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Mondi, February Z, 1920 WHAT ABOUT ROBINSON? TXTANY citizens interested in the sue-'-. ens ii the Moore administration have been puzzled by the retention, with out explanation, of .lames Uob'nson as hupontuendent of police. Their bcvvildei ment is not likely to bo cleaied away by the noncommittal attitude of Mayor Moore and Director Cortelyou when yucstioned. The memory of the people of this city is not so short-lived that they have for gotten the disgraceful fact that Robinson was forced out of office during the war by pressure from Washington, which held him accountable for vicious conditions menacing the morals of soldiers and sailors. The cv idence then acquired under the 'direction of Secretary Daniels has never been made generally public, but the mere thront tn ilo so hv Colonel TTiiteli. of tlin marine corps, in charge of the military guard.-, was enough to send Robinson off on leave of absence an J install William B. Mills as acting superintendent for the duration of the war. The l csult, accord ing to Colonel Hatch, was the speedy clean-up of ice conditions. Whether Robinson was made the scape goat for other.-, as some of his supporters maintained, has not necn satisfactorily proved, and until this is done he must rest under serious aspersion. If he wa.- not guilty, it is his duty to tell who was. Who made him the scapegoat, or "puppet." as Colonel Hatch teimrd him? But .'iMdo from Robinson's own posi tion, there can be no doubt about the need for more than noncommittal statements from the Mayor and the director. They talk straight out on other subjects. They should do t.o on this if they would avoid misunderstandings and stop unpleasant gossip Mr. Mooie and Mr. Cortelyou, what are you going to do about Superintendent ) Robinson ? WHERE CAN HE PUT 'EM? VDECAUSE of the great increa.-e in - the business'' Recorder of Deeds Hazlctt has found places in his office for ten Vare men. 'those familiar with the overcrowded I condition of his office will wonder where the new men will rind accommodations. It has been the common opinion that tho clcrl-a wcic already falling over one an other. 'I hey did not mind it, for they are all friends of the Vare.-, and sq of one an other. They are willing to be "taken care n(" in a county office, and if some of them have to be on duty only half time to make room for the ncv men, they will gladly adjust themsehc- to ;i curtailment of the hours during vhuh they have to sit at their desk-. But if ail i.ie Vare followeis who aie likely to be ousted from city jobs are to be taken care of in the county offices, something will really have to be done to enlarge the quarters assigned. THE WORLD'S FIFTH CITY AIT IIUUUI1 the censu-. takers nave not jet completed their ta-k here, suffi cient ictuins are in to render it virtually certain that this metropolis is now in the two million c!a.-s. There will be no especial advertisement of this increase. The basic conservatism which obtains here is unfavorable to the professional booster. Whether we should be proud or ashanmd of this fact may be debatable, but the fact is undeniable. Philadelphians never stretch tho ten- sus figures. They tell a remarkable ,-tory of steady growth lor more tnan two cen- .1 . turics. a talc ncrhacs of opportunities un realized in the days when New York ousted us from first place and again when Chicago slid into the second notch. But the recent development has been piodigiou.-. Not only docs it cany us far beyond the reach of rivalry in St. Louis, ' but the world rating is now exceedingly stalking. It is likely that thi.- city is now the sith greatest in tiio world, and per haps the fifth, since the present popula tion of Berlin is not definitely known. Tho other mrfopolitan centers ahead of us aie New Yurk. London, Paris and Chi- cago, with Tokio doubtful. Appreciation of our imposing position should be stimulating. The proper atti- tude would entail neither bragging nor the slumberous indifference which thai- acterized u.- about a century aK- A VICTIM OF DUTY! A 'MAN toin between to conflicting duties deserves the sympathy of all tender-hearted persons when his loyalty to otic gets him into trouble with the other. So Instead of denouncing Congressman .'Bill" Vare for what happened in Wash ington because of his visit to Philadelphia to say u gcod word for "Bill" Finley, on trial for alleged complicity in the Fifth ward rioting, every one should metaphori cally press the congressman s hand and remark: "Never mind; you couldn t bo in ktwo places at the tame time, aim you inino where you tnougnt you were neuueu ; . VW!k most. rfj5x25 i fact that dur'ng his absence from 'ni:ton an item of more than a mil- lion dollars to keep tho men in tho League Island navy yard at work was eut from the appropriation bill is of relatively less significance, from the congressman's point of view, than that tho good word ho said for "Hill" Finley may have had some influence in securing the man's acquittal. And nnywny, the congressman insists t hat his absence was not responsible for its elimination from the appropriation bill. Whether his explanation explains or rot we do not pretend to know. But wo wish to commiserate with him because of his enmeshment in a concatenation of fortuitous circumstances which has made an explanation seem necessary. A TALK TO MARS MIGHT BE A DISTURBING EXPERIENCE Stcinmctz and Lodge Should Pause and Wonder Whether We Are Ready to Hear What Other Worlds Think of Us VyilO will lead the wise men of this ' ' generation and teach them wisdom? Doctor Steinmetz spoke with terrible nonchalance when he suggested that a means of communication with Mars might be established with a billion dol lars. Marconi is fumbling about in inter planetary space to start conversations with Venus. An even more difficult task engages Sir Oliver Lodge, who has been trying desperately for years to rend the veil that hangs between us and that West where soldiers of all lands found peace j after the matchless torment of modern battlefields. Bctv ecn them thej may get Us into unending trouble. If there is intelligence on Mais it is vciy old intelligence some millions of years older than our own. Venus is younger than the earth and, perhaps, less sophisticated. We might get by, as they say, with Venus. But what appalling embarrassments might fall as a culminating punishment upon this planet if it had suddenly to reveal its follies and frailties and the vast accumu lation of its mistakes to eyes not hard ened by the habit of acceptance-? What could Doctor Stcinmctz say if he were asked why his brothers in wisdom still kill each other elaborately by machinery for no cause that any one can clearly understand? If the realistic philosophies of the time were condemned lor me sake 01 economy to a sentence or wo, the Result would not . . 7" ,1 T.I be such as to impress rdjacent worlds. It 'mttP(; " po-.tol.ices a report on the sen would be necessary to cry out, first of all, timent of t.io farmers, compiled by-the for a drv Venus. We might teach Maw hcad f th, division of rural mails The the game of empire, which, attcr all. is tho one to which the majority of nations have given the longest study and the most sdnecrcdevotion. To Doctor Steinmetz would fall tho un happy task of explaining th age that produced the German kaiser and the un happier task of explaining the foreign diplomatists who still seem to believe furtively in the theories of Wilhclm and his group. Bryan and jazz, strikes and trusts would have to follow in the dismal line of lamentable things, until stellar space echoed with the last bitter truth about musical comedy and the cult that i 0n their farms, and they hae been put can be happy only by wearing diamonds ' ting their surplus money in the ban'rs. at breakfast. They hae equipped their houses with A billion dollars is not a great deal of i .Ann.. j nintlftV rn(5. Hilt it. nil'rht be use(, jn bettev and fal. simvar ways than Doctor Steinmetz sugge-isj- l'roperiy expended, it might bridge other dark spaces and establish means of communi cation between the White House and Congress, between the plain people of Europe .ind their governments, between .capital and labor, between the folk who pioduce more food than they can sell and the other people who cannot find, at any tolerable price, enough food to put on the'r tables. Men who devote themselves to pure science are a marvelous group, marvelous in their patience, in ability and in their inconsistencies. They save life with one hand and with the other they destroy it. If they were better able to lead their times 'they would know- that problems I more piessing and tlilticuit tnan anj ' shrouded in the eternal ether await them in-t nround the corner. It begins to appear that somebody will have to find a substitute for work an old-fashioned means to happiness that is Koing swiftly out of style. A pundit with his car to the ground and a desire to meet the immediate and practical needs of his age wouldn't lose time in any effort to chat with planets. He would work piouslv to pave, let us say, the way to the self-boiling egg ami the .self-frying po tato. Multitudes would call him a bene factor. If he could discover self-mining coal and if he could make bread grow on trees he would do the thing which most amateur thinkers believe to be the sole requirement for a perfect world. Sir Oliver Lodge is another man who has forgotten the lules of caution ana prU(t.nce in his thirst for strange knowl .,, i.ihe Marconi and Steinmetz, he ii I -- -- ,. . i jomg his utmost to open a way lor criti- cism that might disturb our complacency and our confidence beyond all repair. In the region that Sir Oliver is trying to penetrate, if it exists at all, there arp some odd millions of young men who recently were sent out of this life without ., flmnce for happiness, or peace, or understanding. They were condenu.ed by gentlemen who sat in leather chairs far from tho danger and tumult, engrossed with purposes that have no relation with j n, i,nnc or the happiness of men. It is rjsi;ng much to get within touch of their ,nm(is and voices now. They might have things to say that wouiu mast xne souis and wither the very ears of men who still sit in the scats of the mighty in the old world and hide greed and cruelty and newer schemed of devastation with sound ing familiar platitudes. No. There is only one thing to be said rr.the men who are trying to work new .miracles of revelation. It is a sentence handed down from antiquity. It is, "Lay off!" ' The earth, after all its opportunities, needs more time to compose itself before it can start an agitation for a league of planets. . This world moves in what might be called the most desirable suburb of stellar space. It is incomparably rich in the means to sustain and develop the thing which science knows as life. It could nourish three times as many people as now livo on it. Yet in places it is hungry, nnd in places it is cold, and it cannot find pence even in its hear. Doctor Ftelnmftz, after he got hii, liil- lion-dollar wireless station going, might find n censorship clapped on him by planets that couldn't bear to listen to things he had to tell. A dreadful voice might address him and say: "You have had tho best of life. But you have forgotten how to rejoice in tho per fect succession of your days. The sun shines on you in grealer kindliness thnn wo know. You appear to have minds." What have you done with the things given to you? Life with you seems to spend nil its energy and all its span with the redistribution of atoms. "Tho first rule of existence is peace. Tho second is agreement. The third is a plan. ou have none of these as yet. Call up when you get your minds and ' your affairs in order. Your nations and your men still believe that happiness is i a matter of material possessions and that is what is tho matter with you. We were relieved of that error a million years ago!" Doctor Stcinmctz, looking about him and looking abroad where they are pre paring for a new dash to tho rainbow's end of empire, could have nothing to say to that. He would have to hang up with out a word. GREY CLEARS THE WAY VISCOUNT GREY'S dear intimation that Great Britain will not object to certain American reservations to the peace treaty must be embarrassing to President Wilson and his program of ratification without reservations. Grey's letter to the London Times politely but significantly suggests that changing the pact in some respects is not going to de stroy it. This is the contention of tho rcsurvationists and leaves little ground for a further stubborn opposition to rati fication through compromise. Viscount Grey intelligently sympa thizes with American traditions and hopefully looks forward to their benefi cent influence when thuy arc preserved in the League of Nations. Evidently, therefore, the sole barriers in the way of treaty ratification are pettish- ncss and prejudice. The diplomatic paths 1 have been cleared. It is the imperative duty of Democrats and Republicans to take the open path to agreement. THE REAL PLUTOCRATS ONE cannot help wondering what im pression James I. Blakslee, fourth assistant postmaster gcneial. desired to create when he read to the Senate com synopsis of the icport, telegraphed from Washington, indicates that the farmers arc discontented and aio unable to make a living, and arc planning to engage in some other occupation. That there are misfit farmers, just as I there arc misfit lawyers and misfit groc ' ers, goes without saying. But all the available evidence proves that tho most prosperous group in the whole country is the group of farmers. They have been getting high prices for everything that thev can uroduce. from wheat to nics. nnd including potatoes, apples and beef, I They have been paying off the mortgages . modem conveniences and they operate I rlini.. ffirnlc wirll tlin innct imnrnvpfl mil- I chinery. They could not do this if they were not prosperous There is no better indication of the state of their financial affairs than is found in the number of automobiles that they own. Wo think motorcars are com mon in this state and in New York, and Massachusetts the three great manufac turing states. But in Massachusetts there is only one car for every twenty-four persons; in New Yqrk, one for every twenty-two, and in this state one for every twenty. In Iowa, an agricultural state, there is one car for every seven persons, that is, out of every three families two own motorcars. In Kansas there is a car for every seven inhabitants. In Texas and Michigan there is one car for every eleven persons, and in Indiana and Wisconsin one for every twelve. And the cais owned in these agricultural states are not Fords, either. They are the moie ex- j nsh:c n,ake ; , T.nnln.:0 A population that can afford the luxury of. an automobile when it is engaged in a business m which it is necessary to use horses is not on the verge of bankruptcy. Nor is it seriously considering engaging in some other occupation than that in which it has achieved its prosperity. As a matter of fact the farmers are the financial backbone of the country. L'o long as they are making money there is no danger of a. serious financial panic arising from conditions on this side of the ocean. They constitute the largest group of the population engaged in a single industry. It is their purchasing power that keeps the other industries in operation. So long as that purchasing powei' is unimpaired the country is pretty safe. 'Xhc objections being And Perhaps ' made by Russian man llie Shoe Pinches ufarturers and mer chants to tlio rpsump tion of world trade with Russia through its co-operative societies ure peihaps merely unwitting indorsements, since the wisdom of trade reumption will not be disproved by any failure on tlio part of the co-ops. The liftins of the blockade is neither wholly busi ness nor wholly philanthropy. It is shrewd policy ; for it robs the Bolshevists of .ill their alibis. AVith woild markets opeu. tluy must either make sood or admit themselves de ceive) s There is no logical Ma.v .Jo.vouslj Pool Us reason why a fair price commission should be successful, since no man may say with certainty what should be considered a fair price; but everybody wishes tho com mission success, for the evils it seeks to cor rect are very real. Because a man may reach a perfectly logical conclusion, and a woman, without nny difficulty nt nil, can prove him utterly wrong, it is perhaps well that S3 per rent of the membership of the commission are to be women. -y A Pittsburgh man has Gratitude and leturned 51 .CO witness Patriotism fees to tho United States attorney, ex plaining that he came from Ilussia, where he had no rights, and anything he could do for the United States was n pleasure and he desired no pay. It is pleasing to realize that bolshevism i' not the only thing ex ported from Pvussia. II Is right and proper that members of the fair sex should constitute a majority of the members of 'a cnmmltlj' dolgtied to hi Ins uboiit fair prh s. jfS CHIEF HEPBURtJIS FIND i Street Cleaning Department Discovers Ordinance Requiring Bureau of Markets to D.o Its Own Street Cleaning ny GKOUOE NOX McCAlN SOMETHING new is Btartcd pvcly fifteen minutes in Director Winston's Depart ment of Public Works. City cpntrnctors arc becoming painfully awnre of this fact. Chief Hepburn, of the department of street cleaning, lias just dup. up an old ordinance that is of very pertinent interest to the hun dreds of small retail merchants, hucksters and itinerant venders who hold forth along tho curb line nnd in the markets of South Philadelphia. Likewise, it affects every other municipal market, public mart or curb market in the city. The discovery is certain to raise a nice point between the Bureau of Markets and the garbage nud street-cleaning contractors. Principally it Is bound to result in the re moval of n lot of cjesores and the elimina tion of sources of contagion, and result inn system of municipal house-clcauina, that will purify the ozone and sweeten the ntmospbero in a number of neglected localities. It isu't a case of "passing the buck." It is a movement toward the better protection of public health nnd one in which Director Furbush will doubtless rejoice. rpHE utility, as welt as, the necessity, of the picturesque and economical curbstone markets of South Tenth street is generally recognized. They arc a feature of life In "Little Italy." The brilliant coloring of the pushcarts, heaped high with fruits and vegetables: the sleek n'ld shining fish, the stacks of cliccc. the dull gra.v of dried herbs and the chro matic wealth of dress, knit goods and printed cloths present n picture every day in the week whose original counterpart can be found only in Naples, Genoa, Palermo or Rome. Tnc reverse of this is found in the un sightly heaps of garbage and market refuse that remain after the pushcart venders have vacated the locality nt the close of a vocifer ous day. Out of the ruck of neglected ordinances Chief Hepburn has resurrected this one, that is not the subject of controversy but the cause of an order that has gone out from the Bureau of Street Cleaning which will end an intolerable nuisance. This forgotten law provides that the care and cleanliness of the streets in other words, the street cleaning around these market houses is the work of the Bureau of Mar kets and not of the bureau of which Mr. Hepburn is in charge. , Bluntly, the Bureau of Markets must do its own street cleaning. It must also be doue once in every twenty-four hours. All the little heaps of rubbish and vegetable re mains nnist be swept up and carted away, and not left to rot' and decay in the vicinity of these marts until they are removed every second day or so, as is now the practice. Dm IRKCTOU CORTDLYOU is likewise in- rested. I'nder tho new system of co- efliciency tho police are expected to report Infractions of the ordinance, just as they arc e ported to report instances where .ashes, rubbish and household sweepings are de posited in the gutters or flung into the street. Director Cortelyou has caused both officers and patrolmen on his force to see a great light. Inane, general, indefinite or abso lutely fooli-h reports on highway conditions are no longer toleratcyl. If a street is dirty it must be specified and the exact location pointed out. No more will a lieutenant be permitted to make a report on highway conditions in his district that "the streets are completely cov ered with snow." An actual case. IT IS not uccessarj to dogmatize here on the issue as to who will keep the market s aces nnd vicinity spick-and-span. Nor is it likely that reports from policemen will solely bo depended upon. A request will be made to de-ignatc two or three special policemen whose duty it will be daily to investigate market conditions and report upon the lidelitj with which the ordi nance is obeyed. Tho pushcart brotherhood and pavement purveyors of fish and vegetables will be in cluded in this inspection. Tun, or Pete, or Pasquale. who persists in dropping banana skins, cabbage aud lettuce leaves and fish offal on the street, will be given the alterna tive of behaving himself or losing his license. And to all of this I doubt not that Director Furbush will utter a sonorous "Amen!" AX IMPItBSSION among friends of the new administration at City Hull, which has recently blossomed into fact, is that cer tain doorkeepers, messengers and clerks, holdovers from the old regime, have been de liberately "queering" the new heads of de pal tments and bureau chiefs. They permit callers having business with particular departments to cool their heels in the waiting places and reception rooms until it suits their lordly pleasure to announce the name of the caller to their piiucipal. There is a tw ofold reason apparent in this. It annoys the visitor and awakens a feeling of resentment against the new incumbent of tho office, and it gratifies the petty political enmity of the holdover employe. In one department alone, -as a case in point, after a gentleman liming business with a new director had called four times, he tiuully obtained an audience. He voiced his icgict at tho difficulty he encountered in leaching the inside office. To his surprise lie was informed by the official that he was wholly ignorant of the circumstance. The name of his visitor had never reached him on the preceding visits. All of which is confirmatory evidence of the need for n change in the outer office staff of certain departments. TT I J- Mu IS the oflieins opinion of Chairman ackcy. of the Workmen's Compensation Hoard, that such a little thing as tuo words; has an effect'in fostering class distinction. Laborer and capitalist, workman and em ployer, are terms in connection with relative positions that should be eliminated. So far us his bureau is concerned, he has inaugurated a new system of designation. It has been introduced in all of his reports, offi cial findings and addresses. The workiugmnn is designated as the "pio ducer," the employer of labor us the "in vestor." He claims that these aie the proper terms in which to describe employe and employer. Their general adoption eliminates the nn expressive nnd objectionable phrases "wage slave" nnd "capitalistic employer." After all, as ho points out. the workman is the real producer; the employer who puts money and brains into an enterprise the investor. , It is possible that the chairman of tho Workmen's Compensation Board has struck n great idea. A dispatch from Yondon states that economic conditions have contributed to the discontent of the working classes in India. We shall next hear from Touchstone's friends that it is the property of water to wet and of fire to burn Success cnhslsts In knowing jou are all risht and niuUlns the other follotv believe il STILL , ,.V ' '' ,:v . ' X s j 1 FROM DAY SENATOR HARD ING is asking th'q Republicans to nomi nate him for the. presi dency, nnd tho people afterward to elect him on the issue that "two heads arc better than one." On the other hand, Mr. Herbert Hoover is being urged upon the country for Hoover and Harding Heads Are Tivo Belter Than One? Supermen or Party Men Which Best Serves Us? Prophets and Profiteers Messages From Mars the presidency by something that looks like a spontaneous up rising no one knows yet how general on the theory that one head, especially if it is Hoover's, is better than any two that the Democratic or is it the Republican 7 party can offer. What n lovely issue it would be if we could only pit these two men against each other. On the one hand the theory which wo all profess; on the other the prac tice which we all resort to when the extra ordinary situation ari-es. Rome had a gov ernment of the "two-hcads-aro-bettcr-than-onc" type, with the provision that when a crisis came the Romans should stake their all on the one head a dictator. The Romans got to thinking that the crisis was a permuneut affair, nnd to depending all the time on the one head that v as better than two, und things went on until, Mr. Harding would doubtless point out, Gibbon was able to write a history about them and call it their "Decline and Fall." TJL'T do we really believe that ,-to heads i J- are better than one"? Or only that in the ordinary affairs of the world two ordi nary heads arc belter than one ordinary head; but that in the extraordinary affnirs one extraordinary head is better than a whole Senate full of ordinary heads and is entitled to refer to the ordinary heads, in words which Mr. Harding says the late President McKinley would never have used, as "the pygmy-minded Senate"? Do we believe in anv of the old saws, except "with reservations"? Recent reservations made by the people to the "two-hcads-are-better-than-one" theory are G rover Cleveland Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow- Wilson, nil of whom belong generally to what Mr. Harding, in his Niles, Ohio, speech, called 'the "superman" type of President, to whom he prefers party government. Do wo really believe in the t"A old times? "All times when old are good," said Byron contemptu ously in his "hot youth when George the Third was king." M1,',,,? HARDING would lead us back to good old times." He makes It a virtue to be a "little om-iasiiionea, to take counsel, to surrender personal views to the better judgment of the two heads to bo a bimetalist like McKinley; yet, in response to party opinion, as Mr. Harding says, support the gold standard which made the sharp-tongued Thomas II. Reed refer to Mr. Harding's hero as "not a silver bug nor a gold bug. but n straddle bug." Let us put it boldly: A straddle bug for Piesident or n superman! This docs a little violence lo Mr. Harding's thought, lint so obnoxious has tho superman become, sumo think, thut we might turn with satis faction to the straddle bug, a gentle beast with a capacity for being on both sides of everything: one might have calm under the straddle bug. ALWAYS if there weren't any Thomas Urackctt Reeds ! Forget Thomas Brackctt Reed, nnd the tongue that kept him out of the White Ilousfc. In these dnjs would it have kept him out of the White House, or got him there? Would the oue head that was better than two or the two heads that were better than one of IfiflO have succeeded in these days? Mr. Harding pins his faith on the "McKinley type of'Prcsident.'' He comes from McKinley's stato. He dias the only faco in Washington (hat might gu on a postngo stamp. He rents for his cam paign headquarters the old rooms iu the F.bliHt lloiixr oiciipled lis ( iitiEifHxiiinti Mc i.K AFRAID OP HIS SHADOW i -' ZZL ' TO DAY Kinley nnd his wifo a fine little touch of sentiment, "a little old-fashioned." He has his roots in the past and his eyes on the future. But is there nny future for "two heads are bet ter than one"? Ask the Hoover boomers! The Ohio senator probably believes in the "middle classes," another old:Taihioncd institution. Bvcrybody professes great faith in the middle classes, as in the two heads that arc better than one, and everybody thinks tho middle classes arc the other fel low. Many tears are shed over the middle classes nowadays. The II. ( L. is devour ing them. They arc being butchered to make a profiteer's holiday. Meanwhile vyc read such items as that laborers arc buying 10 silk shirts, that most of the woodworking factories in the country have been turned over to producing boxes for a ceitnin music machine on which the patents have expired, in order to supply the craving of the new, rich, silk-shirted toiler for melody in his home. A ND C i- AVI ND listen to this : henever a sale of land takes place In Trance, a certain tax is levied on the pro ceeds for tho benefit of the 'slate. In 1918 tills tax for all tho land transfers In Franca reached 188,000,000 francs. In 1919 the, tax attained tho unprecedented llgure of C10, 000,000 francs, or three times as (Treat. In poor France three times us many peas- j ants are able to buy land now as before the i war and a vast number of them have paid oft" their mortgages. In Hurope the wealth of the fanner is so proverbial that the new lich arc called "rutabagas," after the home ly beet they raise. A LOT of the poor arc graduutiug into the moderately well off classes. The silk shirt is only the first crude sign of a newly arrived, n parvenu, middle clnsser. For every one member of tho middle class that is going down two new members arc coming ill out of the lower class, glittering with strange raiment, nud having nufls extremely conscious of a recent first contact with the manicure, At this rate, the middle class is taking care of itself. Why vvony about who belongs to it, so long as wo arc dead sure we don't? , rOCTOR STEINMETZ, who knows more -' about electricity practically thnn any one else in the world, says that if all the. electric power in this world were concentrated into one great sending station we could dispatch a radiogram to Mars, Such a message would tost a billion dollais. Conversely, the mes sages wo ure getting from Murs or is it Venus? must be costing the inhabitants of thnl planet u billion dollars each. A people who would spend a billion dollars for a message must havq something highly worth saying. Maybe the Martians or Venusians want to ndd n word to the discussion of the League of Nations, A race that has billions to spend on agitating tho ether through 50,000,000 miles of spaco must have solved the problems of no more wars. It will bo interesting to know what they think of Article X. Uncle Sam has done a generous and kindly thing in permitting service men who have allowed their war insurance to lapse to make renewal. It is just, also, for a man who has risked his all should be given tho privilege of a second thought. Bcrgdoll is apparently proceeding on the assumption that u man must have all his wits about him if he hopes to convince any body that he has lost them. Hoover is in favor of giving soviet Rus sia enough rope to hang Itself. Nobody ob jects to rulNlu: the blockade cm rope K. i3S THE SMALL WIND To Philadelphia, in Recompense for ttars Words THE full night echoes, and n sudden gust Shouts tinily, bleats "April" in my ears; He toys with passing skirts and chases dust, And, cruel varlct, shuts bright eyes with " tears. With plausible romance the scrubby cheat Lusts to boil bubbling blood in human veins, j ln,l T.nA..1. ,U. I...... !.. .... 1.!- .-..,1 31 - songs sweet j Borrowed of birds and washed by country 'rains. The ruddy juice to his tunc foots a dancer The street cars jangle and the cobbles ring; Horns yell aud gngglc ; uncouth men advance Staring before them, looking for the spring. The sum of noise is quiet; rattling carts Roll silently, outmatched by beating hearts. t ALEC B. STDVBNSON. Great Britain is grateful to America for its help in France nt a critical '.hue, and the gratefulness Is evidenced by th- presen tation of its municipal Hag to Winchester, Va., by Winchester, England. Great Britain also has considerable crouch acaiust America ' for that it has led the way iu prohibition; and the grouch is evidenced ty posters thut tyw are being displayed all over the tight little island. The Briton's mixed feelings may be summed up in a paraphrase of an old music-hall song: " 'E is grateful, there you arc ! But since Johnny Bull may lose bis little beer, w'y, 'e dunno w'ero 'e arc!" The groundhog paraphrases the old song to read, "Tomorrow the sun will be; I shining if it only stays cloudy today." Punxsutawncy is today the Mecca ol all meteorological sharps, j Lodge has apparently joined the ranVil of the irreconcilables, J What Do You Know? QUIZ I. What American political party one'; won a great presidential victory with; a platform which was, in substance. "Down with the administration"? -. Who was Ausonius? 3, What European city contains the f-j mous picture gallery called "The Hcrmitago"? 4. What are "midinettcs"? 5. Who was Auguste Renoir? 0. What is an cpiccdlum? 7. Who wroto "Ben Hur"? S. Why are dollies so called? J. What king of France was called tin "Man-Milliner"? 10. What is esparto? Answers to Saturday's Quiz 1. To heckle is to badger with questions comments or gibes. 2. Witches' thimbles are plants, includm; harebells, sea-campions, fox-gloves iinrl l.neliplnra tittttnna 3. Monrovia, the cnpltul of the negro re-jj nubile of Liberia, is named nftM'l President .Tames Monroe. 4. Argon is a gas, an 'Inert constituent olu the atmosphere. i 5, Amortization is the clearing off or Hqul-j dation of n debt, usually by a sinktoti fund. 3 G. Capers are bramblc-llko shrubs, natir'J to South Europe. They are also th'J seed vessels of tho nasturtium plckledij' chiefly for uso in sauce. I T. Samuel D. Gross was a celebrstw American physician. His dates ti 1803-1884. v 8. A niotorlso is a hole in a framework designed to receive the end of sonn ther part. . 0. Morpheus was the classical god dreams. 10e Aristophanes wrote comedies, ' s-ni. 1 . , ty, .- . HBakS IMMIMSJMiMVHVHM
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