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MAIN 5000 CT Address all ooMmttiiltatfo ? to KK-iittio PuMlo WT, Independence Squarr, VhiladclpKM, Member of the Associated Press Tit U ASHOCI n:n VllESS U exclu sively cntlthd to the n&c fot republication of all news dispatches rrcd tid to it or not othcnrlsc credited (it thh paver, and also the local neirs published theicln All right o( repiibUcat'ou oi ipecial dis patches herein are alto reserved rhiUdelphla Snlurd.y. Ortob-r I',. W FREEDOM OF THE TAXIS THE purpose of the ordinance which City Solicitor Connelly has drawn is to break up the taNicab monopoly. Cer tain taicab companies profess to have the exclusive right to occupy certain stands and they drive off every tasicab and every private automobile that "tres passes" on their preserves. The cab stands are arranged by the city for the conenience of the public. Mr. Connelly's ordinance would open every stand to eery taxieab, whether operated bj a company or by an indi vidual owner. Its passage would increase the convenience of the public. It is proposed also to lequife evety operator of a motorcar for hire to secuie a certificate of public convenience, not with the purpose of restricting- the num ber of such opeiators, but to prevent the operation of cars by untrustworthy per sons. Then if the Department of Public Safety makes a recommendation that the certificate granted to an operator whose conduct has been detrimental to public safety or to public decern be rescinded the Public Seivite Commission will give the man a heating and act on the evi-,-dence. The necessity for such a rcgula . tion is understood by eveiy one familiar with existing conditions. BLATHER AND BUNCOMBE ' fPHE Senate is one-half of the tteaty- making power of one of the twenty or more nations that drafted the peace treaty. It is attempting to rewrite the treaty 4to suit itself, regardless of the views of the other half of the treaty-making .'power. : l It may make as many changes or l ener vations as it pleases, but if they do not please the President its work will amount to nothing. The treaty cannot be ratified by the United States without the concur rence of both the Ptesident and the Senate. The Senate knows this, and has known it from the beginning. It knows, too, that when its committee on foreign rela tione adopts such a foolish proposition as that contained in the Reed resolution no one is expected to take it seriously TOO BUSY FOR FASHIONS TF QUEENS like Elizabeth of Belgium set the fashions women would have to worry less about following them. The queen, who designs her own gowns, was asked what she thought of the trend of fashions. "They change so often I can't keep track of them," said she with a laugh. "What are they?" This was not a pose. The queen has been too busy with other matters to trouble herself with the length or the width of her skirt or with the prevailing style of trimmings, whether they, be frills or lace or fur. She has worn what she thinks is becoming and let the fashions go hang. ' But then she is a queen. NERVE IN NORRISTOWN rpHE motormen and conductors of the Norristown division of the Reading Transit Company think they know better how to operate a street-car line than their employers. They are said to be seriously considering a proposition of the company that they take over the Norris town lines and operate them. The com pany 13 willing to surrender its control and to give the men a bonus of $25,000 if they will assume responsibility for the operation. The company has found itself in the same state as that which confronted the Public Service Railway Company in New ' Jersey when it raised the fares. The Norristown fare was raised to eight cents a year ago and business has been falling off ever since. The men think that the lines can be operated at a profit for a five-cent fare. The company seems to be -willing to let the men try it. Their will ingness is increased by the prospect of si heavy tax levied by the borough to re--pair the streets over which the cars run. The company's franchise requires hat it keep the streets in proper condition. There may be men operating the Nor , f rtetown cars who have the executive , ' ability and. the nerve to tackle the prob lem which has stumped men supposed to Itnow all about operating street cars. The people in many communities would Jike to see the experiment made. AN OLD-CLOTHES CLUB THE only difference between the city employes in Chicago and those here y.4 that those in the West who have to i ' Wear old clothes have organized a club. (An overcoat or a suit costs so much (Mtwftdays that the man who appears in nw suit always has to explain where jh spt tbfjon to pay for Jt. , -Thou- ,mmb Mifwm?W been wearing old clothes for a year or two, and our stock of apparel fit to be seen is getting low. If it can be made fashionablo to appear in patches then n lot of us can get through the winter without going into debt. The Chicago Old Clothes Club sug gests a way out. If the idea becomes popular we are likely to have n federa tion of clubs with a national convention at Atlantic City, with prizes offered to the man wearing the most artistically repaired garments. Then the repairers who can mend u moth hole so that no one can tell where it was will come into their own. . CONGRESS SHOULD NOW BEGIN WHERE THE CONFERENCE QUIT Epochal Legislation Necessary to Regu late Opposed Groups That Deem Themselves Bigger Than the Country N'E clear gain remains to the public from the dismal wreck of the indus trial conference. That is the knowledge that epochal legislation is immediately and imperatively necessary for the future regulation of two powerful, irresponsible and iolent minorities that seem willing to make the countiy a desolate battle ground. With the news of the adjournment the nation will realize with a shock that its peace, its welfaie and, even its safety rest, for the time being, not with the Piesident or with Congress or with any elected representative of its common pur pose, but with Mr. Gompers and Mr. Morrison, of the federation; Mr. Lee, of the brotherhoods, and the miners' lead ers on the one hand and with Mr. Gary and his disciples on the other. Control of forces that deeplv and inti mately atTect the life of the country is whipped out of the people's hands. Affairs that are of the profoundest eon sequence to the public at large arc in the hands of men whoso aims and purposes we do not even know. Each of the gioups that bolted in opposite directions from the industnal conference has in vited a situation that may involve dis tiess and loss and "Suffering for millions. Yet each pic.iumes to exist above the government and to have rights superior to common rights. Neither is in any way directly answerable to public opin ion. , The avowed intention of the miners' leaders to tie up the country by stopping the output of soft coal is lawless. It is almost an act of war. It is a return to the blockade and to the harsh theory of attrition, and it is meant to inflict the heaviest punishment on noncombttants. There may be some ground for the as sertion of labor that it is fighting an in dustrial feudalism in the last ditch. But what docs it hope to win? Feudal pow ers of its own? The right to dictate to a free country? The elimination of all private industiy and all private initiative by cumulative and impossible demands pressed and enforced under the privilege of collective bargaining? These seem to be the desires of a majority of labor leaders if the terms demanded by the coal miners and the pronouncements of Mr. Foster mean anything. The employers' group would have had to bolt in self-defense if labor had not bolted first. The adjournment of the conference has opened the way to a struggle in which the whole country may be drawn wretchedly along in disgrace ful confusion. So the responsibilities of the occasion are now shifted to Congress and the President. It is the duty of Congress to formulate and establish an industrial code, to define the related rights of labor and capital in industry, to fix limits be jond which unbalanced trades unionists on the one hand and backward-minded employers on the other may not go in pursuit of their own selfish aims. The commission on unrest that young Mr. Rockefeller suggested in a moment of desperation can tell us nothing that we do not know. Labor and capital ac tually seem braced for a finish fight. Yet neither side can be crushed without disaster of one sori or another to the country. The industrial conference proved actually worse than useless. Both sides met with inherited fear and distrust that they could not shake off. They were nore bitter enemies when they fell apart than when they met. The manner in which the smash oc curred will make propaganda for the anarchists of trades unionism. It will harden the dislikes and the suspicions already existing on the side of capital. It will revive old hatreds and open old sores. The countiy is face to face with a con dition that was inevitable. It has to deal with the consequences of unregulated power grown wild and arrogant, intoler able and dangerous. Congress, unless it shirks a duty of dominant importance, will have to do what the industrial conference might have done had it a rational will and the ability to rise above selfish concerns. The rights of individuals who acquire or seize extraordinary power in the eco nomic system will have to be defined. The rigfit to jiyi rewards for Indus- . , i i 1 JAi4-. Mi . . i try, 11, tlmt)iWM(irUJ-)ito bo assured anew to all men, whether they are capitalists or laborers. It is idlo to deny the right of collective bargaining to those who woik with their hands, but it is important that some limits bo set upon the operation of a principle that may be easily abused or even made the cause of disaster. Feudalism in industry will have to go. The trusts and the railroads and the utilities havo been regulated, but no trust, no railroad and no utility ever held the potentialities for good or evil that now lie with trades unionists and with concentrated capital, Tho rights of individuals aie, after all and "in any event, of minor impor tance. Such stresses and strains as are now contemplated in this country must be measured not for their efTect upon any individual, but for their possible reac tions upon the whole life and spirit of the nation. If ever there was a need for peace without victory it is now. The soft-coal miners can never hope to win with their outrageous claims. But the nation may properly ask itself whether rational set tlements are not better than any sort of defeat whether any good could come in the future from a conflict in which millions of men were crushed in a cause which they believed fair and just. What Congiess will have to do is set up a new code of morality applicable to new conditions of existence forced upon the country by progiossivo industrialism. That would not be an easy task for Con gress, which fiankly loathes precedent making. Politicians would have to ven ture into unexplored fields which are by no means inviting to cautious and politi cally minded men. An interpreter able to talk in a voice of unmistakable authority is needed be tween the conflicting forces of industry. ,We shall have to, have a means for identifying outlaws and for punishing those who, in one way or another, threaten the peace of the country. Capital squirmed but it accepted regu lation in the past. It will have to accept a little more of it. Labor alone insists upon its right to supreme authority. But labor, in some of its highly organized activities, will have to be regulated too. It is a tragic fact of history that all great advances in human welfare and every gieat leform in legislation have come only after stress and agony, after crises long drawn out, after pain that roused the patient and tolerunt mind of the public to a mood for initiative and action. Mr. Gompers has threatened war and his opponents have answered his chal lenge. It remains to be seen now whether the common-sense and the rational view that the industrial conference could not attain can be achieved only at the cost of wide spread misery and bitterness and tho pain that is the best of all teachers. Insurance men in con- Surpristng volition iu New York Themselves see no reduction in rates for soaks as a result of prohibition. Alcohol utldicts may become candy addicts, they saj, and the death rate, as a consequence, may be just as high. Perhaps it is tho shock that will kill them. Bernard Baruch says The Optimist the industrial con gress was a Hiceess in one particular it brought the great is sues of capital and labor to the attention nf the American public as nothing else would hav done. But it is the fear of many that the American public knows no more of the merits of the controversy thun it did at the beginning. ' Thelirtlonist iahandi Tact and riction capped in the telling of a story where the reporter of fact has easy sailing. The fic tionist has to be plausible, while Fact cheer fully deals in "impossibilities." The tug that overturned itself in the Delaware river by pulling at a hawser that had fouled its keel is a case in point The Belgian I'ar'iament has been dis solved by a royal decree dated Los Angeles, Calif., October 17 Oh, well, the Belgians have nothing on us in the matter of long distance rule We received one or two de crees from Paris that were similarly potent. There is less than 1 per cent of alco holic content in the knowledge that the pro hibition enforcement bill may be slightly de layed by the withholding of the President's signature, Casey is donning his Banta Claus suit preparatory to a visit to our soldier boys in Siberia. And for once Santa will be appro priately appareled. The King of the Belgians blushed when tribute was paid to him in Harrlsburg. And it is a safe bet that he won cvcrjthlng in sight with the royal flush. Drivers of street flushcrs uie on strike. Sympathizer will tell them that if they win they're straight; it they lose they're four flushers. Railroad corporations may be able to convince the Interstate Commerce Commis sion that transportation rates ought to be Increased 23 per cent, but they can hardly hope to convince shippers that they ought to pay it There is talk of another peace offer from Russian Bolshevists to the Allies. But how can the Allies make peace with the leaders of a school of thought that is assailing them in their own territories? Members of the Tenants' Association evidently do not believe that to the evictors belong the spoils. Members of the Parbord rolslon, know- ns haw inhibition worksMn Turkey, -will. 4 The TtUtmtJti, JlJW,lWW Sl"' JJ'W flfi CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S LETTER Federal Employes Who Do Not Strike. When Rooaevelt Appointed a Negro The Handshake of George W. Coles TJIXTNT strikes have caused widespread '' dlscmslon of labor unions. WlijJ It has been figured out by economists tTiut tho striker generally loses, ulthough -triUes also seriously nfl'ett capital and sometimes under mine the cmplojing institution, new condi tions have arisen in the labor world which have aroiwd n more direct inteiest in what the organized workman is doing, with the result that public sentiment is beginning to determine the success or 'aii'iie of stilkc undertakings. Many men who have given tarcful thought to the labor situation con tend that organizations of woikmen should lie Incorporated and made lesponslblc for what Is done just as eorpoiatinns of em ployers with property arc amenable to law ful icstraiut. There arc others who in veigh ugaint the organization of men and women cinplojed in tho public service, and point has been given to their aigument by recent proceedings with lespect to police men In Boston, where the force struck, and in Washington, wheto tlioxo who had joined the American Federation Labor are said to have thrown up their chnrteis. While nil this discussion is going on, it is worth not ing that some labor organizations do incor porate, like the Journeymen Bricklayers' I'liion tf Philadelphia, and that others nre disinclined to sfrikc, believing they can work for their own bettoinient without the use of that drastic weapon. Of the latter class of organizations Is the Federal llmployis" Fuion, No. "!. of Philadelphia, mi association of fecjernl oBiccholders ntlilintcd with the Ameri can Fedeiutiou of Labor. Its membership is made up of men and women cinplojed in the Cu'tom Hous, the Mint, the immigia tion service, tho Department of Justice and various other brapehes of the United States service iu Philadelphia. According to the secretary of this union" its constitution for bids strikes against tho government or sym pathetic strikes to support such moemints. Moreover, it is said of this union that It is endeavoring to solve its problems, which in clude better working conditions, "subjnit to proper limitations and iu a sane and patriotic innuner " ADMIRAL BLVSON", who won interna tional distinction as the director general of naal opciutinns. has indicated his pur pose to attend the C'liaileston tomention of waterwins men. The admiral tool; a lively interest in Delaware river development when he was at tho head of the Philadelphia Navy Yard, and his uppearance at Chailcston will ho, very acceptable to the main Philadel phia who me going to talk up their i it at that place It is also worth mentioning tli.it Adinluil Hairy B Wilson, now commandei -in i luef of the I'liiteil Htates Atlantic fleet, has been iustiumental Iu making an assign ment of nnwil vessels for Charleston harbor as an object lesson for those who study pre pareduess and commeicial nnd naval develop ment. Major Lllis and tho Camden dele gation will take pride in knowing how their city figures, thiough the admiral, in this demonstration. Admiral Plunkett, who is in charge of the destroyer Meet, is another active naval mnn who will join in the waterways procession It is evident that the war has not lessened the interest of the nrmy and navy in the Attantic coastal scheme. A LTIIOI'GII a reformer, Theodore Roosc- politician. An instance in which the lato John Stephens Durham figured will sufliee. Durham was a coloied lawyer and editor w Iu had formerly been minister to Haiti. Ills desire to become a member of the Span 'ih Treaty Claims Commission after the Spanish American war was taken up at the White House by Mr. Moorp. who was then piesident of the National Republican League. Tt was nigued that Mr. Durham was n highly creditable representative of the colored race; that he had mastered tho Spanish language, was a good lawyer and had done effectl.e literary woik. President Roosevelt listened and took the matter under consideration. Subsequently, he came to the Union League for a great reception. The ljnc extended almost beyond the League doors. When Mr. Moore came along, the President singled him out, held up the crowd and then exclaimed so every one aiound about could hear "I appointed jour man Duihaui!" R' of Saint Peter's Church, I.cwcs, Dela ware, received from tin eldtrly ladj mauy years ago oncof those quaint bits of pen innnship characteristic ot our forefathers, indited by John Porter, of Wilmington Delaware, concerning "Ihe meeting of tho Chesapeake nnd Delaware Bays" when the construction work on the canal had reached a point where the last sepaiating barrier of earth could be removed The faded old paper declares that the waters met on July 4, 1S20. The event was celebrated by an outpouring of people and apparently by an outpouring of rain, since A Dexter, in giving his views tothe w liter of the urticle, expressed the sentiment. "The nilpgling of the waters in which the Heavens seemed enviously to participate" Jacob Caulk, Esquire, was quoted as sajing, by way of n toast, "The state of Delaware, ever grate ful for the honor conferred by her sister states." And there were other sentiments of this kind, all hopeful and optimistic, but the fact that it rained when the waters of the two bays mingled would not down. Said Isaac Clement "May the roof of the grand bridge over the Summit level never ngain screen from the inclemency of the weather, men who design to encourage the honest exertions of our worthv citizens. " Anthony Groves, Jr., of the Bricsson Line, has a photographic copy of the tablet pressed into the wall of the Summit bridge. He carried it with him on the recent ex pedition to Delaware City, when the taking over of the old canal by the government was celebrated. But the news to James Mc Nally, Eugene W. Fry. Captain Al Brown, Louis Burk, James Waddlngton and other users of the canal, is in the belated report that it raineu wiieii i waters mingled, July 4, 1820. -IFORGn W. COLLS, the generalissimo of vJ the Town Sleeting partj . is the author of a new style of handshake which is getting the better of the boys around the mayoralty campaign headquarters. It doesn't make much difference whether he us,,., t'le rKht hands or the left, the shake is so individual istic as to be worthy tif imitation. Some of these observing politicians- who have coins to admire the reform champion's gestures as they previously enjoyed his eloquence, have accounted for tho phenomenon In two ways; first, that beorgo . has been oh serving the gestures that give point to the eloquence of the senior senator from Penn sylvania, and second, that the habit has been nequired due to the fact that Mr. Coles is the treasurer of the United Republican Cam paign committee. II. C. of L. has been monkejing with the Blang dictionary, A jitney nowadays has absolutely nothing to do with a nickel, k&dlora and Jenant MS". v THE CHAFFING DISH That Which Talks mHE brightest sunbeam rests On the hills of Uallyhnttln, As the light reclines on satin Snug at n woman's breasts." 'Twas a song I put on the place For one, iu Ballyhattln, Who goes to town in satin Trimmed w ith ferny lace. And who 1ms won her? Sure, Tin man in Ballyhattin Who talked about lace and satin. My dreams and I were poor. FRANCIS CARLIN. Give Him a Matchl lis there a man with sc .iirirars liorr. n nmn with soul eo dead, K Who claims that ho hau seldom BaM. Va-vc jou o. match?" There may Ue thoao Who've always matches in weir ciouicd, Ami never pull this little line, . Hut this is drawing "system fine, And don't appeal to me. I like That comradeship ot rat and Mike, That free and easy point of view That gtveB n match and takes one, too, Without the thought that matches cost Two cents a box. Count that day lost Whoso sunset finds no matches given For they may mean new friendships riven. Klnt? Richard bid high for a .horse, I'oor Dick was sore in need, of course. But don't decry the harmless puy Who never seems to think to buy vilH matches; for this careless lad, Who e match requests oft make jounml, May Just produce tho match you need To save your life, like Richard's rteed. p Our Strange Experience Something very odd must havo happened to the Spruce street cars yesterday morning. We were sallying up Seventeenth, in our usual hopeful vein, when we saw a car go by along Spruce. We gnashed our teeth, expecting to have to wait fifteen minutes for the next one. When wo got half way up : . ,.,i. .. col. nnnthor one trundle past the crossing. Amaementwas outs and we clenched dur fists, pectt -t of at least twenty minutes. With sad and de ected pace we reached the corner, and saw a spectacle that we will never forget to the day of our last and most rapid of all tran sits. All down Spruce street, as far as our eves could hurl their beam, was a tine, stal wart caravan of cars-perhaps twelve of them, rumbling peacefully along. Werev.e seeing- visions? We boarded one, expecting to find it a mere mirage. No. it was real, and car eS us bravely to Sixth street Wo Sid not have the strength, our heart was thumping tfb. to ask the conductor what had happened. Never inquire too closely into miracles. , Says the once-illustrious George Creel, re ferrlng to a course of mind-training which he has taken up with his customary ea- "it went deep Into life, far down beneath .,, Iu fat emotions, and bedded its roots in the very centers of individual being. Jn the right hand trouser pocket, prob ably. . Georgian.!, our own bookworm, is rollick ing about in her little cardboard box just as though we weren't going away. Heartless, we call it. William Rose Benet, who is unquestion- ably the best poet born in this country on February 2, 1S80, is in town today. Bill is also beyond a peradventure the best poet who ever lived at the Fraukf6rd Arsenal, which ho did, successfully, from 1800 to 1801. , . , Our friend Mrs. Andrew McGill was ples. ident of a woman's club in California that was very eager to get Mark Twain to ad dress them. She wrote .to Mark Inviting him Unci qfferin8Ml'W'JVkir1 ,1 hilt Mark wmf ;,lL!ffiB " tio far m Wb w ft, W- THE WEEKLY SUMMARY McGill, with her customary wit, lamented : Oh East is Hast and West is West, and never the Tieain shall meet. We havo been trying to clean up our desk a bit before going on holiday net week, nnd It occurs to us that if wo were to die sud denly we would lease about 200 lctleis un answered. And perhaps that would bo the best way to solve the pioblem. y MY desk, this long, long while, In a heap eight inches high, Lie the letters to which I'll Jlave, some day, to male reply. Ere on holiday I fly Casting off the daily fetters, I glance through them with a sigh How I hate to ansner letlcis! It grieves us to see, in exploring through our rolltop, how many nice things we meant to dish up for our generous-minded clients nnd have failed to achieve. Wc will men tion a few of them, just to show how brave were our intentions : An Fssiy on the Past, Present and Fu ture of George Creel. A ballad discussing the well-known truth that a man's pipe never tastes so bonny as when he is washing the supper dishes. A little sermon, of a rather cheerful sort, on Interruptions, pointing out that every time a man really gets interested in what he is doing, something interrupts him ; carry ing the argument down to the last and Final Interruption of all, with an appropriate in jection of pathos at the end. We intended to pull some funny crack about there being a new subway in Madrid, and hitch this up with the old saw nbout castles in Spain ; wo had a leally corking idea for this, nnd find a brief memorandum ou the subject; but we havo forgotten just what we were going to say. It seems, on examining an old sheet of notes, that wc were all set to write a really savage and cruel poem about something; tho first two lines aro written down, thus: A fool, a dumb, blind, sodden fool, I walked amid the flames of life But the rest is missing and wc can't recall what it was all about. We find a very cryptic note written in pencil on the cuff of a shirt that wo thought we had sent to tne luundiy, but which wo find in the bottom drawer of our desk, a relic of the time when our family was at tho seashore and wc were doing our own housekeeping. This noto says, What would a summer resort le without a Lover's Leapt This seems to need a little polishing; per haps some one can build it up Into a genuine jape. ' Wo find several memoranda nbout girls on Chestnut street, and it is bard to resist the conviction that we intended some sort of poem on the subject. Probably we had in mind tho surging river of comely damsels that presses merrily westward on that thor oughfare about noon on Saturday, between Sixth and Ninth streets. On the whole, we have come to the conclusion that this assign ment had better bo referred to some bache lor, and we nominate our admirabli con tributor, Richard Desmond, to tackle the job. Wo know of no one who writes of tho fair scj with moie zest than he. Here is another memorandum, which seems to contain the germ of an idea which we thought highly of and planned to spring on the world by way of the Chaffing Dish. This memorandum, which we find written on tho back of a telegram sent us by a man offering us a barrel of clams if wo would write a Trayel In Philadelphia about his restaurant, says; Life is comparatively simple for the man who is a oomplete optimist or a complete cynio. It i very trying for fte creature mho U a fnhture of loth. i ..UnforVnaUlyweSlontyikeams,. , J i THE CULPRIT MYT GRANDFATHER related this to me, And I forgot it for a score of years, Until today, I pass it on to you: A lovely woman had her portrait drawn, And liking it-'-as well ns sho might sha caused A golden frame to be constructed for it, Of curious work and wonderful design, And very costly. And a certain man Of her acquaintance, whom she looked upon Indifferently, stole tho lovely thing, (Aj, frame and nil) and carried it away. Yet, though she knew tho thief, sho said no word. But smiled a little to herself. And then sho had n greater artist paint again A lovelier picture of her lovely face, And placed it in another golden frame. There came another man, and this was one Ou whom she looked with more than pass ing favor; But he was impecunious, and lie Stole the rich frame but let the portrait lie. Whereat she raged and called upon the law. And had the culprit taken, tried nnd hanged 1 Cleveland Plain Dealer. Pierre Lenoir, French traitor, has been sent t9 meet tho men he betrayed. JFhat Do You Knoto? QUIZ 1. Can tho United States Senate nego tiate a treaty with a foreign power? 2. What is tho Correct pronunciation of "Boz," tho pen name assumed by Charles Dickens? S. What is nostalgia? 4. What is tho origin of the word scala wag? C. Tho British are now building the largest airship in tho world. How does its length compare with that of tho larg est steamship? 0. Who weio the two Italian generalissimo! in the war? 7. In what battle did Thomas J. Jackson win his title of "Stonawall"? 8. To what political party does Senator Reed belong? 0. Of what country is the mother of King Alfonso a native? 10. What people are chiefly responsible for the use of the arch in architecture? Answerc to Yesterday's Qulr 1. General Yudenltch, the anti-Bolshevik commander, won a notable victory during tho world war by the capture of Erzerum from the Turks. 2. George Washington received a rudimen tary education at Fredrlcksburg, Va., lie attended no college. After leaving school in 1747, ho instructed him self in mathematics and surveying. o, Letvla is another na'mo for Lithuania, which formerly formed part of th Russian empire. It has n coast line on Iho Baltic sea. Vilna and Kovno arc among tho principal cities. 4 A caret is a mark, a small inverted "v," placed below a line to show a plac of omission. C. Etiquette originally meant a ticket on caid and referiyd to the ancient cus tom of delivering a catd of directions and legulations to be observed by all thoso who attended court. 0. Franklin K. Lane, secretary of the Interior, has been serving as chair man of the labor conferences in Wash ington. , 7. A distinguishing feature of American. battleships is the basket mast. 8. Santos, Brazil, is the great coffee port ot South America. '0. William Caxton, who died in 1401 I called tho Father of English Prlnjne, J.Q, A marsupial is an animal of the class pt BMntnuia which cawy their young . . T-y j. , . .3;.iw tfi .1 ,J .Ul. I- fj i . ,.!: ,i t. V '
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