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' Fbilidttpbla, Silurdiy. December 27. 1)1) m ACTION, GENTLEMEN! MONTHS ago the organization of tho joint Delaware River Bridge Com mission was completed. Tho commission held a meeting yes terday. "We may discuss the engineering staff," said Governor Sproul. The world knows the leisurely ways of commissions. If the gentlemen con cerned officially with the Camden bridge project are not yet certain of what they -will discuss at their all-too-infiequent sessions, how often will they have to meet before they can agree on questions of design and terminals? SUBBING FOR THE SALOON WITH a confidence that seems born of inspiration, Ernest L. Tustin, the new director of public welfare, enteis the long list of zealous people who be lieve that they have found or can find a substitute for the saloon. Mr. Tustin has not made his plans public. He ap pears to be thinking of a light-hearted combination of dance hall and movie show supervised by prophets of right eousness from the municipal welfare department. The scheme is interesting. Mr. Tustin should be helped and encouraged. We wish him luck. But the average hard drinking barleycorner went to saloons to be deluded. He could believe that he was an unbeatable strong man, Caruso, a prophet, the wisest politician of all, a poet, a prizefighter. He could have one delusion at a time or a whole flock of them simultaneously. Saloon substitutes will not meet all his lcquirements. They will not give him headaches, either. That's why Mr. Tustin's task is not easy. POSTAL EFFICIENCY II AN UNPRECEDENTED burden was rV jxl puj; Upon the postal. organization in this city m the week preceding Christ mas. The volume of mail and parcel post matter was stupendous. There was a time on Wednesday when it seemed that the delivery system would be hope lessly -congested. Yesterday, however, the postoffice officials were able to an nounce that every letter and package mailed up to midnight on Christmas Eve was delivered before the force quit for their own holiday. The tradition of efficiency is very old In the postoffice organization. Six years of bad management, tyrannical authority and poor pay have not sufficed wholly to destroy it. It will survive until a suc cessor to Burleson arrives to provide a fairer administration. But the credit be longs to the hard-working civil service personnel and not to the political ap pointees. HIGH SEAS AND HIGH BALLS A N AWFUL picture of a ship with an " unspliced main-brace accompanies the announcement that the shipping board is considering disposing of all its vessels to private American ownership. The utter hopelessness of competing with foreign passenger steamers on which alcoholic refreshment is legally sanc tioned is ominously forecast. But what is a woefjl horoscope on land is not necessarily applicable to the sea. Epicures both in food and drinks have been known to fast persistently on shipboard. And some of the most indig nant words ever voiced havo been flung at more than one immune and self-constituted Samaritan who called champagne a cure for seasickness. THE WILD EAST DANDITRY of the soit that was sup-J-' posed to have passed forever with the s,tage coach is having an astonishing revival along the line of the Lincoln Highway between this city and New York. Motortruck crews are required to go heavily armed. One driver was shot dead not long ago by thieves, who got off with his machine and a consign ment of cloth valued at $20,000. Outlaws have been quicker than the police to perceive the possibilities of motor vehicles. The automobile is their chief dependence and tho belief expressed by the authorities at Passaic, N. J., that an extensive organization of thugs ex ists, with first-aid stations, hiding places and equipment at various places along tho route between Philadelphia and Jer sey City, seems well founded. Over a year ago traces of an elaborate organization of motor bandits were un covered in this city. It was found then tnat trucks with valuable loads often were trailed in fast passenger cars by thieves who sought opportunities to steal tho machines, even if an attack on tho driver were necessary. The fre quency of hold-up stories in the news shows how abfectly the police in this city and elsewhere have failed to meet the new tactics of resourceful criminals. In New Jersey as well as in Philadel- ' S;upSiS?irSSl,0,,eo dcpatU I Aitf-lwii-Ufna nf Vin vii-lrttla nfnt.rs will I 4v..w....ca -i v..w .-.. -- --- havo to learn speedily how to deal with . .. . ,i .. !r t-- ino new type 01 nigiiwayinun u muiui traffic is to bo mado safo on important roadways. RAILROADS HAMSTRUNG BY CONGRESSIONAL BOLSHEVIKS There Is No Hope for Business Until the Old Hostility to Capital Invested In Transportation Is Abandoned rpHE solution of the whole railroad -a- rtrnhlnm nnntnva nvrmml tlin nrntpc- ' tion of tho light of the public to con f,..... ..... ..u u.wm..u -.. , , tinuous and rfllcient service from the transportation corporations. President Wilson has not touched upon this phase of the question in his procla mation ordering the return of tho roads to their owners on March 1. If he refers to it at all it will be in a special com munication to Congress while that body is trying to agree on a new plan for railroad regulation and on what the gov ernment is to do to reimburse tho rail roads for the losses sustained during tho period of public control and operation. Railroads are not private corporations in the sense that a corporation manufac turing shoes or hats or clothing or type writers is private. 'Ihc lailrcad is a public highway in fact and in law. The courts have held that the owners of the loads arc trustees of the people to whom is committed tho tabk of operating the loads m hucli a way as to give the same service to every one on the sumo terms. Government has had to interfere in order to secure uniformity of service and uniformity of charges so that there might not be discrimination in favor of any one. But the interference has not been in telligent. Rates have been fixed so low that it became impossible years ago for the railroads to secure tho capital needed for extensions and improvements. It would bo about as easy today for the railroads to float a loan as for the soviet government of Russia to sell an issue of bonds in the American market. The Bolsheviki have been little nioic hostile to all capital than our own Con gress has been to capital invested in tho railroads. A billion dollars a year ih needed for the next five yeais to provide the improvements and new equipment requited by the roads if they are to give the country the service that its business demands. But to ask for it under present conditions would be like asking sane men to throw their money into the fire. Congress hat. two months, more in which to undo tho evils of the past and to leimburse the railroads for the losses sustained under government operation. If it acts intelligently and without preju d ce it can lay the bugaboo of a panic which has been stalking up and down tho land ever since the signing of the armi stice. The railroad payrolls hae been in cicased by the government more than $1,000,000,000 a year, according to Judgo Lovett, of the Union Pacific system, and the rates have been increased barely enough to cover this item. The increased cost of fuel and material equipment has not been provided for in any way, and the government is insisting that the roads owe it large sums for equipment bought during the war. Several of the brotherhoods whose members are employed by the roads are planning to flemand a further increase in wages before March 1, while the gov ernment remains in control and while the threat of political reprisals against the party in control of the executive de partments can be used with some hope of success. If these increases are granted the railroads will be in a very serious condition when their owners get poEses sien of them. There is no way out save thiough a further increase in lates which the pub lic will have to pay. And in addition to the further increase in rates, the public will be buidened with the payment of $613,000,000 which Secretary Glass has asked to be appropriated this year out of the national revenues to pay the deficit that is accumulating under government operation. It has been estimated that the total deficit will amount to $1,500,000,000. If an attempt is made to pay this out of the ordinary revenues at once, the na tional budget will be so large a.s to be beyond the ability of Congress to pro vide for. If a leconstruction bond issue weie made to cover this sum the tax payer would be temporarily relieved, for the payment of the debt would be spread over a long period of years. Men inter ested in the railroads would doubtless buy the bonds and accept the govern ment's promise to pay, while they would use the money thus supplied for the de velopment of the roads. This is not a matter to which, as wo have said many times before, the man in the street can be indifferent. The railroads are not owned by a group of rich men with inexhaustible resources. They aie owned largely by the holders of life and file insurance policies and by the depositors in savings banks. This means by the plain people of model ate means. If the railroads are bankrupted the value of the savings bank deposits and of the insurance policies is seriously impaired. This property must be protected, not only against the folly of Congress but against the unreasonable demands of the men who work on tho railroads. But whenever some cbngressmen think of a railroad they think of what used to he called a bloated bondholder reveling in riches, drinking champagne for his break fast and dining on terrapin. It has thus far been impossible to get this idea out of the mind of the lawmakers in Wash ington. The men who have looted tho railroads in the past are largely respon sible for thi3 belief, but the day when railroad looting was easy has passed, never to return; that is, railroad looting by unscrupulous speculators. The menace now comes from the broth-' crhoods of employes. They succeeded in holding up Congress when tho Adamson eight-hour law was passed on the eve of a presidential election in September, 1910. They are planning another holdtup EVENING PUBLIC LEDGBR - on the cvo of another presidential elec tion. There is grnvo danger that Congress will forget that tho public is more vitally interested than tho railroad employes in tho wage question and in tho protec tion of tho capital invested in the rail roads. Word camo out of Washington yesterday afternoon that tho plans in the Cummins bill to protect tho public against strikes were not to bo ndoptcd in the bill finally passed, and that no adequate plan had been devised for tho settlement of disputes ubout wages and hours of woik. Unlet.8 moral pressure is brought to 1. .... u.. - .. M. . ...!. uuui uiuu vuu tuiifjiuHsmen uiu tvuni will doubtless justify this forecast. THE TREATY SCAPEGOATS TDEVIEWING his dark and distuibing impressions of his recent trip through Europe, William Potter deplores the fact that tho peace treaty was over made a political issue. In that opinion u huge majority of Americans concur. The dis agreement starts with the futile process of fixing the blame. There arc hindsight experts who de nounce tho President for having urged the election of a Democratic Congress, for having gono to Europe at all, for having appointed on his commission no other Republican save the experienced but not influential Henry White. From another standpoint the round robin against the league was tho pri mary offenso. It swayed raitisan Re publicanism toward a policy wholly at variance with the best party traditions and was pla'nly marked with bad temper as well as haste. There aro times, however, when culprit-hunting is among the most sterile of enterprises. Tho logical order of acts which make for progress has been re versed in tho present crisis. Tho na tion is under the crucial necessity of rat ifying the treaty. A moratorium on fault-finding should be the first step. With it, acceptance the pact will be come comparatively easy. Later on tho scapegoats may be soiled out and there will be plenty of political arguments for all hands. It is notice able that even in Germany leconstruc tion comes first. Disputes about punish ing the guilty have not been permitted to cmbanass the concerted plans for revival. In our own country those politicians who wish to make the trebly a campaign issue will have their most effective am munition after the document has been made operative. The question of who blocked it most may then legitimately be raised. AN OBJECT LESSON IN FRANCE rpHE oversubscription of the new French loan on tho first day that it was offered is more than an index of patriotism and an optimistic view of the future. It is testimony also of the sound financial habits prevalent in the leading European countries. The small investor, composing the pre ponderating large portion of the pub lic, is thoroughly accustomed to bond buying. Stock swindlers and easy money artists arc generally less trium phant abroad than hero at home, not so much because Europe is virtuous or its public averse to gain as because respect for security is firmly implanted in the popular mind. It is America which is emphatically the happy hunting ground of the get-rich-quick concern. Proof of this fact could be supplied by the postoffice to any skeptic. The Liberty Loans, however, were a wholesome financial as well as a patri otic stimulus. It will be well to remem ber that merit should the government sen fit to float any additional general issues. Such bonds do not merely help to pay the debts of the United States. They furnish an armor against flighty finance, which France in particular has long successfully worn. Tho victory of the new loan proves j that, despite the alleged "orgy of extiava- gance" in Pans, a good many stockings over theie are not silk but wool. The fair-price board As to Fair Prices may set what it aims for fair piicp.s; but fair prices nre not necessarily low prices. The best that can be hoped for iu the cir cumstances is that Mr. MrOlain. with tho aid of the newspapers, rnny be able to drive the heartless profiteer out of business. All tho mathemati Just a Little Chore cnlly inclined political economist lias to do nowadavs is to square the weious circle in which Wage and Cost of Pioduot are play iug ning-Around-Rosj. Bandits in Chicago invaded a fu store, forced clerks and customers to lie on the floor and escaped in an automobile with loot to the value of $2.",000. Sounds like a chap ter of Philadelphia's current history, doesn't it? The Homo Defense Guard has been mus tered out. Tho ttnining thej r reived will always be an asset to the men and the serv ice thej gave will bo remembered by ull citizens. The holiday spirit everywhere noticeable gives direct refutation to tho assumption of the friends of John Barleycorn thnt siccity makes a sick city. The man who has both patriotism and money has a good opportunity to show his colors by presenting a standard to the local post of the American Legion. Stanch in our admiration for General Pershing, wo concede that fried dried apple pie has too much dignity for blapstick comedy. Wonder if Admiral Kims ever vvonders if the time is not near when it may no longer be said Jhat no President has ever come from the navy? . Steps being taken to prevent holdups in financial institutions stem to show a lack of desiro for u bank where the wild time grows. The Profiteer is tho Other Fellow and his residence is Elsewhere. And where the Rlsewheio would it be? Here's where Chef Time makes hash out of the Christmas dinner. We all feel better for the dissipations j of a prosperous Christmas, PBILAPELPHIA, SATURDAY, DEOBJfBlBB MAYOR-ELECT MOORE'S LETTER Op-State Politicians Havo Yet to Learn That. Philadelphia Admin-) Istratlon Will Not Recog- nlzo Factions POLITICIANS aro watching with curious I - interest the checkerboard as tho game may be plnvccl liet rafter from Ilatrlsbiirg and Philadelphia. The Governor has his ear to the ground nnd travels ocr the stntc freqiicntl), coming in close touch with public sentiment He knows the political gnmc fairly well. The Philadelphia situation, however, does not seem jet to be thoroughly understood by tho people up-state. Candi dates for high places lookiug to Philadelphia for favor nnd support do not seem to have fully renlbed the change that has taken place in the Quaker City. There Is an inclination to go to old leaders or to jield to their rec ommendations with regard to appointments on the rather dubious ground Unit the "domlnunre" of factions lins not .vet been idenrh determined. Iu iew of frequent Htatenients bj the Mnor-olrrt of Philadel phia that factions will not be toleiated or i (-cognized, tho doubt of some of the ttatc 'caders is somen liut mjstifying, but it is believed in due course thon who havo been accustomed to "go-nlong" methods will come to a full realization of the truth that "the old order changcth," and thnt it bus netually (hanged for all practical purposes. pRLSIDKNT CALWELL. of the Corn Ichange lia'i?., who ties up pictty close to .igridilture, has ilieeoveied that blooded stock Is hard to get nnd that when cattle mo offered for vale, which is now rare, the icdigiced stock is quickly bought up. Every one will agice that we should have more cattle, and still more cattle, if the cost of living is to come down. Our consuming population seems to bo increasing much more rapidly than is our edible block. Mr. Calwcll has an idea thut wc could encourago cattle raising in the East by an occasional evhibit of blooded stock, nnd there nre many otheis who ugree with him. r"1 II. CARTER, secretary of the National Association of Hosiery and Underwear Manufacturers, asks for a laigc hall suit able for the sixteenth annual convention and evhibitiou of that bodj. The associa tion has used tho First Regiment Armorr and the hall of the Comiiiciciiil Museum", but is clnmoiing for more room. Tho meet ings of the nntional association biing many bujers to tho city nnd thej are undoubtedly of great commercial value, all of which goes to show that Philadelphia should have a big now hall not too big, but big enough to meet such emergencies as that described I)) Mi. Carter. rplIK Stale Highway Department has a way -L of filling up odd automobile numbers by assigning them to persons more or less prominent iu public affairs. It may be a good thing in more wa.vs than one, since it is easy to detect car No. 2." or car No. 101 if the driver happens to he cutting up anv didos. which, of course, he ought not to do with tho car of any public official. Perhaps Commissioner Lewis S. Sadler nnd his motor vehicle force intended bv this method to pay a compliment and to set an example. TUinitn is much complaining up in the -L vicinity of Park uvenuo nnd Olnej ave nue. Forty-second ward, concerning stiect improvements. Milk wagons stuck- in the mud when trying to reach new houses are said to bo a feature not altogether pleasing to those who purchased property in this vicinity . C. IJ. Fcnstermaclier nnd n num ber of other property owners in the vicinity, having brought this matter to the atten tion of the authorities, hope something may he done A milk wagon stuck in the mud on n frosty morning is not very helnful in the matter of babv culture, and the Forty -sreond warders will probably find some redress before long. rpnE Northern Liberties Welfare Workers' - Association is agitating for a plnvgrouud in the vicinity of Fifth street nnd Fnirmount n venue. The Rev. Edwin S. Lane,, of the social service commission of the diocese of Pennsylvania, is pressing this matter, along with other active citizens, including Clinton Rogers Woodruff, chairman of the commis sion. On the committee surveying the sit uation is Mr. Carter, of the Beth Eden Community House, and Miss Rosenbaum. of the Northern Liberties Plnyground. piIARLES'.T. WEISR, the big wool factor, -' is as well known in Wyoming as he is iu Philadelphia, and iu Australia as ho is iu Wj online. We do not nlwajs nnnrecinte the extent to which the big Philadelnhia business man is appreciated elsewhere. Con gressman Frank W. Mondell, the leader of the House of Representatives, recently stated that the names of Webb, Grundy nnd Cum mings were almost household words in his home state. The Gmndv referred to is Joseph R. Grundy, of Bristol, who buvs a great deal of wool in Wyoming, and tho Cummings is Co'onel J. Howell Cummings, of the Stetson .Co , whose hats, or rather sombreros, are quite familiar to the western people. THE piesident of the Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Association this year is Harry J. Myers, of Bethlehem." Harry dabbles a little in politics and generally keeps posted as to what is going on in the state, and he never lets go the business side of it and hence is nb'e to talk pol'tics without ' ''ring to secure office. Mr. Myers is one of the active spirits in the direction of Naz 'iiethiHall Military Acadcniv at Nazareth, npil he also figures in the big Lincoln Day celebrations at Bethlehem. FORREST H. RIORDAN, chairman of the publicity committee of the South Sixtieth Street Improvement Association, has let it be known thnt that association is in favor of the incoming administration and exneets to co-operate with it. The association, which is headed by H. G. Heebncr, presi dent, renrcsents n big part of the Forty sixth wnrd, claiming for its boundary lines the cast side of Fifty-eighth street, west to Cobbs Creek, .north side Cedar avenfiV and south to Baltimore avenue. Tt is said that the members of the association are 00 per cent owners of property a very good show ing. DOWN in Washington they have organized a War Department Co-operative Stores Association to beat the high cost of living, 'niesp workers in the War Department have devised a system by which they can dispense to their members at wholesale prices food, clothing nnd other necessaries of life. Tho association has the indorsement of men like Julius Knhn, rhnirman of the military affairs committee; P. O. Harris, the. adiutnnt general; General March, chief of staff, and Quartermaster General Rotters. There are 23 000 einnloves in the War De partment nnd the members of the associa tion think thnt by drawing this large army together they can make a big dent in living costs. Tha plan is something like that of the celebrated Rochdn'e svstem. which for a long time has had fontho'd in England. J. nAMPTON MOORE. The real sweetness of sugar is with the seller rather than with the buyer. A ''-WrstLtoriNCr THE CHAFFING DISH To His Brown-Eyed Mistress Who J'allietl Iltm for Praising Blue Eyes in His Verses TF SOMETIMES, in n random phrase - (For variation in my ditty), I chance blue eyes, or gray, to praise And seem to intimate them pretty IT IS because I do not dare With too unmixed reiteration To sing the browner eyes and hair ' That arc my true intoxication. KNOW, then, that I consider brown For ladies' ejes, the ouly color; And deem all other orbs in town (Compared to yours), opaquei, duller. I PRAT, perpend, my dearest dear; While blue-eyed maids the praise were drinking How insubstantial was their cheer It was of yours that I was thinking! It seems to us perfectly natural and cred itable that the retiring councilmen should be eager to take their mahogany desks with them. Those desks, undoubtedly, are asso ciated in their minds with the plcasautcst and easiest job any of them ever had; more over, like our own cherished rolltop, they arc probably crammed and pigeoned with all sorts of neglected correspondence which they intend, borne day, in the happy leisure of their old age, to answer. Certainly, to speak for ourself, we would rather push the desk home on a tnrrow than have to answer all the letters in it. One of the problems that worries the architect of the projected new building for this newspaper is what to do about our desK. We understand that, after one look at it, ho decided that the only safe way to proceed would bo to jack up the pile of unanswered letters and then erect a new building around them. If General Pershing goes on eating fried dried apple pie, tho question of his candidacy for the presidency will soon be decided. It is our opinion that the reaily sagacious man is the one who saves until ftcr the festival some of those "Don't Open Until Christmas" seals. He saves them, of course, to put on tho presents he hastily mails, the morning after Christmas, to the people he inadvertently forgot. And the really base-minded man is the one who reckons up, on a sheet of paper, the number of people he forgot who sent cards to him, and compares it with tho nuiny ber he sent to those who sent him nothing, and coucludes that he stands about even. Many of tho thoroughly well-meaning schemes of social regeneration puzzle us grently ; but wo profess ourself even more than usual nonplussed by a broadside from Xcniu, Illinois, which has just reached us. In this it is said, "We holu that tho orderly evolution of society cau bo secured only by the abolition of interest." Testing that doctrine by applying it to n particular case, ourself, we take the liberty of observing that nowhere has interest been more substantially abolished than in our own case. At the moment wc art somewhat soiled, to the pure vision of Ufo Xeuia thinker, by having battened on tho incon siderable Interest of a few Liberty Bonds; but there was a time when for several years we never got near enough nny interest even to know what it looked like And we do not remember that this condition mado us any more gay, innocent or altruistic at heart. The Xenla enthusiast complains that "In terest has thrown man on the scrap-heap," but we think he is too optimistic. , Dovo Dulcet, who is a biraple-minded thinker, has confided to us that he believes the Deity to bo a kind of publisher who has issued the 'universe in tho form of galley proofs- We are now in the stage of cor recting the misprints, Dove avers; and he 27, . 1919 THE BACKWARD GLANCE thinks the page proofs will be along about the year J5000. Dovo also maintains that once tho volume is ready for publication, the publisher will back it to tho limit with a big advertising appropriation. Dove's theory is an interesting one, and if Dove weren't so 'tedious wc would have liked to discuss it with him more at length. Wc did remark, however, that books that arc published by the nuthor himself larely have a successful sale and arc usually panned by the critics. Looking over our modest reasons for thankfulness and preparing our spirit for the bracing discipline of New Year resolu tions, we are very pleased not to bo the owner of a railroad that has been two years under government control. But as director general of the Urchin's clock-work train we assert that the success ful conduct of such a system makes the trousers very baggy. Out' in Cincinnati they face the "facts of modern life with refreshing realism. From a friend in that city wc got a Christmas card with' the following sentiment printed on it: Perchance 'twill Santa somewhat gripe To crawl in through your flat's steam pipe; Though modem apartments are minus a flue, There is no chance that he'll miss you. Our favorite author, Shepherd M. Dugger, well understands the effectiveness of alter nating the sublime and the comic. Students of literary nrt will note his technique in the following passage: Tho beautiful clouds, the ships of tho etheieal sea, in whose electric bertha tho Blant thunders were sleeping-, now sailed only mountain high over the valleys, pre senting1 a sdi view to the tourists; and, as they caughv the lays of the sun In their rigging or allowed his beams to pass through between them to the beautiful earth below, tha landscape wasleopardlzed for miles around with a moving robe of light and shadow Just at this instant a buffeting breeze lifted Skipper's light hat from "his crown and gave him a lively southward race for Its recovery, and eveiy time that one of his big- feet went forward, the heel of the other flew up behind and hit him on the hip, while, his great hands were extended forward In pursuit of tho structure of cereal straw. The Balsam Groves of Grandfather Mountain. The "Balsam Groves" has aroused genial comment from a number of our gently nur tured clients, one of whom, Mr. George II. Mcll, tells us that within sight of Grand father Mountain, North Caiolioa, is u gen eral store with tho following sibn : Terms Strictly Cash. To trust is to bust; to bust is Hell. No trust, no bust, no Hell. Another client says that at the time of the Centennial, Philadelphia was the birth place ofa book no less unconsciously amus ing than the "Balsam Groves." It was called "The Staple Dell of '70," and our client sighs to see it again. Does any one know of a copy? Social Chat Tho Rev. Robert Norwood is a keen ad mirer of the Gumps. Roy Helton is at work on a poem for the Dish. Tomorrow being President Wilson's birth day, the Dish has scut him a present, but we doubt whether he will rend it. If tho back-page Beauty Corner can hold out for ubout eighteen years Jouger wc have a daughter who will knock tllcni cold. A. Edward Newton has collaborated with James Boswell in writing a little book about the late Samuel Johnson. 'The lucky pub lisher of such a pair of sprightly writers is Mr. R. B. Adam, of Buffalo, SOCRATES. THE WELL TT7ITH osiers straight and long ' Wo stir the water That slips away So quietly : Let us play That we arc fishcrfolk And this the Well of Song Beneath the Scarlet Hazels, In its shadowed deeps Fintan tho Salmon sleeps Like a bright-plumed bird; Ho will wake, he will rise At a whispered word, And we may snare him Tangled in a net Cunningly staked and set And have the world for prize, Or better, cease to care For any kingdom there, Both grown so wise. Ella Young, in the Nation. Today's menu : Turkeybone soup. What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. When is it proposed to return the rail roads to tho government? 2. What is the flechc of a church? Ii. What is the origin of the word chore? 4. Why was tho Bridge of Sighs so called and where is it? 5. What is the literal meaning of the word "nee" attached to tho name of a married woman, as "Mrs. Mary Smith, nee Jones"? 0. Where are tho Canary islands? 7, Who is the premier of Japan? ' S. What is the mean heat of the human body? !). What was the battle of Bennington and what state celebrates its anniversary as a legal holiday? 10. What President of the United States was the longest lived? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" was ivritten for the Christmas of 113. 2. Tho salary of tho Yico President is $12,000 a year. 3. Unalasku is one of the largest of the Aleutian islands, which extend iu a. chain from the southwest extremity of Alaska. Its seaport is also called Unalaska. 1. "The Phjslology of Taste" ("La Phy: siologio du Gout") was written by Brlllat-Savarin, a noted French epi cure and gastronomist, who was also n writer on other subjects and a jurist of some repute. His dates aro 1753 1S20. 5. New Orleans was undqr Frpnck do minion for forty-eight years and under Spanish for thirty-seven. C. The Republican Presidents were Abra ham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Uljsscs S. Grant,' Rutherford B, Hayes, James A. Gnrticld, Chester A. Arthur, Benjamin Harrison, William Mc Kinlcy, Theodore Roosevelt and Wil liam H. Taft. 7. Tho great firo of Rome occurred in the, reign of the Emperor Nero. , 8. General Pershing spent his boyhood in the town of Laclede, Mo. 0. The word arctic is derived from the Greek "Rrk,tlkos," bcarin allusion to "Ursa Major,'' the Great Bear, tho brightest lonstellation of tho. northern heavens. , 10. Because' Lady Abtor holds a seat in Parliament, King Georgo broke prec edent luopenlng his speech to that body. The old form of address was J,My lords and gentlemen of tho House of Commous." The new revised version was "My lords and members of the House of Commous." y 1 11 'W 4 VI t L1M& -. vsiteiiv J ..vMti,',- &feU0i ft-HW.-arTTt-t-J cs-TT-ra
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