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A FOUR. YEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA
f Things on which the people expect the
new administration to concentrate Its at
tention The Delaware river bridge
A drydock big enough to accommodate the
largest ships
Development of the rapid fmrvjlt system.
A convention hall.
A building for the Free Library.
An Art Museum,
Enlargement of the water supply.
Homes to accommodate the population.
ANOTHER CITY HALL NOVELTY
T AM here," said Colonel Morden,
making his bow as chief of the Bu
reau of Street Cleaning, "to work and
nbt to talk."
The colonel fits naturally into an era
of amazing novelties. Public officials of
the type with which the public has been
most familiar did not work and they did
.npttalk. They left the work to do itself
and, of course, they were not eager to
make explanations.
Colonel Morden seems to have assumed
that talk is one of the common sins at
City Hall. In that he is wrong. Politi
cians of experience who preside in public
offices usually are communicative only on
election days and in after-dinner
speeches. Thus they avoid the need to
ke explicit.
THE WASTE OF FIRES
TTfTITHIN a week fires have destroyed
' more than $500,000 worth of prop
erty in this city. A Are loss is not like
other losses. Fire wipes out and actually
destroys wealth. It eradicates values and
leaves work once done to be done over
again. Because of the fires in this city
alone the country is more than 5300,000
poorer than it was a week ago.
Loose fire losses, loosely administered,
In the United States are characteristic
of a nation notoriously lacking in the
habit of thrift. In Europe the authori
ties and the public do not commiserate
with a man whose property burns. They
begin with the assumption that a fire
and the attendant perils are due some
how to negligence.
Efforts of insurance companies and
business men to establish the European
view of fire losses in the United States
have always been unsuccessful. In 1917
tho fire losses in this country totaled
5250,000,000. In 1918 the hgure jumped
to $290,000,000. Such is the cost of a
habit of mind !
SPECIALIZATION IN THE CABINET
TT IS generally conceded that the crea
, tfon of the national Departments of
Commerce and of Labor were aids to effi-
ciency in the federal government How
far such specialization should be carried
is, however, a mooted point. In France
they have a ministry of the arts.
We
may eventually come to that.
In the meantime it is significant to note
that a movement on behalf of organizing
a national Department of Public Works
with a cabinet secretary at its head is
underway and is said to have the sup
port of General W. W. Atterbury, Her
bert Hoover and Governors Lowden and
Coolidge.
Tho present system, involving particu
larly the control of river and harbor im
provements by the War Department, is
described as "costly and expensive."
Theoretically at least, co-ordination of
the various public works functions of the
government commends itself to common
sense. Any plan that will cut down
waste in Washington is worth examina
tion. This much at least should be accorded
to the present proposal, but with the
ruservation that specialization and re
arrangement are not infallible indices of
improvement
PENROSE, TOO, IS WELL
AN OLD row was patched up when
John T. King, a member of the na
tional Republican committee, who was
recently displaced as General Wood's
campaign manager, turned up at Stuart,
Fla., to shake hands and dine with Sena
tor Penrose.
Mr. Penrose and Mr. King broke off
relations four years ago when the Roose
velt Independents sought greater recogni
tion than the regulars were willing to
accord them. Mr. King was then a pro
gressive of sorts and he is a progressive
of sorts now. He might be called a
j square dealer of the gilt-edged and ex
t" elusive !t'nd.
This reconciliation in Florida doesn't
indicate that Senator Penrose has be
come irregulrfr or that Mr. King has
gone over in a sudden rush to the stand
patters, It is, rather, a pretty sure sign
thnt Mr. Penrose, too, is rapidly regain
ing his health.
When President Wilson felt well
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to mko an appeal to progres
by means eft Crtme
rose has just shown that ho, too, knows
something about the subtleties of politi
cal method. It is not too much to sup
pose that he and Mr. King want to keep
the Roosevelt clans in tho Republican
party and that a way will bo sought to
frustrato an encircling movement di
rected from the White House.
RAILROADS HELP THOSE
WHO HELP THEMSELVES
And Ships Come to a Port That Has Car
goes Ready for Them to Tako Abroad.
Mr. Rea's Stimulating Letter
TT WOULD be a grievous mistake to
ignore the forward-looking parts of
Mr. Rea's letter to Mr. Calwell, president
of the Corn Exchange Bank, and to con
centrate attention on that part of it
which attempts to exonerate the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company from the
charge of hampering the development of
the port.
There are men who will regard this
part of the letter as a specimen of skill
ful special pleading. But whether it is
or not is of little moment now, as Mr.
Rca exhibits a disposition to co-operate
with every one who is Inclined to do any
thing to attict shipping here and to
provide cargoes for as many vessels as
can be accommodated at the piers on the
Delaware.
The conditions which confront us to
day are different from those with which
we have had to contend in the past. The
port of New York, our chief competitor,
is unable to take care of the business
which finds its way there. That business
will go where it can be done best. Bos
ton, Baltimore and Norfolk are seeking it.
Philadelphia is better able to take care
of it than any of these other cities. It
will come here if we take the trouble to
go after it. The overflow from New
York, added to the business that origi
nates here, if properly assembled, is
enough to provide cargoes for as many
ships as can now find room at our piers.
But it will not come hero of itself.
As a matter of fact, much of the busi
ness that originates within the city
limits is done through New York instead
of through our own port. Everybody
knows this. Mr. Rea is making no dis
closures when he reminds Mr. Calwell
of it. And when he says that the differ
ence between the ports of Philadelphia
and New York Is due to the difference of
the enterprise of the business men of the
two ports he merely repeats what has
been said over and over again. The con
cluding sentences of his letters should be
read carefully by every public-spirited
Philadelphian. Here they arc:
To make a great seaport you need
something more than a tidewater stream,
piers and ruilroad facilities. Philadelphia
has all these. What Philadelphia now
needs N the traffic, and the only way to
get thnt is by emulating other ports in
competing for the countty's trade. It is
a trade-getting proposition, pure and
simple. The way to begin would be for
our business men to patronize their own
port.
The significance of Mr. Rea's letter
lies in its revelation of his desire that
the shipping men of the city should em
brace the opportunities confronting them.
Co-operation among the shipping men
and the railroads can double the business
of the port in the near future.
IF" can also provide business for the
new facilities which will be ready as
soon as the Hog Island terminal is avail
able for general business. One of the
first things to be done in connection with
this terminal is its incorporation bodily
into the port system by annexing it and
the intervening territory to the city.
This cannot be done without legislative
authority, but if the city asks for it there
is little doubt that enabling legislation
can be obtained.
It i"oes not matter very much who
owns the terminal, so long as it is in
operation. No one need be disturbed by
the reports that a corporation backed by
outside capital is considering its pur
chase. If outsiders are persuaded that it
will be profitable to invest their capital
nerc we should welcome them with open
, arms. Yet it would be preferable that
j 0cal capital provided by local business
men with a airecc interest in getting
business for the terminal should buy it
that is, if the local capitalists are deter-
' mined to go after business with the alert
ness which characterizes the men who
put their money in shipping facilities in
othet ports. The interest of outsiders in
the project may be the spur needed to
impel the enterprising men of this city to
hasten their plans for financing a corpo
ration to buy the terminal.
But none of these plans will succeed
until backed by men of initiative who arc
willing to assume responsibility. There
are many such men here who have made
their own business brilliantly successful.
A man without faith in the city might
say of others what Secretary Lane said
in his farewell statement about the men
in office in Washington. "Ability is not
lacking," wrote Mr. Lane, "but it is
pressed to the point of paralysis by an
infinilude of details and an unwillingness
on the part of the great body of public
sen-ants to take responsibility. Every
one seems to be afraid of every one. The
self-protective sense is developed abnor
mally, the creative sense atrophies."
This is the curse of public conduct of
business. Because the city owns its piers
and because political appointees manage
them may be in part responsible for the
slowness with which the business or the
port has developed. But if we should
have the Hog Island terminal privately
owned and in competition with the pub
licly owned piers there might develop a
rivalry which would benefit both beyond
computation.
The most encouraging development in
years is the awakening of an interest in
the whole subject. If. the Issues were not
alive Mr. Rea would not have gone to the
trouble to answer Mr. Calwell's in
quiries at length.
SUFFRAGE OBSTACLES
THE refusal of Governor Clement, of
Vermont, to call a special session of
the Legislature to consider the equal suf
frage amendment embarrasses the vigor
ous woman franchise movement on what
seemed to be tho very eve of victory.
nr he eventual nassnge of the nine-
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EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER-
reasonable doubt can be entertained.
Participation of tho women of America
in tho next presidential election may,
however, bo prevented by an unfortunato
combination of circumstances.
Tho South, despite the welcomo liberal
action of Arkansas and Texas, is in tho
main anti-suffrage. Virginia and Mary
land recently rejected tho amendment.
It was held up in the West Virginia Sen
ate yesterday by a tio vote, slightly soft
ened by a motion to reconsider.
States below the Mason and Dixon
line which have not ye voted on the sub
ject arc almost certainly ngainst it.
There remain New Mexico, with its mix
ture of southern and western sentiments;
Delaware, a "border" state; Washington
and Connecticut. Responsibility Is now
heavy upon these four commonwealths.
4 The assent of just four states Is nec
essary to rnake up the thirty-six required
to approve tho amendment. The expense
of calling extra sessions of the Legisla
tures is the prime cause of the delay.
Now that the case has become critical,
such objections aro particularly irritat
ing. Tho energetic suffragists of the
nation may be counted upon to leave no
stone unturned in expediting a decision.
In such measures they will unquestion
ably havo the support of the best liberal
thought in the land.
A STEP TOWARD LABOR COURTS
TN HIS emphatic indorsement of the
railroad labor board which 13 to be set
up under the Cummlns-Esch bill, the
President is squarely in accord with a
growing public sentiment. "Tho argu
ment," declared Mr. Wilson in his letter
to the brotherhoods' representatives,
"that the public representatives on the
labor board will be prejudiced against
labor because drawn from classes of so
ciety antagonistic to labor can and ought
to be overcome by selecting such public
representatives as cannot bo charged
with any such prejudice."
In other words, the President is in
favor of applying practically to labor
disputes the sane and seasoned principles
of jurisprudence which prevail in our or
dinary law courts. Such machinery as
the new law authorizes is a marked step
in furtherance of a policy which this
newspaper has consistently advocated
the erection of industrial tribunals to
cope with new problems in our highly
developed Industrial civilization.
The railroad labor board, which Is to
be subject to appeal when boards of ad
justment for specific cases have left un
settled particular questions at issue, will,
it is true, investigate and adwsc only
with reference to railway subjects. 1 its
nine members are wisely chosen and it
functions efficiently marked encourage
ment will be given to wide extensions of
the plan.
The ideal industrial tribunal system
ought not to be restricted in its role.
Courts for passing judgment on eco
nomic and industrial problems aro now
indeed quite as necessary as courts en
gaged in the interpretation cf common
and statute law.
There is a hopeful chance that the
Cummins-Esch law may be laying the
foundation tor an inspiring new struc
ture of jurisprudence. In any event, a
concrete test of the worth of such an ex
periment is coming.
Out of the six names submitted by the
railway employes the President is to
choose three. The same ru e applies .to
selection of three memters representing
the employers. Three other experts not
affiliated with either group are to be
named by the President. The Senate is to
pass on these selections. Justice, not
class interest, is, if possible, to be the
governing principle of this new body.
Once its conduct is productive of popu
lar confidence and respect, its position in
this new field will become secure. If
that status is obtained progress toward
tribunals of broader scope w.'.l be vitally
stimulated.
"Representative nego
Hope In Action tiatinns" is the term
j used by the Cleveland
Chamber of Commerce committee on labor re
lations as a substitute for "collective bar
gaining." Under the policy formulated a
committee of cmplojes negotiating with an
employer may be aided o a competent advo
cate or adviser. The significant thing about
this and other efforu to "ie the labor prob
lem is not so much tho ideas born us the
struggle being made to sue birth to ideas
worth while.
J
M. Rose, dry. and
Wars of the Koses l' rcy Allan Rose,
u, urc candidates in
Altoona for the Reput'.man nomination for
Congress. A joint debate would make them
flowers of speech.
A man in a New
"Laughed Fit ork vaudeville house
to Kill" laughed until he swal
lowed his false teeth
and nearly died. "Good-hy, booze" started
him, and as he did not know when to stop
he nearly said "good -by" to everything else.
It is n mistake to expect from the
woman in politics nuthiug but the gentle
word. Long years ajo she learned that the
way to get what she wanted was to go after
It with a club.
Optimism concerning the. Adriatic dis
pute still thrives because of the belief that
each und every oue of the disputants will
eventually decide that half a loaf is better
than no breau
Herbert Hoover's name is on the Re
publican presidential preference primary
ballot in Michigan. Hut, if it is of any im
portance, It will take more than that to
decide his politics.
The ranks of the first Hoover men are
being rapidly augmented. A movement has
now been started in New York to nominate
him at the Republican convention.
No one believes that the railroad prob
lem has been solved. But at least we are
reaching the point where we will be nblo
to stote it in clear terms.
For a person whose expenditures are
approximately $3,000,000,000 more than bis
Income, Uncle Sam is a mighty cheery indi
vidual. Every time a professional politician
praises the woman in politics bis fellows
begin to suspect him of making a virtue of
necessity.
Labor troubles in Japan afford the to
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PHIEA1ELPHIA; TUESDAY MAIWDH
CHAIRMAN'S THANKLESS TASK
National Committee Head Never Gets
Praise, But Often Gets Blame,
Declared Quay
piUENDS of Chairman Ilays, of tho
J- Republican national committee, have
been in receipt of letters from that gentle
man stating that he was delighted with his
recent visit to Philadelphia, and -they quote
him as saying that If the party organization
was In as good shape tlscwhero as It is In
Pennsylvania he would be a happy man. .
Hays takes to politics as naturally as a
duck docs to water, and he is going about
his work with a light heart and a cheerful
manner. The same may be said mI Chairman
Cummings, of tho Democratic national com
mittee. Both Hays and Cummings are entirely dif
ferent types of chairmen from any that cither
of tho old parties has ever had before.
Will they be as buoyant nfter the election?
Suppose Hays elects his candidate? Will lie
be on a bed of roses? Suppose just for the
sake of argument that Cummings elects his
man? Will be have nowcr nnd influence?
If so they will bo very different froVn nny -I
oi me otner men that have led the destinies
of the two old parties in the past.
Thereby hangs a talc.
fS THC eve of tnc presidential election In
"' 1S02, a medium-sired, inconspicuous
man stood In a room of tho Continental
Hotel, staring out iuto the night. Ho had n
thoughtful face, but a droop of the left eye
lid gave his countenance n suggestion of
craftiness. He plucked absent-mindedly at
a grizzled and rather sparse mustache. Ho
was evidently In a reminiscent mood.
The man was Matthew Stanley Quay, then
n United States senator from Pennsylvania,
and formerly chairman of the Republican
national committee.
Four years before be had directed his party
to victory in one of the bitterest and most
hotly contested battles In the history of the
country a battle which placed Benjamin
Harrison in the White House. As a result
of that campaign Quay became tho Idol of
the leaders of his party on the one hand, and
on the other was subjected to tho most bitter
denunciation from his unsuccessful oppo
nents. But friend nnd foe ulike agreed that
he was the man who was chiefly responsible
for the triumphant election of the Repub
lican ticket.
James G. Blaine, in tendering his con
gratulations to Quny, wrote: "If you had
managed my campaign I would have been
President of the United States."
CURIOUSLY enough the one man who did
not join in the chorus of praise to the
national chairman was the President- elect.
His attitude toward Colonel Quay, if not
unfriendly, was chilly. Quay accepted it
nil praise, blame and coldness in stoical
fashion. In the course of time he called at
the White House with recommendations for
appointments. Ho was not exactly "turned
down," ns the saying goes, but the atti
tude of the President nnnoyed him. 'There
were sharp words, in tho course of which
General Harrison was reminded what had
been done for him !i the national committee.
His reply was never given to the world, but
the substance of it uiih that Providence and
not Quay had placed him in the Presi
dency. Quay left the White House in a fury. To
some friend in the Senate cloak room he told
the story, adding: "Hereafter he can depend
upon Providence he'll get no more help
from me."
From that day until after the expiration
of Harrison's term, Quay never set foot in
the White-House.
WAS Quay thinking of these things ns he
looked out into tho darkness on that
November night in 1802?
In the midst of his cogitations there was
a tap on the dunr. und in response to the
call of "come in ' a reporter from the Phila
delphia Times then edited by Colonel Alex
ander K. McCliuc entered. His mission was
briefly explained The newspaper desired
from Quay n forecast of the result of the
election which uns to take place on the fol
lowing day. HurriMjn wns ngain the Republi
can candidate, oppoed on the Democratic
side by Gioer Cleveland. The former
national chairman demurred at first. He wns
not in charge of the campaign, although he
had done his "bit" in Pennsylvania and
elsewhere. He was sure his friend, Tom
Carter, the chairman, was doing the best he
could.
"But senntor," persisted the reporter,
who was also his persoual friend, "jou ure
expected to say something. If you remain
silent at this time jou will be accused of
sulking in jour tent This interview will be
telegraphed to every part of the United
States. It will count because you are
legarded as a political authority."
Quay was silent for some moments, but
finally he consented to give the desired inter
view. It was guarded, but friendly to Harri
son. If he carried New York, if he did this
and thnt and the other he would bo elected.
Concluding the formal interview, the seiintor
said:
"Now when you get that in the paper I
want you to come back and smoke a cigar
with me. Wi'l ou promise?"
"I promi-e," was the puzzled and amused
rejoinder.
AN HOI It later the reporter returned to
the hotel Refreshments w re on the
table, nnd the two meu presently lit cigars.
Quay walked over and closed the door. He
turned to his newspaper friend.
"Hnvc you printed exactly what I sold?
Has it gone out to the other papers? Is there
any possibility of it being recalled?"
"I have dune exactly as you desired," was
the reply. "It has been sent broadcast, and
there isn't am chance of it being recalled."
A shrewd grin spiead over the face of the
political Warwick.
"I have performed mv duty to my party,"
he said, "and that being the case I'll tell you
the truth for your own benefit. The old cuss
in the White House Is beaten beaten to a
standstill. He hasn't any more chance of
being elected President than I have, and you
can wager all you are worth that I'm not
going to shed any tears over the result."
When the otes were counted it was found
that Quay knew what he was talking about.
His forecast so carefully framed was for
gotten, but his private prediction remains in
the memory of the man to whom it was given,
nnd who is alive and still recording the
strange whirligigs of Americau politics.
I
T WAS Quay who insisted thut the chair-
manshin of n party was the most thank.
less job any man could undertake. He said
that if a contest was lost the chairman was
blamed, and If It was won lie was forgotten.
Profiteers are being marched in chains
through the streets of Bulgarian cities. The
wives of the profiteers do the marching else
where with chains of gold and pearls and
precious stones.
Passenger rates are too high and must
come down, says the president of tho Rrle
Railroad Company. That's the kind of talk
the traveling public likes to hear.
If tho farmers organize for a thirty
hour week nud CO per cent wage Increase
tb e coal ininere win go iiuugry,
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HOW DOES IT
STRIKE YOU?
Mr.
ANATOLB FRANCP tells n story of his
own childhood with his boy friend,
Fontanct.
The two youugsters, after debating at
some length what great things they would do
and forming nnd rejecting several projects,
finally agreed to write a history of France
In fifty volumes.
They decided to commence this monu
mental work with the King Teutobochus.
Now the King Teutobochus was thirty
feet tall, as one might find by measuring his
bones, which had been recently discovered.
But think of encountering nnd perhaps
affronting a giant in the very first chapter
of your book.
Fontanct said, "We'll have to skip Teu
tobochus." But tho literary conscience of Anatole
Franco would not permit him to skip Teuto
bochus. So the History of France, in fifty volumes,
stopped with Teutobochus.
All his life, says the nuthor, there were
Tcutobochuses which stopped him, but it was
n marvel to Bee the subtle Fontanct, lnwyer,
politician, member of the Chamber of Depu
ties, running between the legs of the leu
tobochuses that he encountered in public Hie .
q q q
THU Teutobochus that stands in the
world's way today, that above all con
fronts Mr. Wilson, is the Mr. Wilson of
two years ago, Mr. Wilson the conscience of
mankind. Mr. Wilson the leader of he
i.i m u'licnn tlie receuerator o tue
earth, that giant thirty feet high who used
to talk across the Atlantic as easily as ordi
nary folk might talk across the Schuylkill.
Mr. Lloxl George, subtle, practical poli
tician, conferring in Paris about the state of
Europe, has just saiif to Messrs. MUlernnd
and Nitti. apropos of Flume and Con
stantinople nnd Moscow, "Veil, let us
skip old Teutobochus!"
Hut Mr. Wilbon, bitting In Washington,
is appalled at the Idea of neglecting, dis
crediting or perhaps affronting the giant.
q q q
THE correspondence on the Adriatic con
tests of Mr. Wilson's writing "We must
bcin with Teutobochus," and Mr. Lloyd
George's reply, "But bee how easy It is to
ruu between the legs of the old fellow.
We've done it before many is the time at
Paris. Besides, this time we must."
But tho l'resident rctuses to ruu unnnn
the legs of the giuut, whose bones any one
may now measure, the idealist of two years
ago, old Teutobochus of tho endless peace.
And so like the history of France in fifty
volumes, the League of Nations may stop
with Teutobochus.
q q q
THE most terrible Teutobochus that may
stand across any one's path is his own
imagined self.
A child externalizes.
His Teutobochuses are outside of mm.
His giants are not himself as he was or
would be or thinks he is or thinks others
people think he is. ...
He raises thera up out of the past as
something to conquer or something to fill
him with the exquisite sense of unreal fear.
But the Teutobochuses that afflict later
jears are inside you.
They are the giant that jou were or the
giant that you imagine you are or the giant
you believe the world thinks you are.
It Is difficult to run between the legs of
one of these giants.
Pa) choanal) sts looking into the soul pro
nounce ouo who bus one of these giants
"inhibited" by tho sense that he cannot
Bkip over or run between the legs of his
Teutobochus.
And they try to convince him that his
Teutobochus is not real and that bis history
nf France begins with men five feet eight
lucheB tail Instead of with u king thirty
feet high in bis socks.
When jou look luward excessively at
your Teutobochus the psychoanalysts tell you
that you are "Introvert" which word is
given here in the interests of science nnd
leads us for away from tho Teutobochus be
tween whose legs Mr. Lloyd George is so
adroitly running! ,
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mIlE"NewYork Democrats baye stolen a
X march upon the New York Republicans 4
Iby putting two women smew the Big Four
(ItRt-tHX Witt to.iWcjS'yrwKlifliJ
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1920
"GLORY BE! THAT'S DONE!
Wilson Affrighted by the Teutobochus
He Once Was The Parable of
an Old King
convention, while the Republican Big Four
arc all male.
' For all the world like n candidate seeking
the suffrages of his constituents by kissing
more babies than his rival.
This is the great courting year in politics.
And Charles F. Murphy, of Tammany,
loudly applauded by the Democratic women
of New York, is proving a better squire of
dames than the Republican manager in New
York, whoever he is, that takes the women
vote for grnnted.
In courting both parties show a great
preference for thex clinging-vine type of
woman vote..
The "place of woman in politics" is well,
it is not a nice thing to define too precisely,
but woman, with her delicacy, her gentle
ness, her preference for being courted rather
than doing the courting, may be trusted to
take it instinctively!
And such sturdy oaks as Will H. Hays,
Homer Cummings, Charles F. Murphy and
Boies Penrose will, girt about with clinging
vines, assume a new grace and charm.
Unless, of course, Miss Vnn Sllngcrland
puts over her new matriarchal age; In which
case it is possible to predict domestic diffi
culties in the parties.
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WHEN your murk or your franc or your
lire or whatever your national mint of
exchange is culled gets to be worth about
one cent American jour cac looks hard.
But Germany has found a way to turn
the adverse rate of exchange ngainst her to
an advantage.'
Dispatches from Berlin say she is "stag
gered by the prospective cost of maintaining
various allied commissions in "Germany."
"The Supreme Council has bent u scale of
pocket money allowances ranging from 0300
to 0000 maiks (nominally $1025 to $2200)
monthly for officers," continues tho com
plaint. The estimate goes on to tay that these
military nnd naval representatives of the
Allies will cost Germany ulono 800.000.000
marks a year (nominally $200,000,000),
And the total cost of the commissions will
be 2,500,000,000 marks (nominally $025,
000,000) a j ear.
These facts are .being concealed from the
public, says the dispatch solemnly, for fear
of uprisings,
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THE "nominally" is good.
A mark in American monev is nt nres-
cnt about n cent.
Tho allowances for officers is thus in
American money $05 to $00 a month. And
the total cost really in American exchange
$2,500,000 a year.
But the present rate of exchange is no
more accurate measure of the mark's pres
ent value In Berlin than was the old before-the-war
rate used in giving its "nominal
value."
Having caused a rewriting of the treaty in
regard to the war guilty, Germany is now
seeking another rewriting In regard to the
allied commissions.
There are some soldiers to whom the
proposed bonus aggregating $1,000,000,000
would prove u godsend. Tbcro are many
who would be benefited by It. There are
many others it wouldn't hurt in the least.
And here and there there aro soldiers who
would think themselves cheapened by being
offered cash for a great sacrifice.
With a working League of Nations much
of the differences that seem now to threaten
another war might have been dissipated in
debate.
Local steamship men nro Inclined to
agree with Rea that a slight rearrangement
of cargoes will right the gopd ship Phila
delphla, which is listing to port.
No, Sophronin, Tho man who wrote
"Once I was pure as the beautiful enow"
never had a btreet-cleuuing contract.
Incidentally It may be noted that the
miner's wife Is not asking for a thirty-hour
week,
Rea applied the ?C-rajt Philadelphia
business methods.
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SONGS OF NAUSICAA
OH, SEAS aro very deep, my love,
And hills are very high ;
But springs have water fresh and clear
When travelers are dry.
And when you've climbed the last steep hill
And sailed the last broad sea,
There waits for you a hidden spring
That is the heart of me.
II
THEY say the songs the Sirens sing
Arc soft and soothing, sweet and clear ;
But wavelets swishing on the shore
Is all the song I ever hear.
And when you tell of melodies
That Sirens sang with wondrous nrt,
I will be silent; all I know
Is Love that's singing in my heart.
WILL LOU.
The allegation thnt an eight-year-old girl
was forced to stand in a blizzard with other
immigrants awaiting examination by In
spectors at Ellis Island until her feet froze
and one of them bad to be amputated is so
shocking that swift investigation of the
charge should be made nnd appropriate
action taken.
Union labor's objection to the public's
representative on the railroad labor board
should be tempered by the fact that tho
public is composed of everybody, which, of
course, includes railroad workers and tho
friends of railroad workers.
City firemen have decided to leave tho
matter of more pay to the fairness of the
administration. It is a trust that should cot
be betrayed.
As we understand it, Baldwin's is
willing to supply soviet Russia with loco
motives if soviet Russia will provideMhe
monetary steam.
The graceful lines of the sblpbulldertttea
at tho Bellcvue-Strntford dance last night
bhowed just why a ship is called a "she."
"Baa, baa, black sheep!" says ths
Federal Reserve to tho wool speculator.
What Do You Knoto?
QUIZ
1. What is the mean distance between the,
moon and the earth?
2. What Is a conifer?
3. Does lengthening the pendulum of 4
clock make it go slower or faster?
1. What is another name for the monkey
nut?
5. Name two colors which are named after
artists.
6. What is a tourniquet?
7. What is the correct pronunciation of the
word citrate?
8. Where is the Mekong river?
0. Who wrote the "Unfinished Sym
phony"?
10. Who designed tho White House?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. The highest altitude ever attained by
man Is 30,060 feet above the sea level.
2. It was attained on February 27, 1020,
by Major R. W. Scbroedcr, a United
States army aviator.
3. The most celebrated library of the an
cient world was In Alexandria, Egypt.
4. King Philip's War in American history
was a war between the New England
colonists and the confederated Iu
dians under Philip, an Indian chief.
It began la 107R and enMed the fol
lowing year.
G. An emeuto Is a popular uprising.
0. The marasca is a small black cherry,
grown extensively in Dalmatla and
used in the making of maraschino
liqueur.
7. George Eliot wrote "Fellr Holt, the:
Radical."
8, A sennight Is a week.
0. There are ten members of the Presl-
10. The bill. Bowa'liiw, authorising the re- I ,i
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