-.,) .IP .; ' 3.6 EVENING PUBLIC LEDGCTr-miLADELPHlA, FRIDAY, APBIL 11, 1919 i Vr i ' ( V i' tSL B it. s ? &. pa tf k$ ! V?i ' i"i- Wf-n ru tf ,' cr t. V HITCHCOCK'S ORA TOR Y . ,-K rMA TCHES PEPPER LOGIC if? Bout" Declared Draw by Sporting Dejxirtmcnt Rc '' ,,.. ... ., tcr Who Witnessed Contest From ' Kingsidc, Although Great Contrast in Styles Seen '' Two speakers of greater contrasting styles of oratory than Senator Hitchcock and George "Wharton l'cppcr probably hever before debated in Philadelphia. Senator Hitchcock, auarc, persuasive and, at times, thunderous, -was essen tially the oator. He t,poke of great visions of tho lutitrc that roused his auditors to npplausc. Mr. Pepper was essentially the logician, tine analyist, attempting little of orator, letting his yoice for moments drop to an ordinary conversational tone becking tocotnim-c through the presentation of oonclely offered data rather than through elo quence. Senator Hitchcovk possessed nn aura of dignity. Gray oE. hair with ho face of an ascetic, tall and erect as a mI dlcr, he possessed a stage presence that held his audience as u magnet holds Btcel. He gestured Mvecpingly, now with his hands half raised with clcm-hed fists, as he said this nation would never submit to foreign rule; now -with his arms extended in front of lnm in the manner of one who pronounces a bene diction : now with his hands raised high to heacn. inches of white shirt cuff showing as he proclaimed his loyalty to the league of nations and foresaw the beginning of a better era. Pepper Was Informal On the other hand, Mr. Pepper was most informal. "I want on people to do some close thinking," said he at the outset of his address, "for I nm here not to exhibit oratory, but to debate this question." At times Ins audience seemed to hmc difficult in following his points, so much so, that he frequently resorted to simile. Discussing the necessity of a court, he likened the proposed interna tional "council of nine" to a session of the Republican aud Democratic na tional committees. "Would you submit a justiciable mat ter to such a body?" he wanted to know. Fully two thirds o the time Mr. Tepper talked with his left arm resting on the rending stand, with palm up raised. His chief gesture consisted of slapping the fingers of his right hand against the palm of his left. His one oratorical weapon was sar casm. Contrasting President Wilson with the poteutates of Europe. he spoke of "the rights delegated to kings by the people and the rights delegated to piesidents bv themselves." It was difficult to judge by the np plausc which speaker made the more profound impression. Strangely enough, the greatest amount of applause re ceived by both save the cheering that marked the end of their nddresses came when the mentioned topics nlien to the debate. Mr. Pepper mentioned the name of President Wilson, and the Metropolitan Opera House attaches listened to elling. stamping and hand clnnnhiz such us it never dreamed could be allowed in this temple of the muses. "Theodore Roosevelt had his views of the league of nations," began Senator " Hitchcock, aud paused for fully n minute to listen to a demonstra tion more lasting and spontaneous than greeted any of the propositions he made in faor of the league of nations. Socialism Scorned When Chief Justice Brown, nt the Supreme Court of Pcnnsjhama, was delivering his introductory remarks he spoke of "Socialism raising its hideous head." Somewhere on the ground floor a gentle hissing, as of escaping btcam in tho radiator, was heard. Some gentleman or gentlemen, evidently, were backing socialism. The people aiound them turned toward the sound of the hissing and concentrated on the locnlity a glare beside which the petrifying stare of the Medusa was n mere sociable stance. Everybody in the vicinity made a pretense, in pantomime, of looking for the offender nnd there was no more hissing. Each of the orators suffered one in terruption Senator Hitehcpck warned this country that if the league of na tions was not adopted Bolshevism would 4. realize how your waiter at a hotel really goes a-marketing for you? Down near the kitchen he goes to the butcher shop for your steak to the grocery store for your salad to the bakery for your rolls the dairy for your milk. Back he comes to you with your marketing using a tray instead, of a market basket. And when he markets for you at the St. James he gets you of the best! 9fjt &t. Sfamrs Walnut at 13th Street W.B. Johnton, Manager -- TDELIEVE throat strain; VS" aid tired voices. . Luden's are the sing- r8 ""lend. Many. f3amJl T if) you ever sEswsta ,lul "a muuors ana outdoors. ,i. petrify the continent and octilunlly spread to the Vnlued State. "Never!" shoutnd some one. "Yes, It will!" thundered Senator Hitchcock, as he shook his first. Mr. Pepper remarked that he sup posed the audience wished it hndn't come to the debate since "debates arc tiresome things." "Not tonight," volunteered some body from the gallery. .T. Levering .Tones, who is consider able of n lawyer on his own account, Mit impasshely in the ery front row downstairs and appealed to bestow most of his applause upon M. Pepper's dis cussion of international law. which a lot of people in tho audience couldn't follow at all. Going; into one of" the gallery en trances was n little old woman who carried an umbrella clutched to her breast. With her was a boy whose air suggested that he had not come tu the debate without something of n de bate of hs own beforehand. "What is the league of nations?" he asked. "I dou't"know." she replied. "No body knows. If ail body knew, they would not be arguing hero tonight about it." MM.- 1 . i i. -i hi- KJiigesi rounn oi applause camel when Senator llitclnock finished his rebtrttal and ended the deUite. It last- ' cd n minute and twmtj seconds. Next I came the applause which greeted the cud of Gooige Wharton Poppet 'h speech This lasted one minute and i fifteen seconds. I'lom tins the ap- i plause scaled down to a minimum of two seconds. Seiuitor Hitchcock re- i ceived what might rcnllj be called ap plause eleven times, and Mr. Pepper was applauded in a definite fashion fourteen times, though some of the out- buists which greeted the senator ex- Philadelphia and Reading Railway to coeded those aioused by the efforts of'01"''''1 " '1.000.000-bushel elevator at Mr. Peppei. A man in one of the boxes on the first floor who seemed to be an ardent adocato of tho league of nntions lis tened intently to the arguments of Mr. Pepper. Mi. Pepper had finished out lining his proposed high court, hnil urged tho elimination of the tenth ar ticle guaranteeing the integrity of nn tions and had insisted that matters like the Monroe Doctrine should neer be brought before any international tri bunal. "Good heavens!" exclaimed the man in the box. "He's making up his own league of nations as he goes along." When the vast audience which filled every sent in the Metropolitan tiled slowly out, echoes of the debate were heard on every hand. One thought which was expressed ever where was that more people must be told the vital points at issue as soon as possible. Everywhere in the throng there wns the sentiment, expressed in various ways, that the I'nited States does not know nearly as much as it ought to about the workings and purposes of the covenant. Two chauffeurs were discussing the BjujujumiiiniMMiiMiiiimiiiiiniii I r TLT7XT.rfW 1 111 A New Derby for Spring SBH I 11 For many special occasions yKSs- W B II the derby is tke only hat that J Wjr&' II a will serve the purpose properly. - r $'' 3 1 and in a Knox derby you have x' JffiW la I the assurance tliat both style V ffjf'' jl II ami quality arc absolutely right tft nfi fy H I The Knox die is an insurance , 'fflj , H l policy for that. '' tr.. . lg I tMxrrknrronnrnTT S i KLraiAJU&DLiimmc i 1 My 132 Chestnut OU I "" J Do You Want BROWN SUIT? I carry tho finest line of brown -worsteds, herringbones, stripes and plaids in town just the niftiest pattet ns you ever saw and I absolutely gu'arantee fit and best workman-ahip. '(kKJ&oraiL Jfx&Jcvieoc 1103 ARCH STREET PINKERTON IHiiJfSAN I - TRADE ansizr ill HARDWOOD FLOORS "Tke Standard by Which Otheri Are Judfed" Oritlnatfd, made and laid only br rinktrton. They are "the laat word" the final product Of 30 jfarn' Miecializlng-. There la no better iianltarr ftoorlnc whlfh combines no mueh urtlitlo eleranre of deslrn with beautiful llnl.h und lone life. The wood U tho flneat-cralned, thorouahlr aeaaoned Quartered Oak with rlrli Wal nut border. Our Improved proreta of euttlnc, litllni and lailnc HAM-TITK llAKimOMI 1XOOKS ataurea a nuperlor aanltarlly tlsht result. o floor too bls, none too mall for u. Remember the name SAM-TITIC. rhone Diamond 433 ft I j ,jr'ri - nimtKi uw, juji w. i ork at. iyrii ! i solemn nnd dignified debate as they stood by their cars. "How's It going?" asked one. "Aw, Hfty-llfty," replied tho other who had just returned from a trip to the btagc entrance. "They're chrering for one guy one minute and the other the next." A reporter who does prize fights for the sporting department swiped a ticket from some one and witnessed the debate, as he put It. "from the ringside." He made some notes. He dropped them. This is what another reporter found: "Round one Hitchcock a great box er. Fine judgment of distance, good lift jab nnd fast foot work. Landed mi Pepper three times without n re turn and ilanced away. Has a quick left uppcrcut which he can use in the, clinches. Outpoints Pepper in tne open work, but his blows seem to lack steam. Left to car nnd right to body. Hitch cock's round. "Round two Pepper is stung into nrtinn. He's not graceful or n boxer, but he's a tighter. He rushed Hitch cock to a neutral comer and pounded liliu with short body blows that hurt. Hitchcock is game, but not used to Peppers stjlc of lnligliling. Peppers round. "Round throe Hitchcock comes back stimig. I'siug his left aud keeping out of the way of Popper s vicious swings outpoints his adetsnry. His lightning j.ib nnd get-away bother Pepper, who wants to mix it again, but ennuot get in. Toward the end Pepper owns nffniis with hard body blows. Round own. "Hunt a diaw " And it is fairly ilosoriptio at that websFeiTadtoates new grain elevator Present Export Facilities Here Inadequate for Handling Growing Trade, He Says Need of gi eater grain storage facilities for Philadelphia was poiritcil nut today bj Director Webster, of the Department J of Whanes, Docks and Perries. Director Webster indoisod the movc- m,'nt of tsram exporters to induce the Port Richmond. Its stoinge capacity at ipiesent is 1.000.000 bushels. ' The port deelopmont committee is actively supporting the efforts of the grain men to obtain gienter handling I facilities, the dheetor s;iid, nnd ho will ! do nil in its power in that diicctiort. "Tins tity is the second largest port on the north Atlantic (oast," said Mr. Webster, "ot lialtimote does twice the amount of business as Philadelphia. "This condition should not prevail. The picscnt clontor ul Poit Richmond lis not laigo enough to handle the volume of business going through the porty The eport of grain has greutl increased Iduiing the last few mouths, especially ' on account of the demand from the I'uiopean cmlian population." The nioNciucnt for greater 'grain han dling, facilities was also indorsed by Gcoige I' Sproule. secretary to the ' rommissioner of nnwgation, and others I interested in the port. Anthracite Production Increased Harrisburg. Aprill 11. (By A. P.) According to reports coming to the state Capitol, anthracite production has been speeded up in a number of the hard coal mines in the Inst week and big shipments will soon be on the wav. a iiaias in town 25" TV wwt'm' 1 TI MARK HJH it; 1 1 1 HITCHCOCK EVADED MM PEPPER Senator Asserts League Oppo nent in Debate Holds Courts Above Everything Else AUDIENCE WELL SATISFIED "Senator Hitchcock etaded," Is the comment George Whnrton Pepper made today on the debate In the Metropolitan Opera House Inst night In which he discussed with the administration spokesman the proposed coennnt of the league of nations. .Mr, Pepper's objections to the league of nations are merely tiiosc of n law or who plnces the courts above ctcrjtliing else," was Senator Hitch cock's comment. ' Each speaker, although dissatisfied with tho other, expressed satisfaction today with the tone of the debate and the reception of their ideas by tho au dience. The audience hnd shown con stantly by applause more enthusiasm for tho league of nations idea than for any detail of nny plan. Mr. Pepper's cool nnaljsis contrasted with Senator Hitchcock's studied oratory. Before leaving for Washington todny Senator Hitchcock admitted that his statement that the country must ac cept this league of nations or none wns based on private information from Paris that no important amendments would be accepted nnd that only changes "" i would bo made to aid in clnnf.wng the i oiennut. Article X Vital It was Mr. Pepper's contention that sudi a league ns the existing one would never be ratified. He presented four itnl ndinetidmcnts which hensked Sena tor Hitdicock to answer specifically. This, ho said today, Senator Hitdicock failed to do in his rebuttal. Ho said emphatically that Article X, which Mr. Pepper demanded removed, was vital and would remain unchanged in the covcunnt. Senator Hitchcock's argument of three-quarters of an hour presented the proposition of n covenant between the nations ns a basis for the world's peace or the alternative of a world-wide pro gram of war prcpaianou, with at tendant heavy taxes. Amerii a's absence from n league of nntions or the failure to put one in op eration, lie warned, would biing chaos to Europe, a return to the Dark Ages and tho spread of Bolshevism aud an nichv to this country. Tliis statement brought n hearty "Never" fiom n man in a stage box. He contended that the league of na tions covenant wns ncessarily a com- MS.mMf EASTER AND A TEN DOLLAR BILL Is jour price limit for a hat ten dollars' If so you will be Interested to Know that we make a special effort toward creating nn unusually attractive group of models to cost not a penny more. This ten dollar group surpasses Itself just now In view of the Easter holiday so de llghtfull near Lovely beyond description Is the exclusive "made" cbapeau of rich wine satin straw from whose central wee bew of grosgraln sweep bade unusually long silky coo. feathers (unpasted) of mottled wine color In deed, one would suspect It of costing half again that limiting ten dollar 1)111, but It's priced that just to the penn. "Cherries Ripe" for Youth $7.50 a Hatful Tounger gills like to find millinery which costs in the neighborhood of 50, the price of the pictured fascinating semi-poke of navy hemp edged with cherry satin straw. It Is richly bowed with cherrv velvet and Is abundantly trimmed with altogether luscious cherries. The girl who has not yet reached the dignity of putting her hair up will appre ciate a style which, suitably youthful, yet has so much of elite. It is but one of many interesting, reasonably priced models. George Allen, Inc. 1214 Chestnut St. 1214 lUlllllllllllllUllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllliilililiiiiiiiiiuillllllllllllllllllllllllllllliii M 9kr3m promise between fourteen nations just as the constitution or mu united Stntcs was a compromise among thirteen stales, lie called the'eovenanr as drawn just the starting point, but even so, he added, It Is "the greatest thlug the genius of mnn has cer produced to bring nbout the greatest good." It Is not n super government, U docs not tnkc away the sovereignty of nny nation, it can menace no one. "The very basis of the covenant," lie said, Is based ou the good fnlth of the nntions of the earth." Pepper's Suggestions Mr. Pepper mndc four suggestions for radical changes with the under mantling tnnt no favors the idea of n league of nations. He declined to dls cuss the effects of having no league nt all. and made pointed thrusts nt Pres ident ilson. He indorsed that nr Hole of the covenant which dcclnres that any disturbance in the world is a matter of concern to the league with the rcmnrk that It will make it here after "the grentest sin against clvilizn tion to have neutrality of thought." "I'm for the league." he said, "but I refuse to be stampeded." Under the first head he asked for compulsory military training In this country, nn exact definition of justlc! able international questions nnd the creation of n "high court" which should have a jurisdiction carefully defined Within the limits of its 'jurisdiction' said Mr. Pepper, questions which arise between nntions bhould be referred to the high courts ns n matter of compul sion. Lniler tne second heading nnd these amendments he held to be vital to the United States he demanded that Ar tide X of the present covenant, gunr I I Tl C I11K lIKITmill Ullll lllllt'Ilt'Illlf'IH'f. .. ... ..l...a l.n !..luf... .. ., !.1-.....1 of oil nntion members of the lencue. be stricken from the leaguc-of-nntious contrnot nnd put in the peace treaty, lie also insisted Hint "mutters of tra dition, national policy and self-preservation" be specifically put outside the jurisdiction of nny international tri bunal, and remarked that "the Monroe doctrine hangs thereby." Then the definite split which shows that the League for the Preservation of American Independence nnd the ad herents of the present lengue-of-na-tions covcunnt can never hope to recon cile their differences. Hitchcock Rebuttal In his fifteen -minute rebuttal, Sena tor Hitchcock declared that Mr. Pep per's insistence on n "high court" was what would be expected from a lawyer and nigued thut the council of nine, composed of the "leading men of the world." was as a high tribunal as could be found on eurth. Concerning the proposal of Mr. Pepper to strike Ar- tide X from the league of nations agreement, he said that this territorial 'guarantee was one of the most vital j parts of the league and its removal would vuiaie me wnoie nocuineni. Protection of the Momoe Doctrine in sisted upon by Mr. Pepper, he said, V DidYouWhistle? As sure as you drank a bottle of Whistle you understand why this festive name is so appropriate. "It's cloudy in the bottle" Yes, there is pep in every drop and it is sold by every drink shop. It is a pure food drink that delights old and young, sick and well, rich and noor. because it provides the sugar energy that has made Ameri cans the Avonder of the world. Instead of serving "big feeds" serve Whistle. Serve it often, Xfor it is relished as often as served. Whistle is sold in bottles only. just Whistle:' For Sale Everywhere Distributor, John Friedrich 5th Street and Rising Sun Avenue lltll I'hone. Tloua 310$ Iferatone, prk 471 ,was not necessary in" the covenant because, the league of nations extends the doctrine to tho whole world. HITCHCOCK PLEADS CAUSE OF LEAGUE Reviews War History tp Prove Need for Peace "Mr. Chief Justice, fellow cucsts, ladles and Kcntlemcn I am deeply im pressed with the responsibility pliiecd upon me tonight Of presenting to this iniiRutilcent nudicnee In this distin guished presence the reasons why the United States should join the other na tions of the world in establishing a league of nations, "I renllze that I have the affirmative of this proposition. I have what Mr. 1'epper would rull the burden of proof and I will undertake to do the best I can to carry that burden. The first proposition 1 lay before jou Is this: That wars will continue In the future ns they have In tho past mil ess the nations of the world do something to stop them. Wars have always existed, and they will ntna.vs exist among the bnrbarous or civilized, whether they arc educated or illiterate, unless the nations do something to put a stop to them. So that is my first proposition, aud 1 think it will hardly be contradicted. Some nations prepare for war on the defensive, others prepare for wars as a matter of conquest. All sorts of causes have in the past produced wars. "My second proposition is that our position in the world is such that we cannot avoid being drawn into great wars of sorrows. Now we thought for n while that when this war between Cermnny and the Allied nations be gan we could keep out of It;. vVe soul wc arc .1000 miles away. Wo have nothing to do with it. AVe declared our new government. 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