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I'hllaJrlphii, tdtif.Jay. "iniibcr 16. WW " MR. SMYTH'S OPPORTUNITY WHAT the people will think of David J. Smyth four years from now will depend entirely on the record which Mr. Smyth makes in the office of city solici tor. He has been selected for that oilice by the Mayor-elect without the interven tion of any political boss or combination of bosses. He is the fiist man for years to become the chief legal adviser of the city without hamperinp; obligations to influences outside of his office, lie is free to give to the Mayor the best that is i.i him. The P. R. T. hits been among his clients, and it is understood that he has served that corporation well and satis factorily. In becoming city solicitor he changes clients, withdrawing from the service of the street railway company. As a good lawyer, loyal to the best tra ditions of his profession, he is expected to serve his new client faithfully and well. If he meets this expectation he will leave office with the respect of every one. Mr. Smyth's experience in defending the P. R. T. against damage claims will serve him in good stead as the chief law officer of the city. No small p,art of the time of the solicitor's staff is takcu up in the preparation of the defense of the city in suits for damages. Mr., Smyth, who knows all the tricks of the damage lawyer, can give good advice to his as sistants in such cases. But his chief function will be lo advise the Mayor and heads of the various departments and to find legal ways for them to do that which must be done if the abuses of the past are to be ended. The opportunity is open to Mr. Smyth '-to prove that the charter framers did wisely in making the city solicitor an " appointed officer directly responsible to the Mayor. THE BUDGET rpHE city will have to be run next year -- on the money provided for in the bud get which the present administration is preparing. That budget will also hac to take care of the deficits which, under the old practice, were met out of a loan in order to fool the people and keep the tax rate ' down. The new charter forbids this sort of fraudulent financiering, and the people next year will have to pay the debts of the present administration. Mayor-elect Moore seems to be de termined that the men framing the budget shall obey the charter provisions and provide all that is needed to meet the current expenses for all the depart ments 'and to meet all the deficits. The responsibility is upon them even to the extent of incieasing the tax rate. ITALY AND A LEAGUE FUNCTION TP IT were necessary to judge Francesco Nitti solely bv his interview with the Associated Press correspondent, one would be forced to conclude that Or lando's successor were a sponsor also for Orlando's policies. Premier Nitti ar rays himself in the armor of "national aspirations" and alleges cruelty by the Allies in their treatment of the Fiume problem. On the other hand, the head of the Italian Government in a eccnt speech declared that he regarded as "singularly harmful all those acts which disturb our relations of sentiment with those beside whom we have fought and with whom we have poured forth our blood and with Whom we have conquered." Here we plainly have sober advice for home consumption and a new variety of plaintive chauvinism for outside at tention. In other words, domestic poli tics is adding to the difficulties of an international situation just as it does in America in the senatorial wrangling. What America would like to know about Italy is in principle very much the same thing as what Kurope would like to know about us. What do the people really think ? In what proportion do hotheads, jingoes and spitfires rep resent genuine national sentiment? Until that matter is cleared up the Italian muddle is likely to remain murkv. "National aspirations" has a sinister sound. It can cloak either a policy of honor or a policy of insolence and greed. Germany used to emphasize the latter interpretation. "Utmost concession"., is another unsavory phrase. It is said to have been used in a note submitted by former Foreign Minister Tittoni to our Stat Department. Compromise and con ciliation, illumined by justice, has a jjjfcifniy path to travel under such condi tions. It is worth remembering that it is for U) straightening out of just such tangles as that of Fiume that the league of aations was planned and that to a nriulii extent the international organl- wiil eotne into Ming almost im- tely aftci'r the forawl ratification EVENING (minus the United States) of the pence treaty, scheduled for next Monday. The society wilt have jurisdiction over several plebiscites to be held in eastern Prussia and Schleswig-Holstein. Why therefore should it not concern itself also with the Fiume frying-pan? A calm determination of the values in this issue would be of vital aid and it would furthermore demonstrate with immediate practice the worth of an al luring theory. The fact is indisputable that it was an intolerable situation in a portion of what is now the Serb-Croat-Slovene kingdom which provoked the great war. A nominal peace, with fires still smoldering in the same neighborhood, will contain dangerous elements of in stability. WHO'LL SWING THE HOOK IN NATIONAL POLITICS? The States, Exercising About the Only Right Left Them, Are Cluttering the Stage With Favorite Sons TN THESE days of profiteers and prolii Hjition the states retain few of their traditional rights. It would be mo.st heartless, therefore, lo deny them the pleasure that they find on the threshold of each presidential year in building, air castles around favorite sons and march ing their prodigies forth for the admira tion of the brethren. We arc now drifting toward a phase of national politics that is very like an amateur night in vaudeville. The victims are plentiful. Demure or defiant, confi dent or all a-trcmble. they face the world. The hook will get them all. Ulcss the hook! It is our salvation. Ordinarily the madness of a period like this is a gentle madness. It hurls no one. But these are exceptional years and already earnest hearts everywhere yearn for chloroform in bulk. Chloroform could not be used on the favorite sons, of course. That would be a peiilous violation of the rights of proud and sovereign states. But it could be sprinkled wisely about to bring sleep to every rumbling Polonius in an editorial job who takes favorite sons seriously and thereby misleads a hurried and harassed public. For the Reeds and the Borahs, the Hi Johnsons and the McAdoos, the Hardings and the Poindexters will crowd the stage and fill the air with distracting sound. They will wau rcd-white-and-blue platitudes. They will sing the woes of Serbia and Poland to a people who cannot buy shoes nnd do not know why they cannot buy them. They will wftrn us about European entanglements when they should be tell ing us how to get out of the entangle ments into which we drifted with their assistance. They will talk about Shantung to a nation that is already suffering because it cannot get its coal mined. They will pose and pretend. Meanwhile the country, if it is safely lo face the responsibilities forced upon it by the war and the war's reactions in a future that is sure to be trying and diffi cult, has need to listen to other sorts of men. It needs to listen to historians anil scientists, to economists and scholars and to any one who is able intelligently to asses looming issues that arc new, dangerous and as yet not wholly defined. The nation has a need of consecrated and gifted men. It needs a John the Bap tist a blazing, trampling prophet with out fear, who can lash the people them selves to a sense of their own tollies and tear the masks off all the scoundrels and thieves and hypocrites who, time to the ivied axiom, find a last safe refuge in elaborate pretenses of patriotism. Favorite sons dohone of these things. If they did they would not be favorite sons. The performance is pretty well under way. So far the audience is bored. General Wood, speaking his ancient piece in shining armor, has had only flutters of applause. Johnson's shadow-boxing is a pleasant diversion for dull days, and little else. Mr. Harding has received much ap plause from Ohio. The rest of the country regards hinf with chill silence. Mr. Palmer and Governor Sproul are two favorite sons who are doing what any vaudeville audience would recognize as "legitimate turns," and doing them very rigidly indeed. McAdoo has consistently overplayed his part. He is a bit too suave. There has been a great flutter of interest and a great deal of enthusiastic applause for Governor Coolidgo, of Massachusetts, tW one promising figure entered by any adoring state this year. The mood of the audience is in favor of tho Massachusetts governor. So it should be. For Mr. Coolidge is pretty generally distrusted by all our best lady and gentle men mandarins those who find that turtle and champagne are necessities of life, and the more conservative set who are not happy unless they can lose million-dollar pearl necklaces now and then. He is unpopular, too, with the amateur bolshevists and all who believe in govern ment by policemen's unions. The governor of Massachusetts talks like a scholar and a gentleman, and it is obvious that he doesn't care a hang for applause. That, as every one knows, is in itself an assurance of applause from discriminating audiences. Mr. Coolidge lives in Massachusetts and unfortunately he has a Vermont ac cent. That will count heavily against him in the Wests far and middle. Yet he has the light within. Roosevelt had it Lin coln had it. Wilson has it. And when you have the light within, you can let it shine for all the weary and anxious. eyes of the world. You can do miracles. And men will surely follow you. Mr. Lodge has been mentioned for the presidency. We suspect that he is being shoved forward as the candidate of those Democrats who wish to bring disaster un utterable upon the G. O. P. As a favorite son Mr. Lodge does not shine. He has been conspicuously on the stage, but in its moments of quiet meditation Massa chusetts proba"bly wishes that he hadn't been. Yet Mr. Lodge is like a gogd many other popular and unpopular statesmen - J. .- - 4 - - I toe u. We shall tiavt to 'wait aud PUBLIC LKDGI3K-PH1LADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER see before we can know how greatly he ought to be blamed for the things he has been doing. In a general way there is confusion in the political field; confusion and groping uncertainty. But the skies will clear. Political horses are always darkest be fore dawn., A steed of ebon hue will come gallumping sooner or later to upset all present hopes and plans. Meanwhile we may put our truest in the hook. When statesmen and a negli gent public drop that indispensable im plement Providence, the watching friend of the United States, invariably takes it up and uses it with a discretion truly magnificent. Harding can swing Ohio. Johnson can deliver California. Of this the worshipful editors and those who study politics by ward standards arc sure. For what would Harding swing Ohio? For what would California be delivered? You must not ask your editorial Polonius that question. He doesn't know. He hasn't even thought of it. Yet stupendous changes are afoot in Europe. The whole face of European civilization is changing. Social, economic, financial, trade and political readjustments abroad will affect our own life here for good 'or ill according to the degree of wisdom with which we react to them. We are involved in Europe through trade interests, through the immense sums of money that the Allies owe us and certainly wo arc more deeply in volved because of the dead we left there. Our own affairs are wretchedly confused. Mere party patter and old-fashioned political formulae can help us little now. A thoroughly informed public opinion is a better means of national defense than armies with artillery. The trouble with the favorite sons is that they almost always raise a meaning less clatter and make clear thinking dif ficult, and stir up a cloud of petty issues that, in a time like this, may make it hard for the people to discern clearly the outlines of great questions that are marching forward inexorably to demand sober thought and ultimate solution. "THE SUICIDE FLEET" T ONELY and perilous beyond the com-'-' prehension of landsmen was the task just finished in the North sea by 31500 Americans under command of Rear Ad miral Joseph Strauss. In winter weather, mauled by the savage winds of that lati tude, these men went about the job of removing the sea mines laid from Scot land to Norway as a barrier against German raids. They had no audience and no applause. Few people on this side of the world knew that they existed or what they were about. Their ships were little and the life they led was so hard and danger ous that the squadron became known in European waters as "the suicide fleet." Almost all of the vessels were damaged by explosions of one sort or another, and if the officers and men have returned alive it is only because they were brave and infinitely skillful. The British offered bonuses to attract volunteers to the same sort of work. The Americans drew no extra pay. The men of the suicide fleet were paid the same wage that they draw when they are peacefully in port. They finished the job with the loss of only one vessel. The British lost two. The navy assumed that mine sweeping in the roughest water known to men was pait of the day's work, just as it assumed that the trans ocean flight was part of the day's work to be done because it ouflht to be done. Now the suicide fleet is Lome and the men have had a fine reception in New York, where Secretary Daniels told them simply that they had nobly upheld the traditions of their service. It is all ery inspiring. There is no American who can think of the suicide fleet without infinite pride. But how strange it must seem to these officers and men to be back in a land harassed by profiteers! "Warfnrp. K i n k of World History "Most Kvcrywlicrc, uhen driven from Ii is thrnnp was succeeded by I'urrst, who, ilis. credited by his aiders ami aliettors, was put to sleep by the physician. Time. A republic beitiB iroclaimetl. Sober Second TuouRht was electee President, and it is rumored that he is now busily engaged in selecting a Cabinet." If the professors of To Get Square Carnegie TcWi, Pilts- Wlth tho World burgh, too poor to buy eggs, are forced into other businesses it is a safe bet that some of them will go in for chicken farming. Pennsylvania is going Waiting for the Bolt to have a favorito son for the presidency, the dopesters inform us. What the Keystone State needs, therefore, is a Franklin to bring down the lightning. Within three months after next Mon day Germany must turn over to Helgium 10,000 goats. Wonder if Von Bcthmann Hollweg will wish to travel with the first batch? With a not too conscientious regard for the high cost of living the late unla mented Congress saw that the pork barrel was fairly well filled. Much tordo is being made over the possibility of Philadelphia acquiring an air plane police force. But we have always had fly cops. "We are going to make a dent In this old town of ours," said Mayor-elect Moore. Let us hope it will be a dimple born of jocund mood. Mr. Moore knows the kind of a cinna mon bun he is. And everybody will admit lie has ginger. You have cuuse for thanksgiving if you have food in your larder aud coal in your cellar. Bituminous operators nro of the opinion that any musical comedy can provide better figures than Mr. McAdoo's. Judging by the prices paid, the Hatfield turkey is some bird. A cop looks pretty good to a Red when he is threatened by a mob. The high, price of hats deters no patriot from throwing his tile into the rln The average lied U a ruddy cootie. MAYOR-ELECT MOORE'S LETTER Presidential Booms of Sproul and Palmer Gossip About Colonel Miller, Doctor Karsner and Others THAT Sproul-Palmer presidential dis cussion is calculated to brine Swarth more College Into the limelight, rht- United States attorney general and the Keystomi sta(e Governor were not only graduates of Suartlimnrc but they were "bunkles." which Is it term in good fellowship somewhat nu nlogou.s to "buddies" on shoro or "ship mates" tit sen. Both are hefty jouns fal lows now. just as they were In the "Thee and Thou" period at school, but Kproul wus a stulwart Republican nnd Palmer an irrec oncilable Democrat. Up to date it looks as if Palmer is an oilt-untl-out candidate to succeed the President. The activity of the attorney general on the one hand aud of former Secretary McAdoo on the other would seem to bear out the suggestion. Sproul makes light of the mention of his name, but he Is being talked about, and the thought that he and Palmer might be found in the linnl heat is uppermost In the minds of a pretty strong group of tho Swa'rtlimoro nlumnl, who arc naturally, for tho sake of alma mater, interested in the outcome. Thtj onlookers of this group include I". Pusey Passmore, of the Federal Jlcscrvc ; Morris U. Clothier, Frederick C. Hicks, member of the naval affairs committer; of Congress; his Long Island brother, William W. Hicks, who still dresses like a real Quaker, and u host of successful ones whom Swurthiuorc points lo wilh pride. TOM MILLER of Wilmingtcn Lieutcn ant Colonel Thomas W. Miller, U. S. R., to be more accurate is one of the active men In the new- American Legion. Tom acquired the organization habit many years ago when he concluded to run for Congress from Dela ware, where his father, Charles W. Miller, was governor. After he got to Congress he helped in the organization of tho Republican congressional committee and then went into the army, where he got all the organization that is coming to n vigorous, red-blooded young man. The ex-congressman has just returned from the Minneapolis convention of the American Legion, in which ha toot an uothc part. Oter in Franco he was very close lo General Pershing throughout the war. rpHAT is an interesting task that falls to the lot of Frederick .T. Pooley, general agent of the Pennsylvania Prison Society. This old institution, -which was organized in 17.VT. still maintains the practice of visiting prisoners and git ins; them such comfort as miij be permitted by the regulations. Mr. Pooley hns been visiting the cell room in the City Hall daily since 1HI0, nnd in that time has sent out nearly 10.000 letters to relatives and friends of those who have been arrested. He could tell some very interesting stories about thoKe who get behind the bars, some nf them for tho first time, when they are particularly in need of a friend. pR. CHARLKS W. KARSNLR, of South -L'Broad street, who used to bo a member of Councils, is a veteran of the Grand Army of the Republic, being a member of the General V. S. Grant Post. No. 5. He is ulvi attached to the Philadelphia Naval Veterans' Association. The ex-councilman's ancestry runs back to the war for independ ence and accounts for his membership in the Philadelphia Chapter of the Sous of Ameri can Revolution. Doctor Karsner still fcula fit for public service. rpHE Master Builders' Exchange, of which O. W. Ketcham is president this year, does not indicate any preferences for di rectors of departments in the new adminis tration, but it does beliee that engineers should he appointed to some of the posts, os, Public Works, City Transit and Wharves, Docks and Ferries. There are a number ol other Philadelphia organizations interested in construction work that hold to the samei opinion as the exchange, including the Chamber of Commerce. pOUNCILMAN FRANK S. VAN HART, '-' of Camden, complains of long delay in getting deep water on the Delaware river front nnd blames the dyke just ubove Cam den for most of the trouble. In recent j ears Camden hns been developing rapidly us nn industrial center and the prospect of it big bridge ocr to Philadelphia is booming the surrounding territory. Rut Camdeu has lost several big business enterprises partly because the port art antnges arc not ready. Mnj or Ellis has been going forward with hid foot-of-.Sprucc street plans and Congress has voted money for n better channel on tho Canirtcn side, but it has not yet been pro vided. The live wires across the river nri patient and hopeful nnd desenc an early consideration of their claims. Improvement's over there cannot hurt Philadelphia; they can only help it, for Camden js in the "port of Philadelphia." and whatever is created in Camden, or is required there for manu facturing purposes is grist rq "the port." Moreover, Philadelphia supplies a large part of the men and materials for Camden's gsowing enterprises, just as Camden is more or less dependent upon Philadelphia in these respects. Tnke the Victor Talking Machine Co. It draws heavily upon this side of the river for material, and the ferryboats are crowded morning and evening with its em ployes going back nnd forth. Eldridge R. Johnson, the president of that company, aud Charles K. Haddon, the secretary, arc ax well known on this side of the river as on the otner. Ana treasurer Atkinson, the ma.. ..- " ... ...-. iuKii iniHiiion irom the trade of mechanician his horses arc almost ns well known as E. T. Stotesbury's, and they take as many blue ribbons. So what's the difference? FRANK W. SHORT; the political fore caster, agrees with Ezra Parker, the Harnegat banker, that the government is r'ow to protect the famous Barnegat light. For many moons the people of the coast back 'of Harnegat thoals have, been calling attention to the. menace of tho waves wash ing up against the lighthouse foundations. A carload of stone is dumped In at odd intervals to hold -the old tower In place, but the Barnegattcrs ore fearful that something will happen sooner or later. Short heard a good deal about the situation recently while touring the const with Parker und Charles Elmer Hmltn, oi me uuiidors' Exchange who has a bungalow close to the water's edge in full view of the Barnegat light. Short ays it is either lighthouses or lightships, and that careful observation off Cape Hotteras nnd Frying ran ononis convinces him thut the lighthouse is very desirable nt certain points along shore. Barnegat City being one of them, and that lightships are of equal Importance when stationed at certain points off shore. The Jerscnien who have been concerned about the Harnegat light will no doubt bo pleased to have Frank W, lay his views on thin subject before the next Penn sylvania - Legislature. fi ; j vi unHiivm oiuuhb. THE CHAFFING DISH Verdun "DRONE arc the bravest bones, and deep -- the dead Who saw Verdun, yet looked not on her walls. And fighting fell as rain In summer falls By writhen hills nnd bleak environed. AND now the streets of that Immortal town Hear no accustomed slow or hurried feot ; No housewives chaffer for the daily meat, No aproned urchins clatter up and down. ONCE blew n fountain in a garden green Soft rainbow mists above a sunlit lawn That now is drabbled dust; and once, at dawn, Stood slim white candles at the altar screen. TV TOW on that broken floor lies broken glass aN And fallen sainthood but they did not. pass! ALEC B. Verdun, January, 1010, STEVENSON. Rollo In Philadelphia (Kith apologies to Jacob Abbott) ROLLO visited Philadelphia in company with bis uncle George, a gentleman who had traveled so much in Europe that he was familiar with nil possible discomforts nnd in conveniences of human transit. Mr. George, moreover, was u joung man of philosophical mind, and his comments on the things they fow were highly improving to Hollo's youth ful mind. Rollo was aged twelve and at that period of youth when impressions are very clearly received. "We will take the car down Chestnut street," said Mr. George, after answering all Rolio's eager questions about the City Hall and the statue of William Pcnn. - THE electric cars in Philadelphia are of two kinds, Mr. George told Rollo as they stood at the corner of Broad street. There is, first, the kind known as the pay.-as-you-cnter car. Rollo was curious to know why it should be given this name, and Mr. George explained that in this type of vehicle the passengers arc expected to have their fare t.nHv when they board the car. The other, and newer kind, is called the side-door car. Mr George permitted several ears to pass by jo that Rollo could get firmly fixed in bis mind the reason for the name of this type. "Oh cried Jtouo nr. lasi, a. sve uu mcj arc called side-door cars because they have a door In one side." "Iu the side-door car, Bald Mr. George, "you do not pay your fare until you depart from the car, by way of the door in the middle. That leaves the front door entirely free for entering passengers." Rollo was watching the passengers get on and off the cars and was much interested. "Why does the ruotorinnu call out, 'Both sides on'?" bo asked. "Philadelphlans are conservative," said Uncle George, "and will not permit them selves to be fooled by nnj thing. For Borne years they have carefully trained themselves o the older typo of car, in which the front door was used for both entrance and exit. In that kind of car the entrance was divided by an iron rail, on the right of which one entered the car while people were getting off at the left. When I say left, I mean left as you enter. Of course, to the people getting off it was apparent that they were keeping to the right. You see, what is your left as you enter becomes your right as jou leave." "That is very interesting," said Rollo. "I noticed the same thing In Italy in tho diligences." t t TT IS a universal phenomenon," said Mr. X George. "Hut as l was saying, rnllo- dclphians, having taught themselves to uso the front floor ootn iur cuiriutu uu cu, in stinctively btlll use only the right-hand side of the platform us they board the new cars,, thinking that the left side is reserved for it Therefore the, motorman, in order to Re ,.i 1 l.v., i v.,,i v eicmw wi .i- "-'.. , Several more curs passed aud Mi;, G'vorg.. 26, 1910 WELL, ANYHOW, IT FEELS THAT WAY still allowed Itollo to watch, as he wished the boyto study tho system carefully. Rollo was thinking deeply. "Uncle George!" be said, "I should think the company would take away the railing from the front platform of the new cars. Then it would be evident that the whole front door is to bo used for entrance only and the motorman would be spared such frequent rcitcrntion." "That is a perfectly sound idea," said Mr. George, "and I dare say that if we come back here five or ten years hence it will have been put in practice." ' "What are the large numbers painted on the front of the cars?" said Rollo. "They indicate the route of the car," said Mr. George. "It is a little mystery. Phila delphlans hate to have strangers come to town and try to puzzle them as much as possible. I spent a year in the city in order to study the transit sjstem so that I could explain it to you. As far as I can find out, the transit company has a deep dislike of anybody finding out where its cars are going to. Only the old travelers on the line have any idea where any particular car is going to turn off. If you aro u stranger in town, the thought will occur to you that it might be a nice thing to have a little map put up fn the car showing just where it goes; but then, as I said. Philadelphia does not en courage strangers until they have lived here several generations." ROLLO had been interested in watching people bujing newspapers from a boy who stood on the corner, y "Why do all the men buy a paper before entering the cars?" he said. "I have always been taught that to read while a vehicle is in motion is very harmful for the eyes." "They do not buy them to read," said Mr. George, "but simply to hide behind so that they will not have to rise and give up their scats when a lady stands in front of them." They entered a car and Rollo looked about him with eager curiosity. "Why is it," he said, "that the seats in the front of the car run lengthwise, while those in the rear arc crosswise? Surely tho crosswise seats arc more comfortable, for then, us one sits opposed to the line of force created by the starting and stopping of the vehicle, one is supported by the back of the sent and does not rock and reel against one's neighbor'." "Your observation does you credit," said Mr. George, "but you must-remember that the crosswise seats take up more room and leave less space for people to stand up. And the inoru people you can persuade to stand up in your car, tho better it looks on tho cash register. Also, when you sit in a leugthw ise seat it is much easier to see the advertisement cards. You must not sup pose that ull these matters have not been carefully thought out." "W HAT are the advantages of paying votir fare as you leave?" said Rollo. "The advantage is largely philosophical," said Mr. George. "It is supposed that one pays one's fare more readily after the serv ice for which it is paid has been performed. Seeing yourself at your destination, you naturally pay more cheerfully than you do when you first enter the car and do notxknow whether you will really get there or not." "I wonder it that is always so?" ven tured Rollo. "I can .conceive of a certain type of passenger who, seeing himself arrived where he wants to go, and not yet having paid for the ride, would be all the more eager to escape from the car without surren dering Ws money. I can imagine, for in stance, that some bold spirits might even hazard an escape by way of the rear win dows. "The conductor would immediately raise a hue and cry," said Mr. George, "and the malefactor would be apprehended. But there are also other types of cars .In this thriving city, on which wo will take a journey when you have mastered the simpler forms of transit, such s they may be observed here on Chestnut street. Ana nere we aro at Jnde AJ nMiileaco Hall, where, we will gef oC" -pi---- - -i nnnATir.a n, , r .ww ..wr. """ THANKSGIVING T RATHER think (though I confess the - thought is rather rude) A n.an Is egotistical wHen showing gratitude. We scrnewhat cramp the universe, for in stance, do you see, When we cacklo of 'the benefits bestowed ofl you and me. But never mind! I'll own at once I have some 'joy in life. I'm thankful for my daily work; I'm thank ful for my wife ; I'm thankful (quite oblivious to pills in "Fortune's jam) For what I think my friends believe the kind of man I am. I'm thankful for illusions of philosophy and fame Permitting effervescent zest while playing at "the game." And since it gives me happiness and com fort, oh, my brothors, I'm thankful I don't sec myself as I am seen by others. I'm thankful for Dame Fortune's frowns before she deigns to smile. I'm thankful for the sickly days that make my health worth while. I'm thankful life shows kindness very often when she hurls; And I'm really very thankful I don't get my just deserts. , GHIF ALEXANDER. What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. When did the German, Tequest for an armistice reach Washington? 2. What nation is to be given possession of Spitzbergen? 3. Where is this" region? 4. Who Is the author of the Koran? 5. Senator Harding has been mentioned as a possible candidate for the presi dency. What is his state? 0. Who was Alexander Stephens? 7. What is the literal meaning of the word "saule" in cooking? 8. How should it be pronounced? 0. Name two cities in Armenia. 10. What is' a narwhal? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. William M. Calder and James W. Wads- worth, Jr., represent New York in the Senate. , 2. Henry Fielding wrote "Tho nislory of Joseph Andrews." 3. The Battle of Gettysburg ended on July 3, 1863 j and Vicksburg fell to General Grant on the next day,- 4. Zenobla, .Queen of Palmyra, an oasis in the Syrian desert, reigned in the third century A. D. She was defeated and made a prisoner by the. Romans. 6. There are thirty-nine books in the Old Testament. 0. Pushball is "a game invented by M.. G. Coane, of Newton, Mass., 1604. It is played by two sides of eleven men each on a field of 140 hy 150vyards, with a ball six feet in diameterand weighing fifty pounds. There are two pairs of goal posts with crossbars. Pushing the ball under the bar counts five points. Putting it over the bar counts eight. A safety counts two for the attacking side. 7. A planet is in apogee when it is la that part of its orbit which is furthest from the earth. , 8. A hercsiarch is a leader or. founder of a heresy. 9. ToraasBo Tittoni recently resigned as Italjan minister of fpreign affaire. 10, An .imperial is a small beard growlaf b i 'mk;ttt)tmAlt ?-tHimm "named for NxhMtt Ill,.wUo wore uue 1 IV-. Y f t
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