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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
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$! w ban'Jsi business organizations, rail
utJf. &' wav builders and all the equipment neces-
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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.
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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
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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,
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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.
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