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THE GREAT SUGAR MYSTERY
SOME pretty elaborate explanations
will be necessary to dispel the general
resentment inspired by news of vast ex
ports of refined sugar from this city at
a time when many households are alto
gether without that important food com
modity. An air of secrecy nt the docks
will not help to reconcile the public to the
singular business. A cloud of tcchnicali-
i. . it i ri fl.nv
ties cannot obscure the simple fact that ,
there seems to be sugar in abundance fo ,
rvnnrr. nni rp nL vpiv ulliu iul uoi.
home in markets where the price is being
carefully regulated in the interest of the
public.
England, it is said, has had a prior
title to 34,500 tons of refined sugar taken
from refineries in this city within the past
sixty days. Is the sugar owned by the
British Government' Or is it owned by
a, syndicate of British profiteers? Repre
sentatives of the sugar equalization
board, with apparent deliberation, have
created the impression that no refined
sugar was being exported at this lime.
Yet Mr. McCarthy, who is supposed to
direct sugar allotments in this region,
has a close association with the refinery
that has supplied cargoes of sugar for
Europe. Contract obligations may have
mado, the delivery of such cargoes im
perative. But the public will want to
know a little more about such contracts.
And if the contracts exist it will want to
know why it is necessary to surround the
shipment of the sugar with a veil of se
crecy, as if an attempt were making
to ,,gct it out of the country surrepti
tiously. It is- a notorious fact that vast quanti
ties' of American products are being held
in some European ports to await the re
moval of the blockade which the Allies
have established about Russia. Is sugar
a part of this general hoard owned by
gamblers eager to obtain famine prices in
Unregulated markets? The news of yes
terday is likely to start a long train of
questions in the popular mind concerning
other necessities of life.
The fact that .IJ.COO tons of rr lined
sugar bos been and ik being shipped abroad
from Thlladelphia while Philadelpliians are
on scant susar rations ia n Mn-et cae of
refined cruelty.
IN THE MAYOR'S FOOTSTEPS
MAYOR SMITH, as the head of a
bonding concern, has always insisted
frankly that ho had a right to mix his
public and private business when tho
practice was to his own advantage. In
the. face of such an example it is not
surprising to find one of the members of
his cabinet charged with following a
somewhat similar course.
Mr. Trainer's charges against Director
Wilson, of the Department of Public
Safety, imply merely that information
relative to street accidents found an easy
Way from the police department to the
law offices of a firm in which Director
Wilson is a partner. The number of
claims filed against the city by Director
Wilson's firm and the total of damages
collected during the period of the Smith
administration make it appear that the
Information obtained by the police de
partment as a matter of daily routine was
Used to excellent advantage by the asso
ciates of the Director of Public Safely
In tne direction of damage suits.
The Mayor may have been technically
rteht in mixinir his bondinrr business with
municipal affairs. Mr. Wilson may have !
had no technical right to prevent his
11 friends from following the course com
plained of. But if Mr. Trainer lias not
rww -wildly astray in his charges the row
E fav.elving the Director is merely another
r ' fcidtenl" that will make the end of the
uiw.ui municipal administration seem a
JiMJtoo far off even now.
ilirector Wilson wants d00 more patrol -me
to protect the city. Putting on a bpurt
.1 wr me lasi iapj
, ,. HEW WOE FOR POLITICIANS
TJOLITICIANS in this stato havn honn
'- Streaming a sweet dream. Any student
ef political undercurrents knows that ef
forts began a year ago to mobilize femi
nine sentiment of the fato in behalf of
the. different parties in order that when
the franchise became universal large
blocks of votes would be ready for de
Jiwry as necessity arose.
The sudden tragic rift in the Women's
fcejutblican Club yesterday, and the
naijtve of the charges and coonter-charges
ftifedi:ig an explosion that experts had
Jfujf expected, show how far at sea the
wis men of the two parties actually have
bi. Who can control the feminine mind
in orout of politics ? Who can predict the
future of voters who resign indignantly
rom a club because the president of that
club wished to obtain an ?01cc?
Th presidents of political clubs always
Hli office. That is what political clubs
hs, "ben for. Yet Mrs, Archibald B.
titwf WKS deserted by many of her as.
sociatcB, who Ecemlngly became angry
when eho becamo ambitious, this Is not
according to political traditions, although
creditable to the unselfish spirit oC the
resjgncrs.
.' There are suggestions of inoods as old
as time in this Incident. And it is pretty
clear that when the women of Pennsyl
vania vote the bosses will have to guess
and pray. Women will doubtless vote
sincerely. But the lenders will never,
never know what is to happen until' the
ballots are counted.
WILSON'S PLAN TO TAKE
THE TARIFFOUT OF POLITICS
It Consists ln Swinging the Democratic
Party Over to the Historical
Republican Position
MEN with long political memories will
find the President's abandonment of
the historical position of the Democratic
party on the taiiff the most notable fea
ture of his annual message to Congress.
The Democratic Dartv has been com
mitted for years to a tariff for revenue ,
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only, wim as mucn or an njjj.uAiiuuuM ,
to free trade as was possible. Grovcr
Cleveland and other lights of the party
have insisted that a tariff for any other
purpose than revenue is unconstitutional.
Mr. Wilson himself, in his first message
to CongreiS, urged the lowering of all
duties to such a point as would put the
importer on thessame level in the domes
tic market as tiie domestic producer.
But now, in view of what lias hap
pened since he entered office, he is recom
mending that "the prejudice and passioi
engendered by decades of controersy be-
tween two schools of political and eco
nomic thought- the one believers in pro
tection of American industries, the other
believers in tariff for revenue only must
be subordinated to the single considera
tion of tiie public interest in the light of
lion 01 me puu.ic un.uii.-ai. m
conditions."
Hjj far as q
jroes so tar as to recommenu mat
in tariff legislation special consideration
should be paid to "the establishment of
the chemical and dyesluff industry in
America," and he suggests that this
establishment can be brought about by an
intelligent application of duties.
No protectionist could go any farther
than this in pointing out the expediency
of applying the policy of protection to an
existing condition. Events have forced
the leader of the opposition party to
come around to the historic Republican
position that the tariff is an expedient to
be used for assisting in tho development
of industry here and that it should be
used to the limit when circumstances
justify it.
The necessity of modifying the tariff
laws to meet the- conditions brought
about by the war has impressed itself on
every one who has given any thought to
the subject. This newspaper lias been
urging it upon the attention of Con
gress. America lias been changed from a
debtor to a creditor nation since 191-1.
We have brought back from Europe
nearly all of the American securities held
there. We have lent about nine billion
dollars to various European nations. We
have exported goods in such enormous
quantities that the purchasers are put
to it to find a way to pay for them. As
the President says, payment can be made
only in one of three ways by shipment
of gold, by shipment of goods or by an
extension of credit.
We have so much gold already that we
could not absorb much more without dis
astrous consequences. The European
nations are in no condition to borrow
more money with any hope of paying it.
There remains only the expedient of pay
ing in goods for what we shall continue
to send abroad and paying in goods the
interest on the loans already made to the
European nations.
The tariff laws must be so framed as
to make imports possible on such terms
as will permit the expansion of inter
national trade. This means that there
must be a careful study of tho whole
problem of foreign trade with n view to
the discovery of where it is expedient to
apply the protective policy and where it
4s expedient to modify it. If Mr. Wilson's
party will follow him the tariff will be
taken out of politics for many years to
come.
Mr. Wilson has also reached the con
clusion in which others anticipated him
that the solution of the problem of the re
lations between labor and capital must bo
met by the creation of somo sort of a
tribunal for the settlement of disputes
without upsetting industrial peace. He
is not very definite in his recommenda
tions, but he seems to be clear in his
conception of the ends to be accomplished.
The public is a party in interest in all
labor disputes. Its rights must be pro
tected, and while ihe right of labor to
strike must be admitted, its right to in
terfere with the orderly conduct of busi
ness by men not involved in its contro
versies must be surrendered in the inter
ests of the rest of us.
He does not suggest the drafting of an
industrial code, but all that he says
points in this direction.
Tiie best thought of the .country is with
him on these two important matters. It
is with him also in tho ends which he
seeks in his recommendations for relief
from the burden of high prices and for
the suppression of bolshevistic propa
ganda, but there will be regret that the
methods he proposed do not seem more
adequate.
As to the suppression of bolshevism,
he says: "With the free expression of
opinion and with the advocacy of orderly
political change, however fundamental,
there must bo no interference," hut he
urges the passage of Attorney General
Palmer's anti-sedition bill, which would
give to the courts power to interfere with
"the free expression of opinion" and with
"the advocacy of orderly political
change."
It may be urged in extenuation that
the President has not been ablo, in view
of his illness, to give to Attorney General
Palmer's bill that careful study which it
should receive from every one jealous of
the rights of free speech and a free
press.
Every one will Join with the President
in his denunciation of profiteers. They
haVe fallen so low that there it &o oa
to do them reverence. But it is doubtful
if federal llcenso for corporations en
gaged in interstato business and regula
tions compelling the wholcsalo price to
be plainly marked on all articles whore
it is practicable would havo the benefi
cent effect which Mr. Wilson anticipates.
The general impression is that the worst
profiteers aro not corporations engaged
in interstate business, but individual ex
ploiters who do business in one state or
one city.
As to marking the wholesale price on
articles, it would do nothing more than
give the purchnscr an impression of the
cost of retailing and confirm him in the
knowledge which ho already possesses.
The wholesale prico of eggs and potatoes
and apples is no secret. The householder
who pays five cents apiece for apples
knows how much they cost a barrel.
When a woman pays forty or fifty cents
a pound for bacon Mic can look in the
market columns of the newspapers and
find out what pig carcasses sell for in
Chicago.
Yet there are oilier recommendations
made by the President which suggest
that he favors general price fixing by the
government. Sucli a policy might be de
fended in a temporary crisis, but as a
permanent practice it would do more
harm than good, because prices are de
pendent on so many complicated condi
tions and fluctuate so rapidly that no
government bureau could find a just basi3
for action.
The treatment of temporary conditions
such as bolshevistic agitation and profit
ecrintr is not what the countrv .has a
right to expect from the President. But
when lie speaks of industrial conditions
and foicign trade, he utters words of
soberness and tiuth which can be con
sidered by Congress and by the whole
country as a broad-minded, patriotic,
statesmanlike contribution toward con
structive legislation.
COAL: A CRISIS
TT IS difficult to estimate or even
to
-- imagine the losses and hardship that
business men, wage-earners and the pub
lic at lnrgc will have to endure if the fuel
restrictions tentatisely proposed by Doc
tor Garfield are made generally effective
because of a continuing paralysis of the
soft-coal industry.
Suffering will be bitter and widespread
if the coal has to be mcagerly rationed
only to preferred industries, and the
losses in business will pass anything yet
dreamed of in tho United States. This
is because restrictions of the war period
were casual and limited to ono day a
week. As tho matter looks now the
country has to prepare for a coal famine
that may continue for an indefinite
period.
For the moment at least the Fuel Ad
ministration seems to be following a
policy of drift and hoping ardently that
the drift is in the right direction. But
surface indications are not of a sort to
encourage optimism. The government's
strike injunction, necessary and justi
fiable as it was, added a new clement of
bitterness to the soft-coal strike. It has
not served to renew production. Doctor
Garfield's suggestion that the miners ac
cept a wage increase less even than the
operators had promised in conferences
with the union leaders has further in
censed the men. The effort in a number
of the states to reopen the mines with
volunteers is more picturesque than prac
tical. Such a procedure hardens the mis
taken conviction among the miners that
the fight now on is primarily intended to
break the unions.
Volunteers can do little in the mines.
Mining is difficult work and it requires
experienced hands. The enthusiasm of
college men and others who arc new in
the pits will not long survive the danger
and darkness of gangways hundreds of
feet below the surface of the ground.
It is apparent that the Fuel Adminis
tration still shrinks from the sort of con
trol which, as we have suggested before
in these columns, would probably have
brought order and productivity in the
soft-coal fields. Such control would have
to be sweeping and authoritative from
one end of the soft-coal region to the
other. It would be a trying task for
which Doctor Garfield has neither equip
ment nor organization at present. But
it woujd have enabled the government to
summon all the miners back to work,
with a promise of fair treatment at the
outset and such an investigation of all
their claims as would insure an equitable
adjustment of wage scales later along.
The government may yet be forced to
adopt such a program. Doctor Garfield's
proposal for lightless nights and the
withdrawal of fuel- and light and power
from nonessential industries opens the
way to a period 6f suffering without any
apparent end. For a time it will be pos
sible to live without the industries classi
fied as nonessential. But what is to be
come of the millions of families that de
pend on these identical industries for
their very existence?
There would be no
And a Miss Might dullness in the neigh
Mean -.Hit at That borliood of City Hall
when the letter carrier
was due if the suggestion were acted upon
to fir a contrivance on 'William Penn's hat
to catch falling mail bags. There would
always be possibility that the aviator would
score a miss.
All the new Congrp.su
has to do Is to deal
effectively with the
No Place for T.ary
Men or Iazy Minds
lleds, rcgulnt food
transportation, smafih the profiteer", provide
employment for the Foldler, adjubt the rcla
tlona between capital and labor; and, when
these chores are attended to, tolvc the rail
road problem and ratify the reacc treaty.
Some Congresses run to seed and some
suffer from acedia.
Burglars in this city are still showing
lack of judgment by stealing furs instead
of sugar. .
Wo may naturally expect from Mr. Mc
Adoo au indorsement of the plea of the
soft-coal operators for a prlco hearing.
We Judge from the report of tho weather
bureau that December is going to be rold
enough to give snappiness to the coal Btrlkc.
Every industrial plant closed down as u
result of the coal strike helps to crystallize
public sentiment against the mineS being
permitted to remain idle.
MAYOR-ELECT MOORE'S
LETTER
How Congressman Vare'a Colleagues
Tried to Make Him Pay the Money
They Lost on bets Made on
His Tips on the Mayor
alty Primaries
Washington, Dec. II.
T IKE the stock market on Blue Monday,
Congrrsi opened sluggishly. Theresas a
lUtlcssness in both hoimes, and the galleries
showed no evidence of undue excitement.
The rioiw members who were held in es
nlon fo do very little during the summer,
becaiise.lhc President practically commanded
Ihem to remain nftr his return from
Europe, felt ni if they had had no vaca
tion at nil, nnd plunged into the "un
animoiiH consent calendar" to consider n
few public land bills just aR if school had
not let out. On the Senate side, much con
cern was expressed about President Wilson
and his attitude on the league of nations
situation. Kach house seems to feel that the
President needs smpathy both as to the
league of nations and the railroads, which
he had indicated in one of his messages
would be turned back to the owners by the
first of January. The President is a sick
man and the task ahead of him is heavier
than one man should bear. There are those
who regard the outlook as serious indeed.
The absence (if Senator Penrose was
noted, particularly because of rumors re
lating fo his physical condition. Truth is
the senior senntor from Pennsylvania has
been overworked nnd must lay off for
probably n month or more. This is the way
the physicians talk about it- f
Over on the House side the opening day
found most of the Philadelphia members on
gunid. including the Mnyor-rleet and Messrs.
Vare. Edmonds, Costello and narrow. Home
of the outside members were inclined to
"collect" from Congressman Vnrc. They
represented that they had gone wrong in
bets on the primary election, due lo tips
given out by him. ' One western member
claimed to hac lost' Jf.'iOO. but the First
district member i was finally "made wise"
to the frame-up.
CONGRESSMAN HENttY W. WATSON,
of the Bucks-Montgomery district, did
not get. a ery long vncation. The inter
state and foreign commerce committee, of
which he is a member, was obliged to sit
until the last horn blew lo consider the rnll
rnni) bill. TRe T.anghorne member has de
cided iev.-s on the railroad situation and
dors not think the bill as finally brought
from the committee solves the problem. n
talks of the $20,000,000,000 investment as
if there were some people throughout ths
land, including widows and orphans. who
have some rights with respect to railroad
management; but wees government owner
ship looming up as a possibility if condi
tions rcmnin as they arc. Tho congressman
knows, as every other observer does, that
the tailroad brotherhoods have a great deal
lo do with the ' solution of the problem.
Somo of these organizations are now be
ginning to talk of an extension of railway
control by the government. Keystone Lodge
No. 221 , United Brotherhood of Maintenance
of Way Employes and Railway Shop
Laborers, of Philadelphia, through the sec
retary, John J. Caldwell, is petitioning
Washington to agree to at least a two years'
extension of national control.
TTOW many people know that Editor
J--L Thomas J. Lindsey, once secretary of J
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the collector oi me port, came wiuuu uu ie
of being serrctary to a mayor? Tom was
younger in those days than he is now, but
no more vivacious. Apart from bis edi
torial work and his proximity to the "dean
ship" of the profession, Mr. Lindscy has
another love. It is Lansdowno. the spot he
has chosen for sleeping purposes. If it is a
Fourth of July celebration or a union nlh
letlc association affair you will generally find
the veteran newspaper man on the job.
Tie now has in mind a big function for
the 201 ,mcn, more or less, who left Lans
downe to go into the service of the United
States during tho war. They do uot pro
pose to forget those boys out in Lansdowno.
CAPTAIN JOHN P. VIRDI5N is happy,
and when the captain is happy George
V. Sproule, secretary of the commissioners
of navigation, is happy, and when ho is
happy nearly everybody along the wharves
is in the same frame of mind. Captain
Virden's smile is due to the appointment of
his nephew, Henry Virden Rice, to a cadet -ship
at West Point. Young Rice is the son
of William L. Rice, the box maker, and Anna
Edith Virden Rice, daughter of the late
Henry F. Virden. Virden is a good old
Delaware nsnie nnd runneth back to tho
origin of the Blue Hen's Chickens. Cap
tain John keeps up the traditions as presi
dent of the pilots' association for the bay
and river Delaware, and he is expecting
young Virden Rice to do the same thing at
West Point.
T
HE Engineers' Club of Philadelphia lias
nn interesting membership list. Included
in il are men who have traveled over the
world nnd who have done big work in Phila
delphia and throughout the nation. Joseph
A. Htelnmetz, the president, was. recently
invited to submit a list of members of the
club who might be rligible for high station
under tho new city administration, but Sir.
Steinmctz takes the ground that the club
really stands for a principle and that it
would be dangerous to mention names. If
Mr. Stclnmetz were given the opportunity to
pick "the prettiest girl" he probably could
not be more auroiv. (
NATHAN T. FOLWELL, whose judgment .
lis former president of the Manufac
turers' Club is entitled to weight,,, protests
against "the mutilation of Logan Square and
the multiplied dangers to children and others
crossing the square because they really have
to cross two boulevards instead of one."
Mr Folwell thinks the Parkway should have
run directly through the square. In this
opinion Mr. Folwell is backed up by Harri
son S. Morris, who says the treatment of
the square has been the subject of many
protests on the part of the artistically in
clined These gentlemen think the orna
mentation should have been on tho sides of
the boulevard rather than in tbe center of
two.
ANKEIl JOHN W. SPARKS is presi
j.f nf the New Jersey Society of Penn-
B
. i-ni and bs such Is accepting suggestions
for tho next dinner hich is to celebrate tho
ratification by New Jersey of the constltu
Iton of the United States.' Mr. fparkH U
an amiable president and like all his pre
decessors Is of open mlpd on dinner details.
The "open mind" in the New Jersey society
nerally gives play to some very brilliant
SuSgeHtlons from William J. Conlen, the
secretary, whoso raoge of vision is broadened
hv his Intimate association with masters,
mate and pilots from every shore. Whether
... iieyf Jersey society will servo water
melon In December or produce any1 of the
it... :irrsev truck farm specialties is a
nuestlon but such things havo been done
nt former meetings of these Pcnnsylvauians
of Jertey lineage
J. HAMPTON MOOKU.
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THE CHAFFING DISH
Reminiscences of.a Harfl Guy
WHEN I uoke up out therein France,
With blankets like a clam,
And found I'd joined tho army
And made myself a ham,
T simply rolled .a cigarette
I didn't give a damn.
AND when I'd done my very best
With caisson and with horse,
And found I had to listen
To language that was coarse.
InBtead of wildly raving
It was tho better plan
To roll myself a cigarette
And not to give a damn !
SO, WHEN I went a-biking
With caisson and with gun,
And most devoutly hoping
Wo wouldn't meet the Hun
When shrapnel started twanging
And shells began to blamb,
I'd slide into the nearest hoi"
And try the same old plan :
I'd roll myself a cigarette
And wouldn't give a dnmu.
DONALD M. CALLEY.
Mexico killed two Americans last week.
Cancer killed forty-four, in Philadelphia
alone. If wo want to declare war on some
one, let's tackle cancer first. It looks to us
more dangerous.
It was William Wordsworth, we think,
who said, "Tho poet writes under one
restriction only, namely, tbe necessity of
giving immediate pleasure."
We doubt if any one ever had the hardi
hood to call Wordsworth "Bill" ; even his
sister always addressed him respectfully as
"William" : but still he knew a good deal
about poetry.
Inexorable Time
It is sorrowful to think that all the young
girls who used to play ukuleles in the moon
light arc now grown pp and wrestling with
the sugar shortage.
A Voice From the Back Benches
The ouly sort of strike I like
Is when ou my land on iney sixikc.
Then let' tho miners rave and rove !
For I'll keep warm with my oil-stove.
M. V. N. S.
Boy Howdy!
. Kcar Socrates Just about this time of
3 car the proper fixings for Chester county
cider is a nice large bowl of old-time N. O.
molasses gingerbread. In order to properly
apprcciato this delcctablo combination there
should bo a liberal helping of good pumpkin
custard well seasoned and a dish of old
fashioned shcllbark kernels. But boy, to
apprcclute it at tho best, a nice fat roast
rabbit stuffed with a liberal helping of Chea
ter county sausage ; and brendcrumbs toasted
to a turn give tho proper tang to tho deli
clous juice. Then your pipe nnd dreams
"Oh wilderness were Paradise enow!" But
seriously, Soc, wasn't It Heuuessy's XXX?
VO DOOCIT, Oxford, Pa.
Speaking of cider, the fellows who trans
lated the King James Version of the Biblo
had tbe right idea. In the course of their
"diligently comparing and revising" the;
found that the Latin vulgate said (Judges
xiil, 7) "Drink no wine nor elder." These
judicious men promptly canceled the word
cider and substituted "strong drink."
Wo are glad to inform our client, W. F.
Mead, of Allcntowu, that Mr. Fletcher Du
B'ols has been kind enough to send us the
text of "Essex Junction," tho poem Mr.
Mead asked about. Wo will reprint It some
day whtn business is dull.
Sweden must have had a clinuge of heart.
V c haven't uccu a dud match for quite a
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"WHY? WHO? WHERE? WHEN?"
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Return This Coupon, With Remittance
Of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest arc: Income tax again,
I read, and my heart grows deader and
dcadcrer,
"Direct all payments to Ephralm Lederer,"
One of our clients, in irresponsible mood,
has ..written to us suggesting that tho con
tributors Ho tho-Dish should have au annual
dinner. We wish them better than that.
We hope that they will have 3G5 every year.
' The Only Place Left -The
smoking car of an express train, we
1 have often observed, is the bestof all places
tothink. Not tho smoking compartment of a
Pullman, of course, for there one is so liable
to meet Victor Jones, of Minneapolis, who
will insist on telling how ho improved his
memory, or soma other terrible person. But
the plain, ordinary smoking car, particu
larly on an early morning train that is not
too crowded, is a bully place for meditation.
In fact, civilization being what it is, it is
almost tho only plnco left where a man can
think undisturbed. Tho time may come, and
perhaps it has come already, when tbp only
way a man can get a chiince to indulge in
any high philosophy is by buying a ticket
for New York.
We emphasize also the fact of trying the
experiment early iu tho morning. The course
of our existence has frequently caused us to
patronize the 8 a. m, trains from Philadel
phia to New York. Therp is something about
the placid flitting of the level landscape, as
the sun comes up through a winter haze,
that is very agreeable to the mental parts.
A beaker of coffee nt Broad street or tbo
Reading Terminal (if' properly cooled by the
Insertion of a large boulder of ice) makes a
just foundation for a dozen pipes of tobacco.
Riding on a train under such conditions, we
have no"tlced, is almost tho only time when
we can really get much fun out of reading
Wordsworth. That we regard rot as a slur
on Wordsworth, but as an indictment of our
modern way of life.
The author of "The Balsam Groves," we
notice, uses tho phrase "tho tired business
man." nis book was published in 1802.
This suggests a question : SVhcn did tho
business man begin to be tired?
Social Chat
Our star correspondent, William McFe.
Is soon to return from South America. Mr.
McFee'a first book, "Jjcttera Prom an Ocean
Tramp," published In 1908. remains the
scarcest literary Item wo know of. Jim
Shields told us that a booksoller In Troy
had a copy, and wo hastily wrote for It;
but a New York lawyer had already
bought it,
The Urchin attains the age of three years
this week, It is sad to contemplate that
ho will never agalii know three yearn so
devoid of carklng care.
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Frank Dooner'B hot mince pis cured a
Bcrlous fit ,of depression for ua ytBterday.
We aro told that Dr. Tim Bowes mislaid
his automobile tho other day. When It wao
found II contained a brand new blanket.
Doctor Bowes unwrapped the blanket In
alarm, fearing that somo ono might have
pafised off an orphan flivver on him. But
tio such mishap,, and, the genial doctor saya
'any one else can steal his car again on the
tame terms. '
When Mr. Wilson wrote to Congress, about
Russia as "a painful object lesson in tbe
power of minorities," one can hardly resist
the suspicion that lie was thinking also of
another very painful example of this, vis:
in the United States Senate.
numan beings, says Mr. Wilson, are pos
sessed of deep yearnings and desires. After
watching a good many of the species, particu
larly about curfew time, tbp most conspicu
ous yearujng wo note ia a zeal to get to (he
nearest movie before the feature begins. '
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Had Loved You More
IF T had loved you more God would have
had pity,
He would never have left me here in
this desolate place ;
Left me to go on my knees to the door of
Heaven
Crying in vain for a'little sight' of your
face.
How could I know that the earth would be
dark without you?
For you were always the lover and I the
frrend,-?
Now if there wero any hopo that I might
find you
I would go seeking you to the world's end.
"God is a jealous God! You have loved
too wildly.
You have loved too well," one said.
I bowed my head. But my heart In scorn
was crying
That you whom I had not loved enough are
dead.
I look on my heart and see it Is hard and
narrow,
That its loves arc slight and last but a
little space.
But why do I go on my knees to tbe-door of
Heaven
Crying in vain for a little sight of your '
face?
Brigid Murray, in the Bookman.
Though Mr. Burleson has dropped very
largely from the news, it would appear that
ever so many Utters with unfailing regu
larity remain undelivered.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. What eminent expert on food has de
clared it possible to live in tho United
States on eleven cents a day?
2. What wero the two kingdoms of the Jews
in Bible times?
3. Who is tho new assistant secretary of the
treasury?
4. Where Is Kerguellcn Land?
G. How long after the opcnlngof the Amer
ican Revolution was the independence
of the states declared?
6. How often is there a reapportionment of
congressmen in the House of Repre
sentatives?" 7. Who wrote' "Bug-Jargal"?
8. What is a spinnaker?
0. What is the origin of tbe word cannibal?
10. What is caoutchouc?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Thero will be a tio of Democrats and
Republicans in the Senate it Truman
II. Newberry 1? excluded and a Demo
crat replaces him. In that case
the Vico President will havo the de
elding vote.
2. Penetralia aro tbe Innermost shrines or
recesses.
3. Two books by Maria Edgeworth are
"Castle Ttaekrent" and "Belinda."
4. Tasmania is the smallest state of the
Australian commonwealth.
5. Polyandry ; plurality of husbands,
0. Water hemlock, poison ivy and white
helleboro are poisonous plants.
7. United Italy, ainco the acquisition of
Rome in 1870, Ms had three kings.
8. They were Vittorio Emanuele II, Urn-
brrto and Vittorio Emanuele III.
0. Lady Astor represents a Plymouth divi
sion in Parliament.
10. Tho Federalists and tbe Whigs elected,
respectively, two American PrCsideplo.
Washington annd John Adams belonged
fo the former party and William Henry
'Harrison and Zachary Taylor to tht
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