V M EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1919 10 V I 7' f h t Ik tf VSih iSdH 1 it I. : f Aliening $Jublic Uctiger PUI1LIC LEDGER COMPANY a , .crntra ir. ic. curtis, rrrmprxT ,Cbrte II r.udlnston Vl rrrnltlonti John C. Jlnrtln, Sirrclrv unit Treasurers Philip R Colllnn, JinnB Williams, John J. Fpurnon, Directors, GDITOlffAl. lT0A?tt)l Crncs It. K. Cratm, Chairman DAVID E. SMILnV. , ..IMItor JOHft C MAnTlN'.... general Hmlni-M Maingfr Publlthrd ilillv nt I'mrio T.mnrtl, Tlulldlni, , inuepfnoenco square, rnmneipnin, tLaKtio Cut..,,,, rrr.ii Union lmllJIne Jsty Youk toil Metropolitan Tonr rVlPrfrnrr .., 7(i rord nulMln- 8r, Lnris., loot milrrton lIulMlns .Cuicaco ,.1303 Tribnno UulMIng Nnwg nunuAUS. K. 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All tlrhti nt lepiibllentlon of special ilh patches herein ate also leserved. rhiladrlplild, Mnmlai, Orlobrr 1111 WHEN THE CROWD SPEAKS WHEN the people of Camden first characterized the new inclosuros at their tiolloy terminals as "bull pens," the zone-fare system, as it was originally conceived by tho street-car corporation, was doomed. The phrase leflectcd general senti ment, as such spontaneous and inspira tional phrases usually do, moie vividly than the lepoit of a committee or a set of resolutions. It oxpiosscd resentment, anger, a fatal derision, a consciousness of intolerable indignity. If the trolley management had been wiser than trolley managements usually are the system would have been changed at once. It is not in lone pronouncements, but in an occasional happy or grinding phrase, unexpected and colorful, that the normally inarticulate multitude reveals its purpose and its feelings. Popular judgment ts oftenest expiessed in a frag ment of slang that sticks in your mind like a bun- It is a thing created in a flash of feeling that may be rage or af-, faction, contempt or joy. It is by indirection that the crowd ex piesses itself. An almost feminine mys "teriousness shrouds its subtler motives. Whisky, for example, used to bo whisky. Now it is hooch, and tho implied sugges tion of humorous contempt for a thing that was once dignified and seemingly in dispensable is plain. Happy is the boss who becomes "tho old man " Tho crowd has appioved him and given him a title reserved for the elect. Only the crowd produces good slang. The madc-to-ordcr pioduct rings thin and hollow. LIGHT ON THE FEDERATION TT7HAT does the Federation of Labor ' actually look like when it is viewed from within? Is it led or pink or meiely blue? Who are the veal leaders? These are popular questions of the moment and a lot of people who obviously do not know what they aie talking about have Ji tried to answer them. The federation ' 'will soon have an opportunity to answer V for itself. Mr. Gompers, in calling for a national v convention of his oiganization, has pro vided an oppoitunity for just assess- ments that ought to be welcomed by the public and trades unionists alike. For . the first time since many of its con spicuous leaders have come under sus picion, tho federation will have an op portunity to speak its mind, to clearly V state its aims and to define its purposes clearly. Such definitions will be im- perative. It is not too much to say that the destiny of the federation will soon ,, be decided in Washington. Unquestionably tho prestige of tho or ganization has diminished. Will the rep- ,i resentatives called by Mr. Gompers try to re-establish it? Or will they give aid and comfort to their enemies by an ad vocacy of policies detested and discred- ' ited by the country at large? THE GREAT LET-DOWN 7'VE sold her," said a man who had - just patted with a cherished devil wagon. "I haven't time to tinker with the thing myself when sho needs it, and you can't get anybody to do anything." The normal human enthusiasm for work and healthy effort and achievement is at its lowest ebb. There has been a general letting down all along the line. Good workmanship is rarer than it ever was before. It may be due to a reaction from the intense concentration of the war period or it may be, as some people believe, because of too much prosperity. Certainly it is not easy to get anybody to do anything well. The world is in a loafing and rather negligent mood. It isn't disposed to do more than it has to. The trouble is not new, either. One of -'its earliest manifestations, as a lecturer on household economics has just pointed out, lvras in the housekeepers, who, when tele- phone service became general, began to buy recklessly by wiie rnther than take tho trouble to walk a block to the grocery store. If people need hard times to stimulate "them to industry and ambition, they aie in. a, fair way to create a cure for their , , - present troubles. SHORTER DAYS , " pASUAL fliers in daylight-saving en- i v gineored by independent communities a,re likely to create limitless confusion .- Sn the United States next April. So far as Congress is concerned the fine, long, v bright day of recent summers is gone forever. The- farmers objected to it be- -fn-cause it disturbed their routine. The eloctricliffht and gas companies are sup- j.-pQse'd to have aided the farmers valiantly $ in" tho agitation for a repeal of the law. ,. yneiorter-ay diminished their profits. every ono who goes to New York from Philadelphia will lose an hour on the way and find himself sixty minutes late at his destination. So it will be clsc wheic. If tho whole country could bo per suaded to unanimous action we might still save daylight and the farmers might have their old-fashioned time schedule and everybody could be happy. It would only bo necessary to move the business day forward bodily, start the wheels an hour earlier, mpke 11 o'clock tho lunch hour and shut up shop at 4 instead of 5. That is actually what thu country has been doing. But habits are fixed and half tho people would probably fail to go along with tho progressive crowd. The daylight saved under the old law was one of the few good things that the public ever got for nothing, and it will not soon be possible to forgive a Congress that spoiled the arrangement because it feared the farm- cis vote. ( ALBERT AND ROOSEVELT HELD ALOFT THE MORAL LAW The City Honors the Quick and the Dead Today and Should Remember What They Stand For rpHE minds of the people of the city arc -- devoted today to celebrating tho dead Theodore Koosevclt and the living King of tho Belgians. It is rare that so fitting a juxtaposition of honors to tho quick and the dead oc cuis. It is equally rare that two gieat na tional leaders should be found committed so simply and so whole-soulcdly to the moial law. Tho likeness of the two men is theie for those who caie to give a little thought to what they have done. Roosevelt suffered gibes during his lifeti . as the man win had "discovered the ten commandments " But the gibes did m: disturb him. When men in in dustiy and men in labor and men in politics weie lying and stealing and bear ing false witness and coveting what their neighbors possessed Roosevelt stood on the housetops and shouted: "Thou shalt not steal!" "Thou shalt not covet!" "Thou shalt not bear false witness!" Ho preached the fundamental mo lalities at a time when they needed to be pleached and he continued it until his heart stopped beating and his voice was stilled. And ho did not talk in vain, There aie fewer malefactors of gieat wealth than when ho began to denounce them. Some of the men who weie once indifFcient to anything but their own in teiests have soon a vision of something higher and they are trying to realize it. Practices which weie winked at in 1900 are universally condemned in 1019. Where one or two big employers and capitalists were thinking socially then, hundreds of them are wondeiing now what they can do to bring tho wage eainer and the wage-payer into closer sympathy. The employer is now and then looking at his employes as human beings and not as a commodity to bo bought and sold in the open market as cotton and wool and wood and steel are tiaded in. They have ceased to ask Cam's self-convicting question and they are admitting that they arc the keeper of their brother in the sense that they have lcsponsibility for something besides the dividends on invested capitnl. We are thinking more and more about earn ing dividends on invested humanity, thanks to the man who discovered the ten commandments. One cannot think of Albert, King of the Belgians, without recalling tho fa mous lemark made 2000 years ago that he who would sae his life will lose it and he who 'would lose his life will save it. We have been told here in this city that Cardinal Morcier saved his life because he was willing to lose it. It is no less true of Albeit. He stands on an emi nence as one of the moral heroes of all time. He had to choose whether he would ac cept suffering for himself and his king dom, brought about thiough keeping faith with his honor and with the rest of the world, or would lie on a bed of ease, which was promised if ho would be a traitor to those who trusted him, With fine faith he chose to risk the loss of his own life and the destruction of his kingdom rather than save them at any such price, The outcome has proved before the eyes of all mankind, living and to bo born, that he who would loso his life shall save it, and that lie who would place his kingdom on the altar ready to be sacrificed to truth and loyalty will find that kingdom saved and re deemed nnd he and it held' in high honor. It is well to think of these great moral truths and the demonstration of them in our time as King Albert rides through our stieets today and visits the great shrine of liberty, cherished here as our most sacred possession. It is well to think of the ten com mandments which Roosevelt preached when, on this anniversary of his birth, we are summoned by the Governor of the commonwealth and the Mayor of tho city to do honor to one of the greatest Americans of his generation. In spite of these shining examples we have little spiritual vision and no abiding faith in the shining truths on which the foundations of Christendom are supposed to rest. We quote them with our lips, but we are afraid to apply them in practice. If this were not so the industrial conference in Washington would not have broken up through the clash of selfish interests. There was not a group assembled in the Pan-American Building whose members actually' be lieved that the way to save their lives was to be willing to lose them. They were fighting for self-preservation. They forgot that any one else was worth preserving. Each group charged the other with bearing false witness and with covetousness and with a dwlre to steal what belonged to some ono else, Tha brotherhood of man was not even mentioned. The solidarity of all sections of society was forgotten. No ono had fiilth in MjythinfirJbB-'liU owrtrTight.arm, . . ' : 4'..j'. .i. it.-"' i ' whole armory of greed than tho fist of the greedy. What has sometimes been called enlightened self-interest was so far forgotten that it did not shed tho fnlntcst glimmer of spiritual radiance about the heads of the men in confer ence. If the blind continue to lead the blind there is no uncertainty about where they both will land. When Albert gave his famous nnswer to the Germans tho whole world was thrilled by its splendor. Tho Germans hnvc ndmittcd that their case was morally lost when they at tempted to punish him and his kingdom for their loyalty to their plighted word. It will take Gcimany a century to wipe out the blot on her own honor, if it can be done in that time. She had the power to invade Belgium nnd sho was so mad ns to use it. There are groups here in America who think they have the power to get whnt they want legardless of the rights of any one else. And they arc plotting to use that power ruthlessly and with no legard to tho rights of any one else. If they peisist they are bound to suf fer the fate of the man who seeks to save his. life and yet loses it, for tho spiiitual law is immutable and acts with precision, though it sometimes seems as if it did not act at all because its proc esses nro so slow. UP TO CONGRESS TT IS not only unjustifiable," said President Wilson of the proposed soft-coal strike; "it is unlawful." The President is not a biased judge. When he charactciizes the plan of tho miners' lenders as "n grave moral and legal wrong against the Government and tho people of the United States," he is not overstating the case. An invading aimy would not easily do more damage thnn tho minors' unions are plotting in cold blood. It is odd to real ize therefore that there is nothing in the civil law or in constitutional provisions or in any act now contemplated by Con gress to piotect tho nation against this soit of menace from within. Mr. Wilson's courageous proclamation to the soft-coal men nnd the nature of the crisis with which he has to deal in formally give new validity to the sug gestion already made in these columns for new legislation adequate for the con trol of tho reckless minorities at both extremes of the economic dispute who threaten the peace and stability of the United States. Congress must do what the industrial conference had not the will or the courage to do. It will have to establish new laws to meet issues that are new. To rail against ono side or the other will be futile. Bigotry nnd prejudice must be left to the snarling belligerents them selves. One-sided laws cannot stand. Congiess will be the first to declare itself powerless in the face of consti tutional limitations. It will be said that the rights of property and tho righfs of labor cannot be interfered with in any degree. But in tho name of the country, Congress may at least do what the in dustrial conference was expected to do. It can give official form and sanction to an industrial code devised" to establish justice for labor and for capital, but above all to protect the public's inter ests. Thereby the trend of public opin ion would immediately be directed per manently in support of those whose aims are reasonable and just. The way would soon bo clear for such constitutional amendments as are necessary when new and powerful forces are plainly directed under subterfuge of one sort or another by those who wish to override the coun try, to set aside the familiar rules by which we live in peace and to seize authority in the name of a clique or a class. Only rank cowardice can keep Con gress from giving to Mr. Wilson and to future Piesidents the power that is needed to fight the newer enemies of civilization the anarchists of labor and the anarchists of capital, Tho problems thut Tip From the Sliore fjtrd tho international tra.de conference wore as great In their scope and importance (if not so imminent in their application) as those which faoed tho industriul conference in Washington. It is InterestinR to note in this connection that the delesntes did not take snap judgment on nny specific subject, hut painstaking taught to formulate a code of print ipl to guide thorn in the future. With this example befoie them, it may bo that I ho delegates to the labor con ference could do bptter if they only had a chant c to trj again. In nn address to the members of the women's committee Mr. Moore is quoted ns having declared that he would have in mind the. appointment of a woman ns director of the Department of Public Welfare if he had the power. More power to him! New York brewers have definitely de cided thnt after tonight they will manufac ture a cerealized beternge containing only half of 1 per cent alcoholic content. The balunee, of couise, will mean alcoholic dis content. Senator Thomas has introduced a reso lution calling upon the executive govern ment to i Indicate "the power nnd majesty of the law" in the threatened coal strike. Wonder if the senator thought the govern ment was going to throw bouquets? This week's snle of army food is con tinued cUdoncr that' the government's pur chasing department bit off more than it could chew. Which is not criticism, but meiely appreciation of the fact thnt we finished the job we tncklcd ahead of sched ule. Frank McClain, of the public welfare board, leports instances where landlords arc showing n willingness to arbitrntc in tho matter of lent. It is the one way to avoid chaos, King Albert, whoso people under his guidance helped to keep tho world free, is the worthy guest of a noblo shrine at Inde pendence HulL First thing you know John Skelton William- will get the idea that the Senate banking committee doesn't want hlin for (comptroller ot tne currency. THE CHAFFING DISH Georgians Tell Her Story MY DHAU master, Socrates, having gone, nwny for a holiday, which he was whim-.' sicnl enough to nscrt he badly needed, I, (leorgiana the bookworm, tnke iny pen in hnnd to say n few things that hnvo been much on my mind. In the first plnce, I think It was rather unfair of Socrates to go off just nt such a critical poxtui'P of affairs. Thy last thing he said was that lie was rcljlng on mo to wilte something nbout King Albert's visit to town, but In Ids excitement lie shut down the rolltnp desk nnd left me here In my card' board box. It was only with the utmost difficulty that 1 managed to nibble my way out of confinement. Then I found mysplf covered by n pile of ot least 100 unanswered letters, which Socrntes had left. By the time I hnd bitten through these nnd slipped out through the keyhole of the desk, King Albeit and the procession were nlready pass ing the office. With n)l hnte I dashed out nn to the flrc-cscape nnd uttered a cheer. I fear it wns but n feeble outcry, for I was much exhausted by my effortHi but the king, great nnd good man that he is, henrd mo. I feel convinced of this, for I saw hltu look upward, TT WAS natural that the king should have J- been nineil to hear me cry "Vivo le rol des Beiges !" for my Trench is excellent, and I spent much time In the beautiful 11 lirniy nt I.ouvaiii, It so happened thnt I spent some time In that library jnst before the war. In the spring of 1014 I found my self In the alcove containing shelves of (lor mail books, nnd I have always felt rather bitteily that my efforts to nvert tho war never received their duo recognition. It wns this wnj : On a warm afternoon in May, Kill, I mntle my way (a little wearied by toiling thiough n number of works on (5er iniiii philosophy) Into a copy of Itoinhnrdi's famous book. Horrified by what I found there nnd a good deal fatigued by having to work hack nnd forth across the pages so constantly In search of tho verbs, I saw nt once tho hideous menace thnt threatened the clvilbed woild. Instantly I set m.isclf to woik to inform the Relgian ntithoilties. But my task was appalling. Between me nnd the end of the shelf lay six solid feet of German literature. I set to work, eating my wnj day and night, uttering shrill screams of rage nnd alarm as I went. Alas, that portion of the library was little fre quented nnd no ono heard me. Perspiration bedewed my brow ns I butted nnd wriggled fiertelj thiough the solid tomes. There is still a bruise on my brow that I shall rarry to m djing day. Though I have shed my skin several times since, I still hnvo twinges in that spot ; but I carry iny scars bravely in memory of whnt I tried to do for civili zation. W"n IIHX the war broke out, to my horror I s still twelve inches from tho end of the shelf. It is n terrible thought to me that If I hnd known n month enrlior I could have wnrned King Albert nnd perhaps saved the world, Then came n time of terror. The great libiary at I.ounin wns destrojed by the brutal soldiery of tho enemy. It was only the fact that I was still resolutely pushing my way through the German books thnt saved me. The contents of the (Jcrmnn al cove were can led out and preserved by the bodies. As ono of their officers wns carry ing to safety the volume of Treltsehke, in which I then was, I was privileged to dart out and bite his hand savagely. He yelled, dropped the book and ran. IT WOULD be too long n tale to recount my adventures in full. After my nssnult on this German officer I wns, of course, np prehonded b the soldiery of the enemy. The charge against mo wns that I hnd been guilty of an unprovoked and brutal attack on a soldier of the kaiser. If I had been In uni foim, they said, it would hnvo been allow able ns an not of war: but the German court mattinl where I plead my case insisted that as I was a civilian it wns nn act of atrocity, punishable by death. I was already facing the firing squad when it wns pointed out that I had been found in n German book and theiefore perhaps was n German sub ject, Seeing my opportunity, I insisted that I was a Gorman secret agent in disguise, nnd that I hail been posted in the Lmivnin library by the German espionage service to undermine Belgian mornle. Tills saved me and I was set free. Forced marches at night, across a desolate nnd ravaged coun trjside, brought me to n seaport, nnd finally I was able to get on board a vessel of Mr. Hoover's commission. I can never thank Mr. Hoover enough for what he, unknow ing, did for me. Through the offices of his relief ship I was able to get to this great nnd good country, where I am so happy to be. SO FAR, my ambitions hnvo not been wholly gratified. I want to see the Yellowstone Cnnon, Miss Amy Lowell and tho Senate in session. I hnve! been living very quietly here in Philadelphia, and through the medium of the Chaffing" Dish (which I eat every tiny with relish) and nKo in the admirable (Juiz published in this paper, I have learned a good deal about America. Socrates very kindly lent me a copy of the Congressional Record, which he said would keep me occupied for some time, but I must confess I have not enjoyed it na much an I anticipated I have been par ticularly impressed by the fijoo verse of Miss Amy Lowell. Fiee verse is a delight ful innovation for tho hookworm: the short lines leave so much white space on the page, and so the delicious flavor of th! paper Is not marred by too much ink. Next to a nice old blnnk book or n roll of white ticker tape, a volume of free verse Is the nicest thing one can find, and is never too much of a strain on the Intellect. I COUNT mysen lucity, on the whole, In having 'been able to settle down with Socrates for a while. Ills desk Is a curious place, and no one but myself, I dare say, realizes what n pleasing labyrinth of con fusion IV is. Jt is r,a"y very agreeable not to know what one will come upon next. An old toothbrush, n paper of safety pins, a corncob pipe nnd n pile of stamps care fully steamed off tho return envelopes of contributors nro among the scenery that surrounds my box. I have not yet had a chance to explore the pigeonholes, but since Socrates is going to bo away for three weeks I hope to hove a rousing time. I have been chewing through some of the contributions piled up here, nnd am pleased to say that there is some quite good stuff among them. GHOItGIANA. Uncle, Sam has a legitimate grlevnnco when Mexicans hold his citizens for ran som. They nro less near to eventual defeat when they merqiy num umr own. We make the prediction that Sir Thomas Llpton will not lift the cup with Shamrock IV, but with Shamrock XVII. So far ob the populace is concerned, London's reception of King Alfonso will be as neutral us Spain during the war. fi, (l.lrt narty to the Sndustr-li ,. .versy, the public, l still hopeful that a peace V..IU i... I 1 linf nro tl'f battle zrn. kilj- iitu ""Tire i' . yyT? wiuuuj, , aH T.,1 tif : k " ' I- . lct .Tff"r 'r ..- A- ' tt,.rtli'k-trH! .r'."i -----'.- i - --r-,-.... . .. .-....,-.-..-....,-.-. . PROFITEER AS Russian Dictator Confesses That International Greed Is Doing Most to Aid the Cause of Bolshevism CvmrtoM, 1011, hv I'uhtlo I.cdper Company, By H. F. KOSPOTII Speflal CorreBpondrnt of till) r.vrnlnif Vnbllc Ledger In Strltirrltind Geneva, Oct. 4, mIIF. international profiteer is tho best J- propagandist of bolshevlsm," confessed Lenine nt the time of the signing of tho Versailles treatv, in the course of a conversa tion with a vi-ltor to Moscow, who after word repeated it to me here in Switzerland. There is n great deal of truth in these vvoids of the Bolshevik dictator, who also foresaw with remaikable prophetic, vision that the zenith of profiteering, with its re sultant ever-increasing cost of living, was jet to come after the conclusion of pence, which the suffering peoples of Kurope balled in the belief that it would soon restore normal conditions of existence. The spirit of revolution nnd anarchy thrives on profiteering nnd Its dally mani festations of rapacious speculation in the necessities of life and of ill-gotten wealth Haunted in the faces of the less fortunate. Imperial Germany wns, in a largo measure, destroyed by the cancer of profiteering upon which even the kaiser's ruthless generals did not dare to operate by that vast sjstem of illegal trading, which finally transfotmed half of the German people Into n gigantic profiteering organization preying brutally upon the misery nnd privations of the other half and driving it nt last in sheer desperation to revolt. And if the Spartacans ever succeed in capturing political power In Germany today the least Bolshevik by far of all European countries they will owe their triumph not So much to Lenino's propa ganda, however subtle and unscrupulous it may be, ns to some sudden, elementary re bellion of the masses against the hjdra of nrofiteering that is strangling them with its merciless tentacles. For Germany, where the modern tvpe o tne crimiuui siimnwur m nil branches of trade may be said to have originated during the wnr, has since the conclusion of pence become a veritnble para disc of European profiteers. SINCE the raising of the blockade of Ger many there hns been much healthful rlvnlry among allied business men in the rush to capture German trade, lliis busi ness enterprise is, of course, perfectly leg ti mate now that "trading with he enemy" is a crime of the past, ntitb the resumption of International commercial relations is un doubtedly the best way to hasten and insure the return of Europe to its normal state, which can impossibly be effected if Germany is not Included in the general reconvnlescence from the fevers of war. But the fantastic money-making possibilities which Germany offers after four years of the most rigorous blockade in history have unfortunately al lured not only the honorable trader. All the dubious speculators nnd profiteers of Europe have been irresistibly attracted like flies to carrion by the pestilential atmosphere of commercial corruption exhaled by the kaiser's defunct empire. AN INEXHAUSTIBLE field of action lion open to the international profiteer in Germany, where the blockade has created an unprecedented economic vacuum in tho very center of Europe, nnd where the pre vailing corruption favors the unrestricted de velopmcnt of his talents. Ho swarms of western profiteers descended upon Germany the instant the blockado was rased, and were received In the fatherland with joy by the German membero of the International brotherhood, who immediately joined forces with them. Their unscrupulous, activity, which as yet Bhows no BlgM of diminishing, is a source of great and universal danger, forgot' only. does i pryimWmJc, re- ir!rthl b.-tWlJflf &mtoHr whb 2 v. 'I'M NOT SO STRONG FuR KINGS, VXNOW, AS A GOOD AMERICAN, BUT I'M TAKING OFF MY HAT TODAY TO A HERO, KING AND MAN!" PROPAGANDIST is causing n continual increase of the cost of living in countries whose governments nrc striving to reduce it by every means In their power. Western Europe is today being literally drained of food and merchandise which it uigently requires for itself by the combined operations of this international profited ing camarilla, THE center of this sinister activity is nt present the German teiritory bounded by Alsace-Lorraine, the Bavarian Palatinate and thu Rhinelnnd, nnd, though it is not pleasant to say it, it is unfortunately true thnt some nllicd authorities of occupation not American do not seem to have done all that lies In their power to prevent its de velopment. This district, which nlso in cludes Frankfort nnd other large towns just outside tho occupied zone, has been happily dubbed "Profitecria" by the Germans. In "Profitecria" the commercial adventurer and crook rules supreme, nnd "get rich quick" is the international motto of the land. No where has reconciliation between former foes been so rapid and effusive as here, where (ierman nnd Entente speculators have sealed a bond of frntcrnnl friendship for the criminal exploitation of their countrymen, Huge stocks of food nnd every kind of mer chnndisc, accumulated within the occupied territory by Entente profiteers, nre delivered, at nn enormous profit, into the eager hands of the subtle profiteers .of Germany, who, in their turn, realize profits no less vast In reselling them to the miserable German consumer. Thus, both the humnnitnrinn and political motives that piompted the allied governments to raise the blocknjle of Ger many nre being defeated, for the goods that ore pouring into Germany from western Europe have been mnde nn object of frenzied speculation,, and nre, therefore, still luxuries for the rich', while the majority of the Ger man people are ns badly fed and Insufficiently clothed today ns it ever wns during the Inst years of the war. THE American authorities in the .occupied zone have been criticized recently for not facilitating the resumption of trade between America nnd Germany. However justified this criticism may bo where legitimate, hon est business Is concerned, there can be little doubt thnt other nllied authorities have gone too far in this respect since the raising of the blockade. The elevated nnd incorruptible patriotism of the French nation is above suspicion. But Franco also has her profiteers, whose lust of gain dominates all national considerations nnd who bnsejy sell the rich produce of their fair country to the Huns that ruthlessly devastated It, Their unpatriotic avidity has, In a large measure, contributed to 'prevent living from becoming cheaper in France nfter the conclusion of pence, and while they are amassing untold wealth by tho snlo of food to German specu lators, tho French people, though still up held by their flue national spirit nnd pride in victory, are daily growlug more restive over the ever-Increasing difficulties of ex istence, Frankfort is crowded with repre sentatives of French provision firms nnd Parisian merchants offering for sale, In un limited qunntltles, from their stocks in oc cupied German territory, rice, lard, coffee, flour, tapioca, canned beef, margarine, con densed milk nnd other provisions of every conceiynblo variety, Although wlno com mands exorbitant prices Irt France, the world's grenlest wine country, trnlnloads of claret, burgundy nnd champagne nrc con stantly smuggled mqre or less secretly Into Germany. Enormous profits, estimated nt mapy milliards, are realized by these un patriotic traders, and their cupidity Is still unslaked. ' , mii ii rt S rK Arlf- "f33K7 W5ii? 'S'Sl.KSv ALBERT AND THE BELL ALBERT, king, but democratic As a soldier needs must be, Here's a welcome most emphatic At the shrine of liberty. We nre kinsmen by this syrcbol And its note Is sweet and clear For you made it ring in Belgium As our fathers rang it here. Freemen joyously assembled At the ringing of the bell. Tjrnnts faltered, paused nnd trembled, For to them it wns a knell. Still Its note rang out insistent With a message ever dear! And you heard it ring in Belgium As our fathers heard it here. Albert, kinsman by your actions, In n time of cruel stress, We, disdaining cliques and factions, Proudly brotherhood profess. All you've done has made us grateful. All you arc evokes a cheer, For you heard that bell in Belgium As our fathers heard It here. GRIF ALEXANDER. Mexican bandits have robbed and mur dered Americans nnd insulted their flag. Bless their hearts, it is their playful little way. But they had best be careful. Some of these days they'll go n bit too far. The state sugar administrator promises n long jail term for persons chnrging as much ns twenty-five cents a pound for sugar, When does a promise become a com promise? When desire outsteps the law. What Do You Know? QUIZ Where is Christmas Island? How did tho Anzaca get their name? Grant and Sherman were natives ol .!. the same state? What state was it? 4. What is the original meaning of "table d'hote"? A 5. What Is a threnody? (1. Which one of Uie thirteen original colo nics was the last to be founded? 7. Name three gifted English writers of the daj- who hnve followed the sea? 8. What post in the British cabinet is held by Winston Churchill? 0. Whnt happens to a congressional act which the President neither signs nor vetoes? 10. What musical instrument was Invented by Benjamin Franklin? Answers to Saturday's Quiz 1. The United States Senate cannot nego tiate a treaty with n foreign power, but it can ratify or reject such a pact. 2. "Boz," the pen name of Charles Dickens, should be pronounced with a long "o" as ia the word nose. 3. Nostalgia Is home-sickness as a disease. 4. Scalawag Is said to be the name orig inally given to Shetland ponies. It came to describe an ill-fed animal and later a good-for-nothing person, 'scamp or scapegrace. C. The largest alrrhlp in the world, now building in England, is to be 535 fett long. The Leviathan, the largest o! ' steamships, is about 400 feet lpnger. 0. The rlrst Italian generalissimo in the war was 'Cadorun. His successor w'ua Diaz. 7. Thomas 3. Jackson won his title o? "Stonewall" because of his undaunted stand In the first battle of Bull Run. 8. 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