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A WARD DISCREDITED
SUC1J information as lias been iriv en out.
so far by the army authorities in rela
tion fo the suspension of the loral draft
board which functioned in the I'lfth Ward
does not Involve charges acainst the mem
bers of the board. It is broadly intii. ated
that the factional contention" of politician
In that delectable region make the fair op
eration of a draft almost impossible. There
fore, another bOArd will take up the work
pending-the official probe-into the exMlnp
records.
In other words, the spoils war between
the Carey-Deutsch factions has been ade
quate to- suspend the processes of civil
government and motives, of patriotism In
the Fifth Ward. The affairs of a Bans
have loomed larger in that neighborhood
thaiithe interests of the Government.
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People on the Atlantic coast need not he
alarmed, said Secretary Daniels at Atlantic
City.,, Obviously he had not seen the new
bathing sulta
TRY AGAIN
THE attempt to get a street car line
through Fifty-sixth street has failed
.because those who made It did not bo
about lt in the right way.
The. decision of the Superior Court to
Uhla effect brings the much-needed line one
atep nearer. The Court says that the
approval of Councils must tlrst bo obtained
and'then a franchise for the line must be
secured. Then somethlnc may be done.
Now" that the "way is pointed out the
residents of the district to .be served will
doubtless follow it.
There Is no- doubt of the need of street
car service through Fifty -sixth street.'
" There Is no crosstown line between Fifty
second and Sixtieth streets, a district
densely populated, that has been asking
better service for years. It should have it.
Doctor Krusen has pleaded with mothers
,10 save the fables. Xow let us hope that he
will 'Issue a supplication to the contractors
who are responsible for the dirty streets.
OUR SECRETARY OF ETHICS
IN J
is
rX MANY of his aspects Secretary Daniels
a likable man. He has reason to be
riotously proud of the navy and of the
work it has done and is doing. He has
cheerfully passed on all the credit to the
men of the service, and that act alone is
adequate to inspire a belief that he himself
has1 worked hard and well and efficiently
at his Job.
As a philosopher In the field of popular
ethics the Secretary does not shine any
more brightly than does William .1. Bryan,
at whose feet he is presurrfed to have
studied In the early days of his puhlic life.
"The ideal dry tone," said he yesterday,
"would extepd from pole to pole." The
Ideal dry zone, as the Secretary of the
Navy conceives It, therefore would include
France and England, Italy and Spain,
Scandinavia and every foreign country
where the people have habits, opinions,
likes and dislikes and Inherited tendencies
of their own. France has fought rather
well and France Isn't bone-dry. Neither
Is England. America will be the dryest
"spot under the sun excepting the Sahara
If the Secretary has his way. This may
be well enough. It seems perilous to offer
Judgments. But It seems- a bit extrava
gant for one man to venture Inflicting his
personal view actively upon a world that
contains so many people as ours.
Liquor In some of its reactions is an
abomination and a disgrace. But we sus
pect that unaided public opinion will in
evitably dispose of the matter effectively
and that mass Judgment is better than the
Judgment of any one individual.
Airplanes broke all records by taking
mall from AVashlngtOn to New York in two
and a half hours. Those who write love
giijjrUtlers will consider that slow time.
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THE USELESS STATES
F1-BEGINS to look as if the next indus
try which Washington would declare
unnecessary would be the governments of
States and their subdivisions.
Word comes from the capital that the
National 'War Labor Board is preparing a
?$ decision flxlnc fifty cents an hnnr n h
.t.' ' minimum wa fm tfr mnlnvaa nf d &
1Xr t tlHIIMtf TaBv .('uj va Vf DttCVl'l.ai
This Is an Increase of about
..r," S3 per cent and will, of course, make an
.fj( Inrrpflst In mr tnrn mntrat't in lrnn
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&&. "" i;o,1,l,ttI,1C3 iiuiii uniinruiHi y.
mi? ui course, ine aireei-car men deserve
i-' . tn(tffc naif hilt Wa liai'A 3tlla KnnP)n
op . v- iitva. a 'h j mm wi w . ajas wuai ua
SaL' tl'rtnta HlluInAVk If l (A fV far nr alraat
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cars. The national uovernment. however.
(f, aeema to be setting ready to sweep them
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ail into me uiscara ana taiie over tneir
functions along- with the regulation of al-
,3 - 'mnt'l At-i-vthinar laft that hna hpan In h
V, hands of the States.
And this Is done In the name of the
r.tNUrtjr .which, fought a war in defense of
tiito "rights I No wonder sqme one said
' that.th historical Democratic party was
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If Mr. Garfield Cannot De It He Should
He Superseded by a Man Big
Enough for the Job
OAL consumers are beginning td won-
dcr how much longer the President
will stand for the bunifllnfr of Harry A.
Garfield, the national fuel administrator.
He is exercising despotic power over
the business of the country, deciding
what industries may have coal and what
may not. Not lontc ago he ordtred a
reduction of fiO pr tent in the amount of
coal supplied to the cement manufactur
ers. This was because they were selling
cement to builders- who were putting up
houses in cities where he thought there
were already houses enough. It was not
to conserve the supply of cement for
building houses for war workers in those
districts In which population is congested
by an influx of new people. It was merely
to put a stop to a business which Mr.
Garfield and his advisers) did not think
was necessary.
And now he has announced that unlets
the supply of c6al is increased the brew
ers may get no fuel after their present
stock is exhausted. This means that the
bre ers will have to shut up shop in less
than three months. Mr. Potter, the fuel
administrator for this State, acting on
the authority of Mr. Garfield's decision,
has already announced that he will seite
forthwith all coal that may be in transit
to the breweries in his district.
This action has been tsken in spite of
the refusal of Mr. Hoover to exercise the
authority he has to cut off the supply of
grain to the breweries on the ground that
if there were no beer the only alcoholic
stimulant left for those who used it would
be whisky. In the absence of national
prohibition he held that it was much bet
ter that beer with 2Vi per cent of alcohol
should be brewed than that men should
be able to get nothing but whisky with
40 per cent. The conservation of grain
was secondary, in his opinion, to the
moral and physical dangers of putting
the drinkers of the country on a whisky
diet. And of course he wap right.
Congress has not yet ordered prohibi
tion as a war measure. Mr. Garfield has
anticipated its action and he has over
ruled the very sound decision of Mr.
Hoover.
If Mr. Garfield can reduce the coal sup
plied to the cement manufacturers by
one-ha'f and cut off entirely the coal sup
ply of the brewers he can do as he pleases
with every industry. He can stop the
manufacture' of pianos, he can force
every newspaper to suspend publication.
He can drive out of business every pro
ducer of breakfast cereals save one, or he
can even stop the whole breakfast cereal
business. He can close every woolen mill
except those making the kind of cloth
which he thinks is necessary.
And wc have no guarantee that he will
not do any or all of these things in order
to save coal.
Of course, fuel must not be wasted, but
the crying need is the production of
enough to meet the normal demands of
business in these abnormal times. Mr.
Garfield seems to be devoting more at
tention to saving coal than to producing
it. He does not need to be told that the
coal is in the mines waiting to be taken
out. He ought to know that more than
30.000 miners have been taken from the
anthracite regions and put in the army
when they are needed in the mines. He
ought to have profited by the experience
of England, which had to send to Francs
and comb the miners out of its armies
there in the early days of the war who
had been allowed to enlist before any one
had waked up to the necessity of keeping
the mines ljinning for the needs of the
country.
The national fuel administrator has
demonstrated his incapacity and incom
petence from the first months of his ap
pointment. He muddled the coal situa
tion last winter by cutting down the
prices, which cut down the production.
The veriest tyro in economics could have
told him that the way to. increase pro
duction is to increase the prices. This
year he is issuing arbitrary orders cut
ting off the supply from men engaged in
legitimate business and doing nothing to
.put the drafted miners back in the mines.
Unless a man, big enough for the job is
put in his place in the near future the
coal famine next winter will be worse
than last winter. The summer is pass
ing and the number of days in which
coal can be taken from the mines with
greatest ease is growing less and Wash
ington is making the future uncertainfor
every business man in the country by its
orders restricting the use of coal.
We plead for action which will produce
coal, not for the benefit of the brewers or
the cement manufacturers, but for every
legitimate business and for every house
holder in Pennsylvania, New York and
New Jersey, where 'nearly 70 per cent of
the production of the anthracite mines
is consumed.
Now that exports to Mexico are to be
resumed one. might wish that common sense
could be shipped in barrels.
KERENSKY IN AMERICA
KEREN3KV, who led and lost the first'
Russian revolution, has affronted most
of Europe by the nature of his utterances
In Paris. Those who were accustomed to
think of him as a nicely balanced liberal
who yet might lead the new democracy of
Russia have felt thalr delusions slipping
away. Kerensky was ostentatiously scorn'
ful in Paris of every one who wasn't a
Red, of every pne who manifested any
signs of prosperity and of every one who
couldn't extend -to him a hand hardened by
elemental, toll.
The resentment felt by the French aften
this extraordinary exhibition of class con
sciousness has spread to England And it
is likely to spread to America. Tet John
Spargo. a .member of the Social Democratic
League of Amtlca, hut 'Just promised
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United States.
Kerensky, on the other hand, Is doing
his best In Europe to prove that he Isn't
social and that he Isn't a democrat. The
radicals even In chaotic Moscow are be
ginning to learn that "work" Is a broaflly
Inclusive term and that man can labor
otherwise than with his hands, and the
men who die most frequently of overwork
are not those whose palms are hardest.
The war la broadening the view of labor
and of capital altke. It la breaking down
traditional barriers between men of vari
ous minds and dispositions and calling.
And it Is odd to find men like Kerensky
doing their utmost to puthese barriers up
again.
The Allies continue to triumph ever Osr
msn filer. But the German Hare are still
beyond reach.
SKIP-STOPS AND THINGS
rpHE trarne theory which the P. ft. T.
designates unmusically at the 'tktp
step" provide for the passage of trolley
cars over a given number of blocks with
out the customary pauses at street corners.
It will be applied on Sunday.
Life for the sleepy drivers whose horses
know their way about the city, for speed
maniacs In automobiles and tor the avia
tors' who drive motortrucks is tone long
skip-stop. "What Is to happen when the
routes of the nonstop trolley and the non
stop automobile happen to cross is easily
Imaginable. If motor drivers end trolley
men are not swiftly revived from some of
their most conspicuous aberrations the
days to come should be golden ones for
the florists.
The Federal fuel administration evolved
the skip-stop theory as a coal-saver. Trol
ley cars require and use an excess of power
In getting under way. The street cars
ultimately will top at intervals of thret
or four squares In West Philadelphia. Pa
trons of the lines will be compelled to walk
to the "stations" In their neighborhoods.
It is believed that accidents will be avoided
by the rule under which the cars will
make their grudging stop as usual at every
important street corner east of the
Schuylkill.
But it is In West Philadelphia that the
skip-stop automobile and the. skip-stop
motortruck make the fastest time. There
is a type of dray driver who falls Into
coma after he gets started and permits
his horses to trot placidly at right angles
into the thickest currents of trafrie with
out a look to the right or the left. Every
one with a spark of charity in his hrea"t
can only hope and pray that the fates will
continue to look after him at West Phila
delphia crossings. JThe motor drivers who
make speedways of West Philadelphia
streets plainly have some high adventures
coming to them. The speed mania Isn't
unknown among trolley motormen espe
cially when they are behind time. Given
a straightaway of four blocks, they ought
to have a lot of fun. The occasion is one
in which every one who runs an automo
bile or drives a horse should set aside five
minutes for solemn meditation.
The Czsr must feel a little nettled at the
calmness with which the world takes the
weekly reports of his death.
HOW NOT TO SAVE BABIES
THEY are having a Baby-Saving Show
at Carlisle under the direction of the
women's committee of the Council of Na
tional Defense. Among the exhibits are
kitchens and sleeping rooms properly and
Improperly arranged for the protection of
the health of Infants.
I'nless there' is an exhibit of the filthy
streets in the poorer sections of this C'ty
to illustrate the proper way not to save
babies the show is fatally defective.
There should also be an exhibit of men,
and machinery going through the motions
of cleaning the streets while the filth re
mained; which we gather from recen.t ex
planations of the local contractors ,' the
way they escape fines for neglect of outy.
Germany doesn't have to declare her war
alms. They are evident.
SO GRACIOUS OF HIM
BURLESON says that when the
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telegraph lines are put in his control
he will not censor newspaper dispatches.
Why did he not say that he would per
mit the President to appoint ambassadors
without consulting the Serfate or empower
the Senate to originate revenue bills?
Some rights are guaranteed tjy the Con
stitution which even a state of war cannot
abrogits.
Any trolley motorman
Fare Ready, IMeaae! who runs next Week on
a skip-stop schedule to
help the fuel administration will soon be
able to say that he is helping the war In
more ways than one. He is sure to be able
to boast that he has don his hit.
Though Wllhelm will
They're nurnlng It never be permitted to
eat that much-talked-of
dinner in Paris, it cannot be said' that the
Allies are not helping him along to a square
meal. They are cooking his goose to a turn.
The liquor builntts I
tottering. Would you
Vet
sty that It is lmltat
ing the manner of Its victims?
Has he
Wllhelm
yet?
been called
Hunzallern
Here Guea!
Don't boast. The others are fighting.
Enjoy your daylight. The dayi are get
ting shorter.
"Ha, ha !" the brewers will nay ta Phila
delphia. "You haven't enough water!"
And Immediately after Secretary Dan
iels had told Atlantic City not to worry he
launched Into a glad prediction of bant dry
ness in all parts of this earth, Washington
is developing a peculiar sort of Ironic humor.
Secretary 'Baker has decided to discon
tinue for th present Publishing the numbers
of American traeps transported to France.
This will be a sever blow to th Otrman
humarlsu, nho'hav been earning their car
rot for lomi tlm by contradicting Mr,
Baker's statements.
i The Muse in Arrat
"Man wanted, stalwart and 'squar and
valorous. Ages, eighteen to thirty-six."
U. S. Marinas fUcrultlng Pester.
Stalwart, valorous and square.
Eighteen to thlrty-tlx
Marines can use you over there
To end the Kaiser: trick.
ANN DANTE.
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We wa pei feeu just waote Jfr.
McFee pm into Jif.f inkpot. Everything
that flows from his pen sparkles and ftttis.
lie is a steamship engineer, now serving in
the British natil.
Mediterranean Meditation
By William McFee
Bmlneer Sub-l.lutenant, ft. N, Tt.
Part II
T WAS just getting into real touch With
New Orleans life when I quit (October,
11141. It is a most curious city. Every
body knocks It. Everybody hates It, or
says so. and t ijeve had to hammer th bar
and make the helNahell denliens rattle
among the ice to eonvlnce them that It le
a fine town and chock-full tt interesting
people, pieces -and things. Many a. half
hour I have spent in Springer's In ltoyal
treet polishing off a desen on the half
shell and a pint of the beet. Many a
Saterac cocktail has ceatie to me across
that wide temieted pavement between the
brass rail and the regal free-lunch tables
served hy an ebonite potentate In white
apron end snowy cap. Many a gin tt.t
have I suspirated in the Crescent, that
most convenient ,bar where you can dodge
a bore tn Canal street by going out at the
Bt. Charles etteet door. Many a dinner
have T dawdled over In Antolne's. at the
Bourbon, at Old Hickory on Carondelet arut
Conrad Kolb'e German Tavern. Poor old
Conrad had a bad time In September, 1H.
We used to gather at the Cosmopolitan In
Royal street and then march down to
Kolb'e, order a sehnltt apiece and start
"Rule Britannia."
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I MET a queer start there an English
man named Smith. Mr. Smith was a
witened little Jhrimp of a man you could
almost crush between thumb ana finger.
He appeared suddenly In my friend All
son's second-hand bookstore during the
Huerta-Villa-Carransa scrap. He was all
'in, had lost everything. Had been Govern
ment Interpreter at C, was engaged to 'a
large Mexican girl, whose photo lie carried
next his heart. He was as nervous as a
kitten. No money, no trade, nothing. We
did what we could. Got him a room and
got some cards printed for him as a teacher
Of Spanish, .lust as he had KOt about six
pupils he took sick and nearly died in the
hospital. When he came out he came
down to the ship as soon at she arrived,
to eee me. Wanted something to do. I
took him along to the port steward and
begged him to give a fellow countryman
a lift. Of course, there was nothing but
scullion's work to do and t believe he got
a job. 1 loaned him ten bucks to get
some dunnage and have never heard of
him since.
QMITH was an educated man. He had
been in Sotheby's or Quarltoh'k store in
London and knew old books. He had a
shrimp's body, a rat's face and a great bis
meaningless nose rising up like a rock.
He was all upset because he had to leave
Mexico. Liked the country and used lo
sigh for his Dulclnea. I shall never forget
how one evening as we sat In Koib's tavern
the band started the Mexican national an
them. Smith shot to his feet (his legs were
so short his elevation was only a few
Inches), flung out his arm and joined In in
Spanish. A big deep voice ho had. almost
as astonishing as if a kitten were to bark
like a St. Bernard. His thin nostrils flared,
his gingery moustache bristled, his Adam's
apple worked like a pulmotor, and all th
world wondered. He was "carried away."
When the music stopped he sank to his
seat and looked sadly into his beer where
three flies were in their death throes. He
was the only Englishman I've ever met
who didn't want to ko back to England by
the next boat. No, the peaceful land over
which the benign spirit of Villa was reign
ing beckoned him. He sighed for Car
ranza's caresses and the sweet music of
the magazine rifles in Main street. R. I. P.
0!
F COURSE you know Oeorge W.
Cable's New Orleans novels? I think
"The Orandlssimes" one of his best. But
of course he deals with New Orleans of the
vanished past. They tell me the old St.
Louis Hotel has tumbled down. The
grand staircase never did look good to me.
I loved Royal street. I lived in Lafayette
square for a while and acquired the neces
sary "boarding house reach." Very pleas
ant to stroll out under the trees In the
evening and watch the youngsters sweet
hearting on the steps. I used to spend my
evenings In Alison's store, talking with him
(an old newspaper man), a Kansas lawyer
and a Washington Secret Service guy,
Hec olim meminissc juvablt.
(7o be continued. In tomorrow's install,
ment Mr. ifcFec takes us back to the Jferf-tfcrrant-ail
and describes hou he difttfered
an annex 6 the Garden of Eden.)
A bride in Germany doesn't have to wait
two years to have a paper wedding. Even
the trousseaus are paper.
Ready for Another Reel?
The Social Reolutlenary Committee is
barricaded In the Municipal Theatre at
Moseow.-'-News item.
Are they rehearsing
Ends Lenlne"?
"All's Well That
We never can remember whether l Ii
the White Guards or the Red that are
pro-Bolshevik; but the sad thing seems to
he that neither of them Is markedly anti
German. SOCRATES,
Lecomotivea Waste Catl
Tt tht Killer of the Evening Public Ledger;
Sir I see In your paper a statement ad
vising curtailment ef the coal supply tar
emee buildings, for the use of elevators, etc.,
which Is a very good thing. While this un
deubttdly will effect a slight saving, there
wilt b a far larger waste of coal going en
with our locomotives.
It Is. perhaps, not generally known that
from m to 19 per cent more coal la
wasted by th use of the present rlgla
type of locomotive boiler than would be the
case If the flexible boiler construction wer
universally employed, with Its Increased
heating surface.
If the 12(0 engines picked out by the
Government, supposed to be standardized,
could be worked 300 days out of the SC5,
thtrt would b a wast of 111,000 tons ef
eeai. This, If saved, ousht to help eur offla
consumption. If rhtee fact can be brought
heme to the general publle it will He an
lavalusei aid te th fuel administration.
WM. ft. WOOD,
Consulting Englnaer,
Media, rc,, July iq..
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TRA VELS IN PHILADELPHIA
By Christopher Morlcy
SOUTH BROAD STREET
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NE of the singularly futile and freakish
llttl "literary" magazines that flourish
among desiccated women and men whoe
minds are not old enough for the draft
preudly raises the slogan that it "Makcp no
compromise with the public taste."
What 1 like nbout South flroad stlet is
that it daes make compromise with the public
taste, every possible compromise. In the
courts ef a three-mile stroll from the City
Hall down to the South Broad Street plaza
one may see almost every variety of human
Interest, ll Is as though South Broad street
had made up Its mind to see all phases of
life before leaping Into th arms of Uncle
Sam at League Island. It Is like the young
man's last night with the boys before enlist
ing. "B
ROAD and "Chestnut" 13 a Philadelphia
nhrase of creat sanctity. It Is uttered
in the same breath of awe as the New York
er's "Broadway and Forty-second," as though
the words summed up the very vibration and
pulse Of the town's most sacred life. And
yet why Is It that Broad street seems to m
more at case, more Itself, when It gels away
from th tremendous cliffs of vast hotels and
office mountains? Our Philadelphia Ftreets
do net care to b mere tunnels, like the.
canyon flumes of Manhattan. We na a
lust for tun and air.
86 when Broad street escapes from the
shadow Of Its own magnificence It runs Just
a little wild. In its fcun-awept airy aitretches
perhaps It abuses Its freedom a little. It
kicks up its heels and get into its old clothes.
Certainly as soon as on gets south of Lom
bard street one sees the sudden change. Even
th vast end dignified gray facade of the
Rldgway Library does not abash our highway
for more than a moment. It dashes on be
tween h vast clothing factory and the old
"Southern and Western Railroad Station."
It indulges luself In small clothing stores,
lemonade stands and all mannei- or tumble
down monkey business. It seems to say, "I
can leak Just like Spring Garden street, If 1
want to."
Perhaps It Is because William Penn on th
City Hall Is looking the other way that
South Broad street feels It can cut up with
out reserve.
THE Tlldgway Library ought to Be able to
daunt this frisking humor, for a more
solemn and repressive erection was never
planned. But what a fascinating place It is.
though 1 fear not much of South Broad street
ever takes the trouble to open those Iron
gates marked "Pull." Perhaps if they hart
been marked "Pitaft" the public would have
responded more eagerly. But who are w to
discuss th sUbtlttles of advertising psy
chology? AS 1 pass th long, heavily-pillared
frontage of the library I Beem to hear the
quiet, deliberate ticking of th clock In the
cool, gloomy reading ream , and smell the
faint, delicious, musty fragrance of the old
volumes. It is no small thrill to step Inside
and revel in th dim scholarly twilight of that
palace f alUncSi to per over the rare books
In the glass showcases and explore th
alcoves where the marvelous collection of
chess books is kept. Those alcoves look out
over a llttl playground at the back, where
the shady benches would be an Ideal place
far a solemn pip: but alts no men are ad
mitted. Th playground tt reserved for
women and children.
VERY different Is the old railroad station
across the way, now used as a freight
depot. Built In itfiZ. it was Philadelphia's
crack terminus fifty years ago, and as one
studies the crumbled browhstan front on
thinks of all the eager and excited feet that
must have passed into the great arched hall.
Now It is boarded Up in front, but inside
it Is crammed with box cars and vast case
stenciled "Hush Military Supplies V. S.
Army." Sixty freight cars can be loaded
there at one time. One thinks what emo
tion that glss.roofd shed mutt have tn
tn Civil War 'times. I suppose many a train
Of mtn in blu said good-by to mother and
sweetheart along that platforms. That
theught was. with m at 1 stood tntldt th
eld station, whtrn In spite of its buttle of
freight.!. filled with the haunting sadness of
.alUplaca that are old and decayed and echo-
;iiwitaBe;vb!pr f n'aso, Doeat.'
' &r, JffiiflBWwr at .1U W tT"
seem ahsiild lo sentimentalize oer a railway
nation less than seventy years old? Well,
I think n railway station Is our of the most
romantic places In the world. I like to
Imagine the olri locomotives with their flaring
Stacks. And as I crossed Washington avenue
(which runs just south of the. station) 1
retnemhered a hot day in June twenty iars
ago when 1 tugged a roll of steamer rtlgs
flown that Htreet from (lie trolley tit tlm
American Line pier. We were going on li'i.wd
the old Belgenlahd, hnund for Llveipool.
Somewhere along the hoi, grimy pavement n
barrel of molasses had .broken open; 1 recall
the stronK, sweet smell. Childhood does not
forget such adventures. .
BELOW Iho quartermaster depot of t,he
marine rorps nnd the Third Regiment
Armory. Broad street recalls its more sober
responsibilities Suddenly it realizes tin
fleeting Uncertainty of life; perhaps because
half (he houses hereabouts are the offices of
doctors and undertakers. It falls Into a quiet
residential humor nbout Wharton street and
lines itself with trees ahd shady awnings.
It seemed to me I could discern a breath of
Italy In the air. , At all Italian undertaker's
a large and sumptuous coffin was lying' on
the pavement without any embarrassment,
name-plate and all : presumably Waiting for
Its Silent pasenger. Among the womenfolk
white stockings nnd sparkling hlack eyes be
trayed the Lfttln blond. And I saw that a
church lettered Its notice board both lb Ital
ian and English. "Ingresso Llbero," it said,
which 1 take to mean "Everybody welcome '."
The ni sort of hospitality is evinced by
the doctors and dentists. They all hate little
notices on their doors: ."Walk In without
knocking." , ,
IN A quaint effort to retrieve Its brief es
capade Into shabby Bohemlanlsm Broad
street new goes In for an exaggerated mag
nlflcrtc. It has a taste for ornate metal
doorknobs and brass handles. (I cannot re
sist the thought' that these mannerisms were
caught from the undertakers.) Moving
picture theatres are donejn a kind of Span
ish stucco. Basement gratings are gilded :
parlor windows ate banded with strips of
colored glass. The brOWnstdh fronts are
gRbled and carved ; cornices are fret worked.
There are plaster statues In the little side
gardens. It Is th opposite swing of the
architect's pendulum from the " plain and
beautiful old houses of Pine and Spruce
streets, where Philadelphia expresses herself
In the lovely simplify of rich old brick and
white shutters.
APPARE
A galnlni
RENTLY Bioad street lost hope of
house fronts, for about Morris and Mifflin
streets It turns to education and philan
thropy. It tints Up large Hospitals, and the
vast gray building of the South Philadelphia
High School, where, reading backward
through the stained glass transom I dis
cerned the grave and very Bostonlah motto:
"Work Self-reliance culture Life"." But
more exhilarating to me was Ihe Southern
Home for Frlendjess Children at Morris
street. Its large playground Is surrounded
by a high stone wall. 1. could easily hate
scaled It and would have loved to smoke a
pip sitting up there to watch the children
playing Inside, (t could hear their laughter,
and caught a glimpse of a small boy as he
flew up In the air on a swing.) But I feared
penalties and embarrassments. Jt does not
do to love anything too well; people natur
ally are suspicious of you. And though my
heart was warm toward th Southerh Home,
I didn't quite Ilk to do what I yearned for.
That would have been -to ring the door hell
and ask to go In and play in the garden with
the others. Instead I snooped round the Walt
until 1 found a corner wltlr a glimpse lnt.o
the shady ground wherethe urchins vre
busy. One small boy was working In his
garden, others were burning up rubbish and
hammering at sopiethlng along the wall. I
stood there a long time, listening to th
warm, drowsy hum of the afternoon, and
almost wished 1 were a friendless child.
AFTER THIS excursion Into culture and
XTL charity. Broad .street "feels the need of
on more whlatU-wettlng before It wanders
off onto th vast 'expanse of sunny pollen
scented meadow that ttrttch toward tii dry
tones of League Itltnd. For this purpose
exists th cool htven of McBrlfle, on th
corner of Moyamentjrtg avenue. There I en
countered one of the best beakers of shandy.
gaff In rny experlenpe. And wonder pf I
wonders It atufti$ bought vfo.a nickel,.
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SUMMER DREAMS
IF I r
I wc
had my wish today
vould soon be far away
From the burden and the yoke,
From the smother and the smoke,
From the fever and the fret,
From the hurry and the sweat,
From the fiery furnace heat
Of the crowded city street.
Oh. I know a place full well
Where the gods of silence dwell,
Where contentment keeps her school
In the shadows deep and cool;
Where the water-spiders glide
O'er the softly flowing tide.
Where the robins stop to sing,
Where the swallow wets his wing, ;
Where the willows lean (Vnd look
In the mirror of the rJrook.
If I had my wish If I V
From tho town today could fly.
That's the place I'd like to see,
In that place I'd like to be.
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But I would not go alone
To that place so dearly known.
Nay, sweetheart, were you not there
Twould be neither sweet nor fair.
Dearer far the city street
Than the restfulest retreat,
If the beauty of Its skies
Were, not mirrored In your eyes;
If beside it,s water blu '
Long 1 looked but found not you! V
Denis A. McCarthy, In "Songs of Sun-"
rise." , '''
To German Music
. Th Germans seem to want to make two T
goose steps grow where only one Turkey- I
Trotsky grew before. New York Evening- 4.
Sun. .
serious v
Does the eight-Inch limit on the height oJtaUl
women's boots Include tne neeiv Boston 'i
Globe.
And That Amerlc Discovered War
.fter all, the Old World can thank It's vj
stars that it discovered America. Chicago t
News. '
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Tnvlte It i
tvii.n n man hasn't a thing on earth to t
worry him be goes and gets married. L0n? f
don Answers. V
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I What Do. You Knotv?
' QUIZ
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S Name 1h nuthr cf "The Cotltr'a Saturday I
SUM." '-J
S. Where It Csirto VpUnv? A
4 When d.e. s n,U "fMi.al "celr " 4 I
Mar '" i'"- - ..-....-.. -
R. WhHt 1 Jie mnltal ncf largest ritr ofMj
rritnalTania? ,
hi... i. Jmiiri. AitToeate (leneral of the Cnlted .
Motei armi? V,
;. What re the duties of a Judt Advoeate Gen- ),'
eralT ' .'
S. What la an orarle? lf
9. Where wa the Delphic Omelet --
10. Who aa Chlfotf,
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz V
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' 'Ylonal inlhemV nfrielallt ajnetloned. "Th J
Vtar-SiMinrled Hanner' ha n ileflnlt i-l
tistiia under armr and naw rrsulatlopa
anil tlirouail iwinner "-i"-, ,
fir. Nicholas .Miirritj- llulhvr Ii ureelilent !,,
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3 Mol lane lhrae ha .nine erlsln l"l"'- :
mate worda. "To nut J he klboah na" la t -nut
the llnl.lilnc touches on fined marble ;
K" thro-tlnit or blonlnt III dllat to brine ou . ;'
tlie drklt-n. ;
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"1 ahles In S-lan." jjl
a. General TUer IIIUj la tb ehlef represent., , , I
tire of the fulled tjte at the teraalUe jl
Supreme War Council. 'iS
6. "KliM," "I-efl" and "renter" in European .,
v .;:! .ia ...llu.niiUaia- nullaa . ia T
tin pf I.! ! t
rallfd from Ihrlr. riiktOlM of
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In rtrtftin varU or in i
fiKttmDir nan,
1. Mnrr llanktl th mother ef Abraham Ln
coin . i
a. Mint rriitfri Ihe belt Jt ft br. Ihe eiDlaeloai
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9, Th dreadnantbt ,!, la thelaraot aaArJ
' niat lorui txpe ( warahlp to af-j-vg
warfare. T i .' M -
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a, rollau ar ana of - lli ' f allow.'
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