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A FOUR-YEAR PROGRAM FOR
! PHILADELPHIA
I Things on which the people expect
lh new administration to concen
trate Ita attention:
The Delaware river bridge.
A drydock big enough to accommo-
I date thj largest ships,
aevelopment of the rapid transit tys-
I tern.
A convention hall.
A building Jor me Free Library
An Art Museum
Bnlargcment of the water supply.
tomes to accommodate the papula
lion. j OPTIMISM
TIHISRE is one field of activity in
(which tho public officials of this
city invariably shine. They talk
charmingly of all things on all occa
sions. Vlt is the nun of the Director of
ruplic Safetv ' said Clinton Hogers
Woodruff, speaking for the Civil Serv
ice Commission and flashing an elab
orate new series of test questions on
applicants for jobs on the police force,
"to establish a high morale in the po
licy department. Men loyal to Phila
delphia are desired."
One must remember, after a devastat
ing thought of uage scales in tho De
partment of Safety, that virtue is its
own reward. The Director of Public
Safety and the Civil Service Commis
sioh obviously believe in that rule. Mr.
Wpodruff is a bit more practical. He
"ge(s down to brnss tacks. "This
tntfihod of examination." he continues
brightly, "is planned to get men with
a love of ndventure!"
Jf there is any task that involves
mo'ro of breathless risk, more thrills,
more tingling uncertainty than the
daily effort of policemen to make ends
meet with their present pay we have
no knowledge of it
CO-OPRATION CAN DO IT
rplin moral of the letter of the export
-Tmouuger of the II. K Mulford
Company to the CliHmber of Commerce
committee on the port seems to he that
If tho Philadelphia exporters wish to se-i-nre
proper uc ummodutions for their
trade through this port they will have
to, make n concerted effort to secure
fcm instead of trusting to luck.
1 Jtfter vurious unsatisfactory attempts
"to ship from Philadelphia tho Mulford
company is now scudlng nil its goods tp.
Sew York, if it could nave loadco" Its
goods on ships at the TelauHrc piers
offering the serice t tint it needed it
would have done no Hut it could not
" jet the service As long as this condi-
W0n continues the development of the
jrt will bo delayed, for business can-
toot wait.
Yet ever one kuows that enough for
fign trade originates here to make it
profitable for $hlps to mako regular
Ballings to the chief ports of the world.
"What is needed is proper organization
nmug the business men and a determi
nation to bring the ships here und pro
vide them with cargoes.
A FRENCH INVASION
NO ESTIMATE of the plans which
seem definitely to provide for a
Krech Invasion of German territory
s)ec)ired neutral by the Peace Confer
l'ne can be safely or Justly made with
mtt a rousidrratlon ot French national
iyuns,. Frauce is spending on her
' milwiry establishment aud for tho con
') f the routine affairs of govern-
l4 .uikuia that is almost twice as
.tShtt'iaWtf ixsas. VixQz
because of the failure of the League of
Nations plan In tho Senate of tho
United States and partly because of un
settled economic and social conditions
in Europo tho French Government can
not borrow largely at the present mo
ment in any part of tho world.
It is natural that tho newspapers
snouid revive the clamor "to make Qcr
many pay." Certainly Germany ought
to pay. But the Germans themselves
arc worse off financially than tho
French. Their prospects are darker
even than tho prospects of the Frauch.
It is already clear that Franco will
move without tho co-operation of the
British in an advance that would
violate principles enunciated as tho
basis of a perma'nent peace in Kurope.
Desperation and newspaper clamor ap
pear to bo driving the Paris govern
ment forward in the present emergency.
Money is needed if the French financial
system, which was damaged terribly by
the war, is not to be in danger of a
complete collapse.
It is difficult to blame the French.
Two weary and war-worn nations drift
ing to new encounters present a spec
tacle that could not have occurred had
not modern statesmanship blundered
appallingly at Paris, in London, in
Rome and, finally, in Washington.
HIGH SWATTING AVERAGES
WILL NOT MAKE US FLY-FREE
Our Summer Plague la Almost at
Hand and Remorseless War
on Breeding Places Is
the Only Cure
IT IS related of Domitian, one of the
"bad emperors" of Rome; that he used
to catch flies and then subject them to
lethal torture, meanwhile feeding his
morbidity with the fancy that they were
human beings Admittedly this senti
ment yas deplorable. And yet if act
and motive were iu this instance separ
able, there are days when exasperated
residents of this city would be glad to
meet this notorious ruler's reincarna
tion and congratulate him heartily.
Titus Flavins Domitianus was a bad
man, no doubt, a particularly cruel and
mean -spirited tyrant, but he could kill
flics. Unfortunately his swatting aver
age has not come down to us, but it
must have been high to bo effective in
Rome, for that imperial city lies, like
Philadelphia, directly in the tly-belt.
Just why latitude 40, north, bhould.,
be, in a scnuo, fly-paradise has not
been scientifically worked out. It is sig
nificant, however, to trace this parallel
around the globe. Rome and Naples,
both fly -plagued towns, lie near this
line, above and below it respectively.
Constantinople, where the pest is par
ticularly prevalent, is located a little to
the north.
Philadelphia is intersected by the
line. Historically we have distin
guished company. Hjgienically the
society has Its drawbacks.
Rut Dr. Lincoln Furhush is not dis
couraged. Nor is he, it appears, in
clined to be the least bit envious of
Donation's record. In fact, it is not
only the wicked Caesar whom the
Director of Public Health indirectly
condemns, but hosts of -well-intentioned
Philadelphlans. ard these latter both by
implication nnd in specific rulings. For
the thrill of triumph, which the suc
cessful fly-killer feels, is revealed as
specious.
The latest bulletin .of the Health De
partment shows why nil our agonizing
technique has been so futile. While we
have been murderously considering the
pestiferous finished products we have
neglected the source. "Swat the
breeding places of flics," is Doctor Fur
bush's new henlth slogan. Now we
Fee one reason whv frenzied Domitihn's
fame is so clouded and why there wns
always n maddening superabundance of
small winced game on the Palatine Hill.
The last of the "Twelve Caesars"
was unnware of the real remedy, and.
although, after nearly 2000 years, we
i have become dimly conscious of it. lack
of vigorous co-operation and organiza
tion has compromised our efforts. Paper
and poison emphasize the magnitude of
our summer affliction. The true Ideal
is not more craft in fly-slaughter, but
a state of things in which the very
chase itself, where amateur and profes
sional, shall be a superfluity The war
will not bo properly won until there
is no foe to fight.
Health expei ts do not regard this goal
as unattainable, and there is much to
support their hopes. Havana is the
conventional ready instance. Screens
are virtually unknown in thnt tropical
seaport today. They are not needed be
cause both the fly und mosquito popula
tions have been reduced to negligible
numbers
No one, not ever the scientific Doctor
Furbush, would be so rash as to with
hold a well -aimed hand lifted in
righteous anger against the fiendish lit
tle buzzers. But it is perfectly well
known that slapping, swatting, smash
ing nnd trapping were not primarily-
responsible for one of the great hygienic
reforms in history
Havana put her house 'n order by the
extinction of insert-breeding places.
Within less than oue year after Janu
ary, 1001, when General Gorgas began
lis wonderful clean-up enmpaign, the
infamous "stegomyia fasciata," or yel
low fever mosquito, had vanished from
the town and the dread disease had
ceased to be endemic, for the first time
since the seventeenth century.
Army organization favored, of course,
the speed and completeness of the job.
The Cubans, however, had learned their
lesson. They cover up their garbage
pails in Havana today. They oil their
marshes, 'ihey remove tnetr ruonisn.
They are scrupulously trained to re
gard collections of stagnant water,
howcversnjaU.the quantity, as crlml
tial nd perilous.
The ledemption of tropical America
lins progressed superbly since those in
spiring pioneer days. A clean Panama
zone mude possible the construction of
the interoccanic canal. Major Gorgas
has since taken American army health
methods to Ecuador and has given
security to life in steamy Guayaquil.
He is now, it is said, about to extend
his field to Peru, whither he has been
summoned by wise health authorities.
Brazil has conducted It purification
drive chiefly on Its own Initiative. To
day Rio de Janeiro Is free from yellow
fever. A few of the deadly mosquitoes
linger in Bahia and Maranbao, but the
doom of their race is foreshadowed.
The whole record l enough to make
Philadelphlano a bit ashamed of tbem
selves despite some tenable apologies
for laxity. Yellow fever mosquitoes
havo not visited us for many a year.
Flies we have not taken very seriously.
Like the average dwellers iu our
infested latitudes we hare viewed them
as nuisances, hardly as grave menaces.
Wo hnvo laughed nnd swatted, cursed
tfrf frnmtr. and ucosUfiujL Uii Aj.
.K
paper. And every summer millions ot
eggs hnvo hatched from refuse and
uncovered offal.
For what relief wc have attained
there Is good reason to thank the auto
mobile Nevertheless, thero remain
'some C000 stables In the city, even in
this horseless eta. Doctor Furbush
emphatically urges the use of flyproof
and waterproof nets for manure pits
and for the treatment of manure with
certain chemicals if it is exposed. If
the stable owners will co-operate, in
this work, fly breeding will be materially
checked.
Tho individual citizen can give sub
stantial aid. What is essentially
required is an aroused public conscious
ness and a popular realization that
simple care exerted in the mass can,
bring about a hygienic revolution.
Screens in summer ought to take rank
with the archaism of candle lights.
Mosquito nets, though still expedient in
somo parts of tV city on muggy days',
betray indifference to elemental modern
principles of civic cleanliness.
Tho city fund avallablo for oiling
mosquito infested swamps in South
Philadelphia nmouits to only about
$30,000. Soldiers, who taught Havana
so much, will not rebuke us for negli
gence. Neither our responsibility nor
the credit in the situation is transfer
able. We can end our winged insect
plagues, if we will, or can go on with
our interminable guerrilla campaigns of
fly slaughter, denouncing tho elusive
adult "musca domestica" and envying
Domitian, If wc happen to have heard
of that insensate emperor. He was, it
seerasi in the light of modern sanitary
knowledge, bad all through.
TO ESCAPE LANDLORDS
EVERY man hopes some time to own
his own home. There are many rea
sons why so many men pay rent. In
every large city there Is what may be
loosely called a floating population made
up of the families of men who- have not
definitely decided that they wish to live
there permanently. Consequently they
do not think it prudent to invest in real
estate. These men arc teachers and
preachers, traveling salesmen, newspa
per writers, mechanics, adverUsing so
licitors and the like. They Teel that
they must be foot free In order thatthey
may move to another city when a better
opening offers itself.
Then there are many young men who
have not yet established themselves
firmly enough to think it wise to tie up
their small capital In a house. They
think they can use it more profitably
In their business. And there are many
others whose Income is so small that
they arc not able to accumulate enough
to make a first payment on a house.
For all these classes it is necessary
that there should be houses and apart
ments to rent at reasonable prices.
The Real Estate and Building Expo
sition, which opened in the First Regi
ment Armory last night, is not intended
for those who cannot or for those who
ought not to buy houses. It is rather
to impress upon those who have been
postponing that which they always have
intended to do that they can assist in
solving the housing problem by building
a bouse for themselves and vacating the
house that they rent for the benefit of
those who have to live in a hired domi
cile. There are enough such in the city
to crowd the exposition every day that
it is open. It remains to be seen how
many will be persuaded.
UP TRENTON WAY
EVER since tho great days when Big
Jim Nugent used to stride up atad
down the aisles of the Assembly cham
ber at Trenton and hold his tremulous
clans solidly in a bomb-proof bipartisan
working unit by the sheer force of bis
will and his size, the brethren in the
Legislature of New Jersey have never
failed to provide at each session a dem
onstration of politics as it should not
be played
Opposing factions now lined up in the
Assembly scuffled so violently over a
scrap of pork in the department of
motor vehicles that the state's business
was actually brought to a standstill
The bill Introduced to reorganize the
Public Utilities Commission is side
eVA1AJ Mj&tvlfrA I w asiAttAarAjh Va AV1a
public and the service corporations
luemeeivTO. aue iiK"t uuv ukcu m
the Interest of cither party. It is being
waged for thc prestige of personal
machines.
In that respect it is a little like the
fight over suffrage in thc Delaware Leg
islature, where nobody seems able to
think of the country or the public until
factional interests have been piously
considered.
Because, ob thc law stands, any
citizen who objects to a book may prac
tically stop all other persons from read
ing it until a court of law has taken
action, a publishing house suggests a
censorship committee of "fifteen authors,
clergymen, artists and men and women
of affairs appointed by properly con
stituted authority and supported by In
telligent public opinion." It might be
a ftood idea If it were understood that
no book should be condemned except by
unanimous vote.
William Allen White suggeits that
the "Wets" be deported. Which sug
gests the thought that wickedness would
not hae so many sympathizers if virtue
didn1 have so many fool friends.
The naval probe seems to be run
ning true to form by demonstrating, as
other probes have done, that every fel
low did his best, but that his best was
none too good.
Damp Sunday and Blue Monday
having departed, Phyllis is looking
hopefully forward to next Sunday to
display her Easter finery.
Whether or not the Michigan or!-
rnsries were significant depends entirely
da what candidate you favored.
With first a tornado and then a
blizzard. Chicago is living up to its
name of the Windy City.
Small boys will be In favor of an
eviction that will allow them to occupy
a tent in Falrmount Park.
i
McAdoo quits the movie stars at a
time when he most, desires a close-up
of the White nouse.
The social revolution Is responsible
for as many bum prophets as the end of
the world.
Three years ago today the phrase,
"He kept us out of the war," lost its
significance.
nooverites are convinced that a
right tackle will demolish the old fuard.
No sooner does Spring make another
Ian than she finds Winter In Jt.
Europe's dominant statesman con
tinues to be Marshal Fooh.
Tennyson's brook hai nothing ca
PgjjK'B, StfjKUjff ilitlGa i
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t4
THE FATE OF HOME' RULE
Drltlsh Liberal Opinion on thot
Defects of the New Bill for
the Government of Ireland
TKe following analysis of the bill .
for the povernment of Ireland was
printed in the ilberal Manchester
Quardian a few days before the
measure was passed on second read-Inn-
by the House of Commons:
THE present state of Ireland is, in a
degree and to an extent which ty Is
hard In our prosperous complacency to
realize, disgraceful and perilous to this
country and no less threatening to the
best interests of Ireland. No states
man with the smallest sense of respon
sibility could lightly seek to reject any
serious effort to remove the fundamental
causes of the mischief and to bring about
sonvo approach to contentment in Ire
land and a tolerable relation betwr-1' ti.
two countries. Tho government bill U
an attempt in this direction, and the
only question which can arise for honest
consideration In regard to it is whether
it is likely to fulfill this object: whether
it Is not, on the contrary, likely to
make bad worse, and even much worse.
For ourselves wc have refused from the
first to condemn the bill in advance or
to treat the hostile criticism with which
It has been met in Ireland as constitut
ing In Itself o sufficient ground for con
demnation. RELUCTANTLY we have come to
thn rnnnlitalnn (lint, ns It stands and
apart from alterations so fundamental
that there would appear to be but the
scantiest chance of tneir adoption, me
bill slves no such promise, that even
wiUiin tho narrow confines of tho new
Ulster it offers no real solution., and that
for the rest of Ireland It can only make
confusion worse confounded and open up
a prospect of a conflict by the side of
which tho present sporadic disorders
will seem trivial. The reasons arc .not
far to seek. Th nroblem of Irish K0V-
ernment Is primarily nn internal prob
lem. It is the problem of irisn unity
and reconciliation, the bringing together
of North nnd South, of Catholic and
Protestnnt, In some tolerable relations
which should enable them to adjust their
differences, to mitigate their hostilities,
to work together as good Irishmen for
the welfare of their common land. The
further question of the adjustment of
the relations of a united Ireland with
Great Britain is in fact secondary, and
once Irish unity were accomplished it
would be easy. The stabilizing influ
ence of the Protestant North. would, to
beginwlth, greatly reduce any possible
risk of excess or antagonism, and the
enormously greater power of this coun
try should enable it to view without
alarm the concession of the widest pow
ers to a stabilized and conciliated Ire
land. AS A matter of history and of fact
known to every political student,
the fundamental difficulty of the problem
of home rule has all along been the
internal division of Ireland. Had Ire
land been in fact a unity its problem,
would have been settled at least a gener
ation ago. Indeed, in its graver form,
it would never have arisen. What, then,
we have to ask ourselves, does the gov
ernment bill do for Irish unity? What
prospect, or pbsslbijity, does it hold out
South? Unhappily It holds out none. On
the contrary, far from being a uniting
bill, it is a disruntinc bill. It is first
and foremost a bill for the partition of
Ireland, for stereotyping the evil It was
its first business to cure, for making
any real cure impracticable. That is its
fundamental and, we fear, its irrevo
cable vice. It takes six counties of Ire
land and, without consulting them and
against the undoubted desire of at least
two of them, sets them up us a separate
self-governing unit, with the other
twenty-six counties as another parallel
self-governing unit, with nothing to
connect them except a council, without
cen the name of a parliament, and
witft powers so exiguous that for prac
tical purposes they are negligible, and
powers of expansion entirely dependent
on agreement between two parties whom
the bill carefully plares as far as pos
sible apart. It is really a mockery of
Irish unity. This differentiates the pres
ent bill absolutely from the act which,
after a generation ot political effort and
the sacrifice of power for nearly the
whole of that time, Liberal England car
ried past the veto of the House of Lords
in the spring of 1014, and which the
war alone prevented us from nuttins
into operation. Safeguards for Ulster
were promised and would bavo been en
efecti Thc llnity of ireand wouI(1 hnvc
hen preserved and the relat ons of Tre.
land with this country would have been
established on a sure basis. Instead, the
present bill proposes to disrupt Ireland,
ana oy mac act renders any readjust
ment of the relations between Ireland
as a whole, or Nationalist Ireland km-
aratciy, ana tnis country, on an agreed
or even any sort ot accepted basis, im
possible. THAT fact is recognized in Ircjand,
and it is recognized universally. It
is recognized in Ulster quite as clearly
as in the South nnd West. Ulster, or thc
separated part of it, has accepted dis
ruption from the rest of Ireland ; it has
even accepted, though sadly and with
deep compunction, the disruption of the
province of Ulster itself, which every
man who signed the covenant swore to
Keep inviolate, llut it does not pretend
that tho bill is a solution of thc Irish
question or will bring peace to Ireland.
On the contrary. Sir Edward Carson
has declared, with all possible clearness
and emphasis, that it will bring a
sword. He has warned the government,
and we do not for a moment doubt his
sincerity in this, that what is safe for
Ulster is not safe for the rest of Ire
land , that the powers of seif -government
accorded to the six counties will
be well used and that disorder within
their boundaries will be ruthlessly sup
pressed, but that he docs not prophesy
the same for the twenty-six other coun
ties. He prophesies the contrary. We
believe him in this to be a true prophet.
THE grant of self-government in a
disrupted Ireland to the Nationalist
part of it. at present under the almost
undisputed direction of its extreme ele
ments, will of necessity mean not order
but disorder, not suppression of rebel
lion for it is rebellion with which we
shall have to deal but the arming of
rebellion with constitutional power. In
a word, the government, by the bill as
it stands, promises to makes all our
difficulties not less but greater, and to
aggravate the evil it sets out to cure.
Far better would It be to let the home
rule act, as it stands on the statute
book, como into operation with permis
sion to any county to vote itself out.
That would give, at the outside, a four
county exempted area which, unham
pered by a mock parliament of its own,
would in time, by mere force of at-
traction, come to terms with the Ireland
of home rule. Far better also to do
as was almost to the last moment in
tended and make the exempted area not
an arbitrary six counties, but the undi
vided province of Ulster with its nine
counties. That bIbo, though Protestant
in the proportion of about seven to
five, would also Inevitably and in no
long time merge itself on its own terms
with the rest of Ireland. In either case
unity and nppsasement would ultimately
be secured. Under the bill as ft stands
we shall secure neither. We shall se
cure the continuance and the exaspera
tion 01 Troujiiu. jcij ,mj muui-ruie
men are being driven over to Hlnn-leln.
Boon, if the government has lta way,
there will be' none left. Sinn Fein de
Hires nothing better 'iban that the bill
itum 2S V.
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HOW DOES IT .
STRIKE YOU?
NEW YORK.-bavlng expelled thc So
cialist assemblymen from the Leg
islature, now proposes having n state
secret service to keep track of all hereti
cal thinking
And thc Now York Association of
Legal Instructors suggests future ex
aminations for admission to the New
York law schools shall include the ques-
tion what newspapers candidates lor
admission read.
All acknowledging that they read thc
New York Call, the Socialist newspa
per, should be barred, say thc members
of this association, from study in tho
law schools.
Why not go right back Into the mid
dle, ages, build a nice, hot fire? and if
any one refuses to recant his belief In
socialism throw him in it?
A little preliminary torture on the
wheel might bo employed to stimulate
in the erring a capacity to see the light.
People often wonder at the religious
nArcenittlnnn nf the middle aOTCS.
They arc easier to understand in the
light or the present leenng witn regaru
fn ftwtnllNtR-
Now and then a robust person like
Mr. Hoover professes laith that Amen
can liberties are strong enough to with
stand tho attacks ol socialism.
And probably thero were n few like
him in the middle ages who thought God
strong enough to withstand tho heretics
without the assistance of the rack nnd
that highly interesting machirfc for
breaking the legs and arms pf those
stubbornly insisting on worshiping Him
the' wrong way.
I 1 I
IF THERE is a third party this year
it will not he like thc third party in
1012, a mere row over party ma
chinery, n mere split off from one of
thc two great parties, but a party made
up from voters from both parties, those
independent elements who arc weary of
their own old allegiance.
It will be composed most largely ot
disgusted Democrats. ...
Mr. Wilson has led or Is trying to
lend his party into n blind alley.
He has made It the most unpopular
party in history. ...
Even Democrats do not want to vote
the Democratic ticket.
And he has furnished it an Issue, the
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1 What Is a "dernier crl"?
2 How should tho phrase
be pro'
nounceu ;
3 Name three important states of the
republic of Mexico.
4 -What nre tho shrouds of a shlp7
6. In what Italian city are most of
" it. - .......... nf "Tinmen nnd Juliet"
1110 Bt.Cll.3 v
laid?
6 What was tho chief duty of the
valkyrs of Norse mythology 7
7 When did the Boxer rebellion occur
in China? '
8 What Is tho meanlnc of the word
grig oa used In the expression,
"IhelY as a grig"?
0 In which direction does the Gulf
Stream flow?
10. What was the original salary of
the President of tho United
States?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1 The tulip is be flower especially
emblematic of Holland.
2 The vampire Is n small, tailless,
blood-sucking bat, Inhabiting the
forested regions of the American
continent from Central America to
Chile.
3 Tolteo Is tho name for a traditional
or perhaps mythical race of In
dians, said to have occupied the
Mexican plateau during several
centuries previous to the advent
of the Aztecs.
4 Basil, especially sweet basil, is an
herb used in cookery. The iiamo
Is also given to several kinds of
mountain mint.
6 A hallmark Is tho mark used nt
0 A-liV.,iih' Hall. London. for
marking the standard of gold or
sliver.
6 The great fire of London occurred
In 1666.
7 Henry Clay ran three times for the
' presidency.
Ex-President Battle of Uruguay
recently killed In a duel an edf.
tor who had attacked him In the
press
9 Tho letters "e. S." stand for the
Latin "exempli gratia" and are
used In tho sense of "for example."
10, Haster Is regulated by the paschal
moon or first full moon between
the spring equinox and fourteen
days afterward. Kuater Sunday
must be between March zi and
AWU z
"GR-fc-IR!" ."B-R-RR!"
Hysterical New Yorkers Headed
Toward the Inquisition Wilson
Has Killed His Party
1
uncompromising sunnort of his own
obstinacy, in which it cannot win.
if the Democrats enter the campaign
as a Wllbon narty they will not even
carry the South.
If thev, do so manv of them will ha
glad to escape from their fate by going
over to a third party.
A party which is a mere split off from
cither the Democratic party or the Re
publican party cannot win. '
A genuine third party cutting into
both might win.
q q q
EDISON says that thc greatest thing
he did for mankind was to invent
and improve thc electric, light because
thereby he lengthened man's day.
It begins to look as it a mistake was
made by nature in giving thc world the
jear round as much night as day.
Men, to live really fruitful lives,
have had to abolish part of the night.
And now it appears that thc fruitful
ncss of plants and animals can be ln
crcased'hr giving them more light.
It hasecn proved that it is. not the
cold that makes hens stdp laying in tho
winter.
It is the short day. .
Then n hen becomes inactive and
stupid.
Hue sleeps too much.
Light the hen yard with electricity
night and morning and she will lay in
the winter.
So it has just been proved by the
Department of Agriculture that it is
not heat which makes plants grow and
bear fruit so much as the length ot the
day.
With artificial light you can make
violets flower twice a year instead of
once.
With n longer day, made longer by
artificial lights, plants and fruits may
be made to grow larger.
This explains why strawberries, for
example, aro larger and finer in Eng
land nnd Newfoundland, where It re
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q q q
WE- APPROACH a new control over
the supply of food through thc
knowledge of the influence of light over
vegetation nnd the discovery of the Ger
man scientists that the fertilizing of thc
ground is thc most wasteful way of fer
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The air fertilized with carbonic acid,
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per cent.
With cost of living where it is it is
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producing more and cheaper foods,
One cannot escape tho thought that
the girl who caused thc arrest of a
young couple In Baltimore for giving
each other a kiss was sore because she
herself had never been so treated. And
what kind of mollycoddles have they on
the Baltimore police force anyhow?
The chief of D'Annunzio's cabinet
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