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K, Cor, Pennsylvania Ave. and 14th St. .THei York IIcrkav The Sun IlulMInK Los.no Iiciird tendon Times urnirniPTio.v Tr.ny.ts Tito Eemno Public LrnoCK la served to sub crlhem In Philadelphia nd eu-roiindtnR towns nt the rHle of twelve (11!) cents per week, naynble to the cnrrler . . . t , is fly tnnll to points outelde of Philadelphia. In the United Htnteii. Canada, or Pnlted Mutes po- ,elon. nnitnrc free, fifty (Ml) cents per month. BIT Ut) dollars per e.ir. piynble In adance "r To all foreign countries line (II) dollar n month. i ' NOTicr fiubserlhers wishing address changed "must Blvc old as well as new address T1F.LL. 3000 WAt.MT KEYSTONE, MAIN 3000 CTAititmn all communication to Evrntnp PnMlo Ltttprr, Independence Srruarc, PhllaaelpMa. Member of the Associated Press TI1K AUSOCI ATlili I'KKSH In r.fcli(lt'cli en flflrJ to the imp of lor republication of all news llUpatchcv er illicit to It or not ofhrrti'lie crrcMled In Af impcr. cinil nho the local iieies publl;ied All rinhi of rpiiolirnlloM of sprrlol illjpntches errit arc olo rsri'f(t. rhilidrlphla, Tiiewliy, Aumt ii, 1M A rot rt-A K.n ritixirtAM rou riiii,i)i:i.riii Thlnrs on hlrli the tmiple expert the new nilmlnlMmtlnn to rnneentrute Its uttenllon: The Delaware river lirlrfoe. A drvitoek bio enouoh to accommodate the laraeet ahfp. . ..... Brrropmrnt o the rapid frnssll auatem. 'A convention halt. A bnltrfhtiJ lor thr h'rer l.lbraru. An Art Muietin. KntaracmeMt of 'lie irntc: iipplw. Homes 'o nco'i(i)r.'nr flir iinpufnfJOM. ANOTHER CROSSING HORROR THR .svtift ilPM'loiimont ami IiiiTi-asiii" uxo of motor vehii-li'M lias innile ovrry mil -wny jtraiie rro"lnc in the thickly populati'il wctlons of the country a potential death trap, Tlint I about the only lcson that can 'b drawn from the appalling aceident in Camden on Sunday night. The Morgan street orossins hat been known for a long time as one of the most dangerous in the state. High -speed trains are frequent mi the railway at that point tttid lieavv road traffic is nlmot constant on the highway. The driver of the motor bus, who was killed in the crash, is said to have been chiefly responsible for the loss of life In what properly is called the worst 'grade-crossing accident in the history of tho etnte. AVhat seems really to have happened, however, was a misiindeistanding of the watchman's .signals by those in the big ptotor car. The noise of a passing trnin drowned out the shouts of warning from the trcct. The driver automatically started his machine when the train for which he halted had passed. It in clear that something more than the casual protection of a watchmnn and a red light is needed at points where fast trains and motor vehicles meet a hundred times daily. This latest horror will tend to Htrengthen tin; growing general belief that all grade crossings nt heavy traffic points ahould be abolished, no matter what the cost way be. WHERE THE LAW FAILS THR emotional poignancy in the cn-e of niakely Coughlin reaches its climn.t in the abandonment by the parents of any hope Of finding their child alive. The law as an agency of punishment will take up the sequel. Against Augusto Pns q'tiale. there are already, it is said, charges Kiiffleiently grave to warrant a jail sentence of fifteen years. Further investigation may throw some light upon the perpetrators of the crime and the courts may serve as sym bols of retribution. Hut the disappearance and loss of the little boy is n tragic inequity which by comparison lends to judicial proceedings against the heartless criminal or criminals almost nn .academic n-pc( The heart of the horror. If the conviction of the Coughlin parents is borne out. is irreparnble. The law whidi can and should exorcise the function of chastisement is helpless in the face of uoh anguish. THE GIDDY CIRCLE "TpiIKRK is no one more interested in the -L housing problem." observes the Manu facturer, tho journal of the Manufacturer's Club, "than the employer of labor." There is logic in that assertion and in the nppral to emplovers of the i ity to co-operate without further delay in measures of relief. Gradually it is dnwning on ocry one thnt the housing profiteer is nn enormnuslv ex pensive anil enormously troublesome person to have around. What he wrings out of people whom lie can find nt a disadvantage roust be paid, in the end. out of the eco nomic resources of the community. It is paid in various uny, in constantly increas ing wages that the worker must pass on to those who squeeze him, in losses due to Imsiness disorganization and social unrest, nnd in a slowing down of normal trade be cause of the dwindling resources of those who ure purchasers in generul markets. Profiteering landlords and ruthles- specu lators in real estate have been striking through their victims at the business )ift. iiud the business mou of tlieir own cit. BATHING BEACH INDORSEMENT THICHi; is no question of the popularity and sin ces uf tin. Torresdale bathing breach. .No doubt concerning the favor with which the Seliurlkill project will be re ceived lire therefore tenable ,' Moreover, in Falrmoiint Park the beach Trill really serve the town swelterers. From cijrtnin sections of this expansive city n trip to Torresdale consumes almost as much time as a journey to the Jersey coast. Untiling benches to lie thorough!;- worth vhlle ought to be ieadil accessible. Now that the public enthusiasm for and Interest in the departure has been emphat ically it'Vculeil the next step should be effec tive co-operation with Doctor Fiirbush's lii for malting the Schuvlkill lit to s'vim In nnd then the prompt development of a convenient strand m-nr the boat houses. The recognized support which fiiudnmeiitals of henlth and recreation lend to such an undertaking are mtensilieil by popular tuste which ma) have I n latent, hut is now lW- taluly eager to be satisfied. WOMEN AND JURIES MUCH is living said uud written about the dUllliisiiunueuts thut nwait women who liavo striven for the rights of practical citlzmship. Anti-suffragists wait, and they nit? not waiting in vain, for the discomfiture of thorns wIiomi views they opposed durlug tie' long battle for the vote. It 1h true thut a great many women to T.'hom suffrage was little more tliuu a theory Aiow will hnve to fucn n cnudltloii. How SyHI women accept the- responsibilities of .jury duty? Will they wish they were uot voter?) after thejr huye been compelled to endure contacts with n dido of life that Is criminal or decadent? That is n common question nowadays, since nil voters arc nor mnlly required to accept In the Jury-box one of the rrpnn,vllltlcs of free citizenship. It ought to be remembered that what women hnve sought was merely tho right to n voice lb making laws" under which they must work nnd live. There Is no reason why, in the future, they mny not be relieved of some of the obligations which now may be said to go with the rights of the ballot. Women might properly be relieved of the obligations to do jury duty In instneced when that service would be a hardship. COX, WITH A NEW FORTUNE, THINKS MONEY ALL-POWERFUL Does Not Seem to Realize That He In sults All Voters by Charging Repub licans With a Plot to Buy tho Presidency MONEY alone never bought the presi dency or the United States. " And It never will. There Is n double lesson in that for Governor Cox. Relng n recent millionaire himself, per haps he forgets that money will not buy everything. Hut n study of the history of American national elections should hnve taught him thnt the electorate is not for sale. It does not vote for the highest bidder. It cannot be purchused nt any price save the exhibi tion of character, ideas, ideals, and. most important of all. obvious and convincing honesty in n candidate. " his unsupported chnrge against the Republican party ninnngers is a gratui tous Insult to every voter In the nation, because It Insinuates that a ninjorltx enn bo bought hv t'-e biggest campaign fi"'i. That's tommy-rot and he Is lacking In Intelligence if he does not know '' Last Sunday Corcrtioi' ("ov told the news paper men in I)at"ii (luit he had had a 'er, pleasant te'egram" from Senator Keed, of Missouri, wh- is a member of the Sennte committee investigating the use of money in the campaign. He did not dis close the contents of the message. Senator Reed, however, when his com mittee met in Chicngo yesterday, gave out the telegram. It was a request that the governor would put the committee in possession of any facts thnt he had. He was asked to send it by telegram or to put the Information in the hands of n special messenger so thnt the committee might consider it nt its meeting yesterday. tiniernor Cox sent no telegram. Neither did he dispatch a messenger with any infor mation. We do not know whether Senator Heed was deliberately calling the governor's bluff when he asked for facts, but if he had been n. Republican planning to exhibit the in ability of the Democratic candidate for the presidency to prme his charges that the opposition was trying to buy the presidency he could not hae planned more success fully. Of course, Mr. Cnx mny say that he is not yet ready to make public his evidence. Rut nothing thnt he has said so far Indi cates that he has any proof thnt an un precedentedly Inrge campaign fund has been rnlsed by the Republicans. His answer to the Augusta speech of Chairman Hays is typical of his statements. Mr. Hays announced that it had been decided thnt S.'i.OOO.OOO would be necessary and that it ! planned to raise this fund by suliscriptio- from Interested Rennblienns which shall in no instance exceed .$1000 from n subscriber. If It was found impos sible to raise the money in this way it would be publicly annniiuccd nnd an attempt would be made' to raise it in some other way. This seems to be n frank nnd straight forward statement Mr. Cox, however, does not seem to like it. He demands thnt Mr. Hays go into details and tell him into how many district the country has been divul'.l nnd what the quota from each district is, as though this were vital. The essential fact is that the chairman of the Republican national committee makes the public announcement that the cainpuign fund sought is .?:i.000.000. $12,000,000 less than the Democratic cnndid'ite for the presi dency has been trying to make the country b'liee it would be. If Mr Hays can run the campaign for Mt.OOO.OOO he will do very well. The sum is not large when one considers the cost of campaigning in ordinary times. It is small, indeed, when one recalls that the dollar to day will buy only as much as forty cents five years ago. The first McKinley campaign was run for S2.000.000. Mr. Harding snid a day or two ago that Mark Haniia told him that .$.',000,000 was raised and that one-third of the sum was returned t the contributors after election. The nutiou was aroused over the sound money issue and believers in nn honest dollar in the Democratic as well as in the Republican party supported Mc Kinley. Money wus necessary for u cam paign of education. Kvery dollar of it was well spent, for it fiecd the country from the fear of committing the government to a policy of circulating dollars containing fifty cents' worth of silver on n parity with dol lars containing 100 tents worth of gold. Mr. ltryan wns right when he said thnt Wall street wus opposed to him in 1S0I1. Not only Wall street, but the banking in terests of the whole lountrv fought him uml his financial falliines The business men who suw tinniniial chaos in the victory of Ilryan made contributions to the Republican camiiaign fund. The business Interests today which prefer n Republican to n Democratic President are lontributlug to the Harding campaign fund. Sophisticated political observers who are aware that a party which finds it difficult to fill its trensury usually denounces tho other party for the use of money in nn election arc llkelv to wonder if Mr. Cox's fulminntious against the Republican fund arc not provoked In his knowledge of n shortage in Ins own party treasury Hut Mr. Cox should be careful how he arraigns the moneyed interestH for their support of Senator Harditig, or he will find himself in nn cmbnrriissiug predicament. He i annnt ! ignorant of the fact thnt Thomas I.amoiit, owner of the New Vork Kwuiug Tost and n partner in the firm of J. J. Moigau A: Co., lias announced his support of the Democratic ticket It tvould be easy to say that the sinister influences of Wail street me backing Ml. Cox, for in the legion where populism used to flourish the name Morgan stands for everything that is ab horrent in Wall strict. Mr l.uumiit will piobabh subscribe to the Cox campaign fund if he has not ulready done so. This is his right if he believes that .Mr. Cox should be elected. Hut Mr. Cox would in dignantly deny that he has surrendered to the Influence of Wall street, because one of the best known bunking firms in that street Is supporting him. It is Just us ridiculous to charge the Republican party with sur render to tlic Influence of "the money power" us to ucciihc Mr. Cox of selling him self to the Morgan firm for the soke of u campaign contribution. Mr. Cox is hard put to it for nn issue, when he Ignores those raised In the ulatJ EVENING PUBLIC LEDGEfe-PJEritAiiMPSiA, 1'ES6A. AUGUST 24, form of his party, nn Indorsement of Wll sotiisin nml nil Its works, nud devotes him self to mi attack upon the opposition" be rinse It 's trying trf raise nScnmpalgii fund adequate to Its needs. If he can get any evidence that money Is spent to corrupt the electorate, It is Ills duty to make It public without dejay thnt the guilty may be punished. It matters not whether .$10 Is so spent or $10,000,000. Othe--' he should stop talking nonsense nnd get down to the real isun Ife. obviously would like to shelve Wilsdnlsm ns bound up with the Democratic linrt.v, nnd his own nicril "oneness" w1" Its progenitor. PROHIBITION'S SEAMY SIDE W1 HATF.VKR one mny feel about the rightnrsfi nnd wisdom of some of the e.xtieme provisions of the Volstead net. It Is mightily unpleasant to lenrn thnt men with nn itch for ensy money nnd few scruples nre openly violating federal lows nnd pro viding the sorriest of examples for the people in their communities. There was n time when federal lnwy were utilversnllv respected nnd when agents of the government could count even on the co operation of men who wero disposed to tnkc state nnd municipal laws ll-'itl". If the Federnl Government made, up its mind upon a given issue it was presumed to bo beyond question. Kven habitual criminals were nc customed to feel thnt antagonism to federal authority wns futile. Hut evasion of the prohibition law, seems to be genernl and flngrnut. The admission 1 made even by Commissioner Kramer, In Washington, thnt confusion and corruption nre Interspersed beneath the surface of the enforcement organization. The black sheep of the liquor trade, the dishonest nnd the unscrupulous dealers, nre finding thnt they are on nn easy nnd rela tively safe mail to riches. because the en forcement organization is insufficient nnd inefficient. The work from the first hns been haphazard nnd testrictcd. Field agents are unskilled nnd untried men for the most part, and when it is icmrmbercd that hi iimnv stales. Including Pennsylvania nnd New York, appointees have political nffill ntlous with machines and machine bosses, the possibility of violations becomes appar ent. Sooner or Infer the more I'.uring violators of the general law will come upon n day of reckoning probably when the presidential election Is over nnd citizens nre nwnkc to the true sltuntlon. Meanwhile, the mornl effects of the dry amendment nre clearly apparent in a hun dred ways. Those who cannot be happy without whiskr can obtain it if they bnvu the price. Hut the youth of the country nre not being trained In drunkenness on every' street corner. And while the Volstead net mny be nmendeil, whisky Is gradually being banished. A time will come when It will be where it belongs in a class with opium and cocaine. THE SHAME OF TENNESSEE AS a scandalous repudiation of the funda mental principles of democracy it would be difficult to surpass the last stand of the Tennessee anti-suffragist. The nineteenth nmendment having been duly ratified by both houses of the Legis lature, the obvious duty of Governor Rob erts Is officially to notify the proper federal officials of this action. Yet this wholly legitimate action is temporarily held up by the Injunction issued by n judge who immc dintely betook himelf out of the stnte. If this Is not speedily dissolved Tennessee wll be definitely embarked upon n course which by contrast gives to the old nullifica tion policy of South Carolina nt least the i olor of local legrrttty. For Tennessee wns free to choose between rejection or npprovnl of equal suffrage. It is the Legislature's own deliberate action which is flouted by nn utterly high-handed court order. The extension of such tactics will write a new chapter in the history of tyranny. If courts can arbitrarily gag duly elected roeiitie.s and prevent them from exercising functions which they hnve sworn under oath to observe there is simply nn limit to the despotism of unscrupulous trihunnls. Star Chamber days will huve returned. The issue In Tennessee hns now fnr trnn sended the merits or demerits of woman suffrage. The groundwork of representa tive government is nt stake in n disgusting exhibit of shameless nbsolutism. Similar proceedings if emanating from Venezuela or Mexico in the days of the most corrupt dic tatorship would doubtless inflame our cit'i zens with self-righteous horror. That the lust ditchers in Tennessee are nlmnst inevitably doomed to failure is a prospect that does not efface n dark and dis quieting stain of dishonor from nn Ameri can commonwealth. CLEARING HOUSE FOR TEACHERS IN the interests of justice to the Pennsvl vanin school system, which is susceptible to criticism on many points, it is fair to note thnt ii really constructive novelty is functioning. This is the Stnte Hoard of Teachers' Service to which Doctor Finegnn last week atioolnted Dr. Henrv Klonower to ere ns chief. The duties of this body nre those of n pro fessional clearing house. Registry nt the bureau is free to all teachers seeking posj. tiotis. Their tastes, special qualifications, nnd residences are listed nnd this infonnn tion is used as the basis of appointments. Within four days 1.10 instructors were placed upon the rolls and about thirtv teachers have been established in satisfacton posts throughout the stnte. The prospect of quickly relieving the shortage of teachers is said to be bright. It is a siit!-f"eti.n to observe that Penn sylvania in maintaining this bureau ranks among the stntes which stand especially high in educational progress. The sister com monwealths with the clearing house tnachin ery are Massachusetts nnd Wisconsin. i There s never n menace so grave ns the other fellow's campaign fund. Courtesy Is the oil a goml coc(-tC lisps to keip the wheels moving smoothly. To u wnr-siek world the Pnle-Russ i nmpiiign is offensive no mutter how the buttle sways t Few iionists are No exquisite as ii(. official forecaster in the act of 'oinisin. "fail" weather. The housing problem still hangs oor hend. There nte optimists who beliein jt may be used as a roof next winter. If Russians and Poles could pick ihejr men and settle tlieir troubles at Antwerp, it would mean u gieat saving of ammunition'. The number of politicians of the first rank who are discovering new iutrigrity and novel virtures in the feminine mind i really astonishing. ' The indorsement of the rocking chair by the French Academy of Sciences sug gests an earnest effort to understand the delights of front -porch campaigning. The sequence wus Inevitable Follow ing the Installation of telephone- on ship board comes Admiral Reason n order per mitting the prc.siice of wlvc of officers ou merchant murine vmubU. OLYMPICS AND YARDSTICKS A Jump of 1.94 Meters Doesn't Stir Us as Much as a Jump of 6 Feet 4 1-3 Indies, Yet 'it Should PROHAULY mnrty of the reports of the achievements of our athletes nt thu Olympic games lost hnlf of their Impressive ness to the nvernge reader simply becnusc they were given in terms of the metric sys- torn of measurements. These terms, while fnmllinr enough to us in nu academic way, bring to mind no definite medium of com parison. We hnve renlly no iden how fnst n mnn must go to make 100 meters In ten seconds but we realize the speed nt'onee when' wc nre told thnt some one rnn 100 yards in ten seconds lint. So. when Landon broke the Olympic high jump record by clear tig 1.04 meters, it did not sound very stirring until we lenrned thnt 1.0 i inetcrs Is nctunlly tl feet -I 1 " Inches. The meter Is vague In our Ideas: we know it is somewhere nenr the length of our vnrd. n few Inches shorter or longer, but it gives us no Iden of nn netunllty such us wo get when n ynrd is mentioned. YKT it most Is n very remarkable fact which neonle do not know thnt the AniKflrim vnt-.l In nfiinlnllv defined l)V 1111 order approved April ". 1S0.1, in terms of tho French meter. If the cxnet length of the yard were ever to come up In nn im ntirtnnt case at law and the authorities hnd to be consulted, it would be found thnt tho legal yard in the United Stntes is HOOO ihirtv-nlne-hutidred-nml-thirty -sevenths of n certified copy of the international meter kept in the office of the liiircnu of Stamfords at Washington. Formerly, the yard was officially declared to be the length of a certnln lirnss bnr kept in the office, but the net of ISO.'! took cog niznnce of the International motricnl con vention of U7r nnd with the fnet thut. In 1MI0. the Presl'"Mt had received nccurate copies of the international nrter and kilo gram, and refcried to these copies in its defi nitions. This w "de desirable noC only because of 'the growing use of the metrical system throughout the world, but because the Eng- lish Imperial ynrd. upon which our own yard was founded, hns fluctuated at least n dozen times and that the standard copy of the present imperial ynrd kept iu LondoTl is not satisfnetory to scientists. There wns u time when the metnl bar which was the standard imperial yard was destroyed by fire and Its loss caused u great deal of con fusion. With our yard now defined In terms of the international meter, such u cntus-, trophe is ("iiiosslble for t lie - nre u number of stuiidni'd copies from which the loss of c r own could be made good. The meter is. therefore, SiO.,17 of our inches, or a yard, three inches nnd nearly two-fifths of an inch. It Is not n mere hap hazard standard of length, as was tho Unglisli yard, for Instance, when Henry I decreed that, irrespective of , precedents, the imperial yard should thenceforth he the dis tance from the lip of his uobe to the end of his thumb. TUB whole metric system wns the result of the inot painstaking work on the part of the lending scientists of Frnnce following the government's decree thnt the system of weights and measures should be reformed. A committee of the Academy of Natural Sciences deliberated a long time over the choice of some nntural and obvious standard, tlieir debates finally narrowing down to three definite lengths the- length of the pendulum which would tick seconds in the latitude of Paris, the circumference of the enrth urouu 1 the equator, and the clrcuinfereneo of the earth aroirtnl the other way, through Paris and through the north and south poles in it to be only one two-hundred-nnd-eighth of other words, the meridian of Pnris. Finally the meridian was chosen nnd scientists were detailed to make exuet meas urements of a quadrant, or one-fourth, of It. for It had been decided to tnke one ten millionth of this distance as the standard of length. " It required eight years to mnke this meas urement, but it speaks well for the thorough ness with which the job was done, that the latest sciintitic check-up on the result shows nn inch out of the wny. Hut by tho time this discrepancy wns discovered, the meter hnd become a standard nud had bean adopted by other countries so that it was not worth while to change it. It really did not matter what the exact length was so long us n def inite length wns arrived at and this definite length permanently recorded for reference at all times. THKKB realize HF.RF is not one man in n thousand who painstaking exactitude In fixing the standards of weights and measures. Yet a vast and valuable science hns been built up upon it. Metrology, as the science is called, must lake cognizance of every single activity of liumun life and. in these days of rapid in tercommunication and the shipment of all kinds of pnrts made to fit nil kinds of machines and instruments thousands of miles away, the variation of so much as a hair's breadth mny nienn success or failure to u venture of great moment. No science in the world has the tiemendoiis dimensions that metrology embraces. It deals with the meter nnd the mile for the oidinnry human being, turns with thn astronomer to tho light year, which is six millions of millions of miles, or the smaller astronomical unit, which is n mere !).'!, 000, 000 miles nnd then, nt the hhest of the man who works with a spectroscope, it measures oft an nngstrneiu, which is so minute that it requires 2." 1,000, ."00 to make one inch. Nor is this lfist-namcd measure, unbeliev able as it may seem, a matter of guess wmk. It can nctunlly be measured, though its dimensions are fur beyond the power of even l ne finest mtseroscope. Rased upon the principle of the inter ference of light waves, science has developed and perfected nn instrument known as the interferometer nnd this is the most ilellcutc uud sensitive length -measuring instrument known to man. IT IS absolutely necessary, of course, that the sciences have definite international systems of weights nnd measures. Science is international In its scope and it would cieate much needless work if u French scientist, wishing to carry further the report of the experiment of an American scientist, should first hnve to lecompiite nil measuieinents from nn Anieiicnn to u French system. So the metric system bus been adopted by ulen tists nnd, ns science hns come more and more into the commercial and industrial life of all nntions, It is bringing the metric sistcm with it. We did not know vhnt Landon'- jump nt the Olympic games meant, but our giund children will know. The same basiis lom-mnn-sense icasons thnt make us laugh at the Fnglishniau's cumbersome money system of pence, shillings nud pounds, and point to our own simple decimal system, are going to picvail with our own rising general ions us internntlonnl trade increases und the will throw into the ash heap our senseless bur dens of different tnbls for every different weight nnd measure that wc use. It does seem strange, if you don't own a house and have been ordered to get mit of the one win now occupy and arc wandering where you can find shelter for your fumllv. to read in the papers thnt "plans aie bcjn4 iniule to beautify the grounds at the Home for the Indigent" at Holiiiesburg, Complaint is made that In some of our public schools geographies twenty -five years old will be In use this fall. That, to he su e. Is too bail and yet just what modern mnps cuu icplmo tlieiuV In the iibs,.ncr nf stabilized frontiers (it would seem that up to-date geosrnphy will huvu to be luiurht bv I mnvles. r 1 NO W MY IDEA IS THIS! Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphia on Subjects They 4 Know Best CASIMIR SIENKIEWICZ On the Pollen Situation THR Outcome of the present conflict be tween Poland nnd the Itussinn Soviet forces is fraught with the most tremendous international consequences, according to the belief of Cnsimlr Sienkiewicz, a director of the Polish relief committee here, and nsso cinte director of the savings division of the Federal Reserve Hank. "Poland nnd its independence is not so much the thing at stake in this conflict, vital ns It is, ns whether bnlshevlsm shall fail or overrun Burnpe." snid Mr. Sienkiewicz, who formerly lived in the section where the opposing foiees nre now buttling. "The issue In this respect is perfectly clear cut. Fither Poland wins, thus pre serving her independence ns a untlnn nnd confining boMicvism to Russia alone, or she loses and is destroyed as u nation nnd bol Hhnvism is in a position to overrun Burope. "Holshcvisin to exist must extend. If confined to Russia it will fail. If it crushes Poland it removes the barrier which sepa rates it from Germany. "Germany only too unxlous to find nny means of escaping the responsibilities of the Versailles Tieaty. will unite with the devil himself to saw- her bacon. With the tre mendous man power of Russia and the tech nical efficiency of Germany to develop the great resoutces of both countries and n further union with the Turkish iintlonullsta nnd other dinfteeted nations there would bo a combination that would be likely to sweep Burnpe off its feet. "The only chance of checking its-triumphant movement then would be by u combina tion of nations such as say Bngland, Franco and the United States, which would mean n conflict gieatcr and inure fur reaihiiig tliuu the trcnt war whnh ended in 1018. Poles Plan KMensloii "Trotzky has openly announced that bol phevism would be extended both to the Bast and the West. The western extension would be much preferieil by the Hnlshcvist leaders, because the people :.re more stable nnd more cultured ami tin- n-soiiries nre far greater in this direction. "But should the West fail them, thev will undoubtedly turn to the Jist and endeavor to bring down the Asiatic hosts upon Buro penn soil for an iiit.ision thnt would far ecliiise the mien nt inwision of Attila and his Huns. Theie ale munv disaffected ele. incuts lu these sections that might make such a move possible, the unrest uinoni: thn Hritinh nnd Fri neh colonies being the element thnt would miil.c sin h n coalition possible. "The Soviet Gow-rnunnt. however, would prefer it western wmoi to an eastern one, because they beliew tlnv could handle the sltuntlon better The Asiatics in tutu, they fear, might nbsorb them. "Poland t -ms iniist establish as n bar rier between Sonet nggiessiou and herself a formidable hue of foils, as there nre no nntural bun ins She must redeem the rich fnrming land taken finni her by the Hol shevlsts and the impoitniit industrial cen ters in thut ilistiut, if she is to have any natural wealth "The Poles will light to the last man In preserve their lountn, as they see nt the present time their ouh opportunity to real ize their dieani of age- Years and yeais of trndltion are hack of this idea nnd nothing but the absolute crushing bv force of nrnis of the country will make her stop. She Is in condition lo tight for another year if necessary, but she must huvo help if she is to win. Needs Help of Allies "Substantial help ,v t, Aios .,m(1 solve the situation in (1 year's time. Hut here you hnw the rub. Knghind sees com nierciul ndvuiitnge in iiinicuble rclutfous wjih the Soviet Goeiuuienl. Franco foresees, In the defeat of Poland, her ancient enemy Germnuy tising up against her ngiiiu and endangering her iiationul existence. This country is sympathetic, but does nothing, because she bus been unable to nettle, the question of the League of NaTioiis, "With America In the Lcugue of Nu tlons, with or without reservations, th,. league might iiuioiiut to something uml be a potent foiie. hut with her out of It, theie u u mutual distrust of each other by the vulious nations. This breeds just the suit of division that the Holshevists nnd tier niliny want Willi the other countries ill. vlded uinous Ihenijilics, they urc ubly,iy M0 "SHOO!" progress in their dream of controlling Burope, "I believe thnt the diplomnts nt Versailles made a grent mistnke when they fniled to mnrk out some definite policy for the smnll nntions. Side by side there hnve been two inter esting sets of developments nmnng the Polish and Russian people. Shortly before and during the war, the great Polish land owners sold their fond nt reasonnble rates to the Polish peasants, so that today 00 per cent of them nre laud owners. "Despite Itussinn restrnint, they secretly, through societies, educated themselves nud made themselves ready to become a self governing people. They hnve trndltion. cul ture nnd n rrationnl self-consciousness und only need a chnnce to tnke their pluce among .he constructive, useful nations of the world. There is not and never has been anv im periulism in Poland's designs. She, is too smnll u country for that nnd only wishes to govern herself." Divided Into Three Classes "Russln on the other hand is divided into three classes. The old crowd, the reaction ary clement, who represent the Czar ; the Bolshevists, nnd the third, nnd by far the gi cater class, consisting of the great mass of the Russian peasarts. According to the grcntcst of contemporary Itussinn writers, Diniltri Mere.shknpky. it is this third cinss thnt will n'Mmntolv determine the future of IlusKln. At present they are ouly waiting for n Moses to lead them out of the wilder ness. ' "The Holshevists number about 000,000 In Itussin. Hut with the reins of government absolutely in tlieir hniid nnd n military nutoc rncy of the most absolute hind In power they can do llttl" more than submit., They don't wnnt the Bolshevist government and if the matter w put to n ponular vote to morrow, the Soviet reign world be ended. "Hut the peasants don't care. They nre fntallsts. and know little about government. A sop to their conscience is contained in the land grants made by the government, which la in u wnv ininrnvement over some of the things they have had, so for their part Leninc and Trotzky can maehlnntc all they ''it. ,'" if a strong mini weie to nrlse nnd captivate their fnucy, they would be jus't ns liable to Hock to his colors. "A great deal of strength nlso comes to the Bolshevists through the Immense stand, iug ui'iuy of T.OIlll.OtlO uhich Russia hud when she went to pieces. Witli no Indus trial pursuits to engage their attention, they easily fell for ulluiiug terms held out by the Soviet leaders. "If BolsheVism is defeated nnd confine' to Its own borders, it wld eventually lend to a better und greater Russia. If it wins, we can look for a conflict of proportions that will mnke the last war seem small and probably a Bolshevist Burope." With victory after victory, the Poles will progress from culpability to righteous ness. If the Russian Reds nre able to prove Hint they nre not Reds, France is willing to treut with them. If all the members of President Wilson's cabinet could be indi I to talk at oucc, Re publican victory would be assured. In Illinois, sujd Uncle ,loc Cnnnon, the women voted "us Intelligently us their fathers ami brothers." Theie ulwuyn was a dash of the cynic iu Uncle Joe. The "meaningless gestures" of British labor and the British Government r(l imjj. injportnnt because "meaningless gestures" are occasionally provowitiv of bluws. The cheerful Idiot enters with a plea for general optimism even in (he fni.e f the news from Burope und the campaign heudquurters. "Uneasy," cries he, "lies, the head that wears a frown!" It Is said by those who hnve tried the experiment that n grcut deal of noise ,nnd excitement amy he crcutcd by nny one who tells ii iiiiiii about to stmt on hi vucutlon mm nn- i no Kiiiii. 111,-ciis oi mo country arc luid work uud production. 1 . , :w What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. What tnreo nntions lead In mercantile murine fleets? 2. What wns tho original form of Napoleon Bonaparte's name? 3. Who wroto tho words of "Sally In Our Alley?" 4. Where Ik the desert Gobi? 6. Who waallod tho "Indiana Icicle"? f. What color la ningcnta? 7. Who won the marathon race. In th Olympic games at Antwerp? 8. What is a tabor? 'J. What king ofKngland was called th "Llonlicartvd"? 10. AVhcn did he reign? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. The foreign olllces of Great Britain, Franco and Germany are often alluded to by the names of tho streets on which they nre located. Hence such an expression us "Tho Qual d'Orsal. Downing street nnd WllhelmstraM announce" means the fact thut the foreign offices of Brltnln, France and Gcrmnny have. iBsued statements 2. Thomas nKempIs, properly Thomai Hnmmorken, wus n German mystic and uBcctfc writer, born In Kcmpen, Rhen ish Prussia, about 1380. 3. lie Is generally regarded as the author of the famous religious work, "Tni Imitation of Christ." 4. The four Scandinavian nations nre Swe den, Norwny, Denmark nnd Iceland. G. Mount Lassen, In California, Is the only uctlvo volcano In any American stata. 6. Tho two most decisive naval victories gnlned in tho world war by uny Ml llgercnt were the triumph of von , fpee's fleet over the British oh (-ore-nfl' Chile, and the victory some montM later of tho British fleet over Aon Spee's German squadron off the raw land Islands. 7. Cnlder and Wadsworth ure the Unit" States senntora from New Aork taie. 8. Tho mlzzenmast Is tho nftermost mast of a three-masted ship. , . 9. Bhang Is Bust Indian hemp used ns narcotic and stimulant, smoKM. chowed, eaten or drunk. .,,M 10. Eden is tho Hebrew word for dcilgni. One great thing the Poles seein to linje done. They appear to have put the rusli m Russia. Iu recognizing, as is forecast, l-RyP113" independence. Grent Britain will MinplJ " taking cognizance of uu attitude waien m rest of the world bus for some time own noting with lutercst. Neither Japan uor Britain enn restrain expressions of grief uud anxiety caused J maturing pluus for the extension of tn American merchant murine. One sort j American isolation Burope apparently ""H'11 uot grieve about. '1 THE VILLAGES T CANNOT hope that Sorrow's feet foreicr J- nud n day Will pnss my little House of Love wlitri latticed sunbeams stray, . But when she lays her hand at Inst upon ln swinging latch, j And steps where happy yeurs hnve mura beneath our spring sweet tiinteli, Grant me. oh. God. this heurt-felt prl" thnt somewhere It mny he .. Where little, small town sympathy mny W1" und comfort me. Tho little, smnll town bymputhy that rum across the fields . j.i. In blue-checked gingham uprons, anC iiu flour upon its hnnds, . , Thnt bukes nnd brews, and sweeps and I uiu. thut wnkefrl serves and shic da. The little, smnll town sympathy tluit know and understands. Thy cities, God, are bullded high with carren stone on stone, , ,,pn0, Hut hearts may ache, and lives may ur"'" iihIicciIciI nnd ulnne. And souls may dwell unknown) unloved, single Willi neiween . ,!, Not -so thu (inlet, home sweet II" '"" fringe thn village green. , but Let others reap the splendors, J-nr"' give instend to ine, , m, The homely round of living blent wit" town sympathy. The little, smnll. town sympathy that stf' on neighbor feet in8n! From dry lninp-llt houses dow;n n wv shaded street ; n,meil vfJ Thnt lends its strength on tenr-dramw its owi. I.rurseil feet buy J jRTCiT Tiie little, hiiiall town syuipathj "lc soul of. God. J .. iTdufM Martha Haskell Clark in od "P I . ww "grJMSjpx-y kfaVlfH s ( fta r Vtf'- i..,Bf f tak2Z Aw& " V. '..''.