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Y-....U.... t..... ... 1 niH la ..pvwl fO RUbiicrllMi'fl In Philadelphia and KUrroundlne towna lit the rate of tn-lte (12) cents per eek, pnynlile to the cnrrlor. 111 mull In nnlntM nilt-lrlM lt PhlladelllhlA, In t liaa t'nlfit.t Mh... I'an.Ha flf United y man tn the Unite ten t)n--p State uo'-evnlon-. puatam free fifty (50) 'ecnta per month Six (til) dollars per year. . jwyatwe in anvancn. , To nil foreien countries one (II) dollar 'per mnth ... NOIH' H Hubscrlln-rs wlshlne nddfae" handed must gie old as well as new ad ores. BELL. 30(10 'VCAI.SVT KEYSTONE. MAIN" 3000 J,e--- - -- fcy A iMVejs oil rommuiifooli'ns to Evening J'ublle Ledger. InJtptndenct UQnare, Vilfadepnl.. Jlcmbcr of the Associated Press TJTi: ASSOriATMi MESS is tehtuvcln entitled tn the use for republication of till neirs dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in (n't pit;irr, and also the local ncics published therein. All riaht of republication of special dispatches herein are aim .eserred. Phll.dflphl., MonJir. April 3. 10 A FOUR-YEAR PROGRAM FOR PHILADELPHIA Thin, on which the people expert the new udnilnUt ration li concen trate Its attention! The Delaware river bridge. A drydock big enough to accommo date the largest ships. Development of the rapid transit sys tem. A convention halt. A buiUlvui jur the Free Library. An Art lluseum. Enlargement of the icater supply. Homes to accommodate the popula tion. AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL JOYS TF THOMAS 15. SMITH is n-all) wrlt- mg his memoirs, ho lietrnvx a livelv appreciation of perimp- the most fat-el- natlng of all fields of literature. There i will bo great company for the ex- r Mayor. Indeed, that illustrious clus- ter which includes Hotieati. ('annova, I St. Simon, Cellini. Franklin. Pews. Evelyn, Amiel, Henry Adams, Henry Watteri-on. W. N. P. llarbelllon. Lord Fisher, Samuel V. Penuypacker and Eric Ludendorll cannot easily be sur passed. , Ominous warning i derivable from the case of Mark Twain. After many chapters of his autobiography were in type the philosopher -huinurist made rueful confession 0f failure and threw up the job. Truth had been too elu eive. It is fondly to be hoped that Mr. ; ainiui, assuming mar ni iriemn lune correctly reported his activities, will I not nllow the precious white bird to i escape. Tn that case all the tales of the con dottieri will not be routined to the ir repressible Cellini's vivid picture of Florentine days. MAKESHIFT POSTAL PLANS IF AW proof of the painful inad quacy of the pentotiice at Xiri'h and Market streets were needed it could be f ound in the expansion plan which John A. Thornton N tn urge upon Washington otliciak this week. It is propose-d to rent floor space in some i from the polls because we were not centrally located building to care for ready formally te admit that women the overflow work. jure capable of thought. Doubtless some such seheme deserves reat elections, therefore, are decided to be put into immediate execution to by about one-third of the ming pop care for a crisis. ISnr an annex of this illation. The arrangement is ideal for character is an obvious and pitiful J 'he polith al ringmasters, who have makeshift. The city's need i'..r a prop- been ii: deadly fear of the suffrage erly spiippcd. capncion. modem cen- l nmendment, which would bring into pol trnl postotlicc is imperut re. i ita-, a new factor that caunot be casilj Promises of relict b n new structure! managed or measured. A woefully be on Market street near Nineteenth have ' fuddled As-emblj in IMaware, incapa beeu reiterated and hne dismallv I bit of clear i-ion, hns lecn sticking a.i.wI V... .1...... ..- . ... r ..- .-...-. I '""",."1 '"' ",M V .r , "I!. ' ,,,,...... u.r- ,,.,-..,.,. ,u. - uiiies,. nsv Hipu -.iji.-in'i i". in..-.- in mis eirv, of npprj.iinately I'.immi.ikii) inhabi tants. How much wor-e dn ti.,. situation hnve to be before the only sensible reme.lj is applied':1 OPERA CODDLING ENDS Tn ti 1HP.HI is little reason to bclieee that the forthcoming auction sale of the Metropolitan Opera Hou-e will be det rimental to the progrcs of music drama in this it When .Mr. Stotesbury s S 100,000 mortgage is sati-tied un ra of operatic coddling here will .nine to an end. This wardship of an art. estimable in purpose, "i-a veil opera," n the phrase women voters. The professional poli res. in l!0!t. Hut there is no up i ticiun of today is thinking not of the pfirent nei.ssity for ,! coptmiian. . of special benefaction It has been demonstrated this year that grand opera in Philudelphln nu be made a paving venture This means that Mr. iintti-Cuaztu will bring bis company bin k again. Kleniental busi ness sense elictates such .i program. Next season's series of sixteen per formane'fs, already promised, will probably be given ut Hrmul and Poplar Afreets. trcets. Hut whatever the local,, opera without exception th,y dissmnblcl and , " " " mwii. iiu oou wm .wr , ii.. l"""" """ h"0" " him t last reflets the sound op. ration of bustled for shelter. They were not for'"' ''oment on with stronger backing There h a bu-y ma who envies blm. he economic ,, f supply nnd ele- I Hoover because, like prudent men, they than any other candidate unless some- "rMak. the ,nnd. nnlv the n.t win. I. endures on ' were not teady to disturb the foundn- thine happens between now and June 8. He rather thinks the bait is of the n th ma uch a bn-is is pallv liealthv ALICE PAUL, OPTIMIST MISS PAUL does Uot seem to be (lis ceiuraged bv the . fent of tho equul Kuffrage uuiendmeut in Delaware last 'Thurseliiy. She is .onildint that it will have better lick this u..l. This is the mental attitude to be pecteel of the sullragists f the) had been easily disiienrtcui'tl the, would not hnvo biiceeedetl In persuading Congress to submit the amendment to the states mid after it had been submitted they xvould not have secured its ratiib atiun by thirty-live states. They ure in a fair way to elemon titrate that if any one wunts a thing hard enough he will get it. Conse quently the D'lnware Legislature is up ngainst forces the power of which it loc3 not yet seem to realize. THE FRANKFORD L MYSTERY GOVKIt.NOK SPKOUL does not seem to be able to understand why the Franliford elevated Hue is uot in opera tion. If be can find out Jhere are tens of thousauds of persons living along the routo of tho Hue who wish he would tell them, Muyor Smith announced last spring that ho hoped to have the lino in opera Hon, before he left office. President Mitten, of the P. It. T., hns been Bay ing lately that it ought to be in opera tion next winter. It seems that we never are but nlway? nre to be blessed. The service whfeh the new elevated is to supply is always eight or ten months in the future. Unless fomcthltip is done pretty soon the operation of cars on the structure will come to be regarded as among those promised impossible things like per petual motion. 'BOSSES AND PROVIDENCE nil! r- nrnlAail APPAint? KUic MivitKiOrtiM nrrmns Whv Oo We. rjlarenarrl In Peace the - B Great Principles for Which We Make War? A5! MKItlCANS have fought time nnd gain in a white passion for the nrlnrlnles of nelf-covemmcnt. Cheer fully they have thrown their lives and their property into every struggle. Tn periods of morgeney they war for the democratic ideal as If they were in quest of n holj thing, a grail. Whoever open ly questioned them was annihilated. Whoever openly questions them will al ways be annihilated. It Is lifter each of our victories that we have been movt mysterious. Having achieved n sacred thing, and hiving ik-IiIcmmI it. often enough nt staggering cost, we promptly lo interest in it. For we in the United States arc not ac tually self-governing. We nre governed by Providence nnd politicians. The circumstances ot air. Hoover' candidacy serve to concentrate a new revealing light on this odd trait of ours. Mr. Hoover may be desirable or unde sirable. That is not the question now. It is the nature of the nrgument most generally made ag.iinst him in the high councils of both parties that invites at tention. There is no attempt to analyze Mr. Hoover, to consider his motives, his vir tues or his possible defects. The bosses, big and little, consider such exercise of a lively intelligence altogether super fluous. "What," they say with genuine in dignation, "has Hoover ever done for the Republicans? What has he ever done for the Democrats? Where has he b-en all tho..e years when party orciitii ntiotiN luiii to be held together when eb - cfinns had to be won? "Mid he eer help the crowd to a politi - ul victory? He didn't! We did the work, and if anything is to be got th.' jeur we will get it. Now Hooer come around and wants us to mnke him Piesident. He has nerve; you can say that for him, anyway!" Hoover, in other words, never curried a division for the clans. He never car ried a banner. He never carried a torch. He never wore the eleplmnt's breath beuver of the inarching clubs and lie never was glamourous in an oilcloth cape. .Moreover, he ha-n't surrendered his mind. He isn't branded. The high sign is unknown to him. So, lie isn't acceptable to the self-appointed guard iaiis of tlic political trough. The intonating thicg to remember is that this general taboo is not on Hoover alone. It is upon any man who neglects to answer questions and have his pass, ports vlsepd by the proper authorities for any sort of ivurion iuto American polities. The presidential election of 101C brought out lV.-liO.fHM) votes, nil told. Yet there were thee about L'.",(iO(l.OOO nuulitil electors in the United States. There were, in fact, not h-ss than ."0.- 000. (KM) jieople morally and iutedlectunl- ' qualified to participate in the elec- tion. Hut half of these were debarred ... .1... l. ..I...- r.e c :i . ti. i . i l p Li" "'"" .ra.iiioii anil - ,.... ." .......on- ..... ..uiUuie on... ". ..uiiu- ...i .. a.i.ii longer Iu Dover nnd at Albany the erratic Legislatures are not even deluded by u belief flint they are guardians of a Miercil institution. They have merely reacted to that iustinct of ciolushcucs wliiih is natural among men who are not unite sure of thein-elves or of their nhilit suecc.fiill to meet intelligent competition. The eild-llne partv bo-ses. in a word, do not want to be disturbed Hoener W about as welcome to them as a burglar in the house. They Wouldn't be per mitted to do Hoover's thinking for him. And ir is seriously t'l)e doubted whether they would be p rmitted to do the thinking for the- new millions of omiutrj . not ot the future, not of the new and bewildering problems thnt face th nation. He is thinking of his party organi zation the ugency which distributes patronage- the bund of the jobholders. This was pl.iln when the Ieaeb rs for both parties in the House anil the Sen ato were recently asked to discuss Hoover's tentative candlelacy .i . iunosi .: ..l.lnl, elwlr r.li.ll fortunes rest. Almost any man who enters office by the usual route will be disposed to consider tits party neiore lie considers its candidate. This instiuct of self-preservation does rpieer things to the minds of iu tin -ential party men. The routine political bos of tin old school will entrust his home and the education of his children i,.l most of his own hopes to u woman Hut he shrinks when It is suggested that I (his same woman ought to have a voice in the business of government Women may write books, practice law and medicine and prove their ability in all Hues of busruess nnd virtually all professions, but men who live by the old political traditions still deny their right to vote. They are not actually convinced thnt women would not vote Intelligently. What they dread is u nearer approach to the really workable system of self governnieut which' the grent numbers of uubossed voters might bring ubout in the course of time. Your part boss wants votes that can be delivered n masses and elec tions thut can be decided before bullot boxes aro opened. It Is the average voter who permits that sort of tblug. What the average voter does uoi ulvvuyts understand is that the business of government, which lie is content to leave in the hands of men who mako a profiteering trndo of politics, affects him iutlmntely every day of Ids life. For the errors and the Inefficiency of elected officers the voter pays heavily in excessive tnxeR, in hard ship, in deprivation. It is easily pos sible to conceive of circumstances in which he must pay with his life. Yet he can be Indifferent, The worst of it nil is that what tho professional politicians say is, to a large extent, true. They do hold the voters together. They do "get them to tho polls." If they didn't the great question of American policy would be decided according to the will of a smaller minority than that which now elects Presidents, senators and con gressmen. Tho party system is not to blnme. It is the perversion of the party principles that has brought nbotit un utmost complete stagnation of political thought in this country. There nre too mnuy leaders willing to put their party bauuer above the flag of the country. A hoiiseclennlng Is needed in botli tdd parties. It is sorely needed in the bigoted party press which deliberately establishes rigid prejudices and throws dust in the eyes of multitudes. It is only occasionally, wheu n Itooscvclt happens along, that the voters rise and have their own way. And then, ns every oue knows, the bosses accept the popu lar decision with n sense of defeat. TENTS FOR THE HOMELESS UNLESS something is douc in the near futcre the housing situation in this city will soon be almost ns serious ns that in the devastated regions of France s there is a demand for at least 20.00(1 more houses than can be found. taMu Furthermore. Mr. Wilson wig there is u population ofl 00,000 with- j ,,,,,,., ,;OVproi VettlementK" of tho out proper accommodations. If all we 'Adriatic problems anil there were points had to do was to provide shelter for ' in both these programs which were not this population some way out could bo ft,)ly worked out. found. It is sheltered now after n i viiat is probably a fact, however, is fashion. rand it can worry along until that moving day for liabrlclo D'Annun- uew nouses are mint or uiuu oiu nouses are turned into apartments. Hut laud- lords are raising the rents nnd are evicting the tenants who nre unwilling or unnblc to pay new rates. It is this forcing the boused into the ranks of the houseless that is catisiug dissatisfaction. It has already been the cause of a serious riot in Westi Philadelphia. The rioters deserve the condemnation of all friends of order, who know that exils cannot be redressed in any such "wax. llut, unfortunately, there nre muu persons who caunot be Philadelphia business mail thut designs reasoned with when they see before them i for bills be standardized nnd that dif tho prospect of eviction, not because ' ferent denomination be noted by seals of nonpaxment of rent but because some one ele is willing to pay more for their houe than they can afford to pay. The request of the Forty-fourth Ward Tenants' Association for permission to put up tents in Fairmount Park near George- Hill for the temporary accom modation of its evicted members shows the extremities to which the people are forced. What the Park commissioners will do about it does not jet appear. They may decide that the protection of the banc- tlty of the Park is of greater importance than shelter for the houseless. Or they may open wide stretches of this nleasure ground not only for tents but for port able houses to bo occupied until such time us builders can put up permnnent dwellings on paved streets. If they cuu uot bring themselves to take such u course they ihay polut out the location ot unoccupied tracts of land on which temporary lndler can be put up as it has been provided for the homeless in France. Whatever the commission docs or docs not do it is evident thnt some proiision must be found for the people who are seeking shelter. WATCH MICHIGAN jXTU. Hntn Kit is entered in both the ' Hepublican and Democratic pri maries in .Michigan today. He is not expected to carry tho state. Johnson's friends insist that he will win in the Hepublican primaries and Wood's friends are roritidctit that be will bent Johnson. Pi.itli in n have had their agents hnrd at work for weeks. If Hooicr runs a good,thiid his friends will not be disappointed. If he should beat both .lohu-ou and Wood his lflm , rr,.,.ivp ,)00st ,,,,,,, win .arten tho-e whowi-li to see him nom iuateii in Chi ago. The Mi. higan te will enable ob servers to discoMr whether the popular demand for Hooier has seriously begun, and it will have an effect iiuon the at titude of the machine politicians who nre ready to trim their sails to enfeh the breezes which will keep them in the running. o the ejes of nil the poll- ticinus are on Mie-higan today. ,.., . WUUU O UC.lC.Urt l CO POLITICAL statisticians hi Wash- ington have estimated that Oeneral Wood will enter the Itepublican con ntion with I'M delegates, or Jl less. than a majority. In this total they have luclilileei eignt eieicguii's irom icnns.vi xiinin, twenty-eight from New Jersey, three from Delaware and twelve from New ork. They think he may possi bly get a few more from the southern slates than Tiro included iu their pre liniiuary estimate. Frank Hitchcock is busily engaged in picking up nil the uu itttnched eHegates in the South and . Kewhere that he can lu.v his hands on. but even be has not vet claimed a ma- . . niMt on the nrst nanot. i " . . ., . ., . ,,. , ,,, iCOUSeOllelllly HIS OppOnVUIH Will IJUSJ I themselves with combinations ninoi.g I the supporters of other candidates iu order to bring about agreement on some one else. READY TO BELIEVE ANYTHING WHP.N the report first came that Paris bad been bombarded by a gun with a seven! v -mile range no one be lieved it. The first theory was that bombs had been dropped from an air ship. Then the army engineers begun to tell how it was possible for a gun to bhoot seventy miles, nnd finally every one accepted the report as accu rate. The continued bombardment of the city left them no other recourse. Now comes word from Paris that the French Government has bought the patents on a gun which enn shoot from ..... .. r.n 1 , , l.i . i(,0 to ISO miles. The shell is said to leave the muzzle nt the velocity of four- fifths of n mile a Hecoiitl. If it keeps up this velocity it will tnUe the shell V2T sceoueU, or morp than two inlnutoH, lo (jo KK) miles. Infitoael of (louhtiiiic thin report we uceepi it vvuiioiit. tiueHiiiui unel wonder when the kuii with u .100 mile rutiBe will be Invented. Such a kuii N theoretically possible. All that lx necessary Ih to malie. u caiet ini; Htrouit enoiiBh to reHlnt tlie toe'& of the explosive sutlicieatly powerful to send n shell COO miles. EnelnecrsAcan figure out tho resisting strength that would be required, nnd they can plot the etirvo that the shell would tako in its flight, carrying it n long way nbovo the atmospheric envelope of the earth. Wc arc ready to believe anything except that war Is to be no more. INDIANS AS SOLDIERS A FEW years ngo the suggestion, of n Ilcdskin division in the American regular army would possibly have been thought whimsical. Hut tho magnifi cent record of our Indian troops in tho world war now gives a thoroughly practical aspect to the plan. Dr. Joseph It. Dixon, who .trges it, has been a prime figure in the Rodman Wannmnkcr surveys of our aboriginal populations. His proposal, If ndopted in the new army bill, will innrk a sub stantial fetcp toward Indian suffrage, for it is stipulated that each man of the 10,000 or 15,000 in the division shall automatically become a citizen of the United States on donning the uni form. Outworn prejudices should not be permitted to stand in the way of this reform. There nre "good Indians" to day. Some 10,000 of them fought under our colors against Germany. Many thousands more nre Intellectually and mornlly eligible for citizenship. The example of New Zealand, where the native Maoris arc prominent in politics and even in the dominion Par liament, is worth heeding, if not imme diately, at least comparatively soon. MOVING DAY IN FIUME IN THE absence of details, Trcmler Nltti's announcement that Italy has decided to ndopt tnc President s plan re !,.nrdlne Plume must lie tnlseti lnrrelr on 7, uns nt Inst arrived. Nelthor the Italian Government's plan nor the En tentc's plan nor the American plan in volved sanction of a freebooter's rule in Fiume. The chnos of the situation will endure so long ns D'Annunzlo's fan tastic regime is permitted. The return of reason in Home is tho first gleam of hope that has irradiated the muddle in many months. The Trcssiirj Department is seri ously consideriiiL' the succestlon of a of different colors. The frequency with which twos and lives are mistaken for each other is sufficient reusou for a change of some kind. It is the fact thnt Americans have it in their power to change their form of government any time tucy wlsn, and to set up any kind of government they desire nnd can do it nil nenceably and I legally that makes it necessary and I wise to deal more or less harshly with j representatives of violent minorities, j - ' Vermont suffragists will attempt ! to vote nt the next election, contending I ,,iut n modified suffrage- bill vetoed by the governor in 1010 did not need his signature nnd is now a law. At least it may be said that suffragists, in Ver mont and elsewhere nre not overlook ing any bets. In a suit to restrain former Ross Ooker from dissipating his fortune, his children allege, among other things, that their stepmother falsified her age. Hut this has never been considered a crime In a woman. ''It is merely an idiosyncrnsv. Happily the high cost of living hasu't nffected the Philadelphia play grounds. Tlwugh the attendaucc in creased JJ!0,0(K) last year, operating ex pense's were lowered. This is a record of which the assoe'iation may 'well feel proud. Alley dwellers who. perforce, walk the straight and narrow paths may find themselves nearer goellluess when Di rector Piirbush pushes lite plans for clcanliuess. "Cough" up or walk up" is tho slogan of striking New York elevator operators. There is u cynical defiance in the phrase which is descriptive of some other strikes. May we not expect to find a buuch of City Statistician CatteU'.s speeches in the hook soon to be published by Thomas H. Smith, former Mayor? i r.-er so many Democrats and lie ! publicans, puzzled ns to the alignments of their respective panics, are wining I to let Hoover settle their dlflicultics. The Cheerful Spender wrestled wlthf the HnrdHoiled Kgg jesterday. At the J '1'-o the session there was nothing Mt oC the l-.gg. N r.i .u... Tll.tln.lnl..Uln It....!-.... . .'. .,,. ,i,ii,J lr i,no ,. ti , - t)lP j,0 Telephone Company; and the line is busy. "I'll leave my happy home for you," says the victim of eviction to the landlord, but ho does not say it cheerfully. EGGS ' fTUIEIU3'H n robin digging unglc- i i -t. worms in Independence Square, With cogitating intervals of rest. best. And the wish to go ufishing stirs our minds but not our legs! Hut we know the spring is with us when we've had our Faster eggs ! Kach fecund tree has bearing pains. The sap begins to run. The young idea's (buds) begin to shoot. Each little peach in embryo is dream ing of tho sun And hoping it may grow to be a fr.uit. Fach jocund mind knows fancy sweet n jolly little cuss When the Faster rabbit kindly lays a candy egg for us. GIUF ALEXANDER. WALT0NR00F nni' INBO J--S " ' AiiMMi'.n j 'a ftM?lZvf&a Excellent dnc mualc at n p. m. Nlchtly at u:ou una 11:10 p. in. Whiteside fcMurdock Boys --; FLORENCE ANDREWS OAKLAND SISTERS HELAINE LYNN ComedIenne NINA PAYNE th taKntDloc., MARGARET IRVING- late Prima Donna. "What'e In ft Nm" THE RACKOS MmMtU "WHAT! ME A SPARRING PARTNER 7&M AdBfetftiiAuk SIX.LVB- "T H-P'JTJ IT A' Jt 4r-,J.'. ..-'- J...Kil , li'J.lf .IT- . I IMMIHI.lll I II, W . JTM' lrf' IV fll J-P .III fl --w . ' s.r HOW DOES IT STRIKE YOU? imlll X s.i UIEKB goes Senator Hnrdlng,' said a man some mouths ago. "He looks more like McKmley every day." Candidates, beware of looking like Wlllinm McKInley ! Look like Nicolai Lcnine or Georges Clenienceau or Theodore Uoosevclt or whom vou will, but do not looK or Be like William McKInley. Willinin McKinlcy was the fine flower of what may be called the later Mc toriiiu age of politics. He was a sort of American male Queen Victoria, given to white enruu tions nnd pacific relations with his party and with Congress. He was the kind of man you would wish, your grandfather to be, as lovely and' obsolete ns that other ' ictorian thing, Tennyson's poetry. l J l IT WAS nu interesting cxpenmeut to revive blm nnd offer liim to the suffrages of the country in the person of Senntor Harding. Mr. Harding did it because he bail to. He comes from the state of McKInley, where the McKInley tradition survives and molds public men. He looks like McKinley. Should we go buck to the McKmley The answer is that the three lending .... m la t.f i. .. C'nnnPOl candidates lor rresiueui um vn-..w. Wood. Mr. McAdoo and Mr. Hoover. Nothing mid-Victorian or later Vic torian there. ... , And Mr. Harding ! a tragedy. I J j LISTKX to wliat a lrench observer suvs of C.ermany, writing to one of the most conservative papers of Puns: '.!.,...,,. ,i iu in. it iiur inevitably toward III liliiioj r ..---- r - . catastrophe because she cau no longer feed more than I'.o.OOO.OOO Inhabitants, ., i. .... ...in ..,,.,!., r." non.niHi. ' IlimiUll SOU Slt.i uuiiw .. ... She has lost nearly 7,000.000 peas n.u .i,..i iM.rii'iilturnl workerb. And the prospective loss eif Silesia by plebiscite will elcprhc her of -l-,-iuin in u i i.mw nf cnnl uununll. Mr. Hoover once estimated that .i.l.'mro "n.fifM 1.000 more neonle in (Jermany than could now bo employed anil fed. . , , T, , His estimate and that of the I rencu journalist ure not far apart. The war wore- out Liurope and lelt not enough to go nround. Tim victors look tho lion s share of what was b-ft and there was nothing for the losers to do but starve. Ilcfore starving uermany wm irj bolshevism J fl entering upon a modern OEFOH1 Jj -nr it would be well to be mighty sure that vou win win and win easily. Look at the lers iu the Into war. Look at Germany with 'JO.OOO.OOO ncople left without the hope of living. Look nt Austria: 0.000.000 or 10,- 000,000 people left without resources, smaller but with less hope for the fniiiri, thini Germaiiv. Look nt Hus-iu, demoralize.! and ruined ; though having great natural re sources she will get upon her feet And the victors nre only just better off than the vanquished. No League of Nations ought to be rtquircel to make futuro war impossible, only u thorough and general knowledge of the history of this war. q ( q THE increased wages to miners, 27 per cent, amounts in the aggregate to $1:00.000,000 a year. The coal operators will pass on the Increased wanes iu the sbupe of n raise "Dt-Koft coal prices by Sli a ton. We ubc in this country one-uau on lion tons of soft coal a year. At If- a ton advance that mnkes a round billion of elullars to the con sumers of the country. Hut that is not all. Hefore there I'oiild be an increase of wages there had to be a strike. 4 The operators were convinced thut Iu no other way could prices be raised ade quately. " The miners saw nelvantuges in n Btrike. too. It was good for the morale of tho organization. lEITH'S U VALESKA SURA" SURATT nnnd I'lavers In "SCAW.KT" . DICKINSON & DEACON II ORTH & CODY Lily Lena; Kim rum and Other .METROPOLITAN OI'EIIA HOUSE Friday APT?TT,Q AT EveninK AilVll-l 8il5 The, World'a Greatest Darltone 1RUFF0 The. proramme tinjlttvely Include the ole.ru from "I'nullarrl" and Laro al raetotum trim in naroer ot neviue -tleati II to 13. UVaClitit. Wal.ll,IUo 0T 'Al. Senator Harding Is Handicapped in Hts Presidential Candidacy by Hia Strik ing Resemblance to Mcliinley Aud the federal administration which intervened in the situation seemed to be especially Insistent that there should be a strike. There was one. It cost the country, let us suy, a bil lion of dollars. This is only an estimate. Hut ofiicinl figures show that it cost the railroads ulonc $111,000,000. And it is not unreasonable to suppose that it cost other industries iu propor tion. Thus to pay the coal workers S200, 000,000 additional wages, which everv one agreed nt once they were entitled to, cost the couutry two billion dol lars I A pretty expensive system of in dustrial adjustment. q q TUT that is not lill. -D Don't suppose that the gentlemen on whose shoulders fall iu the first in stance tho cost of $-,000,000,000 are content to pass on merely Si', 000,000.000. Consider the coal operators them selves. hen they pass on un advance of :.00,000,000 wages tliey do so in ad vanced prices which net them u nice round billion. That is onlv a beclnninir. Wo read such items as these: "Land lords to raise retitn because of advance iu cost of soft coal." Will they advance rentR just enough to cover the higher cost of coal? Not at all. They will advance rents four or llvn times ns much ns that. They will clean 'up u handsome profit on tho transaction J J J WH RL'AD "High rents to add u to $(! t-neh to eot of suits." The cool operator having been paid five times over for the advance in wages to his men nnd the landlord hnvlug been paid five times oer for the higher cost of coal, the manufacturer's turn comes. He wnuts five or six dollars more for bis suits, which will probably pay him live or six tunes over tlic higher rent he has to pay. q i j AT THIS point enters Attorney General Palmer's "(lying squad ron" looking for profiteers and not flud ing any. The circle is complete. Mr. Palmer protected us from "revo lution" when tho miners threatened to strike. He is still .protecting us, we may feel assured, us wc pay, pay, pay ! Count Apponji says the present peae-e treaties are not regarded as per manent. The United States Senate gave him sonic ground for that belief. come 10 mini; 01 it, lessons In courtesy ought to be included iu all "Americanization" plnns. ACADEMY OF MUSIC Tonight at 8:15 "pftE"?' In 0 I'mla. tor 2 j eara VIOUN HKCITAL H E I P E T Z HeserveJ Scat at Heppe'a, 1110 Chestnut Bt. NINTH AND ARCH STREETS Mate. Mon.. Wed. & Hat . 210. Evk. 8:15 LAST "YOUR NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOR" -VVEEKl or "TUB SCANDALS OK llUiO" THt'RSDAY EVENING APRIL 8 ISFgHJT& B AMERICAN VIOLINIST FLLEVUE -STRATKORD LLLLVVJL, HALL ROOM TICKETS AT HEITE'H. lltn e'HESTNUT HT: CONWAY'S, or HBLLKVITB IJHy A DANCING LESSONS djC " A Teacher for Each Pupil P J Individual Inatructlon Excluiva MethoJ Mirrored Studio 1520 Cheatnut OKKICE SOU Locuat 31D2 CORTISSOZ SCHOOL PHILADELPHIA THEATRP Seventeenth and Da Lancey 8U. P, VICTOR HERBERT'S - Dl Mualcal Succeaa With Georgia O'Ramey " O U I MADAME" Evki,, 12.00 tn $3 00, A few at III. SO. Mat. Thura,. ll.f.0. 2 00. Reg Mat. Sat. WALNUT SPECIAL MAT. TODAY 2:30 POPULAR PRICES The Katzenjammer Kids A III Snappy Olrlle lUMilral Comedy Trnrnrlern 'llllJ MIDNR1IIT MAIDENS i rocuuero w uh Geo, N(blo & Il4l()n ap,nc,r WEMMTS emmmmcH MINSTRELS FOR THAT GUY?" 2rsr. -S ' 3TV- What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. What flower is particularly cmblo niatlo of Holland? 2. What kind of animal Is a vampire? 3. Who wero tho Toltecs? 4. What Is basil? C. What is a hallmark? Cv When did tho great flro of London occur? 7. How many times did Henry Clay run for tho presidency? S. In what country did tho ex-prest- eient recently Kill an celltor In a duel? 9. What Latin word do thn initials c g.i stand for. when used in the term of "for Instance"? 10. How Is tho dalo of Easter deter mined? Answers to Saturday's Quiz 1. Tho word hokey-pokey Is n corrup tion of "Iiocua-pocus."' 2. The highest commander of the Amer ican troous on the Ithlnn In tin. President of tho United States. 3. Two former chieftains of Tammany Hull wero William M. Tweed and Klchnrd Croker. Tho former died In 1878. The latter hao lately been Ilvlnn In Florida. i. Louisiana Is to consider tho equal suffrage amendment tu May and -North Carolina in July. 5. "Is civilization n falluro or Is tho Caucasian played. out." Is a quota tion from Uret Hnrte's iimnim l.n. ' inorouH poem "Plain Larfguago From Truthful James." , C. A pantechnicon 18 n furniture ware house or a moving van. 7. A mortgagor Is one who gives a mortgage. A mortgagee la tho per son to whom tho property la mort gaged. S. Tho mainmeo In a tropical American trco with a largo yellow-pulued cdl blo fruit. 'J. Tho predominant religion of Persia Is .Mohammedanism of tho s-'hllto sect, which Is regareled by tho Turlia and Arabs ns unorthodox. 10. May Day, May 1, Is particularly de voted In Kuropo to ultra-radical manifestations. PHILADELPHIA'S LEADING THEATIIE3 Direction LEE & J. J. HIIUUEKT TVRTP EVGS., 8:20. i. 1 11 MATS. WED. & SAT. Last Pop. Mat. Wed. $1.00 WILLIAM HODGE IN HIS GREATEST SUCCESS "THE GUEST OF HONOR" THIS IS THE' LAST WEEK NEXT WEEK SEATS TODAY p lv. II. 1 It JULIA bOTHERN-MARLOWE jrfJN., TIIUHS. EVeiH SAT. MAT. TVV I'LITI! NiOHT, TUEH., SAT. EVENINUS, "HAMLET"; WED., Km.. TAMING OK THE SIirtEW ADELPHI MataT'Thurs. & Sat. Pop. Mat Thurs., Best Seats $1 UP IN "The great eet rollectlon eif Karceura that has over leen ftnim. bled.". Preaa. MABEL'S With Hazel Dawn Waller Jonea John Arthur Enid Markey und Olhera ROOM SAM. - SHUBERT-d: MAT. Ilrond bel $1 Ixicunt aooo Evgs. 8:15. MAT. SATURDAY HEATS Brilliant Musical Show FULL OF PEP- GIRLS GOWNS A JOY TO SEE Best-Looking Chorus in Town Chestnut Sr. opera evgs.. Silo. HOUSE I Mata.Wed, &Bat. Pop. Mat. Wed., Best Scats $1 THE SEASON'S SENSATIONAL MUSICAL COMEDY SUCCESS FIFTY-FIFTY WITH HERBERT C0RTHELL Best-Singing Chorus in Town Ce Walnut Ab. 8th. Mat. Today asino dan coleman AND A NEW SHOW Wfc ms Market Bt. Ab. 10th. 11 A. M. to it il CLARA KIMBALL YOUNCI Supports by CONWAT TCAIiLB i. I The Forbidden Woman" I Added Attraction JAyous Holiday Musical t'estlvit PP.NN-YAt.l3 I10AT HACK, COJ1INO 'HUCKL.EUEIUir FIN, . PAL A C C A 121s MAUKET BTtlEnT 1.1 CONTINUOUS 10 A. M. tn 11 .in .! EXCLUSIVE SHOWING OP ' " LOUISE GLAUM IN A NEW niOTOPLAt The Lone Wolf a Daughter ARCADIA , CHESTNUT BELOW 1CT1I fll 10 A. M,, 12. 2, fl:4B. am. 7:45, 0:30 pvl LUINMANLt 1ALMADGE' ii aiiiiAli OIIUWIINU OP "TWO WEEKS" V I C T 0 R I" T MAHKET ST. ADOVD 0TH il WILLIAM FARNUM lis wibbiAJi tux rilODUCTIOV "HEART STRINGS' NEXT. WEEK "WATEIl. WATnn limmuibiii,." witn WILL UOUEIU C A P I T 0 1 10 A. M la. 1 3:IB. Bsin. 7:45. 0.30 P. jj "Snnrtinc r)nrrie" Featurliur ALICE JOTCI RF.fiF.NT """SEvFtSS,!- 111 "OUT VO.VDap I 11 A. M. to 11 p. v it MAiiKirr HTiiriris CONTINUOUS VAUDEVII.iv INAINA Ot t-UMfANY JACK NOSE" MAJAnUSs OTHER!!. RROADWAY Broad & Synder Avt ;" Ar a S!lPv'',p.t ivimdcl. DcruvA vocal otar ELSIE FERGUSON ",ulNgJ.. rRflW krFVS Market Bt. Below COth Wm. CI INSt-lIMF r.IRI "'k'- rot'e ji.s pftftj PHILADELPHIA'S rOHEMOST THEATRE! GARRICK Tonisht nt 8: MATINEKS WED. AND PAT AT 8 13 GEO. M. COHAN'S COMEDIANS In tho Brand New Musical Comtdr "MARY'' MSN-T IT A GRAND OLD NAME?) lioolt and Lyric by Otto llarbach and Kranlc Manrtcl . LOU HIItKCH'S NEW MELODIES KtaBed by Jullnn Mitchell and Ham l'orrtr. I IIIU CAMT Ul ..VUIIITI-J IIASTKR LILY CIlOllL'H OP YOL'TH I1EAUTY .ND CHAItM 1 FORREST Tonight at 8:15 MATINEEM WED. AND SAT. AT 1.13 MASK AND WIG CLUB VNtvnnsiTV or tennsvlvam yjd ANNUAL I'UODIJCTIO.N DON QUIXOTE, ESQ: AN" UP-TO-DATn MUSICAL COMEDT BIGGEST & BEST SHOW EVER! NEXT WEEK .SE.VTS TIIURSDAT CHARLES DILLINGHAM'S LATEST MUSICAL COMEDY The New Dictator With FRA'NK CRAVEN A COMPANY OF DISTINCTION and An ARMY of PRETTY GIRLS BROAD Last 6Nights MATINEES WED. AND SAT. AT 2.13 nOHEllT H. M A N T E L L tonight MACBETH AND I'll! DAY TNinHT0W RICHARD III Wed. Mat.. HAMLET: Wed. Evir VHR CHANT OP VENICE i Thure. & Sa' MlU'i li Sut. Mat., JULIUS CAESAR. NEXT WEEKHEATrT'rHfnSDAV Tlio DISTINGUISHED CHARACTER ACTOR GEORGE ARLISS and Ilia Rrllllant Aesoclate riayeri In Booth Tarkington's LATEST PLAY "P0LDEKIN" (Direction of CEOHOE C TYLER) Academy, Next Tuesday, 8:15 ENTERTAINMENT DE LUXE EIGHT FAMOUS VICTOR ARTISTS COMING IN PERSON Henry Hurr Hilly Murray Al Cumpbel! Krank Croitun John H. Mejera KredVanEpa Monroo Sllvor Kranlt Bunta I'cerleas Quartet Storllne Trio In a Program of Mirth, Muslo and Melody, TlcltetM, COc, 7.'c. 1.()0, 1.S0, J2.00. No on ale at Ileppoa. 1100 Cheatnut St. Phon; ACADEMYr-Seatu Hepiw'B. 1110 Cheatnol Philadelphia Orchestra LEOPOLD STOKOW8IU, CondtKtor This (Monday) Afternoon, at :i P. " GABRILOWITSCH nilffiiT nrtv'nlteTfin nEETHOVKN-WAaNER-TSCHAIKOVVSkr rillDAV AKTKHNOON, APRIL 0. AT J-OJ SATURDAY EVENING. APRIL 10. AT 8 15 Hololat: llie'HAHl) Kliwreiilill. iaonnis nilAHMS-WEUER-MAQUARREIIEIlLOI METROPOLITAN OlERA HOUSE, METROPOLITAN OPERA COMPANY, NT. 8. L'Amore Dei Tre Re Mtnea. Muilo. Tiffany, Ecener. Herat MM Marllnelll. Oldur.Amuto. lUdai Cond Moran. Sou). Beata 1108 Cheet. W' MH4. Race tlT. CrraCu."NeXtTnUr8' EvS- 0:I5 Concert by the World-Renowned (Jontralta Mme. Schumann-Heink Price.. 1 to III. 1108 Cheat. Will. U'U i Rac 07. Ilenellt United American Wor Veteranfc ORPHEUM SPECIAL HOLIDAY MAT. Jll riL.UlVl today AT L"1S WEAESFr Py of the circu. :ilO CIIICUH ACT It SPECIAL FKATUBEg r 1 I Peoples 1 Ken, Ave. & Cumbrian MAT. DAILY Roaeland Girls nimm WfmM 'V is s to fKr: '81 ahlik -M: n,-i..4U)
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