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All rights of republication of special dls yatches herein are also reserved. FhUidrlphii. Tund.y. llmmber 16. 1819 DOES WASHINGTON REPRESENT THIS COUNTRY? ANY sano American mm. or r.uiiu'ii who has followed the couivj of the peace treaty, especially in the last few days, must be ready to ask this ques tion, not facetiously or jovially but with deadly earnestness. The spectacle presented by Senator Lodge, as the leader of the Republican majority in the Senate, and President Wilson, as the leader of the Democratic administration, sparring like two miffed members of a sewing circle over which shall seem to make the first advance, while, in the words of the Chamber of Commerce of the state of New York, the people of America "are now confronted in the world of morals and in the world of trade with a crisis similar to that which we faced on the Gth of April, 1917," is a scene no lover of American institutions and traditions can find other than disgraceful. It is a spectacle assuredly not war ranted by the sentiment of the public, and it cannot help but taruLh the bright war record of out nation with our fra ternal countries across the Atlantic. flThat is why we ask 'whether Wash ington the Washington of n bickering Senate and an obstinate President is truly representative of the thought, the faith and the ambitions of the people of the United States. Pressure of popular opinion will toon provide the answer. THE AGE OF NERVES , "DEIIIND two recent tragedies in which - little children were the victims are plain cases of "nerves." Mrs. Powell, the Philadelphia woman who slew her daughter in a Denver hotel, and Mrs. Blake, who is under arrest in Atlantic City charged with a similar crime, ap ' pear to have suffered from a sort of emo tional derangement that has long been familiar to physicians interested in mala dies peculiar to an age in which excite ment is the other name for pleasure. Long ago German physicians wrote frankly of the effects of idleness and aim lessness in women of the well-to-do class. "They are overdosed with opera, with the theatre, with poetry," said Qne sa vant. "They are the victims of over stimulated emotions. It is the fault of society itself if, deprived of a purpose in life, they fall ill in body or mind and do mad things." The writer of this paragraph might have added the movies to his list if he were dealing with present-day instances. WHERE MOORE CAN SHINE QN THE last day allowed by the char--f ter Mayor Smith approved the ordi nance of Councils fixing the tax rate for next year. If he had failed to act the rate for the current year would have prevailed and would have left the new administration without the necessary fund&fto carry on the government. Since 191)3 the rate for city purposes has been increased from $1 to $2.15 and the rate for school purposes from fifty cents to seventy cents. This means that the total tax burden on every $100 of assessed valuation has been increased from $1.60 to $2.85. This t is not pleasant to contemplate, but when one considers that the cost of conducting private business enterprises and the cost of maintaining a home have increased in about the same proportion in the same period one will not be in clined to damn the administration of Mayor Smith more than it deserves. Every taxpayer, and that means every resident of the cicy, is hoping that the new Mayor may find ways to bring about economies so that when the tax rate is fixed on December 15 next year it will bo possible to agree on a figure much lower than that indorsed by Mayor Smith yesterday. LIQUOR BUSINESS IS DEAD rpHE decision of the Supreme Court in the liquor cases means that as wo have yet made no treaty of peace with Germany a state of war continues to exist and that Congress still may exor cise its supreme war powers. This being the case, the wartime prohi bition legislation is valid and must be enforced, even though it was passed after the signing of the armistice. That legislation, however, does not forbid the export of intoxicating beverages. Thcre jfcre, distilled spirits may be removed from bond for export, allowing no cause for the claim of illegal confiscation. The wartime legislation will continue to be enforced until a declaration of r Veace, or if that does not come before the middle of January, until the perma- nwfc lw enforcing the provisions of the rroWbltory amendment go into effect. Prei)t indications are that the interim m which liquor "u hi, ld before the middle of January will bo very short, if there is any interim at nil. Men en gaged in the liquor business might us well find other occupation nt once. They will havo to do it within a month, nn wny, for they will hardly find it profit able to tkal in beer with only one-hulf of 1 per cent of alcoholic content. Such stuff can be sold over the soda counters in tho enndy and drug stores and at the corner groceries. The liquor business is dead from now on. It has killed itself by its refusal to be decent, by its corruption of polities and by its indifference to public "t'titi ment. ihc illicit sale of Intoxicants will continue for u time; but only n few men will care to risk the penalties for such violation of law. Tho money spent for liquor in the past will bo now spent for more useful things and payday in many industries will cease to be the pre liminary to a drunken debauch. The court has merely hastened tho day of national prohibition. AMERICAN LEGION'S OWN SAFETY VALVE IS TRUTH With "Facts Before Acts" as a Slogan, the New League of Veterans Gives Another Proof of Its Wisdom and High Patriotism WOttDS are quite incapable of express ing what the American people think of the American Legion. The fine realities which give savor of life aiv. in a tense, almost cheapened by set formulas of pruisi:. Kervent orntoiy and decorative epithets often periloui-lj approach bom bast. The little catch in the thioat, tin moistened eye and the lug at the heart aro the ingredients of the mos-t spontnne cus eulogy and the sinccrcst. But the mission of tho Legion only began with tho war. The responsibili ties of the great army of American youth were tragic. It is questionable, how ever, whether thoy were, from certain angles, any less heavy than they are in the aflornVith of the cataclysm when high purposes are not translatable into shot ar.d t.hcll but into the subtler fac tors of peace. A sense of these new and veiy ditVei-cnt obligations is happily manifest. There have been many assurances t f this atti tude, but none which is at once more inspiring and emphatically terse than the motto, "Facts before acts," which has been presented to the American posts thoughout the country. The medium is the American Legion vtpklj, which is out with an editorial, i" no degree censorious and yet construc tively wise. Legionaries are urged to "pass no measure affecting their post or coramu nity" without the most careful consid eration. "A matter of immediate local importance," runs the text, "may be pre sented in such a manner ns to arouse your immediate sympathy. . . . But, if the public interest is involved, every phase of the subject should be thoroughly canvassed. . . . Deliber ation will prevent an ill-advised or pre mature action which might neutralize '.ocal public sympathy and an interest in the posV This is :he line of conduct which intel ligent persons rightly expected the Amer ican Legion to pursue. It is the policy which is known to be animating the dominant powers in the organization of veterans. It is carrying into the field of peace the ideals which triumphed in the fields of war. That these principles have, even be fore this official proclamation, been set aside by the Legion is a fallacy. It is an error, however, w hich has been spread through various agencies. One is the reprehensible habit in some quarters, which, we regret to say, are journalistic, to magnify certain records of hasty dictation on the part of isolated Legion members as if those individuals actually spoke for the whole organiza tion. The other instrument for circulating the misconception are Legion members themselves who have been engaged in sensational and showy acts subversive of law and order. These men may have been, and probably were, small fry in the stirring clan of youth and 'alor. It is just as unfair to blame the Legion as a whole for their conduct as it would be to indict the whole American nation for a brfeach of the peace in a southern town with lynching proclivities. Nonetheless a fair-minded and dis criminating view of the general situa tion cannot logically bo made to include condonement for offenses. The row lately raised in Ithaca at the Kreisler concert was not only an exhibition of bad taste and bad manners; it was an assumption of extra-legal prerogatives on the part of the Legion members impli cated. Tho machinery for justice exists in this country. Its channels are clearly defined and any invasion of them by force savors of revolutionary tyranny. Mobs which, at the outset, reject legal means to enforce their claims are never right. They have forfeited their claims to justice in the hasty and unreasoning resort to violence. The Tucker episode in Reading is an other of a series of incidents wherein certain of the actors displayed a sudden surge of lawlessness, grounded, perhaps, in a passionate patriotism, but ill-considered and in spirit lawless, for all that. Irrespective of what Judge Rogers did or did not say concerning tho enlisted men, the headlong rebuttal to his re marks was calculated to obscure rather than to clarify the ca3e. Safety-valves on impotuousness are often needed by the majority of human beings. The legionary is just like all of the rest of us. What bus been addi tionally regrettablo in his case is that the public has had a thoughtless ten dency to applaud truculence if accom panied with flag-waving. The fact is, however, that good causes arc only dam aged by bad methods. Tho Legion is a tremendous novelty. It has no counterpart In American his tory. The Grand Army of the Republic does not furnish a true comparison, since the body of Civil War veterans was made up of neR of a wide disparity of ages. Th leffte i J'utl youth in terms of millions, the best youth in the lnnd, tho heart of its defense, the structure of its patriotism expressed in terms of action. Tho majority of its members is com posed of men who had not passed thirty one when our part of the world wnr began. Young men nro swift to net, and their very impulsiveness is potent in rendering them endearing. The clement in the public which np plnuds baiting u distinguished musical artist who wns neither n traitor to his own country nor a marplot in the land to tlin Mcnls of which hn hn cntpporicnllv subscribed; the public, which Is gleefully ' ri.i i. ,., , ., , . , 4 ,i i excted by talcs of threatened tnr-and- , irilluuiiiiKa, mi: jJUUIlc, Wlliwii nun i caveman's, fondness for physical blows in place of dispassionate legal instru ments, is nn r-xtremcly dangerous cle ment in any country. That tho American Legion is not de ceived by plaudits from hands that arc specious guides is qne of the numerous proofs that tho illustrious league of youth is going lo exert an influence potent and salutary Upon the nation. We have cited the lapses in the membership in order to "orientate" them, to place them in the perspective in which they belong, and to utter a word of warning to some of the Legion's more reckless champions. "Policies, not politics" became a pri mary slogan of tho Legion almost from the hour of its birth. It has exercised a pertinent force. Our veteran organiza tion after the Civil War hnd a marked partisan shading which it could not es cape, since tho Civil War itself was essuitiallj political in its causes. No partisan color is discernible in ils suc cessor. "Facts beforo acts" is a gleaming phrase on a companion ensign. The Legion is thinking true; thinking in a fashion which should make it one of the most beneficent of nil influences on American life. The abiding love which the nation bears to the Legion is enriched, ennobled and intensified when tho Legion is right and conceives its duty exaltedly and clearly as in the pi-csent stimulating instance. CRACKS O' DOOM rpO AT least a small minority in Amer- ica it seemed that the end of the world came yesterday with the news from the Supremo Court in Washington. It is pretty safe to say that another group, almost equally large, still enter tains a sneaking notion that the grand cataclysm may come tomorrow, when six planets will be temporarily ranged in a straight lino to exert the "pull" on the sun so graphically described by Prof. Albert Ports, of New York. Professor Ports predicted only sun spots. Astronomers know that sunspots rarely affect even the temperature of the earth by so much as one degree. But people always have a morbid interest in dark prophecies. Somewhere in every man is a considerable residue of super stitious awe. The world snatched nt Professor Ports's mild pronouncement and elaborated it to suit an emotional ten dency that has been amazingly demon strated time after time when multitudes, following shadowy hints of amateur prophets, prepared deoutly for the last day. Porto Rico is tremendously excited about the planetary line-up forecast for tomorrow. Here in the United States all astronomers have expressed amazement at the fears whispered by credulous folk. And thousands of intelligent people who seem superstition-proof will secretly wait for tomorrow with thrills of ex pectancy and sigh w ith relief when Thursday comes. So it has always been. It has always been plain that mankind finds an odd sort of joy in worriment. In the year J 000 A. D. all Europe was prepared for tho world's end. The rich gave away their possessions. William Mjller, a Massachusetts man, convinced thousands of Americans that there would be an end and a new beginning of the world on October 22, 1843. He was a preacher nnd the founder of a sect which sang and prayed in the open fields at the hour when it was supposed that the great change would come. There are many Philadelphians who "will remember tho excitement of tho eighties when, on an appointed night, the members of another religious organization dressed themselves in white and went to Lemon Hill to wait for the end of the world only to go wearily homo in tho cold, gray dawn of tho morning after, grieously disap pointed because the stupendous event predicted by their leaders didn't occur. In this instance the talk of the world's end hasn't come from religionists or astronomer5. It has come from nervous folk who were too ready to read wrong meanings into the casual discourse of a college professor interested in minor celestial phenomena. Those who aro dis Old Saw and niajej by the threat Modern Instance of famine and pesti lence in Europe, with the resultant or provocativo spread ot bol shevlslii, may take heart of grace from the wise old snw Hint "Dark is the hour beforo the dawn." Japan, it is said, is (Juiciness Desired attempting to colonize Chile and later may fasten her grip on tho Amerieau continent. Itolshevlsts, there is reasou to believe, arc boring froru within. Oh. for tho quiet neu tral tints of pre-war days! We arc tired ot Red und Yellow . Pndoret&ki istoabnn Uolns the IniposlbIc dun politics and re- turn to the piano, ac cording to rumor. Here is an net of doubtful wisdom that will please ccrlnlu of his friends uml enemies and provoke others in botli lists. The predicted end of the world tomor row need not prevent you from doing your Christmas shopping early. Obstruet!onits are now willing to as seierate that the treaty Is not dead but sleep, log, If the treaty Is ns dead as Senator Lodgo mid it was, why are he and his, friends trying to resuscitate it? Th, Buprrmo Court, mpped up the last sufwtla ot dampness, it' 1 SPROULE AND PATTERSON Men From Extreme Ends of State Who Advocate Waterways Exude Figures on Their Favorite' Topic nKoitau nox sicOAiS TUT. iippolutmcnt of Ucorge 1 Sproule to be director of wharves, docks nnd fer ries under the new ndiulnistrntloii lias "caught on" large with tho nubile. It is recognized ns nn excellent appointment ; not bwntw of tho appointee's unfailing courtesy, hut becniiKo Sir. Hproulc lias crown tin with nn(, bfpn a patt o'f h(s deve,pniwit '. Uie ppct. Hi Is no theoretical knowledge, of Phila delphia in thla direction. It Is actual, up lo date, exact nnd intelligent. It's n knowl edge Hint goes back for a period. of thirty the j ears and comes down to today. The coinmlssioucrs of navigation,! whose secretarj lie lias been, arc going to miss him to say nothing about others. It is Mr. Sproule who has kept the newspapers in loucli with the statistical side of port de elopincnt, who, by indisputable figures, pnned that this is the second port of Im portance in the country, beside, directing attention to other vital facts. In his new position ns director he may bo able to extend the scope of his statistical Information, rplIKUK is another gentleman who 'has - been throwing luminous facts at the feet of the public ulniut some of our less known port facilities and posi ibilltics. He is (ieorgc Kyle, of Darby. I low many of the uptown nnd downtown nnd een West Philadelphia citizenship knov mi thing about Darby river? They call It crock Darby creek just as they call tji l'erkioinen river a creek. In any Central or South American Country they would bo bin 7oned out on topographical maps as impor tant waterways. f But of Darby river and its past; of the hips and barges and tugs that have come nnd gone right up Into Cobbs creek? l'erhnps to the ignorant skeptic it may be "to laugh," 'but to George Kyle Darby river Is a waterway with great possibilities. More so now that government engineers are Hulking a survey of It with the ultimate pur poc of its improvement, to give a ponnlatlon of 150,000 along and contiguous to its shores a port with a commerce worth while. I'rlur to 1S75 coal barges from the Lehigh and Schuylkill canal came right up to the wharves along Darby river. Two-masted (chooners brought food and coat and build ing material, nnd were even towed up to Cobbs creek nnd poled Into that-stream. Thanks to George Kyle, the government knows all ubout Darby river now. It lias Its eye on that little inland waterway. Some day Darby nnd Pabchalville in the not far distant future will come into their own, with barges nnd tugs nnd schooners at their doors. Then peihups they'll erect the monument he deserves to George ICjlc. BntD a into tin S. PATTEIWOX comes breezing le Broad Ktieet Station every few months. He's another of Philadelphia's in direct friends and helpers, even if he docs live in Pittsburgh. lie is, cutting out the descriptive, secre tary of the movement to opci. an inland waterway from Lake Lrlc to the Ohio river. He has been a familiar hguib around liar lixburg und Washington for ten years. Every jear sees him nearer his goal; nearer the1 day when Lake Erie schooners and towing barges will come down Into the Ohio and Mississippi and then out into the gulf. When that dream of Burd Patterson's comes true, barges with eoU and iron will be towed down to feed the yawning red mouths of Pittsburgh's furnaces, But equally important, there will be great lake barges carrying grain in bulk from the great Northwest to the railroads that will bring it East to feed Philadelphia and the other sea board cities. Burd Patterson fairly exudes Information and statistics on this subject, lie's the George V. Sproule of western Pennsylvania in that respect. One can't talk to him three minutes, as was my experience the other day, uutil he breaks out into canals nl d statistics. An interesting phase of it is that Mr. Patterson has been working all these years on a scheme that is ns old as Washington's administration. The immortal George in spectcd routes for an inland water link be tween the Great Lakes nnd the Ohio river, lie favored one starting at Ashtabula and ending at Pittsburgh, now known as the Lake Eric and Ohio river canal project. With the Pennsylvania nnd Baltimore nnd Ohio railroads ready to seize the cargoes of the grain barges and rush them eastward, and the possibilities of return freights to Ohio, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin, this dream of c hundred nnd twenty-five years ngo is full of possibilities for Philadelphia and the entire East. THERE is one thing about Charles B. Spatz that his political friends admire : his persistency. Mr. Spatz they pronounce it "Spots" up in Berks county is u Phila delphian who at an early age emigrated to Boycrtown, where they make more burial caskets than nny place else in the countrj. He is pre-eminent in that domain of Democ racy as n lighting Democrat. Besides, he's n newspaper publisher of thirty-five years' experience. Likewise, be is the father of the famous American ucq, Major Spatz, who nearly won the great transcontinental aerial race a few months ago. Charlie Spatz s persistency is particularly noticeable in Ida militunt Democracy and nn unwearying disposition to land n seat in the halls of Congress as one of the little handful of Democrats from Pennsylvania in 'that body. He tried it two years ago, and he has just announced that he will make an other attempt the coming spring. As Berks is hopelessly Democratic, why not Charles B. Spatz? ' Ev clothing and shoo shops, which means' nil of us, Is hojilng that Mrs. Harry O. Bodcn will be able to "put over" some nntl-profit-eeriug plan that will reduce the high cost of living, even if she nnd her associates on the prico-fixing committee have nothing behind them other thnu an aroused public Bentbnent. Those who know Mrs. Boden and the work she has performed In the conservation of food in the past will cheerfully admit that' she has the knack, the experience and the untiring energy requisite for her task. One thing stands pro-eminent in her ef fort, and it is tho necessity for some sort of co-ordination of effort between her com mittee and the United States district attor ney's office; that is, the district attorney's office must work in conjunction with this prico-fixing movement. But lack of effective equipment makes the district attorney's office a sort of sprnlncd leg in this emergency, I am afraid. In buying Red Oross seals Jads and las dies arc privileged to mako Interpretative reservations concerning Doctor Gittlngs'n bnn on kissing. It will be understood that osculation in the future ns in the past will go by favor, whether the doctors favor It or not. .,. Qneithlng bolsheyism has ccojnpllshed; It has made, the uewgtty of .the league of "DARN IT, I'M . : .-. "Sgpe 22lM: . ..." . .' . - - ji-j . - ri ..- .11:7 THE CHAFFING DISH The Music Box AT SIX long ere the wintry dawn There sounded through the slleni hall To where I lay with blankets drawn t Above my ears, a plaintive call. rplIH Urchin, in the eagerness Of three years old, could not refrain : Awake, he straightway yearned to dress And frolic with his clockwork train. s I HEARD him with a sullen shock. His eistcr, by her usual plan, Had piped us aft at 3 o'clock I vowed to quench the little man. I LEANED above him, somewhat stein, And snoke. I fear, with emphasis Ah, how much better, parents learn, To seal one's censute with a kiss! 1 AGAIN the houBC was dark and still, Again I lay in slumber's snare, When down the hall I heard a trill, A tiny, tinkling, tuneful nlr HIS music-box 1 His beht-loved toj , His crib companion every night ; And now he turned to it for joy AVhllo waiting for the lagging light. HOW clear, and how absurdly sad Those tingling pricks of bound unrolled ; They chirped and quavered, as the lad His lonely little heart consoled. ttfiOLVilHIA, the Ocean's Gem" '(Its only tune) shrilled sweet and faint. nc cranked the chimes, ndmlring them In vigil gay, without complaint. THE treble music piped and stirred, The leaping air that was his bliss ; And, as I most contritely heard, I thanked the all-unconscious Swiss! rpr nE needled Jets of melody Banc slowlicr and died awny The Urchin slept; and It was T Who lay and waited for the day. We Expect a Free Funeral Dear Socrates This morning's mall brought mo seventeen clippings from tho Chafung Dish. Many thanks for your boost. But, why, O wiso yoorates, take refuge to so cheap a trick aa "German descent" to gather applause 7 Aro you running out of real brain-matter? I am an "American" slnco about twenty four years. I served our country, yours and mine, In the Spanish-American War and In the World War. Did you do as much? Hero are a few esBays for your column: Those tcA cntt, do. Those tcho cannot, criticize. It is easier to criticize than to do. If people talk about you, tfou have ac complished two things: You have made an imnression andjou ore being read. ' "' Dl. BKnTHOLD A. BAKU. We Print It for What It's Worth Dear Socrates While not a regular In your enlisted personnel, cannot help but Inform you of a certain observation, mado ot 2:09 p, m., this day, In front of "Keat'B Theayttr," viz: A young. Bllm-Bhouldered gentleman, at tired In fur-collared overcoat, fancy vest, watch chain "au Bandolier," etc., not wrar Inc pit. Tours vory truly, II. A. V. You Said It! In order the high cost of living 4o throttle, Au lieu de la creme, we use top-of-the-bottle. M. V. N. S. An efficiency expert came to see us recently nnd In the course of- an Interesting chat bo conferred an Idea upon us. Ho Fnys that in business the trend of the really forceful men has been from the old-fashioned roll-top to the flat-topped dek. And we are moving ' tho same way In housing problems, bo added, What, said he. Is the apartment but a flat topped h(We-re house without the old catch r BEGINNING TO BELIEVE IT'S SO!" , - I f ,. ,-ty' ..-' . Wo were so distressed by this that we havo spent the whole day in miserably combing over our pigeon-holes here in our cavern nnd putting the stuff back again. When wo were eighteen we wrote in our diary, very dejectedly, that our life "had been full of abortive beginnings." We often think ot that when we start to clean up our desk. Never mind ; they say the end of the world is coming tomorrow. But a friend of ours, a sagacious person, said, ns he saw the Supreme Court's ruling about wartime prohibition, that the end had come yestcrdaj. Our good friend, Georgo W. Anonymous, says we are all wrong ubout those leather coats, and he explains the why nnd whercfor in the following spirited ditty: A Tale of Whoa I'liti say you'ro lucky to work outside said tho Inkwell to tho flivver. You rldo around and seo tho town AVhllo I stick around till tho sun goes down. You're out In tho air in tho sweet month ot JUt0 Your llfo Is a song when your motor's In tune. WHOA, said the flivver, you're running wild You know not whereof you are spealtlne, You know not whereof you aro speaking, my child. June Is but ono month In twelve, please re member There's chilly November and bleaky December When Jack Frost takes the bat And with ono mighty swing He doubles tho score On our old friend Spring. HE'S as cold as the poles nnd his wind so strong. I wonder sometimes he can hold out so long. My motor gets froze and loses the tune It learned and It sangjn tho sweet month of June. WITH the rain and the tco and the cold bltluB sleet I wonder my driver can sit on his seat. It's no pipe with the weather way down about zero To stick on tho Job, If he does, he's a hero. DON'T give him a medal to heal up his sores, Just get him a couple of weather-proof "doors. It would bo such a comfort and help In his work Of salesman and driver and collector and clerk. But the boss decided to give leather coats to his salesman instead of weatherproof doors because, well, he's the boss, and what's more: All tho girls In tho office are Just crazy about them. GEO. W. ANON. Desk Mottoes When I saw that rage was vain. And to sulk would nothing gain, Turning many a trick arid wile I began to soothe and smile, WILLASI BLAKE ("Infant Sorrow"). Then Come Kiss Me, Sweet vand Twenty Sugar will be twenty cents a pound next year. News item. Wo are told that the admirable artist, Herbert Johnson, came In hero the other day all set to tljkc us out to lunch. Unhappily, we had just departed to our chosen spaghetti cloister and he wns faiu to lavish and squan der his hospitable Instincts on our colleague tho Soothsuyer. We wish to state, In order to keep our social ledger correctly balanced, that wc do not consider that nny obligation has actually been transferred until the lunch eon has reached its correct destination. We refuse to receive our luncheous vicariously, or by deputy. We have still much to look forward to. I For.iifsBnrp,, tho. time when Frank fockii I tttV otss make their, way onto the nevi me, Wcuxzm, ; GRAY GRAY of the twilight come, Spread those wide wings above our meadows; bring Coolness and mist ; make dumb -Thc jarring noise of day and gently ring Our woods und ponds with dimness; take away All busy stir, but let the gray owl sway , Noiselessly over the bough like a little ghost ; And let tho cricket In the dark hedge sing. His whithered note; and, O Immortal Host, Welcome this traveler to your drowsy hall, And, standing nt tho porch, speechless und tall, Close tho great doors, shut out the world, and shed l'our benediction on this drooping head. Martin Armstrong, in the New Statesman. The Philadelphia Milk Exchange .has announced that the winter schedule goes Into effect tomorrow and milk will not be deliv ered before 8 n. m. But what's the dif? "Going homo with the milkman" lost Its significance July 3. Every pessimistic dispatch from Europe concerning the spread of bolshevlsm is an indorsement of the American Legion' ss America's hope for the continuance of de mocracy. In days of old In old Madrid certain estimable gentlemen celebrated In song struck the light guitar. They're still striking in old Madrid, but not tho guitar. Life's cup, declared the pessimist, might not be to bitter if there were sugar enough to sweeten it. What Do Yon Know? QUIZ 1. How old is Gabrlele D'Annunzio? . -. Where Is Port Darwin and with what novelty In transportation has it re cently been connected? 3. In what century did Samuel Pcpjs, the great diarist, live? 4. From what plant is belladonna derived? 5. What are Christmas waits? 0. What is gaddy? 7. Who were tho "Locofocos" In American political history? 8. Who was Sir Lucius O'Trlggcr? 0. What planet has a reddish appearance? .10, Who was Constant Troyon? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. Two of tho worst earthquakes of the laBt half century were those which ' involved the destruction of Saint Pi erre, Martinique, West Indies, and the destruction of Messina, Sicily, ti. Tho Tropic of Cancer is passed in cross ing from Key West to Ilnvann. 3. Twenty-two states have ratified the suf frage amendment. ' 4. Hypcriou In classical mythology was properly tho father of tho sun and thq moon, but, some poets made him the synonym of tho sun. - Shakespeare makes him the synonym of Apollo. 5. Tho Gregorian calendar was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII In 1B82. It was not, however, adopted In England or tho American colonies until 1751!, 0. Fra Diavolo was a celebrated brigand and renegade monk who terrified the mountainous country of Calabria, Italy. nis dates are 17C0-1S00. Mlchelo Pozza was his real name. 7. Satsuma ware is cream-colored Japanese pottery. It is named after a Japanese province. 8. Saturday is from the old English "Bae- ternesdaeg," translation of tho Latin "Batumi dies," day of Saturn. 0. Long narrative poems by Shakespeare are "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrwe." v 10. An endemic disease is one" reauUrly KHinu among a gpecilMa people In ,p (specified country, I .. B
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