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TWO YEARS OLD
ITIHE Evening Ltsnqcn Was first pub-.
llshed wo years ago today. Its recep
tee, by the community has been con
astoierttly more than cordial. 1
The average net paid circulation wan:
For the first year 70,406
' For th second year 109,368
The volume of advertising, measured
tor (rate lines, was:
-Ferine first year 1,717,705
For the second year. . . . 3,575,80(5
The" Increase In circulation was 55 per
at.
The liicreaso In advertising was 107
Ber cent.
This healthy-growth Is tho result. It la
fcetleVed, of 0. steadfast devotion to high
principles of Journalism, based on a defl
Blte purpose to servo this community
M4 further unselfishly the Interests of
ttt people as a whole, without regard to
Btttrlor Influences. '
It la an achievement of no little dim
why, in those rapid days, to make a
feo4 newspaper, but the functioning of a
Journal ts decidedly Imperfect If soul Is
Hot" "breathed Into Its columns and char
acter stamped on It by the sincerity of
erviee which permeates the dallyflssuco.
The Evenino LEDacn Inaugurated in
America tho full back page of pictures,
which is a distinguishing featuVe of the
ape"r Tho visualization for readers of
urrent events Is a service they may
Mtumlly expect under modern condi
tions. In the extent, variety and aptness
f Its Illustration the Evening Ledger
to believed to be without a, rival, and tho
Ffeejto Patrol maintained by this news
paper has become a distinctive Phlla
Wpfcta Institution.
fT)CB Eveninq LKDani ts fully aware
Vwt the deplorablo political conditions
wW have existed in Philadelphia. It
ku no patience, however, with "knock
es." Too otten all they do la "knock,"
mi when opportunity presents itself for
M-vle? they vanish. We do not bellevo
tkaU conditions here are materially worse
thn la other great cities, nor do we
ave much for comparisons. To make
Mlaalphl& the best city that we can, ir
fmotlve of what other cities are; to
Jt Jungs with which to breathe; to
our citizens with all the facilities
modern invention makes nosslble:
, . . ,
B (pkihe uttermost value from our
BsaWMpafUMeU, of which we reckon the
Brt not the least; Jjo clean up the dirty
! ie eradicate bad housing; to make
llBBUBpwductlye. placo for grafters
j4 pteeVhunUrs; ih a word, to strive
towfjraV the secompjlshment of those
ktoaUer the realization of which William
JNaw BMved prison and ocean and sudden
(4 led his herole and strong-
4 people Into the precious
htsta vre have these aro the things
Wwiii while, toward whioh In steadfast
f)M Vft newspaper lifts its eyes, dedl-
itseK without reserve to their ae-
nL
M taWilaW (a; Phlta4e'jW nert lift his
I assf wepMt Mm X-nm Lkdqw net
1 a whack at It. An elected official
I a tawant of whom faithful service Is
IC K he faH ahwt eMher through
or ineffioieaey, no matter how
hiCh We ataYtfeti, be n4 expeet nothing
ut emtaaetire an4 Ji erftleia. The
JPVBSIUM tJWMlaW HM M PfltlWM With
nor will it Induce la that
, artvately r by HibHe rrwim-
r- tor 'the purpose ef getting
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tba saoataaaaey of Mr.
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& pile up tur hun a trepMudovar
W PPHf t PV
WHHMiP MM
alwaaaBaaaBaap waajsafiaa;
BteKtaHaWa an4 alt the Mker "hen"
that prey ett government ana knew no
patriotism except that of loot. What PhH
4elphl needs ts not a reform adminis
tration, but a business administration, it
wltl never get such an administration
from a Mayor nominated and elected by
the Organisation. The first duty of such
a Mayor is to that Organlmtlon; only sec
ondarily does he sit to serve the people. It
may be doubted If the cry for 'reform"
la a rallying cry for anything but defeat
Fundamental conditions- must be
changed before tho disintegration of the
Organization can reasonably be antici
pated. Wo shall have "dirty" politics so
long as wo havo dirty streets and dirty
houses nnd dirty sections. Sordid sur
roundings breed sordid men and phan
tom voters and a long line of Ills. A new
park means an accretion In the corps
of conscientious citizens; a paved street
means better voters along that thorough
fare. Beauty In environment Is a meas
ure of civic progress. Men who are ac
customed to good things, to a neighbor
hood well taken caro of, will not vote
for bad things, as a general rulo. The
way to sideswipe the politicians and
grafters is to strike at the conditions
which produce them,, and that Is possible
through wise concentration In behalf of
specific public Improvements which pub
lic sentiment can be educated to support
whole-heartedly. Indeed, oven the most
flagrant of corruptlonlsts can often bo
lined up In a battle for specific improve
ments, as was evidenced In the transit
fight when, at one time or another, each
of the warring factions was supporting
the program.
ABIDE from politics, which Is on Incl-
dental rather than a decisive factor
in municipal growth, tho big tiling In
Philadelphia Is the production of wealth
and the earning of prosperity. Wo have
no sympathy with those who deride the
dollar. It is tho yardstick of energy, of
thoroughness, of servlco, of capacity. It
is something worth striving for because
It is tho ptcasiiro of accomplishment,
Penn, with his high IdealB, never doubted
that In tho skill ot his artisans rested
the foundation of happiness for his col
ony. Tho dignity of work Is enhanced
by Its rewards. Philadelphia has) never
boen a financial parasite, as so many
cities are wont to be. It has, Instead,
given value received; Wo regard a busi
ness success as of as much Importance lri
the community's progress as any political
success. The man who can gather up
the threads of Industry and weave from
them a fabric of accomplishment Is a
good citizen, doing his part for the com
munity. It is the policy of tills newspaper to en
courage business, to support enterprises
that increase the number of jobs avail
able, and to commend Investment in
wealth-producing instruments. If an A.
Merrltt Taylor can turn from his private
work and evolve a mighty transit system
for the city, It Is worth Philadelphia's
while to have an A. Merrltt Taylor among
her citizens. If an Alba B. Johnson
can conduct a business so that 20,000
men find employment In It, it is worth
Philadelphia's while to havo an Alba B.
Johnson. If an E. T. Stotesbury can sal
vage a transportation wreck, such as the
transit interests of this city presented
a few years ago, and restore It to service.
It is worth Philadelphia's while to have
an E. T. Stotesbury. If an Eldrldge It.
Johnson,, over in Camden, can take a
needlo, a box and a black disk, and there
with delight and Instruct a nation, giving
employment meantime to thousands at
high wages, It Is worth Philadelphia's
whllo to have an Eldrldge It. Johnson
on the other side of the river. Better
one man who can build a factory and
give employment to hundreds than a
dozen men who can do nothing more
constructive than pick flaws in the
methods by which the other man has
worked out his achievement. Labor be
comes a misnomer when there are no
jobs for labor to fill.
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B BELIEVE that healthful recrea
tion la requisite to the efficiency1 and
well-being of a community. For that rea
son we encourage sports of all kinds. Not
the least worthy distinction of Philadel
phia Is the universality of Its outdoor life,
as evidenced on the diamond, on the
links, on the tennis court and in general
summer sport at tho mountains and the
sea. Atlantic City and the Shore are, in
fact, one of Philadelphia's greatest assets.
TIIK charity of the city is proverbial.
It Is, on the -whole, well directed. The
Kybnikq Lbser seldom solicits or re
'selves contributions for charitable enter
prises, but, It invariably, when conditions
warrant, lends its support to worthy cam
paigns, ,
THK XVBMIM4 lMQwti enters on its
third year In a period ef great material
prosperity. Ite achievements, while net
paitflanttofr have beep substantial. Even
yak a simple thiag as the Upbtiaa; f
C4ty HJi Tower, as suggest 4 by this
newspaper o4 eertMly adapted by the!
Mayer, if an evidence at the proeraes
on BBewpepsr aaay Itwlwea. Other tMaps
ec pvore tonpertaaee we have teuh$ far,
pat uveueecealttMr, wHh the tteif
support ef our reaaers. The isirfiilmns
ef the Bvaaatta, TiWaePH to the eeseatu
nlty however has only begun, its aetiy.
tut will hroadsn ae it grows outer, it
9
Tom Daly's Column
THE B. h. AtfA7VErtqAtl
Stirs the Old Keporter to Belie the Oattn
Pipe of the Village Poet and niow
Thereon These Woodnotes
Wild.
Whenever U't September, an' tho Ulh h
the date
I hope they"n ahcavt lot me stick around
an' celebrate, .
For when ar man' to vcru old hl$ tcorX
( olmojt through
lie likes to din a to xomcthlnp that is
wonderful an' new.
In youth (whose tcxlcon contains no
"pout" or "rheumatism")
When first I jumped the "'running Iroad"
right into Journalism,
I used to prance around the town so
brassy an' so bold,
With button-bustln' pride because "my
paper" was so old.
It' great to be a gay young cockalorum,
yet adorn
The roster of a Journal that toas old
tohen you were born,
But when a guy gets old himself an'
work la still to do
He likes to cling to something that is
wondcrul an' new.
I used to think in those old days that uc
were full of pep.
That every civic enterprise would find
us right In step.
Hut note toicii get lookln' incfc it kind
o' seems to me
"Wc weren't quite the lively lads we
thought ourselves to be,
1 know we had some duties then that
never did get done;
We felt we needn't bother; for, you sec,
our spurs were won.
But when a fellow's wiser an' there's
stil so much to do
He likes to cltng to something that is
wonderful an' new
Bo when September comes to toien the
Hth is the date)
I hope they'll always let me stick around
an' celebrate,
For when a man's so very old his work
is almost through
He likes to cling to something that is
wonderful an' new.
MORE THAN HE CAN CHEW?
DEWAltE THE BUNKHOUND!
Serving tho City Bcautfiul Ho Bites
All Unlovely Things
AVERY curious thing happened yes
terday. We took tho Bunkhound
out for a little run around the town,
lie was on a leash, of coursa; and, for
tunately, It was a strong 0110, for sudden
ly he made a leap
for tho door of n
Jewelry store, We
had our own trou
bles to hold him,
and such a bark
Ing as he set up!
Dear, dear, ho fair
ly frothed at tho mouth. Finally wo
dragged him back to his kennel, marvel
ing mucli nt his behavior. Then we
opened our1 afternoon mall and our
mcdltatlvo eye rested upon this from an
anonymous contrlb.:
The lady who 'tells me when I do
wrong says that the harm done by
drugs, liquor and Immorality Is noth
ing compared to buylnu an engagement
ring on the Installment plan.
Then we remembered gome ads wo had
seen In the street cars and areat light
broko upon Vs-" Wo have a' notion we
won't be able to hold that 'Bunkhound
the next time we take him out.
WE hope the Deeper Waterways dele
gates will read this:
Unseen wraiths were at work In tho west
ern sky above the laxy reek of the town.
They flung a slab of Guinea gold, coppery
red, across the bluo horizon. They flung
knottier bar of brighter gold uporrthe flat
tening copper gold, and upon this another
bar. Through the Interstices of tho piles
peered the opal sky. Then, ns In Jest, a
silver cloud was flung over all. Ix! as
when the magician withdraws some unlooked-for
thine beneath mysterious folds,
we saw the shores of the Nevcr-Nevcr Land.
Golden were Its sands for leagues, golden
In a myriad ways for miles and miles,
lively were the waters which flowed toward
the shores and beat upon the purple, rear
ing cliffs. They gleamed, those waters, as
they gleamed In years which have long
flowed Into another sea, with color of pearl,
mystery of opal and dazzle of diamond dia
dems. Burly purple mountains ranged Into
an eternal far-offness, and the very valleys
of that range called across the brows o
the hazy mountains. But Just as our gaze
returned to the foreshore and Its lights, and
Just as we could see upon a horizon the
bulging sails of returning galleys and the
trickle-gleam ot their hastening oars, some
teasing wraith drew a filmy curtain across
the scene. I should like to have seen the
'home-coming of those beflagged and be
pennoned fleets and heard the beating of
the drums mingling with the roar of the
shouting people ashore. But the curtain
was a scene. It was decorated with ham
mered saffron, flaked gold, ruddy copper,
flaming braim and with the gleam and glint
of a thousand volcano fires making an ocean
of South Seas, The gaze traveled along the
Indescribable beauties for endless leagues
past Invisibly changing radiances, plains
and plateaus of sparkles, rivers and rifts
of beauty and oceans of pearl cooler than
crystql, until there came Into view a soft
silver stretch of peaceful water, a soft
golden sliver sea. It was like the spirit of
beauty herself and as though across her
shoulders the playful wraiths ot evening
flung clinging drapery of melting gray. This
was the end of the play, for then Ave heard
the lap of waters and saw the dark, the
jet dark the dark, dark, dark Pennsylva
nia shores and above them the thin silver
line of the sinking day.
What's thatT Oh. It's Just a sunset I
saw over the town of Chester from the deck
of the Wilmington boat the other day.
8HON BBA.
JOURNALISTIC EVOLUTION
Newspaper Activity Has Synchronized With Times of Re
volt Defoe, Pioneer Reporter The Change
From Pamphlets and Broadsides
THE ovolutlon of newspapers Blnce tho
latter half of the seventeenth century,
when publications worthy of being colled
newspapers began to exert a serious In
fluence, has been a gradual democratiza
tion of their appeal. It Is significant that
bursts of Journalistic activity havo como
In times of revolution that Is, in times
when tho common people icalizo, or nro
made to realize, that thoy amount to
something and aro capablo of playing a
tremendous part In tho affairs of city
or nation. On the very day after James
II was driven from his throne. In Eng
land's '.'Glorious Revolution," three nows
papcrs made their first appearance, and
in a few days more a half-dozon new
ones. In France, which had Its revolu
tion a century later, the beginning of
revolt was the beginning of many news
papers; in fact, Journalism could hardly
be said to have started In Gaul before
the appearance of those flaming sheets,
whoso editors rather regularly ended
their careers by peeping out the little
, window of the guillotine.
Defoe's Pioneer Work
It Is not generally realized how thorny
and stained with blood has been tho path
of tho Journalist. It was while ho was
Imprisoned In Newgate for a political
offense that Daniel Defoe, pioneer Jour
nalist, started his famous paper, tho Re
view, In 1701. Defoo Is well worth study,
not only because' of his remarkable uso
of the Infant art In pamphlets, broadsides
and essays, or, as wo should Bay today,
"editorials," but more particularly be
cause even In his fiction ho Is tho born
Journalist, and the realism pf his novels
put Into our fiction a Journalistic note
that It has ngver lost. Defoe, keen oh
server, made fiction read like fact. "Rob
inson Crusoe" has a convincing Bwlng to
it. as though tho writer were recording
things that actually occurred. The ner
vous energy and simplicity of his style
Is the prototype of the modern reporter's.
Zola, among the moderns, Is the nearest
approach to tho Defoe mixture of literary
man and reporter. The Frenchman ac
tually got his inspiration for his most
successful 'novels from the newspapers.
He saw that many thousands of persons
had" never read anything else but news
papers. They had been brought up on
'the reports of dire happenings, and Zola
simply translated the news of the police
court Into realistic Action.
To get an Idea of tho early groping!
for the form of our papers, conceive a
number of little sheets containing only
the various "features" that are now com
blned In one publication. The "society
page" was a separate little newspaper,
and very early appeared in the form of
newe letters which recounted the gossip
about tho king and court, the chief "news
YESTERDAY morning the office boy
rushed into our room and handed us thlaj
Have Just learned that Rev, R. J. J,
Watt earns frem ,Ware (Bnglandlt
U B, a
The Philadelphia Rhyme
If Dtonam, ef .Chicago, sees our paper
revwtoriy he muet Ve petting- a let of fun
ept ef the,rto ef Philadelphia tHoe
a rhpaWfoV Heel. One eMtestaat pays
hie reapecy to the Chkepp maq In thjfe.
to tweet
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Mof cafatoetentai toaeft the rule which
ealla lor occreepoaeWnce ff sound la all
tvt ytlabass, Huping tbe clience only iq
apUshto, 0m M w mmfmm minf22s1FL?Z
center" until tho time of our revolution
and In England even later. News of
crlmo and blood-curdling punishment ap
peared In sheets that told In lurid lan
guago of the death on scaffold or gallows"
of noted criminals, usually with their
cbnfessions, which were usually more
readable and accurato accounts of the
crime when tho perpetrators hadn't con
fessed. Soparnto also wero the "edi
torials," tho broadsides or pamphlets. Of
ono of these, which Defoe' wroto In verso
In vindication of William III, no fewer
thnn 80,000 copies wero sold on the
streets of London a "circulation" whlch
If repeated today In tho same proportion
to population would be around the million
mark. (
The Thirst for News
Thero was, then, the reading public
patiently awaiting the co-ordinated news
paper which would comblno nil these
fragmentary features. Tho difficulty
'that oven prominent men llko Samuel
I'epys, with wide circles of friends, had in
getting tho ordinary news of London in
the days of Charles II seem to present
day readers ludicrous. Tho nine volumes
of Pepys's diary aro ono long thirst for
news. Ho seems forever to have been
hanging around the vestibules pf White
hall asking questions and 'being usually
entirely misinformed by exaggerating
friends. Tho things he believed would
cost a reporter his Job for outrageous
"faking" If they got into a paper of to
day. And If his credulity was so abused,
how denso must have been the Ignorance
of tho average man. This ono thing
lack of news-Hjxplalns more than any
thing else the amazing ease with which
the tyranny and treason of the Stuarts
continued. .
Ono had to go In person to make sure
that Important ovents occurred as fore
casted. When everybody went to an exe
cution or other public treat, there was a
constant tendency for crowds to gather
and crowds become mobs. So that, when
tho feat of bringing the news dally to the
citizen was accomplished, a notablo serv
ice toward preserving law and order in
communities was rendered, because peo
ple could stay peacefully at home and yet
keep well informed.
But more important than this was 'the
aid which the combining of the small and
special sheets gaveto the growth of de
mocracy. For tho pamphlets were the
personal opinions of enterprlslsg individ
uals writing on their favorite themes,
while the newspapers which succeeded
them, in being comprehensive enough to
fill the needs of all sorts of people, had' to
be representative of public opinion. They
might bo ahead of the times, but they
dared not bo behind them.
NATIONAL POINT OP VIEW
"President Wilson Is one presidential
candidate who finds It necesuiry to dis
cuss some thugs een more serjous than
politics," says the Washington Star Right,
from start to finish! But the trouble ts.that
he does nothing but discuss. Cincinnati
Commercial Tribune,
Edison says he was for Roosevelt, but
now U for W)lan. n science Edison Is a
leader, but what he doesn't know about
politics would make a larger sized volume
than any one will undertake to print with
paper at present prices, Knoxvllle Journal
and Tribune.
(
We thought It was very foolish for Mr.
aarrisHi to resign as Secretary of War be
cause of the supplanting ot the army by
the National Quart, but It new oegtns to
appear he was far-lplted and took the
Hdtt ground la the Matter. The Federal
management of the Mate !!ltla won't work.
--OJiUi Plata Journal.
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The tread of the thpes Is toward ieeressed
Oawernment ! all over' the earth.
Hi what we have ft rtoht to eWect to, what
in ail oomoUaae should ha etoptnil. is the
refusal of Cantjreac m aeeaaiBte buaeet
yatsen of appyeprlatlwM aatf Its failure V
lstlst upoa the letolUpeat, ssenmakml use
of fttae by Oeeerniawat paiotau, Oresst
lutde ve-
TOO CLOSE FOR COMFOUT
towr new
ur
the length of tOO feet and may have a beam
of 10S feet. This great beam would leave
but a five-foot margin to clear the locks of
the Panama Canal. Uncle Sanx'ls figuring
pretty close, for comfort, and It would ap.
pear tp the layman that some one blundered
In the plans for the canal locks. Columbus
Citizen.
PEOPLE
I aro sorry for them all
Whose ceaseless footsteps rise andJfall
Along, earth's hlghwey endlessly.
The people i tha workl with me ; . ,
Who have dreams, and yet must take
The gifts life has for men awake.
Who bulla" their lives eeh dsy eatiw
On hepes they k.iww shall Ret eeme true.
Wbj walk the wertd till lp, and then
At daw must walk the wM again,
Wbe ask Gee's fsver. knowing M11 '
lie do Dot break his changeless will
For ay faulty ehanglng ery
Of h mekee to live and die,
I am sorry for them all,
So serryl Until I recall
Hew IU' adventure pwlaps afar ,
above tomorrow Ilk a star. S '
-And howvour dreams palat ggldui tuuu
POray wprtang-day ana retina 41
Ana ait tee kv each man who ItoM
Hay buy tor merely- love' he toves
And how St comforts tie to attar
WnetUer Oo4 hears pr tunisaway.
And bo fo work, and eltp, and waka
is soon w, um mare Uetug s sake ; 1
PtU&ttt
-Bailee WIMisjsr, tfn
t&f jfiattJto J
What Do You Know?
Ou fries of general intertat will t an$wrd
in this column Ten que$tton, tho antwtri to
ichich every well-informed person thould know,
ore asked daily,
QUIZ
1. Of every dollar gpent br the coimnmer on
milk about what portions so to dairyman,
Inbor. railroad and for material?
2. At hat Is pnratjpholilf
S. Dearrlbe the military moremf nt called flank
Inr. 4. Hhtre la KnbUT ,
5. Who wna PaleatrlnaT
0. What Is the appearance of an angle of ISO
desreta? t
7. Xame the meat Important doabtfnl BtateaT
8. What la the atsnlflranro of the phraae, "a
caae of diamond cut diamond"?
0. What la peat?
10. What an "phantom totcra"?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz-''
1. Cnntom-made arltrlra are thoae made by
hand and on order, rather than by ma
chinery. t. A tobrt a small Jus, pitcher or nor, ren
e rally uaed for ale, and abaped aemeivhat
like a atout man with cocked bat form
Ins the brim.
9. Doctor Jrkrll and Sir. Hyde: one peraoni the
rood and the bad peraonalltr of n char
acter fn a atory by Robert loula Bteven-aon.
4. Gralinm flonrt named for Sylreater Graham
uivi-ioou. a pnyaic
writer on dietetics.
(HB4-1HS1),
tr on u
Ie of
tube.
physician, vesetarlan and
erftirr In a
S. r-rlnclple of the barometer! mn
slaaa tube, the open end of which reeto In
ft IMUl of mrrcury nnA fn ih. !
there be Inr. o vacnnm at the cloaed end.
The air preaaure holda tho oolomn of mer
cury SO Inrhea hlsh. The moat minute
jarlatlona In the preaaure are reslatered
In the varying height of the column.
6. Artemua Ward! pen name of tbe American
humorlat, Charlea Farrar Browne.
7. Itronklyn la not a aepnrate city. The conn-
tlca of Greater Hew ork are New Vork.
llronx, Klnsa, Queens and Richmond.
8. The combined man-power of the. Allies la
&i .VlSSPlSS0 tnd, ot their enemies
about 14.000.000. Calcnlatlsna vary, the
percentage of the Population counted aa
effectives being 8, 10 and It,
0. The boomerang returna In Its flight tone.
tlmee nearly to the, place from which It U
thrown.
10. in refracting teleacopes the rays ef ll.ht an
reflecting
mad
opes
to 1
1 converge to a focua by lenaea. In
Iff tl HrAIIH. I.v Ka,,v .lA..a
from tbe surface of a slightly concaved
mirror.
Britain's Food Supply
H. It It Is difficult to answer your ques
tion wlth accuracy, as even If thero were
reasons for fear on the part of Great
Britain for' her future food supply It would
not be likely that she would publish the
grounds for such fear. It was recently re
ported that the cost of food there had In
creased sixty per cent An official of the
Board of Trade made this statement: "It Is
rldlculoui to ' or the reports that are
being sjic-' cbout that England Is on ths
verge of being reduced to a black-bread-and-no-meat
diet, Nothing could be further
from the truth, The actual fact Is that
the material for black bread, hardly exists
In this country. We have amnln whmt n
,make white bread. To show exactly what
ureal nrnains position is regarding bread,
all I need to do Is to quote figures of the Im
ports of wheat and, flour now aa compared
with those before- tho war. For eleven
months to July of this year wo have Im
ported approximately 200.006.000 bushels
2! yAat Bnd flour D"le haying produced
75,000,000 bushels of our own. As against
this take pre-war figures of 1913-14, when
we Imported 195,000,000 bushels, while
growing 68,000,000 of our own. That mean's
that wlthithe war on wa have had thi.
.year .75,000.000 bushels of wheat and flour.
as against ztl.ooo.OOO In 1913-14. That
shows on Its face that fJreat Britain laW
ter off than before the war. I might re
mark that while people talk of bread being
high, It Is really costing four and one-half"
cents for a loaf of on pound, whllo In
America today I understand they are
charging five cent for a loaf of the same
weight. So our price, even! with the war
on, is less that, in America.'1
A Question of Birthdays
Quid. A. person born shortly after aid-,
night Pf August 35-S5 is said to have been
born on August Si,
Notes Sent by Messenger
KdMer ef "What Do You Knout" Is it
against the United Plates postal laws to
send a nee by mMger bey from" one
person to another without tearing the eer"
nr eft th envelope? , M, B
It is eertalnly net against the law new
to send an uamutllated net by messenger.
Interstate Commerce
N P. in the UtnMsets seta um '
whleh ye refer JusttoTHughe. held tkit
"wasa Ck ,, JeahYaSt
Vl? eowneree tt was acquainted
with the 1 eey.Uiiw4.at of railroad oenstruE
tie, at with th exerets by thTaJtate
ef the rate-making new,,. nd jf J!I
the feet that NlVUii fiS
oeatrel there lay a, yj iSHJ ui.rJJ
tated activity Jr the Jta ef tau
SU.7on7rX &(
mmmsM
$ W)1I,S H1 Y TO STUDY?
William T. Foster Analyse Coll,
oiavisirsa
But why strive for high rank Ir) eottettf
Why not wait for the "moro prkvr'
studies of the profession.! school? Hob,
dreds of boys the country over declar to
day that It makes little difference whether
they win high grades -or-tnerely baabL
grades In th liberal arts, since then courses
have no definite bearing on their InteeeW
life work,f, Kvn tho sport who mv- u.. 1
grade of mdeerlty hi highest aim a 7. 1
wv.. v.. ... --., ."i intends tt
strive for high scholarship in his crow.
slonal studies, poes ha often attain th,
aim 7 inai is ne question,
And that, fortunately, Is a question w
may answer with more than opinion, w, 1
may take, for example, all th student wh
graduated from Harvard College durii .
oerlod of 13 years and enteral it. t -M
um... UV..W,. wi vim wno received no
distinction a undergraduates, at per 5
graduated with honor from the Mealoai '
School. Of th 11 who received degree of,-
. . ".,.. ,,... uuuui, more mn 92 p,,
cent took their medical degrees w.U honor
Still more conclusive are the r.. A
the graduates of Harvard Coller. k i.'"
Ing the period of 30 years entered the HaiTn
vard Law School. Of those who graduatS'1
from college with no special honor onS4
eti per cem -aitainea -distinction in
Ijiw School. Of those who graduated wlti
honor from the college. 32 ner rwm 01..1-.T
distinction In the Law School j of those wwl
graduated with great honor, 40 per eenV
of those who graduated with highest honor '
60 per cent. Sixty per cent I Bear that
figure In mind a moment while we consider
tho 310 who entered college "with con).
linn.1' Vtn la In I.I . -""Ml- ,
....... ...... .. w .,, -runout navin
passed all their entrance examlnntln,..!
and graduated from college with plain d 5
grees. Of these men, not 3 per cent woaH
honor degrees In law. j
Apparently the "good fellow" In cr.lt... -
the sport who does not let his studies Inter-'l
iero witn nis euucauon, oui wno Intend t :
settle down to hard work later on. and whe'i!
later on actually docs completely change 1
1113 nanus 01 1 ue, is almost a myth. presj-J
uenv wiiiiam r. roster, in Harpers Migj.
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