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Friday, January 2, 1920 VARE MEN AFLOAT !Im! AN ADMIRAL in the city's navy has a uiv$t pleasant sort of job as jobs go nowa- ;t'f!ip -avs- Police Lieutenants Huster, Pluck- imjx leiacr, Kerns and bividge, who, because of what appears to have been a deter mined allegiance to a lost cause, were whisked from comfortable berths in Varc territory and sent to bob about for four years on the police boats, have no great cause for complaint. . Life will be pretty easy for them. They may sit in their little pilot houses, put their heels on the binnacles and acquire wisdom in the contemplation of the im mutable. The tides will come and go an ennnr thnf nlinnfaft id nnnafinf - ,At must be accepted. They will see a great WGfr J 1 - 1 1 -I i:e !. t jwitf ucui ujl jiuru, uicuii me uti tiiu pubiug i-nips., ,xne nas some ox tne aavaniages of a rest cure. In this instance it means a rest cure for the city as well as for the four' new admirals who have just said good-by to land. WHYS AND WISDOM OBJECTION has been raised by Prof. Edward P. Cheyney, of the University of Pennsylvania, to the complexities in volved in taking works on socialism out of the Free Library. One vounir woman kWjk& .student was significantly asked why her $t$&4 taste ran in this direction. Hpr lrlpntir.v. . .. .uv.. . rf , already recorded at the Library, was MM made the subject of another specific iVjj The whole procedure suggests new and UWX&f enliirhtened rjathwavs throuirh the fiplrl of statistics and cross-statistics. The libraries have long told us what books were most in demand, but they have been unable to explain accurately various waves of popularity. In the future it may be interestinc to learn that "Alice in Wonderland" is -ilfi'HK- deeply studied by delvers into , an dream phenomena; that "The " Horsemen of the Apocalypse" is ,gerly sought by jockeys, or that "It's Never Too Late to Mend" is passionately desired by citizens aroused by the condi tion of the South street bridge. Frank Stockton once wrote about a chap who had a weakness for borrowing 'M-:xl Darmstock's "Logarithms of the Diapa- fij ,a $,. son." Investigation into his penchant ;jwi sji proaucea a cnarming mue love story. W-lm Ciifro Who knows what depths of tenderness m!Sl' may oe conceaiea in a proces: ',iBt"S the uninitiated seems like a h'5j pertinent inquisition? iff, may be concealed in a process which to Ktf ju. ;!i.:i.--i im. mere lm- EDWARDS SNUBS THE LinWTWlMr. IA'T'HE Dlast of furious criticism that S The Bryan has just turned upon. uovernor .cowards, of Mew Jersey, is no ordinary political outburst. If. is Hip fle -..5,i e .. :;i j .".;. r MijjjB "S""' i i BjJirii, ueep-ouncieu in asb a sensitive place. jfjij Mr. Edwards, too, believes himself to MS ff? presiaenuai canuiuaie on tne Uem- UrsSjgft otratic side, and no man may entertain yx )..t such hopes without seeming to invade a fiLf j right which the resonant Nebraskan sage iiS- '' 'je"eves to be nis verv own- The Jersey 4&t' goye'rnor's real orTense. however, goes lifipfcfeper than political tradition. He is a Affrtwet. He is a militant wet. And the IfcfJ preliminaries of his boom have actually JlCTp been engineered on Nebraska soil! ipif " "'0a'ors of temples and desecrators of t- m ' sacred ground never went furthei than "j ' the Edwards boomers. , What Bryan wants is, more than Ijhe , fl elimination of Edwards and all thought 'l of Edwards at the party councils. He wants to work the vengeance that must ' J follow after every act of deliberate sac , rilego. TUC IIMUADDirc-r fAMmriTr I! $ TVrR' PALMER as a "elf-appointed can !rtlj l', "- didate for the Dresidencv. i. in in. Ivir ii' , creasince difTlptiltiPs Tlio fi,lpu t n. ,. thought in the United States have been t moving swiftly away from him. He is grounaea ana aione and he looms more conspicuously each day as our most lamentable advocate of a transplanted Prusslanism. Comss Hoover and comes Hi Johnson nnd come almost all other candidates in succession to reject the tyrannical doc trine that the attorney general has been iM. 4triftl V. fnvnt nn f 1. n .... ..I.... 1 . !$$ KOR rule masked as sedition bills. In a few montns nystena like the attorney general's will be as unfashionable as the bustle or beaver higli hats for gentle men. He already is beginning to realize his plight by backing down a little in his demands fot Uuv punishments from death to mere jail sentences. OVERDOING FAIR PLAY ' , A DMITT1NG that the New York As- gf' sembly violated a fundamental prin- ,cipi() or govornment in tne United States t when -it -sought to exclude live regularly J' elected Socialist mcmbeis, it is still neccs- ifto aslc wiicuicr these same men HtMHrCYC an mo exaggerated personal jiffpthy that is being showered upon by .iQWspapois niui puuiic men de- ,40 the rules of fair play. ,avu Socialists and Socialists. . ,'wttw' fri.tds have tried insistently to .flake Wia the Bynibol of a martyred rty jet Merger Jong ago was viofeul w ly rejected c-ven by the better-informed elements of American socialism, because of his frank pro-Germanism and his ad herence -to the St. Louis platform n radical pronouncement that affronted even some radicals. The five New Yoik assemblymen whose cases are now being heard were elected by constituents who happen to be dominated by the foreign-language press. They represent classes who arc more or less openly opposed to what we know as Americanism. Since they were elected they have a right to their seats. But if the politicians in New York had previously manifested a decent concern for enlightened immigration and election laws they might not now be in a position that must be as distasteful to them as it is to the rest of the country. THE HUMANITARIAN ECLIPSES THE FIGHTING MAN America as Well as the Rest of the World Is Looking to the Civilian for Leader ship In Government MILITARY glory is not what it once was. There was a time when it en titled a man to the highest civil honors in the gift of his nation. But that time seems to have passed. Theie is no nation today that was in volved in the war in which the promotion of a military hero to high civil office is regarded as certain. x France has just elected Paul Deschanel to the piesidency. Deschanel is a civilian and has always been a civilian. He served in Parliament for years and gradually rose from the obscurity of a new member to leadership and then to the head of the nation itself. The election of neither Foch nor of Joffre was serious ly considered by any one. The French are content that their military heroes should remain military men. Italy has drafted neither Diaz nor Cadoma into the civil government. The statesmen trained in civil life are ruling Italy. General Haig has not been suggested as the successor of Lloyd George as British premier. General French, it is true, is viceroy of Ireland, but that is a semimilitary post at the present time. The government in Great Britain, as in France and Italy, remains a government of civilians. Not even in Germany, where militarism flourished, is the military hero resorted to as the savior of his country. Germany apparently has had all that it cares for of the military caste and is willing to permit the man on horseback to keep his saddle instead of exchanging it for an executive chair. And in America the suggestion of General Pershing for the presidency has aroused no enthusiasm. The candidacy of General Wood, which is backed by an efficient organization, is not really a military candidacy, but the continuation of a boom which was started for him be fore the country entered the great war at all. The one outstanding figure of the war on whom attention in America is con centrating is Herbert Hoover, a man who had no direct connection with military operations, but was occupied in the work of repairing the damage done by the armies of the generals. It is his brilliant success as a business administrator in the interests' of humanity that appeals to the imagination. This sort of thing has not happened before after any great or little war in which America was involved. Andrew Jackson, although he was elected to the presidency long after the battle of New Orleans, was regarded as a military hero. So was William Henry Harrison. The Mexican War made Zachary Taylor Pres ident. The Democrats attempted to elect General McClellan to the presidency on his military record in 1864. At the next election General Grant ran on the Repub lican ticket on the strength of his reputa tion as a soldier and was elected. Al though he had been a Democrat before the war, the Republicans did not turn him down for that. They wanted a man on horseback and tney took the biggest one fn the country. Hayes and Garfield and Benjamin Harrison and McKinley all had military records which were consid ered as increasing their availability for the presidential nomination. Roosevelt would not have been nominated for the governorship of New York when he was if it had not been for his military service in Cuba in the Spanish War. And so it has been for as long as the memory of man runs. The significance of the Hoovei pres idential boom lies above all else in its reflection of a new attitude of society toward the "glories" of war. And it is not the only indication of that new atti tude. Right here in this city men with military records were nominated for office last fall in the hope that they might help the ticket on which they ran, but the civilians were elected and the men who wore the uniform were defeated on all tickets. Their military record did not help them. The world never before knew so well what war is and what it means. It is now universally admitted to be an evil, a sometimes necessary evil if you will, but nevertheless an evil. It cannot be waged without the destruction of life and property, and when waged on a large scale it upsets all the other activities of men. We do not want any more of it if it can be avoided. Back of the demand for Hoover as a presidential candidate, so far as that de mand has found expression, is an in stinctive repugnance to war. Hoover is better informed than any other man re garding the extent of the suffering which war causes. He used his great abilities in mobilizing the resources of the world not occupied in destruction so that they might be used to mitigate the evils wrought by the armies far back of the battle front. He fed the widowed and the orphaned on a larger scale than had ever before been attempted. Hundreds of thousands of women and children and old men are alive today because of the suc cess of his efforts. There is an undoubted feeling that this man who organized relief work can also do something to organize peace among the nations. That is what this country and the rest of the world wish just now. Whether this country wishes it enough to make Hoover President remain to be seen,,but it is not at all likely that it will elect as President any man who is merely a military hero. If evidence fit the cfarffsd attitude of mind vVw wanting it would be found in tho attitude of t,hc politicians themselves, who have not shown any serious inclination to pick a man on hoscback as the candidate for either party MIRACLE! rpiIESE aie, as so.ne one has deftly said, stiange times. A sharp eye, watch ing for the bureau of municipal research, has detected a sudden improvement of manners in the clerks nnd minor officials at City Hall. The miracle i3 supposed to be due to the psychology of admin istrative change. It is lclhted to the emotion of anxiety. It will not last. Wonders never do. But for the time be ing we should make the most of it. Woes and secret irritations unknown to the rest of mankind seem always to have afflicted the folk who look after the de tails of municipal government. Next to the ticket clerks at theatres, tho men behind the wickets at the Hall seem to have been the most thoroughly disil lusioned and the most ardent haters of their kind. Human pride that could survive all ordinary shocks of existence was trailed daily in the dust of the tax office. You might enter after a successful day, filled with good resolutions and feeling like a god. After a session with the grim presence within the cage you left wonder ing whether you had a right to be alive. The maiTiage license bureau has al ways been a keen competitor with the tax office. Brusque, cold, cynically toler ant was the marriage license bureau to all who ventured beyond its terrible por tals. One entered, they say, with a sense of joyous assurance and equality with the great, only to depart in humiliation such as those unfortunates feel who are charged with petty theft. It is told of brides and bridegrooms that they have stood in the corridor and debated whether to return to the bureau and start a fight or go calmly away to regain their self respect in the routine of succeeding days. News of a reform in manners and a revival of courtesy at City Hall will thrill the city. How strange it will be to have no fear of a trip to tho tax office and no fear of the grinding task of seeking a marriage license! REALITIES FROM A SENATOR VTONE of our business," thundered " Senator Borah with reference to the foreign relations committee's resolu tion calling for the award of Thracian territory to Greece. The gentleman from Idaho has been freely censured of late, but not even his enemies have denied him appreciation of the prerogatives and limitations of tho Senate. He is fully aware that the Sen ate has no power to rewrite treaties and his condemnation, wrong-headed though it be, of the pact with Germany operates along strictly legal lines. The Bulgarian treaty" denying to Greece some of her claims to Thrace was made by duly accredited delegates in Paris. When it is submitted the Senate may, if it pleases, reject it, but there is no constitutional authority in that body to reframe it. By his terse realization that he is not a peace commissioner, William E. Borah serves not only common sense, but, oddly enough, a great cause of which he has been a vigorous opponent. AND ARCHITECT EXPERIENCE A T A dinner in this city this week, "- Julius Mastbaum started a fund of $100,000, designed to help deserving young men to start into business, and $71,000 was received forthwith. More than likely every one of the sub stantial business men who generously contributed to the fund had in mind some incident in his own career when money received at a critical time seemed to mean all the difference between success and failure. We venture the suggestion that the thought that prompted this benefaction was a kindly hope rather than a powerful conviction. Hard knocks are still the best foundation builder for the temple of suc cess. A woman arrested for Spirit Quailed at Test shoplifting in N e w York pleaded that she was a social worker and hnd wished to go to prison in order to tfudy the treatment given to women prisoners. The court, however, allowed her to change her mind and released her ou suspended sentence. No one will complain of the rourt's leniency. For her foolishness she is already sufiieimtly pun ished. The supervising pro Late in the Field hibition agent for the New York district has issued a warning against buying whisky from bootleggers. His admonitory advice is largely supererogation. The real notice of danger was issued by the newspapcis when they chronicled the deaths caused hy wood alcohol. A dispatch from New The Abused Sex York says that a stray tomcat got into the poultry show at Madison Square Oarden, ato a hundred dollars' worth of carrier pigeons nnd escaped. Some feminist wrote that story. What reason is there for believing that it was not a tabbycat? T h e country's best In the Name of wishes will attend the the Profit, Figg efforts of Assistant Attorney General Figg to bring down the cost of clothing and shoes ; and the country's skepticism will temper hope. Society w omen in March of Progress Paris have discarded pet dogs in favor of dolls. Excellent! First thing "we know babies will become fashionable and France will be saved s The New York health co-amissioner will urge the establishment of stations where whisky may be procured by physicians. Life saving stations, as it were. The suffrage amendment has been re jected by the lower house of the Mississippi Legislature. If It had been ratified it would have been a dpws item. The Rev. Robert Norwood, of Over brook, herewith receives our lespectful felici tations. We, too, think the Otnup family is all right. Horace Greeley obligingly furnishes a motto for Thrift Week: "Abstinence is favorable to the head and the pocket," he sa)n. The opinion persists that "Mitch" Palmer would be a better fielder if be didn't Veep his eye ou the grand stand. n STRAWS 'IN THE CURRENT Doctor Mars Labor and the Political Quicksand A Woman, a Cat, a Politician and a Moral Must Schools Beg? H'nr Methods in Pence HE WAS a discerning philosopher who once wondered loudly at the success with which the devil utrVizes the beautiful and charming things of life in his business. In the same mood one might wonder why, if medical seicncc,can be mobilized ns a highly efficient agency of disease prevention In war, it cannot be similarly organized for the ben efit of society in times of peace. Doctor Furbush believes apparently that it can. The new director of health knows of the miracles that preventive medicine and sanitary codes have performed under the exacting administration of military organ izations. In naming an emergency commit tee of able physicians, "zoning" the city and locating strategic points for the establish ment of epidemic hospitals in a possible crisis he has made n highly intelligent approach to a long-neglected task. The record of in fantile paralysis, and the even more terrible record of the influenza scourge, show how necessary such precautionary methods are and always have been. .1 State Labor Party? IT IS not surprising that the proposnl for nn independent labor party in Pennsyl vania, now being voted upon by all trades unionists in the state, is causing what Rich ard V. Farley, himself a trades unionist, calls "a wide divergence of labor opinion." If labor men ever insist on organizing their own party and naming their own candidates for the Legislature they will au tomatically invite the organized opposition of nil other political organizations. Labor will be wise if it continues to lemain an in dependent force nnd a balance of power. Those who would have the American trndes unions follow the example of the British Labor party forget that the British are deal ing with a set of conditions vastly different from those existing here; that their organi zations are far more inclusive than the American unions; that they arc supported by a considerable clement of outside opinion and that their leaders are far more experi enced in conservative polities than tho rank and file of labor leaders in the United States. Must Public Schools Beg? WHAT is to be said of a society that leaves its public schools to continue and sur vive by the accidents of charity? Because school teachers in Pittsburgh (as elsewhere') arc poorly paid und threaten to strike, the Board of Education there may initiate a drhc for a great fund to provide them with adequate salaries until the next Legislature can take action. As such action cannot well be taken inside of two years, thi amount to he raised will need to be in the neighborhood of $5,000,000. liven though the public has had its fill of drives, there is strong probability that such a campaign would be a success. It is gen erally conrcded that the work the teachers do is necessary to the well -being of the re public. It is acknowledged that their salaries are pitifully small. And the generously in clined may argue thnt they may just as well contribute their money directly through contributions ns indirectly through taxes. Unquestionably Mich a drive, if successful, would hnc a powerful effect ou legislators. Thcio would bo uo hesitation about making nn adequate npproprintion if the public hnd to strikingly registered its npproval. H'ori of the Schools EVERYWHERE in the United States the schools and colleges are impoverished. Teachers are being forced to seek new call ings. Yet the schools teach more than book Knowledge. They nre the foundation of so ciety. They train citizens. They even shoulder duties that parents neglect. Thus Doctor Garber, superintendent of schools in this city, presents statistics to proc that the schools pay more attention to the mentally defiuent than to normal children. The answer appears to be that the mentall deficient need more attention. It is the case of the ninety-and-nine and the one lost sheep over again. Doctor Garber points out that while 20.000 normal school children are attend ing only half-day sessions, the 1000 children who nre bnckwnrd nnd mentnlly deficient are attending full time. Again the answer ap pears to be that the backward ones need it. "Our first duty," a bchool board member is quoted as saying, "is to the normal child. He will be the citizen of the next generation." He will, indeed. And so also will the mentally deficient child. We've got to live with them both when they grow up. We need not worry because 1000 unfor tunate children jire receiving needed in struction. The cause for worry seems to be in an entirely different direction. The Cat in Politics HUMOR is an appreciation of values that you possess, but which is frequently lacking in the other fellow. The Englishman says an ax is needed to get a bit of fun into tho bead of n Scotch man: and the American declares that under no circumstances can an Englishman Bee a joke; and but, perhaps, we hnve pursued our studies far enough in this direction. There is one belief in which the men of nil dimes nre a unit; They just know that woman is destitute of humor. Oh, abso lutely ! And so it comes somewhat in the nature of a shock to learn of what a woman pro fessor of political economy nt Vassar did to Senator .Tames W. Wadsworth, Jr., of New York. She wrote him asking him his views concerning the League of Nations and got no reply. Again she wrote him, with "the same result. Then, suddenly realizing that he was opposed to woman suffrage, she wrote him again, but this time signed the nnme of her tomcat. And when she got a reply-, which she did, promptly, she let the fnct be known. The lady has a sense of humor which the gentleman undoubtedly lncks. The fact is not surprising. She has it because without it a professor of the dismal science would die. lie lacks it because otherwise he would not be a senator, for statesmen, of all per sons, must take themselves seriously. But isn't it delightful, once in a while, to take a pot shot at Jove? About Ex-Presidents THE election to the French Senate of Raymond Poincare suggests n marked disparity between the politics of Paris and of Washington. There is nothing to bar an American ex-President from running for the Senate, nnd yet not one of our chief magis trates has ever availed himself of the oppor tunity. The effect of such a course, however, might eablly be wholesome. No matter which party is in office, the national legislathe bodies have scant consideration for tho exec utive. Their attitudo is chronically bellig erent, and often this animosity is grounded in ignorance of tho prodigious difficulties of the presidential office. A senator who was once a President might be of admirable serv ice to the nation. That M. Poincare-was under no conven tional obligation to turn down the senator ship is a fact which speaks well for the flexibility pf French political opiufou, ("WONDER IF THE CHAFFING DISH Notes for Smokers TAMES SHIELDS, the special bibliographer " attached to the staff of the Dish, has been investigating for us the history and an tiquity of corncob pipes. We have always insisted upon the intellectual and cultural savor of the corncob, and therefore wo are the mote interested to note thnt the earliest reference found hy Mr. Shields is from the Yale Literary Magazine of 1S3G. viz. : lie teas employed in whittling a corncob hotel into a pipe. The traditional custom or keeping cob pipes on a mantelpiece over the fireplace (one of the little clubs on Camac street has a fine display of members' pipes ranked against the chimney) is authenticated by the second al- Jusion in our expert's chronology. In the Knickerbocker Magazine, November, 18j7 he finds the following: My taciturn host took a cob pipe down from a shelf over the fireplace. This pleases us inordinately, as we have always held thnt the corncob is an antidote for excessive talk. James Shields alo finds the corncob re ferred to in Harper's Mngazine in 1884 and 1SS9. After that time references became fre quent. The word "cob" as applied to the cylin drical core of the ear of corn dates, as far as the New English Dictionary could learn, from 1702. According to Pritchctt's "Smokiana," the Pipe Makers' Co. of London has bad a con tinuous existence since 1610. The only grudge we have against Shakes peare is that he never mentioned tobacco or smoking in any of his works. We would like to have this confirmed by Dr. Horace How ard Furncss, who knows more about the bard than any other client of ours ; but such is the general impression. Mr. Shields tells us also that, according to the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, "one tobacco-pipe maker, at least, made pipes in Philadelphia as early as the year 1C00." The German mania for forbidding is amus ingly illustrated by au article discovered by our bibliographer in Harper's Weekly for December 3, 1010. Wc read : On the third day of May, 1832, the King of Prussia signed a decree permitting tho Inhabitants of Berlin to smoke pipes In tho streets and In the Thlergarten. Until then their use In public was forbidden "out of regard for public propriety," and the de linquent who was caught, pipe In mouth, in any place outside his own homo or the house of a friend was punished by a fine of two thalers; If repeated the offense was expiated by a term In prison, We have long made it a rule never to fre quent, save on occasions of exceptional splendor or unique hospitality, any tavern where the smoking of our pipe is frowned upon by the headwaiter. Convinced as we are that the lowest order of smokers are those who use nothing but cigars, the next lowest in degradation are those who use pipes ornamented or carved or disgustingly adorned. Of these the Ger mans are tho worst offenders. Sir. Shields has discovered the beginning of the German downfall In the following clipping The old Kaiser Wllhelm, whose olgars were specially made for him In Havana, smoked nothing but a pipe when on his hunting trips. The Dmperor's pipe was guarded by an Important functionary. It waa a fine piece of workmanship, due to the skill of a turner, who worked from a pattern sketched by the Kaiser's own hands. In the center of the meerschaum head of the pipe stood a black grouse of chiseled silver, perched, wings spread, on a bough. On the stem of the pipe was a W formed from brilliant pebbles found In the stomachs of grouse. The Kaiser stuffed hla pipe with tobacco mixed with tho sweet leaves of certain trees noted for their odors. The pipe gave out great clouds of fragrant smoke. Harper's Weekly, 1910, From the moment when the present exile's grandfather had that atrocity made, the col lapse of the German empire was certain, . And speaking of corncobs, even as we were compiling the above patagrtphs arrived a de lightful essay on cottmoklng by one of our HE'S STRUCK ANYTHING YET?" special correspondents in Missouri, Mr. Purd B. Wright, librarian of Iho Kansas City Public Library. We shall print it in a future Dish. Lieut's Morale Is Crumbling Really, girls, this business of playing tho heavy In tho show is getting to be something of a strain. Especially as, like Marjorlne, I loe fried potatoes and my skates are sharp ened, too (or was that a threat?) and at home they are really fond of me. But, ah me, I supposo Ethel Barrymore Is dying to play a soubrette singing naughty songs, and Don ald Brian probably would give his shining right orb to be able to strut about as Ham let and I, perforce, shall continue to wage war on women. As father used to say, "This hurts me more than It does you." Mais e'est la guerre en avanco I I hasten to welcome Mlsa L.a Guerre Into the nrenn. Mark von Socrates, not only will they have our souls and politics, but In I the end they will cry, "Move On! Ana a blooming fine world it will be for them with out us! i,IEUT. Mr. Glbbs Is Enigmatic Dear Socrates: In reply to Arthur Crabb, George Gibbs presents his compliment, and reminds him of the immortul reply of Galileo to the Council of Ten. GEORGE GIBBS. Social Chat Our friend William Raymond, having happily escaped from one of the worst plays in dramatic history we ought to know, for we had a hand in it is playing here with John Drew. Congratulations, William, and we are hoping that this tanglefoot of toil will give us a chance to get round. We went to sec our gentle client Lolita Westman play Pollyanna, and this horny bosom received nothing but pleasurable sen sations. It was amusing to find our young friend in Booth's old dressing-room, aud we admired the,two huge antique gilded mirrors that have been there, we suppose, since the Walnut wds built in 1808. Some one prop erly versed in the old theatre's history could write a good poem dealing with the strangely varied figures that have been reflected by those mirrors. Miss Westman told us a story that seems particularly interesting now that John Drink water's play, "Abraham Lincoln," has aroused much discussion. Her grandfather, George Wren, onco a newspaper man in Brooklyn, was manager of one of the other theatres in Washington when Lincoln was shot at Ford's. The night of the tragedy Mr. Wren had gone round to Ford's, during the performance, to see about borrowing some scenery. Passing through the house, he met Wilkes Booth, whom ho knew well (they bad roomed together at one time and Wren was only too familiar with Booth's habit of Jamaica ginger sprees), standing outside the President's box. He seemed agitated and was concealing something behind his back. They had n little talk, and Wren thought Booth's manner odd, but did not suspect any thing amiss. He then went back to his own theatre. Later in the evening when the news came that Lincoln had been shot, Wren knew at once that Booth must have done it, and made an announcement to that effect from the stage of his own theatre. One wonders what the secret service men -were doing that evening. Charley Unruh, the Western Union sage, has got out his little spools ot red, green and black silk and is busy fixing up a new fishing rod. This looks to us like a sign of an early spring. A. Edward Newton and T, A. Daly ad dressed a class in literature nt Haverford College yesterday morning. About the same time it was discovered that one of the stu dent's rooms had been robbed. This looks very bad, is our candid comment. A "legal residence," we observe after a telephone conversation with n distinguished client who shall he nameless, is now a place where one may do illegal things. When one of your friends, inviting you to his home, speaks of it as his "legal resi- denCft." mil nrlvfpA (r in talrn vnn, Intnl,!-,,.. with yon and cancel ah engagements for the ouoiur; moraine. . WUHATIM THE COCK'S CLEAR VOICE mHE cock's clear voice into the clearer air -- Where westward far I roam, Mounts with a thrill of hope, Falls with a sigh of home. A rural sentry, he from farm nnd field, The coming morn descries, And, mankind's bugler, wakes The camp of enterprise. He sings the morn upon the westward hills Strange and remote and wild; He sings it in the land Where onco I was a child. Fife, fife, into the-golden air, O bird, And sing the morning in ; For tho old dnys are past And new days begin. From New Poems, by R. L. Stevenson. RESURRECTION COME faster, death ; and unlmprison me From the spirit-starving thing I coll my body ; And if my tremulous soul's light wake again, Give it an airier, vaster habitation Than that gross battleground of lusts and fears. Katharine Tynan, in the London Notion. And it may be that people will decide that they prefer Hoover to the "old-line politicians." The opposition of Senators Gronna aud Hoke Smith is about as fine an indorsement as Hoover could wish. Pedestrians discovered yesterday that Jack Frost is a dentist who puts teeth in the wind. . What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. What is an archimandrite? I!. It is said that Premier Nitli of Italy will insist on the execution of the pact of London. Does Italy gain or lose Fiume by this pact? 3. What does a weather flag divided into equal sections of blue nnd white in dicate? 4. How many feet make a rod? 5. What is the highest mountain in the Caucasus? G. Who was the father of Alexander the Great? 7. In what year did the battle of Anticliim occur? , 8. How should the name Don Quixote b pronounced iu Spanish? 0. What was the real name of Bill Njc'' 10. How many states had to ratify the constitution of the United States le fore it could become opcratue? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz , 1. A citizen becomes eligible for the I'mtcd States Senate at the age of thirtj. 2. Tho Caucasus Is a lofty range of moun tains forming one of the boundaries between Europe aud Asia. It stretches in n northwesterly and southeastern direction between the Black and Las plan seas. 3. James Madison was the fourth Presi dent of the United States. 4. Samuel Warren wrote the novel "Tea Thousand a Year." C. Sir Isaac Newton lived during paits ' tho seventeenth nnd eighteenth ccn turics. His dates are 104U-17-7. fl. The word cougeries should he pro nouueed ns though It were spell? "con-jc-ri-cz," with the actcnt on the second syllabic. 7. An "editio priuceps" is tire first punted edition ot a book. 8. Michaelmas Day .is September 29. 0. TJ.0 parents of tho Muses in c'sU'" . mythology vero Jupiter, or Am. 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