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"MAURER COURSE" DROPPED
TP THOSE students of industrial ptob-
lems who invited James H. Maurcr to
speak at the University of Pennsylvania
did so under the scholastic impression
that he would "add to the sum of human
knowledge" they were seriously mis
taken. The same is true of the authori
ties which sanctioned the visit of the
agitator.
There was no mystery about Mr.
Maurer's views. Attorney General Pal
mer was under no delusion concerning
them and he had no hesitancy in point
ing to the president of the State Federa
tion of Labor as a leader of objection
y jable type which this commonwealth
f could well spare.
The University is to be commended for
dropping the one-night Maurcr course
from the curriculum. It is less easy to
defend the policy which even considered
the possibility of enlightenment from
such a source.
"Light" from James H. Maurer is of
too reddish a hue to bo healthy for col
lege students or for any sane citizen.
THE ORCHESTRA IS SAFE
rpHE success of the Philadelphia Or-
chestra "drive" was pre-eminently
worthy of the cause. Organized cam
paigns for raising money have occasion
ally been sources of irritation, but the
Orchestra Association's efforts on behalf
of an endowment fund inspired no such
sentiment. It was a popular drive, fruit
ful of enthusiasm and of the 51,000,000
necessary for the maintenance of one of
the first artistic assets of the city.
Philadelphia has bcenproud of its elo-
, quent orchestra under the direction of
the magnetic Stokowski. The impossi
bility of sustaining the present high
standard of achievement without a fund
jls a financial bulwark was, however, ob
.ot!S. Music lovers and the community
as a whole can now take emphatic pleas
ure 'in the thought that the future of the
orchestra is secure. It is not merely n
present delight, but a joy fortified with
the attributes of permanence.
Only the interest on the new fund will
be expended. The same is true with re
spect to the $800,000 raised within the
past few years( Approximately $2,000,
000 is therefore available to preserve the
enlightening and ennobling stimulant of
good music in this city.
Edward Bok, who was in charge of
. the campaign representing the board of
directors, was tireless, practical, tactful.
He pleaded a popular case in a popular
way. The assurance that the Philadel
phia Orchestra takes its place perma
nently with the nation's notable contribu
tions to musical development is his re
ward and the public's. Wo have given a
definitely metropolitan stamp to our art.
THE OCEAN'S ARGUMENT
QOME of the storm-tossed passengers
on the Howard, en route for the
deeper waterways convention in Charles
ton, were probably disinclined to listen to
any arguments unless propounded on
terra firma. Moreover, while the vessel
was tumbling about amid the big rollers,
5t was hardly necessary to convince the
victims of seasickness that the bosom of
the Atlantic in autumn is rough and
unfriendly or that a suave inland route
would spare travelers many a bitter
pang.
Mayor-elect Moore, who successfully
defied mal de mcr, was happily privi
leged to regard the tempestuous waves
as among the most active and impres
sive propagandists for his cause. Even
a "raging canal" is a thoroughly delight
ful substitute for an angry ocean. Mr.
.Moore's inland waterways program is
unquestionably enhanced in appeal by
the way the sea "acted up for him."
An inside route for virtually all of the
distance between Philadelphia or New
York and Florida is a perfectly feasible
project It can be realized by deepening
the existing canals and providing ade
quate channels in the sounds and bays.
Citizens who lack enthusiasm for the
plan could be instructed by a trip off
Cape Hatteras this time of year.
, THEE CHANGINGTIMES
QNLY a few years ago English women
were hunger-striking in jails because
they Insisted on agitating for a vote
which British statesmen wpm nnf ,.,;n!
,- .. .w ..wv TTfllfi,
n'fj grant mem. wow a lady, who
LAt . tuaa in Tia nn Amnpinn tn ....l
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t lor parliament and she probably will
elected bv the votes of womrn T .
-Astor. who is strivintr for this nnn, :
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K A riqnce, was born in Virginia and she is
f ' proud of the fact.
Her platform is simplicity itself. "I
wish," she is telling the voters, "to create
in Parliament a real concern for the wel
fare; of, women and children."
' Contemporary economic history in
.England makes it pretty plain that such
x concern will be a dazzling novelty in
" Commons, Parliament is accustomed to
thinking1 of finance, trade, territorial am
bitions, colonies, ships nnd the like. It
required the war and a woman to suggest
to British statesmen that women and
children aro actually more important
than any of these things.
Perhaps, after all, the hunger strikes
were worth while.
WHAT OF "THE LESSONS
OF VICTORY"? A REVIEW
Fortunately for the World, the Purposes
of the War Are Remembered by
the Silent Majority
IT IS not easy to maintain unshaken
and untroubled opinions while passion
sweeps the world' like a big wind. A
year ago today in this place something
was written about the lessons of the vic
tory that came with the armistice.
Babylon had fallen once again. Man's
spirit was icvcrently upon its Knees. It
was like an hour of revelations of truth
and destiny. It did not seem that the
mow! could pass without leaving some
thing of eternal wisdom behind it.
A rereading of what was written then
makes the opinions of that moment seem
almost woefully optimistic. War is
seething almost everywhere upon the
continent of Europe. It is flickering in
Asia. There is not even an armistice be
tween the Senate and the White House.
The two indispensable groups in industry
are glowering at each other and shouting
wild threats across abysses of misunder
standing. A pitiful group of half-mad
people who have been advocating a re
turn to barbarism and saagery arc
being assembled for deportntion by a
government that they wished to destroy
with all other governments.
Certainly peace has not yet come to
the word." And yet, unless faith in hu
manity i a misplaced faith, all the
promises and implications of victory won
in the greatest of wars still stand and
flame to guide the race.
The cliques and crowds that are filling
the world with clamor nnd bitterness do
not lead. Thcv only think they lead.
Unon the majority that is not crazed
with too much poverty or too much power
lic3 the irsponsibility of every great
decision. The destinies of nations and of
civilization arc in it8? hands. It has a
new enemy and that enemy is ig
norance ignorance that is determined
nnd belligerent, arrayed magnificently or
going in rags, spuriously pious or frankly
treasonable, polluting mass opinion or
openly swinging a tot eh and furious as
an army of devils.
There are days when the very air
seems heavy and suffocating with 'lies.
Men who fear nothing else under heaven
will cut corners and slip up convenient
byways or avert their eves hurriedly
rather than look a fact in the face or
gaze upon the white and simple truth
that alone can bring peace to, mankind.
We in the United States cannot follow
their example unless we wish to be
utterly disarmed for all future responsi
bilities and emergencies. That would be
base. It would be unworthy. And it
would be futile.
It will be wiser to admit that there
can be no substitute for righteousness
and that nothing can ever take the place
of truth. You might wipe out all the
records of civilization and eliminate every
suggestion of all that has ever been
.hoped and thought and believed, and the
passion for justice and truth would recur
automatically at the heart of humanity.
It is the very salvation of man, the justi
fication of his intelligence and his claim
to a place above the brutes.
Kings and tyrants have fallen regu
larly and empires have flamed in the
wake of the quest which that emotion
inspires. And there will be no peace
until the goal is found.
It is ignorance of one another and
ignorance of instinctive human aims that
make the way bitter and hard. But it
requires little of charity to admit that
almost every man means well and that
few of them are ever willing to go into
any sort of battle for what they do not
believe to be right. Thus reasonable
people find it hard to feel that any one
is evil because he expresses himself and
expends his talents as an organizer of
industry. And it is difficult to feel that
men who fought gallantly in the Ameri
can army become dangerous, treasonable
and disloyal by the mere act of getting
into working clothes and asking for bet
ter wages.
Their leaders may be wrong-headed,
embittered, selfish or ignorant. But
nothing that has occurred, even in re
cent months in America, should be ade
quate to destroy our faith in the decency
of the rank and file. There are men who
would call the Good Samaritan an abom
inable plutocrat, yet the Samaritan at
bottom moved to the same impulses as
the man he helped at the wayside. There
are others who, had they lived in Baby
lon, would have Renounced Isaiah as a
dangerous Red and organized a posse to
chase him from the city gates. Yet
Isaiah, saving that he spoke with the
voice of God and perhaps he did ut
tered only the complaint that always
since men began to aspire has been flung
at the unrighteous who happen to be
powerful:
"He looked for judgment and behold
oppression; for righteousness and be
hold a cry!"
When the lesson of victory is learned
that cry will be itilled and not before.
All the peoples of all nations are dis
posed to give too much attention to those
who still believe igviorantly that you can
be unjust and survive and to others who,
with the singular perversion of the inept
and lazy-minded, hate any man who hap
pens to have got hold of some money.
The propagandists of these two croups
have saturated the air with falsehood.
There isn t one business man in a thou
sand who deliberately wishes to be un-
ist or cruel. And half the "Reds" of
Europe are merely poor people tragically
ignorant, bewildered with grief and
dread and hunger. Bolshevism itself, as
it is known in Russia, seen through the
fogs of misunderstanding and rumor and
frantic and futile and destructive as it is,
turns upon, the world a face of misery
and gray pain.
There is too much talk of the ignorant
foreigner. If the foreigner is ignorant
KVENG n PUBLIC LEt)qERHILADfiLPHlA, ''TOBix" NpfyJEj&JSB' 11,
he cannot help It, Ralher than hold his
ignorance against him as if it were n
crime it might be proper to put somo
questions to the people who had his mind
and spirit in keeping for centurion.
There has been too great an effort to
drive the foreigners in America, little
effoit to lead them. If at last they ac
cept dangerous or insane leaders who
can blame them? What other leaders
did they have? Who else manifested
even the pretense of an interest in their
lives? The very nature of the things
they believe shows how desofatc n knowl
edge these strangers nrc.
Wc do not know whether the Russian
Workmen's party was Emma Goldman or
Ben Rcitman, the Goldman's greasy nnd
white-handed parasite, sodden with un
digested theory, who never did ti decent
job of work in nil his life. But it is one
or the other. It sounds like Ben. And
there is something hnrsh to be said of a
civilization that has left any people so
hopelessly steeppd in ignorance as to
make Rcitmans and Goldmnns possible.
By the abolition of law, religion, ethics
and government and order these unfor
tunates have been told you achieve lib
erty! There is libeity of the sort attainable
by that method in the jungle. Hut it
exists only for the tigers and the bull
elephants, and is denied them when they
are no longer able to fight for it. For
all other created things in the anarchistic
world there could be less liberty than
there was for the people in Germany
while there was freedom there for the
Hohcnzollerns.
Wherever there is violence of thought
or action there is ignorance and seldom
anything more deadly. And so collective
judgment in the United States is to be
put to a great test, since it must curb
and balance and restrain the forces of
ignorance that would deliberately over
ride the safe barriers of democratic in
stitutions. The common thought of the country
has been carried to a new plane by the
responsibilities of war and the equally
heavy responsibilities of victory. That
is certain. The lessons of a year ago are
remembered by the people who do the
least talking. The silent majority will
have to lead and there are signs that it
is actually leading. To the tribunal of
its judgment all parties appeal.
Its war now must be upon ignorance.
And whatever is not for the welfare of
the nation and the welfare of the race is
founded in ignorance. Literacy or illit
eracy plays no part in the final analysis.
So long as the silent majority knows
that the free institutions of government
in the United States are perhaps the
most precious thing left to the world out
of human experience we may face the
future with pride and assurance. And
the silent majority knows. That was the
great and unforgettable lesson of the
victory.
"CONCURRENT" LIQUOR LAWS .
LAWYERS employer" by the brewers
1 and distillers havv. been saying that
the prohibition constitutional amendment
is unworkable because of its provision
that Congress and the several states
shall have concurrent jurisdiction to pass
laws for its enforcement.
Judge Bonniwell, of the Municipal
Court, who was a candidate for the gov
ernorship last year on an anti-prohibition
platform, agreed with these lawyers
in a letter which he wrote to this news
paper last week. He said that the con
current jurisdiction provision would pro
duce "interminable conflict," or that the
federal law would remain inoperative in
New Jersey and Pennsylvania and pre
sumably in all other states until these
states passed concurrent laws.
Attorney General Schaffer, who can
not be suspected of special pleading, dis
agrees radically with Judge Bonniwell.
In another part of this newspaper today
he charges the judge with ignorance of
the meaning of "concurrent" as a legal
term, and explains that "concurrent
jurisdiction is that of several different
tribunals, each authorized to deal with
the same subject matter."
As to the conflict between laws passed
by two bodies with concurrent jurisdic
tion the attorney general reminds the
judge that it has been held that the law
which is the most restrictive prevails.
In practice this means that if Pennsyl
vania had a law forbidding the sale of
beverages containing more than 1 per J
cent of alcohol, while the act of Congress
limits the legal percentage to one-half
of 1 per cent, the federal act would pre
vail. The federal courts would enforce
it and the state courts would enforce the
state law," but no one would dare violate
the more rigid statute for fear of being
haled into the cotfrts with jurisdiction to
inflict punishment.
The conflict, therefore, between state
and federal statute, according to the
view of the attorney general, is of merely
academic interest, for it will not affect
the administration of justice in any way.
This is the view of most, if not all, law
yers not retained by the liquor interests.
It is based on the general practice sup
ported by decisions of the courts in spe
cific instances. When the case gets be
fore the Supreme Court in Washington
it is the confident opinion of unpreju
diced lawyers that that court will dis
pose of the quibble so effectively that no
one will have the audacity to attempt it
again.
Because of the fear
Getting It Over thnt the railroads, re
lying on the govern
ment guarantee, might fnil to make appli
cation to the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion for n general Increase in rates, the
Interstate commerce committee of the House
of Representatives in n bill fonnnlly "re
ported makes it obligatory to make such
application within sixty days after the roads
have been returned to private ownership.
Chairman Hsch is evidently of the opinion
that what must be done had best be done
quickly,
Italy Is not yet ready
to discuss with the
Germans the treaty
The Hun's
Ing Suit
protocol to prevent ar
mistice violations. It isn't on record thnt
Germany is grieving over the postponement.
In the meuntime she will go on perpetrnt
ing violations and thinking up good ex
cuses. Wc nre Informed that a distinct im
pression prevails that John C. h being
groomed for the public safety job.
PEACE AT THE FRONT
News of the Armistice Left the So
dlers Apathetic, Though It Meant
Certainty of Life to Them
Iy CAPTAIN WAL.TKK LON(5
TjlIOHTIN'G lit the world war ceased be-
twecn Germany nnd the Allies one year
iiKii today when the armistice was signed.
To the "fnlks bnrk hnmc" the news meant
a break in the long ntrnln of wntchliiK and
waiting, mid utircntrlcted joy turned the
country upside down. "Hemps of paper
flow in snowy slmwerH from office window",
work ceased, and It was one long jubilation.
To the troops nt the front It meant u sud
den HftiiiB of the strain and it left the men
apathetic. They stood nbout, looked at each
other, and found it hard to realize that the
world of war in whirl they had lived had
ionic to mi end, that before them stretched
lone iitns of the same sort of life they had
been accustomed to before wnr tore them
from their homes.
TO TI1K men behind the lines it mennt nn
end of the weary grind, nn end to frantic
efforts to be transferred to the front, nn
end of countless cans of beans, countless
piles of horseshoes, countless hoards of
countless articles used by nn nrmy, nnd
dinnlied on them to sort nnd forward while
more fortunntc ones did the actual fighting.
To the men nt the front it meant life. The
lighting men had "written off" their lives
so to speak. They expected to be killed
sooner or later if it kept up long enough.
The life thus bequeathed them by the
armistice was therefore "velvet," as they
phrased it.
THK armistice meant quiet where sound
hnd predominated nt the front. The guns
censed booming nnd growling and rumbling.
It gnve the same sort of feeling n man has
who goes through a boiler factory on n Sun
dav. Icr.Ything there to mnkc noise, but
tint n sound.
Hends bobbed up nlong the Germnn lines,
hut strict orders against fraternizing went
out. nnd the Americans kept to themselves
and kept the Germans on their own side o.f
the line.
By and by the full significance of the
thing-went home nnd the celebration com
menced nlong the front lines. It wns after
midnight when the news first came. A bit
back regimental bands turned out, nnd played
nnd blared, while the soldiers stood nbout
nnd grinned nnd congrntulated ench other.
Windows flew open, nnd thcFrcnch stuck
out their heads nnd inquired eagerly if It
was really the peace. The soldiers shouted
confirmation.
T1.
HKN", from nowhere in particular, motor-
trucks nppenred bearing crowds of French
nnd Ilelginns from somewhere behind the
Germnn lines. Men, women nnd children.
Xot much jubilation : they seemed stunned
nnd unable to realize. Whenever a truck
stopped in n village the occupants exchanged
n few words with the French and American
soldiers, nnd thnt wns nil.
The usual glass of vin blanc or vin rouge,
a few slaps on the back, and the men turned
in until the morrow. Along the front lines
Very pistol lights. Hares, rockets nnd every
sort of signaling fireworks in possession of
the troops were sent off and gusts of cheer
ing swept nlong the linns. From behind the
German trenches came faint strains of music
nnd indistinct shouting,
After breakfast the French in the large
towns nnd cities turned out in force. Men
and women linked arms and paraded all day
long and most of the night up nnd down and
around, singing, cheering shouting, playing
on horns nnd bugles. Flngs fluttered nt the
hend of the column.
TIII3 experience of n Philadelphia boy,
Hugh Deeney, private In Company G,
14(lth Infnntrr, Thirty-seventh Division,
wns typicnl of them nil, Deeney nnd his
comrades were to go "over the top" nt 4
o'clock in the morning, nnd the news of the
armistice put n stop to the plans for the
push. "We were just outside n little ham
let north of Sjtigem. Belgium," he said to
day. "Wo were all dug In, ready to go over,
nnd taking a bit of sleep when the news
came. The next morning the whole popula
tion of the little ullage, until that time in
German hands, swarmed out, nil decorated
with ribbons, with flags nnd horns nnd
swept down on us oxer our trenches, nnd
they hugged nnd kissed us nnd just over
whelmed us. Geo! they were glad."
Such was armistice day nt the front. Then
for the first time came that historic ques
tion :
"When do we go home?"
The assistant director of the Depart
ment of, Wharves, Docks nnd Ferries says
that ns n result of the grcntly enhanced cost
of construction Philadelphia will take no
uctivr part in the project to build nn
iiS.OOO.OOO drydock in this poct. If there is
no other reason that isn't any reason.
The man who suggested the Phoenix
Trust Company as a successor to the North
I'enn Hank had a nice sense of values in
nomenclature: The old officials are fired
nnd the new order rises from the ashes of
their hopes.
Accidents will, of course happen; but
one cannot read of the burning in Indiana .of
the largest bituminous toal mine 'in the
world without thinking of William Z. Fos
ter's remarks in those far-off days when he
was a sjndicalist.
The Toledo strcet-cnr company that
spirited its cars into Michigan as a protest
ngainst ouster proceedings must look upon
it as an incomplete job, ns they have left
the rails in Ohio.
If the year of peace jut concluded
seems chock-full of its opposite, it is be
cause war's momentum carried it beyond
its official stopping place.
Kvcr so many men seem willing to help
the Mnyor-elcct in his job of cabinet making.
Hut neither the ability to use wise saws nor
to wield a hammer qualifies.
If the striking miners are not careful
school teachers and clergymen will be going
after their jobs as offering more moneyjmd
more leisure.
Cabinet-maker Moore will have no lack
of matcriol to choose from. Luckily one has
reason to believe that he will exercise judg
ment in his choice.
Mayor Smith wishes his successor well,
but he fears that It will hardly turn out
that way.
And it may also be said that the radi
cals captured in federal raids were taken
as Red. . ,
Carping critics declare that" just be
cause his name is Wood he is not neces
sarily presidential timber.
Th-c is no suggestion of grafting in
the i c)' 1 that glovemakers lack a skin
supply. )
None of the workers In the various
"drives" can be characterized as careless
drivers'. , , ,
V
The hardest thing the fair price com
mittee has to do Is to answer he question:
What is a fajr price?
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THE SAUCEPAN
RAMBLES IN RAMBLEVILLE
"DECAUSE enthusiastic Philadclphinns had
told me nt least once during the last
couple of yenrs that Wissahickon is the most
beautiful place in the world I promised the
princess nnd duchess that I would take them
over the ground behind a spanking team, so
wc took the longest nickel jaunt in the city
up Thirteenth street, through Nlcetown, to a
point within n dollar automobile ride of
Valley Green, where we utterly failed to
connect with a horse-drawn vehicle and had
to walk through Kitchen lane to home and
mother. Excuse nie till I take n brcnth.
I have the word of her royal highness nnd
her grace that it was just lovely, and I am
prepared to subscribe heartily to their ver
dict. My views of nature nrc closely allied
to my views on music nnd art. I don't know
much nbout it. but "I know whnt I like."
And of Wissahickon I am prepared to say
that 1 like it fine. Can a man say more?
He can. Listen !
There wasn't the color in Wissahickon last
Sunday that had rioted there some Sundays
before because after Policeman Jnck Frost
'had pinched the leaves Warden Wind had
stowed 'em away in the cooler for at least
ninety days, which isn't at all a bad figure
of speech, when you come to think of it,
eh, what? And, anyhow, I nm considerably
relieved, for that I do not have to tell of the
reds nnd yellows of the thingummy leaves
on the whatdoyoucallcm trees against the
mauves nnd puces of n September sky while
the goldenrod pollen- sneezes In the breezes.
November has a bare and hardy look and
nature, the artist, puts awny her brush and
palette in favor of pen and ink. She gets
her greatest effects in line drawings.
Bless my heart, if I keep on I'll be fool
ing you into the belief that I know some
thing! Ever been to Wissahickon? If you have
I don't need to describe it. it you Haven't,
nothing anybody may write can give you the
picture. So why write? Foolish, foolish!
There's a reason.
I have seen scores of vistas and creeks and
wooded hills as beautiful as any in the Wis
sahickon; but never so many in so small a
space; and never so large a space so vista
packed ; which is a paradox you may prove
for yourself most any time.
Philadelphia may well be proud of ' the
Wissahickon, and proud of the fact that she
Is proud of it. For it is the city's practical
appreciation of the beautiful, this laying up
of nature's handiwork for future genera
tions, this setting of God's jewel in a ring
of man's handiwork that makes Wissahickon
the golden wonuer it is.
A wonder it is; a wonder' and a glory
compounded of simple things, trees and
creeks and hills; the simplest, commonest
things In the world; simple and common
as man, and you know how simple and com
mon he Is.
I sometimes wish I knew more nbout na
ture. I have envied the powers of minute
observation of John Burroughs nnd Gilbert
White and their wonderful knowledge of
tree and flower and wild living things. And
while envying I have questioned my own
sincerity.
I never met a man yet who did not take
a more or less pardonable pride in his de
fects of mind and character. He always
glorifies them as a cause of something worth
while. Graciously I grant myself kin to my
fellows. I confess that where I gained in
one direction I mightlose In nnother.
I look upon a sccneth'tit might stir the soul
of an artist a hill viewing itself In the still
waters of a pool, with a gray blue sky em
"lOlij "
NO AHMISTICE HERE
bracing it in a frosty smile. It pleases me,
I confess it but I get more joy in a couple
of kids investigating the tunnel through
which a brook runs utider the roadway, boys
who haw no eyes nt all for the beauty
around them, but nre mightily concerned
nbout their own nbility to step from stone
to stone lit the chattering waters.
It is the human comedy around me that
pleases me nnd intrigues my interest. This
day I bathed in beauty, nnd the things that
stick in my memory me the colored man
who drove us to the bridge nn" who didn't
charge us all mo' 'nn n dollar; the people
who partook of lunch in the quaint old inn ;
and
Say! The distinguished and stntnlv cen-
'tleman who wuitcd on us is worth n para
graph to himself. To n group of ladies at
au adjoining table he said, "I will answer
jour questions concerning viands, but I
won't take orders at this moment. I have
already too many orders floating around up
stairs." The gentleman referred to the commis
sious with which his gray matter was
charged, but the lady took him literally.
"Oh," she said, "do you serve upstairs?"
"No," he replied gravely.
And I herewith go on record as believing
thrit he was ns ignorant of what caused
her question as she was of his original'
meaning.
Oh, well, every man to his humor. I get
most fun out of folks.
Why,' then, do I wandCr to tho Wissa
hickon when 1 enn get nil the joy I want
at Broad Street Stution?
Tish, tush, child! Think.n minute. Have
you forgotten tho princess nnd tire duchess'
DHMOSTHENES McGINNIS. '
Castles
Isn't it wonderful, sitting here dreaming,
Dreaming and musing of what we would
be,
What wc .would do, nnd where we nre going,
WhoDi'wc shnll meet there, and what wc
'bhnll sec?
High in the sky mount our nerial castles,
Towers of hope, far nway in the blue,
Higher nnd higher these beautiful nothings
Float in the air till they pass out of view.
Sweeter by far than the fair scent of rose
leaves t
Are the stray dreami? of these bulwarks so
grand ;
Armed with firm faith, bravest hope, daunt
less courage,
Go forth and fight! And your castles win
stand !
EDWARD HARRISON FOX.
The slogan of the moonshiner is, "With
all your faults I love you, still."
When n Red is bled white enough to feel
blue mature reflection may cause him to
become ngood citizen.
The Young Lady Next Door but One
The Youug Lady Next Door But One says
she fancies that when the market takes a
sharp'drop it must be very bad for tho eggs.
She says her fnthcr has Explained to her
what securities nre, but that insecurities aro
cold storage eggs is something she, has
doped out for herself.
She also says Bhe supposes It is the milk
man who is most deeply Interested in deep
waterways.
The maxim-monger who said that one
could cjtch nun c llles with sugar thau with
vinegar hod never considered the possibility
of a sugar shortage.
STARS
I AM so small when I go out
Beneath the heaven of All Souls,
And sec them twinkling nil nbout
Who won through to their briary goals ;
When I look up into the dome
Their gathered constellations wreathe
The Great, the Faithful, trooping home
I am so small I-'carcely breathe.
I am so great for I am I.
Not one, of all the starry baud.
Went just the way I travel by
To overtake my fatherland.
Seeking forever mine own Sign,
Lord of my spirit's lone estate.
My soul's a heaven where they shine
A part of me I nm so great.
-Karlc Wilson Baker in the Yale Review.
The Red anniversary turned out to be
a blue one for the celebrators.
What Do You Knotv?
QUIZ
1. The Democrats celebrate January 8 as
, "Jackson Day" and yet Andrew Jack
son wns born in March. Explain tho
apparent discrepancy.
2. How did the industrial equipment of
the paleolithic mnn differ from thnt
of the neolithic man?
3. On what date did the German commis
sioners sign the peace treaty?
4. In" what state are the Wasatch Moun
tains?
C. What is the oldest book In the world?
fl. What Is President Carranza's fltst
name? -
7. How many kilometers are in a mile?
8. Who wrote "Orlando Furioso"?
0. How did the wireless signal S. O. S.
originate?
10. Who wns Hesiod?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Sconce has numerous meanings. It is a
lantern, a movable, or fixed candlestick
hung or attached to a wall ; a shelter,
screen penthouse, small, detached for
blockhouse, bulwark, a fragment of ice
floe, a fine Imposed nt English univer
sities for a trivial offense especially at
table; and, colloqlally, a person's
head.
2. Cyrus the Great was the founder of the
Persian empire. Ills dates arc Coil
520 B. C.
3. Fondant; n kiijd of sweetmeat. It takes
its name from thk French "fonder,"
to pour,
4. The Thirty Years War began in 1C18
nnd was ended by thj Peace of West
phalia in 1048.
C, The original meaning of the word merry
was not mirthful, but active, famous,
y hence, gallant. Soldiers were called
"merry men." Its application to
Robin Hood's band is obvious. Merry
England means brave, gallant-England,
0, Swlthln was an Anglo-Saxon saint, born
near Winchester about the year 800.
He is noted In folklore, a common
ndagc being that if it rains on St,
Swlthln's Jay (July 15)" it will rain for
forty days thereafter.
7. Benedict Crowell is assistant secretary
of wnr,
8, Timbuctoo is a city in Africa, near the
southern border of the Sahara, about
ten miles north pf tho Niger river.
0. "Mr. Midshipman Easy" was written
by Frederick Marryat, captain in the
British royal navy and novelist,
10. Benjamin Disraeli's title was Earl of
Beacone'fleld,
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