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Philadelphia, Wdnrday, February 11, 1120
A LITTLE NEARER THE GOAL
rpHE suffragists in the New Jersey
House uccmcd to ho determined to
ratify the constitutional amendment,
,cvcn if it took all night.
It did not take quite all night, but the
amendment was ratified.
New Jersey is the twenty-eighth state
to fall in line. The area covered by the
stales that have not yet ratified tho
nmendment is so small that a buffrage
map of the country shows virtually all
white save in the Southeast. Washing
ton, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona and Now
Mexico have not yet acted, but they are
likely to) favor suffrage. The amendment
has been rejected in Mississippi and
South Carolina, where no one expected
it to be approved.
INSOLENCE
"M'O ONE will be deceived Ijy the mes--L
sage of the former German crown
prince to the President. His offer to sur
render himself to punishment by the
allied governments in place of the large
number of military and naval officers and
politicians demanded is made the me
dium of an attack upon the allied gov
ernments and of a declaration that Ger
many never will surrender the accused.
The message is intended to strengthen
the opposition in Germany to the fulfill
ment of the terms of the peace treaty,
Tather than to point a way out. AA'il
Jiclm has no more belief that his offer to
sacrifice himself vicariously will be ac
cepted, than he has that he will be ac
quitted of the charges of inhumanity
that have been lodged against him. His
letter is a mere gesture of defiance.
COULD THEY FORETELL RAIDS?
A PSYCHIC is one who communes with
-1- the invisible. The term has suc
ceeded to the temporary eminence that
belonged in successive years to "pre
paredness," "reconstruction" and like ex
pressions of a variable national taste.
The growing army of psychics is the
visible result of the new interest in spirit
ism, the veiled promises of Sir Oliver
Lodge and the shrewd activity of com
mercial "mediums" who, having no in
terest irt the scientific aspects of this
modern question, have been quick to
capitalize the faith of multitudes. They
are a class apart from those who believe
too sincerely in spiritualism to accept
fourth-rate vaudeville stunts as mani
festations of the higher and invisible life.
One of these days the police in this
city will check a cruel fraud that is being
perpetrated on countless credulous peo
ple at shabby and theatrical seances.
UNAPPRECIATED SERVICE
T71IEN successive gusts of the recent
blizzard were makjng life a hardship
all along the Atlantic coast there were a
few men who could not hurry home to
the warm fires that awaited most of us
as compensation for the difficulties and
delays of the journey. They were the
police, and particularly the men of the
traffic squad, who had to stick to their
posts through the worst of it without
even an interval in which to get the chill
out of their blood,
Matthew Kernan, the traffic man who
remained on duty at Broad street and
Lehigh avenue until pneumonia struck
him down, was as much a martyr to the
public service as if he had been killed in
battle.
Mayor Mooie did a gracious thing
yesterday when he appeared as one of
the first callers at the home of the dead
policeman. He will do an even more
gracious service by pressing, with all the
epergy at his command, the plan of which
he spoke to provide something better
than kind words for men like Kernan and
their families. The pension awards are
at best niggardly.
"I want to make this a public ques
tion,." said the Mayor. That is what it
ought to be. Mr. Moore has tho gift of
expression. If he will make the cause of
tho police his own and lose no oppor
tunity to advertise tho injustices heaped
upon the men in uniform it will not be
long before a better general understand
ing of .the service is followed by better
pay, better working conditions and more
money for pensions.
SNOWBOUND BABYj-ON
rpHE tremulous futility of New York
- era in the face of a third-rate blizzard
continues to be one of the amazements
of the hour. One day the big town was
flip and confident and boastful of its im
perial scope and prowess. The next it
was prostrate in its flats.
" Most of tho streets in Manhattan arc
still almost impassable. The snow ob
irately remains. The mayor has talked
to it, the" newspapers "viewed with
fclarm," tho critics bnecrcd, officials de-
i bated, the public grumbled fretfully and
everybody asked shrilly why some one
dfdn't- do something.
One cannot but wonder whether the
folk who theorize in offices and the other
fo)krlM prach odd political doctrines to
"the Eat Sfd nnd the subway multitudes
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who arc forever telling the country liow
it should behave have been able to read
tho profound meaning of their impassable
streets. The very snow shouts at them.
It shouts of the incvitablcness of primal
labor, the splendor of pick and shovel
and the destined icquircmenl of work
that is work; of the work thut nobody
wanted to do.
New York woiks, of course. It works
with needle and thread, paper and ink,
spotlights nnd pianos. But it shrank
from the sort oE labor- that actually
makes the wheels go 'round and puts
food on the table and steam in the pipes.
Soap boxers, dreamers and theorists, who
arc more plentiful in New York than
they arc elsewhere, have been believing
that hard labor could somehow be
avoided in a perfect world. The snow
came as if it had been sent by an ironic
fate to convince them that labor of tho
sort that brings perspiration, a big ap
petite for food and wholesome fatigue is
still and always will be a necessary ac
companiment of rational existence.
BEST IS NONE TOO GOOD
FOR OUR GREAT UNIVERSITY
Old Penn Deserves the Highest Type of
Provost Procurable and the Most
Abundant Measure of Popular
Philadelphia Support
IDEALIZATION that this is a college
-LV town returned to Philadelphia
yesterday when announcement was made
of the resignation of Provost Smith.
Consciousness of this fact is, however,
intermittent. It is, indeed, so rarclv re
current that the truth is often disputed.
The iclatiotiship or the University of
Pennsylvania to its birthplace is ' fre
quently misjudged, misconceived, under
valued. Much foolish cant is spilled.
Diversity and magnitude of interests in
a great metropolis arc advanced to cover
attitudes of indifference.
In spite of its authority and attain
ments, in spite of loyal alumni, devoted
students, generous benefactors, recogni
tion of Ben Franklin's foremost contri
bution to education is too commonly de
pendent onts invasion of the news.
Sometimes a winning football cloven,
welcome and praiseworthy but certainly
not completely representative of the tra
ditional aims of culture, arouses the due
sense of intimacy. Academic "sensa
tions," inherently significant as they may
be, are, in general, mild in comparison.
But the present change strikes a note
of publicity very vital to Philadelphia
and to its illustrious institution of learn
ing. The resignation of Edgar P. Smith
inspires regrets and at the same time
opens the gate of opportunity. The Uni
versity is a current popular topic some
thing it should have never ceased to be.
It is typical that a loss should be re
sponsible for the awakening. An ideal
community would rally to its college
when one of its distinguished servants,
such as Doctor McMaster, completed his
monumental history of the United
States or when another, such as Hugo
Itennert, penned his standard and ex
haustive life of Lope do Vega or when
another, such as Doctor Farabec, shed
authoritative new light on tropical eth
nology. But civilization lags behind such
fancies and it is futile to quarrel with it
on that score. The University deprived
of its chieftain in this case one well
Iikcd, with a. record of eleven years'
earnest fidelity to its interests faces a
problem of the utmost moment to the
city. The chance to consider it deeply
and comprehensively is packed with
stimulating possibilities.
Granted the city has at times forgot
that its size does not bar it from the role
of a college town on a great scale, such
as Boston is; granted that Philadelphia
sometimes needs. a jolt to develop its
latent powers, the shock is here, tho im
pact is existent.
To speak plainly, the time has come
both for holders of Pennsylvania di
plomas and citizens who never signed a
matriculation card to give the Univer
sity a square and inspiring deal. New
pathways are to be trod under a new
leader. The selection of the best equipped
man for the high post is, however, not
all. What the University primarily
needs is support, financial, moral, psycho
logic; service of the sort which prompts
pride as the power generates.
An endowment fund will be a magnifi
cent bulwark. It is a civic shame that it
has not been already found. The money
is here. It is absurd to forecast that so
intensely Philadelphian an institution as
the University will lack such indorse
ment if the campaign is conducted on the
proper lines.
In general, the public is weary of
"drives." But this one could be of stir
ring import. Affection is one conceivable
spur. Pride is another.
Here is an educational factoi, vener
able and seasoned with ennobling tradi
tions, an instrument of culture respected
in every land where progress has a mean
ing. In medicine, in dentistry, in engi
neering, in architecture, in economics to
mention only a few of its fields its emi
nence is exceedingly impressive.
Nomads on the banks of the Tigris or
the Nile have heard of the University of
Pennsylvania. They have guided its rep
resentatives at Nippur and Babylon and
occasionally, it seems, are more aware
of old Penn than members of the com
munity whose ancestors evolved the insti
tution. Many South Americans, Chinese,
Japanese, Porto Ricans and Cubans who
were students within its walls quicken
with retrospective interest at the name.
The eagerness of these far-flung Penn
sylvanians to help their alma mater is
hardly to be questioned. But it is not
upon them that tho prime responsibility
falls. To an exceptional extent in a
large city, tho University draws upon
tho "home town" for its students. The
body of native alumni is formidably nu
merous. Enlistment of their services on
behalf of financial guarantees which will
relieve the college from the necessity of
underpaying its professors or of hin
drances to strengthening its faculty
ought not to require cither irritating or
abnormally herculean efforts. Similar
conditions apply regarding tho abundant
well wishers of the University who have
never studied within its walls. With
fitting machinery a "drive" to make the
institution truly representative of tho
greatness of Philadelphia should function
with comparative case.
If the city will ovfe much to the new
'EVENING toUC LEDGER
provost, not only money, but in spirituul
backing, the controller of these stately
forces of culture will bo in debt to the
community. Upon him will devolve du
ties and "obligations with which no second-rate
official cah cope.
Organizations of ail kinds, however
vast even, for instance, the United
States assumo in some degree tho per
sonality of their directing head. Rightly
or wrongly, attention is inevitably fo
cused on the commander.
Obviously scholastic distinction is one
essential in the make-up of such a work
ing leader as the University requires.
That, nevertheless, is but a single exi
gent factor. Other requisites arc au
thority of public status, breadth of vi
sion, qualities which make both for ex
ecutive efficiency and public indorsement.
In n word, a big man is wanted for a
big uilivcrsity.
if names cannot be cited, at least types
can. General Thornton, himself a Penn
sylvania graduate, who made over Eng
land's North-Eastern Railway, fits into
tho category. So docs William II. Taft.
As personalities these men arc, of course,
not likely incumbents. But as types they
are. Dr. William Pepper filled tho bill.
Men of his caliber, of Lowell's, of Scth
Low's, of Herbert Hoover's arc not so
elusive that a diligent combing of re-
sources cannot produce them for tho
University.
The trustees-can bring the University
very close to the heart of the town if
they combine discretion with foresight,
if they eschew makeshifts, if they sub
mit a head for the University commen
surate with incontestable distinction of
this organization over which he will pre
side. Without deprecating in the least the
splendid record of the University in the
past, it may be said that the opportunity
for redoubling its fame and Philadel
phia's is strikingly manifest. A more
effective reciprocity ojf honors between
the college and tho town is due. It is not
visionary to conceive this fusion. Pros
perous Philadelphia abounds in the con
structive assets. The University has its
admirable potencies.
Get together!
PHIL JOHNSON'S CONTRACT
M'AYOR MOORE very properly wants
to know whether the director of
health is required to employ Philip II.
Johnson to design all the buildings to be
erected by his department.
Johnson was architect for the old De
partment of Health and Charities under
a continuing contract made on March 30,
1903, under Mayor Ashbridgc. He has
received large sums in fees from the city
and the attempt to get rid of him per
manently has not yet succeeded, though
it has been made more than once.
Mayor Weaver gave the contract for
designing the contagious 'disease hos
pital to a different architect and Johnson
accepted the situation. Mayor Blanken
burg tried to get rid of Johnson, but did
not succeed, and Mayor Smith threatened
to disregard him, but Johnson continued
to be employed.
Johnson is a brother-in-law of tho late
Israel W. Durham. AVhcn Durham died,
Charles Segcr, a lifelong friend, in
herited his leadership of the Seventh
ward and assumed many of his political
obligations. So long as Durham's
brother-in-law wished to remain archi
tect of the Department of Health and
Charities Seger supported him with his
influence. This is a matter of political
history. But Seger himself is now dead,
and the obligation of. loyalty to Dur
ham's friends has not been bequeathed to
any one seriously interested in the mat
ter. Whatever City Solicitor Smyth may
report to the Mayor on the legal validity
of Johnson's contract, the political va
lidity of it has ceased to exist.
BROTHERS ALL!
YyiTII the exception of the Irish ques
' ' tion, the subjects discussed by King
George in his address at the opening of
the British Parliament might have been
discussed by the President of the United
States in an annual message to Con
gress. He urged the adjustment of coal-mining
controversies on an enduring basis,
the regulation of the liquor traffic and
measures stimulating the production of
foodstuffs.
These ar.e the common problems of all
nations at the pres'ent time. France and
Russia and Germany and Italy are strug
gling with them just as the United States
is seeking a way out. They relate to the
great fundamental struggle for existence
in which all living creatures are engaged.
They are not affected by the shape of''
tne Head or Dy tne language spoken or
by the kind of political institutions
which organized society has set up.
If while we are considering them we
can remember that men of other climes
and other languages are also thinking of
the same things we may get a better
appreciation of the solidarity of the
human race and a deeper sympathy with
the common problems of all nations, and
thus lay the foundations on which alone
a successful League of Nations can rest.
Former Crown Prince
Prejudiced Frciloi ick William of
Against Him (icnnatiy lias offered
to give himself un to
v the Allies in place of hundreds of fiermans
demanded, xne younc man is not at all
modest in the value he plures on himself.
And he can blame nobody but himself if the
world considers his action a theatric gesture
rather than the noble self-sacrifice which it
might appear at first blush.
The renewal of the
Trj a Fen treaty- debate in the
Mixed Metaphors Senate puts all the fat
in the fire for tho
"bitter renders." Article X may yet be
come an ex-issue. It may be that the com
promisers are now securing their reserva
tions for a through trip.
Tho street - cleaning
"Knougli Is Plenty" department is still
wrestllug with the
man's white burden. Goose feathers con
tinue to give goose-flesh to contractors, And
"the beautiful" begins to wear an ugly look
of derision.
Tho Canon of Coven -Purl!
Hang! try, England, suggests
thnt ignorant people,
being useless to the community, should be
killed off. But why stop at Ignorant peoploV
Why not include silly people like canons who
go off liqlf-cocked? pr
PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY'
FOR 'IS 'EART IS TRUE
Walter L. Sanborn Declares Bolshe
vism Won't Grow' In Maine.
Famine in Freight Cars
By GEORGE NOX McCAIN
WALTER L. SANBORN is a Pennsyl
vaniau by ndoption. He is u product
of Mulnc and a fine sample of tho kind of
men Bowdoin College turns out. In a busi
ness way lie is editor aud publisher of the
J.nusdalc Reporter, which will celebrate its
fiftieth anniversary this car.
If there is one member Hbovi; another
among the thirty-odd members of the Bow
doiu College Alumui Club of Philadelphia
and vicinity whose affections bark back to
campus days, Waller L. Sanborn is thnt
man. Paraphrasing the old, old sea ditty,
" 'Is 'curt is true to Bowdoiu."
"Lei mc tell you something unusual,"
said he iu Ida big brewy way the other
evening at the Manufacturers' Club. "In
the recent raids by the Department of Jus
tice agents agaiust the 'Reds,' the old Floe
Tree State was the only odc iu the Lnion
in which no 'Red' arrest was made.
"Maine isn't the kind of soil in which
communism and bolshcvlsm flourish. The
omc of her patriotism means death to
'hat sort of microbe. President K. C. M.
Sills, ofxBowdoln, who came all the way
from Brunswick to talk at (he annual din
tier of our alumni exiles, 'made that
statement, and ou can fancy what effect
his words had on the old grails present.
"Mniuo is as stead in her polities as she
is iu her patriotism. She Keeps her rep
resentatives in Washington term after term,
and as a result she's usually in the middle
of the road with her sleeves rolled up every
time there's a fight, for she lias able men to
look after her iiitetests."
And congressional history oi halt a cen
tury proves Sauborii is right
ROLAND R. REUTLINliER, coal op
erator, who is interested in mines scat
tered through four western Pennsylvania
counties, offers a very cogent reason for the
prevalent famine in freight cars and the
consequent disturbance of trade and trans
portation. Without mincing words ho plaec3 the
blame directly upon the shoulders of tho
railroad administration.
He informs mc oh the authority of re
sponsible western correspondents that there
arc from 25,000 to 30,000 loaded eoal curs
standing on sidings at larious points in
the West.
During the recent eoal strike the ad
ministration diverted thousands of cars of
coal from .nonunion fields. At the con
clusion of' the s-trike this confiscation
ceased, and as a result thousands of cars
which had been diverted from original
routes were left without destination or dis-
position.
According to Mr. Rcutlinger, the railroad
administration apparently thinks that its
public duty ended when it diverted the coal
from the eastern operator and wholesaler,
nnd sent it on n wild goose chase over the
country. Pennsylvania operators are out
at leust a million dollars, which is repre
sented in commandeered coal lying un
claimed in the AVest.
In the case of his own corporation, Mr.
Reutlinger informs me that it has approxi
mately .f2."0,000 due it for confiscated coal,
of which at least 75 per cent is represented
by shipments the whereabouts of which it
has not the slightest idea.
"I do not question the wisdom of gov
ernment regulation during times of stress,"
said Mr. Reutlinger, who was an officer in
the navy during the war, "but I am vig
orously opposed to a continuation of it, now
that the crisis is past. To this alone is due
the resultant chaotic condition in the coal
trade."
He cites the further fact that a recent
list issued by the Chicago, Rock Island and
Pacific shows that 3C30 cars of coal com
mandeered by the administration of that
road for fuel is without record as to the
original owners of the property.
THE statement comes to me from James
L. Hall that the newspapermen of Pitts
burgh have organized a veteran corps. It is
proclaimed to be the only organization of
its kind in the country.
The Pittsburgh publishers, editors and re
porters are "a day after the fair." Without
any disposition to be disagreeable or to wet
blanket their very laudable undertakingv it
is only necessary to direct attention to the
fact that the idea is not new nor will they be
the pioneer body of the kind in the country.
Philadelphia, as usual, leads.
Months ago a newspaper veterans' associa
tion was organized in this city as the result
of a dinner given by Congressman 5Ioore at
the Rellevuc-Stratford, The requisite for
membership is twenty-five years in the news
paper business, or at least an experience on
Philadelphia newspupers prior to the last
quarter of a century.
The membership of the association today
includes more than one hundred and twenty
five men who can qualify to the terms of ad
mission, as was testified at its recent dinner
to Mayor Moore, who was a member of the
profession years ago.
The Pittsburgh organization fixes fifteen
years' service in journalism as a requisite
for membership. Such a service in the pro
fession iu Philadelphia would scarcely
qualify a writer for advancement to an edi
torial position, much ess rank him as a
"veteran."
The Pen and Pencil Club, o this city,
which has survived, as Philadelphia vet
erans well know, innumerable vicissitudes, is
the oldest journalists' club in continuous ex
istence in the United States
T PRESUME the time will tome when,
1 in future years, we will walk upon
pavements of chicle instead of cement or
tessellated corridors," remarked a prominent
city official as he gazed meditatively at a
corridor floor in City Hall.
As he spoke he pointed to the innumera
ble round, black splotches that defaced the
footway in the vicinity.
They were gobs of chewing su.n that batl
been thrown on the floor by the devotees-of
the jaw-wagging practice.
"As the gum-ehewing habit is increasing
It is only n question of time until the floors
of City Hall are covered with u coating of
chewing gum," he continued. "I have no
ticed that even the carpeted iloi.rs of court
rooms arc disfigured by this vile practice.
With a certain amount of care and attention
the corridors can be kept free from these
evidences of a depraved taste, but the car
pets arc ruined and can only be burned."
Those intrusted with the care of the wait
ing rooms of the Pennsylvania Railroad and
.Reading Terminal manage to keep the marble
floors measurably free from the chewing-gum
nuisance. Laborers with small, long-handled,
spttde-like instruments move constantly
around scraping the stuff loose. A subse
quent application of boiling water, T am told,
is used, but in many instances an imperish
able stain remains.
Wc have been so much instructed in the
work of propaganda since tbe war began
that many earnest thinkers have come to the
conclusion that the old saying should be re
vised to read, "Orgunizcd fears make ills
honest men of us,"
Berliu's rcd-herrlng list of war crimi
nal is designed to raise a fresh iccnt.
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rpiIH federal author! -
ties have decided
that mince pic is not a
beverage and therefore
may have mote than
one-half of 1 per cent.
Wc nominate the au
thor of this decision to
a place in the Hall of
Fame as a man of rare
and distinguished cour-
Mince Pic Not a Beverage
Congress Obuld Make It So
Typewriter-Ridden World
Fears That Dominate Us
Publicity the Witch
Propaganda During War
ago..,o ,
Ofooujsu, it is obvious that mince pic is
not n beverage. . .
But then it is only a brave man in public
office who would dare say so.
If Congress had had to vote on the ques
tion whether or not mince pie containing
alcohol was an intoxicating liquor docs any
ono doubt what it would have voted by a
two-thirds majority if necessary that it was
a drink?
q q q
FACTS do not trouble a congressman.
He is typewriter ridden.
Somebody introduces a bill that mince pie
is a beverage or that a liquid containing
Iil-100 of 1 per cent of alcohol is intoxicating.
All your congressman docs is to stop nnd
think how many typewriters arc behind that
bill.
The click of a typewriter makes him jump.
Ho is as much afraid of the sound as
horses used to be of the toot of an auto
mobile in the days when thjre were more
horses and fewer automobiles on the roads.
Experience has taught him that there are
many typewriters behind any bill that con
tains the word beverage.
Introduce a bill saying that mince pie con
taining alcohol is a noxious beverage, and
he hears the sound of .$23,000,000 being col
lected to put it through.
He imagines the effect of $2o,000,000 upon
the typewriters of the land.
He sees his mails bulging.
He iriiagines each of his constituents get
ting $1000 a day telling what a recreant he
is to the cause of virtue because he hesitates
to vote ngainst the evidence of his own senses
that a pie is a drink.
So he hastens to get in his vote on the
side of the typewriters.
What is needed is some league to make the
typewriter safe for democracy !
q q q
ONE of the strange effects of this war is
what it did to the typewriter.
The conflict started on the theory that a
solemnly written treaty was a "scrap of
ffaper," and it ended in the belief that any
piece of paper covered with ink by a hired
publicity man was more solemn that a treaty.
It isn't merely Congress that is typewriter
ridden, but tly: whole world is.
We are beginning now, with the publica
tion of the German memoirs, to get both
sides of the story of the war.
What did Germany fear during the con
flict': Not our men or our guns or our resomces,
but our tj pewriters !
It is amusing to read in Ludendorff's book
how he blames the defeat of Germany upon
the superiority of allied program, and then
go back mentally to "what we were thinking
and saying about the havoc that German
propaganda was doing to the allied cause!
q q q
THE fears which the war implanted aie
strong in the minds of men still.
There is a dark subconscious storehouse in
men which is full of the fears which the
race has accumulated in its slow rise from
barbarism and its long battle with a hostile
environment.
There is the fear o the dark, out of which
death descended upon you unawares ; the
fear of foes, the fear of the cljir.ents, the
fear of evil spirits and a dozm other terrors.
Awake them and give them a new name
and they do not quickly din away,
Ludendorff's ancestors used to be in terror
of the evil spirits which were in league with
the foe.
Ludcndorff himself is more than vaguely
uneasy about these ovil spirits now appear
ing under the name of propaganda.
He is Bngy all the timu against the ioo
doo specialists upon his own side because
they cannot siiniiion up evil .spirits to it la 1
him superior In malignity to the evil snirits
J obeyjpg the call of the Allies.
11, 1920
WHOA!
AT
THE same time
o ticrccly de
nounced Mr. Creel, Mr.
Wilson's Wltclr of Eu
dor, because the spirits
he conjured up against
the foe were tamo and
mean.
q q q
THE fear of prop
aganda awakened
during the war, stirring the whole racial
storehouse of terrors and phobias, hasn't yet
been hushed.
Like Ludcndorff, everybody dreads" the
typewriter in the hands of the other fellow.
Not merely the congressman confronted by
the peril of being told, to the extent of
$23,000,000 worth of paper and ink, that
mince pie is a beverage, but all of us.
Dare wc think that 51-100 of 1 per cent
of alcohol in something more potable than
mince pic makes an intoxicating beverage?
There is $23,000,000 and all the embat
tled typewriters which say no.
What is the use of thinking against the
force of such arrayed propaganda?
q q q
THE fun of self-government used to be dis
cussing and voting on such questions as
whether 51-100 of 1 per cent of alcohol
made an intoxicating drink, whether or not
mince pie .was a beverage, whether or not wc
should paint our constitution red.
But $23,000,000 and William Jennings
Bryan say wc may not even raise such ques
tions as the first two. ,
And A. Mitchell 'Palmer, another propa--ganda
statesman, says it is an "act of hate"
to discuss the second.
LudendorfE should tome, over here aud see
where our propaganda, which he admired
so much, has left us, and he would extract
some mild satisfactions from defeat.
A dispatch from Sharon, Pa., sajs that
the presbytery has decided to raise the sala
ries of all its ministers. This action was
taken aftert was learned that a number of
the ministers were ubout to leave the pulpit
for other fields of labor. The text for next
Sunday probably will be "The laborer is
worthy of his hire."
A wild man is said to be at large in the
neighborhood of Clayton, N. J. He has
perhaps been reading of the futile effoits
being made in Trenton to revive John Bar
leycorn, nnd it would make him good and
mad.
Far be it from us to draw invidious dis
tinctions. We simply draw attention to the
fact that while Mayor Moore is studying a
pure water supply New Jersey is battling
for beer.
Admiral Sims's position (.oucerning Sec
retary Daniels appears to be: "Not that I'd
say anything against the gentleman or
iiguinst his character but! "
We are so close to the University o
Pennsylvania that. most of'iis don't know'just
how big and important it is1. But it is never
too late to learn. '
Wonder if the Home Defense members
would have beeu called on to clean the
streets if they bad not alieady been mus
tered out?
Immigrants aie again beginning to flock
to the United States. A little bit of weed
ing out now may save a lot of deportations
in the future.
Among the good deeds recorded, Vare
beneficiaries will credit James M. Hazlett
with a bunch of nice little appointments.
Desperate efforts arc being mado in New
Jersey to resuscitute John Barleycorn but
at lust reports ho btill looked like a corpse,
"Slush!" nowadays Js descriptive as
well as exclamatory.
---.'' i i st - !& wmj&'WidW-iai'uemimvraemnvwimm'Si if &fmivJrt
Jupiter PliivhiH isn't to bo sneezed ut
as u street cleaner. l
The iiitlueuza germ rontluues to nut in
a twenty-four-hour working (w, "
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VERS LIBRE
mlllS modern fad "free verse"
Goes on from bud to worse,
And makes mo tired nnd sick;
Unto the tuneful chime "
Of words that fit and rhyme
Let all the poets stick.
The meanings seem to be
Beyond the mind of mo:
Do "free verse" writers know
Just what it's all about?
I often have a doubt.
Just anything will "go."
T wonder if the things
Are thought to move with wings? '
No proper "feet" wc findT
They do not seem to cheer
Us plodding mortihs here:
We like Lo'ngfellow's"kind.
Come, fellow bardlets, curse
With me the name "free verse" ;
Wc write our "poems" free;
The papers grab them all,
Then let the mandate fall
"No pay for poetry."
MAUD F. JACKSON.
Perhaps some of tho workless Council
clerks could be given jobs cleaning snow from
the streets.
Perusal of the newspapers would seem
to indicate that Mayor Moore is not suffer
ing from ennui these days.
The crowd in Munich that sing
"Deutschland TJber Alles" was lacking in
sense of humor." v
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What Do You Know?
QUIZ
What European nation has adopted
prohibition policy, restricting the sail
of alcoholic drinks to very light wines
and official beer of minimum spirituous
content?
How was this law passed?
AVho was the ice-presidential candidate
on tho ticket with Roosevelt in tbi
" presidential campaign of 1912?
AA'ho is Alice Mcynell?
AVhcre is Rusinia?
AA'hat is the correct pronunciation o'
the word "ghoul"?
How many states have to ratify tie
suffrage amendment in order to incor
porate it in the constitution?
Name two southern states which rejected
the amendment.
What is the meaning of the musical
term "bouche fermee"?
AVho was Hugh Capet?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
Admiral von Capelle, former head of the
German admiralty, has fled into Swit
zerland to escape extradition by the
Allies.
"A- feather in your cap" means n
honor to you. The allusion is to tbe
Asiatic and American Indian custom
. of adding a new feather to hcadge't
for every enemy slain.
S.
Apuleius was a Roman Platonic phi
losopher and rhetorician, author of in' .
famous romauce, "The Metamorphose
or the Golden Ass."
Iu fixing the center of population the
nation is conceived as a plane on which
each individual is a unit of tbe same
weight. Tho center of population l
the pivot or balancing point,
"Faux pas," describing a breach of
manucrs or moral conduct, litcrsllJ
means "false step,"
It should bo pronounced ns though it
wero spelled "fo pah."
Bangkok is the capital of Siam, i
Florida was ceded by Spain to tbe UnlW
States in 1810.
John Milton points out that tho bibllrtj
phrabo "Evil communications corrupt
good munnera," is an echo of a fsmoui
line In the fireek classical drama.
Georgi- Washington was born i" W"! -I
uiorclaud comity, A"a near the eooUU i
enco ot Bridges creek aud tue ivi ' 1J
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