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wosLn wAHrs wosn woHoEaI.
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Navy Taffeta Silk-35 inches wide
SPECIAL FOR SA TURDAY-
1.24
Regular 81 so quality.

Thu new kind extremely sofa chiffon finish realIy-ln two
sha DIES Of blue whether for the high collars with gold nm Embroidery
or perky rufnes it's quite the silk for a Spring suit or an Easter
fro ck-lustrous and most durable.
NOTE.-Hs is inches wds o ssUs yards would surely msL. 9 Tosk.
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: Cl"eL siEHs Denote "or"i"S sPAc'"ls,
Look toT tho CiseLsI IOoL for the CIoeksI
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WHY ROOSEVELT WASN'T SENT

When President Wilson, in the face of ad.
verse criticism and pressure from all sides,
declined Mr.. Roosevelt's offer to lead vol
unteer army to France, he showed remark
able perspicacity. A very serious blunder
was avoided. ! have not the slightest doubt
that Mr.. Roosevelt and his friends were actu-
ated by the sole motive Of wanting to serve
France; but their love Of the French was
greater than their knowledge of the French
Whatever the newspapers may have said,
in the desire to avoid looking a gfft-horse in
the mouth, the people of France did not un-
derstand the Roosevelt scheme. It perplexed
and worried them. They would have in
terpreted it's adoption as a sign that our
Government did not have sufficient prestige
among the American people to help France
in the regular way, or that the American
people were so opposed to the war that
President Wilson was compelled to fall back
upon private initiative and enterprise for
military cooperation with the Entente
Powers. 1t was only when kilograms from
Washington announced that General Per-
shing would command the first troops sent to
France. and that these troops would be an
official American army, that the French
realized the Significance of Americas entry
into the war. Now they know that the
American nation, represented by the Gov,
ernment at Washington, Is helping France
Herbert Adams Gibbons in the Century
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WHEN FEAR ENDS
The Soldier breads the Battle /
He Begins to Fight

EVERYBODY wonders what are tn. ~
- sations and emotions Of the indiv,A,.
soldier as he waits in the front l,ns 49,
for the order to charge and as bs 49,
across the death-swept zone tov.ra .,H
enemy. Does he think Of the cb.r.. y
death? Is he physically afraid2 ~ ~
shrink from the necessity OF fac,n. H.
infcting death? Donald Hankey, the "a, ii
lishman who wrote so frankly ana ,,., ~
estingly of the soldiers experiences a. NC.
front in "A Student in Arms" con.,s-1 ~
this matter in one of the articles IN .s-|
new volume. "A Student in Arms s..-r{'
Series" Mr.. Hankey spent nearly ~
whole of two years at the front IN ~.
trenches and in the supporting lines, ~
was killed in action at the battle Of ~.
Somme He says: 1-
"The fact is that at the moment =, n.
charge men are In an absolutely abnorus,
condition. Their emotions seem n w.
numbed. Noises, sights and sensa,,o-s
which would ordinarily produce intense nh,
horror or dread have no effect upon tb..s
at all, and yet never was the mind c,..r.s,
the senses more acute. II is before -
attack that a man is more liable Ia 80
OF all the hours Of dismay that coma a : /.
soldier there are few more trying IA e
nerves than when he is sitting in a ,r.,.s
under heavy fire from high-explosive shsn1I
or bombs from trench mortars.
you can watch these bombs lohh.A
up into the air. You see them SLOWLY w.n.
BILE down to earth there to explode with /.
terrific detonation that sets every nerve 4,
your body a.jangling. You can do MOTH
ing. You can not retaliate in any vsv
You simply have to sit tight and hone ~
the best. Some men joke and smile but
their mirth Is forced Some feign stoicsi
indifference, and sit with a paper ana :
pipe. but as a rule their pipes are out ana
their reading a pretense There are fev
men, indeed, whose hearts are not beating
faster and whose nerves are not on edss
But you can't call this the fear q
death 1t Is a purely physical reaction of
danger and detonation. Personally, I be.
lieve that very Ssw men indeed fear death
The vast majority expcr enoe more or l.ss
violent physical shrinking from the |, ain Of
death and wounds, especially vi On thsv
are obliged to be physically inactive, ard
when they have nothing else to think about
But this is purely physical reaoSTp.
which can be. and nearly always is, coyl
trolled by the mind. Last of all there 4
the repulsion and loathing for the whols
business Of war. with its bloody ruthless
ness, its flendish ingenuity, and its insens
safe cruelty that comes to man aftee
| a battle. when the tortured and dismeyns
bered dead lie strewn about the trench.
and the wounded groan from NoMan'ss
Land.
But neither is that the fear Of death.
1t is repulsion which breeds hot anger
more often than cold fear, reckless hatred
of life more often than abject clinging to
it. The cases where any sort of fear even
for a moment, obtains the mastery Of Z
man are very rare"
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suprsnls eaorihce in the war against the
worlds enemy
The womens regiment had been Joke
for several weeks. 1t was believed to be
mere flourish. But there was no
parading. no speechifying. They simply
took their places In the trenches, where to
right and left Of them men were desert
ing, went over the top and bayoneted the
Germans. Many of these girls are dead
or grievously wounded or suffering from
shell-shock. from which so many frail
men and men past their prime suffer in
their first experience near high explosives.
And, of course, most women are not fitted
by nature to withstand these stupendous
explosions. 1t is not likely that there will
be many more women's legions.
These girls invited martyrdom. They
were brought up in a religious country
where right Is right and wrong is wrong
to the end of the reckoning, and where
all the quibbling of intellectual towards
can never make q compromise with evil
seem good
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Tom Days Column
THE VILLAGE POET

Whenever IT'S a Saturday an Mothers
tcorlc Is through
She ncuer thinks OF Chestnut street OF
ne,cs that's old or neto,
But hustles to the Germdntotcn, the
latest fim to Uietc.
Perhaps you care for tennis, or for golf
the same as me,
An pictures on Saturday are not for
yon TO see;
But u by any chance you should prefer
moUie shoD
The Germanto,cn on saturday Is just the
place to 90.
OF course, the lure TO catch us all Is
"lovely lcomdnhood,"
an there youH see a picture HdfH surely
do you good;
For other joys may hurer, bit II pure
delight you'd knov
You ,cant to foilo,c Mother to her fduorite
m0rte shoU.
on, never mind the rush for seats, there's
time enough for that;
But take look at Mother IN her ndtty
SGitor hat.
ont pipe the roSy bloom Of youth upon
her check that lies,
An note the clear, deep azure light in her
Madonna eyes;
ObScrUc her street Solictudc and strong
maternal pride
For all those happy youngsters icho arc
SkiDDiuU On her side
on! other joys may fiuUer, but II pure
dclight you'd hnotC,
You aodnt to tolloto Mother to her tdUorite
moUie ShotC
No doubt youH read the lines abouc an
call me "hypocrite,"
An lCondcr 1chy I'm not there, too, u
I'm so fond Of Il.
on, iceH, you see, need the got the
exercise, the air.
The storing up Of cncrgy to tcdrd off cark-
ing care.
on, Keep your old opinion then, an I
tciH do the same,
Unless blooming thunderstorm should
mess the ancient game.
II that, mn jOD, should fivUer, the second
best kHOlO
Is Just to tollo,o Mother to her fauorite
,moUie Sholc.
Whenever us q Saturday an Mothers
acork Is through
She neUer thinks of Chestnut street or
nctcs that's old or netU,
But hUStles to the Germantown, the
latest dlm to Uic1c.
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THE PRACTICAL ORATOR

Russia has. for all practical purposes at
this hour, passed out of the conflict That
tremendous body of people has,
by reason of the situation at home, vir-
tually left the fighting line.-Senator
Borah.
"LOR all practical purposes at this
hour"--that is. the hour in which the
Senator was making a speech-it suited
his purposes exactly to present the Rus
sian situation as hopeless In general,
the purposes Of the speech were good.
He wanted to impress upon the people
the need for great patriotic devotion in
serious crisis. In particular he spoke in
favor of more closely defining and recon.
sidering our war aims. But whatever
his purpose, it was weakened by the above
practical statement.
Virtually, the Russians hold about
thousand miles Of zigzagging trench line
in Russia, in Rumania in Austria and
in Turkey. They have retreated on
150.mile front. not in Russia, but in Aus
tria-Hungary, in territory that they had
conquered. The Teuton advance has not
yet reached Russian soil. In Rumania
the Teutons are reported to have suf-
fered a reverse. In Turkey the Russians
hold their gains. We are unable to see
how that tremendous body of people
has virtually left the fighting line"
If we are to be very practical We must
ask why the Germans have not advanced
on the long line from Riga to Galicia,
their enemies having passed out of the
conflict Is 1t that they have not enough
men to spare? Or is 1t that they fear
the swift revival of Russian patriotism
the moment they press forward? OF
course, one cannot jump up in the air
with glee over the Russian situation, but
1t is another matter to overstate our
pessimism in default of other arguments
to convince the Senate.
Russia bristles with facts" for the
pessimist, it is true. But for the optimist
one fact also stands out: Germany has
not felt strong enough to attempt the
conquest of country which for four
months has been as near chaos as 1t is
safe to be-
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RED CROSS WORK IN 1864

TTHE Sanitary Fair held in Logan squsrs
L in the summer Of 1854 was not caie1
Red Cross work." but 1t accomplished ~
purpose just as we'll for all that. mus
lion dollars and more was no mean sun,
for the city to produce out OF spontaheou:
good will fifty years ago. considering ~
SIZE and wealth of the PhiladelRhia OF thoss
days. tf
Many of the shops and business houss-
set aside "one days receipts as their cor
tribution toward the erection OF the isss
buildings. An enormous temporary suu07
ture spread out over Logan Square Tness
were corridors at the edges parallelins -
four streets. In the buildings were pic'ul.
galleries, a smoking divan, horticu'tuf-'
exhibition, a refreshment saloon, pre~s's
and a number Of booths. at which all s0''-
of objects were sold. The main avenu.'
through the center Of the square, IRON
Eighteenth to Nineteenth street. was ces-
cred by arches in a Gothic STYLE ana
known as "Union avenue" II the W.
were held today such thoroughfare woHs5
no doubt be called Democracy avenl~
Each generation has its pet word, put NJ
idea remains the same. w
President Lincoln could not be pressT
at the opening exercises of June =.
arrived with his wife for q visit apou.
week later, on which occasion the cneert
crowds were 80 great. that he could hAEe.X
pass through the fair grounds. II y -
ticularly interesting at this time to cont:1
plate the attitude of the public mind -
time when three years of weary war ~
been experienced 1t Is prediction
what We shall be doing and the spirit
which we shall be doing 1T In the SUNNI
OF 1920-if the present ordeal lasts a. ioe
as that Of the rebellion. t6 III
The speech Of Mayor Henry II just
sort of speech that could be made tcdI
mo claims more sacred. no appeals me
powerful. were ever addressed TO y
people than come to US this hour from
MANNED and suffering defenders of
Union. No military resources, however
directed. can adequately provide reiio<
the Thousands Of brave men who 1exe
under ths fotigne ard pylve3(4n
s2essn q NY N Z 4
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NO "REGULARS" IN CITY POLITICS

THE "reform.within-the- Repub-
L licans, who are planning to put up a
complete ticket against the Organiza-
tion's slate in the primary, are doing
valuable work whether they are destined
to win or to lose. The important thing
is the formation of a permanent body
of reform voters, who will constantly
preach the difference between local and
national politics and the utter lack Of
meaning in such words as Republican"
and Democrat" in municipal affairs.
National politics has nothing to do with
building subways, cleaning streets and
developing a port.
The man who says he votes for Repub
lican Organization Councilmen because
he is for protective tariff is not a regu.
lar Republican. He is only "a regular
liar"
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quotation marks. Here are a few of them
that VIII be recognized as old friends:
THE short and simple annals of the
poor" '''e
"Iich with the spoils of time"
The paths Of glory lead but to the
grave" '''
soul" VI '"e
Full many a flower is born to b,usb
unseen and waste its fragrance on the
desert air." viz
Some mute. inglorious Milton here NAV
rest some Hampden guiltless of his coun.
try's blood 50" s'u"-
Hands that the rod of empire might
have swayed." e"'
THE applause of listening senates to com.
The noiseless tenor Of their way"
strife" 's"9oie
fires" "o"'eo
known" '" iaihe uh-
ITO wade through slaughter to throne +"
Kansas City Star.
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Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

1. CayaIrymen and artillerymen wear leathss
must be protected from abrasion. lnfans
trymen wear cloth puttees.
2. Raymond Duncan, American siecturer nna
disciple OF Greek art, created sonseMu
IN Philadelphia by. walking baroiossee
through the streets In winter.
3. Marshall Reid IL q local aviator and sportee
man who has Just been commkh0neo ~
tain in the aviation corps BY the Wa
Department. TX
4. Thomas Chatterton and John Davidson. Ems
1sh poets, killed themselves.
8. Esperantists plan to bring about univefs9
peace through the use Of "the rniveSSSsS
language" from which they take sneH
name.
9. New York hotel chefs have been drafted -
temporary duty as cooking inetryctors q
the new army cantonment at fspnanHt
Long Island.
fhofo Sf Crete. eSSsSa2 SWsSas2 FhssSus. iei IN iey1
with his son, Hippolytss. and. being -
pulsed. strenSled herse:f. Euripidss; ~ ~
cine and Maurice Hewlett have wnue
plays about her. II
8. "Stopping tho show" in theatrical Pari,fshhe ari,sh
means making SO prc4oInccea c sasm.wa MY ~
encores delays the rest OF tho entef's'sT
ment.
o. Louis Rasmaekers. the famous 70, & p1teHG Hnjts1 NJ
cartoOnist. u visiting In tn0
States. . ~
10. Neither he or I were there. should -
'Neither he nor was there.
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THE ELEPHANT

When hrst ] gazed upon the world
MY nose was, like rosebud. furled;
Twas small and pink and retrousse
A very fetching little nez.,
Alas! 1t crew. 1t touched my toes.
l found I'd lost my little nose.
almost thought tnat l was drunk,
My nose had turned into q trunk,
Tnat seemed to have nd useful end.
You see didn't comprehend.
one happy day saw with Joy
A peanut on little boy,
And AZ At once ]. blissful, knew
N 50 ynea 1engths my ANAL nose =
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Last autumn ! was expressly asked
when the Russian offensive would begin.
replied that did not know. My reply
was received with disfavor, but ! saved
our offensive power-General Brussiloff.
What this means is that Petrograd
was In the habit OF informing Germany
ahead of time just when. how and where
a new offensive would begin. In order to
prevent another such betrayal. Brussiloff
refused to let Petrograd know anything
about his plans.
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A MINE OF EpICRAMs

No single poem In the English language
perhaps has contributed 30 many lines that
have passed into currency Of quotations a.
Gray's famous Elegy. It Is a veritable
mine of eplgrammatic nuggets that have
enriched the language Of orators and writ
ers and become such familiar property that
their origin u almost forgotten. ana they
seldom nov reeoive ~ crq(lt evea. =
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-28

All the loud talk for peace in the
House of Commons boiled down to this:
that there were only nineteen votes in
favor of negotiating with Germany out
of total membership of go. little
talk can be made to go to a great way.
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A Fair Trade League represent

A Fair Trade League representa-
tive points to the case of a shirt, which
was advertised as worth" $780, was
marked down to 1929. The shirt was
sold in reputable stores regularly for
seventy-nine cents and cost the retailer
fifty.three cents. Dishonesty, II would
seem, is not confined to the food market
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Dear Sir-The elucidation of the new
physio'pSychic pronormalism" i'm tho
coiyum on Friday the 18th, merits acknowl.
edgment. The explanation that ''upon the
character or the creatures psychicaI i'm.
preston altogether depends the degree of
the creatures physical expression, and
olco versa" is most satisfactory ! am sure
ana probably constitutes a sort of bridge
between the unproven theories of DR.. sig
mund Freud and others 80 lately the vogue
and the directly opposite conclusions which
are now being announced by few of our
most eminent and logical medical au.
thorities
such transition was entertainingly fore
cast some time ago, when it was the writer's
privilege to receive a circular from a firm
or "healers' who advertised to treat by
osteopathy, electro-therapy, mechano.ther.
apy, Christian Science. New Thought" and
other methods, the holiness hour" for
meditation and other devotional exercises
being, as ! recall it, at $3.50 m. daily
What wonder when the average NJ ID.
upon ten minutes acquaintance pronounces
every case which he cannot understand TO
be OF psychic origin (and often this is not
simply to beat the metaphysicians to IT, but
he really believes it, when the patient
asks just what this means and what he
is to do and protests his ability to under.
stand 1t. If 1t can be explained the said
average NJ. ID. quickly gathers up his dag
nostical impedimenta and sde.steps it to
the exit
Perhaps when the return to common sense
gains sufficient momentum the fads of auto
| suggestion and dream of Interpretation will
be eliminated from medical consideration
and bluff. unless, indeed. the "vets" should
decide to delay their exit and TRY them
on the dog" HUGH MERR.
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Sometimes the way in which a task
is approached is more important than it's
immediate accomplishment. In the Irish
Convention now in session the Irish prob
lem is not so much on trial as the Irish
character
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Sweat

Gould you inform me-" writes Con-
script Sammee c., 'if one perspires freely
would he have any claims for exemption"
Pending the appointment by the Presi-
dent Of National Appraiser of Perspira-
tion, we may reply unoficially to this
correspondent:
Your case cannot be definitely decided
upon the meager evidence submitted. You
must offer yourself for further examina-
ton, and even then we can't promise.
What is the character of your perspira.
ton? Besides being free, is it cold, or
clammy, or both?
What most induces it's flow. If fear,
state what sort? OF death? OF work?
If exempted from service in trenches
and given department job, could you be
trusted to keep your perspiration away
from the red tape?
is your condition infectious? If so.
would you accept a seat in Congress-?
America expects every man to bedew
his duty.
Per spiration nd astra!
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The favorite method of delaying
the Senate is to begin a speech with these
oft and aptly chosen words: "Mr. Presi-
dent, it is not by desire to delay further
consideration of this matter, but"
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We need not worry about having
to rely on French heavy guns. They
have been n pretty good reliance for
everybody they have undertaken to
protect
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A classified ad in yesterdays paper an
nouncing letter carrier lost in grand.
stand" reminded us of Tim Mullavey, who
wore the gray and carried the bag for
the p. o. d. some twenty-five years ago.
Tins beat had been on Chestnut street
for years, but in one of the political
shake-ups he disappeared from Main
street. We came upon him In the Italian
quarter some time later. How did you
come to this?" we asked him. Politics."
sez he. Sure, they're tryin' to discour-
age me wild this haythen Job. Lookut
the kind O. letthers have to be handin'
around! Can you make top or tail o.
that wan? No. nor could anybody else.
excipt wan O. these haythen Eyetalians
thimselves. What do 1 do? Me? Oh,
sure. II l can't make out tn address on
an invilope I'll stop wan O. these fellies
an I'll give 1t to him. Here, I'll say
to him. dye know that lad? No? Well,
mebbe ven come across him, an II We
do give that to him."
Your New York correspondent" writes
VIII Lou, 'begs to report subway ac.
cident in the Bronx the other day-or
aren't you interested in. so to speak
bronchial troubles?"
We're having our own. Some OF the
ships at the navy yard. we understand
hsvs brown keel trouble. ana League
Ialand. curiously enough. = locatsd IL
(,<H.f+<~7> a. Z. X ffi s.afs A. n : Al y
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Reaching Relatives Abroad

Whether the espionage of any of these
departments, however, shall be carried to
the point of preventing all communication
between relatives IN the United States and
Germany is still being debated. Such COM
muncation through the State Department
has been cut off for some time because
we have no official relations with the Ger,
man Empire. But the question has arisen
whether the policy of suppression with re-
spect to our enemies and their allies shall
be carried so far as to prevent a son or
daughter who Is In the United States
from communicating upon purely personal
or domestic matters with father or
mother or other relatives in alien territory.
While our officials are assiduous in their
search for spies, 1t is believed in Washing
ton that some of their fears are so over
drawn as to cause unnecessary hardship
and privation to innocent persons, who
prior to the war had nothing but good will
toward the United States and who can
have no other thought after the war is
closed. The House had this in mind re-
Gently when 1t declined to increase in the
trading with-the-enemy act some of the
extreme power it had given to the Presi-
dent and his subord.nates in the espionage
law.
1t will not be denied that much cheap
and worthless literary material has been
going through the mails. Some of 1t has
been insulting and some of it infiamma-
tory. The Postmaster General is known to
have personally considered much of this
stuff improper for circulation. But until
the passage of the espionage law there
seems to have been no method Of stopping
1t without violating the so-called freedom
Of the press" as guaranteed by the Con-
stitution
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Phollyin' de Phillies

Well, dem blamed hicks
Gets slammed onct more;
The Reds cops q
Dem Phillies 4.
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Economy everywhere but In the
realm of Pork