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rhltadelplila. Frldty. Ftbruirj 27, 1U
A FOUR-YEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA
Thine on which the people expert the
new administration to concentrate Us at
tention I
The Delaware river bridge.
A drydock Up enough to accommodate the
largest ships.
Development of the rapid transit system,
A convention hall.
A building for the Free Library.
An Art Museum
Enlargement of the water supplv.
Homes to accommodate the population.
UNCLE DAVE AGAIN
UE WILL settle our senatorial and
' councilmanic affairs in the district
ourselves," said Uncle Dave Lane, speak
ing for the Twentieth ward, "and no out
sider, big or little, can interfere in our
local affairs!"
The rights of small nations aren't being
forgotten, Uncle Dave, but if the small
nations have to be policed for the common
good they will be policed.
BETTER DAYS FOR POLICEMEN
TDETTER times are ahead for the police.
--' The agitation for better pay is hav
ing practical results and, if we are to
judge by the work done in conferences
such as the Mayor had yesterday with
Controller Walton, it will have a happy
ending before long.
Meanwhile, the departure of Superin
tendent Robinson is a sign of progress in
another direction.
Acting Superintendent Mills, who will
succeed Robinson, is closer to the men
than his predecessor, more democratic
and generally representative of an oppo
site theory of police administration. He
never troose-stenrjed for nnv faction and
- much of the efficiency there is in the de
partment is due to his efforts.
, With a year of Mills and better pay,
and an absence of factional control, life
in a policeman's uniform ought to be less
of a burden than it has been in recent
years.
FLOURISHING NATIONAL GUARD
fpHE respect to the present National
Guard system contained in the army
appropriation bill seems to be amply
justified in the rapid reorganization of
Pennsylvania's state troops.
Major General William G. Price, Jr.,
forecast that if Congress adopts the
proposed legislation this commonwealth
will be able to put her new National
Guard division in the field within ninety
days. Recruiting has been brisk and suc
cessful. Sentiment is considerately
heeded in the preservation of the stirring
name, Twenty-eighth Division.
All of which goes to show that the
guard system enjoys a popularity based
on tradition and sympathetic apprecia
tion of the American temperament, and
that this state in military affairs is dis
playing its familiar initiative.
PADEREWSKI'S PATRIOTISM
TT IS cheering to note that in renounc--
ing both Polish presidential and pub
lic pianistic ambitions, Ignuce J. Pader-
owski is prompt to appreciate the won
derful rebirth of his fatherland.
"'I am convinced," he declared in a re
cent interview, "that an era of peace and
prosperity for Poland is begun and that
my political mission is finished."
This is the language of unselfishly pa
triotic statesmanship, happily unreflec
tive of Mr. Paderewski's personal trials
in the premiership. The question of his
" success or failure in politics is infinitely
small compared with the revival of a na
tion once ruthlessly partitioned among
rapacious neighbors.
The rehabilitation of independent Po-
' land is, indeed, one of the indisputably
just and solid results of the great war.
The right historical perspective on this
inspiring fact will be obtained more
easily as the years roll by.
i6, inc. onumtnnuuu VtlO
,PHE MEMORIAL handed to Mr. Wil-
h Cin ti, ft.n ..nil ... ...III.
tup DnnTumuAAr, ,.-.
rj- , ou.. uj uiv imi mini mm tin appeal for
L ", veto of the Esch-Cummins bill is not
C'f nvincmg. It opposes the theory of
it acre tribunals unon th rrn,m,i !,(.
iutjure wage adjustments, left to an im-
;, wuai """I iruuiu UC BUDJCCC 10 ln-
V definite and uncertain methods of nH?nf.
hli ment."
No case ever submitted to an open
court looked the sumo from both sides.
But it Is upon courts and the enlightened
judgment of courts that civilization de
pends for order. No other method exists
fn InBtiro onunlitv and finHcn A.,.1
complaint about indefiniteness and un
certainly conies strangely irom those
wh- were willing to subject the whole
nation to the "uncertainty and indefinite-
as" of a universal coal strike nnri
jMiwJyijis of the means of transportation.
, f 3T rational view of the rail situation
ilvMa AXBMttsed yesterday bv Dr. Kmnrv
R. Ji4ilitHt the University of Penn-
tylviuW' Doctor Johnson, knowing a
much as any man alive of the factors in
volved, admitted that, though in eomo
ways imperfect, tho Esch-Cummins bill
represents tho best that Congress or any
one else can do at tho moment and
pleaded for its acceptance.
pNE BIG EMPLOYER WHO LETS
HIS WORKING PEOPLE STARVE
The Inhuman and Unintelligent Policy
of an Institution With Eleven Hun
dred Thousand Names on Its
Payroll
A WOMAN died of starvation not many
months ago. A lawyer interested in
the case, seeking to fix the responsibility,
hunted out her employer. Ho discovered
that she had been working for the United
States Government in Washington.
A pathologist died of anemia. He had
been trying to support himself, his wife
and two children on a government salary
of $900 a year.
The head of a department in Washing
ton asked for an appropriation to permit
him to appoint two new clerks at $1800
a year. Congress appropriated $3G00,
but ordered that it be paid to four clerks
at $900 apiece.
There are 7000 clerks on the payroll
in Washington so old that they are un
able to do anything. One of them was
appointed by President Tyler. They are
kept on the payrolls because no one is
willing to discharge them and send them
to the poorhouse, and Congress refuses to
pension them.
These are a few of the facts set forth
in a remarkable address made by Robert
Catherwood, of Chicago, yesterday before
the National Civil Service Reform
League, in the course of which ho demon
strated that the United States is the
most inhuman and unintelligent employer
in the country.
There are 1,100,000 persons on the gov
ernment payroll. In some of the depart
ments the men and women are working
for the salaries fixed by act of Congress
in 1872. The departments cannot change
the pay and Congress refuses to do so.
Not all the employes who suffer under
this system are in Washington. Some of
them are in the Mint and in the Custom
House right here in Philadelphia. Some
of the employes in the postofficc are not in
such a bad state because they have used
their political influence to secure an in
crease in pay.
Tho curse of the system is that pay is
regulated not by any sound principles of
business, but by political considerations.
The group of employes which can intimi
date Congress by a threat of voting
against the congressmen can improve
their conditions.
As a result of this state of affairs 60
per cent of. the federal employes have
affiliated themselves with labor organiza
tions. They have been driven to it. Un
less something is done to remove the ex
isting abuses the remaining 40 per cent,
or a large part of them, will follow the
example of the others until only the men
getting the higher range of salaries and
inspired by a feeling of professional
pride will remain unorganized.
The outcome which Mr. Catherwood
foresees is that the salaries will be fixed
by the organized government workers
rather than by Congress. They will make
their demands and enforce them under
the threat of a strike, just as the rail
road men forced the Adamson law
through Congress. Government will
then have abdicated and its financial
policies will be dictated by irresponsible,
unelected men sitting in the councils of a
labor organization instead of by the
agencies created by the constitution for
that purpose.
Mr. Catherwood is not talking without
knowledge of his subject. He served as
an assistant in the survey of the govern
ment departments made by a joint con
gressional committee on reclassification
and came in contact with the men and
women on the public payrolls.
The underpayment, scandalous as It is
and inhuman as are its effects is not the
only defect in the system.
It results in the employment of men
at $2600 a year who when they resign
command salaries of $13,000 from pri
vate employers and men at 5-1500 who
go into private employment at $25,000.
These men do not ask the government to
pay them what they could earn in a com
mercial enterprise. Those who are still
in the service do ask for a living wage
sufficient to enable them to maintain
their self-respect while they devote their
abilities to solving the scientific and
technical problems put up to them by law.
It results, further, in cluttering the
departments with useless appointees
with nothing to do. It is estimated that
between 15,000 and 20,000 superfluous
jobs exist in Washington alone. The
are perpetuated because when a place
has once been created Congress is loath to
abolish it. The incumbent with a politi
cal pull insists that his superior be for
bidden to discharge him.
How this works is illustrated in the
experience of Secretary Lane. There
was a useless woman in his department.
As she had nothing to do she made trou
ble. He dismissed her. A congressman
heard of what had been done and in
sisted that some one else be appointed to
the vacancy. The secretary had to sub
mit. Then some friends of tho woman
demanded that she be reinstated and the
matter was taken to the White House.
The secretary had to find a place for her,
and the result of his efforts to abolish a
useless job resulted in the perpetuation
of the job and in tho creation of another
one.
And yet Congress still permits thou
sands of men and women to work in the
departments for salaries ranging from
$720 to $900 a year, when the minimum
umount on which a person can live in
Washington i3 said to be $1350.
The remedy, according to Mr. Cather
wood, lies in putting public employment
on a business basis. This would imme
diately eliminate the political basis on
which the whole structure now rests. He
insists that the national Civil Service
Commission is the proper body to have
charge of the matter. It has at its com
mand employment experts who could do
tho work required if Congress would only
consent. It would treat the executive
department of the government as a unit
vnd not M-4en separate- and distinct en.
EVENING PUBLIC tEbain
titles, with no more relations to one an
other, than Siberia has with Ecuador.
Thoro would bo a body of accountants
and stenographers and copyists and tho
liko which would movo from department
to department, according to tho needs of
each. Under this nrrangement a much
smaller force could do all tho work and,
without any increase in appropriations, a
living wage could bo paid to every one.
The President, with tho immense pow
ers conferred on him by Congress for
carrying on' the war, could have brought
about this great leform if he had been so
disposed.
Nothing is likely to bo done until Con
gress is persuaded that reform is politi
cally expedient. Mr. Catherwood's
speech, if the congressmen rend it,
ought to have some effect in Washington.
THE ADRIATIC DEADLOCK
rpHE President's threat to "take under
serious consideration tho withdrawal
of the trcnty" is met by the French and
British Governments, parties to the Ad
riatic "arrangement" of Jnnuary 20, with
a denial of any "attempt to force its ac
ceptance until they have heard the views
of the United States Government" on the
dispatch of February 17.
That opportunity was provided in Mr.
Wilson's second note dated February 24.
The three dispatches) made public today,
constitute a remarkable chapter in tho
diplomatic aftermath of the war. They
fail, however, to provide n settlement of
a critical and complicated problem.
Mr. Wilson, although his second contri
bution, signed "Polk," is more temperate
thnn the first one in this series, signed
"Lansing," yields not an inch of ground
previously taken. The Allies express
"consternation" at tho deadlock and tho
intimation of a possible American retire
ment from European affairs, but they
concede no point to their interrogator.
The situation, therefore, is still ex
tremely serious. The climax, however,
has not yet been reached. The crucial
second reply from Paris is lacking. That
awaited note ought to determine de
cisively whether or not France, Italy and
Britain are resolved to dispose of the
Adriatic question independently of the
United States.
Mr. Wilson bases his case on the
memorandum sanctioned by the repre
sentatives of Great Britain, France and
the United States on December 9, 1919.
Tho salient points in this "settlement"
were:
First. The creation of a buffer state
between Italy and Jugo-Slavia to include
Fiume and to be under the protection of
the League of Nations. The population
of such a country would include some
200,000 Jugo-Slavs and 40,000 Italians,
the latter chiefly residents of Fiume.
Second. Limitation of Italy's claims'
to all of the Istrian peninsula.
The plan of January 20, 1920, to which
the United States was not a party, pro
vides for the extinction of the buffer
state and the establishment of Fiume as
a free city under the League of Nations,
with a right to choose its own diplo
matic representatives. It is furthermore
stipulated that Italy shall receive all of
Istria aud a connecting strip of coast
cutting off Jugo-Slav territory, including
the Fiume railway from the sea, in a way,
alleged by Mr. Wilson, to predicate enor
mous commercial and customs difficulties
and tangles of jurisdiction.
The President has interpreted such a
proposal as an index of effective control
of Fiume by Italy and has viewed this
and other details as a flat repudiation of
the earlier plan. In language which is
exceedingly frank for diplomacy Mr.
Wilson virtually charges breach of faith
and a renunciation of the principles on
which, during its later stages, the war
was supposed to be fought. His candid
opposition to the enforcement of the
treaty of London is partly base'd on simi
lar grounds.
How far public sentiment in America
will support him in his stand remains to
be seen. The Allies in their answer to
the first note take the position that not
all the settlements in Paris to which Mr.
Wilson himself agreed were reached with
scrupulous respect for justice and the
theory of self-determination. If argu
ments of this sort weaken Mr. Wilson's
case they are, from the standpoint of
morality, no less embarrassing to the
European nations.
Llojd George and Millerand, represent
ing, lespectively, England and France,
pertinently ask whether the United
States is willing "to wreck the whole ma
chinery for dealing with international
disputes" because of a difference of opin
ion regarding Fiume. In a sense also
they throw up their hands and seek to
shift the burden by inquiring how tho
United States proposes to settle this
perilous business, since no nrrangement
except the last one has had Italian ap
proval. Opinion in this country cannot, how
ever, take- responsible shape until the
second rebuttal from abroad is recorded.
Meanwhile the tone of Mr. Wilson's notes
will most assuredly strengthen the de
termination of the treaty reservationists.
A President who declares, as Mr. Wilson
does, that "the American people are fear
ful . . lest they become entangled
in international policies" plays, as a
champion of an unamended pact of Ver
sailles, a role not without its nuances of
inconsistency.
Any good Bolshevik
wouldn't find It diffi
Easy!
cult to explain the
unexpected succession of unseasonable cold
waves. He would be convinced that the
weather man had gone pecrctl7 into the coal
business intent on a killing.
"Senator Heed (b a
Nothlnr master of wtrcasm."
Senator Ashtirst. In
deed? And what eUe is Senator Reed mas
ter of?
Tenants of a New York anti-profiteering
landlord rerently voted him, over his protest,
an increase of rent. He is therefore spend
ing the extra money by wiring the apartments
for electricity. Making light of a good deed,
as it were.
The chancei aro that Congressman Vare
will never be able to persuade navj yard
emplojes that a printed speech I. as impor
tant as one vote.
May the Senate during a treaty dtfiate
fat spoken ot m a.9i"
PHILADELPHIA", ' iTRTDAT; FfeBRITET 27,
UNCLE SAM A BAD BOSS
Extracts From an Address Mado at
the Annual Meeting of the
National Civil Service
Reform League
By ROBERT CATHERWOOD
THERE is abundant evidence that Presi
dent Washington regarded the federal
scrvlco as a much-needed stabilizing institu
tion in American life. lie sayH :
"Administrative vigor is indispensable to
liberty."
"The consequences of defective compensa
tions In various Instances and in none more
than in respect to the higher btatlous arc of
serious Import to the government."
"Especially remember that duty Is to the
common Interest, to the constitution, to the
laws and not to nny community, factiou or
class."
"It is repugnant to the vital principles of
our government virtually to exclude from
public trusts talents aud virtues unaccom
panied by private wealth." ,, ,
Have we applied Washington's idcals7
I came In contact with many of th fed
eral employes In tho District of Columbia
for some months last fall, us a humble as
sistant Iti a survey conducted by the joint
congressional commission on reclassification.
The first outstanding fact Is that the federal
service is approaching n crlsl. Let me state
the nature of the crisis as I sec It.
First. A committee of Congress in a few
meetings Is expected to fix the salaries of
1,100,000 persons.
Second. Upon the overburdened shoulders
of ten heads of huge departments Is dumped
the duty of recommending salaries aud pro
motions, of attending to grieances and or
ganization, of keeping up efficiency, of train
ing employes, of rewarding the efficient and
removing the Inefficient, of getting along
with the aged employes and the employes
who duplicate and overlap each other's
functions.
Third. An examining board called the
civil service commission, with Inadequate
appropriations for its work, stands at the
front door of tho federal service. But it
cannot set its foot inside. Where it is most
needed it has no jurisdiction.
Fourth, The federal employe has no forum
where his complaints and grievances may be
heard and the necessary adjustments made
until he transforms himself iuto a political
force and clamors at the door of Congress.
Fifth. An arrogant aud triumphant or
ganization which put through the Adamson
law and made Congress pay big wages to all
trades unionists in the government service
is calling to the federal employe in the de
partments: "Take off your white official
collars ! Join us ! Affiliate with union labor
in n struggle for class rights! Get in the
band wagon!" "
One hundred and fifty thousand federal
employes have become affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor.
The issue in the approaching crisis 1b:
"Shall the federal service be held in Its duty
to the common interest, to the constitutiou
and to tho lows, or shall it become the in
strument of a class, a faction a labor or
ganization?" There ought to be n forum or council for
the discussion, by representatives of the fed
eral employes and their chiefs, of service
grievances and wrongs ; but the outside pro
fessional trouble-makers and the represent
atives of classes nnd interests bhould be ex
cluded. The remedy should be furnished by
public officers in the interests of the public
alone and at nil costs the "white-collared
official" established by George Washington
should be maintained. Even yet the proudest
of titles is servant of the whole people.
Yet I have ncen bales of resiguatlons where
the reason given is, "I cannot live ou the
salary." A woman, faithful In her duty for
twelve jears, died of starvation. The prose
cuting attorney, seeking her employer, found
him to be the United States of America. A
pathologist died of anemia superinduced by
insufficient nourishment. Ills wife and two
step-children and himself had been living on
$000 a year. lie was u servant of the whole
people at $7o a month.
The experts say that the minimum wage
in the city of Washington for one person is
now $1320 a year, but there are thousands
of men and women there In the government
service who arc paid $720, $810 and $000 a
J ear.
Recently in one division of the Interstnto
Commerce Commission seven men resigned.
Their salaries averaged $2600 a year each.
They accepted outside positions which now
pay them $13,143 a year each. The federal
government was paying $'000 to $13,000
men.
In the Inst twelve months all of the men
who hac resigned from the Bureau of Mar
kets have douc bo to ttccept uu average in
crease of over $4000. The chief of that
bureau, who resigned last summer to accept
a position at $20,000 n year, enjoyed an
emolument of $4500.
The chief petroleum technologist of the
Bureau of Mines at $4S00 a eur is now re
ceiving $25,000 a year.
The secretary of the United States Civil
Service Commission receives 52000 a year.
May I venture a professional opinion based
on what Canada, Great Britain and Aus
tralia pay a like officer with less important
duties aud far smaller services, that he is
worth $10,000 a year. If he received brick
layers' wages his salary would be equal to
that of the Civil Service Commissioners.
A year ago a department asked for two
clerks at $1800 a year. A vagrant fancy
entered the mind of a consressmun and he
moved to make it four clerks at $000 a year.
The motion was carried unanimously. No
reason was ever given, because there wasn't
any reason, and reason is not necessary iu
making appropriations fur clerk hire.
It would save a great deal of money if
7000 old people could be retired and pen
sioued. They cannot work and their feeble
attempts to do so are not beneficial to the
service. "Please state wnat you are doing,"
said a recent questionnaire. "Nothing, for
I am totally blind," answered one. "1 open
nnd shut a vault door night and morning,"
said another. "Very little now," said a
third, "for I am ninetv -seven years old and
was appointed by President Tiler." An old
lady of eighty -seven and her colleague of
seventy-nine gave a formidable list of duties,
which, alas! existed on!j Jn their dreams.
Seven old gentlemen rome to business,
when they do come, in bath chairs.
But what is the remedy? No one has a
right to criticize without n constructive pro
posal. The remedy is founded upou'the principle
that nil matters i which relate to public m
plojment bhould be regulated and udrain
istcred ns distinct and separate from p'li
tics, on the one hand, and from manage
ment and executive direction of department
on the other hand. When an net of Con
gress is passed embodying that principle all
the politics should have then gone out of it
and it should be administered by the best
employment experts that the President tan
finJ.
The crisis which for many years to come
will affect the destinies of the federal service
and profoundly affect the national life Is at
hand. Sixty per rent of the service has been
quietly annexed by the American Federation
of Labor. Only 4U per cent remains un
pledged. I have no doubt that the American Feder
ation of Labor fully appreciates that so far
as real power and dominance in this country
id concerned a body of 1,000.000 federal em
ployes Is worth all the politicians put to
gcther. When union labor can order the govern
ment employes to walk out In a strike ugainst
the United States, the President, Congress,
the inrmcmi w. mum uivu unu mat un
happy rump which we still call the public
will have to come to heel because of labor's
conquest of the federal service. We should
now repair the harm done by neglect, in
justice, low wages, cheap politics and cow
ardice and cstttblWi a national employment
system lu tho interests of the whole people,
and not In the Interests of any class, party
or clique whatsoever. When that is done,
but not before, then the employes' organiza
tions should be confined by law to the serv
ice ifelf and nny affiliation or pledge to uny
outside organization should be prohibited by
lawA Then once more thQ federal service
M-IIIVlm rhn neonle'a Hcrvlce. thn - --
1 bllixlug UuiUtuuon ot our country.
1 " A LEAP YEAR TURN-DON "
isssas5SEs;
HOW DOES IT
STRIKE YOU?
TVTR. WINSTON CHURCHILL
ennuot
take bis eves off Constantinople.
In the beginning of the war he saw in tho
Turkish capital the key to the whole war.
Today he bees there the key of empire.
Empire Is never dull business for Mr.
Churchill.
In 1014 a handful of men making a sur
prise attack iu the rear of Germany on the
Dardanelles would change the whole fate of
Europe.
Today a few picturesque bandits in Con
stantinople will change the whole fate of
Asia.
"Considering; our burdens," he snys,
"throughout the Middle East, Persia and
Mesopotamia, no relief can be expected until
a real peace Is made with Turkey.
I trust that we shall not now
take steps that will drive the Turkish people
to despair."
Make friends of the Turks is his argument,
nnd all the national aspirations, all the love
of liberty that is stirring among the Moslems
of the British dominions nnd making British
burdens too heavy to bear wil". disappear.
Hence when Mr. Lloyd George nods one
of his half ncqutcscenccs, some messenger,
perhaps to force Mr. Lloyd George's uud
President Wilson's hands, is dispatched
through India with the glad tidings that the
Turk will stay in his old capital.
q j i
ENGLAND is half gentleman adventurer
and half Puritan, half Cavalier and half
Roundhead.
Domestically she Is all Puritan, all Round
head. In her foreign policies bhc is less certainly
Puritan, and when those foreign politics
affect the romantic parts of the earth, the
Near East, for example, she is mostly gen
tleman adventurer.
The Turkish question is an issue between
the gentleman adventurer (tho modern equiv
alent of Raleigh nnd Drake), Mr. Churchill,
and the Puritan, .the parson -following Lord
Robert Cecil, each pulling Mr. Lloyd George
his way, and tho Churchill party having
stolen a march by sending word to India und
probably to the Moslem world generally that
the Turk would bo undisturbed in Con
stantinople. Shall the Puritan conscience prevail in
relations with the Near East?
Or the gentleman ndventtner's policy of
useful friendships and profitable alliances
with heathen and paynlm potentates whose
weakness for slaying Christians by the mil
lions niUBt be overlooked?
I fl
IS ENGLAND going to remain half gentle
man ndkenturer or Is it going to become
all Puritan?
Empire is half excitement to Mr. Churchill.
It Is all conscience to Lord Robert Cecil.
Churchill narrowly missed making it all
excitement.
Hod the Elizabethan exploit of the attack
on the Dardanelles succeeded and It missed
only by a hair's breadth Churchill instead
of Lloyd George would probably now be tho
muster spirit of England.
But Churchill's exploits have all gone
amiss.
The flight by airplane to Paris to tell
Lloyd George how Russia could be conquered
by a handful of adventurers "volunteer.,"
Mr. Churchill called them ended in confirm
Ing Lenlne's power nnd in Europe's going
without the cheap raw materials necessary
for her recovery.
So Mr. Churchill's short way with the
troubles of empire, the old, old way of the
gentleman adventurer, making an alliance
with some influential savage, rather addicted
to murder, but controlling some important
gateway In this instance the gateway to
several hundred million Moslem souls may
fall to commend Itself to his country.
There Is a phrase, that is potent In Eng
land, more potent perhaps than the gentle
mon adventurer's tradition, the Gladstonlan
phrase, "the unspeakable Turk."
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THE Turks are puzzled by the word "man
date." It Is the same In their language as the
word meaning "buffalo."
They are not sure whether thoy have been
"buffaloed" or not. .
Neither Is the rest of the world, especially
America, which Ib being told by the Turks
that "even the poultry" of Americans re
siding In Amerlca.aro scratching In peace and
plenty.
Meanwhile, the klllng of the Armenians
has been resumed.
The, Turk Is evidently striving to please,
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Terms of College Presidents
.His religion suddenly having become im
portant, iu the eyes of Mr. Churchill, the
Turk, by killing the infidel, wants to prove
that his faith burns as fiercely as ever.
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TR. JACOB GOULD SCHURMAN in
- resigning the presidency of Cornell Uni
versity gives the reason that he has served
for more than n quarter of a century, nnd
that no mau Is good as nn executive for more
thuu twenty-five years ; or, to bo more exact,
that the length of a man's usefulness in that
capacity varies, but that In his case he feels
sure that it did not exceed twenty-five years.
This is another attempt, like that of Doctor
Osier, to define the period of man's utility.
Twenty-five years is a long time.
We have a theory ns people that a man's
utility as chief executive of the nation does
not exceed eight years, and as n matter of
fact the ycur beyond the seventh In that
office, like the years beyond threescore and
ten in the Bible, is a year of trouble and
unhappiness.
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TTTE AS a democracy arc jealous of those
whom we make President.
Like every democracy since those of nn
cleut Greece, we. fear the tyrant in the man
whom we elevate to office.
Therefore the tradition that no President
shall serve more than two terms.
Suppose universities were made more dem
ocratic, as it is constantly urged that they
shall be.
What would be tho result?
Would auy university president serve as
long as Doctor Schurman has served?
Would tho faculties, jealous of the auto
crat they created by their votes, limit tho
presidents of their election to eight or ten or
twelve years' service?
Why should not faculties feel about col
lege presidents as the whole country feels
about them now that it has had seven years
of one of them iu the presidency at Wash
ington? When Doctor Butler, of Columbia Uni-'
verslty, was talked of for the Republican
nomination nt the meeting of the Republican
national committee in Wdshington, one of
the politicians present said : "If his name is
proposed in couventlon bomn delegate will
get up in tho back of the hall ami suy, 'This
guy is a teacher, isn't he?' and then it will
be all off."
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QUPPOSE the country could have the serv-
ices of Its chief executives for the terra
of their usefulness, the quarter century Doc
tor Schurman suggests. Would there be any
public gain?
You could not get nny one thinking over
the Presidents of the last half century to
admit it.
Suppose college presidents served only for
the democratically short terms of American
Presidents, would thcro be any loss?
The occasional great educator would not
huve time to complete his work. But many
indifferent college presidents would be got
rid of promptly.
Caillaux says he foresaw the economic
results of the wnr and sought a remedy in an
economic alliance with Italy. It is tough
on Joseph. The man who gets too far aheu.l
of his countrymen is always In danger of
being accused of deserting them.
When Bryan undertakes to engineer the
construction of the Democratic platform, the
New Jersey delegates to tho national con
veution may be counted upon to try to put a
stick in it.
That Indian chief who blew out the gas
In n Chicago hotel died that un old, old
newspaper story might live.
Our guess is that navy yard workers
are going to get better transit service sm.
ply because they are determined to have it.
The city needs n termluul und a drydock
The purchase of Hog Island can be made to
mean both. Why hesitate?
Always the contention persists that oil
causes the troubled waters in the Mexican
sltuution.
Burleson still clogs the mall tubes. The
only way to get service Is to remove him,
, LNora Bayes may yet write "Ilusbouds"
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THE WINDOW GARDEN
A FRIEND I love sent gift my heart to
please :
In pan of earth she formed n woodland sccno
With moss and grasses, tiny lake serene,
Shaded by ferns and sprigs of cedar trees.
Now, when the skies are drear and storm
' winds freeze,
That bit of nature, though in such small
space,
Can yet recnll the joy of summer's face,
Her breath of flowers, glad blrd-melodlcs.
Thou One divine nnd tender, do Thou show
Me how to hold the summer In my heart i
That love may bloom and joyful waters flow,
Life's winter still of beauty have a part;
Aud I Faith's verdure cherish, come what
may,
Until I know God's perfect summer day I
MAUDE FRAZER JACKSON.
Syncopated Politics
To suburb pink palaces
Though we may roam,
A man who wants to vote, in town
Has gob to have a home.
So have a heart, commissioners,
And likewise have a cure I
Signed Ranslcy, Sam'I Salus,
Martin, Scott and Eddlo Ynrc.
A nurse in tho Hahnemann Hospital
gave a pint of her blood in the hope of saving
tho life of a patient. Though the man died,
the sacrifice was not in vain. It lives as an
example of courage nnd devotion to high
ideals.
Trade and Commerce were ranking num
bers of tho conciliation board treating with
the Russian problem. -
Tho oyster Isn't the only thing that is
panned, but it Is nbout the only silent thing.
Every profiteer has an accomplice In th
consumer.
The Iron county revolt has practically
rusted away.
It is understood that some cuss has to
at crow in every caucus.
Politically speaking, sectionalism Is al
ways cross sectionalism.
Climbing on the Moore band-wagon bs
become a habit.
What Do You Knoiv?
QUIZ
1. now did Fiumo get Its name?
2. What Is tho meaning of the word serried!
3. Of what state was Grover Cleveland
governor previous to his election as
President?
4. Who wus Praxiteles?
5. What former premier of Great Britain
has just been elected to Parliament!
0. What Is pabulum?
7. Who was tho first woman In the United
States to attain the degree of M. u.t
8. What god in Greek mythology corre
sponded to tho Roman Mars?
0. What Is the principal possession of tn
Netherlands in the West Indies?
10. What is thaumaturgy?
' Answers to Yesterday's Qulr
1. Work on tho Brooklyn bridge began in
1870 and ended in 1883.
2. The salary of an associate justice of the
United States Supreme Court Is ?"i
500 a year.
3. Eugene Brlcux is a French ;';
of the present day, especially noted for
developing social theses In his plB7
He was born In Paris In 1858.
4. Little Rock Is the capital of Arkaneas.
C. The three wonders of Babylon were the
palace, said to have been eight miles In
circumference, the banging gardens and
the tower of Babel.
0, Saturn is surrounded by rings of lumi-
nous'gasca.
7 The word "demagogy" should be pro-
nounced as though it we.-o spelled
"demagodgy."
8. An oaf was orlglually nn elf's child I or
changeling. The word now describes
a misbegotten, deformed or Idiot child
or an awkward lout.
0. Porfirlo Dlaa resigned the presidency
of Mexico Jn,1011.
10. To find tho circumference of a cfreW
multiply tho dt to' lMiWl
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