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GUARDING THE STATE HOUSE
MAYOR MOORE'S refusal to Kraut
permits to private associations to
Use Independence Hall as a meeting place
is both a measiro of safety and an
evidence of respect for the most precious
building in the city.
Any action which increases the security
of the structure is welcome. The menace
of wooden grandstands, existing long:
after events which prompted their erec
tion has passed, should not be permitted
to recur, ' .
Equally, if not more, important is the
necessity for the decent restoration of the
old City Hall or Supremo Court House
at the corner of Fifth and Chestnut. Its
present deplorable condition is wholly dis
cordant with the veneration in which the
entire grout) of structures is rightly held.
It is to be hoped that the Moore admin
istration, when it gets around to it, will
end this neglect.
The plans for restoring the historic
buildings are already available. At
present it has dangerous tire-trap pos
sibilities. Compared with some of the
other expenditures which the new admin
istration will make, the sum needed to put
the ancient City Hall in order is trifling.
THE RETURN OF THE FALLEN
rPHE War Department's treatment of
- the question of the return of the
American dead from France betrays tact
and understanding. In this instance
sentiment must take precedence over any
other argument. Investigation has shown
that more than two-thirds of the kin of
our fallen heroes are in favor of reburial
on American soil.
When the desire of the nearest relatives
is directly expressed, Secretary Baker
intends that such wishes shall, if possible,
be realized. This is the sensible course,
which eliminates loo much discussion of
a poignant theme.
At present the French Government has
ruled that none of the bodies may bq
taken from the country. It is expected;
however, that Uiis ban will eventually bo
lifted. Meanwhile Americans may take,
pride in the recent official report to the
effect that the graves arc carefully tended
and present the appearance of worthy
shrines. The excellent record of the
government in caring for the Civil War
federal cemeteries lends welcome cre
dence to this announcement.
POLITICS IN MEXICO
rpHEY are to have what goes by the
name of a presidential election in
Mexico in July and plans already are
making for it. They do things down
there, differently from the way we do
them.
Carranza 1ms announced that he is not
a candidate to .-ucceed himself, but he is
pursuing the old Ilia.! tactics. It was
always unhealthy for any politician to
aspire to the presidency in opposition to
Forfirio Diaz. Whenever any candidate
geemed to have a following representa
tions were made to him which induced
him to leave the country on the plea of
illness. As the constitution provides that
no man may be a candidate for the
presidency who is not in Mexico at the
time of the election Diaz was always re
elected without opposition.
Carranza has already begun to under
mine the strength of General Alvarez
Obregon, the leading opposition candi
date, and no one need' be surprised any
day to lind in the news dispatches from
Mexico City the vport that the gi-ncral
has taken a trip to Spain.
UP PROW THE SEA
T 1FE on (he tea hi- continued hard and
-' simple through the centuries. Its
duties are plain and that is the secret of
its splendor in emergencies. A man who
survives the rigor of cxistenre on deep
waters knows no confusion of standards
such as prevails axhorc. He knows no
choice in a pinch. If he is not great he
will perish or .some one else will perish.
The sea lights oil' most of what is sordid
and unfit. She boats it back to land.
And when she accept.- a man she trains
him hard.
Even in a tunc that is still filled with
the memory of incredible heroism com
tnon in the war the rescue of the trans
port Powhatan and Iter people looms as
a considerable thing. The Powhatan is
H big ship. 1 or three days she was
beaten ami mauled .y a North Atlantic
jralc. S'he wan threo hundred miloa from
land, without heat, light or motive power,
mid tho water was rising in her enginu
rooms. N et occasionally she spoke to tho
shore and what her wireless said, after
.Staccato references to the plans for
rescue, was " Ml'-, well." It was an odd
twrt of message as it came to a laud
Avhero there are men, presumably great,
who, are floored by a political rumor and
H great many people who go to enormous
CJcpenso to escape a bit of raw weather.
J)g vessels stood around and, night
Hd day, in mud wilderness of wind and
nvplqr, fought another of tho battles
which show that nvin ut his beat is
ijattojitfer oven than tho rlcmont.nl furiea.
i'iw jkHiUtrv ot thai stmt'glu huiy be dimly;
Imagined. All its implications aro ma
jestic and beautiful. They bring n i'resh
revelation of unchanging human motives.
Tho men who fought for tho Powhatan's
life and the lives of her company wero
not giants. They happened merely to
have n choice of alternatives which
they clearly understood. They could do
the noble or the ignoble thing. Such
choice is all that men will ever need.
Clear their eyes. Let them know what
Is right and rational. Give them only
tho chance to be brave and they will bo
brave.
ODD PERILS CAN CROWD
IN A NEWSLESS WORLD!
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Wires, Cables, Paper and Ink Arc
Weapons for Freedom in an Army
That Has Its Own Slackers
The wildest rumors hare been current
and the people did nut know uhat to bc-
licec and what not to believe. A'cirs
dispatch from TYinniprg.
"DUBLIC men, teachers, writers and all
- the various army of amateur philos
ophers who spend their days trying to
measure and define the value and function
of daily journalism should take a day off
and brood upon the experiences of Win
nipeg. That city lias an intelligent popu
lation. Recently, when the white paper
supply was exhausted, it was without
newspapers for a week.
Rusiness died; A s-ensc of something
like darkness descended on the com
munity. Disquiet and dread followed in
the wake of galloping rumors that no
one could stop. What the people missed
was not news alone. It was an essential
cohesive element that disappeared out of
the social scheme at Winnipeg the com
mon understanding'and tho common sym
pathies that the hourly interplay of
thought in the newspapers makes pos
sible. For critics of the daily press and who
is so humble as not to leap into that role
occasionally? the newsless week' in
Winnipeg should be illuminating. Rut it
is for editors themselves that the incident
means most. What are they doing to
justify themselves in a time that must
count so heavily upon their intelligence
and their integrity?
How many newspapers unite with
courage and discernment an honorable
sense of their obligation as interpreters
of events that must be clearly under
stood if we are to find a way to safety
and happiness ?
These are years of bedlam. Clumsy
hands are meddling dangerously with the
machinery of government. Hatred of
change is actually hindering progress.
Dynamic forces that need only clear
thinking to turn them, to magnificent
uses arc being permitted to run wild
yet ignorance and ineptitude in high
places are making clear thinking diffi
cult or impossible.
The easy and cowardly thing, and,
indeed, the profitable thing, is often to
tell not the truth but the lies in which
weak and hypocritical minds find tem
porary comfort.
Echo a man's own opinion, no matter
how foolish it is, says one school of
journalism, and he will deem you his
friend! He silent if you would have a
reputation for wisdom!
, So, our own national landmark.- are
being obscured in fog. The lights that
have guided mankind upward are, for
the time being, made invisible. The cap
tains themselves are rocking the boat in
a shameless panic. But the silence of
prudence and expediency prevails widely
in American journalism when tho current
of popular thought is not fouled by the
accumulated debris of futile, mean or
outworn minds.
To tell the hard and simple and whole
some truth in these days requires the
sort of courage that comes only with
absolute consecration to the causes of
patriotism.
Do not let them tell you that this nation
has to survive by lies. Do not let them
tell you that it has to survive by cruelty,
injustice and the abandonment of its
ancient principles.
Hypocrisy with a brass band accom
paniment never helped us and never will.
The nation is bigger than any party or
any group of men. Its honor is more
sacred. Its meanings reach to the very
skic.. Until the, world goes altogether
mad it will be safe. It must not be turned
from the course that Americans have
followed from the beginning in safety
and honor. All the pompous asses in
and out of politics must not be permitted
to rot out the foundations of our institu
tions or diminish our moral strength with
their cults of selfishness and pretense.
All of the work was not done in France.
The necessity for courage and even for
heroism still persists in America, and it
bears moet heavily upon newspapers in
days when the very air is clouded with
lii'i- manufactured for somebody's benefit.
Wires that run out from a newspaper
officii go to tho ends of the earth, to the
heart of tumult; to places where whole
empires aro in upheaval; to places where
there is incredible heroism, incredible in
famy, a wild tearing down and a wild
building up. All that is best and all that
is woret in humanity meet every day in
terrible impacts.
We get only the confused backwash of
it all here, but the final decisions .ill
affect us as thy wilP-afTcct the rest of
humanity. And it is bccaiu the man
listening at this end of tho cables and
the Washington wires knows that the
saints and the devils of the world are in a
fight for empire and for our own lives
that he must come, if he has any flicker
of patriotism in him, to regard a printed
lie as a shoutint; infamy. Anything loss
than truth will bo intolerable to his heart
and to his conscience.
Rumors! How well he knows the sort
of rumors that ran wild in-Winnipeg! In
their manufactured form ho knows them
as propaganda. Ho has to recognize
and stop them every day of his life in
the stupendous current of the day's news.
It was a rumor that wrecked the
Italian army at Caporctlo. It was rumor
that blinded tho pcoplo of the United
States to the truth behind the greatest
industrial strike of history and left them
still unaware of a duty which they must
do before we shall have peace and honor
at home.
The truth is not alwajs easy to recog
nize in the torrent. It is not always easy
to tell. Any one in journalism who tells
it plays against a handicap. He will bo
vilified, misrepresented, misunderstood.
Opposed to him will bo those who prefer
to cloak over wretchedness and orror wiUi
easy platitudes; who will not bo jam-
cerned with tho hopes nnd anxieties and
troubles of our own people.
Truth isn't welcomed by thoso who, by
means of newspapers, strive to servo
their own private ends at the cost of
society, or by the complacent acceptance
of base politics.
It is easy to sing with a crowd. The
routine editor, whomakes his living with
a set of ideas generated in 18G0, is a
profiteer of the worst type.
A man who has the opposite notion of
an editor's function in this day and gen
eration will tell the truth because truth
is what the country needs above all
things. He speaks from a mighty pulpit.
The mechanism of his purpose is not per
fect, but it is u murvelous thing in its
way. He may be fooled in tho day's
vpsli, but ho is seldom fooled twice. And
ho is comforted by the knowledge that
no rumor is so fast that it cannot bo
overtaken ly his paper, that no lio is so
traditionally sacred as to be beyond his
guns and no interest powerful enough
to escape his inquiry altogether.
He will know that tho principles of gov
ernment handed down to us are a sacred
heiitagc that must not be defiled. Ho
will know that the menace to free gov
ernment never comes from the outside,
but that it often comes from within. And
he will go on with limitless faith in the
truth and in the American people and he
will not lose!
In the course of his work he will have
an enlightened conception of news and
its uses. He will not deal in the shame
of unhappy people and he will not trail
the obscenities of social accidents under
the eyes of his readers every day. Rather
will he try to let events themselves shed
some light upon the new issues among
which we have drifted without warning
or guidance.
He will do what he can to begin a
work abandoned when the last gun was
fired.
Where arc the French of Verdun?
Where are the British of Flanders and
the North sea? We lost contact with
them almost completely when the profes
sionals in high hats pushed them aside to
make peace.
Lines of communication may be run
out to them yet, and if it can be done it
will have to be Uonc with the aid of
journalism. Such will be the aims of the
editor who knows what patriotism means.
And he can feel that he is serving in his
own way as men of our blood have always
served from Valley Forge to the Argonne
forest when, fighting for what was true,
they were fighting for that which alone
can be permanent.
ISOLATED AUSTRIA
THE rumor that shrunken Austria and
expanded Czecho-Slovakia have
formed a military alliance is exciting
Budapest, but it is scarcely credible.
Austrian army activities are drastically
restricted by the treaty of St. Germain-en-Layc.
Moreover, the Bohemians
cherish too many bitter memories of
the old Vienna government to be eager
to fight the battles of its modest suc
cessor. What probably has happened is the
negotiation of a trade pact necessary to '
prevent Austria from becoming, in
Hoover's words, "the mendicant of
Europe." The former food administrator
recently informed the ways and means
committee of the House that the new
republic of Austria is able to raise no
more sustenance for itself than would be
sufficient for three months out of a
year. Non-self-supporting nations arc
absolutely dependent on fluidity in barter,
exchange and ci edits. Denmark is an in
stance of this and England barely
escaped "Geing in such a class during the
war.
The iniquities of the Hapsburg rule
cannot be expiated. It was misconcep
tion on this point which perhaps moved
the peacemakers to carry punishment of
Austria to an extreme dangerous to the
whole of Europe, which can hardly fail
to be embarrassed by the presence of a
pauper nation.
Trade agreements which Austria may
make with her neighbors will be a benefit
to the continent. And the Viennese aro
now too hungry to contemplate the tragic
burden of more wars.
The Kolshevists urn
Good anil linil of It innkins the population
of Jtussiu work twelve
hours a day seven days a week. Hud the
"downtrodden proletariat" known what was
going to liapiipii it niifdit have hesitated
before overthrowing .the "hated aristocrats"
and the "despised bourgeoisie." But, apart
from the damnable- compulsion, there seems
to bo praiseworthy appreciation of the
country's needs by the new despots.
"Regardless of person -I'clicilations
:it and political diffcr
nires and disagree
ments," says Dr. Hurry A. Garfield, "wo
must all pay homage to Iho ruun who with
such devotion spent his strength in the cuuso
o America President Wilson." And re
gardless of personal, etc., wo dou't miud
admitting that Doctor Garfield is a gentle
man of breadth and dignity.
The Society for Or
I'laylng in gauizing Charities in
Tough Lueli this city is feeding
soen families left des
titute by the raids on alleged radicals by thp
Dcpnrtmeut of Justice. If the men nrrcstcd
are malefactors the suffering caused is re
grettable but unavoidable. But what it they
are merely the victims of hysteria in high
places?
The spirit of Robbie
I lis Spirit Hums was the only
Mill IJcs tipple at his birthday
celebratiou yesterday.
It was low gauge for the gauger, who would
infinitely prefer the nineteenth hole to the
eighteenth amendment.
There is tragedy and pathos in tbc fact
that Jcsso I'omeroy, life prisoner, is to read
liiH own poems at a minstrel show in tho
Massachusetts state prison ; but ono can't
refrain from cnturint the opinion that it
won't be free verse.
The fact that federal agents will en
force tho Volstead act in New Jersey with
out uctive co-operation of the various mu
nicipalities is no indication that the law, will
not he adequately administered.
Another indorsement for the eighteenth
amendment: Director FurLush declares rest
and fresh olr better medicine for influenza
than whisky or brandy.
.Mayor Moore heartily iudorbes the dec
laration ot William, flebwenk Qllbert flint a
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HIRING AND FIRING LINE
New Civil Service Board Has Had Its
Powers and Duties Considerably
Enlarged Condition of City's
Water Supply Critical
By GEORG15 NOX McGAIN
frtiriQ AUVS on the firing as well ns the
' hiring Hue," said Civil Service Com
missioner Woodruff, with a smile.
In his epigrammatic way Commissioner
Woodruff threw a flood of light on the ac
tivities of the new civil service board, and
incidentally corrected a popular misappre
hension of its duties under the new charter.
The bonrd is no longer merely n commit too
of examiners to test the mental and practical
qualifications of applicants for positions In
the various city departments. Its functions
have widened and its powers have been en
larged. For an entire day last week the civil
service- board sat ns a court having jurisdic
tion in cases ot violation ot the police code.
It is an entirely new departure. It elevates
the board from schoolmasters to magistrates;
that is, practically speaking.
I understand tho new burdens imposed
upon the three commissioners will in all
probability cull for some additional changes
in muthnds of procedure. lu tho hearing ot
police officers for violation ot rules and regu -lations
considerable time is consumed which
can be given to the other phase of this work.
To owi-come this it is not improbable that
a special examiner or two ma; be designated
by the hoard who will hear and report upon
complaints against the uniformed force.
Such n procedure, I understand, is sanc
tioned by law, although the examiner so ap
pointed must ho a member of the bar and a
person of discretion.
From indications there arc a large number
of police hearings due to he held in tho
future.
T WOXDER if the people of Philadelphia
really appreciate the critical condition of
the city's water supply?
For several years now the situation has
been a persistent nightmare to Carleton V),
Davis, chief of the water bureau. The city
is constantly on the verge of a shortage. In
the height of midsummer, more than once !n
the last few years, tho threat ot a water .
famine Ins impended.
"We are doing everything we can to post
pone the evil day." said Director Davis in a
brief but pointed talk. "We are doing every
thing we can to impress upon tho people the
necessity for economizing in the use of water.
It is all we can do under the circumstances.
A greater water, supply is the next important
problem, nnd the most important from the
physical standpoint that Philadelphia must
face."
It tyas been alleged that the saving of water
as n result, oddly enough, of the advent of
prohibition in closing the saloons will bo a
factor in relieving the situation. It is a
fallacy. In place of the saloons with their
constantly running taps there is nu increase
in the number of soft -drink shops and soda
fountains. It is pointed out, too, that the
tremendous increase in war building opera
lions has increased the strain on the city's
limited supply.
As a result the situation is going from bad
to worse. An unforeseen smash in any of the
big pumping stations or a compulsory closing
of a big filtration plant would work havoc.
"Wake up, Philadelphia!" is particularly
applicable to the water situation.
TTIVEUV ex -service man in Philadelphia
' who has any difficulty getting his war
risk insurance adjusted should understand
that now is his opportunity to get the tan
gles straightened out.
The American Legion, the war-risk insur
ance bureau of Washington nnd the various
welfare organizations of this city arc con
ducting a campaign this month for the pur
pose of adjusting all wnr-riik insurance
difficulties.
Vincent A. Carroll is in charge of the
headquarters at 1007 Walnut street. Mr.
Carroll wants to hear from every ex-service
man in connection with this all-important
subject. He represents the American Le
gion ns its campaign director.
Meetings have heea held over the city,
letters have been addressed by the thousands
to ex-service men, but unfortunately, he tells
me. there ore hundreds of ex -soldiers who
are still unaware of this campaign to help
them.
Any time during the day. this month, and
every Tuesday night, former service men are
asked to call and have their cases taken up
individually. And there arc certainly hun
dreds of men in perplexity over this subject
who need help.
plSHOP X. 15. (iltriJI!, perhaps the best--
known clergyman of the Mcnnonito
Church in the East, is about to retire. Bishop
(liubb is verging on seventy and for thirty
eight years has labored continuously in this
eilj. It was in SS'' that lie accepted a call
to the l'irst Mcunonite Church of Philadel
phia, at Fifth and Diamond streets, nnd in
the intervening years ot faithful service he
has endeared himself to the entire Mcnnonitc
body of eastern Pennsylvania. He has built
up the Philadelphia church from the smallest
to the largest in the eastern district confer
ence of that denomination.
Wln-n Menno Simons, the evangelist ot
Witmarsuni, in UiiSt laid down the principles
fif his faith he little dreamed, perhaps, that
thej would Spread to every country in Eu
rope and lind it permanent home in tho new
world, whose existence had then been known
for about thirty years. It was not until 1G0
years after that the first scltlemeut of Jfen
nonitef was made iu Germantown. That was
in lllh".
Bishop Grubb is the highest authority on
historical matters concerning his church in
this country. His library of old and rare
books beariug on Metiuouite history is the
largest iu the country, lie is the author ot
a uumbcr of works on Menuouite history and
has bceu a large contributor to the literature
of his denomination.
BISHOP GRUBB is an editor and pub
lisher. Or rather he was. He founded
The MeDimnilc, a denominational paper, in
1581, which is now under the editorial man
agement of his eldest sou, who is lIsq lain-,
istcr in charge of the Second Mcnnouitc
Church, nt Franklin street and Indiana ave
nue, which was originally a mission founded
by tho bishop.
for thirty jcars ho has been a member of
the board of publication of his church, and'
for most of that time has been president ot
the board.
A second sou, the T!ev. W. II. Grubb, ia
pastor of the Eden Mcmorlul Church nt
Schwenksville. Bishop Orubb himself is a
native of Montgomery county nnd belongs to
one of the oldest families In this purl of tho
state.
Tho position of a clergyman is in great,
measure established by his popularity utnong
his own people, and by this criterion nloue
Bishop Grubb is held in wide esteem, for his
fcrmons arc features of the current literature
of tbc Mennonite Church.
The outstanding feature, I think, ot the
denomination is its high cxempliticutiou of
,lho principle ot brotherly love. In propor
tion to nu'nber, its contributions to the cauec
ot church charities will runk among tho
highest. It is an intensified loyalty that goes
tho limit of answering in the uffirmuthe the
phnrisaicul query, "Am X my brother's
keeper?" The motto on lis buuucm is,
"Help yo one another." ,
And Bishop Grubb' is a fiuo exponent of
Unit uud. the pthw; tenets of hU. church.
ve&vsezk wm
THE CHAFFING DISH
This Is Ladles' Day
THIS is Ladies' Day in the Dish. For
some time we have noticed a disposition
on the part ot our fair ones to make this
department the vehicle of their sorrows and
oppressions. So, for one day, wc arc going
t6 give free rein to their gentle griefs.
First of the lot is Miss Ann Dante, who
has just dashed in here to announce the fol
lowing :
The faults of women, she says, are im
posed upon them by nature. The faults of
men are of their own choice and cherishing.
Then comes a long dispatch from Pclham,
N. Y. (how did tho Dish wander so far, we
wonder?), rubbing a little salt in the wounds
of our stellar correspondent, McFce. Wc
only print nbout half of it pcrl.aps because
the handwriting is so masculine that it causes
us to ponder. Are we being spoofed '! Judge
for yourselt !
Girls, Let's Emigrate!
t'elliam, v VorU.
Dear Socrates: Ue the "Feminist Menace."
by 'William MoFee. I rise to remark:
I am an old-fashioned woman, myself, and
agree with a lot that William JIcFee says.
I btucss that I dislike the feminist almost ns
much ns he does and as for a femalo Polly
Titian, the very thought of ono Is most ob
noxious to me but, stars above ! I don't
wonder that "William Is a bachelor ! and "an
alien who ha3 to carry an identification pass
port!" lio doesn't, apparently, realize, even
in the slightest degree, that it is just because
of men such aa ho seems to be that tho
women have broken loose, like this.
PerhUps, though, ho is not as ferocious as
he sounds. I don't wonder, either, at his
being dis-cuss-ted with tho femalo of tho
species, after tho experience ho has had. All
women, however, are not "vamps" and fem
inists, so why cIhss them all allko and
doom them in that rough, cold-blooded
way 'to tho Fame fate that of wash
ing dishes, preparing filet do boeuf aux cham.
pienons (plain old Krtglish is good enough ror
me, thank goodness!), cooking that awful
schnitzel stuff and making- doormats of them,
selves for the lords of creation?
M'hr should all women sp-nd their liven
washing dishes? That's what I want to
know. Docs William McFeo really think that
that Ib alt women aro fit for?
Not loiiff ago I read a very thrilling
(to me) article about tho Marshall Islands,
in the mld-1'aclflc "A.country whore Woman
proposes, Imposes and disposes where she is
recognized as tho superior being', and is treat
ed as such yet Man is happy.'' What do
you' know about that?
Tlicre, "the woman is expected to do noth
ing but chat and gossip and dress, while the
man sustains the home llfo by cooking, wash
ing, sewing and caring for tho children."
And listen to this: "In tho whole Marshall
group there is not one unhappy married man
and domestic quarrols aro quite unknown,
Tho husband remains tho lover during tho
whole of his married career. IIo Ib quite re
markable for his gallantry, and every want
and wish of his spouse is attended to villi a
courtesy and eagerness which- Is positively
delightful. Ho cares little for his own np.
pearance, but Is most anxious that his wife
should bo immaculate, and ho will spend
hourM combing and arranging her hair. With
the greatest courtesy ho will adjust her dress,
tlx a bow or display a ribbon to best advan
tage; If she has to pass over a water courno
lie will tlo up her skirts and carry her shoulder-high,
a very IUIoIbIi In his chivalry! At
homo sho must have 4he best mats to Bit on,
and at mealtimes she is always most obse
quiously served."
And yet wo send missionaries there, to
these hlgh-souled creatures, uml call them
"heathen" !
13ver since I read this about tho Marshall
Iblanders I'vo been tearing my wlilto hair out
by handfuls. To think ot what might havo
been If I had only known ot this beforo!
I. N.
Ladles who sign themselves Dot, M. V. N.
S. and K. M. H. nro unfortunately not ud
inittcd to the arena today. Dot, because sho
is too delightfully complimentary; the others
for lack of bpace.
Tho Line Forms on the night
Dear Socrates; There is one widower lu
New York state who keeps house for himself
and two sous, runs a farni.'a Vutler upd tee
business, dabbles In real estate (particularly
tlrt forccloplnir ' of n?rttfages), prwrveu
peaches and taken lis Ughtttt suul Wt
EVERYDAY LIFE
$5fT. r -
vou'ree- (jowc,
of loaves every Saturday mornlnff. On Blue
Monday ho is up at 4 a., m., speeding the
family wash through an electric washing
machine. Cross my heart, hope to die. If it
isn't the truth. Step up, girls, this man is a
widower. Please excuse blue paper, wished
on me at Xmas. LADY CLIENT.
Our advice to those two sons would be,
Watch ydur stepmother.
John Balderston, of this city and else
where, will arouse the ire of our fair clients,
we fear. In his admirable play, ''The
Genius of the Marne," there is not a single
feminine part.
Nor is there aDy reason wdiy there should
be one.
Maid Marian's Heart
THE girls that walk Fifth avenue
Arc very grand and fine,
Their hats are brave with every hue,
Their silks and jewels shine.
But as they keep their measured pace
With proud nnd languid air,
"Pis sad to find on every face
A blank, unchanging stare.
There was a maid of bygone uays
I doubt, alack, she's dead
Could trip nnd carol roundelays
As through the fern she sped.
Her kirtic was o' Lincoln green,
Her blue eyes brave and free,
Her hair was golden, and, T ween,
A golden heart lind she.
For oh, her smile was blithe and sweet,
And oh, her laugh was gay !
" Can such a heart, T wonder, beat ,
In any breast today?
CHARLES WIIARTOX STORK.
Desk Mottoes
AVhat else is wisdom? what of men's en
deavour. Or God's high grace, so lovely and so great?
To stand from fear set free, to breathe- jind
wait,
To hold a hand uplifted over Hate;
And shall not Loveliness bo loved forever?
GILBIJKT MUIIKAY, translated from
KUWriDISS.
Brief Essay on Poetry
All great poetry is likely to possess a
double aspect. It will bo not only an im
aginative transcript of life's alluring realities,
it will also voice the spirit's protest against
life's limitations, cruelties and wanton be
trayals o tbo clear spirits of men.
At last wc have fouud a cigar named after
a living poet. Wc would like to inform our
good friend Robert Norwood that in our
favorite tobacco shop we sec the Norwood,
ten cents straight.
We often wonder whether the chaplain
of tho Senate, tho Itcv. Forrest J, Pretty
man, ever gets discouraged?
pne ot our clieuts has asked us to reprint
our poem about the Tin Commandments.
This bus given us a lot of trouble, for wc
dldu't believe wc had ever tackled the subject
iu verse. Perhaps our customer is thinking
of Dove Dulcet's synthetic poem, wjbiek went
thus:
The Ten Commandments
Are not really commandments,
But they are vulunble
Suggestions. SOCRATES.
The great world ot out ot doors is all
right us a general rule, but there arc times
when it is pretty darned sloppy.
Radical exchange ot opinion between
Palmer and Kane may bring about rpdlcnl
change in tho treatment ot radicals.
There is no denying that Mr. Palmer
is expert at back-pedallug.
The country continues to bo blissfully
indifferent to Hoover's politics. It is his
ability that attracts.
Bryan Is wIuuIdj attention 9s a L'riace
5
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m-me&
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j-outh hrnifWiNTfiR.!
THE UNCHARTED
"Full many a flower is born to blush unseen
And waste Us sweetness on the desert air."
A LL emerald writhes the uncharted Pacific,
" where', under the moon,
Beachward it beats to the furze on the dune.
Bursting to foam-crust and breaking in spin
drift rain
That chequers the sea-paths mosaic, green
cobble and ivory vein.
Unkempt is the couchc on the dunes, anil the
white or tele sand is uutrod.
So was it ever since Nature began.
So may it be even after the Kingdom of Man !
Can nought possess Beauty unless he be pre
sent to Patronize God?
There's never an Island uncharted, whose
loveliness mariners seek,
But the seagull can reach in a week;
For Nature built shrines ere sho fashioned
your jellyfish sire,
And always the sun shall rise splendidly orer
your funeral pyre !
KENNETH SLESSOR.
The powers will probably let Holland
understand that thcreVare more ways ol
killing n rat than choking it with buttered
phrases.
The safe-crackers operating on Itid;
avenue evidently hadn't heard of the shake
up in the police bureau.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
What nations are specified in the peace
treaty as entitled to bo rcprescnu'd b.
judges in tho triul of William Holicn
zollcrn? What is the capital of Sweden1
Why is the battle ot Saratoga! densire
importance in American history "'
When did Karl Marx live?
What is meant by the Miuouu civiliti- '
tion?
Who is baid to have originated tue ci
prcssion "To the victors belong the
spoils"?
Name two rivers in Australia.
What is the totul membership of tin
United StatCB House of Representa
tives? Who wrote "Gulliver's TruTeU ''
What was originally tho profession '
Herbert C. Hoover?
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Answers to uaiurua "- jo
1.
The term "Devil's Advocate' a
from the process of cauomzation w
the Catholic Church, in which borne
person is cxpecteuMo oppose the prop
osition nnd to give some reason W
it should not take place. This perM
is technically called the "AJU'"S
Dlaboli," or Devil's Advocate. IW
ing said his say, tho conclave tfwiao
the question.
There are eighteen amendments to l"
federal constitution.
A curlew is a wading bird with a loi
slender, curved bill.
Pittsburgh, not Pittsburg, is correct
Threo leaders of tho French n?W'
who wcro guillotined were Dintw.
Itobespierre and Camlllo Desmoulins.
William tho Conqueror invaded EDS'
land In the year 1000.
Giuseppe Mazzinl was nn Italian palri
and revolutionist, a PnneBt,7X,
in tbe movements leading up . t
unification and independence 1 of b
era Italy. His dates are ISM'187-,
"Qui vlve" literally means "w T,f
that is, "on whose side ore you
a senllriel's challenge. By extension
"on the qui vive" has come to m.
on tue aieri. Jf
Tbo words should bo mn'i
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