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indication of the strength and stability of a

indication Of the strength and stability of
nations Government.
The mark In normal times was worth ap-
proximately twenty four cents. Now it is
worth about five -eighths Of cent It's
current value has been reduced by almost OO
per cent in the last six months. The Ger
man financial situation was never so un-
promising as it is at the present moment.
A formal announcement Of default in in
demnity payments would surprise no Informed
observer if it were to come out of Germany
tomorrow.
Meanwhile, the Wirth Administration IS
being furiously attacked by radicals ana
reactonareS. And radical and rcactionary
can find new means of popular Indictment in
the increasingly hard times which the de-
cline of the mark brings to the German
masses For, with the decline of her money
values, the purchasing power of Germany is
reduced and the people are confronted with
new difficulties which cannot be overcome by
any merely physical effort of theirs.
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Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

l. A commensal is one who eats at the same
table, an animal or plant living Hs
another's tenant and sharing its food.
. The word should be pronounced with the
accent on the second syllable.
8 The Magdalena Is the chief river of the
Republic of Colombia, in northern
South America. 1t rises in the Andes
and flows in a general northerly dircC-
ton to the Caribbean Sea
4 The Republic OF Ecuador is named after
an imaginary line. the Equator ECua-
dor means Equator in Spanish
r Irrigute means to refresh with moisture
or liquid. Irrugate means to wrinkle
G. The Battle Of the Wilderness occurred in
a region in Virginia south Of the Rapi-
dan River, The engagement between
the Fedcrals ana the Confederates n,
the Civil War was fought May 81,
?, "QuTicIni sabe" is Spanish for "Who
Rnows?' II should be pronounced
"kee-ain sah-bay,"
g. Columbus discovered America, repre-
sented by an island In the Bahamas
on October l2. 1872 Old style. or
October 22, according to the present
GreBorian calendar,
o. '1ooming," IN airplane parlance, is to
climb rapidly at a very steep RnEle
10. sinapism is another name for mustard
a plaster. from the Greek word "sinapi,"
mustard.
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Today's Anniversaries

l63o-Lord William Russell who was one
of Englnnd's noblemcn charged with high
treason, born. Bchcadcd in London July Il
1893. '
l13S-Lord Nelson, Ensland's greatest
naval hero, born in Norfolk. Killed at the
Battle of TrufNlgar, October 81, 1SO5.
1S3o-Jamcs X. Jones, United States
Senator from Arkansas and chairman of the
National Democratic Committee, born in
ton, y. C.. June l. 1908.
1S53-Nearly 800 lives lost in the wreck
Of tn" cmigrant ship Annie Jane on the
BHrra Islands.
1S6S-Reyolution in Spain and flight of
Queen Isabella H.
1S9G-A hurricane and tidal wave nearly
destroyed Cedar Keys, Fla
l"OO-S0mMcl +. Cary, Grccnback noni
nee for Vice President in 1876, died in Gin
cinnnti, Born there, February *, 1914
19l9-The Prince Of Wales left Van.
COuVer, Is. c.
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Today's Birthdays

Hon. Michael Patrick Cashin former Pro.
micr OF Newfoundland born ut Cape Broylc
y. f., tftY-scvcn years ago.
Frcdcrirk |. Thompson, the Mobile news
paper publisher whom President Wilson np-
born at Aberdeen, Miss, forty six yCars no"
Captain Nohl" +. Irwin. l.. s. s., Tho
new commandant at the Portsmouth Nnvv
Yard, born at Greenfield, O., tfty-t ycars
ago.
Gabe T.. Parker, former Register of the
Treasury. now superintendent Of the Five
Civilized Tribes, born In the Indian Terri :.
tory forty three years ago.
DR.. Charles =. Howe, 'president of the
Case School Of Applied Science, born at
Nashua, n. H., sixty three years ago.
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Exception to Rule Is Large

However the cXcCpton-the one in ten
who has neither home nor job-aggrcgates to
n pretty large number. Each year about
1000 men come to us for aid. If, on the
part of such men, there Is any sincere inten-
tlon Of keeping clear Of further crime. the
problem is Immediately resolved into one of
finding them employment. and Secondarily OF
building and encouraging their moral and
physical strength. both before and after jobs
have been found for them. Despair is per-
haps the most dangerous of the faults that
the average ex convict needs to be kept
from. and regular and hard labor, earning
regular wages, is the only genuine rcstora-
tive of self respect and self confidence. 1t
is the greatest sentative for mind gone
wrong.
Since nt present it Is hnrd enough for a
man without a prison record TO find himself
a job. the work Of helping cx-Convicts has
become peculiarly difficult in its most i'm
portant phase. We must sustain and sup
port and encourage n larger number Of men
and for longer periods, until they sustain
themselves. We must use this attention
and oversight ut the time when our subjects
are helpless and on the edge of the despair
that would convince them that anything,
even prison is better than an unreCognizCd
attempt to live honestly. Some Of such
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What Do You Know?
QUIZ

/ What Ia the correct pronunciation Of Dali
Eircaun?
.. Where does this body meet?
3 What Is a postern?
4 When was the Panama Pacific Exposition
held and where?
Whnt Is the origin Of the question, "Can
the Ethiopian change his skin the
leopard his spots?
6. After what Queen Of England was Mary
land named?
: who were the Modes?
s. What is the salary Of the Speaker of the
House Of Representatives?
O. Who Is president Of the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor?
10 Where was Gilcad"
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quently justitcs the economy of talent dis
played. "Taensel und Gretel," little gem
Of its genre, is something very like per-
manent contribution to opera.
1t has been said that the personality Of
Humpcrdinck was dry and in social relation
ships uninteresting-an another instance Of the
Teutonic paradox which even wars fail to
cluCidatc
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HUMANISMS
By WILLIAM ATHERTON DU pUy

HARRY TASKE goes about hummng all
i L the while and II one is so discriminating
ns to take note Of the airs that emanate
from him, he will find that all of them are
classic music, mostly from the operas OF old
Italy.
Washington society editors did not know
this when they gave Harry Taske space N
their columns a few weeks ago alongside the
elect of official and diplomatic circles. They
merely noted the fact that Mr.. Harry IasEe
was at luncheon with the President OF the
United States and the first lady of the land
Had they followed that luncheon guest
after that great event on his way back to
Marion. O., the lifting airs which he sang
would have been found more Joyous than
those of the mocking bird of the Cumber.
lands through which he Travelled, for be It
known that Harry Taske but few years
ago was a humble Italian immigrant land.
ing in America in search of his fortune
few years later he was prospering IN ouS'
ness in Marion and at the time when all the
world was gathered around the front potCn
Harry Taskc, president of the Business Men
Club, offered hospitality to many who came
to that shrine.
But within him the music Of the land Of
his birth persists.
Victor Murdock, of Kansas, used to be
NOrH III Tue icsh VI Sohe's" n..,kI,,on
the revolutionary progressive KepuolIcan
faction.
Now he is the only red headed member Oh
the Federal Trade Board. ,,..
During the war he was in Europe Writing
pieces for the magazines, for Mr.. MurdOvA
is nothing if not versatile.
He visited the birthplace OF shakespeahs
and wrote an article, entitled avon "
Wartime Alan,
1t seems that the pheasant crop is partlcu
larly good in this part of England, and tner
il a beautiful legend to the effect that thes
phcasants forecast the approach of disaster
and on its eve cry out in the night. IhH
had shriekcd increasingly during those sum
forecast a flight of Zcppelins that nau
dropped bombs on the countryside. :.
Mr.. Murdock put his soul into the writ
ing of this legend, but he rode Pegasus
a fall. When 1t appeared the printer hau
metamorphosed "phcasants" into peas
ants" and the warn had become ridiculous
.,,.
Senator Key pittman. of Nevada, say
that the turning point Of his career was co,
incident with SOmcrSaut that he turnea
over the Judge in the trial of his hrSt Case
in Tonopuh twenty years ago.
Tonopah was brand.ncw mining toHs W..
and he arrived there with nothing Vut M .ho u'o
shingle. Ills hrSt case hhu 10 uo WI. WV
ownership of $50 and he succeeded IN pfeSSc
inc down the LAWYER on the other side, wRu
denounced him as "shyster.' hst nsni ni
cnsucd in which the two lawyers tum,DFs o.
sWiyCi chnlr. A., oo,,r+ sboII he sus.
lhC aighitS OF IT, o"T T,Goo Goo' t"Wn"re !. that
romtrmnt statnte?'
oorId pnt And thn statute Thc cOmbatSe
attornrys both pleaded ignorance Of tn,
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Th"r" * nothing particularly noteworthy
in the fact that ten year old ArdmOre bow
was arrested for stealing cigarettes. It is
woodshod may cure. But there is humliat-
Ing significance in the fact that fifty mem
bers Of his gang Btormed the police station
and demanded his release. Youth appears
quick to acquire the lack of respect for the
law which has manifested itself In mobs in
all parts OF the country all too frequently
for the peace Of mind Of thoughtful ,nen. :.
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MORE TROUBLE IN GERMANY

rs THE fall of the German mark to un-
i precedsnted levels merely a preliminary
to the heavier fall of the present German
Government
In almost all the European capitals it is
hslng ihcitly adipItted that the moment of
a profound chang rs approaching IN Berlin.
The value Of 4 ron'a money Is the trYest
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Born Criminal Is Rare
Let There Be llnht

From the Washington Evening Star
Enough publicity is desirable in connection
with official gatherings to prevent unfounded
rumors from making hcadway under a theory
that one mans guess as to what happened
Is as good as anOther's
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Professional Jealousy

SummCr rose yester-
Professional jealousy day to remark that
she is not dead and
that the calendar fhs. How the righteous
may be traduccd The calendar speaks
sooth Summer is dead. 1t is but her ghost
that appears, though a most excellent ma.
tcrialtzation. But Nature grumbles that
her drama of Tho Seasons is not a ghost
show and summers desire to stay in the
spotlight is cumming things up. She is
positively running the fall transformation
scene. The leaves are falling before jack
Frost has n chance to color them. Aren t
these thcspians the tcmperamental lot?
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ALBERT n. VOTAW
On the DISCHARGED Prisoner

TN THIS time of unemployment things go
L harder than ever with the convict just
out of Jail. Albert II. Notaw. secretary, of
the Pennsylvania Prison Society, the Oldest
and one of the largest Of such societies IN
the world, speaks on some aspects of the
problem.
Generally speaking" said Mr.. Notaw.
II should say that there is a good deal OF
sentimentality wasted on discharged prison
crs. Nine out of ten leave prison with def
mite places to go to and definite notions of
what they intend to do They rcjoin the
gangs with which they were associated be-
fore their conviction or, on the other hand, go
to relatives or to old friends who have been
arranging the processes that will get them
back into respectable society. In the hrst
case there is little that organized humani-
taranism can do, and in the other little that
il need do,
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\ roncn,.y discharged prisoner from Sing
sing has been returned at his request so
that the jail physician may continue treat
Iron.. lie does not wish his recovery to be
retarded by fear of the size of the doctor 5
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Theoretically. economy in government is
urnay, n4ost desirable; bur tAo tart that the
Sair,.tng Board has fired 300 employees since
la>t Dcrcubrr and is preparing 70 drop 1000
.anvD docs not botokcn much desire "a sim
u.iv tic work of the Washington conference
,r ,rcI.T,iOI,4Cnt.
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Fate got out her little hammer the other
night and. striking while the iron was hot
afflicted Old Forge, y. y, with seven
Simultaneous fires, skunk and n dense fog.
V&crc WAS n hot time in the ".d town, but
,.r iug wa in bad OdOr.
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\ speaker at recent luncheon in this
civ declared that private rights are not
Dclng assaiied 10 much BY Reds as by
Leg! !SlutVreS and courts. Who, we rise to
trqu!rr. who rOpped his hoocN:
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ot Gcrman. made toys for ruo Christmas
holidays arrived here the Other day on a
LAP from Hamburg. But Why wal, for
rLI,srmue: Why not giYe '.rm - The
LtLnI1s nt ArmiStiCn DANE
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\ Chicago couple QUarrrIrd over naming
,.o baby and went 70 court. lie wanted it
lHm.4 NIadislaw; She preferred Charlie
Tie ro.gt told thcm they must compromise
T.ry rrmryomis"d by naming it Charlie
Bg, why g. 70 court: The answer j., youth
and Husband slow in learning.
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Somebody fired thirty shots at So
,!aist Deputy at Bari. Italy, and only one
took effect. Isn't it strange that after SO
much war there should be sticking around
So poor shot?
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SHORT CUTS

One never can tell. Perhaps the Limi-
tation Of Armnments Conference may give
birth to something almost as important as
the World Court of the League of Nations.
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Japans naval plans are said to be 50
a to make her the peer Of all sea
Powers II may be that the bombing Of the
Alabama is designed to prove to her how
foolish she is
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THE KLUX is QUITE DEAD;
WHERE is THE UNDERTAKEN?
Daylight Has Killed Wizard Simmons
Organization and Congress Should
Quickly Bury X

DARNUM was right. The kCaGlcs of the
- Ku Klux. therefore, will continue their
furtiyc klcagling for a while longer and the
machinery of Wizard Simmons canned hate
factory will continue TO grind for time by
the force Of its own momentum.
But the Klux is dead. 1t is dead in the
South, the North, the Fast and the West.
And its end has been snEularly undignited.
The Imperial KleNGottc, Mrs. Tyler, has
quarrelcd violently with the chief publicity
agent. Mr.. Clarke. and the noise of the
bruwl. with all its revelations of sordid greed
and general illiteracy, has overtowed the
boundaries Of the imperial reservations into
the columns of the Atlanta newspapers.
Wizard Simmons is morose in his palace
the palace that the money Of dupcs bought
for him.
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LUCK IN RACING
A Horse That Paid for Himself In His
First Race--A Search and Seizure
Game That Failed-Bob inger.
soils mistakes Of Moses"
BY GEORGE NOX MCCAIN

DOWN nt Havre dc Grace last week n
- horse named "Ticaccy" came under the
wire first, netting a fat wad to a lot of
Philadelphia politicians who took a chance
on the entry.
'Ticacey' paid $37.55 straight. The
horses owners likewise made n good haul.
Behind the performance lies little ro-
nance of the racing stables.
The horse. big black gclding, was entered
by the Triple Springs Farm.
The gentlemen who own II are Senator
+. +. Joyce, of Lackawanna. and BILLY
Gallagher. chief clerk of the State Senate.
Their activities In politics and their wide
acquaintance may have been responsible for
the sentiment, rather than cold judgment,
that led lot of City Hall officials to back
the horse at the Maryland track.
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Spending Money
To Save 1t

4 bomb weighing
Spending Money 1000 pounds is to be
To Save 1t dropped by an air
plane off the Virginia
Coast, and Government experts will make
observations and arrive at certain Conclu-
sions. \ demonstration with so large a
bomb will cost lot of money, which, at first
glance, seems money thrown away. But If
the experiment proves that it is futile and
foolish to spend $4,000. 900 on dread :
pought which may be destroyed at a single
blow, then the experiment is wise one and
worth all the money it costs.
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JTNNOTICED by the pair was third gen.
y tleman, stranger, in the smoking COM
partment,
He rose and going back to where the two
intended victims were chatting he unfolded
the scheme he had overheard.
Il don't know any of you, but i couldn't
sit by and hear a job like that put up, even
as a joke, on couple of gentlemen as well
known as you are
The revenue agent stroled through the
car after while. failed to notice the three
grips described and returning to the smoking
room gave his friend acing for making q
fool Of him.
There are no grips in sight" declared
the official. I'm the one that's been double
crossed"
mo, but honest the grips are there. One
Of EN- is mine, with my initials on it,"
retorted the joker.
Then he sauntcred back to investigate for
himself.
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s0TICACEY," wherever he got his name

t0TNICACEY," wherever he got his name,
i is still mystery, even to his present
owners, and had been a rank failure on every
track.
On the last day of the Saratoga races,
although showing creditnble form, Joyce,
Gallagher & Co. bought the horse for $500.
Bud Fisher, the Cartoonist, who has
risen to the point of affluence through his
pencil and India ink brush where he can
maintain Il racing stable, sold the gelding in
disgust.
Senator Joyce and his partners bought
Ticaccy with the idea of putting him in the
steeplechase class.
In a tryout the animal showed such speed
and form that he was entered in n six fur
long traightaway to see what he could do.
Backed by his owners and running In a
fair purse, the horse paid for himself in his
first race by pulling down the purse.
What's the answer?' inquired CHIEF
Gallagher when asked to explain why horse
that had been a failure for Fisher should
prove prize for Joyce & Co.
Replying to his own question he con-
tInued: Il give it up. But that's the
way race horses sometimes do. Maybe it's In
the handling or riding. Anyhow 'tisn 7
often you hear of horse paying for himself
in his first race. Eh?''
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When the exposure of the Kux was un
dNrtaken no one suspected that the back
ground of the organization would prove to
be SO mean, so utterly without some saving
element Of honesty and carncStness as it has
proved to be. Even an honest dclusion would
hav" redeemed the squalid scene, if one were
discernibIc among the hackers Of the Klux.
But neither Mrs. Tyler nor Clarke nor
Simmons was deludCd. They got the money.
They still have it.
Deusons were for the kontributors, the
folk whose heads were turned by the sort
of mummery and mutterinS and tawdry mas
qucrndc which boys often devise for their
amusement and put aside when they are
twelve or fourteen years of age.
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"DoN'T talk to US, was the chilly reply
"Why? What's the natter" he inquired
in some surprise.
no explanations are needed" was the
further rCjoindcr. "You'll oblige both Of us
by keeping as far away ms possible.
But | insist" continued the now very
much disturbed joker. We've been friends
for years and demand to know the reason
for your attitude and words.
Then they told him Of the discovery of his
Ill timed attempt at fake search and
seizure.
do you Imagine that two gentlemen MS
we'll known MS we are would submit TO the
indgnity Of being searched for liquor in a
railroad carr" said the legal gentleman.
I'm done with yOu,' was the indignant
finale as the speaker turned his back and
gazed out of the open window at his side.
but what did YOU do with the grips? l
don't soc en-. Where dye hide 'em:' in
uuired the alleged funmnker.
I'VE didn't hide them. Rather than be
humiiintcd We opened the window and threw
out our grips
And where's my grip" he gaspcd
I'VE threw it out with the others
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6 GyTHE other question, Mr.. IngcrsolI, i

q NTNHF OINVT QUtHIIOT' WI TTBVTHOIT, IS
/ this the cripple continued;
"'If | we're out on the pavement on n
frcczing. slippery night, with no rubber on
rho end of my crutches and every instant in
danger of falling and | met YOU, would you
Won take me by the arms and help me
.Why, I'd help you home, to be sure.
I'd be wanting in the attributes of manhood
md n common humanity If | didn't was
Colonel Ingcrsoll's earnest reply.
:, "Then what am | to do?' continued the
u,rv.necked man. Your lecture on Moses,
if believe you, will knock my crutches from
nnder me-I mean the crutches Of the Chris
tian religion. It's all I've got left
y" Don't give them up. Stick to your
crutches,' said Ingersoil with smile as lie
shook hands with HIS questioner and turned
away" s4tl
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A MEMBER of the bench who Is noted
"A for his polished wit md rare anecdotes
tells the following prohibition story:
having mutual friends. tastes apd accom-
rlishments we're invited recently to spend
Sunday with a friend on the Main Line
between Philadelphia and Coatesville.
"And bring q grip or suitcase that will
hold n couple of bottles,' was the injunc-
ton accompanying the invitation.
Following delightful Sunday in the
country the trio started on the return home
Sunday night each with couple of brown
quart bottles In his grip. They were an
evidence of their hosts friendship. and his
idea Of the eternal fitness of things.
In the smoking compartment one OF the
three met an old friend, an officer in the In
ternal Revenue service.
Instantly he suggested n fake search and
seizure on his friends back in the car.
Il just want to have some fun with en-, y
said the joker. You'll recognize EN-. There
are three grips piled along the seats"