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All rights of republication of special (lis patches herein arc also reserved. l'hlladflplili, ItiJ.y. Marti. 5. 1"30 A FOUR-YEAR PROGRAM FOR PHILADELPHIA Things on which the people expect (he new ndmlnlstrutlon to concentrate Its at tention) The Delaware river bridge. A drjjdock big cnouah to accommodate the lamest ships Development of the lapld tianslt system. A convention halt. A building for the Free Library. An Art Museum. Enlargement of the tcater supplu. tlomes to accommodate the population. THE BELT LINE DEADLOCK THE ethics of tho old financial quarrel between the Pennsylvania and Read ing Railroads, which has long restricted tho proper use of the Belt Line, is not of primary concern to the public. W. R. Tucker, secretary of the Board of Trade, is inclined to think that only an act of tho Legislature is capable of endinp the exasperating deadlock. Philadclphians nre naturally much moie indifferent about the method of solution than the imperative need of it. At present the Reading is the onlj road taking advantage of the- Belt Line's facilities. This is an absurd situation and flatly subversive nf flie original and still valid purposes of the road. Paris has two "ceinttircs," or belt lines, which have for years been signal factors in the industrial and commercial development of the French capital. The various railways, private and govern-iment-owhed, have co-operated construc tively in making use of the road. Some thing of the sane spirit of municipal en terprise which has prevailed over there is deserving of importation. GOVERNOR NORRIS rpHE promotion of George W. Norns, executive officer of the national Farm Loan Commission, to the governorship of phe Federal Reserve Bank in this city will give general satisfaction. Mr". Norris is a man of proved public spirit and of demonstrated executive ability. He acquitted himself well as director of wharves, docks and ferries under Mayor Blankenburg and he has ad ministered the affairs of the Federal Farm Loan Bureau in Washington with great skill. As the head of the bureau he has been the director of the financial policies of the government in administer ing the farm loan funds through the fed eral land banks. As the governor of tho Federal Reserve Bank here ho will be charged with broader duties, for tho per formance of which he lias received admir v able training. PARKING GRAFT REDRESS rPALES of the sharper's old game of - selling the postoftlcj to guileless strangers may be apocryphal. In the field of extravagant outrage such a swin dle meets its match in the icntals for city streets for cab-stand purposes and, judg ing from the warning of the Public Serv ice Commission, the subject cannot be so easily dismissed as a mere facetious myth. "The commission." declared Mr. Clom- cnt at a hearing yesterday, "looks with extreme disfavor on the practice of pay ing rent to hotels or railroads for per mission to park cabs along the cuib out side." To a representative of a taxi company which had applied for a certifi cate of operation, the commissioner said that "if any hotel or railroa 1 attempts to force your company to pay for such 'privileges' come to us immediately." Tho advice is significant. If the cab concerns continue to pay for "rights," which property owners have not a scin tilla of authority to grant, the graft will be of the partnership complexion. Means of redress are now ( learly set forth. Failure to apply them will indicate highly unsavory collusion. COMPETITION IN MUSIC "T7ERY few blessings are unmixed. " Theoretically, tho flout lshing state of music in America should be cause for congratulation, and vet it is precisely this increase of artistic vigor which is at the root of u .singular situation confronting tho Philadelphia Oichestia. Fifteen of its members have accepted contracts clso whero for next season. That these play ers will be replaced by good men is in evitable. The orchestra is well managed, it is happily fortified with an endowment fund and its reputation and magnetic conductor are inspirational assets. The honor of playing with this lino band is in Itself an aid to the acquisition of excel lent personal material. The novelty in tho case is the lively uplrit of competition. New orchestras have been sprouting throughout the land. (Jitiea with a population of 500,000 there are more of these in the United fjtutes than in any other nation now regard symphonic organizations us in dispensable, Th venerable yet'viiilo economic law uf tUpply and demand rather embarrass ingly nsserts itself. There arc, it seems, hardly enough musicians to go round. Three important orchestras in New , York demand full ranks. Boston, Cleve land, Detroit, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago vie with ono another in their siren cries for the best performers at seductive wages. When necessary Philadelphia can bid against the most assertive competitors. But that facl docs not render less novel this problem of nrtistic distribution, which is, after all, so telling an index of our musical awakening. CENSUS REPORTS SUGGEST A GLANCE AT THE FUTURE The Expansive Energies of the City Would Do Wonders If Properly Directed fpENSUS estimates which indicate the swift and steady growth of Philadel phia have an interest that is not by any means exclusive to the city itself. It is for everybody who lives within a twenty mile radius, for communities like Cam den, Woodbury, Riveiton, Chester and Wilmington, that the new figures carry a real meaning. This city, as a center of industrial and social activity, is expanding rapidly. It cannot expand upward or downward. It must move outward on all sides. The Camden bridge will carry the lifo and the impulses of this community far over into New Jersey. The trend of in dustrial development southward aldng the Pennsylvania side of tho Delaware will bring new communities into being between this city and Chester. Before the next census is taken a whole new suburban area will have been built up Will this expansion be ordered and scientific and of a sort to insure a pleas ant environment for the people responsi ble for it or will it be a disorderly process of drift and accident? Any new community is in one way like an army. Its first dependence is on lines of communication. Land values, general prosperity and the socjal and business life of new suburban communities will depend to n great degree upon the man ner in whicli such communities are planned in advance. Their general well being will depend on modern motor roads and transit service running out from Philadelphia. New settlements may be left in partial isolation or they may be linked up as units in a metropolitan scheme of life. American cities are foreer being torn down and rebuilt. The expense of cor recting past mistakes in building is enor mous and constant, especially in the East. It represents the price that must be paid for a lack of simple foresight. The experience of every city in the United States proves beyond argument that squalor and overcrowding in resi dential communities are unnecessary as well as costly. To prove this one need only compare the declining land, and real estate values in congested areas every where with the mounting value of simi lar property in open and attractive sub urbs (.erved by modern street railways and stimulated by the slow and sure demociatization of the automobile. Americans have a good sense of order which somehow deserts them when they build their towns. Nobody erects a house without first making a plan. No one would throw a handful of mixed seed into a back lot and return after a time with a hope of finding a productive garden patch. But residential and business com munities have been left to grow as they will. The result is waste, slums, over crowding and cities that often have to be made over because they weren't built with an eye to tho future. Builders are .slowly learning that it will not do to think only in terms of the present. The present lasts only an in stant and then it is gone. Some years ago by an act of the Penn sylvania Legislature a metropolitan plan ning commission was formed to deal with problems and opportunities of suburban development which are brought clearly into the foreground once again by the census estimates. It was felt then, as it must be felt now, that everybody vjould benefit if the trend of development in the regions adjacent to Philadelphia, and particularly in the sections where new industrial activity will cause rapid growth, were guided, legulated and in spired by a modern conception of com munity lifo and a sense of the obliga tions of a city to its people. The aim of the first metropolitan com mission, if memory -erves", was to elimi nate the danger and the offense of slum areas in regions where light and air and open spaces are plentiful. It was hoped, too, that good roads, park spaces, wide streets, transit facilities and the like, as well as a new standard of building, might I be assuied in advance for those who were jet to settle in undeveloped! areas here- abouts. It is unnecessary to dwell upon the possible ellocN of such a program on leal estate value.- and on the common life of the big and little towns which new in dustries inevitably create at their base. Yet the metropolitan planning commis sion received little support and no co operation from the municipalities with which it tried to deal. The public could not understand its aims. Even the busi ness men and the owners of real estate in the designated, areas were apparently unable to perceive the logic and con structie value of its program. The time has arrived when the te establishment of n metropolitan planning commission seems 'altogether desirable. If such an agency did no more than make surveys and recommendations, if it ex isted only as an educational influence, it could do an immense service. There wns one groat defect in the policy of the first metropolitan commission. It operated modestly, in the background. It didn't advertise its purpose. If such n commission were actively functioning now, one of its first efforts might bo to divert some of the vast ap propriations nlready made for road con struction in this state for the improve ment and extension of motor highways between this city and strategic points within what is usually called the metro poIita"harpatriat Js, between the city proper aW important communities or tho EVENING PUBLIC LEDGEH-PHlLADELPHtA, sites of prospective communities within n twenty-five-mile radius. Good, wide- motor highways have be come almost as important as street rail way fjcrvlco as a building stimulus in suburban regions. It is imperatively necessary that the various questions in volved in tho city's expansion bo viewed as n whole, as details that may be co ordinated with ndvantago to everybody. A bold and imaginative approach to tho problem of communities that may be left to sprawl and struggle and crowd and get in each other's way and remain iso lated from beneficial contact with tho city is what is needed now as it wns never needed before. If a metropolitan commission wore to do as well as the city planning commis sion did in the first hard years of its ex istence tho populated regions about Philadelphia would be in ten years not scattered and dissociated and uninvit ing towns such as they may become, but suburban communities of a model sort, with many of the advantages of the city proper. The theory upon which metropolitan planning commissions are formed Is not new or untried. In Detroit, for example, the city government has a right'under its charter to give practical aid and encour agement in tho construction of street railway lines anywhere within ten miles of the city limits, and it may actually acquire land for public uses anywhere within three miles of the city limits. Tho people of Detroit nre actually doing in their own way a work which the metropolitan planning commission once aimed to do here. Yet Detroit has no op portunities such as are apparent all about Philadelphia. MARKET PRICE FOR BRAINS TT OU.GHT not to be necessary for the school teachers to be spending their time and energy in a campaign for an in crease in their pay to meet the increased cost of living. The increase would be made as a mat ter of course if the salary schedules were fixed on sound principles. The Board of Public Education pays the market price for coal and for textbooks without ques tion, but it has not yet made any ade quate adjustment of the salary schedule to meet the market price for brains. As a result teachers are leaving the schools to enter other occupations or they are going to other cities where the pay is more nearly adequate. In Camden the minimum wage is 5120(1 a ear, or ?325 more than in Philadelphia, and Camden is drawing teachers from u. But even in Camden it is impossible to get teach ers enough for all the classes. Such slight increases as have been made here have been more than absorbed by the increased cost of living, and the teachers arc receiving a sum the purchas ing power of which is much less than it was five years ago. A humane policy was adopted in one of the western cities two or three years ago. The pay of all city employes was increased voluntarily as an act of jus tice. A year after the first increase it was discovcied that the cost of living had advanced VIVz per cent and arrange ments were made to increase the pay of the city employes by that much so that the purchasing power of their pay might not be impaired. It is understood that the Board of Public Education is to consider the mat ter next Tuesday. Financial objections will undoubtedly be raised. But the ques tion at issue is not one of dollars and cents, but ono of the preset vution of the standards of the public school system. Those standards will be lowered and the childicn will suffer unless an efficient teaching force is maintained. It cannot be maintained on the present wage scale. If we are to permit the children to be taught by incompetents because we arc too niggardly to pioide money enough to hiie competent teachers we might as well admit it at once. But if we wish to have our children properly taught we will provide all the money that is necessary to pay the market price for brains as well as for coal and textbooks. ONLY THREE LEFT rpHE funeral of former Governor Wil- Ham A. Stone yesterday reminds one that there are onl three men still living who have held the office. They are Edwin S. Stuart, John K. Tener and Martin (I. Brumbaugh. The immediate predecessor of Mr. Stuart, Samuel W. Ponnypacker, died in September, I'.Uii. James A. Beaver, whose term expired in 1891, survived un til August, 1011. and Daniel H. Hastings, who preceded Mr. Stone in office, went to his grave in 100::, seventeen years before Mr. Stone died It has seldom happened that there are more than tline former Governors alive at any time. Thete weie four when Gov ernor Sproul was inaugurated. But there were only two -till nlive when Governor Pattison took the oath. They were Hoyt and Harttanft. If we elected j tmnger men to the office there would always be a longer list of graduates from the executive mansion in Harrisburg. The present gubernatorial alumni association is likely to be in creased to four when Mr. Sproul retires, for the other three are in good health, with a reasonable assurance of many more years of activity. SENATOR EDGE'S LOGIC rpHE blond of demagogic and Byzantine x tactics which have held up the sule of the former German liners by the ship ping board is refreshingly countered by a resolution of WuJter E. Edge, which crisply summarizes public sentiment on this needlessly complicated subject. "The government, insists tho New Jersey senator, "should bo retired from private business and unfair competition with pri vate business. Tho government-owned ships should be sold and the private busi ness of land and sea be encodrnged." Considering the general current of 'op position to government ownership, the delay in disposing of tho seized vessels seems indeed perverse. Naturully, tho salo should ho conducted nlong legitimate business lines and the ships ought not bo sacrificed or. transferred to foreign flags, But cpnvinclng evidence that" repudiation of such principles was .planned lias not been forthcoming. It is good,, news that tho Department of Justice is preparing to enter a mo tion for tho dissolution df the injunction restraining tho board from selling tHo thirty steamships. Tho United States has gone out of the railroad business. Why should retirement from paternalis tic control of the merchant marine ap pear so shocking? WHO IS HE? A CANDIDATE for the United States " Scnato is advertising for a stenog rapher capable of securing the signatures of tho "better class of voters" to nomi nating petitions in ten counties, and abla also to organize meetings., Tho advertisement, which docs not dis close the namo of tho candidate, piques curiosity. Tho man, whoever ho is, ap parently plans to bring about his own nomination, instead of responding to thp undoubted call of the voters that he run. He is not deluding himself with the theory that tho office ought to seek the man. When ho gets his nominating pe titions signed, however, ho may take the stump and tell tho innocent voters that he has feltr compelled to respond to the call of duty. Perhaps this is why he ad vertises anonymously. The man cannot bo Senator Penrose, for his nominating petitions are already in tho hands of the agents of the Republi can organization in the various counties. Mr. Penrose does not have to hiro a sec retary to do this sort of work. And ho has a secretary nlready. Can it bo Mar tin Brumbaugh or Glfford Pinchot or Eu gene Bonniwell ? Time alone can tell. SANITY IN FRANCE rpHE swift collapse of tho French rail way strike hardly squares with tho tinder-box conception of continental Europe. M. Millerand, it is true, did in a monitory way flourish the word "revo lution." Happily, however, the paucity of verbal restraint in tho councils of au thority and in the juntas of alleged radi calism docs not accurately reflect tho temper of civilized peoples. The French mind is intensely realistic. The shock of war is still grievously felt in French industry, finance and living conditions. The stark folly of still fur ther wrecking the nation by a railway strike seems to have been speedily ob vious to employers, employes and the genernl public. It is curious to reflect that in "solid" England the transportation tie-up as sumed far more serious proportions than did the abortive and somewhat sensa tionally advertised effort across the chan nel. In France the arbitration system has been materially strengthened by these last developments. This movement, which is the only remedy in sight for labor disputes, appears to be easily beat ing bolshevism in girdling the globe. Snow removal this. t'oncmiliiK the winter lins cost Pliila- llcuutlful (Iclphlu .?1.-,n,000 uml New York $:'.,000,000. In New York, moreover, there arc a thousand miles of streets In the suburbs still iiiielenrod. It is nn Immense sum of money, but to put the whole iimnuut down as dead loss is to find fault with Xiiture. One might with as much reason so put down the cost, of soup. 'Faces and streets alike get dirty and must he cleaned. The S.'i,(l00.0()0 spent in New York mid the S150.000 spent in this city paid the vukcs of thousands of men who bought food n lid clothing with the money. Money was aNo expend.ed on shovels aud wagons which suffered wear and tear and will cventuullj have lo he replaced, thus giving emplovniciit to shovel -milkers mid wugon -milkers. On the other hand, the hli. sutril prevented money being spent ou aniuse meuts and carfare und stopped tho salaries of thoe nffected. Tiiking the snow then as something inevitable, the recent bli..urd simply accelerated circulation of the cur rency in iiiiin.v directions mid retarded it in many otlity- Premier Nilli is nsK .Sonic ltlue Nolcs ins for u revision of the Hungarian trcut. t'nder il .".1100,000 Magyars, he says, nie included in the .lugo-Shiv state. He thinks this too large a Hungarian orchestra to pre serve hat ninny in the European concert. And to appreciate the potcuey of discordant tones one has only to take cognizance of this Ital ian pipe. It may be thut only Divided Thoughts one-third of fleneriil I'ersljing's thoughts will he in Hog Island tomorrow when he sees the army truusport Murne launched. It is at least conceivable that one-third will be in the past in France with another Murne; mid nuc-third in the future at the Repub lican national convention with still another. The main issues of any Haven't Kven period of iccoiistruc Slogan lion are labor and finance. There Is no striking divergence of priucinjes ou theso issues in the two big parties. What diver gence there U is outside. Which is why politiiul lenders urc heatiug time rather tliau plnviug mi polilicul tunes. A Huugurian waiter in St. I.nuis lutx Just bought a $100,000 hotel with tips hu has received during the last twi-ntj jenrs. 'Mils jolts but docs not dislodge the truth hat it is more blessed to give Hum to re clve. Gfimuiiv is seeking from Finland 127, 000,000 marks for helping thu Finns to turn the scales against the Bolshevists in l'lis. Easy miirlis, unless the Finns discover they have other fish to fry. Oeiiniiiiy is to be permitted In borrow money to pay her debts. -In the war she enrncd hatred. Sho is to have n ihance (0 earn self-respect. II must he sold for Major .Moore I..1 ...! lf,T-..t ....... I.. 1, . Hint Ill ueuuiig wiin iiouiii'iii iuii'iiriiius lie in perfectly willing to try curative rather than punitive measures. H the thno'ii bunch of the piesnlrutial candidates have committed political harn-kiii the prophets will beglu to take the public into their confidence. Norwuy has begun to debate ihe mutter of joining the League of Nations. Storthing something, ns It were. The Turks themselves continue i0 fi)r. nUh excellent reasons for their being driven out of Kurupe. Philadclphians, bulb wet ami dry, agree on thu program for mom drj docks and a bijstr port, FRIDAY MABOH 5, TrTESSIR, HOW DOES IT STRIKE YOU? PRESIDENT WILSON, who tried to rauke the world safe for democracy, had before tried to make the'universlty of which he was president safe for democracy. When he sought to abolish tho clubs at Priucctou he rau into n solid vein of con servatism. The undergraduates and the graduutes, too, were as uuicgeuernte ns are the nations of the world. If one may believe the Harvard Graduates Magazine, President Lowell is encountering the same spirit in his efforts to reorganize the social life at his university.' q q q THE first step at Harvard has been for the university to purchase the "Gold Coust," the famous group of luxurious dormitories, privately owned, and housing the richer stu dents. President Lowell does not call his reform making Harvard 'sufe for democrucy. Ho is wiser thun a serpent. He keeps away from thut. fatal word. He says merely that he desires to "inten sify the influence of Harvard upon its un dergraduates." Hut the students sec democratizing in what is going on. "Harvard is as democratic n any college in I he United Stulcs," writes one indignant iiiidergruduute In comment quoted by the Gruilnutcs' Magazine. Another writes, "Any frcshmi.n who can't make friends nt Harvard has only himself to bluine." A jouthfuWjnic says: ,'M nm n snob. The rule here is suub or get snubbed. The old bromide about 'When in Home' is good dope. Lonesome? Nut a bit. I would be, though, if I insisted upon aciing iiko a hamuli being. With a little application any fool can get the snob habit." q q i EVIDENTLY one educational ideal is to get the snob habit. Not of many of the undergraduates prob ably ; of about 10 per cent, one joung Har vard commentator says. There are a d07.cn other ideals. Aid the real trouhlo nt Harvaul and at other places of learning is not so much thut 10 per cent, perhaps, think that to get the snob hublt Is to he educated, but thut there is no prevailing notion ns to what it is to be ediieutcd. University life fulls apart Into little groups and cliques just because each set having n common Ideal of education, whether it is to be a snob, to make the football teum, to be come mildly inoculuted with the virus of life, to acquire a higher order of salesmanship or uliut not, tends to club together. The university is not suro enough us to what is an education to impose its ideul ou the muss. And American life is so vast aud various, so unformed, thut there is no single end toward which joung men aim when they go to college. q q q w:: HEN u (ollege is big these groups tend become big and the divisions in uni versity life deep. Mr. Lowell would chip them by cutting across their lines and setting up artificial divis(ous of his own. On the English sjstem he would divide the university into residential units; small, self administered and self-contained, like the col leges that make up Cambridge and Oxford. Thus not ull the 10 per cent of the whole student body whose ideM nt edueutlon is -to get to he u snob, to sell themselves in a su perior fashion, could get together, but only the 10 per cent in any given residential unit. Thus they might find themselv-s a little looesomo and let in some of the other fel lows, whose Ideals of education might be less enlightened; the least pertinacious of the "grluds," for cxnmplr. q q q T)UT of course there is such unity us exists L in English university llfu not bccutise of the fcclf-iiilmlalstrnllve colleges, but be cause the English universities jiqvp a clear end. jifw jjtf;"' 'T JLZ&HE&ll WBi " C-" JfftWitEBtfiM!laWLflLll' WWTTTEnrf jmKWfm v , , . i- z 1920 SOMETHING'S APT TO President Lowell's Efforts to Make liar' vard Safe for Democracy Strike Snag. Housemaids in Italy Make Demands They have been remarkably successful for hundreds of years in training the ruling class for public life. The boys who go to Oxford or Cambridge know fairly well what they go there for. You might call the' English universities technical schools, like the Massachusetts In stitute of Technology. They fit men for a profession governing England and her colonics. Aud they huve n record, in the words of the sporting depart ment, of doing it amazingly well. q q q TT GIVES an American a little feeling of -- malicious satisfaction to read thut the housemaids of Italy have united lu demand ing of their employers two weeks' vacation at the seaside each year, with extru pay to cover tho expenses of the outing uud nn al lowance of two cigarettes u day. One touch of trouble iu the kitchen makes the whole world kin. Or, rather, nothing makes your own maid less house seem more tolcruble thun news that our neighbor's maid hus delivered an ujtimatum. It wus rather unfair thut Europe should have come out of the wur with maids while we arrived at peace without any. Hut witli the Italian housemaids demand ing sea baths aud cigarettes, it is plain that Europe's respite is only short. An institution ns old as lime you rend about handmaidens in the Uihle will bhortly disappear. And why not? A thousand things have gone out of the home. And why not housekeeping just ns much us tho home wcuvlng of garments? Anyway, rents are becoming in high that no one can afford to have a kitchen, q q q QT1LL the surplus woman problem re sJ niuiiis, aud two weeks' sea baths and two cigarettes a day does not solve it. England is approaching It by shipping her surplus women to her colonies, and there are 1,800,000 of them. In the colonics, (10 per cent of them thus far sent have found hiibhands. Thus the colonies nre proving n "place iu the sun" for the women und the whole force of the voting strength of women Is attached to empire. Imperialism gains a new hold upon man kind. England, usuully foresighted, has the ad vantage of her rivals lu Europe. For this new purpose, will mandates serve as well ns colonies? If not, nnother ob stacle is iu the path of tho League of Nu t toils). II gives us u joyous thrill to read that the steamship Shonnock snved the stcumshlp Dcva from damage oft the Azores und towed her into Faynl. Why wouldn't it? They were both built in Philadelphia. Philadel phia ships now dot the sens. If they keep on they'll rule tho wuves. Colonel Mordcn has given the politicians nn awful jolt by serving as chief of the Iiureuu of Street Cleunlng without pay until he completes his work with the quarter master's department. It is ngalust pretty ucarlj all municipal precedent. Taxicab competition should bring uhout good seryice. And the company that insists on unfailing courtesy on the uit of emploies will get the biggest sllco of the business. County payrolls ore to be Investigated this afternoon. It is understood that re sultuut action will be curative ruthcr than punitive. '" It is Chairman Huron's Idea that before he Delaware can be bridged steps should be token to bridge politlcul dlfliciillies Auolher blizzard threulcus, aecordlu, to the weuthvrmuu. This blz biz grow HAPPEN . JMARHEART TtfARHEAIlT, lf l had known I'd grctt -' Her some day as my wife, O Sweet. Before tho glance of whose pure eyes Each thought thut is ignoble tiles As darkness from the morning's feet, I'd not feel now so like a cheat, A shameless oaf from out the street iV-srTddeu dropt in paradise, uearneart. s Nor would my heart remorseful beat Recalling days with shame .replete, For lit by hope they'd been more wise And with a joy unmarrcd by sighs To love you now I were more meet, Dearhcart. . SAMUEL MINTURN PECK. Tho Lehigh Conl and Navigation Cora puny bus notified the Public Service Coni mission that, weather permitting, the Del wuro canal will be opened for navigation March 15 and the Lehigh on April 10. IU coal flat is au cveu surer sign of spring than the robin. The uewspnpcrs of the country continue to note tho fuct thut Ibuncz had to come to Philadelphia before he said anything to matt people sit up and take notice. That tho Philadelphia Orchcstru mat lose fifteen of its members nt tho close of th prcsent season is duo to the fact that there is music iu the clink of coin that finds iti echo in tho hyart. There is indication that being bottW pleases Bcrgdoll us little as being on draft, so to speak. It all depends on the point of view, 'tit service that to tho P. R. T. seems u. tv. to tho nuvy yard men seems a k. o. Necessity nowadays is mothering a num ber of economic compromises in Europe. What Do You Knoiv? QUIZ 1. What wns the population of the UnM States uccordlng to the census of 1010. 2. Who wns the lust king of Portugal? .'1. What common nut belongs to the rc family? 1. What is a rope walk? R. Which gives low notes on an oigau, M pipes or short? 0. Whut is tho correct pronunciation of tb word metallurgist? 7. Where is tho cltv of Acrn? a 'IV ii.lmt t-nciil tinnsa 1M (tin KPPODd til'' of Napoleon Honaporte belong? 0. Who wrote tho "Moonllffht Sonata"? 10. Nome it leading general of the roll nnimi M.l, tinrt Inlnntf ll 111 the "" war. Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. Jules Jusseraud is tho preseat Frcaci nmbassador to the United States. y. Bumhoo is tho tallest of the grosses, SI. The song "Home, Sweet Home"' o in the operu, "Clurl, the Maid w Milan." 1, Dry air is heavier than wet air. fi. Tho tobacco blossom is pinkish whitt . Tho Edict of Nantes, issued by H IV, iu 1C08, guaranteed freedom ..!!,.:..., ,...oi,ir, ( lm Wench 1 rpI ' cstants. It was revoked by wB XIV In 1085. 7. Justices of tho United States SopK Court are npjiointed for lite 8. Charleston is tho capital of West "'- It. Wheal -is an antique won 1 for pMj I u is tiiso a niuie, ran.-vi" tin mine, ' 10. Duluttnwus once described In Jf" n nn the pih. City of U """"3 Uull '. . '".&, . 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