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All rights of republication of special dis patches herein, arc also reserved. rhiUdclpliii, Friday, NoTember 7. 1919 A NEW OPEN-DOOR POLICY The duo. of my office will altvajs be opcu I want publicity. There are to bo no sen of- in the office of the Mayor after January 4. IT IS the Mayor-elect speaking. Wc can imagine the effect on every old-time grafter, buttonholer and gumshoe politi cian still cynically believing that some shreds of the familiar system of covert rake-offs and handouts are bound to re main in City Hall despite the new dis pensation. Publicityl Open doors! What kind of a politician is this man Moore anyway? Doing business without concealment? It sure begins to look as if the jig is up. It's almost enough to make a hard working handy-man get a real job and go to work. THE ROOT OF THE EVIL pOLO'NEL McCAIN and Carl Acker- man, who appear actually to be the first impartial investigators to look be low the surface of the coal strike, are sending reports that are of peculiar value as commentaries upon recent election re sults in Massachusetts and elsewhere. There seems to be little innate radi calism among the rank and file of the workers in the coal fields. But there is misapprehension and unrest traceable chiefly to the unbearable costs of living among men whoVsually have large fami lies and limited pay. Add to this situa tion the work of shrewd, energetic and unscrupulous propagandists of violence who have fought a way to leadership in some of the trades unions and you have the cause of widespread and disastrous labor demonstrations. The best aid to the Red agitator is the profiteer whom Attorney General Palmer discussed yesterday at Harrisburg. Prof iteering, as Mr. Palmer sees it, represents the efforts of men in all classes of busi ness to pass the burden of their income taxes and their profits down to the ulti mate consumer. It is natural, if this appraisal of the situation is correct, that the burden should make fruitful fields for the radical troublemakers. The attorney general is convinced that profiteers ought to be jailed. He will be listened to with greater respect if he will suggest a way by which that desirable end may be achieved. WORK FOR NEW BROOMS TF MR. MOORE attacks the question of congestion and inadequate housing in the tenement sections as vigorously as he discusses it in explaining his plan for a Department of Public Welfare he will deal properly with a matter that his predecessors have avoided as if it were pestilence. Some landlords profit greatly through ill-kept and overcrowded houses. Agita tion for a closer regulation of tenements is met often with a plea for tho sacred rights of property. The city itself should be concerned about the health and well-being of the humblest of its citizens. House owners have been left too free in the systematic exploitation of families that can afford only a minimum rental. The sanitary code should apply in every dwelling. KNOX IS WRONG AGAIN TF PERSISTENCE in a bad cause is virtuous, then Senator Knox must be credited with the possession of unusual merit. He tried several months ago to get the Senate to adopt a resolution separat ing the league-of-nations covenant from tho treaty of peace so that the two parts of the document could be considered separately. His colleagues listened to what he had to say and then forgot all about his reso lution. Tho senator has now offered another resolution ratifying the treaty, sb far as It relates to peaco with Germany, but declaring that the United States reserves to Itself complete liberty of action in all matters connected with tho league just as though it were not a member of that body. The resolution asserts that the United States may withdraw summarily from the league and from any commissions ap pointed under it and may accept or reject any decisions of tho council as though it had never been a party to the agreement. And the resolution further provides that the Allied powers must accept this form of ratification within sixty days. Put into plain English, this means that the United States declines to become a member of the league, Senator Knox is a lawyer. He knows the nature of "a con tract. If a client asked him whether he should enter into an agreement vith a man who insisted that ho uld respect the agreement only -when It pleased him tnd disregard it when he felt like it the "jwrnator would advise his client to break eff all negotiations at once. If Mr. Knox feels that way why -docs I he not demand the immediate rejection of all of tho treaty savo that part of it relating directly to pcaco with Germany and reintroduce tho Fall reservations, which withdrew tho United States from participation in any of tho commissions created by the treaty for carrying out its terms? Tho Senate has rejected tho Fall reservations, it is Uuc, but it has not adopted any of Knox's treaty resolutions either. THE HIGH COST OF BAD GOVERNMENT Every Citizen Is Likely to Pay the Pen alty Next Year for Consenting to Evils This Year A SUIT begun to test the validity of a city loan, begun primarily in the in terest of the bidders for the bonds, ends in a way to affect every renter and every houseowner in the community. The Tenants' Protective Associations, which have been fighting tho rental profiteers, will have to take the Supreme Court decision into account in their future campaigns. And here is the reason: Part of tho money to be raised by the bond issues was to be used for the repair of streets, fireboats, public buildings and such like current expenses. The new chatter provides that no bonded debt may be incurred to pay current expenses. Tho section dealing with this matter went into effect before the bond issue was authorized. It was assumed that it did not yet apply to such a loan as was pro posed. But the court has said that the city may not borrow any money to pay current expenses. The money needed for the repair of streets and buildings must now be raised by a tax. Because Councils have de clined for years to provide the amount needed for these purposes bonds have been issued to meet the deficit in current expenses. Several millions are needed to make tho repairs which have been neg lected during the war. This money must bo raised by tax next year. In other words, a burden properly be longing to last year and this year will be. unloaded on the city next year. It is difficult to see how tho sum can be raised without an increase in the tax rate. If the- rate is raised the landlords will hand on the extra burden to their tenants and the houseowncrs who occupy their own property will have to pay it anyway. The new administration is doomed to suffer for the sins of the present Coun cils. The time when the politicians can fool tho people into believing that public business is conducted economically has come to an end. It is no longer possible to keep the tax rate down by borrowing money to pay bills. The charter requires the new Council to raise by tax each year all that is needed to pay the expenses of that year, savo for permanent improvements. It cannot borrow for repairing streets or for rcpaving them. Nor can it borrow for making repairs to police stations or fire houses or fire apparatus. The Mayor has been in consultation with the heads of departments in the hope of finding a way to prevent the dis missal of two or three hundred employes for whose payment there is now no money. But these employes are in de partments spending money for perma nent improvements. No suggestion has been made that there be a reduction in the force of departments where there is not work enough to keep the clerks busy. Every one familiar with conditions in the City Hall knows that many hundred thousand dollars n year go to clerks who hold their jobs by political favor. They are not expected to do much. They are part of the political machine. The first duty of the new Mayor will be to overhaul all the offices in the City Hall over which he has any control and weed out the dead wood and put the de partments on a business basis. If he does this as thoroughly as it should be done he can reduce the burden on the taxpayer and improve the efficiency of every de partment. He may displease a few poli ticians in the process, but he will gratify the great mass of the public. The conditions which he will inherit from the present administration will make it easy for him to introduce re forms in the City Hall. His administra tion will have to carry the burden of debt for curient expenses left by the present administration. He can say to the men who object to his reorganizations: "Gen tlemen, you have mismanaged the affairs of the city in such a way that there is nothing left for me to do but to cut ex penses down to the bone. There is cer tain work which must be done and we must have the money with which to pay for it. There is only so much money available and we must use it first for what is imperative." There can be" no answer to such re marks savo that ho should raise the tax rate and let the old conditions continue. That is what would have happened if there had not been an overturn in the control of the city government last Tues day. The city is expecting from Mr. Moore a radically different kind of conduct of public business from that to which the city has been accustomed. Certain abuses will be brought to an end ab ruptly as soon as all the provisions of the new charter go into effect. Others will disappear if Mr. Moore fulfills the expectations of those who nominated nnd elected him. Current expenses will be paid out of current revenues because the charter en joins it. City Hall clerks will abandon all political activities because participation in party affairs is made a misdemeanor. Public business will no longer be de layed until two chambers of Councils can come to an agreement, for tho new Council has only one chamber. And the sinking fund is likely to be managed with greater regard for the taxpayers, and there will be set aside for it only what it really needs instead of what some one thinks it may possibly require. When every family is suffering from tho high coat of living is no time to in crease the cost of government. Confer EVENING PUBLIC MDGER ences intended to find a way to bring down tho prico of meat and vegetables aro all very well in their way. What the people hero aro expecting is n confer ence of the membctrf of tho new city gov ernment to bring down tho cost of admin istration so that it may not be necessary for tho Tenants' Protective Associations or any other bodies to fight tho land lords who raise tho rent because extrava gance or incompetence in the City Hall has forced an increase in the burden of taxation. ATTENTION, GOV. SPROUL! WE DESIRE to call tho attention of ll.c Governor of Pennsylvania to tho following letter, which was written on the official letterhead of the Municipal Court of Philadelphia judge of that court: Chattel L. Ilroun I'rrildtnt Judge Jimn E. Cnrman ' it. Cilbrrl ('iMl.lr UilH.itl Crajr hnl,i nnd -igned by a I uri-lr C nonnitvpll Kaymond MarNrille I'lley E. Crane rltarlra I'. Ilartlell Thomal F. McMthol Judges aiU .Munlripal ('outl of Philadelphia November ii, lllll). ;:ifo- Kvening Public Macr, l'hllniU'lpliia. Dear "(ir : I'ndpr tho caption, "Can .lorsoy lie Wet?" on jour editorial hiru today, jou state: "It leaves Mr. Kdunrds In a KtrniiKi1 ly tieklMi position. If lie Keeps his promi-.es to the people, lie will have to disregard the spirit, if lint tin- letter, of the Constitution of the United Stales, after .lanuarj L'O." Permit inc to observe that lie will not be obliged fo do anything of the Kind. Section 1' of the KlKhteciitli Amendment provides : "The Congress and the hpernl States shall llne concurrent power to enforce tliif nticle bj appropriate legislation." If tho word "coneurience" means am -thing, it menus similar and identical, it would therefore follow that one of two propositions is correct: First, cither the nation nnd the State may each adopt Mich legislation as they please, with the interminable conflict which such a nu ance would create; or, scrondlj , the Fed eral legislation must remain inoperative ns relates to the State of New .Icrsej . as well as the State of I'cnnsjlwinia, until concurrent legislation is adopted. It would also follow , that "concurrent" would mean that in all tho mateiial clauses of the legislation for the pm poses of this contention, the State of New .Icr sej and the Stnte of I'ennsjlvnnia would be obliged to adopt the provisions of the Volstead bill to legally enforce the pen alties in either of these States. The purpose of Section - of this act can onlj be construed in that form, unless the Supreme Court of the Fulled States proposes tn ignore this section of the Eighteenth Amendment. I snj this despite the ill-considered nail untenable opinion expressed in the elo bv the Gov ernor of PennsyUania of the Ramsey art, to the effect that the C'ongiess have al renily derided that .where IVdeinl and State legislation is in conflict, the Federal legislation operates. There has been no decision of nny such character fontiuing an amendment written into the Federal Constitution, for the very simple reason that never before has either the T'nited States Congress .or the trainers of the Constitution created such an anomalous condition. Therefore, (invernor-clcct I.dwards is not only standing upon hi- legal lights when he declaies that he will not aid the enforcement of the Fedeial statute, but ho is doing his ilutj a- an executive of a sovereign State in protecting the liberties of the people of New Jersey agnuist the intolerable interference of bigots and fanatics a duty, lij the waj. in which the Governor of I'ennsjlvnnia has abjcitlj failed in this relution. The deliberate and studied defiance of "'resident Wilson represented lij the rut h -le-s and indecent haste with which the presidential veto was overriden in rela tion to the Volstead net, is an Example of lawlessness on the p.ipt of the law makers that can only be a -ource of gratification to the anarchists whom these self-same lawmakers arc o eager to de nounce. The wnr-time net itself was mi act of hjpocrisv. The war wns done when the act was passed; jet these Pharisees, having paid a stupendous pait of the war's oxpen-es b.v a taxation upon liipior, dishonestlj maintain that a con dition of war exi-ts, when, as a patent fact, we are not phjsicallj at war. A deficiency in revenue means nothing to the paid, meddlesome interloper in other people's affairs. The poof have borne tho taxes In their ultimate appliiation, and the poor can continue to bear them, no matter how onerous thov may be;- and when they reach the breaKing-point tliere are always the militia and the regular troops, together with a govcrnnfont by injunction, to teach the poor how happy they ought to be. Yours verj trulj , i:i'(!FNn,r ito.NNiwni.i,. We believe this communication, which, so far as we aie informed, was written and sent to this newspaper by Judge Bonniwell'on his own initiative, merits serious consideration by Governor Spioul to determine whether the views it ox presses are proper and reasonable in a member of the state's judiciary sworn to support the constitutions and laws of the United States and Pennsylvania. We wish especially to direct the Governor's attention to the last paragraph, with its concluding sentence, as a grave state ment coming from such an official at this time of crisis and national stress. LONG LIFE AND HAPPINESS T")R. JOSIAH OLDFIELD, of London, says tho way to keep old ago at bay is to partake of a daily diet of dandelion leaves, fowl's eggs, grapes, lettuce, cow's milk, watercress, honey and Salads. He goes further and declares that an old man may become young again on this food, because it will replace the old cells in his body with new cells. And, of course, ho is right in every thing ho claims. Horace Fletcher was similarly right. And Dr. Harvey -Wiley. And Dr. Alfred McCann. Mr. Fletcher told us we nte too fast, and he .spake truth. Doctor. Wiley told us vm ate many things we ought not to cat, and ho spake. truth. Doctor McCann tells us wo neglect to eat the parts of food that aro beneficial to us, and he speaks truth. Doctor Oldfleld tells us- we cat too - PHIL'ADEtPHlk, FRJDAY, ttOVBMBElV 7, much nnd wo should restrict our diet, nnd he speaks truth. Unquestionably tho world will bo bet ter nnd wiser and healthier when wo take tho advice of these food experts. It may even be that the average life of man will be extended four or five years which may or may not be desirable. But let us not fool ourselves with the thought that we can dodge old age. Wo can't. For wise men though they be, Doctors Oldficld, McCann and Wiley will die when old age reaches them, if they don't die beforo that time, as Fletcher did. Dickens makes Sam Wcller tell 'of a mnn so passionately fond of crumpets that ho consulted a doctor on the number necessary to kill him, deciding that a surfeit would mean a joyous death. And wc have the word of the poet who sang (with who knows how much wis dom) "I would not live alwayl" So wo need not consider the matter of extending life. It will bo sufficient to give heed to the food experts for the wis dom they speak, tho wisdom that means hcaltlj and consequent happiness. And Death may come when he is "good and ready." A WOMAN'S REVOLUTION pvRDINARILY it is never given to men to know what women are thinking about. The feminine, world moves in a mysteiious way its wonders to perform. When, speaking through Mrs. O. II. P. Belmont, Miss Doris Stevens, Mrs. John Rogers nnd other distinguished members of the National Woman's party, which Miss Alice Paul used to lead in the stormy days beforo the Anthony amend ment was aceppted, it reveals itself as prepared and eager for a "woman's revo lution" tho other half of humanity may only sigh and wait and wonder. "The social fabric," says Miss Stevens placidly, "is rotten. Women will take contiol and make it over by establishing absolute sex equality." Sex equality is a misleading term. It might have been devised by women to conceal the fact that there never can bo equal rights until man wins back the authority and the varioussacrcd rights that he relinquished generations ago before accepting second place in tho so cial scheme. In all the really important affairs of life woman leads. Women decide what men shall wear, what shows they shall see, what books they shall read and what they will have for dinner. They arrange the order of 'a man's environment and quietly and finally direct all his habits of life. They decide whether the family car is to be a Sputz or a Heartburn. Any man who looks around the circle of his friends will find that most of them have been chosen for him by his wife. The masculine world has retained to itself tho precious rights to dig coal, to run locomotives, to fight in wars, to dig the ditches of the world, to burrow for iion and clean the streets and do the general chores and worry about bills. If Miss Paul and her associates refuse to be happy until they can take away these last lemaining piivilegcs of a once mighty sex they ought by all means to be encouraged in their new campaign. LOVE AND A GREEN ISLE milEY have in Ireland a language that includes more nnd lovelier terms of endcaimcnt than any other in the world. It is a language admittedly without an equal for the four purposes which wise and gieat men regard as being supreme in this life for telling stories, singing songs, making loe and bidding defiance. The ancient wisdom and humor that gave to the Irish tongue its subtlety and glory must have suffered grievous confu sion when high officers of the new repub lic foimally warn the girls of tho land that they must not fall in love. That the restriction is supposed to annlv onlv where British soldiers aro concerned mat ters little unless we nio to assume that the bitterest punishment imaginable is here reserved for the hated invader. Isn't love blind? The southern Irish are, without excep tion, poets. That is their strength and 'their weakness, ns any one who ever was in Ireland knows. Has the time come when you have to tell poets that love cannot be helped? Must they be in formed that the penalty, the cutting off of the offending ghl's hair, is altogether without meaning? A girl whose hair was cut off for love would feel that she was made thereby the more beautiful. And all the woild would share that opinion! Premier Lloyd George He Probably Ims indorsed the enn- Keasonetl It Out didaej of l.ady Astor, who -seeks a scat in the British Mou-e of Commons, ,1'eople don't t'nin for ofi'iic" m Fngland. They "stand for a seat." That maKes any woman who has traveled in an American sticet car eligible. The miners picture li'ir lot ns one near destitution.' The op eintors paint them as living adjacent to a the average citizen, un- ailllres-. mcrnlv unmlsn A Triancle of Haul Lines an 1 Sharp Points bed of roses. I tut aware of 'their ical if he'll have coal for his furnace this coming winter. ...... . . r'''1 "" n diet of dan- .Saiail Dajs Kxtended delinn leaves, eggs, grapes, lettuce, mill:', watercre-s honej nnd salad-, (.uncooked), a inaii'should live f ninety (n l()."i jenrs declares a lAindon phvsninn. Perhaps Neb uchadnezzar was not so craty a h'c seemed when he went the vvav of all flesh and turned to grass. The cashier of tl. Xortli Perm Bank has pleaded not guiltj to a charge of cpn spiracj. Those who weie depositors will readily recall the case. Ot,prH mv rpmom. her it if they jogtMrineiiiorien sufficiently. The tilling of the state Supreme Court concerning cltj loans will tie up the sain ries of n number of cltv emploves. This- Is not the kind of a lie n man expects for a Christmas present. A government cargo carrier lias just hew launched at Wilmington, Del. A number of them went out of commission July 1 last. ' As n star campaigner, tho woman as pirant for a seat in the British House of Common, in a good Aktor-rlHk. Thoee who went down to defeut in Ma, .sachusetta mar be accepted as lied. YESSIR, SMALL The Spasm of Life The Hussinii llolshcvhts have abandoned the sistcm of Chiiitian tmiiic, ninf the members of eroy family will hereafter be designated by numbers. News report from 1'ctrograd. rpKLL us in speciiic numbers J- What we really want to Know; For nomenclature encumbeis And arithmetic's the go, a. Life is figures and statisltlcs And the grave is hut the sum Of its factors. Dale the mystics Challenge our millennium V Ait is false. Imagination Is the foolishness of bards And a urse upon a nation AVedded to its index card-. i In the dauntless revolution, Clearing paths before untrod; lian the obsolete locution l!e a number in jour squad. Ti ust no tale of Tom or Jerry, . Mav the dead past prate of .lack Or of Jill. Let each be merry VMth a digit on his back. Lives of "Six" and "Four'' remind us Of a lot, and "Twelve"' does more; Ignoiaut ju shall not find us Of how many beaus make four; Beans that are perhaps symbolic Of the way free babies thrive. "Hush," we cioon on nights of colic. "Mushabje, my Twenty-five!" Let us then be up nnd druining I'v'ry drop from wisdom's fount ; Lver changing and arranging, Learn lo imtcx mm n LViiut. ( 15.V a pleasing dispensation of Providence the fire that is staited by lightning is bome times extinguished by the neconipaujing. !"" . , Commercialism The Spirit of Dreams, flitting off from msllf' ' . , .1 . . Flew into n band-organ out in the street. And, tossing the notes to the dailce of joungfeet. Came back to a manuscript long on my shelf. And now that the urge for to sell it de mands , That' the script be tjpevvritten, herewith I must hint ; That the Spirit of Dreams has been lost in the print While 1 tossed out tho words to the dance of old hands. FRANCIS CiARLIN. Why the Saucepan? 1'Mlxr The Saucepan: ' $jr An anxious and vtistified trorla irotiW 'tike to know irAy fn thunder you cal it The Saucepan, ft. '. V. i. The name was conceived by,, the members of the Kitchen Club while the Chufling Dish was temporarily put of commission nnd the fires of hope wero burning low. It is de rived from n Fijian word ihueh jised (lifting missionary wok In the good old days. It was. in u manner onomatopoeic, "stiuoo" In the wift Fijian dialect describing the slosh ing effect of the piece de resistance dropping Into tho soup, nnd "pan'4 the effect of the clanging of the spoon ou the pan Itself. Anglicized, the word took on greater strength and virility, sauce meaning pot only th piquancy and wivoriness Imparted to a dish by some added condiment, spice or fruit, but also the pert flippancy which juvenility imparts to, serious conversation. "Wan." t'. Brew in its new environment, and as n verb describes the rough but bene ficial treatment accorded to sufferers from exaggerated ego. There are, of course, "pans" nnd 'pans." Vnlnr ran .describes the condition-ot Ham 'ilmxrrrm fe-iswril r i JimAk)m WfiraoVlV&3 MW1 .7W ', WAHJJeSK fSJLU TSmmiexMhMriasvh ( . ,J.VI. mWSMC'mSM ?v mmm8&&, y&v&sm.i r y .&irW!Mmvimm lilsrowSfcUJSZBKfcffiH .XHKSrT-Vav ?A , iW'W, TJti " , 1 rttMOt'K&aittt'iS BftH & 8 &UJ. Jl - VUs - ,..., , - VJ.fVK .ftUv- .u wl -J-.f .itel&l l ' . -NiiV..w .A i w" . ..MAyMtAmm 1 .uL .Uf-Asrv""Mi V1-4 ,ils$yr'u yi til ..-av ' v-i ' - wY w-f ' let, for Instance, who .hesitated, to rid hits "i V 1019 GAME IS PLENTIFUL self of tin- ills he Knew for those he knew not of jumping, in other words, from the frjing pan into the fire. And there is the roasting pun, which, in a sen's, is tauto logical, for w ho is roasted is also panned The Saucepan, therefore., n receptnele for all manner of good things, allowed to simmer on the fires of good nnture and theu served hot to those who do not object to an occasional btevv. The Rainstorm On stormy dajs, when wind nnd driving rain Are rampant, lashing ev'ry window paue, I cannot idle near a fireside, A frngiunt call takes mo to Held and lane. . j When ev'ry dripping bush and ev'rj field (Has with lefrcshing odors me nppenlcd, My mind will dwell no more on- tasks undone But to those calls from nature gladly jield. Xo sultry heat, no dusty herbage seen. An cast wind beats and diives and washes clean. Come out with me nnd have jour soul washed, too, .And leuin what life's new secret jou may glean. L W, K. On Going Dry Prohibition seems to have created consid erable excitement in both town and country. Within sight of the Country Life Press there is a vvajside tavern conducted by one August Porrier. 1 have it on good authority that during the .pring he decorated the mirror behind his bnr with this lamentation: "The first of July will be the last of An-, gust." I'p heie in the farming country cider bar rels are at a premium, but that is appar ently not the'only result of the .edict. How my cows came to learn of It I do not know, for, .valuing their peace of mind above all things, I keep the newspapers away from them. At any rate, they declared a general strike iu June and went dry. 'Matilda, in fact, had gone dry some time back, nnd when her calf came in June she wus due. to re sume production. But that calf immediately developed such an elephantine appetite that he left little or nothing for the rest of us. Then Nancy began to show signs of nn ap proaching chauge and on July 1 she also was dry, 1 went over to Hiram Belden's to buy inllk, but his two cows were in the same l-ase" ns mine. Joel Cutler's Holstein had also obeyed the law on July 1. Hitherto an udvocntc of prohibition on general principles, I began to wonder whether this uniycrsal drought were not belug can led too far, and I found mjself quoting the poet: "What are we gjifig to have to drink When the whole darn world goes dry?" Of course, I cannot but approve of the morals of my cows, though tbeie wus n time once, in npple season, when Matilda but that is another storj. Who. ever fancied what far-reaching re sults this war would have? W l I riiiMI a ..... ,i.ii,iuiv .. uirjii. -w The 8parrow Bright in the hall the torches burn, Whirling their flame in the wind; Singing, the saffroned minstrels turn, With the boar's head borne behind. ' Ruddy the Yule log roars In the hall While the warriors bask around, ' Aud the bcnins creak loud ini the timbered wall, , , With n wlnter-bodlng sound. Out of tho rain nnd sleet and snow. In through the open door, A sparrow .flying, flutters slow, Then out to the dark once more, r Darkness, light, and dark again, Aud never the mjstcry dies, For out of .the 'light 'to the sleet and rain, Man, like the sparrow flics, J. M, BEATTY. All' Wise Old Owls are listed in Hoo'a v I " r m yy"w wiw i k-b-tJku'x i 2 THE SAUCEPAN ' undying gods 1 ,' Hoo, uiJS jl ' , -iriiii ,h . y .y m vru-m ' w, 1 THIS YK AR THE old gods died when Zeus appeared And seized the high Saturnian throne; I wonder if Zeus ever feared Their ghosts', what time he reigned alone? Pan died when Christ enmc down to man, But mnn soon came to feel and see A Devil with the form of Pan Goatjhoofed olid horned ns he Aud I, who threw my gods away For Science, that I thought sufficed, Feel on my futile work today The tearful eyes of Christ ! Cleveland Plain Dealer. The steamship record between Jackson ville and New York has been reduced two nuurs uy use oi me gyroscope compass. w a time reducer the gjroscope might be found useful by the striking miners. Not having a doctor among its mem bers, the new Council will have to worry nloug with an undertaker auu a Vemeterjr superintendent. There is no likelihood that the Sunday School Association, iu convention in Cam den, will; pass n resolution congratulating! Mr. Ldwai'ds on the result of the election. The city solicitor lias ruled that a man' may fly in the air ou Sunday without vio lating the blue laws. He is above the lavf, ns it were. ;, a i Loan authorization having, been bowled out by the Supreme Court, the municipal' authorities will have to set 'cm up again, , u, The. assertion is confidently made that, Mr. MacLaughlin is not nilxiously awaiting 'J the result of the official count. What Do You Knoiv? "" QUIZ 1. When did the Turks win possession at! Constantinople? s,( '. Who was AlDcrt unuatiu? j ;i. What are the chief exports of Hawaii? "i 4, The wnr turned, sauerkraut into "lih-.'ll erty cabbage." What change did lt'j make in the nomenclature of Hamt burg steak'! 5. Where nnd when wns the battle of ?J (J. AVho was President Wilson's first see"""?! retar of war? T 7. Iu vvhut island are most of the scene of the tragedy of "Othello" laid? i O t. 4 tM il, a bAliHtAKfltrtACif rtftvr ft &"1l O. 1IUI Willie nugiuci nuiusi tnj iu lua , TT..UA.1 C?ll.. "j.ll U 11 lit U IllHICa . pl .1, w flUl IS riiuui-iumiuu i . s I III. wjiar. relation was iiiury, yucen orjl ,.Ma tn Oiicnn VUliiilintli ? -K'T! '"""" ' ' SrRi ' S -i Answers to Yesterday's Quiz t. 1. Ella Wheeler Wilcox wrote "No quesr tlon is ever "settled unless it Is BettlU right." ''. The Columbia, a New England salllne & cssel,wus tho first American ahlp.tov, circumnavigate the globe. She started . onher voyage qn September 30, 178T. LMontfBTanc is the highest mountain -JbT -- U.ifi;Tla.w1 'I'lla ,,n,.,.. m..n. 1Vl.lt. " i. till Hlbl tlUUUt ,4-Jti: lll" ihiuiio IT fllvu " Mountain: Only ,a part of It is Swisi IUU IHIJIlVPV I'- " nviwh lit x iuni:v. fl. John L. Lewis is Acting president of k Jliuc workers oi America, , 0. Lieutenant Colonel Theodore RooeJt bus been elected to the New Yru - Legislature. .'T 7. Missouri manufactures large qunn(itieli 0 ot corncob pipes. ' sy. 8. 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