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But In tho Mtms msgaslne a. K. Chester
ton nnswers the tjucstlon, "What Is iv bar
barian?" "The psychology ot the barbarian,"
he says, "la this! that, like tho lower animals,
he does not Understand reciprocity.
If I leaVe a bee his honey, ho may leave me
his sting. And he has not broken any con
tract, because bees, like Prussians, are bar
barians." So dcrmahy's most delightful man
Is a barbarian.
Professor Mucnsterberg makes this grace
ful thrust: "Every one knows the mild ex
pression of the faco of George V, and tho
gentle, melancholy features of Czar Nicho
las, and tho comfortable, phlllstlne expres
sion of President Polncare, and the pretty,
youthful look of Albert of Belgium." The
professor ndds that havoc has been wrought
In American public opinion by the Kaiser's
mustache, so formidable In cartoons.
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Political Decency ail All-party Issue
POLITICAL righteousness rises above
partisanship. Tho public Is learning tho
lesson every day. Even Penrose will know It
by November. Of course, the Senator has
never been so devoted to the Interests ot
party as to permit Interference with his per
sonal comfort or the welfare of his friends.
But that bipartisanship of his on which tho
liquor Interests have justly counted has re
ceived a rude blow from another and very
different sort of party alliance. The National
Popular Government League, Itself an or
ganization of men of all political creeds, has
voted unanimously to campaign against the
election ot two notorious candidates, i"
from each of tho two great parties Roger
Sullivan, Democrat, out In Illinois, and Boles
Penrose, Republican, hero In Pennsylvania
The Issue Is broader than party. The life
and virtue of our political Institutions are at
stake.
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Treat Turkey Fairly but Firmly
WHATEVER course may be token by the
L'nlted States In consequence of Tur
key's abrogation of the capitulations, it
should at least be definite and firm For
obvious reasons there is little continuity in
cur diplomatic policy, so far as wo have one;
hut that is certainly no reason for hesitancy
and wavering In dealing with such a ques
tion as that which rises out of the action of
the Ottoman Government. Internal condi
tions In Turkey are much disturbed, as Is
evidenced by the fact that several of the
principal American schools in that country
have been cut oit' from communication with
the outside world for more than a week; the
manner of the renunciation of the treaties
with European nations and the United States
Is not exactly encouraging to easy diplomatic
negotiation; and the conduct of Ambassador i
Rustem Bey, which may or may not repre-
rent the Turkish nttitude toward this conn-
try, hardly suggests mildness in our com- 1
munlcatlons with, ths. Government from '
Which he is accredited. As for Ambassador
A. Rustem Hey, he has been blandly insolent.
Our educational and charitable "Interests" In
Turkey, which were established tinder the
protection of a treaty now broken, are just as
Important as large commercial interests could I
be. The American people know com tiara- I
tlvety little, as yet. as to what the Admin
istration lias said to Turkey and how it has
been said: but there is no doubt that prompt
and decisive action on the part of this Gov
ernment is indispensable to national self
respect and the protection of our "interests"
In Turkey.
Leader or Bandit?
F WE aro ready for a little faith, the sit
uation In Mexico Is not so bad as It ap
pears. If we accept Villa's sincerity, he
seems to be striving logically for those thlngj
that ho has always stood for. Consistently,
through all his campaigns, ho has championed
the peon. And he has stood always for a non
military government to perpetuate his re
forms. Carranza has not given evidence of
carrying out the plans which Villa thinks
necessary to the salvation of tho peon. The
"First Chief has hesitated to Indorse tho
land program. Ho has shuffled over tho
military question: worse, he seems to have
kept his personal ambition squarely In tho
foreground. Villa Is demanding and with
what looks like success that the military
leaders, himself Included, be eliminated from
present or prospective holding of political
oillcc.
It Is a good stand that Villa has taken.
Why does It receive so little indorsement In
the United States? Primarily, because Ameri
cans have lacked faith in his sincerity. They
have thought him an ambitious man, bent
on self-aggrandizement. The evidence has
been his record or what Is said to have been
his record before the revolution. The one
wotd, "bandit, - done the trick. Yet It
is well to remember that the very conditions
in Mexico against which Villa Is fighting are
the sort to make our definition of "bandit"
next to useless. Many a Revolutionary
leader of 177t3 was technically a smuggler
against the navigation acts of England.
WHEN King George was still a midship
man In her Majesty's navy and his
brother, the Prlnco of Wales, since dead, was
known as "Collars and Cuffs," because of his
fondness for thoso appurtenances of every
day attire, tho twain were aboard a ship oft
Southampton. Wales was a sleepy head,
hard to wake, and one morning Prlnco
George found It well nigh Impossible to roUso
his brother In tlmo for tho usual Inspection.
Finally, driven to desperation, he bawled
out: ,
"Hey, Collars, get up! They'ro singing
'God Save Your Grandmother' already."
History falls to relate whether "Collars"
ever told Grandma Victoria.
THIS may be a baso libel on an honored
profession, but It Is told by tho man who
perpetrated the faux pas. Ho was a reporter
for n Baltimore paper or had been one for
about an hour, this being his first experience
In newspaper work when the city editor sent
him out to see Cardinal Gibbons. Tho "cub"
rushed down to tho modest white house
where tho venerable prelate lives and rang
tho bell. A man servant opened tho door.
"Is tho Cardinal at home?" asked the
reporter.
"No, sir."
"Oh, Mrs. Gibbons will do," ejaculated the
"cub."
Inatlng the phrase, "from the sublime to tho
ridiculous," yet Paine In his "Age of Rea
son" antedates him as foltows:
"The sublime and the ridiculous are often
so nearly related that It Is difficult to class
them separately. One step above the sub
lime makes tho ridiculous, and one .step
above the ridiculous makes tho sublime."
Tho "odor of sanctity" of old was some
thing more than a mere play of words. Su
perstition held that the body of a dead saint
emitted a sweet odor, while that ot one un
baplzed smclled offensively.
IN A SPIRIT OF HUMOR
DONE IN PHILADELPHIA
W!
Hail to the Braves!
PHILADELPHIA extends the hand of con
gratulation to the Boston Braves and
promises them a cordial welcome to our
city. It Is pleasant to have a new foe, the
first since tho Cubs fell before the mighty
prowess of the Athletics. Not the haughty,
metropolitan enemy this time, hut an em
bassy from learned, cultured Boston. The
world's series of 1014 will be unusually
classic. To the Braves all courtesies will be
extended; the keys of the Quaker City will
be theirs; everything but the title of
World's Champions.
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Reform the Patent Ofilce
NOW that Congress has torn itself regret
fully away from the pork barrel, It might
turn its attention to some matter in whl'h
there Is neither political profit nor an oppor
tunity to sandbag the Government, una of
these Is the American patent sstem. If any I
pub'ic service need reorganization it is the
Patent Of lice. There may be very good rea
sons for altering much of our uttitudo to. j
ward the vested monopoly of invention, but I
Congress need touch no such moot question j
In order to do good work in readjusting tho
laws and proceedings by which we try to i
stimulate Inventive genius. Let It merely I
make the present scheme workable. Yards of j
red tape should be cut away. Tho whole .
method of testing the priority of a patent '
should be simplified. Now It is only tho cor- j
poration with endless resources and a multi
tude of lawyers that can outlive tho ten or a
dozen mazes of legal ptoceedings through ,
which a cafe may be driven. And the public
Is quite deftiueless when a rich company
prefers buying and sunnresslnsr a natented
improvement to using It for tho people's ! TVTTi.M can wiinstanu me resistless
"Watchful ailing in the Philippines
INCE tho Spanish war too much partisan
rancor has been caused by the Philip
pine question. Political lines have been too
tensely drawn. It may bo granted that there
are essential and Important differences be
tween the two leading parties in respect to
their notions of "colonial policy," but broad
conceptions of national responsibility have
sometimes been subordinated to narrow, bit
ter partisanship. The real issue which hinges
on the Jones bill, now under discussion In
Congress, is not "Shall the Filipinos ultl-
mutely have self-government?" The bill I
does contain a provision which pledges ulti
mate .self-government; and a promise even
of something certain is rather dangerous In I
a case Kite this. But tho real question is, !
"Have the Filipinos proved themselves
worthy of a more liberal share in their own
Government?" That Issue does not call for
partisan rancor.
The United States assumed grave respon
sibilities when it took over the Philippines;
and In determining the future of the islands
Its responsibilities are fully as grave. It Is
Imperative that the mistakes of the Recon
struction Period in our own history shall not
be repeated. The Fifteenth Amendment Is a
dead letter for the very simple reason that
"previous condition of servitude" Is some
thing that absolutely must bo considered In
reference to any grant or extension of politi
cal liberty. Knowing the past history of tho
Philippines and something of the present ex
tent of Ignorance and barbarism among many
Filipino tribes, and knowing that the forces I
of democratic civilization have been working
there only a few years, less than a single j
generation, the United States should go
pretty slow in relaxing its civil guardian
ship. The slower the better.
State Conscience Wields Power
tender? A bon vivant? Or 'as Its dis
covery tho result of a drunken frolic?
The cocktail was invented by Mrs. Eliza
beth Flanagan, widow of an Irish soldier
who fell In the service of the American army
during tho Revolution. After her husband's
death, Mrs, Flanagan became an army sut
ler, following a troop of Virginia horse under
Colonel Burr. In the winter of 1779 she took
up quarters with tho troop In a place called
Four Corners, on the road between Tarry
town and White Plains, N. Y. near tho
demesne of John D. Rockefeller. There Mrs.
Flanagan set up a hotel which soon becamo
the rendezvous of the "swells" of that day.
One day the hostess surprised her guests by
announcing a new drink the cocktail sup
posed to have been named after the blending
of colors In the tall of a game cock.
EVERY' time King Mencllk of Abyssinia
was reported dead again, tho news re
called the Solomonic manner In which the
dusky potentate meted out Justice. Once two
of his subjects went to an orchard to gather
fruit. One climbed the tree and shook the
fruit down, while tho other gathered It.
Finally the branch on which the treed one
was sitting broke, and he fell on his com
panion, killing him.
Under the Abyssinian law, the relatives of
the dead man demanded a life for a life, de
clining tho proffered blood money. The case
went Into court and finally reached King
Menelik. When he had heard all tho evi
dence In the case, he delivered his judgment
thus:
"You are within your Ights In demanding
the life of tho accused. But the law says
distinctly that ho must be killed In exactly
the same manner ns was his victim. Let ono
of the dead man's relatives climb a high tree
and fall on the accused until ho has killed
him."
There being no volunteers, the accused was
set free.
AFTER many weary months two political
prisoners In the Siberian jail at Akaitoi
had dug a tunnel to that wonderful freedom,
so long denied to both. On the outside
friends were waiting them. Finally they
gained what they had sought. The one pris
oner was hustled away; the other hidden In
a barrel of sauerkraut and .shipped to
IikutsU. where lie emerged, odoriferous but
free. He managed to make his way to Japan
and thence to San Francisco. Eventually,
Gregory Gershunl came to this city some
five years ago. Accompanied by a friend ho
wandered about the town, seeing the sights
In the cradle of American liberty.
Slowly he walked along Fifth street until
he came to Independence Hall. Slowly he
read the Inscriptions of the tablets on the
walls. For a long while minutes he stood
in silence, the while tears fell down his
cheeks.
"For that, for liberty, for freedom, for
humanity we are fighting In Russia even
as you fought here," he said. "Even as you
won, so will we win. Even as your fore
fathers suffered for their ideals and princi
ples, so have we suffered and so must we
suffer more In the days to come, until free
dom come3 to Russia."
Means to nn End
"You taking cornet lessons, and BO years
of age?"
"Yes, but not for long. I expect to bring
tho young lady next door to terms within a
week, She takes singing lessons."
Never Fails
Life's grim perversity appals,
And makes one frown.
Tho darn fly paper always falls
Sticky sldo down.
Kansas City Journal.
"Life's cussedncss would try a saint,"
I loudly cry.
The painted chair I sat upon
Was not yet dry.
Chance for a Stout Lady
From llie Chicago Tribune.
Wanted Woman, clever, to fill vacancy
with large corporation.
Happy College Days
"Did you over do anything wicked at col
lege?" asked the first sweet junlorcss.
"We once pulled up a bed of jlmson weeds,
dear," replied the frcshmanette.
Modern Poetry
This a zag
Is zlg poem,
up,
runs then
Which first down.
(Old Milton didn't know 'cm; It makes the
printers frown.)
An Unkind Cut
Let us once more take a look adown tho
vista of time as the years unfold them
selves. .
It is the year 1923, and the women have
been thoroughly emancipated and endowed
with complete and Inalienable political
rights.
"She," remarked a cltlzeness, "has the
Presidential bee in her bonnet."
"She lias." added cltlzeness No. 2, "and
the bonnet Is dreadfully out of style, too."
A Winner
Thero was a man In our town
And he was wondrous smart;
There never was an auto that
The fellow couldn't start.
There never was a trolley car.
There never was a train.
There never was a vessel that
He galloped for in vain.
Applied Appellntivcs
"Mother," asked Tommy, "is it correct to
say that you 'water a horse' when he is
thirsty?"
"Yes, my dear," said his mother.
"Well, then," said Tommy, picking up a
saucer, "I'm going to milk the cat," Ladies'
Home Journal.
A Useful Invention
"I reckon," said Farmer Corntosscl, "as
how mebbe barbed-wire ought to be counted
as one of the most useful Inventions of the
age."
"For what rearon?"
"When there's a lot o' work to be done,
barbed-wire makes It Impossible fur a feller
to sit on the fence an' look on." Washington
Star.
How Firm a Foundation
Two Phlladolplilnns were talking! of the
fortune of a third denizen of that city when
one said:
"His first lucky strike was In eggs. Ho
bought 10,000 dozen at a low figure, put them
in cold storage, and sold them at a profit of
more than 300 per cent. That was tho
cornerstone of his grent fortune."
"Ah!" exclaimed the other. "Then the
hens laid it." Harper's Magazine.
Exposing an Epicure
The epicure provokes a smile;
He babbles on and will not hush;
He talks champagne and reedbirds whilo
The doctor feeds him oatmeal mush.
Washington Star.
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benefit.
Trifling With tho Telephone
TELEPHONING isn't what U was. It
won't even be what it is very lone, if
the inventors keep mi. One of them has
rpent 11 years on the misanthropic Job ot ,
turning out an attachment to detect the '
third partj who cuts in to listen to a little i
gossip With 9,000,000 party lines In use in !
the United States, the misery likely to be
caused by this single invention is appalling i
Worse btill, the same mechanism may be set
to cut off a conversation at the end of a
certain number of minutes.
And do any of us want the "seelng-by. '
wire" attachment that another of these busy.
bodies has Invented? Imagine the embar-
I X i power of the collective conscience when
1 men make an interlocking society of their
1 consciences. Public opinion takes the shape
of something that resembles an avalanche
in strength. Nothing Is more feared by
enemies of the public welfare than the com
bined moral sense of a State. Issues of the
campaign are supposed to be determined by I
this non-partisan morality, which represents
tho sound good sense of the citizen who
believes that "righteousness exalteth a na
tion but sin Is n reproach to any people."
The Illumination of this faculty, which co
ordinates the human with tho divine, ought
to be one of the purposes of the campaign
now making appeal to the people of Penn-syivanln-
Never talk war with your barber. Perhans
rassment of the five-foot man with the timid ' he is one of them
eyes who prefers to blow up the coal com- '
iny oer the phone! Contemplate tho con. ' And besides It Is a needless revolution, as
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of milady who likes to eluu with her I we already have a surplus of Mexican films,
is In boudoir negligee! How will the I
husband at the rluh lip .-thin m Mn,.n
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v id. old bluff of "detained at the office"?
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ejenius
It Is a pity that the domain of Santa CJaus
should be In the heart of the war territory.
Delligereut Footnotes to History
THE writers of each warring nation pre
sent a united front against the pens of
the enemy, and no quarter is given to per.
ions or peoples who wave a foeman's flag.
The literary conflict Is Interesting to watch.
Hugo Muensterberg, who usually backs his
v German propagandlsm with the name of
Harvard University, presents In one of the I
October magazines a most engaging picture
of "Emperor William, the Man." The
Kaiser's sense of humor, the beauty of his
domestic life, his marvelous intellectual
versatility, which surpasses even that of
Theodore Roosevelt: the Incomparable mag
netism of his personality all blend in this
portrait of "Germany" most delightful num."
About now look out for an announcement
that the price of coal will be Increased be
cause of the scarcity of labor In the mines,
due to foreign nationals being drafted Into
Imaginary European armies.
Writes the Colonel to SuUer: "The rea
son that I was reluctant to see you Instead
of continuing to communicate with you by
writing, was because I wished no ground to
arise for failure on your part to recollect
Just what I had said." Thanks for this
lunger and more beautiful verbiage!
Britain has yet to learn the lesson which
all nations must learn. War Is a terrible
thing, and the nation whit-h indulges In It
mu3t pay the price that staggers." as Presi
dent Kruger of the Transvaal put it. And.
above all, no war Is won until the last battle
has been fought,
HEN your gaze runs afoul of a male
adorned with a wrist watch and pink
socks and a purple necktie, think kindly or
unkindly of him it all depends upon whether
you swear by Thomas Carlyle or Oliver Wen
dell Holmes, both of whom have furnished
Intimate descriptions of the "dandy." Says
the- former In "Sartor Resartus":
"A dandy is a clothes-wearing man a man
whoso trade, ofilce and existence is tho wear
ing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul,
spirit, purse and person Is heroically conse
crated to this one object, tho wearing of
clothes wisely and well; so that, as others
dress to live, he lives to dress."
And now look on the other side of the
picture furnished by Holmes;
"There was Alclblndes, the 'curled son of
Cllnlas,' an accomplished young man, but
what would bo called a 'swell' In these day3.
There was Aristotle, a distinguished writer
of whom you have heard a regular dandy
he was. So was Marcus Antonlua so was
Sir Humphry Davy so was Lord Palmer
ston, If I am not forgetful. Dandles such as
I was speaking of have rocked this planet
Itko a cradle, aye, and left It swinging to
this day."
HICK brings back to memory that his
toric Joko about the American girl who
would not marry a British peer, declaring
that the "Yankee dude'H do."
BRADFORD.
Taling the " Gin" Out of Virginia
From tht New Orleans State.
By actual count 325 paragraphers up to
date have observed that the Prohibitionists
have taken the gin out of Virginia.
CURIOSITY SHOP
The word "factotum," denoting a man of
all work, dates back several centuries. Ben
Jonson in one of his plays, makes Tip ask:
"Art thou the Dominus?" to which the host
replies: "Factotum, here, sir." Foulls, In
his "History of the Plots of Our Pretended
Saints," 1674. says: "He was so farre the
dominus factotum In this junctlo that his
words were law."
In other days, apothecaries were called by
the name of Holus, because they adminis
tered boluses George Colman adopted this
name for his apothecary, who wrote labels
In verse, one of which was tho celebrated
"When taken.
To be well shaken."
But the patient being shaken Instead, died.
Although Napoleon I Is credited with oris-
with
Violated Neutrality
"Why, Johnny, what's tho matter
you?"
"Wo had a free fight, mother."
"What do you mean?"
"There's 23 flghtin' nationalities In our
school, mother, and only three stayed neu
tra!." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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The Open Season for Idiots
The hunters now will get In line.
Their turn will soon be heio;
And every cow will wear a sign.
"Don't Shoot Me, I'm No Deer!"
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Indeed our beef will be so high
This warning will be heard
As cows go sailing thro' the sky,
"Don't Shoot Me, I'm No Bird!"
Now York Mall.
If Cost-of-Llvlng bars the way
And throttles Love's sweet tune,
Why, then, to Cupid men will say
"Don't Shoot Me, I'm Immune!"
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Hotel Child
After several years of hotel life, Prrclval's
parents took up their residence in a city
suburb.
"What aro you doing, son?" tho mother
asked him, when Percival came Into the
house one afternoon.
"I was Just out on the front porch," re
plied Percival, "listening to a man with a
pushcart paging blackberries." Judge.
Constructive Diplomacy
A certain diplomat, perceiving that the
peace of the world (loud laughter) depends
upon a nicely adjusted equivalence of martial
bristling on the part of the Powers severally,
was much concerned over the nronensitv of
superdteadnoughts to become obsolete al
most before they can be got Into tho water.
"A Htiperdroadnought which Isn't up to the
minute no more makes for peace," he con
fessed, "than a last year's car makes for
social prestige."
He' thought a moment. "The amount of It
seems to be," he reflected, "that obsolescence,
as It affects naval construction, Is too vital
a thing to be left to develop In its own way."
A llttlo moro and inspiration descended
upon him. "What we need." ho declared, "Is
a great many international conventions reg
ulative of the tooth of time, so to render ll
mordancy less marked."
In short, he was from that moment among
the rar company of the world's really con
structs e diplomats Now York Evening
Post.
ALTHOUGH THE SEASON OF THY LIFE
DECLINE
Although the season of thy life decline,
And this thy body show her wintry night,
These springtime suns will grant perpetual
light.
Nor ever coldly on the Illy shine.
Nor ever coldly on this fienh of thine;
Earth's children take no unreturnlng flight.
Yearly the primrose halls thy yearning sight,
Yearly each hedge restores the eglantine.
And though thy brain and body tire and fall.
And though Death make a harvest of thy
dears.
And hang his slcKIe near thy door by night
Uefore thee then new mercies will untell,
New hands, full of old kindness, stay thy
tears.
New eyes console thee with the old love,
light.
Edith Anne Stewart In London Nation.
WHEN a small news Item announced a
few dnyH ago tho death of the driver of
tho first police patrol wagon used In this city
I havo no doubt that many who read tho
report were rather nstonlshed to learn that
this adjunct to tho Police Department had
been Introduced so long ago ns 30 years. An
other generation has grown UP since that
time, and It cannot properly appreciate con
ditions that existed here before this system
was Introduced,
MAYOR WILLIAM B. SMITH, Who did not
dlsllko tho title bestowed upon him of
"The dandy Mayor," was responsible for
many reforms In tho Pollco Department.
When ho enmo Into office In 1884 this was
before the days of tho present city charter
tho Mnyor did not have the authority which
tho Bullitt bill has given him. It has been
said with moro truth than romance that In
thoso days tho Mayor was llttlo more than
tho chief of pollco so far as his authority
went.
Probably that Is why Mayor Smith pnld so
much attention to regenerating tho force.
Thero wero only about 1500 policemen in 1884,
and tho city hnd long outgrown so small a
protectlvo force. Even tho small army of
police today Is scarcely adequate. In 1881 tho
present era of expansion In all directions In
the city was beginning, and It becamo ft
problem how to protect and patrol so largo
an atca with so small a force,
ONE' of the first things that Smith did
when lie went Into office was to reor
ganize tho poilce dress. Ho had entirely new
uniforms designed, mid n part of this now
equipment was the helmet, only retired for
the moro military cap a few years back, lie
oven went so far as to change the buttons on
the uniforms, which were not of brass but of
a white metal. He Introduced service stripes
on the sleeves of the men of the force to show
how long they had served. New badges were
designed, ns well as a moro modern uniform
for the higher officers of the police.
For the first time a physician was attached
to the Police Department. Mayor Smith ap
pointed the late Dr. Morris S. French pollco
surgeon, and the first work assigned to him
was the physical examination of every man
In the department. Lectures on first aid to
the Injured followed, and Doctor French pre
pared a little guide for the policeman em
bodying the main points In these lectures.
All this reform, Introduced 30 years ago, Is
In lino with modern practice. In cases of ac
cident, or attempted suicide, It Is the police
man who Is first called to the victim. In tho
old days he did what he could, but If he were
clumsy or had no genius In this line he was
worse than useless.
Now all this was changed. He had at
tended lectures, and where he had failed to
understand ho found some useful hints In
his little book that stood him In good stead
at a critical time. He also had been In
structed in bandaging; he had directions for
restoring persons apparently drowned, and
ho carried a list of antidotes for the most
familiar poisons.
in true prayer Unselfish petition for ih
well being And happiness of others.
Ldter Bill asked Fred If ho had over con
out on a hot, dirty tramp and on comin
homo enjoyed tho thrilling sensation n- J5
exhilarating bath, "Well," continued nil
'that's just tho way I feel when I pray, i
B
UT even with all these improvements,
the fact remained when a patrolman was
taking a prisoner to a police station or an
Injured person to a hospital, his beat was
unprotected for an hour or even ns much ns
three hours. More delay was caused by the
necessity of taking "drunks" to tho police
stations In whelbarrows, when they wore
too much under the Influence to walk. To
reform a condition such as this was a real
work of civic betterment, and having
learned how successful the pollco patrol sys
tem had worked in Chicago, Mayor Smith ad
vised that the system be adopted here. Lale
in the year the first patrol wagon was In
stalled In the Third Police District, und Its
first driver was Alexander Boyd, who died
h few days ago.
The system Included the telephone, which
In 1884 was not in general use even In busi
ness places In this city. Consequently tho
pollco patrol system was moro than a mcro
reform; It was a radical change. The patrol
man went to a little box, telephoned to t'le
station for the wagon and remained at his
post. Tho plan also provided a system ny
which tho police reported every hour to show
they were attending to business.
THE Introduction of this system was as
good as a hundred extra men on the force.
By the end of Mayor Smith's term there
were eight patrol wagons In tho city. There
was still need of many more, but he had
made a decided step toward efficiency.
At first, when tho wagons were a novelty,
tho drivers believed they were expected to
respond as rapidly as a fire engine. As this
was found to wear out the horses unneces
sarily, nfter tho many runs In the courso
of tho day. a moderate rate of speed was
ordered. The plan proved to bo the best
adjunct to the police department up to that
time, and with tho Introduction of motor
wagons tho efficiency has been again In
creased. Although Mayor Smith was Im
peached, he did a good work, and thero are
still living persons who bellevo that ho was
a "dandy Mayor," GRANVILLE.
The Kaiser: Bad or Incompetent?
From the Columbia (S. ('.) State.
The Germans continue to protest that they
did not want war; that tho Kaiser was for
peace.
If we grant the truth of tho claim one of two
conclusions Is inevitable:
First, that the Kulser was grosMiy Jncampe
tent as a conservator of pence and ought to
abdicate so that some more Intelligent German
can Ko on the Job, or
Second, that practically the lest of Europe
was wickedly and Ineanely eager to muku war
upon him.
In tho latter caso It must bo confessed that
the Emperor boa failed to so govern his rnipho
tluit nthe"' nations would not lmto It. or elso
that other nutlons ure alogcther bad while
righteousness Is a (ioriiiuu monopoly.
Accepting the Emperor's own premised It
seems to follow that if not a bad he U an in.
competent ruler.
THE IDEALIST
"Prayer," said a simple Japanese convert
"Is like the two buckets of a well. When ono'
bucket Is sent down empty the other bucket
comes up full."
And there wo have the true concept of
prayer. Not only is it Imparllve; It 3 re
ceptive. As ono gives one receives.
Two young men wero camping u ule
woods. Neither was wlmt Is popularly knuwn
as a "churchgoer." They wero Just two
average American boys healthy, alert and in
for a good time. y u '"
When bedtime came one of tho boys knelt
down to pray. The other looked on in im
cere amazement. As tho kneeling lad arose
from his prayer his companion was gazlmr
tlxt-.rilv lit tho L-ramwl " bUZlllg
feel that tho real 'self ot me had boon nut
t,iiawv0i i ,n,ntouiH uut-t:aH x nul TH
freshed, now all oven'
VIEWS OF READERS
ON TIMELY TOPICS
Contributions Tlint Reflect Public Opin.
ion on Subjects Important to City
Slate and Nation.
To the Editor of the itvenlnp Ledoeri
Sir In view of tho fact that the vote In Vir
ginia makes cloven States that have gone pro.
hlbltlon through the non-pnrtlsan Influence of
women on the votes of men nlono, how can the
suffragists circulate such ridiculous appeals ns
they sent out recently?
Of tho nine suffrago States, none Is prohibition
but Kansas, and it went dry thrco years before
women got the vote there. Colorado, Oregon,
Washington, and California, suffrage States, ntl
rejected prohibition, and Wyoming, whore
women havo voted 45 years, never voted as much
ns one county "dry," Can Dr. Anna Howard
Shaw or nny of the other suffrage leaders tell
your newspaper why?
If only 58 per cent, of tho Colorado women
hnd voted against the saloons In 1912, prohibi
tion would havo won by moro than 6000 votes,
without one male ballot In its favor. Why didn't
the women voters there represent truo womnn
hood fiS well as tho male voters have In trials
suffrage States?
Only i per cent, of tho registered women In
the whole city of Chicago voted on September
9. Can any sane person bellevo that tho other
9J per cent, are rcpicsentcd as well by tho f.
male politicians and feminists as "they aro by
their own husbands, fathers) sons nnd brothers?
Why aro Denver, Chicago and Frisco "wide
open" on Sundays7 Uccauso the kind of women
that want to ape men like such "freedom,"
EDWARD TOAL.
Ardmore, September 28, 1914.
HE WANTS SUNDAY AMUSEMENTS
To the Editor of the Evening LedgeA
Sir Knowing nothing whatever about tho mat
tor, I am, of course, competent to discuss the
question of Sunday amusements. I realize at
tho outset that It Is wofully wicked to enjoy one
tiny or rest a wcok. I know that seeing a gams
of baseball between healthy-minded youngsters
will send mo to eternal domnttlon. I feel, too,
that If I were to spend an hour watching mov
ing pictures or world's events I would slzzl
In the sheol of past ngca.
And yet, being a brave man, I would willingly
take a chance on the hereafter In order that I
might e.scipe a typical Philadelphia Sunday ths
dullest, most horrifying day of nil tho week.
Truly, I'd rather work than pass a Sunday In
tlilo town.
Is there no hnppy medium on which the Blue
Stockings could meet tho sano Sundayltes and
arrange for religious observance until, say, 1
o'clock, and decent, orderly amusements after
that hour? Or. is this city to remain retroactive
and blue-lawy?
MICHAEL E. PHISTO.
Philadelphia. September 29, 19t4.
WHERE IS THE FRENCH NAVY?
To the Editor of the Evening Ledger:
Sir Like many readers, I havo been puzzled
to account for lack of a sea battle In the Euro
pean war. We nil expected England's great
r.avy to do something spectacular when Church
Ill first gave It sealed orders. But so far noth
ing has happened beyond a few petty engage
ments. Germany's fleet is apparently able, by
means ot the Kiel Canal, to scuttlo back and
forth from the North Sea, where England waits,
to tho Baltic, where the Russian navy is not
strong enough to do any damage. But where
nil this time nre the French ships? Why have
not tho combined navies of England, France
and Russia been able to close up both ends
of the tanal and cut Germany off from Inter
com se with Scandanavln, across tho Baltic?
WILL BOND.
Camden, X. J September 29, 1914.
A SHOP GIRL PLEADS GUILTY
To the Editor o the Evening Ledger;
Sir As a saleslady, I have been much Inter
ested In tho letters appearing In your columns
regarding the treatment of customers. I was
pleased, of course, that a shopper should admit
litr occasional feelings; but I feel wo girls owe
it qiilto as much to her to admit that very often
wo are far from courteous or patient. Some
times, ot course, H is not our fault. Standing
nil day at work gets on one's nervew. But often
wu are merely "soured on life," and let out
our feelings on the customer. F. A. G.
Philadelphia, September 23, 1914.
A COMMISSION FOR PHILADELPHIA
To the Editor of the Evening Ledger:
Sir Thero Ih ono wry plain lesson from the
rnniblc halls" grab. Philadelphia needs a
commission form oC government. She needs to
be nlilo to put her finger squarely on the man
or men who plunder her. She needs the chance
or electing a few good men like the piesent
Maya,, Instead ot a drove of nondescript pro
fessional politicians, she needs to get respon
sibility and business efficiency into her govern
ment. A commission Is tho way.
II. L. PLUMMER.
Philadelphia, September 29, 1914,
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NATIONAL TOINT OF VIEW
No greator opportunity has been offered
American genius by tho exigencies of the
European war than Is to bo found in the
great chauco for the development of real
dye manufactures. Washington Times.
Even In baseball It Is good to get out of a
rut. New York's failure to win tho Nutional
League pennant for tho fourth time In suc
cession in from that point of view a boost
for the game. New York Tribune.
Let the suggestion of B. C. Forbes, of New
vork, find response everywhere In America. He
says: "To keep every American worker fully
employed and every honest American business
man prosperous, demand 'made In Amorlca'
goods. This Is self-defense and true patriotism.
Dctioit Free Ptess.
"Bill." said the ono who had not praied
'I hope you said one for me. " ThJ ... '. .?
bore a suggestion of tho Jocular
"Fred,'' replied the other, "80 per cent of
my prayer was for jou. If I had prayed for
myself I would not feel nearly so nappjVnoT
nearly so much at peace with the whole un?.
verse us I do now." ""'"
Whlth brings cut the great big substance
Tho praises of mlllturlsm, still sounded In
certain quarters, aro strangely like the
laudutlons of negro tdavcry which were
heutd In this country on the evo of the Civil
War which was to abolish It forever- In
both cases, that is to say, whut was at first
apologized for us a temporary ovll is held
up Inter as the highest good. New York
Evening Post.
The President has been notified thnt if he
insistH on the passage of the Government
owned merchant marina bill Congress will
not bo aide tu adjourn before tho November
elections. This means that tho ship-sub-sldlsta
are Improving their strungle-hold on
a Democratic Congress and that It will take
a long tight to shako them off. This being
tho situation, why a surrender rather than a
fight? New York World.
Times of stress produce strong men, and
the "Pancltu" Villa of other duys is now the
strong man of Mexico. If he was an unlet
tered Indian, nevertheless he is the suldier
who destioyed the power of the conspirators
who hud seized the government If he was
a bandit, nevertheless he hus been loyal to
the political doctrine of the murdered Ma
dero. If ho was a tro in politics, he gtes
evidence of statesmanship sufficient to lead
him tu recognize the value of tho long suf
foring good will of the United States toward
the Mexican people. Boston Herald
The administration of the Treasury Is
highly educational occupation, and Secretary
McAdoo is giving signs of readiness and
cupai-lty to learn. Tho banks which he as
aisted with Treasury funds hae bo far
ubused his trust in them that he has dis
ciplined them privately and threutens to da
so pubhcl. He gave them public funds tot
a public purpose tho moving of the crops
and they have diverted them into private
purpose, the heaping up of excessive Tf
scru-s. New York Times.