tsmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm H9ffl WtffcWft ft'mi'fl rz?iifa4 'JVf5cW ' , " . ."j'2 1. . t - "'J f-',' '. H. ..'1 EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, JULY 26, 19PJ R tf $ t Is F m i is Iff S 4. I' rv ft laiettf ng public Hfe&gec V THE EVENING TELEGIUPB PUDLIG LEDGER COMPANY - ,crnua it. k. cutitis. rritNT T Chrl H. Ludlnnon. Vlca PrnUt nt: John C Martin, Secretary and Treasurer; Philip 9 Collins, John 11. Williams. John J, Hpurffeon. Directors. i-orronui, doaud: f Ctkcs 11. K. CciTia. Chairman ' I DAVID E. SMILEY . Editor , JOHN C. MARTIN.. .Ocneral Euslncts Manager rubllahed dally at Tent to T.nxjM Ilulldlnr, 1 Independence Square, l'hllailelnhla Atiikiio Ciir JVej L'nlon Bulldlnc Kw YoK... SOU Metropolitan Tower Dmioii 701 Kord llulMlna- St. Lorn inns rullertnn llulldlng CUIOICJO 130? 2Yi!un Ilulldlnt; NFiwa nrnnAtrs: TVasiiisoton DcaciD. N K. -or. 1'ennsvlvanla Ave. and 14th St. T?r.w Yobk hcnRiO The Ami ltuilillni; London llutuu Ixmdon Times BonscniPTtnv tehms The ErcNivo Vrruo Ltixiiii Is served to sub scribers In Philadelphia and surrounding- towns at the rate of twelve (IS) cents per week, payable to the carrier. , Hy mall Vo points outside of rhlladelphla. In the Ifnlted States. Canada or 1'nlted States pes ftesslons, rostnee free, fifty (.10) cents r-r month Uix (0) dollArs per year, payable In advance To all foreign countries one ($1) dollar rr month. Noticib Subscribers srlshlnr address chnnrcl must rive old as well as new address. BELL. 3000 WALNUT KEYSTONE. MAIN J000 jCT Address all communications to Kvenlno Puhllo Ledger, Independence Square, Philadelphia, Member of the Associated Press rnE ASSOCIATED PRESS ,, errlu lively entitled to the use far republication of all news dispatches credited tn it or not otherwise credited in this piper, and aho the local neies puhlishe'l therein. All rights of epuhlication of special dis patches herein arc also reserved. rhllarlelphli, 'Hurdir, Julr ". 1"!' ENERGY MISPLACED GLOUCESTER and Westville, N. J. are suffering from the depredations of "bad boys." In Gloucester bread and milk arc taken from the doorsteps of houses. Bread and take are taken from the boxes in front of grocery stores. Maybe the boys are hungry boys rather than bad boys. Westville has lost books and pencils from its schoolhousc and five boys have been arrested Maybe they are mischiev ous boys rather than bad boys. What Gloucester and Westville prob ably need is a Boy Scout campaign. There Is juvenile energy on tap in both place that might be worth while if properly directed. NEW VOTES fNE new element that is certain to ap- peav before long in Pennsylvania politics is the woman vote. Elsewhere in the country, even in the states where equal suffrage will be delayed until the formal ratification of the Anthony amendment, the political leaders are en deavoring to organize feminine senti ment, to educate the prospective voters and line them up as reserves for the bat tles of the future. There are budding organizations of "Republican women" and "Democratic women" and there appears to be a gen eral assumption that the newly enfran chised citizens will promptly line up under 'party banners and become subject to conventional party prejudices and aberrations. In this state the politicians are content to wait. They do not appear to take the woman vote seriously. They seem to feel that it can be easily man aged. 1 On the other hand, certain observers are positive that women voters will be a great and independent force for en lightenment and decency in politics. It will be interesting to see who is right. BUILD THEM HERE! TT IS to be hoped that when the ship f " ping board awards the contract for the "two 1000-foot ocean liners it contemplates building the job will come to this city. There are several plants here big enough to handle the job and competent authority has it that there is plenty water at high tide for the launching of them. But, of course, the work won't como here unless some one hustles for it. NO HUMAN JUNK HEAP NOW 'GOVERNOR SPROUL'S approval of " - the Lanius bill will be shared by most winking citizens. The bill provides for the special tiain "ing of handicapped children Clinics will determine what children are tubeicular and need open-air treatment. Incor rigible children, children of weak intel lect and those who have deftcts of sight , or hearing will receive the scientific treatment needed. This simply moan3 taking inferior ma terial and turning it into something useful. Looking at the matter from a purely business point of view the plan is distinctly worth while. Every healthy child is an asset to the state. Every unfit child is a liability. To turn a liability into an asset is a good business proposition. That the state is finding it out is evi denced not only in the care of the chil dren but in the founding of the State Bureau of Rehabilitation, born of experi ence in the administration of the work men's compensation law. , The new bureau will provide special education to fit persons recovered from Injury for occupations they will be qual ifier to fill. The state may also provide them with artificial limbs or such appli- anccs as will enable them to make a living. Every workman is an asset to the state. .Every idler is a liability. To turn a lia bility into an asset is worth while. The rule never fails to work out. BACK TO SHIPS TVjTANY are the bright promises of the CA'- war that must remain, for a time at least, unfulfilled. There was to have been peace and understanding and good will the world over. We shall have to wait a while longer for all that sort of thing. And there were to have been vast, fast airships moving on a breakfast-in-New- York-dinner-in-London schedule, with '" luncheon, and nerharjs fazz. in the clouds. 'l! WT 1 I 11..1 il.l 1. ti .ppes uaseu upon mat enuiuiK prospect. r.j.-yrauss do gar. asiae ior me present. , -,The overseas (lights In planes and "jl.jjL II. s UIBIt"V.. have been interesting:, but In- 'eottcWslye .Traneocean aviation! i .atiil for the noroes of this world. Wo shall still have to go to Europo in ocean-goers. And that is why the plans of the ship ping board for 1000-foot liners, bigger and faster than anything afloat, are in teresting. The intention of the shipping board to carry docking facilities out into deep water may actually be the beginning of a new age of shipbuilding. There Is no limit to the possible size or speed of steamships but the depth of hnibor chan nels. Liners bigger thnn any yet dreamed of may be upon the seas within a few years, and before we know it the time to Europe may be cut to three days or less by water. WAR FOR DEMOCRACY ENDS SECRET DIPLOMACY Submission of the Peace Treaty to the British Parliament Puts Control of Foreign Affairs In the Hands of the Peoplo w1 HEN a war i.- waged by nations in aims, as the eiont war has been waged, the custom of governments must be changed. They have already boon changed in England so radically that Gladstone would be shocked -it the recognition which I,lod George hat, given to the lights of democracy in the control of foitign ic'ations. It has not been customary to submit peace treaties to Parliament for ratifica tion The British Goernment made the peace tieuty with the American colonies in 17S3, under which their independence was recognized, and Pailiament was not consulted. The government has made war and declared peace nnd the only con trol which Pailiament has been able to exeicise has been through its power to giant or withhold supplied. But when once war was begun no Pailiament hns dared to withhold the necessary appropri ations for canying it on. The government has made alliances with other powers on its own initiative and it has not sought the support of Pailiament, and it has made secret treaties known only to the ministry and has disclosed them only when the Par liament was called upon to act under them. Parliament had nothing tn do with the Japanese alliance of 1905. It knew nothing about the agreements made with Italy for the disposal of the Aus tiian possessions on the Adriatic during the recent war and it was not informed of the understanding with Japan about Shantung. But when the treaty of peace was made Lloyd George decided to submit it tfj, Pailiament for ratification, and it has been ratified by both houses. The right of the representatives of the people to be consulted in the management of the foreign affairs of the empiie has now been recognized and a precedent hns been set which will compel succeeding prime ministers to take Parliament into their confidence. It is not likely that Parliament will submit in the future to be ignoied. It will demand that it be informed when treaties and alliances are formed. It will object to secrecy. It will demand that as the spokesman of the citizenry of Great Britain, on whom the burden of the war must fall, it be consulted in all dealings with foreign powers in older that it may decide for itself whether to lay itself liable to be called to arms in defense of international agreements. This is a triumph for democracy which was not foreseen when the war began, but it is the legitimate and logical outcome of such a war as that which has been fought. Unlpss all signs fail the control of foreign relations in France also will be taken from the piesident and the minister of foreign affairs and placed in the hands of Parliament. The making of war and peace are already committed to Parlia ment by the Flench constitution. But it was not until the present republic was established that Parliament had this power. As President Toincaie says in a book on the French Government, published the year befoie he became president, "the constitution intends that after so .many cruel trials France shall henceforth be mistress of her own fate." But M. Poin care in 1912 w-as still arguing for the right of the president to make secret treaties The constitution provides that tieaties of peace and of commerce must be ratified by Parliament Clemcnceau has already submitted the treaty to the Chamber of Deputies but M. Poincare insisted, seven years ago, that the presi dent should continue to be the sole power to make military conventions and alli ances. He said that the understanding between France and Russia could not have been reached if its terms were to, have been made public. As president he made secret treaties with Russia after the lecent war began and he came to an understanding with Italy along with Great Britain, and with Japan also. These secret understandings complicated the negotiation of the peace treaty, for both Japan and Italy insisted that they bo enforced. The British Parliament ratified the peace treaty with little delay because leaders of all parties had shared in its drafting and because the war had been prosecuted, not by a Liberal or by a Tory government, but by a government com posed of the leaders of all parties. All Parliament had to do was to ratify that which its leadeis, acting as its agents, had done. The government has been at pains to make it clear that it was not the representative of any party but the agent of the -vhole nation, and it has been so successful in creating this im pression that men are wondering to what party Lloyd. George now belongs. His submission of the treaty to the popular branch of the government indi cates that he is committed to the pro gressive democratization of British in stitutions and to the complete breaking down of the class system, whichr in its origin, made the kjng supreme in waging war nnd making peace and in making treaties and alliances a system which hap survived until the present week, when for almost the. USt tfnjW. ffraat peace . -j - v treaty was submitted 'to Parliament be fore its ratification was regarded as com plete. We democratized our foreign relations in America from the beginning. The men who framed the constitution kncw( the havoc that had been wrought in mo world by secret 'treaties and by alliances made without the knowledge of the people who would have to fight the wars. They directed '.hat the President, by and with the advice nnd consent of the Senate, should make treaties nnd they provided that Congiess should declare war. The Senate, in debating the peace treaty, 'is fulfilling its constitutional functions. It would be fnlsc to its duty if it neglected to examine the document in detail nnd to consider all its implications The complications' which hne arisen aio not due to any usurpation of power by the Senate, for the powei of the Senate is equal to that of the President. The complications have arisen because of the tactlessness of the President in his dealings with the co-ordinate I ranch of the treaty-making body. Our foreign relations have Vn con ducted democratically in the past. We .set the example which Great Butnin has just followed and which France embodied in part in its lntest constitutiuii. Vnd the Senate is merely insisting tliat the democratization shall continue. This is true, aside from the duty of the Senate to recognize that the treaty as diaftcd is the result of many compromises is not a perfect instrument, and mii.4 be accepted, if possible, without mnkmg changes in it which would compel a le nssembling of the Peace Conference. HARD-BOILED BURLESON TWTR. BURLESON, blithe spirit, cannot " even keep peace in the air. Those who know most about the internal affair. of the Postofi'ico Department would have been amazed if the aviation division had gone on much longer without strikes, ul timatums and wavings of the mailed fist. Philadelphia, which has just been as sternly disciplined by the postmaster gen eral as if it were on his payrc-11, may now look with a new interest at the threatened paralysis of the service which was with drawn from this city chiefly because we couldn't be bullied by Mr. Burleson and his assistant, Mr. Pracgcr. If the Postofiice Department wanted an air mail service in Philadelphia it should have gone about the business logically, leased a site for a landing station and equipped it. The Fairmount Park Commission was justified in its lefusal to permit the use of Belmont plateau for this purpose. At a landing station there must be shops and mechanics, speeding motortrucks and the sort of equipment that would have dis figured the most beautiful lawns in the Park. Bustleton was too far off. Mr. Burleson, after an interval of experiment, didn't try for another field. He cut this city off his air route. That was just before his fliers struck. Almost everybody in the postal service, it seems, must strike sooner or later. The walkout of the aviators will not seriously affect communication in the United States. It serves mciely to leveal again the oddities of the Burleson ego. There have been crashes and forced landings in the service. When airmen talk of danger there must be danger. It doesn't require a knowledge of tho tech nicalities of flying to understand that a man who is forced to fly in fog, close to the ground in a machine that cannot do less than a hundied miles an hour, is being subjected to unnecessary risks. The air mail planes nie not equipped with stabilizers, yet they must fly in all winds and all weather. "Fly," ,ays Mr. Burleson, "or quit." This order was issued thiough Otto Praeger, second assistant to Mr. Burle son, who has figured as sort of Crown Prince in tho squalid lecords of executive oppression in the postal service. The fliers quit and added another chapter to the story of Burlesonism. They had to risk their lives unnecessarily or quarrel with an administration that preaches amity and fair-dealing among all men. An army officer now May Up Win ilnns to fly from New in a Walk mU. to Seattle with (inlj one stop on the way. With two sin li lonj; legs aviation ought to make great s.trnk" An eleven - year - old Amend to Malte girl risked her life in "Self" Head "K.ue" a burning biiilding'to save her six-year-old sister. And nine again that lioaiy old lie that self-iitesrmithiti is the first law of na ture got its bumps. It isn't fly time for striking aviators. Old King Coal is a wily old boul. Hope balance. has no real weight in a bunk Ktri'Ht tin- service throughout the coun try appears to be off its trolley. liu-tloton litis lost its bustle. bPrvlcc has In en ilUcontlniieil. Air mall The roMilt iu Croatia is btiong indica tion that Cermau ptopaguuda is slill bear ing fruit. If tho new National Guard can ouij bo skeletonized the Federal Government will provide the boni'n ' It may be said appropriately enough of the new xuliller posts .that their name, is Legion, France is now getting ready to reduce its army. Thin is a whole 'ot better than letting (ierimtuy do it. Shorn of diplomatic phrase, Japan's answer to the suggestion that (die pledge bertelf to return Shantung Is, "Nothing m doing ; The proposed aerial police force for Philadelphia nntMpatls the time when air plane bandits will be us numerous an auto bandits today. , With one hide declaring tlia,t there will be no pubsy-footing and the other avowing that gumshoe candidates are not wanted, there in a chance for the man wth the hob nailed boots to win the inajpru!t.r. CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S LETTER The Housing Corporation Cannot Pay Its Philadelphia Taxes Mexican Fuel Oils Threatening to Dis place Pennsylvania Coal. Washington Gossip Washington, July 20. rniiniiK is a hitch over' tho United States Housing Corporation situation In Phila delphia. Congress has been asked to make an additional appropriation to meet this nnd other apparent delinquencies that have arisen. Apparently the housing corpora tion owes the city for certain municipal Im piovements made as per agreement with the officials. These improvements Included the Installation of water mains, sewers, street paving, and so forth. The president of the housing corporation. Mr. Sherman, has suggested as n way out of the dilemma that the city credit the corporation with the payment of the $100,000 Involved In lieu of taxes. One trouble is that the appropria tion bills have been passed and the housing corporation Is without the funds it needs in this instance. ROBERT W. LnSTiHY. who has been identified with the cement Industry for many jeais and who enJoetl close rela tions with the powers In the Pennsylvania Railroad office before the government stepped in. knows something about foreign com petition nnd the value of correcting Ameri can standards. Robert was not nhvns In the cement business. There are those who remember his activities as a newspaper man way back when the court combina tion cut a big figure ns the purveyor of emnt news to the Philadelphia papers Pinbaby the biggest newspaper job Bob Lesley ever performed was to report the Hunter-Armstrong murder trial in Camden. He worked so hnrd with his right arm tak ing stenographic notes in that cae that he is said to have been slightly left-handed ever since. fTlHHT are constantly making 'trouble In -- Congress for tlte foreign -language news paper. Jacob Clnslmrs. who was formerly in Philadelphia Councils, happens to be tempornrv president of the Publishers' As sociation of the American Press in Foreign I.nnguages. and he nnd Vito M. Bnldl. of an Italian language newspnper, and Gnst.iv Maver. of nn Americanized German lan guage paper which now has Colonel James A Campbell nt the masthead, nre alive to the situation. There are some men in Con gress who think foreign 'language news papers in the T'nited Ptntes should be sup pressed altogether. Naturally this brings a protest from tjie (jfont eastern centers of n population which is now about half foreign. The same question arises with regard to inu migration bills and bills to deport aliens. Thus far Congress has not been able to tnke up these questions and there is doubt, now that the war is over, how far it will go with regard to certnin of the radical propositions that have been submitted. THKIitt aie n good many people who want war with Mexico. CJenerally they nre friends of those whose interests in Mexico have been violated. But the Central Penn nlvania Coal Producers' Association pre sents a new viewpoint, carrying with it in dorsement of the report of the national coal association's fuel oil committee, which is that Mexican fuel oils without tariff duty nre now threatening to displace coal products in the T'nited States. General Secretary O'Neill, of this association, is tulvlsing meinbeis of Congiess that unless a pro tectee tariff is put on Mexican fuel oils, concerning which most of our troubles with Mexico niise, the anthnu ite coal production of Pennsylvania will be piejudued. and that this may ultimately affect the wages paid the miners 0LIVr.lt McKNIGHT knows n good deal about the grain business, but the one big idea which makes of him a veritable "pro bono publico" is the single tax. Since the depaiture of Henry George, the founder of this theory, few men have kept hammer ing away at it so aggressively as has Mr. MeKtught He keeps Congress informed on the subject , but unfortunately for him there is now no avowed single titxer here, the nearest approach to one having been Crosser, of Ohio, who went out with the last session. Mr Mt Knight rnmpliiins that public men do not grasp the importance of the single tax. If we could convince ourselves now thnt n single tax on land alues would do the busi ness of the count! y 'and relieve us of the burdensome system of taxation which has tome over state and nation as nn incident of war. Mr. McKnuht might find some en thusiastic supporters at the Capitol. Tint the job of leadjustment on single tax lines is apparently too big for statesmen to tackle. TV'RIN'G the dehate on the prohibition en 1J foieement hill Dr. Hobart A. Hare, pro fcsnr in the Jefferson Medical College was fiequenth quoted. Along with other 'well known physicians, the doctor had given his expert opinion that beer containing not to excied 2 7." per cent of alcohol by weight is not intoxicating. TTOrSINO condition In TV,,,.!.!..-. . -A not what thev should be. Tn the first place there nro not cnoutrh bouses to no. commodate the people who have come here to work for the covernment. Xobodv bene fits hi this condition sate the renl estate ocents. the landlords nnd the renters who sublet. i:fforts to cheek these conditions bv legislation have not been successful. Men and women who have come to obtain ein plojment in tho government service do not, n n rule, obtain sepaiate houses to live in! .uuu; in uieiii, pernnps most of them be come tinants in lnrge and small dwellings, nceup.wng separate floors or rooms. ju' weather like this murk, hot and sticky as it has been nt the cnpltnl. it is nlmos't cruelt for those who work nnd expect tu live lieie to bring children. There is no doubt that many clever employes in the de partments rent houses for good round fig ures, probublj twice as nmeji as normal, nnd parcel them out to those who are will ing to leave their happy home-; elsewhere to live in bnek-Htor ioonis here. Mean while, it is worthy the attention of labor unions, "s well us of employers who are favoring or protesting n coutitiuunce of the United States employment service, that these untowaid housing conditions are due 'vlui'Eely, to what seems to be an insistence "upon the creation here of new agencies to bring worr.crs irom otner parts. Jt would he a good thing for the cupltal nnd for efficient service, perhaps, if n number of these new war bureaus could be dispensed with altogether. During the recent race riots on the main thoroughfares of the capital it wus notice able that many of those who helped speedily to make up the troublesome crowds weie newcomers to Washington, who wero almost as ready to live in the open. In the squarcn, ana on we wimuuBummi, us to remain boxed up lu their contracted and overheated upatt incuts. There Is a rumor that the situation here maybe aggravated by the return to Wash-, Ington of the clerical force of the' shipping board that was sent 'over to Philadelphia when Hcuwod too control. x,. 1" i. A M tew 2 - . ic r '0 ,?S8Bft? :',..-v: ..-.-.' - -. .t...";i(,si..i a. ivawm-wj. ,sriteis7r'y ..- s.-.t: --;--. . zzz vsssr t-'- ---"jWaw - r .;tjJr:,,nisiiiijiitiiai?S.i... ,-.- TRAVELS IN PHILADELPHIA By Christopher Morley Making the Lightning Safe for Democracy T DOl'BT whether the ingenuity of men in the management of their complex uffairs has ever been brought to a higher pitch than in the regulation of n gieat city's daily con sumption of electric current. I went recently to visit the office of the Load Dispatcher of The Philadelphia Klec tric fninpnny. at Tenth and Chestnut. From one switchboutd in n quiet room the greater part of the electric energy used in the entire region of Philadelphia and suburbs is con trolled by two men. The scientific details of their task aie a little beyond the grasp of the lajinan, but the gencrnl principles nie simple enough and aie of interest to everj citizen who makes any use of electricity in his daily affairs either for transportation, commercial power or in the home. If ou lide into town on the electrified sections of the P. U. It , if joti board u trolley car, if oii use a telephone or turn on n bulb or nn ilectric vacuum cleaner in our home, every unit of cuii cut that helps jou on your way is recorded on the Load Dispatcher's board. Jt is like the staff headquarters of nn'nrmy the great armv of electricity nnd Mr. Black, the chief Load Dispatcher, is the Foeb of the s stem. No piece of generating or dis tributing apparatus in the district can be used or laid off except under his orders. Tlin Load Dispatcher's desk faces a large curved screen twenty feet long with over a hundred panels, which give a diagram of every geneiating station and stlbstntion in the 'Philadelphia district. On this great chart ou will see a multitude of small green lights, enth one representing apparatus in not mnl opeiation. When any unit is "dead" its light is unlit. Here and there nre small red lights to indicate units that arc blocked out for some teason,' perhaps for repairs. The desk is in direct telephone communica tion with every source of power in the sjs tem As ou watch the switchboard, little white lights flash up. These nre the outposts of the ami calling in to headquarters to report conditions, pel Imps to announce a thunderstorm on its way toward tho city from Tat on or Willow (hove or Chester, nnd to ask instructions in case some icdistii butiun of current is necessary. Till", til st thing to get clearly iu mind is thut the city's current requirements fluc tuate all day long, lequlriug incessant dis tribution of the "load" over its various channels. This fluctuation not only takes place all day long but fiom day to day, according to the season of the year, the amount of day light nnd the industrial requirements of the dnv. It is obvious that the problem of sup- pi Itig current is quite different on a holiday and on n working day. it is quite different on a day in December nnd n day in July. And as electrical apparatus Is subject to many conditions not humanly controllable, the problem of the Load Dispatcher Is to be prepared for every possible emergency, so that if any breakdown occurs In a generat ing btatiou or out along the lines of cabl or overhead transmission, other units of power tnu be switched on to koep the wheels tinning wljJiout more than a few minute's (or even seconds) of delay. I was shown a fasci nating series of cards Illustrating the varia tion of Philadelphia's consumption of cur rent duriug a whole year. ,A glance nt this stack of giaph-cnrds gives a map of the city's industrial nnd social life. FTUKI', for instance, a day In midwinter -L when the city's electrical needs are ot their highest. Beginning at midnight one sees the line of current consumption dropping rapidly as lights nro going off all oyer the city, revelers nro making their way home ward from theatres nnd cafes. The graph drops steeply from midnight until 2 a. tn, nnd reaches Its lowest point from 2 to 4, Shortly after 4 It begins to rise slowly. Karly workers are beginning to stir; the city is getting In its milk forflbe day. and from 4 to C there Is a cende rl in the amount of ejctrlcltyuscd, M o'clockjhee Wjfffty fl" , j rt, v A VERY PRESENT HELP - .-.. j - - - to rise sharply, nnd runs up rapidly until 7, when theie is a brief lull for about half an hour when most of us are having break fast. The morning peak is reached about S. During this time people nro on their way to work, the trolleys nnd suburban electric trains nre using a huge nmouut of "juice" and factories are beginning to call for power. After ti o'clock the line sags gently until about JO, when it again takes an upward turn. At noon there is an abrupt drop almost a peipendicular drop, while the i ity takes its luncheon la.v off. Instantly all that enormous quantity of power must be throt tled down. And at 1 o'clock the line leaps upward again to the level at which it fell away an hour befoie. From t o'clock until 4 the load increases slowly. At 4 o'clock it begins to shoot upward steeply, as the winter dusk comes on and several million people aie turning on .their lights. About ." :.".0 comes the big peak of the day: all the city is sticaining homeward and every unit of power is exerting its fullest output. After Hint time the graph drops swiftly again until about 7 :."(), when theatres, movies and other amusements cause another small upward movement. But most of the industrial con sumers have shut off by this time, and not even a night of the most rousing gaiety keeps the current consumption rising for long, lly ! o'clock the Hue is falling, and sags away sharply through the long hours of the night until the upward turn comes once moie atv 4 tt. in. mllH full story of the way in which the A. i city's electrical needs are watched at headquarters would take a book to tell. During the critical days of the war, when llog Island nnd munition factories were run ning ut forced piesstire, the men who weie keeping the cm rent supplied got very little sleep. Curiously enough, it was not until just after the urmistico that any serious breakdown occurred. A ,'!.",0(1() kilowatt generator down nt the Schu.vlkill station burnt out. Major McLaren, of the army, went to the load dispatcher's office, and under his supervision, as the load got up to the diminished generating capacity, section aflrr section of the (iovernnicnt's enter prises Hog Island, Midvnle, etc. was cut oil temporarily so as fi keep the telephones, street cars, electric trains and .other urgent needs of daily life noiug. AXOTIIKK interesting branch of the work is that of the Trouble Supervisor. Mr. Post, who holds this position, told me that during the recent debauch of St. Swithln he and his forty "trouble men" worked eighteen and nineteen hours n day for thirteen dn.vs. The Trouble Dlspntcher's function is to tnke care of breakdowns. As soon as any com plaint is reported to his department it is refeired to the trouble gnng iu the district. These men, who cairy maps of every bit of wiring iu their district, are sent out to locate the defect. During such a spell of rain us thesreceut one their task la dangerous in the extreme. Perhaps the wet bough of a tree hns fullen acioss high tension wires, and nil the lights hnve gone black in a whole sec tion of the city or suburbs. The line-men will have to go up nnd down poles, in the diukucss, working on live wires that caunqt be cut off. If they touch two wiles nt once It niny mean death. Mr. Post thinks it a notnble piece of luck that in the recent wet fortnight thero were only two accidents, neither very berlous, IT 18 an amazing thing to get some in sight, however casual, into the thrilling work of those who control' and regulate the terrific powers 6f nature that man has hnr nessed to his own use. When one bees the enormous nnd terrifying machinery In the power houses the huge turbine generators down nt Chester or at Twenty-eighth and Christian, for Instnnce and how they arc cunningly tamed with dainty devices so sen sitive that even the starting ot nn electric train on the Main Line Is shown by the flicker of a needle on a dial In a distant novver house, one realizes thnt thwe mca truly "tide on the whirlwind and direct the "";? ' -" ..'.i-' n - ETUDE OA' AN OLD THEMEJ Jjydia, die, per omnia . Book 1, Ode S conjuie you by . Horace, all the gods V YDIA, I ubovc Tell me why you care to try to ruin S.v bin is ; Why have ou enrnptuied him nnd cap tmefl him with love? Why hnve jou inspired him nnd tired him' with a kiss? Tell me why he sits nnd sulks, and hates the sunny field? He was not one to shun the sun, inured to dusty plains! Why does he never ride beside his troop with spear ilnd shield Nor urge his steed of (iallic breed with buibcd and bitted icius? Oh! whv do martial exercises fail to bring him joy? And tell me why he anguish ns they say languishes in Achilles did when he was hid before tho full of Tioj : When he appeared disguised and weird as though be feared the fray. Louis I'nterinejcr In the New York Hvs ning Post. What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. What riii calls Itself Romany? 2. When nnd how was the District of Columbia formed? 3. What dramatist nnd poet wns known ns the Dutch Shnkespearc? 4. What American preacher said, "A re- publicun government in u hundred points is weaker than nn autocratic government"? 5. Who was John Carver? ft. llow is the president of France elected? 7. What is determinism? S. On what date did (Jermany declare war on ltussiu? !). What aie tympani? 10. What is haggis? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. 1'krainia was proclaimed "free uud in dependent" by its Central Rada (Parliament) November 20, 101T. 2. Samuel Sullivan Cox (1824-80), Ameri can politician nnd editor, wns nick named "Sunset Cox" after n rhetori cal description in Congress of n sunset, 3. A bark or barque is a three-masted vessel with fore , nnd main maBts square -ligged uud mizzen fore-and-aft rigged. 4. The Tninesi, sometimes cnlled Tnmplco, is u river in the state of Tamnulipas, Mexico, which falls into the (iulf of. Mexico at thMovvu of Tnmplco, 5. Theiovcl "Trilbj" was written by Du Maurler, an artist identified witli Lon don Puuch. 0. The modern meaning of "syndicalism" is "direct action" rather than "po litical action" in the relation of labor to capital. "Syndicalism" nnd "(sabotage" arc Freueh importations. A sabot is a wooden shoe. Sabotage inenuH "throwing a wooden shoe (equivalent to the American monkey wrench) into the machinery." 7. The approximate area of Paraguay proper Is estimated at (k',000 square miles. An area comprising upward of 100,000 bquaro miles of territory lying between the rivers Paraguay and Pllcaiiiuj.0, known no the Chaeo, is claimed by Paraguay, whoso rights, however, nre disputed by Bolivia. S. James Hogg (1770.18an), Scottish poet, was known ns The Ettrick Shepherd because of his occupation and birth' place. 0. The forest area of the Ocrman empire was estimated befoie the war at 34 -G0!i,800 oerci., ' 10. Alexander Pope was the author of tbs line, -An noncst. map Is th noblest ..!. ...! Hu l "W'V, J- al 4 aU J&
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