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PIIlLADELrillA, TIIUItSDAY, JULY IS, 1918.
Labor is the great alchemist, for U makea
bread out of a stone, cake out of tho
earth and sugar out of tho grasses.
Playgrounds Closed Frisco Open
TTTILUE Is hitching on tho back of tho
VV Ice wagons. Mary Is playing hopscotch
on tho asphalt. And all tho dangers, physi
cal and moral, of tho streets aro lurking In
wait for them whllo tho playgrounds aro
closed.
But tho junkotccr-guardsmon of Councils
are off to tho Fair.
That Is tho exact situation. Tho Finance
Commlttco found without much dtfllculty the
$29,000 necessary for Councils' Liberty Boll
pas3 to San Francisco. But tho Flnanco
Commlttco couldn't nnd tho $15,000 that
would havo kept nine public playgrounds
open which aro now closed down for lack of
paid Instructors.
Thero is nothing to do about It, of course.
Councils won't bo back for business till Sep
tember; mcanwhllo tho city summer takes Its
toll.
Chalk up ono mora civic achievement on
the monument of Councils.- Tho voter will
havo a chanco to collect tho llttlo mortuary
bill In November.
Thaw Is Sane Arc "Wc?
THAW Is snne. Tho Jury has sottled It, If
not tho Judge.
Thaw Is guiltless of murder. A Jury settled
that somo years back.
Just what makes tho difference? Is It tho
neuropathic lnfluenco of Matteawan? Has
Thaw been cured by medical skill or legal?
Alienists and Jurymen pronounce Thnw
sano today. Alienists and Jurymen would
doubtless havo pronounced him sano ten
years before the crime. Yet tho crimo Is a
fact. Paranoia haB loosed tho bonds of san
ity on ono occasion. "Will It do so again?
What can bo the outcomo ot such thoughts
on a case that has wasted human energy and
human life for almost n decade? Can It bo
anything elso than an avownl that tho Thaw
affair Indicts a luxurious society which
breeds, fosters and arms tlegcncrucy and
accuses an Instrument of Justlco which Is
powerless to deal fnlrly and Anally with It?
State Charity Begins nt Home
C'HARITV begins at home, as much for the
State as for the Individual. Until tho
charitable Institutions of tho State aro In tho
best of shape, Pennsylvania must think
twice; about appropriations for private chari
ties. This should bo no excuso for deprivations,
for endangering worthy prlvato Institutions
by a sudden withdrawal of support. But tho
very difficulty of determining what private
charities are an unjust burden, what chari
ties are bolng run uneconomical!)', oven dis
honestly, h an argument for tho State's
closest attention to Ita own.
The whole situation needs a thorough over
hauling and Inspection, and then a sano re
adjustment of yic support that the State
now gives so lavishly.
Why Dusy Men Arc Called
THE name of Thomas A. Edison Is a
synonym for busy efficiency: a man so
busy that ho hardly has time to read his
mall, much less to get tho sleep a normal
man requires. Yet ho Is ready to consecrate
his time and talents to tho service of his
country on tho Navy Advisory Board that
our navy may bo made ready and efficient.
The name Is true of tho other Inventive
geniuses who either have agreed or are' un
derstood to consider favorably positions on
the board.
H was because he was always busy that
Alexander Graham Bel) contributed bo much
to tho progress of tho world with the Inven
tion of tho telephone; and that OrvtlJe
Wright and his brother, the lato Wilbur
Wright, were able to give the world tho first
practical Hying machine. They are the typo
of men who are being enlisted to Improve
our naval service-
Tq d sure, they are busy, That Is what
makes them so Invaluable to science. As
the late Elbert Hubbard remarked, whenever
the world wants something done It asks a
busy man to do It.
Putting 10,000 .Children In School Again
r' IS a little absurd to suppose that Mr.
Grundy and the Manufacturers' Associa
tion have made their estimate of Jobless
children purely In the publlg Interest. But
in the end there will b this much unwn
solous Quixotism In their eanvass of the cnll
dretj who will lose their Jobs as a reuult of
the Brumbaugh child labor act; their figure
of 10.317 will be a useful norm to the officers
and Inspeotors who have to enforce the law.
As for the $11,700,000 a year that ludus
trious and often needy families wIU have
tost." behind it lie the whole broad quantum
ef child conservation which the Legislature
aad the prws UrcAed out before pajslns
ttw bill. There will be suffering lg ertaln
tlaeea, there was bound to be, Sqfferiur U
Inseparable frow alnwst eyary wise radjjuk.
' of society. But in tb pretext sa it
la a. prfea mitigated by the good, dose tb
afctfdren ad elmost obliterated by a tM
Ut Mr Orundy um to bo overtook log
Pov tHiraon dollwy mm? ho Um&at b paid
m cb riM of ysutfc. vkm qwi bw ttacir
Job But UlO WWW WVWt Ull b pld aunt
Uiowa Job WUM U be mU 1$ osaat tho
same demand aa before Only, the money
nnd work will to to grown men and women.
In the face of such art attempt M Mr.
Ofundy'a to stagger tho public mind with
massed figures, tho first duty of the press la
to point out that tho greater the number of
children thrown out of employment, the
greater tho number thrown Into school. Ten
thousand, a hundred thousand boys and girls
without work means better brains, bette
health and better Ideals for another day.
Given rtroro than half a glance, the figures
of Mr. Grundy carry their own answer, their
own defeat.
But will Mr. Grundy tell us how the fami
lies of 10,277 children earning an average
wage of IB a week can bo deprived of $11,
700,000 a year by tho transfer of the children
from tho factories to tho schools? At the
worst It could be only a quarter of this sum
In wages.
One Moro Doso of Councils
THE first day of Jitney litigation brought
out a number of Interesting things be
sides tho verbal pyrotechnics of Judge Sulz
berger. Tho Jitney partisans were undoubtedly
most Interested nnd concerned with tho affi
davits submitted and tho Judge's apparent
antagonism toward them. If tho oath of
tho drivers and observers Is to bo behoved a
full Ford car driving from 63d street to tho
ferries finished a cent and threo-quarters
ahead, whllo cars on tho Broad Btrcot routo
showed varying losses from ooven to sixteen
cents a trip. Judgo Sulzberger's objection
that a car may often tako on passengers for
only a fow blocks and drop them for now
fares took no account of tho number of trips
during tho slack hours of tho day when tho
car may bo nearly empty. To on Inexpert
nnd disinterested observer tho Jitney men
seemed to prove their contention that the law
Is confiscatory.
But that appoara to bo qulto beside tho
point which Is tho really Important thing In
yesterday's proceedings from the point of
view of tho avorago citizen. Tho law may
bo confiscatory; it may be only a deliberate
means of driving tho Jitneys out of business.
But It Is within Councils' rights to puss It.
City Solicitor Ryan declared:
I havo looked up tho Supreme Court de
cisions and I find that Councils have a
right to build a cannl In CheBtnut street
If they want to. Tho question of tholr
right to rcgulato tho Jitneys in this city
dissolves Itself Into vapor. Thero is no
question about It. Councils may do what
they pleaso about tho streots.
That Is a thing to know, to ponder nnd to
romembcr. "Councils may do what they
pleaso nbout tho streots." They may aUo
do what they pleaso about housing, play
grounds, business and a dozen other vital
Interests. The only answer Is that tho voters
can do what they please about Councils.
If they. don't do something In November
nnd In overy November following then ex
perience is a futile, meaningless word.
Congress Not Needed
HANNIS TAYLOR, former Ambassador to
Spain, is so worked up over our rela
tions with Germany that he advocates tho
lmmcdlato calling of Congress In special ses
sion. But In what respect would Congress
aid tho diplomacy of President Wilson or
mnko tho European belligerents fool nny
more kindly toward each other? Political ob
servers from ono end of tho country to tho
other say that Sir. Wilson Is stronger than
his party. Isn't ho also stronger than Con
gress right now? Tho last thing tho country
wants In Washington Is a man with a hasty
pen.
CIcan-Up for Keeps
THE cities aro putting now enthusiasm
Into the health proposition every year.
First It slmplydldn't exist all this Idea that
peoplo can keep their houses clean and them
selves healthy If they want to. Then It was
a fad. Everybody laughed over "clean-up"
days nnd tho spectaclo of grown-ups pro
tending to be very much in earnest about
looking spick nnd span for a day or two.
"Swat tho Fly" was tho movement that
really showed tho life and vigor in tho cam
paign for city health. People really liked It;
nnd they saw results. The end of It all Is that
today any number of quasl.publlo bodies are
doing genuine, useful work on "clean-up nnd
stny-clean" lines.
Perhaps it Is the Interest and Inspiration
of tho children that keeps It going. At any
rate, "Philadelphia saw them out In great
force this week campaigning for health with
their surplus summer energy. Whllo scores
of llttlo girls learned how to batho their
baby brothers by practicing on celluloid dolls
at Child Federation centres, a hundred chil
dren pnraded tho streets with garbage cans
the clean kind, tho right kind-advertising
the Sanitary League's official covered gar
bago can. It's !0 cents with your name and
address on can and cover.
A "round table" conference? Where's your
Sir Galahad?
Proud Manhattan bows before the problem
of the Jitneys.
The garment workers of New York havo
taken off their coats.
Suffrage Introduces the yellow car fund In
stead of the yellow dog.
Guard the National Guard I? the anti
liquor motto of Mount Gretna,
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Signs of life In the dyestuff Industry have
nothing to do with tho ammunition boom.
Tho "moonlight schools" of North Caro
lina are going into competition with the
"moonshine" variety.
It will be quite a change for Professor
Carnoy, of Louvaln. when he begins his
work at the U. of, P.
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Why lug In "German emlssarle" to ac
count for the Remington Arms strike when
the absurdity of lnteruwlon flghts la enough?
la It possible that our lata Secretary of
State Is paraphrasing the remark of Dr.
gamuel Johnson that "no man but a block-1
head ever wrote except for money"?
11 " ' ' " "" '"' WILIS !
Mr, Bryan Intimates that the President is
lotmd by the one-term Wank, It Is a good ,
inrne isr me country tn wr. Bryan was
net bound to that leagth of sorviee.
WtuOda't the dealers In second-hand auto
HtflMJrSf be Uoklod to dALb if their sale?
could arooao much lntmt at tho auction
of ttet -oUatliOy uaod" yotlow ear of Or.
Ajma, Howe Wtaw?
THE GREATEST
JEWISH CITY
Chelsea, Mass., Said to Contain tfiet
Highest Percentage 61 Hebrews,,
and Philadelphia Holds Twico an
Many as Palestine.
By EDWAUt) R. BUSHNEt.1,
WHERE and what Is the most Jewish city
In tho United States? Chelsea, Mass.
was etampod with that distinction nt tho ro
cent session of tho convention of tho Federa
tion of American Zionists. Twenty-five per
cent of Its population of 40,000 are Jows.
Numerically, Now York has the greatest
Jewish population cither in tho United States
or tho world, but tho proportion of Jews
thero Is slightly bolow that of Chelsea,
Nearly half of tho Jows in America, and
ono-twelfth of all tho world contains, live
within tho confines of Greater Now York,
Nevertheless, their proportion of Now York's
entire population la only about id per cent.
Tho oxtcnt to which tho Jewish people
maintain their rnclal Integrity though scat
tered to tho four corners of tho earth still
remains tho most astounding thing In tho
history of nation-building, From tho time of
their bondngo in Egypt, their flight through
tho wilderness Into tho promised land, nnd
their wonderful expansion during tho reigns
of David nnd Solomon, followed by their
subjugation nt tho hands of tho Greeks nnd
Romans, this Integrity never suffered. And
even during tho last two thousand years, as
thoy havo gono with civilization Into every
qunrtcr of tho globe, they havo always been
n distinct people.
Tho study of their world-wldo distribution
forms a subject of gripping interest. Roughly
speaking, thero nro about 32,000,000 Jows to
day. Every country has Its quota.
Only 78,000 in Palcstino
Palestine, tho original homo of tho Jows,
numerically does not contain many Jows,
but In proportion to tho cntlro population of
that country It loads tho world. Tho latest
statistics glvo Palestlno a Jewish population
of 78,000 out of a total population of 350,000.
This gives tho Jewish raco In Palostlno a
pcrcentngo of 22.29 of tho ontlro population,
though Its total of 71,000 Is hardly half tho
cntlro Jewish population of Philadelphia. In
certain parts of Africa and Asia tho Jewish
population, although numerically small. Is
proportionately high. Tunis In Africa ranks
next to Palestlno with a Jewish population
of 10S.000 out of a total of 1,023,217, or B.C2
per cent.
Europe, of courso, contains tho great bulk
of tho world's Jewish population, thero being
approximately ten million scattered through
out that continent of nearly 600,000,000 peoplo.
Russia furnishes a homo for moro than half
of Europe's Jews. Thero are 5,215,805 of this
raco living under tho Czar's authority. Then
comes Austria with 1,113,687 and Hungary
with 032,406. Germany has 615,021.
Of all theso European countries, however,
Rumania contains tho greatest percentage of
Jows. Thoro aro 259,015 thero out of a total
population of 5,956,690, a percentage of 4.52.
Tho Jewish proportion In Austria-Hungary
which Includes Bosnia-Herzegovina, Is 4,42,
that of Russia 4.15.
Portugnl probably contains tho smallest
percentage of Jews of any of tho civilized
countries. Out of this country's total popu
lation of 5,423,132 thero nro to bo found only
481 Jews, representing but .01 of 1 por cent.
In Spnln thero aro but 4000 Jews out of a
total population of 19,588,688, or .02 of 1 per
cent.
Atlanta and tho Frank Case
Tho Jows nro not nn agricultural peoplo,
a fact which explains why in this country
most of them havo found their homes In tho
great cities. Outsldo of New York, of courso,
Philadelphia, Chicago and Boston contain
tho greatest number. The Jowlsh popula
tion of Philadelphia Is estimated nt nbout
160,000, or a llttlo less than 10 per cent, of the
ontlro population. St. Louis, with a totnl
population of 687,029, contains 45,000 Jews,
with tho samo number credited to Cleve
land out of a population of 560,663. San Fran
cisco, with 416,912 Inhabitants, contains a
Jewish population of 30,000.
Atlantn, Ga., thrown into a state of tur
moil over tho trial and conviction for mur
der of Leo Frank, has a Jewish population
of only 4200 out of a total population of 151,
839. This coso attracted natlon-wldo no
toriety, and tho charge was freely made that
much of tho agitation against cither tho re
trial of Frank or tho commutation of his
sentenco from death to llfo Imprisonment
was of an antl-Semltlo origin. Yet the pro
portion of Jows In Atlanta Is extremely
small.
Tho number of Jows In tho small towns of
the United States is almost negligible. An
estimate made by the Industrial Removnl
Ofllcp shows that 50 of tho principal cities of
tho United States, not counting New York,
Chicago, Philadelphia and Boston, contained
only 287,100 Jews.
MORE BLACK SHEEP NEEDED
From the Army and Navy Journal.
One of the difficulties to be met In the (elec
tion of a natural mottled brown for cloth for
the armv la the shortage of black or brown
sheep. In tho experiments conducted In the
Quartermaster Corps under the direction of
Brigadier General Honry O. Sharpe It has de
veloped that It will require 70 per cent, of
brown or black wool to produce the desirable
natural color for the cloth under consideration.
A leas proportion of dark wool would produce
too llsht a color of cloth and would not meet
the requirements of the army. In peace time,
with the present strength of the Regular
Army, there will be no shortage of black wool,
but In the event of war It would be necessary
to uae dyea In producing the cloth for the uni
form of a large army. To provide for this con
tingency General Sharpe Is now conducting In
vestigations to determine whether a Uooiestlc
dje can bo secured for coloring cloth. Unless
this can be done the position of the War De
partment will not be Improved by adopting the
new cloth. The European war hoe called at
tention of the War Department to the fact that
the preaent oloth for uniforms cannot be pro
duced without the uae of Oerman dyeatuffs.
This faet la responsible for the effort that is now
being made to ae-oure a cloth that can be pro
duced without the Importation of any foreign
material. Not until the cloth can be found
which en be manufactured without the use ot
such material will thr be any change Jn the
uniform of the army.
HINT TO ALJBNISTS
The allenlato y, with w)nk or R nod(
In wbleb the bm alienists revel,
That when a ereuk ayg -i-ve a Bilton from
te eoop will be mbMg uie Oovll.
Your wurderou fool may be lanitd or net.
A sloppy or tjoeest 4rMr;
A total abstainer, a mUHaat sot.
A cook or a college professor
But watea like a. cat hi. nw Innocent move.
The momnt he hints of a "mission";
UU fancies are taking a dangerous groove
And homicide lurka m hJs vision
He'll put some poor Innocent under the sod,
Aud ihis is hint, on thji level,
RMM the ek with 'a mission from
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AMERICA BREAKS THE RECORD AGAIN
She Has Led the World in Steel and Cotton Production, Tall
Buildings and Fair Women, and Now Her Hand-made
Poetry Has Made Europe Sit Up and Take Notice.
By BURTON LITTLE
HERB Is an easy way to earn $10. Got
any obliging friend who thinks It worth
whllo to offer you thnt sum for guessing tho
last thing ho has In his mind at tho moment
no! not thnt tho last thing ho would over
think of thinking of. And then say:
Poetry.
And collect tho money. If you would mako
doubly suro of tho $10, bo distinct and say:
American pootry.
Tho annoyanco of your friend will be cosy
to assuage. Tell him, on the authority of
one of our foremost critics, that America la
Just now writing tho best pootry In tho
world, and ho will be reconciled at onco to
American pootry. You will hnvo titillated
his patriotism If not his taste. Ho may' go
homo to his wife or to his friends at tho
club with a now paradox to spring.
A Jewel of Absurdity
"By George, this is a great country!" ho
will say. "Do you happen to know that wo
aro Just now turning out tho best Just guess
what! Tho last thing you would over think
of. Tho best poetry In tho world! What do
you know about that! By hea-ons, you can't
bent this llttlo old land. Just to show that
thcro's nothing wo can't do, wo turn to pootry
nnd soy, 'Hollo! Here's something we'd
nenrly forgotten. Let's see what wo can do
with this darned thing.' And thero you
are!"
In short, your friend Is Immensely amused
with this Jewel of absurdity. Ho has long
been proud of our tallest buildings, our
biggest bridges, our smartest women and tho
like. Ho may know that one of our sculptors
nnd at least two of our artists are suro of
Immortality. But who besides n fow high
brows the kind that wear these rubber
tired spectacles would ever havo thought
that little old America would be leading the
van in poetry?
Well, It's true. Not so many years ago,
when William Dean Howells had ceased to
write poetry, and when Edmund Clarence
Stedman, Sidney Lanier nnd Paul Laurence
Dunbar had Joined Whltmnn In tho Brent
Bllences, thero virtually ceased to be, for a
time, such a thing as American poetry.
There were, Indeed, In nil the magazines cer
tain faithful spaces decorated with symmet
rical printed lines. But whenever you wished
to damn anything In a. thorough and work
manlike mnnnor you pronounced It nbout as
funny, about aa serious, about as poor or
aa good as "magazine poetry." And maga
zine! poots were about as careless of their
Identity as second-story men.
Now, In 10 short years, tho American mag
azines aro printing the largest volume of the
best poetry written today.
While we are about It, let us pile Pellon
upon Ossa and add to tho paradox. As If
this Improvement were not startling enough
In Itself, It Is, one may truthfully say, largely
the work of ono man a young American
critic.
Real Poetry Once More
About 10 years ago the daring thought
came to William Stanley Bralthwalte to
brave a reading of the magazines, flnd'out
how many yards of poetry they had -printed
during a single year and how many feet of
It were true poetical feet. To his vast sur
prise, he discovered that some of this Joke
of magazine verse was no Joke at all, but
very good poetry Indeed. He published his
discovery In a newspaper and ahoeked the
country. America, our America, was print
ing aome real poetry! He oted chapter and
verse, and ealled the wbie country to wit
ness the prodigy. And, lo. It was true.
Every year since then Mr. Bralthwalto has
annually reviewed the output of magewlne
poetry, and every year he has found more
genuine poetry, moro now and'gefiuine poets
,nd what Is more remarkable of all mora
American people reading these poots. It Is not
teflmueh to say in JOyears Mr. Bralthwalte has
gently but firmly accustomed this country to
poots and to pootry. He has emboldened timid
young men to venture into verse. He has
ealled attention to older poets who had gone
uoroad and has stimulated them to gtrongsr
endeavor. And together tby b,fcva aij 9t
tljom Uek4 up aa iwsMag puWlc tor
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poetry In this country. Moro volumes of ex
cellent home-grown verso wero published
last year than over before. American pootry
Is attracting attention abroad. After each
yearly review now Mr. Bralthwalte receives
letters of commendation from tho literary
curlouB In France and In Germany, as well
na from nil over tho United States. Ho has,
to drop very suddenly from tho poetic, put
American pootry "on tho map."
Making the Commutor Think
In tho last two years Mr. Bralthwalte has
published In a Bmall volumo tho score or
moro poems of tho magazlno year which
scorn to him tho best. Into tho second of
theso volumes tho man who is wont to con
sider pootry either nbovo or beneath him
may dip his noso without a blush and with
out contempt. In It, on pngo 137, ho will
find a poem mndo out of onn nt ihn mnf
typical of American things, ono of thoso ex
periences wljlch tho average American would
tako to bo tho farthest and most safely re
moved from poetry. This is Joyce Kilmer's
truly lovely and moving poem called "The
Twolvo Forty-five." It's nbout nothing but
a little midnight suburban train and tho
commuters riding home upon It. But no
mnn who has ever fidgeted or snoozed
through tho usually trying experience of
riding homo on a slow nnd belated night
"rattler" and thought It tho most hateful ex
perience In tho world can take that rldo In
tho same frotful spirit after rending Kilmer's
poem. Ho will find that a scribbling poet has
changed his llfo for a llttlo the better. Some
thing that wns beautiful right in his nwn
life, hitherto lurking unBecn, will havo been
shown to him by that little poet, so that he
can forover nfter Beo It for himself. And
It will como over him thnt that's what
poets are for, and that they nro really worth
reading.
Sonnets Equal to Keats'
. Do you know that In this little volumo of
nrnlthwnlto's you will find a poem by Edwin
Davles Schoonmaker on "New York" that Is
not altogether out of all comparison with
nw WT'llm?,a beSt th'Bs-"Crosslng
Brooklyn Ferry"? Do you know that a
l ,",BO th.er trustwo-thy critics agreed
with Mr. Bralthwalte In the discovery that
two American poets had written tho best
i? ?',n?t!,.dono Slnce Joh" Ke" "ret
looked Into Chapman's Homer and made out
of his experience one of the few great son
nets ever written?
True!
And why shouldn't It be true!
!n J.1,y.8h0U,t,n,t Amerlca nerves and brains
tingle in a manner to make Kipling John
Masefleld and William Watson In Engfand
heritors of all the traditions of the most
irreaSuiitr,ture,,n h,stor "x"' " 52
laurels? Here Is a land with every variety
of geographical beauty that has ever in
spired poets before. Even the business sS;
of the life we live teems with th ,
at least of the gigantic and he daring Our
Edlsons nn t,ii., i . . . u""g, Our
into nature's mys'tVieT Zf$
wear, a cold people. unfrUnd?y o emoS
And ashamed of It, has forgotten ti,. , , n
to Dewey and the JRSSl
real reason we have had bo llttlo JLT
rore a that the stuff for poetry In our L
rich to the point of emw,.,l. " ow"
lived so much nn, ,. .:,Tr'"0"1- "avlng
Indeed, If we do not v,V ' ul' v. W0Jrfu,.
I--- .. -- H Will
t a and. nnally. theToad eTs to "g ?
an audience. 8,v" theP
That is PrecUelywharupwtllBij m
TWBLVS-HOUR SHIFT FOR PHip.,, '
To fa. der af Bvming Ldgtr: PIREMBN
rT"" statement attributed to n m.
MyCoaob WM Published; in the i?!? Treasurer
otipt. It dealt with an Im?ms! f, Tran
tallment of the worklnglrt ?$Y ? "w
men. I agree with him for anLtbe C,,V flr
but not lo putlog more wLl 'M ot
suiK-ed lelaure hours Iwtt?" '" th-lr
policemen , entlu "".tnk that the
men. Tb, nwm,n 0 ," be Bre
Breaur danger. AlUjough Thl f? mtt wlt
with dangers. tb.y , JJ leem.n mMt
drJ of tMfl walk TuteJ bfLfSl,un, -Mating
a, dtartB7r wiu..,(,U wlth
U ot i , J ftg ,;..
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rfift sWrttb
M'f.xA-r . .
gWWCtu
VrA-'-viL
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fivi ui uuicr, nut ujuy in iircs, uui niso en TOtiuj
to them on their apparatus. In which thuW-A
out day or night In nil kinds of weather, ThSyiM
very seldom get a decent night's rest, olneJ
io mo nro niarm system which is in vogue. Th
curtailment df their working hours Is a n.T.
sary reform, oven more Important than aa Jj.' '
crease of pay; tho hours nro too lonr. Mora
men should bo appointed. Thoy do notlirtu
get much so-called leisure hours. The ia oj
remaining in the flrchouso 24 hours a iiy, iu
days in the week, with every sixth diy oa
three or four hours daily to cat and act th' ,
families, Is absurd. It Is not fair, and tui
hllmnnllv1. onl,. aViAttt.4 h. ),..,) rri- "
.h...h... u uunw o.iuuh. uv vimiiRVU, Alia pg.i
llceman works In eight-hour shifts. FlrfneJ
should not only get an Increase In pay, but alw'
a iz-nour wonting shirt. A CITIZEN,
Philadelphia, July .
WHAT A WOMAN WOULD Do
If She Could Havo Her Way With ttjjj
Milwaukee Public Schools.
When Victor Berger married Sfeta Schllchtlm
In Milwaukeo 17 years ago he did not then ti-i
pect to become a member of Congress. Aoi
n Driao certainly had no expectation of pr.
siding over the school board. But since thif
memorablo date tho husband, who Is now til-'
tor of tho Milwaukee Leader, a Socialist dall
uovuiiuiJcr, ms oervca, a lerm as a memeer L-i
the House of ItepresentatlveB, nnd the wl
who was elected to the school board come tlrof
ago nnd re-elected for another term in AprjHi
became president of tho board by tho vote oljl
ner colleagues early this month. A reporjeij
found her in her kitchen making Jelly tfiv
other day. She turned tho gas down under thill
juiiy nuiuo una men uio president or me echkhj
board nnd the reporter sat down together tw
side the gas rango and talked. "ui
"My aim as president of tho board," said itrajt
Berger, "will be, as It has been since my tWd
tlon to membership on tho board bIx years srl
,n n,n.l. ah .I.a ...... a... .. ... .. .... .
. ..u.n. tut wiu KIGUlcai KUUU IV me BTCXICI14
number; to glvo the best nnd broadest cluumj
ror educational development to all the children,
of nil tho people. I want our boys and linfi
to have every chance. I believe that should hiy
the only object of a school board. v1l
"In order that the children shall have (til
cnunce i am open to conviction on all nultt.1
In connection with the schools and educate.!
"I shall watch with Interest tho rotarr OA
perlment which Mrs. Ella Flagg Young bis brt
trodueed In certain Chicago schools and which
I understand she proposes to extend stilt j
further. It looks like a sane and reasonit'.i
means of solving the problem of overcrowdlnj
In districts now congested but likely to be iff
populated In a few years by the crowding (full
ot ino people Dy tne erection of factory ouiia.
ings. I havo wanted to make a atudy of this
Gary plan, but have not yet been able to do so,1
"The Montessorl Bystem, If It proves to be all!
mai nas oeen claimed for It, may in time ee,
taken Into the public schools. It Is now reallK
In its Infancy, and Its arowth nnd develODmtSt
and possibilities for usefulness will be closebjfi
'Just now there Is need for expansion ion tM'
part of tho school of trades for girls, not In On.
curriculum but In the matter of overcrowdinra
There should be a place for every girl whj
wma io auena mis school. From time to wi
as the need arises, more branches may bij
added to the curriculum, as Is being done in the;
school of trades for boys, but so far it seems tQ
mi iub requirements, save In lack of room.
THE NATIONAL POINT OF VIEW
Bryan feels tome Interest in the German nil!
but more In the German vote. Portland, Ml
Argus,
German dlnlnmnnv. n- -nrr-nilv llluitral
seems devoted to the gentle art of bUmfcj
ii an on tne other fellow, Chicago Hernia-
We dislike very much to sucrest such thins
but It seems to us that the Cincinnati torny
came as a nunlshment far that tremendous Bj
publican majority Hamilton County gave Uifl
year. Houston Post.
They are digging up mastodon bones on .j
Indiana tarm. But If they want to nna so
really immense nkelptnna thv nueht to
around In New Jersey for the remains of tB
extinct trusts. St. Louts Post-Dispatch.
Characterizing General Nelson A Miles M 5
arrogant, self-centered, strutting old peae0!
now In his dotage, shows that John I Bulllvi?
Is as well prepared to battle Jn words as ! I
in tne manly art In the good old aayB--waukee
News,
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