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TION OF Tltn KVBNINO L8DGHR
FOR JUNE WAS 02,87.
PIIIIADELPIIIA, IttWDAY, JULY 12, 1915.
There cannot be "mute, inglorious Miltons."
It ts a contradiction of terms.
A Magnificent Report
WHAT Is the outstanding thins In Di
rector Cooko's magnificent report7 Is It
tho 1,000,000 saved In 19U over 1911? Is It
tho 4,200,000 that he expects to sco caved
by tho time, his administration is ovcr7 Is
It tho revolutionary Introduction of scientific
management Into the business of a city? Is
It a dollar's worth of street work for overy
dollar expended? Is it the considerable total
of such Bmalt but significant things as
routing tho mosquito through a campaign of
education by motion pictures? Is it the stu
pendous fact tha't 4000 city employes, a good
sized town In themselves, havo had the
spending of $31,267,000 In three years, and
havo spent It at every point to tho utmost
public advantage? Is It tho realization that
all this has been dono In tho face of that
condition which has shaped Itself Into a
Philadelphia proverb, "tho antagonism of
an unfriendly Councils"?
No, the outstanding fact Is no ono of these
things, not even the flno total of them all.
It Is the assertion ringing through tho whole
report of that now Ideal of communal Bcrv
Ico which the TJIankenburg Administration
has brought to Philadelphia. Men llko Di
rector Cooko and his associates, even down
to tho last of that 4000, aro doing a now
work In a new spirit. They are working for
tho common weal of tho city. Mllltantly,
they uro putting Into their work something
of that purpose which animated tho greatest
city of all time, Athens. They are working
for the common good and achieving for them
selves and for every citizen somo new benefit
of civilized life.
What does the gang think today when It
reads that report? Is it struck with some
dlvlno envy of such work? Or docs anger
surgo within It, and drlvo It forward to new
plans of Jobbery and fraud next fall?
Getting the Most Out of the Schools
THE Child Federation Is showing the
Board of Education tho way. At Its re
quest It has already been permitted to uso a
classroom in every school where summer
playgrounds are conducted. With tho excel
lent example of ono Twist In mind, tho Child
Federation ts now asking for moro. It wants
to utilize tho whole building for teaching
mothers and children how to bo healthy. It
wants the city to get all possible value out
of Its educational Instruments.
The Idea is right In lino with social prog
ress and business common sense. No manu
facturer would vacate his plant during four
months of tho year. Corporations doing a
lino of work dependent on seasonal demands
Introduce other lines to tako upt tho slack.
It Isn't necessary to go so far West as that
much-heralded city of Gary to find educa
tional buildings used nil tho year round. Our
colleges learned tho lesson of commercial
common sense and human needs long ago.
Summer schools grow In scopo and useful
ness every year. Tho registration at Penn
State has Jumped 25 per cent, over last sum
mer and runs above 1000.
There is no reason why summer classes In
the public schools, and night classes, too, the
year round, shouldn't change our educational
system from an instrument of teaching chil
dren when summer lazylng Isn't In order, to a
means of fertilizing with knowledge those
great human fields which accidents of In
dustry Jeavo fallow far moro than culti
vated. No prlca Is too great to pay for an
educated citizenry; good business sense In
the utilization of public property Is a pretty
small one.
A Healthy Body for n Healthy Mind
IT IIAS been the despair of many a phil
osopher that while civilization grows finer,
subtler, more complex, and produces peoplo
with keener mentality, better brains with
moro In them, tho raco degenerates. Tho
body becomes lax as the mind grows Arm.
Bonus, muscle and sinews Bhrink, and
health with them. Within very recent years
before the Great War, England furnished a
PUblle example by having to lower tha re.
quirements of height and health In order to
obtain the necessary army recruits,
Tha reason is partly natural the neglect
of one side of man when emphasis Is con
centrated, on another and partly artificial
the produot of letting- Industry run wild in
its demands on human energy and Its con
sumption of human nerves. Both ora rem
edial; and both are being remedied. A de
liberate, conscious regard for physical health
Is being promulgated In laws, In literature.
In the press and In the schools.
Speaking only of the last, gymnastics plays
a larger part In all kinds and ages of In
struction, while mora ts taiigiU of the uses
nd abuse of the body. TJ'ewt aspects
W this propaganda of bMttfe In Philadelphia
Dome from the Child Federation and the
Board of Education. The rtdwaUon to ex.
tending th claw room work in eoonatitm
KlaygMeoads. by whlh H.m girl, in
the twantb and eighth grades were taught
ttw sra of babies and young otiUdrta last
unnr The public- school nag, fell will
add mom very practical and personal In
strucUtui to the i-uurses they have given In
pbysielrttjy fit care of tits teeth, personal
tUajilin, irciee is bmtklag and physi
cal dovtriopiMiit wlU for ri of imuue-
tlon given utmost wholly by nral wmus and
through personal demonstration Such ai
mnees mean no desertion of the school'
function to teach the brain. They mean ofilr
a facilitation. A healthy mind Is almost Im
possible, certainly not very useful, Without
the old Greek duality, a healthy bod'.
Last Move of the Obstructionist
THAT some obstructionist or other would
run to the courts In an effort to defeat
rapid transit has been obvious for some
time. No great enterpriser can be under
taken that some disgruntled person Is not
found to object. The city had Its taste of
obstructionism when It was proposed to In
troduce lighting by gas, and It has had Us
fill of the same sort of tactics whenever
since any modern project has been consid
ered, nut progress continues despite tho
Lilliputians, of whom thero aro not enough
In this whole community to prevent tho con
summation of the people's hopes,
Mr. Dallam Is quite within his rights in
bringing suit, whether on his own Initiative
or as tho representative of Interests that
havo no desire to disclose themselves. It
Is fortunate for the public, howover, that
not the least valuablo part of Director
Taylor's work has been his careful consid
eration of tho legal technicalities to be ob
served as each step was tiken. It was on
a legal question that tho great fight against
tho "trick" ordinance turned. Through a
maze of technicalities the Director has pur
sued his way cautiously, and It will bo sur
prising If any flaw Is found In tho legal
foundations on which tho transit program
was Inevitable that a suit of this char
acter should bo brought. It is a good thing,
therefore, that It has been brought so soon.
It will occasion somo delay. Nevertheless,
on a matter of so great lmportanco prompt
action by tho courts may reasonably bo
anticipated. Indeed, tho city will undoubt
edly endeavor to get tho Issue out of tho
Inferior courts and Into tho Supreme Court
at the earliest possible moment.
O. Henry onco searched for "Tho Voice of
the City." He found It. "Chicago says, un
hesitatingly, 'I will'; Philadelphia says, 'I
should,'" That was In other days. In April,
with n chorus of ayes that completely
drowned tho noes, Philadelphia said, "I
will havo rapid transit." Philadelphia
meant it.
Go Ahead and Win
THERE nro two ways to go about getting
tho Republican National Convention. One
Is to sit complacently by and wait to see
whether Councils will let tho Convention
Hall be built. The other Is to go ahead and
Invite the convention here. The first course
means certain failure; tho second means
probable success. It Is, therefore, tho courso
which tho Chamber of Commerce will
adopt-
Philadelphia is facing a new era. Tho
time has past for business men to twirl
their thumbs while waiting for Councils to
perform Its obvious duty. Now business men
ore prepared to tako the issue into their
own hands, to go ahead mllltantly, to forco
Councils' hand and compel that body to fall
Into lino.
Tho Chamber of Commerce need havo no
fear. Councils meets In Soptember. It will
have beforo It the specific question: Shall
Philadelphia havo tho Republican National
Convention? Its vote on tho convention hall
project will be Its answer. Thero Is not
enough splno In Common and Select Coun
cils together to turn the program down.
Tho way to get tho convention Is to get
tho convention hall, and tho way to get
tho convention hall Is to mako It the test
of getting tho convention.
The Toll Road Relic
ATOLI, ROAD Is a relic, a withering, tot
tering, bothersome relic. It came Into
being In thoso "good old days" when coun
ties and States were such timorous things
they doubted their own abilities to do any
thing but pass laws upon their Inhabitants,
and left obviously essential but expensive and
unremuneratlve things to bo dono by private
Initiative. Unfortunately for Pennsylvania
today, but a blessing to tho State of other
days, thero was plenty of energy and fore
sight lying round looso which tho corporate
people sadly lacked. The result as and
still Is tho spectacle of much-traveled roads
llko Lancaster and Montgomery avenues tak
ing tolls for what has come to bo regarded
as tho commonest of freedoms, tho freedom
of the road.
It Isn't alone the much-harried automo
blllst who will rejoice if tho petition of the
Commissioners of Lower Merlon township to
free Montgomery avenue goes through. It Is
the spirit of public works, the spirit that
inhabits tha soul of the State and makes It
an Inspiration as well as a helpmeet to tho
people who created It.
A lookup cures any Chicago lockout.
The Lemon Hill Association's plcnKj belled
Its name.
After al, the Kaiser might have sent us a
rejection slip.
In the theatre of
without applause.
war encores continue
It sounds as If somebody had locked up a
bumble bee In the British Cabinet.
Plana and motorboat races' ao popular Just
now in and around tho Adriatic.
It begins to appear that the ship in ques
tion gave tho bombsters the Minnehaha.
Fighting in tho Tyrol Isn't so bad after all.
See comparative temperatures' here and there!
minaiMHp.il ita m a
The "slBht-slng" Jitney would doubtless
pick out Councils as tha flrs sight, f jt was
only home.
Wouldn't it be ohoap- to ljuwre Taxpayer
Dallam against damage and go ahead with
the transit plan?
1 'i i ii
How many guMsw as to tha make of "the
small ar" that ran into tho rear of the
Frewtdeat's automobile?
Tb 13 something mtt of nbtto la Gar
many's oUoiee of verbs, viz.: "Ownwny had
always panauted itself to b gowned by
the principles of progrosj al humanity to
dealla; wtti ttta law of maritime war." But
what About gas bomb asd Bltamr
MARVELS WROUGHT
BY PATRIOTISM
The War Has Led an Italian De
faulter to Give Himself Up for
Fear of Being Called a Deserter,
and Old Men Beg to Fight.
By ADALBERTO CAPORALE
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T WAS tho moral factor that turned tho
Italian peoplo, as a mighty whole, heart
and soul. In tho church and In the mnss
meetlng, In favor of war against Austria,
Italy's former ally. Trieste and Trent do
not represent, In fact, either big territorial
acquisitions or nny great economic advan
tages for the Kalian Kingdom, though thero
aro military reasons, necessities of defense
and other material advantages. They, how
ever, could not bo tho deciding factor for
the great mass of tho people. Trlcsto nnd
Trent are tho two unredeemed sisters of tho
"Cento CItta;" aro tho captives upon which
the captors, the hated Austrlans, exercised
their denationalizing energy and power.
The historian of the future cannot fall to
rccognlzo and emphasize tho fact that,
moved by n powerful, unchcckable moral
factor, tho Italian army, that Is, the Italian
people for the armv Is, In democratic Italv,
a vital part of the whole compact of the na
tionhas achieved the quick military suc
cesses of tho first stage of tho war mainly
owing to the "morale" of tho troops and tho
nation. There are Incidents and episodes
which seem to us, 5000 miles away, unusual
and astounding, nnd are only tho normal
happening of every day, the result of what
has been tho moral dynamic forco moving
the Italian masses In these last few months
of anxious waiting and warmly cheered
hopes for tho opening roar of the cannon
and the rattling of tho machine guns. So It
has been seen that nearly all tho members
of the Parliament havo requested to bo sent
to tho front, nnd havo been appointed offi
cers In tho territorial mllltla. But It Is ccr
tnlnly surprising to hear that old men havo
Insistently begged to be given a uniform and
a rlflo and bo allowed to bo killed for their
beloved Trlesto and Trent, and that boys fn
their early teens havo deserted their homos
to go to tho front to fight for tho "unre
deemed." as they said.
A Gnribaldi Lieutenant Volunteers
Ten days after tho opening of hostilities
an old, white-haired man, still having tho
appearance of perfect health, climbed tho
stairs of tho War Office nnd passed his card
to a high ofTlcer. He was Immediately intro
duced, and exhibited documents proving that
in 1S60 General Cooenz, ono of Garibaldi's
lieutenants, had appointed him a sublieu
tenant. Ho asked to bo sent to tho front
with, tho rank given him by Coscnz. Tho
old man, who was no other than Commenda
toro Farrarl, a famous sculptor, resident ot
Buenos Aires, was born In 1837, nnd was ono
of tho "Thousand" Garlbaldlans who con
quered a kingdom and presented It to King
Victor Emmanuel II. Ho had crossed tho
Atlantic with tho absolute confldenco that
tho Government would listen to his fervent
prayers and send him to fight against tho
Austrlans.
Tho streets of Rome are crowded with
aged soldiers, all volunteers, many of them
wearing tho ribbon of the Corona d'ltalla,
others tho green ribbon of Commendatore
Maurlzlano. still others tho black ribbon of
tho Order of Malta, nnd all donning tho uni
form of privates and ready to face all tho
hardship of tho Ilfo at the front, though
many of them belong to the Roman nobility.
Their dream Is only one to be allowed a
fight, nnd their only regret Is to see others,
younger and stronger ones, sent beforo them.
An old man, 61 yenrs old, Zanobl Barsantl,
has been enlisted and sent to tho front after
Insistent requests. lie was given tho rank
of sergeant. He Is a veteran of another war
against Austria, .that of 1S66, and fought at
Montana nnd was with tho troops who occu
pied Rome. Another old man of 71, Edoardo
lasher, succeeded also In being enlisted,
after a medical examination and insistent
begging, and was attached to a regiment of
infantry. Ho fought with Garibaldi in I860,
and six years later against Austria as a
Bersagllerc.
Patriotism Converts a Defaulter
But hero is an extraordinary story. Last
year Bonavcntura Cortl, a messenger of p.
Florence bank, disappeared with a package
containing 160,000, which ho had been ordered
to deposit In the Banco di Napoll in Flor
ence. All tho efforts made by tho police to
discover tho whereabouts of Cortl failed.
Seven days after war had been declared
againsi Austria, uortl went to the Cara
bineers station In Florence and gave him
self up. saying that his act was prompted
by fea.r that he would bo considered a de
Berter. How many of theso people, who mako a
supremo gift of their lives to their country.
Joyously, with tho samo readiness and tha
same spontaneous dash as If they were going
to help their mother out of a dangerous
situation how many ot them will return to
their wives nnd children? They know, theso
old veterans of wnr and these others who
have fought recently against tha Turks, they
know what Is war. But they go to the front
for their "Patrla." ready and anxious to
Bhed their blood for tho oppressed sisters of
Venice and Brescia.
It is the combination of Ideal and material
reasons that has brought about tho moral
unification of Italy in tho present war
against Austria, and It is the high morale of
the troops and tha people which makes tho
military successes of General Cadorna pos
sible and tangible.
PLAYING OFF THE DRAW
From tha Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Military experts declare that the war will re
sult In a draw. That would be too bads for
as In the case of most draws, the contestants
would be eager to play It off and determine the
championship.
KEVERSE ENGLISH
From the Atlantic City Ravlaw,
After all, the essential difference, so far as
we are concerned, is this: That when the Ger
man Government doesn't like what tho news
papers ay, u auppreeaes them; and that when
the Amerlean newspapers don't llko what the
Government dees, they euppreea It.
TAGORE
Asia hath found a tongue
Which the world can hear;
Ala, oir nurse when tho raee was young,
Asia, whose harp has been long unstrung,
Asia, whoee heart has been long unsung,
Aela speaks out sweet and clear,
Again we lt about one hearth and feel the
glow.
Aryans who parted. East and Wet, ten thou.
sand years ago;
We built; tbey built; grew Westj giew Bast;
We fwgot we ever bad eat at a eoaraea feast;
Theie were ware and bate and allmce aad
wrong.
We ate brought together by a poet's song
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THE BLOCK-PAVED ROAD TO SUCCESS
The Heads of the Incompetent Make a Smooth Highway Over
Which the Capable Find It Easy to "Get There."
A. A. Christian Talks of Opportunities.
By GEORGE
"TF WE had had an organization llko yours
JL wo would not have neon compelled to go
out of business."
This Is what the manager of tho Simpson
Crawford Company, of Now York, said to
tho manager of Glmbel Brothers after ho
had seen tho Qlmbel forco tako hold of tho
stock purchased from the retiring company
and get It ready for transfer and salo In
their Philadelphia and Now York stores.
Such an efficient organization ought to
offer splendid opportunities to young men
and women anxious to get on In tho world.
Ono connected with It ought to absorb
knowledgo of the best business methods
without conscious effort, Just as a child
brought up In an educated family learns to
speak correct English, adorned and mado
picturesque by tho colloquial metaphor,
'sometimes called slang, that ho learns from
his playmates. Tho apt child picks up both
with equal facility, and uses both with equal
case. I once heard tho 3-year-old son of a
physician, when nsked where his grand
mother was, reply:
"Sho Is out on tho Btcps, chewing tho rag!"
And ho was conscious of neither disrespect
nor other impropriety. Tho languago of his
tlmo was reacting upon his Impressionable
Intellect as truly as cream of tartar reacts
upon blcnrbonato of soda In tho baking pow
der biscuits that his mother ought not to let
him cat for supper.
Acid Tost of Opportunity
With a vlow of discovering how the alkali
of ambition could bo brought in contact with
tho acid of opportunity right hero In Phila
delphia, I called on A. A. Christian, manager
of tho Glmbel store, and told him I wanted
to get somo words from him that would en
courage the young men and women of tho
city who are Just beginning to earn a living.
"They got too much encouragement al
ready," ho replied, with feeling. "What
young peoplo need Is not encouragement, but
hard work. Let them start In an honest
business, and the rest depends on them. But
the business should be honest In the first
place. That settled, nothing else matters,
except the Individual himself. The troublo
with most young peoplo Is that they do not
caro about anything except the money they
get. They take no interest In their work.
This store is full of peoplo who do not earn
J5 a week for tho company. But those who
do tako an Interest have no trouble In get
ting on.
"Why!" he exclaimed, "If a boy atlcks his
head above tho rest bo much," and ho meas
ured about half tho length of the first Joint
of his first finger, "ho will bo seen by somo
ono In authority and pushed ahead. If wo
do not push him ahead, somo one clso will
catch sight of him and take him away from
us. Young people havo no chanco? Why, wo
force chances on theml Everybody does.
Every big business Is going over the country
with a fine tooth comb to nnd men who can
do things. But they aro not easy to And.
Taking the Shears to the Sharpener
"If a new boy comes in hero and I tell him
to- get these shears sharpened" ho picked up
a pair that looked aa if they needed it "and
ho asks me where the sharpener's shop Is
and to look up his address in the directory
and how much ho ought to pay, a man be
gins to swear. But that Is what wo are up
against all tho time. There are places where
shears are sharpened, and wo want somo ona
who knows enough to get tho Job dona when
wa put It up to him."
There opened then to my vision tho long
vista of tho highway to success made smooth
with tho block pavement of tha heads of tho
Incompetent, where there would be elbow
room enough for all who choose to travel by
that road. So I asked for the store proc
esses of employment and advancement.
"Wo have about 4000 people with us now,"
MY. Christian said, "but in tho holiday sea
son we have about 6000. Every person who
oomes in here is first put through the Col
lege of Salesmanship. Wa call it a college
instead of a school, because that sounds
bigger. But It is only a school, and It does
not jtake very long for a bright young man
or woman to learn all that la taught there.
We tell them to be courteous and accommo
datlnsr. and we show them how to make out
a Balta slip, and we test them In penman
ship and simple mathematlee to disc-over
whether they can compute the amount of
the sal oorreetly. Then we put them be
hind a counter and permit them to watch the
salespeople at work When we are satisfied
that tbey can sell goods without making
erieua xntat&lses w give Ua a. salesbeoj
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of their own. And wo pay them while they
are learning. Thero 13 a minimum amount
which a girl Is supposed to sell In her de
partment to earn her wages. When sho sells
moro we begin to watch her, and If It keeps
up wo raise her pay. We've got to do It to
keep her.
Records of tho Recording; Angel
"Somo girls provo to be especially valuablo
because of tho attractive way In which they
arrange tholr stock nnd tho orderly way In
which they keep it. Such qualities offset
defects In sales ability. We know what
every person In tho store can do. Why, our
records aro as complete as thoso kept by tho
recording angel I do not mean any Irrever
ence by that. But to show you what wo do,
let us tako tho caso of a single girl. Sho
comes In nnd Is put at a certain counter,
say laces, for example. We record tho dato
of her first employment and her wages. We
watch her to discover whether sho Is cour
teous to customers nnd how sho gets nlong
with thoso In her department, and make a
record of that. Wo keep an account of her
sales nnd tho speed with which she Increases
In efTlciency, so that wo can toll in a moment
how valuablo sho Is to us. Wo record also
tho successive Increases In pay and her pro
motions. Wo may discover that she Is not
fitted to sell laces, and wo transfer her to
somo other department and give her every
chanco to make good. If she falls wo have
to let her go. Wo follow tho Bamo rulo with
tho men as with tho girls, and wo pay them
In proportion to their ability to serve us.
You know that If you hiro somo one to help
you sea goods ha must help or get out.
"What rewards aro open to tho most effi
cient? It depends entirely on tho person.
We have some heads of departments who
nro getting from $16,000 to J18.000 a year, but
thero Is no limit to tho amount which they
can make. If they sell this year $100,000
moro In their department than last year
they will receive a bonus. You can see a
man lea'lng the store some night with a big
wad of money in his pocket as his bonus for
tho season, and the next day ho will buy an
automobile with It, and Jt will not have to
be a Ford, either, Thero nre women as well
as men who are getting large Incomes be
cause they have proved that they can earn
money for the store.
"Wo are advertising all thd time for help,
because we are continually looking for peo
plo with tho right kind of ability who will
tako an interest in their work beyond tho
mere pay envelope. We pay them, of course,
but we want people who are willing to pay
tho price of getting on, and that Is hard and
faithful work."
And there you have it, Mr. or Miss Ambi
tious Young Phlladelphlan. the secret of get
ting on in the business of selling mer
chandise. THE CORN BOYS OF OHIO
From the Ohio Stat Journal.
.h0hl tn "l w"01-? t0 pennlt Interest to lag In
the Buckeye boys' corn-growing contest that
haa brought such excellent results during the
three years It has been In operation. WhMeve?
cau.e has operated to decrease entries this yea?
value In rou.lng the spirit of youth in ?ent?no
Jn"nln5- " "? bn a most valuable object leS
son In demonstrating that Ohio soil can be mad.
more productive when brawn calls to it? aid
the modern science, of the soli d
n w.eae aays wnen the cost of llvlne- la hiirh
end shows no Inclination to decline the
or boy who shows how production may be In
creased, how the soil can be made Toirodu?!
E?.0 f, produot8' "ntrttata tpffi
terment of the community. Tha firt J.... ,7
applaud and encourage" ti. hSd.nS!
Ing wnat s perhaps the only rational and t
ural method of combating the high "cost t ifi
Ing. The State that would .tana d?y by inrt
permit an activity of such value to falf fif 5
2orltirat1dultrtanC8 b" In'aW-
10W have taken part. Some relwr, ii!t th.an
the loes of Interest" It U of lnno?tanV8 ir
terrain, that reason rt taffl!
The average yield of corn In n,i . L!8
els. The boys lUaCli'ffi? " ft'
rrown on one aore. jgnwi! younAta,. -strated
that M and wKhels wfrl .5(m.?n'
owes a duty to the b7a wh ' ,?: nI
make these &, y3 who w "wWlng to
KEEPING TOE BALANCE
From the Sprteflal4 Republican.
S.VrnalSPenh.uer
their balance co completel8 ,rf,y Bot ,Mt
profeo. One reads J tL." a"
the Open Court tbftofeaiSJ &' Bub- t
:ttr!SV3K?yK3r2F
"
x&mcZte&at
ffgt
ot German professors who navo renounce!
their forolgn honors and titles. There was, it
seems, a woman member of tho society wh
was moro patriotic man mo men. when the;
society refused to excludo Its French, Engllih.'
and Russian members, tho woman In ouestinnl
promptly withdrew her membership, and, Prfjl
fessor Deussen says, "published her brav'el
resolution In tho columns of a local paper iqj1
her provincial town." "Wo shall not shed anrl
profeseor. Thero seem to bo prospects of f
restoration of "Slttllchkclt" in somo quarter
wnen tne war is over.
l
COL. SHRAPNEL'S SHELL
It Is the Chief Reliance of the Artillery if
tho Present War.
From Harper's Weekly.
The great rellanco In artillery today iiijj
the shrapnel shell. Shrapnel was lnvttfel
over 100 years ago by a young English oScS
of artillery. Ho had studied tho splld kftm
inai coum epecincuiany pamage ono man,' mi
whose area of effectiveness was too small, hi
the comparative Ineffectiveness of tho ordinary
sneii tnat burst into a row unaimea iragmemfi
This ofTlcer filled a shell with bullets and added
a charge ot powder sufficient to burst the sheu.1
This officer was Colonel Shrapnel, nnd the prja
jecuie sliu carries nis name. r or yearsult
held but slight esteem, wo used It In tho CM
War but, unless tho burst was exactly timetl
tho effect was slight. But with tho burst a&
trifle above and 60 to 60 yards In front of UiF
enemies' lines it hurled a blast of bullets wlthl
deadly effect. Shrapnel does not burst Inta
fragments like common oxploslve shell. It ha?
merely a sufficient charge of powder to bloWl
Its own head off and at tho name tlmo throjj
out tho bullets contained in tho shell casinrj
Theso havo, naturally, tho velocity of the pro-1
Jectlle Itself, together with tho slight additional';
force of the bursting charge These bullets
scatter In a cono-shaped spray llko a chtrge
of shot from a shotgun. Properly buretlnj
under all Ideal conditions, ono threo inch In'
H In -n af a.. .Iirnnnal m n (1.M m. .. .. Jl '1
ut.t, ,.... aiiiuiitii.i ..Kill lb ,11-111 bUll dill Ulfl.j
organize a company of Infantry, and two cr.
tnree, also bursting perfectly, simply annihilate
it.
And shrapnel Is fired today from all fornu
of guhs. It Is used in howitzer fire thf
howitzer being a cannon that throws a venfl
heavy projectile a short distance with a light
cnargo 01 powaer. ji is uropped upon troops
with this high angle howitzer fire, bursting
aoovo an army iikb n snower bath ot leadea
death.
THE NATIONAL POINT OF VIEW
We do not recognize that because n submi
rlne Is physically unable to observe the commoy
law or the seas regarding tha caDture of,
prize, we should revise the law to fit these pjg
sicai jncupacuies. uosion UIODc.
Whether the United States shall have a "allaj
protective tariff" or a "revenue tariff" Is not n.
tmportnnt as whether the country Is to be sum
jected to continual tinkering with an econonilS
question. cmcago Tribune.
The primary was instituted to abolish the
sway of corruot Dolltlcu nnd tn d-tlirnne the
boss. This was In urgent need, and still is, trajfl
up 10 aaie ine primary nas not done wnat was.
expected of It. The Ohio State Journal.
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