V -t,5:- TTiri, ,10 EVENING PUBLIC MDGEB PHIIDELEJEHA', MIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1919 -?f f t-r W?p-t" ISucnmg public Wedger 'i Tirimir t rnrTTj rvsinvw '1 .PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY . .crnus 3t. K. cunTis. rnmmis-i "Itoirtlii, BMTrtarf nd TrMsum-1 Thlllp H Collins. Jann n. William?, John J. Spurreon, Directors, v limTonfAfi noAitui tu Ctnts Iti K. CtiiTis. Chairman 'A.VID E. SMII.ET TMltor ' W. c MAnTIN'.... general Tluilncia Manager ' Published dslly nt rriuo 1.enitR rtulldlnc, Independence Square. Philadelphia Allkttiw Cixr Prm-Unlon nulMlne Jiw Your.,.,. . ,. i'OU Mrtropolltan Tower DtTBcnr ... ...,701 I'ord HuIldlnT J Sr. Ini.. ... .jons rtiil-rtnn liulldlng .Cmcitjo, , 1302 Tribune DutMIng i, ' KEWd IlUnCAUS: tyismvcToN Tlcsrii'. .... . ... N. j;. Cor. I'ennsylvanla M-. nj 14th St. Amr Tonic I3rac.il' Tae S HulMltic London Ucb&iv... 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Otlid.rr 21. lt THE GERMANTOWN LOOP TO COMPLAIN is human, to concur divine. As, in common with the rest bf us, the managers of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company have had con siderable experience with this fact, they arc probably not surprised to encounter "opposition to their commendable attempt to improve the trolley service on the important line to Gcrmantown. The present plan involves the substitu tion of comfortable side-exit cars with transverse seats for vehicles so lone; in thousands of riders proposed change. the less serviceable use. Hundreds of will rejoice in the A neighborhood improcment associa tion in Mount Airy, however, is aggrieved because the operation of the adequate car3 will necessitate the use of Gorgas lane and Musgrave street for u loop. It is said that the lives of school children will be endangered and the property will be depreciated. IB This is the identical argument ad- vanced when electric transportation took W ,the place of horse-drawn car traffic in Tnis city, we uiu, nowevcr, ii-arn iu adapt security to progress, and there is no reason why the process should not be kcontmued. Trip eitv lins Inner aorclv needed better KUS.ervice to Germantown. Somehow the HttV n.V1 ! ...l.tnV. in nnrrnn. frw fbr nPnrmn- SJEIUUIJ, VW14V.il IS LU(,(il "! -' ......... K arQll, J.CUI3 tllilU JL I.UII UC .IttumiJiiaiivu p., "Without sacrificing human lives. Thcie ought to be no obstructionism which lstands for improvement by getting in the L .way; of it. ) h0W THE OLD TOWN DOES CROW PECULATION about the extraor ' dinary growth of Philadelphia will rjtUIl UU U1UU1U11 act, i icat, n;u my k? census takers resume their decennial ac- iffv'ities nextycar. Meanwhile there are indices ot our 'population progress which are highly significant. The new local directory con tains 121,000 more names than the vol vme of twelve months ago. What this means may be realized by a glance at the figures of the last census. In 1910, apart from Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Scranton was the only city in the state the population of which was more than 121,000. In a single year we have assimilated more than all the inhabitants of the Reading or the Wilkes-Barro of a decade ago. Furthermore, in the metropolitan "agglomeration," which disregards county lines, it is well known that the 'growth has been prodigious. V There are sound reasons for believing hat Philadelphia will be in the impres sive 2,000,000 class when all the returns of the government's forthcoming in ventory are made. ROOSEVELT DAY ROOSEVELT'S natal date becomes a red-letter day much quicker than any which has honored most other great Americans. This is in keeping with the spirit of the man and the ideals for which lie stood. The force of his personality survives 'splendidly in the present interest which Roosevelt week has evoked and the ap peal of plans for the celebration of his birthday next Monday. The prime fea ture of the observance is the laying of a firm, financial foundation for a suitable 'Roosevelt memorial. It is not easy at Jeast in peace times to think of another jiation-wido "drive" so finely in accord with public sentiment. What form the memorial will take and whoro it will be situated is not yet deter mined. There is talk of a magnificent arch. The form of the structure is, how ever, relatively immaterial. Every American who subscribes to the fund will raise in his heart his own memorial to a Jieloved leader. j It is almost in bad taste to urge a popular response to this campaign. The (Spontaneity of affection which Theodore .Roosevelt won from the nation should be enough to bring an enthusiastic and cen- ',. one,,-;.,, tn V.i noil CVUfl UO!ll.l bJ l,Mt- .!. DO WOMEN WANT TO VOTE? rpHE only way to find an answer to this ' question is to examine the registra tion returns irom communiticsin which .the right to vole has been granted to feHvomen. ' T l! ,.,,v, ,.-. ., ..i . ii. f, -IL lia tYvrmcji nviv do oiiAluua il 3 me ' 2 men to cast a ballot just as many of 'Ithem would register. This has not hap- Jjpcncd in New York. Last year the total f93gistration in that city was 1,014,848, ot which only 408",071 were women. This sypar, the total registration is 1,078,253, " p which 363,883 aro women. Nearly $4lft00 fewer women registered this year , Jhn last year and nearly 110,000 more men quali"ei1 or voting. Why's this? Not being in Hie confi- dens f, the women of New York, we ptttjflot.aiiwer the'Sucstion. But it looks i, If vQiitf wer regarded by many women as a novelty, nnd that after they had been W the polls once or twice they lost interest in the matter. If this be truo it is unfortunate. There nre too many men indifferent to the ex ercise of their rights as citizens. If equal suffrage is only to increase the number of indifferent electors we are not going to get through it those reforms which were promised. PROHIBITION COMES NEARER WITH THE ENFORCEMENT ACT Private Hoards Are Safe, but the Sale of Intoxicants Will Be a Perilous Business After Next Tuesday THE prohibition enforcement bill given into the hands of the President yester day for signature is the result of months of stormy debate in Congiess. It gives realistic foim and definition to prohibition principles, fixes penalties and canies an appropriation of $2,100,000 for the work of search and prosecution. It sounds the knell of 2.75 beer for the pres ent at least. It calls for the elimination of all liquor signs from public view. Yet the act is one that need not won y those who already have gathered private hoards of liquor, large or small, for their own use or the use of their "bona fide guests." Its provisions arc ominous for the keepers of speak-casies and for the venturesome saloon owners who have been furtively marketing the strong drink which "they had in their cellars prior to July 1. Any one who is suspected of having intoxicating liquor for sale after the law become-? operative may bo visited nt any hour of the day or night by a federal agent with a search warrant. An excep tion is made for private dwellings, which are immune fiom search unless they are known to be used for open violation of the law. Penalties under the net nre im prisonment and fines ranging from $100 U ?1000. Prophets nnd seers who were ranged with the prohibitionists or against them a few months ago must have found many things to astound them in the course of events since July 1. The more ardent advocates of a wide-open country pre dicted woefully that risings and riots and general tumult were sure to occur at the moment when the workingman was deprived of his liquor. Their.-, was not a pretty argument. "If you want peace," said they, "let us keep the workers diugged in a state of im aginary contentment!" Prohibitionists, on the other hand, as sured ecstatic audiences that when the rum fiend was driven from the land we should have tranquillity everywhere and Wage-earners walking sedately in the country with their families on Sunday and -admiring the scenery for the first time in history and putting their money in banks or in motorcars. Wc have had no risings and we have no peace. Those who used to patronize saloons appear to be judging the issue dispassionately, and they seem to have realized for the first time that heavy drinking was an amazingly costly pas time. The transition from a "wet" to a "dry" state has been relatively painless so far. While a good many bitter-enders aie still insisting that prohibition is the re sult of a sort of transient fanaticism that would be possible nowhere else than .in the United States, Scotland Scotland of all places! is arranging for a "dry" referendum and Czecho-Slovakia is tell ing the world that just as soon as its boundaries arc fixed it will enact "dry" laws modeled after those soon to be en forced in the United States. The enforcement laws devised by Con gress are rigorous, yet not so rigorous as the "dry" advocates would have made them. For example, there is no limit to the amount of intoxicants that a man may keep in his own residence for his own use or the use of his friends. Any one may store enough whisky to last him unto death he may have fifteen or twenty barrels and the federal authori ties will not question him unless there is strong evidence to indicate that he is selling the stuff. A citizen may make intoxicating bev erages for his private use so long as he uses only fruit juices as a base. He may make this beverage as strong aB he de sires it. But, admitting this right of every law-abiding citizen, Congress hastily wrote into the enforcement act a provision making it illegal for any one to publish, sell or circulate formulae for the making of intoxicants of any sort. An intoxicant under the new definition is any beverage having more than one half of 1 per cent of alcoholic content. The suits instituted to defend the legality of 2.75 beer and the injunctions already granted in favor of those brewing and selling that novel product will be ren dered inconsequential when the ac is signed by the President. "Two-seventy-five" beer, like all other beverages de clared intoxicating, is subject under the act to seizure and destruction by govern ment agents when there is evidence to show that it is held for sale. There was a riot of debate in the Sen ate about the rights of a citizen to move his private hoard from one place to an other when he changed his residence. It was finally decided that such removals may be made with certificates of authori- zation issued by the commissioner of in ternal revenue. Interstate shipments probably will be allowed under similar restrictions, though the new law"is a bit ambiguous in relation to that question. All movement of intoxicating beverages will have to be made with the consent of the revenue officials. None of the 55,000,000 gallons of whisky now in bonded warehouses may bo removed for sale as beverage. After January 20 it may not even be exported. Whisky and other intoxicants already manufactured and stored may bo ,vith drawn for "scientific, mechanical, medici nal or sacramental purposes" only. Shipments by automobile "or aircraft" are illegal unless authorized by the com missioner of revenue. The intoxicants so shipped may be seized and either sold or destroyed, and the vehicle itself taken by the government and sold to pay the finps inflicted for the offense. v t.,,.! -,) .....1..J.- ... ,. me jironiDiuoniays wientu iu visijairfi punishment on any person found $n n state of intoxication. Congress refused to co-operate with them to this end. One may be drunk without risking fcucral prosecution if he imbibes liquor made by himself or given to him by a talented friend, A woild of hope was based upon the doctors, buj. even the doctors, with their right to prescribe whisky or other alco holic beverages for medicinal purposes, arc to be strictly regulated. Physicians may not prescribe more than a pint of whisky for any one person every ten days. No prescription may bo filled twice and all such prescriptions have to be written on blanks furnished by the com missioner of internal revenue. Telltale stubs will be attached, which must bo filled out and returned to the federal authorities at intervals by each physi cian. Congress appropriated $2,000,000 for use by the Hevenue Department in on forcing the act and .$100,000 to the Department of Justice for the work of investigation. The law is intended to make wartime prohibition effective. If the treaty is ratified and peace formally declared by the President before January 20 there will bo an interval in which no restriction may be imposed on liquor sales. On January 20 the prohibition amendment will become effective and, so far as any one can see, the country will go dry for good. TO MEET A NEW ISSUE SECRETARY KEDFIELD, of the De partment of Commerce, reminded the international trade conference in Atlantic City of conditions to which this news paper has been directing attention for two or three year';. He said that the world could not get along if the United States insisted on selling its commodities abroad for cash and refused to take forcign-mndc goods in exchange. The foreign trade balance in our favor last year was about 4,000, 000,000. Europe cannot continue to pay us this amount in gold every year with out going bankrupt. This balance will readjust itself in the course of time, when Europe begins to produce more of what she needs. She will then not have to buy so much from us. But she has borrowed ?10,000,000,r 000 from us in order to help her pay her war expenses. She will have to pay he interest on this sum for many years to come, and will ultimately have to pay the principal. She will have to pay a large part of the principal in goods if she is to main tain her solvency at home. This is so obvious that it has occurred to every one who has given any thought to the sub ject. But if wc shut out European goods with a high protective tariff Europe will bo unable to pay. It is to our interest that she sell her goods here. Secretary Rcdficld has suggested that "wc open wide our doors to the reception of1 foreign-made goods." This is the natural suggestion of a free trader. But tho United States is not a free-trade country. It believes in the policy of pro tection for home industry. The problem before the tariff framcrs is to discover a way to admit enough foreign-made goods to assist our debtors in paying what they owe to us without injuring our own industiies. This can be done without throwing down all customs bar riers. Indeed, wc are in just as great need of the customs dues to finance our gov ernment as the foreigners arc of our markets for the sale of their surplus. The men in control of Congress have lately been saying that it would be wise to postpone tariff revision until there was a President in the White House in sympathy with the American idea. It maybe wise also to postpone it until we learn whab the conditions are that must be met by a new tariff law. Every month increases the amount of information .available. In a year or two Europe will have recovered somewhat from the disor ganization of her industry and will be producing goods for home consumption. It will not be necessary to adjust our tariff laws to meet a $4,000,000,000 bal ance of trade in our favor, nor even for a billion-dollar balance. But they must be adjusted to conditions which no one fore-, saw when the nation committed itself to the policy of protection. Ucoause licr hu;.bund Man and the Home hppnt his time there, n Camden woman smashed all the windows in a clubhouse. She was arrested but promptly UiMcharRcd, the judge telling the husband that his place was at home. The club director, when they cojnc to pay tho bill for glass, will probablj ngree with the judge, in this particular in stance, at least. Secretary Jted field talked bravely ws- (Juerj terday when he said that the bankers of the United States must unite-to save the world. But who. mean while, will unite to s-ntc the bankers of the United States? The question in Wash Your Choice ington fcecms to be w h o t h cr organized labor or organized capital shall boss a de fenseless public. Bela Kun is said to Nuts have, esenped into Italy, where he is promoting a molutionnry movement. If that is the kind of movement they insist upon, he and his kind should be placed in a cage w itU n squirrel. Captain Donaldson beat Lieutenant Maynard's time iu tho transcontinental air race by about ten hours. Hut Maynarw won the race and won the popular applause, and Donaldson will never cateh up. Circumstance is a' magician who has turned the President's siek bed into a coun cil table. The rail-control hill is back in tho Scn nte, hut a speech -control bill would never get out of committee. After the- ten revised reservations have been edited and amended tho peace treaty will be ready for a "try on." Mrs. Mixing says she presumes a ic vlsed reservation means the changing from an upper to a lower berth, That Albert undiKlizabcth make a good pair to draw to will be evidenced by fyotf lay' crowds. j. THE ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL Purposes of the Association Explained by the Chairman of the Phila delphia Committee liy WIM.TAM URAI'till MiWIS rplIEUK (ire hundreds of thousands of peo - pie in the United States who arc anxious for a sultnblo opportunity to show their re gnrd nnd In ninny eases their nfTcetion for the memory of Theodore Ilooscvclt. It is not (.lint they always agreed with him. .Many of those who now realize the greatness of his character, when he was alive often diiTcrcd from him and opposed him politically. Today there is au almost uni versal appreciation of Ills public services. Men realize that the kind of Americanism he stood for is the kind ot Americanism which, above nil things, wc most need in this critical period of our national life. rnlllSK aie some of the reasons why. irre-- speetive of piuty or race or creed, theie Is in nil sections of the country n icry gen eral and growing desire to do something which will express our regard and affection for him. This general and unleral desire has given rise to the Uoosctclt Memorial As sociation, ii national organization controlled by a national committee, representing per sons of all political faith, all sections of the country, ns well as the mnny-Rided ac tivities of Colonel lloosevelt himself. NEXT Mondn, October 27, is the first anniversary of his birth occurriug since Colonel llnoscvclt's death. This week nnd next Monday a special effort is being made in every state of the United Stntes to give every man, woman nnd child who desires to show his or her regard nnd appreciation for him an opportunity to do so. Any one may become a member of the Booscvelt Memorial Association by signing on application blank and eontiibutiiig. ns n permanent life mem bership fee. SI. or any larger sum which tbc.v may desiie to give. Arrangements have becu made by the local Philadelphia minmittec to distribute these application blanks as widely ns practicable throughout the city. An one who has not already received u blank n.ay ohtnin one from the nearest drug store. The blank eon 'taifts directions bow to forward tho appli cation and tho contribution. Each person becoming a member will receive a certificate of membership from the central headquar ters in New York. THE inoue.v c the national ontribnted is to be used by il committee to create a me morial satisfactory to Colouel lloosevelt s family . No efl'oit is being made to collect a great sum of money. No pressinc is to be put on any one to subscribe. Colonel Booscvelt himself would have been the first to oppose any effort to use his name to collect large sums of money at any time, and especially at this time, when thcie is so much suffering in the world. THE exact form of the memorial will, of course, depend on the amount of money which the committee will have nt its dis posal, but wc may have confidence that in any event it will be appropriate. The rep resentative character of the committee is tin assurance that the money will be used iu such a way as to combine dignity with prac tical usefulness. Itoosevclt was too intensely alive to think of the use of nny largo por tion of the money in, the erection of a mere monument. However great the good which may be done with the funds collected, the real benefit is to be derived by the gathering together in one association of thousands of persons who unite to do honor to Colouel Boocvelt's memory. GREAT (luiacters are the rungs of the' ladder on which it nation climbs to higher, better planes of action. Roosevelt's public services were many; but his great service to the nation collectively, and to each one of us individually, is that to him more than to any other man of his generation we owe the elevation of our ideals of Ameri can citizenship. Every American who knows the history of his country is a better Ameri can nnd a better mail or woman because men like Washington, Lincoln and Roosevelt have lived. The very act. simple ns it is, of joining nn association designed to honor the memory of a man of the character nnd life ot Theodore Roosevelt does good to the person who joins. T Ht'S the Roosevelt Memorial Association finds the real reason for its existence in the benefit which will come to its members In the very fact that they have united to do honor to a man who, to the great ma jority of his fellow citizens, is the "typical American." The efliency of n kick depends on the size of the boot. Little Rumania has r large foot and kicked to some purpose; but the king of Ilcdjaz, dissatisfied with the Franco- J English agreement concerning byrin, nicks in vain. The lord lieutenant of Ireland has becu paying his respects to tho Sinn Tein gov ernment. Thc Siiiii I'einers will probably retort with a paraphrase of the old song, 'Taith, French is nil nt sea, says the Shan Van Voght." Another infantry regiment hns crossed the Prussian frontier nnd joined the Iron Division iu Lctvia. As German soldiers have never been accused of having initiative, there is strong suspicion that they wore acting under orders from men higher up. The French aviator who is attempting to fly from Paris to Australia has been forced by atmospheric conditions to land in Romp. This will be a shock to those who never heard of anything but sunny Italy. The supreme council of the Peace Con ference is considering a modification of the Austrian treaty at the instance of Rumania ; which goes to show that one can get pretty nearly all one wants if one kicks hard enough. A Philadclphinn has paid half a million dollars for a Providence (R. I.) library. And, of course, the authors won't get a cent ot the money. This is on the dead. It Is the opinion of Vare men that there isn't much use fighting charter provisions if a printer's error can rob them of their victory. Rut Civic Righteousness smiles the smile of sweet content. The wild taxi has been tamed, but the fares will continue to have n game flavor. Which suggests the query, Ib the conductor of a taxi skin game a taxidermist? When Secretary Rcdficld m-ges the country to open its doors to forclgu-msde goods ho doesn't call it free trade, but that is what it may turn out to be. Delegates to tho international congress of working women, to meet in Washington, will have an opportunity of showing dila tory men how to hustle. Perhaps capital and labor will make another effort to'heal t,hs wound before mor tification sets Id. y --to &&&&. THE CHAFFING DISH The Baron Vice Admiral Sir David Realty has beeu created Rarou of the North Sea and of Rrooksby. News item. B ARON ot Rrooksby And of the North Sen- That is the kind of A Rarou to be 1 Raron of Jutland " And of Skagcrrak: Raron of gray, ships That never turned bat k. Raron of fog days And crinkled gray seas, Raron of gun-smell That stings the wctbreec. ' Raron of thunders. Hard patience, and skill ; Rarou of vigils In blackness and chill Raron of silence. Of men nnd of steel ; Raron of battle From Shetland to Kiel. Raron of seamen Wherever ships go ; Raron. ot drowned hulls Rcneath Scapa Flow. Raron of acies Of roaring nnd sen That is the kind of A Rarou to he! We heard recently of a joung'mun who described himself as a "nationalistic inlet nationalist." This is a specimen of the im penetrable fog that sometimes drifts tliiough a loo-envnest skull. Social Chat AVilliam McFee, the star correspondent of the Dish, has sailed for South America. Guv Wheeler called at our villa the other evening and a pleasant time was had. Wc took the opportunity to return his copy of "ErewhoV' having had it for two jears, and it was not until after Mr. Wheeler's de parture that we discovered he had gone off with our newly purchased packet of ciga rettes. , , . Lord Dunsany, wc fear, .will arrive iu town too late for a write-up in the Dish. Ills impact with Philadelphia will not occur until .1 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, by which time wc hope to be packing our trunk for a long-anticipated vacation. The same applies to the King of the Rd gians. f t , The moral to he drawn from the above is that those desiring publicity in the Dish must calculate their movements according to-Socrates's convenience. We arc sorry to disappoint both king and lord, but on the subject of that vncation wc are adamant. Those of our niccJnaturcd clients who send in contributions during our nliscm-c will kindly bo careful not to make, them too witty and bright. Wo shall need our job again when the three weeks are over. . George II. Sargent, the genial Ribliogia phcr of the Roston Transcript, was in town yesterday. He confided to us that the only city where tho Transcript could get a page of a forthcoming gala issuo set-up in Old English type was here in Philadelphia. Vhila is erect on its toes, is our comment, and we sped George on his way with right jovial cheer. t One ot the things we are most skillful at is reading the current magazines on the news stands. With tact and skill, the purchase of a two-cent pnper will often mako it pos Bible to get a fair idea of the contents ot a tblrty-fivc-cent magazine without buying it. We are told that Champ Clark is .still "bitterly disappointed" at not having re cejycd the nomination In 1P12- Bearing in id the suDMqu.cnt'" whw"""" vi ms "HEY, THERE ! CAN I HELP V ft- a2!ctS r r-v-1. s. .' y nnihince( the gentleman shouhj be pajing obeisance to his jtoroscopc. -Chestnut street is rather tedious these days. ' We don't sec any oil stock or asbestos nuggets for sale in the 700 block. Like the drowning man, the eolyumist sees all his past life flash before him in pano rama when he sits down to begin wheezing. Sitting in the nineteenth row at the thc ntie, one of our constant illusions is that wc can hear better when looking,through the opera glasses. That, wc suppose, is why we alwajs forget to briug them. It is rather depressing to let one's mind wander over the question ot what our grand children mny think of us. Having discovered a iiiau who has seen all the installments of a movies serial, wc will try another. Js there any one who has not liitct to hock at least one Liberty Rami? One ot the best misprints wc know oc curred in a Rrookljn newspaper when the head for the Shipping News got shifted by mistake to the top of the obit column. This bend icud, "Passed Through Hell Gate." To a Correspondent To all your appeals we remain quite deaf: You spell Chaffing Dislt with a single f. Roasted Chestnuts Drar fsocrateil ' ' Why linven't ou said something about the loastcd chestnut vendors yet'.' Or can't jou toast chestnuts in jour C'lialllnir Dish? The hot chestnut stand lias, or should have, as much 'flavor as a doushnut window. Think how well the crisp, sllgliUy blackened chest nut goes with brisk, chilly autumn winds ; what a spicy flavor they add to a walk (not down Chestnut street down Sansom or Fil bert or sqine other side street ; can't no down Chestnut street peeling and munching hot chestnuts)., Think, how pleasant the warmth they lend to your pocket nnd your chilled hands for the canny vendor saves the price of a bag- by gently Insinuating the glassful of chestnuts Into your coat pocitet before you can stop him. How picturesque and aromatic tho humble charcoal pan, and how picturesque and aromatic, too,' tho wizened Jlilancso or Venctinn or other Ro man presiding over the stan; a hot chest nue vendor of any other nationality would presumably be subject to Injunction. Also, he has contributed to tho H. C of chestnuts by partially flllhig last year's five cent glass measure with paraffin an Inch on so of it. Autumn and hot chestnuts Italian vendors and charcoal pans and let us parody: Walk down tho street in chestnut, time. In chestnut time. In chestnut time. Walk down the street in chestnut time (and stealthy munching somo of 'cm) And you shall wander hand In pocket up from Chestnut street to Market, Then down the street In chestnut time (and stealthy munching- some of'm). PENMAX. We Never Argue Duar Socrates: In tho other night's "Dish you mentioned Eulogy of a Dog or something like that. Well. I merely wish to say that you will agree with me if I say that woman need,s no eulogy. Sho speaks for-iWself DAVID CBRNBR. Where Did You Get the Sugar? In that delightful and impossible b.ink- "Th. Young Visiters." the nuthoretto states that "Mr. Balteena ato his soup to tho tune of a merry waltz." On rending this vVo chortled gently, and dismissed It as a good line, but having no closo relation to life. Uut tho other day on going Into a resthurant vvhetn inuslo is dispensed with (wo pre under tho Impression that this is the thing to do with the muslo In restaurants) meals wo ordered coffeo as a chaser for our victuals. It came, and was extremely hot. Just as we started to sip the liquid the orchestra relapsed into a very jazzy offering, and before we could stop our cplglbttis from shimmying In time with the music the undissolved lump of sugar at the bottom clicked against our teeth, apd our Internal economy had been mado extra-receptive to cancers. We owe Daisy an apology. She Is a realist after all. W13IOI1TA SECCU.XT. Viz., the Soap Box What we need ii somo inoro safety strlkv erb the kind Uuurtrike onlyfon the. box, T. .li i. JkySv-"Tv- te PATpS., THE WAY 0FJS ALL WE'rTj measure it not by years, but miles, This road that ye needs must follow; Wo'll sprinkle it over with tears and smiles, And travel il, hill and hollow. 'Tis nylry you are, and your steps are glad, For smooth is the stretch you travel; A score ot miles ahead of you, lad, I'm cursing the grit and gravel. Xou'vc berries to cat and grapes to suck, And flowers on your path nre sprinkled f Rut nil the fruits that aro mine to pluck Arc bitter and dry and wrinkled. All gracious and green on cither hand The fields from your feet go trending; Rut, somehow, a shadow lies on the land Where I, through the dust, am wending. For even its gold seems touched with gray, Since gray is for age and sorrow ; Ah, what I am seeing, my lad, today, You'll see for yourself tomorrow. As though they were lit for your own self's i sake. The lights in the noon skies strengthen; Rut limbs that are weary and bones that iichs You'rrvknovv when (he shadows lengthen. The road Is the same for us all, in truth. Though brave to your eyes, and splendid ; And where I nm trudging today, bright youth. You'll trudge ere jour journey's ended. Yet merry and free be' that heart of yours While bright be the leagues you follow j Twcrc cruel to burthen the soul that soars, Or tether the wheeling swallow! Roderic Quinn, in the Sydney Rullctln. The North Rene bomb fuse is splutter ing again. What Do You Knoiv? QUIZ J. What notable victory dUtiur the world war was achieved by General Yude pitch, who is now leading the nnti Rolshevik forces in the Raltic region? i.'. What college did George Washington attend. 3. Where is I.ctvia ? 1. What is a caret? C. What, is the original word etiquette? meaning of the 0. Who wns chairman of the industrial conference in Washington 7. What is n distinguishing feature of American battleships? S. What is the great coffee port of South America? 0. Who is called the father of English printing? ( 10. AVkat is a marsupial? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. M. W. Ireland is surgeon general of the United States army. 2. A plane is a surface mch -Jiat the straight line joining an two points iu it lies wholly in it. S. AVilliam Waldorf Astor conducted for a time tho Pall Mall Gazette and the Pall Mali Magazine. I. An Amerind is a member of one of the native races of America, au American Indian or an Eskimo. fi. The word Utopian, descriptive of an ideal state, refers back to the ideal commpnwcalth which Sir Thomas More called Utopia in his fanciful work of that title. 0. The heir apparent of the throne of Hel gium is Prlnco Leopold, Duke of Rrabant. 7. Mount McKinlcy attains a greater alti tude than any other American moun tain. It Js more thnn '20,000 feet high. S. A concordat is an agreement. In a par ticular sense it is au agreement be tween tho pope and a scculof gov ernment. ',), A scintilla is a spark, an atom. 10, Chamlsso's 'Tcter Schlcmll" Is, ih, torofa man Who. lest hi sh; CXWl-n-- lii(Qil M ?i J ? .ii I .ii . VI V$ .n M M i v. " I5 tP H' " r u jar h JV' ' rjt . t ( tt- A J w r rf' V iflt., . 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