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NATIONAL SPIRIT RUNS HIGH
IN PATRIOTIC PHILADELPHIA.
Til mail who said “in the midst o£
tho war’s alarms” —surely had in mind
the year of our Ixird 1917 —for besides
the wars, the atmosphere, the papers
rather, are surely full of the alarms.
1 find that one’s news horizon is
bounded by the papers one reads and
tc some extent one’s viewpoint tinged
by the same. Now I do not care for
tfie Philadelphia papers—they are apt
to be stodgy, and one is like an hyster
ical woman, exclaiming and railing.
But mostly my news comes from them,
and by news I mean war news. Is
there any other news? And lately the
stodginess seems to have vanished and
the hysterics seem to suit me more. 1
wonder if, we here in the city of
brotherly love are more thrilled at the
impending war than other places?
The presence of the interned Ger
man vessels and their crews gave a
fillip to the imagination, and when
aome of them attempted an escape,
excitement ran high. Previously the
arrest of persons who had smuggled
docks from one of the vessels into
home et a German In the city
startled everyone—so that until they
wore sent to Georgia, dear old bone
dry Georgia—we were in daily thrills.
(Certainly war-fear seems spreading
and catching, even I have joined a
preparedness league and am going to
>nke the Red Cross training for first
aid. You start out intending to keep
your head and not to be stampeded
into feeling a lot of things about the
war before it even comes—but can
you? I can’t, so the notice of the
Patriotic Meeting to be held in Inde-
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It's Marvelous
Y ouCan Hear
So Distinctly yjt\
“No, I am not visiting
in the city. lam at home
almost five hundred miles /
away. We have just had a
Bell Telephone put in and I
couldn’t resist calling you by
Long Distance. It’s marvel-
ous that we can hear each other as distinctly
as though we were in the same room, and
the Long Distance rates are so reasonable!
“I really don’t see how we ever man
aged without a Bell Telephone. All the
merchants and every one we know uses the
Bell. It has saved me thousands of steps
and hours of worry already.
“It’s worth the cost simply to be able
to sit at home and visit with friends hun
dreds of miles away.”
Every Bell Telephone is a Long Distance Station.
--s'
By SALLY MAY AKIN
SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE
AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY
BOX 4, ROME, GA. / ,
I pendence Square, April 31st, stirred
I me, and I decided to go and get some
of the enthusiasm (excitement) out of
my system. I went, saw, heard and
I was all hut smashed —this letter was
i begun the day after while full in the
interest of it —my ardor has cooled,
I've recovered physically from the
three hours standing, but as an inter
esting experience it holds in my mind.
At the-front of Independence Hall
was the grand stand where the nota
bles, invited guests, and speakers sat;
at the right of ttffe square is the Curtis
building, big and modern; on the oth
er two sides are the older buildings
representing a more picturesque stage
of architecture. At the two corners of
'he square were the recruiting stations
for the Navy—a tent over which was
an enormous sign, ‘‘The Kansas Needs
Men,” a band in front and crowds of
people all around.
The papers state that there were
20,000 people in and around the square
I can beileve it for I cir nlated
around quite a while and at least
10,000 impended my progress toward
the stand, close to which 1 was deter
mined to get—l wanted to see Gerard,
who was down for a speech.
Ropes and many policemen kept the
people off the walk and in order to
get close to the stand two ropes had
to he passed and I had no permit.
After awhile two ladies got out of a
victoria and started tow r ard the stand.
The victoria was about the vintage of
1890, the ladies, though dowdy, had
.what Katherine Hush calls, “the look,”
so 1 recognized my chance lay in trail
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ing them. A word to the police fiom
them and under the rope they went,
with me a close attendant; a word
from the police and the crowd fell
back and we three in single file, (me
the last one) went up to the second
rope right in front oLthe stand within
fifteen feet of the speakers’ stand,
they passed under and I stopped, right
where I wanted to be, and any how my
nerve had given out and when that
happens it is time to stop.
I've seen two inaugural parades
from a seat right across the street
from the president’s reviewing stand.
I saw the big historical Hudsou-Fulton
parade in New York in 1909 from a
seat close to Governor Hughes’ sec
ton of the reviewing stand. There
were fifty-two floats and forty-three
bands and every band played the Star
Spangled Banner as it passed the gov
ernor and every one stood up, -so that
one’s memory of it all is “sitting and
standing.”
I hung out of a fourth-story window
rn Fifth Avenue with Mr. Granger in
1910 and saw T. R.’s home-coming wel
come which was enough to turn his
head, and did; but this time I stood
with hoi polloi and saw what I saw.
Presently 1 managed to get from the
pavement to the grass which made me
a few inches higher and I could clear
ly see where Mr. Gerard was to stand.
This was at 1:30. It w-as a beautiful
day; the spring feel of the air was
good, the scene around the square was
fine —in every window, on every bal
cony, on every housetop people were
crowded; from every window on ev
ery hand floated flags. Bands heading
leng processions of school children
which marched around the square and
into Washington Square where they
sang-patriotic songs.
Slowly the grand stand filled; un
fortunately the notables weren’t labled
so I, with the rest of the hoi polloi
didn’t know who was who. A file of
Veterans came in, two ebony-hued
ones among them, and were greeted
with Programs having the
words of America, Star Spangled Ban
ner and Columbia were scattered
around so that at the proper time we
could sing. The crowd grew denser
and swayed as crowds do. I couldn’t
get my coat pushed down from my
shoulders, couldn’t get my arms up.
The sun grew hotter. A woman fainted
and the Red Cross men got her out.
Most of those 10,000 who has gotten
in my way seemed pushing against
my back. A nice black old woman,
fiom Virginia by the sound of her
voice, was impaled on my left shoul
der blade—(my coat now wears her
imprint). A young workman in front
of me suggested that I brace myself
against his shoulder—l was already
plastered there —still we stood, the
sun grew hotter, the crow'd surged,
the crowd that was waiting for Gerard,
the only man who ever called the Ger
man bluff and got away with it At
intervals someone would call out,
‘ Here he comes” and we would all
surge forward and the police would
yell, “get back, get back.” I was be
ginning to think of the comfortable
seats from which I’d seen other func
tions, for it was 2:30 and thirty min
utes after the scheduled time for be
ginning.
Suddenly—
With a blare
Across the square
The Star Spangled smote the air,
and with a roar the crowd greeted
the strains and the sight. From some
where Old Glory had been set loose
and floated far above us apparently
unattache*} (though three kites above
li explained)—and some one yelled,
‘hats off” and “stag” and they sang
and something inside welled up in my
throat an<l ran out of my eyes and I
could not slug!
At intervals a hand somewhere
would play and we'd feel enthused
again and really the setting was stir
ring. The old Independence Hall with
all its memories in front of us was
enough to stir one.
At 2:45 the speakers arrived and
there was a sigh of disappointment at
the announcement that Gerard was ill
and couldn’t come. Senator Hiram
lohnson looked all the fine things I
read in the paper the next day that
In had said, but I didn't wait to hear
them. T heard the hand in the street
playing ‘‘Marching Thru Georgia” ana
I left. I reached out and grabbed a
policeman’s sleeve and he got me out
>‘ the crowd and under the ropes. And
after forty minutes I got to and across
Market street and took the subway for
the station. And the next day I rested
—I needed it.
* *
The -playing of Marching Thru Geor
gia seems such a stupid thing—but
they don't mean it the way I feel it.
And can t see why we feel anyway
about it.
* * *
And now it is war—Philadelphia is
ablaze with flags, every auto carries
two or more, every person wears one
or a button. Even the churches have
them out. Here two of the churches
have had forma! flag-raisings, ou Sun
day after the services. A!1 the congre
gation gathered out side and sang Star
Spangled as the flag went up.
All the bridges are being guarded
and this morning—Easter —at the
early mass at the Polish Catholic
church war had intruded itself for in
the procession were nine National
Guardsmen; but recruiting Is slow.
The papers here are having hysterics
over German spies and Ex-Mayor
Blankenburg and Governor Brum
baugh, both German-Americans are is
suing patriotic statements and pleas
for “moderation and justice” so to
speak.
* * *
The German-Americans are in a
very unhappy position. It is to be hop
ed that as a nation and as individuals
we will hear that in mind. Take our
own little tow-n. The Scheuers have
been good citizens for over thirty
years, having the respect and confi
dence of us all; they are painfully
placed, may they not be made more
unhappy.
* * *
Two weeks ago I one night,
while waiting for the Symphony Con
cert, to the British-Relief Bazar. The
l ilion-jack and the Stars and
Stripes were everywhere and crowds'
and crowds of people. The bazar re
minded me of the bazars Miss Marian
Smith and Mrs, Brumby used to get
up for the Cherokee Club, only the
people at this one didiy’t seem to be
having as much of a good time.
As I went down the steps I passed,
and stopped -to watch a man who was
gazing raptly at a picture of King Ed
ward. He walked up to the picture and
very reverently took off his hat and
bowed—thus does one love a symbol.
One of the attractions of the bazar
was a reproduction of Bobbie Burns’
cottage; another a tent holding sou
wniis of the battle fields in France.
lan Hay spoke one afternoon at the
bazar, drawing immense crow r ds. He
is clear and tactful in what he says,
also interesting, his “Getting togeth
er" a good expression of some of the
issues between us and England. Read
it.
* * * #
A faint ripple from the Russian Rev
olution has touched here. A young
Russian Jew in the country only about
seven months, comes to the library
sometimes. 1 know the woman who is
teaching him English and got her to
bring him on© night to help me select
some Polish books 1 wished to get for
the library, and he very readily told
tiro in halting English his history. He
is ‘from Kiev—has been a political
p’i-oner in Siberia and told some in
to esting details of his life there. lie
and his wife —who has herself been
imprisoned—w r ere among the revoln
t’.nary, or progressive thinkers, and
he was sent to Siberia for having cer
tain forbidden books in his house. He
is highly educated, has thought a great
deal and suffered much. For months
he has been trying to get in touch
with his wife who is in Kiev. He
could hear nothing, though money
had been sent. With tragic earnestness
ho said, “I have been a soldier, Rus
sia will not turn her soldiers loose, my
wife will not be allowed to come, I
shall not see my boy again.” When I
said the people of Russia will be bet
ter off after the war he replied, “Rus
sia will never do anything for her peo
ple. I came to this country for free
dom, now I cannot hear anything from
my wife and child.” Eater he heard.
She had received the money aad wa -
coming and the pathetic look left his
face a little. Now—the revolution! He
guesses his wife has known of it, that
it was coming but couldn’t tell him.
He has missed the thing he lived for —
ha* taken out his first “American
Papers”—and the freedom he wanted
has come—to his own country.
ALL CHILDREN LOVE
“SYRUP OF FIGS" FOR
LIVER AND BOWELS
Give it When Feverish, Cross, Bilious,
for Bad Breath or Sour
Stomach.
Look at the tongue, Mother! If
coated, it is a sure sign that your lit
tle one’s stomach, liver and bowels
need a gentle, thorough cleansing at
once. ,
When peevish, cross, listless, pale
doesn't sleep, doesn’t eat or act natur
ally, or is feverish, stomach sour,
breath bad; has stomach-ache, sore
throat, diarrhoea, full of cold, give a
teaspoonful of ‘‘California Syrup of
Figs,” and in a few hours all the foul,
constipated waste, undigested food and
scur bile gently moves out of its little
bowels without griping, and you have
a well, playful child again.
You needn’t coax sick Children to
take this harmless “fruit laxative;''
they love its delicious taste, and it al
v ays makes them feel splendid.
Ask your druggist for a 50-cent bot
tle of “California Syrup of Figs,”
which has directions for babies, chil
.tUen of al’ ages and for grown-up;
plainly on the bottle. Beware of coun
terfeits sold here. To be sure you get
the genuine, ask to see that it Is made
by “California Fig Syrup Company.”
Refuse any other kind with contempt.
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