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All rights of republication of special dis patches herein arc also reserved. iii FMUdtlpMi. M.nJ.r, Mirth S. 10 FOUR-YEAR PROGRAM FOR PHILADELPHIA Thlncs on which the people expect the new administration to concentrate Its at tention! The Delaware river bridge. A drydock big enough to accommodate the largest ships. Development of the rapid transit system. A convention hall. A building for the Free Library. An Art Museum. Enlargement of the water supply, (tomes to accommodate the population. THE OLD STUFF OUT of the recent suddon gust of re partee between Governor Sproul and the Mayor loomed one suggestion that everybody interested in tho Camden bridge has been expecting for a year or more. "Powerful commercial and real estate Interests," said the Governor, "are doing their best to obstruct the bridge project because of a fear that it may divert busi ness from Philadelphia." Let us be safe, by all means. It might bo wise to order all the railway stations boarded up without delay. It is true that traffic may, and indeed often does, move both ways on a bridge or a railroad. But, a risk is a risk. A bridge over the Dela ware might be a hindrance. If we give way to the temptation to build one others may follow; we may yet suffer the sort of dreary isolation that is peculiar to New York, where the bridge habit is an old one. ADMITTING THE OBVIOUS SECRETARY BAKER, who visited Hog f KJ Island on Saturday for the first time, ) said that "such an immense project Efiouiu De Kept, up, cuuur uy uic guv ernment or by private enterprise. It requires no particular powers of dis crimination to reach this conclusion. The ', advantages . of the plant as a terminal i bjiu oiiip rupuir yuru ate uuviuus. What remains to be decided is who is to , ' keep up Hog Island and adjust it to the demands of peace so that it will serve ,. mem as weu as it served me aemanus 01 i'' CAN HE COME BACK? pOIJNEL GUFFEY, of Pittsburgh, has -' emerged from eight years of obscu rity to take part in politics ugain "in a nice, modest, quiet way." It was not in this way that he busied himself in the past. It was because he was so far from "nice" that A. Mitchell Palmer and Vance McCormick set out to dethrone him and his associates in con trol of the Democratic party. They suc ceeded, as every one knows. His emergence, or shall we say his recrudescence, is certainly not in the in terest of the better element of the Demo cratic party, as tho quality of his callers at the Believue-Stratford Hotel on Sat urday indicates. . UNRECENERATE TAMMANY TT MAY be wicked," says the typical -New Yorker whenever Tammany is mentioned, "but it is alive. We like to move along. Tammany moves. It docs things." Some of the things that Tammany does when it isn't flattering the vanity of speed-worshipers are being revealed in the latest of the long succession of police scandals peculiar to New York. Its rep resentatives encourage vice. Graft wrung from tho miseries of outcasts has been going in gobs to high police officials who actually went out personally on tours of collection. Tammany controls the executive de partments of the city government in New York and through the police it has always fattened at the expense of the poor, who, naturally, are the greatest sufferers from the social contagions ttiat have always flourished under its rule. The traditions of the organization have been an inspiration for corrupt machines everywhere in tho country. Tammany has for generations been a pace-maker on the down-hill road of politics. It set a fashion that is passing everywhere but in New York. HOOVER AND SOME OTHERS MR. HOOVER, according to his own fltntement of the cahn. iq nnlthni- o - , - - ., b. rubber-stamp Republican nor a rubber 'atamp Democrat. It is natural that there jnould be a shrill outcry among the party Uiepherds. "If he isn't a Republican and ? ho isn't a Democrat," shout these fcudcra of affairs, "what is he and what is for?" t That is a fair question, but it is difficult n understand why it should bo reserved V, Inclusively for Hoover. Are tho other . nnrflrlatng imiAune from Questioning? C tyes the brand ot one or another party i. ." . o i (plain them wholly i ' ( Here, lor exumpic, is wr. iaimer. hit. '"'falmer is a Democrat by; practice. What f lso is he and what is ne tor?, his party "V sadge "vvill mean little if we mo to accept trJ' ., ma n candidate conticcnucd to a theory of government by gags, raids and the strong-arms of the secret service. ?3 a great many pcoplo General Wood seems more militarist than Republican. Is General Wood for his party, for tho people, for a sublimated jingoism? Is he for the Old Guard a party in itself which exists independent of the party whose candidate tho general wishes to be in 1920? Ono might run all through the list of aspirants on both sides and find that none of them has been more definite, more frank or more easily understood than Hoover. A PEERLESS NAVY IS AN ITEM ON OUR ISOLATION BILL Secretary Daniels Soberly States the Case In His Costly Program Contingent on the Fate of the League of Nations "INCOMPARABLY tho finest navy in A the world" is a mouth-filling superla tive not without cmotionnl nppeal. It was not, however, in a mood of exaltation that Mr. Daniels quoted the phrase in nddressing the House nnval affairs com mittee the other day. He mentioned tax burdens. The theme is sobering. The American pulse seldom responds to it ecstatically. This is not be cause the public is stingy, for the Amer ican people are unquestionably among tho most generous on earth. Nor is it because our brand of patriot ism shrinks from sacrifice. Chronic kickers aside, it is not selfishness which primarily prompts resentment to heavy taxes. They chafe most when firm con viction of their necessity is wanting. The novelty in the present situation lies in the nation's own latitude in deter mining whether its need of armaments shall be comparatively light or continu ously oppressive. The secretary of tho navy stated tho case with commonplace clarity in foreshadowing the submission of an exceedingly elaborate naval pro gram to be executed in the event of failure of the United States to join the League of Nations. "There is," he significantly said, "no middle ground." The American who can not realize this fact is blind to the role which his country must play if perilous competition in armaments, naval and military, is to be revived. America's lone hand must be a strong one. It will not do for our fleet to be inferior to Britain's, for it is conceivable that in a crisis we might have to yield to British dictation. With an army of a million men wo should still be unequal to France, which in the absence of immedi ate certainty regarding the league's fate is planning a military organization slightly larger in numbers. We can, of course, afford to outbid our rivnls. Taxes on a monumental scale will foot the bill. Sometimes it seems as if the denunci tors of the'League of Nations, not its ad vocates, were the ufealists. There is an epic aspect in the picture of a great re public overwhelmingly armed for every possible eventuality, capable of 'challeng ing its foes right and left, competent to crush them with its wealth, its numerical strength, its engines of war. On the other hand Article VIII of the league covenant is strikingly void of poetic and romantic glamour. "Members of the league," runs this sober text, "rec ognize that the maintenance of peace re quires the reduction of national arma ments to the lowest point consistent with national safety and the enforcement by common action of international obliga tions. The council, taking account of the geographical situation and circumstances of each state, shall formulate plans for such reduction for consideration and ac tion of the several governments. Plans shall be subject to revision and reconsid eration at least every ten years." The Or lando Furiosos of the Senate imply that such arrangements are impractical. And yet, granted that the international part nership will not function flawlessly, it may be questioned whether the adoption of the part of independent invulnerability will be entirely free of strain. Mr. Daniels' insists that without tho league our navy must surpass that of any other nation. As we are now in sec ond place it is the British pace that we will be compelled to outstrip. The disparity between the navies of thn two eovernments is still considerable. bn January 1 of this year tho British national fleet totaled nearly 2,600,000 tons. Our tonnage was some 900,000. In tho last fiscal year for which there are comparative estimates, Great Britain ex pended a little more than $1,000,000,000 on her navy. Our bill was $261,403,176. The secretary of the navy suggests that, should the treaty bo rejected, he will recommend the building of two cruisers, one battle cruiser, twenty light cruisers and fourteen flotilla cruisers or super-destroyers. This program exceeds that of the general board. Time was when such proposals would have seemed formidable and have fore shadowed depressing tax levies. But in tentatively urging such a plan, Mr. Daniels has made indeed a mild begin ning in the policy of naval superiority. These ships will not make us "incompar able" at sea. If England is unchecked by tho league she will, merely by maintain ing her normal rut of naval progress, continue to leave un far behind. Preparedness is a relative term. When Europe was growing the seeds of the general conflict each major nation inter preted the word as ine muximum ox armament. German naval construction spurred England to hitherto unprece dented naval increases. The French re public and the Teutonic empire were mili tary camps. Russia, Austria, Italy, even Turkey, put forth their utmost energies to fortify themselves against aggression and to take the initiative if the oppor tunity seemed ripe and the cause suffi cient, j It is no secret that these methods were unpopular. But necessity was a terrible taskmaster ana even in ni.nu.ia im.ujmuiu of thinking clearly, as Germany was, pa triotism will heroically accept the inevit able. Patriotism will now support to the utmost tho new position which America has acquired. If the common senso of tho League of Nations plan is insufficient to cope with tho fears and doubts which uLt if tho United States can organize ' the best of navfes and the best of armies. Thu experiences will bo painful, for compared' to other nations wo know nothing of the persistent duress involved. But should fate stack tho cards so that there is no other way out wo shall meet it with head bloody but unbowed. There is, howevr, as yet no obligation to greet such a hypothesis as an unavoid able reality. Neither a stiff-necked Pres ident, a Senate corroded by unreasonable partisanship nor the blight of politics prone to capitalize sophistries can per manently repudiate tho national will. Jingoes may shriek for supremo military nnd naval might, but the mass of tho public is so revolted by the mere thought of war that portions of it are at time's deluded by the faint possibilities of it which can be read by hair-splitters into such an instrument for peace as the league covenant. Happily, the ranks of tho misguided have been thinning out. It is an ncccpted commonplace that tho pcoplo of Amcria demand the ratification of tho peace treaty and that they regard amendments, providing they do not altogether destroy tho act, as of comparatively minor con sequence. Tho Senate and the President can ncccde to this preponderating popu lar sentiment or they can defy it for a time. When it is fully realized what Mr. Daniels's "incomparable navy" and what an army on a similar scale would mean, it is hardly to bo doubted that tho effort to forestall the necessity for such bur dens will be formidable. Some obscurity now exists as to what political maneuvering is most responsible for tho treaty delay. Illusions on tho subject arcTbound in the end to be dis pelled. When they are, wrecking the political destinies of the obstructionists, whether these momentarily succeed or fail, is a move likely to surpass in thrill ing emotional values any superfluous steps toward promoting fighting engines in a strife-surfeited world. "CHEAPER RAILWAY FARES "NE of the first things to be done by -'tho railroad managers, now that tho lines are in the possession of their owners, is, according to the president of ono road, to reduce the passenger fares and to in crease tho freight rates. He said that high passenger rate3 are felt by every one who travels, but that the freight rates are absorbed in the sell ing price of commodities and no ono is aware of their existence. The freight rates could be increased enough to reim burse the railroads for what they would lose by a reduction of the passenger fares to two cents a mile with profit to every one concerned, in his opinion. There is no doubt that a reduction in fares would be popular. And there is little doubt that the reduced fares vould yield about as much revenue as the thrce-cent-a-mile rate now produces. The three-cent rate has reduced the number of railway journeys made by the people. Many Philadelphians who were in the habit of going to New York frequent ly when the old rates were in force have cut down the number of trips they make and spend actually less in car fares than they did because of their objection to the high cost of each trip. The first-class postage revenues of the government were greater with a two-cent letter rate than with a three-cent rate. Yet Congress, in an effort to increase the war revenues, raised the letter rate to three cents in spite of the teachings of experience. It restored the old rate after the new one had failed to justify itself. It may be that the increase in passen ger rates by the director general of rail roads was intended to discourage travel ing so that the railroads might devote their equipment to transportation of troops and war materia's. The occasion for discouraging travel has passed. The present rates, however, are protected in the new railway law against reduction until September. But if tho railroads should ask for a reduction in time for the summer travel it is likely that a way could be found to accommodate them. LABOR IS AMERICAN FIRST TIMID politicians could read Ole Han son's book on "Americanism versus Bolshevism" with profit, for in it he tells how he successfully flouted the I. W. W. labor union leaders in Seattle in his cam paign for the mayoralty in 1918 and was elected largely by the labor union vote. A delegation of the Central Labor Council called on him after he entered the race and told him they would sup port him if he would agree when elected to let the chief of police go. The chief had been appointed to clean up the dis reputable tesorts after the officer in command of a military training camp had issued orders that no man from the camp would be allowed to enter the city. Hanson discovered that tho chief was offensive to the labor leaders because when serving as a polico officer in another place during a strike "he arrested and imprisoned the boys because they tried to raise n little hell." Hanson later faced these leaders at a meeting of the labor council and talked straight Ameri canism to the workingmen present. When the vote was counted on election day it was discovered that Hanson had carried dozens of precincts where none but union workers lived. Theso workers, sound at heart in Seattle, as well as everywhere else, repudiated the advice of their leaders and supported a man who denounced bolshevism and I. W. W.ism and all other efforts to array class against class. I'easantB of northern Another Vicious Italy arc out on strike. Circle This interferes seri ously with the season's sowing. Later on Nature will get square by interfering seriouslj with the peasants' meals. Mubtapbn ICemal, with diving Kemnl n force of between half the Mump n million nnd a million , men,' is defying the Allies, declaring thnt the seat of the Turkish 'Government is not nt Constnntinopie but nt Angorn. It is therefore .up to the Allies to get his gont. A tentative draft of Constitutionally tho revised state con stitution has been made nnd hcnrlngh will bo given on April 0 to thoso who wish l' amend or criticize. tho henr Ings could hut tnke on the size and import unco of a cmiventlun real revision might be made oa approved lines. STATE AIDED EDUCATION IN, PENNSYLVANIA Provoat Smith's Pica Deforo the Con stitutional Revision Commission for More Generous Appro prlatlon Provost Smith, of the University of Penn. sylvania, in the course of his pica before the Constitutional Itcvision Commission for an amendment fixing the minimum amount to bo appropriated for public sohools, normal schools and universities, said, in part: IUKI.ONO lo that group called the tench , crs of the commonwealth. That' Is my buslucss, and 1ms boon for Iwo-thlrds of my life, to tench ; and no everything that comes under the licad of education naturally Rots' my attention. There arc just n few facts, sir, that I feel I must get before you in this commission before you consign these efforts to the wnstc-pnpcr basket. The first is this: We are told Pennsyl vania is n.rlch commonwealth, maybe the. richest of nil of them, nnd when wo cnsit about we find that Pennsylvania is not compurnblc with Home of the other commonwealths when we consider what she is doing for education. In this great stntc of ours tlcre are 12,732 tenehers ciignged In one-room or two-room KchoolhoiiKes, those little universities of the people thnt you meet up here on the edges of tins county ana the ndjncent counties j for some of us know all about them, some of us have studied 'in them. Twelve thousand tcnchcrsl The teachers cngagedtln instruct ing the boys nnd girls who never hnvo had a high school education number 4000. Think of it! Four thousand of the teachers of 'this great state never passed through a high school course. Teachers attending high schools, 2,"00; and of the 10,038 one-room rural teachers in Pennsylvania, tho normal school graduates number 1-100. That means to mc that Pennsylvania is lacking in teach ing power; that Pennsylvania is not glviug the hoys and girls growing up within its borders innlc and fcmnlo teachers who arc equipped to help them forward. Is it right that a state of the wealth that we say this possesses should tolerate a condition such as this? rpHERE is n report here handed to me, handed to mc by some one, stating what the per cnpltn expenditure for normal schools has been in Pennsylvania and twenty-nine other states for fivo years, 1012 to 1010. I will not read them all, but take New York, $103.02; let us take New Jersey, $130.81;' nnd then our own Pennsylvania, how much? Sixty-nine dollars and twenty-nine cents. We have lots of money. We hnve it for all sorts of things, but here is a class of schools beginning with the fundamental one, which is training the teacher or lielplng to train teachers who nrc to go out into this common wealth, nnd they nrc not properly provided for. Then, if I may pass to the third clause of this rcqueU or article: "For institutions of higher learning which conform to tho re quirements of the college and university council, or other stntc agency vested with the power to determine standards of excel lence for such institutions, at lenst $8,000, 000." The stntc of Minnesota this yenr 1010 to 1020 by act of Legislature has ap propriated to the University of Minnesota $8,000,000 plus $2,000,000 for buildings. The University of Illinois appropriated for the Inst biennial $0,750,000, and then an additional appropriation for buildings. Here are some jottings. Take 1010 ; the appro priation of tho state of Cnllfornin and its normal schools, not the common schools, but its universities, $3,100,000; in the next year, .1017, the snmc amount, nnd in 1018 $2.22:5, -000. All of those institutions nre receiving, in nddition to these, special sums of money from other sources. Nearly every state in stitution charges a certain tuition, nnd that amounts In many of the stntcH to a much Inrger sura. For instance, the. University of California receives from students' fees $280, 000, from private sources $1,227,000. The University of Wisconsin, $270,000. Whnt we aim to show by rending these figures many more might be presented, but I do not want to occupy so much time is that for higher education our state, of which we are so proud, is not doing as well as other states of the Union. I SAY, after careful consideration, that I do not believe there is n higher institu tion, nn institution of higher learning In the state thnt the state control. Hy state con trol is meant an institution all the regents of which nrc appointed by the Governor. Our friends, there nre some hero is Mr. Muncc, he and I talked about these things very quietly nnd calmly. He is to nsccrtain whnt the relations were. The entire pam phlet is devoted to the subject. But just one or two sentences, Mr. Attorney Gcnernl. They went through the whole history of the thing and they write something like this: "It, therefore, is the finding of your com mittee, respectively, that said college was chartered by nn act of the Legislature of Pennsylvania' approved February 22, 1855, as a private corporation." On the next page, among the conclusions is: "In view of nil the laws now in existence in any way gov erning the Pennsylvania State College, your committee finds the institution n strictly pri vnto corporation." Eighteen eighty-nine only one act of Assembly. Since then 1885. Ho with the University of Pittsburgh. It re ceived in 1700 $5000 to help it in doing what? Getting tenchcrs, supplying books, nnd so on. It received nid afterward from time to time. There is some more intimnto connection in this history in connection with our sister institution, Stnto College, relative to the land-grant act and everything of thnt kind. We cannot find wherein the board of directors of State College has ever turned over to the state of Pennsylvania in fee simple the estate now held, owned nnd eon trolled nbsolutely by a privnte corporation. So there we nre ; all three In the same boat, nil three doing work of which the state may well bo proud. Article X seems to have a "hen on" menning a bird set in Its ways. Did anybody ever accuse Mayor Moore of inability to talk right out in meeting? Reduction of- fines for street-cleaning contractors was a cold deal for every frozen fireplug. Policeman Jack Frost performed good service for rauny communities hy arresting floods on Saturday. As near ns I can make out, remarked the Young Lady Next Door But One, n Bolshevist is a human boll weevil, There is n growing belief In university circles that It is a mistake to Btick the bylaws into a conbtitutlou. The blizzard caused thirty minutes' dclny in tho opening of the stock exchange on Saturday. Old IJliz Is a bear. A Polar bear. Camdenltcs object to the stntc buying )le homo of Wait Whitman, ns they think the city should own it. The good gmy ppct doesn't enre how they fix it. A Chicago court hns ruled thnt a news paper 1ms the right to publish und the public Iiiih the right to be Informed of unj testimony glcn in open court. Common i-cnse is hereby given the weight of precedent. AiOtffc, "GR-R-R, HOW DOES IT STRIKE YOU? AS THE United States recedes from Eu rope, Europe comes to its senses. The truth is that we dazzled Europe. The Old World believed that auything was possible to the miracle-worker pf the West. The Old World had listened to Mr. Creel, who has turned from advertising the billions of Uncle Sam nil over the earth, by movie, by cable, and by wireless, to writing adver tisements of a system by which the ordinary man may become a millionaire. Peace has only cut off three ciphers from the figures which Mr. Creel hnndlcs so well nnd so eloquently. Peace has cut off a great many more ciphers from tho figures in which Europe dreamed of America. vim. Did not the United States raise billions by taxation, where no one else could raise more than millions? How easy would be the currying of needy Europe by this rtcJiwsimo nation! Why bother about the raw materials of Russia? ,, , , ., Or whether Germany could buy and sell ns usual? , . . , Europe wns like a poor relation comforted by the sudden discovery of n sympathetic and extremely rich member of the family. It forgot everything except Its own good fortune and the sympathy it felt sure was In tho heart of the ricntssimo. q q q ACTUALLY the peace was worse for our taking part in it. Instead of ranking it better, ns we fondly Imagined, we made it worse. a inat t Is nossiblc to maintain this in view of tho practical rewriting of it thnt has been going on since tho hope tho United States would carry Europe on its broad Bhoulders hns been disnppcnring. Whllo we were dreaming of a spiritual miracle through which the old order of self ishness nud conflict would disappear from the enrth under our puniying lnnuence, Europe wns drenming of nn economic mira cle by which tho wastes of war would be healed by our golden touch. Europe could not look the facts in tho face, or a year ago it would have known what the supremo council is only just dis covering, "thnt Europe is an economic unit." Tho Allies had the illusion that England, France nnd the United States were nn eco nomic unit. And Mr. Wilson thnt Englnnd, Prnncc nnd the United Stntes were n spiritual unit. q q q WnAT is tho best ndvertised thing in tho world? Think of nil the well-ndvertised things you have rend nbout in the advertising columns of your fnvorlte newspaper nnd the most successful weekly In the world. And you won't hnvc it, for the best ndver tised thing in the world is the thing which haa the advertising you ennnot buy. Tho best ndvertised thing In the world is bolshevism. If you made a soap or an automobile or any other nrtlcle of commerce, whnt would you give for u nnmc so novel, so pro nounceable, so likely to arrest public atten tion as the word Bolshevik!, with its' absurd plural ending in "i"? Whnt WOU1U you give io iiuvc .uugiami, Frnnce, Italy and the United Stntes sol emnly Invite you to n conference on some Island In tho moon bearing tho absurdly un real nnmc of Prinkipo? What would you give to have them then njn awny from their own conference? What would you give to hnvc them block ade you, supposing you could live through it? Whnt would you give to hnvo the nnme of your nrticlo on tho first pages of nil the newspapers dnlly for n yenr? To hnvc the United Stntes Scnnte denounce it without cessation? To have all tho presidential candidates in the United Stntes make your article an issue? And if your name was Trotzky and you had descended from Mnrs cnrrylng a cake of your bolshevism with you, upon a ray of light which bent under your weight and do nnsdted vou in the Tsnrskoe Sclo, what would you give to hnvc nil your enemies out of breath nil the time telliug tho world nil this nnd nil thnt they could imnglne nnd Invent besides? Perhaps if the world lind been too busy earning u living to pny nny attention to bolshevism Russia might now ho a icxpccta bio member of the family of uatlous with a 1 Tj' AIMT NATURE GRANlM" Peace la Opening the Eyes of Europe to Realities Bolshevism Is (he Best Ad- vcrtised Thing in the World Romanoff onco more on the throne, and the old nurses would lack a new word to scare children with. Believing in advertising firmly as we do, we doubt if advertising of this kind pays. q q q ' "T7T3 NOW know, again, why meat is so W high. It js because, say the packers, we cat "too high upon the hog" and "too far back on the steer," which is slaughter house for say ing that the American consumer is too fond of the choice cuts of beef and pork. The fault, you may be sure, is the fault of the consumer or of the producer. And this though round steak, which once was cheap as an inferior cut, now costs ns much as porterhouse, showing that the con sumer has sought to find more economical cuts of beef, and although anylmarkctman will tell you thnt with eggs nt this winter's price he hns only sold one-third as many as he used to sell. Meanwhile, wo havo a system of distribu tion which grew up under conditions now passed, but which none the less survives, which places the producer at a long dlstanco from tho consumer, provides for long hauls of products, and its numerous hnndling tends to centralize production, keeping many lands idle. q q q T71ROM the standpoint of distribution this country suffers from its size. Regional specialization in production has brought about the long haul, at steadily rising freight rates, stale foods, idle lands near at hand nnd high prices. Regions hnve behaved like trusts, under selling competitive regions nud then charging high prices. Tho West, with grass that cost nothing, undersold tho East in beef and drove the East out of tho mnrkct. t When tho free grass disappeared the West had the mnrkct, had tho distributing system geared to its requirements, had the knowl edge of the industry. Inertia guaranteed its virtual monopoly. And result is high prices. Tho samo thing has happened in other commodities. What is eeded is decentralization. Perhaps high freight rates will ho a bless ing. Palmer's progress to the White House is liable to bo gummed up with burnt sugar. Every drydock established here will mean a bigger and busier Philadelphia. Bonniwcll's cumpaign manager is Lemon Love. Tough when the "wets" hnvo to ac cept Lemon aid. Of course Genernl Wood will not wish to emulate Roosevelt to the extent of putting a Democrat into the White House. If it was, as Wcathcrmnn Bliss snys. just the tail of the blizzard, we rise to re mark that It sure lind n powerful wag to it. The hobo is now said to bo as extinct ns the dodo. The western farmer, arhr. . times got him to work nt harvest time is grieved thereat. It wns nftcr she hnd arrived here that March remembered thnt she should hnve conic in like a lion. Then she did the best she could to observe precedent. Which will you have, asks Secretary Daniels, n League of Nations nnd nn insured pence or tho Inrgest navy in the world for inevitable wnr? It seems to be pretty generally conceded first, thnt tho two big parties nro shy on issues, and second, that tho pnrty without nn issue will die. "On what river is Hog Island?" nsked Secretary Baker while at the shipyard Which prompts the horrid thought thnt this was not the first time the secretary didn't know where he wns at. It it Is true, as B. I- Knxpoth dcclnrc-i, that 80 per cent of (icrnmns favor the return of kaiserlKin, thcu the war was only 20 per cent succctsful, ' vw n JU- WHERE WnERE the sun's gold-burnished laugh ter makes tho day burst into smile, Where the starry, piquant silvers blzt from nocturne's cloud-decked stile, Where the pale moon's sprltely tranquil breasts tho lofty, hiding sky, There one sees In part a likeness to tnt ra diance in your eye. Where the warbling brooklet's playing fills the air with seraph note, Where the zephyr's gentle sighing sets eich leaf in dance afloat, Where mead songbird's flightsome trillinx makes the woodland glades rejoice, There ono hears la part a likeness to th dulcet in your voice.- Whcro the fragrant rose's blushes paint the dreams of poetry, Where tho bluebird, down unruffled, soothta .the sky-vault canopy, Where upon the mother's soft breast romps the baby's gentle clutch, There one finds in part a likeness to the, lore within your touch. Where the rainbow's joyful 'splendor filli each heart with mellow strains, Where tho orchard fruit and vineyard beau tify the harvest lanes, Where the magic wand surrenders charms eye-kissing to the elf, There one sees in part a likeness to th beauty of yourself. JOSEPH CARLTON PODOLTN. The Senators determined to show thi President the unwisdom of silence. Well, Mary won't have to worry about alimony, anyhow. Japanese troops are now viewing Siberia with an nir of detachment. No sufferer from spring fever will admit that it's a disease. It is a luxury. And no one grumbles at the tax. "Who is knocking Hog; Island?" de mands Mayor Moore. Is It possible that tht Mayor suspects some "sinister Influence"? What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. What btate did James G,- Ulaine represent for many years in Conjresi? 2. What Ib chryselephantine? 3. What is Sheol? 4. Who wrote "Mr. Sludge tho Medium"? 6. Is a cubic foot of Ice heavier or lighter than a cubic foot of water? 0. What Is a cicatrice? 7. Name tlirco Japanese generals promi nent in the Russo-Japanese war? 8. What is the "fcr-de-Ianco"? 0. In what year did Rumania enter the world war? 10. What is the nickname of the Cleveland baseball club in the American League? Answers to Saturday's Quiz 1. General Winfleld Scott led an American nrmy into Mexico City on September 14, 1847. 2. The Island of Formosa belongs to Japan. 3. Loki in northern mythology was the god of strife and evil. 4. Gouache is a way of painting in opaque colors ground in water and thickened with gum and honey. C. Curtilage is a dialectical legal term for tho land area attached to a dwell ing house. 0. Most of our common fruit trees, such as apple, cherry, peach and plum, are allied to the rose. 7. Hartford, the capital of Connecticut, formerly shared this distinction with New Haven. 8. Phllllpa Moniz, of Portugal, was the wife of Christopher Columbus. I), Two common fabrics of vegetable origin nre linen und cotton. 10. Scientists nre of the opinion that tb average thickness of tho earth'a crurt is about ten miles. w "" ? V . r , " J f fc . ty
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