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A FOUR.YEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA
1 Thlnta on which tli people expeet
'Of new BdmlnUtratlon to concen
trate lta attention:
Tu Delaware river bridge.
1 t' drvdock big enough to accommo-
J;Bvelopment of the rapid transit eyt-
tern.
"A convention hall.
"A'Mldlng for the Free Library.
An Art Museum.
Xiitargement of the water supplv.
Samei to accommodate the jiopuia.
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, HEATING CAS CHEAPER?
ONE important point ought to be
mado clear before the Mayor and
Council decide to grant or refuse the
request of the United Gas Improvement
.Company to change the quality of gas
from a candle-power to a thermal basis.
Gas with high heating quality is
generally regarded as much cheaper to
produce than the kind furnished on the
preccnt standard, which was fixed be
fore, incandescent gas mantles and
kitchen gas ranges cutue into almost
universal use.
Iti is true that gas could be manu
factured on the thermal unit standard
mt much less cost, it is obvious that
Mr. Bodine was guilty of an oversight
in not stating what price concession he
proposes to make to the gas consumer,
V- wno certainly ouuui iu nave iuu ueui-iu
i'TOUt reduction rather than the U. G. I.
V? folders.
:,i ii ia a matter into which Mayor
'tA '-fOOre ..nn InnV wltli nrnfit hefnro Vnn.
V fS'to'a conclusion.
Rs.li PENNSYLVANIA AT CHICAGO
bf. i-OVERNOR SPROUL'S address to
7VJ the Republican state committee
yesterday, and the obvious detcrmina-
tnn f Qanotnn PAnmea'a nhrnttnno t
fpreyent their patient from assuming
any or tno risks and strains of the
yVJUCHpu iuucisirum, uraw m.n.'Uiun
gain to enanges mac aro ocing cuccieu
is 'the political life of the state.
Under the leadership of Mr. Penrose,
Pennsylvania has sacrificed a great deal
of its political individuality. Directed
(by a man who see politics as a na
tional game, the state has been a po
litical unit to be swupg as leudcrs saw
fit. Since it was always considered
cofo in party deliberations, it has been
accepted as a dependable factor in the
politics of Washington and the country
at largo. There has been little sign of
a disposition anywhere to jrive Pennsyl
vania a right to lift an untrammeled
Toice either in Congress or in national
conventions.
As a consequence of all this the Btato
has been badly advertised.
A It is known as one of the headquar
ters of nn unpopular school of politics.
Its people and its interests have not
been properly represented in Congress.
Anil linltVik mnnv Atltni. ttntui V.t kn..
rjVw -..- u.... .HU -....v. Biwiin iuub uuK
Kf,been forcing themselves forward to
! places ot advantage nu influence, it
V has been denied opportunity to exnreis
formally the enlightened and progressi"e
Impulses that are common to its people.
Chis is what Mr. Sproul seema to
have had in mind yesterday when he
said that the state should no longer be
penalized because it is solidly Repub
lican. Everybody would welcome a
nollcr of leadership that would cive the
hf "people a right more fully to express
-- . ineir newer political convictions in
i , . rarn nnrl nntinnnl nlerMnns-
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it governor nproui leads me rrnn
sylvtinla delegation on tho floor nt Chi
cago he will automatically become as
big a man politically as Senator Pen
rose. In tho courso cf time the state's
leaders will get in line with those who
already reallzo that new methods and
new aims are needed in the Republican
party. And Pennsylvania, we hope,
will no longer be known a ono of the
last strongholds of political stund
patism. TAX-FREE JUDGES
nfTHERE is safe enough legal ground
J- for tho decision of tho United States
Supreme Court to exempt its members,
the' President and virtually all other
government officials of Importance from
tbi necessity of paying income tax. nut
ens may venture to regret that ethical
ctjaalderations did not prompt the jus
'ttesa to a larger and more generous in
trBrttation of the constitutional clause
en vhicn they based their llndings in
.ttU instance.
' This clause provides merely that the
salaries of Important officers of tho
, faJitMl government must not bo reduced
i by legislative) action during given terms.
(It.JS'lBienueu m limn:: "'' i"-u "
f-iiiimfilnted to important posts against
IT attaCKSoy uie u-KiBiaiivu iucm
to make it impossible for political
JneWsujin. to freeze an enemy out of ouice
"Na-i.'MlttiUE ins pay. Jl whs uui ju-
-5l(W to lift justices and others to a
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W.YtTT or to leave them free of the
.mm obligations oi ciuzcnsuiu.
Hfe. Ciinrmno Pnnrt's ncomn-tax fie-
'('Ib based upon the assumption
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garded as representing a legal and
moral debt which all citizens owe tho
totintry?
Ihc tax decision will have unpleasant
echoci in many quarters. Not all peo
ple will stop to remember that the Su
preme Court hns a habit of adhering
closo to a literal interpretation of the
constitution and that Its action In this
"nsc is suggestive of a habit of mind
tnlher than a desire to evade taxes.
People have a habit ot thinking in
fundamentals. They will feel that the
members of the court should have borne
their small !hare of the burden. And
they will wonder why the justices
didn't do so instead of writing ono of
the longest decrees of the jear to ex
plain a technicality that enabled them
to keep the money in their pockets.
THE WORLD WON'T WAIT
FOR THE UNITED STATES
It Is Going Ahead Under the League
of Nations Covenant to Bring
Order Out of Chaos
ELIHU ROOT is now on tho ocean
on his way to attend the first meet
ing of the committee of the League of
Notions to which the task of making
plans for the constitution of a Court of
International Justice hns been dele
gated. This evidence that the Lengue of Na
tions is exercising some of its func
tions In spite of the delay of the United
States In entering it may be surprising
to some. Yet the league is in actual
existence. All the powers at war with
Germany, sae the United States and
Russia, nre members of It. All the
neutral European countries have joined
it and every South American country
except Ecuador has been admitted.
The agencies of the league are making
studies of tho political, financial, eco
nomic, Industrial and sanitary condition
of Europe, to provide it with informa
tion to guide its action at its first
meeting later in the year. The com
mittee, the meetings of which Mr. Root
is to attend in London, is to report nt
the same time that the other league!
agencies make public their findings.
The powers that have entered the
league ore committed to tho settlement
of international disputes by arbitration
and to the alternative method of sub
mitting such disputes to a permanent
inlcrnutiontil court.
Articles X11I and XIV of the cov
enant, to which they have all con
sented, provide, first, that "The mem
bers of the league agree that whenever
any dispute shall arise between thorn
which they recognize to be suitable for
submission to arbitration, and which
cannot be satisfactorily settled by diplo
macy, they w'lll submit the whole sub
ject matter to arbitration" : and. second.
"The council shall formulate and submit
to the members of the league for adop
tion plans for the establishment of a
Permanent Court of International Jus
tice." This court is to be competent
to determine nny dispute of an inter
national character which may be sub
mitted to it.
In view of whnt is now in progress,
the silliness of the Indiana Republican
platform should be evident to the least
discerning. That platform denounces
In unmeasured terms the covenant of
the League of Nations, but It declares
In favor of the "establishment of a
world court to administer international
justice."
No one can be so foolish as to be
lieve that after the league has estab
lished its Permanent Court of Interna
tional Justice the members of the league
will consent to set up another court of
a different name to perform the same
functions. If any American secretary
of state should send an Identical note
to the powers making such a suggestion
'io would be informed at once that the
kind of a court for which we wore
asking was already in existence, created
by the league which we have not thought
tit to cuter.
We are assuming that the league
when it meets will accept tho conclu
sions of Mr. Root's committee and will
create the court. And it is not a vio
lent assumption, for the need of such
a court is universally admitted, and the
nations which have ngreed to the cov
enant of the league have formally com
mitted themselves to its formation.
The chief obstacle which prevented
the formation of such a court by The
Haguo conference of 1007 has been
removed. That conference drafted the
constitution for a Judifial Arbitration
Court brcnuse its delegates were aware
that the Permanent Court of Arbitra
tion created by the first Haguo confer
ence belied its name. Mr. Asser, u
distinguished international lawyer of
the Netherlands remarked in the course
of the debat in 100T that "instead of
a permanent court, the convention of
1S00 gave only the phantom of a court,
an impalpable specter; or, to speak
more precisely, it gave a secretariat and
a list."
And he was right. Each of the
signatory powrs named three or more
members of the court, and when a dis
pute was to be submitted to arbitration
tho disputants could look over the list
and agree on tho men whom they wished
to decide their case. A "court" had
to be improvised far each dispute.
I was not until three years after
this "iccrctariat and list" had been
urovlded that any nation sought to use
it. This was not because there were uo
disputes awaiting settlement, but be
cause tho European nations regarded
the whole undertaking as little more
than the expression of a pious wish that
something might bo done to facilitate
agreement among nations. It was
Theodore Roosevelt who, because of his
devotion to arbitration, was the first to
muke U8P of the machinery provided.
But ho did not submit the dispute with
Mcxle over the Plus fund to the tri
bunal until tbreo years nfter the list
of its members had been prepared.
The second Hague conference tried to
do something more than provide a sec
retariat and a list. It drafted the con
stitution for a permanent judicial court,
as already said, but it could not agree
on the size of thi court or on the banis
of representation on it of tho different
nations. The representatives of Mexico,
Serbia, Haiti, Venezuela, Brazil, Bul
garia, Portugal, Rumania and Uruguay
all expressed the determination of the
smaller powers to secure international
equality in the selection of judges, and
Insisted that tho Independent sover
eignties were equal and should be
treated ns such. But the great powers
refused to consent that Haiti, or Ser
bia, or Bulgaria should be represented
on tho court as often or by as many
men ns Great Britain, or France, or
Germany.
And so the constitution for the court
coutained no provision for the selection
of judges and was worthless. And it
was made even more impotent when It
was adopted, not as a declaration pf
nth conference, but as a hope, or desire.
Jt ZIW-B -IUV IUUH 1IH UCCD, a
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change in the disposition of tho little
powers. It has manifested itself by
their adoption of the covenant of the
League of Nations, in which express
provision Is made for permanent mem
bershlp in the council of representatives
of the great powers, while membership
if the little powers Is to be by rotation.
The little powers which have been will
ing to enter the league on these terms
cannot very well refuse to consent to
representation on the bench of the Per
manent Court of International Justice
on the same terms.
lu addition, the need for such a court
has been demonstrated so thoroughly
during the last six years that its estab
lishment cannot be delayed much longer.
The United States, which has been
urging an International court for years
and has been more persistent than any
other power In pleading for general
arbitration, cannot persist in holding
itself aloof from the great world or
ganlzatlon which is to express itself
through judicial processes even to please
selfishly ambitious political fakers like
Hi Johnson and Borah.
THE MAYOR'S DEAD HORSE
NO EXPLORER in a strange country
could ever be sure of more sur
prises and more odd discoveries than a
Mayor new in the business of mayor
ing at City Hall.
Mr. Moore, when he was shocked by
the .sight of a dead horse neatly laid
out "on the plaza below his office win
nw, turned naturally to the telephone
with nn angry cry. And nt once his
education was advanced another step.
He found, for Example, that bureau
chiefs and directors do not report for
work on a regular schedule, and he
found, too, that there was uot In the
municipal organization any agency
equipped and formally authorized to
deal with the matter of a dead horse
on the plaza of City Hall.
Now, Mayors who grew old before
their time in this community might
have told Mr. Moore that bureau chiefs
and directors, obedient to a rule of
tradition rooted in the dim past, are
always late at their toll. Their dig
nity seems to demand it. In recent
years especially they have been accus
tomed to work short shifts aud, occa
sionally, to spend a full day at lunch
eon. Doubtless they ought to be sub
jected to a new order of discipline.
They have no union and reprisals would
therefore be out of the question.
But such reforms ns the Mayor has
in mind should be gradual and slow.
Not until the millennium arrives will
any man in a public office feel that he
hasn't a divine right to loaf or, at
least, to take his ease when he feels
like It. If all the hands at City Hall
are suddenly asked to stay around for
a full working day they will be too
amazed to perform even routine serv
ices for a month.
Mr. Moore discovered that one or
ganization which receives financial help
from the city because it is intended to
look after dead and injured animals
couldn't move his dead horse because
It was equipped to handle nothing larger
than cats. Another politely Informed
the Mayor that It couldn't think of
moving anything larger than n goat.
Eye-witnesses said afterward that the
Mayor's indignation increased with each
passing moment. He talked of having
the cruelty societies reorganized. That
need isn't pressing. The horse was
taken away. The Mayor ought to coll
a mass -meeting for tho organization of
a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to the Public. There is a lot of work
waiting for that sort of organization at
the Hall, on the street car lines, in the
food markets, in a good many theatres
and in a hundred other places. Let the
animals wait.
STUBBORN DELAWARE
VIRTUALLY all Republican leaders
of influence have been working
ardently for months to have the suf
frage amendment ratified in the neces
sary thirty-six states. It is largely
because of their efforts that thirty-five
states have already turned into line for
the votes cause. Mr. Hays has been
"personally appealing" to legislatures
and governors for the best part of a
year.
Yet as matters stand after the defeat
of the votes amendment in Delaware
yesterday, Democratic campaigners, who
know that most people look only at the
surfaces of an issue, will tell the women
of the country that it was "the Re
publicans" who denied them a right to
vote at the next presidential elections.
There is n good Republican majority
in the Delaware Assembly. The gov
ernors of Vermont and Connecticut, who
have resisted all appeals for a special
suffrage session of their legislatures, are
Republican. .
Delaware politicians had n factional
fight on their handa, and, with their
own axes to grind and swing, they had
little couccrn for the principle repre
sented by the votes amendment and
little thought of the trouble that they
wcie making for the national managers
of their party.
Mr. Wilson's telegram of appeal was
sent to the Democrats at Dover after
all hope for the amendment had passed.
It was a tip which lesser leaders will
not hesitato to follow with energy as
the campaign proceeds.
Tho Navy Depart
ment is issuing a
booklet to induce
young men to enlist.
High Cost of
VIndlctlvencss
On its first page thi're is n paragraph
beginning, "The glorious record of the
men who have worn the uniform of tho
navy from John Paul Jones to Sims "
Orders hnvo now been issued, It Is said,
to destroy the bonks in print und to
substitute "Dewey" for "Sims" in the
paragraph quoted. Apart from tho fact
that the change seems to convict Mr.
Daniels of being "small potatoes," why
should the government be expected to
pay the extra money Involved?
John Bassett Moore,
lie Must lie i n ii i s address a t
Joking Columbia University,
pointed out many
weaknesses in our si stem of government
and suggested some remedies ; but his
suggestion that a l'resluent De eiecteti
every two years strikes a noto that will
jar on the hensibtlities of the majority
of Ills fellow citizens. They have a
feeling that presidential elections take
place too often already.
Tho sailing of the
A Strike That steamship St. Paul
Won't Come Off from New York was
delayed on Tuesday
by a strike of stewards, who demanded
more pay " i,bj "" -umi:. mrj
got what they demanded. Hut it is a
cinch the passengers will never have the
courage to strike against the tips, which
aro a not Inconsiderable item In tho
expenses of u trip ticross tho Atlantic.
Right off the bat, June provided a
couple of rare days.
Thomas Hardy, having done a good
day's work, is, euJoylng a long evening.
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THE GOWNSMAN
Tho Limitations of Authorship
THE Gownsman once wrote n book
which arrived at tho honor of n
review by no less n pundit than the late
Andrew Lang. This is not a boast, but
a confession. For the role of tho two
actors comprising the dramatis pcrsonae
of this little tragicomedy were vour
Gownsman, an American guilty of the
Indiscretion of having perpetrated n
book, now impersonating, tinder com
pulsion, a fly, nnd the great British critic
and folk-lorist iu the character of cir
cumambient amber. And never was fly
In all the niceties of his tiny mechanism
more perfectly preserved In scmltrans
lucent perpetuation. To slip over the
painful details of this embalmment be
fore death, the summing up of the whole
matter was nbout as follows: "This
American book Is made up of two kinds
of material, thiugs that we already
know nnd things which we do'not know.
To write about the flrnt is superero
gatory, to trespass on tho second is nn
impertinence, especially on the part of
an American, no dent want to know
what we don't know." Mr. Lane snh.
eoquently wrote a book on the same sub
ject.
TTOWEVER, If we arc to write nbout
J-J- nothing which Is already known
without Incurring the censure of rcnetl-
tlousness, or worse, and about nothing
incn is unknown rouia nny sucn sub
ject be found to the critical pundits,
what in tho name of the nine worthies
nre we to write about? For unless we
write we die. What are tho proper geo
graphical, ethnological, polltico-linguls-tical
limitations of authorship? Shall n
man write only of himself and incur
the charge of egotism and suffer under
a pitiful limitation in sublcct matter?
bnail lie write only ot his neighbors
and those glaring peculiarities and in
feriorities in which his ucighbovs fo
perversely persist? Thus he would In
cur the charge of being a busybody.
Shall he write only in commendation
and Incur the charge of log-rolling, or
only in censure nnd be called cantanker
ous? Truly the conditions of the writer
are difficult and bis woy is beset with
snares. A gentleman discusses not re
ligion in public nor yet in print. It
takes the clergyman to do that. A gen
tleman discusses not politics lest ho fall
Into folly. It takes a senator to do
thnt. Our friends should be sacred, even
if profane nt times in their remarks.
Our enemies? why advertise them and
rescue them from their obscurity by
writing nbout them? It Is better to
turn the other cheek thnn to discuss
one's enemies, especially in their pres
ence. IT IS said that life is made up of tho
discovery of our limitations. Possibly
authorship is made up of similar dis
coveries from without nnd from within.
The latter arc almost too tragic to admit
of confession. Do jou remember, am
bitious reader, that epic poem in twenty
four books, after the manner of Homer,
which vou projected when you were
possessed of half that number of years?
Do you recall that wonderful novel, my
dear, which you felt struggling within
you like so many "bright shoots of evcr-
instingness, but wnich never pro
cressed beyond chapter one? The Gowns
man in his nonage actually laid the keel
of "a complete history of American in
sects." He will not malign himself nor
exaggerate; it was to have been only
North American Insects. But "the
work" splendid term was to have
been "profusely illustrated throughout
with anatomical drawings troni tne
life." It broke down nnd was suc
ceeded by a mania for postage stamps
before the question of coloring was
finally decided. Ah! that question of
coloring, aud drawing from tho life !
Illustrated throughout! o begin
with visions of the illimitable, aud wo
stop but we dou't stop,, we cun't.
THE limitations of authorship from
without are more iu the nature of
comedy, for hero enters that comediau,
the publisher. There is a curious ob
session current still, to tho effect that
to be in anywise concerned with the
printing of anything is to be a sort of
public benefactor. The Gownsman is
not going to slnndcr so close nn asso
ciate of his kind ns he who prints nnd
handles tho output of his brain. The
relation is too much like that of doctor
and the undertaker, confidential nnd
mutually sunnortine. Still the pub
lisher's beneficence, like his omnisclenrc,
has been somewhat overrated. He does
not spend his whole life contriving the
happiness of others. And even in these
times of dearth and dryness, he likes to
be happy himself. When wages are high
and the price of pnper preposterous
as now. ho works at a groat disadvan
tage. But ono of the commodities with
which the publisher works in is always
cheap, and that commodity is brains,
provided they be not his own. In thnt
case they come remarkably high. The
brains which run to authorship nre
commonly mixed with n modicum, nt
least, of vanity, which gives them a
malleable quality in tho market nnd
increases the fortunes of all who han
dle books but do not write them. It
is a mistake to suppose that there nre
many good works which lie unprinted
for want of a publisher. Human vanity
takes care of that. Tho wonder is as to
the books which publishers are misled
into printing, usually and properly as
sagacious men of business, nt some
body's expenso quite other than their
own.
TO BE "available," acceptable, these
nre the great questions. To be ca-
pnble. profound, learneil, witty, what
does It matter ir you are not niuruuu
ablo with that perishable commodity of
vours, grown in tho forcing house of
wit, plowed and furrowed, nurtured,
harvested, the flower of it and tho fruit
of it, and nil merely to be "available"?
The gentlemen authors of old time were
right about it ; there is something essen
tially immodest about appearing In print
whether we dance with Lnlnge laughing
over tho shoulder or parade in singing
robes with Melpomene drooping over mo
arm. When we print wo become bnr
terers and toil in tho lists of trade
Such of us express not so much what
wo would ns what wo may. Tho
Gownsmnn linn often wondered nt the
strange ways of hiipIi as determine the
publication of books. Ho has been so
fortunate himself that ho ought not to
consider these strange ways strange.
For, nftor all. the limitations of author
ship should bo no more than those of
good citizenship : a ronsiderutlou for the
rights of others, kindliness of heart, a
compassionate restraint as to lengthj
nosf.s, n rein tightly held on those Imagi
native flights of fancy nnd pyrotcchulw
of wit "wherein is greater delectation
unto the nuetour's vaultle than codifi
cation unto them which may bo pro
vailed upon to peruse him."
If one could but know the second
choice of the majority of the delegates
it might not bo hard to pick the next
President.
EDINBURGH
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BOVE the Crags that fade nnd
''loom
Starts the baro knee ot Arthur's
Seat ;
Ridged high against tho evening bloom,
The Old Town rises, street on street ;
With lamps bejeweled, straight ahead,
Like raraplrcd walls tho houses lean,
All spired and domed and turretod,
Sheer to tho valley's darkling green ;
Ranged In rayctcrlous disarray,
The Castle, menacing and austere,
Looms through the lingering last of day,
V. E. Henley.
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By KELLAMY
THE Federal Reserve Board refuses to
be consoled by the drop in prices
taking tho form of (.tore sales.
It cau see no fundamental chnngo in
the situation.
Probably tho board has tho common
human weakness for an alibi.
If prices don't go down the board
wishes us to know thnt it Is shortage
In production, labor troubles nnd ex
travagance, not inflation, that is keep
ing them up. Inflation was ono of tho
things that tho Federal Reserve system
was going to prevent.
"The Federal Rrservo system has
worked admirably, hasn't It?" u clear
minded financier was asked.
"Yes." he said, after n moment's
hesitation. "It has expanded credits
admirably. It only remains to be
shown if it works ns well in deflating
them."
q q q
THE Federal Reserve Board didn't
make a good guess at what has hap
pened. If it had, it would probably have
tnknn snmo stens. with advanced dis
count rates, cutting down loans to be
used in producing luxuries and in other
wavs to prevent what has happened.
Why should one pay excessive atten
tion to its predictions ns to what will
happen next? The Federal Reserve
Board Is quite like tho Interstate Com
merce Commission, the war industries
board. Mr. Wilson or whoever It was
who decided not to buy the Cuban sugar
crop.
It is merely human.
In spite of tho fact that it is an or
gan of tho government, and hns a line
title, it isn't nil-wise and it isn't all
courageous. Had the Treasury Department nnd
Congress dnrcd to raise more of the war
costs by taxation, had tho administra
tion dared to keep up its control of
industry during reconstruction, hud the
Fedcrnl Reservo Board frowned upon
$10,000,000,000 of increase in commer
cial credits In ono year, wo should not
have had the big adSanee in prices that
has occurred.
We might have had something else
just ns bad.
And it was this that gave them all
pause. They didn't have the knowledge,
tho courage and tho confidence to exer
cise the power they might have exer
cised. q q q
WISE men, nil of them, they said to
themselves what Julius II. Barnes
says when It Is proposed that the gov
ernment guarantee of wheat prices be
continued.
There is going to be trouble when the
guarantee stops.
Why not have the trouble now and
be done with it?
Let things run themselves, with ns
little interference ns possible, nnd they
will soon get normal, has been tho motto
of every one, including tho Resorve
Board. , ,
AH the llttlo gentlemen who have the
power legally bestowed to protect us
from profiteering, from inflation, from
panics, aro like scientists with seismo
graphs. 'riinv enn ten us wueu inern is nn
earthquake and measure the earthquake
for us.
There is no use of giving them legal
power to make tho earth's crust expund
and contrnct n little more readily so
as to mitigate tho shocks.
q q q
THE correspondent of the Associated
Press found tho king of Bulgaria
running a locomotive near tho palace,
ono of the few that escaped tho war.
It operates on a nnrrow gauge rail
road, carrying tho royal provisions.
If ho wero not n king, says Bul
garia's ruler, ho would be a locomo
tive engineer.
Very democratic, eays everybody.
A king has llttlo choice nowadays.
lie must either bo democratic or very
lonely.
The dear days of the "Willy,"
"Nicky," "Gcorgle" correspondence
nre past.
A king may find a few peoplo of his
own rank to writo to, but an emperor,
no, unless he includes tho emperor of
Japan in his correspondence.
A king is now the ruler of a small
stato and enjoys a sort nf jimcrack sov
ereignty.
He is own brother to tho ruler of
Rurltania.
Ho Is more like tho head of ono of
the petty states of Germany than like
tho kings mentioned in the Bible or in
history.
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U-ITtrHEN I was a king In Babylon,
VV and you were a Christian slave,"
marked a wide social chasm.
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What Happens and as
Helpless to Prevent
There isn't any wide, soclnl chasm
today.
The young king of Greece recognized
this fact by marrying a commoner.
His marriago with Miss Manos is not
legal yet.
But what can kings do unless they
marry commoners?
Royal blood is getting senrec, terri
bly scarce.
Eligible princesses are few.
Besides, perhaps tho best guarantee
of a throne is likely soon to bo wearing
ovcrnlU and having greasy hands, llko
tho king of Bulgaria, or marrying a
pretty girl without a title, llko the
king of Greece.
There can bo no objection to a king
like thnt, and having one eaves the
trouble of chasing a president around
the mountains, like Mexico, or spending
$10,000,000 to pick ono out, like the
United States.
q q q
THE militant Woman's party, which
used to picket the White House, has
been casting a disapproving eye over
the results of woman's first venture into
national politics.
It finds that of nearly 1000 delegates
to tho Republican national convention
only twenty-five are women, and out ot
nearly 1100 delegates to the Democratic
national convention only sixty-nine are
women, a 2 per cent representation for
their sex nt Chicago and a 0 per cent
representation for it at San Francisco.
In most stato conventions "women
were present in small numbers and ex
erting small influence."
Still, there is n bright sldo.
In the list of contributors to candi
dates' campaign funds, totaling $3,000,
000 or more, so far made public, women
have been present in small numbers,
too, and exercising small Influence.
No woman Colonel Procter has been
disclosed.
Until Bomo woman gives three-quarters
of n million to some candidato,
without knowing that sho has given
more than half a million, nnd without
realizing that it is a gift, not a loan,
Miss Alico Paul and Mrs. Abbey Scott
Baker need not despair of their sex.
Wo proposo that by law tho giving,
raising and distributing of primary
campaign funds bo restricted to women.
That would bo a real reform.
Movie cowboys in Los Angeles
have btruck for higher wages. As our
own lariat swinger puts It, "Give 'em
more rope, glvo 'cm more rope!"
Now thnt the bungs have been
pulled out of nil tho political barrels, wo
may expect somebody to pull out the
plugs tho dark horses.
D'AnnunzIo having done his bit, his
friends are more than willing that the
"bit" should bo used as a curb.
The "Save the Schools" movement
will not die, because necessity provides
U with the elixir of life.
Pro-convention campaigners np
penr to have marched to tho tune of
Thnnk'co Boodle.
Tho opinion grows in some ounr
tcrc that Wood dollars nre as deadly as
wood alcohol.
Mr. Proctor's firm, at lenst, has
received somo good advertising out of
the campaign.
June note: Once ngaln the brides
aro carrying the roses and shooing tho
bugs.
"Dollar" Is going to bo spelled
"dolour" for ever so many candidates.
A Wonderful Rosa
THREE clouds there were, the story
goes,
Athwart tho evening sky;
Ono was a barque of silver gray,
And one of gold thnt sailed away,
And ono that lifted its sails on high
Was all of a wonderful rose.
Three artists saw, the story goes,
Tho clouds in tho evening sky ;
Ono of them painted the ship of
gray,
And one the gold thnt sailed away,
And one tho vision thnt lifted high
Its sails ot wonderful rose.
Three hundred years, tho story goes,
Count naught with the evening sky ;
But ono of tho pictures lost Its
gray,
In one the gold all faded away
But the one that lifted its sails on
tylgb
Is still a wonderful rote.
r-Frederick Oakea Bylvester.
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What Do You Knotv?
QUIZ
1. To what President did Leonard Wood
owa his Jump over tho heads cf
senior, army officers?
2. Who wrote "Amusement to an ob
serving' mind is study"?
3. When was the Lever food control act
passed?
4. What Is the created distance nt
which thunder can be heard''
5. Into what three elapses are tho rocks
composing the earth'o crust
grouped? s
6. What Is a paletot?
7. What ia the highest wind velocity
ever reported In tho Unlteu
States?
8. What is a watt?
0. How many feet nro there in a
statute mile?
10. What is tho difference between n
lonsr nnd a short ton and how
many hundredweight in each?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Three Presidents were unmarried nv
the time of their election Van
Buron, Buchanan nnd Cleveland.
2. Two of them were bachelors, Bu
chanan and Cleveland. Van
Buron was a widower.
3. Orromatopoeio words nre words that
have Bounds that resembte those
associated with tho object or ao
tion named,
4. La Rochefoucauld wrote, "There is
nothing; of which wo are so liberal
as advico."
6. A moron is a feeble-minded person
of higher intelligence than an Im
becile. 6. The word "clock" comes from the
French "cloche." n bell, and dates
from the time when most people
got their time from church bells.
7. The five books In tho Hebrew Bible
ascribed by tradition to Moses
comprise tho Pentateuch. They
are Genesis, Exodus. Leviticus,
Numbers and Deuteronomy.
5. "The zero hour" is tho hour at
which nn attack is begun.
9. "Jayhawklne" was the name given to
depredations commlttod by Kan
sans during tho lighting with pro
alavry Missouri men. The Kan
eans became known ns "Jay
hiuvkois" and the Mlssourians ns
"Border Ruffians."
10. The first paper mill in America
was erected In 1630 near Phlladel
phla. The opinion forces itself upon us
that Elihu Root, on his way to Europe
to help organize tho permanent court of
justice of the League of Notions, Is
doing moro for tho Republican pnrty
than Hiram Johnson, who plans to bo
its leader.
Governor Sproul's suggestion that
city men and students snend thpir -.
cations in working on farms may do
llttlo toward supplying tho farmers with
worth-while labor, but it may tlo much
in tho matter of drawing attention to
tho problem.
In the matter of tho recent Su
premo Court decision a biff for tho
"wet" is a boost for the suffragette.
Senator Penrose's proxy, having
trnvelcd from a King to n Casscl, muv
bo Baid to bo making royal progress.
EITH'S
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