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A GREAT TASK
It the peace conference attempts to restore or reconstruct
nation-, it will have on its hands a fjreat task. What lias not
been done by the people themselves will be doubly difficult to
do by outsiders. The tact that the people themselves have not
accomplished the task shows that there are serious obstacles in
the way of ethnic or geographic unity, without which nation
building is seldom successful The word nation is often confused
With the word state. The first is from the Latin nascor and
refers to a similarity of birth, blood, language, etc. The second
is a political creation through which peoples of different nation
alities are brought together for governmental purposes without
regard to ethnic homogeniety. This sort of a political edifice is
'not difficult to construct if the various elements are disposed to
ido it. In this country we have the Englishman, the I elt and the
German, the Latin, with some Japanese, Chinese and Indians,
iut these have all abandoned allegiance to former political
organizations and become Americans in spirit and sentiment,
whether, as in the case of Oriental races, they become politically
Americans or not. This government, great and strong as it is,
could not last if we had an English division in one section, a
Celtic division in another, a German division in another. Tluc
people may have their racial peculiarities and political predilec
tions, but politically they forget or abandon them for the
American idea and philosophy of government. In Europe, which
is merely the western peninsula of the Asiatic continent, the
different races are more tenacious of hereditary ideas and
opinions, and do not find a solvent as different races and nation
alities do in America. Hungary and her immediate neighbors,
for instance, are peopled by Magyars, Walloons, Germans,
descendants of the Romans and Slavs. These do not assimilate.
Each wants to be the dominating factor. This diversity,
amounting to hostility at times, has kept Russia from becoming
a stable political unity, and ethnic diversity has destroyed every
attempt at political unity from the days of Tamerlane to the
present. Rome's political constructive genius was great, but it
could not abide. It attempted to superimpose universality upon
diversity, and failed. On three occasions Rome ruled the world.
Once by force of arms, when the. Romans were at the zenith of
their power. Twice by the force of ideas, through the unity of
religion, and again by the unity of law. Rome's philosophy was
to conquer and then Romanize the world, but neither the force
of arms nor of ideas could do this. If new political unities,
called national states, are to be successfully organized and con
ducted, the people of these territories must turn their backs on
the past, and their faces to the future. Old things and ideas
must pass awav and give place to what is new. This means the
political reconstruction of the world, a herculean task, it must
be admitted, but one that cannot be birked if peace and per
manency are to be enjoyed. We, in common with the rcM of
the civilized world, hate the Germans, but this does not mean
that everything Oerman may be extirpated and driven from the
world. What the German has given to the world that has been
tested and proven pragmatic and useful and necessary, or con
tributing to the well-being and happiness of the human family,
will remain ; what has not stood the test will pass the same as
the unnecessary contributions of other nations have passed
automatically and unnoticed, Blot out everything German and
the German name from the world, and they would steal back
through Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Haydn's Twelfth Mass,
Schiller's poems, Goethe's writings, the Teutonic idea of feder
ated government and many other German contributions to the
benefit of mankind. They may subjugate and impoverish C.er
many and execute the kaiser, but not Handel's music. Nothing
from that nation that the world has tested and indorsed and
made its own will perish. Into the deepest sea with the U-boats,
the poisoned gases, the poisoned wells, the torture of women
and children the world were the better without these. The
valuable products of German genius will remain.
No doubt the great conference regards itself as a constructive
'agency, and while it will be commended for destroying every
thing that is evil, it must not pull up the wheat with the tares.
What is good ought to be preserved for the human race.
In this modern convocation of the gods there, is much work
to be done, and it should
realize that when seated around the table on modern Hympus,
the representative of the United States will be the Jupiter.
We can spare our president for a while for months if
;Tiecessary. We are not children who will fret and worry in bis
-absence, and it may take years to complete the big job.' It will
be for the benefit of the world and in the centuries to come if
t American ideas prevail. This young giant of the Western world
is also of the Aryan race. It has crossed the seas to a new
.continent, and has removed farther from the influence of
Oriental ineptitude than any other people, and it has solved the
problem of government and the happiness of those living under
It better than any other nation or factor in the political unities
of the world. It is well that our achievements shall flow back
jto be a lamp unto the feet of the older nations', to lead and
enlighten them. The GotL of Nations has prepared us for the
jwork, and destiny points ihe way.
Tubliture" is a new word
if matter which is constantly hemp; mimeographed, mult
grapnea ami lueorrrapncn ana sent out to clog ami overburden
the mails, and sent in to clutter and cloy newspaper and busi
ness offices. It is one of the most useless wastes of the time
McAdoo resigned because he could not live on a $12 ,(XX
salary in Washington. That's nothing. A New York newspaper
man committed murder because be could" not live on a salary of
$20,000 per annum. It largely depends on where you are.
If the world must be policed by some one nation, America
lis the only nation that can feed and pay him, and she ought
,.4a have some sayso in the matter.
f Charles Murphy, leader
l,uW,(J0U It he were a newspaper editor be would confess
gment and save court costs.
Under stress of circumstances the crown prince was will
nough to quit his job, but he does not like to see the doors
, i against nis return.
te Americans did their part in the great war, and they are
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be gratifying to Americans to
invented to describe
ie mass
of Tammanv, is beine sued f
Local Bolshevist
Flaunt 8 Red Flag
We were iulte prepared to expect
the lah'ir Review to resent with the
fury peculiar to the flyers of the lied
fltus the comment made by The News
Scimitar upon Its espousal of the cause
of the enemies of the 1'nlted Statea.
but we must confess to surprise and
h certain kind of admiration for Its
op-n and repeated advocacy of Bolshe
vism, reserved for uuda ity and reck
lessness and a general Indifference to
consequences.
The News Scimitar editorial la de
scribed as an "instance of apitallst 1c
newspaper misrepresentation," and "In
the hope that it may penetrate the
Wall of cement that Incaaea the brain
of the editorial writer of The News
Scimitar." the Latmr Hivlew proceeds
to embellish and elaborate upon the
beauties and virtues of Bolshevism.
We refuse to be moved by the un
intentional compliment ir Intended In
sult. We are hard-headed enough to re
main of the steadfasl opinion that Old
(Ilory Is the greatest flat? that ever
waved over this or any other country.
Our devotion to the HtarS and Stripes is
a matter iu conviction for which wo
do not have to account to any man.
Just as the Labor Review's devotion
to the Red may be a matter of con
viction with it. We do not know
Whether it will In- require' In Kive
an accounting or not That Is mat
ter between it and theafederkl authori
ties, and wilh which we have no con
cern. As to the charge that The News
Scimitar editorial was written without
the editorial In the Labor Review hav
Int! been read, we are able to state
that such is not the caae, and that
furthermore It has been preserved In
order to give proof that It was read
We shall quote some extracts from ii :
"Bolthevltm Threatening the World"
was the headline of an article In the
Literary Digest last week. The first
sentence of this newspaper article told
a truth that ought to strike shams to
the heart of every American citizen.
It reads: "Hundreds of soldiers, tailors
and marints broke through a cordon
of police surrounding Madison Square
Qarden tonight and attacked Interna
tional socialists who had attended a
mass meeting at which Bolshevik doc
trines were expounded."
That the sacred uniform of American
military forces should be dragged down
Into the mire by a mob of map trying
to break up an orderly meeting in a
public hall It a disgrsce so deep and
so thameful that It ouaht to call forth
bitter protest by every liberty-loving j
man and woman In America.
Now let us see about that "orderly I
meeting In a public hall" at which the
American soldiers 'disgraced" them
selves. The following on the subject
was taken from the New Vork Sun
and is less sensational than stories I
from other New Vork papers. It said: I
i ne increasing insolence and boldness
of thi various anarchistic elements
that make up Bolshevism In New York,
together with the Increasing resent
ment and anger of soldiers and tailors
against Bolshevistic activities In Amer
ica, threaten bloody riots.
This Is the measured opinion of offi
cials not given to sensationalism, Unit
ed States Mirthal Thomat D. McCar
thy and Attittant District Attorney
Alexander I. Rorke among them. It is
probable, therefore, that action will
be taken by the state and the city In
the near future to prohibit euch provo
cative parades and demonstrations as
those of Madison Square Garden on
Monday night and Palm Qarden on
Tuetday night. It It known the matter
Is receiving the serious consideration
of Gov. Whitman, as wsll as of Mayor
Hylan and Police Commissioner En.
right.
The authorities recognise the bottom
fsct. that ths hateful conduct of the
Reds is at the bottom of the trouble;
that the Bolthevlkl would like nothing
better than to provoke bloodthed and
general dltorder. While aoldlert and
ssllors havs no right whatever, the of-
nciais state, to Interfere In strictly
police work, neverthelett there It sym
psthy for their attitude, which Is sim
ply that of Impulsive patriotism. The
difficult feature In this problem con
cerns the attitude of the police toward
toldlers and sailors. The police must
protect cltliens snd enforce order even
sgalnst men In uniform. If Bolshevist
meetings and parades are to be per
mitted It It Inevitable, otflclali recog
nise, that more rlott muat occur.
The remedy to be urged before Qov.
Whitman and Mayor Hylan by varlout
civic societies snd by hundreds of
prominent cltliens It absolute prohibi
tion of such meetings and demonstra
tions. The argument is made that there
Is plenty of law to ttop such perform
ancet, since all such meetlngt have
been of seditious and disloyal charac
ter. That ought to settle In the minds
of the public the character of the
meeting the Labor Review defends
Mot to Kel back to the expressions
from which we were quoting:
But let us not blame the niHier. ,-h
so far forgot themselves ss to bring
suoh
Their minds have been poisoned by the
capitalist llet that have filled the
"kept ' dally newtpapen and "Inspired"
weeklies and monthlies ever since the
working people of Russia tried to es
tablish an honett government In that
unhappy country.
The ''people'' referred to, at course,
an- those who betrayed the country
into the hands of Oermany and caused
Russia to he disposed of as a factor in
the war The American soldiers with
"poisoned'' minds, iiloiiK wiili the allies
are at w.-ir with those who set up this
honest government" in Husiia. The
Assoclalcd Press carried a story u few
days sko stallni! that the Americans
cut their way Lhroue-h laraelv tuna.
ui.u'.co upon ineir unitorm
rior force. Before long we shall brum to
get a casualty list containing the names
or the soldiers with "poisoned" minds
wlo opposed the supporters of the
"honest government" In Hussia it
seems that the Bolshevists have been
misrepresented, as the Labor Itrwew
continues:
"Bolshevism" means majority rule.
And that Is why the capitalists of both
Europe and America are ftQhtlno. the
Bolshevikl.
We don't care what their doctrines
might be. They were meeting in an
orderly manner when a mob of men
whote minds had been poisoned ,V the
capitalistic dally cress broke into their
meeting. And that act of hoodlumlsm
wat virtually glorified by the tame cap
italittlc Interest! that were retpontlble
for it. Havlnq deliberately fooled the
public Into believing that Bolshevism
was a menace to the world, they kept
up their deception by glorifying riot.
Evrrv soldier who took part In that
riot was giving lie to everything
Amerna hat been fighting for in this
war. winch the president has summed
up in one pnraie. "to make the world
safe for democracy."
The i J pita hit Interests of Europe
and America can lie until thev destroy
civilization, if the people of the world
are to ignorant at to let them, but so
oog ,i our pretent civilization rioot
latt. they cannot make really Intelligent
people glorify dltorder when comnilll.il
by a uniformed toldler, and at the tarns
time fix the charge of dltorder upon
mo peacnaoie people whose meeting
was broken up by the soldiers.
Alter iteiiiiinn Bolshevism to mean
"majority rule" the Labor Review drops
the Russian and adopts the English
version, m the following:
The Lafc-or Review hopes tSat MA.
JORITY RULE is threatening the
world.
Rightly underttood. we hope Bolshe
vism that Is to say. majority rule
is threatening the world. If majority
rule actually cornea to America at the
close ot.the war it will be very sssy to
tave the country from any fanatical ad
vocate of any new scheme of govern,
ment which might be good In heaven,
but which would be altogether out of
plare on our planet.
In conclusion the Labor Review leaves
this word ,,f admonition:
The surest way to turn America Into
a chsmel houte It for the capitalist!,
newspapers to go on telhna lies about
the Bolshevikl of Europe.
The most dangrout people In the
world today are the capltallttlc liars
who ore filling the columnt of our dally
papers with lie about the working peo
ple of Oermany and Russia.
We take it that comment from us
is unnecessary. If the expressions from
the Labor Review are not sufficient to
convince the public of what It stands
tor any word from us would he futile
we submit that our statement that It
s a ilanffet-oiiM ,i. ..!.,. .. .. . . - ...
DOROTHY DIX'S TALK
BY DOROTHY DIX,
The World's Highest I'alil Woman Writer.
KEEPING UP WITH HUBBY.
Fifteen yours ago, when thay were
married, they were a poor young couple
with scarcely a penny with which t"
bless themselves. They went to live In
a little twu-by-fouriflat. and the hus
band worked early and late, and the
wife did her own cookinit. washing and
sewing anil scrimped on every nicker
i lie young husband had brains, and
energy, and ambition, and in 15 years of
pushing, hard work he has made hla
way from Drub street to the sunny fid.-
of Daly stieet. Today he Is at the
head of his own business, a compaia
tlvely rich man, and la malting money
with both fists. In a few more years
he wlil be a very rich man.
This man's childhood waa hard ate!
stunted by poverty. His boyhood and
early youth were filled with struggle
and strain, with strenuous effort and
self-denial New that hla efforts have
borne fruit he naturally wishes to eat
of It. He wlahes to live luxuriously,
to have a beautiful home", to wear good
clothes, to have a good RIOtof cAr, to
eai good food, to travel, and do the
things that he has always wanted to
do all of his life.
He loves his wife dearly He ap
preciates to the fullest all the help she
gave him in their early man led life,
and he w-ants to dresa her beautifully,
and for her to go about with him and
have a good time, too. But while the
husband haa expanded with Ins pros
perity to meet his new life, the wife
has atill stayed spiritually and men
tally back In the little two-by-four flat
In which they started.
So far the husband haa gh en In to
his little piker wife and has stayed put
by the dull little family radiator of an
evening But he Is getting very rest
less, and those who are 'patching this
little domestic tragedy In the making
are wondering how long It Will be be
fore he will break away and find some
other woman who will help him get
some fun out of his money by spend
ing It
When he discovers the lady It will
break his wife's heart, and she will tell
hint how she has slaved for him and
saved for him. and will consider her
self a martyr, but, In reality, she will
be the one who la to blame for the
catastrophe because her husband tried
to lako her along with htm into pleas
ant pastures, ana she refused to go.
She is so stupid that she can not see
that a man has to have a playmate as
well an a workmate, and that if u wife
will not play with her husband he Is
apt to find some other woman who
will. Also, she Is so Ignorant of life
that she does not know- that man al
ways spends his money oh some woman
ami that If his wife Will not let him
spend it on her. some other woman will.
It Is a matter of common ohserva
tlon that a man's success in the out
side world so often brings disaster upon
iiiin and that about the time the self
made man acquires a place in the sun
he generally also acquires a divorce.
Tins is invariably set down as the
mail s fault, and many tears are shed
over the pathetic lot of his forsaken
old wife The truth is thai In the ma
jority of cases the blame Is wholly
the wife's, and the reason that she
has been left behind Is because ' ahe
refused to come nlotig. The man would
have been glad for her to come along
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The Days of Real SportBy Briggs
Copyright, ni8. by the Tribune Association (New York Tribune).
I with him If she would have done so,
but she refused. She wouldn t keen
step with him. She wouldn't prepare
herself to go where he was going, and
the result was the fate that happens
to all laggards. The procession swept
on without her.
In such cases the husband Is Just
as much entitled to our sympathy us
the wife. If it Is sad for the woman
who is left behind. It Is equally sad
for the man who must go on without
her He. too, is lonely, and hla lone
liness Is tinged by a sense of injustice
because he knows that the tragedy
might have been averted if only his
wife had had the strength to break
a way from old Ideas and habits that
she had. and If she had had the pluck
and Industry to improve herself and
raise herself as he haa clone
The shadow and the triumph of many
a great man that takes all of the
glory out of his day Is the grubby
little wife of his youth, who doesn't
even try to understand the things (hat
Interest him. and who nags and frets
for her petty economies) and clings to
provincial Ideas that she tries to force
him down to.
W'omen are more completely the vic
tims of habit than men are. They find
It harder to change their iioint of view
and their ways of doing things than
men do, but unless they acquire dex
terity In adjusting themselves to their
husbands and their husbands' fortunes,
they can count on qualifying for the
role of the well-known neglected wife
of w hom wo hear so much.
Indeed. It may bo said that a wife's
salvation consists in her being a light
ning change artist, especially It she is
married to a hustling, wide-awake
American man. For It Is quite as like
ly for her to need to know at one
time of her life how to spend money
as It was at another time to know how
to save It Also It may be just as
much her wifely duty to help her hus
band eat fine dinners at restaurants
as it once waa to cook dinners for him
at home.
Moreover, whether it is her duty or
not, It Is her safety, and her only
chance of keeping her husband. For
the man who wants to plav is going
to play, and there is no lack of fluffy
little playfellows looking for such game
as he Is when he wanders forth alone.
Tou've got to keep up with hubby
or lose him. Take your choice, ladies.
(Copyright, ISIS, by the Wheeler Syndi
cate, Inc.)
NEW RECORD,
"My dear," said Mr. Hemmandhaw,
"I hope you are not planning to buy
a lot of new furniture."
"I am not." leplled Mrs. Hemmand
haw, "and don't know what gives you
the Idea."
"This shopping list gives me the
Idea."
What shopping list?"
"On this paper which I Just picked
up off the floor Is written: 'Wash
stand, parlor chairs, dining room tnhle,
writing desk, refrigerator, tabourette.
piano stool, pedestal, step ladder, cedar
chest, music, cabinet and garbage
can.
"Oh. that Is just a record I was keep
ing of the things tlie baby has fallen
from this week."
ii i i ' ' ' ' i i ii t ii l , ' ' ' staass
Th e
Lear K ('. B. What about the sec
ond annual K. C. B. t'laridge party for
tne American Christmas fund.' .bets
fix the date for Thursday, Dec. 12, and
go to It. Miss Grace Field has offered
to aid in the arrangements for the
party, and wants to see vou about it
fight away.
Let me know If the date Is satisfac
tory. Yours sincerely,
HAMILTON P. BURNEY.
Manager Hotel Claridge.
MY HEAR Ham.
IT'S A perfectly good dato.
tea
AND IT'S all right
AND WE'LL have the party.
AND I'M much obliged.
AND ALREADY.
I HAVK several names.
OF FRIENDS of mine.
t
WHO WOULD like tables.
AND ONLY yesterday.
I MET Louie Mann,
t a
A.N'I HE wanted to know.
ABOUT THIS year's party.
AND YOU remember.
a
THAT AT last year's party,
HE SPENT 1300.
tee
FOR THE coffee set.
THAT THE Hippodrome sent
AND SO far as I know.
HE'D ONLY been working.
A LITTLE while,
t
DURINO 1917.
AND THIS year.
HBJ'8 BEBN working for months.
JUST BEING friends.
WITH 8AM Bernard.
AND HE ought to be fat.
i
AND, ANYWAY.
a
YOU CAN. keep a tabic for him.
AND THERE'S Henry L. Doherty,
HE'S A friend of mine. ,
AND HB'D like a table.
t
AND I have a rain check.
1 itowfcakp
GOSSIP
(BEfJ. U.C.PAT. OCT.)
BY K.C-0.
ON AN old luncheon date.
WITH OTTO H. Kahn.
AND I'LL let him off.
a .
IF HE'LL take a table.
AND MY personal manager,
tea
MR. R. H. Burnside.
WITH MARK Luescher helping.
WILL BE stage manager.
AND LOOK after the show.
AND LISTEN, Ham.
THE WAY it looks now.
tea
IT WILL be some show.
s
AND I wish you'd tell Grace.
I'LL BE up to see her.
SOMETIME TODAY.
AND SHE'S a grand little girl.
... y
TO OFFER to help.
AND I want to toll her.
...
THAT JUST last spring.
...
I WAS out In Sa,n Francisco.
...
GOING UP the hill.
ON A cable car.
...
TO THE Fairmont hotel.
sj
AND THE car stopped.
AND STARTED again.
.
AND A real nice lady,
t a
SAT ON my lap.
AND I turned her around.
...
SO I could see her face. ,
AND IT was Grace's mother
...
AND, ANYWAY',
ess
WE'LL HAVE the party.
r
ON THURSDAY the 12th.
. .
AND I'LL make you a wager.
...
WE'IsL BEAT last year's party.
... ,
AND I want a table.
...
FOR WILLIAM Randolph Hearst.
...
BECAUSE HE'S going to be there.
. .
HE'S A friend of mine.
m
I THANK you.
MUrC-f
I'tA, JrW
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PUBLIC DISCUSSION
THE DOWNFALL OF GERMANY $
To the News Scimitar:
Once Germany boasted of Its culture.
Its art, its science, its military ef
ficiency and Its mechanical genius: for
60 years she planned and plotted to
grind the world under her heel, and
take possession of all its wealth and
honors. She trained her youths to
crush mercy and justice out of their
hearts, and to fight to kill. While our
boys were trained to football and gym
nastics and the higher arts and In
business education, German children
were trained to shoot, to plot and to
kill, to dominate their adversaries. Is
It any wonder that they could relent
lessly wade through human blood and
carnage and crime In manhood In their
deluded hope of victory?
They were taught to worship the kai
ser, and in their implicit faith In his
power and greatness, they never doubt
ed and did not falter in executing his
demoniac demands. So, with the great
est and most beastly ferocity, they
ravished the countries and tortured
their victims with unheard of cruelty
and brutality.
Germany's glory is gone, forever: the
blood of babes and women and the na
tions tears, came like a great cataract
and swept it all into the black and
slimy gulf of the hatred and contempt
of every combined nation of earth, and
now, instead or the shining monument
to her civilized achievements, a whited
sepulcher stands over the grave of
aownraiien Germany, and Germany s
black-winged, blood-stained ghost
stalks screeching over its desolated
lands, while the slaves of the kaiser
are beggiug us for bread and for mercy.
The cloven -footed kaiser, who shat
tered every civilized ideal and broke
every sacred law, and walked hand In
hand wilh the devil: with the chalice
of communion he. dijiped bitter, burn
ing, seething gall from the caldron of
hell, and poured the scalding poison
over all the lands; he waded through
the blood of Infants, blew up hospitals
and made harlots of helpless women,
and blasphemed the name of God by
associating that holy name with him
self, "Me und Gott." God had no part
In' such work, he should have said:
"Me und Beelzebub me bruder."
God was going hand In hand with
Woodrow Wilson: God was with the
right, and the right won. The once
great tyrant kaiser, who thought the
world was a little hobby horse he was
riding, has been pitched over the little
live mustang's head, just over the fence
of this little old world he planned to
conquer so soon, kicked Into nowhere,
he Is now an outcast, so bloodstained
and blood drenched that the hell hounds
of vengeance are scenting his track
to devour him, while the name of
Woodrow Wilson is a dazzling star of
the first magnitude, in the clear, blue
skies of the world's veneration and
adoration, which will shine with fade
less luster down the dim vistas of all
the future ages, and thousands, mil
lions, yet unborn, will rise up to call
him blessed, and to emulate his wis
dom, justice, mercy and greatness,
while the great-grandchildren of our
little Sammies will boastingly tell their
children of the unsullied flag, the gal
lant valor, the bravery and the imper
ishable victory that their great-grandfathers,
under these great generals,
won, under the greatest difficulties any
warriors ever had. The golden stars In
the service flags will never grow dim,
hut shine, to light for others, the paths
of glory; and the Red Cross will shine,
from Calvary's Mount, as a blazing
chariot, of fire, leaping up into glorious
light to heaven through all the coming
years. JOSIE N. MASON.
MISCALCULATED.
At the end of three weeks of married
life a Southern darky returned to the
minister who had performed the cere
mony and asked for a divorce. After
explaining that he could not grant di
vorces, the minister tried to dissuade
his visitor from carrying out his inten
tions. "You must remember, Sam, that you
promised to take Liza for better or
worse."
"Yassir, I knows dat, boss," rejoined
the darkey, "but she's wuss than I
took her for."
WISE GIRL.
A New York poet, as reported In
"The Writer," says: "Poetry is delight
ful. But poets are so very poorly paid.
I know a rich man who has a beautiful,
golden-haired stenographer. The girl
said to her employer the other day:
1 am going to get married, sir. And
I am going to marry a poet.' 'Dear
me!' said the wealthy man. 'Then
you will leave us. eh?' 'No, sir," sho
replied; 'I shall not leave you, but I
shall need more pay," "
THEATERS.
LOEWS Theater
Continuous 1 to 11 D-m.
A Great Big Show
for
Little-Bit Prices
8 Village Slickers 8
Harmony, Music, Hilarity, In
Proper Proportions
Some Fun!
Armstrong & Ford
English (dapple and the Cop.
li s to i.iumli.
Other Feature Acts
and
FRED STONE
In "THE GOAT."
Some More Tiaughs!
Matinees Nights
10.15c ) 10-20-SOc
Ladies, Get Your Questions
Ready.
Frescott & Hope Eden
Will Answer Them Soon.
...... 1 I
Lyric Theater
WED. AND THUR.. DEC. 11-12
Matinee Thursday
MARGARET
ANGLIN
in the
erry Military Love Corned
Billeted
Prices Eve.. 50r to $2.00; Mats.,
25c-$1.50
MOVING PICTURES.
fciwt Princess
Continuous 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.
I fl Including
IUu War Tax.
TODAY AND TUESDAY
JOHN BARRYMORE in
"ON THE QUIET"
As a play snd picture It has made
millions lauqh.
Lyons-Moran Comedy,
"GIVE HER GAS."
Wed. -Thur. Dorothy Qlsh and
Star Cast, "The Hun Within."
f-.-scnpUoR.
Lr
e near through wuh doing.