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anything known to the gutter school Of
Of ad,oiri.txa q tto,

anything known TO the gutter school OF
civil administration
A report just submitted to Congress by
the Federal Trade Commission as a review
of the graft epidemic in business traces one
of the remote factors in the high cost of
living. And 1t suggests, too, another char.
acteristic of the German methods of peace
full penetration"
It has always been known that an iso-
ated class of men representing various
industries, who spend the money of their
organizations, were victims of the c--aft
microbe. From this beginning the malady
has spread to include incalculable mum.
bers of men in every avenue of industry.
The Federal Trade Commission found
that the principle Of the rakeoff Is widely
recognized and that 10 per cent is the
standard figure acceptable by many men
who make great expenditures for others.
The business man who is inclined to resent
such a demand made privately by a repre-.
sentative of a purchasing organization is
forced to rid himself of his scruples Other.
wise his rivals get his trade The Trade
Commission found that bribery of this sort
was most extensively used by firms intro
duCing goods made in Germany"
Did German governmental subsidizatio
Of trade 60 as far this? Probably it did
Yet it would not be fair. even to Germany,
to suggest that every salesman who bribes
his customers and every purchasing agent
who is as tIIEgreedy as a head waiter rep.
resents direct reaction of the Hun philos.
ophy Of commerce. The commercial tip
is known everywhere in the world It
enjoys "A riotous vogue in Latin America.
England passed laws against it, The habit
is a product of the times. Congress is now
asked to eliminate the practice by a Fed
eral law. And the suggestion is one worth
serious consideration.
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SHIPS SPELLS VICTORY!

rYyEN new steel ships were turned over to
the Shipping Board last week. totaling
$4,000 tons. and $500 tons of new ship
ping were launched in the same time.
Mr.. Schwab made arran gements on Mon
day for the building of 1870 new ships on
the Great Lakes of a size which would
permit their passage through the Welland
Canal, with a total capacity of $4,000 tons
# It is announced that fifty new ships of
|y1e5or size will be put into commission
|next month and be ready for sailing in
sipiy. We are making such progress that
EEainbridge Colby, commissioner of ship
IpInG. says that a single shipyard on the
Delaware will turn out a greater tonnage
this year than the total annual output of
in the British yards before the war
All this means preparation for getting
Iour armies to Europe. They are to be
|hnoved as rapidly as transportation can be
provided Ships spell pictory, and they
kcre already progressed beyond the FIRST
sitlIcble of the tcord.
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Ships That Are Sailing

CHIPS that are sailing on journeys so
~ far,
Trains that are travelling, car after car;
Men that are leaving by daylight and
dark
Who is to heartcn them when they en-
bark?
rs THERE no clangor of bugle and
brass?
Is there no riot of flags where they pass?
No; where the ships lie in silence austere
There needs no bunting to honor that
pier.
QUIETLY, quietly, see how they go.
W Silent and sure as the blood in its
flow
Blood that is drawn from the nations
red heart;
Proud in our anguish we watch them
depart.
CHIP after ship, as it fades on its path
our wrath;
This be our honor, o hearts that were
stirred
Lo! when they left us we said not word.
CHIPS that are sailing, we watch you
~ and say
Some day We'll wait for you, coming this
way.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY.
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BRUMBAUCHIsM TO THE REAR

(fTyHE outstanding fact in the nomination
n Of Mr.. Sproul at the primaries is that
4 the Republicans of the State are tired of
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Brown-Nare regime
/. In Harrisburg ]. Denny O'Neil is defeated
oyerwhelmingly. losing because of his asso-
Citation with discredted men.
The defeat of John r. X. Scott for the
second place on the ticket which is fore
shadowed by the incomplete returns, indi-
Gates that the Endorsement of an impos
sihle candidate by some well-intentioned
the mass of the voters that it is wise or
prudent to elevate to high office the paid
attorney of the vicious.
The nomination of Bonnwer is
ffrtumph for the liquor interests in the
Epemocratic party and an expression of dis
eppointment over the way A. Mitchell
Palmer, as leader of the reorganizers, has
been trying to run the partr from WASH
ington 1t is an illustratith of the peril
which lies in patronage and proof tina; for
every friend made by the distributor Of pap
to a hungry organization dozen enemies
are created.
While Bonniwell is frankly friend Of
liquor, his running mate, J. Washington
Losue, was for years an active head Of the
Catholic Total Abstinence Union and an
nnronent of the saloon The ticket as il
stands is constructed to please both the
Nsts and the drys.
Yet the Governor will have nothing to
Edo with the ratification of the prohibition
'amendment. That issue is up to the Legis-
liature. A majority of the nominees to the
House of Representatives appear to he
kcpmmitted to its adoption. The Senate is
IL doubt
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Answers 10 Yesterdays Quiz

l. Status QUO ante beiium; state Of Affairs prior
10 the war LITERALLY "state in which be-
fore wary.
O. John Jay was the first Chief Justice Of the
United States.
8. John Adams and !S. ThSSmas JstIsTEssn sIsTE both
Tersary, of the Declaration Of Inds-
nsnasnes which tEe ,nItrSIiS latter wrc,s and th.
ing, throuEb his floor lsadershlp In the
A. "Jo's Boys." the third Of the Little Women"
series. by Louisa May Aeott. American
author.
s. Wisconsin Is known as the Badger state.
O. Blazing treni ATerm used In pioneer days
e denote the marklnE OF q road throush
trees.
!. The stars ana tarsi PANE appned 70 the
America.
8. Boston Is the capital Of Massachusetts.
o. "Y, ~ G.. A." the familiar tenn for ,tse
Young Mems Chrlstan Assoshtian.
10, Qeorrs Nicholl Barnes i the labor member
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A CURIOUS SUPREME COURT STU.
81 ALTON

RTSHE best thing that ever happened to the
United Shoe Machinery Company was
'the appointment of Louis D. Brandeis to
The Supreme Court bench.
When Attorney General Wickersham
'heopeht suit for the dissolution of the COM
|pany IN 1911, charging it with violation of
the antitrust law, Mr.. Brandeis assisted in
THE preparation of the case. He was then
n bitter enemy of the company. As So
called peoples attorney" he had demanded
'lrs dissolution before the suit was fFought
but when the case came before the Su-
&reuae Court he was compelled by the just
custom of that tribunal to refrain from
p1rticipation in it's deliberations.
The decision by which the company has
|[tea declared to be a legal combination
|MGe reached by a vote OF four of the
X&6Ges against three If Mr.. Brandeis had
te4 there would have been tie. Judge
<3nolds refrained from voting' because
I<<orney General in succession to Mr..
eFsham he had been connected with
1f&eecution. 1t is assumed that he
80 With Mr.. Brandeis that the COM
r/ was conspiracy in restraint of
Gi4. 1f he had not so held he would not
1f> coi1tinued its prosecution.
s. He Violence is done to the views of
t<|<e McReynoldS the shoe machinery
HoreHs escapes dissolution by accident
seufh the Inability of the majority of
- coHft 10 vote it's views. The decision
U 4tand, Of course. but it is unfortunate
a< ccndilions can arise urder which so
1ociosI<e verdict can be reached.
1he fo1r Judges hold that the company
H>e, created through the ability of Its
Gr6<et1 and that it has benefited small
I1111rers and has cheapened shoes.
~ere the contentious of its lawyers.
<@1ed that what advantages it en-
~ competitors were inherent
<o| pf patents protected by the
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THE CRAFT MICROBE

GRAFT is an epidemic that historians of
VI wondering future will associate not
with any class, occupation or calling, but
with the Age of Money. 1t is usual to sup.
pose that politicians are the only grafterc
Yet many imposing business systems whose
representatives periodically rail at the po-
litical CRATER are themselves the victims
OF or participants in aystem OF petty
spoliation more wastefuI and varied than
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TTNHE "folderless" traveller glanced at his
L watch "All these garden spots of the
world he considered sadly, have ceased
TO exist. Isn't there some region whose
charms are primarily independent of 'litera-
ture'?" He remembered Farmount Park
There was time enough to make the trip
Alighting from the trolley at an attractive
place. his eyes sought the station sign
board. "ChamouniX," it read. The heart
of the American Nacationist sank. Some
thing wrong here" he murmured. They'll
have to begin Grating station names Where
are the Alps, where's Mont Blanc where's
the 'Mer de Glace'? The spot is pretty
enough, but it doesn't look bit like the
picture postcards my aunt sent me from
Switzerland before the war"
Mournfully he mounted the shady hill
that overlooks the river. ahd, gazing
across the Schuylkill, his tear -dimmed
eyes beheld the mills OF Manayunk
II. T. c.
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What Do You Know?
QUIZ

l. Who were the Cycops"
Q what Is the difference In the British imperial
Eovernme ntaI representatiyes as between
ireland, Canada and India?
a. Name the author Of VANITY Fair"
T. Which is the Palmetto state"
g. In what three instances did the election Of
"' " the President OF the United States pass
from the Electoral College?
O, What is u college in other than the ed
Irrational sense?
l. Identify "Old Hickory"
g. what Is meant by "bIood and thunder?
o. what IL the Colorado beetle?
TO- What Is the cameleopardP
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\NTISTFUL recognition was aroused by
w this typical old friend: "Bosomed high
in lofty trees rises the far-famed Sugar
Loaf, illustrative of Natures handiwork
in it's most fantastic mood. The opposite
shore of the pellucid lake is crowned by
the Devils Punch Bowl, rich in legendary
lore. A few PAGES to the north brings the
traveller to the Balanced Rock, from whose
weather-worn summit may be deserted that
dizzy eminenCe felicitously known as
Lovers Leap, comparable only in grandeur
with the hoary crags of the Caucasus or
Carpathians.
THE surrounding country constitutes
veritable paradise for the artist the sports
man--since the silvery streams TEEN with
trout and gamy fish.or the mere vaca-
tionist, one who has been long in city
pent.' BY the calm shores o. fair Punk
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THE EMBARRASSED VACATTONIST
"Cmden Spots OF the " orld Vanish " uh Rml,cay
''Literdture
Literature

Thc GorCngCmt DHcr'orr r Of i6,,jg%r na,Irg2%%dS ,L in
}"aoT y"ycT'" "ioarr5 ia,Ta"' mis- yra'. '
VNHE American Nacationist paused in
front Of Il huge. grim structure and
wiped away an irresistible tear. He had
scnyed the tragic situation even before
complete confirmation of the :arts Chilling
blasts were issuing from the immense cold
storage plant. and into its ravernous re-
cess an army of workmen were staggering
under the weight of great chests labeled
"Wor,ls-keep in cool place for the
duration uf the war
"What kind of words?" he inquired fear
fully. "Ruiway, Of course" responded the
stevedore. AN steamship. to"-summer
CUFF Amt YOU heard? All them gaudH
summer yarns about where to spend your
vacation and how pretty the places is and
how much higher the mountains is than
the Alps and how much hIuer the lakes
is than Como, and how the sun shines
three hundred an siNty-siX days in the
year an how the tang OF the sea hrce2es
turns YOU from an old man into a boy of
iifteen-all that stuff what's been printed
in the illustrated folders has got the hook.
uncle Sam seems down on them lt'ry
fellers what ladled out that hossc talk.
It's gone with wheat bread Them guysI
soon be wortin in muniton plants,
guess.
WAS YOU thinkin' Of taliin' a trip" he
continued. The American NaCatiOnist
glanced shyly down at his elaborate ac-
cOutcrments, of which a kodak, an alpen-
stock and a fishing rod were conspicuous
features. "Well, youll have to rely on
your own imagination---or whatever YOU
call it this time" continued the practical
patriot. The timetables only gives facts,
and that's all that's permitted now"
THE travellers mental picture was not
L stimulating. He envisaged d fTultless
struggle with those battling logarithmic
train statistics, hristling with asterisks
and daggers and vaguely pointing the way
to disillusionnG footnotes such as This
train runs only ON holidays" This train
only takes passengers from Hopeless
Junction." Train No POI carries diner
only between Cruller's Hole and Water
town"
So disheartenins were his reflections that
he boldly raised his glance to the surround
ing busy scene. The procession of crates
seemed endless. Most Cs the stencied la
beling was specific and pathetically remi-
nisCent of bygone days One mammoth box
bore the inscription: "Myriad-hueG," 10000
specimens. "Kaleidoscopically radiant"
"rapturously invigoratng," "gorgeously
golden "entrancingly lovely" 'restfully
sylvan" ideally recuperative" were among
the other imprisoned epithets. But the
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The climax of earthly misfortune has
been found by a private in the American
army somewhere in France. He and the
captain of his company both correspond with
the same girl at home. But-the captain
censors the letters
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Comparative Luxury

Ii al any time one is inclined to And
fault with war bread it helps some to reflect
that it tastes much better than trench mud
Toledo Blade.
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Captain James Norman Hail, aviator is
alive in a German hospital we now learn,
after he had been missing for two weeks
This is a great relief to his large following of
friends who know him through his admirable
articles on war flying.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-22

The Germans did not get the Grand Duke
Nicholas when they took the Crimea He
heard they were coming and escaped. They
did not get him. either. when he command ded
the Russian armies.
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The Prussian Wsy

The Kaiser is now ready to give former
Russian provinces a chance to do their bit for
Germany or suffer the consequences,-Louis-
willie Post.
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Fully Qualified

If the Kaiser hasn't lost his mind com
pletely by the time he loses his throne h.
ought to be qualified for >joh as barker
at Coney Island shnw.-Binghamto Press.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-22

Income taxes yield $3.50, 900 900 more than
was estimated. The preachers. school teach
ers and newspaper men must have made
honest returns.-Albany KnickerboCker Press
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-22

The submarines destroyed only 3740OO
tons of shipping In April, as compared with
l,l23,000 tons In March. Now IL the May
record falls st.ll further we may assume that
the British raid on ostend and zeebrugge
was successful.
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The way in which the Tommies DenaIize
Germany every day for holding" on the
western front proves that Brtains tradi-
tional football spirit is as lively as ever.
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DERHAPS. even now, the great kneading
of the bread which is to be the worlds
salvation is at work in the trenches where
our boys fight shoulder to shoulder with
those who have never enjoyed the oxford
leisure but whose hearts and spirits are as
undaunted AS their own Here is the great
International university with its daily
courses in herOism self-denial. devotion to
country and to flag. And here IT is that our
common tongue. our common blood and in
beritance must bring us nearer and nearer
TO England, the country of our Shakespeare
our Milton and our Bible
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-22

The ex-Mpret of Albania never said a
word when Germany doled out the latest
job-lot of thrones He knows a thing or two
about Indian gifts.
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Germany claims that her U-boats keep
on landing guns in Ireland from collapsihle
boats. Germany has pulled so many col.
lapsible stunts in Erin-the Easement up.
rising. for instance.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-22

And Senator Penrose voted as a Repub-
lican. Not even Senator Ware imagined that
the talk of challenging him would amount
to anything.
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The speed with which our new "tailor-
made ships are being turned out indicates
that tn" alleged relationship between "fahri-
cation and mendaCity has been overempha =
s 2el
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-22

Don't you feel this morning like going
back to the old-fashioned nominating conven-
ton system
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DIT in thus getting together there must
ID be that mutual concession. that spirit of
fair play, even Of compromise. which is one Of
the distinguishing characteristics Of the An
glO-SaNnn race. For example, we are not
tolOnials. though ii Is an honor to he classed
with our heroic younger brethren of anada.
Australia and New Zealand We settled the
colonial question long ago and hold the helm
0f our own ship of state. il has been suE-
geSted that. by way Of concession. We give
up the celebration Of the American Fourth
Of July. or at least mitigate its "XuhcranCe.
This reminds the Gownsman Of a young Irish
harrister who. travelling the seas on an Eng
lsh ship with an American cousin. asked.
why all this hanging out Of naEs"' and
having the Fourth Of July carefully explained
to him. declared that he regarded tho whole
thing lin deucedly bad FORM Let us
have the truth about thar glorious Old |teN-
Olution of ours and even our young Irish
harrister. If he be lover Of freedOm--as 1t
is said all lrshmen arc--will forget form =
In the celebration Of an event that marks
such step forward in the triumph of human
right.
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IJOW proposterous all this is need only
L to he stated to appear. The old war
in which started ont to defend our
rights Englishmon and found our larger
rights Americans is glorious to us now.
not because We Won against Engshmen. but
because We defeated the intolcrabIe policy Of
a stubborn rCactionHry king And we re-
member the somewhat inElOriOus War Of
1872, again not 50 much because fought
in it our elder brother as because IT proved
to us that could hold our own as well
by sea as by land. II is a good thing that
We should get together" the statesmen, the
scholars. the historians OF the two COun-
tries, and tell over again, with greater truth
and with less ranCOr the story Of our some
time unpeaSantness. the sequel or our cen
fury of peace. good will and cordial C0-Opcra-
tiOn and our present brotherhood in arms for
the maintenance of all that is worth while
in the world.
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boats. Germany has pulled so many col.
lapsbe stunts in Ern-the Easement up.
rising, for instance.
Paper clothes have been great dsap.
pontment to the German workmen Ap-
parently they had to he reprinted too often
by the tailor And as soon as the next
extra was published they were out of date
We feel sorry for the man who had to
wear copy of the Zukunft to church,
The zukunft is such O.. little paper only
12mo size
Paper clothes having failed Berlin now
announces that every civilian having more
than one suit of clothes must turn his
extra duds over to the Government, ex.
cepting evening clothes and smoking jack.
cts. Are they saving the smoking jackets
for the day when the styX becomes Ger
man lake?
What you see" the Kaiser might have
remarked to the graves of German soldiers
at Aachen, "is only a tired man trying to
dodge a dozen ways at once"
Boston being the hub at the solar Sys-
tenn, could It be said that the Kaiser is
the Hun of the Internal system?
The encyclopedia defines Ukraine as "a
region in Russia of vague boundaries"
Those frontiers are no longer vague
Ukraine is now bounded on the west by
Won Hindenburg and on the east by the
Bolshevik free lunch counter.
Senator Hitchcock has become chairman
of the Senate Foreign Relations Commit.
tee and evidently he takes the job seri-
ously. His secretary says the first thing
the Senator did was to subscribe for a
magazine dealing with current events
VIII the war please hold still little while
until Senator Hitchcock catches up?
The Chambered Kaiser
Build thee more stately kingdoms, o my
soul
Absorb the Finn. the slav. the Serb, the Pole
Leave thy low-vaulted past
Each annexation. richer than the last
Keep thee from starving with crop more
vast
Till thou at length art super-Germanec,
Leaving thine outgrown shell beside the
Baltic Sea.
SOCRATES.
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Crow ding
ffades

all who don't bow to the Kaiser they will
afford such offenders an excellent opportunity
for inspecting the private apartments at
Potsdam.
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TT CANNOT he said that tn" Rhodes srhol-
| arships have worked out for America
quite as had been hoped our American
youth has not rushed to embrace the OPP
portunity. We have not always COntrived to
send our hest men, Some Of the more I'M
pressionahe have been too easily Anglirized
in nonessentias and have come home
affected in manners and speech and meas
urahly unified, tn the gloss rubbed off, to thu
WAYS Of their own country. Moreover. there
Is a notion as to the oxford eduCa ion being
the best conceivable for Englishmen 1t can
therefore not he bettered for anybody else
Neither premise nor conclusion need trouble
us here. Education a means Of interna-
tinnaI understanding and therefore as
means to that certain and continued peace
which the world must have If it is to retain
its self-respcCt such education must be a
mutual interchange on large scale not the
bountfful gift of Il mother to a few favored
sons For this larger purpose 1t is as i'm
pOrtant that We AmeriCanize oxford as that
oxford AngliCze us. And he 1t said. with
mOdestv and i'm consciousness Of all our
shortcomings. We. too, have something to
give.
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Feminine victims OF the latest STYLES in
nigh heels may he expected to dissent from
ihr Supreme Courts ruling that the shoe
manufacturers alleged combine is not a
tight monopoly.