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All rights of republication of special dis patches herein arc also reserved. Philadelphia, Thurula, January H, 1920 WHO'S TO BLAME? IN THIS city, and in. many other parts of the country for that matter, people are learning that it is necessary to pay in a variety of bitter ways for political negligence. Here, for example, it should have been apparent that if crooked politics debased the police system it could not be without effect in other and less conspicuous branches of the public service. For years it has been known that food inspection demanded by state laws in the interest of health has been a casual process, hin dered on one hand by a deficient organiza tion and on the other by a personnel too often subject to political dictators. The fire laws and the laws enacted for tho protection of workers in factories arc often ignored. Mayor Moore himself has said that the laws were violated in the building at Fifth and Addison streets, where six men were killed in a fire that became a dis aster because of somebody's negligence. Politicians who spread corruption through the public service must share the blame for the loss of life in this instance. A POPULAR TAX OTTO H. KAHN, a financial expert of undoubted probity and skill, has been calling the attention of the Association of Credit Men in Newark to the im portance of a revision of the tax laws in the interest of the poor and of the rich. The present excess-profits tax is, in his opinion, altogether indefensible, and the surtaxes on large incomes are so great that they are defeating their purpose by forcing the rich to invest in tax-exempt securities. He suggests a graduated con sumption tax to replace the tax on excess profits, and a reduction in the surtax on Targe incomes and the abandonment alto gether of the tax on incomes under $4000, The consumption tax, as he would have It levied, would yield a maximum of r$4,000,000,000 a year. By graduating it according to the amount of the purchase the man who bought an automobile for $10,000 would have to pay a much larger tax than would be paid on the same amount of money spent in sums varying from $1 to $25. Under this arrangement the. total tax paid by the man of moderate means would be no greater than the tax he now pays on his income. The consumption tax is growing in favor because of its equity and simplicity and because of the large sums that it would yield without' becoming burden some to any one. JOHN AND THE VOTE MRSE. F. FIEKERT, president of the New Jersey suffragists, wisely tries to be cheerful in the face of disaster. But that doesn't better the dire condition created for suffrage in her state by a Legislature which, at the moment when it was expected to ratify the Anthony amendment, suddenly decided that from now on ratification of national amend ments must be by a popular vote. The suffragists' president must know the significance of this decision. The Jersey Legislature was not thinking of suffrage at all. It was thinking of the federal dry law, and by its devotion to tho referendum principle was merely seeking a strategic position for its fight on pro hibition. There is little anti-suffrage sentiment in the New Jersey Legislature. The Anthony amendment might have been ratified by a rollcall. Davy Baird and Jim Nugent are presumed to be respon sible for what actually took place. In New Jersey the suffrage cause was steam rollered in favor of light wines, beer and the barley corners. JAPAN CLIMBS DOWN ITIHE Japanese invasion of Siberia was J-an adventure in imperialism which the masses in Nippon never supported with enthusiasm. It was directed by the mili tary and the financiers, dazzled by a vision of power and liches in territory which for many years was a goal for the Tokio expansionists. Yesterday's announcement of Japanese withdrawal from Siberia is one of the most important made by any government since the fighting ended. And it repre sents a victory of incalculable importance for American diplomacy. Without the moral and physical support of the United States, Japan could not have continued to fight in Siberia. Our ffnvflmtYninf. firsf roftitpil in .,, .nnn If allied aid in tho enterprise, and when the Allies became passive made our inten tions plain by withdrawing our forces and such slight recognition as had previously been accorded the cause of the Invaders. The Japanese asserted that they were trying to keep neighboring territory free nf holshevism. But thev entered Siberia "TvM KSJBFT $! w ban'Jsi business organizations, rail utJf. &' wav builders and all the equipment neces- Wt' K " . . . fc'ary to permanent occupation. 'If the "uane element in Russia felt bit- c -tor- because in the black confusion of OVWIL8 our SOlUK'iS L'luuruii uiuii cuumry piJ Mude war on Russians, they have reason now to forget their resentment. Wo have done Russia a great service. And at the samo time wo have wounded tho feelings of the Japanese military party. Every law of morals justifies our policy. Only time can tell exactly what its practical effect will be in international affairs. AMERICANIZATION MUST VITALIZE THE MELTING POT Recent Educational Plans Duly Recog nize the Changed Nature of Our Foreign Colony Problems rpHE showiest and most glittering terms aro often susceptible of tho most wear and tear. "When I make a word do a lot of work," declared quaint Lewis Carroll's Humpty Dumpty, "I always pay it extra." On this basis, grounded as much in truth as in fancy, "Americanization" would be coming in for some very handsome wages nowadays. The arrears alone amount to a pietty sum. For we have used that pretentious term recklessly, selfishly, bombastically, loosely and lazily, until its significance is pauperized. It has been employed to mask both tyranny and license. It is overworked and underpaid. A mental bank account is sorely needed for its nourishment. Appreciation of these necessities, if not of these metaphors, seems to be inspiring the new movement just launched in this city to specialize in Americanization, to co-ordinate and solidify its meanings, to transport them from the realm of gen cralties and to impart this information to those classes of persons who have been unenlightened and perplexed. Tho so-called "minute men," marshaled into tho commendable organization which Harry D. Wescott heads, do not propose to answer Bolshevist folly with mere star-spangled denunciation. Their self appointed mission is deeper and saner. The scheme is educational and is to be directed along sympathetic lines. Foreign-born populations will not be shown a threadbare "Americanization," but one wearing a substantial and hon orable raiment which it is quite willing and even eager to share with others. The scope of Mr. Wescott's plan, which at present involves oral antidotes for lurid misconceptions of the essential principles of this republic and the cir culation of informative books and pam phlets in both English and foreign lan guages, is naturally affected by many contingencies. The seeds of a nationwide movement, akin in spirit to a number of contemporaneous efforts, may be sown, or the operation may be merely local, though potent in its field. But the fate of these proposals is, on the whole, of less signifi cance than the instant need for them. There is something of a shock in this urgent pressure. Native-born Americans are not a little startled by their own emo tions on the subject. For a good many generations acceptance of the symbol of the melting pot has been contented and conventional. A republic extremely dis tinctive in its purposes and ideals was developed as a direct result of migrations from abroad. Our habit of belittling any possible con taminations in the mixture was inevi table. "Cosmopolitanly planned," writes Kipling of the American spirit, "he guards the Redskin s dry reseive." There was a thrill in that characterization. We were proud of our wondrous amalgam. Back in the nineties, however, we talked decidedly less of "Americaniza tion" than we do today. The fusion of English, Irish, Scotch, Welsh and Ger man races had been highly successful. Was there any reason to fear that the merging of Poles, Russians, Jugo-Slavs, Czechoslovaks, Hungarians, Greeks, Italians, Rumanians and the Balkan peoples would be less inspiring? Celts, Anglo-Saxons, Normans, Danes made England. Pelasgians, Ionians, Dorians and others made Greece. The names of cosmopolitan peoples are writ large on the scroll of history. Are we justified in interpreting darkly that an tipathy in certain clannish foreign groups to what we call American institutions ? There is precedence for confidence to the contrary. But such serenity will be vain, unless the fact is clearly recognized that the problems of Americanization are wholly different from what they were, say, half a century ago. Settlement on this portion of the American continent was originally made by peoples who were eager for a demonstration of new political and social principles. The United .States was not primarily regarded as a huge yage-boosting con cern. Europe, as a whole, in the eight eenth century, and parts of it in the early nineteenth, was unfavorable to the development and expansion of the tenets of orderly freedom or the privileges of equal opportunity. Religious liberty was attainable here, a share in the govern ment was available to all citizens. Americanization came quickly. Immi grants were delighted to be rid of Europe, anxious to establish themselves and their descendants in the new environment. Not only were they more than willing to plunge into the melting pot, but they con tributed to its betterment. What we are pleased to call the American stock is simply that element in the nation whose ancestors repudiated Europe, not so much with disgust as with sincere relief. Changed conditions abroad have had much to do with altering the character of the immigration of the past thirty-five or forty years. Liberalism has grown in Europe, but populations have also; and the surge toward America has in the main been caused by economic pressure. The new millions who have thronged here came often to escape degraded living con ditions caused by overcrowding and its concomitant, crippling competition. There is no occasion to impute to our later influx of foreigners inferior moral character, more reprehensible personal habits or less inherently keen mental en dowments than those of their predeces sors. But the flood thought primarily in commercial terms. The concentration on a single aspect of American life, coupled with illiteracy and general lack of edu cation, unquestionably made for colonies speaking a foreign tongue and indifferent to American institutions. When any programs of political inter ference were adopted by these groups the movement was frequently made in blank ignorance of the structure of this govern ment. Foreigners with education spoke fervently of Marx and Lasalle, Kropotkin and Bakoonin. Hamilton, Madison, Gal- EVENING, PUBJjXG JDaBRpmBiMiBHlA, atetllffa'A, JJS&X?4B6S? -,fe' 1920,' latin, Jefferson, wero scaled books to these clan leaders. With a neat sum in tho bank, mnny a prosperous foreigner has looked forward delightedly to the timo when ho could live comfortably on his savings in his native land. His less successful compatriots have swelled tho ranks of so-called revolutionists preach ing imported doctrines in blind disregard of an inappropriate environment. It is a fino thing, of courso, for tho foreign-born among us to love the lands of their nativity. They would be abnor mal to do otherwise. But it is imperative that while they are among us they should bo taught something of the ideals often traduced, we must admit of their adopted country and that they should be given the opportunity to regard it not as a temporary'residencc or one alien to their sympathies. There are citizens throughout tho land who are vigorously battling against such misconceptions. They aro stirring the melting pot, solidifying its ingredients, which will not, as of yore, mix automat ically. A solution of real Americanism will make possible an impressive fusion. A belligerent education will be futile. The great task calls for tact, understanding and the reverse of denunciation. Free dis cussion will promote that process of ab sorption which alone made the United States possible. Americanization will justify its pretensions .when genuine en lightenment, exempts the word from any imputation of cant. CLUTTERING THE CONSTITUTION TfRIENDS of the Superior Court Judges have succeeded in persuading thfe com mittee of the constitutional revision com mission in charge of the judiciary article to include the Superior Court among tho courts protected by the constitution. As revised by the committee, the sec tion will read: Section 1. Judicial power. Tho judicial power of this Commonwealth shall be vested In a Supremo Court, a auperior Court, In Courts of Common Pleas, Courts of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery, Courts of Quarter Sessions of tho Peace, Orphans' Courts and In such other Courts as tho General Assembly may from time to time establish. It has gone even further in cluttering up tho constitution with detailed regula tions by providing for the elimination of the short section providing that the Com mon Pleas Courts shall continue as at present, establishing and providing also that not more than four counties shall be included in the judicial district. In its place it has recommended the adoption of a long section fixing the manner of elec tion of the Common Pleas judges, the qualifications for the president judge and the jurisdiction of the courts, and con taining a lot of other legislative matter. The only thing the committee has done in this connection that is commendable is to eliminate the magistrate courts from the constitution. It ought to have elimin ated every court save the highest, and to have made the first section of the judi ciary article read in this way: Section 1. Judicial power. Tho judicial power of this Commonwealth shall bo vested in a Supreme Court and in such other Courts as the General Atscmbly may from time to time establish. The only reason for embalming the subordinate courts in the constitution lies in distrust of the Legislature and in the desire of the judges to have their tenure of office assured beyond any possibility of change save by a constitutional amend ment. But the Legislature can be trusted to respect the sentiment of the bar of the state and to refrain from meddling with courts which adequately perform their functions. The revision commission, however, has from the beginning failed to appreciate the importance of eliminating from the constitution the vast mass of detailed legislation with which it is encumbered, and is adding to it instead of taking it out. Its conduct makes imperative the calling of a convention of elected dele gates to make the revision in conformity with the sound traditions which the struc ture of the federal constitution have es tablished. THE DOVE AND THE TIGER WORD comes from Harrisburg that the disagreement between Joseph R. Grundy, of the State Manufacturers' As sociation, and Chairman Crow, of the Re publican state committee, has been patched up and that the dove of peace is now roosting above the Republican or ganization with unruffled feathers, but with a nervous mien. The trouble arose because the men who pay the money were not satisfied with the conduct of the men who spend it. Under the circumstances the men who do the spending were anxious for har mony if it could be achieved, just as every man is anxious that his meal ticket should not be taken away. The dove of peace is anxious because she does not know how long the patched up agreement will continue. Nine months is not very long, but it is long enough to keep the party force together during a presidential electk-r.. It is what may hap pen afterward that is troubling the dove. She has not forgotten the limerick about the tiger, with its description of the perils of going for a ride with a carnivor ous beast which is wont to return from its pleasure jaunt with a broad smile upon it3 whiskered features. Girls employed in a Help! Help! Camden factory who claim five blocks is too far to walk and not far eLOiigh to justify an extra fare refuse to pay more than a nickel on Cnmdcn can and refuse to get off. That's what has happened and what is going to happen, they say, until the company is con tent with one fare. The company is calling for the police, but the humor of the situation is liable to kill all sympathy on the part of the public. Great enlightenment is A Test possible these days to any one who will beep an eye peeled to bee whether tho man who talks most ardently about the duties of citi zenship is prepared to keep his pavement clean. Tho police shake-up The Last Ditch? of yesterday makes it appear that the enemy in the present factional war is retiring swiftly to what you might call the Rhine. Twelve hundred tons of herrings were shipped from Seattle one day recently to Shanghai, Cliiuu ; presumably l-ecaubo there i uo reuse iu cultivating u thirst nearer home, iUU THE GOWNSMAN Examinations rnilB "midyears," in college parlance, arc upon us and the collegian is Boborcd by the thought. In school as in college there is a hush, the stillness that comes of anxiety, the quietudo of regret for days and nights misspent, the calm of despair for the col legian is not a bird that likes to be plucked. Now midnight oil is burned, or rather, brightly glowB tho bulb, and books untold are thumbed, reports huddled up with feverish diligence and that Indifferent posa as to work drops off like a discarded cloak. For tho laggard and ho who puts off his effort until the morrow is as patently with us in the schools as he is iu the Senate, and he will go out into the world destined to one certain deed, the perpetuation of his easy, languid species, precisely as his diligent and capable brother will go on toeing the mark, facing the music nnd bearing away the prizes of life which aro his by the divine right of his in dustry. To the laggard, examinations are an ordeal and his troublo is of his own making; to him who bears his part in the school or in the world, the test of his efficiency is nil in the day's work. A STRANGE antipathy appears to exist in " the minds of many against examinations, tests, questionnaires, investigations. These things are so much like the rendering of an account, nnd few really like to pay; so much like settling with the piper when the dance is over, is this taking of an inventory of whnt one has furnished his mind withal. And this attitude is not unnatural, for there is a kind of compulsion about an examination. Nobody ever submitted to an inquisition of malice prepense, and the going over a thing which you havo already finished only to prove to somebody, who already knows, that yoU havo finished It, is remarkably like working for a dead horse. The English have a happy remedy for this difficulty. They transmute every examination into a sporting event by making it competitive. You win your way at Eton or Oxford in competition with your equals ; you become a wrangler by wrangling better than somebody else. Thcro is com petition and a prize ; there is a run for your money. But somebody in our American system of education once discovered that contests for grade, standing, prizes and the like are bad for something or other psycho logically, although contests in athletics are good for everybody, even those who only pay dollars and sit on bleachers; wherefore American examinations, buch as remain, have no such zest in them as n game of quoits or marbles. THI3 American educator to digress a mo ment is tho greatest discoverer that the world has ever known. Columbus, Vespucci and the rest who sailed uncharted seas are nothing to him. lie has discovered the Heed lessness of the alphabet and the uselcssness of spelling. He has discovered the super fluity o grammar and the dangerousness of mathematics. He has found out that ex aminations shatter the nervous system and that Greek is deadly to the optic nerve. He long since ascertained that no child ought ever to bo punished by spnnking or'otherwiso for anything, and that any subject of study or recreative coutcmplation is quite as good or bad as any other and bome a great deal more or less so. In fact, to shift tho figure, the turkey of American education has been successfully boned ; there is not so much as a coccyx, ukich fie unlearned reader! means the last little bone which goes over the fence; there is not so much as a coccyx left in that invertebrate fowl. ((QTUDY what you like, when you like and how much you like, my child. And, teacher, leave those outworn books ; for the proper study of mankind is not man, as that misguided poet, one Pope, once put it. The proper btudy oi mankind and spinsterkind is child-study." And while you are studying the child he grows up in the process of nn education of experimentation intermittently pursued. It has been said about our Ameri can young folk that they know n little bit about nn extraordinary number of things, and very few things at all thoroughly. They are more bophisticated than tho children of other countries of their year-, nnd, though not insubordinate, far less disciplined in mind. And ruch of this comes of our emas culated educational system, with its pleasant evasiveness of diligent work, its scattered effort, its flickering changcableners from nov elty to novelty and the enormous stress which it puts on practical utilities in place of tho things which develop mental power and strengthen moral fiber. Bl disuse into which they have fallen is part of this emasculated system; it is one with the problem not worked out, "but you under stand the principle"; one with the experi ment a failure, "but the law, you see, re mains the same." The disuse or slovenly misuse of the examination oa the part of teachers is the same sort of thing as lessons perfunctorily recited and exercises swept unread into the waste-paper" basket; the bamc as half-performed tasks forgiven and pleasant talk and generalization in place of demonstrated truths and genuine informa tion. What, after all, is an examination but the shutting of the book after it has been read? Why leave it open, face downward on the table? The examination is tho tying of the knot that the string may not slip; it is essential to a clean record and to a tidy as opposed to a woolly state of mind. There are many things which ought to bo learned ex actly; there is something to be said peace, ye "new educators" even for the efforts of brute memory ; for knowing about things is not actually knowing them, and there are cases in which tho word itself is tho meat of the matter. It is little to the purpose that imperfectly apprehended thoughts, imper fectly noted down, bo imperfectly returned to their source of imperfection. An exami nation which does not add to tho student's comprehension of the subject by the necessity of a review that goes beyond the notebook little helps to tidy up a head full of ideas in disorderly disarrangement. But your Gownsman has fallen to the level of an edu cator. Enough. Bernhardi says the ex-kaiser will never return to Germany as a ruler. The allied powers who aro demanding his extradition are of exactly the same opinion. It may be that after thorough investiga tion has been made tho owners of land purchased by the city may themselves he sub ject to condemnation proceedings, Ibsen, bays Bjorkman, did his best work between fifty-one and seventy-one. This should bo encouragement to the man who feels that he is long in hitting the bullseye. A Washington scientist has discovered that seaweed was tho bame ti.irty million years ago as it is today. Must be the origi nal stand-patter, G. O. P. Iamb at Teacs With Grundy Lion. Headline. This somehow suggests mint sauce. There seems a disposition among the powers to allow soviet Russia U achieve re spectability. The daily bulletin from Altjuy, N. Y., shows that Sweet is still striking that sour cote. lit , ...7 ,.-....... ,. .-Js' t .-.ir L,r:i .. ? - -.r,j.v..i.w.iH.v.n'TC-azji-lr.iffiL -n i.-tr"ni'Ts..'vnirtvniiMTiT:ij. ."".. I. u? J;::wrr.r.,y, - vr.TTirTir - - jir9riuuti - .uuKrA.,f1h'rt - THE CHAFFING DISH To an Old-Fashloned Poet (Lizctlc Woodtcorth Reese) jWTOST tender poet, when the gods confer They save your gracile songs a nook apart, And bless with Time's untainted lavender The ageless April of your singing heart. YOU, in an age unbridled, ne'er declined The appointed anguish for the needed phrase : And conned the fragrant garden of your mind As strictly as your bees on sunny days. B" Y STUPID praise or stupid blame un stirred Tho placid gods grant gifts where they be long: To you, who understand, the perfect word, The recompensed necessities of song. Miss Lizctte Woodworth Reese, of Balti more, to whom the above humble tribute is addressed, will read bome of her poems be fore the Browning Society of this city to night. Much is to be said fo" Browning societies if they can lure such gentle poets from their seclusion. Miss Reese's volumes, "A Handful of Lavender," "A Wayside Lute" and others, are known to every dis criminating anthologist. She needs no stumbling praise from us; but wo offer it in the same sincere spirit in which the crow might compliment the skylark. Desk Mottoes Whether Mr. Hoover calls himself a Democrat or a Republican or a Progressive or an Independent, ho Is the kind ot man that ought to bo President of tho United States. New Yoilc World. Mr, .T. St. George Joyce suggests, ns nn other movie that would be worth seeing, Charley Sykes playing Hamlet with Tiny Maxwell as the ghost. Jim Shields is looking up tho history of corncob pipes for us, tmd says the earliest reference ho has found to them so far is in 1850. Did any of our clients smoke a Mis souri meerschaum before that date? Lewis Bernnys promised long ago to hunt up for us a copy of his favorite poem, called "When Your Pants Begin to Go," But an other of our clients, Mr. Charles Wilson, who is librarian of the New Zealand Parlia ment, writes that he has mailed the ditty and it is on its wuy from the antipodes. The author is Henry Lawson, an Australian poet. Life (After Gerald du MaurierJ LIFE, what is it? Ah. who knows? Just a visit, I suppose. JOY nnd borrow . Fo? a day ; 'IJhen tomorrow We're awuy. YOUTH, and morning ; Manhood, noon ; Age the warning Night comes soon. SHINES a star To light us, then WeTe not far From home again. EDWARD N. SAN. Eternal Peace After reading all these stories about the fatal olives it seems appropriate that tho olive-branch has been chosen as the emblem of peace, We know n number of high-spirited Amer ican mcu who nre' now more nnxious than ever to he Veuve Cliquot's second husband. We can't help wishing, selfishly, that Life 'V "OH, BOY, IF SIR OLIVER'S RIGHT- '3 - - . .'K;UflAttiSfl ... . '-"r?-''v-rKUOTi"C-i.-.v!i.nv..-t!Kri., ..-JvSjai!ffts,i,,-vj:1Ar.(Uv.M.-j.ft:'r.. --,''-xir-rJiaia. , n.w..iII;uiul.ukri . . 1-." I'lIMP "-.-..w ,, .n-s.m.U-.-,.,. ... ,mWfttiJi.! had given the double-page picture in this week's issue its obviously appropriate title. The Round-Up TTEY ! Yuh sale me, varjucrot Get a move on, dang your hide ! Put yore rope arouu' that long-horn there, muu pronto! Hop along! You tortiila-faced young greaser there, who taught yuh how to ride? ( JNow yuh vc got him, Alvarcdo sliucusl lun went nuu turowca nun wrong i QHAKE your cinches there, old-timer; has yore boss done got the heaves? Hey! Be careful with that brandin' iron; don't want the cuttle fried ! Separate them Bar-X heifers from tho Double-Barrel beeves Do it careful! Say, young feller, where in hell'd yuh lenru V ride? fOME'STA, amigo! Want a job? All " right; yuh got yore rope? Where's yore boss? Yuh bay yuh shot him when he hit u gopher-hole? Well, now, ain't that jest too bad fcr words? tell yuh ! Here's the dope : I'll jest give yuh one o' mine, yuh promise not to tell a soul! CRIPES ! Como on and make 'er snappy, boys ! Bo careful with that cow ! Cookie's got the fire a-roaring' ; coffee's boilin' high nnd w ido ; There! He's yellin' 'Come an' get it!" Say, I'll race yuh to the chow ! Let 'cr rip ! Whoopef Hoy, feller, where in hell'd yuh learn t' ride? ROBERT LESLIE BELLEM. Lines to a Chariot THE little sedan that I drive Is not bo small n thing. Filled with blossoming apple boughs, It holds the heart of Spring. The little sedan means to me Long days of summer gold, And any little road, I find, May inuch udventurc hold ! The little sedan gives mo wings. On mornings cool and blue I fill it with October's leaves, And thus my soul renew 1 The little sedan even now, Although the paths are white, Will take mo to some friendly house, Witli warmth and love alight! L' Envoi O LITTLE sedan, tried and true, AVhen all of life teems stale, When dreams seem only dreams to me And all ambitions fail, If I may run away with you, Returning, I may bring A more contented spirit for My hours adventuring! D. P. W. Page George Glbbs! Dear Socrates Joe Ilcrgesheimcr talking about some one compounding pills In n pestle is a mere trifle compared with Gcorgo Gibbs's heroine who, iu "Tho Bolted Door," I think, noid good-night to tha hero, stand ing on the lintel of her bedroom door; that is, she was standing on the lintel. Being as how she was a ludy of average height she must have done so in the nttitudo which a fly assumes In loitering on the cell ing. Fiction is stranger thnn truth. ARTHUR CUABB. David Abeel, writing to us from the Hotel Montgomery, Norrlstown, O. K. Bean, Pro)),, offers thin h a desk motto: "Thnnk you" ehotild he stud as uudillll us "('('." SOCRATES, .'a3 j Robert Louis Stevenson IN HIS old gusty garden of tho North, Ho heard lark-time the uplifting Voices call ; Smitten through with Voices was the cvenfall At last they drove him forth. Now there were two rang silvcrly and long ; And of Romance, that spirit of the sun. And of Romance, Spirit of Youth, was one; And one was that of Song. Gold-belted sailors, bristling buccaneers, The flashing soldier, and tho high slim dame, These were tho Shnpes that all around him came,- That we let go with tears. His was tho unstinted English of the Scot, Clear, nimble, with tho scriptural tang of Knox Thrust through it like the far, sweet scent of box, To keep it unforgot. No frugal Realist, but quick to laugh, To seo appealing things in all ho knew, Ho plucked the sun-sweet corn his fathers grew, And would have naught of chaff. David and Keats, and all good singing men, Take to your heart this Covenanter's son, Gone in midyears, leaving our years un done,, Where do you sing again! LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE. Congressman Freeman, of Connecticut, suggests that the appropriation bill this ses sion bhould be called the spare rib bill instead pt the pork barrel. This suggests slim pick ings. But the spare rib bill might also be a good namo for the suffrago amendment. A boy has been arrested In Gloucester for breaking into school. Evidently the de sire of uurulincss to break out in a new place. What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. At what age does a citizen become eligible for tho United States Senate? 12. Where is the Caucasus? a. Who wbb tho fourth President of the United States? 4. Who wrote the novel "Ten Thousand a Year"? 5. Iu what century did Sir Isaac Newton live? C What is the correct pronunciation of tne word congeries? 7. What is un "editio princeps"? 8. When is Michaelmas Day? 0. Who wero the parents of tho Muses in classical mythology? , 10. Of what state is Carson City the capital' Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. Simmcs's Hole takes its name from Cap tain John C. Slmmi's, who maintainea thut the North and South poles were connected by a envity through wnio1 tho oceans flowed, . 2. Hackles are long feathers on the neat of domestic cocks nnd other birds), a buckle is also n steel ilnx comb. 3. Rhode Island refused to ratify the pro hibition amendment. . , 4. A citizen becomes eligible for the Unitea States House of Representatives nt we age of twenty-live. , C. A pestle is n club-shaped implement ir pounding substances in a mortar. 0. It bhould he pronounced ns tboujn were spelled "pesl." 7. There wero fifty-six signers to tne wet. laratlon of Independence. 8. Jackson Is tho capital of aiississipi;.. 0. Mm, Henry Wood wrote the novel r. 8St T.vune." i 10 Tim republic of Poluud has mZ 70Q.0QI) jtien u the. field nsst " RuUlu BulsUtvitiia. r .- ',. V" V IJ tt --., A -n 4i ' .! ..if ,. U4li b it 'iS2.lL?i