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, a resolution is a good thing In Itielf, out a
resolution carried out U far better.
Rotten Hoso and Politics
THERE) is rotten hose and plenty of it In
Philadelphia. The rosponslblo offlclala
Jiavo said so, and there Is no reason to doubt
their accuracy. Only the splendid esprit do
corps of the Flro Department and the excel
lence of tho personnel have prevented serious
losses and maintained the splendid record for
flro prevention which Philadelphia has en
Joyed for many years.
The parsimony of Councils, however, la
-without excuse. It has neglected a very ob
vious duty, and by so doing has menaced tho
entire city. Its bitter antagonism to the re
form Administration, tho oxcoUence of which
haB made It a red flag to the Organization,
could be no excuse for Its obstinate refusal to
supply necessary hose. It Is humiliating that
a protest of tho Insurance companies should
have beer necessary to bring Councils to a
recognition of Its duty.
But this sort of thing Is what gang rulo
means- It Is what tho people vote for when
they cast their ballots in favor of puppets.
Probably Philadelphia will get some new hoso
now, and It Is better late than never, but how
much longer are the necessities of the mu
nicipality to be sacrificed to the petty politics
of gentlemen who are always ready to sub
ordinate public Interests to their own prefer
ment? Concentrated War Must Be Short
THERE was never a war like this. Battles
formerly wore fow and far between. "When
, the Union and Confederate armies fought for
, seven days about Richmond It was so unusual
( an event that tho contest took Its name from
the fact. But war now Is one long, continu
ous affair. There Is no end. The thunder of
the guns Is constant. Day and night they
bolch forth their messengers of death. Thero
1b no roat for man or motal. These modern
battering rams arts as persistent as the sun
In Its course.
And therein lies the hopo for early peace.
The casualties have been exaggerated, but
. accurate analysis still leaves them stupen
dous. Cars which bring up fresh troops do
not return empty. Their Journey back Is reo
" ognlzed by the stench which precedes and
follows them. The life of tho guns also la
short. A hundred discharges will ruin most
of them. Such a saturnalia of destruction
must Inevitably wear Itself out. It not only
exhausts the nations' human resources, but
It wastes with appalling quickness their ma
terial means. It Is war continuously at Its
l supreme moment, a constant crisis, beyond
the power of human stamina and nerves to
l)n maintained Jong.
There la more fighting now In a week than
"Sthero used to bo In a year. A year's war now
Is a hundred yearn war in concentrated form,
tfhero win be peace In exhaustion and ex
Ehaystlon Is certain.
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Councils Refuses to Help Unemployed
JfTlHB Mayor has shown Councils how nearly
JU nam a million aouars can do maae avan-
, able for the relief of tho unemployed. The
,TJnlted Gas Improvement Company would
spend that sum in substituting gas for gaso-
lino lamps. This wonfd result In the saving
i annually of thousands of dollars for the city,
' and It would also mean better lighting.
The unemployed are clamoring for work.
Theyneed It In order to keep body and soul
- together But Mr, Connelly, who a few
months ago prated so nobly of what he would
do for these men, actually does nothing ex
cept block the plans of other people who sin
cerely favor helping the needy. For the Or
ganlzatlan, which was once so prone to
squander public funds, now has the economy
mania. Its policy Is to starve tho Adminis
tration into ineffldenoy. If a few thousand
mm also starve meantime, what difference
' does that make? The Administration, how
ever, can bo depended on to da everything
- ,Tvoslbl to relieve the situation despite the
jf fiu&traotloni3t tactic of the Finance Com-
rttee,
Molljcoddle Government Means Chaos
MOLLYCODDLE! government means no
government at all, but disaffection, re
bellion and eventual chaos. This la as true
tn a democracy as in other forms of govern
v went. Republicanism does not mean timidity
ttt the enforcement of the law, but rather full
liberty In the people to determine what the
t Jajf ebnH be.
, a We are not Inclined to take too seriously
raMrts of disturbances and conspiracies in
, -atJIn Philippine, but it Is apparent that the
KtatUudes of Washington, repeated and taken
- seriously in the islands, have already bad the
effect that every student of conditions there
predicted months ago. Some of oar polltl-
rtnns save managed to oeuvtnee tb Filipinos
tost our role la a tyrannous thing, whleh no
aoJ peopte would eadur. and thy av
nfoiicJbd tn doctrine of BMtFUatte until
, lata have actually succeeded 1b loatJleatBg
jpt th&t semi-barbarous population tb tA
f ret.liwn
It in ae of the tcajredUM of Aatertaut
sUatcsiiwsiiiP ttuat at a time wfeen the demo-
nvii ...!) lmeut la Mexico te proving on-
vifa-Ji'x.i ti.ar rreedoci canot tk conferred
qa t vi 't t uc o!Ut be earned by theu. our
$. iurie t .v hi sfrtedit.g a pfurtesfewfo
VUxr t faeu iac of dUciplto U tn
S- n tMtmMt u i ctrtttio inure would b
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EVENIKG LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, BATTTRDAY, DECEMBER MjJWIl.
refusal to look facta In tho face. Ho will
have nothing to do with them, and he will
permit them to have nothing to do with his
theories. Not onco so far in his career have
events Justified his analyses, but In every
great issue ho has espoused he has been
found on the wrong side. It la tho ort of.
morality which Is eventually extreme cruelty,
for In It thero Is nothing but disappointment,
disillusionment and disaster.
Tho fatuous Philippine policy of the Ad
ministration Is Mr. Bryan's. He Is responsible
for it. If disaffection thero becomes general
or dangerous, It must bo rememborod that
the seod of It was sown and nurtured here at
home, within the continental limits of tho
United States.
Give the Nntion a Definite Policy
THEIIE nro commissions studying alt ques
tions except thoso which are Important.
Nothing so makes tho mouth of Congrcsn
water ns to provide for a board of experts to
Investigate and examine Into successful busi
ness, but any suggestion that an unsuccess
ful Industry, one which has rotted under the
hardship of law, be aided, Is received with
polar Iclncss.
Our merchant marine has confessedly
been starved to death. It has become ema
ciated under a system of unparalleled exac
tions. Onoe a great Industry, It has bocomo
something we are ashamed of. Tear after
year we pay our toll to foreign carriers, .whllo
our own tonnage languishes. As a remedy
the Administration proposes that the Govern
ment buy and operate merchant ships. It
docs not want to build the vessels at home,
which would rehabilitate tho shipbuilding in
dustry. It does not expect that the lines
would pay exponses. It merely understands
that the poplo are determined to put our flag
onco more on the high seas, and It proposes
to satisfy tills demand In what is at onoe an
easy and an extravagant way. Let the Gov
ernment pay the freight until the freight
pays for itself, then turn the profitable busi
ness over to private corporations.
Tho Evening Lkdoek has repeatedly urged
tho appointment of a commission of experts
to recommend a definite national polloy, non
partisan and no more dependent on elections
than the bonking system is. Such a com
mission, for Instance, wopJd bo quick to see
that many of the disabilities under which
American ships now labor could be overcome
by the use of Internal-combustion engines or
oil as fuel, under modifications of the ex
isting laws relative to the number of the
crow. It would also bo able definitely and
authoritatively to point out the advantages
which foreign ships have over our own, tho
way In which equalisation can be procured,
what Government aid In the form of payment
for mall carriage would be necessary, how to
make, the merchant marine a powerful sub
sidiary of the regular navy, how to officer
ships, etc
But Washington prefers to piddle along. It
does not understand the problem, and it does
not want to understand it. The Secretary of
the Ntwy Is even convlnoed that nautical
terms are confusing and shouldibe abolished.
Nevertheless, the party that stands for sensi
ble rehabilitation of tho merchant marine,
without quibble or fear, Is the party that will
be Indorsed overwhelmingly In November,
1916.
Get Off the Track
A DISTRIBUTION of more than 00,000 to
employes Is an event of moro than ordi
nary Importance, and the John B. Stetson
Company, which thus commemorated a half
century of productive activity, Is an excellent
examplo of American, and particularly Phlla
delphlan, energy and thrift. Doctor Brum
baugh was especially happy In his congratu
latory address. "This country does not need
the voice of the pessimist," ho said. "When
you find a man who can see no good In
America, you had better help to bury that
fellow alive. And when you bury him, bury
hliri face downward, so that when he tries to
dig his way outho'll keep -going deeper."
Tho Governor-elect, however, need not fear
that many of the pessimists will try to do
any digging out. They aro not built that
way. Their Inertia Is absolute, and It Is In
moaning only that they display any vigor.
Tho country has had Its fill of them. They
growl and gnash their teeth in season and
out of season, and if Industry were dependent
on them there would not be enough smoke
coming out of the factories to soil a handker
chief. Between them and the muckrakera it
la a wonder that even the everlasting hills
are left standing.
Away with them and their complaining.
The country is waking up. It is looking
ahead, pushing into openings, striving for new
business and stimulating the old. The war la
doing something to counteract the effects of
present tariff law, and with business off the
operating table it is the consensus of opinion
that the time has come for a sprint. There
Is a reaction toward optimism in all circles.
If the pessimists do not get off the track there
will be nothing left of them but the pieces.
If Christmas Day had been made to order
it could not have been better, and that made
the pessimists very unhappy.
Those who have heard the debates are con
vinced that the Prohibitionists cannot make
Congress any drier than it 1.
Manufacturing in Burope has not stopped
entirely. It keeps an army of men busy man
ufacturing guns and ammunition-
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Viewed as a shell game the European war
makes the country fair fakers look cheaper
than the disused two-cent pleee.
It was doubtless, the most oharltable Christ
mas eeasen ever known in this part of the
country. There wera few who did net give
geaereusly of their means.
There is a growing belief that if te Qv
eminent wevid attftad to its own bueineee in
stead of ether peeajea there would be a great
improvement In both.
Submarines are aM right, VW when it comae
to a real Agbt o toe oiMtt sea far from
house, with the control of trade rewtea ae the
prise, battleship sod W aun tat
'i Wynr hae ua JMt Sgat to bve tb
eanke pay ' " " - 4ejH-4ta la
st. of Pr vnt f tHs I tww la cm
PROFITS IN MIXING
BRAINS WITH BUSINESS
Successful Men Do Not Wait for Oppor-
tunitics, But Make Thcrri Mind the
Only Commodity That Has rt
Iligh Market Value.
Dy JOSEPH II. ODELL
''jyTAN WANTED!" To tho short-sighted
JLVjL those words sum up tho wholo philos
ophy of life. Thoy think thero aro so many
places to fill. Just so many Jobs to bo done,
and that tho lucky man Is ho Who mnnuges
to get tlio vacancy. The rent chances of
tho modern world nre tho possibilities that
como from adding new values to old things
by mixing In a Httlo moro brains. Fortunes
nnd honors nro waiting for tho men who
can meet mechanical needs, supply Indtls
irlol deficiencies, clip off a fow minutes
from tho tlmo required to accomplish a
given piece Of work or find a now use for
a by-product.
Ichabod Washburn was a Now England
blacksmith, working tllltgontly at his anvil.
Ono day ho learned that no steol wlro wai
bolng mado In America; Great Britain had
a monopoly of tho trade. He determined to
mako tho best wlro that could bo made nnd
win the market. Tho now deparluro In
volved study nnd experiment, but he per
sisted until ho drow nearly nil tho fine wlro
used In America, John,D. Rockefeller, when
every one was rushing to buy oil lands, saw
that tho oil could bo Immeasurably Improved
In quality and value by bolng properly re
fined. Ho took up tho problem from a
scientific standpoint, fitted up a laboratory,
Btudled chemistry, carried on experiments
day and night, until he was ablb to triple
tho value of every gallon of crudo oil ho
could get.
Men of Imagination
Ell Whitney saw the plies of Southern
cotton bolng treated by hand,' and realized
that If a machine for clonring tho green
cotton seed could bo devised It would do
tho work of a hundred men and mako tho
Southern States prosperous. He set to work
with a will and invonted the cotton gin.
Ezra Cornell saw that telegraphy could bo
only an expensive luxury If single wires
had to bo Insulated by a sheathing and laid
In trenches underground; so ho sot up poles.
Insulated the wires with bottjes and mado
the world his debtor. Ellas Howe built his
mechanical sewing machlno becauoo he
suddenly realized the cost and slowness of
hand labor. Bessemer Invented his famous
steel process becauso ho believed that steel
would take tho place, of Iron and wood If
It could be made cheaply, quickly and In
sufficient quantity. McCormlck built his
reaper and harvester when he had estimated
that tho population of America was Increas
ing so rapidly that It would soon bo Im
possible to feed tho many millions If grain
had to bo mowed and bound by hand.
Wherever there Is a possibility of cheap
ening production by new methods;. of pro
ducing two articles whoro only one Is now
nvallable; of quickening transportation; of
simplifying processes; of adapting natural
forces to mechanical ends; of saving time or
strength to tho worker, thero Is an oppor
unlty. Scattered all over the earth latont
In tho moving air, dormant In tho up
turned sod, pulsing In every flowing stream
aro forces or fabrics that say, "Wo aro
yours, If you will use us."
The Two Machines
"If I had only thought!" Tho man who
puts no thought Into his work Is only a
mechanical device for carrying out some
other man's thinking. Tho difference between
tho human machine and the motal machine
Is that the one can suffer and the other
cannot. We stand today on the threshold
of Immeasurable possibilities for men who
will think, who can think. Almost every
Industry Is In Its Infancy and is demanding
clear brains and skilled hands to guide It to
Its larger development; every profession Is
seeking for men of disciplined mind and
trained Imagination to copo with the evor
enlnrging opportunities.
It Is almost possible to arrange a scale
showing the financial value of brains ap
plied to raw material. A favorite Illustra
tion la: "A blacksmith makes five dollars'
worth of Iron into horseshoes and gets $10
for them. A machinist makes the same
amount of Iron Into needles and gets $6800.
A watchmaker takes a similar piece of Iron
and makes It into mainsprings, and gets
200,000; or into hairsprings, and gets J2,
000,000, 60 times the value of the same
weight of gold."
Undoubtedly the great difference between
the successful man and tho comparative
failure does not Ho In the amount of work
done by each, but In the amount of intel
ligence, brains and thought put Into the
work. One man puddles Iron, and when
he had worked for hours the product Is
still Iron; another man takes the same
metal, adds brains to It, and though it la
still ion, yet by virtue of tho creative and
constructive thought It has become a ma
chine. The quarryman cuts out a block 'of
marble by mero muscle; Salnt-Gaudens
takes it, directs his hand by his brain and
produces a ptece of statuary that is worth
Us weight in gold.
Conqueror of Circumstance
"Whoever Is resolved to oxuel in paint
ing or Indeed in any other art." said Sir
Joshua Reynolds, "must bring all his mind
to bear upon that ono object from the mo
ment that he rises till hs goes ft bed," Arts,
totia admitted that he owed his vast ac
quirements to his having command over his
mind, to the ability to concentrate all of
bis thought upon one abjeet. Sir WtUbun
Hamilton eonteftded that "the dlfferanaa he.
I twee an ordinary man and Isaae Newton
constats primarily In this, that the one Is
capable of more eontlaueue mental appli
cation than the other." The words of Em
erson are always worth recalling by any
aae who wonders why he does tutt succeed,
tvk ba fHtfc or akaaee. ecgreuiMUnee:
"If a man oas write a better book, preach a
better sermon, op make a. better mousetrap
than his neighbor, though he build. Me house
In the waede, toe world will mas s, beaten
track to hie door-"
It doea baC a)Uer how uaprttUu the
environment or now others way eonaplre
U kep Up H l-ackrottHd. the man
Wlte ( ai asi wttklas to put kraln -power
J j bj, wr wtU ultimately be Uecoveid
aj4 r hie reward.
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malign disposition of the offender. It Is throw
ing oand Into tho machinery of life. It Is de
liberate meanness. It Is unwise and unjust to
tolorato In anywhere.
And yot It Is so common In so many cases
aliens one thinks ho has another at a disad
vantage, he Is Inclined to show his Ill-breeding.
We so often hear a meek, quiet person ask a
simple question, only to be crushed by a sneer
ing. Insulting answer. Whatever tho plane of
authority a person ocouples, you can always tell
whether he Is a gentleman or not by the tone
of answer ho gives to a simple question; and
If ho Is not a gentleman, ho has no business
occupying a place where he Is brought Into
constant contact with the public.
It Is Just ns Incumbent upon a man to bs
courteous ns It Is to be honest. No man knows
the duties of his position It he has not learned
that among tho very first Is to bo a gentle
man. SWITZERLAND'S CITIZEN ARMY
The Inexpensive System Whereby a Force of
Haifa Million Men Can bo Mustered nt Any
Moment for National Defense.
Howard D Wheeler, in Harper's Weekly.
Switzerland, certainly the most democratic
nation In Europe, held by some writers to
bo tho world's model State since tho adop
tion of the Constitution of 1874, ban no
standing army, its only pormanent military
ofnecra are military trainers, selected by
and under tho supervision of tho general
Government.
With a population of about 4,000,000, nt
an expenditure of less than $8,000,000 an
nually, tho Swiss Confederation can, In an
hour of need, muster a fighting force'of half
a million men, trained and perfectly
equipped.
With a population of over 90,000,000, It
costs tho Republic of the United States In
tho neighborhood of $90,000,000 to maintain
a professional military organization which,
In emergency, could throwa baro 50,000 men.
Incompletely equipped, Into line of battle.
To trace tho Swiss 8,000,000 Into a first
class defensive force of halt a million Is ex
ceedingly simple.
The money goes for training, clothing and
equipment nnd pay of soldiers and officers
while they are with the colors. It Is not
wasted In politics, because It is next to Im
possible to play politics with the Swiss mil
itary system.
Every male citizen of Switzerland, who Is
able, receives military training for certain
short periods between the ages of 17 nnd
52. Every two years, for the first 10 years
that Is, live times In all he answers a
call to the colors. Ills period of training
is
never more than 90 days for any one
year, and that only In the first year, If an
artillery recruit his training covers 75 days;
If In the cavalry 90 days, and If n the In
fantry 60 days. The period with the colors
shortens as he grows older. During his
third, fifth, seventh and ninth years this
period of training is from 12 to 15 days. He
is paid only during the time he la with the
colors. More than that, so tar as is possi
ble, his military tratnlng is made to follow
the lines of his occupation. If he Is a baker,
he finds his place In the commissary; it he
is an electrician, he can enter the engineers
or the signal corps. His commander of
troops is elected by the Legislature. lie has
as good a chance of becoming an officer as
any of his fellows. Officers are drawn from
the ranks according to seniority, and ap
pointed by the Governrnent.
"Compulsory service!"
Those are the other scare words, the team
mates of "militarism."
The Swiss military training is the law of
the land, certainly, even if It has become so
by vote of all tho people. Its relation to
democracy depends to some extent on
whether you argue that a person can be
compelled to do what he wants tor do.
The Swiss youth, from hla earliest sehool
dava. la tausrht that tha nrrav I fnr t-
fenae only. PetHotUm is Interwoven in hi.
development, tie atacerns no line between
civic duty and military duty. He learns to
look upon each ae essential to real oUixeiv
ship. By the time be leaves sehool ha la
not a raw recruit. He hu already had
setae military training. He is ready and
eager to Join the oolara and tft aomnlete hla
edueeties. Certainly he dse pot regard
as undemocratic or unreasonable the re
quirement that he must know how to fight
Is order that he may take an Intelligent nan
In the defense of hie country, any autre
torn we look upon a undemocratic and
unreasonable the requirement that we must
know how to read in order that we may
taJut aa tntet&seot jart in the poHttcal af
fairs of our country
1t;e Swiss army U the manhood of the
coui:ir Li-fciuad for mti.itu.ry itittu?,
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Section Director, U. S.
THE transfer of the United States weather
service from tho Signal Corps of the army
to tho Department of Agriculture created
tho mistaken Idea, which has slncp prevailed
In many quarters, that Its chief services aro
rendered to tho farmor. Tho facts are that
prior to tho rural mall delivery and the wide
spread use of the rural telcphono the former
received practically no weather servlco at
all. Generally the period covered by tho
forecast would explro beforo he could bo
reached with the Information.
Tho chief bencilts of tho service always
have been, and perhaps nlways will bo,
realized by the commercial Interests of tho
larger cities. It is true that In somo of tho
thickly settled fruit-growing districts', where
there Is a network of telephones, the frost
warnings and tho cold wavo warnlnga aro of
ImmenBO benefits, second only to that which
accrues to the moro condensed and concen
trated Interests ns found In the larger cities.
Tha average townsman reads the forecast
In his dally paper and then, without consid
ering tho proclse period which It was mado
to cover, ho looks out o seo If It Is being
verified. If tho conditions correspond to tho
forecast all Is well and good and ho thinks
nothing moro about It. If the forecast la
not being verified at the time he dismisses
It with contempt, and with the thought that
the bureau. Is only another Instance of sense
less appropriations' and useless drains on
the public treasury. Thus it Is that the
average townsman profits very Httlo In a
direct way by the Information which tho
bureau collects and disseminates.
Cheapens Cost of Living
In an Indirect manner Mr, Cttyman pro fits
to a much greater extent than he realizes".
This is because he raises none of tho produce
which he consumes, but buys it all in tho
'open market. The services of the weather
bureau result In the saving of vast quantities
of perishable produce. These savings some
times begin In the field of production, as
Instanced In the large fruit-growing regions,
where frost warnings frequently save the
cropB over large districts. These savings In
crease the Bupply and naturally cheapen the
cost to the consumer,
The saving in the field of production Is1
only a beginning, for the goods must bo
transported to the consumer, sometimes over
long distances. During the winter season
much care must be exercised to protect them
from injurious temperatures. The transpor
tation companies and the large shippers
ha.ve learned to govern their shipments in
accordance with the telegraphic reports of
the weather bureau, and not to send them
through districts where unfavorably low
temperatures aro likely to obtain. When a
cold area is drifting over a certain district,
all shipments of perishable goods destined
for points within it must be protected ac
cordingly or else withheld until tha unfavor
able conditions have passed. The atmos
pherlo survey which the bureau makes over
ihe entire country every JJ hours' enables it
to follow tho movements of the cold areas
and" to give Information regarding which
districts they will cover. In a more reliable
manner than it can estimate the precise con
ditions for a single point or definite locality.
Six Million Dollars Saved
In' some of the largest cities the bureau
renders a special service for shippers, and
the caylnge during the winter season have
been conservatively estimated at 10 per cent.
of all of the perishable product handled. In
I Bher wrd8' ho "uppIlr ,s '" that
amount, and la eheapened to the consumer
to that extent. This saving, which appUee
to fruits, vegetable, plants, eggs and botijed
Hoods, has been estimated to amount to from
four millions to six mUUoas of dollars eaah
winter season in Philadelphia. At the lowoet
estimate, the savings in Itti qlty talma
amount to more than twice the cost of main
taining the entire national bureau, the an
nual appropriation being about ILlHMtJ
The ebeet for which the aerviee was Art
organised was not to (Ave produce, but to
aflerd JH-oteetton for the maritime later'
against the never storm that lonvHiavMi
ween along or am. coast or over the
Great Lakea. TUe early records of our ojtca
show that each severe storm, that appeared
on the Atlantic coast in tnoec tlraea uiuk
tl tell uf vessel od el human Uvea buvh
oeea,. m! la. ar. have t.,
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gnrdlng the warnings, bellovlng ItoatsgtS
could outrldo tlio storm ana couia iaviumsR
by not remaining In port. During fteTwjtAl
bIjc venrs no storm of conseuuence"haVmd9.'-Il
lla nnnnanrtA nn thn Atlfintfn nJlt KfPfOl t i
the Great Lakes unheralded by thaarar5l
Inim of tho Weather Bureau. Such'trw
tlon for tho marltimo Interests meana5533
to Philadelphia, the second largest portU
tho country.
Educational uses is,
Tho dally weather maps are sent tcrnMsJ
of the schools1 in Philadelphia and the stl
rounding towns for uso In tho physIogrpM
classes. With their aid It Is hoped that"t
coming generation will gain a fair knowtedsi
of tho character of storms and their rnoYM
ments, and that all of the ojd superstitions!
regarding tho weather will vanish completely
Tho work of education would have btea
creatlv facilitated if we had secured thp pra-J
posed observa'tory in Falrmount Park. AV3
though City Councils appropriated the moneys
needed for tho project, the citizens did notl
supuort It strongly enough to convince in
Park Commission that It should be built m
the Park. Tho building would have cost tjjjn
people of Philadelphia less than 1 : Pjr
eanitn. and would have afforded exceilS
facilities for classes of school children to P
fnma fnmlilni. with tha workings of tna pa
ronn Thr. ntiionmlnrv would haVO beCSl
nnnlnnail nnrl Tnntntnlneri bv the QOVeP
ment without expense to the city beypj
tho initial cost of tho building.
Tho dally forecasts of ordinary weathfl
and temneraturo chances aro relatively
Important. Ordinarily they protect nelttgl
life nor property, nnd are In reality oni5
matter of convenience. However, they fjl
the part.ot tlio bureau'B work that comM;
most prominently before mo gtiisi vtjs
ond aro consequently tho feature Dy wj
Us efficiency Is Judged.
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ItEMEMBRANCEt GItEEK FOLK-SONQl
Mnt iii.t,. tlm fnrnat not unto the forest, 0 fifl
lover!
wtiv rin vnti I Kid ma to the forest?
Joy Is where tlio temples are, lines of danen
swinging far,
Drums and lyres and viols In the town
lit lu .Inrlr in thn forest).
And the Happing lojves will blind me and $W
itn.ln? vines will bind me 4bb
And tho thorny roae-boughs tear my eatfrro
gown
And I fear the forest.
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Not unto the fqrsst not unto the forest, O Jgt
lovtri f
Th.rA wan ana onco Mho led ma to the fort&i
Hand In hand wa wandered mute, where t3
neither lyre nor flute,
IJttle stars were bright. against the dusk.
liner? was winu in uia loresij
And the tliioket of wild rose breathed Across
Una locked close
Dluy perfumjngs of spikenard and musk, s
1 am tired or tne lowest.
Kot unto the forest not unto the forest, 01
lover!
Take me from the silence of the forest!
I will love you by the light and thefet
arums at nignt
And echoing of laughter In my ears.
Tint h.rA In th tnrnni
I am still, remembering a forgotten, Wi
thing, A 4
And my eyelid ere locked down for fterj
tears
There Is memory In the forest
Margaret Wlddtmtr. to ih Crtt
THE MEN OP THE EMDEN
What matter if you
He atanafe and true
To the QrlUtn blood In the veins of you.
When it's "hiD hurrah!" for a deed wsU '
For a flfht well fought and a race wiell run
wjiai raaiter it you do truer
Hats oft to the Bmden's orew.
Thoi was thj lifa of ih triralzod'S
TTtuuuintl txiUaa fpAZM th 17nthrlAll4
With ee beneath every wisp of tmoki
Ana a tneeaee m every atrip j "
usk giasi vm jobs w9 mn " "
nun, uminoiMs. oeeatur. tntv
tool
dial those pirate nights
In a ring of fee
When you dense yer light
And drive aeene your Mow l)
Ilata o to the Bnwlttft's erewi
Bre.t on the wave-wasaad decks stood !Wj
Ana ucara aiut a vtataire anw .
The weir nt th wlsae of death by day
Aod tae i.9 o( Aeath in their reJ
alKfai.
Uor the eweW et the whe of ,,
By tha Maxima gun, lu tha temp ht,S'
wnue a wona of anAal atrttve ut i""1
i Kara. uiu.idi4 u,i.i..,.t &muiA,
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