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A gOOMERANG FOR VARE
" rpHE zest with which Mayor Moore has
- taken up Senator Vare's defiant ut
terances regarding Chief Hepburn's
stiect-cleaning; charges is comforting to
a public disgusted with neglected sticcts
" and justly indignant over the abnormal
u-muneration alleged to have been ac
corded to incompetence.
c It is encouragingly evident that Mr.
Moore stands squarely back of Chief
Hepburn in the latter's. expose of the ex
cessive profits which have been going to
the negligent contractors and that any
s.t-called political pressure from the
Vare camp will simply expedite a square
'-deal and a vigorous reformation of con
ditions that have grown intolerable.
Mr. Moore is no cloistered critic. He
has inspected thoroughfares whose con
dition he calls "disgraceful." His direct
announcement that his administration
has no intention whatever of surrender
ing to political contractors and examina
tion of the Vare books "is not a bad idea"
' reveals tl;e sort jot vigor which will have
the fullest measure of popular support.
HOC ISLAND SIMPLIFIED
rpHE ultimate fate of Hog Island is un-
affected by the purchase of the ship
yard site by tho United States shipping
board. The government 6imply exer
cised nn option which results in giving it
full control of the yard.
The ownership of the land and the
plant is now identical. Under the exist
ing agreement the International Ship
building Corporation is to operate the
yard until the twelve vessels now under
way are completed. The disposition .of
Hog Island will then be a problem for tho
government to determine.
Whether it is to bo scrapped or util- i
.i7.ed according to its possibilities will I
J depend on the initiative of the public i
.and the vigor of private enterprise, j
"What has happened is merely a siniplifi- j
cation of ownership titles.
THE RAIL DECISION
TJEPUDIATIOX by influential tail
, J-' unions of the minority that clamored
for a transportation strike was inevi
table. Without the active co-operation of
locomotive engineers, firemen, trainmen,
signal men and telegraphers, whose rep
resentatives decided to continue work for
a peaceful adjustment of their claims,
no serious interruption of rail service
could be brought about b,y the mainte-nance-of-way
men's union.
The older brotherhood ieadeis hae
learned to read the lesson "of events. They
know that any policy likely to carry a
'abor organization ,'nto conflict with the
will of the country would certainly bring
disaster and loss to the union itself. In
Jaccept'ng the .suggestion for a later
settlement through a wage tribunal, which
uas advanced first by Mr. Hines and
ater by Mr. Wilson, they hae made a
-inke ,eem highly improbable. And they
left the maintenance-of-way men with
".no alternative but to co-operate with the
other organizations in a settlement on
thfl ba-ia of patience and logic.
DILUTED MILITARISM
TTAKD sledding i, ahead foi com-LJ-
pulory military training bills in
Congress despite President Wilson, Sena
tor Wadworth and other peacemakers
v ho continue to talk, with monotonous
invi, tence, of war.
Majorities representing both parties in
V atlungton have been observing tho
ofTfct of General Wood's boom upon the
mnt and the.v arc shy. General
Wood, a.-, a presidential candidate, symbolize-
a governmental policy of militar
stic tendencies. His boom already wears
a foilurn and wpatherbeaten aspect.
Nothing jould more vividly suggest the
ioipeiation of the general' managers
.than their attempt to have the woman's
vote organized to pull them out of the
i no, Much tea wa.s poured at tho suf-fmgi-
convention in Chicago in behalf of
ihe soldier candidate, but ono mav
entuie to suppose that tea galore has a
I'imitPil putent.'nlity in any emergency in
volving the feminine minu and feminine
ionv iction.
' In the debate on compulsory training
we -hall hear much about the benefits it
might provide for the youth of the land.
. IWuch of this will be true. Camp life is
stimulating. So is golf and tenuis and
baseball.
National objection to the pending Sen-
ntc bill is due to its lack of candor and
"the inefficiency of the seheme which it
presents. It is misleading. Jt would not
provide for an actual army.
' Tho 'country dislikes militarism and
the Senate military committee proffers a
.loubtful substitute. If the country were
vto appropriate a billion a year to give its
eyputh two weeks of outdoor sport it
, would do nil that the Senate can liAe to
. r achieve by its present plan. And it
wouldn't be deluded with a false sense
of armed prowess.
The dancer of file comnuisorv training
system as it is now outlined is that it
jerpetvittcs a large organization of
.youthful officers who, with the material
for a good-sized army under their hands,
could not bo content for long. An offi
cer's life is dull in times of peace. More
over, it is unprofitable. Active scrvico
brings not only diversion. It also brings
promotions and higher pay.
Tho people of the United States should
first be permitted to know whether they
arc in need of a large military establish
ment. If tho need exists it should be
met with scientific thoroughness and not
by a costly makeshift devised by men
who know more about politics than they
know about military technique.
THE LANSING INCIDENT tND
AUTOCRATIC PRESIDENCIES
Stand-Pat Leaders In Both parties Likely
to Redouble Their Efforts to Nomi
nate a "Safe" Candidate in June
A SIDE from tho merits of tho contro-
versy between the President and Sir.
Lansing, its effects upon tho immediate
future deserve more than passing con
sideration. The first and most obvious result to bo
expected is the disruption of the Demo
cratic party by factional quarrels.
Mr. Wilson has had remarkably unani
mous support from his party. When he
took office he was the one man in it who
had definite and positive policies. He
knew what he wanted. The other leaders
had been devoting themselves for so many
years to destructive criticism of Republi
can policies that they were not able to
ngree on any constructive program. Mr.
Wilson took them by the scruff of the
neck and shook some sense into them.
Then like whipped dogs they followed
where he led. To the surprise of every
one he held them together and forced
them to pass bill after bill to carry out
the program that bo had laid down. He
has been the Democratic party for the
last seven years.
But there have been whisperings of
discontent heard in Washington from
time to time. Now and then the discon
tent has been shouted aloud in the Sen
ate. But -on the whole the Democratic
leaders have subordinated their own
views to those of the President. The re
luctance with which they have done this
has increased' with the years. Men
familiar with their temper have for
months been looking for an open revolt
to occur at any lime. The President is
entering on his last year of office. His
power to reward and punish will soon
disappear, and the party leaders are
aching for a 'pretext for asserting them
selves. The treatment of Mr. Lansing, who,
like the party leaders, has subordinated
his own opinions to those of the Presi
dent out of considerations of personal
loyalty and high-minded patriotism, ex
hibits to the others the kind of a reward
they may expect for this kind' of fealty.
So we may expect the Democratic lead
ers in and out of Congress who carry
their brains under their own hats to begin
to say in public what they have lone been
saying and thinking in private, ami the
Democratic party will case to consist of
one man. Unless all signs fail tho party
will enter the presidential campaign in
as great a state of demoralization as it
entered the campaign of 189G when Gn
ver Cleveland had disrupted it by his per
sistent determination to have his own
way, regardless of the political conse
quences. But the action of the Pre.-ident will not
affect the Democratic party alone. As it
is the culmination of the conditions which
inevitably accompany the administration
of aman of. dominant personality who
refuses to play the game with proper
regard to the susceptibilities of his asso
ciates, the disposition of the leaders in
both parties toward the nomination for
the presidency next summer of a man
who will regard himself as their associate
rather than as their boss is likely to be
strengthened.
That disposition is already manifest.
The oiganization Republicans have been
looking with favor on Senator Harding,
of Ohio, and Governor Lowden, of Illi
nois just as in earlier days they looked
with favor on William McKinley. Mark
Hanna nominated McKinley because it
was known that the candidate would
work harmoniously with the organization
and would not try to set up a political
dictatorship in the White House. The
event justified anticipations. The change
in relations between Congress and the
President was just as great when Mc
Kinley succeeded TOeveland as it was
when Van Buren succeeded Jackson.
The organization Democrats are just
as eager as the organization Republi
cans to bring about the nomination of a
"safe" candidate who will play the game
with them. The Lansing incident will
improve the chances of every' such aspi
rant for the nomination from Governor
Cox, of Ohio, to Senator Hitchcock, of
Nebraska. Champ Clark, with his long
experience in Congress, may even pose
as the McKinley of 1920. If he had a
Marl; Hanna to back him he might win
this year what he lost in 1912 the
Democratic nominajjon. He has already
put on the market a book containing the
story of his life to serve as a campaign
document.
The iclation of all this to the prospect
for tho success of the efforts of those
who wish to see Mr. Hoover nominated is
not far lo seek.
Every one who knows anything about
Mr. Hoover is awaiu that if elected to
tho presidency lw would not bo a Presi
dent of the McKinley or Van Buren type.
His supreme qualifications lie in his well
known habit of going straight for what
he is after and getting it regardless of
political pressure. He would not play
politics as President in the ordinary
sense of the words. That is, he would not
deal and dicker with party leaders for
support. He would appeal to the coun
try over the heads of the politicians. His
friends are confident that the things he
would seek to do would commend them
selves fco completely to the best judg
ment of the people that the politicians
would have to fall in 'ine or suffer the
consequences.
As soon a., the name of Mr. Hoover
was mentioned in connection with the
presidency the old-line politicians laughed
at the suggestion. They said they did
not even know whether he was a Repub
lican or a Democrat, and that he could
get no support until he declared himself.
He met this challenge by saying that
until the parties had declared themselves
he did not know to which party he be
EVENING PUBLIC LEDUM
longed in this crisis, thus challenging a
definite and concrete statement of policy
from men who never commit themselves
to anything if they can help it, and rebuk
ing the twaddle-mongers nnd political
pifllers so completely as togratify every
one who has any respect for straight
forward honesty.
If tho political paleontologists inter
ested only in the fossilized formulas of
a bygone age have their way no man of
Mr. lie over's type will be nominated by
either party, not because there is any
danger of Mr. Hoover becoming a party
autocrat like Mr. Wilson, but because
they wish tho President to be merely a
cog in tho political machine, moving only
when the whole machine moves
If Mr. Hoover or a man approximating
his independence and ability is nomi
nated by cither party it will be through
the imperative demand of the country at
large, a demand so unmistakable that
the politicians dare not disregard it.
SHIPS ON THE BLOCK
""THERE are so manyclements of novelty
-- in tho auctioning off of the cream of.
the former German liners, which begins
in Washington today, that certain mis
conceptions of the situation have been,
perhaps, natural. In particular tho status
of 'all, ships flying the American flag has
been misunderstood, in some quarters de
liberately, in others ingenuously.
As a matter of fact no special rulings j
arp necessary to determine the govern
ment's rights over any unit of our com
mercial fleet in an emergency. Although
owned by a company of international
composition, the St. Louis, St. Paul, New
York and Philadelphia were promptly
converted into scout cruisers in the
Spanish War. Their American registry
immediately established the jurisdiction
of the United States.
John Barton Payne, chairman of the
shipping board, has, however, performed
a public service in explicitly outlining the
conditions un'der which the thirty vessels,
which once flow the red, white and black,
are to be sold. No bids covering tho entire
fleet are to be accepted. The ships are to
be sold to as many private companies as
possible. They will always bo available
for government purposes. They must re
gain their American registry. They are
to ply en routes which, in the opinon of
the board, will best serve American com
mcice. It is haid to see how legitimate criti
cism of such a plan can he made. In
theory, at least, it is admirable. Practical
considerations, however, demand, that tho
ships should bring prices commensurate
with their intrinsic worth.
Senator Ashurst's contention that the
whole fleet was to havre been sold to a
single concern for $2S',000,000 has been
emphatically disputed. Had his forecast
been verified the transaction would hate
been outrageous.
It is said that the Leviathan alone
could not be replaced today for less than
$25,000,000 or ?30,000,000. It is prefer
able for the ships to be retained by the
board than to be sacrificed.
Foilunately, there are strong proba
bilities that the disposal of the ships will
be rationally conducted and that bids wilj
be entered from a variety of sources. The
world is still short of merchant vessels.
Passenger services under the American
flag arc still ridiculously disproportionate
to the dignity of the nation and its com
merical position.
That private ownership cannot be made
profitable under the "lry" laws is a some
what frivolous subterfuge. Therp is in
adequate sea communication between the
United States and so many foreign
ports in paiticulav those of South
America that the demand for accommo
dation is far stronger than the call for
highballs. If the "sporty" elements are
offended their reservations are still un
likely to go a-begging.
Opposition to the unprecedented auc
tion sale is in direct conflict with the
public's present marked antipathy to
government ownership.
Dr. Thoinu-. !' .Mi
Cliemisls and the WarCutrhcon told l of 1'.
students that chem
ists wire a dominant factor in the Lis war.
lie said truly that German chemists made it
possible for Germany to make its wonderful
display of martial strength at tho beginning
of the carnafie. It might he woll to note the
fact, peihaps, tha't this use of chemistry was
ono f Germany's chief crimes. It revolu
tionised warfare and robbed it of all its
chivalry. Once chemistry took a hand, how
ever, it worked beneficently as well as malev
olently, and unquestionably did its chare a
big share to bring the struggle to a suc
cessful conclusion. And not all the experi
ments born of the strife were for the fur
therance of hostilities, for one of the impor
tant events of this bloody time was tho dis
covery by American chemists of the secrets
of German dyes.
Apart from misplaced
The Janitor Approves, w i n d o v s, lack bt
water : nd gas supply,
lights badly located and a badly arranged
amphitheatre, it is said (by the janitor, per
haps) that the pathological laboratory of the
Philadelphia General Hospital, designed by
Philip II. Johnson, perpetual city architect,
is nil that can bfc desired. The janitor has a
luxurious bathroom, which occupies more
space than some of the workroSms for scien
tific investigators.
Says Senator Vare,
Arc You Thankful? "Philadelphia ought to
go down on its knees
and thank heaven for the street-cleatiing
contractors it has got." The senator is to
be congratulated on a joyous lack of propor
tion. His is a happy state of mind that a
sense o humor would blast. Otherwise he
might be destroyed when the Mayor gets
after the "jokers."
Having been on the
Floored! carpet for a week,
street - cleuning con
tractors will go to tho mat today.)
There is bitter significance in the fact
that the only bid thus far received for tho
Hog Island plant is from u junk firm. Phil
adelphia cannot afford the ignoml.-y attached
to such a transaction. Hog Island is a vnlu
nblo asset of which the city should avail
itself.
It is wisely remarked by a contemporary
that if every householder cleaned the, snow
from in front of his house the whole street
would be cleaned. lie would eat the snow,
we suppose, or boil it down on the tltchcn
stove.
Pcrhaiv the President has coinc lo the
conclusion that what he needs is uu entirely
now cabinet
Affilntpnnnoe.of wnv men will doubtless
see the true way of manftcnance oy Keeping
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'MILLION SHAKE EXPERTS
That Number, at Least, In the United
States Have Had Experience
of Earthquakes
Hy GEORGE NOX McOAIN
A RB you one of the estimated million in
" the Untied States w ho have experienced
an earthquake shock? Thd reports during
the Inst sis weeks of the earthquakes in
southern Mexico havo led to the question.
No other part of the Wcstcfn Hemisphere
in the last twenty years lias experienced quite
so many seismic disturbances as southern
Mexico.
T have been interested in the accounts of
earthquakes in thnt region because I hap
pened to be one of the estimated million who
have 'fell the effects , of a .genuine earth
tremor.
Not a mere earth hhuddcr, either, which
left its only record on tho seismographs of
tho various meteorological stations iu the
country.
ft occurred while traveling in what, down
in Mexico, is known as the "trcmblor" area;
thjit is, the earthquake zone. It runB in
irrcgularfashion across the country from the
Gult of Tehuantcpec to tho bay, or gulf,
of Campechy pn the Atlantic side. ,
A LONG nntf tiresome railroad ride from
" Oaxaca landed me one afternoon in the
little city of Orizaba, the last town of any
consequence on tho pla'teati before the rail
road to Vera Cruz plunges down into the
hot lands of the coastal regions.
There is one thing in Orizaba that attracts
fho attention of every observant American,
or at least did, that ever descended nt its
station on tire Vera Cruz-Mexico Railroad
line. It is a great sign painted on the bricks
of a high warehouse wall facing tha stntion.
It is in large white letters, unique because
it is not only a good job of sign painting but
is in English. It reads:
v
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I Orizaba manufactures i
I the only Bcerthat over made ' '
I Milwaukee jealous
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The hotel was of the usual typo of native
Mexican hotel. It was a quadrangular build
ing with a courtyard open to the sun, with
a fountain playing in the center. The basin
of the fountain was surrounded by a low
stone wall about eighteen inches high, nnd
the water in the basin came to within about
six inches of the rim.
My room was on the second floor, opening
upon a balcony or roollcss corridor that over
hung the courtyard.
This courtyard or patio was flagged with
big stones. In its rear, on the ground floor
of the hotel, were the quarters of the servants
and peons employed around the place.
IT WAS a bright, hot afternoon, with not
a cloud in the sky. The courtyard was
deserted and the hotel, from the prevailing
quietude, seemed to be asleep. It was siesta,
or rest-time.
The single door opening on to the veranda
was wide open as T stood in front of. the
bureau shaving. There was no other exit
from tho room, which resembled a big stone
cell.
Suddenly the floor seemed to rise and fall
with an undulatory movement, and for an
instant I experienced a feeling of nausea like
a sudden qualm of seasickness.
"Your liver's out of order," was my men
tal exclamation as I steadied myself with
one hand on the bureau
Simultaneously from somewhere close at
hand came u series of the most piercing
shrieks in a woman's voice that I had ever
heard. They were of it woman in a frenzy
of terror. I dropped my razor and rushed
out pn the balcony, to find my traveling com
panion, who had the tidjojning room, uhead
of nie,
"What 'is it?" lit- cried as the screams
continued. I noticed people rushing from the
servants' quarters toward the center of the
courtyard and the fountain.
I hurried forward on the balcony, and iu
the second room beyond 1115 own, tho door of
which was open, 1 saw a stout Mexican lady
ipf about forty in the arms ot an undersized,
gray-haired gentleman, her i-fuiur, who was
vainly endeavoring to soothe Iter. The woman
was ghastly pale and the husband, who was
very dark, was 11 jellovvish hue with fear,
"What's the matter?" 1 asked.
"Trcmblor! Titunblor!" he icplled in
Spanish.
It was an earthquake -hoi l
I turned and looked down in the couit
yard, to sec the servants and many of the
guests of the hotel on their knees around
the fountain, with hands nnd eyes raised to
heaven in prayer. In contrast to the shriek
ing woman, thetc was not a sound or moan
from those in the courtyard. They were too
inisy praying and awaiting the next act iu
the seismic drama.
"In less time that it takes to tell it," in
the phraseology of a decadent literary style,
my companion and myself, with safety first
uppermost, with tho shrieking woman and
her terrorited husband following, ran along
the balcony, down the stairway at the end
and out into the public square, beyond the
danger at least of tumbling walls.
Wc found a score of people ahead of us,
while others came rushing from tho surround
ing stores and dwellings, heading for the
center of the square, the only safety zone in
sight.
THERE wcie no other immediate shocks.
After a time, .following the example of
the natives, we returned to our rooms.
Tho proprietor of the hotel illustrated the
force of the disturbance by pointing to the
fountain. The tremor had been heavy
enough to lift the placid water in the basin
six inches and dash it over tho rim, where it
had dribbled away in little streams on the
pavement.
TN MY rambling around Orizaba afterward
J- I discoveied that no great damage had!
been done beyond shaking some stones from
the walls of old buildings and breaking off
a tall flagpole in front of one of the public
structures.
It was the shock that virtually destroyed
the city of Chilpanzinga, where hundreds of
persons had been killed in that little city and
the surrounding villages.
The earthquakes reported by telegraph
from Vera Cruz during the Inst month or so
had their center of disturbance in the state
of Vera Cruz. The upheaval was on the
western side of the earthquake belt. Its
most disastrous effects were in tho vicinity
of Jnlapa, where villages were wiped out of
existence both by earthquake shock and vol
ennic eruption. The town of Barranca
Grande was overwhelmed.
Another time the unenviable experience of
feeling nn earth tremor came to me in, Ca
racas, Venezuela. It was barely perceptible,
however, nnd no damago was done to prop
erty. M
The inhabitants of Caracas are not dis
turbed, as a rule, by these occasional evi
dences of tho instability of tho soil, although
one of the greatest catastrophes of modern
times occurred there in tho early part of the
eighteenth centurj, A largo pait of tho city
vvns completely destroyed, thousands were
killed and thousands more died from disease
and starvation thnt followed the upheaval,
Tho great bulk of the estimated million
now living in this country who havo ex
perienced nn earthquake shock nrc survivors
of the Charleston disaster of lSSS and the
California earthquake of 1000.
PHifcVDELPHl A , MUffD A V, FEUKIAKV
FROM DAY TODAY
LLOYD GEORGE says
that the Russian
revolution cannot be
crushed by force. This,
he say,s, ho told the Al
lies ut Paris lsi-t jeur.
He did so. The rec
ords show it.
Wilson no doubt told
the Allies the same
thing, for he was less
favorable to the Russian
Russia's Revolution
Mistakes of Peacemakers
"I Told You So!" They Cry
Hut All Alike to Blame
Trading That Betrayed
Peace and the Colleges
adventure than
the others.
And Clcmencoau doubtless knew tli.it the
Russian revolution could not bn crushed by
force. He had even fewer illusions than the
other two.
Yc't they all did exactly what could not
and should not have been done.
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WITH regard to the -peace, it is nut an
instance of hindsight being better than
foresight. Mr. Wilson on his sickbed has
been abb? to say to himself many time-, "I
told them so at Paris."
Mr. Llojd George has just said to his
Parliament regarding the Russian tevolu
tion, "I told them so."
When tho break-up of the coalition in
England comes, if he chooses to be radical,
the English prime minister will devote nil
his energy to saying 011 the stump, "I told
them so."
M. Clemeucenu. traveling in Egypt, is tho
sole member of tho trio who probnbl) doe3
not repeat to himself, "I told them so."
Ho knew as well ns the others just what
kind of pence should bo made, probably bet
ter for he was abler than either of the
others nnd understood his Europe better;
but he was less voluble on tho subject of
right than they, though no less active than
they on the subject of wrong.
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ALL came to Paris knowing what sort of
A peace should be made, -but each. put
something else before the peace.
Mr. Wilson put tho Leaguo of Notions bo
fore the peace.
Mr. Lloyd Gcqrgc put extending the Brit
ish empire before the peace.
M. Clemenceuu put making Trance the
first power on tho continent of Europe be
fore the peace. .. -
Mr. Wilson traded Everything to extend
American kultur throughout tho world,
lie called it tho League of Nations.
Mr. Llojd George traded everj thing for
an nil-British route to India and for new
markets for British trade,
M. Clemenceau traded everything to make
France unmistakably mid permanently dom
inant in Europe.
To dominate Europe, an nll-Germau route
to the East and the spreading of its kultur
throughout tho world were the German ob
jects in the great war.
A wise man says thnt during a war tho
victors and the vanquished exchange psy
chologies. AVilson, Lloyd Georgo nnd Clemenceau met
at Paris with the psjchology of defense and
changed it insensibly to the psychology of
victory, which docs not differ ranch from tho
psychology of the aggressor.
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WHAT did they' get out ot their trading?
Mr. Wilson got a Leaguo of Nations
which the world refuses to take seriously
because tho peaco is so bad.
"By their fruits yo bliull know them," nnd
men judge tho forces that will mako up tho
league by their first fruits, the peace.
Mr. Lloyd Georgo got his ull-British road
to Itidiubut it has turned out to bo at tho
samo time nn iill-I.olshcvist, all-rcvplutlon-ary
road to India.
M. Clemenceau got first plaeo in Europe
for France, 'headship in a continent of bank
ruptcy. q q q
TnE world needed first of all that it should
pioduce to make up for the five years'
jdestrnctlon of the war. t
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NEXrf !
And the pence-mak-cis
shut out from pro
duction the grrate-t in
dustrial country of
Europe, Germany, and
the only great agri
cultural country of
Europe, Russia.
They closed Europe's
Ki'outest factories nnd
built ti wall of fire
about Europe's gieatest bed ot natural re
sources. Everjbody ciics "Produce!" "Produce!"
but there is no production. The world not
oul can't get into its stride ngain after the
war, but it finds that the peace fastened u
ball and chain to one of its legs.
In fnco of the tacts, the victory psychology
is weakening, and Mr. Lloyd George says,
"I told them so." '
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rplIE universities and colleges of the couu---
try are trying to raise 200,000,000 to
meet tho high co-t of living which tho war
and tlA; pence havo brought upon them. They
ure doing so openly, with advertisements in
the newspapers, with "campaigns" con
ducted by press agents, with the voluntary
services of committees of alumni. ,
The crisis in education is too great for the
colleges to depend upon their presidents get
ting the money out of the rich piivately, the
way a wife gets money out of her husband.
Endowments must conic by right, not by
favor.
"Producer ot producers," sajs an adver
tisement of Cornell University asking for
$10,000,000, "she must go on."
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WHAT n great thing it would be if the
universities and colleges of this country
could get their endowments because they wcro
"producers of producers" and not because
of tho ingratiating way their presidents have
with the rich 1 In the first place, theynight
havo educators for presidents and nress
,ngents to raise the money.
Inch would be n gain nil arouud.
Then, too, education would not havo to
please tho few, but justify itself with the
many by its results; would have, indeed, to
showhat it was a "producer of producers."
Wiich would bo the greatest possible gain.
The peace, by fastening chnins upon pro
duction nnd thus inerensiug tho nlrea'dy high
cost of living, may have done something for
the world by sending American universities
to tho advertising columns for their endow
ments. You must havo something to sell to
enter the advertising columns.
Tho Senate, Without permitting itself to
be moved by the convulsions of Anglophobin,
should see to it that good and fair prices
are received for the thirty. four former Ger
man liners to be sold by the shipping board.
Twenty men wero arrested tn Saturday
for spitting on tho sidewalk. Tho Conscience,
less Pup says this is as it should be, for
spittcrs cannot expect to rate high as good
citizens in a clean town.
' The frank assumption of cqtinl respon
sibility for tho calling of cabinet meetings is
what the country has learned to expect from
Secretary Lane.
Contractors who thought they were car
rying trouble to capacity may find themselves
with heaping loads when their books ore ex
amined, The opiuiou grows that Mr. I.ausiu"
would have cut u better uiid blg;cr figure ft
he had quit a year ugu,
Mr, Limbing would buve saved himxelf
nn awful lot of cinbunahwucut if he had hud
uiiiiH'u cicctcu vice I'retiilvnt.
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ADRIFT
IT'S a free life, the sea life.
When the turbines eroou their son;
4Vnd the old ship, tho bold ship,
Churns merrily along.
It's a square life and a rare life
With its wind and spray and foam
WTith its rough pals, sure enough pali
And the turbines rushing you home
So sweep the decks down, buddies,
Stand your watch on tho foc's'le peak,
And break out a smile, there, 'buddies,
We'll be home in another week '
It'su drear life, a sear life,
When the engine misbehaves
With the lost ship, ocean-tossed ship,
In the maw of tho hungry waves
It's a dour life and a sour life
With longings unfulfilled
For the liomc' cheer and for you, dear
, When tho turbines' song is stilled
So hold on tight there, buddies,
It's blowing a nasty squall.
Don't dream of the home fires, buddies,
AVe may never get home at nil !
LARK MERILL. jl
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What Do You Know?
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QUIZ
1. What is ex-Secretary Lansing's natlre
state?
2. Lsrd Kitchener and Lord Nelson had
the same first name. "What was it?
3. Whut is an exordium?
I. What is the literal meaning of the word
edelweiss?
5. What American general was nicknamrf
"Kaiser William"?
C. Whnt Is the first appearance of the ex
pression "the almighty dollar" in
American literature?
T. What is "boxing the compass' ?
S. Of what country is Teheran the capital?
9. Who are the Mnoris?
10. How many scruples male a dram i"
apothecaries' weight?-
Answers to Saturday's Quiz
1. John Barton Payne has been appointed
Kpnrprnrr nf iht Jnlprlor.
2. Texas is tho southernmost state which
l.nr. n.n..A.l tl. i,llfl,fnrrn ft tllPndnieD"
15, Mindanao is the largest island in thi 1
Philippines. ,
1. Rtnr Admiral Joseph W. Oman h , tjjf'j
governor of the A'irgin Islands of toe ,,
United States. i
r. n. ...!.. mm .mli Mnprnr voted I" ?
fc two candidates for President The on j
who received tho largest number r
a .1-..1.. -,l n.nairliinf nnd t"
one receiving the next largest niirtmn .
of votes was declared Vico VteftO.
Amendment -n to tao """;":;:
provides that tho President and '
President shall be voted for on distil)"
I,..lln4e
'll. A pavnue is an ancicnj stately dance,
originating in apnin. lur "",
descended from the Latin "pa""",
7. Croesus, king of Lydia, m 1
rich man or antiquity, a"
the sixth century H. C
6'. John Q. Foster wrote the nn ' lB ,
0. A "Carthaginian pence" j means n pc 3
in which the dclcaieci ioc- , ,
exterminated us nation. .. j
peace was enforced by Rome afwr .
third Punic war. '
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10. Joan of Arc was oorn iu "- ya
town of France situated on t 1 J
river, twcnty-nlno vnUM
of Nnncy,
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