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Many cities arc as Imprudent its the fool who
set the cat to guard the milk.
COMPLETE THE FUND AT ONCE
TI1UKH is no partisanship lit Chicago when
Us business men set out to got a political
convention for that city. Holh Republicans
nnd DemocrutH have subscribed to tho
200,000 fund, one-half of which Is to bo
offered tn the Republican National Commit
tee and tho other half to the Democratic
Committee, to induce them to hold tho con
ventions In tho city on Lakes Michigan. Tho
subscriptions Iiavo all been made and tho
Chicago delegation will soon be on Its way
to Washington to meet the Democratic
Committee next Tuesday and the Repub
lican Committco a week later.
The Philadelphia fund, to bo offered to tho
Hcpubllcan Committee, Is not yet completed.
ACCIDENT OR ACT OF WAR?
THE first thing to be done In placing re
sponsibility for the explosion at tho
Hagley Yard plant of the du Pont Powder
Company Is to discover what truth there Is
In the report that notices had been posted
on the trees In tho neighborhood culling out
nil Germans employed there.
There may bo nothing In tlih rumor but
Irresponsible gossip; but If It has any
foundation, the suspicion that the 31 men
who "wcro killed did not come to their death
Accidentally will bo strengthened.
There is no question whatever thut Ger
man agentn are seeking to interfere with the
operation of all plants where munitions of
war are being made. Uvcry person at all
connected with this branch of Geimnn war
activities is under suspicion, whether he be
attached to tho German Embassy or not.
If a German battleship should tiro a
'bomb Into an American powder mill It
would be an net of war. It Is no less an
act of war if an agent of the tlcrm-Mi Gov
ernment lights the fuse which leads Into the
manufactured powder and destrojs both the
mill and the lives of American workmen.
How long will It bo before tho Adminis
tration begins to deal with this question as
though it were determined to protect Amer
ican industry?
KIDNAPPERS
TWO simultaneous kidnappings in this city
and a number of dlssppea-inces not yet
accounted for may seem to the light-minded
a true wave of crime. It is, in all probabil
ity, nothing of the sort. Tho disappearances
will be explained with tlmo-honored and In
credible stories and the true kidnappings
will be ferreted out and the guilty punished.
The city Is still a safe place for children.
From the crlmo Itself the normal human
mind shrinks as it does not from many tech
nically vvurse offenses. Stevenson once de
manded to know whether we should never
commit murder, hut he could hardly have
suspected himself capable of kidnapping.
The peculiar atrocity lies In the Innocence
of the victims. Those chiefly hurt are the
parents, but tho torture of mystery and of
uncertainty is little In comparison with the
Indignity inflicted on tho child.
NO SUFFRAGE ARMAGEDDON
IN SPITE of the sharp fighting which
preceded the election of officers, there is
to bo no Armageddon for the Pennsylvania
Woman Suffrage Association. There was
talk of a secession if the "slate" was
".jammed through," and there were many
protests, which sounded strangely like the
echoes of a certain convention In Chicago.
But the fulminating lightning of ihetorlc
has given way to good sense, and there will
bo no split.
The very fact that the women in the
organization light so bitterly for their Ideals
and are. able to unite ho flrpily In their
struggle outside their own group, indicates
la a measure how vital the ballot haa be
come to them. They care mightily about
the suffrage party and about every part of
the. suffrage party only because they care
more, for what suffrage will mean to the
State.
CLOTURE MEANS BOSS RULE
TUB Senate must fight out the cloture
issue without any help from the White
Wouse, according to preaent indications. The
President, it Is announced, will keep his
hands off. He doubtless btlll retains, the
views that lie expressed. In hia book on
"Congressional Government," published 30
'ar ago, In 'Which he wrote;
it must be considered aa no inconsiderable
' ,d4lM9h to the usefulness of the Senate that
It enjoys: much greater freedom of dUcus
ei&n than the House allows itself It per
f.1(s itself s good deal of talk in public about
-rit. ft 13 doing-, und It commonly talks a
jwyat (teat of sense. It is small enough to
alMrts It safe to allow tndivicjuil freedom to
m members,
B wlgh? have gone much further and
jicttned freedom of debate in the interest
4IT fWM5cratIe government The House has
ttt be a. legislative body It has Bur-
it ji functions to the Senate. The
jttttat $he f taise, and the caucus U
" W C MiAjuiltf the party it power.
i -frtMiuesntiy h minority of the rum
IftihM. Ttw Iwulei-n decide to jut a. bUl
unttugi
TSlic IMrt , milt kft ta4 bB tin I
Jr
political boss of New York for years, was
elected to the Senate, he set out to eecuro
tho adoption of n clotures rule because tho
exercise of Individual Judgment by tho Sen
ators was offensive to him. Ho wanted to
ha've the caucus decide what should bo done
and then havo some ono crack tho whip
while tho Senators voted os they wcro told.
Ho failed to make tho Senators mere pup
pets, and It Is not likely that the men
who have renewed the nttempt will succeed
A small handful of Senators havo talked
many tilth to death that ought to have died,
and within a year the men who were de
nouncing them for obstructing legislation
have admitted that tho passage of the bills
would havo been a mistake.
Tho Sennto must remain free If wo are lo
have even the semblance of rcprescntatho
government.
TIIUMUS DOWN
rpill'Rl' h reason lo bellevo Director
- Taylor could havo been persuaded lo
continue his work as Director of City
Transit had Hie Major-elect urged hltn to
do so. Instead, the city Is fniorrd wllh the
brusque announcement that Mr, Taylor will
not t)o appointed to succeed himself.
It Is a positive calamity that one of the
first results of tho recent election .should
ho the retirement from olllco of nn oltlclal
whose conspicuously ofllclrnt service In be
half of tho people has merited and won tho
approbation of the vast majority. Irrespective
of politics or partisan bias. There are other
eminent cltbcnu of great executive ability,
but there Is none so veiscd In the liunslt
problems of Philadelphia nnd so likely to
achieve for the people the consummation of
their hopes for renl rapid transit.
Tho I:vi;nin(i I.KDaim emphatically stated
dining the recent campaign thnt the suc
cess of Mr. Smith would Imperil the com
prehensive transit program. Tho retire
ment of Director Taylor substantiates
that view. It may be assumed that
the Major-elect will bo careful to up
polnt a capable man to carry on this
great municipal undertaking, not a mere
pawn and weakling, but thero Is, neverthe
less, a growing feeling of alarm, and the
utmost vigilance on tho part of tho citizens
generally will bo necessary If the great
advantages to accrue to tho city under tho
tentative agreement with tho P. R. T. arc
not to be lost.
DEFENSE IlEFORE REVENUE BILLS
Till: President is exercising ills proper
function ns the national leader when he
Insists that the preparedness1 program ahull
be considered first this winter. Until Con
gress has decided what must bo done to
enlorgo the national defense. It cannot In
telligently framo any new revenuo laws and
It cannot adjust tho other expenditures of
government to lit Into tho general program
of expense for the year.
Preparedness Is of Ilrst importance. What
ever sum Is needed for it must bo raised,
cither by taxation or by bond lssuc. Tho
nation demands it. Whatover opposition
thero is makes up In nols . what it lacks In
strength. It Is attacking militarism, as
though there were any danger of such a
thing In the United States. Tho pcoplo who
think and tho people who pay tho taxes
decided months ago that both tho army and
tho navy must bo strengthened nnd that a
reserve force must be provided so that tho
nation could defend Itself If It should be at
tacked. They have learned that it takes
from six months to a jear to train a sol
dier for the field and that an army cannot
he Improvised. They have heard enough
about the Importance of efficiency in private
business to be ready to support whatever
reasonable plans may be mudo for adequate
preparation for national defense.
They will stand by tho President and they
are expecting Congress to follow his lead.
This does not mean that Congress must
adopt the plan submitted from the White
House, if such a plan Is to be framed by tho
President, but It does mean thut Congress
Is expected to ilso to the occasion and meet
tho Issue In the same spirit In which tho
President has approached it. When It has
been discovered how much money will bo
needed for defense the revenue laws can be
framed to raise It.
MYTHOLOGY
FANTASTIC and absurd In all of lis cir
cumstances, the Ford mission has con
cealed In It a madness in method which has
escaped attention and which Is as vlclou3
as the project Itself Is romantic. For a time
Mr. Ford was reticent; he had a plan but
would not cast It before swine. Now tho
plan Is out, and It Is nothing but that old
stalking horse, tho general strike.
The idea Is a boomerang and Mr. Ford
will suffer from the return. Tho general
strike is the property of M. Georges Sorel, a
French syndicalist, who, In his book, "Re
flections on Violence," distinctly and re
peatedly says that "la greve generale" is a
myth and nothing but a myth The leaders
of thought must pretend to bellevo In It, but
they must talk endlessly about the time
when all workmen lay down their tools
(when all soldiers leap from their trenches),
but they cannot believe In the actuality of
such an occurrence.
M. Sorel, who Is a Frenchman and there,
fore combines imagination with an uninter
rupted activity of common sense, proposed
the general strike as an end to long periods
of propaganda. Mr. Ford, an American In a
"rush," proposed a general strike of infi
nitely greater complexity as an end to two
weeks' work, And Mr, Ford, apparently,
differs from M, Sorel in believing In the
myth.
Why not "Dave" Lane as Director of City
Transit?
Anyhow, the President's Cabinet Is well
Garrisoned.
Defense prst la te President's plan, and
safety first has long been the slogan of in
dustrialism. There is tome talk of extensive paving
operations during the next administration
More strength to the pavers' urms.
The man who wants to make a "movie"
play of the Ford expedition forgets that no
successful show has- ended with an anti
clunax. That receiver pf the Atlantic City electric
railroad whQ U hoping to lift It out of bank
ruptcy by making It popular certainly has u,
wovsl ltie.
Tom Daly's Column
"7"OUR value to this community, as I sense
X It," writes Adze, from a Pennsylvania
Limited train, "depends, In part, upon your
ability to clcanso tho Augean stables nnd
chnso out some of tho pests. Now I have
ono pet pest( that Is to say ono that haunts
me, nnd I'm rather afraid I'm going to meet
him again some time In my travels. He may
even bo In Philadelphia now. He was In
New York until recently, but lie suddenly
blew; probably I helped In tho blowing. At
any rate, here's my stoiy: Mr. Pet Pest,
who was emplojrd by quite nn Important
firm In N'ew York, was tho man to whom
I always had to send In my card. He in
variably came out to see me, ostentatiously
fearing up my card ns he came. Of course
I never got any business. Well, ono day I
sent In my card and tho haughty gent came
out, with tho stage all set ns usual. He
started to disintegrate my card, but It
wouldn't disintegrate. Ho grow red In the
face nnd then pale ami tried again. 'Save
your sticngth, O! gentle Knight,' I said,
'and plcnse don't destroy that card, 'cause It
cost me $1.2i" to have the brlstolboard split
und to have that llttlo slab of aluminum put
In there. Thero may not bo another guy in
tho world us nasty as you, but it thetc Is I
want to bo prepared.' Well, sir, that's my
pet pest. What's yours?"
The
"For-ll-Was-Indeed-He" Club
XI G. S. W.
Dear reader, onset vc this joung man
Who stands here before us today
Then think of thut piece. If jou can,
Which most of us once had to say
That poem, jou know, that began
"I'm monarch of all I Burvcv."
And then to step back to cold, haid prose,
let us ask ourselves seriously If It Isn't a
very strnngo thing thnt
the poem to which wo
refer should have been
the favorite rec.tatlon
of our hero whenever
he was called upon In
elocution class" Llttlo
did Georgo S. Webster
for it was indeed he
suppose In those days
that ho wns to be tho
boss ' the Survey De
partment of Philadel
phia for moro years
than most of us care to
count and certainly for
more than nny of us
care to shorten for
he's a Jolly good fellow
can deny.
G P. VV.
which nobody
The Gallant, Agile, Hospitable Victrola
Miss Usthcr Sh.ifer, of llfi Lumber street, and
Leon Schmojer, of 7th street, were married
Wednesday night by the Rev Darms. of Salem's
Reformed Church. The wedding march
was played on the Victrola, which led the guests
to the table, where they partook of a dainty
supper. Allentonn Morning Call
Here's Walt McDoujjal
Il'c juit irar (i-iconrfcrlitff tuiat had ftccomc
Of Walt McDougal,
When all of o. sudden rum-sum-tl-tum-tuml
He blows his buglel
And like a wanderer astronomic
lie flares back, trailing a brand-new comic.
Docs Walt McDougal.
A real, old, genuine, rare good fellow
Is Walt McDougal.
Of course, he's Scotcli, but his art is melloto
And not too frugal
Why, he Is the great old faithful gun, sir.
That spouted the tlratclngs for old Hill yyc,
sir.
This Walt McDougal.
An Event
"Oh. my." said the visitor, Kissing the little
daughter of the family, "jou smell of soap"
"Ycs'm." lisped tho little girl; "I Just been
washed fur comp'ny."
Horrid thought! Is this peace drive of
Henry Ford's merely a feint to divert at
tention from his main object tho opening of
tho upper Wissnhlckon to his machines?
Hnnn, by the way. Is a cutious automo
bile story. It has nothing whatover to
do with a Ford. After all, tho name of the
car doesn't mntter In this story; the inter
est centres in the two men who were In it:
Ono was tho owner and the other was nn
Irishman whom he had picked up on tho
road some flvo or six miles out. The inten
tion of the man In tho car at the start was
excellent. "Well, well, Alike, what are you
doing nwny out here?" lie said. "Walking
homo trom work? Step In and I'll glvo you
n lift." But ho hadn't gone far after that
befoie ho began to spoil it all. He talked
of the cost of the car and how democratic
he was; and when he finally drew up with
a flourish opposite Mike's humble door he
said: "Well, Mike, here you are. You'd
go a long way In Ireland, wouldn't you, be
fore you'd find a gentleman who would
pick you up on the the road nnd take you
home In this style?" "Aye," replied Mike,
"a quare placo is Ireland. Ye'd go a long
way there before ye'd find a,nyone to call
e a gentleman even."
Some Unpleasant Up Mt. Pleasant "Way
From the Mt Jieaaant (Pa.J Journal,
Mount Pleaaart was the centre of ono of the
fiercest mountain storms In Its history Thursday
night The new roof on Sire, Amanda
Fultz's Kast End home was torn off, an was ilia
a part of the planing mill roof. Up at the Institute
"Profeanor" Frank GeUthorpe felt sure the Jude.
ment Day hail come and taught him not as well
prepared as he inluht have been The building
rocked uctll the fair nccupant.i had symptoms of
reaslcknesa. Hut besides a few uindoua and the
Oelsthorpe chicken yard fence, the "Old 'Mute"
weathered the utorm In eood shape. John D
Illnchman. president of the First Natloral Bank,
had a prime scare thrown Into htm when the tops
of the two chlmnea at the rear of his South
Church street residence lame toppling- down on the
roof. In a few blocks on the same afreet the end
of the rear porch at Mrs. Annie Overholt's home
started to call on "Doc" Fulton and landed on the
line fence. Dick Btahl'a stable was upeet, which
was bad for George Ilenford'a auto, kept by the
owner in that building.
City Solicitor Hugtne Warden had a hard time
keeping the windows In the front of his South Side
residence. Even with nails, several got away from
him. The vacant KurUlsy reslderce on Morewood
street collapsed, losing the roof.
ONLY a step or two above the Jew's harp
which Is our Idea of absolute zero tn
musical Instruments we rate the zither.
So it pains us to find Thomas Walsh giving
the title "Zither Song" to this dainty lyric
from his book of poems, "The PJlgrim
Kings," recently published by the Macmillan
Company;
A little world, we truly say,
While days are jouns and careless he.-jted:
From clime to clime we speed today.
Earth's paths are cleared and ocean's charted;
But, ah, how large a world we stray
When thou and I are parted!
A fleeting world, as in a dream,
"TIs gone ere we have paused and wondered I
Life's sja.n l but a firefly fleam.
A chance half slept away, half blundered.
But, ah, how long the days must veem
Wum our two fctiffii m sund ertd-
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rirp A m-tri A TT TTTk"D ' llnp- which Is quite as serious a matter, when AMUSEMENTS
OlAI ill JtXJilJ I1 JS ' wo come to think of It, as tho bread-lino over ,
rn-ri-T-i -r -r-v t--i- it T-.T Airnn which wo n so much 11101 e sentimental. It
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XJLXXJ U1XOJ1UX JJVlIJi
Some Early Results and Some of
the Problems of the Work in
Philadelphia Public
Co-operation
WALKING west on Arch street one passes
a number of employment agencies, most of
thcni with a rather prosperous-looking exterior,
but none the worse for that. I Biippose It
would be the same way walking enst, but It
happened that yesterday I was on my way to
No. 151D. Tho dnto seems to have been trans
posed to mark the beginning of tho system of
Stat1 employment burenus In Pcnnsilvnnla In
this yeai of "social legislation." 1915. Private
agencies are to be supervised ns never before
for Indeed they nre qunsl-public utilities but
their eradication Is no part of the plan of the
Department of Labor nnd Industry. They have
their place, but the State agency meets a need
which hardly comes within their purpose or
province. Criticism of the new law on tho
part of proprietors was to bo expected, but a
large number of tho enterprising and honest
dealing men in the business welcome regulation
which is bound to Increase public confidence.
Government agencies are by no means a new
thing. They were established in Durope more
than 50 years ago, and are now in operation,
under different systems, in more than 15 for
eign countries. Ohio led the way In this coun
try. Half the States of the Union, besides
Hawaii, tho Philippines and Porto Rico, hnvo
public employment bureaus. Somo months ago
Commissioner John Prlco Jackson, In conversa
tion, spoko earnestly of the duty of the State
of Pennsylvania In taking up Its share of the
v ork of equalizing emplojmcnt conditions as
far as possible The unemplojcd man repre
sents, as he pointed out, not only nn economic
tax but a lost opportunity for the development
of economic resources. In this light the prob
lem of unemployment may be regarded as a
problem in social service, but must also bo con
sidered ns a proble-n In constructive statesman
ship, nnd, therefore, within the realm of gov
ernmental tasks.
Unemployed Still With Us
The ngency established In Philadelphia Is one of
a number already opened, or soon to be opened,
In various cities and towns of tho Common
wealth. One of the nlms, as expressed by
Jacob Llghtner, director of the central bureau,
is to create a condition, with the aid of busi
ness men and manufacturers, thnt will lessen
the periods of Idleness in our various Industrial
plants. The bureau and Its branches will not
cure the evil cither public or the Individual
evil of unemployment. Bringing the Jobless
man nnd tho manlessjob together is not tho end
of it, nnd the ltstrlbution of labor to meet tho
fluctuations and vibrations of industry is an
Impossibility, The time when we shall eliminate
entirely the undeserved misfortune In unem
ployment Is beyond our sight. Insurance will
be adopted before the coming of that millen
nium. The public manifests its sympathy spasmodl
calli. or In response to some extraordinary, spec
tacular ot extreme stimulus, nnd then forgets
and neglects. Triangle fires, Slocum disasters,
Dnstland horrors and Lusltanla crimes nre
d.-namlc forces in public opinion for a short
time and speedily become static momorles. So
last w Inter the problem of unemployment hsd
Its Innings with the attention of the American
people. Then the munitions boom, spectacular
enough, caused us to forget the unemployed
that we have witn us always. And some that
we didn't alwnja have. For up at 1519 Arch
ttreet they are not convinced that the employ
ment situation In Philadelphia has come back
to the former equilibrium, which wasn't at all
tatlsfactory, either. Commercial help is still
hunting Jobs.
The building In which the Philadelphia branch
ot the State Bureau Is boused Is loaned by the
city, which also details a police officer to pre
serve order and line up the applicants in the
corridor while they await their turns In the ex
amination room. "Examination room" sounds
formidable, but not so much so, In most cases,
as it did to the joung man In tho Impressionistic
necktie, who rebelled at having to answer the
questions propounded and who left, muttering
something about "red tape." Apparently, Jobs
are not forced on anybody, and as for "red
tape," It has its uses, as it probably did In this
instance. The home relief department of the
Emergency Aid is co-operating with the State
officials by lending a staff of office assistants
and paying part of the expenses of the agency.
Co-operation has begun there on the ground
floor, and if the public at large follows the ex
ample, the success of the enterprise will be
multiplied. For the agency can't do It all.
Something must be left for others to do, and if
householders, as well as business men and
manufacturers, want to help, there's a way.
College Men in the Line-up
Yesterday the office, which Is In charge of
D. T. McCampbell. had been In operation seven
working days. Six hundred and forty-four ap
plications had been received. The average num
ber a day is, therefore, about 73, Something
like 60 men and women have found. Jobs through
the agency, and that is a pretty good record for
a starter. Of the 811, about 110 were women and
girls, and of these, a large percentage were in
search of housework. The men were looking,
most of them, for pretty near anything that
would bring wages. Some suggested shoveling
coal, others mentioned shoveling snow Un
fortunately, there doesn't happen to be any
snow to shovel Just now Several of the appli
cants were candidates for Jobs as watchmen.
These were old men, unable to do hard manual ,
work. One old man stood In line jesterday
hungry-looking, overeoatless. bent, but appar
ently intelligent and honest. Maybe he had a
family to support or to support him, maybe
kindly friends, maybe this and maybe that it J
matters not. He wanted work. Thai la sufll-
cient J
That Is Justification fpr bis being In the work-
GOOD NICHT
-"f .tf . "-''"".' ill tVAZ.Mi????7-?7TTjt j-
line, which Is nulte as serious a matter, when
wo come to tnlnlt of It, as mo creau-nno over
which wo ni so much moie sentimental. It
doesn't guarantee him a Job With every ice-
ommcndntlon to a prospective cmplojer goes
tho agency's report of the Investigation made
concerning the record and habits ot tho appli
cant. The cmplojer knows tho man ho Is get
ting. Information from several different sources
Is gathered, compared and verified.
Some of tho applicants are men of education,
who either have fallen on evil days or are mak
ing use of the facilities afforded by the bureau
ns they would of nny other legitimate means of
assistance. Three or four university graduates
and several technically trained men havo ap
plied for positions, and havo been easily placed.
The emplojers havo written In nsklng for high
grade men, especially for men skilled In par
ticular branches of mechanics or the handling
of highly specialized machines. It Is the old
question of tho subdivision of labor, carried
to the extent so wonderful In the Industrial
world today. Ono employer wants a man, not
for a lathe, but for a 'Thy lathe" an ex
perienced man nt thnt partlculir machine.
Another asks for somebody familiar with tho
"Cleveland automatic." And so tho task of
bringing the man nnd tho Job together is not
so easy as It looks.
That Is the troublo with the unemploimont
situation In Philadelphia. Tho demand for
workers Is enormous, but the workers must be
skilled at this particular thing or that par
ticular thing. Though the ngency Is receiving
applicants of nil varieties of training and ex
perience, and though they are being placed nt a
remarkable rate, considering the newness of the
entcrpilse, there Is a large class of casual and
day laborers, for which provision can be made
only through the co-operation of people who
havo small jobs and short Jobs to ho done, nnd
who nro willing to lend n hand.
Ono forenoon the list of applicants Included
the following: Four steam engineers, hatmakcr,
weaver, two gardeners, five Janitors, six inside
laborers, two outsldo laborers, laundrymnn,
three bench hand machines, office clerk, three
public porters, two printers, agent, bnrtendcr,
thrco private chauffeurs, two truck chauffeurs,
grocery clerk, three shipping clerks, four
stenographic clerks, stock clerk, dlshwnsher,
driver, telephone lineman, two electrical en
gineers, salesman nnd solicitor, tinsmith, two
waiters nnd four watchmen. These designa
tions indicate tho previous employment of the
applicants. Tho agency finds out how tho men
lost their former positions, and then, if tho
fncts Justify It, tries to place them. If any nro
willing to go out of town, the fact is com
municated to tho clearing house In Harrlsburg.
R. H.
MOMENTOUS DECISIONS
The momentous decisions that each man must
make for himself:
When to put on his winter underwenr.
When to take It off.
Whether or not he'd look well In knicker
bockers. "Scotch or rye, sir?"
Just what tho trouble with his game Is.
Whether or not to learn tho words to "The
Star-Spangled Banner" or to let It go at "Oh.
sny can jou see tra-la-la-la-la "
Whether or not to Introduce Boggs to his wife.
Whether or not to admit he's getting bald.
What percentage of tho bill to tip the waiter.'
Whether or not to carry a stick outside of
New York.
What operation to select from the assortment
offered by bla physician
Whether to give his wife one-fifth, one-third
or one-half of tho amount she asks for. Life.
A CURIOSITY OF THE TIMES
The curious dependence of women upon men,
which is one of the particularly interesting
phenomena of our present legal structure. Is
again illustrated by the case of Anna Held, the
actress. She was born In Warsaw, spent most
of her youth in Paris and married an American,
from whom she was later divorced, It Is offi
cially ruled that she is an American because
her former husband Is, Springfield Republican.
IN THE BALKANS
In dealing with the pear Eastern situation
tho Allies seem to have followed the line of
least assistance. Chicago Herald,
AMUSEMENTS
BELMONT
S2D ABOVE MARKET
TWICE DAILY
2 and 8 P. M,
WHERE ENTIRE WEEKLY PROGRAM OF
TRIANGLE PLAYS
IS SHOWN AT EACH PERFORMANCE
TODAY AND BALANCE OF WEEK
TORD STERLINO In "Ills Father's Footsteps";
JULIA DEAN In "Matrimony"; RAYMOND HITCH
COCK In "Stolen Magic": TULLY MARSHALL and
THOMAS JEFFERSON in "The Sable Lorcha."
nnrA T ThUi and Nest Week. Evs, 8sl5.
BROAD mat. TODAY ?,
Charles Frohman. KlawA Erlanser Present
FERGUSON
in "OUTCAST"
The Vital. Throbbing. Human Play
By HUBERT HENRY DAV1E3
60o to It 50 at Matinee TODAY
y E T R 0 P
OLITAW
OPERA HOUSE
TWICE DAILY 2:15 AND 8jl3
The Battle Cry of Peace
THU aENSATtOKAU PHOTOPLAY
TOMORROW EVEN1NO BENEFIT PERFORM-
ANCE FOR THE VISITING NURSE bOCIETY
NIXON'S
GRAND
Ching Linjr Hee Troupe
Greatest Chinese Maglciana,
6 Biff Acts and Pictures
NIXON aM
S. MILLER KENT
TonUbt at T and !) 12 . n nnivSJ
.iiiiiqe, u. . nrt .
Dtn Dong Poodles. Hlckey Bros. 7 BIG ACTS
Peoples Broadway RastusS '
POEEEST
TONIGHT
'
AT 8.15
FASCINATING T
GABY DESLYS
and IIAimY TILCER In '
CHARLES DILLINGHAM'S
LATEST MUSICAL PRODUCTION
Stop! Look! Listen!
Joseph Santley, Frank Lalor, Harry Fox, Doyle A
Dixon, Tempest & Sunshine, Eva Francis, Justine John,
atone, Florence Morrison. Marlon Harris. Hawallaa
Octette. Walter Wills, Chas. Tucker and 100 Mors.
FIRST MATINEE SATURDAY
" G A rTi C K
NOW
TWICE DAILY, 2:15 and 8:15
FOR A LIMITED ENGAGEMENT
D. W. GRIFFITH'S MASSIVE PRODUCTION .
18,000
People
Symphony
Orchestra THE
BIRTH
OP A
NATION
3000
Horses
World's
Mightiest
Spectacle
of 30
160th PERFORMANCE mwm
A TRIUMPH !
Desiree Lubowska
AT
B. F. KEITH'S THEATRE
"PORTRAYED THE ARTISTIC POETRY OF
MOTION'" Eenlng Ledger.
SURROUNDED BY A GREAT VAUDEVILLE BILL
HEADED DV
George WHITING & BURT Sadie
Vosco; Hussey & Doyle; Corradlnl'a Menagerie;
Arthur Sullivan & Co. Others.
PALACE
12M MARKET
10 A. M. to 11:15 P. M.
DAILY ALL SEATS 100
IIVUMKUB, JUO, sva
PAHAIIOUNT 1 1 a T V R B S
Mary Pickf ord
In JOHN .UTHER LONO'S Beloved Classla
"MADAME BUTTERFLY"
NEXT WEEK MONDAY, TUE&. WED.
MAItaUEIUTB CLARK In "Still Waters."
THUR3, Fill.. SAT PAULINE FREDERICK
In "1IELLA DONNA"
T -VTJTri POPULAR II MAT. TODAY
Ll X ItlO TONIGHT AT 8 il5 SHARP
The Season's Most Distinctive Novelty
RALPH HERZ IN Tw?TscicUEDr
"RUGGLES OF RED GAP"
Adapted by Harrison Rhodes from Henry
Leon Wllson'B Famous
SATURDAY EVENING POST STORT
a auASUixa jut ubrei
CHESTNUT
TRIANGLE
PRODUCTIONS
NOON TILL It P.
10, 15, 25c
SYMPHONY
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llth and CHESTNUT STREETS
urnn jonnann anq oen
Owen In THE PENE.
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GREAT VACUUM ROB.
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Bill changes Thursday,
ARCADIA
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ROBERT
WARWICK
IN DRAMA OF SOCIETY LIFE
"THE SINS OF SOCIETY"
Thurs. Frl., Sat., Theda Bara "Galley' Slaye."
A TiTPT TTTT TONIGHT AT 8:20.
AJJUjli-TAll POP. it MAT. TOMORROW
Sixth Triumphant Wpek of Laughter,
A FULL HOUSE
TifB FARCE THAT CROWNS
UlRTll KINO OP ALL TUB OOD3
MARKET ABOVE 18TH
STANLEY "S."-
Uini1 "" Marguerite Clark
in "THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER1'
ADDED ATTRACTION Scene and Incidents
of the Penn.Cornell Football Game.
Comlnc Thurs., Frl . Sat.. Theodore Robert!
in "Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo"
(TLOBE Theatre i&.
VjJLJVJ J I VAUDEVILLE Continuous II
A. M to 11 p M J0e. 1( S3c
Kitty Francis & Go. -""SSPS&wh.-Lois
Clark & Co. "tauj.oT boslyn
AND OTHER FEATURE ACTS
METRO POLITAN OPERA II O U 8 II
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in uiwia uj., tiaw ruwrv
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