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TRAFFIC BLOCKADES
rpRY for a trolley litle in the central
I-- section of the city any of these fine
Saturday afternoons and you will think
twice before wishing anybody a happy
Christmas. 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
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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
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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
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. sood us salted end jaw away
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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.
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