creating a general atmosphere of siege. And could the club and its officials de vise an anti-smoke ordinance for the regulation of motorcars, since everybody at. City Hall appears to be too tired to undertake that simple task? PAINLESS TELEPHONY Iff ABOUT fifteen years, upon the word of L. H, Kinnard, vice president and general manager of the Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania, we shall have automatic telephones, all up and down the land. You will twist a tiny dial with lumbers on it to make a "call"; there will be a flash of mechanical magic at e'eitjrral and lo! the thing will be done without the aid of an intervening voice. In that bright future telephony will pot oply bo painless. It will be helloless. AH Ibe hello girls or almost all of thjiriWU De rnarrieu nnu living nappy !? ter. "', A4fbtnning outlook, surely! Wo are jasjMs'n alonp. If the Bell Company ha-) promised to havq automatic telephones n general use in about fifteen years wo may feel assured of reduced costs, since machines aren't troubled by the high cost of living. After a century or so we may have in the United States, at the end of every telephone wire, the combined receiver and transmitter, a convenient and decorative device to save time and trouble which has been in use throughout Europe almost since the first days of the tele phone. It is almost unknown in this country, where telephones originated. Is it because the Bell Company happens to have had a paternal and affectionate interest in the corporation which manu factures the ugly and cumbersome two handed telephone familiar to America? SUGAR IS A FAIR GAUGE OF THE WORLD'S PROSPERITY Rationing Would Not Be Necessary If the Public Did Not Have Money Enough to Buy More Than There Is rnilE consumption of sugar is a measure of prosperity. Little of it is used in the industrially backward countries, for the people have not money enough to pay for it. Consequently, the necessity of restor ing sugar rations indicates that the peo ple of this country arc so prosperous that they have money enough to buy more sugar than is available for them. A plan has been devised to apportion the visible supply in such a way that every family can get enough for its reasonable needs. Each familv may not get what it wishes, but it will get enough to sweeten its tea and coffee, with some for use in cakes and pics and preserves. One of the reasons for regulating the consumption of sugar lies in the falling off in production on account of the war. The difference between last year's total sugar crop and the crop of 1914 is about five billion pounds, or more than all the sugar produced in the whole world in 18G5. But the chief reason is that we have cultivated a taste for sugar and have the money to pay for it. There is likely to be a scarcity until normal production is resumed through the cultivation of the sugar beet in Ger many and Russia. We have come to re gard sugar as a necessity; but. as a mat tor of fact, it is a luxury available, as in dicated in the first paragraph of this article, only to those- who have money to buy it. The natives of India have to get along with very little of it because they are poor. In the year before the war, when consumption was normal, the Italians were rich enough to buy only 10.45 pounds per capita, while the English con sumed S9.G9 pounds. The Spaniards used 15.91 pounds per capita and the citizens of the United States 83.33 pounds. In Germany 73.95 pounds were consumed and in Turkey only 20.33 pounds. And in Denmark it took 93.48 pounds per capita to supply the demand. The total world production in that year was just a little short of forty-two bil lion pounds, or about 25 pounds per capita for the total world population of one billion seven hundred million human beings. The available supply this year is about five billion pounds less than in 1914, and this deficit is five hundred million pounds greater than the total world production in 1865. By 1883 that production had doubled. It had doubled again when 1900 was reached and it had doubled once more in 1910. The period between 1900 and 1910 was one of the most prosperous of which thei'e is any record. Wealth was increas ing rapidly in all civilized countries. The wages of workingmen were being raised. Work was available during the period as a whole for all who were will ing to do it. Money was plentiful, and when men had money they bought sugar for sweetening their food. They spent their earnings' for articles in the manu facture of which la-ge quantities of sugar were used anil they demanded so much sugar that the cane and beet grow ers extended their acreage and did their, best to supply what the world wanted. Wo have become so accustomed to sugar that we regard it. as a necessity without which it wouldiSe a hardship to live. It is exactly as necessary as the trolley car and the telephone and the electric light. Our ancestors, however, got along without all these things. Sugar, as a matter of fact, was once used chiefly as a medicine and its price was compara tively as high as that of quinine during our Civil War. In the fourteenth cen tury sugar sold in Scotland for one shilling and nine pence a pound, which was at least two days' wages for the average workingman. The equivalent of this today would be about $10, but we are paying only eleven cents a pound. It was not until the introduction of tea and coffee into Europe that sugar began to be used commonly. Since that time its consumption has spread rapidly, assisted by the increasing prosperity of the working people. Sugar was made at fust exclusively of the juices of sugar cane, which origi nated in India, was introduced from there into China, on the east, and into Persia, on the west. From Persia the Spanish and Portuguese discoverers carried it to the Madeira Islands and thence to San Domingo. When once introduced into the West Indies it spread through all the islands and to both American continents. And now Cuba produces more cane sugar than any other country, and her yield is approached only by that of Java. Beet sugar as an article of commerce dates only from the beginning of .the last century. That there was sugar in the beet root was discovered by a Ger man physicist in 1747, but nothing came of it until the Napoleonic wars cut short the supply of cano feugar available in Europe, Then, in the search for a sub stitute, another German took the proc esses invented more than half a century earlier and produced beet sugar, just as German inventors during the recent war devised oil sorts of substitutes for nnti- EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER clcs which they could not got on account of tho blockade. When peace came, cane sugar displaced the more expensive beet root product, and it was jiot until 1830 that the proc esses were cheapened so that beets could compete with cane in a free market. Now" about one-half the sugar consumed is made from beets, and as tho demand in creases this proportion is likely to bo changed until as much beet as cane sugar is made every year. In the meantime, while sugar ration ing continues, we shall have to adjust ourselves to the consumption of a few pounds less sugar a month. Instead of three lumps in a cup of coffee we may use only two. Our cakes can be made without icing. If wo have been buying a box of candy to take home for tho children every day or two, we can reduce the amount of candy consumed and im prove the digestion of the children. If there is candy rationing, following sugar rationing, the young men who buy sweets for the girls whom they are courting may spend the money saved on candy for theatre tickets or the movies, and per haps the girls will be just as well pleased. Tho surest way to court unpopularity will be to hoard sugar in violation of tho regulations. No one who has any respect for the golden rule will try to get more than his share and cause others to go without. If properly used there will be sugar enough for our necessities and no one need suffer any serious inconvenience by curtailing the amount used. TIME TO BRACE UP TT'ROM the White House, from Mr. Taft, from the strike areas and from the labor conference there came yester day various intimations of what is wrong with the country and proof that tho trouble is transitory and yet serious enough. Unquestionably there has been a nerv ous general reaction from war tension nnd a revival of the haul self-interest that is the opposite of such impulses as swayed the country while the fight was on. The inspiration of the war, as Mr. Taft suggested, no longer sustains us in a community of interest. Withdrawn, it has released some of the worst impulses in all sorts of people. All is fair, you might suppose, in peace! The Senate's callousness in the face of Mr. Wilson's dramatic illness, the col lapse of Mr. Gompers, who wore himself out in good causes, the news from the strike areas, the insnne opportunism of the mine workers and the very apparent efforts of each side at the labor confer ence to seek not decent solutions, but positions of dominant advantage for themselves, are related symptoms of a relaxed social consciousness. Mr. Gompers, like Mr. Wilson, was the advocate of rationality, of humane prin ciples. He exhausted himself trying to be heard above the bedlam. It used to be the habit of many business men to characterize Gompers as a radical. More recently they have learned to appreciate him as a conservative force. Labor will come upon that knowledge when it is too late. Yet even while Gompers was making his great appeal for reason the labor conference was talking in ciicles. It had still to be "urged" from the White House. Are wc to suppose that repre sentative Americans, in a time like this, must shoulder their responsibilities upon a man perilously ill? The forced settlements that both sides are seeking in the steel strike will do no one any good. They cannot last. It is up to the Washington conference to find saner methods. And it is up to the con ference, too, to find a way by which a strike in the soft coal regions or govern ment seizure of the bituminous industry may be avoided. The country will judge both men and causes by what is done, or left undone, at the labor conference and its judgments will be heavy. It is sick of force. It is disgusted with the aggressive ignorance of radical agitators. But it is sick, too, of the vanity and selfishness of men who refuse to stoop from their familiar clouds to discuss with their workers matters that are of concern to the whole nation. It is time for all people to brace up, to get back.to common-sense grounds, to be decent and to think of the country first and of their own selfish interests afterward. A speaker at tlic cou- Unfortunatc vontlon of the Ar-o- Vhraseolbpy nation of Military Surgeons of the Uuited Stntcs is quoted 03 saying that tho fouler the atmosphere and the more bacteria one breathed the more immune ouc would bo from disease. This is what might be termed making a fool of the truth. Interest in the air Where Interest derby is said to be Wanes waning. The trouble with the race is that it has scientific value; and utility of any kind damns sport. That's the difference be tween driving u coach and four and driving a truck. Iu the raids on Iteds "Cracky!" Said in Gary a Hussion Huck Finn book was confiscated, but what .tho police thought was anarchistic literature proved to be a translation of "Tom Sawyer." And, of course, tho most explosive thing found therein was a burst of laughter. The Building Owners' Association hag asked the Mayor for cleaner streets. It may yet decide to wait for tho new broom. Bear hunting started yesterday. Con grcHsman Moore anticipated the veasou. PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, OteiBER 16,, THE GOWNSMAN The Story of "The Gladiator" TN 'i'HH lato clghlceu-twcnties, when Iftlriln Forrest, the great American trage dian, Mas rising to tho zenith of his fame, he patriotically conceived the Idea of en couraging the development of American drama, and among several other efforts, some of which cost him dear, ho offered a prize for the composition of the best tragedy by an American author. This prize wa won by Dr. James Montgomery Bird, a well-known young physician of Philadelphia, and his prize play was called "IVlopiilas." Thus brought into rnntnrt with l'orrest, Hio young playwright studied his man, and, ap preciating Forrest's personal characteristics, his remarkable capabilities as an actor of a certain very pronounced tragic t)pi". Bird wrote another tragedy, called "The Gladia tor," which Forrest "liked bo much better than "1'clopidas" that that play vwih never nctt'd or published, "The Gladiator" taking its place, JAMHS MONTGOMEKV; BIRD van an alert and capable all-round literary man iu his daj. He was interested iu whatever was going on, howsoever he made literature only Ills avocation and followed iu the pre vailing fashion of his time. Bird wis one of several notable examples of the plijsician who 1ms distinguished himself in letters. Oliver Wendell Holmes was of the tjpe, and wc oApift that sort of thing in Boston. In Philadelphia we had long ago Dr. Benjamin Hush, who among other things wrote a pro logue lo "Hamlet," and later there was our esteemed contemporary, the late Dr. S. Weir Mitchell. Doctor Bird was for years a prominent professor in the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania, and at the same time mi successful a follower of James Feninmrn Cooper iu the writing of lictlnn that his hooks not only enjojed a wide popu larity at home, but were pirated jo: fully in England and sold there in thousands under misleading titles and concealment of the un popular fact that they were written by an American. Bird is best remembered for his story "Nick of tho Woods," a tale o' the Kentucky border and Indian life, which is even In these lato days read and reprinted and which is not without a genuine merit in the school to which it belongs. rpHE Gladiator" was first acted here J- In Philadelphia in October, 1831, Forrest in the leading role of Spartacus. The subject Bird derived from that extraor dinary cient, the revolt of the Hainan slaves and their temporary success even when pitted nguinst Human legions. The details ol the story of Spartacus the Thraciau arc apparently laigely Bird's own Invention. The tragedy was a success from tho first and was constantly spoken of in its time as marking the very height and perfection of Forrest's acting. Seldom has an author so nicely calculated his work to the personal characteristics of the actor. For Forrest was throughout hht career the consummate exponent of vigorous, direct romantic act ing, the beau ideal of Shakcspcuro's "ro bustuous periwig pated fellow." Large iu person, orotund of voice, of a grand pres ence and a deliberate manner, Forrest com pelled Ids audience to admiration nnd ap proval by his overpowering personality, and lie was alike successful iu the stateliuess of repose nud iu the bluster of passion. The Thrncian Spartacus, torn from his mountain home, n simple barbarian, tho spoil of cruel nnd e.Miical Home, his wife and child slaves like himself, his own brother faithless iu the moment of extremity, what could be a better situotiou for the display of that romantic passion, running without leash, and that generous, preposterous sentimentality which our forefathers so loved and applauded in translations, imitations and, other liftings from the tinsel melodramatic world of Kotzebue. "What a grand form he had!" exclaims a contemporary eulogist of Forrest. "What a grand face! What a grand voice! As ho stepped upon the stage iu naked fight ing trim, his muscular coating unified (what ever that may mean) and quivering with vital power, his skin polished by exercise and friction to a smooth and marble hard ness! Conscious of his enem's potency, fearless of anything on earth." And how our grandmothers and our great-aunts must have wept at the pathos of "the whispered agony, the deadly hint of hopeless exile'' in tho words, "Is it a thousand leagues to Thrace?" (rplIE Gladiator" was a cieat and im--- mediate success in America and For rest conllalicd to act in it, taking it over to England with him nnd making his first ap pearance in London nt Drury I.anc iu 1S30 in the role of Spartacus. Perhaps it should not he quoted to the disparagement of the English that they preferred Forrest in Shakespeare, although they praised his rugged conception of tho part of Spartacus while looking askance upon Bird's "Ameri can tragedy." IT IS somewhat remarkable thai so well known a play as "The Gladiatm" should have awaited print until this present year, when it received, with the other plays of Bird, the attention of careful and scholarly editing Tit the hands of Dr. Clement E. Foust, sometime instructor at the Univer sity of Pennsylvania. It would seem that Forrest, who had bought the plav outright, would never consent to its printing, for the obvious reason that it was a more valuable property nnd better protected remaining in his own hands in manuscript form. Herein, by the way, is reproduced precisely the con ditions of Shakespeare's plajs in his life time, which his company, the owners, natu rally preferred to keep in their control, un published, rather than allow them to get into, print. Doctor Foust tells the Gowns man that at one time in his work he believed -that,'Thc Gladiator" was hopelessly lost. A copy, supposed to be the only one, wns destroyed in the San Francisco tire. Hut happily no less than three other manuscripts were subsequently found among the papers of Doctor Bird, handed down in his family and generously presented by Mr. Hobert Montgomery Bird, Doctor Bird's grandson, 'recently to the library of the University. One of the manuscripts is peculiarly inter esting because of indicated omissions, doubt less Forrest's own. If we may ,1ikko by these, Forrest was as ruthless as later actors nnd managers as to "mere poetry" and non essentials, though it cannot be said that Bird weighted his tragedy with either. "The Gladiator" is a virile and wcll-eonstructecl tragedy of the melodramatic type, full 0f dramatic situations unci robust action. It afforded an actor like Forrest abundant op portunity for elocutionary effect, passionate outburst and sentiment of the kind which wc, the degenerate offspring of a less sophis tirnted age. are apt to meet with nini,- rather than appropriate tears. It Is g00d to have the famous old play available, and it is quito worth reading for a better reason than to learn what our grandfathers were content to place alongside of ShuUcspfnrCi If the industrial conference has done nothing else it, has demonstrated the iucfli clency of the soviet system. The strike of grocery drivers isn't going to mako a bigger dollar's worth of groceries for the market basket. Hentrboostlng has received its hardest blow to date ; The bricklayers' strike is over, pon't be cross, but erogs at crossings. TRA VELS IN PHILADELPHIA By Christopher Morley Our Neighborhood OUR neighborhood is very genteel. I doubt if any one who has not lived in Philadel phia can imagine how genteel it is. Visitors from out of town arc wont to sigh with rap ture when thev see our trim blocks of tall brick dwellings that even cornice running I in u smooth lino for severnl hundred yards really is quite a sight and exclaim, "Oh I wish we had something like this in New York!" But our gentility is a little self conscious, for wc live on tho very frontier of a region, darker in complexion, which is very far from scrupulous in deportment. Up roarious and naive nre the humors of South street, lying just behind us. Stnnleys have gone exploring thither and come back with merry tales. South street on a bright eve ning, its myriad barber shops gleaming with lathered dusky cheeks, wnfting the essence of innumerable pomades and lotions, that were a Travel indeed. On South street the veins of life run close to the surface. WE AHE no less human on our street, but it takes n bit moie study to get at the secret. There is a certain reticence nbout us. It would take an earthquake to cause much fraternization aJong our street. Pcrlinps it is because three houses out of every four bear the tablets of doctors. The average layman fears to stop and speak to his neighbor for fear it will develop into a professional mat ter. We board up our front windows nt night with heavy wooden shutttcrs. We have no druggists, only "apothecaries.'' These apothecaries are closed on Sundays. They sell stamps in little isinglass capsules, to be quite sanitary, two twos in a capsule for five icnts. In their.shops you can still get soda water with "ploln cream" aud shaved ice, such as was customary twenty-five years ago. When our doctors go nway for the summer, some one comes twice a week from Juneto October to polish up the little silver name plate. It is the custom in our neigh borhood (so one observes through drawing room windows) to have reading lamps with rosy pink shades, and nt least two beauti ful daughters of debutante age. I hope I am not unjust, but our street looks to me like the kind of place where people take warm baths, in a roomy old china tub, on Sunday afternoons. After that, they go downstairs nnd play a 'hymn on the piano, at twilight. THERE arc a number of very odd features about our neighborhood. There is a large schoolhouse at the next corner, but as far as I can see, it is not used as a school, not for children, nt nny rate. Sometimes, nbout 8 o'clock in tho evening, I see the building gloriously illuminated, and n lonely lady stooped and assiduous at a table. She seems quite solitary. Perhaps her researches arc so poigrtant that the 'school board has pre scribed entire silence. But midwny down the block is u very jolly little private school, to which very genteel children may be seen ap proaching early in the morning. The little girls como with a bustle of starch, on- foot, nccompanicd by governesses ; tho sinill boys nrrive in limousines. They arc small boys dressed very much In the English manner, with heavy woolen stockings ending just be low the knee. They probably do not realize that their tailor has carefully planned them to look like dear little English boys. Then there is a. very mysterious small theatre, near by. If it were a movie theatre, what a boon it would be I But no, it is devoted to a strango cult called the religion of business, which meets there on Sundays. Before that, there was a Korean congress there. There Is a lovely green room in this theatre, but not much long green, in the box office. PJilIa delphla prefers Al Jolson to Hank Ibsen. WR HAVE our tincture of vie de boheme', though, in our JltHe French tflblo d'hote, a thoroughly atmospheric place. Delightful Madame B,, with her racy philosophy of life, what delicious soup nnd wM eke serves! V !X919 LOOKING FOR A NEW ROOST Happy indeed nre those who have learned the way to her little tables, aud heard her cheer ful cry4"A la cuisine!" when one of. her small dogs prowls into the dining room. Equally unique is the old curiosity shop near by, one of the few genuine "notion" shops left iu the city (though there is a delightful one on Market street near Seventeenth to enter which is to step into a country villnge). This is just the kind of shop bought by the old gentleman in one of Frank Stockton's agreeable tales, the title of which I have for gotten. Tlie proprietress, charming and con versable lady, will sell you. uuything in the "notions" line, from a paper of pins to gar ter clastic. Then there Is the laundry, whose patrons carry on a jovinl game known as "Looking for Your Own." Every week, by some cheery habit of confusion, the lists are lost, and one hunts through shelves of neatly piled nnd crisply laundered garments to pick out one's own collars, pyjamas or whatever it may be. The amusing humors of this pastime must be experienced to be under stood. rpiIE little cigar and magazine shop on the - cdrucr is the political nnd social foci's of the neighborhood. I Bhnll never forget the pallid and ghastly countenance of the news dealer when the rumor first went the rounds that Hampy was elected. Every evening a little gathering of local sages meets in the shop ; on tilted chairs, in a haze of tobacco, they while the hours nway. In tobacco the host-adheres to the standard blends, but in literature he is enterprising. Until recently, his was the only place I know in Philadel phia where one could get the Illustrated London Ncics every week. milERE are twinges of modernity going on 1 along our street. Some of the old houses havo been remodeled into npirtmcnts. There is an "electric shoe repairer" just round the comer. But the antique dealers and plumb ers for which th street is famous, still hold sway; the fine old brick pavement still col lects rain water in its numerous dimpled hol lows, nnd the old marble horse-blocks adorn the curb. The nice old stables in the little side streets have not yet been turned into studios by artists, and the neighborhood's youngest urchins set sail for the square every morning on their fleet of "kiddie-cars." Their small stout legs, twinkling along the pavements in white gaiters on a wintry day, are a pleasant sight. Even our urchins are notably genteel, Surrounded on all sides by the medical profession, they are reared on registered milk nnd educator crackers, I Philadelphia ever betrays its soul, it does so on this delightful, bland and genteel high way. " Out of 54,000 votes cast in a municipal election in Buffalo, "less than 300 votes were polled" for a soviet form of govern ment. But the average sane and sensible citizen will feel surprise that there were so many. Girls of the West Philadelphia High School arc of the opinion that n scientific meal isn't satisfying unless garnished with ice cream. Enrollment' nt the universities of the country is as gratifying as the enrollment" for service in the same ju'stitutlons when Uncle Sam needed men. Germany has agreed to join in the blockade of soviet Russia, says a dispatch from Berlin. Then there is either a "snake" or a "must" in it. The country will rejoice when the Rres ident himself is able to give an authoritative quietus' to-the rjnnors concerning his pnyal- rni condition, CHANGE HIS step was young as in the last decade, He never thought that he was getting old Until he felt his heart was sore afraid At some new problem which half slipped his hold. It came like that strange sudden shock of grief That quivers through one's- pulses on the day One wakes to realize, though years seemed brief, The hair of some loved woman has turned gray. Charlotte Becker, in New York Sun. Mustapha Kcmal Pasha says the Turk ish nation will prove to the world its entire fitness for remaining in possession of its "sacred soil." Meaning, of course, that the soil is sacred because of the innocent blood shed upon it. The sudden shifting of Uncle Sam into the ranks of the rent profiteers is a shock to the tenants. But perhaps lie doesn't know the company he is keeping. Now tho Dope King has been deposed, steps should be taken to demobilize his army of addicts. Sir Arthur Whitten Brown will tell tonight how Aviator Artie Brown crossed the Atlantic in an airplane. Red Russia is paling to a pink. What Do You Know? QUIZ What is the lowest rank entitling a nobleman to sit in the nouse of Lords? Which one of Napoleon's brothers mar ried an American! f Who wai shel What article of apparel particularly typifies a cardinall What is the psalter? What is a dulcimer? .. . . .. . tl iame two lamous comedies by lieau mnrchait. ." What are prunes? A bachelor is sometimes described as a Benedict. What is the error ,in this word? What is the princlpnl duty of the Vice President of the United States? , , Answers to Yesterday's Quiz The town of Gary is in Indiana. Louis Philippe was the last king of France, although officially his title was 1 , "King of the French." In obsolete Scotch a caddie was a mili tary' cadet. Later the word came to mean one who waits for chances to do errands or other odd jobs. In the eighteenth century n caddie was an Edinburgh commissionaire. 1 Napoleon died of malignant cancer. The brothers Qrim were German nhil- 10, ologlsts and collectors of the famous fairy tales, Frederick Douglass was an American orator and journalist. Ho was the son of a uegress by a white man and was active in the Massachusetts anti slavery movement before the Civil War. He was for several years" United States marshal of tho District of Co lumbia and wag minister to Haiti in 1889. 7. 8. 0. JO. Japanese suicide is not hari-kari," but "hara-kiri." A cachalot is a whale with teeth in the lower jaw. The two Presidents of the United States who died a natural death in offlceyivere William nenry Harrison nnd Zachary Taylor. They were both Whigs. The Hpanls'h name for Pnnjn U fmvintk, iW K aI 7 ..' .- v .. r t 3 " - . ,. W MTV V! r-a
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