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rpitEHK 1$ nomore popular surroiIIoii In
- Mr, JIcAtloo's lettrr to Itepresentiilive
Kltcliln tlian tlmt the tax mi iincnrnpil in
comes should be made heavier than that
on earned Incomes.
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ness of a certain sum must pay I per
cent aa an Income tax and S per cent as
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per cent, while a man with an Income of
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Investments, which he may have Inherited,
Ui taxed only 4 per cent. TIip producer is
penalized to the extent of t per cent.
ThlB Inequity should be rmoed. Tln-re
is Justice In I. as well ni political wisdom.
It will place a burden on accumulated
capital that it cun well afford to hear. No
sophistry about the taxiition of the Industry
in which the capital is invested should
prevent Congress from acting on the kur
jrtstlon. - -
T. It, says his name should if spelled
"fltll een hyphens. Ktill of dash, ua usual:
THE UNFASHIONABLE SALOON
TTAI1D drinltlns is plainly solns out of
fashion. Nnttiriilly the saloons, where
most of the hard drinking has been don.
must follow on the way to the limbo of
forgotten vogues.
It Isn't surprising (o rend in the record
of the license court that 121i;uor enab
llshments in this city hate fulled to pay
their fees and seem on the verse of Roinc
out of business. And It Is questionable
whether the zealots and the propagandists
have had most to do in making the liquor
business unprofitable and unpopular. There
Is' a growing impression that heavy drink
in Is 'a wasteful Hiid regrettable business.
H Txnin' umtcuun may i iruueu iu various
4& sources. It Is due In part to better educa
tion and to a more generul enlightenment
.among all classea of men. Tiie movies
i ar said to have helped toward the
decline of the saloon. If this Is true it
ueems to prove that most men lmvc gone
to the saloons for diversion and that they
'"have been quick to welcome a more whole
some .means to that end.
In any event it has long been apparent
that the baloon couldn't last In the de
based aspects that have aroused most of
the' violent criticism and the most aident
prohibition propaganda. The retail liquor
business began to manifest a definite un
acrupulousness when it became involved
In brewers' and distillers' syndicates. It
lost all the ethics of the old-fashioned
tavern. It became n neighborhood menace.
Jt Invited criticism, defied It arid therefore
it In process of painful obliteration.
TosMbly those American wounded shipped
to the fair Ithlera to recuperate may find
It only natural that their considerate Uncle
'flam has such a nice .N'lco.
PANIC
JJ NEW .YORK, where every one is more
or less nervous ail the year around, a
l ,-thtttre manager has hastily announced
iJyhat the cellars of his establishment are
VAi 'belnsr made readv for those of ills natrons
KjW. (,. iwhose health might be endangered by
k5'f. "'bombs from a flying submarine or one of
ttiM-th Kaiser's Infant airplanes. Of course,
H&Wthtre will be tea and cigarettes' on the side
3u7'Mld music In the cellar until the nerll
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pr- sc $ uw aome people oo vaiue tneir lives'
L?7-rg.:iv .wui Bieiciu ui nicwui i-uuess luiiiiui now
i& '.ba complete- until the nation provides a
wt'-IC'li Ll..-f.ltKn 4....A.. A rnHMAn i.i.
S('. ' 1JUII-11IVU UUHVU1 1VJ lUI!l,ICS3, IVilll H1I
Pw'f'JL'' partment specially padded for Senator .1.
Efvij4?w aim ucwie, cacn i
Ifey'ljln camouflage from
Ki'?, of Washington must
S nam ucwie, cacn (.oniireisman must go
this on. The. silk hat
be put away because
.f. Of
the flashes and gleams It throws at night
ife. A. rvlvld reflections that might guide cny
K .r'. .. ....
,i,.n"rvumI airman witn ears not acule
S'n'.ffc Bough to hear the uproar in the House
Eti',fy a distance greater than twenty miles.
?;-!&' Mayor Smith and Chief McLaughlin, of
.-!.-" 55 he Electrical Bureau, our own Immediate
.'tiPi'ophets of the air raid, will be stung to
.action by the example of the Xew York
OTtMatr mn Be-ready any minute to hear
T-5iI - demand In Councils for an appropria-
--.jifTftlon' of 111,008,000 to provide, armored Urn
k-.y-ir t .k. a.-.. t'ii... ti.
ySfci?i.i Brwilm.a,ivr uim citvuuriigc tmt v-ji ritx"
They used to say 'Tell it to the
rlnaa." but now we must tay, "Tell It of
ke. marines."
KEEP IT UP
IE commandeering of the iteel Industry
kfcy the Government is as" necessary as
the,- commandeering of the railroads. If
KafaljHJ are to be built with all possible, speed
'atli'fjBnperatlve that ateel for them be
'- --'J-- a fast Ha It can be Used. The
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. treai way to get n is iur uie uuvcrnraeiu
",, tak charge of the business and dl-
t,V tribute tlw product of the steel mill- ar-
irsaf41ng to the needs of Industry as at
&', ate4 by th war.
If ine mooilzing Ol loriuo ui uiausiiy
liwaj purpose? become necessary the
it will not hesitate to act and
I UMNKt-lt. We have set ou)
l,raj0WHt as well
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AMERICA THE HOPE OK RUSSIA
'We Musi Be Prepared lo Help Her When
She Asks It and Not Before
rpHE attitude of the American people
' toward Russia is one of sympathetic
helpfulness. Every project for the relief
of the Russians will be judged here
according as it meets with the approval
of the Russian people.
Various supKcstfons have been made
looking to rcinviRoratinR the Rustunn
armies and rcattttckinj: Germany on her
eastern front. It hns heen proposed that
Japan, either alone or in conjunction with
the Entente Allies, should invade Sihcria
and it hRS also been proposed that n
army of two hundred thousand Ameri
cans be landed at ArchaiiRcl to co-operatn
with a Russian army. Hut these xugges
tions ate not satisfactory. A Russian
expert has demanded in the London
Times that a jrroup of representatives of
the Entente Allies Rather at some con
venient point and agree on what is to be
done to prevent fJermany from controlling-
Russia after the war. There is no
agreement now.
Yet it ought not to be difficult to agree ,
on the fundamental principles which
should Ktiide all of the Entente Allies in
their treatment of the Russian question.
The attitude of us all should be that of
readiness to help when Russia is ready to
be helped.
She is not yet ready. She has had
cnoiifth of liKhtinu for the present. It
would be n waste of time nnd energy to
devise plans based on the assumption
that the Russians can be induced in the
near future to take up arms against
GciTnany. The men in control of the
Government would rt.ient any armed
intervention. They would be supported
by skillful German propagandists who
would charge that the "imperialists"
were trying to displace the "represent
atives of the people" and restore the
imperialist party to power. The fact
that the charge would lie ridiculous
would not prevent it from being believed.
The fact that the real liberals of Russia
are 'powerless at the present time does
not make the task easier. They cannot
be induced to assume control through any
outside pressure.
It may be discouraging to admit it, but
Russia must endure her own troubles
until the renl Russians awake to their
duties and responsibilities. She must
solve her own problems in her own way.
And we must wait with such patience as
we may the awakening of the people.
But in spite of appearances to the con
trary, Germany is playing our game.
Her methods will frustrate themselves,
for they are based on the theory of
tyranny njrninst which the Russians
rebelled when they deposed the Roman
offs. The German soldiers and (ho Gor
man civil officials are sowing the seeds
of revolt wherever they go. The farmers
in the Ukraine arc concealing their grain
and the German soldiers dare not go
about that district alone. They have to
travel in groups in order to be prepared
to resist attack. They have slaughtered
innocent women and children as they did
in Belgium. They have levied ransom on
cities and have conducted themselves in a
manner to arouse tho bitterest hostility
among the people.
Now, this sort of thing caiir.ot be
toleiated long. We do not mean that the
Entente Allies cannot tolerate it. They
can do nothing to prevent it, for they are
fully occupied on the western front. But
the real Russia will assert, herself. Then
she may be in a mood to ask for help.
When the request comes we must be
ready to respond. Political advice may
be sought. We in America can give that
without arousing any suspicion of selfish
interests. We have solved some of the
problems of democracy and the lesson of
our experience would be valuable to
RuGsia. Food and money may be asked
or. We have both and can spare them.
Men to rchabiliate their tailroads and
their industries may be needed. Ameri
cans arc expeit in industry' nnd in rail
road building.
America is in a position to decide what
shall be done for Russia and when it is to
be done. The Entente Allies are begin
ning to understand our relation to the
situation. It was our unwillingness to
indorse the project for a Japanese inva
sion of Siberia that checked that wild
project. And if we mistake not, it will
be the unwillingness of President Wilson
to consent to any forcible intervention
in European Russia that will prevent
such a stupendous blunder.
We are the friends of democracy and
, we must imprcss upon an the Russians
that we are ready to work with them in
any plan which will perfect their system
of popular government and oust selfish
foreign influence from control in their
affairs. But the invitation to help must
come from those who want to be helped.
The death of Charles W. Fairbanks
leaves only two former Vice Presidents alle.
They are Theodore Roosevelt and I.el P.
Morton. The latter served with Denjamln
Harrison from 1880 to I8D3 and Is now
ninety-four cars old. Hobart and Sherman
died 'several years ago.
OH, THE POOR FISHERMAN
HISUB and there yoti still can find an
occaslonul solitary who lias remained
ImmUne and aloof from all the ahpeks of
war, protected and wrapped around In a
bomb-proof, t philosophic calm through
which no concern or anxiety can penetrate.
Mr. Bryan Is repi'eie'mutlye of the type.
He prefers to think n'JDly ant' trust to
heaven. Some of the correspondents at the
frpn't teem a's far from war- a3 he. But
,the man "who lias teemed safest from a
'roybletfrnlnd qr a disturbed jou'tlne thus
tartlnttlio great gam'fe M the amateur lldi
ermatrwho usually goes .qut,r"m 'he Jer
sey .coast to. flirt with channel bass .and sua
turtle and to revel deep In peace and
solitude.
.JnTihe
of h.'a boat he usuajly has a
,'4,w5t newspapers, wrahat
i-twAi 4-eji1
JW.l
the palate. He carries no passenger. Once
far out he anchors and becomes a king of
the world.
To approach, such a ilshcrman, even po
litely, or to venture within the charmed
circle of his horizon is to he received Willi
frank agitation and outspoken resentment.
Why tUlicrmcn are tlniR no ono knows.
They like stillness and solitude, They
never cat the flsh they catch. It Is tho
grating noise and the harsh contacts of tho
land that they dislike. And surely they
had reason to feel safe enough and Insured
against intrusion.
It Is Impossible to Imagine the tumult In
the minds of any hardened 'fisherman who
hns seen German xubmartnes cuino along
to explode bombs' nnd scare away nil the
bass and the sea turtles first essentials of
his odd routine. The fisherman's boat rep
resents an almost holy privacy. Now It
has been violated.
The moral Is plain for thr larger world
on land.
No man's rights ate sale, no privilege
uecure in these days. liven a fisherman's
philosophy--the remotest and nios.t ab
stract of all -has been touched by war nnd
Jolted back to earth nt last.
or fan tha Tho news th'il the
Amerlrana Americans are lighting
cautiol he Kept from
the Cierinaiis much longer.
The "Yanks" are prov
Tell the VI or til: !ng that the value nf
op'n warfsre Is fully
equal to tlisl of open diplomacy.
So tlie Kiilei- picked
violets on the baltl
fleld? Well. well!
Illlt He
Won't (let Them!
Now uc Unoiv ulut
kind of flowers he uoulil like on hln grave.
"Will thou," steamed
Written al Oeneral Humidity.
' '. l. 'Hon ever strongly
built 7"
The collar 1-harn of Iti rigidity
Supinely ninsnerl "I will!"
Mere's hoping that I'ncle Sam's mos
quito Meet mIH completely triumph over nn
submarine cltrnnHla.
.Mi'ltre Uoniilwell Is finding it m.)re illdb
t-iilt In get it I'smpalgn ccnimitUe chairman
frleiiillv to him than to win the nomination.
The Strftr Democracy does not appear to be
anxious to b" known as the party of the wets.
SINCE YOU INSIST
Biipinrst of Pondering
WHO bade Hie planets veer mid spin,
And loop their vnst festoons?
Who tipped Hie earth nnd let her roll
1'nerrlnc grooves of air?
Who ruled the awful passages
of suns anil eaitlil ami innnns,
And taught them how to pa&s and turn
Willi n billion miles to spare?
IHIU balanced all these flying weights
' ' Willi poie and counterpoise?
Who tosned these whlmsic tricks In space
I.Ike marbles and tin cars?
And will he, ueaiy nf his pln.v .
Fatigued bj many toys,
Ulscard IiIh complex trinket box
And shut Its lid of stars?
A Confession
One of Hie things that bother minor
poets Is the scarcity of rhymes for "stars."
Greeting In the Erlip$e
Welcome to our humldst!
Have j on noticed the diagonal track of
the ecllpve across the brawny chest of this
continent? Kvidently the heavenly bodies
have lndorf-ed the Sam Browne belt.
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As far as the total eclipse is concerned,
however. Philadelphia falls iu an area of
low visibility.
I -ike home humorists, though we say it
as don't like to. who often exhibit very low
risibility.
The Congressional llecord of June 4 de
votes twenty pages lo a debate In the
House on the protection of migratory birds.
But how nbout the protection of migra
tory hospital ships?
Defck Mottoes
I l.ave adopted the following little verse
for my desk motto. Can any one tell nm
who its author Is?
"If the day looks kinder gloomy
And your chances kinder slim,
If the situation's puzzlln'
An' tho prospects awful grim,
An perplexities keep pressln'
Till all hope Is nriy gone.
Just bristle up aitgrlt your teeth
An' keep on keepln' on."
SA1.TBD i'ISANUTS.
Any whale that does a tall spin off the
Delaware Breakwater these days Is likely
to find itselfspermlos verhenkt, or at least
suspected as a mother ship for shrew
boats.
How often, cries the Young Lady Across
the Way. has that town Croix de Guerre
been won?
' That strange illness thatseems to have
"spread from Spain to Denmark is very
common In neutral countries. It Is simply
.an aggravated case, of intense weariness
of the Kaiser and his antics.
T.B. cries that there are severMiyphens
in his blood. Well, there are seven colors
In the rainbow.
"
Doctor Dernburg says Germany must be
able to supply the world with raw ma
terials after the war. But we have had
quite enough of Prusslanlsm, which is the
rawest product she has to offer.
T'orto Itlco wreaks her wrath.
The unhappy Chinese! Carrying on a
civil war of their own and not even a
motion-picture operator over there to
record it.
Two Noble Kinsmen
Two men have been found in London
who bpent two years In a hall bedroom to
avoid military tervice. Sounds to us like
Percy and Fertile.
ICven If the Kaiser's press bureau won't
tell the. Germans that American troops are
In France, It seems that the marines will
force the Information upon them.
What the marines have won Is not only
a net gain, but a bayonet, gain,
,
In -- word, the jsiu-1i( fld tlas Mame ,
"''J-MtiM-JtiF'1 '
What's the Matter With
a, Public Libraries
I AM about to attack one of the most cher
ished of all our American Institutions,
onS upon which, trejreely less than upon our
public schools, orators Jiave frequently In
formed me the greatness of the nation rcslK.
If this be true, all I can say I?, It's remark
able what an Imposing edifice oU can erect
upon a ftclile foundation. Our public school
s.vstc,tn Is bad enough, being based, as we.
know, on a Prussian system designed 'Iu
keep 00 per cent of the population In sub
jection, anil we have achieved democratic
grentnes) rather In spite of It But our pub
lic libraries !
OF CUI'ltSIS, I'm not speaking of the pub
lic libraries In our large cities. Juat as
In our cities the school system has long ago
realized Its deficiencies and net about finding
a remedy, rn In such places the public library
In very often library In the true r.ent!C, a
place where all classes go for whatever In
formation Is available In printed form. I
presume the public library and museum of
Newark, under the guidance of that foreword
looking man. John Cotton Dana, Is one of the.
most useful Institutions. In the. United Sta'erf.'
Mr. Dana long ago cured himself of the
notion that a library Is a place where noth
ing belongs which Isn't bound between mvera
and where "rullurp" li hlimc sought in tl.n
guise of fiction and poetry.
I AM s
in iu
AM speaking rather of the public library
ral parts, where It Is housed, .per
haps, In a room In the "town hall," admin
islertd by a board of truatccn ohoicn from
th Wliagn worthier, and presldi d ovvr ly
whatever village spinster most needs the.
monej, After a considerable acquaintance
with such libraries I am convinced that the
money annually spent upon them Is virtually
wasted nnd would do far more good both In
the spiritual and material rlchen of the com
munity If it were applied to bettering the
rural highway.
LKT me explain this shocking statement.
I In the town where I live we have roads
that are almost Impassable from mid-March
lo mid-April and pretty bad for a month
longer and for a month In the fall. For nt
least three month out of the twelve we lose
time, money, patience, getting our produce
to market, etc., not to mention the wear and
tear on motors and trams and the discourag
ing iffect on the ung people, who go to the
cltlen as soon as they ran. We also have n
public library whiHi wi- support lo the luim
of $00 a year, because. p beller It Is one
of the foundation "lonis of American democ
racy. NUW Id rath
under our I
:hcr sec some of those stones
mad. Two hundred dollars
a year would put good gravel quite a dis
tance on the worst places, nnd In a decade
would virtually make passable for twelve
months our swain;,' stretches. Spent on the
library, what does It mean? dt mean n
salary to a spinster who opens tho room
win re the library is housed on Saturday
afternooin (hIo Wednesday afternoons In
Hummer) and dispenses the few book on the
shelves to a few children nnd fiction-hungry
females. Probably les than $60 a yiar Is
left to buy books with, when expenses are
paid, so yoti can Imagine how pitifully inade
quate, any effnit to keep up to datu Is, even
In the tingle field of fiction. As n, reference
library the. collection Is quite worthless on
any line, find It simply exists, as a thousand
oilier Hiiiall-tottn libraries cxlpl. to provide a
few children nnd women with fiction. To say
that such an institution Is a foundation rtonc
of American greatness Is a laugh.
I
LIVKD for sonic years in a town which
spent over J1000 a year on Its library.
Naturally, It had more books and was open
every day. Hut when I came to Investigate
the stacks I found It had no books on agri
culture, farm engineering and sanitation,
tree trimming, plant diseases, etc., later than
1 878 ! I found it had no bonk on modern
economics, sociology, phllosoph). I found
that If a school teacher had wished to stage
a play she could have found neither any
plays nor lists o plays nor books to tell her
how to stage them. Hut we were pure oh,
yes, we were pure! The spinster, who was
secretary of the library board, carried a copy
of "Pain" lo the fireplace, grasped firmly In
the tongs, and thiew out Cardinal Newman's
"Apologia pro Vita Sua" (one. of t1n great
religious books of the world), because New
man was a Itoman Catholic.
((TTTKLL, what arc you going to do about
W It? What can ou do, with only 200
year?"
is the common answer to any
criticism.
WE CKUTAINtiV ought to do something,
or eWc give up thin ridiculous bluff about
our wonderful public libraries. The first
thing to do, ungallanl as It sounds to say so,
1 to lire out the spinsters and administer
the libraries by volunteers, If necessary, but
by people with a vision, Tho second thing
we have got to do is to get over the Idea
that a public llprary, especially a small one,
Is a collection of books fpr the restricted
dhtseinlnutlon of "culture" (I, c, fiction). It
Ih a collection of (itormaffoti for the educa
tion and assistance of all clashes.
TO THIS end the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture especially and other
national and Slate departments should equip
every public llbrar.e with Its useful bulletins
and pamphletd. Any farmer wishing to know
a spray formula for a new potato disease or
how to build a concrete manure tank should
know that he could get the latest Informa
tion nt his local library. Tho latest aids for
tearhers in all lines should be there. The
women should go there for Information about
canning and conservation. Useful articles on
such subjects should be clipped as read and
put on a bulletin board or iu scrapbooks. At
least on imigHr.lne of International politics,
to explain Europe and America, should be on
file. The library should be constantly ad
vertised to the vlllagn until its true function .
was realized and Its resources made use of.
It should be In close and constant co-operation
with the public school.
TO ME
foundly
there has beep something pro-
ndly dlslieai telling during these past
three trying years In the almost complete
Ignoring of the small-town public library
(at least, In my part of the world) by all
the forces seeking to get essential Informa
tion to the public. There has been a perfect
flood of "newspaper publicity" (which goes
to make the next day's fire) : there have
been posters and pamphlets and bulletins.
But nowhere are they collected, sifted, kept
available for reference. They are lost In the
shuffle, while the spinster librarian goes
serenely on each Saturday afternoon putting
ber little rubber stamp on the slip Inside tho
back csver of "Pollyanna" and similar stuff.
I don't believe one of our active 'farmers
has entered our library In a decade, unless
It was to get a "atory book" for his wife.
1 don't believe it lias given any assistance
to a teacher, a dramatic club, a boy trying
to educate himself for college, to a single
person really seeking a public library for the
purposes to which a library ought to be
dedicated. And I don't believe this needs to
he the case, even If we have but 1200 a year
to spend (which, by the way, would be made
J500 If th voters once found that the li
brary could be a necessity Instead of an
idle luxury). A proper spirit and vision iu
the librarian, a proper co-operation by the
State and Federal bureaus and a more ex
tensive co-operation by the city libraries
could easily woik a revolution. And I have
an idea that the United States Departments
of Agriculture and Education are tho places
where ther movement ought to start. Perhaps I
It has started Dut u nasn t got to my neck
of the woods yet. W, i. E.
We suppose the next
Wllhelm von thing the Kalaer will
hehtatearr ilo, In Ills efforts to
convince the vrorleL
,
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kespeare was' of. a Teutoniu turn e
YOU CAN
PHILADELPHIA AN
ARTISTS PARADISE
By Charles Wharton Stork
PHILADELPHIA will never be an nr
tlstlc center. Grunted, but why worry?
For Hint very reason It Is an Ideal homo
for the painter and the writer.
UIl home public has not, perhaps, con
sidered this matter, for reasons which
will shortly appear. Because Philadelphia
I not nn artistic center It is assumed that
there arc no Philadelphia artists. This
brings us to our apparent paradox, viz,
that the very reason this city is an Ideal
place for artists In that the city as a whole
knows little about artists and cares less.
That is just what the good artist needs
to be let alone.
THE facts are the same in all profes
sions that require solitude and contem
plation. In a city that Is mentally asleep
there is not enough nolso of thinking to
disturb the original genius. Consequently
it was here that Frederick W. Taylor, un
known to lils fellow townsmen, worked out
his system of scientific management which
brought experts from all parts of the world
to visit him. tt was here that John G.
Johnson argued cases and collected pic
tures until the Now York leaders of busi
ness who were looking for the greatest
lawyer In the United States came over and
engaged him to plead before tho Supreme
Court. Philadelphia seems indifferent about
keeping his art treasures In the city, hut
European connoisseurs declare It to be the
finest private collection of paintings In the
world.
WITH scholars it is the bame. The late
Doctor Furness here found the seclu
sion he needed for his monumental edition
of Shakespeare, Henry C. Lea made him
self such an authority on Spanish history
that Lord Acton told hlpi there was vir
tually no second In his field. It is true
that In their later years these two men
became fairly well known in their native
place, but this was nftcr they had become
sufficiently set In their ways to be above
any consideration of temporary fame. Pro
fessor McMaster, at the completion of his
invaluable "History of the American Peo
ple." Is In a similar position. Prof, F. B.
Gummere, of Haverford College, still con
tinues to receive from abroad most of Ills
recognition as a leading authority tin pop
ular poetry.
EXAMPLES such as these have been
often noted before. The point to be
made here is that Philadelphia's Indiffer
ence, instead of being a drawback, Is a tre
mendous advantage to a really good man.
It Is only the never-will-be tyn that wants
to be patted on the hack all the time.
Think of the number of weaklings whom
our cold-shpuldcr cure ihtis eliminated and
turned Into respectable druggists or schooj
teachers! Meanwhile the strong? man has
had few temptations to cheapen his work
during the formative period of his career.
CONTUAST conditions In Xew York. The
promising youngster Is promptly
snapped up by a newspaper, magazine,
publishing Arm, art dealer or theatrical
company. Whatever hi, gift, he Is In
duced tu "play it down" to Fifth avenue
and Btoadway." Thus his artistic con.
kcience.la Mated. Cheap .huJ!J','li,!
rfSRrfWJr"wAW
DO THIS IN YOUR SPARE
teuches the man to repeat himself, conse
quently ho-, never changes and never de
velops. ThS , Is what" has cuscOmj Eng
lish dramatic critic to say, "Every year I
meet with a new crop of promising writers
and find that last year's men 'have dropped
out." . .
BUT, .'It may 'be argued, if solitude is
good, why not isolation? To thls( vve
answer that moderation is the best rule in
all thlngH. The Middle West produces
many good men, but they are a bit too far
away from the center of tilings. They are
lacking In necessary training; they are too
far from New York and from Europe to
get the cultuie anr". vitalizatiop which every
one needs from time to time. Provincialism
Is thelf strength and their limitation. Tho
same tiling is true In another way of
Boston. Boston hinders her geniuses by
coddling and conventionalizing them. Chi
cago has all the drawbacks and few of tho
advantages of a metropolis.
mo RETLMt.V to our premises then. Phlia---
delphia Is the Ideal city of'Amcrica for
artistic, Ncietitlflc nnd scholarly : develop
ment. And the proof Is the number of men
we have nt the top in any gl;en pursuit.
There is a much larger percentage of Phll
ndelphlans iu "Who's Who" than there is
of New Yorkers, or even of the inhabitants
of Boston and Cambridge combined. Fur
thermore, many eminent Phlladelphlans
who made themselves here have moved
away to enjoy their success.
IOOK at a few of the fields we have not
i noted. In tho hovel wo have Owen
Wlstcr, whose "Virginian" has not been
approached by any living American. Of
the younger men, there. Is Joseph Her
geshelmcr, regarded by many-critics as the
coming master in artistic fiction, In the
drama wo have .lohn Luther Long nnd
Edward Carpenter. Among painters we
have Joseph Pennell, Maxtleld Parrish, A'lo
let Oakley. Daniel Gather and Joseph Pear
son, all strongly distinctive. In illustration
there are Walter Tuylor. (le.orge Harding,
Thornton Oakley, Jessie Wlllcox Smith and
Anna Wlielan Betts. Among the yohnger
poets are M. Struthers Burt, William Laird,
Phoebe Hoffman and Dorothy Anderson;
of these, perhaps only the first-named Is
widely known as yet, but the others are
being watched by those whose opinion
counts. Even among free-verse writers we
njay count "H. D.," Ezra Pound nnd Donald
Evans, as Phlladelphlans In their early
training. In music there arc Celeste Heck
schcr and Camllle.eckwer, composers;
David Bispham, Allan Hinckley, Nicholas
Douty and Horatio Connell, singers, and
Frank Glttelson and Sascha Jacoblnoff,
violinists. This does pot count Mr, Sto
kovvakl aud tho many talented members of
the Philadelphia Orchestra, which Is n6vv
so valued a part of our civic-artistic life,
1ET tho.Phlladelphlan, then, be of good
J courage. The longest way around will
be the shortest way home to fame In his
native city. When New York and London
dlscovcrdiim he can afford to wait for local
appreciation, He lives In it city with all
the opportunities that culture can offer
and he is within easy reach of the great
market. New York. Ho has lovely nature
all about him, friends aa many as he. can
do justice to and h community that will
leave him alone. With these ad vintages if
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WW'iJftV'
MOMENTS
1.
I A BROAD ST. SUNSET '
1 e ,-J
WHAT do you. .see, friend, as you go, your
rounds of the city? What besides peo
ple and buildings, soldiers and army,, trucks,
straw hats and trolley earn? What .clsejlo
you see? ,;
OUB city any big city Is nlivo wftlj'tlie
most wonderful sights. They may bc's.een
at daybreak, at high, noon, at sunset, at, dark
est midnight. I.ook nbout you as yqugo
your way and behold theso wonders thai are
all around you. Be your own Whlstler'ns'yOu
ride or walk over the Schuylkill nt nlglu ana
look down through the grim network pf gir
der and trcstlo to tho river below. Be your
own Maxtleld Parrlnh' as you look up-frcmi
your ofllco window to the great banks of ,
fleecy white clouds, piled high agahiHl the
brilliant blue of tbn sky. Be your.ovvn
Joseph Pennell as your Wlljovv Grove train
whisks you along past the glaro of the great
Mldvale furnaces.
These marvelous pictures are all to be had
for the looking; and more real, more vivid
than ever the pen or brush of a Whistler, a
Parrish or a Pennell could portray them
For instance , r
MAYBE you saw that niother-of-peaV;
sunset the other evening from the wa'i't
Ing platform of the tralnshed at Itroad
Street Station, It came at that period which
might best be designated as the lull between,
the "supper rush" and the "dash-- for -the
movies." . , v'
There have been few hours of quiet in
and around Broad Street Station of latebut
there was such a time, this evening. The'-fewr
peole who were -about- seemed to .come and
go with the lightest, softest step, Noteven
tho usual nolso from the street; not la. sound
from a'pufftnr cnglno or a moving train.
.i v t
I STOPPED before the "official clock.'set
my watch and turned casually around.
There, in the west, at the far end of the'
great, black tralnshed, I beheld a canvas
a picture far more wonderful, far lovelier
than anything I have ever Been in art gallery,
studio or book,
A little while before tho great arched' out-'
look must have been flooded with the golden '
glare of the setting sun. But that was gone
now. and In Its place 1 saw a verltablo mother-of-pearl
sky broad, .soft stretches of "the
most delicate shades and, tints of plnk."blie
and cream, blending into and out of one1
another with almost Inconceivable variation.
And against this picture of infinite .beauty
nnd purest coloring, as though to break It
into a score of pictures and frame each one
in ebony, crlsa-crossed the black Jron glrdira
that support the roof of the train shecj. ,.
BUT even as 1 looked the plcturV faded.
Apd as I turned to go the noises e the
night came up to me from the treot-.bk-W,
and I knew that tho crowd wan gatharlng.on
Market street and that the soldier and, Ills
girl had about decided that. Judging from
the pictures "out front," It -was a prcttyrood
film and they guessed they'd 'go la.' . j
B. A. Mi ,
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What Do You Know?
QUIA .. . ' is
I. What a tha erlsln of the tanks, a. W
wcuisin? ''Jl
S. Who Mme, da Ktael? . , rV . ,-Hfe
3. What wua Hie nrat capital ef the ValUSS
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4, ume tna uuinor oi --iiiii'i.rM.
B. What l the capital af MalnaT
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u. mo la.i.enerai rrjiu" e.. .'.ip. . v
7. What la contelvuluaT " ... . A-Jt
8. Who la raatmaiter Central af the VMU4'
MaleaT , fV&
9. What wera the Wara of tha" RstaaT ' ,
10. When the Norman Conqoeat? '"." i
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Answer to Yesterdsy'e Quir ' ,
1, Chateau-Thlerrr It an Important rrsnthHS
..IIh,.J ian An ih. Mnrn. V,
S. Ouke Alhrerht "of Wurtemburs.-flarman Jtjta.
rral enraard In tho Marne batata
3. Hartford la the rapltnl of Connecticut. ". i '
4. "Hamlet." a traced by Hhakeapeare, . J
3. Contain Wlllimn Ktdd, a Hfoteh pirate," 4'
ln,,.rf In 1701. '.' . S
6, The" areiit mountain atem of eaalerA Nerth"
America" la tha Appalachian, ' .-'.ts
7. Joieiihu IliiuleU la Htcretarr of tha Natr.J)'
x. "A inii uinl l a pnnr "; ief.-
KHinror' ) iuimiij- nrriova i raman.
An earlier trraien la found l' IWil
wrltlnta. "A paar aated la a purtwSV
a. Ifttfiiftalu. a .aorlac bloamlaa' .-wai
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