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HUMANISMS
BY WILLIAM ATHERTON DU p,-y

WHEN Senator Moses. of New Hamp.
w shlre, makes speech he tells this story
a woman leading a small boy by the hand
approached the attendant at the railway
station and asked him what time the next
train came through. The attendant slut
tering grotesquely, said
"T-t-t-t-two tiff. forty"
a htte while later the woman with the
chiIu ana the attendant came face to face
on the platform again. Again she asked
VIM MnaI tlihe tne train came through and
again got the hating response:
I-t-t-t-t-t-two f-f-f-forty."
les, third time they met and third
oime was the question answered and
=, "Bu, bu- bu but" said the attendant
whI WI why dd-do you keep asking
inc mat gu gu gu gu question:"
NY little boy" the woman explained,
lthes 10 see you work your face"
some such reason, says the Senator must
be back of his receiving invitations n sn"oL
mere Is poor scientist who has not gone
10 pea any night for twenty years wit6omt
over his head. ''''0 VI '' nsnging
lie says that judgment Of $1,000 m,,ht
worry him, but that SiO9 0oo nI,sns niain,
against him would be a Joke, "''A
ne mas been State Chemist for No..L
Dakota and has been speaking out IN n,;.t
"out io9us, et Cetera, that are not IabaIed
III accordance with the facts. There Is aI'
s ways laboratory test back of what bs
says, so he feels safe. "' "o
his name Is Edwin Freemont Iadd o,s
ne mas recently been sent by his cons,;tr anu
ehts 10 the United States Senate.
Frederick Simpich, United State. Cono,,,
npluS luS 'hat humor is provincial md thot w.,
Jokes OF one part of the world fam o,'i.e t,e
flat in another. 'u iail quite
J., 10 prove his point he tells Of sos.;,.o,
IN iurkey when, right in front ~ q a. a'stlVa,
which held all the dignitaries n TnnI. S@,anu @
from the crowd, fired point b,o IrN arose
officer and fled o'ahk at an
=, lie was pursued, overhauled and o..,,
lie was brought back, where nil con1J P1J1ureu'
WAS formally condemned TO dootb see
omClai' was summarily stood nm ",L an
couia see ana shot. He COLLAPSED Tn al
as Is the way when the small IMPLY,
snuffed out. ''"un Name is
likewise dld certain stout snoo.o..
from the outside, who was n "ptctator
tne ofclal party, collapse from h'per tho L OF
OF the scene. '' tue horror
Whereupon the CORPSE rolIod
at all. "o' peen shot
It was only Turkish sapstick M,
get laugh. II was extremely finnv % TO
their standpoint. 'uhhy from
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-07
AN IMPERIAL FORMULA SOUGHT

CONSIDERING that the federation ldea
~ EXPRESSED in the formation of tho United
States was once regarded by Britons with
either bewilderment or scorn, there 1s a
peculiar piquancy in the invitation extended
to Nicholas Murray Butler TO address the
Imperial Conference that is to open in Lon
don on June %.
The president of Columbia University Is
expected to talk OF consolidated govern
ment, to explain how it works--in word,
to clarity the meaning of our national motto.
The opportunities to be patronizlng on this
theme are dangerously obvious.
DR.. Butler. however, is probably con
scious Of these pitfalls and he should be
skllful and courteous enough to avoid them.
Besides his audience, or certainly those
members Of it who are Colonial" will be
sympathetic from the outset.
They have powerful reasons for seeking
information on federative machinery, since
by some such apparatus they presumably
hope to maintain ties with the London Gov
ernment without jeopardizing nationalistic
programs and ideals in Canada, New Zea
land. South Africa and Australia. Eng
land, too, much as she ordinarily dislikes
definite political formulas, is really In
search of one at this time.
DR.. Buffers credentials will. of course
be non official. He will appear at the con
ference as a private citizen of a friendly
nation that has survived and waxed mighty
upon the apparent paradox Of "out of many,
one"
English interest in this doctrine Of gov
ernment is now not in the least theoreti-
cal. A genuine desire exists to discover, IL
possible, the best means whereby the most
diversified and largest empire ever formed
can preserve solidarity by the simultaneous
process of both loosenfng and tightening the
bonds between its integral parts.
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AN AMERICAN ACTS IN PARIS

TNHE appearance of an American actor in
stellar role at the Odeon Theatre.
Paris. marks so radical q departure from
French tradition that President Harding's
congrstulatory telegram to James X. Hack.
EFT Is we'll warranted apart from its merely
gracious aspects. 1t Is no mean feat 10
overcome certain Of the zealously guarded
theatrical conventions of France, and es.
pecially those which give to the venerable
Odeon, the Second Comedie Francase, :"
its distinctively conservative character.
Furthermore, Macbeth" the vehicle
which Mr.. Hackett is employing, is so
conspicuously defiant of the cherished in.
hexbility Of the classic Gallic drama, that
the Government management Of the Odeon.
which extended the invitation, must have
given the matter deep and serious con-
sideration.
Unlike Hamlet" which the French have
on the whole accepted and which Ambroise
Thomas even had the temerity to turn into
an opera, Macbeth cannot be sentimental
ired. 1t abounds in brutal action, which
the French classicists have insisted should
be described. not actually presented before
the footlights. II is not even romantic
drama a la Hugo. Nearly all Macbeth"
ventures have heretofore been disastrous.
The brightest promise of success was at.
tanned at the Theatre Francais in the early
summer Of 1914. Paul Mounet essayed the
name part Nine. Bartet, one of the most
gifted of French trsgediennps. portrayed
Lady Macbeth, and the aged Mounet -Sully.
since deceased, was the Duncan. The pro
duction had achieved a measure of public
favor, when the war temporarily ended stage
undertakings.
The telegram dispatched by Secretary
Hughes aud expressing the President J
pleasure in the Odeon's innovation empha
sizes the ties npd international sympathies
which may be formed by interchanges of
dramatic talent.
France can teachlus much; respect for
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-07
HAILING AN OPTlMIST

CClENTlSTS are not quite sure where the
~ world is going, but some moraists know.
The world is going to the demnition bow
vows.
The world always starts for the demnition
bow-wows at the approach Of the dog -davs
Every dog has his day, and the day OF the
pessimist Is the day when his liver Ia slug
gish.
The man who views with alarm notes
gloomy signs of the times: Girls who paint
and vamp and are free with their conversa
ton; girls who wear short skirts and low
gowns; girls who dance unseemly dances
with light minded young men girls who
wear as scant costume as possible while
bathing.
But signs are sometimes misleading, 1t
may be that the road marked Bow WOW
Lane should be marked Health Avenue. +"
We learn from Paris that dressma kers
fool men for the most part) have designed
bulging draperies festooned to fan aroupd
the ankles as the fashion for next winter
And they indorse, moreover. the hour. glass
waistline, the concealed throat, the moose
neckband and leg of mutton sleeves
Think our girls will stand for it? We
don't.
Following the uniforms and simple clothes
OF war times, a sartoria reaction was in
avitable. Psychologists expected womankind
to swing 10 feathery frinpcries and pretty
furbelows. That the precise nature of the
swing should be just what 1t was only proved
that no mere man may hope TO gauge the
feminine mind.
And the swing. say what you will was,
tor the most part, healthful one.
Because the painted face is an abomina :
ton, the paint will disappear. But not so
the short skirt. THE short skirt" says DR..
Woods Hutchinson, "and the charmingly
graceful costume which has built itself up
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Answers to Yesterdays Quiz


!. Oscar w. Underwood is now the Demo.
cratic leader in the United States Sen.
ate. -
:. Pomology is the science of fruit growing
D. Arnold Won Winkelried was the Swiss
patriot, said to have decided the Swiss
victory at Sembach in 1886 by seilng
an the Austrian pixies he could reach
purying them In his own breast thus
making an opening in the ranks into
which the Swiss rushed over his dead
body. ' '''
l. charlotte Amalie Is the capital OF the
. c virgin Islands OF the United States
D. Slmony means the buying or selling OF
ecciesiastical preferment. The name Of
derived from Simon Magus, who sought
10 purchase spiritual gifts, as described
: ~, IN the eighth chapter of Acts. f.
o. Inc Magma Charta was the great charter
OF English personal and political lib
: m erty obtained from King John In 1915
& me word mayonnaise may be pronounced
may-own-nays." which is English or
fna-yown-nays," with the first "a" as
IN the word am. The latter pronun.
cation is French
D. Pontifex Maximus is one of the titles OF
the Pope. The words literally mean
greatest Bridge Builder The title is
an inheritance from ancient Rome.
Inc PontifeX Maxtmus was the head Of
a Inc college Of priests In Rome.
o. Gueux (Beggars) was the name taken by
the insurrectionsts In the Netherlands
IN the sixteenth century in the war
against Spanish rule.
~ william of Orange is the national hero
OF the Netherlands.
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around IL, is the healthest, most beautiful
and the most artistic woman has ever
known" And because of the freedom II
gives them, the doctor adds, the girls are
happier, better and more wholesome than
ever before.
With so many grouches around, It Is a
pleasure to meet a man who knows and is
still an optimist
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-07
What Do You Know?
QUIZ

l. What was the most disastrous flood IN
the annals of the United States? :
2 Into what river does tho Arkansas River
3. Who is the Republican leader in thu
United States Senate?
4. Who was in command Of the army which
wrested Palestine from the Turks IN
the World War? =
5. Who Is Sacha Guitry?
b. who ran for Vice President on the Pro.
gressive Party ticket Of 1912? -
" winch is the Nutmeg State and why Is Il
so called? -
g. Where is the greatest group of seal breed.
ing islands,
,. What name did the Confederates give 10
the famous ironc!ad Merrimac in the
Civil War?
10. What are the Eddas?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-07

Don V. Parker, pro.
BoOze's Place hibition commissioner
Now In the Home of Ohio, is apparently
A.. of the opinion that
me 'olstead act Is a great promoter Of
nome industry. He says that two years ago
mere mere were 100 stills in operation in tbs
state and now there are $4,000; and where,
before prohibition, there were POO breweriss,
there are now 200, 900.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-07

A Des Mo lines expert, addressing n
meeting of the American Institute of Actu.
aries, says the young man who bushes when
his girl COOS Is not suffering from love, but
from blood pressure, and Is consequently a
poor insurance risk, the inference being that
while figures do not lie, complexions may,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-07

Executive dissatisfaction with the
amount of the railroad wage cut NAV nor
be wholly unConnected with desire TO indi
cate that the cut was not deep enough TO
infect rates,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-07

Another evidence of the new Postmaster
Generals common sense is the fact that
PoStmasters have been forbidden to pIay
i-Spy. Postofhce is good enough game
for them
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We strongly Sus

We strongly suspect that Coxey's Army,
IL it marches again, will make no more of
stir In Washington than Cox's Army did In
NOVpmber
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-07

After reading interviews following n
recent Valley Forge conference one Is i'm
pressed with how rarely politics is discussed
when statesmen get together
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-07

A 20 per cent tax kick ought TO have
force enough to knock ont the belief of the
Germans that they didn't lose the war.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-07

Mineola's aviation accident indicates
that Fate invariably grows irritable and
nasty when fooled with too often.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-07

Pueblo gives confirmatory evidence of
the insignifcance of men in the eternal
scheme of things.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-07

Delaware County has awakened to the
startling fact that the life of child is more
important than the life of dog.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-07

1t isn't fair deal, The wonder of
Edison's QUESTIONABLE has lasted more than
nina dayS
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-07

There are those who wouldn't object to
the lingo quite SO much if he wasn't such
a spendthrift.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-07

Father is so modest an old fellow that
he let his day pass without drawing atten-
tion to it and nobody else was any the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-07

The hasty clock has already become a
COMMONPLACE.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-07

Palpitating Democratic
He Eats EN- Alive oficeholders will ex-
perience additional
sinking spells when they read the sensa
tional declaration of Senator Penrose that
his appetite Is good and that he eats every
thing that's set before him. Who knows
just when that man will start out foragtng?
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A FAMOUS GOVERNOR
The Pennsylvania Who Dreamed OF
a Railroad to the Mississippi and
Was Laughed At--His Vision
Realized Before He Died
Nv GEORGE NOX MCCAIN

DY A queer coincidence the ancestors OF
- General U. s. Grant, on the maternal
side, and the ancestors of General Horace
Porter, who died few days ago, were
Montgomery Countians.
Porter was a member of Grants staff
during the Civil War and his military Sec
rotary.
The great commanders mother, Hannah
Simpson, was born in Montgomery, County,
where generations of her ancestors had lived
from the time the region was wilderness
General Horace Porter was a Pennsylva-
nian born General Grant was not.
Horace Porter's distinguished career as
soldier and a diplomat, which made him, as
l remarked in previous article, one OF the
most eminent men ever born In this state,
was scarcely less notable than that Of his
father, the first Governor of Pennsylvania
under the Constitution of 1893.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-14

Price not the real test of economy You can best
reduce the cost of living in your home by purchasing
goods that standard in quaty-that will give you
longer service and greater value.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-14

The banquet OF the Industrial
clubs OF the Y. W. c. q, held Thurs
day evening was an enthusiastic
gathering for it celebrated the en-
trance OF the clubs into the central
field federation. South Bend is the
only city in central field that will
federate this year. In order 10 fed
crate seven special committees must
be working. each club must have 20
members and must work on a budget
basis. The banquet was in the ma
ture Of a recognition service and
was presided over BY Mrs. L. 5. Da-
Wis. chairman Of industrial commit
tee. Miss Jean Lamont, religious
education director pronounced the
invocation. The dinner was enliv-
ened by the individual club yeils
and songs In opening the program
Mrs. Davis reviewed the meaning
OF the federation and then intro
duced the federation council after
watch each club was introduced in
order OF organization: l. L. II. D..
from divers Quadrangle, from
Studebaker's. Blue TRIANGLE Re
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-14

Revelations of a Wife
My Heart and Ny Husband
By Adele Garrison
By Adele Garrison


at Mother Graham's tendency to at
tach the cognomons of the monkey
family 10 people with whom she is
displeased. For years Katie has
been that ape" whenever my
mother-in-law has been annoyed at
her, a condition of affairs which
seemed TO me sometimes a perpetual
state. The poor woman's mind just
now was an open book TO me. She
had been about TO attach the name
ape" 10 Mandy. With the thought
of the word had come a vision of
Katie's neat kitchen and unbounded
energy, and she had substituted an
other and more opprobrious word
for Mandy. l suspected that she
was suffering actual inconsistencies
for Katie, though no doubt when we
went back home she would nag the
girl as much as ever.
I'm just as sure as I'm standing
here that she'll bring those plates
in stone cold. with the fat of the
lamb chops CONCEALED all over
them" she said, her face expressing
such lively horror that I giggled in
voluntarily.
Forgive me, mother" I apollo
gized, as her face darkened. Il
couldn't help it. Mandy is so abso-
lutely impossible that she's ludic-
rous. You can't tell her anything
five minutes before hand, or more
than one thing at a time, and that
in words Of one syllable. She's like
a kindergarten child"
Don't insult a child's intelli-
gence," my mother snapped, but l
saw that my apology had appeased
her why, Richard Second has far
more mentality at this minute than
that girl will have in her whole life
time!"
That's a foFegone conclusion"
said lightly. "And now, if you'll
please come down TO my room a
minute and forget Mandy, 1 have
something about which l want your
advice. and youu have plenty of
time to get back TO her before she
puts the chops on the plate"
"Time!" she retorted That's the
thing you have most of when you're
dealing with Mandy"
But she soon forgot Mandy in lis
tening to the account l gave her Of
Lei!a's unhappiness and her pres
ence in Mrs. Lukens' guest room.
told her as little as possibly could,
but her curiosity was appeased, and
her interest wildly excited by the
sketchy outline l gave her.
"Of course, spend all the time
with her you want" she promptly
acquiesced. when I had prepared the
way for my absence from the cot
tage. And you must take her over
some luncheon. There's nothing for
YOU to do here, and / won't count
on you being here at all this after
noon. But you mark my word, IL
you'u ferret out the real trouble you
will find that the colored gentleman
in the woodpile is that Rita Brown"
1--WE no doubt you're right" I
said. trying 20 make my voice in6if-
ferently casual, and paying a mental
tribute 10 her shrewdness as I hur-
ried away.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-14

One thing / saw clearly when /
had finished deciphering Lillian's
code message. l knew that ] must
within a few hours meet Rita Brown
and bring her vanquished to Leila
to undo the mischief she had
wrought.
/ My mother-in-law must be taken
into my confidence, at least in part,
or 1 could not repeat 10 her the con-
hdences Leila had Historically pour
ed out TO me, bat l thought 1 could
manage 10 satisfy her curiosity
enough to enlist the cooperation she
always gives when she has a sense
! of being ION the inside"
found her in the kitchen, flushed
[ and perspirinG, experimenting Man
l dy. who was as leisurely and cool
and imperturbable as if she were
! reclining in "A hammock with the
latest novel l did not wonder at
Mrs. Lukens' willingness to lend the
dusky handmaiden-I guessed that
/ the chatelaine of the big house only
kept a maid because OF the frequent
attacks of giddiness TO which she
was subject. l also surmised that
when she felt especially well, as she
evidently did just now, she was glad,
indeed, 10 dispense with Mandy
dilatory ways.
AS my mOther-in-law met my eyes
I quickly yelled them TO hide the
smile I couldn't repress at the un-
equal contest she was staging. She
who had continually grumbled at
agile, industrious Katie, was now
having her first experience with the
incident, absolutely unimpressiona-
/ BILE servant which Mandy typified.
The old sayings. pouring water on
a ducks back" and punching a
/ feather bed" were exemplifed in
MANDY. Always smiling, always un-
ruffled. neither reproof nor praise
\ had any effect in changing the even
tenor OF her interest laziness.
MAY l speak to you a moment,
mother?" I asked.
A look Of actual relief flashed
over her confidence. 1 guessed that
she-who for years, in that now
I ages-remote period before the
/ world war had been the chateIalne
OF her son-in-law's establishment,
\ Applying almost military discipline
TO the maids-had received her first
real defeat in managing a servant.
Even Katie. who used TO flame into
wrath against her, had given her
enthusiastic obedience and coopera-
ton in housewifely tasks. Indeed,
I think Katie's unreasonable spirit
held Mothers Graham's unmistaka-
BILE housewifely proves in some
lthing like reverence.
"Ill be with you right away she
replied. Now. Mandy, see that you
heat those plates before putting the
hot chops on them"
"Yas'm. I'll remember Mandy
drawled. and my mother-in-law
waited only till she had closed the
doors behind her before bursting
forth into indignant expostulation.
d L never have seen anybody In my
life TO equal that-that-gorilla''
she sputtered.
I quickly depressed another smile
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-14
Personals
Philanthropy

Mrs. Charles G. sinison. OF La
fayette. Ind, VIII spend the week
end with her daughter Miss Frances
Simison. who is attending St Mary $
Academy.
Miss Sophie Hover IS in Chicago
where she viii attend the funera.
OF her cousin. Mrs. Barbara Metz.
ger.
Miss Nellie Anders, 40s n. St.
Louis blvd. had gone 20 Purdue
university. Lafayette, Ind, 10 at
tend the Junior Prom. While there
she viii be the guest Of her broth
er. Russell Anders.
Mrs. T. W. Grouse. 725 Park av.
has returned from Terre Haute
Ind. where she attended the fu-
neral services Of o. J. Becker. SON
in-law Of Mr.. and Mrs. w. d. Miller
of Terre Haute.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-14

animals 10 start something? we
ought to have pretty good circus
on our hands by this time"
She looked over the place where
three big white tents were shining
in the sun. and near which she
could see the animals, the elephant,
the camel, the giraffe. and the whole
kaboodle Of them gossiping about
themselves.
I'm. hm!" remarked the Mush
room thoUghtfully. But something
is lacking, II seems TO me. Two
something's Let me think for a
minute and a half"
Suddenly his eye fell on the flag
that waved gloriously over the big
gest tent. II know" he cried sud
denly. It's stripes. The zebra
isn't back yet, or the tiger"
The children were near enough TO
hear now and Nancy replied at once.
Yes, we know, and as soon as we
get these nice bears settled COM
fortably. we're going after Zippy Ze-
bra right away"
(To BE COontinued.)
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-14

serves, Purple Ribbon from Watch
Factory. and Chiakong from Misha-
waka.
The meeting was then turned over
70 Miss Leona Distler, president who
introduced the speakers Of the
evening. Frank Greene OF the
Chamber of Commerce spoke on
The Girls Opportunity in the Com
munity." W. L. Chandler OF the
Dodge Manufacturing m p y
spoke on Club Girls Opportunity OF
Service as Related 10 the Employer
Rev. Archibald Mcclure OF the First
Presbyterian church spoke on Club
Girls in Relation 70 the Church"
Music was furnished BY Mrs. John
Heintzberger on the violin accom-
panied BY Miss Gladys Waters.