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Member of (lie Associated Press Th' issnrt r r.n . .5 .. j ..,;.(- Sivcl! i ulill'tl to thr '-i .- cpubliciHiiu of all 1 1 a i tliupc't hi i i i ititnl tit it tr '' alhcnitii tit (lit nt In tht i paper, mill uho tho Jural m in published Hindu, All iltjhtx of republication of .ipcchil dit patches herdn arc alio reserved. Philadelphia. Wr.lnf.di. l-rl,niir; IS. l'SO Ai-OUR-YEAR PROGRAM FOR PHILADELPHIA TIiIiich mi li li I li llir prnp'r i--iii Mtp new (iiliuliiilrHlli(ii In i oiHi'iitrnve lt rt' Ipntlmi : Jli" l'taicuii mi- bnrhii A tlrylijt'k Mo "iio'tnli j u commJiU'C Hi: l"rp',' shljii. ncclopirr it of tht iijic ffinisi.' .valcm. .1 coniTiiflou halt A lutMiuei for the I it l-brary. An A ; Vusrum. Kntarar cnt of the writer s'ip ?rt Uoinea o accommodate the iiopul tl'on. UP TO THE RAILROADS O DAVIS WARFILLD. assuminp thut the President will .-iirn the railroad bill, lias dclhercd himself of ome perti nent remarKs on the -ituation. He says that the ruiheads now hr.e i.n opportunity to prove th.:t they can serve the counto a privately owned enter prises. Cong-res ha done all that it can. Now the railioad.N imi-t do their part and Sivc evidence that they nill co-opeiate with me another anil with th- Interstate Commerce Commii-'ion to thf successful accomplishment of public 3crice. In href, he s-ay. tha it i. now up to the raihoad-. As their managers have indorsed the bill they ai morally hound to do their utmoit to iiiaUr it work. If they do not make 'jool rev there is likely to be a demand for a resumption of government eontrel, ci thou'i tlu't kind of contiol ha not her ati-factor.. THE NORTH PENN PROMISE pOLONIiL PUSEVS .-tatcment .ii.it within two months the lcpo!to.s ir the defunct North Per.n Bank will get - -. I per cent of their money '?. the fir t ileli nitc promibc that the ha e ice'vcd The hope of moi" in the futur i ' d put, but Colonel Pusey mc'cl; -late it as a hope, and not as a prom.:i . The depositor- i be giatificd to learn that the are to et oniething. even though the date of payment i- a long way in the future. Many of them had ceased to expect anything because the winding up of the alTair.i of the bank has been proceeding with great delibera tion, as though the depositors wr-o u rich that they could get along w.thout their sa mg.- indefinitely. Nothing could be done b the men" in charge of the winding up of the bank which would increase the confidence of its creditor.- in their efficiency so much as an early payment of part of the sum due to each depo-itoi. THE BRIDGE IS WORTH IT rpiIE SIO.OOO.OOO which, it i estimated, will be Philadelphia's share in the cost of tho Uelawaie bridge is an expenditure which none but chronic pull-backs will begrudge. The arguments for the span are now a- ob ious as they aie unanswei able. Tie muttei has resolved 'taelf into n iue.-iinii nf the most expedition- wuy-i nf furthc -irg the piojuct, of e.e,-uunc it on a splenqid .-calc and with that siuie rcononr which stnkes the happ Iml ancc be wen niggardlinc-i and wa-tace. Whatever the legitimate chaise.- on the city w.il be, Philadelphia will be proud t'j meet them. Mayor Moore, however, brings up a point which nu'lu to be ddinnely -'-tied at the out.-et. If y ntun -lion that heif i- n.. le-ral .uiUmnu in the lull IOICH1K t hi -tilte lii llilllillUl.- lle liniK'l - taking i i on oil. then -ucli Hetieieney shoutd be explicit! repaired. This ieali monumental cnierpn-e, m voh.ng it is said, a total outlay of 40,. O00.O0U. demands the uimut co-operation by all the official honeticmric- tne -tales of Peniiajhama and Nrv Jrse. and the cities "f Camden and Philadelphia. Hap pily tlieie is little re,jon to fonr an Serious .-la'-)-intr. L'tidei igoiou-. intelli gent direction and a t'enume amalgama tion of intere-t- the bridge "iiould be completed in the oi -i ean. Though the job i- a great one, in the e day- of ctraoidiiuu engineering progie-s it i fasily icrjucioli to practnal term- and valuc- WHY THE DEMOCRATS WEAKEN TNDKATIONS that tlu niuemcnt airotig the Senate Demnciats for a party caucus is directed toward con sideration of a practical Lompronusc on the treaty is a cheering index of an ap preciation of rcalitie-. The nation las had more than its fill of treat argu ment. Furthei disui-non in Congrcs is extremely unlikely to alter in any way tho present complexion of public senti ment, which is now cry.-tallUeil into a demand for ratification with reasonable reservations. Tho Democrats are thus placed in a po nHion where surrender would be their best political card. Any party which, deservedly or not, appears to be saddled wjth tho responsibility of taking the pact before tho country ns a presidential cam paign issue will he embarrassed in prov ing its sincere championship of peace. Ueapitc disclaimers, neitlici Mr Ihtch uuclc nor M'"' Lodge can be imagined as V" (H-w.-i Tj deriving much pleasure in shouldering the blame for any such folly. When tho treaty is put through practi cal politics will be taking a hand. I2vcn if idealism would seem a preferable agency, it has to be confessed that it is rcajistlc exigency which in the end spur- logHlathe action. The process is com mon in this lepublic, which thrives under the good fortune that the results attained arc often superior to the motives. IS GOVERNMENT BY LOBBIES ' SUPREME IN THIS COUNTRY? Senator Thomas, Senator Myers and the Unr.ecn Powers That Aim to Rule Over Congress TT IS an almost invariable habit 'f statesmen to put their confest-ions in print and shrewdly die before they can be rend. So it may be assumed that con vulsions of an altogether unusual sort must be going on in the souls of Senator Thomas and Seiiato' .Myers, who. in the full glow of health, have just been telling the world of the force I surrender of Con-irrc--! to aipnt of invisible government. liery Midictmrnt ? 'the W'ashlnglcn lulhii . topped out of Mr. Thumas unex pectedly, like a shout of intolerable pain. "Wo. jimr sorvjintw." caiil lie to wine banqueters in New York, "uro threatened, iervmiiled. mjoled nml warned of the fate. political ami otltcncisc, that awaits us if r ilnrr to I'M-rcNe our oun judement in-il'-prudentl-. You i-nnuot imagine tin nienliil anKiii1i nf n man wliu wishes In in- it elceteil A ilrn horse in the in f' nml ri'sinii" h;i i li:ipp. thnr mrei ll -ullle pllll n i ailt.s. V llr i'. i-niiii'l Inlioi mid ncriciiltiiral "oi-i-t i from i lie operntinn of the anti-tni't laws iiikJ we i-nuiint appropriate u dollar mi less thc ucfuieiT." "Mr. Ooniper"." -.aid Mr. Mrrs in the Senate. "Is more powerful than the Presi dent of the United States. Mr. Wilson eati only veto hills. Mr. Gompers cau l.eep Congress from passinc them." Mr. Gompers couldn't stop the Cum-mins-Esch railway bill in Congress. Mat ters may not be quite as bad ns Mr. Myers believes. But the fact remains that highly organized clas interest in Washington makes clear thinking and impartial action in Congress more difli cult than it ever was at any olhci time in lii-tor;-. Still it is not easy to weep foi the hon orable members. It is not too much to suppo-e that many a man, forced, as Senator Thomas seems to have ln.cn. to choose between his job and the betra.il of a great trust and an utter abandon ment of his own intellectual integrity, would not -unender and appeal for pub lie sympathy. He might look ids oppie. sots flatly in the e e. tell them to go to thunder and walk out jobless, but with the knowledge that he had done himself and the country a gicat service. Merc complaint is never inspiring. There are no bugles blown or monuments i rected to ihe worm that turn.- at the last ditch. The norm, in its last attitude, niav be a s mbul of cosmic law. Hut it is still a woim. Senator Thomas spoke simple truth. For that the country owe-, him respect and attention. We are, faded, drifting toward a state of government by lobbies. The statute books alone are evidence of that. The farmer-' lobb and the labor lobb have become the most novvcrful agencies of super-govrinment in the United States. They have -natched the laurel fiom the brow- of the trusts. Big business, even in its maddest days and it had some pretty mad and rcckle.-s day-- never sat in the Senate galleries to hold a stop-watch on un friendly members and write their politi cal death wairants in public. The rail unions did that during the debate on the Adamson law. Big business never advevti-ed its inten tion to annihilate any congressman who didn't go along mcekl under the whips of it- agents. The farmers lobby uses that method with cheerful nonchalance. A multitude of ruthless ?nd powerful lobbies have come penlouslv cloe to a seizure of the government. They recog nize Congress, to be sure. But they ac- ept it only as a cutting edge for their own purposes. And in fairness to Senator Thomas and the other- it is necessary to lemem ber that ours is supposed to be a repre sentative government of representative men. It would be otherwise if the House and the Senate were made up of super men with none of the fears and inhibition- and concerns common to the rank and file. If Attoinev General Palmer were !e eager for the exclu.-ivc applause of the top galleries he might keep his raiding squads intact and busy and find plentv of work for them without leaving the na tional capital. He could turn his strong arm- looe in tho plush and mahogany sanctuaries of the rival unofficial gov ernments that exist solely for the pur pose of establishing themselves above the government which the people of the Urited States elect for themselves. For it has been a long time since any con--picuous lobby was content to present its claim- in the manner provided by the institutional light of petit ion. There pie lobbies that make no -ci n t of their a uii to conliol Congrcs- body and soul by ull means ranging fiom -imple threats to uu arniahed blackmail. And some of them operate in the interest of causes upposcd to be highly moral. We are accustomid to boast in the United States of our organizing ability. Before we are much older we may have to wonder whether, after all, we arc not a bit too highly organized. Scientific efliciencv in organization has knit various groups together, isolated them and ostcred a hardening class con sciousness which finds direct expression in the conditions which Mr. Thomas de scribed. Legislative .cprescntation at Washing ton has become a matter of luxurious offi cial suites, of captains and generals di recting small armies of runners and spies, of secret service and formality suggestive of that which pi evaded at German great headquaiters. A senator or congressman can turn in the middle of any important debate and look at the gullcne- and -co the men who arr ready to dubt olf tho political electric chair for him or send out a call foi the juggernaut of a ,hugc clats vote. II they - sVfij 'PV "' I EVENING rUBLIC LEDGER- waver and change tiicir minds thoy may not always be blamed. Only the people can help them the pcoplo who look on from afar and hear only vaguely of lob bies and have only a deficient notion of what is going on. And yet the big lobbies, with all their tremendous show nf alrnnrMti nlid vuth. I lessness, rely chiefly on a Chinese method I of warfare, which-is one of flourishes and noise. Any man who starts a sys tematic and determined war upon them may lose his office. Hut another office and a greater' one will surely go seeking him. To crush any big lobby you have only lo drag it out into the light of day. , The vast majority of the people, who arc or ganized only as citizens of the United States and who go along in the assump tion that their nflairs are safe in the hands of tho coiigrcssme;n they elect the only union leaders they know have only to bo informed fully of the present general tendencies in Washington. They would quickly put up tho shutters on some of the most luxurious and. elaborate suites in tno office buildings at the capi tal. Ihe lobbies cannot survive for a day after their dangerous inner machinery is once exposed fully to public sciutiny. Any man at present in Congress might well begin an upward career of immeas urable usefulness by beckoning the whole array of invisible governmental officers out into the arena for a final showdown. The Senate was established by the constitution lo represent the right.- and privibni' of the states. The House is of and for the people. .Memh" -hip in these two legislative branches presuppo es a knowledge of tho life and needs of all communities fa this countrv. The right of formal petition is granted in order that no interest or class, no mat ter how remote or obscure, may be neg lected. Such is our theory of govern ment. The very existence of vast and belligerent lobbies in Washington shows how appallingly that principle has been perverted and how generally vvc have come to accept unwritten laws in the conduct of national affairs. HIGH PRICES AND SAVINGS A KEASON for high prices to which little attention has been given is sug gested in the sixth annual report of the Federal Kescrve Board just submitted lo Congress. It is that the people who bought Lib erty Bonds have not yet been able to pay for them out of their savings and that the loans made by the banks to the purchas ers have expanded credit. There can be no material contraction of credit until the Winds have been paid for out of the savings of the people. The report deals with more topics than the inabilit.v of the country to digest the war loans. But aside from the purely routine matters this and related subjects receive most attention. We are reminded that the Federal Ttc serve system has stood one-half of the test of its ability to do that for which it was created. The country had suffered from a rigid currency system whjch could not expand and contract in response to the needs of trade. The new system was intended to provide for an elastic currency system that is, one that would contract as well as expand. Under the pressure of war demands the system has been able to expand and provide currency to meet the needs of the countiy. Incidentally, the needs of business were further served by an ex pansion of credit. The expansion of cur rency and of credit is really at the bot tom of high prices. Now it is to be discovered whether de flation of currency and credit can be brought about under the new system without di.-astcr. Tlic report warns against an attempt at rapid or drastic de flation, a.- it would produce a needless unscttlement of mind and produce an un fortunate effect upon productive industry. So long a the war bonds ore hld by the banks as security for loans made to tho-e not yet able to pay for them out of their savings there can bcno radical calling in of "-uch loans. The processes of defla tion will go along with the speeding up of the processes of production, with the or derly distribution of goods, with the avoidance of wasteful consumption and with the increased accumulation of sav ings. It is evident from the report that the nu-mbeis of the Federal Heseive Board are convinced that as production and -avings are increased there can be bi ought about a contraction both in credit and in currency which in time will put an end to the war inflation that has been reflected in high price-. If events prove that their opinion is well founded, then the Federal Reserve -tern will have, given to us the elastic currency for which vv e have been hoping. Hop; Island turning What Is It? out trnnspnrts for the government and the government is making more or less iinine. cessful efforts to Ret rid of thirty fieruian liners that later proved then worth n- trans ports. Perhaps there i- n ;-,0( irni;n fm this, but Mm- html i- urRins Slates anil Conditions Wist Viiriiuu to ie- ject suffiuKi-. The in terchange on the nineteenth amendment i- not nearly so significant ns that of the Cuio linus touching on a condition antecedent to the eighteenth. Three million dollars Doesn't It Meat ? for treet improve ments. This is ji whole lot better than good intentions. The prosecution in the Berg loll in-r is iiocecding on the theory that Hc-gdoll isn't even l'.7f per cent inuane. With ever -inn easing pine of gM- owners of autos will huvc to have money to burn. 'uiacao for tho kaiser. . Newspaper hrailllne. .... . . Too soft a drink. Try wood alcohol The consensus of opinion s-eems to be that Iron coutily was not pioperlj trin pcreil. ' Toot loot: Kailroad Bill special All nbiui'd. t'oiign - ' Next slallon March 1 ,o.i,li I'uiuell is siniplj exciting Un LUitouuipt.- to lurtucr clluiU. r.U PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, lEBKUARY CORTELYOU AS AUTHOR Director of Publlo Safety Wroto 8tory for President Thriller In Which He Had Been Hero TT SEEMS like a far cry from .lames T. 1 Corlcl.voti. director of public safety in the cabinet of Mayor Moore, lo Woodrow Wll sou, President of the United States, ntnl yet It was not many years ago that Corlcl you was the means of furnishing entertain ment to the head of the natlou. It came about iti the most natural way In the world. Cortelyou was the main figure In a dime novel thriller from real life, nml. for the time being, lie played Ihe lole of Sherlock Holmes for the President. ll hmmetied i when he xxu.M postal n,.,.,ir fm the govern ment, nun noing that rinc person a ,dc lecihc with brains and a sense of humor he was able to carry the thing to a .success ful conclusion. TxJOW. as most Americans know. President - Wilson Is a detective fan. He obtains relaxation by reading glorified dune novels, til this he follows the example of William K. (ilniNtom-,, the mo-i -erioiis-mlinled -tnte-innn who ever uiideitnok lo cubic the I ile.sl.nles of the Uriijxli iinpiie. Alo lie j i-'seuihks the late Sniator Hoar, who fraukl admitted that "hen he wanted a rest from Hie cares of sfate he always in dulged in an orgy of dime novel rending. In some way if became known that Cortel you hud an important case on hand. The word was passed along the line that the. President wanted to rend reports of that kind and when tltv In-P'-clor sat down lo make his report of Ihe adventure he realised that he wns writing a -ii.n for the I'red ileni of the""! uiidi stiin- I'he icpoi-t reeeh.-il t:. 1 1. C. of hi immrdiae superior and went fiom one hand to another until it rendu .1 the White House. It is not permissible to -n what happened after that, but it mav he -tated unreserv edly (hat James T. Cortet.-rou as an author xvas pronounced by the highest authority a success. Ills production does not rank with the best sellers in circulation, but it hail the most exclusive group of readers iu the United States. mill'S Director Cortelyou. like his distln---1- gui-hed brothrr, Ge'rge n. Cortelyou. wns brought to the attention of the Presi dent liv the merest accident. It may lie recalled by some of llm-e who keep in touch with the little political incidents thai occur behind the scenes thet there was a day when President-Cleveland was in immediate need of a lirst-clas.s stenographer. His own shorthand man was III and there was 110 one else at hand. One of the departments was appealed to if recollection is not wrong it was the postofliee department. Cortelyou was sent to the President ami he performed the work with neatness aud satisfaction. A few days later the President again needed a stenographer. "And b.v the way. Dickinson." ho -.aid. "I vvl-h j on would send me (hat young mau Cortelyou. He knows hii business and he suits me dowu to the ground." The sequel to this incident is very well known. Presently Mr. Cleveland wanted a confidential stenographer and Cortelyou was given the place. Later he was asso ciated with Presidents McKiuley and Itoo-cvelt and served ns a member' of the cabinet under two Presidents. Today he is the hem! of a big business corporation in New- Yoik. All of which goes to prove thnt the man who is read to grasp Ida opportunities is humid lo rise in the world. "OUT this has nothing lo do with the story - written b.v Director Corlel.vou. It might have been called ''Dead Itos Tell Xo Tab-." bul under any title it would grip the imagination, aud when it xvas solved Coi-tel.vou fell thut it was worth more than the usual ill -ns-dust reports. It all concerned a little boy AVarren McCairick who disappeared from Ilia homo in the southern part of Philadelphia. It thicateued to become as famous as tho Charlie Ito- case. Pet haps the reader will recall the ca-e. Tn anv event it is neccs--arj lo recall the fact that the faiher of the boy received a letter in which he was told if he would pay S7500 the child would be returned. Tho letter added, signifi cantly, that if the mouc was not forth coming the distracted pannt- would receive old the clothing of their loved one and n lock of his hair. The letter was turned over to the superintende it of police and he in turn laid it before ,lHine T. Cortcljou, then theehief postal inspector for the (lis 1 1 iit of Philadelphia The letter "was pi-ninirrkcd Pittsburgh and that nntiirall removed the investiga tion to that eil.v. It as found that several oilier blackmailing letter, had been sent to other persons in the -ani handwriting. One to the Western Union Telegraph threatened to destroy the wire- and poles of tho con cern if $1000 was n"t torthcomins at once. Inspectors Craig and Holhy xvere given the task o following up each of the letters. IN THE meantime tne body of poor 1 it tic Warren McCarri'-k was fouud floating in the Delaware river it as pretty well proved that his dtaili was due to an acci dent, and that tin threats had come from some unFcriipulou- person who had read of his disappcarani e ,nul wanted to extort money from the fun, id parents. That only thickened the pin' Cortelyou ami hi i--i-lanl found that tin, lector of n i I h in Pittsburgh hud icceived a Ihn at' i.ing letter and that it was iu the -aim- tpe as the others. They started a Sherlock Holmes trick. They began the astounding task of examining thousands of up' writing machines in Pittsburgh, and on the second day found a machine that had t1 very defects they xveie looking for. It mi- operated b a girl who lived in a little '""u culled Coraopolis, not far from Pittslmgh. She bad a brother who lived stiiinil in a shack on the out--kirts of the to v n COUTKI.YOl -o.,k up the ihreads of the ganie. II" mil satlslii-d thut the mysteri ous brothei wii- the writer of tln letters. lo determined m go iu person and in rest the culprit. II- waa warned thai Hie man was dangeiou- perhaps a degenerate - but .. . .1! , .1. ..... I ,,... ... ttiai ui'i oi r iiim . ne goi a nigli- poweicd automobile and ran out tu the hut. He wa- mured iu the regulation tour ist outfit. II- ore a leather-peuked cap, green goggle- and a linen duster, und he was accompanied by two strong-arm men. Once oppowi' the shunt be alighted and taking an oil urn moved toward the door of the hut. "I'm sine In- shoulul to his companions in a voice leiiij enough lo be heard in the house, "thut we ,.uu get some oil here." The bolls "f the door were withdrawn and it vvns thrown open anil he walked in, His iissMhui- followed him, ami almost instantly tin culprit was handcuffed and taken lo Pittsburgh. They had the black mailer who wi- hulf slmpletou und half rogue, and In as given the penalty of the law. IT WAS a (bver piece of work, bul riot a whit moic r than had been done in innny other casts I" ihe sani" man. Philadelphia liU- Its inn i of unsolved cases, , if Curtdvuu ' "rn liHlf ii iliance mav lie -lire dial niie of die e riddles will !,'., 1 answered. f "'" "-Mw! i -vipiqiiqpyfijpiiii, jtj. U.-UjjiiJM FROM DAY TO DAY WHO shall tell us when our President is "disabled"? One hill in Congress says the courts shall. Another bill says it shall be the cabinet. No bill says Congress shall. Presidential Disability Who Is to Name It? Cabinet as r( Factor As to Two-Cent Coins Curacao Wants Kaiser Self-Slopping Senators Congress is modest. Likewise it knows enough to keep away from "trouble. Let us suppose that Congress had sought to determine this question this time, namely during the more serious phase of President Wilson's illness. Congress wns llepublican. The President was a Democrat. The. Senate xvas iu a bitter fight with the Presi dent over the relative parts played by itself and the Executive iu treaty-making. Parti sanship rau high. Suppose Congress had decided that the President was so disabled as to be incapable of filling his office? Somahing like civil strife would have resulted. Certainly more damage would have been done to our institutions thuu xvas done bx the President's continuing to be President, although kept away from official business by his physicians. Ci SUPPOSE the Supreme Court had been called upon to dc idc the question of disability? When the President had been si, k a , month it xvould have called iu Admiral (raj son and the other doctors. They would have testified, probablr. thai the President had suftcrnl a slight stroke of paralysis, that his mind was perfeetl clear, that he was capable of acting on public business if action b.v him was indispensable, that with rest be xvould soon recover, that a decision by the court pronoum ing him disabled might afreet him adversely and the court confronted with the grnve responsi bility of shifting presidential niithorin into other hands would probably bin e dei-ided that the President xvas not disablid within the meaning of the constitution. q q q SOME utKonscioiis humorist in a lull sW. gesls that the cabinet should decide. Think of Mr. Baker, Mr. Daniels, Mr Lan sinV Mr. Burleson anil the rest of them holding that the President was no longer President und must give place tn another '. Failure to say who shall decide on the President's disability looks like n blind spot in the constitution until vnu look around for the right person to decide q q q TIinflE is not any right person We might leave it to the League of Nations, only die league, iu practice, would probabl be ju-t as good u side-stepper us Ihe Congre.-s, the oiirts or the cabinet The makers of Ihe constilutiun pinned 1 heir faith in the common honest of the President, hi- family, his physicians Very likely we'll have lo go on trusting to that. q q J SHALL we have a two-cent pine or a two-aud-ahalf-ceiit piece as a memorial to Hoosevclt? A few .vears ago. with the price of the Ford desi ending so that there was prospect of that car's becoming liko bauanas and a certain grade of cigani. "twnfers." all the nation was in favor mildly in favor nf a new tvvo-and a-half cent pieceall the tin don ovept tluc modest profiteers of . gone da.vs who rejoiced iu the gams that janie through the Mile now and then for three cents ol a single object the price nf which was five (cuts for two. Ijut now. with die I'ord rapidly going up lo the old price of the Hulls Itoyce, with the total disappearance of all kinds of "two fcrs," xvith the profiteer scornful of j. gotten half cents, the two-and-a-half. rent pleec holds- out no promise of fattened sav ings accounts. The simple copper coin of our fathers is now almost us useful as Ihe stone hatchet nf their fa'thei- The uewspapei the po.tage slump aud Ihe exli-a lo ccnl iu (he ",'veii cent trolley fare, winch down t keep the. trolley coai 25, 1920 1 ' - ' i ! .... of' "SHdWME!" " " panics from bankruptcy, are its only surviving u-es. I I 1 CUIIACAO, the Dutch island oft the coast of South A mo r i ca, which nobody xvould ever have heard of ex cept for the cordial that bore its name, wants the kaiser, whose presence in Europe is becoming embar rassing to Holland. With the kaiser Curacao thinks it might rival Havana in attracting the Cuban capi tal holding out tho dethroned King Alcohol ns us attraction and the Dutch island tho defhronrd king of Prussia. Thus the mightiest of the Hohenr.ollerns would descend into a common peepshow, pointing a moinl and adorning a talc for tourists. Which is the oidinnry end of tyrants and would-be world conquerors. What are Napoleon, Caesar and Alexander but the pcepshows of histoi .'and how- dull history would be if you couldn't look back into it and see one of them a prisoner on St. Helena, the second stuck full of daggers and the third bored to death at his victories! The three of them put hjstor.v on the map just as the kaiser would put Curacao on the map. j q i SENA Ton sheuma: Ford's ear is an "lute N sas dint Hcnrv ernational nest." Jiut now that the maker of the "llivvcr" has equipped it witli a self-starter we can think of only one great boon he can confer on the world, and that is to inveut a self-stopper for senators. The Illinois senator needs one devices worse than any one el upper house. of these ' in the q q q TS PRESIDENT- WILSON a radical?" asks a newspaper headliiu No, he is not. Is he a conservative? Equally no. Like most successful politicians, he is a middle-of-the-roader, choosing that portion of the highway as the place xvlieie the most votes arc. Just now not the most votes, but the most stones are falling in the middle-of-the-road, radicals and conservatives alike throw-fag their locks at the man who tried to choo-c a course midway between the two There are times when not to he xvilh a cause is to be against it. This is such a time. Wilson is for neither side Both sides nre against him. The war left two utterly lonely figures on earth. William llohenzollern and Wood low Wilson . me man that missed a material empire and the man thut missed world empire. world uio nil Just b.v xvny of making things plain: The constitution gives Congress the right to declare war. Reservations lo Anjcle X nb logale the right of the commander. in-chief lo send troops abioad lo do police duty. Negio mainteiiance-of-way mm on the Panama canal threaten to strike for twenty five cents un hour. Judged b.v present-day prices, they tire twent -five jrar, behind the times, Englaud's mass conscience js impingiu on the diplomacy of its leaders, and the Sick Man of Europe who expects to summer in Constantinople may .vet find him-df headed for Asia. The Allies aie acting appmciitlv on the iikMimptinn that might mny vet make the Russian Government light. And military and naval victories of the Bolsheiki aie pi, suinably clinching that opinion. .i ii:i7T.hi"r,'-fl,.,?'s .nu,knri nmon onn''m the belief that if the League of Nations does not noon begin to work it will he seen that the pipe of peace is but pieces of pipe. Apparently all that is now expected fiom the Russiau Bolshcvlki u u promise thut henceforth they will be good and respectable. i:rri luumhing proves that Hog Maud eroivs not vvcui-j ol well. doing. DUSK AS FLOWERS at dusk their choicest per--"- fumes hold, Some hearts hoard beauty when the bodr'! old: I sec nu nge-bent woman lead the herd To pasture, with no need of guiding word. While the dull beasts iu the lull grasses browse, Inside her soul the earth's oncuuntmtntx drowse ; The needless pause between her wntt4 hands, For light Is always mellow where she stands. No motion marks her life's barmontom dream l It is a part of nature's quiet theme. Each day renews tho uneventful past Although her spirit nenrs n change at last From the gray threshold of her -ilent horn" One night, her spirit, kin to evrniug'i shade, Will float away from the ercvires life made. Like seaweed ftom a cliff into white fntirn. GladysXrouiwell, in "Poems " Passengers on an elevated train saw a man robbing a jewelry storo and "were pow crlcss to interrupt him." We hasten to re assure them. lie did not wish to be inter rupted. Caillaux aays ha was deluded and not knowingly culpable. Every knave may right fully present the same plea. It is miscal dilation that leads to capture. Too many promissory notes wrecked the North Pcnn Bank, yet the depositors will be grateful to hear Colonel Puscy soundlnj ooe concerning the first dividend. What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. Name two countries In which mea wear skirts? '-'. When did the United States acquire tin 'Louisiana territory? .'I. Who created the character of Raffl''- tbe cracksman? I. Who was Constant Troyon' a. What is th'e name of the rojal lon of Denmark? 0. What is wrong with the spcllini; of th word "ton-dlMs"? 7. What is a Mahatma? 8. What Is pleonasm? f). What word supplanted the tmn l bouid on shipboard? 10. What arc feral auimals? Answers to Yesterday's Qulr 1. Henry Morgcnthnu was American am bassador to Turkey Immediately pr ceding our severance of diplomatic relations with that couptry. '.'. An eponym is ono who gives hie nam to a people, place or institution. n. General Allenby was In miW. f the army which captured Jerusalem during the xvar. 4. The Whisky Rebellion was an ou1' in the four wrstcra counties of I sylvanin in 1701 ngaiust the enfor ' ment of federal exise duties on H j and on all spirits distilled vr th in IW United States. Washington d bprteW a body of militia to the imbed district, but the Initio, was suppressed without blood-bed. !i. William Jcnnlnss Roan ran three time for the presidency. 0. Baronet is a hif-hcr title than knlM ill Gieat Britain. 7. The plural of-the word dwarf is dwaw 5. The lied Cross flac has a red crow a white field. The Sw ss tlag li white cross on a red field. II. The Court of Tynwald is the compre hensive name for the sowrnment Ihe Isle of Man. conslstingo- i governor, the legislative cour.ll J the House of Kejs. which I t" " icsentntivo assembly. .tf, 10. The seven virtues arc faith, JjPJ ity, prudence, justice, forntua- temperance. rt 17 if )' X-j. s ) X - fc' ,ya 'V-SK,....,,, !"i ?.. - ?. -iWr..1'! , fs-ii., Ad-vWiltiK'il.fckV . a.i i i ignwi3 IM i
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