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PhUidclphls, Siturd.jr, April 3, 10
A FOUR-YEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA
Thing nil which the people expert
the nen iiilinlnlittratlon to concen
trate Its attention:
The Dclavatc river bridge,
A thildocl. Via enough to accommo
date the largest ships.
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
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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
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' 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!
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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.
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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.
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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?
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"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.
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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
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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?
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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,
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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,
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THE CRITIC TALKS
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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
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