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Thunday. 1 -biu.tr 26. 1M ,A FOUR-YEAR PROGRAM FOR PHILApELPHIA Things on nil I oh tho people expect th new ndmlntstrutloit to coucentrute Its nl tentlon: The Delaware river brUlyr i u ju . y etivttoh to accommodate the larpcs ships Development of the rapid transit system. A convention hall A building for the Free Library An Art Museum. Kriargement of the water supply. Homes to accommodate, the population. "AMBASSADOR" VAUCLAIN D AVID R. FRANCIS is our official am bassador to Russia, but he has tied from the country and is waiting till he thinks it safe for him to go back or until the President decides with what group in Russia he wishes our representative to deal. Consequently, the contemplated visit of Samuel M. Vauclain to Russia is of moro than commercial interest, even though Mr. Vauclain's primary purpose is commercial. Mr. Vauclain is going to Poland and I Rumania as well as to Russia in the in terest of the Baldwin Locomotive Works. He will come in contact with the sub stantial, conservative men of these coun tries, the men directly connected with, 'the development of the transportation 'systems. This development is depend """ent in a large degree on political sta bility. Whether he will or not, Mr. Vau clain must absorb a great deal of infor mation about political conditions, and it will be authentic. It is difficult for any one in America at the present time to form any definite opinions about what is going on in east ern Europe because the reports from that 'part of the world are conflicting. Those which come through the ordinary news "Sources are censored. Others are sent out by propagandists of one interest or another. No one knows what to believe. When Mr. Vauclain returns he will be in the possession of information which should be valuable to the State Depart ment, and if the men in charge of that department are wise they will ask him to give them the benefit of the knowl edge which he acquires. MILITARY TRAINING REJECTED TTNIVERSAL military training is un likely to be an issue in the presi dential campaign. Indication of this is given in the rejection by the House mili tary affairs commfttee of the plans origi nally incorporated in the urmy reorgani zation bill. Pressure from the Republi can leaders is said to have occasioned this complete reversal of the policy in favor of which the committee voted last week. Democrats in the House, repudiating the President's appeal for delay, regis tered their disapproval of compulsory training still earlier. Although the American Legion still officially indorses the policy, the subject occasioned one of the liveliest disputes in which the league of veterans has indulged. It was approved in a recent convention by a rather slender majority. The general situation is hardly that which was forecast by pacifists, who de clared that our entrance into tho war would permanently stimulate tho mili tary spirit in this nation. THE "NOUVEAU PAUVRE" A NEW class, or a class known by a new name, has begun to attract attention in Berlin. During the war the city was filled with the nouveau riche, men who had grown rich from war contracts and were spending their money in riotous liv ing. The new class U known as the nouveau pauvre, or the new poor, and is composed of the educated persons of mod erate incomes which, under the rule of high prices, is too small to purchanu anything more than the ordinary necessi ties of life. jNo one had any sympathy or lespect for tho nouveau rich", but the lot of the nouveau pauvre, both in Europe and in America, is so hard that they deserve the pity of all who have managed to pre serve tho purchasing power of their in comes. NEW HOPE FOR THE LIBRARY rPHE history of the Free Library build - ing has been mpiled and handed to Mayor Moore. It is not an enlivening tale. There have been suits and eross aulta, protracted debates concerning Philadelphia cut stone and imported cut stone. There has been enough litigation to satisfy tho most omnivorous chancery jurist and there is no new library struc ture, The confoiencc held yeaterduy by the board of trustees of the library, members of'Councll and the Muyor does, however, give ground for hope that at last tho staga of preliminary complexities is pass feur. The va slump in tho building tradoa Ifsjf n tho wane. .Materials and labor are, of course, infinitely higher than lp Tio days when the first contract now abrc gated because of delays and chnhged conditions was let. But tho library is one of the practical and necessary plans for tho betterment of Philadelphia. Public opinion is in en tire sympathy with prompt work upon the project even at the inevitably in creased cost We shall begin to feel that wo arc getting somewhere when the handsome new edifice starts to rise on tho chosen site at Nineteenth street and the Parkway. The Mayor can make this building one of tho enduring monuments of his administration. MR. WILSON VISITS THE TOMB OF ROOSEVELT PROGRESSIVISM Is the President, Too, Signaling for De parted Spirits and Can He Raise the Dead? TF THERE is a dim woild lcservod for dead political parties tho elevation of Bainbridgc Colby to the secretaryship of state will cause an enormous flutter among the shades that walk therein. Surely a voice has called to them! Mr. Wilson seemingly is not content merely to bring back departed spirits that passed over after the agony of the national Progressive convention of 1916. Such experiments are for the amateurs. What the President appears to have in mind is nothing less than n raising from the dead. For Mr. Colby is a most con spicuous remaining fragment of Roose velt progressivism, a fixed symbol of an ancient unrest. It is true thnt he died politically in tho year of the Great Amazement and was reborn a Democrat. Yet the essentials of him are unchanged. He is still a rebel, but a rebel whose talents are nearer to the level of GifTord Pinchot than to Roosevelt's level. In his present aspect Mr. Colby must bo viewed as the Progressive party. He it was who nominated Roosevelt for the presidency when an almost religious exaltation swept theProgressives'conven tion a few hours before Roosevelt turned back into the fold to support Mr. Hughes and left his followers at Chicago dazed and desperate, fighting mad, forlorn and numb with a grief that was bitterer and more real than the country knew. The political emotions of that year were profound. Passion and hope and despair ran wild together. Men were stirred to the deeps of consciousness. The Progressives in convention were chanting when the bad news came. Their eyes, they said, had seen the glory of the coming of the lord. Mr. Colby sat down like a man shot when the fatal telegram came from Oys ter Bay. He packed a great weight of sorrows in his old kit bag and went from tho convention bang into the Democratic party, quite as a man enters a monas tery when he is sickened of the world and wishes to advertise a renunciation com plete and final. Since then large scatteied bands of un converted Progressives have wandered like lost tribes in the political wilderness, refusing to be consoled, knowing not shelter, nor hope, nor signs of promise, nor a place to rest their heads. The tree of their purpose faded and died. But un less Mr. Wilson is far less astute than any one has reason to believe, he is con vinced that sap still runs in its roots. Ho has found a secretary of state whoso mind will go along with his. He has provided a steed and armor for one who is a sort of Joan of Arc of the Roosevelt clans. At a stroke that astonished the coun try by its unexpectedness and audacity he has lifted a representative of what was youthful, imaginative, headlong and aspiring in traditional Republicanism to a place in the national administration for a period that may be the most crucial in our history. This appointment follows the appoint ment of Mr. Crane as minister to China. Mr. Crane, too, has been only a casual Democrat. He was originally a Republi can of the sort who cannot get along with tho elder statesmen of his party. And he is given a post that will be a center of world affairs and of unique ambassa dorial opportunity as soon as Europe be comes rational. If President Wilson is engaged in some large, new maneuver for a realignment of political forces in the United States he is playing a ticklish game. Voters in dissociated groups may applaud him. But Democrats, and especially southern Democrats, are sure to accuse him of breaches of party faith. Republicans will, of course, be trium phant. They will see in Mr. Colby noth ing more than a mind willing to go obe diently along with Mr. Wilson's, an out lander and a runaway who happens to have sensitive emotions and a purpose which it is fashionable to call visionary. Senator Wadaworth, for example, de tests Mr. Colby. So do most of the other regulars in Congress. Yet a great many people who hold no brief for Mr. Lansing's successor will hesitate before they let their minds run along with Mr. Wadsworth's. It is idle to deny that disillusionment and discontent are pretty general in both old parties. The Hooverites are a now type. They exist in vast numbers and they are politically homele.-s. Labor is even talking of forming its own party. And aren't the women voters, who may yet turn the national election, openly contemptuous of the old-line leaders, whom they are disposed to regard as either vicious or merely naive? No ono has yet evolved a scheme for the mobilization of the vast masses of votes now floating in a state of detach ment. Mr. Hays has been valiantly try ing tho experiment, but ho is working against terrible obstacles. And meanwhile it is to be remembered that Mr. Wilson has always yearned to be the architect of a new party. He has reasons. Ho Is utterly unable to get along with any of the parties now in existence. Is it too much to suppose that he is dreaming of a party whoso mind will go along with his? Are Mr. Colby's appointment and Mr. Crane's tho beginning of u vigorous movement toward some such end? Are we witnessing an invitation to the lost rrihea everywhere to tho Hooveritea and tjio Roosevelt clans, tho dissatisfied EVENING PUBLIC Democrats and disillusioned Republicans, the women voters and tho lnbor voto to get under a new banner guaranteed to stay in tho air? To believe all this is, of course, to as sume a good deal. To bellovo that there is no special significance in the Crano and Colby appointments is to nssumo that Mr. Wilson is without interest in politics and unaware of conditions thnt would mnke a new alignment against one or tho other of the old parties or" both relatively easy for a man in his position. Even Mr. Colby's friends will admit that his appointment will not make for new efficiency in tho Stato Department. The cabinet has gained a man of charm ing manners, who is notable chiefly for a good old American name and a fervid de sire to sink without trace all that is nor mally dominant in the Republican and Democratic organizations. Of tho Blow, patient, pitiless intrigue against which the Stato Department must contend, Mr. Colby naturally knows little or nothing. But Mr. Wilson him self has been having a great deal of inti mate experience in international di plomacy. Most of it has been painful and therefore educational and highly illumi nating. He may train Mr. Colby and make a passable secretary of state out of him. But the appointment will be like a balm of Gilead to the lost and wnndering tribes who still remember Chicngo and 1916 with bitterness. It is their man, their comrade in travail and bewilder ment, and not a Democrat, who is exalted before their eyes. To many of them it will mean that Mr. Wilson is forgetting party lines and that he has ordered aloft the banner cast down at Chicago in 1916 when it had been carried only half way to the promised land. They may even believe that the Roose velt policies can be revitalized and merged in the larger purposes of a party designated as Wilsonian! Very exciting, very diverting, is all this. It has always been known that Mr. Wilson wishes to see in this country a new political consciousness of the sort that is being expressed in tho great, slow, progressive, liberalizing movement of England. Abroad even the older leaders are be ginning to think, as Roosevelt used to think, in terms of human rights. And it is necessary to admit that the Lodges and the Borahs, the Reeds and the rest of them arc, for the present at least, far from any interest in the essentials of tho Roosevelt doctrines. WHAT IS THE BEST WAY? pHERE is absolute agreement on the importance of preserving Hog Island as a railroad and ship terminal. But tho best way to do it has not been demon strated. The suggestion that it be bought by the city has merits, but the city has not the money needed. The Chamber of Commerce is consider ing the proposition that a company of citizens bo organized to take over the terminal and operate it. It is said that about S'20,000,000 would have to be raised by the sale of shares in the company. One-quarter of this sum would be used to pay for the plant, another quarter for erecting cold-storage warehouses, a third quarter for building a drydock 1000 feet long and the remainder for working capi tal. There are undoubted merits in this plan, the chief of which is that it would interest the business men of the com munity in the financial success of the en terprise. It is assumed that the share holders would be men intcrestei'. in tho foreign and coastwise trade, and that they would divert to the terminal all the busi ness over which they have any influence as well as all which they directly control. Civic patriotism alone has not been in fluential enough to induce local business men to assist whole-heartedly in the de velopment of the port. If these men can be induced to invest their money in such a great port improvement as Hog Island, self-interest would lead them to do their utmost to make it profitable. There is no doubt that under proper management the terminal would be im mensely profitable. Its site was selected before the war by experienced shipping men as the best placo on the Atlantic coast for erecting a scries of wharves and railroad sidings for tho collection and distribution of freight. These men bought the land and were making their plans for its development when tho United States entered the war. Government engineers indorsed the judgment of the original purchasers when they selected it as tho best site on tho coast for a fabricating ship plant. The work done there has made it the best ad vertised terminal in tho world. It would cost $1,000,000 at least to buy for it the publicity which it has received in the last three years. Whoever gets posses sion of it will have the benefit of all this publicity without the investment of a dollar in advertising. When you say "Hog Island" every shipping man in Europe and America knows where the place is and what it Is. The city cannot buy it. Tho state won't. And the national government is not disposed to lease it. It remains for private interests to take advantage of tho opportunity to change tho place from a shipyard to a shipping terminal. The purpose of the plan which the Chamber of Commerce is considering is to put local capital in control and to keep in the city the profits which are morally certain to accrue from developing the property on the lines originally laid down. North Dakota is to Iteaily fnr the the front with nonii Itunnlns liution pupers for iIpIc- RntPs for William Jen nings Itryan. North Dakota Democrats ore evidently strong for tho "Ono, two, threo and away" fushion of starting a race. And the Boy Orator of the I'latte Iiob already hoard the "One, two, three." The fuct that the Parkway is n beau tiful thoroughfare h but tin added reason why tho public library should bo n beautiful body to house a beautiful soul. Well, at least, naiubridge Colby U front-ranker as a surprise party. LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY THE GOWNSMAN Tho University's Dilemma THERE Is a charming little poem of Mr. Frost's In which be tells bow, on a wood land walk, be camo to tho forking of the paths und, even after he had made his choice, was haunted by the probable superior beauties of tho way that he did not take. So the gentlemen who reported with such sad reminiscence to tho alumni of tho Unlvcr slty of Pennsylvania at Wilmington last week were haunted with tender recollec tions of "the historic scholarly Ideals of ten years ago" and by wraiths of what might have been. Tho Gownsman will not Insult the past by maligning It; besides ho has spent considerable of his tlmo In It lu bis day. But bo docs maintain that If you nro moving forward, there are difficulties, If not a fall, in not keeping jour faco the same way. Tho University has not "drifted" into state aid ; nothing could have been moro deliberate. Nor has it "fallen" after a terrible struggle. Into the horrors of "mass education" and mls(s) -education, to cola a word for those who appear to bo so sorely tried In the contemplation of men nnd women In the same classroom. All of these terrible things havo come about it little hastily, wo may confess because Pennsylvania has had her foce forward, because she is In struggle to adjust herself to tho imperative demands of the times, VTOW, the Gownsman docs not believe that -'-' whatever is Is right; the realization of how Homo men are Lodged In opinion both politically and as to the uorld to come makes that quite Impossible But he does think that no Institution which has pro gressed can meet present conditions with Ideals nlrcady staled in tho hallowed recol lection of ten years. Two things have come to us In that time, and they havo come to stay. These are equal opportunities In life, at the polls and in education for women ; nnd secondly, an awakening in the minds of many more thuu ever before this time of a sensu of the power ot education to better materially and to uplift socially, Intellec tually and spiritually ns well. We cannot meet these demands of the age forever with the un-American method of foreign rail ways, providing separate compartments for women and second class traveling coaches for second class people. In a democracy thero aro theoretically no second class people; and if the pragmatist deny this and say to you, "There are," no sieve of gold has ever yet been invented to sift out the incompetents. That sieve Is of iron. fTlHE Gownsman remembers that he blushed, very unnecessarily for the person con cerned, on ono occasion, when he heard a college president congratulate nn Institu tion on the circumstance that of late a larger proportion of its students were coming from households in which tho annual income was above $5000 per annum. Thut was years ago, and the president was a presldentris. Sounder is the position of President Nell son of Smith College, who maintains that the raising of the college tuition fee should be tho last resort either to raise money or reduce numbers, becauso it destroys that social diversity on terms of equality which is the very essence of our democratic American college life. We need nothing in America to emphasize class distinctions. The diitinctions of scholarship cut across class; they demolish artificial barriers, but uphold those differences of character, culture and conduct which are the true distinctions that count in the world. milE problems at the University are many. -- Certain subjects lire overcrowded because they deal in essentials which are being Ufgleetl In too mnuy of our schools. Sorao departments nrc overcrowded because the appeal as it is perfectly natural that they should appeal (o our American utilitarian spirit and are thronged by those who wish to better their chances of n livelihood. And there arc schools of the University which are overcrowded because they huvc catered to the crowd and find their justification In numbers'. Tho medical school has strictly limited its student body to its equipment, nnd hence Is not surpnsscd by any other part of the University in efficiency. The classics remaiu uncrowded, owing to (he trend of our time; nnd one may now 6tudy German or Sanskrit, for a different reason, unhustlrd. There was an audible smile the other day at the University's celebration of Washington's birthday, when the bachelors in economics outnumbered all the doctors, masters and bachelors in other subjects put togetlier. There may be some reason for this other than tho personal retrenchment Imperative to those of us wfio are not of tho profiteer class. Houoter, overcrowding beyond the capabilities of the personnel and "the plant," as some like to call It, must nffect tho quality of the most devoted teach ing, to say nothing of the relative suspen sion of research, which, let the Gownsman remind his readers, is nn importaut part of University activity and essential to Its life. Clearly a halt must be called. And the Gownsman, who is several times a doctor, respectfully suggests to begin with : A limit in numbers by competition In scholarship, not in purses; the muintenanco of eiisting standards by examination, not i,v a Hviiom of certification; and the abolition of easiness in entrance to any one school above any other. miIH Gownsmau holds that a university which has been suffered to take the popular way of PeniiyUunia owes an obliga tion to the public; and that the state like wise owes to the University a continuum.- of the means to uphold and fonter its approved usefulness H,It he also holds that this does not reliei? either the alumni or thoMe Immediately r-ponslhlo for the main tenance of the institution from contributing their share. In Pennsylvania, properly sup. ported, there Is room simultaneously for u uuc8 uuu i.ir wnouis or research of tho selectest of the c-lM,.8i llrahmlns bo they all. And thero is room, in more than u material sense, llkeu Nc, for professional nn(l technical schools, f.,r trado schools and com mercial schools whu h let us honestly cull them without pretense that they are some thing else and for tho flourishing of all the utilities of the pi, sent moment and thoso which will be Invented by lugcuions educa tors tomorrow. ln the world there are masses and clasps; d there are also women as well We cannot escape them (ven In the cloister The only really demo (ratio thing In Mur-ation Is equality of opportunity; and that we must scu to it that we cherish. All education classifies not to play upon words. Education Js aristocratic bccuin it tries out and dls tinguishes the better from the muss. All true education is for leadership. Tho action of tho New Jertey Legisla ture ln pasblng u bill to legalize the manu facture of beverages contalnlcg a,50 per cent alcohol may be tho work of press agents anxious to further the construction of bridges over the Delaware und Hudson, Time drags In Congress, there is so'llttlo of importance to attend to. The cut of Gen eral Pershing's coat und trousers was up for debate on Tuesday. If the-opinlon of the Democratic women meeting In Albany, N. Y.,.Is correct, the new political note Is to be soprano. FROM DAY TO DAY F J- tr, SPITE of At Mind and Cash Inflation Lo and Food in Idleness Would Loaf and Eat a Lot Short Hours Long Coming Nature Hard to Beat Another Watt Needed torney General Palmer and all hlsfalr price men, the cost of living mounts. Official figures show 'that it went up 2 per cent in January. Sir. Frank A. Van- derllp says It Is be cause the Federal Reserve system is under political control and has permitted the in flation of our currency. But inflation docs not explain $10-a-day wages for snow-shovelers in New York. There has been inflation, but inflation of tho currency is only a smalt part in it. The biggest inflation of the last century since the conquest of the American continent began has been the inflation of men's minds. The race has been made confident for the moment, too confident, that the victory of the forces of nature was an easy one. Just now the fight has turned against us. Nature is having tho best of it. She is not yielding us what we need for tho Bainc effort and at the same cost as formerly. q q q E :-SECRETARY LANE tells a story about his former Indian wards in Okla homa. In the lands of a tribe's reservation oil was struck. The United States Government, acting for the Indians, leased the oil lands to pro ducers and paid the Indians the royalties. Every mau In the tribe was rich. The secretary went out once to make a speech to his wards. The hall where they were to listen to him was full. Not a man or woman in it weighed less than 200 pounds. When the meeting was over an old chief come up to Mr. Lane and said that the gov ernment must get more money for him from tho white oil producers. He could not live on the $25,000 a jear he was receiving. "Why doti't you till the soil and raise your food on your farm?" nsked the sec rotary. "No!" said the chief. "I want to live like nn American gentleman." "How do you mean live like, an American gentleman?" asked Mr. Lane. "What is vour Idea of tho way an American gentleman iives?" "He eats a lot," said .the chief, "und does not work." q q i THE old chief's Ideal was a parody of the world's ideal. The ideal of recent generations has not been to "eat a lot and do no work," but to consume more and moro and produce at less and less effort. It was not an unworthy ideal. It meant to rtleusc men more and more from the slavery of living gaining and at tho same time give him more and morn of the comforts of life. There was a confident be lief that tho cotiquest of nature was steudlly becoming moro and more complete. Hours of labor might be decreased and production increased almost indefinitely. Ah tho eight-hour day had taken the place of the twelve-hour day, so the six and per haps the four hour day would take the pluco of the eight-hour day. The task of gaining n living would take less nnd less of man's energies and men would have more und more time to loaf and invito thyir souls. Tho process by which the Ford automobilo had come down In cost from $1000 to $.1(10 was typical. It would huppen to everything everywhere. That was modern civilization, to make man master of the earth, with less and less effort on bis part. I 'I 1 THE thing has stopped our faith tells us, temporarily hut some who may be natural pessimists or who may havo their own interests to serve tell uh permanently. We have at uny rate driven nature back to hor Hlndcnburg line. Hhe Is making a determined stand there. if man can't oust her from her present strong position the whole optimistic belief which possesses humanity, and especially American humanity, and which dates from the age of the great inventions, the steam engine and the spinning Jenny, and from Darwin's discovery that life hud moved steadily upward toward -higher and higher 26, 1920 "S "WELL!" "WELL!!" "WELL!!!" types, types moro capable of a victory over nature, will havo to be abandoned. Mau will have lo turn elsewhere than to materia', progress for the thing that makes lif worth while. q q i TTHDR the moment, ot least, wo are- checked. Nature is strongly Intrenched, We nrc not bending her forces to our usc3 with the wonted increasing success. The appetite to consume, stimulated by the belief that there was no stopping us, tho fittest products of u force that was steadily working out n typo that could subdue tho earth to its ends, has not been stayed, but has gone steudlly on. Wo want, ns the chief said, "to cot a lot." That is what the 2 per cent increase in the cost of living in January and tho 100 per cent increase since 1914 meuns. q q q I N AMERICA our victory over nature al ways had a certain unreality. Tt was never so great as It seemed. To accomplish our natural miracle it wns necessary to reap wheat we Lad not sown, to skim the cream of abundant orlginul re sources, forests and rich veins of metals and minerals that could bo worked with little effort. And wo did not even have to furnish tho lnbor to gather up what nature had loft easily within our reach. Europe sent us a million new laborers each year. Now Europe has stopped sending us labor, our own labor is full of the idea that tho bending of nature's forces to human ends is ensy, while at tho same time the bending of those forces to our ends has become much more difficult. q q q ALL the world, particularly wo In Amer ica, has been gambling on tho belief that just as coal was discovered when wood for firo became scarce, and steam power when hand power and horse power were no longer adequate, and the means of talking across continents when it became necessary to talk across continents, so, when fuel beramo scarce und raw materials harder to work, mau would learn to harness the forces of the sun or thnt incxhaustiblo supply of energy which is now thought to be nil tho substanca there is in matter. To oust nature from her Hlndcnburg lino there is needed n new discovery of cheap power as revolutinnory as the mustery of tho pxpanslve force of steam. It has not yet come. America clings to tho belief thut It will come. That is why America is what you call con servative. q q q TXrEN have met tho secret doubt thnt tho "L final victory would rest with nature und not with man variously. Germany snid to herself; "The game is up. Man is beaten. Let us go out and grab the world's massed store of natural resources so that tho rest nf mankind will suffer nnd not us." Others had somewhat the same idea. Hence tho Greut War, l.enlno says; "Tho gamo Is up. Nature remains tho unconquerable. Let us ut least divide on the square what we have got." Hence tho revolution. j q q "tlTE HAVE seen the fruits of war. ' ' .Men turned uside from conquering naturo to conquering each other. In revolution men turn 'aside from or ganizing tho forces of nature to organizing the forces of society. Hut maukind's big problem is moro power The defeatist policy of Ilohcnzollern or that of Lculnn gets mankind nowhere. What is needed is a twentieth century James Watt. It is significant that borne newspapers failed to seo any point In CIcmcncenuH joke even though there were fourteen of them. ' These political conferences In tho Mayor's office are calculated to give Senator Martlu the cold shivers, The police must find these Jewel rob berles terribly monotonous. ' AIRPLANES TRON birds floating In the sky Prey remorselessly On the tiny obscure dot That is some great city. Below, men-insects rend and tear, Women wring hands ot pity. I have flown a hundred miles Over the blurred plain, Dropping devastation and death, Blotting men's nerves with pain Their miscrablo cries were tiny as inset Calling their god in vain. The sound of their oaths and lamentations Could not even reach up to me, The clouds were at peace, no tribulation Disturbed the sky-harmony, Only my buzzing clanged And my heart beat dreadfully. I laughed as I silently tossed blind Death Down on that insect people. Dreadful it was in tho peaceful sky To murder that insect people, And never to hear a sound or cry, Or a bell toll In a steeple. I laughed when my last bloody bomb had gone, I shrieked high up in u cloud, I wanted to fly in the face of their god And spit my disdain aloud. I ripped through the terrified whistling air And burst through the 'earth's damp shroud. Ah ! it was bltio there, wide and clear, Duncing nlive in the sun, And millions of bright sweet cymbals rang Praising the deeds I had done, And millions of angels cheering stood Deep-columned around tho sun. And then I stood erect nnd cheered, Ay ! shouted into the sky, I filled the vast semicircle round, There was only the suu nnd 1, The round, red, glittering, blazing sun And n fluttering human llv. W. J. Turner, in "The Dark Wind." It Is a cinch that Crane won't do any talking this time. What Do You Knoto? QUIZ 1. How long did it take to build tho Brooklyn bridge? 2. What is the salary of the associate jus tices of tho United States Supremu Court? 3. Who Is Eugene Bricux? 4. Of what btate Is Little Rock the capital? 5. What were tho Threo Wonders ot Babylon? 0. Which planet has rings of luminous gases? 7. What is tho correct pronunciation of tho word demagogy? 8. What Is an oaf? 0. When did Porflrio Diaz resign the presi dency of Mexico? 10. What number multiplied by the diameter will glvo tho circumference ot a eircle3 Answers to Yesterday's Qui 1. Scotchmen in their native kilts may be said to wear skirts. A short pleated skirt Is worn by men In Albunlu. 2. Tho Louisiana territory was added to the United States in 1803. 3. E. W. nornung created tho character of Raffles, the amateur cracksman. 4. Constant Troyon was a noted French landscapo and animal painter. Hi" dates are 1810-1805'. 5. The present king of Denmark belongs to the bouse of Schlesvvlg-Holstcln-Sonderburg-Gluecksburg. 0. Tonsillitis, not tousilltis is correct, although tho word tonsil has but slnglo "1." 7. A Mahatma Is an East Indian or Thibetan belonging to n class said to possess supernatural powers. 8. Pleonasm Is redundancy or superfluity of expression. 0. Tho term port has replaced the term lar board on shipboard. 10. Feral anlmala aro wild animal. MJ fcatln word "tW'nKSM wild MiM 1 ' Q ttot1'fi'" ih'.: .tnl-t iW &, Siidsjf. &(.. jw,. , ( s. vfo;i,u8j4i.HjSSte
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