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FOll JUNE WAH 83,"ir.
rilHADLI.riltA, I III DAY. JULY 9, 1913.
A. Miau'a necessities arc inversely propor'
Honed to his ncecsiarlncss.
Councils Brayed, Hence the Jitney Muddlu
THE Director of Public Sufety says that
bo cannot enforco the Jitney ordinance It
si'n'ns thnt alt the surplus money of the city
wai required to bu' tickets for the Junketers
to Ran Francisco and back, Including meals
n route. Tl-ero was nothlnff left wherewith
In supply tho police with tho means nccos
snry to put Councils' edicts into force. Tho
Department of Public Safety of this great
and flcl city Is, In fact, In almost as bad
simp db West Vlrtflnla, which has been
vexed bv Its inability to buy postages stamps
without money.
An Injunction to prevent tho enforcement of
tho Jftncy law, that Director Porter says ho
cannot enforco anyhow, has also been applied
for. It Is claimed that tho cntlro ordinance
Is riddled with unconstitutionality. Not only
so, hut tho character of the claims Is such
that tho casa may bo brought under the
Jurisdiction of tho redcrnl courts, after tho
Btato courts got through with It. Tho way
Iff open for as long a legal delay ns even tho
most nr"dont Jitney man could deslro.
A legislative body that Instead of making
laws Is trying to "mnko good" with special
Interests can bo relied on Invariably to
bunglo and mnnhandlo a situation. Councils
Mas been a Child with n firecracker so far as
the Jitneys am concerned. Hut tho city Is
the victim, ns It always Is. Thcro can bo no
special meeting of- Councils to rectify tho
error now, for too large n part of that body
Is on its way across tho continent. "When
these skilled lawmakers got back, perhaps
with broadened visions, It mny bo that Jitney
regulation will bo established.
"Why must a boss always bo a fool?" was
a usual question a few years ago. Why
must Councils, when It has real work to do,
always bray Instead 7
Germany's Austrian Handicap
FOLLOWING closo on tho heels of tho news
that tho Germans havo trnnsfcired great
masses of troops from Hast to West, In prep
aration for a tremendous effort to beat back
tho English defenders of Calais and drive tho
French out of Alsace, comes word that the
Russians, after days of retreat, aro regaining
lost ground with comparative rapidity and
cose.
German achievement on both fronts hns
been nothing less than wonderful, but tho
main strength of tho German army cannot
bo omnipresent. Hack and forth across tho
. country tho Kaiser shifts his forces, leaving
his own men for defcnslvo work in tho West
and tho Austrlans for defensive) work in tho
Rast. Tho scheme has worked so far, but
how soon will come the irreparablo disaster
through tho weakness of his ally?
The country for which tho Kniser went to
war is proving his worst enemy.
The Jingoist of the War on Rum
WHEN Richmond Pearson Ilobson spoko
on "Tho Grand Strategy of tho Fight"
before tho Anti-Saloon convention at Atlantlo
City ho couldn't avoid the style which used
to distinguish his addresses in Congress and
tho Congressional Record on tho Japanese
American War. A Jingo of tho War on Rum!
Ho picks out tho President of tho United
States ns "tho goat" of his oratory. Rich
mond Pearson Ilobson may be all right on
tho psychology of example, but he'll have to
be set down at something less than zero on
tho etiquette of minding one's own business.
She Battles Against the Bankruptcy of
Ilomelessness
IN NO finer sense Is It true that "woman's
work" Is in tho home than as exemplified
in the activities of Mrs. Thomas W. McKenty
among the little children of tho Tenderloin.
She is giving a homo to scores who would
never otherwise know the meaning of the
word. Of all the loyalties which help to lift
the world, oven the underworld, none Is so
full of promise as the home loyalty, Mrs.
MoKenty Is mvina; children from the bank
ruptcy of homelHNinass.
Voted tho Wrong Ticket
AMERICANS do not worship idels, but
, they are a great people for belleyliw ln
untruths Juit became thay have been stated
In an attractive way. How ridiculous, for In
stance, la the old say log-, so often repeated,
that the Government takes better ears of Us
live stock than It does of its cltiaensl
It Is true that the Government orders In
fected cattle to be killed, if such a radical
course la necessary to terminate an epidemic,
while the Government has never yet ordered
the execution of cJticena who happened to be
ttitlkted, say. with yellow fever. But that Is
not because the Government cares leas about
dtltens than about cattle Cows ar prop
erty and the Government baa the power of
life aud, death uvur them, but citizens are
not property They are the Government and
they wll not decree the death of themselves
even to prevfiit an epidemic
A Oovernm. in may be paternalistic toward
U stock aii 1 -ct nut luuirttullsitu toward
UtUeH- This aA i mean that It cares
ira for oltivena, bat t does hmb -that pit.
. skill not touniriiuucv arbitrary tnUrfer
v, . A.itt ihrir rMrnu
i . ; tbc utd lately fluntiauw on Ita way.
EVENINO.
i
Orators love to roll It under their tongues
and lecturers clvo voice to It Let loose
thinking produce nn cplgrnm and It will take
years ot rigorous logic to overcome the Imd
effects. If thero la any citizen who really
believes that tho Government thinks less of
him than It does of his pig, he hns UCcn vot
ing the wrong ticket.
It Is n Live Wire
TUK Chnmbor ot Commerco has decided
formally to Invito tho Republican Na
tional Convention to Philadelphia and wilt
pledge Itself to provide tho necessary funds.
More than that, its enormous innueneo wilt
be brought to bear on Councils to mako pro
vision In September to begin Immediately
tho construction of thtj proposed Convention
Hall.
Tho Chamber thus measures up to tho high
expectations of tho community. On Tues
day the Evening- Lbdurii picked up tho moro
or less moribund project. Publicity nlono
was needed to crystallizo public sentiment.
So quickly can things bo done If thero Is
n drive behind them.
Tho Chamber of Commerco speaks for tho
wholo community, speaks for it oven moro
authoritatively than Councils docs. "Wo
muit huso tho convention," says tho Cham
ber, and that means a real fight for suc
cess. It means, loo, that, win or lose, tho
city Is nn Immeasurable gainer, tho moro
so beciuiso the community ll at last con
vinced that It has a mouthpiece, a powerful
Instrument with which to do things, an
organization that can and will look after tho
Interests of tho city nnd further them with
concentrated power. For that tho new
Chamber of Commerco was formed.
It Is a 11 vo wire.
Transmuted' From Maturity Into a Suckling
THE Republican party believes ln fostering
Infant Industries. Tho weakest Infnnt of
tho sort Just now Is tho merchant marlno.
Leglslntlvo incompetency has found a foun
tain of youth which hos converted this for
merly full grown thing into a suckling. It
must bo nurtured nil over ngnln, rebuilt, and
a new lure of seamen trained to tnko tho
plnco of thoso who were driven to tho land
by tho stupidity of landlubber statesmen.
Thu Republican pnrty should have llttlo
troublo winning tho next election. Protection
has becomo tho greatest need of tho country;
protection of our Industries, protection of our
coast line, protection of our merchant ma
rlno. It will Indeed bo n calamity If theso
Issues aro obscutod next year.
Tho party that can and will put tho flag
back on tho ocean i the party Into whoso
chnrgo tho great majority will commit tho
Government.
Metamorphosis of the Submarine
BEFORE tho astonished eyes of tho world
the submnrlno Rcems to bo turning Into
somothlng not so very far short of Secre
tary Daniels' submcrBlblo battleship. Whllo
Unclq Sam wonders why his own undersea
craft get Into all manner of difficulties even
In pcaco maneuvers, Germany's U-boats como
to tho surface as mlnlaturo cruisers, overhaul
swift steamers, shoot away tho wlroleBS
houses and generally treat tho victims to n
formidable naval attack.
Nlnotcen years ago tho United States was
much prouder of her naval experiments tho
dynamlto ship AJesuvlus and shallow-draft
monitors llko tho Kntahdln than she wus
when tho Spanish War had established their
falluro as weapons of offense. From theso
tho public has turned Its nttentlon to tho
speed with which tho tiny torpedo boat was
outclassed nnd eliminated by the torpedo
boat destroyer. Tho process Is now so com
plete that tho "destroyer" has lost altogether
tho object upon which its namo depends.
The submnrlno tho next doparture camo
in for n good dcnl of speculative attention
beforo tho present' war proved Its over
whelming power. II. G. Wells, as well ns an
English admiral whoso views wcro overruled,
spoko strongly for tho submarine na against
tho dreadnought. Tho novelist, with A. Co
nnn Doylo close nbuft, pictured something
very closo to present conditions. Ho also
speculated on tho possibility of n "mother
ship" for submarines, a vessel which could
not only supply a fleet of submcrslbles with
gasoltno and other necessaries, but would
take them Into its hull under certain condi
tions. It was thought that battleships might
launch submarines as thoy now launch sea
planes. Now, however, we see three-hundrod-foot
submerslbles, virtual light cruisers nnd seem
ingly almost Irresistible weapons. Before
them tho dreadnoughts retire from public
view, leaving what out to combat their
might? Rumor says a fleet, a horde of tiny
motorboats. Cruising ln hundreds, swift ns
tho wind, almost impossible to hit nnd no loss
If sunk, theso vessels nro to scour the seas
for tho submarine, rush on it beforo it can
sink, shoot away tho periscope with their
light guns and ram the vessel with their
steel prows as it lies helpless on the surface.
There Is a certain romance Btlll left ln sci
entific war.
Another Case of "Appearances"
IT MUST have been an ancient morallzer
who discovered that there aro two sides
to every question. The world couldn't pos
sibly havo remained long in ignorance of that
obvious fact.
A man, It is often said, is known by his
letters. Rut the other side of tho aphorism
is revealed in the story told by a writer In
what ma.y be called a business man's maga
zine. Don't despise the badly written postal
card, he says. He received a. card that was
written ln n crawl and showed signs of hav
ing been carried for somq time in the sender's
pocket. It was answered Just as If It had
been typewritten In the neatest fashion on
the highest priced stationery.
"We have since," .concluded the writer,
"done a very nice business with this man."
3(thr Thaw eraser the Jury was,
ijajyajajf -ajanwf- lawman m
Batttoahlpjf are flna bait fur submarines,
McNlehel and Yare want to pjk the Mayer
wbo will pick the aoatraeUnn,
Why should the chao In Mtco continue
any longer? Mr Bryan is no longer in Wash
ington. Let the Germans but give the Russians a
chance at the Auetrtana and tfeara Is nothing
left but the news of how It bapmMd.
Getraral Jolfre Is reported to be of the
opinion that there Mill be no Genua ns in
Krajace by tbe beginning of Bt year Where
! be expect taeaa to be buried!
LEPaER-PTIILADKLPHlA, FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1015.
HOW TO INVEST FIVE
HUNDRED DOLLARS
Scores of Hard-working People Loso
Their Savings Because Thoy Buy
Stocks That the Banks Reject.
They Need Expert Advice.
By W. YORKE STEVENSON
A YOUNG Immigrant got a Job as n boll
boy In a downtown hotel not many
years ago. Ho decided that ho wduld not re
main a bollboy till ho was gray haired. So
ho dovotcd his spnro time to study. lio was
kept so busy that ho could not go to school,
nnd had to get his Instruction by cor
rospondenco with nn Institution established
for tho benefit, among others, of such ns he,
Ho la progressing favorably with his educa
tion.
Tho boy Bought to fill his pockets ns well ns
his head, nnd ho saved his money. Ho had
accumulated $600 when tho agent of n cor
poration whoso securities nro not listed on
tho Stock lxclmngo persmaded him to buy
four shares at $125 each. This was In Feb
ruary or March. A fow weeks later tho com
pany passed Its dividends, and at tho present
moment It Is so nenr tho brink of bankruptcy
that It Is llablo to topplo over any moment.
Tho boy will bo fortunnto If ho ever recovers
n dollar.
It was a cynic, or a piomotcr, who said that
n fool It born every minute, but It would bo
unchnrltnblo tn call this youth a. fool. Ho
wns trustful, hut ho was not foolish, or ho
would not havo saved $.'.00. If ho had sought
tho ndvlco of experts beforo Investing ho
would havo been richer today.
Lure of "Gct-rich-quiclc Schemes"
When a man sets out to buy a horso ho
usually takes an expert or a veterinary along
with him. When ho wishes to purclinBo an
automobile, ho Is apt to sock tho ndvlco of a
friend familiar witli tho various makes of
machines. It Is tho snmo with tho purchasor
of a boat, a cow almost any kind of property
with which ho Is unnccustomed. Why Is It,"
then, that so many people, othcnvlso well
balanced, will Jeopardize their savings of
years when buying securities or real estnto?
Tho answer probably Ilea In man's evcr
presont gnmbllng Instinct nnd tho hopo of
"getting rich quick."
Almost dally tho nowspapors recount tho
failures of fly-by-nlght concerns, mining
companies, oil compnnles, lumber companies
and tho llko, with tho consequent wiping out
of tho ncsteggs of many llttlo stockholders.
Tho lures aro frequently sot out with an
Ingenuity worthy of n better cause. Ono com
pany employed Julian Hnwlhorno as press
expert to uso his genius with tho pen In de
scribing with glittering sentences tho for
tunes to bo mndo through tho purchase of
tho stock of this second "Calumet nnd Hecla."
Tho business of tho promoters of the com
pnity was to sell shares nnd not to mlno gold.
Tho fraud soon became apparent and they
nnd tholr press agent wero committed nnd
sent to tho Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta,
but their Incarceration and tho exposure of
tho fraud did not rcstoro their Bavlngs to
thousands.
"Sucker Lists" Used by Crooks
It is nro that peoplo in tho conservative
financial and business world nro Involved In
such catastrophes. Tho list of tho fleeced is
usually mado up of tho poorest classes It is
tho llttlo drcssmnkers, tho ministers, tho Sunday-school
superintendents, tho bell boys, tho
servant girls, tho bootblacks, who fall victims
to tho lure, In fact. It may not gonerally bo
known, but is none tho less true, that lengthy
lists of tho names and addresses of persons
who havo onco purchased shares or bonds of
fako concerns cjjst and nro passed around
among tho crooked fraternity, which fattens
off tho widow nnd tho orphan. Theso "sucker
lists" aro actually rented out nt regularly
fixed schedules ot prices. It is nstonlshlng
that so many persons with $500 to Invest
should fall victims to theso schemers, when It
is only necessary to step Into nny reputable
banking or brokerage establishment nnd ob
tain tho best financial ndvlco frco ot any C03t
whatsoever. Many firms maintain special
statistical departments for tho benefit of In
vestors. In fact, tho avciago banker Is only
too glad to guide tho footsteps of tho small
investor clear of the many traps and pit
falls Alluringly set for him through adver
tisements, pamphlets and tho ubiquitous!
prospectus.
It is obviously to tho conservative banker's
ndvantago to do this because tho stigma of
a failure, no matter how obscure, is apt to
attach to the entire financial community ln
tho minds of the lgnornnt. Tho samo holds
good In the real estnto field. Tlmo was when
tho small Investor found difficulty In placing
his funds in hlgh-grado bonds becauso their
denominations wcro rarely lss than $1000,
but In recent years many of the great rail
roads and Industrial concerns, as woll as
some municipalities, havo mado it a point to
reach the little fellow by Issuing bonds In
denominations ns low as $100. Foreign Gov
ernments have gono even further during tho
present war nnd are issuing securities in '
blocks as small as $10. With Buch oppor
tunities on every side for tho safe Investment
of funds thero Is no longer any excuse for
the tremendous aggregate of losses yearly
through the fake concerns.
At the present time, too, the Interest yield
on hlgh-grado securities Is unusually large,
ranging from 4 per cent, to over 6 per cent.
In numerous Issues regarded as gilt-edged.
When tho return rises above 6 per cent,
bankers aro Inclined to advise caution as the
bonds or stocks yielding such rates begin to
enter the Bpeoulativo class. But, as pointed
out at the beginning of this article, all the
would-be Investor need do with regard to
the purchase ot perfectly safe stock or bond
)s to treat It as he would a horse or a boat
and obtain expert advice.
A FUTILE HOPE
From the Indlarwpollt Newi.
One would think that ambitious chauffeurs.
driving family care, who 'desire to break nil
record, would beeome discouraged when they
learn that the earth's Bp4d in its orbit la iau
miles a geeond. But they probably won't.,
THE QUESTION OF WHEN
On, the man who is ready and faeile of pati
li tbe nan who will dazzle the throng; '
And tbe thing tat he aya our attention will
rwb
Like tbe word of a beautiful song.
But Hi" can't be tuned to a melody vast,
Whatever the vocalist's aWU
And we tern with a seiue at dependence at Iait
To tbe man who knows when to keep still.
The man wbo U eager and qulek to reply
To eacb queatlon that time may twe4it
We're forced to admire yet bow often wo sigh,
And return to our old dUwoateat;
The man with a courage and eeaecteoee devout
May be lacking la eloquent thrill
but th man ubo knows when It U tim to
out
If tbe man wlio juwwa when to keep stui
JYaabtnjton a tar.
MEN OF THE MAYORALTY CAMPAIGN
Judge James E. Gorman, Slated for the Democratic Nomination,
Has a Record of Service in the Juvenile Court That
Makes Him the Hope of Many Independents.
By HERBERT
Tills is the sixth in a scries of sketches
of men who may figure in the mayoraity
campaign, intended to let the voters
know something about who they are and
tvhat they have done.
Tlin best way to toll nbout Judgo Oorman
would bo to tell about a lot of other peoplo
Instead. Theso other people. If thoy wero
nllowed to vote and knew how, could easily
elect him Mayor or nny other thing ho might
want to be, for their
name Is loglon. Thoy
nro tho silent, living
majority, but n great
many of them will
not llvo to voto for
anybody or anything,
for they dlo nt a
great rate, do theso
llttlo cltlzons who aro
Judgo Gorman's
friends.
It has been his Job
to keep ns many of
them as posslblo
allvo and properly
cared for. As tho
Judgo of tho Juven
ile Court for a llttlo
moro thnn a year ho
has been so usoful
that when nny social
Jt 1X1E CORUAN
worker starts to talk about his recent re
tirement from tho Juvenllo bench hn finds
It hard to keep his temper. Judge Gorman
scorns to havo tho mysterious mixture of
kindness and firmness which Is necessary to
solve that gigantic problem of keeping other
people's homes from falling to pieces
Ono case, among tho thousands, Is as good
as any other to show what ho has been up
against. A man gets drunk and comes homo
to beat his wife and children. Ho Is sent to
Jail. Tho wifo hns to go out to work. Tho
children run about tho streets nnd get Into
trouble. They lack food. Something has to
ho done- As you nnd I seem to bo too busy
to "visit tho widows and tho fatherless" wo
havo to let "Tho Socioty" do it for us.
Whon society falls It tries to remedy
things by spelling n word with a capital
letter and by putting n "the" in front of it.
So, when a homo gots Into trouble It Bends
tho children to "Tho Homo."
Tho Homo is overcrowded, nn unhcalthful
place. In tho best Homo one child in threo
dies. Tho person In charge is not the child's
mother; probably nobody's mother. Tho
child wants to go back homo, tho mother
wants to havo it back. But sho is scrubbing
floors. -Woll, wo let it go nt that. Wo let
her scrub nnd wo let the child go on being
unhappy.
Judgo Gorman said, "Tho mother ought
tn hnvo enough money to stay home and
tnko baro of her child, and we'ro going to
givo It to her."
Politics said "No." Ho tried to havo a bill
passed by tho Legislature to let him "com
mit" children to tholr mothers and order tho
payment ot money direct to the mothers for
the support of the children. The bill was
not passed.
Ilko all peoplo who havo tho gift of quick
intuition and who think with their hearts
he acted hastily and Impulsively, The othet
day ho asked to bo relieved of his duties,
and is now In chargo of another branch of
the Municipal Court. But he was not quit
ting, tho social workers say. Ho was pretty
nearly "all ln," He was tired out., For he
often eat ln Ills court from 9 or 10 In tho
morning until 11 o'clock at night; that 1b,
till the work was dono.
"Judge, you're so tired you can hardly
make your hand write another order," tho
indefatigable lawyer for "The Soolety" would
say, In one of those courtroom "asides" with
which they would brace each other up with
the grim humor of tired men going on their
nerves.
Each Case Is a Human History
But why, It is time to ask, all this strenu
ous effort over the little question of giving a
child a meal ticket? It only partly answers
the question to say that Juijge Gorman dls
nosed of 88 cases, for example, In the last
weak be at In the Juvenile Court, a record
for this country- the real answer Is that he
want Into tbwe cases with the thoroughnaM
of an Imaginative mind. Such case Involved
a ooropUeated chart. An agent would ask
tbat 6-year-old Johnnl Jones be committed
to a Home. Work of Ave minutes. If you
like.
But, "Where are the otber children?" the
Judge would aek.
H'd draw a map of tbata. Tbare would
"ONLY A" BUZZING SOUND SO
S. WEBER
bo Johnnie, in ono cornor. Then, nearby,
would bo Bllllo, aged 7, and whero was he,
and was ho satisfied thero? And so on the
row of chlldron nnd their destinies. Then at
tho top the father, his wages, or lack of
wages, and Mother, and tho fix sho was lrt.
And when all the Intolorablo family trco
of shamo and suffering had been sot down,
nnd tho dazzling Interrelationships of hopc.t
nnd despairs and possibilities and certain
ties had been calculated, ho would llnally get
back to hungry Johnnie, In tho cornor, tho
"enso" in question, and to try to fit him to
tho patchwork of "somothlng - has-to-bo-done,"
nnd llko as not, tho Judgo would find
thnt ho would not havo to bo taken away
from his mother after all, and sent to "Tho
Homo."
Boiled down, this nil moans that whnt a
Magistrate often docs In flvo minutes Judgo
Gorman might tako an hour to; nnd that
mothod required many witnesses and much
testimony; and tho Judgo would never send
n witness home unheard, but would sit up
until 11 o'clock, If need be, to do tho thing
right. ,
Ho visited tho Homes that wero not homes
nnd the protectories that did not protect
nnd ordered thorn to hotter conditions, or
ho'd havo tho law on them. This was work
ho wfts not required to do. Ho would also
dig down Into his pocket ln court, whon
thero was no legal way of gottlng enough
monoy for some "case," and "on tho sldo"
ho would fill ln somo crevice of poverty's
tumbling tenement.
A Fight for Mothers' Pensions
In tho statement with which ho closed his
endeavors for tho present ho reviewed hli
fight. Ho hnd labored to provide suitable
homes for children offender The Institu
tions became overcrowded nnd tho alterna
tive was to send them back to tholr mothers,
making payment of an amount equal to that
which would have been given to tho institu
tion. Tho Superior Court, however, had
ruled that the court had no power to make
such nn arrangement without legislative au
thority, nnd n bill to this end was submitted
by him to tho Legislature. Ho wrote to
every Senator and Representative asking his
support. It was not enacted. Then ho placed
tho children with tho Institutions with an
order upon tho County Commissioners, and
tho children wero passed on to their homes,
but tho Commissioners refused to pay the
orders. The Judgo was placed In tho embar
rassing position of having mado tho institu
tions borrow J6000 for tho children they had
sent to their mothers under his direction. He
had expected tho city to exert Itself and
hnvo tho law making this system workable
passed by tho Legislature. Tho city did not
oxert Itself, and tho Judgo decided that so
far ns relieving tho distress of mothers with
dependent children ho had becomo "nothing
but a registering clerk with no power to
help them."
Now for tho politics of It. Judge Gorman
Is a Democrat. Unlike some other prominent
Democrats he Is not co-operating with the
llepubllcan Organization.
When politicians whispered In his ear on
tho bench, he said, "Get around In front and
tell It to ma thero out loud."
There was a man who had Ill-treated his
10-year-old daughter, but whom the gang
wanted to run for ofllce, nnd, of course, go
free and havo bis children, too, If he liked.
The man did not get his daughter back.
He would havo acted In tho samo wny If
corrupt Democrats had tried for a Blmllar
favor,
But now wo come to tho bigger political
phase of It, If. anything U bigger' than the
saving of children. Where does he stand In
his party on general Issues? Ho Is Bup.
posed to Incllno toward the reorganlzers in
his party, but it Is the Old Guard that has
Indorsed him. He Is considered a hnrrnon
Izer, and he undoubtedly looks upon himself
as a harmonlzer. At any rate, there Is no
other Democrat In town that oould very well
enter the Hats -with any show of strength.
His nomination by tbe Democrats saems
assured.
A democrat, But Independents' Hope
The most pertinent question now is. How
many Deoujerats are there in Philadelphia?
About Sl.ftW voted for Palmer, tf.ooo for
Woodrow Wilson and for Congreseman-Ht-large
53,000. That perhaps la the moat relia
ble test. We can call the. working vote about
60,600. go on the face of It Gorman has no
Qhance. But If there 1 , bitter factions!
fight ln tbe Republican, Organization and the
Independents do not rally flrwly and prompt
PAR!"
ly to an Independent Udnte, Gorraaa
might bo a fusion cand If the info.
pondont9 dn not build u, .. coherent organ
l7ntlon, they may find themselves h thi
position ot seeing thoso 50,000 Democati?
otes ni a life-saver. And that woull W
German's chnnco.
James B. Gorman thnt Is his name jj'
fir, years old, ho wns born ln thU city an4'
was educated In tho public schools, f
was admitted to the bar In 18S3, and wills
he is now a tich man ho has known thl
pinch thnt tho people who faced him la tht
Juvenllo Court know too well When hwaa
admitted to tho bar ho was getting alonj n ,
$6 a week. Ho conducted a largo nndproflf"
nblo real estnto business In tho northern put
of thn city, nnd ho was to n great cxUnilti- -strumentnl
ln making Germantown avnut 1
business nrtory. He onmo to bo largely con-1
cornea in unniting ana ounuing nnn loans
association lntercstn. Ho wns ono ot thi
nrimnlznrs nf thn Ymini? Mnn'fl Dnmorrfltlftuj
A......ln,l.n nil I. n m nnnl. .... .. 0 ,1... Yf Ih.,,.?
nlnn Society nnd tho Cnthollc Historical Bo
clety.
Upon 'tho death of Mnglstrnto Hagan iy
was appointed by Governor Hastings to flul
the vncancy, out was aiterwaru ucteatca ici
that ofllce. Ho was subsequently a candf
dato for Register of' Wills, and was ajw
pointed to succeed Mnglstrato Hughes,
Tho Municlnal Court net movldcd for nlnll
Judges to bmolectod on n non-partisan batija!
At tho election ln November, 1913, ho poUtl,
n larger voto than, any other of his ns
clntcs on the now bench Early In 1014
iinii tttlf t ihn (in-n rt tlin Tut nn.ln Prin it
tho Houbo of Detention, Avherc ho galne:
much oxperlcnco as a Magistrate, befort.
Juvonllo cases wero put Into the jurisdiction
of tho Municipal Court.
TRAIN FOR WORK, PLAY AND PRAYER
To the Vditor ol Evening Ledger
Sir Tho Itov. Mr. Steolo, of St. Luko and h
Eplplmny, objects to lieinonal liberty. In Ms
artlclo on your editorial page this evening h
finds fault with tho working persons who" mil
appropriate legal holidays, such tis tho Fourth
of July, when ho thinks all should gather to
practice patriotism by going llslilng or plcKnlCK'
Ing. Ho would not permit men to do on SunJaj
what they will. Ha would have them devoti
the forenoon to prayer or churchccng It
Stoclo wllj kindly inquire Into tho conilltloa
that drlvo hutnnnklnd to forego religion c9
clscs, which mny or may not bo n good thliifl
to do, lio mlnlit nlace himself In u bit morl
favorable position ln tho ejes of Intelligent pcrs
sons by advocating a flvo-day work week, which
will allow ono day tor tho rest nnd recreation
tnp.t ton mitKos necessary, and ono day lor res
Uglon. which Is tho business ot Mr. Steele. Ftc3
sonally, I nm Irrevocably opposed to tho plug
laws or any kind of laws that forbid n man trS
Jojlm; himself on the ono day allotted for JUT
enjoyment. SAIt TOIIU&
Bryn Mawr, July 7.
AFTERNOON OR EVENING
.. v ...v .w vf .. .i,y Mtwyvi . i
after 1 o'clock to say "good afternoon" or "pxA
uvuiuni;, r. o. .
Philadelphia, July 6
The use of "Oood afternoon" between 1 nl ',
6 o'clock Is n matter of latitude. Southerner! '
aro In the habit of saying "Oood evening" t
any time after noon, whereas Northerner
not sny "Good ovenlng" until after tho eeiM
1HU llicui. luuor liVENIHO L.CPCICII.
FAREWELL TO AN OLD FRIEND
To the Editor of Evening Ledaer.
Sir The Liberty nll n.issnri Nnrherth ti
tlon at full speed this afternoon, giving tM
waiting crowd only a blurred glimpse of the M1
parting relic. Many there hnd never seen ttO
cell, especially women and children, and Wi
earae must be true of other stations. Could JWj
trie train have alowed down In passing enoun
to let one Bee the details of tha car? Even li
this Increased the schedule time, was not tbjl
cniei ooject ot tno trip to havo tho bell seen n
me people ot tno repuunoT
Let me add that many saw with sorrow
bell whiz by, as If nn aged friend were whlrif
away whom they might never see again, i
WILLIAM H. COLEMAN.j
Narberth, July E.
CANDIDATES FOR SYMPATHY
From th Atlantlo.
Middle children nra to fan nil!,.,! tnr helnr tV
domned to be constantly mado over out of t
mcaier eiacava outgrown raiment. How fs
Aommy oe-sure no la Tommy when he u
ways walking around ln Johnnv's shoeif
Polly, grown to girlhood, ever And her
heart, when all her life It has beaten u4l
Annuo pinatoret
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