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GENERALITIES THAT 1)0 NOT GLITTER
"a""" LITTERING generalities," Director
" "Wilson la repotted to have .ald In
answer to a vice report rnado by clergy
men to tho Police Department, "mean
nothing!"
Glittering generalities sometimes may
mean a great deal. To say that there la
la the present city administration a deep
rooted and frank cynicism that has en
couraged crime and degradation In many
ot ,.'ie police districts Is to utter a gen
erality that Inexorably reflects tho truth.
Vice reports and Investigations aren't
needed to prove that the police have. In
many Instances been corrupted by their
bosses, and that men whose duty It Is to
restrain criminal tendencies often en
courage them.
The details of tho latest "vlco report"
need not be considered. It Is not about
specific Instances that decent people of
the city nro concerned. It I.h about the
point of view maintained at City Hall In
relation to a basic principle of morals. If
Director Wilson and Superintendent Robin
on were competent ofllclals they would be
.ble to do more than ask for proofs of
charges that are general and sweeping.
They would be able to present In their
own behalf proof that such charges were
unfounded.
Doctor Delk's report may be set nsldo
altogether for tho moment, nnd for the
sake of argument. What everybody knows
Is that the condition complained of existed
before and that no effort was made to
remedy It until tho Federal Government
Interfered.
This Is a generality that doesn't glit
ter. And It tells tho story of tho present
police administration more completely than
any incidental report ran tell It.
fc Boy-nd is going Into business. Who'll
wager that he Isn't going to xell fake Jewelry.
SCHRECKLICHKEIT IN UERLIN
"1IVIL war In Germany, if it should con-
V tlnue for any length of time, or any
increaso In the power of the Red leadership
that brought machine-gun tire in Herlln
yesterday, must Inevitably tend further to
confuse the problems of tho Peace Con
ference. Dut the mounting radicalism In IZuropo
has one redeeming feature hidden under
the mass of Its accumulated errors and
cruelties. It is bringing t the Germans a
.whiff of their own frlKhtfulness.
"The P. It. T. Tries Now Car'' tried a
headline yesterday. But will the p. U. T.
rld m It?
aaaaaaaaaaaeM
WHEN THE CHEAT DIE
tlTHENEVER a truly great man dies the
l world Is wrenched around to a frefch
realization of the futility of hasty Judg
Bients. No man Is perfect. None can bo
altogether blameless. Yet It Is a common
habit of peoples everywhere to demand of
tlyjso whom they exalt something of tho
m infallibility reserved for demigods and to
!S unloose upon every favorite tempests of
f i derision In the moments of his failure.
f'u Few of us stop to realize that It Is very
. "8y to stumblo on the way to the height
auso that road Is rocky and uneven and
rlloua with obstacles unknown to those.
''i 4ho live In tho peace and comfort of the
Y lowlands.
uf Roosevelt had to die beforo all his own
' peoplo realized how great ho was. It
might be well to remember this now when
l a tempcrato view nnd Just opinions aro
I' among the greatest needs of tho hour.
Here's hoping that peace will win her
vary proudest baize wnen tho delegates actu
ally draw their chairs up to the green table.
v THE T.0IV'
TT WASN'T dlftlcult to find nn answer for
that man-o'-war'sman who leaned
Mralmrt pur desk the other day and de
manded gloomily to know why more nice
and appreciative" things aren't being said
about the seafarers of this war and why all
the glad uproar appears to rango around
5.- ine returning doughboys.
' jo v. vi w.u mailer u UUVIOUS. Ipro
f rose Isn't enough to tell of tho wonders
"I terrors that the sea has known in
ie last few years. And therefore only
: or epics can ever tell adequately of
4 appalling world In which tho gob lived
and tolled and fought and had his being.
The sailor of the navy had ono advan
tage over the man In the trenches. No
cootie could ever enter his world. It
Wasn't permitted. And, In any event, it
would have died Instantly of fright. In
all other mpects tho sailor on tho sea
V 6 the tenser, tho wilder nnd, In many
W tho more perilous Jlfe. When he
laid him down to rest he ki.ew that thun
ders and lightnings suftlclent to shako a
continent were folded up and tucked awuy
Within a few Inches of his ear nnu that
they might bo unloosed at any Instant by
-a rtirewd thrust of an enemy In the dark.
Mia bellowing tempests of the rtorth Sea
m:
eang his cradle song and rocked him to
sleep. Day nnd night ho rode tho troubled
seas on a floating volcano. He was flayed
by winter winds and ho could never know
whether ho was to llvo for tlvo minutes
or n hundred years.
Night and darkness, which bring peace
and rest to other men, brought to your
satlorman a crowd of now concerns and
tho need for greater strain nnd alertness.
He lived In n world whero there was no
rest, ready for battles In which there could
bo no quarter, nnd had tho feeling always
that sudden death was everywhere on
port nnd starboard, under tho water and In
tho skies above, nnd under the table at
which ho ate his dinner.
Cheers and speeches, well done, may
servo to glorify tho soldier of the land.
For tho "gob" there must bo poets und
bands.
AUSPICIOUS IMPORT OF
WILSON'S .ITALIAN TRIP
Indirntlons That It Will Help to Clarify
the Ttcktisli Adriatic Problems Are
Already Manifested
INDICATIONS arc not wanting that
President Wilson's visit to Italy will
prove one of the most fruitful chapters
of his official European travels.
Refrardinp French nnd British peace
complexities, American opinion is forti
fied with familinr salient facts. Sea
rights, ns Britannia views them, are a
theme with which our statesmanship has
been intimately concerned for more than
a century. Both nations have been
Kuilty of inconsistencies, shifted their
positions and altered their interpreta
tions of the question, but there has sel
dom been a time when the best public
opinion in both countries was recipro
cally unintelligible.
French aims since 1870 have been
equally clear. The simplicity of the
Alsace-Lorraine "problem" has long been
refreshingly in contrast to the plethora
of continental tangles, of which new de
velopments are continually manifested.
On the restoration of the stolen provinces
to the republic, American sentiment 'is
absolutely united. Tho further cxpan
sio:. of France to the Rhine raises doubts
in the hearts of "self-determinists," but
at least tho subj'ect is one whose geo
graphic nnd ethnic factors may iic fairly
easily grasped.
In tHeir appeal to outsiders "Greater
Italy's" aims are altogether of another
complexion. Americans passionately de
sirous that iniquities shall not stain the
peace settlement have regarded tho ex
pansionist attitude of Home with suspi
cion. This feeling has been stimulated
by tho evidences of division in Italian
opinion, lately exemplified in the pro
tests of Signor Bissolati. It is known,
moreover, that Italy was n party to the
secret pact of London in which she was
promised very material additions to her
realm. Seemingly, the situation has had
sinister aspects, a savor of jugglery and
rash aggression. Exponents of justice
and fair dealing have not relished it.
And yet many a sincere lover of lib
erty would today be at a loss to define
where justice in tho Italian claims holds
sway and where it ends. The intrusion
of Dalmatia into the news is of such
comparatively recent date that superfi
cial statements concerning it arc often
inconsiderately accepted. Jugo-Slavla
presents its claim, and because that still
amorphous region has been long op
pressed and is struggling to acquire
national entity it is naturally a recipient
of popular sympathy. Counter-charges
by Italy are sometimes discountenanced
because human instincts incline toward
the under dog.
The weakness of these verdicts lies in
the fact that they are based chiefly on
sentiment, not buttressed by information.
It is perfectly possible for a persuasive
propaganda dealing with a subject with
which tho average non-Italian or non
Croatian is very imperfectly acquainted
to win adherents for either. side of the
controversy.
It is obvious, therefore, how impera
tive was the need of tho President's
journey to the Italian cities. That even
a statesman of Mr. Wilson's acumen was
enabled amid kaleidoscopic scenes and
rapturous festival fully to master so
difficult a problem is, of course, incon
ceivable, but certainly he gained excep
tional opportunities for clearing the at
mosphere. Personal contact with n crisis
is worth a whole library of reference
books.
Both tho Italian imperialist press and
its opponents have been outspoken
during the visit. It is reported that to
the Italian popular mind a mind, be it
recalled, that has been inspired to en
thusiasm for nearly four years with the
"Irredentist" ideal there is no issue be
tween the President's policy nnd Italy's
ambitions. This can mean one of three
things, two of which may be stamped as
highly improbable.
It is all but unthinkable that Mr. Wil
son has betrayed his announced aims to
the extent of subscribing to what would
be a policy of unjust and selfish Italian
aggression. It is equally unlikely that
all Italian hopes of an enlarged nation
have been suddenly dispelled by the
presidential eloquence. But it is entirely
conceivable that somo adjustment of in
tentions, susceptible, of course, of amend
ment, has been made. Inclination to a
course of this sort will vastly affect the
amenities" of the Peace Conference.
Doubtless it will be there demon
strated, as it can bo with statistical
accuracy, that Trieste is n city three
fourths Italian in population, that Ital
ians are tho most numerous race in
Fiume and in many of the Adriatic
islands. Somo other contentions cannot
be so authoritatively made. Such infor
mation as crosses the ocean but feebly
supports the Italian claims to tho group
of thirteen Greek islands occupied during
the Lyblan war and never relinquished or
to tho Croatian-Slovene territory behind
tho Adriatic coastal strip.-
In some districts antipathetic popula
tions perilously overlap each other. Self
determination In such instances Is both
an ideal and an impossibility. Tho prin
ciple of working compromise imperfect,
perhaps, but assuredly preferable to
anarchy will there have to bo invoked.
Tolerance, discretion, interests of public
welfare, re-enforced by accurate Infor
mation, must bo the guiding agencies of
the settlement. The President's absorp
tion of the latter will strengthen both
him nnd the American position at homo
in the delicate days of adjustment.
Tho American people are dosirous
neither that Italy should bo compelled
to relinquish her deserts nor that she
should capitalize her victory with inde
fensible aggressions. Tho attainment in
some degree of their sincere aspirations
can hardly fail to have been speeded by
tho President's nuspicious presenco in
Rome, Milan, Genoa and Turin.
Montenegro, as part of the new United
Crofttlan-Rerblnn-KIoveno Kingdom, seems to
have suffered n compound fracture.
NEW TELEPHONE RATES
TTNTIIi telephono charges can bo graded
- In a manner that will pormlt all sub
scribers to pay n rate Ilxed exactly by tho
length of each "call" nnd based upon tho
distance actually covered, this form of
wlro communication will bo Imperfect In
the eyes of thoso who havo becomo most
accustomed to It. The samo thing may
bo said of trolley Rcrvlce.
Under tho new toll system now being
devised, the cost of many short "calls" will
be Increased. Yet It Is apparent that the
telephone men aro merely attempting to
apply In a general way a theory of rate
equalization that ultimately may bo applied
within the limits of cities when the'serv
Ico has been further perfected. Thus the
computed mileage rato which will apply
to long-distance conversations is based
upon a. right principle. For tho present,
In working out a revised schema of tolls,
It has been found necessary to begin with
tho flat live-cent charge Imposed within the
geographical lines of cities.
In thy future n call across a zone line,
though It be to a point less than a mile
off, may cost more than a call over tho
seven or ten miles of tho' city's area. It
Is natural that thoso who use telephone
lines In the suburban regions should com
plain. They have good reasons. Yet the
difficulty Is one which telephone men can
not overcome with tho mechanism now at
their disposal. Tht short-lino telephone
user Is In much the same position as tho
short rider on a street-car line, upon whom
the trolley companies depend for a large
part of the Income necessary to provide
long rides nt the basic rate of faro.
What Is lacking In tho telephone sys
tem, or rather In tho mechanical organ
ization of a utility already developed to a
high degree of etilciency, are devices by
which a telephone user would bo permitted
to pay a charge In exact ratio with the
cost of tho service rendered. liccatise such
on arrangement would be nn Ideal one, It
probably will remain forever beyond hu
man attainment. In tho meantime, tho
live-cent basic rate Is generally very fair,
since It Insures a scrvlcu of quick com
munication far superior to anything avail
able elsewhere in tho world.
It seems to bo tho Intention ot the
telephone companies and the l'ederal ofll
clals concerned with them to consider
the telephone in its larger aspect as a
medium of business communication and
to encourage Its more extensive application
as a factor for quick communication over
long distances by a stabilization and low
ering of charges. On the cither hand,
thoso most familiar with the telephone aro
disposed to consider It as a personal con
venience. It Is necessary to decide which
view Is tho sounder before a fair opinion
may be formed of the new toll system now
being worked out.-
fae for the fact that
The Vocabulary diplomacy speaks In
of Craft Ms own specially pre.
pared language and is
temperamentally unfriendly to the obvious
meanings of wordw, Sonnlno's Insistence nn
tho "intangibility" of the secret treaty of
lindon might gladden tho foes of that docu
ment As It Is, In his own privileged lillom,
the Italian foreign minister probably Intends
to bay that tho agreement can't bo touched.
Peace clouds may
Mathrniatlrally g.ither. but there's un-
Optlmlntlo questionably a glint of
sunlight In the reap.
pearance of n most potent Wilsonlnn augury,
sinen tho sessions in Paris am scheduled to
begin on January 13. The very number has
never been divided, save by vulgar fractions.
We learn that the ex
Inanimate Crown Prlnce'H ram-
llelpleanea era timidity necessi
tated the most artful
maneuvers by tho Netherlander who snapped
his photograph, but what must have been the
reluctance of the perfectly good and healthy
len thus t-o perilously employed?
It was to havo been
The Greater Uronght expected thnt Gov
e r n o r lirumbaugh
would declare In his final message for na
tional prohibition. Th Governor's speeches
and Ktate papers were proof of his essential
dryness.
nernstorlt says he Is
Hut He for tho I.eaguo of
.Mwara Ufa I Nations. Now we must
begin to lose faith In
a plan that heretofore has seemed to offer
the only solution for' the world's dlfllcultlcs.
Of tho gas that soon
I'ol.on? will be turned on at
Ilarrlsburg It may not
be said that It Is of the Illuminating variety,
A headline Informs ua
Ha Doean't Car that tho Mayor Is to
have his trial t,oon.
Well, we are having ours now.
Tho much-talked -of
He riammed Crown I'rlnco ha been
(iermany "fllmmed" In his ex
ile. And he didn't
have I'arls for a background,
If Martin CJ, lirumbaugh really ordered
that hundred dollars' worth of flowers at the
State'H expense, was he conceivably consider
ing the appropriate adornment of somebody's
political funeralt
THE CHAFFING DISH
Love at First Sight
"MOT long ago I fell In love,
But unrtlurned Is my affection
Tho girl that I'm enamored of
Pays Httlo heed In my direction,
I thought I knew her fairly well!
In fact, I'd had my arm around her;
And so It's hard to havo- to tell
How unretponslvo I havo found her.
For, though sho Is not frankly rude,
Her manners quite tho wrong way rub
me:
It seems to mo Ingratitude
To let me love her and then snub met
Though I'm conslderalo and fond,
Sho shows no gladness when slip spies
me
She gazes off somewhere beyond
' And doesn't oven recognize mo.
Her eye, so candid, calm and blue,
Seems asking If I can support her
In the stylo appropriate to
A lady like her father's daughter.
Well, if I ctn't, then no ono can
And let me add that I intend to:
She'll never know another man
So fit for her to bo a friend to.
Not love me. oh? Sho better had!
By Jove, I'll make her love mo one day;
For, don't you fee, I am her Dad,
And she'll bo three weeks old on Sunday!
Keep the Clatirs in Circulation
Even with prohibition In sight, many of
tho old drinking songs can bo revised to
fit tho new circumstances. That old
chantey about "Come, landlord, fill the
flowing bowl," for Instance, will do Just
as well If tho sugar bowl Is meant.
On a Remodeled Colonial Home
Turned Into ap Italian Restaurant
On Walnut street I chane'd upon HI
A house remade: with porticoes
And fine old air of bygone days:
So I proposed to write a sonnet!
Then brazen bold, tho agent went
And rented it: Sweet Ollvo Oil!
Spaghetti In Coloniil dress!
What wonder my poor Minnet's bent?
QUINTUS H. FLACCUS.
First Aid Measures
What to Do in Case of Unusual Accidents
Tho following home remedies are recom
mended In case of posslblo emergencies.
Clip this out and keep It by you In caso
you should bo confronted by any of these
crises:
rindlnu an empty sent in a frolic; car
Lay the sufferer lengthways on tho floor
of the car and restore circulation by let
ting the passengers walk on him.
.1 oil fit pliers If this happens too
suddenly It will certainly be fntnl to many.
Chafe the in mberl hands and reduce swell
ing In the pocketbook.
When the iinrhayr man romr The
symptoms lure uro very similar In shell
shock. Absolute rest nnd quiet are ad
vised, with applications of lec to the
temples.
f;ir Kaiicr admits that he started the
tenr This will cause serious prostration.
Summon an ambulance, and in tho mean
time administer an emetic.
you find plenty of heat in the radiator
at 7 a. m. This is sure to bo fatal unless
tho fever can be nbatcd. Apply a number
of leeches to tho sufferer's nearest ex
tremity and handcuff tho wrists to prevent
violence.
7 the llnvernmenl should admit that
private ownership hat advantages lte
servo a room at a sanatorium at once and
cancel all appointments for six weeks. A
serious shock requires long anil careful
restorative treatment. Siill'f a llttlo am
monia and brandy or burn feathers In the
room.
their should be an emply chair fit the
barber shop llavo the pttlcnt's heart ac
tion tested, llrlug him Kirk to Ills senses
by Jabbing with a hatpin or twisting ills
arm. If this does not avail, roll hliu on u
barrel and ticklo the soles o' bis feet.
the skip-stop system ueie abandoned
Apply n tourniquet to tho public, to check
tho flow of abuse. Put to bed with hot
water bottles. KOCrtATUS.
To Get Bach Home
TO lilVT back home again and there to see
Old ft lends and faces of long vanished d:is.
To hear somo friendly olee call out' to me
From street or corner of lemi-mbered was,
Whero ralu or shine or wind-blown winter
snow
Tho lights of home hold up their golden
shield,
With soft, warm arms from out the long ,ij-0
In waiting welcome from the silent Held.
To net back homo Hg.iln to know- at last
The guns aro still from Flanders to l.or
ralne ;
Tho day of slogging through the mud Is past,
Tho tilKlit of terror In the driving rain
Lies hidden In the midst of Argonnr- drifts,
A grim yet holy specter of the years
That wait ahead, wnero every shadow lifts
Ucfore the smile that welcomes through t
tears.
To get hack home again oh, dream of
drenms
Too radiant to last but for a breath!
The drift of purple nights and singing streams
Heyond black dawns still rife with ghosts
and death,
Heyond the dieamlesH sleep of those who wait
To hold tho linn they fought for to tho end,
Kternal sentinels at Freedom's (!nle,
Wheru none shall pass sa thoso who
whlsHT "Friend."
To get back home again yes, that Is all;
Thn rest Is less than nothing down tho
world i
To hear no more the bUKle's waking call
Tho tramp of marching feet all standards
furled
And only silent thoughts of thoso who stay
To hold the guard across the endlesH ears,
Who will not come again thn ancient way
Nor know the "smile that welcomes through
Its tears."
I.I15UTF.NANT GHANTI,ANl ItlC'G
Third Army, A. IJ. F.
Not since the Congress of Vienna have
the bookings for a world series been so com
plicated. Conductors who have so long vainly
sought to compress the crowds In the middle
of tho trolley should hall with satisfaction
the new center-entranco car.
The "serious" fighting in which the Her.
lln Spartacans so methodically engage In
front ot the poor old Vonvacrts building Is
bciinnlnc to have also Its comio aspects.
CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S LETTER
Representative Hicks, of Oyster Bay, a Classmate of "Old'Bill SprouT' at
Swarthmore Desire, of tha Draft Boards for Permanent Social
Organization Philadelphia Aces
Washington, 1. C, Jan. 8.
f:
UKD HICKS, who represents tho Oys
tor Hay district In Congress, Is all
keyed up over the fact that "Old 15111
Sproiil" Is tk'.'tcd Governor of Pennsyl
vania. Tho Hon. Frederick O. lllcks was
a classmate of tho Governor-elect when
they were hoys at Swarthmoro College.
So "Old Itlll" Is more a term of endear
ment than an evidence of advancing years.
Hicks has n brother who was also a chum
of Ppriiul'H at college. He Is William W.
Cocks, also of Long Island. Cocks repre
sented Oyster Hay when Itoovevelt was
President. lie is a Quaker, who still wears
tho broad luimj Ih a farmer, and knows as
much about horses as David Haruni. Hicks
Is also a (.Juaker, but bo changed his name
In early life to gratify a relative and pre
serve a family line. Ho Is something of
"a, lighting Quaker," being ono of tho
militant numbers of tho Naval Affairs
Committee. Strangely enough, A. Mitchell
Pilmer, thn national Democratic commit
teeman from Pensylvnnla. was a school-
mate of Sproul, Cocks and Hicks, as was
Pusey Passmore, head of tho Federal Ho
servo system In Philadelphia.
MKMHI3US of local draft boards through
out tho country' aro putting up to
Cnngrc'ss the advisability of providing a
brevet commission, a medal, a uniform or
somo other Insignia that will entltlo mem
bers of the boards to bo recognized In
military bodies or clubs that may hcre
nfter bo formed. Tho Philadelphia boards
aro putting this question up to General
Crowdcr as well as to members of Con
gress. No. 7, of which K. C. Atkinson is
chairman; No. 11, headed by John Baker
TKittle. and No. 17, of which William
lllaekwood Is chairman, have already been
heard from. It Is said that the provost
marshal general has under consideration
threo or four plans for recognizing tho
draft board war workers which ho ex
pects to submit to Congress. There will
probably bo no action until tho War De
partment docs present a concrete recom
mendation. a a
WHF.N James Ilanklu Young andHarry
Walker get together at tho National
Pross Club In Washington a flood of recol
lections approaching tho stago of reml
nlscenco Is sure to follow, notwithstanding
that ex-Congressman Jim Is now prone to
keep In touch with modern Wall street
conditions. It Is tho theory of many old
time newspaper men that news Is not so
much tho sensation of today as it Is the
comparison of what happens today with
what happened twenty years ago. There
fore, In, these old-line conversations the
lato Vincent Cooke and Lou Megargee and
Moses P. Handy are apt to como Into view,
and another name almost forgotten r. the
newspaper hurly-burly of today Is that ot
Colonel Frank A. Burr, a' writer, traveler
and orator, who was familiar to Phlladel
phlans when Frank McLaughlin owned the
Times nnd Colonel Alexander K. McClure
attempted editorially to boss the town.
FIUXCIS IJ. ItEEVES, of McKean
street, Gcrmantown, although retired
from many of his former activities, keeps
In touch with Washington conditions, with
some apprehension, It must be confessed,
AFTER-EFFECTS
ns lo tho trend toward Federal centraliza
tion and control. In this Mr. Reeves does
not differ from many other prominent
Phlladclphlans, who have tho notion that
private incentive and enterprise should be
encouraged without too much Federal in
terference. Mr. Reeves, although his long
Philadelphia associations might occasion
surprise at tho statement, la Jersey born,
ye camo from Brldgeton so far back that
wo need not mention the date; but tho
remarkable thing about him Is that ho
spent sixty years helping to build up the
Glrard National Bank. Having entered
that Institution as a clerk, he continued
on until ho became Its honored president.
At the end of sixty years he turned tho
presidency over to Joseph Wayne, Jr., in
ample time to enable that bright young
financier to wrestle with the Federal Re
serve and the McAdoo Liberty Loans. Mr.
Reeves laments the departure of Rudolph
Blankenburg. whom ho recently charac
terized us one of Philadelphia's greatest
citizens.
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QUIPPING promises to be one of the
KJ big problems of tho Immediate future,
but tho dlfllculty is as much In obtaining
seamen to man tho ships as lt is to obtain
the ships. The work of such organizations
as tho Seamen and Landsmen's Aid So
ciety of Philadelphia cannot, therefore, bo
overestimated at this time. Dr. Howard
Preston McIIenry, the superintendent of
tho society, which has been caring for tho
wants of seamen at Front and Do Lancey
streets since 1878, tells us that the Phila
delphia Chamber of Commerce approves
this work. Doctor MeHenty. who is nlso
pastor of tho Mariners' Church, has heen
laboring among seamen and longshoremen
for many years. Ho finds ;t pays to give
attention to this class of workers, who aro
so often overlooked In our good citizen
organizations. The doctor, by tho way,
has a son in France, who throw down his
books at tho university und went In as a
private. He Is now Corporal H. Scott
McHcnry. Battery D, 308th Field Artillery,
Seventy-eighth Division, which has seen
some very scvero fighting.
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TT HAS been but a few years since Joel
Cook, formerly financial editor of the
Public Ledger and American correspon
dent of tho London Times, died In Wash
ington, where ho had been sent as mem
ber of Congress from tho Second District.
His son, George W. Childs rook, an
amlablo young fellow, who had worked
with his father and afterward for tho
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, came to
the capital to close up tho Congressman's
affairs. George was a careful boy, with
no wasteful habits and no fads In partic
ular, except to watch fires and see thj lire
engines run. But In a few years, ufter
the young man had become a member of
the Union League and in his own right
and by Inheritance had accumulated a
fortune, ho also passed away. hi3 per
sonal estate olono was recently Inventoried
at approximately J200.000. Much of this
doubtless was the result of Joel Cook's
early Investment In ship shares back In
the days when sailing vessels were prollt,
able to their Philadelphia owners. Tho
departure of young George Cook removed
the last vestige of the old Sailer-Cook-Johann
coterie that gathered the Public
Ledger's financial news along Third street
and up to the time Drexels located at
Fifth and Chestnut streets. Although not
tttlCilft. arifrftliflMll'
W .,o' li.SH
a newspaper man, tho lato Collins W.
Walton might also be Included In that
Interesting group.
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OBSERVERS nt the caplfcal aro Inclined
to think that, duo to the activities of
Colonel Hatch and somo ot the Federal
authorities, Philadelphia is receiving a
llttlo moro notoriety than Is fair concern
ing vice conditions. In Washington there
Ifus been a great deal of this kind of talk,
duo to housing conditions and the Invasion
of thousands of young peoplo of both
sexes who havo como hero for war work,
but very llttlo of It gets In tho news
papers, Congress has taken cognizance
of tho situation and has given financial en
couragement to thoso who want to quit
their Jobs nnd go back home especially
the young women, who have found living
conditions unfavorable and tho cost of
foodstuffs outrageously high. The "vice"
nt tho capital that does get publicity Is
the "bootlegging," which has come to be
notorious. Saloons no longer exist In
this city, but the liquor comes in by
wagon or automobllo and the police courts
aro kept busy on that account.
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TWTAYER M. SWAAB, JR., formerly with
'-' rho Fleer chewing-gum peoplo and
now ono of tho big fellows In tho gamo
In New York, is naturally pleased with
the record mado by his son Jacques, who
was recommended for tho aviation service
by a Philadelphia Congressman. Follow
ing the stylo of tho Inimitable Cattell,
Mayer Swaab says of his son: "Ho now
ranks second among the living American
aces with thirteen machines down, ten of
which havo already been officially cer
tified. He cost the enemy about fifteen
trained filers, more than $250,000 worth
of property and brought additional glory
to the State of Pennsylvania." The boys
around tho Slngerly School, at Twenty,
second and Berks streets, will remember
Jacques Swaab as ono of t'-elr playmates
of fifteen yiors ago. And not a word of
this to tho prejudice of our modeJ'hlla
dolphla aco who has brought EQTOch com
fort to tho Biddies of Andalusia.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. Who huh niuneppe Mazzlnl?
Who wrote the niualc
Home"
ot "Home,
Street
3. What la an etlorut?
4. Who aalit "The areatrit of faulta la to ba
lonarloua of none"?
S '" to M.a'rSkfr'JJ, ""''' COraft ,a" T,,lbU
0. What l'rdrral crnpral In the CUII War
nicknamed KaUrr William? " r w"
7. What la an ortolan? '
8. Who was the artUt of the relrbrated rar.
toonn, "The Kake'a l'roireaT
0. What la the modern name of the Greek
name of, the Greek
rlunlc-al llmrs aa
reloponneaua?
10, Where la Faneull Hall
' "'tr J"..i?nrul,J.nal1 '" hv ha a It been
called "the cradle of liberty"?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1, Dorlni hi" career Theodore Rooeerelt held
the offlrea of Aaaembhman at Alh.ni
lederai (til Pen Ire romrnlasleiiar l-?i?Ji
romnil(onrr of New York "fti AaaWSSt
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