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ThlliJflpM, Wrdndi, Mrrli t. I'M
A FOUR-YEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA
Tiling on which tile people expect
the new iidmlnlatrntlon to concentratei
It attention)
The Delineate rlrer britloc.
A Arydock big erouah to accommo
date the largest ship:
Development of the rapid trntult sys
tem. A convention hall.
A butWJnj; for the Free Library.
An Art Museum.
Enlargement of the tcater supply.
llomes to accommodate the popula
tion. A DIFFERENCE
APAIIALI.EL to the housing situa
tion in Philadelphia exists in New
York. Hut it exists with a difference.
Oougers have been gouging and spec
ulators have been maneuvering to
squeeze tha last possible cent out of
unfortunate tenants, but none of them
is being permitted to work in peace or
with a sense of security. A mayor s
committee has harassed the profiteers
and hearings were arranged in the
state Legislature for a plan advanced to
limit speculative transfers of real estate
and keep profits within decent bounds.
The sharks are being identified, ex
posed and tagged, though it is as dilli
cult in New York as it is Jiere to curb
them by any law now in existence.
Meanwhile, us you may have ob
served, all is quiet nt City Hall and in
Harrisburg.
WILLFUL WASTE
ANA
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ADMINISTRATION can usually
counted upon to find excuses for
extravagance. It is the traditional
privilege of the "Ins" to tell the "Outs''
tlrey are mere superficial critics not in
touch with palliating circmnstauces.
Nevertheless, the fact that there are
actually more federal employes in Wash
ington than there were lust July calls
for a lot of explaining.
The war, of course, swelled the gov-
K
ernmenfs payrolls in titanic style. Hut
that is an outmoded judication now
Only Inst month moreover the Civil
bervice Chronic-le demanded the dis-
missal of 15.000 unnecessary clerks.
' f.,"??" """'."""""'"'ition'l'oMpauy shipped HtB tons'here in
iuui uu iiui, x ui iijin ,H'iir u win em-
ploy 12,000 fewer clerks than it did on
January 1.
This retrenchment will be welcome,
but assuredly belated. Each of the em
ployes in this cla--s receives SI 00 a
montn. J he expenditure of M.-JOO.uOO , like the .ountijman at the circus, who
monthly for superfluous clerks Is very i remarked as lie stood in front of the
considerable. jdromedarv, "'ihere niu't no such nu
ll would b proper to -a; that econ- imnl."
omy begins in Washington, only that i uut the human animal learns by ex
happens to be about the hist place where Lerience 1'nlike the heaver, which
it ever starts buiIds his ,llm ,0(jnv a, 1C aid 10.000
'years ago, man is continually enlarging
MimiCAl PDOf"!RF;5 nilF I his knowledge and harnessing for his
MU<-AL h-KUUKtbb CLUE (hp nf,w forpw of mUm as fast ns
rpHK profound and sincere develop- , hl. .Hoovers their potentialities.
J. ment of musical taste in the United Where in lV-'O it was found that .'103
States Is more rendily recognized than I tons of anthracite was more than enough
the causes which have worked the revo- j t0 supply the local demand for the new
ludon. fuol, conditions have changed so that in
These, of course, ate complex. Im- iftio ,t took (1,000,000 tons to provide
proved living standards favor art. So i.ut for our houses and fuel for the
does wealth, despite certain sophistries steiim-producing plants in fnetones nnd
to uic contrary, j nesn inctors in ad
vanccment eunnor, however, thrive
without intelligent guidance,
V The current convocation of national
musical supervisors hero draws deserved
attention to a firm bnsis of our musical
growth which is sometimes overlooked
or regarded as n mutter of course. The
musical instruction accorded Hehool chil
dren today is something altogether dif
ferent from the inconsequential trifling
of a generation ago. Artistic enthusi
ngms are formed Mouthful taste is
healthily molded at the most receptive
period.
The supervisors are largely responsi
ble for this stimulating change. At
least some explanation is here provided
for the popular appeal of symphony
concerts, formerly maintained only by
the most tireless coddling by compara
tively small classes in the community.'
Groat virtuosi now rooognuc America
as the most appreciative of H fields.
(rand opera companies seldom fail now
adays. Music is passing out of the
luxury stage into tin- domain of the
necessities,
INCONSISTENT ANTIS
TOT the leat picturesque and -iKiiitt-
Li cant detail of the Miflrnge tiKit now
concentrated in the LMawa-o Legisla
ture is provided by iiuti- suffragists
fighting gamely in the lust diti h and
promising to sue in the Supreme Court
of tho United States to nullify the vote
i If Is grunted. AVbat they demand is
n referendum. And, demanding a refer
endum, they deny, in the same breath,
their own mortil right to have a voice
in (t!
'Chore are a great many women in the
United Stntes who do not desire the
vote; and a great many others who are
nut convinced that equal suffrage can
b Hthor useful or wise. Yet. if the
principle they uphold is valid, they arc
Hot)nermlttPd to register their beliefs in
liny practical way. Itefusing to accept
therote, they refuse the means by which
tlrny might protest against the proposed
hss lu cJcctlotj methods - or any
tlrW departure from the established
pccrM(59 our pocernmrnf.
'Ihttc
cMp
r bs other referendum aml'iani. ctufUctJUic de&aJtlons, Whoever
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other pmcrgcDclcs of n sort to challenge
tlio Interest of nl! intelligent citizens
and n run so popular concern. Yet. tho
nntl-stifTracista will nhvnys be without
n voice If they have their own way. It
must seem to an unprejudiced observer
that their relative helplessness In the
Jlght against suffrage should liavo con
verted the nutls and convinced thetn that
women actually do need the vot,o.
ONE HUNDRED YEARS
OF ANTHRACITE
The Fuel Problems of the Present
and Those of the Past and
tho Future
FOLLOWING the recommendation of
the coal commission of an average
lnerrap of i!7 per cent in the pay of
bituminous coal miners, the President
has ordered that government control
over the maximum price of coal cease
on April 1.
'ITic effect of this order is to open the
way for the mine operators to pass on
to the consumer the increased cost in
niining coal incidental to the increase
In the pay. of the miners.
It Is evident that Mr. Wilson does
not believe that the operators have been
making exorbitant profits running ns
high as 'J00O per cent, as asserted by
Mr. McAdoo some time ago. If he had
agreed with Mr. McAdoo, hu would have
insisted thnt the operators pay the in
crease in wages out of their profits.
The coal commission did not discover
any such margin of profits as Mr. Mc
Adoo professed to find.
The talk in the wiuter about the
operators agreeing not to pass on to
tho public any increase in wages was
interesting, but no one with any knowl
edge of business methods expected any
thing to come of it.
If the President's order is inclusive
I enough to deprive the fuel administrator
of his power to divert coal from the in
dustries which have ordered it to indus
, tries which he thinks are in greater need
of it, the normal processes of distribu
tion will be restored and the business
men with foresight will be. allowed tj
profit by their wisdom, while the busi
ness man who has been trusting to luck
will not be nblo to summon the govern
ment to his relief.
The fuel problem today is tied up with
the mining nnd distribution of coal.
What will be its state in another hun-
1 dred .wars no man enn foretell. It may
be that we shall bo troubled with the
I production and distribution of elec
tricity, or we may have discovered a
I way to get heat from the sun and shall i
! be troubled over means to store sun- I
I power from cloudless days to last
through n week of rain. Or some ex- .
pert physicist may discover how to
gather the heat generated by the passage
of sound waves through the ntmosphere
so that a railroad train may be op- I
erated by the power derive?, from the
noise that it makes while passing over j
the rails. Every physicist knows that i
heat is generated in this way. just as a ,
hundred years ago very physicist knew
that there was such a force as elec
tricity. But until the latter quarter of
the last century an electric motor was
nothing but a laboratory toy. It now I
draws heavily lnden trains over tho
Kocky Mountains and is used instead of
a steam locomotive for drnwing traius
through tunnels into the great cities.
The steam engine was in its infanc
a hundred years ago and its use wa
limited because of the lack of suitable
fuel. Wood was burned in houses and
factories. Wood was used for smelting
ores. No steamship could be built big
enough to carry sufficient fuel to enable
it to make a trip across the ocean.
Modern transportation dates from the
beginning of the use of coal.
1t ,. n .. fhl. T1:1P sinr nnthrn.
'haT( 'commr(.in, kM,
, ,8.J0 ( , Bbwrbe, le (o(a,
,,, le ntlmici(e mlnei of Pfn.
I.... ...... Tk.i.i.u,r ,iv.i..
that jenr, and this was more than
enough to supply the local demand.
Business men looked askance on the
black stones. Some of them doubted the
evidence of their senses when they saw
the black stones burning. They were
office buildings. And there was shipped
from the anthrncite mines of the state
nearlv "0,000,000 tons of coal, for
mining which more than S'.'OO.OOO.OOO
was puid to the mine workers.
William Penn had no (inception of
the wealth in the black rock, outcrop
pings of which appeared in various
places in his great domain. Nor could
he have imagined the effpet which the
utilization of this stone would have on
the progress of the world. He burned
wood. He traveled on land in n stngc
conch and on sou in a suiliiig shin. The
people of the twentieth century travel
on land in gasollne-clriven automouiles
or steam or electrically driven locomo
tives, and on the sea in hteamships and
in the air in airplanes We talk across
the continent and send messages ncross
the ocean with such expedition that
Paris is nearer Philadelphia in time
thuu Greenwich was to London in the
eighteenth century.
The next twenty -five years is likely to
cc greater adxauces in tny:hanical in
vention than the last fifty, for it has
been iliM-overed that the chemist and
the plnsicist have uses beyond telling
the student something about the con
stitution of matter and the laws that
govern it. The modern man of science
is applying his kuow ledge to the dis
covery of the methods of applying the
hitherto unused forces to the service of
humanity.
The ;i03 tons of unthracite shipped to
Philadelphia in 1820 is merely sugges
tive of the possibilities of the future,
I when anthracite may be as unprofitable
a furl as wood has become today.
MR. FRANCE: LIBERAL
SENATOR FRANCE has been long
In politics long enough, indeed, to
know a political fact when he meets it
in public. His course hitherto has been
such as would suggest better balance
and a better understanding of his times
than Is revealed in his sudden, startling
cry for secession from the Republican
.party In the name of "liberalism."
'Liberalism," us a term lu conven-
tloual-politicf, is susceptible of a thou
EVENING- PUBLIC'
cannot agree with the rest of mankind
calls himself n liberal and is happy.
Wilt the true significance of the word
has been understood before now In the
party to which the Maryland senator
belongs.
Ilooscvelt was n liberal In the best
sense of tho word. Senator Johnson
Is a liberal. So is Hoover. These men
didn't experience conversion overnight.
They were thinking In progressive terms
while Senator France was still run
ning comfortnbly with the crowd.
If Mr. Fraqce hopes to make himself
felt as n reformer and as an exponent
of genulno democracy in government, he
ought to put aside visions of the guer
rilla band which ho talks of leading in
the name of righteousness and modern
thoiurit, states' rights and all the rest
of i Such, adventures are always
futile.
HARVARD'S EXAMPLE
HAItVAItD UMVEUSITY has just
set an example which is likely to
offect the salary schedule In eery other
American university. Encouraged by
the success of the campaign for ?l-.-000,000
additional endowment, the gov
erniug boards of the tintu-rsity have
fixed the minimum salary of a full pro
fessor nt $0000 and the maximum at
$S0()0. This is said to be equaled only
in Columbia University. The associate
professors are to receive a minimum of
$3000 for live years and $3300 there
after, and assistant professors will start
ut ?;i."(X) and in six years will receive
$-1500. Then if they are retained they
will become associate professors at an
immediate increase of $300 a year. The
pay for the teachers under the rank of
full professor Is several hundred dollars
higher than the Columbia schedule.
The effect of the new schedule w ill be
to give to Harvard the pick of Un
skilled men in the country, just ns the
effect of a minimum wage - to $'!
higher than tho amount paid in other
department stores gave to a Iloslon
men-limit the pick of the young women
in the other stores nnd resulted in the
weeding out of tiu incompetents.
I'uless the University of Peuuh.vlvania
Is to suffer It must do something to meet
tie Harvard schedule. It has within re
cent years lost a number of good men
who went to Columbia becuusc It did not
have tho money to keep them. It will
lose more of them unless its financial
resources are enlarged immediately.
TRUCE IN WASHINGTON
COLBY is secretary of state. There
was no reason why he should not
have been made secretary of state five
weeks ago.
There may be some question about
Mr. Colby's talents, but thl-re is none
about his integrity. Thousands of
Americans have been inconvenienced by
the vacancy in the State Department.
But the Senate, victorious now and
breathing hard, had the satisfaction that
comes to it when it tints some uew
difficulty lu Mr. Wilson's path.
The high cost of n political feud lu a
presidential year can make the high cost
of living seem like u very small thing
indeed !
MORCENTHAU AND MEXICO
HENRY W. MORCENTHAU has au
excellent record us a diplomatist
and n public servant. His handling of
u difficult situation nt Constantinople
just before our entrance into the wur
was resourceful and sincere.
There is no evidence, however, thnt
he is better fitted for his new post of
ambassador to Mexico than was his
predecessor. Henry P. Fletcher was
thoroughly versed in Mexican affairs.
He differed with an administration
which had no policy rcgardiug our un
easy southern neighbor.
The chances that Mr. Morganthau
will accomplish anything constructive
are slim. Any attempt by him to bring
rtrder out of chaos would be downright
iconoclastic, sure of earning veto by the
White House.
SWAT THE SKEETERS
IN SPRIGHTLY spring prepare for
sultry summer. This is the senti
ment of Herman Hornig, the city's en
tomologist, who announces thnt hatch
ing conditions of mosquito eggs are this
year exceptionally favorable for their
occupants.
As n result of heavy rains last fall,
the pest eggs which were deposited in
South Philadelphia swamps are non
left on dry ground nnd will thrive of
fensively when the season warms up.
The city is already draining the land
below Oregon avenue and will oil the
ditches nnd sewer inlets.
Co-nperatlon hv householders is
rightly urged. Stagnnnt water, no mat
ter how small the quantity. Is a mos
quito breeder. If the public is prompt
to prevent such accumulation some mil
lions of anopheles xv ill be disappointed
nnd their dog-davs campaign will be
thrown into confusion before even a
start is made.
Mosquito warfare is now reduced to
simple, prnctical terms, A watchful
and energetic public can aid materially
In terminating the reproach thnt Phila
delphia lags fur behind Havana in hy
gienic safeguards.
Railroad workers recently de
manded ndditlonnl put amounting to
$1,100,000,000. If t!ie get it the
amount will be added to the freight
rates, which will be added to the price
of commodities, whiili will necessitate
nuother increase in pin And by and by
it will be forced upon us that we had
better revise our currencv. mnking ten
dollars the unit and abolishing nickels.
Not. of course, that it will make any
difference. Nothing ever does.
Deepsea longshoremen in NVw
York are striking for more pay and
shorter hours. Deepsea shipmen arc.
therefore, short of longshoremen nnd
longshoremen ashore will see themselves
grow short If the strike lasts long
enough. And that's the long and short
of It.
The reduction in the number of
deaths from typhoid fever in this city
Is gratifying, but there is still no rea
son why we should lag behind Chicago,
New York. Iloston nnd Cleelund.
With a reassessment bill, n bridge
bill, a school code and u suffrage amend
ment ull demanding instant attention,
legislators nt Dover are in severe straits.
So wags the world. 'Tin but nn hour
or so atone that winter sat in the lap
of spring. Now spring is making another
lap. .
That pirate craft, the Easter Hat,
is beginning to show its sails over thn
norizou.
"What Kapp nnd Luettwltz appear
to have done was to set the pendulum
to swinging.
Perhaps the Pcnate with the treaty
wns making n Lenten sacrifice.
Every plaj-grounxl helps the cltyto
expanu us jung
- LEDGER PHILApEtlHlAV WEDNESDAY,7 HAEOH 2, 1920
THE GOWNSMAN
The College President
AOYNIO once observed, "Yes, sir, J
wish s.omebody would offer mo tho
presidency of college. I shouldn't
much enre what college. 1 wunt the
Pjensurc, once in my life, of unylug
No.' "
"And why?" for this wns what the
cynic wns waiting for.
"I should decline, sir, with the stated
reason thnt I dnrc not risk tho con
sequent moral deterioration."
Now, this is n libel on the college
president, refuted In Innumerable hon
orable examples best of all by tho
honored heads of the two great univer
sities. Cornell uud Penusvlvnnln, both
of whom hnve recently declared their
determination to retire nfter years of
unselfish nnd useful activity. But the
cynic's remark senses a real danger In
the small, the Insufficient man, dressed
lu u little brief authority, the man
who acquires honor by his post iustend
of bestowing honor In fillltig it.
THE Gownsman can cay, wltjt his
hand on his heart, that he has no
candldntc for cither the presidency of
Cornell or the provostship of Penn
sylvania. Wherefore, he jnny express
himself the more freely nnd take his
leaders into his confidence. Possibly we
may proceed together in this search for
the hypothetical best by way of ex
clusion. And. first of nil, your Gownsmnn
would exclude the business man. There
ure enough of him ordlnnrlly in any
board of trustees adequately to transact
that Important but subsidiary part of
the university's affairs, the handling of
its finances: nnd such services, even
if fully performed, are no more thnn n
quid pro quo for the honor of such an
association. When one is once n mil
lionaire, it is n great advantage not to
be an indistinguishable millionaire.
As a university is nil educatiounl
institution, not a financial one. ithc
expert wanted in this instance Is nn
educational expert, not u financial ex
pert. This last is readily procurable
In the markets of the world for jibe
commodity which he handles. A college
president is not n money proposition :
for in him is needed, besides specific
training, more than money can procure
devotion, the souse of service, a high
loyalty, vision, idealism and the other
qualities of disinterested leadership.
WITH the utmost respect to bench
nnd in linr. vnur Gownsman, in this
hypothetical search aftej- the ideal col
1 lege president, would, secondly, exclude
I this learned profession. He entertnins
in notion, already broached in these col
umns, thnt many of our difficulties, po
litical nnd social, are referable to the
enormous preponderance of the legal
type of mind in our affairs of state.
The legal mind is trained to precc-
dent ami represents in the common
i wealth the force of gravity. The sci
entific type of mind is eeqiiisitivc and
i hospitable to new Ideas and represents
the force of progress among us. There
are virtues and limitations in each ; but
the first, acting alone, would keep us
etemallv exactly where we are. and as
this will happen to our bodies nt the
least nfter death, why not keep moving
I while we live nnd n little more speedily
than from precedent to precedent?
I In these days of growth and onward
movement a university does not want to
bo maintained lu the traditions of the
I past or even kept contented with today;
j it needs leadership for tomorrow, u.i
openness of spirit thnt will seek out
the best, courage to make precedents.
not contentment to lag In indistinguisli-
able respectability with the pnst.
AND again, it hns proved more thnn
once a dangerous experiment to en
trust a great university, with its varied
organism, to any man who is narrow
in his technical or scientific training.
uuless he has continued, as so eminent
ly hns been the case in Provost Smith,
of Pennsylvania, to have preserved the
larger reaches of his outlook on tne
world with all his eminence in 'his own
subject.
There is either the danger besetti.ig
the technician who feels the pulses of
the world in the pulses of his particular
machine, or there is that strange aloof
ness nnd misunderstanding of the actual
relations of things which makes Frank
lin's "Society for the Promotion of
Useful Knowledge" look askant upo.i
historians and investigators into litera
ture ns practitioners in a something in
ferior. Nor will your Gownsmnn be
so unfair us to denv that nnrrowness
of spirit may be found among such as
should be most liberal: for, however dis
avowed, there is a sustaining sense of
superiority In the Nntionnl Academy
and Institute of Arts nnd LetterR, how
soever modestly we pit our 200 mortals
against the forty immortals of France.
TO LEAVE negation, it would seem
to the Gownsmnn thnt the head of a
great university should lie a scholar, a
Immar.ist, an educator in n broad sense
of that word, not in the narrow sense
of one who tells others how to do n
numbr of little things in seveinl of
which hp has notably failed himself.
The leader of an hono'-able institu
tion of learning should be n man of
such note, if not celebrity, that he con
fers an honor on the college or uni
versltv which he consents to bend ; he
should emphatically not be one who.
whatever his nmiahlliM. his wealth or
his success in something wholly alien to
education, is raised out of obscurity to
a post wliich he has to be educated to
fill.
A wag once 'aid that the difficulties
attending any attempt to educate any
body began with undergraduates, where
the going wns already hard; that the
said difficulties increased into the com
parative with the alumni, where the go
ing was harder: that they wnfe hard
est with trustees; but that with col
lege presidents there wns no going at
all. History does not disclose the basis
of these observations.
IT MAY be that the specific needs or
may we sny, inadequacies of a given
board of trustees, in New York or else,
where may demand thot the scholarly
guidance of one or other of these great
universities be sot aside for the getting
of money. And it mav be that in some
other case similar impiyntivo needs may
demand a similar sacrifice under duress
to those legal qualifications which can
-opo best with our legally minded legis
lators.
Rut this will not alter the esjpntlnl
truth that a scholar, skilled in the prob
lems nnd difficulties ot education, is the
only really fit head for u grent institu
tion of learning. And we shall remain
in the ynrd. shunting from track to
track, not ptoceedlng on our journev
until the dny when we shall resume
traffic under such n choice.
Dr. Frank Damrosch told the
school music supervisors in conference
in this city that one should be nbln with
..,itr in Heuerllie (lie vvelltliep t in tti a
,1,1, 11, w ....... ..... ..,.... ... ,,, Pti.
an order for sausages. But what the
supervisors arc now- trying to express
is that their notes should be translated
Into more greenbacks.
What the government most needs
just now is some genius who can invent
an anesthetic which will enable an ad
ministration to extract nn adequate tax
ftom the country without tho .country
knowing it.
The passport business mny now be
resumed, Mr, Colby has been con
firmed secretary of state.
tle-head;f.W$
Tt a mj . ft 111 Till hdvl
to beat about
politicians.
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STRIKE YOU?
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NEASY lies the head thnt hns lost n
crown.
The ktilser interned in Holland trem
bles ut every rumor in Germany.
One dnv the dispatches tell us that
he paced his garden like a caged animal.
Some fool friend of his had started
n revolution in the country over which
lie used to rule.
Would the militarists nnd rcactlon
nrles gain control?
Would they call him hack?
Would he return like Napoleon from
Elba?
The next day the calm of despair
succeeds. . .
Ills fool friend hns only succeeded in
setting the Bolshevists in action.
The workmen who used to bo his
cannon fodder now nre masters of the
country tluough their general strike.
The next night he walks the lloor nil
night. The next day ho saws wood
futiously and forgets.
The Bolshevists go so far that per
hnns the country will turn to the old
order to escape n worse evil.
He drinks too mucii wine, ior ins
health more benevolent Allies might
hnve interned him in this country and
soared him this danger.
Tims bo frets, rases, wears himself
out with the agonies of what he imagines
to be suspense.
But yesterday n king
And nrmed with kings to strive;
Today thou art a nameless thing,
So abject, yet alive !
q 1
HOW could the Allies have punished
him worse thnn by leaving him
where he is so near and yet so fur '.
Across the Dutch border he can almost
see the throne thnt once was his, and
from which he hoped to rule the world.
Nevertheless it is as much out of his
rench lis if bo were like his piototjpc
in St. Helena.
Whisp-jrs come to him from Ger
many. He doubtless knows the secret plans
of every opern-boufTe Pau-Geiiiinn
revolutionist.
As n monarch he dies a thousand
deaths when plots fail and hopes dis
nppoint. Suspense is the nrt of fiction, drninn
and torture.
TV savnges knew this,
They never killed a man forthwith
when they wanted him to suffer.
Tliev would cut off an ear.
And about the time ho had begun to
think thnt this wns all the harm they
meant to do him, they would appropri
ate bis nosp for some injstb- rite which
they would pcrfoun effectively under his
eye's.
And when he built hopes on their
further inaction they would pull out n
toe nnil or two, as an offering to some
god or other.
After hopes departed and the gradual
loss of members made him finally in
different to what they did with the rest
of him, they would tl row him Into the
fire, always taking pains that he would
still be quite conscious and able to up
pieciate their final disposition of him.
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THE kaiser's suspense is really im
aginary. The one thing thnt will not happen
is his return to power.
He vill drink himself and worry him
self to death In his Dutch confinement.
The Allies might put him out of
suspense by being insistent toward the
Dutch Government nnd sending him to
Curacao.
But that would only een his pun
ishment. He would live longer nnd -lip happier
on the Devil's Island, where Dreyfus,
wns once confined, than he will be in
Hollnud, where every little political
rumor out of Germany rem lies his euis
and makes him jumpy
On the Devil's Island the cx
knlsor would feel us if he were out ot
the beaten pnths of iestin.
But In Europe this old intimate of
destiny will never be able to pcisuiido
himself thnt he must no longer expect
n call from her.
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JOLLIER'S WEEKLY is vastly con.-
J cernad over the tenant farmer. """
Out of him will come, siijh Collier's,
glowing more excited wjth every line us
4 DANCING LESSONS
A Tencher for Ench Pnnll
$5
Individual
Instruction
Exclualvo Method
l.V.'fi Cheetnut
oiTicuaoa
l.ocunt 31M
Mirrored Btudlo
CORTISSOZ SCHOOL
PHILADELPHIA THEATRE
seventeenth ani Ha I.antey HU. ' I
1 VICTOR HERBERT'S ' U
Ills Muilcal Succe.a with Oeorsla cftumey
"OUI MADAME'
Bve. $3.00 to 18.00. A few at $S.0O,
Mat. Thun., $180, $2.00. n, uJU aUt.
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Fate Punishes Kaiser in Ms Present
Domicile Case of the Tenant
Farmer Not Hopeless
it develops its thought, will come, s-sh!
"revolution I"
The tenant former takes his place ns
n nationnl peril alongside, tho alien
laborer.
But you ask any one who comes from
the grent farming districts of the West
about this nationnl peril nnd he will
laugh iu your face.
He will sny. ten chances to one:
"Why, my brother is n tenant farmer.
He rents his fnrm because hn belioves it
pays him better to rent than to own.
When farmlands nre held at n specula
tive price you can rent them for less
than thn interest on the money invest
ment they call for. When my brother
thinks he enn do better owning his farm
than renting one he will go to the bank,
borrow the money nnd buy. Tho
tenant farmer is no more n peril thnn
the city tenant. He rents because he
would rnther rent than own or he rents
while he is saving money to own. If it
did not pay him to rent nnd operate a
farm hp could chuck It up. go to the
city and get one of tho $100 n week
jobs driving n milk wngon or hammer
ing nails. There are failures on farms
as everywhere; but, generally, so long as
n man stays on n fnrm ns a tenant he is
making money, or at least a living, and
so loug ns n man is making money he
isn't n national peril. Revolution?
Hey!"
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YTF I
1 of
those fellows," said n Republi
can senator, who is n candidate for
nomination to the presidency, referring
to his "fricnels" in the Senate, "1
should insist on carrying the water bot
tle myself."
Even this precaution would not in
sure that both would get across.
WHEREAS. Our sons and daugh
ters deserve the best there is in the way
of education ; nnd
WIIERL-AS. They can't get the
bc.st unless, the instructors nre, of the
best ; nnd
WHEREAS, One enn't expect the
best uuless one pnjs for it; therefore be
it
RESOLVED, That the campaign
of local school teachers for higher sal
aries deserves encouragement.
A Half Square From Everywhere
Tell Your Friends to Meet You There
Excellent dance inualo at 0 u, m.
NlBhtly at U:30 und 11:13 p. nl.
REFINED
ENTERTAINMENT
LOUKAINK MIEIttVOOD STAIIli Ilaby
Houbretle from Lew riclda' "Lonely
Itomen "
TI;M1'I.KT0N. TAironA and LINK-Slngera
und I)nnrera
IIOSU PiniClNOFF and ballet Unique
lor inli liori'un treata.
PHYI.r.IH and nAOMAB. OAKLAND Fancy
d.inclnir and alnitlDB. .
WHITKHIDIS and SlUUDOClt IJOTS Eo-
rentrln N'oveltv Dnnrera.
IlEUUNi: LYNN Singing- Comedienne.
AN EVENING OF SONG
Wednesday, March 24,
Lutrat DalUdn and Jazz melodized by
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inVI.NO HERMN HONO JlinDS.
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I.KO TEIKT DANIIILB.
FISHISn and
Mri-AIITHY and FISHKFl WILLIE
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JOHl'l'H MOIUUH 11ILLY MILLWAN and
ononoK MccoNNni.i,.
.IOHKPII IIBMK'K I.KO MOOni:.
(SHAPIRO and IinilNHTEIN MIHS , CATtO-
LYN HOHKHTH and KOWAftD .V.'Al.KER
HAimY VON Tii.znn ANUY STANTON
und HAnilY CANTOR.
SEVERAL SURPRISE
FEATURES
AUD
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NINTH AND Alton BTKBETB
Mata. Won., Wed. & Bat., 3 till. Evgs., 8:15,
Lait Week of "HOW DIIY WB AltB"
or "The Wont I Yot to Cornel"
XfA NUT Ma- Tomor., 23c to 76e
WrtLl,U ' i:v 230 to I1.B0.
Mr nnu nn, uoourn rreaent
"The Better '01e"
With CHAItLEH DALTON a "OLD BILL"
flE.yr WEKKBEATH 'HELLING HOW
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What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. Who was tho Muso of Dancing?
2. Name four holy cities of tho Moham
medan world?
3. In what war did tho battln of Eutnw
Springs occur nnd who wero the
belligerents;
4. The line "Richard's himself again !"
Is usually spoken in performances
of makespeareii tragedy "Richard
lit." Yet Shakespeare did not
writ it. Who did?
C. Why Is tho aurora borealls so
called? 6. What is the aurora australls?
7. Which was the thirty-fifth state to
approvo the woman suffrage
nmendment?
8. Who was George Whlteflold?
9. What Is a peplum? ,
10. Whero nre tho pillars of Hercules?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Tho words algebra nnd alcohol are
derived from tho Arabic.
2. Mount Whitney In California is tho
highest elevation of land In tho
United States, exclusive of Alaska
and the outlying possessions. The
summit is 14,542 feet nbovo sea
level.
3. Death Valley, parts of which nre
278 feet below sea level, Is tho
lowest depression In tho United
States.
4. Brass Is a yellow alloy of two-third
copper with one-third sine. Bronze
Is a brown alloy chiefly of copper
and tin In tho proportion of about
eight to ono.
G. Tho Greeks will celebrate In August
the 2400th anniversary of the
battle of Thermopylae, which
occurred in 480 B. C.
6. An alewlfe Is a small ftsh of the her
ring family abounding- in eastern
American wnters. In ilermuda tha
term describes tho round pompano,
a much larger fish.
7. Gilbert M. Hitchcock represents
Nebraska In the Senate.
8. The eleventh nmendment to the con
stitution of the United States de
clares that a state cannot bo sued
by a citizen of another state.
9. Senegal Is u French colony In the
extreme western end of tropical
Africa.
10. "Tho Jersey Ulv" was the namo
givon to Lily Lnngtry, a famous
r.UKllsh beauty who went on the
stage Whe w.-ut horn In Jersey in
the Channel Islands.
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BROAD MAT. TODAY
LAST 4 EVOB, LAST TIME 3AT.
EUGENE O'NEILL'S riay of the Sea
"CHRIS"
With EMMETT COIUUGAN
LYNN FONTANNE and ATtTHUn ASHLEY
NEXT WEEK SEATS TOMOimOW
BY POPULAR DEMAND
Special Return Engagement of
ROBERT B. MANTELL
Monday
..."MEnCHANT OF VENICE"
"KINO LEAn"
"JULIUS CAESAR"
"niCIIELIEU"
"HAMLET"
"MACnETH"
. . . "MEnCHANT OF VENICE"
"JULIUS CAESAIV'
all performances (except Satur
too to 12.00. Saturday Night,
Tuesday . . .
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Wed. Night
Thuraday . .
Friday ....
Sat. Mat. ..
But. Night
Prices for
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30c to 12 B0,
FORREST MAT. TODAY
LABT 2 WEEKS. NIGHTS AT 8.10.
The SENSATIONAL
MUH1CAL
COMEDY
LISTEN
LESTER
WITH
ADA MAE
WEEKS
and th Cast with
a Thousand Laughs,
Dances and Peo
pery Lines.
T PUBLIC SEAT SALE
STARTS FRIDAY 9 A. M.
FOR EASTER WEEK
MASK AND WIG CLUB.
GARRICK mat. TODAY
LAST 2 WEEKS. NIOirTS AT 8ilB.
The Gorgeous Fun Feast!
Premiere Musical Attraction!
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WITH UloXiXAyWrMMSri
A JOYOUS, JAZZY, MUSIC KHTVUS with a
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'APRIL, FOLLY"
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Market Street Above Ninth t
0 A. M. to lltlB P. M.
WILLIAM FOX Presents
Should a Husband Forgive?
Cast Includes MIP.IAM COOPER
C A P I T 0 T
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MADGE KENNEDY 'BvoomiaL
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EDDIE HUME 6c CO.
Joalo Flynn'a "FASHION MINSTRELS''
BROADWAY .&""
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MacLean and May In "Mary'a Ankle"
CROSS' KEYS Msrket st- ! ecu,
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Direction LED A J. J. SHUDERT
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NRJHTi 50C to $2 $, MAT
" 'Flfty-Flfty' la found llk nn oaala amonjr
tho aanda of the lleht musical ofTcrln-s ot
the aeasoa." Public Ledger.
FIFTY
FIFTY
WITH
HERBERT
CORTHELL
r-orlhftll funnier tl an over." Prefix.
"It's a real show, dainty, appealing-, nelt
sum? eongs kept the audience shaking with
laughter.-' North American.
SHUBERT P0iirA7
nroad bet. Locust $&
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CIRCUS
OF ALL
MUSICAL
SHOWS
THE CHORUS IS A WONDER
ATM7T DUI NIGHTS AT 8 :20
HUCiLr HI $1 Mat. Tomor.
"An orgy of fun-making that Imi seldom
been witnessed on any ntngi." Record.
UP IN
MABEL'S ROOM
WITH ITS UNEQUALLED CAST
HAZtL DAWN WALTER JONES
JOHN ARTHUR and ENID MAHKEV
"The greatest collection of Farceurs that
haa eer been assembled," Presi.
T VRTP EvBs. 8:20. Mnts.
Li 1 JAl'o wefj. & gat.. 2:20
POP. MAT.
TODAY ar $1,
"MR. HODGE
AT HIS BEST"
EVO. LEDGER
KVO. HULI.ET1M
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WILLIAM
HODGE
IN HIS GREATEST SUCCESS
"THE GUEST OF HONOR"
gfLant Times April 1 0"
Mon Apr. 12 MAIL ORDERS NOW
Sothern-Marlowe
In SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS
L'ATPW-kM Cncert e UX0
AlbLUIN Nightly 7 to Closing
CONSTELLATION OF SOLOISTS
MISS VIVIENNE WEBB
Dramatic Soprano
MISS LILLIAN KIRKSMITH
Vaudeville' Pre-eminent Flutlel
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