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OLD ALIBIS EXPLODED
"pMC negligence of olicet-eleannijr con-
tractors is pertinently disclosed in Di
rector Winston's review of conditions in
West Philadelphia. In this neighbor
hood the conventional excuses do not
ftpply. The district is not congested as
downtown is. There is no "foreign quar
ter" to blame. If the streets are dirty
and tho slush is not speedily cleared
away it is because tho cleaners are not
n the job.
Mr. Hepburn and Director Winston
Arc to be congratulated for their prompt
personal inspection of West Philadelphia
and for their vigorous pressure on the
contractors. After the neglect of a sec
tion which should be easy to keep clean
the old fiction of the difficulty of the
task woefully lacks conviction.
HOISTING A DANGER SIGNAL
"C1VERY man at the Chamber of Com---
merce luncheon yesterday afternoon
who listened to the protest of Nicholas
Murray Butler against the meddling of
government with business doubtless in
dorsed his views.
Doctor Butier s conception of the proper
duties of the Federal Trade Commission
commends itself to the intelligence of the
average man. That commission, however,
instead of devoting itself to assisting busi
ness to expand in accordance with the
provisions of law, has persistently re
fused to give helpful advice and has con
fined its activities to attacks upon reputa
ble' business enterprises whose managers
have done their best to keep within the
permissions of the statute while they
developed their trade. The commission
has apparently assumed that business
men arc criminals.
It is about time that protest was lodged
against this policy. And it is time also
that protest was lodged against the
growth of the bureaucratic spirit in Wash
ington, the effect of which is seen in the
denial to citizens of the right to talk in
public about those things in which they
are interested if those things do not hap
pen to commend themselves to the bu
reaucrats. Doctor Butler's warning against the
dangers of autocracy acting under the
forms of democracy does not come a mo
ment too soon.
STIMULATING HOUSE BUILDING
fyHE Housing Association's plans for
fitting Philadelphia to its population
are a combination of piaetical advice
and good w ishes. The suggestion that
the city "make a careful study of the un
developed areas with a view to determin
ing where extension of public services
will result m the erection of the greatest
number of small houses" is sound and
practical. Available public utilities are
an unquestioned incentive to building.
The hope that "private investors take
a broad view of the matter and do their
share in city budding" is, however,
rather a sentiment than a solution.
Labor condition.-, have greatly retarded
the construction of the small comfortable
homes of which Philadelphia used to be
so proud. Moreover, with all the condi
tions favorable only prodigies of enter
prise could have kept pace with the war
and after-war congestion here.
It is evident, as Mr. Ihlder, of the
Housing Association, points out, that tho
city could take an important primary
step with a comprehensive development
plan. After that the responsibility falls
on individual initiative.
JUGO-SLAVIA REACHES OUT
JN THEORY the alleged refusal of the
Jugo-Slavs to consider the secret
treaty of London as a basis of compro
mise with Italy is justifiable. Certainly
tho mutter of a diplomatic document
should be fully disclosed before any gov
ernment should he asked to accept its
rulings.
On the othor hand, the essential part
of the r'H't which ccucenis Jugo-Slaia is
a subject of public knowledge. The
treaty does not ssign Fiunic to Italv.
The Jugo-Slav statesmen are fully aware
of this and their rojcctiop of the latest
proposal, therefou', inspires the deduc
tion that additional now claims are being
qdvHiiccd.
In fairne -to Italy it must be said
that bhe hu a difficult opponent. If a
'.uggested -olutioii of the Adriatic prob
lem, nnohuig the .-.uiTPiider pending
eventual disposition of l'iunie, is dis
flajncd. ihc situation becomes more
clouded than ever.
Participants, in the Peace Conference
ivlio later declined tlut cNery European
nation was., nt one time or another,, ut
terly unreasonable were probably right.
PRACTICAL GENEROSITY
IP CONGKlibfe accepts the President's
j,uggC3lIon uid authorises a loan of
XtOO.000,000 for food relief in Poland,
"'.AvuieniH mid AuslW it will have a
sHinu'ttting practical in. well nr Immune
;ileitt for ita notion.
i r' Mr-, lliinw-r receitllv CADlnnietl tne
" thkOsV lJuoio ill detail to the ways
and means committee of the House and
greatly astonished his auditors by fore
casting that about $83,000,000 of the
former $100,000,000 appropriation would
bo paid back. Actual charily was dis
tributed chiefly to childicu.
In the majority of other instances re
liable credits were easily attainable. In
deed, the populations helped were eager
that their governments should not play
the roles of paupers.
The former food administrator, who
probably knows more about the problem
of European starvation than any other
American, expressed confidence in the
ability of Poland to pay her debts in
cum1 she were sufficiently provisioned to
survive the ordeal of her anti-Bolshevist
war, and of the eventual rehabilitation
of Austria provided she were enabled to
make working trade agreements with
her neighbors. The future financial and
commercial integrity of Armenia he
found almost wholly dependent upon her
status under the mandate system.
There can be no question that human
ity will be iwbly served if the new re
quest for relief is granted. But the color
of the case is no longer one of wholly
unreconioensed altruism. A loan, not a
gift, is sought.
SENATOR REED AS AN ARTIST
IN POLITICAL CURTAIN-FIRE
Merry Times Await Presidential Candi
dates Who Wander in No Man's Land
Without Old-Guard Passwords
PROFESSIONAL politic- is for the
most part a scrimmage between lim
ited groups of men who use party or
ganizations tojiustain their own egoism
and their own interests. Crowded at the
top of every party are the winners, who
gaze downward always with panicky
eyes. They dread any change in the de
sign of the structure that supports them.
The climb has been hard. They live in
fear of a fall. And for any one who sug
gests a scheme of things more represent
ative of the popular will they have long
range word-guns, mud in plenty and a
method of propaganda that is really
deadly.
If the stakes and the issues of the war
were such as to requite sacrifice and even
the service of martyrdom among plain
Americans, it is to be supposed that some
flicker of inspiration touched the men
who made the loudest speeches during
the last few years. But the bosses, big
and little, have not changed. If they ever
knew what the war was about they seem
to have forgotten it.
Jim Reed is an example of the mcui
able selfishness of the professional patty
man. This Jim knows little of the
thought and need of his day and genera
tion. He is not a thinker. He has a
trick that makes thinking unnecessary
for his purposes. He knows how to i-each
behind the mind of the average man, to
touch dismal prejudices to new life at
their emotional source and inspire delu
sions that defy reason.
Senator Reed's attack on Hoover was a
deliberate masterstroke of propaganda.
Hoover has his faults. He is headstrong.
He is positive in action, impatient with
those who do not agree with him, con
temptuous of details. He might prove to
be even less able than Mr. Wilson to
effect the compromises that aie part of
the da.v's work at Washington, whcie op
posing forces are inevitable and even de
sirable in and out of Congress.
But no one in his senses ever believed
that Hoover is pio-British or anything
other than pro-American. Hoover irri
tated the British. He made no secret of
his contempt for many of their aims and
methods. A few years ago a consider
able element of the English press was
violently calling him a pro-German. Mr.
Reed knows all this, or ought to know it
and a great deal more. He and his
friends do not expect the country to be
lieve them in this instance. They wish
meiely to raise doubts, to -tart heads and
tongues to waggi.ng and mind- to wonder
ing. They have given circulation to what
psychologists call "an interrupting idea."
They have inspired doubt and that was
all they wished to do.
It is not with Mr. Hoover or his can
didacy that we need be concerned in a
study of this method of political annihi
lation. It is the success with which
piejudice can be substituted for reason in
American politics and tho obstacles flung
in the way of honest men who wish to
serve the country independently that in
vite attention.
Hoover knows all that can be known
about the moral, political and economic
trends in Europe. His honor and integ
lity and patriotism have been tested' and
proved in a thousand ways. lie has been
making friends for us in every part of
the world. It is for later events to de
cide whether his peculiar talents, his
aggressive honcbty and his frank con
tempt for hidden and furtive elements in
politics make him desirable for the presi
dene.v. Tho significant thing now is the fact
that, because, ho Wid the audacity to turn
to the people rather than to the party
mandarins for suppoit and sympathy, he
is to be rewarded for four yeais of match
less service to humanity with vilification,
abuse and the insults of men like Senator
Reed.
Here we have in plain operation the
system that has worked to keep many
men of gieat minu and great Heart out
of politics in this country. Some there
are who aie willing to endure the on
slaughts, the slander and the mud
showers used in the defense of in
trenched political machines. Most men
shrink from that sort of attack. They
prefer to keep out of a struggle that so
often can be made unclean.
Tho tinhorns who have joined in Sena
tor Reed's chorus arc, of course, not
thinking of the countrv. Thev arc not
even concerned about their political par
ties. They are thinking of themselves.
They have the vantage ground of Wash
ington from which to tall;. The odds arc
in their favor. And no man, no matter
how great his purposes may be, can es
cape the rigors of their scandal-barrage.
Yet the simple fact is that no man can
approach within sight of the White House
or become even a potential candidate for
the piesidency unless he is a man of honor
and unusual ability. Nowhere in the
uoild is there buch an efTectivq method
of political elimination as is to be found
in tho elective machinery of the states.
It la the fa-hioii to talk lightly of the
j Jnvoritc sons
Yclf tncy are aunoae
always men of great character, who
couldn't have survived in the esteem of
the people without unusual qualities of
some sort to lift them out of the political
mob.
Hurtling, Wood, Coolidgc, McAdoo,
Hoover, Hitchcock, Borah, Hi Johnson
and Sproul arc representative, in their
various ways, of all that is best in tho
American character. No one in his senses
would question the honor of any of these
men, though it is possible to quarrel vio
lently with some of them "because of their
views nrfll their methods. Each is hit
from some quarter whenever ho lifts his
head above the skyline.
McAdoo was subtly attacked as an
agent of Wall street seeking the White
House as a borer ftotn within. Coolidgc
is being adveitised by his enemies as a
narrow and penurious man without real
ability or inspiration. Wood, we are
told, is the agent of munitions makers.
Hoover, because he secrrad more danger
ous than any of the others to the routine
political jobbers, got harsher treatment.
He has been called a foreigner and made
to appear somehow subtl;- treacherous.
This, too, is at the very beginning of
the campaign. '1 he guns are onlv, warm
ing up.
The crowd that leaped to the attack on
Hoover is the crowd that fought Roose
velt. They will fight any man who in
sists upon believing that chango is but
another term for the progress that is nec
essary to a healthy national life.
A political party that does not improve
its mind cannot survive always by any
method. The improvement in both par
ties will have to be made from the bot
tom up. It can begin with a sense of
practical patriotism expressed in honest
criticism by the people themselves. If
the bosses will not change their minds
their minds will have to be changed for
them.
HOME RULE FOR THIS CITY
ATTORNEY GENERAL SCHAF-
FER'S opposition to a city home-rule
provision in the constitution is incompre
hensible in view of his exasperation
over the demands on his time and on the
time of the Legislature made by the con
sideration of the revised Philadelphia
charter last winter.
Mr. Schaffcr objected to the home-rule
suggestions before the constitutional re
vision commission and his views weie
sustained b,v a vote of eleven to two. The
two votes were cast by Judge James Gay
Gordon and Vance McCormick, Demo
crats, who seemed to believe that Phila
delphia should be allowed to decide on
the details 'of its local government for
itself.
Hampton Carson's assertion that home
rule for cities was secession ami meant
the dismemberment of the state is hyper
bole. It has not worked that way in tho
states where it has been tried. Detroit
drafted for itself a new charter a little
more than a vear ago, acting under the
grant of power in the state constitution,
and no one has yet heard the faintest
whisperings of a desire to secede from
the state of Michigan.
Continual legislative meddling with
the affairs of a city forbidden to make
changes in its charter on its own initia
tive is lesponsible for all the talk tlterc
has ever been anywhere about secession.
In New York there has been frequent
discussion of a plan to separate the city
entirely from the state and to set up the
city as -an independent commonwealth in
order that it might be freed from inter
ference at Albany. New Yoik does not
enjoy home rule for tltT reason that the
Republicans, who usually control the
Legislature, de-ire to contiol the Demo
ciatic city of New York. New York can
not change an appointive office into an
elective office nor an elective office into
an appointive office without the consent
of a Legislature controlled by the party
which is in the minority in the city.
Kt cry man who wishes
to sell will agree with
the oftieer.- of the Op
erative liuPdri's,' As
a that the assi-Miiints
Vlut , :
Ooll.tr Worth?
social inu whciutlip.i
should have been meiea-ed 1;, s:!(IO.(H)(l,0()ll
instead of hj the paltrj SIOO'.OOO.OOO which
the assessors hue approved. Hut the renters
will nut agree, nor will the owners who are
Upvv pajiug all the laves they think arc fau
lt depends altogether on flic point of view.
Yet. after all. if a dollar today is worth only
half what it was worth in 1(11-4, H building
valued then at S10.0II0 i- worth .L0.000 now
in the fifty-cent dollars.
The -iiu came out jes
Ain't rt the Truth? terdav afternoon and
the world looKed
brighter. Disquieting rumors of military al
liances between Austria -Slovakia and Czecho-,
Juginoute een-ed to be credible; damnably
diffiism dispalehe- of Bolshevist victories
pre-ugiug imminent invasion of Butte. Mout ,
became -drastically restricted: cacophonous
cackle of labor unre-t ever where hurr.ving
the world into chaos became hushed. "God's
in his heaven; all's right with the world."
It ma even he that the peace treaty will
pre-ently be signed- with or without. "
The state art lonmii.s
Art and the ISridge -ion is interesting it
self in the appearance
of the proposed Delaware river bridge and
thereby justifying its creation. Tl
sinu reminds the Governor that
The commis-
the bridge
will extend be.voud the jurisdiction of the
art jur of this eit.. If the two bodies in
trusted with the prevention of artistic mon
strosities can agree on a design the new
bridge ought to be a thing of beauty us well
as a jo to the Jersey commuters.
I
The sun tame out os
terda.v, and its golden
ravs, by means known
only to Professor Kiu-
It Is Iteautifiil
Weather We're
Il-Olng
stein and one other,
caused the btrings of poets' lutes to vibrate
with vagrant notes which will later be as
fembled into songR of spring; but don't let
vour furnace run down on that account.
PcDiislvania has S!)7
millionaires who still
think it is u good place
Habitat of
.Millionaires.
to live. New York,
with ."..'1! of the breed, leads the list because
of the large number of men who have made
their inonc in other states.
A $300,000 school
Two Sovereign bond issue was pasted
Citicns in a district near
Cleveland by two lone
voters. Snow kept the other voters nway.
Representative government has its obliga
tions aud jiouvoters here Jiave no cau?c for
complaint.
Studv of the skeleton
neicnl Aviator of a ptcrniinodon, a
huge flying reptile of
prehistoric du.vs, may throw light on prob
lems of aeronautics, scientist hope. Pcr
bapir it will cuuble thcinvto riur. without gas,
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THE GOWNSMAN
Ghosts
T71XCIJPT for the ouo experience which has
-- already been communicated to these col
umns, the Gownsman has never seen a ghost!
and even thcu he was not certain. Wc neem
never to be quite1 certnin about ghosts.
Either you arrive In jour Investigation at the
haunted house the day utter it censes ever to
be haunted, or the persou on whose unim
peachable testimony this ghost rests his being
lins already gone to join the ghost. It Is
usually like tlic ninn who was related to
lleau Nash ; Ids fnther's maternal aunt had
once known u lady to whom lleau Nnsh had
bowed hi Hie fnimnis pump room of Until
and that man ever after presumed on the
relationship. "I did not rnilly sec this
nppitritioti 111 self, but Jones, who is a mn
of flic highest respectability, believes that
Smith Is both honest nud nu Intelligent roan,
nnd Smith is of opinion that all that Itobin
son says on the subject is credible nud to be
accepted as gospel truth." Thus It Is that
most ghosts, on inquiry, vanish into thin air.
A ND yet there is a
of nppnritiou nnd
persistency in stories
nud supernatural influ
ences Mliii'h is remarkable Take all the
ghosts oiij of history nud fiction, beginuiug
with the Witch of ludor and euding with
Edgar Allan Poe, uml we should miss them.
Ami the recrudescence of the spiritism since
the war is a phenomenon to bo reckoned with.
It is easy to be merry about the gross im
probabilities of the ghost of th,c Cock Inne
variety or to show up the chicanery and de
ception of Sludge the Medium and his like ;
but when we think that this recent resuscita
tion of n belief in spirits is largely referable
to n human yearning and love for those who
have b.'cn lost in the great and terrible wni"
nu eager hope that somen here, somehow,
there may be n reunion of all those vital
possibilities that made this man or that
woman, that, his eutity re-established, we
may know him and love him again the thing
takes hold upon our heartstrings and we hopo
against hope that Sir Oliver may really know.
TP Wrj frill think of tho ghost abstractedly
- as we cannot ever find him in the con
crete we notice that he has nlvvays cor
responded to the intelligence nnd character of
those who believe iu him or create him. When
people feared the dark and dared not go out
o' nights, the ghosts at which they shivered
were goblins, or at least malevolent spirits
and mischievous elves that led the wayfarer
astray and mocked him. The devout middle
ages invented the demon or ecclesiastical
ghost, which haunted the crypts of monas
teries and the wind-swept aisles of cathe
drals: and the fashioned him iu stone for
uu adornment among saints and a protec
tion. The Greek ghosts are lamia, beautiful
women or fauns and dr.vads and naiads of
the field, the forest, the sea. personified na
ture dwelling in the sunshine; though the,
too, had more sinister apparitions that lurked
about tombs and even entered animals, like
the werewolf. There seems nlwiis to have
been a common belief among the children of
men that the departed spirits of those who
have lived in this world revisit nt times the
glimpses of the moon, and that they nrc re
stricted in their ability to tell the secrets of
their charuel house.
A ND on this basis all our literature and
' art is fouuded, for literature aud art are
nothing but our life, our thoughts, even -our
superstitions, seen in n giass, sometimes iu
distiuctl.v, sometimes unhappily much dis
torted, but dependent alwa.vs on the image
which is oul reflected by chance and iu part.
How doleful and even ridiculous arc some of
the gho-ls of old pictures, especially the
Gothic gho-ts of the old novels of much, ado
about nothing nt all, flickering, gibbering,
impo-s ible creations of a stucco art. And
what u noble aud dignified company are the
spirits, the apparitions of Shakespeare, for
example, that of "Hamlet," which was acted
h its greaf creater, heading the august
proce.-sion. Here at least is a spirit, however
'extravagant and erring," who brings his
diguit. his king-hip. his courtesy, his com
passion back with him from the world be
oud. "VTOW this is precisely the thing, in this
-1-' matter of ghosts, about which your
(iowusman complains. Our ghosts of "sci
entific" observation, precisely like those of
the old charlatans, are so nugatory, so in
effective, so disillusioning. They squeak and
gibber where we expect the orotund utterance
of the oracle of Delphi. They come back from
their flights iu circumambient rose aud ether
to stutter trivialities aud butcher grammar.
The turn from the contemplation of the
supernal throne begirt with flaming seraphim
to chatter about the ailments of Aunt Jemi
inah. In that stupendous conception of the
after-life of punishment for our sins iu this,
Dante's "Inferno," its tortures by fire nud
ice, its eternal wanderings iu space and un
ending pain, there is no conception so terri
ble, so cruel as this of our modern spiritisls.
The ghosts which return to us have, to a
mini, been bereft of their wits. Whether im
perial Caesar, turned to worse than cla ;
siilitle-mindcd Voltaire or imaginative and
rebel Shelle.v , they all talk like poor Poll,
hen unhappy Charles Dickens returned to
I hi- earth to finish a novel we found that the
n(l world had denuded him of all his genius.
The dull level of human mediocrity beems a
high laud to the Klough of Despond into
whnh we are mentally to fall in this awful
future life.
"pi'ItllAPS. after all, we have just as good
- a spirit world as vve deserve if we can
imagine no better. For vve get just as much
out of our ghosts as vye ourselves put into
them, and no more. Still the Gownsman wishes
that we 'might construct better ghosts. Is
there not something to be said for the notion
of SuedcDborg. that the supernatural inter
penetrates in this physical world, to that as
we walk the streets we know not which of
tho-e who pass us may be men, which nngelR?
It is difficult, perhaps, to associate the an
gelic with some of the faces aud costumes
which we meet da.v by da ; but is there not,
after all, a ghost animating each one of us'
and had we but the Roentgen rays 0f n spir
itual understanding might wr not percciic
much to which we are now blind?
Doctor HsIop's suggestion for the es
tablishment of a laboratory where experts
may find out whether ghosts walk or not is
of uo interest to those who are already con
vinced that tbe gbost does not walk often
enough nor with a satisfactory Btridc.
Move to amoud the army bill favorably
reported by the senate militar.v committee so
as to requiro members of the HlUnt, to take
scttlng-up eiercibcs daily immediately after
pra.ver.
Article X of tbe peace treaty seems to
be the unknown quantity which puzdes
young mathematicians as well as full-grown
senators.
It must be admitted that .Sir Oliver
Lodge's "proof" of spirits is uot sufficiently
strong to interest the internal revenue.
The belief of the multitude that prices
-hould be lower is stronger than nbilit t
bring it about
"Pordiullj nud sincerely juiin," marked
the laet tap of the hammer for Mr, Kane.
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THE CHAFFING DISH
Haverford
THERE'S tho tender blue of violets and
lacy ferns unrolled
For It's spring along tile Black Rock road.
And each zephyr tells the story ot a wealth
of fairy Kold
In tho dandelion beds close by.
There's n. thrilling burst of music from the
"" hollow by the creek
AVhero a feathered poet's telling all he
knows
That ou'll find the perfect happiness that
mortals ever seek
' In the spring along tho Black Rock road !
It's spring again in Haverford home, come
home!
Oh, you across the Seven Seas home, come
home!
From Vgypt, Spain and Mandalay,
Hawaii, Java, b'ar Cathay
It's spring again in Haverford home, come
hornet
rplIERU's a sw Irl of rambler roses making
-- fragrant wayside bowers.
For the summer's dancing down Rose lane,
And the bees are drunk with nectar from a
thousand honeyed flowers
That are blooming In the sun-lit fields.
Thero are poplars, tall and shadowless, and
silent in the heat,
Where the fainting daisies hang limp
heads,
And tho butterflies aie languid and the clover
scent la sweet
In the Hummer fielcb along Rose lane.
It's summer-time in Haverford 7iomc, conic
home!
SOFT and intricate and lacy, like an antique
bridal veil
Falls the water o'er the old dam breast,
And the falling leaves are golden and they
make a-shining trail
In the twilight by the Old Urist Jfill -For
tho feet of murdered red-coats from the
house beside the stream
For they say their spirits still roam
there'
And the walk amid the golden-rod like
phantoms from a dream
In the fall along the Mill Creek road.
It's cliestnut-timc in Haverford home, come
homt '
s
W'IFT around the Devil's Ulbow. with a
merrv laue-li and shout.
When the road and trees and fields gleam
white.
Fly a happy group of coasters and the
jingling sleighs aro out
, Where the snoe and Ico arc packed down
hard,
And the icy trees arc crystal bright beneath
the fiosty tkies
While like castanets tho J sheathed twigs
bound
In a wild and elfin music where tho jeweled
snow dust (lies
In a cloud before tho cold north wind.
It's ufHfor-tlnic n Haverford home, comf
home!
Oh, you across the Seven Seas Aome, come
home!
'Ihc country roads arc talfiir you,
The woods and Jields are calling yoii,
The aco-'otis through they're calling you
"Home, como home!"
FI-ORENCi: KERIGAN.
Mr. Smith's Laborious Job
An ofllcc for the Congressional Rocoid
Is located In Statuary Hull, House wing,
where Mr. W A Smith Is iu constant at
tendance to recelvo subscriptions..- Con
gressional Record
An Impossible Story
T. Jefferson Shamble was born a poor boy,
the. eldest son of a widowed mother, in the
pure air of the Alabama highlands. His
joutb was one of exemplary hardship and
privation. Surrounded by the jeomeii of
those mountniu fastnesses, ho learned to bate
tjranny and to detest despotism. lie studied
'nt uight and vas exceedingly popular, lie
was uble nnd earnest, and showed tremen
dous energy. Often he would discard his own
garments and undertake tho painful rcspon
tdbilily of breakiug in new ones. In order
that bis little brothers nnd sistei-h might be
clad, Ho entered the Jaw school of the uiii
Tersjty and had u brilliant career,
lie was 100 per cent American, Ho be
lieved that his beloved country, which '--lie
iiSllilliK
pil3JiH$i!i!
ai-f.......-:.::..;..;... . (
ndored ns a sou his mother, should be pro
tected against the Hoods of anarchistic aliens,
the influx of criminal hordes from Europe.
His home life was beautiful. Iis wife was
a uoblo woman und a good cook. He was tbe
friend of the poor and humble. He was n
faithful party man. lie held that the gov
ernment of the United States was the wisest
and best form of polity ever devised by the
genius ot man. lie frequently asserted on
tbe hustings thul private virtue is the hand
maid of public moralit, or vice versa (vve
can't remember which, it doesu't matter) i
He wore the white liver of n blameless flower,
aud tbe white flower of a blameless liver,
both at oucc. He never referred to Death
but ns the Grim Ileaper. He had the soul
of an eagle, the heart of u lion, the tender
ness of a woman, the mind of a child. His
favorite ejaculation, in moments of elcvn
tiou, was "When I um passed from among
ou, pillow me on the bosom of my native
Alabama." He had tbe courage of his cou
victious, was n focmnn worthy of any man's
steel, sprung from the ranks of the great
common people, aud insisted that no finer
people live in the world than those of Hie
seventh congressional district of Alabama.
Aud yet the gieat common people, who do
once in a while show surprising conunou
sense, did not elect him to Congress. ,
It seems to us, incidentally, that it is but
a shabby culogiiim to say of a man that he
had tlie courage of his convictions. Uu
happil, almost ever body has. The man wo
like to meet is the one who has a little
cowardice about his convictious'and is will
ing to admll'lhut they may be wrong.
Intimate Glimpses of Great Men
Little do those who see the Quiicditor
wearing his white vivt margins and but
tressed among bis encyclopedias aud works
of reference, imagine that in social circles
he is esteemed, not fo Miy adored, for his
realistic imitation of a barking seal.
Wo alluded estetdny to M. Maeterlinck's
undelivered message, and apparently im
pinged upon the whirlwind of psychic bazoo
that, is rnvaging many uninhabited mental
tracts. -An ecstatic female voice has just
been trilling to us over the phone to ask if
we knew where Maeterlinck 'is now. Wc
said we didn't, but wc had no doubt, con
sidering his past career, that be is still eut
ing three meals a day.
The Voice seemed a little shocked by this,
und then said that, like ourself, she had been
gettiug spirit messages from Maeterlinck;
that she was seriously misunderstood ; and
that they hud been such n cousolation Rbc
would. like to get iu touch with the source.
We stated that we4 too, are often mis
understood; that we are really u demure und
powerful thinker, alas ofteu lightly dismissed
b our clients as a mere wag; that like Sir
Oliver, we have a hankering to burst through
thn veil that separates us from the public's
pockctbooU
Tho Voice seemed more and more dis
tressed, ud asked, after bouie hesitation,
whether vve were really sympathetic. She
then added that it was very datk where she
was and she-ueeded more light. Perhnps
this is a code or password among tbe gossamer-snappers,
for we felt that something
cryptic was needed in tbe way of reply. We
mid, as thrillingly as we could through our
formaldehded telephone mouthpiece (feel
ing a bit like Doctor Jeltjll and Mr. Formal
dehyde as wc did so), "Sister, darkness per
advenliirc leads to dawn."
This cheered her up greatly nnd she began
straightway to prattle about some things
that hud been in the Dish. Hue expressed
uu opinion that all the poetry was written by
the same person. Wc deuicd it. Then she
said that she bad not liked the little poem
yesterday by Hcssie Graham's Friend, with
its last lino suggesting that homes should bo
constructed with servants built-in. "That's
bad," she said, "ou kuovv, that's unarch
Ism," At this point, we fear, wn began to
luugh.
We tell nil this Miuply lo Inform our clients
whither the Oliver Lodge; line of stuff leads
intellects thul ure only equipped for very
light housekeeping. When minds take their
mcnU? out, thoy must by careful what res
.tnuralJtliey pnlrpnUe. 'SOyfiAT'S3'
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THE TOMB
THERE is a garden that I know
Where your white tomb is set,
Ou which the falling petals flow
From roses of regret;
And you arc dead, my love, although
My lips may kiss yours yet.
There is a garden where Is kept
A holy shrine for.mc,
Where softly incensed flowers arc swtpf
13y winds of memor ;
And there my soul has often .wept
Darkly and quietly.
How rich the beauty of the hours
That life cannot recall !
How fresh nud sweet are those old flowers,
Although their petals fall,
O'er tbe soft tomb that still embowers
Love white nnd virgiual.
I kiss your lips and play my part;
And you nrc satisfied.
Let be. . . .the thronging memories start
Of one who was my bride,
White-veiled within my secret heart,
Of one who loved, . . .and died!
T-S.vducy Uullctiu.
Frost nnd Thaw nrc poor teaniraatci,
but they put up a tine braud of trouble be
tween them.
After all, Mr. Lodge should remember
that mauy a man has been beateu on a pat
baud.
What Dj) You Know?
qUiz
1. Who is surgeou general of the United
States?
12. What is the meaning of the woid mil
sant? 3. Who was "Tbe Great Commoner' ?
1. What is the latest total ot states that
have ratified the suffrage amendment,
G.'Wbo said "Flout 'cm aud scout 'em and
scout 'cm and tlout 'em; thought is
free"? c. ,
0. What President of the United Slates
was under a life-long ini-apprehcu
sion concerning bis birthplace?
7. Where is Iberia?
8. What famous chargo evoked the re
mark. "It's magnificent, but it is uot
war"? .,
9. When was tho Magna Charta granted b.v
King John? ' ,
10. Of what country is tho ostrich a native'
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Carter Glass takes tho place of tbe late
Senator Martin, of Virginia
2. The United States has rccognid lbc
republic of Armenia. ,
.".. "Virtue, liberty and Independence
the motto of tbe commonweal"1
Pennsylvania, .
1. In order to ascertain the engine pout'
required to supersede the viori .
horses, Jnmes Watt employed a tro
horse to wind up weights, and found
that 22,000 pounds could be raised per
Joot per minute. For fear of S'"
undervalue be allowed overweight w
as heavy agatu, which made a norsr
power 33,000 pounds per niutte,(1B ,
. fi. A morganatic marriage is one rtw
man of exalted rank nnd "
lower rank who retain! bK
station, tbe issue having no claim w
succeed to the title. or possession
the father. , pj(
0. The word is baid to ba derived from
Italian "fata morgana," . MJ
mirage said to be produced t7
7. aiSKIIed '.'The Grand 9
.Man''...,.- .!,.. nroud m;
dressed in a little brief uthorily fc
plays such fantastic tricks N ore i bw '
heaven as nuke the' angels v J
from Shakespeflres comc-uj. ,
ure for Measure." . ,j!,. l
0. Thackeray was born in Calcutta, "
10. Antonio Otiuova was a celebrated ' '",
!(?' His dates are ! "'
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