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All rights of republication of special dis patches herein ate also reserved. rhll.dtlphl., Siturdir, Febrairr I, 1920 WHOSE HAT? "TT IS preposterous," said Mayor -- Moore, speaking of Mr. Weglein and the row in Council over appropriations for clerk hire, "to suppose that a presi dent of Council should have his office in his hat." True. It is preposterous to suppose that a president of Council should have his office in his hat. But it is even more preposterous to suppose that a president or a member of Council should have his office in some other man's hat. That sort of thing: worried tho people of this city greatly in the past and it may worry them again. Even now the thought of it seems to be worrying the Mayor. It fs possible to imagine a member of Council keeping his office in his hat and doing fairly well. But there will bo a rumpus if any one in the new chamber sets up in business and hangs out in any of- the hats that now seem to be for rent. PALMER NEEDS A FOURTH DOWN iTiHERE seem to be three planks in the - platform on which Attorney General Palmer will run for the Democratic presi dential nomination. They are: Dottm with the profiteers! Down with the criminal corporations! Down with the revolutionary aliens! These are perfectly safe propositions. No one disagrees with them. If the revo lutionary aliens have a friend outside of their own ranks he has not yet lifted his head high enough to be seen. If any one has arisen to defend the criminal corpo rations a careful search through the files of the Congressional Record and the re ports of court proceedings has failed to bring him to light. And if any one has said that profiteering is a good thing he has whispered it so quietly that not even a dictaphone has been able to detect the sound of his voice. Mr. Palmer's Chicago interview is in teresting, but it is not important. When he begins to express opinions on contro verted issues the country will listen to what he has to say. AsAhe football boys would put it, he has three downs and many yards to gam. His fourth down may lose the ball. DELIVERING THE LABOR VOTE rpHE idea that the labor vote can be de- livered en bloc persists and is now affecting the thinking of the leaders of the American Fedeiation of Labor. Plans are making to oppose the election to office of every candidate who does not pledge himself to support the principles of organized labor. There are 4,000,000 members of the federation, a number large enough to hold the balance of power if their vote can be controlled. In the past labor union members have voted for the candidates of the party with whose principles they were in sym pathy. They are likely to do so in the future. All they want is fair play and most of them are persuaded that they are more likely to get it through one or the other of the old parties with which they are affiliated than through either a labor party or through defeating the candidate of their own party in order to elect a man who agrees with them in nothing except labor program. IS MINCE PIE A BEVERAGE? TT HAS been asserted that a pair of -1-trousers in the hip pocket of which "there is a pint flask of whisky is a ve hicle -within the meaning of the Volstead act and is subject to confiscation. It remains to be seen whether it will be asserted that mince pie, frozen punch, wine jelly and rum omelets are beverages within the meaning of the constitutional amendment. That amendment, as a large number of thirsty citizens know, forbids the manu facture, sale or transportation of intoxi cating liquors as beverages. The federal prohibition agent m New York has announced that permits will be issued to hotels and restaurants to keep stock of brandy, wine and whisky for culinary purposes so that mince pie3 properly flavored and wine sauces may continue to be served to customers. So far as appears, he is acting within the law. At the present writing no one has-been known to drink a mince pie, however highly flavored with brandy it may have been, and a rum omelet is usu fally eaten with n fork and wine sauces "are consumed with a spoon. But no one knows what may happen. Mrs. Hayes was an ardent prohibition ist and during the administration of her husband no liquors were served at the Whits House with her knowledee. But '$ Iter ehf. aware of the tastes of the diplo id m"c guests, maae a irozen rum puncn t fe! served at state dinners that was so jiCenr that the foreign ministers were 1 went to call it the oasis in the "dry" din lr And they awaited the approach to it V .. f J -.a... ill. 41.A r.nw ..IaMB- VWrXJM Bnu courses wim mo name jjimo- irisfc anticipation that thrills the traveler i) a desert land. 1 Tfc there should be no premature re- at the oasitic prospect. 11 may the oasitic prospect It may miraec, for the backers of the iitly.a , VBNI Volstead law may at any moment ask the courts to insist that alcoholized mince pie and omelets and frozen punches are bev erages within the meaning 'of the consti tution and their consumption must be for bidden, 'if they do not some enterprising restaurateur will make a mince pie of such consistency that it will have to be eaten through a straw. AUTOBUSSES HAVE TRANSIT RELIEF POSSIBILITIES Congested Philadelphia Could Learn Something From the Speedy and Convenient Motor Lines of Other Cities rpHERE are times when Phlladelphians are inclined to wonder whether Wil-J liam Penn has not been a shade over thanked. Unwilling sentinels crowd the car-stop corners. Traffic jammed in the narrow streets halts long lines of trolleys. In such close quarters it is evident that even n transportation system run by supermen must break down. Possessed by that dis mal thought, the average pessimist is in a mood to scowl back through the ages at the founder. Penn, the benign William Penn, metal lically magnified atop a marble tower, is to blame. He designed our narrow thoroughfares and they'ie woefully out of date. Hands aie wrung and sighs breathed. We envy other towns which can do something with transit. It is conceivable that an inquiring stranger might view the case differently. He could not fail to observe Broad street a Penn creation. It is unlikely that the Parkway would escape his ad miring gaze, and were his explorations sufficiently thoiough he might notice the Roosevelt boulevard, Girard avenue, Spring Garden street and the spacious roadways in the Park region, now almost completely surrounded by built-up parts of the city. By that time a singular conclusion would be well-nigh inescapable. Phila delphia would be revealed as that excep tional town which chiefly confines its transit facilities to its narrowest streets. The situation is nqt paralleled any-" where. Paris would not think of clutter ing its busy and, for that metropolis, comparatU ely narrow Rue do Rivoli with trolleys. Electric cats are routed on roomier avenues or boulevards, on St. Michel, on Quatre Septembre, on Mont parnasse. In the heart of West End London not a "tram" is to be seen. They start from the periphery of that animated district and the streets served by them are broad. As is perfectly well known, motor busses in the French and British capitals scurry through those vital arteries that are wide, well paved and channels of met ropolitan life. Busses have been suggested in Phila delphia for generations. On several oc casions they have in a half-hearted way been introduced here. Tradition was against them the tradition that our nar row streets must bear the traffic and that the designs of William Penn made the transit riddle insoluble, except by tho construction of costly subways. Motorbus relief has been proposed again. Despite its failure to accomplish much in the past, it is worth considering. Nothing can be done, of coutse, while the wide streets, which we possess in more abundance than we usually realize, are regarded as sacrosanct. We shall have to accustom ourselves to the revolutionary idea of using the Parkway as a transit channel. We shall have to arm ourselves against the deep-iooted notion that the worst conceivable blockades on Thir teenth andiftecnth streets are justifia ble in order to keep Broad street inviolate. Most important of all, motorbus trans portation will have to be conducted on a comprehensive, practical scale or the ex periment will be worse than valueless. In fact, another bus-line failure would be apt to'bury us permanently under moss grown misconceptions. The arguments against the omnibus routes are not nearly so formidable as the scoffer sometimes thinks. While it is true that private and commercial autos flock to Broad street, the traffic there is not nearly so heavy as on Fifth avenue in New York, which has long had a motor line, and that street is no more crowded than London's Piccadilly Circus, whence busses radiate to many parts of London. The Parkway is never deadlocked. In deed the avenue, which has the finest po tentialities of any in town, frequently has the aspect of a desert. Bus lines on this boulevard would be enabled to serve sev eral sections of the city. A possible route could make the contemplated new struc tures on the Parkway accessible and could then tap West Philadelphia via Spring Garden street bridge. Another could utilize Fairmount Park, providing a new means of communication with Falls of Schuylkill and Manayunk, thus reliev ing some of the pressure on Ridge ave nue, while a third could be extended up roomy Thirty-third street, facing the Park, with a terminus at the Dauphin street entrance. Broad street from Logan to League Island suggests an obvious bus route. There could be "arms" or spurs for Girard avenue, Spring Garden street and Diamond street. Once the public distrust of bus lines is allayed the possibilities are vastly extended. Transportation experts properly supported could speedily wipe out much of the existing prejudice. If the job is scientifically handled, whether by the Philadelphia Rapid Transit or outside concerns, it is incon ceivable that it would not be a valuable adjunct to our transit facilities. The early enterprises hardly deserved to succeed. Philadelphians have gloomy memories of the old horse taisse3 on Broad street, with their rattling windows and their intolerable bumping over the rough belgian blocks with which that thoroughfare was then paved. The storage-battery electric line is hardly more agreeable in retrospect. The chief trouble with that service was that there was not enough of it. Busses often fifteen minutes apart proved more an irri tation than a convenience. What 'London, Paris and New York have accomplished with their omnibus equipments can guide us profitably. In the British capital the "upper decks", are an alluring transit feature. It would be milte feasible to operate twd-stoHed busses on Hroaci street since, loriunaieiy, there are no low railroad bridges in the I busses on Broad street since, fortunately. Ptfe way, as 13 the case with so many of our streets. For reasons which have never been con vincingly expressed, tho new Paris busses built since the war are all single-decked. Their entrance arrange ments, however, with a single low step in the "stern," arc superior to those of either London or New York and the trans verse seats are nn appreciable boon. A combination of the best features of all these tips to improved transit would be the ideal. It is naturally somewhat easier to in sist on the advantages of motorbusscs in this city than to materialize them. Any of the proposals under contemplation, however, should consider seriously the fact that Philadelphians seldom realize how many available wido streets are ex istent; that the "lesBons" of the past have made them skeptical of bus relief; that the public is bitterly and yet too unpro testingly used to congestion on the nar rowest thoroughfares, and that the only hope of a necessary psychological chango lies in expert administration of speedy lines. It must be an admirable initial service to convince us that an auxiliary to trolleys and subways is sane. Poverty of equipment will mean no more room in the trolleys and further unfair reflections on the man who gave us Broad street. HOG ISLAND FOR SALE rpHE future value of Hog Island will depend almost entirely upon the uses made of the vast site and its equipment. This is merely another way of saying that foresight, imagination and a scientific view of the property will be necessary to save the plant as a unit in the develop ment of the city's waterfront. To suggest flatly that the city or the state buy the yards, without any definite notion of the mnnncr in whichthe prop erty may be "utilized and .developed, is idle. Yet it is plain that Hog Island, even as a terminal and ship-repair plant, might be of the greatest imaginable value in any comprehensive scheme formulated to bring to this community all the ad vantages and opportunities of a great port. Only work and imagination are necessary to realize the enormous poten tialities of the Delaware approaches. One of the best harbors in the world is hero neglected. It is not advertised. And until some one devyses a plan by which it may be systematically developed the Hog . Island plant, necessarily the pivot of any new scheme, can be of only doubtful value to the city itself. ' Representative Edmonds's letter to Mayor Moore, carrying a suggestion from Washington that the city consider an early purchase of the yards, must again direct general attention to the matter. It is difficult to say what the Mayor can do. He can refer the matter to the Council. He may even ask the advice of financiers. A private corporation, effi ciently managed, would call a board meet ing. The board would not rely upon its own knowledge. It would provide funds for an engineering survey of the most thorough sort. It would endeavor to learn the precise value of the proffered site in relation to the scheme of its, own affairs. It would know what it wanted to do and, because it knew what it wanted to do, it could measure the opportunity without any great delay. Some such course ought to be opened to the city before Hog Island is permitted to disintegrate under the attacks of specula tors. Any scheme for the purchase of Hog Island would have to be a detail in a larger scheme for the revision and Te vitalization of older plans of port im provement. If it were possible to be as sured that future commercial and social development toward the South will be or dered upon modern lines and encouraged; if railway and shipping interests could be brought to the Philadelphia point of view, and if the people were made to realize tho practical advantages to "be gained by a great concentration of world trade and shipping in the Delaware river, Hog Island would he worth much to this city. Otherwise it might be the whitest of white elephants. The price of caskets Sound (he has gone up. A casket Loud Tumbrel'. company has declared its quarterly dividend o lYi Per cent, with an extra dividend of 1 per cent in cash and a stock dividend of 5 per cent to be distributed in March ; and the "On" is still with us. Yet Death per sists despite high prices. Di. L O. Howard, chief of the United States bureau of entomology, told the mem bers of the New Jersey Mosquito Extermina tion Association, in session in Atlantic City, that New Jersey in its warfare on the pes tiferous insect bad blazed the way for the whole civilized world. "Smudged the way" might have been a more appropriate phrase. Without desiring to hasten the orderly pioccdure of the presidential mind, we can not help oicmg the thought that a com munication from the White House might facilitate the matter of treaty ratification. International exchange is demonstrating the fact that in the matter of providing the groundwork for a panic deflation has infla tion beaten to a frazzle. Germany asks for war trials before neu tral tribunals. Where are they to be found? Even the nations nominally neutral had strong ideas on the war. The one thing certain is that it would be the Jieight of folly not to realize on the immense investment already put into Hog Island. H P Davison, of J. P. Morgan & Co., sees financial events ahead "too big to print." Wrong. Not too big too hazy. The fact that speeches printed by the government cost $442,000 a year disproves the assertion that talk is cheap. What we are vnxious to see is a Travel in Philadelphia written from the top of a Broad street bus. The fair-price committee's greatest task is to identify the profiteer when it sees him. The absence of a governor's be as a rod to would-be colonels. staff will After March 1 when trains are late we'll kick with a clear conscience. Terbaps Germany would like to be tried before the Mexican courts. It is Old Man Politics that Is deviHn' Develin. . &TUBtXT, FEBRUARY THE COCKPIT OF EUROPE c Odd Features of Life In the Balkan Peninsula American Faces In Ragusa Queer. Results of At tempts to Ape the Life of Western Europe By GEORGE NOX McCAlN THE Balkan Peninsula is again in a fer ment. This is not by any means a surpris ing or unusual announcement, for there hai been scarcely a moment in the last fifty jcars nhen some portion of thnt vast nnd pic turesque region has not been in a state of political upheaval. It is not without historic reason that it has been aptly described ns the "cockpit of the Near East," "the tlndcrbox of Europe." Today the specter ' of Interracial v,ar hovers over the entire collection of turbulent nationalities. , From Belgrade on the north to Salonica on the south, from Cattaro on the Adriatic to Varna on the Black sea, brigandafe, fear, starvation and Bolshevist revolution threaten the peninsula. It is because this great nnd sparsely set tled territory is so little known to Ameri cans that interest in its racial and internal nffairs appeals so lightly to us. It is the hazv territorial borderland of the greater and still less known further east; south Russia, the vast spread of the mysterious Black sea, nnd further down Turkey in Asia, the hnndlei like geographical extension of tho Arabian peninsula. . TDULGARIA is threatened with n Bol- shevist uprising, Sofia, the capital, is the center of the threatened disorder. It is one of the least attractive cities of the so-called Near East, Architecturally speaking, it is n rude blending of the Mont martre section of Paris nnd the rickety wood and mastic structures of Stamboul on the Golden Horn. More than any European capital today cast of Viennn docs it represent the meeting of East nnd West. All of its attempts at fine building suggest the work of amateur architects. Even its mosque and cathedral suggest this impression to western eyes. The life, amusements and art, what little there-is of the latter, are an aping of tho middle clasS nnd poorer sort to be found in Paris, Budapest and Brussels. Even New York contributes its share to the jumbled ensemble. Crossing the poorly Illuminated public square in Sofia one night, I was nstonished to hear a gipsy orchestra in a gaudily deco rated nnd brilliantly lighted cafe playing a popular American air. That is, it was pop ular in the usual ephemeral way two years before in the United States. It had for long, however, reposed in the discard of neglected melodies. But it was new in Sofia, so my interpreter informed me, and was all the rage in the cafes and wine houses. EX-CZAR FERDINAND, "the fox of the Balkans," who should be on the black list of the Allies with Wjlhelm nnd Prince Rupprecht, was the curse of Bulgaria. He had the most repulsive face I ever saw on any individual claiming right to the title of nobility. His great nose resembled the beak of a hawk, his lips were sensual and, with his heavy jowls, they suggested ferocity, bru tality and cruelty. He was a German prince picked up nt ran dom in a wine bouse in Vienna by a com mittee of three sent there by an ad interim government to select a ruler. He was a Ger man from one"6f the petty principalities. The first act that distinguished his career was the instigation of the assassination of Stambouloff, "the Bismarck of the Balkans" and the ablest statesman Bulgaria ever pro duced. But the statesman stood in the way of Prince Ferdinand's ambitidns. He was Prince of Bulgaria then. That was thirty years ago, and in all the intervening time the occupant of the thione b-wnjed Bulgaria to his own purposes. The cathedral of tho Greek Church, in Sofia, which is plainly visible from the win dows of the Orient express and which has been completed only within the last few years, was the gift of Czar Nicholas of Rus sia. Russia saved Bulgaria from the Turk after 300 years of semi -slavery j then wh.en the opportunity came that Bulgaria could repay the obligation she drew her sword in favor of Germany. But it was not the Bulgarians who were guilty of this supreme act of treachery and ingratitude. Ferdinand, against their pro tests, forced his people to take up arms against their ally. IN SPALATO the Italians and Jugo-Slavs are slaughtering each other. It is one of the fairest cities of the eastern Adriatic. The great attraction to American travelers who reach this little-known city aie the re mains of the wonderful palace of Diocletian. Diocletian was the wonder of the Roman world, for the reason that he voluntarily laid down the imperial crown and retired to Spa lato, where he spent the remaining years of his life in building and adorning this won derful structure. One of its outer walls, ten feet thick in places, faces the harbor. The palace was not one building, but a cluster of them. When completed it sheltered, it is said, nearly C00O persons, all of whom were at tached to the imperial household. It was a city within itself. The odd feature of the ruined palace today is that presented by this wall facing the harbor. Shops and dwellings hae been built into it, some of the latter reaching the top of the wall three stories in height. Narrow streets with dark little stores and gloomy residences have been cut through the old palace, with wide spaces between, of what were once corridora and rooms of the palace, but now open to the sky RAGUSA in one respect is the most Ameri can city in nil the Balkans. Not in its physical features, however, but in its people. One can see more faces in Ragusa suggestive of a crowd in New York, Philadelphia or Chicago than in any other city not only in eastern Europe but in any country outside the United States or Canada. Yet they are all Dalmatians. The reason, doubtless, is that this seaport for 1500 years was the meeting place of East and West. It was a vast melting not. Th nations of the Occident and near Orient met nnQ mingiea nere. ai various times during the centuries it had the greatest commerce of any city on the Adriatic or Mediterranean excepting Marseilles. In the course of time the physiognomy of the Ragusans came to be what might be termed of the cosmopolitan type; a merging and softening of the characteristics of all races. In a way Ragusa up to the beginning of the worm war retained some of ner ocean nupremacy. Her sailors were to be found in every port of the world. A maritime cor poration with a capitalization of millions, and with its steamships on every trade route east and west, had its headquarters in this beautiful city. The captain, a Rirgiisan by birth, of the steamship that carried me from Fiume to Ragusa lived in San Francisco for sixteen years. His children bad been born there, and be informed me In fluent English that bis family so longed for their California home that he bad decided to return to the United States the following year. 'It is even as the fashion experts a-tsure ub: Women get their ideas of undress from Paris. BR-R-R-R. HAS ANYTHING ELSE HAPPENED THIS WEEK? . l'wIHHM8iSiiiiH FROM DAY IN A gre Hon of great cxhibi- Independence in Clothes New York Defies Paris Revolt May Fizzle Out Art of Being a Woman Financial 6risis Near America Must Give Aid gowns and with the perfect 30 mannikins parading up and down a miniature hoard walk the fash iota designers of New York are declaring their independence of Paris. The Amcrienn woman will owe her allegiance to America's largest city and France's capital. All this is very fine, but will it work unless Attorney General Palmer puts into his sedition law a provision for clapping women in jail who ape the Paris fashions? Won't the American-designers make their models with one eye'upon what the great French designers are doing?" q q q DID you ever look at the figure on our latest quarter of a dollar nnd that on the French frnne side by side? Tbcy are silver pieces of about the same size. Each has a full length female figure on one side. Look at them carefully nnd you will see why Paris is the capital of woman's world. The lady on the Americnn piece is a sub stantial creature. t You can imagine her frying potatoes, not exactly in the robe she is wearing ; but still Bho could do it perfectly. Or sho would look quite natural nursing the baby. The lady on the French coin is a sprite, a vision. As she goes on her way, sowing the seed, her feet do not touch the earth. There is nothing of the earth earthy about her. . For the life of you you cannot imagine her as a housewife. She is "La Ferame," not Mary, Adeline, Jane or Ruth. Like Verlaine's unknown woman, "Her name, I tcmember, is sweet and sonorous." You look at the American lady and you have none of Verlaine's troubles. You are perfectly suie that in private life her name is Ann. She is prose. Thq lady on the franc is poetry. q q q B EING a woman in Paris is a fine art Being a woman in America is a noble profession something like being a preacher. A preacher may 'wear his collar on back ward, which he could not do if his calling were a fine art. The French woman dresses as becomes one of the fine arts. The American woman always is reminded by some inward monitor that she must in dressing hear in mind that hers is a noble profession. She looks to Paris for the art of dress and to herself for the conscience of dress. q q q AND will she ever look elsewhere? In this League of Nations of ours things are bound to center somewhere. Beef and pork center in Chicago, steel In Pittsburgh, ships in Liverpool and dress woman's dress in Paris, It is not an accident that Paris is the capital of woman's fashions. It is precisely because being a woman is a fine art in PariB, an art worth cultivating for art's sake. And every woman, no matter how much hers is a profession, remembers also that hers Is an art and looks to Paris. In no place does art flourish except As it is rooted in the consciousness of the people and in no place is the art of dress rooted iu the consciousness of the people as it is at Paris. i q q sc OME people say that we are in tor a period of decentralization; that Pitta- burgh will cease to be the capital of steel and Chicago pork. And in a similar way Paris might cease to be the capital of fashions. But listen to this: The women of Japan, even the working women, are about to abandon their national costume, the picturesque and easy kimono, for the costume of tho western world, be- tcuie women may always find a reason 7. 1936 TO DAY foi what tbey want to do because tho cos fume of the western world is most conveni ent! While New York is unging the new lib erty be.ll at the fete de la mode de piin temps (sounds very French, doesn't it?) Tokio is declaring her allegiance to Pans. q q q "DUT if the capital of woman's woild is J- likely to remain Paris, the capital of man's world the business world has defi nitely been shifted by the war to New York. We call our dollar heie in America a fifty-cent dollar, but looked at from London or Paris it is n particularly bloated dollar, a two -dollar dollar, a cross of gold and crown of thorns dollar, to borrow from the lips of Brjnn. The French call the money we have over here "blood money." They call America the "war piofiteer." They reason, and all allied Europe with them reason, like this: "America was just ns much interested in beating Germany as we were; the victory is just as much her victory as ours; yet we did roost of the fighting and suffered most of the burdens. Why shouldn't America, at least, assume her share of the costs of the victory?" Things will naturally occur to any one to be said on the other side of that argu ment. q q q THE situation is similar to the situation which existed before our entrance into the war. Allied Europe -was impatient with us. An American was hardly safe from insult in London or Paris. Germany had sunk our ships, killed Amer icans; why didn't we come in and help them beat Germany? We finally went in because we had to. We may finally go in to save Europe financially because we have to. We will not go in because we admit the force of the arguments made rfcw on the other side or because of the harsh words "war profiteers." The torpedoing of values on the stock ex chance cannot long be safely overlooked. The issue will be settled on the basis of national self-interest. q q q A BIG war in Europe turned out to be a world war a thing we couldn't keep out of. President Wilson once said, "In the next great war there will be no neutrals," mean ing no power of any consequence would be abio to avoid being drawn into the whirl pool, A big financial crisis in Europe, the great est in the history of mankind, is likely to tusn out, similarly, to be a world crisis. In the crashes on exchanges and the with ering up of values solemnly stamped on pieces of paper by governments there are likely to be no neutrals. From Denver comes the story of the arrest of a man who carried gold from the mint In his hollow wooden leg. The fact that federal agents recovered $100,000 worth of bullion proved it a leg worth pulling. The allied demand for the extradition of war criminals has resulted in the Germans letting the Rhine whine flow again, The Newberry case again develops the fact that tho politician believes that the easy mark and the dollar mark are synonyms. Senator Reed just knows that it is im proper for anybody to disagree witli him. Humpty Dumpty has had a fall, but we doubt the rest of the nursery rhyme. ,. A few baby tanks might help street traffic while the snow is on the ground. i-i , Vj ROAD SONG GIVE in song your happy breath ; March along the road to death, v Head erect and heart set high. They have shown us how to die: They have sent their boyish laughter Ringing back along the way : All who walk this road hereafter Must like them be gay. Shall men fear to follow on Where their sons have gone? Not alone the enemy There in front where all may si.e, They went out to meet : They have stormed the shadowy towers I Death is rifled of his powers, Harmless in defeat. Youth has overrun his kingdom, Brought the mystic borders near, Made the land familiar, dear. Every highway, every street, Echoes now to trampling feet, Whistled signals, noisy cheer, Sudden greetings : "Brother!" "BrothertJJ "I am here!" Shout and sing and march ahead! Who fears death now they are dead? Clara Pratt Meadowcroft, in Contempo rary Verse. The man who carries Ins office-in his sat has to have it well furnished. Every time Civic Righteousness a iDeal he scents a Biff. sights fhat Do You Know? I QUIZ Who is Kurt von Lersner? What is helium? How-is the government to dispose of the former German mtixhnnc ships now in its possession? Where is the Obi river? G. JWho was the architect of the Capital at Washington? G. "Who said "a cauliflower is only a cab- Sbage that has gone to college"? 7. What is the significance of biting one's thumb before a person? 8. 0. 10. Nulme three American generals of the Mexican War? What is ecarte? HoW should the word eclat be pro nounced? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz The East Indian island of Timor, part of which is owned by the Dutch, has becra mentioned as a place of exile for William Hohenzollern. A viola is a tenor violin, having four strfflgs, the two lowest being covered with wire. It is slightly larger than a vuolln. Tho technique, of the viola is practically the same as that of the violin, but as tho viola has a rougher andjmore veiled tone it Is infrequently used as a solo instrument. Blizzard is said to be derived from the 8 old John age The Lancashire word "bleasard.' Milton became totally blind at th of forty-four. ulf of Carpentaria Indents w nprtl coast of Australia. 0, Portugal and France have still sons smallWssessions in India. 7. The frete 'silver plank was first incorpo rated Jin the Democratic presidential platfojrra in the campaign of 1800. S. Tbiicydddes was a celebrated Greek his torlanl born about 401 B. O. He is especially known for his uncompleted "Histiry of the Peloponnesian War. 0. Pidgin English, the jargon consisting chiefly) of English words with Chinese endlngsl. is used In business transac tions between Chinese nnd Europeans in the EaW. Pidgin is a corruption of business, 10. The Confcd'Vat, General Richard Tay lor was tho, son of Zacbary Taylor, who bad been) President of the United ' States. . .
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