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THE RIGHT VIEW OF TRANSIT
JT1HE temporary retention of William S.
Twining as director of transit is re
assuring evidence of J. Hampton Moore's
intention to avoid haste in the handling
of formidable and complicated problems.
During the additional month of his ten
ure of office, Mr. Twining should be of
authoritative assistance to the new
Jlavor.
Spectacular moves in the transit situ-
ntion are decidedly out of place. The
public is weary of sensationalism in this
Subject. Progress based on expert ad
vice and sound principles of economy is
what should be sought.
In taking his time Mr. Moore displays
a. due appreciation of the magnitude of
"his task. That is the point of view
Which promises genuine accomplishment
and a minimum of vexatious revisions.
SPEAKING OF PUNCH
"VNE sort of punch is going swiftly out
- " of life. If Mr. Weglein as president
of the new Council can put the other sort
behind public business and public enter
prises he will deserve endless credit and
later a higher office.
In his statement yesterday Mr. Weg
lein intimated that talk makes him
weary and that he yearns for action.
That is cheering. Talk a steady, mo
notonous flow of talk is the bane of
Philadelphia. Generations of talk pre
ceded the Parkway. A century of talk
was .somehow necessary before any prac
, tieal effort was made to put a bridge
across the Delaware to Camden. Talk
Is a habit with some people. It is, too, a
convenient mask for self-interested peo
ple who have reasons of their own for
stopping public enterprises.
If Mr. Weglein wishes to make a name
p' fpr himself he will not be content with
f finishing what others started. He might
tackle the traffic problem, for example,
and seek a method by which motorcars
,-iJD32JiJt'mie to have the status of ;ublic
f conveniences in the central zones from
which they are slowly being -driven by
Successive restrictions.
JERSEY'S FIFTEEN PER CENT
TTOPE springs eternal in New Jersey.
J---There is ground for the belief that
he bill which Governor-elect Edwards
. ordered prepared to legalize beverages
witn a io per cent aiconouc content will
be supported by a majority in the Legis
lature to which the Democrats will pre
sent it in fulfillment of Mr. Edwards's
pre-election promises.
But the Legislature alone cannot bring
back old times in New Jersey or any
where else. Until it is known just how
the Supreme Court will interpret the
word "concurrent" in the prohibition
amendment New Jersey and Rhode
.Island and other states dissatisfied with
a bone-dry existence can only wait in
patience and obey the law.
rj' 'In every other" amendment to the con
stitution of the United States the enforc
ing authority is vested in Congress alone.
The prohibition amendment provides that
Congress and the states shall have "con
current authority" to enforce it. Dry ad
vocates hoged, apparently, doubly to in
nure, prohibition by bringing state and
federal law"together upon the heads of
violators. In New Jersey and elsewhere
ifr Is contended that the term gives a
ntate the right to make its own defini
tions of intoxicants and to make and
enforce its own dry laws.
The time is coming when, for a short,
- exciting period, "concurrent" will be the
inost passionately debated word in the
language.
THE THIRD-TERM SCARE
T7JVEN Mr. Wilson's opponents are will-
1 'iff to admit that he has the best
interests of the country at heart and
interests of the country at heart and
Inat ne nas been seel
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service to humanity. Unless they are
f "P J '.mistaken the third-term gossip among
, - , .politicians IS Wltnout sense or rensnn
"Wilson, the President, has done his
?rork. A great task is still before Wil
son, the historian. Future generations
will have a right to know of all that
went on behind the scenes at Versailles.
Jliey will have a right to know why wars
Vtist.be and the nature of the agencies
aatconfuse the work of men who strive
' or .peace among tho nations.
'Ita-. one is so well qualified as Mr.
(Wilson to write a history of the Paris
' jttfef ence that may enlighten and guide
' jeonles everywhere in the v.ars fn fnmo
iLThat work will be quite as important ns
(anything that a President may have to
- 'do In tho next four years.
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O' "i UAUINU "Frit TIGER"
ItAfiTiEQRGESCLEMENCEAU'Sannouiiced
m . V determination. to retire would h.irdlw
be affected by his election to tho oresi-
d"ncy of the French republic.
f ' That office is the expression of the
('S . fear of a dictatorship which troubled the
lj'$ lepjtstitutjon makers after the war of
tW-71. As a directing factor, the king
it n iroc negligible in England than
t' ir.sident in in France. Every act
JVRi" 'Mnleralgned by a cabi-
ler Hi is not even ininicillntely
reflective of the public will since his elec
tion is by the Chamber of Deputies and
the Senate sitting in the National Assem
bly. The session will be held in Ver
sailles on January 17.
It is said that Clemenceau's "elevation"
to tho presidency is a foregono conclu
sion. Whether he will enjoy the alleged
honor is less certain. "The Tiger," tho
incarnation of activity, seems markedly
unfitted for the grandiose and hollow role.
But perhaps he will take to novel and
play writing, as he did once before during
a period of abstinence from politics.
IS JAPAN TRYING TO
MONOPOLIZE EASTERN ASIA?
She Seems to Be Taking What She
Wants While the Rest of the World
Is Looking the Other Way
TT NEED surprise no one that Japan is
now said to be mistress of eastern
Siberia from Vladivostok to Lake Baikal.
Some power must control that vast
territory. ' The Russians themselves are
not able to control it because they are
not able to decide which faction shall
have the power. The Bolshevists and
the opponents of bolshevism have been
fighting for the possession of the region.
Neither has been victorious, Admiral
Kolchak might have maintained his posi-
'aT h:uC:?J?h'J
Allies. That ho should be rrcognized
was recommendod by Ambassador Mor
ris after having visited Kolchak on
orders from Washington. But the United
States has taken no action and the other
allied nowors have been unwilling to act
without the United States.
It may be argued in extenuation that
the illness of the President has pre
vented this country from acting. But
events in Siberia cannot wait on the
I recovery w a"y man.
f. ""'"" ,a "" """" " f iV3'""',
and tho power most directlv interested
in that country. She has continually pro
fessed adherence to the policv of the
open door in the East. There is a Jap
anese party, however, not in sympathy
with this policy. The militarists, com
posed of men trained in the German
school of thought, have dreamed of Jap
anese domination of eastfrn Aia. Japan
is ovirropulated and the birth rate is
greater than the death rate so that the
population is continually increasing. A
place to which the surplus population
can migrate is desired by this militarist
party, and. like the Germans, this party
has wished that this place should be
under the control of Japan. They secured
Koret after the Russo-Japanese war,
and their domination in Manchuria, nomi
nally Chinese, has beon gradually grow
ing stronger ever since that war. Opin
ions differ as to the success of their ad
ministration of these acquisitions. In
Manchuria they have been charged with
discriminating against all traders save
those from Japan, but this charge has
been denied.
The commercial party, which does not
sympathize with the territorial aims of
the militarists, recognizes the need of the
extension of Japanese trade with the
mainland of the continent. Japan must
have the raw materials of China and
Siberia and she must have the markets
of Siberia and China in which to sell
the finished pioduct. And the commer
cialists do not object to Japanese migra
tion to the mainland.
It is the military party which now
controls eastern Siberia through the
Japanese army. There is not the slight
est doubt that this party would like to
make the control permanent and annex
the country to Japan as Korea has been
annexed. Whether the people of Japan
wish this or not there is no means of
knowing. Parties are divided on the
subject and they will fight it out among
themselves. Yet both the military and
commercial parties are agreed on the
importance of closer trade relations with
all eastern Asia.
The United States has recognized that
"Japan has special interests in China,
particularly in the part to which her
possessions are contiguous." These are
the words in which Secretary Lansing
explained the meaning of the Lansing
Ishii agreement of 1917 and were re
peated by Viscount Ishii in his reply to
the American secretary of state's request
that he confirm the American under
standing of the agreement.
In fairness to Japan it must be noted
that Viscount Ishii also said that the
territorial integrity of China was to re
main unimpaired and that Japan "had no
deiire to discriminate against the trade
of other nations or to disregard the com
mercial rights heretofore granted by
China in treaties with other powers."
Yet all the evidence available indicates
that Japan has been exerting herself to
the utmost to strengthen her commercial
position in China and eastern Siberia
while the attention of the rest of the
world was occupied with the great Euro
pean war. She has also been making
demands on China which that country
has regarded as unreasonable and op
pressive; demands that in effect gave to
Japan control of vast Chinese interests
to the exclusion of the Chinese them
selves. And Japan has also demanded
that the German rights in Shantung be
transferred to her as part of the spoils
of war; a demand agreed to by France
and Great Britain by treaty while the
war was in progress and consented to by
President Wilson when the matter came
up before the Peace Conference.
Now, it may be asked of what concern
is all this to the United States? To
bring it closer home, of what concern is
it to this city? The best answer to
these questions is that we are just as
deeply concerned in it as we were in
the German ambitions for a place in the
sun, of which much was said for years
before August, 1914. Japan finds her
self too big for the islands which con
strict her. She is bursting her bands
and expanding. If she has learned the
lesson of the last five years, then the
world has little to fear from her. If she
has not learned it, then it behooves the
rest of the world to be on its guard lest
a new war of conquest break out in the
eastern hemisphere which will draw the
other nations into it.
We once had a strong and consistent
Asiatic policy inaugurated by John Hay
when he forced the other nations to agree
to the open door and insisted that Amer
ican financiers be represented in every
international group of capitalists who
sought to develop China. Only in this
way could the rights of American busi
ness in tho Orient be protected. But as
EVENING PUBIilC LEDGER-
soon as Mr. Wilson entered office tho
government roverscd tho policy of Secre
tary Hay and withdrew its support from
American financial interests in China.
It would have none of what has been con
tcmptuouslyvcalled dollar diplomacy. As
a result the development of American
trade with our nearest neighbor on tho
Pacific has been checked, and Japan,
quick to see her opportunity, has been
making hay while the rest of the world
was otherwise occupied. She is not to be
condemned for taking advantage of her
trade opportunities. We would have done
the same thing under the same circum
stances. But the time is coming when
a policy regarding Siberia and its future
must be formulated if we arc to enjoy
those privileges in the East which arc
ours and if we arc to co-operate with
the nations which desiro peaceful devel
opment of eastern Asia with its teeming
millions of possible purchasers of our
products.
MILLIONS FOR NEW BUILDINGS
TN THE remarkable report of tho
Bureau of Building Inspection there is
definite promise of some, attractive
changes in the physical aspect of Phila
delphia. All records were broken in this de
partment in 1919, when permits were
granted for structures to cost a total of
' '?ur imes greater than that'involved in
more tnan ijiih.uuu.uuu. This is a sum
the building plans listed for 1918, when
the war was on. Not all the signs of
this extraordinary revival are yet visible.
The current year should mark the
fruition of conceptions of prime impor
tance to both the business and artistic
development of the town. The permits
provide for the erection of several hand
some office buildings in central Philadel
phia; for the Hospital for Contagious
Diseases at Second and Luzerne streets;
for the huge new drill hall, now partly
finished, at Thirtv-second and Lancaster
avenue; for buildings at League Island;
for thousands of dwellings to relieve the
present shortage and for the art gallery
in Fairmount Park.
This last-named structure, in addition
to its other functions, should have high
decorative value. On the crest of the
old reservoir hill at Twenty-fifth and
Spring Garden streets, the art museum
will strikingly enrich the pictorial assets
of the Parkway. It is likely that the im
provements to the hill, giving it some
thing of the aspect of an acropolis, will
be completed before the year is over and
there is a chance that by next autumn
work on the art gallery may be started.
The city will assuredly present some
new scenes of beauty by the time another
New Year's Day rolls around.
"THE WOMAN IN THE WAY"
'T'HERE is no more pathetic figure than
-- a mature woman who has never
learned self-support left dependent on
relatives for food and shelter. Sometimes
she is a widow and sometimes she is a
spinster, but she frequently feels that
she is in tho way in the home in which
she is maintained. Life to her is a suc
cession of humiliations.
Can it be that Sophia D. Thein, who
died in the Lankenau Hospital recently
and bequeathed $2000 to the home for
the Woman in the Way, had some such
person in mind ? There is no institution
in the city called by that name and so
far as we know there is none in ,the
country. If she had in mind some partic
ular individual that fact will appear in
the course of the inquiries to be made;
but whether she did or not her will
has called attention to the social con
dition in which too many sensitive
women find themselves, and it may sug
gest to the relatives of such that they
can make the inmnte of their homes feel
that she is a welcome guest rather than
a tolerated intruder.
A r or o m m ondation
Hjsteria was mntlf at n recent
moctins of the Cnm
mnnwealth's Attorneys' Association in
I.ouisvillp that the dentil penalty be visited
on any nnareliist or radical cpreadlnj: iniqui
tons propauanda in Kentucky. That's a
species of wildncs one does not expect at n
mectinc of lawyers. Red doctrine is bad ; but
a law such as suscestcd would open the door
to larger evils.
Coolidge has an
Ilis Turn Is Still On nounced that he is
not a candidate for the
vice presidency. This is not surprising. A
time comes in the life of every man when he
must step from the spotlight into the dark,
but it is too much to expect that he should
make the step right In the middle of his act.
Where Time Merges In 'la Rnc j "
Into Kternlty "arty sp"kpu "f ,ns
a good time, a whisky
party as n hot time and a champagne party
ns a royal time. Wc are wondering how to
characterize a wood alcohol jamboree. The
name ought to have something to do with the
coroner's office.
When we become un
luly alarmed at the
spread of radical ideas
Cheer Up!
All Is Not Ist
it is well to remember that when war
descended upon us the population of the
United States almost to n mrn rallied to the
flag; and there is little likelihood that they
will be nny less loyal in peace times.
There is a little brown
Here's a Hum Go! Jug in Wistar Institute
containing rum 141
j ears old which will not be uncorked until
101)2. The Bibulous One says this looks like
sad waste of gopd liquor, for after seventy
two years of prohibition people won't know
what to do with the stuff.
Washington confer-
llopeful Signs, ences seem to show a
willingness to give and
take and Give and Take are the forerunners
of Treaty Ratification.
The white liners evidently believe that
if you want paint with which to paint tho
town red you should go to a paint store,
investigation shows that that's where most
of the wood alcohol masqueruding as whisky
came from in this section.
The new captain of the goou ship Phila
delphia, having selected his crew with care.
Is now about ready to set sail. Everybody
wishes hlrn a fair and prosperous voyage.
We regret we were not rblo to provide
visitors in town yesterday with a finer brand
ot weather. But we showed them a large
variety of SHinples.
Jn one respect the morning after re
sembled the ulght before for some of tho
revelers. They were slightly hipped.
PvHILA,DLPIA,
AN UNUSUAL TRAVELER
Frank M, niter Covered 29,000 Miles
Without Missing a Train or Los
ing a Piece of Baggage
By GtiOKOK NOX McCAIS
TjIRANK M. KITER lias Just returned from
att unusual trip. He trnvelctl 20,000
miles and nccr lost a piece of baggago or
missed u train.
Frank litter was a militant independent
when some of the present day, lenders were
in knee breeches. The cycle ot politics
inovA rnpidly these days.
The events antecedent to his unusual jour
hey go back to the war ear.
Mr. HItcr Is one of the most prominent
laymen in the Lutheran Church in tho
United States. Because of this he was to
lrctcd as commissioner to go to Frnncc nnd
look over, itt a physical way, the wclfnre
work tliat was going on behind the Hues for
the boys of his fnith.
Ho established permanent headquarters
and a welfare rest room In Taris. He did
other things of the like thnt were needed.
He likewise made a discovery.
There were no less than fifteen Lutheran
congregations in Pnris about which their
brethren ocr here knew practically nothing.
They joined hands with Mr. Ultcr. They
helped him in his work, extended the
right hAud of fellowship mid made hint nt
home.
When Commissioner RIter returned home
he reported these facts to his people. The
story of the fifteen French Lutheran
churches wns" a surprise to them. The
were the survivors of the great religious
movement tint had swept into France after
the Reformation.
The Anu'iican Lutherans invited their
French brethien Io send a delegation to this
country. They came, a little band of five
people.
Having met and known them over there,
Mr. RIter was appointed their guide and
friend over here. How well lie did his
work is told in the opening paragraph.
DEFERENCE to Frank M. Riter as a
--1 militant reformer stages the fact that
when n roster of Philadelphia militant in
dependents is compiled the name of Colonel
George E. Mapes heads the list.
He is" not a Philadelphian, either only by
adoption. He has been a resident so long
though that he seems always to have been
here.
After being born in New York state he
was raised on a farm in Venango county.
Then he got into commercial life, and later
into the newspaper business. His people
in Venango sent him to the Legislature
for four terms, beginning in 1S77.
Venango count) , let it be known, used
to be a resulnr hotbed of Independent Re
publicans. It fairlj blossomed with them.
General Willis .T. Hillings, another of the
fiery sort, was in the Legislature with
Mapes. That was in 18S1.
General Hillings, who commanded in
Porto Rico during the Spanish -American
War, went to the Senate later nud then to
Congress. His propensity to kick against
crooked politics Stn.s with him to this day.
All those Venango reformers were tall,
wirj, sinewy fellows.
And they knew how to fight.
TTOWARD HEINZ tells me he had a celc--
bration last week. It was the fiftieth
iiunicrsnry of the founding of their business.
That wasn't the interesting part of his
statement though.
They had delegations of workers come on
from Australia, India, South America and
Europe. They gave nil their employes, about
HOOD, n banquet.
Hut that wasn't the interesting part of
it. Business firms are doing that some
where in this country every day or so. But
here was the unusual thing:
When they began to arrange for the
banquet ..they couldn't find n cntrrcr who
would undertake the work. A banquet to
!i000 men nnd women? Nothing doing.
They didn't have the equipment. It was
no buffet affair. It was a regular honest-to-goodness,
"sit down to it" feast. Think
of the table outfit needed?
Then Mr. Heinz took the job in his own
hands. He went out and bought over 40,
000 pieces of china, he tells me; all the
necessary silverware, napcry and table fur
nishings nnd hired hundreds of waiters.
The banquet was held in n great room in
one of their own buildings half ns big as
City Hall.
And there were no food regulations to
interfere or muss things up either.
rpiIEItn were several faces sadly missed
-- at the Newspaper Veterans' dinner to
Mnyor-cleet Moore last Monday night.
James RauMn Young was one of them.
He hns lived in Washington since his retire
ment from government service. He wns n
member of Congress for two sessions.
He is best remembered by his delightful
"S. M." letters in the old Evening Star.
They were a feature of its pages lor years".
"Jiiii'' Young knew every public man of
note in Pennsylvania from a period follow
ing the Civil War. And he knew how to
write about them, too.
m
ARRY SHROFF RROWN was absent
of twenty -five years ago.
In the last few jears he deserted journal
ism and went in for u managerial position.
He has lived in New York and abroad for
over two decades.
He left Philadelphia for the metropolis
'in the late nineties. There he ran the
gamut of editorial positions, nnd then went
to Europe ns foreign correspondent for
.Tames Gordon Bennett's Herald. Then he
was made editor of the Paris editioa of that
paper.
Nobody who ever heard it could forget
Harr Brown's laugh.
Henry L. Stoddard, editor and publisher
of the New York Mail, is another of the
Philadelphia coterie who left Philadel
phia. It was ten years before Hrown took
Ids departure.
Elliott F. Sheppnrd got interested in
Stoddard. When he died Stoddard, with
tho aid of some financial friends, bought
the paper finally from the Sheppard estate
and is still its publisher.
William Bradford Merrill, "Will" Merrill
of thirty jears ago, was another among the
missing. For many years he has been the
executive manager of the Hearst newspapers
in New York,
W. Bradford Merrill is one of thp flnpst
inspirations an asplrlug joung journalist
could bae.
He started out as n stenographer, but be
fore he was twenty-live he was a managing
editor. He hnd that indefinable something
that makes a man a newspaperman almost
In spite of himself to an exceptional de
gree. I think he was the youngest managing
editor Philaelelphla ever had that Is in
recent times.
The New York Sun says the New York
crowds were strangely silent. Hadn't yct
realized what struck them.
The mummers proved that tLey kneiv
how to put color into a gray day.
Well, anyhow, woexl alcohol doesn't
Jwo bites at a cherry.
1
FRIDAY, JANUARY 2
, OH, SURE, I
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''v ' - i -i- , '.-r 4vs? t&iJS-3;iier
.. . y. ?, ,'l . . CIfytS
THE CHAFFING DISH
Recall
ALONG the upland roadway dance
swarms of Bouncing Bet ;
the
A few impassive clouds are faint nnd high ;
The bowlders round these cedars ari not
hampered by men's feet
And no one scars the moss on them but I.
Come back to Market street, stalker of
shadows!
Back to the dust xrhcre men's hearts an by.
Hack tcherc the steam clouds are plumes
on your city,
Hack where men's feet draw your gaze
from the sky.
rplIIS road is more a watercourse than
-L pathway :
Brunella's blue pagoda lifts in vain ;
The leaves slink down into the earth that
made them,
And all the world's n temple roofed with rain.
C&ic lack to Catharine street, watcher
for wonders!
Hack to sec Martie wade out through the
storm,
Back where Joe's chalk marks are wet on
the pavements,
And Iiachael's brown feet are both happy
and warm.
Ay
N OAK TREE has fnllen and choked up
the road,
But nobody comes or cares;
And nine old bean poles lie cluttered with
moss
That nobody stoops nnd bears,
As up through the sundrops and tulip trees
He clambers dawn's golden stairs.
Come back to Pine street, to Tine street,
to Lombard!
Back to your pavements the cool winds
call;
For you must be snug in the City of
Houses
Heading men's hearts ie7ien the red
leaves fall!
ROY HELTON.
Desk Mottoes
An inscrutable face may prove a fortune.
SIR WILLIAM OSLER.
Charm
To Joachim Du Bellay, Antoinc Watteau,
Charles Lamb, Frederick Locker, Emily
Dickinson, Jlans Christian Andencn, etc.
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E ASK not whether she be fair,
imply lay our armor by;
Our hearts arc won when not aware,
Wo know not how, we know not why
We breathe a soft, delighted sigh,
Glad captive of her viewless arm,
We bide her slaves until we die,
Mysterious, elusive charm !
HIS FATE is blest beyone' compare
Whate'er his station, low or high,
The lucky wight she makes her care:
If pen or brush he deigns to ply
Vainly his rivals seek to vie;
Before her spell in strange alarm
Time sees Its power his power defy,
Mysterious, elusive Charm.
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NLE8S who smile no thing that's rure
'hen nbsent haunts the memory's eye:
Unless she wnves her wand the snaro
Of loveliness will empty lie;
But if she wills there's untight will die
Art'8 thistle-drift float free from harm,
Giver of immortality,
Mysterious, elusive Charm.
L'Envol
WHERE doth she bide? Al., bhe is shy
With love and gold the wooers swarm ;
But no man can her favor buy,
Mysterious, elusive Charm.
SAMUEL MINTl'RN PECK.
Our New Year wish to our stout-hearted
clients is that their pipes may always taste
JIko the first one after breakfast; their books
read as though William McFce had written
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EXPECT TO ENJOY Y0lJR COMPANY!"
them, and they won't be discouraged if they
can't answer nil the Quizcditor's questions.
The Forty-niner
OH, MY HEART is turning backwnrd to
the scenes I used to know
When the redskins roamed the prairies
and my blood ran light as wine ;
And my mind's eye sees a vision of the bright
und long ago
When I drifted to the Gold Coast in the
rush of Forty-nine.
fTlHERE were deserts that we crossed
-- that seemed to be the gates of Hell ;
There were skeletons along the way that
seemed to cry "Beware!"
There were vultures overhead that wheeled
and pounced on those who fell . . .
But wc trailed in dogged silence through
the fetid desert nir.
rpHEN the mountains loomed before us,
nustere. warning us away
What a train of graves we left to mark the
passage ere we crossed !
But at Inst we reached the end nnd stood at
Snn Frnncisco bay
(Though by then the romance of the trip
was gone, forever lost!)
Oil, MY HEART is turning backwards to
theidays of long ago.
When the prairie schooners rumbled and
men died without a sign ;
And I'm dreaming of my vanished youth and
friends I used to know
When I drifted to the Gold Coast in the
rush of Forty-nine.
ROBERT LESLIE BELLEM.
We had a number of cheerful New Year
poems from our rock-ribbed clients, full of
oak-bosomed determinations of virtue and
highly commendable resolve, but after a
good deal of shilly-shallying we decided not
to print any of them. We have grown too
canny to put nny resolutions of our own into
print, nud it did not seem fair to us to com
mit our contributors to such public profes
sions of sweet conduct.
The Celestial Colyumlst i
TF AY
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F AYE have faltered more or less
our great task (see R. L. S,),
If often, in this Dish of Chaff
We brew no Ringle honest laugh,
If offerings from blest contribs
Have moved us not; if genial squibs,
A'erse or prose or merry wheeze
Have failed our sullen heart to please
Lord, may some super-client rise,
Whoso song will shake the lucid skies,
Uniting R. L, Bellcm's punch,
Roy Helton's sociologic hunch,
The satire of AVill Lou to flay 'cm,
The simple art of Bessie Graham,
The merry little lyric bells
Of our admired Miss AVinifred Welles,
Alee Stevenson's flame-touched sonnet,
Old Dove Dulcet's bee-buzzed bonnet,
Dick Desmond's hint of purple sin
And to this dull Dish ruu them in!
Bob Maxwell, according to the Soothsayer,
remarks that the modern substitute for wine.,
women and song is wood alcohol, weeping
widows and angelic voices.
AYhen Bob coins an epigram, it travels
with dazzling speed among the admiring
elans. The latest one has ulrcudy hnd n
twenty-four-hour start, but we pass it along
to our own clients regardless.
They ore making tho loving cup with eight
handles nowadays, says Bob, for the eon-vcnlene-e
of the pallbearers.
SOCRATES.
It looked for a time ns though St.
Swlthln would lead the mummers' parade,
sharing honors with Jupiter Pluvlus.
AYell, eier so many resolutions have
lasted thirty-six hours anyhow; nnd that's
something. ,
The old Council has retired perma
nently behind the irrcen screen,
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THE LOOK
AS I were cllmbin' Jacob's Tor,
A soldier lad came ridin' doun ;
He stopped nud passed the time o' day
An' asked how fnr to Plymouth toun.
I told him, that were all : he took
The path that goes toward the sea.
I turned to watch him out o sight
An' he were lookin' back at me.
ne waited. Like a stone I stood,
Shamed to be caught, yet somehow bound
To give hinii look for look : his ps
Moved as to speak, but mnde no sound.
It seemed a lifetime we did look :
As drounin' folk may do, they say,
I thought of every little tiling
I'd ever done. He rode nway.
Tremblin' and smilin I did sit,
And watched the larks nn hbur or more
Fly up against the golden light
Wi' songs I'd never heard nvore.
Jan's heavy breathin' by my side
All else' he quiet nnd still. I fret
And long for dny. How can I sleep
When tears do make my pillow wet?
Gertrude Pitt, in the Bookman, London.
The fact that the fact that Philadel
phia has a people's administration should
be worthy of note is worthy of note It is a
sad commentary on local political history.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. AVhat is the largest city in Siberia?
2. What statesman in American history
was especially known for his skill in
making compromises?
3. AA'ho was John Leech?
4. What type of ship was the Maine,
which was blown up in Havana harbor
In February, 189S?
5. When did Great Britain abolish slavery?
0. How many kings of France were named
Louis?
7. Why are the islands off the Florida
coast called keys?
8. What is sorrel?
0. AVhen did the peace conference in Paris
formally convene?
10, Of what country is the present Dowager
Queen of Great Britain a native?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
rho "Coal Sack" is a part of tbf
southern heavens in which no stnrs
are visible. This vast black gulf,
according to the judgment of the human
eye, lies near the Southern Cross.
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"Magellan Cloud" is another- name
for it.
2. Noah's Ark is said to have been 515,02
feet long.
3. Lord Dundreary is an amusing foppish
character in Tom Taylor's comedy,
"Our American Cousin." E. A.
Sothern gave the part celebrity on the
btagr.
4. The next presidential election will b
held on November 2, 1020.
5. Samuel Butler. English satiric poet and
author of "Hudlbras," lived in the
scvcnteTnth century. The other
literary Samuel Butler wns a philos
opher, satirist nnd novelist, nuthor of
"Ercwhon" and "Tho Way of All
Flesh." His dates arn 1835100r).
0. The dahlia, a native of Mexico, is
i -.ft n..l.l n f3...A,l!el, l,innlst.
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7. iiygela was me classical ,gouuinp
health.
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The minor planets arc the nstcrolcw
which revolvo around the sun between
the orbitB of Mars and Jupiter.
The two largest cities in Australia ''
Melbourne and Sydney.
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