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MOORE AND HIS SUCCESSOR
rpHE most heartening thing about J
- Mavni' MnnvA'.q trnrnHvp iTulnrspmpnt
of Alfred Burk for congressman from the
Third district to succeed himself is not
so much this particular choice as the fact
that it indicates he means to fight against
permitting a political hack to hoist him
self into this lesponsible post.
Mr. Burk is a representative of the
"business-man" type, about which much
has been said. He would intelligently
understand the importance of the big in
dustrial and commercial interests which
lie within the district, as well as the
problems of the city generally. How ably
he could present and represent those in
terests in the difficult skirmishing ground
of tho House of Representatives could
only be proved by the test of time and
experience, since he has never served in
such a capacity before. Judging by his
record and success in business matters,
all the indications are in his favor.
But it is again demonstrative of the
new Mayor's instinct for appealing to the
weight of public opinion that he should
set up a candidate whose attributes so
completely overshadow those of the
slated Organization choice. Decided
squarely on their respective meiits, ex
Sheriff Ransley ought to be smartly de
feated at the election by a man like Burk.
MR. WINSTON AND CIVIL SERVICE
rPHE tirooosed rhaiip-ps liirrpasirnr flip.
stringency of the civil service laws I
evokes from Tlirpctni- Winl-rm n ,.... i
plaint that the personal equation will be
thus disregarded. This of course is true
if personality be interpreted in the old
political sense.
The amendment now under considera
tion compels the director of public works
to make certain appointments from the
two top men in various selected series
graded by competitive examination.
But do such lists not specify with in
cisive clarity the personal equation of the
contestants? Accepting the examination
method as a feasible one governing the
candidates for municipal service, surely
the rating is an index of equipment, per
sonal attributes and general fitness, or of
the absence of these assets.
Advocates of civil service leforni aie
certainly in the habit of believing that
buch a guide has practical value and is,
though not perfect, the most accuiate
measure available. There is an impres
sion that such was Mr. Winston's opinion
before he took office.
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SPEEDING THE FRANKFORD "L"
rpHE councilmans attempt to crystallize
all the facts concerning the construc
tion and financing of the Frankford ele
vated is thoroughly commendable. The
advisability of the line is no longer a mat
ter for dispute. A large part of the work
has been done. It-, completion should
rank as one of the earliest tangible ac
complishments of the Moore administra
tion, and the sooner the public is in
formed of its obligations in the matter
the better for the community.
If a special loan is necessary it should
be passed. If other means of support
promise equally good results and fewer
burdens they should be adopted. What is
needful now is a definite program,
authoritativply worked out, which will
bring the Frankford elevated into exist
ence without unsaory politics and with
as little waste and as much expedition
as possible.
Mayor Moore is devoting himself to the
project with vigor. This is the proper
course. There will be time for the de
velopment of all sorts of "comprehensive
plans" on all sorts of subjects when this
specific municipal improvement is given
a due place on the order of public busi
ness. TROUBLE IN DREAMLAND
A LL sorts of mad things are happening
" in Russia,
"We shall keep our armies intact as
working units," 3aid M. Zorien, the Bol
shevist assigned to meet Emma Goldman
and her friends. "These armies, with
drawn from the front, will cultivate the
land and bring in food!"
This was in the land of the new free
dom. The German kaiser never was so
blandly brutal as the spokesman for
Soviets who talked of workers perma
nently organized in vast masses under
military rule. Lenine appaiently has been
studying the bees, which do that sort of
thing in a social system that is the most
exclusive and tyrannical in nature.
"We shall find work for them," said
this same M. Zorien, with a glance at
Miss Goldman and the other deportees. It
was a moment later that the anarchist
leaders expressed their love for America.
Some of them had Jived here for many
years without doing any work.
For them M. Zorien must have had all
the effects of an alarm clock in the land
of their dreams.
ITALY'S LATEST "DEMAND"
fP PREMIER NITTI of Italy is cor
rcctly reported, he is a sqrowd pay
$Hlsl-, well aware JM glamour 1 women In positions of authority i
Vtkk ut lirst j-urrounn wd ''de I Wcmuin, however, have already hi
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niand." His predecessor, Orlando, fired
the enthusiasm of his compatriots by "de
manding" tho town of Flume. But de
mands which are not granted eventually
cool off. Moreover, Italy as a suppliant
cuts not nearly so spectacular a figure as
Italy fulminating orders.
And so Signor Nitti, according to the
latest dispatches, may "demand" tho
execution of the treaty of London. As
this document withholds Fiume from the
Roman Government there seems u prob
ability that it will bo granted. Italy will
then have tho distinction of getting that
upon which she insists. But what a pity
that a "demand" of this sort could not
have been issued at the outset I
The lost interval would possibly have
been sufficient for deciding the fate of
Fiumo after the original treaty obliga
tions had been fulfilled. As it is, much
valuable time has been lost and D'Annun
zio has staged a melodrama, which
hardly accords with the newest "de
mand." THE WOMEN ARE PEOPLE
WITH OR WITHOUT THE VOTE
And They Are Wisely Planning to Exer
cise Their New Political Power In
Conjunction With the Men
THE meeting of tho Republican
Women's Committee, in the head
quarters of the Republican State Commit
tee in South Broad street, forecasts what
is to happen when the equal suffrage
amendment to the constitution is adopted
and the women enjoy all the political
privileges of citizenship.
Mrs. Barclay H. Warburton s statement
of the work before tho women in the
interval that must elapse befoie they are
permitted to vote was conceived in tho
right spirit and based upon a proper ap
preciation of the function of voters.
Mrs. Mortimer Brown, the president of
the Democratic Women's Club, is likely
to make a similar statement to the Demo
cratic women when those women are suf
ficiently organized to make a concerted
eftoit to prepare themselves to partici
pate in the nomination ani election of
public officers.
It is evident that these women are not
toying with the idea of a distinct and
separate woman's party. They are not
making the mistake of organizing them
selves into a class group seeking to ad
ance class interests.
They pay the men the compliment of
assuming that men are just as much in
terested as women in all kinds of social
legislation.
The men are fathers of the children the
exploitation of whom by employers is
objected to by the mothers.
The men are also the husbands or
fathers of the women for whote protec
tion factory laws have been passed.
And the men have passed the laws, not
primarily because the women demanded
them, but because they knew that they
were necessary if the health and stamina
of lc generations were to be pro-
lecieu.
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me women win align wicmseivus wmi
' the Republican and the Democratic
1 parties in this state as soon as the privi
lege of voting is conferred on them. In
1 spite of the talk about the degeneracy of
the old parties, talk as old as party gov
ernment, the women are not likely to take
the lead in advocating new issues so radi
cally different from the issues to which
the existing parties can commit them
sehes that a new party will hae to be
formed to carry them into effect.
The Democratic party of the present
would not be recognized by Jefferson. It
has abandoned its historical position in
support of a strict construction of tho
constitution and in defense of the rights
of the states, and many of its leaders have
demanded the adoption of policies which
Jefferson would have denounced as the
extreme of socialism and unthinkable.
And the Republican party, organized to
combat the evil of slavery, did not die
when slavery was abolished, but found
new issues and new policies which it ad
vocated and applied to the satisfaction of
the nation for many years.
Party names mean nothing as such. No
one knows this better than the women. In
their best estate parties are groups of
voters agreed on the same policies and
united in order to carry those policies into
effect. Parties are the tools used by the
people in accomplishing their purposes.
They are not an end in themselves, but a
means to an end.
It is necessary to remind ourselves of
this occasionally because of the tendency
of extremists to magnify the party above
the principles for which it stands and to
put loyalty to the "party organization
above loyalty to the interests of the
people as a whole. This is a natural error
because it arises originally out of the con
viction that the interests of the people as
a whole will be best served by the
triumph of the partv.
So it has happened that some idealists
have hoped that the women would not at
tach themselves to the machine of either
of the existing parties, but would unito
to force the parties to abandon their evil
ways and to approach more closely to the
ideal.
This view ascribes to women qualities
which the best of them know they do not
possess. It is based on the assumption
that the vote has been given to women in
order that the political and social life
might be leformed through the influence
of a group of voters so much better than
tho men that 'all that was necessary to
bring about a heaven on earth was to give
this group political power.
But women, after all, are only people.
As voters they have the same foibles and
aie subject to the same temptations that
beset the men.
The vote is being given to them not in
order that society may be reformed by
them, but as a matter of justice.
The politics of the states in which
women have voted for years is no purer
than in the states where men are the only
qualified electors.
The women have not organized separ
ate parties in the equal suffrage states.
They havo divided themselves among the
existing parties. And in all the years
since first woman began to vote but one
woman has been sent to Congress.
Whether more of them will be sent there
after the final ratification of the equal
suffrage amendment remains to bo seen.
It will depend entirely on the interest
which the women take in party manage
ment and in their feeling that tho men
rannot be trusted to do tho work of gov
ernment unaided by the active advice of
important influence on legislation in
states where they do not vote. They wore
behind the child labor legislation here,
and the arguments they offered in sup
port of it were so cogent that they carried
their point, not against the opposition
but with the hearty co-operation of the
men, both in the Legislature and in tho
executive mansion. To put it in another
way, the Legislature responded to an un
doubted popular demand.
And right here is the secret of the suc
cess of all rqform legislation: Popular
support is tho breath of life to the profes
sional politician. He can be forced to vote
for any measure when he is convinced
that the people want it. He will even pass
laws which will deprive him of much of
his power when the people insist on it,
for he would rather retain some power
than be driven from office into private
life.
Mrs. Warburton knows all this. She
is also familiar with the ways of the state
Republican machine. Yet with political
senso she is leading the Republican
women into closer relations with the
party organization, whore they will have
just as much influence in reforming it as
it is in their power and disposition to
exercise. And under her leadership the
Republican women will use the Republi
can party as the instrument to serve their
ends so long as it remains efficient.
JERSEY'S NEW GOVERNOR
JETTING into high political office is
much like getting married. High
hopes come naturally on such an occasion.
Magnificent promises are a part of tho
ceremony. Life seems easy in the first
days and failure is undreamed of.
Yet, in political office as at home, it is
the long middle course that tests the in
dividual's character and his integrity.
There a great many people fail. And the
complaints most frequently raised
against public officials in this country
have the same origin as those which,
transmuted to meet the purpose of the
comic papers, have given American hus
bands an undeserved bad name. They are
the result of the disillusionment that no
body prepares for in advance, though
everybody knows it is inevitable in a
far-from-perfect world.
Mr. Edwards was elected to the gover
norship in New Jersey as an anti-prohibition
candidate. On that issue he was
definite. He has actually lifted the hopes
of his thirsty followers to terrible
heights. If those hopes fall and they
lest now upon extremely frail founda
tions the new governor will within a
year be more unpopular than any dry
could be if he tried.
Jersey, through its new executive, will
offer all possible moral support to the
state of Rhode Island in the effort to have
the dry amendment nullified upon techni
cal grounds that so far seem to exist only
in the minds of the most disconsolate
wets. And the governor meanwhile will
use all his power, and all the power of
his party, instantly to reclaim beer and
light wines from the limbo into which
they were cast by the eighteenth amend
ment and the Volstead act.
The inauguration at Trenton was a bril
liant spectacle. Enthusiasm was genuine.
Now the crowds are dispersed and Mr.
Edwards faces the hard necessity of real
istic performance. Can he, single handed,
oppose and divert the force of social evo
lution which, after all, is behind the pro
hibition movement?
Beer and all that attends it can be had
in Jersey only if the Supreme Court of
the United States decides that Governor
Edwards and his Legislature are wiser
than Congress. The merits of the absolute
prohibition principle are aside. It is
interesting meiely to speculate upon the
manner in which the governor and his
people will meet the days of disillusion
ment that are coming to them.
The governor's speech wa3 not reas
suring. He wishes toll charges on the new
Delaware bridge. The day of tolls is past.
Complaining of the utilities commission,
he would change the laws, after removing
the present board, and have the utilities
commission made elective. Did it occur
to Mr. Edwards that, had the membeis
of the present board been elected, he
himself would be without power to remove
them, no matter how inefficient or wrong
minded they might be?
There is a man m this
Presented With (own who has lost his
Apologies rights iii the maze of
traffic regulations. His
name is P. D. Q. Pedestrian, H. H. II. His
initials stand for the gait he has to travel:
the letters tacked ou to his nme are a
prayer : Heaven Help Him ! Wonder if the
time will come when traffic regulations, de
signed to prevent congestion and collisions,
will also take cognizance of the fart that he
is crossing the street when the "Stop" signs
are about to be switched?
The fact that the
Need for Safe Chamber of Commerce
Transportation has found it necessary
to declare that two of
the ferryboats plying between Philadelphia
and Kaighus Point, Camden, are unsafe, is
strong argument for the speedy completion of
the big bridge, but furnishes no reason why
passengers should not be safely transported
on good boats until the bridge is completed.
Major Moore walked
Precept and Example into his office at 0
a. m. and wis greeted
by the caretaker. When Mayor Moore hence
forth walks into his office he will bo greeted
by bis private secretary, his chief clerk and
the entire office force. Mayor Moore by
force of example has worked a reformation.
An ounce of example is worth a pound of
precept.
King Ijudwig of Ba
aria is said to have
characterized the al
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of Ilavarla
lied demand for the
ex -kaiser as "impertinent and Impudent."
The Allies will therefore consider themselves
officially slapped on the wrist.
Doctors may keep old folks in bed when
they arc sick, but when it comes to youngsters
like Dave Lane, why, it simply can't be done.
He was at his office yesterday, and his doc
tors didn't know it.
It grieves us to learn of the destruction
by fire of u carload of sugar, but if the news
can only be kept from the corner grocery man
it need make no appreciable inroads on the
weekly pay envelope,
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Presumably the early worm will turn up
on time now that the Mayor is playing the
early bird.
Wilhelm Hohenzollern finds himself la
a trap a kind of Holland gin.
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IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE
Some New Angles on a Truism 8een
In Church Publications and
Elsewhere
By GUORGE NOX McCAIN
TT PAYS to advertise" is a phrase that
lias been used in story, illustrated on the
stage and blazoned forth by those heralds
of progress, the advertising men. Even
(Jcorge Goldsmith uses it as a chapter hrnd
lug and finale when he talks about "Tho Ro
mance of Advertising" ; likewise Karl Bloom
iugdalc, Will Mntns and others among the
veterans of the display space.
I struck a new angle on the phrase the
other day.
Chnrlcs II. Clark is publisher of the Parish
Messenger. It Is just what its name indi
cates. It is the printed messenger of tho
Protestant Episcopal parish of the Church
of the Saviour, over in West Philadelphia.
It is the most imposing publication of its
kind that I rcall. Most parish papers arc
four or eight page affairs, confined to the
announcements of church services and social
and welfare work. Charlie Clark thinks
nothing of forty or fifty pages, with half
tones, color inserts and all that in the Mes
senger. It is one of those peculiar publications la
which the question of profit and loss doesn't
enter. If it is loss, then Vcstrjman Clark
fishes for his wallet and makes up the deficit.
If there is a profit, it means that future is
sues will be only the more elaborately illus
trated. If it were chartered it would have to be
listed as a corporation "not for profit."
mlin Rev. Dr. Robert Johnson, the elo--
qttent and well-beloved clergyman who
directs the spiritual affairs of the Church of
the Saviour, is a Scotchman. That is, ho
was.
Some of the spiritually minded and keenly
discriminating men of the West Philadelphia
parish heard Doctor Johnson speak once; I
think it was nt some international church
gathering up in Canada. That settled It, so
far as the Philadelphions were concerned.
There was a vacancy in the iraposibg Church
of the Saviour, on Thirty-eighth street, and
Dr. Robert Johnson had not reached his
home back in Scotland before a call was there
from Philadelphia.
Naturally, the church authorities sought
lo give all the information possible concern
ing the parish to their prospective minister.
They included copies of the Parish Messen
ger forwarded to Edinburgh.
Doctor Johnson, with the wider field for
great endeavor in Philadelphia presenting
itself, accepted tho call, as every one knows.
One of the impelling forces in his decision,
I understand, was the Parish Messenger.
The logic, as I deduce it, as presented to the
distinguished diviuo was like this :
"If the Church of the Saviour in Phila
delphia is big enough and vitally interested
enough to publish as its Parish Messenger a
full-fledged magazine, it is big enough to do
greater things."
Hence, you will observe, "It pays to ad
tertise," even in the field of Christian en
deaor. A COMPANY of men who, in ono way, arc
as familiar with the benefits accruing
from newspaper advertising as advertising
managers themselves, will hold their twenty
third annual meeting and dinner in this city
this coming Saturday night nt the Manufac
turers' Club,
It is the Press League of Bucks and
Montgomery Counties. Next to the State
Editorial Association, I think the Bucks and
Montgomery Press League is the oldest or
ganization of its kind in the state. It goes
bad; to ISO".
Every newspaper man of prominence in
the two counties belongs to the league. W.
P.. Kirkpatrick, of North AValcs, is president.
I do not know of any organization of pro
fessional meu w'.io get more pleasure out of
their annual and semiannual meetings than
those twiu county gentlemen of the press.
In summer they hold gatherings at some his
toric point or arc the guests of some promi
nent citizen who delights to honor them.
HON. B. WITMAN DAMBLT has for
years been one of the league's moving
spirits.
Eery one in Pennsylvania politics twenty
five years ago remembers Representative
Dambly. He was one of Montgomery coun-
t's representatives in the lower house at
Harrisburg for two terms. He is n fine type
of Republican, because he believes in clean
polities within the party. The legislatures
of reient years would have been infinitely
better off had they had more men of the
Dambly tjpe among their number.
Another widely known member of Uie
league is Irvin H. Bardman, the new county
treasurer of Montgomery and for a genera
tion editor of the Sehwenkvlllc Item. The
trouble with Irvin Bardman is that ho re
fuses to recognize the fact that he is a clever
after-dinner speaker; one of the heart-to-heart
kind of talkers; convincing without any
attempt at oratory.
E. S. Moscr, of the Collcgeville Independ
ent, belongs to the absolutely independent
editorial school. He speaks his mind in his
editorial columns, though he is awnre that it
may rub the fur of some subscribers the
wrong way. They like him the better for it,
I think
If Moer had lived in eastern Tennessee or
Kcntuckj before and during the Civil War
he would have been a second Parson Brown -low.
He's built after the Brownlow pattern,
for he is a natural-born fighter.
There is a roster of fine names in the
league : C. S. Hunsicker, of Norristown ; W.
L. Clayton, of Jenkintowu; W. G. llower,
of Bryn Mawr; Walter Sanborn, of Lons
dale; Baum, of Perkasie; Goettler, of Sou
derton; Hillegas, of Pcnnsburg, and a long
list of others whose principal trouble now is
securing enough newsptint paper to maintain
the truth of the adage that it "Pays to
Advertise."
THE one place where advertising is hope
less and where, in past years at least,
the caption was a living lie, is in Turkey.
I refer now to the Turkey of Sultan Abdul
Hamid when nothing could be done with
out the permission of the "Butcher of Eu
rope." I well recall the appearance of the Herald,
the only paper published partly in English
that flourished for years in Constantinople.
It was issued exclusively for the Anglo
Saxons throughout the Turkish empire. Its
advertisements were largely confined to
steamship Millings, European clothing and
toilet luxuries.
In Interest its news columns ran a good
second to its advertising columns. The news
was always a month old. Every copy had
affixed to its first page a great big Turkish
revenue stamp.
Hut then the paper was issued only twice
a week,
The fact that Edward I. Edwards was
Inaugurated governor of New Jersey in thu
open air is proof that, whatever his views
on the liquor question may be, he does not
believe that prohibition and pneumonia are
necessarily partners.
Police thugs, both surprised and aston
ished, are slowly being made to realize that
the administration Is in earnest.
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THE CHAFFING DISH
Keats on Sir Oliver
"Be still the unimaginable Lodge
For solitary thinkings ; such as dodge
Conception to the very bourne of heaven,
Then leave the naked brain."
"Endymion," I, 203.
The Society for the Deracination of the
Pun can turn its attention away from us for
a while and put that genial veteran, James
Huueker, ou the griddle. This is how Mr.
Huueker reports a recital by Mmc. Olive
Premstad, in the New York World :
On the stage, In addition to the grand
piano, there wero cedar and pine trees, an
Olive came later, and at tho end tho palms
Desk Mottoes
Even a joke should have some meaning.
Alice Through the Looking Glass.
Synthetic Poems
CAN always keep
My temper
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When I'm alone . . .
It's only other folks
That rile me.
DOVE DULCET.
THE worst moment
Iu my life
Is when I am cleaning up the cellar
And find my magenta tie,
Three frayed boft collara
And the old brown pair of trousers
In the traBb-box
Where my wife put them.
DUNRAVEN BLEAK.
ftTANY a man
1V1
Ktnrtr d life on a shoestring
And ended by wearing rubber heels
When the bank examiner '
Made bis rounds.
CALVERT CRAVAT.
You Are Now Immortal
SOC, old top, I don't know why.
But ambition's seized me by the tie ;
The call of the Dish has found my ear
I can't resist, though I go in fear.
rV'E supped from the Dish night after night,
1 And usually appeasod my appetite,
But swore that I'd never havo aught to do
With concoctions brewed therein by you.
TjUT Soc, old top, I don't know why,
Ambition's seized me by the tie;
Caesar for ambition was crabbed,
inj nn rtnutat. like him. these llnes'll bo
stabbed.
AL. O. ISHUS.
I am Clad to leave America, but I love
the American people. Miss Emrni Gold-
"Had we never loved sae kindly,
Had we never loved sae blindly,
Never met, or never parted,
We had ne'er been broken-hearted."
It was all very well for Miss Goldman to
dissemble her love, but we can imagine her
singing, as she crossed "the frozen river
Systerbak" ;
New York's a capitalistic place
I love it.
From that bad land I turn my face
I love it.
Americans are bourgeois, base,
I'll Blnk them all without a trace ;
To Hclslngfors With the whole race
I love It I
The Sims-Daniels controversy did not pass
through the customary four stages of bitter
ness which console the lives of headline writ
ers, These four stages are (1) The Rap, (2)
The Tilt, (8) The Probe, (4) The Row.
The Sims business was a Ittw from the
first.
Our Private Sex War
CHvlnia Gilhooloy writes us in loms
ylvieity of mood that ebe bas been reading
McFee on Women. She says she is going to
write a book "which will shed a clear light
op bow these writers take advantage of their
vi.tl readers by airing Uielc personal crlev.
I nwjw uWr, t-ho guiw of speakluj; ire(.
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"THE MOST UNKINDEST GUT OF ALL"
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ijxaths. I already have the title Petticoat
rapers. i suau ueau a cnapier ikio no
Among the Women-Haters, and Why."
She adds that she has bought a set of
Harold Bell Wright bound in watermelon
pink vellum to match her boudoir hangings,
and always carries a copy of The Bookman
on the street, "as tho pretty blue of the cover
brings out charmingly the color of my eyes."
Obviously a Case for Free Verse
ROSALIND But nre you so much in love
as your rhymes speak?
ORLANDO Neither rhyme nor reason
can express how much.
"As You Like It."
Always Room at the Top
ft TXT Tt nt. nnl.-nnn !.! :.. 4!mn nt
trouble and the shadow of a great rock in a J
weary land, tells us that on Chestnut street
near Twentieth he saw the following sign :
THE QUALITY
BEAUTY PARLORS
Vacancies
Next Sunday, we are reminded by our good
friend John McMastcr, of Tulip street, is
Robbie Burns's birthday. For tne first timo
in history many brave Scotsmen will be at a
loss to know how to celebrate it.
My Long-Distance Girl
I SEE you nearly every day
In the railway car,
And like the humble publican,
I worship from afar.
YOUR sparkling eyes of deepest blue
Are full of mystery ;
My heart within mo seems to leap
Whene'er you smile at me.
YOUR hair, a glittering mass of gold,
Reflects the sun's bright beams ;
I see your charming, sunlit face
In all my sweetest dreams.
THE poets say that distance lends
Enchantment to the view:
Perhaps that is the reason why
I fell so hard for you.
HAROLD WIEGAND.
Growth of the Book Business
We learn from the esteemed New York
Evening Post that when the household goods
of the late Frank W. Woolworth were cata
logued for auction, "a dozen books were
found iu Mr. Woolworth's vault."
A man bas taken the trouble to write to us
all the way from Chicago though, come to
think of it, it's no more trouble to write
from Chicago than from Manayunk to tell
us that we aro a false alarm.
Very likely, very likely and yet we are
secretly pleased to havo alarmed that effi
cient town.
The man we like is the one who can go to
sec Charley Chaplin in tho movies and enjoy
his comedy Btuff without afterward Insist
ing that Charley h also "a great artist."
We feel that we, too, are something of an
artist in cur way, but nothing would grieve
us so much as to be told so.
We often wonder how Nicholas Murray
Butler finds time to be president of Columbia
University.
Also, wo ponder, what docs nenry van
Dyke do on the evenings when there is no
dinner In honor of "Americanism"?
Charley Chaplin, we have often beard, is
eager to play Hamlet. Our own suggestion
is that the role of Petruchlo wou'.d be better.
How now, do our noble clients not recall Act
IV, scene 3, where Petruchlo calls Kath
arlne's new bonnet
A euttard coffin, a lauble, a lilken pie.
Our Idea of right merry cheer would b
Gish as Katharine.
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Gish AH Katharine. BVi Amino
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LOVE SONGS
WE ARE, both silver sea-t
And have risen to de
trout
delicate filet o.
streams
And got away.
The young ferns balance on the wet etrtk
Like green smoke above a coal.
Let us watch the sun throw gold platu
Down to us through lake water
Where none fish,
II
The night is so full of movement
That the stars seem like corn being threshtl
Against a blue barn.
The wind is a black river
And just for a moment
The moon a small green fish
Swimming in your hair.
Edward Powys Mathers, in the Ltttit
Review.
The fact that Liberty Bonds to ti
amount of $08,000 were deposited at Ellisl
Island as bail for fifty alleged radicals cauuil
one to wonder if some of the prisoners are tit
Red as they are painted.
Slowly but surely the fact will pest
trate Into the brains of police officials that!
politics lias lost its pull.
The one point on which there appears tl
bo no difference of opinion Is that the Biail
charges must bo investigated.
After the wickedness of certain polls-
men has been looked Into It may be tbtt l
magistrate or two may be Investigated.
Willi li rtftrivA tfvmfinrnted ft WAS C6S"
erally admitted that the freighter Tarmoatij
would be dry aB a bloater.
The Young Lady Next Door But Owl
says that she'd just love to run a nice mm
motortruck farm.
What Do You Know?,
QUIZ
1. What was Simraes's Hole?
5! Name a state which refused to ratify & I
prohibition amendment. . ,
a ax u.x .i .ifl.N fci-nma elltl
ble for the House of Representative!
FT TtTl.n I n iAatln9 M
(J. What is the correct pronunciation of tnl
word? rt
7. How many signers wero there to u'l
Declaration of Indopenaencer
8. Of what state is Jackson the cspltali
10. What republic of Europe has an army w I
700,000 men in the field agahut ttl
Russian UoUhevisis;
Answers to Yesterday's Qulr
1. The sun's apparent yearly path amoM
tho stars Is called tne ecuiuu..
2. Turgid speech is pompous, inflates, w
bastlc. ... -j
3. M. Millerand is the new premier w
France. . , . t i.
4. Two cities of Turkestan sMd M w
Russian Bolshevist control re BoW"
and Tashkent. . ,
5. Wattles are wicker hurdle?. W
also the fleshy appendsgee nndei
throats of cocks, turkeys and W
O.MalkTwhiVotesI'rince.ndm
7. SplouXp is a high lMrVA
Smith Africa, on the TujeU n"
west of Colenso. j,.
8. It was the scene ot n "" - M j,
.. ti. Hr tlsh and the Hot" ,
n. Thlusltania was traveling froM AmfJ
lea tp Europe when sho " "TT
off tbe'eoast of Ireland In Wff$
JO, ptiose means uuctlnleM.t .f'Jff.
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