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All tights of retmtlteeiHon of special dispatcher herein are nlo renewed. rhiUdtlphle, SturJ7, September 17, 111 TO THE REPUBLICAN VOTERS TJB Republican to t era who wish to carry on the work which they began In 1010 ond drive the contractor influence from the party should vote at the primaries on Tues day for the nomination of the following candidates : FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY SAMUEL P. ROTAN Mr. Rotan lias conducted the affairs of his office for several terms with effi ciency and without scandal, and be haa secured the punishment of adherents of the contractor machine for complicity in the murder in the Fifth Ward. FOR CITY CONTROLLER EDWIN WOLF Sir. Wolf is a business man of wide financial experience and sound Judg ment. He is his own master, and in the Controller's office he will not be subservient cither to factional political r selfish financial influences. FOR CITY TREASURER ARTHUR G. GRAHAM Sir. Graham has had long experience In handling the funds of the people cn t rust cd to the care of one of the largest nvings banks In the city. He 1h admir ably qualified to handle the funds of the taxpayers in the City Treasury. And he is pledced to do what he can to end the abuses of the pernicious fee system. FOR RECEIVER OF TAXES COLONEL GEORGE E. KEMP Colonel Kemp Is a soldier with a splendid record In the World War and With experience in a Chilian executive post which qualifies him beyond ques tion for handlinz the business of tha tax office. FOR REGISTER OF WILLS VIVIAN FRANK GABLE Mr. Gable, who is a practicing at torney. Is a candidate for the office where the incumbent has received 1300,000 in fees which ought to have gone into the public treasury to reduce the taxes. He has committed himself to opposition to the fee system and has said that $10,000 a year Is all the re muneration which the Register should receive. FOR JUDGE OF MUNICIPAL COURT JOHN II. MAURER Mr. Maurcr is the Assistant District Attorney who was knocked down by the thugs in the Fifth Ward in the fight which resulted In murder. He is a cap able lawyer who should make a good Judge. The Republican voters who believe in pro gressive government, and In providing a Constitution to insure it, should ulso vote "Yes" on the proposition to hold a constitu tional convention, nnd should vote for the nomination of delegates to that convention. WIZARD VARE'S NEW KLEAGLES WHETHER Mr. Wcgleln and Senator Daix will be Past Grand Kokos or mere Exalted Kokos In the invisible empire of the Varcs to which they have departed with the lamented T. Kunnlngham we do not know. It doesn't really matter. Even in the moment of their departure to join Wizard Vare's klan they must be com mended, nnd commended strongly, for bravely reversing the traditional procedure of the original kluxers. When n kluxer goes forth upon any doubt ful business he invariably wears a mask. Senator Dalx nnd Mr. Wegleln, when they joined the political Ku Klux, removed masks (hat they have been wearing for a long time. HOW TROUBLE STARTS GOVERNOR MORGAN has discovered one of the causes for labor rioting. He disclosed it when he told the West Virginia Bankers' Association that while the State had no right to prevent owners of property from employing jtylvatc watchmen, the State had power to prevent those watchmen from functioning as peace officers. Much of the trouble In the West Virginia mine region arose because private employes of the mine owners were commissioned as deputy sheriffs and devoted themselves, not to preserving the peace, but to serving the men who paid their wages. " The only way to prevent serious disturb ances Is to have peace officers who are abso lutely impartial and sworn to observe the law and the Constitution. They cannot be impartial If they arc paid by private In terests. There ought to be no more commissioning of private watchmen ns deputy sheriffs in any part of the country. THE PRIMARIES FROM 8 TO 8 rpHE mathematical agonies and the recrca X tive delights of daylight saving will cease while most of the citizens of Philadelphia are blissfully unconscious In the small hours of Sunday, September 23, In the meantime, however, prospects of confusion are already visible by reason of a ruling authoritatively made by the Sec- retary of the Commonwealth in connection with the hours of the primary election next Tuesday. By a legislative act, which has never been repealed, standard time is the legal time of the State of Pennsylvania. Such daylight caving as exists Is n consequence of recom mendation nnd popular agreement. It has been determined, therefore, that the primaries must open and close on East ern standard time, at respectively 7 In the Morning and 7 in the evening. Iiy the daylight-saving time, which will continue to be cbserved in this city throughout next week, the polls will be open at 8 A. M. and close ft 8 P, M. 4 It !. oerhsps advisable for electors to re frain from an analysis of this subject The -rwtsoas" totter ia the midst of I combats Over astronomical nnd artificially established hours. The -point to be remembered is this: 8 to 8 arc the primary hours this year. Another way of characterising them is 7 to 7 standard time. The secret should be kept dark. When your watch announces 8 in the morning next Tuesday ndmlsslon to the polls will be granted. MUST STATE'S GREAT ROAD PROGRAM BE ABANDONED? That Will Be tha Case Unless the People Vote In Favor of Holding the Conven tion to Revise the Constitution By GEORGE NOX McGAIN "NB year from today State road-bulldlng will cease in Pennsylvania. The present force of engineers, technical experts, experienced superintendents, fore men and inspectors which has been built up (luring the last two jcars will be scattered to the four corners of the country. Thousands of implements will be stored. Great machines, concrete mixers, road en gines and rollers will be permanently put out of commission. The Highway Department under Commis sioner Lewis S. Sadler will become a mere shell of the present efficient system. It will be reorganized as a bureau for maintaining, ns far as possible, the roads already completed. The only comparison to this remarkable condition would, bo that of one of the great United States Steel mills, perfectly organ ized from general superintendent to water boy, employing thousands of meu, crowded with orders and running to its full capacity, suddenly halted in its operation, its train rolls closed down, furnaces permitted to chill, its office force, its heaters, rollers and laborers dismissed, and the vast establish ment put In charge of a few watchmen. Six hundred thousand owners of automo biles and trucks, and farmers who have become accustomed to fine roads, will doubt less shout their protest It will be in vain. Highway Commissioner Sadler Is au thority for this statement. He knows what he is talking about. For three years State rond-bulldlng will cease. UNLESS the people of Pennsylvania vote "Yes" in favor of a Constitutional Convention at the election on Tuesday next. It is the only alternative to the condition outlined above. Why? Because, by this time next year nil money available for the building of State highways will have been spent. The 30,000,000 loan for permanent roads will have been exhausted, nnd there Is no possible way by which the State can obtain additional money, under the, present Con stitution, until 1025. It will be, therefore, impossible to keep the present highly efficient organization to gether and continue the comprehensive plan that has placed Pennsylvania at the head of all the States of the country. Since September, 1010, there have been built twelve hundred miles of permanent highways In Pennsylvania. Between now and Janunr? 1 this will be increased to fourteen hundred miles. By the first of next September hundreds of additional roads will be completed. This is the world's record in the construction of permanent highways. There still will be left by September 1 of next year more than 1000 miles of rouds of major importance to be constructed. There will be no money to complete this work. It will be impossible to obtain any more until 1025, UNLESS a Constitutional Convention is called by a vote of the people next Tuesday to permit the State to borrow funds. On Tuesday next the voters will be called upon to say whether or not they are In favor of calling a Constitutional Conven tion. Next year they will have the opportunity to vote on the work of this convention. If then you did not like the result of Its labors you can vote aguinst It. The slate can be wiped clean. The present Constitu tion will remain in full force. The State Federation of Motor Clubs and similar organizations are sending out ap peals by the hundreds of thousands to auto mobile owners to vote in favor of a Con stitutional Convention and a continuance of Pennsylvania's road-bulldlng program. The State Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, has declared officially against a Constitu tional Convention. Fred Rnsmussen, Secretary of Agricul ture, on the other hand, has declared em phatically in favor of a continuance of the highway program. He says: "I would consider anything which will delay the continuance of our road program a disadvantage to our agriculture, especially at this time, when competition is keen and the farmers need every advantage it Is possible to give them. "I believe the farmer, If he fully realizes what Is at stake when voting for the Con stitutional Convention, will bring his In fluence to bear on this important question which so vitally affects his interest In the development of Pennsylvania ngilculture." The automobile owners and the farmers hold the balance of power In deciding this question. If the Constitutional Convention is de feated and the Department of Highways is compelled to cense Toad-bulldlng it will be due entirely to the Indifference of those most vitally Interested in the subjert. Which will It be, "Yes" in favor of a convention or "No" In favor of disband ing the finest road-bulldlng organization In the United State? THE COMBINE AND GAS rnHE Major waited for five weeks for the X special councilmanlc committee on gas appointed by the Council president to do something. The committee has not held a single meet ing since it was appointed. Its members have shown no Interest In the subject. They have luted as if they were appointed to do nothing. Yet when the Mayor's ordinance directing the Gas Commission to negotiate with the United Gas Improvement Company for the drafting of a new lease was Introduced in Council It was teferred by the president to this special fas committee. 'There bare been rumors tuat It tvm the purpose of the majority in Council, con trolled by the Contractor Combine, to pursue n policy of t procrastination and delay in order to prevent any settlement of Uib gas problem during, the administration of Mayor Moore. The Combine hopes to elect its candidates in 1023 and then to make its own terms with the gas company. That is why it Is fighting so desperately this year to retain hold of the county offices. If it loses them it will be handicapped In the next mayoralty election, It will not only havo suffered two successive defcata, and defeats nro always demoralizing to political machines, but it will be deprived of the power to reward its work ers by the patronage of the offices. LABOR AND THE KU KLUX JN SOME of the smaller Southern nnd Western towns and . cities there are Isolated groups of backward-minded em ployers who, 'In dealing with labor, reveal a determination to dlbpcnso with nil discus blon nnd to resist even the efforts of union representatives to present their qase at the bnr of public opinion. One need not be an unbending partisan of the trndes-unlon principle to realize that issues grown out of industrial confusion cannot bo settled by the violent abrogation of individual rights, by suppression of truth or by mob violence applied to those who happen to be spokesmen for one or another party in the general debate. Yet so-called vigilance committees, immune from cen sure because they were supposedly composed of "prominent cltltcns," have been in the habit of dealing brutally and unjustly with many representatives of labor In some re gions In the South, in the West and in the Northwest. It is worth remembering now that tho methods of masked vigilance com mittees which nssaulted labor men nnd de ported them with grim warnings from com munities to which they were sent ns labor organizers were similar to the methods of the Ku Klux KInn. Matthew Woll, vice president of the Fed eration of Labor, in denouncing Kluxiam nnd warning labor to have nothing to do with it, Indicates a line of reasoning and deduction that many other minds havo been following since the exposure of Wizard Sim mons' queer organization began. The Ku Klux Is incorporated. It bad to be financed at the beginning. Its repre sentatives are fond of saying that the best people in Atlanta were among its founders. Aro these "best people" astounded at the form that their organization haa as sumed? Were they, after all, organized with a view not so much to an Invisible empire ns to the creation of an easy system of terrorism likely to be feared by the stranger within the gates? Certainly the communities in which the klan has had Us revival exhibited no signs of extraordinary religious or patriotic zeal before Simmons nppcared. But they did reflect a peculiarly acute and painful aspect of the labor problem. Southern States which oppose or ignore every suggestion for the elimination of child labor or the betterment of conditions which surround women In industry nro apt to view tho traden-union organlrer as an undesirable of the worst class. It has yet to be shown that the master minds of the Klux had purposes altogether unsuspected by their dupes. But the fact remaius that labor conditions arc woefully backward In many Southern factory towns, that Negio labor Is forced and exploited and tbnt labor representatives who attempt to introduce the uulon idea in these commu nities arr viewed as fanatics and undesir ables. A congressional Investigation may disclose evidence to prove that labor, after all, has the greatest reason to shun and hate Kluxism and the Kluxers. A BIRTH AND A CENTENARY ANEW nation, not a consequence of the World War and potentially greater than tiny of thcc novelties, became a centenarian tills week, nnd at the same time entered upon an authoritative and reassuring stage of Infancy. The anomaly is one of the oddest in his tory. Central America from the Suchlate River to the Panama frontier is formally celebrating one hundred years of independ ence froia Spain, nnd yet President Hard ing's congratulatory letters arc correctly addressed to the five national entitles of Guatemala, Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. The fact is that nutionnl consciousness in tbo rich arid largely undeveloped territory stretching between Mexico and the Isthmus has been, after years of travail, dlsecnslons nnd even wars, at last vigorously awakened, although the framework of a futile con geries of five little republics has not been technically dissolved. It is probable, however, that within a short period the desirable and long-deferred process of union will be perfected. Within the last few days announcement has been made of the choice of the Inland city of Tegucigalpa, now the capital of Honduras, ns the sent of government of the federated nation. Thus one of the most vexatious causes of dispute has been finally removed. Amalgamation will prodmc on this conti nent u nation worthy of and equal to high achievement. The United Stntts of Cential America will have an area of moTe than 200,000 square miles and a population of approximately 0,000,000. Meanwhile, the anniversary of freedom merits consideration and Interest. The re volt In September, 1821, of the old Cap tnlncy of Guatemala, which formerly In cluded what Is now the territory of the five republics and the Mexican Htate of Chiapas, against the Spanish dominion was daring and nt the outset apparently desperate. The liberation of Latin America is a prodigious romance, the semi-miraculous features of which are quite as common to Guatcmnln ns to Peru nnd Mexico, two other current cen tenarians. The epoch of anarchy which ensued after the eventual emancipation produced its fed eralist movements lu Central America, but the majority of these were amorphous or Insecurely evolved. The present program marks a tide of really popular enthusiasm and a patriotic determination to substitute tho firm union of similar people spcnklng the same language for the old flimsy structures of alleged gov ernment. The brightening skies afford fully as much warrant for rejoicing as the completion of a century of Independence with which the former event so happily coincide. SAFEGUARDING COUNTY BRIDGES rrUIE lesson of tho Chester bridge disaster A. Is very properly reflected In Governor Sproul'H rcromtnentlatlon of a rigid investi gation of nil county bridges throughout the State. Louis Sadler, Commissioner of High ways, has been urged to begin the Inspection at once. The proposed survey is not necessarily a panicky effort to repnlr known defects. It is simply a wUo precautionary measure in spired by a trngedy which was essentially and basically avoidable. Of obvious practical worth U also the Governor's suggestion that county in-idges be placarded with notices specifying the ton nage that the structure will bear. The sim plicity of this safety device Is an additional argument for its prompt adoption. The public should co-operato with the State in observing whatever bridge regula tions are devised. Recklessness is not al ways exclusively official and public safety Is essentially a matter of partnership, BOK AND STEVENSON The 8iory of the Novel 1st a Romance Recalled by the Editor's Autobl ography The Myatery of 8m Osbourne'a Disappearance v By GEORGE NOX McGAIN MTUIE Americanization of Edward Bob!" J. lias reached its eighth edition in ten months t , It is the autobiographical work mosfln' demand in this country at the present day. In the course of his reminiscences the author tells how ho conducted his first news paper syndlcato under the name of, his brother. This wns during tho period when ho was a young stenographer in the employ of Scrlbner & Sons. From a number of newspaper clippings, yellowing with age, sent me by a friend, I enme ncross the other day, a column of these once fnmous "Literary Leaves." It was signed with the name of William J.- Boh. Its leading paragraphs were an advance notlco of an article that was to appear in the "Hook Buyer" from the pen of Robert Louis Stevenson. The fact is mentioned here because among the many Interesting anecdotes of the world famous characters in his book there Is the story of Mr. Bok's experiences with Steven -bon. Strangely enough these same saffron colored clippings also tell in detail tho little known story of tho greatest romance in the Scotch novelist's career. ROMANCE had already been written large on tho fragile pages of Stevenson's life when Mr. Bok met him. It was the meeting, mutual Infatuation, courtship nnd marriage of the fictlonist nnd the wife of Samuel O. Osbourne. Connected with that event ia the mystery of the first husband of tho woman who was the Inspiration of the later years of Steven son's life. She shared the letter's voluntary exile in Samoa. Sho was his companion during bis dying hours. It is a romance within a romance. The Bok reference has furnished a text for what follows: a story that has been rarely told. INDIANA may still have within Ita boun daries a few venerable politicians who re call Samuel O. Osbourne. He first came into notice as private sec retary to Governor A. P. Willard In the later fifties. To a magnificent physique he added ver satility, wit and talent as a musician. He was a good mixer. Sam Osbourne married a voung lady named Van de Grift; anglicized Vnndcrgrlf. She was an attractive woman, not pretty but brilliant, with considerable literary ability. Osbourno nt this time wns one of the stnff of reporters of the Supremo Court of Indiana. Ho was one of tho finest stenographers in tho Middle West. A fellow reporter at this period was James B. Beach. Beach nnd Osbourne, nttracted by the glit tering tales of gold discoveries in Arizona, started for the far Southwest. Osbourne was accompanied by his wife and two children, a bov nnd a girl. The boy, Lloyd Osbourne, the noted novel ist nnd mngazlne writer, subsequently collaborated in his maturing year3 with Stevenson in soma of his literary work. rpHE two men, who had saved a few thou JL sand dollars, pooled their capital and in vested it in a mine on their arrival in the territory. Within a month it gave indication of being a bonanza. They were, It is said, offered 100,000 cash for it. Beach held out for a larger price. It was a fatal error of judgment. The mine within six months proved to be an unprofitable hole in the ground. Osbourne, disgusted with his luck, started for San Francisco with his family. He had $7 in his pocket when he reached the Golden Gate. He knew considerable about law and being a rapid and accurate stenographer, experi enced no difficult In securing employment. It wns but a short time until ho could command his own terms for his services. It is said that he often received as much as $1000 for reporting a case. OSBOURNE'S prosperity was reflected in the subsequent life of his family. His two children were sent abroad to complete their education, tho son to England and; the daughter to France. Later their mother went to Europe and spent some time, alternately, with each of them. It wns in 1870, during one of her visits to Paris, that Mrs. Osbourne met Robert Louis Stevenson. He was already a celeb rity. He was rapidly climbing the ladder of literary fame. Their acquaintance rapidly developed into mutual love. Tho tastes of the pair ran in parallel lines. Mrs. Osbourne wrote to her husband and told him of her affection for the Scotch genius. Instantly the reply rame that if she loved Stevenson she had better return at once to San Francisco, secure a divorce and marry him. She followed the advice. Shortly after the divorce wns granted, to which her husband interposed no defense, Invitations for her wedding to Stevenson were sent out. Samuel O. Osbourne wns invited to the wedding nnd ncccpted. The night of the ceremony he appeared In faultless attire and seemingly high spirits. He was accompanied by a lady of rare beauty. Mutual introductions proved her to be his wife. They hnd been quietly married as soon ns Mrs. Osbourne'a divorce hnd been granted. I N SPITE of Osbourne'a seeming indiffer- ttnrtn in tilA WTCPlt fit hf tiAmn 1mI. ... w.nnmA frlti. tffl.Uv A 1 ll The blow, it Is Raid, broke his heart. Thero has persisted the story that Samuel O. Osbourne completely disappeared after the episode. With his new wife he went to Australia. His former friends lost nil trace of him. Stevenson nnd his wife, after returning to Europe, started for the South Soa Is land where he stibequentlv died. Mrs. Osbourne is described as a brilliant brunette. She wns ldcl read nnd nn ac complished conversationalist. She hnd, ap Earently, In spite of her social poMtlon and utch blood, a good deal of the gypsy In her mnl:e-up. In this rrspect she was matched by her novelist husband. In his autobiography Mr. Bok pnints nn interesting pen picture of Stincnson as he 1...... lilm TT Llllfi "With his sallow bktn and his black, dis beveled hnlr, with finger nails that had been allowed to grow very long, with fingen discolored Uy tobacco in short, with a general untidiness all his own Stevenson was nn nuthor whom It was better to know than to see." STEVENSON'S nppenrance In Kan Fran cisco for IiIh wedding was n shock to his admirers. He had traveled across the sea In the steerage for the purpose of securing local color for subsequent work. It must have been a rtorry experience herded in tho cramped quarters of the shin with hundreds of uncleanly nllens. ' With the snme purpose In view, he journejed ncross the Continent jn nn jmm. grant railroad conch. When he reached the Western metropolis he had n racking cough, was greatly ema ciated and was spitting blood. He was worn out, unshaven and n seml-lnvnlld. Careful nursing, medical attendance and sulphur baths, however, soon restored him to a bemblance of health, The dread seeds of pulmonary disease were never eradicated from his system. He rallied after his, arrival in vSamoa, but In the end the skeleton fingers of the white, plague crushed the lite out of his fragile 10(17. '' 4 rr vi" 1 fl Ws ScfciaVr VyS4ir "lV. JnrflteTaaMiiaaaMtajC etBBj afllaaay Mf mi .lILt ublJMiHiBiiHilHaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHai ''l' iMeflelfsk fJi af "f'y".!'! ' TtaflQTe IIHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHaliaiiiiieiiiiiS) -m A JaP 0 IT4' V "WsW NOW MY 1DEAJS THIS Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphians on Subjects They Know Best CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERT VON M03CH- ZISKER On the Constitution of the United States, Now 134 Years Old THAT the founders of the Republic exe cuted one of the great legal documents of nil time when they signed the Constitu tion of the United States IFri years ago today, is the opinion of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Robert von Moschzlsker. Not only has it proved to be on instrument which nt once provided for and safeguarded the liberties of the Ameri can people, but in Its fundamental principles it supplied the model upon which the con stitutions of the various States are drawn. "The Idea of recalling to the minds of the people," said Chief Justice von Mosch zlsker, ''the anniversary of the Constitution of our country is on excellent one, particu larly at the present time, when the regard for the law Is not at high tide, to say the least. Represents the Fundamental Law "The Constitution of the United States represents the fundamental law of the land. The solemn compact binds both tho people and their representatives in the legislative bodies as well as the judicial. "It marks the basic limits beyond which the people's representatives must not pass in administering the affairs of the people, and which the judiciary are bound to observe ond enforce when it is clearly shown that . these limits have been exceeded in any par ticular instance. "It is only by nn absolute respect for the" agreed principles that a constitutional government can continue to hold the alle giance of the people, and one of the best parts about the Constitution of the United States is the fnct thnt thero is no excuse for attempts to change it by force, since it itself furnishes nn orderly method for changes in the fundamental law whenever a Duetto: Summer THE wind when the stars awaken, The place where at dawn you stood; Here where the stream is shaken lu silver folds through tho wood, All are now ns they once were, Color and cloud nnd sound : The iris stnrts fiom the ground: Nothing is new but my heart, O heart ! Nothing is old but my henrt. Noon; and the corn-flower starring The warm deep green of the prnss. And the shndow of lupine bnrring The shadow of clouds that pass, Day Is a drowny faring. Purple and rich with bees: Clover Is ripe to my knees; Nothing is old but my heart, O heart! High on the hills the aspen Turn in their luminous arc; Whisper with dusk ond soften Nothing is new but my heart. As the movements move to the dark : Stir In their pinioned running, Turn In the luminous wind: The moments turn In my mind : Nothing Is new but my heart, O heart ! Nothing is old but my heurt. II In all still places, Plnces lu the hills, Small winds ripple, go rippling through the grass, And the shadow of the hours, And the shndow of the flowers, IUddIc with tho momenta as the warm days pass. In all high countiles, Blue, nnd valley stnrred, Llchcned slopes are warm to smell, and juni per and fir ; In the cups between the rocks Carrots grow on sturdy Mollis, And columbine und iicver-dlc nnd firewced occur. In nil mountain meadows, High above the fields, Noon Is filled with silence, Infinite nnd wise; Cool and blessed lapse of sound, Never n murmur, save around Green nnd hidden hollows where the clear streams rise, Maxwell Btrutlicrs Burt, In Scrlbncr's, As 8ung In Ohio From the Clnoinnatt Rnqulrer, , Toe home-brewer has paraphrased the old song to run; "Darling, I am growing bower." KANNED -,-s5tfr.'r" ' constitutional majority of the people so decide. The State Constitutions ,'The fact that changes in the fundamen tallaw may be mado with comparative ease is true not only of the Federal but also of the State Constitutions. "The only radical difference between the two rests in the fact that the Federal Con stitution is a grant of powers to the legis lative body which marks the limits of their authority, while the State Constitutions point out the particular limits upon the sovereign authority naturally possessed by the representatives of the people in a re publican form of government, the Legisla ture possessing all tho authority not denied to it by the Constitution Itself. "In other words, if tho authority of Con gress is challenged, tho Federal Constitu tion must be looked to to find warrant which justifies the act of Congress under attack, while if tho authority of the State Legisla ture Is challenged the person who makes the attack must point to some particular re striction in tho State Constitution which plainly denies the right of the Legislature to pass the act in question. A Greek Precedent "One often hears tho assertion that the right of the judiclaTy to pass on constitu tional questions is a purely American in stitution without any foundation in prior history. But tills Is not strictly true. "In reading Brycc's 'Modern Democra cies' this summer I found tbnt the ancient Greeks allowed their laws to be challenged when it was claimed that they were contrary to the fundamental principles of the Gov ernment. When challenged, an assembly of the people, sitting practically aa a court, decided whethor or not the law under at tack breached the fundamental law of the land. If It was decided that a breach of the law had been committed, that law waa de clared annulled nnd a certnln penalty laid upon those who had enacted It. What Do You Know? QUIZ What famous chemist waa guillotined during the French Revolution? Who bald "The woman who deliberates What is the Stone or Scone? hat Is the literal meaning of the word telegraph? Distinguish between Pluto, Plutarch. Plato and Petrarch. " what nre pleonasms ond where are they What plebiscite turned a. republlo into an In what war waa the Battle of Plevna, fought nnd who won It? Who wroto the muslo of the opera. "The T?eenS)?Thre Kln8s" L'Amore del When did John Calvin live? Answer to Yesterday's Quiz '' T1'f"))'.,L,?f th? co.wr. a mollusk found In many parts of the tropics, haa Tlomr been n general use ns money n narX 3200 cowries were reckoned aa eaual to a rupee, so thnt a cowry waa then ofVeV t0 U,re0 tW0-huSredth2 2. Bernard 8h.iw In hl8 comedy. "Man nnd Superman." wroto "A lifetime of wJ Plnessl no man alive couia bear it'iJ . .,W0UW be he" n earth." r "' U 8. Oliver Cromwell died In 16S8. 4 Appropriation la the act of settln aM a. thing or Idea for particular . Expropriation is the action of auffA 1" tailing or modifying the proDer? rights of nn individual "in the exercise of I to sojerelffnty. ns when properly iS . u?01.'1 H"der eminent domain. p"'y ,0 C. Ohio Is tho Buckeye State G. Ogres aro molrtlngs showing In a section double continuous curve. concnvS passing Into convex ; "b" ahnncd ifn Orgies are drunken Or llconMoPu riveK or debauehi-r en ; orlKlnally .,,ri? rites especially that o : Ilaccmw El BngTnVV'th W,'d dn. WnlSnVan'd bo the original Lltt a ISrafn Scoria-0 Imil production of tho play of i?nu Tom's cabin" In 18G2. i rH. MoDonniS Is now llv ng In Cambridge MaYi, W 8. The phrase "nuerrllla warfare" is rlun tlnnt because "ituorrllla." wMni. i n" th.. Spanish, mmns " ItUe 'war"-'! the literal mcanlnir of the wi?i2 vJaXehCref0r' booo,"" 'Wtle wft o w rkKfe . dates are 1701-liSL r --v.. im 10. Dante, the moat fmou of Italian poets J 3 M,3?, ln taWnnW '- ' -' ... . SHORT CUTS Ruth's admirers prefer to sty it wiU straws. The ashcart policy is to throw doit li the people's eyes. It is pleasingly noticeable that Dawn cuts while he cusses. J Perhaps De Valera could be mere dip lomatic In the Irish language. Perhaps WI11B. la spell-blndlsi tl prove that he is not in politics. No bay feverlte can be expected to en thuse over a poem about goidenrod. The League of Nations does not appetr to realize that it is being ignored in till country. The trouble with the surtax is that eat never knows when it may tax a man oat of b' luslness. There still is some little independent left in the world. Here and there one mm a straw hat. Perhaps Mr. Wegleln desires to proTi the force of the old saying that birds of i feather flock together. The advantage of the sales tax over ill other taxes Is that you have the money vrfcen yon are called upon to pay it. Chief Bums' pupils in his new detective school will, of course, be well grounded in the text of the Fourth Amendment. Cheer up! Uncle Sam may yet leara that John Bassett Moore is a member of tie World Court of the League of Nations. ( Our Chess Expert says that th mm who paid S20 for the ball with which Babe Ruth hit his fifty-fifth home run probablj had more greenbacks than gray matter. While the law remains what it is. there is excellence in the suggestion, despite pos sible) abuses, that In determining the euotat of Immigrants to be admitted the family sue not the Individual should be the unit. "Without malice aforethought" li tie qualifying phrase that may deliver Fatty Arbuckle 'f rom a murder charge to the lesser one of manslaughter. "I've wanted you : five years" is a phrase of Tatty's whlcB seems to contradict it. A Boston man recently took out Innf once against unfavorable weather on M wedding day. And that, we guess, is about the limit in that direction. Not even tie well-known firm of Cupid & Hymen can insure happiness. After all, remarked Demosthenes Mc Glnnis. there are at least forty-seven things I would rather be than tennis champion. Tennis, he went on to remark, Is an excel lent game to play, but as a spectacle It w an eyeglass. Moreover, he went on, tae Nation will be healthier if it plajs more nnd gnzes less. Delegates to the Sea Food Murderers United States Fish eries Association in Atlantic City sav oysters, crabs and loWjJJ may disappear from American tnbles It ocean continues to be polluted with .drw from the mills nnd oil in the bilge from tankers nnd oil-burning stenmships. i problem of the mills Is one to be .solved W the municipalities. The matter of oil wnsie hns several interesting angles. A Btnn1S2 Oil official Is nuthorlty for the stntement tn thero Is enough oil on the waters of ne" v.ir t..i.n. tr. r,,f.tA it n nrnfltnble ndven- ture for the authorities to salvage it and M.r, It for fuel or for the trentmeni 01 "In CO.OOO-gallon lots" is the fW " phrased it. and the phrase is as startling u it Is cnllghtennlg. To which nrny be nddia that by the time the salvaging gets fi"j under way the waste will cense ilkellhooo that oil consumption on vessels will l''jf" rather thnn increase on steamships. ' perts now declare thnt pulverized coul iw be used to advantage ns a substltute--n ns n return to old methods, but as a natural progression townrd tho perfect fuel . ". conf, oil. coal dust, etc. The pulverized coal can bu forced through pipes to where it w needed nnd nutomaticaiiy iu " ""i , Vaces. And It will not be necessary to i i.i...,i neniid i..nia thnn finfft ill A V J which means at the end of each JP.on,,Jiijj ncross the Atlantic. All of. which is in ceting dope for sailors, engineers ana ji . W 1 iovere. i.-.- Wsi.' i Ssi I
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