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All rlght3 of republication of special dls patches herein arc also reserved. rhlladrlphia, Satunlljr, December 20, 1919 MOORE'S COALITION CABINET MAYO R-TO-BE MOORE'S appoint ment of John C. Winston as Di rector of Public Works confirms the im pression that he has striven to form what might be 'termed a coalition cabinet, or in other words a cabinet representing all the forces in municipal politics, whether they be groups, factions or wings, which aro and have been against the Varc or ganization. Mr. Winston, at, the chaiiman of the committee of seventy and a conspicuous figure in local reform movements for fourteen years, represents the element which has heretofore refused to mix with the so-called "practical" factions, meaning those "what-are-we-here-for?" politicians to whom the getting of offices is ono of the primary functions of government. The appointment is a proper recogni tion of the efforts made by the Reformers to revise the city charter and bring about a clean administration in City Hall. With the Director of Public Safety, the head of the Public Works Department has always been regarded as one of the two most important offices in the gift of a Mayor. Perhaps, judged by permanent impressions on the community, it is more important than any other, and Mr. Winston and the citizens he is picked to represent can look at Mr. Moore's action as highly significant of the better stand ards of administration he expects to establish during the next four years. BELSHAZZAR BAIZLEY THOSE members of Councils who, spurred madly on by Mr.-Baizley, arc ready to dip $3000 out of the city treas ury and spend it in feasting to show how greatly they appreciate themselves, .are running true to form. If there is any overwhelming desire among the people to dine the councilmen at $15 a plate, Mr. Baizley has been the first to perceive it. Frankly, we doubt the existence of any such desire. Haven't the members heard enough of their own oratory? Must they assemble in a last grand rally for a culminating tempest o speeches? And why should Mr. Baizley want to do the Belshazzar thing? Sitting comfortably in his own office he ought to be able to read the handwriting on the wall. There arc poor folk in this city -who will not demand $15 for Christmas din ners. The $3000 ought to be appropri ated, and when it is appropriated the members of Mr. Baizley's raiding party should turn it over to one of the charita ble organizations. Thus fifteen poor men, women or children could have a pretty noble sort of Christmas dinner for the price of every one that Mr. Baizley has planned. There would be very real virtue in that arrangement. And the members of city Councils would show that they are not, as we have sup posed them to be, altogether without Imagination. REALITY IN REALTY ALTHOUGH Simon Gratz has dashed cold water upon the enticing fore cast that the reassessment of Philadel phia real estate would bring results tantamount to a reduction of the new tax rate, the essential merit of the plan is untouched. A scientific, impartial and comprehensive assessment of realty val ues here is needed. The services of the 210 members of the real estate board will mean expert advice for the assessors. What the city needs is not so much any novel or sensational survey, under taken with preconceived notions, as a fair readjustment of taxable property values. It is not reasonably to bo ex pected that all the assessments will go down or that all will rise. Perhaps, with the new standards, the tax burdens on many citizens Will prove less onerous. Property owners who fail to hone so would be scnrcelv Immim - But the first goal sought after'is jus tice, based on a, reasonable and thorough Study of realty conditions and such changes as havo taken place since tho last complete inspection. It is a good sign that responsible opinion is to be considered. The pity is that unofficial aid should be deemed necessary for an official organization comprising a large and high-salaried staff of assessors, who are paid to make the assessments equi table. ANOTHER HOLD-UP IN COMMON decency Recorder Hazlett should order the immediate return of wney collected from the underpaid em 4oyes of his office who were asked to retribute to a fund to buy their chief A Christmas gift. In almost evdry department at City Hall there is a Man Friday ready and eager to do things that the boss of tho , place wouldn't or couldn't do. Solicitor William P. Siegert seems to fill the part in the ofJRce of the, -recorder of deeds. It requires in iron nerve to extract Christ mas contributions out of men and women who struggle along through theso ex pensive days on $1200 salaries. Solicitor Siegcrt appears to havo the nerve. Wc shall see whether Mr. Hazlctt is similarly endowed. For his boss Solicitor Sicgort wanted to get a $500 present. Now it is to be a bouquet. Hazlctt is the recorder of deeds. He isn't an opera singer and ho isn't making a stage debut or getting married or dead. Ho doesn't need flow ers. The workers in his office need their money and they huvo n right to it. PALMER'S 'TRIUMPH" OVER THE PACKERS Whether It Is More Than an Empty Victory Will Appear If the Price of Meat and Groceries Comes Down WHETHER the enthusiastic delight of Attorney General Palmer over tho settlement of the suits against the fivo big packing companies is justified will not appear for a year or two. The packers, while insisting that they have' violated no law, have consented to confine their activity as corporations to the slaughtering of sheep and beef cat tle and to tho handling of eggs, poultry and cheese and the byproducts made from the parts of the meat carcasses not suit able for food. They will dispose of their interests in tho stockyards, in the rail roads, in the retail meat business and in the handling of cereals and other substitutes for meat. The .so-called packers' trust is to be disorganized, much as tho oil trust was disorganized a few years ago. Mr; Palmer, as a result of the com promise, says that "the price of meat is within the control of the people them selves." It docs not appear exactly what he means by this o'r how the people will have greater control over the price of meat than they always have had. Assuming that tho men interested in the packing industry do not retain a financial interest in the stockyards and that those yards are controlled and man aged by men more interested in getting a good price for livestock for the benefit of the stockraisers than in forcing down the price in the interest of the packers, the chief beneficiaries will be the stock raisers and not the consuming public. The stockraisers havo complained for years that they wore at the mercy of the packers and that they had to sell their stock at less than a fair market price. Now, if the freeing of the stockyards from the control of the packers is to satisfy the stockraisers, they will get better prices than in the past and the packers who have to pay that price will hand it on to the consuming public. It is difficult to understand how if meat on the hoof is to cost more meat in the retail store is to cost less. Perhaps Mr. Palmer can tell us. The packers, who have in the past suc cessfully defended the legality of their business and who still insist that they have violated no law, admit that they have agreed to the compromise in re sponse to public opinion. They are busi ness men and notcscntimentalists. Some other business men may be cynical enough to assume that there are sound commercial reasons back of tho com promise and that the packers know just what they are doing and why they are doing it. If they have not handed Mr. Palmer a large and bitter lemon, many hard-headed observers will miss their guess. The defense of the packers is well known. They havo proclaimed far and wide in the advertising columns of the newspapers that their net profits on the meat they handled was one-half of 1 per cent. They have even gone so far as to say that they sold the meat for less than they paid for the whole carcass and that this small percentage of profit was made on the byproducts. So far as is known these assertions have never been disproved. Yet Mr Palmer is calling attention to the enormous increase in the assets of the five big packing companies as though that were proof that they were making illegitimate profits. He says that the net worth of the companies has grown from $92,000,000 in 190 to $479,000,000 in 1919, and that, in tho same period, $105,000,000 has been paid in cash divi dends. He says further that only $89,000,000 of their net worth at the present time is represented in increased capitalization. These figures, however, prove nothing more than that the packers have been conducting a large and growing business. 'The size of the business is indicated by Mr. Palmer's statement that the sales for 1918 amounted to $3,200,000,000. A net profit of 5 per cent on this sum would not be unreasonable. This would amount to $160,000,000. A profit of 1 per cent would be $32,000,000. No retail merchant could continue in business on so narrow a margin. Yet the demagogues who for years have been trying to convince the public that it .is a crime to do a largo amount of busi ness cite the gross profits of the packers as proof that something is wrong. They say that there is profiteering in any busi ness which earns $50,000,000 or $100, 000,000 in a year, especially if that busi ness is in any way connected with the necessities of life. We are not defending tho packers. They are able to attend to that for them selves. But those thinking persons who wish to understand the situation will do well to refrain from condemning big bus iness merely because it is big and to analyze the figures before deciding that a corporation which has an annual turn over "f billions is robbing the public merely because there are millions of profit in its annual turnover. It will be wise to suspend judgment in tills case until the effect of tho attor ney general's compromise on the high cost of living Is manifest. If the packers have been robbing tho public, including both the producers and consumers of meat, the unscrambling of tho packing omelet may bring about lower prices. But it will not decrease the number of bushels cf grain required to produco 100 pounds of pork nor tho amount Ef hay and grain to fatten beef cattle. Jfond it EVtfNLtiG MJBLIO LBBGEl - 2 v r Is not likely that It will decrease tho prfco of grain or hay on tho farm. Tho high price of meat goes right back to tho high cost of producing it, when It is not duo to tho profiteering of tho retail dealor. If the chargo bo well founded that tho packers "were conspiring to monopolizo the sale of all food products, there will bo considerable satisfaction at tho break ing up of this monopoly regardless of tho effect oii prices. On tho surface the packers were competing with the whole sale grocers in the distribution of meat substitutes, but the wholesale grocers and the attorney general apparently feared that this competition was under taken for the solo purpose of driving the wholesale grocers out of business. The result of the agreement with the packers leaves the wholesale grocers in control of the field. They were com peting with one another before and the public was not suffering. This competi tion in the trade is likely to continue. In the mcanlimo tho Democratic party is planning to enter the presidential campaign with tho boast that its attor ney general has brought tho packing trust to its knees. But unless the price of meat comes down the long-suffering public will want to know what good has come of this glittering triumph heralded by spangled rhetoric in the dispatches from Wash ington. McKENTY'S TURBULENT GUESTS "IXHAT is going on behind tho walls ' of tho Eastern Penitentiary? Gen eral curiosity and resentment will in crease until Governor Sproul appoints an impartial commission to look into the present administration of the prison and make a report fuller than those submitted by the grand jury or the board of prison inspectors. The violent ueath of a convict, com ing amid rumors of mismanagement and brutality, revives a question that will trouble the warden, the prison board and the Governor until it is disposed of finally. Previously in these columns it has been suggested that much of Mr. McKenty's trouble is due to the nature of the- insti tution which ho has to direct. Quarters are narrow. A largo body of men live in confinement and in enforced idleness. Tho city proper is no place for a great prison. At Bellefonto a site was ob tained by the state in a sparsely settled region whore tho eastern and western penitentiaries are somo day to be com bined. There long-term prisoners could obtain in tho fields the one sort of normal exercise possible to them under the law. When that plan is carried out wo shall hear less about incipient revolutions among convicts. SNOW AND SMILES rpHE weatherman refused to identify yesterday's snow as a blizzard. There was a general disposition to re gard the white mantle as tho reverse of a calamity. It was beautiful, sea sonable and quickening to the Christmas spirit. Some years have passed since snow storms could be really enjoyed. Last winter the southern isotherms were pushed north and Philadelphia's weather was almost as mild as the low average in Charleston. Tho year before nobody had a good word for snow. The wartimes were black. It was unbelievable that the end of the conflict was so comparatively near at hand. Coal was short, transportation altogether too long. Streets were light less. Theatres were dark and icy. Army camps were crowded. Submarines raged. Not since Valley Forge had an American winter been so dismal. Pollyanna is often an annoying imp. But she would be justified in pointing out to us that the picturesque winter aspect of tho town ought not to have been unwelcome, nor a genial contrast with drear days of the past inapt. If you can't think of anything else for a Christmas present, send your friend a copy of the peace treaty, with the package beautifully decorated with Red Cross stamp?. The Atlantic is rougher just now than it lias been for forty years, navigators say. Presumably a kind o' compromise on the end of the world. Since it is a case of peace on earth and good will to men, why wouldn't a copy of the peace treaty make a good Christmas present to send to anybody? Now that Patriotism hap taken Business for a partner in urging the passage of the peace treaty, perhaps the Senate dawdlers will quit dawdling. Why should Philadelphia object to pay ing $3000 for a farewell dinner to departing councilmen? As a farewell, isn't it worth the money? . Tho best thafmay be said of tho New Tork wets who threaten to sue the govern ment for $300,000,000 Is that they wish they may get it. United States District Attorney Kane always speaks convincingly when he tells of what wqp't bo done. There is a suggestion of restlveness in Hitchcock's declaration that the President's position is a puzzle to him. The presidential potency of no candi date appears to point to more than a 2.7G kick. m The straws that show the way the wind blowB have deserted the julep for the soda. The weatherman has done his bit to bake the season Christmasy. There will be no dovo of peace in the Soviet Ark. Perhaps New Jersey needs the light ning to kill the Bkceters. After the draft questionnaire the census man has no terrors. Pershing's candidacy puts a nail into Wood. Third-term talk is still a term of re proach. Turkeys are flying higher than eyer this yea?. PHILADELPHIiV, SAOTliDAY, BEOEMBE1I 20, ,, , j MAYOR-ELECT MOORE'S LETTER Railroad Problem Only; One Angle of the Wide Emergency Powers Granted to the Presi dent Washington, Dec. 20. WHEN will the United States get out of ' the war? Ulils is one of tho 'most per plexing qucslious iu Washington as it is hi business men generally. JatncB B. IJonncr, who has been a bellwether of tho iron ami steel trodo iu Wnshingtou during the war and who will boon olo&o up his ofllec there n ml iclurn to Philadelphia, vis ono of thos.0 vho linvc been looking up this important mutter with a view of ascertain ing when mid whero wc get off. Most of the wnr legislation giving extraordinary powers to the President carried tho provlslou that" these powers should continue until peace was declared "by proclamation of tho President." Tho comptroller of tho treas ury borne' time ugo had correspondence with tho secretary of war with regard to "tho termination of tho present emergency," . leaving the matter more or less unsettled. Meanwhile, it seems to bo up to the Presi dent, who, iu one of his messages to Con gress with regard to tho very important natter of federal control of railroads, in dicated that he would turn the railroads back to their owners on or before January 1 next, unless certain things were'done by Congress. Tho President has the power to return the railroads at any timo he shall deem such action needful and desirable, although tho act of March 21, 1018, pro vided for ledcral control for a period not exceeding twenty-one hionths following the date of the proclamation by the President of the exchnnge of ratifications of the trcnty of peace. Showing how widespread is the I'ffict of the grant ut emergency power to tho President, it muy be noted that tho emer gency provision holding up everything until peace hhould be declared was carried in tho food and fuel administration laws, in the shipping board law nnd with respect to th'o emergency shipping fund; in the bill to stimulate the production of agricultural products, that to encournge the production of ores, metals and minerals, nnd tho law known as the "Overman Act" to consolidate executive bureaus and other agencies. The latter law has, to a certain extent, been regarded as political, since it has given the President power, of which in some Instances ho has not failed to avail himself, to con solidate bureaus and hold over in the per manent service ngencics that Congress in tended should bo but temporary. The war finance corporation act, the act creating the capital issues committee, the trading with the enemy act, which gave A. Mitchell Palmer great power as alien property cus todian, and tho navnl commandeering act, were all dependent upon the emergency clause as to the President's pence procla mation. It is a wonderful power the President still exercises under all these war acts and there Is much restlessness with re gard to their continuance. COLONEL JOHN P. WOOD, of Philadel phia, and many others interested in the textile industry aro not at all friendly to the proposition to keep war power in the hands of the President while foreign nations are closing up their wnr affairs and proceed ing to capture the world's trade. Tho news from abroad that the British textile manu facturers have more orders for hosiery than they can fill, coupled with information that silk hoso may go to $12 or $15 retail per pair in the United States, Is not cheering to those who are seeking the dyestuffs in the United States so essential tomanufactur!ng hero in competition with foreign producers. The Senate finance committee has been plugging away at the Longworth dyestuffs bill, which was fought in the House on the ground that it proposed to further bottle up American manufactures against the use of German vat dyes which were readily obtainable in France and England. This is an old story now, in which the duPonts and. other American manufacturers of dyes figure, but it is extremely important to the hosiery and other textile manufacturers in "Phila delphia and elsewhere who have large orders, but who are sometimes at their wits' ends to comply with war board requirements to obtain the necessary raw materials which they must have to keep the wheels running. Joseph S. Rambo, of Norriatown, has been conferring with Colonel Wood and others in Washington about this situation. ALTHOUGH he has made a great success of it in the advertising world, nothing so appeals to F. W. Aycr as the work of the Toung Men's Christian Association. For many years Mr. Ayer has been president of this organization in Camden and he has done much to build it up and make it a solid institution. For more than fifty years Mr. Ayer has maintained his business in Philadelphia aild a residence in New. Jersey. Ho may be counted one of the pioneers among those old time Camdcnitcs who found that city a good place to live in while they engaged in business on this side of the river. In some instances, as with Brother Van Sciver, of the big furniture es tablishment, nnd Brother Johnson, of the Victor Talking Machino Co., the order is reversed, Camden being the business placo and Philadelphia or its suburbs the place of residence. WHEN James Pollock, the inimitable after-dinner Rpeaker who helped' make the Five o'Clock Club famous, was running one end of the Philadelphia bicentennial celebration, in 1882, Secretary Charles W. Alexander, who has been a specialist on centennial celebrations, arranged for the minting through Jim Kerns, then superin tendent of the United States Mint, of 200, 000 William Penn medals, which were tossed out to spectators during the great civic parade. Of the whole number Mr. Alexander laid by just two of these interesting souvenirs, which have been so well-preserved as to look as if they had Just come from the press. What has become of the re mainder? ROBERT LAMBERTON, tho sheriff, elect, is a vigorous debater in Councils. lie is also an orator anij story teller. And the Lamberton children, "who aro tho brightest ever," figure in some of these stories. One of the best of the sheriff's yarns is that which deals with tho young sport in the back of the crowded hall, who, when square-jawed Bob appeared upon the platform, inquired of a bystander, "what tlie is Philadelphia Jack O'Brien doing up on the stage?" Sheriff Bob is of the robust type, once a football player at the university, something UKe liarry A. Maekey, who also grew up that way, and still keeps up his exercise, walking long distances and when necessary, takiug it out on his "flivver." J. HAMPTON MOORE. The Rotary Club will play Santa Claus In an abandoned saloon. And the dryest of the wets will have to admit that the new business Is the better one. D'Annunzio, having deserted two spots bo picked tot. his grave, perhaps believes that "the third time is the charm." Palmer's "Don't Buy Now" docs not altogether "gee" with "Do your Christmas nboppias early." i 1w 19 ' c"0iy fjl$$ (lCl --&v -. olv'L WW&ff PRrCT(CALMETrtOl Jb jtKffl ""-r?x vle ! o'coMM-NicftTiP'" "Ha I1P 7 'Mittffi.m . BW X spirits" vwul-d I J?'M.&sm THE CHAFFING DISH Dear Red Cross, In reply to your ap peals, we are heart- glad to buy the Seals One proof of tho degeneracy of the present age is that every little snowstorm is called ablizzard. H. C. L. Couplets That our butcher bills with some ease we may view, Au lieu de filet, we employ kidney stew. M. V. N. S. Where to Eat After Meals A Greek restaurant, Eleventh below Wal nut, lures the eating public thus : Ladles & Clentlemenl I beg to state that to my long experiences In the business of this kind I absolutely found the greatest difficulties to havo tho good people to come steady to a mentioned business, because In most places nothing can be had but sur face attraction otherwise It will cost you a fortune and by that reason we want you to tell your friends about this place to give us a Vial, after you have finished eating your, "meals. We have been asked what we consider the' best poem ever contributed to tho Dish. It is not fair to single out one above all others, as our clients' verses express many different moods; but as a specimen of neat wit, the following is our favorite. It came to us in August, 1018, with no name attached. We have never learned who wrote it, and reprint it here in the hope of finding out. "Street Closed" BARBARA'S heart, like a busy street, , Teems with a throng of little loves ; Each holds onward with stubborn feet, Jostles his neighbor, pushes, shoves. BUT all congestion would swiftly stop No crowd couM travel that thoroughfare, If only I, like a traffic cop, Could be forever on fixed post there! A Christmas Dialogue AJAX Hullo, Socrates ! Bless me, when I saw a stout gentleman tumble with such emphasis I had no Idea it was you. What have you In that package? Nothing break-.. able, I trust? SOCRATES Some little glass balls for the Christmas tree. I fear they have gone West. AJAX Well, it is quite a while since I saw you last. What do you say to an oyster SOCRATES A very meritorious Idea. AJAX It Is cheery to see all this snow, I think. It seems to bring one closer to the real Christmas spirit. SOCRATES It also brings one closer to, the pavement, sometimes. As I thought, these nice little globes I got at the ten-cent store are Irremediably fractured. , AJAX Somehow, something seems lack ing in the season nowadays. Christmas isn't as Jolly as it used to be. I miss the old fasbloned blazing 'fires, the great joints of roast beef, the mealy boiled potatoes. There Isn't an ipn anywhere la the city where you can drop in and watch an open fire while you eat. There used to bo those sleighing parties up the Wissahickon. Dear me, some thing seems to have vanished since the good old days. I don't know Just what it is SOCRATES You know perfectly, well what it is. AJAX No, no ; I don't mean that. Some thing of that large and genial simplicity has gone. I always read Dickens and Wash ington Irving at Christmas time, and it makes me homesick for the old ways. I often wish I had been my grandfather SOCRATES Why do you hold such a grudge against your posterity? AJAX Yeeterday the ashnwn called' sad 1919 SEASONABLE STUFF said he positively must have something for Christmas. I offered him a cigar, wljich I had intended to give to my father-in-law, and he was furious. SOCRATES I. hope you don't think the Christmas hold-up Is only a recent custom. When the Wise Men got tt Bethlehem, prob ably the first person tbey met wai the stable, boy, demanding a hand-out. AJAX But it is always the people who have scamped their work most during the year who are most vociferous toward Christ mas time. I am really surprised that the . people who sew the little buttons on soft collars haven't sent in an appeal. And those who work hardest of all, folks like trolley car conductors and bank cashiers and poets, do they stand around asking for a tip from the public? Whnt would bo thought if you, Socrates, should stand at the corner of Broad and Chestnut with a little box and a placard saying "Don't Forget Socratcs's Christ mas"? SOCRATES The other poets would be sorry they had not thought of it first. AJAX Everybody nowadays wants to be happy without earning their happiness. There's no fun-in giving people things when they expect them beforehand. That's one of the troubles the Senate Is up against. France says the Senate ought to ratify the treaty, as a Christmas present to the wqrld. Now that the whole world is waiting for the Sen ate to do this, it takes away all the fun of doing it. The organ-grinder on our street has sent in an appeal asking us to save our old clothes for him. What would your clients think of you if you asked them not to throw their old jokes away, but send them in to tho Dish? SOCRATES They do it already. But" look here, Ajax, you arc forgetting the thing that gives Christmas its real charm. AJAX Tell me. SOCRATES The beauty of It is that whatever the trials and absurdities of the Christmas season, it is the one feature of human life that we approach with perennial and happy illusion. Wc imagine, with cheerful idealism, that buying a purple batcen waist for the cook is going to make her a more docile and efficient kitchener. We imagine that overwhelming the children with woolly rabbits and clockwork boats to sail in the bathtub will make them go to bed with less uproar and outcry. Wc imagine that llhode Island will bf able to bluff the Supreme Court into declaring th-eighteenth amendment unconstitutional. The joy of Christmas does not lie so much In the Day Itself as in the happy simplicity of heart in which we npproach it. Everything that is, is for the best. If Scotch has gone, wo can still drink cjacr. AJAX Look here, I know a man up the street who says he has a friend who can get SOCRATES Hush ! AJAX It's a fact. . SOCRATES Just let me make a note 'of that address. Exile WE'VE eucalyptus and bamboo And almost everything Grows in. our'garden; palm trees, too, Where sweet, wild thrushes sing. THE California hills are gold. I'd like to see again All laughing In their autumn dress The little hills of Maine. FROM here we see the ocean throw Great balls of Dying foam ; I wonder If the sumach's out Along tho roads back home? 1 BEATRICE WASHBURN. '' Santa Barbara, Calif. It is customary to say of tho opposing political party that they havo learned noth ing and forgotten nothing. As we survey our education thus far, we feel that our case is worse still. Wo have learned nothing and forgotten everything. SOCRATES. Add hard Jobs Choosing Her Christ mas present. AFTER DANNY DEAVER ('WAY AFTER) TTTHAT makes the janitor so nice?" ' said the Tenant-on-paradc. "A son of touch ; a son of touch," the Older Tenant said. "What make the hall-boy so polite and what's 'is little list?" "A hit of graft, a bit of graft," the Older Tenant hissed. "What makes the milkman grin that grin?'' said Tenant-newV-come. - "He wants some coin and you arc it," said Tenant;very-glum. "What make's the 'phone girl speak so sweet?" said Tenant-on -parade; "She's got you down for two or three, that surely must be paid." For they're macing every tenant, you can hear the old bunk ring, The regiment's in hollow square all ready with the sting; And "you muBt be their victim before the Christmas morn, Or spend a year with heinous hate, -and grouch, and silent scorn. Anon (With apologies to R. K.) The humorist who was went to nut a piece of coal in the toe of a Christmas stock ing is not indulging in any such extravagance this year. The motto of tho Reds who will parade in manacles on Christmas Day In New York is, "But we anticipate." City employes will find old Uncle Bonus a valuable assistant to Santa Claus. What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. What common domestic animal was un known to tho Indians in America until tho advent of the white man? 2. What is the correct pronunciation of"! the word prestige? ' 2 S. Who are the Doukhobors? 4. What is a duniwassal? C. Name four notable novels left unfinished by their authors. C. What is a doublet? 7( What is chrysoprase? 8. What part of American territory was the first to be discovered by the white man? 9. What is a coatee? 10. What does the Latin phrase "Deus ex machlna" mean and how should the "ch" of "machlna" be pronounced? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. It was popularly believed In Europe that tho year 1000 A. D. would mark tho end of the world. 2. Lima is the largest city in Pveru. 8. Andrew Jackson virtually named Martin Van Buren as his successor in the presidency. 4. Rudyard Kipling's "The Light That Failed" has both' a tragic and a happy ending. The latter version was the first one published in America. 5. Daniel O'Connell was a noted Irish statesman and orator. He was a leader of the movement in favor of Catholic emancipation. Ho became a member of Parliament in 1828. In 1843 he was convicted of conspiracy and sedition, but his sentence was reversed the following year. 0. 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