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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
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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.'
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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
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' 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
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