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If traffic can heroine almost deadlocked now what will it he in the 'holiday season' jy, Mr. Mitten and the Mayor and the (police are forever telling of the confusion i caused needlessly by drivers and cjiauf Ifours who "drag" the trolley cars. But these same drivers and chauffeurs appear unable to understand their language and ""there aren't enough mounted and tiaflic men available to keep the offenders in order. It is clear that not only the trollej "System but the streets themselves are nov taxed to their maximum capacity "and a little beyond. As a preliminary to the holiday season the police might well begin to enforce the law which provides detention and "5ine for those who unnecessarily stall Jitreet-car traffic. They ought to get their hands in. Twenty-minute runs from Sixth street to City Hall on Market street trolleys and seven minutes for the voyage from Walnut to Arch on impoi- itant cross lines show that something is ui .. m Tr.no p V3';;""' WINGS TIEN men were killed in the transcon-ti4- tinental air race arranged by the yarmy to try out men, machines and methods of aerial navigation. The navy "n ajsimilar experiment sent its machines ittcross the Atlantic without a casualty. One of the naval planes, traveling at the rate of ninety miles an hour in a fog, .Sltrinsi: Tut n mountain nn t.hp island of firt -3?t. Michaels. Luck and the weather were Ijjjjtriql-' her side. An army aviator on the Rff '.Cross-country flight was batteiccl to death when he collided with a mountain -veiled in a snowstorm. The navy seems to have been a bit more cautious, a hit more scientific in Its flying methods than the army. But the fortitude and the courage manifested pn both sides ought to give all Americans 'a new sense of pride. , -! Wings, for the time at least, aie for "very brave men. The successive tragedies of the army's flight suggest the degree of honor and credit that belongs to Lieu tenant Maynard. The flying parson will jmain an epic figure in sen ice annals. The church needs men like him. But so does the army. IN A NUTSHELL TF ALL of us received what we think we earn and deserve it would be necessary fto plunder a dozen of the adjacent planets regularly once a week to fatten the pay envelopes. -J All men have been accustomed to get along with about a third of what they 'Believe the world owes them. Yet they manage to be tolerably happy. Radical trades unionists under ladical 'leadership want the full' sum of what 'fiiey think are their deserts. Theirs is a goal that all the rest of the world Inlways has found unattainable. The ex tremists in labor have a new method. JFhey hope to achieve the unattainable by "force. - SLEEPERS IN THE SENATE "TVyrR. PENROSE manifested commend- able sensitiveness and a right ap preciation of the fitness of things when she wrote a formal note to the chief clerk f the. Senate with a view to letting the country know that it was one of his col leagues and not he who slept during a decent session in the chair labeled with .his name. . ; The Senate is not a place in which one "should sleep. Now and then, when Mr. Sherman or Mr. La Follette or Mr. Reed breaks loose wo wish it were, and there is a disposition in the country to feel that a whiff of chloroform might be of :S?aIue if it were introduced deftly into Borne of the debates. The Senator from Pennsylvania forgot one thing. Trippers who become weary Ja. all A aVp UnaniMfVA'n a-(Vai nn t- v f the Senate galleries to doze. They find W ji i - J! ; j.1.; ; sj. TJie aruneui uibtusaiuu tsuuuung since it does not stimulate or disturb the mind. When sleeping is no longer fashionable in the floor of the Senate or in the galleries wo shall all feel that the sen ators are earning their pay. THE NEWEST PROFESSION JltEIE proposal of the Senate interstate commerce committee to penalize those ;who deliberately foment big strikes is aofc without reason. Unquestionably strike-making has be come a Brofession with men who like -XCftMnent and freedom from toll. The htotttMrattncea are serious. There is a fd. 1vt.iu6ncea are serious. There Is a ' 5.."-"-- : 7 ;- .. . u JisiKBition on the pait of labsr anJ '?- "miwr i""W"JPM' Capital aliko to bo mutually suspicious and mutually unfair. Strike sentiment created artificially is a dangerous thing for everybody. No one in this world is satisfied. There is none of us who is not always willing to ask for more. And when multitudes of men are irritated by agitators, inflamed and given an exaggerated sense of their wrongs or their potentialities we are face to face with a phenomenon which represents a wide departure from the spirit that gives strikes validity and the moral support of fair-minded people. If the labor conference can find a way to -admit the right of groups to collective baigaining mid the benefits of trades union principles and at the same time eliminate the professional strike makers we shall have piogressed far toward peace in industry. THE FORGOTTEN MAN MUST BE IGNORED NO LONGER He Is the Real Party In Interest In Every Dispute Between Labor and Capital WE CALLED attention the other day to the necessity for iecogni.ing in labor controversies that the chief party in interest is neither the employe nor the employer, but the public. To put it in another way, the chief party in interest is what the late Wil liam Graham Sumner, of Ynle, used to call the Forgotten Man that is, the honest laborer, whatever may bo the kind of labor in which he is engaged, who is ready to earn his living by productive work. This man goes nbout his business quietly, meeting his own problems as they aribc and bearing with little com plaint the burdens laid upon him by the social and industrial unrest of those who are insistently demanding that some one else make it easier for them. The men in conference in Washington are foi getting this man just as he has always been ignored in industrial dis putes. When the labor delegates offered their resolution that the l ight of the employes to select the men to deal with their employeis .should be recognized they were not thinking of anything but them selves and the members of the labor unions. When the employers oft'eied their les olution that "the right of the employer to deal or not to deal with men or groups of men who are not his employes and chosen by and from among them is rec ognized" they were thinking, not of in dustrial peace, but of a way to retain the fullest possible control of their own businesses regardless of anything else. The attempt to reach a compromise over Sunday did not succeed, but no com promise proposed involves the recogni tion of the rights of Professor Summer's Forgotten Man. Each group is insisting on the applica tion of a form of paternalism in which it shall be the parent and the other group the child. The employes insist that they shall tell the employer what he shall and shall not do, just as a mother tells her child when to go to bed and when to get up. And the employers are anxious that their light to tell their employes when to work and how long to work and what pay they may receive shall also be ad mitted, just as the father tolls his small boy what kind of clothes he shall wear and when he may not smoke cigarettes. 'Eacn group offers plausible arguments in support of its contentions. It 'is discouraging for the observer to note that neither group seems to recog nize that the other group is composed of full-grown men who cannot be kept in leading strings and is indiffetent to the interests of the much greater number of citizens which has to bear the expense of the attempts of each group to force its views upon the other by strikes and lockouts and other devices which destroy capital, decrease production and interfere with the free distribution of the product of its labor. There is much prating about liberty and much ignoring of the fact that when you talk of liberty you must have two men in mind, yourself and the other fellow. Every extension of your freedom trespasses in some degree on the free dom of the other man and every exten sion of his freedom trespasses in like degree on your liberty. It is a commonplace and a platitude that every right has its corresponding duty, but in these days the duty is ignored and the right insisted upon. Persons who are clever enough to get into positions of control, whether they be labor leaders or employers, measure their own rights by the paternal theory and assume that they are the parents, while they measure their duties by the theory of independent liberty to do as they please. It is about time that we stopped prat tling about liberty and began to find out what it means and then to practice it by insisting that the other man be allowed to enjoy the same freedom on which w-e insist for ourselves. If we cannot do this then the govern ment must step in, formulate a labor code as it hns formulated a criminal code for the protection of society and then apply that c6de to specific instances. It has been the business of govern ment from the beginning of time to deal with selfishness, rapacity " and fraud. Murder, burglary, forgery, grafting and sex crimes are manifestations of one or another of these vices. An attempt to tie up the industry of the country in order to force a higher rate of wages may be a manifestation of all three. It trespasses upon the rights of the Forgotten Man. It makes it moro difficult for him to earn a living and to support his family. He is the goat, as the vaudeville actor would say. The theologian might call him the scapegoat on which the sins, of others are placed and then driven into the desert to live or die as fate might ordain. We canxhave no solution of the indus trial problems or the problems of cnpital- ism till the disputants begin to recognize .1. . ..,-1 . a. i thut the rifiis ovsocieta; as a. wnoie,aro ""," T fpff, MVEyOG PUBLIC MDfaEJRrPHlLA.tEL?flU, MOKPAY, QCT0By SO,.' superior to their private and selfish in terests. It is scarcely an exaggeration to liken them to two burglarious incendiaries who have set fire to a building, in order that they might get the loot which it con tained, and then begun fighting in the street over the division of the spoils, for getting that the fire would destroy everything and Hhat there would be nothing loft for cither. It is not likely that the golden rule will bo applied voluntarily to the scttcment of the labor problems. It is many cen turies since it was foimulaled, yet gov ernments still have to fight fraud, l opacity and greed. So long as these vices prevail it will be necessary for governments to continue their fight upon them in whatever field they may manifest themselves. THE BURDEN OF PRESIDENTS IT HAS often been said with some ttuth that the President of the United States is the most powerful man in the world. Power is something thai no one ever was able to hold lightly. Roosevelt aged swiftly in office and his decline in health after he left the White House was sudden. Since the announcement of Mr. Wilson's collapse a great many writers have been wondering in print whether the burden of the Piesidency is not 'al most too great for any one man to bear. If the weight of responsibilities is now excessive, what will it be when America is the dominant foice in the league of nations? What will it be if we remain out of the league with the necessity of blazing our own trail amid a wilderness of new concerns in a lcoiganized world? Congress larely manifests initiative. That duty is supposed to rest with the President, and lately we have been having evidence enough to prove that Congress is not only temperamentally opposed to habits of initiative but feels actually bound to get in the way of progressive thinking or progressive action. When things go wrong the White House is blamed. Neither the House nor the Senate seemed to be concerned with the pioblems of reconstruction while Mr. Wilson was in Paris, though they had little wprk to do. When the need for leconstructive measures was made apparent to the country the Piesident was blamed for not having taken eailier action. That incident suggests the normal course of our thinking. Legislation and national policies have their origin with the Pres ident or his cabinet and the man in the White House must in any emergency accept the blame for trouble. If the country goes into the league the President will have more to worry about, since it is he who, as the voice of America, will be expected to stabilize the new organization of nations and steer it safely among the inherited weaknesses, passions and piejudices of European states. If we l-emain outside the league we shall face a woild in which nothing may be taken for granted. The next President will have a job even moie difficult than Mr. Wilson's has been. There seems no way in which he may be helped, though both of the big po litical parties might well decide now and forever that Vice Presidents in the future shall not be elected solely for purposes of ornament. Woodbury, IS. J., has SUward Its Flight offered a reward for the return of n bridge which once spauned the Great Kgj; Harbor river and 'now lias been stolen by some per sons unknown. There is a line chance for some sleuth to discover its secret hiding place. Our guess is that ome inentive genius equipped it with a motor and wings and is using it for a hjilro.iii plane Hnrolhnent in tho diessmaUing classes o tho public schools has Ciood for Wliatcer Reason incieasod 200 per cent. Which may mean a determined effoit to cut down the high cost of living or may simply be that those who were formerly engaged in wai work "got tho habit" and would rather work than not. I'enu students who Get New have seen war service Foint of View me better students be cause of that service, professors say. This is not a conclusive argument for universal militaij service, but it speaks well for the advantages of military discipline. That was a thought -And It Might Haie ful wife in galley Annoyed the Hurglar Tnrgp who watched a burglar operate and did not awaken her husband until ho had departed. A woman never can depend upon a husband to be sensible. He would prob ably have started something and got hurt. Revenue rniders found Quick Action on !JG0 quarts of whisky a Dead Certainty in a Pittsburgh under taking establishment. As an embalming fluid it was conceded to be more efficacious on the quick than on the dead, In view of things expected of the in dustrial conference it would appear that some of the anti- strike clauses written into the railroad bill by the Sennto interstate commerce committee aio a trifle premature. A combination of Bolshevist and Hun is as distressing as that of St. Vitus's dance and inflammatory rheumatism, dreamed of by Mark Twain, German poets are now fulminating against the Poles. John Bull will be inter ested to note tliut 'Einie is hagain hob'ligin' with an 'jinn hof 'ate. Girlie-filiow (ans declare that a forth coming musical production press-ngented to hk wholly without a chorus won't have a leg to stand on. Spargo's name suggests a prize light. And nobody needs tg suggest "Wtiy don't you speak for jourself, John?" No one objectB to the rehabilitation of the German; it is the recrudescence of the Hun that the world has reason to fear. That Hog Island launchings should be so common as to be commonplace is a tribute to the shipyard's efficiency. It must be bard for Vt candidate to mit pep in a campaign whe,n the result is. as I"". ...-....' . sood us salted end jaw away 5fT?Pf THE WAR'S VERBAL BEQUEST A Host of Vivid New Words, From ap Amazing Variety of Sources, Clamor for Entrance Into f the Dictionaries QJOMU persons, especially those under the impression that skepticism makes for ' wisdom, nrc inclined to doubt that the world after the cqmulaion of war has changed as much ns tho idealists and optimists said it would. Not fo the philologists. They will admit, if need be, that selfishness dominates liumnii motiCH as of yore; Unit cMIUntioii is .not purged of brutality and that the millennium is still far distant. But they will insist and rightly that mankind, ispeclallj that, portion of it to which tho 1'nglish tongue is native, docs not speak precisely the same language it did In July, H)H, If our habits haven't changed, our vo cabulary certainly has. Huinheds of words virtually unknown five and n half years ago are now in common parlance. Youngsters enrich their speech with "camouflage." One doesn't have to be n highbiow to call a Hock of nirplnnes an "escndiille," nor n lowbrow to hull a sailor ns n "gob." A NTU-BELLUM English, with its duift - upon all tho languages of the cat Hi, was a mosaic. But its structmo was simplicity itself compaied with tho contemporary article. Slang is ephemeral and often purely local. The American who cries "I'll sa so!" to day, ejaculated "Sure, JliKpl" some jeors ago, and live years henec he will he em phatic with some altogether diffeietil locu tiou. The Jersey shore of the Dduwnie is "Spain" only to a Philadelphian. Highly specialized phrnses and provincial argot of these arieties do not get into the diitiun aries. The wiu'-boin words, however, uie of an other qualit.v. They will bo duly listed in pictentious volumes. Savants will explore quaint and picturesque speech origins. They will nlso iu many instances run straight into enigmas. It is exceedingly difficult to explain how tho popularized "doughboy" originated. The Oxford Dictionary declares it to be a dumpling. As the American army wos by no means exclusively composed of fat men, the source of the appellation remains mys terious. One scholar rather unconvincingly tuiees bnek the word to the large globular brai buttons worn on infantry uniforms during the Civil War, with the deduction that a sailor recognized their resemblance to dump lings and transferred tho word to army pri atc'S. Maybo and maybe not. At any rate, the word was army slang befoio the war broke out. Now it is unquestionably good American English and has tiaveled far bejond the npere confines of argot. "Gob" is another puzzle. It is dubiously slid to be n contraction of the Chinese word "gohhite," fust used on the American Asiatic naval station. Nobody really knows the truth. Everybody, however, is fully aware that the navy men infinitely prefer the word to the sentimental "jackic." Epithets cannot be ' poptilaiized by "diivcs." "Sammy" had no staving power whatever. "Yanks" and "doughbojs" tri umphantly superseded it. TATURALLY the influence of Fiench ' over our war-made vocabulary was pro found. To that tongue wc owe "camou flage," obscurely associated with a French theatrical slang word for "mnke-up." Wc are Indebted to our Gallic allies also for "barrage," for "chandelle," "rafale," "glissade" and "vrillc," all descriptive of airplane antics; for "ace," characterizing a star aviator, and most of all for "boche." Slaurice Donnay learnedjy insists that boche is made up of the French word for German, "Allcmand," and "caboche," thieves' cant for head. A telescoping proc ess gives the vivid monosyllable. "I'oilu," a definite accession to the lan guage, has been tracked back to Balzac, .who uses "poileux" in a somewhat derogatory sense. The armies of the republic changed the spelling while letainiug the nllusion to vigorous hairiness, adopted tho word in an affectionate significance and standarized its emplojment in the barracks. Its interna tional career came with the war CHARACTERISTICALLY enough, Eng lish slang became only partly Araeiican ized during tho conflict, and the same may be feaid of our own distinctively native terms. London was amazed by "attaboy," found out what it meant and then made little effort to annex it. Similarly, we never ques tioned Britain's possession of "Mighty," al though we speedily learned what it signified to our ally. The word propounds another problem. The best authorities aie wont to believe that it is a corruption of tho Hindu "bhilati," meaning to the British soldiers "home," or England. Our fondness for "fag" (ciga-- rette) is somewhat facetious. It is a handy word, but often the American prefers a -more formal, vocabulary, ns, for instance, when he says elevator for "lift." "Anzacs," however, we adopted just as freely as the English did. It is n singular ex ample of a deliberatelj made-up vvord which took instant hold. The coining took placo nt Gallipoli in the employment of the capi tal letters of Australian and New Zealand army corps. Germany gave to tho war dictionary "schrecklichkcit," "spurlos versenkt," "strafe," puuish, and most damagingly of nil, "kultur." To Russia, much aguinst our inclinations, wc are indebted for Hol sheviki,. which simply means "belonging to tho majority," and Mcnsheviki, "belonging to the minority," and "soviet." OTHER words, drawn from a variety of sources, destined to be inenrnnrntojl ir. English-American dictionaries of tho future, are "marrainc," "embusque," "low visi bility," "over tno top," "dud," "camion," "massif," "mandatory," "can" (a depth bomb), "slacker," "paravane," "whippet," "zero hour," "blimp," "Hoovcrize" and "buddy." The list could be formidably extended. When tho sifting processes are completed it is likely that a majority of the phrases will find a home in works devoted to tho alpha betical arrangement of our fearfully and wonderfully made English. This generation is not going to forget the verbal inheritance of the war. Hut what will our descendonts, raised in peace and under government by covenants, make of the bewildering and polyglot farrago officially listed as ingredients of their mother tongue? When rem proiueers arc put in the usurer class apparel profiteers and food profiteers may also be given place. Rut who is to determine the amount of interest justi fied where conditions vary with every trans action? Apart from the sorrow occasioned by the President's sickness it makes little dif ference that the official welcome of the king and eueen of the Belgians in Washington will bo by proxy, for the people of the country have already taken them to their hearts. - , Now that they know it really means something, policemen will no longer need tho nmmnt notification that lliev tiro .. 1 mitted tolnlx in politics, " l" THE CHAFFING DISH Autumn Ejaculation THROUGH sunshine bright The earth still spins, But keen air cools The golfer's shins. And now the frails , Without demur Hide feet in spat,s Aud chins in fur. Through plate glass, men Scan overcoats; The tailor, hidden, Smiles and gloats. The chap with bin Of coal piled high How we would like To be that guy ! Wo are much interested to notice that tho alumni of almost all colleges are busy col lecting monqy to raise the professors' sala ries. It has taken a long time to realize that tho faculty is almost as important to a college as the football team. Referring to Rev, Lieut. Belvin Maynard (or Lieut. Rev., ns the case may be), it seems that friend Longfellow's ancient gag no longer applies. We mean, of course, J7ic heights oy great men reached and kept Were not attained ly sudden'flight. The new version will have to be some thing more like this : ' The heights hy great men reached and l;cpt Were all attained ly sudden soars, For they, while their companions slept, flopped off in their Be Haviland .s, Exhuming Senator Vest Wp notice that every now and then Sena tor Vest's famous "Eulogy on a Dog" crops up and gets reprinted. There are lots of little pamphlet editions of it lying around, and it is regarded as a bit of a classic in its way. Now we have always wondered nbout that eulogy. Somehow it doesn't seem to ring quite true. It sounds a bit as though it was written by a man who never owned a dog himself. It's a bit too extravagant in praise. Dogs nre all right, and we are strong for them, but if you exhaust the vocabulary of praise on the subject of dogs you have nothing left with which to say a nice word for wives, employers, policemen and lots of other people who are kind to us. Thinking about these things, we wrote to our friend Charles O. Bell, of Boonvillc, Mo., asking for information. This is what he jays : In repfy to your question It I had known Senator Geortte Q. Vest, I knew him well, and whtlo he was in some things ereat and able, and might have aone mucu lor Mis souri for tho wrongs he committed In help ing to brine' on tho Civil War, I regret to say that I do not Imow much eood to tell of him. Tho first time I saw him ho was delivering- one of his "fire-eating" speeches at the old court house In Boonvillo tho sum mer of 1800, when ha was running for rep rooontntivft to the state Legislature, lie. nmong other things, advised secession and to fight thenj d Tanks, that ono South erner with a shotgun and a bulcherknlfa could whip half a dozen Tanks. Ha was elected from Cooper county to the Legis lature and was a leader In that assembly early In the session for dls-unlon and se- cession (January, 1801), When General Ilon scattered the rebels at Camp Jackson May 10, near St Louis, and then moved westward towards Jefferson, City, where the assembly were In session, Governor Jackson, General Price, Vest and others sklpt out, but took with them all available Btato money, Bchool money, etc., and came to Boonvillo to make a stand. But when Lion, with less thsm 800 men (mostly Gorman Home Guards from St. Louis), reaohed Boonvillo, (tho bat. tie of Boonvllle, June 17, 1801), about 10,0" rebels with Jackson, Price, Vest, etc. In the lead sklpt out for the southwest (the Ozark country), where Governor Jackson assembled a bunch of the Legislature and "Resolved, etc that the state of Missouri Join 'the Southern Confederacy," and little flreeater Vest managed In that brush assembly to be elected to the Confederate Congress In Illc mond, where he was during tho war, In a bullet-proof Job, representing a state that had never left tho Union. When It was over he came hack to Missouri, and, having the gift of gab, and being an adroit political wire-puller, he was soon hailed nmong the unreconstructed rebels as a hero, "Little Giant," and that made him senator, and per haps tho blsrcest thlnra hs ever dirt, accord. I (nso his -iHw-nplnt (d of which he would lj)19 uAWa LET'S 'GO !!" boast In his campaign speeches), his fights In the Senate on nil pensions for Union soldiers; it was ho who called tho Union war voternns "mendicants." I, as one who defended the Union and our flag which he (Vest) did all ha could to tear down, I will admit that he had tho (rift of speech, hut which, I think, ha might havo used to better purpose. Possibly his "Kulogy on a Dog" may live some time, but the majority of his snarltnp abouttho Union soldiers and tho Lincoln defenders, which aroused and bi ought forth the old rebel yell, aro dead and should necr be resurrected. Freedom for AH fV FREEDOM on' her mountain height '-' TIip poets sang in bjgone days, But now she leaves her peaks of light To walk along the humbler ways. No nation now, hovve'er obscure, Add no enslaved, long-vassaled race, But what shall feel her advent sure And come to know her face to face. Chaos and Anarchy and Wrong Shall flee before her shining helm, The boasting conquerors' strident song Her clarion tones shall overwhelm. No more above the lofty cloud Her radiant banner forth she flings, But carries it where, trembling, ciowil The servitors of oge-old kings. Not only in our mighty land Shall now her glorious form arise, Her touch shall tear the blinding band From serfdom's century-bandaged eyes. Her voice shall reach the deafened eais Long-tuned to edict and ukase, And weak limbs, manacled for years, With her own hand she shall upiaisc. Majestic, brave, we sec her stand, If Her calm gaze fronting to the stait, Till by her might each struggling laud Isfreed from emperors and czais. Freed from the toils that hound them 'round Freed from the old oppressors' might, ' They rally at her trumpet's sound Her hand shall lead them to the light! SUB ROSA. We Would Like to Know Ourself Why should men make such moan over the length of time it takes to break in a new pipe? It takes even longer to break in n husband. I've been married two years, and Mr. Dante hasn't yet learned how to keep tho tea-leaves from going down the sink. r ANN DANTE. We are a keen enjoyer of the current event films. The only trouble is that some of the most interesting subjects don't get taken. Think of the pleasure of watching Wilhelm sawing wood, and coming to a stout hickory knot. It was generally admitted that it was very thoughtful of the President not to forget Mrs. Wilson's birthday recently. We submit that Mr. Wilson's birthday Is the kind that is much more likely to be over looked, coming ns it does just three days after Christmas. Those uufortunate enough to have birthday tjiat come just at Christ mas timo will agree that theirs is the hard lot. ,, One of the most creditable things we know about the world in general is that, in spite of all the news printed by thp Sunday papers, enough always happens to give the press something to talk about on Monday. SOCRATES. Secretary Haker has nqtlfied the no boken Embarkation Board that an army chaplain must accompany every transport currying more than 200 zs&lers. Presum ably the slogan of "Hell orHoboken" will huve added significance for those on board ships carrying less than 200. When Doctor Toung jestingly suggested that tho President let one of the doctors shave him, as they did in the days when all doctors were barbers, the President quickly renlled that doctors were still barbarous. This may be taken either as an eyldeuce of mental aUrtuo.s or wantpn cruelty Y , Hands Off (Dedicated to Orators and Others) HANDS off our dead! For all they did, forbear To drag them from their graves to point some speech ; Less sickening was the gas reek over there, Less deadly was the great shell's hurtling screech ; You cannot guess the uttermost they gave; Thdse martyrs did not dio for chattering daws To loot false inspiration from the grave When mouthing fools turn ghouls to gain applause. Hervey Allen, in Harvey's Weekly. King Alfonso has established legations at Warsaw, Belgrade and Prague and new consulates will be created in Russia and Germany as soon ns conditions become settled. The policy of "hands off" will now be chauged to "busy fingers." Disraeli had a habit of falling asleep in tho British House of Commons when speeches wero beiug made that he didn't 'care to hear. Is it possible that John Sharp Williams is taking a leaf out of 'Dizzy's book? The lynchlngs in Georgia were, of course, designed to show all our distin guished visitors from the other side of the pond that we don't give a darn what they think of us. Farmers are said to be wearying mem bers of the industrial conference with long winded statements. What they seem to need is an ad writer to make their points short L and snappy. The United States wheat director is on record as opposing a government guaranteed price for the next crop. This sounds like a bid for popularity. "Petrograd taken" is the official notice posted in Paris. It may be safely assumed that it was welj shaken before taken. What Do You Khow? QUIZ 1. Who is B. W. Maynard? 2. What is the capital ofClowa? 3. What stato in tho Union produces the most cotton? 4. What kind of an animal is a quagga? C, What one of Napoleon's marshals accom panied him to St. Helena and was also commissioned to take his body back to France? C. AVhat was the real name of the com poser Gincomo Meyerbeer? 7. Is a whale a fish? 8. What is the origin of the expression "got the mitten"? 0. What is a philippic? 10. What celebrated and decisive naval bat tie was fought in October? Answers to Saturday's Quiz i 1. A proces -verbal is a written repot t of proceedings. 2. Fourteen Republicans voted against tho Shantung amendment in the senate. 3. Joseph Pllsudski is president of Poland. ' 4. Philately is stamp collecting. C. The word comes from the Greek ''phil" indicating "love-of" and "atcfela," "exemption from payment." The allusion, of course, is to the stamp, which opco affixed relieves tho letter of all further charges. C. Schleswlg-Holstein was a province of tho German empire. It is bounded on the north by Denmark, on the east by the Baltic, Lubeck and Mecklen burg, on tho Bouth by Hanqover and on the west by the North sea. 7, Prognosis' is prognostication, forecast, especially of disease, 8. The Swedish parliament is called the Rlksdagi O, Tessellated pavement W formed of-. small, hard, nonsquare- blocks, used ill ruusaic. JO. A ,Uiu Ts any poisonous ptomaljit. if H .a Wl H m 4 -J 'i tr ..! S ;'::;' ? . - . i . . vUV'i ? I'P-X&l , "- JL v i ...jgt). Jllt VlaMst. 1., l '1 u' A m2., Ki a t fW j" V-
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