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,b9 Some people arc so fond of III luck that they
s'lfun half way to meet It. Douglas Jerrold,
No ono had to ask who Brandeis Is.
A bathtub has been given to "Billy" Sun
day. For his vocabulary?
.. It will take more than a groat white way
anto make Camden resemble InTow York,
If .
"Y Of tho three "ps," preparedness, prosperity
noS.nd peace, the first must precede tho others
."-Just as in tho three "rs."
'( Perhaps thoso explosions in tho du Pont
'.powder mills were caused by tho heat goncr
Ivlfited by friction among tho shareholders.
Something to be remembered: There Is no
embargo on goods for Philadelphia, and Phil
adelphia can transship every pound that
comes through for Europe.
' Tho city employes who couldn't make a
'jrnonth's pay last thirty days will now have
'n jOn opportunity to test their ability to stretch
it two weeks' salary over a fortnight.
Moro than half a million tons of British
iu merchant shipping havo been sunk since tho
"'beginning of the war. As sho has 20,000,000
"tons left, sho Is still in pretty good shape.
- "When you see a blazing thing in the sky
Kdinbout the middle of February do not mistake
"3t for a Zeppelin dropping bombs. It will bo
.only Taylor's comet on its quinquennial visit.
jn.ir The rules of tho House of Representatives
,ihust be respected. "Cyclone" Davis has
-i been ordered to address the Chair hereafter
before he says "Amen." The rule does not
apply to the chaplain.
Tho report from Washington that the
ilo-nlf1T,f Vino pluon flflrmnnv until nnvt
aturday to state Anally whether sho Intends
b disavow tho attack on tho Lusltania ought
be true.
The Boy Scouts of Philadelphia have or-
ganlzed an employment bureau. There Is
-no stopping theso youngsters. Presently
, they'll be after honesty In politics and civic
'"'improvements and then what will tholr
jr-eldcrs do?
Ik
it The discussion by the men attending the
SS Association of College Presidents of Penn
II sylvanla developed the fact that abuses in
J college athletics can be removed as soon as
J ,tho college officials stop talking against them
M and begin to act.
Tho President will find many believers in
preparedness in his audience in Pittsburgh
'! tonight; but Mr. Bryan will say that their
t enthusiasm ought to ho discounted about as
J! "Wilmington powdermakers.
Are you getting reauy 10 tei your Dusmesa
t, correspondents In other cities know that
S I Philadelphia week Is to be observed by the
J ''members of the Associated Advertising Clubs
Jj throughout the country from February 21 to
28? Mayor Smith has betgun to do his share
i by writing to the mayors of all the cities
ii Interested.
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! The ehadow of City Hall seems to be dark
enough to cover any amount of theft. Wed
J nesday night four motorcars were stolen
jj .there, making a "grand" total of eight cars
lixthtj week. Two mysteries at least must be
jusolved. Tho first Is. What are the police do-
lnp in tho neighborhood of tho hall? The
jpjecond Is, Why steal cars when they can bo
'' bought with so much less risk, and so
jjcheaply?
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!ll WtintftViii. Intitnllnnq T'rl,lflnt Xrilsnn lind
, la the appointment of Louis D. Brandeis to
the Supreme Court bench, he certainly had
'no desire to be obscure. Mr. Brandeis stand
j on nearly every matter of public Importance
Is not only known, It has been hammered in
ifcy the legal activities of this extraordinary
! person, for many years. There will be objec-
! tions and there will be praise for this ap
pointment. But there will be no doubts.
1 Hospital statistics were not needed to prove
that the grip epidemic is passing. But the
;ngures are interesting, .mere were -la cases
I'lln the Jefferson Hospital during the week
( CMUIUB uci.uituFi at uuu umy a lit kib wtett
'ending yesterday. The figures for the Eplsco
j(pal Hospital Jwero 21 and 9 anti for the
)'Frankford Hospital 36 and 3. SY. Joseph's
iijhad 81 cases and now has only 7, and the flg
Uures at the German Hospital are 55 in the
i'llast week of December and 10 "now, and so
ijlun throughout the city.
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JJ, Six years after its founding, tho Settlement
"JMuslo School is to have a building com
;;TOensurate with its neetla. Those six years
jijhave been times of unflagging energy on the
jjpart of the directors, of tireless enthusiasm
iLon the part of those who benefited most by
$U6 work. The teaching of music to those
"wham fortune shuts out from expensive in
jjtiiuctors, and giving of great benefits wlth
ttiwt th3 suspicion of indelleate charity, are
.' uofalevenienta in thsmsslvee. The greater
"liapptus toward musical appreciation which
' ; he Settlement School gives Is of absolute
lu to the city
Wruver iioulits the generoalty of the
j, ucnn people ahuuJd read the reports of
'.'ytau'lui-m coliiWa o uujiwy Sot (tie ttiivt I
of tho Jewish war sufferers. This city con
tributed $50,000 to the young women who
stood on the street corners with their collec
tion boxes. Fully a million was raised in
New York, and Chicago raised between
$75,000 and $100,000. Tho comtnlttco esti
mates that tho fbtal will not bo far short
ot $2,000,000, or an averago of about thrco
cents for every man, woman and child. Tho
President, who fixed tho date for tho collec
tion, gavo $10.
"MANY INVENTIONS"
"(Soil linth in n dp ninn upright," xnya
KcrlrolnntcK, "lint thcr Iinp huukM out
in nn j- Intention." The Intention of war
lire nninnit tlii-ac. It In eien ponllile tlmt
the iit-enent vrnr liecnnie Inrt Itnlile tThcn
the Wrlctht lirotliern tnnile their NiieeedN
fnl lllalitj, nt Kilty llnuk nnil nhen the
ntoilrrn atthmnrlnc yjnx perfected,
NO ONE cares, nny more, about the great
question ot 18 months ago: "Who started
tho war?" It Is tnoro Interesting to speculate
ns to who will stop It. It Is more important
to decide what caused It.
The first crying out ngaltisl Germany came
because tho world believed that Germany
had caused tho war by her magnificent prep
arations for It. Pacifists argued that arma
ment drags nntlons into war, ns ono might
Insist that If there were no boats there would
be no drownings. By this time the world has
regained Its balance. It does not believe that
things nro the first causes. It knows, had
there been no will to conquer, that all the
siege guns and all tho Zeppelin In the world
wouldn't havo provoked a war. But that Is
not all.
Why did the war come precisely at tho tlmo
It did? Why has It taken precisely Its present
course? These things are dependent upon
things, upon tho "many Inventions" which
tho Preacher wild men havo sought and
found. Tho war would havo come :f It had to
he fought with battle axes, but it would not
have come nt this tlmo. Tho contributing
causes of tho great struggle aro tho Inven
tions of warfare and a book.
Tho book Is tho work of an American. Ad
miral A. T. Mahan, who believed that s,ca
powcr was tho determining factor In virtually
every war. His first book was "Tho Influence
of Sea Power on History," and from the
moment It was published It became tho text
book of the German Kulser and of the British
Admiralty. Wllhchn ordered every magnzlnc
article of Mahan's translated and given to
every officer of his navy. Tho British Ad
miralty repeatedly has asserted that Admiral
Mahan was the guide of British destinies.
Mahan pointed out that tho terrible victories
of Napoleon ou tho Continent were nullified
nnd made futile by British control of the
sea. Ho showed that the same held true in
tho Civil War. Before he died ho saw what
ho thought was tho beginning of the end for
Germany, because Germany had lost the use
of the sea.
Yet, when tho war began, the Kaiser had
no Intention of losing control of the sea, and
ho owed his Illusion to two Inventions, the
submarlno nnd tho flying machine. A mero
comparison of dates will Indicate how subtly
and how surely the German directing mind
has worked. The first naval program of Ger
many was framed In 1893. Tho Kiel Canal
was opened two years later, and up to this
time a water-power was intended. But In
1901, when France was yielding to the same
belief In the submarine, tho Kaiser defied
Britain with theso words: "Our future Is on
tho water. The more the Germans go upon
tho water the better It will be for us." In
July of that year the English newspapers told
England that France had the most powerful
navy In the world, because of her submarines.
"Where Is Britain's naval supremacy now?"
was a frequent question.
Germany has not yet been accused of being
blind. When Winston Churchill proposed a
ratio of 16 British battleships to 10 German,
Admiral von Tlrpltz was reported as agree
ing. Why shouldn't ho agree, since, eight
months before Germany had passed a bill for
a fleet of 20 Zeppelins capable of remaining
In flight for 96 hours at a stretch? That was
in 1912, Forward from that time German
defense centred on the two arms by which
tho Kaiser and his councils expected to break
England's sea power. It is amusing, in the
light of events, to note how Germany b.UUed
the world. While Trance announced that she
would havo 76 submarines ready at the end
of 1914, and England S3, Germany contented
herself with the modest word that sho was
building "several each year" to add to tho 20
sho had. As for aerial fleets, these wero
hardly mentioned.
From the moment when OrvlIIe and Wilbur
Wright made their successful experiments at
Kitty Hawk, from the time when submarines
became perfected instruments of destruction,
the war became an Immediate thing. It had
to be fought whllo Britain ruled the waves,
and Germany could creep unawares beneath
them or swoop inaccessibly above ships and
battlements. Whether Germany wanted to
do these things or was compelled to do them,
whether she or any other country Is the
"aggressor," are separate questions. Tho cer
tain thing Is that tho historian of the future
will not neglect the inventions of men In
selecting tho factors which made for the
Great War.
ONE DAY IS BETTER THAN NONE
BIUGHT and early next Thursday morn
ing every Philadelphia Is expected to
wake up with the determination to save
something. It will be Thrift Day.
It does not matter what is saved so long as
the saving is effected. Tho small boy may
begin by getting dressed for breakfust more
quickly than usual and thus save a little
time. If ho should discover that ho had
more time for play and get Into the habit
of speeding up in the morning ho might find
when ho gets to be a man that he has more
time to work.
The mother may use half a spoonful less
sugar to sweeten her coffee and then com
pute how much she would save In a year if
she continued to be so economical. If she
has mastered short division she will discover
that it would be 182, spoonfuls in ordinary
years and 183 in leap year.
The father muy go to business without
smoking his cigar and plan to reduce hla
allowance by 365 a year, which at the rate
of 5 cents apiece is 5 per cent, interest on
$365.
And the daughter may resolve to cut down
her expenditures on caramels and face
powder.
It Is not necessary to suggest any further
waya to save. There are few persons
who could not put a tidy sum in the
bank each year if tbey set about It. Few,
however, who begin to practice thrift next
Thursday for the first time will held out
until Friday. Those who do and keep it up
even on every Friday will be surprised to
discover how rapidly their savings will ac
cumulate and may get into the fixed h-bit of
mutting their money work f r them to such
good purpose that the uu n tire at SO art a
competence. '
Tom Daly's Column
As to Urandeis
We know of ono trait tchlch alone
' Slioutd account for this man's clcvalion!
That having a mind of his own
He has something to give to the Xatlon.
And tho bono of contention, by tho way, Is
usually tho head solidly built of that ma
terlal,
ijAvan and iw Mimnr
Laugh and bo merrv: remember, better the
tcorld idii a song,
licttcr the world with a btow in the teeth of
a wrong.
Laugh, for the time Is brief, n thread the
length of a span,
Laugh and be proud to belong to the. old
proud pageant of man,
Laugh and bo merry; remember, In o'hlcn
time
God made heaven and earth, for Joi) Itc took
In a rhtme
Made them and fitted them full with tlic
strong red iclnc of Ills mirth,
The splendid fan of the stars, tho joy of the
earth.
Ho we must laugh and drink from the deep
blue cup of the sku.
Join the Jubilant song of tho great stars
sweeping by:
Laugh, and balttr, and work, and drink of
the vine outpoured
In the dear green earth, the sign of the joy
of the Lord,
Laugh and be merry together, Ilka brothers
aktn,
Guesting awhile In the rooms of a beautiful
Inn,
Glad till thr dancing stops, and the till of the
music ends.
Laugh till the game Is played, and be you
merry, my frlcmU.
JOltX MA8VFIELD.
That's tho poem from "Tho Story of the
Hound House" that C. E. H. dared us to
print at the head of our column.
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VOU henril nhnitl tlin ....... T- ., ,
Copy Writers' Club, tho Pen Sinn of the, p,irr,i
Circle?
.Much, rmntery eurrounda ilil nrnni,..
tlon. This much Is known:
i :, ,wr,,.lcr" of "n itlnnnlly known successful
mnV.r""i,Bi nro c".Blhlp fnr ""mherahlp. Turthor'
nETi 'fJi'"?niwn t,m,t ,.ll" '' ln " officers, no
will ho held In Philadelphia next June
Ad Club Crier, Los Angeles
And, besides the mystery, there nre some
thing elho surrounding tho organization, such
as bad wrltln' and spellln' and some of It
are shown above. Also In another paragraph
tho name of Wilbur D. Nesblt aro mis
spelled. pntv writers of "n itlnnnllv
m,t!ay ln soak tho Bpccd-crazcd blurb
(Ho 1 feci a sickening thutl),
ho drives his car close to the curb
And splatters me with mud.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
And in your strange misuse of "blurb"
l ou ve clone a deed that verges
On murder. Gee! how you disturb
The meaning of G. Burgess.
All-Year 'Round Spugs
Dear T. D.-As the S. P. U. G. (Society for
Prevention of Useless Giving), operates only
around Christmas time, why not let It get busy
the other 11 montlm ns n Society for Polscmlmr
Useless Ginks? Their first Job might be to
yislt haberdasheries and inject rough on rats
Into tho persons behind tho counters who will
insist, when showing neckties, in snatching
them out of one's hands, and nfter wrapping
around their dirty forefinger, concoct a fearful
looking knot, mumbling something about tho
"pretty effect."
Probably som of your other constant readers
can suggest other undesirables who could bo
eliminated to the general piofit of the com
munity. Purple Pete.
"Before tho Doctor Comes"
Dear Sir Can you diagnose theso symptoms?
A searing flame lights my very brain,
My pulse beats hard and fast;
I long for the ease of the cooling breeze
Of the springtimes that have passed.
And the Icy breath that comes with death
In the shadow of fir and pine,
But ndds to the pain of the mortal flame
Whose fingers clutch my spine.
I can't figure out what It's all about
I'm either in Ioe, or I'm ulck;
I've known love's ways In my youthful days
D'ja think I'm getting tho grip?
Yours, In distress, JO.
Your symptoms indicate a very serious
condition. Your nttempts to rhyme "flamo"
with "brain" and again with "pain" might
bo merely an acuto lapsus auriculae, but
"blck" and "grip" O! my poor, dear fellow,
nothing but a steady diet of prose will Bave
you.
Served Him Right
He thought he'd ho shrewd
And marry for money,
Well, now he's beshrewed
Ha! Isn't that funny?
'IHICK AS MOSqi'lTOKS TOO TIIINI
"The lakes nro freezed tight, and skaters are
as thick as mosquitoes on a hot summer's
night," says the Camden Courier. This Is not
only bad grammar, but hyperbole as well.
Preferable
Though poverty is nowise base
I'd rather, I'm afraid,
Bo guilty of tho deep disgrace
Of riches made In trade.
Hick.
Dear T. D In thanking; jou for your commendation
of my verses on "Seeta Itlia," let ma tell you a Joke
ou jouraelf. You must know, as a starter, that what
ever gift 1 hae ln tha v.ay of Italian dialect phraslne
has been developed entirely through a close study of
jour "Cansonl " Iteieml), I recited In public one of
my tery best Imitations of our "Giuseppe da Ilarber"
being Introduced to tho audience as the "man who re
cites what he writes." As I took my seat, a knonlne
Inciiwduul edged toward me and whispered. "Mr
Q'I.oufihlln, purdon me, but there's a guy conducting a
column In the L:Kl.u Lkkolu every day who Is coby.
Ing your stuff. You ought to get after him."
. Dan O'JAUsblla.
Jflnxima of tc gouf 3nst
On Ye btartllur Surprises In Ye Natural Order,
"Funny men" are dull;
Fighting men are gentle men;
Others are most empty when -They
are pretty full,
Yonder sad-facd gent
Generates hilarity; '
And Familiarity
Sometimes breeds content.
A. Ai
HOW CAN HE WHEN HE'S DEAD?
Dear Jlr Thomas B. Hill remarks in the
interesting extract from his valuable com
pendium of etiquette, which you print, that
the fork instead of the knife should be used
in conveying food to the mouth because the
food is not so liable to fall from the fork.
Do you think that he will issue revised in
structions when the leguminous experi
menter has succeeded In developing a breed
ut square peus and rectangular beans?
garget &&$ MWZ tbAlttgbj,
CONGRESSMAN MANN
DROPS NO STITCHES
Became a National Figure Through
Mastery of Details Started
Out From the Famous Lit
tle Red Schoolhouse
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T ISN'T only the President who Is nble to
change his mind. Philosophers, from tlmo
Immemorial, have set tho seal of approval, as
It Is called, on tho act or process of changing
one's mind; but not ull of us arc philosophers.
Sc sometimes It seems
that n President's lot may
not bo an entirely happy
ono. Tills seems true,
more or loss, of Congress
men. And, ln, certain con
cclvablo nnd actual cir
cumstances, of a Minority
Lender. Jlr. Mann roso
tho other day nnd ex
pressed his views on tho
subject now chiefly en
grossing tho interest of
"JIM" MANN. tl0 country. Ono com
mentator remarked on "tho patriotic speech of
Mr. Mann, of Illinois, for non-partisan support
of preparedness," another on Mann's "crafty
utterances," and still another writer described
tho speech ns an out-and-out bid for tho pro
Gcrmnn vote of Congressman Mann's homo
district. Yet only ln a frenzied Imagination
aro England and Germany tho horns of our
Amerlcnn dilemma. There's only a straight
course of American duty.
So Minority Leader Mann, known heretofore
as a "small army and navy man," roso in his
seat nnd said: "Mr. Speaker, In tho quletudo
of my garden last summer and autumn I
reached certain conclusions which I have hes
itated to express, thinking that I might
modify them. But ns tlmo has gone on and
events havo occurred, It has seemed to mo
oven moro certain that my conclusions were
right than when I first reached them: and I
think, In justlco to myself and, I hope, with
some slight benefit to my country, I ought to
express those conclusions to tho House." Ho
did express those conclusions to the Houso
and to his country. Tho Illinois Congress
man, the so-called "titular head of tho Ilc
publlcan party," evidently sees something
else In minority leadership than service as
tho Administration's thorn In the flesh.
Mann's Favorite Words
His cordial support of ample preparedness,
be It noted, comes from a man whoso favor
lto words aro said to bo "I object." Tho
point was reached long ago where that
constant Iteration and reiteration, "I
object," convinced Congressmen that the
Illinolslan's vocal cords would atrophy
If he didn't say it several times a day.
Mann used to be regarded as one of
Uncle Joe's lieutenants, but Uncle Joe had to
admit that ho couldn't make tho fellow mind.
Mann was a Ueutennnt of latitude, and when
he chose would object to Cannon himself.
Bvon his enemies quoted the poet thus: "No
favor sways him and no fear shall awe."
And tho Cannonltcs smiled sadly on occa
sion, "Oh, well, Jim must havo his little
fun." And so saying spoke truly.
Speaker Clark: "I always thought that I
was the most Industrious man on earth until
I met Congressman Mann. He is tho most
industrious, persistent, pestiferous man I
ever met. He Is the ablest parliamentarian
on tho American continent and the ablest
Republican." Taft called hlrn the "ablest
parliamentarian of tho age." An anonymous
journalist: "He Is an able citizen, with a
big grasp on public questions, a clear view
of the needs of the country and a mind that
works accurately and quickly. He talks
well, is an adroit debater and a persistent
and Intelligent investigator. He takes part
in most of the big discussions in tho House,
and tackles anybody or anything that comes
along."
"In the quletudo of my garden," said Mr.
Mann in his preparedness speech this week,
'I reached certain conclusions." Before Con
gress opened he had spoken of the need ot
preparedness, of national organization for the
emergency of war, and his recent speech was
Important partly on account of the time and
the place, and especially in view of tho Presi
dent's tour. But in that garden he has dpne
a good deal of thinking. Ho has a farm In
the corporate limits of Chicago, and In vaca
tion time, if the weather Is anywhere near
favorable, he's out in the garden at 6.-30 In
the morning with rake or hoe or spade. Aa
evening approaches he goes down to Lake
Michigan for a swim. He likes the roads,
afoot or aboard his automobile; likes to be
out ot doors. He was born on .an Illinois
farm Ave years before the Civil War began.
Not Just a farm, but the farm of an enter
prising nurseryman- The boy grew up with
trees and flowers and bushes and shrubs and
such like things They were companions to
ium, and he loves them still.
He wfe& (4 tho famous hule red. Behoof 4
ALL READY
house. At 20 ho was graduated from the
University of Illinois. After completing his
course In tho Union College of Law ho went
to Hydo Park and married and opened a law
office. When Hydo Park wns adopted by
Chicago, Mnnn becamo Us first representa
tive on tho Chicago Board ot Aldermen. In
dustry nnd sociability won him a reputation
ln tho community, and ho was soon sent to
Congress. That was In 1897. Mann's self
written biography In tho Congressional Di
rectory Is perhaps the briefest In tho book:
"James It. Mann, Republican, of Chicago,
was born In 18SC: was cicctcd to tho Fifty
fifth and each succeeding Congress."
Never Caught Napping
Congressman Mann's personality 1ms not
appealed to tho Imagination of tho country.
Ho Is not ono of the got-fnmous-qulck per
sonages, but, ns a notional figure, the product
of the process of hustle nnd attention to de
tail and political efficiency. That Is the method
that brought Piatt and Quay and Cameron
Into power, also tho method followed by
Lodge and noot. Mann is about the most
careful attondcr to details that Congress has
ever known. Ho is never caught napping
Ho drops no stitches. Ho Is always In his
seat ln tho House when tho House Is ln ses
sion. Fewer absence marks have been
chalked up against him than against any
other Congressman ln tho last quarter of a
century nt least. He hits gone ahead, care
fully and laboriously attending to his duties.
Duty ho spells with a capital D. Somebody
has called him, with some flippancy, tho Sov
ereign Grand Commander of tho Congres
sional Sacred Sense of Duty Association. It's
something to havo a senso of duty In Con
gress, so we'll let tho flippancy pass without
remark.
Mann doesn't caro much about tho galleries.
Ho has little use for anything theatrical,
whether on tho stage or In Congress. Straight
ahead with the business In hand Is his motto.
If tho House gets Into an uproar, as It some
times does, with members hollering at ono
another, Mnnn, If he has started out to make
a speech, makes that speech. Ho walks over
to tho stenographers and delivers tho speech
to them, and If tho other folks don't want to
listen they don't havo to. Usually, however,"
they listen not because of his great ora
torical gifts, but because thoy know Mann
has gathered some Interesting and Important
facts and has done some thinking about them
before ho gets up. Sometimes ho Is animated
In delivering an address, sometimes not. Gen
erally tho address Is peppered and salted with
a sprinkling of sarcasm and several grains
of sardonic humor. "A Shavian smile, a
Shavian beard and a Shavian tongue," and
ho never loses his temper.
NATIONAL POINT OP VIEW
Universal military education would be n social
disciplinarian. It would bring youth early to a
maturity of Ideas of responsibility. It would
consolidate tho conceptions of duty, law and
nationality, Chicago Tribune.
Tho people of the West and the South will
not stand for this action by tho present Ad
ministration or any other Administration of
any party. They believe In tho gteenbacks,
and want more of thoin instead of less, Cin
cinnati Enquirer,
Tho majority docs not always control expendi
tures, and, not controlling, It is tempted to
shirk responsibility. Under a budget system,
this responsibility would be defined, so that
the majoilty could neither evade it nor permit
Congressmen to abuse their privileges. Indian
apolis News.
Blectlons aro not stolen from tha good citi
zens by bad citizens, but nro handed over to
bad citizens by tho good citizens. Far every
illegal vote caet for a bad candidate or a bad
"crowd" there are hundreds of good people's
votes cast for the bad candidate and tho bad
"crowd." Kansas City Journal.
It Is an opportune time to create a com
mission of experts, as free as possible ot parti
san influences and of preconceived theories,
whose duty shall be to put schedules under the
microscope and advise Congress as to changes
which should be made In order to bring the
tariff law into tho service of every American.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
EMMA GOLDMAN
To the Editor of Evening Ledger:
Sir In Its article reporting Emma Goldman's
lecture on Tuesday ou the "Misconceptions of
Free Love," the Evening, Ledour deserves to
be heartily applauded for raising Itself above
the low standard of veracity followed by most
newspapers In covering Miss Goldman's lec
tures. Philadelphia should congratulate itself
upon having a newspaper that is unafraid to
truthfully report the lectures of a woman who
Is so sedulously misquoted.
Emma Goldman is beyond doubt one ot
America's most brilliant women, but as the
chief exponent In this country of a philosophy
that Is milltantly adverse to most of our ac
cepted doctrines of life sho has always been
subject to a malicious campaign of libel. Were
it not for the antipathy that anarchism holds
for law based on force pr vlolenco newspapers
throughout the country would in all probability
have long ago been forced to stop this un
called for method of opposition.
It would be well for tbo community If all Its
newspapers would meet the hUh standard of
journalism which has been tot by the Evknino
Ledokk. And if, because of economic or social
policies, they find themselves unable to truth
fully report a radical address or lecture, let
them follow only the only alternative of which
this standard permits--make no report at all.
Pteiladelghl January. il,&
LOUIS BRANDEIS,
"PEOPLE'S LAWYER".?.
.
Jew Named as Successor to Justice
Lamar Has Never Held Public
Office His Own Views
of His Work
fTUin Jew Is intense. Louis D. Brandclj
- has been described as nn Intenso altruist
Ho has been described ln other terms. He
lias been culled tho worst and tho best
names pretty nearly that can bo set in type,.
Ho is much hated, much
loved.
Ho comes of Idealistic J
stock. Ills maternal 1
grandfather took an ac- '
tive part In Poland1!
struggle for freedom ltt (
1S30. His father, a small
manufacturer, partjcl. '
patrd ln the Bohemlaa'"'
movement of 1848. Ha
later moved out of Bo
hemln. and camo to :
I,. D. HIIANDi:iS.
America. Louis was born v
in Louisville, Ky In 1SB6. In 1872 the Branded
family went to Europe and Louis was trained
with German thoroughness In a roalschuleln )
Dresden. Ho never had a college education,
so named. But ho wont through Harvard law
School in two years, and tho authorities had
to suspend tho rules In order to let him
graduate. Then he took a year's post-gra4-uato
course. Tho Civil War had played
havoc with tho Brandeis fortunes, and Louis
earned his way through the law school by
tutoring. He had $1QOO left. Some time after
graduation ho was elected nn honorary mem
ber of Phi Beta Kappa.
Brandeis began practice In St Louis, but
soon moved to Boston. There ho speedily
won n high reputation ns a lawyer. But as 1
his reputation ns "tho people's lawyer" grew-
his popularity declined in somo quarters and A
inoreaseu in otners, until 110 ucl-uiuu uiuuu-tsj
jeet of moro bitter denunciation and enthusl-
astlo praise than is usually tho lot of nnyt
ono man. .
Problems as His Teachers
Peoplo havo said so many different thlnsi j
nbout Brandeis that perhaps It may bo in- 5
foresting to quoto hero scmo of tho things he-;
has said about himself, his work ana nu
1. ..it-... a i..i .n... v. lino fMitifl tlmn fnrm3 4
many tasks, ho replied: "I havo learned ho JJ
to work with others. As a beginner I toolcJj
any honorable business that offered. I hay
-walked ten miles to collect a ?10 collection ,
nrrnnnt. Tint T havo never wanted to con- i
tlnuo in nny lino of legal work longer than I K
found It instructive. When tho development 1
It afforded ceased I withdrew, turning th j
Job over to somo Junior, over whom I merely i
kept sympathetic watch."
Ho disclaims having a completo philosophy
of life. "I um not n doctrinaire," he says.,
"My habit of mind has been to move from
ono problem to another, giving to eacn, wans
If la linfnrn tlin ,11V undivided StUdi' I ftOt tt
Democrat, but I havo laid most stress on the-";
lltUn fl. nivn men a freo field. .ITOViu
equality of opportunity and wo attain thj
ma n.inii works bv "hunches," tiulckljVd
"Tho right or wrong in a case Is evident to jj
mi. nt n piniico. ns soon as I havo the laClJ.iJ
Then it is only a task of arranging tha fact
and digging out tho law.'
Ho belloves in property rights! "The Fed
eral Constitution," ho thinks, "needs pot'l
bo amended. Nor should our Judges M
courts be ussailed. Our Judges ure as m'
as you can make men." Further "Laurnas
always been a narrowing, consen atUlos pro
fession. In England it was always ""'
a Tory Government to find great lawyers NT
i...ni.,i m i,f tr.. n T.ihfrni Governinn
it u lianl. Ami sn it has been througHous ,
history. Nearly all of England's great Uw
yers woro Tories." .
The tendency, as Brandeis sees It.
steadily toward increasing governmental crag
. 1 rnui l ..,,.-, Vin onfllll ttS Well Hj
nK..alnnt lnnn..on AnnroOtll fit! Of tllO IRUl J
vldual, against which government Is an
signed to protect Its citizens, Is no WMj
physical oppression, but a more subtle "
of social and industrial oppression. The -..i.n,in,.u
,a i,ntii must receive ao5
quate legal expression. The people feel th9
Inconsistency existing today "Dctw .
Htical democracy and industrial absolu'r3
Tho people aro "beginning to douui u""3
there is really a justification for the urea
Inequalities In the distribution 01 ""'
T, ji.. !,.. 1.1.1 nnhlll 0.iCC.
vn-.i nniu nni tifo" hn once said, 'And trj
short enough. Why waste It on thins Ml
I don't want most? I don't want prtw
,,-.,. mnat T ivnnt to be frC" AnlJ
...t. T.nnI,l tooo nalrixl fnr 111 PI" "
. ,-. -, . 1, , f.
west .na Ariiii ..,ij.i - oart
he repltea. "Thert U no 1 A'
oX a plan ot mine,"
1 ,-t, "dj- J
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