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In the Ignited Stales. c'annd.i. or Unjteil Slates pos sessions, postflffe free, fifty (."(1) rrnlfl ver month. Six (6) dollars per "ar. payable In advance To all foreign countrlc3 ono ($1) dollar per tnonth. Nonce -Subscribers wishing; address chanced must give old as well as new address. BELL, 3000 WALNUT KEYSTONE, MAIN 3000 HsA(Mre33 all comimtntealkma to Mvrninp 7'ubHo Ledger, lHdpcndcnco Square, Philadelphia. ' ' ;- Member of the Associated Press TlllJ ASSOC! Ti:D ritVSS it exclu sively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or nol otherwise credited in thh paper, and also Vic local news published therein. All rights of 1 cpuullcatian of special dls patclies herein arc also reserved. riiiladrlphli, ThuriJiT, February 3, 1M0 CRIP PREPAREDNESS "nOCTOR FURBUSH'S admirable rec--'ord as a sanitary expert lends author ity to his lequcst for a $100,000 appro priation for yrip prevention measures. Tho most expensive precaution is seldom as costly as tho consequences of an unchecked, evil. Fortunately, moreover, the milder form of influenza which is current this winter lacks the tragic speed of its predecessor of a year ago. There is time now to take precautionary steps which can bo of most beneficent service as health protec tion. Although the details of Doctor Fur bush's plans have not been made public, there is every reason to believe that thej, are practicable and sound. Council will reflect popular sentiment if it votes the money, which is to be placed in an emer gency fund and expended under the- bit pervision of the Mayor, the health di rector and the chairman of the finance committee. There is a hopeful probability that the entire sum will not have to bo spent. Epidemics have a way of side-stepping communities which are. at the outset armed against them. AIM AID TO CITY GOVERNMENT ITiIIE old theory that surveys, of city affairs by nonoflicial oigatiizations wore inevitably meddlesome has been pretty thoroughly exploded by 'the excel lently administered Bureau of Municipal Research. Prospects that the Harrison municipal reform fund shall prove of genuino benefit to the community need, therefore, not be clouded with misgiv ings. The three-quarters of a million dollnis, left by Thomas Skclton Harrison, a for mer member of the old committee of one hundred, is to be devoted, among other things, to an investigation of city finances! and the simplification of the system ol municipal accounting. Reform in this field would be richly welcome. There are, however, numerous other lines along which tho money can be piofit nbly spent. Everything, of course, de pends upon the spirit of the enterprise. vj-ienuncjHiioii 01 civic undertakings win ihccomplish little. Scientific nonpartisan investigation with co-operative possibili ties is the goal lo be kept in inind. y The opportunities for good under this "Trust for the elimination of waste, for the introduction of sane economics and the general encouragement of municipal effi ciency are stimulating. SHIPS THAT THRONG HERE SENSATIONS imparted by statistics are uncommon. They are usually dull to begin with, and the knowledge that they can be deceptively juggled often Nsnds any lingering appeal. It is difficult, however, to make the tabulated development of the port of Philadelphia since the war seem unim pressive. The prodigious increase of 700 per cent in the number of vessels sailing and steaming in and out of this busy harbor 3S recorded. Within the last year alone the gain has been 115 per cent. Nearly half of these' bhips in 1919 flew tho American flag. That the foreign registries are still preponderant is an index of how retro grade we must have been before tho mar velous shipbuilding boom launched by the war. If our customers abroad still carry most of our cargoes in their own ships there is at last a chance that the disparity may not bo permanent. Of all the vessels trading here in lOHi only eighty were American. Without boasting pride may be legitimately ex pended over the possibility that within another year the balance of nativo hulls visiting our fast-growing port may be in our favor. MORE TREATY-WRECKING TF KURT VON LERSNER, who refused Mo submit to Berlin the criminal list prepared by the Allies, is supported by his government, Germany will have flatly violated the peace treaty. His conduct must not be confused with the question of the advisability of the extraditions. It is arguable that the plan is too com plex for execution or that it exhibits a vengeful spirit out of key with a world striving for peace. It is also arguable thut offenders, of tho common laws of civilization, inhuman despots and sordid, cruel tyrants ought to be punished. But it is for the victorious signatories of the treaty of Versailles to decide which course they wish to adopt. Article 228 of the pact reads: , Tho German government recosrnizrs tlio Tight of tho Allied anil Associated powers to brine lit-forr military tribunals perwons accused of having committed sir-In in lr,a- ' ttonn of the laws mid customs of war Surli persona Khali, If foulid Riillty, hr- nentuieed to punishments laid down by l.ti This provision will apply notwlthstiimllnR any proceedinKrt or prosecutions buforo ji tribunal In Germany or in the territory of her allies j Germany formally and solemnly ngrced .tW $M ruling. It is this nation in her rplc pfjuIcdgc-breaKer. wnica again justifies tho fears' of thoso who have been skeptical of any real repent nncc. If such flagrant obduracy results in in creased pressure on a subject on which much difference of opinion hitherto ex isted, it will bo Germany's fault. LEGAL QUIBBLES CAN'T KILL NATIONAL PROHIBITION Root's Objections to Methods of Secur ing It Sound, but His Denial of the Validity of the Amendment 13 Special Pleading TLIIIU ROOT,m arguing against tho -' validity of tho prohibitory amend ment to tho constitution in tho Fcigcn, span case in Trenton, laid down an admir able rule of policy in constitutional changes, but when lie insisted that it was "unconstitutional" to amend the consti tution by inserting in it legislation against intoxicating beverages he went farther than the lay mind can follow him. The logic of his argument leads to tho conclusion that it is beyond tho power of the nation to put anything into the con stitution which makes any radical change in that document; that when it was finally ratified the nation was bound hand and foot by it and must submit to its limita tions This view is pieposteious. It is legal ism carried to the nth power. It is a denial of the supremacy of the people and of their right to do what they will. If the Supreme Court sustains this view it will surprise every one who knows any thing about the respect which that great tribunal has for popular sentiment The prohibitory amendment was passed by two-thirds of both houses of Con gress. The fact that the vote was not two-thirds of all the members is of no importance, because it has been held time after time by competent authority that two-thirds of the members present and voting is sufficient to meet the provisions of the constitution, both in passing con stitutional amendments and in overrid ing a veto of the President. After Congress had adopted the amend ment it was submitted to the states. Forty-five of the foity-cight .states have ratified it in the manner prescribed b the constitution. But Mr. Root insists that it is invalid because it contains legislation and be cause, under the constitution itself, all legislative power is vested in Congress. It would be as leasonable to argue that the beventeenth amendment changing the method of electing senators was invalid because it is essentially legislative and was made by the states acting after the amendment had been submitted by Con giess in the constitutional manner. The nation'has committed itself to pro hibition in -the most effective way con ceivable. To say that it had no legal power to act in the way it has is to chal lenge the good sense of every citizen by a legal quibble. I5ut m the matter of policy Ml. Root is absolutely right. It is a fact that the prohibitory amendment is legislation in that it does not deal with the functions or the constitution of the government. A method of giving Congress control over the liquor traffic that would have been in conformity with the genius of tho federal constitution would have been to follow the precedent established when the income-tax amendment was adopted. Congress was forbidden to levy capita tion or direct taxes unless in proportion to the population, as ascertained by the census. The twelfth amendment repealed this provision and substituted for it an authorization to collect taxes on incomes from whatever souicc derived "without apportionment among the states and without logard to any censue or enumera tion." Now, if the prohibitory amendment had been framed so as to give Congress power to icgulate, even to the extent of prohibit ing, the manufacture and sale of intoxi cating beverages, we should have had merely an extension of the power of the national legislature within the spirit of the constitution itself. This plan was not satisfactory to the prohibitionists for the reason that they wished the matter settled beyond the probability of change by successive Con gresses and to take the liquor issue out of politics. The nation seems to have agreed with them that this was the best way. But it has established a precedent of legislating by constitutional amendment in a realm better left to the regularly constituted legislative body. Every good constitutional theorist regrets the method adopted, though few, except those re tained by or affiliated with the liquor in terests, have yet seriously questioned its validity. Advocates of a reform in tho state con stitutions who have been wont to cite tho federal constitution as an admirable ex ample of what such a document should be are finding their position weakened by national acceptance of a departure from the established tradition. Right here in Pennsylvania wo have a commission revising the state constitu tion. They were confronted by the op portunity to wipe from the existing con stitution the mass of legislative detail that clutters and confuses it and to write an ideal declaration of principles, and an ample grant of power to the legislative, executive and judicial branches of the government. But instead the members are inserting new legislation in tho constitution, em balming in it offices the existence of which should be dependent on the will of the Legislature, and fixing their tenure so that the incumbent can snap his fingers in the face of the people and defy his op ponents to destroy his power. They are even indorsing the rules of procedure for tho Legislature put in the constitution nt a time when it was not thought that tho regularly elected law makers could be trusted to conduct their affairs honestly and with a proper regard for the rights of all. A constitution properly contains only thoso matters dealing with the organiza tion of tho government and with the gen eral exercise of the powers of its differ ent blanches. The working out of tho details belongB to tho Legislature under a grant of power clearly defined. And the powers not thds delegated remain in tho hands of the people in the state. Un less tho constitutional revision commis sion adopts "a radical change in 'policy, Bomo well-informed constitutionalist is likely on his own initiative to write an jdcul constitution jfor-the state and sub. EVENING PUBLIC LEDGEEr mit it a3 an alternative to tho document which tho commission is at work on. But to return to the eighteenth amend ment lo the federal constitution; That was passed, assuming that thero may bo some technical force in Mr. Root's con tention that the ordinary provision for amendment did not cover tho case, in direct exercise of the provision of Articlo X, which declar.es that tho powers not delegated to the United States aro re served to tho states, respectively, or to the people. The slates havo consented to the surrender of their police power over the liquor traffic by ratifying the amend ment. No amount of sophistry can rea son away this substantial fact. BLIZZARDS TNT1MATE contact with the heavy snowstorm inspired comparatively little favorable comment. Gloomsters groaned "blizzard" and there was indeed a sug gestion of such a visitation in the swirl ing winds and tho vicious cutting charac ter of the flakes. But our cxprcssivo na tivo word is too vivid to bo abused, and the wintry tempest it describes is too terrific to become tho theme of careless allusion. Every inch a blizzard w-as the memor able storm of March, 1888, which buried this region in snow and piled up drifts to the height of twenty feet. There was a fair imitation of this performance some ten years later and there have been sev eral sizable copies since that time. But on the whole there is more talking about blizzards than the realization of them here. In South Dakota they are as com mon as registered candidates for the presidency. Lancashire must have a freezing acquaintance with them since tho ancient "blcasard" of that country is said to have been the ancestor of our flavorful epithet. Any way, no matter how the winter's thickest garb of snow is maligned, tho ground hog seems to have been right. ONE ON PALMER "VX7E WISH to congratulate Attorney ' General Palmer on the failure of Congress to pass the anti-sedition law which ho has been urging. If the law were now in force the attorney general would himself be subject to prosecution under it. We have just leceived from him a pamphlet of eighty-three pages entitled "Red Radicalism, as Described by Its Own Lcadeis." In tho autographed let ter accompanying it Mr. Palmer writes: It Is the position oT the government that the willful dissemination of such documents as 1 am athinp you to examine, far from being an exercise of tho right ot free speech guaranteed to us in our constitu tion, is a strp frnrfitip fotcard fVic absoluln destruction of that right. A cursory glance over the documents indicates that they arc of such a charac ter as would be shut from tho mails under any anti-sedition law. Yet the attorney general himself is circulating them at government expense. It is gratifying, however, to know that Mr. Palmer is opposed to the Sterling and the Graham bills on the ground that they are too drastic. He says that under them "in times of excitement the civil rights of citizens might be swept away." This is the objection which this newspaper has made to the measures. But we have yet to sec any specific anti-sedition measure a3 such that would not be exposed to the same objection. T.udwiK C A K. Mar tens "soict ambas sador," has sent a .Martens Slurp as Weasels cablegram to (lie Rus sian foreign minister urging the uncondi tional release of American Ked Cross work ers recently captured in Siberia. And lie fcuggests that the soviet go eminent cull the attention of the American Government to the "incongruity" of such action "while Rus sian citizens in America live being unjustly arrested and maltreated" and while Marten's himself is "under threat of deportatiou." Which suggests ihc reflection that no one as jet has even remotely hinted thnt Mr. Mar tens is other than shrewd. Mary Garrett Hay. of Wnnjcii as, Politicians the women's division of the Republican Nu tiounl Committee, says that sentiment has crystallized among Republican women for a platform plank declaring for a federal de partment of education, with a woman at the head. There spake the politician rather than the statesman. Theie is either need for a department of education or there isn't. If there if need tho head should be the person best fitted for the position, he it man or woman. To insist that Ihe head be n woman is to make it a matter of politics rather than of fitness. A western piofessor Delilah lu tho Homo declares that he no longer can afford to have his hair cut by a barber, and that for two years past his wife has cut his hair. If the law of supply anil demand is to rule, the professor would profit if be assisted his wife in running a barber shop. If civiliza tion, however, demands something more than material needs, tho law stands in "jodjo need of amendment. Federal agents who Perhaps a Trap arrested a man in Chi cago for carrying whisky in his hip pocket maintain that his trousers thus became a vehicle in the mean ing of the dry law, and tho United Stales District Court has been asked to deride tho matter. When the decision is made we shall know if the good old unmentionables are to bo classed as a sulky, a diligence, a whisky, u growler, a unicorn, a random or a mail coach. Speaking o 'cm as a vehicle, most of us will admit that we'd hnto to travel with out 'cm. A dispatch from Paris states that girls are soon to wear trousers held close to tho shoe-top by a strap. Tho Grumpy Guy says if a daughter of his ever wears 'em thut isn't where the strap will be applied. Thero is much in the Sims-Daniels con troversy that closely resembles tho flowers that bloom in the spring tra-la-ln. Von' Hindenburg More alibis. has written a book, .lojs nnd sorrows forever intermingle. Vive Sundu.vs this month, but only four pny da.vi' Have you noticed how readily the critics knock the tar out of the singer whose voice Is a little off pitch? , - PHIlTADELPH, THURSDAY, THE GOWNSMAN Liberal Studies MPLY protected from tho searching rays of supcr-liitcllcctiiallty in tho folds of his modest gown, your Gownsman ventured, tho other evening, into the atrium of thnt temple of the humanities tho Philadelphia Society for tho Promotiou ot Liberal Stud ies, and listened in avvc-stricken attention to some. St tho arcana therein uufoUlcd. He went with a notion thnt ho could, himself, tell a liberal study on sight, or nt lenst ou hearing, from tho dead language thnt it would be sure to spenk; nnd ho knew that there is nothing so dreadful about any sub ject of study as tho possibility of anybody s ever making a living out of It. The Gowns man cannot truthfully say that on this oc casion the oracles were dumb. Indeed, h,c is pure that their volubility was authentic, for like their brother or is it sister oracle nt Delphi, these oracles were alike cabalistic and contradictory, nud jour Gownsman camo away mystified, beclouded, obfuscated and obscured. TT WOULD seem that busy contemporaries, intent on getting somewhere before mid night, call this society tho society of long name. Its friends, nmong whom the Gownsman is assuredly one, cnll it, with ihymo and renson, tho society o high aim. Of the height of its nims there can be no question, but therenre many stars in thoMsy and even tho big Ucrtha carried only as fnr as Paris. It was Christopher Morlcy, mi whom tho light of the great whito way is already "prophetically beating, who threw the hand grenade, with a question ns to whether the quality of liberality was less in the study of English writers, Chaucer, for example, than in those of Greece nnd Home. And if it is as liberal to study Milton and Wordsworth as it is to study Homer nud Horace, by tho same token is not the study 'of Molierc liberal and that of Dante nnd he did not say it Goethe? AH this was a fine and a high explosive, but the smoko arose and thickened, it seemed to the Gownsman, with Mr. Morloy's doubt as to vvhether a man who lived by these humani ties might bo said to be pursuing liberal studies. Such a man ought to turn to science, thought he; to such, science is tho liberal study. T EATING the question ns to whether ho -'-'who lives by poetry must not live with poetry nnd whether lie who teaches Greek nlvvajs contrives to remain impervious to its liberalizing influences, wo notice Jhat tho lib eral studies, for the encouragement of which this society exists, hnve now increased iu number and kind to include tho old classics and the new, in whatsoever language vvril tcn, besides science, a very indeterminate and indefinite designation. A further con tribution came from Mr. Fred Ireland, of the United States House of Representatives the Gownsman is glad that this sensible gentleman is not of tho Senate who urged the value of a study of the constitution of our country as n valuable contribution to the liberality of our idens, while Dr. George F. Stradiing, of the Northeast High School, commemorated the liberal influences in his own education as coming equally from Latin, from philosophy and experimental physios, in which he is an expert. Therefore, we must add to the liberal studjes which this exceedingly liberal society is promoting, be sides all the classics in prose nnd verse, free or trammeled, tho sciences, politics, philos ophy and, in short, what not? TN THIS search of ours for the libeial sub- jects we shall get nowhere along tho lino of topic, for subject malter has nothing, or nearly nothing, lo do with the question. The Gownsman agreed emphatically that, with all their virtues in paenus to whidi his voice has been often raNed, Latin nud Greek are not tho only liberal studies. In deed, he is of opinion thut the decay ot tho influence of tho classics in modern edu cation is referable in part lo the liberal attitude of teachers and favorers of the old culture, in assuming that the sun of the humanities shines only on (hem. Sir. Mor ley's doubt as to whether a man may live hy literature aud still enjoy ita liberalizing influences all but touches the mainspring of the question. A liberal study is nuy studj disinterestedly pursued, that is pursued t itself, for the, truth, for illumination, the uplift that is in it and not as a means to some other end, however excellent and praiseworthy it maybe. mill) touchstone of a liberal subject is in its spirit, not in its content, although nobody denies that there are topics which lend themselves more readily to liberalizing (endencies than ofhers and these, as a lule, are those, which, retaining a human inteiet, are, more or less, remote from the possibility of a conversion into the terms of an im mediate utility. Politics is Inn near, for example; we cannot study politic;, dispas sionately. Science i remote, but in some aspects wanting in human interest The stijdy of medicine or the study of law may liberalize; study to berome a doctor and to practice law is not the same thing. It 13 not the actor who is liberalized by the drama; nor does even religion a.s a voca tion alwajs spiritualize the clergy. It is still true, thereare, that in Ihe study of great literature, not to tcaeli about it or to write, but for itself, we have one of tho most certain cxnmples of a liberal study, and that in the remoteness ot the gient lit eratures of Greece nnd Rom", thus disinter estedly pursued if anybody knows of any such case wo have the beau ideal of tho humanities. The Einstein theory of relativity declares (among other things) that a bar of steel traveling at tho velocity of light would havo its length reduced to zero, this is not so hard to believ. since prohibition worked an experiment with a bar with much the 'barae result. Precedent arc being smashed go fre quently and to heartily nowadaja that the fact that foreign ministers hold conferences on international affairs with members of our legislative bodies causes scarcely a ripplo of interest. Ono of the rosiest auguries for the con tinuance of peace is tbo fact that tho birth rate is increasing in Paris, nnd there is ex pectation thnt it will increase throughout l'-raBcc. If tho 2,000,000 men under arms be tween Prague and Adrianople nnd between Trieste and IJessnrabia could turn their guns inlo tructors there would be less danger of famine In the Dalkans. 'The battleship Idaho has established a new target record with nine bulls in thirty six bhots. Fine work though, of course, it doesn't touch the Senate record, Tho Ualkans will eventually show good reason for the existence of a League of Na tions and the necessity for the United States being purt of such a league. Forty-eight tons of whito paper were used in printing speeches of United States senators last session. And yet there are borne who maintain thai talk is cheap. Germany persists in thinking that what she was engaged in was an ordinary scrap iu btcad of a crime against humanity. What Germany bays in effect to the allied demand for war crlmintt is, "Come nnd fc'ct 'an." Just how much saving there may be 111 a budget system depends largely 00 tbo "uudgctcer." FEBRUARY ?ii(iilIirK! tik.41 1 ! I -wtH' TH' NgjTatnSKr C FROM DAY, TO DAY miIOSH who thins X b 11 d 1 y of the World," remarks the New Statesman, "liuvf certainly all tho argu ments on their side. At lerrst so one judges a one reads the daily paper. The govcrnm; classes and the crim inal classes are, both lVorld Is Neurasthenic fVar's Hopes Unrealized Devil Best Press Agent Inglit for Forgctfuhicsb Trial of War Guilty The Truth About Russia of them, busy, and tho newspaper gives lis little but column after column of their mis deeds. If ono wishes to escape from the general taint of crime, ono hns to turn to the racing news or tho article by the poultry expert. Tho rest is all murder and disaster." Tbo London Nation prints page after pago of letters from the soldiers who fought the Great War, mostly jouug men in tho uni versities, tclliug of their profound disappoint ment with its results. Mr. John Galsworthy writes in the Atlantic thnt unless thero is 11 change in the world's-idcals "civilization will continue lo advance only in tho public press nnd the mouths of statesmen in all countries, deeply, if unconsciously, committed lo the devil. Nay, it must steadily lead us to another world intastrophe many times worse. than that we have just encountered." When the Germans were thrown back nt the Mnrue in 1011, Lord Kitchener said to Lord Itob crts, "Somo ono has been prayiug." Now that a great victory has been won, Europe victorious Europe is far from that fervent mood. It is "deeply, if unconsciously, com mitted to the devil." q i j EUROPE fighting was filled with great hopes. Europe victorious i3 plunged into the depths of pessimism. War, though de structive, is like a stupendous creative effort. It raises idealism to the highest pitch. It wakens fuith. It stimulates visions. Out of such vast exertions must come a millennial transformation in the stale of man on this earth, call it the Leaguo of Nations or what you will. And it is liko a stupendous crea tive effort in the exhaustion that follows in tho ebb of moral forces tho despondency, the inevitable feeling thnt it was nil not worth while. Men whose physical courage was equal to facing five years of horrors in tho trenches have not the moral courage to face tomorrow. They shudder at the task of en countering tho new ideas tho cataclasm has let loose. They shrink rrom tbo burden of restoring the waste that .venrs of destruction havo brought. i y j TIIEUD is a craving for excitement that will take the place of the wild excitements of the last five years, feed tho exhausted emo tions and enable forgctfulness. Marcelle Tynaire notes this mood iu tho woman ot Paris, who knows the world only too well and perhaps reflects its mood better thun her sister anywhere else "Frantically they exert themselves," she sajs, "physically and mor ally. Never before havo they so madly danced in golden aud costly robes. Halt iii Her mad whirl the goldcu-drcssed dancer, who swings iu magic circles as if to escapo from herself. Look in her eyes, listen to her laughter and you will find among her vain thoughts 11 straugo fear, 11 sentiment of unrest nnd an almost crazy desire to forget yestcr duy, tomorrow and herself." i J q 1 tO HELP Europe forget yesterday, to- morrow and herself her rulers are going to furnUli her the cxcltomcjuts of a trial of the war-guilty Germans. The list comes out. It is going to be a first-class spectacle. IE tho powers cannot get tho kaiser to punish him, they will nt Icnst havo Hindenburg, ijuuenuoru, ueuimuuu-uoiiwcg, Falken liayn, TIrpitz, Prince Oscar of Prussia and perhaps the crown prince. Hero iv Eoma thing on which tho exhausted emotions may safely concentrate for a while. If thero Is any hating to bo clone and it seemsj in evitable hero are worthy and proper ob jects. Resides, If guilt may bo fastened upon persons, suspicion of it in men's minds may not attach to the system, q q MEANWHILE the prrsent mood of dejec tion, which almost paraljzcs all efforts at recovery, will pass. If no war could have prjiluced all Ibe good that in the extravagant V. - 5, 1920 APROPOS mood of a year or two ago men expected of this war, no war has ptoduced nothing but evil, ns men now be lieve this wnr bn3. Thero must be com pensations; perhaps behind tho veil which victory is trying to throw over what it believes to (jc the worst and most dan gerous consccucnces of tho war. No one will be able lo judgo tho results of this war for good or ill till a generation has passed ; perhaps till many generations havo passed. Exhausted Europe cannot judgo them, today any better than excited America, starting out ou what AVilliaiu Allen Whito called "the high enterprise of n short hike to tho millennium," could judgo them two j cars ago. q q q PLAINLY not all the world is in tho mood of western Europe. Colonel John Ward, whoever ho is, evidently an English officer, speaking of tho objections of the Czecho slovaks to the Kolchak dictatorship, said con temptuously, "Tho Czechs had just inaugu rated their national republican government aud they were naturally obsessed with tho usual liberty, equality and fraternity business," "Tho liberty, equality and fra ternity" business is a great business. It rundc America what it is today. It made the betler parts of Europe what they wcro before tho deluge came. It was responsible for more than one mighty important earlier civiliza tion. You can't cast up the balance of this war until you know just how much 'moro "liberty, equality and fraternity" business is left in this world than there was in it beforo August, 1014, q q q HOWmuck "liberty, equality nnd fra ternity" business is there in Russia in spite of LenineV Europe, trying like Mme. Tynaire's dancer to forget, does not know, and her rulers, seeking to furnish her panem et circences in tho shape of kaiser trials, do not let her know. A journalist just starting for Russia writes, "Leaving preju dice behind, or at any rate desiring to do so, I go into Russia seeking tho truth," n vastly more important enterprise than trying to convict the kaiser, which will leave the "lib erty, equality and fraternity" business tho real business of tho world exactly whero ir was, in tho muck of despond. Ento and slumbering Circumstance havo jet to determine whether or not tbo coming presidential campaign is to bo fought on con structive issues. So far thero is no indica tion of anything but passing tho buck. Testimony beforo tho coal striko settle ment commission in Washington is already paving tho way for tho inevitable oppor tunity for tho blessed consumer to pay tho piper. New Jersey "wets" have considerable "kick" left, but thero is ay yet no indication that they will bo ablo to inject it into their beverages. Kolchak is meeting with as many dlverso fates In Russia ns Villa is in Mexico, Since precedent dominnlcs law, nc wonders what effect tho trial of Kolchuk by tho IJolshcvists will havo on tho trial of tho ex-kaisqr by the Allies. Every public executivo sooner or luter takes notes of tho fact that Job wus never pc&tered by seekers after jobs. It may bo said of tho Socialist trial in New York that n nustler picture of disloyalty was never framed. Modern statesmanship bcems to have degenerated from rall-spllltlns to struvv. splitting. Influenza is not bo spectacular as war. but It easily fakes tho lead as a killer. The Rose and tho Rosebud THE thought of her, liko gossamer That spiders spin, Through heart and bead its webbing spicad And tangled all within: And ho ho was a poor clerk with daily bread lo win, Alackaday, With daily bread to win. Her memory was like, thought he, The rose's scent; It haunted him with fragrance dim No matter whero ho went: no could not understand at all, and woudeicd what it meant, Alackaday, Ho wondered what it meant. But fate proved kind or to bis mind It seemed to be; He deemed him blest, and mado a nest His Hose to bold with glee: And with his pretty spousa a whilo no one as gay as be, Alackaday, No one as gay as he. But list my song 'twill not bo long: His Uoso of May Within tho nest soon held n guest, A bud that camo to stay: Now with n rosebud in his arms ho walks the night away, Alackaday, Ho walks the night away. SAMUEL MINTURN PEOK. Sir Oliver Lo'dgo bays the human race has 510,000,000 years ahead of it. Hopo for tho Leaguo of Nations, after all. What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. Who is tho new secretary of the treasury? 2. What river is known in China 89 "China's Sorrow" and why? D. What is a "clicho"? i. What wns the first declaration of war in tho world war? fi. Who was ITanny Burney? 6. Name two famous painters of ancient Greece? 7. Whatisazzxjoanw? S. How many English monarchs reigned during tho nineteenth century? 9. Who wcro they? 10. What was tho Newgate calendar? Answero to Yesterday's Quiz 1. Edwin T. Meredith is tho new secretary of agriculture. 2. Anatolia is a largo region of Asiatic Turkey, nearly identical with Asia Minor, eavc, perhaps, for tho coastal strip, 3. A crwlh (pronounced crooth) is a Welsh violin. Tho word is another form of crowd, u primitive Celtic violin, 4. Gcrmantown, Va., was onco favored by Congress as tho sito of tbo national capital. C. Thomas Cromwell was an English states man under Henry VIII'. Cromwell was on tho btnff of Cardinal Wolsey until tho latter's overthrow. Later he negotiated for the marriage of Henry with Anno of Cloves. Having fullen under tbo king's displeasure he was attainted by parliament and be headed on" the charge of treason, in 1C10. 0., The Virgin Islands were discovered b7 Christopher ColumbuB, 7. Anton Rubinstein, tho celebrated plan- 1st, was n Russiun Jew, 8. Flora was the classical goddess of flowers, 0. The word artillery comes through U Ereticji from the Latin Vartlculu." diminutive of "ars," art. 1lY ltll'lmnl III. In HIiulounnnrA'it IilflV ol the name Bays, "Now is the winter oj , our uiw-usieafc biw IWHUM aiwii) N, A.
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