S; v' 1 v.r - j.r "i ' i: . J- Si x iJ if - ffo EVENING PTJBEIO QCEDGEPHITAliBLPHiA!, TUESDAY, KAEOH 30, 920', ;.'' R'o '. If 'if ' flratmg $JubUc He&Qei: PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY .crnus il k. curtis, rtcau.i tii-li.. jr. Ludlnston. Vice President! 'John C, Martin, Secretary and Treasureri Philip 8. Collins, John i. Williams, John J. Spurreoiv Director. EDITORIAL nOARD: ... Ctboi II. K. CntTii, Chairman ,,PAV1D B. SMILEY ,.. Editor 'JOHN C. MARTIN... Qeneral Business Iter. TuMUhed dally at PniatO I-tnoEB Building, indepenuence oquaro, j-ihiumc. .- Aw-HTio Cur Press-Union Building SK TO.K.......200 M'tTOllMW vtioTnoiT 701 Fori! Iiulldlng lW'n.V .".1008 Fullerton Hul . Ing CiliCMO ... .....1302 Tribune Building NEWS BUREAUS: N E. 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The Delaware river bridge. Ax drydock big enough to accommo date the largest ships. Development of the rapid transit ays , tern. A convention hall Al building or the Free Library. An Art Museum. Snlargement of the water supply. flumes to accommodate the popula- tton. HEADQUARTERS BLOOM r? IS possible now to step iuto a bc ftagged and cheerful office on South Broad street nud enroll one's self ns a supporter of General Leonard Wood for the Presidency. Around the corner, on Walnut street, there is also gay bunting.- Obliging clerks will welcome citi zens wliose sympathies incline toward Herbert Hoover. Campaign offices are quadrennial harbingers of the greatest drama in American politics. A crop was to have been expected this spring And yet business is not P'ea;WjjCOri of municipal wild oats. In those beine done at the old stand. Neither General Wood nor Herbert Hoover ever run for any important political office. Tliey are not conventional candidates uor products of any old guard machine. The feeling that the coming cam paign is going to smash some trnditlons is strengthened by a survey of local conditions. In the old days the leaders would have staged a headquarters scene, jtnlM.."resmlnr" and safely dull If 'either of the June conventions' itni tnln the routine tiolitieal ruts. . uch a catastrophe will certainly belie fiie novel and heterodox preludes. tup is Aair- o-aiTt-MMiAi ' Tl.ey exist only iu memory or on paper. JHE,AANE CENTENNIAL , Yct ,a,t voar , P n T M forcr( THE 100th anniversary of the birth t0 pay over 57ioo0.000 to their repre of Elisha Kent Kane, who died soutativcs. It is more proper to say famous at the age of thirty-seven, will tLnt the tr0ey rfacrs of the city had be celebrated by the Kane Musouic t7 pay this enormous tribute. The Lodge in New York tonight. people and the Mitten management be- Konc, who accompanied one expedi- tVl(.,,n ti10ra pay M,h vast 6ums cvery tion and commanded another in search t,.he month for uhnt? of Sir Johu franklin, curried the Amer- j Knr t,R, privilege of maintaining a lean flag nearer to the North Pole than I)thllc ,..!(.,, ou tile public streets. any white man had ever been up to that ; Vtiless Commissioner Clement and time. He did not hnd Franklin, but he ,,,. na.n..in,M ,, smpl'.-si some wnv of accumulated a large amount of scientific information and achieved a reputation for intrepid perseverance which persists to this day. The celebration of the 100th an niversary of his birth is to be marked by the presentation to the son of Ad miral Peary of a medal struck in com memoration of the discovery of the North Pole by nn American, thus liuk ing Kane nnd IVury in the annals of American polar exploration. The affair is of peculiar interest In this city, for Kane was a Philadelphian, and the story of his Arctic explorations was written at the suggestion of George W. Childs, nl-o a Philadelphian, who published it and advertised it so well that a small fortune in royalties was turned over to the explorer. THE RETURN OF THE DEAD TUB letter concerning the return of the bodies of American soldiers who died abroad which Secretary Baker wrote to Senator Wadsworth and which the Senntor is circulating, contains much information of interest to the families of the dcud. Tho secretary announces that the work is procerilmg under three projects. One deals with the return of the bodies , from all countries outside of France, another deals with the bodies in France outside of the war area and the third with bodies in the war area. Some progress has been made in the first and second projects. The work on the third project awaits the decision of the French Cox eminent on the treatment of all the allied dead iu the battle zone. In tho meantime the American Gov ernment has a force at work iu Europe carrying on the work as fast as circum stances permit. It will cost at least f.'OO, says the secretary, to return a body to theliome of the next of kin lu this country and $li00 to remove u body from Its temporary burin I place in Franco to a permanent "field of honor" in that country. It is estimated that !pl!0,000,000 will be required to carry out the plans, of which $S,4.'l .000 has already been appropriated. The com pletion of the work, it will be seen, awaits action by tho French Govern ment and further appropriation by Congress. HUNDRED PER CENT FAME A GOOD deal of chartu uristicnlly American fun has beeu puked at the JTall of Fame. Nevertheless. Svw York University continues to take that iu ' ntUution with elaborate seriousness, and this year a now election Is to be held to ' apportion honors to those whom II. G. lAVells in another connection dcscrlocd f . "The Great Departed." Death Is . indlsnensable entrance oualificiitlon. t elector of' tho hull uct upon the i ution that no man is surely great ; h life, Is ended names nre to be chosen by , judges nud Inscribed lu tho L structure. The coming quin- CtipH i4 ceriaia, jibe, its predecessors, to provoko both wrangling and reflection. Nnracs previously re jected nre likely to bo resubmitted. . I'lilladclphlans will bo interested to learu tho fnto of Stephen Glrard, who was turned down some scara neo. 'Jho stngo Is still somewhat concerned over tho omission o( Edwin Booth. John Jar ninv not set another chance this time, for treaties aro unpopular just now. On tho other hand, the war may have revived consideration for military figures, in particular Stonewall Jack Bon and "Phil" Sheridan, whose names nwalt enrollment. The eligibility of recent great men is nn even spicier food for nrgument. Per haps Mark Twain's name will come up. Andrew Carnegie's candidacy for the 'business-men" class, still a blank in the hall, cannot be advanced for somo years, nor enn Theodore Roosevelt's for statesmanship. Lively battling on new nominees is, however, inevitable. Tho Paris confer ence hns been pitied on account of the difficulty of reaching decisions in com plex nffnirs. llut tho League of Nations may work out, whereas when the guns aro stacked contentions over percent ages of deserved renown will endure. There is nothing so inextinguishable as a fight over somethiug that doesn't really matter. IT'S TIME TO MOTORIZE THE PEOPLE'S BUSINESS Efficient Bus Lines and a Curb on Ghost Corporations Would Relieve Street-Car Congestion IT IS doubtful whether Commissioner Clement in his survey of the transit svstem will learn anything that tho average trolley rider could not tell him. or define causes for inadequate service not already too well understood by tax payers. Expert corroboration of familiar criticism will serve a purpose of sorts. But what the city needs is a frank and direct approach to the origin of the tiouble ruther than a microscopic1 scrutiny of surface flaws. It is dear that the city hns outgrown' tl.p present transit system. It has out- i mown the transit system because the P It. T. is hobbled nnd weighted down i i).- the Hock or shadowy underlying companies to which it pays enormous' tclls every year. I Mr. Mitten's organization is like a nnrnacicu snip moving witu inuuiie uim ctilty lu the ocean of wnter on whlrh it is compelled to float. It is only by bril littnt management that it can navigate at nil In every rational nnd honest np nn j ii every rational nn i uonest np- prnl-al of the transit situation the fact of the underlying companies loo'ms as coinmanding-and, one might say, as, significant as a club in a riot No one at present in the P. R. T, management or in the city administra tion is responsible for the inadequacies ji ine cur service, jluc peujue nre jiu.v. i.afl I tlA tn 'IfrnlkVA ! 4AM AV .JlfrAM years of free and easy opportunities the rights of the public were traded and bar tered like clnlms about a boom town, rinancicrs went into politics and poli ticians went into finance to suutoli up the street car franchises. Companies were hurriedly formed for this purpose. Not for years and years have any of these concerns owned a trolley car or e en n horse. They aro nlrit comnanies. as remote from the lifp of the city as the dim folk i who are supposed to talk to us through Sir Oliver Iodge or the ouija board escape from this terrific burden general - -- "-- I surveys of the street car service will do I relatively little good. The P. R. T. is I oiganizeil under legal agreements with , the underlying companies. And when i eer any one complains of the fantastic ! injustice of tlic arrangement spokesmen j for the franchise holders arise blandly to refer to the sanctity of legal con trol ts nnil thus rest their case upon wWit appears to be indisputable ground Some people have odd notions of sauetity. If the transit company, as a partner of tho city nud u corporation intent upon performing an Indispensable serv ice, had only the $7,000,000 which it hnd to give up last year for the right to i-xist. it could, und probably would, so reorganize its methods as to silence i all complaint, stimulate the business life of the city and give a new impetus to building development In .suburban areas. Seven million dollars would be ade quate not only for the extension of trollev lines, it would permit the es tablishment of an elaborate motorbus nimlmrv system of a sou that could bring relief almost overnight on con gested routes The gasoline motor has been winning glory for itself In nlmost every other line oi business, it cannot be barred forever out of the passenger carrying service the people's business. Motorbus lines operating westward from City Hull over Market street, Wnl tiut street, Lancaster and Woodland avenues, the 1'arkwuy and Thirty-third street would bine the benefits of open nud relatively i lear thoroughfares which run to populous districts. Broad street and the Roosevelt Boule. vard are thoroughfares of a relatively new type, which moke automobile pas senger service not only desirable but imperative. Trolleys will never be permitted on the Parkway, but that should not mean that easy access to Fniriiiount Park should be the exclusive advantage of folk who own motors of their own. The traditional view of the general transit problem hns always been too rigid. It does not usually rench beyond rail lines nud electric systems. Even the recent appraisal of transit facili ties in Philadelphia are not Influenced by an appreciation of the Improvements made iu recent years by automobile en gineers l'uhsenger busses of the sort that might be put on the streets of this city would be far more dependable, more efficient, faster and more comfortnblo than the vehicles that carry a consider able part of the traffic burden in New Tork. Improvements in chassis de sign nnd even in tires have transformed the heavy motor vehicle. It maj be argued that motor vehicles would be more expensive than trolleys It U certain, however, that the people would bo willing to poy fares adequate to maintain this now sort of service and juroTWe, lilK ictw aa Joy.estca canl. tal. Tho cxamplo of the jitneys still remains to show tho trend of public sen timent ia this regard. Tho jitneys were popular. They rendered n desirable service. Tho P. It. T. objected to them, not improperly, since they oper ated only in tho most profitable areas and left to tho transit company the com pulsory and unprofitable long hauls which arc a necessary part of an efficient transit service. Nobody dented the limited utility of the jitneys. Tradition and a lack of funds appear to have eliminated motors and motor service from the thought of the P. ft. T. Yet no motor transit system uch us seems desirable would be possible unless it were co-ordinated with .-ho trolley system and synchronized with trolley schedules. Such relief n the Public Service Commission nnd the transit company and business interests desire to bring nbout will not be possible by means of trolley alone until new rail equipment and extensions nre provided for. In other words, it may bo years bpfore tho P. R. T. cun expand its service to meet normal needs in a normal way. Motor busses, on the other hand, might be placed in operation within u few weeks if the funds necessary to a really ex tensive use of such vehicles were avail able. But until the P. It. T. is per mitted to use more of the people's money in the service of the people no great im provement or extension of its service will be possible by any method. Mean while tho business of the country is being motorized. hy shouldn't the people s business be motorized? The sudden interest of the Public Service Commission iu the street car situation in Philadelphia has jet to be fully explained. The precise motive behind the proposed survey hns r.ot yet been disclosed. It Is remotely possible that tho long-delayed movement to amend the rxlstinrr nrrnnpoment hotween the P. It. T. and the franchise-holding companies may be developing, nnd that the present survey will relate to the phnntom companies rather than to the operating corporation. KTCn in tho tacc p wIlnt mav apilfnr to be a hopeless task, the business iu- terests of the city should insist on a showdown. If riding in a trolley is to be a hardship or n disagreeable ad- venture, the commercial nnd social life of thp nmmnnltv will tn,l tmvn-.l gradual stagnation. And It Is idle to blame the P. R. T. The burden upon the Mitten man ngement can be best understood by -,ii , , , . . llZfW f, iTWf " f I" !' l h.J- n ? ? JV th ' oney' colw 7 street car fares goes not to the transit company, but to underlying companies which render no service, whatever in rcturn TROUBLE IN ENGLAND "DRITISH colonial administration has -'-'seldom been so scriouslv nnd ex plicitly indicted ns in the official report of the commission appointed to investi gate the recent disturbed conditions in the Punjab. The stern repressive mensurcs carried out in Amritsar nre censured as grossly unwarranted. The danger of rebellion in India Is flatly denied. The resignation of certain Hritish administrators and nrmy officers is emphatically demanded. The vicerov Baron Chclmford, is called incapable of holding office, nud his recall is sought. If there was no seditious conspiracy nnd evidence to that effect Is sold to abound in the report the true situa tion in the Knr Kast is virtually certuin to cause political reverberations in Eng land. The Lloyd George ministry in an explanatorv role is not comfortably placed. English colonial rule has a brilliant nnd honorable record to sustain. She cleaned her India house in the days of Warren Hastings, despite his acquittal. Another salutary shake- up may be iu propect, and with It the wreck of a coalition government which seemed to have committed a scries of blunders ever since the beginning of the uneasy 'world peace. James h.' Hagedom, chairman of Philadelphia's! fair-price committee, says the committee ms accomplished much, but he believes that if It reduced the price of 100,000 commodities the peonlojjin the city wouldn't notice it Perhaps if Mr! Hngedorn would get "down to cases" and mention a few of the 100,000 the people could bo induced to sit up and do what is expected of them. Or does Mr. Hngedorn mean "talk" when he snvs "accomplish" V Important decisions were made Inst week at the meetings of the Tech - nology Clubs, and tho trained man and the bl job may have a better chance to connect ns n consequence ; but the fact still remains that the School of Ex perience is the only school that turns out graduates able to handle men, which, as M. O. Brush pointed out, is OD'a per cent of the necessary qualifications of nn executive. New York is considering a plan which contemplates nn appropriation of $10,000,000 for the erection of city owned houses. Some objections to such a plan in this city immediately occur but any plnn Is hetter than none. For the third time since January I the window of a leather store on Chest nut street has been broken and beaded bags taken. Some of these days n local sleuth is linlt to "get a bend" on this freak thief. w A dispatch from The Hague snys the ex-kaiser i.s so poor a man that he Is unable to pay his board. We nlunys suspected that William was not as good a wood sawyer as he was cracked up to be. Among the plans for a transit probe, wonder if it wouldn't be possible for the Coloniul Dames to Introduce a course In old-fashioned courtesy for the benefit of inotoriiien and conductoisV Darby hns a fish that lives after being packed in Ice for a week. There are fish stories that live after a much longer period in the same condition. Old Father Time wears a worried look these days. Daylight saving has mixed him up to such nn extent that he doesn't know "where he is at." One way of makiug sure that Berg doll will receive plenty of putiishment would be to turn him loose among the privates on Governors Island. f Oh, well, even the weather man is liable to make mistakes. The April showers were Just n little ahead of schedule; that was all. If talking means anything,. Lady Astor i making n big success In the British House of Commons. One oWue most Joyous facts lu un natural history ia that theiEaater rabbit ls, cautlx fSVU . . . , Travels in Philadelphia Journey Up Grindstone Alley. AS I climbed tho hill froin Market street ferry this afternoon, the spring sunlight was warm on my faco nnd overhead tho skies were clear nnd bluo with the fresh clearness of color all but forgotten during theso long months of winter storm. Tho crowds clambering up nnd down tho hill had a senso of this change eyes wcro lifted, to come down reluctantly enough nt street crossings nnd curb stones; girls wcro out in bright new bonnets,, nnd Inrgo men jostled heedlessly by, clink ing with their burdens of garden tools. Along the sidewalks the shops dis played their dusty baskets of dahlia bulbs like dirty sweet potatoes, huge packages of baby chick food, wheel plows and onion sets of white, yellow nnd red with thin sprouts of pnle green leaves. Under tho seedsmen's windows stood tnll stiff bags of golden yellow corn, black wax beans, or dark brown clover seed. But as I walked west past the "only cork tree in America," that still lifts Its two pathetic, dust-gray branches in front of a little shop, my eyes began to weary of nil this unaccustomed brll Hnncy nnd I turned sharply north, up that little dark lane called Grindstone alley. There nre few alleys left In Phila delphia. Perhaps wo think it below our civic dignity to maintain the old hum bio name. By the same evolution our streets all tend to grow Into the dignity of nvenu.es ns they work north or west Iuto the newer neighborhoods. WE CANNOT tolerate the implication of hayseedand tnll grass that clings to the name of ancient ronds and must rename them nor n more dainty generation. So down here in town we elevate the titles of all our old alleys, save one. nnd lend them the dignity but not the dimension of streets. It is the cheapest form of civic improvement. Grindstone nllcy is short and hns no scenery but It is the gateway to n strange land. It Is so narrow that my progress was, for n short while, com pletely blocked by two teamsters nrgu ing on the causes of "prohibition." but when I had maneuvered by them, I stepped out into the comparative splen dors of Church street, with Its renr view of the tall brick tower of Christ Church nnd its lines of tall, old battered ware houses with rusty irqii shutters. Most of the little streets In this pntch of the town between Market nnd Vine streets nnd Second nnd Third, come out into the larger highways under the shadow of long roofed passageways just tall enough to clear the top of a drny. They narrow toward the outlet and ns one looks down them, nllord brief pictures of the more brilliant life out side of pnssing girls, quite unconscious of the dim, old-fashioned world at their elbows, or of push-cart men heav ing along like snails, up and down the pavements. Back of Christ Church I could see over the wall a little line Qt wash swing ing in the breeze which now nnd then lited up n row of baby's stockings, strangely smnil nna white ana dainty nqninst the dim red bricks behind theni. Here nt a turning was a deep excava tion tor some new factory or ware house. On Its far side, below the line of a modern concrete wall, was n foot or so of earth, and then the jutting bricks of what seemed to be a buried pave ment of earlier years. "TvEEP down in the cutting, some fif- L-' teen feet below the present street line, a laborer was digging into a stratum of dark earth, nnd every now and then ns his shovel would throw down its con tents, there would gleam out of the dirt a little shard of thin blue china. I walked north-ihen for a few paces past the doors of dingy little workshops, nnd so came out Into the sunlight nt the corner of Arch street and Littleboy's court, where a row of small Colonial houses that faced me with tho little dim lights up in their ancient dormer win dows tempted me to cross over nnd continue my wanderings mi Bread street. This old lane cuts in somewhat innuspiciously between two tnll. modern factory buildings, but after n hundred feet or so it develops character. Before me wcut n little yellow-haired girl with a bundle of wood in her nrms, nnd us I walked on after her, idly won dering were such n clean, pleasant little person could live amid nil these tall, blauk-ejed shops and fnetorles, I came on the end of Cherry street. There, ou one side, was another vista with its glimpse of the gncr outside world; ou the otl.er, a deeming old red brick building, inscribed Ncwliu's Brewery. isr,o. In this region nre to be found the earliest skyscrapers of Philadelphia. The old red walls rise seven or eight stories, and down on the street level open through arched gateways into courtyards now giveu over to rows of ash barrels, or to piles of crates, among which flutter flocks of blue pigeons that rise like n cloud when a team drives in nnd disturbs them. There Is busy, clanging life up Bread street machine nud boiler shops, noisy wlta riveting hammers or whirring with crowded lines of belts, below which nn tlent men bend over great Inthcs that cast off long, corkscrew curls of silver gray iron. Further on. where Bread street encounters Qunrry street, one may hear all day tho shriek or drone of the handsaw. The air is sometimes thick with shavings, and children nre to be seen about the street, gathering up long thin silvers of wood into bundles, and in their greed nnmsslng huge fagots that burst and scatter kindlings all about the narrow sidewalk. HEBE, too, ln-oue very old orphaned house, now' altogether a ruin. Hint bears tacked upon its old patched door n written note, rieac call at he1 Fourth district police station and tell'wujs been a politician whom accident who owns your house." pim.ul in the army. T had almost forgotten the neat pleasant-looking little girl who led me into Bread street ; but as I came out into Vine, chance directed me to her home. Finding that my small street had ended, I went north hnlf a square to Third and then up nlong Its east side to the corner, where the single old fashioned block of Floiist street breaks into the city plan with Its reminiscent iiouses, and its occasional carriage steps ct old white marble. There going In from Third street, 1 it ween two siiops, is a small unproui Islng doorwin . labeled Branch place. Some instinct led me eastward up its dark approach and I was rewarded by the sight of'ij cleun little onsis of small three-story houses thronged with quiet, polite little children. There were chairs out on the pavements before tho houses, and on three successive doorsteps three Inrge.sleek cats a gray cat. a white cat, and n cat with tortoise-shell fur. They snt there in tho sunlight carefully preen ing their fur ns the small boys frolicked on the pavement beside them. It was n pretty Kood test of the so cial amenities of Branch place that the cats never stirred a muscle when the gang come chasing and laughing up to their resting place. And what is more their confidence was Justified. It was n pleasant, homely littlo spot; a true neighborhood in the old village sense ; now, unhappily, rare enough even on the borders of our great city; but here, flung In its very heart, a cheering sight Indeed. As I stood there gazing blandly about me one of the house doors quietly opened nnd out tripped the littlo lady who had hired me un tho aisle of Bread street. So having found her nt last, I felt that ray journey vu enueo SUS-TON V . . HOW DOES IT STRIKE YOU? QJO IT turns out that it was Ludcn- dorff who piloted the Knpp' revolu tion which opened the way to the workmen's revolution In Gcrmnny., lu military strategy Ludcndorff may be wonderful, but politically he is stupid. - In the last years of the war it was the general staff which controlled Ger many's political policy, foreign ns well ns domestic. This Is inevitably the case. Everything else is subordinated to winning the war. " And It was Ludcndorff who controlled the general staff. , Thuo It was Ludendorff who made Germany's politics. And it was stupid politics. It protracted tho war. , It cost Germany tunny lives nnd much treasure nnd resulted finally in Germany being compelled to accept much harsher terms than she might easily have got any time before the Allies hnd, 03 they in the end did, mili tary victory in their grasp. And ho has just plnyed nil over again politics just as stupid in fomenting the Jvapp revolution. A Socialist newspaper bijj nuutu dorff has "lost his second war. q j q rtOLDIEBS make the worst politicians, O unless they bo geniuses of the first rank, like isnpoieon. Yet polities always .ntrlgues generals, especially general start generals. Perhaps they have a notion that politics is like war because it involves strategy. . , , , They like to be occupied iu n gnmc of move and counter-move. But the soldier Is spoiled for poli tics bv his habit of cxercisiug authority. He'can't get over the idea that things move the way he tells them to move. He can't get over issuing orders. He can't adapt himself to a world in which there is no discipline. Either he sees this quickly, being simple and uncgolstic. like General Grant, and rcslgus himself into the bauds of others and thus makes af al lure us Gcueral Graut did when Presi- ' eOr he bullies, assuming discipline and obedience where there is none, und comes to grief that way. There are two kinds of generals whom n self-governing people chouse now nnd o.tn!tl in li'llil it. One is the loved soldier, whom it i.,n.v to he a chuekleneau in civliiau affairs, but whom it delight to honor none the less; tho Ilindcnbuig sort of general, who may yet be picsldeut of Germany. And the other is the restliss, api bitious general, grasping for power, whom u people chooses because a term of him will "do the body politic good" just as n stay at Muldoon's truiiiing farm does a man good. But the public soon gets tired of both equally. this labie icaciics urn. men goou iiulL'1's khv thnt General ood has al- q q q always a book tlmt in- T. Kiihes everv revolution It wns Bousnenu's books that voiced the ideals of the French Revolution and it is a book thnt borrows its title from Itouseau which hs been read by all revolutionary Germany. "Man Is Good" is the title of It Bousscau had said, "L'houmie bon, les homines mediants" "Mnn is good, men bad" and it is by Leonhiird Frank. It is a collection of short stories at tacking war, and It has been rend lu German as Burbusse's "l.e Feu," translatid with the title "I'nder Fire," was rend In France, which was not ripe for revolution or it might have been overturned by Barbusso's fictiou. q I l THE first story In "Man is Good" is called "Tho Father." it is n simple little story of a waiter who has skimped aud slaved and cringed before the patrons of his restuuruut scraping up tips to bring up his son. The war comes. The boy Is killed "'on the field of honor." All that was worth while In life has been taken away from tho waiter. Will he go on slavins and cringing before tho patrons of his restaurant? Ha goes out into the street and to a hall where the working people are gath ered. He mounts the tribune and tells his ilinnle story of what war lias eot Mm. His story is the story of all his lis. teuers. He leads them into the street, and tho whole town gathers behind hlni to make au end of the thing which robs I2U p. tbftt iop fflikU jou. have. klJis "HOPE ON, HOIPJE EVER!" Ludcndorff, in Proving Himself a Stupid Politician, Simply Followed Prece dentBooks Caused Revolutions and slaved nnd cringed nnd given your wnoie me. q q a "pIVILIZATION!" writes Frank in V-'tho book which moved Gcrmnny. "Ten millions of dead I The blood which runs from these murdered 10, 000,000, 40,000,000 of liters of stream lug blood, would run for n day the whole electric station nt Ningara, would replace the waters on the wheel and produce tho nowcr to light a great city. Ten millions of dend. All the cars of I'russin would not be equal to trans porting thq heads cut from 10.000.000 bodies, the heads nlone. Civilization.! Arrange all the bodies head to head and foot to foot and there will be n line of dend sixteen kilometers long, not meters, kilometers!" Very simple stuff, much simpler than Barbussc, who was so much of nn artist In "Le Feu" that you nlmost miss the propaganda, but of simple stuff revolu tions nre made. q q q NEW YOBIC is ouco more excited nbout tho "innn higher up." A prosecutor nnd a high police officer nre calling each other nnmes that the newspapers can't print, nnd thqro arc promises of sensatlonnl disclosures and of tremendously high plnco persons going to jail. This happens nt regular intervals in New York. A little while ugo it was "the over shadowing crime" thnt was being in vestigated. Beside the "overshadowing crime" our old acquaintance the "man higher up" seems tamo nnd Insignificant but ho Is once more on tho front pages. He gets there often but he never goes to jail. q q q WHEN you hear of the "overshadow ing crime" or the "mnn higher up" it is n sign thnt the thieves who fatten upon the conuptlou of a great city have fallen out. There is n saying that when thieves fail out the honest mnn gets his due. Then tho due of the honest man is n sensationnl story iu the newspupers, for that is all he ever gets out of it. Once when the fulling out went so fnr that a police lieutenant killed n gambler In New York the honest man got out of it u very indifferent governor of New York state, who had been tho public prosecutor to send the police lieutenant to the death chnir. When New York milk dcnlcrs fol low n declaration that their profit Is only n quarter of it cent n quart with the promise to reduce the price two ceuts a qunrt, does this prove them phi lanthropists? Or 9m Board of Health routine these days is just one mensly tiling after another. 4 DANCING LESSONS dC A Teacher for Each Pupil -' Individual Instruction Exclusive Method Mirrored Studio 1.120 Chestnut OFFICE 301) Locum UlU'J CORTISSOZ SCHOOL THE JANE P. C. MILLER CONSERVATORY 10U8 CHEBTNUT ST Walnut 127 0AHCING Private Lessons Daily Modern, Esthetic and Fancy Dancing Physical Culture EITH'S The Hessnn's HlRRrtt Dance Feature BESSIE CLAYTON Elisa CANSINOEdunrdo With JAMES CI.UMO.MB k CO. vnASrriHH KK.NNF.Iiri ANNA HULD. Jr ft Co.! THOMAS K. SHEA: DAVH UOril and Illil Blimui'MiiMi hiiuiv. WtAI Ml IT MAT. TIIUHS., L'5o to 7Ac. 1NUS. IISo to 11.60. W"iul KVEN1NUS. PENNY ANTE cornedyCWllhnaiulu NEXT WBL'IC--SEATS NOW LOOK WHO'S COSIINOI THE KATZENJAMMER KIDS World's Most Famous Cartoon Comedy ' rX30lAVl 1M MAT. TODAY. 25c, 85c. UKrrJC.'-'ivi uvg,,. 25,,, ase, no 7Bo mae Desmond The; Unkisaed Bride Aprtl fr-"POLLY OV THE CIRCUS" Casino Walnut Al Wli, Mat, Today M O L L I E WILLIAMS Kens. Ave. AX'umberland Peopl , A. t What Do You Know?x QUIZ 1. In what part of Germany Is the Ruhr district, now a hot-bed of revolution? 2. What are ttie tympanl of 'an orchestra? 3. Who was Juvenal? 4. How long Is an ell? 6. Who was called "The good gray poet"? IS. What Is tns hottest part of the United States? 7. What Is tho origin of the word tornado? 8. What Is repousse metal work? 9. Who discovered tho principle of the barometer? 10. What king of England was a momber or tne uutcn nouso or uranget Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. Antelopes can run at tho rato of sixty miles an hour. 2. Charlotte Is the largest city In North Carolina, with an estimated pop ulation in 1916 of 39,000. 3. Tho expression "From A to Amper sand" ,s figuratively used In tho senso or "from beginning to end." Ampersand Is the name of the sign &. Tho word Is a corruption of "nnu per so." meaning "and by Itself." i. Antonio was a celebrated Italian sculptor. Ho died In Venlco In 1S22. B. Tho boy kings of Knglnnd were Kd- ward V, who died at thirteen, and Jidward VI, who died at sixteen. C, Tho ballad "Dixie" waa written by I). D. Bmmett. It originated In nrynnt'H Minstrels, New Yorlt, and was tlrst sung In Mechanics' Hall in 1869. 7. Citizens of Dclawaro aro known as "The Bluo Hen's Chickens," In refcrunco to Delaware troops in tho revolutionary war, forming what was called "The Game Cock Itcglment." Captain Caldwell, one. of the otllcors, maintained that a true game cock must of necessity bo the progeny oi n uiue ueu. S. A cnvntlna Is a short, simple song, u smooth, melodious ulr. 9. Ivan the Tcrrlblo was Ivan IV, Czar of Hussla. He died lu 1084. 10. The extinct language Sanskrit was spoken (n India. PHILADELPHIA'S LEADINO THEATRES Dlruclluil LEE & J. J. BllUlicUT SAM SHUBERT NIOHTS AT 8:18 Umail IkI IVllNt POP. MAT. TOMOR. fl $1 Musical Comedy Hit at tho Town. TAKE IT Sv'op iaiYLj LAUGHTER SKjcal FROM ME CHORUS IS A WONDER Chestnut St. opK"A i evos.. sus. , '' HOUSE Mats. Wed. & Sat. THE SEASON'S SENSATIONAL MUSICAL COMEDY SUCCESS REST HINOINO CHORUS IN TOWN Love. l.uUKlia. Lingerie, Musical Uems . II Will Hrmmlir POPJV1AT. TOMOR. sdk8t $1 A HP I PLJ1 NiailTfl. 8120, rtULLrni Mat. Thurs. & Sat. POP. MAT. THURS., Best Seats SI Ai " WOODS Presents Tnrf.1- "Anonryol est rolleitlnn of Farceurs that has ever !een sssem bleil." rreSs. that .baa ae). run mnvin. tom been wit rrenaed on nnv stace.".Record ...,.. WITH AN ALL.STAR CAST HAZEL DAWN. WALTER JONKH. JOHN ARTHUR, ENID MARKEY and others. TYRTP EvgS. 8:20. Mats. POP. MAT. TOMOR. cst $j WILLIAM HODGE IN HIS OREATEST SUCCESS "THE GUEST OF HONOR" SffxYwK LAST 2 WEEKS Mon. April 12 MAIL ORDERS NOW Sothern-Marlowe In SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS ACADEMY OF Mll.mr Mon. Evg., Apr. 5 ft".1. ";" " violin nKc.TA,L,--"r8ir,r' VIOLIN RECITAL " fgS mo mm UMZim Market Bt. b. loth. 11 A. M. to up, Hi1 MAURICE TOURNEUR I , Presents the Paramount-Artcratt Plcturs) J "MY LADY'S GARTER"- I Added New MACK BENNETT COMEDY P A L A C P 10 A. M 12, 2. BUS, 8:43, 7148, O:n0 Fl My WALLACE REID "T Cl Inrlndi. TIIRnnnnm tlnn-Ii?',, l ANN LITTLE and TUM.T MaKshaCI, ARCADIA1 ..CHESTNUT BELOW 1BTH 10 A. M 12, 2, 3l4B, 0:48, 7148, 0:80 V. M. JACKPICKFORD , 'THLlffLlSWERD OF KINGDOM COME" By JOHN VOX, Jit. VICTORIA! ' MAItKET RT. ABOVE NtNTH 0 A. M. to litis P. It, MARIE DORO ..&. a Directed byMlEnnErtT DKKNON Added 'Tlllic's Punctured Romance Cunt Includes: ClIAItLIK CHAPLIN'! M A R I E DIlESSLEIl. MACK SWAIN.' MABEL NOHMAND ft CHESTEn CONKLIM C A P m- T 0 V I 724 MAIIKKT STREET , '0 A. M.. IB. 2, 3:13, 0:48. 7U5. 0130 P. It. NORMA TALMADGE , In "SHE'TVEa AND LIES" DUfCMT MARKET ST. B.I. 17TH YJ In "EASY-TO WIN" 11 A. M. to 11 P. M. market Street: AT JUNIPErt CONTINUOUS VAUDEVILLE MY I ULIP GIRL" Mabel Berral Dayo ft I.araen. Others. BROADWAY Brod. 8?J. "MOVIE LAND" l&ft&& "' .Anita "IN ni n K" FNTi irirv. STEWART " ' w " m ' CROSS-KEYS' "Vn8 nftj co 2:30, 7 Ahd 0. "ASSORTED DAINTIES" PHILADELPHIA'S FOREMOST THEATRES RPOAH NIGHTS AT 8 :IB. DrVW-Tkly Mat. TomorroiyatSilS. ROBERT B. M A N T E t L TONIGHT "KING LEAR" M.Iprow "JULIUS CAESAR" ft Sat. Eve Tomor. Night- Thurs., "HAMLET" -"RICHELIEU" Sat. Mat., fc.i- ; r riuajr, AJAUUIVI it ! MERCHANT OP VENICE" GARRICK last 5 EVGS. . , , Matinee Tomorrow Positively Last Week ran Ha v DTaAr) fmIoTPK7M(Kmm) A JOYOUS, JAZZY, MUSIC REVUE Witt a "Wynn-lng" Chorus of "Youthful Femlntnt Lovellnras. BOOK AND BONOS BY ED. WYNN EASTER WEEK Seats Thuw. Geo. M. COHAN'S Comedinns la the Brand-New Musical Comedy "MARY" Book and Lyrics by Otto Ilarbach and Frank Mandel LOU HIRSCH'S NEW MELODIES StRRod hy Julian Mitchell and Sam Forrest. Dig Cast of Fmorltes. Easter Lily Chorus. FORREST last 5 EVGS. MAT. TOMORROW Positively Last Week GREATEST T TQTEM wuh OF ALL LJOlEilN ADA MUSICAL t rcTER mae COMEDIES LJ-i01iI WEEKS And a BensntlonAl Cast or Singers, Dancer and Funmakers. EASTER WEEK Seats Selling MASK AND WIG CLUB UNIVERSITY OF.PENNSYLVANIA 32D ANNUAL PRODUCTION "Don Quixote, Esquire" A Musical Comedy In 2 Acts Biggest and Best Show Everf Refined Entertainment (Mm A 1IM.P SQUAKK FROM BlipVIBRJl TELL YOUR FRIENDS , to Meet ou There Excellent dance muslo at 0 p. m. Nightly at 0:30 and 11:15 p. m. Whiteside & Murdoch Boys ;j FLORENCE ANDREWS V' Lorraine-Sherwood Stahl goMtt SARAH JONES BZ' OAKLAND SISTERS Dance'Ronf- PIERROT ROOF CLOSED FRIDAY aprTLI THURSDAY EVEN I NO RECITAL P3F(Q)tIJffi B AMERICAN VIOLINIST ELLEVUE Sm'ESB w TIf!KBTH AT HKPPD'H.lltn CHWSTNPT BT.rCONWAY'H, or bbluuvum m"" L FMMF.TTJ. MLCH MINJIRELS NINTH AND ARCH BTKJHSTS Mats. Mon., Wed. & Sat., 2lllv Evgs., BsU. This Week YdUIl NEXT-DOOR NEIOIIDOH or THU SCANDALS OF 1020 METROPOLITAN OPERA .HOUSE METROPOLITAN OPERA COMPANY N. T. n?ght La Forza del Destino AUm. 1 tK. 1108 Chest. Wal. M2, lUts UT DHILADELPHIA THEATRC Seventeenth and Da Lahcey Sts. Jj VICTOR HERBERT'S Big Musical Success, with Oeorgla O'RamsjT "OUI MADAME" Evgs., 2.00 to $3.00, A few at $3.60. Mat, Thurs., $l.CO, $2.00. Reg. Mat. Hat. University Extension Society Vltherspoon Hall, Wed. Evg., Mar, 81, at i. JANET RICHARDS ". , . , , TrckstsMto to 11.00. Oo sU paw. .. T T- - . . - - w 1? .,'. . TOHwrimpr QSi CfMMTBQ mmm i m a i m & yfi vi 8 19 i ft?-:. 'i:l
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