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Br mall to points outside, of Philadelphia. In the United States. Canada, or United States pos aesstons, postaae xr, fifty (50) cents per month. Six (S) dollars per year, payable In advance. To alt foreign countries one ($1) dollar per month. Notice Subscribers wishing; address chansad must rive old as well as now address. BELL. 300 WALNUT KEYSTOSE, MAIN 3009 93?AddrfB3 alt communications to Evenlnp Pvblio Ledger, Independence Square, rhiladtlpMa, Member of the Associated Press THE ASSOCIATED PltESS U cxclti' lively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to f or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local netcs published therein. All rights of republication of special dls .patches herein are also reserved. rtiilidtlphla, U'rdncdij, February IS, 1920 A SQUARE DEAL AT LAST JUSTICE and public sentiment are overwhelmingly reflected in the ordi nance authorizing increased pay to fire men and policemen. The financial side of the program is said to be assured. The measure has the support of Mayor Moore and his administration. Council has been tardy in recognising a situation which long called for relief. No further delays are warranted. The ordinance at last introduced should be passed without political complications. It will stand as one of the tangible pre liminary reforms of the Moore regime. THE VANISHING "FLU" TTERE and elsewhere the influenza is " rapidly abating. Oddly enough Philadelphia suffered less than many other eastern cities. In its latest mani festation the "flu" was relatively mild and if it appears again it probably will be milder still. Meanwhile, those who were among recent sufferers from the malady ought to remember that it is not always the influenza itself that is dangerous. Peril lies chiefly in the more serious afflictions for which it paves the way. Influenza leaves those who have been attacked by it with depressed vitality, which may con tinue for a week or more after it' passes. No one should take chances with cold weather or great fatigue during that period. To do so is to risk pneumonia, which did most of the damage in recent epidemics everywhere. Physicians advise their patients to re 'tnain at home for a period of recupera tion after complete recovery from the "flu" seems apparent. That is good ad vice and it ought to be followed. HUGHES AS REVOLUTIONIST pHARLES E. HUGHES contributes a y novelty to the presidential prelimi naries. "Far-be-it-from-me" candidates are as thick as they are coy. Mr. Hoover repudiates all approaches with a skill that potently stimulates sentiment in his favor. Other possibilities have a way of declining which chiefly indicates their displeasure that the wheels are as yet in sufficiently greased. The attitude of Caesar refusing the crown is common. But there is no mystery about Mr. Hughes. "I am utterly unwilling," he insists, "to undertake a second candi dacy." Coming from a jurist nurtured in precedent, this is positively revolution ary. If frankness of this sort becomes contagious the conclusion that the politi cal structure of the republic is being sub verted will be alarmingly tenable. SEND BACK THE WOODEN CARS TMRECTOR HINES-S order providing " for the discontinuance of all regional and district offices of the federal railroad administration on March 1 gives a prac tical, reassuring reality to the imminent extinction of government ownership. Champions of private control naturally anticipate the execution of numerous im provements conveniently held in abey ance on the strength of the talismanic phrase "necessities of war." There will be disappointment over certain inevitable delays. The railroads will need time to catch their breath and to take their bear ings. One reform, however, should be swiftly and thoroughly instituted. Mainly as a consequence of troop transportation the railroads radiating from this population center, including Camden, were saddled with quantities of wooden passenger coaches belonging to distant lines. The peril of this lamentable acquisition was tragically demonstrated in the Atlantic City excursion wreck last summer. Our local railroads have been among the pioneers in the field of steel-car equipment. It is imperative that our far called rolling stock be returned in ex change for the inadequate and dangerous substitutes highly untypical of this pro gressive community. CABINET GRADUATES 'A LOT of sympathy is being wasted on " Mr. Lansing. The former secretary of state may in his secret heart be thank ing heaven for Mr. Wilson's quick tem per. Your Uncle Samuel is the most niggardly of all employers and there is no record of a cabinet member who, when he quit his job or was helped out of it, didn't Instantly find the peace and com fort that a largely increased income affords. Mr. Bryan, as a publisher and Chau tauqua lecturer and more recently as a pleader for the "drys," has been doing Very well. It Is rumored that Mr. Mc Adoo draws $200,000 a year as counsel for the largest moving-picture corpora tion in this or any other world. Lindloy J, Garrison makes far more as a lawyer than he made In the government service. According to current dispatches, Mr. Lane, when he leaves his cabinet post on March 1. will become associated with pm $ the oil comopniea $oifls,buaine9 In southern California and Mexico and that ho will draw a salary of ?50,000 u year. Mr. Lano knows as much about Mexico as any American In public life. His sym pathetic regard for the Moxlcan people was clearly apparent when he presided at the unsuccessful conference of Mexi can statesmen called In this country to find a friendly basis for co-operation be tween the United States and Its turbulent neighbor. At first glance a cabinet mem ber going Into the Mexican oil business might arouse somo misgivings. But Mr. Lane, unless his temperament has changed, can do Mexico more good in his new job than he managed to do in his. present one. He can tell the oil inter ests some truths that they need to know about the dangerous effects of oil on in ternational politics. A FOUR-YEAR PROGRAM FOR PHILADELPHIA Things on Which the People Expect the New Administration to Concen j trate Its Attention Tho Delaware river bridge. A drydock big enough to accommodate the largest ships. Development of the rapid transit sys tem. A convention hall. A building for tho Free Library. An Art Museum. Enlargement of the tvater suppkl- Homes enough to accommodate the population. rpHIS list by no means includes all the -- public improvements the need for which has been discussed for years. It does include those on which it is possible for Mayor Moore and his associates to make a beginning and which it is possible for the administration to push forward with such speed that some, if not all, of them can be-completed within his term of office. It is the kind of a list which the man ager of an expanding business always has on his desk indicating what is going on under him in order that his plant may keep pace with the demands upon it. Philadelphia is expanding more rap idly than any single enterprise within its boundaries. The adoption of a definite constructive program for the next four years is of the first importance. The city must provide for the people here the facilities for the transaction of their business and it must also foster the in tellectual and artistic side of life, that the community may not degenerate into a mere market place. We have put the bridge across the Delaware river first on the list for the reason that it is of prime importance that there should be closer connection with that part of metropolitan Philadel phia on the eastern shore of the river than there is at present. Although Cam den is in another state, it belongs com mercially to Philadelphia. The impor tance of the bridge is recognized by the Legislatures of both Pennsylvania and New Jersey, for they have made appro priations toward its cost. The sum that this city must pay is but a small part of the whole amount to be spent. The bridge can be well under way to ward completion before the administra tion of Mayor Moore expires if it is pushed with proper determination. The need for a drydock big enough to accommodate the largest ocean-going ships is generally admitted. Attempts to get it built by private capital have failed because investors have been afraid that it would not be a profitable undertaking. But whether it is paid for by private or public capital; it should be built The city has large sums available for port improvement and the money spent for such purposes will not run against the debt limit when an income on it is earned sufficient to carry the bonds. And the bonds can be written off from the debt to the extent to which they do earn an in come. A drydock which did not "pay" in the narrow meaning of the word would be a profitable investment for the city, as it would attract shipping here which would take on cargoes at our piers and earn indirectly for the city much more than it would cost to carry it. It is part of the necessary equipment of a complete ocean port;, and under a broad-minded policy it should be one of the first port improvements undertaken. The dock could easily be completed within a year or two after work was begun. The development of rapid transit has been at a standstill for a long time. The present system is outgrown. Improved facilities must be provided at the earliest possible date at either public or private expense. There are differing opinions as to the merits of the various plans sug gested, and there never will be complete agreement. But if we are to have im proved rapid transit some plan must be adopted and pushed to completion. A poor plan carried out would be better than the most perfect plan left suspended in the air for an indefinite period. Defi nite, affirmative action is expected. War conditions and legal quibbles have stopped the convention hall, free library and art museum projects. The war is over. The legal quibbles can be swept away in short order as soon as there is a determined purpose to erect these impor tant buildings. They would go far toward the develop ment of the Parkway by fixing its char acter. The convention hall need not be an architectural monument Its primary purpose should be to provide for tho ac commodation of large crowds in an audi torium suited to public speaking, but the central hall must also be so constructed that it can be used for exhibitions of va rious kinds. , The Free Library is at present housed in cramped quarters at Thirteenth and Locust streets. It has branches in va rious parts of the city, it is true, but the central library is the feeder for all the branches. If it is to serve the public ade quately it must have room for storing its books and for the accommodation of the public who visit ita reading and deliv ery rooms. This city, In which public libraries originated, ought no longer to lag far behind Boston and New York, where suitable quarters were long ago provided for the great collections of books freely open to public use. The free libjanr, fisstem, fere. & IWaMPajaed, It f EVENING'' PtrfeLTG fetMlPHlfeiMPHIr WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY Jacks headquarters from which It can be adequately directed and expanded. Philadelphia is one of the art centers of the world. It has private collections unrivaled In, variety nnd value, and re cent bequests havo put the city In pos session of somo of these private collec tions, provided proper nccommbda Hon be made for their public exhibition. Plans for a beautiful museum to crown the hill at the northwestern end ,of Jthe Parkway havo been made. Preliminary work on its foundations "is under way. All that is now needed ia.thc determina tion to erect on the site .the building which tho architects have planned. Recent events have disclosed the in adequacy of the water supply. Plans'for correcting this evil must be made so that there may be no shortage in the homes. or in the factories, and so that there may be water enough in the mains for tho use'of the Fire Department To state the con dition is all that is necessary to secure unanimous agreement' on the need for more water. The relation of the city to the housing problem is direct, even though the houses must be built by private capital. It was said a few months ago' there was room -for only about 3000 new houses in the streets that have been opened and sewered. 'It is the business of the city to open now streets, to lay the sewers and pave the roadways in preparation for the builders. An extensive program of street openings is necessary if room for the 20,000 new houses required to accommo date home. seekers already hero is to be provided, to say nothing of meeting the demand annually for at least 5000 new houses to accommodate the normal growthof population. Many other things will have to be done, but what tho city ncods just now is concentration of its attention on a few definite projects such as those mentioned and driving force enough in the City Hall to push the projects ahead as fast as the money can be made available. Every one with faith in Philadelphia, and that means every citizen of the community, is confident that this program will be car ried out in its general outlines. We are all boosters now and we all intend to get things done. ONE ON THE POISON SQUAD TT HAS been .apparent for some time that the political poison squads are in action against Mr. Hoover. Their subtle pens have been husy. Yet the upshot of their first encounter with the intended yictim ought to have a sobering effect on all cheerless individuals who function as professional liars in one political camp or another. In his easy reply to a col lection of "charges" recently flung at his head Hoover' shows that he knows how to write. He has the gift of humor. Humor is not only a higher form of wis dom. It is the evidence of a balanced and tranquil mind as well as the most terrible of weapons in any debate. The enemies of the nonpartisan can didate for the presidency indicted him on a number of counts. He was said to have $10,000,000." He was held up to public criticism because he once rented 'a house in England. It was darkly intimated that there was even a trace of foreign accent discernible in his speech. Hoover laments that he has not $10,000,000. He wishes ardently that he had it, since it might be useful "in the work of children relief." He carelessly neglected to say that such money as he has was not made in politics. "No Californian," cries Hoover, "could live three months in the London climate." There is in that sen tence a neat "ad" for the weather of the best boostedvstate in the country as well as clear evidence that the speaker is in fact and in spirit native to the far West. "I plead guilty," wrote the Food Ad ministrator, "to the charge of pursuing my engineering profession In foreign parts again and again. I gather that It Is a moral turpitude on my part to have man aged large enterprises. The hope to rise from the ranks of management will, how ever, probably not be crushed from the heart of the American boy by this on slaught." The most dangerous of nil adversaries is he who laughs in the midst of battle. Hoover is laughing at the poison squad and that is why somebody ought to inter vene and stop a fight that otherwise will have a nasty end for somebody. Americans are left to The Adriatic Note conjecture the nature of President Wilson's note to the European powers concerning the disposition of Adriatic ports. If, as Euro pean comment would lead us to suppose, it was brief and brutal, we may readily sur mise that much of its seeming brutality is born of its brevity. The President has had much to put hid nerves on the ragged edge but there is no reason to suppose that he was rude or cruel to the diplomats who are wrestling with a problem invested with tre mendous Importance to the welfare of their countries. The trouble is that even justifiable firmness on the part of the President might, because of the present temper of his own people, be put down to obstinacy nnd an autocratic disposition. It is all very well to Flume berate Mr. Wilson for ... , ,. h!3 firm PPsltion to the new allied policy in the Adriatic. Tet it is well to remember that a vast and in creasing mass of Intelligent opinion In Eu rope is also opposed to this policy and that it is forcing the various premiers themselves to a better way of thought nnd action. Woes and afflictions The City of Trouble continue to pile upon" the folk who have Mr. Hylan for Mayor. Who can imagine the bitterness of mind of a city compelled to live day after day In full slgh,t of rivers and streets filled with cracked ice without any thing to mix it with? Influenza is indeed a Mystery wicked malady. It ' completely missed Am- erongen. Joseph Caillaux, former premier of France, charged with treason, Is said to be much bored by his trial. The gentleman should not be so blase. He should, at least, simulate an Interest if he has it not. Who knows? Something of importance to him may happen. He might even bs sentenbed to death. Occasionally a prophet receives appre ciation from his own people. The United States Tarn Dealers' Association has sent birthday felicitations to Marse nenry Watl terson, characterizing him as "the artful splwwr pf the highest minuty yarn. - .ir m fc ! THE GOWNSMAN The University XTE AHB about to turn the leaf at the ..'''-University which should mean Penn sylvania to nil true Phlladelphlans. We are about' to turn the leaf, if not to close a com pleted volume and take up another of which wc know not yet -even the print. The spec tacle Of ''an honored scholar, who 'has laid his time, his opportunities, his health, his all on the nltar of service to the University, so wearied, i;o worn with" his thankless task that he must, seek retirement at the age. of sixty-live, Is in no way pleasing to contem plate j for .there, is no other reason for this step. , Those who know Edgar F. Smith know that he would go further were it In any wise possible. In England a man of Bixty-five is in his prime, nnd men over seventy have governed the empire. Here we 'klllonr trilling servants, too often with tasks which are not theirs. rpHE primary function of the provost or president of a great university is leader ship in education. His is the hand that guides, prunes, fosters J the eye which, fore sees. And the 'countless educational prob lems of this .unsettled and difficult time are in .themselves enough for any. one man's at tention. A second important function of the head of a great university Is scholarship; not, scholarship viewed more or less sympa thetically, -from afar, but substantial attain ment in science or letters,' eminence achieved by the paths in which academic men walk, and a recognition in that scholarship which oh nil bring honor to the Institution which he heads. And a third no less Important func tion of such a leader is the power to use men, to keep them banded together, happy and contented in a great service, thus uniting .and knitting the. institution into an organ ism, alive, effective and ndjustnble. "DETOND these three important functions, - nndXhat is-contnlncd within thcir.elastic bounds, nothing more should be demanded of any such leader in education. Least of all Is it reasonable, or profitable in any large sense, to take him from these functions nnd put him to the pitiful job of raising money on which to .subsist. The Gownsman con fesses to a feeling of shame and humiliation when he thinks of the honored head of this great University of ours waiting .at the doors "of 'politicians, hat in hand, for their alms wherewith to live two years longer. Doctor Smith would not have done such a thing for himself. 'Nor did he do It at the expense of his other functions which he strove honor ably, so' far as man may, likewise to fulfill, No wonder be is wearied, no wonder he must have rest, and wc, who love him, lose him. Do we choose an architect for an Important building, or an engineer for a great bridge, or a conductor for an orchestra, and then take the architect from his plans, the engi neer from his specifications, the conductor from his baton to raise money? Mr. Sto kowski conducts the orchestra, not million dollar drive's. But the provost has conducted the University, fulfilled diligently the duties of his chair of chemistry, continued investi gation as a scientist nnd besides nnanccd the University with what assistance or lack thereof is notorious. fTIHE University of Pennsylvania is at the forking of the ways: rather, it has al ready proceeded along one of the forks and can scarcely return. Unquestionably, the enormous expansion in education, its popu larization and the many new claims upon it have brought us very many difficult prob lems among them that of finance. And our inability or unwillingness to solve this last problem on the basis of the old conditions has thrown us now into the position of men dicants for state aid. Now there nre two ways of looking at this. We mny say, ns some of the oldest some-time friends of the University are saying: "Oh, what's the dif ference? With women and everybody else getting educated out there, I'll send Jack to Yale or Princeton." And Jack goes to Princeton or to Tale and, in due course of time, dad's money goes after him. On the other band, there are those who feel that In a democracy, such as America purports to be, equality of educational opportunity is the birthright of the people and that a uni versity Is not a university if it shut its doors to any who can profit by its courses. TF WE accept this latter conception of our functions it is clear that the state is our only recourse and that in common decency wc must be given of right what we have sued for so often in forma pauperis. The Gowns man does not know that it has been the de liberate policy of those who govern the Uni versity to throw It Into the armsof the state. The same result would have followed a policy of deliberation, Neither Princeton, Yale' nor Harvard has found it impossible under similar general conditions to finance the situation so as to preserve those older conditions to which many profess to look back with regret. And it is not suffi cient to explain the poverty of Pennsyl vania's alumni. It is preposterous on its face that the all but wealthiest state in the Union is so devoid of moneyed men who really care for education that they will let Pennsylvania become n state college, unless such is really their wish. And if that is their wish, as they have themselves refused to give why wail about it and leave the University neither supported by the state nor pri vately? A GREAT university Is nn honor to any " state; nn honor to these associated with it. But honor carries with it obligations, and these, disowned, degenerate into dis honor. Whether Pennsylvania remains a private institution, administered by a prac tically self-perpetuating board of trustees, or becomes the head nnd crown of our pop ular system of education, it will have to be finnnced in some other way than by a semi annual lobby daDdng attendance at Harris -"burg. Perhaps there is small choice between King Log and King Stork. Under the latter rule there will be at least activity, htt, us manumit the next provost from th mldn. of money. There are some other problems over there; for example, "How shall we teach 10,000 students where 8000 would be too many?" But that is another matter. The representative of the Public Service Corporation in New Jersey patiently ex plained to a Washington committee that public utilities, because of their contracts with coal companies, were passing on to con sumers the 14 per cent wage advance recently granted bituminous miners. The naive sur prise of the public as a consumer when it discovers that it has to pay for every wage increase and every tax is only equaled by the indignation the fact evokes. But the only reason for surprise is that It should cause any. Socialist defendants in Albany may be willing to call off all proceedings when their trial at last fails to win flrst-pnge position in the newspapers. The fact that the Dutch won't surren der the ex-knlser, but will watch him, Is another Illustration of the fact that there is no accounting for tastes. If the President really has threatened to withdraw the treaty and makes good his threat, what a lot of time Senator Lodge will have wasted I The cold wave wabbled a bit, but it may ux , i. YEAH, SOMEHOW THE FROM DAY TO DAY MR. In WILSON has President's Lost Powers Pedagogue to Autocrat Autocrat to Bungler People Source of Strength Lost Without Confidence How Clemenceau Fell lost stddenlyvand utterly the politician's power to do the right thing in the right way. When he does the right thing, ins in let ting Mr. Lansing 'gorhe does it in the wrong way, assigning a reason that betrays an excessive and highly irri tated ego. For more than a year, since the letter ask ing for a Democratic Congress as a personal right, he has done a long succession of wrong things. It is not merely that a majority of the country-no longer likes his acts nnd speeches. But what he does and says sounds harsh and arbitrary. Two years ago th'c whole world applauded. Now no one applauds. ' Once he seemed the greatest politician in the country ; now he seems the worst. q q q A VIRTUE went out of him when the public began to withdraw, its favor. The thing started when he dealt with the Germans alone at the timc"of their request for an armistice, treating the peace of the world as if it were his personal concern nnd leaving the nations which- had done most of the fighting in the war out of his reckoning. That and the request for a Democratic Congress made the people feel that he had grown too autocratic. "Too czarry," was what the cracker-barrel oracles called him. " When the people became critical the qual ity of inevitability which had seemed to be his since our entrance into the war mys teriously went. He blundered, he fumbled, he hesitated, he lost his temper. His confidence was gone. He went-to Europe nnd paid Europe too much for his League of Nations. Coming back, he stiffened up as a reaction from the concessions he had just made and became ridiculously obstinate in his relations with the Senate. And finally resentful that his authority is slipping away, he dismisses as a usurper a man who has never known that his soul was his' own ! q q q THE power of a man like Wilson comes from the people in ways which wc do not mean when we uBe that set phrase. Such a man, like the hero of the Greek fable whose strength ebbed when his feet were off the ground, is only strong when his contact with the people Is firm and secure. When they are with him he has all the ' confidence In the world. When they are not, he is thinking nil the time of what the people will say about what he is doing. He is seeking to regain their favor. Or he is angry at their desertion of him. His power is gone. He is like a great baseball player when his confidence leaves him. He fusses with his bat, he fidgets with bis uniform, ls'mad at his luck and "pops up" or "fans out." The most supremely confident man in the world Is now only an obstinate man. The man who did the right thing with inevitable ease Is now neither inevitable nor cosy. And all that happened was that the public withdrew from htm its favor. q- q q SPEAKING of the fall of Clemenceou, the London Nation says: "The underlying fact Is some undefinable instinctive jealousy of greatness. The average Frenchman feels as the average Athenian used to feel, that a strong leader, even in a demcracy, is po tentially a tyrant," . And it goes on to say that it was this jealousy of greatness which led to the arrest and long imprisonment without trial on charges which seem trifling of Caillaux, to the murder of Jaures and the acquittal of his slayer and to the defeat of Clemenceau ftr the presidency. . Y 18, 1020 PUBLIC SEEMS TO HAVE LOST-Inter, IN THE H. C. OI lr. . THE English system makes for the per manency of great men. "The normal condi tion in Eng.ish politics is," sayB the Nntion, "the long duel between two permanent captains of two permanent elevens." Conditions in the United States more re semble Ihose of France. Our great are short-lived. We can point to no Gladstones and Salis burys enjoying power nil their days. A man is President, p6ssessing greater power and authority than nny one else in the world, for at most eight years, nnd then he goes. His power goes with him. And maybe it is largely taken nway from him even before his eight years are up, and he spends the last year or two of his term floundering about unhappily in office, nngry nt the jealousy nnd ungratefulness of a democracy which withdraws its support at a critical moment when its support seems to him most needed and most deserved. q q q AUR system makes scant use of great men. The only place where 'a long career, is possible is in Congress. And Congress has little importance in our government. Executive service is short., And party leadership cannot last unless it is leadcrshin of a party permanently out of power, for leadership of the party in power goes to the presidency. Ours is a government of ordinary men. We depend' upon the great office of the presidency to make an ordinary man tem porarily great. As for the too great man, we resolutely set our face against him. He cannot serve more than two terms in the presidency. And even in office he mny find his powers suddenly sapped by having the whole people withdraw their favor from him as they have done from Mr. Wilson. What France does with a scnndal or-an assassin's bullet, we 'do as we have done in the ense of Mr. Wilson when he became, ns the voice of the people said, "too czarry." ' The song writer who warbled of "White wings that never grow wenry" wasn't ac quainted with a street-cleaning department immediately after a blizzard. There is an cvcr-lncr'easing dispositio throughout the world to put tho kaiser away and forget him. "Checr-o, old dear," remarked the um brella to the mackintosh, 'we're having a perfectly dripping time. " Anyhow, Sir Thomas LIpton has a stranglehold on the title of Chronic Op timist. Dame Rumor appears to be doing the usual amount of lying in Washington. THE SPARK READERS of riddles dark, Solve me the mystery of the Spark! My good dog died yester night. His heart of love through his eyes of light Had looked out kind his whole life long In all his days he had done no wrong, Like a knight's was his noble face. ' What shall I name the inward grace That leashed and barred him from all things base? Selfless trust and courage high Dust to dust, but are these to die? (Hate and lust and greed and lies Dust to dust, and are these to rise?) When 'tis kindled, whither It goes, Whether it 'fudes or glows and grows Readers of riddles dark, Solve me the mystery of the Spark ! Helen Gray Cone, la "The Coat Without a Seam and Other Poemi." I '" GOO GOO GA! A Song of the Baby Clinic Babies T,'M a thin llttle.baby. I kick and I squeal ll "She's a bad baby," every one said. 'I But-here nt the CHnlc they say: "Not atalllj one s noc Dcing properly fed l" r I'm a cry-baby. I cry all the time And they shake me to make me be good 1 1 But the nurse at the Clinic says Motierl muse stop This giving me grown-people's food! I m a wee little baby who don't seem to 1 grow. So the neichhorfl rnlr? MnH,- . 10 tbe Clmic,. where some one would ImoTrJ what is wrong. I Now she says that they're helping ai some! .1 I'm a fat little baby ! I'm healthy and tod And I m growing the way that I ought, t Cause my mother she brings me each n&L to The House, To the Clinic where Mdthers get taugltl 'i They're taught how to know what weseei wnen we cry, t' They're taught how to know when wdftl "'. i And they're taught how to feed us, and wtej we snould sleep, And that fresh air will cure'and noMtfH CHORUS Oh! we're Baby Clinic Babies! Just listen nnd you'll hear How lustily we crow and give The Baby Clinic Cheer! GOO GOO GA? The Alumni Register, University of Penw sylvania. What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. What is the Septuagint? 2. What was the first name of Cardintl Richelieu? 3. Who was Eurydice in classical myfH" ology? 4. Name a famous geographer of ontiipiiti 1 who believed the world to De a gioiwi C. In which administration of Grover Cletft land did a disastrous financial pa! occur? ., 0. What is caffeine? 7, Who was Emma Nevada? 8. What is the meaning of the word "Icl( bod"? 9. Where is the Ynzoo river? 10. What distinguished French stateimltfi accompanied Marshal Joffre on 'lH - visit to the United States in ivui Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. The Maine was blown up in Havana lir-g bor on February 15, 185)8. o Pflni.t. atnokaa nma liar rnmmaDaer 8. The agouti is a genus of rodents of.thej. ' cavy or guinea pig family, MPTCC a hare-like animal of the West Indies 4. Victor Cousin was a noted French pnu-: osopher and statesman. His dates i7fv?.i onr C. Mount Lassen In California is ranieftB 0. A celesta Is a keyboard percussion i nuutt cal Instrument invented by MuitelW Paris. v ' 7. Galileo, the famous Italian lived in the latter port ". S teenth and. the first put cT M, ......i. ...tun HewasBoraw, Pun In 1504 and 'died to Florence' 1 1U? 8. Bucharest is the capital of rij ....-.. m T.t,v,ln. son of AbraB5 v, jvuin.ii. .i. -- . - , .... uncut Lincoln, was secretary of state u Garfield. , 10. 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