i"-'V- I ' T-7 i ;.'.- .- t.,. L A A1 "i. " - v-y O it V "U .! ''a.'1 aK i U. W-c' 'f? hf , g!3f. C T . Eft,- t fcfc & F. if' A u A itv :t- , ifr 1 ,r . 'J I....,.HII '" is wnnPF MFN PAP E PIIFALL-IC1 .. T "Colonel Savs IndeDondonts Aro h .... . in Load, but Overconfidonco Is Dangerous VIGILANCE IS ADVISED Tly GEORGE XOX McGAIN L'he unprecedented ro-;istrntion thus far has elnt-d the Moore cnmiini-n workers around hendqtinrters to n liigh iItch of enthusiasm. Many of them. T find, regard the fl-ht as ulrendy won. Some of the leaders say that if the registration on the third day rnmes any Where near, in proportion, to the lK iires of the two precedins days, noth ing can stay the tide of u Moore victory. Over-ronfidenee ha- defeated many M candidate. "While the returns of the first two days of registration are enough to jus tify the high pulling Nation which the nntl-Vnre people feel, 1 think it would , wion fnv liem to iousider the sit uation dispassionatelj and in mid blood. A big registration i nil right, but ivhnt about the primary election? As it stands toitny. the registration does point to an nnti-Vare triumph, but unless the Independents see that every Moore voter g.'ts to the polls ou elec tion day, rain or shine, and particularly rain, they stand to lose the victory that is within their grasp. nftcr which it agln' fell into n state of coma. sure, This is also true of registrars. I 'do not think that it Is generally known that the board has wade it n rigid rule never to appoint n registrar to act for tho Republican phrt,v who had previously been n Democrat. The inspectors thus far 'appointed have been working for a wr-ck quietly New Hoard on tho Job N'ot to the new board. It boldly announced this morning that It assumes nil responsibility for the registrars it has appointed. They must not only be on the Job, but they must be on the job ull the tttno during the hours designated by nw. , and without publicity, t'p to the pres- It-answers to no politician's whistle, i . , ... , It comes and goes at no political m-.- - nothlnK ha been published cen ter's beck and call. It follows no dl- cernlng their nchvlties. Indeed, there rectlon at the jerk of an official thumb, nrc, those who fancied that the board That is what the Hoard of Registration hluI Ovprlooltct the question of election Commissioners tell me and I believe . them. ' inspectors. fnder the new registration law the. After the "Repeater" hoard is empowered to appoint inspec-, Commte-doner Woodruff is of Hie tors without limit. It is their business, opinion that the plofesaional repeater to investigate fraud and error and locate nu(j t)c misrrilM10113 ward wnrkcr nrc witnesses, lor a week past the board i , .,, , has had its inspectors operating quietly' ll,1,1,r surveillance as was never known; in precincts where political rottenness I before. lie predicts that the way of M IAN EGE TRADE, GARY ASKS Root, Who Also Addresses' Bar Association, Would End Law-Made Justice "FAMILY COURTS" URGED was suspected or had been discovered. Ilut something more was needed. Then came the "Dying Squadron." It is. I think, tho offspriug of the brain of two men. K. Lawrence Fell, chairmnn of the board, and Clinton Rogers Woodruff, present member and chairman of n previous board. The "Flying Squadron" is composed of n compnet body of inspectors. In reality they nie detectives and under I orders nil the time. They start in vestigations at any moment, in any part of the city, where violations of I registration Imvs are reported. They travel in small squads, work rapidly and by n division of labor nr roniplish in a few hours what would require a single in-qicctor several days to I'lean up the political transgressor this fnll will bp very hard. Ity the. Associated Press Itnston, Sept. 4. Immediate resump tion nMiadc with' ficrmany and Austria was advocated hrc today by Klbert II. (iary, chairman of Jhc board of di rectors of the I'nited States Steel Cor poration, in an address before the an Organ bat ion Never Sleeps Xoiipolltirnl Members A striking feature is that this squad ion is nut made up of political ap pointees. It i a specially selected hody of men under the persona! direction of T l.'rtll Tlin iilnnfilt- rtf inntii" tf itu They must remember that the are , ,nrmbors is n,niVI1 to the rr-t of the organization never sleeps. It. drives l0flr(j Hvith a long lash. Il is persistent, pow- I -piie purpose of this U t o relieve uiem evful, tireless. Ami besides it has every- j nPI.s f t, i,ard from political im thing at stake. I portuuity nnd pestering demands for I shall neer torgct :iu observation appointments. The members of the the late John Virdiu made in Harris-' board suggest mimes, but after their burg some years ago dining cusidera- j examination and they are sworn into tion by the Legislature of a reform "flic- - disposition of the force by i.V. ; .......: i ,.nuc.,,.e I mutual consent of tin- members of tho Dill. HP was yrmvJ.nm . i--- k,l 1 l,.e,l in the l,nn,l ,.f Mr ""'" " . . .... Fell. Thus far the board of commissioners I mm meeting of the American Itnr As lias riTcwfil requests for inspectors! relation. to investigate the Firht, Second, Twen-i r. (Jnry- declared the majority of ty-sixth and Thirty-ninth wards. Thcjt,,, American people were, in favor of Forty-seventh ward should nlo be in-(n,. j,cur0 treaty and the league of nn cluded in the list. , tjnnKi nIU predicted both would b" From one snloou in the latter wardl adopted uithout. material change, it was reported that, six men were reg- Re-establishment of trade with the istered. The bartcudcr affirmed that central powers was urged on the ground the resignation was correct; that the that we need their goods, and also that men were asleep nnd could not be dis- such purchases would tend to stabilize turbed. The inspectors found that international exchange, there was only one bedroom in the As further means to restore the in house; that it contained one bed, and, teruational business situation. Mr. moreover, that the room was teuiiutless, , (?nry declared that the United States In helpless confusion the1 barkeeper do- "should finance other deserving coun clnrcd that the six men nil .slept in the tries, less fortunnte, in rehabilitating one bed. " I their productive capacity and resources Another complaint concerned some' nnd that we should purchase their prod -old hotels in the Sixth wnrd. which nets up to the limits of our require- ucrc said ti have an excessive number nicnts and ability. of guests who had registered. The in spectors discovered that the full mini to where they want less ahd icssj to be bound by lew," Marriage Sanctity Imperiled Tho establishment of "family courts" to meet the mcuaco to tho marriage re lation presented by tbo divorce evil, was recommeuded by Chief Justice Chnrles W. Hofrmnn, of the Court of Domestic Relations nt Cincinnati, O., In an nd dress last night before tho American Institute of Criminal. Law nnd Crimi nology, In session here in connection with the annual meeting of the Amer ican Har Association, "Mnrrlnge ns nn institution is .en dangered in America today through the divorce evil, nnd tho only way to save it is by the establishment .of family conns in wiuuu ociol cviucucc, hs iuh tingulshed from legnl will be con sidered," .fudge Hoffmnn ald. "No scientific .luw has ever been made on the subject of divorce. Di vorces are granted for certain causes, hut no effort is made to classify basic causes.'' I BROTHERS ACCUSE MAN her registered was correct nnd that thcj mercinl struggle in Said to Have Beaten Cripple During Political Argument Maurice Friedcnberg, 227 Carpenter street, wns today held under $1000 on the charge of assault and battery on Samuel Tucker. .108 Christian streoJ and under JliiCO ball on the charge-of having committed mayhem on the per son of Jacob Tucker. The prosecutors are brothers. The argument started in a polling place in the ninth division of the Second ward. Friedenberg and Samuel Tucker, who has only one leg, are said to hnvc i been discussing the subject of political watchers. According to Samuel Tucker, Friedenberg did not like his tone in the . i nrguuierrt and knocked him down nnd American business men were warned, ,)(,nt hin, r,,,,, jnrb, it was said. that they were facing the fiercest com s),,.n)j ,js brother being beaten, jumped 6 registration was legitimate. The "tiding squudrou" is not only unique in l'hilndelphia politics, but I thing it will he u decidedly ugy cle ment for the fals registration and crooked election rogue to encounter. world. "The trouble with these reformers i that they're not practical. Lysines, they're lazy. If they get this bill through it won't do them any good. The first election night that it is wet or stormy they'll be sitting around in their slippers before n warm lire, not caring a rap about the election, while the organization bunch will be out ptill- 1-- AAKnllu itrftf-fint- ruilimits out of cellars and piling up a majniiO against ,.., , ,, ' I nnunissinner Woodruff assures me "Z",l i,af is the feeling that I find , that the hoaid's inspectors have no con- Inspectors are not appointed to woik in any particular division. They cor rect error or uncover fraud anywhere in the eit. Mr. Fill is using this fljing squad ron with great discretion. Its work is apart from factional favoritism, cither Vnre organisation or Republican Alii- crista nmmiff Vare organization work- rs todnv. Thy are counting ou the stay-a, ''ome Independent vote to elect their ' et. In i meantime a new and powerful element has entered the field. Flying Squadron at WorU The "Flying Squadron" is at work. That is its officially descriptive title given it by Clinton Rogers Woodruff, .of tho board ctf registration commis sioners. Nobody in Philadelphia in the .mem ory of the oldest politician, I think. ever knew of a "flying squadron" of ' election inspectors. I It 1b a body of men wearing official' hadges and duly sworn nnd empowered ' by law and sent in squads to gather i evidence and furnish testimony to tho board of registration commissioners. It.i in turn, bnnds the evidence over to the, district attorney for prosecution in cases i of false registration or election fraud. , It is the new election law nt work. It may not have occuricd to some thousands of citizens hnt there has ' been a suspicious quiet in the ntmos- j phcre that envelopes the new board of registration commissioners. After the rush and tumult of the days following their induction into office, the board i apparently lasped into a somnolent mood. That was the way of the old board. It became active temporarily just ! before election. Then it drowsed off into a Ptatc of official insensibility. There J were occasional awakenings to draw its salary, change, a polling place, or to appoint an occasional registrar, nection with politics, r actions are not recoguized in their work. It is impressed upon them that it is their business to get the facts, nnd the men, too. no matter who they may be. "Our aim above everything else is to obtain n square registration and a fair election.'' said the commissioner. BEAT MOORE MAN, CHARGE Warrants for Arrest of Two Patrol men Are Issued Wat rants for the arrest of Patrolmen William Myers nnd George Spnngler, of the Twenty -eighth nnd Ititner streets station, charged with attacking John I, Steffan. a supporter of Congressman Mooie. were issued this afternoon by Magistrate Stevenson. Steffan, who was formerlj n Vare supporter, charges Hint the two patrol men went to the rear of his home nt Snyder nwnue and Lambert street, shortly after midnight on August ,'il and beat him without cause. After attacking him, Steffan says that Myers and Spangler- hustled him to a police station, where he was held ou a charge of assault nnd battery. The patrolmen will have a heuriug nn Friedenberg, and as n consequence wns bitten in the arm. Magistrate Stevenson commented ,cm the case by saying : "The day lins passed when this kind j of politics can get by." Any inspector v,ho bettK his trust ," M"u'ay ntteriiimn Detore .Magistrate receives a punishment both swift and I Stevenson. the history of the Antidote for Itolshevisin The antidote for Rolshevism. Mr. Gary asserted, was plenty of work at reasonable compensation. He main tained thai emplojers must not give employes g'i K f' complaint, but, HELLO GIRL BRINGS D.S. M. must furiiih them agreeable und health-1, Newark, N. !., Sept. 4. Miss Grace ful conditions of work, au opportunity P. Ranker, a telephone operator of this to advance nnd to invest their savings city, the only woman to receive the Dis in the business with which they are con-1 tingulshed Service Medal in France, re nected. turned yesterday on the transport Mo- In attacking government ownership, I bile. She served under fire in the St. Mr. Gary said : iMihiel drive nnd wns commended by her ".Whatever is everybody's business is, , commanding' officer for her coolness nnd nobody's business." ,'jravcry on that occasion. K!!b'! Root, forme." sri-rctm1. u state, speaking before the judicial sec tion of the ISur Association, said he favored wiping out the "blts'incs, of attempting to bring about justice by statute'- and that he believed it best to "leave it to the judges to do justice." "A few meager rules embodying the fundamental principles are nil that is necessary." he added. "One of the great trtilHlnc will, l.4lnfinn tnilnv la tlllll it does not permit the judges to do jus- j 'V SWMING POOL "The real reason for criticism of1 0rn n labile the courts is not that the people have Granrl Fraternity Bldg. loft in it 11 in llie courts aui conhilence x ... .J"J.A"ni;tre v.w uru Crown Upholstering Co. in our judges, but that they have come , E ri Prl4r Suit EncholiWrd 8,asrar5K?d 57, $10, $15 Blip corn Ulan to oraer. Sfcmvlit &nd EiUmtUt Fno rhon. 830-32 WALNUT ST. Walnut IBOn av -fc " ""' Bttffhrd Vr 40 YeaiV Kxpcrlenw Hnthlnc Ertrr Er' , HOME VICTOR WATER HEATER "OR COAIy Isir trtnclpl: constant ppty; 24 to SO &Hon. 1' Hfuta radiator, foo. Ther Is nothing Just an voo1. Free Book. Reeves Stove 38 & Foundry Co. So. 2d IJVTjfJjLrfty'fc ' IrAtonfeTtl imM,iiiagi?.. "in iramrtF7.rm West Philadelphia Art Olass Works STAINED6LEADED GLASS 4219 MARKET ST. 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Regu lar customer-friends know how trustworthy we are, but if you,' Mrs. Housewife, have not been dealing with us, we cordially wel come you to our stores, and ask you to make the test. Selected Eggs 55 c Dozen Eve,ry egg guaran ed. No doubt about teed, it, 12 good every dozen. ones in We can save you money on all your purchases. Let us prove it to you by our producer-to-consumer plan Buy direct. f ' ,-.,- , -.- ,,.... -.. -,-.Ss Yes, Madam ! Buv all you want no limit. You take no chances. We guarantee every can. grade Pork and Beans ifJRA 12&c scans, si.oo CAN . Very fine quality beans. Cooked ready to serve and packed in a delicious tomato sauce dressing. Our advice is, lay in. your winter supply now. Quality, Price and Satis- lacuon guaranteed. J We, Arc Headquarters for the Finest Butter Made lb Louella is the very finest butter made today. 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