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"We Will Not Do Thin Thine"
THERU sure some Oouncllmen who do not
Intend to have tho crack In the Liberty
Bell opllt their political fortunes wide open.
Then will be plenty of lnnoouous desuetudo
for any political meanderors who In Borrow
and anguish bring; back to Independenco
Hall not a Liberty Dell, but disjointed pieces
of metal that wero once that sacred relic.
The danger of such a disaster Is real.
There Is not a metallurgist who would sanc
tion the long Journey for tho bell. There is
a menace In every thump, overy Jar, and it
will get thousands, literally millions, of thorn
on tho trip. If Councilmen must Junket,
surely they can Junket without tho Liberty
Bell. If they must Itewo a trip to the coast,
it wero better to pay their way by popular
subscription than to pny for It with the ruin
of tho most precious of our national relics
What a splendid thing it would bo If all
tho other Councilmen should stand up like
men and say: "We will not do this thing.
We will not participate In this unspeakable
proceeding."
That would be patriotism, that would bo
tho kind of loyalty that would thrill tho
heart of Young America.
The Balkans Next Door
THERE was to be peaco In Mexico when
Huerta was driven out. But almost Im
mediately the Constitutionalists were flght
Irifj each other more bitterly than they had
ever fought the Dictator. Now tho star of
Villa seems to bo meeting tho horizon, below
which It has not sunk before the Carranzls
tns are at loggerheads. The Balkans of the
West run true to form.
But between Mexico deluged with ruin a
year ago and Mexico seething today there la
a vast difference. Tho name of that differ
ence la Robert Lansing
No Progress Without Scraphcaps
THE scrapheap Is a place of honor. It la
a monument not to the Dead Past, but
to the Living Present. Without scrapheaps
there would be no progress Without prog
ress there would bo no scrapheaps. Tho
great moment In the life of an Invention la
that moment when It Is thrown Into the dis
card, for thus Its destiny Is fultllled. The
world goes on with something better.
This, properly speaking, Is "the way of tho
world." Civilization advances toward Us
visions. The first steamboat was once a
vision. The first locomotive was once a
vision. The telegraph was once a vision.
Every one of the many Inventions which
men havo sought out was onco a vision. In
vention succeeds invention, but progress in
mechanics and science Is not civilization.
The two lines sometimes touch, but they
are not Identical. Both are pushed forward
into the future by the same methods, but
tho forces are different. Civilization is a
succession of Ideals.
Tho Holland has gone to the scrapheap,
but the submarine continues. Tho Holland
ftas found Its place of honor, but tho sub
marine is only an Invention, a means of war.
War itself will some day go to the scrap
heap. Ideals will send it there. It will
then have found Us place of honor. Tho
world will go on with something better.
Lot Experts Diagnose) the Case
Tina merchant marine may be anemlo
from atrangulatlon or from malnutrition.
Probably Its present deplorable condition Is
due to a little of both. All agree that tho
Industry Is sick. It Is not likely to be cured
until an expert diagnosis reveals accurately
the causes of the decline. It will then be
possible to find the proper remedies.
Wo know already, of course, that the navi
gation laws are obsolete and burdensome,
that seamen's labor has been heavily sub
sidized by enactments fixing wages and that
the lack of a definite program by the Gov
ernment has read Into the situation such
uncertainty that Investors have hesitated to
finance the rehabilitation of the industry.
But a commission of experts must reach to
the very bottom of tho whole trouble and
find a means to overcome these and any
other difficulties.
The first thing la to get the commission;
it will not be so difficult thereafter to get
the ships.
The Beginning of the Fight for Russia
THE! victory of Germany Is not the cap
ture of Lemberg. It Iff the saving of the
great Hungarian plain on which now flour
ish th crops whleh must feed the Teutonic
allies najct winter. Had the Russian advance
continued, had the vegetable rlehee of Hun?
gary fallen Into hostile hands, the food
blockade would have driven buHttec into
every German camp and would have at
tributed appreciably to ultimate victory for
the Allies
In n " respect has Qarroan efflelanoy been
more prnoune4 than In the seizure of ter
ritory which supplies the setweetus, In
Belgium an 1 Fnuaee she graefted Hob ooa.1
and other metals She has protected the oil
supply In Galtola Her artnlM have fought
not only for their stomachs sake, but aleo
ir the Mtutla-tlou of the mw tbt de
EVENING
mands coal hrtd Iron and the other minerals
that can be molded Into munitions of war
But Russia Is not conaucrcd. Bho cannot
be conquered Tho great distances between
her Inrgo cities prevents a successful In
vasion. Prom two continents spring millions
to fight for her. She gather strength In the
recoil. Tho farther buck she la pushed tho
moro torrlflc tho backward pressure she
exerts. Through Siberia and down from
Archangel a steady stream of war suppllc-t
has begun to flow. There has been no
cowardice In her armies, but heroic deVo
tlon Gradually she will bo armed as her
adversary has been armed. Russia can say.
quoting tho great John Taul Jones, who so
nobly fought for her, ns he did for America:
"Wo Have not yet begun to light."
Not a Neutral, but a Militant Mayor
THAT philosophic believer In tho doctrlno
that the gang sort of government Is tho
best sort of government and protagonist of
the. program to glvo Philadelphia another
Ashbrldgo administration. "Davo" Lane, an
nounces from his cool retreat In New Jersey
that "the boys" aro rapidly adjusting their
differences. He thinks a "neutral" candidate
will coon bo found, a candidate who can bo
depended on not to lot ono faction of tho
gang do any more robbing of the municipal
ity than the other section does. There Is no
argument, It appears, ns to tho wisdom of
raiding the treasury! the only difficulty re
lates to tho division of tho spoils
Vice, long looked upon, becomes attrac
tive. Familiarity with graft breeds acquies
cence In It Apparently there Is no great
public Indignation that a few sleek men, who
have grown rich on public funds, meet to
select a Mayor for Philadelphia. Not a king
In Europe Is so wantonly dlsregardful of the
wishes of the peoplo as those men nro. There
Is not an autocrat In nil mo world who
would dare do what these men do. They do
not pretend to be looking for a candidate
who would best servo tho lntoreats of Phila
delphia, They openly onnounce that the
Ideal candidate Is tho ono who can best serve
the Interests of tho Varca and McNlchol. It
would be funny If It did not connote a prac
tical downfall of democraoy.
Tet there Is a good omen In the situation.
Whom tho gods would destroy they first
make mad. The arrogance of the BO-called
leaders has already convinced thousands of
citizens that they must stand as thoy havo
never stood before against this onslaught on
good government.
No "neutral" candldato can be elected
Mayor of Philadelphia.
On the oontrary, tho successful candidate
will be successful because there is no neu
trality In his soul, but a deep-seated, long
abiding purpose to strike at graft wherever
he sees It, to battle unceasingly against cor
ruption, to be militant In his advocacy of
efficiency In tho public service and like ada
mant In his refusal to concede anything to
exploiters of tho municipality.
Lloyd-George Organizes a Home Army
PLUTARCH roports that Demosthenes,
when asked what was tho first essential
to success In oratory, replied "Action." He
might have said it was essential in every
other nrt without straying far from tho
path of truth.
Lloyd.Qeorgc, tho new British Minister of
Munitions, Is demonstrating that the way to
get ammunition for tho armies In the field Is
to get it. British victories must bo won on
British soil If they aro to bo won nt all. Am
munition has been lacking ever since the
war began, and It will not be until the
British and the French are as well supplied
with It as tho Germans aro that they can
hope to achieve victory.
Real Social Revolution
JERRT SIMPSON, of Kansas, rose to
political distinction because of the wide
appeal of his socklessness It Is true that
when he went to Washington, and drew a
Congressman's salary with Its perquisites,
he donned silk socks and oven wore pajamas
nt night, but tho rest of the country got the
Impression that In his sockless state ho was
a typical Kansan.
Good crops havo changed all this E. T.
Meredith, of Iowa, told the convention of
advertising men In Chicago that tho farmers
are not only wearing socks, but that an In
vestigation conducted by experts has dis
closed that BO per cent, of them wear gartera
also The socks do not roll In wrinkles over
the shoe tops, but are held In place by na
tionally advertised supporters, as comfort
able as they are becoming.
The real social revolution Is virtually ac
complished, for men and women with fash
ionable and comfortable clothes are usually
content.
Garterlesa we come Into thta world,
Garterless and red)
O&rterleas wo go out of this world,
Garterless and dead.
In the first state we are walling with un
happlness. In the Intermediate state Ufa
looks rosy to us, especially when we have
reached the condition of the gartered farm
ers who wear HO suits of clothes and ride
In ItOOO automobiles. And in the last state
t does not matter what we think. The end
has come. The garter must be recognized as
a Bymbol of progress here as it la a badge of
royal honor In England.
Obregon may have lost his arm, but he has
not lost his head.
Why pun on Nearlng when it is so much
easier to Jump on hlmf
President WUson'a secretary denies that
he was the one who put the tumult in the
Cabinet.
Once more they are crying "On to Parts!"
In Berlin. But they took it out in crying
last falL
Heat and wet may be bad weather for peo
pie, but It'tf the next thing to heaven for
backyards.
Resuming pstal servlee, in AJaaee after 5
yrs, VfHim remarks that It's a Ipnr tjmp
between Barriers.
I ,1 I Inn II mi
If the House oould not find time to go to
the Preetdent, the President sou Id And time
to BO to tb Hoe. '
The laeturtag statearaan wh deal Uat
lie le for peace at any priee, ilt, hew
ever, that he le opposed to war under aU
(.lxcuaietancea.
ptttt.ADELPHIA, FRIDAY, JUNE
LEDGER
ARMS MAKERS ARE
FOR PEACE POLICY
Manufacturers of Arms and Ammu
nition Companies Have Not For
gotten the Sportsmen Who Built
Ifp Their Business.
By ROBERT HILDRETH
FREEDOM of speech Is almost unknown
to the officers of the arms and ammuni
tion companies. For Instance, thoy must
keep silent on the question of hattonal pre
paredness. "Wo would be misunderstood It wo tallteu
about preparedness," said one of tho prom
inent men In the business tho other day.
Two things aro certain. The arms and
ammunition companies are In business to
make money. They regard tholr business as
entirely legitimate.
Also, the mon who conduct this business
regard themselves as good American citi
zens. Most of them aro ardent supporters of Wil
son's foreign policy.
"Wilson," they say, "will keep the United
Statoff out of war If anybody can "
Again- "We aro not war-makers"
I am referring to the arms and ammuni
tion companies which aro widely known In
the sporting world and which In tho last few.
months have been struggling to keep up with
war orders.
Why nrn the arms and ammunition com
panies behind President Wilson In his effort
to preserve peaco?
Tho answer Is obvious. That Is the trouble
tho answer Is altogether too obvious.
Moro money In supplying warring Europo
than In taking enro of Uncle Sam.
Tho Embargo Question
Now what would becomo their attitude If
tho Administration Bhould establish an em
bargo on their production?
"Such nn embargo would be a violation of
neutrality," 13 their view, and thoy add, "It
Is a sheer waste of money for tho advocates
of an rmbargo to advertise In tho nows
papcrs and on the billboards, asking tho
people to petition tho Government to Btay
tho exportation of arms and ammunition.
Tho public has already picked tho winner In
tho European war. America's Interests aro
with the Allies.'
Further, tho opinion seems to bo held In
tho snmo quarters that If Undo Sam should
decide on nn embargo It would probably bo
becauno ho wanted to keep tho goods at
home. It would not mean a restriction of
output, at lenBt not Immediately.
"In case tho United States became engaged
In nctuol war tho Government would need
all tho arms and ammunition that this coun
try could turn out, and more, too. For pur
poses of preparation, on tho basis of calling
Into the Mold an army of a million men, tho
Government should havo on hand at tho be
ginning of war at least four million rifles,
1200 machine guns, eight billion cartridges,
4000 field guns and eight million rounds of
field gun ammunition Theso aro not my fig
ures, but I think they aro approximately cor
rect. Tho regular arms and ammunition
companies are today making only rifles and
cartridges. When the conflict In Europo
broke out tho total facilities In this country
for manufacturing these goods wero totally
Inadequate for keeping such an army sup
plied during a campaign. The output then
possible would havo to bo multiplied ono
hundred times In order to meet tho needs of
a fighting army of a million men.
Helping the Allies
"Now this brings us back to the question
of how much we are really doing for tho
Allies In furnishing arms and ammunition.
The fact Is that tho maximum output of tho
factories has not been greatly Increased Blnce
tho beginning of tho present war. Floor
space has been doubled and new factories
have been built by many of the companies,
but still It remains true that tho output has
not doubled, or anywhere near It. Highly
perfected and very expensive machinery 13
required for the manufacture of arms and
ammunition. It cannot be made and In
stalled In a Jiffy. Moreover, tho facilities for
making military arms and ammunition are
not the facilities for making the ordinary
sporting arms and ammuntlon for which we
have always found tho largest market. It Is
only the high-power rifles and cartridges
that aro of any great use In modern war
fare. Under all the conditions, a doubling
of floor space cannot bring a doubling of
output Inside of a year and a half or two
years. At present we are doing little moro
than utilize our facilities of last July to their
fullest capacity. With artillery, shells and
shrapnel the situation Is somewhat different,
and theso goods are what Europe orders the
most of, but even so I think It is true that
America Is supplying the Allies with not
more than one-twentieth of the war ma
terials which they are using."
The arms and ammunition companies, of
course, are looking ahead. They are figuring
out the possibilities In the business of mak
ing war supplies. They are enlarging their
plants, Perhaps they expect a long war.
Perhaps they are merely to try to sell all tho
products possible while the selling Is good.
But evidently, also, they expect that govern
ments, war or no war, will be In the market
for war supplies for a good while to come.
They see nothing unpatrtotlo In their un
precedented activities. A prominent' official
of one of the leading companies expresses
the opinion that America will benefit by the
development of the business to such propor
tions, not only from the present commercial
profits, but also from the experience gained
In meeting so great a demand and from ren
dering manufacturing facilities more nearly
adequate to meet the emergency that would
arise In case of an American war.
"It Is better for us." says an official, "to
boost the sporting game than to boost the
war game. We will meet the demand for
war goods to the best of our ability, but we
look for the future of the arms and ammuni
tion business to tho sportsmen."
AMONG THE NECESSITIES
Prom tba Waehlncton Ttmea.
In spite o( the high cost of living, even the
obronlo klgkers loalat on doing so.
. DANIEI BOONE
Weatward. forever westward, like a a tar.
.He strode the night of forests, giant, lone- '
impaaaionen lover o me wiue unknown.
He stepped HI" BOme strange, mystic avatar
In virgin wild, through travail and through
war.
He heard the tepipest or the mountain moanj
He felt the red foe's fury match hl own;
Bt weaewerd, ever westward, rode afarl
AM( fa tnJ1 t0! With ewjpgtng blade
THow teejeiBg eUlea thunder to the !.
Xk 80U ot eonunerc and the rear of trade
HM pe forth bis ancient victoria,
WMM nature fashioned tor berole mood
ft patriot of bar primal aoMtudaa.
Ofawur yirtlaa.
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MEMORIES OUT OF TWO OLD READERS
An Evening's Adventures With Some Boyhood Books That Are
Battered and Torn and Stained With Gingerbread, but
More Delightful Than Any Novel.
By WALTER PRICHARD EATON
I HAVE Just come across two battered old
books or rather my mother has come
across them, and sent them to mo which
havo given me nn evening of moro delight
than the most popular novel of tho day could
do. They aro battered and torn and Btalncd
but what memorlos thoy bring back!
Yet thoy aro only two of "Swlnton's Sup
plementary Readers," tho second and third
readers at that. I never used them In school.
Indeed, I didn't go to school till long nftor
tho third reader period. But I porod over
them because they wero full of pictures and
tales, and ns I pored over tholr pages again
this evening every picture was llko an old
friend long lost and found again; nnd as for
tho poems and stories, I was amazed to dls
pover how much of that mental background
we all possess as a result of our childhood
contact With art came directly out of those
two battered brown books. It was almost a
terrifying revelation to me of the tremendous
Importance of tho booka wo give our children.
Tho Elves nnd tho Shoemaker
Even today I can tell largely by memory
which stories I liked best. But even If my
memory had failed mo, tho books themaolvea
bear physical evidence, in tho form of thumb
prints and gingerbread smears. Most popular
of all. It would appear from tho evidence,
was the story of "Tho Elves and the Shoo
makcr." This tale Is Illustrated with a cap
tivating cut, In tho Crulkshank manner,
showing the two elves dancing gleefully In
the clothes tho grateful shoemaker's wlfo cut
for them or rather one of them Is dancing,
while tho other Is hastily thrusting his baro
legs Into the tiny breeches. I can still re
call my delight at this episode, and the warm
thrill of pleasure I always experienced at
the genoroslty of tho elves and the gratitude
of Mr. and Mrs. Shoemaker.
I find In the same voluma a highly proper
poem called "The Better Land," which la
Illustrated by tho picture of a Rollo-llko child
sitting at the feot of a sad lady In widow's
weeds. Thero Isn't a gingerbread mark on
the pagel Grimm knew his business better
than the Sunday school poetesses.
In the earlier of the two books Is the tale
of Hop-o'-My-Thumb, with a picture that
almost terrified mo again tonight a picture
of the family procession advancing Into a
deep, gloomy forest, with tiny Hop-o'-my-Thumb
at the rear, scattering his crumbs.
How Important pictures are to children Is at
tested by the fact that all my life I have
thought of the tale of Hop-o'-my-Thumb as a
tale of terror; Its atmosphere has beon tl)at
of a gloomy hemlock forest at twilight; and
when I saw the old reader again this evening
I realized It was this" Illustration which had
been In the back of my consciousness all the
while.
Other stories in the same elementary reader
are the tale of "Dick Whlttlngton and Ills
Cat." "Hans 'In Luck," "The Man on the
Chimney" ("Unravel your stocklngl Begin
at the toe!" we all know that one!), "The
Ugly Duckling," "Diamonds and Toads,"
"The Christmas Tree for Cats," the Immortal
"Three Bears," and a dozen of Aesop's
Fables. Of course, you Bay I would have
read all of these stories somewhere else. No
doubt I did read them somewhere else. I had
a whole volume of Aesop and another of
Grimm. Yet why Is It that I remember them
out of thla particular book, associated with
these particular pictures? For Borne dim,
childish reason, this book was dear to me,
and because it was dear It was my real In
troduction into Imaginative literature. When
a child shows attachment to a booki be sure
the book Is worthy, and then give every pos
sible encouragement. The child Is storing up
Immortal memories
The Lilliput Levee
Next to the tale of "The Wves- and the
Shjgtnaker" the meet glngerbready passage, la
that containing a poem, or Jingle, ealled
Lilliput Levee." I suppose it has been K or
30 years einee I saw or heard that poem, yet
when I saw the pleturee and read the first
line tonight tlje whale thing eamjj bvek ut
me with a flash, and each suseeeaW line
wee fully read before my eyes had taken in.
half of it
"Where deet Pinafore Fala.ee staodT
Right In tba wWdlo Of LiuW Landl"
the Jlngl begins. The leUclous. the never-
A PINe'sUBJECT FOR A "BABY-SAVING CLINIC"
to-bo-too-much-onjoyed plot of the poem la
simple the children capture the government,
send their parents to school, put them sup
pcrlcss to bed, and In general have a high
old tlmo. Possibly tho poem would today be
considered highly Immoral by our educators.
I can't discover any children of my acquaint
ance who know It now. Neither can I recall
that It caused any attempts on my part 30
years ago to put my father supperlesa to
bed! Do you recall it? Do you recall tho
lovee, when
"Ono fat fellow, too fat by far.
Tried 'twinkle, twinkle, little star.'
Ills voice was gruff, his pinafore tight,
His wlfo said, "Mind, dear, sing it right!'
But ho forgot and sold Ta-la '
Tho Queen of Lllllput's own papa!"
I can still recall the chortles of delight
with which my sister and I hailed this em
barrassing eplsodo. Of course, the mortlflod
queen had to send her too-fat papa right up
to bed, In spite of tho fact that he cried all
over his shirt bosom.
Children mny not know much about art,
but they know whnt they like!
Gingerbread nnd Tears
In tho upper reader were tho second voyage
of "Slnbad tho Sailor." an episode from
"Tom Brown at Rugby," and above all, "The
Heroic Serf," a talo of the Russian steppes.
A wolf pack pursued a sleigh, and tho mas
ter and mistress wero Baved only by the serf's
Belf-sacrlflce In Jumping out and giving him
self to the pack. On the pages of this story
what look suspiciously like tear stains aro
mingled with gingerbread smears. To this
day, when I think of Russia, I think of that
grim story. I remember definitely that it
was the other two stories which first caused
me to beg for copies of "The Arabian Nights"
and "Tom Brown at Rugby."
Tho book contains ballads, too, which I
fancy today would hardly find place Jn a
third roader though I may be wrong. There
wns "John Gilpin's Ride," for Instance, and
Gilbert's "Bnb Ballad," "The Yarn of the
'Nancy Bell.'" Tho latter I have always
known by heart, and often wondered where
I learned It. Now I know. I learned It by
absorption.
But this old third reader Is not all frivolity
far from It! Tho last prose article la
Lamb's tale of "The Tempest," and the book
closes, on the final page, with
"Our revels now are ended a
We are such stuff
As dreams are made of; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep."
NThls strikes me today aa "going some" for
a third reader. Yet, curiously enough, I find
the page besmeared with gingerbread. (You
navo no qoudi guessed by now that I was
somewhat fond of thla confection!) I recall,
also, that at the age of 8 my favorite poem
was Tom Moore's "Oo Where Glory Walts
The-," It was printed In a leather bound
"Complete Works," and was the only poem
in the volume I ever read. Tho rest left me
cold. That one always made me weep dell
clously, I haven't the faintest Idea why for
I couldn't possibly have understood It. Some
thing in Its cadence, or In its refrain, how
ever, touched me. Recollection of that haa
made me ever since shy of sitting In Judg.
ment on the mysterious spiritual adventures
of children. I am more than ever Bhy this
eyenlng. after bridging backward over the
years, on realizing how much of my mental
background was acquired long, lone- ago,
from the pages of these two battered old
Swlnton's Readers.
BATTLE CRUISERS NEEDED
Prom the New Tork Tlmee. " '
The kind of markamanabjp attributed to th.
gunners of the British dreadnought Quwi w
abeth In a letter from a BeEsi? tSvaTVmi!:
quoted In the Tlraee dliMtJhw yeauu?r
probably the kind that oWSKtiS in
A.,!f 5,W,ler ttnd "or tor six moTSl
Wrarf Vef WUi t0"' SK
tht: oWe Wh?&i
to 4M. the QtzaK?h ,frr,,1MM
waisr "-"v.jis.3
i
navies, however, havo modern battle cruljtnv
tho former ton, with heavy batteries and tajif
bio of steaming from 2G tn 23 knots an how
tho German navy six. Wo have no war vti?
sels of this type. Undoubted! we aholt coo?
tlnuo to build the great lloatlng forts, but vT
want the fast battlo cruisers, too. We haji
only tho beginning of a great modern nan?
but It Is a good beginning. We are JustlMi
In taking great prldo In Its ships and tn tit
zeal and clHclency ot Its officers and men. Tht
average of our marksmanship has always Ut
high, but It could be marto higher with rnorl
practice. j
Tho need of battlo cruisers la the first con
sldrrat'on, tho need of more men the next. Hit
submarine problem should be speedily tohfrjj
There will bo ammunition enough for y
omcrgency hereafter It ly essentia!, howevoj
that tho public Interest In the Increase of tie
navy should not subside. Tho subject li off
to keep over fresh In mind Every cltlio
should learn all thero Is for landsmen to knor
about our warships, as tho navy exists for til
protection of every clt zen.
CONVERTING THE TOWNj
Liquor Problem Is Largely a City ProblS
What Rural Communities Aro Doing,
John S Gregory In the World's Work.
The national prohlblt'on cause Implies
than a divine nsaault upon the powers of w
It represents an attempt of tho rural commuH?
ties to regenerate, tho towns, Kansas Is
ring on the wickedness of New York! Nrt
Dakota and Oklahoma propose to purify PfMj
sjlvanla. The liquor problem rn this conutrj
nt the present moment Is largely a city projj
lem. Whatever varying opinions we may bMl
of tho general success of prohibition, one poGI
nt loast Is plain and that Is 'ts success In ri3
communities. Those States that have genwj
prohibition or any largo "measure of local-optic;
have practically driven the saloon out et tb
villages and towns. Moreover, they have doti
something that Is vastly more Important ttB
havo enormously decreased drinking. Ttylj'ii
In Itself a great reform; when one BtudleK tht
Hltuatlon more closely, however, the gain fc
peara to be almost Inflnltes'mal i
For the liquor problem Ip this country ll M
a rural problem. It Is a city problem. One cojU
easily go over the map and pick out 36 Stateij
enough to ratify a constitutional amendments
that, taken together, do not have as myj
saloons as Now York cty Chicago has raw
drinking places than all the States southSj
Mason and Dixon's line. Two-thirds of aH ttj
saloons In tho United States are found Injlj
States and these aie the States that have UJ
largest cities. In fact, a large centralized p
ulatton Is economically essent'ul to the auccnj
of tho liquor trnfuc The great Increase lajl
consumption of alcohol In the last 20 years ogj
Indicates again tho drift of the population tm
the country to tho town One great dlvHloao
tho business the brewing nnd retailing of laPJ
beer would cease to exist In any apprecUW
extent except for the large cities. A 13J
keeper, to make the draught-beer business P
Bible, must sell at lenat a barrel a day. K
does not do this, the product goes stals 3
makes a loss. And he cannot do this unless j
haa a large purchasing public at his; doorij
which ho cannot get In villages and, towisja
The one thing that the last 20 years has js
Inltely established Is- that the cities, of tbw
own volition, will not abol'sh the liquor trsjg
Occasionally a good-sized town, like WprctnS
Mass . votes dry: but It practically never it8
so. Tne anti-saloon fighters can usuauy
State-wide prohibition or a comprehensive J
tern of local ODt'on In a State whose rural
ulatton la larger than Its' urban. They ei
do so, or nt least cannot do so permanw
when the city population exceeds tnat i
country,
SMOKE AND AIR
From the Providence. Journal.
While one New York woman Is conductli
crusade against amoklntr In street cars
Is starting a camnnlcn to nermlt WORM'S
amoke on the three rear seats. PcndlnrJ
outcome of thla curious conflict In reform 2
the men are still smoking wherever iney i
a. chance and are waiting comfortably fa J
which way the wind will blow.
QUESTIONS
F"rom Lit.
Some people ask questions because they
to know more; some ask them Decau t
desire to ehow what they already know,
pome asx them uecauae tney warn "
what others do not know. ,
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