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Philadelphia, Monday. Ortohrr T, ll
i FILLING A SUPERrLUOUS OFFICE
TAMES H. GAY, who lias been nppolnted
to a acancy In the City Commission.
' Will doubtless make an efficient Commis
I eloner.
f. But tv hat Is the uvc of having any City
Commissioners?
t, Tho ofllce which these men hold was
i Created as pirt of the government of the
, Counties of the Slate. The Comiiil'ioners
. have certain functions to perform affect
t r Jnc; the whole county. There Is Justlflc.i
tion for them eerj where In the Mate c
,, cept In Thlladelphla County, where tho
territory ocr which the 51aor and Conn
ells hac jurisdiction H the same as that
, over which the Commissioners exercise
fhefr authority. The Commissioners here
are a surjhal of the old count govern-
mnt, which ought to havo been abolished
'- completely when tho whole of the county
was taken Into the cltj limits. Just as the
functions of tho county government In
New York havo been taken ovor b the
city government. They havo even abol-
' Ished coroners In Xcvv York.
But tho City Commissioners nro cm
ts balmcd in tho Constitution and cannot be
- got rid of until that document Is thor
oughly revised und modernized. The office
V of maglstiate, ono of tho pc-nlclous super
B flultlts. Is also protected by the Constltu
't lion. Some day there will be a cuntitu-
tlonul convention whlrh will taken up tlipc
quectipns and wc hope vvlpo ouPfrom the
i Constitution nil Its ollttmiun nnil nniiL-
l -ij essary restrictions upon the freedom of
? all the traces of the dual t.items of gov
" ernment within Its tcirltory
Do jour Christmas shoiiping c.irly If jou
" W are to shop for a soldier
ft' x CLEARING THE GROUND I OR THE
MIHrARY
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i v & mo ,'t'vcii0 iiun, Ull IJIU JtUI uu
i ' stacies in tne wav or bullillng the new
lf fres library on the I'arkwu have been re-t-jt
moved.
t Three and a quarter million dollars are
available for the building und Its equip-
v ment. Tho contract for part at least of
t tho work lias been let. Wa conditions,
however, will doubtless delay the woik
still longer. Thero Is a, scarcity 6f labor
j and material at present. But the instant
V peace Is declared It is likely that all ar-
y rangements will be In such shape that
the structure can be pushed to rapid com-
H pletton.
ri- The library Is ono of those public works
sf" on which places can be found for men
thrown out of tho war lndurtrics when
- they shut down. If it were not desirable
Kjl , i "U"v ,UI llivac men, U1C JICCO OI an
' i adequate building for the great free 11
'. , brary which is building up here is to great
that an alert city administration will not
4elay its completion beyond the earliest
jlftte within the capabilities of an effluent
t-tj contractor.
Wllhelm apparently depended on Max to
., mix it up
,V KEEP YOUR EYE ON AI.SACF.
V -,lriEnMAN acthtty in Alsace suggests
, that they think homethlng Is to hap-
'r.en on tliat part of the front in the near
pg future. They havo ordered the lnhabl.
it tanta of forty Milages to leave their homes,
ji and it is reported In Switzerland that the
"M Inhabitants of Altklrch and Muolhausen
'l V have been ordered to prepare to leave lm-
r 4' mediately. Theso two towns me almost
lit duo east of the great I'rench fortification
at Belfort.
. ' When he begins to do It wo shall know
, vj what General roch is planning for this
rt Jr.. part of the line. That he will strike when
i It -will do the most good can be assumed
with perfect confidence.
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U Js about time to begin an argument
to decide-whether Santa Claus Is a Hun
. WICKEDNESS OF THE COUNTRY
It H 13inJENEVEn a coutry boy or girl goes
"' to town ho is warned againsl the
wickedness which will surround him and
its best to drag htm down. He is told
that God made tho country, man made the
pwn and the real rstato promoter made
suburbs, and that the only simon pure
rt of tho earth Is where there are lew
eple. ,.
!X writer in the current Unpopular He
llas set put to refute this fallacy.
i man to choose a periodical ho appro-
rtately named in which to combat a oon.
' War heresy! He reminds us that the cities
i. A"lrt 'ar more than their proportion of
'Sst taxes, soldiers and churchcoers. whlln
fhrural districts lead in homicides, sul-
t, divorces and Congressmen
rf Jt U he and not we who Includes Con
afnaaamien umonrr tha mlaitpoo r.t il, ..
w muuicr wno nas gone
tho city to thn country to find n
i moral atmosphere in which to bring
rjwr children has discovered that for
Iterated nastlness the country urchin
fmrlvaled, and has fled back to town
the can keep a clober watch on
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WE CAN DEPEND ON WOMEN
When They Know Wht They Cm Do They
Will Do It With is Much Enthulam
aa the Men
"ntHERE arc 200,000 unemployed women
in tho State, of whom 75,000 are In
this city, who should be cnRafrcd In war
work, according to Mrs. Thomas Robins,
of the women's division of the United
States Employment Service.
The Schuylkill Arscnnl, say. Mrs.
Robins, has material for shirts for
2,000,000 soldiers, but has no one to make
them. This is but one instance of the
ihortugc of female labor.
Very poor women and very rich women
are doing splendid work, but we are told
that the women of the great middle class
hnvo not responded as they should to
tho demands of the times.
Rut it would be a mistake to attempt
to make a sweeping Indictment of nny
lnrge group of American women. Tens
oC thousands of them in this city nnd
its suburbs aie doing splendid work, de
voting nil the time they have at their
disposal to some kind of war nctivity.
Other tens of thousands of them, how
ever, are so occupied with their ordinary
tasks that they have little time or
strength for outside work. They can get
no servants, for the women who worked
as servants have gone into the munition
fuctoncs, whcie they get better pay than
any householder can afford to give. The
housewives, consequently, have to look
after their own households. They have
to care for their chiltlien, too, a duty
more pressing, now and always, than sew
ing shirts for soldiers. The young must
be safeguaided in their growing years for
the sake of the future. They arc those
for the protection of whom our soldiers
are lighting in France. It would be a
crime for those at home to neglect them.
Yet.many mothers, with a keen apprecia
tion of their duties to the present, are
worrying about how they can look after
their children and at the same time do
something directly lonncttcd with win
ning tho war.
Mrs. Robins's appeal is not directed to
such. It is dhected to those idle women
with no children and to those unmarried
women with no responsibilities who spend
their time reading novels and going to
the theatre and developing nervous pros
tration through lack of use for their
faculties.
Women in England and Franco are
doing all sorts of work. And no sooner
is an appeal for help made than they re
spond in great numbers, not the women
of the very poor, but the women of the
middle clnsses, who have hitherto thought
that if they otdcred the meals for a
servant to prcpatc they had done n full
day's work. The war has given them
something to think about outside of them
selves and their little households. Women
in America have not begun to do n tithe
of what their sisters in Europe arc doing.
The reason is doubtless due to the fact
that the necessity of doing something has
not been impressed upon them. We have
only just begun to withdraw men from
industry in large numbers. The Amcii
can women are at the bottom just as
patriotic and just as loyal as the women
of Euiope. They are waiting for some
one to tell them what they can do and how
to go about doing it.
It is morally certain that the 75,000
women in this city who arc on the list
of those said to be so little occupied that
they can devote themselves to war work
will respond with alacrity as soon as the
way is pointed out to them. Wc assume
that the industries here in need of help
will be classified and that announcement
of the specific kind of help needed will
be made, and we assume also that under
the lead of alert women there will be a
procession of workers toward the indus
tries wheie help is in demand.
Working in a factory making bhirts
and making gas masks or making uni
forms is likely to become as fashionable
as going to tha dansants in the popular
restaurants when these women have dis
covered that they can really do something
worth while. Some of the very rich
women are even now working in muni
tion factories filling shells and soiling
their hands. They have set the example
and they are happier than they ever
wero before because they have discovered
that they can be of some use in the
world.
Mrs. Robins, who says that the women
doing nothing are likely to be called
slackers, is a little too severe on them.
They are not slackers yet, for a slacker
is one who deliberately evades what he
knows to be his duty. These women have
not yet realized that there is anything
they can do or that they are needed.
The mortality rate from grip Is only
one-halt of one per ient. The moral Is:
Don't get frlghtwicd If you are taken sick.
The chances are one hundred and ninety
nine to one that ou will recover.
BRIDGE OR TUNNEL ACROSS THE
DELAWARE?
rpillj war and tho Increased ilemind for
-L Industrial etllclcncy were required to
demonstrato the utter folly of further
quibbling with the transport problems pre
sented to I'ennsjlvanla and New Jersey
by the Delawaro River and Its archaic
ferry system. The Delaware Is in this
aspect a power in restraint of trade. It Is
a nuisance. It is a barrier that pcrslstH to
prevent tho proper co-operation of two
great communities In Industry and in other
wajs. .
So It Is cheerful to hear through Samuel
T. French, chairman of the New Jersey
Bridge Commission, that the Federal Gov?
ernment is being urged, apparently with
some success, to lend lis influence to help
the plans for a bridge.
Simultaneously those who have urged a
tunnel project havo again become busy in
the foreground.
Thero are a thousand valid reasons why
all of the influence that can be mobilized
liv New Jersey and Pcnsylvanla should be
concentrated behind the bridge plan. Ob
vlously, a tunnel would not accommodate
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wagon and . automobile traffic. Yet Much
traffic represents a factor In the situation
that grows mor Important every day.
Under the plans already under consldera
tlon by the commissions In this State and
in New Jersey it is aimed, too, to erect a
bridge that shall bo monumental In char
acter and a thing of beauty as welt ns of
practical use.
The lack of generalylnterest In the Dela
waro bridge project has alwajs been a
matter of amazcincjjL X those who realize
that such n means ot communication be
tween this city and Camden would give to
tho real estate In the 'vicinity of the ter
minals a new valde probably much In
excess of tho cost of the w.ork. Mean
while countless people would he relieved
of the discomfort of slow and overcrowded
ferries, all of rcnnsjtvnnln would ha
nearer to the Jersey shore and the way
would be shortened between Jersey farms
and Philadelphia markets.
Members of the old Third Itoglnicnl are
now called fighting devils and snare with the
marines the distinction of giving the Ger
mans a smell of brimstone.
NO PEACE PUAVERS
A SCnvJ.Y of tho Important newspaper
utterances of the country tod ij te
ve.ils no opinion dissenting from the uni
versal demand for a short, sharp and plain
refusal of the German Kaiser's latest at
tempt to evade the coming Judgment of
tho world b opening palavers for peace.
President Wilson may he expected
promptly and unmlstakabb to voice this
sentiment with a finality which shall leave
no hope for even the most fatuous or most
cnlcal follower of Kalscrdom.
Neither the German Government nor
the German people have had n change of
heart. Tho specious phrases of the new
Chnnrctlor, Prince Maximilian, deceive no
bodj in Germans or out. The Imperial
decree reconstituting the Iteichstag nnd
the Ministers, lllto all German Imperial
decrees of the recent past, Is meic mum
nicrv Another Just as readllj written
and pronounced can wccp It aside In a
moment once the peril of defeat, of mtli
turj destruction, of Invasion, is past. The
Prince's own llps of the tongue betrav
him. Does he expect to dupe us while he
still prates of his "great and true people '
and "their glorious armed powei ' after
whit the world has witnessed In the devas
tated linds wherever the Hun tribes have
set their bloody feet?
This Is the "Judas peace' ugalnst which
we have been forewarned I'oriunalclj
the people of America und the oilier
Allied nations are forearmed agalnjt It.
No peaco made while the Allied armies
are still outsldo of Germain can be lasting
or result In an thing but a virtual triumph
for the Potsdam malignants, proving their
l.ving boasts that from the beginning thej
have been lighting u defensive war to koep
assailants out of the Fatherland. No peace
made without first crushing this "glorious
armed power" which has been laving waste
the world can assure against another
Irruption of tin hordes of barbarism In the
future
The Da Is at last at hind, but it is not
the iliy of which the overlords of war
dreamed. It is rather tho Da of Doom
for the Mad Hohenzollcrn and his cut
throat brood They have delajed too long
seeking Justice without lepentance. They
must answer to the Allies, their Judges,
for their hideous crimes, Speak, Mr,
President'
James II, Gay seems
The Quiet I Ife to misunderstand the
With Tay duties of a City Com
missioner, He sass
ho docs not know whether he will accept the
olllcc or not, as he has retired from business
and is leading a quiet life. Does he not know
that about the only duly of the otllce which
will take him from his home Is that of going
out (o collect his salary?
Two German kings
Klne hliow the were under fire when
Way the Wind rilowa the British bombarded
DadUecle, In Flanders,
and thes took to their heels and hustled to a
place of safety as undlrnlfledly as any com
moner thereby settlnga precedent for the
other German kings anrlclgnlng dukes!
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Delmonlco's, once the
VV hat the
Heitauranta Show
most pretentious res
taurant In New York,
has failed, and the
little restaurants are making more easy
mones than they ever dreamed of. The coin
cidence Involve) a good lesson In economics.
It shows that the man with a modest Income
Is spending his money far more recklessly
than the rich
And nobody could ro
Vthlch Did Tan Da? to church jcstcrilaj.
It waa a great das for
a man to get acquainted with his family
or to read the Sunday paper through from
beginning to end
Every one who has to
Imnoaalblrl s take his lunch down
town Is wotiderlng
when Mr. Hoover will establish In this city
such an eating place as he has surprised
Washington with He sells two boiled eggs
for fifteen cents!
You've got to put jour
money up before we
can put Germany down.
Thoufht for Tadar
Grlp-rldden Chicago Is arresting all
sneezers, rhlladelphlans should go her one
better and arrest the sneeze.
Austria seething, says & headline, which
merely means that the kettle has begun to
boll What the outside world wants to know
Is whether It will bolt over.
The Serbians are chasing the Austro
German army toward the old Turkish fron
tierand chuckling aa they do It. Serbia la
one of the nations the restoration of which
Germany must pay for.
Great Britain wants no(MIIes Standlsh
John Aldtn business about Turkey's peace
proposals. 8he rajs to Constantinople:
"Why don't you speak for sourself, Mo
hammed I"
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THE SITUATION
ANXIOUS Austrian attitudes,
Berlin's bogus beatitudes,
Crimea's cryptic crises,
Durazzo's dead devices,
Entente's eternal ebullition,
France's fast, furious fruition, ,
Gouraud's gigantic, gleeful gobbles,
Hun's hypcr-hopclcss hamstrung h'obbles,
Italy's incisive interpolations,
Junker's jejune, jangling "justifications,"
Kaiser's kindergartcnish kicking,
Liberty Loan Landwehr licking,
Murmansk massing might,
Neutrality's night,
Obstinate obstacles overseas overcome,
Proud Paris' perpetually preserved
"plum,"
Qucant quagmire's quick quelling,
Ranting Russia's rebelling,
Spain's sinister sneezing,
Trounced Turkey's truce teasing,
Unwise, unrcgencrato Ukraine,
Venal, vanquished Valhalla, vain,
Wilson's wrong-wrecking warring,
X-traordinanly, X-tra-scoring,''
Yankee youth yonder yelling "YjpJ"
Zeal, zcstfulncss, "Zowic! Zip!''' "
H. T. CRAVEN,'
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Changing Styles in Parr
ptASlUONS havo changed rtwlflly in the
arts-of'vvar. Now there Is little of the
old order left, and thaj, too, Bcems des
tlned( to pass, The sword has become llttlo
more t'haiia'flgurojof 'speech fashlDhable
at Berlin. Officers -wear if, onty occasion
ally on parade. (Cavalry In the' present
war have fought now and then 'with
sabers. ButH is 'admitted that In a gen
eral way the'swordHsMiardly'w'orth'efnrr
Ing. Autotnatlc pistols and 'hand grenades
aie better at close quarter. -Then,', again,
tho Kaiser nnd 'other warmakers ' have
talked so much of. the sword that peoplo
everjwhere, in the world hae sickened of
the vorj term. r
Now the salute is threatened. Officers
and men alike hero and In Europe com
plain that It has come to involve labor and
annosnnce. Because of the great numbers
of milltars men of all ranks In overs city
a das's leave becomes little more than one
salute after another. And a salute isn't
the easy matter that It appears. There
arc the picllmlnarlcs In which tin men in
uniform approach and appraise each
other's rank. The process requires con
centration. At the precise Instant the
man of lesser rank lifts his hand In i
manner provided for by iron rules. The
palm must not be v Islble. The hand must
be snapped bark to a normal posltien oftci
csactly the right Interval. Tne rite, re
peated every two minutes during ihu rta.v,
becomes a distraction. British orflccis
have been tho first to suggest that the
salute bo given only under clrcumstunccs
of military fonnHllts.
Contrary to general opinion, the salute,
glv en first, as it must be, by the, soUlle
or officer of inferior rank,JIs not flu c
elusive duty of a subordinate. It Is a
symbol developed from one of the ancient
forms of chivalry when knights lifted tholr
right hands at the approach to show tint
they wcte unarmed and friendly. Tin
sclute thcicforo means, first of 'all, friend
ship and mutual allegiance.
War Finance
Explained by Women
THE national woman's Llberts Ioan com
mittee has sent out an admirably con
densed state ment of the needs of the Govern
ment for money and of what has been done
with the sums that have been raised, as well
aB of the financial condition of the other
fighting ndtlons Following aro ronie ex
tracts from IU f
In normal times In peace times It costs
about Jl.OOO.OOO.OOO a year to run the Govern
ment. For the fiscal year ended June 30,
1913, Congress appropriated m round num
bers. Including deficiencies, 118, 882, 000,000.
For 1919 Congress has appropriated In round
numbers at the present session. Including de
ficiencies and appropriation bills pending,
2t. 330,000,000.
The mind Is often confused over 'lppro
prlatlons" and "expenditures' Congressional
appropriations fix the limit of what may bo
used Then the governmental departments
and bureaus spend what Is necessary, and at
the end of the year the appropriation lapses
Official figures show that for the fiscal year
1918 the Government spent 12,69G,702,471.14,
and, hi addition, during the war months of
1917 disbursed I88S.00U.000 for loans to
allies.
"Up to tho ery day wo entered the war
Germany believed that lctory for the Cen
tral rowers lay Just ahead. A strong factor
In this calculation was their belief that the
Bntente Powers were financially exhausted
'Uermany had spent fifty years preparing
for a war of conquest. She knew that from
its very start she must wage It from within
th circle composed of herself and her allies,
tint she, must produce from within this
circle her raw stuffs and manufactured ma
terial, and by doing this, though the war has
continued far beyond tho eighteen months
that Germany set for Its winning If there
was to be a winning she has kept her
money at home, used It over and over again,
as the same water often turns the wheels of
many mills.
"Our allies, on the other hand, owing
chiefly to their lack of preparation, had to
come Into the markets of the United Males
for most of their war necessaries, and In
the years of our neutrality their account
with us totaled approximately 19,53,62,547.
"We advanced them money and credit,
and we called the transaction a loan In
the fiscal years 1917 and 1918 we loaned
them 15,623.000,000. . Their securities and
governmental undertakings to repay He In
the vaults of the treasury of the United
btatcs.
"What our allies did with that credit cr
money la of ast Importance to us. They
looked to us to supply them with wheat and
corn and cotton .from our fields, coal and
ore, from our mines, and finished products
from our factories .and foundries, otherwise
they could not remain at war; so they
brought this credit that we had lent them
Into our markets and spent it over our
counters.
"During the fiscal year 1918 our exports
amounted to .00v,000.000. Most of these
went to our allies, and was turned Imme
diately and eagerly Into fighting stuff tor
winning their war our war.'
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Science Bones Up on Gasless Sundays
Now We Know What the Speed Maniacs Suffer on Their
Day Off
Till! report of the commission of alienists
recently nppolnted to trace the effects of
gasless Snmtaths on the 'victims of conven
tional motor mania Is written with nil tho
vibrant human sympathy and the wealth of
tender Insight that Is possible only lo scien
tists long hild One fact stands out defi
nitely as an answer to many of the crowd
ing questions nnd hopen of the hour Those
who ro not permitted to drive their motors
Mi Sunday neldoin go lo church. They wor
ship, almost Invariably, in the garnge.
TN FUTURE years." obeervo the piuidlts
A lightheartedls, "science will lie able to
explain the tremendous potency of gaeollnc
a distillate of crudo oil much uied as a mo
tivating power for Internal combustion eh
K,us to populate tho subconscious ureas of
the human mind with daring delusions Tho
withdnwal of this substance and tho result
ant necessity of Its addicts to pass twenty
four hours In a wprld devoid of tho sensa
tions of rapid movement cause In tho 'vic
tim an Infinite variety of painful reactions.
' The brooding tendency Is uppermost In
the gasoline addict in the Interval of enforced
denial. Fantasy colors all the commonplace
conceptions Ono subject, whoso delusions
were found repeated In many others, could
not be Induced to walk In the opcn.t Under
pressure to walk ho exhibited great agita
tion. Ordinary obstacles In his path caused
profound Irritation. He Insisted under tho
most patient examination on ono occasion
tint an ordinary garden fowl In tho roadway
was accustomed to precede hlin when ho
went afoot, and that It strode back and for
ward In his path with a manifest swagger
and a manner unbearably Insolent. Now, It
Is truo that tho fowl did proceed with an
altogether extraordinary air of nonchalant
assurance Rut tho contention of tho subject
that the crcatpro was accustomed regularly
to turn Its head and sneer at him Is because
of tho phs Biological limitations Inheicnt In
all fowl obviously absurd.
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I.DCRLY females In the roadway wero
also sure. In the case of this same sub
ject, to Induce automatically nil the painful
signs of homicidal maula tho quivering nos
tril, dilated pupils and hot sweat. Should the
elderly female prove to be wearing bluck
mittens the homicidal symptoms were In
stantly allied with others ot a far more sub
tle, and painful character. The eubject under
such circumstances would tiptoe softly frpm
the rear to a point In immediate proximity
to the unsuspecting lads, press his hand
suddenly to the top button of his walBtco.it-.
and emit a hoarso and bkod-curdlltig cry
before essaying a deadly lunge. This, we
have every reason to believe, was a fantastic
simulation of the means commonly employed
by the drivers of englned vehicles to warn
pedestrians before proceeding with the kill.
44TT MUST be sald.with all possible definite
X ness'that the twenty-four hours which the
gasoline addict must spend once a week
without the subtle comforts ot gasoline dis
tillate are a period of blank melancholy with
short periods of acute sutTerhig, The uddlct
seldom can be Induced to read, .Efforts luive
often been made without avail to direct them
to a place called church. They stoutly re.
fuBe to gain any cohifort from tho calm
perusal of Christian scripture. Vet In this
connection a remarkable manifestation oc
curs. Though almost entirely without nny
special Interest In the life, the gasoline addict
will, nevertheless, manifest an aetoundlngly
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thoiough knowledge of all the tumbeter pis
s igcs and Implications of the Scriptures in
his conceptions of the punishment which ho
deems necessary foi the Fmperor of tho
Germans.
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T WAS, of couise, lint teuton i Me to
expect from these unfoi'unnlrH any
logical opinion of the world cataclysm that
now engages thc'pissionate uttcntlon of tho
rest of mankind Yet some of the reactions
to Ihls major suggestion m ly be cited hero
as a guide to futuie Invcstlsitors In this
limitless field. The gasoline addict, surprised
as ho lurks darkly In his home or In his
garage, will usually burst Into ribild and
bitter laughter at the mention of tho Fm
pcror ot the Get mans. And this display of
emotion does not reem to bo related to ans
thought of the i.ipe of Belgium or the menace
of the Hun. It Is the delusion of the addict
that a great company of Fietzel Hurlers.
minor functionaries In tho familiar biei
wtubes of the Germans, eons-plrcd, not to
dominate the world, but to compel him, th
nddlct, to remain at home on tho Sabbath
compelled to listen to the conveisatlon of
his relatives on hla wlfcs side'
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AT similar delusions occuned
Interesting variations Jn many of
the cases examined Ono victim of tho guso
lino mania who'c symptoms wue of the
greatest Interest tn your commission, pro
fessed to bo acnualnted with the hidden pur
poses of Trovldence. It was his insistent
contention that the 1'mpcror of the Germans
was destined origin ill v to bo a I'leklo Sifter
In a Germ in diet kitchen Fxtenslvu ic
senich has failed to reveal to us tho exact
status of pickle sifter e In the country of the
inerny. It mav bo assumed, however, that
such a functionary Is employ id to Isolate,
so to speak, small pickles sultfiblo to tho
needs of a robust people hahltuited to that,
form of food when they arc In a. stnto of
perilous Illness Tho term as It occuned to
the gasoline mnnlni! was obviously Intended
to be one of derision and an implication of
an Inferior mentality,,. This particular sub
Jcct was swept bj anso of oulrigo ut the
thought that fii plckiV slftei h id been per
mitted to Ups?t hla Jiaoits. of life. Occasion
ally similar cai;ef refer! cd to the Emperor
of the Germans Ma llsh, or a cheese, or u
luuno , Tha exact sbureo of tbeso mysterious
Illusion's ca,nnpWhe, stated lit this time. They
aro the tmbject now of n separate Investiga
tion. .
TN ALL,, the case examined In connec
JLtlon villi the geneial subject of what Is
calledjthe tjnsless Sabbath It wns found tint
those accustomed to dilvlng englned vchl
clrs dlspluy one common sign of ie general
aflllctlortT'They have been uceus'oliied to go
tttifrrcaM speed from ono place s to ' another
and to l'CtUfn with great speed to tho pluco
of (heir departuro and thus to go alwass
from place to plue without appareijt object.
Now, sjnee, a definite objective Is .a necessary
Blgn hf pound mind, tho subjects, examined
may be said uluass to have manifested signs
of mental Irregulurlty, The. Interruption of
routine causes an extension of tho disorder.
rplIE victim of gasoline mania withdraw s
Xon Sunday from contact with humanity.
He Is to be found more often In tho building
used to house, his gas-propelled vehicle. Upon
this device he vonte such 'emotions ns are
usually prompted by love, or family ties or
the moro Intlmato human relationships. It
Is his habit to Invent monstrous falsehoods
about tho speed of his curlpus machine. This
Is the regrettable use to which ho puts his
Sabbath. And It has been Interesting to
observe that his delusions npd the false
hood hi which they aro exprrsscd become
more fantastic In a fair ratio with the obvi
ous Ineptitude and tho ehabbluess of his
particular engine,"
Hva MnddwIU and llochllelnl "Hatreda and
Antlpathlea of Coualnt."
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Austria went feeling nround Tor "peace,"
but cverythlug "he, touched Jn that' lino was
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..milE day" dawns.
To your Unccs, Hun, '
You and sour pawns!
Dialn that toast to Its dregs
So blithely begun
On insolent legs:
You and your spawn's
I'rcclous placo in the sun!
No heel taps!
Oh, then there were' none
tVhllo perfidious traps
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You wero setting with smiles,
With salvos of fun
Hcliiml blood guilty wiles:
ou with your scraps
Of paper ut one!
Ilottoms up!
Has thti taste run
To gall In the cup?
Do your lips shrink?
Dare your soul shun?
Come, take your drink,
Unless you're nil pup.
Till tho dead Ices are don.
Piosit, ro
Ay, salute, Hun!
Stem not tho flow
Of youi earned dregs,
Ot sediment hard won.
Then on last legs,
Still thirsty, go
To your spot In the sun!
STANLIJY KIDDUn WILSON.
Rioting In tho Austrian Chamber of
Deputies? Rut that Is nothing new. Did not
Murk Twain, youra ago, describe one of the
prettiest knock-down tights on record when
iio s.it In the gallery as a reporter for one
of the magazines? Charlemagne Tower was
then In Vienna as the American minister,
und he could tell all about the pugilistic,
proclivities of thu Austrian legislators If he
would.
The lMdj stone rlfic plant has turned out
a million rifles, but It would have made a
million moro IfMt couid have got the men,
and It could havo got the men if there had
been any placo for them to live. Speed
all ulong the line seems to be necessary.
Miss Pinky, We'd Say, Is Some Cantatriee
Miss Pinky Slimmer sung a duet In the
jNeH light choir last Sunday. Churubusco
(Ind ) Truth
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What Do You Know?
QUIZ
Where nro tho oaeea monntalna?
Mho I .the neu rhlef of ordnance of the
Anterteun nrmi?
Who wroto "Tho lurn of tho Noner Ilellf"
What does T.ST atand for?
Where la tho domain of tho Hultan of Nuluf
What la tho dlfferonro In time between
liiidoii and New lork.
What la a barkonllnof
What Frenrh king nua married, lo Catherlna
do Medlrl?
Whut la an Ironorlaal?
Whiit waa the leudlne rrnuhllr of Europe at
Kit- i,i i,i me ,imcrirun lirriarailoil ot
IndenenUenreT
Answers to Saturday's Quiz
, Thero aro four roKUtratlona n ear for rhtla
jlelphla voter thrro In tho fall and on
(1 inn Ft I' I iiifta
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he hnld be pronounced aa though apellei
3. A firkin U a email rata for liquid
butter.
i. Lieutenant Peary dl.roierwt tha North
wav, iMtiiniii .tmunuaen ilia roum 1 ala,
5, Tliomaa Hood wrote. "The gene of the Shirt.
6, A poattllon la ana who rides tha near nana
of tho leaderi or the near horaa waen ana)
pair onlr la uard and thero la no drWer an
tha bat af the roach,
7, "IhM" la on ahbrrtlatlrm of tho Tjtla
''Ibidem," meaning "In tha aama place,"
8, tordovan leitherla ao railed after tho BnanlaH
rllr of tontoha. or Cordora. anca fajaaat
for Ita tannerlaa,
0. Tho "panhandlo" of Meat i Imlola aeparata
the aouthern part of trm Hf ern bounaWrr
af Pennajltanla from Ohio,
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