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rhilldrlphia, Monday, INotrinbrr 10, 1119
A HORNETS' NEST
SENATOR VARE stirred up a hornets'
nest when he said no Mayor since Mr.
Stuart had left the City Hall with the
respect of the public.
Mayor Smith has cone aftt-r him with
some pungent remarks and with some
threats to disclose facts that would bo
interesting to the public. Mrs. Blanken
burjr has come to the defense of her dead
husband. And former Mayor Weaver has
indignantly denied the allegation.
Fortunately for Senator Varc he will
have leisure for the next few weeks to
dodge the hornets, a leisure that would
not have been his if the primaries had
resulted to his satisfaction. Instead of
telling the new Mayor what to do ho
will be allowed to do only what the new
Mayor permits. Perhaps this new sen
sation will occupy his mind so complete
ly that he will not feel the stings of the
outraged men whom he has criticized.
HOPE FOR DEPOSITORS'
NONE of the vaiious rumors about the
rehabilitation of the North Penn
Bank which have been afloat for months
has been verified. But a new plan,
which appears to be pretty well ad
vanced, was made public on Saturday.
It is that a new corporation, to be known
as the Phoenix Trust Company, is to be
organized by the stockholders of the de
funct bank, each stockholder to subscribe
to the new stock a sum equal to his hold
ing in the original bank. Then the de
positors in the North Penn are to be
paid 50 per cent of their claims, the bal
ance to be paid in time out of the profits
of the new institution.
This would place a heavy obligation on
the new bank, so heavy that only men
with g?eat courage would undertake to
shoulder it. Rut the success of the orig
inal baiik for several years before the
looting began proves that the district in
which it is located is a good field for a
bank of deposit. The people there have
money. They live a long way from the
center of the city. They need banking
facilities just as they need facilities for
buying food and clothing and fuel.
If the plan can be put through by re
sponsible men with banking experience it
will be a happy issue out of their trou
bles for hundreds of depositors in the
looted bank who cannot afford to lose
their savings.
PEACE IS NEARER
TDATIFICATION of the peace treaty,
formal peace between the United
States and Germany, virtual acceptance
by the Senate of the league-of-nations
covenant and all that these things imply
ifpr America and for the world are nearer
s because of the President's willingness to
Ct accept minor reservations without op
position or complaint.
The President in this instance did the
wise and rational and inevitable thing.
The Senate has a perfect right to express
through formal "reservations" its inter
pretation of clauses that are presumed to
be too far at variance with American
tradition and purpose. It never had the
moral right to throw the treaty back at
the Germans and invite a state of affairs
that ultimately might isolate America
from a world sincerely determined to find
a way to better international relation
ships and permanent peace. Mr. Wilson
had no better right than the Senate to be
stiff-necked and uncompromising.
Through the reservations in question
,' Mr. Lodge and his associates may save
their faces and at the same time provide
such restraints as they deem indispens
able for future emergencies.
Doubtless they were waiting for this
opportunity. And meanwhile the news
that the President is again able to par
ticipate actively in the work incident to
ratification will gratify and reassure the
country.
LADY ASTOR'S CAMPAIGN
MOST people will sympathize with
Lady Astor's declaration that there
js nothing funny in her campaign, and
many who sympathize will feel sorry that
ehe found it necessary to make the fur
ther declaration that she is "deadly seri
4 omb." For, be it known, most of the
statesmen who are "deadly serious" are
BjftBO "deadly dull," and legislative halls
have more than their fair share of this
brand of near-thinker.
One feels svmnathv for her first state-
Tiient even though it is not wholly true.'
There is inevitably something funny in
the antics of the people who are shocked
t a woman .doing ibvything out of the
ordinary, and we venture the guess that
the lady .icrself has smiled, albeit some
what bitterly, at some of the humors of
the battle she is waging. That itj's not
at! fun 'for her one" can readily iihdef
stand, She has known some bitterness
tititl feltjttome hurt.
But we, are sure that she is not so
jy serious as he momentarily
sw-tii-t JUeadly earnest," it you
will, for ono has to be ca"nct,t and sin
cere to wage a fight with a hope for vic
tory; but, not "deadly serious."
Bless the lady's heart, if she were
"deadly serious" she would have been in
f6rming a wearied world that the fate
of empires rested on the recognition of
women through the election of one to
the British House Rf Commons. And
she has done no such thing. She has
conducted a business-like campaign with
plenty of vim, plenty of wit and plenty
of good hunvor, and lots of good people
who would scorn to consider themselves
feminists will wish her success.
AN EASY WAY TO PREVENT
MOTOR TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS
Enlarge the Traffic Squad and Let the
Men Work Unhindered by the
Petty Politicians
TF EXISTING laws and ordinances were
enforced there would be less complaint
about speeding motors, fewer accidents
and less wony about schemes to make
the streets safe for the democracy that
goes afoot.
But the laws arc not enforced.
The police are not permitted to enforce
them.
In no department of the municipal serv
ice is there more petty and detestable
political interference than the traffic
squad has to contend against. The con
tinuing efficiency of that hard-worked
unit and the good sense and good man
ners of its members are a cause for won
der to any ono who knows what a thank
less and difficult job is that of the men
charged with the enforcement of ordi
nary rules of safety in tho streets.
Eliminate the big and little politicians
who whisper and pull strings and make
threats when a speeder is arraigned before
a magistiate and there will be little need
for the sort of informal police method
.that Superintendent Robinson would es
tablish by the use of tell-talo cards,
issued to the public to be returned with
the record of supposed traffic violations.
This plan, like any effort to curb the
speed maniacs, is in some ways com
mendable. It may enable i the police to
keep a record of habitual lawbreakers
for use in supporting formal charges in
an emergency. But Superintendent
Robinson will be lucky if, in the long run,
the scheme doesn't work more harm than
good.
The simple and direct way to make
the streets safe is to enlarge the traffic
squad, put half a dozen motorcycle men
on patrol along the streets of West Phila
delphia and then see to it that the police
are unhindered in the performance of
their duty and that they are assured of
the co-operation of the powers at City
Hall.
That co-operation is not possible now.
The everyday experience of tho aver
age traffic man makes it appear that at
least half of the people arrested for
flagrant violations of the motor ordi
nances have friends higher up who are
always ready to intervene in their behalf
and make punishment impossible.
"I've often come down -from the Cen
tral station," said one member of the
squad, "to find a man I'd pinched driving
away as happy as you please a few min
utes after I had taken him in. And
often enough these fellows take the trou
ble to turn around and drive past my
post to give me the laugh. After a while
you begin to realize that to run 'em in
is a waste of time. We can only bawl
'em out. And, believe me, we do that,
anyway."
Nine out of every ten men who drive
automobiles are careful, for their own
sake and the sake of others, to obey the
traffic laws. The friendly relation estab
lished automatically between this ma
jority and the police themselves and tho
instinctive impulse for co-operation that
animates them are the best possible pre
ventives of accident.
There are fools everywhere. It is too
much to expect that they will not be
found occasionally behind the steering
wheels of motorcars. There is a familiar
type of driver whose singular vanity is
gratified whenever he can break the law
and get away with it. And, oddly enough,
he is the sort who has "friends at the
Hall."
One wild driver sets an example to
others. West Walnut street and many of
the streets in West Philadelphia are
speedways because they are sparsely
policed. And statistics prove that acci
dents do not always occur on heavily
traveled thoroughfares, but many occur
on the streets where traffic policemen are
few or altogether unknown. Until the
good influence of the traffic squad can be
extended there will be violation of the
motor laws, danger to life and an in
creasing percentage of casualties in the
streets.
Policemen of the type which lules in
the traffic squad know how to deal with
motor traffic. If the politicians will let
them alone the public need not go into
the police business on its own account.
It is not easy, without experience, to
determine the speed of an automobile or
to judge the hazards attending its opera
tion. That is why Superintendent Robin
son's card system, devised as it has been
with the best intentions and for an ad
mirable purpose, may have some odd and
surprising results.
The number of excellent people who
are still unreconciled to automobiles and
who view all such contraptions as a visi
tation of Providence, sent as an awful
preliminary to the day of judgment in an
unrighteous world, is surprisingly large.
It is unfair to everybody to ask such folk
to pass a fair judgment upon the work
of motor drivers. Those who dislike
motors dislike them with enthusiasm. It
is possible to find an occasional citizen
who is convinced that no automobile ever,
travels less than forty miles an hour any
where. The world is pretty evenly divided be
tween those who ride in motors and those
who, for one reason or another, do not.
Prejudice exists on both sides. But who
ever has been honked at rudely or forced
to flee for his life in undignified haste
from the path of some lunging gasoline
maniac or been splashed on a rainy day
in the streets is quitiMikcly to be an
ardent Reporter for thureu "of police
under tho card system of unofficial es
pionage now proposed.
Such a lecord of motor abuses as Is
proposed could not be altogether free
from spite or malice nor could it be with
out error due to faults of judgment on
the part of people whose imagination is
stimulated, by conventional prejudice.
Amateur or informal exercise of any
thing like official authority always leads
to confusion and unpleasantness for
everybody concerned.
A citizen who observes infractions of
the law ought to go to the proper authori
ties and give his evidence under oath.
Like many other ills that afflict the
city, the reckless use of the streets is due
primarily to mean and petty politics.
Business organizations which are giving
time and money nnd energy to a cam
paign of education deserve the thanks of
tho people of those who ride and those
who walk. They will do even a better
work if they will continue to the root of
the matter and impress upon the new
City Council tho necessity for an en
lightened view of the whole general prob
lem. There is room here for a great deal of
good work by the new administration.
The traffic squad Is amazingly efficient.
Find money to incicasc its membership
and let the men know that the people
higher up will help them to keep the
streets safe.
Provide for jail sentences in cases of
particularly flagrant or dangerous viola
tions. Then it will not be necessary to ask the
public at large to assume duties which,
in justice to eveiybody, belong with the
Department of Public Safety nlone.
THE PROBLEM OF LABOR
QTRIKES are industrial barbarism, ae-
cording to tho Senate committee
which has been investigating the steel
strike. The committee says further that
"there is no place in this country either
for industrial despotism or labor despot
ism." In order to prevent the setting up
of either kind of despotism the commit
tee concludes that "tho public has a right
to demand that capital shall not arrogate
to itself tho right to determine in its own
way those industrial questions, and it is
the same as to labor, and the duty is
upon Congress to provide some way of
adjusting these difficulties."
This is substantially an indorsement
of the plan for a labor code which this
newspaper urged upon the consideration
of the industrial conference in Washing
ton last month. On October 11 we dis
cussed tho subject at some length, set
ting forth the proposition that the public
was as deeply interested in the settle
ment of labor disputes as it was in the
enforcement of the criminal law, a law
enacted primarily for the protection of
society at large by punishing those who
disregard the rights of others. We re
marked then:
I'pon the Icqal fundamentals In the re
public It Is perfectly logical to superim
pose, consistent principles covering indus
trial cases . . . The conference has
an unexamoled opportunity to renounce
quackery In favor of treatment by general
principles' which will permit genuine cures
for specific diseases when thoy break out.
Now that this plan is formally before
the Senate in a committee report, it is in
shape for discussion in Congress. It is
evident to every one that the old methods
for settling labor disputes have failed.
The public has been inconvenienced by
industrial war. The war has continued
until the parties to it have concluded a
treaty of peace. But the treaties have
been temporary. When new disagree
ments arose the war has been resumed.
The rights of the public have been ig
nored. The employers have said that
they would run'their business to suit
themselves, no matter who suffered, and
the workers have insisted on their right
to hold up all business until their de
mands were granted. This is industrial
barbarism without the shadow of a doubt.
Our civilization could not continue if the
parties involved in highway robbery or
murder should insist on their right to
settle the matter by private agreement,
the party with the greatest power to have
his will.
We have arrived at that stage where
we mLst extend to industrial disputes the
same. rules which apply to all other dis
putes. We must establish a code with
courts to enforce it. The suggestion of
the Senate committee that relief would
be afforded by compulsory investigation
of the causes of labor disputes does not
go far enough. The parties to the dis
pute always know the facts. Publicity
can bring nothing but moral compulsion
to bear. Legal compulsion to submit the
matters at issue to a proper tribunal is
what is needed if we are to have indus
trial peace. Before Congress discusses
the matter very long it will be forced to
this conclusion. It cannot begin the dis
cussion too soon.
Slostclnik, Yninvni,
Kindly Souls Jnlcenov, Kozey, AVa-
sikuk, S k m a s k o,
Fershtmnn no, it isn't a lit of Russian
towns. It is a list of men who have been
making their living In America, probably a
better living than ever they were able to
earn at home, and nre charged with trying
to change our institutions tn fit their views.
Probably the most
A I'orwaicl Step . heartening tiling about
the report of the Scn
ntc committee investigating the steel strike
is the recognition of the duty of Congress to
provide some way of adjusting labor diffi
culties. This Mill mean eventually the for
mulation of certain genernl industrial prin
ciples as basically simple as the common
law and as simply administered.
Somehow or other we
Meiely a have more respect for
Point of View the U. of P. student
who gave a pint of his
Wood to save the life of a friendless little
orphan than for tho courageous soul who
monkeyed with trolley poles and defied the
police.
Th? Department of
Departmental Justice, having ar
rested 200 Reds, asks
the Department of Labor -tfi deport them.
Speaking ns ono .department to another, it
is i) labor of love, nnd justice demands it.
DrjB have won in
Pick -Me Up Nettled Ohio by 101 votes, ac
cording to latest ac
counts. A victory by bo narrow a margin
mlcht well give the most earnest prohlbl-
I tionlst a deelre for y bracer. t
ORPHAN BOOMLETS
General Wood's Presidential Candl'
dacy Causing Embarrassment
to Favorite Sdns
ll CLINTON W. GILIIKRT
Sinn" ('iiiirspondenl of the Kvenlng
Public Ledger
Washington, Nov. 10.
GI-:NI:RAL WOOD is In the lead for the
Republican nomination for the presi
dency. This statement is not so sensational
as it sounds. To he in the lead for the
nomination today is to bo n long way short
of being nominated. No one lias the nom
ination in bis pocket. A combination can
still beat General Wood, hut it must linvc
t.oinc one to heat him with. A popular
movement can bent (icnernl Wood, but h
popular movement must have ita hero nnd
where is the hero?
The development of the Wood boom will
quickly bring Into the own the fnvoiitc
sons. Up till now there Is only one man
formally ami by his own announcement a
candidate for the Republican nomination
Senator Poludcxtcr, of Washington. Iu ad
dition there aio three important actors, but
not avowed candidates General Wood,
Governor Lowden, Senator Hirn'm Johnson,
There nre many other disnvowed hut recep
tive candidates, such ns Scnntor Harding,
Senator Kiinx, Senator Ilrandegcc, Senator
Sutherland. Governor Goodrich, of Indiana;
Governor Coolidge, of Massachusetts, and
Senator Watson, of Indiana, if Governor
Coolidge is out of the way.
rplIP. obvious thing to do to stop the Wood
-- boom or even to ke.ep nlivc other hopes is
for these lesser candidates to come out into
the open. If they do not do so soon the
politicians in their own stntcs will wntch
the growth of the Wood movement with envy.
And if it keeps on to the point where the
grni'inl's nomination seems likely they will
seek to nllj themselves with the probably
successful candldnte and the hopes of the
faunitc son will disappear. The Wood
movement is getting to the point now where
the receptive candidates cannot long ignore
it. The must spenk up or forever hold their
peace.
THE Wood rtuididney lias had n peculiar
development. Last winter he seemed te
he unmistakably in the lend. Then his sup
port languished. It certninly did not gain
force nnd indeed seemed to he losing force.
At tills time the Wood movement wns n pop
ular movement and nothing else. As n pop
ular movement it stopped short; the people
were not sufficiently interested in the elec
tion last winter nnd indeed nre not now tf
indicate their choice. They begnn to snv
'hat the Wood boom wns dead, that no mili
tary man could be nccepted as a candidate
for President. The wise men in Washing
ton dropped the genernl down into Inst plnce
in their list of probable candidates. Tho
only trouble with this judgment wns that ru
one took Wood's plnce. There was no one
in the lend. Even in preliminary estimatei
you cannot beat somebody with nobody.
w
HEN the Wood boom languished th
politicians took hold of it. Of all the
candidates Wood has the best organization,
with John T. King, of Connecticut, as
manager, and with Frnnk H. Hilchcock, a
successful picker of nominees, active nmong
the colored delegntcs of the South, his old
specialty. Associated with these men nre
the old Roosevelt supporters, George W.
Perkins nnd tho men who nearly made
Roosevelt the Republican candidate for the
presidency in 1012.
An illustration of the activities of the
Roosevelt supporters is the effort to force
Senator Harding out of the race in Ohio
nnd hand thnt state to Wood. Rehind it are
Wnllis Brown nnd the Roosevelt politicians
in Ohio. Senator Harding is in a difficult
position as a favorite son. His term in
the Senate ends this year. He would like
to be a candidate for the presidency, nnd
if he misses that and tho vice presidency
he would be sure of nomination to the Sen
ate. The Wood men in Ohio do not want
to leave him nil these choices. They have
been-trying to force him to say which office
ho will run for, the presidency or the Sen
ate. If he announces his preference for tho
presidency they will put up a candidate for
the Senate and then if Mr. Harding misses
his Inrger ambition he will find his lesser one
foreclosed.
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MR. HARDING could be ccrtnin that
accent n nromlse of the vice presidency and
let Brown nnd the rest of them turn the state
over to Wood. But while the uncertainty
lasts Ids-position is difficult. Meanwhile, if
lie does not openly seek the presidency, sac
rificing the Senate, he may see his state
slip away from him to Wood nnyway. His
position is a little more troublesome than
thnt of the nvernge favorite son, but they
all nre having their tioubles and the poli
ticians gtendllv make Wood more formidnble.
Then people are asking: Is this Repub
lican national convention going to be a
politicians' convention? A politicians con
vention is ono in which people hnve no
favorite candidate and the politicians are
freo to name their choice. The present in
dications nrn thnt it is going to be just
that sort of convention. Tho people are
indifferent. Thoy have no Roosevelt. Gov
ernor Lowden leaves them cold. The Hiram
Johnson boom has developed no popular
strength.
Nf
OR is there the slightest sign of nny
possible enndidate over whom the coun
try will develop enthuslnsm in advance of
tlm convention, nnd if such a candidate
does not show soon the politicians will have
the convention in their ' hands. It Is the
realization of this fact which haR made
Washington suddenly wane up to the fact
that quietly and unostentatiously General
Wood has moved up into the leading place
as a candidate, with Governor Lowden, who
has (ho second best organization behind him,
in second plnce. The two men nre the
first choices of the politicians, Wood and
Perkins nnd his old s-s.-cistcs, the Roose
velt Republicans, except such ns support
Johnson, nnd Lowden. of the always regular
old guard Republicans
I HAVE said that General Wood failed to
develop spontaneous support of large pro
portions, But still his candidacy has a cer
tain popularity. So far as any enndidate has
a -popular following it is Wood. The pbl-f
itleiuns have eh"?;:: T.Iseiy. They have
picked the man whoup to the present shows
the greatest dapqeity to develop strength
among the voters. That man is nlways the
man thnt has to bo benten. The suddei
waking of Washington tn the fact that Wool
was the man to be benten may lead to his
being beaten. But here he is, for the time
ut least, in the lead.
Having eaten all the extra food of the
nrmy. the populace will take n whirl nt the
navy bennery.
Having buried the hatchet,
Vare refused to use n hammer.
Senator
The consumer has n suspicion that th
raw sugar snortnge is coonea up,
i thnt It' is
, sv,v
Ohio if not yet dead sure
OJidry-on,l
"JUST A LITTLE MORE PUSH AND
"'il-lin-H
THE SAUCEPAN
NOCTURNE
MX GIRL
In nnger snid
Thnt bhc had no time
To waste upon me.
Then she hurled
A truly magnificent
Ormolu clock
In my direction.
In that luminous instant
I kneto irirtt the sapes meant
Who said that wovwn
Js a tissue
Of contradictions.
He Went to the Movies
I went to the movies.
I hadn't been to the movies in a year
or more. I might not have gone on this
occasion had I not wished to study the possi
ble effect of n new nnd novel bond of inter
nationnlism suggested in dispatches from
South America. The folk of the Argentine
cities, murmurcM the wires shrewdly, nre
becoming Americnnizcd, as we would say,
.. tho movies. Thev are studying nnd cul
tivating tho manners of the United States-
reflected in the tilms.
I wished to see whnt the Argentinans of
tho future will' be like. For forty cents I
was enlightened. -
The young Argentinan of the years to
come will nrray himself in truly wonderful
clothes. His hair will be exquisitely tailored
and coated heavily with varnish. He will
be reckless with his money. He will not
take off his hat when ho addresses a lady,
no mntter what his social rank may bo; nor
will he rise when a lady enters the room. Ho
will .remain firmly seated in an ornate chair
and manifest deference by wiggling his eye
brows, by rolling his eyes nnd by violent
backward and forward motions of his bur
nished (so to spenk) bean.
When the rich young ArgenMnan of the
futute desires to express the legendary dis
like for his mother-in-law he will tip her
into n lily pond. When he calls for after
noon tea ho will never cntor by the door.
ne will go through a window or, after
climbing the roof, will descend by the rain
spout to the garden.
All of the future Argentina thnt does not
wear rags will cultlvnte evil habits. They
will smoke and intrigue and commit crimes
of violence agninst the virtuous and humble.
Only the poor will have nny decency.
When I travel I shall travel in Spain !
C. Wt
How Shall We Meet?
H
OW shnll we meet ngaln, my dear?
Shnll we both fccm cold, or will you
and I
Give rormal greeting, then wonder why?
Shall we tell the secret we thought to hide
In the anxious search for a clue to guide?
With a throb of joy and a fleeting fear
Will you question, "Is it you love me, dear?"
Ah ! AVhere shall we moot again, my dear?
In cit, or camp, on the tossing Bea,
The forest trail, or yet maybe
As I vision you oft by the hearthside here,
Roth hands clasped, as you used to, 'dear.
' And your hack to tho fire's golden cheer.
Like a herald out ot a toreign land
Will you cry largesse and give love's com-.
maud?
Oh ! when shnll we meet again, rrly dear?
PHOEBE HOFFMAN.-
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Nearlng a Goal
Editor Saucepan:
Slr Tho theory of Inexorable conserva
tion applied with conspicuous success in the
light-lunch restaurants that we all know
best has been extended to typewriter rib
bons. I observe that.they advertise wafles"
and donuts for breakfast. ETHEL D.
Even a one-course dinner s.t a lunatic
asylum may b spoken of as ''soup fro nuts."
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, Add 8aucepan
When a poet has a slight; bronchial affco
1 tlon would 'It bef'eatIralyarpprrto,declajy
... ..i. ..ta:MiJ,...dtf!b3r'filf. KTrmU.!..-, . . life
if-'--M "t ir. ail mk
that Pan was having trouble with his pipes?
Orwould that call to mind too vividly the
plumber?
To say that leaders are sometimes mis
leaders is not necessarily nn attack on
feminism.
Ballot Dancing
The New York Tribune, discussing the
nrrival of Michel Fokinc, creator of the
Russian ballet, says "he revolutionized the
art of ballot dancing." Probably sought to
discourage those who desired to vote early
and often.
Pirate Song
To, ho, my lads, for a life of case
And a trick on the bounding main !
With our sails blown full of the trade vinds'
breeze
And our thoughts on a pirate's gain!
For we'll reap and sow where the typhoons
blow, .
And our coffers will fill with gold;
To the ensks ! Let's drink to the ships, we'll
sink
And tho life of n pirate bold !
ROBERT LESLIE BELL-EM.
The Column Conductor
The column writer, to mnke hit, says
Demosthenes McGinnis, must have a big
henrt,-a sense of humor, a nrcnchnnt wit, a
fnnd of information, a 'ready understanding
and some slight litirary ability.
A column may consist of poetry, "near
poetry, jokes, wheezes, more or less frivolous
editorial paragraphs, short essays, satires
and yawps.
The province of the column Is to "uplift
the mass." This may be done in many ways.
The colyumist may, cause n thought to fer
ment In an obscure corner.
Or he may start a smile on its journey
through the world.
Or he may inspire a highbrow or a rough
neck with the belief thnt lie can .write n
darned sight better column than the col
yumist. Tliis promotes g,ood humor, and
good humor's catching.
Seablrd
"The slim dispatch boat .skims, with wings of
spray,
Leaping nnd dancing pver the swelling sea,
Bearing tho word the restive ships obex
Unfalteringly.
With proud and dominant keel she shivers by,
Poised on the whitening, fincasy foam.
Sho strains, as if alert to witig'the sky '
And make it her home,
CLEMENT WOOD.
Personal Note
neywood Broun, the baseball expert and
dramatic critic who writes most excellent
book reviews for the New York Tribune,
dropped Info tho office of the Saucepan on
Saturday en route for the sporting depart
ment to get some dope on tho Harvard-
Princeton football game. Knowing him to
be n young man of catholic tastj, we sought!
to interest him in Mrs. Wilson's doughnuFT
recipes, but Bomebody or other effected' a
forward pnss fat about thnt time and his
nttention seemed to waver, and so" we de
sisted. ,
Kate Douglas Wiggin has just compiled a
list of books for boys and girls, ner list,
which Includes "Robinson Crnsoe" by
Charles Kingsley, is Incomplete. It ought to
'Include "Water Babies" by Daniel Defoe.
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The Young Lady Across the Way says
that with so much weather lying around
loose, first thing we know Philadelphia will
have a climate,
Tho one sad feature of fuel control is
that If the strike continues there will be
next to nothing to control.
second place when fdotbnll comes along,
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.Heatlesg days may be" comlagT-wlth it"
without eevrlf ordew. a
IT'S OVER!"
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VILLANELLE
OH, HILLS we loved In sweeter days of
old,
What faith shall bind, and what strong
love prevail? ,
The scythe of Time is singing through the
gold. i
Malefic priests thy mysteries have told
On some black rosary of hidden Baal.
Oh, hills we loved in sweeter days of old!
Once walked wo there in such diviner mold,
Nor life nor death nor Borrow might
assail ;
The scythe of Time is singing through the
gold.
The flocks of Dawn must couch in Dusk's
gray fold,
For that veiled shepherd piping down the
trail,
Oh, hills we loved in sweeter days of old!
But thou art tomb of all the heart might
hold, .
Tho dumb days trend like mourners ashen
pale;
The scythe of Time. is singing through the
gold. '
A ghostly campfire on a windy wold,"
We followed like the knights of ancient
tale; N ' s
Vain was the question, far the HolyGrall,
The scythe of Time is singing through the
gold. Sydne Bulletin.
Philadelphia has broken its tax record
this year and the figures bespeak a' big .and
prosperous city. But the true gauge of our
prosperity will never be known until, thert
is published tho amount of our war amuse
ment nnd luxury taxes.
Joseph S. MacLaughlln has an 'alibi;
but probably the ' real reason he wasn't
elected Mayor was that the voters 'didn't
want him. Or is that explanation too re
freshingly simple? '
What Do You Know?,
QUIZ
What Is a sconce? .
Over what people did Cyrus the Great
rule?
What is fondant?
Between what years was the Thirty
Years' War fought?
What was the original meaning of the
word merry?
Who was St. Swlthin?
AVho is assistant secretary of war?
Where is Timbuctoo?
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0, Who wrote "Mr. Midshipman 'Easy"?
10. What was Benjamin Disraeli's title?'
Answers to Saturday's Quiz
1 . The Rev. John Jasper was an American
negro preacher. . "
2.- He is known for having declared' to his
congregation. "Brethren, the' sun do
move!"
3. The Volstead law is the prohibition en-
forcement.act recently pnBsed'by Con
gress. '
4. Hcndrik Hudson (properly Henry) wm
an Englishman,
5. Thackeray' died leaving the novel of
''Denis Duval" unfinished.
G. Kam'chamelia the Great ruled over th
Hawaiian Islands and was the first to'
unite them In a single kingdom,
7, Bangkok is the capital of Siam.
8. Cornelius Tacitus was a noted Romin
historian and legal orator, born In
the first century A. D. , f
0, Ills fame chiefly rests on his work de
scribing the manners and customs ot
the Germans,
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the Mexican War In 1848. tkMfrii
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