""'-" .., ira V sp?" f-,7r ; "tei WatmS0&mKM i? ,' I T. I M f. ft. ;& m F (0- 4 10 lurching public lEefcger TUDLIC LEDCER COMPANY fi. iCT?,ua "j. K CUIlTla. TftrsinexT Mf H. T.udlntcm. Vice Prenldent! John C. V,5LtJl5sSrtrM,t,:'ry anl Trcn surer: Philip S.Collins. John n, Williams, John J. Bpurgeon. mrctor. EDITOniAI, BOARD: Ctnus IT. K. Cebtis. Chairman PAV1D E. SMILEY .....Editor ' JOtIN C. MARTIN.... General Dullness Manager ' Published dally nl PcaLio Lbdoeh nulldlntr, k Independence (Square, l'hllii.l-lplllu. Atlantic CiTt Press-Union Bulldlnit Tw York sou Metropolitan Tower tsoit 701 Ford Bulldlnpc Ht. Louis Kins Fullerton liulldlnK Cuicaoo 1302 Tribune Building NEWS BUREAUS: TVisniNOTON BonrAD. N. K. Cor. Pennsylvania Ave. and 14th St. Niw Yobk tttnttuu. The Sim HulldlnR Lo.ndon DunciU London Times SUBSCMPTION TKUMS The Etbnino runuo Uxam is served to sub Acrlbeea in Philadelphia and surrounding towns t tho rate of twelvo (12) cents per week, peyablu a the carrier. By mall to points outsldo of Philadelphia. In the United States. Canada, or United States pos sessions, postage tree, fifty (SO) cents per month. ix (fO) dollnrs per year, payable In advance. To all forelBn countries ono (II) dollar par Inonth. Notice Subscribers wishing address chanted must clve old as well aa new address. BEI.L, 3000 WALNUT KLYSTONE. MAIN 3000 KTAddres.i nil communications to Evcnlnp Piiblia Ledger, Independence Scruare, Philadelphia. Member of the Associated Press THE ASSOCIATED PRESS is exclu slvclu entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local ncnos published therein. All rights of republication of special dis patches herein arc alsojyscrved. Philadelphia, Thursday, February 12, 1920 POLICEMEN'S WAGES TUIERE is one sure method by which - policemen and firemen may be kept out of politics, if by politics we mean the questionable activities of warring factions. They can be made independent of graft by a decent wage system and thus encouraged to hold themselves and their service in higher respect. Mayor Moore seems to have had that method in mind yesterday when he flatly suggested a five-dollar-a-day wage for patrolmen and a substantial increase for men in the Fire Department. Our own suggestion for a five-dollar rate of pay for men in the police service was printed over a year ago. The poli ticians said at that time that it was im possible. Nothing of the sort is impos sible. The Mayor speaks as if he knows how the money may be obtained and we hope, for the sake of the city as well as for the police themselves, that he will be able to find it. END OF THE BAR SIGNS A RT always did shun the gaudy saloon " signs. Such proclamations are now not only tasteless, but ironical. H. M. Gaylord, the federal assistant prohibi tion commissioner, insists that all these mendacious bulletins be removed. Opinions on the eighteenth amendment have differed. But the glaring gilding which announced spirituous beverages had few esthetic defenders. MGch of the ugliness of American cities was at tributable to saloons. Now that they no longer function there is not the slightest excuse for continuing tho disfigurement. Philadelphia will bt? vastly improved in appearance when the last mocking liquor advertisement is scrapped. LINCOLN AND THE INDIVIDUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN shares the fate of most great men in the manifold interpretations put upon his character as tha years roll by. Most Americans view Lincoln from intimately personal angles. His humor, his humanity, his tenderness, his clear vision, his vigor, his statesman ship, exert varying appeals on varying individuals. Lively disputes have been waged over what qualities predominated. John Dnnkwater, an English poet, has lately given us an almost humorless Lincoln. The conception has been applauded, ad mired and aho severely criticized. The confusion is more apparent than real. Our historical proximity to Lin coln, the loving care with which every recollection of him has been treasured and collated has perhaps made his char acter seem more complex than it really was. But the breadth of his interests is incontestable and is an index of the immortal potency of his influence on our life. It is a comparatively simple mat ter to define the character of a small man. The national figure we honor today , was defined by Lowell as "the first American." America, too, is many-sided, and it is in the variety of the ennobling conceptions ivc entertain of this nation's meaning and destiny that we make it rich. BALLOTS INSTEAD OF BAYONETS "1ERMAN newspaper correspondents concede that the first zone will be won by the Danes." The temptation to regard this Berlin dispatch as a mis print is difficult to resist. Has Europe suddenly taken to American election lingo? Impossible! Europe speaks in bayonets, not ballots. Hasn't it fought war after war for little Schleswig? The cables must be crossed. Such at least is the pessimist's possi ble deduction. But he is wrong. The wires are in excellent order and they are humming with quite the most cheering vindication of the peace treaty that has been manifested for some time. Here is Schleswig one of Europe's cockpits. Denmark had held it and lost it. Mixed races in the district made it a continual menace to peace. Prussia grabbed the region in 18GC. Denmark protested, unavailingly. In the war she took no sides simply waited r0 see whether justice would prevail. And now Germans entitled to vote in the peace treaty plebiscite have poured into Schleswig. They have paraded and cheered. If torchlight processions were not out of date they probably would have got up a few. Anyhow they election eered, peacefully, legitimately. So did tho Danes. They, too, those who fulfilled the conditions, came home. There were Danlsh processions, there was Danish campaigning. There were orations, stamp speeches all the trimmings. Democrats and Republicans have not bn more enthusiastically excited and .. were orderly. wny, K's an cnougn to maite one lose fakh in the arbitrament of war. It is indd, If much of this sort of' thing ypAt. on. self-determination may take on "' n witkit meaning, t Th ww of course, had to be fought in order to prevent Germany from think ing medievally. Fair play to Denmark is certainly one tangible result. It is optional with the people of Schleswig whether they will cry "Hochl" to Herr Ebert or "Skaal" to King Christian. Somebody should have thought of the plebiscite anti-strife cure a little sooner. It is conceivable that it could have solved many an international problem big with the stuff 6f needless tragedy. HIGH COST OF POLITICS IN STREET CLEANING Chief Hepburn's Disclosures Put the Issue of Cleanliness and Economy Right Up to Director Winston npHE statements made by Donald M. Hepburn, chief of the Bureau of Street Cleaning, to the effect that the city is not getting full value for the money spent on street cleaning are defi nite and specific. He says that the city is paying at least twice as much for the work done as it costs the contractors. He is not content with generalizations, but goes into detail. For example, Senator Vare has con tracts for keeping clean the streets in two districts. He receives at the rate of $4182 a day. On January 29 he had 367 men at work, paid at the rate of $3.50 a day for most of them. The foremen get more. But at the rate of S3.50 his pay roll for January 29 was $1284.50. Al lowing for the higher pay for the fore men, it could not have reached a total of more than $1600. Allowing $500 for the maintenance of the wagons and horses at work, we have $2000 outlay against $4182 income on the two contracts. Similar conditions, he declared, prevail in the other districts where other con tractors are employed. It is because of these conditions that Mr. Hepburn feels warranted in saying that he could clean the streets of the city for $1,000,000 a year less than is now paid. This statement might be discounted were it not for the fact that Mr. Hep burn is an engineer of wide experience and high' achievement in handling large undertakings. He has merely taken into the Street Cleaning Bureau the methods that he has employed in conducting busi ness for his previous employers. That is, he has applied ordinary business standards to public work. 'The result is a severe indictment of the kind of business administration we have had for the last four years at least, the years during which the bids for street cleaning have been raised every year on the excuse of the higher cost of labor until the contracts now in force call for the expenditure of more than twice as much money as before the war. And politics, Mr. Hepburn points out, is at the bottom of the trouble. The specifications, which he believes were drafted with political intent, provide that the contractor shall employ a sufficient force to clean the streets "in a manner satisfactory to the chief." There is no standard of cleanliness save that which the chief wishes to enforce upon the con tractor who secured his appointment to office at a time when contractors con trolled appointments in the City Hall. But this is not all. Mr. Hepburn says that "every man, from the contractor down to the laborer who cleans out a sewer inlet, tries to have a political pull." Under these circumstances the clear and definite provisions of the specifica tions and there are such could have been disregarded by the contractors if the chief were "satisfied" with a per functory performance of the work. One has only to look at the condition of the streets at the present time to un derstand Mr. Hepburn's charges. The contracts require the cleaning of the snow from all cross walks for a width of eight feet and for keeping all fire hydrants, sewer inlets and gutters clear of snow. But this has not been done. The men necessary to do it were not employed. Still worse, the capacity of the trucks used to cart away the snow has been misrepresented in many in stances, so that the city would be charged for ten cubic yards of snow carted away on a truck with a capacity for six and a half cubic yards. If one wishes to be charitable one might say that this mis representation of the capacity of a truck was due to the ignorance of the inspector. Those who wish to do so may make this explanation. Mr. Hepburn has ordered the con tractors to put men enough on the streets to clean them and to keep them clean. Under the provisions of the specifica tions that the chief must be satisfied provision inserted for political reasons he fortunately has complete power in the premises. But Mr. Hepburn will not remain at the head of the Street Cleaning Bureau after March 1. On that date he takes charge of the construction work on the state highways, because Director Wins ton, of the Department of Public Works, did not immediately consolidate the high way bureaus and put him at the head of the whole work of street repair and cleaning at an adequate salary. Mr. Hepburn could have been retained in the service of the city if there had been immediate appreciation of the impor tance of putting a first-class engineer in charge of the streets and allowing him to apply business principles to the work. The disclosures of wasteful use of pub lic funds, however, ought to lead Di rector Winston to repair the mistake which he made at the beginning. This can be done by creating a single bureau of streets and by putting at its head the most capable engineer whom he can find. It would be cheaper for the city to pay such a man $10,000 or $20,000 than to allow the old conditions to continue. In fact, they cannot be allowed to con tinue without discrediting the new ad ministration. But this will not be enough. Mr. Hepburn has discovered that there are persons in the Department of Public Works who make it their business to in form outsiders affected by what is going on of all action contemplated in advance of that action. He cites the case of a letter on official business dictated to a stenographer, the contents of which were telephoned to outsiders before it had been returned in typewriting for his sig- Mr. Winston may be waiting for more evidence of the unfaithfulness of some of the people in his o$ice, but he cannot wait EVENING PTJBLI6 LEDGER - much longer, in view of what Mr. Hep burn has disclosed, OUR SENSITIVE SENATORS QENATOR BORAH and Senator Knox, crying out with dramatic suddenness against what they, with characteristic perversity, call the "cruelty" of the terms imposed on Germany, ran true to form. They provide fresh justification for the belief that influential opinion in the Sen ate is often at least six months behind the rational opinion of the rest of the world. . Criticism of the peace terms, expres sive of bitter dissatisfaction with many of the, conditions imposed upon the de feated peoples, is not new nor is it re flective in any sense of pro-Germanism. In tho days last July when the treaty was first submitted to the Senate a sc ries of Washington dispatcher to this newspaper explicitly predicted wide spread antagonism to clauses which seemed to have been written ut Versailles with the obvious purpose of rendering the Germans economically hopeless for all time. But this view was not based upon any thoughts of cruelty. It happened that Germany fought the wnr with systematic and deliberate cruelty unparalleled in human history. Her people had no legiti mate claim to the world's compassion. Certain economic clauses in the treaty were objected to because they seemed un workable, impossible of even temporary application and wholly destructive of such hopes of future peace as all peoples had cherished during four almost in tolerable years. Since that time many of the ablest leaders of opinion in this country, in England and in France have expressed similar convictions. Mr. Asquith and even Lloyd George now admit the need of a policy less rigorous and venge ful than that implied in the treaty. Genera1 criticism culminated in the book lately published by John M. Keynes, who was chief representative of the British treasury at the" Peace Conference until he resigned his post in the midst of the deliberations to express his disap proval of a new policy of allied imperial ism which, he believed, was apparent in the nature and extent of the indemnities imposed on Germany. Mr. Keynes, it now appears, was wrong in many of his assumptions. David Hunter Miller was chief legal adviser to the American peace commission at Paris. In formal replies to Mr. Keynes he is able to quote the text of the treaty and prove that the Allies had no intention of collecting approximately $40,000,000,000 from Germany. This vast indemnity is mentioned in the text of the settlement, but it is referred to as a debt. It exists as a moral symbol rather than a claim. No provision for its collection is made. What the Germans will be asked to pay is $10,000,000,000. They cannot be asked for more unless there is unanimous agreement in the reparations commission to press further claims. The question, therefore, is whether rep resentatives of all civilized nations, in cluding the United States, would unite in a policy of .oppression such as would lead to fresh chaos and new eruptions at the heart of Europe. Recently, too, there has been an extensive revision downward of the totals of coal, metals and shipping demanded from Germany. The end of that process is not yet. What is clear is that the Allies are actually thinking in constructive terms and acting with a forbearance unknown to. the Germans themselves. The old danger that an enslaved and desperate remnant of the German empire might be driven into the arms of Russia to foment new wars on civilization is passed. If Germany withdraws under any pre text from tho circle of European civili zation it will be because of her own desire for trouble. The regrettable thing is that the treaty terms seem to have been made deliberately ambiguous to satisfy outraged and depressed peoples until a calmer interval arrived. Germany is ac tually being treated with mercy. And yet Mr. Borah and Mr. .Knox rise in the Senate to talk of the cruelty of the terms! EXPLODING A MYSTERY T)R. JOHN H. YOUNG, of Johns Hop--' kins, gives a cheering account of the President's physical condition. He also states that Jlr. Wilson suffered from cerebral thrombosis, which is a technical way of stating that he had a clot on the brain, incapacitating the left arm and leg, but not at any time mentally. His recovery is now a happy certainty. Most of this could have been told be fore. It would have stifled many ru mors some merely silly, some offensive. The concern of the American people with the health of their President is not necessarily cither impertinently inquisi tive or malignant. Progress of the whole machinery of government is closely dependent upon the condition of the Chief Magistrate. The mystery about Mr. Wilson's illness was not good for the nation. The physicians, who were so scrupu lous about professional etiquette, were not treating an ordinary patient or a private individual. Gossip throve on this somewhat blind indifference to facts. The fact that the plan Armi mid the Men for universal military training is apparently dead Is no indicurion that statesmen ur the people at large ore opposed to preparedness. It is simply an expressed opinion that no measure can be wholly satisfactory until the world has come to a decision as to the neces sity for preparedness ; and that there is no present indication that the plan suggested would meet the needs of nny even remotely mijer-ttired contingency. Labor trouble is de bate's Little Game laying the manufac ture and delivery of structural bteel; which is deluying building operations; which is keeping up rents; which has its effect in divers other directions in the matter of boosting prices ; which com pletes one of about 10,000 vicious rircles whieh Fute is throwing at his cute little ring board. Snow is costing New II1U Knocks Biz York 5,000,000 a day, according to an esti mate made by the Merchants' Association of that city. It is possible, judging from ex periences in other cities, that inefficiency is responsible for part of the bill. There is ghastly significance in the fact that uu undertaker is umoug the men charged with selling the wood alcohol which caused scores of deaths in New England cities. PHILADELPHIA', THURSDAY, FEBRUARY THE GOWNSMAN X The Snow IS IT ngc, or the high cost" of living, or that the times are out of joint? Your Gownsman confesses to less alacrity of blood, less Jblithcsompucss of spirit, nwant of readiness In the use of hearty superlatives of praise than has been his wont in' times gone by when he contemplates tho activities, the rigorositles of winter. A biting, sleet Hinging wind that persistently faces you around four sides of n block and then ilattcos you off of the sidewalk with a vicious whirl from behind; on ice-coated pavement concealing its Blithcrlincss beneath an innocent-looking coverlid of snow, deceiving the unwary who tread too uprightly ; n mushy slush Hint insinuates its ooze and slime into the defective perfections of your $17 shoes and bespatters your exorbitantly costly cheap overcoat arc these things in the nature of winter sports V There is u pride of the tlesh, the- (townsman doubts not, in breasting Boreas with open throat a la Walt Whitman ami streaming beard if one possesses one to stream. There is a gambler's delight, very likely to such as b gamblers, in traipsing ankle-deep in new snow, spread impartially on ice. in that it is matter for divination to foretell the angle, of your next lurch forward, sidewise or backward or to prognosticate to any degree of uncertainty where anatomically you are likely to strike when you fall next. And there arc likewise joys of winter which only the commuter knows and over which charity would fain draw a veil. mllB snow? Ah, yes, there is the beau-- tiful, driving, dancing, scurrying, piling snow; covering the millionaire's outBldc window greenery and other folk's ash cans and garbage pails with an impartial blanket of white, concealing alike the untidinesses of householders and the iniquities of con tractors who only contract. Rep how it is drifting across the street onto your side. Look how It swirls off of every roof in the neighborhood except your own, which it overburdens to the prospective enrichment of roofers. And that pavement did you realize how huge it !b? You havo just paid o brigand with a shovel a new $2 bill to clean it off, nnd he has escaped with the job half done nnd the bill wholly pocketed. And now it is snowing again; nnd with in credible devotion to duty tho policeman politely reminds you of your obligation as a householder to keep the footway clear. In desperation you arm for the fray: an old comforter, a pair of moth-eaten mittens if you are so fortunate as to find them that short, discarded, misfit overcoat if Mary has not given it nwny the heater shovel, which, accustomed to warmth and the handling of the black stuff which some people call coal develops an unaccountable decrepitude in the frigid job of handling snow. You nre not proud ; but somehow you don't just manage to get at it until toward nightfall, nnd as soon as you arc unmistakably at work your aristocratic next-door neighbor, who always comes home about half-past 3 o'clock and in meeting whom you usually put on airs, arrives late "from the. city" with a cheery: "Hello, old man! Glad to see you taking a little exer cise." And that fashionable Mrs. In-the-Swim, with whom you had a flirtation be fore you met Mary, rolls by in her limousine ond recognizes you only too unmistakably, alas! THERE is n certain exhilaration about a Miowstorm none the less; it expands the heart and loosens the tongue. "Good morning" to the postman is said with an un usual cordiality, with n word ' about the hardship of his job. Von foigive the belated milkman hi belatednc.is. this time, and the scores of empty bottles which he. leaves un gnthcred in his diligence, thereby increasing the cost of milk to you. You even step into a snowdrift for the "charwoman rare creature to condescend to work in these days of opulence and, with yjjur best Sir Wal ter Raleigh manner on, speak pleasantly, dissembler that you are. You keep your temper and turn it off flippantly when the plumber lordly personage that he is and now comes after a tenth summoning to "in spect" that burst water pipe that is flood ing the cellar is "compelled" to send back his nssistant for the third time for a wrench, which never came in kit but must be personally conducted alone and in state from the shop to your house, time running on the job, the only active thing, mean while. HAS the reader noticed the difference which a snowstorm makes in the usual sounds of the city? The deep general un dertone of traffic, which vibrates on the street and through the ground, has ceased, muffled and stifled in its tracks, and in place of it one hears with peculiar distinct ness individual sounds. Trains which are usually scarcely audible in the general roar now go their way puffing into the distance or drawing nearer and nearer as they glide over bridges to stop, tooting for signals to proceed. The trolley lines, quieted as to noise upon the track, make it up in vocifer ous clanging of bells that wayfarers who have taken to the middle of the road may hurry into drifts for safety. Voices seem to carry further in the snow-laden air, and conversations arc bawled out across the street and continued as the speakers draw away in opposite directions. THE Gownsman Knows not why. but to liim a graveyard has always seemed. a something pre-eminently weird ond signifi cant in the time of a fall of snow. Every tomb ond obelisk has received its bit or its mass of added whiteness, lodging in strange places, distorting monuments of pride into shapes odd and bizarre, festooning the trees and draping the shrubbery as with a new and impressive mourning and spreading n pall of purity, as with the equal hand of grace and benediction, on Hie graves of saints and sinners alike. AND now the sun is out once more and the white world smiles. Every bough will lose its feathery spray and every tree will shed its wintry blossoms, ond the pure gilt of the skies will be trodden in the footways ami ground in me streets, carteu, dumped nnd polluted ; smoke will sully even the whiteness of the roofs. We are strange creatures, we of the cities, living forever in the grime. Wherefore let us speed the going of the snow. Since Lord Astor took his seat in the British House of Lords on Tuesday and Lady Astor will rise from hers in the Ilritish House of Commons to speak on the liquor question, may the Astors be properly con sidered as flowers of speech? There is no immediate likelihood that the genuineness or falsity of spiritism will be decided by the trial of the case of Rinn vs. .Tnn. The issue is not yet joined, the parties being divided on questions of venue and methods of procedure. The Bibulous One declares that It is not the prohibition commissioner but tho 8. I. O. A. that should prosecute those who dis play liquor signs. The Golden Dustman has nothing on the contractor in a city where street sweepings mean fat pickings. The liquor question is no longer, "Wnat'll you have?" l1WU(. (.J&i&ta FROM DAY TO DAY tffrpHE great propor- X Hnn nf tliij Ttorl Platitudinous group nre unnaturalized Perfunctory Patriotism uncus, hiiu- niiu.u.i uu n , j. promptly examined nnd, rup urvus am tv tfhen the evidence jus tifies it, deported." "Need of a more rigid and thorough inspection of the quality of our immigrants." Proud, Outspoken Fellows Prove Two and Tivo Are Four Peas in a Pod Are They. "Public indifference in these vitally im portant matters is one of the great sources of danger within our household. "- "Wc are proud of the fact that America has been n refuge for the oppressed of all nations." "This government is going to continue to be established." "When the immigrant comes to our shores he should promptly be brought under the strongest Americanizing influences." And finally! "I believe that 03 per cent of all classes of people want to do the right thing." Platform of all the presidential candidates. i q q T HE words are General Wood's. He hap pens to be the last to say .them, on "General Wood's Page." But the thoughts are the thoughts of Mitchell Palmer, Miles Poindexter, Warren Hnrding, Frank Lowdcn, Governor Cool idge, Nicholas Murray Butler, Senator Suth erland and a hundred others. It is the great issue of 1020 and it is no issue. Everybody is for it. For every Red left here now that Palmer is through, there is a presidential candidate who believes that "03 per cent of the people want to do right ; that America is tho refuge of the oppressed ; that the immigrant should be Americanized, and that the bad immigrant who does get in should be sent home." Right from the shoulder! No weasel word in the whole profession of faith ! q q q THE Reds have given the poor weasel words a great respite this year. If you ore running for President you do not say: "I bejjeve that the alien Red, if proved before a court of competent jurisdic tion to have preached doctrines 'genuinely subversive to our institutions, should be de ported, but extreme care must be token not to impair the precious right upon which our government was founded to agitate vigorously and effectively for a change of government." No; you let the. little weasel words havo a rest and you plump out boldly, "Deport the Reds!" q q q THE enthusiasm of the presidential candi dates for the anti-Red issue und the unanimity with which they nre saying "This government must .and shall be preserved" show that they do, not use weasel words from choice, but from what they feel to be necessity. They are stout, outspoken fellows. Give them a chance to say "Two and two ore four" and 'they shout, each louder than the other, "Two und two are four!" And such of them us, like General Wood, have "Pages" In magazines sit down and write enough words to fill heir allotted space, "Two and two are four.',' No one of them writes cautiously; "Two and two in common experience ore four, but some Einstein may come along und provo that they arc only relatively four. "It has long been known that mathemati cal principles have weight. "And the effect of gravitation on mathe matical principles has not been sufficiently studied. "But when it is demonstrated that only for practical workaday affairs are two and two four, I pledge myself to be the first to recog nize it." Not one of them! q q q YET 1020 is supposed to be an uuusually good year for weasels. There is one Republican candidato who is t titling on the platform that be has more 12, 1920 THE BRIBE OF BRASS Platforms weasels than nny of his rivals aud uses them more constantly. He carries the nnti Red appeal so far that he says: "There has been too much red blood in the presidency ever since 1SD0. Give the weasels a chance." q q q , .. ,, vusui r urui A WRITER in the English Review says when you think of large circulation an inward monitor counsels stupidity. The presidential candidates have their minds set upon the largest circulation there is, the suffrages of 100,000,000 people, twice as large a circulation this time as evpr be fore, for there nre the women. Docs this mean doubling the weasels? And the result isn't brilliancy. Can nliy one remember a word that lias been said so for in this campaign, except "Deport the Reds" and "03 per cent of the people are right"? But the large circulation the presidential candidates get is not of the kind that shows in the postoflicc statements of the magazines and newspupers. , People would rather vote for n presidential candidnte than read him ! Consider tho magazines which hove n pres idential candidate always on their backs. Mr, Bryan's pallid little Commoner, Mr. La Follcttc's equally bloodless paper what ever its mime is, Henry Ford's gnsolincless Independent and the magazines with presi dential candidates' "Pages"! Weasels! q q q THEY keep the candidate's weasel away from the candidate's press agents, how ever. One of them writes quite personally : Now, (name of newspaper correspond ent without Mr.), I know I can trust you to give a boost to this Lincoln-like personality" the LincolnMike personality beingI loward Sutherland, of West Virginia. q- q q A ND another: village of 200 soula, the folks are holding dally political rallies. Sometimes they meet in the "city hall," a one-room structure that tops a rise at the bend of the Sunrise river; sometimes in Andrew Kind's general store. And when the trail permltB, tho Sunrise folks journey to North Branch, a sister town some ten miles dis tant, and meet jointly with tho enthusias tic there. At the conclusion of each rally, State Representative Kilns Nordgren, or S. W. Itunyan, or Henry Voss, or Silas lioyce, or some other booster, will leap to his feet and shout: "All right, boys; three eheere for our next Tresldent, our native son, Frank O. Lowden !" The cheers are always lubty. Yet it was of this prido of rural simplicity that Mr. Boies Penrose remarked : "I never knew a feller to ride into the presidency in u Pullinun parlor car!" Senators Knox nud Borah denounce the peace treaty's economic clauses us "cruel" and "murderous.," The treaty Itself pro vides for modification when wise and neces sary. Present concern for a cruel and wan ton assailant of civilization savors pretty much of the sickly sentimentality that carries flowers tu criminals. The German crown prince in offering to surrender to the Allies, is now said to have acted on the impulso of tho moment. Per haps if he were called he might hearken to the voice of sober second thought. If New York can't dig herself out in nny other way, perhaps she might be uble to borrow Philadelphia's Boy Scouts. pother thing that helps Herbert Hoover is Senittor Borah's enmity --tX. 1,'jj BiBjffi 3158 -" Jf Sft A. J. jw Philosophy of an Infant (Through the nursery window the wester ing sun strikes aslant a crib. The child's expression presages laughter or tears; one cannot be sure which.) B' ABY, you dear. Do you smile or ween? Baby, you seer, Is Life's mystery deep, Clear, ns tho sunlight strong in your eyes? Does it make you blink in stern surprise When grown-ups cogitate, solcmnwise? Do you bring us a hint from your Other Land That wc the better may understand The secret you keep Baby, you seer, Baby, you dear, Is Life nt onco. to smile and weep? TONY The Young Lady Next Door But One says that perhaps the reason Uncle Sam wasn't nt the meeting of the League of Na tions was becnuse he was at the meeting of the American League of Baseball. Street-cleaning contractors give point to the aucient story of tho immigrant who ex pected to pick up golden dollars from the thoroughfares of American cities. T'.l7fltr flftff lino liie Amt T Qnlilrtcii'if . ... v . j -( uo .o wuj kjv.mvan ' uiu uiicumiuim nas uccu fcuccecuca uy me great Dane. , Fate displayed her well-known irony in permitting the League ot Nations to meet with Uncle Sam absent. We rather suspect that street-cleaning contractors arc opposed to efficiency expert!. What Do You Know? QUIZ AVhnt territory of the United States 1 putting forth statehood claims, backed by its governor? Name two comedies by William Wy cherly, the noted dramatist ot the British restoration period. What ugc did Abraham Lincoln attain! Name three wars of the United Slat" which began in the month of April. What color is made by mixing red and black? Where is the largest bell in the wowf? Who designed the famous steamer the Great Eastern? What library in the world contains the most volumes? What Is a kickshaw? What is a thole? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz Norway has recently adopted u prohi bition policy restricting the sale of alcoholic drinks to very light wine' und official beer of minimum spirituous content. Tho law was passed by a referendum In which women and men voted. Hiram .Tohnson was the vice presidential candidate on the ticket with Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1012. Alice Meynell is a contemporary En? lish poet and essayist. Rusiniu is an autonomous state of tli Uhro-Rusln people in the new republic of Czccho-Slovakia, The word "ghoul" should "be pronounced as though It were spelled "gool." It is necessary for thirty-six !atM.'" ratify tho suffrage amendment in oraer to make it operative. Mississippi and South Carolina are two states which rejected the amendment. i. 8. 0, 10. The musical term "bouchc icrmef. describes vocal .humming, Literally tlie Frc'ith phrase means ' mo'1"1 iIrtoil. Hugh Capet founded the line of I'V"'1 ij kings from whom tho n'url)on'5,n il cenqeu, tie reigueu iroro uci w - IT - . rv- L&. .,'. ,-fJ
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