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A FOUR-YEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA
, Thine on which the people expect the
new nilmlnlstratlou to concentrate Its at
tention! The Delaware river bridge.
A drydock big enouah to accommodate the
larnest ships
Development of tho rapid transit system.
A convention hall.
A bulMlnp for the Free Library.
An Art ifuseum.
Enlargement of the mater supplv.
iTofncs.fo nrcntnmodnte the rmmifaMon.
. MORE GUFF FROM CAFFNEY
TN HIS eagerness to serve the Vares,
Councilman Gaffney is taking the
surest course to blast the reputation ho
made as chairman of the finance com
mittee in the old Councils as a believer
In fair play and complete candor.
His explosion at yesterday's session
of Council certainly will not add to that
reputation. He complains because so few
bills have been passed by the new body
and seeks to create the impression that
failure to net is somehow reprehens.hle
and discreditable to the Moore adminis
tration. The Mayor's reply today is very much
to the point and disposes of GafTney's
bombast effectively.
But there is one more point to be made.
The new Council should not be appraised
W ..4lik Im ton rma an 1-am a? AtaalannnxlAn taV a&
k'rahle to pass, but by the fewness of its
actions. The wisest legislative bodies are
those that enact the fewestTaws and
deliberate without undue hase.
And, by the way, Gaffney's new role
of reformer hardly becomes the ex-chn'r-man
of the finance committee, which
present revelations show systematically
failed to appropriate adequate sums to
run the city government this year and
Irft t,he difficult work of meet'ng defi
c!encies to the Moore administration.
AN ARCHITECT'S "INHERITANCE"
TJEFINITION of the official standing of
Philip H. Johnson has been less clear
than the fact this "city architect," who
was a brother-in-law of the late Israel
Durham, has been the traditional recip
ient of 5 per cent commissions.
Mr. Moore questions whether the mu
nicipality is obligated to make such pay
ments under contracts entered into under
a previous administration. He questions
whether a "city architect" is a recog
nized permanent post in the municipal
machinery. Expert legal opinion-is ex
pected eventually to clear up a situation
now decidedly obscure.
In the meantime the Mayor has with
held his signature from four contracts
for extensions to the Philadelphia Hos
pital for Contagious Diseases. The speci
fications are by Mr. Johnson, whose te
nacity as a commission claimer in con
nection with plans for public works has
lasted through a series of administra
i tions.
While it is to b? regretted that neces
sary improvements are temporarily held
up, explanation of Mr. Johnson's status
is thoroughly in order. The Mayor is
said to have remarked that steps to elu
cidate the authority of the Johnson con
tracts must be taken some time. The
present opportunity is thus grasped as a
means of determining just what is the
nature of Mr. Johnson's curious "inheri
tance." The public as well as Mr. Moore
will appreciate information on this sub
ject. WHY NOT PALMER'S RECORD
'AMONG yesterday's astonishing head-
lines was one written to inform the
world that Attorney General Palmer will
run for the presidency "on Wilson's rec
ord." It is needless to ask why Mr. Pal
mer Isn't willing to run on his own rec
ord, which happens to be the important
thing now.
If the fashion spreads through tho
world of politics Mr. Brjan may et run
aa an advocate of armed imperialism,
Mr. Burleson may be a candidate
pledged to increase wages in the postal
service and General Wood may be tho
standard-bearer for the country's paci
fists.
MOTORS AND TROLLEYS
QOONEU or later there will have to be
a new definition of the rights of motor
vehicles as common carriers. A company
which planned to operate an uutomobilo
service between this city and tho Dela
ware Water Gup faces the possibility of
, arl injunction sought by an up-state trol
ley company, which urgues with justice
that (t would suffor in the proposed com
petition. Tho plan to operate buB lines on Broad
street and the scheme for the Immediate
establishment of a motor line between
City Hall and the navy yard might be
opposed on similar grounds. The trolley
companies facing competition from
motor lines Insist that they are required
te maintain a genernl service nnd that
under tho terms of their franchises they
tuMsi: onorate over routes that are ac-
jV 'K-fS. "iiwayn hurt by tho
fi, - UKlly maintained ac a loss,
advent of tho trolleys. Tho automobile
Interfered seriously with tho business of
horse breeding. Electric lights at first
looked dangerous to thoso who were in
terested in gas plaHts. Past experience
proves, however, that tho growing needs
of civilization leave room for every new
invention and that tho newer utilities
help rather than hinder tho prosperity
of older ones.
No one can deny the fitness of motors
for passenger service in the streets. One
of these days the street railway compa
nies will begin to develop auxiliary
motor lines, and it i3 altogether probable
that they will better their scrvico and in
crease their dividends thereby.
COMPLETING THE CIRCLE
IN "TRUST BUSTING"
The Corporations and the Public Meet
Once Mora With a New Concep
tion of Mutual Obligations
"rpRUST busting" is to bo conducted in
the futuro in n different way if tho
Supreme Court decision in tho United
States Steel Corporation case means any
thing. The decision is based on tho theory
that the public interest is the first thing
to be considered in nil litigation under tho
anti-trust laws. A big corporation is not
a criminal unless it does something
wrong. The mere fact of bigness is not
an offense.
In the years that have passed sinco the
first anti-trust laws wcro enacted all
sorts of views have been held for a littlo
while, but we have now arrived at the
point where the question can bo consid
ered on its merits and where ench corpo
ration must be regarded as guilty vr in
nocent, according as it conserves the pub
lic interest or disregards it.
Charles M. Schwab, although a busi
ness competitor, did more than all tho
lawyers for the defense in securing the
decision vindicating the Steel Corpora
tion. The case against the corporation rested
on the charge that it was a conspiracy in
restraint of trade. The suit was begun
in 1911 before the Bethlehem Steel Com
pany had expanded to its present size. In
the intervening years Mr. Schwab, in
spite orthe competition of the great steel
combination engineered by J. Pierpont
Morgan, has built up a business of great
size and lias been able to hold his own in
all the markets of the world. If the
United States Steel Corporation were a
monopolistic conspiracy Sir. Schwab
could not have done this.
The facts in tho steel business wcro
against the contention of the govern
ment. Every one outside of the Supremo
Court knew it; and the court, taking cog
nizance of these facts and bowing to the
undoubted sentiment of the people, has
acquitted the Steel Corporation. Other
and more technical legal reasons are as
signed for the decision, but this was tho
controlling reason.
This is why tho nation has confidence
in its highest court. That body is much
more responsive to popular sentiment
than the President or than Congress. It
interprets the laws and the constitution
In conformity with the popular will.
Popular sentiment would have been
outraged in 1850 at decisions affecting
the power of Congress over interstate
commerce which are accepted today as a
matter of course. And the court of 1850
would have handed down decisions in con
formity with tho sentiment of the period.
Thus the national constitution becomes
a vital document, responsive to the needs
of each generation, instead of a Pro
crustean bed to fit which the court will
amputate the legs of a growing entity.
Our grent tribunal, conscious of its high
responsibility, expands the bed to ac
commodate that which must lie in it.
But there are larger questions involved
in this decision than the guilt or inno
cence of the United States Steel Corpora
tion. They are connected with the popu
lar attitude toward all big corporations.
When the stock company began to dis
place the partnership and when stock
companies engaged in the same or kin
dred lines of business began to combine
there was widespread hostility to tho
new method of doing business.
Twenty-five years ago every big cor
poration was "guilty." We did not know
just what it was guilty of, but it was
some kind of a criminal. It was soulless
and could not be punished in a way to
hurt it and politicians and newspapers
began to demand that guilt be made per
sonal, which meant that the president
and the diiectors should be sent to prison
for constructive offenses.
Bigness in itself was regarded as a
crime- . L J t ..
There were men who insisted tnat a
corporation which did 60 per cent of tho
business in its line should bo treated as
prima facie guilty of crime.
But a mtie saving conwiuu nee in
vented us from going very fnr in this
direction. It was only necessary to ask
how it was possible for a corporation
doing 59.9 per cent of tho business in its
line could be innocent while a corporation
doing one-tenth of 1 per cent more busi
ness could be guilty in order to make the
whole theory of basing guilt on percent
ages appear ridiculous.
The Sherman anti-trust law was passed
in the period when the popular view was
that all combinations of corporations
were made to gouge tho public. The cor
porations protested, but they wcro un
heeded. They insisted that they had a
light to do what tney wouio. witn mcir
own. In this they, too, were wrong.
In twenty-five years the whole attitude
of the corporations toward the public and
of the public toward the corporations has
changed.
The public recognizes tho corporation
as a naturnl and necessary business evo
lution to meet tho needs of a big nation
with a great population that could not bo
efficiently served by the methods of our
grandfathers.
And the corporations now recognize
the right of the public to regulato them
In the general interest. They hnvo dis
covered that they are protected by such
regulation against ruinous methods by
unscrupulous competitors and that they
profit as much as tho public. They havo
learned their lessoru
Neither tho railroads nor tho other
public utility corporation woum win
J fnglo back to tho time when there was
EVENING PUBLIC LEDGEl
no national Interstate Commerce Com
mission nnd no stnto public utility com
missions. Thoso commissions, Imperfect
as they aro, safeguard tho rights of tho
corporations, while they provent tho ex
ploitation of tho public.
For example, tho modern and enlight
ened nttltude of the corporations toward
public regulation is disclosed in tho ad
vertisements of tho United Gbb Improve
ment Compnny, printed In this nows
papcr, In which attention was called to
the policy of public utility commissions
which prevents luinous competition in
fields already well served by tho existing
corporations. This policy lays upon tho
existing corporations tho duty of ex
panding to meet the demands upon them,
?nd it insures to them a reasonable hopo
hat dividends can be earned on all now
capital needed to keep paco with the
growth of tho different communities.
In a quarter of a century we havo
completed the circle nnd tho corporations
and the people meet today at tho point
whero they parted nbout a generation
ago, but with a new appreciation of the
rights nnd the obligations of each.
NEW BATTLESHIP PLANS
rnHOSE good people who Insist that
America should havo no hand in the
affairs of Europe may perceive lit the
navy's plans for 41,000-ton battleships
some of the first new fruits of the policy
of isolation which they deem best for the
country.
TRcso enormously efficient and ex
pensive fighting machines aro to tho new
era of military development what tho
first shy blossoms are to an approaching
spring. They are heralds and har
bingersnothing more. What will fol
low after them if the various nations find
it still impossible to reach agreements
that will make the limitation of arma
ments possible and safe will bo far moro
amazing than tho recent announcement
from Washington.
Tho Navy Department in this instanco
is only porforming an appointed task,
which must be attended to if tho service
is not to be charged in some futuro day
with criminal unpreparedness.
England already has a superdread
nought of 43,000 tons. That vessel is ap
proximately 10,000 tons heavier than the
largest fighting ship in the United States
navy. Japan is building a number of
vessels after the new British pattern.
What the constructors in these two coun
tries are plnnning in the background can
not be told. It is not their habit to ad
vertise their plans in advance of execu
tion. The British built their new super
dreadnought during the years of the war
and the public knew nothing of it until
tfie ship was launched and almost ready
for action.
To assume that the British and the
Japanese are wantonly starting out in
new competitions of armament would be
unjust. The renewal of naval expansion
abroad is a direct consequence of the dis
ordered and disorganized opinion of the
world. It is a course of action natural to
peoples who cannot tell what new
dangers they may have to face within a
year or two. What we are witnessing is
actually a revival of militarism and the
beginning of new naval rivalries. Tho
nations now are like men who, walking
in the dark among perils, stiffen in
stinctively to be ready for expected on
slaughts. If there is to be new military expan
sion at sea there will be new military
expansion on land. If new contests in
military systems ore instituted now peo
ple who aro accustomed to view the
effort for international peace as a dream
will live to revise their opinions under
unprecedented burdens of 4worry and
taxation.
There U souud busi
ness nud financial
bor"e sense in the sug-
Pas lo Bo
Neighborly
Bpstion of Governor
Edwards that a proposal bo submitted to tho
people to issue 28,000.000 worth of bonds
for New Jersey's share of the io.t of a bridge
over the Delaware and a tunnel under the
Hudson. Increased business will eventually
pay for both undertakings and the initial
cost will be distributed urnacs benefit-sharing
generations.
Frederick Courtland
Well, What? l'.nfield, former am
bassador to Austria
Hungary, is a bit too blithe and self-assured
In suggesting that v follow bis habit of
pressing old suits and wearing them sternly
until prices fall. What of the multitudes
who have done littlo else for several years
and who may argue mstly that it Is n condi
tion and not a thenry that now confronts
thera?
I'ncle Sam may charge
Times Cliango un Atlantic City fish-
rman $000 for threo
brant and three cork robins which he cooked
In a potpie on CbriMmas Day. Another in
stancn of the inTiMMtig cost of living. In
Mother Goose's tinv four and twenty black
birds baked In a pi were disposed of for a
song of sixpence.
The plea of the mother
A Parable Rewritten of twenty-three chil
dren saved one of them
from being sent to the reformatory yesterday
for the theft of woolens from a freight car.
"Ho is not bad at heart," she said. Of
course not. The one bluck sheep may yet
prove "all wool and a yard wide."
A glance at tho di
vorce lists suggests
that the financial bur
dens left from tho war
The Grass Widow's
Might?
period might be considerably lightened by a
thumping war-tax on alimony.
Tho fact that Oermnny is to try her own
war criminals suggests a now reading of an
old wheeze :
The Allies had a German lamb
And put it on tho shelf;
And every time it wagged Jts tail
It spanked its little self.
There Is something grotesque In the pro
posal of tho Prussian Diet to compensate
former Emperor William for the loss of his
throne at a time, when the German Govern
ment is pledged to plate German war crimi
nals on trial.
The number of times the forces of Gen
ernl Denikin are annihilated suggests a some
what too etllclent Bolshevist press agent
bureau.
When the last snow piles have been re
moved from the streets of Philadelphia it
will bo time enough to think of signs of
spring.
To the housewife the market shows im
provement when prices dropj
- PHIL&ELP'ik ' WDNSDAY' MATadk' 3
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TRAVELS IN PHILADELPHIA
In the City Called Blockley
"OEHIND the bleak walls of tho Phlladcl-
' phla Hospital, down Thirty-fourth
street, is a little world with humors, trage
dies and traditions all Its own. Most of tho
buildings are old, and from the outside, es
pecially over the wall from the street, their
gray sides and tall, narrow windows seem
very grim and forbidding. But once safely
within the gates this Impression Is not con
firmed, and If hospitals can In any measure
be thought of as cheerful places, this one, lu
spite of Its sshen walls, really achieves
something of that effect.
A very pleasant and well-informed young
lady, In tho blue, red-lined shawl of a resi
dent nurse, undertook to pilot me through
the mazes of tho plant. A long walk we had
of It, for there are wide stretches of asphalt
street out along tho tree line, brick path
ways and, inside the buildings, miles of floors
that gleam In a sheen of golden brown far off
into the distance.
Wo stepped first Into the village drug store,
on the left of which stretches a playground
for crippled or convalescent children. Tho
playground is also used for the amusement
of those young ones who, during their
mothers' illness, have nowhero else to go.
For these children there is nlso a visiting
teacher, ho reads to them and supervises
their play.
TTtftOM tho dispensary we went on Into tho
receiving ward, where Incoming patients
havo all their clothing and effects packsd
away and listed while they take the "
trance bath" nnd are examined by the
physician. As I looked into one of the re
ceiving rooms I saw on the littlo blackboard
the curious Inscription, "Do not admit X,
1" or Z." X, Y or Z, I learned, were the
names of'ccrtaln public characters who havo
become notorious for resorting to the hospital
on all occasions and then refusing to take
proper treatment or insisting on violating nil
tho institution's rules.
We went ou then by n surgical ward where
there wero a few scholarly looking old men,
sitting up in bed reading books and papers,
and a good many more staring vacantly into
space through dull, unintelligent eyes.
Most folk who have no resource of reading
to fall back on spend tbelr hospital hours In
a sort of unhappy vegetable existence; and
of course in Blockley, where all the rooms
are wards and where the patients represent
the run of the laboring population, their
number is large. But for all that, I caw
hardly a single ward where there were not
several fine, intelligent fuces bent over papers
or books.
Upstairs on the second floor my guide
paused at the door of another ward to wnvo
at a little figure over by a distant window.
There was un unsweriug wave and tho
flnsh of n smile from a frail white fnco.
"That's Johnnie," said my guide, and then
explained to mo that Johnnie was n little
boy, now twelve years old, who hnd spent
three-quarters of his life in tho hospital. I
demanded n chance to hoc Johnnie, so we
went over together and stood by his bedside.
The boy laid down his paper nnd smiled up
at his visitors. He put out his thin littlo
hand and shook mine warmly. Then he 'pro
ceeded to show me his recently acquired
treasure n valentine with n tall, round, red
headed windmill and a dimpling, rosy Cupid
peeping between the blades of the wheel.
There was a pair of scissors In reach for
cutting out pictures, and beside the bed a
weaving frame with a warp of loug, blue
threads.
But Johnnie is, troubled with pains that no
surgery hns ever cured, and he works at his
w laving frame only on his very good days.
"Do you over read books?" I asked. Fee
ing some lurid creation of a Wild Wester
laid out under the windmill.
"Not often," answered Johnnie, with his
persistent, searching smile; "my pains won't
leave me alone cry long at a time."
"But 'Tom Sawyer' or 'Treasure
Island'?" No, Johnnie had never heard of
those booki. I turned from tho little form on
the bed and looked out of the window. . . .
But ufter nil these years John cftn still
smile aud joke about the hospital and seems
really in love with his nurses. That shows,
I belloe, a great deal about the nerve of
Johnnie, aud also tells something worth tell
ing abont tho spirit of the folk at Blockley.
THERE was another smiling,' dark-haired
young patient in the samo long room. He
was sitting up in a wheel-chair weaving
raflia. Ills basket work, which looked very
neat and promising, nnd Johnnie's rug are
part of the result of tho activity of the divi
sion of occupational therapy which is doing
so much to relieve the tedium of long illness
by teaching patients sultablo forms of quiet
craft work that may add to their future use
fulness and gie them employment for their
many idle hours.
THERE arc grim things in hospital prac
tice one of them was hinted nt in the
heavy barred and locked doors of the two drug
wards, but it was bopefnl to see that few
indeed of the Hues of beds ore now tenanted
and that in tho mou's drug ward one patient
was sitting calmly reading by the window.
At least one of these grim things, however,
has departed, for over tho barred door of
Ward 18, the notorious drunk ward of the
old hospital, was stretched the muslin cur
tain which indicates that the patients inside
are victims of Infectious illness, the drunk
wardr with all of Its delirious horrors, being
now permanently converted to the sober
treatment of another less prcventablo dis
ease. WE PASSED out jnto the Blockley streets
again through tho kitchens, where nil the
patients' food is prepared and thence trans
ported in heat-retaining boxc to the various
sections of the plant. Dlnnor was now out
in the wards, but bo perfect wss tho domestic
economy hern that not a soul was In sight ;
all the groat pots and utensils were shining
nnd back In place, nnd there was not one
spot or speck on all tho long stretches of the
kitchen floor.
THE research laboratories aro to be in
stalled In a fine new building which has
every possible resource for pathologic nnd
bacteriological investigation. Their comple
tion will mark a new and highly Important
fctep in the advancement of medical and sur
gical research for tho city of Philadelphia.
Bx
UT the most cheerful spot in all Block-
lev and the one that explains in a lanre
measure tho line spirit of tho place is the
nurses' home end training school. This
building Is really a modern woman's hotel,
with u comfortable, home-like atmosphere,
a library of modern books, a nurses' swim
ming pool and on the top floor a large. In
vlsitlng, blue-curtained dining room Delft
blue, my guide insisted anyhow very festive
and appetUlng and imparting to the room
more of the gonial air of a roof garden than
of on institution dining hall.
Downstairs In a new annex U the train
ing school, with its tasteful but business
like professional library, Its chemical nnd
bacteriological laboratory and Its classrooms.
There is also a model wardroom where two
dummy patients He eternally In bed, wearing
that Intractable and morose expression com
mon, I suppose, to the faces of sick lay
figures all over tho world.
A nurso's work Is hard, but It has many
compensations, nnd 1 can think of few places
where n woman could master a noblo nrofoR.
'slon In circumstances more congenial than
here In tats school at uiockiey,
ROY nELTON.
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HOW DOES IT
STRIKE YOU?
BLASCO IBANEZ hns been blurblng out
some Beatrix Fairfax information to the
men of Philadelphia.
As a writer of fiction, and a famous one,
he is a sort of confessor of the sex.
American women in Paris have revealed
their souls to him.
They aro tired of worshipful American
men.
They would llko for a change to be "domi
nated." They desire from their lovers and hus
bands a littlo "cave-man stuff."
But does the American woman tell the
truth in Paris, even when sitting for a full
length portrait in the next book of so dis
tinguished a novelist as Senor Ibanez?
Docs she want to be painted, warts nnd
all, like Cromwell?
Or does she want to pose her prettiest and
show u soul that will make good reading in
the coming fiction?
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AND con if she Is not thinking of n com
ing study of "the American woman" in
an international novel by the master, isn't
sho nware that In Paris nt least the Ameri
can husband la a bit provincial?
A European capital is a great place to
make ou feel countrified.
The Amcricai! husband over there has n
souse that he owes life an apology.
Ho is a little deprecatory of the American
woman, just as Senor Ibancz reports tho
American woman to be of her husband.
To prove himself above narrow preju
dices, ho tells more than one Parislcnne that
the women home are a little dull, with their
coldness, their Puritanism, their "looking nt
mama for fear there's harm in what he or
she or it or they are at."
Before you begin to "treat 'cm rough,"
following this distinguished advice, it will be
well to discount a little what American
women, self-conscious in the least provincial
capital of the world, tell to a distinguished
European novelist, who may be about to
write a great romance portraying tho Ameri
can woman.
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B'
UT why should Senor Ibanez commend
us to the cave man?
That is very well In an advlce-to-lovera
column, but a father confessor' of the sox, as
every great writer of fiction should be, should
know better.
Was the cave man tho dominant male?
Back in his time, or not far from it, oc
curred tho "matriarchal age" of the human
race, when women dominated in the homo
as the femalo bees do In a hive.
The cave mau was doubtless a fine hairy
brute, but the cuvo woman wos a fit mate
for him, capable of giving back as good as
she got.
Probably there was moro equality between
tho sexes in tho cave age than at any timo
since.
That was the early youth of tho race, and
In early youth the sexes nre equal.
Boys are not conscious that girls are, ns
Meredith called them "precious fragilities."
And neither are tho'glrls at that age.
That consciousness Is a'refincraent of later
years.
The cave man, when he went out to per
suade tho cave woman to wed, doubtless did
not think of her as a precious fragility.
And neither she was.
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WE ARE nearer tho cave-man stage In
America than aro Senor Ibanez's com
patriots in Europe.
Ibonea seems to recognize that, in spite of
his advice.
"Tho conditions under which, American
men live and labor," be said, "are almost
the same as thoso that prevailed In the pre
historic era. Tho man went out to chase tho
boar and other animals for food, while tho
woman stayed at homo minding tho kitchen
nnd tho children."
We are a. youthful people, and one of the
reasons why the Spanish novelist finds pur
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GR - R - RAND AN' GLORIOUS FEE-IN'!"
Ibanez'a Cave-Man Stuff Contained More
Than He Meant and, Anyhow, Amcri-
can Women May Have Fooled Him
sex relations amusing is that wo are a youth
ful people.
Ago looking nt youth, especially youth
making love, is always" amused.
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TIHERE aro two reasons why the sex rcla-
tions in this country are bo different from
those in Europe.
One is that America Is so young.
The other is that the excess of women over
men that exists iu Europo does not prevail
here.
Mr. Keynes in his brilliant book on tho
Pence Conference makes an epigram about
M. CIcmeuceau : "His Illusion wan France,
nnd his disillusion, mankind."
M. Clcmenceau's countrymen have another
disillusion, nnd that is womanklud. ,
Tho Americans went to Pnrls that Is, to
the Pnrls Peace Conference with the illu
sion of mankind.
They may have lost It there.
A great many things hnppened to them
there.
But they kept the illunlon of womankind.
That is what Senor Ibanez means when
he says that "what this country needs is a
second emancipator."
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npWO things will servo as the second
emancipator: Time, which is tho in
fallible euro of youth, In races as well as in
dividuals, and nn excess of women over men
in this country.
In a frontier town whero thcro are about
half as mauy women as men tho worship of
women Is carried to nn absurd length.
In Paris, where, as onn woman said, "after
this war is over there will be about seven of
us women for every man," woman worship
is a thing that even American women tell
Senor Ibanez they feel ashamed of.
Supply and demand influence the sex re
lations as everything else.
The value of woman In man's eyes rises
nnd falls according as sho Is scarce or in
excess.
And illusions, mornls nnd every related
thing is in the snme balance
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TTJT give tho cave man a rest.
- Ho had a hundred Illusions where we
have one.
He had a thousand superstitions ubout
woman.
Scores of taboos regarding her filled him
with fears.
The second emancipator Is the one who
will break down tho last of theso taboos,
some of which persist In strangely changed
forms down to these days.
And he or she will also be the emancipator
of woman.
Thu cave man will get us nowhere.
He was a stupid fellow, duller to live with
than tho T. B. M.
Tho rough husband of a rough mate, ho
was more afraid of her as one possessed of
a devil that might, if It would, bring upon
him many strange ills, than is tho American
T. B. M. of his wife today.
Auto bandits got $30,000 in January
nnd February by their operations In this city
This ought to make nn ill-paid policeman
mad enough to arrest 'cm.
Tho wise politician realizes that a littlo
hatchet may bo all right for u cherry tree
but when It comes to a plum tree you've got
to use an ax.
Doubtless the Lnmherton-Roper pact
has moro significance it the Twenty. second
word than tho other peaco treaty.
It may be that there will be enough
money saved on county jobs to pay polkcnu-u
good salaries.
Well, anyhow, his detectives did their
best to make Bcrgdoll mad.
There's one thing certains Uncle Saiq,
storekeeper, Is uo profiteer,
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LONELINESS
O LONELINESS! Oh, what nre thou?
Canst thou hope to exist
Before the charm of heaven's brow
Of warm-blue amethyst,
Or near the gurgling, mirror brooks
That sing sweet lullubies
To stones snugrhnrbored in their nooks
Brightened by sun -kissed skies?
O Loneliness! How vnin for thee
To dwell by songbird dale,
That echoes nil Its melody
O'er sea and mount and vale,
Or 'side the soothing, flute-toned breeze
Tli nt constant pluys that all
The leaves, a-ncsting 'pon tho trees,
Dance to its madrigal !
O Lonelluess! Thou'rt but n word,
Illusive und unreal.
Before the thund'ring bolts that gird
Tho chant of Jove's appeal,
Or by tho frothy, work -mail wave
That smites each rock-fust dune,
To mold its crag-bouud, rough-hewn cave
Beneath sun -sprinkled moon.
JOSEPH CARLTON PODOLYN.
Pennsylvania Rnilroad officials nnd rep
resentatives of the rond shop' crafts met je
tcrday to plan a joint board of employers and
employes to decide wage controversies. It a
confidently expected that this will mean
sending Trouble to tho scrap heap aud that
the Era of Good Will will henceforth run oa
schedule.
Senate leaders are planning to put the
peace treaty up to the voters. Greatest ca
of pausing the buck In history.
Mayor Moore has as much faith in per
petual city architects ns In perpetual motion.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. Who was the king of Greece who win
dethroned during tho war?
2. What southwestern stuto has not yet
voted on tho equal suffrage amend
ment? ll. Who was Adna It, Chaffeo?
I. What is tho correct pronunciation oj
thp word paresis?
fi. Name threo evergreen trees?
0. What uro tho fivo principal Romance
languages?
7. Of whnt Australian stato Is Brisbane tho
capital?
8. Whnt was tho full name of Ovid, the
Roman poet?
0. Who was Mile. Mars,?
10. In what year did fire losses in tho United
States break all records and why?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Tho moon's mean distance fronv the earth
Is 238,802 miles.
2. A conifer is u cone-bearing plant.
3. Lengthening the pendulum of n clack
makes it go slower.
4. Pcanufc is another namo for the monkey
nut.
B. Tho color Van Dyck brown is iiainrd
after Anthony Van Dyck, tho famoiii
Flemish painter. Mauve Is uumed Ut
Anton Mauve, a Dutch laudsc.ipo
pnlnter, born 1838, died 1888.
0. A tourniquet is an instrument for stop
ping the flow of blood through an
artery by compression, effected with
a screw.
7. Tho word citrate should bo pronouueed
with the accent on tho first sylhiblfl
ami tho "I" ebort as In "bit."
.8, Tho Mekong I a grout river of south
eastern Asiu. It rises In Thibet nJ
flows through Yunnun (Chlim),
Burma, Hinm, Cambodia und l'reuih
(Vhln-Cliiiiu, emptying iuto ""
China Sea.
0, Schubert wrote the "Unfinished Sjni
phony." 10, Tho first nrchltcct of the White Huiai
va Jam Hoban, of Dublin. 4
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