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Tht Velaiccie rnfr bndn A drpdock biy enough to i. omuiodu t tlu larucpt ' ns Dcvclcpnc t cf the tapid iiansti tstcm A f-pnreitfion hall. A buitdma for the rrce l.ibraiy An Art liuscum. Enlargement of the irater supplu Homes to accommodate the populafon HOPE FOR OLD COURTHOUSE TN HIS description of the historic Su- promc Court building in the State House group as "disgraceful" Mayor Moore- states a self-evident fact. A fa mous and vencablo struct iiic which our sister cities would, be proud to pc-ccsb hs been shamefully neglected. "No ad mittance" signs on any of tho lenowncd structures which bound Independence Square en the north are wretched confes sions cf a lrck of civic and patriotic pride. It will net cost a fabulou.i sum to rc habilitatf the quaint bri-k building where Oliver Ellsv ovlh and John Jay expounded the constitution. What is needed it, as the Major points out. a vigorous, effi cient supervision of Independence Hall and its appendages. Whether general legislation for ra'sing moncj, is required seems not yet clearly defined. If funds ar;c wanting they s'lould be appropriated forthwith. If "a conflict of juri-dictions" embarrasses progress a prompt simplifi cation is in order. Mayor Moore's concern oei a deplor able reflection on the town is a stimulat ing novelty. Until now it wah official circles alone which sccn-cd to be unaware of the painful truth. WINSTON'S RESPONSIBILITY )NLY ten dajs of M Hepburn's term '-' of office as chief of the Bureau of Street Cleaning remain. They are likely to seem ten days too many for delinquent contractors and a diurnal decade too sliort to satisfy the public. The loss cf this ablp and vigorous mu nicipal servant las hcaty responsibili ties on Director Wiiibtoii. The latter is said to have decided on a fitting successor to Mr. Hepburn as chief of the most im portant of th municipal bureaus. The uccomplishrrents of the last two months should certainly be an inspiring standard to any new incumbent with an ounce of pride. Hepburn, it is to be noted, clamored for no new laws. He relied upon giving validity and pertinence to old ones that had grown atrophied. A policy of fanning their vital spark is what is chiefly needed for continuing the reformation of our streets. Mr. Winston cannot afford to let the rare of our thoroughfare? deteriorate. Wc now know what the real thing is. REVEAL THE FIUME NOTES 3ARTISAN prejudice, though always . w-ith us, is not alwajs paramount. In that critical period of the Paris confer ence when Mr. Wilson spoke out frankly and categorically concerning the Fiume crisis he was supported in the most dis parate camps. The public was specifi cally informed concerning his side of the rase snd was on the whole pleased with Ip'a opposition to boundary lines which seemed to menace peace. An unfortunate contrast has been the President's back down on Shantung. At the present moment not even Mr. Wilson's unpopularity ought to stand in the way of honest American estimates of the Adriatic situation. It is necessary to remember that criticism of the President abroad is virtually certain to spring from very different cause? than adverse judg ments of him at home. Americans, Democrat!.- and Republican, have a warked distaste for the archaic princi ples of imperialistic greed which appear Rapidly to be gaining strength in some European chancelleries. Foreign news papers which are excoriating Mr. Wilson are reflecting neither our ideals nor our legitimate grievances. And yet, regardless of domestic politi- cal ahgnmcifts, we are powerless to counter the flood of abuse for the exas perating reason that wo are quite un aware of the content of Mr. Wilson's latest notci. It is impossible either to defend or repudiate a statesman whose acUarc thus thickly cited in mystery. Tho current secret transactions arc an outrage to a democracy. By withholding the acta Mr. Wilson is unjust to the na tion and, perhaps, even unfair to him self. A dose of open diplomacy is a oorcly needed tonic in u Bick world. THE GERMAN SHIP INCUBUS THE extraordinarily fine fleet of pas uenger and merchant vessels which we took from Germany is fast assuming fcJict proportions of an incubus. A tem porary Injunction of the District Supreme ?tUi"t has halted the sulc of these Btcam 4W !'' Ihc shipping tonrri. It la tle- I AH crcctl thai both presidential and congres sional authority for such u disposition of the liners is lacking. Hence, unless such sanction is even tually forthcoming, the principle of fed eral ownership, of which the country is supposedly so weary, will be legally for tified. The board at present has the op tion of operating these valuable ships or cf letting them rot. While it is entirely desirable for Con gress to scrutinize carefully any transac tions involving the vessels; while it is right to preserve their American registry and to prevent sacrificial sales, it is diffi cult to sec how popular sentiment can be Served by stifling private enterprise. It may be safely assumed that the pub- lie would like to see the government re- tire from the shipping business. Steps in il.; -i..-i.. !. i. ii.u ;r r.UA this direction cannot bo taken if Congress pursues a dog-in-the-manger policy. It is distinctly up to our legislators to de vise some fair and sensible way out of the tangle. Once it was thought that the acquisi tion of these vessels would magnificently stimulate the privately owned merchant marine. Are these hopes to be blasted by inaction and obstructionary litigation which actually forces a system of fed eral ownership upon both an unwilling government and an unwilling people? IS 'THE HABIT OF FREEDOM" DISAPPEARING IN AMERICA? Elihu Root Joins Mr. Hoover In a Revival of the Art of Sound Political Criticism QV COURSE, there arc men in Wash ington who, like Mr. Kenyon and Mr. Kiteliin. cannot understand Mr. Hoover and aren't ashamed to reveal their limi tations in, newspaper interviews. They will not understand Mr. Root, who, in his address to the Xcw York state Republi can convention last night, was no less frank than Hoover and no less courageous in his approach to" political realities. The test of a man's fitness for any high office ought really to lie in his ability to understand men like Hoover and Root. But party war horses who have thrived on a political doctrine of one-half of one per cent logic mixed with red, white and blue bunk will naturally be mjstificd by any rational discussion of li Ing issue.?. Your old campaigner had an easy time. Deficient taste and deficient intelligence were his. Hf invented "benevolent as ainiilation," "sound currency" "tariff reform" and ;i lot of rthor phia-.ee that meant nothing cen to him. liccause of the sort of men who cannot tindct stand Hcocr, Bryan wa- "th" --il-vcr-torfrucd orator of the Platte" and Blaine v-. a "plunicj knight." On the wings of -uch phra-es men got into im portant office. It was not until Koose elt appeared that realistic political criti cism was ravheJ in th" United States. It was a lost art for a generation Root, like Hoover, talks constructively of actualities. There va in liib address" last night one paragranh nobler and more significant than anything that may be found in the recent speeches of the matter-of-fact food administrator. "fUbtorc," said Root, "Hi- habit of freedom. It is dangerous for a people to acquire the "habit of bowing to power without limits. They soon become sub scnient and then character escutial to freedom degenerates." The habit of freedom! That i-, a line finition. of a quality that threatens to j do vanish in American life. If Mr. Palmer will call at this office he will receive an engrossed transcript of that paragraph from the Root address. He will have only to promise to paste it in his hat. Mr. Wilson and his advisers ought to tead it. So should labor leaders. Judge Gary should have it framed over his desk. For laws and social conditions that have grown up silently in the country and conditions m labor and in industry that seem somehow to be regarded as sacred and bevond criticism tend steadily to eliminate the habit of freedom. Power ful influences operating in various ways are responsible for a general disposition to servility that is like dry rot in any national consciousness. Tho important thing, however, isthis new evidence of an improvement in po litical method. After Root and Hoover no politician will have the courage to cheat his way into office w ith platitudes. A labor tribunal of national scope is suggested by Mr. Root. It is only a little while since labor organizations were thinking in .terms of force, while some few leaders of big business insisted that there was nothing to adjudicate between them and their employes. Mr. Gary said as much. Hoovei is quite as daring as Root. He is the first public man of importance to say flatly that the fundamental cause of the bituminous strike was not greed and lawlessness among the miners but bad .organization in the coal industry. Like Mr. Root, he implies that behind labor troubles there are conditions requiring rational study and orderly remedies. This sounds strange in a speech sup posed to be political. The Senate sent a solemn committee to study the causes of the steel strike. The committee was on tour for weeks. Its members seemed to Know less when they returned to Washington than Hoover knew through his own casual ob servation and experience. It is interesting to observe that both Root and Hoover, whose addresses are certain to have, a profound effect on the political thought of the country, arc acutely aware of the need for a de centralization of governmental authority. What is more, they are not afraid to hay so in specific terms. Tho country will understand them even if Washington docs not. It has been learning through bitter and co3tly experience. Infinite travail has not yet taught Mr. Wilson that most of his troubles come from too much power. No gifts of mind or heart, no matter how great they may be, can take the place of tho collective opinion which normally sustains a gov ernment like ours. One man's mind can nover be as dependable as a collection of minds. Inspiration, imagination and great hopes are factors of immeasurable aluo in government. But mass opinion, expressed through the selected groups with which the Picjidcnl is unable to work, approaches more nenrly to ulti mate wisdom. On every hand there is evidence to in dicate the need of a swift return to first principles. Yet a clamor continues for a continuance of tho process of centraliza tion through nationalized railroads nnd nationalized ships, and even nationalized mines. It has remained for Hoover, op posing this trend, to give the best answer to the general outcry. 'No scheme of political appointment," said he in" the address "that Mr. Kenyon couldn't understand, "has ever yet been devised that can replace competition in its selection of ability and charnctcr." It is the conviction of Mr. Root, as it is the conviction of Mr. Hoover, that men who accent employment in industries , vitall affccUn- thcVelfarc of communi i .. - .. . . I tics relinquish the light to strike and that the public itself, in acknowledgment of their responsibility, must sec to it that they will not have to fight for justice. Xo one -will question the wisdom of that view. But what routineer in politics ever suggested it before? Hoover covers a wider field than Root. And it will bo difficult for Root to balance his unqualified appeal for compulsory military training with his cry for a re turn to "the habit cf freedom." If there is one thing that can eliminate that habit it is a widespread system of enforced militarism. But both men will doubtless learn as they continue to grapple with issues that arc changeable and elusive. They have set a fashion of frankness and j courage that other politicians will have to loiiow. And that is enough for the time at least. ANOTHER USURPER TTNLESS Senator King, of Utah, -' watches out ho will become unpopu lar with the bureaucrats m Washington. He has had the audacity to ask the Senate to pass a tcsolution asking the postmaster general by what authority James I. Blakslce, of Carbon county, Pennsyhanin, fourth assistant to Mr. Burleson, has sent out a questionnaire to thousands of farmers and what appro priation had been made to pay for the proceedings--. Mr. Ulakslce'.s qucstionnaae was in tended to disclose the attitude of the fanners toward their business. He rc poiled a few days ago that a majority of those who had replied were discontented and ere planning to engage in .-ome other occupation. - Senator King, however, is convinced that "official." aip loo prone to extend their nulhoritj and to engage in activi ties entirely outside oT their legitimate field." The legitimate duties of the fourth assistant postmaster policial re late to the maintenance of the rural free delivery route.- and to the purchase of equipment and . upplies for all branches of the postal service. He has extended them to include an inquiry into the stale of popular sentiment in the rural dis tricts cn-cuircnl questions. Tlicic was a time when no official of th" Postollice Department would have dared meddle in such matters; but in these days, when the executive depart ments arc interfering in all sorts of mat ters, with and without authority of law, anything may be expected. ' It is hoped that, the Senate will pass the King resolution. Then k will l. ;,,. tcrcsting to see what soit of a defense Mr. Burleson can put up in behalf of tin activities 0f his subordinate. If he justi lltiti- ;... ti i . ... . joi Mva u.u ,.uh nc win nave to differ radi cally from the President, who drmi.-scd his Mjrctary of state on the chargo of usurpation much less serious than that of which Mr. Blakslce is suspected Th ere is interesting and pleasing fignili anee in tlie fln-lara-tion of rwt... i!.. Maj c Nut Now Ilae Hope? son that President WilEon ma.v som, return to his L.M-nier. It may be thnt If th President had been bitting the old madun the Lansing letters would never Kave bee UTitlnn V.'nkA. C I rni iiiip written. Sobc Seconrl Th mt i.r 'nil a'" lu "rh en letters are drafted, re drafted and copied, a chance wlinllv lost hen first thoughts are caught hot by stenogranhir marks and eoldly transeribed through soul less blue ribbon by unthinking nieehanies. It will be noted that there have bee,, no a. , .. 'J0.ts' '" roccnt communications. J be mav I mil- is n phrase conducive to mildness of expression even when intent is strong. The return to the typewriter mirv mean the rejuvenescence of (he dear old phrase, the rebirth of suavity. u guarantee agamsf the recrudescence of jarring notes the resumption of thut smoothness of eompo sition and stateliness of diction Unit soothes the victim as he. is put to sleep. - "(m lias K ... . , Commissioner Stevens. l-ogir Is l-ogir!" formerly vice prPSj. dent of the shippfn board. told the Seuate committee that as the board charged off o per cent a year for de preciation, ships were classed as worthless after twenty years. This was done in the tnse of seven ships admittedly worth $10 -000,000. To be consistent, the board should give a bonus of 5 per cent a year for every year over twenty years with each ship. Iy and by the bonus might be suffieier-tly high to justify a man in taking a ship oft I he government' hands. Lniversal m i I i t a r v Caution and trainiug will be an ci- Common Sense eellent thing if (a) all negotiations for peace fail and wc know that another world war is inevitable, and if (b) it will do tho work it plaus. Hut as (a) negotiations are still pending, aud as fb) there is strong suspicion that suggested army plans ure mere sops to preparedness sentiment aud mean nothing practically, so to speak, the a-b, abs of common sense, demand ojution nnd close scrutiny of any preparedness bill before mak ing it u law. Members of thirty -Some Ilrnt Profiteers three unions compris ing the Chicago Build ing Trades Council are preparing to demand Sl.'J.i nn hour'instead of the dollar thej are getting. This is a sincere effort to reduce rents, in it not? And an obliging Kcho. skilled in inversion, shrills "It is not!" Twenty policemen in Ker .Meet Tills Bird? Chicago are vainly trying to arrest a janitor alleged to bn mad. He imagines lie is the owner of the building and recently shut off the heat. If this be maddess, the malady is not peculiar to Chicago. Beading between the lines of Mr. Root" speedi, we gather that American IloUhoriki are those who use "the liubit of. freedom" a- a doak for evil . ; TRAVELS IN PHILADELPHIA -i. A Twenty-Mlnuto Diary TXTY TRAIN Into town from Wayne June " lion had been late,' nnd the evening nit on the platform" had whetted m.v appetite to an amazing degree. Then when I was pufely on board nnd settling myself into Jhe wnrmth of the cushions, what must a heart less young brat across, the aisle do but take out a bag 6f peanuts and begin noisily to mVnch them and to oxhnlc the delicious odors of his roasted food. On such occa sions a distinguished French author once recommended sprinkling the car floor from a flask of benzine to kHI the scent of victuals, hut having no benzine on my person I turned from this soulless creature nnd stared out of the window. What I at first beheld there enraged me still more, for the sky to the west beyoud the station wnti all n glowing, quivering pink like a monstrous bowlful of jelly, islanded with dark little berries of purple cloud. Then the train gnve n quick heave and ground mercifully off toward the south. The tall black stacks and the aeres of flaming blasts at Mldvalc rushed by me under the sunset, the powerful hum of a thousand huge machines roaring out heavily above the rattle of the train; acre on nerc of blue-lit windows below a jungle of stacks the swift confused vision of blinding curls of orange flame, the white glows of hot flow ing metal and then suddenly the cool flash of snow, and the ealm vision of lines of long quiet yards behind low bright houses -children's sleds pulled up to the kitchen doors, and within the little houses the api liziug glimpse of plump housewives bearing in the steaming plates of soup. 1 ground my teeth bat in a moment the vision wns gone. A moment later in a quick rise and rush the city clutched in about me, with its snow patched Lousetops, its low smoking chimneys and the slender crossbars of wireless antennae wherever there arc half grown boys, in pairs, hungrv for tins tnjs leiious friendly intercourse through the ether across half -a -dozen yards of tin roof. It took my hunger away to see the thing spread out there before me, already unnoticcable and commonplace, a pulsing invisible life, setting, in the humblest places, its mark of the deathless romance of youth that now ventures toward strange horizons where no feet of youth have ever trod before. "piOWN below, in the flash of a passing - street. T saw a boy helping a girl over a slide in the gutter. Then far off rose a jjgged line of church spirc. sharp and thorn -die ever the trees, against the deepen ing sky. VTiog.'i ! .W.t station Huntingdon street I" "VTOW the city's darkening sky line began - ' lo loom eloser above me: two tall ehim nets inl.v blnel: erh lonneil hv n blacker bush of smoke bending northward: a tow ering factory of blazing glass reaching up toward the zenith a structure four square and unlnvel.v of line, hut all oue reach of glittering window, a -very Amiens of indus try that, with its banks of mercury lamps, glows, under the sunset like a great blue luulern and becomes n thing surpassing fa'ney. harder to be imagined than all of Aladdin's palaces. Nov. came n plunge into a cutting a tangle of overhead wires, dark gloomy walls shutting off all sight of Urn sky: then, b.v the track, a long decajing beer sign, with falling neglected letters, once burnished with gold. "Huntingdon hlreet!"" Sl'NKKN j ard cumbered with trash and ash barrels tufted with snow, a swift vUta down a cross street of two loug straight steel lines, lit hv a trolley's headlight, and then to the south far-off glimpse of two jellow oval clock-faces on City Hall. Over against the sunel rise the tall twin towers of On,- Ladj of Mercy, on Broad street, and the slender pencilpoint spire of Bethlehem, end further to the south, over .. swamp growth of low ehimue.vs the tall oriental lanterned doiie and square campanile of Kenne'lh Israel. Then a bewildering flush of s,0p lights swung into view a long line of double arcs, the lines of shimmering ear trucks, the close crowds of moving men and women, nnd right at hand, a little lonely boy. gravely flopping down hill on a "cheese boi." 'Columbia avenue!" s NOW. meager and grav . on the long flat roofs of sheds, but still piled in little shrinking cushions on keg ends nnd wagon seats in sunken ards behind dark tumbled houses. Then a broad flash of street, with lights of jellow, white and blue, and at the end of it. the tall mass of the .Majestic Hotel, with its dots of bkmng windows. In the street just below me the sleek black tops of motor cars, and the ivory porches of taxis that hoot off to the westward. "Oirard avenue!" AS WE get up speed again. I saw almost at ray elbow n oung man who sat punch ing the keys of n typewriter, by nn old fnshioned office desk There was one quirk glimpse of a ruddy counlrv face and sandy hair, before he too glided off int.? the dark ness. Then over me. blottiug out the sky and all the lights of the city, hovrred, for a moment, the tall graj bulk of an immense warehoused a huge man built cliff dwelling paneled with blind windows nnd-tunnelcd with dark, mysterious doors. Here, as we slow down, there stretches out west a broad dark street with no show of life or business - onU dusky reaches of pavement, a scattered litter in the street, the low bulk of warehouses ever thing closed and silent. "Spring Darden stren '." w, the lal s- 'ill plunge into tbc heart of the citj My fellow travelers rollect papers and bundles and stand up to button their coats, hut I still gaze out of the window. The sky is dark now, save for the glow of the town Ihe sun has gone down. There is a rush of little houses with the wash drooping in their jards, and behind the wash, nirager piles of eord wood nnd kindlings. Then close at hand, among the broadening tracks, uppears a railropd flower patch with long scrolled hedges and tufted beds all grovviug. like a hanging garden, on the level of the neighborhood house tops. Behind the lines of old dormer windows the mountainous city sky lino breaks, and re veals for a moment, but now almost melted into the dusk, the towering eerie figure of William Pcnn. There are a few taint glowings of dimly colored store flowers at trie tends of durk, narrow lanes,- then the moinentnry blaze of a thousand lights down Arch street, the grind of brakes, and above me the impalpable gloom of the train shed. Kveryvvhere rises the steam ft waiting engines. Crowds of people hurry b.v outside, and weaving among them dash little motor cars like frightened gray bcttles. The child at my left rolled up an empty bag, and with a surfeited face staggered to his fret. Then there fell upon mc once more, the intolerable call for warm victuals. "Heading Terminal!" shed, an agonized glance at the clock, a breakneck dash down those interminable stain",- bright lights, noise, rush, u jam in a street -a home warm fires, -dinner KOV .UKIl'O.N. - " .' ff V FROM DAY TO DAY rpAUDIKU'S story of how Clenicnccnu got out of President Wilson both the right lo occupv the left bank of the Rhine and the American -French alliance is the whole storv of tho peace Tho President went to True Story of the Pedcc Self -Determination Jolted Wilson Shows Sclf-Dcnial Pun Dies' A-Borning " Some Unreal Concessions French Eye for Realities France saying "Disarm. put your faith in the brotherhood of man and peace and good will on earth !" "I do," said M. Clemrnccau, "only dis arm Germany and leave roc with a few sol diers on the left bank of the Rhine." q a q Mr. Wilson stuck at the French soldiers on the left bank of the Rhine. It wasn't according to the principle of self-determination. Clemcnceaii was obstinate. He was also inspired. He said to Mr. Wilson M. Turdieu docs not tell this, hut Mr. Wilson does with great satisfaction he said to Mr. Wilson, "You have a heart of steel." M. Clemenccau is a great diplomat. Mr. Wilsou thought of a happy rctoit. which he did not utter because politeness for bade his utterance, but which Mr. Wilson's friends repeat for him now. "I should like to say to him," thought Mr. Wilson, "hut not the heart to steal." q q , . A HAPPY retort unsaid has' often turned the course of whole negotiations. , Mr. Wilson up till this point wanted the brotherhood of man, pure and uundultcratrd M. Cleinenceau was for the brotherhood of man, with the French occupation of the Rhine to boot. Mr. Wilson, with the happy retoit m his system, offered to the uuregenerale French man, who could not be won away all at once from, his faith in force, the purest force iu the world, , He offered to throw it in with universal brotherhood. He offered, in effect, the American -French alliance. "I will lake universal brotherhood, plus the American alliance ('if I can get it.' he probably added under his breath), hut I must have lit least French occupation of the Rhine for fifteen years." q q q MR. WILSON made an unreal lontession when he promised the French alliance. There evidently Is not going to be any French alliance. M. Clemenccau, equally geneious. pan for this unreal concession with a concession equally unreal, tho reduction of the French occupation of the Rhine from perpetuit lo fifteen .cars. , The French will probably occupy the Rhine forever, unless they are expelled by force. The universal brotherhood seems less real now than it did in Paris, with .Mr. Wilson engaged now in threatening his former peace making associates. The only bit of reality in the. whole proceeding wns the French oc cupation of the Rhine. cj q q rpHK French never lose sight of the real- ities. Montaigne taught them to keep their cea ever on the realities. Voltaire re-enforced the lesson a couple of centuries later. The greatest French philosopher said in Latin: "I doubt, therefore I am." M. Clemenccau doubted, politely because Mr. Wilson had certain realities, much money and much power; but nevertheless he doubted, therefore he wan the only man who kept IiIr feet on the ground at Paris. If the French knew exactly how we choose our Presidents the.v would always doubt an American President coming to Biiropc bearing the millennium in both hands. q q q HKRE is the latest argument for Pershing, put out by the "Pershing for President" organization of Lincoln, Neb., "release on receipt" : "General John J. Pershing's grandparents nnd those of Marshal Ferdlnaud Focb, commander-in-chief of the allied army, lived in neighboring provinces iu France during the first quarter of the eighteenth century. Those of the former dwelt In Alsace and those of the latter in Lorraine. Further more, there is a street in Alsace which was mimed after home one of Ihe general's aiices. lor, rnd still further, the name 'Pershing' THE OPENING GUN is of Alsatian origin and means, in thq lexicons of that language, a peach. " Pershing should be President because the word "phserin" in the Alsace dialect means "peach." Marshal Focb figures in it all iu some way. He is a good man to have in, having proved unbeatable. q q q THE Chicago sheriff who insists upon hanging persons condemned to death in plain sight of the occupants of his jail is logical. "If capital punishment means anything at all," sa.vs Sheriff Peters, "it is a deterrent to further crime, and an example to others. The very class it is intended to reach arc those confined in the jail." The trouble is that the world isn't logical. Capital punishment is a survival of other days when society wns logical. It invited everybody to sec hangings, on the thcor.v , apparently, that not only thoso who were contiued in jails butcverybody ese who might be tempted to go to jail would be chastened by a view of the end to which evil courses led. The world is not so sure of itself as it one was. It is not so sure of capital punishment as it once was. It has been doing its -executions more and more privately until now all Illinois is shocked -when a sheriff tells it brutally, "If hanging is a good deterrent from crime, then it is good that those who need most to be de tciredJrom crime should sec the hangings." N q q q L1 ORD READING won't be Amciican am- bassador. Lord Grey won't come back. Lord Robert Cecil declined while the peace negotiations- were still on at Paris. The list of declinations is Tikely to be long and honorable. Perhaps Llo.vd George, when the coalition splits up, might be prevailed upon to take the post iii Washington. Then if France would send Clemenccau here on .some extraordinary mission the Big Three might get together and compare notes on what each .of them really got out of the Pence Conference. No one of them got much. Was it a people's victor V No. The war had dcstroed so muih that there was nothing to divide. As City Statistician K. J. Cattell has figured largely iu all affairs designed for the betterment of Philadelphia, it was but meet nnd proper that Philadelphia business men should unite to do him honor as they did last night at the Bellcvuc-Stralford. It was one out of thousands of banquets which he hns attended where he had a chance to con centrate on the first of figures, No. 1. Notice has been received at the navy yard that six old battleships have been placed out of commission. The life of a battleship may be described as from Ihe scrap to the Ecrnpheap. One never knows. Until we heard of the Hireling scheduled for today in the Maor's reception rooiu wc had not thought the matter of increase of pay for policemen and firemen admitted of debate. The difference between Mr. Wilson's ob stinacy and Uncle Sam's firmness is the dif ference between a treaty delayed nnd a treaty ratified. It now trauspires that Wibou's "brief and brutal" note to the Allies concerning tho Adriatic contained -1000 words. Quite enough to be polite In. Our owq theory is that the woman in black who is robbing local homes is the numc mster!ou8 person whose face, at the. window is destroying the peace of mind of the Gumps, As the Poor Riehnrd Club would have it : Truth lies in an inkwell. VC It is confidently believed that Bcgdoll will he "good ami im.d" if the alienists li,,, hiiu bad and Kane, V -ff IN THE SUBWAY QjnB was buxom, Ardent eyed, of a warm pallor, And she gave her eyes to the man Constantly. He was elderly, Furtive eyed, best foot foremost. And he, basked craftily, watchfully, Waiting. Her left hand Was innocent of wedding ring, Yet her gaze held all the knowledge Of the ages. He was near shabby, With a bow-tie of black. And nondescript linen, Not fresh. ' ' She was decked ' Bravely out in pearl beads. That accentuated a too-fat throat That the gown fell away from. Scorning. She became vexed At my fascinated gaze. And bade her accomplice ' Sland between. I dreamed, And searched ray memory, As lo whether she were known to me. Or a type. HELEN U. ATKINSON. November Hills rpHE hills are balm of saffron gold. " Smooth curving to the bay. Oh, spare that hallowed haze of brown One more November day 1 Pale brown is honey to the soul Too weary from the world ; I cannot bear to see the blare Of winter green unfurled. Deep mellow dun, -the shade of fawns. Rich cream, or Oolong dyes; 'Tis sunlight from the air distilled And soothed fcjvmortnl eyes. VIVIAN GURNEY What Do You Know? QUIZ 1 What is meant by star chamber method:' 2. Who was Marco Bozzaris? 3. Which state in the Union, excludiuj, Texas; has the most railway mileage? 1. What President of the United States was elected from Indiana? u. What historical concession to popular liberties was known as the Golden Bull? (i. What was tho fastest day's run ever made by a transatlantic liner? 7. Is a zebra scientifically rated as a black animal with white stripes or a whilf animal with black stripes? S. What is the oldest university on the American continent? 0. 'What is a'wolverine? 10. How many sides has a pentagon1 'AnBwera to Yesterday's Quiz 1. In Shakespeare's comedy "Twelfth Night," tho scenes are laid In llljru. which is another namo for Dalmtia. 2. A dahabecyah is a Nile sailing boat- original meaning of the word is Kila barge. .",, A rapid rise of tho barometer indicates unsettled weather. 1. Bnnda Oriental is another name for the territory comprised io the republic or Uruguay. 5. Madame Calllaux shot and killed fia- tqn'Calmette, .editor of the laru Figaro. 0. Pomona was the Roman goddess of fruit trees. 7. Germany, declared her intention tow unrestricted submarine warfare t--i -i incr .reuruurj- -i, -it'.. .. Alcock and Browne crossed the Atlao" by airplane In sixteen hours ana twelve minutes. ' .. .. ....i f- ii. nrcsiaencj. 8. u. ttooscveit ran iwim " . 10, The original meaning .t the word ptna 1 inoulum is abode ol " ,M- uv ft fASvS-J ,. h.ij imwpg 22H
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