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A .FOUR-YEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA
Thlnrs on nlileh the people expect
(he 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
tem. A conv ntion hall
A building for the Free Library.
An Art Museum
Knlargement of the water supply.
Homes to accommodate the popula
tion, i
NEW TRAFFIC ROUTES
VEHICLE trrlffic moving north and
south from tW City Hull region in
the rush hours of the morning nnd nfter
,noon is heavier than ttioxe who would
exclude it from Broad street appear to
believe. The objections raised against
Captain -Mills's plnn by Mr. Kane, pres
ident of the Automobile Club of Phila
delphia, and others arc valid. It is
probable that if Ilroad street were closed
to this outward-going traffic, even for
short periods ench day, unexampled con
. gestlon would occur on Thirteenth nnd
Fifteenth streets. What then would he
roine of the plan to keep trolleys moving
rapidly over these important lines?
Better paving on the cross streets
might make this newer scheme accept
able. As matters stand, the arrange
ment would impose an almost intolerable
restriction on traffic from tho central
areas.
HADLEY
THE promotion of Will B. Hndley to
the controllership was suggested soon
after the death of Captain Walton last
jveek. The action of Governor" Koroul
In naming him yesterday indicates thflH
thoso wpo made the suggestion spoke
with some knowledge of the proba
bilities. Mr. Hadiey entered the controller's
office as chief accountant at the sug
gestion of tho Bureau of Municipal Re
search, which thought that an expert
was needed there. He soon adjusted
himself to the conditions surrounding
him nnd served Controller Walton faith
fully. Whether he will servo the city
as well will be known after he has ex
ercised the full responsibilities of the
office.
PROFESSOR FISHER
THE death of Prof. George Egbert
Fisher removes from the faculty of
the University of Pennsylvania one of
its distinguished members.
Professor Fisher was u mathematician
with a wide reputation. He was an
executive of discretion, as he demon
ftrated during his period of service as
dean of the university. And he was a
gentlemnn of refinement nnd culture.
It Is contact with such ineu as he that
gives value t . . a college education.
A SLACKER'S EXTINCTION
THE end of tirover Bergdoll's no
toriety is as wi i nine a, is the meas
ure of stern and deserved justice which
has been accorded inn:. It is a wate of
indignation to dilate upon his offenses.
His name inspires digust. The health
iest procedure is to forjet it.
This should be eav, for even when
hli flve-ear sentence has expired Berg
doll will Iip noboijx. m man without a
country, without statin .,f citizenship
in the repulihc wli.n.. U- he so inso
lently ilehed
Oblivion m the tin., .on-hgn punish
mem. Clouds of it an trling upon
him. It is mdeieut to li-;iei them.
RESPECTING PROPRIETIES
SEXATiiIt MWHKIUn f Mirhi
gan. mnui r, , CJf , . '.,!, f tll0
election laws, has auunumeil that he will
not occtipj iu -em in the Senate ihain
ber while the higi.er courts to which he
has appealed me considering 'im case.
This i- t!it proper course. It shows
n decent regaid for the propn. tie, and,
in the possible event of the ultimate ac
ouittal of the senator, it will increase
the respect m which he will he held by
tho country
OPERATIC CURRENTS
TR CI LKR'S explosion of the silly
--rumor of the abandonment of the
etropolltau Opera Company's visit
ere next seanon was almost superllu
u, Philadelphia's patronage of grand
opera this jenr has been iciord break
ing. Virtually every performance at
Broad and Poplar streets has been given
tn '"capacit)" audiences Operatic
management is strongly disinclined to
repudiate such impressive und highly
profitable favor.
What tho attendance d ies suggest,
however, is an incrense in the number
nf offerings. At present the sixteen
'opera eights" permit only of a com
paratively light draft upon the diversity
of Air. tlutti-t'iiHazza's resources.
Phllndelphirtiis have jet to hear sotuo
nt tlta Itinut interpbtlilf (uiiilltna if k
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bv current New York season, including
I English "Parsifal," Tschalkowsky'
. xpgpg OneUi" ami "The Blue Bird,"
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IWlHi'ii ii--- iflj-liiitllm
Importation of,"Tho Coq d'Or' would
aleo be welcome.
Assurance that the operatic quota is
not to bo reduced was to have been ex
pected. What the publlcNs now evi
cn'tly n a mood to support is expansion
of the musical fare. An interesting
step in that direction would be some
arrangement whereby the wcll-cauinped
Chicago company could submit extracts
from its repertoire here next winter. It
Is on record that opera in Philadelphia
was never so stimulating and so ad
mlrnbly presented .s when the Academy
of Music mid Mr. Ilammerstcln's temple
of song were engaged in their lively nnd
fruitful nrtlstic rivalry.
CAN POPULAR SENTIMENT
NOMINATE MR. H00V5R?
It Will Have to Be Overvtlmlno If
the Professional Politicians
Are to Yleto It
"M'OW that Ilidvcr has announced
J- liimscl1ibpgus to look ns if the
most inyfJrtnnt question before the Re
pnl5iViin party iu the first week In June
.tifght be whether" its national leaders
have learned nuythlng since 1012.
"f sny "might be," for the reason
that the issue is still framing itself, and
no one can tell what tho outcome will
be.
There ore already signs of a ground
swell for Hoover. Ciubs urging his nom
ination for the presidency are being
formed in nil parts of the country. Men
who worked with him in the food ad
ministration arc taking active part in
the enmpaign to capitalize Hoover senti
ment. Iu New lork city Hoover meet
ings arc being held in private houses nnd
public halls. They arc nttended by
earnest nnd enthusiastic mcu nnd
women. Hoover clubs nre being formed
in various colleges by members of the
faculties and by the students. Men of all
tr.ides nnd professions are writing let
ters to the newspapers urging his nom
ination. And many men nnd women
who have not yet become vocal are
thinking Hoover day and night, and
hoping that events will so frame them
selves as to force the Chicago convention
to nominate him.
But nominations nre not made by men
who write letters to the editors, nor nre
they made by college students or pro
fessors, br by the people who attend
meetings in the parlors of private
houses.
Tho profcssionnl politicians nt pres
ent arc looking at the uctivit of these
people with an nmused tolernuce. They
know that delegates to conventions arc
not elected by such activities nnd that
nominations nre made by delegates. The
party organizations put up their tickets
to be voted for nt the primaries, rfnd
their workers get out the vote and the
organization voters vote with the or
ganization, and the delegates elected in
this way take their orders from the
lenders.
The weakness of Hoover from their
point of view lies in the fnct that he has
never been a party worker. So far from
being n party leader is he that the other
leaders are not acquainted with him. He
is a rank outsider whose friends nre try
ing to force him upon an organization
that has no use for such ns he.
If the leaders have their way they will
nominate some one who has trained with
them in the past, and whom they can
trust to trnin with them when he gets in
the White House. This is their. view of
party government as practiced in the
United States.
Mr. Hoover cannot be nominated un
tesS thin view of narty government is
upset. Th men urging his nomination!
arc hoping to be able to upset it and
to pet up in its place government by the
voters of the party instead of by its
leaders. If their plans carry they will
organize .the sentiment of the rank and
tile in favor of HooveV, and where pos
sible elect Hoover delegates to Chi
cago over the opposition of the machiue
and trust to the demand of the voters
to convert other delegates to their
enime.
It is a big undertaking. I nder or- i which bailed the abolition of com
diuary circumstances and with u dif-ipulsorj Greek at Oxford this, week casts
fercnt kind of n candidate it would be I significant doubt upon the sincerity of
impossible. But they believe that with
Hoover the thing can be done. They are
aware that Mr. Hoover is the one man
who came out of the war with a bigger
reputation than he had when he en
tered it. They are aware also that Mr.
Hoover's fame is due not to military
achievement, but to successful organi
zation of humanitarianism to mitigate
the ravages of war. And they do not
ignore the fact that he is more familiar
with the world problems growing out
of the war than any other man seriously
mentioned for the presidency in either
party. These are the selling points in
their campaign, and their pertinency
und force cannot be disregarded.
It is conceivable that this campaign
w ill succeed and that more Republican
voters will desire the nomination of
Hoover than auy other candidate. It is
possible also that a majority of the
party would be bitterly disappointed if
ou other man should be named In
Chicago
I nder these conceivable circura
stanies it will be up to the leaders to
dei ide whether they w ill profit by the
lesson of 1012.
In that year the demand for the nomi
nation of Roosevelt was btroug. His
friends insisted that he had a majority
of the delegates legally elected and that
enough Roosevelt delegates were un
seated to give the nomination to Taft.
Tins was disputed by the machine leaders,
but the result in November vindicated
the claim of the Roosevelt supporters,
for Roosevelt polled 000,000 more votes
than Taft and be got eighty -eighi elec
toral votes, while the candidate eval
uated b the organization leaders against
the opposition the progressive wing of
the party got only eight. Aud as a re
sult we have had a Democratic Presi
dent for the last seven years.
The lesson of 1012 is that the senti
ment "f the voters cannot be ignored
with impuu.t.v.
We smill know in a few weeks how
widespread the Hoover sentiment is.
That the demand for his nomination is
becoming louder every day is evident to
the most casual readers of the news
papes. But it must increase in some
thing more thau loudness, for a few
men can tmike a big noise, especially if
they use megaphones. More intluential
people than college professors and so
ciety women must make their views
known before the politicians will cease
to smile amiably at what is going on.
These politicians will not refrain from
nominating one of their own kind unless
forced to do it by fear of losing the
election. But if tho Hoover sentiment
is as prevalent as some enthusiasts think
it to be, the politicians will soon begin
to feel tho pressure and the more canny
of them who wish to ride into power
with the incoming tide will begin to talk
Hoover
The situation is as interesting as any
Uwl'lm. dwim&-&-ib&-&ttxz '9t
H &tom.,,., .,;
mwtatix ' public)1
American politics in recent years. It
it should result in the nomination nnd
election of Hoover, the nblllty of n de
mocracy to tako care of itself in spite of
tho handlcnps of tho party system will
be demonstrated to the satisfaction of
those who have never" despaired of popu
lar rule.
LOOKING-GLASS POLITICS
ALICE was astounded nt the Looklng
Olass World where life was topsy
turvy, but the tcasous why Amcrlcatis
should be similarly amazed nre fast
diminishing.
The Legislature of Mississippi fur
nished the latest instnnce of delicious
inversion. Hnvlng overwhelmingly re
jected woman suffrage some months ngo,
the Senate nt Jackson, yesterday, re
versed itself on tho nineteenth nmend
mend. Ten members "flopped" nnd the
lieutenant governor cast the deciding
vote to break n tie.
The chances that the Mississippi
House 'will follow suit ore somewhat de
pendent upon the course of events in
Dover. Should Delaware go antl
suffrage n fnr southern state will have
the opulent opportunity of posing ns the
chnmpion of the snx in distress.
The exquisite ironr of Dixie in the act
of rescuing suffrngc will not seriously
compromise the effects of a brand -new
accession of Democratic political capital
What has happened in Mississippi could
be called shrewd strnteg if it were not
so obviously n very primitive realization
of the profit to bo directly derived from
forecasts of Republican blundering in
Delaware.
The South knows full well that suf
frage will eventually pass. The Legis
latures of Vermont nnd Connecticut will
sec to that next yenr. In the meantime,
southern ncccptan. of the inevitable
would be inexpensive nnd showy.
Cnn the Republicans of Delaware af
ford to sec their party's championship
of suffrage placed in u false light by a
flashy exhibit of opportunism in thnt
portion of the country which haV been
heretofore most persistently opposed to
equnl rights for women?
MAKING IT EASY
WHILE the federal coal commission
was telling the country that peace
and productivity in the mine regions
might be assured if the consumers would
purchase their fuel supplies in summer,
news arrived that the price of the
familiar ton was about to increase by
another dollar or two.
This information will not encourage
summer buyhg. The federal commis
sion will have to dig for another sugges
tion. The truth nbout prices is so shy,
so elusive, so quick to flit when you
think you have it cornered that no com
mission seems ever able to get a square
look at it.
The price of coal hasn't incrensed nt
the mines. But the retailers say it will
increase in the local markets. Icemen
say the price of ice will depend largelj
on the price of coal. And, of course,
the price of n number of commodities
would automatically and b force of
habit follow the price of ice upward.
Life moves in a dizzy whirl and it
will be a miracle if we can keep up the;
pace without accidents of some sort.
CLEARING SKIES IN GERMANY
CHANCELLOR MUELLER'S decla
ration that "the reactionary ele
ments in the nrmy will be swept away
with an iron broom," coupled with the
all but complete submission of the Ruhr
radicals, are encouraging evidences that
Germany is really putting her house in
order. Both Spnrtaeism and the jun
kcrism, as represented by tho fantastic
Ivapp and his followers, played rash
cards and apparently lost.
The test of its authority which the
Ebert government has just survived
should be Instructive to the outside
world. The sincerity of any order can
never be convincingly proved until it
has weathered adversity.
EMANCIPATION AT OXFORD
rnHE burst of undergraduate glee
I V..T
classical conservatism at that univcr
eity. Evidently the conventional -notion
of Oxford will have to be changed.
Here, it seems, were less grave aca
demic aspirations than oppressive fet
ters. The elaborate student carnival de
vised was sufficiently exultant to wnr
raut disturbance in the minds of the
governing body, which effaced the
must from Greek in all save a few
courses, A college wiinouc restraints
and compulsions in its roster savors of
the revolutionary spirit. An iconoclas
tic Oxford is something quite uew.
If present tendencies persist aud the
elective system is carried out to the ex
tent prevalent in America, Thomas
Hardy will bnve to revise those mor
dant "Christmlnstcr" chapters in his
Jude or else date them, for the Oxford
which he thinly veils under a charac
teristic fictitious name appears to be
swiftly vanishing.
Twenty-four years ago a man won
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. inin, no rpppiri i iih rnmi wiih nn.
nenled. In two succeeding trials- the
juries disagreed. Though the man has
been dead seventeen years the case has
just been decided ngninst him. What
ever the merits of this particular case it
but confirms the unfortunately general
belief that men with wealth can wear
out poorer litigant under the present
rules of the courts
There may he an earnest of future
peace in the promise of Chancellor
Mueller that armv reactionaries nre to
ive swept away with an iron broom.
But the world will not be entirely at
rest until Germany gets down to work
with a steel plow.
Kentucky women will vote in the
next presidential election and no
thanks to Delaware The governor has
signed a special r.ill passed by the
Legislature The cardinal tims catches
the worm while the bluo hen continues
to scratch
It wns merely h coincidence, of
course, but none the less interesting,
that when Sir Oliver Lodge arrived in
Kansas City the other day steps were
immediately taken by the nnti-bnns
city chairman to trap "the ghost vote"
(1. e. faNe registration).
Expert photographers are accom
panying the corps of engineers making
a survey .f the transit situation. May
wo hope for an exposure of the under
lying companies? Or might that be
considered u case of snapshot judg
ment? Every time one reads a brief news
item such as that telling nf fifteen
world-war veterans offering their blood
for n transfusion operation In Lankenau
Hospital one's faith in human nature
lecelves jovous indorsement.
I'he price of ice hits
gone up I
20 per cent in New ork. Nutiirsllr. I
The iceman is not going to see his old
.urns, ms, uuu iuauji,. iwsKnn Aiau
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TtiE GOWNSMAN
Gobd-By? March!
A CERTAIN Irishman once declared
, that he hnd noticed thnt whenever
he contrived to live through March he
was likely to llvo tho rest of tho yenr.
And n second brother of Cork or XCll
Inrncy observed of a sickly winter that
many people were dying in this month
of march who had never died before.
To talk nbout March makcth a sano
man rrind : for 'all Irishmen arc sane,
howsoever, in divers wise. If l bull be
a sin. it is impossible to tell which of
the above 'is the sin finer; but enough
ot things which appertain to St.
Patrick.
There is veritably something about
March which ruffles the skirts, even of
n Gownsman, tcmncstuouslr. March
comes at n bad time of the year, nnd is
unconscionably long going out. Every
day In March Is Impudently longer than
the preceding day. March contains more
unlucky Fridays than any month In the
year nnd more blue Mondays nnd wash
days. Besides, the Sundnys of March
nre usually raw and blustering; which
makes going to church the greater vir
tue for the regenerate, but renders eas
ier tho primrose ways of the indolent
which lead- whither, we know, nlns,
all too well.
nTAD as a March Hare?" What
"I- sensible hare, bunnlc or jnck
rabblt would not wax nind in such u
month nnd shnkc his cars iu, despera
tion? "Mad as a Hatter?" Doubtless a
March Hatter, dishatted, chasing his
vivacious derby as It pirouettes coyly
on edge before n brisk March breeze,
hither, now thither, like the goddess
Fortune on her wheel which, knowing
render, was not a bicycle, but u mono
cyclc just beyond his eager grasp.
What nnttcr. in or out of "Alice in
Wonderland," would not Jie mud?
miIE Hntter looked at the March
JL Hare, who had followed him into
the court, arm in nrm, with the Dor
mouse. 'Fourteenth ot .March, I think
it wns,' he said. 'Fifteenth,' snld the
March Hare. 'Sixteenth,' ndded the
Dormouse. 'Write that down.' the
King said to .the jury, nnd the jury
eogcrlj wrote down. nil the three dates
on their slates nnd ndded them up and
reduced the nuswer to shillings' nnd
pence." "To shillings nnd pence"
Americanically, dollars und cents
hIohI all answers seem similarly reduc
ible in these days, for n veritable Mnrch
Hare is the II. C. of I... and this un
approachable, top-loftical. ineffable
ruler of our destinies nnd tyrant over
nil is nlso the mnddest of the hatters,
the uuescapable Mad Topper.
MARCH is an ominous month, to
grentucss ns well ns to the small.
Caesar was told to "beware the Ides of
March." He might as well have been
warned of the Nones or the Kalends
for that matter. For. regarding not his
warning, he fell before the xtntuc of
Pompcy, the greatest fall since the fall
of man. It Is somewhat strange to no
tice how many great men have con
trived to die in March. The English
poets Burns, Southcy, Herbert nnd
Donne; nnd thnt titan Teuton, Goethe;
the musicians, Beethoven and Doctor
Arnc (if he was a musician) ; the paint
ers Corregglo nnd Benjimln West
(denth consorts strange brdfellows) : the
statesmen, generals, potentates. Bell
sarlus, Gustavus Adolphus, William
111", our American Calhoun. March was
a favorite killing month for Roman em
perors; Nero, Vnlcntin(an and Hclioga
balus were variously murdered in it,
Swedenborg gave up his own ghost in
March, having given up several others
before ; and Jonathan Edwnrds sought a
tenlUation in this month of that damna
tlonPvliich he hnd so luridly preached to
keep warm the cockles of a cold Puritan
heart in the climntc of New England,
which at best is but a year of twelve
Marches variously distempered.
TT
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IS even unlucky to be born in
March. Marlowe, born in that
month, was killed in n brawl nt twenty
nine; his rival. Shakespeare, born a
month later, outlived him twenty-three
years. This Shakespeare w'as n clever
dog. He stole a March, so to speak, on
fate, when, falling ill in thnt accursed
month, he continued in this vole of
tears, in the interests of n mnemonic
help to the memory of students, pro
tracting his demise to coincide with
his birthdny. The poetllng, Kirk White,
died of consumption and despair at
having been born in the month of
March ; and old Cobbett, one of the
economic redoubtnbles, got most of his
bluster and cantnnkerousness out of
this same month of the thousand winds.
Clever great men usunlly maungc to be
born earlier in the yeur, or later. Thus
Washington and Lincoln both preferred
Februnry. nnd Shakespeare, ns we have
seen, preferred April. Rousseau, prince
of sentimentalists; Hobbes. a wise
philosopher, who once squnred the circle,
although it turned out to be otherwise,
and John Stewart Mill, arch prophet of
economists, each shared thls Shake
spearean prejudice in favor of April.
And is it for nothing that we, right
here in America, inaugurate n new ad
ministration in March? Our elections
arc mostly in November and our con
ventions in the balmy, indolent, judgment-depriving
months '67 early sum
mer; but It is the dread of the comiug
March (of events, so to sneak) which
drives us so often mad. We have had
variable luck in Presidents ; but our
luck in senators is consistent nnd con
sistently bad. sBut for senatorial
courtesy there might come n time when
we would hnve no senator not un
avoidably detained from Washington.
i i lie now iiniuui
ine iiownsman wonners wlictner an
inquisition into the birthtlavs of senn I
. - . .
i tors lor even
senators must iint-e'hepn
born somewhere and nt some 'time
disclose' that the 'mTf
orn in March a cood mnnr
tho 17th, which8 Zon The
might not
them were born
of them on
Mad Hatter in his calculations above
dlA not reach.
TN ADDITION to all these counts
X aeainst Mmcli np must n,ii kn!
March is a distinctly dishonest month
Having thirty one days, the limit of the
law in leugthiness as to months, forty
of its days are Lent, or ut least all that
it has is Lent and the rest nre stolen
from predecessor or successor. And
who can doubt thnt there is a cryiug
need that iu this most dnmnahle month
of the year frail humanity should be
protected from the wiles of evil by some
such moritorium of the reckoning day?
For theso antl sundry other reasons
should we hold the now dying month of
Mnrch in horror and detestation. Go,
unluckiest of twelve, thou vcrltnble
thirteenth among deceut months. Take
with jou your clouds, your gusts, your
flurries of snow nnd splashes of rain
take likewise your sickly smiles that
only betray the unwary. Take your
shivering St. Patrick, the only green
thing nbout you; take with you your
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.... ...... ......., ...MM ..unci, juur imse
smiles that flatter, your wind gusts and
rains tnat natter, spatter, patter and
scatter our wits. Much March has
made jour Gownsman mad.
The taking up of carpets for the an
nual spring cleaning is anticipated by
carpet manufacturers who have put up
the price 10 per cent. May this be con
sidered a carpet tax?
It really begins to look as though
some of the Blue Hen's chickens had
the pip.
Advices from Dover seem to Imll.
cate that the frost Is already doing
. .1 ma t. id, VVnlftiirnrn noauli , .
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March showed she still had a few
&aMWm m wam t
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HOW DOES IT
STRIKE YOU?
THE Gcrmnn revolution has driven a
wedge between the Allies between
France on the one side nnd Lnginuti
nnd Itnly on the other. .
England nnd Itnly want Germany as
n market and n source of materials.
Frauce is not industrially advanced
enough to need a market as England
needs 'markets.
France probably cares less whether
Germany goes Bolshevist than do her
associates.
France wnnts time.
Intemnl convulsions in Germany
give time nnd the excuse for Inter.
ference. The division is on economic lines.
Some sec in it n brenk up of the
combination thnt won the war.
But that is nonsense.
Considerations of mutual safety hold
France. England and Italy together. .
France is the key to England's
safety from Invasion.
Some think that Italy will ultimately
seek an nlliancc with Germany. .
That is impossible.
Itnly is virtually an island.
She is nt the mercy of the naval
power that controls the Mediterranean.
So long ns England commands the
sens Italy must, ns she did In this war
despite her German nlliancc, cast iu
her lot with Englnud.
Some talk of a Japanese-German-Russian
combination.
Japan, unless her navy becomes as
stroug as England's, must, like itaij
and (Jreece, seek safety in co-operation
with England.
The Inst war .was. generally, n war
between the great continental powers
of Europe with the great sea powers of
the world, the United StatcH being with
respect to Europe n sea power.
Only a break between the Lnitcil
Stntes, when her navy equals that of
Great Britain, nnd Great Britain could
cause a realignment of the world power,
and even then the United States s so
far away as to be a rather subordinate
factor, if one allows or he poss bll Ity
of development that lies in the British
L colonies.
S
FRANCE might shift sides aud ally
herself with the -continental powers
if England nt any time icfused to pay
her her price.
But France has mnde a peace that
precludes any combination with Ger-
"'"The sufferers from the peace are the
great continental powers, Germany,
Russia aud China.
The beneficinries of the peace ure the
great islnnd and nenjnsii a powers, in
cluding France, which is bound to Eng
land by mutual interests.
Germany, Russin and flnua may
make some day a tremendous combina
tion, possessing as tuey uo iiinuiig mvui
I tremend us undeveloped resource,
I Ht Russia antl Ch nn an uisor
'! politically and undeveloped, and
horenn
d are
i.,.k nfiMftafr tiattnna.
And Germany is tied hand and foot
by the peace.
The differences of England and
France arc differences of immediate
policy, not of fundamental interest.
THE German revolution is pegged for
the moment at Mueller, who is radi
cal but somewhere short of I.egien, tho
lnbor leader, who, jn turn, is somewhere
short of the Spnrtaclsts.
If it can be stopped theie it may
have a sobering influence upnU Europe.
The future lies thus: hither Russia
will move toward German ami become
more conservative, or Germany will
move toward Russia, in which case
bolshevlsm, with added impetus, In
stead of growing more moderate as rev
olutionary movements normally do, may
turn eveu more violent, the necessity
for conciliating the world s opinion be
Ing lessened by the added strength of
Svhether Germany stops where she is
or goes ou to the left, depends on the
Gerranny must find sjmpathy some
where, either among her western neigh-.-
,. nmnni' her eastern lie shbors.
Germany is like n man just out of
prison. , , , . , . ,
Society mny save i in by giving him
a job and showing mm a little kind
ness, or the police mny hound him down
among the outensts.
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THE German revolution lined up the
town against the country.
ICapp nnd his crowd represented the
combination of wnilltarists nnd ngra-
Tho' city workers beut them with a
general strike.
The Mueller government is n com
promise which, on the one Hand, does
not punish the Kapp treason nor the
fVpirtacliit treason. )
iiUJJiM U2Wjah,e, Industrial rny,!,..
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BETTER WAKE UP.
German Revolution Is Driving Wedge
Between the Allies, but Differences -Arc
of Immediate Policy
lion, gets rather the better of the
farmer,
,i q i
EVERYWHERE there is this con
test. We have iu this country the grentcst
"hick" legislature in the world Con
gress. There was a great "hick" victory last
fall, when Congress, by a two-thirds
vote, passed the countrymen's bill put
ting nn end to daylight saving.
The fnrmer can't see nnytblng in
daylight saving.
He uses, ns it is, a couple of hours
before daylight in the morning and a
couple of hours after daylight in the
evening.
As one of them recently wrote to n
Jvevv York paper, nil ho knows of the
eight-hour day is that he works an
eight-hour day before noon, nnd then
another eight-hour day after noonr
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BUT the great "hick" victory over
daylight saving did not settle any
thing. Tho cities, the bigger ones, nre be
ginning to change their hours of work to
get an extra hour of daylight for play In
the nfternoon.
This promises to become general.
What will the farmer do?
The city is his market.
He has to reach its breakfast table
and its dinner tnblc.
There is a competition between him
nr.il the industrial master of the city
for labor.
Sunnose the farm laborer, imitating
his urban brother, should like to knock-
on nn hour earlier in tne evening ro
ploy golf, tennis or go to a movie?
What will then become of God's
noon?
q q q .
THE city lias steadily clranged the
customs of the country, to their nil
vantage. Men hnve more pleasures on the
farms, largely because the cities, by
their example and by their competition,
hnvo forced them to.
Farmers nsk nngrily why should they
work two eight-hour days every day.
in order to feed men who will only work
one eight-hour day in 'twenty-four
hours?
In the long run there can be only one
answer to this question.
ff the farm is to survive it must find
some way to. live on an eight-hour day.
What has the eight-hour day brought
in the city?
Better organization nnd increased use
of machinery.
There is plenty of room for both in
fnrm work, 'which like woman's work
in the household is one of the backward
Industries.
There is wisdom in the suggestion ot
former President Tnft that the govern
ment retain its huge nitrate plants and
use them for the manufacture of ferti
lizer. Aud having provided fertilizer
for the farms, steps may then be taken
to provide labor.
Proinier Nittl says he regards the
Jugo-Slavs not ns enemies but ns
friends. Now If we cnn but learn how
D'Anuunzio regards them our minds
will be at rest.
vWell, five years for Bergdoll
isn't an nwful lot," remnrked the man
In tho street, "but small contributions,
etc."
One disquieting thing nbout Ru
mania's appeal to Japan for aid is that
one can't get something for nothing.
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What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. From what state does.-Vice Presi
dent Marshall come?
2.- Where are the Grampian Hills?
3. What Is a trek?
4. What Ismanloca?
5. Who wcro the' original Vandals?
6. When was the First Crusade under
taken?
T. What is an albacore?
8. To what family does the shad
belong?
9, Who Is viceroy of India?
10. What Is the meaning of the musical
term "da capo"?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1 Tho Ttuhr district of Germany Is
drained by the Ruhr river, which
flows west In Westphalia and Joins
the Rhine nt Ituhort, fifteen miles
south of WescL
2. The tympanl of an orchestra are
, the drums. The classification
also Includes tambourines and
tabors.
3. Declus Junius Juvenal was a Roman
poet and satirist. His dates are
47-130 A. D.
4. An English ell Is forty-five inches.
5. Walt Whitman was called "the good
gray poet." .
C The hottest part of tho United
States Is Death Valley, California,
where temperatures of 142 degrees
Fahrenheit have been recorded.
7. Tornado comes from the Spanish
word torn,ar. to twist.
8. Repousse metal work Is hammered
Into relief from the reverse side.
0. Evangellsta Torrlcelll, a celebrated
Italian physicist and mathemati
cian, discovered the principle of
the barometer. He died ln,lC47.
10. William III, king of England froni
1689 Ic 1702, was a member of
Hho Dutch House of Orange,
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