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THE READERS VIEWPOINT

dinerentate between the German military
despots and the German people, they are now
generally conceded to be one and the same
Inc German people were quite willing to be
led by their military class to the plunder of
the world so long as they imagined that
the attempt was going to be successful. The
only femerse the German people feel is the
remorse of failure.
How can 1t be most forcibIy impressed
upon the Germans that they have committed
the greatest crime in the history of the
world?
Take military possession of the whole
country, including Austria keep the German
and Austrian armies mobilized as armies or
laborers and workmen and set them to work
TO rebuild With their own hands the ruined
cities of Belgium, France and Italy; TO
reconstruct the shell-torn roads and wrecked
bridges, once the finest in Europe; to level
up, till and fence the once fertile fields and
gardens to replant the vineyards and
orchards they have so wantony destroyed
to repair and put into operation once more
the railroads and canals they have mutt
lated.
Impossible? Not at all. Some one must
rebuild and reconstruct all that has been
destroyed Why not the people who caused
that destruction? 1t is the logical punish
ment which fits the crime. II it takes
twenty years to do it, it should be done;
and during that time every German boy
into that army of laborers.
No class should he exempted. and partic-
ular care ought to be taken to put all the
military officers of all ranks. including even
the Kaiser and his sons. to the daily tasks
of pick and shovel or hod-carrying That
and that alone would cure military fever
for all time If the generals had to dig the
trenches. there would be fewer wars There
would be no wars at all il those responsible
were forced to rebuild what they had
destroyed.
lhls plan would, to a certain degree, solve
tne question of commercial readjustment,
which must be faced in allied countries. by
eliminating for Il time the industrial com
petition OF Germany and Austria Further
this army of workers would require overseers
ana guards who could be drawn from the
armies of the Allies Shocking? Not at all
1t is Just exactly what Germany has done
with those who have fallen under her power.
and without the justification which the Allies
nave ana exactly what she intended to do
to the rest Of the world
WALTER OLIVER.
Philadelphia, october 49,
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AMERICA ALSO WANTS TO KNOW

EERMANY and Austria.Hungary are en-
~ deavoring to discover exactly what the
President means by his peace conditions.
Certain principles have been laid down.
but no one knows just how they are to be
applied TO existing conditions
The President has included among his
terms of peace a statement that economic
barriers must be removed in international
trade. Europe wants to know what this
means And so does America.
Efforts have been made in Washington
to discover what was in the mind of Mr..
Wilson when he wrote about the removal
of economic barriers; but they have been
unsuccessful Men in his confidence and
out OF 1t are forced to guess. The Wash
ington correspondent of this newspaper
reports that the Republican Senators say
he meant free trade and that the Demo-
cratic Senators say they do not know
what he did mean.
If he had said that no new economic
barriers were to be raised it would have
been fair to assume that lie was referring
TO the undesirability of any international
boycottlng But he talks of removing bar.
riers, and so he must have had in mind
some obstacles that already existed
Before diplomatic conversations proceed
much further every American Interested
in the development of American INDUSTRY
hopes that Mr.. Wilson will be little more
explicit and will let the country know
what he has in mind We are reluctant
10 believe that he has been laying the foun-
dation for a demand for international free
trade. That may come sonfe time, but the
world will not be ready for 1t in this gen.
Grafton at any rate. II the war has es.
tablished any economic fact, it is that each
nation so far as possible should be suni-
cient unto itself. When we were shut off
from trade with Germany we discovered
that the Germans had been making many
things which were indispensable to us. We
have had to get along without them until
our chemists and inventors could learn to
make them. We are in no mood to become
dependent again on any other nation for
things which can be produced here, and
we know that there is nothing for the
production of which our climate is suit
able that cannot be made here. And we
know, TOO, that with proper protective
tariffs we can become self f-sIfcient.
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Member of the Associated Press
ONLY THE BIG CAME AT HOG ISLAND

THE major league of nations game comes
=. first. This is the irrefutabe opinion Of
Charles Piez. vice president OF the Emcr-
gency Fleet Corporation, and his prompt
action upon it puts an end to the baseball
and puglistic matches which have been
dissipating hog Islands potential enetgy.
The worlds greatest shipyard aims at
absolute, irresistible professionalism in but
single sense-that of the speediest posi-.
BILE production of ocean going vessels. The
Ingenious ball pitcher, the agile fstic en-
pert are altogether superhuities in the
establishment if they hamper its purpose
in the smallest degree.
Entertainment committees" should con-
fne their attentions toward getting up the
biggest of all shows for the Kaiser. The
sport demands the punch of unremittins
hard work All other "pastimcs' mean
waste times, which are intolerable until
freedom takes the long breath of conclu-
sive; victory.
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TO the Editor Of the ErcntHg Public Ledger;
Sir--I want 10 congra tulate the Gowns
man, whose weekly contribution to your col
umns | always read with pleasure, on his
courage in coming TO the defense of the clas-
sizes. Utilitariauism in education, using the
word in it's narrow sense, must be fought
with all the power we possess If this Is to
be a nation made up of anything except
money grubbcrS Yet, strange as 1t may
seem. the utitariaus will defeat their own
purpose If they succeed in abolishing clas-
steal education, for it is that kind of educa-
ton which trains the mind and cqulpS IL 10
grapplc with new problems.
! once heard a mining engineer say to a
group of graduates of an old-fashioncd col
lege which taught the humanites that he
would rather have one young man on his
force with an A. Il. degree than two whose
only training had been received in techni-
cal school He said that the man with the
A. y. degree had been taught to use his
mind. and that his brain had become tool
that could be quickly adjusted to amy task.
whereas the graduate of the technical school
had his mind filled with mass of technical
facts and was all at when he was con-
fronted with conditions different from those
which had been described in his textbooks.
OF course, this was an extreme statement
but II has the clements of truth In it.
1t would be a fatal mistake to drop Latin
and Greek from the colleges and to substitute
for them more practical subjects. The col
lege courses may need revision in many re-
spects hut they should continue to include
such subjects as will open to the mind OF
the students the door into the treasure house
where is stored knowledge of what men
have thought and done from the earliest
date that they began to consider the prob
iems before them--nOt the material problems
Of bread and butter, but the questions of the
meaning of life MASTER OF ARTS.
Philadelphia, october is.
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LIBERATION!

MOT the least among prisoners OF war
= who have just tasted again the sweets
of liberty were the multitudes Of gasoline
fiends who flocSed out even in the rain of
yesterday, delivered up at last from the
dark and dismal dungeons of necessity.
Every devilwagon moved with a new ella.
tion. They croaked, bawed, snuffied,
sneezed and purred their ecstasy, accord
ing to their age and their ability--flivvers
and promenading limousines: dusty old
road hogs that grunt and seem TO feel life
burden until they smell an open road where
sixty an hour may be done without fear of
wreck or arrest; morose old busses that tote
smiling families gltterinG new machines
of next years model wherein the fortunate
of this world move to take the air.
1t was a pad day. Lille ana The other
recaptured cities in Belgium couldn't show
people more acutey aware of their new
freedom than those who trotteC out their
passing of Gasless Sunday. They had good
reason to fee! pleased with themselves, be.
cause they had done all that the Govern
ment suggested, cheerfully ard without
compulsion. 1t remains to be seen whether
they will continue TO cooperate with the
Government by saving gasoline durin-, the
week. If they presume uron their new
liberty and burn too much fuel back they
30 to Sunday seclusion.
And it will be too good for them!
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To the Editor Of the Eroning Public Ledger:
Sir-The illustrated Joke" page of the
EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER is a matter Of great
surprise and regret to at least one reader.
That an otherwise valuable and exceedingly
interesting paper should permit page OF
vulgar and stupid jokes is beyond all under
standing.
Some of the so-callcd humorous sketches
refer to little children--one can readily
imagine the demoralizing effects upon every
little child unfortunate enough to read them.
The world has need for humor' but huinor
of a refined and uplifting natursrthat makes
all life the noblcr and better for it, That "a
little nonsense now and then is relished by
the best of men, is true-but it certainly ex-
cludes all vulgarity
AN OLD PHILADELPHIAN.
Philadelphia, october Is. .'' 30, 90
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TWO MILLIONi

GENERAL MARCH has announced that
~ two million American soldiers are al
ready on the other side of the ocean. And
Secretary Baker said the other day that
they would continue to go at the rate of
two hundred and fifty thousand a month
so long as they were needed.
There will be more than two and a half
million American fighting men in Europe
before January l.
This is the way the war is being won
We are supplying the power which General
Foch needed to overbalance the strength
OF the Germans. He has armies hip
enough now to keep hammering at the
weakest point until cold weather stops
active fighting.
He is the last man to let up because OF
peace talk, for he knows that the surest
way to permanent peace is over the road
of an overwhelming military victory.
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TWO WEEKS TO ELECTION

LLECTIoN day is two weeks from TO.
- morrow. but no one seems to be think
tng about it. All active campaigning was
abandoned during the Liberty Loan drive
and now the grip epidemic is likely to pre-
vent what little speech-making there was
TO have been.
There is no doubt of the election OF Mr..
Sproul as Governor. and the Republican
candidates for Congress will be elected in
most of the districts, There are one or
two doubtful constituencies, however, in
which every effort should be put forth to
elect men in sympathy with the majority
sentiment in this Commonwealth. 1t can
be done if those who are interested set
about 1t.
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WHO ARE THE DEMOCRATIC
PRINCIPALS?

THE womens Regular Democratic Club
- Of Evergreen a district of Brooklyn, has
applied to the courts for incorporation.
The object Of the club, according to the
petition, is ito maintain and uphold the
principals Of the Democratic party"
The Judge has sent the papers back for
correction. He assumes that the women
plan to support the Democratic "princi-
pies"
But he seems TO have failed to under
stand the principles OF the regular Demo
Gratis. The Democrats are like sheep.
They follow the bellwether spelled "prin-
cIpal" in the petition Of the women. and
meaning in New York city politics, Charles
r. Murphy. What the boss says is the law
and gospel OF the regular Democrat. We
far@ little surprised that a New York
<udee should have been unaware of this
Wo know II here in Pennsylvania, even
1ugh there seems to be some dispute as
Vho the Democratic principals are.
~ &oeu 4 ~ New Jersey and IN Della
- ~ nGrE A. washington who
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BELGIUM, THE BATTLE MAGNET

Tn THE fascinating process of senti-
l. mentalizing history German debacle
at Sedan has been inspiringly foreshad-
owed. There are strategic reasons, de-
pendent upon the rate OF the northeasterly
advance OF the Frsnco-American forces
for considering such a possibility. The
huge armies employed in modern war. how
ever, may be trapped only under the most
exceptional conditions. Even a definitely
beaten Germany may escape such an iron
ring as Won Moltke forged around Mac.
Mahon on September 1, 1871.
Furthermore. 10 base the enticing
prophecy less on bactical afrairs and more
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on the instructive human feeling that his
tory has a way OF haunting the same old
battle cockpits. would be to give the soil
of Belgium priority over the Meuse valley
Flanders has famed with battles since
modern nationaities were born at the
close Of the so-called Dark Ages.
Twelve miles from Brussels the field Of
Waterloo, with it's lion on the hillcrest,
tells It's story OF world ambition wrecked.
Near at hand, as Americans measure dis.
tances, are Cudenarde where Marlborough
and Prince eugene defeated the Grand
Monarques troops under Vendome In 170S;
Fontenoy. where the tables were turned
and Louis XVs army under the Marshal
de SAKE prevailed over the English and
Austrlans in 1745; Jemmappes, where
Dumourez asserted the claims of French
revolutionary freedom over Austrian feu.
dalIsm in 1892, and Fleurus, where Jour.
dan reemphasized the same thrilling truth
two years later
At once pltlably and gloriously Belgium
is the corner OF the globe where the great
issues OF history are determined. Ger
manys military power may not actually
crumble there, but the effect in the father
land of the skurrying withdrawal may dc.
molish the remaining vestires of the
morale which alone prevents the Hun from
facing bitter facts
reversed Sedan in the Meuse valley
would be specific atonement, but the de-
struction Of German tyranny through the
events in the heroic little land so long a
battle magnet would be in even closer con.
formity with the historic proprietes.
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IN BOHEMIA


I'd RATHER live in Bohemia than in any
i other land ss
For only there are the values true. t-H
And the laures gathered in all mems view.
The prizes of traffic and State are won
BY shrewdness or force, or by deeds undone;
But fame is swceter without the feud,
And the wise of Bohemia are never shrewd.
Her pilgrims stream with a gait sublime
From every class and climate and time,
Aspiring only to be enrolled
With the names that are writ in the book OF
gold =.
And each one bears in his mind or hand
palm of the dear Bohemian land
The scholar first with book-a youth
Aname with the glory of harvested truth
girl with Il picture, a man with a play,
boy with wolf he has modelled in clay:
smith with marvellous hilt and sword,
A player. "a king, a plowman. lord rs..go
And the player is king when the door is past,
The plowman is crowned and the lord is last =
I'd rather live In Bohemia than in any other
land; .sE
There are no titles inherited there
No hoard or hope for the brainless heir;
No gilded dullard native born
To stare at his fellow with leaden scorn
Bohemia has none but adopted sons
It's limits where fancy's bright stream runs
Its honors not garnered for thrift or trade,
But for beauty and truth mems souls have
made. .,..
To the empty heart in jeweled breast
There is value, maybe, in purchased crest
But the thirsty of soul soon learn to- know
The moistureless froth of the social show,
The vulgar sham of the pompous feast, r. .il
Where the heaviest purse is the highest priest
Where the organized charity scrimped and
iced
In the name of cautious statistical Christ;
The smile restrained the respectable cant,
When friend in need is a friend in want:
Where the only aim is to keep afoat,
And brother may drown with cry in his
throat
oh, I long for the glow of a kindly heart
and the grip of friendly hand.
And I'd rather live in Bohemia than in any
other land.
-Johl Boyle .OReilIy
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What DO You KnoiV?
QUIZ

QUIZ VS..
l. "ss New. .rfs is:m CHEN Client We nEGr'ht the Gees
:. What pSsision %h IN the British cabinet does
8. What is the official name Of Frances
4. What is architrave? ,t
o. What Is "Lloyd's"f Il,
O. How long before the signing Of the treaty
lea Was the battle Of Yorktown ffo1 fo1rkn nYer-
Z. What Is the derivation Of the word pIebiscitse
8. Who ssid History Is philosophy teaching By
o. What Is the French form Of Ghente
10. Who was the classical Eoddess Of retributiosY
Answers to Saturdays Quiz n
I. Elizabeth is Queen Of BeIgium.
2. In the United States u thousand poiIIt.-.
make a billion. In Great Britaia a hIIIlss
consists OF n million millions.
g. Louis Kossuth was q famous Iibertx -I.ys,.-
HaSr,nrsssn snor sds revolutionist. His dates an
4. A bihliopYIs Is seller of books. especially -
rare editions. =
8. The family circle Is the second tier In = ths.-
The nroSssass Sss%s.s The sah. s9sSsssSP part q
pine mountain system. - -
I. ''syno'' is the Scotch word for sincs
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0. Henry. Pharmacist

C. Aiphonso smith, the author of the o.
Henry Biography, has recently discovered
the. origin of o. Henry the nom de plume
OF the late William Sydney Porter. lie
writes that he had long suspected the source
of the name, but that his surmise was not
confirmed until he received the following
letter from DR.. Paul. Barringer, president of
the Virginia aPolytechnie institute. Doctor
Barringer wgitesia iAN y p,
at various fines In my life /, have run
upon chemical, analyses made -,by a Cont.
mental chemist who signed himself %.
Henry, While ,the substances under anal
ysis were adapted to use in the naterIa
medica. u ds;nos idea until yesterday that
the man was a pharmaeist In looking up
the preparation of hydrocyanic' acid in the
United States, Dispensatory. found in the
hands OF every drug clerk in the United
States, found (pages 60 and S9S) o. Henry
twice referred to, in short search. Seemingly
he was or Antwerp, as he wrote a good deal
for the Journal de Pharm d'Anvers. and
also Paris pharmaceutical papers In fact
/ find his trail from 1893 TO 1857, and he
touched many OF the lines southern drug
CLERK would be Interested in-auinine, chl-
chonlne etc,T Can II be possible that this
short, crisp, unusual name, that hits the eve
from the page, ever caught the eye of the
young drug clerk, Sydney Porter, and stuck
o. Henry. it looks like u vocative. The
edition OF the u. S. d., that / used in look
ing this up was the seventeenth of 1894 but
the dates show that Pharmacist o. Henry
has been In these editions from quite early"
Mr. Smith says that on turning to the
United States Dispensatory, which o. Henry
used when he was a drug clerk in his uncle's
store In Greensboro, n c.. he found frequent
references to o. Henry. He comments:
when 1t aforementioned that WIN Porter
had from early boyhood an unerring feeling
for odd and narrative names, as well as
faces and that he was filing prescriptions
from the United States Dispensatory when
he FIRST signed the'name o. Henry 10 a short
story, the evidence becomes, 1t seems to me,
practically conclusive that here and here
alone the pen name took its origin"
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How Long! How Long,!

How long o God shall We in madness creep!
How long in bitter hate shall we abide!
ON all the hills of earth in valleys wide.
Men bow their heads today and stand ana
weep,
While death its dreadful harvest still doth
reap;
Still roughly casting brother-love aside;
Still rudey pressing with an endless tide
OF horror and Of fear from deep to deep.
How long shall Peace he brusht aside by hands
That drip with human blood, nor heed the
plea
OF wife and child, of wounded-from the snip!
How long q God. how long shall cruel bands
BE rulers over all the land and sea.
And hold the weary earth in tyrants grip!
7 shall not attempt to form an explanation
concerning my ideas expressed in this poem !;
but one thing must be clear: That earnestly
feel that one man small group OF men
cannot and must not hold the world under
tyranny and keep the door closed to
permanent peace. Naturally, l refer TO the
"eieventfN paragraph" OF me npM1cE German Toh-
stitution. LOUIS H. hhoorNiNN
philadelphia. october is.
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To the Editor Of the Evening Public Ledger:
sir-As "The Day" the day of reckoning
draws near the question of Just reparation
occupies the thoughts of men.
Restoration OF recently and less recenty
stolen territory and indemnities for the mate
rial havoc wrought are already In the hnai
terms Of peace but in the mind OF the aver
age man there is a well-dehned fear that
the Allied Governments will not dictate con-
ditions which viii sufficiently impress upon
Ithe German people the enor1nity Of their
trimes for in snitc Of the many attempts 20
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The Big Show
Never Quits

Enjoyment seekers
The Big show who may chafe over
Never Quits the continued dark
ness of Phadelphia's
playhouses can, nevertheless, most prohtably
turn their attention TO the theatre of war
Cnquestionably it is offering the greatest
show on earth. and We have the stimulating
information that some of its leading actors
are in for exceedingly long runs.
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Quite True

Since the Germans
Quite True have just torpedoed
the American ship
Lucia which was supposed to be torpedo
proof, they may boast that they have been
able to sink an unsinkable ship. That is a
small thing, however, beside the beating of
an unbeatable Emperor.
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Self determination
The Uncertain Future among peoples suv-
gests a system of in
ternationalism that it will be pretty difficult
to work out. Recent agitations in Europe
suggest that II is about time Guam dug
itself in and declared itself a republic.
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No wonder the basis on which the Hun
garian premier wants Austria reorganized is
federal The accent on the first syllable of
that word explains it's charms in land
where even the rights of small nations have
been unconsidered.
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II the old and good
Oh Mani! friend of ours. the
Man in the Street. was
as thirsty for truth knowledge as he
seemed to be for drink stronger than coffee
when the saloons were opened for an hour
through a misunderstanding OF orders, the
world would be far pleasanter place TO
live in. f.se
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The intimations that Germany may ad-
journ her U-boat activities suggest the
spectacle of a brigand meekly reslgnins his
weapons to the policeman who has hand
cuffed him.
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In Harrisburg the
The silver Lining health authorities an
nounce issues of free
given TO betting we would wager that the
list of grip victims at Harrisburg will soon
reach a truly appalling total.