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A FOUR-YEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA
Tlilnia on wlilrli (ho people expert the
new ndmlnlatrntloit to concentrate Its at
tention I
The Drlaxoare river biitlge
A drvdoek bin enouah tn nncnmmndate tha
' largest ships
Development of the rapid transit svslem.
n. convention nail
A building for the rree Library.
An Art Museum
Enlargement of the water supply.
Homes to accommodate the jjontilflHoti.
DO IT NOW
pONTROLLER WALTON denies that
-' he ever said that the city did not have
money enough to increase the pay of tho
police and firemen.
''The city's finances are in excellent
condition," he now says, "to make it ad
visable and proper at this time to lender
long-deferred justice to the city's most
faithful servants."
If he is right then there is no longer
any excuse for delay. The pay should
be increased at once and as generously
as the resources at hand will allov.
MARKETING HOG ISLAND
A LOGICAL sequel to the recent acqui-
sition by the government of tho title
to the Hog Island ground is the an
nouncement from Washington that
tenders for the purchase of the entile
plant may now bo submitted.
The invitation is a unique test of the
resources and enterprise of private capi
tal, but there is no reason to bfl'evo it
cannot be met. If the stato or the city
docs not buy Hog Island the genius of
American business organization assur
edly will not permit the p'ant to be
scrapped.
Responsible purchasers either from
this region or beyond its boundaries will
be enabled to perform miracles in the
field of terminal facilities equal to those
which the plant originally wrought in
shipbuilding. Philadelphia will gain by
such n sale, whoever is the buyer, for the
operation of the plant on a peace basis
will inevitably transform and aggrandize
commercial possibilities in thu whole dis
trict. The last Hog Island esscl on the ship
ping board's program is scheduled to
slide down the ways in September. Theic
are seven months in which to accustom
ourselves to the idea that Hog Island,
vast as it is, will be an inspiration, not
an incubus.
TOWARD A SANE "FOURTH"
AN ANNUAL complaint of dealers in
Fourth of July explosives will be
less convincing this coming summer than
formerly. On motion of W. W. Roper
Council has passed a resolution asking
the city solicitor to return an opinion as
to whether the state laws and municipal
ordinances arc sufficiently taut to pro
hibit the sale or use of any fireworks.
Traffickers in these dangerous wares
will hence be unable legitimately to claim
that they were not warned of a move
ment on behalf of a safe celebration of
Independence Day until the "festive"
stocks were all filled.
It is arguable that a legal ruling in the
matter is porhaps les3 needful than a sin
cere and forceful interpretation of the
nrcsent laws. Indencndeneo Tinw irann.
V diea aro largely the result of 'disrespect
T.f'ir existing stntiire nnr? tnnJM.t.
-- o .... ,i,uuviua(.o en
forcement of them. Mayor Moore and
Ms 'director of public safety can accom
plish an admirable reform by the appli
cation of vigorous methods based on con
stituted authority.
Discussion of the subject in Council at
this time does, however, deserve com
mendation. It hus significant advantages
over the usual eleventh-hour futilities
and belated "warnings" .so conduch e to
a disastrous "Fourth.'
THE PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE
rpHE distinction which most Americans
spontaneously draw between political
and national authority was refreshingly
Illustrated yesterday when the President
went out for his first auto spin since tho
beginning of his long illness.
Passing through the Capitol giounds,
Mr. Wilson waved hit hand to Mr. Borah
and smiled. The .senator from Idaho
cordially waved back. Theie was noth
ing stranger in thin exchange of cour
tesies between political foes than is in
herent in American character.
The satisfaction of tho cntiro republic
over Mr. Wilson's rapid progress along
the road to health is something quito
apart from criticism of his methods.
Tho President of the Union was seriously
HI. He Is all but recovered. Tho relief
experienced is patriotic and nonpolitical.
Probably all the stoini and tumult of
partisanship iccaiiionally givo Europe
the impression that we aro in the habit
of repudiating our Presidents. Tho
grandeur and solemnity of tho office of
Qhisf Executive of these states is thus
-wpfully nisconccived. The man is often
MCliWeet fa attacks both prejudiced and
ti " " V M
deserved. Hut tlm splendor of his office
mid tlio patriotic reverence due it are un
dimmed. They are symbolically akin to the at
tilbutcs of tho flag.
Mr. Dorah behaved as an average
American, that is all.
POLITICIANS GO PUSSY-FOOTING
TO GREET THE 1920 ZERO HOUR
When Somebody Finds Issues and Can
didates All Will Be Ready for the
National Conventions
"DOTH big party conventions ar so
-' near that you can almost hear tho
sound of cheering and the blare of bands.
High hats are being made to shine.
Hotel suites by the hundred have been
engaged at Chicago and San Francisco,
whore each presidential boom will nt
least be assured of a plush and mahog
any garage and a comfoitable place in
which to die.
And yet neither party has a candi
date.
Neither party has formulated an issue
that can be clearly defined.
It has been a generation since the coun
try moved with such uncertainty to the
eve of a general election.
Are the party leaders looking for is
sues? They are not. No politician of
mature experience would yet be seen in
public with an issue of any magnitude,
even though it arrived in state with a
letter from his pastoi. No issue is safe
company until its ability to withstand the
effects of light and air lins been tested on
the proving grounds. That is why there
arc candidates like General Wood and
Governor Lowden, Mr. Palmer and Mr.
Bryan. Tho ugly and dangerous work is
left to them.
General Wood has been testing out the
factor of militarism in politics. Gov
ernor Lowden is apparently trying to de
termine tho drift of sentiment in relation
to old-guard doctrines. Mr. Palmer is
frankly in the field to learn whether the
country is eager to have a strong-arm in
the White House. The elder statesmen
arc content to watch from afar the prog
ress of these experiments.
Clearly, then, a strange thing has hap
pened. Patty leaders are actually mak
ing elaborate efforts to sound nut public
opinion.
They are at last aware of the country!
The general staffs of both parties have
good reasons for their spectacular cau
tion. The face of the political situation
changes almost every day. Senator
Hi. am Johnson, for instance, always felt
sure of Califprnia and the Roosevelt
West. California is forgetting him for'
Hoover.
General Wood is not the center of any
enthusiastic uproar. The American
Legion, to which he made a very definite
appeal, i3 obviously without interest in
khaki candidates. Can it be that the
members of the legion had enough of
khaki? Biyan is becoming a bore and
Palmer' candidacy may bo a matter for
the undertaker before the San Francisco
convention.
Meanwhile the full dinner pail and the
taiiff, infant industries and all the slo
gans of an idyllic past arc outworn and
useless. New ones that mean something
will have to be found.
And if the ordinary voters arc unre
sponsive to tests of opinion represented
by preliminary booms, the women, who
niay have 27,000,000 votes to cast at the
presidential election, nre ominously
aloof. It is plain that they nre giving
the elder statesmen a great many un
happy hours.
Systematic attempts to organize the
women voters and align them with one
paity or another have been without suc
cess. In this state Mrs. Barclay War
burton's organization of Republican
women and the group that has been en
deavoring to mobilize feminine sentiment
on the Democratic side have alike come
upon obstacles altogether new in tho
realm of practical politics. Confronting
the Republican and Democratic organ
izers is tho State Federation of Women's
Clubs, of which Mrs. John O. Miller, of
Pittsburgh, is president. Official enti
ment in the women's federation is an
tagonistic to old-line pnrty organizations.
The, leaders continue to appeal for an in
dependent political consciousness.
The situation throughout tho country
is not dissimilar to the tntuation in Penn
sylvania. Women votci'tmve a disposi
tion to be obdurate and a bit mysterious.
The recont progress of the suffrage move
ment was so swift that party leaders
were taken off then guard. They are
fumbling now for n method by which the
votes of women ma be controlled.
Such a method is difficult to find. OW
rules do not apply in the present emer
gency. Political organizations of the past
were created and maintained by the con
venient system of pationage in states,
counties, municipalities, wards and divi
sions, and safe majorities of men voters
were thus kept in intimate touch with tho
guiding minds of their party.
Women for the time nt least move be
ond the reach of that system. And it is
rather startling to find that through their
clubs they have been organizing political
opinion as it has never been organized
in tho easy-going resorts where men long
ago substituted poker and billiards and
ward gosBip for political discussion.
The veteran leaders of past campaigns
will wait until the last minute beforo
they define their issues. ( Thoy will wait
to give further study to tho eternal mys
tery of tho feminino mind. They will
wait to sec what happens in Washington
and in Europe, and they will wait to
watch public opinion as it reacts and
forms under tho stimulus of Hoover.
The old guards in both parties aro not
by any means easy in their minds. Dis
cipline is loose on both sides. The can
didates in the reserve lines will not stay
put. They crowd forward against or
ders. Governor Sproul l of used to stay in
the icar. S'o did Palmer. A little while
ago it appeared that General Pershing
was out of the running for good. But
those who have been observing the gen
eral on his tour of the training camps
report some amazing departures from
tho formal attitudes natural and neces
sary to an officer of hi; rank.
At Camp Dix the other day tho gen
eral actually kissed sne small children.
BArE2S'lKG VUULIC LEDGEE-l'HILADELPHIA, THUESDAY,
He hud a blithe word, n smile nnd fi
wave of the hand for everybody. He sa
luted fronnthc rear platform of his train.
In his newer aspect Pershing is star
tlingly reminiscent of Roosovclt in the
jocund mood. And his aides warn all
who approach that nobody may ask the
general to say a word about politicsl
While events remain in a stupendous
whirl and flux iisucs will bo left to form
themselves nnd come into being on the
convention floors. Tho spirit of insur
gency is high in both camps. It may run
a bit too far. Any man who values his
life and his reputation will hesitate be
fore saying a good word for the old
guards. The old guards deserve the pun
ishment that seems to be waiting for
thcin. They were very wicked and very
heartless old guards. Yet one thing mny
be said in their behalf. If they had not
conscience or inspiration or faith they
had another quality of value. They had
sophistication.
We aro only beginning to appreciate
the need for sophistication at Washing
ton. If Mr. Wilson, being bold, imagi
native, aspiring and humane in his thep-
nes, hatl also been sopnisticateu in tne
business of politics he would be nearer
the goal of his great ambition than he is
now.
A young guard that rises to give battle
to an old guard will do well to refrain
from a reliance on aspiiation nnd ideal
ism alone. The practiced hand is not to
be despised. The Pcmoses and tho
Lodges may represent ineitia in politics.
But inertia is a force ordained to per
petuate equilibrium. An engine in an
automobile or in government will
quickly rack itself to bits without a fly
wheel. -
WOMEN AND THE ELECTION
VTO WOMAN need fear that delay in
the ratification of tho equal suffrage
amendment to tho constitution for a
month or two will deprive her of the
right to vote at the presidential election
in November.
Ratification might be delayed until
August without preventing the women
of Philadelphia from voting.
The women may not vote in the May
primaries because it is not possible to
make the amendment effective in timo
for them to qualify. But the May pri
maries arc merely nominating conven
tions. The candidates named then have
to run for election in November. Tho
primaries are party affairs participated
in by the registered voteis of the differ
ent parties. The Republicans vote one
ticket specially prepared for them and
tho Democrats vote another.
The real election is in November. The
assessors' lists arc made up in April and
contain tho names of all the qualified
voters at that time. But the law pro
vides for placing names on the assessors'
lists as late as September 1.
If the amendment should be ratified
before that date every woman of Voting
age in this city could go to the i cgis'tf a
tion place in her voting precinct, pay her
poll tax, or take with her her receipted
real estate tax bill, and have her name
placed on the rolls. Then she would bo
entitled to vote at the November election.
This is so in spito of tho fact that tho
state constitution ami the state laws
provide for voting by men only. The
constitutional amendment would super
sede all provisions restricting the excr
cib'c of the privilego of suffrage to male
citizen.s. But it would not supersede tho
state laws defining how all electors were
to qualify themselves for voting. It
would not repeal the poll-tax law, under
which no citizen who has not paid his an
nual tax is allowed to vote. If we had an
educationnl qualification, as some states
have, it would not repeal that. But it
would place women on an equality with
men at the polling place and entitle every
woman to tho same privileges and immu
nities enjoyed by the male voters.
It is a little curious
t lint uar, that brought
nbout the existence of
The Makiag of
Craftsmen
the largest standard
ui'rt machine iu the nor Id's hhtory, should
alfo hao brought home to the industrial
world the faot that n man who gets in the
habit of doing onr Hiiuk mechanically is of
littlo use in an enirrReii, .v. As a result of
this paradox, Great liritaiii is seriously con
sidering the advisability of returning to the
old-time apprenticeship sjstem which mode
"oil round" merharjirs. In this country the
same end is being pcrrofl bv the manual train
ing school, n norrssary antidote to the
"Kordization" of manj of our mills nnd
factories.
Tueltc United Stales
Cupid Cozens Minma soldiers aro unable to
marry their sweet
hearts, Italian unausc the girls arc un
able to read and arc therefore barred en
trance to this country by the immigration
laws. The literacy test is an excellent
method of reducing the quantity of immi
gration; and it is nothing more; does not
pretend to be nnjthlng more. Good judg
ment would require exceptional treatment in
the exceptional eacs hero developed. Most'
people will therefore applaud the action of
the government in giving the girls sixty days'
ginc1 in which tole-un enough to pass.
T here is uncniploj -The
Line of the City incut iu the cities; but
after army life, sujs
a representative nf the veterans of foreign
service, men do not want to return to farms.
This In reply to tho declaration ofCongrrss
man Green, of Iowa, thut farms in the Mid
dle West were suffering from a labor short
age. Sooner or Idter uc may have to draft
armies for farm work or htnrvc
The! nitcd States Sou
.lust as fclam air will investigate tho
charge that George W.
V Hunt, nominated bv President Wilson for
rainibter to Slam, has publicly declared his
sympathy for the I. W. W. There is surely
no expectation of founding Wobbly groups In
far Sinm. Perhaps the Sennto is merely
taking cognizance that Troublo and the I.
W. W. aro Siamese twins,
Spring will arrive in
bafely First lime to attend tho
Pennsylvania safety
(ongrcs Hope she will profit by it miffi
(icntlj to prevent Jnek 1'iost from doing his
usual stunt of Hpoiliiig the peach crop.
And not even the wisest of politicians
can tell which dark horso is going to get its
nose in the feed-bug.
Wit, WHson has caused some irritation
in Europe, but. It Is not 'niniur the Juio
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Poor Old English
TUB Gownsman not infrequently receives
letters of expostulation and protest as to
tho nwful state into which "tho English Inn -gnagc
lins fallen of Into, cxpntrutlons on the
degeneracy of our poor newspapers and thvlr
"American," and on the general and unmis
takable trend, or rnthcr gnllop, of nil things
linguistic direct to the dogs.
"What can you expect of people who arc
tnl.cn red-handed with 'these kind,' or 'them
theie,' or M nln't got it' on their HpsV"
nks one.
"My son .habitually mlsubcs 'will' nnjl
'shall,' " writes nn anxious mother. "What
icill 1 do about it?"
To which tho Gownsman answers politely :
"Madam, I am sure thnt I do not know;
unhappily, some of these troubles arc con
genital," and she seems consoled. .
On the other hand, there arc still "young
ladies" who "look sweetly." nnd nn occa
sional "old maid"- obsolete expression for
nn obsolescent old thing who, holding over
from a fastidious age, lias employed her
"limbs," not her legs, to carry her thus fnr.
The Gownsman knows of pooplo who would
rather break two commandments than one
rule of grammar, nnd there are. some who
would gladly split the Republican party
rather than split an infinitive.
TXDEED, odc of the Gownsman's corrc-
Rpondcnts not long since raised this very
question, seeming anxious to know which of
the several tortures of the intern? wan really
appropriate, in the (townsman's opinion to
this very offense, nnd whether incorrect cap
italisation might nnt'nlso be held to smack
somcwhnt of the heinous offense of profiteer
ing. t'pon n careful consideration the
Gownsman "opined" that while he would
prefer the splitting of wood ns a daily ex
crcuc ns more conducive to the health of
the muscles, he was still of opinion that a
man who splits bis infinitives, not too habitu
ally and under extenuating circumstances,
may yet bo saved. He Is not bo sure of
people who confess themselves to bo "in
trigued" with or of or by a thirs or sub
ject, even if such be presidents of Browning
societies ; nnd he finds an essential vulgarity
about tho popular word "kid," for example,
cmplojcd to designate the young of the
human mammal, not thnt of the caprine
ruminant, which admonishes him that he is
not without linguistic sensibilities.
TTOWnVBIl. the Gownsman is no purist
- and could never hope to take his place
beside St. Prtelnn and St. Lindlcy Murray.
In fact, he feels thnt'thcre are several things
for which he would rather suffer tnirtyrdom
than for his use or misuse of words words,
those pitiable objects of human folly, caprice
and ignorance; words, the things with which
we build platforms and demolish them, make
leagues nnd then undo them, climb into
Iienvcn on the wings of eloquence and fall into
abysses of stupidity and worse. In the be
ginning, bn it said in nil piety, was the
Word, and to the end shall it be and the
legions thnt nre with the Word and against
it. But your Gownsman is half way up the
pulpit stairs ; it was tho saints that so trans
lated bim.
TN THIS matter of language it is quite
worth while to recognize that the Eng
lish which we spenlc on both sides of the At
lantic today is veritably the same tongue with
which the good woman scolded young King
Alfred wheu his mind went wool-gathering
and he let the oat cakes burn. Wo might
have difficulty in conversing with this ex
cellent old sovereign, if Sir Oliver Lodge or
Mr. Hyslop should entice his unhappy wraith
to communicate with us, for it is a long way
bnck to the Anglo-Saxons, precisely as it is
a long way back to the source of any river,
and much water flows into the gulf which
came into the Mississippi nfter it left Lake
Itasca. If King Alfred was n purist, which
there seems some renson to believe that ho
wns, he may have rebuked the good woman
aforesaid for some fault in speech; for there
has never been n change in language, insti
tutions or anything else human that some
body has not deplored as in bad form and
reprehensible. It is by change that we grow ;
it is by the invention of new words and the
fitting of old ones to new ideas that our
tongue keeps pace with our growth. Even
slang, thnt corruption which rises to tho
mirfneo to float for n time and then sink
again, contributes to the flood and the buoy
ancy of the river of speech, helping to carry
the brave freight it bears upon it.
M
UCII has been made of dialects and dif
ferences in speech referable to ceo
graphical position. With due regard for our
so-called "American language" in theso days
of intercommunication, our differences nre
more likely to remain those of elns. nnd
these are equally persistent with the brogue
of tho Irish or the Scottish burr. There is
n current mistnkc nbout the ancient Uncage
of kings. Kings hnve been long descending
nnd they nre pretty well down by this time.
But the progenitors of tho veriest beggar
have been ns long on this planet ns their
betters, nnd, if the Bolshevists arc to hnvo
their way, may remain longer. So some of
the lowest, vulgarcst words are very old and
some of the most elegant mere upstarts.
"Good night," meaning it is nil over with
tne; "clean gone," "those kind," n "scab"
for a dirty fellow, "larks," p bit of fun;
to "be in a pickle," nro oil good Shakes
pearean or Elizabethan nt least, And "pal,"
"bouse," that is booze," "duds" for cloth
ing, "queer" nnd "cheese" in "that's the
cheese," nre all of them thieves' slang origi
nally and traccablo even earlier. More Ih
persistent slang. It is well to speak alike
tho dialect of your own time and your own
class; to speak otherwise smacks of nffectn
tion. It mny be "correct" to say "bean"
for "been" nnd "tray" 'for "trait," but
why speak like Bryn Mnwr? Tho slang of
today, moreover, may proro the accepted
speech of tomorrow, Your Gownsman is
likely to found his prejudices for we nil
have prejudices on the low origin of woidx.
For example, he does not say "So long!"
on parting from n "pal," shall we say; for
without prejudice he understands that this
expression originated in "selah," the He
brew "vale," as spoken in the east slums
of London. Again, he reprobates "varsity"
for "university," because it originated, he is
informed, In the ignorant mispronunciation
of tho boat-swabbers and menials about Ox
ford boathouscs and is low, not swagger
The Careful Ilouscwlfo opines 11 al some
of the.se farmer-hucksters never saw n fur
row, and that the only thing they ever misled
wns prices.
Public Opinion will never justify the
power with which it is credited until school
teachers recelvo a substantial increase in pa;
In the Labor Stakes of the well-known
Human Race, Arbitration is in the lead and
Bolshevism losing its stride.
When Detective Davis quits "investi
gating" he ought to be able to make a good
living by writing "Old Sleuth" thrillers;
After ears of quiet icrvicc and genenil
self-effacement. Philadelphia is awnkinir t
the fact that she's "alt right."
Bombs were exploded fn three factories'
jn. Barcelona, Spain, onJMondoy. Some nuts
I
iof'pouw, rcpoi8ihe.
j "ATTA BOY!!"
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HOW DOES IT
STRIKE YOU?
T TONEL BARRTMORE has been talking
U nbout his brother John's appearance in
"Richard III."
Will the public take Shakespeare?
"If the commentators will let them alone,"
says Mr. Barrjmoie, "they will. I mean
the pestilential pugs who keep harping on
the fact that Shakespeare is highbrow stuff."
It was a misfortune to Shakespeare when
the Germans discovered that he was the
greatest poet in the world,
They robbed the English stage of its great
est dramatist ami the English reading public
of its greatest poet.
Greatness makes us all uneasy.
You cannot look.stcadlly at the sun or at
death, says La Rochefoucauld,
Nor at greatness.
You turn away cheerfully from nomcr,
Yirgil, Dnpte and Milton to the latest movio
or revue.
When the Germans, that cataloguing race,
insisted on ranking Shakespearo nnd de
clared pontlflcally that he belonged not only
in that company, but at the very front of it,
they scaled the doom of Shakespeare.
Shakespearo was like the parlor in the
old-fashioned house, a place so sacred that
no foot entered it.
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any actor play Shakespeare,
pAV
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this
rentest genius in the world?
Obviously not.
U is ptcsutnption for any except the great
est to try.
And when one does, all the erljics read up
and tell him the next dny how for short of
Booth nnd Keati and Macrcady and Garrlck
he has fnllcn.
Shakespeare is sacred.
People cannot go to sec him presented as
they go to see the latest Broadway success.
They go in somewhat tho mood they go to
church.
They go because it is a duty they owe to
greatness.
It is not that they would not enjoy
Shakespeare if they could forget that he was
the world's greatest poet and think of him
merely ns a show
And the producers cannot overcome tho
difficulties of his language nnd tho huge
length of his pla.vs.
If they do they nre guilty of profanation,
nnd you must how your respect for grent
ness not by going to see Shakespeare, but by
staying nwoy from him as thus profaned. '
q q q
"IT YOU would enjoy Shakespeare go
to
Paris.
Tho Jio7e of owe and claptrap with which
the "commentntois" hnve succeeded in sur
rounding Shakespeare in England and the
United States disappears in Paris,
The French hove never conceded, in face
of the German commentators, thnt Shake
spearo was the world's greatest poot.
They do something better for Shakespearo
in France to rank him ; they play him.
A Shakcspeaic production is nn event in
New York.
In Paris three or four of Shakespeare's
plays nie given every winter.
The crowd goes to sec tliein, not to do
homage, but to be nmuscd or thrilled
And it is.
Nobody is inhibited by tho sense that he is
nssistlug at a religious ceremony.
Translated into modern French and cut
to fit tho hours of a public which dines late
Shakespearo loses bis remoteness. '
He Is not n duty.
nc 'is a pleasure
And in the hands of Gemier, the great
nctor of the Theatre Antolne, lie becomes
n great plcnsuie.
But then in Pnils you can foiget thut tou
hit paying homage, which is dull business
mid only lenieniber Hint joti hnve gone to it
t-hnw.
The Phi Mans probnbtv
Pill it differently to
themselves.
They probably say that they have gone to
tee a work of art. q
But then a Latin can go to see a work nf
MAllUIi 4, lUau ' ' .
Shakespeare as a Duty and at a Pleasure.
They manage These Things
Better in France
"VNE country seems to hnvoceu made safe
for democracy by tho war Japan.
Its Parliament has just been prorogued
because it was on tho point' of developing n
majority in favor of universal manhood suf
frage. Now, according to the theory on which we
entered tho war, Japan will cease to be mili
taristic. The trouble with the theory was that it
was a deduction from superficial circum
stances. Germany was an autocracy and it was
militaristic.
England, France nnd the United States
were democracies nnd all of them were in
differently prepared for war.
Therefore, cud autocracy and you end mili
tarism. It was a good enough "therefore" in tho
midst of war, when people needed not ideas
but catchwords.
q q q .
A PEOPLE is militaristic if It meditates
aggression.
And it is likely to meditnte aggression, if
it is strong, If it grently needs to improve its
fortune and if it believes that it may im
prove its fortune by aggression ; if it desires,
ns tho Germans used to say, a "place in the
sun."
War is the continuation in 'the form of
force of n national policy originally peaceful,
say the Germans.
Japun is badly plnced.
Thcro is not room for her on her islands
and she has not thn natural resources out
of which a great empire is built.
Her national policy is tho domination of
Asia.
That national policy rally In the future
break out into the form of force.
And that situation is not going to bo
changed by giving every Japanese tho vole.
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made
AUTOCRACY
tnrtetir
never
Russia mill-
.tt,,",1!"," Plajcd nt imitating Con
?!,, lio bec,,usc. in their circles, Cousin
'Willie ' set the fashions, nnd ho set them
in the direction of militarism.
But Cousin "Nicky's" muzhiks had no
consciousness that Russia needed n larger
place in the sun than sho had.
A littlo moro or lchs made no difference to
that vast country.
That was why Russia always retreated so
well.
When the Grand Duke Nicholas was con
ducting one of his strategic withdrawals at
full RllPCll npr.iou u l.lt f i . .
;m '.., .:,."." "' Ul .,u,,iry a's n-i
....... ...v ...nun. u Kcunouru to tho
slppl. an American asked a Russian :
Missis.
acre aro you going to
Ural mountains?"
slop, at the
"Why not?"
earth is broad.
replied tho Russian. "The
"Tho English give us gold.
"God gives us men."
Out of Hint spirit you do
turistn.
not get milj.
But out of the
even where every man has n vote,
mny,
., .. i ., . ..
S&IISS!""1".'1"
Following the example sot by Mr Pnl
mer, we may expect to seo somo hopeful
Democrat run on tho lecord of Thorn"'
Jefferson or Andrew Jackson.
I he launching of ship t Hog Island
has become a commonplace, but end. I,
(ceding event Is really as important a Ita
prcdcicssoib, . "a ,,M
If there is in this country n man brave
enough and rash enough to defend Burleson
his name has not jet been divulged.
The amazing Bcrgdolf detective story
faemi i to indicate that the double'eros , the
Investigator's common decoratioif, ,
w Home-Lights '
rpHE fairest lights on earth are lights of
home: .
So common nre they, oft we fall to know
The peace, tho beauty in their quiet glow
Until nfar from thcra our footsteps roam.
From homeless one, sad-hearted, wandering,
There enmo the sweetest song of home wc
sing!
In city highways or lone country lanes
I love to watch the home-lights through the
storm ;
Catch glimpses now nnd then past streaming
panes
Of curly-headed children safe and warm,
Of her whose love is heart of home and
charm,
Of him who lives to guard it with strong arm.
Though fortune tarries late, do not repine,
If through tho rain tho dear home-lights you
see
And say, rejoicing, "One of tbem is mine;
There peace and love and solace wait for me."
Our God is good : nis own who homesick bide
Shall not forever, wistful, stand outside!
MAUDE FRAZER JACKSON.
Judge Reppcrt cxplnins that his pro
fessed Ignorance of Kitty was but a jest
Pshaw, judge ! Wc knew it all the time!
Now that Old Sol beems to be asscrtin
himself, we may busy ourselves looking out
for that robin.
High prices make Lenten self -denial
fairly easy.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
. Who is the present French ambassador '
to tho United States?
, What is the tallest of the grasses?
. In whut opcrn docs the song "Home,
Sweet Home," occur?
. Which is the henvicr, net or dry nir1
. What is the color of the tobacco,
bloseom?
. What was tho celebrated 'Edict t
Nantes?
, What is the term of offlco of a Juitlce ol
tho United States Supreme Court?
Of what stato is Charleston the capital?
. What is a wheal?
, What American city was once described
in Congress as "Tho Zenith City of
the Unsoltcd Sea"? '
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
Constnntine was forced to give up the
throne of Grceco during the war. '
New Mexico is tho southwestern state ,
which has not yet voted on the can'
suffrage nmondment.
Adna R. Chaffee was an American gen
eral, especially noted for his aerviou la "
thn bnttlo of El Caney in tho Spanlis
war and in tho expedition for the
icllcf of Pckin during tho Boxer rebel-
lion iu China In 1000. '
Pntesis should bo pronounced with tb "
ncccnt on tho first syllnblo and the "t"
short.
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8.
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10,
Spruce, pine and hemlock are ever
green trees.
Tho flvo principal Romance languages
ro French, Italian, Spanish, Por
tuguese nnd Rumanian,
Brtsbuno is tho capital of the Australia
stato of Queensland,
Tho full niiniu of Ovid, the Roman peel,
was PublliiH Ovidlus Nnso,
Mile, Miirs (Anno Frnncoiso Hlppoljt'
Mnrs-Boutut) wns a French come
dienne, particularly famed for her
impersonations of Mollcro characters.
Her dates aro 1770-1847.
Firo losses in ,tbe United States reached ",
meir maximum in iwm. tne year oi i
San Francisco earthquake aad .con j
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