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CIVIC IMPROVEMENTS AND ART
MAYOR MOORE'S doctrine of utili
tarian beauty, as expounded before
the City Parks Association the other
night, is not new, but it is always worth
emphasizing. As an example of how not
to exemplify it, he referred pointedly and
frankly to one of the most futilely ex
travagant projects ever railroaded
through Congress the act authorizing
the construction of the harbor of refuge
at Cape May,
Foreign engineers have laughed at that
foolish undertaking, but the cost of fur
niolting them with fun has been some
what too great to be comfortably appre
ciated at home, save by those whom the
Mayor described as "the then reigning
statesmen."
In contrast Mr. Moore cited tho prime
necessity of the Delaware bridge, promis
ing preliminary work within six months,
and the need of rehabilitating the Dela
ware and Chesapeake and Delawaic and
Raritan canals. Although beauty should
receive expert consideration, it is the
wants which such enterprises will fill
that most commend them to public at
tention. The claims of art, important as they
are, are often misconceived. The French
erected an attractive statue at Colon, but
they did not build the Isthmian canal,
x It is possible to balance values better
than that. The Camden bridge can bo
made tasteful and still respectful of the
service it owes to two municipalities.
Mr. Moore is quite correct in regarding
it as of more consequence than a hand
some haibor of refuge in which nobody
wants to hide. . '
SOVIET INSURANCE
l"PHE New York Life Insurance Co. has
announced that the soviet government
of Russia has assumed all its obligations
x in that country and has taken possession
of its Russian assets to enable it to meet
the obligations.
The significance of this action,' so far
as it can be judged at this distance, lies
in its apparent revelation of the purpose
of the soviet government to protect those
who are insured in the company.
That is, the government has appar
ently abandoned its policy of confiscation
and it is attempting to conserve the
wealth of the country.
If this be the correct view, then ex
treme radicalism is being abandoned and
common sense is beginning to govern.
ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE
rpiIOMAS A. EDISON, who said on his
seventy-third birthday that it was
possible that Marconi is correct when he
says that wireless electric messages can
be sent as far as Mars, did not make an
astounding admission.
No man of science at the present time
i3 so rash as to deny the possibility of
anything. He may regard this, that or
the other as improbable, but so many
wonderful things have been done that
he keeps an open mind.
As an instance of the once unbeliev
able, Mr. Edison has cited the audion in
vented by Lee de Forest, which is so deli
cate and responsive thabwhrn a fly walks
over tho transmitter the sound is magni
fied to such an extent that it would shat
ter the eardrums of a person listening at
the receiver. Now, suggests the electri
cal wizard, if the men of the earth can do
such a thing what cannot the men of
Mars do, who are said to be as far su
perior to us as we are to the chimpanzee?
MARSHALL AS A CANDIDATE
ylCE PRESIDENT MARSHALL is
being trotted out as a possible har
mony candidate for the Democrats.
Senator Walsh, of Massachusetts, is said
to be able to control the thirty-six dele
gates from his state and possibly the
total eighty-eight from New England. If
he desires it the Massachusetts delegates
will present his name to the convention.
But Senator Walsh leans stiongly to
ward the Vice President, and Mr. Mar
shall can have the Indiana delegation if
ho wishes it.
Former Senator Bailey, of Texas, and
Senator Reed, of Missouri, are working
for anti-administration delegations to
San Francisco from their states. It is
not yet disclosed whether they will back
Marshall, but if they do it will bo neces
sary to eliminate the word harmony when
opeaking of his candidacy.
Thin talk is interesting, but it is not
important nearly five months in advance
of the convention. It will continue, how
over, until the President himself lets his
iews bo known. Then all but the re
calcitrants will follow the bell wether.
WHY NAVAL FACTS ESCAPED US
(ADMIRAL SIMS'S charge that "during
the war the public's ignorance on
military and naval affairs was colossal"
& an indiptment that can hardly be se
riously disputed. Indeed, while the fight
jiff was on, the opinion generally pre
vailed that curiosity on those subjects
'was unpatriotic.
, CWftciaJiin Washington were uneoia-
municativc. Naval commanders sta
tioned abroad said very little for publi
cation. The army chieftains seldom an
nounced their plans to laymen. It was
difficult at times for even the most en
ergetic news services to discover just
what was going on.
The value of such reticence was so re
peatedly emphasized that the public came
to believe that too much discussion of
military and naval matters might play
into the hands of the foe. Now that it is
all over wc realize, even more than we
did during the conflict, how uninformed
wo were.
, Moreover, tho thought is hard to dis
pel that if we had asked then for en
lightenment we should not have got any
and would, from official quarters, have
been roundly berated for "perilous prying
in a ciisis.
A YOUNG RAIL UNION WOULD
ROUGH-HOUSE THE COUNTRY!
Threats of a Strike Come, Thus Far, Only
From a Helpless and Unruly Infant
Among the Brotherhoods
MAINTENANCE-OF-WAY men, who
are alone responsible for the new
threat of a railway strike, have the
youngest of the big unions. They were
not organized until the government took
control of the lines. Their recent ma
neuvers, organized independently of the
other big railroad brotherhoods, reveal
the reckless lack of self-control that is
inevitable when great energy is joined
with inexperience.
The union's membership is made up
very largely of track-repair men. It in
cludes some carpenters and bridge work
ers. The maintenance-of-way men
could not tie up the rail system. But
they found, in their short life as a
brotherhood, that threats and gestures
were profitable. So it is not surprising to
find their organization now in the role of
the fierce tiger cub of unionism and de
termined to rough-house the country.
It happens, however, that the main-tcnance-of-way
men have a big dispute
on with the Federation of Labor, which
shows no disposition to support this
latest adventure in industrial terro.ism.
The trainmen's brotherhoods, including
the engineers and firemen, agree in the
general demand for wage increase. But
they have made it plain through their
spokesman at Wafhington, Mr. Lee, that
they are not yet ready to go to the extent
of a strike.
The older brotherhoods, being ex
perienced, are more conservative. The
maintenance-of-way men's organization
is, as we have said, young. It (is head
long. But until it can 'convert all the
other brothei hoods to a policy of wild
unwisdom it will not strike. Alone it
could not stop transportation.
It may be admitted that the wages of
railway men have not kept pace with the
upward flight of living costs.
Whose wages have?
Railroad workers have had better op
portunities than most people to meet,
without hardship, the economic stresses
of the period. Members of the train
men's brotherhoods are the aristocrats
of organized labor. If the President, the
public and the railway executives were
not now doing their utmost to make life
comfortable for the railmen the talk- of
a vast strike now heard in Washington
and at the maintenance-of-way men's
headquarters in Detroit would be less ex
asperating. There will be no strike if Mr. Wilson
sustains Mr. Hine.i, whose view it is, ap
parently, that the people of the country
should have a chance to recover from
their own immense difficulties before they
aie compelled to assume additional burr
dens actually greater than they can bear.
All f.rm olrler brotherhoods have car
ried on their negotiations lately with pa
tience and without violent talk. One
belligeient union' has sent its represent
atives to Washington to threaten the
government and to take advantage of the
unsettled state of affairs in the railroad
administration.
These men are exalted with a sense of
power that is far from being justified.
They represent carpenters who draw pay
as high as that earned by locomotive en
gineers. They speak for track workers
whose pay has been increased several
times within the last few years. Yet
they are threatening the country with
paralysis in the demand for more.
This is not scientific. It is irritating
and it is unfair, and, above all, it is un
wise. Recent events made it pretty clear that
you cannot tie up and paralyze any sys
tem of essential utilities in any civilized
nation, no matter what cause you at
tempt to serve by such a method. The
coal strike proved this. The British
railway men have an organization that is
even closer than the American brother
hoods, yet the attempt to paralyze trans
portation in England for a limited period
was a failure.
Opinion not only outside the railway
men's organization, but within it, re
volted. There is a hardening conviction
everywhere in the civiuzeu woria mat
reason must be substituted for violence
and that even when injutice exists sin
cere minds must be given time to deal
with it cleanly and decently.
If the maintenance-of-way men had
wiser leaders they would know all this.
They would know that wc, like the Eng
lish, are a nation of mechanics, Even
a general railway strike in either coun
try could do no more than cripple trans
portation systems and disarrange SChed-
Ul"- ....... .
The instinct of civilization is against
any one who, for any reason, would apply
methods of brutal attrition to a whole
nation.
So schemes such as are talked of by
intemperate leaders of one of the railway
unions will always do iougnt oiucny,
even by people who arc ardent friends of
labor unionism and believers in its logi
cal purposes.
Some of the union leaders at Washing
ton, therefore, have been threatening
what they must know to bo impossible.
Their present appeals arc illogical.
Neither tho government nor the railroad
executives can take any more money out
of the pockets of the rank and file in
America to pay increased wages to one
group of workers for the simple reason
that the pcoplo cannot afford to pay more
than they ure paying now for necessities
EVElNTNG PTJBLIQ LEDGER-
of life affected directly by the costs of
transportation.
The rational way to obtain better
wages for all the brotherhoods, if higher
wages continuo to seem necessary, is
clearly suggested by Mr. Atterbury and
other railway managers, who are prepar
ing to put tho rail lines on a new basis of
efficiency.
It is conceivable that we are approach
ing a time in which the railroads them
selves may be made to produce additional
revenue by improved methods' of opera
tion. Certainly the railroads ought to
do a larger business than they are now
doing. Constantly increasing rates have
diverted a great deal of their business to
other channels. The trend represented
by climbing freight and passenger rates,
and ceaseless demands from employes for
better pay is directly toward lessened
utility and general impoverishment of
tho big lines.
The stimulus of change, the plans now
under way to extend railroad service
everywhere through co-operation be
tween bigvand little systems, and the in
dustrial activity that will follow after
peace 13 declared should bring new pros
perity to all railroads. So increases may
come naturally.
If increases cannot be pledged now the
brotherhoods and their leaders will have
to cultivate the sort of patience without
which most of us could not continue to
exist. The period of transition from fed
eral to private control will be a trying
one for those who control the railways.
The government cannot afford to compli
cate the task by a surrender to any de
mand not based upon logic and justice.
Talk of a general strike is folly. In the
last analysis it will not be interpreted as
an effort to club either the government
or the railroads, but as the attempt of a
wrong-minded union to wring additional
money out of a public whose present diffi
culties are far greater than tho diffi
culties of thoso who are making the de
mand. KEEP HEPBURN ON THE JOB
rpHE way to settle the street-cleaning
business is to keep Donald M. Hep
burn at the head of the Street Cleaning
Bureau. He has already proved that he
is the right man for the job. He is in
terested in keeping the streets clean and
in nothing else. He has already told
more facts about the situation than are
palatable to the contractors, and it is be
lieved that he has more at his disposal
that -will be equally distasteful to the
men who have been paid large sums of
money for removing the filth from the
highways.
If the need for Mr. Hepburn's services
here were put up to Governor Sproul it
is probable that he could be induced to
release him from his agreement to cn'ter
the service of the state on March 1. But
oven if the Governor would consent to
release him, Mr. Hepburn's services can
not be retained by the city unless an ade
quate salary is paid to him. It is pre
posterous to expect an engineer of his
standing to work for $40001 year. He
has demonstrated his ability to save the
city hundreds of thousands of dollars
and he has only just begun to study the
problems of his bureau.
Director Winston, of the Public Works
Department, plans to appoint a commis
sion of experts to inquire into the worth
of the work done by the street-cleaning
contractors, and Chief Hepburn's vigor
ous and fearless methods will be an in
valuable aid to such an inquiry. He is
rapidly accumulating all the facts. It
would be a waste of effort to let Hepburn
go and then pay consulting engineers to
find out what he already knows.
It appears imperatively necessary for
Director Winston to arrange to keep the
present chief of the Street Cleaning Bu
reau on the job and to permit him to go
ahead with the work which he has begun
so well.
KERENSKY'S HINDSIGHT
"DARRING Gogol, the Russians have not
' been notable for a sense of humor.
For that reason it isunlikely that Alex
ander Kerensky was indulging in quaint
irony at his own expense the other day
when he blamed the Allies for having
played into the hands of the Bolshevists
for more than two years.
Historians will argue the subject, but
it is improbable that they will have many
doubts concerning openings which Ker
ensky himself gave to soviet rule. If ever
a statesman proved a "dud" and bungled
his opportunities at a critical period, it
was the former leader of Russia. Con
fronted with the choice of a weak man
with sensible ideas, or a btrong one with
mad notions, the unfortunate Slav
selected the latter.
Kerensky accusing others of misman
aging a difficult situation for which he
was directly responsible is in the posi
tion of a man cutting tho cloth of his
indictment "a bit thick."
Smartly ami specious-
New Was to I.v W. (J. Lee writes
Break Old Pledges the railroad director
that circumstances set
forth compel him to scne notice "as of
January li'l tliat on and after February 'J.V
there is possibility of a strike of the rail
roads. Truly an ingeuious way of. giving
thirty days' notice. Ooc i given reason to
wonder if the gentleman's facts aro not as
mixed as his dates.
Dynamite, like tho
Now Needs New Outfit tornado, sometimes
acts as though it had
n ,scn?c of the ludicrous. An exploding
charge' of dynamite near I'niontown, Pa.,
which broke windows seven miles away, hurt
only the feelings and the modesty of the man
accidentally responsible. It stripped every
stitch of clothing from him, but only bruised
him slightly.
Senator A'aro says it
Winston May Use It was impovsible to use
the entire street -eliuning
plaut nnd force while the snow was
on the ground. That seems reasonable so
far as the plant is concerned, but hardly fits
in the matter of men. There bus been work
enough for the force if the force had been
uscL
A good way to dis
Easily Said courage u footpad is
to follow the reecut
example of a local detective : Take his black
jack away from him and hit him on the head
with it.
If there were good roads throughout all
parts of the country the thought of a rail
road strike would not have its present terror.
Wet resei vutionisU would be willing to
Insert Article XXX Into the prohibition
ameuuxueut. t
HLXA)ELPIIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13,
A FORSAKEN OUTPOST
The
Phlpps Institute, Which
Helped Millions. Is Now In
Need of Help
Has
piTV for unfortunate aud unhappy little
- children lies deep nud ineradicable In
every one. The degree of civilized progress
in any community is discernible always by
the nature of the common regard for human
life and the measure of sjmpathy accorded
the poor. Thcrcforo we feel that tho letter
from Dr. Charles J, Hutficld and Doctor
Furbush, written in behalf of the Phlpps
Institute, and printed below, will not go un
heeded lu Philadelphia. For ourselves, we
arc glad of the opportunity to circulate an
appeal made necessary by the poverty into
which oue of the few really great scientific
institutions has been permitted to lapse.
It Is inconceivable that an institution
known internationally for its magnificent
part in the slow, hard' fight against tubercu
losis should be closed because of a lack of
money. But the Phlpps Institute cannot
survive without help. It was established in
a part of the city where the need for its
serv5"" was most ciuelly apparent. Millions
of people in all parts of the world have bene
fited by tho patient work of its distinguished
staff. It is still one of the great and iu
dispensablc outposts lu the war on tubercu
losis. ,
Doctor Hatfield's letter, with an attendant
note from Doctor Furbush, follows:
THE 1IEN11Y rnil'PS INSTITUTE
Seventh and Lombard streets
'To the Editor of Evening Public Ledger:
Sir Tn these dajs of prosperity, it may
seem strnugc to learn that a research lab
oratory of national reputation patt of ami
directly under the supervision of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania should be on the
point of closing ifs doors because of lack
of funds to continue its work for hu
manity. Yet that is the crisis today confronting
the Henry Phipps Institute!
There is now in the institute's treasury
sufficient funds to maintain it for three
months more. When this is expended tho
institute must close its doors unless help
comes.
Established seventeen years ago for the
study, treatment and prevention of tuber
culosis through scientific and intensive re
search., this institution has been termed the
leadiug one of its kind in the world, both
as to accomplishment and size. The
achievements of the Henry Phipps Insti
tute in its highly specialized line aro due
largely to the counsel of on advisory group
which comprises men of nationul reputa
tion in the field of tuberculosis. Such men
are Dr. Simon Flcxuer, of New York; Dr.
Theobald Smith, of Princeton; Dr. Wil
liam II. Welch, of Baltimore, aud Dr.
Hermann M. Biggs, of New York.
It is believed that if the facts were
known a group of public-spirited men,
able to help, could be fouud iu time to save
the institute and its research woik.
Dr. C. Lincoln Furbush has written n
few words about the institute and its work.
DoctorFurbush is one of America' forc-
most sanitarians, besides being Philadel
phia's director of public health. His ap
preciation is inclosed.
Phipps Institute is a guardian at your
gate, aggressively, vigorously and persist
ently on watch to find n way to eradicate
tuberculosis,which ecry year in this coun
try costs nearly twice the number of lives
that enemy bullets ended during the World
War. Aso, it rights for better nourish
ment for tlia children of the poor, who
fade aud die in our midst by tens of
thousands.
If jou feel that the closing of the Phipps
Institute should be prevented, will you so
state in your editorial columns?
The crux of the cose: Phipps MUST
obtain support or ceaso its labors.
CHARLES J. HATFIELD,
Executive Director.
The. activities of the nenry Phipps
Iustitute for the Study, Treatment and
Prevention of Tuberculosis for the last
sixteen jcurs have beeu of unusual benefit
to every one interested in advanced methods
applied to tuberculosis us a municipal
problem.
This institute bus been a pioneer in
tuberculosis work in the United States and
has been of particular assistance to the
Department of Public Health and Chari
ties of Philadelphia.
The scientific character of the work,
together with the practical application of
improved methods of field work among the
tubercular poor, deserves the highest com
mendation. Every effort should be made to provide
substantially for the continuance of the
Henry Fhlpps Institute. The city of Phil
adelphia particularly will need its help
and co-operation to further the progressive
health program of the Department of Pub
lic Health. , .
DR. C. LINCOLN FURBUSH.
Philadelphia, February 11, l'J-'O.
Dcmpsey has learned that if he guts
$300,0u0 for fighting Carpeutier he will bao
to pay $o(H,3."0 to the government us income
lax. He will be delighted to help the gov
ernment to that extent, will he not? And
Echo very natuially stresses the last word.
Many professional meu would be hope
less failures as artisans, remarked the Pro
fessor of Unconsidered Trifles. The Presi
dent, for instance, runks high as a states
man, Tjut cannot be considered a success as
a cubiuct maker.
Strikes in Italy, Bulgaria, Spain;
Production stopped when it ought to be
speeded ;
Thoso whom the gods would destroy, it la
plain,
Leave all the warnings of wisdom unheeded.
Thank heaven, said the Dry Old Codger,
that the days ure approaching when it will
not be possible for any blithering idiot to
spin revolving doors until they threaten the
safety of those who come after.
It would seem to the uninitiated that
Mr- Hepburn was about ns thorough as n
bunch of. experts tould be expected to be.
And why should it always be necessary to
spend more money in order to save money?
The man with courage enough to wear
a straw hut in February is either n hero, an
advertiser or a nut. Which simply goes to
show what slaves to convention most of us
are,
Recollections of the Adamson law cause
the public to fervently hope that the Presi
dent's pfforts to acrt u railroad strike will
not too strongly stress the soft answer that
turncth nway wrath.
The threat of u strike clinches the con
viction thut the government's responsibility
for the running of the railroads dors not cud
with their transfer to private ownership.
A local soldier conies forth to deny that
be is dcud. This Is ono statement wjiich
never needs corroboration,
There is no limit to the number of jazz
kings allowed in the theatrical Heck.
Admiral Him sousht publicity. It ill
becomed ulni to cvuilaiu wlicu lis jivts it.
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FROM DAY TO DAY
MARK SULLIVAN,
writing in Collier's
of the reasons why there
may be expected a great
wigwagging from the
Dther world to this, puts
it thus, or rather he lets
an unnamed .scientist
put it thus, as being a
more scientific way than
he could put it himself:
"Over There" Overcrowded
Spiritual Reaction Likely
May Show in Newly Born
"Flu" Is Rival of War
Death Has Other Boosters
Hopes While Hearts Ache
Tho ono great, unprecedented phenome
non that lias happened to tlto human race
during tho last live years Is that more
people havo been killed many times more
than ever were killed before In tho samo
length of time. You can express this In
either of two ways: If you are a ma
terialist, you can express It by saying that
during the last fHe years, on a company
tiely small area of land In Europe, thcro
has been n greater releaso of spiritual
energy, a greater "setting free," as scien
tists say, of spiritual energy than ccr
occurred before; an extraordinary and un
precedented congestion and explosion of
free spiritual energy. On tho other hand,
If you are a person of orthodox religion,
you will express It by saying that there
has been a greater migration of souls from
this world to the next than ever occurred
before; that an unprecedented multitude of
eouls from this world has just arrived In
the next.
q q q
MR. SULLIVAN rather forces the hand of
bis "materialist" by making him say
that thcro had been a great "release of
sphitual energy."
Your materialist in practice woulun t be
so agreeable. Ho would say that there had
been n great change in tho forces of matter
during those five years of war, the killing of
n man being to him scientifically much like
the bursting of u shell.
But let Mark have his way with the ma
terialist iu order to show us what will happen
from "this rapid ac-cumulatiou of spiritual
energy on the other shore.,
Why that world, being polar with lcsprct
to this, is surcharged with spiiitual elec
tricity, like the cloud Franklin tapped with
his kite.
, What then?
Why. of course, jou may expect n gieat
discharge of this spiritual electricity; the
world is going to be struck by spiritual light
ning. , . ,.
This may establish intercommunication.
Doctor Steinmetz said the other day that
if all the power-houses in tills country were
connected iuto oue wc might send a message
to Mars.
The other world, according to Mr.
van (or his "scieutist"), is iu thut
Sullt
happy position.
It has the power.
AVc may hear from it.
q q q
fX, GOES ou Mr. Sullivan, this time np-
v pareutly on his own hook:
If tho spiritual energy released by tho
deaths of all these men on the battlefield
goes Into tho general reservoir of all
spiritual energy, then It would bo reason
able to expect that tho babies who are
equipped with spirit from that recenolr
tho babies who have rently been bom
shuuld possess an unusually large endow
ment of spiritual qualities. If wo accept
this assumption, then tho babies horn about
this tlmo ought to be tho subject of even
oxtraordlnnry concern on the part of all
of us.
q q j
MR. SULLIVAN doesn't half stutc the
case for the accumulation of the "reser
voir of spiritual energy" which is going to
make the job or Sir OIIcr Lodge or Sir A.
Conan Dojlc easy.
He leaves out the "flu."
This illseusc is supposed to have killed
more proplc iu ludiu alouo thau tho whole
wur did iu Europe.
The wur killed 7,000,000.
The "flu" lost year olonc took away
20,000,000.
Then there is starvation ; it certainly has
destroyed more lives lu Europe thau did tho
war.
Aud the post-war diseases; typhus has
just tuken 100,000 men in Gnliciu.
The spiritual reservoir is astly fuller
tliuu Mr. Kulllvun makes out.
Ills scientist is it weak statistician.
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WHY should the killed lu buttle add vastly
to the store of spiritual energy while the
noiu-ombiituut victims of war at hopiv fail
tff do so
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"MORE!" ' MJi
Precisely because hu
man nature craves some
great consequence of the
war.
It can't contemplate
so tremendous acuuse
without demanding to
see its effect.
And it is too im
patient to wait the fifty
j ears which will be
necessary to disclose that effect.
During the wur it saw great spiritual fruit
iu the League of Nations, a millennial
brotherhood of mun.
Now, more mystical perhaps, some of it
sees a great deposit of spiritual energy to
this world's credit on the other side.
It is anxious to draw on that account in
more spiritual babies or in communications
that will enlighten tho dark places of life.
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THE tragedy of human thinking is that
given a cause it insists that there must
be un effect.
When it cannot know the effect it invents
one.
Aud, desiring happiness, it invents a happy
effect.
In other words of Mr.' Sullivan's, tho
world's spiritual bank nccount is only our
old friend, the Hnppy Ending.
Mntcrial bunk accounts being to bad here,
it is pleasant to think of having ono of the
other kind "over there."
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"lyrAN is a hoarding as well as a spending
iVi. animal.
A reservoir somewhere is a pleasant thing
to think about.
For example, how about a reservoir of
baseball?
During the war wo didn't play baseball.
Therefore there must be an accumulation.
And the big leagues in convention assem
bled have resolved to draw upon it for this
season.
The better to do it thoy have cleared tho
way of ull tricks, arts and devices which ob
struct a complete and perfect flow of tho un
used baseball energy into the game this year.
No "spittcr," no "shine balls," no in
tentional passes by pitchers that break the
heart of the world.
"Uabe" Ruth walking to the plate will
prcseut a sight draft ou the unused homo
runs of 1018.
"You know what beat them Germans?"
said a darky. "Strugcdy!" There is not
going to be any "strugcdy" iu b.iseball this
year, ouly energy.
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AND speaking of "Btragcdy," the Allies,
particularly the French and Belgians,
in their process against the "war guilty"
Germans, have borrowed that of Speaker
Sweet, of tbo New York Assembly, ugainst
tho Socialists. You begin to hope that the
wur guilty, like the kaiser, will mako a
getaway. -
Rudolph Krause, cx-saloonkccpcr and
new children's agent, may occasioually in
terest, the llttlo ones by singing that beau
tiful little song beginning "Father, dear
father, come home with me now."
Senator Vuro may yet revise Ids state
ment to read that it is impossible to do ef
fective work while thero is dirt upon tbc-
streets.
'Tho footpad who was beaten by a local
womun is henceforth no believer iu the vifr
tues of feminism.
Uncle Sam's sea dogs and dogs of war
may be muzzled, as Admiral Sims alleges,
but they havo demonstrated thut they both
burk and bite.
One of the little thiugs thut help to
sweeten life Is the declaration thut sugur is
going to be cheaper next month.
J
TRIOLET
UPON the roof the phttering rain!
"Tis music to n listening ear,
I lie and think how oft again
Upon the loot the pattering rain
Will full; nnd I can scarce refruln
From woudering why ono loves to hear
Upon the roof the puttering ruin,
'Tis music to n listening rur.
WILTON UAttvI
The Battle Song of the Ages
OH, 'TWAS work and 'twas light
Whero tho guns spat death,
With a will and a might
To the last gasped breath !
Out of the west with a thunderous roar and a
crackle of flame did you hear?
Out of the vaulted, remote dim past with its .
treasures of dreams did you hear?
Came a chorus of Jesters and Sages,
And of Paupers and Princes and Pages,
'Twns a sad song,
'Twas a glad song,
'Twas the Battle Song of the Ages !
Out of the west with a ringing cheer.
Their khaki forms came, lino on line,
Steadfast their eyes, not a sign of fear, J
Ah, bleeding France, what f fiends were
thine!
Men who befonc, defiant, hurled
Their clarion cail that roused the world
"Give us Liberty or Death!"
"Give us our freedom, or let us die!"
-The very breeze on "Flanders Field"
"Heard from tho dying the deathless cry
"To thee our selves, our lives, we yield !"
And breathed it to the golden wheat,
And sobbed it o'er the clover sweet
"Give us Liberty or Death!"
Up from tho reck and noise and stench
Where blood -clots marked tbo place of 9
Murs,
Up from the gas-choked, shell-wrecked
trench,
To where the dizzy twirling stars
Looked down, the cry rose clear and 6troi)S,
Like trumpet blast both full and long
"Give us Liberty or Death!"
Back o'er the valleys of Marnc and Alsne
Whero flowers choked in heroes' blood
Back with u sure and steady gain,
Where flowed tho Rhino with reddened
flood
They fled who ne'er before had feared
A foe save that which grimly cheered
"Give us Liborty or Death!"
And of Paupers and Princes and Pages,
'Twos u sad song,
'Twas a glad song.
'Twos the Battle Song of the Ages '
FLORENCE KERIGAN.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
Who has just been appointed ambassa
dor to Italy?
now old is Thomas A. Edisou?
What is cerebral thrombosis?
Under what emperor did tho Roman
empire attain its greatest extent?
Whero is Trebizond?
Who invented the telescope?
What is the meaning of the word helia
cal? For how many years was Texus an In
dependent republic?
What was tho real name of Gabj
Dcslys?
AVJmt time docs seven bells Indicate on
shipboard?
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Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. The governor nnd tho people of Hawaii
ore urging that that territory be ad
mitted to statehood.
2. Two comedies by William Wycherlyara
"Lovo in a Wood" and "The CouuW
Wife." -8.
Abraham Lincoln died at the ace ot
mi- ,l. '
1. Tho United States entered the VW
Wur, tho Spanish War ana too v
AVur in tho month of April.
5. Brown is attained by mixing rfd and
black. r
0. Tho lurgcat bell in the world is in Mos
cow, at the foot of tho Kremlin, i"
circumferenco is nearly BlxtyeiS"
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7. Tho famous steamship, tbo Great L ast
ern, was designed by I. K. Brunei,
a British euginccr.
S. Tho largest libtary in tho world is W
Blbliothequo Nationalc in Paris.
contulns more than two million tpi
umes. '
0. A kickshaw is n fancy dish in cookery
or a toy iriuu. . , ;i
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