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rhUadelpMa. Jilurd.j, June ?, 1919
PENNSYLVANIA AND SUFFRAGE
NO one will gain anything by a disposi
tion of the State Legislature to de
lay ratification of the national suffrage
amendment.
The tide of social evolution has quick
ened mightily in recent years. Those
who do not move with it will be dragged
uncomfortably in its wake. No one
knows exactly where the movement
leads, but it probably will lead to better
"things.
Mr. Penrose and Mr. Knox are opposed
to equal suffrage. That is the attitudeof
elder statesmen everywheie. Their in
herited conservatism may prove to be
wise or unwise. It is not what the world
' 'Wants now.
Governor Sproul gae the Legislature
good advice when he suggested that
Pennsylvania turn in and be one of the
first states to ratify the new amendment,
to assure the vote to women and to
wish them good luck with it.
TAFT IS ON THE JOB
SOME inspiring genius eat beside Mr.
Taft when he commented on Senator
Borah's remark that the Democrats
E?$ '-Tvero treating mm in tne same respecttui
- way tney treat tne dead wnen iney move
H aside to let a funeral pass.
Si t. Tho man whn la ftavnHnp Tiimsplf rn
i x T.nn npipnsp m rnp pntriin m nnnnno
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;S.' chuckled as he remarked that he acreed
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Trwiin senator coran.
T "One of my chief interests in the pres-
?nt situation." he went on. "one that
tnoves me even in my grave, is to pre-
"ent other funerals."
i nusu misuiueu men wno ininK mat
there is political immortality for them in
obstructing the peace treaty and in
sniping the league-of-nations project
would do well to consider the subject of
funerals. They are not likely to be able
to be so jocular about it when the date
It for the funerals arrives n.i Mr. Tnft-
i now is.
THE HEARTLESS POLICE
"T OCAL police, with fine disregard for
"Jthe feelings of innocent children,
have decreed that the little ones may not
.'risk blowing off their fingers or blowing
'out their eyes by the use of firecrackers.
P$ toy cannons or devil bombs or firecrack-
vS Public liberty has also suffered in-
Rjs frintrement bv the nrfir.t thnr. n.ifienta in
Khospitals are not to be annoyed by noisy
rwjcAinuoivco ntiu uiab sum uxpioaives must
ILnot therefore be discharged within a
tesgquaro of said hospitals.
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i'JB blue will be arresting bombthrowers.
Sf A NEW UNITED STATES?
IpPpHE first step has been taken by the
if$T" House of Commons toward the forma-
l'&tion of the United States of Great Brit-
It has passed a reso-
Iwlution by a vote of 187 to 24 favoring the
W appointment of a commission to examine
5fjB.nd report upon a federal system for
Wrc&thQ government of the country. The
l&Oresolution states that "the time has nr-
fjgj'tived for the creation of subordinate
its legislatures."
rfl The British Parlininpnr. nc ovorir no
ljv h empire as a whole but for all Eng
L'J ,,land, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. It is
p?V' v15 'ocal legislature and the imperial
gf g legislature at the same time.
i3Bw Distinguished colonial leaders hr.ve from
&time to time demanded the establishment
yrsfran imperial Parliament made ud of
l-'pgrepresentatlves from all the colonies and
: o ietuiuiiuuiiij ui iui empire to taKe over all
t.A V''il , , .
Ht jtjiiers oi imperial concern.
i'-'When Cecil Rhodes gave five thousand
"lyrjounds to the advocates of Irish home
,,rj f')f years ago he did so not because he
ru, T'fSX tnKa"u ess dui Decause ne loved
w-''outh Africa morp. He reasoned that
p ei; m"i;iii siiuuiu oe ser up in JJUD
V.i'inwhilo Ireland was represented in the
lUf5' iJPsrl"ment in London, a precedent would
-.be set tip for admitting representatives
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. yzruiii ouulii VLiica iiilu ldh Lnnnnn I'nv.
, .iiijiiiciii. auu i-ito vuiiv ui creating a great
'"'ijyierial federation governed by a cen
tral legislative body would be begun.
1 ' Conditions havo changed radically
Rhodes died. The South African
has been formed and it is now
Mr absolute independence. There is
ffjpg 1'arty in Ireland which will be
nt with uotning ies3 than separa
txf( England. Home rule no longer
ttijltURte it. A plan that might have
itttiv carried out with little difficulty
Hr years ago is now beset by great
njfer because of the changed temper
iV people,
t,thr la no doubt that the resolu-
pt tneHuM(t commons nas rjeen
Ul MT .pWlBST HW Ik UM IHU 11
the central government. But the ob
server at n distance may bo pardoned if
ho is a little skeptical about the possi
bility of settling the Irish question in
this "way. There is undoubtedly a
strong and growing sentiment in favor
of setting up separate Parliaments for
the different nations of the mother
country and relieving the London Parlia
ment of all purely local duties.
While the tendency in America is
toward centtaliiation of power in Con
gress, the tendency in Great Britain is
toward decentralization. Observers on
this side of the ocean will await with pe
culiar inteiest for the report of the de
centralizing commission to be appointed
by Parliament.
HOPE FOR A GOOD CHARTER
RESTS ON GOVERNOR SPROUL
Futility of Factional Maneuvering Should
Be IVTade Apparent to Revisionists
by the Threat of a Veto
rpHE chances of obtaining a good char--
ter for Philadelphia were never at
ai.y time during the present session of
tho Legislature nearer to zero than this
week when the little coterie of active
lenders who havo been steering the bills
on behalf of the citizens' committee per
petrated the blunder of pinning their
fai'h entirely to the Penrose wing of the
Republican organization at Harrisburg
and thinking that thereby they could
ride rough-shod over the desires and pur
poses of Governor Sproul.
Vf do not know what 1 "nd of promises
Smator Penrose made to Chairman
Winston and the few members vho have
been confabbing with him. We do not
Vnow whether ho made any promises at
all, for that matter, except what may bo
constiucd from their actions.
But if any promises were made, it is
n safe surmise, judging by the senator's
past performances, that it was a mistake
to accept them at face value where they
ran counter to the wishes of the Gov
crnoi, who, when all is said and done,
has the final say and who, if he cannot
compel the passage of a bill in accord
ance with the ideas ho publicly expressed
at the well-remembered charter dinner
last winter, can, by his veto power, at
least prevent the enactment of any other
kind.
That is the situation at the end of this
exciting week of moes and countei
moves on the most important legisla
tion affecting the destinies of this city
which has been consideied at Harnsburg
in a geneiation.
Chairman Winston and his steering
committee have been proceeding on a
wrong theory when they identified their
interests solely with the power of Sena
tor Penrose. Perhaps they have not been
inexcusable. Quite contrarily, they have
probably been led into the situation by
their very zeal to serve the city best,
because they have played upon Senator
Penrose's determination to overthrow
the power of the Vaie faction in control
ling city affairs.
Help in obtaining beneficent legislation
like the charter bills is not to be spurned
lightly, whatever the source. Reform
sometimes has to use unaccustomed
tools. Often it finds oppoitunity in the
quarrels of factionalism. Theio was
nothing inherently wrong in engaging
the aid of Senatoi Penrose. But this
could be true only so long as it did not
suggest that the lion had swallowed the
lamb; that the program was still the
charter committee's and not Senator
Penrose's."
If this be admitted, however, the same
must apply with equal force to enlisting
the aid of the Governor, who has pledged
himself and his administration to an
equitable solution of the charter prob
lems. And, unfortunately, the charter
steering committeemen teemed to lose
their heads this week when they invoked
the Penrose steam roller to incorporate
amendments which were subersie of
the principles under which charter revi
sion was undertaken. This is where they
made their mistake.
While it is legitimate and may be
really helpful to play the animosities and
ambitions of one political faction against
another, it cannot be so where it involves
any sacrifice of principle. Expediency is
the watchword of the machine politician,
but it is frequently stultifying for the
sincere reformer.
The cardinal principle of the charter
plan was a smaller single-chambered
council, where responsibility could be
concentrated on a few members who
would be paid a sufficient salary to war
rant their undivided attention and la
bors on the business of running the city.
This was in accordance with the best
thought of municipal reformers and
could not be attacked except for selfish
interest. So the original charter schemes
called for a council variously of from
nine to fifteen.
Under pressure of criticism from many
"practical" gentlemen who feared that
such a body would never meet the sanc
tion of either "practical" faction, the
method of representation was changed
so as to allow one member for 20,000
voters in each of the eight state sena
torial districts of the. city, with the re
sult that the first council under present
assessment figures would number twenty
one. Such a number should have been
the limit, but, without adequate public
explanation or notice, the little group of
leaders, acting presumably on the be
lief that Senator Penrose's authority was
all-potent, boosted the number to twenty
seven by cutting the represented groun
to 15,000. Then they had the amend
ment inserted willy nilly.
There are other similar changes which
need not be discussed in detail, but which
call them concessions, compromises or
sops ts you will cannot be regarded as
anything but departures frort the main
principles, and are therefore weakening
in the eyes of adherents of nonpartisan
reform.
It would be overstating the truth to
declare that Governor Sproul views the
charter problem in the same light as
many of the revisionists, who undoubt
edly would like to go very much farther
. a a a.J..l In. l mi. . - u
bills provided. The Governor is an nblo
politician as well as n statesman. Ho
has been raised in the game of politics.
He knows all there is to be learned in an
experience ranging from a tyro's appren
ticeship to holding the highest office in
tho state. With auch training it would
be strange to find him wholly in accord
with the theories of the most advanced
municipal reformers. Yet he was elected
by the largest majority ever given to
a candidate for the office in this state,
is widely known to nil classes of people,
is very generally liked for his willingness
to discuss difficult things freely, and has
a shrewd ability to assess and arouse
public opinion. Arc these not qualities
that should have been considered even in
the awesome presence of the Penrose
roller with full steam up?
On almost every occasion where he
has had opportunity since- ho became an
avowed candidate for Governor, Mr.
Sproul has earnestly impressed hearers
with his ambition to make a success of
his administration and to break the per
sistent hoodoo which has hung over the
Governor's chair in this state. It is not
inconsistent to believe, therefoic, that
in the charter legislation, as well as in
other measures, he is endeavoring to see
that tho outcome shall be reasonably sat
isfactory to the people and that he is
not willing to be convicted of playing any
cut-throat factional game which could
only hobble and discredit his administra
tion as it has many others of which ho
was a keenly interested spectator in his
two decades in the Senate.
The best advice possible to give to the
charter revisionists is to cut loose from
anybody's steam toller; get back to fust
principles; be sure that the bills do not
serve any selfish interests by throwing
out one set of politicians only to benefit
another; go to the Governor frankly and
in the open as they should deal with
every politician on "The Hill" and insist
upon what they believe to be the right
thing for Philadelphia for years to come
rather than to meet tho expediency of
the next mayoralty campaign, nnd be
assured that in the end they will triumph.
Despite the errors of the last week, it is
not yet too late.
MR. BURLESON ESCAPES
TXfHEN the Senate began the present
'' investigation into the state of the
wire systems under federal control, New
comb Carlton, one of the directors under
the Burleson regime, was revealed as
the rarest of American types an enthu
siastic admirer of the postmaster gen
eral. Mr. Burleson believes in high rates and
low wages. He is an ardent anti-union
man. It was not surprising to find that
he had won the affectionate regard of a
corporation official, who, in the old days,
as manager of an extensive telegraph
system, had had his own troubles over
questions of trade unionism and rising
wage scales.
It appears now thnt Mr. Carlton, as
the chief representative of the Western
Union inteiests in Mr. Burleson's admin
istiative system, was well aware from
the beginning of Mr. Burleson's intention
to put practical control of the wires back
under private direction, as he saw omens
of a strike directly in his path.
The senators who have been charging
that the postmaster general sought this
way of escape from responsibility for
the confusion which ho himself has
helped to create in the sen ice probably
are not indulging in empty rhetoric.
There was one way out and the astute
Mr. Burleson departed while the depart
ing was good.
Yet the problem of a confused wire
system is by no means nearer solution.
The telegraph companies are going
along comfortably. They do not need
financial assistance. They need their
present rates and the right to deal with
their men in their own way. Mr. Burle
son's record in the Postofficc Depart
ment shows that he prefers to keep his
men in a condition as near to serfdom as
he can make it. The Western Union is
more liberal. It is devoted to an amiable
and really liberal policy of paternalism.
The telegraphers like neither of these
methods. They want their union and its
rules recognized and they seem willing
to fight. The outlook is not cheerful for
the men, the stockholders or the public
which sends telegrams.
Because the nss.es?ed
ning-a-Kound-a. valuation of Darby
Kosy property In small,
homes are cheap. Be
cause homes are cheap Philadelphia mej with
large families have flocked there. Ilecause
of tho inljration there arc IG00 children iu
the town. That necessitates forty-two teach
ers in the schools. And the teachers get
small salaries because the assessed valuation
of Darby prqperty (a small. Six of the seven
mmbcr of the Darby High School faculty
have resigned as a consequence. Darby
Solons are now trying to find a way out of
the circle.
That a young man
Join the Boy Scouts 1 should be drowned
and another narrowly
escape drowning in the Schujlkill river when
their canoe upset is a sad commentary on the
way many of our boys are raised. Every
youngster should know how to swim and
how to handle a boat.
It may be that when
Think It Doctor Dorten, Doc-
Ilad Medicine tor Eckermann and
D o c t o . KHngen-
Bchmldt undertook to form a republic they
forgot to inform the public. There seems to
be serious inclination In Wiesbaden to tear
up the prescription.
Some humorist In
Coming Through stalled a keg of water
the Wry in Common Council
chamber yesterday.
The first man who sampled It made a wry
face. The presumption is that If it had been
a keg of rye It would have given him water
on the brain.
Maybe the postmaster general thinks ha
made a hit by dodging the Btrlke.
Erer-recurrlng tragedies urge the ne
cessity of some plan to restrict the output of
revolvers.
The allegation of Trank Morrison, sec
retary of the Federation of Labor, that m-M.
ent borob outrages are the logical result of
ipnresincicu wimifrauoB u oe past H at
CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S
LETTER
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J. Morton Rings Dies In Hawaii.
George P. Darrow Is Now on tho
Naval Affairs Committee.
Judge 8taake Praises
the Neshamlny
Washington, June 7.
TTTHnN fne Lusltanla was sunk a large
delegation of congressmen was visiting
Hawnll. The news that wo might bo em
broiled In the European war In consequence
of the Incident thrilled the visitors and
caused them to cable hastily to Washington
to ascertain If the President intended to call
an extra session of Congress. In due time
they learned that the President intended to
pursue a "watchful waiting" policy, nuJ so
they continued to move from Island to Island
In the wonderful group which claims dis
tinction ns "the melting pot of the world."
One of the men who helped make pleasant
the visit of th j congressmen was .T. Morton
Higgs, a former paymaster In the United
State navy, whom Captain Mitchell Mnc
Donnld. of the Union League, may recall.
In n little wnlle it developed that Itlggs was
a former Philadelphia, a companion of Wil
liam E. Llttlctoh, David F. Conovcr, .1. It.
.Tohes nnd other old-time members of the
Five o'clock Club, of which he himself had
been a member briefly under the ministra
tions of the late Colonel M. Richards Murkle.
RlRgb had fallen in love with the islands ; hut
that wan not all, lie married there and set
tled down for good. He was a "good fellow"
from eery point of view. But news has
reached Washington that Itlggs is no more.
Even lit his age, he enlisted in the army for
the war and was given the rank of captain.
Itecentlj he died, and "the Chiefs of Ha
waii," of which he was n member, placed a
"tabu stick" at the heod of his casket and
maintained n denth-watch over Ms body
until the last moment. There is but one
other Philnilelphlan now holding the title of
"Chief of Hawaii," so far as is kuown.
PHILADELPHIA naval Interests are
-- about as well cared for under the new
Republican House organization as could pos
sibly bo expected. The navj yard is In the
First District, which N represented by Con
gressman Vnre, a member of the appropria
tions committee; but to the naval affairs
committee, of which Congressman Butler, of
West. Chester, is chairman, has been added
(Jeorge P. Darrow, of Ocrmantown, trans
ferred from the committee on banking and
currency. William .T. Browning, of Cain
den, is ulso a member of this committee,
innking next to Butler. The appearance of
Dairow on the committee met with the sat
isfaction of the older members, who nppre
i into his steady attendance on the sessions
of the House. Darrow likes the job of mix
ing up with admirals nnd chiefs of bureaus
and the like, and is reallj no novice at the
game, being a "vice commodore" or some
thing like thnt on his own account when
sailing is good ut New Loudon, Conn.
TSAAC BACHARACH, of the Second New
Jersey district, brother of Harry Bacha
rach, mayor of Atlantic City, has not only
become n member of the ways nnd means
committee of the House, bat bv appointment
of the speaker ha been added to the com
mittee on the direction of affairs in the
House office building, on which Champ Clark
is tho Democratic member. Isaac keeps in
pretty close touch with Iloiihc details, but
he Is albo beginning to rIiow a lively interest
in tariff matters, having introduced two bllia
recently to protect glass manufacturers who
started in during the war to make chemical
glassware and optical instruments.
JUDOE WILLIAM II. STAAKE, of Com
mon Pleas Court No. fi, is an er-prcsi-dent
of the Five o'Clock Club. He is also n
farmer, having a country place at Gwyncdd,
Montgomery county. The other dny when
President J. S. W. Holton, of the Maritime
Exchange, escorted a party of distinguished
men up the Delaware river to Bristol to
witness the launching of the Neshamlny,
which did not take place on the appointed
day because of a strike, the judge bat down
and wrote n letter of regret because he could
not go along. And in that letter he told of
the propriety of naming the ship Xcshaminy
ns n compliment to Joseph It. Grundy's
Bucks county Victory Loan committee.
"The nume is especially interesting to me,"
he said, "because I have a father, mother,
brother and'sister burled on the banks of the
Neshamlny in the beautiful cemetery at
Hulmeville." And then the judge tells about
the good times ho used to have we need not
say how many years ago at Newportville,
on the same stream. "And all the streams
to the north of us now," he added, speaking
of Gwynedd, which is in Montgomery county,
"empty into the Neshamlny."
EZRA PARKER, of Barnegat, is a
banker, but he takes a deep Interest In
the affairs of the coast guard, tho boys who
were formerly known as of the life-saving
service. Some years ago provision was made
for pajing members of the coast guard an
annuitv after they had been in the service
a certain number of years ; but provision was
not made for those who were disabled in the
service prior to the passage of the act.
These are the men for whom Mr. Parker
speaks, and It Is understood that Congress
man Small, of North Carolina, who had
much to do with the original bill, will Intro
duce another bill to provide for this situa
tion. The boys who paced the sands of the
New Jersey coast when the life-saving sta
tions were mere shacks four or five miles
apart will be glad to know about this.
PETER E. COSTELLO, of Tacony, is now
In rank next to the chairman on the
rivers and harbors committee. This advance
ment of 'the Fifth District .representative is
due to the recent upheaval in Congress, which
placed Charles E. Kennedy, of Iowa, at the
head of the committee instead of John II.
Small, of North Carolina, l'cter 11. always
played close to Small, who was a warm
friend of tho Delaware river, and it may be
expected that he will keep in touch with
Kennedy. A personal matter which Inter
ests the uptown member just now is the Bafe
return from France of his soldier son, Cap
tain Edward O. Costello. The captain, who
comes back with a line record, went over
with the SlxteeUthJFleld Artillery. During
the fighting lie was attached to the Forty
second or Rainbow Division.
JOSEril G. IIODGERS, of Philadelphia,
who succeeds Bob tfordon, former Ohio
congressman, as sergeant-at-arms of the
House of Representatives, is making a good
start In his new office. Joe's long experience
as one of the minority clerks on the Repub
lican side made him known to every member,
and as It was a habit with him to specialize
on new members, to whom he was always
courteous, everybody is giving him the glad
band. The sergeant-at-arms has charge of
the salaries of congressmen and Is in control
of the personnel which supports the authority
of the speaker of the House. It wduld have
done Charley Hall arid Rodgers's many other
friends good to-hate seen him at hl desk at
the Capitol liM bWI H Pl UMwUe
"N-NOT THAT I'M WORRIED, BUT WHERE ARE M Y FRIENDS!"
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THE CHAFFING DISH
Have you a little copy of the peace treaty
in your pocket?
Statement of
THE CHAPPING DISH ,
At close of dialling, June 0, 1910.
(Member of Xatwnal Humorous Clearing
Home)
ASSETS
File of Congressional Record.valued
(for humorous purposes) at 51000.00
Cash reserve $0.-15
Contributed poems, t-till good enough
to use 38
Contributed poems, not to be us.ed
unless In emergency 42
Poems useless after July 1 "7
Lunches owed us bv contributors... 12
Stamps steamed off contilbutcd MSS $0.1(1
Jokes clipped from other papers. ... 20
Call jokes on collateral 8
Time jokesou collateral 3
Mortgage on Dove Dulcct's sense
of humor $0.05
Quips on hand re league of nations. !io
Nickel inserted in blot machine at
Reading Terminal which would
not woik (wc have confident hope
of getting it out again with a
screwdriver, unless some one else
gets there first) $0.05
Vaults, embalming plant for puns
and other permanent equipment. . $50.00
LIABILITIES
Lunch owed Mr. A. Edward Newton $2.75
Duel challenges from manufacturers
of safety matches 4
Unanswered letters 280
Salary due Miss Ann Dante (amount
in dispute, will not exceed).. .... $1.50
Tobacco borrowed by us from col
leagues, amount claimed to be. . . $34.00
Probable lawyer's fee in suit against
colleagues re tobacco alleged bor
rowed by us $100.00
Res.cn e to cover depreciation in
contributed poems $10.00
Reserve to cover purchase of straw
hat 52.00
Reserve to cover expenses of night
of June 30 $3.00
AH insecurities, IOU's from poets and
other non-negotiable paper have been writ
ten off tlie books. Regret to inform clients
that the sinking fund shows very low visi
bility at present and may even eink entirely
out of sight.
FDLGER McKINSET, the delightful
Bentztown Bard of the Baltimore Sun,
used to frequent Camden in his young days,
and often helped Walt Whitman pais an
evening gossiping on the front steps on
Mieklo street. Mr. McKlnsey recently wrote
n Dleasnnt essay In the Baltimore Evening
Sun recalling nw ;. ,,-.., u ...
course of which ho takes up the matter of
the battered plaster bust which is now lying
in the backyard of the Mlckle street house.
Wc have several times alluded to this sculp
ture saying that we thought 'it to be a like
ness of Walt himself. The Bentztown Bard
says:
The tr1i la. this waa what was left of
the piaster cast of a bust of Itobert Q,
IngeraoU that had been Bitting for aoma
years on th floor by th mantelpiece In' the
little front room on MlcUle street. Inger
boU had himself sent It to Walt, and 1 hap
pened to b6 with him the afternoon It was
brought to thehouse, and unboxed It for
him and set It where he dlrepted. at the side
of the mantel on the floor, I never saw it
moved from there while he was living, but,
of course, in the changes and cleanings out
after the old figure vanished from those fa
miliar rooms, no one. perhaps, cared
enough for the Ingersoll bust to save It
from the back yard.
The only thing that bothers us about this
lg that the bust ia question is that of a
heavily beared man. arid certainly bears a
.,..,' ....mM,,n tnlWaH. himself. IMrt
tfutnall wear a,bardi Waare told that hj.
J&M
clean-shaven nbout the time when Folger
McKlnsey used Vj visit Walt Whitman, in
'S5 and 'SO.
Ritual for the Solemnization
of a New Collar In Hot Weather
C0,IjTiAR ''t thou have this mau to be
they Inwful wearer, to cleave together in tho
solemn estate of haberdashery? AVilt thou
cllug to him nn,i n(0rn him, and return
pafely to him from the laundry, so long as
bturch holdcth its gloss?
JVie Collar shall answer, I WILT.
Desk Mottoes
Our erected wit mnketh us know what per
fection is, anil yet our Infected will keepeth
us fiom reaching unto it.
( SIR PHILIP SIDNEY.
Today's Quaint Item
Mr. A. Edward Newton has had a letter
from a plumber in Kansas, bayins "Please
tell me the prices of old and rare books."
If the newspapers are the Fourth Estate,
would it ba overbold of the colyurnlsts to
consider themselves the Fifth?
We have heard so many people having
a wonderfully jolly time lately reminiscing
about the talks they had with Walt Whit
man when thev were vm,n .I,.
rather shame-faced to havo to admit that so
far we haven't met any really Great Figure
about whom we shnll be able to gossip wheu
the agreeably garrulous stage arrives. Just
thinking over the list of our friends, we
are bound to confess that tho World Figure
is still lacking. We are determined to play
Traubel to somebody, if he will just step up
to the inkwell.
, Lrao,re JIr- Taft JoUes nbout his defeat
In 191.2 the more seriously the country will
have to take him for 1020.
ABOUT this time of year comes the an
. nual complaint about the amount of
water "wasted" by those who turn on the
nyurunis 10 give cnntircn in the poorer quar
ters of the city a bath.
We get very weary of such talk. A city
that likes to think of itself as the third
greatest in this country, and can't afford to
keep its children cool, had better learn a new
way of thinking.
It Is the first duty of a city to give its
children a chance to grow up in health and
decency. One of these days wo are going to
get weary of writing nice little "Travels In
Philadelphia," that describe only the pic
turesque aud genial aspects of the town
We are going to give you a picture of the
Indescribable foulness, rottenness, ugliness
and stink of somo of the city's holes and
corners on a blazing hot day, when children
gasp and die In reeking squalid dens amonir
airless kennels of blistering brick.
WE HAVE heard some grumbling aboat
heat. There'll be another hot wave along
nhortly, and plenty of them. Every one of
those hot days means the death of children
It is tho first duty of a city to give its
children a chance. When you find maddened
Imbeciles heaving bombs about, you imagine
perhaps tlat they do it from some care
fully reasoned nnd pondered economic the
ory, something to do with Karl Marx or
Leon Trotsky? v Nonsense. The anarch
ists of tomorrow are tho children growing
, up iuuuj m i" ciiwui, tuiucn oi American
( cities. The anarchists of today are the slum
emiureu ui jiBiuuuj. amcjt uing inetr mur
der haphazard, In despairing protest against
tho grime and bitterness and stupidity that
have surrounded them all their lives,
SOORATE8.
Horses are dying in Alsace after eating
grass Infected by German poison gas. The
11-mBB ao crups up at iuhw w wot iMr
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AFTER GRIEVING
WHEN I was young I wa so sad I
I was so sad I I did not know
Why any living soul was glad
When one must some day sorrow so.
But now that grief has come to me
My heart is like a bird set free.
.
I always knew that It would come ;
I always felt It waiting there:
Its shadow kept my glad voice dumb
And crushed my gay soul with despair.
But now that I have lived, with grief
I feel an exquisite relief.
Athletes who know their proved strength,
Ships that have shamed the hurricane:
These are my brothers, and at length
I shall come back to joy again.
However hard my life may be
I know It shall not conquer me. '
Aline Kilmer, in "Candles That Burn."
Mr. Burleson turned over the wires with
a string attached.
If Ruth Law follows Hawker, let us
hope she will fight shy of typewritten state
ments. Frederick .Thompson, amusement pro
moter, who died yesterday, was a pubtle
benefactor, for he helped the world to laugh.
A Cincinnati meat packer sees In the
immediate future a slow beef slump. The
cow that jumped over the moon must be de
scending, in a parachute.
What Do You Know?
OIIIZ
h 1. What is the third most populous state,,
In the Union?
2. What was the mountain of the Muses
and regarded by the Greeks as the
source of poetic inspiration?
3. What country owns the great Island af
Madagascar?
4. What is a kickshaw? i
5. Who is William J. Flynn?
tO. Where is the oldest courthouse in the
United States?
17, Who founded the Smithsonian Institu-'
tlon?
8. Who was Elisa Rachel?
fj. What was the ancient capital of the
great Inca empire in Peru?
Ho. What is coaming on a ship?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. James II of England died in the cha
teau at St. Germalnien-Laye.
2. Thirteen Is the minimum number of
states capable of defeating the suffrage
amendment. '
8. Nihilist literally means a rejecter of
current beliefs in rellgl6n, morals or
government.' ( It is derived from' the
Latin "nihil," nothing.
4 Baron Steuben was a Prussian who
entered the American military service
In 1777. lie rose to the rank of major
general and reorganized the Continental
army. After the revolution, be settled
in New York.
D, Bream is a yellowish, arched back fresh
water fish.
0 Alexander Pope wrots the satirical
poem "The Dunclad."
7. Most of tho French departments ara
named after rivers. 1
8, Abaft: in jthe stern half ot the ship,
behind.
0. Andrew Jackson commanded the Ameri
can troops in the overwhelming vic
tory over the British at New Orleans
10, Francis Hopkuuon, of PhUacMpkla,
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