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Development of the rapid transit sys tem A convention hall. A building or the Free Library. An Art Museum. Vnlargcment of the water supply. Uomcs to accommodate the popula tion. RESPONSIBILITY FOR DIRT DOCTOR FURBUSII'S indignation over tho tilth in the back alleys in which Philadelphia abounds rctlects Twth upon tho police who have failed to report deposits of trash and refuse, and, upon the contractors whose delin quency seems to be chronic. The in tdlctment for outrageously insanitary conditions can also be lodged in part against property owners and tenants Inured to the local custom of regarding alleys as dumps. In fact, the respon sibility is joint and relief can only come from vigorous and intelligent co operation. The three city departments con cerned Health, Public Works nnd Public Safety should unite on some program in which their corrective re sources cau be co-ordinated. The ed ucation of the public is an ideal less easy of attainment, but it should be pursued ceaselessly and with as em phatic punitory agencies as are legal. When the citizens themselves arc fully aroused accomplishment by tho three departments will be inevitable. Corrupt government, unclean politics, insolent and greedy contractors have capitalized to the utmobt some low public standards of sanitation. When we begin to understand that dirty back alleys are fully as dangerous to health and progress ai dirty main streets we shall not be such easy victims. SUFFRAGE HOPE STRAWS THE depressing outlook in Delaware is a severe test of suffrage opti mism. Crumbs of comfort nre now dis cernible in Louisiana. They are not of alluringly nutritious possibilities, but yet not wholly negligible. John M. Parker, who has cnlled the Legislature of his state to meet in May to consider the ninetn nth amend ment, is not a typical Muitheru gov ernor. His election lat November marked the defeat of a notorious ring which had throttled the state for years. In 1010 Mr. Parker was nominated for Vice President on the Progressive ticket. There is a faint chance that the forces of liberulism with which ho has been associated may exert In Louisiana a welcome influence on behalf of suf frage. Iu any event, it is slightly safer to entertain hopes of Louisiana than it was of Mis"- fVpi, where proraife of relief was so swiftly extinguished this week. COMMON SENSE IN GEORGIA TlHB elcenth-bour withdrawal of wMr. WiIsou'h nnuip from the Geor giu presidential primary ballot is prob ably to be ascribed less to mjsterious Influences than to the pressure of com mon sense. Thu White House is said to hae accorded no recognition to either the beginning or the fluish of this fantastic move. As nlmost everything in politics can be nrgied from contradictory stand points, the professional interpreters can prove that the President is Indifferent to the entry of his name into the cam paign or euger for it or opposed to it. But if the public is momentarily capa ble of nonpartisan thinking, it should realize that Mr. Wilson as n candidate belongs to history, not to prophecy. The practical result of the clearing situation is that tln Palmer forces m Georgia cau now frankly go to tho mat against the battalions of Hoko Hmlth, who has long been unsympathetic with the President policy on the league und se treaty. A DIPLOMATIC NOVELTY THE charges of ingratitude lodged by our former allies against the United States because of our rejection of thu peace treaty may soon have to be re lsed. The declaration of peace framed in the foreign affairs committee of the lloupe of Representatives expresses for the pact of Versailles noue of the con tempt to which tho Senate gave nucIi fluent utterance In fact, the resolu tion places emphatic reliance upon all 'thoso clauses of the treaty iu which . Mermaii) niukes submission to tho United Slates. It Is trim that in refusing to rntify the treaty wo' declined to accept all rlghU uciTtiins to us under that instru ment. But tiorniany signed up. Her iiUrreuder Id on record, and by that record the House resolution abides even though our part of the contract wns re pudiated, The arrangement I" described In lan- Swbbo which admits of no uusinterprp Utfvti. Under penalty of a ban on com V. JmwW intMwmrw. Germuuj in lu - fonned that It must within forty-five days declare that it hns ceased to bo nt war with the Untied States and that it "waives and renounces on behalf of Itself and Its nationals any right or benefit against tho United States or Its nationals that it or they would not havo tho right to assert had tho United States ratified tho treaty of Versailles." Who said the "treaty was dead? Tho respect here paid to tha document is unique. Indeed, in the history of dlplo "incy there is no parallel to a situation ".". i .... .... jn which one principal which has turned down a contract flatly insists it bo scrupulously carried out by the other pnrty. Unselfish admiration of the ract can- not carried bejond that liolnt, for not surrendered those very rights which wo are planning to summon Germany to yield? PUBLIC EDUCATION A NATIONAL PROBLEM Tho Local School Survey Will Be Good as Far as It Goes, but It Cannot Compass the Whole Issue of Illiteracy FOR reasons growing out of the wat that serious attention is being given to the problems of education by tho general public which used to bo con fined to professional educators. Tho war disclosed two disconcerting facts. One was that hundreds of thou sands of American youth of the draft ago were virtually illiterate. They came from all parts of the country and from the cities ns well as from the rural districts. The other fact was that hundreds of thousands of citizens of foreign birth or parentage had no proper understanding of American ideals or theories of government. Thoughtfnl persons were disturbed as they considered tho dangers that lay in this mass of ignorance and in this largo group of unasslmilated foreigners. Revolutionary agitators were at work among the unlettered nnd the alien. They were sowing tho seeds of discon tent in the hope that they could reap a harvest of violence which would en able them to set up institutions hero which hod been conceived in tho tyran nies of the Old World. Instead of let ting matters drift, n concerted move ment has begun to direct tho processes of education in buch a way as to re move illiteracy and to Americanize the foreigner. ' This movement Is making progress. Right hero In Philadelphia we see evi dence of it in the agreement of a group of private citizens to provldo the money to pay for a school survey. The Board of Public Education has been considering a survey for a year or two, but it has done nothing. The committee appointed to arrango for it has talked about the matter, but there was a strong feeling among the con servative members of the board that a survey was useless. They said more than once that there was nothing about the schools which they did not know and that n survey would involve a useless expenditure of money. Those who knew better, however, have persisted. The schools were not doing what they should do, and they were determined that something should bo done to disclose to the public both the merits nnd the shortcomings of the school system and to call attention to the evils that needed to be corrected. As a result, private citizens have agreed to finance tho survey, and a committee of six members of the school board and six citizens interested in ed ucation has been appointed to make it. The project has the indorsement of Doctor Finlgan, state superintendent of public instruction, and he has offered to conduct the survey himself and pay for it out of funds at his disposal. The first task that confronts the com mittee is to decide whether to select an expert of its own to direct the work and to secure answers to the questions to be put to him, or to accept the offer of Doctor Finigan. The expert, whoever he may be, will bo asked to study five spc cific problems. The first will bo tho educational needs of the city based upon its population, its varied indus tries and its commercial needs and its social life. Under this head will come suggestions as to the best way to sup ply these needs by an adjustment of the schools of all grades to meet the demands upon them and by the estab lishment of technical schools or of more technical courses in the schools already in existence. Then will come a study of the ph"icnl equipment of the schools'! and an examination into the care o that equipment. These two problems nre connected with tiuanciul nnd busi ness administration rather than with the tedinicnl side of teaching. The fourth problem will be an inquiry The fourth problem will be on inquiry into the professional organization nnd i pasgci pon by tho Supreme Court, iu administration of tho schools; that Is, C!lM it is ratified by thirty-six stntcs, with tho sjstem of teaching nnd super- i00ks like spite, but may be wisdom, intemlcnce. And the fifth will be nn , If the Supreme Court's action is favor imiuirv Into the things which the able it will at least reduce the danger, M-hool's ure consciously trying to do if any exists, of the presidential clec and the success which attends their tion being thrown into the courts. efforts, When the report is made the public will know just where the delects in the schools nre and what can be done to remove them. Then it will be up to the taxpayers to decide whether to a .ow the present conditions to continue or to pay the money needed to givo tho city a school system fitted to the de mands of a community of L',000,000 people with a varied Industry and a population mado up of a score of dif ferent races. But wo shall fall in our duty if we confine our thinking to the educational nroblem of Philadelphia. As our pop illation is recruited from the rural dls triits, we are vitally Interested in the kind of schools which those districts maintain. We may givo to all our children nil the education of which they ar" capable, but so long as uneducated II neon le come here from the coun- young people come Hire iruiu uiv cuuu- fr, we Khali have the problem of "- literucy to struggle with. Education is a nutlonnl issue, and the opiuion is spreading that we must cense to regard it as a purely local question. Those rural districts where good schools are moHt needed are least able to provide them. Yet under our piexent system the citizens iu thoe districts ruu their own schools, keeping them open fifteen or twenty weeks in charge of ill -paid nnd poorly equipped teachers. A plan for, Improving conditions is set forth in the Atlantic Monthly for April by Dr. Frank E. Spauldlng, one of tho best-equipped educational ex perts In the country. Doctor Spauld lng was called to the superintendency of schools in Cleveland after a school iiirvey had disclosed the defects of the local system, and ho set about putting lulu effect the recommendations ()( hP ...iimiilttee which made the sunej He 1 J about to tak charge of tho depuu - ment of school administration in Ynlo University. Doctor Spauldlng declares that tho minimum definite comprehensive ob jects which should be sought In public education nro essential elementary knowledge, training and discipline, occupational1 efficiency and civic re sponsibility. A program necessary to achieve these objects involves n mini mum school year of thirty-six weeks, adequate laws compelling regular at tendance throughout tho school yenr of all children between the ages of seven nnd sixteen, effective public control of elementary private tchools to insuro proper standards of instruction and regulnrlty of attendance, and a prop erly trniucd teaching force every mem ber of which has an education equiva lent to n four-year high school course nnd professional training equivalent to u two-jtar normal school course. This program cannot bo carried out unless the people are willing to spend more money for tho support of the schools. Doctor Spnuldlng says that It costs 050,000,000 a year to main tain the public schools, nnd that at least $2,000,000,000 should be spent. The average salary of teachers is $030 n year. It ought to $1B00. Until the salary is raised it is absolutely im possible to sccuro properly equipped teachers iu sufficient numbers to sup ply the schools, nnd until tho rich com munities tax themselves to provide money for maintaining schools in the poor communities the wholo country must suffer. The members of the committee which is to direct tho survey of the local schools would doubtless find their un derstanding of the problem before them broadened If they should read Doctor Spauldlng's article, some extracts from which are reprinted in nnother column on this page today. EASTER AN INSISTENT voice in men's hearts whispers of victory in the hours of defeat. In darkness -it sings miracu lously of the light. In humiliation it cries again the promise of triumph, and in storm it tells of nssurcd tranquillity. It is the voice of faith and of imagina tion. It is older thnn tho world. It has guided and led and driven tho race upward out of utter darkness, nnd bo causo of it all written history is a record of humanity's conflict with its own imperfections. Easter is the symbol of its purpose. Easter commemorates tho greatest ad vent uro of the human spirit, great promises fulfilled, Immortal hope jus tified. In this part of the world it comes dramatically in tho season of miracles when life is stirring and re surgent under all tho black wastes of winter and when everywhere there are signs to provo that cold and terror and destroying winds nro not an end but a beginning. This surely is the winter of the world. But no one with faith or im agination will believe that it can last. There is new life beneath the waste and the accumulations of the dark years. Now men nre coming. Their minds emit the light we need. And they can not rest, they cannot bo still. The Im mortal volco of command yind prophecy is within them and It will give them no pence until they find tho goal for which they, like all those who have gone be fore them, must strugglo through all pain, nt all costs. A ROVING PRINCE IF THE Prince of Wales doesn't weaken he will, perhaps, come to know his own dominions ns well ns American 'Presidents do theirs. Geo graphical information is a by-product of our presidential campaigns. Even the defeated candidate, ' having swung around the circle of the states, retires a wiser if not a better man. But stumping for kingship is not Indispensable yet even in liberal Brit ain. What is not nn absolute necessity may, however, be highly advantageous to royalty, aud itis certain that the very extensive travels of young Edwnrd must prove n humanizing equipment for his prospective role. Just at present he is heading for San Diego, haiug passed through the Panama Canal while mercurial Culcbra was engaged in one of Its 'tantrums. It Is unfortunate that the notorious cut misbchnvid nnd had to be chastised by blasting, but even this incident was not without its Illuminative appeal. The prince's present itinerary in CiUV' ' n visit to Australia. He has already seen Canada, a strip of the United States nnd some British pos sessions to the east. Eventually he may "cover" all of the imperial do main. It is interesting to wonder how George the Third would have acted had he been more of n royal rover. Marvlnnd's course in seeking an injunction to restrnin the secretary of stnto from proclaiming the federal i -. ., ment uutii its validity is The one -ftective argument ngainst nihocates of "direct action" is that thi-N have legal mcatis of getting what the'j desire when their views are sus tained by the majority of the people. To take a leaf out of their Bonk of Violence by ejecting them from a legis lative assembly Is to help to justify their contention that "diroct action is necessary. In order to see the evils of nn excess nrofit tax one lias oniy u cuiisiucr wnui would hnppen if the samo rule applied to a savings nccount. We pay more for food nnd clothes for our children than formerly; why hesitate about paying more for the ed ucation of our children? nrn who threaten to strike should ' remember that strike times an blue times and that only times of adequate ,..... - -- - - . ' production wear a rosy hue. It was not morcly coincidence that the New York Assembly ousted the Socialists on All-Iools was taking a hand. Day. Tato The fireman who saved a bottle of whisky from u local firo hod an up-to-date appreciation of what Is meant by "nluablcs." The President is discovering that righteousness without authority Is a great provoker of the short answer. Today Is merely a stepping stone between a damp Friday and a sun shiny Sunday. Some of the Blue Hen's chickens were counted before they were hatched. Delaware muiply 1 inevitable. EDUCATING Af NATION A! Program fop Doing tho Work Set Forth by nn Expert Dr. Frank R, Spauldlng, contributes to the April Atlantic Monthly an articln on educational problems, from which the following extracts are taken. Doctor Spauldlng la a graduate of Am herst College, student at the University of Berlin, the College of rranee, the Sorbonne and the University of Leip- N schools in Newton, Mass.; JfinneapoK. uwi., unu iscvciana. u. lie w aoout to take charge of the department of school ortmtnTsfraHon in Yale Univer sity, fP THE many impressive revelations of the grent world wor, none was more impressive thnn thnt of tho su premo importnpco of education. In Russia nnd Prussln the wholo world witnessed the diro disaster resulting. Jn tho one case, from the lack of uni versal education, in the other from mis directed or fnlso education. And both tho strength nnd tho wenkness of our own country have been easily traceable to the excellencies nnd tho deficiencies respectively of our educational provi sions nnd efforts. ..Now is tho tlmo to take stock of these Imprcssivo revelations; to look into the demands and the opportunities of tho future. Let us try to sketch In broad outlines merely tho outstanding characteristics of nn edu cational program, indeed n minimum program, such as is immediately needed in theso United States. rpiIIS program consijts of two parts: J- First, a brief statement of tho ob jectives of American education for tho Immediate future; and second, an out line of the general plans nnd menns cal culated to realize these objectives. The simple, prncticnl, but exalted de mand of the British Labor party for n program of education which shall "bring effectively within the reach, not only of every boy nnd girl, but also of every ndult citizen, nil tho training, physical, inentnl and moral, literary, technlcnl and scientific, of which he is capable," sets an educational objec tive nono too advanced for America. Indeed, there will bo thoso to claim not only that wo havo long bnd such an objective, but that wo are realizing It. There nro three minimum, definite, comprehcnslvo objectives that American public education should at onco set for itself. They are: First, essential elo mentary knowledge, training and disci pline; second, occupational efficiency; third, civic responsibility. ESSENTIAL elementary knowledge, discipline nnd training should be understood to include so much as re sults from the successful completion of tho full elementary school course in the best school systems a course requir ing, ns n rule, eight years of regular attendance, thirty-six to forty weeks n yenr. The present eight-year elementary school course, as It is carried out even in the best school systems, Is not here proposed as a fixed or final ideal, es pecially in details, of tho first objective of public education. It should bo un derstood to bo inclusive, not exclusive, of any- improvements that may be made in content, in method or in organiza tion affecting tho latter years of the "typical elementary school course. This first objective Is the indispens able basis of the other two occupa tional efficiency and civic responsi bility; it makes the full achievement of these two practicable. A PROGRAM adequate to the nchicve ment of the first of our three ob jectives must involve tho following four features: First, a minimum school year of thirty-six weeks; second, adequate laws, effectively enforced, compelling regular attendance throughout the school year of nil children over n cer tain age, preferably seven', until tho elemcntnry course is completed, or until a certain age, preferably sixteen, Is reached ; third, effective public control of all elementary private schools, to insure the maintenance therein of stnndards equal to those maintained in public schools, and to insure tho regu lar and full attendance of pupils regis -teied therein; fourth, n teaching force eery member of which has a general education nt least equal to that afforded by a good four-year high school course and professional training nt least cquhalent to that provided by a good two-year normal school course. The mere statement of these simple measures for the achievement of our first educational objective should bo sufficient to convince any intelligent person of the necessity of their adop tion. PA1 ARTLY becauso of the short school enr. nartly becauso only partial ad vantage is taken cn of this short year, the amount of schooling tnat we Amer icans are getting Is startlingly little. As a nation, we nre barely sixth graders ! According to the well-considered es timate of Doctor Evendcn in his recent sttid of teachers' salaries and salary schedules, "About -1,000,000 children are taught by teachers less than twen-t.-oue jears of age, with .little or no high school tralniug, with no profes sional preparation for their work and who are, in n great majority of cases, products of the samo schools in which the) teach." Tho education of country school ti'ttdiers generally Is several jears less than that of city teachers; even so, al lowing for one or two possible excep tions, It Is extremely doubtful whether the average education of tho whole group of elementary teachers in nuy of our large cities exceeds that of n four year high school course, including In the average all professional education as equivalent, year for year, to high sihool education. THE training of young men for civic responsibility nnd vocational effi ciency should culminate in a full twelve month year of Instruction, discipline nnd training, to bo carried on directly under tho nuspices of the national gov ernment. , , ... For this year of training, all male youth of the land should be mobilized bv a complete draft carried out by the War Department only those seriously crippled phisically and the mentally incompetent being rejected as unfit; for one of the fundamental nims of this course of training should bo to make fit. Some option should be allowed the Individual concerned ns to tho nge at which bu should enter upon this year of strictly compulsory training. He should nQt be oHwei tor exntnplc, to begin it before reaching tho ago of seventeen years and six months; and lie should be required to begin It be fore passing bis twentieth birthday. This option would permit most boys in high schools to complete their courses before entering on this year's training ; it would also permit thoso going to college to precede t their college work with this year of tralfllng. WE ARE not now prepared. We nro no more prepared today for tho great emergencies of pence that con front us thnu wo were prepared three years ago for tho emergencies of war. Education, hasty and hectic, was our chief resourco in preparing for war. I i)V education, tieiiueruie, iiurusive postponed the , aud sustained, mubt be our basic ie 1 liourco in preparing for peace. ANYHOW, WE Q .vSS'?.irt iiiVjT.irf'i?.KF.r . .sssm 3me ATI HOW DOES IT , STRIKE YOW ATTORNEY GENERAL PALMER Is sending out a "flying squadron" against the profiteecrs. , The war upon tho profiteers is one in which all tho victories are with the profiteers and all the honors are wlt;h the government. Mr. Attorney General Palmer fixes the top price of sugar at fourteen cents. It is n mngnificcnt service to the nntion. Sugar at onco goes to twenty cents. Palmer gets tho glory, the sugar makers take the profits and the public pays the bills, feeling a deep sense of gratitude to the vigilant attorney. After this telling blow to the sugar nrofitcors. Palmer goes after the other ...n.,.o ,(, n "Urine snuailron. It IS gOOIl ior u urai-imfta n"j " the newspapers. -nimn-' Nothing ever happens from Falmer s efforts except still higher prices. . . rt... nnnn utn.V In It likes to sco its officials stirring InJ A. !. KllKllA Id HIP IHI'll. Its interests, mougn i kuuo iw ..,.- d0U0likcsRto see the majesty of Its laws "rt'llkcs to feel that It is not power less beforo the extortioners, for it can alwajs send Palmer and V?ljiu squadron or his. "fair -price" brigade after them. q q q IF IT weren't for Palmer making his tiicturesnuc gestures that relieve the pub lie indignatiou and thusWc , easier the paling of bills", some one might get angry and go out and bang a profiteer. The little child runs into A chair and bumps his face. "Watch Nurse, to soothe lllm',B,n,8-,p,:;atcu nursey slap tho nasty old chair. The comedy fools no olo. Palmer gets votes otft o it. The i profiteer tucks away a few addl- "Tho'cuizen pays the bills, a little easier In his mind because nursey has slapped the chair, although he knows that the chair was not hurt. HO more ujiuk ou - More top pi ices for sugar! q q q THE New York legislature has passed eleven bills, to jheck tho profiteering rCTl,f na'sty "old' landlord chair gets eleven separate slaps! Will rents be lowcr7 Wns sugar lower when the nttorncy i Ov,wi n nrirn of fourteen cents iinon nil sugar, except Democratic sugar from Louisiana, which should be twenty mt. i.n..,!a nro mp'otliiir the cracr- eency crcnted by M.000 families in Now xora wiuioui numt .t...n. getlcally and effect Ivel . You, we will snj, lire a Now York tennnt who has been leasing an apart- ment ot Bix rooms iur .jn jv The lnndlord turns ou out to re model his apartment. o.mBn. He cuts jour six -room apartment up into three two-room apartments and rents each for $1000 a year. Ho makes three blades of grass grow where one grew beforo. With one single apartment be re duces by two the number of homeless ' ttFor this patriotic service he makes the modest charge of $2100 a year. Just as the sugar profiteers and the other food nnd clothing profiteers could not get nway with it except for the magnificent gestures of Mr. Palmer re lieving the public emotions, so the rent profiteers in - iuu .. .." .- nway with it except for tho splendid gestures of the New York Legislature. q J J HOW can we marry nun raise iuiuuil-b in two-room apartments? Wo shall hno rccourso again to inc ja-bi- aitrshall be enncted probably It al ready has been thnt it shall be a penal offense punishable by fifteen years im prisonment in a nursery for any land--a t refuse to let an apartment to a couple because they have children or to alspossesr uu; tuujuo iiuimjr. vm..- Havlng thus spoken vigorously for tho rights of childhood, we shall settle down to Hfo in our 51000 two-room apart- Aiid whatever temptation exists to raise a family In such quarters at such a rent will be mitigated by the food and clothing profiteers whom Mr. Pal mer's flying bquadrons nro forever harrying. q ! 1 THERE is nnother problem. That is finding schools enough for the chil dren we can raise In our two-room npartments nt $1000 a year upon such of our Incomes us Is left to us by the profiteers fleeing beforo Mr. Palmer's ib'ng squadron. l It appears that the profiteers ore, hix KNOW WilAT HE'LL MtXM' Vigorous Gestures Made at Profiteers Ilavc Soporific Effect on Their Victims and All Is Right as Right Can Be ing the tenchers away from the schools to bo clerks nnd day laborers. Only people too stupid to bo clerks nnd day laborers are now offering them selves to be school teachers, and not very many of those. Tho children whom we can crowd into our two-room npartments nnd feed upon what Mr. Palmer, with his flying squadrons, can save us of elusive dollars arc going to have little or only bad in struction. What to do? Mr. Palmer's hands are full 1 Tho New York Legislature's hands arc full ! At. .1 f r i rft. jiii, iiictu is ucacrui v, oou 1 1 Let him write n piece about it in his page in tlic -Metropolitan Magazine. He docs. He says teachers should be well paid. The best, in the way of instruction, is none too good for the young. The snfety of the nation depends upon three R's. Tho lives of devotion led by but why go on? Another problem is solved! ' We feel easier In our minds now that some one has said that one of the first duties of a democracy is to pay its teachers well. Life is not so difficult nfter all. But what would it be without our Attorney General Palmers, our New lork Legislatures and our Gencrnl Woods? J q q "DID becr Bavo tl10 Briton?" asks a -' headline over a special articlo In a nowspnper. 'xno argument of tho writer is that the British lived for trenerntlnns on n poor diet, yet lived. I How? Why, by reason of tho vitnmljics In their becr, is the trlumphnnt reply. The trouble with this theory is that the special rcnort of tho neeessorv food factors committee (English), tho nu- tnonty on vitamlncs, says there are no vitnlnines in beer. Careful tests were made and none was found. Says the report: "Bottled ale and stout and beer as bought on the market uro lucking in both the nnti ncuritic and anti-scorbutic accessory factors." That is, it cures neither scurvy nor beriberi. Tho vitamins is trying to get into our national cumnaicu. which micht become ns issue, not of wet und dry, but of vitnmino nnu nuti-vltamlne. If tho Anti-Saloon League is wise it will procure tho special report and con found those who wish to give any other reason for beer than that they like it. Thoso who like it will vote for It, vltamines or no vitninincs, nnd whether ft saved tho iiriton or not. q q q WHAT are these vltamines which aro trying to get into the camnalcn nnd Into common speech? They arc tho latest proof that your stomach was right when it rejected the chemist's conclu sions that all you needed were "calories" of food, and it did not make much dif ference in what form they were offered. Your stomach was right and the chemists were wrong. Your btomach liked butter, and did not liko butter substitutes. Both were grease. But butter Is rich in vltamines and butter substitutes nre not. You liked fresh food better than pro sen ed food. And you were right. Fresh food has tho vltamines ; pre sen ed food generally has not. You liked well-cooked food nnd gen erally were right, for lu food properly prepared the itnmines survive. When It is "cooked to death" tthe vltamines are dcstro)ed. If j ou eat food without one vitamlne you get scurvy. If without another, you get beriberi. If without a third you get. if a child. rickets; and if older, various ills that spring from malnutrition. The vitaiuino is tho greatest of all re cent discoveries nbout food. Aud It lends no hope to the theory that we shall live some day on a scien tifically prepared tablet. Wo won't. When we try to do that we'll all die. The only chemist who knows how to prcparo a vitnmino Is nature. Another Intellectual treat featured for April 18 the U, of P. sophomore freshman pants fight. Already great excitement is being manifested as to which party will display tho greater number of highbrows. The Public Servleo Commission has no terrors for the Shanks' Mare Transit; Company. 4 '-,,' v x r i, - - iTC .. ( MMMbAMMMaMH it What Do You know? QUIZ hokey-pokey 1. How did name? sets Its 2. Who is tho highest commander of the American troops now on tho iuuno7 3. Name two former chieftains of Tammany Hall, 4. Ono southern state Is to Consider the equal suffrngo amendment In May nnd another in July. Which nro these states ? G. Who said "la civilization a failure or is the Caucasian played out"? C. What is a pantechnicon? 7. Who mortgages a property, a mort gagor or n mortgagee?' 8. What is a mammco? 0. What Is tho predominant religion of Persia? 10. What Is tho particular day devoted to ultra-radical manifestations In Uuropo? m Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. Monterey is a city In California, ninety-four miles south by cast or Ban Kranclsco. It was for a tlmo tho cnDltnl of nallfornln when tho territory of tlrat stateJ was a Aiexican province. Monter rey is an Important city In North ern Mexico In the state of Nuevo Leon. 2. The word leeward should be pro nounced as though ft wero spelled "lliwanl 3. Alabaster Is the name nf Hvnil varieties of carbonate or sulphate vi nine. nis aiso a mnssno line, grained sulphate of lime, nn r!ln tlnct from the carbonates and was particularly used by the ancients for receptacles for unguents. 4. Thomas Jefferson's ' election was decided by the House of Represen tntlves In 1800 and John Qulncy Adams's by that branch of Con gress In 1824. 6. President Wilson signed the dec laration of war with Germany on April 6. 1917. 0. Tho colore of the flag of Brazil aro yellow and green. 7. The "Sans-Culottes" literally "the breechless," wore tho Republicans of tho lower Parisian classes in tho French Revolution. 8. Thomas Hughes wroto "Tom Brown's School Days." He died In 189C. 0. The "stool of repentance" was originally a low stBnd placed In front of the pulpit In Scotland on which persons who had Incurred ecclesiastical censure were placed during dlvlno service. 10. Georgia was founded by James Oglethorpe In 1733 as a refuge for debtors. Extremists in most of the towns in the Ruhr district nro forelm- wnr,a quit their jobs nnd loin tlm Tt,l rrn.. n species of radical Intoxication to which cue iviues may yet oo called upon to apply a truly Rhural test. THE VAMPER (With Apologies to Rudyard Klpllnir) Vamper A boaster; one who adds some, thing new to an old thing. Diet, ih A FOOL there was and I heard him swear, Kvcn ns you and I, That things as they nre, are very unfair That where they are round they ouirht to bo square I lmow he'd a vacuum under his hair Raising his huo and cry. Ohl The cares ho sped and the snares he spread, With his labors of tongue and pen And all for the people who did not know And he could not see that they never would know, TJiey being honest men. A fool there was and his breath ho spent. Even as you and I ; Turmoil and Btrlfo and discontent Ho scattered with venom wherever he went, For a fool Is nat'rally twisted and bent Raising hla hue and cry. Ohl The time ho lost and the slime he tossed. And the Ideal things he planned; And all for the people who didn't know why He was raising his Imbecile hue and cry, And could not understand. The fool wbb tripped In his foolish fcrlde Kven as you and I ; When the peoplo carelessly threw him asme For wt'h things as they aro wa are satisfied, And the boaster's vaporlnga scorn and deride Kven his hue and cry. 9 Now It Isn't a shame, for we cannot blame .... The sting of the people's brand, It's coming to know that the thlngsthat Than tho' fool's vain jangle fire better For these we can understand. r-iWiUiom J. Kldridge, 2 J&MaLijikA-i 7..)ii .. IsSSSBSSlisslBSSSsisSSSRl t 1 i-8 r r pun Aifciln itiji THE CRITIC TALKS u TO MUSIC LOVEm Weekly Comment on Things ,1u, col In Discriminating Philadelphia fTUIB Socldty for the Puhllcatl "a of I M A 4aIrtft nfHAi 1a .... rKll1t nt ihn OTn,v,lhnl( .l5".1I group of compositions submitted to it After the examiners' committee, vthlrt was-composed of some of thebest-knon musicians of the country, had read tli works submitted six were rccoinnicndM for publication. These six were plajij before tho board and the advisory muS committee, also composed of famoni musicians, und n string quartet by Alol! nviBi-i uuii 14 nuiuui itu ciunnpr f. violin) and piano by Daniel Orceotr Afflfinn urft nlinann. friin nllmH i.. compositions recommended for publica tion will be published ns soon as U funds f tho organization permit, The names of the composers of tti other four works were not mado public, although there seems to bo no rcasot for withholding them. It was tliroutti no lack of merit in the composition! that publication nt this time is imnnu Bible, nnd it would give the composers o( theso works tho satisfaction knonW whero their works ranked in the onln. ions of thoyeminent musicians who tihda up tho board. These men. however, Mil not know tho names of tho comnosen. all tho compositions being submitted witn a privato marK 01 lucniiucation. IN MAKING its report to its mcnibtrt the society gave some interest figures as to tho cost of publishing music, 'inc average cose ot pumisning me patti of a string quartet is $300, and when the score also is published the cost risi to about $700. Therefore It is smill wonder that music publishers are chary about issuing serious music written h the classic forms, for which the demand. is necessarily, but unfortunately, nmall, ior 11 means mut tuey iugu u curiam loss in doing so. It is sad to say, but it is doubtlcu true, that there is not a sufficient de mand in tho United States today for string qualtets, or any other form of chamber music to let a publisher out vcn, no matter who wrote the mutlc nor bow good it tnignt be. 'JLbe aim of tho society at present Is confined to chamber music, although if the inrnnization crows, as it should, orches tral and other largo forms of music will hn tnlfpn nn Inter. At nrcsent. how ever, the cost of issuing orchestral musls makes it proniDitivc. mHE society is filling a distinct ncei JL in American musicnl life, for th figures quoted show that it is not tha lack of merit that makes it irapossibl for tho American composer to nave mi serious music printed. The nvcrngo pub lisher of music Is not in business for Lit hnnlth nr for nhllanthroDV. nor for tht purpose of aiding "tho causo of good American music, unless ho can do so without post to himself. There are, however, some notable exceptions, for a goodly number of compositions have kan nnhiuiipil hv one or two American publishers nt what must have been a heavy loss, and tho publishers knew it when they agreed to bring out tn Most publishers, unfortunately, art not In n finnncinl positlou tp dp this, -..J U la l.nr11o fntr in ritlPCt it of tllCm. For these reasons there Is n great need for such nn organization ns the Society .. i, Tiil.llfntlnn nf American Music. Tho organization is run nt the smallest possible cost, as the administration U ntirely without expenditure of tho funds of the society, all the officers givini their services, thus allowing tho dues of the members (the only source of in come) to be used for the purpose ol U1IUI..m wnriliv TnllHtf t tha ni-PKont list of membership Philadelphia has only four members. It should have ns many hundreds, espe cially in view of the fact that each member of the society receives a copx of every composition published during the j car without cost other than his ey small annual dues. AND, while on the general subject of chamber music, a now Philndclphls organization made Its debut this season in a most creditable scries of three con certs. This was the Such Trio, com posed of Henry Such, violinist, n weu known member of Philadelphia s pro fessional circles; his brother, Percy Such, one of tho best cellists who has appeared before a Philadelphia audlenct for a long time, and Arthur New stead, of New York, piano. In all its concerts tho trio showed a fine ensemble and much beauty of tone, the latter beinj truo of all the instruments of the or ganization. ... i The programs of tho trio were wortny of especial mention, -for they were all of the highest classical standard, but the concerts were neither too long nor too heavy. Mr. Such und his associates evidently take no stock in that greatest modern heresy of chamber musicians that they must play something new, no matter what Its merit. They stuck to the great masters of chamber composi tion in the trio form nnd they played theso works witn tne reverent uuu close attention to detail which is essen tial in the truo presentation of suca masterpieces. Philadelphia cannot hnve too many such organizations (no pun intended) conducted on such sound lines, und it is to be hoped that tho artistic success which the trio achieved will lead to its continuation and thnt it will meet with the finnncinl success which Its nrtlstic ideals and Us line performances desert. AT. LAST week's concerts Mr. Sto IrnueM rrnvn 11a tlift senuel to an experiment, the first part of whlcli was ghen u year ago. This was In the Mo zart G minor Symphony, which tint season ho plnycd with the full orches tra; last year be gave it with un or chestra the size of tho uvcrago orche tra of Mozart's day. Tho result justifies the statement made in these column" a year ago, namely, that Mozntt wrote for an orchestra as much In advance ot his time ns bis musical thoughts were ahead of his own day, and that hit great compositions nre worthy of per formances by' the most complete organ izations possible to nttaln, There can bo little doubt that tl composition sounds far better when performed with the full resources of modern orchestra than wheu the smaller number of Instruments is used. Jt it true that somo of the detail, especially the parts of tho French horns, is n so elenr. but as Mozart had not melodic horn In his day, and used tne instrument only for the purpose of ad ding color and not melody, JIiIk loss i Insignificant when compared with ' enormous gain in volume and tone quullty. Tho work, liko nearly all ot Mozart's orchestral compositions, largely for strings nnd the gain in sonority In this section and in the tonal beauty, which is possible only with large number of the stringed Instru ments, especially in the softe! passage, more than compensates for nnv loss la th detail of the more insignificant In struments. At the samo time the per' formance last year, compared iumi season's, was most interesting and in structive. The depressing fact Is that tho man grown lazy and careless does not often recover until Fato kicks him severely and there is possibility that tho Burnt holds true of civilization. As n cnudldnto noovcr lacks the art of concealing his opinions, but thu mar prove, ty bo a asset vrr h; U ,"f' N v "jNii-.. . V' & ''ST ,r. v. if i ' i'I'J.., I-,. v; jJi vim mm.. r-a
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