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Ml rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. rhIUdrlplila, Sslurasjr, julr 9, 19il REVIVING HOG ISLAND rlS only a matter of time when Hog Island will be developed in accordance with the original plans. Before tho war n company of capitalists examined every site on the Atlantic Coast available for a railroad and steamship ter minal at which cargoes could be trans shipped from train to vessel and from vessel to train. Hog Island was selected becauso tt was at the door of a great city in which v largo amount of business originates, be cause It was within reach of three great railroad systems tapping the whole country, and because it was on fresh water within easy reach of the sea. Then when the Government was looking for an available site for a shipbuilding plant Its engineers selected Hog Island as the most suitable. It built great piers and car ried the railroad tracks to them, thus doing In part the work which those who planned "n terminal were copsldering. Those piers are still there. The railroad tracks arc still there. They are connected with the trans continental llne. There is space for ware bouses nnd till the equipment necessary for such a terminal as will rival the greatest lu the world. The announcement by Ellis Gimbcl that a number of business men and engineers nre agreed that Hog Island should be acquired for the benefit of the . city and the State Indicates that local capitalists are seriously considering the opportunity at their door. It .was first perceived by capitalists from "other States, when the island was first bought. Nothing has been done since the , Government completed its use of the plnut because business conditions do not warrant xtcnslve new undertakings. Hut as soon as normal conditions return there is likely to be considerable competition for the terminal. It will take a large amount of capital to develop the enterprise, but it is nlmost im possible to raise money for new enterprises today. Men in active business find it diffi cult to get the money needed to keep their enterprises running. This condition cannot continue indefinitely. Yet if local cnpltal is to be used to finance the Hog Islnnd project it will bo necessary for those who control it to be ready at the first sign of revival of business to get hold , of the property. If they do not, some one else will forestall them. PROTECTING OUR POLYNESIANS THE recent extraordinary revival of public Interest in Polynesia, or what is more vaguely termed the South .Seas, has made its way even into Congress. Uoth houses by large majorities have just passed the Ha waiian Rehabilitation Hill, the chief provi sion of which establishes a homes commis sion for the protection and development of the aboriginal population in our insulnr territory. The project comes none too soon. The Polynesian race, handsome, pleasure loving, ingratiating, plctorially in perfect accord with their charming environment, is a puzzle to ethnologists. There is not only mystery la the origins of these peoples, whose fea tures and complexions suggest in some far remote period n parent white race, perhaps In India, but also in their alarmingly rapid numerical reduction. Sudden contact with a new, strange nnd -highly developed clvilbn tlon Is blamed for the shrinkage, but the explanation is not wholly convincing. In the Marquesas gVoup, u Pacific posses sion of France, the population has dwindled from about -10,000 in 1S40 to some -1000 today. Decimation is distinctly the correct word in this lamentable instance. Elyslan Tahiti once nurtured 100,000 natives, and nearly that many were dwelling in tho luscious, flowering isle when the notorious mutineers of His Mnjesty's ship Bounty succumbed to their charms. Religious infanticide existed in the eight eenth century, and has been ascribed to economic causes and the dread of over crowding a paradise. Not more than 10.000 puro-blooded Polynesians inhabit the "New Cytherca" nt this moment. In the Hawaiian Archipelago the natives without foreign admixture numbered only 20,000. the part Hawallans 112,000, out of a total population of more than n quarter of (T million in 1017. Hawallans, like Tnhitlans, Mnrqiiesuns, Snmonns, Cook Islanders and Maoris, are not habltunlly an 'industrious people, but they nrc intelligent, mentally nlcrt nnd, as has been proved In Now Zealand, arc capable of winning suc cess In professional pursuits, notably medi cine and the law. t There cun be no question tiiat they are distinctly worth saving, and Congress Is to be congratulated for realizing its responsi bilities toward a remarkable rata. Even nt jthls late day a chance exists that the tragedy of total extinction may be averted. IN DELAWARE F3R weeks to come echoes of the deal by which General T. Colcmnn du Pont is to eo from Dclnwaro to a scat In the United States Senate will reverberate in the press of the country. The business engineered by Governor kaney and Scnntor Wolcott certnlnlv is 'IMiOcklng at first glance. Wolcott wns hnllcd ,,at tho time of his election to the Senate an ',! sort of Galahad, a sort of Lincoln. A ? Remocrat of tho Democrats, he resigned to )' "'accept nn appointment tendered by a He- ?" 'iwbllcnn Governor, who in turn was sup- I, jised to want nothing but n vneant Sennto '. '-et for his friend and patron. Even in " v Delaware Wolcott will bo remembered for ' ; tea hljsh' place. t ''Jt Is trite to say that the maneuvers which "Softened an ensy road to Washington for . .Wweral du Tont involve a negation of the fdMamcntal principles of government in the I i United States that moy bring about un- . i aw . -1- mIm && futioa aIaaI I n si m .MflN nhenvnls at future elections. V. .t. ll.- 1.....1 tt la M.,H-M And; tile I'iiWwr, mu t uvicnDiirj ad fleeral qu I'ont Is nn ex- raordl of Ba. Why didn't tho people of Delaware elect htm to the Senate T when he sought the election? as It be cause of political machinations quite as dark and every bit as questionable as those which finally gratified tho general's dominating am bition? It was this member of the du Pont family who first Introduced good ronds lu his own State through the expenditure of millions of his own money, who put life into the busi ness of Delaware and helped to found its greatest industries. General du Pont will not be a spokesman for powder and shot In Washington. He got out of the big du Pont firms years ago and since has been Interested In other fields. Tho people might have done worse than elect him. And they might hnve done far better thnn permit his nppolntmcnt in n manner thnt will surely cause endless criti cism In all parts of the country. "LET HARDING DO IT," SAID THE BONUS FAKERS Politicians Who Have Been Lying to Service Men Left It to the Presi dent to Tell the Truth THE Administration pronouncement rela tive to soldier bonuses broke a silence in Congress that lias been long, painful and filled with piquant significance. No one In Congress has desired to talk plainly on the bonus. The subject Is whis pered about in the lobbies nnd dismissed as dynamite. It is not the habit of tho average Con gressman to take a national view of any problem. He thinks usually from the view point of his constituents or of n particular vote machine, and leaves the rest to chance nnd Providence. So even the leaders in tho President's own pnrty were content to shift the respon sibility to the shoulders of tho Executive. Tho President met tho situation manfully enough.. Speaking through Secretory Mellon, he expressed nn opinion which virtually all other officials in Washington share nnd which few ever would have the courago to voice 'when he said flatly that the bonus plan, if it were put through now, would bring about something vc'ry much like n Treasury crisis. Fishers for votes In both parties rather thuu the service men in or out of the Ameri can Legion sturtcd the talk about a bonus. From the stump and in newspapers they whipped up bonus sentiment among former soldiers who had no grent desire for a money reword, for their service of honor. These same politicians know now that an additional weight of 55,000,000,000 to the nntionnl debt Is unthinkable, that the awards made to veterans would have to come in turn out of the pockets of those wbov re ceived the money or out of the pockets of their children In the form of excess taxes. Those who were loudest in their advocacy of the scheme have been for lone silent. They knew thnt they had made false prom ises and they waited to let some one else take tho blame for a deeming reversal of party sentiment. The so-called soldier vote is an unknown quantity politically. How real it Is no one can know yet. There probably is no such thing ns a soldier vote. Service men probably will fol low the dictates of their conscience In future elections as they always have done in the past. But the belief nmong politicians that there was a soldier vote purchasable with money brought about the agitation for the bonus, created hopes that from the first seemed exaggerated and finally opened a way to a very painful situation at the White House and at the Capitol. Did the men who fought in France nnd served in the United States actually want a money reword for their service? That is a question thnt ought -W be an swered unmlstnknbly before the Government assumes to establish a bonus system now or in tho futirtc. In the American Legion opinion seems to bo sharply Mlvldcd. There nrc politicians In the Legion, too, nnd there Is no doubt that much of the pro-bonus sentiment would in the end be traceable to them rather thnn to the rank and file of the membership. It would be a disaster if any governmental policy wero to unite all service men Into a self-interested voting bloc, as the soldier vote wns deliberately organized after the Civil War under a pension system that put a constantly growing burden upon the conn try from yenr to year until, in 11)13, fifty years after the Battle of Gettysburg, It re quired a larger expenditure from the Na tional Treasury than In any previous year. A NEGLECTED CLASSIC WHEN a man described by Senator Un derwood as "one of the most distin guished lawyers in this country, n man of great learning nnd ability," credits one of the best-known sayings of Paul to Dr. Charles Zucblln there Is no occasion for surprise that Mr. Edison could make n list of questions which young men just out of college could not answer, Senator Underwood was referring to L. E. Jeffries, of Washington, whose address be fore the Alabama State Bar Association he wus asking to have printed in the Congres sional Record. The address Is a learned dis cussion of the philosophy of the law, with quotations from many authorities, Mr. Jeffries Identifies each citation by putting its source in pnrentheses in ills printed ad dress. He quotes "the eloquent words of a recent author," and after the word "au thor" appears In parentheses Hnmnton L. Cnrson, In the American Bar Association Journal for March, 1021. A little further on he remarks: "It has been said, 'The letter killeth, but the spirit glvcth life.' (Dr. Chnrlcs Ziieblin.)" Dr. Zueblin doubtless said this. But he did not originate It. Tho saying has been used so many times since Paul put it In these words In his second letter to the Co rinthians that not one writer in n hundred thinks It necessary to put quotation mnrkH about it. Neither is sounding brass and tinkling cymbals set off in quotntion mnrks, nor do wo put quotntion marks on where there is no vision the people perish. And wo even sny strnlght is the gate and narrow Hie way which leadeth unto life, ns though the words were our own. There wns a tlmo when every lawyer who wished to give the source flf these and other sayings that hnve become a part of the lan guage would have known where they came from, although he hod read them in hooks, addresses or sermons by Dr. JCueblin, Dr. Cpnwell, Theodore Roosevelt or whoever clso might have used them without quotation marks. But It seems that there Is less familiarity with the Bible than there used to be, else how does it come about that n distinguished lnwrcr is Ignorant of the source of one of tl most famous sayinos in the whole New Wtament? If tho truth1 witys, known,. It would prob- EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER--PHILAI)ELPHIA, ably show that Paul himself was quoting n saying common In the philosophies of his time, for the thought in it Is much more, than 2000 years old. Yet we glvo,Paul tho credit for It just as we glvo to other widely known men the credit for snylngs becauso they lift thetn into prominence nnd glvo them the weight of their reputations. It would bo easy to make a list of hun dreds of sayings from the lllble in common use nnd never set ofE by quotation marks, few of which could be identified by any member of Congress or by any of the younger professors In the colleges or by any of the members of the bar. Yet the Rlble Is one of the greatest pieces of literature, to give it no other classification, that is nccexslble to the English-speaking race. SPEAKING OF PIRATES EXECUTION DOCK hits been powerless against tho pirate of romance. His swny lias triumphed over disclosures of the most sordid details of tho careers of Cuptaln William Kidd, of Edward Teach, called Blackboard; of Bartholomew Roberts or Captain Avery. "It Is, It Is a glorious thing to be a pirate king," carols the lusty desperado of tho Gllbertlan "Penzance." "We're only off playing pirates," writes Tom Sawyer In one of the proudest moments of his spectacular career. The satisfaction which R. L. Ste venson derived from bis creation of Long John Silver, that genial nnd resourceful nautical rascal, never staled. "The plrntc," doclares David Hannay, one of the comparatively few dispassionate commentators on this themo, "when he Is seen in nuthentlo evidence is found for the most part to have been n pitiful rogue." No matter. The public will not have him ns such. It Is useless, for example, to deny that thousands of pulses through the laud have throbbed a bit more quickly with each enrichment of the current extraordinary mystery of the sea. Tho adventure of the-Munson liner Mil nulbro off Cape May on the morning of June 80 gives point to the conjecture, nt first deemed preposterously wild, that the former customs of the Spanish Main have been revived in more northerly latitudes. "A peculiar weird wlilstle" (precise tone not specified) was heard. "A peculiar looking craft" (abnormal features unexplained) emerged suddenly from the fog, "turned tall" and vanished. Another Munson vessel, the errant Cal lao, has been sighted, but storms, fog, Ice bergs, sea, perils of the conventional type fall to explain the mystery of more than a Fc.ore of missing ships, whose fate has defied investigation for several months, Bol shevism has been blamed. But n Red navy operating broadcast somehow lacks imagina tive conviction. Equally alien to the probabilities is a revival of German sea depredations. The Nation is at peaco. Congress has spoken to that effect. "But ships arc but boards, sailors but men; there be land rats and water rats, water thieves and land thieves, I mean pirates." Thus Shylock, whose fictitious life began before the supreme heyday of frccbootlnc In the Caribbean. Nevertheless, he ranked piracy among the sen plagues. That reckless practice long antedated Venice. Privateering has been n convenient verbal cloak for it in not a few Instances. Note Drnke nnd Morgnn. Tho English themselves prior to their present mood of cooins doves would hnve included John Paul Jones. It is of record thnt a Puritan company organized in the reign of Charles I exploited the coast of Honduras. The colonists took to unadulterated piracy and were suppressed by the Spaniards, who pnld to their former oppressors the sincere compliment of imita tion on n major scale. Kidd himself opened operations aB a scourge of piracy. He held a King's couv mlssion authorizing him to chnstlse the French. His subsequent backsliding brought him treasure, eventually death nnd stirred up n speculative stock scandal on the Royal Exchange. Obviously there nrc laud thieves. Tho sea enjoys no monopoly. For a full century, however, save In Malay waters, the sen's morals In peace times hove been relatively good. Sentiment nud ro mance gild the old deeds of brutal derring-do. Strikingly enough, the last formidable outbreak of piracy occurred Immediately fol lowing the world war of the Napoleonic ern. Anarchic conditions due to the revolt of the Latin-American colonies produced the Inst authentic display of piracy in the New World. The valedictory was appropriately staged off the north coast of South America, more poetically the Spanish Main. Historic parallels nre seductive and dan gerous. A recrudescence of piracy succeed ing a second world shambles Is, however, barely conceivable. Where the "luggers" would land, how the loot would be dis tributed, whenco the crews would be re cruited these nre all problems. The ro mnnccrs from Homer down have made light of thoe. In the nbsence of other Informa tion, reference to the ynrn-splnucrs Is per missible. They have helped to disguise the ugliness of piracy In the past. That their spell is still exerted Is manifested by the eagerness with which each new contribution to the present enigma Is received. "Let us hope," adjured the candid audi tor, on learning thnt his dearest foe was 111, "that It's nothing trivlnl." That somewhat mythic entity the public would doubtless disclaim such heortlcssness. Yet love of romance, on the whole an admirable trait, from Its birth in Mr. Wells' geologic ages has paralyzed the judgment. . Renders of the contemporary pirate tnlo, dramatically verified, sensatlonnlly con firmed, could be numbered bv millions. ROOT AND THE LEAGUE COURT THE selection of Ellhu Riot as one of the candidates nomlnntcd by Brazil for mem bership In tho Permanent Court of Interna tional Justice is a deserved tribute to a great lawyer. The nomination is made by the Brazilian members of the Permanent Court of Arbi tration nt The Hague In accordance with the provisions of tho constitution of the new court. Along with Mr. Root tho Brazilian mem bers of The Hague c m hnve nominated Roy Borbosa, of Brazil; Joaquin Gonzalez, of Argentina, nnd Alejandro Alvnrcz, of Chile. Thesg gentlemen nrc all members of The Hague court. They nre lawyers of distinction, with n broad knowledge of In ternational affairs. The action of the Brazilian representatives In nominating a man from three other great American States will make many wonder whether there has been an agreement among the representatives of these four States to make Identical nominations, In thp hope that they may all be elected by the Assem bly of the Lenguc of Notions when it comes to make up the court. If this be the case, then we have an in stance of American solidarity in Interna tional nffalrs for which American statesmen long have been hoping. Tho chief of the Washington Detective Bureau says nutonioblles nrc responsible for the plight of 80 per cent of tho girls who go wrong. Mny wo now expect a bunch of reformers to organize to nbolish tho auto mobile? A dispatch from St. John, N. B., says that sea dogs are ploying havoc with the fishing business, nnd the Young Lndv Next Door But One wonders way the authorities don't hnve tnem muzzieg Disabled soldiers krifw that red tape OUR GREAT ENTERPRISES The Parkway Improvements A Lit tle Talk About Old Swedes' Church. Tho P. R. T. and Its Parsimony In the Matter of Benches By GEORGE NOX McOAIN JAMES M. BECK, Solicitor General of the United States, in his recent address at tho site of the new library, faclnjf tho Park way, made a statement that i create surprise. The rather meager accounts- of the exer cises and of Mr. Beck's admlrnble address mado no reference to one declaration. It was that In the work thus far done on the foundations for the new library group there has been as much cement used as was utilized in the construction of the famous Gatun locks on the Panama Canal. The statement measures the magnitude of the vast work that has been lindcrtaken by the Park Commission nnd the city. It emphasizes further the statement thnt once the Museum of Art, the library and the other buildings contemplated In the. commission's plan nrc completed) Philadel phia will unquestionably be the art center of this country. IN THE course of his tak Mr. Beck likened the vast project undertaken and In prospect as comparing with those which havo associated "with the city of Paris and its embellishment the name of Baron Hauss mnnn. He is most frequently referred to by fervid Parisians as the builder of modern Paris. Ho planned the Bols de Boulogne and the Park of Viriccnnes. They are the most familiar monuments to his artistic ability and constructive genius. Georges Eugene Hnussmann was edu cated for the bar, turned from It to tho civil scrvico ond wound un by becoming Y Prefect of the Seine. He practically devoted the whole of his life to the beniitifyitig of Paris and the per fection of Its sewer system nnd water supply. I wonder If the Park Commission in futuro years will receive all the credit that is due it, and from lips as eloquent as those of Mr. Beck? FROM the superbly modern and beautiful to the ancient and revered, even If un adorned, is, after all, but a step here in Philadelphia. I have particular refcrenco to the span of time and the mutation of events that will stretch from the Philadelphia of tomorrow, with Its Parkway architecture, its Delaware bridge and the other great things planned, to Gloria Dei or Old Swedes' Church and similar edifices. The very location of this revered nnd ven erable edifice makes it an Isolated landmark, ns a tabernacle, in this city. Its congregation, coming from distant pnrts of the city, is a very loyal little body of people. Many of them arc the children and grand children und even great-grandchildren of former members. In many instances those who live outside the city make an all-day Sunday visit of it when they come to worship. Indeed, I nm not so sure that even the above expresses the character of its member ship, for many of the present congregation are descendants of the earlier settlers. THE Rev. Percy Robblns Stockman, the rector, -has had a notable line of prede cessors. Of these, three men nre conspicuous by the length of their service ns pastors. They served the three of them for a total of 124 years, viz. : the Rev. Nicholas Collin, the Rev. Jehu Curtis Clay nnd the Rev. Snyder B. Simon. I think this record is unequnlcd by any other church in this city. With the thinning ranks of Civil Wnr vet erans, there nre dying out the memories of one activity that nearly sixty years ago mado old Gloria Del to stand out like a star In the darkness'of the Rebellion because of Its patriotic activities. Its members were particularly active in the work of the old Cooper Shop Refresh-' ment Station, where thousands of Union soldiers on the way to the front were fed within its walls. There nre no survivors today In the church of those patriots, but many of their children nnd grandchildren still commune at Its altar. It Is the memories of prc-Revolutlonnry and Revolutionary days nnd nil the haitle years thnt have Intervened that make churches like Gloria Del and the ancient church nt Troppc, this side of Pottstown. shrines in our local history that will never be deserted or forgotten. WHILE Thomas E. Mitten nnd the opera tive officinls of the P. It. T. nre herald ing the achievements of thnt system in the wide fields of finance, it is to bo regretted that the almost lntinitesimal things that go to minister to the comfort of Its patrons should 'be overlooked. The expenditure of .fliOO by the company would not only go far toward ministering to the convenience of Its elderly patrons, but would unquestionably add to the length of their days. It is in tho smny matter of benches on the stntlon platforms of the elevated. It is one of tho idiosyncrasies of the man agement that It plnces benches on the under ground platform at Fifteenth street, but leaves the nged. Infirm or crippled patrons to climb to the heights of its West Philadel phia stations, with no convenient place to rest once the summit Is renehed, PERHAPS the operative executives may be ready, ns they rend this, to tune up with the declnrntlon : "But wo do provide a resting place. There is n rest room lead ing off from every platform," The truth of this is granted. But who ever uses the rest rooms, so called? There is a seating capacity In each of them of perhaps from four to six" persons. Be sides, once In one of these rooms, there is no outlook to know when n train is approach ing except the rush of passengers to pile through the sliding car-doors. Women nnd old persons hove practically n. opportunity whatever to secure a seat, for they must trail In on the heels of the crowd uftcr they hnve made their way out to the platform from the room. The New York elevated had these con veniences of platform benches for their pn trons thirty-five yenrs ago. They have them to this dnv. The Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company is, to that extent, just thirty-five years bo hind New York. I once asked nn attendnnt why it wns tho conipnnv did not put two or three of these slntted benches on the platform. His answer was : "If wo had 'em here people would loaf on 'cm." It wns nn nnswer not nt nil creditable to the brains nnd intelligence of the individual who mnde tho reply. Just as If people past fifty, or even young persons, would climb laboriously a fllzht of sixty stairs and spend seven cents for the pleasure of occupying n bencli where the scenic outlook Is confined to the roofs or upper stories of houses, the stntlon opposite ond the passing trains. Passengers wnlk down stnirs at Fifteenth street to find n bench, but they climb long flights In West Philadelphia and then stand panting by the rail and with nowhere to sit while waiting for n train. Not everybody" hns the heart and lungs nnd legs of traction ofllclnls or nerve, either ! And all to snvc n wretched $300 or bo. Very Different From the Doston Globe, Congrcssmnn Alice Rnbertsop, of Okln homn, presiding with dignity nnd firmness over the House of Representatives, does not nt nil suggest the poem sweet Alice, whose hair wns so brown, who wept with delight when you gnye ner n rmiijna ircmuieu witu fear at, your irowi 4 j SATUBDAY," JULY 9, "', - . ... 'sj&&Gr& k , - v' . ' " ' -r. r '''..' '-.:. M .."tirif-urcM i m.ttmpL:tt''u',T mm& anasniii Jl.'" "" sLjiSfcS!r ,vuivii iniii.iur.iE.'7T rri 1; -.J;rr.vJ'":'-,,-";.-..; :tt . c&ViZT'L 'JUL,- I $ iSflr' ' fcrWJi''flSSi M"saaaaasEiWpff J v?,5fefT"la lBts1'T',',f ',tMKLltseM llPTs-Xr-!lgMl' ' - 'J i CiTnDT Triin NOW MY IDEA IS THIS Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphia on Subjects They Know Best WILLIAM D. CHAMPLAIN On the Play Spirit THE people of Philadelphia have devel oped greatly in many ways simply through the fostering of the play spirit em bodied in the playgrounds movement, accord ing to William I. Cbamplaln, executive secretary of the Board of Recreation of this city. "Although the playgrounds movement btartcd nearly twenty-live years ago," says Mr. Champlain. "to urge safe places for the children to play and encourage the devel opment of the pluy spirit, it has grown to the point where the ndults take jtibt us active a purt ns the little ones. "In about nlncty-ulne out of a hundred persons the play instinct is one of the strongest. They will utilize almost any op portunity to play or lu some way manifest that spirit. Consequently our playgrounds nnd recreation centers nre toduy thronged with adults ns well as children. Rowdy Spirit Quelled "But outside of the growth In personnel, the recreation movement has developed other values. For instance, in the beginning many fellows of the KO-colled rowdy class were among those in attendance. They came to ruu tho plnygrounds nnd centers In any way they sow fit. They soon learned that they could not do things their way, und rather than stay away they came to join in with the others and becume the most vnlunble factors in it. "Also, they learned one of the fundamen tal rules of life, which Is 'play the gome,' "Today you con see borne who came to the various grounds years ago, now grown up nnd married men, playing here with their children. They have learned to 'piny the gamo,' and do so as If It were second nature. They have really learned thut lesson in the bosom of their own families. "The social instinct is unother that has been developed, with the net result of grcntcr happiness nud a more wholesome and con structive and forward-looking viewpoint on life in general. Now the boys give pnrties for the girls and the girls return the compli ment, nnd nil their uctlvities tend toward a greater refinement nnd a higher quality of mnnhood nnd womanhood, in fact, we dis cover in a period of years an entire change in their outlook on life, nfter meeting here with their fellows lu social pleasures, good sportsmanship and health -giving activities und recreations. General Interest Widened "Not only hus this spirit grown in quality, but it lias developed tremendously In general Interest. Where only the small children took nn Interest nt one time-, now whole families arc hcnrtlly in the spirit of the play. They give nmateur plays nnd inusleales ond in What Do You Know? QUIZ 1 What Is mennt by the Spanish Main? 2. What Is a dibble? 3. Who Is the new United States Minister to Italy? 4. Whcro nre tho chief sources of platinum? 5. What Is tho azimuth? C For how long a period nrn Justices of tho United States Supreme Court ap pointed? 7 Where Bhould tho accent fall In the word Imclllus? 8. Distinguish between Polynesia, Micro nesia and Melanesia? 3. During whnt years wns General Grant President? 10. Whnt Is the mennlnB of the legal term "capias"? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. The Turks nro called .Ottomans from Oth- mnn I, one of their early rulers. 2. Chrlstlann Is the middle name of General Jan C. SmutH 3. To luff Is to bring the Mad of the shin nearer to tho wind. 4. .lohann Kepler was n celebrated German scientist, ono of the chlof founders of modern astronomy. Ills dates nro 1671. 1C30. 6. FrancolH Chopin Is generally regarded as tho foremost of composers of music for tho piano. 6. JofTerson City Is tho capital of Missouri 7. A romunl Is a whale with a dorHal or hack fin, a fin-back. 8. Rococo decoration Is tastefully florid The term Is also applied to decoration S,rth? ymo of I'0Ul8 XIV ind I'OuIn XV of France. 0. Agcratum Is a Inrgo genus of tropical American plants having opposite leaves nhd small heads of blue or whltn flowers. "" l- fkSL?!'8. ?.? veralon of made about 270 n.''c. by .evenly Iran's" fors"V.nSty1:'Uae,n,R '" th' JWwS sn TW 1921' "I HEAR YOU CALLING ME-EJE!" V '( . ' ,'.,' trWrtttffifiC4rxt&J.. t$&m,i$m i Jxa-i i Ziimvfr- "" ii. " mi ii , - i kvi ai ra u r n i in in ii i other such ways express their thoughts and feelings. "Although those participating in play ground activities arc not bound to do one thing or nnother nnd mny piny individually in any way that suits, there is u growing tendency to organize tho play. "We hove also found this medium. a good one for developing the citizenship idea, es pecially among the foreign-born. It stands to reason that one is likely to toko, more interest in citizenship .in a country if thnt country manages to show how one enn benefit and gives a good, wholesome time. So we mniiagc to get the civics idea across quite effectively." HUMANISMS By WILLIAM ATHEUTON DU PUY THE PECULIAR hodge-podge of tho work of some of the Government depart ments was bhnwn by a task which came to the desk of Assistant Secretnry Good win, of the Department of tho Interior, the other day. Mr. Goodwin hnd been laboring with tho problem of who should be appointed Gov ernor of Alnska, which is under ills charge ; hod been trying to work a scheme that would keep the good examiners from re signing their posts at the Patent-Office; had been considering the creation of a re volving fund to reclaim the arid lands of the West. Then this question wns brought to hln at tention : Who, he was asked, stole the pa jamas thnt a certain individual had left when he wos relcused from the Government insane asylum? That Individual had been raising Coin nbout it nnd this Secretary, having certain eleemosynary institutions under his care, was the final individual to whom the mat ter could be appealed. W. W. Husband, now Commissioner Gen eral of Immigration, was in Berlin two weeks after tho signing of the urmlstice. One dny ho went to see Dr. Solf, who was temporarily nt tho head of tho Government. Could Mr. Husband tell him, he wnntcd to know, where Herbert Hoover was. The in terest was gono in Foch, Pershing & Co. They were interested in the man with the food." Mr. Husbund said he did not know. Dr. Solf said they knew Hoover hnd left Lon don tho night before, that he had been in Havre nt 1) that morning, but they could not find out whether he had cone tn PirU nr Brussels. It looked, though, as if the defeated Ger mans still hnd an information staff that was working pretty well. Another incident of thnt time that im pressed upon him the nnture of the Germnn, says Mr. Husband, wos the day that the Spartacus forces attempted to seize tho Government. Most of tho nctlon was obllg lngly right in front of his hotel. There was a little pink there about as big os n hulf square. It wos densely thronged. But not once did those throngs forget thnt the grass was "forbidden" and not once did they step off the walks and paths ond on to It. There Ir no other people In the world, he thinks, that Is so well disciplined and so amenable to it, Fred C. Kelly, the nuthor nnd humorist Is in privnto an inordinnto practical joker Ho chuckled for a month over a little trick hn played not long ago nt the book tubic of a deportment store. Hn was idly turning over, the books, largely for lack of anything better to do. and a lot of other people wore fiddling rond In a most desultory, not to say trilling, Way. Kely observed i,ea that he figured would wnku them up. He took ftoin Ms pocket a dollar bill. Then he turned the eaves of the book in the same cure ess way thnt he had been usIijk Presently the dollar fell out. He nr esse.1 his hand down upon it. ..Josed upon it f",n.ill,r,,u',y ",ound nml ""WW 't into HIP M!.. ing Wildly tlircilcll those linnltu And Kelly stood by and chuckled. The father of Secretary Jjpllon, of the Treasury, was born In Ireland, but came to this country when he war six ycurs 0f But the o her shopiiers had seen, fhov grasped the idea. The proprietor of r n't store had hidden dollar I.IIIn ' in 'the bo k" They would find some of thnn. They vent steadily ond earnestly to work. Their .,, tlvltv Increased. Prescntlv rii.....'.r.i..m-' i' flaw w jM ii jiocnt musicians appear to be cmlttlnr A a few blue notes. Anybody love n fat man? Weather Man doesn't. Well, tbt t ,.... Ml j. lie x unties appear to Know mat mere I , always room at the bottom. , . : : i The news thnt sunburn may be cured with synthetic sunshine fills us with (in- ' thctlc happiness. jl A deluge of frogs has stopped the water' 1 works nt Allentowu, Pa. But the popultc 'O is nopping mad. It has como to the point where all thit VJI Business asks Is that Congress let It know ' J the worst nr once. ' uont you ininK, ucmanoen iMjtl n..iui nn 111.. I 1 .......... I. .1 I...... 'I in Philadelphia than it is in summer?" -if It may be said for Vice President Coolldgc that he can view with alarm s efficiently as any man his size aud weight. Itls a cinch thnt when the pnet wrote "All quiet along the Potomnc tonight" I" hadn't been attending a session of Congim Cubn's Government sugar college has invented a drink that contains a kick but no alcohol. Another nightmare for Mr. Volstead. A catfish was found In tbe water meter A nt Twenty-first nnd Market streets. It nuj tj nave mistaken the ticking as tiie noise msot by a mouscfish nibbling a checsefish, A recent Incident in Pukow, Chini, semni tn ftliniv thnt nnmo nt the Shinning Board vessels are tied to their wharves with l red tape that not even Mr. Laskcr can cut. 11 T 1 1 i. 1 A. tlaaa.Ara l r.ngianu sinnus on mu uuiouit-v.-, power principle which may account for ( Lloyd George's position first on one side an .) then on the other on the world's political , TtiiRRinn nfllcem In Constantinople art , using American Red Cross pajamas for out or-door wear. The llussian ouiccr in y stautinople has something on tho rest of u' We'd only like to. "Well. Kittle One," said the StoM Teller to the Big Sport, "how are you? And the Big Sport, who bod taken a M from the Weather Man, truthfully replWi "Fair nnd warmer." Much to-do Is being made over the facl that u man was arrested while selling iu during the present hot weather. "n" about the poets who are now writing tnnif ipns poems for the magazines? A bass In Christmas Lake (so runt i i Klnrv from Mlnnnonnlll) KWnlloWeil O ntf crncker which exploded in its little tummr. -and the boy who threw the crncker had a ow dinner. Considerable to swallow? lou ay ( a mouthful. YO-IIO, ETC. !' SING ho for our ship nnd the waters blue Off the shores of'a wet New Jersey. Sing hey for the chief of a pirate crew. !.' l. ,!., f H, lau- whnt cores Dei We have looted the decks of a score of shipiJ (J We have cut a lot of copers. . If you doubt my word you may take the up I Of the chops who write ior uie ..' ( Sing hey for the song that the south wind sings , , When the fierce typhoon Is nenrlng. King no ior tnc loot wiui a ""T, . :.li I That wo played on the good ship p""' -1 Wo left her adrift whllo wp noarueu The bark named The Sly Old Codger, And divided the swug in n duffle bag As we hoisted the Jolly Roger. Sing hey for the 'prizes we overhauled , lu the days that were swift succeedinn Sing ho for tho victims that vainly cMIM y Whllo we took whnt we were needing. . When the bosun said he would serve on tw The chnp in a noose with his neck . The captain copped the bosun's boast By coting him up for brenkfost. Sing hey for the fighting game we bar . And the yards where they dance " a Blllllllliy l ... ntir1 Slug ho for the cave where we nine i Gems for Jnne from n jaunty .Tim"X 5 Jj I'll sell you n share of tho'stolcn gold SS tor a nunc tnougii it may w ' - And If there's no truth In the tale I m Why, then, I'tw a Brtt-ciass ..! . '.. khwij. litiio ' O, neycr bound a wounu, r 9 0 ,J4 ';-- , i .-:mikm.' ?f f. t--i ' tm
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