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A FOUR-YEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA
IlilMr on ulilih the proplp expfi't tho
n c iiiMiitlrntlon in (oiicrnlriili- Iti nt
tiliL'm Tlw tislu it t rlir biulgr
A rfrjiJocfe n(j cmiioh to accommodate the
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Otvilopmrr.t of the rapid transit system.
A Ba-Ufv,Mjn hall
A t?fa(j for Vie Free Library.
An Alt ituscum.
Killargtmcnt of the xealer supply.
7kh ia accommodate the population.
MR. MORDEN'S OBLIGATIONS
T IEUTENANT COLONEL MORDEN'S
- lcsponsibilities as tho new chief of
the Bureau of Street Cleaning are un
questionably intensified by the work of
his predecessor. Mr. Hepburn set a high
standard of performance. He showed
Philadclphians what n civic servant can
accomplish when he brings to his office
vigorous sincerity, independence of po
litical fetters and expert knowledge.
Loyalty of this sort is what the public
nsks of Lidtenant Colonel Morden. His
appointment is nonpolitical. His career
testifies to his experience in engineering
and organization. These arc promising
assets. He has a fruitful opportunity to
make use of them and nothing less will
.nojv satisfy our citizens.
., "NO VOTES, NO CITY MONEY"
TT IS intimated by George Conncll,
" " chairman of the public works commit
tee of the Council, that public improve
ments in the wards which refused to be
controlled by the politicians dictating the
policy in the City Hall have been neg
lected, while improvements were made in
tho wards that would "go along" with
the machine.
His committee has discovered ordi
nances calling for between $13,000,000
and ?15,000,000 worth of highway and
soer construction work in the reform
' fcards. The responsibility for doing the
-'work was in the hands of bureau chiefs.
They left it undone.
Jf it shall be discovered that Mr. Cm
nell'a theory for this neglect is correct it
will surprise no one. The old city admin
istration was run for tho benefit of its
supporters and not for the benefit of the
, city as a whole. If n man had a pull he
could get sewers and pavements for his
part of the citv. If he did not have a
pull his r-nvt of the city had to get along
as best it could. As a result there are
long rows of houses on streets without
sewers and with the roadways swimming
in mud in wet weather and deep with
dust in dry.
Mr. Connell's remedy is to take control
of highway improvements from the bu
reau chiefs and to lodge it in the Council,
so that it shall be beyond tho power of
vne man to deal out rewards and punish
ments based on the political affiliations of
the people in the different parts of the
city. Whether this is the best lcmcdy or
not wo do not know. But wo do know
that this city cannot be developed on
symmetrical and harmonious lines so
long as public improvements arc made a
matter of political favor
SENATE SELF-DISCIPLINE
ySnTII the majority ami minority each
' ' opposed to prolonged obstructionary
debate on the treaty, the Senate has at
last disciplined lt&olf to undergo a vital
test of its capacity 01 ineptitude. Tho
next three weeks will, it is said in Wash
ington, cither bring the ratification or
the definite pigeon-holing of the pact of
Versailles.
In the event of another deadlock,
which, despite tho ravings of the irrec-
, oucilablcs, seems unlikely, there can be
hardly a leal resurrection of the treaty
on, tho floor of tho upper house for more
than a year. It is important to realize
that a Republican or a Democratic vic
tory next autumn will not change the
complexion of the Senate until Mnrch 1,
i021.
'The apparent eagerness of tlm present
body to restrict its period for fumbling i,
at least encouraging indication that the
rnemberbhip as a whole docs not contem
plate a breakdown of ita legislative and
advisory functions.
Time limits, whether fixed voluntarily
s or under pressure, are often productive
of action. Without the knowledge that
the., government intended to hand back
the' railways on March 1, it is highly
probable that the Cummins-LVch bill
would not have been passed so speedily.
HOWELLS AT PIER 83
TF ONLY tout of respect to the gospel of
- realism which William Dean Howells
ins ho udmirably and so tancly preached,
"rcdcncc must bo given today to tho re
port of his eighty-third birthday.
Appreciation of tho fact, however,
comes hard. Tho most eminent figure in
contemporary letters eecms to have very
oUcclJvely banished old Uge from his att.
Thj? penettaUng observation of his dis-
UHvlfvcjy Amprlcan novels,, their fund of
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keen, subtle humor, their loyalty to truth,
tho Rraco ami clinrm of their stylo have
not staled with the years which have left
their nuthor a survivor'tit u oneo flourish
ing epoch in our native literature.
Only a few months ngo tho still vital
characters of "Silas Laphnni" wero
transferred to tho footlights. "A Hazard
of New Fortunes," "A Modern Instance,"
"Tho Landlord at Lion's Head" will de
lightfully repay rereading.
It is taid that Mr. Howclls, now so
journing in tho tropics, is engaged in
writing his reminiscences of vanished
days. The value of this promised chap
ter in literary history may be safely pre
dicted. Mr. Howclls has withstood the
assuults of both the degrading, specious
optimism and the blind, warped pessi
mism which are contending tendencies in
this age. Ho has kept his balance, his
seasoned wisdom, his line sense of veri
ties. But in congratulating him on his birth
day it is happily not his age but his
youth which impresses us most.
NO SOLDIER BONUSES
WITHOUT NEW TAXES
Congress Is Considering the Wisdom of
Making Tea. Coffee and Sugar
Bear the Burden
TEMAND for bonuses to the men who
wore the United States uniform
during the war is becoming so insistent
that the ways and means committco of
the House of Representatives has begun
to consider how to raise the money that
v ill be needed.
The American Legion is a.-U ng that a
T0 bond for cve,. month in the service
be given to every man. Thi. we suppose,
would be in addition to the sum of 00,
the payment of which has been author
ized. The legion has compiled figures to
show that ?60 is a paltry amount when
compared with the sums set asido by
some of tho other warring nations.
Franco has made special appropria
tions for all officers above the rank of
captain. From tho captain down to the
private the amount given depends upon
the length of service and varies between
$7-1.31 nnd $233.58 for each man.
Great Britain, likewise, has made pro
vision for bonuses varying with the rank
and the length of service. A major gen
eral receives from $2430 to $7290, with
smaller sums through tho descending
ranks till the sum set asido for a second
lieutenant ranges from $310.43 to $1215,
and for a private from $24.30 to $82.02.
Canada gives privates from $70 to $000
and major generals from $744 to $4758.
And the Australian bonuses run from
$751.82, the maximum for major gen
erals, to $32.81, the minimum for pri
vates. It will be seen that a uniform gift of
$00 to each man is about as generous as
the amount set aside by Great Britain
and Canada for the privates. But it is
much less than Franco has seen fit to
give to the privates who fought through
the whole war and is only a little more
than the sum given to those who served
a year or less.
If we are to be as generous as the
French it will be necessary to raise an
enormous sum by taxation. It has been
suggested that the money be raised by a
tax on tea, cofTee and sugar. A majority
of the members of the ways and means
committee is said to favor some tax
which will provide the money.
If the tax on tea, coffee and sugar
were proposed for any other purpose it
would be overwhelmingly denounced as
an unwarranted invasion of the break
fast table of tho poor. Indeed, such
taxes have been denounced in the past.
Tho Democratic Congress soon after Mr.
Wilson entered office took tho tax from
sugar in order that it might be said that
it had done something to relieve tho poor
man. But it was soon discovered that
free sugar would reduce the revenues to
such a point that thero would be a deficit
in the treasury and the free sugar
schedule of the tariff law was repealed.
Whether tho breakfast tabic is taxed
for the benefit of the soldiers or not, we
arc likely to hear many proposals for
more general consumption taxes than
have been levied in tho past. This is be
cause the sums annually needed by the
government arc so great that they cannot
be raised without resort to new sources
of revenue.
Many of the war taxes were submit
ted to because it was known that they
would be only temporary. They were so
oppressive and so unscientifically levied
that, if continued for any great length of
time, they would destroy the very sources
from which they were expected to pro
duce revenue.
The income taxe.-i of the Civil War
time were paid so long as the war lasted,
and no ono questioned their constitution
ality. But when the war ended they
were evaded and they were yielding only
u few thousand dollars a year when the
law was repealed.
The excess-profits tax in the present
law is likely to defeat itself if it is not
repealed. A way for evading it will bo
found by business men who, while the
crisis was acute, responded patriotically
to all the demands of tho government.
They feel now that some more equitable
and less burdensome method must be
found for raising revenue.
Some of them are calling attention to
the case with which large sums could be
raised by a general consumption tax
paid by the consumer. Their estimates
vary from a billion nnd it half to three
billion dollars a year, with the tax at 1
per cent. They say that no one would
feel such a tax, for it would increase by
only ten cents the cost of a pair of shoes
for which $10 was paid.
The consumption tax on artloles pro
duced in this country would bn a direct
tax, of which every ono would be aware
when he bought anything. But a tax on
coffeo and sugar, levied at the custom
house, would bo nn indirect tnx of which
no ono would bo aware, any more than
we were aware of tho sugar duty in tho
days beforo tho war when sugar sold for
five cents a pound.
We produce a little sugar, but the bulk
of that which is consumed hero is im
ported. All our cofiFcc comes from
abroad and all of our ten, save a small
amount raised by an expert planter in
South Carolina. Tho codec and sugar
duties would be revenue taxes pure nnd
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ETEXIXG PUBLIC CEDaER-PnillDTilLPnm MOBnJXY, aOT'T.JOEfl .
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simple and could thus be supported by
the bitterest opponent of protective
duties.
TOWARD THE INFINITE
TJAD Mnjor R. W. Schroedcr been fly--L-Ling
over tho Himalayas, instead of
above Ohio, Mount Everest would have
been some C000 feet below him.
That human life was Impossible atop
this loftiest of the earth's elevations was
formerly a conventional belief. Several
aviators, however, had surpassed this
dizzy altitude beforo Major Schrocder's
extraordinary performance. But this su
premely daring exploit adds very nearly
a full mile to the records.
In ntlainlng the height of 30,020 feet
the army airman actually traversed a
thirty-four thousandth part of the mean
distance between the moon and the
earth. Regarded in this light, humanity
may still seem wretchedly incapable of
conquering space. And yet the admis
sion of this fact fails to stifle thrills in
spired by at least an approach to the
outer edgo of our mundane envelope of
air.
Kipling has poetically exhibited the
folly of crying "Farewell, Romance 1" Ho
is right. While such miracles n3 that of
Major S'chrocder's are wrought tho past
will fail to compete with the present as
an epic age.
MANNERS
TT WILL not do to assume that a cru-
sado for good manners, such as Mrs.
James Large is organizing in the name
of the Colonial Dames, expresses merely
n new whim of oversensitive folk or a
new fad of the socially elect. Yet Mrs.
Large and her associates will bo for
tunate if they do not immediately find
themselves assigned to a conspicuous
nicho in the gallery of visionaries.
Theirs is a quest even more difficult than
Mr. Wilson's. An attempt to bring about
a revival of good manners will bring
them into conflict with a thousand other
causes that muster greater energy and
sterner press agents.
Manners arc, after all, an expression
of fooling. Niceties of address, the habit
of restraint, the consistent regard for the
convenience and feelings of others which
arc the beginning of what we call cour
tesy need leisure for their cultivation.
If modern manners are harsh and grace
less it is because the world is in an in
creasing hurry. It may not know where
it is going, but it is on its way, and Mrs.
Largo and her associates arc not alone in
the belief that its haste is by no means
an assurance of actual speed.
To polish oft" a vast and various popu
lation would be a superhuman task.
What the Colonial Dames appear to have
in mind is the gradual restoration of old
fashioned manners. To succeed they
would have to restore old times. They
would have to slow life down. It is diffi
cult, for example, to be invariably cour
teous in a crowded trolley enr at tho end
of a hard day's work, in a subway crush
or in the jam at a ball park. Anybody
with a determined will and less than the
ordinary number of scruples can get rich
in these times. But he will have to con
centrate and exclude all other desires.
It is natural, therefore, that an amazing
number of people who live in palaces
speak imperfect English and believe that
it. is a mark of good breeding to bawl
imperiously at the waiter.
Love scenes in tho movies and on the
stage, and even in tho modern novel, are
not of a sort that teach dignity and re
straint to the youth of tho land. An
overwhelming quantity of current Writ
ing' is intended to prove that money,
power and the acquisition of place and
property arc the destined ends of man.
Tho belief that peaco and contentment
and true knowledge are worthier aims is
almost as old-fashioned as the crinoline
nnd the minuet. Good manners arc in
stinctive in any one whose first concern
is for the comfort and happiness of
others. Mrs. Largo is unfortunate be
cause her crusade is being made in a
time consecrated to belief that you must
crowd others if you do not want them to
crowd you.
TihIro Rcpnert, of Un
Perhaps iontown, who recently
He's Klddinc inked for a definition
, of "African Kolf," lias
nsain distinguished himself by questioning
Kitty's right to $22.7!) laid aside for her in
a raided poker game. Ho directed the dis
trict attorney to hold the money till she
proves her rlaim nnd. wholly gratuitously.
eTpresscd the belief that her name was fic
titious. This will amuse thn millions of
Americans who know Kitty to be at once the
most fascinating and tho inoit avaricious
little lady iu the country. They know her
to be rightly named. She packs all their
troubles in her wee kit bag and smiles,
smiles, smileB.
Every bit of labor nes
Optimism in the public press ne
ccutuatcs the fact thai
labor radicnlisra is tho swing of the penri'i
lum from tbo nutocrncy of capital. By niwl
by tho old economic clock will strike the
proper gait of mutual helpfulness und co
operatlou and all will bo right as right
can lie.
Wp refuse to worr
Bolshevist Killers unduly over the pos
slhlc invasion of Kn
mania by the Bolshevists after a peace is
signed. Peace nnd prosperity are going to
mal.c thn Russian the greatest little cor
servative in the world.
Local Colonial Dames suggest a rrtu u
to old-fashioned courtesy and manners, imh
plan tn work for it. The courtesy, ut Irut,
is worth working for; but it need not be old
fashioned. It exists today, though it is mt
so general as one could wish.
Women rule men everywhere, mys
Ihanr. fmt they show it more in Ainmca
thun elsewhere. Simply Ihc American hubit
of facing faetH.
Fraure may requisition automobiles as
u result of the railroad strike. Plenty of
machines and good roads rob a railroad striko
of much of its terrors.
It would really bo very shocking if Mr.
Cunningham's black bag proved to bj a
vehicle or conveyanco in tho meaning of
the net.
The appearance of tho pussywillow and
the skunk cabbage Indicates that the robin is
on its way.
Ranslrv'g isn't n platform, It'a bar.
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York Avenue
"lirilDRB lork iivcnuo meanders Fourth to
" Fifth Is the hotntfof the elder aloon,
A cider -siloon is n barroom minus.
The mot picturesque of these saloons i3
n low-cciliuged, smokc-hegrimed, mclo
drnmn. suggesting holc-ln-the-wnll with n
regular bur for regular guys.
The elder Isn't sweet; it Is hard ns the law
nllows: which Is pretty soft for 'somebody.
Which means that there Is no kick coming
to the man who invests a ulckcl.
T APOLOGIZE foTTrngfelng you Into a
saloon thus unceremoniously. If T were
nn honest-to-goodness essayist IJd have met
ou In 1'rnuklln Hqunre nnd, after burning
Incense to actors of. n bygone generation,
would have escorted ou In paragraphs of
n Stevciifenlan polish down ltacp street to
Fourth strict, thereafter to pursue our
Lamb-like way until we
Let's !
I DO net know n pleasure more affecting
than to walk through Franklin Square
that mnenct for yesterday's flontsnm nnd
jetsam ou a Februnry day when .Tack
Frost, nt whoso behest I stir tny stumps
with tinnontcd energy, has enabled tho nil-too-small
(recnRwnrd to put on 'n hard,
white fruut some crust! on which jocund
joutli. In the person of two bo-ovcrcoated
oung tatterdemalions, lire vainly essaying
even as jou aud T. dear reader to skate.
Time'
T OOK yonder, boy ! See you Uint bench be---'
nenth the frosty elm or is It a hollow
beech? but no mntter! upon that bench
in the winter of 1S72 two noblo actors sot
sat- and discoursed lenrnedly on this nnd
that. The other one wns Booth (or was it
Cooke'-!
I call to mind Hint as we snt n summons.
imso.T-ennble but insistent, brought us tn
our feet; nnd we hied us to our coffee nnd
rrullors ono cup nnd three Blnkcrs for five
cents' Oh, happy, happy days!
I mind me, also, that Edwin, who was
ever fastidious, protesting thnt the dough
nuts wero not ns they should be, threw them
from him, and one, far flung, neatly lnnded
on n hook imbedded in n rafter from which
n string of garlic had but lately hung.
Ah. never doubt it, jouug sir t I'll show
you the doughnut!
EASTWABD HO ! In a few short squares
eu mny buy Philadelphia scrapple, New
York notions, Boston beans, New England
rod. Newfoundland haddock, Irish potatoes,
Scotch woolens nnd finniin hnddlc, English
roaM beef. Welsh rabbits, French horns,
German sausages, Vienna . rolls, Spanish
onions. Italian pearls, Portuguese sonnets,
Artiiniinn rugs, Afghan shnwls, Hindu
idol". Siberian wolfhound". Uusslnn samo
var" Chinese pottery. .Inpnncso curios,
Hawaiian ukuleles, Cabfornln oranges,
Chicago pork. Pittsburgh stogies and Girurd
avenue transfers.
And here at last is the home of the
doughnut. Tt is no longer u restaurant; it
is n junk shop. In tho window there are
seeral wide-bellied, narrow -necked bottles
containing houses nnd ships. People stand
and wonder how on earth they ever git
inside. I'm saving my wonder until T see
u narrow-necked bottle containing u full
grown doughnut.
N"OIlTHWAItD HUH! I dropped Lamb
nt the last corner. lie wns leaning
against n post talking in his sleep. So we
may hurry on.
Along Fourth street. First thing you
know we'll find ourselves on Yorfc nvenuc.
That's the way York avenue is
approached. More or less exact persons with
n passion for detnil will tell you that Yoik
avenue runs from Wood to Buttonwood, and
n hit beyond ; but for the ordinary wnyfarer
Tork avenue has neither beginning uor cud.
You walk along Fourth street and by nnd
by you find yourself on York avenue. You
walk nlong York nvenue and by and by you
find yourself on Fifth street. Ingress nnd
egress ore made insensibly. Sometimes you
more or less sensibly stop on the way.
Which, naturally, brings us back to the
cider saloon. Tt is a longer way, hut some
prefer it.
THE saloon door, marked "Push." is set
eater-cornered in n passage. We walk
right in nnd turn around nnd walk right out
again. Opposite us, on n "tall pole, is a big
Indlnn who points nn arrow ns the wind
listeth. Doubtless there is somebody in the
neighborhood who knows all about that
Indian, but T wns unablo to find him.
T interviewed n grim old humorist who
called for whisky at the bnr and professed
surprise thnt it was not forthcoming, lie
said: "I was born nnd raised In Kensington
and know but little of this locality, but 1'vo
heard tell that the Tndiun went up there in
the enrly 70's nnd has been on the Job
off nnd on ever since. Off nnd on. They
took him down nnd pointed him once or
twice. Folks in the neighborhood did. Civic
prido is what they call it. Or something
like that. Thero was a volunteer firchouse
at the spot, or near it. Maybe where tho
boat is. And there were nonic fine old fights
In the square herp. I understand. But T
dunno. T was in Kensington. Did you sro
the boat? Well, it looks like n boat. It's
bchind'the horse trough, which is behind the
flagpole. The hnrso trough is dutcd 1S05,
so it must have been after that that the boat
arrived, unlr's tho fellow who told me was
lying, which is quite likely. Tbo truth isn't
in some people. He said thero was- n freshet
In tbo Schuylkill or thn Delaware I won
der he didn't think of the Hudson und tho
boat rame floating down tho stream and
bumped ngainst tho horse trough nnd stuck
there. So they built a houso through tho
decks. But perhaps it ain't so. Do you
happon to have ubout you anywbero n dime
that's a littln bit worn on ono side?"
THE bonthousc or houseboat, which, of
course, is neither the one nor the other,
Jg hitched on to n modern building dedicated
to pnlnt nnd tiles nud beyond It Cnllowhill
street descends on the avenue imposingly,
Callowhill street from Seventh to Fourth hna
tho width nnd sweep of n boulevard ; but at
Fourth tt shrinks into diuginess and sneaks
to the river bank.
AT BUTTONWOOD street, facing a little
park, there Is n plain building occupied
by a seed bouse. It was n convalescent homo
for Union Foldiers during Ihe civil war.
In. the littlo park n .monument hns been
erected in honor of the boys of the Sixth,
Eleventh und Twelfth wards who saw serv
ice during tho late war. It is a bronun
statue of a soldier going over the top and
It has n granite, base. It is hidden nt present
by boardn nnd n sign requests that names
of soldiers bo sent to D. E. Connelly, filO
Green street. Thero wero between 1100 nnd
1200 soldiers and sailors In U e ihreo words.
Many of tbem wero killed. Their names will
go on the granite base. Tho monument will
be dedicated on Memorial Day.
Thus tho wnr with IPs accompanying
sorrows gives dignity to York avenue, as
it does to every section of every city In the
country.
AND so nn end.. Perhaps th" next time I
go a-trnvellng I'll corral some facts. To
that end I'll leave Lamb nt homo und draft
Mr. E. J Cnttell.
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STRIKE YOU?
rpiIE telephone company apologizing iu nn
advertisement for the eccentricities of its
present service heads its explanation, "The
Human Side of Service."
It says that more than 20,000 Bell Tele
phone employes went away to war.
Those who remained nnd tho others who
took vacant places were handicapped by the
state of tho company's equipment, in which
repairs nnd additions have becu made diffi
cult by the lack of materials during the war.
"The loyalty of the employes who stnyed
nt their tasks," says the advertisement, "and
the fine spirit of tho new employes descne
public appreciation."
Before the war, when people compared the
bad telephone service nbroud with the good
telephone service iu this country, they said,
"See the difference betwecu government own
ership and privutc ownership."
And they have been snying the snme thing
nbout the American railroads during the war.
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OW it appears thut the "human side of
service" is n big factor.
Perhaps it would be better to say that the
"huniun side of service" iH tho only factor
in the long run.
The caso for private capital rests upon
humun considerations.
Under private ownership the public gets
more initiative, more energy, more iniaginn
liou, n better grade of human talent ia the
management than it bus yet been able to get
under state ownership.
And up until now It has obtnincd under
prhatc ownership a tine grade of service from
employes.
Tho American rnilronds nnd telephone
companies gavo excellent service because they
had intelligent und loyal employes.
And this was especially true of the tele
phone compauies nnd any other businesses
which could use the splendid supply of in
telligent nnd lojal woman labor in this
country.
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THE American railroads nrc just golug
buck into private operation. Every ono
udmlls thnt if private ownership dues not
succeed, government ownership will be the
next step.
Tho future of the railroads is a purely
human qucstlou.
Will privntc ownership get once inoro out
of labor tho loynl and intelligent co-operation
that labor once gave?
If it does, no one will ever propose gov
ernment operation.
If it docs not, the country is likely to feel
that of the two elements in the humfin sido
of service, Initiative and energy In tho man
agement und loyalty and intelligence umong
thn employes, the latter is the moro impor
tant, and to obtain this it may turn to gov
ernment ownership and operation, which tho
employes desire. i
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HE Fubllc Service Commission of New
ork state has been iuvcjtigntlng one.
class of employes, tho telephone girl, nnd bus
written 2000 words upou why she quits the
service.
Its experts havo mado two remarkable
discoveries.
Ono ib that the tclrphono girl is young and
thut she marries.
Thu other is but It Is brttcr to quota this:
"Tho commission cannot but be Impressed
with tho thought that the company has cher
ished too dearly Its policy of n fixed annual
dividend of 8 per cent."
When New York finds n non-mnrrylng girl
and a public service corporation that is in
different to dividends, evidently it will bo
happy. 1
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ALSE has been found for one of tho Great
Wnr's products, poison gas.
Paris has stopped the spread of typhus by
disinfecting clothing and rooms with it.
Liquid flnmo failed to remove tho snow
from New York city's streets, tho army of
flame-throwers only succeeding In making n
blnck smudgo with their weapon.
Tho tank will go into agriculture and In
dustry. But the tank wns not a wnr Invention, but
was borrowed from agriculture.
The airplane will go iuto sport, hut tho
airplane was not n war invention. Neither
was the nlrshlp, which has Urge Held of
utility.
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'flic fluman Side of Service as Seen in the
Telephone, Telegraph, Railroad
and Other Business
TN ITS whole history wnr has made only
-- one big contribution to utility, gunpow
der; if, indeed, gunpowder was primarily In
vented for military purposes nnd not for use
in the nrts nnd borrowed by war from tbem
for its destruftive purposes.
The wholfc of milling rests upon the use of
cxploshes, nud upon mining rests steam
power and thu whole structure of modern
iudii&try.
If without wnr explosives would never have
been discovered, the invention of gunpowder
nlone would justify ull jho wnrs ever fought;
but explosives were ccrtnin to bo discovered
in nny event.
The lust great wnr brought the world
nothing useful. Inventors were called upon
by all the governments, but they failed to
produce,
A few applications of principles already
known und n few improvements nnd adapta
tions of devices already iu uso wns the sum
total of Its contribution to human efficiency.
Tho one big discovery mude during its
course, the Einsteiu theory of relativity, had
no possible rclution to lighting.,
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A ND for the moment it looks as if the
lessou of its own waste had not been
learned.
Franco proposes to have in the future an
array of 1,000,000 men.
Think what that means.
Franco lost in killed nnd disabled more
than 1,000,000 men during the wnr.
France's population being what it is rela
tively to America's, that is tbo equivalent of
5,000,000 mcu iu the United States.
It wo had lost 5,000,000 men during tho
war und then proposed to buvo a regular
army of .'S.000,000 men, wo would be doing
what France is doing.
It we withdrew 8,000,000 men from In
dustry wo would be doing what France pro
poses to do.
But that is not all.
.Franco rests tinder a terrific burden of
ddU.
Her income does not meet nnd cannot now
meet her needs. Yet 2,000,000 men nro
withdrawn or to be withdrawn from in
dustry !
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TTS lurgcr effects on human industry arc
too remote to estimate.
So grcnt n causo cannot full to be followed
by something moro than n new dlslnfectuut
for typhus uud u new Insect destroyer.
For tho moment, however, nil Congress
can see out of the war is Geucral Pershing's
clothes and the way our American officers
carry their cunc.s.
Pershing's trousers bag like those of nn
English uniform nnd tho oflicers flirt their
cuncsjlko Frenchmen.
All thnt is left of internationalism!
As matters stand, Mrs. Wurburton enn
not bo a delcgnto-nt-lnrgoto tho Rcpublicnn
nntlounl convention becuuso she is not nn
elector nnd bus never voted ; but the general
willingness to have her is n trlbuto to woman
suffrage.
Tho local controversy seems to point to
tho fact that the high light of publicity 111
accords with the dim cathedral light of prec
edent. The Camp Dix visit gave General Per
sblng u chnnce lo forget his presidential
boom,
Caruso has given his wife a diamond
chain worth 515,000, Even so nro golden
notes dininoud-stiidded.
Wo hnvo renson to expect the same
high service from Chief Morden ns we re
ceived from Chief Hepburn.
The complaint of a consumer is that the
only time the purchnscr doesn't get a lemon
is when ho buys lemon pic.
In order to mnku a success of prohibi
tion t)io successor of Itohcr-wllt huvc to bo
some brander.
Two more weeks In
nbout Income-tax blouks,
which tn wnrr,y
McHlciiul has thrown his plus In th
V"rng.
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THE DAYS WE SPEND
rpHB morning is flush, the morning is gray,
An.d now it Is white with the snow ;
And these but to cover tho laughing day
And to blanket tho destined woe.
Some wako with a smile, somo wake with
a frown,
And some curse for tho day that's born,
Thero is fiendish glee, there is hopo torn
down,
There is sadness, and thanks, and scorn.
And these are tho moods of tho mortal mlndi
And the currents M human trend;
And these aro tho turns of tbo shifting
wind,
And these are the mornings we spend.
Tho day is ablazo with the flaming sun,
And now it is drcr with tho rain:
And these aro the fates ot us, every one, ,!
,Tho honest, tho vile and tho vain.
Somo wait for the market's turning of Iucks
Some follow tho honest plow ;
Somo stand at the loom, some live by their
pluck,
Somo work with a knitted brow.
And these are tho tolls of us mortal men,
And theso aro tho means to the end,
And theso are tho paths, by labor or rtcn.i
And these aro tho days that we spend.
The even is dark, the oven Is clear,
And now it is light with tho moon ;
And these aro the flnals, tho bright
nnd
tbo drear,
And these are tho last, too soon.
bomo rovel in dance, somo laugh at
the
show,
Some wait till the dying are dead;
Somo bubble with glee, some tremble with
woo,
Some hunger, and shiver, and dread.
And these arc tbo hopes of the mortal life,
And theso nro the terms of tho end.
And theso are tho all of battlo and strife,
And these aro tbo evens wo spend.
IULPn RANKIN.
The moment a tax is placed on th
breakfast table a number of hard-boiled eggs
will 'decide that coffee isn't good for their
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
What is the highest altitude over reached
by man?
Who attained it?
What was tho most celebrated library
of the ancient world?
What was King Philip's war in Amer
ican history?
What Is an cmcute?
Whut is a maraschino?
Who wroto "Felix Holt, the Radical"?
What is n so'nnight?
How many members compose the Presi
dent's cabinet?
What is the uamo of the bill providing
for tho return of the railroads to pri
vate ownership?
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Answers to Saturdby's Quiz
1. The British Government hns nsked
Wushlngton whether Sir Auckland
Gcddes would bo persona grata as
British arabassudor here. This Is
taken to menn that bo will bo offi
cially named to fill that post.
2. The portruit of U. S. Grant Is on
fifty-dollar Federal Ilcservo note.
.'! The Grand Canal of Chlnn Is about S50
miles long.
4. The middlu nanin of Rutherford B, Hayes
was BIrchard,
5. Tho word bourse Is said to bo derived
from tho Lntln "bursa," purse.
Thero is, however, sold to bo some
relationship between this word and
de Bursu, tho inline of u family of
Belgian financiers Ihing in Bruges
toward the close of tho Middle Ages,
0. Arizona is tho slnte most recently ad
mitted to the Union. Tho date of its
entrance is February 14, 1018,
7. Balbou discovered tho Pacific ocean hi
1518.
8. Paul Dcschuncl, president of Fruncr,
wait born in Brussels, Belgium, in
1830.
1), "The Commodore" was tho nickname, of
CornclliiH Vitnderbllt. Ills dates arc
171)1-1877.
10.-
"Adajilo" means leisurely. In lutiste lliv
Word, describes a very Uow movfuunt.
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