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A FOUR-YEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA
Things on which the people expect
the new administration to concentrate
Its attention!
The Delaware river bridge.
A drydock big enough to accommo
date the largest ships.
Development of the rapid transit sys.
tern.
A convention halt.
A building for the Free Library.
An Art Museum.
Enlargement of the water supply.
Homes to accommodate the popula
tion. !WHEN TALK IS NOT CHEAP
rTUIE manager of the Frankford ex
jL change of the Bell Telephone Com
pany, in an effort to discover why it has
been necevary to report that the line is
busy so often, has been timing the con
versation of women over two and four
party lines. He has discovered that the
actual average length of a conversation
between two women is foriy-five min
utes. While they are talking no one else
on the party line can use it. And with
a measured service every three minutes
counts as a call and Increases the extra
amount to be paid on the monthly bill.
This sort of talk is not cheap. It is
not cheap for the women who engage in
it and it is sometimes pretty expensive
i T "u"":l""" v" i,1 V.M shortage in Pennsylvania is many thou
lor those who cannot use the line while . , , i.i,j.,i.i .iij1. ...
it is going on.
PASSPORTS AND POLITICS
STRAINED relations between the
President and the Senate are at the
root of the present inability of the gov
ernment to issue passports for its
citizens.
It is said that under the Overman act
Mr. Wilson is privileged to empower
some official to sign the necessary parch
ments. The President, however, by de-
clinlng to interpret the law in that way,
increases the pressure to expedite the
-connrmation o lialnbrldge Colby as sec- '
retary of state. But the Senate, in in
quisitorial and captious mood, is not
finished! with its investigations of Mr.
Colby's record.
Meanwhile American business men
tourists are unconsidered luxuries ure
denied the right to travel beyond the
American boundaries. No one today is '
permitted to leave the country by sea
without a passport. Applications for I
them are being received in Washington i
at the rate of 200 daily
The situation is at once ridiculous and
shameful. It is futile to make nice dis
tinctions of blame when both the ex
ecutive and legislative branches of the
government display such a . rversc lack
ol common sense. Uut unle some com
nromlse. remedy or surrender nollov on
one side or another Is speedily adopted , teachers are aware that a strike would
impressive protests from trade and ! do more harm than good. The com
financial circles are inevitable. mittee Is ubout to call to its assistance
Governmental incompetence reaches
an extreme when citizens are denied
protection abroad.
JUNKERDOM'S BLUFF CALLED
JL many seem to have overplayed their
hand. That the cards looked propitious
is hardly to be doubted. Dissensions
among the Allies, hypersentimental crit
icism of the treaty terms, political ob
structions In America combined to con
vince unregenerate junkers that the time
was ripe for an assertion of the old
Prussianlsm.
rm. i-i. - u parents that they are educating their
The tbert government was born oijP",d and that they cannot do it
defeat and its popularity thus seriously
compromised at the outset. Neverthe
less, the constitutional authorities have
displayed a heartening strength. Kapp,
Luettwitz and their gang do not even
measure up to the D'Annunzio stand
ard. Their revolutionary venture ap
pears to have been as weak as it was
extravagant.
If the immediate consequence is days
or even weeks of civil war, there are
purgative qunlities even in 6uch a
calamity. Distinction is at last vlsiblo
between Germans swayed by arrogant
medieval fancies and those sobered by
realities. Heretofore the lines have been
vague and there was much justification
for the view that Teuton liberalism was
honeycombed with sham.
Whichever way the pendulum now
swings, its oscillations can be inter
preted with fair accuracy by the signa
tories of the pact of Versailles. An end
to hesitancy and incertitude ought to
bo the sequel of the Gen an bluff, ex
posed a. its birth.
OPEN DOOR FOR ALIENS
BXItON H UHL, acting commis
sioner of immigration in New York,
has decided that a domestic servant
hired in Copenhagen may enter this
country, and without violating the con
tract labor law.
There is no occasion for surprise in
the, ruling. The luw expressly excrapio
"persons employed strictly as personal
or domestic servants." If it were not
so explicit, the employer of the Danish
servant might have found a loophole in
that portion of tho law which declares
"that skilled labor may be imported if
labor of like kind unemployed cannot be
found in this country."
But it the ruling occasions no stir
Urje, it does furnish food for thought.
, la. there not to bs found in tho ex-
fJ
eruptions to the contract labor law tho
key to our Immigration problem?
Would not an amended cl'iiso reading
"that skilled nnd unskilled labor mar be
Imported If labor of, Hko kind uncm
ployed cannot be found In this country"
admit all tho Immigrants needed and
keep out the undesirables?
The contract labor law Is at present
a slight check on immigration. Why
not make it a real check by turning it
Into a sane and restricted open sesatne?
bad pay; bad teachers,
BAD SCHOOLS, BAD CITIZENS
-. . , . : ,,:. . ., - .
That I tho Iney tabjo Deduction, of
the Present Sftuatlon, WhfcVTS.
p.yer. TNrn.elve..Snou,dal.
, rf HkIh fh 'Remadv
,Z0 8"a elP " Hemoay
"SCHOOL, conditions in Pennsy va-
." ... .-.-- v. -
po nla." remarked Uovernor anroui
he other day, "are bad from top to bot
tom because of the low salaries paid to
the teachers."
The first step toward t.te cure of nny
ailment is a correct diagnosis, as every
physician knows.
The Governor has revealed himself as
a good diagnostician.
Now that we know what the trouble
is, the next thing to do is to apply the
remedy.
Doctor Finegan, the state superin
tendent of public instruction, has an
nounced that he is considering a recom
nendatlon to the next Legislature for an
increase in the sum devoted to support
of the schools nnd for fixing a minimum
salary schedule for the city and coun
try districts.
Doctor Finegan was appointed to his
present office inN order to bring the
schools of the state up to a level with
the best in the country. He Is a recog
nized expert in education. He is familiar
with what has been done elsewhere.
And he is a sincere believer In" the
public school system as the fostering
ugent and couscrvcr of democracy.
Indeed, the justification for the sys
tem of free public educntlon In America
is primarily political. Public s-hools
are maintained not to teach boys and
girls how to cam a living, though there
are nowadays many persons who think
that more attention should be paid to
technical training, but to teach citizens
how to read and write and know some
thing of the history of our institutions
so that they may act intelligently at the
election polls.
The problem before tl-s state today
is how to secure teachers equipped to
train the children. If n stock raiser
should find that the old rate of pay was
not high enough to attract men qualified
to care for his horses or his cows, he
would instantly offer a higher rate of
wages and incrcuse it until he got the
kind of help he wanted.
The present pay schedule in the pub
lic schools is so low that men and women
are leaving the profession by the thou
sand. There is a shdrtnee of 140,000
teachers in the United States. The
sands, and in Philadelphia children are
leaving school because there are no
teachers for them and because no teach
era can be got for the pay offered. The
need Is so great that teachers who had
been dropped for inefficiency have been
restored, nnd teachers who cannot speak
English correctly or without a marked
foreign accent are in charge of classes
of children at the most impressionable
aire,
This condition will continue until
there is assurance that a living wage
will be paid. Until that time comes the
, nml women attracted to the nro
fion will, in too many instances, be
t10M(, wj,0 cannot find employment any
where else. Instead of a:ert-minucu,
progressive men and women with ability
to Inspire enthusiasm in their classes,
there will be weaklings, and the children
will suffer accordingly.
Not enough money is available to give
o the teachers the nay they should have
it cannot be raised until the Legislature
authorizes the communities to increase
their tax rate for school purposes and
until the state itself enlarges its appro
priations. This cannot be done until
next winter.
In the meantime the high-minded
teaching force in this city is npproach-
iue the problem lairiy. ine aiucu i
teachers' salary committee nas already
condemned talk about a strike. The
a citizens' committee of one hundred to
urge upon the Board of Public Educa
tion not only a salary Increase for the
1 feiwhpra nt the earliest nossible date, but
! to consider the whole educational prob-
lem and to suggest a plan for meeting a
i similar crisis in tne tuture wnen u
arises without having to wait for legis
lative action in Harrlsburg. Mayor
Moore is to be asked to act as chairman
of the committee.
This is the right way to go about it.
It is placing the matter in the hands of
the people who are most interested in
the schools, whether they realize it or
not. The tcacherB can well tell the
properly unless they nave adequate sup
port. When Doctor Finegan comes to Phil
adelphia, as he is to do In a few days,
he will find an alert teaching force
ready to co-operate with htm, and ho
will also find a Board of Public Educa
tion with a fuller appreciation of its
obligations than it has had for some
time. So much has been gained by the
agitation conducted by the salary com
mittee of the teachers' organizations.
GOV. BICKETT OBLIGES
THE decision of Governor Blckett, of
North Carolina, to call the Legisla
ture of his state to pass upon the equal
suffrage amendment in July is at least
an earnest of praisewortny intentions.
Champions of woman enfranchisement
scarcely expected help from that quar
ter, but should Delaware aggravate a
crisis even the dubious chance of sup
port from below the Mason and Dixon
line may be viewed with interest. It is
worth emphasizing that the South,
despite Its opposition to suffrage, has
not been a unit In Its disfavor. Arkan
sas and Texas have both ratified the
amendment.
Hopes of North Carolina foiling in
line may not be brilliant, but tbey at
any rate serve to accentuate the un
gracious and obstructlonary roles played
by Vermont and Connecticut in a sec
tion of the country where suffrage was
supposed to have such easy sailing.
THE MAN AND THE GARDEN
HAPPY the man and blessed his lot
who owns a little garden plot
wherein he may, the lucky Blnner, get
down to biz right after dinner ; and with
imagination big just dig and dig and
die and dig ; and with his joyous heart
aglow proceed to hoe and boe and hoe;
BtrBNING' PXmbltf
and while his back and biceps ncho right
carefully may rake and rake. For
here's a man by fortune kissed tho
truly chronic ontimist t At least since
Truth must have her fling he is an
optimist in spring.
His perspiration proves his worth.
Each spadeful proves he owns the
earth. And though his inclination
squirms when'er by chance he turns up
worms, he stifles all desire to fish, for
labor Is his only wish. Ah, yes, all else
fa flat and tame, for Labor is his middle
came.
Pride in his' port,. his Jioc in hand, the
homo-made .'farmer takes .Ms stand, cn
dowcd.J)y, centuries of. hope with Nature
he will bravely copc and from the
willing ca.rth . will charm the lively
products of the farm j and well he knows
lie 'Will be able throughout the year to
fill his table. ' , ,
Ay, labor is -his -one best bet. Xou
see; he .hasn't starte'd'yct. Observe him
How, the-lucky dogTHc's studying the
catalogue.
HOUSING RELIEF?
IF TUB greenest amateurs In shoe
strinir finnnrn tinun ln'on able to
profit hugely by haphazard speculation
with the titles to real estate and small
dwellings, it is reasonable to suppose
that experienced financiers with largo
resources and an honorable, legitimate
purpose ought to End large Investments
safe and profitable in the same field.
The demand for new houses is great
nnd pressing. It will grow nnd It will
bo permanent. That is why a sugges
tion made by John Ihldcr. . the hous
ing commission, at the conference called
by Director Tustln, of ihc Department
of Welfare, yesterday, has u convincing
sound.
Mr. Ihldcr would hove the Depart
ment of Public Works co-operate with
reputable investors who agree to under
take large-scale building operations at
once. Thus current plans for street
paving, water extensions nnd sewers
would be directed to speed nnd encourage
new construction in undeveloped areas.
It there is any reason why the influ
ence of legitimate finance should not
be felt In this instance It is not apparent
to a lay mind. Shelter is as necessary
as food and water. It will be years
before there are enough houses in the
Philadelphia area to meet the normal
demarid.
It is truo that the costs of building
materials are high. But such costs will
not decline greatly and u proportionate
increase in the cost of new onstruction
will have to be met by owners and ten
ants. Mcanwjiile, however, any one who
undertook to build on the large scale
suggested, by Mr. Ihldcr might econo
mize greatly because of the extent of his
enterprise.
It is probable that thousands of
dwellings financed and built in accord
ance with a general plan might be sold
immediately at a good profit or leased
at a paying rate and still be easily
available to the families in moderate
circumstances who are, being squeezed
by house-gamblers and profiteers.
Owners of property are richer be
cause of the general advance in wages
and construction costs. They are en
titled to all the benefits of the situation.
The higher values of real estate will be
permanent. But there .a a difference
between real and recognizable advances
and the phantom values temporarily cre
ated, by Walllngfords, who continue to
kite property by a process of organized
control and wholesale evictions.
One of the best things about the cam
paign started by Director Tustln is that
any extensive movement for new con
struction would relieve artificial infla
tion of real estate valuations almost at
once. Gamblers are a sensitive lot.
They will scurry for shelter at the first
signs of danger.
Mr. Tustin deserves credit for an en
ergetic and rational approach to a diffi
cult problem. But he can do little un
aided. His department can do its share
ty formulating a plan of action and pro
viding the assurance of official co
operation and sanction for large con
struction schemes. Responsibility lies
now with financiers and investors and
organizations concerned about the wel
fare of the city and its people.
LET THE MAJORITY RULE
I VTATURALLY, Mr. Bryan has a
I -1-N wholesome respect for majorities.
Three times they categorically informed
him that he could not be President of
the United States. The knowledge
gained of experience serves him lucidly
in his estimate ot the treaty deadlock.
which he interprets ns partly, at least,
the result or a minority's refusal to
face existing facts.
"The Democratic parts, " he informed
the Washington interviewers the other
day, "has no right to deny the right of
a majority in the Senate to declare the
Senate's policy."
This is n sound view of one of the
fundamentals of republican government.
It is the tendency of politicians, now
on one side, now on the other, to reject
it. The consequence is always obstruc
tionism, which in the end has to make
way for acknowledgment if realities.
These the Democratic party, after being
fully in power from 1013 to J018, seems
to be unable to recognize.
Every once In a while we get the
fool Idea that the peace treaty is a
matter of world moment; and then we
read the news dispatches and discover
that it is nothing in the world but
politics.
Considerable excitement has been
caused in Amerongen by the attempt of
a mysterious woman to visi. the former
kaiser. So (that's where she is! This
will be joyous news to Andy Gump.
When the peace treaty first came
from Europe it was as full of joyous
promise as a seed catalogue. And now
look at the darned thing !
Former uovernor isrumtmugh is
discovering that the expenses of a cam
paign sometimes stretch through the
years to mock one's efforts.
One ir-y display interest in tho in-
come tax total without danger of being
accused of entnusiasra ior tue levy as a
revenue raiser.
'Local Girl Scouts ..re being In
fr,.Pteil In "The Art of Btine n IIoh.
tess." Local Boy Scouts cannot be
sufficiently gratetul.
PerhaDS if this wero not a nresl
dentlal year the peace treaty could be
discussed on its merits.
Hog Island is one of the few re
maining places where one may crack a
bottle of champagne.
If the peace treaty were really dead
everybody would be speaking well of It.
All the county! wonts from the City
Council is "appropriate" action.
sm i I
Kapp appears to have been a bad fit
OB4pkmD
HOW DOES IT
STRIKE YOU?
Bolshevist Encouragement of Art
Discloses an Angle Not
Previously Revealed
THE Bolshevists Improve upon nc
quaintancc. Not only docs Lenlne ride" in a Rolls-
Iloycc. 'which Is nurelv n pnnrt Yensnn
for tlje. recognition, of Russia, buthe.nnd
uis associates encourage art.
''Listen to this from Axrhtnenkn. the
Russian sculptor, who is in Paris':
Art is'gr.atly ..encouraged by .the
Bolshevists. .There irre'.irequent exhi
bitions, cach-contalning about 1000 pic
tures. . Therefrom 300 of the best nro
selected-anil- hnntfht hv -the. ntntn.nt -n
handsome price for distribution through
out the cotihTry. .The rest are burnt
n effective but sotnewhat drastic method'
to discourage mediocrity. At least that
was the original practice, but recently,
owing to the shortage of canvas, etc.,
x am lntormcd that painters ot rejected
pictures now get them back with orders
to scrape off their wretched daub and
try to accomplish something better next
time."
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LIKE the comic opera potentate, the
Bolshevists make the nunlshment
fit the crime.
In this country thcro really isn't any
incentive to good art.
When you write n bad poem you do
not get it back with strict orders to
erase vcrv word of it and write an
other on the same piece of paper.
wnen you write a bad piece ot lictlon,
instead of suffering such a penalty you
sell it to one of the score or more nil
fiction magazines, sometimes using upon
it many of society's excellent postago
stamps in the process: like the" well-
known author who confesses to having
sold one short story to the twenty-fifth
publication to which he sent it, the
twenty-fifth, being identically the same
publication to which he sent it first,
the story being then on Its second round
of all tho possible monthlies and week
lies. "Pour encourager les autres," as
Voltaire would say, It would be a splen
did thing to sec nil the writers of bad
magazine fiction set to work, Bolshevist
fashion, erasing every word of their
wretched manuscripts.
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ONE would lke to know more of this
Bolshevist system of encouraging
nrt.
It is not enough to set -11 the bad
artists to scratching out their daubs nnd
erasing their false and mushy manu
scripts. The reform roust go deeper than that.
The nrtist, Including the writer, is
for tho most part a poor 'rawllng crea
ture who strives to please.
Once in n while he is a bold egoist
who strives to displease, like Samuel
Butter.
But the exception docs not count.
There is the sinner that he strives to
please, tho Average Reader, Average
Editor, Average Picture Collector ; what
does the Bolshevist do to him?
Who really writes our plays?
The tired business man, exclaims the
apologist.
Who paints our pictures?
The fat old war profiteer.
Who writes our njvcls?
But why dig deeper into this scandal?
What do the Bolshevists do with the
tired business man, the fat old wnr
profiteer and the ubiquitous sentimen
talist
Would scraping do in their case?
The soul of each one of them is a
palimpsest, with one manuscript on top
of another and one painting on top of
another, all the mush and truck they
have read and seen and bought and ap
plauded and sniffed over.
Layer nfter layer might be scraped
off, but what would be the hope of ever
getting down to the pure white original
surface on which a real work of art
might be laid?
What, what do the Bolshevists do
with them?
Archipcnko tells about one of them
being ducked in a horse trough. One
of them !
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F' ISN'T the T. B. M. who is respon
sible for the low state of the drama.
writes u woman to one of the New
York papers.
It's his wife; the Idle, sheltered
creature whose soul Is soft-fibered from
lack of contact with the real world, who
will not look life in the face, but must
have a sentimental version of it pre
sented to her, ns you give the "found-under-n-cabbage-lcaf"
version of it to
little girls.
Perhaps they should divide responsi
bility between them.
But what do the liolshevists do with
her?
And to be fair, if there is in large
numbers the woman this woman writes
about, there is also the woman looking
at facts courageously, less sentimental
than man, to whom probably is due the
"theatre of ideas" which has come in
America.
Certainly, when the world was a littlo
more exclusively man's than it is today
there was no Buch theatre.
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TT IS pleasant to read of the Consumer
X Who Did Not.
Of course, he was rich and therefore
could afford to refuse to pay.
Had he been poor he would have paid
without a word when the delicatessen
dealer sent him a bill for $25 for a boiled
bam.
But this man being rich, like the
Bolshevists, sent the bill back to be
erased, with the word that he would
not pay more than ?1 a pound for ham,
and that as the bam welched only four
teen pounds, he would pay only $14
for it.
As proof of his intentions he sent
along a check for $14.
A jury just sustained him in his view
that $1 a pound was enough for ham.
So here is a short way with profiteers,
if you have the leisure nnd money to
undergo a lawsuit.
If not, there is no hope.
At least not now.
Phlladelphfa Is an excellent machine,
but there is just sufficient the matter
with its carburetor, its spark plug and
some other parts of its mechanism to
keep an expert tinker busy and happy.
At least it may be said that there are
enough new angles to Mayor Moore's
job to keep him interested.
Those who hove been most vocif
erous in crying "Let the people decide
what shall be done with the treaty"
have carefully refrained from Indicating
just how the people are going to do
It. Even if, it were desirable there is
no existing machinery for a national
referendum.
Having temporarily rid herself of a
mnnnrehlonl itcll. Germany is hetrlnnlnr.
to bewail the fact that she no longer has
Incentive 10 scratcn.
It is not felt by the allied powers
that Von Luettwitz is a good judge
of just what is "reasonable."
Father Time smiles as he hurries to
meet Miss Spring. Spin along, old
topi
Mr. Wilson must now be numbered
among tho bitter-enders,
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"MY, BUT DER OLD HOME ISS
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JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy Wynne Chats About Various Things Miss Moss Visits
Here Dancing Class Meets Ice Carnival Planned
TiyrARY MOSS is coming up again
" from Kentucky tomorrow, this time
to visit the family of her fiance, Eu
gene Simonin. She vos hero a short
time neo visiting Mrs. George Earlc,
8d (Huberta Potter that was) nnd her
cousin. Mrs. Walter Avery. Tomorrow
she will go to the Simonins to stay some
Uttlo time. Shit is very cood looking, I
think, and quit a little likt, -ncr sister
Willie, who. you remember, married
Arthur Howe, Jr. Rose Mary Howe,
by the way, must be coming nlong to
nni tVn riphiitnnte nee. What an at
tractive little girl Bhe is Her mother
... vi.o Mv rtonckln. a sister of Mr
Hermann Denckla. She died several
run nnt nml Ttnne Mnrv has been go
ing to bonrding school. She is a first
cousin of Pnuline Denckla, who will
marry Le Grande Cannon (I nlwa'5
want to spell it Canyon) on April 17
in Holy Trinity Church here.
MRS. WURTS'S class will meet to
morrow ,nlght. And how the'boys
nnd girls do look forward to these
dances! A number of the boarding
school pupils will be nt home for the
midyear holidays, you know, and so
tomorrow's party will be n gay affair.
Let us hope they will not have the
weather of the last meeting.
Did you eVer see such a night? Rain,
hail, snow, blizzard! Some of the peo
ple on the Main Line and in Chestnut
Hill had a perfectly fearful time to get
home afterward, for the snowdrifts pre
vented the trains fron going on, and
the electric wires became so coated with
ice, too. But it made it all the more
fun, according to those who were held
up. It's not likely this will happen
again, for I'm nltnost afraid to say it,
but I do think "the spring has came"
and after a day like yesterday I know
you will agree with mo.
Well, to return to tomorrow night's
party. There will be several dinners
before the class. The John Samuels win
ntnrtnln for LiOts and .nana, cneir two
.Imii-hters. at tneir nome. zvlo i-ino
street, and Dr. nnd Mrs. Joseph Sailer
will give a dinner for their daughter
Alice.
TTAVE you heard about the ice car-
XI nival which is planned for Monday
out nt the Ice Palace, at Forty-fifth and
Mnrket streets?
Tha nfTiilr is betn? civen for the bene
fit of the Reed Street Neighborhood
House and the energetic board of man
agers of that settlement Is bent on
making the carnival a real success, both
socially and financially.
With this end in view, bcvernl ex
hibition skaters 111 display their prow
ess for the delectation of the audience,
and there will be waltzing contests for
those who wish to take part and a
"pvmkhana flat" (I hope you know
what that Is, I don't), obstacle races
and a hockey game.
The executive committee of the Reed
Street Neighborhood House Includes
Mrs. Charlie Cheston, secretary; Mrs.
r,nrtfnn Yarnnll. Mrs. Grnnville Mont
gomery. Mrs. Joseph Sncllcnburg and
Mrs. Aleck Yarnall. chairman.
Of the carnival committee John Evans
is chairman nnd the others include Cur
tis Clay, Dan Ncwhall, Lewis Parsons,
Stanley Rogers. JJrs. Bllllo Clothier,
Mrs. Joseph Chapman, Mrs. Hoxle
Smith and Mrs. Charlton Yarnall.
YOU know what the work of tho Reed
Street Neighborhood nouse Is
Americanization work among the for
eigners, the Improvement of housing con
ditions, nnd the general civic uplift In
the neighborhoods. The management is
really working very hard and the results
are most gratifying. They provide
amusements, games for the young and
nil sorts of Interesting lessons are elven
to young nnd old. It's a fine work nnd
deserves encouragement. The carnival
will be held In the evening and will be
very smart, x mane no uouut.
NANCY WYNNE.
SOCIAL.ACTIVITIES
Mrs. Joseph B. Hutchinson, of 1.104
Spruce street, will give n small ten
from 4:30 to 0 o'clock this afternoon
i Ke
Kens. Ave. A Cumberland
LAM no . LADIES1 MAT. DAILY
euuicu iheB
on ions
C wainiu au. run. JUt. 'roaay
asino SIGHTSEERS
TJ Si 1 8th Above Race. Mat. Today
DlJUU SOCIAL FOLLIES
Trocadero ;ie Night Qwlt
to meet Mrs. William Avery Rocke
feller, of New York. Mrs. Hutchinson
nnd Mrs. Rockefeller will be assisted
in receiving hy Miss Oalnor Bntrd, Miss
Charlotte Harding Brown, Miss Mar
earct Berwind. Mrs. Henriques Craw
ford, Mrs. John Hopkins, Mrs. E.
Florens Rtvlnus nnd Miss Dorothea
Wood. Mr. nnd Mrs. Rockefeller are
living for the present at Allen lane,
Chestnut Hill.
Mr. nnd Mrs. Henry Stokes will give
a dance at the Gcrmnntown Cricket
Club on April 10, in honor of their son,
Mr. Tyson Stokes.
Mr. nnd Mrs. Charles Rand Ken-
ncdy will be the guests of Mr. J.
Crosby Brown during their stay in this
city. Mrs. Kennedy is Miss Edith
Wynne Mathison.
The Thursday Lunch nnd Reading
Club, of Chestnut Hill, will meet to
dny nt the home of Mrs. George M.
Abbott, 220 Allen's lnnc. Mt. Airy.
Dr. and Mrs. John B. Flick are being
congratulated on tho birth of n son on
March 17. Mrs. Flick will be remem
bered as Miss Ardls Tanguay.
Mrs. Robert E. Strnwbridgc, of
Meadow Lodge, Bryn Mnwr, who has
been nt Aiken, S. C, for the Inst six
weeks, is expected home April 8. J'
Mre W. T. Cochran, of Wayne, will
give a children's party for her daugh
ter, Miss Anna Cochran, .Friday after
noon. Mrs. John Tillotson, of Wayne, will
give a dance at the Saturday Club, on
Saturday, March 27, in honor of her
niece, Miss Mona Whitlock, who Is ex
pected home from o. school in Washing-,
ton, for the Easter vacation.
A children's party will be given in
Artsmnn's Hall, Rose Volley, on Sat
urday afternoon, under the auspices of
Mrs. L. Shauffer Oliver. Mrs. Maurice
Bowen Saul, Mrs. J. Hall Allen nnd
Mrs. Charles F. Squler. Miss Susan
Nolton will entertain the children with
story-telling.
THE JANE P. C. MILLER
CONSERVATORY
1028 CHESTNUT ST. Walnut 127
0ANCIN6
Private Lessons Daily
Modern, Esthetic and Fancy
Dancing
Physical Culture
EITH'S
iui MOSCONI BROS.
nit ThMr'Danclnr Family
RAE SAMUELS
ROSE COGHLAN & CO.
nonius ft campijeMji nu-Fon nnos.i
train ouiino anrt rh ai.rm """"'
4
DANCING LESSONS dC
A Teacher for Each JJuftl $J
Individual
Instruction
Exclusive Method
Mirrored Studio
1E20 Chtatnut
OFFICE SOB
Locust 318a
CORTISSOZ SCHOOL
METROPOLITAN OPEhA HOUSE
Next Saturday Evening. March SO, at 8:15
Concert by the Incomparable Coloratura
MME. LUISA
TETRAZZINI
Seats tl to (2.S0, 1103 Chestnut St. Wal.
nut 44241 Race 67. ' "'
METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE
METROPOLITAN OPERA COMPANY. N ?
TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 23, AT 8
II Barbiere Di Siviglia
Mmes. Barrlentos, Herat. Mm. Harkett
Amato, Mardones, Malatesta. Cond.. Ini'
Beats 1108 Chestnut St. Wal. 4424 s Race 07
ACADEMY OF MUSIC
Mon. Evg., Apr. 5 L?'t"eflt! '"
VIOLIN RECITAL4-'0'"""1"
HEIFETZ
Reserved Seats at Heppe's. 1110 Chestnut fit
ACADEMY OF MUSIC TONIOHT AT 8-1S
Only Recital This Season
" HAYES
LEADING NEGRO TENOR
Tickets BOo to t2.00 now on sale ht Hepnes.
University Museum's Free Lectures
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What Do You Know?
QUIZ
Who
o created
tho
character of
Figaro?
2. Name a great city formerly under
Austrian rule now contained in
tho republic of Poland?
3. Who was Vice President under Taft?
4. Who wrote the muslo of "Rule Bri
tannia"? '
u
How much shorter is the present
route irom new zone 10 son Tan
clsco via the Panama Canal than
tho old route via the Strait of
Magellan?
6. What Is tho first name of General
Diaz, who commanded the Italian
army In tho war, utter Cadorna'a
retirement?
7. Who said "Laziness travels so slowly
that poverty overtakes him"?
8. How lone old actual flghtlnir in the
Franco-Prussian war endure?
9. What is "hauteur"?
10. Who was tho Greek goddess
retribution?
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Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Three Presidents of the United
States were from Tennessee.
2. They were Andrew Jackson, James
K. Polk and Andrew Johnson.
3. Stuttgart, tho capital of Wurtern-
berg' la in south Germany.
i. Heterocllte means irregularly de
clined, UBcd as a noun.
5. Ginseng' Is a medicinal plant found
In China, Nepaul. Canada and the
eastern United States.
6. The word volcano Is derived from
the name of the Roman god, Vul
can, tho blacksmith of Jove and the
forger of thunderbolts.
7. William IV of Great Britain (1830-
1837) was called tho "Sailor
lung-.
8. The circumference of the earth Is
about 26,000 miles at the equator.
9. The flag' of Slam has a white elephant
on a red field.
10. A flntreolet la an obsolete rrmnlr-.il
instrument of which the simplest
purviving1 typo is me im wnistie
with six holes.
PHILADELPHIA'S FOREMOST THEATRES
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VJ-lrlrV.Mats. Wed. ft Sat.tt 2:15
SUPREME SUCCESS OF SUCCESSES I
"Class" Stamped All Over It!
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Premiere Musical Attraction!
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A JOYOUS, JAZZY, MUSIC REVUB with a
"Wynn-lns" Chorus of Youthful Feminine
Loveliness.
UOOIC AND SONOS BY ED. WYNN
Seats for Next Week on Sale Today
EVVBD 17 QT NieMs at 8 sis
,-' xi VI-.U AMats. Wed. & flat, at 2 :15
I'HILADELFHIA IS REVEUNO
IN THE FEAST OF
FUN AND FRIVOLITY IN
LISTEN
LESTER
WIT ADA MAE WEEKS and
SENSATIONAL OAST OF SINOEnS
DANCERS AND FUN-MAKER8
Beats tor Next Week on Sale Today
DlJi-U Mats. Wed. A Sat. at 21B
"CHRIS"
A play of the Sea and Seafaring Folk
Ily EUOENE O'NEILL
with EMMETT CORRIOAN
LYNN FONTANNE and ARTHUR ABHLBT
Seats for Next Week on Sale Today
L-AIGLONfc1"
CONSTELLATION Off SOLOISTS B
MISS CHARLOTTE WOODRUFF
Ope rat la Soprano Coloratura
MISS LILLIAN KIRKSMITH
Vaudeville's Pre-eminent Flutist
AND OTHERS
2 ORCHESTRAS N0C
AYALNUT last week
W Mat. Todav. ?K t- r-
SEVEN DAYS' LEAVE
GREATEST MELODRAMA OF THE AQB
Beginning Monday. March 23 Seats Mn.
THE BETTER 'OLE
CHARLES DALTON as "OLD BILL"
ORPHEUM "AT- JD.AY' 85o
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In "BTnOtfOEn TITAN TwnA.JL.
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WALLACE REID
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Next Week-flhouM Husband V$!&,
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VAUDEVIlii.
"When Dreams Come Truo"
A YOUNO OPERETTA; OTHER ACTB
BROADWAY " Xn.
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WARWICK ,,jack
STRAW
CROSS KEYS M"et at , D.iow cot
THE FOUR CASTORS104
Chestn'ut St " LASTJg
"The Show That Has EverytStoi1'
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"A Dozen fihowa In OnA n.i
FOnTY FLEET S1UVOI. CHOTm,
FUN EXPERTS
OF FIFTT
SEATS TODAY
Truth Is Mighty Must Prevail
WITH
HERBERT C0RTHELL
What the New York Critics Said Durtt)
"FlflvFltVa Itecent Triumphant
oagrmrnt at the Comedy Theatre. u
j uric uiy:
FIFTY-FIFTY. "A 100 per cent musical
show." tt. Y, Olobe.
"le hit at comedy, clever danclnr. revel
.J?5.,2L"'P1 costumes." N. V. flus.
FIFTY-FIFTY, .."An entertaining mulcil
comedy." N, Y. llatl.
"Exquisitely staged, dainty tnuilwl
numbers, enthusiastically received at ttx
Comedy Theatre." tlmrald.
FIFTY-FIFTY, "Is an unmistakable sue-
cens. a, r, Evening rost.
"Any one act contains more comedy thta
many musical comedies provide In an en
tire evenlnir." Times.
FIFTY-FIFTY, "Is a 100 per cent enter
tainment.' N. V. Tribune.
"Is amuslnr. the girls are hold .but
pretty. Musical comedy that the And
business man will like." Eva. World.
FIFTY-FIFTY. "Hilariously funny." See
FIFTY-FIFTY
What Philadelphia Wilt Bay After Urn.,
uarcn ssi
"Tltllatlnflr. Tsntallcfnflr. Tpmnttnif Tuatl.
The Rest. Classy. Funniest Musical Comedy
Seen Here In Years. Corthell Sure Curt
for Alt Worries. Wo must Tell All Ouf
Friends."
uo Thou, Do Likewise, am uava its
Regrets.
CHESTNUTST. ';;
opera house March LL
AT TJEVllTT.ATt PltTCR
NIGHTS () 50c to $2.00
POP. MATS. WED. BEST SEATS 11.00
8AM 0. QTJT TDITDT lWstM
Rroad Below OrlUDIlUl atS:lS
LOCUSl
MATS. WED. & SAT. AT 2:15
Wild-Fire Rage of Entire Season
Brilliant Musical Show
BEST-LOOKINO CHORUS IN TOWN
a T"v iw .r w wrmrrH at 8:15.
AlJULri-il $i Mat Today
"An orgy of fun-making that has seWoa
been witnessed on any sisge. i
UPIN ,
MABEL'S ROOM
.r. .e TTMWOtTtT.T.T.n CAST
HAZEL DAWN A WALTER JONg
JOHN ARTHUR and ENID MASK"
"The greatest collection of Farceurs tint
... ..... hn t.mhld." ITiSle
Y TTtn Evenines.. 8:20. Mill
Julill Wed. and Sat, 2:20
"MR. HODGE W$tf?&
AT HIS iiCiO X J EVU. liEiDUtn
WILLIAM
HODGE
IN HIS OnEVTEST SUCCESB
'THE GUEST OF HONOR
SKATING CARNIVAL
for the Reed $t Neighborhood Hw
ICE PALACE. 45th & Market
MONDAY, MARWl . - - -
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to. National Ch.rnpJ.mv.. Th
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metropolitanpeCTuJS
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