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PMlidflphle, WeJnridir, July 16. 1519 REGISTRY RUSH cs rpHAT was a disgraceful scene in the J- City Hall yesterday when three thou 55 sand voters crowded the offices of the si registration commissioners on what was n- said to be a report that their names were 1C fraudulently to be kept from tho voting lists. The commissioners are swoin to make ,C an honest list. Every qualified voter is nil entitled to have his name on it. If there st-is a feeling anywhere that it is to be made w difficult for voters to qualify it is the "'' duty of the commission to remove that ia feeling at once by n proclamation set 'jj ting forth what constitutes qualification under the law and its determination to I obey the letter and the spirit of the o statute. v The talk about one faction stealing a ' march on another faction is unpleasant ,ut at a time when it was supposed that all ?', excuse for attempting such tactics had j,; been removed. z - i' NEW SHIP LINE a- si "PvEPINITE prospects of the diversion I to this port of thirty-five cargo ves 31 sels in foreign trade are only mildly com j plimentary to Philadelphia business en ,j, terprise. 30 The Brooks Steamship Company is transferring its ser'ice here because of specific natural conveniences and finan id cial compensations. It is stated that a wharf which would cost $500 a day in 'New York can be secured here for only j,l $17 a day. Virtually no lightering is re dj,j quired. Motortrucks can be backed up rbi to the side of a ship. ' With these advantages and numerous V, others Philadelphians are inclined to tjthrill when even a baby boom hits the port's commerce. The attitude is but im rfstperfectly reflective of the true signifi- jl cance of the situation. 'pinenscly greater volume of sea-borne ,1Jt trade than it does now. What it needs is ui energetic development of resources, a really comprehensive vision of their pos bai.sibilities. The gains that the port does demake are in no way commensurate with "'what the right sort of hustling could nf bring. iAi Something is clearly lacking if with all our superiority over our rivals we still lag so far behind them. Progress in drib- lets, however welcome, won't make up the difference. CHECK ON SKYSCRAPERS ART and practical considerations are recognized in the proposed ban against the extension of the system of "canyon" streets in central Philadelphia. If Councils passes the projected ordi- 3 nance, which has the backing of the directors of public works, public safety, public health and noted engineers and architects, no future skyscrapers in the ' heart of the business section will be per mitted to exceed 150 feet in height, unless A the excess stories are carried back a foot for every five feet of rise. it Not only will symmetry and harmo nious architectural proportions be pre 51 served under such a ruling, but our A crowded, narrow thoroughfares will ex hibit some regard for daylight and a more fluent circulation of health-giving airs, 'o The whole movement now on foot in HT-the comprehensive plans committee in--e, spires the hope that helter-skelter archi tecture here has done its worst and that na future construction will be along lines of intelligent improvement jt INFLATED DOLLARS THE prices of food and clothing and coal and house rent are higher in Europe and America than they were five .Tliycara ago. Wages are higher and work ingmen are demanding that they be in " creased still more. And no one knows ' -,'whal the end Is. "WfW But of one thing we may be certain, r-c-i tx -j h.f ,s eh-f nrices will not cro down so long as wartime inflation continues. M There Is more money in circulation to- hp uday man mere ever was Deiore. TTio total circulating mpHtnm nt tV ,"&Vjfvwhole world on January 1, 1912, was SS,V about eleven billion dollars. This in- rjV eluded gold and sliver and paper. Z .There, was in circulation in the United '?&Stats, France, Germany, Austrla- , ' (Hungary vand Italy on January 1, 1918, w' lt 4uroT.fitwr, imr. n Tinlf hill Inn rlnlln..' t ' ' 4? worth of paper. In these five countries ", 7;When ths war began the paper money in ". '(olrculation amounted to about two and a '1 WtWUlon dollars. ?C Ww, It Is an axiom of finance that ,. ''UiM-a ennnnt hr ' inflation of enrrpnrv (V 'itiitheut Inflation, pt, prices. -,J.4tJi ettrrency has been inflated. Tho foJl6wed suit; We may fret tjaSsM-l M' and fuss and fumo all wo choose, but nil our fuming, fussing and fretting will not mako a dollar worth what it was in, 1914. The-world is overstocked with money and it is cheap. There will bo discontent and suffering until wages and salaries have adjusted themselves to the new value of the dollar. SECRET TREATIES WITH JAPAN IMPERIL THE LEAGUE COVENANT President Wilson Mutt Square Conces sion of Shantuna With His Own Promises to the People or Risk Defeat Now SENATOK NOURIS'S revelation of what he alleges to be the secret corre spondence between Japan and Great Britain and Frnnce over tho Shnntung question produces a crisis which calls for quick action on the part of the President. The senator's motives may be partisan or patriotic, but they are nsidc from the question, which hinges only upon the truth or falsity of the secret agreements Avhich he uncovers. If Great Britain and France were thus cynically engaged in promising to per petuate the German wrong by substitut ing Japan as concessionaire without China's consent at a time when they were ostensibly seeking the aid of China as a loyal ally gn their side in the war, there must be a reasonable explanation pre sented by President Wilson for the in dorsement of this compact in the Ver sailles treaty or the people of the United States, always lovers of fair play and a square deal for the under dog, will surely be inclined to repudiate the barter. The situation now transcends mere partisanship. The President must realize that. It is no longer a matter of play for position, move and counter-move. He himself has been the most eloquent teacher of international morals to Ameri can public opinion and ho must make his actions at Paris square with his unquali fied promises or else tell the truth of what went on behind the scenes to force him into line on a compromise of funda mental and vital principle. Public memory is not so shmt that it has forgotten the splendid, heartening words of Mr. Wilson at the opening of the fourth Liberty Loan drive in his New York speech on September 27 last. But the words have pregnant significance now and are worth repeating. He said: At oery turn of the war we gain a fre.sli cnnviuuiiness of wlitlt we inpiin to accomplish liy it. When our hopes and expectations are most excited we think more difiultely than before of the Issues that hunu upon it mid of the purposes whiili must he realized h means of it. For it has positive and well-delined pur poses which nc did not determine and which we cannot alter. No .statesman or akscmhly cre.ited them ; no statesman or assemhlj can alter them. They liae arisen out of the cry nature and circum stances of the ur. The most that stales men or assemblies can do is to carry them out or be false to tliem. We accepted the issues of the war as facts, not ns any croup of men either here or elsewhere had defined them, and e can accept no outcome which does not squarely meet and settle them. Those issues are these : Shall the military power of any nation or Kroup of nations be suffered to deter mine the fortunes of peoplos oer whom they hae no right to rule except the right of force? Shall strong nations be frco to wrong weak nations and malie them subject to their purpose and interest? Shall peoples be ruled and dominated, een in their own internal afTairs, by arbi trary and irresponsible force or by their own will and choke? Shall there be a common standard of rlRht and prUilege for all peoples and nations or shall tho strong do as thev will and the weak suffer without redress? Shall the assertion of right be hap hazard and bj (asual alliance or xhall there be a common concert to oblige the observance of common rights? No man, or group of meu. chose these to be the issues of the struggle. They are the issues of it ; and they must be settled by no arrangement or compromise or ad justment of Interests, but definitely and once for all, anil with a full and tin equhocal acceptance of the principle that the Interest of the weakest h as sacred as the Interest of the strongest. This is what we mean when we speak of a permanent peace, if we speak sin cerely, intelligently and with n real knowledge and comprehension of the mat ter we deal with. These are the words, and many more like them, which confirmed the faith of the public in the President. The exalted ideals which formulated his peace policy cannot be jettisoned for the sake of mere expediency in a single instance to bribe Japan into a league of nations, if that is what the Shantung concession means. If it does not mean that, then the Presi dent alone holds the key and he must explain, and explain quickly. It would be a terrible thing for the world if the greed and rapacity of a sin gle nation were permitted to prevent the consummation of the league of nations. The Shantung question in its material aspects is small. The territory and popu lation involved are not worth quarreling over. But the principle of the thing is all important. You cannot plant a league on a founda tion of justice and equity as outlined in the great words of President Wilson and have even the smallest taint of blemish in the seed. The whole plant, if it lives to maturity, is sure to be cankered. The Shantung concession was born in iniquity. It was wTested from China fol lowing tho Boxer uprising. Great Britain and France have Bimilar concessions. Under international morals, as we have been taught to view them since 1914, such concessions are no longer defensible. Germany's "rights" in Shantung were stripped away by the war. China's decla ration on the side of right earned her freedom from at least this one Intolerant landlord. Why, then, was Japan substi tuted? That is the question for which the American public has been seeking nn answer since the Chinese delegates to the Peace Conference refused to sign the treaty and thereby gave notice to the world of the situation, ine iNorris reve lations, If they are true, would furnish the answer. It was because Japan held 1 the pledges of Grfikt-Brltaln andjtfranee ns the price of her Help, and Japan was unwilling to forego the pound of flesh. But no such reasons bound Mr. Wilson and tho people of the United States. There must have been some other motive, somo vitally Impelling fact which has not been revealed. Was it fear that Japan would form an unholy alliance with Gor many? Was it fear that Japan would stand out against a league of nations? Was it fear that Japan was bravo pnough.i self-reliant enough, to defy tho rest of the world for tho sake of a bit of foreign land? Was it because Japan has orally promised to treat this bit of China as wo have tho Philippines nnd benevolently foster self-government, although tho treaty makes no such provision? These arc merely suggestions, not inferences, to show that a variety of causes properly and authoritatively pointed out may put a different fnee on the matter. But what ever the reason, Mr. President, the time has come to reveal it. WHERE IS OUR CIVIC PRIDE? TS PHILADELPHIA really vilified when outsiders call her backward and apathetic? The plight of the Phipps Institute' gives the sting of warranty to such criticism. Its philanthropic founder agreed to sup port the combined hospital and research institution for ten years with an annual donation of $54,000. The city rejoiced in its acquisition during the endowment term. Neglect followed the cessation of the comfortable decade of funds. The hospital is out of commission. Tho University of Pennsylvania, of which the Phipps laboratory now constitutes a de partment, is unable to provide for the upkeep. The institute is doomed to go out of existence unless substantial aid is speedily secured. At the moment when our medical emi nence is so seriously overshadowed by the comprehensive plans of New York to win first place, the decay of the Phipps institution is especially significant It can be saved if our civic self-respect is greater than detraclors say it is. Is it? LUSITANIA' CLAIMS rpHE Cunard Steamship Company has - been finally absolved by the United States District Court of responsibility for loss of life and property by the sink ing of the Lusitania. It has decreed that the sinking was caused by "the illegal act of the imperial German Government acting through its instrument, the sub marine commander," and has intimated that reparation is to be sought from the German Government through indemni ties collected by the United States Gov ernment. This decision commends itself to the sense of justice and fair play. All that remains now is for the government to adjust the claims of those who were in jured by the sinking of the ship and to' reimburse them out of the German prop erty now in the possession of the alien property custodian. This property now amounts to about half a billion dollars. The Lusitania claims are between five million and six million dollars. They will" ultimately be paid, for public senti ment will not tolerate the delay which has characterized the settlement of past claims for damages suffered in war. RED TAPE'S GOOD JOB TED TAPE is the most friendless of " manufactured articles. Chafing at its bonds is well-nigh universal. In a great war such resentment reaches a climax. The circumlocution office is no body's delight save that of its controlling occupants. None the less, checks, counter-checks, identification schemes, tagging and all the elaborate paraphernalia of red tapery did execute one extraordinary job in the world conflict. Fair play demands recog nition of the fact. The government's official records show that of all the millions who shouldered arms for the United States the fate of but forty of the men actually in action remains a complete mystery. Of the nearly five thousand American prisoners made by Germany, but twenty-one defy tracing. The battle mysteries of Franco number more than 200,000 and of Britain more than 180,000. Pretentious systems of efficiency are logical food for satire. Often the government moves in a rec ondite way its superfluities to perform. But even red tape should have its deserts. A few years ago the Still Hope! powers conversed openly nmnng them selves about the "partition of China." Yes terday's uproar over the Shantung dis closures by Senator Norrls shows, at least, that civilized opinion is progressive, even in Congress. If it required seven Get a Tabulating years for Henry Ford Machine to free himself of the' conviction that music is utterly worthless nnd acquire n fondness for banjo music, how long will it be before he learns to rave over Strauss and Debussy? Speaker Glllett has A Riot Call! - ruled that a congnss- man is not out of order when he charges that members of Con gress have stored away In their cellars enough whisky to last them twenty years. Rut what would the ruling be If the congressmen should be named? The proprietors of the Locking the Stable warehouse In which six firemen were killed have been arrested. They are charged with operating n rag shop without a license and are liable to a tine of $!r! Rut when they were ordered Inst March to remove the rags from the warehouse why did not some one see to It that the order wns obe.rfcl? It looks as if it might be profitable to conduct an Investigation in this direction as well as Into the origin of the fire. The designs on China seem to have been all of a single color black. Senator Norrls scores on consistency. He resented both the beginning and the end ing of the war The Peace Conference didn't accent the first syllabic in Shantung so Japan could no tice It. ' St. Bwlthln's Day showers Indicate l there will be more, water than wine for the-next'iorty dajpsv CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S LETTER I Kansas Congressmen Find Kin In Pennsylvania J. H. Holcomb's Interest In Soldiers' Orphans. t Washington Gossip Washington, July 10. NKW members of Congress blowing In from the West nvail themselves of early opportunities to visit points In New York, .Pcnnaylvanln nnd New Jersey. Philadelphia as the shrine of liberty Is a mecta for many of them, while Gettysburg and Atlantic City share honors ns pobats of attraction. Con gressman Henry W. Watson made a lilt in Notrlstown and Langliornc recently by in ducing William E. Andrews, of Nebraska, to go over as a speaker. Andrews was formerly an auditor In the Treasury De partment, a position similar to that once held by the late Stnte Chairman GUkeson, of Ilrlstol. Congressman Ben Focht also made a discovery In Hayes II. White, of Kansas, whom he induced to make Fourth of July speeches up-state. White does not hesitate to boost Kansas, but he admitted that Pennsylvania was some state, and that Pennsylvania farmers knew n thins or two. The Kansas representative had the satisfac tion of locating his father's grave at Broad Top nnd that of his great-grandfather, Cap tain Tom White, who was n member of the Boston Ten Party. Narrating his experi ences in the House, White found out that he wns n full cousin of Congressman Evans, a new member from Nebraska, whose fore bears -also went West from Pennsylvania. There is a good deal out West that Penn sylvania has reason to be proud of. COLONEL OEOBC.E NOX M'CAIN'S re turn to journalistic pursuits is discussed in the National Press Club, where the popular Philadelphia globe-trotting correspondent nnd lecturer Is almost ns well-known ns he Is in Hnrrlsburg. Old timers like James llnnkln .Young are pleased to observe that the colonel has dropped into n reminiscent mood and does not hesitate to recall tho "good old days." The boys here constantly inquire about political conditions in Phila delphia nnd Pennsylvania, and the McCain letters arc beginning to fill an aching void. In another sense the colonel is entitled to honorable mention in the newspaper frater nity.. He is the author of the phrase "The Tub Reporter," n term that has become as fied in the journalistic vocabulary ns "Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here" has become n sure thing In the repertoire of the band mas ter. They say n man who coins a new word in this day nnd generation Is a real philan thropist, so here's to Colonel George ! E n- a 'nuei CHASE, of Philadelphia, is fre quently consulted here nbout the na tional coal situation, in which Pennsylvania producers are very much interested. Chase is one of the executive committee of the State Central Association, with headquar ters at Altoona, which aided recently in having a provision giving additional powers to the Federnl Hureau of Mines stricken from the sundry civil bill. Although he Is not generally known ns a coal man, Sena tor T. L. Eyre is also a member of the executive committee of this association. The president is Harry Boulton, of Clearfield. J HENRY HOLCOMH, who serves under Governor Sproul as chief clerk of the Pennsylvania Commission of Soldiers' Or phans' Schools, keeps up an nctivc interest in the affairs of the Eighteenth Ward. Ills livelier interest, however, is in the old soldier and his orphaned child. It is comforting TRAVELS IN PHILADELPHIA By Christopher Morley The Mercantile Library nnHI.RI. is a legend, of nn old booklover who -- was pasturing among his folios one eve ning by candlelight. Perhaps he sat (as Charles Lamb used to) with a tumbler of mild grog nt his elbow. Perhaps he was in that curious hypnotic trance induced by utter silence, long rending nnd insufficient air. In the musty fragrance of his library the tapers cast their mellow gush of gold about Mm, burning up the oxygen from under his very nose. At any rate, in a shadowy alcove something stirred. A bookworm peeped out from a tall vellum binding. It flapped its wings nnd crew with a clear lively note. Startled, the aged bibliophile looked up and just glimpsed the vanishing flutter of its wings. It was only a glimpse, but it was enough. He ran to his shelves, his ancient heart pounding like an anvil chorus. The old promise had come true. For if any man shall live to see a bookworm, all the volumes on his shelves immediately turn to first edi tions, signed by the author. But the joyous spasm was too much for the poor scholar. The next morning he was found lying palsied at the foot of his bookcase. The fact that at least two fingers of grog remained in his glass, undrunk, led his fellow booklovers to suspect that something strange had hap pened. As he lay dying he told the story oi his vision. He was the only man who ever snw n bookworm. bv: L'T if a bookworm Bhould ever flap its wines and crow in Philadelphia, cer tainly the place where It would do so would be the Mercantile Library. I imagine that when Mr. Hedley, the delightful librarian, shuts up ut night, turns off the green-shaded lamps and rings the bell to thrust out the lost lingering reader from the long dark tables, he treads hopefully through those en chanted alcoves. The thick sweet savor of old calf and the dainty bouquet of honest rag paper, the subtle exhalation of rows and rows of books (sweeter to the nostril of the bibllosoph than any mountain air that ever rustled in green trectops) Is just the medium In which the fabled bookworm would crow like chanticleer. It Is fifty years tl Is montn since the Mercantile Library moved Into tho old market building on Tenth street, and while fifty years Is a mere wink of th eye lash to any bookworm, still It is long enough for a few eggs to hatch. For that matter, Fomo of the library's books have been in Its possession nigh a hundred years, for It will celebrate its centennial in 1922. THE Mercantile is everything that a library ought to be. It has the still and reverent solemnity that a true home of learning ought to hnve, combined with an undercurrent of genial fellowship. It is not only a library but a club. Through the glsss panels at the bark one may sec the chess players at their meditative rites, nnd the last Inner fane where. Hmnking Is permitted nnd the votaries puff well-blackened briars and brood round the boards of combat in immortal silence? Tim quaint old stained windows at the western end of the long hall look down on the magazine tables where one may be reading the CoJnto polita$ and the next tho llibltrt Journal. From these colored panes Franklin, Milton, llcethoven and Clovlo gaze approvingly. They are surmounted by four symbolic fig ures, representing (I suppose) their respect ive arts of Science, Poetry, Music and Art. Of Clovlo the miniaturist one does not often hea'r, and I may as well be honest and admit I had to look him up in the encyclopedia. In these strenuous times', when what ii left of the Civil War Is fast fading from view, to know that a steadfast few do not forget the sacrifices and the heroism of those who struggled in the great American conflict. Colonel Samuel P. Town, who used to run things In the Twenty-eighth Ward, and Major Levi O. McCauley, formerly auditor general, arc among those who keep a weather eye On the orphan school situation In l'eun Rjhanla, and when Holcomb and they get together the veteran of '01 -'05 does not suffer. PRESIDENT CHARLES 8. CALWELL, of -the Corn Exchange National Bank, Is a Philadelphia booster who thinks tho city was overlooked In the State Department itluerary for the president of Brazil, who recently visited the United States, more especially as Philadelphia now has a steam ship line running direct to Brazil. One of the difficulties which Mr. Calwelt nnd all the other hopeful citizens of Philadelphia run up against In matters of this kind Is the diplomatic situation. The State Depart ment is always more or less stilted and com plies quite often with the wishes of the guest. In this instance President Pcssoa seemed to want to take in Canada and thus had to cut out certain large American cities. However, wide-awake trade bodies are gen erally on the lookout for this kind of busi ness and it Is not infrequent that some of them cut under. They score what a news paper man calls a beat. FORMER DIRECTOR ROBERT D. DRIPPS, who Is more or less interested in the movement to bring soldiers' bodies back- from France, has been to Washington on a strange mission. Some of his associates discovered that the luxury tax had been carried so far by certain revenue collectors of the United States ns to apply to tho trimmings of coffins. It developed that some people, more luxuriant thnn others even In tho matter of death, desired a coffin more highly ornamented than ordinary, nnd as , precious metals like gold and silver had been used the revenue collectors deemed it fair that the "xtra" should be mndc to assist in providing revenue to rim the government. The Trensury Department has taken this matter up and is giving it due and weighty consideration. THE big fellows keep dropping in here one by one. Today it may be Schwab, of the Bethlehem Steel, tomorrow Vnuclaln, of the 'Baldwin Locomotive Works, and the next day Dinkej, wjio is beginning to know his Philadelphia as president of the MIdvalc Steel. Now comes Charles H. Schlucks as president of the Remington Arms Com pany, nt Eddystone. Schlacks was formerly vice president of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad-. He is getting acquainted here and in Philadelphia. It used to be said that big jobs went searching after big men, but we seem to be finding a good many of these high-priced organizers in the Quaker City environment. O CHEFS work more than eight hours?' XJ 1 The interest exhibited by the Culinary Ilenoficinl .Association of Philadelphia, of which Ernest Henry is president, in an eight-hour workday bill, would indicate that the chefs themselves arc aroused on this subject.' Their seeretnry, Joseph H. I'robst, points out that to a certain extent the men who prepare our hotel meals have been discriminated against as unskilled labor, whereas they rank fifth in importance In the United States. Conceded there are good cooks and bad cooks, apparently it re quires years of training to size up to the dignified and important station of chef. And for thnt matter there are some folks who tire of Washington food and come back from rhllndelphin jaunts with a high estimate of our cuisine. attached to it where the true saints of the bookworld might be buried. It seems hnrd thnt those who have so long trodden the al coves of peace should be interred elsewhere. To many devout souls libraries are tho greatest churches of humanity. Even the casual dropper-in renllzes that the Mercan tile is more than a mere gathering of books. It is a guild, a sort of monastery. The members have secret raptures r.nd sidelong glances whereby they recognize one another. As they walk down the long entrance pas sage they are purged of the world nnd the world's passions. As they pass through the little swinging gates that shut out the mere visitor, ns they bury themselves in shadowy corners and aisles pungent with book-perfume, they have the grateful bearing of those secure in a strong fortress where the devil cannot penetrate. For my own -part, I have only one test of a good library, which I always employ when I get anywhere near n card catalogue. There Is a certain work, in three volumes, famous chiefly because Robert Louis Stevenson took the second vol ume with him on his immortal Travels With a Donkey. It is called Pastors of the Desert, by l'eyrnt, a history of the Huguenots. If you will turn ngaln to Rf L. S.'s chapter called A Vamp in the nark you will see mat he says : , I had felt no other Inconvenience, except when my feet encountered the lantern or the second volume of I'eyrat's Pastors of the Desert among the mixed contents of my sleeping bag, I am happy to assert that the Mercantile has a set of these volumes, and therefore one may pronounce it nn A-l library. OF COURSE the Mercantile has many more ftrthndnr treasures than Peyrat. though its function Is not to collect In cunabula or rare editions, but to keep Its members supplied with the standard things, and the important books and periodicals of the day. Mr. Hedley was gracious enough to take me Into the locked section of tho gallery, where there are alcoves teeming with old volumes and rich in the dust that is so delightful to the lover of these things. He showed mt, for instance, a first edition of the Authorized or King James Bible, Im printed nt I-oudon by Robert Bnrker in 1011. Inside the front cover some one has written in pencil "Charge fj." I nm no expert on these matters, but I wonder If many a col lector would not pay a hundred times as much for It nowadays? On another shelf I saw a beautiful edition of Eusebllls's Chroni cles, printed at Venice in 14S3, the paper as fresh and the rubrlcatlon as bright as when It was new. Opening If at random, I found tho following note, which seemed quaintly topical : Anno salutls 811. Anno mundl 6010, Iocustea gregatlm ex Aftrlca volantes Ital- lam lnfestant (i'ear of grace 81J, Year of the earth 6010. The locusts flying In swarms from Africa, Infest Itnly.) In this book Borne former owner has writ ten, with the honorable candor of the true booklover : De Isto pretloso volumlno anlmadvertere llbet. quod non est "edition premiere" slcut opus Deburll falso optend(t. , W. H. Black, 4 Feb., 1831. (Concerning this precious volume It Js permitted to remark that It Is not the first edition, as the work of Deburlus falsely maintains.) v Ignoble Deburlus, shame-upon html Mr. Hedley also showed me ,the famous Atlas Mnior of John Blaeu, the Dutch pub lisher, Issued (In Spanish), In Amsterdam In COLONEL McCAIN'S musings The Third Jay Coohe on the Job Senator Max Leslie as a Stormy Petrel in Politics The Thatvs, Fatherland Son By GEORGE TAY COOKE will never be able to cscopo his reputation ns federal food admlnis strator for Philadelphia. It will rise to cou front him all through life; particularly whenever an economic crisis arises that de mands courage, fearlessness in the discharge of a duty, and a Btout heart to guide In au emergency. , His .management of the ice situation in Philadelphia In 1018 was one of the founda tion stones 'on which his rcputntion .was built. He deserved the encomiums that camo to him. He kept the price of ice at a normal figure. Every effort was put forth to Bee that the poorer people were supplied. In crowded sectlqns he established ice stations on the 'Vash nnd carry" plan, and he In duced dealers to enter into nn agreement thnt any profiteer would be denied Ice during the entire summer. Ills plan wns put Into operntlon in every city of the state. This was only possible because he knew the game. Dealers and manufacturers alike were aware that he knew it. Furthermore they realized that there wns no use going up against a determined man who held all the trumps. It wns natural when the present ice short age became Imminent that Doctor Krusen nnd the other city authorities should seek the advice of tlie one man who had had experi ence. Jay Cooke answered the call. He merely adjusted his plans of last year to existing conditions. Nearly sixty years ago it became necessary to raise millions to equip nnd sustain the Union nrmlcs durjng the rebellion. When the bnnkers of the United States were ap pealed to they snld: "See Jay Cooke." , The Jay Cooke of thef Civil War era, the financier of the government in those parlous times, was the grandfather of the Jay Cooke of today. When rhilndclphia was threatened with nn ice shortage, what more nntural than to turn to the man who had piloted not only Philadelphia but the entire state through a similar ordeal. Agnln the Inspiring words : "Sec Jay Cooke." SENATOR MAX LESLIE is the stormy petrel of Pittsburgh politics. Once, more has he aroused the business, financial and social forces of Pittsburgh ngninst him and his followers. As a result, Pittsburgh is having a regular Philadelphia time of its own, Leslie is a fine example of the adage, "You never know what" to expect in poli tics." He is a pupil nnd former protege of cx Scnator William Fllnn. Flinti is now openly arrayed ngninst his erstwhile follower, and In the cause of municipal reform is after him horse, foot nnd dragoons. For years Senator Leslie has avowedly represented the "wet" element of Allegheny county. He is the opposite of his brother. Artemus Leslie is a teetotaler and a pro nounced "dry." Years ago he was one of the leading Good Templars of Pennsylvania. As superintendent of police in Pittsburgh, twenty years since he fought the liquor and vice traffic to a standstill. He is a big, up standing man, and for years has been super intendent of the county workhouse. with every town marked by a tiny dot of glenming gold, set the lover of fine work In n tingle of nmnzement. Lucky indeed the bibliophile who finds his way to thnt snered corner. One would not blame nny bookworm for crowing with n shrill cry of exultation if he were hatched in that treasury. There t was not time to find out whether John Blacu's atlas contained plates of American geogra phy, but I hope to go again nnd study these fnsclnnting volumes more nt leisure, by Mr. Hedley's kindness. PEI -L M ERHAPS the most curious feature of .the ercantile is the huge vaulted cellar which underlies the length of the whole build ing. Constructed originally for storage of market produce, before the days of modern refrigeration, it is now a dark and mys terious crypt extending under the adjoining Streets, where the rumble of wheels sound overhead. The library's stamping press, used to Incise the covers of books, gives one of the chambers n medieval monkish air, and the equally medieval spelling of the janitor in some memoranda of his own posted upon a door does not detract from the fascinating spell, With a flashlight Mr. Hedley showed me the great extent of these underground corridors, and I imagined that if so friendly a librarian should ever hold a grudge against nn author It would be nn ndmlrnble place to lure him and leave him lost In the dark. Ho would never find his way out and his copy rights would expire long before his bones would be found. Joan Gutenberg, the li brary cat, dwells In that solemn maze of heavy brick arches, and she finds it depressing that the only literature stored down there is the overplus of old government documents. The Celestial Army I STOOD by the open casement And looked upon the night, And saw the westward going stars Pass slowly out of sight. Slowly tho bright procession Went down the glenming arch, And my soul discerned the music Of their long triumphal march. Till the great celestial army, Stretching far beyond the poles, Became the eternal symbol Of the mighty march of souls. Onwnrd, forever onward, Red Mars led down his clan ; And the moon, like a mailed maiden, Was riding in the vau. And some were bright in beauty, . , And some were faint and small, But these might be in their great height The noblest of them all. Downward, forever downward, Behind, Earth's dusky shore They passed into the unknown night, They passed and were no more. No more! Oh, say not sol And downward Is not just; , For the slshj is weak and the sense is dim That looks through heated dust. And though the hills of Death May hide the bright array. The marshaled brotherhood of souls. Still keeps Its upward way. And Jong let me remember, That the palest, faintest one May to the diviner -vision be A bright and blazing sun, Thomas Buchanan1 Read. The striking cooks of the coastwise 3U "P r NOX McCAIN In mutters of relic-Inn. temnernnce nnd hlimnnltnrlnn principles he is the "Rob" . McKcnty of Western Pennsylvania. ( AS WILLIAM IRWIN SCHAFFER.at- torncy general of Pennsylvania, emerged from the private office of Governor Sproul one morning last week he remarked: "The hearing in the extradition proceed ing's in the case of Harry Thaw takes place this afternoon in my office. Want, to come down? As a former Plttsburgher I thought you might be interested," he 'added as he moved off down the big reception room ad joining the executive offices. I knew Harry Thaw's father, but; 1 nevef Bnw the son. William Thaw was one ot the vlcp presidents of the Pennsylvania Lines West. His office for yenrs wns in the squnrc, ornnte, red brick building nt the corner of. Tenth street nnd Penn avenue, Pittsburgh. Thirty odd years ago it was tlie busiest rj corner In the city. Ilrown's rolling mill ' wns just half a block away. The Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne nnd Chicago Rnilwny tracks skirted the eastern side of the building. All ( the traffic to the Lnwrcnccville npd Enst Liberty suburbs pnssed lu front of it oloDg Penn avenue. William Thnw had his office on the second floor of this Pennsylvania lines building. He was of medium height nnd build, with full benrd worn hnlf length, smooth shnven upper lip nnd grny hnir. He was affable .but re served ; not a man who made friends readily. He had n grent number of admirers, in Pitts burgh, however, due to two causes; his liberality in the matter of rnilrond passei nnd his munificent contributions to religion, charity and cducntion. William Thnw wns n pillar In the Pre byterinn Church. If I mistnke not he was an elder in the Second Presbyterian Church., V He wns a sincere man who took his religion seriously and with a certain austerity. Railroad men, as a rule, arc rather liberal nn canonical stibjects. As a railroad man he did not belong in the same class with Robert Pltcalrn, who for years was super intendent of the Pittsburgh division and a partner of Andrew Carnegie. Titcalrn also wns n Presbyterian; likewise a Scotchman like Carnegie, nnd free-handed. In the case of William Thnw, his beliefs were of n rigid and unyielding brand of Calvinism. PItcnirn's beliefs were modeled along the genernl lines of n liberalism, per haps best described in the language of a famous Frenchman, to wit: "God Almighty is n gcntlemnn, nnd as such is not disposed to punish the short comings of human gentlemen with too much, severity." In view of his parentage and the God fearing manner example that wns set before him, it is hard to understand how Harry Thaw turned out ns he did. HT'C WOULD be interesting to knew, just -"- how much money the Thaws have paid to snye Ilnrry since the night he killed Stan ford White," remarked a well-known man of the town the other day. He is a shrewd judge of human nature, this mnn. nnd he reflects the tone nnd sentiment of the street. It Is nn interesting though purely specula tive question to ull. vjave Sirs. Mnr.V C. Thnw nnd her fntnily. ns to how much de tectives, lnwyers, alienists, psycho-analysts, nerve specialists nnd the long array" of iegal nnd medical practitioners have mndc off the criminal weaknesses of this man nnd the mother love of the devoted womnn who' has used every menns in her power to snvc him iroro ins mte. ,, ..t The oddest thing in nil the drnh length of this case, which last week reached another milestone, wns the nppenvnuce, a few years back, of Rodger O'Mara, of Pittsburgh, ns guardian for Thnw and protector of his estate. Reputable lawyers and financiers of sound judgment were passed over for the manager of a private detective ngency. For Rodger O'Mara was a policeman with a de-.. tcctive's training. He wns not a man of lnrge intelligence or education. He had risen to the head of the police department and subsequently established an agency of his own. The only reason ever advanced wns that O'Mara knew the bypaths of blackmail and chicanery thnt were likely to be pursued by those seeking illicitly, n share of the Thaw money. Some authors lament their fate, but It Is evident that Thomas Nelson Pago will be fully resigned before he resumes his career of literature. Sentimental swains whose goat has been frequently got by a florist's orchids will re joice thnt at Inst a florist's.orchids have been " got by a goat. What Do You Knoiv? QUIZ 1. How many marshals of France appeared in the great Bastille Day parade in Pnris on last Monday? 2. Who arc tellurians? ' 3. What kind of an anirrial is a tup? 4. Among what people does the habit of chewing the teeth-staining tctel nut prevail? fi. Wbat'ls the origin of the word blgqt? 0. What Is the capital of the Canadian state of Alberta? 7. Who wrote the famous short-story classic of French patriotism, "Tho . Siege of Berlin"? 5. How does the height of tho Eiffel Tower 11 compare with that of the Washington Monument? " ' 0. What is mayhem? 10. When wns the great British drive of 1918 against the Germans' launched? Answers to Yesterday's Quz 1. The R-.1-4 made the return trip to Eng land in a little more than seventy-flve hours. 2. Amen, which now means so be it,r was originally a Hebrew word meaning certainty or certainly. 3. The Are de Trioinphe commemorates' the victories of the French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. 4. Prince Umberto Is heir apparent rtc the Italian throno. 5. Senator Swanson Is from Virginia. 6. New York has the largest representation In Congress, forty-three representa tives and two senators. 7. The Romance languages are those basi cally derived from the, Latin.'' The list Includes French, Spanish, Italian, ' Portuguese, Provencal, Catalan and Rumanian. 8. Calvin Coolidge is governor of Massa chusetts. 0. 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Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers