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A FOUR-YEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA
Thincs n nlilrli the people cpect the
lieu adnilnUlratlon to couicntrute It at
tcntion: The Delauarr titer bridge
A drtUock big enough to ui commodate the
largest shipt.
Dcvelopmcit of the rapid transit system.
A ronvention halt
A building for the Free Libtary.
An .Irf utidfcum.
F.nlat qcment of the water supply
Homes to accommodate the population.
CONNELLY'S SHIFT
A LL empires look alike when they be
" gin to fall. Your autocrat, or boss,
In the last days of his power, sits among
importunate and hopeless followers, re
fusing their advice and hoping against
hope. An occasional satellite scurries
for the comfort of neutral ground or the
enemy lines. Muffled rumblings precede
the (inal smash.
It isn't likely that the world will ever
know half of what has been going on
recently in the grand headquarters of
the Vare faction.
Desertions were inevitable. John P.
Connelly in his sudden shift to the Moore
administration side may safely be le
garded as the leader of a parade.
Connelly was a McKichol man at the
beginning and a sublieutenant of Pen
rose. His lelations with the Varcs began
when he went 'along with the Smith ad
ministration. Naturally he is one of the
first to go. The rumor that others are
preparing to follow him probably is true.
SCHOOLS AND THE ARMY
COULD a contest in essay writing in
tho public schools, really help the
army and those who recruit men for the
service'.' At first glance the scheme
which caused something of a flurry be
tween tho army officers and Doctor Gar
ber appears like a waste of time for
everybody.
The military service of the United
States is actually a great school. It
should be adveitised. The navy es
pecially provides vocational training of
the most thoiough sort as well as gen
eral discipline. The army does almost
as well.
Tho Board of Education, on the other
hand, has established a rule which is de
vised to keep the school routine from
being disturbed and to protect the chil
dren from distraction. That rule might
be cheerfully set aside if the recruiting
service could be benefited thereby. But
since the plan proposed by .the army's
representatives was of doubtful value,
Doctor Garber seems justified in his de
sire to sustain an order which operates
.to prcent the exploitation of the schools
and the -chool spirit from exploitation
by those who, unlike the aimy and the
navy, hac no claim to public suppoit and
uympnth.
THIS CITY'S LABOR OUTLOOK
GO.vSlP and rumor.-, inspired b the ap
proaching expuation of belated war
conn acts, notably the discussions rela
tive to Hog Island, would indicate that
idleness must somehow become general
when government woik is out of the way.
This gossip does not appear well founded.
The announcement that six of the big
gest tankers in tho world will soon be
under construction at Bristol was not
needed to show that war contracts were
and are relatively unimportant in them
selves. The Delaware bridge is to be
constructed. The Parkway has yet to be
built up. Plans for dozens of great new
buildings ate aheady prepared and
waiting only for a time when the prices
of material will come a little closer to a
normal level.
It is likely that the next few years
will be the liveliest in our history. When
settled peace is made in Europe enor-
nious demands will be made upon the
city's shops and factories. And we have
still to build si good mary thousands of
dwellings to catch up with the normal
needs of the community.
FUTURE OF TEMPLE UNIVERSITY
ANNOUNCEMENT that Temple Uni
versity is considering the erection of
a building for its uses on the square in
Broad sliccl between Berks street and
Montgomery avenue reminds one of the
splendid woik that this institution has
done with meager equipment.
A college is something more than a
group ,of beautiful buildings; it is pri
marily a group of capablo teachers com
ing into daily contact with a group of
young men and women eager to learn.
The (distinction of Temple University
lies in the fact that it has never had a
student who entered its classrooms
merely becuuse he thought it was "tho
thing' to'go to college. Every Temple
student has been a young man or young
Vjomnn who realized the handicap of
ignorance and was determined to remove
it so far as possible.
Yet there- is an educational ralue in
$fr architecture, A young man looking
down from tho gallery into tho beautiful
assembly room in tho Harvard Union
suggested to his companion some years
ago what could be absorbed by daily
contact with beautiful things when ho
said that he was, brought up in a small
town and when ho ilrst entered tho as
sembly room of the Union ho looked upon
it with awe. The wide fireplaces at the
ends were different from anything, that
he had ever seen and tho carved oak pan
cling of the walls opened his eyes to a
new world of beauty. "As long as I live,"
said he, "I shall never forget the impres
sion tho room made on me,".
It is not likely that Temple University,
with tho limited sums at its command,
can erect vast monumental buildings, but
if it recognizes the value of beauty and
gets as much of it as is possible in its
new plant it will provide for its students
something which they can get so easily in
nn other way.
TIME TO EMPOWER COUNCIL
TO CONTROL EXPENDITURES
Legislative Interference With Local Ex
penditures In County Offices Is
Intolerable
I "pXPENDJTUKE of money by public
v..ti.v.id in x uiiuut:! jjiiiu niiuuiu uu
under the direct control of the taxing
and appropriating power of tho city.
The so-called county officers are in
many respects a law unto themselves.
And where they do not exercise their
own discretion they have been in the
habit of going over the heads of the city
authorities and securing laws in Harris
burg creating new positions and fixing
salaries.
The Council has no discretion in the
premises. It must appropriate the
money to pay these salaries.
Fortunately, however, the Cbuncil has
it little control over expenditures of the
county officers. There are some subordi
nate positions which it has created and
which it can abolish. And it can decide
how much it will appropriate beyond the
amount which is called for by the laws
passed in Harrisburg establishing cer
tain positions and fixing the pay for the
incumbents.
The little power which the Council has
over tho money required to support the
county departments is now likely to bo
exercised in order that money may be
found to pay the imperative expenses of
the city departments.
The last administration, it is now
charged, pared' the city appropriations
to .the bone and set aside generous
amounts for the use of the county offices
which lemained in the control of the
leaders who were dominant under Mayor
Smith. It was anticipated that Vare fol
lowers would Be dismissed by Mayor
iMoore. "Preparation was made in ad
ance to take care of them in the depart
ments that were still controlled by the
defeated leaders. Large numbers of men
dismissed from city departments and
from the sheriff's office have been ap
pointed to jobs in the offices of the re
corder of deeds, the receiver of taxes and
the county commissioners, regardless of
the needs of the city departments.
Major Moore and his associates are
doing the right tiling in examining into
the oavroll of these offices in order to.
' liw.vM. lirnt it ran lin lrtiii.nil en flinf
funds may be found to maintain the city
departments and to give to the police
men and the firemen the pay to which
they are entitled.
That the pay should be increased is ad
mitted even by the Vare followers.
Councilman Hall has introduced a reso
lution in the Council increasing the wage
of the policemen to ?5 a day. The reso
lution should be passed, and Hall and
those who work with him should be told
that the only way to get the money
needed is to transfer from the appropria
tions for the Vare-controlled coujity
offices such sums as will meet the in
ci eased appropriations required by the
Department of Public Safety. They
cannot object without convicting them-
J selves of four-flushing in urging letter
pay 101 Hie puuci: aim iirumun.
Council has power to transfer the
muiu'y from the appropriations for
county dcpartmenti whenever it sees fit.
While the Mayor and his assistants are
I working out the details of this plan it is
i expected that they will also begin to
make plans to ask the Legislature next
winter to repeal all laws fixing the
salaries of subordinates in the county
offices and to place tho absolute control
of the financial affairs of the county in
the hands of Council.
To perfect the complete union between
the county government and the city gov
ernment a constitutional amendment will
be necessary. Such an amendment ap
plying to counties-containing a city of
the first class could easily be drafted, and
if it were supported by the administra
tion here it is morally certain that it
would receive approval in Harrisburg.
But without waiting for a constitu
tional amendment tho Legislature can do
considerable to remove current abuses.
Besides repealing the salary lavs it can
put the appointment of subordinates in
the county offices under the supervision
of the Civil Service Commission and re
move them from purely political control,
so far as that can be done by the appli
cation of the rule that no appointment
shall be made save from an eligible list
prepared after an examination to test the
fitness of the candidates.
These changes are favored by every
one save a few professional politicians.
All that it needs to bring them about is
the concerted action of those who arc
persuaded that the present conditions
have been allowed to continue too long.
PEARY'S JOB ANDOURS
rpHE word of the scientists must be
J- taken concerning the benefits of the
discovery of the North Pole. Mr. Dooley
conjectured that "little Flora and Fauna"
playing about up there might lend a fillip
of interest to the bald white pate of this
earth. But Robert E. Peary made no,
such concessions to fancy. It was Cook
of the lively imagination who volun
teered the tale of the Arctic island con
veniently capping the world. As is so
often the fate of romance, this specimen
thereof was punctured after a dramatic
inquiry which securely established
Peary's right of discovery.
The pole, a mcrp point in the ultimate
EVENING PUBLIC LEDGEIt -
northern ocean, fixed by trigonometry
and the invalunble sextant, speedily
ceased to be a topic of popular concern.
Admiral Peary himself entered upon an
earned retirement. Until his death
yesterday his claims upon our attention
were infrequent. His courago and en
durance were established facts. So, from
tho public standpoint, was tho sterility
of his persistent and successful quest.
The satisfaction of the savants and
tho aids which pole-finding, north and
south, have contributed to the study of
terrestrial phenomena and In particular
of mysterious magnetics, are srfid to have
made the labors of Peary, eight times un
dertaken, eminently worth while.
In any event, Peary and Amundsen
ended the age Which Prince Henry tho
navigator may be said to have begun
the modern era of the revelation of the
elements of geography. Uncharted re
gipns remain, but their frontiers are
shrinking and the lure of grappling with
the unknowable in its larger material
aspects has departed. The shape of the
earth, the configuration of its continents
does notf trouble us deeply now. It is
man's justification for himself, his socie
tiesannd hi3 governments which stirs and
baffles us today.
Robert E. Peary's self-appointed task
was arduous. He finished the job admir
ably, convincingly. The globe spinning
on to now discoveries in a new era, tho
color of which cannot be definitely fore
cast, must almost envy, while it lauds, the
American admiraL He solved a riddle
some six or eight thousand years old
no mean accomplishment on the eve of
the age of doubt.
BIG NEWS VIA SOUTH AMERICA
SPITZBEKGEN has not yet spilled any
of the Fjumc secrets. That is prob
ably because Spitzbergcn is not popu
lated in winter.
However, Buenos Aires obliges. The
City of Good Airs, capital of a republic
which played no part in the war save as
a scene for the ravings of Count Lux
burg, knows what Mr. Wilson said to
Messrs. Lloyd George, Millerand and
Nitti, and what they answered back.
Buenos Aires, moreover, speaks right
out in meeting. Two of its hustling
dailies. La Nacion and La Prensa, dis
cuss the situation with keen sympathy
for some millions of Italian Argentines
who long for the blue Adriatic from the
low banks of the swarthy Plata.
Perhaps these journals have been flat
tering their readers with tales of Euro
pean defiance. Perhaps the truth has
leaked into the Southern Hemisphere.
Whether false or correct, these revela
tions from Paris via the pampas mock
the monstrous and high-handed secret
diplomacy of the supreme council.
It is said that Mr. Wilson would like
to be candid in public. Once again he
is reported to be pinning his faith upon
the people. Evidence of this -will be con
vincing when he reveals his program.
Suppose a crisis does follow? Could
it be more serious than one in which
brahmins of the chancelleries parcel out
the spoils of victory .while the world pub
lic is at loss for a single fact on which
to base a single judgment? Excepting,
of course, Buenos Aires. There is ample
food for free discussion in distant Latin
America. ..
THE FAITH OF THE NEUTRALS
THE kingdom of he Netherlands evi
dently scouts the idea that the cove
nant of the League of Nations is in
elastic or that small nations will be
merely helpless pawns, in the grip of im
perialistic combines. This attitude of
optimism is reflected in a practical and
perfectly legitimate manner by the sec
ond chamber of the Dutch Parliament,
which has approved the entry of tho na
tion into the international society.
Accompanying this sanction, which
virtually renders certain the concurrence
of the upper house, is an appeal for de
creased armaments, tho speedy erection
of a permanent high court of justice and
the prompt admission of all civilized na
tions into the league. The pact is not
amended. Holland has simply and
frankly outlined the role which she in
tends to play. She does not threaten.
She hopes. She appears to have faith.
l'aith is the prime need of a good
many governments just now. Rightly di
lected, it will be far more profitable than
challenges that are sure to inspire
counter-thrusts. The heirs of the Dutch
republic are setting an interesting exam
ple of sanity and constructive clear
thinking.
It is to be noted also that Switzerland
no longer makes her espousal of the
league principles contingent upon the
entrance of the United States. League
sentiment is stirring in Denmark. Un
questionably the neutrals can do much to
restore confidence in the peace plan. The
sooner they are regularly' enrolled the
sooner will criticism of the league as a
hypocritical alliance masked in amiable
phrases be invalidated.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman
The Eternal Knhrma Catt tolling the world
that she wouldn't ac
cept a scat in the United Ktate.s Senate as
a gift, may ease the mind of Senator Wads
wortu, of New York, who actually might lose
to a suffrage candidate. Here again we are
confronted by the awful myhtery of the fem
inine mind. What can you say to one who
wouldn't hnyc as a gift .something that men
have given vast fortunes to acquire?
Aslc W. Gronna, who
Pugnacity and voted against fighting
Precedent Germany and also
against the selective
Ecrvice act, asserts that recent attacks on
his war record have been inspired bj Herbert
Hoover. Evidently the senator from North
Dakota is a devout subscriber to the old legal
principle, "The greater the truth, the greater
the libel."
The world is waiting
Kverybody Is Helping to learn whether its
hopes of lasting peace
are being buried in London, in Paris, at
Rome or in the United States Senate.
"The President's
Question! note," tajs a head
line, "ends the argu
ment about the Adriatic." But what does it
begin?
Mr. Lansing is gAinf
Consolation to Florida for a vaca
tion. Ho will get
"God bless you ! ' from Mr. Bryan even if
lie didn't get one frou'tlie President.
PHiliA'DEtiHIA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY
APPRENTICES' LIBRARY
Centenary of Free Institution That
Has Been an Inspiration and a
Help to Thousands
QN FEBRUARY 24, 1020, the Appren-'-'
tices' Library will celebrate its one
hundredth birthday. Some years ago the
Legislature repealed the law under which
tho apprentice system had flourished In
Pennsylvania format least three generation,
but this ancient and honorable institution
has continued to serve the needs of the pub
lic, and especially tho needs of the boys and
girls, with unabitcd vigor.
TN 1820 "free" libraries, in the latter-day
senso of that term, were unknown, and
places where books could be obtained by poor
boys were very few and very Hmitcd,ln re
sources. Yet among the many thousands
of apprentices in Philadelphia, boys who
were "bound out" by Indenture to learn the
trade of their master, there were n consid
erable number who wanted to spend their
spare hoitrs in reading, but whose masters,
as a rule, had no books that appealed to
them.
It was largely among pmctical-mindcd
members of the Society of Friends that this
want was recognized, and the belief he'd
that if the lads could be put in the way
of obtaining good books it would greatly
lessen tho mischief into which many appren
tices fell when they were idle or had !ealc
of absence on the city streets. Therefore,
in the winter of 1820, a movement toaocom
plish this end was started by Thomas Kim
ber. Daniel B. Smith nod Samuel K.
Shober. They gained the assistance"" of a
number of influential citizcnB, prominent
among whom was Horace Biuney, and the
result was the formation of the "Appren
tices' Library Co. of Philadelphia."
rpHIS new institution would, in the words
of the founders, "promote orderly and
virtuous habits, diffuse knowledge and the
desire for knowledge, improve the scientific
BkiU-Tf our mechanics and manufacturers,
increase tho benefits of the system, of gen
eral education which is now adopted, and
advance the prosperity and happiness of the
community."
Among the founders, a bead roll of pnb-ic-8plritedPhiIadclpliians
of the first quar
ter of the nineteenth century, many of them
represented by descendants in tho city,, to
day, were Roberts Vaux, Philip Garrett,
Clement C. Diddle, James Cresson, Thomas
H. Learning, Benjamin H. Yarnall, Samuel
B. Morris, Robert M. Lewis, Henry Troth,
Jacob Gratz, William Price, Samuel Sell
ers, William S. Warder, Samuel Canby,
Merritt Canby, Richard C. Wood, Richard
Oakford, Anthony Flnlcy, Benjamin Tuck
er, Frederick V. Krug, Philip V. Mayer and
Lloyd Mifflin.
THE library was first opened at what was
then 100 Chestnut street. There were
about 1C00 volumes, and these were given
out to apprentices on Saturday afternoons.
Soon afterward a room in Carpenters' Hnll
was taken by the library, and there it stayed
for seven years. In 1S28 it was moved to
the north side, of Ludlow street, known at
that time as Carpenter street.
The Franklin Institute had been opened
shortly before on Seventh street, and most
of the citizens who were interested in the
Apprentices' Library were members of the
institute. Later tho, books were moved to
a building at Seventn street and Sugar
alley (afterward Filbert street) which had
housed the United States Mint for nearly
forty years. At this time and for some
time to come the Apprentices' was the only
strictly free library of a general chnracter
in the city. For its first twenty years its
books were only given to boys and young
meu. but in 1841 girls were admitted to its
privileges.
A
T THAT time the members of the Free
or Fighting Quakers abandoned their
f-crvices in the old meeting-house at Fifth
nnd Arch streets. The managers of the
library obtained the right to occupy the
upper floor at a nominal rent, and there,
for more than half a century, apprentices
went for their books. Presently the entire
property was devoted to their use.
In time the growth of the city made Fifth
and Arch no longer n desirable center for
library purposes, and the Apprentices'
moved to the Unitarian Church building, at
Broad and Brandywine streets, in 1817.
This was what Joel Cook called the focal
point of nn "educational region," the Cen
tral High School and other public schools,
the Spring Garden Institute, and the great
industrial plants of the neighborhood pro
viding a host of potential students, eager
to read good books.
The library, now free to all, still draws
the larger number of its beneficiaries from
the nmbitious youth of the city.
F.
when Horace Binner ceased to be its offi
cial head, the Apprentices' has had eight
presidents: Johu Sergeant, Henry Troth,
Townscnd Sharpless, James J. Barclay,
Joseph H. Collins, Charles Itoberts, Joseph
It. Ilhoads, and now Willium M. Coutes.
Considerably more than tmc hundred thou
sand anpreptico-. and those who have taken
their place in the life of the city have been
enrolled on the library's register and more
than half a million readers have shared Its
benefits.
A modest but very substantial agent in
the work of .diffusing knowledge and the
desire for knowledge, the Apprentices' Li
brary has, in its hundred years of service,
worthily carried out the desire of its
founders to "advance the prosperity and
happiness of the community."
"Mr. ond Mrs. Ruffles" are said to have
returned 512,000 worth of jewels stolen from
a VGntnor family after they learned thero,
.were finger prints in the possession of the
police. They will probably handle their nexT
case with gloves.
The local woman who risked her life to
save her aged mother from a burning simply
gave another example of the everyday heroism
which is so common as to be commonplace;
but not bo commonplace as not to awaken
admiration.
The police say that a diamond expert
declared he wouldn't give n dollar apiece for
samples of the stones stolen by auto thieves
in a downtown store yesterday. Perhaps
what the expert examined was the plate
glass the bandits broke.
Senator Martin says he doesn't know
whether or not he'll call on Mayor Moore,
because he doesn't know whether or not the
Mayor wishes to bee him. As a feeler, this
isn't half bad.
February 29 would be an excellent day
on which to pass the treaty. The senatorial
bitter-enders would then be spared the pain
of annual celebrations.
Doctor Cook's obituary notices preceded
those of Admiral Peary by nearly eleven
years.
The Mayor's view of the bridge and tun
nel proposition is that there is glory enough
for all.
If motorists, continue their campaign
for good roads it will go far to solve freight
transportation problems.
Perhaps Maryland would be Trilling to
compromise on 2.75 suffrage.
VYS y, LENT ." v .Hi skWh? $
HE STAfcYJ i - - - likr- ' J$&
FROM DAY TO DAY
W;
HILE
the United Kina Idea the
States
makes its . . ,
reservations to the UlStrUSt Ueposea tlWl
EureJnflucfiVedby'th; Doubt Written in Covenant
example, makes its Why England Saved Turkey
reservations too. ..
While America chips Keeper at inauts uate
aw
rr'eagueEliZ: Where Wilson
chips away its moral props.
While America declines to commit itself to
the use of force in support of the league,
Europe decliues to trust too much to a
league that docs not rest upon sufficient
forces.
While America shrinks from the league as
too much of an alliance, Europe makes a
few alliances on the side in order to fall back
on one In case of need.
Neither side trusts the reorganization of
the world that a few months ago would make
it safe for democracy.
And the author of the reorganization sits
iu the White House in such a frame of mind
thar the official apologist is forced to write
that he always had a bad temper, otily the
strain of recent years has weakened his con
trol over it!
q q q
I
T IS the final act of the great tragedy.
When the history of men's beliefs or
illusions conies to be written, more than ono
chapter will be devoted to the great moral
empire of Woodrow AVilson.
Out of the war came the btrangest phe
nomenon in history, not a dream of conquer
ing the world by force and holding it iu sub
jection to force, .such as Napoleon had, and
such as Alexander had, but a dream of con
quering the world by an idea and holding it
in subjection to an idea.
And this idea possessed men's hearts as no
religion ever possessed men's hearts.
The Christian religion took centuries to
spread over its part of the earth.
The moral empire rose iu a year, subduing
the minds of men over a larger section of the
earth than has ever yielded to Christianity.
The chief priests gathered at Paris.
Men saw that they were merely human.
And worse, they themselves saw they were
merely human.
They saw too that the world was merely
human. ,
Doubt was written into their covenant.
The moral empire lacked substance.
To huvc something they could feel and
touch and count on they wanted a little
material empire of the good old Napoleonic
sort on the side.
The vision passed. The great tragedy hap
pened, the btrangest story of the rise and fall
of a faith in tho whole history of mankind.
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TO MAKE the world safe for democracy,
Turkey Is to be preserved in Europe, iu
Constantinople, with subjects in Asia, per
haps Lord Robert Cecil thinks so at least
perhaps in Armenia.
Turkey has occupied a strategic spot on the
map, the point that controls the road to the
East.
And the world has never been able to agree
upon any one else as the holder of that spot.
Internationally the Turk is harmless,
He is so evil that one cunuot conceive of
him as anywhere except "East of Suez."
He cannot be buspectcd of designing
empire.
Either a person so virtuous as to be above
suspicion, or a person so vicious as to bo
impotent, must hold Constantinople.
We having refused, it is apparently going
to be the Turk.
He may have an unpleasant habit of mur
dering a good many of his subjects.
But one has to pay a price for the peace of
the world and the Turk is the peace of the
world.
q q q
England saved Turkey once to keep Rus
sia from entering Constantinople.
Russia, in the old Byzuntluc capital, would
have been an enemy holding the gateway to
India.
Turkey wis a friend holding the gateway
to India, a disreputable friend, it is true,
21, 1&"
THE WEEK'S LEFT-OVERS
Cnnauernr
but one whose bad char
acter was a positive
qualificatioh for the post.
This disreputable friend
deserted to Germany,
held the gateway open
for Germany to the Eabt
and made the great war
possible.
q q
, .
Was Right
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OTILL once more he is to be trusted.
The Turk, like so many other evil forces
in the world, knows how to make himself
indispensable or seem indispcnsablcT
When England once saved him from Rus
siu it was to make India bafe.
Now when bhe is about to keep him in
Europe it is to make her whole Moslem world
safe.
In paymcnt for his life the Turk will
apparently use his influence throughout tho
whole Moslem world, of which he is the reli
gious head, to keep the Moslems content
under British rule.
And Britain probably feels that in any
event she has tho Turk's life in pawn, there
being now no rival to whom the Turk may
desert as he once did to Germany.
Not now.
q q q
TVTR. WILSON was right. It was cither to
1'-L be the United States in Europe or the
Turk tho United States in Europe or the
old-fashioned hostile combinations there; the
United States in Europe or the Turk chang.
ing sides, upsetting the balance, and then1
the necessity of fighting it out all oyer again.
The. mistake was that he called an Anglo
American -French combination, not .n armnn.
a combination that not even civilization's
trusted bandit could not redress the scales by
shifting sides, but the millennium. The mil
lennium raised too great hopes, and when
they fell, even the whole thing fell.
q q q
piMPEROU KARL of Austria is living in
J- Switzerland on nn income of 1000 Swiss
francs a year; fortunately Swiss francs, for
they arc worth something. But $400 a year
is a small income for an ex-kaiser. Austria
like Tuikey, was maintained because bhe was
useful, Turkey was civilization's set bandit
Austria was a bit of civilization itself'
lying cast of barbarism. '
Vienna was a Paris east of Berlin
Even up to almost the last Austria suc
ceeded in making the West think she was
indispensable to her.
The United States would not declare war
on her.
Karl had friends in Paris and Washington
as well as Berlin.
It seemed a sure thing, and unlike other
prudent sovereigns, he failed to send bis
money out of his empire and invest it in some
good, safe neutral country.
Tho result is that Franco clings to the
touch of civilization east of the darkest night
of A ienna hat Pans cast of Paris, nud would
keep it distinct and uucontaminated even at
the cost of btarving it to death. And Karl
suffers the fate of his country on a $400 a
year income.
There is, of course, a possibility that the
political platforms of 1021 will be call ng
for "tho prompt ratification of UiC treaty."
A Kentucky cardinal has been been in
Audubon, N. J. Wo may, therefore, begin
to look for a robin In Independence Square.
Gestures in diplomacy forever remind us
that most of the things that cause us worry
never happen.
Six big tank Bhlps aro to bo built on the
upper Delaware, but the fact gives no Jov
to the "wets." '
Among the signs of the coming spring
(he bock-beer goat will not be numbered.
Bwtndary lines embarrassingly retain
their olu habit of turning into battle lints,
b
YOU THIEF
"V7"OU entered my heart's domicile
-- One lovely summer night; ,
You broke each lock in easy style ; j
Naught could resist your might.
You used your smile to torch your way,
Your eye burned clear its path ;
To get your wants seemed but child's play,
There were no signs 'of wrath.
You prowled so quiet on tip-toe,
It really seemed you danced;
When, strange to say, armed with his bow,
Cupid this way had chanced.
And with his aid, and with a kiss,
You blinded me entire,
And in your bag you packed my blics, 1
My lovo and all desire. i
But you were caught, happy for me,
And sentenced, dear, for life,
To be to mo eternally e
My dear, sweet, loving wife.
JOSEPH CARLTON PODOLYK,
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. Name three revolutions in which tk
Marquis do Lafayette played a prom
inent role?
2 On what day was George Washington
born according to the calendar in use
in America at that time?
3. Who said "Prejudice is the child o'
ignorance"?
4. What is tho correct pronunciation of
the word scenario?
5. When were the national colors adopted ;
by Congress?
C. What is the nickname for the St. Lonij
baseball club iu tho National League?
7. now did foolscap get its name?
8. What are yamB?
0. What celebrated eighteenth century
author was called "The Inspire
Trlint"?
10. Of what stato is Montpcllcr the capital' I
Answers to Yesterday's Quit ,
1. Star chamber methods arc tyrannlcil,
arbitrary. Tho star chamber court v
one of civil and criminal jurisdiction.
which could proceed ou mere rom"
.i i.. i.i... i nrisred In West'
minster. London, and was abolisica
by the Long Parliament in 1041. "
.. .- ji. nir,n. nf the room
name js jruiu iu """ -- . ,
in which it met, which was decorated
with gilt stars.
...... -,, !. . . Mted Greet
z. .Marco lioizaim " , j
patriot distinguished for his service in
tho war wmcu lmeraieu u -; .
from Turkish rule. He wwMUed la
the battle of Carpenis in 18-u.
3. Illinois has the most railway ' -
any state in the Union except Toil. ,
4. At 'the time of his election as rodent.
Benjamin xiarrwuu "- -
Tn diann
"fser.r;2's?!
c. The fastest day's run ever mto W I
J""": ,.: , Peru I. - i' tt
8.
oTdeston the Anierican conn. ,
ZTSS carcajou an de-f
10.
A pentagon is a mo '
llueal flfur.
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