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( By mall to points outsHe of Philadelphia. In li iniuniiea males, vanaaa. or unuca piaveo pu- ' Sli (181 dollars dm- vear. payable In advance. i To -all forelcn countries one (fl) dollar per ' t ' NottCB Subscribers wIshlnB address chanced Must live old as well as new address. ,v BRIX. JM0 WALNUT KEVSTOyE. MAIN SOW " S7tdes oil communications to JJueitfno PuoHo Ltdatr, Independence Sijuare, Philadelphia. ,' 'Member of the Associated Press Hfk ,'aivclv entitled to the use for republication f Chan new dlspafcics credited to it or not .'!. otherwise credited in this paper, ana aiso ry A - V'C 1UL-1X nCTlVJ J)UUrM'lt.U (,f(t t-KI-t MVM'&te '-a rtffnts of repiioiicawon 07 specitu aw 1 "A vpateAcj ftergtn are a?50 reserved. fer. ":- ( Phtladrlphii, Thundiy, Jmuarr 8, 1920 W " ENDS AND BEGINNINGS , , rpo A young man arrested in this city 'l yesterday belongs the sordid distinc tion of being the most conspicuous slacker in the United States. The secret service men acted with good judgment in rail roading their prisoner to a militdry post for trial. There are lawyers here who were ready to begin the usual process of obstruction and delays in a case that cries out for swift and definite action. It" is not easy to suggest the penalty that should be imposed in this instance, since the real punishment will begin for this man when he finally gets out of jail v and enters upon the long business of try ing to forget the unforgetable offense charged against him. PLIGHT OF "REAL AMERICANS" ? -TF DR. JOSEPH K. DIXON, of the edu ik cational bureau of the Wanamaker In stitute, has stated the case correctly, his views on the position of the 17,000 In dians who fought under our flag during the war should enlist the sympathy of all fdir-minded Americans. Speaking at the Engineers' Club, Doctor Dixon declared that these red-skinned champions of the republic "were not getting their liberty here andvere treated no better than con victs in the federal penitentiaries." Allowing for controversial emotion ' u .and the presence of Thomas L. Sloan, cniei ox tne umaha tribe, at this session, there is still ground for believing that a square deal for the Indians has been un- r ,warrantaoiy delayed. th'' Iike Mrs. Jellyby, with her determined fv . iixeu on oornooooia-una, we nave 3 ' oeen moved to mucn compassion for the woes of the oppressed abroad. This wa3 A fl -, fninr n hAiivhq T1". n wiinJnm f w 1.4 iv wkiii. ui Luuitici iiic iiccuuai ui Czecho-Slovakia, Poland and, it is to be honed. Armenia, will ranlc nmnnrr trio WfJnil. fnrHn?r1lnn npllinvamanfa nf ita onvltr if "s r i. ----- -"- -"- "'j ;)v.eiiM;(.ji ceniury. m . ' But success in these foreign instances W1 flnlv inr.reasM nnr nhlio-ntinnei nf linma Despite serious obstacles, including red tape, antiquated laws and popular indif- r v. ference. our native. unimDeachablv bona- lide Americans have been ascending the scale of civilization. Certainly those who defended that strupture in the war richly deserve prompt, intelligent and construc tive 'consideration. U FAIR PAY FOR OUR LEGATES "DEGARDED as still another outlet for the national revenues, Secretary Lan sing's plan for increasing the salaries of our diplomatic representatives is not in gratiating. On the other hand, legitimate expenditures should not be dodced hv a fOVself-respecting government. V-'K For years this country has been nig- ixy witn its amtiassaaors ana min ;M isters. In consequence men who were IgSwealthy, in political favor and covetous of KwLJbonors have been appointed to nosts E-'Awhich they were sometimes incompetent R& ' k fill T. V. Jo,,- .. i isolation from world affairs this disa- & i bility, while regrettable, was not actively dangerous. Hut our present role makes severe demands upon our legates. Able 4 reoresentatives of modest means nmrTit not to be barred. In fart, trio tinnk . . "' -i .1.....J v -vZ ,, :: " ,,i nauuui siiuuiu nave noinjng io ao Wltn " ? ilhfi choice. VJ. 7 TIT- "" 1. J i t . rjj- yye cuiiiiuk unuiu u resincc our cnoice . of ambassadors merely to the rich be- -cause' of a conception of democracy which years ago militated against the payment iLs5c of'large salaries to federal officials. The jivernment should be free to choose the feest men for its legations, even if that liberty of selection is more costly than !n the period of our seclusion and of a . wwer scaie ot living. f AMBASSADOR OF WHAT? MARTENS, the frank and bland am bassador of the Lenine-Trotsky part nejship for whom the Department of Justice sought a warrant yesterday, should have been arrested long ago. He has had a suite of offices in New York, tons of money and a cloud of active and energetic satellites whose functions have i-j, flver uceii tieoiiy ueuiieu 10 anyooay. U -s Xjirens and his bund have been busy i. " jpFtg-num. uuu nu uue ujjjjeurs to Know jTi, ,1 Mrlul-.1 thfiv were about. ' ijjj '.y jfthe soviet "ambassador" were prop yl V.MJlvrrrUlnr1 Viv n .9hnnfA itnmmiffAA a n alHr. .asaJI .! rvnlirr 'f no nntlnfvif n,'rvll lnn.. w,Sfy interesting things about the newer ffkiaalism in the United States. What 'fistfl rnnx7.1n n lnv mlnrl i fnn onuAlnnlo fj ""lt' highly organized raids on less impor- m ?T,,V' "'V""5."1 ,v"4,v" "Uk "'"' fervor a; sfjeracr kiiu uiicbiun ul mi attorney gen- m . fil-who has appeared content to let the K, A1ytible head and front of the movement W am'slinf. rpfinntlv nilrl wifliniif mnUatn. '!" ' ' A FATEFUL NIGHT jnftliE anointed of the Democratic party " r"oMll sit down to their Jackson Day anlitirA nf mjnnrpRsnd f pmnpstl in ort of atmosphere that usually pre-. ep Mr-. WiliMn etim wwi or ?W TbHm i . i j - . J WMMIW .ig with should by that time havo a fairly accu rate notion of the campaign that is to bo waged against them. The fight for dominance appears to bo between the President and Mr. Bryan. To the council in Washington Bryan brings his fireside philosophy and a determina tion to continue a policy of relative iso lation in America. He is, as usual, going it alone. Ho has no conspicuous support ers in the party. The President and Mr. Hoover appear to bo working in close harmony. The best gucssers are ready to believe that Hoover, rather than Palmer or McAdoo, will receive such support as the admin istration can provide in the coming cam paign. Hoover seems willing. So far, however, nothing is certain. The Jackson Day dinner will bo a great spectacle. It may be a great fight. That is all that tho world may know until after the dessert tonight. THE NEW BROOM MAY BE USED ON THE STREETS Mayor Moore's Present Plan Seems to Be to Do Something Where Every body Can See the Result "UfHEN Director Winston, of the De ' partnent of Public Works, an nounced that the .Mayor wished to make a tour of street inspection with him, it became evident that we were on the eve of a new day. One of the greatest shortcomings of the old administration lay in its failure to keep tho streets in proper condition. The failure was manifest to every one, for every one is on the street more or less every week. Those who walked had their eyes filled with dust in dry weather and had filth splashed on their clothes by passing vehicles in wet weather, and those who rode were bumped over holes in the pavements and cursed the highway department when they broke the springs on their automobiles or tore off a tire in trying to get out of a rut. Travelers in the country can pick out the successful and efficient farmers by the condition of the buildings and fences. When the house is painted and the lawn mowed; when the barns stand up four square and do not sag on their founda tions; when the gates are not off their hinges and the fanning tools are safely housed under cover, the inevitable con clusion is that the farmer is prosperous and that he has a proper respect for him self and his surroundings. On the other hand, the shabby house with the blinds flapping in the wind, the barn with the doors broken and the barnyard filled with tools in bad repair, the fences falling down and the corners of the fields filled with rubbish, all indi cate the presence of a shiftless man liv ing from hand to mouth. Philadelphia in recent years has re sembled the farm of tru unsuccessful farmer. Or, to put it in another way: Philadelphia, with great wealth and end less resources, has been like a farm leased to a tenant interested only in skin ning the property while he had possession of it and indifferent to its state when his lease expired. There is more truth than fancy in this description. It is because the city was dissatisfied with the conduct of the men in charge of its affairs that they have been dismissed and new men put in office. The evident purpose of the Mayor to give his first- attention to the outward aspects of the city indicates that he has a proper appreciation of the psychology of politics. If he can clean the streets and repair the holes in the pavements so that it is safe to go about, he can make it clear even to the least observant that a real change has happened. The task will not be easy, for the amount of money available is limited. The test of economy and efficiency will come when he sets about spending the money that has been set aside in the budget for the care of the highways. The public funds have not been spent economically in the past. A private cor poration could have accomplished much more with the same sum, for it would not have awarded contracts to politicians in terested primarily in big profits and con trolling the inspectors who passed on their work. There is no doubt whatever that under a proper administration of the public funds this year much more can be accom plished than those who made up the budget last year anticipated. It may not be possible to do as much as ought to be done, but enough can be done to convince the public that the new Mayor is honestly seeking to make the outward aspect of the city, by which we judge the efficiency of its government, resemble the outward aspect of the plant of any well-conducted and prosperous private enterprise. It will not be enough to confine atten tion to the main thoroughfares like Broad and Market streets. Conditions there must be improved. But the humble folk who live i.i the modest streets are entitled to consideration. It is in those streets that disease starts to spread to the more prosperous sections. It is there, too, that voters live who have come to think that their part of the town is neglected because they have no political pull. They see the ill-paved alleyways filled with rubbish and neglected by the street clean ers. They see the ashes strewn on the sidewalk on collection days and they see the papers from the waste boxes blown about by the wind littering the walks and the roadways. They accept the con dition as one of the hardships involved in modest means and in life in a big city. But there is no reason why these dis tricts should not be kept as clean as the districts where the well-to-do have their homes. Indeed, Doctor Furbush, of the Department of Health, knows that it is safer from a sanitary point of view to neglect the streets in the more prosper ous sections than to allow filth to gather in the streets where lack of money forces tho crowding of families into Mnall quar ters and compels children to use the gut ters for a playground. The political wisdom of the Mayor's plan needs only to be mentioned to be come apparent to the least thoughtful. Its wisdom from a sanitary and com mercial point of view is as great if less obvious. We all wish to make this a greater city, greater' in business and greater in its interest in artistic nnd intellectual mat tors, but if the eye Is offsnded avery time nno crops into tho jstreet hncausn of trin vjVtly-''''J" '""' " P .lianlfest 'ncsmpe H f I'fi't wtoh fcpreiMJnts EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER - tho active desires of tho people of the city it will be difficult to transform those wishes into realities and it will bo diffi cult to persuade outsiders that this is n community in which new enterprises will find a hospitablo welcome. Now we await tho outcome of tho Haroun al Raschid tour of street inspec tion by the Mayor and his director of public works. Something must be done after ho discovers tho conditions, or the tour will be a more exorcise in futility. CORTELYOU AND THE POLICE TF YOU would know a man in whose - life there seldom has been peace or a hope of peace, go out and shako hands with any uniformed membor of the De partment of Public Safety. The Police Department has been shame lessly used. It has been the tail of every political kite flown by the buccaneers of municipal politics. It has been man handled and debased. It has had to an swer for the sins of one inefficient admin istration after another. Even well-meaning people in moods of furious disgust striko out blindly at bosses, Mayors or the shadow of corruptionists, and, when they miss, as they always do, comfort themselvs with fervid denunciations of the polio;. There has grown up a delu sion that a job on the force is a bed of roses, an assurance of ease and easy money. t It isn't. In one year the members of the department are bullied and harassed and robbed and assessed and ordered to do things that arc unseemly or illegal. They must obey or quit. After another turn of the wheel these same men are in formed that they must not do these things if they wish to escape the political equivalent of shooting at sunrise. The easy-going public looks on and listens, slightly amused, slightly cynical. Tho average citizen forgets that the loss of a job means to a policeman just what it means to anybody else. It is a mutter that profoundly concerns a family and children. Most men do as policemen do. They obey the orders of superiors rather than quit their jobs in rebellion. Director Cortelyou's address to the po lice yesterday was admirable in tone. And it was a relief to find that the new administration isn't intent on raids or re prisals among the men who were forced by circumstances to be allies of a losing faction. The vast majority of the police are self-respecting citizens who happen merely to belong to a service that has been neglected, abused and consistently misrepresented and misunderstood. What the department needs is a man who will be able to understand the human equation as well as the technical requirements of police work. Such a man Mr. Cortelyou appears to be. Unquestionably he will find profes sional slackers and incompetents here and there and they ought to be removed. But so far as political factors are con cerned, bygones ought to be bygones. Police inefficiency is one of the oldest bat tle cries of reformers. The police have been demoralized. But who can remember when in an emergency the police and that means the men of tho districts as well as the always efficient mounted and traffic men have been actually ineffi cient? The rank and file are, as a matter of fact, accustomed to hard work out of hours without extra pay. They have manifested an extraordinary ability to act quickly and effectively whenever the need arises. Boss-ridden, bewildered and hindered by the innumerable petty inter ferences of heelers nnd ward dictators, they have yet managed to keep fairly good order in the city despite the new crop of petty criminals who have oper ated since the war in all the Atlantic states. There is room for improvement in the police service and there is a need for additional men. Director Cortelyou is clearly sincere in his promise to cut the service free from politics. He will be wise to fight for his men, to get better pay for them and to depend on the spirit of loyalty which his policy is sure to inspire and to try a building-up experiment before he begins to tear down. The police are average men. They will be quite as honest and efficient, as a rule, as they are permitted to be. The meeting in tliis Olil Phrase Justified city of the executive committee of the na tional conference of commissions on uniform state laws shows appreciation of the fnct that "it takes n Philadelphia lawyer" to straighten out the tancles rcsultinc from conflicting statutes in the various states. There are doubtless A Matter of Business- Pennsylvania Repub licans who, if they were called upon to choose between Hoover and their junior senator, would declare for Herb and contentment rather then for a Knox that stalls. New York coal drivers Coal Hu."ons are now getting $10 a day. Accenting as true the dictum as to the relative value of the pen and the sword, it may be added that the coal Bhovcl has 'em both skinned. Ratification by the niissfui Thought miners of the Presi dent's proposal con cerning the coal strike may prompt emulation by the United States Senate in another im portant matter. I see by the papers, All Wc Need Is to says D. McGinnis, Dig for It that the United States shipping board's ship Westward Ho has sailed eastward lio to Rotterdam for coal. Probably goiug to take it to Newcastle. Administration back ers are of the opinion Screw lx)ose that any guy who leads a bolt is a nut. Ktery succeeding murder in .Mexico causes conjecture as to whether Uncle Sam will display a clenched fist or an admonitory linger. The arrest of Grover Bergdoll may cause his brother Erwln to ponder over the preg nant words concerning the mil s of the gods. The city treasury report on tax receipts shows that the municipality is apparently In good shape If it doesn't try to buy too much sugar. The social season in Rcilville, Ellis Island, will soon be at its height. Harmony Invariably when.lhr luiuu a uiuv iuc lit. .. LIBERTY SET ASIDE MUCH TOO LIGHTLY Committee o.f New York State Bar Association Regrets Weakening of Respect for Individual Rights "C1EAU for "all that wc have saved In the evolution ot human justice, when so much of constitutional liberty nnd protection is lightly set nslde simply becauso it seems in convenient to the 'single-track mind,' " Is expressed in a report given out in Albany by the New York State liar Association's com mittee on law reform yesterday. The re port will bo submitted to the association at Its annual meeting on Janunry 10 nnd 17. "As n result of war conditions there is danger," tho report says, "thnt the funda mental spirit of individual liberty mny be seriously impaired in the supposed interest of public safety nnd efficient administration. Those of conservative prepossessions believe the spirit of the constitution is broader than its terms, nnd that public safety and greater happiness He in tho application of the spirit of fair piny to new situations rather than in tho invention of intellectual devices to escape its letter. "Laws may scrape through without be ing declared unconstitutional which never theless Impair its spirit; courts may exact ball which it is not within the power of the normal member of society to secure; cen sorship of the press may be tightly estab lished under guise of law; the police may cancel the peaceful assembling of friends of good order, out of fear of inability to cope with disorder ; a legislature may deem it wise to curtail the ease with which a householder may keep arms; a court may find it consistent with its idea of consti tutionality to drag an accused person Into a jurisdiction on n theory of constructive pres ence; and a parlor Socialist inny sincerely chafo at the bonds of" a constitution which interferes with his efforts to revolutionize the habits of tho world, but they all together are the constant dropping which wears away a stone. "The tendency to disregard the Inhibi tions of the constitution is widespread. It leads to devices to obey the letter while violating tho spirit. The spirit is fair play and tho square deal. It has kept us headed in the right direction, both for domestic well-being nnd in world nffalrs. Whatever may bo said of the writ of habeas corpus and its functions, of venue, of the power of Congress to fix the situs of crimes of omis sion, the fact will remain that it is not a square deal nor fair play to take even nn enemy, under the guise of judicial process, to n distant point for trial for an omission." rjlHIS stricture is based on the removal of -- Dr. Edward A. Rumely from New York to Washington for trial, because the law placed the office of the alien property custo dian in Washington, and Doctor Itumely's offense, so far ns Washington was concerned, was that he had omitted to report to that official in Washington concerning his Eve ning Mail dealings, when he nlready had been indicted for nn offence of commission by n grand jury in New York. "It could not have been foreseen by the framers," the report says, "that by making nn act of omi'-sion a crime, n person who had done nothing but refrain from a pro scribed duty could be indicted nnd tried where it was his duty to do the act, though ho were never there. Such refinements of venue are not calculated to preserve the safeguards of the constitution. It is not the spirit of fair play, and when our judicial processes arc inadequate to the protection of nn accused person under such circum itances, the liberty of the individual is en dangered nnd the institutions of the country imperiled. "Through the veil of apprehension, or of terror, or of unpopularity we should still be able to defend the principles of constitu tional liberty. Never more than at present have we needed leadership which will not suffer these principles to be impaired. Even nn enemy should have the protection of fundamental law when he is arraigned under the processes of law. .VTT IS unquestionable that the public in L tcrcst demands the prompt and vigorous suppression of violence and disorder," the re port continues, "which ought no more to be tolerated because a labor problem is involved thap it would be under any other conditions. No man should be permitted to assail a cow ering public and supine officials with the weapon of inconvenience nnd deprivation of means of subsistence in order that his will mny be carried into effect. Public agencies for the just settlement of such disputes nnd tne enforcement of such settlements should bo established by law, and no weapon should be allowed by law to be introduced save in the authorized enforcement' of law and or der." TUT. committee disapproves a bill pending in the Senate to provide for the service of women on juries, saying: "There arc three views of jury service; one. that it is a function in the administra tion of justice ; another, thnt it is a personal burden which citizens generally should bear : the third, that it is a privilege to which all bhonld aspire, "If it is a privilege, women should no longer be excluded from it; if a burden, un questionably we think a large part of the community would excuse them from it, ns mothers and wives, in view of their generally more useful services in the community ; but if it is to be viewed as a factor in the admin istration of justice, as we think it is, then other considerations come into play. "The true measure is not sex, but fitness, and except sex is nn index of fitness it should not enter into the discussion nt all. In our social and economic life the male is bread winner and the mother and wife is house keeper, cook and companion nnd guide of her children. If taken away her house and her children would suffer neglect. Neither her experience nor her occupation fits or permits her to nttend at court, listen to evidence, determine disputes, listen to judicial charges, bring in verdicts, AVe do not look for women as firemen, street clean ers, police patrolmen, longshoremen, pilots, linemen, locomotive engineers or in many other industrial occupations. "As citizens, if they demanded jury serv ice, we should perhaps be required to yield; but ns intelligent beings, with n knowledge of the facts of existence nnd some exercise of ordinary common sense, we could not look upon the results as calculated to ac complish the ends of justice or to profit the community in any way. The ordinary ad ministration of justice should not be made the sport of inadequate logic, which falls to consider all the factors of a problem." "Mr. Ituchholz nnd I had a very pleas ant chat," remarked Mr. Moore. This awak ens recollections of the refrain of the cele brated tragic poem, the scene of which Is laid In Niger. As we remember It thcro was "a sinilo on the face of the tiger." With all those guns popping yesterday, it is not too much to say that the Bergdoll brew was near hier. Director Cortelyou isecms to hove the MttRnlrlaott me. of thqsc police birds ore iW -I'... "jaw PHILADELPHIA TifiTOKSDY, JANUARY ",' 1 V V THE CHAFFING DISH Apprehension (A Woinan Speaks) T OVING eyes whose glances glisten ' I!u for you, must lose their light ; And the voice whoso song you listen, Sei'se enraptured, Time must blight All the chiirms that now enthrall you Soon, too soon, must fail the will, Yet my heart will call you, cnll ou: Wii: you, Sweetheart, Love me still? IN THAT dny with vision dimmer Aught 'hat lacks I may not see. If love's star but faintly glimmer, Lost its olden brilliancy, Oh, Sveelreart, I now implore you, Though 'tis distant don't forget: Make me think this prayer before you -Thnt you, Sweetheart, Love me jet. SAMUEL MINTURN PECK. Desk Mottoes ' Think not silence the wisdom of fools, but, If lightly timed, the honor of "wise men, who have not the Infirmity but the irtue of taciturnity. SIR THOMAS BROW.N'K , Reorganizing the Dish "VUR candid confidences about the condi- '-' tion of our desk have got us into trouble. 1V . r.!.ltm. li... cnmnn-lint amnninfn.l I as to our intellectual parts nnd meditating over our long-deferred essay on "Keeping Children Covered nt Night," when in came Phyllis with a heavily embossed caid. We looked at it in amazement. Usually when people want to see us they just walk in, nnd though we often keep on grinding away and pretend we don't sec them, they always get the better of us in the end. Well, this was the card of an efficiency expert, nnd he said he had come to help us. He said he could tell right away, from read ing the Dish, what was the matter, and he proposed to outline a little plan of reorgani zation which would help us a lot. HE SAID that what we lacked was an organization built up on the principle of the specialization of functions. He said that the processes of our work ought to be routed, especially they ought to be routed cyclically in accordance with the theories of scientific management. He said that tho trouble with the Dish is that it is not built up in accordance with modern news-gathering principles. He said that he had been in strumental in reorganizing the Tallahassee Huss and the Detroit Good Morning and tho Boston JVocfiinic nnd the,narrisburg Night mare, and ns he thought the Dish has very good possibilities he wanted to show us his scheme of systematizing our work. At this point he drew out a roll of blueprints, charts and graphs, and wc became really interested, HE SAID that the chief ground for all our troubles, nnd the chief reason for n cer tain pessimistic note that creeps into our philosophy now nnd then, is not (ns we had thought) too many cream crullers, but in sufficient discipline in our routine. He said (and showed us n delightful chart to illus trate) that we ought to havo a carefully mo bilized staff of high-salaried chaffers, just as (ho told us) n newspaper has a stnff ot re porters. We told him modestly about our 'warm -hearted contribs., Robert Leslie Rellem and Sub Rorb and M. V. N. S. and all the rest of them, but he pooh-poohed. They are not organized, he said, to give really efficient service, ne said we ought to do more to keep nbreast of tho chaff, Tho firing line of our organization, he said, should bo a staff of district chaffers, each one nssigned to cover n certain section of the cltfy These highly trained threshers of Intellect would en put Into the hlghuitys and hedse- early In the moruirijr, nnd ui soon a. 1920, ALL THERE IS TO IT their notebooks were filled they would tele phone to the assistant city chaffer informing him of what they had found. Some of these district chaffers would be sent out on special assignment, to lie in wait fur humor nt the places most likely for it to occur, such 'as the office of the city stntisticinn, the Cinder nnd Bloodshot smoking enrs, the wharves nnd ferries, the hotel hat-check racks. When these able individuals telephoned in their findings the assistant city chaffer would turn the gist of their japes over to the rewrite chaffer. This expert would rapidly hit the high spots of each item nnd turn it over to the copy-desk chnffers, n group of exceed ingly specialized wits who would brood over it with much strong tobacco hik write a headline for it. rpiIE glittering nuggets, would now pass - over to the city chaffer himself, who would con them over carefully, on the look out for nnything vulgar or trite. All puns would be bitterly excised. Then the residue would be rapidly set up in type nnd the managing chaffer would cxnminc the proofs. After this, the executive chaffer would lay out the make-up of the Dish. All these processes were delightfully nnd clearly illustrated on the chnrt, in which each individual concerned was represented by n little rectangle, with a line passing from his rectangle to that of hi.i next su perior chaffer. This, the expert explained to us, indicated the routine of function. He said that the chart should be framed and' hang over the desk of the executive chaffer, so that the latter could refer to it when hiring or firing nny one. WE ASKED what would become of us in this reorganization, nnd he explained that in nny modern system of management the man highest up is not supposed to take a band in details, but should confine himself to general consideration of policy. He said there should be n conference of Socrates with the city chaffer, the assistant city chaffer, tho managing chaffer nnd the ex ecutive chaffer nt ft o'clock every morning, in which the genernl plnns of the dny's work should be laid out. Tho rest of our time, he said, ought to be spout in welding, mor tising nnd beveling one really superb quip per day, in keeping the files up to date and answering correspondence, He said thnt no institution thnt is based on the persistent neglect of correspondence enn hope, in the bitter competition of modern times, to long survive. That is just the way he put it to long survive. IT IS perfectly true that this alarmed us not n little. We looked a bit wistfully at his chart, at his load diagram blanks, on which he said he would have to plot and compute the varying intake nnd output of chaff passing among our pigeonholes, lie even said that we ought to do nwny with pigeonholes altogether, and recommended a flat-top desk (mahogany) with a sheet of plate-glass and n buzzer connecting with the, telegrnph chaffer, whg would, handle the Associated Chaff dispatches nnd all foreign and international chaff. Then we began to think it over. It would be jolly to be reorganized like that. Rut, on meditation, it occurred" to us that the staff would bo a bit unwieldy to uso one roll-top desk twelve district chnffers, four copy-desk chaffers, a rewrite chaffer, assistant city chnffer, city chnffcr, telegraph chnffer, man aging chaffer, executive chaffer nnd Soc rates ttwenty-three in nil. On the whole, perhaps we shall have to struggle along as we are, and Jim Stokes and the others who scowl nt us because wo haven't answered their nico letters will hnve to forgive and forget. Still, it just occurs to us that we might give tho new system a tryout one of thebe days, Wn'H put it Into operation for one day, and then.tcll our high-born ylJwitJU with cobiplelo candor, what inpjietn, ( MICHAELMAS DAY (Written for my little son's first patronai feast) rpHOUGH heavenly anvils forge their swords For your last spiritual campaign, Though muster the seraphic lords Against the mustering hosts profane. An'd though you pass in Vng review Your spearmen in their regiments, Marking the bows ns you ride through, Tho disposition of the tents Yet (giving what tho time allows From horseman nnd from charioteer) Bend down your bright and burning brows; To lesser matters, lend an ear. A silence in the skies be made, A pause before the clash of war, Ere grnpple nrmies now arrayed, Celestial and secular My little son to whom I gave Your name, nngelic general Stand close beside him, quick to save, To hold his spirit lest it fall. Your sword bestow its accolade Upon his shoulders; may he wear Divinely smithied mail; n blade Of righteous anger let him bear. Among all men of women born May he be signed upon the breast With heraldry of blazing scorn, With honor gleaming nt his crest. With gentleness nnd chivalry Be he endowed; nnd may he keep Unspotted faith and chastity Till God give His beloved sleep. Then, Michael, bear him in your hands, His stainless sword nnd shield and plume ; And sfand beside him when he stands To plead upon the Day of Doom. Theodore Maynard, in the New Witnesi. What Do You Knotv? 6uiz 1 . Who was the Sage ofSMonticello? 2. How many states have ratified tb woman suffrage amendment? 3. Who is Sir George Paish? 4. What is the correct pronunciation of Iquique, the great nitrate port of Chile? 5. When was the first battle of the Marm fought? 0. Into what river docs the Marn'e flow and where is the junction? 7. Who was Jacques Francois Halevy? 8 The death of Feng Kuo-chang of China wns recently reported. Who was he. 9. What is the average duration of human life? ' 10. How many inches make a span? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. Dvinsk or Dunaberg is a city of Russia, situated on the Dvina river, 110 miles southeast of Riga. . Franklin K. Lane is secretary of the interior. 3. Puce is a purple brown or "flea-color The word is French for (lea. 4. I.uiz de Cumocs was the great epic poe I of Portugal. In "Os Lusiades or "The Lusiads" ho glorified the famous voyage of Vasco da Oama to India. Cainoes was b'orn in 1B25 and died m 1570. , , 5. "Coram publico" is a Latin phr' which has become synonymous wltn in public or in open court. C. A bethesda in England is n noaroo formlst chapel. The word islubrcv and means "house of merry." 7. The IJcssemer process of making st" waR invented In 1(550. . 8. A backbut Is nn obsolete brass truroP" .U1, clM. far nlforW the oltCil. 0. Two important cities 'of Persia M Mauris unn Aenermi. . ID, "The northcrn'boundary- of Delaware an art'. iescrini rropi jn- '-" k eeetr-w . v -" j v- tn ., . s .i Jrl nj"i. r. J-VlLl 'jm.&M W M y u.,,1 X,t.. , r.A A . ,;-,'...,''.', ? - A l - !WA !') . rl t , " ' lf . . r. J-Ji " -ntmLa 1 M ft" . l. .1 fi. 5) M
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